The Morning Stream - TMS 2833: Imitation Korn

Episode Date: June 4, 2025

Every Woman is Monica. Mini corn fields. Someone's Taking The Poo. Hammond's eyes, they're bloody ew! Show Me Food Fighters! Don't Eat the Meat Puppet. Another Mountain Hill to Dread. Eyeball intimacy. She works my sensitive areas well. Just sitting there being all German. The colon: a squeaky clean tube of happiness. Mr. Bread and Mrs. Cranberry. Is the weekend food for vampires? Oh My God It's Today Already with Tom. How to f the cool aid man with Nicole and Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The song says there's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold, and she's buying a stairway to heaven. We could have saved her some time in emotional distress by having her invest in her favorite morning podcast at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, every woman is Monica. Mini cornfields. Someone's taking the poo. Hammond's eyes. They're bloody ewes. Show me food fighters. Don't eat the meat puppet. Another mountain hill to dread. Eyeball intimacy.

She works my sensitive area as well. Just sitting there being all German. The colon, a squeaky clean tube of happiness. Mr. Bread and Mrs. Cranberry. Is the weekend food for vampires? Oh my God, it's today already with Tom. How to F the Kool-Aid man with Nicole and Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. She's five, seven and a half in her stocking feet, and she's in the shower.

He couldn't pour piss out of a boot without getting his head with. The morning stream. Maybe I can help you. I am Boba Fett. Greetings, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Wednesday, June 4th, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson.

That's Brian. Good morning, Brian. Well, hi there. We're the middle. We're at the apex of the week, the hump, as some would call it. Yep, the peak. We're never, it's not going to get any better than this. So. No, that's right.

Exactly. It just, it just, it's all downhill from here, unfortunately. Oh, you wish it was going to be downhill in a couple of weeks. Oh, my God. I wish it was going to be downhill in a couple of days. I keep, I keep thinking about that, that, um, the training ride this, the Saturday. And thinking about like, you know, I've looked at the map for the ride from Boulder to Estes Park. Yeah.

And, yeah, there are some hills, but there's nothing that looks like it even compares to going, gaining a thousand feet of elevation in eight miles. Yeah, that's a lot, man. It's a lot. It doesn't seem like that should be a training ride. It seems like that should be the ride you do the big ride to train for. Yeah, the one you're working up to, not the one you use as a train. That's crazy. right but and this is one of those ones where the whole group your whole team does it right or whatever

no no it's only people who've raised a certain amount of money even get an invite to this training ride and you know the more i think about the more i'd like to give it to the next person in line whoever was closest without making the goal can i give them the training ride yeah i mean how compulsory is it do you have to go it's not at all compulsory i mean i could i could bail on it i don't want to bail on it though um i feel like uh i feel like if i accomplish the training ride this weekend, I will have no problem accomplishing the the main ride.

Does that make sense? Yeah, I get it. It sounds like, to me, it sounds like you can. If you can do that one, based on how you've described it, it sounds like, not that the other's going to be a piece of cake, but you're going to be able to do it. No, it definitely won't be. But here's what I also love about the, I'm going to retiton this again.

The new route is that there are things in the existing route or the old route that we've done for so many years that I've come to expect and dread. and I don't have those to, I have no knowledge of what the ride is going to look like from Boulder to Estes Park coming up in a couple weeks. You'll have new things to dread when you're done. New things to, well, I won't know. It's like the kind of the ignorance is bliss kind of situation where I won't see the hill until I round a corner and see the hill in front of me.

And then at that point I can be like, all right, big hill, let's do this. But instead, like with the old route, it would be like, yep, I know in about two miles there's that big hill before i see it i started like thinking about it yeah when it's there in front of you you only have two choices it's not do it or go and you're going to go and that's i agree with you i think that's a better way to i like i like it was like that very first year um doing the right i'm like i don't know i don't know what i'm doing i don't know what to expect i'm doing it and that was the year i took the wrong turn and ended up doing the hundred mile oh yeah instead of the 75 mile on the first day did the 100 mile ride up to Horstooth Reservoir.

And I feel like, all right, that right there is probably similar to what this training ride is going to be like. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think you're going to do great. I think it's going to be awesome. Thank you. I appreciate that.

I'm looking forward to it. Yeah. Well, as we zoom our way through the early part of June here, everybody, it's important for us to come to you on Bended Knee and wish a happy birthday to a good friend of the program. Happy birthday to Cindy Parkhouse. She's seen my eyeball up close, like really up close. She's been right up in there. She's had the little thing come and poke it to check the pressure.

She's looked inside with a bright light and tried to see if my retina was doing anything weird. That's where her and I have been very intimate, Cindy Park eyes. She's swam in the pools that are your lovely eyes. Yeah. I had lunch with somebody yesterday who may want to go into a place like that and have that eye looked at. I won't say who. Photos you sent, yeah, we don't want to, like, without their permission, give anything away. But I guess you've already, you have already kind of talked about having lunch with this person earlier.

I guess that's true. People can put the math together, but I sent Brian a photo and it's horrifying. Plus, this person just said, I should have her look at my eyes. So he's in the chat room right now. Hammond, yeah, you should have, you need to have somebody look at those eyes, Hammond, holy crap. I know, it's scary. Oh, my God, just the thought of, I sneezed, and this is what happened to my eyes. it is up there with falling off a ski lift on my fear list.

Yeah, it's horrifying. You know what? I'm going to share an up-close shot. Now, this is just one of his eyes. Okay, I'm going to look over here then. You don't have to see it. But look at this. So Hammond's got both of his eyes are doing this.

If he turned his eyes the same way the other direction, you'd see it on the other eye as well. But he sneezed his eyes out or something. and not sure what's going on there he sees fine he says it doesn't hurt or anything but he's going in to get a look at what you should you know people are going to look fondly on the days we just talked about people squirt and diary on the hood of the car the road rage incident yeah i mean eyes are scary do you want your you don't want your eyes to get all left up you know they're scary eyes are scary did you send you should have sent that photo to um dr jerry just dawned on me like Dr. Tolbert, we should send that and say, hey, what's the, what's the next step on this thing?

Yeah, what do you do? I mean, do you just go straight to an optometrist or not optometrist, ophthalmologist? Yeah, that's the one that does the medical business. Or can a regular family doc see that and go, oh shit. Do you go to Reds crafters for that one? Yeah. Get a brand new eyeball in less than an hour because, gosh, dang. It was really nice hanging with him, though.

And he was, you know, for a guy who looked like 28 days. zombie, he was super chill. We were just chilling, you know, having burgers, chilling out. He also has this great, he gave me some great advice yesterday. Oh, okay. Because here's the problem. I go to a place like 571 burger bar

or whatever it is. And I just want to devour everything. Yeah, you want to eat everything, yeah, sure. All things in front of me, I'm ready, let's go. And he introduced me to these, I didn't know they made them, but they're these tempera fried mushrooms. They were so good, dude.

So they were fantastic. So we had those. We had these amazing burgers and all this stuff. But I noticed he only ate exactly half of his meal and then took the rest home. And that's his trick. You just cut whatever it is in half, no matter how big or small it is, you eat half. And that's it. And then the other, you eat some other time for a whole other meal.

And what you end up doing is just like shedding the pounds. It's kind of fun to do because you're doing a little bit of math every time. You're just kind of like, all right, we're going to slice that right in half. That's all I'm going to eat. eat. It's a good idea. It's a good idea. I'm going to try it. I'm going to try to do it. It still requires some discipline because you'll finish the first half of your burger, your sandwich, your whatever, and you'll see that second half just sitting there. You almost need to ask the server to bring you a box immediately. When they bring your food, you go like, can I get a box right away, thanks, you know, whatever. And when you cut that half off of it, put it in the box, close the box so you just can't see it. You know it's there. But you're, it's, it's a lot more effort for you to open the box, take the food up, put it back on your plate and eat it than it would be sitting there after you finish part one of your food. Do you think there's a trick to ask them for that early because it seems a little odd to them, you know what I mean, to say?

You are, I would guess that somebody asks them to do that several times a day. Oh, interesting. Okay. So maybe it's not that weird. For that very reason, like, you know what I'm trying to lose, you don't even have to say, but I'm guessing they get people to say, I'm trying to lose weight. Can I get a box for half of this right away? That's great. That's actually a great idea.

Yeah. I think I'm going to do that. I am going to do that. I mean, Kim and I kind of already do this when we go out together. We split everything now. Just like. Oh, there you. Yeah.

That's a good. Get a plate. It saves money, saves calories. Just split that thing in half. Instead of a small stack of pancakes for one fat guy, you know, it's just split it in half and we're both eating moderate amounts of pancakes. So that already works when I go with her. But when I'm on, like, a lunch meeting like I did with Hammond, I need a lunch.

I need a little, I need a little something, you know, a little extra motivation. Yeah, yeah, no, that's a way to do it. Kubiko in our chat room, by the way, says that they do that, that they don't explain it, they just ask for a box right away. Okay, maybe I'll do that then. And Hammond said, I'm smarter than I look, and I responded, thank goodness for that. He also, also nicer than he looks right now if you look at his eyeballs. He's a very nice guy, but if you saw him in a crowd and you didn't,

No Hammond yet, and you saw these two sneeze ball eyes. Oh, God. You might go running the other way. I'm just saying. Can we, all right, can we do a little, do you have your package of post-malone Oreos handy? I do somewhere here. All right, grab it. Let's do a...

Oh, Kim took him out of here. She took him. Is she? Smart woman. Yeah. I bet you have more than I do. I probably, the girls got into him yesterday, so I think they're artificially lower than they were. But, yeah, I probably, I only ate the first row. Here's a reveal.

I took them. Oh, yeah, look at that. Oh, oh, oh, oh, shit. Only one row in the back of the church. Only one row left of these damn things. They're so damn good. They're really good, you guys. I need to reward myself.

Every time I complete a bike ride, every time I take something off my to-do list. I went to the dentist yesterday. I had to reward myself with four Oreos before I went to the dentist, and I didn't brush. I hope that wasn't an issue. No. Yeah.

Always go to your dentist with fresh Oreo on your teeth. With fresh Oreo on your teeth. They'll love that. Yeah. Yeah. You're, oh, how to go? Everything go okay? You had your sensitive tooth area and all that stuff.

Everything was fine. Went just fine. Oh, good. Yeah. This woman, Kim. New lady? No, one I've had for a long time. So it used to have a hygienist who would stay away from those.

those sensitive areas. Like I have two, three in my mouth that are like whatever. And the previous hygienist would just stay away from them. I imagine there was something in the chart that says, you know, upper 9 and lower 14 or whatever, and they would just kind of stay away from those. This dentist Kim doesn't stay away from him,

but she knows how to work those areas without causing, without hitting the exposed nerve. Yeah, it can be done really well. It's just some of them aren't paying attention or they're just heavy-handed or something. Because mine, my main one is my bottom right that is just a zinger if they hit it wrong, and I always tell them.

And it's a 50-50, whether the new person is going to be good around there or suck. That's just the way it is. Right, exactly. And the last one sucked. Oh, boy, did it suck? It was not good. Well, I'm glad it went well. Um, yeah, I, uh, while I was leaving, Hammond and I were leaving. Oh, and we grabbed, did I bring it down here?

