The Morning Stream - TMS 2806: Salty Rim

Episode Date: April 9, 2025

My Cousin Amy. Sucked In w Tom Merritt. Ashes to Ashes, Butts to Butts. My wife made me a virgin. Double Ringing Ramen. A Fartgas of Farkuses. Leezershoot Larry. Replicator? Barley Knew Her! The Device Said Moops. Funky Funky BeJunky. Caffeinated Travis. Only Dogs can Hear the Sonic Screwdriver. Scott Pees while Brian ISPeeeeeeeees! Pallbearer - More Than an Emotional Load. The one movie WITHOUT Giancarlo Esposito, with Nicole and Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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My wife made me a virgin. Double ringing ramen. A fart gas of farcasses. Laser shoot Larry. Replicator. I barely knew her. The device said moops. Funky, funky, be a junkie.

Caffeinated Travis. Only dogs can hear the sonic screwdriver. Scott Pease while Brian ISP! Paul Bear, more than just an emotional load. The one movie without Giancarlo Esposito with Nicole and Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Welcome to Salt Lake City, where it never stopped snowing in this godforsaken hellhole. Do you have it in you to make it epic? The morning stream.

He's taking a dump in a can. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS. It is Wednesday, April 9th, 2025. We are back. I'm Scott. That's Brian. Hi, Brian. Good morning to you.

Yeah. Happy hump day. Happy middle of the week. Yeah. for us both very weird week filled with uh you know what it is i know what it is i figured it out it's not like a normal week where you're like oh scott has a cold we're not having a show today or a brian brian had to run over somewhere and he can't be here this morning whatever it is those things are normal and they don't feel like a giant time gouge but when you have a funeral or when you

have a mom who's not progressing very well in pt whatever it is that you got going on they're like major life things and as a result it makes that time feel completely pulled out and blown up and separate and fouls the week up like there was a time last night where i was like we'll see tomorrow's friday then and i actually thought it was a freaking Thursday night no no you're not you're not wrong and it messed me up because uh we did something oh yeah well just being in brush colorado for the funeral um teen i kept feeling like it was a saturday because that saturdays would be the days that we'd go out and visit, Carol, out in Brush, because it's an hour and a half drive out there, and we'd need, you know, some weekend time with her. But it was, you know,

so weird being out in Brush for one of the last times, and there's no other family to visit out there. So we're going to go back, or at least I'm going to go back to help with some, there's a, my grandmother Carol was a collector of Gordie, Gordy pottery. I don't know. Let's see. G-O-R-D-I-Pottery. I'm not sure how it's pronounced or spelled me. I know it's spelled. I guess it's G-O-R-D-Y. Oh, okay. Gordy, Gordy. Gordy. Gordy. Gordy. Gordy. Yeah.

It's this, I don't, I think it all started. It was a guy named William J. Gordy, who passed away in 93, uh, Cartersville, Georgia, dude that creates these really cool bottles and pots and things like that. And he, it's like revered by collectors. And she has, we estimate about 70 to 90 of these pots. Oh, wow. What are they worth each? Do you know?

Have you been able to estimate what they're worth? They're worth anywhere between like 30 to 50 to 60. Some of them are worth, you know, maybe upwards of 100 bucks, 150 bucks. My grandmother was great. She would, for whatever reason, she'd put a sticker on the bottom with a little thing, a little number that said how much she paid for that pot on eBay. She bought a lot of them on eBay. And she labeled a lot of things more just for her own fascination.

Like she, they found, you know, kind of starting to cleaning out her house, found stuff like packages of tea or toilet paper or something like that that actually has the date that she bought the package written on it and not because of any sort of expiration or anything she was just she was just curious about how long something like that lasts for her like how long how long does a box of tea last for me so she'd be able to look at when she pulls the last tea bag out of that box she can say oh okay I go through one of these boxes every three months

and now she knows I think that's awesome you know what that's kind of like a streak So I think your grandmother and I would have gotten along real well. I think you would have as well. I mean, my grandmother got along with everybody. She was a fixture in Brush, Colorado, and that was apparent by, you know, how many people came to the funeral. Even the Thursday, she passed away a week ago Tuesday, so a little like nine days ago, eight days ago. But the Thursday before, and twice that week before, she was at the church helping, like she had for many, many, many weeks before, knitting quilts and kind of overseeing quilt knitting for unhoused people and people who just needed quilts. And so we walk into the church and every pew is draped with a quilt that she either stitched herself or was involved in the cutting or the overseeing or the picking out of the fabric or putting in the batting or whatever.

All the pews draped with these quilts. Wow, that's awesome, dude. What a cool legacy. You know what that would be, it's like not a dream of mine, but it would be, I sometimes think about it. this how cool it be to be in a small town like sounds like that's what brush colorado is kind of a nice small little tight little town and just be like the person everybody looks at and goes you're the fixture you're the regular you're the one we all know like that's a cool that's a cool thing to have in a community I think that's all sure yeah

in in 2023 uh 5,268 people uh living in brush colorado small town yeah it's a nice small town Like they've got a main street and maybe four or five streets that I'll come off of that with a bank and a movie theater and the diner that everybody goes to and hangs out and that sort of thing. I kind of love that. I don't know if I want to do it forever, but I'd love the idea of it so much that I would probably. I'd probably do it. I'd probably live with it. When I hit a certain age, I think that would be, I'd love to. Because, you know, get my internet out there.

I can still 80 years old doing a podcast out there. we have to start yeah we have to start doing it we'll do the show at 11 the evening stream and it starts at 4 we'll call it the early bird special

we'll change the name that's right they love it yes TES will be the new episode or the new show very excited well how else did it go everything go okay and you know it went really well I was

Paul Bearer the first time I'd ever been asked to be a Paul bear for a funeral and that was an honor of course and also a surprise at six grown men not really struggling

but definitely definitely feeling the carrying of a 350 400 pound coffin carrying carrying what was easily like an 80 pound woman woman's remains in there right sure sure she's not the big she's not the heavy bit but she's you know

she's adding to it for sure that's a big heavy box and if you don't have like good equal strength on all sides it can feel very weird because you're the one that's doing the load if it's even it feels like nobody's doing anything which is kind of great too right right yeah no and i don't think uh we weren't very even we didn't really strategically place ourselves and we even uh um maintain our same locations through the three times that we had to um move her her her coffin and one of those times, actually two of those times because we had to get it up a flight of stairs and down a flight of stairs

and that, my friends, is not funny. No, and if you're doing the most like sacred march of your life. Yeah, yeah. Any tip over, fall over, crash is going to be a nightmare, right? So you're going to seek strength. You don't even know you have you're like that guy on the side of the road and you've got to pick the car up

because your kid's under there. Right. You're that adrenaline. is kicking in and a rar yeah that sort of thing yeah no it is like uh is everybody ready okay all right steps uh we're going up a step okay we're going up a step yeah it's uh you didn't yell pivot like the chat says you did not you pivot pivot that's wild well i'm glad uh i'm glad that went without any incident that would have been bad yeah it was really nice very nice service uh very um I'd never been to an internment. Have I been?

Is it a wake internment? What do they call that? Is it the part where they lower the, that's when they lowered the casket? They didn't lower it while we were all sitting there. Like basically we, they spoke, we all kind of walked up, put our hands on the, the casket, and then kind of walked away. And then while we were all gone, that's when they did the whole. When I, when I go, they're not going to bury me, though, because I'm, Well, they'll bury my ashes because I'm probably going to get cremated.

But whenever that happens, I like that one deal where there's a tradition where you hucked dirt on the top. Everybody gets a handful of dirt and gets the throat. Yeah, or roads or flowers. Yeah, or flowers or whatever. I want the handful of freaking dirt, man. I want to go, rah. I want people to go, rah, give it to the kids, get a big handful of dirt. Ra!

I think that's great. Yeah. Yeah. You know? Okay. So just remember that, everybody. Write that down. I'll put it in my will.

And you're all throwing dirt at me. I've completely decided not to do the whole. my ashes into brownies for old people because well it's here's why a you're afraid somebody's going to bring some brownies to tms Vegas and not tell you that there's some of these ashes in there no although now there's a new fear but the fear i have is that they will legally it would have to be one of my kids or my wife who do the deed and they would be culpable for putting my ashes and people's brownies i would have no culpability so they'd be in trouble and i can't really good point Yeah, you're asking them to do the, to break of the law, breaking of the law.

Yeah, somebody has to bevis and butthead that or else I'm not going to, I can't do it. I'm dead. Right. How do I do it? Exactly. Yeah. Put a little sign that says, please put me in brownies. If everyone's okay with it, like, that's not going to happen.

So, no. I've given Tina strict instructions that I'm cremated. My ashes do, like a little stone idol or something, like, you know, that's shaped in some vaguely weird, mythological creature kind of looking thing and dropped in some remote forest for somebody to discover and think whoa yeah give somebody an opportunity to say throw me the idol i'll throw you the whip that's what you want to do right exactly yes i want to be i want to be the gold statue that i've got back there behind me oh yeah that's perfect and then i'll be the ashes in the bag that indiana jones is trying to weigh and see if it's enough so those will be my ashes i'll be left on the altar

while he runs out of you. He would be the one that Harrison Ford opens a little bit on the ground and then still too heavy. He'll do a little taste of it as well just because I'll add that in there. Yeah, it's a good. It tastes like Brown. Yeah, and then when he leaves, they'll be a French guy. Well, Patrick will be out front going, or whatever, and make all the natives chase you

to the plane. We got this all worked out, you guys. It's going to be great. Totally worked out. We'll just basically give them the opening to Radio's the Lost Dark and say, make this happen for our funeral thank you very much yeah and bobby flies planes he could go that's just my pet snake reggie pet snake reggie or whatever he could he'll be in there oh we got does bobby feel about snakes in his uh in the cabin of the plane oh i can't imagine that's a desired thing i don't know

bobby if you're in the chat let us know and we'll be happy to hear it uh well good i got a thing that i found that is dumb but i want to share it with you all right okay okay found this guy he made a statement it drove me nuts so I deep dived on it I'm going to play the statement and then I'll tell you what we got it's about Costco and Sam's here you go listen to this the reason they check your receipts at Costco and Sam's on the way out the door is not to make sure you didn't shoplift it's because it's federal law you spend $200 or you're not allowed out okay I know that I know that there's 18 layers of bullshit right there yeah my immediate reaction was like, I've been to Costco many times and only walked out with $25 worth of groceries

of something. I walked in there just to get a 12 pack of batteries because overall it's cheaper. Yeah. You know, buying somewhere else. Yeah, exactly. We don't all go in there every time and buy $400 worth of like the whole summer's, you know, plans. That's not how it works every time.

So I thought you're insane. But then I thought to myself, why are they checking receipts? And I got an answer. So I'm going to share with you the four-part official reason you have to show a receipt just before you leave at both Sam's and Costco and here's what it is inventory accuracy does make sense right?

High volume of bulk items that kind of stuff if the receipt doesn't match something they can fix both overcharges and under charges. In fact most of the mistakes that get made are overcharges so it actually is in the favor of the customer when they do this it's not like they're not

doing it necessarily I mean partially doing it to make sure you're not walking out of there with more than you paid for but making sure that the checkers did their job correctly and didn't double ring your bowls of ramen instead of single ring your bowls of ramen. Exactly. Also loss prevention, that makes sense. They're not exactly saying you're a bunch of robbers, but they're saying here's one little last little layer of defense against anything that goes missing that wasn't paid for or whatever. Third, you have membership policy. So they have a very specific policy at both stores to enforce stricter control over transactions and maintain what they call. call over at Costco, quote, trust and fairness among members. So they do it so that, and they, and they claim and show evidence, which I think is kind of cool that they get, they keep prices lower by reducing shrinkage. All right. I don't mean in the pool with George shrinkage. I mean like

inventory price. Yeah, all that stuff. And then finally, customer service. Sometimes employees catch things like items left in the cart, double charges or wrong quantities. It's actually save people money in many cases. So that's what it is. It isn't that. there's some fake federal law that 200 bucks or more means you can't leave. What the F is that? Somebody's making a joke. Yeah, and from when Tristan

worked at Costco in high school, just after high school or during the end of his senior year and into a little bit of his after graduation, he worked at Costco and he didn't do the checking thing at the end, but he said that one of his friends did and he said that

they really don't even look at what the individual products are and try and match things up to your receipt. They look at the number on the bottom, which is right above where they do their little drag with their highlighter or their marker. They look and say, oh, 12 items? It looks like 12 items. Good. Go ahead. Yeah, they're just eyeballing it. They don't really have a way to their eyeballing. Exactly. They're just really eyeballing the number and saying, does that look like about 12 items? Yeah, good. The cool, the Sam's Club near us added something. It's like a big archway. And on your way, so you do the check, you have self-checkout there.

at Sam's Club. At least they do now. I don't know how they used to do it. But you do self-check out and then you go through this archway and the archway is a scanner that checks against what you what you just did, I guess, somehow. I don't know how exactly it does it, but there's some kind of when you walk through there. I've never heard it go, or anything. It's always just been and then I get out to the main door and they still check your receipt at the main door, which is weird. So that might be making sure that, because I'm sure on some high ticket items like TVs and computers and things like that there's probably a demagnetizing strip that they have to

the checkout person has to you know deactivate or do something with when they ring it oh good point it probably is just items like that yeah that's a good point yeah so like if you bought a phone or a TV or a you know freaking computer or something those are those probably have those in there that's a good point exactly yeah i would so tempted in there man oh go ahead go ahead oh sorry Costco was able to um figure out what you know amazon does with their Amazon shops and do that.

