The Morning Stream - TMS 2796: Beef Oven

Episode Date: March 19, 2025

Pirating Orange Theory. Crabbage in the Cock Pot. Blow it Off Your Hand. Willy Wonka With His Pants Down. Chicken Nazi. Don't say whole lightly. Vulva Vibe. The Wood Is Good. Fast lane squatting. Eggquinox. A Bit Of A Burpie. Ohhh, Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Middle People! Show Me Meatloaf. Doing Hot Tom Things With Tom. Dance Monkey, Dance with Nicole and Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One time I looked into a big alien egg and out came a face hugger. Rather than hugging my face, it turned to me and told me that his college degree was kind of a waste, and he had regrets, with one exception. His continued support of the show at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, pirating orange theory. Crabbage in the cockpot. Blow it off your hand. Willie Wonka with his pants down. Chicken Nazi.

Don't say whole lightly. Vulva vibe? The wood is good. Fast lane squatting. A bit of a burpee. Oh, won't somebody please think of the middle people? Show me meatloaf! Doing hot things with Tom.

Dance Monkey Dance with Nicole and Randy and Moore on this episode of The Morning Stream. That is right, Mr. Dunson, but might be old cookie might not like grubbing the trip all that way. You heard me good that time, didn't you? There is evil. Evil that walks among men above the ground. M.S. G. The morning stream. Tear out badwood, put in goodwood. Hello, everybody.

Pull out that bad wood, put in goodwood, because it's time for the morning stream. It's Wednesday, March 19th, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian, Ivitt. Good morning, Brian. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Hey, hey. Hey, hey.

something, we decided to save it for the show, but you had something you wanted to show right away. What do you got there? What is it? Yeah, so there's just a few spots left for the video game tournament at TMS Vegas. So make sure you get in there and get your spot because the winner is going to be taking home a newly, I'm going to move my keyboard. I'm wearing the glove because this isn't, I just pulled this out of the printer. So it's actually a little bit sticky needs to be cured a little bit more but this is the arcade machine now it's hard to tell

on screen here but maybe this will help show that this thing is oh look at that it's translucent we got I we got freaking light inside of it dude that's cool glowing now you guys are in for it

that's awesome for those at home it's an arcade replica we do Every year, Brian makes a trophy replica for those who, whoever wins the tournament. And they're always cool, but that's really cool. This one's sexy. So when your artwork is on the side of it, and the artwork is going to be a lot more opaque than everything else. So you'll have corners that glow, I assume, and then the top. Right, the edges and then the, right, the top.

You know, I mean, basically, like, up here, it'll glow. It'll glow around the screen. I mean, it should be, it should be really, really sharp. excited that's awesome yeah yeah so that's something we do it's a little just part where there's lots of things that go into Vegas obviously but this is one little collaboration where I do art Brian makes a print we put it all together you guys get a trophy it's it's one of my favorite things that we do and it's always a little sad that it goes away because you know we're not going to get it so someone else would get this awesome thing and won't be us and that's

fine here you go get this on screen ready here's how I take off gloves when I'm done working with resin open up a little hole here and I go go oh look at this look at that blow it blow it right off my hand poof that's what doctors do when they check your oil if you know what i mean they blow it uh well all right then very cool their mouth so close to something that's you know yeah been in your butt it's dangerous um wasn't it gonna tell you i was saving for something for oh i went to the gym i got to tell you about this gym gym trip everything was fine we went yesterday last uh last night actually around 630 p.m or so because we were supposed to go in the morning long story we didn't go so we waited until the

afternoon so kim and i went to the gym still busy i'm guessing like this more than i more than i thought although i guess after work is going to be busy anyway so i don't know why i we should have gone at like two in the afternoon or something but i was tied up and had stuff going on so we didn't so anyway we go and it's fine everybody's there they're all doing their stuff the normal thing uh i'm going to do a quick mile on on the track and then lift we're going to do upper upper upper body, you know? Lots of rep, low weight, lots of reps. That's how you work when you're in your 50s.

So we're doing that and everything's going great. But on the track, there's this track that loops through there that you can, it's great. It's just really awesome track. And it has three lanes. Outside lane is intended for the slowest of us, or sorry, the fastest of us. The middle is for people kind of in the middle and kind of a passing lane. And then the one nearest the center is the slow lane. That's where all the pokers go, the slow pokers.

Gotcha. The walkers and stuff like that. Yeah. And if they're really, you know, if they're just slow walkers or older folks or whatever, they go there. Sure. And most people understand this fine. It's a perfectly reasonable way to do it. There's a little sign that says how it works, so there's no confusion.

For the most part, everybody has the social contract and we all abide by it. But this one guy gets out there. Now, here's how I see this guy for the first time. I come around my first loop, and I see him waddling like this. you know what I'm going to see if it's possible to show this uh hold on I'm going to see if this will okay I turn on AI tracking for a second see if my camera will do this so it's like this he's walking like kind of like this and I notice that down below his knees he has a strap and it's

strapped all the way around almost as if you hold your pants down to your knees but then yeah like a like a resistance band around his exactly have a Cav-based resistance band. That's exactly it. And it was a little bit stretchy, but not much. So he's waddling. And so what does he do? And bear with me here.

He walks to the middle, or sorry, the outer, supposed to be fast lane. Yeah, yeah. And then he does this all the way around it. Here's the routine. And then just imagine it being repeated for an entire loop. Here you go. Okay. That's it.

And then he would scoge one foot down. Oh, geez. So then just repeat, repeat, repeat. Oh, my God. So sticking his hands out, his arms, so just to kind of for our audio-only listeners, Scott put his arms out like he's doing the YMC dance, the Y part of the YMC dance, that squatted down and then jumped up like it's a burpee. Well, kind of like a burpee without the getting on the ground doing a push-off.

It was a bit of a burpee, yes. I would argue that that's exactly right. Basically, it's a Y into a squat jump. Yeah, I'm sure you had method to the madness here. Like, he knew what he wanted. Oh, sure. Sure. But the problem is that with other people, A, he's in the fast lane.

B, he's now sticking his arms into the other lanes, at least the lane right next to him. Yeah. Oh, that's the other thing. Right. His aim of this part is right into the row of the middle people. And there were middle people who were running up and going, ah, and they have to, like, kind of go around them. They didn't expect it. And he's keeping this face like stoned.

like this is where I'm at you live in my world this is what I'm supposed to be doing I don't know what all you guys are up to yes so I said I kept making these comments we'd come around I go oh great there's I don't know why I said this by go there's Willie Wonka with his pants down again doesn't miss him Kim's like what are you talking about I'm like I don't know he just just really annoyed me otherwise a very pleasant time at the gym it was fine everybody else was great and courteous and lots of nice people all you know it was open and door for us as we left and just nice good communal thing except for you know jimmy john and his pants strap thing it was so stupid the rudest uh workout guy yeah that suck and it's about 16 laps for me to hit the mile and he did that thing where he slowly does the thing beep beep beep beep beep move it does the same thing over and over that took him an entire loop for me to go 16 rounds past him. So I had to deal with his shit for 16 times. And we weren't the only ones.

There was a whole bunch of people on the track, and they were all looked as annoyed as I was. It was just like, no one said anything, but what are you going to do? It's like, hey, buddy, take it outside. He could do this anywhere, by the way, anywhere he could have done this. In fact, go to some place where there's lots of room over in this one area,

by the way. Go over there, do your thing, move a little to this side, do the thing move back this direction do the thing it's the same exact workout he does not need the length of a track to do this he could easily do it in you know hokey pokey space yeah i was very very annoyed and uh you know i i made it i made it through uh we left and i said all right we're okay are you okay she says yes i'm okay and i said good we're going home let's go home um we got a quick we got a quick call from uh michael f about state up too late but he likes us so I think this is worth playing here you go good morning

sleep deprivation and a bouncing baby boy I've been awake it's 420 blaze it 420 a.m. I've been awake for an hour and 20 minutes I have a two week old and this kid will not go to sleep thankfully I have a backlog of your guys of episodes that have been keeping me sane during these wee hours in the morning I just wanted to say thanks for everything you guys do your shows are awesome and they really get a lot of us through what we're doing. So I appreciate everything. I love the whole Frog Pants Network and all the people involved. So, I don't know. Good night. Hopefully. I love it, man. Dad doing his dad work, you know, staying up late. Thank you. It was nice. Yeah,

exactly. Doing your responsibilities, but I appreciate the kind of words. Yeah, very, very nice. Also, it's just as much as it seems like it's hard being a young dad, it's also a black So enjoy it. It really is. I know. I definitely miss those days. Those days were great. At the time, I was like, oh, my God, why do I have to get up so early?

And why do I have to clean up so much poop? But now it's like, we see him maybe, you know, once every couple weeks. It's like, Tristan, come over to the house and poop so I can take care of it. Exactly. We, you know, we're glad that he still gets his UPS deliveries here at the house because it gives us an excuse to see him or gives him an excuse to see us. really is one yeah he's got to come get his packages gotta see mom and dad we're gonna have romona today so I'm sure

there'll be a diaper or two I won't have to do them but I'll let him handle that there you go uh all right we're gonna play a game guys it's time for us to get right into it we got uh we got uh Randy in for done away today we do yeah right he's not uh done away is not with us he's got a meeting

or so no he's his birthday shit is his birthday birthday birthday it's done away my done is away he forgetting he had a birthday uh yeah so we're going to celebrate that by not having him here, and instead, we're going to do this. Normally, he'd be here on his birthday, his wife, or his significant other audres, taking him somewhere, doing something special, so that's the... Can't beat that, yes. No. So instead, we have a reasonable facsimile thereof in the embodiment of Randy Jordan. Hello, Randy Deluxe.

Randy Jordan. How are you? Good morning, morning, stream. I am doing very well, and I am in the opposite situation where my wife is out of the country working in Canada so that gives me a ton of free time no not really I have been I have been doing chores and taking care of my kid and it's great I feel I've had a little coffee this morning don't worry yeah we are let's see we are 12 foot we are about 18 hours from the spring equinox and I'm excited about oh my gosh that's true yeah finally it feels like that's taking too long doesn't it are you how are you planning and celebrating Are you going to stand an egg on its end on the equator? And in my time zone, it's going to happen in the middle of the night while I'm sleeping.

So I'm going to celebrate by having a really nice dream about equality. Oh, I like that. That's nice. Equinox equality, yes. Yeah, I like that. Is that egg thing work, Brian? Is that a thing people do? Yeah.

