The Morning Stream - TMS 2837: Paging Dr Butt

Episode Date: June 11, 2025

Marry into the butt. Third Party Body Parts. South Africa on the Tip of the Thing. Penguistan. Horking Prizes From Your Nose! Are there any fantasy epics filmed in New Zealand, cuz I, like, really wanted to know. Get in losers. We're going to Finland. Ice on a cold tin roof. Three-way couch. More than four Fantastic Fours. Good ol' fashioned farmer blow. You're-Born-with-It Holes. Transorbital intubation. All that and a can of chips with Tom. Home Box Office Positive with Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When you bury someone, you have to let go, unless you made a deal to pull them up again after trying to break the breath-holding record. Anyway, you really should support this show at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, Mary into the butt. Third party body parts. South Africa on the tip of the thing. Penglistan. Horking prizes from your nose. Are there any fantasy epics filled in New Zealand because I like really wanted to know?

Get in, losers. We're going to Finland. Ice on a cold tin roof. freeway couch. More than four fantastic fours. Good old-fashioned farmer blow. You're born with it, Holes. Transorbital intubation. Ew. All that in a can of chips with Tom. Home box office positive with Nicole and more

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The morning stream, I live, I love, I slay, and I am content. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Wednesday, June 11th, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Ibbott. Howdy? Hey, man.

Howdy and welcome to the middle of the week. It's hump date. Yeah, it is. Hump date. Get to hump and y'all. Get up on there. Wait till after the show. Please.

My dog humped two pillows this morning in front of me. Oh, really? Like a little three-way with the couch. Yeah. Yeah. She's got this thing with couch cushions. It really bugs me. A little JD Vance in her?

A little bit, yeah. You know what? I hadn't thought of that before. But yeah, we got a, I'm going to name her JD. We're changing her name. She's already out. There you go. Perfect.

She's already got a male's name. Why not? We can change it around. Yeah, she loves cushions. And I can always tell when she's had at one because one of the cushions will be off the couch on the rug or the floor with like a little hump and dent on it. Just discarded. Like, had her way with it and then said, ah, goodbye.

Some of these instincts, man. I don't know. These dogs are effed. Yeah. Anyway, hi, everybody. Welcome to Wednesday. We got some stuff for you to do, to get into, and all that. I wanted to make it a little bit more official, something I said yesterday, about a Tadpool.

Fantastic Four. I didn't think of the movie. Couldn't get it out. Fantastic Four, Tadpool, Watch Along, Meetup. Watch. I don't watch Along. We're going to go watch Fantastic Four. Watch a lot.

first steps they call it you know uh anyway that's happening at the brand new theater over there at the bs stadium that they just built uh i forget the name of the new area over there but that's the whole point is to make this easy for locals uh go to frogpants.com slash fantastic super simple and there's a whole thing there that will send you where you want to go it's got times it's got a link off to where you can get tickets uh it's got a very nice little background image featuring uh the the fantastic for it's sold Sullivan, that Sullivan show style, fantastic for photo. Do you know if that guy, that guy's not canon, is he?

He's not like in the comics, the dude that introduces him. Oh, the dude, no, not that I know of. He might be, might be based on a character from the comics, but. Curious about that. They always like, they like to sneak that shit in there. So maybe they do. They totally do for the, for the fans. But, yeah, super easy to do.

Kevin and Rose Kitty would like to let you know they're already in Roe G. So if you want to sit by Kevin, Roe G. I noticed you're not sharing where you're, seats are. Is there a reason? I just didn't think to. He gave me all these bits of data, so I put them all in here. We're actually, I can show you where we are. We are one of these, Kim's decided to splurge for my birthday. We're in one of these diner seat things. These are brand new. Oh, that's cool. I don't know what they actually look like. I think they're kind of like what they look like. They're cordoned off. Little box seats, yeah. Yeah. And so our two are these two X's on

the right. I don't know who's next to us. We won't see them because there's a wall there. But Man, that's the way to do it right there. That's a really good way, too. Right, you separate, like you have a section of those in the theater. You don't have to do it to all the seats because sometimes like, well, we're coming with five people. We don't want to take two and a half of those box seats. But for the couple just down on a little date, that's a great little way to do it. Yeah, they're about double the normal ticket price.

So it's a little expensive, not terrible, but it's enough to, you know, you're splurgeon when you do it. My worry was, I didn't want to isolate ourselves. So I said to Kim, because she did this without me knowing what seat she did. So I said, what seats did we get? Kevin's up on Roe G. And she goes, oh, I got you the cool thing for your birthday. The new weird seats, we don't know anything about those yet, but we're going to do that. So that's for your birthday.

And I went, yeah, but is it going to make it so no, we don't see. I guess we're all going to hang out before and after. So it's not a big deal. Yeah. What do you do? Talk during the movie? No. Good point.

Good point, Brian. So socialization happens before. four and after and not during so it doesn't matter no he's right you know what i feel better about it already brian's right we did not isolate ourselves from the socialization of the tadpole meetup so there you go very good excellent because we're all going to shut down when that movie starts here's the other thing i hope this is a theater chain known for just plugging the ads between the trailers constantly just way oh no really so it's trailer and then an ad trailer and then an ad yeah sometimes sometimes it's like two ads and then a trailer

and then one ad and then two trailers and then there's no rhyme or reason to it but it takes forever and it's really just joined it to go oh look 28 years later cool that looks awesome and the very next thing is here at peterson brothers heating we think you should come on in and get an estimate it's like holy shit dude the disconnect here oh no yeah i don't like it anyway and we don't have marina manunos to entertain us we don't have uh we have some local local bullshit instead that happens in these theaters but anyway it'll be fun Looking forward to it. So once again,

frogpants.com slash fantastic. As you can see, the movie doesn't come out until the last vestiges of July, so it's not like you got to hustle, but... Yeah, you get plenty of time. Up there and writing when you want to go.

We'll get some sort of weird combination of Corman Fantastic Four and the other two iterations we've had, and then the Korean version of Fantastic Four that nobody knew existed, and then the Mexican version of the Fantastic Four. Sure. India's probably got one.

Indonesia is probably got one, sure. Yeah, we always used to see these weird Spider-Man things, and it's great. Because they don't care about rights over there. They're just like, hey, man, that looks cool. Let's put Superman and Spider-Man and have them dance together. Fantastic. Exactly, exactly. Hey, I shot a pee up my nose.

Let me explain. Okay. We were shucking peas. I mean, it feels like that explains the whole thing. It kind of does. I feel like we get... I feel like you got half of you, at least three quarters of the story already. Or at least you get the end result.

all, but Kim and I were shucking peas. We got peas that we bought at this local farm co-op thing, and they're super, super inexpensive to do it that way versus the store, and we love fresh peas. Of course. Kim loves making all kinds of pea dishes, and she likes split pea soup and all the sort of stuff. So we were out there just having a little bit of a couple moment of it's quiet right now.

Things are sort of chill. The dogs are all naping. It's hot afternoon, but we're in the shade. And we got these buckets and peas to shuck, meaning you know these aren't the kind you eat the whole they're not like it's like you know the pot you basically have to get them out of the pod basically exactly out of the pod bay doors so we take the we take the pods and we're doing the thing splitting them and I'm kind of eating half of what I do because they're so good and they're freaking great got a love like peas right out of the

fresh peas right out of the pod absolutely oh so good so we're doing that and uh one of them was a little tough a little hard to get into and each each one's got like I don't know four to five little peas per pod they're big they're kind of long ones and this one was just hard to get into for some reason so i decided to squeeze it like i would toothpaste or something kind of a sure like kind of by one end kind of thing yeah a little end at the end there is going to pop it out and see if that would work and it did and it shot a pee directly north because i'm looking at like this like a gun like i was cleaning a gun like a dumb ass and it shot that pee so far up my nose brian that i'm I honestly thought maybe it was going to be a problem.

Like I was going to end up having to get a sinus extraction or something because it went far up in here, like all the way up in my thing because that's how much force there was. Like you're going to have to go to urgent care for pee removal. Yeah. They were going to have to take out a pee and then I was going to have to have that embarrassing thing in my records, right? Oh, yeah. Suddenly I'd care about HIPAA violations for the rest of my life because I don't want anyone to know about my pee at my nose. Suddenly you'd be a story on TMS and after the pre-show stuff. after the top of show.

You'd be one of the articles below. Yeah, I'd find my own article. Man in Salt Lake City nearly kills himself with a pee. So anyway, this pee is up there, and I'm horking and hacking and wheezing and Kim's laughing. She thinks that's very funny, and she's right, it is. But eventually, the way I got it out, good old-fashioned farmer blow. You take this knuckle, plug up this hole. Pugh, shot that pee across the yard.

It's somebody else's problem now. never been something I've I'm sure I could do it if I tried but it's never been something that I've attempted to do just because I don't I don't want any collateral damage if there's oh yeah if the if it's a little too explosive or something you know yeah it's almost a guarantee I want to change my shirt because I decided to throw fate to the wind and try doing a farmer blow yeah and nobody likes a guy who's over there horking stuff out of his nostrils you know no no so i'm with you i don't normally i don't i don't hold with it as they say however in this particular case while it's not quite like the heimlich and i'm choking to death it did seem appropriate to expel that is the only way i knew oh that which is no that that you you did it you used your your powers for the right time like that was uh the absolute right right time to use that yeah and kim was kim thought it was hilarious so well done uh anyways that's People are going to be wanting you to do that to perform it.

Like, you know, at the Fantastic Four Meetup, they're going to be asking you to fire peas. It's like, I've seen these shows in Tijuana with ping pong balls. Can you do with a pee? Yeah. Maybe they'll get me to do it with a popcorn kernel or something. There you go. Or like a red hot. Ju-ju-B or a, yeah, a Skiddle.

All right, who wants a T-shirt? Dude, what a terrible What a terrible gift portion of the meteor of the evening For me to hark prizes from my nose Anyway, see you guys in July, let's give it a shot. Yeah, fun. Dr. Tolbert, who probably has an opinion on peas up your nose as well. Probably, yeah.

I mean, it probably was only, I don't know, one sniff away. If I'd have breathed in when it went in, it probably could have aspirated on it and then he would have. I was going to say, like, having you get stuck in your sinuses would be bad, would be very bad. I mean, I don't know if it would have been very bad. eventually it would you said it was a really hard one so i don't know if it would eventually would have um not decomposed but whatever the equivalent is you know where it would soften up and

sort of just absorb it or whatever just absorb yeah i have a feeling what it would it would be bad because it's organic material and then that would cause like bacterial issues and all that i'll bet i mean it's not the kind of thing you wanted it's like people to have to get like uh sex toys out of their butts when they go to the ER. Right. Or things that aren't sex toys is the problem. I accidentally sat on this light bulb. Sorry.

Oh, yeah. Those excuses must be incredible. I would love, you know what, do we have any ER dog? I know that, so Tolbert had to spend time in the ER for his residency. Did you, I want to know some stories. Like, what kind of crap did you get to? I'm sure he's got stories. What you have to pull out of people's butts.

