The Morning Stream - TMS 2775: Tankless Job

Episode Date: February 5, 2025

Brian's deep pockets. Jam Cake into Your Scraped Roots. Bellagio fountain cough. Dorkus Malorkus on the Drums. Six finger evidence. Measure your head before you make it. And LuckyPhil was never seen again. What kind of a Sonic Deal. Girl Milk Cake. Poor Use of Harrison. FF4: Fantastic Fantasy 4. Old Man Malkovich. She got me in the right place. Teasing the Spoilers with Tom. Just the Recommentals Tips with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Measure your head before you make it. And Lucky Phil was never seen again. What kind of a sonic deal? Girl milk cake. Poor use of Harrison. FF4. Fantastic Fantasy 4. Old Man Malkovich.

She got me in the right place. Teasing the spoilers with Tom. Just the recommendal tips with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Computer shopping has never been better at Radio Shack. Here's proof. Our new ultra-high-performance-386 SX 20 megahertz computer with 85 megabyte hard drive, only 1299. Who cares about New York City? I care about New York City.

The morning stream. Maybe I can help you. I am Boba Fett. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Wednesday, Feb 5th, 2025. I'm Scott. That's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hello. Hello. Hey, man. Hey, man. Hey. Hey. You know, I know you were at the dentist yesterday. And I know. that that's never a fun experience. But you have a, I want to bump this up and talk about it first. Yeah, I want to do it first. Yeah. So let's get, let's get this, the full story.

You went in for what was called, what, a root shaving or what the hell was it? Root planing. Yeah, root planing, where basically they kind of help prevent periodontis disease or periodontitis by doing a little bit of scraping below the gum line on each root of your tooth. And you'll know when they, when they go to the, when you go to the, when you go to the, uh, when you to the dentist office and they do a they do a pocket check they'll you know occasionally take

a little their little pokey device and they'll poke all along your gum line to each route and sometimes they'll do it in tandem so they'll be your hygienist and then another hygienist who's writing down the numbers they'll say two three one

one one two oh yeah yeah I've heard him do this chant before I didn't know what it was for but it sounded like them Or sounded just like that. So when they're doing that, what is that? That's some just... They're seeing how deep the pockets are around each of your roots.

And that's where plaque and stuff can collect bacteria, things like that. And if you brush, if you floss, you can mitigate that. You can entirely prevent it, but you can definitely keep it from happening for a long, long, long, long time. I kept it from happening for 56 years, 55 years. Well done. Well done indeed. Yeah, but that's, you know, it's time for some no fun with that whole thing. So what they have to do, sorry, what they have to do is numb your mouth.

And they do this one half at a time. So she had to numb one half of my mouth, which means the needle with the novocaine in it or the local anesthetic. I assume they still use novocaine. I probably use something else. I think it's still novocaine, but it's probably, I'm sure that formulation's changed, right? Over the ears. Probably. Yeah, exactly. And there's that, you know, that initial jab of the needle that's like pain. And then it's like, okay, now I'm feeling good. And, oh, now things are going real well. So she did a great job. My hygienist, Kim, totally, totally pro. She's friendly. She lets me keep my AirPods in. I listen to Dana Carvey and David Spate interview Bobby Moynihan. Um, for an hour. Uh, by the way, the whole procedure, she, she booked two hours, but it really took about an hour.

It was, it was actually, like about an hour and nine minutes. I got out of there at, uh, 209. Do you, do you numb quickly or do you take a while? How does that work for you? Uh, I numb. I guess this, she got me in the right place because I numbed really quickly. So in the past, there have been times, like I had a root canal, um, because I have a porous tooth or had a porous tooth. Yeah.

Porous tooth. Um, and. And so I had to have a root canal, and for whatever reason, that one took a long time to numb. They just didn't get the right spot for the Novi cane to go in and start killing nerves. But Kim got it right. She got it right on the thing. So she reclines the chair back, and she starts working on me. She's using the sonic deal.

And even with the congestion I had last week with the flu and everything I did, some afrin so I was able to breathe and oh good I was worried about that I'm glad that went okay that's the worst part goodness yeah and she knew about that she's like so you had to cancel your appointment I'm like yeah I had the flu last week I was you know she's like oh well yeah you still sound a little bit congested but I think you're going to be fine but if there's any problem and she's talking to me while she's spraying water she has the water and the suction going in my mouth at the same time um irrigating whatever and uh and she's like well if you have any problems you know just raise your hand and i can stop i can do the suction get any water at your mouth if you have any

problems breathing and i start to reply no problem of course it comes out but but with the water in the back of my throat oh shit the slight intake of air that i made before i said no problem, uh, resulted in, in water going down the rung pipe. And before I could even get a hand up to my mouth, it was that quick, a reflex action. I coughed and I looked like the freaking Bellagio fountains. Fortunately, I missed. But it was like a, you know, you know they see that stuff all the time, but it's so embarrassing. It's so embarrassing.

And I'm like, oh, my God. I'm so sorry. She's like, no, actually you, you got that under. control pretty quickly, but sorry about that. She says, I really, I'm sorry, I really shouldn't talk to you while I'm spring water in your mouth and doing that. And I said, oh, no, you're not the problem. I shouldn't reply while you're spring water in my mouth. Yeah, that's great. Well, at least she, you know, she's, how do you put this? She's the one you always like, right? You're always talking about how she does a good job. She's one of two that I get there on the regular and either, both of them are

pros. Both of them are excellent. So, yeah. That's good. You had to get this shit. done you may as well have somebody really knows what they're doing you know damn right yeah exactly and yeah thumbs up is what i usually do fastidious i usually i usually just give the thumbs up but i was holding my phone in my hands uh so that i could remember like because basically i have to do it somewhat blind i could either reach up to my ear and and tap my AirPods to pause if i need to pause because she's talking or i can remember about where the pause button is on my phone and just remember that I just need to tap it right there. And if I move my hands, I'm going to lose that spot.

Oh, future good idea. This little, whatever they call it, the little smart button, you can assign that to be a pause on there. No, it's true. I could. Why don't I do that? What do I have it even doing? Right now I have it silencing and unsilencing, but you can assign it to be anything. I programmed it for multi-button.

There was like a shortcut multi-button thing that Barry sent to me, said, yeah, if you, you can add software to it so that you, You can actually have it come up with a menu of things when you press and hold it. And I use that and I forgot to, I need to just set it to be a pause button. I don't know why I don't. Yeah, I switch mine around depending on what's going on. But that would be, I think I'll, you know, I'm going to remember this now. Because I got to go in there next week for, just a checkup. But I'm going to make, I'm making it pause.

That's what I'm doing. There you go. Smart man. Yeah. Smart man. Probably won't be Moinehan's interview. Was that any good? Did they let him talk or did they?

They totally did. They're getting so much better at their interviews. They're like way better at letting the guest actually talk. They still make sure backhandedly that every single person that comes to their interview thing ends up doing a Lauren Michael's impersonation. And Bobby Moynihans was one of the funniest impersonations I'd heard, not because it was dead on, oh, well, you're going to do this, you're going to do this sketch when, you know, but it's more like what he says. Bobby was pitching some idea in the writer's meeting of like, well, I want to do this thing about this guy who is buying a car and the car is filled with mice or something like that. That's not exactly what he said, but it was some other thing. And Lauren pauses for a second and then says, and the Emmy goes to.

That's great. You forget that he's actually funny. Yeah, right. You know what I mean? Like, because he's so dower all the time, and they use him in such a dower way, and everyone's impressions of them are always very, like, meir, and they're not like. Exactly, right. But he's a guy who appreciates comedy and is there for a reason, you know?

He and, uh, he and Ackroyd and Chevy Chase basically founded Saturday Night Live, like got that whole thing going and then pulled in all the other people or some, some story like that, like it was just two or three of them with him as all being really funny people and said, we should do a show and then, you know, pulls in everybody to. sure yeah and you've done whatever Canadian stuff before that it wasn't second city or was it or SETV groundlings in second city yeah yeah yeah the two of them yeah um so uh went through all that it went it went so like it was a breeze like she the the only

pain i felt was the initial little sting of the um uh the the needle going in for the nova cane but the whole rest of the process painless went super quick um i guess i didn't have as many uh pockets to deal with as i thought like it was like three or four but it needed to be done kind of thing so um so that's good and as promised right after the dentist yeah i went to that bakery the one more piece bakery oh yeah and i'm sending you a photo in discord scott of uh the glass case of things that are that that they sell at at said bakery. Oh, let's do some pinchies.

You can do some zoomie fingers on this business. These cakes look good. Everything looks good. Really good cakes and Black Forest cake. Oh, I could eat that. I could eat that right now. Well, you see that the Black Forest cake isn't there.

Yeah, it's actually gone. It's got the sign and they've got the cheesecake next to it. It's gone because she's cutting me a slice. Oh, okay. You got the right thing, then. I love that stuff. Yeah. This is my favorite cake is Black Forest Cake.

And technically she was cutting two slices because, you know, it's Tina's birthday, getting her a slice of, slice of Black Forest cake. Yeah, of course, sure. We actually just split one piece, so we have one more piece to have tonight, but because we don't need, we don't need each, an entire slice of cake. But macarones, something called birdie cake, which looked really, really good. But everything says, you know, made fresh this morning at 8 a.m. So, like, I want to go there at the end of the day and say,

are you just going to throw the rest of this stuff out? because you're making new ones in the morning. They probably have a late day. A lot of those places to do like a little sale at the end of the day. Probably, yeah, like a little, all right, half price for the rest of this cake. Yeah, our fancy grocery store here does that every day. So that's when we go get our bagels because they're so, so much cheaper. But they're also literally, they were made that day.

It's like, why wouldn't we get these? They're fantastic. That's great. Yeah, the one in the top left there looks like the cake from Portal. the white one with the strawberries oh this one here yeah that cake is not a lie but I don't know it's called a milk girl cake I don't know what the hell that means what does that mean milk girl cake check on Janice in the back see if she's still lactating we got to make another

milk girl cake milk girl cake next to it is a chocolate milk girl I don't know if I like that at all that name I don't think I do know sorry that's the type but it should be girl milk. Oh, even better. Hmm. Well, that's great. I'm glad you went immediately and jammed some cake into your freshly scraped roots. That's what you want to do.

