The Morning Stream - TMS 2760: Both Hoity And Toity

Episode Date: January 8, 2025

Synchronized Colonoscopies. Sombrero. Lube-place. You Got Betty Simonize. Big T Dot Com. Lead Stringlights. Why are your hands so human? The Swedish chef is very handsy. Why can't I Find My Thing? Simon-Eyes They're Watching You! Is that bacon I smell? Meeker Than Beaker. Dancing Lamps and Robots with Tom. Returning a Favor with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Bigtie.com. Lead string lights. Why are your hands so human? You know, the Swedish chef is sure handsy. Why can't I find my thing? Oh, you get this one now. Oh, great. Simon Eyes, they're watching you.

Is that baking ice smell? I forget there's a clap in that song. Meeker than Beaker. Dancing lamps and robots with Tom. Returning a favor with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. All my friends are heathens take it slow. wait for you to ask them who you know If you're not going to actually murder him

I think you've made your point The Morning Stream The Beast with a millionized By just last week I had my entire car millionized And it smells great Hey, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for January 8th, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Nibbitt. Hi, Brian. Good morning and happy hump day to you. Man, these non-patrons who don't get all our Eddie Rabbit discussion in the pre-show. Yeah, I know. They've missed out on a lot of discussion about Eddie Rabbit, Days of Our Lives, Apple products in homes of non-apple people.

You want to get it. I'm telling you. Sign up. I'll give them a little bit now, though. Like, you know, they just heard that Fletcher clip about millionized. Yeah. That, if you're young, you have no idea what the heck Simonizing is. And this was like a, like getting your card detailed, cleaned, getting it Simonized.

Yeah. Which I'm guessing, I'm guessing somebody named Simon said, I'm going to make a, I'm going to make my name into a verb. So I'm going to turn it into a thing. Well, according to this, the etymology of it, let's see. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'm curious. Merriam-Webster. And let's see how they pronounce it.

Simonized. Here we go. Simonize. All right, Simonize. That's what we thought. By the way, today's word of the day. Gelid. Gelid.

We'll get to that in a minute. Jellid, like a felled. Like a felled. It says here, let's see, it's a transitive verb. Simonize a car to polish with or as if with wax, it says. That's a weird way of saying it. Okay. First known use, 1970.

came from a trademarked Simon I's name, S-I-M-O-I-S-I-S-I-M-O-N-I-Z. And you are correct, this was a dude what came up with the thing, and then he trademarked the name. So that's where it came from. George Simons, yeah. Yeah, there it is. So if you want to, you can say it now. It's not really about the dude anymore.

But you want to bring it back, Brian? Do you think it's time for Simon-I's to come back? I'm going to get my car, Simon-Ey. I'm going to, I mean, is that, would that now be just the general, like, getting your car cleaned and detailed? I think so. Just going to get your car detailed is probably easier than saying simonized. Yeah. Let's see if we can bring back simonizing.

I'm going to go get my car simonized. Oh, shout out to, I forgot the name of the place. It's like a lube and car maintenance place. Mm-hmm. Glad I continued after I said a lube place. Yeah, yeah. Where I get my lube. Anyway, we're in there.

We're getting stuff done because Kim got a car. chip, window chip. What do you call that? Windchilled. Yeah. A chip. Whatever that is. Anyway, she got one of those.

And she likes this guy that does them there because he's very efficient, super nice to work with. Fill and melt and make it blend into the... Yeah. And he's just good at it and super nice to us every time we go. And Kim's always like earning karma cred with people. It's just something she does. So we go into this place. They have popcorn while you wait.

Love it. Nice. Chilling out, waiting for it. And he comes out and says, all right, we got to take care of. of it's the normal 30 bucks or whatever we don't do the insurance thing because it just dings your insurance like what's the point you may as well just pay for it and he goes and you had two more rock chips you didn't know about you had one down here and you have one up here i took care of those and my brain went great this trip is costing me 160 bucks or whatever yeah because i was tripling

whatever the original cost was you've now tripled it in your head yeah i guess it'd be 90 because it's like 30 each so i was like sure that that's what this meant and i kind of got like a little bit grumpy face on myself over there. And he goes, but I took care of those for you. No worries, no charge. Those are all good. It was so nice. So I'll just shout out to that guy. His name is Terry. I don't know his last name. But thanks for the good deal on the chips.

We appreciate it. I like a good. That's awesome. A good chip deal, you know? Good chip deal. For the record, Gellid, the word of the day today. Jellid. Jellid rather.

Sometimes described as gelid, such as the weather or person's demeanor. uh is literally or figuratively extremely cold or icy so brian i might say that you're a little jellid one day and that means i think you're a little icy little frigid sure like if i'm you know being just cold and yeah and non-feeling towards you're saying brian why you being so gelid yeah and if your gel is gelid you would say my gel is gelid you know what i mean cold gel i can't i need to put it out on the counter to warm it up a little bit before i spread it on my toast that's right I have gelat gelat, I have gelat, gelat. Jellid jelly.

We got a bunch of stuff today, a whole bunch of things lined up. We'll get to them all, but I want to start with this here, email. This is from Jacob Simmons, who says, hey, snip and bandage. I like that. Episode 2758, Scott mentioned the doctor playing the immigrant song by Led Zeppelin during his surgery. That is true, he did. I had a similar experience for my doctor put on Beastie Boys while performing my vasectomy. me.

Vesectomy music, Brian. What do you think of that? Here's what's funny about that is that we just watched an episode of St. Dennis Medical. Great recommendal, by the way. Think Randy recommend it? No, or Nicole, I think is really good. I love that show.

It's very good. That show is great. And in the second or third episode, the real cocky doctor plays intergalactic before he performs a surgery on somebody's leg. And he's sitting there doing the robot while he, like, he's wasting all this time and they're like we figured it out we actually figured we could do three more surgeries a day if he didn't do whatever this is yeah i'm behind so i haven't seen this one yet that sounds great though that show is genuinely funny you guys you guys should watch it it's very good it's so funny great cast like perfect cast i agree says i thought it was a great choice and made an unpleasant experience more enjoyable says jacob he then goes on in his p s to say something very nice he says p s i rarely get to catch the show live serbius in the chat and discord when i'm there I'm mostly a lurker and a VOD consumer, but just wanted to say thanks for all your content you provide to the frogpans community.

Also, thank you for not shying away from sensitive topics and things that people don't always want to talk about directly. It has probably been several years now, but I remember Scott discussing low testosterone. Low tea, low tea, yeah. I don't remember the discussion now, but it made me aware of it and that it was more common thing than portrayed. This last year, I finally got tested after recognizing something was wrong with me. found out it was extremely low. I'm now on meds and it has improved my life quality significantly. I don't think I've gotten help when I didn't, sorry, I don't think I'd have gotten help

when I did without you bringing my attention to it on the show. Thank you for being a positive force and what feels like a negative world. Well, you're welcome. Very cool. First of all, second of all, this is a nice time to remind everybody. There's a stigma that people get testosterone therapy because they're getting swollen, They're broling out, you know? Like there's like this midlife crisis thing.

Like not because you low tea, but because you want extra tea. You want extra tea. Or you claim low tea to get to just pound on, just pile on the tea. And a lot of these places just give it out like candy. Sure. There is a genuine case to be made for people who are like, you're supposed to be like 700. And if your counts like, I think mine was as low as 180 at one point, you go in, you get that check to give you the stuff you need to get it back in a decent place.

It's not just about, yeah, I'm a dude with a big weaner. It's not the point. The point of it is to feel better, feel less tired. It affects tons of stuff, affects your sleep, affects all kinds of things. So go have an actual doctor. I don't mean go down to, you know, bigt.com up the road. I mean, talk to an actual physician and see if, you know, where you're at. Get tested.

It's easy blood work. It's not a problem. Get it done. Yeah, I'm due for physical. I'm actually due for physical and a colonoscopy this year. This is a year where I need to... I mean, you're supposed to get a physical every year. I haven't gotten one in like three years.

Oh, no, Brian. Right after the pandemic is when I had my last one. We should synchronize our colonoscopies. I have to get one. We should. Like, uh... You meant that? Do you think there's a place in Green River where they do colonoscopies and we could just

meet there and do our... Yeah, we'll do the prep. We'll meet in Green River. We'll get the colonoscopies. We'll have sushi after. We'll be starving. Perfect. Yeah, exactly.

And then I'll make the six-hour drive home. It'll be great. Perfect. It's such a smart idea. We're a great idea. Yeah, I think that's awesome. Thank you, Jacob. You're awesome.

We appreciate it. I also got a chess follow-up from somebody. We talked about chess the other day and dress codes and all that. Tournaments and wearing Levi's to a tournament. Yep. Apparently, we got some follow-up on that. They ended up capitulating and just let him do it. Yeah, because Levi's was a sponsor or something, weren't they?

Is that what I remember? Something like that, yeah. Although there was a question whether he was wearing that brand or not. Oh, gotcha. Maybe that's why. Maybe it's like, listen, if you're going to wear jeans, wear the sponsors, sponsors jeans, not the... Exactly, and he's wearing, like, you know, Jordash or who knows what you'd wear now.

No one wears Jordash now, right? That's dumb. No one wears Jordash? No, I don't think anybody wears Jordash. I don't think dudes wear Jordash. Lee and Wrangler, I think, are still a thing, but I don't know about Jordash. I had Lee for a while. They're right.

They were okay. Yeah, was that the Brook Shields was Calvin Klein's, right? Calvin. Or was she Jordash? now that you say it, I don't remember. Nothing comes between me and my Jor-Dash jeans. That was the, which basically she was just saying, I'm not wearing any underwear.

It basically was for, I'm saying. That's what they're trying to make us think anyway. Yeah. And she's like 13. What the hell are we doing there? Exactly. It was also. Bobby confirms she was Jor-Dash.

All right. Good job, Bobby. Paying attention to those old ladies. Thank you, Bobby. Also, creepy. Yeah, very creepy. I thought you got back quickly. Creepy that you knew that immediately.

No, I'm kidding, Bobby. I'm so, like, not at all. Um, the other thing was, uh, what was the other, guest jeans? Those were big. Oh, yeah. Yes. Yeah. I don't think I ever had a pair of guest jeans, but whatever. I never had a pair of guest jeans.

Yeah. Those were a little too, too, uh, probably expensive for me. They were hoity and hoity. Yeah. I think that's why, uh, we had Wranglers and Lees is because those were the, the cheap, not even, not even Levi's level price. It was like, uh, what's, what's under Levi's? Not Jordash? Yeah.

