The Morning Stream - TMS 2763: Mochi Holes

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

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Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS. This is the morning stream for Tuesday, January 14th, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Ibbott. Hi, Brian Ibbett. Hello, sir. Hello. We were just talking about like alternate recording methods. Someone in the chat says, I forget what DTNS uses. They use Stream Yard. Stream Yard. Stream Yard's got its own issues. We talk a bunch about that in the pre-show.

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I meant to, but I'll tell you now. Have you ever have your shin hurt for no reason, Brian? Has that ever happened to you for no reason? Yeah. Oh, I'm old. Parts on me hurt for zero reason whatsoever. Well, this one is actually bruised up. So I think what happened is, I don't know how to explain this. I think I hit it on something hard and then forgot that I did it.

You ever do that? You're busy. You're, you're tootling around your office and you're like, bam, ow. And then that completely escapes your mind. you don't remember ever doing that. I don't remember a thing about it, but I got a big ass bruise. It hurts, oh, it kind of hurts when I bend, but it's just that outer bone where the bruise is. Anyway, that was dumb.

And I would really prefer to know when I hit things and then be able to recall that I did it. Yes, right. So you can say, oh, this is when I hit on that table. Darn, okay, better not do that again. What's the point? You know, our body, as Wendy will point out, our bodies do this thing where they learn and say, oh, that hurt last time. I'm going to make a wider path around that table next time I walk around it.

But if you don't remember it, what's the point? Yeah. So, yeah. I have no new, I have no good information to navigate my world with because I didn't pay attention to what I hit in the first place. So this is clearly a me problem, but it's also a knee problem. A knee and a me. It rhymed. It's all good.

Hey, I found out something yesterday, I was doing some, I'm working on our swag stuff for, for Vegas here and just trying to get early early bird stuff done. And I was looking at this list of fake or fan-created slogans for the place. Oh, okay. And then the actual list of Vegas approved, like city-approved slogans. What they really used, yeah. They've had some, they've had some clunkers. They have some real bummer ones.

And I was surprised because some of these ones from fans, I didn't write those down, but those were, some of them were really good. It was like the slots are always this and then. It was just like fun kind of throwback. phrases and all this stuff. And then I look at the actual official Vegas ones. They haven't had an official one until 1991. That was the first official one. And it was always on the money. Always on the money. Boy, Vegas is always on the money.

$16 for a drink? Sure. You guys are always on the money. Sure. I mean, I guess back in 91 I could get, you still had those cheap buffets and stuff. Oh, you could still even get a shrimp cocktail. on the strip for $2.99, too. Oh, my gosh. I don't think I'd trust it, though. Have you done that before? Tried one of those.

Yes, and it was like, it was, I can't remember where we got it, but they weren't like your big old prawns. Like, you know, you imagine it's a glass with cocktail sauce and horse rash or whatever, and then the shrimp are so big, they're like over the sides, right? Yeah, that's what I picture.

Yeah. Yeah. No, it was those little, um, uh, the tiny baby shrimp. Just a pile of them on top of the cocktail sauce. Gross. Can't do it. Like whatever they used to make popcorn shrimp without the popcorn. Yeah.

Plus those go bad. Well, my experience with the little cheap shrimps from the store that aren't fresh caught or any of that. Those things go bad pretty quick. So I will probably not eat that this year or any year, despite the tempting price. Yeah. Someone in the chat says shin splints from the workouts. this is i have a bruise from hitting something like i know i did it kim thinks she knows what i hit but i don't know if it's not it's not an ache it's a i have an ache from the exercises we were doing

around the one mile run yesterday i had to do some um weight like lifting weights and then some planks and stuff like that oh it was one this is probably what did it it was a plank with alternating shoulder taps oh you kind of keep your you're the rest of your body set and then alternate those hurt those can hurt I'm not a fan not a fan of plants

not a fan and then stupid mountain climbers I'll still take a plank over a burpee though you know oh I'll take anything over burpee burpee is is literally the

worst exercise it's the devil's play thing I don't like it and so far four months however long of OTF I've been doing we have only done burpees once

Oh, good. They save it. The trainers hate them as much as we do. That's good to know. I like a place that doesn't like them, too, if I'm, yeah, exactly. Yeah, we don't want to make you go through that. We know you're paying for this. You don't want to do burpees. Universal hatred of burpees brings us together as a nation.

Exactly. We'll all unite over our hatred of burpees. So here's the other thing, though, before we get off the workout stuff, is there any better feeling in the world than a good sore? I love a good sword. Yeah, no, I'm with you. Like one that you know is going to go away in a couple hours. Yeah. It's not going to keep you from getting sleep.

And it feels good to stretch and like just really pull it out. Like, oh, I love that feeling so much. So good. I feel like at the end of every session, I feel, oh, man, this is why I do it. It's for this feeling right here. It's this, you know, feeling of accomplishment. The feeling that I can have a, uh, a, uh, a, Biscotti with my coffee. I haven't had a Biscotty with my coffee in years, but I could if I wanted to.

You know, I could have that slice of toast with my eggs or whatever. Sure. Sure. I'd not feel bad about it. You've earned it. Yeah. Well, anyway, so 91 was the dumb. That was pretty dumb. Always on the money. Pretty dumb. Pretty lame. Yeah. Yeah. 2003, it was much later that we got, what happens here, stays here. And that's the exact wording of the original more. And now you're going to see some iteration on this. But it started as what happens here, stays here. And then they got weird. In 2004, they changed it.

This is a year later. I think they maybe had a plan to do yearly, and then they kind of lost track. But anyway. Maybe, I don't know. But it was it, if only it was this exciting at the game in Houston. It's such a weird, specific slogan. I don't get it.

Was the Super Bowl in Houston that year, and they just wanted to kind of capitalize. Oh, maybe. Is that a big year for, who would have been then? The Oilers? Not the Oilers. Texans. Texans.

Texans. Texans. Yeah. Houston's the Texans. They were in 2004 as well. Okay. I've always felt like they've been around less time than they have been. The Texans are old school now.

But like maybe it was the Cowboys. I don't know. But that's a weird thing to say. Must have been something. It's such a weird. Yeah. Was Akeman a big. Akeman was kind of a big deal then, right?

I think for the Cowboys. In 2004? Maybe. God, I don't think of him as a... He left the team? This was a long time ago, but I don't know. Well, 20 years ago, 21 years ago. Yeah. Or what did I say? 25. Yeah, I meant 21. Yeah, you said 25. That's the problem with 2025. It makes me feel like everything's 25 years ago because of that number.

I know. It totally does. Yeah. It's like we're a quarter of a way into this millennium and everything feels like it was 25 years ago. So three years later, they decided that your Vegas is showing. should be the new thing. That one is horrendous. I don't like it. I don't understand why. Like, what are they trying to,

are they trying to reference like your underwear is showing or your slip or your bra strap? Your Vegas is showing. Yeah, it's a very odd thing to say. Does it just mean you're winning? Like, I'm trying to put the positive spin on it. Is that what that means? You know, you're back home in your regular life and you're still. um you're still you've got chips at your desk that you're still playing with yeah oh your

Vegas is showing it's bad it's bad i think by 2007 we should have been better at making at doing this stuff yeah i think so too so then they didn't learn their lesson because just two years later in 2009 the year film sac started coincidentally and and full-time frog pants started uh only Vegas this and i'm going to argue with you i'm going to defend only Vegas as being of all of these the best Vegas slogan because that is for me

that is the point of Las Vegas going to a Michelin Star restaurant and then going to see some weird show where some freaky ringleader is twirling his mustache and making Russian

acrobatts balance on each other on a stick and then going from there to a place that only makes cupcakes and you have to get them out of a vending machine. Sure. You know what? I think you've made me, I've come around,

but I will also just add to that. It is the best of this list. Yeah. But that, but the list itself is still kind of shit. The rest of the list is so bad that it's a low bar for a. It's a low bar for that one. But I agree with you.