I think I did. Oh, it's way over there. Um, sorry, I can't aim at it. Um, but anyway, you know, the, the, the, the, the, uh, the photo of the 1960s era, uh, plaza. Oh, the one from the plaza that we used as a, yeah. Yeah. That was, uh, there was the, uh, a hint directly in front of you people. Yep. Yep. Big old, big old 11 right there. I don't know how we missed it. Yeah. Um, um, it is, you know, signed by everybody, except, except, I'm the one I think I hasn't signed it. You're on there somewhere, right? I'm on there. I should be on the far right saying love doing TMS every day or whatever it is. Yeah. So I need to sign it. Well, you shouldn't sign your own thing because you're going to hang that up on the wall, aren't you? Well, yeah, but if the goal, I thought I was thinking one of the reasons to get it or to have it was so I could then do a real proper scan of the thing. Oh, right. So everybody could have a copy of that. Yeah. If anybody

wants it, we just give it to them at cost, like whatever it cost to print them and whatever basic shipping is we you know no no profit on it just make it yeah uh and then people can take it so i will probably do that in the next little while and just put my signature down in the corner somewhere but well maybe a little profit wouldn't be bad i mean you know profit is never never a never bad thing do you know how long it took me to fill in all those room lights all those uh individual hotel room lights i mean it was clearly there was work at play did you really have to do that on that thing yeah oh but yeah do you think i searched and just found a photo of the plaza with

11 in lights? No, I'll actually, I'll go ahead and admit to something here. I thought that in the 60s this meant something and that's... Oh, funny. Like, uh... That they lit it up like that. Yes. We finally found a number. Bigger than 10, everybody. We found 11.

I'm gonna, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna show this because you guys need to see how subtle this is. I'm actually really impressed with what you did. Thanks. Yeah. It's right over here. I got it. okay

you're not wrong TV's Travis that photo was back I mean that was the point it was supposed to be background noise in that room like it's supposed to be

it's supposed to be vague like right now you hold it up I just see the 11 so clearly yellow let me clear the I got a little bit

of fuzz going here hold on how do I do that I can turn that off can't I I sure can let's put it right there okay

so as you can see oh people sign in like the reflective Oh, man, that looks so cool. Yeah, it looks really good, and we'll print really well. Taylor's got this setup where she can scan anything that looks like the original. And we'll be able to print it really easy and make these.

One, I think it's square, so it's perfect for like a 12 by 12 or something. But what Brian's talking about are those lights in the building that make an 11. And I'll be honest, I thought that that was just a thing they did back then. Like, it meant something like, oh, we're the 11th casino on the strip or something. Right, right. I didn't know what that was about. So I've learned a little something today, but I didn't know before. There you go.

Yeah, there's a couple rooms where there are people standing in there. And I did a little Photoshop transparency action on those. So there you go. A little bit of profit to cover the highlighter job Brian did. Anyway, I'll let you guys know what's going on with that. But while I was out there doing the exchange with Hammond because he had it, he traveled with it. Sure, sure. The handoff.

You had to do a handoff. Yeah, the Hammondoff. So we were out there talking about his car and chilling. And I had my hand in my pocket. And my car is way over by the restaurant. When I say way over, it's probably 25 feet from us or something. It's my Passat. So it's sitting there being all German and stuff.

Just sitting there. And I am talking to Hammond. All of a sudden I hear a car alarm go, beep, beep, beep, beep. And I went, what's going on? I look over there and I see it's flat. My car is flashing. I'm like, my first impression is like, who are me and Hammond going to have to

who's Hammond going to have to stare in the eye with his big bloodshot eye? Who are we going to have to take down? He's going to give the bloody glare. Yeah, like who are going to be mad at here? And I saw a guy with his truck over there and I'm like, did he hit it? Did he ding it with his door? And I was getting all, like, worked up. Yeah.

No, Scott hit the button with his finger in his pocket. Set off his own alarm like a dumb ass. Oh, no. Yeah. Oh, man. I think Hammond showed great restraint and not making fun of me while we were standing there. Oh, well, that is restraint and Hammond. Feel free. I mean, you know. Yeah, let lose, man. What else are we going to do?

That's funny. All right, quick call from Thomas. He's got a question about prepping that colon. Oh, geez. Okay. Getting that colonel ready. Here you go. Mrs. Thomas here, how are you doing? Scott, you've been discussing a lot of your shows lately about your colonoscopy. I got my first one ever coming up in about two weeks. I'm a little nervous about it, a little curious. Want some more information?

You mentioned that you took a pill in order to get prepared for it. I talked to buying people about it. They don't know what I'm talking about. So if you give me more information, it'd be easier. If I don't have to charge 64 ounces of liquid and never think it might be able to be easier for me. But, or did you still have to do that even with those pills you took? I know I'll be in the bathroom all day and be ready and whatever, but, uh, that's okay i got plenty of stuff to listen to all right here's the deal it's not just a pill

yeah it is 12 pills it's a series of pills it's a series of pills yeah so it's like six pills uh at a certain time and then and then six more pills later that you just kind of do in succession and you kind of sip those down but you're still drinking somewhere in the park of 64 ounces of water but at least you're drinking and it's and it's basically to to instead of drinking 64 ounces of goo. This offsets it. You're drinking 64 ounces of water

and taking pills so you don't have to go through the stuff. At the end of the day, you're still taking kind of the same stuff. It's just in pill form, which means you didn't have to choke down thickened, disgusting powder liquid and have a taste bad

or having to mask it with Gatorade or something. Now, I will say it's still sucked, but mostly why it sucked is not actually doesn't have to do with the pills. It has to do with you haven't been eating because part of the prep is you don't eat for a big period of time and because you haven't been eating you're you're really hungry you're really empty you're feeling weak and to then down that much water with these pills just feels it's not fun like nobody wants to be doing that

shit so it's not great either way but i will say of the two methods of the of the 10 years apart two different times i got to do it easily the better one was the pills like by far so if you can get them to give you the pills, that's way better than the powder, mixing it with Gatorade, drinking all that stuff down. That stuff made me gag every four seconds. Oh, this did not. So, yeah. Cool.

Good luck to you. Yeah, that's the way. I think it's the way to do it if you're, and hopefully your gastroenterologist offers that as an option. I think they should all now. They should all, yeah. As far as I know, yeah. They may go default, like, they tried to default it with me and just say, all right, here's the powder.

where is what got to do? And I said, actually, can I do the pill thing? And they said, oh, yeah, no problem. Like it was either or. They didn't care. So you should be fine. So good luck to you. May your colon be a squeaky, clean little tube of happiness.

There you go. Someday we'll all be doing the coli guard, the box, poop in a box. Yeah. That thing is, so for me, without any history and also, I don't have to, it's 10 years where I have to even go back and all that. I'm perfect candidate for that, because if you've got, like zero sign of anything and it's all been good, you're supposed to be able to maybe do the box thing for the rest of your life and you're fine.

Which is great. But if you got like any risk factors, they still want you to go in there and get the two. You know, if you do end up doing the box, Scott, what would it take? Just kidding. This is kind of what would it take? What would it take for you to, you know, do whatever you need to do in the box, close it up, seal it up all that stuff? Yeah. And then take some chocolate and melt it and kind of smear it on the sides of the box.

I'd do that without even being asked. And then just video what the UPS guy or the USPS, whoever picks it up, FedEx. Is the box a unique box? Like, would they know what I'm handing them? Oh, I would assume, well, maybe not. The commercial makes it look like it's a bright blue Coligard box. Okay, so if that's the case, I would actually do this for fun. I would do this.

I would go to the UPS store. I would hand the guy of the blue box. I would have a little smear on the side and say, sorry about that right there. And then he would... Oh, no, don't even acknowledge it. That's the... I don't even know if you want to draw attention to it.

Yeah. Now, maybe he'll... I guess it depends on his reaction. If he goes, oh, or, you know, he reacts in some weird way. I'll go, ah, it's chocolate. I'm just fun of it. I don't want him to be freaked out or anything.

Right. But I'd do it. I'd do it. No problem. That's awesome. I love it. illegal about that? That's not tampering with mail. Exactly. How did

how do they know that you just weren't enjoying the lovely Snickers bar while you were boxing everything up at the end of it? I think most people do enjoy a nice candy bar while they boxers. Dr. Calhoun says I dropped the Coligard box off at the UPS store. They didn't even look at it twice. Does it, Dr. Calhoun, does it say

Colagard on the outside? Is it very apparent what it is? Yeah, because that would be the trick is. It would have to be obvious or some kind of uniqueness to it. Oh, there he does. Yeah. Matured Cuba says the box has that cartoon logo guy on it. They know what's in the box. Really?

Now it makes me want to put a whole handprint on there. Oh, chocolate handprint. Yeah, just like a big right on the side of that thing. I won't do it, but I'd be tempted. Dead inside is that. Yeah. I'd be tempted. I'd be tempted. Yeah. Oh, my God. Love it. Well, all right, then. Let's move on.

We got Dunaway coming in. I don't know if you knew that or not. but he's a guy. He's a guy you can count on to be there. Today is going to be no different. Look forward to it every couple times a week. Indeed. It's time for us to play the Tad Pooley feud. Brian Dunaway joining us, as he always does.

Hey, Brian, what's up, buddy? Oh, hi. Scott and Brian. Oh, hi. What's going on, man? How are you guys? Oh, you know, it's this hump day, and I was just thinking about my colonoscopy that I'm having next Monday. So it's good to hear that it's, you know, easy, breezy,

Lemon squeezy. Yeah, poopie, squeezy. Exactly. I don't know if I would fool around with, you know, pretending like I had poo on the outside of a coligard, considering that travels interstate, right? And that could be considered a biohazard? Oh, I don't know.

Take your chances. Take your chances, God. It may not make it to its destination, and you may have to do it again, is what you're saying. It'd be real funny to go, ha, ha, there's a bomb on the plane. I'm just kidding. I don't think what would happen is you wouldn't say anything.

People would see the fingerprints. They may or may not go, oh, this could be bad. So they would test it. And then they would go, oh, it's freaking chocolate. Someone's taking the piss. You know what? And maybe your UPS guy is not the person you want to piss off because you'll get an Amazon box that has something on it.

And it will go, maybe it's mayonnaise. See ya. Yeah. See you later. Jokes are back. jokes are back comedy's legal again well let's get to this uh this here fun time we're about to have now um i got to pick a fourth i guess let's see who is our fourth today one two three four all right it looks like oh it looks like mrs taffey guy oh uh is our fourth she's not here

yet so don't don't say anything but she will be okay don't say anything like i mean you can say something but when he said hello it's like to no one you're saying hello to no vote i just i ran and we walk around to say in a hello anyway. Hello. Yeah. She should be joining us shortly and we'll see if she's got what it takes to be today's competitive person. Hello, Lois. How are you?

I'm good. Oh, that's fantastic. How's the Taffy world, you know, all that? Today is our ninth anniversary. Yay. That's great. Congratulations. Yeah, grats.