I didn't know that? On the equinox, is it the equinox or the solstice? Maybe it's both. You can stand an egg on its end if you're on the equator. Yeah, I have heard this and I think I've also seen like videos where people are like if you do this one weird thing with an egg you can stand it on its on its tip and like I don't remember what they did now like they swing it around or something I put it on a spring for a while I don't remember what they did but there's there's so many videos out there now where they're basically magicians doing doing tricks but then telling you that it's actually just physics that you can do. I'm just like, I don't know what to believe anymore. I just remember my brother doing it with salt. Salt, right.

You put enough salt and then you just blow all the loose salt away and what's left looks like the egg is thing that's in. Apparently, according to Wikipedia's page on egg balancing. Really? I have a whole thing? Oh, my gosh. I have a whole page on it that you can do it any day of the year. It's not particularly difficult any time of the year.

Let's see where the equinox comes into play. Here we go. Folklore holds that eggs can be balanced in this way only on a particular time of year, the Lunar New Year in China, the Dragon Boat Festival in Taiwan, or the vernal equinox in the United States. So why would we believe that in the first place, right? Because the movement of the earth around the sun doesn't have just like change in the direction of gravity or something. Right.

You're talking about gravity. people believe a lot of stupid shit that's why we're all done they do still hold apparently egg balancing events tomorrow i don't know where they hold them but uh that's fun though i like that so go to your local egg balancing event and uh and have fun i hear it's only $25 to buy an egg to um participate oh so you're saying once again we found a silly little thing humans doom we figured out a way to put a price tag on it fantastic isn't it weird how egg became the standard like like five years ago toilet paper was the standard and like I would like to know what five years from now we're going to be talking about the price of I'm going to guess let's guess

and we'll come back to it I'll actually make a calendar event that'll pop in five years from now and I'm going to say eventually eventually if you live long enough that thing is going to be leaders of water right eventually eventually it all comes down to water and lack thereof but I'm going to say in five years it's beef products beef beef really that's going to be that's going to be That's just my guess. Cow flu is going to be raging and so you better stock up. Yeah. Or more mad cow disease or something.

That's easy. We haven't heard from that in a long term. We did already have a cow flu. It was just cold. That's true. They still have that somewhere, but nobody knows. It's creeping up five years. So real quick, my bachelor situation, me and my kid, as soon as we're left alone,

we start doing the most disgusting things. And that has to do with ingestion. So last night, we went on a little adventure. We went up to Santa Ana, California to try to eat the best fried chicken in the region. And we went to this place called Gus's, and they did have really, really good fried chicken. But my favorite thing about this whole experience was we went in, we sat down, we looked at their menu. We'd never been there before. This really friendly, like ultra-friendly waitress, which I know Scott would love, came over to our table and was like, have you ever been here before?

No. She's like, here's how it goes. All the chicken is spicy. And we're like, oh. Okay. Okay. That's cool. Like Nashville hot chicken, basic. But always hot. No options on the menu for like a lighter touch.

Right, exactly. And I was going to compare it to actually Popeye's spicy because it's just all they do is they have a bunch of cayenne in the batter, right? In the batter, yeah. Which is the way to do it. A lot of places think you can just do regular fried chicken and then squirt a bunch of tobasco or some of their spice on there. You've got to, it's got to be in the batter. I agree. Yeah, it has to feel like the chicken was only. almost born with this ability. You have to feel it in your face. So we ordered like five different sides and some fried chicken and it was fantastic. All of it was good. I liked all of it. I was just amazed at greeting me basically at the door saying it's only spicy. Don't come in here with any special requests, you guys. That's great. It's like chicken Nazi or sort of. That's right. No chicken for you

one year. Yeah, one year. See you later. Well, all right. There's a, now I'm hungry. Let's make, Okay, let's do a contest. Looks like our fourth caller, by the way, is one. Where is it here? Hold on. Is it Lucky Phil? It is Lucky Phil. Lucky Phil is our fourth caller.

We're bringing him in now, and we're going to have him play this game with us. We'll see how that goes. Hello, Lucky Phil. How are you? Good. How are we doing, guys? Good. Oh, he sent us video.

I've never seen video of Lucky Phil. Oh, look at that. There's lucky. He does look lucky. Put some clothes on. Geez. oh that's hilarious that he didn't know i didn't mean to press that that's all right sometimes we hit the camera button yeah we you know we got the habit of doing that sometimes where uh for a while

we were doing video from discord and so i'd automatically click the video by many times where where in the world are you what's your i'm in sydney might yeah right so is it already thursday there uh yes it is it really brilliant it's it's the last this i the like in the future yeah is it okay did we do all right in the future Oh, I don't know, some of the news from your power of the world's a bit. Oh, yeah, it is. Yeah. You know, that is the safest bet you can ever make, that you can say that and be right.

You don't even have to really know what's going on. You can say that and be 100% active. Yeah, we'll talk to you tomorrow and let you know what we heard that you already know. All right, well, it's good to have you here, Brian. Let's explain the rules to Phil. He knows, but we'll tell them anyway and play this game. Let's do it. It's time to play the tad.

Holy feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Randy are going to have to predict the answers that they gave us. It is Scott and Randy's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Lucky Phil, your job and your luck is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Randy, and if your team wins, you get a prize package that includes Blade of Darkness and Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus.

Oh, my Lord, I don't know what that second one is at all. It sounds like a great game, though, doesn't it? Yeah, it does sound good. Blade of Darkness I've heard of. That other one, news to me, but also I want, now I want to know. It's one of the best, according to, let's see, on Steam, it says, quote, one of the best FMV games to be released in years. It's a brilliant combination of a relatable oddball comedy and a whodunit mystery. No way. So it's live action, full motion video, starring people you'll never see in anything actually valid and real.

Yeah, that sounds great. Oh, yeah, there it. Look at that. all FMV, like old school, except it looks obviously a lot better, but it's like a little murder mystery thing. Yeah. Oh, that looks great. It's kind of cool, actually. It's like you're playing murder mystery. It's like you're playing clue with a family over Zoom that you've never met before

in your life. Yeah, and it looks like it's filmed well, which is kind of rare for these things. Does Dana Plato make an appearance? I mean, one would hope so. Is that the death right there? I don't know who this. It's just a gif of something. Is that Uncle Marcus? He's looking... I don't know. I know. Something came out of his mouth. Who knows what's going on here. It looks good, though. I'm curious.

That actually looks like that actor. I think that is somebody famous, isn't it? Is it? This guy here? Yes. That's, I think we've seen that guy and stuff on film sack. Something's familiar about him. Can't put my finger on it. I don't know who that is. We got to play the game. So somebody please look that up for us.

Yeah, chat room. This is on you. Get it done. All right. Andy Buckley. the guy, Andy Buckley. No idea. Whoever that is. All right, cool. Let's do it.

All right. Yes, here we go. Sorry, I had to close the Andy Buckley page. Sure. Yes, David Walsh. He was in the office. That's who it was. Oh, he's the...

He was Michael Scott's boss that was just so irritated with him all the time. That's right. And he was like... What's her name? Was sort of with him? And then she was with Michael. Right, right. Or whatever, or David Michael.

Wait, what's wrong with me? Not David Michael. David, Scott. What's his name in the show? His last name is Scott on Michael Scott? No. Michael Scott. Is it Michael Scott?

Why does that all sound wrong? Just to jump in for a second, with that Who Press Mute game, there appears to be a full-on mega-fmV bundle on Steam. I'm tempted. Ooh, you like that kind of thing, do you? Is it like all of Wales Interactive's games or something else? Oh, I don't know. There's late shift and a bunch of other shit I had never heard of, but it looks pretty cool.

Yeah, I like this kind of stuff. Well, all right, you'll have to let us know what it's like, if you win. Hopefully it includes night attack. Yeah. Or what was it? Night trap. Night trap, not night attack. That's a podcast I've heard of.

Anyway, let's get to your question here. Let's tell Randy and Scott to put their hands on their buzzers. Gentlemen, put your hands on your buzzers. and give me your best answer to this and good freaking luck. We asked 438 tadpoolers which dead musician would you like to take to a theme park for a day?

Come on, you kept reading even after he does. Well, it's a lag thing. You can't help it. I'm going to say meatloaf, meatloaf. Sure. Show me meatloaf. God damn it. Not in the top 10, but people

did say meatloaf. Randy, name a dead musician you'd want to spend a day at an amusement park with. Give me a purple hazy day with Jimmy Hendricks. Oh. Jimmy Hendrix at the amusement park. Number four answer on the board. Damn it. Move over and let Jimmy take over.

Right. Wouldn't that be fun? It kind of would be fun. Like, basically, as I was putting all of these in and doing the survey, I'm like, yeah, this would be great. Oh, this one would be great. this one would be great so okay we got a we got a lot of misses though like like we're we got to find 10 out of hundreds of potential funds fun times turns out a lot of musicians are dead right yeah I don't know if you do that but yeah they tend to live a life and then die is how it usually works exactly yeah uh all right nine answers still on the board so lucky phil you and randy are working together yep all right we're working together right i got got phil on my side phil i i'm i'm going to count on you to help me through this um but i think there's some pretty big uh names above jimmy hendricks that we can just

go right for wouldn't you love to spend the day with kirk cobain i think that would be really on there yeah absolutely might yeah yeah why not smells like teen spirit in there let's do it exactly yes uh show me lithium enhanced kurt cobane that's good points oh this is okay i'm just imagine Kirk Cobain in the haunted house. Yeah. Okay, so this is backwards. I was expecting Cobain to be higher than Hendricks. 100%.

So, like, I'm already like, oh, no. The world is already shook. Right. Who's going to be like, who's going to, who would I think is not on this list that is going to be on this list? Yeah. The question I'm actually. My reason I thought it'd be food related.

That's why I said meatloaf, because I thought, you know, you spend the day when. And I realized, I realized, would you like to get a recipe from? Yeah, well, I mean, I realize it's an amusement park. But in my head, it's like, well, you're going to have lunch. So who would it be, who would you want to have lunch with is kind of where my brain went? Sure. Yeah, that makes sense.