It's also short. I like short. Simple to say and remember. It's short. Yeah, exactly. But it's such a, and plus then it's like a head shaky thing too, which works as the second thing like that see that woman trying to climb up on the plastic

m&M outside the m&M store at two o'clock in the morning and then she figures the reason that she can't climb up on is because she's wearing underwear so she pulls those off only Vegas only Vegas yeah yeah you know what I agree with you I think we peaked in 09 on these things because what happened in 2013 is an atrocity it's them trying to bring back 2003 is what happens here stays here except it's only halfway it says what happens here stays in Vegas and that's the worst it's like it's so it just doesn't go far enough so it's like well what happens here stays in Vegas so does that happen in Minneapolis and but it stays in Vegas or it's terrible it's terrible it's really bad and in the very next year they decided well

that was dumb why don't we say Vegas twice so this so almost the same thing what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas now to that one's credit I think that's the one that glommed on the hardest. Yes, correct. I think most people still think that's what it is probably right now. I was going to say, if you ask 100 people, 80 of them are going to say, oh, isn't the phrase, isn't the slogan, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas? And I thought that was much, I thought that was early 2000s.

I thought that was, you know, but the what happens here stays here, I guess, was what I was thinking of. Yeah, which was not great. Although it's okay. It's just, it doesn't. doesn't make sense outside of Vegas. So if you wore a t-shirt that said, what happens here, stays here, nobody knows what you're talking about unless you have a big old, like, casino behind it or something. Vegas logo on it or something. Yeah, so this is a little bit better. Then in 2018, not that long ago, well, it's now been six years. Wait, seven years. It's the cheese. That's crazy. Destiny happens here.

That is the current one. And that's the current one they're using? Yeah, I don't like it. I'm not a fan. Unless it changed recently in this site didn't have the most recent, but this claimed it was the most recent. But I don't think destiny happens here is any better than what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. And I think people still say the other one and don't even know that destiny happens here exists. Destiny happens here seems to just really focus on the gambling aspects. Because you're not going to say, oh yeah, destiny happens here. I saw Britney Spears at the planet Hollywood. It's like, you know, it's like, it's too focused.

It's not wide enough. That's why I think only Vegas works better is because the gambling, only Vegas, but not really. The, you know, the great restaurants, the this, the that, the weird attractions, a giant meow wolf, only Vegas. Cool stuff and weird stuff and everything in between and a nun with pasties. All of it. Only Vegas should make a comeback. I'm not in charge of things down there. Mizzula has some sway as far as I'm concerned.

Maybe him and former Congress person or a council person, James, can get together. Him and James can go to the Clark County office there and say, can we go back to the 2009 thing? And they'll say, oh, yes, sir, yes. Yes, Mr. Chris Minton and former councilman. I guess he was in, what was the city? He was in Boulder City. Boulder City. Yeah, they probably don't.

Them and the Mason. I think we can come up with so better, better slogans for Vegas. You didn't bring enough hand sanitizer. That's pretty good. Las Vegas. You didn't bring enough hand sanitizer. Or Las Vegas. 82% of all streets are gum.

That's pretty good. Las Vegas. Don't touch your face. That's right. Go to the, or see. I like. that no that's not bad Las Vegas those aren't real

yeah yeah yeah like we could have a contest with this alone we weren't doing the film thing we could do this is pretty good new slogans for Vegas you guys be thinking to some and send them in to our various ways of contacting us we'll read them on the show we'd like to hear your hot takes All right we also got a quick note for

Las Vegas don't look at it in daylight Yeah definitely don't That's just good advice Brian Geez yeah yeah check this out T.W. from, I'm not sure where he's from, but he sent in some information about fires and insurance. We've been talking about the California fires and how, what a nightmare this must be for the insurance industry to respond. Hopefully they push, you know, actual approvals through. Like, I don't know. We could be heading toward an insurance apocalypse on this deal. We'll see.

But he says this. On fires and insurance, hey, Scott and Brian, long time listener here, I've been in the property and casualty insurance business for almost 15 years. both the personal, which is residential homes and auto and commercial sides. I spend two entire years back in 2016 through 2018, specifically underwriting wildfire prone risks for a very large national insurance carrier. With almost every wildfire that gets national news attention, there is a ton of incorrect information that you start hearing online. However, the amount of hate and disinformation this past week is beyond anything I can remember. Well, I'm not surprised to hear that. He says this. Some things I think the general public don't know that heavily factor into these wildfire

situations. Number one, mutual versus stock insurance companies. I don't know what those are. I'd have to get more information from him, but I assume that means like, uh, it's like the difference what is like you're all, you're encompassing like we're car, home, fire, uh, life insurance combo. Oh, maybe. I thought it was more like one's public one. I don't want a stock insurance company means. I thought that meant public, but maybe I may not have that right. I don't know near enough about this. I should have asked Dylan last night when we were talking because he would know. But the I assume it's a little like banks. You know you have your credit unions and then you

have your giant national international banks. Be like that maybe. Anyway, number two, fire protection class. Don't know what that means either. Three, dry hydrants, mass procedure loss and gallons per minute. These are all pressure loss. What do I say? Procedure. Oh, don't lose your procedure. Just your pressure. Don't lose your procedure. That's bad, too.

Yeah. I get both pressure headaches and procedure headaches. They're the worst. Oh, Bobby explains. Mutual versus stock is about who owns it or who gets dividends paid out. Oh. Thanks, Bobby. But isn't that, is that tied to public company dividends?

We're just talking about, because I assume that you can, as a mutual, see I'm mixing it with stocks I probably shouldn't do that yeah well no you can because it's stockholders that get the dividends paid out in a stock insurance company and is there any and so the other kind is what a smaller non-public the members get

dividends okay so it is a little like a it's a little like a bank yeah yeah yeah uh let's see boy and my hydrant's pretty dry these days if you know what I mean my hydrant I'm dealing more with the mass pressure loss

on my hydrant you got to talk to the city man they're going to come out and fix that it's a 55 year old hydrant it's uh yeah wildfire mitigation like you know controlled burn stuff like that that's a big part of this

and I heard some there was one of these so they have a lot of Native American indigenous folks who are part of these firefighter teams and some of some he interviewed one of it. It was really an awesome interview and the guy said something about

my people have been dealing with these same kinds of fires in these regions for 25,000 years. Oh my gosh. And he says, I wish modern society would do more control burns like we did. The problem is we're building multi-million, sometimes billion

dollar facilities in the middle of areas that require control burns. Or would have 300 years ago. Right. And now we can't because now we have all this property there. So it's like there's, he was making some pretty good points as best I could tell. I don't know much about this, but it was interesting.

Then number five, Ricardo Lara being a massive pile of crap. I don't know what that means. Is Ricardo Lara? He's not governor. No, that's Newsom, right? Newsom, yeah. I don't know who Ricardo Lara is. I should have looked this up.

