The Morning Stream - TMS 2764: Big Zoltar Energy

Episode Date: January 15, 2025

Butt or Beer. Camera in the Rear. Sticking with chicks and dames. Slippery little Jimmy. The Return of Offensive Word of the Day. Dirty Carpet and Bad Bathrooms. Is it too early to get a Wedge Sandwich? Gum Pockets. The Clock is Tik Tok Ticking with Tom. Rekilling Robert Loggia. Is it trash or a murder weapon? It gimbles you. Ooter Fell in the Chockit River. Stop going to those two places. The Men Dollar Effect with Nicole and Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Wednesday, and we all know what that means. Hard car parn! And a chance to sign up at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, butt or beer. Camera in the rear. Sticking with chicks and dames. Slippery little Jimmy. The return of offensive word of the day.

Dirty carpet and bad bathrooms. Is it too early to get a wedge sandwich? Gumb pockets. The clock is tick-tok ticking with Tom. Re-killing Robert Logia. Is it trash or a murder weapon? It gimbles you. Ootr fell in the cock.

Ootter fell in the Chalkett River. Stop going to those two places. The Men Dollar Effect with Nicole and Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Skeletor was looking for a shortcut, a quick way to riches and power. There's always a catch to it. Don't sell yourself short. The right way is the best way. Until later.

Paiae it is. Can we eat it? M-M-S-D-D-M-S-S-S-S-D-E The morning stream. They're coming to get you, Barbara. There's one of them now. M-S-D-D-M-M-M-S-E-D-B-M-S-E. It's the morning stream for January 15th, 20-25.

Got a lot of fives in today's date. A bunch of five. fives, ones and fives, and twos, I guess. I was a two. And two's. One's, fives, and twos, and a zero. One's, five, twos, and a zero. But a lot of them.

I guess we have an extra five is all we have, really. Brian, it's you, and it's me, Scott, and we're here, and we're doing it. Yes. We've got a show to do. And it's nice to see you all. We've got a nice chat room already bubbling up out there looking good. You guys all look great, you know? Yeah.

I wish you could see their little individual. faces you know that'd be fun just like a it'll be fun like little little uh screens little uh zoom like we're watching the zoom and all these people sitting there in the zoom like the matrix architect guy yeah you know it would be you know and there would be points at the show where we'd look over it it'd be like you know 45 screens over there 100 screens over there and like 80 of them are empty empty rooms yeah we don't want that we don't want that feed the dog or go out and mow the lawn or something yeah but you could see how piss something makes a certain person like something we'd say and then we're looking around you see one little square get all mad that'd be great yeah yeah yeah yeah oh it'd be

great and they turn red i'd be into that uh well anyways we're here we got a show to do and uh i i'm so proud of myself i'm going to pat myself on the back uh you can't tell from this shot because very very little has changed from this from this camera shot but uh for those watching but i did a major stage one clean-out of the studio yesterday, which involved two giant... What do you call them? Well, four total garbage bags. Two of them were huge, glad, like, outdoor leaf bags.

Like, leaf bags, like the steel sack kind of bags? Yeah, and it was me mostly doing recyclable in some of them. So I think two of those bags were things that were going to get recycled, and then the other two were things that are trash, and then I had a whole separate two bags for Goodwill or D.I. here locally is a place we go um anyway i went crazy yesterday and i got all sweaty doing it which is always a good feeling right um but boy whatever's wrong with my knee sure got in the way

freaking stupid knee yeah i can tell right now it's actually it's got a little lump now so whatever i hit i hit pretty hard oh touching it brian it's like a little tender little tender oh oh dude don't touch it don't touch it i know what am i doing why am i touching it anyway i know i went to the doctor and said, Doc, I broke my leg in two places, what should I do? And he says, stop going to those two places. That's pretty good. You'll be here, you'll be here all week. I will be here all week. Yeah, that's fantastic. Anyway, where was I? I forgot. Oh, so, yeah, so I did all this. There's still more to do. It's probably stage one of stage four, but my goal is, oh, I got,

I got all kinds of ideas. Also, I'm going to try a new camera out. I wanted to add a third camera. Check this out. Yeah, yeah. Look at this little guy. Was that like a drone? No, it feels, it's kind of crazy like that. Oh, I saw the white thing.

It was like a big white thing. Oh, that's cool. It's almost like a, oh, what is it called? Like you see when people go to, yeah, there's like a little clip you can put on the bottom of that and it'll follow, like it gimbles you and stuff. Yeah, it'll gimbled me and watch me, apparently. I don't know how much of that I'm going to let it do because it just seems a little weird. But you can swap that setting in like a,

a finger click, like a shortcut key. But I'm going to try it. It's a lot smaller than the pitcher lit on. I thought it was going to be huge. But the reviews on this are like some of the best quality cameras out there. So I got a late last night. I haven't had a chance to put it in. But I'm going to try that.

So I got all these ideas. You know, I'm going to do this stuff. And let me tell you something. Sometimes just cleaning is all you need to just make your day better. You know? Yeah. Yeah. I had a very positive afternoon as a result.

And I had a little bit of. It was also nice because for the first time in weeks I had a little time where I wasn't locked into other meetings and other crap. And so it was just like, I'm going to do this and only this. I put in new lights in the room. So when those aren't on right now, but when this room is fully lit, they're not blinking anymore because they were old. Right. So they're LEDs now. They're going to last 50 years or something.

And then got all my like giveaway stuff organized finally instead of being in various piles around the studio. All of it is in one place. Feels good. I need to do what you did. I need to do with the table behind me where all my miniature video game cab, little miniature arcade cabinets are. And I need to figure out some better way to do that anyway. Just need a good place for all the video game cabinets, like a shelf where they can all line up or something. Are you tempted to make like a little arcade space, like a little actual like carpeted?

I am. But here's the problem is New Wave Toys keeps coming out with new cool. arcade machines and any space that I like if I create a little diorama basically which I really want to do and I've got the you know they sold the carpet too

I got some of the carpet as soon as I get something built they're like and we have a brand new dig dug machine that's coming out and be like oh I look that and now I have to change my whole diorama yeah in real life you'd have to get a new lease on the on the property next door

I'd have to exactly have to look at the the former hairdresser next door and see if I can expand it in that space. There's a new wave toys, right? Sorry, did you say? New wave toys. Yeah. Yeah, they just came out with,

there was one they came out with that I just wasn't excited about at all. I like how they have a little action figure dude. Yeah, he looks like he's from the 80s. He looks like trouble. He does. He does look like trouble.

He looks like somebody who's going to, I don't know, like creep up on you and take your money. He's going to mug you. Totally. Yeah. So look at that. So is that from their website now? So they have a new Tempest. They got a new Tempest machine.

I don't understand what's different than the one you got. Is it the same? I don't either. Tempest X. I don't. Oh, there. Let's see. Oh, sorry.

I forgot the dude was on there. Get rid of him. Yeah, I don't know. It might just be a new, it might be the 10th anniversary of when they released the original Tempest replicate. Tempest X wasn't like a sequel or something, was it? No. there was a Tempest 2

and that was horrible Tempest tubes or something Yeah that wasn't a good game It was a bad game No it was a bad game It came free on the PlayStation Tempest Game and it was

It was horrible Yeah this looks like just straight Tempest from the description Tempest X replicate has been designed Perfect 16 play scale Tempest X Maybe it's what I have is the Tempest X Yeah maybe they're just read Oh here we go

What does that say scroll up just a little bit what does it say plays the original Tempest Arcade game yeah I see nothing different there than PVC trim molding

high resolution screen so it looks like it's a limited officially limited editions that mean okay so maybe they're just a re-release like you got the first one it might be just a re-release

yeah I got the you and I both got because I give you my extra yeah I love that thing my problem is I want all of them too but you've done the smart thing you get them as they come out that doesn't hit your wallet so hard now I'm like shit I can't get all these at once it's gonna be really expensive and I get the ones that I really want um as opposed to getting all of them because they you know they've got um

they've got a new pinball one that uh is kind of cool looking I did get the Zoltan or Zoltar because I had two that one's really cool you have the Kuber got like the black hole I'm not going to get the golden tea golf. I did get Cubert. Cubert rocks. I don't think I got crystal. I did not get crystal castles. Crystal castles, but not enough to...

You know what? You're doing it the right way. You get the ones that you have some love and nostalgia for and focus on that. I get it. Yeah. It's basically, like, if you look at the ones I have behind me, these are the ones that, if I walked into an arcade, these are ones I put my quarters in. Yeah.

I might play Crystal Castle. if one of the other things I wanted to play was busy. But that's about it. And I have the nearly impossible behemoth known as ghosts and goblins, which is great. Yeah. What I really ought to do is buy one of these machines, the change machines that they sell. You have that too, right? Yes, the change machine is great.

Yeah. A little USB charger for all of them. That thing right there is just so, I see it, and immediately my money wants to come out of my wallet when I see it. Talking about something that they came out with and never. never ever changed like the company that made the change machine it's it's ironic that it's called a change machine because it never did nope it never had any change it never changed any of its look it uh it had change in it but it never changed never the outside of it never changed i love that freaking thing anyway these are awesome but it would be cool every time i look at that

tempest machine i just go oh i want to do some dirty carpet i want to make like a bad bathroom exit it. I want to make a diorama of one of my dad's old arcades, even maybe name it after his old arcade names. I can't even remember what we called it. I'm surprised they have not come out with a replica of a table, a cocktail game. Oh, right. I thought they... Oh, I'm thinking of the stand-up like mini one-to-by. The arcade one-ups did. Yeah, these guys haven't. You're right. Totally haven't.

arcade one up has one that I'm actually really that I would really consider because it fits you put it on top of a coffee table or something and it does a ton of stuff it's like that's actually that that is very appealing to me oh there's a Zoltar machine oh Carter got this Zoltar machine somebody gave it to her oh did you get one too yeah I didn't realize it's same people yeah it's great even a little spits out little tickets with um like appropriately sized tickets with the uh the the the uh the the uh your fortunes on it and stuff. And it's the real voice and everything. And this little mouth opens like this, like the animated thing. It's really great. I didn't realize it was these guys. And I don't know who gave it. And what's great about it is you can pretend you've, you know, you're Tom Hanks and you really wish to be big. And in addition to growing up, they also made you 10 times your original size. Yeah. Yep. And you have sex with a lady while you're big. So I know. Yeah. She basically committed a felony. But we don't talk about that. No, no, no, no. It's like everyone focus on the cute piano that James Kahn and everybody's running around on. Just focus on that. Yep, yep. Everything can be fine. They're a little bit of a questionable thing in there. Anyway.

Was it James Kahn? Do I have that wrong? Or am I thinking of an elf? I might be thinking of L. Yeah, no, it's James Kahn because he like comes up with basically an RPG storybook RPG thing. And James Kahn is the, no, no, no. I think we are confusing the big. we are

Robert Lojia We're confusing Elfin Big Elfin Big That's right The dad So the dad from home alone Was the dick

In this one In Big Right He's like I didn't get it Yeah he sucked And then Relogia was like The owner of the toy company

And was It was slowly being convinced By Tom Hanks's character To be more like a kid And enjoy the toys And all that Exactly Exactly

I love Robert Logia Here's my impersonation Of Tom Hanks And Big Memories Like the corner of my mind That's pretty good Mr. Watercolon memories

All the way we were Scattered pictures That's pretty good Thanks, thank you very much That's pretty good Yeah, no, it's great Workshopping that That's fantastic

Here's my Robert Losia There you go Oh, that's really good, yeah, well You didn't even have to tell me This Robert Losia I've seen him in something recently And I was thinking about him Not even more than a week ago

What did I see him in? Something, Kim watched. It was like one of his last things he did before he died. He died, right? I think you did. We're about to kill him if we're because of our curse. Robert Logia. Let's just take a look.