If only there was some way to commemorate it at the end of the show, I wish I could come up with the way to do it. I don't know what you speak of. of, Brian. So last minute, you know, it's just hard to spit it in. Yeah, what can you do? Well, it's good to have you here. We're going to play a game, as you know,

and Brian here's going to explain them their rules, so we know what to do. That's right. It's time to play the tadpulli feud. I've surveyed the tadpull on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian, you're going to have to predict the answers they gave us. It's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Lois, 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. Uh, well, a game that, uh, your husband gave us, ex-com enforcer. Oh, that's awesome. And Operation Blackout, I will replace, uh, ex-com enforcer with something else. So you'll get, you'll get, uh, pandemic ground zero if you win. How's that?

Sounds good. Yeah. It just sounds like what we're doing with those, uh, those boxes, by the way. Yeah. Scott's Collegard box will be ground zero for the next pandemic. Pandemic ground zero. I'm not looking forward to that for when it's my turn, but yeah. they'll call it Poovid 25. Very excited.

That's right. Oh, geez. All right. Well, let's give you guys your topic. We're getting really close to the end of the current batch of questions and answers. So we've got to really hurry up and get working on the next survey. Oh, wait, I'm done. Yes, I am. Tiny.c.c. slash tadpool survey to go fill out the brand new tadpooly feud survey made up of questions that you chucklehead submitted. So do that after the show. All right. Put your hands on your buzzers and get ready to answer this question.

Name a band with a food-related name. Scott. Food fighters. That's wrong. But let's say it. Show me the food fighters. Yeah, it's all I could think of. Damn it.

Right. It's a wide open board. Yeah. How about... By the way, I do have to tell you, Food Fighters was, let's see, let me find it here, is on the list.

But that's funny, because it sounds like food fighters. Yeah, that's why I couldn't get it out of my head. So it is what it is. Anyway, Brian... Is there a band called Food Fighters? Well, I'm going to go with the obvious, one of my meatloaf. One of your meatloaf?

One of your meatloaf. I was going to describe it, but I'm going to say meatloaf, just say it. Sure. Sure, show me meatloaf. Late, great Eddie from the Rocky Harpicture Picture Show, the dude what gets hugged in a fight club. Mr. Loaf, Mr. The driver of the bus in that great both the Spice Girls film

and that Steve Martin Leap of Faith movie. Didn't he have a big fight with somebody on the set of the apprentice? Yeah, with a, oh, good. God, it was with... Gene Simmons, please let it be Gene Simmons. No, it was... Oh, that's too bad. It was one of the celebrity ones, and it was with...

Kiss Meatloaf. Oh, God, I remember the video was... Oh, is it Gary Buse? Gary Bucy, that's it. Yeah, they had a big old row on there. Who knows if it was real, because that's shit, you never know. I mean, no matter what, I'll take meatloaf side against Gary Bucy. Sure.

And I take meatloaf on the side, my mashed potatoes. Ah, I see what you did there. Well, you get Lois as a partner, and you have a wide open board. Nine answers to choose from. Cool. What do you guys got? You got something? Cake. Oh, cake, duh.

Cake is awesome answer. One of my favorite bands and one of my favorite foods. Show me cake. Let them eat cake, baby. Yeah, that's pretty good. A band that really sounds the same from album number one to album number six, and I love it. I love the fact that they didn't want. worry about changing their sound. Keep the trumpet. Keep the bass guitar. I never

tire of cake. They're fantastic. No, me neither. Me neither. Love them. They're going the distance. Wow. Lois, we don't have the number one answer. What is the most obvious band with a food-related name? Oh, I would have thought meatloaf was the one. Red hot chili peppers? Oh, the red hot chili peppers. That is a delicious food. Those are edible. Sure. Yeah. Food-related. I like the food more than I like the band. Show me the red-hot chili peppers. Number one answer on the board, very good. Man, you're killing it. They're okay.

Sometimes I feel like I don't have a problem. I have one that might be a little, it's spice girls. That's what I was thinking, too. That was another place I was going. Spice girls. Yeah, yeah. One of them is even named ginger, which is also a food. Edible.

They have baby food. It's not really made from babies, but all right, show me the Spice Girls. Please show me the Spice Girls. Yeah, number eight. Wow. You love, do you think you're 17, by the way, 17 to nothing so far right now. Oh, nice. Yeah, kicking ass.

Mm-hmm. Kick an ass. How about, what are you thinking? How about, is there a band name Laffy Taffy? No, that's too bad. No. It should be. How on brand would that be?

If so, Mike would know it very well. True. No. Smashing pumpkins, maybe? Oh, man, you are killing it. Those are all great answers. Yes, smashing pumpkins, because there's pumpkins in there. And I do like a good pumpkin pie.

Absolutely. All right. Show me those smashing pumpkins. Number five. 22 points for you guys. Wow. Pumpkins gross. Look, I know people like pumpkin pie.

I can't stand that. neither can tina and i'm fine with that i'm here for it because i always get her slice of pumpkin pie yeah same with it's kim and i are the same just swapped she loves it i hate it i don't know why like any anything pumpkin spice i like i like pumpkin seeds roasted and that's about it oh yeah it's about it's good stuff everything else but no like pumpkin spice orios or pumpkin spice um um i know you don't do coffee so the latte doesn't do anything yeah i don't It doesn't do much for me. But if it's more of a dessert and it's not the pie, it's more consistency with the pie.

It's like the texture of it. I don't like. Sure. Oh, really? You don't like flan? How about flan? You like that? I don't like flan.

Funny enough. Okay. Yeah. Maybe there's a thing with that. That's the ultimate thickened liquid. It's in cake form now. That's how thick it is. I like creme brulee?

You're good with creme brule. Yeah, that's more pudding consistency. I'm okay with cream brule. Gotcha. Okay. Yeah. Not too much. of that top i know the crispy parts the point of it but i don't want too much of that sure

stephanie and a pet says let me be clear pumpkin and pumpkin spice are not the same i don't think anyone's arguing with you on that stephen facts but there's a flavoring that's a flavoring that's a straw man argument there's stuff nobody was saying right that's a hill you don't have to die on yeah uh especially in all caps yeah none of us need to die in that hill nobody nobody thought otherwise right but good job all right cool all right All right, so we still have five answers left on the board. Not a runaway yet, though. Right, right.

Lois, what else are you thinking? I've got some, but they sound weird in my head when I think of them because they're not spelled right. I'm going back to my formative years, black eyed peas. Oh, that's perfect. Oh, black eyed peas is brilliant. And their touring band, they're touring with collards is great. Are they? It's a real comfort concert.

Van is currently obsessed with the back catalog of the Black Eyed Peas. There's something about being around six or seven years old, and that band just immediately appeals to that age group, and then he'll get past it and never want to hear him again. But right now, he is in the black eyed peas. I like the music. The videos scare me because taboo seems to just stare into my soul whenever he's dancing. Yeah, he's a vampire.

Stares into my soul. All right, show me. we were uh let's get it started in here with some black eyed peas see what they did there oh man what that's actually number 13 yeah people said it but it just didn't make it uh didn't make it into the top uh let's go old school let's go bread bread bread i can't have cake or we can't have bread and not have meatloaf and cake right that's right yeah my mom and stepdad got married to uh if we Wish could be a thousand dreams.

Why can't I hear you? Whatever the lyrics are to that dumb song. Show me, bread. Oh, my gosh. That was an excellent guess. Number 14, right after the Black Eyed Peas. That's the problem is. That's generational, right?

It is, yeah, yeah. Shoot. I wasn't even into bread. That was our parents' band, like you said. It's not ours. Right, yeah, no. I don't know why I chose that. I'd like to make it with you.

I've actually decided I've been Oh you have one Let's go do it do it Corn That's the one To use too I wasn't sure If people would do it

Yeah because it's the spelling Okay Do it All right Show me corn With the weird spelling Yeah number four I don't know why

I don't know why the spelling Would matter at all To anybody Brian But okay Because it's not food I never say Hand me that corn With a K on the cob

No If it's imitating Quarne, absolutely it's going to be spelled with a K. Like when you get the stuff that's not real corn, it's totally spelled with K. What are you talking about, not real corn? Where do you get not real corn? We live in America. It's all real corn.

Everything's got corn in it. Everything's corny. It's all corn. It's like crab. Have you ever not got an imitation crab? I mean, yeah, but we're not known for our crab, right? I'm trying to think. What is a, like, what would be a good example of done a way of imitation corn?

I can't think of anything. No, I probably like, yeah, there's probably, I can't even think of like something would be like corn flavored. Like anything, it's the cheapest and most abundant thing anywhere that, you know, stuff that we don't know is made from corn is made from corn. Corn nuts are actual corn. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Corn nuts are actual corn. Yeah. They don't fake that in some machine somewhere. No, no. That's the deal. All right. There you go then. Mm, okay.

Corn nuts. The only corn that I know of is not real corn. There's those corn holder things that you stab into the each end of the corn cob. Oh, right. Those are imitation corn. That's right. Don't eat those. Corn pokers.

What about the little bitty ones you get in salads sometimes? Also real corn. That's real corn. Baby corn, yeah. How do they do those, by the way? It's really just a thing that grows. Okay. So they're not like little tiny stalks of corn like they don't, they don't grow on like a little field of little baby.

A little tiny, little tiny field of the. That's what I want. A few juice size. Yeah, I know. You hand out cigarettes. With a little tiny tractor the size of a Roomba going, a little tiny, I don't know, a little guy hearing voices saying if you build it,

they will come and all that. A little Kevin Koster running around. I love that. Oh, that's so corny's gun. Why didn't they let this corn grow to be an adult corn? All right, you guys. I wonder if we could have children of the corn, corn, children.

Probably, if you want. All right, what do you got? All right, four more answers left on the board. Almost mathematically eliminated, but not quite. Not quite. I know, I'm starting to struggle now. They did the zombie song. Oh, oh, the cranberries.

Oh, that's a food. It's all hampers. Yeah, I like that one. All right. The other zombies, yeah. What was her name, Modus? Delorosa Riordan. Oh, Rorden.

Yeah. I thought her name was cranberries. Her name is Cranberries. Cranberries. Yeah, very common Irish name. It's real big over there. All right. All right.

Show me the cranberries. Did you have to let it linger? 29 points might. It does mean, yeah, that means that, oh, no, 17. Yeah, you've mathematically eliminated Scott from winning itself. So I could be a smart ass now and say stuff like M&M. Monica can win her own game. Monica can win her husband.

game that's not Monica sorry look at Monica wow every woman to you is Monica I saw Monica's name in the chat it's an honor I happen to be looking at Zoe's post and it said Monica and I every woman is Monica is the perfect show title I love it all right well see if you guys can clear it just for funsies here yes Monica's Nicole so that that means Monica's available to you Lois if you think you think Eminem is up there Lois you think something stupid like that I mean corn is up there I mean why not let's try Sure. Nothing to lose at this point, right? All right. Show me M&M.

It is a great answer. And all the way down at number 25. You think that's because Eminem's are barely food. Is that why? Yeah. He's not really good. You don't really think of, you know, obviously it stands for Marshall Mathers, but you don't immediately think of Eminem the person as having the same name as the candy. No. Not anymore anyway.

As a homophone. I think we used to back in the day. I didn't think of corn being either. Yeah. All right. Can we try Blind Melon? I don't know how the 90s kids are going on. A little bee girl.

Oh, Shannon. Oh, Shannon. We miss you, Shannon. Yeah. All right, show me the blind melon. No. Blind Melon number 15. Damn it.