So you don't even, you know, basically you don't even just stop at the checker. You just basically put things in your cart. You pay, you know, as you walk out, your phone just automatically applies the payment. No need for a checker, no need for checkout people if you don't want them, that sort of thing. They also, I think they just changed that because there was complaints from people. So Kim, Kim actually went to that store in Seattle, the one that was the test case. Oh, really? Yeah.

And they expanded them out. exactly what you described. You go in, you pick up your stuff, you walk out, it just knows who you are and charges you exactly what you get charged. But it was, I guess, because it's obviously a test, they're trying to see if this is going to be a thing they want to do nationwide. In the test data, people didn't like the feeling that they had leaving without doing anything. It felt bad to them. I agree. The first few times I ever did that in an Apple store, because you can walk into an Apple store, they'll usually say, you know, oh, what brings you in here today? And you're like, I just need a new case for my phone.

Oh, well, they're right over there. It's like, yeah, I know, I know. I'm an Apple guy, okay? Yeah, I know where shit is, man. Don't have to tell me. You've got five sections to your little store. I know exactly where those, what's in each of those five sections. Yeah.

But then you go, you're like, find the one you want. You pull out your phone. You'd use the little store thing on your phone. Scan it, hit pay. And then you walk out. And it does feel weird. It feels a little bit weird. And in that case, you even have, like, it'd

least they've got a little machine there that you can look at briefly. So what they did, the Amazon thing now is, my understanding is when you go into the one, any of the stores that had this implemented, they now have a thing on your way out that is essentially kind of like a McDonald's window that's let you confirm your order and you basically just hit confirm. It still does all the charging on its own. It still does all the checking, all that stuff without people, but you have this chance at the end to say, yeah, that looks right. And then you, and then I guess this had the effect of people going, all right, I've paid for my goods. I'm now leaving because they had a thing they had to push. And that's all it took. So apparently that's how that's going to work with the Amazon

stores moving forward. No more ghost pay, I guess. It almost would be cool if they, you remember in the island, they have those monitors that you walk by, the movie the island. You walk by those monitors and it's got specific messages just for you. I thought that was a minority report. Was it the island? Was it a minority report? Okay. It was one. one of those. It was one of those, too. I think the island had, the island had propaganda that was always talking about how great the island was.

That's what it was. Okay, yeah, so Minority Report. Right, because it was Tom Cruise who was walking by it, not you and McGregor. Anyway, it would be great as you're walking, as you're walking out, there's a little, maybe an AI Steve Jobs that says, thank you for coming in, Brian. I hope you enjoy your iPhone case. See, as much as people fear that future, I kind of

I'll look forward to that. I kind of do, too. Maybe not an AI Steve Jobs, but, you know, just like a robot lady, you know, going, yeah, thank you for coming to our store in the such and such mall. I see you purchased a MacBook Pro 20, 28. Yeah. Exactly. I hope it works well for your porn.

Yeah. I'm sorry. Judging by your bookmarks, it will be good for your porn. Yeah. Later this fall of me, I'm sorry your phone is eight times more expensive than it was. eight months ago. Well, anyway, I got one more thing. Excuse me.

This is Amy. You know, Amy, Amy Robinson. I know. Yeah, I've heard of her. You've heard of her. She's been around, done some stuff. Yeah, comes on here once a month, does book recommendals, all that stuff. Well, anyway, she says this about her trip to Utah and possibly a theory.

Here we go. Oh, my gosh. The person just called in talking about fart gas, and I just remembered something. When we were in Utah, we crossed the street, and there were the, these two Utes crossing the street opposite us. And actually, there were three of them, but two of them looked just like Scott Farkas from a Christmas story. You know that the...

Real quick, when she says Uts, she doesn't mean the Native American tribe, the Uts. I thought maybe is that like short for Utahans, or she's saying Uts like my cousin Minnie. I think it's my university of Utah. They call themselves the Runnin Uts. or whatever. I think that's what she means

because I doubt it was like some actual tribal people if I had to guess. You know, when we crossed the street, there were two youths coming towards us. All right,

sorry, I'll go back to it. So they look like Scott Farkas from Christmas story. Here we go. Yeah. Where are that? Why won't it play?

It won't play. Here we go. You know, the bully, you know, the red-headed, gangly-looking kid. And so I had a thought

because I said, oh my gosh, those, looked just like Scott Farkas, and Chuck said to me, Fark Gas, and I was like, what if that's where it came from? What if somebody was yelling that at Scott? Can you know, because his name is Scott, and it was Scott Farkas, maybe it sounded like Farkas. I don't know.

Whatever. Anyway, love you guys. Bye. Interesting theory about Fark gas origin. I had never thought of it before. They were saying Scott Farkas. Farkcast. It feels like somebody recognizing you would be way more likely to say,

fart gas then they would Scott Farkas Also I don't look anything like Scott Farkas No no it's not like you've said You know Your favorite movie is a Christmas story

Like it's you know If they if they said Uh Imperator What is it Imperator or no Pretorian Jack Pretorian Jack

Pretorian Jack That would make more sense Yeah Because they're like connecting with you Over a shared love of the movie but yeah uh yeah i agree with you like we maybe even if you if somebody knew that i had some great love for for that for christmas story and i do like it but it's not an obsession of mine so yeah i don't know amy i like where your head's at it's yeah we you know playing with it

from a pronunciation angle is actually one thing i hadn't thought of before so this is good new news but i still think this cold case has some work i think we can't yeah It's still, yeah, this is not closed. We have not, uh, no, uh, given that, uh, that blonde actress, uh, the ability to close this case and put it back in that long hallway of black and white cardboard bins and market closed. That's right. And then, but we appreciate your additional evidence. We will consider it when building our case. All right.

All right. Hey, Brian. Uh, sir. Let's play a game. Now, here's the deal. Dunaway's traveling. He's got some stuff going on with his family. And as a result, we have somebody stand in.

Well, today, it's going to be our good pal and friend, Travis Crawford, aka TV's Travis. Now, we still need a fourth caller in addition to Travis. All right. So none of this changes, really, the way things work. I'm going to add Travis first and get him in here. Let's see if we're both still logged in. Looks like we are. Chuck says, no, she did mean youths, as in not youths.

Oh, she was actually playing the word game there. card yeah okay well that's good that helps you know what we'll put that in the file as well that'll be important we now can remove that from friday's segment uh well actually we did which we need to remember to do friday yeah we got to remember to finally do that so we're going to do that someone needs to compile it though there's too many people in there talking about stuff that isn't a complaint so we got to figure that out they're not following the rules we probably we should just do a spreadsheet you can give him a link in that group in that group follow the rule oh shit there's Travis I'll be honest I kind of freak me out when I first heard him because I've forgotten

you'd answered uh Travis welcome to the show man how's it going I'm doing well I'm extra caffeinated today because they took blood this morning so I think the caffeine is affecting me oh probably I'm wired for sound well you tests are you donating or what was that all about What's going on there? Just, I've got my annual physical next week, so my doctor wanted just basic blood workup. Well, very nice. Just a test, check everything. Just a test.

I like a test. A good test, never hurt nobody. Hey, we have a ninth. We have a fourth caller. You might have a guess as to who this is because I had screwed up and said their name instead of their position. But anyway, fourth caller, nine of 12, coming in right now. Let's see if we can get September all up in it.

While we wait, by the way. It's not Scott Farkas, but Scut, Farkas. I thought it was Scott. Really? It's never been in... It's Scut. It's one of those weird ones. Yeah. That is really freaking weird. September high, how are you?

Good morning. Good morning. You know who I'm going to miss in Vegas? You. Aw. Yeah. I know. I'm going to miss all you guys.

Yeah. It's going to be weird not seeing you there. But we'll make lots of pictures, lots of, waving atches, things like that. Well, I signed up for the tournament. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Excellent. Oh, good.

Well, we're glad to have you in some way. That'll be fantastic. But in the meantime, we're going to play this game. Brian's going to explain these rules. Tell us what Travis and I's job is and how we might win some prizes for 9 of 12. Brian, take it away. There's no way to have fun without having some rules. It's time to play the tadpooly feud.

I've surveyed the tad pool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Travis are going to have to predict the answers that they gave us. It is their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. September, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or TV's Travis. And if your team wins, you get a prize package that includes I-T-O-R-A-H-I-T-R-A-H-I-T-R-A-H-I-T-R-A-H-I-T-R-A-T-R-R-E-R-E-R-S-E-R-S-E-R-Sute-L-E-R-S-E-R-Sute-L-L-E-R-Sute-L-R-S-E-R-Sut-Lary-S-R-S-E-R-Sut-Lary games. Yeah, those are, I wonder how those hold up in terms of some of the content in those games. They were cringy back in the 80s.

They never really held up. No. Maybe that's the point. I don't know. But we'll see how you do here. Tell us what we're up against on topic here. I'm scared. Sounds good.

All right. Get ready. Put your hands on your buzzers. You see your little link there, Travis, to buzz in, I hope. Yep. All right, good. And answer this. We asked 440 tadpoolers to name an iconic device, but not a weapon used in a science fiction TV show or movie.

The memory clear thing in Men in Black, the Zapper Brain Zapper thing. Sure. Show me the neuralizer for Men in Black. Oh, all right. Number seven on the board, six answers will beat it. No way I was going to remember that name. It's good points, but I, so non-weapon, non-weapon. I'm going to go with a little Star Trek action and a tricorder.

Oh, okay. Show me tricorder. No. Number one answer on the board. You get possession of the board and you get possession of September. I'm sorry, September, you know, the property of TV's Travis. Yeah. It's more of the power of Christ compels you kind of possession.

It's more of a debonic possession. Yeah, yeah. Physical possession. That makes you feel any better. Yeah, it'll all be fine in the end. All the good guys win. That's right. All right.

There you go. So, Travis and Ember, you guys have controlled board eight answers up here. But you've only got one point because of that great answer. Isn't that funny how points work? We've got seven. Let's see if we can start getting some more points for you guys. Oh, shit. Oh, that's a good one.

Yeah. No, totally. Sonic screwdriver. Yeah, that's a good one. all right sometimes can be used as a weapon but most of the time used as a sorry there's a dog in here and a ripley she's howling at something for no okay i'm going to mute for a second just yell at her keep going okay so we have strong feelings about the sonic screwdriver yes only dogs can hear the sonic screwdriver uh show me sonic screwdriver yep number two answer on the board nice up to three

points. Nice position. That doesn't feel like winning. See, that's the tough part. The non-weapon part is tricky. Oh, well, it's not a... I would say, what is the question? Is it device?

It says device. That's where... An iconic device, but not a weapon used. Holodeck, but that's not really... I guess that is a device. It's just a room. What do you think of? What do you think the tadpole would say about

Holladdeck is the real question? Right, yeah, that's the thing. What was the actual device? Yeah. Ironic device, but not a weapon used by me. Teleporter? That could work. Transportor.

Yeah. Yeah. Do that one. The one that freaked out to, you know, Dr. McCoy. I didn't like that. That's right. Yeah.

Made a glob of somebody in that first Star Trek movie and they didn't have a backup of that person? And he was upset. He was not happy about that shit. He was not happy. Show me, Transporter. Nice. Yeah, number five, answer on the board. All right, all right. Things in here.