Or be, I'm sorry. Wrangler. Yeah. Some kids would have, if you had guest jeans, you probably also either drove your dad's beamer or your dad gave you a beamer. That was usually the combo. That was my experience in high school. But anyway, here's the follow-up from a non-named person. This is a text with no name. It says chest talk. He says, my stepfather is a senior master-rated player. Good Lord. And I don't remember him dressing specifically for tournaments. I don't know maybe because international master rank and all do. Sorry, I think he means all of them do dress up. That's it. I can tell you some stories about the chess bums and hustlers that populate the chess tournament world. And they didn't tell a thing.

I'd love to hear a story of chess bums and hustlers. Chess bums and hustlers. That sounds like a country song that I'll hear. Chis bums and hustlers. My truck's all out of gas. I went down to the tournament and they said, you have to wear Jordash. There you go. go, nicely done. Nailed it. Wow, cool. That's, all right, that's great. I mean, that's,

um, yeah, that, that, I was coming up from the outside and saying, yeah, you should dress up, but he, this person, uh, writing in has experience with that. So I'll, I will, I will concede to the master here, or the senior master in this case. Yeah. What does it mean senior master? Is that the highest rank you can achieve? I don't know. I don't know. I know about master level and just being like a master you over a certain rating of um of games and wins and that sort of thing like going up against players of a certain level and winning gets you master status i think well according to the this is probably just higher than that currently yeah according to the chess dot com website the highest rank is grandmaster that makes sense uh and then grandmaster

niggis wallace sean is there go full Wallace, Sean, if you bring up Grandmaster, yes. I love that. Well, anyway, thank you for the message. 8014710462 is where that went, as did the pre. Oh, no, the previous one was an email, which is the morning stream at gmail.com. All right, Brian. It's going on in the world.

Oh, there's another one, an anonymous one. I forgot about this one. Another anonymous. Yeah, another. This one looked like it was a continuation, but it's a separate. It's a separate. I didn't give it a headline for some reason. All right.

This is from anonymous. He says, a fun small world moment. My company in Colorado. Colorado. Uh, had a shipment mix up where instead of five pallets of lead string lights, LED, sorry, LED. I played bass for lead string lights back in the 70s. It's even spelled like LED. I know.

Yeah. I'm such a, I'm such a dummy. Um, anyway, LED, if either capitalized, I'd have got us. Yeah. If it was all caps, you would, exactly. Yeah. Uh, anyway, says we receive five pallets instead of the Thrawl Merlock plushies intended for Blizzard. I was

unfortunately unable to find contact info for Blizzard to get it sorted out, or I was fortunately able to. So here's a picture of what you got. I'll put it up here. Oh, okay. Used to be... All these. So everything out you see... It's a Merlock dressed as Thrall, right? It's basically Merlock thrall with the sword and the

axe and the stuff, and then they come in these bags, and it's just, you can see the box behind it or it says Thrall Merlock. Just boxes and boxes and boxes of Thrall Merlock. So those were probably intended not just for blizzard but probably for blizzcon it's like a well they didn't do one so probably not probably oh this was recent more recent yeah it was just like like now like this week oh okay all right pretty crazy right yeah yeah so uh i guess oh you know it'd be funny blizzard store i want to see

if there's like uh currently out of stock or something because they're stuck in colorado let's see plushies here we go shop plush i got a whole plushy section where are you there where are you i don't see them so far that tells me that they don't have them yet no merlock uh regular green merlock plush uh oh here it is world of warcraft murlock thrall six and a half inch plush sold out 35 bucks i think they're in transit that's where they are yeah they're stuck in colorado that's great funny so this is like so you're wow i did not realize this is a brand new this is a brand new thing yeah they're always doing new shit on there i rarely go one per order i rarely go to the the blizz merch

site um just because i don't know it's all kind of like one one merlock plushies but kind of the same as the next what i really should do is sell all these cards i won't know you uh apparently if you uh with each one of these merlock plushes you get an in-game pet code so so they could have sent he could have been like oh here's all the plushes keeping all the calls hold a box yeah or just keep a box off to the side

they'll never notice yeah oh no these were all we got we didn't uh didn't realize that they were you said 12 boxes yeah we only got 11 11 yeah something must have fallen off the box or the thing before we got it five pallets it's a lot more than 11 boxes yeah that's a lot of a lot of plushies

so good job everybody involved I'm sure it's China's fault All right, moving on Guys, it's time for Tad Pooley Feud You know how that works? Let me tell you how it works Well, first of all, Scott logs into the game That's how it starts Yes, start with that

And then we add done away It's like, look Take the fourth caller He's like an ingredient We're adding him like salt Here we go Sprinkle him in generously And then one of you is going to want to pipe in

If you want to play or not Via Discord You got to send me like a Like a private message on Discord I'll take our fourth caller and, uh, whoops, where did that go? I'm on the wrong tab. Let's fix that. Okay.

Okay. It's time for the tadpooly feud starring one Brian Dunaway. Hello, Brian. Welcome back. Oh, hi Scott and Brian. Hi. Welcome back to you. Hmm.

It's good to see you, buddy. Yeah. You can't welcome us to our own show. What's the matter with you? Yeah. I can. I welcome you to my, uh, presence. Your nightmare. Welcome to my nightmare.

It's like when the airplane, you know, the airplane you're on lands in a new city and the flight attendants welcome you to the city that they just arrived in themselves. Yeah, that's exactly right. They can't do that. No, we can't at all. On behalf of the entire Southwest flight community, we welcome you to Las Vegas. Like, no, welcome you to Las Vegas. You're arriving here, too. On behalf of the passengers on this plane, Dau Burns!

On behalf of the front row, the front row. I got here first. We welcome you to Las Vegas. Hey, look who it is. It's Dillweed, our fourth caller. Dillweed. How's it going? Hey, Dillweed. Hello, I'm back. Hey, you're back. I like Dillweed. He makes he's like ASMR caller. He's like chills me out. And louder than, louder than ever, Dillweed. I'm going to turn you to just. Oh, is he? Sounds good to me. I think I might have cranked him up from last time. Oh, yeah. You sound fine. You don't need to change anything. We need it. Don't you go changing Dillweed. I'm going to change you. We'll change for you, buddy. Well, wife tells me I got to speak up. a lot. I bet she does. I mean, look, you're a soft-spoken dude, and I appreciate it because I'm a loud mouth and nobody likes me around here. Hey, let's get to this game here. Brian Ibbett

has brought the rules and what's on the table for winning and all that stuff. Brian, explain to Dillweed what we got up going on today. We'll do. It's time to play the Tad Pooley feud. I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian can have to predict the answers that they gave us. It is their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Dillweed, your job is more important than ever, because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian if your team wins. You get a prize package that includes Gemcraft, Frostborn Rath, and Cuban Missile Crisis. Oh, no. Ripped from today's headlines.

Cuban Missile Crisis Steam game. That's fantastic. I haven't heard it. Oh, you know what? I do know what that game is, and it is good. That's a good game. Yeah. All right.

Yeah, we've had a run of games I haven't heard of here, but I do know that one. At least I think I know it. Anyway, that's great. This is a nice package, Brian. Cool. It is a really nice package. Big thanks going out, by the way, to Kim, Kamazabi, Kwimbazi, for sending that one along. Nice. By the way, anyone out there ever sitting on a bunch of like humble bundle codes or whatever, just contact us, no matter how you do it. If you've got contact with me or Brian or the website, it doesn't matter, just send us your list of codes that you got that you want to dump.

And we'll put them in the sheet and we've got them. So thank you for everybody who does that. you got them. You didn't, you didn't say it right, though. What do you mean? Which part? Did we not? Which part? Oh, um, bando, um, bando, um, bando, um, bando, d'bundee, bing, d. Thank you. I appreciate that.

All right, well, let's get to this. I'm excited. Yes, this is a fun one today. Put your hands, put your hands on your buzzers, and get ready to answer this. We asked 426 Tadpoolers, what TV or movie Muppet would you want as a root out of Scott? kermit all right show me kermit

just happens to be the number one answer son of yeah so scott you automatically get control of the board the full question is

what TV or movie Muppet would you want as a roommate which TV or movie I remember sipping his tea being all judgmental no thanks yeah we've all seen

oh more banjo music again Kermit come on it away why are there so many socks on the floor I mean he'd be a pin Is that bacon I smell? I see what you did there.

Kermi! Oh, Kermi, come in here, Kermi. All right. Me and the soft-spoken gentlemen are on it. We're on it. Let's do it, Dillweed. What do you think? I was thinking Rolf, the dog, but I don't want to jump ahead too far.

Do you have a, do you have a pick? I think if I was to pick a roommate, I'd want them to cook for me. And they're her to bird a burger. Oh, let's do it. Swedish chef. Yeah, sweetest chef, Brian. Sure, sure. But you'd have to clean up that kitchen every time

because there's lettuce and stuff all over the place. Yeah, that's a trade-off. I'm willing. Why are your hands so human? Show me the sweetest chef. Number five. You know what's good about those human hands of his? Carter and I were talking about this.

He has, so there are a lot of Muppets, Ernie, a lot of different Muppets and Puppets that have human hands in gloves. Yes. And that's normal. You don't freak out when you see it. If they're little skinny ones, they have the sticks. But when you ever see Fossey, it's some of these hands inside furry gloves. But when the chef comes out and he's got the furry face, fuzzy face, not furry.

But then real human hands, it does set him apart from all other Muppets. And so we spent, I don't know, probably 45 minutes trying to find other Muppets with human hands. And we couldn't do it. We never did. It had hands that weren't inside gloves. Yes. It is so weird, right, because like having the. the exposed flesh

exposed skin that doesn't match the you know the the drapes aren't matching the carpet there Swedish chef pork pork pork pork yeah and it's just we've all come to accept it but there he is literally on his own nobody else has the hands so it's pretty great anyway uh all right uh dilby that was a good one let's try

um let's try ralph the dog i just think he'd be a friendly happy guy to have living with you absolutely all right uh ralph the dog ralph the dog nice number two very good good You'd have to bring his piano, which takes up a lot of space, but you'd have, you know, it might be more pleasant than the banjo,

than Kermit's banjo, for sure. Piggy would be unbearable, so I'm not saying her. What do you think? Dill Weed got another one? It's hard to say a lot of them would be annoying to live around. I was thinking an animal, but that you would just never go to sleep ever. Yeah, but you know that there's a chance. He got me,

mentioned here right like maybe yeah i mean it is the tadpool after all that feels either him or beaker animal's pretty chill until he's ready to go right i feel like i feel like i feel like beaker would at least respect your space he wouldn't bring any weird girls home at midnight like he would be he'd be all right and he could probably get drugs pretty pretty easily um you know what be let's let's go somebody's in the house he brushed in your bedroom what all he's really saying is don't worry it's just me don't go don't wake up but really he's going let's do beaker and just get it out of the way

and see if this hurts or not show me bigger nice number nine great points bring you up to 17 points total I called him meeker just about my whole child because he is meeker he's meeker than bunsen honeydew for sure who's the one that worked for Google scooter

what do you think a scooter every time I say dillweed I feel like I'm calling you a name I don't know it just feels funny because I grew up I called everybody didn't I called all my friends dills dude you're such a dillweed I think that's great that you chose that but anyway what do you think of a scooter

do you like the scooter not as familiar with him I don't remember him that much he's like the one who's stage managing during the Muppet show and he's very he's very level-headed and whenever Everyone else is freaking out.

