The Morning Stream - TMS 2818: Stiff Stick

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

Half-Naked Lunch. Butt Crack Pennies. A taco and an eggroll. I don't wear a lot of jewelry. Obvious Finnish Elation. These Ashes Are Concrete. Ashes Shouldn't Be Concrete. Iceland's Cool. Watching Naked Lunch while eating Lunch Naked with Brian Dunaway. Specific calluses. One Taco, Extra Afficionado. (s) We Got A Mighty Concord, Rockin Through the Night. Double Kilmonger. Tick bone illness. Holding goats with Tom. Recommentals Live From A TJ Maxx Toilet with Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John McLean, barefoot and bloodied, single-handedly thwarted a skyscraper heist on Christmas Eve with nothing but grit wit and the borrowed machine gun. What's your excuse? Show Hans who's boss today by signing up for patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, half-naked lunch. But crack pennies. A taco and a negro. I don't wear a lot of jewelry.

Obvious finish elation. These ashes are concrete. Ashes shouldn't be concrete. Iceland's cool. Watching naked. lunch while eating lunch naked with Brian Dunaway. Specific calluses. One taco extraficionado. We got a mighty concord. Riding

through the night. Double killmonger. Tick bone illness. Holding goats with Tom. Recommendals live from a T.J. Max toilet and more with Nicole. Nope, did that wrong. Do it again. Recommendals live from a T.J. From a Lach. Shit. Recommendals live from a T.J. Max

toilet with Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning stream. When the killer bees will arrive, and exactly how they will behave when they get here, we don't know. The monster will come for us all. The morning stream. The tingling means it's working. Hey, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Wednesday, May 7th, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Yes. Or at least 80% of Brian Abbott, 20% Mucinex is what I'm at right now. That guy, I did a thing about

mascots on YouTube not too long ago, like the grossest mascots. And one of them is the little Musinex bugger guy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I don't think he has a name, but he's like, Was the, no, he's, he is gross. What about the, um, uh, the Colagard box? Because it's not gross until you think about that box is going to have poop in it pretty soon. Yeah. No, that thing's gross. Just to think about, right?

And also just when you're done, you're, you're putting that in the mail, you know? Like what else is, what other biohazard is in the mail if you're poop? Oh, I know. Exactly. And it's like, here's, here's a box of poop in the mail that you're sending intentionally. that somebody's receiving intentionally. We've all sent boxes of poop in the mail. Oh, all the time.

I get returns. They're my PO box. They're everywhere. But you're right. This is an intentional, like, health-related professional exchange of poop. Somebody's on the other end waiting for your box of poop. Yeah. On the other end, yes.

Unlike my... By the way, you mentioned your YouTube video. I have a little bone to pick with you, Scott. Oh, pick it. Pick it. Your recent Instagram video of, uh, excellent video game bars in Las Vegas. Oh, yeah.

So, okay, so I got a lot of, I got additional heat for this. I knew you might. I bet I know the heat you got. Yeah, I got all kinds of heat for it. And it turns out, by the way, heat drives views, I've noticed. Not that I'm trying and not intentionally trying to do that. Oh, I see what

we're doing here. But I based it a little bit on like what was voted, the coolest or game destination things. And I probably could have, because our own personal experience at player one has been amazing we love it there yeah they've taken such good care of us yeah i ought to do a follow-up and go guys i made an error i've thought about this i actually i've thought about nerd nest but now it's like well now i want to go see this nerd nest place

yeah the one in chinatown sounds awesome so i think i would if i had to redo it i would keep that in there i'd keep pinball in there oh yeah pinball and uh hyperx uh and there's something in area 15 as well, isn't there? Oh, is there? I don't know. But it's more, yeah, it's, oh yeah, duh, I've been there. I've played video games up there. It's kind of like, it's another, it's like a retro arcadey place.

Yeah. And it's got two levels and a good bar and good snacks, and it's a good place to hang out when you're waiting for your time to go into Omega Mart or restaurant or something there. But it's, yeah, it's in the back. corner and it's two levels. Man, I'd love to check that out. Is it a thing you got, there's like a cover fee to get in there?

Yeah, you just walk in. And I think the games even are like, they either take quarters or, or you can get a little wave card, the Dave and Bustery kind of card. A little card swiper, swiping. Oh, yeah, you know, the other one, we had fun at it as well, the, uh, the arcade at the end of the it escape room. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

It was all it themed, like clown and horror themed. That was, that's right. At the end there, they had a bunch of stuff. There are some things. So do a follow-up with, and here's some more of the greatest video game bars. Yeah, I mean, I actually could do that. Or I could just do like a whole focus on Player 1 just to give those guys a thing. There you go.

That's a good idea. Not that that video gets a ton of views. But, you know, I got one that got like 400,000 views. It was the one where I was talking about the worst controllers ever made. That thing. People are mad at me because I. Oh, really? Well, I included the N64 in there, and I even prefaced it by saying, I know this is controversial, calm down fanboys, let me explain why I think there's problems with that controller, but also why it's important.

And then I think I was fair about why it's weird, why it doesn't really hold up in terms of the three-pronged approach and all that, but that it was important on the path of analog control. And, you know, we were, Nintendo kind of invented a new way to play. And it's important, it's an important controller that in retrospect, feels kind of garbage in. hands that's all i was saying and see i loved the n64 controller especially how you could do these two or these two or these two you know based on that different game and yeah like all of that's fine it's just so if you hold it now it just isn't how do i put this maybe maybe it's not it doesn't hold up we just didn't know we didn't know how it was going to go and how much more granularity we would get with control and even the game cube would show that very quickly after that

generation it was like oh okay and the game cube controller in my mind is one of the greatest i love that thing game cube is great what was the um the dream cast i was not a huge fan of uh yeah i mean it got you got you by but it wasn't great um the i mean the Atari 2600 quite possibly the worst only because they didn't know that for long extended periods of playing asteroids or whatever you're going to get very specific calluses on angles of your hand because you're you're holding a cube basically yeah basically essentially that is true and also i by the one i put on there is the worst uh probably is the intelligent thing with the stupid buttons and the little bit worse with that stupid so bad scroll wheel joystick thing oh that thing was horrible it was really bad like out of

the box bad and uh anyway that thing got so many views i was like what the hell's going on here and i realized man people sure like to have strong opinions about things on the internet and that's that's where things get traction. Yeah. I'm not saying I'm going to go negative or anything. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying if I did go negative, I know that there's corned to farm in that field,

is what I'm saying. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. All right? So if we wanted to get all rude and terrible on TMS, we would probably gain listeners, but not the kind we want. No, exactly.

No, that's not, we'd get some viewers, we'd get some controversy, but that's not what we want. No. You find people. We want to attract the kind of people. that we'd want to hang out with, not that we'd want to start a fight with or join us in a

hundred versus one fight against a gorilla. That's right. So as a result, just, you know, Patreon, help us out. We're trying to go, we're trying to hold that line for the positivity in the world. Try to stay high while the others go low. That's right. They're all down, look at them all down there. I can see down their butt cracks. I could throw a penny in them. Hey, I did a thing that I wanted to mention because I got a, I got a really great recommendation. Oh, you know what we have to do? We have to call i forgot we're doing this all backwards oh yeah done away first yeah i totally spaced this and we need a player yeah we need a player we got a done away you guys uh dm him for feud because we need to do done away first yeah we got to do this first i completely forgot

for a hot second there habit you know we've done this a long time it's hard to change our change our course but he's got a meeting so we want to make sure to get him in here early get him taken care of get you guys lunch yeah he's got a lunch yeah let's be honest it's it's not a meeting it's lunch. It's a happy birthday lunch. It is. All right, with us on the phone is our old pal Brian Dunaway joining us. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi. It's gotten, Brian. Not my birthday, people. Don't start wishing me happy birthday. It is a coworker. And also, how dare you forget to call me and then start blabbing on about retro stuff. I know. I know. I screwed up. It's like we did me give you a soap.

box to stand on what is your what is the least what is the worst controller retro controller of uh in your yeah retro or any any console controller of all time yeah what do you hate let me see i'm gonna go with uh whichever one you love the most just so to piss you off no i'm with scott i don't like that i don't like the stiff stick that is on the n64 it's very important but it is that thing is nothing but just hard plastic right there on my thumb. Yeah, and also I had limited range in terms of, like, if you guys remember, it had little notches. So if you went left and up, it's just, we just didn't

know. And again, incredibly important stepping stone toward where we are. There's no doubt about that. I want to give Nintendo full credit where it's due. It's just that in retrospect, which is the whole thing. Retro. Yeah. And I gave other ones way worse, very worse treatment. The rest of my just way more important than we sometimes give it credit for because you could on certain games plug in two of them and hold one at each hand and just do dual thumb

sticks. Yeah, and you look like a freak, but you could. You could do it. Who looks like, no, you look like a badass. It's like, look out. I need port one and two. Yeah, part one and two, please. Hey, look who we have on the phone. It's Icelandic listener, I'm sorry, Finnish listener,

Yon. I almost gave you the wrong country, dude. how's that feel are you there oh hi oh hi how you're going are you doing are you doing

oh wait are you in Iceland you're not in Iceland no but Iceland's cool yeah you guys like each other it's right there in the name yeah sorry that dad joke got me in the right moment

the right time that was perfect all right well I have a seepap story if you want oh yeah give it give it to us yeah so I have clients that use them and one of them almost suffocated because

he couldn't he couldn't use his hands really to take the mask off yeah really so uh like my colleague found him like all blue oh that's terrifying

middle of the night that is terrifying did it work out okay did you get it off and resuscitate him and all that no no just take the but suffocating like I mean did it stop putting out air or something like no it's just

like kept putting in air like more like it wasn't doing the the bike you have it was doing just yeah oh god that's almost like that feels like like a scene right out of Metallica's one music video yeah it feels like uh you know it's a missed opportunity for uh Kevin

Spacey's character in seven as a torture that's way of killing somebody yeah we need just one more sin air breathing air breather yeah and the Lord said don't breathe there well it's good to have you here man it's been a while since you've been on you were our fourth caller today Brian Abbott here's got a list of games and winnings and stuff and rules so explain to the rule also quick shout out to Alcabab who totally fixed me up after Monday you had to kind of erase my my footprint and create a new one and it worked great so thanks Bob we're all good for today good job wow it's time to play the tadpooly feud I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics and scott and Brian are going to have to predict the answers that the game

us. It's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Yana, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. If your team wins, you get a prize package. That includes the long reach and nomad survival courtesy of dirtbox fingers.

Excellent games, both. Boy, don't I know about the long reach. Do you? Do you now? Tell us more about your long reach. What is it? I watched naked lunch. I watch half a naked lunch yesterday. Oh, God. Oh, what did you, what was that about? Why did you watch half of naked lunch? I'm just curious. Because I couldn't watch the whole naked lunch. He was waiting for

naked and it never came. I watched half of and I was like, my God, if we don't watch this on film sack, I may die right here. So I said, stop. Sure. Sure, sure. Wait a minute. No, that's cool. I, um, uh, what was it going to say? You're the, uh, for Steely Dan got their name. Is it? No, it's Oh, yeah, it is. Yeah. It's the mechanical metal deldo deal. Yeah.

That's good stuff that we're talking about here. Good morning. Morning, morning, street. Good morning. Bottom line is, those games are great, and Yonah will really enjoy them.

That's the main point. Awesome. All right, let's get to it here. Boy, of all days, Yon had to pick, you may not be able to help too much with this one, but it'll be fun having you attempt to help. have these guys put their hands on their buzzers and give their best answer to this. We asked 441 Tadpoolers to name a Mexican chain restaurant.

Oh, Scott. Taco Bell. Let's get it out of the way, yeah. Number one answer, Taco Bell. Barely Mexican food restaurant. It's on paper. It's a Mexican food restaurant. Sure.