Guys are killing it. Let's see. Oh, I mean, we have them now. Everybody has one, but communicator. Oh, like yeah, a little Scotty, beat me up, that thing. Yeah. A little portable communicator.

Sure. Star Trek. heavy on these answers. I love it. A little bit. All right. Show me communicator. Right. Player. Number three, you guys taking a strong lead

here with 11 points to Scott 7 and almost have completed the left side of the board. Yeah, but now we're running out of Star Trek devices. Oh, wait. September. September, what do you think of a food replicator? Yeah, replicator for sure. Yeah, I think

because I, I mean, I sort of have one with a 3D printer, but I can't eat the that comes off of that. And it takes a lot longer. It does. Yeah, let's go with the replicator. All right. Sounds good.

Show me your replicator. Oh. Oh. Your number 13 answer on the board. People said it, but it just didn't make the top. It's a good answer. Yeah. I would have, I would have, I would have to want one.

I agree. That's the, I'd be number one for me. I love cooking, but I still want one. Sure. All right. We got a lot of Star Trek. I'm sorry. Hold on a second. I'm sorry. Hold on a second.

I have to read, I have to revoke that. Because I did, for this. Oh, it's 11th? Yeah, it's, well, it's tied for 11th place. So hoverboard, Pipboy, and Replicator all had the same number of votes. And I didn't want to pick one over the other on that one. So I just put them all. If you said any of those things, you would get the 11 in a free place.

I am so glad that you said Pipboy was 11th because I was going to choose Pipboy. Yeah, now you eliminated. Yeah. Right. Yeah, you would have, you would have also gotten that bonus 11, you know, extra answer, no points, but a bonus answer. Yeah, but now that we know it's there, I can't use it, right? Obviously. Exactly, exactly. But now it still goes back to Travis and Ember since that was a, that was answer 11. So they do keep guessing. Non-weapon and hoverboy and hoverboy. That's right. Hoverboy, Pipboy replicator. All three of them were the, we were the 11.

I've used transporter. I'm running out a, I'm running out of like non-weapon gadgets because I'm trying to think. I think, like, Star Wars, all the cool things are weapons. Oh, it's all sci-fi, right? It's all fantasy? Yes. Well, that's, yeah. The question says sci-fi. Yeah, the question says sci-fi.

Because, like... Stuff like a time turner. Like, is there something else that... Does that... But a device, the DeLorean, time machine. That's a device. Sure, car. I think you could do it. I mean, look.

Look, if a teleporter, or excuse me, a transporter. So a flux capacitor, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because if a transporter is a device, I mean, that's a big complex series of devices that make a device. Yeah. If they're going to count that, I don't know why you couldn't count the DeLorean. Yeah. Yeah, give me the DeLorean.

Okay. Show me the DeLorean. And really more specifically, the device inside the DeLorean that is the device that's important to the device. Yeah, the flux capacitor, as September said, yeah. That's good. I mean, DeLorean's just a big silver box. Yeah, it's the vessel. The real device is the flux capacity.

Yeah, it's like the soul to the body. See? Exactly. Exactly. I did. There were a couple DeLorean answers, but I'm like, well, it's, you know, I'm going to lump those into flux capacitor. Sure.

Yeah. I like it. Sounds good. It takes our time travel machine. You guys completely have the left side done. Done. Yeah, look at that. Done and done.

Four answers still on the right side. And yeah, things get a little tricky. you're here, don't they? Don't they? Yeah, Scott, you might get a chance here soon. We'll see. We'll see. Trying to shut you out, but yeah. I appreciate that. I mean, if I'm only going to come on once a year, I got to make my... We got to make it worth it. Sure. It'd be a streak for me. I like... Yeah. I did that once with potato chip flavors or something. Oh, yeah. Do you have a winning streak, though, in the show? You don't have like a... No. Okay. No, I think I lost last time. I wonder if we have anybody who can say they've won every time

they've been on for the multiple people times you know I was going to say there's probably a lot of single time you know ones and duns who won when they came on but yeah who knows we said the sonic screwdriver but what about the TARDIS wow yeah that's a device it's another time machine

yeah but that wouldn't have got lumped in with it doesn't use a flux capacitor that's true it does not at least not in any of its iterations that we've seen over the years True. Although that's a hot, that's a hot new bit of

a fan fiction you could create, though. That'd be great. Yeah, exactly. Get on that. All right. Um, yeah,

Tartis. Marty, we've got to watch out for this timely, whimy stuff. Uh, show me the Tartis. Yeah.

Yeah. I think that, does that, let's see. Uh, 21. No, you can still,

you can still win if you get, uh, even if you get any two of the, of the remaining three. And now I'm really running out of ideas for non-weapons. That's the thing. So I feel like there's like a weapon somehow snuck its way on the list. Like, but I know better.

Well, the judge, can you tell us that, Judge Brian? Is that a thing you can say to us? I always go with what the tadpool says. So when the tadpull gets it wrong, if a lot of the tadpullers get it wrong, then then it makes it onto the list. You know, I'm going to say just for, because I feel like people would say this a lightsaber, even though it does say non-weapon. All right, but yeah, but that's so very a weapon.

I don't know. I mean, it is. I also use it to cut a hole in the wall and get to menace. Yeah. What about a jet pack? Because you've got Rocketeer, you've got Mandalorians, you've got jet packs are pretty iconic in sci-fi. At least two Jet Packs. What else is a Jetpack?

You know, that's Kirk. Yeah, that actually for sci-fi, I could see just general sci-fi. Yeah. James T. Kirk used a Jetpack in Star Trek 5 that horrendous Final Frontier.

That was a, those were gravity boots. Oh, they were heavy boots. Oh, please tell me those are somewhere on the 100 or so answers or whatever. Anyway, all right. So you say jet packs. Gemstones are using jet packs now, but... It's because the righteous gemstones will go down as one of the best shows in the history of television, that's why.

It really will, absolutely. I need to watch that at some point. It's so good, man. Oh, my gosh. Wait, you haven't seen? Oh, so good. All right. Nice reference.

Let's see. So you're saying jetpack, show me jetpack. There's your real strike. Yeah, number 21 in the list, though. It did make it up there. It was on there, though. Okay. Oh, man.

I don't know why. I want to stay with Star Wars a little bit. I think people would treat a droid like a device. So I'm going to say, droid, even though they could kind of fight their sort of weapony if they want to be. There's battle droids. But, you know, like the R2D2 style is probably what people are thinking of. So, droid. Yeah.

R2 suddenly had the ability to fly and zap people in, you know, one of those prequels. So why not? Yeah. show me droids oh man really yeah surprisingly surprisingly didn't come up as droids

somebody did say BB8 so one vote for BB8 and that's it I wonder if it's because so many of them have personality so they don't get looked at as a device I could see that because they are kind of creatures unto themselves in a lot of ways

Yeah, and I mean, they're programmed to feel pain for some reason. Yeah, yeah. Which is just terrible. Especially with a shot out of a Deguba whale mouth or whatever that creature was. Oh, right. It's a necessary feature because otherwise they don't know if they're damaged. It's like they would have leprosy if they couldn't feel anything. Oh, you know what?

I like that. It's kind of like how, you know, your A word. Like Peter probably has that too. Your Amazon A word will act all apologetic sometimes or try to sound like, oh, sorry. I didn't mean to it's like to the internet right now. Yeah, sorry. Like they're really sorry. They're not sorry.

I cussed out my iPhone one time because it wasn't understanding anything. And it said, I'm only trying to help. It's like you're not a real person and you don't know what it means to try to help. So stop it. There's no reason to take that tone with me. Please check. Your hard pressure. All right.

Did you guys pick one? I can't remember. Now I don't remember. No. I'm thinking. Oh, that's right. Yeah. What did you say?

You know, you're flying cars or your speeders from Star Wars. Oh, okay. Yeah. Like transportation. Yeah. What if you can be that general with it or Brian will make it be more specific? I will let you be that general with it. All right.

Do it. All right. show me flying cars that we've been promised. Yeah, I'm just going to kind of wipe a lot of these off the board. Let's see here. All of them were single entry guesses, but flying car. Was there more than one? I want to say there was more than one.

Let's see here. There were a lot of answers that one person says. That's land speeder. Oh, yeah. Not really a flying car. I mean, it flies, ishish. More of a hover car, yeah. I think that thing needs land to go anywhere, right?

It's right there in the name, right? It's a land speeder. It's right there. If you go off a cliff on tattooing, it is not going to, like, get you to the other side like the, like those Duke boys might want. But it looks like that's, I guess that's it, actually. So, yeah. No. No.

not at all, especially if you count land speeder as a land vehicle no flying car is amazingly this is hard. Okay well then what's a thing? What's a thing? Okay, in Hitchhiker's Guide there's the book

it's not a device though or is it? The movie made it seem electronic but the book's not that clear on it. It kind of is though. That feels too out there. I'm not doing that. I don't know why this is so damn hard Furiosa's robotic arm

Take it do it oh there you go great Somebody playing right into your right into your metallic hands Show me Furiosa's arm Boo Not even not even in the list Unfortunately It's on my mind's all I could think of So there you go

About universal translator Oh that can Yeah, because you were thinking Faviltice, probably, right? I was. It's an actual fish, but you're right that that's a device in the Star Trek sense. So, yeah, why not that?

I do think the Hitchhiker's Guide, the book does kind of get described as electronic in a way because they talk about how if it was printed out it would take out like so many rooms or buildings or something. Yeah, and pages change in the books and stuff like that. But I like Universal Translator.

Yeah, do that. Okay. Yeah, let's do that. I'm crossing my fingers because I kind of want a tractor beam. I'm scared. Show me. All right. Are you changing?

Are you sticking with it? What are you doing? What do you think, Travis? Tough one. You know what? If we're going to go out, we'll go out with tractor beam. Sounds good. All right.

I like that. Show me tractor beam. Yep. You're going to go out with tractor beam. Well, tractor beam was number. Do, do, do, do, do. that was another one that one person said so which surprises me because of the tractor like tractor beams are in so many sci-fi things yeah that you think that they'd be a lot more um but it's the tadpool so the rest of them are all weapons probably

we'll tell you hear how dumb the tap the tatpool is uh scott all right yeah what one answer uh one yes left i think i'm gonna that was a bottle I heard that. Yeah, somebody knocked over their whiskey. Huba, hubba, hubba. Wait, or, what's the points? Uh-oh.

Oh, yeah, you're right. 21 points for TV's Travis and Ember and seven points for Scott. So he needs, if he gets any two of these, uh, then he wins. Obviously, if he clears the board,

you win. And if he doesn't get any or one, then you still win. Yeah, I would really, yeah. I would like to, you can lose if he gets two of these, but doesn't, get three. Yeah. So this, the pressure is really weird because I don't think I, I'm not going to get two.

All right. I'm going to go, I'm going to steal back the one they said. I think universal translator would be a high, high market thing here. So let's do it. Sure. Okay. Show me that universal translator. Oh, my gosh. Why is it taking us so long? I don't know. I'm scared. You should be. I'm terrified. I'm pushing the button and it's not doing anything. do-do. Al-Qabobab? I'll reload. Okay, okay.

Let's see if that piece is it. Oh, God. Did it just reset the game? I think it reset everything. Oh, wait, no, they're coming in. Here we go. Yeah, because I'm doing it. Oh, okay.

I'm remembering what everybody shows. And then that, that's... Oh, man. Oh, wait, you're putting in. You're putting in. Okay. Okay. Yes.

All right. You got a third on them. Two on me. Okay. Pit boys out. All right, you ready? That was amazing, by the way. Show me, Universal Trans.

Thank you very much. I just remember what everybody got. All that work, I could have just, you know, said. Babelfish was number 17. I would have given you that for Universal Translator as well, in addition to the Star Trek Universal Translator, the thing that sticks in Uhura's ear. it uh that one amazingly only had one person uh that's crazy to me it's a good one it is crazy because

that's such a great device no let's look at what these last three are uh this first one is so good the tartis is one as well the field of universal translation oh oh right that's true because it's personal field right like it yeah it just has so many other functions though that it's hard to yeah yeah uh all right show me number eight. Stargate. Not just the dream of a show, but a very cool iconic device that you walk through.

It is a device. It's a great, big ancient device. Yeah, it's good. Bad C.G. water effect in it and all that. It's fun stuff. Number nine, a precursor, like the communicator, a precursor to modern phone technology. Ziggy from Quantum Leap.