Well, I didn't, Scott, because the side of my face was still numb for about three hours afterwards. I almost called and left you a message, but I'm like, you know what? He took that damn photo that I sent him and spread it all over the place. I'm not going to give him an audio file to. Oh, I only used it in our distance. Discord. He's talking about this one. So check this out. Only is in Discord, but here it is. Yeah, here it is. Now it's out for everybody. I thought we, you guys, this is the face of your new host. There's Brian in a full elongated mode. And there's me in a wide load. Giant, giant peen. Yeah, I since got a selfie from the dentist chair with those giant blasts. I can't see anything with the, with the blast shield down.

Did they give you those? That's a from them thing? Yeah, but I don't get to keep them. Well, right, but I just meant you didn't bring them. No, no, I didn't bring them. No, no. Because they use, they use UV light and laser. Oh, nice. You like that? I can't keep up with Brian's sweet moves. Good luck.

Good luck with that. Well, that's cool. I'm glad you had a good experience and teeth are good, you know? Yeah, yeah. You know what? Honestly, for as unpleasant as I was planning it for planning for it to be, it really wasn't that bad. Good. So.

By the way, Domo, tells us that milk girl cake is a very simple cake recipe that consists of thin, sweetened, condensed milk layers with a sour cream frosting. Why is it called girl milk or whatever? Why has it got that name? No girl? I don't know. It's probably some old world thing.

Some Swiss girl goes down the hills of the cow, brings it up. She comes up with two, like in her little St. Polly Girl outfit carrying two wooden buckets of milk. Yeah. She freshly milked the cow. Put in little mini marshmallows and everybody's hot chocolate, all that. stuff all the stereotypes exactly right by the guy with the giant horn that goes recall yeah i assume all those people live in the same village yeah what an amazing place

that must be to live uh well that's great uh i'll be going next week for a checkup everyone uh cross your fingers that it's just normal and i walk out of their unscathed uh all right we did uh somebody this through me um i didn't know this because they didn't watch the grammies and they really pay attention to any of it but I guess a Beatles song won and they said it was an AI assisted Beatles song won a Grammy of course most people freaked out

I did a little more digging turns out it's a little more complicated it's not like it was just made out of thin air no no in fact not even close this is like this is something they've been working on for a while and when they did when they did real love

and free as a bird back in the 90s for that um Beatles anthology um documentary which was excellent I watched that with my buddy Cliff.

We were traveling through the southeast at the time, visiting. We visited about 12 different newspapers on that trip. And whatever hotel we stayed in, one of us would come to the other's room and we'd watch the next part of that documentary. But they also had this other song now and then that John had recorded and written. But the piano was really overpowering the vocals. and there was no way for Jeff Lin electric light orchestras, Jeff Lynn, to separate the audio.

So they even record a little bit of music. George and Paul and Ringo recorded some music along with it, but decided ultimately to kind of scrap it and say, yeah, we just can't separate enough of John's vocals from the piano to make it work. So along comes Peter Jackson and that Get Back documentary, where they use AI to kind of clean up the audio, and they said, oh, well, maybe we can use that to clean up the vocals from John. And by that point, of course, George Harrison had passed away.

And so they, you know, couldn't have him to kind of join him for a new recording. But they used AI basically to separate the piano and isolate John's vocals so that they could actually come up with a clean Lennon vocal for the song. my problem I have no problem with any of that I think it's brilliant I think it's great I really love the song itself

I think it's a beautiful you know the lyrics are so Lenin it hurts it's beautiful stuff and the arrangement that they do with it is really really good here's where I have the issue

if you watch the documentary that goes along with it and it's on YouTube Paul explains that well I wanted to use a slide guitar to kind of emulate the sound that George Harrison did with his guitar. So I did that. And I'm like, wait a minute.

Wait, wait, wait. So you didn't use any of George Harrison's recorded guitar from the 90s that he actually recorded for this song. You did your own, you did an impression of George Harrison's guitar for the song. Yeah. I don't like that either. No, that's the issue. That's the big issue I have with it.

It's not, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a bummer Beatles song because it doesn't really feature George Harrison's guitar. Features them on vocals. They use, use his, uh, the vocals that he recorded. But, um, it's like they do all this work to make sure John Lennon gets represented in there. And then Paul just does an impression of, of George for the guitar. And, and that, that feels like the, the shortest shrift you could possibly give the, the best beetle. Yeah, I don't love that either. Like the AI use and this is actually very practical. It's the kind of AI stuff I'm in support of. It's kind of great to be able to restore

stuff and, you know, they're not making the crap out of thin air. Everybody's first impression was that. They heard this and went, oh shit, AI out of the game making Beatles songs. It's like doesn't work that way, you guys. You've got to dig a little deeper. But yeah, that guitar thing's kind of a bummer. I don't like that. That's lame. Yeah, and the video is early AI, kind of rough business where they show the younger Beatles that they pulled from footage intermingling with

the Beatles as they are now or as they were in the 90s when George recorded his vocals and other parts it's like okay it's a little it looks a little six fingery at points like it's like that first poster for

Fantastic Four it's got everybody all pissed off because they found a bunch of AI shit in it um not the not the trailer but the poster yeah the poster yeah so there's the shot there's somebody holding there's a bunch of people holding flags and banners and stuff and it all looks like the 50s there's like three or four duplicated faces or maybe it's just two i can't remember but then there's a flag holders only got three fingers uh stuff like that and it's all pinchy zoomy stuff you'd have to really look for it's like a really well done overall but it's really not hard to just find this stuff

oh that's a bummer yeah some goodwill there with that trailer and i think they They undercut themselves. It's not the same people. And I realize this. I know enough about that industry to know. The trailer, not necessarily the people who do the poster. Yeah, the directors, the actors, these guys don't have anything to do with who made the damn poster. Kevin Feigey didn't make the poster.

They probably subbed it out. And they probably didn't know who they subbed it to used AI to help generate it. Ironic if they used a fiver for the Fantastic Four poster. Oh, man. I like that. I do like that. Anyway, so there's our hot take on the Beatles song. It almost won Song of the Year, but Kendrick Lamar beat it out by like a thing.

It's still won in some other category or something. Some other categories. And, you know, that's great use of AI. It's just bad use of George Harrison, in my opinion. Poor use of Harrison. Yeah, I like it. Poor use of the bad use of Harrison, which I'll say again, my favorite beetle, George Harrison, don't give him the short shrift. I'm just glad that we have a new high mark for poor use of George Harrison,

because previously it was the remake of the song, I've got my mind set on you. That was a poor use of George Harrison. That was George Harrison poorly using himself. I will defend that song to the end because I think when you think of it as like, here's a song that George pulled out of the obscurity because he loved it. He loves that song in the James Ray original. And he said, it's a fun song. I'm going to record my version of it.

And he had fun with it. I can't fault Harrison for doing that. I don't fault Harrison as much as I just fault our inability to hear how repetitive and terrible that's awful song. That's an awful song. I freaking hate it. But I'm with you. He can like what he likes and make what he makes. He was George Harrison after all.

And I think he was my favorite beetle. You know why? Because that guy was like, he wasn't the flashy frontman like Lennon and McCartney. Yeah. Something. But while my guitar gentleman. Lee Weeps is one of my favorite songs ever made. He's just an incredible artist, but also quiet.

He's just back there getting the shit done. These other two getting all the limelight, dorkas, malorgas over on the drums, who gives a shit, he's just like, you know what I mean? The guy that they have to basically give a song every album, all right, well, which song are we going to give to Ringo? Let's give him the octopus one. Yeah. Give him that.

Wait, who did Yellow Submarine? They all did, but that was also Ringo. Is that Ringo? Okay. Yeah. Give him all that dumb psycho shit and everybody else. Exactly. And meanwhile, you know, Paul's like, how can I write a hook?

You know, I need some rhyming stuff. Give me a little obla dee, obla, duh. And then George is over here, whatever, you guys. I'm just going to play my guitar and figure out some really cool songs. That's right. And come up with the best, the best Beatles solo album ever released. I agree. I agree.

Everything but that one. I mean, you can have the perfect body with one mold. You know what I mean? Right. Well, the doubt my mindset on you was not on all things must pass. No, no, no. That was a different album. But I mean, the body of work is what I'm saying.

The entirety of his career, a beautiful body with one nasty mole. With one little mole. It's our molls. It's our imperfections that make us perfect, Scott. Is that the deal? Well, then I got a lot of great perfections all over me. I am so perfect it hurts. I've never been more perfect.

All right. Well, there's that. Hey, quick, speaking of that final, Final Fantasy 4, what am I saying? I put FF4. That's why you keep doing FF4. It's why I'm doing that. You know the F, the second F stands for four. It honestly is, it's a Final Fantasy habit.

I type FF and there's a number and I think Final Fantasy. It's just fantastic for. The abbreviation for Final Fantasy 4 is FFIV, by the way. That's true, but I usually don't type it that way. I'll put in like, you'll see, when people talk about 14, they'll do, they'll, they'll go back and forth. You see a lot of 14. Yeah, I see the FFXIV. XIV. Yeah, you see it different ways. But anyway, it's cool. It's great. I can't wait to see it. That movie looks great.

I feel like they got the heart of it right. They got the look of it right. I still say Brian deserves credit some years ago for saying on the show they should dig deep into that whole 60s Art Nouveau thing and they did. Yeah, make it a deal where they are literally the first superhero family. So that's so that's my guess. Basically what we're seeing in the trailer. And this is pure speculation. There's no spoilers. Everything that I'm going to say is either speculation or stuff in the trailer. So if you have not seen the trailer and you're avoiding it, I don't know if your wife is going to shut her eyes when you go see Captain America and she, you know, and they show this trailer.

She will probably. I'm going to, you know what I told her this is just a teaser because it is. It's really short. It's a minute long, yeah, or whatever it is. So I think I'm going to get her to watch it prior. I'm going to try anyway. She'll get mad if there's something in, like where she gets mad is if there's some big story. story point. But my take is there really isn't one. She's not going to recognize the shadow.