Carter Lara is American politician. He is, oh, insurance commissioner. Oh, there's a it's at a governmental position? Yeah, the 8th Insurance Commissioner of California elected during the 2018 election. Let's see. State officials, state official Carl Laura warns of fraud targeting survivors of L.A. Wirefire.

Okay, insurance protection. I don't know much about this guy, but it sounds like he does. I was like exactly. Sounds like that guy's a massive piece of crap. He says, those are just a start. I can respond to any questions to your audience that they may have. Love the show, though, T.W. well uh feel free to write and again based on any of the questions we have but if anyone out there has any

questions i find this stuff super curious it's a it's a big ugly mess when things go down but you don't think about it the rest of the year i don't think about it i just have your insurance i have some earthquake insurance because it's where we live near the fault line oh i've never had to use it in my entire life but i've we we've always paid it just in case yeah sure yeah and some houses up up on the ridge they have to have it it's required it's law there i don't know how to works, but there's some law about the bench people have to have it. A little like you have to have flood if you're on the coast of something or whatever. But anyway, thank you, T.W., which I assume stands for totally wicked. Better than I could have to come up with. I have nothing. All right.

The watcher. Yeah, there you go. The watcher. He's keeping a nice eye on all fires and problems. Thank you so much for that. All right. Well, that, that being said, and let's Brian dive into the thing here we call news and discuss some of it. It's time for the news and it's brought to you by. Peanut tofu. So Carter, she just came downstairs so she's going to hear me compliment her. I promise isn't just because she's here.

But yesterday she made, I don't, okay, let me establish a couple of baseline issues. I don't love tofu or at least I didn't think I did. Usually it's just so plain. I don't like soybean tofu, maybe it is. Oh, is there another kind? I thought it was only soy. Is there a different kind of tofu? I was assuming that the way, what you're describing might be a different source.

No, I think you're always soy, but it's always just so plain, or at least when I've had it prepared in the past. Again, my own limited experience has been tofu as much as it's inexpensive and great source of protein and minus all the issues you get from other sources, all the kind of stuff. I've always just gone, well, yeah, I guess I could eat some insulation. This tastes gross. You know where I like tofu, and that's about it in miso soup. That's about it. Right. Same, because the flavor overwhelms the blandness, right?

You get a good miso soup flavor, and now you don't have to worry about the tofu being lame. Well, to me, it's a little like eating chicken right off a chicken without any seasoning or anything. That's a bad experience. It tastes like metal or pennies or something. It's not good. Yeah. So yesterday, she's like, yeah, I'm making this tofu rice thing, and I'm like, okay, I was being kind of skeptical. And it was this big block of tofu she had cut up and everything.

I don't know what she did, but this peanut sauce stuff and had actual peanuts in it and it had this other sauce. I know little, little about this other than she fried up these tofu cubes and they were so freaking good that I'm this close to saying if it's always like that, I'll convert to tofu. It's so good. Yeah, like firm on the outside, not just gelatinous cube. It was like fried so you've got like a it's got more texture a little yeah a little crispier on the outside uh and a little more your texture's the right word it's like it's just less like a little ball of goo or a little cube of goo and also with this amazing flavor and if this was like this all the time shh tea tofu for life it was so good it's fantastic not like those mochi balls

you ruined not like those oh man well you got a equalize it out, Brian. You can't give her all compliments. That's right. Oh, dude, you know I've been having lately. There's a couple places, and it's a bummer because, you know, I really shouldn't be having them. But Mochi donut places have sprung up a lot of them around the city.

And a couple of them, two of them are in places that, for whatever reason, they're high traffic areas when I lift, and I always end up there, and I'll get, I'll drop off a passenger there, but I don't get another passenger for a few minutes.

So it's like, maybe I'll go get myself a mochi donut. And if you haven't had one, they haven't. How do these work? I assume they have a hole and everything still?

They do. They still look like a donut. But instead of it looking like one ring, like one solid ring, a mochi donut looks like a bunch of mochi balls, like six, I think. Mochi balls all connected.

So like they roll the dough in with the mochi, I guess, and then put them on a tray. and then they kind of meld together a little bit. So it makes a single ring, but they're still balls. They're just attached. It looks like Marge's neckliss. Oh, like these.

Okay. I see these. There you go. Oh, you know what? I think I've had one just didn't know. It was mochi. Yes. Oh, my God.

There's a couple places in Denver that have started doing these, and they are so freaking good. Yeah, I could eat one of these right now. Very, a little bit chewier texture than a regular donut, but not like you're eating the fruit roll-up chewy. Like, just like, um, like good mochi. I don't know. Like a good mochi, yes, exactly. Yeah, the frozen mochi balls that Japan's famous for have had those a bunch. I like those.

The ice cream inside. Yeah, those are fantastic. But they're basically just, it's just a kind of a gluten thing, right? Like, so if you're gluten intolerant, mochi's not your jam, I guess. It's not going to be your thing anyway, yeah, but. Look at these. mochi donuts with chocolate or macha clays those are like you're you know cut into rings kind of thing the only mochi donuts i've seen or that i was aware that i'd seen are the ones that are

like balls like like you're seeing yeah most of these are like the balls like you're talking about yeah and here they are separate they basically just mochi balls mochi donut holes yeah mochi holes uh man hungry now everybody everybody's submit a mochi hole title so that it ends up as that dominant in the word cloud. Yeah. Takes us much longer to get titles when it's just like nothing. Yeah, when everybody submits the same thing. Mochi, mochi, mochi, mochi, mochi.

Actually, isn't it? I thought his thing the Word Cloud was taking right from our audio. Is it from just the, the, it's not from our title stuff, is it? Or from comments. Yeah, she's pulling it from our titles. It comes from, it's all the submitted titles that make up the word cloud. Really? Yeah.

I thought it was reading to the other. That's why. That's why S comes up a lot and V. you know, just individual letters. Oh, I thought this whole time, I thought she did some magical cool thing where something was hearing the audio for the hour and a half run

and then converting it all transcribing it into the word cloud. I had no idea. Well, okay, I might, maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that she's pulling it from the titles. I mean, what you're saying sounds much easier, so that's probably, yeah. Yes.

Because the thing I'm thinking of sounds like digital magic, and it can be done. I know that's a thing. She's already got, you know, she's already got the title. She doesn't even be pulling from ShowBot. It's going through her system anyway. So it's just a matter of saying, great, here, you know. Yeah.

I-Corps and MacGa had to confirm 100% from titles. Okay. Well, in that case, that explains why it's so always using words from the title. I could have put two and two together and I didn't until right now. So, yeah. Talley, I thought you were a computer genius. Now I just think you're Talley. No, she is absolutely computer genius.

Let us move on to the story. here. Yeah. You could have an AI robot girlfriend, Brian, and here's the deal. Here's the best part for the low, low price of $175,000. Oh, is that all? Okay, great. That's all. Do you think you're up for such things? You want to, you know,

invest in your future and get a ladybot? Only if I can make sure she looks like a dead-eyed Amanda Seyfried. That's the only Oh, good news. I have great news. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. All right. Look at this girl, everybody she looks like a dead-eyed Amanda Seafreed

in the movie her if that movie piqued your interest in an AI partner a company at CES 2025 is willing to sell you that robot girlfriend if you have 175k to spare

why not Lars and the real girl or Franken robot or Barbara not Barbarrella what's another one where it's like a any of them with an actual actual girl form because in her was a voice it was never a robot

Exactly. Yeah. It says real botics. I'll let that settle in on everybody a little bit. Real botics. Real botics. With an X. Yeah, that makes me want to break something. That's a hat on a hat, the stupid X on there.