So I would think the tadpillar sort of thought of food names, but maybe not. Well, maybe this is just my brain at 2.30 in the frickin morning. But I'm just picturing the, uh, the Bowie Jagger music video for dancing in the street and imagining that in the main park. We do have to, we do have to ask if David Bowman. is on the list. If David Bowie is not on the list, then I don't know what to make of anything. Fortunately, uh, Jagger's still alive. Yeah, that's true. As far as we can tell, it's a bit of a puppet. All right. We're going to go with David Bowie. Please be there. Philadelphia. Show me David Bowie. Yeah, number three. So we're getting a better, a clear

understanding. It's starting to come into focus that we want people who didn't die very recently. right David Bowie was like eight nine years ago we don't want so we don't want very recently we don't we definitely don't want to pick people that were controversial and I won't say who that who that is but like we don't want because right like there's going to be

a reason you wouldn't choose certain people like there's certain people you're like oh no I wouldn't want to spend any time with them sure yeah okay so this is the tad pool we're thinking about yeah and it's a tad pool it's a tad pool it's always a factor

I actually I actually want to go fishing and we're going to see just how far off we are but the tad pool is uh you know more our age uh they have a particular ethnicity as i'm saying let's have uh richard dawson would have to a commercial by the way let's have a let's have a look for elvis presley i think oh yeah sure if you can pull from uh one of the deep fried vendors food vendors then you get them on the roller coaster exactly he's throwing up a hunk of burning love. Show me Elvis Presley.

Number five. All right. This is all shook up. I promise you, there's no way we can sweep this, although it's fun to imagine that we could. There's just, it's just, this is hard. It is hard. Yeah. And by the way, Phil, do you think it's going to just be entirely English and Americans?

Like, that's it? No, nothing other than American. in English people. Who's the guy? I think it's pretty safe that Prince would be on the list. Oh, yeah. Prince is good.

Yeah, that's a real good guess. And also died around the same time as Bowie just eight, nine years ago, right? Yeah, nine, I think. Yeah, both of them are nine years. We're guessing Prince, but I disagree with Phil that it's a safe guess.

Okay. Show me. Prince was still my favorite Super Bowl halftime performance. Same. Oh, Hins was so good. It's still, I still think of what I liked as much as that. I mean, Gagas was great, but Prince was, Prince set the bar.

Show me his purple majesty. Number two. When are we going to figure out what number one is? What ride would you be, what ride would Prince want to do over and over and over again? Would it be the merry-go-round or the-te-cups? I think Prince really liked the, the spinning teacups. that's good the spinning teacups

yeah the purple one of course but yes yeah so I I have no idea what number one could be that's the bit this is the beauty of this game like I have named

five people now with Phil here that could have been number one in our imagination so what do you do Phil I have some ideas Phil do you have a guarantee number one in mind well

one has Amy Winehouse. Amy Winehouse is a really good guess. We're sticking with the American English collection. And she was pretty popular, right? Like, I mean, I don't know if would you want to spend the amusement park day with Amy Winehouse? Yeah, she'd be all right. Every time you suggest a ride, she just says, no, no, no. Oh, wow. That was a long road for that joke. Jeez, Louise. Took a few details for that one. That's right, yes.

We've got to go with it now. We can't. Abusement Park that serves alcohol. All right. Show me. Jimmy Whitehouse. Oh, my God. Nicely done.

That was tough. I feel like Randy has been hesitant to go with Phil's gut, and Phil's gut has been right like three times in a row. Exactly. You could probably just jump to Phil every. My gut is quite sizable. you don't understand on this side of the game it's a team up and you got a you got to be a team right no i get it um 23 i think you guys actually mathematically have already won so we'll just keep on going but i think uh hey i think you're mathematically eliminated scott from even if i hit oh yeah 11 doesn't count for points it's just a redo so yeah let's have our next guess for number one i'm only shooting for number one at this point next guess um he's got to bring his kids but not his first kid uh john lennon

right yeah not not bringing julian nope exactly right the other kid though he seems to like show me john lennon oh number 11 you get a bonus guess but no points imagine imagine there's no round up i was going for number one

how is john lennon not even in the top 10 that's wild yeah it's pretty weird that is wild what in the world who could it be I like this is a this is an enormous mystery now who could number one be who does the tadpole after

well we'll find out well one way the other we'll find out either you'll guess it or we'll that's right exactly or we'll tell it well uh I want to go with Phil's gut again Phil do you have an idea here like even like

give me a decade when did this when was this person famous Come on now. I'm thinking amusement park, psychedelics, Frank Zappa. Oh. Oh, I can't imagine the Tadpool would have Zappa in the top ten. But let's do it.

Let's try it. I wouldn't mind going through a theme park with Zappa? Hell yes. That'd be great. And psychedelics, anyway. Show me Frank Zappa. Yeah, number 41. Number 41, the list.

Frank Zappa did get mentioned, but not. I mean, Zappa was, you know, I think he'd be great. That dude was smart, fun. I'd go with him. You'd much rather go with Moon unit, really, if we're, right. Split in hairs, but obviously she's alive, but. Gotcha.

I think a real party on a bunch of rides would probably be Freddie Mercury, if I was. I agree. Yeah, he'd be a good time. Just imagine him squealing as you go over the dips on the roller coaster. Yeah. Oh! just over and over All right, show me

Freddie Mercury. Number one answer on the board. There you go. That's your most requested dead person to take two of the main part. Interesting. Now, whether you would want this guy I'm thinking of now in your ride

depends on how you, whether you believe certain allegations or not. I still think it might be on here, so I'm going to take a wild shot and say Michael Jackson is on this ride. Yeah, that's who I was referring to earlier, where I'm like, what I want to take a person that a lot of people are, you know, like, maybe not.

But if we didn't know that at the time, you would go, sweet, he likes little, he likes baby monkeys and is super into, he has his own theme park in his backyard. Yeah, exactly. Seems like it'd be a fun guy. To Neverland Ranch. instead of drawing him to Disneyland.

Personally, I think he was a predator. But what I'm saying is, did the tadpole on the hole, you know, what I mean? And I don't say whole lightly. But let's go ahead and try that. Let's put MJ up there. All right. Okay, sounds good. Show me, Michael wants to spend too much time in Tune Town.

Jackson. Yep. Yeah, number eight. All right. I knew it would be somewhere in there. The Tadpool said, said MJ. So I'm starting to... Nine points for Scott, 31 for the team of Lucky Philadelphia.

You know what's coming to focus, Scott, is that this is actually just vote for your favorite dead singer. I mean, maybe. It's probably what comes to people's minds. Yeah, but I think there are some dead singers that they're probably like, oh, my God, that person would be miserable at an amusement park. Okay. All right. All right.

I'm going to go with... I almost said Michael Stipe, who's alive, by the way. Still is, yeah. Yeah, still around. we'll probably kill a few people just by mentioning them in this in this game but uh yeah um it's frank sinatra let's get him out of the way oh it's a great one sure boop boob pooh pooh pooh pooh sure show me frank sinatra like he was here like i channeled him he'd be fun imagine that guy in his suit going ah i don't know about this ride this ride is too crazy you hear me kid dad like he'd just be a hoot it'd be fun Flimy. Now, number 40, by the way, Frank Sinatra. Frank Zappa, Franks DeNatra, right next to each other.

All right, two Franks. So there's a couple of folks that I'd like to actually spend the day with. Like, I'd love to spend a day at an amusement park with Avichy. I'd just like to know, I'd like to know more about him, right? You'd have to wake him up first. He'd say, hey, brother, a lot. But, like, I know he's not on this list. There's no way people put a Vichy above Amy Winehouse here.

I just like, I can't help thinking that a part of this is asking a dead person, what's the last thing you saw? And so with that in mind, give me the notorious BIG. Sure. Oh, yeah. This would be an opportunity to finally get some answers. Yeah. All right. Got to be a big ride.

Release the files. Show me the notorious BIG. no big papa where was he in the list was he even in the list no no notorious B-I-G surprisingly yeah so it's so easy to go for a free

fallen reference and put Tom Petty in there and I love Tom Petty but I don't know if I'm thinking of him or if I was a tadpool I'd think of him so you know what let's go with something a little younger A little more recent. Sure. Who's the singer for, oh gosh, I can't think of his name.

The singer for Lincoln Park. Chester. Chester Bennington. Let's put Chester in there. He and another singer died around the same time, and I was wondering if one of those two guys would make it. So I think Chester's probably the better.

Let's put Chester in there. See what happens. Show me Chester Bennington. Yeah. Yeah, number six. Then I'll go with my gut and say, Chris Cornell for number nine. Yeah, that's the other one.

Yeah. Sure. All right. Show me Chris Cornell. Do we have a clean sweep? Oh! Not yet. We don't.

Not yet. Chris Cornell, number 19 in the list. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Bennington and Cornell are a little bit of recency bias, I think. I don't think they're going to be as high

on our minds, you know, 20 years from now. Sure. Gosh, we got number nine, and it's more than A. me wine house we haven't gone we haven't gone classical at all have we like uh really really yeah or or ancient right like there's going to be some musicians from the distant past that you might be interested in yeah you could go is the crowd more interested so it's our it's our final guess on this side so i'm just going to name some people and try to see if any of them like really

makes sense um so like people love to talk about whitney houston people love to remember selina right Selena is a, it would be a pretty good, I mean, I personally would love to spend a day with Selena. She was a lot of fun. Yeah. Um, there's a, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, we haven't even, uh, talked about like some of the more famous like Janice Joplin types, right? Mm-hmm. That died, that died like more than 50 years ago. Yeah. I mean, you did Hendricks or did we do Hendricks? No? Yes, Hendricks was my first, yes. Oh, okay. Yeah. So you're in that, you've been in that range before. Oh, oh, oh, I know. I know.

I know what I would say. What I would say if I was the Tadpool, who I would put at number nine, is Jimmy. Not Jimmy, but we just said, Bob Marley. I think it's Bob Marley. Oh, yeah. Bad boys. Yeah, he'd be jamming. Sure.

Bring me a drink or two and a chicken leg. It's not turkey legs. What you have at Disneyland. Anyway, sorry. Go ahead. I was trying to make a song. It didn't work. It was a poor effort.