You know what I'm talking about. She's not going to recognize Malcovich. Back in the head. Yeah, whoever Malcovic is playing. We don't know yet. I don't even know. I'm not even sure I know who Malcovic is. Is it Nathan? Is it? No idea. Red Ghost. Is it old Reed Richards? I mean, who knows? Maybe he's just being John Malcovich in this. I don't know what he's doing. Maybe. Maybe he's just old Malcovic. But my speculation is that, because they talk about, remember the last time we went into space and we got these powers and they're about to go into space again, my guess is that the second journey into space is what's going to take them into the multiverse and into Earth 616 so that they can be there for Avengers, Secret Wars, and Doomsday and all that.

Probably late film, late in the movie, do you think? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A little bit like Captain America. Even the ending or something, yeah. Like Captain America did for, what was at the end of the First Avenger, I guess? First Avenger, yep. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I could see that.

I think that's reasonable. Also, they got, so thing is hard for movies to get right because movies go, oh, what do audiences want? They want an orange-talking Hulk who looks like a poo. They want something that looks as much like Michael Chickless as possible. Exactly. And all iterations of that thing have been wrong. Oh, horrendous. And it's funny that Corman was the one who got it the closest with the, um, uh, with the, the, the, the brow, right?

Yeah. And he had very little to work with. It was very slea-stacky and stuff, but. It really was rubber suit. Yeah. But those, these moments, these really interesting sort of, I would call them intimate moments with, with Henry, work, doing the cooking stuff with the robot. Yeah.

That to me is already more true to who that character is. Grimm, but I know. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say Henry? Why did I say Henry? I don't know. Who am I thinking of? Oh, I'm thinking of. Henry McCoy.

I'm thinking of Hank. McCoy. Yeah, that's what I'm doing, Beast. That's what I'm thinking of. Sorry. Well, when he's there talking to the robot, Herbie, like, making a, like, Herbie, the robot that they had to have in the cartoon because they were

afraid that kids were going to set themselves on fire if they had the human torch. That's right. I can't believe they did that. Also, but that moment, though, these times, this little moment. moment, this discussion they had. Cooking discussion, yeah. They get that character more correct than any of those others did combined. Yeah.

In that short little chunk of thing, and he's got the brows right, he looks like a character that freaking, you know, popped right out of the 1960s. It looks great. I'm so excited. And the fact that it's Eben Moss, whatever the guy's name, full name is, but doing the voice and being Ben Grim before the cosmic rays, and he's cooking, you know, just like he would on the bear. Yeah, it's perfect.

It's like such a great little, like, not even the subtle nod of like, all right, they're going to make an Italian sub next, just stick around. What's crazy, though, is they showcase everyone's power except for Mr. Fantastic. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Nothing. Yeah. No stretchy.

And we get, you know, little peaks at all the characters except nothing with Silver Surfer, Nothing with Ruth from Ozark, whatever her name is, yeah. I'm excited about that. I am too. I can't wait to see how they do that. I love her. She's awesome. It's like, all right, they're doing, they did well with Galactus.

They do well with the thing, the things look, doesn't look, CGI. It looks like he's right there in the room. So this could be our good Silver Surfer, too. We'll see. Well, we'll see. We got till July, is it? Yeah, yeah, July. Big year for MC Youth stuff.

It is. It's great to have a year now where we're going to get, we're back to getting three MCU movies after they, after they literally said, Disney said, we're going to scale back and not have as many Marvel movies in a year. And then they had last year like, we're low on money.

We need more Marvel movies. But also it does feel like it's not a rebuilding year, but this is the year where we get a lot of resolution and things get set for the next, whatever's going to happen, you know? So it's exciting. It's exciting in that way. Actually, I'm more stoked about superhero movies this year, and I have been a long time.

That Superman looks awesome. This looks great. Freaking, you know, New World, New World, World, Order looks great. Thunderbolts, asterisk, which is going to be called, renamed Dark Avengers after the events of New World Order. That's my prediction. Makes me excited for Thunderbolts. I got so much, I got so much love for it at the moment in my head, and I didn't have that for the last couple of years. So whatever is going on here, it's good.

It feels good. Yeah, yeah. I got a quick note from somebody named Zimpoot. Zimput. I love this name from Lexington, Kentucky, home of Raylan Givens in the fight against meth or whatever he was doing there. Perfect. Yeah.

He sent this little FYI, it looks like something he captured from a search result, but basically it was about us talking about being drunk versus being on weed while driving. You were talking about yesterday in relation to the dentist and all that. And in my head, I was like, well, obviously they're both probably impairing, but which one's worse and people in the chat were like, studies say, bye, blah, bah. So anyway, it's nice to get something kind of definitive. The University of Iowa, among other organizations, have done studies on this. And here's the summary of it. Studies indicate that while both drunk and weed impaired drivers are dangerous, the effects of marijuana on driving are generally

considered less severe than those on alcohol. However, marijuana can still impair cognitive function and reaction times, making it unsafe to drive under its influence. So it makes sense. Don't do either one of them while you're driving. But if you are going to, if you're in a situation you have to gun to your head that you have to do one and drive right you're out with your friends your friends are drunk you're on the weed you get to drive in that scenario because there's no other options or whatever but yeah it's uh it is interesting i did a little deeper dive on the actual study and it is it is interesting it's you have just a greater or they uh weed drivers drives slower than drunk drivers drunk drivers is just like pedal to the freaking metal in this

study. Yeah. Oh, really? Really? Interesting. They just go for it. They just hammer it and hit the gas. Anyway, don't do either one is what we're saying. All right? Be careful out there. Thank you, Zim Poot from Lexington, Kentucky. Why is Lexington, Kentucky pretending like it's a tongue twister in my mouth? Lexington, Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky. My dad used to live for a little while. Oh, yeah? Did he, what was the deal there? Just at the hospital stuff? He worked at a University of Kentucky, go Wildcats. Was it the Wildcats? UK Wildcats, right?

Am I, I'm not misremembering that. Anyway, he worked at University of Kentucky in their science's dissimetry and cancer research stuff. Nice. Solved all the cancers there, then moved on to Houston, or then moved on, let's see, it was Connecticut, then Kentucky, then Houston, and now Vermont. Yep, one state at a time. Take them all, taking it all down. Eradicating cancer, one state at a time.

Need to get out here soon. All right, got a quick question for Brian from a listener. This is Ken from Florida. He says, hey, guys, quick question. You probably already answered a load of times already. But can you tell me the brands of 3D printers Brian uses thinking about hopping into that world, says Ken? So, Brian, let's talk about your filament and then your resin. What do you got here?

For sure. I am an any cubic fan. Their customer support has been stellar. If anything goes wrong with my printers, then I just go right to their website, reach out to them and say, hey, get this issue. And if it requires a replacement, even though they're based in China, I get a replacement immediately. It's super, super fast within a few days.

So my filament printer is a Cobra 2 Max because it's huge. It's got a huge build plate. And it's accurate. and it's how I did this Spider-Man 299 element in one print

See this is the kind of thing they should show but Brian was pointing out this morning that instead they showed a tire first or sorry a rim which is just so nonsensical It's like no one's putting a rim in there because you can't drive on that I dropped one of his eyes on the way over here

but uh but a helmet hell yeah look at that thing helmet and this is like actually i guess it's two pieces because the back comes apart so i can put it on my head and then put the back on and i put magnets in there so i can just go like that and it closes uh did you have to measure your head before you made that or no totally totally did and there's like a a real easy set of 3d printed calipers that you can use so that basically what you do is you you print these calipers you get your head measurement and then you you download a quote unquote model head and then you import it into your slicer software where your helmet is and then you increase the size of the helmet until until it's not overlapping with your head basically uh gotcha okay and then then you know the

size of the helmet you need to print out and that way that it makes it so much easier than uh print it out it's too small let me do a bigger one oh too big now let me do a another one, et cetera, et cetera. Is there any kind of rules on what filament you use or what brand do you have to use for filament? Is it all the same? No, no. Go with, you know, Hatchbox, Sunlu, Elugu makes really good printer filament.

There's a lot of, the brands of printer filament are changing so much day to day that you're best off just seeing what is, yeah, there you go, eleguer right there. you're best off just seeing what what work like get some cheaper filament try it out if it doesn't work for you get a get another model but or get a little bit more expensive

but hatchbox elego all make really really good filament oh anacubic has their own brand as well it looks like is it good it's okay or it's okay well that looks cheap 14 bucks I don't know if this is very long though let's see this is only

it's a that's a 1K is that normal 1K spools like the normal thing? That's the typical, yeah. I've got some other ones that are like the little tiny spools for like metallics and blends and things like that. There's some metallic silver it looks like. Oh, this is how they do the iridescent looking dragon things. It's actually filament so you don't paint it. The filament actually changes color. And with some filaments, there's actually a red side and a blue side to it

so that when you print it and look at it from one direction, it's blue and you flip it around, look at it from the other direction, it's red. Or there are filaments where, as it goes down the line, it goes from red to orange, to yellow, to green, to blue, to purple, to red, blah, blah, to violet, to red. Anyway, so there's the filament recommendation. And I'll put these links. Actually, I'll put this one in chat right now. So that's the filament printer. And the price on that, I mean, it's a great price right now.

It's like $250, I think, if I remember correctly. No, $350. But it's down $200. okay uh from 550 so good price right now on the any cubic cobra two max printer nice well it doesn't do the multicolour stuff and i've and i've said that my next printer will absolutely have a an a ms system on there oh that's where you put what like five reels of different colors and it exactly yeah and then you yeah and then you just print from that um the second uh resin the resin printer that I use is

the is also any cubic. It is the photon 6KS. Let me pull it up here. Mono X? Mono X. There you go.

Mono X6K. There's so much 6K mono. No, the any cubic photon mono X 6KS is the actual model number. This is the one that's 250 right now.

This is another big size printer, but it's resin and seeing if I have an example of anything that I've 3D printed in one go that is the full size. No, nothing, nothing immediately grabable, but I mean, it's got a really big print base as well so you can print really large resin stuff with it. So price is good. 269? It's cheap. It's great. Yeah. It's funny. It's saying 269 for you. It's 259 for me, but I'm logged into my Amazon business account, so that's probably Oh, that's probably it. Yeah, yeah.

But, yeah, no, that's still a really. 269 is a great price, and that's a really, really good printer. Prints fast, prints, great detail, and and I think I've got mine dialed back in. I just adjusted the exposure.