Yep. Is an American firm with the range of AI robots that it claims can fulfill a variety of roles, including acting as a brand representative at a sales booth, a companion for an elderly person, if you know what I mean, wink, wink, or even as a romantic partner to tackle the staggering loneliness. It's a companion for an elderly person.

I don't think, I don't think, I mean, I know elderly people get busy. There's a lot, you know, that's why STIs are so rampant in assisted living homes and stuff. But I can't see someone saying, yeah can you get me one that looks like you know a hot young blonde that looks completely

disinterested in me I love that please I don't know how to use the internet does it require the internet yeah this one looks like she just looked up from her TikTok because she heard you say something yep that's what she looks like that's the paused

face and then it never changes from that that's it's all you're going to get um what she she says here The other category is people who want to tackle the staggering loneliness epidemic. Is there a staggering loneliness epidemic that I wasn't aware of? You saw it at Men's Journal, the Staggering Loneliness Epidemic.

I think it was an AARP magazine. There are people in this world that think there was no pandemic, but they'll believe in this epidemic and buy this lady. The robot ranges from 12 grand for just a bust. See, now that's weird. So no head, just a bus. Or is it a bus? Well, it would be the head like a statue bust.

It's a statue bust, not just a set of boobs. Yeah, probably just shoulders up, I'm guessing what that is. So it's basically taking a head and shoulders that you might place on a table. On the top of the range, Aria, shown above, is $175,000. That's the girl we looked at. Lens, she moves around in a circular plinth, it says. So she's on a plinth, a plinth. Oh, so she doesn't, she doesn't walk around.

Of course, yeah. She just kind of does this. And then it says, like a mannequin riding, a Roomba vacuum cleaner. A girl is Aria Robot. Yep. Yep. Are you a robot. I sure am.

There is even a mid-range model costing $150,000. I wouldn't call that mid-range. I'd call that nearly as much as this lady. But anyway, she can be disassembled and packaged into a suitcase to take with you. Oh, that's not weird at all. That's just fine. No. Oh, I'd love to be TSA.

as you go and see one of those come through the scanner. This looks like a torso, sir. Like a folded up human being. I love that. No, it's not weird. That's my robot girlfriend. That's not a... Yeah, there's an epidemic if you hadn't heard of loneliness.

And I have it. I have the loneliness, Gene. See, is Andrew Kegel. I don't know how to say that name. So I'm going to say Kegel. Where is it? Let's see. I was scrolling. Oh, Kiguel.

Kiguel? I don't know. I want it to be Kegel. So bad. It's probably Kegel. I want to work out as Kegels. We've got neighbors who are the K-K-E-U-L and it's K-E-U-L, K-E-U-H-L, so never mind. I don't know. That's cool, though, to have a cool name.

It's cool, yeah, cool. I'm into that. The cools. It says his mission is to create robots that are indistinguishable from humans. Fail. This is very distinguishable. Very distinguishable. Yeah.

If that's your goal, you're not there yet. It says the robots can be configured as either male or female, and the company claims it can replicate historical figures and celebrities. Historical, that's interesting. You notice how they didn't say, I can make you a Brad Pitt. I can make you a, what, a Kerry Grant or something? A Joan of Arc. A Joan of Arc.

I've really got a thing for Joan of Arc. Can you make me one of her? That's a good point. More historical, like, you know, one of the pharaohs or whatever. Give me a Queen Elizabeth the first. Oh, I love it. It says you can view the video below, blah, blah, blah. Oh, there's video.

Hold on. Oh, I want to see the video. Oh, yeah, here we go. Okay. All right. This is great. Here she is standing there. Beep, bork.

It's actually here. I think I can hear. There we go. Transforming human robot interaction with advanced, customizable human-like robots designed for connection, learning, and play. Put her back in that default with her. Okay, I don't like her at all. She's just weird.

Spared no expense on making her boobs enormous. I know. These guys are such liars, man. They're such liars. They're like, oh, we want to, you know, it's here. Humanity's next step towards us. It's like, no, you're just making kink dolls. And it's fine.

She has a waste that can hold an Apple Watch, but, you know. You imagine? The watermelon boobs. It's fantastic. Wonderful stuff, guys. Good luck to you all. CES, land of, uh, bullshit. Um, they don't longer do the adult award thing during that, do they?

That used to be a thing. I think they've switched it so they don't overlap, yeah. I think that was a good move. Yeah. Because a lot of those guys were, a lot of nerds were just drifting into the other hall, you know, and hang out over there. What's in here? Yeah. CES.

Now it's just tech sex toys. Tech sex. Tech sex toys. Sex tech toys. Okay. I'm going to make a guess that text. X.com exists and I just want to see what it is. Let's just see what we got. It is.

Oh, it's for sale. For the low, low price, Brian, $2,8,88, you could own techsex.com. Sure. Sure. You want to do that? You want to buy that domain? I don't. Too hard. You have to spell it for people, right? Because you have to say, you know, oh, yeah, come check out my stuff or at techsex.com. It's like, is that text, T-E-X-X-X, Tex X? No, Tex X.

TechX. X. T-E-X-E-X. That's probably why it's for sale. Nobody wants to deal with that. That's a pain. Exactly. Yeah. But I ain't going to get 30 grand for it either.

Sorry, Go-Daddy. Not going to happen. Nope. Go-Daddy somewhere else. Now, Brian, you've been to this place, the Breaking Bad House. I have, yeah. Remember that? You brought me some candy fake meth.

That was awesome. Love that. I did. Yep. I ate all that in, like, one sitting. I saw the woman sitting in the garage. The former owners, I don't think they're, oh, well, we're talking about that now. Yeah, she just sits out there to smile at people when they come by to take pictures and just make sure people don't throw pizzas on the roof.

Yeah, because that was a thing. There were people were doing that. That was a thing, yeah. I just, I look at it differently. I just think free pizza is what I think. Get up there and grab it. Yeah, you know, don't throw it on the roof here. Here's a, give me the pizza you were going to throw on the roof.

Here's a rubber pizza that you can throw on the roof for that experience. Great idea. You bring a pizza in a box. Fresh, not. You met him touching it. Hand me that. In exchange, I give you a rubber pizza. This is a great idea. And you can video yourself throwing the pizza up on the roof. Sweet.

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it could prove to be a lucrative side hustle oh I love the side hustles I hate the term sucks so bad that term I mean really all you're saying is you don't make enough money your main job so you're doing some extra stuff on the side yeah side hustle really just should you know we should rename it because

everybody has to have two jobs these days at least yeah most people so it should just be a secondary job what's your secondary job oh I have a Netsi store I do Lyft or whatever Or in the case of Brian, you do all of it. You do all of those, sure. Why not?

All things are side hustles. Always hustling. Always hustle. Always be on the side or something. The famous brown roof ranch house in Albuquerque went up for sale for $4 million. That's a lot for a dinky little deal. Be prepared, folks. That four million comes with people constantly driving slowly by in front of your house.

That's why I would only buy it if I had plans to, like they're saying here, plans to maximize that. Because otherwise, why would you do this? Yes, turn it into a, exactly. But then, I mean, then you really piss off the neighbors. Yeah, that's true. I'm sure they're already, they can't be happy about any of the stuff that's come from. Oh, but as you're saying, if you turn it into an Airbnb, that's the way to do it, right? So you don't get the drive-by-lucky-lose, like you're saying.