Was that reggae? Yeah. It was not even in the right genre, to be honest. And you rip on my synach. Show me Bob Marley. I didn't rip on your Sinatra Your Sinatra was good Fly me to the moon

It was great Oh that's too bad Yeah Yeah Bob Marley Let me see if he even I'm kind of surprised If he's not on the list

But I don't think he's on the list Oh no Sorry one person said Bob Marley So tied for 45th place Okay I'm glad he was on there He deserved it Another one

Another one that's probably not there That I was just about to get to How many guesses do you think you get? No I'm just I'm just talk to Scott. I'm just letting Scott know that Tom Petty has been on my mind as someone who I would personally enjoy, but there's just no way. I think. I don't think he's on this list. Yeah. I mentioned him before. I don't think he's on there. I think maybe I'm going to just wing this and go something. Somebody in the chat said Leonard Nimoy and it made me laugh. I just

wanted to shout out to them. Bill Bow, Bill Bow Baggins. The only song I can think of. there's two dead musicians i'd love to spend time with in a theme park they would not be on the list i don't think one of them is bon scott the other one is lemmy yeah dude i thought of bon scott earlier but i'm just like do any of these people even know who that is anymore like i think they do yeah do i do i think there are a lot of people know who von scott was um just like is he michael is he dick next to michael jackson in a list i'm going to go with a weird one and this isn't going to be right but i'll I'm going to try it. Beethoven, because he's blind and it would be,

it'd be fun to take a blind guy on a ride, I think. I think that'd be fun. But shouldn't it be Mozart? Don't you think if they did say a classical position? Well, I, maybe, but I don't know, Beethoven's, he's my guy. I like him. Blind guy. Yeah, Beth oven.

Let's do Bth oven. He was deaf, by the way, not blind. Oh, I thought he was blind. Who was blind? Nobody. Nobody was blind. Somebody definitely was blind. You're right.

He was deaf. We had something. That's not as fun as a park, is it? If you're deaf. I don't know. Actually, it's probably better. I guess you can see more. He's not going to the enchanted tiki room, though, probably.

No, no, no. This is what's happening. All right. Well, I'm sticking with my guns here. Let's try it. All right. Show me beef oven. That's not on there.

No, Beethoven was on the list. Beethoven was number, where is it? Beethoven, right above Chris Cornell, number 18. Oh, it's not bad. It's not bad at all. Napoleon, I guess he wasn't a musician, but Napoleon, we know, would have had the best time. Yeah.

At amusement park, but not a musician. People keep saying Stevie Wonder, he's alive, chat. Steve Wonder's not dead. Still alive. So looking at the list as a whole of what we already got, is this Jim Morrison? It is not. I will show you number nine.

I don't think he ever came up in your discussions. I know somebody, I think, said him, the chat but never came up in your discussions Johnny Cash Oh shit of course He could flip everybody off and have a ring of fire and everything

Exactly yeah You could walk the line between the roller coaster and the You know what exactly You know what it is he lived a good long life And it seems like he got out everything that he needed to So just never really came to mind You know what I mean? Sure

Every person on this list was cut short Except him That's true Yeah he did our Right. Well, well, let's get into some of these that were cut short. Number 12, you really, you did kind of dance around this one. It wouldn't have gotten you anything, but a pat on the back. Number 12, Mozart.

Oh, okay. 13, a great choice, Taylor Hawkins. Yeah, real, real recent, though. Yes, yes. Tom Petty was number 14. George Harrison, the next beetle in the list. I guess the only other beetle, because really is John Lennon and George Harrison, the only other two dead ones. Jim Morrison, number 16,

Jimmy Buffett, Bradley Noel from Sublime, Jerry Garcia, Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Holly would be a fun. Stevie Ray Vaughn would be so fun at a park. Yeah, you're right?

It's just like, he's so chill with everything going on around him. As long as the weather stayed nice. Sure. Buddy Holly, Janice Joplin was number 26. You mentioned him.

Meatloaf, 27. Neil Purt. Four people said Weird Al, one of them even saying, I know he's not dead, but if I could spend the day with him in the amusement park, if he was dead, I'd kill him just so I could have that privilege. Oh, wow. So watch out for that guy. He's on a list.

John Denver, Keith Moon, Lane Staley, Selena, Whitney Houston, Avici, Bon Scott, Cliff Burton, Courtney Love. Nope, guess again, folks. Eddie Van Halen, Gordon, Gord Downey, we do have two Canadians who listen to the show, apparently for the Gord Downey vote. Little Richard, Louis Armstrong, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan. Dylan, also alive, Chopin, Chuck Barry, Dean Martin, Dennis Wilson, Donnie Hathaway, Doris Day, Eartha Kit. George Michael would be a fun one, but only one person said it, kind of surprised. Yeah, I would have given him more. No Tupac on that list at all?

Tupac low on the list. Joey Ramon, just kind of skipping over a bunch. Karen Carpenter and Keith Flint, just those two together actually would be fun to go to the amusement park with. Chris Christopherson. Lemmy. There's Lemmy. Lisa Left Eye Lopez. M.F. Doom. Michael Hutchins.

Only one vote for your, for your Aussie brother, like you Phil. Michael Hutchins. That's too bad. It'd be great. Be great just to be his wingman and get his cast-offs, basically. I really appreciate the format of the question because I grew up my entire life, I was a big Eddie Van Halen fan. I loved Van Halen everything they ever did But Eddie Van Halen would be such a stick in the mud

At an amusement park, I promise He was always so sour about everything Oh, for sure Same with Sid Barrett who's on the list here Warren Zevon And let's say, oh yeah, Tupac down there as well So there you go A little Tupac down at the bottom there

Little Tupac down at the bottom Well, we'll never find out what killed him Or who did, but we will know this Fun time at the park for Dr. Phil, Dr. Phil. For Lucky Phil. Dr. Lucky Phil. You get one of these, man. Congratulations. Good morning. You win, dude. You get this weird stuff, this Who Press Mute on Uncle Marcus and Blade of Darkness. How does that feel to win those two packages, prizes? Awesome, guys. Thank you very much. Always fun. Yeah, always fun hanging out with you, man. I hope tomorrow is a brighter day. You'll have to let us know, and we'll talk to you soon. Why would you spend your time going to an amusement party?

that's Dr. Phil. That's pretty good. With a dead person. I think that sounded just like Dr. Phil. I was convinced, for real. I've never actually tried to do a Dr. Phil before, and I will never try again. Nailed it. Randy, we're going to see you a little later for the recommendals today.

So if you get ready, everybody, we're recommending stuff. That's coming up after the break. Yeah, it's a very tight show. Keeping it tight. Randy Jordan, AKA Randy DeLex. We'll see in a sec. All right, everybody, we're going to take one moment to do one new story. And then we'll take that break.

Here we go. it's time for the news brought to you by cold cat barf at two a m oh yes i stepped in some it was great oh yeah worse when you step in it and in a sock way worse in a sock oh you sleep in socks no i had to but it's cold and i had to go through the house you put on gotcha i have these little shorties i put on and i stepped right in it so thanks a lot freaking decker you're not even my cat bastard yeah uh coffee theft surges in the u.s as prices for the beans sore oh boy look at coffee coffee apparently is going to be the new eggs is the new barterable good yep we go from toilet paper to eggs to now coffee

theft of truckloads of green coffee beans is surging in the united states a the world's largest importer of the commodity as prices for the beans increase to all time highs this last year or in the last year according to transportation companies the issue was discussed by market participants over the weekend in houston where the u.s. national coffee the Association held its annual conference. Boy, I bet that's an upbeat conference, you know? It's just all caffeinated. Right.

It's just long lines for the urns in the back where they're reloading their cups over and over and over again. Everyone's shaking and talking really fast. I kind of want to go. Keep on playing that George Harrison cover of, no, is Jeff Lynn doing hold on tight to your dreams? That's perfect. That's their whole theme for the whole weekend.

Ask your uncle about the commercial for the coffee generation where they felt like they just didn't need to advertise a certain brand. Just advertise coffee and get Jeff Lynn's song to do it. Yep. There you have it. By the way, I don't know if you knew this. I didn't know this. The U.S. is the world's largest consumer of the beverage.

I mean, that makes sense now that I hear it, but I wouldn't have assumed it. I assume maybe Europe. It's very popular in the rest of the world. That's true. More popular outside of the U.S. than here. Since coffee has only produced in warmer geographies, I would say, state climates. But geography is fine.

Reuters. Like you know anything, Reuters. Yeah, what are they talking about? Anyway, we have to import nearly 100% of what we use for coffee because we can't really make it here, despite what some people would tell you. Mostly comes via trucks, and there were dozens of thefts last year, including one,

or sorry, something that would only happen rarely in the past says Todd Costley, logistic sales coordinator of Hartleek Transportation. Love it. Love it. That's like the most appropriate name ever. uh he's a freight broker in pembrook new hampshire theft of coffee has been reported to uh sorry reported uh reported uh reported in producing countries such as uh brazil and vietnam usually in farms where the beans are temporarily stored after the harvest these sites are more vulnerable because they are isolated so that's where the stealing is happening uh armed men took 500 bags of coffee worth about 230 grand from a farm in brazil's minas gerias jeras yes that's an area I've not yet explored in the World Warcraft expansion. Yeah, it feels like that's...

I'm hoping to pretty soon. Yeah, you have to do that one raid and then you can go there and be fine. Yeah, then it opens that up. Anyway, that's all according to local police. So, yeah, if your prices on coffee go up at your various coffee places, although they were already jacked up artificially. Yeah, sure. I'm not saying these companies aren't going to suddenly go,

you know, we already were charging too much. We'll just go ahead and let it ride. They're not going to do that. It'll go up again. This is why. This is why. Do the Panera thing for 12. bucks, I get as much coffee as I want. Basically, what I would spend in a week buying beans, grinding

them myself and making coffee, I can get for an entire month at Panera. Yeah, I wonder if they worry about that. Because they just gave me $3 for six months. I wonder. You gave them $3 for six months. Or that's, I mean, yeah. But that's such a rip-off for them. It's such a rip-off, yeah. They're just hoping that you'll forget to cancel before it's time to renew. But afternoon, Swing by your Panera. Get yourself a blueberry lavender lemonade. Oh, they're best. They're really good.

Really good. There's another one that's like low, even lower calorie than that. That you just throw one packet of Splenda in. It's red. It's like pomegranate. I can't remember what it is, but it's great. And you get a large for free as part of your sip club membership. And walk out of there with a diet Dr. Pepper if you want, whatever.

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, exactly. It doesn't even have to be. one of their teas or lemonade. Just go there and get a big old show. Yeah. I like the cut of their job. Again, way cheaper.

Like, just have a thermos, a giant thermos in your car, like one of those big ones. And keep going in, getting more Dr. Pepper. Go out, pour it in the thermos. Come back in, refill, pour in the thermos. They don't care. They're into it. Brian, let's take a break. When we come back from the break, Tom Merritt will be here.