Right after, believe it out, right after black eyed peas bread. Really, really, because, oh, no, I was going to say because they all have the same number, but they didn't. 10, 9, and 8, um, uh, respectively for each of those, those answers.

Well, that's our, you guys should do meat puppets. Well, I wanted to do. How about salt and pepper? Uh, I was just going to say salt and pepper because I'm like,

going back to my, the whitest. We got to push it. How about the salt and pepper? Salt and pepper band. Push it, push it. Yeah, push it real good.

Push it real good. Sure. Uh, all right. Show me salt and pepper. Oh, come on. Come on. Vanilla ice?

He's vanilla. I've eaten beetles before. Are they just kidding? I'm not going to do Beatles. There are three answers still left on the board. Ice tea. Vanilla ice. Ice cube.

Yeah, there's a lot of rapper stuff. I'm looking at the chat now since I can't really win. Someone in here said lemon heads, banana ramas in here. Oh, banana ramas is great. There's no way they used it though. Banana ramas. I love that. Yeah.

All right. Let's do. so oh yeah we already did cranberries man this is hard um i'll go ahead and this is dumb but i'll do fish even though it's spelled oh fish is a great answer we talk about this dumb yeah let's do fish let's do fish uh we'll start the fish right now and in about eight minutes i'll let you know if it's on the board show me for a fish sandwich right it's never doily for a fish sandwich all right show me fish Oh, really?

Great answer. Again, number 17. You guys really, you nailed the... The teens. The teens. Yeah. I'm really in with the teens. Oh, wait, that doesn't sound good at all my age.

Never mind. Let's look at the answers you did not say. What's number seven? Bowling for soup. Yeah, that's a good one. I saw a couple people mention that in the chat room. It's a great one. Number nine, and we'll move quickly past it.

Pearl Jam. All right, let's move on to number 10. I mean, jam. I know jam is. Is there a pearl jammed? It's a food? Oh, I think it's because I think Brian's quickly moving for a reason. Yeah, it's, sure, exactly.

Let's move on number 10. Oh, this is another minefield. Cream, yes. It's funny that bread, I mean, I guess cream is a bigger band because of like the lineup. Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, you know, all those guys. guys more than name a single member of the band, Bread. I can't. Can you? Nope. Nope.

Mr. Bread? Mr. Bread. Mr. Bread. Yes. Goes with Mrs. Cranberries. Show me number 11. Green Jello or Green Jelly. They changed their name. I forgot about green jelly.

I forgot about that. Wrapping up some of these other ones. Banana was number 12. People actually did say Banana Ram. It didn't make the top 10, though. Limp biscuit, lemon heads, blue oyster cult. Jimmy Eat World. Okay.

I like that one. Bunthole surfers, which this is why I'm starting to collect your email addresses. Cherry Poppin Daddies, Cracker, Flying Burrito Brothers, foo fighters, as we mentioned, jelly roll, strawberry alarm clock, string cheese incident, Taco, if you're blue and you don't know where to go to. Beatles, yes, Scott, a couple people said the Beatles. The Pizza Underground, 30 seconds to Mars. What?

Mars Bar. Oh, geez. Mars. Oh, geez. Alarious. Ambrosia, April wine, Bear Naked Ladies, Blue Waffle. I'm going past it. Chicken foot, get milkman, DJ Marshmallow,

Dubey Brothers. Somebody doesn't not know how marijuana works. iPhone 65, people are just throwing out band names at this point. Fiona Apple. Gougu dolls. Google dolls, I'm thinking, all right, there is the goo goo cluster. That might be, yeah, where they got their name. Sure.

Hall and Oates. That's great. That's great. Hollen Oates is amazing. Holl Oats is a great answer. That's great one. And if you've never seen the green jelly video, Three Little Pigs in the listening audience, do it.

I don't know if I've seen it. Oh, you'll see it and you're like, oh, yeah, this is on MTV like every five minutes back in the day. Yeah. Humble Pie, Ice, Tea, Iron and Wine, Lemon Demon, Meat Puppets, milly-vanilly um pomp la moose i like the idea of meat puppets just because it's just meat there's no like specificity it's not like this is beef this is chicken no it's a freaking meat puppet and you should never eat anything called a meat puppet exactly yes don't do it uh scroll nut

zippers strawberries sugar ray tangerine dream sugar ray the banana splits the scorpions with a preface preface. I think Scott and Carter ate one that one time on the Monday show. We did. We ate them here too. Don't we do suckers? We ate them here. Yeah. And I think you stayed away from the scorpion on that one. I got, I looked it, but I wouldn't eat into the sucker. I couldn't do it. Into the sucker. That's right.

Vampire weekend. Vanilla ice, varuka salt. I'm sorry. Bonus points to Vampire weekend. That's a good. Vampire weekend is. Well, I mean, is it food, though? I mean, it is for vampires. That is for vampires. You know what I mean? What is? The weekend is food for Vampire? No, no, no, no. The Vampire Weekend is about vampires and vampires drink blood,

so it's like a nice little side reference to you could eat the blood. So the Human League is also in there because humans consume food. Fair point. Fair point. No points to Vampire Weekend. Points revoked. Wheatis, I think, is a great answer. Or Wheatis is good. Weidus. And finally, just Yum. I guess there's a band name Yum. Maybe. I don't know. I have no idea. Yum brains. Anyway, the good news about all that is this. Congratulations. Yeah, you're a winner.

How does that feel, Lois, to have won a game that your husband donated? Oh, no, I swapped it out. She's getting pandemic ground zero and Operation Blackout. There you go. How does it feel not to get your husband's game? I mean, the reason he gave them is because we share a Steam library. Oh, yeah. No, the new, you know what?

I got to say this. I know this is unsolicited, but the new Steam sharing thing is so good. That's amazing. It's so freaking good. My family is in love with me now again. They love me because I have 2,000 games in my Steam Library and none of them have to pay for a thing. They just get in. They can just help themselves anytime. That's great. And I can be playing while they're playing. It doesn't matter anymore. So it's pretty great. Can I be part of your family, Scott? Hop it. No, it's already full. But also, you get five. Yeah, you get five. And it's also, there's a rule if you drop somebody, which you can do, you can drop someone, but you can't add a new

person to the group for six months. Oh, wow. They're real, because they don't want people, like, flopping people in and out. And, you know, it's all to stop people from. I'm totally inviting Tristan to my family. Yeah, you should do it. Put them in your family. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, there you have it. Lois, always good to talk to you. Enjoy your winnings and tell your husband that, I don't know, I hope Taffy is the world to everyone forever. Bye now. All right. Hey, we did it.

Dunaway, you know what was great? about Monday we did a play retro that was a super good time we talked about ridge racer people should catch up on that episode it was fantastic and i have good news we hit the viewership uh requirement we don't have the follower requirement yet but the hours viewed requirement or minutes viewed requirement up on our new youtube channel for play retro so i would just say to people if you're enjoying our stuff over there uh go to that channel which is youtube.com slash at play retro show and subscribe to that channel and then that'll help us get to the next level that we want to get And it's got more than just the play retro show in there, too.

Me and Scott are creating retro content, you know, just in general for the channel. So expect more of that to come too. Like we talked about Captain Kangaroo this past week and how freaked out it makes Scott. I'm just saying. Yeah. He likes Mr. Green Jeans. I do like Mr. Green jeans. Oh, he's the best.

He makes me feel funny in my swimsuit place. Right. What do you feel about the ping pong balls and them going to double? I think it's a crime Against humanity I know so you got to tune in And find out what Brian's talking about Kiss our butts

Oh I love that I can hang up on him So much faster here So fast He can't get He can't like his head is spinning It's so fast Freak and love it All right

We're going to do a very quick news check See what's going on at the news desk Here at TMS Today's news is brought to you by Finding out where the dog was sleeping The Hard Way Yeah sometimes you lay on the couch Just like your normal spot

I kind of have a spot. It's like a little corner thing I like. Sure, sure. And it's usually fine. But yesterday I was wearing a white shirt, a t-shirt underneath my other shirt. I was wondering, okay, how would this, how would this be bad? But now it makes sense. All right.

And I took off the shirt I had on top and I was just wearing the white one. And I'm watching whatever I was watching with Kim. And then I got up and she goes, what is on your back? And I looked in the mirror and I was covered in little black hairs, little Rainer hairs. That's how you know. That's how you know. Yep. Uh, she's not allowed up there, is the point.

I don't know why she was up there. Sure, sure. Uh, let's get to the story. I think we have time for at least one. A cattle producer wakes up to find an olive python eating her bra and shirt. Is that, is that typical food for an olive python? I never even heard of an olive python, so your guess is as good as mine. Yeah.

Uh, but a cattle producer in the northern territory, I think this is in Australia. Uh-huh. Got a shock when she woke up and stumbled on two meter live olive python eating her work shirt and her bra last week. Jeez. I turned the light on, and the python was on the bathroom floor, busily wrapped up and digesting my new work shirt out of the laundry basket. It says Moria Lanzeran.

Lanzeran, would you say? Moira, Mora Lanzeran. I think that that's a rindsorin. Lanzerin. Maybe. Maybe Lanzerun. When I looked into the laundry pile, I realized something else was missing. I don't like how they spell realized over there.

Realized. Yeah, I don't like it. My underwire bra. Maybe they don't like how we spell it. No, I have a good point. But because we're Americans, we think that we're in charge. Right, right, of course. That whole thing.

But her underwire bra was in there. It turns out that was the first item it consumed from the top of the laundry pile. She runs a cattle station near Matareenka. Matareenka? Sorry, I'm getting the song. I'm getting the information ready for our reading the middle. No worries. Sorry.

You're all good. said the python was clearly not feeling good about his breakfast choice. We let it be and eventually it gave everything back, so to speak. Here's your bra. Yeah, here's your bra. It was quite slimy and certainly needed a very

good soak, but it all came out in one piece and bounced back perfectly. So she's wearing the bra again. I think I'd be done with that bra. I think I'd be going to... I think I would be too. I mean, I guess don't know what kind of condition it is coming back out. It must not have been an, those underwires had to have gotten bent to crap if there

were underwires in there, but, uh, you ever had an animal eat a thing of yours and then hork it up later, like a clothes or sock? No, I'm thinking of a, like it would be, Ruby never really ate anything. Daisy, I mean, never ate anything that wasn't food. But I take that back. Ruby used to eat the, um, the baseboards. Uh, she would just, as a puppy, just gnawn them and we had to cover them with Vicks Vaporub. But she never really, like as much time as she spent in Tristan's room, she never, like, ate his socks or anything. And we've known dogs who ate socks.

There was a dog named Maya that our friend Kurt, Kurt and Steph had, who ate socks and rocks. Sox and rocks. It was like a Dr. Seuss dog. That seems very bad for that dog. Should not eat either of those things. Do not eat socks and rocks. Yeah. Good Lord.