Make sure he was an American actor. Was an American actor. Don't even need to scroll down to see when he stopped being American actor. But it was in 2015. 2015, what a year. Oh my gosh, a picture of him. and William Hickey, you need to see this. Really?

I don't know what this is from, but it's wonderful. You asked for it. You got it. Look at that. I don't know what they're doing. Oh, look at that. I don't know. Pritzie's honor.

Pritzie's honor, which I never saw that. So I can't tell you. Oh, really? Yeah, I saw that in theaters. And I think I was too young to fully appreciate it. I need to see it again. It's one of those, it was Oscar bait that whenever that was. Yeah, Nicholson and what's her face?

Mortisha. Oh, she's related to It's a huge, she comes from a huge family. Houston, John Houston's daughter, gee. I did get it before, I got it before Rufus T-Cat put it in there. I swear to God. No, you did.

I saw it pop after you said it. I'm here to witness it. Your honor, I was there. I saw it. We're going to allow it. If only I could trust myself in saying mine hunter, when a mind hunter or mine hunter he probably would have given it to me if i would have said mine hunter i tried to explain this to carter yesterday i said yeah it was this really down to the wire

thing and she goes that sounds like those videos you see from uh wheel of fortune where they they get to the sentence like one letter left and everyone knows it but the guy's so excited that he says a thing that and he knows it right but he says it knows it yeah i knew it i knew exactly what it was. Yeah. Yeah. It happened to anybody. It'll happen to me if it hasn't already. Exactly. Wait till February. It's going to happen to you. Can't wait. Bring it back, Travis. All right. Another quick thing. Yeah. Conclave. It's on, it's on your peak. Pacaque, right? Pachock. Yep. How did that go last night? You want to know if my review... I can't believe you watched it that quickly. Well, that was the plan. I got derailed.

Oh. So I wrote this headline last night. because my plan was I was going to watch it. In fact, I had it queued up and ready to go. I was all set to watch this movie. And then, unfortunately, I got a call a good friend of mine. I've talked about Darren before on the show. I think so. Yep.

They came home from Disney. They have a yearly family Disney thing in January. Came home, really sick, had one of the flus that's going around. Oh, geez. And it got so bad that they took him to Instacare. And that probably, we just figured that it was getting his lungs and all that. So we figured it would be like, an antibiotic trip or whatever.

But anyway, this is where phone calls started popping off, and that's where I got distracted. He ended up with they found a blood clot in his leg, which I don't know how, if you're looking at a dude and testing him for flu, how do you know about the blood clot in the leg? I don't get it.

Unless he was saying while he was in there, it's like, by the way, I've got, you know, this ache in my leg, he was lucky that when he flew back if he had was it a embolism, like that can, you know, If you have a blood clot in your leg, it can turn into a...

Yeah, if it loosens or if it goes, if it, like, pops away from wherever it's lodged and it runs to your brain, you could die. So he, so they, he's good. He's in there and he's, you know, they've got him on blood thinners and he's, you know, doing what he's supposed to do. But anyway, that messed up the night, so I couldn't see the movie yet, Brian. I'm going to try again tonight. That's all right. That's all right. You'll get your chance.

Yeah, I'm going to try again tonight. But I talked to him this morning. He's doing much better. Luke Sightwalker says, Conclave is that religious. thing, right? I'm going to do a hard pass. I've just decided, I can't do anything for you anymore, Luke, Sightwalker. Hold on, Luke, it's not pro-religion. It's not supposed to, it's not, it takes place in the, the papal system. I mean, that's like saying the exorcist, that's got religious one, right? I'm not seeing the ex-o. It's not that kind of, it isn't, it's not like some

churchy, it's not like taken away or whatever hell that was called, you know, where they have some message or whatever right some sort of uh agenda hidden agenda kind of thing yeah but you don't yeah but it's not i'm not i we're this this this time is not it's not uh i'm barking up a tree right i'm barking up a tree i love luke i think luke's amazing but i just yeah i'm a little confused by yeah this is not a movie that is trying to get you to join a religion it is a it is a movie that takes place during the changing of a pope And it's, I found it incredible. Cutthroat politics with amazing actors who are incredible at their craft.

Exactly. That's not a religious movie. It blows my mind that you could have, well, this movie is going to be about the changing of a pope. And it's going to have intrigue and suspense. Like, what? Really? No, there's no way. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, I'm very excited. I'm going to see it tonight. Yeah, cool. Unless Darren calls me with another problem. Hopefully everything's okay. We're not doing recommendals right now, Nicole. No.

Although, you know, I do recommendal that. Yeah. I'll tell you a story. You know, my Monday started out great, did that one mile run

and beat my record there and was really happy about that. Came, did the show, and then I went out and lifted for a little while and went to the dentist. Oh,

how'd that go? Well, pretty much, Pretty much did the show. Great. Went up and made myself an iceberg wedge sandwich or a sandwich salad. Wedge sandwich sounds pretty good. Bacon and lettuce.

Sure. Anyway, while I was doing that, Salem came downstairs and peed on the bookcase underneath my airbrush. Stunk up that whole maker room. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. What a pain in the ass. I got the lysol wipes and the poof spray and all that stuff. There's a spray called poof.

P-O-O-P-H. It's great. Poof. All right. Poof. All right. I dealt with that. Then went to the dentist.

Dennis says, all right, well, everything's looking good. You're flossing. You're doing this. You're doing that. We're a little worried about a couple of the gum pockets that you have around your teeth. And so we're going to schedule one of those root scales. things. But it's going to be two visits.

So we're going to split up between two. Oh, and each visit's going to be two hours long. Oh. Yeah. So it's like, okay, great. End of this month. And the beginning of February, I've got those. So wait, what do they do?

I don't know what that is, a root scaling. What do they do? It is. So the pockets around your teeth, you've got four pockets or four places that can develop pockets around each tooth. front the two front corners the two back corners basically okay so like where the skin might slack or something right which is exactly what what happens and if if um uh something gets down in there bacteria whatever um then it can cause problems and that's what they want to prevent is anything from getting down there

i use a i use a pretty dang industrial strength mouthwash that should freaking kill everything and i use this gum detoxify toothpaste that they recommend that's been great but um for whatever reason she's like yeah sometimes there's nothing you can do and and she says and don't feel bad because we have a lot of clients who have to have this done every couple years and this is going to be the first time we've had to do it for you so it's like all right fine whatever geez geez so then that right and then i decided to go out and lift do some lifting i stopped by because we were talking about mochi donuts, stop by and got a mochi donut.

I think that's what inspired me to talk about the mochi donut. So stop by this place and got a mochi donut. And then continued lifting went home. All right, well, there was my Monday. Okay. Sure. Nice Monday.

Crapy things happened. Yesterday I discovered another crappy thing happened on Monday. The 13th, I'm going to add. Oh, shit. Shit. I go to Grease Monkey yesterday, and I'm about to pay for it, and pull out my credit card, and it's not there.

And I've got, you know, I've got this cool little extra pop-up wallet deal that you push a little button, and then my credit cards go, jup, up like that, so I can grab the one I want. The one I wanted did not pop up, and I'm looking in there, and then I'm feeling around in my pocket, and I'm thinking, wait a minute, where was the last place I used it? And it's been a while. It's been, because I do stuff online with it and that sort of thing. So it's been quite a while since I've used it. Sure.

And so I'm like, all right, well, let's quickly deal with this. Before I go home and check and see if it's there, I open up the app, I hit freeze. Really love this feature of the app for this credit card. Freeze it, nobody can use it. But then I look at previous charges, and there's two Taco Bell charges. I didn't go to Taco Bell. There are two lows charges, each for 250. to $300.

Two Home Depot charges, each for $250 to $300. And then the earliest one is, guess where? Why, it's the mochi donut show. No way, dude. Yes. So I pulled out my wallet and paid with cash. I had two bucks. So I just said, yeah, I'll just pay with cash on this.

And that card apparently fell out of this wallet that I love. But what the heck, right? It's like, I shake it. No cards come out. But apparently that Discover card is a slippery little jeal. Jimmy and then slid right out of there. And the charge was made very shortly after I went in there. And so I'm like, oh, well, let's take a look.

And I pull up my, so I parked right in front of the, right in front of the donut shop. And I have a dash cam on my dashboard, because it's a dash cam. Because it's a dash cam. Sure. That's what you do with the dash cam. Absolutely. And as I'm pulling away, as I'm leaving the parking lot, I have video of this guy showing up on his ratty little bike. Oh, shit.

With his pants down below his butt. Look at this. Look at this. I love it. Look at you. You're like the police, you're like, what do you call it? Citizen police. CSI.

Zoom enhanced. Now, I don't know if this is the guy. But here's a couple things that are working in this guy's favor. He's on a bike. The Home Depot, the lows and the Taco Bell are all within like a half mile radius of the donut shop. He really got to work. He didn't spare any time. He absolutely did.

And he did the thing where you're like, oh, credit card on the ground. Let me buy my donuts with that. Let's see if this thing works. and he immediately does that. And then it's like, woo, and then he hops on his little bike and he goes down to the Home Depot and he probably buys something

and then goes to the return counter and returns it for cash or something. And then does a cashback. Well, the card company immediately, you know, goes through my thing and says, yeah, and they even they even either send an email or text, they said, I didn't receive it,

but said, do you approve this charge at Home Depot? because it seems kind of questionable. And so they did block that one. They blocked that attempt. Oh, gift cards. And you have protection. You have protection on all those, right?

Like they'll cover. Absolutely. Yes. And so they were like, no problem. We get a new card on its way to you. And all of those charges are wiped. Okay. All right.

Good. But also that sucks. I hate that. It sucks. And it kind of makes me want to go back to that part of town. and just kind of hang out there and see if I see this little guy on his bike and what I'll do is I'll just say

oh hey, didn't I see you at the Home Depot and the Taco Bell the other day? Like it thought it was so weird that I saw you both places and if he says yes and I'll say, you took my car in your jackass. Yeah, and then chase him through town and have that music.

And they do absolutely nothing. You need that music where what was it, Steve Martin and Kevin Bacon are running for the same cab. Oh yes, It's the she's having a baby going for the cap. Yeah.

Whatever that song is. Very 80. Puppet head. I think it's English beat puppet head, I think. And it's got the whirr in the middle of it and all that. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kizumi says, you're going to get shanked.

You're right. No, I'm totally not. He wouldn't confront him. Of course not. I wouldn't do it. No. Because I don't know with this guy. I'm sure he got gift cards, return him for cash, spent the cash on meth.

and um got high for a night and everything's fine exactly yeah it all worked out in the end you guys exactly uh what a pain in the ass dude all right what it being in the ass let's get to some feud man oh my gosh we've taken up some time it's all right we've got a cool stories to tell and a place to tell them it's all right man i swear this is putting him higher than it used to it's freaking me out oh can i actually manually move it oh that's why oh i can manually move the window Brian, that's why it's different for me. Oh, that's great to know. Who would have thunk it?

All right. Well, family feud? Sorry, Tad Pooley feud coming right up as soon as Dunaway answers his damned phone. There he is. Hey, look who it is. It's our old pal, Brian Dunaway, joining us from South Carolina. How's it going, dude? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian.

How are you doing? Good. I see kids. Okay. Donuts are bad for you, kids. Yeah. I'm my lesson. Don't eat donuts. Mochi donuts in particular.

Those are going to get you every time. Every time. Dono way, it's nice to have you here. We're going to play a game. And I already know who our contestant's going to be because they've been waiting patiently. Oh. They've been waiting for weeks. Oh, I've been a chance to play.