That's what I want to know. What a nightmare. You know, it's not all skin, knees and cute kids in there. No, for sure. As the pit has taught us. Anyway, Dr. Tolbert has a correction for us, and it's a good educational one, so let's hear him out and see what we got here. Good morning, gents, your friendly neighborhood family doc, swinging by to answer the questions

from 5 June about all things, Cricoferotomy. As with most things in health care, terminology can be a bit of a hang-up, so there are a few terms that might lessen the confusion. The ending otomy, or O-T-O-M-Y, means to put a hole into something, but the ending Ostomy, O-S-T-O-M-Y, often refers to a hole that's semi-permanent rather than just a quick fix. The rest of the terms are more about the specific location that the hole is being put into. Our breathing tube, the trachea, is protected by a couple of rigid cartilages, primarily so it doesn't collapse when we breathe in, but also to shield us from outside pressures as well.

The upper those is called the thyroid cartilage, because it's nearer the thyroid gland, and the lower and thinner one is called the crychoid, which just means ring-shaped. There's a space in between, which, funnily enough, is called the chrycho thyroid membrane, and it's a much thinner area that lends itself well to having holes poked into it during the blocked airway emergencies. There's also a much thinner area below the chrychoid cartilage that can also be punctured easily to gain access to the lower part of the trachea. For a chrycothorotomy, we're in a hurry and we need to have a hole there that may not be permanent. So we put the tube in to help breathing directly into the chrychothyroid membrane, often using a method called the Seldinger technique, which may be the S that Brian was trying to think of. For a thyrotomy, the tube is inserted below the chrychoid, often because someone needs a more permanent opening, which we call a thyroid.

Rostomy. Hope that clears things up. And remember, if you need anything else, just page me. Oh, man, that's a lot of info about your, about making a hole in your neck. I do like that it's the, you know, the tracheothiroid, or chrycheoids. I've already forgotten was it chrychoid? Trachiochrechoid membrane. It's like Texarkana. It's right on the border and it just takes the names of the two things on either side of it. Yeah. I wonder if like Texarkana, one side keeps it cleaning it in the other. side, because that's definitely true there. Exactly, yes.

It's a weird city, man. Such a weird city. That's great. Yeah, that's great. Thank you, Dr. Tolbert, as usual, always with the hot info. I love learning about, like, that, you know, ostomy means kind of permanent versus otomy is just a temporary fix kind of thing. So people say colostomy bag, that's osteomy permanent.

It's a thing. You're stuck with that up your colon. Your colon, ostomy. And when you're, like, cancer patients, they get, it's a temporary port, but I think while it's there you'd call it an ostomy right because it's a it's funny yeah uh right because it's it's installed and it has to be surgically removed as opposed to like like nope we need we need to get in there really quickly surgically and and put something in or get something out it Tina called it a port it was just called a port when Tina had it but I bet the I bet the technical name probably does end

with a ostomy yeah because it's it's it's even though it's not permanent permanent you know you know you're going to be taking it out eventually it's like Like you're putting it in there for several months duration. But still, the terminology ostomy must only apply to when you're saying, I'm going to make a hole as opposed to, I've already got ear, let's say ear holes, nostrils, other entry points in the human body. Those are permanent things that came with the kit, with the base model. You don't have to make those holes. So those aren't ostomies. They're not a third-party addition.

Yeah. Those are just you're born with it, holes, right? Right, exactly. Oh, Lois, I think Lois Haley has a, oh, that's a whole, like, that's a whole video. I can't watch a whole video. Sorry. Somebody doing an ostomy type deal? Yeah, I think it's at the TikTok, so it's, you know, it's somebody sitting in front of a bunch of graphics and then having other graphics on top of them in this sort of ADHD melange that TikTok is. Oh, I hate those. I hate those videos. It's transorbital intubital intubation. Oh.

Okay, that's where they... Is that what the port is? Is it a transorbital intubation? Because whenever you hear intubate, it's like, intubate him and they go in with the throat. Oh, geez. Oh, did you, now do you regret seeing it? Yeah, it's not what you want.

You don't want to see that? What is it? Scott, I'm going to give it to you, Scott. I don't see in the chat. Does she send it in Discord or something? Directly, directly to me. Oh, okay. Oh, you're in for a treat.

I'm not even going to put this. I'm not going to put this. I don't want Nicole to see it, but... All right, let's take a look. Transorbable intubation. Have a look at the... Oh! Okay.

The orbital part. It wasn't... It wasn't clicking with me yet. Until you showed it to me. Oh, yeah, right, that orbital. The orbital bone. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

I guess that's one of those holes that came with the base model that you could put stuff into. No wonder that has 300. No, 39.4,000 likes. Who likes it? We're not putting that on YouTube. We're not showing you guys. We're not showing you guys.

Go seek it out if you want to have a good day. I don't even want to see it here anymore. I'm closing my relationship with Mrs. Taffy guy and removing her from my friends, so I don't have to ever see that thing again. You're blocked. That's all it's going to be. Sorry, Lewis. It's real nasty. Hey, let's move on now to the Tad Pooley feud.

And as you know, oh, you know, I didn't send him a thing yet. Dang it. I knew I was forgetting somebody. Oh. Oh, no, he's in here. No, he's not. You're there. Sorry.

Oh, yeah, he is in here. Oh, my gosh. That's great. He is reliable and awesome. So we're going to play this. Well, what do we do with a contest? Oh, good question. Well, no, we'll make that.

We'll make it easy. Here we go. Okay. All right. Hey, Brian Dunaway. What's going on? Mother Scratcher. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. I'm Mother Scratcher. Rude. Mother Scratcher. Yeah. Happy Mother Scratcher Day. Oh, it's humpday.

It is humpday. How are you doing? How's your recovery going from your, your, your, your fun on Monday? Yeah. Fantastic. No polyps, smooth sailing all the way through the colon area. Very good. How's your, so you got an oastomy now, permanent ostomies? back there are you good that that hole was already there yeah fantastic that's great man permanent for real and it's also a good time to remind people don't be embarrassed by it or weird it out by it if it's your time to go in and get checked go get checked there's no harm in it get some early detection if you got a problem and that's wonderful because they can take care of it or you got nothing and you got 10 years to wait until you got to do it again and and i just say one thing

you know they asked me in the pre-op if i'm if i care well it was a lady or a guy i was like i don't care. I'm hopefully going to be out for the process. I don't care. Who looks in my butt? I'm uncomfortable with it. Let's not do it. Let's just leave. I said, I'm going to do it because I don't want to die. So I did that. Then I get there, sign of the paperwork, already in my little gown. And the handmade piece of paperwork said, sign here. And I was like, okay, sign here. Wait. Yeah. This says Dr. Butt. Did you mean to, are you trying to be funny right now, sir? Yeah. No, that's your doctor's name. Yeah. My name, my doctor's name is Dr. Really? He's not kidding.

It's really, but. How appropriate. And it's not even her married. We don't know if she's married. But it's not her married name. It's her real name. She's born Dr. Butt. And I was going to make a joke and I'm like, what's the point?

I'm sure this has been covered many times over for these nurses. And I was like, you know what? But I did want to know, made name or married name. Did you marry into the butt? Right, right. Exactly. Married into the butt. Made name.

That's a. Amazing. Really? Wow. Might be in punked. That's why I wanted to know. Well, you, yes, you are. You know, what if that's true?

Yeah. What if she is not really Dr. Butt? You've just been led to believe this because it's such a freaky coincidence. Right. You know? Her real name was Dr. Jokey was her real name. Ah, gotcha. Dr. Bad joke.

Here's the other nice thing about having that done by a lady. We talked about this yesterday. I would so much prefer a lady. And here's why. People are like, why, Scott, that sounds weird. Is it because women are caretakers traditionally? No, maybe some of that. But not really.

Maybe my main reason, though. My main reason is my doctor started working on the hole before it was time. I don't think she would do that. I think she would go, all right, is he out? Okay, great. This guy was like, get him through. Start jamming the thing in my hooter before it was time. I hate that guy.

At a room. You think it would really be a gender-based decision there? I have a higher, I mean, it's all a bet, right? But I'm betting she would have, she would have waited until I was out. And my guy, every, I had, I had nothing but ladies in my, uh, in, in the, in the facility room. And they were super respectful. They never approached the backside. They stayed on the front side until, you know, I was safely out.

Yeah. So much respect. They didn't, they didn't pull up my gown or nothing like that. They just let me have some. Symbolance. Yeah. Nobody wants to see what you got going on down there anyway. Right, right, right.

You know what I mean? So, yeah, it makes a big difference. All right, hey, we're going to add a caller to the line, and this person is Grecken. Hello, Grecken, can you hear us? Reckon. Hello. Hello, Grecken. How are you?

How are you? Hey, I'm fine. Wow, you're doing. Having a hell of a day. Welcome to the program. You were the fourth caller. That means you are participating in today's tadpooly feud. Brian Ibit right now.

I will explain the rules and what you could win. Darn right, I will. It's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics. And Scott and Brian will have to predict the answer that they gave us. It's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Greg, and your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if your team wins, you'll get a prize package that includes Xcom Apocalypse and Spellweaver,

courtesy of both Taffy Guy and Roebaby. Oh, Ro Baby, yes. I'm not sure what that game is, but it sounds cool. It does sound, yeah, I would assume. I would assume there would be some weaving of spells involved. Sure, sure. I do remember that game. Yeah, that's great.

All right. Let's give a shot. There you go. So that could be yours if you are able to win today's contest. By the way, just a quick reminder, this question is the last one in the previous set of survey results. So it's now time to go and fill out the current survey. Make sure you go to tiny.ccc slash tadpoolsurvey.com, I think. Wait. Maybe it's tadpoolsurvey.com. Pretty sure it is.

And here's the URL. Good luck. Is it that? Hold on. I'm trying it myself. I'm trying it myself. You wouldn't have a dot ccena.com, would you? It'd be like a... No, I would have done, uh, yeah, Ted. Okay, that's it. Tiny.cc. slash tadpool survey. there you go okay so no.com take that everybody who heard dot com take that to the bank and put it in there for savings all right we use it later yeah there you go all right all right let's get to the game uh we got 10 answers on the board and a question put your hands on your buzzers and give me your best answer to this we ask 453 tadpoolers name a country in the southern hemisphere Oh, wait, Scott. Brazil. Show me Brazil.

It's the number one answer, so no answers will beat it. You automatically get Grecken and you automatically get control of the board. Well done. Fun stuff. What do you think, Grecken? You got a good answer to this? Yeah, exactly, Grecon. It's going to plan at the moment.

It happens. It happens. Yeah. I mean, I can think. have there's a lot of other South America stuff we could do like hmm I'll bet Peru we got 10 slots I'll bet Peru's on here let's try Peru okay all right uh show me Peru it is on there yeah number seven giving you eight points uh like that so far on the round Peru that's a good start for us Peru Peru they make good coffee Peruvian coffee oh they do yeah they do oh speaking of which

How about Greckin, you like Columbia? How's that sound to you? We knew somebody from Columbia once. Yeah, we still know him. He still exists. There's talk of a little bit of just a one-off reunion done away. We may do that. I wouldn't hurt my feelings, no.

Yeah, I'd love it. I just got to talk, oh, and I miss my O. He missed your little O. Your little O. Making my O face. Yeah. All right, let's do, let's try Columbia. Sure, show me Columbia.

Oh, wow. No, my God. Most of Columbia is actually above the equator. The equator passes through Columbia, but that didn't stop four tadpullers from saying Columbia. It was number, oh, shoot, sorry, I should have given you this. Hold on, hold on, taking that away. Number 11? It's number 11, yes.

Oh, look at that. Yeah, it doesn't matter if the answer's right or wrong. It matters what the tadpool says. Yeah. That's actually, so is the, I mean, the question, something, yeah, it has to be. down past the freaking equator. Oh, is it not below? Technically, no, no, it's not all of it?