Well, all right. There you have it. That's your news. You've been informed. Now what you ask? Well, we take a break. And when we come back from this break, Tom Merritt will join us. We're going to be talking some tech. That'll be fun. That'll be fun too weird. Oh, cool. Good. But he'll still also be in our audio things. It's going to be fun to test that out. Anyway, that's all coming up after this. After that, we got recommendals. So stick around. Brian, what are we playing? Oh, we're playing. We're sticking on the music submit bandwagon here for another one that they sent me that I really like. This is a Canadian artist from Ottawa, a guy named Keith Stewart. He's got a brand new album called Oroboros. It's the snake chasing its tail. This is the first single from it. It's called Gold and Indigo. Here is Keith Stewart. The sun steals up so silently, gold and indigo. Here comes another new day to make way old. People flying everywhere, I don't know where to go. Don't want to tread on no one's feet. It's so hard, don't show. know, but I can't really tell

how long I can go on this way feeling like I do I just got to say I'd fall so swiftly and I thinking about home I feel there's something mission as on Walking all alone

But I don't really care How many years it may take To make you my own sacrifices I might make I see so many things I can't change It just makes me sad All these trials and tribulations are driving me bad. Just you on the

Just you and need Darkness now. as we sit face to face You with your swollen pride And me with my lonely place But I don't really see Why things have got to be this way We've got everything we need

Why throw it all away Bada da da da da da da da da da da da Dada. She asked me if I could get her a couple of dime bags. Said she was getting strung out in the caper, you know? Hey, pal, she asked me for it. There's a guy who owed me a favor. He slipped me a couple of dime bags.

I gave him to her. Magnify. Brian, who is that one more time, please? Sure. That's a dude from Canada named Keith Stewart. He's got a brand new album called Oroboros, and that is the song, Gold and Indigo from said album. Fantastic.

Let's do this. Isn't technology wonderful? Well, it sure can be, but only when Tom Merritt shows up to disseminate it. Tom Merritt joins us now. Oh, he'll soon join us on video, too, because I'm going to try this out. Let's see here. Tom Merritt, there is. Yeah, this is very exciting, right?

This is like a moment of truth. We'll see if this works. Oh, it looks like it's gonna. Oh, this is fantastic. Tom Merritt, he is Ace Detect, and he is here to talk about technology. What's going on, Tom? Try to figure out how to mute Discord. Oh, you shouldn't...

Oh, yeah, I thought I had Must Defend. There you go. She didn't hear anything for me now. Yeah, Most Deffin. There we go. There you go. Most Deffin. What? Moes Def. It's good to see you, man. How's your week going? It's Wednesday.

It's Wednesday. Wow. How did we get to Wednesday? I don't know. I guess we went through Monday and Tuesday. We sure did. My joke this year is that every day you can say like, oh my gosh, it's today already, whatever day it is. Yeah, that's good. I like that. Yeah. And today is one of those days. But here's the important thing. The technology news does not stop. It doesn't wait. No. No. And sometimes it crosses into daily music headlines territory. Oh, shit. Tell us more. What's going on. That's a tease to what I'm about to say, which probably isn't that useful when I'm about to say right now. But Abba's 80-year-old Bjorn old. Valvaez told South by Southwest London. Yeah, he's using AI to write a musical. He's not three quarters of the way through, and he loves it. Why the Abbegai? What's his deal? What's his...

You know, he's written a bunch of stuff. He wrote chess, the musical. He, um, uh, that song One Night in Bangkok is from Bjorn. Oh, yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, I didn't know it. So, you know, that's made this hard man humble, but I didn't know. So, uh, this is this, uh, this is this uh, this is a, this is a, this is a, this is a, a controversial thing, I'm assuming, because it's AI and has he taught... Here's the cool part. So he talks about like you have access

to things you didn't have before. It's like an extension of your mind. It's lousy at writing a whole song and very bad at lyrics, but he uses it to prompt him to think in different directions. Also, he is a member

of the Writers Association in Europe that is negotiating artists rights for training data. Oh. So he's not, I love this story because he's not saying AI is bad, never use it. He's also not saying like, let the tech companies off the hook. He's saying like, yeah, they should pay us a fair rate for using our music and their training.

And then I would like to take advantage of that training to help me out. No, it's not going to replace me, but it's certainly a helpful tool. And I love that. So he will only use, it sounds like, he will only use stuff that's been, you know, I guess permission has been granted. He can use it at will, that sort of thing. Or if he does use something that's commercially available, maybe he even figures out a way to, like this service will potentially give those sources compensation for using them in AI.

He didn't, I shouldn't say he didn't. In the stories I read, I did not see what tools he's using, but I don't think any of them have come to an agreement. So if he's using one, he's using one that doesn't come to an agreement. So he's not being like, well, I won't use it until he's like, no, I'm a member of the Confederation of artists that's pushing for the agreement. We'll get the agreement. I'm not going to not use the tool. Like, you know, let's all be reasonable about this.

It's very sweetish of him, I think. Yeah, yeah. I feel like it's going to, I can't wait to hear this soulless creation that Bjornel Vaz creates. I mean, maybe it'll, maybe it'll blow our minds. Who knows? Like, I don't know. Like, we are waiting for that moment of can music and AI, produce something that isn't

derivative or trashy or bad? I think that's really the important distinction if you read what he says is he's not saying I let it write things. He's saying it sped me up in my creativity. So he didn't have it write the musical.

He used it for brainstorming to kind of get ideas. And he's like yeah, it's horrible at writing lyrics. But it prompted me. It made me more creative and it sped me along in my own work and I think it's wonderful. because it's got this huge reference frame and it can put things in front of you

that you wouldn't have thought of before. So he's not using it to do the creation. He's using it to spur his own creativity, if that makes sense? Sure. Yeah. No, that makes sense to me. I'm actually really curious to see what the end result is. We need more of these use cases where stuff has proven out and maybe all it ends up being is,

here's my awesome thing. I got it done in six months less time because I use this for brainstorming for all these other things. that really have nothing to do with the generation of the music itself, but it's just my ideas. I don't know. He is an 80-year-old member of Abba. So even without AI, what he would create would be the creation of an 80-year-old member of Abba,

which may or may not be to your taste. I don't, you know, so that's going to affect people. People are like, ah, this is crap because it's made by AI. It's like, well, you just may not like what Björd does. Like, that's a whole separate. I think in any case, it's going to be far better than one of the more recent songs from Abba called Two for the Price. of one where a guy calls up a hooker, or I'm sorry, a sex worker, and gets a mother and daughter team.

Oh. It's got to be better than that. I did not know that was a thing. Wow. Baby? I think that's my warning. It's like, if he comes up with something like that again, we have evidence that that could have happened anyway.

Right. Okay. Good point. Good point. So I didn't, what's really blown my mind is that there's a member of Abba in his 80s. I didn't realize they were that old. That's wild to me. Okay.

Dana Carvey turned 70 a couple days ago. What? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, but you know, I was watching Hacks the other day. Minorist of spoilers. Carol Burnett shows up. What?

And I was like, and you know, Gene Smart, who's the main character of Hacks, is talking with Carol Burnett. And they're talking about how, Gene Smart, who's in her 70s, is like, I remember when I was a little girl watching you on TV. I'm like, how old is Carol Burnett? She's in her 90s. Yeah, she's in her 90s. She's still kicking it, man. She's awesome. I think she cheats at Whartle and Charlize Theron says it too. She's apparently Charlize Theron and Julie Louis Dreyfus are in Carol Burnett's text chain, wordle group, and Carol Burnett regularly gets the word in two. And Charlize Theron said on Jimmy Kimmel that she's pretty sure Carol Bennett's cheating. She just goes and looks it up online. And then, right. Right.

That's fantastic. I can imagine Carol Burnett being smart enough not to have to do that, but I could also imagine Carol Burnett thinking it would be hilarious if she just kept right. Yes, I think so. She was great. I'm better call Saul for the very brief role show. Yeah, right.

Final season, maybe final two seasons? I can't remember. Dick and Carol Burnett. Yeah. Yeah, I hope these people live forever. Well, there you have it. That's a super interesting twist on the ongoing conversation about AI in our everyday lives. You'll learn more about that today on the Daily Times.

you'll learn more about that today on the Daily Tech News Show along with many other cool stories. I'm going to talk a little bit about a huge leap in, well, let's call it MPC interactive technology with NVIDIA. That'll happen today when I show up on the live show. Tom, is there anything else you'd like to mention before we go today? Daily music headlines, folks.

If you haven't subscribed, go listen. It is making people impress their daughters. I got an email from Norm this week that he was like, I was able to tell my daughter that Sabrina Carpenter had a new release coming out before she knew. Yeah. Thanks to Daily Music Headlines. So yet look, if you just want to be able to keep up, right? Yeah. That's the show for you. Go check it out. DailyMusikheadlines.com or just type it into your podcast catcher. For sure. Ibbett and Eileen will tell you all about it.

And I'm going to plug something else that Tom might not know to plug is the brand new episode of Soundography, just came out, and Tom is our very special guest. He's also the first guest we've had on soundography that actually gets to contribute to the playlist. He gives us songs. Scott, can you maybe take a guess at what genre of music you think Tom might have been a guest? Soundography to discuss? Hillbilly campfire music. No. Plezmer music is correct. Plesmer is correct. Yeah, I'm going to guess it had something or a lot to do with the popular. Korean pop music is what I'm thinking. That's 100%

correct, yeah. If you think K-pop starts and ends with BTS and Black Pink, boy, you've got a lot to learn. Also, nobody thinks that. The, we get into the nitty-gritty, not just of bands of K-pop bands, but also the whole process

of graduation and how the idol system works and light sticks. Who knew light sticks were such a big thing? Tom, you've got one right there behind you. Look at that. It's my little seraphim light stick. Nice.

A light stick right there. And also a nice little cudgel. It's a great weapon. It's like a baton or a hair straightener. It looks heavy. Is it heavy or is it not heavy? No, it's pretty light. Okay. Because it looks like just looking at. It looks hefty for some reason. Does that, obviously, when you're not at the

concert and they don't have the signal to change colors on that thing, does it just turn on and stay one color? No, you can, you can act. There's a couple of buttons, so you could actually change the colors yourself. There's even some things you can do when it's not connected at the concert

to make it flash or strobe or things like that. Very cool. But yeah, people may not know when you're at the concert using Bluetooth. The same technology they use to like target ads at the mall, they use to control the light sticks so that they can

keep them all in sync and stuff. That's awesome. It's got to be so cool being up on stage and looking out at the sea of synchronized color changing light sticks. Yeah, that's awesome. awesome cool i didn't know that was a thing they even did so you know what if i tune in to the uh to sound soundography you'll hear the whole smear on that exactly look at daily music headlands dot com soundography

dot com it's no better way to live than what we just did uh tom merritt he is uh east detects and all of the social places so if you want to find them there you certainly can tom merrit have a fantastic week and we'll see you next time thanks y'all bye now bye bye tom okay well brian we've come to that point of the show Recommend some shit. Yeah. And so we're going to do that right now. Recommend some shit. Here comes the recommendal shit right now.

Well, what do you recommend? It is time for us to talk about streaming things. Things we've seen on streaming services that we think you at home might enjoy as well. We have with us a couple of guests like we do each Wednesday. First of all, Nicole Spagnolo. Hello. And she is not... We cannot hear you.

She's muted of some sort. Hi, Scott. Oh, hi. Oh, there you are. Oh, hi, Randy. what are you doing? That was Randy's Nicole impression

That was pretty good Good morning morning stream How are you? You fooled Brian You did fool me Like I thought it was Nicole laughing And like something going out With her voice

That was awesome Nicol Well done Yeah Oh there she is Hi Nicole How are you What should I do

Monomix stereo You don't need to do anything You can just let me control the whole thing I don't know that that's really Not still Randy So I'm My whole world is turned upside out. Did you hear Randy's impression of you?