For some reason, why I want to come up? Oh, no. Um, hold on. Okay. It's, I can tell you right now. Now it's Talley, but for some reason, Talley's not showing up. Why? Why, why, why?

You need to fire the tally signal into the sky. Tally. Tally, we're friends, right? Are we friends? Are you asking? If you have to ask, I think you know the answer. I don't understand. I think she unfriended both of us when we start using the term broads this morning.

Oh, that was all it took. I can't, she's not showing up in the list. I got like a list here, T-A-L, nothing. uh tally i don't know why you're not showing up i can't she said she just messaged you even yeah but i don't there's no way for me to do i can't add her from that i have to add her from select friends to add to our call um is there any other way i don't think there's another way to add her to the call gosh dang it what is going on all right you know what i can i do it i don't think i can see if you can add to the to the call you might be able to see if they can yeah

And if you can, yeah, yeah. It doesn't make any sense. Everybody other names here. If I type red, I get red fraggle. Oh,

I type the username of a friend and it's not what. Talia, is your name different than your display name? Hold on. Maybe she's doing something. Natalia? No, it's T-A-L-I-Z-R-L. Yeah.

I don't get it. Something's wrong. Oh, well. I mean, I tried, man. Lady, I mean. I'm going to, man. I'm going to add. Stephanie to the call because she was actually number four because I don't know what else to do.

I can't get you in. Yeah. Yeah. We'll work on it after the thing, Talley. We'll figure it out. I'm sorry about this. I did. I really was. The plan was to get you in, but you're not there. You're not even showing up for Brian. I have corroborating evidence. Yeah. I tried adding friends to DM. And I know we're friends. Yeah. We're all friends here. Is this working? All right. All right. I think Stephanie may be coming in. There we go. Okay. All right. I saw Stephanie just fine. We will. We will try you next week. I'm here. I'm here. Hi, Stephanie. How are you? Oh, hi, Stephanie. Hello. How's it going? Hey, I'm going to see, don't you worry. I'll get all the Marvel movies at some point, okay? Don't you worry, your little head. Too far gone. It's all going to work out. It's all going to work out. It's nice to have you here. Always nice to hear your voice. We're going to play a game. Brian, why don't you explain to Stephanie how this works, even though I'm pretty sure she knows.

Sure, it's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brangana have to predict the answers that they get. Davis. It's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Stephanie, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be playing for tally. Just kidding. You're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if your team wins, you get a prize package that includes God's trigger and

Necrovision and Necrovision lost company. Ooh. Necrovision. I don't know. I assume it's somebody who raises the... I don't know what that is. Never heard of it. I'm thinking. Yeah. It's not WandaVision. It's necrovision. Yeah. Bring it on. All right. That sounds

It's great. I'm in. So, all right. Oh, let's see. Do I need to do something? It looks like I need to reload the page because it's saying, there we go. There we go. Waiting for host. There it is.

All right. Excellent. Okay. You guys are ready. Yeah. We've asked 427 tadpoolers to give their answer to this. Put your hands on your buzzers and name a fictional food or drink from a movie. Scott.

Blue milk from Star Wars. Show me. No. Number one. Yep. And Blue Milk is number one answer on the board. No other answers can beat it. Which means that you've got Stephanie and you've got control of the board. I don't know.

I shouldn't be surprised because it came to my head so quick. Of course it comes to everyone else's head. Exactly. All right. That would have been my first answer. Yeah. Yeah, it's a good one, right? Do you have, you got anything popping off for you?

Pop it out. I was thinking maybe like something from Harry Potter. Oh, yeah. We don't like that. So much good stuff. How about, yeah, what's the butter beer deal, right?

Yeah, butter beer was what I was thinking, yeah. Let's try that. Butterbill. What is it? What is it? What did you say? It's butt or beer. Yeah, it's butt or beer.

You get to choose. It's always. Yeah, people choose but beer more than bud. Ron said, but all beer. Show me butter beer. Yeah. You can make your own at home. Vanilla schnaps and

Uh, cream soda, uh, and it's delicious. Yeah, I like those. Um, okay, how about, uh, movies or TV or just movies? Movies is what I said, but, uh, remember this is the tad pool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Um, you know what? I'm going to just test the water real quick. This might cause us a buzz, but I just see who's thinking of it. Uh, in Mad Max Fury Road in the very opening scene, Max eats a two-headed lizard. So two-headed lizard? Sure. All right. Show me two-headed lizards. Damn it. I am so amazed that not only was that not in the top ten, but it wasn't even anywhere in the... Dang it. All right. Well, that helps me understand the audience today. So it's fine. Yeah. Now you know the lower limits. We haven't discovered the upper limits, but you now know the

lower limits. We'll see if Dunaway can navigate them. Yes. Pick something that's more popular than the two-hended lizard. Jeez, I... Oh, my God. I did not agree to that answer, but okay. That was not a mutual... That was not a mutual decision. I did not stay off. Yeah.

No, I get it. All right. What do you think that? Three, four points, by the way, for Scott and Stephanie. When it comes to movies, there's one that I always think of, because I kind of want to, like, live in those worlds? Sure. And I want to say,

it's like a Royale with cheese, but is the Cahuna burger? Big Cahuna or Cahuna burger? Yeah. I think so. Tasty looking burger is what that is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a tasty burger.

But maybe it's just the fact I can't remember what it was actually called. Maybe I should go with a $5 shake. Do you mind if I have a sip of your $5 shake to wash down this tasty burger? There's a shake called the $5 shake. That wasn't a description of the price. Yeah.

I didn't know that. Yeah. Well, some place came out with that afterwards. And I'm trying to remember who it was. It was like Carls or, uh, Carl's Jr. or something like that came out with the $5 shake. Right. I don't know.

Yeah. I'm not trying to. All right. Well, let's, uh, let's go with the big Coonerberg. That is your guess, correct? Yes, yes, yes, yes. Show me the big Kahuna burger. Ooh.

That is a tasty six-point burger. Damn it. Damn it. I mean, yay. Well done. killing it Oh, there's so many directions But that's mostly TV

All right, let me think It was TV, but it was a movie too I'm going to go with it anyway No, I'm not Yes, I am No, I'm not So let's come back to Harry Potter then Let's go to the first thing that I had in my head

But I just chocolate frogs Sure Yeah, they can buy those nouns, I'm sure. All right, show me the chocolate jumping frogs. Oh, that's a shame. I thought that would have been on there, to be honest. Yeah, yeah. All right, Steph.

What, what did you say? Oh, I said it's us. Oh, I thought you said suss, like something sus. Sus, suspicious. Yeah, suspectful. The chocolate frogs weren't on here. By the way, chocolate frogs did make the list. They were

Where are they? I thought they were pretty high Yeah, number 13, chocolate frogs My daughter, one of my daughters I can't remember which one Used to call them chocket frogs Or just chocket Anything there was chocolate

It was chocket Yeah, can I have chocket milk They'd say? It was great Oh yeah, I love the chocket The girls They're women, but they're girls Yes, what do you got?

Well, we have a movie called Willy Wonka in the Chocolate Factory because a plethora of food. So I was thinking maybe like the everlasting gobsoppers. That's good. That's the best one too because it's the most memorable, right? The rest of them are a little bit like the gum and all that. I mean, I know technically we have gobsoppers in real life so they're not like fully fiction, but I mean.

Sure. But it's everlasting. Yeah, but it's everlasting. And it was fictional in the movie before the Willie Wonka Candy Company came out with the. That's true. Movie came first, right? I think so. Okay.

All right. Let's do it. I like it. I like where you're head's up. Ooh, it tastes like a dinner. I'm tasting steak and potatoes and there's gravy and you're turning Violet.

Violet. Show me the everlasting gobstoppers. Yeah. Look at those points. Big points right there. 13 total points for us. I think the reference you were making was for gum, though.

She was like chewing gum. That was the gum. That was the gum one. The Everlasting gobsted started. They just shoved in their pocket and they used as a bargaining chip with the bad guy. What's the one that threw Uter into the two? Was it just chocolate drinking out of the... Oh, no, he just fell in.

He just fell in. Augustus Gloop is the kid you're thinking of. And he was just drinking chocolate by the handfuls and fell into the river. Too much chocket. We'll get you in there every time. All right. So it makes me nervous, though, because that was so low, but it's also good points, but it makes me nervous. Yeah.

About other ones. All right. What? What, when the, that's a throwback. What is the, what do they eat in, uh, oh, that's just feeding them in general. I was thinking of a Gremlin's reference. There's nothing special to eat there. Nope.

Yeah, just, I don't know. I'm saying, nope. I don't know, maybe, maybe, it could be. Who knows? Um, how about, I saw this in the chat. How about, uh, Good Burger? Oh, that's good. You know what?

Let's throw one to our 90s kids. Good burger. I like it. Welcome to Good Burger. Would you like you? Good burger. Show me. Good burger. Number 17 in the list. Damn it. That was a good one, though. I liked that.

That was a good one. Yeah. All right. Let's see where these people are going here. I never look at the chat. I should look at the chat since everyone wants the chat. Well, I'm looking at the list here. I'm thinking we haven't hit, but it's more TV. How about some Romulan ale, regardless? sure I talk about the movies too yeah why not movies as well why not

all right sure show me Romulan ale nice number seven ooh we have a tie game 13 points shit who just got to clear the board then still plenty of game to be played

still five answers on the board yeah we could totally do this yeah um I don't know people are saying People are saying, well, I don't want to say it. What are they saying? What are they saying?

There's one of these really makes sense to me, but it's just I'm trying to decide just how much the tadpole would have veered from movie to TV or not. Sure. Because one of them is perfect, but it's not a movie. That's all I'm saying. I'm not giving any more ideas. Yeah, it's all shows. That's right.

I don't care what anybody says. I'm going with Reptar Bar. Reptar Bar. Oh, Reptar Bar. from um right there's yep uh wait what is that from come on you go get it uh from like regrats or something there you go you nailed it what's it what's it for yeah yeah yeah ladies kid the movie oh rugrats it's a huge part it's a huge part of the uh is it goes to paris is that the one that is a huge part in yeah yeah okay all right show me reptar bar let's just get that out of the way real quick yeah

right the speed at which brian brought us an ex tells you all you need to know about that answer. Yeah, yeah, I can tell. I immediately was like, yeah, let's go ahead and yeah. That's that. You want that? That's what you want? All right. Cool. So there's a lot of talking here about slurm and obviously Futurama never had a theatrical film, but they did have, what, three two-hour movies that were put out on DVD. They were fantastic. They just break them up into episodes now if you go watch them. But some big ones up here too, though. What are we missing? Slurm is real good, but it's also very, it's very chocolate factory adjacent. They were making fun of all that. And they

there. They do poopalupas and everything. Oh, shit. Red Link says my favorite thing. All right. I want to say Tron Water. Ooh, Tron Water. Because I love Tronwater. But I also think that's a very specific thing to think about with Tron. And I don't know that it's on the list. So Stephanie, help save me from blowing it here with our third strike. Yeah, I don't do it. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing Tron Water. I don't know what that is. It's the water they drink in Tron. They get all thirsty Oh, so it's literally Tron water, okay

Yeah, Tronwater Bapodoo, do do Bapaboo Bapaboo And we get in that new Aries is this year, right? Yeah, it is. I'm excited about that. Very excited.

I don't need more Leto in my life, but I'm still excited. Right, yeah. All right. Pick something because, you know, if we're after 10, Tom's going to want to come here at some point. Oh, my.

Do we circle back to? Harry Potter and do like the Bernie bots every flavored beans or whatever. Yeah, the ones where you get a vomit one once in a while. Yeah. Yeah. Which is actually supposed to be pizza flavor by the way. So if you want to be able

to stomach one of those, if you think pizza then it's not as bad. Oh. Really? Oh, really? Okay. I'm going to try that on the show and I'm going to hold you to account if it's bad. Sure. All right. Let's see it. All right. Pretty butts every flavor beans. is what you're going with?