Do the Airbnb so people can stay in the Walter. Yeah, and you'll still get the drive-by-lucky-lose. You'll still get the weird pizza idiots, but you'll be making enough money on that Airbnb that it's not a problem. And you won't have to be there to deal with it. You're just sort of. I wonder if they modeled the sets for Breaking Bad after the interiors of the house. Obviously, you had the exterior, and you've got to make things match up with the door and the window and at least the front. Isn't there a famous scene where he comes charging through there and goes all the way outside?

I thought it was all. Oh, does he in one take or one shot? My memory is real. My memory's loose on that. I'm not 100% sure. But I have some memory of Walter Wright, not in his underwear, like out in the desert, but just like, frazzled close camera on him, panicky-looking shot, and he's fumbling through the house all the way out front

to where he parked his Aztec or whatever. I don't know why I have that in my head, but if... Maybe, yeah, no, could be. And also you can do that with tricks, too, so I may not even been in the same house. Sure. Anyway, let's see. I hope they make what the fans want.

They want an Airbnb. They want a museum. They want to access to it. Go for it. says Quintana. This is the former owner, I believe. True owner, or it's true owner. Joanna Kutana. She's the one that you saw on the...

Joanna Quintana, I'm sure, is the woman. Yeah, is the woman that I saw. I just called her Crutana. That's amazing. Crutana. Yeah. Crutana to Ville. I'd like a salad with lots of croutannas. Let's see. Would you like...

Let's see if I can find the photo of the house as I drove by it. Here it is right here. I'll put it in our Discord. Sweet. this is great here you go Scott all right it's coming here it is oh yeah

whoops hold on I gotta do a got a screen cap it in a spatial way because it's a weird format sure it's an animated format

okay there we go oops so now let's do a little the house you know immediately familiar but let's do a little pinch and zoom there she is

there is uh yep waves as you go by and as long as you wave and as long as you don't you know be a jerk when you go by do you think she's like woke up at 4 a.m. once and ever just like check the vents and see if there's cash in there or any of that stuff probably not yeah i'm guessing that there's the car wash if you want that oh yeah look at that the a have an a one day yep here's uh garunos where uh where your secret finally gets revealed oh yeah is this where what's her name took her uh took the the bad sugar and died what's her name she got poison no no the rhizan

no that's um that's where hank and uh his wife confront figure they figured everything out and they confront uh confront uh walter that's right and the waiters being annoying with the waiter the waiter the waiter's like would you guys like some table side guacamole yeah and that's such a trope in lots of things, but that one is so uniquely, like, uncomfortable. They did such a great job with it. Oh, that's El Pollo Loco, but it's Twisters? What's the hell of that? Yeah, that's Twisters, the restaurant that El Pollo Loco.

Here's, you know, because you need this. Did they take down the... Oh, my gosh, dude, look at you. This is amazing, guys. Look at this. You never sent me this. No, I never did, yeah. You went all out.

You got the Jesse Pinkman shirt. you got the hat it's a it's an apron actually the let's cook oh bitch let's cook bitches it's an apron that was amazing yeah did they have like they have any kind of like museum type place to see stuff or anything or yeah that uh what i'm standing in front of is kind of the museum place uh it's the uh okay uh here's uh that one should look familiar to folks oh my gosh dude bringing me back bringing me back look at this stuff we really did i know we really did the whole tour um and i think i have let's see scrolling through these really quickly we just did our own like i mapped it out and had a whole oh yeah here we go here's inundate i'm going to in and date you with uh oh sol's office

saul's office right there oh where's the big blowy uh statue of liberty that's all we're missing right um and then finally i'll give you this one okay okay whoops won't click there we the last the last place you see uh or not the last place but basically where jesse pinkman goes to get relocated oh where he waits for the van the red van where he waits for the van yep exactly that's right and then um was that actor i love that actor Karen paul no oh no you mean the guy who picks him up yeah the guy who looks like fred ward but isn't fred The one I always confused with Fred Ward. Yeah, I do too.

They're the same guy. They're the same guy. I can't think of that dude's name at all. It's not coming to me. What's wrong with me? He died right after El Camino. He did. Yeah.

During the filming or whatever. Where is it? Can't find the gay guy's name. The gay guy's name. Just kidding. He can't find the guy's name that then turned into. Yeah. You can't find the gay guy's name.

Well, they're tricky to find, you know? That's going to unfortunately be a show title. Yeah. But he is the vacuum place, right? It was the cover for him. Yeah. Yeah, he was awesome. Love that guy.

Fred, not Fred Willard. Mm-mm. No. No, but they're all cut from the same era. All right. I'm looking at completely up. Ed Galbraith is the character. Is the character.

And he's played by. It's going to annoy me. Robert Forster. Robert Forrester. Robert Forster. Jim, any Christmas. You guys suck at being our collective producers. Fred Willard.

Who says Fred Willard? Come on. We're giving you a big fart sound. All right. We're going to take a break. When we come back, we got Travis. He's going to throw some trivia at us. So if you think that was any indication of our trivia minds today, we might be in trouble.

Pretty much is. Yeah, exactly. That's how good we are today. Yeah. Don't have any Forrester questions, Travis. Anyway, that's all coming up after this break from Brian with a song. Brian, let's play that song. I really should have had this prepared, but I was too busy taking you through my collection of photos from whenever that was.

It's all good. How about a band called, is appropriately enough, the taxpayers. They've got a brand new album coming out called Circle Breaker. Comes out March 21st. Big thanks to Clarion Call Media. Their new album is going to come out on Ernest Jenning Record Company. They've got two brand new singles. One of them is called Circle Protector.

But the one you're going to hear is called Evil Everywhere. Here are the taxpayers. Black and ecstatic, don't stop anymore. From televised blackjack to live stream war. Take blood from a turn-up, take money from blood. Take order for chaos, take terror from love. We sacrifice everything. We choke down glass.

We build up a wall just to drown out the power. ground out the past. We pray in the future we take from the found and we'll burn this factory right down to the ground. There was evil in the dark

for a second it'll hurt black smoke There is evil Everywhere Everywhere Steps of the pit, every engine and sprocket is starting to quit. Take time from the living, take money from time, turn order to chaos, turn breaths into crimes.

We sacrifice nothing, we grind down glass, we build up a wall to keep out the past. We lead the future, we take from the crown, and we'll burn this power right down to the crown. There is evil In the turn For a second It all hurt Why the smoke In the air

There was evil I'm going to be. And so much. And so I'm going to and So, you know, I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to be able to be.

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It's the fun place to be for lunch. And we return. Tell me about that band again. Sure. Those are the correctly named. The Taxpayers from their brand new upcoming album in March, Circlebreaker. That is the song, Evil Everywhere. Nice.

The Tax Collectors, very different band. Very different band, and you don't want them. No. These guys are always running from them, you know? That's right. Exactly, yes. Okay, it's Travis time. And so that means y'all got to put on your Travis pants and get ready for Travis things.

There we go. This is Travis. And you'll do well to listen carefully to what he has to say. Oh, look who it is. They're old pal TV's Travis. Travis Crawford here to spend a little time with us trying to stump us. It's also a podcast where it's amazing shows. We'll talk about those in a minute.

Yeah, he is. Travis, welcome to the show. How are you? I'm cold. Oh. It is frigid here. You sound like you're in a fridge. Where are you right now?

Are you in a room? I'm in my basement and it's incredibly cold in my basement. Oh, geez. I think you're on a mic you're not usually on, I think, is what's going on. It's a new mic. I have a new mic. Well, there you go. No problem.