Something might have changed with the lights or maybe even the filament that I was getting, but I adjusted the exposure and things are really good. Check this out. Sorry, I had to go grab it but uh here's an example of it oh yeah yeah i think you did her on there didn't you wasn't absolutely yep she's done uh furious had done with the resin printer i love this one so much oh my gosh she's look at her i mean just look at her she's here to come kick your ass she's gonna save she's gonna save all those women and that's right she's gonna tie uh morton jo's face mask to a chain

and have it tear it off from his tire and then gonna go back to the citadel and take over that's what she's going to do. And you can tell just by looking at her. Yep. Love it. Yep. So there's a link for that one. So both of these links I'll put in TMS chatter in the Discord so that people can grab them if they are not listening live. Just go up to

go to the Discord and go to TMS chatter. Go check them out. All right. We're going to play a game. It's going to be a quick one given our time. We only have ten minutes. Oh, we can do it. Yeah, we can figure it out. So here we go. Let's pull in our fourth caller. Let's see who wants to be in on this deal here today. We got some people

piping in. We're looking for number four. Number four. Oh, we have a fourth. All right. I'm adding them to the thing. When I say him, that's because it's a him. Oh, shit. Hold on. There we go. All right. I'm going to hit this. All right. We're going to play a game. It is called the tadpully feud and joining us is a good pal to the show someone who is up way too late watching us right now it is lucky phil from australia hi boy hey man you sound pooped how you doing uh down there you good oh yeah i'm bugger it's it's 10 to 4 oh my gosh dude that's a lot that's very late also when people say down there you know that's just the thing we all made up the way the map works you're not really down there you could be up there if we just did the map

different. You know what I mean? The earth isn't, there's no straight up, there's no straight down. It's just humans decided that you guys are down under and the rest of us are up north. That's just, that's, why not? Because why not indeed? All right, we're going to play a game. This is going to work a little different today because we don't have Brian done away with us.

He's at an appointment and we're going to see how this goes. So Brian, explain the rules and let's see how we do. Yes. All right. So I'm going to be giving blah, blah, blah. Here we go. Time to play the tadpully feud. I've surveyed. I was just Copping those links over to TMS chatter before I forgot.

No worries. Time to play tadpull if you. I've surveyed the tadpole on some nerdy topics in Scott and Lucky Phil. We'll have to predict the answers that they gave us. It is their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Lucky Phil, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be playing against Scott, really. There's no teaming up or anything. And if you win, and we might, you know, even be very generous, even if you don't win, you're going to get a prize package that includes hexarchy 4K deck builder and Karma

Zoo. Both excellent games. I have both these games. They're fantastic. In particular, Hexarchy is real good. I like it a lot. Yeah, if you like strategy games and, you know, taking turns, it's great. It's really good. Exactly. So

there you go. That's what you can win. You'll probably even win, even if you lose. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to play for Lucky Phil via proxy here. I'll just, you know, whatever you choose, I'll click the links for you won't that way because you can't log in and buzz in and stuff like that so we're actually

going to give you the first pick um the first guess is to the answer here uh there's no buzzing in um here's your question we asked 428 tadpoolers what snack food would make a great name for an 80s new wave band lucky phil give me an answer about what snack food would make a great name for an 80s new wave band and probably think of something that is both down under and in America because that's where these answers came from. Good to know. All right.

What about Milky Way? Oh, that's a great one. Show me Milky Way. Oh. I guess I lied when I said it was a great one. It was an out of a good one wall. It was number 31, by the way, in the list. People did say it, but it was low on the list.

Scott, what name a snack food that would make a great name for an 80s new wave band. Oh, my gosh, dude. Can I ask a judge question? Of course. Did people choose actual band names that sound like snack foods? Nope, they chose actual snack foods. All right. Let's make a sure I don't screw up and say, oh, yeah.

In excess, sounds like something I shouldn't eat. Right, right. All right. Let's go with, oh, gosh, what's a snack? I guess candies and things. I'll go with Skittles, Skittles. Scy snacks. Skittles.

Show me Skittles. oh my gosh really uh let's see skittles i don't even think made the list so we're just going to let you yeah the skittles not even on the surprisingly not even on the list was it even in the oh there's one one person said it so it's tied for 61st place jeez so um like you phil you're gonna get you get control of the board you got to figure how to make that happen okay just do that um we'll take control yeah So, knowing those two are off the table. Through the power of the mind or some shit, I don't know. Some shit like that, exactly, yeah.

What, name is snack food, name another snack food that would make a great name for an 80s New Wave band. I'm trying to get some ideas through the distraction that is the chat. Yeah, yeah. That's a good place to go because they, you know, they're the people who also voted in this stupid survey. Yeah, true. I'm seeing a lot of Snickers, although I'm, surprised that the i'm surprised that skittles wasn't on there yeah yeah and i also saw popcorn so i'm tossing up between snickers and popcorn um the hmm a new wave band i think i think

i think popcorn would be a better new wave band name but i'm seeing a lot of people saying snickers okay what do you think so you're going to go with snickers yeah sounds good all right Okay. Show me Snickers. Damn it. Yeah. Surprised. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know what the bloody. I would have thought that would be a good answer to. Snickers, um, uh, number 58 in the list. Wow. They are all, these people are wrong. These are all good answers. Oh, wait until you hear the answers that they came up with.

I actually think they did it. I think they did a really good job, but there just were a lot of, there just were a lot of choices to, to make there. All right. I'm going to go with, uh, I'll see. Let's do, I had a bag of funnions the other day. Let's do funnions. Okay. All right.

Show me funnions. Now you're on the right track. Number one answer. All right. Yes. Okay. So here's the vibe I'm getting, Phil. Go on that vibe.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm getting that this is less candy, more, more, you know, crisps, as you guys would say. Yeah. I will tell you that, um, yes, a majority of the choices in the top 10 are salty snacks versus sweet snacks. All right. but not exclusively.

Then I'm going to go with Pringles is my next choice. Pringles. All right. Show me Pringles. Next on stage, Pringles. That's right. The Pringles and the Funnians

opening up for the Skittles who no one knows about it. So Scott now with seven points. I think I might be hosed. Who knows? Who knows? All right. It's so early in the game.

That's still like eight answers on the board. It's very early. It's only seven points. Plus you're lucky. It's right there. in your name. Yeah. Well, let's, I'm just, I'm going to stay in the chippy area, and I'm going to say, uh,

Fritos. Fritos, all right. Show me Fritos. Uh, Fritos, uh, Fritos, uh, Fritos, uh, number 17 in the list. That's way lower than I would have thought. That's way lower. Uh, back over to you, lucky Phil. I'm not going to submit this, but I just saw Derek and the Domino's pizza.

That's funny. Uh, what, what about Doritos? Oh, yeah. Sure. All right. Dehitros. Sure. Show me Doritos. Number seven answer. Look at that. All of a sudden, it's a tight game. Yeah. Hey. You still got a chance here, man. That's right.

Um, oh. Trying to have a think. Sure. I just thought of a good one. I doubt it's on there, but I want to do it anyway. I'm saying three musketeers, but you were saying not now that it's more in the chip area than the candy area. Yeah, the salty snack area over the sweet. There's, I'll tell you right now, of the 10 answers, even of the 11 answers that make up the top 11, it's eight salty snacks and three sweet snacks. So, and three of the salties are already up there.

so of the of the sweet ones pop tarts would be a decent choice no fun name for a band sure pop tarts is that what you're going with yeah eff it why not all right show me pop tarts it's number 15 it's a good

it's an absolutely good guess it's high on the list but didn't make the top 10 but I feel like it is definitely a good a good choice. I'm going with corn nuts. Corn nuts. You're off-brand. You're off-brand corn nuts. You're far better brand corn nuts. It's very good. Thank you, Mike Picholich, once

again for these. They're very good. Absolutely. Show me, corn nuts. Oh, come on. It should have been, and corn nuts were they were a little further down. Number 40 in the list. I'm actually shocked by that. It's an outrage. It is outrageous. Absolutely outrageous.

All right. Back over you lucky Phil for the third strike. Well, I've heard, I've heard corn nuts. What about the nuts of pee? Peanuts. I don't like peanuts. All right. Show me peanuts. Oh, geez, that's a long time.

There is. I clicked it and there was a long lag. Yeah, no peanuts in the list. We still have a tie game and you're still getting these prizes. But let's see if Scott can. at least eke out a win. Yeah, either way, you win, and we blame it on Dunaway. All right.

It's all Dunaway's felt, yeah, why not? Let's go with a kid's favorite. And also, it's funny because we were talking about Dennis earlier. According to my dentist, the worst thing for kids' teeth is not candy, is not soda. It's cheese it's because the stuff gets all inside the gum stuff you were talking about. Oh, sure, right. And it festeres in there. Yeah.

In the pocket. It's really bad. So let's see if it's on there. Show me. cheese it's number three answer on the board yeah by the way I had to look at the box the box is actually just says cheese it I always thought

this was Mandela effect 100% I thought the name of the product was cheese it's and the and the box just says cheese it until this moment I also thought that they were the same thing yeah and I gave we bought cheese it's for my kids all the time it surprised me

yeah um okay damn it now I feel nervous. No one said Cheetos, right? Let's do Cheetos. Let's get those in there. Sure. All right. Show me Cheetos. Specifically, Flaming and Hot Cheetos. I combined the Cheetos and the Flaming and Hot Cheetos. It was like three Cheetos compared to 15 people saying Flaming and Hot Cheetos, which does make a much better band name. I agree. Ladies and gentlemen, the Flaming Hot Cheetos. How about, um, Foo Fighters.

Foo fight is Fyta's What was I going to say I had one And then I lost it Oh sorry No no it's not your fault Um

Shit Oh I know The sister or brother To cheese it's let's do Goldfish Goldfish Oh yes All right

Show me Goldfish Ah Yeah Goldfish Um Let's see 28 on the list

So they were They were also Not too far down. Yeah. And my dentist says those are just as bad as cheese it. I believe it. Totally believe it. Cheese it. I know. It's so dumb. So you can say, so that's why we've done this because when we say it, we mean multiples of them. We say, oh, do you like cheese it? Yeah. And then we've just assigned that as the title, I think, is all we've done.

