The Morning Stream - TMS 2841: Unfresh leftovers

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

Never Throw Away Kim's Chi. I don't like Bre-oh-sheeeeee. Were going Dutch Marks. Red On Air Meatball. Father of the daughter of the friends. As American as Dutch Apple Pie. Dandadan. We had Koreans! 3 Koreans! Zuckeriest Movie. Bob Bowlcut. Friday the 13th: The Revenge of June. It's all German to me! Prancing through the edible Tulips. Recommentals with Tom, Scott, Brian, Scott, and Brian. Microsoft partners with AND for the first time and into the past and into the future with Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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I think that'll do. Hello, everyone, and welcome to TMS. This is the morning stream for Wednesday, June 18th, 2025. I was making sure it was an 18th, not an 18th. My eyes are going. It is the 18th, and I'm Scott, and that's Brian. Hi, Brian. How are you?

Hello, I'm good. How are you? Oh, you know, just making it work, making it happen. Yeah. Yeah. How are things going, Kim being out day two? Well, let's just say that I'm not sure those leftovers yesterday were completely fresh. Oh, no.

You do this every time. I know. I know. It's like you, it's a cross between, well, I hate throwing food out, so I'd better eat it. But it's also like a, you know, that's got to be still good in the back of the bridge there. What do you think? What do you think the deal is with me and not? I think I know what it is.

You know how they always say, the people from the, when they had the depression, and if you knew somebody from that era, they were really penny, pinchy and tight with everything and careful and, you know, grow your own food and then get only on sale stuff and that sort of thing. And I think I got just a bit of that from when my dad's business took a, dump in the 80s. Oh, for sure. And we'd lost everything. So I think I think that, you know, losing the house, motorhome boat, all the things that were like luxuries in our lives, having to move to a rental, you know, having to be in high school while this was going on. That was a freshman, or no, a sophomore in high school. So it was all very impactful, a lot of class warfare in my head about what other kids had, what we didn't, that sort of thing. And I think it made me more like,

like if I see old ass kimchi in the fridge and I just think, that should probably, you know, be thrown away but that's a waste I mean kimchi feels like it just gets better with age right does that's actually bad that's a bad example yeah I shouldn't use that but any like you know like old fruit or whatever I hate throwing food away I hate it I do too and I feel like that is the um you know I grew up very similarly right you know when my um parents divorced I was super young. My mom did the whole single mom thing, worked at the hospital, moved to an apartment, and it was basically for 11 years, me and her. And she had to work, sometimes, you know, work until six or seven at night. So I'd be responsible for making my own dinner. I'd be

responsible for cleaning up, doing dishes, all that stuff. But also pinching the pennies with, you know, oh, my gosh, you're not going to throw that out. You have to finish it. You have to eat that. And you and I both grew up with that sort of thing of like, don't waste food. Yeah, and it didn't have to be like a huge national or international, like, drop in markets. It was just a drop in our house market. You know what I mean? But you still got the, you know, did you get the their kids starving in Africa or India or someplace? China for us, I think.

China, I think it might have been China. Because we had Korean, you know what it was. It's because we had Koreans. Because everybody else I knew would say they're starving Koreans. Koreans. Yeah. But we had three Koreans and they were fine. Yeah. So we had to come up with another place that we falsely attributed a bunch of poverty to. So we did we did China in our house. That would reply no starving Koreans here. Go ahead and toss this out. I'm done. Yeah. Give me some, give me more Korean soup or as, which most people call ramen. He called Korean soup for some reason. Korean soup. Nice. But anyway, yeah, like it's just a I think that's a thing. And so if you grew up that way, if you grew up with like plenty. all the time and you never had to worry about it i think you probably approach these things differently but you know just made me kind of a not really a tightwad like if somebody's given great service happy to tip if someone's you know doing something worthy of what they're worth

that you pay them it's like it's not that but i don't neither of us like to throw our money around like when when i had that eighty nine dollar bottle of sake on sunday night with crazy neighbor that as much as i enjoyed the bottle i could not help but think every time I took a sip. That was like $2 sip right there of sake I just took this is exactly right. It's always and it's with consumables and perishables mostly. Yeah. Like you when you get something kind of with permanence, I don't know what like um you know I buy a game controller I know it's going to last me six years or seven years or something. I I buy it. I'll pay even more for it if I know it's going to be well reviewed and that it's durable like I go for

that because I know I don't want to just be rotating shit out as if it's nothing. I don't know if that makes me. This is, by the way, this is what I used to think being a conservative was. And I think it might have been, it might have been at one point. Exactly. And I think it might have actually been this at one point. Kind of, yeah. Now it's all the stored and ruined.

It's right. Liberal means, ah, eat all the food you want. Oh, didn't finish it. Throw it away. That's great. Oh, we've got to conserve the food. Yeah, in that one way, I was very much a conservative and still am in some ways. But it doesn't mean that anymore.

Like, they've changed it. So, but for whatever you want to call that today. Now, it means, no, how about the food you want? Just don't give it to those people. Yeah. Hort it. Pretend you love Jesus, but hate everybody. Just don't give it to those people over there.

Yeah, yeah, do that. I'll get some emails for that shit. That's fine. Whatever. Whatever. Go ahead. Address them to me. We'll take them.

Coverville. email.com. Exactly. That's fine. Exactly. Well, anyway, it's nice to see you while. We're going to do a show, and we've got a lot of stuff to do. I'd like to start today with an email from Lydia. Isn't there a song about Lydia?

Hold on. There is Lydia, the tattooed lady. Yeah. Oh, right. I don't know if who I want to describe that to her, but maybe. Groucho Marx, I think. Oh. Is she not a lady of the evening or something weird like that?