Yep. All right. Show me Bernie bots, or birdie bots, every flavor beans. Damn it to hell in a bucket. Yeah. Now,

we're an interesting place here. You guys are tied. Tie always goes to the winner. So Dunway, if you flame out here, Stephanie gets the prizes. Otherwise, if you get something,

then the only way she can win is if you clear the board. I don't like that. So either fail hard, and quickly, or do exactly the opposite. Well, I feel like I got a really good... Well, I'm trying to think of what might be top up there, and I'm trying to think of movies that would feature a lot of food,

and I'm like, well, the hobbits love the shit out of some food. You know, it's like, so is second breakfast up there, or do I go with, you know, limbus bread, or do I go with, what do I go with? It's not limbus. I'm going to go second breakfast. Is that lambas bread? It's not limbus, is it?

Is it Lembis? With an E. Oh, is it? Hey, no, that I thought it was Lambus. Limbus. Did you read the books? No, well, yeah, but when I was 15, it's been a long time. Right, right, right.

All right, go on second breakfast. My favorite breakfast is second breakfast. Show me second breakfast. Nope, you succeeded in failing hard quickly. We tied? Have we ever tied at the end? No, no, this is the first time. That's why I had to make up that rule about ties always go to the contestant.

This is a week of. um first we've had this with this didn't we do something weird on monday something weird you guys uh had two set two uh we had the rounds all the answers where you picked to the two of you picked all three answers that's what it was yeah i you know what this is great to end the week like that well to midweek like that yeah that's awesome the game show week all right let's look at the rest of these answers here number two quite a few people said this in the chat i think red fraggle was first the pan galactic gargle blast Yes, yes, yes, yes.

It's a good one. Like getting hit in the face with a brick. You really, you were so close to saying number four. You just really wanted to do it and you tucked yourself out of it. Number four is slurmer. Damn it. Number five is the movie we saw for Film Sack and it's made out of people. Soilent Green.

Chat room was all about the Soylent Green. They were all about the Soilent Green. They were all about the Soilent Green. Number eight, Brian, you, you, again, you were really close to saying this, but Stephanie's probably glad you didn't. Number eight is Lumbus bread. Oh, man. I swear Samwise, Gamgey says Lambus. I'm going to kick him in the head when I see that actor.

He may have said like that. Yeah, he may have said it. Brainebeau-Bryd says we never saw Soilent Green. I could have sworn we've seen Soilent Green. We have not. No, we really have it. No, but it should, I mean, it seems like it's default. So why haven't we, really?

I guess we saw the, we saw Omega Man, which was the other Heston movie from that era. Yeah, the other one that's similar in that it's Heston. That's not Planet of the Apes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which we have definitely done, so. Yes. We're close. Finally, number 10, love this.

This was so great. I had so many different ways of people submitting this drink, but it is Brondo, the thirsty mutilator. Brondo has what plants crave, and it's got electrolytes. I still need to see that. I didn't think about that at all. Yeah. Or no, I've seen it with film sac.

You've seen it with Film Sack. Yeah. We saw it for Film Sack. Wait, we did Idiocracy for Film Sack? Yeah, yeah, a long time ago, years ago. And then we lived it. Yeah, we lived it. And now we're in it now.

Now we're in it. Yeah, exactly. Wow. What was 11th? What would have gotten us some? 11 would have gotten you, Duff Beer would have gotten you an extra guess. And then really quickly going down. the list here. Fizzy lifting drinks. Number 12,

Nuka Cola, gray stuff, crabby patties, Spoo from Babylon 5, cheesy poofs, dehydrated pizza from back to the future, fruity-Odi bars, green milk, which you get right out of the teat, Pepsi-free. You want a Pepsi, you're going to have to pay for it. A roast beast from the Grinch, syntha Hall, white Russians, those are real folks. Big Lubowski didn't make that up. Wanka bars,

Alamo Beer and Dorian Ale Apollo bars from Lost Big Belly Burger Blood wine Bob's Burgers Any of the above Blood Wine Klingon Blood Wine

Right Is that what that's from? Kling on Blood Wine Yep Booty Sweat from Tropic Thunder Branasaris Ribs from the Flintstones

Bug bars from Snow Piercer Chilled Monkey brains My favorite Coronetto ice cream Again that's real Elsinor beer from Strange Brew Fetty goat steak

Fizz Fis Flaming Moes Guns and Brew from Letterkenny Colorful Goop from Hook The colorful goop they eat

They made the pretend Yeah All the pretend food Yeah I don't remember that Klingon Wornog Kronk spinach puffs Oh man

I haven't thought about Let's chips Which appeared in like A hundred different TV shows I don't know if they ever made into a movie Lickable Wallpaper McDowell's

Molokoe Veliket from Clockwork Runge, the milk bar Oh, yeah Mooby meals, noodles from Blade Runner Punchburger, Poplars, Pumpkin pasties from Harry Potter Rakatino The Red and Blue Pill from the Matrix

I don't know if I call the food Roasted pork, salty balls, Sari and Brandy, Scooby Snack, Snaz Crumbler Staypuff marshmallows, tasty wheat bow dumplings from that one little short where the lady eats a bow because it looks like her child the water of life from Dune the youth potion from death becomes her somebody's reaching there true blood veritas serum whatever they drink in Wally and Yoda's stew in Empire oh that's a good one it should be higher that's a great one yeah that should be higher yeah my home this is I mean it's still

stew it's stew itself isn't fictional but whatever was in that we don't know what was in that is uh probably a two-headed lizard like mad max fury road probably probably that's uh almost guaranteed to be what it is well here's what i know for sure that stephanie has indeed won today's extravaganza that means you get one of these whoops it's dan hold on congratulations uh and also we kind of win congratulations because we tied and uh we haven't done that before yeah neither of you lost really is what we can take away from this. Yep. Steph, watch for your codes. They're incoming. Thank you for being with us. I hope you enjoyed yourself. Oh, I sure did. And I might be seeing you guys at Vegas. That would be great. Just look for bring your favorite mobile game.

All right. That'd be great. Bring your favorite mermaid tail in the, uh, the plaza pool with a Spider-Man outfit. Uh, all right. Hey, Dunaway. You were great. And you'll be great again on Friday. when we meet up and do yet another play retro. And this is an exciting week because we're getting into what? Remind people. XCOM UFO Defense and XCOM Terror from the Deep, which I never played either of the first two. So here we go.

We're going to do it. DOS Box, baby. Get that going. Oh, the PS1. Yeah, that's true. The PS1 version was all right. I think that's how I'm going to play is the PS1. It's a good choice.

It's a little slower. Easier to emulate, but it is slow. It's like playing Diablo on PS1. It's a little weird. But anyway, we'll be doing that on Friday, 1.30. Go check out the details at frogpans.com slash play retro kiss my butt. He didn't get it out. All right, we're going to take a break when we come back.

Tom will be here. I've been texting him, so he knows we're late. So he'll show up, talk about some tech stuff, and then we got recommendals after that. So stick around. Brian, what song do you have for us? Title Bomb. Oh, no, no, I'm sorry. It's Sabrina Title Bomb.

Not Mendelbaum. Sabrina Tidalbaum, but she goes by the name Blondechelle. This album is awesome. The upcoming album is called If You Asked for a Picture. Comes out May 2nd via Partisan Records. This is the first single from it. I'm going to give you the heads up that it does contain some adulty themes, but is, man, this is such a great song. The song's called T&A.

You can pretty much take from that what you will. But it's fantastic. Here is Blond Shell and T&A. think about anything else I liked having someone to call but I started taking my shirt off and facing the wall and he said something about it one time I said if you stop drinking maybe I could find you attractive maybe I could let you have it and it happened

I asked him I asked him why he had his feelings he said your tits and ass don't really hurt and I think he really meant it and now I'm wondering

if I should let him Let him in white all the good ones love me Watching it fall, watching the ball right in front of me I can't tell my sister we're together She knows about that vibe Remember You got scared and changed the voice Turned right from a man

two boys you turn back though stay mad though because I always go back forth the spinal cord little pole it's harrow and I'm giving it and taking it off

taking it off taking it off taking it all for the table when you've been what don't the good one Love me Marching and fall

Watching the fall right in front Let him in white Why don't the good ones Love me Purchin and fall Should we fall right in front Me Oh

Oh Oh Oh Love Who is that I'm going to say Donnie's mom, who is that done his mom was hurt. should go with them well just don't do what a stranger says check it out with an adult you know remember a stranger can be in danger now i know and knowing is half the bat if i get a splinter mom gives me a cookie if i skim my knee she gives me some cake

splinter. Anyway, I know, me too. Go get a splinter right now if it guaranteed me. Hell yeah. Hey, Brian, who was that one more time, please? That is Blond Shell, B-L-O-N-D-S-H-E-L-L. Her brand-new album comes out on May 2nd. It's called If You Asked for a Picture.

That is the first single. It's called T-N-A, and it's excellent. That is blonde shell. Nice. I like to play with words there, blonde shell like blonde-bom-bom-shell. Blonde-Bomb-shell. Blonde-bomb-shell.

Check this out, y'all. Isn't technology wonderful? It certainly is. is, and it's more wonderful when Tom Merritt is here to talk about said technology. He is back from Vegas, unscathed, I hope, from any fires or anything. Tom, how are you doing? I am unscath. Thank you. Yes, and very grateful to be so. Good. That was probably a little intense, though, while you're trying to work in Vegas and you're just hearing all this stuff about home. I think of his home. Yeah, the two most intense experiences were Wednesday when I was in Vegas and the fires were breaking out.

Eileen was, you know, I were like constantly texting and she was like, I think I'm going to go check into a hotel just to be safe. And I was very supportive of that if just for mental health reasons, if nothing else. And then Friday after I was back is when the fire turned towards us. and our vet, which is only, you know, like a 10-minute drive away from us, got put in an evacuation warning zone and they ended up having to evacuate. And we weren't sure if it was going to creep any farther to us. My neighbor was very dismissive. He's like, we're in the flats.

We're fine. But, you know, it was nerve-wracking. Thankfully, it did not. The firefighters have done a fantastic job. The winds overnight. last night were a big concern and throughout today, but they don't seem to be reaching the top speeds that was feared. They're also pointing in the right direction.

If they are blowing, they're blowing the fire into places that were already burned, so there's no fuel for it to expand or blowing right into the ocean. And then this evening they're supposed to shift to be onshore winds. So coming off the sea, bringing in some humidity, bringing in some cooler temps. I tell you what, man, it's been nerve-wracking, but in the end, it's, we are very blessed to be okay. Not everybody we know is, and it's, you know, it's one of those things where you do what you can to help out with folks. I know some people in the DTNS community reached out, and I was like, I don't need any help, but here's someone who does, and many of them were able to help. and it was a, you know, there were some tears from folks who needed that help and it was very

much appreciated. So that's good. It's been a thing. I'll tell you what. That is a lot, man. I, you know, it's like hurricanes anywhere else or just like when these things happen. Ornadoes, blizzards. Yep.

Yep. All of that stuff. People have to deal. It's hard. I can't repeat enough. I apologize if you've heard me go on about this in other venues. But we switched. from relying on social networks for information

to relying on local news for information to relying directly on Cal Fire for information and every switch made us feel less nervous and more well-informed. The local news is very good when something is happening. Big congratulations to the coverage from KCal and KTLA specifically, which is what I was relying on.