But yeah, but like when you buy a bag of Doritos, it doesn't say Dorito. Good point. Good point. It says Doritos. When you buy a bag of Flaming Hot Cheetos does a Flaming Hot Cheetos. So why does cheese it? Why isn't it cheese it? I don't know. They should just change it. We already all think it is. Just sneak it in there. Exactly. We'll never notice. Yeah, the next run of these, when somebody stalks their shelves at a Kroger, they'll be cheez-its now. It's fine. Exactly. Let's look at the rest of these on here. These next two are a salties. Number four, talkies. Oh, I almost said talkies. Such a gen alpha, Gen Z thing, man, those talkies. People are just a jump in. Looking at the chat,

Moon Pie would be an awesome band name. Oh, it's great. I would be. Not in the top 10, but it really definitely would have been. Number five, just one letter off from an existing 80s new wave band name. Bugles. Oh, the bugles. One letter off of the buggles.

Yeah. Also, did anybody do, Eminem's too obvious, but, and they're also, he's not a new wave band, but what's the, there's another one. Oh, shit, there's an actual band. and the name's real close, and I can't think of it. Shit. All right, keep going. Maybe it's in there. Okay.

Maybe it'll come up, yeah. Number eight, Kit Kat. Oh, Lemonheads, I was thinking. Oh, Lemonheads. That's a great one. Yeah. Lemonheads is, uh, nobody said it, lemon heads, surprisingly. Bummer.

Or maybe, maybe it's low on the list and I forgot. Number nine, the Twinkies. Sure. You can just picture what the Twinkies would look like. Nice. Number 10. Twibbler. I almost said Twizzlers.

I got scared of candy at one point. I was like, I can't do any more candy. Number 11 is kind of an odd one. Checks mix. Yeah. I mean, it's a snack, I guess, right? It's just a snack, but I just can't picture a band being called Check Mix. Going down the list, we have ding-dongs, what you might call it, ruffles,

gushers, the Hot Pockets. I really like the band name The Hot Pockets. Pocky, Pop Rock, Swiss Cake Roll, Airheads, Boom Chica, Pop. which is a popcorn brand. Combos, Dunkeros, garettos, ho-hoes, just a band named Little Debbie, which would be fun.

Puppy Chow, Reesies, PCs, sour patch kids, zebra cakes, bits and bites, bunkers, churros, and the list just goes on and on for 200, 202 items in this list.

Did anybody do smarties? No smarties in there? Somebody maybe, no. No smarties, which is, funny because that's that's you know two different like we have our smarties which are the little little sweet tart kind of things here in the u.s but smarties outside the u.s. are similar

to eminem's chocolate candy coated chocolate yeah UK and Canada have a tell me that scoby snacks was somewhere in the results let's see here scoby snacks no scoby snacks wow I'm sorry scoby snacks there it is tied for one person since Scooby Snacks. So tied for 60 first place. Sweet. Someone grew up in the 70s. I like it. All right. Well, there you go. You know what? Either way, the way this ends up is Phil's getting these games. That's how it's working.

Oh, thank you very much. Yeah. And you're really going to like Hexarchy in particular. This is going to help you stay up at 4 a.m. To watch the show, because you'll have this other thing. Well, I've actually looked up both the games. And actually, the reviews for Caramazoo look bloody awesome. Yeah, they're real good, too. Yeah. Both excellent games. I'm a huge fan. So you're going to enjoy them as well.

Thank you. Thank you very much, guys. man are you gonna go now what do you do you go to sleep after all this or what do you do um well i've um yesterday was my mom's birthday so uh so last night uh i sure there's on the on the other side of sydney i just took her to um see cirque de solet who's in which is in town at the moment so um yeah that was a good gig got home just after midnight and i thought eh tms is on again is on again about three hours fahad i'll stay ops yeah why not pardon pardon my french yeah do what you got to do you know i don't ever think of Australians as good French speakers,

but you did a great job there. No, we speak French luck sailors. What do you make? There you go. We'll have a fantastic rest of your life. I mean, we're going to see you again. No, you. It came out wrong.

It came out entirely wrong. Oh, he played the fart sound. That wasn't even me. Oh, really? He did that? Yeah, he played that. That wasn't me. That's crazy.

All right, that was fun. I felt like you feel nice knowing you, man. Yeah, nice knowing you. This is our last moment ever to say goodbye, so see you later. I'm sure we'll see them soon. However, we're going to take a break when we come back. Tom Merritt will be here to talk some tech, some recommendals with Randy after that. Stay tuned. Brian, what do we got here to break things up?

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tom merr welcome back to the program how are you thank you for having me scott and brian oh it's so robotic of us. It is our pleasure. This is our new AI version of the show. We are robots. I have not been determined by a large language model. No, you have not. Beep, bo, beep, beep.

Hey, it's nice to see it. It does feel like, it's funny we bring up AI almost every time because it feels like that's just so damned ubiquitous now. It's all anybody's talking about in tech. And I feel like that's part of the point. Like, everybody needs us to want whatever they're working on. Whatever they've jammed AI into their products, whoever it is, Samsung fridges, your phones, whatever, this can of soda over here, they all want you to know that's AI driven now. And it just feels inescapable.

Do you feel like that some days? Or you're just like, oh, my gosh, look at the news. We've got to do more AI shit today. No? I don't. Okay, good. It's a sickness. Yeah.

First of all, I definitely wall off my news to the things that I think are. good to follow because I'm trying to find good information, right? Right. So I'm not seeing what people in my audience are seeing. This leads to dissonance quite often where people are like, I'm so sick of everyone saying this. And I'm like, I didn't say anybody say that. Because I'm only looking at these 12 sources who are credible and reliable and aren't saying that.

And so, you know, it does cause that kind of, that disconnect sometimes where people, I'm so tired of hearing about X, and I'm like, but we've only covered it once. And they're like, yeah, but I'm hearing it everywhere else, and I'm mad, and you'll listen. So I'm saying it to you, Tom. And so actually, it's helpful when people say that, you know, the nicer and more respectfully, they say it the better, which happens quite often. But it's good because it lets me know, like, oh, there's a lot, there's a lot of stuff raging out there outside of where I'm looking that's good to be aware of, and then I can bring that in. And AI is definitely one of those. There's also the other situation where whatever is popular gets covered a lot

and will cause a section of the audience who doesn't care as much as the people who do care to say, why are you covering that so much? And back in the earliest days of Buzz Out Loud, you might find it hilarious to think that people are like, all you ever talk about is Microsoft. Why don't you ever talk about Apple? which was a legitimate thing we heard constantly and then of course the iPhone came out and it became

all you ever talk about is Apple why don't you talk about this other thing that I care about and AI is just kind of the latest I think in the air to that lineage sure yeah and there's all like you said there's legitimate news in there

there's a legitimate stuff to cover there's just so much noise that people what's the point listen to DTNS get your tech coverage there then you won't get the noise exactly do that You know? In fact, the top story on DTNS briefing this morning is going to be me explaining why a particular bit of noise was not covered by me and what it would take for me to cover it. Because our subreddit has a bunch of people are like, why aren't you covering this?

And not like, you know, not like people with torches, but, you know, people who I respect and love the show and are honestly concerned and asking questions. So I'm going to address it. But that doesn't mean I'm going to change how I approach the news, if that makes it. Well, what is the hot story of the day, in your opinion, and is it AI-related? Actually, what I wanted to talk about today, because there's a lot of stuff that's kind of bubbling up today. But Microsoft announced the build conference coming May 9th to May 22nd, May 19th to May 22nd. And guess what, Scott? They'll probably go to talk about AI.

Oh, man. I would hope so. Yeah. So that's on the books. Because co-pilot's still a thing, right? It's still happening. We've got the co-pilot and the whatnot and the AI. Amazon has scheduled an announcement for February 26th to be led by Panos Panai,

former Microsoft employee Panos Panai. He leads the devices and services team, which runs the Echo devices, which means we're probably going to get that updated voice assistant, which uses AI. Yes, all of it. There's no escaping at Mooha-ha-ha-ha. Okay, I got one for you. Nintendo announced Nintendo Direct. for the Switch 2nd, Wednesday, April 2nd.

Oh, yeah. Details on that. That's right. I don't know that that'll have all that much AI. There will be a little bit because I, there's the one bit, the one part we know about is they're going to be using a scaling technology similar to DLSS that you see. Yeah, you're right. Okay, that's, that's true.

That'll be a minute. So that'll be one thing. But that's the most useful, Scott. I know. That's actually, it's actually very useful because one of the problems of the Switch 1 was was that it didn't scale well on your television. It might look great in 720P in your handheld mode, but you go to the TV and you're like, yeah, it's not, this isn't great.

It would be nice if it was 1080P or higher. This will be that solution. It's also more powerful hardware in general, but things that look great in handheld mode should scale well in television mode in a pretty seamless way to most people using that assistive technology. So I'm actually really excited about how they're going to implement it

because that's good for Nintendo. So yeah, like even that thing, though, we'll have some aspect of it. It's almost as if it's just part of a life now, AI stuff. is just that it's just going to be here. It's what we do. No, it's like the internet.

People were tired of everyone talking about the internet at one point. And then we just internalized it as like, oh, yeah, that's a thing like electricity and water. You don't need to talk about it. It's just, you know, what you're using it for is what we talk about. And I feel like AI will eventually go through that. First of all, AI is a useless term. It means dozens, if not hundreds of different things, depending on what you're talking about. Most of the time these days, we're talking about large language models.

or maybe more recently, agents which use chain of thought models, but we're not always talking about machine learning or deep learning or neural networks or all these other kinds of AI. So it's kind of a generic term, which makes it worse because then you can apply it to all kinds of things. And then people say something's AI when it's really not AI or they're forcing it into something because it's got a tiny bit of AI. Just because you call a cloud service that has a large language model doesn't make your product really an AI. product anymore.

And eventually we'll get to the point where we're just talking about how we use tools. We'll talk about agents or something like that versus talking about AI. Yeah, I think so too. It's a little bit like the old phrase would have been, the year's 1995, and I would say, Tom Merritt, I have sent you via the Information Super Highway a file, a personal or a portable document formatted file attached to an electronic mail. did you receive it through your dial-up networking service? That's the statement.