Why is so cold? Sounds a little room noisy. Yeah, it sounds like you had a... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe you got a... Hold on, I can fix that. Okay. You might have the wrong...

That should... Oh, it's much better. Ah, there's that new mic sound. Yeah. You got one of them PR 40s. Welcome to the club. Oh, hey, cool. Yeah.

Love that thing. New to me, PR 40. No, it's just... It's winter and it's been frigid lately. And I don't... Like, I had to wear two pairs of gloves. yesterday while I was shoveling my driveway and my hands were still painful, like in pain from the cold when I got done.

Did you just grow a second beard, two beards, and you're all set? Yeah. Yep, exactly. Yeah, your beard is already amazing, but if you could get two of those, you'll never be cold again, sir. Well, Travis is good to have you here. We do this thing once a month with Travis, where he tries to stump Brian and I with a themed trivia selection.

And it's both fun to see how we do score-wise, but also fun to figure out what's the the theme is. So today will be no different. Why don't you lay it on us and let's get started. What do we got? Yeah. All right. So we're going to start with an actor. You're going to name an actor. I'm going to give you movies that this actor was in. Who's starting?

We'll start the bidding. Let's see, New Year. So we're starting over Zero, Zero. Scott, you can start the bidding. All right. This is an actor. An actor. And that's it. Just actor. That's it. Just actor.

An actor. And we're going to do it with Movie titles. Movie titles they're in. Okay. I can do it in. I can do it in four. All right. Take the bait and do three.

I will then attempt two. Two, okay. All right, Scott. Yeah. Starting off strong. Here are your two movie titles. This actor has been in. Thelma and Louise.

True. Romance. Oh, Brad Pitt. Yeah. Correct. Correct? Yeah. Makes a bong out of a honey bear. Yeah, it's easier to start things off. Sure, why not? I like easier. I should have gone with two. Why don't I do it with two? Well, you never know. The strategy is always a good one until you hear it.

And then you're like, damn it, I should have gone the other way. That doesn't matter. I don't feel cocky right now because I, Brian usually killed me. All right. All right. We're going to start our second round. It is going to be a movie and you will be guessing by cast members. Cast members. Not characters, but actual cast members. They're real names. Yep.

Brian, you will start the bidding this round. Okay. These are usually a little bit tougher. I'm going to go four. Four, okay. Scott? Damn. I want to, I can, I'll try three.

Three? All right. Brian, do you feel, do you feel lucky? You know what? I regretted not doing it last time. I'll do it this time, too. Okay. Okay, two.

All right. Here are your two cast members for this film. Kristen Stewart, Jared Leto. Christian Stewart, Jared Leto. Oh, sorry, go ahead. I guess Scott knows that I better get this in two. I don't remember. I don't remember Leto being in any of the

Twilight movies. I don't think he was anyway. Oh, it's a panic room. Correct. Dammit, it is panic. Damn it to shit. Yeah, film sack. Great David Fincher movie.

Good stuff. Yeah. Love that movie. I always forget, though, too, because he was just kind of a thug in it, right? He wasn't even like the main thug. I think he was, maybe he was. He was like one of the, there's three of them.

It's him and Forrest Whitaker and Dwight Yolkham. Oh, that's right. He's like the, he's one of them. He's one of them. He may live the longest, I think, maybe. I can't remember. I think so. He left.

He survives the longest in the film. I think Panicrum's awesome. That's a great movie. Yeah, that actually is a good movie. All right. All right. All right. We're one one going into our musical round.

Okay. Great. Here's where I lose. Scott, you're going to start our bidding for the musical round. Okay. And I have one, one second, two seconds, five, nine, and eleven seconds of this song. Oh, well, if I go five, Brian will easily do two, and then I don't think I can do one. So I'm going to say two.

Two seconds, all right. That's my best shot. Ryan. I'll go for one. I got to. Go for it. I can't do it in zero, so you do it. All right.

All right, Brian, here's your one second of this song. Oh, uh, oh, shoot. The guitar, the guitar coming in there, didn't get it from the drum beats alone. Can I get it one more time? Sure. Okay. Oh, geez. That's weird.

I feel something there. um no it's like I think it's it feels country but I don't think it really is but I'm going to say something country anyway I'm going to say

um I'm going to say achy breaky heart by the great scribe Billy race incorrect yeah you can play it one more time Or you get two seconds.

Oh, I get to play one more time and one more second. Okay. You ready? Here you go. Wow. That didn't really help me. Two seconds goes by quick. Sure does.

Can you do one more time? Yeah. Wow. That is just like horribly familiar and nowhere near a name. Mm-hmm. I'm seeing some people with guesses. All right. Let me think about the,

let me think about the connections here. I think you, I think you've already figured out, or you've already, you've already made the connection, or you should have anyway. Have I, though? You've said it out loud.

You've said the connection out loud whether or not you realize it was a connection. Okay. Okay. Oh, oh, oh. Uh, uh,

uh, uh, where, what was our last what was the question before this one I'm not gonna tell you if you're not keeping track I guess you don't have to tell me I think I know what the connection is

okay well so the one before this was the movie it was a movie it was panic room all right well we're looking for a song now Scott and it may or may not be related connection in the past these don't always

make the connection that sounds like a new show you're launching Make the connection. Make the connection. Not guess the connection, but make the connection. Damn it to hell. I'm just going to come up with six songs, and it's up to you to come up with a reason why they all fit together. Is it a...

I have another guess once. All she wants to do is dance, that song. All she wants to do is dance. Oh, no. Romance. I know I can't get points for it. Is it a thing called Love by Bonnie Ray? Also now.

Okay. Oops. Wow. I managed to stump you both this time around. You did, yeah. Let's hear the five second. Can we get the five seconds? Yeah.

We'll go with five seconds. Wow. I'm still not sure what that is. It was a Keith Richard solo thing, right? No. No? Okay. It's got a little bit of Mick Jaggerie.

Rolling Stones kind of vibe. Oh, is it? Is it stones, full on stones? Yes, it is. It is a stone song? It is a stone song. Start me up? No.

No. That begins with burn and there. I have seen a few people guessing the stones, some people guess Jim Blossoms. It is the Rolling Stones, and I have seen the title in the chat now. Well, it's definitely not paint it black is my favorite song. It's one of their newer ones. It was like around the time of, is anybody seen my baby?

B. Oh, I hate that era. I don't like that Rolling Stone's era. Yeah. It is off the album Voodoo Lounge, if that helps. Yeah, yeah. It's not Harlem Shuffle. That's older. I'm not going to come up with it. Damn it. I don't know it. The title is Love is Strong. Love is strong. I still don't know. Which was, I believe, the first single off of Voodoo Lounge. If I remember correctly. Raven, you know, you guys are there in that little square. If you see me looking over there. then you know that I'm that I'm cheating so that's why I do this that's why I look over here and so Raven I don't listen to you yeah I fall on hide you guys while we do I don't

know what they're even saying now but is it like that song I can't I still can't hear that song I that's a that's a hard one but and now I'm confused about the connection because I thought it may not be the connection I thought it was I guess had we gotten further you might have heard the harmonica that might have probably Hey, I did figure out Keith Richards' guitar. There's something, right? Yes. No, you nailed that.

All right. Zero points. Dang, the music is usually where I like score something that helps me. I need something to help me on this one. All right. So we are 1-1 going into round four, which is going to be another movie. But this one, we're going with characters in this movie. Okay.