The equator, the equator passes through it, but I would say good 75% of Columbia is above the equator. Yeah, if that's the case, it doesn't count, I think. Although, you're right, Dad Pooley. I mean, it's a country in the Southern Hemisphere. Some of that country is in the Southern Hemisphere. Sure. Right, exactly.

Just the tip. Yep, exactly. Okay, we don't have to stay in South America. I mean, by that same token, some of Brazil is above the equator, but only a small portion of Brazil. Countries. Let's try. Countries. Let's try.

Countries. Yeah, I keep on to, my brain keeps wanting to accidentally do a continent, which I don't want to do. But Australia is a country and a continent. And it's, yeah. Yeah. That feels good, right? I think that's a good one. It counts as both.

Sure. Yeah. Good day, mate. Yeah. All right. Show me Australia. Yeah, that was my guess. Yep.

And it is doing scoring, even though it says it's that Brian has, Brian is playing, it's really, points are still going to use. So it'll, it'll figure itself out here. Okay. Thanks, Wes. Oh, it's, oh, I see. See how it shows Brian, Bri guy is playing. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's weird. I'm highlighted. Well, just because we did the number 11 thing. Exactly. Well, yeah, I had to recount, recant the strike. So strike flipped it. Plus, you are, you know, you're a, you're a guy we'd like to highlight, Brian, okay? You are technically playing, so sure.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Where were we? You would just come up with Australia. Oh, that's right. I keep thinking we lost on that one that we buzzed, but we didn't. You didn't, right?

Maybe that a country next to it. New Zealand? New Zealand? Yes. I like that. All my New Zealand friends, which I have more than I thought for some. reason. I love New Zealand. Yeah. Do you? Do they love you though? This is the question. Oh, absolutely. Dude. I don't know how they got on my particular time zone, but we hang out a good bit.

I believe you. We do. All right. Well, let's see how that goes then. Cool. Show me New Zealand. Band meeting number three. Taking up to 13 points. Beautiful, beautiful country. Yeah, like that. They should film movies there, I think. It's so pretty. They should figure out a way to do movies there. Yeah, maybe like fantasy epics and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, that'd be great. It'd be really, really cool. I like that idea. Someone write that down.

All right, well, you're, we're on a roll here. Grecund, let's see. Yes. Boy, howdy. Am I, what do we got on the, is South Africa on the tip of the thing there? Just the tip. I think it is.

I would say it's more like on a horn or something. Well, it doesn't matter because if it's below the equator. The horn's higher. Horn higher? Oh, good. Say it. Say it loud. Say it proud.

Higher. Higher. The horn. High the horn. Let's say South Africa. Let's give it a shot. Okay. All right.

Good answer. Show me South Africa. Yeah, number six, taking up to 19. Dang. Come. Once again, getting my butt hand. I'm always getting beat with country trivia. Paul St. Germain said, did you guys know they shot Lord of the Rings there?

He's kidding. Some guy broke to say. Yeah, he's pretty sure he's kidding. Yeah, he's kidding like we are, I think. Some guy broke his foot, I heard. All right. I mean, we could do, we could get crazy and do the most southern pole of the world, but that might be weird.

The South Pole's weird, and it's not a country. And that's also, I can't, we can't do continents. See, I keep wanting to go continents. Yeah. You go incontinence. But what did the tadpool say? But what the tadpool say? What the temple say?

You know what? No, shit. That's not low enough. But what's the one down there? Oh, Chile, Chile. Chilean. Chillie, Chilean. Sure.

Chile town. Sure. Oh, yeah. I was going to say that before we went to Australia and New Zealand. Yeah, let's try chilling. All right. show me chile number five 24 points oh okay child yeah sorry child yeah uh let's see that takes you 24 points and still potentially still still could go either way yeah we'll get one more i think

we'd lock it i think plus if we run the board doesn't matter right so true i think it's pretty close yep yep to me know what's confidence we have on ourselves i suppose what's the one where the Madonna sings. Don't cry for me. Something, something, something. Argentina. Yeah, there you go. Argentina.

That's it. All right. Show me Argentina. Number four. There you go. That does lock it up. Yeah, you're... Left side of the board is full.

So now I can say any crazy thing. If you get a chance, Brian, yeah. I know, right? Jeez. Sorry down the way. Jeez, man. Greckon, what part of the world are you from, by the way? Are you in Finland?

Yes. You have this same accent as, uh, is, uh, is, uh, Yana. Yeah, I'm, and I'm not going to correct the, uh, the pronunciation of the name because I think it's hilarious. I love it. Oh, you mispronounce it. Is it, wait, so Grecken. I like to, do you like what, Grecken or his name?

Which one are we getting wrong? Jaun. Yeah. Oh, really? Oh, so I've been, so I've been, so I've been. doing it. I thought I was doing it right. Yana. It's not? Yonah is always making fun of you guys.

Yana is actually a girl name. Yeah. Oh. Okay. And the dry comedy delivery of the finish. I will never get sick of it. I know. I love it. It's fantastic. I love it. I need to

go to Finland. All right. I don't know what else is down there. I'm all out of answers here. I'm all in love. What would the do you think that since we're in kind of a safe zone here greckin do you think we if we said Antarctica would that be stupid or are we are you think maybe the tadpull's being funny and they would do it oh tadpool is all of it fun and so hilarious

a bunch of hilarious folks over there on the TED all right let's go with it Antarctica even though it's continent let's do it all right show me Antarctica there we go there's the there's the real strike one yep all right yeah not even not even like one or two jockey Antarctica's made into the list. So, yeah. Lamos. All right, Brian, you've got three potential answers. There are the three high-scoring answers.

Get all three. It still won't add up to 28, but that's all right. Plus you guys have taken all the good ones. Well, I mean, you know, you're going to poop-poo on these other countries we can't think of. Right. No, no, no. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You're right. You're right. We picked the low-hanging fruit. We have left you

with that. That was the words I was trying to use. There you go. So one that I'm never sure about because I always think it's a funny thing because you've got the equator and then you got Ecuador. And I'm like, nah, they little, I think that one is in the Southern Hemisphere. Okay. I think that's, I think that's how I memorized it when I was taking these tests in school. Sure. Okay.

All right. Let's do it. Show me Ecuador. I mean, Ecuador is named Ecuador because it sits on the equator. It is, um, okay. Most of it, it's similar to Brazil, how most of it is below the equator, but the equator passes through it. Ecuador, oh, two people said Ecuador, is number 15 in the list. Two people.

Two folks. Two people. Okay, well, gosh, dang it. We got more Africa, we could mind, but I don't know. You really only know Southern Africa, though, right? Well, I know a couple of them. Oh, you do? Yeah.

Remember the movie Congo? I think... Yeah. Do I remember the movie Congo? I guess technically it's the Democratic Republic of Congo? Was that permanent port thing? I've got a permanent port of Congo in my... Yeah, you got an oastomy.

You have a Congo oastomy. There you go. Let's give the Democratic Republic of Congo a shot here. Sure. Sure, dear C. Show me Democratic Republic of Congo. Damn it. Nope. And let's see. Nobody said it. Fantastic. That's good news. Great news, everyone. All right, Brian. What do you got? All right. I don't know. And I apologize to the other hemisphere of the world.

Sure. apologies um wow i these are hmm i don't know what else is going to be below i'm yeah where's where is madagascar is that that's kind of up the coast of africa yeah yeah yeah it's kind of right if that uh cartoon is to be believed anyway that's right oh is that not accurate i'm just kidding that's all i know about madagascar i'm just kidding i'm just kidding i'm just kidding. Say it. Say that one. Say it. I'm going to see Madagascar. Do it. Let's get some Madagascar.

Yeah. It's number nine, eight points for Brian. Well done. Finally, on the board. It is an island, right? I'm not making that up. It's off the coast. It is. Yeah. It's an island off the, just south of the horn. That's right. Yeah. All right, Brian. You're on a roll, sort of. You're not going to win. Yeah, I'm on a roll. I got one. I got one. Holy Moses. I'm going to go with the southern country.

Do you say, I reckon? All right. So, what's the name of that country that they just tariffed this, like, just penguins? What the crap was the name of that place? I think that's this out of hemisphere, right? Yeah. What was that called? It's technically a country.

I'm going to go with a linguistan. It is an island, but I don't remember the name of that thing. It's, um, penguin stand. Let's see, where is it? It's like Brother Island or something like that. The herd and McDonald's McDonald's, that's it.

Oh, that's it. Yeah, that one, those. All right. You know what? I'll give you both. I'll give you both of them. Show me either of those. Yeah.

Damn. Nope, didn't even make it into the list. They are in the Southern Hemisphere, though, right? I did see that properly, right? That I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. So, Greg, can I got an idea, but I don't know if, I don't know. nobody said Indonesia yet that's like crammed between what the mainland Asia and

Australia in there not crammed but it exists there what do you think of that Philippines a little too high I think so yeah let's go Indonesia because this is closest when Indonesia is a that's a country not a yeah yeah Indonesia okay yeah yeah yeah you're good show me Indonesia That's a weird response. I was looking to see how low on the list it was. Indonesia, surprisingly nobody said it, but it would totally work. Indonesia is mostly, again, it's a mostly kind of situation. Indonesia is mostly below the equator.

Okay. Actually, yeah. I always think that's lower than it is. I don't know why I think that, but part of the equator goes through, like your, you're, Your major cities of Indonesia, Mekasgar, or Mekassar, Kandari, Palu are all below the equator. There's a couple cities above and a couple archipelagoes that go up that way. Okay. Gotcha.

Gotcha. Gotcha. That's cool. All right. Where are we at then? That means your Dunaway turn. Dunaway turn. Dunaway turn. Yep. It's the, it's the butthole of the world. It's the colonisia. Colisea. Let's get it in there.

I mean, I don't, everything else, I just, I know for a fact, everything else is going through my head is like Northern Hemisphere. And I can't think of anything else that is in the Southern Hemisphere. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Column. Colonsania. What's that, what's that one where, where Darwin went, the Galapagos? Galapagos Islands.

That seems like a weird place. Is that a country? Nope. Did they finally, did they finally form a? country. I'm going to go with the Galapagos Islands. Sure.

All right. Yeah. Show me Galapagos Islands. Uh, where is it? Oh my God. I thought it was going to flip. Oh. It's not.

Nope. It's not. Nope. Big shot. Um, I was trying to look and see who, who, um, Galapagos Islands belongs to. Is it Peru? I think, uh, Graham Ellis was saying.

Yeah, I was trying to think of countries known for weird animals because that usually, and usually they're weird because they're like on the other. side from the everybody else yeah i put up i just brought up a map and i don't even know where to look for that is it down there in south america is that where we're looking down by south america i don't i think i thought it was in the uh on the eastern side it's still pretty it's still pretty wild it's pretty wild i pulled this up earlier i could have used that's that's the idea we don't want to cheat see but this uh like falkland islands the uk owns it still there's a bunch of stuff on the other over here that is like whoops not there french there's some kind of austral

Australian Island, Hurd Island. You got this one that's French. You can't spread. So it's, it's, if you go to Ecuador there on the left side, on the, the west side of South America, you go a little bit west of that. The islands are off the coast of Ecuador. They're on the, they're also on the equator. Boy, you sure were right about how much Columbia is above that?

That's crazy. Yeah, man. Oh, wow. That was like, wow. Oh, it's practically here. Yeah, he was almost here. It was like just a drive across town. Yeah, he could swim across through Florida there.