Today it's, Tom, did you get that file I sent? You see what I mean? Like, we've gotten to that point now where it's just like, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, in 95, I would have had to be like, well, hold on, let me dial into my CCSI account, log in to Pine, and see if I can extract. Ooh, this file's way too big for my hard drive, Scott.

I don't know what to do with that. but yeah now it's just did you get the file I sent and me going yeah it's good it's good to look back sometimes and remind ourselves how things were so that we can maybe be better about how things are now you know well that's great I look forward to talking about all that's on our plate today for daily tech news show live which happens today at 2 p.m. I will be there. It's our it's Wednesdays. One of my favorite days of the week. I get to hang out with you guys and talk tech and all that fun stuff. I'm going to do a little bit of discussion around some cool stuff I was working with Roger on. I'm excited about that. I don't know if we want to spoil it or not, but that's coming up. Yeah, let's tease it a little. Just be like, you're not going to want to miss. Yeah, you're not going to want to miss this. Let's just say it's kind of a follow-on to some topics we've had in the past about game preservation. I'll say that. That's all I'll say. What did we say? We actually teased it at the end of the show yesterday. It was something about video game history. There you go. You're in the video game history. And I really am. And also, this thing that just happened is so cool. I can't wait to talk about it today. So that'll be that plus other stuff, of course. Tom Mayers, there's anything else going on in the world that you would like to mention?

Yeah, if you are not aware, Daily Tech News Show has two editions. There's the live one that Scott just talked about. You can subscribe to that one as well. If you're on the old Daily Tech News Show public feed, you're getting the briefing every day. That's the traditional 30-minute long show, but it's in a different format now. If you want the DTNS Live in your audio podcast or even through video on Spotify, I look up DTNS Live. Go check it out right now.

Nice. Tom Merritt, everybody. Find him has Ace Detect on all the social medias. Good luck. Bye, Tom Merritt. See you next time. All right, Brian, we did that. Very good.

That was great. It does feel that way, though, right now, right? Like, you're just getting showered with it. Everything's AI all the time. Everything. Everything. But, you know, we're at a point. We're starting to get to the point where it's like, all right, the novelty of,

I just create a little picture of a dog chasing a Bible through the forest is passing. And now we've got like, well, I used AI, like Tom was saying, used AI to just make my job of creating this thing easier or eliminate these tedious tasks like separating John Lennon's voice. Exactly. Yeah. They're doing some, we're going to get to a point where it's mostly doing work for us. I'm optimistic about it. But it's going to be a weird transition. It is.

There's going to be a long, you know, there's going to be as many. Over the next several years, we're going to see as many bad uses as we do good uses, or at least the bad uses will probably be more apparent and get more attention than the good uses. My money's on draft porn. Looking forward to that. Oh, sure. Sure. I can't wait.

Yeah, it's going to be amazing. Like porn where they have a window open or something? Yeah, where they just drafts are, you know, they're ready to go. You feel a draft? Yeah, a draft porn. Oh, I don't want that porn. That's too cold. Is it just porn by draft kings?

draft kings draft king porn betting you know that sort of thing uh all right we're going to get randy in here we're going to do some recommendals and uh let's see we're ring he usually answers right away so maybe he's uh on a meeting or something we'll find out shortly if he picks up his phone we've got the rings of ringage just not the rings of speakage and nothing so let's try it again his discord says playing a video game but i don't buy it yeah no i love i do love that it's like just generic playing a video playing a video playing a video game and it's on there all the time and I just can't believe that he's always playing a video game now he may working at blizzard he may have like world warcraft up permanently sure just on but and he's farming herbs herbs he's doing he's getting herbs exactly yeah by the way before he gets here I'd like to say the following about uh Randy do you like your weekly chats with Randy Jordan do you want to know why he moved catwoman do you want to chat with him online call 900 three four just kidding he's on blue sky I find him at Randy Deluxe on Blue Sky today.

That was going to be our news thing today. Uh-huh. You may as well sneak it in while Randy isn't answering this one. Sure, sure. All right, we're going to try them again. Just do my job. Do my intro jobs, Guy. Just taking my jobs.

Well, look, that was... Wait until AI Mario starts doing it for me. And then... That was going to go away tomorrow, or tomorrow anyway, because we're going to be talking about coverville, so I figured we may as well get rid of it. Well, sadly, uh... Oh.

Yeah, no Coverville this week. with the water, with the hot, heated water heating heater. Oh, right. You're going to be ball tied up with that shit. Yeah, that looks like whatever we go with, we're making sure installation happens tomorrow. I might actually have to use the showers at Orange Theory tomorrow. We'll see. Ooh, that'd be a good story to tell, right?

It would. Maybe. I mean, it's a private, they have two private bathrooms. Each one has a full bathroom with a shower. So it's really just going to be me coming out of doing the workout and the stretching and just going into that room and closing the door and locking it. I want some stereotype story about some like 90-year-old Jewish guy with testicles on the floor. You know what I mean?

It's not a locker room and a sheriff's shower. It is a private bathroom, thankfully. I need stories. And I'm the only 90-year-old guy there with drippy balls. So it's, you know. All right. Well, somebody else will have the story. Everybody else is a soccer mom.

So that's pretty much what it is. Excellent. All right. Let's do this. Well, what do you recommend? Hey, everybody. It's time for recommendals, and welcome to the show, Mr. Randy Jordan, if you would. Hi, Randy. Good morning, morning, stream. I was just writing a scathing review for the replacement eartips for my AirPods Pro that I ordered. And as I was writing it, I was looking at the listing for the knockoff brand that I ordered. And it says right there, like the very first thing it says is, you're probably doing this wrong and how to make it work. And, oh, okay.

Great. Thanks. That's comforting customer service when they just say it's your fault. Well, no, when they know, when they know the mistake I'm going to make it advance and they give me the correction for it, I just had to read what I was presented with. Sure. Well, it feels real good. I'm glad it worked out. I'm glad I worked out and that you'll be getting fresh tips anytime soon.

Yes, that's exactly. This was just the tips. Thank you. Thank you. Please send me just the tips. Well, it's good to have you here, Randy. We're going to do some recommending, recommending. That's what we're doing.

Recommending things that are on streaming services that we all think are good enough to pass on to you find folks at home, regardless of what services you might have. We're going to start with Brian like we do every week. And Brian, you got a clip here. Would you like to set that up? I do. Yeah, this is that, this is a movie, and it features that one time when Mr. Fantastic met Ghost Rider. Oh, my gosh. I'm so excited.

All right. Let's play it. You know what I was thinking? Maybe we could have like a paranoid thrillery angle. Ooh, paranoid angle. Excellent. Like, see those two guys over there? They'd been watching us. Right, right. Wait, have they been watching us?

I don't know. Have they? Did you see that? They just looked over at us. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. What's going on? No, no, no, maybe it was just a coincidence. I would look again. Are you ready?

No, don't make a contact. That's how you spoke him. No, that's how you spoke a bear. That's right. That is how you spook a bear. I apologize. But if you are going to look, maybe do like a fake laugh. Fake laugh, okay, Quinn.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Okay, okay. Let's, let's, let's. let's just get up slowly on the count of three and run one i put off seeing this too long now i'm going to find out why i'm missed out now you have to watch it you have seen all the memes right scott oh yeah the one where he's looking at each other making the big smile in the car and all that you see that all the time it's the kind of thing i should have seen like four times by now i don't know my problem is so it's so freaking good the movie is called the unbearable weight of massive talent

featuring uh you heard nicholas cage and uh pedro pascal there incredible performances by both of them uh you also get ike baronholds tiffany haddish deal patrick harris um jacob sippio and a few other people that whose names you might not recognize um but uh basically follows the story of the real actual nicholas cage playing a very exaggerated version of himself i hope um getting hired to to work the birthday party of the character of Havi played by

Pedro Pascal. And it is so much, this is my, I think this might be my favorite Nicholas Cage

intentional comedy. You know, I have a lot of favorite unintentional Nicholas Cage comedies, but I think this is my favorite. I'm with you there.

I'm with you. Yeah. It's so fun that I, want to see other Tom Gormickon films. I just haven't gotten around to it. He wrote the Beverly Hills Cop 5, whatever that came out last year.

Right, which I think is just called Axel F. Yeah. Is that right? Yeah. And I'm like, that may be a lot better than we thought. It's good. I recommend that last year and I really enjoyed it. So it's where that is worth saying. This is, this I'd say, is even head and shoulders

above, way, way above that. This is really, really clever. Very clever. very cleverly done. You know, you find out that, and it's not really a huge shocker, that Havi is a massive Nicholas Cage fan. I mean, he hires him for his birthday, and he's even got this, like, shrine dedicated to Nicholas Cage. And you get Nicholas Cage doing double duty playing his current self, and then also using some weird AI stuff, using or playing his, an imaginary, version of himself from about the wild at heart leather jacket era that he has conversations with and that's kind of the Nicki Cage in this but that's got to be the source of a bunch of

memes as well so does the do I have this right there's a scene where he has enshrined a version of Nicholas Cage holding the two golden guns from face off that is absolutely correct and Nicholas Cage offers to buy them by the statue this grotesque statue how much do you want for it i want this i need to see this i mean face off such a freaking class yes and nick cage needs to see paddington too it's a yes he does exactly it's such a so it's such a great like tie-in um recently with of course the fantastic four trailer featuring pedro pascal but also the um screen crush doing a deep dive into the contents of the fantastic four trailer and even referencing Paddington too in that in that review of the fantastic four trailer it's it's

hilarious how all these things kind of came about all the same time um god what more can I say about it really really just so much fun and Tina loved it I loved it uh neither felt like we had to yeah it fills a void that we've been given and this is this is just me I'm sure but We should have been in a timeline where things went a lot better in the world and we got Bo Burnham movies like this. And of course, Bo Burnham is broken and like, you just want COVID broke Bo Burnham. Right. And you just want the best for him. So I'm not saying that he should be forced to be in movies, but it would have been awesome.