Oh, my. That's actually good. Really the data pal. Oh, wow. How is it connected him to Ziggy? is that in the top ten? That's not. I know. I know. Nobody was ever going to say that one. That's crazy to me, but I guess people picked it. Because it, you know, it makes those boop-loops. Sure, sure.

Noises when you use it, especially when it doesn't do something right. I know, I know that it wasn't, but every time I hear that, I think it's Frank Welker doing those noises. Well, he used to do a lot of that stuff, so it would make sense, wouldn't it? Yeah. He was good at it. ICU says it's called a hand link. You know what? That would actually move up because I did not remember that name. So one more person said hand link, and I didn't add that to Ziggy. So that wouldn't put it at Tide for Eighth place in this list.

And finally, number 10, you know, when you started talking about lightsabors and saying, well, would the Tadpool say that it's a weapon or would they say it's a tool? Along those same lines would be, number 10, Phaser, Star Trek Phaser. usually used as a weapon but also can be used as a shield or a cutter or welder yeah exactly deterrent

because it just you put it on stun that's not so much a weapon as it's a stunning weapon that's true yeah lightsaber was number 15 people still thought that was a device an additional weapon number 14 is the thing longer

from Futurama oh I love that one Yep. Yep. 18, I'm sorry, 16, was indeed the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Yeah, and the radio play. They describe it as a device and more than a book. And even, I think, makes noises in the radio drama. In addition to the voice of what's his face, who narrates. But it also, yeah, does the thing. Number 18, sticking with Star Trek, man, Jordi LaForge's visor. The Hall of Deck was number 19. People, I mean, people, people, love their Star Trek devices, really. The Infinite Improbability Drive from Hitchhiker's Guide number 20. I wondered about that. That was a good one. Nice. Ghostbusters gave us the

PKE meter, the you know, the, put the little ears on it that go up. Sure. The Pokedex. The Proton Pachian. I thought of that. The Pocodex. The Pocodex. The shoe phone from

Get Smart. And then we get into all the single entries. 40K chain sword, a McGuffin. Okay, pretty funny. A back to tank, the Batmobile, Bender, Chekhov's gun, I guess, okay.

The Cosmic Key from Masters of the Universe, Darth Vader's breather thing, data pads, ejector seats. You know, we do need an injector seat. Floating ball that Luke uses to train with. I thought about that.

That's a good one. The training ball or whatever it's called. Yeah, the training remote. Yeah, that's it, training remote. The flute in Willy Wonka, might be a reach. The food rehydrator from Back to the Future, too. The ghost trap from Ghostbusters, Hal. Those things, the hologram messages in Star Wars, hot tub time machine, hypospray, K9, kit, the weapon or the motion tracker that they use an alien and aliens.

That's a great device. the multipass, the necronomicon, Omega 13. The multi-pass. That's a freaking card. A multi-pass. The phone booth from both the Matrix and Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. Different phone booths, but...

Similar effect, but not quite the same. The portal gun, the recorder, the Sailor Moon's Tiara. Oh, the shield. personal force field from from Dune the sling ring from Dr. Strange It's a great one

the talkback or talk boy from Home Alone 2 I mean it's a great device but it's definitely not sci-fi I would not call it sci-fi I had one of those though

did you really talk? Yeah I had I had a talk boy I wore that thing out nice yeah let's see the Dune Snifers the towel for Mitch Echiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

See, that should be higher on the list. It should be. Just warp drives in general. The Woodball Future Sing Machine from Minority Report. And finally, the three shells. The three shells. Was that really the last one in the order? Like, it was the least amount of votes, but it was in the... No, I saved it for last.

It was just tied for like one, but I like to go out on a good joke. No, that's fantastic. That's a good one. You guys make me sad. No Furiosa arm chat room. I'm mad at you. I'm mad at all of you for them. Yeah.

Well, well done, everybody. That means we have a winner, ladies and gentlemen. And her name is December. I'm going to play this thing. Where is it? There is it. Congratulations. What I say?

What I say? Oh, did I say December? Did I say December? Sorry, September is what I meant. Do you remember? And the answer is no. Anyway, you're the big winner. I'm the loser.

And that means that you're going to get these codes. Brian's going to send those to you right away. Brian, again, who are those from? And what are they once again? Yeah, a big thanks to Norm, the game's Itora, and the leisure suit Larry Retro Bundle. Let us know how that is there, September. If they work on Mac, I will.

All right. Thank you so much. And everybody have the best, safest, wonderful time in Vegas without me. I'll miss you. We're going to miss you terribly, especially at karaoke. Yes, we will. Yeah, it won't be the same. But it'll be good.

It just won't be the same. Think of it that way. September, have a fantastic week. We'll see you soon. All right. Hey, Travis, thanks for sitting in today, man.

You did it. Yeah, thanks for having me. Yeah, you kicked butt. You were as good of Dunaway as anyone's ever been. And while we know him... I mean,

I can never replace Dunaway, but I can try. Yeah, you can stand in his... You can sit in the weird little indentation he made in his chair. You can do that. Perfect. Or can anyone replace you?

TV's Travis. So there you go. You're both irreplaceable and two different entities that we appreciate so much. Yeah, that's right. Now, go watch that show. We talked about that you haven't seen. What was that called? I forgot. Was it gemstones? It was righteous gemstones. Go watch. Go watch righteous gemstones. It is a delight all the way through, although I'm not done with the final season, but it's so good. You'd love it. All right, by now. Brian, we're going to take a break. When we come back. Uncle baby Billy. When we come back from the break, we are going to talk to Tom Merit, he's back from Japan, he's got some tech talk to talk about, and we'll do

recommendals after that. Before all that, though, we're going to have Brian play us a song. What do you got there? Yeah, how about a little pop? This one, as soon as I heard, I just gravitated towards it. Very cool. Quirky and enigmatic singer-songwriter, Melody Federer, and the alt-rock favorites, Big Data. So the band that, God, what was their song, Big Data? I just remember it began with like a do do do do do so familiar why dangerous I think was their song

yeah yeah dangerous yeah yeah yeah that's it it's newish like not that old right it's less 10 years I think yeah I like that song she's working with them and it's great this is a song called happy question mark and it's shortened version of the chorus which is, could it be I'm happy? This is really, really good. It comes from just a single that she's released, but of course we're waiting for a full album, especially if it's her working with big data.

Here is Melody Federer and Happy. Spirals on a rock through space, I'm awake, jump cut to your perfect face, modern age, one moment is all it takes, make a break, heart beat, you're alive, sometimes it can feel like a tragedy, and sometimes all I see. all the pink pink trees could it be I'm happy happy not gonna overthink it my glasses full I'm gonna drink it pinch me please I'm happy happy happy maybe this is just a dream but I don't care I'm finally happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy Happy, happy, happy, happy Happy, happy Happy, happy Near my trains I drift away on a wave

Galaxies inside my veins, tiny shape salty skin and fun mistakes Miss the taste Heartbeat, I'm alive Sometimes all the time get the best of me And sometimes I keep the rhythm down in both my feet Could it be I'm happy, happy Not gonna overthink it

My glasses full, I'm gonna drink it Pinch me, please, I'm happy, happy Maybe this is just a dream But I don't care, I'm finally Happy, happy, happy, happy, Happy, happy, happy, happy, happy. Happy, happy, happy. Happy, happy.

Happy, happy. Happy, happy. Counting all the apples with my OCD, dancing in the streets with my anxiety, jumping in the ocean with my ADHD, We're not always okay, and that's okay with me Could it be I'm happy, happy, not gonna overthink it, My glasses full, I'm gonna drink it

Pinch me, please, I'm happy, happy Maybe this is just a dream, but I don't care, I'm finally Happy, Happy, Happy, Happy Help me, happy, help me Oh, da-da-da-da-da-da-da Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. I need to know what the hell they sprinkle in that snooze button sleep because you mean to tell me I'll toss and turn all night but the second

I press that eight minutes snooze button I'm knocked out full REM cycle sleep drooling I appreciate your interest boys but I own this land legal and proper and we've returned Who is that again, so I can go find more? Absolutely. That is the band, or I'm sorry, the singer, Melody Federer, being joined by the band Big Data for a song called Happy. That's fantastic. Yeah, last album, we did play something from her last album back in 2023 called The Album

The Album was called Chapters from the Fairy Tale. So we've played Melody's music before, and she's great at combining pop with rock and grunge sound through all of her stuff. So even if you, you know, if you're worried, it's like, oh, you know, it's a little maybe too poppy. No, no, she rocks it. Nice. Check this out while we were sitting here. My wife got me or made me a virgin. Bloody Mary this morning.

Olive's in there. Pickles in there. I guess we're out of celery, but holy crap. What should we call it? Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco and pepper and celery salt and all. taste it all in there right now and there's a little bit of the salty rim to it. Yeah, yeah. They call me old salty rim in high school.

I don't know about it. Well, that's great. So I'll be sipping on that for the next couple hours. Let's get Tom Merritt in here. Yeah. It's been a couple of weeks. We've missed him terribly, but he's going to come back with a vengeance. Isn't technology wonderful?

It sure can be if Tom Merritt's involved. He's here. He's not in Japan anymore. That's to our benefit, okay? He probably would like to still be there because it's a cool place to be. But he's back. Tom, welcome back. It's good to see you, sir.

Thank you. It's good to be back. Or am I? Or are you? Is that a blue screen behind you with your bookcase? Yeah, why is it a blue screen or a green screen? It can be any color, right? It doesn't matter.

Make it a pink screen or... Yeah, a color. Your face might disappear if you're a Caucasian. Yeah, it depends on your... depends on what you want to disappear. Yeah, I guess, but aren't there, there's some reasons why blue and green are the better chroma key, like less noise or edging or something.

There's some reason why those two things. More of a reason than just, yeah. Or else they would just, I mean, if you could use yellow, there's probably something that's too washed out or the cameras don't like it. There's probably not too many blue and greens in the human skin tone. Oh, interesting point. Oh, sure.

Yeah. All right, well, look, good night everybody we've done it we've solved the problem hey um so tom you're back here you're you know jet lag be damned uh what's going on in the world of tech as we reunite yeah so i didn't get a chance to talk about tariffs or signal gate while i was gone which would you like to hear me talk about okay so signal gate um i feel like we've got our we're full of we know what's going on there you have our hands on that one i think yesterday yesterday uh or actually sunday The Guardian published what actually happened.

I talked about that on DTNS Live, if you're curious, about, like, how did this even happen? How did this guy end up in this guy's context? The short version is it's a combination of Siri suggesting a change to context that someone didn't pay close attention to, and then signal sucking in Siri context. It really was a sucking in, like that guy said. He got sucked in. Yeah. You decide whether Signal can suck in contacts or not. So it's not like Signal just went rogue and did it. It's not the highest level of security practice to let Signal just include all your contacts without verifying numbers, which you can make Signal do. We talked about that on DTNS Live. But, but yeah, it was a text message with a phone number that Siri misinterpreted, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

All right. That's, yeah. The initial, the initial, like, broad misunderstanding of how Signal, works it was funny because as that was happening it was as it was breaking and then people were talking about it my brain was going no one talking about this knows a damn thing about signal so let's see how long how many days it takes for them to like come back from things like it we were hacked or he broke in or all these weird out there things to finally oh i hit yes when it said you want to include your contacts right yeah i don't know how many times syri has said uh hey would you like to add this contact number to Brett Raunceville's information because

I get things from his yes more and company. And I'm like, no, I know that's Brett. And apparently you know that's Brett, but don't add his entire company's text messaging to his contact. Yeah. And to the point, to your point, you are the one that gets to say yay or nay on that question. You get to

say, no, I don't want it. And that's where they screwed up. And if you're not paying attention, you might say yes, just to get rid of it and then end up texting the editor chief of the Atlantic through signal. later. I do know that after all this went down, though, Tay Allen was very disappointed that she didn't get the mass tech because she is in your contact. Yeah. She's in everybody's contact. She's very upset. And I don't blame her after this, you know? Pretty gnarly deal.