They have words like taco and burrito, but don't let that fool yet. That's right. Exactly. Yes. All right. Don't worry, folks. We know, we know. Us Americans, dumb Americans know that Taco Bell is suck you Mexican food.

Don't worry. Sounds good. As are many of the choices in this list. It sounds pretty good right now, though. It actually sounds good. I would eat it right now. Really good. Yeah.

So despite all that. All right. Well, Yana, it's me and you, man. How do you feel about that? Do you like that idea? You feel confident? I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled.

I'm sure you are. His usual Scandinavian way of telling us how thrilled he is. Fantastic. Let's get straight. to it. So, Scott, you've got control of the board. It's wide open for you. Nine answers on the board.

So what do you have over there? Whoops, there's the game. Over there that would be like an equivalent. Not an equivalent. Taco Bell and that's about it. That's about it. How many shells do you have in yours? What was that?

What did you call it? Chipotle. Oh, Chipotle. Yeah, yeah. That was going to be my next answer. It's perfect. Chipotle. Or as our friend Eric Van Skyhawk says,

Chapotel. Chapotel. Chipotle. Potal. Yeah. Chapoal. All right, let's get to it. Let's show us a Chipotle.

Number two. Yeah, that's a big one. Number two. It gives you an idea of how big the jump was from Taco Bell to Chipotle. Oh, my gosh. People said Taco Bell. 50 people said Chipotle. And I got to think Del Taco is on here because it's adjacent.

So Del Taco. Sure. All right. Del Taco. Del Taco. Number six. Wow. Good point.

Guys. God. There's one near... Nine points total for Scott. There's one near us that... I don't know if it's on here. I wonder if it's even just... It may be just Utah. Crap.

Crap. Oh, somebody probably... It's gone now, or at least maybe it's coming back, but I used to work at one. I wonder if Chi-Chi's is on here. This might be a little bit of a stretch because of the age of the thing, but also Tadpool, and they know about the Chee-Chi's.

But resurrected Chee-C-C-E's. But resurrected Che-C-C-C-. cheese. They're bringing Chee cheese back. Yeah. They're delicious virgin strawberry decory. Show us Chee cheese. Ah, yeah. Wow. Look at Scott is

kidding the top three. Look at that. That's wild to me. Third. Jeez. Okay. I'm going to show the board game with these guys so they can see it. It is because of your your Chi Chi Chi's stories that they put that. It must be. We got Taco Bell where you used to work.

so that covers both of us in our employment options. Oh my gosh, Jan, I can't think of anything. Chain restaurants, that's important. Chain restaurants, yeah. Okay, I may as well try this because I don't, oh, yeah, go ahead. Go ahead, Johnny. Kadoba. Kadoba.

Oh, shit, of course. Ooh, Kadova. We don't have a lot of those. We have them, but it's rare, and so I'm glad you thought of it. Kudoba is great. I don't know what that is. A little regional. McDonald's answer to Chipotle.

I think they're owned by. Oh, at least, okay. Somebody told me they were owned by McDonald's originally. Bot by him. Show me Kudoba. Yeah.

Number five. Man, I can't believe the finish guy knew the Kudoba. That's awesome. I know. It's great. I'll just talk about them the third person. It's fine.

All right. What else we got here? Okay, I'm going to test one because it's here, but I don't know if it's anywhere else, and I don't know about the tadpool. of the game we got a fair amount of Utah folks so I'm just going to try it Taco Time we have a place called Taco Time and they're everywhere here

Taco Time it's Taco Time Uh huh All right Show me eat Taco Time Oh number nine for Taco Time I'll tell you what I did not know Scott was such a taco aficionado I'm yeah I always asked for extra aficionado on my tacos

So All right Now we're in the weeds why didn't even show up today I could have just Right Yeah This early business

Hell we just didn't even need you True You're pretty close to being You're not out of it yet You're mathematically eliminated Yeah Yeah one more answer And you're mathematically eliminated

Is that chat is shouting Taco Johns Oh Taco John We don't have a Taco Johns But I hear good things I don't know what that is either What is Taco Johns? It's regional

But it's supposed to be real good So yeah I like that one Let's do Taco Johns All right Show me Taco Johns. Yeah, number seven. We've officially won the game, and Yonner won the prizes. There are three answers left if you want to just color the whole board orange.

That'd be amazing. Have we done that before? We have one time, right? I think one. Yeah, one time before, I think. I always like when we have first. Yeah. Jack in the box has tacos, but no one's going to put that on here.

Oh, yes, that's what I was going to say. Were you? Are you lying to get me to give you the turn? No, no, I was really going to say that because that's like when I get tacos, that's like I usually get a taco and an egg roll. So I was trying to think of taco places. And I was like, that's not really tacos. But, yeah.

Taco and an egg roll. Yeah. Some stroganoff as well while you're at it. It's a good idea, actually. Around here, we've got this chain. And now they're everywhere. They're in Vegas. I noticed we could probably try Cafe Reeves.

It's a local thing, but it's also everywhere now. It started here. So I don't know. It feels right to me. So let's say that. Show me Cafe Rio. They're great. Cafe Rio was number 15.

So it's... Cafe Rio. You know what? Brian's right. They are good. But Cafe Rio is responsible for the last time I threw up in 22,005. Really? It was food poisoning from Cafe Rio that day.

And then since that day. then since then, to answer your question, twice since then. And it's been fine. But it's been, you know, twice in 20 years. I thought you were poisoned in two more times. I was like, oh, my guess. God, stop going. Jesus. Yeah. That's a place too where, you know, if you get takeout, it's always the circular foil pans with the paper circle part where tops. I love those. Yep. And those salads are great. When we do family get-togethers, we'll often, like, make homemade versions of those. Like, they're really great. It's just that one day we was whatever a whole family we all got sick from whatever we ate there so anyway yeah uh all right well brian you got a chance there we go you're ready to light it up

well here it comes okay welcome to mose moz i don't know most tacos that sounds good though moz southwest grill i believe it's yeah it doesn't have to be tacos scott it's name a mexican chain restaurant and i i've already eaten all around town in my head head, and I'm thinking, where else could I go? I like the, you said Mexican. I like that. Mexican. It's Mexican.

Mexican. What are you going to exit? Show me. Show me, Moes. Come on. Moes, Southwestern Grill, number 14, just above Cafe Rio. I do not. It's good stuff.

Yeah, they have good stuff there. You have those in Colorado? They have those in Colorado as well. We do not have those here, I don't think. All right. Brings it back to us. Yana, do you have anything itching itching at your chode there? You're itching it's your ground beef and crunchy chips.

I don't really know anymore. I don't either. This is hard now. Oh, the ribs, not ribs. Chili's. Chili's, chilies. Chili. I remember the song.

There's a Mosin-Layton-Layton by. the way. Oh, all right. Now, you know what? That's kind of toward KT Data. He and I could probably go to Mose if we want to go to lunch. There you go. Nice to meet. All right. Show me what did you say?

Oh, shit. Chilies. No, Chili's. Chilies. What did you say? Chili's. Baby back rim. Ah! Chili's number 12, so you're getting closer. It was always

Almost a bonus guess. Damn it. Damn it. All right. This got harder. We have several locations that have like four or five restaurants and around here. And they're Mexican restaurants. But I don't think that counts as a game.

We have La Hacciendas. That's great at the house. And so let's see. How about we go with, okay, I'm traveling 25 and I'm going to El Polo Aloko, the crazy chicken. Oh, sure. Crazy chicken. I think it's Poyo, but I like polo. Pollo, yeah, that would I say.

I got polio. Yeah, you got polio. Polio loco. All right. Shovio, Poirloco. Come on. I'm surprised by that, too. Number 13, like, you basically have named the four that come after your bonus guess.

That's hilarious. Chilio Loco, Mose, and Cafe Rio, all the ones right after. Which really makes me wonder what the hell four is. That's crazy to me. Yeah, for something that, that popular. okay um we could try oh yeah go ahead it's not a mexican place but not about the breaking bad oh yeah that's a great one is fictional right it is it is it is the chicken brothers what's it called el harmonos yeah los poos harmonos or los polos harmonos or los polos harmonos according to that

let's go ahead and do that because you know i can see the tadpole pulling from a fictional one let's do it sure absolutely uh show me los pojos armanos uh boom you could get extra before you finish saying it well sometimes i worry that the uh it's going to take a long time uh number 21 in the list was Los Poyos Armanos. It's good to know they put it on there. All right,

we're out of strikes. That means Dunnoy's got to carry at home. We win either way, but what do you got, dude? Exactly.

How about, give me one of those, TC and me wife, one of those, ice cream tacos. No, let me see. Oh, my Lord.

Did we say, Jack in the box? You fiddled around with it. We didn't say, I didn't say it. You picked it up and looked at it. Okay,

I'm going on with, uh, jack in the box the lord knows what he else he's got in that box yeah tacos egg rolls name it all right show me jack in the box oh that was long that's gonna be wait that type that's why that's why I do the the faster

oh my gosh I'll bet four is Casa Benita I'm so pissed I didn't think of this oh Casa Benita of course that's been everybody's mind tell let's see is it let's find out let's see number four It's not. It's on the border, which...

On the border, I haven't gone there forever. I don't even know what that is. A lot of the ones near us closed. There's one still out by the airport. And I really like them. You know, that's... Is that because of the new laws and stuff? Or is it just because bad business?

New laws. What new laws? Can't have tacos anywhere near the city, the metro. Oh, the border, I see. Oh, border patrol. Gotcha. Okay. I get it. Show me number eight.

Chewy. Chewis. We've got a couple of those here in Denver, too. Amazing text mechs from Austin. This is a place that expanded out from Austin is so freaking good. Come on. Make the QT be the last place. Come on, or 7-Eleven.

Make it something stupid. Come on, let's go. 7-Eleven. No, this is number 10 is a combo meal. It is El Torchie's Tochie's tacos. Oh, Torchie's tacos, yeah. Torchie is also another Austin place. and El Torito, I think, Southern California.

A little surprise that the Danny Trejo Taco thing didn't get on there. Maybe that's in your left one. Not the top 10. Number 11 was your Chevys. Oh, Chebys. That's really good. I didn't know.

Yeah, okay. Rounding out, let's see. Taco Bueno, Taco Cabana. I miss those. We just have those all over in Denver. Casa Benita, number 18. It did make the list. Good job, tadpoolers.

But still had to be mentioned. Costa Vita. Oh, yeah, Costa Vida is basically came from the divorce of the couple who ran Cafe Rio. They got divorced, and I can't remember if it was the husband or the wife or whatever. They ran off into Costa Vita. And then we go there all the time. I really like Costa Vita. They're really good.

We have a weird situation in town. We got a small Mexican restaurant, and they split the merry couple who owned it, and they take turns through the week. So, like, three days a week is one of them. the other three days is another and everybody hates one of these people and everybody loves the other so they only go on like the odd days yes on the odd days yes that's great we are like the children of a bad divorce yeah i was going to say this sounds like it sounds like it sounds like yeah that's wow uh fuzzies taco shop also uh number oh i mentioned that one didn't i another um austin transfer three margaritas chikitos which is a UK thing uh and

McGuay. Don't know that one. Fiesta Guadalajara, Guzman and Gomez. I don't know if that's related to Luis Guzone of a celebrity owned. I wanted to be. I wanted to be him. Mighty Taco, Miguel's Jr., which is also Southern California.

Montezuma's, which is an Australian place. Mucho Burrito. Trejos Tacos, number 32. Oh, there's a Treos tacos, yes. Uncle Julios, which is part of the La Hacienda family. Zantigo, Abuelo, Acapulco, Baja fresh.

Well, some people in the chat said Baja fresh. That's a good one. Yeah, blue iguana. Ooh, that's downtown. Blue iguana. Red iguana, also very good. And the one that I just came to me, and so before you finish the list, I just want to check.