He's like, now, calm down everybody. You know, he's like a, he's like the one. He's a human. He's the human among, you know, a bunch of animal puppets. Yeah. No, that sounds like a good roommate and good thing to done. Yeah, I agree. Scooter.

It's true. Yeah, it would be organized. Yeah. All right, good. He'd be pulling out his clipboard. It's your turn to do the dishes. Why do I sound like Kermit? I don't know.

Ryan can't do a scooter impersonation. Show me scooter who doesn't sound like Kermit. Nice. Number four. What did Scooter sound like? I thought he had like a... He was more like this. He's like a...

Was he more nasal? Okay. The voice actor for... Gonzo? Oh, it wasn't Henson doing the Scooter? No, no. Okay, that's what I was... I was remembering it as being a Henson voice.

He was Gonzo's voice actor, and I never remember his name. That guy, I think. Okay. Same actor or same voice actor as Gonzo. Speaking of Gonzo, hmm. I feel like Gonzo's a fun time. Like, he's a fun roommate. like you could add some fun, except he'd bring those chickens around all the time. I was going to say, hey, Gonso, sound like you were killing the chicken in your room last night.

Everything okay? Bringing home chicks every night. I don't know. What do you think, Dillweed? I'm not calling you a name. Gonzo's got to be on the list. All right. Gonzo.

All right. Show me Gonzo. Number six. That's not that knows. You can always say, where's the pizza I left in the list? fridge. It's Gonzo. It's true both ways. What exactly are you, Gonzo?

One of my favorite movies there's is Muppets in Space, where they get to explore Gonzo's potential possibility where he's from. He was an alien, right? Wasn't it determined or no? Well, spoiler, I can't. Oh, okay. All right. I don't know if it was a I don't know if that got locked in or not, did it?

I don't know. I think they kept it vague still. Because it's not, yeah, it's a little like having Maris or sorry, having it'd be like meeting maris or yeah like meeting snuffelopagus it's like you need the mystery you know yeah yeah i don't think i don't think they made it official but i think they hinted at it um all right foszie fossey's on the mind but fossey all right so he does like stand up at the local club every thursday night comes home what kind of roommate is that the chuckle hut i'll be

performing at the chuckle hut what was that i love i didn't know i didn't know this is your impression He had like a He had a really irritating laugh Waka, Waka, Waka I think I want to We're actually going to a comedy club this weekend We got tickets to something Oh nice

Yeah, I'll tell everybody about it after I don't know the guy But our neighbors are like You gotta go, he's the best I'm like okay Oh cool All right, I'm going to go with Dilweed

Unless you have any objections I just feel like Fossey Probably made the list Just because people think of him So what do you think? I agree, he's popular All right Let's do it.

You're saying Fazi? Fuzzy Bear. Okay. Show me. Just making sure, because there are a lot of things thrown out there. Show me Fuzzy Bear. Number three, look at you with 30 points. I guess I should have already said there's,

Dillweed has already won, and there's no way that Brian could do anything at this point. I haven't even got to even say a Muppet other than. Not even a single Muppet, yeah. Let's see if, I think it would be the first time that somebody runs the board. If Scott can figure out these last three. re-answer. I've heard people say that Brian Dunaway is the show's Muppet. I've actually

heard that. It's a very accurate statement. You're kind of a Muppet-like guy, and I don't mean it is a, it's not derogatory. You have kind of a fun... Well, I am just an alien inside a human skin, so, I mean... Yeah, people put their hand up your butt and make your mouth move, right? Yeah. Yeah. It's

great. Let's see. Tubes. Oh, my gosh. I'm nervous now, because now we're down to the wire. I got to get him all It's yours to lose, Scott What do you think of Pepe the shrimp? I mean, he would sit there and chill

He's not like a mess Would he be so smelly? No, Woody, he's not He's a fresh shrimp, he's not dead Right, so he wouldn't stink You hear a smell of fresh shrimp That would be Oscar Oscar just probably smell more

Oh, Oscar be the worst And I'm not sure we can count him But then again, it's the tadpull And they're probably thinking of all the Muppets He's still a Muppet Yeah, they're still Muppets Still Jim Henson Creation. You're right. Miss Piggy.

Sweetums? Oh, Sweetums is good. Wait, no, no, wait. Is he the full-sized person? They're the full... The big guy, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the big guy. But he's sweet, nice. You know what?

Sweetums. I like it. Sweetums. Good choice. All right. Show me, Sweetums. What is the inside of that? What does the inside of Sweden's costume smell like?

Sweetums was number 29. list. Damn it. All right. Brian, choose ultra-conservative. You do ultra-conservative Fox commentator, Sam the Eagle. I thought about that.

Wouldn't he be a great roommate? He's always got a fox on. It'd be great. So I was thinking that the electric mayhem is not getting enough love over here. And we already kind of said, you know, animal, but, you know, he's kind of a, anytime he needs somebody insane, you throw him in there. So I'm going to actually. He's a, he's an unknown.

quantity. You never, never know. So I'm going to go with Janice. Oh, Janice would need some love. He, Janice.

I love her. She would be a great roommate. She'd be so cool and laid back. Show me Janice. Oh, my God. I just not have a chance to run the board now. Oh, my gosh.

I'm a little blown away by that. But whatever. who am i to say i don't know we don't know right we haven't no one said miss piggy and she's a top tier you know but i mean she would annoy the shit out of you dude bottom tier room me bottom tier but imagine all the perks yeah what perks what all the all the all the all the fancy clothes and she's always got you know nice things and what are you going to wear her tiera oh my she thinks you know she's more important than anybody else what the hell is that going to play as

a roommate as an even you know as an even uh and she stands up for you man if somebody comes in and tries to give you shit she'd be like make off you'd be awesome i'm going miss piggy's all right okay can do show us can't do her show us miss piggy i tried to warn you tried to warn you off of that um miss piggy still did make the uh make the list number 16 six people said miss piggy those six people do not know what they're saying that's great crazy man it would be safe I could I could just relax

you know it'd be great she's gonna protect she's gonna protect you what you're saying yeah yeah yeah all right since we didn't use them before it's use Pepe because everyone loves Pepe and I can't run the board anymore so we'll try it see what we got absolutely

Pepe King Prawn Pepe show us show us Pepe Oh Boo yeah Pepe the King Prawn number 17 in the list.

I'm still glad I got some votes. He's great. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I like him. All right, Brian. What do you got? All right. So, what do you think about this?

They always make me laugh. It's the funniest part of the Muppet show. Statlin Waldorf. Can I get a combo? Did you say Statlin? Stattler? No, it's a Statler. Oh, okay.

No, no, you got it. I heard Statlin, but it's totally fine. I heard Statlin Waldorf is what I heard. No, no. You must be, oh, must be and must get cut off. So, Statler and Waldorf. Because they come as a pair, right? That's the only way you get.

You don't get one as a roommate. They are already roommates, and they're just going to, they're just going to basically let you into their place. That's right. There's another impression that I'm not exactly sure which one you're doing, but I like it. Oh, come on. That was totally one of them. Sure.

Sure. It absolutely was one of those guys. I can't do it either. I can't do it. either so I have no room to talk we loved it actually that's pretty good there you go you got it's good that was actually really good yeah that was good that was the higher register statler when he goes up in those registers look I got to show these off for a second Mike Pacholic he pays attention right like he he knew from years ago that I went to Disneyland and I got myself a statler enamel pin

what nice and and years ago I talked about this on TMS I think I think when I I went to the Expo or something, and I came back and I'm like, yeah, I got a Stattler pin, but I never found a Waldorf. He, somehow, for Christmas, found a Waldorf and sent it to me, so I now have

the pair that I can. You've got to put them in the right order. All is right with the universe. Look at that. That's nice. That's great. What of them should do? Oh, that's pretty good. It's good. Well, that's all I can do. And you want me to talk As I'm, I can't do it.

Forget it. That's fine. You have a go-to. We love it. All right. Anyway, that's great. And Picholik, once again, showing that he is one of the most conscientious listeners we have. He's great.

Yeah. Yes, for sure. Love him. All right. And you'll see me wearing these at TMS Vegas. I told him, I said, oh, my gosh, I'm so going to wear these at TMS Vegas. Nice. Let's get to this answer here.

Show me Statler and what? Who is this? Brian, you said this one, right? Yeah. Statler and Waldorf. Oh. It'd be a riot. I did keep them together, by the way, 18, number 18 in the list.

Nice. Did you leave a condom on the floor? I mean, it would be terrible. You don't want those two there. Forget it. Awful idea. All right. You think Stattler practice the safe sex with a...

Waldorf, more than Statler, yeah. I think it'd be like they'd review the experience afterwards. Yeah. Oh, that's a good point. That was the worst, that was the worst sex I've ever had. that's the worst sex I never had Oh All right

Let's do Oh man Dillweed I don't know where we're at With seven The same The popular one Yeah

What do you got We're going to go with people That maybe not Don't know every single Muppet They would just think Elmo Let's do Elmo

The nicest roommate in the world Elmo made men In bathroom last night Elmo threw up All over bed Elmo not to sleep with you, please. Could you give Elmo another tickle? All right.

All right. Show me Elmo. No, Elmo was number 22. He made the list, did he? All right. Made the list. All right. Three people said Elmo.

Last chance, Brian, to put some more points on the board. Two answers left. Number seven, number eight. Okay. What about the entire cast of the Fragles? No, that's too much. Ernie. But who I do love

doesn't get nearly enough love. He shows up. He blows up. His name is Crazy Harry. Oh, yeah. See the one that throws the fish or just blows stuff up? Yeah, he's... Nope, a different guy.