On Friday, when things were moving fast, they were on the scene. They were giving good information talking to people that needed it. And in the intervening time, when we're like, we just want to know where the status is, Cal Fire has been doing three YouTube streams a day, including streaming the actual briefing for the firefighters

that are going on shift in the morning. So you're able to see what those firefighters are seeing when we're being briefed on like, here's the status, here's where we're going. They don't sugarcoat things, but they also aren't trying to fearmonger either. you know they're not trying to go for clicks so it it's it's been amazing uh to be able to get that kind of information directly wouldn't have ever been able to get that you know years ago uh and

and aline and i are are all up to speed on on what uh slop is and spotting and direct lines and handlines and we we've we've really uh you know we've we've really increased you didn't want but you're yeah yeah we've really increased knowledge in areas we didn't didn't necessarily think we would need to get to. But a big, big tip of the hat to Cal Fire for doing that and answering questions and providing that. It's incredibly, incredibly reassuring. We're fans of Christian Litts. He's one of the Cal Fire commanders who does a great job. The whole team that does the communications does a great job. And I would recommend, you know, go to the source. And I would recommend sources of information.

provide this kind of information because it's been incredibly helpful and reassuring and I wouldn't have known to look for it as fast anyway if it wasn't for watch duty, which is a nonprofit app that just provides information curated by experts that they they get to volunteer to help them. So it's a whole thing that I think shows that technology can in fact be used for good. And it takes a combination of people doing it on the provision end and use. selecting the good information on your end. And it's also a reminder that you may currently, in a non-emergency situation, you might think that going to X or going to Instagram or something might be the best way to go because you just haven't had to deal with it. But when it happens, it's good to be reminded that there are perhaps other avenues you could explore. Yeah. I don't want to be too heavy-handed about social media platforms because there is some good information.

The problem is there's a lot of other information you have to wait. through to get to get to it though those platforms are entertainment that have some information sources among them and and TikTok and Instagram and all of that so yeah there's there's some good uses for it but you have to be careful because you can get caught up in people doing it now there's people doing it maliciously but there's also plenty of people that are just doing it out of the you know what they think of as a pure motivation but they're not good at it or providing misinformation or they're accidentally to you know because they haven't checked those sorts of themselves and they're just replaying that information and that's not to say

there's not some people out there that are very good doing it independently as well it's just it's kind of hard to find those people and vet them amongst the other people yeah and you're in a crowded room where everyone's yelling other things yeah right yeah yeah yeah it's not two of the hundred people yelling maybe yelling very accurate excellent helpful information that you wouldn't anywhere else, but it's kind of hard to hear them. Yeah, truth. Well, uh, that aside, big thing to be aside. Let's talk about TikTok. Let's talk about TikTok getting banned. Um, yeah, actually, I was going to ask if, uh, that's eminent if it's happening. What, the 19th is the date, I think. Yeah, this Sunday, the 19th is when the law kicks in, as I have met pains to, to repeat,

the law only requires app stores to block distribution of the app. So Apple and Google can no longer list TikTok in the U.S. when this law kicks in, if it kicks in, on Sunday. Reuters saying that ByteDance is telling them, we're just going to shut it off in the U.S. They don't have to shut it off, but they're just going to. I guess it's cheaper. Maybe they want to make a point. I'm not sure. ByteDance also apparently, according to Reuters, telling their employees, don't worry,

we've got a plan, you know, stick with us. Let's see. Our offices will remain open even if the situation hasn't been resolved before the 19th. So they obviously think they've got a future in which they can pay these people for something. I don't know if it's, we'll shut it down on the 19th and hope the incoming administration gives us a reprieve and we can turn it back on. If it's you're all now working on Lemonate or our alternative app, it's, you know, it's hard to say. But yeah, it's coming on Sunday. possibly later today on Wednesday, we'll know what the Supreme Court thinks, but all indications

are the Supreme Court is not going to issue a stay and not going to rule in Bight Dance's favor. So, I think there's more chance of them issuing a stay than ruling in Bight Dan's favor. But if they don't do either of those things, then we're just waiting to see what happens on Sunday. Do you think there's a chance that they, I mean, I just don't know what the mindset on the Supreme Court is of stuff like this. so I don't know what they would say, but is it better for them to just just from their standpoint, should they just not say anything?

Is that the better thing? Just sit back and go, you all want us to rule, but we're just going to sit and watch this happen, or if they get involved, is that a problem? You know what I mean? Like, is it better for them just to not get involved?

If that was their stance, they wouldn't have heard the case, is my thinking. They would have just declined to rule and that would have let the lower court stand. They think there's some, something important they can say. Now, that's something important may have nothing to do with giving bite dance a reprieve. It may be to, you know, affix some constitutional principle on free speech

into the ruling, even if it goes against bite dance. A lot of the questioning was around, well, you're a Chinese company, and yes, there is precedent that foreign companies can have free speech rights, but I think this security situation here with Congress outwe. ways that, why should we not defer to Congress on this is what they were asking? And the experts seem to think that Mike Dance didn't make a convincing enough argument that there is no security concern or that there is little enough security concern that the Supreme Court should not defer to Congress's determination that there was. So that's what they're going to rule on is this idea that, yes, you might have a free speech right as a foreign company, but

if the Congress says you're a security risk, it's not the Supreme Court's job to say it's not unless you can prove that the Congress was wrong or that the Congress determined it in an unconstitutional fashion. And I don't think they can prove either one of those things. So the Supreme Court wants to rule on that. The question is whether they want more time to rule and whether they think that it's worth, you know, giving bite dance a reprieve while they rule. If they're all fairly certain they're going to rule against bite dance they might not want to give the stay yeah well we'll see what happens i you're calling me right now on my phone am i how am i doing that just started ringing for discord audio that's oh discord audio i was like my phone is like my phone phone i was like

how the hell's that i know sitting over there somewhere that's weird that shouldn't do that i'm like i'm talking to them on discord right now i don't know what you're answering sometimes i've noticed that sometimes the mobile app is a little funky that way it's just a little laggy yeah i don't know what's going on there? Well, as we get closer, you'll find out and plenty of great commentary that really does sort of stick to the commentary around the issues with this thing. Then you should be listening to DTNS because that's the best place for it. Tom, besides this and other stories today, is there anything you have going on that you'd like to mention? There is more DTNS than ever before. We have two versions now because we identified that people in the audience that had a complaint were in

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I don't need as much of that discussion because there were some people saying the discussions go on. too long as it is. So that's DTNS Briefing, Daily Tech News Show. That's in the existing Daily Tech News Show public feed. So you can go add DTNS live if you want that flavor of show. Keep DTNS. If you like that flavor of show, you can do both. You can do neither, but I'd prefer you do one of them. Yeah, pick one. Pick one. Pick a lane or pick both lanes. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And in this particular scenario, the metaphor breaks down because if you're taking two lanes on the highway, get arrested for that. But here, it's encouraged yeah it's encouraged you can yeah yeah this is a place where you can flaunt what would have been the law were you in a car that's right um i will i will be uh i'll be on

there today i'm excited because it's been a while yeah yeah e3 and the holidays kind of messed up wednesdays for a bit uh wednesdays happened to be both holidays cES all that so i'm gonna feel like a stranger today but i'm excited to get back on there so uh watch for that it's gonna be awesome it's good good good good good to get you back and uh while we're at cES i you know i caught up with KT Data. We were talking all about TMS Vegas. I've been chatting with folks about that, so I'm looking forward to that as well. Yeah, dude. It's going to be great. As

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Be ye. All right. Who now? What this? Oh, Randy, coming in. And Nicole. Oh, I thought she was at an appointment or something or a... She said yes here right before that stuff. So I think she is here and... Oh, okay. Cool.

Oh, I thought she's... Okay. That's totally fine. Yeah. She said something, but she took him... I know. I know. But before that, she said, I believe Nicole and Mark aren't going to be here this morning.

She said, yes, here. And she was in chat earlier. Or she's saying, yes, I'm here at the hospitals, what I took. Maybe you're right. Let's give it her a shot. Let's add her to the call. Let's give her a chat. Yeah, let's give her a chat. You know, if anyone deserves a shot, it's Nicole. She says, let me call me. Okay, good. Fantastic. That makes me happy. I assume it's last week's recommend. We'll find out as we head into the weeds here. Well, what do you recommend? She held it. She held hard to her recommendal, which is good, because we're here to talk about things we've seen on streaming services and then recommend them. Do you find folks at home? Will you welcome to the program at Nicole's Baggnolo? Hello, Nicole. Is my audio okay?

Yeah, you sound all right. Yeah, it sounds fantastic. Are you, uh, where are you now? Are you home? In the basement, Mark is sleeping upstairs and Mateo is sleeping in his room. Oh. Mateo had to, Mateo stayed up for 24 hours. Jeez.

Um, for a really, this boy doesn't sleep. I think I've been saying this since he was born. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, his first EEG, nothing. They're like, he's fine. I'm like, bullshit. So I, uh, so it's been a very long time since I've talked with you.

I was actually going back through the last time we talked was on December 18th. Yeah, that sounds right. Wow. Yeah. Um, I, I'm going to be very transparent and honest because I know there are people listening, um, who go through chronic illness. And I'll be honest for the last two years, I've been really, really, really, really, you're really, really sick. And my mantra in my brain every day was, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying.

Yeah. And on the December 17th, I was finally diagnosed properly. And I have an autoimmune disease genetically that a combination of strep and COVID and a whole bunch of other stuff caused me to have autoimmune escephalitis, which now I have prefrontal lobe epilepsy.

Oh, geez. That's hardcore. I'm epileptic. I have focal they're called focal seizures. And the reason why I'm telling you all this is because movies and TV shows have kind of ruined me on what I think seizures are.

Right? Yeah, they all get it wrong. None of them get it right. they're all right right and in fact i was talking to my neurologist about it she's like that's why i don't watch any of those shows now we did you need to be careful now with flashing lights and things like no it's not triggered by yours is not triggered by lights uh for me lack of sleep and um anxiety stress things like that um so and then as my as my my doctor's telling me this, I was like, you're describing my son too. And she says, oh, yes, it's hereditary. Oh, great. And so Mateo is now with her and going through the process. And I'm,

I'm moving so fast because about five days into my seizure medication, I was like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, I'm me. I'm me. Wow. So that quickly you noticed a difference. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. The thing about focal seizures, too. Yeah. So I have to be. be really strict with my sleep. Yeah. So I can't drink or any of that stuff. So I am, I'm going to try to come to TMS Vegas. Oh, good.

But around 8 o'clock, you might, I might be like, peace out, everybody. Yeah, I'm going to bed. Totally fine. We will take you any way that we can get you there. I'd love it. Yeah, that'd be awesome. So let me ask you this about the focal seizures. The same thing was true of Tay when she had them when she was like 13.

It would be stress, lack of sleep, anxiety. Those would kick it off. Yeah. And sometimes they were. severe that she would go blind for a minute and she would have the you know she would have be having the quote unquote fit that you have that they always show on TV but she'd be conscious through the whole thing but then there'd be other times it was just like this weird buzz and she just kind of would know it was happening but nobody else around her could tell is that kind of where

you're at right now with so mine my I'll find myself kind of like staring off into space yeah Um, but my, my quote unquote ticks, we're not ticks. They were misdiagnosed. They were seizures. So I was having hundreds of those a day. Jeez. Um, very aware, uh, all the time. Which is why I was like, because when she told me seizures and epilepsy, I'm like, what are you talking about? Like, yeah, you're like, I've seen ER. I know how that's supposed to work. Right. I don't work like that at all, it turns out. No. No, no. So unfortunately, you know, I, you know, I, you know, I, you know, I, you know, I, you know, I, did what I could to get by.