Oh, shit, and I forgot it. Hold on. Oh, oh, Taukaria 27, my chance. That may be local only. if you are in Salt Lake and you're like, I need tacos real quick. Fan effentastic. They're real good. All right.

Sorry. Keep with your list. Let's see. Los Amigos, Los Trojas, Las Iguanas, La Paria, which is an Atlanta chain, La Fiesta, Jose Peppers, Jerry's Uno, Calipinos. Jose Peppers, is that a real name? I love that. Jose Pepper is apparently a real place. Ponchos.

Peridicio, Pepe's, Senor Frogs. Get out of here. That's great. I mean, yeah. Tijuana Flats. And finally, somebody just replied, I don't wear a lot of jewelry.

There you go. Okay. All right then. Did I tell you who wrote that? You don't know who wrote that, do I have no idea who wrote that. I want to know who wrote that. Because that feels like something Nicole would say.

Not necessarily right, but she might say it. Chained? No, I don't wear a lot of jewelry. Yeah, I don't wear a lot of jewelry. I get it. Hey, well, that's fantastic. You know what that means? Yanna, you win. Woo! How do you feel about your big win there, buddy? I'm elated. Are you? Congratulations. You can always tell with him when he's elated. He's just as stoked as you can get. Maybe tell your voice that. People always say, people say the finish don't have a sense of humor.

Hardly anyone makes me laugh as hard as Yana does. That dude makes me freaking laugh. Dead Band Delivery always cracks us up. We love having you on, man. Yeah, you're the best. We'll get you these. I love you. We'll get you these codes ASAP. Brian will send them over via DM.

That's a direct message. Already done. Oh, already done. Geez, Brian is on top of it. Holy shit. All right. We'll have fun. Stay out of the tundra.

Float around and have a transparent chest. Bye. All right. Hey. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.

Bye, bye now. Brian. You and I just finished a fantastic play retro on Monday. So if people haven't heard it yet, then you go back and check out drilldozer, one of the greatest games ever made on the GBA. I think I converted you, right? You liked it. Oh, absolutely. I'm a fan. I'm a big fan. Yeah, it's real good. I'm a real fan. It's real good. We get into all the depth of it and had a real blast. So be checking out our show, play retro. That's at frogpants.com slash play retro. Putting up bunch of extra stuff, little videos here and there, other stuff in the retro world. So lots to consume if you are into the nostalgic world of retro video gaming. Anything else you'd like to say before you must kiss our butts? Oh, must I? Yes. How about? know you. Yeah, how about that?

That sounds great. All right. Well done. We did it, Brian. We got through it. We didn't have to do anything too weird. Ranging the order wasn't like crossing the streams and caused problems for us, which is good.

Yeah. Sometimes I, you know, we're creatures of habit and the momentum will sometimes, you know, I'm glad. I don't know how we got reminded. How did that happen? Did you remember? And I was just going. Oh, you, you, it came to you somehow, maybe somebody.

put something in chat or Brian said something in chat and it Yeah You'd think I could just look at the damn notes And that would be enough But sometimes I would think Yeah, it's right there How the hell am I not seeing that?

All right A couple things Yes Stephen Smart, he's a listener of the show He sent me a recommendation That I am so happy he did So I read, right? I'm a reader man, I like to read

I don't like audiobooks as I get distracted so I read a lot of, you know, straight up paper books slash, you know, digital books, whatever. I read books. And I love sci-fi. I love all my genre, sub-genre, horror novels, all this stuff. He says, hey, if you like the expanse and things like that in sci-fi, you probably would really like this series. And so I went and checked it out. The series is called, or this first book anyway, I don't know what this full series is called, but it's called Children of Time.

Oh, whoops. Is it the right one? Yeah. children of time it's a novel by this author named uh how do i say it it's a hard name to say adrian classical music chikovsky is it chikovsky is that how that spelled oh i never knew that uh adrian chikovsky there you go yeah um it is real good uh kind of hard sci-fi but easy to get into i won't say it's hard like in you know like uh what's what's foundations that that's hard sci-fi. This is more like

it's penetrable but there's some high-minded concepts in it and I am absolutely loving this story. How many books? I think there's at least three in this initial series. Yeah, there it is. Three books. Okay. Here's what I like about

this first book so far. It basically it's crazy. So the whole thing starts with this lady who's like this brilliant scientist and Earth has sent her on a 20-year mission. She had to travel and cryosleep for 20 years to get to this place where they've got this new terraform planet and they're going to fill it full of apes. She's got this ship full of apes. All right.

So you're going to put them down there and then she's got this virus she engineered that will get into their brains and accelerate their evolution. So instead of taking a millennia to figure out how to use tools, they'll do that much quicker. But they'll do it naturally, but it'll be this accelerated thing. And that was the plan. But I don't want to give me spoilers, but the plan goes awry, and then what happens with that technology and how they jump around in time, it's awesome. It's so good. So anyway, I just wanted to thank him, because I am reading the hell out of that and loving it. So thanks, Stephen, for your recommendation. A quick note from Amanda.

She was talking about Concord and how we don't say it right. Yeah, yeah. I don't remember our conversation. And I had it backwards. We were talking about North Carolina, and I was talking about the United. And I was talking about the town outside of Charlotte called Concord. And I was saying, yeah, the friend I had, Trish, she pronounced it Concord and told me that I was pronouncing it wrong. And I got it backwards.

But let's go ahead and explain it because I'll be saying exactly what they're saying here. Oh, good. All right. So she says, Good morning. Sacramento and Boston. Those are our names today. I like that. It's good.

I like that. It's on theme. It's on track here. I'm originally from New Hampshire. I'm sure I'm saying that right. Uh-huh. That's exactly right. Yes. That's where all the hobbits go. Um, and our state capital is Concord or Concord. And we'll get to that in a second.

She says it is pronounced Concord, the way Brian said it or the way you're, you said it. The way that I was saying it was applied to North Carolina, it should be applied to New Hampshire. Yeah. And she uses the example like Concord, like I conquered this planet, like that. Yeah. While it makes my eye twitch a little to hear anyone say Concord, apparently. my state is a little more intense about it. North Carolinians pronounce it Concord. So who really knows? Love the show, though, Amanda.

I mean, it's like any of these. They're just Hurricane, Hurricane. Right, right. You know, Tuilla, Toulogh. Frank Fort. Yeah, Frank Fort. Yeah, exactly. Frankfurter, Frank Forsales.

That one's my favorite. Because Versailles, let me just say something. When you look at it and your first inclination is Versailles, how would you even get there? I mean, other than historic knowledge. otherwise you look at that and go well that's like Versailles or Versailles or some other shit so I don't blame people on that

it's all these Europeans coming over to America and saying oh well we're gonna we're gonna form a city the same name as the one we came from in Europe okay but we're gonna pronounce it different we'll see you know well anyway thank you Amanda it's always good to hear from her and thank you for the correction

and really it just meant Brian got it right that's what this is I got it right, but I got it wrong for the state. Oh, right. I could have sworn she said, from North Carolina, she said it was Concord. But now that I think about it, I think she maybe said Concord, and I was doing the Concord thing from New Hampshire. Got it. Well, there you go.

So now we're all clear, and we can move on. Thank you, Amanda. We appreciate that. We also got an email from, these are emails, by the way, the morning stream at gmail.com. I got one from Eric S. AKA Sunni in our... I'm so dreading this. I don't even know what it is and I'm dreading it.

Well, he says, we have a rando Brian sound to share. And I went, oh, I piqued my interest to me. I'm like, what do we got here? Yeah, sure. He says, hey, they're sauteed and blanched. So when you blanch, you blanch vegetables, right? It's like getting them cold. It's really quick, a really quick boil to keep some crispy.

Oh, that's blanching. I thought it was you boil them and then you put them under cold water real quick. and that made them something. I thought that was it. It is a really quick boil, so that's probably just how you cool them down to keep them crispy as cold water. Okay.

Also, she's the horny one on Golden Girls. Yeah, and Golden Girls. Blanche. I watched enough to know that. Yeah. Let's see. I have listened to TMS for a few years, not sure why I just kind of fell off for a while.

Meaning he hasn't listened, sorry. I meant, I did that all wrong. He hasn't listened to TMS for a few years, not sure why, I just kind of fell off. No problem, we're here. We got you. come back anytime anyway but recent events have made me wanting to listen to something fun for a change I decided to catch up on going back as far as I could in Apple Podcasts which took me back to January of 2003 or 23 sorry geez 23 on the February 2nd episode you're doing shows I know that's an amazing run that we've had on the February 2nd episode number 2416 Brian made a the following sound and I'll play that in a second but he says and I thought Scott might like to have it in a

his sound collection. For context, Brian was talking about walking through the Paris in Vegas to go out for food. And for some reason, this was the sound that he associated with that act. Blow the snow globe from Eric. So, Brian, that's the context. Yeah, I don't even remember the story. Like going, why would I go to the Paris in Vegas? Don't remember. 2023. We had one that year. Maybe you were. Yeah, maybe. I don't remember. Why were we going? Hmm. I don't remember being in the Paris at all that year. maybe you went separate maybe it was um after uh the high roller before the high roller grabbing something i don't know huh oh yeah it could be well maybe i did walk through there for the high roller

walk maybe because i remember now seeing the stupid water that has all the people's wrappers and cigarette shit in there anyway here is what the sound like or the sound sounded like and yes we will keep this in the thing i don't know what you were doing though here we go that's it so you're walking through the the Paris going. All right. What do you think of that? Okay.

All right. What do you think of that? God, I'd love to know the context of that noise. It sounds like I'm describing a slot machine sound or something. Oh, yeah. That could. Lulululul lily. La-la-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-h.

It's fun to hear the morning play. That would make the most sense, yeah. Oh, that's great. Well, thank you for your hard work there. Who was that? Eric. Thank you for that. We appreciate it.

That was Eric. All right, we have some time for some news, so let's do it. Today's news is brought to you by. Brought to you by Daily Music Headlines, where today, if you listen, you're going to hear about the Diddy Trial. They're starting jury selection for that. There's also some news coming from Fiona Apple. She's got a new song that was inspired by watching U.S. politics, so fun stuff there. Who else?

Oh, Mudvane in the news, celebrating the... 25th anniversary of their debut album and that surprise breakthrough hit Dig from Mudvane. Mudvane. It's a gross gross name, I think, a little bit crazy. It is a gross name. It's the stuff you pull out of a shrimp. You don't want that. No. Oh, is that's what that's what that is? That's even worse. Yeah, the poop, the poop vein is the mud vein. I hate that

so much. It's cronads, lobsters, any crustacean. My brother Matt loves that. He eats He'll eat the whole thing. Oh, no, really? Yeah, he thinks it's great. He's like, oh, it's good for you. It's good for you, he'd say. Oh, no, no.

But he's the same one that tells my mom, who is infirmed and can't move because of a broken hip and femur. He says, you just need to go to a gym. Go to a gym. Like, Matt, come on, dude. She can't go to the gym. What are you talking about? Oh, geez. You can go to a gym.

Anyway, sorry. He's my brother. I'm doing his voice. All right? It's a little offensive, but she can lift weights with her arms at least. There you. Nailed it. Funeral Home Director gave fake ashes to thousands of grieving pet owners

dumped the actual carcasses in a landfill According to an attorney general I know, it's not nice at all You know, you go in there, you expect the place to do what they say they're going to do Yeah, yeah And then they don't They just dumped your poor aunt, your loving pets We just throw them in landfill

Why is that so perfect of an accent for something like this? What stereotype? Well, I saw the name and it's like that That feels like the voice this guy would have. Oh, good point. His name is Patrick Vereb. Listen, it's too expensive. Yeah, it's 100% that.