I like that one. Well, all right. So that's it. So that basically is kind of what we all thought it was. And now it is whatever it is. Yeah. If you want the details like, wait, I have questions. Listen to yesterday's DTNS life. I break it down in detail. So let's talk tariffs. Nintendo apparently isn't going to raise the price of the switch to, according to analysis from DFC intelligence. DFC intelligence has some sources that say most of the price increase that they might expect was baked into that already high 44950, which I think a lot of, are 44999, that a lot of people were assuming. Also, Doug Bowser, Nintendo America's president, told CNBC, we shipped a lot of Switch 2's 2. the U.S. already, so there's a bunch of them here. The reason they have delayed pre-orders is unclear then. If it's not likely to raise the price and they've got a bunch that they're

ready to sell, it seems like they're maybe hoping there's a change in the tariffs and they're maybe trying to figure out discount plans. That's one of the things DFC intelligence said is they won't raise the price, but they may reduce the number of bundles and discounts they offer. And that's really something that I don't think a lot of people think about is there's a retail price, but there's always sales. And a lot of those sales originate from Nintendo. Nintendo gives Best Buy or somebody else a deal and says, yeah, yeah, sell it at a

discount for a while to juice the sales. They may do less of that. So that gives them some room to say, well, we're not raising the price. We're not going to be offering as many discounts out there. Yeah, it's like the Costco bundles you see now. In fact, there's switch one bundles, PlayStation, and Xbox bundles, and they sell those at a relatively steep count. It usually means that you're paying about what you would pay for the raw console, but you might also get an extra controller and a game packed in. They'll probably do something like that.

In fact, one of their skews that should be available for pre-order once they lift the pre-order date is a bundle with Mario Kart World, which only makes that game around 50 bucks, if bundled, versus 80 if you buy it by itself. So they're already kind of offering one of those. My guess is that may not last or may not be included, but you're right. Or they might raise the price of that bundle, right? Right, exactly. They don't raise the price of the Switch 2, but the bundled price goes in. Yeah, and that's a way of kind of finding the money in the games, even though physical games are going to be affected too. They may as well get it with digital.

Here's what I personally think. I think that they are waiting, like you just is what you said. They're waiting to see what happens because of, A lot of times with this kind of saber rattling when it comes to trade wars, there's pullback or there's delay or there's, okay, well, now we're negotiating. So we're putting this on hold until June because we're talking and we're going to come up with a, I mean, these things sometimes happen. I'm not saying they are here. I feel like it's brace for impact at the moment. But if it does happen, then they want to be on the advantageous side of that when they put those pre-orders up and then make all these other decisions they have to make about bundles and stuff.

So I think that's exactly what they're doing. So I think they're confident. They have a bunch of stock here. They're already charging more for this device than just about anything they've ever released. And I think that was partly them patting it a little bit ahead of time, like they say. They've even said so. So, yeah, I think you're all going to be able to get your switch to. I think you're all going to pay a little more for it.

That's what I think. That could be wrong. Well, you won't pay more than the $449, 59. Why do they keep trying to say 50? I don't know. 4.99, because it's 450. Because it's basically 450, yeah. Yeah.

You might not pay more than 450, but you might pay more in a bundle. You might not get a discount that you would have got if there is a, you know, a temporary sale. Those might be few on the ground. And those are part of the pre-order strategy, right? Bundles are part of the pre-order strategy. So I think they are holding off while they figured that out. Anybody, anybody who says they know what's going to happen with the tariffs is. is not the president of the United States

and therefore doesn't know. I don't even know if he knows. There are two big schools of thought. One is these are permanent, which case if they're permanent, then Nintendo has to change the strategy entirely because eventually the Switch 2s that they ship to the U.S. ahead of time are going to run out,

not to figure something out there. Or Vietnam is one of the countries that started talking immediately and is apparently trying to get some kind of deal to reduce their tariffs as fast as possible. I personally don't think anything gets changed until China comes to the table

and we're far from that right now so who knows when any of that's going to happen. But Nintendo, which makes most of the switch twos in Vietnam right now, is probably looking at that and saying, let's see how those negotiations play out if Vietnam can get their situation changed. That's good for us. Yeah, I think so too.

Because they're split right now. All the info I could find about where they're currently being like assembly line built. It's kind of equal between Vietnam and China. And the China tariffs obviously, what are we, at 105% as of today, with the retaliatory

104, and then whatever they come back with. So if I were Nintendo, even if I'm not doing full production there, I would wait on this. And I think you're right about it. It's not like they're going to go, you know how we told you 449? It's 890. Sorry, they're not going to do that.

Sorry, when we said 4, we meant 8. Right. But what they won't do is have a reduced cost for the original switch when this OLED thing comes out eventually, like they often do mid-cycle. What they won't do is discount games as often. They barely do anyway. Nintendo's not great at sales of first-party games.

So there's just a lot to watch with this, and I think it's kind of fascinating and annoying and frustrating, but fascinating. So more on this actually later. It's kind of unrelated. You might think it's related if you see this headline, which is why I bring it up. But Nintendo says it has not decided on releasing the Switch 2 at all

in China. But the reason for that is because of the Chinese restrictions around sales. They didn't release a lot of the Switch to Switch 1 games in China because they had to be localized. So I think Super Mario Kart may be the only one that they released as is and all the rest had to be localized. They had to partner with Tencent. They're shutting down or they have shut down the e-shop for the Switch as of March 31st. So I think they're looking at, is there enough demand in China? itself to sell the Switch 2 or should they just not bother with it because mobile gaming is more

popular there and they have to go through all these hoops to even get any games to go with it sold there. So you may see that and go, oh, is that to do with tariffs? But yeah, it wouldn't because there's probably not a tariff between Vietnam or China if there is very low. And like you said, a lot of the stuff that Nintendo makes is already in China. So it doesn't have to do with that. it just has to do with Chinese rules, which while they've loosened up quite a bit, are still pretty strictly. Yeah. Well, the good news is, I don't know if this is good news or not, but today at 2 p.m.

Mountain Time, the daily tech news show, live show, will feature me. I'll be there. And we're going to talk about these higher priced games, which we haven't really touched on, $80 for their premier first party game. That's really high by most standards. And everybody wants to come and say, well, I paid that for something. on Steam. Yeah, but you probably got this certain addition and it came with this DLC and

I'm just telling you, we're about to see a hike and Nintendo is confident that we're going to pay it. Why and will we and all those questions I hope to answer a little later today along with the rest of the slate on the show. So I'm looking forward to that. Tom, is there anything else going on now that you've been home you want to mention?

Yeah, I'm very excited about the launch of Daily Music Headlines, hosted by Brian Ibbott. And on Thursday's Eileen Rivera host it. Five minutes a day. If you're like, you know, I like music, but it's really hard to just keep up with everything that's going on out there. Like, I know my section, but I'm curious, like, what's happening in country music? What's happening in pop music? What's happening in rock

music? Check out daily music headlines. Brian and Hammond doing the editing or doing a fantastic job, just boiling it all down. I'm learning stuff just listening to it. Like, oh, country music awards are coming up. Oh, Jayhope just wrapped up his tour in the U.S. and is headed over to Asia, all kinds of good stuff in there. So go check it out DailyMusikheadlines.com. Great job. Have you... Sorry, I was going to ask if you've had to, well, actually, any J-pop, or excuse me, K-pop music

news yet, Tom. Have you ever had to say? Absolutely, no, because Eileen does that before any of this. All right. Just making sure everybody's, you know, got their eye on the ball here when it comes to the K-pop. Yeah, it wouldn't be me. Well, it's good to see you.

We'll see you a little bit later. Everybody tune in later and check us out, Tom. Have a great day. We'll see you soon. Okay. Hello. Hello. Oh, is this your phone?

This is my phone. I'm seeing what's going on here. I'm doing a full modem reboot. I'm like, all right, well, I can at least connect you a cellular and use my headset and walk all around the house. Yeah, why not? This could be fun. All right. You know what?

I'll just, I'll resume us here and we'll just make it work. Yeah, we'll make it work. Sorry about that. No, it's all good. I'm so dumb. It's so dumb. Internet is dumb sometimes. I wonder if it's your, you don't know.

know if it's your ISP or if it's your uh if it's your modem i guess we don't know it actually yeah it could be the ISP because things got really bad um for for a few minutes there when uh tom was ending this thing like almost like the service was going down as opposed to just being a dhcp issue oh i gotcha okay yeah so i think it could be that but um anyway all right well i will uh we'll bring it back and see if we'll start recommendals and see how this goes yeah sounds good No, no worries. Internet is Internet. All right, we're going to now do recommendals, everybody. Thanks for being here. We're going to add to the call Randy and Nicole. I'm told they are both good to go, although Nicole is showing offline. Wait. Nope, she's online. That happens all the time with me. Yeah, that's a new, that's not a new thing for us, it turns out. All right. Well, let's do that. Let's see. Where is everything? Here we go. Well, what do you recommend?

All right. Sorry about the late start, but it's time for recommendals, everybody, where we do recommending things, or we recommend things we've seen on streaming services, and we tell you all about them so you can go watch them yourselves. Welcome to the show, Nicole Spag. Hi, Nicole. Hi, what are you doing? Hello. Trying to, um, not cry. Well, don't cry. We don't want you to cry. I mean, unless you need to. I know. It's a, it's a, it's a hard day. That was my seizure Oh, is that You're getting these focal things again? I thought that stuff I was hoping that was working, not working?

It is working, but I just, it takes around three to four days. Yeah. To kind of, and I have to be on a steroid, which pisses me off so much. I cuss in my sleep, and I wake myself up cussing. because of the story to hear that are you sure you okay to do today we can i'm okay no i need happy so uh okay i i i need happy all right now so we'll definitely provide the happy yeah we're happy to provide yeah we got we got happy for days let's do it so i just i you know i this this is me now so but i will say i'm having more good moments after my infusions um and i'm

I mean, I had like a, I had a streak of like almost 10 days and I was like, I felt like I could conquer the world and I went to a Jack White concert and I got down in the pit and I was like, oh my, it was. So up and down today is just a down day. So it is what it is. So that's a focal seizure if you're not aware. It sounds like a tick, but it's a focal seizure. but it's okay I'm I am aware and I'm here to laugh with you so okay good nor are the noises well we're here like like Star Wars pay no mind yeah pay no mind I see I felt you waving this off with the forest there yeah yeah yeah I don't even know

where the rebel plans are now you've completely wiped my memory well it's good to have you and I hope this is a fun time for you Randy I know it's a fun time for you because Randy's here. Hi, Randy. How are you? Good morning, morning stream. I have never considered what temporary Tourette's as a symptom could come from. And I am now, like, deep in thought, wow, that's amazing. You'd be surprised how many types of seizures there are in the world. I had no idea until this happened. Yeah. All we get from TV is like grand mall stuff. Nobody knows about all We went through that when Taylor had her focal seizures. What you said, too.

Yeah. It's like, these are not what people think they are. I wish I was like, Taylor, I wish they would go away. They do for a while, but my antibodies are big old jerks. Well, they told us then they're like, this could be her whole life. And we were like, all right. And then they said, or it could end with people. You know, when you get past puberty at a certain point, we got lucky and she did.

But man, I don't, I don't envy that. but I am glad that we can hang out and do this so that we can have a little fun together. Randy, are you in a tunnel? Where are you at? You sound like you're in a... Am I? Do I sound weird? No, you sound okay.

You sound normal to me. All right. Okay, all right. Brian Ebbott is in a tunnel, but it's, you know... It should be out of my tunnel. Yeah, you're back now. Yeah, you're good now. Yeah, your internet, it looks like your reboot worked.

He looked great. It did. It just took a little time. If things are not fixed, they're held together right now with scotch tape and bailing wire but I'll have it I'll work on it after the show Yeah, it's all good

It's just one of those days everybody All right, we are going to now do Recommendals Brian let's start with your clip I got everything all queued up for you Tell us what we're watching this week Yeah, oh my gosh You know I love me my time loop A time loop movies

And I found one that I hadn't heard about Or seen and decided to watch it This clip should tell you all you need to know Your mind if I sit down Yeah, sure Just be careful What do you mean? Oh

Oh my goodness How did you know Do you want to hear a secret? Sure I've done this before What do you mean? I take a pill Tomorrow night

I take a pill and I go back a week Back I'm right back to the hospital This is all happened before. So many times before. What are you saying?

I'm saying that I've lived this week before. I know what's going to happen in every second, of every moment, of every day, because I've seen it all before. All of it.

Tomorrow night, my nose will bleed. I'll lock myself in the bathroom. I'll take another pill. I'll go back a week. And I'll see you there. And I'll say. Be careful. Oh, man. I've... Okay, okay. I'll re-watch weeds. Jeez. Very good. Yeah, you recognize her. That was Mary Louise Parker. You know, instead of smoking weed, she's taking a pill. But it's an interesting twist on the whole time loop movie when you've got a character that controls the time loop herself by taking a pill.