And after that, recommendals, as stated before, let's play a song. What do you have? Yeah. Yeah, this is great. This is a singer named Ali Venable, A-L-L-L-Y Venable. This is the title track of her forthcoming album. The album is called Money and Power. And if you do the math, then the song is called that too.

This is coming out April 18th via Rough Records. Guest stars on the album are Shamikia Copeland and Christone Kingfish Ingram. She is a Texas-based singer-songwriter and guitarist. She's fantastic. It's Allie Venable and money and power. Like a razor play Steep pockets heavy wallets big bills on my mind I can rock

Imagine what a woman could do Ain't gotta take it from you Don't you doubt her She got that Money and power Making moves flying through With hot pistol Mama on the loose

Handshakes the deal's made The green paper guts dry Like a razor blade Imagine what a woman could do They gotta take it from you Don't you doubt her She got that Money and Power

I'm not I'm not I'm Wow Yeah I'm my I'm

I'm I'm Oh Oh I'm Oh I'm my

and I'm my my and I'm Imagine what a woman could do Imagine what a woman could do from you

Imagine what I want to make nothing Ain't got to take it from you Don't you doubt her She got that Money and power I don't think so. He was shot when he tried to get away. You can be shot just as easy.

I'll be a fool. I'm a doctor. I ain't seen no dope. I ain't seen no coat. We're back. Who is that again? is Ali Venable from a brand new album. That's the title track. It's called Money and Power. Get your copy of that album. Or go listen to it streaming on April 18th. Nice. All right, you guys,

get ready for the hotness that is the Tom Merritt coming in here doing hot Tom things. Can you handle a hot? I don't know if you can handle a hot Tom. I mean, it sounds like a real drink, doesn't it, a hot Tom? That's right, yes. Would you drink a hot Tom, Tom Merritt? Is that a thing you would put in a hot mug and drink your hot tom what's in it uh it's up to you yeah it's up to you the hot tom okay then yes then the answer is yes i get this right what goes in it yeah absolutely definitely i do love a hot toddy oh apologies to all the tods out there sure that's right yeah hot toddies are great yeah i love a good hot tod especially if you throw a little whiskey in there it's even better oh look at it look at wait is there a version that doesn't have whiskey yeah my grandmother

they used to make hot toddies that were basically just like warm like a hot lemonade basically with that's a hot timmy that's that hot timmy is that's that's a hot tom maybe that's a hot tom that's that's a hot to that's a hot tommy there you well look out everybody come into a menu near you a hot tom watch for it catch it by name uh tom merritt it's good to see you as always uh nice nice day to have some tech talk i think wednesdays i always like these days they're great uh yeah me too what'd you what did you bring with you? What do you got going on? The decline of VR headsets. Oh, shit.

Yeah. Oh, you just throw this one away is what you're saying? Just get rid of it. Just toss it out the window, they're over. They're done. All done. No, counterpoint research estimates that global shipments of VR headsets

fell 12% year over year in 2024, which is bad news enough for the industry, but it's the third straight year of declines. So, yes, we're still early days in VR, but we may never leave early days of VR. Meta now has 84% of the market. Apple is second as of Q4 with 9%. Do you know the PICO headsets?

Not familiar with those. What about DPVR? No idea. You've heard of Sony. Yeah. Sony is not higher than Apple? That blows my mind just because of the price. Sony's not higher than Pico or DPVR.

Sony VR2 Sony VR2 is sold terribly They did this was It's an abject They don't talk a lot about it a lot You don't hear about this For Sony a lot But that was a massive

Massive bomb With the second iteration Whereas the first one did okay Best selling headset in the VR market Yeah So that tells you kind of the state of things I guess It's all a little bit weird

And I don't see I didn't hear you mentioned Vive V's not in there HCC's not in there anymore It's not in the top five No Boo Geez, top five.

What bums me out is that this thing I was super excited about, it's alien something, like it's a game based on the alien universe. And only works with the MetaQuest three, does not work with the two. Oh, it doesn't even work with the older one. Wow. Graphically, a little more intensive that game. It'll run on, I think they're bringing a Steam version or at least a PC version. But that, and that you could tether and play with your...

Oh, that's true. I could do it, yeah, I could do that. Sure, all you have to do is. It's another my wireless headset. Exactly. But worth it, worth it if you want to play the game. If you want to play the game, there's your way to do it. Yeah, I don't think this is the death of VR headsets.

To me, this says they are a specialty. There are people who love them. Many people who love them, many, many fine people say they love VR headsets. Sure, sure. But they are not a mass market. I think that doesn't mean VR and AR are dead at all. It just seems like people want smart glasses more than they want to wear a headset. Sure.

So, yeah, you will always have a market for people like, yeah, I don't mind putting on a headset and doing VR because you get some cool stuff. But it feels like it is headed for niche status and meta is dominating in that niche status. It's one of the reasons Applevision Pro I don't think took off is because it's not niche enough. It doesn't have a gaming base, and it's heavier to wear, even though they balanced it very well, so it doesn't feel heavy. It's just bulkier than the Quest. What Counterpoint did say is that there's much better news for the enterprise market. This does feel like it's more of an enterprise level thing, maybe for training and things like that, productivity, which is what Apple had been betting on, but they didn't give numbers for that. So we don't know if that means it's just declining less or if it's actually growing.

Yeah, Apple's got the whole price point problem where, you know, that thing's kind of out of reach a lot. Which is not as big of a deal for enterprise, which why I could see. And I've always thought that Apple Vision Pro was really targeted more towards productivity and enterprise use, especially at that price point. Yeah. The way they were marketing it. I don't know if they succeeded in doing that, but it did feel like they were hoping like, yeah, we'll we'll sell a few hundred to a company at a time. And that's how we'll bootstrap selling a more consumer-friendly version down the road. And it doesn't feel like that's working for them. And their public marketing on it was so consumer-focused about somebody sitting on a couch doing stuff that it didn't really sell the enterprise end of it very well, or at least didn't feel like it. That makes sense to me, though, because you can sell the enterprise end more directly. You don't see a lot of enterprise-level marketing just in the general consumer space because that just isn't as effective. Were the valves headsets on there at all? What are they called?

I told you everybody that was listed. that everything else is in the other category. So they're in there, but they're just, let me get the actual number of the other category. It is less than 1%. Damn. See, on the whole,

review-wise and sort of, you know, what gamers say, that's the best one, fidelity-wise. But it's also really expensive and very niche, because it's already in a niche platform. That's a very successful platform.

But I don't know. I think that what this says, is exactly what you said. People want smaller, more compact, more daily usable, long battery life, nothing hanging around in your pants, no big giant thing to bounce on your head, nothing, something that doesn't blind you to the rest of the world for long periods of time. The smaller this stuff gets, and I don't just mean the current state of smart glasses, but like get to a place where AR and VR is possible with something that looks like a pair of ray bands. Now you're talking mass market appeal, and I could see it taken off like crazy. To me, it's like

tablets or phones or anything else that took off once we finally hit the sweet spot of price, portability, all the things that make sense, right? Usability, all of that. We have to get there still. We're not there. These are all like steps toward that. Great. Meta is dominating 80 plus percent of a market that barely exists. You know what I mean? It's the right price point, right? At less than $500. It's wireless, you know, so you just pick it up. You don't have to plug it into anything you can just use it and plug it so for the people that want it it is the choice everything else is tethered or too difficult or doesn't have the ecosystem uh so by the way i was i was looking at the wrong quarter uh apple was was nine percent in q three uh so i i apologize to sony sony was

nine percent in q four and number two oh they overtook them that was behind dpvr and pico Q4. Oh shit. Oh, Apple. That's not good. Your $4,000 device did not compete well with these sub-500 devices. And not in the holiday quarter, which implies it is an enterprise-level device, right? Because you have more of those purchases

happening outside of the holiday quarter. Whereas Sony would benefit from a holiday quarter because people, if they were going to buy a PSVR, might buy it as a present. I remember when Microsoft essentially shut down all these rumors that they were working on a VR device for the Xbox platform, and everybody's

like, oh, you're going to get lost in the dust. Everybody's going to lap you. You're not going to be ready for the next big phase. Now I'm starting to think maybe they were smart to wait and not pull a trigger and maybe just sort of watch things a little bit. They've got their own stuff going on with AR and Enterprise and everything else. But to not push that out to gamers, I think was probably a safer bet given just the lukewarm status of gaming on VR. It's just lukewarm. And I say all this, you know, one of my co-hosts on Corp, Bo is a huge advocate of VR. He loves it. He reviews games all the time. He will spend hours and hours and hours in his VR. Yeah, but he is like, he is very unique. It's almost like the show represents the world. He is this one little percentage point

in a show otherwise dominated by traditional stuff when it comes to gaming. And until that changes, I just, I don't know if you are sort of, you know, I'd compare it to handheld gaming, you know, like a steam deck. We don't, we don't look at handheld gaming and call it a failure because it's not selling massively. We understand like, oh yeah, this is for gamers, and it's for a subset of gamers, and it's very successful because of that. Now, I feel like VR is comparable to that.

I'd have to look at the numbers to tell you which one's bigger overall, but VR feels like, yeah, there are people who play games who really like to do it that way, and there is success to be found there. It's just not mainstream success. This is not going to become as ubiquitous as a phone or a laptop. No. But maybe one day,

little thin ones. I mean, that's all I'm bullish. That's where I'm yeah i'm bullish on that it's the ones that are like a glasses so like what xreal is doing or what meta's doing with rayban uh that that seems to be the future of widespread acceptance is i just want to wear glasses that look kind of like glasses but can do more yeah i think that's why meta is pushing those so hard because they see the writing on the wall they know they know where this is headed yeah everybody who makes fun of facebook and and and meta uh and the fact that they call themselves meta and like where's the Metaverse, remember, they have the most successful smart glasses in what looks to be the future

of, you know, wearable tech. And they have the most successful VR headset in what admittedly is not as big of a space, but they've dominated it. So whatever comes out of this in the future, which none of us can say, meta is leading in that right now. That's right. Unless he goes from Zuckerberg to Zucker Bork, I don't know what that means. Zucker Bork or Zucker Borg? Oh, Zucker You know, with the glasses. That actually worse. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure I've seen that Photoshop somewhere.

Someone's done that. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I have to. Well, Tom, it's always good to talk about this stuff with you. We'll talk more about it on Daily Tech News Show live today at 2 p.m. Anything else going on brewing that we should know about. Yeah. I just sent out an email to everybody involved to make sure we're all ready for the big launch on Monday, March 24th of Daily Music Headlines. I'm it.