I don't want to run. Too expensive to run daily furnace and burning the pets. We just put them in landfill. It's fine. These are ashes. Well, you want ashes. Pretend they're your ashes. Yeah, see, he's got a business to run.

It could be fluffy, right? It could be fluffy. This guy's 70 years old. doing this for a while. My guess this isn't the first time to the, these aren't their real ashes rodeo, but they just caught him. Right. Yeah, for sure. It sure feels like it anyway, but the Pennsylvania funeral home director allegedly bilked some, we don't use the term bilk enough. We got to use that. No, no, built. We should go back to bilked because it's not, it's not racially connected. Mm-hmm. Yeah, as far as I know, it doesn't. No, no offensiveness.

Is there some, someone's going to go, well, actually, the history came from, uh, sergeant Bilko, who was made fun of for his race. Yeah, for being such a white guy. Well, let's see here. They alleged that he bilked. Love it. 6,500 people. That's a lot of people.

That is a lot of people. Jeez. Out of $650,000 by promising to cremate their cats and dogs. Sorry, what? Had you come from some burnt creature, right? Like, you know, did you just? I don't know. Maybe it's just wood.

and you could just make ashes. You just bought some bulk ashes. Yeah, I don't know how you prove what those ashes are, you know? Like you could probably you could probably incinerate concrete or something and have it fake the bones or because the bones are, the ashes are always bones, right? It's my understanding. It's not, there's no other bits in there. It's like teeth and bones. Right, because everything else, yeah.

But who knows? This guy, now I'm starting, but that much money and that many people, this got, to me, it's darker than it would be. Because if this is like three people, he faked a little thing. It's like it's not a huge organized thing. But if he's having to do this for 6,500 people, he had to produce what looked like animal remains ashes for that many people. Like this is a deep, dark thing for this deep. Yeah, you've got to get it somewhere.

Right, exactly. I don't know who, but, you're saying that bilk might come from the, from an old card game called Bach, B-A-L-L-K, sometimes improperly pronounced balk oh like the baseball thing bulk

yeah I thought it was bulk do I have that wrong it's bach I thought it was too but we got we got yelled at by the chat room

a couple years ago for pronouncing it bulk that's nothing to balk at but someone's like it's pronounced bach I didn't know that then we went ah bach

Bach ask your uncle who watch MASH with us that's right let's see How you keep conversation on a date. That episode.

It's kind of dumb, but I still like it. Patrick Vareb, age 870, like I mentioned, charged with several felony accounts, including theft by deception, receiving stolen property and deceptive business practices, according to Attorney General Dave Sunday. He announced it on a Wednesday. Verib, the owner of Verib Funeral Home and Eternal Pet Memorial. Look at the name of the thing.

Verib Funeral Home and Eternal Pet. Sorry, eternity pet memorial. That's just not a great name. No, I wouldn't believe it either. Eternity Pet Memorial. What do you want? It's funeral and eternity pet memorial, huh? You need guns?

We can call it something else. We can do it whatever makes money. Yes, I have a closet full of track suits. Why do you ask? Probably a guy in the truck. There's a little red guardian in there, Alex L.B. Sue, yes, a little bit. I'll ask the, dude, the Red Guardian, as far as I'm concerned, is the stereotype. except he's yeah it really is like i do put our uh funeral home on the witties box with the little toy

the little kitty toy i'm so excited to see it this weekend you've got me pumped for it oh my gosh you're gonna say this is this is the character that florence pew was was born to play and i already thought that so hearing that makes me more excited because she already as far as i don't care she owns it by the way i didn't even talk about it kind of is the florence pew show i love her but i i forgot to say about sinners it's like three or four big mccu connections you got killmonger and if you count him twice because he plays his twin double killmonger well you're chilmonger and uh human torch yeah exactly i forgot about that i totally forgot about that so you could separate him since there's two of them so you can say human torch killmonger and then you got

cape bishop in there um uh what's her name uh stanfield says and haley steinfeld there you go. Kelly Steinfeld. And who was the other one? Oh, and then the director, Ryan Coogler, who made your two Black Panthers. So, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Got a little pedigree.

We're going to have to change the Star Trek thing to MCU at some point. There's just no way. I mean, it's so, it's such easy pickings, but only for movies that have come out since, you know, the 70s. Star Trek at least has the, you know, the old 60s and some of those real old-timer

actors. That's true. Plus now they have new stuff that will help fill in the blanks later so we probably keep it, but the MCU thing looms large. That's all I'm saying. It's just, it's, it's so hard to name an actor these days that hasn't done something Marvel, whether it's full-on

MCU or MCU adjacent. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty crazy how quick that happened to feels like, I mean, I know it's been since away. Oh, Jim Luce is MB15 from Loki, the TVA guard is currently in Sinners as well. Oh. I didn't know that.

So we got another one. Yep. All right. There you go. That movie's very different from an MCU movie though, everybody. Don't go in there expecting that

because that ain't. Yeah. It's very unique vision. Tribute Thursday, I've been hoping to see Sinners Friday or Satur Day. Excited to talk to you about it because it's cool. Yeah, I can't wait.

All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back from said break, Tom Merritt, joining us for some tech. And after that, Nicole, I don't think Randy's around. He's flying or something. Right? I never got a thing from him. I think so. He never officially told us, but yeah, I think so.

He's going to Boston to do something. For the Pax East? Is it Pax East? Oh, I didn't know that. Is that what's going on over there? I think so. I think so. He's moderating a panel. I'm excited for him. It sounds like fun. Yeah. Get up in front of people. The only problem is he, that flu we are all coming home with,

or one version, the non-COVID thing that you got. That's kind of what he had. Yeah, he had that beforehand and couldn't come to the event as a result. So anyway, Wendy are back, Randy. We'll see you when you get back. But in the meantime, we're going to take this break and come back with Nicole. Hey, Brian, what's on tap for the music today? Well, let's go to Brooklyn.

For a band that we featured before, alternative rockers Whitehall, have a brand new single. It's about how fragile life can suddenly feel. A parent getting sick can shift your entire perspective. Boy, you know that. Hell yeah. This is kind of right up your alley. This is a glimpse into their forthcoming album, which is experience. expected later this year.

If you like, let's see, Arley, Carver, Commodore, Goo Goo Dolls, things like that, then you might like these guys. Here's the brand new song that's called Baby Steps. Here is Whitehall. I was leaning in every word you had said Because everything you said I could feel was true Clear as day in a hospital room You could see through every one of us

Our fears, our hopes, and all our love. You were beautiful and so awake. Then you laid back down for eight more days. I know it's getting better all the time. It's all the time. It's all baby steps and that's fine. Just didn't think we would be holding all so tightly and we're so young.

Dad's got a lot of things on his plane. Getting doctors to hear what he has to say. say it's not so simple modern medicine they want to feed he pills to you feel nothing he's taking everything in stride

brave-faced and heavy-eyed are good and some are bad wish I live closer to my dad I was getting there all the time it's all the baby steps and that's fine I just didn't think we would be holding on so tightly When we're so young

Taking my time through this life When dad was 27 he had a wife I'm in a band got a hundred bucks Just riding it out till I'm out of a mile to love of luck my sister moves through time like me moving it all to end west sea searching for something real and the world's so crazy what do you feel No one's getting better all the time And so baby steps and that's fine

I just didn't think we would be holding on so tightly When we're so young and steel, we're far removed from the Indian lore of Bigfoot. You kill yourself, I'll cut off your big tail, and you ain't never going to get to heaven. And we're back, everybody. Hey, Brian, tell me more about that song,

so I can go get it. Scott, that is Whitehall, and their brand new single Baby Steps, Listen to this while you wait for news about their upcoming album. And big thanks to ENCL and Ayrshot Media for letting me know about this one. Excellent. And just so the YouTube and Spotify gods know, we 100% have rights to play everything we play here on the show. I have the email here from those agencies saying,

Please tell people about this music. Please. Oh, please you can tell the people. about the music that we are playing on your show they'll take even more seriously if we do it in that voice it'll be perfect

Isn't technology wonderful? It sure is and Tom Merritt is equally wonderful and he's here on the show now to talk to us although I think you're muted are you muted? You're not muted at all

I hear you just fine I don't know why I said that you're not muted Yeah don't mute me Scott Johnson You're the opposite of you You sound like you may have got one of these colds or things

that went around you? Oh, yeah, I need to message Dr. Nicky. She's collecting symptoms. Yeah, I got a little cough. Oh, man. Nothing bad. Just a little cough. I told you we should have kissed. Yeah, a little flower. Yeah, but how could you, how could you not? I mean, you know, you have ever been there too? Yeah. How are you going to stop that from happening? It just doesn't, that doesn't happen that easy. Well, Tom, I'm sorry to hear that. I don't know how this, I don't get it. Everybody I know has got sick. Everyone I talked too closely, hugged, hung around, yelled through loud noise, all of them.

are sick and I'm not and I don't know why. I don't know how I did it. Because you refuse to kiss anyone. Is that it? I feel like final destination. I'm going to, it's going to get me. It's going to come. Yeah. It's coming for you. Yeah. The weird thing is I didn't get it until now. So, uh, and my neighbor has it. So I'm like, I don't even know if I got it in Vegas. I might have got it here. Yeah. It's weird getting stuff in May though. You know, May is not supposed to be the airport or something. Yeah. Yeah. Could have been. No, I was one of my neighbors who walks her dogs was like, Oh, I got the flu. I'm sorry. I'm like, oh, okay. And then two days later, here I am. Well, he walked your dog and the next thing you knew, screwed.

Yep. My dog's fine. He didn't. Well, it's good to see you here and I hope you feel better soon. I hope maybe some tech news will help you feel better. I don't know. Are you watching for anything today? It does. It's a good day of tech news. There's something you might want to talk about on live later today. The ASIS rogue ally leak. Did you see that? Oh, no, I missed it. Did that happen this morning? I'm totally missed it. Yeah, yeah. So filings in Indonesia, South Korea, and the U.S.,

with their various FCC-like organizations show two models of the Rogue L.I.2. Do you say Rog or Rogue? Rog is what I've heard, because it just stands for Republic of Gamers. Yeah, but not R-O-G. No, nobody, I've never heard anybody do the letters, but maybe it's Raj.

Raj. Yeah. Like Roger. Raj. Raj, you're my ally. Anyway, the Rogg ally 2, there's a white model that, you know, there's some specs and stuff, which would be interesting if you're into this. But the black version has an Xbox button on it, just above the D-pad.

So it's a button with the Xbox logo on it. No description of what it does, why it's there, or anything like that. But everybody assumes this is what, what is it called, Project Kenan, Kenan, that everybody's been speculating is going to be the Xbox handheld. that Microsoft and ASIS have been rumored to be working on. You think if they're going to take these promotional photos, they'd maybe give the screen a wipe down or... It's not a promotional photo, though.

It's a... It's an FCC filing. So they actually kind of don't want them to look good. I don't want them to get attention. And even then, I see... They just look all gross. Yeah, the guy who's working there, I'd just be like,

can I just take a little pad or something like a little... Just wipe that out. It's nasty. It's for sex. It's not to look. pretty don't waste my time i got to file that that's right damn it fair enough so what do we think i mean this was you're right it's definitely rumored that microsoft was partnering with them that this was coming that there may be like really heavy levels of game pass integration uh x cloud integration that sort of stuff um so this doesn't surprise me to see this but what is

interesting is these devices by their very nature are designed to be a little bit more flexible certainly more powerful than a newer addition as well, but more flexible than the Steam Dick in that they will or can run Windows. They can run Steam OS natively if you prefer. And in this case, some sort of integrated GamePass stuff, that's a pretty big deal.

This is exciting. I want one. Yeah, there's some people going to the furthest extent of speculation and saying, what if it's an Xbox OS that you can run to, which it's not impossible, but my guess is this launches GamePass, that this is a button to get you into GamePass.