So character names from this movie. Okay. And let's see, we are on Brian. You can start the picture names. I'm going to need I'm going to need four. Four? Okay. Yeah, I think so.

I can do it in two. Now Scott gets two. Two, okay. I'm not going to do, oh, man, it's so tempting to do one. It is, right? You know, there's no reason for me not to. I mean, it's tied up. This could be tied up.

Go for it. If I get it wrong with one, you still get it in two, whether or not, and then I get it with four. So I will take one just on the off chance that it's a character I recognize immediately from what I believe to be the connection. This is the right. I think this is the right strategy. This is good. Yeah. All right.

This is the gamesmanship. This is what I like. Okay. Here's your one character, Brian. Arthur Lee Allen. Arthur Lee Allen And knowing what I think the connection is Arthur Lee Allen

I'm going to say seven Incorrect Can I get a Scott you get one more name Okay Yep So you have Arthur Lee Allen And the other name you're going to get is Paul Avery

Arthur Lee Allen and Paul Avery Oh No Well wait If Finchers are connection Well I'm assuming this That's what I'm assuming too Yep

And now it can be said out loud I don't know this Well because Brad Pitt is in that also I'm going to guess Fight Club I don't know. Also incorrect. Damn it. Brian,

I shouldn't have thought that because I know Brian knows that movie up and down, book up and down. You would know that those are people in there or not, right? Yeah,

you know, it's funny because, I mean, I could tell you Marl his name, and of course, everybody knows Tyler Durdon. He's not going to do.

Travis would not start with Tyler Darden, obviously. But your Norton character is unnamed, or he really is Tyler Darden, depending on how you look at it.

But, yeah. All right. So, all right, Maybe four. Maybe four will help me. So a couple more you get are Inspector David Toskey and Sergeant Jack Mullinax. Oh, shit. Well, I might be wrong, but I think I know now.

Damn it. Jeez, this is, this might not be a movie. I mean, this is maybe something I don't connect as a David Fincher thing. I know. I will say this is my personal favorite David Fincher movie. It's very good. I think I know what it is. It's very good.

Let's say L.A. Confidential. Incorrect. I know it. It's Zodiac, isn't it? It is Zodiac. Damn it! Zodiac, okay. But I don't get the points.

Arthur Lee Allen is who they assumed was the Zodiac, kind of leaning towards that at the end. Paul Avery is played by Robert Downey Jr. Yeah, you got the Hulk in there too, right? Isn't, um... Yep, David Toskey. Mark Ruffalo. Yeah, as soon as you said sergeant, or you threw the word sergeant in there, that's when I realized what you were doing.

Yeah. That's a great, that is a killer movie. It is, well, literally, it's literally about a killer movie. I love the fact that it's a detective movie where they're doing actual detecting. Yeah, no, they don't get way, I don't even know how to explain it. And even for Fincher, who does, he obviously does movies like the Benjamin Button thing. And, you know, Seven is very, very based in a fictional story. But Zodiac's based in this real story.

These are real people that they're all playing. And he does such a great job. The closest comparison I would use would be, I feel like he's pulling his Zodiac skills for Mind Hunter when he was doing that show. Because Mind Hunter has a very zodiac vibe to it. It's very good. Anyway. All right.

So our last one, Scott, you get to start the bidding on this. This is a series with cast members. Okay. I need to go all out here. He's up by one, right? No, I think we're tied. No, you're tied. Oh, we're still tied?

One in one, two, two widths. Yep. Well, I'm still going to... I'm going to go with two. Okay. I have to go with one. I have to try my luck. All right.

Brian, here's your one cast member. Anna Torv. Shit. Oh, I love her. Fringe. Nope Incorrect Oh damn it

Fincher had nothing to do with fringe This is the show I just mentioned This is Mind Hunter I was even going to stop It is Mind Hunter Scott You didn't even need the second one Which is Holt McAllenny Oh Bill Tench on the bed

We don't get any closure We need closure on Bill Tentch's life I love that show I would kill for it to come back I was even thinking of you say one And it's going to be Mind Hunter and then you sit down at a tour of and I'm like oh wasn't Fincher involved with the pilot of that or something and that's what I went no fair point also it's the immediate go-to for her she's I mean that was really where she got to start right yeah yeah she's fantastic more of her in my life plays fringe was before mine hunters oh definitely that's what I'm saying yeah Jeff Pinker was a runner on that yeah that's what we're saying her breakout is fringe like that's her breakout is fringe but but Fincher had zero to do with she's really good by the way she was in the first season of last of us in a brief role

I don't want to even spoil it but she was so good in it she's so good yeah she needs to be in more stuff I don't know what's going on with Hollywood but put her in everything not sure so yep you figured out the connection is David Fincher 30th anniversary of seven wow this year and it's been re-released in theaters they did Fincher did a 4k remaster and has released it in back in theaters in iMacs i'm actually going to see it tomorrow night at first when i first looked there was no theater within 150 miles of me that had it and then i was coming out of watching a better man over the weekend and i look over at the board and i see imax experience for set i'm like what that all right fine i guess i'm going i'm going i don't want to i don't want to throw an imax out into

the snow no i don't want to see i don't want to see uh what's the glutton guy seen in the in the in 4k IMAX. 4K or the the drugged out guy coming to life on the bed. Oh, that guy, dude. Sloth, yep. I love that movie, though.

I could, as much as I hated it because my wife was pregnant with Carter at the time, and that's why I threw the DVD in the snow. Today, though, I could watch it anytime today. Because I know what's in the box and I am no longer at risk

of having that box experience. You know, no longer upset by what's in the box. Yeah. I saw something recently. We were talking about this. re-release and Fincher said that he basically

I don't know if it well I don't know why if anybody was still confused but he basically confirmed what was in the box because they don't show what's in the box well there's a frame there's a frame with like blonde hair or something like that right like it's like a really no you actually see I thought you see Gwenna's face no no because

that was what he was talking about was people have said oh the the head that they used in that was used later in another movie where Gwyneth Paltrow's character is decapitated or something he's like no we never made a head there was just oh okay it's funny so that's an urban legend or something like i think i've seen people post what they claim to be the frame online so yeah okay yeah so i don't know why people still have the mystery but he confirmed it he's like well yeah it was yeah what you guys think it was people are people are always going to

do stuff like that i just saw a video earlier where somebody tried to explain a fan theory that seven is an origin story for the Joker. And I was like, all right, you've, like, dislocated your shoulder reaching for that one. What the hell? Yeah, that's a little beyond, yeah. Look, I don't even believe when Ridley Scott says the alien franchise and the Blade Runner franchise share the same universe. I don't even believe that. And he's a guy that would know.

That annoys me. Well, no, they, but he didn't, he actually did make something that does connect those to. Like, Ridley Scott made a short, and it's on the, it's on the, it's on the, the disc, For the first, not Covenant, but before, what was the, Prometheus? Prometheus. There's like a short that, it's like a TED Talk that kind of connects the two, I think. There was something, there was something. Well, according to this quote from Ridley Scott, he says,

a Ridley Scott, director of both films, has indicated that they inhabit a similar world, albeit set in different time periods. It doesn't say anything about this video, though. Did he say, did he do that interview before the... Right. This was... Prometheus shorts were released. This was 2024's this year. Oh, okay.