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Sweet. Am I going to get some screamo, Brian? Some screamo metal? Yeah, I'll talk about it. I may not play it, but I'll talk about it. All right. And, uh, big, big, big thanks to Eileen, who's not only going to be helping out with a day week, but also really raised the bar with her writing, like her sample episode

that she wrote is like, okay, this is the level that needs to be. And so pass along my thanks to her because it's, oh, sure. Yeah, no, I absolutely will. I was knocked out. She asked me for notes. I'm like, not many. Yeah, no. Pretty spot on.

That's great. Well, I can't wait to hear it. Everybody look forward to that. That again is daily head, excuse me, daily musicheadlines.com. Go in there, get sub now. You described a whole different podcast that we'll need to work on. Yeah, Daily Head is nothing to do with this. I can promise you that.

Oh, there goes Tom. I meant to say goodbye and I didn't. Well, that'll teach me. That'll teach me how to play. All right. Hey, hit the wrong button. Let's get Randy in here again. Let's get Nicole in here. Let's get, uh, you know, some recommendals done. Heck yeah.

Heck yeah. Let's get that group happening. Let's get a little music going. Let's go right here. Well, what do you recommend? All right. You know what that sound means. It means it's time for us to recommend stuff we found on streaming services that we think you, the listener, might enjoy. And, uh, we have on the line with us back again. Randy. Hi. Randy. Good morning. Okay, we're here. We're here. We're keeping it talk. I love it. That's great. Hey, and also, Nicole, oh, she's still ringing. We have no answers to Nicole yet. That's right. She's staring intently at the phone. She is. She's giving us the look. Yeah, look at that. She changed her avatar from last time. Yeah. Getting busy. Yeah, it's still the different. Oh, there she is. Hi, Nicole. Good morning. How are you? Hello? Hello? What? Mark? Do you hear? Yeah, sort of.

You're kind of... Say something again? I'm in a car. I'm sorry. Oh, it's all right. You're in a car. You can be in a car. You can totally be in a car.

Can you hear me? Can you hear me of people? Yeah. Yeah, now it's a lot better than it was. So good. Whatever you did. Keep driving that direction, even though it's not... I'm not driving.

I'm just parked out in front of home goods. Yeah. And my pep talk did not work. So I kind of got distracted. You're better. That's fine. Your pep talk at the home goods. What was it?

The guy in there say, ah, you need more weird hot sauces from Peru for some reason. No. I love, I love shopping at home goods and T.J. Max. And I'm looking for something specific. And I can't find it.

So I keep, I'm like, well, maybe that'll work. Nope, that didn't work. I need to return it. And so when I return things,

I'm like, I'm just going to return it. I'm just going to return it. I'm just going to return it. I'm just going to return it. Yeah. Oh, I get it.

So you got to talk yourself into. Yeah, I get it. It doesn't work. It doesn't work. It doesn't work for me. All right. Well, if that's the home goods that's on 14th and Taylorson Drive, their Wi-Fi password is Home Goods, 5 with the O's zeros. Please tell me that's true.

Tell me that's true. Is that true? I don't know. I don't know that. Of course. I want that to be true. So bad. All right.

Well, not everything can be true. It's information out there to women that like home goods. I'm tantalizing the home goods fan audience. I'm a big, I love home goods. I like home goods too. I wish they'd organize their store a little bit better because it's a little, it's a little ramshackle. Yeah. No, it's not.

It's perfect. It's perfect. I don't know. I'm going to say ramshackle is the perfect term for it. Yeah, it was like, okay. Oh, good. I was looking for a vase. Thank goodness it's sitting in this dog bed in the plane.

in the blanket section I mean it is that's for let what was reading what were you going to say before I was just shocked to the day I found out that T.J. Max Marshall's home goods home sense winners Sierra Trading Post these are all

the same company oh yeah wow all of those yeah they're monster I don't know if Ross is part of it it feels like it might no Ross is the one outstanding that they haven't purchased yet. Yeah, they haven't bought him yet, so give it time.

You know? Every time I go on to Ross, I feel very icky, so I tend to just turn around leave. Really? At least, yeah, at least the ones I've been in. I get some pretty decent pants there occasionally. I get a good pair of pants on us. By the way, real quick, this skull, I got this at Home Goods, everybody watching at home. So Home Goods and I, we get along.

We're all right. It was right next to the blenders in the hot sauce section. No, Brian's not wrong. You're not wrong. They mix it all up. It's stupid. So, Brian, you're going to have to be, you're going to have to blame people like me. Because as I'm doing something and then shop and say, nope, I want this instead. As I'm going through, I'm going, why the hell? I'm just going to put it down. Put it down. And it ends up, you know, in a random part of the, but that's also the hunt.

like if you get dopamine for the hunt that's that's where it's it's the only store that's organized alphabetically uh instead of grouping like items together so yeah talking about they put all the candles together they put all the pillows together you know the places you and i go all the time the candles and pillows that's our favorite section that's right yes the candles and pillows yeah we love it in there it's real good stuff um all right let's get to these recommendals and uh we're going to start with Brian. Brian's got a recommend a all cute up here. Brian, what did you see? What do you want to say about it before we hit play? This is

one of the few parts of the movie that I think we can get away with playing because it's backed by music that's made for the movie as opposed to a licensed song from this performer. Wicked. And this

this, yeah, I'm recommending Wicked. Have you heard of this film? This is, you're going to know exactly who this is because he actually introduces himself. Wow. All right.

Here you go. Here we go. Good evening, folks. Good evening, slags. No, good evening folks. So, who is Robbie Williams? Well, I've been called many things. Narcissistic, punchable, shit-eating twat.

But while I'm all those things, I want to show you how I really see myself. To sit back, relax, and I give you a right, f***ing entertaining. So. as a monkey story starts

1992 Stoke on Trent the arsend of the north of England it may look grubby and deprived but deep down it was grubby

and deprived I didn't have much but at least I had the respect and admiration of my peers and just trouble showing it

so yeah monkey monkey boy monkey it's monkey it's Robbie Williams as a monkey she sees himself

as a monkey No, don't we see him as a monkey? Well, we see him as a monkey, too. But the reason you're seeing him as a monkey is because he sees himself as an un-involved performing monkey to the world. Oh, damn, this monkey. Oh, I got it. Yes, exactly. But also because he never feels, there's a tremendous amount of imposter syndrome.

So the film is called Better Man. I'll kind of go into that a little bit more, a little further. The film is called Better Man. is a biopic that takes you through the life of um english singer robbie williams who was a member of the boy band take that for a little while then struck out on his own and but has always suffered with massive um imposter syndrome and not feeling like he was he was good enough um but he walls it off with a massive amount of overconfidence and um it is uh it kind of takes you through visually how he sees that imposter syndrome. So he, of course, sees himself as a chimpanzee,

but he also sees himself in the audience when he performs glaring at him. He sees, you know, versions of himself, like not letting him be fully himself. As several people in the chat have mentioned, yeah, this is Taylor Tomlinson's favorite movie of the year. She spent seven minutes on an episode of After Midnight just talking about how much she loves this movie and how much people need to go see this. And she made it a segment in her touring show.

Did she really? She goes around and sits on a bench on stage and talks to people via a text message and that she has a huge segment on Robbie Williams. So where's the streaming? This is streaming on Paramount Positive. So you need to

fire up Paramount Positive. Don't look in Disney Positive. or a peacock You look in Paramount Possible. What did we start calling them plus positive? We don't. Brian just doing it for funsies.

Yeah, just for funsies. I'm trying to make it stick. So here's the thing that really sold me on this. Now, I'm not a big fan of Robbie Williams. I like his music. And I love his duet that he did with Nicole Kidman. The cover of Something Stupid by Frank and Nancy Sinatra is great. It's excellent.

That whole album, Millennium, is actually really, really good. So he's a huge pop star in the UK, not so much over here. Yeah, barely a little splash over here. But the story is compelling. Now, it is tropey as crap, but it's actually his life. It's the whole like, came from nothing, got discovered, became part of this boy band, got super popular, got a little. little arrogant because of all that, got into drinking, shunned everybody away from it. I mean, it is, when you, when you have a movie, a fictional movie about a pop star, this is

kind of the trajectory that it usually takes. However, this is his life. And he's, he's kind of letting everybody into that whole experience of his. Yes, go ahead, Nicole. At least what he tells us, that's part of it. Well, I don't think you'd make up some of the stuff that he does in this film. Oh, okay, okay. he claims he claims to have slept with four of the spice girls and uh had to apologize for that like did it at a at a concert said i've been in four of the five spice girls and he doesn't say which but he did have relationships he is claiming that though he still claims that there are four of them no no he uh but he did have he was dating melanie chisholm for a while and he uh was seen out with jerry halliwell for a while but to say that in concert and say four

out of five and describe it the crass way that he did, he had to come back out and apologize. And that was during his really dark period, which they spent a lot of time. And this movie was made by the folks who did the greatest showman, and it's very apparent

that that big bombastic style of musical numbers and storytelling absolutely fits here because he's a very bombastic performer. The... Bombastic side eye. That's right.

When you say, That's what I think. You think of Shaggy, sure, of course. No, no, no, I think of the meme, the stupid bombastic side-eye, me. Oh, side-eye. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry. Anyway, the, yep, the big star of this show is Weta, the movie FX production house,

because they do something that I have not yet seen in any of the Planet of the Apes movies, in King Kong, Godzilla, that sort of thing, which is get the physics of a character jumping around, a CGI character jumping around, correct. They, this, you know, the problem when you see like Planet of the Apes and the Apes jumping around and stuff is that sometimes they feel like they're, the mass, their body mass is off and they don't land like they should, or the rest of their body, how it hits when they, when they jump and land.