Yeah, and it's probably Windows in that configuration. The Rog ally 1 was definitely Windows. The big difference here, the big difference moving into this next phase is Steam OS is now a thing that Steam and Valve are partnering with these makers, including the ROG, to bring Steam OS as an option when you purchase the thing. You could also hack it at home and do it the way you want,

not hack it. Sure. You can install whatever you want. There is something to be said, in my experience with these handheld so far, for a dedicated OS that is just there to serve up your games. And I think that's where Steam OS really shines, whereas Windows feels funky. It's like, well, I'm in Windows. This is a little weird.

I got to tab around with a mouse and launch things. And that feels weird on a handheld. So the desire of people to want Microsoft. I'm using Word. Exactly. I'm using spreadsheets. How is this possible? Excel.

on my game. But the idea that Microsoft could make or work with them to make kind of a custom OS that is essentially Windows with a front end that's a little more launcher friendly, that would be really cool. That would make me more interested than navigating Windows, to be honest.

This is exciting. The handheld market, man. It's kind of heating up. Yeah. No, for sure. The black version in this filing has an 8-core 36-watt Ryzen Z-2 Extreme. So it could, it's the more powerful of the two. The white one is a four-core AMD, Ayrth plus.

My guess is that the white one might be the Steam OS one, and then the black one would be the dual-boot one. Could be. That would make sense, yeah. I bet you're right. We'll dig into this deeper today now that, you know, we've got the story, it broke, and I can look up more on this. Do you want me to tell Roger, this is your topic?

Tell Roger, this is my topic. I scrubbed. Yesterday was like the least wheelhouse day of my life. I couldn't find anything. There was nothing yesterday. It was really dumb. So I was like at the point of going, well, we can talk about an AI thing. I sort of know.

You know, like I was running out of ideas. This is way, way, way up my alley. So let's definitely slot it in there. Roger. Anyway, listen, you get to see Tom's process. Look at this. It's great. Typing.

Sending. That's great. It's good. Tom, is there anything else going on that you want to mention in this or any other world? Yeah, a couple things. Netflix has a new redesign, and that's like making the New York Times front page. It's like, you know, post to be selected. Netflix redesign. So that seems to be a big deal. We're going to talk about that on the Daily Tech News show briefing as well. Might talk about it on live later today as well. And then the biggest news is the best news ever. I'm going to Austin at the end of June to hang out with Brian Brushwood and Matt Donnelly. The Mind Noodler from Ice Cream Social to do a workshop to help folks launch their creative enterprise. So this isn't a meetup. This isn't a fan event.

This is like doing some work, doing a seminar. Brian has done a couple of these with Matt, and he's nice enough to invite me in this time. So if you're serious about going independent or you already have an independent enterprise, you could be a plumber, you could be a creative like us. But whatever you're doing, if you're like, man, I know you guys have done this. I want to take advantage of your advice. Head to best news ever.com. That'll take you to Brian's sign up page where you can get more details about that.

It's at the end of June, weekend of June 27th. Nice. Some kind of live stream or something for people? It looks like you guys are just going to hold goats is what I thought. It's just an in-person goat holding. Well, someone's got to hold the goats, you know? Somebody's got to hold the goats, yeah. Somebody is the goat, and someone's got to hold those.

They'll let Justin do it. can sit off to the side and hold the goats it's fine hold the ghosts justin uh well this is fantastic stuff check that out later in that month and tom i hope you feel better looking forward to today's daily tech news show live and uh everybody should be checking that stuff out as well it's tom merit everybody watch him as he goes bye tom bye tom we didn't even talk about Vegas he was so fun to being with him big oh yeah oh my god he is yeah so much fun to have around that guy and and again you know no never not smiling never not having fun drinking

happiest dude you'll you'll get to hang with and he's so he's so easy he's like what's up tonight oh we're going to this thing cool like that's it just into it whatever we're doing I love that great to finally have him for the live show too like having him for the whole week as opposed to just coming in Monday and having to go yeah him and Bill were hilarious companions oh my god they were great

that was an inspired team up that was really good real quick here look at This is their interface. They're showing off. I mean, this is probably just, it's just a new interface. What's the big deal, Netflix?

It's really not that big a deal. I mean, it's, it's, it pretty much has to be rectangles on a background. Yeah. This is basically all it is.

Yeah. It's like maybe the mobile experience is vastly improved. That would be cool, I guess. I don't know. I have to see. Yeah.

Well done, Netflix. You've done it. I still will not return my copy of Repo Man. That I got in 2007. All right. Until he gets repoed back. That's right. They never asked for it, and I still have it in the little Netflix envelope.

I feel like I have a relic. I'm never letting go of that. I feel like you're safe, yeah. Yeah. I'll never watch it because repo man sucked, but, yeah. Right. All right. Let us now dive into recommendals.

Oh, yeah. To do that, I got to add Nicole. I can do that. I can add Nicole. Oops, she's not online. That could be weird. Rout row. Well, she never shows up online.

That's a good point. She doesn't. Not always. All right, let's see what happens here. Man, what is with the flush of emails I'm getting saying? We noticed something about your channels that you might want to know. Oh, geez. Work with us to bear.

I get so much. Yeah. And this is how I know they're fake. They'll say, I really enjoy your show, core, a video game podcast for core gamers. It's like, all right. Did you just pull that out of the RSS? Coverville, the cover music podcast, AAC edition. Yeah, yeah.

I'm like, who are you kidding? And they'll say, oh, your latest discussion really blew my mind. Anyway, we make shorts videos for Tibet. I'm like, all right, can I delete this fast enough? You're freaking hate it. You're not fooling anyone. She's still not answering, but that doesn't mean anything.

She could be in a parking lot. She could be a TJ Max toilet. I don't know. Two, I guess. Oh, man. She had, she had, I mean, I'll let her speak for herself, but she seemed to be having so much fun in Vegas. It made my heart happy. Yes, me too.

She was really, really worried about coming to Vegas at first. Oh, there she is. She's right there. There she is. Yeah. You were just talking to Tom and then. Yeah, that's how it goes. We talked to Tom and then we talk to you.

Then we call you, yeah. Well, you usually talk to Tom a little longer than that. We got sick of him a little faster. Yeah, we got real tired of Tom. He got the bug, the flu, the thing that everybody seemed to get. So, me too. Well, I didn't get COVID, but I got the con crud, which is all in my head now. But here's the cool thing about it.

Oh, something cool about that. My immune system is working. Oh, good. That's fantastic. Like, that's actually, like, the fact that I'm going through this process, while miserable, I'm like, oh, I don't remember the last time. I don't remember the last time I was quote unquote sick. Sure.

So my IVIG is doing its job. And when I got home, I had one scheduled. So it even said, like, if you think you even have COVID or anything, proceed with your IVIG, it will help you. Whenever you say IVIG, I think. think of in vitro Instagram for some reason every time those words pop into my head and I can't I think I'm saying it right it is quite possible I'm not saying it right no I VIG yeah I VIG it's sure for something yeah what's the IG part it's like I'm buggy go go go and sure that's it

getting so damn medically technical here and this is fantastic man you sound like you everybody got sick I'm terrified I don't even want to go outside yeah I'm staying in those I have a Theory. I have a theory. They decided to do a hot tub people soup. Yeah. And it seems like all those people got COVID. Oh, is that, ooh, we should, that's, that's some good data for, for Dr. Nicky. Yeah. I know Dr. Nicky. I saw Carter. Carter was there.

Was she in the hot tub? I didn't know that. Huh? I didn't know she was in the hot tub. I had no idea. Go, go take a look on the tadpole. photo in Discord So wait a minute, if you, but doesn't that fly in the face of how COVID is transfer? Because it's all, it's all, it's all

I don't know. Well, they were all together. I mean, they're all together. I mean, you can't transfer if you look at that hot. Yeah. If you look at that hot tub. They are smushed in there. It is people soup for sure. Okay. So there's close proximity. Everybody breathe and talk and laughing. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. Claire can confirm she was hot tubbing. Yeah. All right. So maybe. That's a good point. Shane, perhaps, is our patient zero. Stephanie and Kyle did the hot tub, but no COVID for either of them. Oh, okay.

Oh, Stephanie avoided it. Seems like there were a few that did kind of sit like on the, I saw like kind of out. They weren't necessarily in. But like I said, I just like Dr. Nikki's trying to like suss out, like how many of us. because it does seem like one third of us got a cold like the concrete one third of us got COVID and one one third of us got nothing yeah yeah yeah there's people that get nothing yeah I think Brian and Bill both you and I all had the same thing because I tested negative for COVID the whole time yeah which is crazy because I hugged all of you I was right up next to people I don't understand how I didn't get it it's called your immune system yeah

It's amazing. Yeah, but mine is usually not, it's not a great. My immune system is not known for being awesome. It's kind of a hit and miss for me sometimes. What was the last time you got sick? Well, other than my stupid stomach thing on the day we left for the trip, and that wasn't really sickness. That was more like I ate something bad.

Nerves. Yeah, it may have been a little bit of nerves, but it was on top of something. I ate something that just mess with me. But for me, it would have been, I guess, COVID. the last time, which was last year, early last year. Oh, yeah, that's right, because we got it. We got COVID right before we were supposed to get boosters, and then they said,

I can't get the booster for a while. So, yeah, that was it. So maybe I've got a little extra something going on. I also tend to just, my body gets, I go into camping mode when I go to events. It's funny. It's like you're, yeah, they're, they're, I visualized the little, uh, uh, sci-fi door's ceiling shut. Yeah.

Shunk, shunk, shunk. And everybody who's inside can't get out. And that's the worst part. You know, they're all stuck in it. But it's just, it is just a crapshoot. I mean, Vegas especially. Literally in Vegas. You just never know.

Yeah, it literally is Vegas. That's true. Well, hello, Mr. Hey, can I add something to your story about the, the dogs? Yeah, of course. The ashes and everything? That's like, yeah. I have, I have a few dogs that have been cremated and I've always wondered that.

But I said in the chat room, what if it's like a mafia thing and it's people? people's remains sure easily could be I mean everybody why not people's remains why not if he's got to get some kind of clandestine ash from some source two side businesses going on yeah I need to get rid of somebody I like this theory this is pretty good yeah very good um all right well let's get to our recommendals we do have things to recommend we've seen things the things we've seen you guys well you're going to hear about it today things I've seen with your eyes that's right Oh, my goodness.

Brian here is going to start with his. Brian, what's our clip about? This is something that I found accidentally while I was searching Rotten Tomatoes for something new. And this had such high scores on both audience and critical reviews that I was like, how have I never heard of this thing before? And as soon as I started watching it, I was completely hooked. So let's go to the clip. High praise. Levi, can you come here, please?

No problem. Why did you bury my wrench? I'm not sure. I know I've been having some malfunctions lately, but I was just curious what would happen if I did. Open your maintenance hatch. You sure this goo is helping? Absolutely.

This biological material seems to have a complementary composition to my circuitry, which is allowing me to reconnect. All right, stop. Close the hatch and face me, please. Tell me again, Levi, what are we doing here? Our goal is to create a sustainable life where we can survive and thrive until our return home. And what's the first thing I'm going to do when I get back? You're going to quit this job.

And then what? You're going to trade me in for a new bike. A bike that won't bury my tools. Right. Well, your memory isn't completely shot. But I can't have any of this bizarre behavior, Levi, not actually. out here. I need you to schedule a full diagnostic on your logic

and behavior system tonight, okay? Diagnostics check confirmed. No idea. I don't know what this is. You should, because you raved about this when I talked about it. It is Scavenger's Rain. Oh, shit.