No, she's just tattooed. she um her her entire body covered with tattoos that like depict things so wish i could remember the actual lyrics but it's like on her shoulder is napoleon getting exiled and on her back you'll find the battle of hastings or something like that it's wow it's uh yeah i like that's great it's hilarious i like tattoos that tell a bunch of stories so this sounds like a song that i would enjoy you would really enjoy it and it's very comical i mean obviously like crotchamarks and here's the other fun thing um featured in breaking back dad um yes i know jeannie those aren't the lyrics those were those were my that was my example yeah that's

what he was saying he couldn't think of him wait i thought it was uh windy everyone knows it's wind the the breaking bad one no that might have been featured in in breaking bad as well but the character of lydia who has a who loves um uh imitation sugar in her uh right chamomile tea or her ulung or whatever tea it is that she she drinks yeah her ringtone is lydia the tattooed lady or Maybe it's, maybe it's, um, uh, Jesse Plemons ringtone when Lydia calls her or something. It's something like that. Yeah. I remember now.

I forgot about her. She's a Scottish actress and she's awesome. I don't feel like we see her enough. She's really good. Uh, the other one. Lydia, Lydia, say, have you met Lydia, Lydia, tattoo lady? She has eyes that folks a dorso and a torso, even more so.

Oh my. On her back is the battle of Waterloo. I got a battle. Okay. Come on. Credit for, I said Hastings. It's actually Waterloo. And I did say Napoleon getting exiled.

So come on. You got to give me something. I think you did all right. I'm impressed. Yeah. I think you did fine. The windy one is the lady that she is a lady of the evening. She's the one that was on.

My name is Earl also playing a sex worker. Is that we're saying now? Yes. And she's the one that gets the, I think she's the one that gets the ATM machine on her head. No, I've mixed up two characters. No, she's the guy. Right. The guy is the one that gets the ATM machine.

But she's the life of the guy. Right. And there's a separate lady who's windy, I think. I think I've conflated the two ladies. Yeah, but the association, everyone knows it's windy, is not about a lady of the evening. No, not at all. It was more like that.

I don't know what, I mean, it's just about it. Wendy's got starry eyes that flash at the sound of lies, and Wendy's got wings to fly above the clouds. Clads, above the clouds. Yeah, and I think the idea there was just juxtaposition, because she was like living in the worst possible drug-fueled lifestyle and then that song was bright and shiny and it was like yeah yeah kind of adjust right the oh i kind of want to watch breaking bad again what's that about sure yeah be my fifth time i think through that show yes jeff h the association am i wrong it's the association was the band is that the band oh you might be who's looking down and think yeah ding ding ding ding everyone knows it's windy Do, do, do, do, do. Anyway.

So many letters on the way. Oh, really? Are we getting a bunch of well-actualies, Monica? I don't know. That's what we have that for in the Discord. Use it to its fullest extent. Anyway, Lydia says, back to the point of this. This is about how, ironically, it's about how we say things.

Yeah. So hello, Strogliata Tella and Briosh. But we're wrong on both these. We are apparently. I emailed to see you tried to pronounce my favorite Italian pastry and some delicious bread. Here are the phonetics. Sapphoiattella. Safoietella, right?

And briochi. Yeah, that one blows my mind. I have always heard it's brioche. I've never heard anything but brioche. I've never heard briochi. Never, never my life. This sounds like cheese, oh, girl, is what that sounds like. Anyway, by the way, if you've never tried a warm, sorry,

Sofoyatella With powdered sugar on top You haven't lived If I find a good one Again, I will assure to send it to you Your friend in PIA, Lydia Yeah, I don't, Brioche and Brioche I'm never going to remember that

I'm never going to do that right If that's correct, is that correct? I mean, she says it's correct, so We're just going to believe her I'm just going to trust her, you know Actually, you know what? I'm not I'm going to look it up and play what the computer tells me Okay, all right, sounds good

Uh, let's see here. Oh, yeah, I've seen Sofia Tella. Is it, is it, did I say it wrong? Seofiottella. I'm not sure. I'm looking at a picture of it now. I've seen these and I've never had them and they look amazing. Okay, here's what the internet says it says.

Briosh. Briash. Now that's, now, if we go to Miriam Webster, which is another one, that's what they say. Brioch. Okay, they say it like we do. This one says, brioche. Okay, that's, so either are acceptable there. or I can't find anybody who does the she business let's try this one

bryosh I can't find a briochi you can't find a briochi either unless her phonetic is I'm saying it wrong I mean look at it just says well I mean it is the way she's she the last syllable of her phonetic is s h e if she just wanted the sound she wouldn't have put that e at the end right yeah so chat there it is actually bryushi brushi yeah so are we just dead dead stupid on the word

Brea? I don't like Breu She Ah! Sometimes the titles make themselves. That was great. Please somebody submit that. So Lydia, I I believe that that's how you want to pronounce. Yeah. I can totally see why you like it.

Right. It is a, you know, Tristan, I totally believe that you believe that. Yeah. I can't find corroborating evidence is all, Lydia. So I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm not even saying the internet could be wrong in the five places I look. Or it might be, you know, there's the American pronunciation. There's the French pronunciation. There's the, you know, Italian pronunciation.

And there is an Italian bakery not near me, but close. And I'm going to go today and see if they've got Sepulitella. Oh, you should tell the person. What's that over there called? And see what they say. Yeah, right. Well, I'll see if they have brioche too and say, No, my friend.

It's Briochi. Briochi. You should take your phone out inconspicuously and record the interaction. That would be great. Good content for the show. People love being recorded without their knowledge or consent. They love it. They're super into it, and we highly recommend it.