I experienced an amazing amount of gaslighting by well-intentioned doctors. Zoloft helped a little bit kind of, you know, turned the dial down to make me somewhat functional. I've learned a lot about my preconceived notions of asking for help. I go to therapy now. I'm all about For me With medicine

I have to be really Low and slow is my motto Low and slow So Yeah I just You guys have been on this journey with me And I know there's been times where you're like Feel better

I'm like I'm trying Yeah Years we've been watching Struggle with us And make special doctor trips And make special you know Visits and things like that And so I'm glad that you finally have.

It's really hard to, because the hardest part is when you're a friend, when we're your friend, it's very hard to know what to do, right? We don't know how to, how to do anything. It's not as simple as like, can we bring you dinner?

Well, you live in Missouri. All right. How about not that? You know? But do you know what? This, this is, was therapy for me. So me talking to you every week,

laughing helps. keeping my mind off. So the funny thing about for me and Matteo for focal seizures, so me trying to keep Mateo from having seizures this morning because he was having tons

because of not sleeping for 24 hours. I put on Weird Al Yankovic. And we just listened to Weird Al for an hour. Awesome. And he's laughing. And it settles down. And that's why I couldn't watch

a lot of intense movies which is why I'm really really excited to talk about the movie today because I don't think I would have been able to watch it prior because one of the one of the things with epilepsy this particular type of epilepsy is that my mood stabilization was all over the place I mean happy sad happy almost bipolar of sorts so and I And I couldn't, I couldn't handle scary. I couldn't, I mean, you remember all that. So, super sad. I kind of stayed away from.

I could only deal with happy. So the fact that I'm recommending something that made me cry, it makes me really happy. Yeah. Well, knowing what I know about what you're recommending, it has a special way of being both things at once. It's like a hard to explain why it's so good at what it does. but it's very good at that. Yes. I'm so happy to be here. And I just wanted to catch you up.

And I know people have reached out to me individually and, you know, saying thank you for talking about mental health. And I don't really, it's funny because I just think I'm talking to you guys. Yeah. You forget there's an audience out there listening every day. It's like 30,000 people are all like, oh, my gosh. My mom could listen to this. So, yeah, I just, I just want to just.

just say if you're if you're struggling hold on keep trying and keep trying tell yourself keep at it try and keep at it yeah your fortitude has been admiral these last several years and keep you know you're working and finding a different getting a different diagnosis from every doctor and then finally get bail down and now that I feel 100% you can't stop me with material good like I'm like boom we're got we got we got the EKG, we've got the EEG and give me my MRI and let's go.

That boy gave nine files of blood yesterday. You just said you were at a hundred percent? That's remarkable. That's wonderful. I am at 100%. That's great. As long as you sleep, I mean. Yeah, yeah. I don't know the last time I felt 100%.

That's why I'm like, I'm such, I find myself kind of being And Mateo would call me a goober. But I'm just, I'm like, I'm happy. I'm like, oh, my God. Why? I'm just happy.

Yeah, it sucks having a chunk of time where you weren't and you didn't know why. I forgot who I was. Like, when it happened, I was like, oh, I was really sick. Yeah. And I was really hard to know. I mean, yeah. So. Well, I'm very, very glad to hear it.

I've got off in the last two years of my life. Yeah. No, it's awesome. We're glad to have been here for it. And we'll continue to be. You're huge. Hey, Randy, welcome to the show, too. How are you doing today?

You doing all right? Good morning, morning stream. I'm doing great. Yeah. I am outside of the huge smokestack that we can see to the north on the horizon. Yeah. That doesn't mean that it's not getting to us. We just, uh, it's just not as visible here.

How's your, uh, your air quality overall kind of sucky? This is terrible. Absolutely terrible. Yeah. And, and what's really, really weird is like co-workers who live up in Los Angeles, they drive to work. And I park my car in the parking lot and I see their car. car and it's like even driving that far

it doesn't knock all the ash off I'm pretty car. It's intense. It's intense. Well, everybody breathe easy for at least the next little bit while we talk about stuff we like on streaming services. You can all go home and watch some cool stuff. And we're going to start with Brian Abbott. Brian, tell me about your clip

before I hit play. Yeah, this is a movie just came out and you got you and I love it and you're going to hear a couple recognizable voices in here including Kiefer Sutherland. Oh, sweet. Yeah. We haven't heard him since

Dark City. Yeah. Yeah. All right, here we go. Justin, what's going on? I need a lawyer. Okay. Give me a dollar. I'm not joking. That gives us attorney-client privilege. Take a seat. So I I went to clear my head and found myself at Rowdy's hideaway.

I ordered a drink and sat there for a while. Then I got up and left. I got to the car. It was raining. I turned back onto old quarry. I went about a quarter of a mile and I hit something. I got out the car and I looked around. I checked.

I didn't see anything and I figured it was a deer that ran off. And then I got back in the car and went home. Okay. What's the problem? I got called for jury duty, the Kendall Cardi case. They found her body in a creek bed about a quarter mile from Raddy's hideaway last October. What are you telling me? Maybe I didn't hit it here.

Man, he's getting good at the English accent or the American accent. The American accent, he is, yeah. Nicholas Holt right there in Brayette. new film from Clint Eastwood, directed by Clint Eastwood, called juror number two. Not the rural juror, but juror number two. I ask for it by name. Currently on Max, and you kind of get the gist of it there. That's all in the trailer, so no spoilers there.

But, yeah, Nicholas Holt is called into jury duty for a case, and it turns out that he might be connected to the thing that the situation that's on trial in the case, even though he thought it was some sort of throwaway incident when he experienced it. It takes place in Savannah, Georgia. So seeing some of the exteriors and stuff harkens back to TMS Tadpool Meetup Southeast, which was a blast.

You also get Tony Colette in here, and a very, very quick, roll from J.K. Simmons who almost becomes a little bit of a chick in the bucket, but I'll let you see it and see if you see what you think of that. Did you say kick in the bucket?

Yeah, you don't listen to film sack. It's a film sack thing. It's a little reference. Basically a character that's introduced that you think is going to have a lot of influence later on the film and disappears. Yeah. For no reason.

It comes from a girl that was in an actual bucket in Wild Wild West with Will Smith. That's where it came from. So it got, this is like, what, our first year of the show, and we just locked in and never changed. Anyway, man, and it, things, I'm not going to say twist ending anything like that, but I'm going to say that you kind of from the trailer and from the description, a little clip you heard right there, you kind of think you know how things are going to go. And it goes in a very different direction than you'd expect. And I really, really like how it's, how it progresses. So strong direction from 94-year-old Clint Eastwood, do you think?

Doing all right. Very strong direction. You know, who knows how involved he was. I'm sure he's sitting there and say, yeah, let's take that one again. I mean, I have no idea. I assume he's still, you know, the guy in charge. So much of this falls on the shoulders of Holt and J.K. and Tony Colette and very briefly, Kiefer Sutherland, but it's really, really good.

So juror number two, currently on max and 100% worth your time. All right. I want to see it. I like him. He's my war boy number one. He's great. All right. Let's get to Nicole's recommendation.

We've been holding it over for a while. Get it? I will just say, based on everything that I've talked prior, I missed all. all of 2023. So this is a movie that came out in 2023, totally missed it. It is on Amazon Prime. I also

missed Deep Rock Galactic the video game. That's so good. That came out in 2023 and it is my new obsession at the moment with my son. We love it so much. If any of you still play Deep Rock Galactic, look me

up on PlayStation. Neolidon, that's my name. That game is a Amazing. I played it with John and Bo Teller Eyes Bloods. Fantastic game. Oh, my God. We love it so much. And I'm like, how did I miss that? Well, now, I know why I missed it. So. On a Steam deck is the important question. Yes, you can. What's that? You can play it on Steam. Is it cross platform? It is, uh, mm, I'm not sure about cross platform. It's not, it's not on, it's not on PS5 at all, but it is on Xbox. So you probably go back and forth.

Yeah, we do it on a PlayStation. And so you can have up to four people. It's me, Mark, Mateo, and his uncle. Wait, it is on PlayStation? I thought it wasn't on PlayStation. That's cool. We're playing it on PlayStation. Oh, that must have, they must have done a more recent release.

I had no idea. That's great. Yeah. We love it. It was on sale and I grabbed it. So yeah, 2023, apparently a lot of stuff happened that I miss. So I'm going back through. And this movie for me,

it's not a Christmas movie but it's around Christmas and it's wonderful and I loved it and yeah it's a comedy drama there you go it's amazing I'm gonna play the damn clip here we go I have a surprise these were a gift to me and I would like to share them with both of you look at them look at all the festive shapes snowflakes and gingerbread men, a tree, a little mitten. Hmm. May I go to the bathroom, sir? You may.

Oh, man, I love that scene. That's why I picked that one. Tell us about the holdovers. We've talked about it on the show briefly. I don't think we've ever done a proper recommender because Ryan, yeah, Brian first saw it, I think, in theaters, then I saw it later. And so we never really gave it as proper due. And it never, I mean, is it new to streaming? Last, I think it was up last year.

Mid last year, early last year. But it's never been a recommendal? I don't think so. No, I don't think so, no. So, I mean, so it's called the holdovers. Paul Giamatti is a, he's a teacher at a private school. So it's like, they're like middle school, high school kids, right? And the holdovers are the kids, and it's a prestigious school too, the kids that basically get left there because their parents won't pick them up, have other stuff to do, things like that.

And so this is a story initially starts out as, what is it, like five or six kids, and then it boils down to one kid in particular. and that's the actor Dominic Sessa who plays Tully and you it's really a story about Paul Giamati's character who is kind of stuck in the past he suffers from depression

and the weird family that kind of is created by being stuck in this difficult situation There's so much heart to it. I loved the whole storyline. It just, it was beautiful. It was just a great story.

Yeah, wonderful movie, the side stories with, I forget her name, who played. Oh, the woman. Yeah, the, love her. God, she is so good. Mary, are you talking about Mary? Divine Joy Randolph, I think that's the supporting actress. She did, she did win, right? I know she was nominated.

I think she won, too. Definitely nominated, yeah. It reminds me of The Robin Williams Captain My Captain Dead Poet Society Yeah, yeah And a little bit of a woman too

Just the vibe I don't know if it's because those things are all set In a slightly different time period This one's in the late 70s This is the 70s? Yeah, this is the 70s Late, in fact, isn't it It's the new year they have is 79 I think and um no it says it's set in 1970 oh it says 69 to 70 that's what it is yeah okay so even older than

i thought um but yeah you're right about the heart there's just like a vibe i'd love it i plan to see it every year it's so good it's such a weird actor like i i i hate him i and i love him all at the same time you hate some of the characters that he plays but you love what just like he he's such a character maybe you hate him i don't know maybe No, no, no, I don't, I don't hate him. That's strong. It's like, I'm disgusted by him as an actor, but he, he wins me over. That's so much better than you hate him.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, he's met in this movie, he smells, he's gross. Yeah. And he plays hateful characters, disgusting hateful characters. And you're, and he's such a good actor that you're like, ew. Yeah. But then I love him. You know, I don't know.

That's a terrible way I'm describing it. Like the movie, the movie is about, it is a disgusting as an actor, but man, I love him. Yeah, he's, he's a, he does this thing that the movie is supposed to be a coming of age story for multiple people. And primarily you think it's for the young kid. And it is, but it isn't. It's for him too. It's this moment of like realization in his older years of who he really is and who he, what he wants to be what he's going to stand up for like that that whole final bit is really powerful like that

freaking movie did i think it's my i really like all his movies all of um forgot the director's name Alexander Payne Alexander Payne is they're all good but i think this might have creeped right up to the top for me and Alexander Payne has become the director for whom movie lovers all have a different favorite movie like he's like there's like seven movies now if you ask movie lovers what's your favorite Alexander Payne movie they like name something different. Nebraska or election or sideways or yeah. Dude,

Nebraska's awesome. Nebraska is so good. It's hard. Yeah. That's a hard. These two are sitting in the same seat for me, those two movies. Yeah.