The guy throws the fish is Lou. Lou, there you go. Lou Fishman. Lou, no, he doesn't have less. Lou something. It looks like Ernie with glasses and a mustache. Zealand. New Zealand, that's right.

He's always huck and fish. He's kind of, yeah. He's kind of, he's fun. It's Ernie with the, Ernie with the disguise, basically. Yeah, pretty much. And a felony charge or two for doing the bullshit he does. The mad bomber, yes. All right, show me the mad bomber.

No, didn't even make the list, unfortunately. Well, there we go. That ends of the round. And congratulations to Scott and Dilweed, 30 points for the two of you, Brian. You got some points. on the board, Janice was a good pick for you with 10. Let's talk about the other

answers on the list here. Number, oh, these first two right here, let's take care of these. You guys talked about them. The tadpool said him, but you didn't want to commit. Number seven is animal. Oh, shit. I thought you said animal. No, we both argued about it.

And said, yeah, no one wants animals a roommate. Yeah. Number eight, I can't remember if you guys, did you talk about Rizzo the rat? No, we talked about... He's great. Yeah, Rizzo's for a rat. He's all right.

It's pretty good. Man, his narration in... Yeah, his narration is amazing in the Scrooge. What if... Oh, the Christmas Carol? Christmas Carol, yeah. Yeah. Well, he's with Gonzo the whole time, but yeah.

Gonzo, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're pretty great. He's so much fun. You kind of have... You need them both. You need a three-bedroom apartment, and those two are also with you. Yeah. I'm with you.

Let's talk about some of the other answers. Your number 11 was Burr. If you would have said, Bert, you would have gotten a next to your guess. Hey, Bert. Counting down from there, we've got Dr. Teeth, Oscar the Grouch, Ernie, Sam, the Eagle, Grover. Nobody mentioned Grover. Dr. Benson, Hennydew, Cookie Monster. Grover's nearing and far in it all in the room constantly.

Four. Ready back and forth. The Count, Big Bird, Floyd Pepper, some more love for electric mayhem. Grogu. Let's start thinking out. the Muppet. Oh, yeah. The Muppet Show and Sesame Street

Box. I did think about that. I was thinking some labyrinth characters. I would have loved if seen that. You'll see some more of those. Grogu,

Robin the Frog, Kermit's son, snuffle up against men. Talked about a lot of room. Yoda, sadly, very low in the list. Number 30, Yoda really should have been higher.

You want Yoda as a roommate. Talk about getting things done. 100% of a Muppet, too. Which Yoda? Like, Force Ghost Yoda? or laying in his bed getting sick Yoda? Laying in his bed getting sick Yoda.

The one that's pissed. They can afford to pay the rent Yoda. Yeah. The one that says stinkhole, whatever my homelessness is. Yeah, that guy. Thanks. Nephew. Let me correct that really quick.

Robin the frog is Kermit's nephew. Yeah, we don't want to besmirch the good name of Kermit and his. Don't even try to imagine half pig, half frog. Don't even think about it in your head. It's so gross. Let's see. by the way, somebody's asking me,

Monica's asking, why separate Bert and Ernie? Because Bert had 10 people. Like, if you have Bert as a roommate, it's a very different experience than having Ernie as a roommate, right? Bert had 10 people.

Ernie had seven. Stattler or Waldorf, whichever one you choose, you're getting the same experience, so we lump those together. Plus, the two of them together, nobody said, nobody said,

Statler individually or Waldorf, or maybe one person did. Yeah. But the two of them together got fewer votes than even Ernie. So that's why I kept those two together and separate. Plus Ernie and Burt do stuff separately. They don't. It's not always just them too.

Exactly. And it's like you said, totally different experience if you get Ernie's roommate versus getting Bert as a roommate. Left off with, let's see, Yoda. Oh, Alf, somebody who are confused there. Somebody else said, any Muppet Baby, F you guys. I love that show when I was little. Muppet Baby suck.

suck. Muppet baby. Chubacca. Crazy Harry. There you go. Crazy Harry getting mentioned there. Drillhead.

Somebody getting their puppet master confused with their Yeah, I love that. That's great. Puppet master. Muppet Pastor.

Look at that. There's like a comic ready to be drawn right there. I like it. Guy Smiley. Ludo. There's some labyrinth for you. Yeah,

Ludo's great. Mokie Fragel. I don't know. I don't know. Well, that's enough to know who Moki is. Would Moki be a good roommate? No idea. I think what, yeah.

I think all the fraggles are pretty great, but I, yeah. They're pretty laid back. Oh, BioCow's got a good question. Any dark crystals in there, any, uh, yeah. I don't see any, uh, yeah, one of the Martians. So the yip, yep, yep, uh, definitely not, Agra. Agra be horrible. Bing, when they, every time the phone rings.

Exactly. But did somebody, is, I'm sure somebody has that as a, as an audio, You could replace your iPhone's ring with the Yeah, they probably would be easy to do. Sure. Slimy the Worm, Oscar's Pet, Stitch, Nope. Somebody just wrote,

The Muppets are the worst. Did they put a name? There's no name to that, is there? No name to that. Okay, because I would shame there for weeks. I would shame them here on the show. That's horrible to say. I wonder if I could trace it from other answers that they gave.

Maybe he meant, Muppet babies. Maybe we're all in the same. No, I don't think so. I think they said Muppet Baby. Another person said, they all scare the heck out of me, but I'll go with Summer from Muppet Babies. Summer? And finally, really good choice. Uncle Deadly. That's a great one to go out on. Uncle Deadly, the one with the really flowy whisker tendrils things from his face. It's like a vampire mixed with like a...

Something. Sea creature or something. Yeah, yeah. What his deal is. Oh, awesome. You know what this means? It means that we have a winner, and that winner walks away with some cool prizes. Congratulations.

Ryan, what does he won? Tell him again. Yeah, one more time. You won a copy of Gemcraft, Frostborn Wrath, and Cuban Missile Crisis, courtesy of Kim Quimzabi. Sounds like you're a president inheriting a bunch of war problems. Exactly. Congratulations. You now have the Cuban Missile Crisis.

crisis to deal with. Good luck on that. We only have one time where it happened before. You want to make sure it doesn't happen again. Have a fantastic next time until we see you. All right. Hey, Donaway. This week, you and I, sitting down to an afterburner. Ooh, after burner. Ooh, yeah.

Get your Sega on, fly a jet, get inside of a little capsule-like arcade machine, and fly away and shoots shit. It's great. So tune in for that on Play Retro coming up this Friday. Although I've got to talk to you about a possible time. I'm sure. Let's see what we can't do. I'm going to a comedy club. We can't do the play right to.

My Friday is increasingly jacked, but we'll talk about it. Anyway, Dunaway, other than that, I would like you to kiss our butts. Got him. Got him. Good job. That was fast. Got him. All right.

We're going to take a break when we come back. We will hopefully hear from Tom Merritt. He's on the floor at CES. Not the floor floor. You know what I mean? The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, I hope we are able to talk to him. If we can't, we'll start recommendals early. Either way, we're making the attempt, but we can't do it until we play a song.

Brian, what is that song? Yes, we're going to talk about Jesse James now. Now, this isn't the Jesse James that, you know, rob stage coaches and terrorize the Old West. No, this is a Montreal folk punk artist named Jesse James. She's got a brand new single called Rise and Shine. We're going to hear it right now. here is jesse james i'm going to rise and shine i will win this fight i know that i'll be all right i can almost see the light i'll stand in the front line ready to ignite i'm going to

redefine what i think is right for me i know longer scream or cry I'll let my demons go away I think I can fly so high I know it sounds so cliche I'm ready to glow I'm gonna be okay because I'm gonna redefine what I think is right for me

letting go anxiety finding peace of mind Nobody will drag me down Nobody will pity me Anyway I don't mind Because I'm gonna redefine What I think is right for me I know I will rise and shine

I will win this fight Watch me go and let me try I will reach the light I'll stand in the front Up on line Day by daylight after night I'm going to rise and shine I will win this fight

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Go for it. And we've returned, Brian, tell me one more time about that band or that girl. Yeah, that was Jesse James and her brand new single, nice and short one, minute 50. Talking about Bam Bam, song is done. A brand new single, Rise and Shine. Check her out in Montreal. Nice. All right, we're going to give Tom Merritt a ring, hoping this works.

I think it will because I spend some time in Las Vegas without us. Isn't technology wonderful? It sure is, and it's wonderful more so when Tom. Merritt comes here and talks about it. He is on the floor at CES. Not really. He's in his hotel room. But he could be there any time. He could just walk out of there and be there. Tom Merritt, welcome to the show. How are you? I'm good. I'm trying to make the lighting work better because I'm stuck in a hotel room. But yeah, I'm all right. How are you?

I'm great. You look, it sound good. Man, you sound good on here. I didn't, I don't know what I expected. Yeah, I've got the roadcaster here, so I should sound wonderful. Yeah. Oh, nice. Yeah. Hotel room lighting is a little different. if you close those curtains behind you you should solve your light issue because it's basically just the light coming from behind you but you don't have to worry about it you look fine it's whatever you want to do that that I was really just doing that to see if I could find out if Tom was in a hotel that had a push button curtain closing yeah I did not the area okay no Tom not at the area down you're triangulating in yes indeed so how have you been so far during the CES anything this year where you're just like whole boy you guys wouldn't believe how different it is or is it you know kind of the same thing just AI everywhere yeah like the general vibes um it it does feel like uh it is back for sure like we're no longer talking about CES is back i'll put it that way everybody's just talking about like oh what have you seen like

it is normal it is normal CES it's huge uh it's hard to get around it's ridiculous uh it's fun there are robots everywhere uh you you can't go 10 feet without some robot crossing your path. There was a dancing lamp at an event that I was just had yesterday. Like a dancing like genie style lamp or a like an electric lamp

that kind of lifts up out of its pot and then is a robot. Wow. Gotcha. Oh, fantastic. Well, they're finally addressing the products we really need here at home. I hear the new theme this year is solar. Like everybody's got something solar? Yeah. That's been one of the

surprise trends. There is AI and everything, but companies have been unexpectedly demure in their prompting of AI. They're doing a relatively decent job of saying this is what our product does with the AI. There's not as many of those, you know, oh, it's just an LLM assistant, although there's plenty of those too. But yeah, there's a lot of good solar stuff. I looked at the anchor solar umbrella. It's like a beach umbrella, which has the solar panels, you know, in the top of the umbrella. And then you can, yeah, and then it's got the port on the post so that you can then attach it to something to deliver the charge, whether it's a battery or Anchor was showing off their solar powered cooler, which you could plug into the solar powered umbrella and then have the whole beach set up. And the cooler does has a freezer in it, solar powered freezer as well. Oh my gosh.