Bernie also wrote in, this is on the subject of love, death, and robots, which the latest season I recommended on a Wednesday not long ago. Yeah, yeah. He says this, just finished Love Death and Robots Season 4. amazing as usual I would agree he has this to say Scott I understand why you like 400 boys it looks like the gorillas made a movie

yeah I agree with that it's very it's stylistically in that in that vein but I would also I would say it's like gorillas and Samurai Jack got together right and then got and then got gory like I mean you know the guerrillas made a movie would be like

a tank girl animated feature because that's Jamie that'd be awesome Jamie Hewlett's design for gorillas but yeah yeah I would watch that movie in a heartbeat why is that never happened why is that not a thing yeah I know that is surprising because that style

I mean I guess I guarantee it's been pitched right I bet it's been pitched and Jamie's probably just too busy doing stuff with Damon Alburn for gorillas to do anything about it yeah well it's really good 400 boys is awesome I would agree with him here he says he then says spider rose another one I really liked in there was written by old school cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling

and takes place in the shaper slash mechanist world. He wrote about many short stories in the early 90s. It took me a while to figure that out. That makes sense because that thing has a vibe, a very specific vibe to Spider-Rose. It's very cool. Oh, man, I'm going to go watch that whole thing again. I want to do

a straight up, like, randomized binge where all four seasons are just kind of mixed up and play them in whatever order they want. Yeah. Maybe they even have an option. I don't even I don't know if they do. Oh, that would be cool. I mean, we know that somehow they gave me a different order to the season than they did you.

Because mine started with that tilt shift, aliens taking over Earth and ended with the red hot chili peppers one. Yeah, mine was chili peppers first. I think the alien thing was second. Interesting. A totally different order. So they do it per season. I wonder if they could ever do it for the whole collection. That would be so rad.

the jackbox the jackbox collection but in but in video but in uh love death and robots form i would love that i don't think they do but anyway so there's that and then also smart appliances stupid owners reminded me of the robots visiting earth theme from seasons one and three i don't remember i really like that one i don't know i can't remember that one i don't remember the robots visiting earth theme but smart appliances stupid owners is the one with the uh the appliances that they bought me and then just stuck me in a like it's the appliances talking oh right They bought me, and they just stuck me in a cabinet. I don't think I'm ever going to lose my waffle virginity.

Those reminded me of the Ardman animal ones. Yeah, very, yeah, very much so, that style. Kind of pulled from that, although there was a dildo involved. There was, yes. The showerhead. Oh, yeah, that was great. Did you watch, did you end up watching that naked gun trailer after I talked to you? Yes.

Yes. And I was like, oh, is he talking about the OJ thing? That was in the previous. Oh, no, he wasn't talking about the OJ thing. Just that moment. Wow. Yeah. The view from across the street through the blind. Yeah, the heat vision thing. Yeah, that's what it was heat vision. Man. I mean, I'm not, I know what they're doing. And it's the perfect vibe and thing for naked gun. That's exactly the jokes they used to do. It's just that that was so vivid and vivid. It's red. It is red band trailer material with a trailer. It does not get a red band. There you go. That's exactly right. That felt like a red band trailer without a red band. That was wild.

It's hilarious. It is hilarious. But yeah, I agree with you. I was really surprised about that. Yeah, that was nuts. I don't feel like there's so many people like,

oh, I can't believe they're making another police squad movie without, without, what's his face? Leslie Nielsen. It's like, no, this feels,

this feels good. And I love how this trailer begins making you think it's a Taken style movie. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And he seems in the, from what I can tell, like him taking coffee on a speeding freeway and saying thanks as if there's somebody standing there. Like these kinds of jokes are so perfect for that world and knowing that it's not them trying to remake it. This is them saying, no, he's his son. This is many years later.

He's keeping, you know, there's something about all this is going to work. It's working for me so far. It's working for me too. yeah I hope I I I'm hoping that the spinal tap sequel is does the same kind of thing for me like all right I've got hope I've got a lot of hope and and just like with the naked gun the original people are all involved so for all accounts it should be yeah should be good there's a new Fletch movie coming out I didn't know about that Tom noonan in the chat session Norman of the John Hamm because the previous John Hamm Fletch movie was hilarious and really really, and came out during the pandemic and did not get enough attention. It was like a TV thing. They went straight to streaming, right? Straight to streaming, yeah.

Let's see. I'm trying to find out. And it was so freaking good. Can't find anything. Well, all right, it was good. It was maybe not so freaking good. It was good. Fair.

Fair enough. Let's see. Is there any news about this? It's better than the one where the sequel to the Chevy Chase Fletch. The original Chevy Chase Fletch is great, but the sequel is not so good. It just says that John Hamm is. holding out for a sequel. Oh, okay. Maybe.

I don't think this is happening. Okay. Well, Tom, I hope you get your wish, buddy. Yeah, you can tell you what. If you're anticipating that Fletch movie, you can go watch it right now. Yeah, yeah. Anticipate the new one. The guy replaced. But yes, baseball's too. That's another good example. Mel Brooks is involved. Rick Moranis is coming out of retirement to be in it. I mean, it's, you know, I've got high hopes. Please don't dash them on the rocks. You're getting both Bill Pullman and.

and Lewis Pullman in it. That was confirmed. Oh, really? Okay, great. Yeah. Excellent. So it's like the son of the, the Han Solo ripoff.

But don't give us like, here are the children of the two guys in the desert with the giant comb saying they ain't found shit. We don't want that kind of humor. We want something new. Yeah. You know. That movie really,

that movie really was Mel Brooks doing Zucker stuff, right? It really was, yeah. The most zuckery of his movies. Maybe men and tights, but men and tights I did not like. Not a fan. It was too much. It was no.

Oh, no. Yeah, no, that wasn't good. I think peak for me is high anxiety, because as I get older and I see more Hitchcock movies, I appreciate more and more the little Easter egg slide-ins that Brooks put into that. I mean, we knew the psycho stuff. We knew the birds jokes, you know, all that sort of thing. But the more Hitchcock guy, I say, I'm like, oh, my God, that's kind of a play on Marnie, You know, that's kind of a play on 39 steps or whatever.

Yeah, yeah, no, that's a good point because he was literally parroting everything that guy did. And I had seen so little of what he did. So when I saw high anxiety as a young person, I went, I don't know, I don't know what he's doing. Like, what are these references that I'm not getting at all? Whereas, you know, history of the world part one and two or whatever the hell of it were, part one, there was no two. That's the joke, right? There is no two. Just two just came out last year.