Oh, yeah. Let's look at some of these other answers that didn't get selected. Number eight, Fiji, off the east of Australia and kind of that the Pacific area there, fully south of the equator. Number 10, somebody needs to consult a map. Mexico. Nope, Mexico is. Dang it, why did I think of that? Very much above the equator, Mexico.

Dang it. Didn't I think of that? That should have been our baseline Tadpool answer check. Yeah. Kind of was. Going through some of the other ones, number 12 is Skull Island. Got to love the tadpool for that. 13, Uruguay, 14, Bolivia.

I think Bolivia might, oh, I can't remember. Bolivia might be. Nope, it's below. Is that in the central? It is below. Yeah, more central, though, you're right. Central, South America. Lesotho, Mauritius, Paraguay.

Somebody just said Africa. Sweet. Belize. Bermuda. Bermuda. Botswana, Buenos Aires, that's a city. Canada, come on now. Chad, Curacao, El Salvador, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Japan, nope.

Johannesburg city, Kirbadi, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, Patagonia, Ringstead, Salt Lake City, South America, Wakanda, Zimbabwe, and what is a hemisphere? Oh, my gosh. Were these all? So no flat earthers or people arguing about there is no north and south and north. space. I worry about everybody's SAT scores a little bit. I do too. I think it's worth worrying about.

But, yeah, there's quite a few folks who think that Texas is on the border, on the equator, and everything south of that must be. It feels like it. It's hot. Well, like the old saying goes, the finish always finish. And it would happen again today. We got a winner. Brian, what did he win once again? Yeah.

So you won copies of. B-de-l-D-D-D-T-T-T-Eat. Excom, Apocalypse from Taffy Guy and Spellweaver from Vrobaby. What I need to do is... Oops, sorry, go ahead. That's all right. No, send me a message on Discord at Coverville, obviously, and I will get you these prizes, get you these links. Excellent. Good job, man.

Right. Did you enjoy your time here with us in the Middle Hemisphere? Yeah. Hemisphere, oh, God. That's good news. And you're always welcome to Finland, so... You know what? Let's go. Hop in the car. Get in losers.

We're going to see Grecken. That's how I say. Sinkie or bust. That's right. Stay out of trouble. We'll see you again. All right. Dunaway, listen. Here's the question. No, you listen. Listen to me. You listen to me.

We just had a great episode of play retro yesterday. If you guys like Mech Warrior, like the old school Mech Warrior one or two, two mercenaries in particular, I'm telling you, that's a great episode to listen to because Mech's walking around, shooting shit at each other. Can you imagine a better time than that, Brian? You can't. I can't imagine. That episode was packed full of great stuff, too, talking about mecks.

Do we talk about TV, pal? No, that was pre-show, but we talked about the new Amber Nick device, and it's just so much fun. There's so much retro talk. And I know you don't really, for that one, I don't know if you did go into VR or anything, but mech games are kind of the best use for VR because of the way movement, is to where you know you shouldn't steer by turning your head and things you should just be able to look around and you steer the way you steer it's like a good racing game the car acts like this you need a frame that you're in for reference so then when you're turning your world is

rooted in the frame so you don't get that that feeling of i'm moving in a way i shouldn't or whatever you feel protected you're right that's a really cool way to do it um yeah check it out you guys if you like that mech warrior stuff if you're into the battle tech universe we had a great time frogpants.com slash play retro Brian Dunaway is there anything else you'd like to say about your colon or anything else whatever you got? Yeah, I just want to let you guys know that you're very special to me and uh, and I thought about that when I was going to sleep thinking maybe I'll never wake up again. Oh, I said, no, you didn't. You just, but you knew like four lovely ladies were going to carefully caress you back to life. It's good. Go get it done. Go get it done. It's scary, but do.

get it get your get your bum poked we'll see you next time all right there he goes hey brian we're going to take a break when we come back from this break oh no we're not we're going to do a little news we have some time we have time for the whole yeah we got time for some news guys so check this out here we go it's time for the news and it's brought to you by brought to you by the assumption that core might be huge this week really scott what's on tap tomorrow all kinds of stuff so last week you had game fest and that's basically the replacement for e3 uh it's weird though because it's Sony does their own thing. Microsoft does their own thing.

Nintendo just launched a console and everything else in between had their own kind of shows, PCGamer show, the wholesome game show, all this different stuff. And there is a ton to disseminate and talk about. So that's what we're going to do tomorrow. It's going to be a beast. So tune in and find out what mattered most last week on core at frogpans.com slash core.

Let's get to this story here out of nowhere is the phrase they're using. The FAA investigating after a. Six-foot ice chunk falls from the sky in the Palm Coast. Oh, no. I mean, it has to be out of a plane. They say out of nowhere, like, you know, like there's another place a six-foot chunk of ice could come from. Yeah, I don't know why they use that terminology.

The Palm Coast Fire Department and the Flagler. Flagler, yeah. That's a word just asking to be said wrong. Flagler County. Kind of is. It's going to, it wants to embarrass somebody. I just know that's why it exists. But anyway.

Yeah. That county sheriff's office responded to the home of Seattle Trail. Was that a person? Yeah. Oh, on. Sorry, I thought of the home on Seattle Trail, yeah. I thought it was of. And I'm like, who the hell named their kid Seattle?

I hate that. Anyway. This was, this would be about 3 p.m. on Monday, according to the Palm Coast fire chief, Kyle Berry Hill. That's where I bear, my favorite. Kyle Berry Hill. The block of ice was more than six feet. long three feet wide and in some places of that thing where that's how big it was he told the channel nine a witness watched the ice seemingly fall from the sky before it crashed through the metal roof of a home and landed in the street oh man geez uh chunk of that ice is the size of a person uh could cause tremendous industry a tremendous injury and be fatal says barry hill well yeah duh yeah dur it's one of those this is either one of those toilet ones where they that's what i think or or or Or something froze, I mean, the fact that it was in Florida makes me, you know, it's not like there's a, right, like they need to de-ice a plane in June in Florida.

But a comet, something like that might burn up in the atmosphere. Yeah, would it still be icy and stuff? I don't know enough about how that stuff works. But that's crazy. Like just waking up or finding out at 3 p.m. that a giant thing of ice dented your metal roof. I guess you're lucky at a metal roof Those can

You know Yeah Well it went through the metal roof And into the street Didn't it? That says here A chunk of eyes The size of a person

Could caught Before it crashed through the metal roof Of a home And landed in the street Oh So wait How did it go through the roof And then in the street

That's weird Maybe like a Yeah I don't know Like a patio or something And it just went through The unoccupied part I don't know Someone needs a ring camera

I want to see this thing Yeah I was going to say Is there a photo? There's got to be. There might be. Let's take a look here. I think we see the hole. Oh, there's the hole.

Oh, I see. It hit that and then a bunch slid off probably, the rest of it or something. There we go. Maybe. Here you got chat. Yeah. So it looks like it hit there and then probably went and a big chunk went in the street. Yeah, the next photo is a better shot of the hole.

Oh, my gosh, dude. I would ship myself. And it is fortunately not yellow, yellow ice. That's good. Yeah, that is good. Yeah. The blue stuff is a little concerning, but that usually means. that's clean

and not used yet. Those when they eject those are just, you know, treated ice, but, or I guess treated toilet water. Anyway, they're okay,

though. Everything's fine, except that roof hall, which sucks because that's a nice roof. I like a good metal roof, big fan. I know,

yeah. I would do a tin roof. Cats are not fond of it, but, no, no, they don't, famously not into it.

Famously not, not a fan. But I do like a good tin roof. If I could do one here at the house, I would. As long as it's not rusted. Well, that's true. You don't want that.

But, like, oh, the way that sounds when rain hits it, it's so great. Kim had this down where she used to live in Mississippi, and it was awesome. Loved it. And you don't have to change it every 15 years or whatever we have to do with the stupid ones we do with the tar and the whatnot. I hate those things. Yes, I know. Putting on shing, it's such a pain in the butt. I mean, roofing, it feels like if they can, I don't want to see anybody lose their jobs,

but it feels like AI needs to work on roofing. Yeah. They need to come up with AI roofing. Yeah, get on that. Robots. Roofing robots. Speaking of which, we're going to let some, no robots are going to do anything here. We're just going to play a song.

No, no. All right. Yeah. Brian, what do we got? Why are we playing it? And what will happen after? I can tell you, Tom Merritt will be here and recommendals are happening. It's going to be great, you guys.

But Brian has to talk about this song first. We, yeah, do a song first. The indie in the middle today comes from Jamie Penner, from Vancouver Island, BC, well north of the equator, folks, self-described sound architect he spent years crafting music, the blend's intuition with experimentation, layered emotional tracks in his own studio with guitars, synths, and ambient textures collide. This is an album called Something a Little Different, just came out from Jamie Penner. The song you're about to hear is Spaceship Superstar.

Here's another one that feels like, man, this is just straight out of the 80s, and I am here for every little bit of it. Here's Jamie Penner and Spaceship Superstar. We're going to be able to be. Yeah. Music Music is going to be the sky, just the sky Now I say that I'm a living in the sky

I'm going to be able to be able to be. We're going to be able to go to the rest of the last night. This is the best one's the kids with this time You're going to see how it is in the end of the child You know, I'm going to be able to be. You know, I'm going to be able to be. Honey, you're terrific. You even make hot dogs taste great.

Well, I have a little help. I'll speak to the chef about the chicken. Hey, who's that one more time? Sure, that's Jamie Penner and Spaceship Superstar from the album, the brand new album, Something A Little Different. Excellent. It is. It really is. Something a little different.

Truly, without any question. Something a little different. All right. We're going to bring Tom Merritt into this mess and see how this goes. Isn't technology wonderful? It sure can be when you want it to be. Tom Merritt, Ace Detect, he is here. Tom, how's it going?

What's going on, man? Oh, I'm pretty good. How are you? I'm okay. Oops, I hung up on you. Hold on. I'm going to send you video. Let's do that again. Sorry. How did I? So next time I have this figured out, but this time I have to do it weird. Let me try that again. Why didn't that work?

And now I hear you twice, too. Yeah, I should mute that and deafen that. Now you shouldn't hear me at all. Yeah, there you go. So now, he sent me your video in Discord. and then I can show people your beautiful visage. Let me find it. There we go.

There it is. Hi. See, we worked it out in the end. It all worked out. Hey, technology. Thanks, everybody. We'll see you. See you next week.

Hey, it's good to have you here, man. What's going on in your world? Anything fun happening? Tech-wise or otherwise? I mean, in this house, it's been consistently watching the four members of BTS get out of the military. I know. That's such good news.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. there were there's seven members of the group two of them had already gotten out four of them got out over the last two days so there's just one more to go i love how it sounds like getting out is like a i don't know like they clandestine got out but you're not saying right like snuck out like a wall or something yeah mandatory hell the mountain yeah don't let them know mandatory service out there so yeah your 18 months still have to have to do it sure yeah

and uh they're all telling stories about you know being in the barracks and going and through basic training and being on guard duty and all of that kind of stuff. Sure. You know, I'm, I'm sure they do get treated differently, but it doesn't sound like the setup is any different, uh, that they have to, they have to, they have to serve in the same conditions anyway, right, right, exactly. Do they go right back to, do they go right back to music or how does that work for them? Yeah.