This is an I mean, it's an animated, adult animated television series. I would not call this anime. Is this about the mushroom? No. No, I know the one you're thinking of. No, this is a lot older. This actually came out in 2023 and is one of the most beautiful animated series I've ever watched and one of the greatest creature development worlds. So basically it takes place on this planet that

this convoy of ships, one of them is crash landed on this planet with a bunch of people in stasis and the pods, the escape pods, these people have escaped onto the scientists who are on this ship have all kind of scattered in different locations on the planet and they're, A, trying to survive and B, trying to make their way back to the Demeter, the ship. And this world, So, you know, you think about, like, Miyazaki is the first thing that comes into mind. You think about these little characters, these sideline creatures that Miyazaki comes up with these little black fuzzy things or Totoro or the bus that's a giant cat, things like that. And you look at the creatures they've come up with for this thing. And they are like that level, but they've not just thought of like, oh, let's make it really funny looking with horns and this and that.

but also figure out how these things have a circle of life with one another and how how each of them plays a part in this this planet's ecosystem it's really really incredible you know what I like about it the most is that it's like an anthology almost but it's only because they're scattered so their stories are so unique yeah it feels like in a long game like they took a love death and robots idea and then just made a big old thing out of it how it feels to me a little bit. Yeah, because there's, right, you've got, you've got Kamen, who is this horrible person that we find out through flashbacks and through his own, you know, part of those flashbacks come because of one of the creatures on this planet. I won't go into why, but you see his whole

trajectory of how he's on this planet, why he's on this planet, why they're all on this planet, basically. And then you've got Sam and Ursula, this older guy and younger gal who are traveling together and are perfect partners for this sort of thing. And then you've got Ozzie and Levi, who you heard in that clip. Levi, by the way, vocal, voiced by Alia Shawcat from Arrested Development and other things. Oh, right. I love her. She does so many cool, diverse things now. Her stuff's so great. She really does. She's all over the place. Yeah, Red Link's a very, it's called. It's called scavengers rain. It is a 12 episode

limited series on Max. It used to be, so, okay, so there's interesting. Actually, it's everywhere now. You can get on Netflix, you can get on Max. So here's what went a little bit weird with them because originally it was a Max original. In fact, if you look at the poster, it still says that.

But they canceled it over there and after the first season was already out. And it was still there, but they canceled it. Netflix swooped in and said, we'll take it. So they bought the right. and season two will be Netflix only. Really?

So they've announced a season two? They have. So that's exciting, right? Like, I'm jazzed to hear they picked it up. Oh, for sure. Yeah, good. Yeah, I'm so excited. I mean, the season one does wrap up the story

in a way that's very satisfying, but it does make you want more from these characters. So I'm glad to see that. Yeah, the, God, the character development, the acting is a little wooden in parts but um it's fair but not distractingly so but the my god the visuals and the this world building is the best part of it um do that make you want to see their other their newest thing that common side effects the mushroom thing that is that is from the same same same people yeah same same cool yeah i think that's also on max i think does this does yeah

it is yeah i hear that one's weird but cool yeah it it i watched the first episode i was like oh i like this yeah i got to get back i wish i had more time sure get out of here orio wait you're talking to oreos now we got a problem oh that's a dog or a cat sorry like he always comes in Nicole's talking to orio's shit he always had yep he always has a tick on him and there it is oh yeah they don't get ticks here is that that must be a humidity thing Because, well, you get mountain ticks, I guess. Altitude, maybe. I'm sick.

Oh, yeah, good point. When I was a kid, I got a tick that almost gave me Rocky Mountain fever, they called it. Oh, geez. Yeah, but they burned it out with a candle. It was awesome. Anyway, sorry. And back to your. No, that's right.

I was going to wrap up so that we could get to Nichols. But again, it's called Scavenger's Rain. It's available on Netflix. And you can still see it on Max. You might want to check him more. it's uh mark it's uh

it's excellent it's really really good and you will be uh just enthralled by the beauty of this of this world I must need to rewatch it because that that dialogue did not land on me and I don't remember it

so I should watch it again what's wrong with you know what it reminded me of is if they made a really cool animated series based on no man sky um yeah because you've got the you've got the crash landing and then you've just got all this weird floor and fun and you've got to kind of

you know work around and work with some of it's beautiful some of it's really dangerous and it looks yeah like it's not like it's you're right that's a great comparison if they were ever to make a series or something that could tap these guys because it's kind of well we got to be great for this yeah wait a minute i need to go back to how did you know the tick would have given you rocky mountain fever well so we were on this camping trip you test it uh well okay so four of us got ticks at this camp yeah and okay they did the whole midnight check all over your body thing. You get a tick. And three of the people got

what they called Rocky Mountain Fever. I didn't. Maybe this is another immune system thing. Isn't Rocky Mountain Fever where you can't eat red meat? I don't know. Is it? Never heard of that. Is it? I thought it was no. No, there is there. I have a friend who got bid by a tick and he cannot eat red meat.

Really? That sucks. Oh, wait, because it changed something in your system so if you eat it, you'll get sick or whatever? Yeah. I would maybe I'm mistaking it with Rocky Mountain fever. Yeah, Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Jerry Tolbert in the chat says it's tick bone illness. Born.

Oh, born. I thought a tick bone. Well, whatever that is, I don't want it. I know that. It got me right in the tick bone. Yeah. No, it's not Lyme disease. It's not.

It's a different. Yeah. Maybe Rocky Mountain fever is another word for Lyme disease, though. Whatever I'm going to laugh. Fever and nausea, vomit. severe headache, muscle pain, and malaise. I'm sorry. Every time I laugh, I'm going to sound like a 100-year-old woman that is smoking her whole life.

I was going to say, you got like four packs of marlbrose a day, that kind of thing. What number? Did they call it bingo again? Did they say B-11? No, I want to see Nicole play bingo. I want to see her win. Are you talking to Mark? Who is that back there?

Is that Mark? Mark was over there because I was like, it's Rocky Mount fever, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, Mark. I'm going to ask Chad GPT because chat GPT knows all. Yeah. Well, of course, sort of until it doesn't. All right, well done. Fantastic work. I want to see this again, even because that dialogue threw me. I was like, wait a minute. I've heard this. Okay. Yeah, I guess I am. Anyway, hey, Nicole, let's throw it to you and talk about your recommendation, which I, I trimmed out a clip from. You gave me an eight minute video, but I, I trimmed it down. Was it eight minutes? It was eight minutes. Yeah. Yeah, I just, you know, I just wanted you to start with like where she actually talked. Yeah.

And I got that. And she talked for eight minutes, but I only got, I got, I shortened it down. She doesn't talk a lot in it. Yeah. That's the point. Yeah. So first of all, and I should have said this at the top of the show. Thank you to everyone that came up to me and said hello to me and gave me hugs and just made me feel very welcome.

at TMS Vegas. Hell yeah. I can't explain how healing that was for me. Like, it was hard, and I did not think I would be able to do much. I didn't, I definitely didn't think I would be able to do karaoke. I didn't think I would be able to do mini golf. I did both. I didn't think I was going to be able to, I didn't sign up for the gaming tournament

because I would kick all your butts. But I didn't sign up for that because I didn't, again, I never know how I'm going to, I never know how I'm going to feel. So rather than, you know, back out, I'm just like, I'm just going to go flow, go flow. And it didn't, and it was very helpful that Dr. Jerry, his room was right next to me. I don't know how that happened. Oh, funny. Wow. But it was, it was awesome.

So huge shout out to Dr. Jerry. I cannot wait for your podcast. Scott with it. Yeah, it's going to be great. We're going to get into all sorts of fun stuff that, you know. But yeah, having him next door must have been great. But his late night sex orgy parties that he has, that's pretty weird, right? You could hear that going on between the walls. Dr. Jerry Key party? Is that what it is? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he came to Vegas. That was Barry, not Jerry. Oh, we got our Aries mixed up. Well, all right, then. Sorry, Dr. Tolbert, we've been smirged. But I just, I just had such a wonderful. full time and I don't know I cried many times and it was more just like same sex Mary and hanging out with James and sped and I don't know I just I it's been a long long time since I've been able to to do that and I found a little bit of myself again so I yeah I just wanted to thank you for that and it was awesome we loved having you there so um so the following

So when, so I flew back on Thursday and then Mark and I do our live morning show, similar to this, but it's called the woodworking morning show. Sure. Yeah. We have less woodworking in our, in our notes than you guys do, I'll bet. Well, the problem is, I don't, I don't really talk about woodworking and it annoys the hell out of Mark. That's great. Yeah. So for their first half of the show, I talked about Vegas quite a bit.

did you tell him how much we missed him that he should have come and been there with you we didn't you wouldn't have missed him it's okay he's okay with that yeah yeah well I missed him more I miss Marks more he he's more of the introvert I'm the extrovert um but anyway we started talking about movie references and I got two movies mixed up in my head and I'm recommending this movie simply because it lives in my head rent free because as a child as a child this was on TV

and I watched it as a child on TV and all I'll say is a little knife wiggling underneath a door and that is what lives in my head constantly. Yeah. And so I had it mixed up with another movie called Magic, which is an Anthony Hopkins movie.

Oh, yeah, with the dummy. With the dummy. And I watched it. I was like, oh, this wasn't on TV because there's boobs on this. And there's cussing. There's boobs on this. Boobobs and Anthony Hopkins. Booboos.

And what's her name? Not a net foodichel. the redhead. Oh my gosh. You nailed her. You nailed Annette. This is hilarious because we're not talking about Annette Funicello and you nailed her name. The person we're not talking about, you nailed it.

I don't know what to think of that. That's amazing. I love it. You know, I pull weird ones out. Have you heard this, by the way, Nicole? I'm sorry, I have to share this. We didn't play this for her today. It was yesterday.

Somebody sent in, where did I put it is the question. Oh, here it is. I found it. Okay, so this guy just pronounced your name in a wonderful way, so I'm gonna play it. I love it. Spiaginalolo. Spiaginalolo. Mm-hmm. It's now a permanent fixture

of my sound file, so congratulations. Hey, that's probably how I pronounce it for the first month of knowing Mark 2. To be honest with you, it was constantly me going, how do you pronounce your last name? Yeah. How do you pronounce my last name?

one more time mark and he was like how do you pronounce your last name was that the first time mark spiagonolio so anyway so anyway i thought it was magic so i rewatched magic because everybody in the chat room's like no no no no and i'm like yeah that's it because i'm thinking the because the dummy comes to life quote unquote and i thought it had a knife and it was you know trying to get to anthony hopkins underneath the door and i in my brain got it mixed up with this movie yeah that is on is on youtube you can watch it today enjoy it and it experienced some childhood drama if you were my age when this game on tv all right picture this lady with a little voodoo doll and now i'll play your clip here you go i've got it in a curious show

shop on 3rd Avenue. Arthur teaches anthropology, that's why I got it for him. It's a Zuni hunting fetish. It's really interesting. There's supposed to be some Zuni hunter's spirit inside of it, and there's a golden chain wrapped around it to keep the spirit from making the doll come to life. Come to life. It says, should the chain be removed, Spirit and doubt will become one living. Well, that's what it says. I assume this doll comes to life and slashes and hacks people and all that. I mean, did you not see this as a kid?

No, never saw this. Oh, my God. It's, um, what the hell is it? You know what it reminds me of? What's that when we saw Brian with the puppets? There's three of them. Puppet master. Oh my gosh.

Yeah, it's very puppet master. But this is before puppet master. What was the movie with a puppet? puppets and the master. It basically said the name. So this is prior to that. This is earlier than that. Yes.

This is the trilogy of terror. It was made for TV. Yeah. And I'm trying to get a little bit of history on it. What is it? 1970. It's in the 70s. 75, it looks like.

I think 75. Yeah. The Palmer Master came out and like, but imagine that being. on TV. Yeah, it might have been 90 to anyone. Like, did you watch, did you watch any of the clip of her getting an act? I did. It just didn't make for good audio, but it's kind of freaky.