Oh, that's right. They did do that, didn't they? And I haven't seen it yet. I forgot all about it. Yeah. I remember them talking about it. I never did it. Oh, young Franksstein.

Yeah, Monica, that's another. That's a hard one for me to put up in the top as well. That's probably my favorite. I really like that one. What's the one they made it play? Plus, I love Terry Gar. I guess Terry Gar was in high anxiety, too. She's in a lot of his stuff.

What was the, I love, I love blazing saddles. There's a lot I love. Oh, yeah. Mel Brooks is a genius. And he's 99 years old. Good Lord. Or no, he's 100 now? Or is he 99?

I think he's 100. He's going to turn 100, I think. He is, I'm sorry, he's about to turn 99 at the end of this month. Got it, 98. But the movie, but Space Balls 2 will come out next year after his birthday. So he will be 100 when Space Balls comes out. How do you put all those prosthetics on that old of a man? Because he's going to be yogurt again, right?

He says he's going to be yogurt. Oh, is he? really great excellent well sure he has to be yeah i don't even think he's directing i think he's just coming back his yogurt and he's consulting and he's doing all that but you know putting all that all that uh latex and stuff like an eight hour sitting session on with a 98 year old that seems like maybe you're gonna kill him don't don't kill him would that be awful he died in the makeup chair oh yeah yeah red die number five it really was bad for us we didn't know oh r fk junior all is forgiven than you weirdo.

Anyway, thank you for that. Oh, there was more. He says, it's all great. It's such a great throwback to Spike and Mike's. I saw that festival in a very old movie theater in Berkeley, California in the late 90s. My girlfriend at the time was really into that world. Keep up the recommendations.

Love the show, says Bernie. Well, thank you, Bernie. We hear from Bernie a lot, but we don't, it's usually comments that are like him just agreeing with something or something like that. Nothing wrong with that, but it's nice to be able to read his. thing once in a while. So thanks, Barney. We appreciate it. For sure. By the way, folks,

the TMS, Chris, does not apply if the person is over 90. Okay? I mean, you know, if we talk about somebody that's over 90 and they sadly pass away, not our fault. No. No, that's just time, dude. Yeah, exactly. Complain about the passage of time. We'll take the blame for within the two weeks, 89 or younger, but 90 plus. Yeah. Come on now. Even then you're pushing it with the 80s, but we'll do that. We'll do that for you. We're not going 90s. We did it with Harold Camping. We'll do it. No interviews.

No interviews. Anyway. Hey, I got an announcement coming up next month. We're doing a Denver Tadpool meetup. Now, this is in tribute to J.J. Valentine. We've talked about him and dedicated our Las Vegas show partly to him and his family. when they had the memorial the Moors Clark and Nicky Moore

live here in Denver went out to the memorial they were great friends and and J.J. would stay with them, come out to Denver and stay with them all the time and vice versa. And when they went to the memorial, Renee said hey, here's all of JJ's board games. Can you take

a few of these back with you to Denver? I know that he'd want you guys to play with them. We're not going to play with them here. You know, we're going to save a few for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, you know, we'd like to send a bunch of these back with you. And so she did. And so Clark and Nikki came back from, um, back from Tennessee, Kentucky, Kentucky with the, um, uh, with a bunch of board games. And, um, we're going to play them on June 13th. And, um, we've played a couple of them already and they're fantastic that, that, that board game with the race cars that we talk. You mean July 13th, right? You said June. You mean July. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, July. I'm sorry, July. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, 13th, yes. That's probably obvious since that already passed, yeah. In the past, yes, June 13. I'm sorry, July 13th. It's a big day. Is there a month after this one, Scott, because I don't see

anything after the 29th? I hope not, because my birthday's in July and I'd like to skip it, so it'd be great if there was no July. No problem. Take it off. July 13. Yes. Anyway, so after so after the MS-150, a couple weeks after that, I'll be ready to be around people again.

And July 13th, we'll be a get-together at the Moores House. Here's what you need to do. Go to the Facebook group, the Denver Tadpool Facebook group. If you already remember, great. Just reply to the post or actually RSVP directly to Clark. You'll find his name in the post.

He'll get you the address, get you the details. If you're not already a member of the Denver Tadpool on Facebook, become a member and let us know. We know there's some people in the Denver Metro Metro. area that aren't a member of the Facebook group and we want to know you're there so that we can get together and invite you to things in the future yeah if you're in a nearby state and you want to drive over in there get in there you know exactly yeah we want to fly it from Chicago Barry um you can uh or San Francisco Barry uh you can come to Denver and and come to

the meetup you want to hear something dumb yeah tell me because you just reminded me of it what's that so all right this is so dumb so Kim had some something that she had just recently shipped to Bobby Ann as a thanks for her letting her stay over there in Chicago for a couple of weeks ago. And it was just, you know, a nice little gift or something. And that was the last Amazon order Kim had placed. I go in there and I found a deal on a Switch 2 game and want to review for Core. And I thought, wow, this is like half off on Amazon.

I'll get the physical copy and do that. And I can have it by tomorrow, which was yesterday. Yeah. So I ordered it. Send it to my B'Anne. I checked the tracking. Tracking says, your package has been delivered. Here's a photo.

And I look at the photo. I'm like, it's not my door. Whose door is that? This is not my door at all. And I looked it up and I did a little more digging and went, great. I sent this to Chicago. This is fantastic. Oh, shoot.