She can, you know, it's kind of like Sandberg in Palm Springs, where he controls the time loop by just going into the time loop tunnel. She basically does it with a pill. But here's the problem. She's dying. And she's got a black hole developing in her chest. Yes, a black hole, like the space phenomenon. This is one of those movies where you kind of have to, you know, there's some weird things.

that are just accepted in the world, like somebody having a black hole developing in their chest. And she basically knows that she's got a week to live, and she's got these pills that she got as a kid that she's used throughout her whole life to, like, excel at school and excel and, you know, do other things over and over in her life. and she decides she's going to use them for this purpose to continue. Well, she's got an unlimited supply because when she goes back in time, she's got, she has the pill that she took. That makes sense.

We should say the name of this thing. What's the name of this? I'm sorry, yeah, the shit out luck movie is called Omni Loop. And in addition to the great Mary Louise Park, who shares a birthday with me, I.O. Adeboree from the plays her partner, her science partner, that she recruits to help her figure out, hey, what's in

these pills that maybe can be replicated to go longer or further back, but also helping her figure out what she can do maybe to stop the black hole that's developing in her chest, et cetera.

This, it's kind of one of those not quite as weird, as a Lanthromos movie but but kind of has that that feel there's even a little bit

of a severancey kind of matter of fact feel you can even see that in the poster feels very you know aerial bold severance science fiction modern science fiction

that looks like old timey science fiction totally in fact when I saw the cover at first it's kind of hard to tell what this is it almost looks like it's more like hey here in the future

We travel via something called the Omni Loop. Right. And it just creates multiple copies of us as we travel really quickly through it. This is a lot of fun. And I've always been a big fan of Mary Louise Parker even since the Weeds days. Even before that, there was a movie. It was one of those Altman movies where she was a Richard Gere. It was somebody that she was having an affair with.

And she was kind of the side piece. um that he was having an affair with uh behind his wife's back and i can't remember what the grand canyon maybe uh can't remember i always remember uh green rotten green tomato no fried green tomatoes fried green tomatoes yeah right exactly oh grand canyon are you thinking of grand canyon it was it was grand canyon oh that movie's so good it is really good is Kevin Klein is the one who's having a fair with it yeah it's fantastic movie as soon as you said that uh yeah reminded me really good um yeah really really really good. Oh, and it's cast. I thought it was an Altman film because of the cast, because there's so many... Oh, you know what? It was such a big A-list or cast. Right there with you. Thought it was Altman. Totally have that wrong in my head. You're totally right. Yeah. Weird. Anyway, Omni-loop. It is currently on Hulu, and it is a very fun and also extremely heartwarming, touching story about about what you

what you might do if you realized you only had a week to live but you could replay that week over and over and and what you might do during that week.

It sounds like Groundhogs Day in a week for. Yes. That's what this says right here this review from Tim Cogschul of somewhere. He says low energy Groundhog Day with no jokes but is really moving

and assured, whatever assured means. Yeah. The critics really like it. I don't know why the audience has these. I don't know why either, yeah, like 83% on Rotten Tomatoes. And I haven't looked yet through the non-professional critic reviews just to see what people complain about. I almost don't care because I liked it.

I don't care what the non-critics thought. But it's really, really good and really touching. And it's available on Hulu right now. you know, really sweet take on the time loop movie. Nice. I want to see it. And it is now marked. It is now in my queue, as they say.

There you go. There you go. Check that out. Hulu. Hulu. Yeah. Lib with limited commercial. Just kidding.

They don't do that anymore. Hulu is the home of time loop movies. I've noticed. They like this. They like the genre, don't they? They really have a lot of them. Yeah. Yeah.

What is that about? It's weird. All right. Nicely done. Let's move over to, Let's go with Nicole. Nicole, let's do your clip. Tell us all about what we're playing here. What have we got? I don't know. I try to, I'm terrible at capturing audio. I really need to get better at it. I try to capture it with my phone. I think it probably sounds like, does it? It probably sounds like duty.

Well, we'll find out. We'll find out. I think it sounded okay when I previewed it. I think we're, I think you could say you could also just play the trailer. Yeah, that's true. But it's on Netflix. I love it. Netflix has my number. They know what you like right now. They keep calling me. They literally have your number. All right. Well, let's play it and see what we got over there on Netflix.

Ms. Haney. I've been Chief Usher since October 11th. The day of the last Chief Usher was killed. Killed? Excuse me? You said killed. The center from Colorado. I didn't mean anything by it.

You didn't mean you thought he was killed. The center from. Colorado will refrain from asking questions when it is not her time. Thank you. After you left the third floor, what did you do? I did what Mr. Hollinger asked me to do. I don't think they say anything else after this. Did you talk to Dana? Oh, no, there it goes. Well, I spoke to Marvella about the desserts,

and I think we may have another option. So maybe that's the least of your problems. All right, what do we got here? What is this? this is the residence on Netflix that's weird because Kim just watched that whole thing I saw a ton of it with her and that did not sound familiar to me

I don't know why weird so that was that was like the first scene as it's in the first episode so it's eight episodes they're an hour long each I finished it I finished the last three episodes when I was doing my IVIG and I just I love quirky kind of I love you know like Knives Out so if you're a fan of Knives

out whether it's Glass Onion or any of those or honestly I grew up on Colombo my dad watched colombo a lot I watched murder she wrote a lot these are all detective quirky scenario and I just absolutely love them so much. I think that's great. You like glass onion and knives out and all that kind of stuff? Loved, loved, loved, love, love, loved glass onion. So, A.B. Winter, I'm going to butcher everybody's name. So get ready.

So the main character, the detective is her name is Cordelia Cup. And that is Uzo Abdu. Dula. Aduba. Aduba. Aduba. Aduba. Aduba.

Aduba. Who is from Orange is the New Black? I loved her in that. She was very good. She is amazing in this as a detective. I just love a strong female lead. I love her. I also now want to get into birding.

If you watch this show, you'll understand. She talked to Bill Duran. He's a big birder. You can give you all the stuff. Is he? Oh, yeah. There you go. Oh, my God.

Now I'm looking at birds everywhere. I'm like, ooh, what's that bird? Birds are cool. They're kind of dicks, but they're also cool. I like birds. And then A.B. Winter, God, I'm going to, I really don't. So I know A.B. Winter through, oh, what, he's been in so many movies. You're talking about Giancarlo Esposito.

He was in Breaking Bad as Gus Frang. Breaking Bad. The usual suspects. Wait, what? Any, what's, what's his name again? John Carly. He might be talking about somebody different. Yeah, he's not, he's definitely, oh no, no, no, oh no, you know what, he is an usual suspect.

He played somebody called, really? But he must have been a tiny part. I don't remember that. I don't know. Jack Bear, whoever that is. All right. That's news to me. What I, what I really know him for is for peacemaker, which is, do you remember that?

Yeah. Did you never see Breaking Bad? You never saw Breaking Bad. I never saw Breaking Bad. Oh, my gosh. That should be the first name that comes up when you think Jean-Carla Esposito. It's what put him on the fast track to being in everything. I know.

I got a, I got a, I'm in Missouri, okay? There's a lot of meth. There's a lot of meth in Missouri. And I have a strong, I don't want to, I don't know. I just, I didn't want to watch a meth show. It definitely had meth in it. There's no question about that. It had a lot of meth in it.

Sure. Sure. But I know him in Peacemaker and I loved him in Peacemaker and I loved Peacemaker and I loved peacemaker and I wish they would do a second season so badly. But I don't think they will. Peacemaker is basically the spinoff of the good Suicide Squad movie, which was the second one. Yeah. So when I saw he was in, I was like,

A peacemaker and it gave me good feelings. And so he, anyway, in the residence, we are in the White House. There is a state dinner happening with Australia is coming to the White House for the first time in, I don't know how many years. It's been a long time. And there's all this tension. And it's kind of interesting how it parents. a lot of things that are being shaken up because they're coming in and they're changing the blue room and they're changing the traditions of the White House.

And it's about the staff who are not political. They are just paid to take care of the house and the families that are in it. And those, they change. possibly every four years it'll change and so it talks about kind of the relationships that are built it's all about relationships and so you know right away that the chief usher dies and um cordelia cup is brought in as a investigator because she does not um she solves unsolved valuable cases. And since it's such a high profile, a case, they bring her in, and she does her thing. And I've seen people saying they don't like it. I adored it. I loved it. Kim liked it a lot.

She really liked it. You have Randall Park in it as well. He is the assistant. He is the assistant to Cordelia and she's trying and he's trying to kind of help her but she doesn't trust really anyone so and then because and she'll even say everybody's not a suspect

we're just gathering information so like it's definitely a different approach of how she kind of breaks things down Jason Lee is in it yeah um almost right he's almost unrecognizable until he talked i just went yeah oh really yeah because he's got such a unique yes you also have uh ken uh merino from the state he's in the state right yeah i'm party down yeah yeah love him he makes me laugh just look at him

balki yeah bronz and pincho's in pincho yeah bronchin pinchot pinchot pinchot pin shot no pincho pincho pincho pincho Pinchot. Oh, I thought Pinchot. Oh, there's a T in there. There's a T in the end. I'm saying the T. Yeah, but you don't, but you don't have to pronounce the T.

It's a free, it's a silent T. And in that clip, the most ironic thing, so there's Senate hearing, there's a, there's a hearing happening, and you're getting, you're getting information from this committee hearing, which is led by Al Franken. Yeah, I recognize his voice in that clip. And he's a senator, and I think it's hilarious that he's playing a senator in a movie, and, you know, you know what happened with him. But, and then one of my favorite actresses, you heard her in the clip, I didn't even know her name, Eliza Coup, but she played in one of my most favorite shows, happy endings. Do you remember me recommending that show? Yeah. I think we saw it.

A terrestrial comedy. Yes, it was trestial. I don't remember what network it was on. But it was only a couple. It was 57 episodes. But I loved her in that. What's her name again? Eliza.

Eliza Coop. I'm trying to find her. Coopie? Eliza Cuthbert. From 24? Is that who does? E-L-L-E. E-L-I.

Is Alicia Alice Alicia Cuthbert? Oh, no, I'm sorry, there is an Eliza Coupe in there as well, yes. Sorry, I was looking at the listing for happy endings, and you've got Eliza and Alicia. Just trying to, just trying to work it out. Yeah, it's all good. It's all good. You got Eliza Coup. You were 100% correct.

I derailed you with Cuthbert. Yeah. With Jack Bauer's daughter caught in a bear trap. Yeah. Yeah. So lots of fun cameos, really. Tons of them. Really kind of tons.

of cameos. Yeah. Jane Curtin is in it. Yeah. I just, seriously, it's a fun. It's a,

if you're looking for, if you like that kind of not so serious detective, like, I don't, I don't want to do a CSI. That's too, like, I don't want to watch,

like, breaking, like where the woman goes crazy and like all that real life stuff. You want, clue you want clue level and there there's a point in this show where they go overhead and you get to see the white house from the top and it looks just like clue yeah it was so cool they they the the whole vibe i got from this what bits i watched with kim were very much like they were channeling that like a modern

day clue um Isaiah whitlock juniors in this thing he does not go shit but oh gosh really so this might be a he broke his streak really bums me out because I would love to hear him say that but yeah it's just a fun time I don't think anybody like you said Colombo it's a perfect example it's like Columbo

it's like well who done it and it's a little more fun Monk is another good example of this sort of thing Monk is a great example yeah this is a little bit more like clue than that but I yeah we'd like it too I think it's a good pick it's fun if it's not too late for me to save people from the well actually

Giancala Esposito was not in peacemaker. That was Chuck Woody Uugi and he looks just like him. Brian Ibbett recently recommended Day of the Jackal on and recommendals, right? I did, yeah, with Redmayne. Yeah. Chuck

Woody Ujee is in that. We just saw Yeah, we just saw Esposito in the new Captain America Electric State. Like he's I'm, you can't walk three feet with your eyes closed without running into him. He's just running an amazing agent. He really does.

or something. I don't know what's going on there. And I'd also, hold on, let me check IMDB. I'm going to recommend this show to everybody but two people called Kaleidoscope on Netflix, which stars Jean-Carlo Esposito. Gimic was dumb. It was the one where they gave you all the episodes in a random order, but it's a really cool heist TV show with Giancarlo Esposito as the lead.