Uh, well, the first two that got out, uh, gin, when he got out, he was the first one to get back out, uh, did a concert the next day, uh, just went. right into it. And yeah, they're talking about making an album for the whole group now. So, yeah, it looks like right back to music. I'm sure the label or the company is like, yes, we want you guys onstage as quickly as possible. The finance officer really would like them on stage. Well, I also, I imagine that it's just like now it's super potential untapped money

because the story is they're back and you can really capitalize on that. So they're going to do just fine. I think. They all did solo efforts over the past couple of years and some of them even pre-recorded stuff that was put out while they were serving. So it's, it's not like there was nothing going on. But yeah, there hasn't been any group activity for them. So it's a big deal. So let me ask you, I don't know if any of us know the answer to this, but if North Korea suddenly tomorrow says Kim Jong-un goes, all right, it's time. I'm launching missiles. We're going out. We're to have fun. That guy, who knows?

Yeah. Do they call up BTS along with everybody else and they're on? They just go for it. Everybody who has gone through their military service is technically a reserve. I don't know for how long in their life, but for quite a while. And I think there's even something where you have to go back and do like training refreshers, you know, like on a weekend every once in a while. But yeah, if they were to go to war, everybody, everybody get called back in. Wow. Could get called. Could be, sure.

I suppose this is true of anywhere depending on the severity of things. It just sounds like they're a little more prepared. It's a little more tense. Although they just had an election, and the new president of South Korea has started to ratchet the tensions down. One of the things that was in the BBC news this morning was they stopped blaring K-pop over the border at North Korea, which was a thing that the previous administration had done to annoy North Korean soldiers. Really? Oh, yes. I wonder how, I'm trying to gauge how annoying it might have been.

Because it's a very popular genre everywhere else. Are they just like... Yeah, I think the idea was a little bit like loud music, you know, that you couldn't turn off, but also a little bit of propaganda like, look how good our music is over here. That's interesting. Well, good news on that front for everybody, BTS-related. How about technology, though? What's going on with that?

There's good news for Nintendo fans. Oh. Well, there's good news for Nintendo. It may be less good news for the fans because it's really hard to get a Switch, too. But the Switch 2 sold 3.5 million units in its first four days. That's more than the original Switch took in a month. The original Switch sold $2.74 million in a month. So if you're wondering why you can't get a Switch 2,

it's because they can't make them fast enough. Yeah. I finally just got yesterday, got the thing from Nintendo saying, hey, your name just come up in the queue. It's now you're time to buy a Switch. And like, cool, keep on moving. Go to a number. Keep moving to the next guy.

Go to the next guy. You know what's weird is it was a weird combination of things because the pre-order thing was a big deal and they sold a ton in pre-order. So there's a lot of people like pins and needles. Did mine get here? Did it get canceled? Because there were a few places doing that.

Yeah, yeah. But you could also, in some cases, just walk into a target and they had like 50 of them. Yeah. It's been all mostly non-bundles though, right? Because the bundles was the better deal. You ended up getting an $80 game for around 50

if you got the bundle. And so those sold very quickly, and what was left mostly were the non-bundled ones. I don't think that's true now. I think they're pretty much cleared out wherever you go retail. But there were some time that day where people could just walk in, grab it, and get the stuff out. No, I heard a lot of stories like that. And it appears to be because most of the outlets here in the U.S. did not allow online orders for those switches.

So if you would go to Best Buy or Target or any of their app, it would just say, in-store only. You can't reserve it. You can't buy it for delivery. You can't do anything. You've got to show up at the store if you want it. And a lot of people didn't realize that. And so at the first day or so, you could walk in and be like, oh, there's still some sitting here.

But like you say, I think those are long gone now. Yeah, people are really stoked about Walmart's handling of things because Walmart gave everybody a canister of Pringles and a Coke bottle. with every order of the switch. So they're just assuming you're going to sit on your butt and need snacks, you know? All that and a can of chips. That's right. They should give that to you while you're waiting in line to buy the switch. Yeah, no kidding.

Well, that's what I thought you were going to say at first. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, like people who spent the night out there to pick it up. Yeah. I guess you're hungry by the time you pick up your switch. So it still helps. We also, as with any, I'm always trying to push the idea. onto people that

you, whenever you launch something at scale like this, you're going to find bugs that you couldn't find. And there's always going to be that story of like, this new product is broken. Why didn't they fix it? And the reason they didn't fix it is they didn't know it was a problem. Every

single product that is this popular is going to have one of those product problems. And we have one from Nintendo. The battery indicator is incorrect for some people. So if you think your Nintendo Switch is running out of battery fast, you might want to reset the battery indicator because that is working for a lot of folks. Some people notice that we get down to

0% and they were still playing for a while and they're like, well, that obviously is not right. But yeah, if you go into recovery mode, Eurogamer has a good article about this, but you can probably find instructions about how to do it all over the place. It involves holding down buttons while you're rebooting. Then you can go to the battery. setting and reset the battery level meter. When you do that and reboot, it should reset the battery level indicator. You want to have the switch to charged all the way and plugged in when you do this. And they say, in some cases, you might have to do it a couple of times to make it stick. But most people are saying they've tried it in a work. The thing I'm hearing is

there was a relatively late entry into features right before launch. They added a battery saving mode, so you could only charge to like 90 or whatever, which is a very welcome thing to do. You know, it's nice to have it. Good for your longevity. Exactly. But I think that introduced the potential for a bunch of bugs they hadn't foreseen, and that's kind of what we're seeing here.

And they may end up, like right now there's this work around Tom's talking about, but they may end up being just a straight update that'll take care of the whole thing soon. Hopefully, yeah. So we'll see what happens. Yeah, the most gnarly story I heard was the GameStop stuff, where, employees yeah the employees were stapling the box and this is a Nintendo problem more than GameStop but the screen is literally pressed up against that thin layer of cardboard oh no so they were stapling receipts to the box so they knew which boxes went with which purchasers yeah yeah

and they stuck to screens Brian like literally pierced the screens on those things like oh geez even if even if it appears of the the scratches that you would never be able to get out yeah people were pissed, but... Apparently they're making it good, though. Like, Nintendo resupplied those game stops so that they could replace it. Yeah, they were very good about it. But you're right, that is an Nintendo

problem. That shouldn't, it shouldn't be like a staple shouldn't be long enough to actually get to your product. Right. If it's packaged. I mean, just imagine anything else bumping that box during shipping or anything. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty wild. A UPS driver's shoe.

Because of Shed or a switch to screen. Yeah, I do not want, I don't want brown to do that for me, if you know what I mean. No, that's not what you want brown to do. Never. No, because it'll make me, never mind. No, it's no good. You don't want to brown out. Anyway, hey, Tom, later today on the Daily Tech News show, I'm actually, on that brown note.

I'm going to come on there and talk a little bit about a whole other handheld announced by Microsoft and Asus together, the ally X and Y or why not. It might be a big deal come this fall. also. You just did it. Roger did it the other day. You just don't say the ROG because whenever you do, somebody gets mad at you for not saying it the other way. Republican or Republican Republic of Gers. Yeah. Every time I say R.O.G, someone writes in and it was like, I say it. Every time I say Rogg. Every time I say Rog, someone writes in and says I say it. So yeah, just don't say it. We get yelled at for saying nonbread. We get yelled at if we just say non. Yeah. We've just been through this with the nonbread thing. Exactly. Exactly. So I don't, I'm, I'm a big fan of just leave it off if, if it's controversial. But, but anyway, we're going to talk about it because there's, there's some stuff nobody else is talking about, I think, anyway. And I'm going to try to bring that perspective to DTNS Live today.

So watch for that later this afternoon. Tom, anything else going on in your world? Do you like to promote, talk about, or mention? Yeah, I think there's only one slot left for the workshop in Austin at the end of the month. So, you know, that's coming up in a couple of weeks. I'll be going down to Austin, Texas, and me and Brian Brushwood, Matt Donnelly from I, cream social. I think Justin Robert Young and Andrew Heaton are going to be there as well. We're going to do a workshop on how we do our independent creations. And if you're somebody

who's curious how that works, you just want to hang out with a bunch of other creative people in brainstorm or you're like, I've got an idea I want to get off the ground and I need something that'll push me to make a plan. This is the thing for you. So if you're interested in that, best news ever.com will take you right to the page on the modern road website where you can get all the information and sign up very nice go do that if you uh you know one slot you may have to fight over it but get in there and you'll be the first i guess hurry um tom have a fantastic uh day we'll see you a little later bye thanks man see you see you later all right uh don't forget to bring the tile don't forget the towel all right what are we doing now recommendals i guess we're bringing in

the cold yeah why the heck not let's get this going here let's play this right here yeah we can hear you. Hi. How are you? Yeah, you sound great. Yeah, I can see you. Yeah, we can see you. Does everybody else see me? They don't currently, but they might if I can figure out how to get you front and center. The problem is, why does Tom get to be seen? Well, he's on, he's, he's, he's, it's, it's not that he gets to. He demands it. He fights for it. His contract. Yeah. I'm going to find a way. This is not going to be easy. Can I just tell you, though, the stream yard. has an option to make yourself look better. And I was like, oh, I wonder what that does. It did absolutely nothing.

See, that means, there you go. That should be flattering. That means that there's no way to make you look even better than you already do. Ah, there you go. Nailed it. Oh, I think I found a way to do this. There she is. I'm even wearing glasses.

Yeah, what's that about? You fit right in. You're a nerd like that. I've just given up. I'll just wear the glasses. I mean, I'm that way. I don't wear, I don't do the contacts anymore. I don't consider that, yeah, I don't consider to give up just because I have the readers.

I don't know. I, no, I can't do readers. These are, these are like regular glasses like not contact lens, altered it to contact lens kind of thing. They're progressive. And I find that the bottom actually helps me see just a little bit better closer up. So, and I definitely can see better far away. I'm just trying to figure out the glasses thing. I'm never, I mean, I'm almost 50.

and I They look great They look great They're fun style too Oh yeah Look at those Yeah So I have like

Five pairs When we were all We were all kids They were still like The four eyes stuff And everybody giving each other shit for glasses But they don't do that anymore

We're all good I think I don't even think it's about that I just I just don't want something on my face Well yeah You know what After a long time A long period of no glasses wearing Kim's doing this right now

She hates wearing them Because she's had contacts for so long that when she's like tired of them or something and needs her glasses she's like oh this thing on my face it's not normally on my face it's making me it's making my nose sweaty yeah and who wants that nobody or my ears hurt yeah i get that well Nicole let's do this well what do you recommend let's recommend something uh we're going to recommend some recommendals uh stuff we've seen on streaming services that we think you at home might like as well And we have a grand tradition here where Brian starts.

I was about to say Randy's not here, and I still mean that. I know. I thought he was supposed to be here. He was, but now he's not. Yeah, he's in Canada and didn't have anything to recommend. Oh. He hasn't had time to watch anything. Yeah, kind of have my problem.

But we're going to start with Brian today. And you got a little side recommendation after your main one. But let's start with your main one. Oh, I do. Yeah, let's start with the main one. This is a film that just dropped on, on HBO Max recently and I like the cast

and I liked the showrunner so I gave it a shot. Here is your clip. Don't want to be precedent. Let us cook. And we're sure we'd be better at running the world because, Randall,

I do think you're boiling an egg with no water. I have other concerns right now, Jeff. Marcus Aurelius never had to boil his own egg. I don't know. Did he? You grew up with him, right?

Hmm. Superman? What's... Is there no water? No. There's weird. There's no water. Why is the water's down?