So she's taking it to the thing today and it'll come here in like in a day or two. But it's just annoying because, you know, Scott's a dumbass. You're helping to talk about it on the show to. tomorrow and now you can well we're doing it I think we're pushing court a Friday so it'll all be okay okay I think I think I'll have enough time with it be able to talk it if not it's okay too but it's just like

so dumb okay the let's the takeaway is always check the ship to even if you've done it a billion times and it's all you're used to someone else in your household may have used it for something else and I don't know why it doesn't default back to the default address I don't know why it doesn't do that

yeah but uh you know whatever I blame Kim and she's not here so she won't hit me in the arm everything's fine easy to blame kim when she's not here i try damn it take that jerks okay we're going to play tadpooly feud now it's time yeah and uh to do that oh let's uh let's go ahead and let's see if dunaway joined us did he he did he's smart guy knows how this works cool we're going to go ahead and uh add him do this at uh jaunty music means one thing only, and that is that Brian Dunaway has joined us. Hi, Brian. How are you?

Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. How are you guys? Hey, man, doing real good. How are you? You doing all right? Oh, dude. Oh, man, I've been hanging out at the Treasure House with Mr. Green Jeans this morning. We took Captain Kangaroo's treasure keys. We raided the moose's ping pong balls, and we're dropping them on the bunny to see if gravity still works. Wow. Yeah. Wow. You know what? I know a couple weeks ago and you said you were kind of into Captain Kangaroo stuff. I didn't, I thought, okay, that'll last, not long.

It'll be a little while, but it won't be that long. No, Donaway is every day, he's into it. That's a core, that's a core memory. Picture page, picture page. Oh, yeah. Picture page. What the Cosby doing here? Yeah.

I was not a Captain Kangaroo guy. I couldn't get into it for some reason. It was a bull cut, wasn't it? Just admit it, you're a bolus. It was a bad haircut. Yeah, that was a bad. Yeah. Well, you know, it was a wig, you know, I'm just, you know,

It was a clown originally in any... Was it a weird? Really? Come on. It wasn't, uh, what was the guy's name? Uh, Captain King Rue, Bob Sheehan, Bob Sheehan, close, close. Sheesh, uh, Sheehan, uh, Ed Sheehan. Ed Sheehan.

Yeah, sing in the hit. Sheehan, it was definitely, the last name was sheehan. Jim Bob, Bob, Jim Bob, Jim Bob, Jim Bob, Jim Bob, Jim Bob, Jim Bob, hehan. Bob. Bull cut. You just calling Bull cut. All right, bull cut it is. We're sticking with it. Uh, listen, folks. if you are out there listening live and you want to be the fourth caller, you just ping me on Discord right now and I'll add you to this call

and you could be the big winner. Oh, we already have a fourth caller and oh my goodness. Let's see who we got here, everybody. Let's go ahead and hit ring and see who we get. Oh, boy, look who it is. It's our old pal Tanner. Tanner, what's going on? Tanner.

Hello, how are you in? Hey, man, I'm good. I know that, so Tanner and I talked earlier. I guess you're in some sort of forced jet lag so you can change shifting. times today how's that going oh uh pretty good yeah since uh 1 p.m yesterday 1 p.m. since yesterday oh my it's like flying to australia on per it's like faking a flight to australia and staying awake the whole time that's what you're doing that's right yeah Tanner I'm gonna need you to calm down a little bit though you need you to take it down a notch yeah you're so hyped up I don't know

what your deal is but um always so excited you're conscious that's all I got to thank you for that Listen, Tanner is the greatest DM ever. Not only does he customize a D&D campaign for us that we're right in the middle of. Not district manager. No. Well, he's also a good district manager. But he also conducts a survey that we have to fill out as our characters to see how we feel about it. And I'm loving it.

I'm all in on all this. That's great. Well, he's also a good grade leader. So he does a lot of that leadership stuff. Let's see if today he can lead in the names of possible. winners that we'll have today, you know? That's a fun transition. Hey, Brian, explain the rules and tell us what's going on here, so Tanner knows what we're

doing. Happy to do it. It's time to play the Tad Pooley feud. I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us. It is their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Tanner, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian.

If your team wins, they get a survey and a prize package that includes the Bureau Excom Declassified, our final Xcom giveaway game here. Nice. Also good. Save the best for last. And scheming through the zombie apocalypse, the beginning. I don't know what that is.

I don't know what that is. That sounds cool. It's a title that seems longer than the game itself. Yeah. Scheming through? I wonder what that means. Scheming through the zombie apocalypse. I guess you play a lot of three-caron-oldy and fool the zombies or something. It's highly rated.

Point-click adventure made by grab the games, whoever that is. It looks like it's well, well-liked. Yeah, all right. Tanner, you might be in some good city here with all this stuff here. There you go. But you got to win it. And to win it, you have to play. And to play, we have to give you your category and let these two chuckleheads fight over to see who gets control of the board. We're on our new Tad Pooley Feud survey. Oh.

I'll make things to those of you who've already filled out the survey, 4 and 7 of you, to be specific. Very good. So modern questions, so stuff that happened last week, cool. That's right. Think recent. Good luck with that. All right. Put your hands on your buzzers and give me your best answer to this.

Name a Dutch food. Scott. My brain. Pancakes. That's wrong. Pancakes. Show me pancakes. Come from those Dutch pans.

Oh my gosh. I'm giving it to you. Dutch babies. Number two. Dutch? It's those baked pancakes that have the raised edges. They're so good. Oh, those are good.

You can fill those with syrup. I didn't know those were... Yeah, I didn't know they're specific a Dutch thing. I didn't know that. Wow. One answer will be it at Brian. Whoa. What are we hearing?

What is that? I don't know. Is that you? I don't know what that is. Oh, the Steam page for the game, Brian said, started playing a video. My bad. All right.

All right, Brian, one answer will beat it. Can you name a Dutch food more popular than Dutch babies? Man, I cannot much, I don't even, I can't even think. I mean, what, mashed potatoes? Or really, the full question is, name a Dutch food, or if you're not sure, name of food you think is Dutch. Oh, there we go, there we go, there we go. Yeah, yeah. It always seems like, I don't know why.

Why do I think mashed potatoes? Is it the Dutch, I don't know. I'm going to say potatoes. Can I just say potatoes or it to be very specific? You can say potatoes. You can say what you want. Potatoes, sure. Show me mashed potatoes.