It was pretty good. No, I heard Randy's impression of himself. Oh, well, I heard him. He did a little... It's spot on, by the way. Yeah, it's a pretty good Randy. Well, it's good to have you both here. We're going to do a little recommending today.

Some stuff we've seen. Things that we actually liked as well, right? Things we think are good. We don't necessarily recommend crap to you people at home. No, that's why I'm not recommending Dr. Odyssey. That's right. Oh, it's so fun. Is it?

It's fun in the way that watching someone fall down while roller skating is fun. Okay, all right. I don't know what it is. What is Dr. Odyssey? That's that horrible cruise ship, Joshua Jackson. Right, we talked about yesterday. I blocked it out. The soap opera on a boat.

That includes a lot of people getting sick. Please tell me you're not. standing for that show because that show really sucks. I only watched two episodes, but it was so bad. You'd like that thing? Well, first and foremost, I'm not allowing you to ever use Stan as a verb. It doesn't,

it doesn't work coming out of your mouth for some reason? I don't know why. All right, that's fine. There's something about it. It's just like but, but Eminem is older than me, so just for the reference, I think it's okay for somebody of my age. Oh, I thought you said

stand. No, Stan. I thought so too, stand. Standing. Yeah, like you're standing up for it. No. Not stand as in standing. You guys have heard standing, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's a fan. Yeah. I just have, I have friends who can't wait. I have friends who can't wait to get home at the end of the day and watch bad TV. Like Love Island has a new season out. Everybody's very excited. We all know that's bad TV. Right?

Yeah. I want the people. Jersey Shore, yeah. Sure, 20 years ago. I want the people who, like, this is important to them. I want them to get good entertainment. And Odyssey is like, wow, it's good, it's good, bad. Sometimes after like something really, really heavy and dark, you know, you watched Bosch figure out some, some dude killed in the back alley or something, it's like, oh my God, all right, I just need to watch a show about a dude, a doctor.

on a cruise who fixes people's penises when they get broken. There you go. Right. The problem is the pit also came out and you can't help but compare them and one is the one is a 10. The pit. Yeah, recommended it here on the show. So good. The pit is fantastic.

Everybody should watch the pit. E.R. Part 2 is what it is. Yeah. Talia says I should say gooning. That's allowed. So I could say Oh, you don't want me to say gooning? Okay. I won't say good. I mean, you know what it means, right? Oh, I know what it means. I was in fact, I was informed as to what it means by Talley herself.

She's the one that told them. I don't know what it means. Good. I'll give you a link. Turn safe search on, Nicole. I'm going to send you a link. Yeah, enjoy it. Gooning's fine.

Anytime you have to link someone to Urban Dictionary, you've already messed up. I can hook you up on all the Gen. Skibbitty toilets. Yeah. Slaying. I learned that there's a Generation Jones last night. Generation Jones? What's that?

Generation Jones. And I don't know what it means, but it's children, Generation Jones, where children are teenagers during the sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s and were young adults when HIV AIDS became a worldwide threat. Like it's a weird, older than us. Oh, Bill Gates, Madonna, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt. These are all examples of that. So the borderline between Gen X and Baby Boom. We love to come up with these extra categories. right and this is the one right in the in the borderline there yeah what's it called again

1954 to 1965 generation Jones my mom was 1955 oh there you go no time for love generation Jones yeah yeah yeah well there you there you have anyway um let's move on to let's start with Brian we got sure it's all cute up here we're going to do a little different order today but we're going to start with you as usual what uh what do you got here This is a series that Tien and I just watched and loved. This is a little bit of a racy clip. I've bleep things out, but, you know, still kind of on that edge. You'll definitely be able to figure out what the heck they're talking about.

But it's all about someone who's trying to get a movie directed, and we're going to hear how that all goes. Here we go. We love it. We're fast-tracking the Kool-Aid movie, and we're really interested in meeting with some of your clients. Yes, I'll give them a heads up. I spoke to Nick Stoller, and he, uh, it took him a second to wrap his head around it, but yeah, he's got a pitch. I really late Nick Stoller for this.

Storks, Captain Underpants, the Muppets. That's not the direction we want to go with this, okay? Don't you represent Wes Anderson? You want Wes Anderson to direct the fucking Kool-Aid movie? He's going to think I'm fucking crazy, man. He's going to fire me over Zoom from Lichtenstein, wherever the fuck he is. Okay, what about Guillermo del Toro? Go, fuck, your mother.

Have you lost your... He's an Academy Award winner. He's not going to astute to the fucking Kool-Aid movie. Why not? It's like the Barbie movie, you know what I mean? Barbie is 10,000 million times better IP than Kool-Aid. Okay, why? Because people love Barbie.

Barbie's hot. People want to fuck Barbie. I want to fuck a... You don't know anybody trying to fuck the Kool-Aid man, dude. Okay? He doesn't even have an asshole. Pretty sure there's no way to fuck the Kool-Aid man. Am I wrong?

How would you fucking have a... I don't, what are we talking about? It has nothing to do with anything. This sounds like a show for Nicole right there. This is, that's Seth Rogen, right? That is 100% Seth Rogen. And you're also hearing David Krumholtz there as Mitch, the Hollywood talent agent, who represents a bunch of directors that he doesn't want to touch the Kool-Aid movie.

This is called The Studio on Apple TV. and it is it rakes Hollywood over the coals for some of their garbage. Seth Rogan plays the newly hired head of Continental Pictures, which is this kind of flailing movie studio headed up by Brian Cranston and one of the funniest things I've ever seen Brian Cranston.

No, it is the funniest thing I've ever seen Brian Cranston do is play this, man, kind of looks like Stan Lee, but is this horrendous brain dead head of a movie studio right there kind of see how he looks like Stanley a little bit Oh yeah for sure

I totally see it I'm surprised he didn't go into like Chester Cheetah like a Chester Cheetah movie Well Kool-Aid it's basically Might as well be for what this Kool-A thing is You've got your other regulars in this thing Catherine O'Hara she was the former head

of the studio that Seth Rogen takes over she's the one he got fired for him to get his job. Ike Barronholds is kind of his second in command. Chase Sway Wonders, who I don't know if I've seen in anything. She was in an HBO Mac series called Generation, a horror comedy film called Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, but she's great. She's really, really good. And Catherine Hahn, yep, Agatha all along. So both Catharines, both comedy Catharines are in here. Both comedy Catherines, look kidding. Yeah. You know, there's, because of the wildly different spellings of the two names,

I never even thought of the fact that they're both Catharines. Catherine Hahn, Agatha, all along, she plays the head of marketing. And this is the most, again, it's like the most street version of Catherine Hahn ever. She's fantastic. She's really, really good. Street version, what do you mean?

Like she's... Like, she is using kids slang. She's an adult who's, like, thinks that she's super... street with all the kid lingo. Okay. Love it. Brilliant stuff. You also get some people making appearances as themselves, including Martin Scorsese

in a very funny episode, Charlize Theron, Zoe Kravitz in a couple in two or three different episodes, and she's great. Dave Franco. Here's what's really, here's kind of the last pitch I'm going to make. If you liked curb your enthusiasm and that style of, you know, I know this is wrong, but I really got to bring attention to it and make a big deal over it. And then I got to deal with the repercussions of making a big deal over something that was really small as everybody kind of collapses around me.

Then you'll like this, that kind of cringe, Larry David kind of style of stuff. it is absolutely hilarious and at times hilariously frustrating it's been universally praised I can't find a bad review for it it feels like yeah it's it's really good uh Rebecca Hall comes in for an episode as a woman dating Seth Rogen's character who doesn't really care about what he does

Paul Dano Peter Berg Steve Bischemi Anthony Mackey, Ron Howard and Anthony Mackey have an episode. It's like extras or something where they just keep bringing in people. Yeah, and they all play really exaggerated versions of themselves.

It's great. I see Ria Perlman plays his his mom. I love that. She's really good. Yeah, it's on Apple TV Plus. I find it hard to not compare this to shrinking somehow. There's like there's some kind of comedy

connective tissue. Apple TV Plus. In those two shows. Yes. I mean, they're both Apple TV plus. Yeah. I would say, I mean, you feel really good after an

episode of shrinking. Oh, God. After an episode, after an episode of the studio, you feel really bad for Seth Rogan and the people he works with. But, you know, you would want to work with anybody

on the shrinking staff. Harrison Ford, Jason Siegel, any of them, right? You're like, I'd love to work with any of these people. There are people that Seth Rogen has to work with that you'd be like, there's no way I can work with this person. No, I agree with

that. There's just a, there's a kind of comedy drama that it feels like it's very particular to the studio. Okay, you know, I'll give you that, especially like that, that Aaron Sorkin's style fast talking. I have no doubt that this is

kind of in that same improv style as, as curb, where they're given a loose, reference of, all right, here are the story points we need to hit in this scene. Feel free to play with the dialogue. They do a great episode about a oneer, like a one shot that is actually done as a one shot. Oh, really? Like a full, like a long, long single shot.

It's super meta, because they talk about the scene that they're shooting for this film that's done as a oneer, and they're referencing other oneers. uh that's great as well and it's like super meta that episode it's really well done too i love that kind of stuff yeah all right this seemed like an oh brainer to see i just need to start it i guess and they're and this did well enough they've already announced season two right i think i think so yeah let's see uh series has been renewed for a second season correct so you know you'll get more and um and and again they wrap up everything from this storyline in this season there's nothing left hanging, but you'll be glad to hear that there's more, that you're going to get more

of this. Cool. Aftly B Plus, available now, all episodes. Exactly. Yes. Right there for you. All right. In a strange occurrence of events, I'm going to go second today. I'm going to get this one out of the way. Oh, wow. Okay. We're getting our, we're getting our dark Netflix true crime documentary out of the way. So we don't have to think about it later. And here it is. Scott Johnson special. That's right. Here you go. In fact, the YouTube people in the archive, we're not going to hear it because there's music that I think will get me damed. Oh, no. So we'll do it live, but a hold on a second.

Here we go. We're doing it live. Here we go. I was eight years old. I remember my mom coming out of the bathroom and saying, I feel weird. They said, my brother, Aaron, got a heart attack. I said, what are you talking about? He's a very healthy person.

Paula was murdered. She was just murdered. The next I know, I'm watching my mom go out on a stretcher. These are not all heart attacks. Something's killing. There were six capsules missing, and there are three victims. I said, it has to be Tylenol. Sure does.

It has to be Tylenol. It has to be Tylenol. That's right. I watched the Cold Case, colon, the Tylenol murders, and the colon is an actual colon. In the colon. That's right. This is a Netflix original documentary. It's part of the Cold Case series, and it is one that was staying in the top ten

for so long I was like well I guess I better check this one out because some of these are a little too sensational for me and they tend to kind of leave me a little bit well cold if I'm honest but this one I thought it looks interesting and as a kid this was a massive story I remember it just sort of affecting every aspect of life even though I was very young and probably didn't care all that much but my parents were freaking out about it my mom in particular was like oh tyloin I'm never taking it again and so this goes all the way back to the very early 80s 82 I think was the first incident and um the the prime suspect 84 80 thought it was 82 no because it was scott just watched the documentary i'm not going to argue with it what did i though yeah i watched it

i thought it was 82 i don't remember but anyway it is whatever it was uh it was a big deal and it affected tons of stuff but basically these people started dying in mysterious causes the the the the whole point of it is eventually they figured out that it's cyanide and Tylenol, it's been tampered with, either at the factory level or somewhere in between. And I don't want to give too much away because there is a whole story here to tell, but there's a dude that has been on the list of he probably did it for these many years, right up until this dude just died, and they still think that he's probably the prime suspect.