City pressure in your low-ping defective home? No, no, no. It's not the pressure, Jeff. The pressure is excellent. I get bruises when I take a shower, 80 PSI. Fossets like riot cannons. No, there's something... Did they disconnect my water?

Could be targeted. Absolutely could be targeted. Yeah, yeah. China is trying to deal. hydrate us. If I was China, would I be targeting the smartest men in America? She did be. Yes, I would. Look, put it as way.

Have the French, got the Canadians to tell the state to cut off my water. Is this because of the mayor of Paris? Paul! That's so great. It's just, I know it's the creator of Succession, but it feels like a scene in Succession. It does. It absolutely does. The writing is just, if, it, it, it feels like it is just connective tissue from succession. It sounded like Stephen Correll. It absolutely was Stephen

Correlle. Oh, it was. I got that right. Oh, look at that. It's called Mountain Head. Just dropped on HBO and it answers the question what if Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and give me another famously

you get your old one with I guess Bill Gates could be your old one. Bill Gates. Oh, Bill Gates is a good one. Yeah, there you go. Imagine they all came from the same incubator and we're friends and all decided to spend a weekend in a secluded mountain resort owned by one of them called Mountain Head, or yeah, called Mountain Head, named after a fountain at Ein Rann's fountainhead. And boy, you know, like the, like the dickishness of some of those people I mentioned,

very well represented here. You've got Steve Correll, Jason Schwartzman, Corey Michael Smith, my gosh, I'm catching Spagnolo disease here. And Randy Yusuf. Corey Michael Smith, you know from Gotham. If you watched the show Gotham, Corey Michael Smith was your Riddler. And I still see Riddler every time I look at this guy.

I know he's been in other things since, but you can't look at this guy and see anything else for me. It is, man, it is, it's hilarious. And it goes places you don't expect. I mean, it starts with what they were talking about right there is, could they form a coup? Do they own enough, they have enough money that they could basically overturn the U.S. government and become their own leaders?

The answer is yes. And what do they do with that? Which one of them becomes president? Which one of them does this? What other countries do they take kind of with them as part of this? And just the fact that people who are rich enough to do that have the thought to do something like that scares the crap out of me sounds like prick the show is what it kind of sound like prick the show that and and basically you know you're going to find yourself rooting

for um rami yusuf uh his character because he really is the one of the four of them with the most character the most kind of integrity and and um but is it but do you get it all the way maybe not maybe you know maybe there's uh he's just maybe got the least amount of dickishness of the four of them but he still has some Um, as we mentioned, it's put together by Jesse Armstrong who did Succession and, and definitely feels like the, um, like, you know, as much as Succession did the Murdoch family, this one kind of does, you know, the, the parody of the, um, okay. So when you said Jason Schwartzman, I said it exactly like that, yes. I was thinking Jason Biggs. Yeah, definitely not Jason

Biggs. No pie. Definitely not Jason Biggs. Yeah. Which is why. what I said in our chat room probably made no sense at all. Gotcha. So Jason Biggs did that? Like Jason Biggs said? Oh, wow. Okay. And I don't know if it's like real or from a movie.

But he basically says as soon as I found out my wife got pregnant, I looked for as many drugs to take as possible. Like, and I was like, is that from a movie or did he really say that? At least you didn't just stick his wiener in a pie. That would have been worse. Oh, yeah. I probably did on that too. I would say it's funny.

What's kind of funny is Jason Schwartzman actually in this movie kind of looks like he could be Steve Karel's son. There's a very similar look that the two of them have with their facial hair and their looks and stuff are very. Oh my gosh. You're right. Very similar look to them. I know. I've never noticed it either. But you see the two of them together in a movie.

It's like, oh, wow. I feel like Karel may have grown into the... looking he's the one that grew into the look and it's just like schwartzman's a slightly younger version of it that's wild here yeah well then you got who's the guy from uh parks and rack who plays um the millionaire in loot the oh uh just judge not rob low um no the other she was in parks and wreck yeah he was the front john ralphio that guy right oh oh yeah not john ralphio oh well all right you should tell me who then I'm trying to, I don't know the name.

That's why I'm asking you. Are you talking about, the Leslie's boyfriend who was a nerd. Oh. Oh, God. Yes. Adam Scott. Adam Scott is you're talking about. Yes, Adam Scott. All right. So he plays the millionaire in that show, Luke.

He would be perfect in this one as well. He just plays, he plays a good. Have you seen severance? Probably haven't seen severance. Severence is unbelievable. No, I haven't seen, I haven't seen severance yet. Yeah. I haven't Scott would be a little more likable than the four people you get.

You have seen severance. I recommended it. I recommended it. You did? I've been holding off on season two because I just, I want, I want to be able to not stop it in the middle of watching it, which is what happens all the time now. Yeah. All the episodes are out of season two.

so you can watch the whole thing straight through. Yeah, you can get on it now. So, Brian, I got a question for you. How perfect is Jason and Schwartzman for a role like this because this is the role he's meant to play and everything he ever does? This is that guy. I mean, it really could be the continuation of his character in Rushmore,

that kind of snobby, you know, knows he's smarter or at least thinks he's smarter than everybody else in the room kind of thing. And I'll say, man, You know, there are other people in the film of Waitstaff and, you know, people who work at this house, this incredible house, which is almost the fifth character, this giant secluded mountain home called Mountain Head. It is, you know, every scene when they go into a new room, you're looking at this going, oh, my God, I want to live in this house. It's absolutely amazing. It's really fancy. It reminds me the one in, was that one was a companion.

They kind of had a house like that. Oh, very much so. Yeah, very similar. Very similar vibe. But anyway, if you like Succession and you like watching things where you are entertained despite not having a character that you feel like you can always 100% of the time root for, then you'll like Mountain Head. But if you feel like, no, I always need to have a character that I can kind of time myself to as the audience proxy in a film. This might not be for you, but, man, it was a, it's a fun ride and it's a very, the place that this thing goes, you know, you think it's going to be kind of all of this just jabbering about how much money they have and, oh, I just bought a Dukadi and this sort of thing. It gets really dark, really quick.

Yeah. I notice the critic reviews are really good. Audience reviews, both IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes are really low. I didn't see that it was already at 28. It was like at 50-something when I looked at it last week. But, yeah, critics like it. I think the audience is just reacting the way you're saying. You may not, you know, some people may not like because it really is no one to root for.

You kind of have, like, you're the guy to root, the best guy you have to root for, even in your words is like the just the least thing. It's not 100%. Yes, exactly. Well, Amy said. It's a hard truth. Yeah. Yeah. Rami Yusuf, so the guy that you do kind of want to root for in this thing, Romi Yusuf, makes the joke.

and Amy pointed out she's like just the fact that this house is named after the Ein Rand book makes me want to barf. At one point Ram Yusuf says Who designed your house? I'm bland. I like Ram Yusuf a lot.

He's great. He's great. If they ever make the same-sex Mary movie biopic, which really strongly, even though he comes from a different part of the world, still would really recommend him as our James because he's kind of got that that delivery yet another dude who's in that studio thing

you recommended last week everyone's yeah seems like yeah so's um so's uh um Adam Scott who he just talked about a second ago is also in in the studio I think the studio is like the new it's the new place for everybody to go it's the new it's the new the player kind of thing but yeah go definitely watch the studio if you haven't yet and uh if the things that I described sounds pretty good than watch Mountain Head, and I'd love to hear what people think of it. Where's it playing again? Oh, I'm sorry, on HBO Max. Yeah.

Back to being called HBO Max again, I noticed. They finally, I think they, HBO Maximum. Isn't the full transition over? Because that's the logo now on that movie. It is, but it's funny. It still says Max on the poster for Mountain Head, but I think the icon hasn't changed yet on the latest update on Apple TV, but I'm sure it's any day.

Now it's going to update and change. It's such a, what a wasted time. Somebody estimated, somebody estimated they spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $48 million to originally start the process and go all through these various changes. Back when it was HBO Go and then HBO Now and then HBO Max and then back to HBO. Like what a waste of money. But did they go to Max?

Throw your mouse pads away. We have new ones for you. They were trying to. They were trying to diversify, like, they wanted it to not just be HBO. They were kind of lumping in other things, like Cartoon Network. Sort of. They already owned all that. They just were trying to, so the discovery part of it is a big part of it.

And by marrying all that stuff, they thought, well, we don't want Max it to be just HBO, even though that is the reason you should be doing any of this. That's your prestige channel, not discovery. Nobody cares about Shark Week the way they care about Game of Thrones or something. so I think it was just bad decisions that Zazloff guy's an idiot I think he's his time his days are numbered he should probably go um and then they're and they are talking now about splitting out all that up again so now now they want to have Warner brothers off doing their thing and what was the other division I guess Discovery Plus something else go off and do whatever they focus on anyway

it's like a total reversal they've come back to where they were in the first place which was fine it's all dumb i think they should should go back to home box office i think so as they're yeah yeah they should have all the way back yeah home box office home box office positive they should have they should have they should have porny stuff at night again they should get back to that let's get that going uh all right brian oh you're going to make a little side recommendation uh before we oh yeah just the fact that um i talked about this earlier this week, but if you have not watched

Guardians of the Galaxy 3 in a while since it first came out, or maybe you've never seen it, like Scott. Is that the one with Kurt Russell? No, Guardians 2 was the one with Kurt Russell. Guardians 3 is the one with Thor.

Oh, my God. What is this? No, that's, nope, that's Thor, Love, and Thunder, which features Guardians of the Galaxy, but is not Guardians of the Galaxy. I can't keep track. It's a lot. There's a lot going on in that world.

It's your high evolutionary played by Chukudi, Chukwudi, Yuji. Oh, I would never get that. I'd never get that. I know. Exactly. Yes. Okay. But it is the wrap up.

It is the, the conclusion of the, the trilogy, Guardians of the Galaxy and is a great way to kind of send off, send off some of these characters. or maybe set them in a place where we're going to see them again very soon. But it is such a great story. And even after all these months and knowing what happens, I still teared up as much as I, as I had to watching it the first time. Well, I have decided to take your advice and watch it before John Wickford. So I'm doing it. Please.

Please do. Yes. I'm going to watch that. Then we're going to watch four. And then we're going to, I don't know what we're going to do after that. Who knows? Who knows what's next? You know?

Yeah. Nicole, we'll swing it over to you. Let's talk about what you brought today. What do we watching here? Well, before I do that, I just want to say, I don't want the summer to go fast, but I really, really want to watch season two of Peacemaker that is releasing on August 21st. Oh, can't wait for that. Yeah.

I, I can't wait. August is a massive time. You got that coming out? Yeah. That's also HBO. You got FX and Hulu. doing the new alien earth show i'm very excited about that like august is packed with some rad stuff but i'm with i'm with you i'm not like asking for time to hurry i just want that shit to

come yeah yeah yeah but hey before that before that i think you get uh alien earth uh so you'll have that to watch you get uh red on air light that's a red on air light is what that is no did you just say alien earth i literally literally just said alien earth in august that's hilarious i thought you thought you about peacemaker no we were we heard piecemaker right? I didn't say alien Earth. Yeah, and then I said, August is awesome because Alien Earth that same month

and then you were... This is one of the best ones we've ever had, though. That was a good one. That's really like the quickest red on air light ever. Yeah, that was all. Also, Iron Heart you get soon.