There are there is so much of this movie as a matter of fact, I mean, I wrote in my notes after a minute or two, I completely forgot I was watching the CGI character and just kind of let myself go on it. Are there flaws? Absolutely. It's all mocap, right? Isn't it all mocap? It's all mocap. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's a matter of who's in the suit, right? Like, I think a lot of movies, they mistakenly put these really athletic like Circta Soleil performers in the suit instead of like a chubby dude. Well, in this case, the, the chubby dude is only in it for like a couple concert scenes like Robbie Williams only does the mocap stuff a little bit. There's another guy. I delved into all the making of stuff on YouTube after watching this and it is amazing. It's fascinating the way they did this. But yeah, you see them do the layering of the the CGI stuff over

the mocap and then getting the lighting and getting the shading and getting things that move the correct way when they jump up and down. There's an entire scene for rock DJ, one of Robbie's biggest songs, that is done where they closed down Regent Street in London and filmed 500 extras on the street, all synchronized perfectly dancing, and the only CGI they used basically was The Monkey was the Robbie Williams character they show

that's another thing that's amazing in the making of but when you watch that segment it feels like God the choreography on this whole scene

this is this is basically what the greatest showman's best part of the greatest showman was all the music and the choreography yeah TV's Travis agrees the Regent Street stuff is amazing

it's like you said streaming on Paramount Plus I would recommend it I mean, if you're already a Robbie Williams fan, I'm sure you've already seen it. If you are familiar with one or two of his songs or even not familiar with all. It's not for kids, right? It's not for kids. Definitely not for kids.

Okay, I'm just making sure. He is a sexual person. He is. Yeah. And he was even. It feels so weird to watch. A monkey, basically. Yeah.

Like, yeah. Yeah. Give it, give it like, watch. the first five minutes of it and see what you think because really it's like you said i forgot that i was even watching a monkey i mean i forgot that i was watching a cg i you know a mocap cg person does the monkey have socks does he wear socks what does he have sex oh probably but off screen okay okay that'll be in the director's cut uh yeah there's no there's no there's no nudity in the film i'll say that. Oh, no, I take that back. There is nudity.

There's a very brief fan fan nudity, but not... Okay. Oh, okay. Okay. But the... Does the monkey wear socks? I heard that, too. Yeah. Yeah, go ahead. Randy. You had a question? Anyone ever seen the movie

Pop Star? Never Stop? Never Stopping? No, I need to see that. With all the Lonely Island stuff. Yeah, Lonely Island. Yeah, I want to see that. I might recommendal that. You just reminded me of it over and over with your description of this. I don't think they're that similar.

I mean, they're ostensibly about the same subject, but they're not. No, but I'll bet there's a trajectory of Sandberg's character where he comes from nothing, gets famous, becomes kind of an arrogant, horrible person, and then refines himself at the end. You need to see it. You need to watch a movie. Cool. Excellent. All right.

So anyway, this is Better Man. It is on Paramount Plus. I would recommend it to anyone, even if you've got kind of a passing interest in Robbie Williams, or if you've never even heard of him, watch the first few minutes like I told Nicole. And if you're not hooked, then turn it off. You probably won't get it. But, man, if nothing else, pull up YouTube and watch the Regent Street dance scene because they've put that up on, or at least part of it, up on YouTube, and it's fantastic.

Well, that's great. I hope it does well on streaming. It kind of tanked in theaters because people just... It really did. Yeah. It did get an Oscar nom for visual effects. Didn't win it, but it did get a nomination. Almost got a second nomination for one of the songs,

but then they realized it contained parts of... It was an original song that contained parts of previously released songs, so it can't really use it. Oh, that won't... Yeah, that doesn't qualify, right? It doesn't work for the category. It got pulled. It was actually even had the nomination and then got pulled.

well there you go paramount plus better man not better not not not don't get don't confuse it with the song better man by a girl jam there's no right better man that's very different man that's very different too very different movie uh all right let's throw it over to you know what since you're in the car nico let's throw it to you uh yeah i've got just FYI I am not driving I am in a parking lot I know the chat is very concerned about me driving and podcasting I I would never do that. My call has. Friends don't let Friends podcast while driving.

So we'd never let you do it. My car has Wi-Fi. So I'm like, I'll just do it from the car. Is that a Buick? Chevy. Chevrolet. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

America's car. So what's our hard stop? Oh my gosh. Do you think you're going to take 20 minutes to describe your movie? No, no. I want to make sure I'm very time. I can make this quick. It's about 12 minutes.

And you still have Randy and me. So whatever you can do in 12 divide by three. So there you go. Way to go, Brian. Talking 15 minutes about Better man. I did it in seven. My Discord video, I see it says 17 minutes. All right.

So anyway, so I am originally, I went to college. I went to college in Columbia, Missouri. and I spent a lot of time at a concert hall called The Blue Note, and I recently went back there with my daughter after 26 years, and it was so weird and just a lot of memories kept flooding back, right? And a lot of great memories, and it inspired my pick for my recommendal. It is on Tooby. It is from 1995.

A friend of mine introduced me to it. I'm like, this is a crazy movie. And it still applies. Like, have any of you, I don't know if you saw my chat, but I'm, roll the clip,

whatever clip you chose to pick. And then we can talk about it real quick. And, and, uh, the cast is amazing. All right. Let's give it a shot. Actually,

I haven't checked. I almost feel like, I almost feel like I can guarantee you, you've never seen it. All right. Here we go. Oh, that's left ear only. Let's do this one. Hold on.

We're getting some sort of intro here. Hold on everybody. Hold on to your best. A storm is brewing my friends. Here we go. Someone has to stop it. Every Sunday for about a year now, we've been inviting a guest over for dinner and discussion. This is Mark.

Hey, Mark, this is Zach. A bunch of damn liberals. What are you, a Nazi? Or is that too part of the left? Hey, very have the right idea. Excuse me? Let this past, we can go on with the rest of our lives. This is terrible.

What if you kill somebody whose death makes the world a better place? Oh, my. Tell me more about this. I love this movie. Good choice. Mystery. Oh, so this is on Tooby. And it's called The Lod.

Last Supper. It's from 1995, a very young Cameron Diaz, a very young, Ronan, Perlman. You have Bill Paxton. And a lot of actors, it's funny, because I don't, I know their faces. I didn't know their names.

So, Annabeth Gish, Mark Harmon's in it, Jason Alexander, Elizabeth Moss is in it. Nora Dunn from Saturday Live. It's got an insane cast. So the premise is exactly what you heard in the clip. It's these five liberal friends who have, they bring in interesting people to talk to,

to try to expand their thoughts, I guess. I don't know. And one night, an accident happens. And then it becomes what you heard. What if you could rid the world of people you thought were not good for the world? So it is, it's, it's just a wild ride of a, and the clip that I originally tried to send you, Scott was a, it's Ron Perlman talking about angry lesbians, no, angry feminists, because there's There's no other type.

They're only angry. That's his idea. So it is a very, very dark comedy thriller. Again, 1995. It all still applies today. It's like making that decision of like, or you have somebody over to do it and then you say, would the world be a better place if this person wasn't around?

And do we have the right to decide if this person shouldn't be around anymore? work. Yes. Yes. And the, it's really well done. The audacity of, and the, you know, self-righteousness of this group of friends. Like, they are, it's just fascinating to watch as a thought experiment. And it's a really good movie. So give it a, give it a watch. It's free on To Be, the Last Supper. It's hard to find because the Last Supper. is a lot of other things. Well, and there's a brand new movie called The Last Supper that just turns out to be about, you know, Jesus. Or Jesus. Yeah. Yeah. That Last Supper.

Some dude. Guy never heard of. Yeah. This is a great reason to watch Tubeby, by the way. Tooby ends up with some of the more obscure stuff you can't find anywhere else. They do. I really like it. I wish they offered away from you to pay out of commercials.

I would love that. They don't have that option. I love that there's a free thing. but let me pay out of commercials and I would gladly pay to be money. I don't know why they don't want my money, but whatever. So, Randy, have you seen this?

I have. Oh, you have? Yeah. I mean, it used to be on HBO a bit back when I was like in college or something. And I remember seeing it. I looked up to screenwriter,

a guy named Dan Rosen, and he didn't make many movies. I guess he didn't do well because his next film, he got zero percent on rotten tomatoes that is really hard to do oh gosh wow damn wow look at george eating a burger by the way there's a picture of george eating right yeah jason alexander one of these unsavories and that was that was peak seinfeld they were still mid like mid series yeah they had another four seasons ahead of them that's crazy yeah cool so to be worth seeing uh is it i mean are you is this one you're thinking of just given the current climate of things or nothing to

with that. Like, you know what I mean? No, it just helped everything to do with me going back to my college town and thinking about the movies that I would share with my friends. And this was one that really just kind of stuck in my head as like one of my favorite movies I watched while I was in college. And I was like, I wonder if it's streaming anywhere. Sure. And that's Honestly, that's how I gave them about, but it does still apply very much so to the whole climate of everything. Nice. Okay. I've never heard of it. I'll check it out. This is the first time for me. I think you might like it. All right. Yeah, cool. I will watch for it. Randy, let's fly over to you now. What do you got there for us? What's your quote?

The next entry in the years of trying to make myself feel better. It's a happy rom-com. and in the clip you're about to play, a divorced dad has just picked his daughter up from school and she is telling him about the subject of the day that the school kids were all talking about. Here we go. Which is when the man removes his penis from his pajamas and thrusts it into a woman.

Okay, Mrs. Gallagher didn't actually say thrust. Yeah. Oh. But what I don't understand, Simi Boygan sisters said he was. was an accident. I mean, how do you accidentally thrust the penis into, hi, Louise. Hey, how do you accidentally?

I love saying the penis and thrust. Just say tinkle part or wee, wee, something cute. Explain how Sammy was an accident. That's complicated. Penis. Okay, penis. All right, that's enough. Tinkle, tinkle part.

I love the term tinkle part. It's really good. Tinkle part. That is Abigail Bresland, uh, talking to. to Ryan Reynolds, her dad. And it's a movie that you haven't seen. It's called Definitely Maybe, and it is on Netflix. And it's a rom-com where basically Ryan Reynolds puts forth a How I Met Your

Mother's story, but he casts three different women as possible in his retelling for the story of how he met Abigail Bresden's mother and then leaves it up to her and you to guess which of those was actually her mom those three people are played by Ila Fisher Elizabeth Banks and Rachel Weiss it is all very

wonderful and warm it's got a bit of movie magic and like I say it's just nice it's a fun pleasant rom-com and that's all I wanted I have not even heard of this one I haven't either

2008 I love that cast. Yeah. Great cast. I feel like I would have seen this. I'd go to Walmart with Rachel Wise. I don't care what we're doing. I'll go with her.