But it's only got a 6.6% in IMDB. You reviewed it here, or did a recommendal here. I did. I totally recommended it here. And I stand behind that recommendal that we really, that I really enjoyed it. He's also real good. And the gentleman, the gentleman TV series spinoff, was very good with him in it. Yes.

He's in everything. I'm serious, you cannot back up three feet without tripping over Jean-Carler Esposito's body. He's in everything. Yeah. Crazy. Hey, guess who's not in this movie? Who? Hugh Jackman.

What? But he is in it. I bet there's a long list of people aren't in there. No, no, no. He is, he, he, so there's a guy, Ben Pendergast, plays Hugh Jackman, and you never see Hugh Jackman's face, but he's one of like the 200 people at this state dinner party. That's, they, they basically keep everybody in the, in the White House as she's big trying to collect clues.

And Hugh Jackman is one of them. And so is Kylie Minogue. And so, but it's actually her. I love Kylie Minogue. She's coming to town, but I'm going to be in Vegas. She's going to be in Denver for a concert, but I'm going to be in Vegas while she's here. She'll understand. She'll be okay.

I think we, well, yeah, she'll have to because she's staying in our house. We're just using this for Airbnb, but, yeah. But you got cameras. You can keep up on her. She'll be watching the cats. She should be so lucky. I will just say, usually when I watch these kinds of movies, I guess who it is within the first

couple episodes TV shows I didn't I mean yeah the episode you know as you're watching it

this one I got to the very end and then I figured it out I figured it out before but it took me the whole time

to the end to get to who did it which I was like very good that's a good yeah you don't want one where you picked

it in episode two and have to wait till episode 12 Yeah. That's great. Well, there it is. This movie, or sorry, to keep calling a movie. This show, The Residence, available now, Netflix.

I mean, it's an eight-hour movie. Yeah. And it's a mini-series one-off deal. There's not like a sequel thing. So go catch it and watch it. It's very good. All right. Randy, your turn.

Well, this should be easy. Yeah. So, as you know, I'm trying to be, I'm trying to be comforted by things. Right. Yep, the comfort watching right now. Smart man. And so, you know, of my favorite actors died and i was like i'm going to try to watch a val kilmer movie that i haven't seen

and so i found this uh joanne wally val kilmer movie uh from the early 90s called kill me again and i turned it off after 15 minutes it was i was like why haven't i ever seen kill me again oh i watched a few minutes of it and found out exactly why i've never seen it and uh so i'm like man what am i going to look at to really like cleanse the palate And whenever I ask that question, it's always, the answer is always something I've seen before, many times, but not in the last five years. And this is it. Every time you step outside, disaster falls, can you not see that I have bigger problems? Winter is almost here, and I have an entire village to feed.

Between you and me, the village could do with a little less feeding, don't you think? This isn't a joke, hiccup. Why can't you follow the simplest orders? I can't stop myself. I see a dragon and I have to just kill it. You know, it's who I am, Dad. Oh, you are many things hiccup. But a dragon killer is not one of them.

Get back to the house. Make sure he gets there. I have his mess to clean up. Quite the performance. I've never seen anyone mess up that badly. That helped. Thank you. Thank you.

I was trying. I've seen that movie like five times. I didn't know Val Kilmer had anything. to do with it. What's how Val Kilmer movie? I was explaining that I tried to watch a Val Kilmer movie and then I had to cleanse my palate with something that I get it. Okay. I thought that if you were going to watch a Val Kilmer, Joanne Wally Kilmer movie, you didn't pick the one where they met, Willow. I know. It was it was because I had never seen it before. So anyway, so as a pallet cleanser, this is unbelievably good. And there's a lot of things that you already know about this movie.

So I don't know the live action one, right? This is the cartoon. Yeah, the card. Correct. Yes. We're also sort of like sating ourselves so that we don't feel the need to attend the live action movie. So, you know, everybody knows this movie. You've seen it.

I'm highly recommending that you watch it again if you haven't seen it in a few years. I just looked into it, though, and I was amazed at the screenwriter for this thing. So it's, you know, it's based on a Cressida Cowell book. And the screenwriter was William Davies. And this guy has been responsible for the screenplay for Puss and Boots and Johnny English movies. And the stopper my mom will shoot. Like that's a terrible movie that like this guy, he wrote twins. Like he, the writer who wrote the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Twins wrote this movie, How to Train Your Dragon.

And it's by far the highest rated film that he's ever been involved in. But I just like, I think it's really, really funny that someone could be bumping around Hollywood and, and, you know, wrote the movie, The Real McCoy, which everyone hated. That was a bad movie. And they managed to come along and pen the screenplay for this thing. It's just brilliant. It's fun. It's happy. It's funny.

Like, I tried to pick a, just random clip. And every clip I picked was funny. it's the first non yeah first non-pixar thing where I got as excited about it after I watched it as I would normally A Pixar how do you feel about the ones That have come since after

The sequels you mean like the I think they're okay I think that's what they are called Yeah Well I thought you meant like other movies DreamWorks put out but I see what you mean If you're just talking sequels I think they're fine

I don't think they're like They don't supersede the first one I think the third one's pretty good but I don't know. Kind of like the third one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They made a lot of money. They're like Shrek.

It's like, you know, you're going to make more of it. And I have mixed feelings about the live action because I have seen some great live action. I really did enjoy the live action Aladdin. Like, I liked it. There's like eight of you. There's like eight of you. There's been a few. There's been a few that I've been too bad.

I think the, I'm not interested. I'm not interested in the snow white. one that one just i got too much there's too much uncanny valley going on there it's weird exactly it's weird for other reasons yeah like any valley of the uh the dwarves is is a very big valley but randy i do have a question for you um since you were looking for a funny val kilmler kilmner kilmer sorry i always missed kilmner it seems d mal kilnur i like that val kilmer yeah I like it. Why didn't you watch McGrubber?

Oh. I didn't know he was in that. I had no idea. And neither did I, until I watched an interview with Will Forte where he explains that Val was trying to get Will Forte and him to be on the amazing race. And they almost did it, but their agents stopped it. would you have imagined yeah probably not good if I had to guess it would have been

great it would have been it's so fun I mean to see foul Kalmler in a reality show it's all right a Kilmner it's fine we key I like it better yeah yeah Tesla Kilmler Kilmer Kilmer

Kilmer you know what I just want to you know what I just want to want something you said Scott which is your first 3D non-Pixar movie that got you really excited. Mine was Surf's Up by Sony. I also like that. Oh, that one was good. Yeah.

I'm amazed that that's coming up on 20 years old. Like, it really holds up. It's my favorite, one of my favorite non-normal, uh, kind of, he's basically just playing the dude, but it's Jeff Bridges, uh, in that is one of the secondary character. He's kind of like the

master surf guy. And his, he's just doing the dude, really. But it's so perfect for this character they made. That's a wonderful movie. this oh it's so good and you kind of and because it's uh sheila booth plays the main character you can kind of ignore him because he don't have to look at him he just it's just his voice so that's cool and he never goes known to know to know or anything like that sounds good yes he does he yeah he does been a while uh i think it's fitting that val kilmner or val kilmer as we call

him here in america uh his his final film will be or ended up being top gun maverick which just feel somehow perfect. Almost bookmarky, even though he did movies before the first one. But it does feel like a nice bookend. Yeah. And he had a lot of stuff, you know, plenty of projects between like, say, 2019 and 2021. It's just to end on that is a pretty strong end for the guy.

Especially because the movie treats it like it's the last thing he'll ever do. Like the movie has, has Maverick come into the base where they're operating and walk right passed a picture of Iceman on the wall, you know, and be like, man, oh, I got to deal with that guy eventually. And like, it builds up to the scene where we bid farewell to him. Yeah. And he gives us all, not just Maverick, but he gives us all the instruction that you have to go for it. You have to go do the thing that you're dreading and having to do. Yeah. Like, it's really awesome. The documentary he did. Yeah, we recommended it here, I think. I think I did. Yeah, it was really, really good. it's it called being val i think is the name i highly recommend that it's real real good

uh if no one's just called val is it just val i thought it was some other name on there but i guess you're right uh all right well there you have it uh that's a great movie check it out uh the one nice thing about gerard butler's character there that we played in your clip he is also going to be that same dude in the live action and that's kind of cool you know that's all right yeah i'll take it you know i mean if you're going to pick a guy go ahead and pick him i'm just not going to go i'm going to go the theater no this will be a home watch for low expectations low expectations maybe it'll be great i don't know i'm i'm not going to judge anything until i see it usually i'll be disappointed but i'm still going to wait until i see it

but i'm not seeing it in theaters that's 60 bucks i'll save how about that all right uh here's mine real quick this is uh just to kind of finish us out today i've been watching a series on max that has been blowing my mind it is some of the best acting i've seen this year i suspect this will be all over the award seasons and i can't believe how good it is or how one particular character is, I'll play it, and then we'll talk about it. Here you go. Caucasian male, approximately 60 to 70 years old, found unresponsive. No signs of trauma, no ID.

On three. One, two, three. Ooh. Did you take anything? Smilly alcohol from here. This guy's wearing the spring, summer, and fall collection. Jesus. Oh!

Oh! What those? what's wrong patient tested positive for rats if it matters if it matters only county three oh there goes one all right

that laugh at the end is kind of the person you should hear the most from in the show Noah Wiley but I only had his laugh in this clip and the reason I played a more funny sort of jokey clip is because the rest of the show is extremely serious medical drama and it's called the pit

probably heard about it everybody's kind of talking about it but it's on max right now the finale is this Thursday I was confused and thought I thought it was last Thursday which explains my shock the other night when it ended

and I went when you had one more episode well I just it ended in a way that I thought there's no way they end a season like that like there's something more coming and then I looked it up and went oh shit Scott you dumbass

we still got one left but I am very confident in recommending the entirety of the thing right now. Here's what makes it interesting. First, one big interesting thing here is originally, and there's a big lawsuit around this, so I won't get into all that. But Noah Wiley was in talks and in preparation to make a literal ER sequel series. So the series was going to be Dr. Carter, way deeper into his career, doing Dr. Carter stuff. That was the plan. Something happened with rights and NBC Universal

and all this stuff got all thrown apart. And instead, the creators and rights, went off to make this thing called the pit. It's sitting in Pittsburgh. They call this hospital ER the pit. And it is no while again playing a kind of matured Carter kind of character, but is not playing Carter, obviously. He's playing a character named Michael Rabanovich, which people just call him Robbie there in the hospital.

And this is, of course, you know, an older, wiser looking, you know. Still baby face. Still baby face. Amazing look. Still impossible. He never play a villain. It's impossible. He's just got that nice guy look.

He's too friendly, nice-looking. And he is so... I remind me of the guy that does the jury duty in the Sonic movie. Oh, uh, Oh, Marsden? James Marsden. Maybe a little bit. A little crustier than him, but yeah.

Hey, you didn't like him a couple weeks ago. Yeah, I was going to say. You said I didn't like him. I just... Yeah, you just went eh a lot. Yeah, that's true. That's usually not liking a thing. You didn't use the words, I don't like him, but you used

the sound. I don't like him. I just know when he's in something. I'm going to go. Yeah. Yeah. That sounds like it. Sounds like you don't like him. Sonic. You need to watch Paradise. Yeah. He's so good. You'll give you a great appreciation for Mars. Yeah. I liked him in West. He was. He was good in Westworld too for as long as long as he was. Yeah. He was good in West World. But, but you know, anyway, let's talk about the pit. So Noah Wiley is incredible in this. And I don't mean he's, He's just the wide-eyed nervous Dr. Carter kind of thing you think you will get from him. He is extremely good. I think he's up for best actor stuff coming up. You'll see it at the Globes. You'll see it at the Emmys. I will be shocked if Noel Wiley isn't nominated for a bunch of this. He's also executive producer, so he's kind of got his hands on stuff.