That's cool. That's really cool, actually. I have one of those, I have a little anchor thing. It's from Anchor also. It's about this big. It's not very, well, you can't see my hands on, but it's about the size of a little portfolio or whatever, and you prop it up at the beach. And it does this idea. It absorbs, you know, light, converts it to energy, charge your phone to whatever.

But using the very thing you're getting shade with is a great idea. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like it. Ecoflow was showing off a solar hat. Which they're like, world's first solar hat. I'm like, I'm fairly certain I saw this at a previous CES.

I'd have to look it up. but it's it is certainly not the first wearable to charge your phone the idea is you wear the hat it's got the solar panels on top and then you plug it into your phone and it can it can charge it is it is it inconspicuous or do you look ridiculous do you look like you have panels on your head you look ridiculous yeah you will have to not care about looking a little ridiculous it's a conversation piece ah yes a lot of these never even make it looks like the urban sombrero the photo i saw yes that's a very very apt description of it yeah yeah how many do you think i don't Oh, this is hard to say what the percentage is, but are a lot of products at CES like that

where they're fun conversation starters, gets people's brands in their mouths, and people are talking about a thing, but it's never really going to be at Walmart and you buying it, you know? I'd say about 30% of the stuff I saw felt like that, whether it actually shows up, you know, at Best Buy or Walmart or whatever, is hard to say. But yeah, you have to get your filter on of like, they're trying to get funding. So they're trying to get me to talk about their, you know, uh, box, AI boxing trainer or whatever because it's a good, uh, it's a good demo.

There's a, there's a good, I'd say around 31% of the products I saw are like that. Uh, there's another, another third that are, they're just specialist, you know, they're, they're very niche. Uh, and then the, the rest of them are kind of somewhere in the middle. They're either big name manufacturers announcing big stuff like Samsung and LG and we've been covering all that stuff on CES or their or their products where you're like oh that's that's new uh or a new implementation of something i've seen a lot of that uh there was a smart car seat for children that didn't have any actual new technology in it but the way they were implementing it was was interesting uh so it wasn't much more expensive than a typical car seat

uh bodie grim from kilowatt podcast was was the one telling me about it uh but it had some sensors in it so you could, you know, make sure that it's seated properly. It can monitor the baby a little bit. And the big one that he was excited about was it has alerts that can tell if the baby's in it or not and whether you are in the car or not. So it can alert you if you, you know, happen to leave the car and leave the baby in the bassinet by accident. And you can set it for after a certain amount of time.

It could send an emergency contact information about this or even call emergency services. Yeah. I mean, you know, we've all seen. home alone, it can happen. You can leave the kid and forget that he had them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They'll actually protect your house very well while you're gone. Yeah, leave a little mess, but it's fine.

It's all right. I do feel like Nvidia was the star of the show this year. I wrote this in the Daily Tech News Show briefing yesterday, but basically, it was a 90-hour Nvidia event. They announced a boatload of things. New GPUs being

the centerpiece, of course, but lots of other announcements. It just felt like we were at it. at an invidia event rather than a keynote at CES, which is always the way Microsoft felt back in the late 90s, early 2000s at Comdex and CES. So it does feel like Nvidia is now the tech company that's the darling of the technology world anyway. Such a crazy, I don't know,

I'd call it maybe a decade of growth for them. Really, the last five years have been insane for those guys. And they are very focused on robotics and specifically autonomous cars. So they had a lot of stuff in their announcement about working with Toyota, working with other partners, making chips for cars, helping to bring fully autonomous cars into being. So that seems to be kind of the next thing they want to do as they continue to try to grow and dominate. The other thing is they have a CPU that they made with Media Tech. Now it's Media Tech CPU, and technically Media Tech could just go sell it if they want,

but it's the first time Nvidia has really partnered on a CPU in a device. It's a $3,000 developer device meant to like be able to work with AI on your own device without having to use the cloud. But that is interesting too to see Nvidia making eyes towards like, I don't know, maybe we'll make a CPU as well. I'm going to have it in my newsletter at a few minutes. But, but I said like in a few years, there might be a dozen different CPU makers and none of them are Intel. Yeah, I feel like that's coming. I really do feel that way. And also didn't they, I mean, Nvidia tried to buy ARM at one point, right? Wasn't that a famously failed acquisition? So now they can just use Arm and create their own.

Wild. Yeah, I've been digging in deep in all the GPU stuff for obvious reasons for shows and stuff. But the one thing I didn't get into was this thing they call a personal supercomputer. I think that's what you just described. That's what they're talking about? Yeah, that's the one. So it's a little confusing. Project digits.

Yeah, digits, that's it. And a lot of the outlets are not very clear about this. We're not talking about a thing I can go to their website and buy next month and bring home into the house for $300, they're talking about this more developer-based, you know, early. You have to go to their site and tell them you would like to spend $3,000, please. Yeah, exactly. So it's not quite what I think some of this stuff has been portrayed as. But the GPs are interesting because the entry level is really quite affordable.

And a big jump from the current gen 4080, 4090 series. I think that's significant. Like, as much as I expected the 5090 to be. 2 grand and it is. Of course. And that's going to make all the headlines and you're going to think they're really expensive. But that 50-70 is really I mean a lot of my friends are looking at that going, oh, really?

I mean, okay, let's do it. And hopefully, you know, potentially pending tariffs and other things won't affect that, but that's an amazing entry level price for next gen GPU. So anyway, that stuff looks pretty crazy. More on that on DTAS. A lot of headhills too here.

Oh, yeah. Did Lenovo show off their new Lenovo showed off their go that's coming in May so it'll be the first Steam deck that's not made by Valve so it's not a Steam Deck it's Steam OS. Valve announced that SteamOS is coming into beta for installation on other devices probably as

early as March so that's going to make it easier for people to not have to use workarounds and forks and things like that but it's also going to mean more manufacturers can make Steam OS based handhelds and then there's just a lot of these even Windows-based ones like the the acer uh nitro blaze has an 11 inch screen they did i didn't get a chance to try

it yet but it's it they say it's like holding a steering wheel jeez 11 inches that's that's big holy crap all right i mean i i have to admit it's kind of tempting big screens are great yep when you talk about it 1100 dollars did they did they say anything or if they said anything that you're aware of and i haven't dug very deep but have they said anything about steamOS on desktop, which was like kind of their original plan forever ago, and you can sort of do it now. A few people when they first

started to say like, oh, SteamOS for beta, like well, yeah, you can put it on a desktop. Valve was very quick to say, no, no, no, this is for handheld. So, yeah, again, you could probably find a work around for it, but that's not the big thing. Some people are doing that. I just really wish it was more like, all right, now the desktop,

our desktop fork is here, let's go. Because I think I'm going to do that. I think I'm dumping Windows 11. I think I'm going to do it. But I want them to be the ones. I don't want it to go some distro I don't know or re-learn a bunch of stuff and find out that one day Ubuntu is still the popular pick, but two weeks later, there's some awesome gaming layer and some other distro. And I'm like, gosh, dang it. So my entry into the Linux world will depend quite a bit on what Valve does with that thing. You're my metric for whether Linux has truly arrived on the desktop when

Scott Johnson adopts. That's right. I mean, it's arrived so well and so awesomely on this on the Steam Deck and others that are running it, that I just, it's almost like they had to go around this. They had this idea originally, Steamboxes, remember that? It just kind of failed. Nobody did them. You can still buy them. Some places still sell them.

But these dedicated machines, well, basically, I think that because I didn't grab the way they thought, now they've got this roundabout way of grabbing attention with their handheld device and having people go, oh, well, this is kind of great. do I need Windows and you start questioning it and then before you know it there's a version of this thing for desktop and we're all off to the races I'd do it in a heartbeat like I'm always on that desktop mode

on that device doing weird stuff it's fun it's great it's a very cool little operating system would I like to have that on the desktop absolutely I freaking would so yeah it's a really good it's really good thought I hadn't put together is that you've got a wider market for the handheld because it doesn't

replace anything even if you've got a switch you're like well I could also have a Steam OS handheld because it's different it's the way you have an Xbox in a switch right yeah yeah uh and so that that could lead people who wouldn't have gone straight to a steambox because they're like but i have a Windows machine and I don't know if I want to have two machines or switch to be like oh maybe you like yourself like yeah fine I love this enough I'm you I'm familiar with it it's not new and scary anymore I'll put it on my desktop exactly and in these high powered handhelds they've they've proven out something that they can be a compatibility layer for

windows and do it seamlessly without any real loss of things. In most cases, there's always some, you know, dangly things. But when you say, well, you want to get the Lenovo or you want to get the Rog ally or do you want to get the Steam Deck, people lean Steam Deck because these others sound Clugie. It's like, well, we've crammed windows on here to do all this. Yeah. Well, I'd rather them have, even if it was Microsoft, like a specialized OS to take advantage of what you're doing. And it seems like Steam's got some momentum in that way. And I think valves really smart to where they're doing it. So anyway, it'll be interesting. Yeah. And honestly, Making the SteamOS available in beta for installation on other platforms probably means by the end of this year,

ROG ally with SteamOS. Yeah. You know, this new ACER Nitro with Steam OS. It makes that possible. And I don't see why companies wouldn't offer that. Lenovo's doing both. Why wouldn't everybody else? Yeah.

It's kind of, there's some poetry here too, because Valve famously, Gabe Newell famously hating his ex-employer, without being Microsoft. They hate Windows. They fought, fought, fought for all these years to try to get people on Linux. that think it's the future, bleep, blah, blah, blip. And in a way, they're reverse engineering the same pattern of we're going to be the OS on all these upcoming devices, like Windows is the OEM for all these other devices. And I don't know, it's just fun to watch this whole bit. Yeah.

Anyway. It's a ballet, poetry in motion. Anything else going on there or happening before the end of the week that. Yes, there is a meetup tonight. So if you are listening to this before Wednesday night and you are in Las Vegas and you are a free. at 6 p.m. Come on out to Resorts World. Scott Johnson was the first person I ever

went to Resorts World with. We're going to that famous food court where you can just hang out and order whatever kind of food you want. Grab a big table and hang out and chat. Order whatever kind of food you want as long as it's something Asian. Yeah. Good point.

Why would you want anything else? I'm not just saying. Their ramen is the bomb. The rice bowls are incredible. Good sushi. Everything I had there was amazing. And that was the first time I'd been to Resorts World was with Brian. Met him there right before, I think, 2020s thing, right? I think so.