I love it. Anyway. Probably one of my favorite scenes of the holdovers is too is the fact that they address his lazy eye. Yeah. Right? The one he actually has in real life. Yeah.

He actually has in real life. Yeah. And as that happened, I'm like, I wonder if they purposely wrote that into this. Like, you're what, I wonder how all that kind of what goes down. Was it like ad libed or was it in the script and they knew Paul Giumati was going to be the guy? No, I think he's wearing contacts. I thought he had a lazy eye, no?

No, he, according to the Wikipedia, it's special effects. To create the illusion that Paul Gio, Madi had this condition, the makeup and effects artist was hired to create special hand-painted soft contact lenses for the actor. Oh, wild. Yeah. Okay. It feels like

the Mandala fact because I thought he'd want a lazy eye forever. Mandala. That's even better than Mandela. The name of the effect needs to change. That's the ultimate meta. So I think Brian's

right. He has a higher eye like a lot of us do. We're not really symmetrical. He does have Yeah. I think that's what was throwing me. He is asymmetrical. So I thought there was, I also thought it was real. I guess not. Yeah.

Yeah. No, it was such, I think he talked on Stern about how, oh my gosh, we're going to go right to his eye on the stream. He talked on Stern about having to wear that horrible contact lens. And he basically were blind out of that eye while he was filming because it was opaque. Well, it made it even better. Even in American splendor. He doesn't have a lazy eye in American splendor.

No, unless he had those special contact lenses there, too. Here it is. You can see the difference. He's got, oh, hold on. I can send you guys a video. One of my symptoms is I have a really bad memory now. Well, no, I mean, that just goes to show you how well done the special effects were on that. That, like, it's enough to make you think that he looked like that the entire time.

That thing is gnarly. Look out of the way it lifts the eye up. Holy shit. All right. Well, we've learned a little something today. He's not as gnarly looking as we have attributed him. Do you like him even more now, Nicole? Do you like him more and hate him less?

You find him less disgusting? That's everything. I don't hate him. I know, I know. I'm just playing off of what you said. I'm just being really good at his craft. Yeah. He is, he is like, he is one of the great character actors of our lifetime like I love him

so I will see anything he's in but you're right about the stuff he plays he's smarmy and squirmy and weird and creepy sometimes I mean he's all those things and everything he's in and he's made a hell of a career out of that so grad's done has he ever played

um like Stanley Tucci and uh lovely bones he was just an awful awful person um I would argue well I mean was the what was he in Spider-Man? Brian, who's the the rhino.

I guess that counts kind of. Yeah. I can't think of anything else. There's others. Well, that was the, that was the Garfield Spider-Man era. So, oh,

he's a complete ass in the movie, the Howard Stern movie. Sideways. Oh, yeah, yeah, he's a pig vomit. He plays a killer. Like,

yeah. Like a murderer? Like a murderer? Yeah. Not in the Howard Stern movie. no no definitely not no i don't know i can't think of anything he was a he was a boxing coach in cinderella man he was good and i don't think he's ever like he killed them or low he single-handedly killed people drinking merlo and sideways that's true he can just say in the call we don't know he was in

billions he was mean he was a billionaire in billions you could argue all billionaires kill people just even just you know by existing right so that works i think that's fine I'm saying he would be a really good actor in like a Stephen King movie. Yeah, totally would. I agree. Yeah, that would be great. Like, the movie,

the illusionist. The answer is no. The answer is no. Oh, he plays Drek and Ratchet and Clank. He definitely killed people in that video game. There you go. That's not what I'm talking.

I know. I know what you mean. All right. Well, that's awesome. Go see you guys. This is streaming where again? Where is it? Prime. Prime. Amazon Prime.

Yeah, 100% a movie. I think it's a Prime paid for a deal. I think so. I think they'll have it. But don't, don't wait on it. Go so you'll watch it. And I don't even think it needs to be Christmas when you see it. I save it for this time of year, but see it whenever you want. That's so good.

Yeah. Well, it's wintertime. Well, it's cold outside fits. It doesn't have to be Christmas. Very, very good. All right, Randy. As I've said repeatedly, I took a bunch of movies and TV shows to Canada to potentially watch with my in-law. and they they veto things like i don't want to watch elf again this year or whatever and they

vetoed the holdovers hard and i was just like what what is what is wrong with this movie it did not connect with them you know there's 70 something canadians and they were just like dislike that movie wow no more putteen for me forget i'm not putting gravy on my french fries for the rest of my life all right randy let's uh you like it easy you Of course, and I think we're on a streak right now. I'm about to recommendle something that is in the 90s on Rotten Tomatoes. And I'm hoping that Scott's going to close us out with that. So there's a TV show.

Brian here recommended it about a year and a half ago. And then we got a part two recently. And you're going to hear a bunch of different people talking in this clip, just so you know. This is not the same two people. I ran through a bunch of different people because I was trying to find non-spoilers. And I did, but it's a little bit of a confusing clip. All right, here you go. So, the old lady I heard screaming earlier?

That was my dad. Yes. That tracks. See you. Sweetie. What you doing? I just like watching a drink. Stocking the neighbor.

Got it. Oh. Derek. I need you on Purve Patrol. Okay. Okay, bud, we can do this. We can live near a girl and not make it weird. Okay, give me the update.

You're going to be so proud of me. I haven't balked Jimmy in like three days. Mind you, the first two days. I was out of town, and on the third day, I had some low-grade diarrhea I was kind of concerned about. Well, it still counts. Do you want to do your little affirmation? I do not, but make me say it anyway. Do it, you tall, slutty coward.

Wow. Okay, Jimmy's not ready for anything real. It's an uneven dynamic, and it's, like, not healthy for me. Amen. It's just really hard because I got him in the shampoo that makes his hair smell like pine tree, and it kind of makes my cooch whistle. No, I get it. This is, this is, by the way, dromedy is the genre.

I guess carry over that, not safe for work, learning from the Indian the middle song to the end of the words, Cooch whistle. Oh, I love it. But did you notice that I didn't capture any F words? No, I'm impressed. I'm amazed with this show, yeah, because there's, a lot yeah well done and uh and by the way i have been watching this is shrinking shrinking has a season

two uh i i have been watching it with my kid and he's 15 now and oh i i have a challenge for every episode of this show to not get into hard our sex talk and and they just can't help themselves they yeah it's all very euphemismy i mean that's that was a good example right there like it's it's uh even jason seagel it's all done very very euphemismy i mean that's that was a good example right there like it's it's uh even jason seagull it's all done very uh subtly so i think you can get away with with a 15 year old watching this there are so many things i want to say about this show and i if you haven't watched it yet please hurry up it's one of the best things on tv of all time it's like do you remember when veep got into like their third and four seasons and you're like oh it's

not only one of the best things on tv now this is like one of the best things that's ever been made it is so funny it's so heartwarming and it's so borderline realistic and i i think that's really really important like if this was a very realistic show you would just be watching people go to work and you'd be bored out of your mind it's but it's it's rooted in the reality of what these people are experiencing being uh psychiatrists and what all the people around them are experiencing um it's uh this is a Brett Goldstein influenced or, you know, produced

a show. And Brett Goldstein is your Roy Kent, right? And, um, very different role for, and so like Goldstein in this. But, but like you, when you recommended,

when you recommended the entire first season, right, there was no Roy Kent. And at the end of it, I was saying, I wonder when Brett Goldstein's going to insert himself into the show. And in season two,

he does. Oh, my God. And he takes the hardest, the hardest role. Are they a psychiatrist or a psychologist? Oh, all of them? Well, there's a bunch of them, right? We're not really, they're behavioral, behavioral therapists. There you go.

Do they write prescriptions for drugs? That'd be psychiatrist and no, they're not. That's a psychiatrist. And I don't know that we ever really go that deep. Yeah. That's the funny thing. I'm 48 years old. I just learned that a psychiatrist really doesn't do much for helping you talk through things.

No, they're not a therapist. I didn't know that. I assumed that. Yeah. Well, that's easy to do because a lot of movies just have a dude on a couch and a guy talking to him with a list and he's a psychiatrist, I guess. And they don't really, like, especially in the past, that stuff was so flippant. Everybody's listed here as a therapist as a behavior. cognitive behavioral.

That's my sister. It's what Wendy does. It's what they are. And so like the basics here are Jason Segal Harrison Ford and Jessica Williams are psychotherapists who all work together in the same office. She is the best, by the way, Jessica Williams. I will watch anything that she's in. And just amazing that she just was a daily show correspondent comic for a while. And then like now she's just like one of the best things on TV.

Yeah. And and then they have all the people around. around them. And I specifically want to call out the next door neighbors in that clip. The next door neighbors were kind of like spying on Jason Siegel's kid. Um, and those next door neighbors are played by TV comedy legends, Krista Miller and Ted McGinley. And I don't know how they got them. Like I don't, I just like, it's the weirdest thing. It's a genius casting of these two. Um, they have this, this bizarre relationship. Krista Miller and Ted McGinley are now pushing 60.

They get into these friendships with the other characters. And it's just, it is the most beautiful, like I say, heartwarming thing that I've seen in a very, very long time. And season two doubles down on all of the heartwarming and beautiful parts. And it's just, you've got to watch this. Yeah. A reminder, Ted McGinley, for those, for the young ones, he was one of the nerds. He was a nerd. Yeah.

And he was the sitcom killer in the 80s. Oh, yeah. That's the other thing he's known for is wiping stuff out. He's not going to have that problem here. I don't think. Right. And so Krista Miller was on the Drew Carey show for the entire run and then on most of Scrubs. And she is such a different person now in a sitcom.

This is not a sitcom. This is a dromedy. But it's just weird. She's such a different person. Like, I used to think of her as bringing, bringing immaturity, like, almost like naivete to comedy. And now she's like, in this show, she's so emotionally powerful. It's hard to explain. You've got to watch Shrinking, please.

She's also in recent years, not just doing acting, but she's also a music supervisor for a lot of shows. I think even including this one, I think she's music supervisor for, for shrinking if I'm if I'm correct but basically you know the person who watches the show or like watches and says oh I think this indie pop song will be really good here or I think this cover song will be really good here or whatever it's it's it's wild her second her second job now that's great as that well I saw season one I need to still Kim and I are just you know I don't know why we're waiting but we need to see season two we love the first one it was great yeah and I like that it's a dromedy but I think it's heavy on the comedy so if you want to laugh real hard you're going to get it. Yeah. Oh, it's got some, oh, it's got some heart wrenching moments too. It does. You know, like their, their main patient in this clinic is, you know, just a absolutely terribly broken man. And they, they sort of like, you know, all work together to bring him around to normalcy. Oh, I thought you're talking about Heidi Gardner. she's she's not the main she's not the main uh patient here going on here she's just she's just

a truly wild character story like like something that you would never expect and uh and and hidey gardner without makeup is amazing like she is so emotive it's i am i can't say enough about this show it's it's about psychology and about psychotherapy exactly the same way that the good place was about philosophy, which is to say it's not. This is a, this is a dromedy, and it's just suffused with that subject. And it's up there now for me with like Schitt's Creek and the good place and a flea bag. It's in that highest strata. The aforementioned Ted Lassow, yeah, it fits in any group that has all that stuff.

That's great. it now. Apple TV Plus. They had a free weekend. I think a lot of people caught up on the show that weekend too. All right. What, Nicole? Sorry. I said free weekend. Yeah, free weekend. They had a TV had a free weekend. Watch everything you want for a whole weekend. It was a big push for people to rip through the new silo season. Watch everything but the last episode of silo. Yeah. Get you hooked and then you got to pay. Yeah. All right. Here's what I watched. Paramount Plus. That's all I'm going to say. and then I'll talk about it. Here you go.