But there's a lot of other stuff about Johnson and Johnson. Maybe they screwed up and they've been covering it this long and all this kind of stuff. I don't want to get too much into it because the point of the documentary is to explore those thing so giving you all those answers is kind of a waste if you'd rather see it yourself but i liked it i don't like documentaries that use constant music to build up drama this this does that a bit and it's not egregious not the worst example i've seen and they also they also have good facts and good fact finding and all that stuff's still good it's just that there's a lot of like moments of like okay crescendo down a little bit you don't need to you know you don't need to constantly be having mystery

music behind everybody's commentary. I wish they would do that less. That being said, I understand why they do it. There are people who like that stuff. They like the feeling of... The sensationalized... Yeah. They're into it.

But I think this is a good documentary around its own. Can I ask you something? I feel like I'm having... Is it called the Mendala effect? Nope. It's called the... It's called... It's called...

Mandela. Sorry, Randy said it. Mandela. Yeah, Mendella. But I like Mendala. The Mendala effect. oh my god but here here's why i'm thinking i thought that they had a case i swear to god i remember watching this on like unsolved mysteries or something where there were Tylenol murders and it actually did track it back to the husband that wanted to kill his wife and he went into the pharmacy

and he put the cyanide capsules in there. I had it in my head. That's all that was. So when I watched this documentary, when I was getting my IVIG, I'm like, what the hell was I was, what was that other thing that I watched?

Well, the dude, the pharmacy dude, was a part of the story, and they talk about it in this one, but he's not related to anybody. And he also turned out to be a false suspect. It wasn't, he just happened to be in the pharmacy. Or copycat. There may have been,

there may have been some copycat. at some point. Yeah, yeah. I don't remember that one, though. That one's news to me. In fact, this thing was very consistent with my memory. Everything they said, I was like, oh, yeah, I remember that. And I remember this guy, and they were pointing fingers with this dude.

And then he got in trouble later for a whole other case and probably did it. Like, I'm still pretty convinced this guy was the original one. Yeah. I think there were some other stuff and some weird Johnson and Johnson cover-ups. How would explain the four years later then? Copycats, stuff like that happens all the time. But no, everything's sealed. everything's sealed.

It doesn't matter. There's nothing, there's no such thing as perfect sealing on that stuff. There's no way. And even if there was, what I think that copycat one was somebody at Johnson and Johnson

on the inside doing it anyway. I think so, that's what I think. Yeah. Yeah. But that's my point is there's no, there is no fail safe for this stuff. So even though today

we have very modern methods of making medication and other packaging very hard to get into, it's not impossible. And it's still, there is some level of risk. It's just crazy that in the early

80s, nothing had this. It was just open and use it. Like, nuts. Here's something interesting. So, when I became a young lady and started my period, I had the worst cramps, like to the point where I would cry

and I would just be on the floor. And I don't remember my mom giving me anything for them. That'd be more. More like Motrin, right, for that anyway? Well, maybe. But even then, like, she was probably worried about it. I was 12.

This was like, I don't know, the late 80s. So this is around the time of this Tylenol stuff. So, and Advil, because I even looked at it, I was like, when did a leave come out? Because a leave was the only thing I think that helped me. And that was 94 when that came out. But anyway, it just made me start thinking about, like, the pain that I went through. And I'm like, I want to talk to my mom. Like, did you give me medicine?

Because I don't remember if she did give me Tylenol, it didn't do anything. Yeah. I don't think Tylenol is not good for inflammation. So I would assume, I don't know what they were using back then, Advil or Motrin or whatever it was. But ibuprofen, which is what that is, would have been. Poor Claire. She's like, your branding of your medication. kills me. Well, what's all there's

called? Happy. It's just called aspirin. It's just end of the rainbow freaking pot of gold. You get one bottle of blue stars and another one of purple horseshoes and another one of green clovers. Yeah, we got Guinness brand freaking like what are you doing over there?

I don't know what they're doing. Well, yeah, like my doll. What was the little from Wayne's world? Little yellow. Oh, yeah. I don't remember. Is that a leave? No, what was it? A leaf is blue. Yeah, not Motrin. No.

But aspirin's not those, either of those two other drugs, Claire. Nooprin. Newprin. No, no, pran. Okay, I have a beef with Claire. She says, yes, aspirin. No, my ibuprofen is its own thing. Acetamine is its own thing.

They have brand names for them, just like you do over there. Everybody does. That's what you do. And there's generic versions of it. It's called branding. Aspirin was the one that became the brand namer, like, Because it was so early and common that people would say, give me aspirin, and they didn't care which of these different drugs you gave them. It was like Kleenex.

Yeah, you would say, give me an aspirin and whatever it was you gave it. But the thing is, back to your point, Nicole, I think my mom was, she was paranoid through that entire decade about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And she did not give us, like, if we were having headaches or we were sick or whatever, we did not do pills. Take some water. Yeah. For real. For real.

there was no none of that and I am sure I am I am positive that that is why she did that was because of this stuff I could see that yeah so it was a real paranoid thing and everybody was freaking out and nobody loved that anyway hey that's mine let's move on now down the road to our next presenter today it's Nicole Nicole what's your clip all about I was I was I'm always curious who you're gonna go with all right so I watched a lot of stuff like when I do my I-V-I-G I kind of come in and out of

consciousness just because they gave me a lot of Benadryl. Does my mic sound okay? I'm trying to new stuff. You sound fine. You sound fine. Wonderful. I work really hard on it.

You got a little, you got kind of a hum. It sounds like a fan or something, but it's not a big deal. Sounds fine. Real low. Oh, I think Mark is doing something in the microwave.

Could be. Mark! Mark! Don't do things in the microwave. he's warming his coffee no worries um so i saw this movie on hulu and i was like um just by the name of it i was like do i or do i watch it or do i not watch it and so i'm like well let me watch the trailer so i watched the trailer and i was like okay i'll watch it um it came out in 2015 i have you guys heard Scott you know the movie I had never heard of it until you sent me the clip I had no idea

so it is based off of it is based off of a book um the clip that I gave you I identified with tremendously um and we'll talk about the movie after the clip here we go what group my what yesterday you were saying you've mapped out the entire high school by group what's my Seriously? Yeah. Boring Jewish senior girls subgroup 2A? Please appreciate how honest that was just now. You're an asshole.

What group are you in? I'm not in a group, actually. I just wouldn't belong to a group that doesn't suck. You know, I'm terminally awkward and have a face like a little groundhog. You can't really think that. No, I don't think that. think that. I know that. I just feel like

you know, for a kid like me in high school, the best case scenario, just survive, you know? Survive without creating any mortal enemies or piteously embarrassing yourself forever. Just survive until college?

College? No. God, college is going to be even worse. Okay. I didn't, I'd never heard of this. It comes from a year I'm very fond of, 15 is a great movie year. It's weird because they say it's a comedy romance and it is not. Okay, good to know.

At all. Definitely, it's dark comedy. So this is the film, me and Earl and the dying girl. And as you can say, I'm like, oh, dying girl. I don't know if I want to watch this I saw my girl the one time That was also a lot More depressing than the name gives

So what I really enjoyed about this film So there's a lot of Nick Offerman is in this Connie Britton is in it John and I'm Bertha Nelly Bertha Nellie Yes John Bertha Nellie We're keeping it that I love when he married Eddie Van Halen

Yeah Bertha Nellie oh man And Molly Shannon. So Molly Shannon is the mother of the dying girl. The three young actors, I've never seen them in anything. You've probably seen Olivia Cook. Did you ever watch the Bates Motel, the Norman Bates Psycho sequel TV show? Okay. Nope.

She was on that as a, she's fantastic. Yeah. She was in the Ready Player 1. She was... Her only problem is she looks just like the girl from fallout. It's not her, but she was in Ready Player 1. That's how I know her. She's excellent.

Sound of metal. She's great in sound of metal. Slow horses. And you very rarely get her English accent and stuff. It's usually her, you know. You get it in slow horses, that's about it. Everything else is America. Right. Right.

The main guy in this is Thomas Mann. And I'm telling you, Nicole, please watch lessons in chemistry. You will love lessons. Yes. Oh, that guy. He's great. So the whole point of, I mean, they're obviously in high school. And Thomas Mann, his character, Greg, he doesn't have a group.

He floats. He mirrors. I've learned a lot. I'm almost 50. And I've reflected on my high school years and how challenging they were for me. Because I never felt like I fit in anywhere in high school. so I float it like him and I could be part of the stoners

I could be part of the jocks I could be part of the nerds well yeah and I don't know I just kind of really identified with him but the whole point of the movie is

that Olivia Cook's character Rachel it's their senior year and she's been diagnosed with leukemia And Greg's mom, Connie Brinton, says, you need to go over there and hang out with her. And he's like, I don't want to. And his dad is Nick Offerman, and he's like, he's kooky. They're all professional.

You know, they're very intellectual. Everybody's very intellectual in this movie. I like that they're Greg's dad and Greg's mom. They don't have names in the credits. It's fantastic. That's great. That is what it's like living in. It kind of is, yeah.

The other may I think of you as your kids' names. If you look at my phone, if you look at my phone, I'll say the mom's name. Can you hear me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, all of a sudden it went really quiet. Yeah, I know. It's weird. It's like some noise cut out of your mic.

Your hum, your weird hum went away. I don't know what that was. Yeah. I'm just going to stay really still. Still there, but whatever it is. But what I do is I'll say, let's say, Brittany, and then in parentheses, Aliana's mom. And so I have all of these names of moms, but I don't know who they are unless I have the kids' names attached to the mom's name. and that's and that's what my phone looks like so I'm like oh it's so and so so and so you know things like that

so point in the movie is it's senior year and Greg has decided to to go and hang out with Rachel and Rachel's like I don't want your and she's very she's a smart girl she's a very sweet girl. And she's like, he's like, look, man, my mom won't stop harassing me unless I hang out with you. So can you please just let me hang out with you for, you know, this one time? Well, then they start to become friends. And, but he does it. Again, he's so closed off from everyone because he's, he's afraid to connect with people. Even his best friend, Earl, he does not, he does not call him a friend. He is a co-worker because what they do is they make really bad parodies of movies. And that's what they do. They've made like 40-some

odd parodies of movies, but nobody is to ever see these movies. And Earl starts to show them to Rachel. And then Greg gets mad and like there's all this, you know, kind of tension. And it's a point-of-view movie, a growing-up movie. I really enjoyed it. Many times throughout the movie, Greg will tell you, she does not die, so don't worry. Okay? So as you're watching the movie, he will reassure you.

As a narrator? And he talks to you. So like it's broken up into like chapters as the movie progresses. So, um, so yeah, watch it on Hulu. Uh, I, I liked it. That's why I'm recommending it. Um, I'm curious. Uh, I might even, I might even get me and Mateo to read the book.