Give me the Dutch potatoes. Oh, you know, like I know anything. There may be things in here that involve potatoes, but they're not specifically just on the top. I don't know any, apparently I'm going to have to go hang out with my Dutch friends. They never bring me any food, though. Dunaway knows how to go Dutch. He knows how to get it. All I could think it was Dutch oven.

And I'm like, that's not going to be up there. But maybe it is. He can double Dutch right here. Yeah. You get into Dutch, all these things. That's right. He likes the movie Dutch, you know? All right.

So, Scott, that means you and Tanner have control of the board. Cool. And see how you guys do. Tanner, I like our odds. What's top of your mind for Dutch cuisine? The answer I put was strupe waffle. Oh, yeah. Let's do some stroup waffle.

Well, maybe I do know some. Do you guys keep, okay, maybe I do know some Dutch foods. Well, I thought that was German, so I don't know anything. That's what I keep thinking. And everything you say is, he seems like German to me, but I don't know. It's all up in that area there. Yeah. All up in that for Kuva.

All in the same place, sir. Very good. All right. I could go for one of those right now. A couple slices of waffle with caramel in between them, baked crunchy or smashed and cooked crunchy. Show me stroop waffle. Oh, number one. Yeah, number one answer on the board.

Really? Very nice. Okay. I would have thought that was German, so it goes to show you. Well, the Dutch and the Germans, they kind of hang out. right I don't know they used to have money called Dutch marks or were they duch marks

yeah they're definitely Dutch marks you got it douch marks I don't know Deutsch that's it Deutsch that's it Deutsch nothing like dude dude dutch dutch marks yeah douche marks All right Tanner I like

All over my new car Go ahead please what do you think of Dutch coffee That's a thing Oh but it's also not like They invented it or anything It's just a known they're known for good For an interesting coffee blend there's even have a chain named the Dutch brothers or Dutch brothers.

But I know Dutch coffee is considered good coffee in Europe, but I don't know. What do you think? I've never heard of it. But, uh, yeah, go. Let's do it. Let's try Dutch. I think everybody has coffee, right? Well, right.

Probably. But, you know, we'll see. What do we got? Cool. Show me coffee. Boom. Uh, number 14. And specifically people put coffee Dutch brothers or Dutch bros.

Sorry, Dutch brothers. Oh, yeah, it's bros, isn't it? I hate that. Oh, I can't do it. I know, I really hate it. Has to be brothers. Sorry, that's how it's going to be. I'm going to walk in there and say,

hello, Dutch brothers. Please have me, give me this item from your menu, Dutch brothers. That's what I'm going to do. I mean, there's no period at the end. It's not a contra, it's not an abbreviation. It's bros, but it just. It just hurts to say it. I hate it.

Right. I'm with you. All right. Dutch. I might go later for some fried chicken. Yeah. That's the sound I make after I eat their chicken. All right, Brian, you've got control.

Two answers already taken up. Eight answers left. Name a Dutch food. That's where I'm getting confused. Everything I think of has the word Dutch in it, like Dutch apple pie. I mean, I think is Dutch. It doesn't, I very much doubt it. I'm sure they just call it apple pie where they're at,

but we're going to call it Dutch apple pie. Sure. All right. Show me, Dutch apple pie. Oh, man. Apple tart, which is their apple pie. American is Dutch apple pie. I bet there's a, you can probably get a beer called apple tart. Don't you think?

Right. Somebody's got like an apple tart beer. Oh, like a cart or a cider, an apple tart cider. Yeah, just sounds like something you'd see on a drink menu. Apple tart. You have apple tart here? Yeah. Oh, good.

That's right. I did forget to make the joke when you pick pancakes. because you did it at the beginning, that you can also get a schmork and a pancake. A schmork and a pancake. Schmock and a pancake. The Dutch need to write in. Tell us how we're doing here.

Well, we're doing terrible. First of all, I want to apologize to my Dutch friends online. And invite me for dinner sometime, and maybe I wouldn't look so foolish. And then also tell me what it is. Now, everything that I see, like we have a couple of Dutch restaurants around here, but it all just seems like a southern food,

but they always have like I always hear the word Dutch oven and then whenever I see like logos and stuff it looks like a cauldron or a pot and I'm like is that the joke do I not get the joke but it feels like I don't know how about the Dutch sausages I don't know I'd sure yeah yeah yeah they probably have that all right some keep in mind by the way yeah it's you're guessing what the Tadpool thinks is Dutch You keep saying that. I can't think of any... Every week we say it. Every week we say it. Let me remind you. Yeah, these are from the tadpole. That's what the tadpool makes us touch.

Okay, yeah. Pie Dutch, Apple Pie Dutch. How about some fudge? Dutch fudge. Some kind of Dutch fudge. I don't know why that seems right. Do it. All right.

Do it. Show me Dutch fudge. Do it. Do it. Look in that. I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you, Dutch chocolate. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, if you gave me pancakes, if you gave me pancakes, if you gave him, I'll take it. That's fine. Yeah. No objections from this side of the game. I feel, I feel like you're already, you know, this category is already kind of starting you uphill. Yeah.

Could you next time not pick survey questions that make, you know, part of the world hate me? Let me see. No, no, no, no. No, no, because you're explained it as, well, I'm just guessing what I think the Tadpool would say. Let the rest of the world hit the Tadpool. You're safe. That's good up. You've got a nice little wall of protection.

Nice little force field. It's called the Tadpool. Okay. Then I'm going to go, like I said, since they're cooking in pots, how about some Dutch soup, some Dutch vegetable soup? Okay. All right. Do it. Like a stew or a soup?

Sure. Show me. Dude better. Show me Dutch stew. Okay. Fair enough. Dutch stew. Yeah. Disco stew and Dutch stew go out on Saturday night.