Honey, this is Nathan. He's an oil and gas attorney. My other roommate is Dale. He's what they call a petroleum engineer. He's the one upstairs right now with a ruptured cornea and what doctors call a myocardial infarction. Regular folks call that a heart attack,

which is what you gave him when you poked his fucking eye out. So tell you what, just to prevent further confusion, what do you say we all lock the bathroom door when we're in it? Well, God, tell me to us. My bathroom's downstairs. I can't come up with a reason.

And they just locked the door, will you? Then we don't have to worry about reasons. There won't be one. Oh, goody. My day begins. All right, that.

Was it, Bob Thornton? It sure is. Either that or the other guy. Who's the other guy? Trouble that or out or whatever. I don't know. I don't know who that is. Big trouble.

What was it? What did you say? The man of constant sorrow. No, Clooney. Oh, my brother were out there. Oh, but the other guy. Oh, you're thinking of Timbigh Nelson.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely not him. This is, uh, this is, uh, this is a, this is a Billy Bob Thornton in the latest Tyler, or Taylor, I see, keeps saying Tyler, Taylor Sheridan, uh, effort called Landman. And, uh, this is your dude what did, uh, you know, your Yellowstone and your Lioness, which is another current one. They just finished their season two. fantastic show. It turns out that anything... Whoa, I hear myself on Nicole's thing. I heard

an echo. Oh, sorry. Sorry. I was looking up the guy's name because it was driving me nuts. No worries. It was, where was I? Oh, it turns out I'm kind of down for anything Taylor shared and makes. I've just come to this conclusion finally that even though I think it's all a lot of dude soap opera in a lot of ways, with some exceptions, I think that his script for the Sicario movies are top-notch amazing doesn't matter who you are those are crazy good i think that helped him sort of establish things and i think his script and work on um uh hell or high water is still one of my favorite movies of all time he knows how to make these kind of western set in modern times but also old times 1883 is incredible um we didn't even mention harrison ford and your your last

recommendal randy but he's shrinking yeah yeah he's in that other one the 19 23, whatever it's called, another year. Veteen-06. Whatever they are, but they're all basically prequels and sequels of each other for the family that's in Yellowstone. But Landman is a completely separate thing. And it is set in modern time. We got brand new cell phones and fancy trucks and whatnot. But it's all about the Texas oil fields and about the billionaires all the way down to the common workers who work that land.

the dangers involved. And Billy Bob Thornton is what you call a landman. He's somebody you hire in your big fancy oil company to just be the dude that goes and negotiates, who argues with cartels, gets in scruffs and fights with various parts of the organization. And he is... Like practical fights or just like word fights? Oh, lots of physical fights too.

It's not the kind of... This is probably not a show I would recommend to you right now given... what you talked about earlier. I think it's maybe a little... I'm not saying it's too intense. It just might be a little intense. I can actually handle intense again. Then this might be a good show for you then.

If you're feeling... If you got the appetite for it, I say go for it. But Billy Bob Thornton's incredible in it. I'll watch him do anything. I'd love him. I'd love his whole thing. Everything he does is my jam. So no complaints there.

The big surprise for me is how good Allie Larder is as his ex-wife. She's fantastic in this, but also one of the things I hate about the show. I'll get to that in a minute. Jacob Loughlin's this kid who is a much younger picture on IMDB of this kid. But he was in mud. For anyone who saw and enjoyed mud, which I loved the movie Mud, he was one of the young kids in that. He's now 24 or something like that and looks more like this.

He is the son of Billy Bob Thornton's character. And I want to protect this kid at all costs. his character needs to never be hurt again. I won't even explain why, but when you see Landman, you'll understand why I feel so strong about this kid. He's just this moral backbone and otherwise kind of amoral business.

And he's just wild to watch. I really like him a lot. It's a bunch of other folks in here that you would recognize from various things. For example, John Hamm, yep, he plays Monty Miller. He's the head or the founder of the oil company. He's a billionaire in this.

Demi Moore plays his wife. Very different role. I told him what Ryan just saw her in, saw her in the other night. Very, everything, everything is very different from that role. My, one of my favorite roles is this calm fury guy. He plays this Nathan. He was in the clip. He is a lawyer that lives in the same house.

It's basically a rental, Billy Bob Thornton, this Nathan guy and, uh, James Jordan's character, Dale Brady or Bradley, rather, they all live in this house together and they're all very different. And he's this aging lawyer guy. You know him from a million. things you see this face and you're just like oh yeah one of the um let's see chicago face off the chronicles of riddick thor he's king lolly and thor loffley loffley however he said lafay lafay yeah um look he's dad i think correct character actor has been around forever

and he's so good in this uh but it's small it's understated this role he's barely barely in most episodes but when he is it's amazing and there's some real funny stuff going on unlike Most Taylor shared in movies and shows, it's not all grit. There's some real comedy to be had, but it also has plenty of grit, and it's got plenty of heart, and it's got a lot of really morally questionable things going down. Here's my only complaint, because I think this show is rad, and I'm loving it. There's one episode left. It doesn't come out until Monday or Sunday or something.

Or no, maybe it came out two days ago, and I'm late. Anyway, I still got to see the finale. like the alley larder and the daughter played by michelle randolph ainsley they are infuriating they're very good at what they're doing but what they're portraying is really infuriating it's this southern bell tons of money wave it in everybody's face nothing about it matters but us and our and our nail appointment like there's just a thing going on there it's intentional okay They're trying to portray what they're doing. They're giving main character vibe.

Yeah. And it is freaking, it just pisses me off. But it's supposed to. So they're doing their job. Brian, this James Jordan guy, this Dale Bradley character, he's the one that plays two cups in Lioness. He's one of the. Oh, yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, he's a Taylor Sheridan.

He's in everything. Yellowstone, Landman, Wind River, that Sheridan directed. Great movie, by the way, if you've ever seen Moon River. lioness all these things he must be just he just takes him around with him 1883 mayor of kingstown these are all shared and deals and he's he's there for all of them um he's so good in this and so funny but then occasionally i don't know it's the smaller characters that they just absolutely nail and it's they've created so much like interest in me as to where they're all headed and what they're going to do i'm surprised how much it sucked me in so i'm going to give a big fat thumbs up

the fattest thumb I can muster for landman land man land man yeah why I thought it was Tulsa king well that's another one of his movies or shows somebody said it in the chat I was like oh that must be the what we're talking about no that's just another Taylor sheridan thing that guy makes nothing he's just he's having a moment that dude and he's I didn't realize this but in the first two episodes of lioness season two Brian he's the he's the older agent um who comes and does the whole extraction of the congresswoman you know the part i'm talking about beginning of season two but it's been a long time since i saw season one no season two just the beginning of season two yeah really yeah so he's the one driving the driving the um suburban yeah yeah okay yes that's taylor

sheridan people forget the guy used to be an actor not realize it wow yeah he's he's awesome i i've decided i'm i'm kind of there for whatever he wants to do and here's the other thing if you worry that landman's going to be like pro oil and anti green energy it isn't what it is as pro it's complicated because it is and they really get into these issues i don't do oil television shows scott i'm well luke i don't know what to tell you um anyway i love it i highly recommend it and uh i cannot wait for a new season they've already announced they're going to do it so very stoked about it uh all right those are our recommendals they're all going up on quicktms dot l i and uh you guys can find them anytime and look at them at your leisure

Nicole, I'm glad you're doing well. We'll see you next week. Sorry, I took up so much time. Not at all. You can take as much time as you need. All good. Important stuff you're sharing. Yep, all good. It helps other people too.

So zero issues. Have a good one. And tell Mateo, good luck. Hey, Randy, what's film sack this weekend? What are we doing? We're watching Saturn 3. Oh, shit. Saturn 3.

I didn't see the first two. Am I going to be lost? Yeah, probably. Yeah. Okay. That joke keeps on giving. I love it. We're just going to keep using it forever.

It's great. We'll just do nothing but tell that joke over and over. This is an oldy bit of goody, you guys. 1980 R-rated sci-fi movie with freaking Stant, or Kirk Douglas. Jim Dimbo. That's right. Farrah Fawcett of all people. Oh, man.

Yeah. It's going to be good. It's on freebie and pacock. Pac-Coc. So watch for that this weekend, FilmSack.com, for details. It's the only movie to actually have its, uh, it's, it's a rating it's the rotten tomatoes score in the title there you go there you go uh it's fantastic uh randy have a fake fake don't have a fake week have a great week i will continue to dodge fire see

it well bye you know the oc the oc got lucky i guess they uh yeah so far yeah i was talking to chris the other night he said we got spared on inland uh all right well on that note let us let us make our leave take our leave the third hour of TMS. He has a long one today. It might be our longest. I haven't checked. Certainly the longest and long time.

Yeah. But that's okay. We're happy to do that once in a while. Anyway, that's going to do it for us. Nothing really to say at the end of this, except go to frogpants. com slash TMS for all your TMS needs. And don't forget to submit your video submission for the 32nd TMS Film Festival. You just spoke to two of our judges.

I forgot to mention that while you were here. They're going to be judging as well. Also, Matteo might submit one because he likes to make little movies for YouTube. I think that's fine. I think that's great. I think his mother would be biased, but I don't care. We're doing it anyway.

He needs to come up with an intro movie for the phrase cooch whistle. Yeah, cooch whistle. I love that, dude. That made me laugh. That gave me the best laugh at the day. Anyway, that's it. We're done.

Yeah. Oh, frogpans.com slash film fest. Film fest. Okay. All right, Brian, let's get out of here. You got a song? I do. This one's going out to Mike Andrews, a.k.a. Geek Dadio says, hey guys, 11 years ago, my wife and I left Michigan on a whim and moved our family to New Jersey. We've spent many great years here and have made so many memories, but we've decided to make the move back home. Every time we go on a trip as a family, the song, The Song, by Walk the Moon, randomly comes on the radio, and everyone in our car would always sing along. Can you please play any cover of the song to celebrate this big event in our lives? Thank you guys. Signed, Mike.

Awesome. Gratz, I guess, on two adventurous moves. That's crazy. Gosh. Yeah, no kidding. This is currently my favorite cover of the song. It's by ska band The Hall of Phonics. They always churn out great ska covers. From their masquerades, Volume 9, now that's what I call ska from 2016. Here is Shut Up and Dance. Oh, don't you tell a bad. Your eyes on me, I said you're holding back.

She said, shut up and dance with me. This woman is my destiny. She said, Woo, whoo! Shut up and dance with me. We were victims of the night, the chemical, physical, kryptonite outless to the bakes and the fading light.

Oh, we were victims of the night. Bound to get together, bound to get together She took my love I don't know how it happened We took the floor and she said Don't you dare look back Just keep your eyes on me I said you're holding back

She said shut up and dance with me This woman is my destiny She said Ooh-hoo Shut up and dance with me A back this dress Since we beat up snakes My discotheque Juliet teenage dream

I felt it in my chest as she looked at me Yeah we were bound to be together Bound to be together She took my arm I don't know how it happened We took the floor and she said Don't you dare look back Just keep your eyes on me

I said you're holding back She said shut up and dance with me This woman is my death She said, Ooh, woo, Shut up and dance with me Come, girl I think

I think you see the future I realize took my up I don't know how it happened we took the floor and she said oh don't you dare look back just keep your eyes on me I said you're holding back she said shut up and dance with me this woman is my destiny she said Oh, who, shut up and dance Oh, don't you dare look back Just keep your eyes on me I said you're holding back She said shut up and dance with me

This woman is my destiny She said Oh, oh, shut up and dance with me Oh, oh, shut up and dance with me Shut up and dance with me Those pants are made for frogging If you know what I mean I actually don't

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