TMS Vegas. Yeah, we went and went and just took that place over. That place is awesome. That whole hotel is awesome. And partly what's great about it is actually not good for them. And that is that it's not incredibly popular yet. So it always feels a little empty, but it feels like you got free reign of the place. I don't know if you'll feel that way this year because CES is.

Yeah, I'll be curious if CES over. overwhelms it or if it still feels like a little bit of a haven. But big thanks to KT. Data for helping brainstorm locations on this and putting it together. So he'll be there. I'll be there. Rob Dunwood will be there. Amos will be there too if he can. Again, it's 6 p.m. tonight. Nice.

Will Amos's beard to be with him? Will he take that along? He will, but he's trimmed it down. It looks good. It's not as everybody mentions like, oh, I should look for the big old beard. I'm like, oh, no, he's tamed it for C.E. Yeah, he had quite the beast. going there. I was curious about that.

Well, Tom, I'm glad you're having a good week. Can't wait to hear all the results of how it went. I'm sure we'll have a couple of great weeks of DTNS disseminating all this stuff. And in the meantime, you guys make sure you're checking out their live streams, check out the podcast, check out their Patreon, all that fun stuff. Tom Barrett, stay out of trouble while you're in Vegas,

and we'll see you next time. Bye-ha. Yeah, Tom's the person you don't have to worry about staying out of trouble in Vegas. I feel like he's going to keep it on the straight and narrow. Yeah, yeah, he's the one guy. Look, when I took that wacky gummy that made me feel like I was going to lose my mind, Tom was the tree trunk I grasped onto.

The rock. Yeah. Him and Claire, funny enough. Claire was, how do I put this? She was great. It was the moment I knew Claire will, no matter what you're doing on the streets of Vegas, Claire will be there to help you if you need it. I'll say that.

I don't know. I'll also say it. All right. Who's next? I know who. Randy Deluxe. And hold on. Why is he not showing up? No Nicole. No Nicole, by the way. Oh, no Nicole today. Okay. The last minute emergency. So it's just Randy today. No worries. Hope everything's okay there. All right. Just kids in school and that sort of thing. Like she has to get the kids. Gotcha. Yeah. All the fun stuff. The fun good time. Exactly. Yes. All right. Well, let's do this right here. Where is it? I've lost. I don't have two read this is Mental health That's not it Oh I know why

Because that was Amy's Why can't I find my thing Hold on Randy Don't go anywhere Well what do you recommend All right join us now And welcoming Randy Jordan AK.A. Randy deluxe

To the show Hi Randy Good morning, morning stream I am great I am sure you wanted to know And Scott I'm guessing you're going to see Ian Bagg this weekend

No it is Gosh, dang it. Did Kim tell me? It's a guy in New York that everyone supposedly loves. I don't know him. Christian Medical Co. No, but it's a name that's actually hard to say, and that's why I can't remember it. But he's supposed to be great. Our neighbors are filmmakers, and they're like super into this world, and they say this, no, it's not Joe Coy.

But they say he's amazing and really funny, and he's at wise guys in South Jordan, I guess, which is pretty close to us. She and Marcos Racy? maybe Jan Marcos Erici I think that might be it I think that might be it I'm just looking at there's a bunch of wise guys comedy clubs and one of them

has Ian Bagg and I'm sorry that you're not going to see that one because he's amazing well maybe we will I didn't realize we had a wise guys literally like four miles up the road we got to go more often because I do like a comedy club Hey welcome to wise guys let's get your table for

you drink bit of him here it's exciting um all right everybody everybody currently touring was on last comic standing at one time or another but it's just it's just fascinating to go back and watch the older last comic standings like the season that ian bag was on also taylor tomlinson and they did not win neither one of them yeah sometimes the best ones don't win right it's like the like the music competitions yeah they're you know they're young they're still working on how they're gonna how they're going to be yeah uh by the way for those wondering if these are this is not like a national chain wise guys is a utah thing but we've got like what is this four or five locations we got one

called the rickles room in uh the salt lake city nice the rickles room that's pretty good anyway uh yeah yeah there he is this is the guy jean marcos marcos saraci saris i say it yeah he's he's real funny yeah we're going to see him on friday that photo by the way jean marco uh seraci's photo looks like he just opened his hotel room to find a naked man already in the bed It kind of does, right? Look at him. It's like some... So does Ian Bagg now that you...

Yeah. I like a guy named Bag. I do. I'm into it. Ian Bag is really peculiar because he grew up in this tiny little town like 10 hours from anywhere in British Columbia. And he's got a friend who, he became a famous comedian. His friend who also grew up in the same town became a famous hockey player. And they have a podcast together called Enjoying Orange.

slices. Nice. It's just like it's the perfect name for a, you know, you got a guy you grew up with, right? You probably played a lot of the Little League stuff with him. Yeah, and for sure. Pete Holmes coming soon. Check that out. I like Pete Holmes.

Patrick Warburton. What? Oh, look at that. Go see Patrick Warburne. Since we're doing comedy. And you just brought up Pete Holmes. Yeah. I watched the best, best Christmas pageant ever starring Pete Holmes.

So you don't have to. You don't ever need to watch that movie. Okay. Really? Not good? It was, I didn't realize that it was highly rated because it's being brigaded by a bunch of churches. Oh. I didn't know.

So it's a blechan, that's a little. It is. It was, yeah, it was pretty meh. And it's one of those movies that was made to be sold to churches to show their congregations over here. Sure. That's a big. I hear there's a lot of, um, there's a lot of. comedy money in church performances like whole and and I saw you know I saw the name Pete Holmes and I'm

like oh this is going to be great but he he doesn't have a single joke he's just as a straightforward you know like committed Christian husband that's the whole role for him there that's it that's it okay interesting yeah some of Nate bargetse's people they do like the church circuit and it's basically mega churches hire a comedian for an event and they go and do church friendly comedy and then it's apparently like a growth industry, especially in the South. You make a bunch of money down there. I like him in very small doses.

I do not get the huge swell of support for Nate. He is like he is perfect when he doesn't know what he's about to say in a sketch about George Washington. That is his maximum flying capacity for me. That's the thing man. His S&L stuff

makes me want to watch, makes me want to go see him or watch some of his stand-up. But you're saying that's kind of his best place. I would disagree with Randy on this. If you watch his prime, well, I know they just dropped a Netflix one, but the prime, the prime stand-up session he did a couple years ago, still up on prime, is some of the funniest freaking stuff I've ever seen. And it may just be, I do like a more folksy kind of down-to-earth sort of slice-a-life kind of approach.

He doesn't fall into yokel. He's got a southern accent, but he doesn't fall into yokel humor. at all. So I really, I thought that, that, that particular comedy special was really good and it, and it must be because it's kind of what set them on fire right now. But, but, but yeah, I, you know, like any of these comedians, they take them with whatever, it's, whatever you like. We just had the Golden Globes. And, um, that's now always going to be hosted by a top tier comedian. Oh, was, Nicky, Nikki was great. Nikki Glazer was pretty good. This is, this is what she is made of herself. She is now the cutting, edgy hostess of these things.

Her, she spent all NFL season making jokes about football players. And I'm like, I just love, I love where comedy is right now. Just all these different kinds of comics. She was, she did an interview right before the Golden Globes where they asked her, who's, who's your number one? Like, if you could only go see one person, one stand up, who would it be? And she said, John Mullaney. and that she explained why and it was really cool like

like it's really impressive what he's managed to accomplish yeah comedy's in a great place you could argue it's the golden period for comedy part of it is everybody anybody anywhere can find a platform but that also means a lot to sift through

to find big names but I don't know it's like anything else in the modern age the internet age everybody you know everyone has a microphone and the good stuff rises to the top one would think. Speaking of which, let's rise at the top

with our selection of films and or TV shows that we think on streaming services you guys might want to watch. It's called Recommendals for a reason. And we're going to start with Brian because that is the tradition. Brian,

what do you got here? I'm going to start with just a thing talking about the one I was going to use for today, but the movie, it ends with us with Blake lively. I was going to recommendal that it's good.

It's not spectacular. It's a good story. There is a heads up. If you do watch it, there is some domestic violence stuff in there, or not sexual assault, but physical assault on women. The stuff that's going on around this film, though, is completely overshadowing the film itself. So it's hard for me to recommend it right now while all that's going on. but it's pretty good. What's better, though, is a film I'm going to recommend right now,

which is, you know, I guess that's true. I forgot about that, Claire. I think I blacked that part out. You're right. There is sexual assault. Geez. It is a film you're going to hear the star talking to some ladies that she has met at a book group of brand new mothers or mothers.

and you might hear a couple recognizable voices in this. Here we go. When I first heard Mike McDonald, I said, I got a right with that guy. This is what I've been looking for. This is, you're playing the one from last time.

It's Kenny Loggins. Yeah, there's only one. Meeting a group of new mothers. There's only one file in here. Hold on. Or there was. Maybe I got it late.

Maybe you got it early. Let me check and see. The date on that should be. There it is. At 8.32 a.m. Yeah, I pulled it out this morning. I don't know what happened there. Oh, maybe pulled out before I...

Yeah, that's okay. Let me fix it here. Here we go. All right, here we go. I can't believe I'm going to go through this all again. How do you think Daniel will do? He always tells the story of my first birth and how the doctor turned around. So it's time to get that baby out.

And there was a vein popping on my forehead. I was like a wild animal. Yeah, a wild animal. Oh, my God. Yes. My husband said the same thing, that the sounds coming out of me were pure animal. He almost passed out. I mean, he's not good with blood.

Oh, yeah. Right. Do you ever feel like the big secret is that we are gods? What? We fucking create life. We make life. We are so powerful. I bet men are terrified of us.

I mean, look at you. You are this miraculous goddess growing bones as we speak. I am pretty powerful. Tell me more about this. This is Nightbitch. You heard Amy Adams there, as well as Zoe Chow and Mary. Holland. This is a, it's funny, it's getting classified as a black comedy horror film. I can't figure out horror elements in this thing, unless new motherhood counts as horror, which in some

cases it kind of does. There are times that the child is screaming and making and not going to sleep and things like that that, that I would say, okay, maybe that that's the part that qualifies as horror. This, basically, Amy Adams is a, is a brand new mom. She stops what she's doing as an artist to become a stay-at-home mom because her husband is played by Scoot McNary, a favorite here on the show. Love him. He is off going on work trips and isn't able to stick around and help. So she finds herself alone a lot of the time with the baby or the toddler in this case. And whether it's real or hallucinations, she starts to feel.

like she's turning into a dog or into a wolf. Some sort of canine. I think a dog. Some sort of K-Dade. Some sort of K-9. The Amy Adams K-9. I think it's a dog, but with some wolf-like qualities to her. The movie

is very good about not fully cementing one way or the other her transformation. But she definitely sees herself as as protector, nurturer, but also kind of this wild animal, as you kind of hear her talking about in the clip there.