I didn't even have anything like relatively close that I could say, well, this is kind of like a Dutch stew. Yeah, Dutch dirty water. There you go. All right. Tanner, it's back on us. I did such a shitty job at the last one, Tanner. Do you have a better one than I had? Gouda cheese is from the Netherlands. Ooh, is it now? Yeah, yeah. All right, we'll say cheese. Oh, yeah. Gouda.

That makes sense. The cheese, Gouda, Gouda of cheese. All right. Show me some Gouda. Yeah, cheese. Gouda. Edom is also from the Netherlands, and only a couple people set it on. So I just, I just mixed it in with the other cheese like a fondue pot.

Well, other than my lucky pancake guess, I feel like Tanner's got the fire here. So, Tanner, you should check the, you should pick the next one, too. You've cleared out the left side. Now, let's go for some of those big. points on the right side. Scott, you and Tanner have six. Brian has nine. What do you got, buddy? I feel like people in

Discord talk about black licorice a lot. Yeah, they do. Like the salted black licorish or whatever. I don't know where it's from. I know that they make the fire trucks. That's typically from the I mean, it's zone appropriate, but I think it's mostly like very

Nordic countries that do that, but I don't know, but again, it's the tadpool and they they may be as confused as us. So let's try it. Let's say black licorish. Sure. All right. Show me black licorish. Yeah, number eight. There's different kinds of licorish that come from that part of the world, the continents.

Some do come from Scandinavian. I think the salted licorish is more south of Scandinavian. Well, no, there's salted licorice in Sweden and Finland and Norway as well. so I don't know Hmm Well But there you go It's what the tadpool says

The tadpool 11 of them said black licorice Okay How about What is it called though We had these French fries That was had a name Oh

Not frets Because that's French Right Freeds Something with a pee Oh we had I think you just said French fries I think he'd probably take it

Oh, it's something like, he might take it, you're right. I might, I might take it. He might. Hint, hint. Hint. Oh, really? Yeah. We'll say the fries thing, what starts with a P. I forgot the name of it.

Sure. Pompfriots is what you're thinking of, Belgian fritz. Show me French fries. Who cares? The word French is in there. Dang, it's got to be Dutch. French fries. sure okay now that's what our french fries actually from i always always for them because they're belgium

they are belgium okay okay yeah yeah it's an easy thing to screw up because they people have said french fries for so long they've given front the france too much credit french gets too much credit for that who gets who gets credit for crinkle who gets the crinkle i don't know chris crinkle uh he's norway norway gets all the credit um all right tanner and you got another one that's uh Good. Who makes goulash? Who's goulash? That sounds Eastern European. Very dirty water.

Oh, it's German? Okay. Let's not do that. Or Hungarian. Pickled what a pickled herring. Oh, pickled herring. I like that one. Pickled herring. Delish. All right. Show me herring.

Button didn't work. Oh, interesting. Okay. Plus, I wanted to pull up the number, and the herring is, it's low, surprisingly low. Where is it? I know people said it. I don't know. I can't find it, but I know it's like two or three people, so it's low.

Hmm. Oh, apparently one of my relatives is listening live. You just sent me at Texas says, the fries you're thinking of her call. Petaget Orlaug. I'm not sure how to say that. But it's a street food. It's fries. Oh, you just wrote more.

It typically made of russ of potatoes. Include, sometimes mayonnaise, mustard, chopped onions, tomato sauce. It sounds like almost like a more fresh street way of doing like putine or something. But it's pataget, potaget. I don't know how you say it, Orlog. Potaget Orlog. Yeah, Orlog, the new villain coming for He-Man. count or log

it is yeah yeah anyway I couldn't remember the name they were it is very good though but I don't remember mayonnaise being on there oh yeah yeah yeah big when people put French fries

about half of them put French fries with mayonnaise by the way it was when when people oh might be this answer might be this yeah could be the stuff could be yeah I don't know all right well there you go what's turn is it shit

it is still yours because I give you French fries Oh, no, I'm sorry You guessed herring Or you guessed herrings So that was out That's right Back to Brian

Yeah You got fries I should look at the thing On the screen that says Brigh guy is playing I just feel like Somebody put Dutch oven something in there

I just feel like You really can't get off of the Dutch oven It's in the name Dutch oven I've had Dutch oven Peach Cobbler Before to camp It was fantastic

Some of the best Peach Cobber I've ever had, probably the best I ever had. But did you side, do you side, side diet, though? Did you look at it and go, hmm? I, no, actually, I watched them start it to, from start to finish, and it took a while, but when it came out of there and we all, like, dug in, it was unbelievable. It was so good.

I'm going to say pimento loaf. How are you? I'm so happy you said pimento loaf. I have no idea. The actual origin of pimento loaf. So why not give it to the Dutch? I'm just going to give it to the Dutch since I don't actually know. By the way, I did find herring.

It was number 13. So actually pretty close to the top. Pimento loaf, great choice. All right, show me pimento loaf. As TV's Travis would say, that's a fun guess, but it's wrong. I love that one. Well done. All right, I'm throwing it over to the smart guy in the room, Tanner.

Tanner, what do you like? What do I like? D for Scott and Tanner to nine for Brian. Okay. One strike left for each team. Meatball.

Meatball. Danish meatball. I thought he was calling you. I thought he was calling you a meatball. You're not Danish. Dutch meatball. Let's do it. Dutball.

Dutch ball. Show me Dutch meatballs. Why not? Oh. Yeah. Bitterball and beef meatballs. These sound amazing. They are

beef covered with a a batter and then deep fried. So the outside is crispy. They sound absolutely amazing. Oh my gosh. This person I talked about who texted me is now texting me answers. Quit doing that. I'm not going to use it.

This is the relative of yours? Yes. They're listening live and he's like, say this one. I'm like, no, it's fine to correct me on the patot or Jojo or whatever the hell I said. But you can't give me new ones. We're playing a game here. All right. Shut up my phone down.