Freaking love her. Even that. Yeah. Even that. Even that. Even at Walmart. If you saw it and forgot it, the movie magic is around a book. One of the three women that might be the mom later has a, is looking for a book that has a specific inscription in it.

and I mean like it's I don't know it's it's just nice it's a fun rom-com I think this might be the this might be the only rom-com in existence my wife hasn't seen so I'm going to put it on her list too she loves she loves this kind of stuff she would eat this up she loves Ryan Reynolds she loves all his movies she loves rom-coms but I don't think she did just friends did you like just friends with Ryan Reynolds I don't think I saw but I think she did and she liked it I think that's my that's my that's my Christmas movie. I'm sure this movie didn't bomb and it's definitely not like super low rated or anything like that. It's just it's just very very pleasant and I don't think a lot of people go to the theater to see pleasant.

But it's on Netflix, so easy enough. Reviewed well. So yeah, go check it out. All right. I'll do, I'll be very quick with mine. I saw something that is four parts and it's all it will ever be. be. This thing was designed to be four parts, four parts only.

I don't know why that matters so much, but I'm explaining it way too much. Let me go ahead and play the clip, then I'll explain. Please, he has? What's going on? Stop it, right? Listen to me, I'm explaining to your wife, your son, he's been arrested on suspicion of murder, right? He could. He could. Take him to the station for questioning. You can follow us there. It's on Hayward Street. Do you know where that is?

Of course, you do yet it's around the corner? You might be entitled to to compensation for any mess up with cause you today. What do you mean? Because you can get it back? That's the bleeding door in love. Why'd you need guns for the 13 year old? He's 13. Do you understand what I've said to you, of course. Do you understand what we're telling you, love? There's no way he's done this.

Look, he's had guns in his face and everything. Okay, a little intense there, right? There are lots. Netflix. Yes, it is Netflix. I've been, tell me, tell me the name. All right, I'm going to give you the name. Here's the name.

It's called Adolescence, and it is from creator Stephen Graham, who you know, usually in acting roles. Stephen Graham's kind of a squat looking tough dude. British actor, that was him there freaking out. He plays the dad in this movie, but he's also the creator of the show and directed most of it. He is known. You'd know him from Snatch immediately.

He plays Tommy. Snatch and, yeah. Really good and Snatch. A bunch of movies, bunch of Guy Ritchie stuff. Vendum Let There Be Carnage he's in as the bad guy. Yeah, he's all over the place, but he also turns out to be quite the otor,

and I didn't expect anything like this coming out of this dude. It is a mini-series. It is four episodes long, and the entire premise is that there is this 13-year-old kid. It starts with his arrest at their house, supposedly the murder of a classmate. I won't say much more than that, but that's the point of it. This kid named Owen Cooper, who plays the main kid, Jamie Miller, is his name in the movie. He hasn't really done anything else, but he's this young actor who is freaking mind-blowing, this kid. I mean, I am not kidding,

seismically good at his, at this role. I don't know who gets awards for British stuff that Netflix owns or how this is going to work if it's Emmy worthy, wherever the BAFTAs, give everything to this kid. He's so good. I haven't seen a performance like this in maybe years. And that's from adults. Like, he is so good. And he's young. He's like 13 or something.

When he's being interviewed, I watch. So this is going around all of my mom groups that I'm part of in Facebook. Like, you have to watch this. You have to watch this. Especially in the groups that were like. trying to get a handle on the technology kids consume yeah like that's really that's really the core of it the core of the story is kind of that it's like where why do you know these gen x parents we think we know everything we grew up in that technology we we got our heads around it

we think we know what social media is like but there's a yeah there's a layer under there that we don't know about and it's gnarly and rough and this thing is just non-blinking uh hardcore truth-telling. Non-blinking because it's all shot in one take. That was the next point I was going to make. So each episode, not all four together, but each episode is one-shot takes. So one tracking shot per episode.

Continuous. Yeah. And it's, I've never seen this done so well. And it's not with cheats. There's no like, you know, well, when they cut that corner. Like Hitchcock, they've done on the back of somebody's jacket, flip to change the wheels and then did it together. They don't do any of that stuff.

I have so many questions. There's a bunch of extra content out there, particularly Stephen Graham talking to some podcasters about how they did it. And, you know, mostly it was just down to tons and tons of preparation practice, rehearsal. But the actual takes they got are so good. I feel like I'm watching, I feel like I'm watching Magic being performed in a production way. It's hard to explain. It's beautifully shot incredible moments of like, how the hell did they do one shot? shot for this entire hour. Like, I don't get how they did it.

And did that mean that there were tons of takes where they went, shit, start over? Like, did they get 45 minutes into an hour show and go, oh, I flub my lines? I guess we go all the way back to the beginning. I mean, basically, you'd have to because that's how the thing was shot and they didn't cheat. So it's amazing. At one point, they actually use the drone, like an aerial shot that then comes down that the camera operators have to grab and then pull in to to use as a regular camera. Yeah, it's it's wild the stuff they pull off and it works so well and it is so compelling. This kid blew my freaking

mind. I cannot say enough about this young actor. I can't say enough about all the kids in this thing. He's amazing, but all the kids that play as friends or schoolmates, they're also very good. The adults are all amazing. Stephen Graham's role is, you know, he's the dad, but it's not like this massive role, but it's really compelling stuff. I loved every second of this. I can't recommend it enough. This will probably end up being my favorite TV thing of the year, probably. And I'm I need to watch it. There's a lot of good stuff. You beat me to it. There's a lot of other good stuff out there right now, but this thing just left a mark. And it's not, if you're worried, oh, it'd be so depressing. I mean, sure, it deals with a bunch of hard issues, but it's not. I think it could be

triggering for a lot of people. It might be. Yeah. Because the scene I watched was when the investigator is interviewing the kid and how just calculated, not even calculate how he talked to her, how she's trying to get him to say, what do these emojis mean? And he keeps saying like, oh, it seems like you're, it seems like you're afraid of me. And like, I'm just a 13 year old. It seems kind of weird that you, like he keeps trying to de-referring. It's almost, I would call it almost schizophrenic the way he behaves in there. And that person is actually a, she's actually a psychologist. So they have this whole episode where she's like evaluating him.

He's already been evaluated by another psychologist. They have to like have basically they just have a rule about having two assessments and then they compare the assessments. But it's all about I don't want to, it's not like there's things to spoil, but because there really isn't. It's just really telling the story and doing it in this real time way that is so. commendably technically proficient but doesn't lose any of the emotional heft that they're going for it's a fantastic thing cannot recommend it enough it's called adolescence and uh it's real

real good if you don't if you're if you're not used to some really thick cockney accent you might want to put on um subtitles they don't bother me i pick him up right away it's not a problem but some people may struggle with that that's always an option for you but it's very very very fair i put subtitles on everything it doesn't matter anymore subtitles go i it You could have the perfect, you know, normal American accent. I will still put subtitles on. Well, there you have it. All of these things we've talked about are going to be on quicktms.l.

And that means you can go find them, click them, watch them, see them for yourself and make your own damn decisions. Nicole, I hope that the parking lot is yielding great things for you over there. I'm very hot because I turned off the air because it was very loud and I didn't want to, I didn't want to disrupt it in the studio. I'm literally baking in my car. turn that air back on yeah don't die in there uh randy always good to have you this weekend film sack what are we doing do you remember craving the hunter craving that's right i keep forgetting we're doing craven craven this weekend speaking to netflix get it on man get it in there get your terrible marvel story ready because we're watching it that's what we're doing it's exciting

have a very good day my friends no you do we do we did a little done away there you did nicely done well done brian we're done when out of here do you'd like uh play a little song for us before we leave? Oh, sure. Yeah, nothing else. Yeah, that's true. It's all we go. All right. Well, I've got a song. Um, Jason, a.k.a-a-a-lac-lacca, uh, said, Dear Scotch and Bourbon, with all the recent talk of Ugechaca and hooked on a feeling, I think we need to hear a cover of it. Specifically, I'd love to hear hooked on a feeling by 8-bit universe. If that's not available, and sadly, it's not available in the U.S., perhaps the David Hasselhoff version is available.

Oh, what? I mean, that's available. But anyway, thanks for a great show, and we should probably check the ship's phasers. Oh, you want one of those, do you? Well, good thing. Those are easily available. Let's test the ship's phasers. There you go. Sure, I could play the David Hasselhoff version, but I'm not going to.

No, instead, and I apologize, Scott, that this is a seven-minute song. The good news is live. We're not stuck here for another seven minutes. But there was no better version of this song. in my mind to play for this for this episode um here's what's funny i almost played the bahama men version after all the bahama men talk we had last week too funny that we had both of those things together but that version is so so much like the original there's really no point in playing it this one not at all like the original as a matter of fact it's not even just hooked on a feeling

it's hooked on a feeling and black hole sun by sound garden uh combined in one song this is performed by Jen and Mamena, who has one of the greatest voices in indie music, and Rolf Stern joining her for this one. It's from her album Begin to Dance from 2017. Here's Hooked on a Feeling slash Black Hole Sun. I can't stop this feeling Deep inside of me Girl, you just don't realize What you do to me

When you hold me In your arm so tight You let me know Everything's all right I I'm hooked on a feeling I'm high on believing that you're in love with me

lips as sweet as candy the taste stays on my mind girl you got me thirsty for another cup of wine I got it bad for you girl but I don't need no cure I'll just stay addicted

and hope I can endure All the good love When we're all alone Keep it up, girl Yeah, you turn me on I I'm hooked on a feeling I'm high on believing

That's your right, in love with me. Hmm. Hmm. In my eyes. Indisposed In disguised No one knows

Hide the face Lies the snake The sun in my disgrace Boiling heat Summer stench Neat the black The sky looks dead Call my name

through the creed and I'll hear you scream again Black old sun Won't you come and wash away the rain Black old sun Won't you come

Won't you come? Stuttering, cold and damp, steal the warm, retired friend, times are gone for honest men, and sometimes far too long for snakes. Walking sleep and my youth are prey to keep Heaven sent hell away No one seems like you anymore Black old sun won't you come And wash away the rain

Black old sun Won't you come Won't you come Won't you come? Won't you come lips as sweet as candy The taste stays on my mind Girl, you got me

Thursday For another Cup of wine Got it bad for you, girl But I don't need no cure I'll just stay addicted And hope I can endure All the good love

When we're all alone Keep it up, girl Yeah, you turn me on I I'm hooked on a feeling I'm high on believing that you're in love with me I said I'm hooked on a feeling

and I'm high, I'm believing that you're in love with me. Frog pants. The F is for fun. The R is for right on. The O.G. is for O.G.'s that was good. And then pants. Yeah, just like Pompeii.