And so this is like, okay, this is as good as we're going to get in this timeline. We're going to get this as an alternative to that. guy, this director, Tom Gormickon, you mentioned who wrote Beverly Hills Cop Axel F and also directed this film. He's only directed three movies, two that are out, one in 2014, and then this one, and his next film, his third film, will be

a remake of Anaconda. Now, what that tells me, I could be dead wrong, because listen who's in this so far, we have a cast, Steve Zon, Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Tandy Newton, Brie Larson, sorry, Ben Larson, that's not Breed Larson. It looks like a

comedic take on the Anaconda thing, and I am all about that. That sounds freaking great. So to be clear, this is not a remake of Anaconda. This is about a bunch of friends remaking Anaconda. It is. Even better. So it's like a, that's really funny. That's a funny premise. Even better. You had me at Steve's on. So after that, whatever, I don't care. I love him. Steve's on, man. I know. I previously recommended, by the way, dream scenario. and I stand by that. It's a bizarre comedy where Nicholas Cage

keeps appearing in people's dreams. And if you haven't seen that, it is really bizarre, but almost on a eternal sunshine of the spotless mind level, even though it's not directed

by Michelle Gondry, but it's still a lot of fun worth saying. So I think that's the most recent Nicholas Cage thing that I've recommended, because I haven't seen long legs yet. And, uh,

um but um you like pig right pig was i loved pig pig pig was great yeah i've not seen nandy yet either so mandy and long legs so mandy and long legs long legs annoyed the hell out of me and i'm and i'm curious what you'll say about it and he's the problem in it um oh really okay all right it's a good horror movie but every time he does his thing it's kiss kiss of the vampire or whatever levels of cringe for me for me so it's not it's not as easy as for him as a b c d e yes F-G, H-I-J-K, L-M-N-O-P. There's a lot of that kind of thing. It's a different approach.

You need to see it for yourself because I may be alone in this, but it drove me up. I know Monica agrees with me, but we may be the only two. Because otherwise, it's like a really taught, well-made horror movie. He just really took me out of it. But Mandy's awesome. Probably a recommendation for that thing. That's one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. It was great.

I used to think it was about how drunk Nick Cage was during the filming of the movie. I seriously like like because there's a level of drunk and the the gold standard is gone in 60 seconds yeah where Nick Cage is cool like he doesn't he doesn't have a lot of that yelling and over the top stuff that he gets when he goes a little farther and drinks a little more drinks a little more is it are we sure that it's him drinking or or do we just assume like it's I don't know anymore I can't tell you anymore but I just used to have this like in this like mental Nick Cage calendar and it was like this. This year, he made movies where he was only drinking a little bit. And then this year, he made movies where he was drinking a lot. And they're concerning. Sure. Nice. Well, all right, then.

So real quick, so unbearable weight of massive talent, currently streaming on both Tooby and Netflix. But I recommend you do the Netflix route because Tooby had some weird issues with their subtitles. And there are some parts that are in Spanish. A lot of the film takes place in Mayorka. and 2B did not show the subtitles so it was then that I discovered oh it's also on Netflix we'll flip over there and we've rewatched one of the scenes with the subtitles so we could figure out what was going on so weird to be so just do Netflix yeah

that's where I'm watching Super Bowl this coming weekend so there you go yeah on tube to be uh all right excellent that's fantastic let's move on down the road to Randy here what do you got for us before I hit play as as as you you know, I am watching things that are heartwarming. And this one was chosen for me by my lovely good wife, and it was very heartwarming. You're about to hear an early encounter between the two main characters, one of whom is a counselor and the other of whom is the person being counseled who lives in a residential facility for people who are autistic. Okay, now, can we We go over your everyday schedule?

My everyday schedule. Wake up, make bed, get towel and toiletries. If my towel smells funny, put it in the hamper and get a new towel. Go into bathroom. Check to see if I'm having my period. If I am having my period, remember that I am having my period. And how do you do that? I put one thumb up to help me remember.

If I am having my period, put on a Kotex maxi pad. and put my thumb down. Put on an outfit. Monday, orange. Tuesday, lavender. Wednesday, blue. Thursday, dots. Friday, yellow.

Saturday. Purple. Sunday is red. Go into the kitchen to make toast. Unless Richard, the fuck face is hogging the toaster. Randy? Unless Richard is hogging the toaster. I don't know.

I don't know what to make any of that. Please tell us more. Who is this? This is a movie called Please Stand By by Ben Lewin starring Dakota Fanning, who was being talked to by Tony Colette. It is about Dakota Fanning's character going on a road trip, solo.

And she is not in the right state of mind for it, but is very determined. And she takes a little dog with her. And it's just nice. It's just a nice movie. It's from 2017. Like I say, it's called Please Stand By. Everybody missed it.

but it's on a bunch of different streaming services right now so you can you can watch it and it's nice um i love this i don't even remember hearing the summary a young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in an attempt to submit her 500 page manuscript to a star trek writing competition at paramount pitchers that's a wild premise man yeah and um it's long enough since like rain man that you're um you're gonna see some things that feel fresh and like original and it's just you know like i just said it's just dakota fanning just acting i love her and and and hitting the road and things things don't go correct and a bunch of people when they realize that she skipped down to go to los angeles like a bunch of people spread out all over the west coast to try to find her and and help her because you know she's at risk and uh they're all

just great characters you know she she meets patten oswald he's a he's a cop who is looking for her and he's just like he's the perfect it's the perfect role for him this kind of thing have you seen the picture of this director i love him i want to cuddle him i want to take him places with me his name is uh ben lewin ben lewin okay there he is lewin yeah here's a picture everybody just look at this old guy look at him he's just out there making movies being cute he's from poland he's got an accent i like this guy a lot it's like it's like what Roger Ebrood would look like if you were still alive. That's funny.

It's a really nicely directed and shot film. Like I enjoyed the cinematography. Any road trip movie, and this also, you know, kicked me back into our discussion about road trip movies. Like, any road trip movie has a chance at entertaining you with just looking at places. And this definitely entertained me. Yeah, I, it looks great. love the fanning girls for me are just like the greatest version of like amazing kid actors

who kept going and are now amazing women in their and and are acting as good as anyone is out there the Hollywood machine didn't chew them up and spit them out yep and i got they got great ticot channels where you can follow them they're always hanging out with their parents and their family and they just seem like really like they got all the bright things happened for them and i just think it's great I love it. Yeah, and they've kind of found their own niche, too. Like, Dakota Fanning is at her best in a movie like this where she's complicated and you need to be, you know, she needs to draw sympathy.

And Elle Fanning is like at her best when she has to be strong and powerful and push back on everything around her. And like, that's, I think that's really cool. Like, you get the right fanning in the right movie. Yeah. Yeah. Or what was Elle Fanning in that TV show with the great? The Great.

Man, that was so good. So good. Is that done? That's over or done or I think it's done? Yeah, I don't think we're getting any more of that. Yeah, I haven't watched the most recent season, but I do need to finish it. I just couldn't get enough people to watch it. Well, look, Nux sometimes is enough for everybody, but this time he was. He is. He's amazing. And the chemistry between L. Fanning and Nicholas Holt is what really made the show. And you just want the two of them in other things. I've said that before. In this case, we're, in this case, we're. We're in, in this case, With Please Stand By, Dakota Fanning is playing a character that is not supposed to be able to have chemistry with anybody. And so, she's, you know, like I say, like Rain Man, she's a completely blank slate that you can lay a bunch of different stories around. And just a nice little movie. Watch, please watch, please stand by when you need to pick me up. I'm going to.

I might need one after what I saw. So. Okay, go for it. Scott, bringing the dark, everybody. I did a thing based on Monica, aka Wicked Kitten's recommendation. As you know, she is the host of gore and a huge fan of all things horror.

And I had seen the movie X back in 2019 or 2020 or whenever it came out, 22, whatever it was. And thought it was really good. This is a Thai West film. And this is, I wanted to see the prequel, which is called Pearl. So I did. And here's my clip.

One day you'll never see me again. that's right charlie my life may be it for you but it sure ain't for me I'm special mama's gonna feel real stupid when she finds out won't she all right you're hearing Mia goth as Pearl in that Pearl of course famously played by her also in the first movie X but she plays two characters she plays Maxine

who is on the scene to do a porn film with the guy from that Wyoming movie or show that's on Netflix my wife loves anyway I can never remember it anyway oh Jenna

I forgot Jenna Ortega's in that first one that X movie before it's kind of yeah I forgot about that too really weird subtle role for her but anyway

I really liked Pearl and I think the reason I liked Pearl you can even hear it in that clip it's presented early on and kind of throughout in a very classical Hollywood kind of way. The credits even as they come on screen,

they kind of fold into screen and they're the fonts of the 50s, like gone with the wind kind of vibes on everything. A little bit of somewhere over the rainbow for a pearl. Like she's kind of in Kansas on a farm. A little bit. And they'll do these things early on. It's a very different film because the first movie was very much like, hey, we love

movies like Texas Chansaw Masker, so we're going to make a movie kind of like that. And that is kind of what X is. This is a little bit, this is way different than that. And in its own right,

stands on its own. Like, I don't even think you need the other movies to have Pearl be a strong entry. I haven't seen the third one. I haven't seen Maxine. I probably will at this point

because now I need to see it through. Which was last year or two years ago, 2020, last year. Was it 23? I thought it was 23. Well, anyway. Last year was 2020.

Yeah. No, I'm saying, I thought it was in 2023, I'm saying, wasn't it? Oh, no, I thought it came on in 2024. I thought it was last year. You are correct. 2024, there it is. Oh, it's even newden. I thought. I should be able to find that somewhere. Anyway, I streamed it so you should be able to as well. So Pearl is this real weird mix of bright-eyed to innocent, forward-looking young girl in the in the 1920s.

or is it even the teens not the 20s because of silent films and stuff and it's also mixed though with moments of like yeah but she just killed a goose with a pitchfork and fed it to an alligator and you're like oh okay she's kind of messed up like

you're starting to see the underpinnings of her psychosis where she becomes this crazy old woman in the future in the 70s and following that along it's just a treat Mia goth is so good in this there is a scene in here that Martin Scorsese says is one of the best he's ever seen in his life, which is, can you imagine higher praise than

that? But it's this long drawn out scene where she is talking to a girlfriend of hers, a friend of hers at a table at the farmhouse where she's just explaining her life, why she thinks she's broken, as if she's talking to her husband, kind of, who's not home from the war yet. And the camera doesn't cut from her for like 15 minutes. And she blew me away. I don't know why that didn't get like Oscar nominations. It probably should have. She was amazing in it. Anyway, by the end it kind of goes full X in terms of you know some people get chopped up and it's pretty gnarly yeah yeah but they do it and they do it with this backdrop of that music still and her in her mind it's just you know I'm I'm in Happy Candy Land all the time and it's really

something I think it's amazing and it made me realize that Mia gothahs so much more than just a few hits she's just she's got something special she's a really good actress And she's, and she's, uh, English. Yeah. Uh, so like the whole, all of her accents that she does in all three of these movies, the southern accents and all the other ones completely, you know, uh, believable, but not her actual accent. No.