She starts, you know, growing extra nipples, a little tail. I won't go into any further, like sharp teeth, et cetera. But you never are really sure. It's kind of like with the stuff that Lance, Thermos does. You're like, okay, they all, they're going to pick their animal. They're going to turn into that animal. Or DeFoe is going to constantly belch up big bubbles for no reason. This one is kind of like vague. Like you're not 100% sure, which works so well in the favor of this thing. I love the fact that it doesn't tell you one way or the other. There's, like I said, some great acting from Amy Adams, who also was a producer on this. thing. It's based on a book of the same name, Nightbitch. And Scoot McNary is great. He gets the thankless job of playing someone who's kind of a villain already just because he's not around helper with this screaming child. So it's kind of like a character that you just, you're not

going to be able to win, but he further takes it in to not win territory. It's great. It is currently streaming on Hulu and it's a lot of fun. This is one that you can watch with the family. I don't think you see anything or any violence or anything that is going to

is going to be bad for the kids to see. Even though she's growing extra nipples, you don't see Amy Adams' real nipples. You don't have to worry about nudity in that respect. Oh, maybe you do see a naked butt. I'd take that back. There might be a naked

butt in there. Anyway. Nightbitch sounds like the name of a comic from image comics, doesn't it? It does, right? Like, Night Bitch. Yeah. I'm featuring characters from Gen 13. I'm super amused by Mariel Heller's recent works. She's directed these four movies in a row.

Diary of a teenage girl. Can you ever forgive me? A beautiful day in the neighborhood and Nightbitch. Yeah. It's a weird combo. It's like telling a story. It really is. Like, yeah, a story in four parts.

The reviews are awfully mixed. We got 59% critics, 51% audience. Oh, wow. Sounds like you like it a lot more than anyone else here does. I liked it a lot more than the audience and the critics, yeah. And maybe there's people there who really wanted something cemented one way or the other. As far as the vagueness. Well, get on Hulu and check it out, you guys.

Brian's recommendation this week, Night Bitch. Nightbitch. I'm just so glad that Amy Adams has had such a successful career. Because, like, when she just appeared out of nowhere in Enchanted, I remember thinking, this is, wow, this is like a star is born. I wonder if we're ever going to see her again. Yeah. She's just amazing. And she actually even got nominated for a Golden Globe for this. She didn't win, but she got nominated. She's great. She's probably the best thing about the film. Her and Scoot McInery's performance are really, really good. And Nikki Glazer made a joke about, she said, Wicked Queer Nightbitch or things that Ben Affleck says when he orgasms.

Yes, right. I didn't know this. I was just looking at her early career, a lot of TV stuff. She was in Smallville, and I think that's funny because she became Lois Lane at one point. Oh, is she Lana Lang? No, it's Jody Melville's the character. It's one episode, Small role. Okay.

But it's kind of cool. have a full circle Superman thing there going on yeah for oh yeah west wing catch me if you can king of the hill she did all kinds of crazy stuff before i think the wedding the not the what was that called the um what's the wedding one crashers wedding date no no she was in something called the wedding date but was she also in wedding crashes i don't know what i'm thinking of i remember seeing her in some comedy first so when she showed up later in the disney thing i went oh how do i know her and then I went back if you've never seen the master oh she's so good in that and sunshine cleaning another another must yeah if you like her and Emily Blent as a sister's great great film

and the Muppets the 2011 one oh the seagull yeah yeah right very good in that the eagle one well there you have it Randy let's swing this mic over to you and talk about your recommendal what do you have today I am I'm returning a favor that you did to me about a year and a half ago. Ben spent the holiday watching a really good show. And this is a clip. I couldn't give you a clip that didn't spoil it without it just being boring. So this is a short, boring clip that has no spoilers from a really awesome show.

Here we go. Okay, listen to, new load every five minutes. You got it? I already told her how it works. I don't know if you told her right. See, recycling is only supposed to put hopeless stuff down the shoe. But they all forget about it. This is the last chance for anything before it goes to the incinerator.

The good stuff goes back to recycling. And the really good stuff goes to Walker. I don't know. Why do why not? None of this sounds familiar. Scott, Scott, I am begging you right now to watch Silo season. Oh, yeah. No, I'm letting it pile up. Dude, silo is all I care about in this world.

It's not all, yeah, there's still one episode left, right? And it's been everyone talking about this show the last couple of weeks as the new episodes are coming out, and you're going to miss your moment. You're going to miss the chance to be on that amazing train. It's just been so good. It's so, the second season is a little different than the first. Yeah, so is the, I just want you know that. So is that part of the book, so it doesn't surprise me. Yeah, I just, yeah, please understand if you want,

Just more of season one, you're not getting it. It is a different story. It goes in different places. And a part of it is really, really slow, which the first season never had. There was never a moment in the first season that played out any of the stories slowly. Whereas the second season, there's about three stories and they're all being played out slowly. It's more of what you loved, though. and you know you recommendled it like I say about a year and a half ago and that first season is is truly awesome this is not as great you're not going to see like the highest ratings like you did with the first season but all the same people a couple of new folks I will I will answer one question that's a little bit spoilery because it was the question I've had for the longest time and that was are we getting back Ann Perkins and the answer is no no or at least it's been no

so far. Knowing what I know about the book, I don't think you're going to get Ann Perkins back. And I also, you're definitely not going to see, uh, what's her name. I can't think her name all the sudden. I made get her in flashbacks. I don't know how I'd see. I'd say, because I haven't started the new season. And part of the reason I haven't done this because the first season for me was a, I had to see

it every time a new episode came out. Yeah. And that drove me nuts. And I said this time, I'm going to let it pile up. I'm going to watch it all in like a night or a weekend. Like I'm just going to cram this thing. so they got one left yeah one left you and i thought we were doing the same thing and we're like all right episode eight just came out let's do this and it's like oh it's 10 episodes of the season

or 12 or whatever it was like we realized we had two episodes left when we binged everything else but yeah rebecca ferguson is an all-timer i will never not watch something she's in i freaking love her so good i'm excited i'm glad you really liked it too it's good yeah and this is one of those things where if you don't like one of the main actors, it's really bad for you. Because like, common is given so much to do for both seasons. Tim Robbins. And I think, I don't know how you couldn't like Tim Robbins. But if you don't, like, this is Tim Robbins as shit, man. He is, if you don't like Tim Robbins, you might be Susan Sarandon. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I guess. But he is so deeply Tim Robbins in this, in this series.

but over my over my christmas holiday i had uh the experience once again for the umpteenth time of trying to get five people to all watch something together and enjoy it and there were a lot of vetoes like this this year we just had a ton of of folks saying i don't really want to watch that all five of us watched silo season two religiously and like we were sitting around Thursday evening last week when the new one dropped it was like 7 p.m. Pacific which was really nice

and just like dude silo season two you have to hurry it and catch up and let's go. It's going to be it's going to be all everyone's talking I've heard mostly nothing but good the only person I've heard who didn't like it is

our own Dr. Calhoun in the chat does not like it he seems like it doesn't like common he's like he's saying that he if there was a fan edit that took out everybody but uh rebecca ferguson storyline then he'd be well like it a lot more he said up top he said this season has been so bad so much plotting two episodes it stretched out into a season he's not the one recommendal i know but that's what i'm saying is like dr calhoun also ripped on uh me liking betty davis eyes i think he he hated two thirds of the muppets i don't know what what's going on

with dr calhoun today but yeah my point my point was not so much to call him out as i am to say he seems to be the only dissenter. I've heard nothing but glowing things from everybody else. The other performances or deserve a shout-out, like David O'Yoloo as Holston, as the sheriff, is just, he continues to just be amazing in season two. Harriet Walter as Martha, the older sort of Obi-1, continues just to be awesome and just all of it. Every person in this show is just punching above their white class. season two introduces steves on although don't don't get too many hopes for steves on he's not got a huge role

i mean i love him but you know i'm not going to get over excited but i do like him a lot i love him yeah it's just one of those shows where like it it couldn't it couldn't the second season couldn't have been bad right like that's how you feel about severance it doesn't really matter if they rest on their laurels a little bit the second season of severance is something you've got to watch. And I'm saying Silo's Season 2 is plenty good enough for you to start watching it right now and catch up and enjoy everybody talking about it. Also, this is a Graham Yost joint.

It's important to note that I think he is probably one of the most accomplished showrunners on the planet. He's got things like this under his belt. He's also executive producer of Slow Horses on Apple TV. Justified, the Americans, sneaky Pete. Like the guy has no, he has no tankers. The Pacific for shit's sakes, John Adams. HBO thing is so good he wrote speed the movie as a writer as a writer he is all over film sack like we we have sacked i think all of his movies that he wrote at this point yeah he's he's

awesome it's which is kind of funny like speed broken arrow hard rain uh have we have we sacked um firestorm no but we could we should all right we should want to we should want to do that we did mission to Mars, didn't we? Do we do mission to Mars 2000? I don't know if we did that or right planet. I think we did one of the two. I don't remember which one. Whichever one at Gary Seney sent it. I thought we did.

Anyway, that's not a good movie, but he wrote that. And the other thing I just want to say about Silo, the music is so good. The music in the season one was real good. Music in season two is really, really good. So, like, listen for that.

It's just awesome, guys. Yeah, agreed. Silo's awesome. Do not kid yourself unless you're Dr. Calhoun. Then you can kid yourself all you want. All right. Here's mine. Here's my clip. It is a horror movie. I've been holding it for a while because we've had so many Wednesdays off. So it might seem a little weird time to do this. But this thing impress the hell out of me and I'll play the clip. Joshua, grab her a water. I'm fine. I want you to have someone around to help out with things again. Have you talked to Jemma about coming on tour?

Gemma is not going to want to hear from you home. Have you reached out? No. Not exactly. She's your best friend. I'm sure she'd be willing to forgive whatever it was that happened between the two of you. You're a completely different person than you were. Can you please just leave it alone? All I'm saying is real friends are hard to come by. It was really good for you when Gemma was around.