Oh, cool. So, um, yeah. Perfect page. Apparently, there's some controversy, controversy, I can't see what's, controversial. Controversial. There you go. Um, because there's crude and sexual references. the book intended for comedic purposes and I don't all that fun stuff yeah my kids 13 he's

heard it all yeah name a 13 year old that isn't uh loaded up on that all the time I was like just don't stay it in front of other adults and your dad yeah I mean he counts he's another adult yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's great Hulu eh this is where I can get this Cool. Excellent. I love a Nick Offerman movie, too. Oh, yeah. Never, never tire of those.

Good news. He's in the new Tom Hanks, or Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning deal. Or final reckoning, sorry. Final reckoning. Yeah, great little role for him. All right, let's move over to Randy. Randy, the mic is yours.

What do you got here for us? I really thought I really thought I wasn't going to remember what this is because I made the clip like two weeks ago and then I sent it to you a week ago. but I do remember what it is and the setup here is I want to like panel shows I want to like panel shows I want to be really clear here panel shows always go wrong somehow you find it you find out that actually you know I after years of watching a panel show you're man I actually kind of hate Jimmy Carr or Stephen Fry or whatever I was wondering if it was just an American panel shows thing but it is I still includes a UK panel shows, too. What's a panel show? Well, I mean, panel shows is a UK thing that has come over to the state. Sure. Right. And Jimmy Carr drives me up a tree. You can't stand the guy. But keep on. Right. But then, like, I love Sandy Toxvig. I love Sean Locke when he was alive.

You're saying so many names I don't know and I don't even know what a panel show is. I'll break it down for you, Nicole. Panel show is usually like current topics, current news. You get somebody in the middle. as a host and then you get celebrities and other people talking about it usually comedians and things yeah sometimes like when we were growing up was like news stuff you'd see it on pbs or eight out of ten cats mcneal air report is kind of a panel show but it's not the kind of not the typical one that we like well it's i mean bill mars sure yes perfect example of i want to like panel shows but you've got bill mar in it right so right so like i i just i always check them out they They often, like, they lead me on, and then I fall out with them. This is a newer one, and I'm very, very, very happy about it so far.

So I want you to watch it as well. All right. Here you go. Next up, we've got no phone. Who is? Which two of these people do not own cell phones? That sounds like some goop shit to me. I want to say Gwyneth Paltrow.

Okay. Who do you think from the other side? Kay Middleton? I'm going to say, walking and Harrelson. You good with that? Yeah, that sounds good to me. Christopher Walken and Woody Harrison do not own cell phones. Christopher Walken also told the Wall Street Journal that he's, quote,

never owned a cell phone, never sent an email, and never Twittered. I respect that. All right, let's do spice chicks. Which two of these people have chickens named after the spice girls? It's got to be British people, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going with whoever's British on there. Then we say the Americans.

Shaperon, she's quirky. Is Chaparron American? Yeah, she's American. I mean, look, I don't, you know, and you be thinking they're regular, then you see them in an interview. And I tell you, all right. So it's like, don't, wait, wait, don't tell me vibe is what I'm getting out of this. Sure, wait, wait, wait, don't tell me is a radio panel show, correct. And this is Have I Got News for You on CNN.

CNN always makes one show that's not news. It's just pure entertainment. You know, at this time, this is the show. It's Roy Wood Jr. is your host. He, you know, he cut his teeth on the daily show. Guys got, you know, talent for days, perfect host for this. And then on either side of him, you always have Amber Ruffin and another person. And then Michael Ian Black and another person.

And they just riff. They just, they just asked, you know, I started to watch this. And it is the perfect cast. I mean, all three of those people, Amber Ruffin, Roy Wood, Jr., and Mike Lee and Black are fantastic. I love this show. And I wish it wasn't currently off for the season. I wish this was like every week, year round, keep it going because it's so good.

Exactly. Like that's, you know, I'm so disappointed that they're ending after midnight because, like, I just love, I love when you let people talk and be funny. Like, I just, that, that is for me. So this is, you know, this is hopefully going to fill that, that void for a little while until someone figures out a replacement for after midnight. And like I say, the problem with panel shows is always that someone ends up rubbing you the wrong way eventually. And you're like, now I can't watch any of these because Jimmy Carr's a jerk. And like, so you have to find a new one.

And this is the new one that I'm, I started to watch this and I didn't enjoy it. So I just, oh, really? I just love the fact that like each segment is a different, I mean, it appeals to the game. aspect of me, right? Like they put up the faces and say, well, you heard in that clip. Which of these people did this and which of these people? I think my favorite is the offendometer. Who is this person and who did they offend? First, you have to figure out who the person is and then figure out what group or person they offended. And sometimes it's like, uh, everybody. Yeah. Yeah. So worth seeing, eh? And you can go, I assume you can watch all the old stuff at some

point on. You can watch all you. It's on HBO Max as well. Right. That's the thing. Even though it's a CNN show, they've got all the episodes on HBO Max. Nice. The current news of it will be gone, but that doesn't matter. It's all really, really funny stuff. Nice, nice. All right. All this stuff will be on quicktms.coms. Look for that. Hey, Nicole, anything going on in the Wood, Guild, World, Guild of guild worlds? So, I don't know if I told you, but I learned how. I learned how. how to cut, hand-cut dovetails? Did I bring his talk? Oh, yeah. And you really, you didn't tell us about it, but I saw your thing that you actually

impressed, not just Mark, but another woodworker with your dovetail skills. So Rob Cosman is a legendary hand-tool woodworker. He lives in Canada. And he actually came down. We helped him with a fundraiser for an organization that he's a part of called the Purple Heart Project, where they raise funds to have. help wounded vets and vets with PTSD learn how to do hand-tool woodworking. Hand-tool woodworking is a much slower methodical kind of meditative thing.

Of course, you know, you can add machines into it too, but that's what he focuses on. So he came in, we donated our shop for two days and we had a bunch of people come in and robbed it a seminar and before that he taught me how to cut dovetails i had never held a hand saw in my life or a chisel wow really except to open a paint can except to hand it to mark no one time so he had these chisels he called him his knock around chisels and i just thought i was like oh they're just you know junk chisels so i try to open a paint can with them and he's like what are you doing? I'm like you call them knock around chisels so I just was going to knock off a paint can tin. So, so anyway, back to what

happened was Rob and because I didn't care like I wasn't nervous. I was like he's going to show me how to do it. If I, if I, if I do it great, if I don't, I, I'll feel bad because then that looks poorly on him. But I had never, and I've even had people in the comments say that I was a ringer. And I'm like, sure, sure I'm a ringer. But we filmed it. It's on the main site. So if you want to get a little taste of it, but we're, it's in the guild. And 50% of the profit goes back to the Purple Heart project so we can still keep kind of giving them money for that so and it's a full i think it's like an hour and a half of of me at me and rob and me cutting dovetails and kicking butt nice i saw the the instagram has a really cool

shortened little real version of it which you can go check out as well yeah we put the funny version out because I was a little cheeky with him, and I don't think he's used to that. So you never know what you're going to get with me. That's right. But it was a lot of fun, and, you know, he had fun, too. It wasn't like I was offending him or anything. Sure, of course not.

But, yeah, yeah. That's awesome. That's awesome. That's where you can find the handcut dovetails with Rob and Nicole. Nice. Well, in the meantime, I have a fantastic week. And may you see something cool to see next week when we talk again. Bye.

Randy, what's going on this weekend for film set? We're getting into some trouble. Yeah. We're getting into some real double trouble. Oh, two times the trouble? Oh, shit. Twice the trouble. I can't wait to watch this because I hear so many good things about it.

It's a classic. It's a 90s film Not to Miss. Classic? I don't know. Yeah. You can't spell classic without ass. So how about that? That's true.

You can't. And it's bad. But we watched it, and you guys are going to get to see it, too. It's double trouble this weekend on FilmSack. FilmSack.com for details. Randy, stay out of trouble. We'll see you next to you. Oh, nice one, Randy.

You got on the last second. Little quick. I'm impressed. Folks, that is it. A reminder that I will be on the Daily Tech News Show live today. So if you want to check that out, please do. And there's a lot going on this week. So regular core tomorrow.

Today, sometime, there's a state of play from PlayStation. but I'm not going to be able to do a live thing on that. I think it actually starts in like six minutes. I think it starts at 11 our time, but I could be wrong. So they got stuff to do. It's Games Fest week, which means it's basically the replacement for E3. And tomorrow, a regular episode of CORE, but then on Friday they're doing all their showcase stuff,

like the big main announcements. We'll be doing live streams of all of that as well, me and the Corps boys. And so lots and lots of content coming out of core this week. So keep your eyes open for that business. and that won't start till after TMS Friday, so we got you covered on that. Plenty of time.

Plenty, plenty time. All right, we'll give it to more of that tomorrow. It's going to do it for us. Frogpants.com slash TMS is where you want to go. There's only one thing left, and that is a song, dedication, that Brian's going to read. Yeah, yeah. You heard her earlier in the show,

Lady Taffy rode in, said, Dearest Coverville, can you please find a cover of a song from Lilo and Stitch for my anniversary to the Taffy guy? It's been nine years since we got hitched, wanted to remind him that I love him, and I'm thankful for the support and love he gives me daily. Thanks so much, Lois. Nice.

Congratulations again, you two, nine years. Awesome. And just gets better and better from there. I'm going to let you know. You got, you know, lots of future years to look forward to, to enjoy and be together. Keep the taffy flowing, I say. You know, a lot of Elvis Presley songs in those Lilo and Stitch movies, because Turns out Stitch is a big fan

But I'm not going with one of those I'm going with something you might not have expected me to pull from There aren't a lot of Really definitive different covers of this song But the one I found is kind of cool Little EDM influenced, a little techno It is Hawaiian roller coaster ride Yeah, it's the song playing when they all go surfing

This version is by Jesse Block and Kobe Watts And it's from a single that they released a couple years ago Here is Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride There's no place about to be lingering in the ocean blue And if I had one wish come to be I surf till the sunsets beyond the heart horizon

A wiki my loki loki loki L'iwai'i Hawaiian roller coaster ride A wiki-wiki maeloheli Laii Nala la la ha ha ha ha la la laa i kala hana ha

Nih Gah nai kani and can be honey He'i'i'i Hila coaster fly There's no place about me I'm gonna see-store drive at three I'm gonna send this where I'd wait I'm gonna tell the sun sets me off the horizon

It's time to try the Hawaii And all the course are right She hang loose, hang dead I was a sugar shocker No warming, no fearing, you'll be your brother Fentning, come up, front, back, come back side, back side, You'll be good at wipe out

Let's get jump and serve some But I've been coasted with a motion of the ocean broke from a square of the cascade drool. There's no place about to be. There's no place about the bee. Lingering in the ocean blue. And if I had my wish come true. I surf until the sun sets beyond the horizon. Oh, me, kiki my loki loki, loki, lomi, la-a-laki, lanky, blah, wadi.

Try and eye on a hole. I'm going to coast a ride. There's no place about to be I'm going to send this where I'd wait I play till the sun sets me on the horizon It's time to try for Hawaii and all the cross-al-right. Frog in Pants. If you're looking for something froggy smooth, find more at frogpants.com. Wait, that's not ground turkey.