It's a hell of a thing to see. So, when did this come out again? 75. So I was, so I was born in 76. So they were running this on reruns, apparently. Yeah. Because I remember that freaking knife at underneath the door. And he's like,

He's like, with his little knife and his little, his little fear, and he's screaming. And, oh, my God, it just. This is him right here. I'm showing the chat room. It's this little voodoo doll with a big mouth and a bunch of teeth. Oh, my God. It's scary. It's not, it's not the kind of thing you want to see as a kid.

Yeah, why would you put that on TV? Yeah. That's wild. I don't remember this at all. This is, like, oh, this is hilarious. I'm watching the video of her getting attacked now with the, he's like skin. Very much like puppet master looking. Oh, my gosh.

I'm going to break your ankles kind of thing. Oh, this guy produced, that's why I know the name. This Dan Curtis guy who directed it. He was the Dark Shadows producer, the 70s British drama, vampire thing that Johnny Depp did the movie about, but it was like the old one. Yeah, this guy, a little knight stalker. Look at all this shit this guy did.

I love that. She runs in trips right over the Ottoman. Like, she's not even looking. She's really. It was like Dick Van Dachner. Like levels of... Exactly, yeah. So here comes...

I bet I'm about to see the knife under the door because she's now locked in her bedroom. She's in the bath. Yeah, in the bathroom is, I think, where he does it. Oh, yeah. He does it in multiple rooms.

And is it just her? She's on her own. I mean, the whole scene's not obviously included, but she's never, no one's ever there to help her. Okay. No, nobody's there to help her. That would suck.

What do we know, from? She's been in other things that I think we've seen for films. It's a very familiar name. Yeah. Oh, my God, you could totally

affect this one. Oh, for sure. I think there's three of them, because it's called Tril of the A Terror. But this is the one I remember. I thought is that she just plays three characters, three different characters in this. No, it is, three different horror stories.

Okay, but they're all tied around the same monster. Yes. It's got Robert Burton. He was a famous old actor guy. Robert Burton, wasn't he? Unless you're thinking of Richard Burton. Doesn't?

I mean, this guy did do some old stuff, but like... What do I know him from? But anyway, I made a fool out of myself, and I was like, no, it's not trilogy of terror. It's magic. And I'm like, maybe it's not. Maybe my memory doesn't remember it, right? So I watched magic all the way through to find the stupid door scene. And I'm like, it never happened.

And I'm like, and then I saw Ann Margaret's boobies. And I was like, oh, yeah, this definitely wasn't on TV. And Margaret's boobies. Fantastic. If you would like the DM. I love it. Yeah. Oh, there it is.

Okay. This one's actually familiar to me. This ventriloch's face. I think I've seen that somewhere. Anthony Hopkins. Somebody said, spoiler on magic. And I'm like, dude, it was made in 1978. If you haven't watched it.

Yeah. It's okay. It's all right. It's got Charles Emerson Winchester the third in that. Oh, that's that. yeah that's nice i mean that's to me that's a classic horror movie like well and it's also

about mental health yeah yeah and then you start questioning going is the ventriloquist alive doll alive like yeah is he i don't know i still don't know i still got the end of the movie going i don't know if it was alive or not tannibal lector and his little doll that's what that is exactly i just remember

the same where that the The case slowly opens and you see the dummies start tucking to Anthony Hopkins. See, that's so familiar. I must have seen this. I bet I've seen it. We need to watch it for film. Yeah, we'll hold that one for, it looks like it's on AMC Plus right now, but maybe it'll pop on something more big later.

But anyway, so kind of a dual-edged recommend. Yeah, a little bit of both. Check out the other. A little trilogy of terror. Yeah, why not? 197 to the 70s, man, just keep on giving. It's great. My brain, I think, has gotten to the point where I just start, you know, messing things together.

It's traumatized me as a young child. Yeah. It's like, I don't remember. It's also good to do. What you've done is actually a really good thing. I did this. We've did this on the show a long time ago, but that movie where the boulders are chasing the giant. Oh, yeah.

The giant boulders are chasing the thing. Yeah, whatever we ended up. I can't remember, but I ended up watching it because it was so traumatized as a kid by this thing. Yeah. And it was literally this just the scene. of these old people in a camper in a bagel or something yeah on the in the desert trying to get away from no no but they're in the desert trying to get away from these giant boulders that are rolling after that oh you know what i know what you're talking about and i didn't for the longest time molder road

yeah so i that's funny that you say that because i'd never really connected that maybe i've got something in there yeah i don't know something yeah exactly but uh i ended up watching it i watched on YouTube and it ended up kind of being cathartic because I was like, well, this is so stupid. And to see it now with eyes of an adult and know how dumb it is, it really helped me to get over my stupid childhood thing.

But I will say, I watched Trilogy as Her and it's still freaked to me out. Yeah, it may not always work. It's a good point. Holy correct. I mean, it kind of holds up. Whoever did the puppeteering in that

show did a really good job like it's creepy ass puppet and I have a feeling that that a puppet master probably got some inspiration from that look at this guy's collar man

which by the way I loved puppet master puppet master puppet master's great we got to watch all this I watched it it was it was one of so this is when my dad

would illegally seal satellite um in the and the 80s and 90 at the big the big giant satellite so we would you know

we would just steal movies and um puppet master was one of those movies that they just played over and over and over again I just would watch it constantly that's awesome

I have a weird history with movies if you if you're if you're ever wondering my obsession with movies so stuck out in the middle of nowhere in the country

nobody pointed some random thing and getting these weird being a tech freak going what's satellite can I find now what's on this what's on this satellite

it seemed like it seemed like magic back then it was like it was magic it was amazing it was and all of initially everything was open feed

and so you had networks that were running their shows before they actually air on these open feed that you could pick up. Yeah, and you'd catch them, you'd catch them like in production. So they were live in a weird way.

And then they would, instead of cutting to commercial, you were like, Yeah. There was no, yeah, no commercials. Yeah. And they had a schedule to them. Yeah. So I knew when NextGen was being shown, like, I knew if I went to D4 on Channel 18 at whatever day, whatever time, like I had it all memorized.

so but yeah i had a i had a little bit of a obsession of obsession with like tv and movie just because my dad moved me out to the country with nobody around me moving to the country gonna get a lot of pitches and get some satellite going exactly all right well let's swing it over to my very brief one this is a movie that isn't new came out in 1998 but every once in while I visit it, and I don't know why I'm so enamored with it. I just love this movie, and it's kind of a hard movie to watch, but I'll play the thing.

You may recognize it. I know Brian will, and we'll talk about it. Here you go. All right, look. You better put that goddamn blade away, man. Let me go get the car wash. One of the things you learn after years of dealing with drug people is that you can turn your back on a person, but never

turn your back on a drug. Especially when it's waving a razor-sharp. hunting knife in your eye. All right. That is a brief clip from the film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, directed by Terry Gilliam back in 1998. This was while Hunter S. Thompson was still alive and was actually cameos in this movie, which is pretty crazy.

Which means he gave his thumbs up to it, which he gave his approval, which is a big thing for something like that's an adaptation. Yeah, for sure. And I guess him in debt became like really close friends for a while and there was a whole thing there but very much a method acty kind of turn for for johnny dep um it is wild and weird i think i got in the move when i came home because we were done with Vegas and i'm like kind of in the mood for some Vegas trash a little bit so i'm just going to look some stuff up and i well this is streaming and watch this again that's why i ended up picking it but um here's here the people i forgot

her in this in a bunch of roles some cameo some a little less cameo and more main but toby mcuire is the hitchhiker kid totally forgot that uh christina ritchie is the Lucy, the girl named Lucy, who ends up being a weird middle part of the story. Lyle Lovett plays Road Person. Hey, like that. Fits. Yeah. That tracks with his luck.

Yeah. Gary Busey, the highway patrolman that wants a kiss. That's a tracks. So weird. Vern Troyer as an alien, he's dressed as an alien, but he's inside the fake circus circus. They called it Bonanza Circus or something else, but it was clearly, they were clearly riffing on Circus circus. Harry Dean Stanton plays a judge in a dream.

Cameron Diaz plays a TV reporter inside of an elevator. Penn Gillette plays a carnival barker, something at the circus. Hunter S. Thompson himself is in a vision that the Johnny Depp, Hunter S. Thompson, sees in a vision of his future and what he looks like, and he's actually sitting in there. Anyway, a lot of crazy cameos. I do not remember these at all.

But the film itself, which is your, you know, Johnny Depp and um i phipia i phippia what's his name i can't think of his name uh benistio il torro thank you the collector um i think he thank you for saying i think it only makes one is that one that's one connection for the mccu i think in this movie is the collector i think maybe somebody else yeah because dep hasn't uh nothing for dep

yeah but uh t t t oiguire kind of right yeah tomm mcgoyer i think counts oh it's a good point so yeah he counts we'll give you we'll give you the two there sony slash thanks to the uh the the multiverse uh exactly uh it is based on the book fair and loathing in las vegas which i've never read and i'm now tempted to because i think i finally had um a age where i could appreciate it on i wonder if there's an audible version of hunter as thompson reading it oh that'd be great because he sounds i've heard interviews this depth thing you think is kind of cartoony the way he acts it's dead on that's the way the way hunter s thompson talked and it's it's freaky um del toro

plays this character named dr gonzo but he's actually based on a dude with a different name but he was this lawyer he paled around with um did this these trips to vegas uh they were really big drug trips oh one thing i really liked was um let's see where is it oh this uh i forgot to mention these guys mark harmon's in this very brief uh richard real is in this we see him all the on film sack yeah um a very young uh christopher maloney from uh law and order and all that stuff he's in it very briefly as like the concierge at one of these hotels i think the flamingo um and a few other people you just know from stuff but anyway it it starts wacky and gets real weird real early and i i think you have to i think this movie's hard until you get to a point in it and

you and then it makes sense what they're going for and what the kind of the overall message is. Because at first it seems like just drug-induced nonsense. But then you start to kind of get into the politics of the time, the gonzo journalism that he sort of, quote-unquote, invented or pushed forward. The 70s and what those were like, especially in Vegas culture, I just had a ball watching this again. That's one of my favorite covers, covers to a movie too.

The audio book is narrated by a guy named Ron McLartie. good old Ron McClarty but it does get a pretty good score it has over 5,000 ratings and it's a 4.4 out of 5 5. It's only 6 hours long like that's short for it's a short book it's not even really meant to be it's not a novel it's more like a

chronicle it's a semi out of biographical with a little bit of fiction they have a name for them yeah oh hell Stephen King does them all the time. Do you got a novella? That's probably it.

Yeah, it's novella. When you go, the scenes where they've ruined this hotel room that they're in, that they're in for a big part of it. Oh, God. Yeah. It's, if you are a person that likes to have a little order in your life. Yeah. It's hard. That is hard to watch.

Right, right. It triggers some OCD thing. And also the most visceral barf scene I've ever seen in my life. Oh, really? And I don't mean like, because you can get kind of cartoony with it in. meaning of life, speaking of Terry Gilliam, where it's just ridiculous and over the top, and that doesn't bother me.

This is, usually it's Del Toro because he's eaten too much, because he's got this thing or he's eaten while he's on drugs. And there's a scene where he yacks up a bunch of fish, and that was hard. Oh, God. Maybe we won't watch that. Yeah. I mean, this is not a movie for, I don't know who this is for.

It's for people that really want to see a very pinprick moment in time and a moment in journalist. and a moment in drug culture shift and 60s to 70s shift and like that whole thing is interesting. I think the direction's great.

Johnny Depp is very good in this and Benincio del Toro it was amazing and put on like 40 pounds for this role. He's a big old, big old dude in this. Yeah. But didn't he do the excess baggage,

the one movie I was talking about was Alicia Silverstone. Oh, I don't know. After this one. Alicia Silverstone? Hold on. No, it's Alicia. No, I think it's Alicia, isn't it?