So, I mean, there's plenty of good stuff coming out on... Wait, Iron Heart. Iron Heart, what is Iron Heart? Iron Heart is the... Re, ReWillians, the girl that's taking over for Tony Stark as the iron, iron person

in the Marvel universe. It's the next Disney Plus Marvel series. that's a comic thing right that is a that's a lady in the comics okay yes she's a character in the end or not in the end we got her as a character in wakonda forever and um uh and this is her own spin-off show with the hood and potentially Mephisto um or yeah there's there's some great there's some great potential in this series Mephisto dude i haven't heard that and that's a name i've not heard in a long time yeah he was mentioned in agatha all along but we're going to hopefully give a chance to see Mephisto.

And then there's something, when's the, the Vision series, that's soon. Vision Quest, I don't, do they have a date yet? I'm sorry, yeah, Vision Quest. I saw something the other day. It was some talk about it. I don't know if that was a, what should we call it? Screen Crush did a thing about how they're looking forward to it. It's the series they're most looking forward to from Disney Plus.

2026 is one that's supposed to come out. Damn. All right. Well, wait a day. No, no date set tighter than that. I'm going to interrupt me or interrupt to you because I will forget this. And I wanted to, I wanted to express to Scott that I finally started to watch love death and robots. Or is it death, love and robots. Oh, yeah. Love death and robots. Yeah. Love depth. Okay. So when I do my IV, I, G. Yeah. Oh, that's a great place for this. What a perfect thing. Um, yeah. So I give myself like little, you know, snippets. Most of the time I'm sleeping, but my nurse, um, is really cool. He's a super nerd.

He's a D&D, like, dungeon master and does campaigns, but he also plays rock and roll. He has a Star Wars tattoo. I'm like, dude, let, I'm going to be your personal recommender of things. So we start to watch love, death, and robots, and I didn't realize there was so much sex in it. Oh, there's tons of it. And so I'm sitting there with my nurse, and I'm like, I am so sorry. Like, it almost could be sex, death, and robots. And I was like, oh, God, oh, my God.

Like, the first one was so cute. And then I was like, the second one was like, oh. Yeah. The word love is doing a lot of heavy lifting. And that thing. There's a lot of, there's a lot of that, very bloody stuff and a lot of cusses and the whatnot. This stuff is not for kids. Most of it's not. And that's fine. I mean, it was just me and him. But, you know, I'm close to. I mean, we're now, I'm going on my 11th IVIG with him. No, not with him. He started on like my fourth one. So anyway, but we're close. But I'm like, I just wasn't expecting to get that close to him. it was it's a great show and it's i like that they're so short because i can we can take them in little snips um but my recommendal is a documentary that we started to watch i drifted off

i will say i fell asleep for a little bit but he caught me up uh i think it's three episodes it's on netflix and it's about something that started in when did it start i think it was 2014 is when it wasn't announced 11 years ago yeah so it's it's been something that i have heard about but i didn't really because i'm not really that interested in what this is about but i i kind of heard about it throughout the years. So yeah, give it, give the, I'm just, I think I just gave you the trailer because it's like one of those documentaries. Well, here's your 30 seconds recap of Nicole's description. Here you go. I was that her friend's house. He told me a guy by the name of force fan hit some treasure worth

but what at the time you were saying one to five million dollars. I would love to be a millionaire one day. We're rednecks, but hey, not stupid rednecks. What if we told you there There was a treasure chest somewhere in the mountains north of Santa Fe. Find the treasure chest, and it's yours. It's life-changing money. You have a map, and you get to solve it, and you get to find it. Who wouldn't want to be Indiana Jones? Indiana Jones, I would.

That sounds great. Do I get a whip and a hat and all that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So the guy that they're talking about, it's called it. The treasure was named Fenn's Treasure, and the documentary is, What the hell's the documentary name? I don't remember. Documentary is called Golden Greed, the Hunt.

Golden Greed. Yes. And so as you're watching this documentary, you get the setup of who Forrest Fen was. He is from Texas. He, I think he got diagnosed with cancer. He decided to create a treasure. treasure, anywhere from a million to six million, and then literally just put it in the Rocky Mountains. And then he wrote a book and had a poem.

And you had to decode the poem to find the treasure. Sounds right up my out. I was going to say, Brian's like ears are tingling here. This is great. Yeah. So, and when you get to the end of this documentary, my nurse was like, Damn you, Nicole, I want to go look for treasure now. It's like that Oak Island thing where that guy created all those booby traps down this long, like, shaft that sometimes fills up with water.

You have to, like, go at right times of the year and stuff. But this is not that. Right, right, I know, yeah. And people thought he, he, like, buried it. He didn't even bury it. He just put it in a place. and he describes where it is. And so you have this documentary that follows,

I would say about 10 different treasure hunters. And if you look at the comments of that trailer, you will see a theme of, I had so much fun looking for this. Like it became an adventure for people. People spending 10 plus years looking for this, this treasure getting them out into the wilderness probably getting line disease but hey yeah what else what else you're going to do are our treasure hunters a little bit more entertaining to watch than

Sasquatch hunters i hope so because they're the worst yes yes definitely good okay good i'm with brian on that that's my worry on that is like oh are these guys like squatch squatch squatch oh my gosh please tell me they're not called squatchers or some shit i hate called squatchers oh i don't like watchers. I hate that so much. Oh, my God. So it turns out, I think it was the book was published in 2010. It was self-published. And people kind of, it was just kind of put in a little bookstore. They actually interview the woman that has the bookstore. She's like, yeah, I'll, I'll take your book. And then slowly people start realizing there's gold. in the mountains. And it's in their hills. And it's in their hill, in their hills.

So you have all these different possible places it could be because it's the Rocky Mountains, right? New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. And so you get the perspective of all these different treasure hunters of why

they think it was in this area or why they thought it was in this area. and some of the drama that happens because Finn has a grandson and of course the internet is the internet and they're like I'm sure he told the grandson where it was and blah blah blah and they're harassing the family and five people died during throughout the years of course not all at once I hope they'd spread that out a little bit. That'd be good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, but you have, so like this guy, Randy went missing in 2016.

He was found dead in July. It was, he was looking for a fenn's treasure. So like another guy found in Yellowstone. Speaking of Yellowstone and just national parks in general, do you know that like the Rocky Mountain National Park has a division of we might have we talked about this where if they have a whole crime division I had no idea no I don't think we brought it up but it makes sense though because you're you know yeah you've got to keep crime down you get national park jail yeah people because people kill people in Rocky Mountain National

park all the time. Oh, really, like they go because it's far out of the way. This is like Lake Mead back in the Vegas 60s. They would drive the bodies out to Lake Mead and they would sink to the bottom out there. And then now that the water is so low, they're finding all these old bones and people buried in barrels and stuff like that. It's like that a little bit, right? It's like a great place for you to dump bodies and stuff. And so if you kill somebody in a national park, there is a detainee.

Detective Crime Division that is there to investigate it. And here's the cool thing. There's a whole series of these cases on Hulu. Well, we should watch those. What are those called? Do you have a name for those? I'm going to look at up right now. Look.

I was in this pregnant pause and like she's about to tell. us the name. Right. I know I was waiting exactly. It's going to be good. I'm just going to say I forgot because I just don't remember Chanel. I mean, I was really bad before, but I'm really bad now. Rocky Mountain death documentary. I'll bet we could find it. Everyone gets your Google pants on. It's called wild crime. Wild crimes. Wild crime. Wild crime. Wild crime. Yeah. If it's not, you put. Put an S on there. You'll get the wrong thing. You get the murder and...

It's a wild crime, murder, and Rocky Mountains, and you will learn about all about what happens if you kill someone in a national park. Oh, my gosh. No kidding. Look at that. Geez. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it seems like a bad idea to be doing that.

I wouldn't do that. Well, it's a bad idea in general. Yeah. There's four seasons of this, too. That's interesting. So is each season or is each episode a different? story or is it a continuing over

don't ask me I don't remember okay I just know she knows it was great that's all all I know is that's the one we watched because our when we went to Rocky Mountains last year the tour guide told us

about the murder and how the guy almost got away with it but because it was his cell phone pains looks like so I'm looking it right now. So it looks like each season is a different story. The first season is about the dude who, um, uh, who called to say is, you called 9-1-1 to say his wife fell off the,

fell off a cliff. And that's in, and that's in the Rocking Mountain National Park. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Um, four episodes per season. So it's a, it's a quick, I mean, not a quick watch. I mean, yeah. They're probably all an hour, hour long each, but it's like a nice little self-contained mini series each one. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Is it. Yeah. Yeah. It kind It reminded me of like this treasure hunting stuff because you got a little bit of mystery and do they find the treasure? Do they not find their treasure? Well, just so I'm clear, this treasure one, the golden greed thing. Which by the way is gold and greed, everybody, not golden greed.

It's not golden, not like golden green. Yeah, I tried to search for it that way. I was very wrong by searching that way. Anyway, you, so it's a true, it's a documentary series not. a game like a like a like a reality show game thing it is a 100% documentary about the people that searched for fend's treasure and he's since passed on but his grand his grandson does come in and give interviews and they talk about just the craziness and the frenzy of people looking for this and I will I will tell you it was found but but you don't want to say anymore because it's a

spoiler it's a spoiler well I want you to get to the end I want you to get to the end to find out who found it and what happened happened to it and then what happens next oh that's that all sounds like spoilers to me yeah it does but you know what though I think I'd rather find out that yes there is a resolution that somebody finds it. I don't want to know who or anything like that. But it is like, I don't want to watch this docus series. And the treasure still hasn't been found to this day. No, you don't want to.

Yeah, you don't want it. You don't want that. I want closure. That's a really good point. Yeah. I don't want to. There's a ton of controversy around it. And this documentary kind of dives into a lot of it.

And it's kind of like when you get, I won't say much. I'm not going to say any much. But it's kind of like, the people that had been looking for very long time, they were just so pissed, so pissed when it got found. And like how, you know, you devote your life. But if you look through it through the right lens, what he was trying to do was create a little bit of magic. in what we see in Indiana Jones. It's why we like Indiana, right? You know, it's that it's, you know, get out, explore, have a goal.

I mean, there's like the book itself is full of clues. And so you have people just trying, you know, very smart people. And then you're like, oh, yeah, that guy, that guy looks like he would, he would find it. Nope. He did. Well, and then you heard the rednecks in the beginning, right? No offense. I mean, they called themselves rednecks.

Oh, yeah. No, you can call them rednecks because they called themselves that. But yeah, the rednecks are they like family and they're just like or just friends? Yeah, it's a son and and, or it's two sons and a dad. Okay. And I like their story because it brought them closer. like I don't know it's it was it's kind of a sweet part of the story I mean in the end aren't we all rednecks at the end you know not really someone here just wrote uh I love this does it's something someone somewhere always considers us to be rednecks is what you know there's always somebody above us who looks down at us like yeah yeah there's always somebody ahead of you but uh Graham Ellis Captain Kipper in the chat says do the wild crime do the wild time I just wanted to point that out

There you go. It's an amazing thing to say. There you got two recommendals from me, one from Netflix, one from Hulu. Nice. Go check them out, guys. All this stuff will be on QuicktmS.L.I per uge. So you can reference that and use it to your advantage. I don't know what that means.

That's right. Nicole, is there anything going on you'd like to mention with the... You don't have anything? No, nothing this week. I had no time, no time. What are you doing? I saw movies in a theater. What am I doing?

What are you doing with your life? I just had a lot going on. We had three days with little staying over and then a bunch of trips to my mom. Just life stuff. I get it. Just a nip-time. Sometimes I have weeks like that. What was the movie you saw on the theater, though?