I'd be more than happy to help out with any personal stuff I might need. All right. I did a fairly innocuous clip because I didn't want to do too much where it's getting scary or weird. But this is Smile 2. I recommended Smile 1 on this very show back when it came out. And I thought at the time, Smile 1 was really good, a very inventive, different horror movie that was very effective. And I also felt like I hope they don't do a sequel because there's no way they can match this. It's just one of those franchises where once you get it, you get it and you move on.

And when I heard they were doing a sequel, I actually got nervous. I was like, oh, I don't know, man. Same creator, same writer. So I'm like, all right, we'll give it a shot. Then I saw trailers and went, oh, this is about like a famous starlet. and it's the same problem as smile one but now we're dealing with like rich obnoxious people and so I was just like down on the whole idea of it even happening

it comes out it comes home paramount or something no MGM plus where I saw it and uh man smile 2 is awesome it's an incredible follow up to the first movie they out did themselves and part of it rests on the shoulders of Naomi Scott who is in this and is incredible in this she's a British actress that you probably all know from things like the Aladdin movie. She was Jasmine. She was Kimberly, the Pink Ranger on Power Rangers movie. Newish Charlie Angels in 2019. None of it, you're like, oh, that stuff's amazing.

This is a turn for her. If she doesn't become like instantly invited to be in everything from here on out, I'll be shocked. She's that good in it. Unbelievably good. And because of that, it really elevates the film past some of the stuff you just already know how it works. like some of the horror elements in this, and I won't give any of them away if you haven't seen the Smile series. But if you don't know how they work already, well, then the first smile movie is all about how it works.

This movie is, we know how it works. Now, let's see how it plays out in a very different scenario with different people, different effects, all that kind of stuff. And she puts in, they're not going to give her an Academy Award for this because it's a horror movie and they rarely do that. And she's young and she's got a career ahead of her, she'll probably get more stuff down the road.

But I really think she deserves one. he's that good in this. Again, Parker Finn, writing, directing, same dude. It blew my mind, had me at the edge of my seat. Get a higher Rotten Tomato score with the second one than the first one, too. Like the second one has exceeded 70s for the first one and 80s for the second one. Yeah, I actually do think it's a better film. And that surprised me.

How often does that happen? It's rare. There are some people. It's mostly people you don't. I wouldn't say all the time. We can name a few. Empire Strikes Back, sure. What else?

What else? Where's the sequel? Probably Terminator 2 probably has a higher. That's a good one. Yeah. That's all I got. Well, give me one, Randy. Who else does it?

Somebody else? The Dark Knight. Oh, sure. Godfather 2. Godfather 2. I bet. I think they're both. I would say Godfather and Godfather 2 both have to be in the 90s.

And if they're not, then something's definitely wrong. Yeah, I'm just saying it's an outlier. it's not it's not every it's most of the time you're like oh it's okay not as good as the first that's almost 90% of what you hear out there this is rated though aliens better rated than alien one uh yeah wrath of con better rated than star trek one well that's a good one yeah that one totally does wipe out the first one i know i agree they exist i just think it's the norm to get disappointed and this did not disappoint two born springs me boy story two no i get i get and agree with your point see that's the best word about i think it happens a lot i don't know if it happens all the time

Yeah, that's all I'm saying. There's, you know, we could be pointing to a lot of speed, too, bad examples of where the second movie is worse. Of course. That's why you had the original thought, like, because there are plenty of examples. Yeah, yeah. I'm just saying if you could quantify both groups, I'll bet the group where we're disappointed is larger. That's all I'm saying. Anyway, the point is this movie's great and people should see it.

You're not going to really recognize most people in it. The most famous person in this is Drew Barrymore playing the talk show host Drew Barrymore. Oh, really? And I usually, I usually hate that in movies because it feels contrived and forced and all that. It works really well here for what it's supposed to do. This movie, I was so worried it would get trapped up in that whole, like, we're going to show this starlit music world and this very famous, you know, I'm trying to think of who you compare it to, you know, like Taylor Swift levels of popularity. that's just going to feel hollow and not accurate or whatever. And it turns out it doesn't matter in the right hands of the right writing.

You can make this stuff intense and crazy and they do a really, really good job. So see it. See it for Naomi Scott alone. And if you're a horror fan, I think you're going to really dig it. It's Smile 2. And it is available currently on MGM Plus. I want to say it's also on Hulu, but I could be wrong about this.

I thought I saw it. Oh, yeah, I saw it Paramount Plus and Ammit. MGM Plus, but if you do Amazon Prime, you can do the seven-day trial of MGM Plus through that. That's what it is. Oh, yeah, and I get Paramount through that already. So that's why I was thinking I was already over there. Yeah. Anyway, worth your time.

You like horror movies. Go check it out. Smile 2 available now. I also go back and forth on that. If we're not making fun of successful and rich people, like sometimes I'm like, oh, this is just about a successful rich person. I'm just not that interested. And then sometimes I'm like, this is so very interesting. I don't know.

I go back and forth. No, I feel you. I think you'd like this for that reason because it does a really good job of reminding you constantly that the people we elevate to celebrity status are just people. And you forget sometimes. And people get worshipy and weird. And there's a pariscial message about this thing. They decide to go places instead of just be superficial about it. and I really appreciated that.

The example I would give, this is a weird example, so forgive me. But remember those, oh, God movies? Oh, yeah. The first one was just like, wasn't the deal? He's just like a normal guy. Right. It was Ted Wass, and he takes them from rags to riches and then back down. Yeah, and you always felt like the richest part didn't quite have it, right?

Like, it just felt, right. Art of not even real. It was like, here's what we think Rick Springfield's life is like. We're going to shoehorn Ted Wass into that setup. Exactly. Yeah. Finally, somebody given that guy is due. Finally, some love to Rick Springfield.

Yeah. So I really thought this would be that and it's not. And what does help is Naomi Scott is a accomplished singer and dancer and all these other things, too. So when they have her doing some of the stuff in there that is all about being a big huge pop star, she's actually doing it. And that adds a lot of credence to it. So anyway, I liked it a lot. this is not a movie for everyone. It is scary and bloody and moments of real horror. But I think expertly done. And if you're a horror fan, you might enjoy it.

Oh, right. Thomas Chambers. Yes, John Denver, that's right. It was in the first one. Rick Springfield, or I mean, Ted Wass was the, that was the problem with the second one. Oh, right. That's the better example because it's the second one. Exactly. Yes. Exactly. And that's where you go, oh, shit, you guys have this wrong. And I thought I was in for that here. and I wasn't. It was great. Yeah, cool. Check it out. All this stuff will be up on QuickTMS.L.I, which means you can find out what we talked about real easy and link off to it and watch it for yourselves. Randy, anything else you got going on? What's going on with Filmsack this weekend? We got plans, don't we? What are we doing? Yes, we're going to watch something. Yeah, it's a movie. Let's see.

It's a movie that is called Silver or Not Silver. Unforgiven, right. Oh, right. I'm excited. Yeah. Good, a good Western. Yeah. Maybe. We, we, we, we, we, we, we, I think it's a good Western. Oh, I think it's... I can't speak for all of us. You never know. I see it once every couple years or so. Saw it maybe 2023, that movie rules.

I'm so excited to see it again. It's so good. Get your Gene Hackman and your Clint Eastwood and your whatnots. It's going to be great. Clint Eastwood has become the oldest director, filmmaker, to ever have a hit. And like, it's kind of impressive. He also seems to be having a moment with jury. number two. It's reviewing really well.

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah. Excited about that. The guy is just, I don't know, it's very, very strange Clint Eastwood's career being as long as it's been. Remember when he talked to a chair? We all thought that was the ultimate and crazy. Basically, we thought well, it sure was nice

having Clint Eastwood. Yeah, up to that point maybe, but I'll take that back anytime now. It'd be great. Bring him back. Get them on stage. Please don't remind me of his political beliefs between now and film's acting. Yeah, I have a feeling, though, they're not quite as extreme as those who have taken the chair away from him, if you know what I'm saying. Do you know what I'm saying? He's almost, yeah, I could say things, but I won't. I will say this, though, Randy, I want you to have a great week and I'll see you on this weekend for our movie.

Hey, Brian, we're done. Yes, sir. Yeah, we are. We did a show. That's right, everybody. What you heard just now was a show, and that means we have to close things out. Trying to find the right tab. Here we go. Okay. There is, normally I'm on DTNS today, but there is no D-TNS for me. It is just those guys on the floor out there in Vegas. So do check it out, though. Make sure you watch it. I think it's awesome. I really like Rob Dunwood. He's a dude that's been working with Tom for a while, a great podcaster in his own right. Got to work with him a few times. He is there in Vegas with him, and he is one of my favorite voices in tech. So if you haven't been listening to those guys, go check him out. Uh, frogpants.com slash TMS for everything you might need to do, including make song requests. Speaking of

which Brian has one right now. That's right. Yeah. Thanks. I asked for a song request. You guys stepped up and gave me enough for about a week. So keep those mid and January and, I'm sorry, mid and late January requests coming in. We do need some for the last couple weeks of the month. But we do have enough for this week and early part of next. And we're going to start off with this one from Dean said, howdy, I just turned 39 on the seventh. Happy birthday yesterday, Dean. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. It is right there. It's a bummer. you know what is it a bummer the doobie brothers how about a cover of one of their songs thanks signed dean nice sure uh let's let's go right to the song that um according to the movie launched yacht rock or no i'm sorry is the the ultimate yacht rock song from which all other yacht rock songs are measured it's a song called what a fool believes this is a really cool version came out last year i'm sorry two years ago i can't forget that it's 2025 now um scary pocket

released this version on their Swatkins album and liberal but some of the best use of auto tune you're ever going to hear. Here is what a fool believes. I love when you play Scary Pockets on the show. They're always good. They are so good. Yeah. I love it. All right. Awesome. Here it is. We'll be back tomorrow with Wendy. More stuff like that on Thursday. We'll see you then. The men of fool don't see trying it hard to recreate while yet to be created Once in her life she must have a smile for his nostalgic tale Never come to leave what he wants Only to say only to realize

Yeah never really was She had a place in his life life he never made her think twice as he was to her apology anybody else would shyly know he's watching her go what a fool It's no one's there has the power to missing away. What seems to be, it's always better than nothing, than nothing at all. He's sending him somewhere back in a long ago. He can still believe there's a place in life

Someway, some way, someone, she will return She had a place in his life He never made anything twice As he rises to her apology Anybody else what shall eat out? It's what you need to? What a fool believes He sees

The wise man has a power To living away What seems to be What seems to be It's always Well, it's nothing Nothing at all You know

I believe I'm that fool I believe Won't you Maybe you believe it too Oh Oh

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