I think it's Alicia Silverstone, yeah. I don't know for sure. I say that, but I don't actually know. You shouldn't care. It doesn't matter. I'm going to put her name into, I go to a website called pronounced names. I'm going to put her name in that,

and I'm going to see what it says to me. All right, do it. Okay. While you're doing that. I'm not doing that right now. Was that blast from the past? Is that the one? No.

No. We talked about this before. We already talked about XX baggage. And he just, because I think I saw him in this movie and he was not a sex symbol at all. No, no. No, not even close. That kind of ruined him in that movie where he was meant to be the sex symbol. You see that photo right there.

I mean, he's a good looking dude. Yeah, and these are only a year apart. So he must have really put it on quick for that next one. Yeah. Usual suspects and traffic and all these other. the ones yeah he was having a moment i'd love him i'll watch cicario any day you asked me to uh he's my favorite thing in it i just love that actor but uh oh it's a good lineup by the way in that excess baggage uh christopher walkin uh if you go back up a notch oh sorry back here sorry let me let me drive

your browser for you oh there we go eric junior nick tituro oh yeah yeah so good this is great who are we love her lilan or sir don't we love this guy we do that dude except in seven Didn't like you been sent. No. I wonder if I rewatch it because I watched it and I was like, oh, I don't really, I'm not digging this movie. Yeah. And Brian, you had said that about Fear and Loathing. You weren't sure if you liked it when you saw it or something.

Yeah, yeah. I was really hoping for a, ooh, I love Vegas. Let's watch a movie about Vegas sort of thing. And this was like not a movie for reminiscing about the fun you have in Vegas. No. In fact, most of the movie, there's a real sense and I think this is on purpose. Maybe the books like this. But there's a sense that none of what we're seeing.

isn't being seen through just the most drug-addled condition possible. Right. Which means everything's not right. And Terry Gilliam is your perfect director for something like this because that dude knows how to bring surrealism to the front in a way that most directors don't. And it's really fantastic. I mean, I would put this up.

It's one of my favorites of his movies. I wouldn't put it on top. I'd probably say Fisher King or, I mean, I'd love Time Bandits or Brazil. Yeah, there's so many. you know how he always hired the lady from Mona from yeah she's in this too yeah saw her listed in the in the thing

very briefly her face gets all distorted because he took a mescaline or something and and so when he's trying to get his room taking care of her eyes which is pretty because he kind of does that tour in Brazil too stretches her face out and 12 monkeys yeah I love it's such a weird muse it's like yeah yeah

famous director Terry Gilliam always using this lady who most famously was in soap and freaking Jessica Tate. Really weird. It's really weird. That is weird. Anyway, highly recommend it. If you're into it, it's on Prime is where I saw it, and I had a great time. I watched this back-to-back

with the Big Lobowski. I must have been in a certain kind of mood. I guess so. Yeah. It was good time. All right, man. You know, that's your opinion, man. Nobody F's with the Jesus. So, Brian, since you were sick, you said you watched a ton of stuff. I did. Yeah.

giving you the rundown we finished the I watched the entire final season of you in two days Tina had had enough of that show after the last season and she watched the big finale with me just to see what happens to Joe and yeah that's a

it's a you know it's a great season it's got oh yeah what's the actresses name well it's got Victoria Pedretti that doesn't have that that one doesn't have Victoria Perdretti in it but she's in some of the earliest seasons Charlotte Rich

who I just adore. She was on Taskmaster and she is just lovely. Oh, I like her a lot. Yeah, I recognize her now. She's British? Yeah, no, she's British. Yeah, thanks for making me drink that vinegar.

I loved it. It was awesome time. Yeah, you like that? I like that. Hey, spoiler alert. Those videos aren't online. Oh, sorry, sorry. That's all right.

All we know is there was vinegar and Nicole drank it. That's all we know. Hey, exactly. It's a Johnson. Yeah, you did good. I was so glad you got paired with Wendy. Originally, it was supposed to be windy.

Andy and I, but it worked out great, and you guys fit well, and I thought that turned out really good. The two moms. Yep. Two moms stuff. We approached it such a mom-like. You did. Like you took photos beforehand of like, oh, the cutest photos of the two of you. And, uh, yeah, just how, uh, how much fun the two of you had.

It was great. Those will be up soon. I know Kevin, I think Kevin's in the chat. I know he's still working on them. But as soon as we have those, everybody will get to see the glory that was past village. No pressure. No pressure, Kevin. No pressure, man.

Right. It's like you've got enough things to do it. I also have to get with him. I have to get stuff he drove for me. I watched, I got through about 10 minutes of that Nicole Kidman baby girl movie that was supposed to be all sexy. I gave up when it was like three minutes of Nicole Kidman making out with a necktie. I said, you know what? I think I've had enough of this.

Wait, she's making out with the necktie or making out while wearing a necktie? Holding a necktie and making out with it. Rubbing it along her lips and her mouth. I'm out. Like, no, I come to this place to be entertained, Nicole. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think I'm doing baby girl.

I thought you were talking to me. That's right. Kid man. Am I not entertaining to you? Exactly. What else? Watched, I feel like, oh, a smile. Oh, that seems weird.

I love that movie. Brian. I liked a lot more than I did, yeah. I like to. a lot. I still say the second one is the bomb. That's the really good one. I'm going to give the second one a shot. And the first one's good for setting up what's going on

or what the phenomenon is. So that is good that you did that. Oh, good. Okay. Because you'll have a lot more... It's good to have the context, yeah, I think. Yeah, good. Let me know. I watched Revenge of the Sith and then I watched the Rise of Skywalker, the

two trilogy enders from the prequel and the post trilogy. Watch those a little bit for May the 4th, but I decided to give them both another chance because, you know, I remember giving him a lot of shit. And it's like, you know, these aren't so bad. There's some elements in here that are good. Sure. Anyway, the cold medicine really helped a lot with those.

That's true. You can't move. You got to, you know. It's like, all right. I don't mind following this. Just what the doctor ordered. Well, Nicole, I hope that you continue to fill. better, all right? Because I don't like that. Yeah, me too. Nobody wants to be sick during this time

of year. Hey, I'm okay, though. I mean, I've gotten, I think I've gotten through the, the worst part of it, which it's just, just now just drain. Yeah. So go mucinics, go decongestion. That's how I'm doing it. Cough all over Mark, have him understand what it's like, you know. No, I did sequester myself just in the basement. It was nice and cold in there anyway. So I did, I slept down well. And when I do my IVIG, I tend to talk a lot in my sleep. Oh, really?

And Mark here's the secrets that you keep. Yeah, what do you say in your sleep? I usually just say the F word a lot. Oh, really? Excellent. It's like you're playing Call of Duty in there or something like that. I don't know. I don't know.

But I will on occasion wake myself up. But most of the times I don't wake myself up. And I'll go, oh, I didn't talk. And I go to Mark, hey, did I talk? He goes, oh, yeah, you talked. I'm like, okay. I want to hear this. Tell him to just get a little recorder his phone or something.

You've got to record this. Yeah. Well, he's written a few things down over the years. I mean, I've always kind of talked in my sleep, but this process makes me really talk in my sleep for some reason. Weird. So, yeah, I'll wake up and like, I'm like, what the hell am I? saying. But you're not having like nightmares and stuff, right? It's not, you're not having that, I hope. Um, sometimes, especially like if I'm cussing. Like, I'm, I'm mad about something. Yeah. Um, but for the most part, it's just random silly stuff. I don't know. I'll try to, you know what? I will record. Nicole sounds like she's on the verge of telling us that we sound very sparkly. Yeah, you got a real. Yeah. Maybe. Yeah.

Maybe I'll just turn on my recorder. I wonder how long my recorder would record for on my iPhone. It will do. There are some apps that do, we'll only record when it's voice activated, so you might be able to find one of those and do that. Maybe I'll do that. Yeah.

And then I could play you some of my, I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah. I want to hear it. I want to hear what you say. Even if it turns out to be something you can't share, we'll, you know,

we'll just keep it to ourselves. That freaks the crowd of me. That's why I got rid of that periscope that I don't remember. because I was drunk because oh because you remember doing it or whatever yeah yeah like oh I don't like watching things that I don't remember doing so two minutes and I'm like nope I don't even want to see this oh that's like that's like that second segment of the new season of black mirror with the girl that have you seen that yet what is it the one the one the second one where she it's for

season seven and she thinks a bunch of things are happening she knows things are happening and then when she goes to tell somebody they're like what are you talking about it's like gaslighting oh the one with the princess of the universe that's the one it's a weird one but it's so it's so infuriating it first because it just feels like the worst gaslighting anyone is it's the worst yes the part of my epilepsy is is short-term memory loss yeah so i mean pretty much everyone uh and and and just fragments of memory loss and and so that's why everybody I'm like have we met? I'm sorry. Have we met before? I just I just own it. I just own it. It's all you can do. It's all I can do. It's all I can do. And, you know, it just what it is what it is. So my heart's in the right place because I really, I want to, I want to make sure. And I try very hard. I have, I have a lot of tricks to try to remember names and experiences. So I write a lot of stuff down. Tondagosa says, I imagine she pronounces names perfectly in her sleeve.

That's what he sounds. You'll never. Well, I guess if I record. Maybe we will know. We'll find out soon. There we go. Yeah, from Nicole Spiagonolio. Nicole, have a fantastic week.

Feel better. Yell Mark. Have fun. Say out of the kids. All that stuff. Mark. See you next time. Oh, man.

That was a crusty Mark. Very crusty Mark. All right. Brian, we're done. Yes, we are. we are very done we're like chicken we're cooked thank god well that's how you want your your tms and your chicken is done i feel like yeah i feel like you don't want underdone chicken that's going to make you sick we definitely do not speaking of all these illnesses um but here's the deal if

you guys are looking for all our stuff anything you want like to request songs whatever it is you're going to do go to our website frogpants.com slash tms i have no big updates to give on swag bag status other than i'm getting some things that kevin brought back in his car because we ran out a room combining those the house is full of boxes we're ready to ship and then soon i will know if there are any left for those who still wanted to snag those um so watch for that coming soon all right brian let's do a song get out of here yes this is a request going out to caducey late like last minute request i'm glad she sent this in because i needed something for day uh sorry for the vay request i'm not feeling great right now we know sorry i hope you're doing better but it is

So, Ducey did end up getting COVID, I think, again. Oh, no. It's just out of Tinas Vegas unless Ducey gets COVID. But it is, yesterday was Ducey and Kieris' 19th anniversary. And I'd love to celebrate with a song. Can I have an alt-rock love song? I was, I'm glad she said that because I've run out of good K-pop covers. So this was a nice little, like, oh, good.

Alt-rock love songs, got those in spades. Sure. This is a newer one, and it's one I just love. It came out last year. Part of the, one of my favorite playlists on Apple Music is maintained by the Australian radio station Triple J, and it's called Triple J's Like a Version. They don't give us the albums anymore, but this is kind of an even better thing because I can still buy the tracks from it.

I can, instead of getting 12 tracks, only six of which I want, I can buy the six tracks that I want and more. The band is the Rubens. This is their cover of Mazzie Starr's beautiful alt-rock love song, Fade Into You. I want to hold The hand inside you.

I want to take the breath that's true. I look to you and I see nothing. I look to you and see the truth. You live your life, you go in shadow. You come apart and you go blind. It's the kind of night to your darkness. Colors your eyes what's not there. Faith into you.

Stay, you never knew. Fade into you. Say, you never knew. The strangest line comes on slowly. The strangest heart without a fall. Put your hands into your head And then it smiles Cover your heart

Fade Into your You never knew You never knew You never knew Faith you change

you never knew you never knew you never knew Those pants are made for froggin. If you know what I mean, I, I actually don't. Frogpans.com. Shitfire, that's a damn good deal. Hell yeah, it is.

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