It's great. Yeah, it's really good. I saw this on Paramount Plus. It is also on Netflix. And I think one other. I don't know why this is all over the place right now, but right. Maxine, by the way, is streaming on Max. Right.

X and Maxine. or on Max. Pearl is on Netflix. Okay. Cool. Yeah, I saw it on Paramount either. So if you have Netflix or Paramount, you can see Pearl there. And then hopefully if you have Max, you can do the whole thing. But I came away really impressed. And it makes me excited for whatever Ty West does next. And I want to see Maxine now. And, you know, this one just had a, had an artistic value to it that is not just some schlocky horror movie. There was just more going on here. And, and I was pretty blown away by it. 1918 is when it's set. I always get the dates around.

Oh, wow. The, um, uh, the, the, the styles of the three different movies, too. So when you get to Maxine, you're going to see it's like, like those slasher films of the 80s, like, um, the one that I always think of is, um, angel about the, you know, she's a school girl during the day, but she's a hooker at night. She has to solve these murders of all these other, I'm sorry, sex workers back then it was hookers, uh, in the 80s. But that style of 80s slasher film, uh, the, the, not the, not the, not the, not the, not the, not the, not the, not the, a low budget of the Texas chainsaw massacre like the first movie, but the bigger budget of the

slasher's of the 80s. Yeah, I'm excited to see it. This also features very small role, but features a brief role from David Corrin's sweat. Or sweat. Our new Superman, he's in there. Oh, gotcha. Okay. Yeah, this guy.

He has a pretty rough demise, but he's great. Oh, okay, now I know who he is, yeah. Remember the car, that whole thing. Yep. Yeah. And Mia goth is in the next Giermo del Toro movie. I heard, yeah.

And that's Frankenstein where I saw the preview for that. I was like, I turned it off real quick, but I thought for a while that that was Millie Bobby Brown. But no, nope, not her at all. It's Mia Goth. You know, it's cool is Ty West gave her a full writing

credit on Pearl because of her the improv and the work she did. I think that's freaking great. um she's good man she's real good i think we're gonna see it just a everything forever from her she's also in the new blade she's lilith if that thing ever gets made if it ever gets made we'll see yeah i mean i have my doubts they're the only two confirmed cast mahercial ali and her so yeah anyway wesley snipes all but all but said in deadpool he's he's going to be the only blade yeah i still i have hope i want this to get made i'm hoping because yeah

I want to see I want to see Mahershal I'll Lee in that role of course but I also want to see what they do with side characters since that's what they would be

also introducing with Blade Sure So anyway Available now Go check it out Pearl if you're into horror movies If you want to just feel good Randy's recommendal

And of course Bryns is up there as well At quicktms. Dot LI everybody It's all up there Links Links and everything If you want to laugh

Unbearable way to massive talent Yep And if you want to feel good What's it called please stand by please stand by if you want to worry about the the mental health of a young lady in 1918 check out pearl all right that's going to do it for us randy fantastic stuff as always what's our film sack this weekend we're watching the talented mr rippley because we can't get enough matt damon the last couple of years we're just watching all and jude law

we're watching all of their movies and the talented mr rippley is now 25 years old wow just can't uh we're getting old there was a kid born the day that movie came out that now gets really good rates on rental cars. Yeah, that's nice. Yeah, think of that. There you go. Actually, that's close to be in my... Just as able to rent them.

I don't think anybody's getting good rates on rental cars. Well, that's a good point. Don't you get lower, don't you get something lower if you do... I don't think you can rent if you're under 25, can you? You can't have to pay more. Oh, really? I thought, okay, back when I was renting for media marketing, I wasn't able to rent until it's 25.

Yeah, but once you're 25, then the... price. Oh yeah. So how would that work if you couldn't rent before 25? And so I'm saying the price became available when I turned 25. But that was back in the 90s. So there's, it's probably different, like Randy's saying, it's probably different now. I might be thinking of driver's insurance. That might be it. Oh, maybe. Because when I was 21, I was paying a whole lot more for insurance than I was when I was 25. I don't know. I'm pretty sure Hertz will rent to anybody. They keep emailing me with the, you know, subject line, please, please, rent a car. Will you please? Well, they got to wash all You do Toro. If nothing else, do Toro.

Oh, we had a listener. We got to have them. If you're the listener who told me you had a nightmare story to tell about Toro, please write in. They never, I asked for it and they never wrote. Oh, I'd love to hear it. Yeah, I'm not doing Toro anymore. So I'd love to hear it. I want to know what happened because it was like, oh, it was the worst experience of my life. And I said, please tell us more. And I haven't heard back. What if it's, what if it's Brian Ibitt's sleepwalking?

Like he wakes up in the middle night, but he doesn't wake up fully. And he sends you emails. Yeah. It might be me. It might be me. Yeah. I'm taking so much ambient these days. Yeah, you're only supposed to take one.

Brian's popping like four of those a night. I wish I got enough sleep to sleep lock. Right. Well, my sister used to do it. She almost jumped off a roof once. We should bring that up on a windy segment. Oh, geez. Yeah.

She almost leaped right off a roof, like a two-story roof to her. Like what's her face in the Freddie Kruger 3, the Dream Warriors. Yeah, it was a little like that, actually. Arquette, Patricia Arquette. I remember seeing that and going, well, that hits a little too close to home. Yeesh. Have a very good day, friends. Randy, you have one.

Okay. He's out. Ryan, we're about done here. A couple quick things. Got a call about Zhaja Gabor and a horse. Okay. All right. And I'm just going to play it.

Hey, got, Brian. I was listening to the one you're recently talking about parades. And it reminded me back in there, I think I was around like 19. My friends and I went to the Rose Parade in California, and it was the year that Jaja Gabor slapped the cop. And so we're standing, we're kind of near the end of the parade, so the crowds weren't that big. And we were standing near the edge of the route, and here comes Jaja Gabor riding a horse near us. And my friend Steve yells out to her, hey, Zaja, slap the horse! That's it.

That's funny. She didn't react. I'm sure she heard him, though. Anyway, keep up the good work. Hug a hobo. Bye. Oh, this is Chuck in Salem Morgan. Oh, it's Chuck.

Thank you, Chuck. Bye. Thanks, Chuck. We appreciate it. I want someone to see Jaja Gabor slap a horse. I don't want to see a sloth get hurt, but. No. No, she definitely heard it.

Yeah. She probably did. She's still with us, or did she die? She died, right? She out of here? I think, Zaja, I think both Gabor sisters have passed on. Okay. Yeah.

I'd not, you know, to speak hell of the dead, but she did slap a cop. She may have even been in the 90s. I think it was, let's see. Oh, more recently than that, 2016. Oh, that's not that long ago. She's 99 years old. Holy shit. That's hurt for those Hungarians live in a long time.

Yeah, man. You better hope some of that blood kicks in for the old I bit line. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? That's right. And her eight husbands. Sorry, nine husbands. Is that true?

Yep. Do we know? Burren Bell. Conrad Hilton, George Sanders, Herbert Huther, Hutner, Joshua S. Cosden Jr., Jack Ryan. Oh, wow, she's married to Jack Ryan. Michael O'Hara, Felipe de Alba. And finally, Frederick Prince von Arnholt. And that was the last marriage.

So that one lasted a long time. Yeah. 86 to 2016, that's a long marriage. So say what you want about all these quickie marriages. That last one really stuck. Jeez. And one kid from all that. kid. Francesca Hilton.

Ava was the one who died in the 90s. Yeah. From the Aristocats and the rescuers and... Her older sister, Magda, she died in 97. Yeah, was she even an actor?

I guess she was. So she was an actress. Yeah. And she also... I have never even heard of Magda. And she also had one, two, three, four, five, six husbands. Wow. And no children. crazy and then ja or let's see Ava had five husbands

geez dude boy they were just it was just a marrying family you weren't anybody in the in Hollywood unless you married a Gabor how do you live to be 100 you marry 15 guys that's how you do it

that's right exactly all right well thanks for that Chuck we appreciate it that's going to do it for today's show if you're looking for anything you'll find it at frogpants.com slash TMS and that includes links to the songs who play all that kind of fun stuff including this one brian's about to play

that's right well this one is uh comes from raven c tg in our chat she says february second a few days ago marks the 47th trip for my darling husband around the sun he is my rock and my biggest fan and i cannot imagine how we ever did it without each other josh is the one who introduced me to the tadpool cult all those years ago and we've spent so many hours listening to all things frog pants since thank you for all the laughs and the support you guys are the best love raven well he gets one of these a little young 47 year old just the kid exactly and josh i heard you had a bad day yesterday hopefully your day

today is going better today i hope so too uh so uh raven said any cover of a toadie's song well i've got one got one right here this is by ryan bingham featuring the texas gentleman it's a cover of possum kingdom from the twenty twenty three album texas wild here is Possum Kingdom Make up your mind decide to walk with me Around a late tonight Around a lake tonight

By my side I'm not going to lie I'll not be a gentleman behind the boathouse I'll show you my dark secret I'm not gonna lie I want you for mine My brushing bright

My lover be my lover Don't be on the brain you so help me jesus i can promise you you'll stay as beautiful with dark hair and soft skin Don't really hard Make up your mind

Make up your mind And I promise you I will treat you well My sweet angel So help me Jesus Yeah, yeah, yeah. Give it up to me. Give it up to me.

Do you want to be my angel? Give it up to me. Give it up to me. Do you want to be my angel? Give it up to me Give it up to me Do you want to be My angel

Give it up to me Hear my God, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and my angel. My angel Do you want to die? I'll want to die. Well, I promise you, I will treat you well, my sweet angel. So help me, Jesus. Frog in pants.

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