Well, then, yeah, that was... So I don't know. If he made something, I'd love to see it. Ted talk with Pierce, Guy Pearce. I'll have to find... No, it was with... Yeah, it was with Guy Pearce. I'll have to find it because I could have sworn that he actually did release a short that said,

oh, okay, well, that connects it. So what they... they need to do then is make I need an answer to why Roy Batty for example bleeds red and David and all the other bandroids bleed white. Like what is, if they're all from the same

like, you know, synthetic world or whatever they don't make it very clear. So it's synthetic world, but different manufacturers could be an easy way to explain. I guess so, sure. Roy Batty and those aren't Whalen Utani. Yeah, but also, okay, here's another big issue I have.

Philip K. Dick wrote when Android's dream of electric sheep or however the title goes, which is Blade Runner. Blade Runner is based on that book. He didn't write Alien. No. So, okay, can he say his cinematic universes are tied? Sure. I guess Ridley Scott can say that.

But Philip K. Dick didn't write Alien. So, no. It's a weird thing for Scott to say is all I'm saying. I always thought it was just a little bit weird. Is it here? The short connection between Blade Runner and Prometheus is a diary expert from Peter Wayland's journal that was included. in the 2012 Blu-ray release of Prometheus.

Wow. So that's just him putting it in there then. Yeah, but I don't even know if that was a Ridley-Scott thing. That might have been a different. Probably not. Yeah. Oh, it could have been a what's his beak, who did, lost. Lindelof.

Lindelof. No, Lindelof, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Maybe he snuck it in there. He's a fan boy. He likes all that shit. Yeah. Thomas Changers mentions the Kurt Russell movie Soldier.

from Paul W.S. Anderson, that was actually written to be in the Blade Runner universe. And that was a Philip K. Dick book, right? I don't know if it was. Or a short, I think. I thought it was based on a Philip K. Dick Short. See, though... Could have been. Dick Short. That's a terrible name.

If your name was Dick Short. But yeah, like maybe... See, that would make sense to me. You take a bunch of... Like the Kingiverse, right? You take Stephen King Books and they're all connected to the Dark Tower somehow and like that sort of stuff. Or Dairy has a place a thing to play in all of those books like that stuff makes sense to me when it's the same author but when

it's just the director adapting somebody else's material i love ridley scott don't get me wrong but sometimes i think he's full of shit i think his brother was a little more straightforward he was like i'm making top gun that's all you need to know i'll just be doing top gun uh well anyway there you have it that was a super fun what a good one today yeah yeah and i won for once which feels nice um and that starting you're off strong that so where does i don't know if we're keeping score from last year, but where would that... You're not. You're starting fresh. We're starting fresh. It's one-nothing year. New score.

Scott's up one, zero. All right. So, come back in February, you guys, to find out just how bad I am at music sections. This is the only... The reason Brian lost today is because that music one was hard. That's it. Or it was really hard. Like, not just hard, but like...

It was really hard, yeah. Yeah, you would have won with it. We wouldn't be talking about my win right now. Any pre-1985 Rolling Stones track, I would be able to do it one second. Sure. Well, that was awesome. Please tell people where they can find your latest work and what you got going on right now. So I've got a lot going on right now.

I passed 300 episodes of what you haven't seen. Nice. And you can find that at TVStravis.com, any podcast player, YouTube, all of that. I'm also got some new projects in the works that are not going to be live stream, but are coming out soon. Some more movie stuff involved. Cool. That'll be a lot of fun.

So, yeah, TVStravis.com is the easiest place to find any and everything that I'm doing. Awesome. Do that. Also, he is, I can say this now, because it's all official, but he is one of our judges for the upcoming 30-second film fest. So, no pressure there, you know, guy that loves movies. Turns out, dude knows movies. Yeah. And he'll know yours very soon.

Also, quick shout out to Jay Funtastic. He had me on the Open Micers podcast And I was nominated and voted their guest of the year for 2024 So I got a lousy t-shirt and a rotisserie chicken Very nice Well, Jay's a good dude And I think I would take that as a root As the honor it was intended to be

Absolutely, it was a ton of fun Well, well done, Travis, we'll see you soon Take care of that beard And, you know, look forward to having your judgment happen Your judgment hammer to land on these 30-second films Coming up soon. right uh brian we're almost done we are like to remind folks that i should have just my gut was to say mind hunter and i don't know why i didn't you just love you love uh the other thing what was the

other thing i do i love fringe yeah french is great that's all i was hoping for is that he would that you would just say the wrong show and you did and it felt so good for one second but i know exactly where your heads are at where your head was at yeah yeah it was before he even said the name Manit Torv. I was just planning on saying, I'll take one, and I'm going to guess Mind Hunter. Because as soon as he said series, I'm like, all right, well, that's got to be it. And then, uh, yeah, and I just, I just was talking about how, I felt like I almost ruined it, because I was just talking about how Zodiac and Mind Hunter are similar. And then he goes right to mind Hunter. And I'm like, you would, if you would not have said that, no question I would

have forgotten that he was involved with Mind Hunter. Yeah. I wish he would have totally forgotten. I wish he would come back and be involved again because I love that show so much. All right. Let's get out of here. Quick note, if you're looking for all our YouTube links, our social links, ways to contact us, all the multiple ways of doing that, requesting songs, doing birthday requests, submitting your own, like, indie tracks, whatever, all that stuff. Being a contestant on half-asses on Mondays, all that stuff. All of it. Frogpants.com slash TMS.

Just a good reminder that if you're like, I don't know where your stuff is, it's all in one place. Make it real easy for you. And you're like, well, what about the Vegas stuff? Well, it's linked there, but there's also Vegas. TMS.org. TMS. Vegas. Sorry, got it backwards. TMS.org. TMS. Vegas will take you to the TMS Vegas stuff. Do we have tickets ready yet? No, we don't. We will. Scott's still working on swag, man. Yeah. We got to get that. We got stuff to do before all that

happens, but it'll be soon. Brian, that's it for now. Let's get out of here. Why don't you play us a song to take us out and home? I'll happily do that. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. Rode, 55th birthday. You and me both. You and both of us. as a matter of fact she says I feel old cheer me up give me something

the operatic rock vibe similar to Within Temptation or like the Tale of the Shadow by Sail North Cover Meister's choice signed to K Katsumi

Nice Well happy to do it Kami This I did I did just go Within temptation because this is one I'm surprised

I haven't played before when you hear the song When you hear the song Title Crazy You think of a bunch of different artists that have all done songs covers or done songs called

Crazy. This is the most recent big song by an artist that is doing a song called Crazy. Narls Barkley, even though it's like, you know, again, probably 20 years ago. Narls Barkley's Crazy, covered here by Within Temptation from the Q music sessions from

2013. Here is Crazy. I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind, there was something so pleasant about that place, even your emotions have an echo in so much space. there without care was out of touch but it wasn't because I didn't know enough I just knew too much this that make me crazy possibly and I hope you're having the time of your life buffing twice

that's my only advice come on now who do you, who do you think you are Bless your soul You really think You're in control Well, I think you're in control Well, I think you're crazy

I think you're crazy I think you're crazy Just like me My heroes had the heart To lose your lives I want to live And all I remember Is thinking I want to be like them Ever since I was little

Ever since I was little It looked like fun And it's no coincidence of course And I can die when I'm done But maybe I'm crazy Maybe you're crazy Maybe we're crazy Or probably

feel me crazy crazy oh looks like someone just got their ears caught in the audio cookie jar at frogpants.com Nobody's going to die to montnight or tomorrow.

I don't give a hoot.