We went and saw, we talked about it here. We went and saw a ballerina and I loved it. It was great. Okay. You should go see that. Do you like to John Wicks or are they too intense? I have not watched any of the John Wicks. It's on my guilty, like, I want to, I want to see them.

I just haven't found the, like, I have a list of shame movies. We've all got one of those somewhere. Yeah, but the John Wick series is awesome. If you're ever in the right mood, it's a perfect thing to rip through. Although, Brian, I think Brian and I talked about us a little bit, you know, I don't know if you want to binge John Wick. Right. It's heavy, I guess not heavy, but it's, if you binge it, you might feel like it's just getting a little repetitive because even though the fight scenes are very innovative and they do some really cool things with different ways of having gun fights and fist fights and melee and this and that, you want a little bit of space in between to kind of say, all right. Yeah, and they're back to back to back to back to back. It's just too much.

They are. Yes, exactly. So having back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back. back to back to back to back yeah yeah that's too much maybe i'll schedule them out like once every quarter oh yeah you i mean you'd be there that's spaced i would say once a month yeah yeah yeah yeah a monthly that's a good one i like that yeah uh brainbow bright has a really good point we grew up on goonies yeah like yeah that kind of truffle shuffle you know yeah the truffle shuffle are they coming out with are they coming out with goonies too there's a talk there's talk that they are working on a goonies too yes the actors a lot of them are like yeah if you want to do it we'll do it and i think they've been writing treatments and everyone's around except for a lady what's

her name uh i can't think her name the old lady yeah um oh it doesn't have a friend yeah yeah why would she be in it anyway she's in jail well yeah but you know well unless she gets out and wants to take revenge on the the goonies and does it by way of their kids oh oh oh that plot is Pretty good. So can I just express how much I hate AI in the video arena? Sure. Because I really, really hate when I see something and I go, oh, it might be a new movie coming out or a trailer. I can't trust any trailer now.

Did you get fooled by that Forrest Gump 2 trailer that's been making a movie? No, I got tricked by the stupid Popeye with Will Smith. I should have really The best way The best way to avoid those They're right YouTube is rife with this crap It's everywhere

So what you gotta do Is you only You only look at the channels That say the logos of studios Warner Brothers Universal Marvel whatever Yeah Because if it looks like

Ooh KM Studios has this new It looks like there's gonna be a sequel To Such and such Then yeah you pretty much can just avoid I just hate them all Which is why I don't I don't even, I don't trust the Goonies two thing either.

Like, I'm like, yeah, that one's real. We got. Yeah, there's no trailer. Don't, you know, if you, if you, if you, if you, but the talk is and with the interviews with the, the, uh, the actors, they're, they're talking about it. Talk is cheap. You know, it really is. It's not very expensive.

Okay. Yeah. Check in, check in with Mark and, uh, myself tomorrow, uh, at 10 a.m. Eastern on our, the spad show. You do Friday's not Thursdays. Right. Tomorrow's Thursday. Oh, wait a minute.

Today's Wednesday. Yeah. I have this problem too. I thought yesterday was Wednesday and I said that to my wife and she says, no, it is. That was Thursday. So yeah, Fridays, when you don't do TMS, you come over to the Spag Show. I feel like the Spad Show could be a really, could be a part of the Fragrance Network now since we talk about everything. People like it.

I've heard good things. I've yet to catch it because aren't we usually do TMS. Friday that day. Don't we usually have? Do you do it to MS. Friday? Yeah, but it's a patron-only thing, but we do it at 9 a.m. Mountain, so when do you guys go? So, we go 10 a.m.

Eastern, so that's... Oh, Eastern. Yeah, so that would be eight. Oh, okay. That's something I could watch then. Yeah, you can watch right before. Yeah. You don't have to get up that early to watch.

It's also, I mean, it's also saved, you know, so you can watch the video on demand. You record it. You guys record it? We should try that, Brian. We should do that. Whoa, that means more people could watch it. Yeah, I like this. All right, Nicole, go find some gold.

Go find the hidden gold in the mountains. We'll see you next time. All right. Well done. Now let us do what we do. Remind me someday, speaking of that hunting for treasure. I didn't want to get into a longer story just because we're so close to the top of the hour. But remind me at some point when we're,

We've got some time to tell the story about the stone, like a, um, this, this puzzle game you could, uh, you bought the little, a little pendant at the store and it had a code on it. You entered that code on a website and you had access to all these other games. Yeah. And the treasure that was rightly mine that was, uh, stolen away from me, real actual physical treasure. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Stolen like somebody stole, stole it.

Like, well, we'll get into the definition of stolen, I guess. All right. You guys come in here tomorrow, Thursday. We're going to have this top of the show, all right? Yes. We're putting it in the notes. I want to hear about this. Cool.

Cool. All right, suckers. It's time for us to, oh, I want to do a shout out that we normally don't. We kind of have a rule around the Discord in particular, but sometimes on the shows. A lot of people come at us and go, hey, can you do this GoFundMe for this thing? My dad's trying to buy new tires for his car or something like that. And those GoFumbis are fine to exist, but we're not really like in the business of promoting that sort of thing because it's just not, I don't know, that means. that meaningful. However,

very close member of our community, King Quimbazi's brother, Raphis, I think is how he says, maybe Raffus. Having a serious medical, a bunch of medical stuff. And because we live in a country with terrible health care, I want people

to know about this and see if you can help just a little bit him deal with stuff. I think Jorge is King Kumbazi's real name. So Jorge sent this out to me, just said, hey, my brother's going some do some serious crap. He's got type 1 diabetes since childhood.

Over the years, disease has taken a heavy toll. He is in dialysis and has lost most of his vision. But despite all of that, he has always faced life with quiet strength and resilience. On Mother's Day, he suffered a medical crisis, changed everything, severe hyperglycemic seizures, which is not super uncommon for those with type 1 diabetes. Anyway, it's just kind of a mess and it's expensive and he needs your help. So I wanted to help out here. Here's what you want to go do.

GoFundMe.com and just search for, excuse me, R-A-F-A-S, that's his name. It's the first one that comes up. Otherwise, a big, long URL. That makes it easy to find. Yeah, good. Much easier. So go help them out.

And sorry, we wish that whole family all our best and we hope things work out well for your brother, Jorge. For sure. That's it for that. Brian, let's get out of here. Oh, quick note. Rockpants.com slash TMS is a place you can get all the things you need. Links to everything are there.

You got anything else we need to promote? Trying to think. Normal tomorrow. Nothing else. Yeah. Oh, remind him where they do the... Oh, the survey. Tiny.cc.

slash Tadpool survey. And I haven't taken a look in a while. Let me see. Tadpool-y feud. Spring 2025 survey. How many do I have so far? Survey says. I'm going to guess.

Can I guess? I want to guess. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yes. Give me a ceiling so I don't, you know, like what's the highest it could be? Don't go higher than a thousand. All right.

I don't know. Don't go higher than 500. How about that? The previous survey had four, like, for this last question that we did from it, there were 453 responses. Okay. So I think at this stage, I'll bet you're at one. We're at 252, Scott.

We've got, and here's the thing with this new one, because it does tie to an email address so that it can send you your results, we had a lot of people who said, can you do something so that I get a copy of what I submitted so that I can keep track. And one person's even turning it into a game. Like they get whatever their answer is, they get more points if it's in the higher numbers than if it's the number one answer, which is really cool. That's cool. But I think that also means that some people who are like, going in and saying, oh, I'm going to do, I'm going to submit exactly the same answer as five times and see if I can sway things. Whoever puts Skull Island, I think probably for today's, I think was a constant repeat. Sure.

So anyway, so I think this limits people to either one response or at least one response per email address. Gotcha. Okay. Cool. Good do it, guys. Get in there. We want your stuff. Yeah.

It's how we keep those running. The more the merrier, really. Yeah. there's the higher the number the better it looks like Brian Wilson just died is that is that true Zoe oh really I get to see him in concert two years ago and it was

it was a concert that they shouldn't have brought him out for really because he was in really bad shape but you could tell it was Mike Love's idea to make some money yeah 82 82 died today oh man I guess my show tomorrow is going to be Sly in the Family Stone

and Brian Wilson covers Probably daily music headlines tomorrow as well. Oh, for sure. Yeah, that'll be our top story. Oh, it'll be, and it's Eileen's Day tomorrow, so she gets to. Well, she gets to cover it. Brian Wilson News. She's like, dang, and I want to talk BTS.

I have this to do now. I got to type BTS today with those two members getting out of service and rejoining the band. There you go. Well, watch for that coming up. All right, we're going to get out of here. To do that, we need a song. I got one there. Yes, we do.

I do. Simeon wrote in and said, Greetings, socks and boots. May I humbly request a song to celebrate my 46th complete orbit around old soul, please. I've been revisiting old Super Tramp Vinals of late, majorly underappreciated band, in my opinion, he says, and I, Brian, I'd agree. And would Brian have any covers of the logical song?

If not, any Super Tramp cover would be fine and dandy. Thanks for more than a decade of amazing community and entertainment. Rub the globe, bro. Very good. So, Simeon, before I get to the song, years ago, geez, maybe back in 2006 or seven, I created a thing on the show called Coverville Open Stage. And this is where musicians or basement musicians, bedroom musicians, could record a song and contribute it to an album. And I think the first one of these was a tribute to Breakfast in America. And I had people record their own covers of all the songs from Breakfast in America,

from Gone Hollywood to the title track to take the long way home, you know, all the hits. And ended up with, God, so many covers, 20 different covers. So a lot of covers of the logical song, a lot of covers of Breakfast in America, et cetera. If you go to coverville.com and then go to the Coverville Records menu on the left side, you'll find open stage and you'll find a place where you can download and listen to all those covers.

Nice. And even a custom album cover design by, I think Shelby Miller did that, I think. I like Shelby. Wait, am I thinking of that person? Shelby Miller. Oh, yeah. Shelby Miller. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I love that stuff. That's great. And that's all just the thing you can go do. Just go get it. It's free to download. You don't even have to pay for it. 97 megabyte download. You get the whole thing. You get all 20 tracks. That's awesome. And I want to say this might have been when I first started working with or or talking to Chance on the choir maybe. No, I think it was for the next one. It was for the spinal tap one that I got, Paul and Storm and Chance on the Chants on the Chants on the Choir.

choir. So when you go to Cover Real Records Open Stage, you'll actually see all the albums I've done as part of that. Oh, nice. Let's get to The Logical Song. This one came out in 2015 as part of WFMU's even more super hits of the 70s compilation. This is a radio station WFMU that is very much like on the edge and is very cool and comes out with these great cover albums. This is, I think, from the third one of those. It's the Philistines Jr. and their cover of The Logical Song. When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful, a miracle, it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well, they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, oh, playfully watching me.

But then they sent me away to teach me how to be. sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical. There are times when all the world to sleep, the questions run too deep. For such a simple man Won't you please? Please tell me what we've learned

I know it sounds absurd But please tell me who I am I said now watch what you say Or they'll be calling you radical A liberal, fanatical, criminal. Won't you sign up your name that to feel you're unacceptable, respectable, respectable, oh, presentable, vegetables? But at night

When all the world's asleep The questions run so deep For such a simple man Won't you please Please tell me what we've learned. I know it sounds absurd. Please tell me who I am. Who I am.

Who I am. Who I am. If you're looking for something froggy smooth, find more at frogpants.com. Now that's a trump I presume you probably did not figure on.