Here's the other trick to this. So on the one hand, you're getting a pseudo spiritual sequel to ER, a beloved series from the 90s. but at the same time this is HBO and they are not holding back on like procedures and blood and we need to open his chest now and here's a catheter going to a here's a weener with a catheter in the middle of the ER right it's not sexual it's just all very you know true medical it's very medical and very true to what it's like in an ER especially in some high intensity situations he's kind of in charge of the floor he's sort of head resident and his job is to kind of corral all these other these other doctors uh you know get them where they need to be

and doing what they need to be doing this is what makes it amazing the show is uh i guess it'll be 15 episodes total it represents 15 hours of a single day shift so there's no overnight there's no weeks later there's no it's not like er or any other medical drama where people are just living their lives and it's like here's some moments it's more like 24 it's a lot like 24 and it's it's just everything in that hospital in that ER from the 7 a.m. shift until the end which I will not talk about because the end is a big deal and I don't want to get into why they're all working late because they're all working way longer than they're supposed to be you know you'll see when you watch it. Another thing it does it is not a soap opera style

medical show which I freaking hate those where it's all about relationships and who loves who and oh they're being weird and there's a little bit at the ER. I know the temptation to do it. You're trying to, you know, appeal to a lot of people. But this really is about the high-intensity workplace that is a hospital ER. It's also a teaching hospital. So people are learning. That's complicated. There are a couple of characters in here that are so endearing. I love them so freaking much that I want to protect them at all costs. Also, nobody's lame. Nobody's like a bad doctor. Everybody is trying their best. It's a show that really celebrates professional goodness in this world but also talks about the problems with it and all

the messes up with it. But it's not making some arbitrary story about, well, that guy pinched her button. Now it's a big, it's none of that. It's just like, yeah, it's just like, did that guy do the procedure right? He did. And also in this situation with this high pressure and there was no resident to help him, he made a decision to save a person's life. And it worked instead of it all failing all the time. So there's a weird positivity to a lot of it. But there also deals with PTSD and, you know, Noah Wiley's character was around during the worst of COVID. And so he has some flashbacks to that, lost his best friend in that. You want to hear something interesting about my infusion nurse?

Sure. He worked ER during COVID in Texas. That was pretty crazy, I'll bet. And so I let him use my massage chair every single time he comes to me. Yeah, I would too. He's earned it for sure. I'm like, what do you want? You want a cookie?

I know you're here to serve to help me, but I am going to make your time here as nice as possible. And he's a huge Star Wars nerd, so we get along really good. And he plays D&D, and so we watched, he had never seen the Dungeons and Dragons movie. So I'm like, I'm like, I know you don't want to talk about any, but I did ask him, is the pit accurate? and he said, yeah. Yeah. I've heard from a few doctors who've said the same.

Those have worked in the ER appear to be the most capable of saying whether it is or isn't. But I feel like they're doing the best job they can to try to express that stuff. But why it's wild to me is that it's just a, each episode's an hour or whatever

of the day they're working. So it's one day we've known these people. And we haven't even known them a full day yet, but we've known them from 7 a.m. and on. The show does such an amazing job. It feels like I've been watching these characters for seasons of shows like they're all so well constructed and thought out there's this character named dr melissa king who has who's on the spectrum is a brilliant doctor but struggles with

some of the emotional connections with patients or doesn't understand why people panic about certain procedures so there's a lot of stuff with her and she's new to the hospital she's there technically training but she is officially a doctor i want to protect her at all costs i want to I want to hire armed men to gather around her and never let anyone harm this human being

to have a show make you feel that way about a character in just a story that is only in a single day is crazy to me how effective it is. Anyway,

I'm absolutely loving it. There's way more to say. I'll save it all. You guys just watch it yourselves. It's on max. It's trigger warning if you don't like a lot trauma based sort of,

oh no, we've got a gunshot wound coming in. Oh no, we've got this lady coming in who's or this homeless guy who's got whose clothes are full of rats and rats are all over the place and they become kind of a running joke throughout the throughout the season like whatever your your tip-offs might be just know that this is taking

that side of medical drama very seriously and it's less about the lovey-dovey freaking you know crazy anatomy stuff that's not what this is um i really really like it i can't wait for thursday's finale and i can't wait till they do more i hope they have another season if they don't I understand why it's got 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. Like, it's very intense, though. I found that I needed a lot of time in between episodes. And, of course, you know, coming out every week gives you that. Comedy Chasers.

Yeah, yeah. So I would watch an episode of St. Dennis Medical every couple of us. There you go. There you go. That's a great idea. And I will say the show does a good job of what, like, ER used to do a pretty good job of this. You'd have your really serious moments of, oh, no, they brought in these three victims of a, hit and run. Intense, intense, intense. Two of them died, one lived, blah, blah, blah. And then they would

cut to there's some guy in there who's just looking for drugs, but says something fun, you know, like the little jokey thing. Yeah, exactly. There you go. That's perfect. Someone thinks he's actual Jesus and it runs through the episode. This has those things, for sure. It's just that the stuff that's in, and they're more realistic. It's less like 50 people came in today thinking they were Jesus. It's not crazy, but it's like enough weirdness. I can't even explain. it. There's also a really great, there's an actress in this who is the, she is the daughter of the worm tongue. What's his name? Brad Durif. She's one of the main actresses. She's fantastic. And suddenly, this is not a spoiler because there's really nothing comes of it. He's just

another character. But her real dad, Brad Dorif, shows up in this as her fake dad in the show. And so he's in there for a hot minute. And that was fun to see. And there's a few other people like that. You get to see some cameos. But for a show that's just about a single day. in the life of these people. It just does amazing things. So I'm giving it my highest possible recommendation. The pit is awesome and is available now on Max. This is one that Tina watched and loved.

And it was enough, you know, usually like she'll tell me, oh, yeah, I watch this thing. You don't need to watch. I'm like, this is one. She says you probably should watch this one on your own too because it's worth going back and watching. So I will. It's very, very good.

Thank you for reiterating it for what she said. Well, there you have it. Let us now tell people that they can go to QuickTMS.L.I. And they can watch all these things. All our recommendations are up there and they're already there. That's right. Links right to those pages on Max, Netflix, and Hulu. Images of us all smiling saying, this is what I recommend.

All that stuff. Yeah. Really good stuff. I need to send you a new picture. I think that picture is like 20 years old. What picture? Okay. Which one?

Oh, the one on the side. The tiny little circle that I use pretty cool on Quick TMS. You can give me, do you want me to use that, do you want me to use that picture of you really fed up that you sent us via the Discord chat? Oh, is there a, oh. Maybe not. But does it, does it come from like that avatar or, you know what I'm talking about? I can change it to whatever you want. Really, it's really just a, it's a file that sits on the server and all I have to do is put a new file there that's the same name and it'll, it'll, it'll replace it.

I'll send you a new photo because I think it's a really old photo. Scott's and mine are both. artwork so if you and randy want to switch yours to artwork that's another option as well yeah well scott has to draw it then oh shit well now now there's a time problem Scott has drawn me a couple times I have you on an elephant

riding a big old elephant from wrath of litch king remember that that was a fun one yeah I guess they're not called elephants I forget what they're called in there anyway but over there I'm sure I can use chat gbt to say draw a picture of Nicole in Scott Johnson style yeah yeah do it like the music stuff totally totally perfectly usable and let's not do that let's not do that and say we did slash sarcasm

there you know I know okay okay wasn't sure have a fantastic week to the both of you and uh can't one one one one quick quick quick quick quick question are are we going to be doing recommendals at um in Vegas no no no no we don't have there's no structure for that but we do have Why am I coming? Because everybody wants to see you. It's not just to recommend a movie while you're there. If that's what's hinging on you coming, Nicole, we'll do recommendals while we're in Vegas. Yeah, we could totally do it if you wanted.

No, but we're just doing like a... No, it's okay. You're part of the live show. You will be a big part of the live show. I didn't know what I was doing. I had to plan. And you won't until you get there. Yeah, there's some things that Brian won't tell you.

And they're not scary, I promise. They're not like terrible. But, you know, who knows? I might even be put with her. I have no idea where Brian's putting me. I don't know either. That's right. You're going to get me in a good.

You're actually going to, no, don't do that to me. We did the last time we did the, the, the, the blind, we weren't blindfolded, but the dinner was in the dark. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I don't want to do that again. We're not doing that again. We're not doing that.

That was a one off. But that, yeah, yeah. It's so weird that you didn't like that. And I'd love, I freaking loved that. Oh, God. It gave me so much. I think it just depends on your, I don't know what, I don't know what it depends on, because I thought I was going to be so stressed out in there. And it was so, it was like a hawk with a hood on. I was just like, ah. Let's just say, when did that happen in 2018? 18, 19, something like that. Okay, 2018, Nicole could hold it together. 2025 Nicole will probably lose her crap. Well, as long as, as Brian's not making you build something out of crap for. Exactly. I'm not going to make you eat anything in the dark.

But you're getting me in my good week. Oh, good. Good. Good. I timed, I timed it. Perfect time with an infusion. Yes, yes, good. Excellent.

I'm excited. Yeah, it's going to be great. I can't wait to see you. And Randy, of course. Always good to see Randy. Thank you both. You're all just great. And Randy, especially this weekend, we're going to be doing, oh, we have a roundtable

coming up on things. Yeah, we're going to talk about going to the movies, going physically to the physical movies and being physical. What we like, what we hate, and everything in between. so check back in on that. And then we're going to sack the sword and the swarcerer. Yes, the swored and I'm more prone to the swarcerer, but we'll see how we do. Val Kilmer, Kilnomer, Kiliman, Kilnomer. All right, I'll see you next time.

I can't even pronounce it. I can't do it right either. Nicole has to tell us. Okay, hey, guys, we're here. We're doing it. Where are we? Okay, yeah, there we are. Let's get to the final moments of this show, the waning moments of this very long episode today.

Yeah, yeah. Sorry about that I was the reason I'm waving my hands I was the reason It went long because Well Wednesdays are already long But you can't help it

When that stuff happens We do what we can do It pisses me off though We're done though But that means We got lots more coming up Tomorrow we'll have a show All the rest of the week

Super normal So we'd love to have you for that I'm told I think in the chat somewhere Somebody said the titles aren't working So if you wanted to submit a last second title And you're in there live You gotta go do it manually over at frogpants.shobot.tv.

But that still works. So hop in there. I'm not sure what's going on with that. Maybe it's fixed by now. But there you go. Let's get out of here, Brian. You want to play a song to soothe our souls? What do you got there?

I would like nothing more than to do that. We found out in pre-show that today is Logan's birthday. Logan Victorine and Leslie wrote in and said, Hey, Scarecrow and Buck. It's that time of year again. And the baby that Kim almost took home from Blizcon, 2013, is turning 12 on April 9th. Since then, he's become obsessed with so many things, most recently, Wicked for his birthday. Can you play a cover of The Wizard and I by Ariana Big, as Logan, calls her?

Happy 12th birthday, Logan, enjoy your last year as a kid before becoming a teenager. Aw. We've got to celebrate this with one of these. Happy Day, do you. Congratulations, dude. You're old. Super cool. We saw photos of you at Minecraft with all your buddies there going to see the movie and hope you enjoyed it.

Hope you really dug it. Yeah, this is really cool. So, Ariana Grande, of course, very much connected with the film Wicked Now, but back in 2003, she was a fan like all the rest of us. And for the 15th anniversary special edition of the musical, they released an album that featured, of course, the cast of Wicked performing all their songs, but also a bonus disc of other performers performing songs that they enjoy from Wicked. And in this case, you've got Ariana Grande covering the song that Edina Manzel and Cynthia Revo both perform in the musical and in the movie. It is called The Wizard and I. Here is probably one of the only times you'll live here on this show,

Ariana Grande. When I meet the wizard, once I prove my worth. And when I meet the wizard, what I've waited for since birth. And with all his wizard wisdom, by my looks, he won't be blinded. Do you think the wizard is dumb, or like lunch, so small-minded? Do you know? He'll say to me I see who you truly are A girl on whom I can rely

And that's how we'll begin The Wizard and I Once I'm with the wizard My whole life will change Because once you're with the Wizard And no strange. No father isn't that brought of you. No sister acts ashamed. And all of us has to love you. And by the wizard, you're a plane. And this gift or this curse, I have the tied. Maybe at last don't know why. When we are hands in light, the wizard and love. Inside to the alphabet

A girl who is so superior Shouldn't a girl are so good inside Have a magic exterior And since folks here to an absurd degree Sing fixated on your her degree Would it be alright by you If I digreenerify you And of course that's not important to me

Alright why not I'm a reply Oh what a pair will be the wizard and die Yes what a pair will be The wizarding Unlimited My future is unlimited And I just had a vision almost like a prophecy I know

That sounds really crazy And true the vision's hazy But I swear someday there'll be A celebration throughout us That's all to do With me And I stand there with a wizard Feeling name I never fell

I've never shown I'd be so happy I could now And so it will be for the rest of my life And I want nothing else till I die Hailed in such high esteem When people see me, they will free Or have a mother's favorite save

the wizard and love. Entree, frogpants.com. It's delicious. Delicious.