Bitterballin is a thick, savory meat ragu typically containing beef or veal, thickened with a roux, and beefstock. Then it's chilled until firm, rolled into balls, breaded, and deep fried until golden brown. And I want some of these right now. These sound amazing. Oh, Lord. They do sound good. Deep fried meatballs.

Hell yes. I would eat that. I would eat a few. Deep fried and I don't get along very well anymore. Sure. I would eat a few. Do that in a, you know what? It doesn't bother me at all as Japanese.

what's that called? They're deep-frying. Oh, tempera. Temperate doesn't bother me at all. No, yeah. Because it's a light, it's a very thin light batter. And with, you know, some American places, when you go and get fish and chips,

you are really eating two-thirds batter and a little tiny piece of fish inside it. So, yeah, it's the worst. Yeah, I don't know. Nobody wants that in their life. Nobody wants that. TV's preface, it is Dutch, isn't it? It's bitter-balling when I,

I search for Bitterballin. Bitterballin. It says a Dutch meat-based snack. It's the fifth word in the description of bitterballin. I don't know what that makes me laugh. It is fun. Better balin. I don't like it.

Anyway. Yeah. Wasn't there some kind of Dutch Girl Scout cookie or something like the Dutch Guine I have no idea. Yeah, well, like, maybe like it's got to be a combination of like chocolate and caramel. Oh, got you talking about Lutefisk. Okay, never mind. coconut something maybe

Dutch boy Dutch boy finger in the dike Dutch boy paint No no no but it is It is your turn Scott Oh is it? Yeah yeah Because you've got knee balls

I don't know why Both of you are just you know Staring at the volleyball on the ground Neither one he wants to pick it up I apologize I literally thought it was my turn I did too Don't feel bad All right Tanner you've had a good run here

I don't I feel like I need to trust you throughout So what else you got? I don't I have no idea You're all out I've been up since one yesterday Don't come on me Okay can we I know we didn't say goulash

But can we just say like Dutch stew or something And maybe Brian will give it to us Brian said that Brian said stew Oh he already said stew Oh shit I missed that And by the way People did say goulash too

Gulash was I think that was one of our Just one answer Somebody said goulash I can't wait to get to Yeah one person said goulash So it's tied for 32nd place okay what about a a tulip because they have all those flowers over there do you think they

they eat those yeah there's like a little snack they're out they're out prancing through the fields they just eat their flowers sugared tulips mm-hmm you know what why not let's say tulips sure let's do it all right show me tulips tulips salad was on the list number 30 in the list really that's a thing That's a thing. Put your two lips on the salad. People that like flour, like eating rose petals and stuff, I mean, I understand there's some drinks and things that have like a hints of it and all that.

That's fine. But eating the flour, like just straight up eating a flour, F that shit, I ain't doing that. They're eating a frozen one. There are some like, sometimes at a sushi place we go to, they have a chilled orchid, I think, on the plate, and we, you know, you're supposed to eat those. Yeah, and I guess the one in Vegas was cool because of the effect of it, but. Oh, right. Yeah.

But for the most part, though, like, if you're just out and about and you're like, hey, what's that? She's growing daffodils in her garden. Let's eat some of those. No. Don't eat those. That's gross. All right. Well, that puts us in a precarious position here.

Not really. That's right. Brian, last final strike. You've got two answers left on the board. I'm going with, I think the Keebler-Ls are Dutch. And I think... Do you? Yeah, I think that's right.

And I think they maybe make some... Dutch shortbread cookies. Yeah. Okay. All right. Yeah. Dutch cookies. Okay.

All right. Okay. Show me Dutch cookies. Oh. I say that. I mean, so butter cookies, I'm going to give it to you.

There's also windmill cookies, which was lower on the list. Those are the ones I think of with the little almond slivers in them. They're so freaking good. But butter cookies are the ones that come in a tin that you have a hard time that you use for USB cables or sewing materials or whatever. I didn't know those were Dutch. I didn't think about that.

Yeah, they always got the Dutch paintings of stuff on the front of them blue. And, oh, I didn't, why didn't I think of that? But it's great. All right. I know we're running short on time. How about Dutch? They're also Danish, by the way, but that's all right. We'll keep going.

Oh, are they Danish? That's true. You're right. You're right. It is Danish. But it's what the tadpool thinks. Yeah, it doesn't matter. Yeah.

They both, they all heard D word and they're just doing D words. And I thought the same thing. Oh, I'm an idiot. How about. did we already say pecan roll say that pecan roll the dutch pecan roll stoney dutch pecan roll

you're thinking of stuckies is what you're thinking of congratulations Tanner these prizes let's go ahead and get to the other the last two items on the list

can I tell you what my I don't want to bought out him but the thing the name he gave me and you tell me if it's on there yeah he told me to say Bitterballin? Oh. Yeah, look up at number seven.

Oh, is that the one called Bitterballin? It's the one that actually says Bitterballin. I just heard you say meatballs. I never heard anyone read the thing and I didn't look. Okay, so Bitterballin is on. I would have gotten it, but that would have been cheating. It's a red on air, uh, meatball. But he didn't say it.

He said meatballs, right? Didn't he say meatballs? You guys said meatballs and then I described Bitterball as these deep fried meatballs and they sound great oh these are the ones where i said hey i'd like to have some temper on there yes exactly well who knows where the hell my name was let's look at these last two answers number nine i believe is german but you know let's see apple strudel pretty sure pretty sure apple strudel is uh could be swiss maybe apple fritters yes those guys are all the same they all talk the same don't they have the same language i'm not making that up right

well don't fall for it no I'm telling you Germans Swiss people speak German right do I not am I wrong on that Swiss Swiss is like there's different regions right

and I think you've got you've got people speaking French in Switzerland I'm already going to get enough grief about the Dutch food I didn't know I don't think I want double down geography exactly you've got okay good I'm so glad

I'm not crazy but yeah bomb bats confirms this Like, depending on the region, you've got German, Swiss, or sorry, not Swiss. A French is one of them, right? Isn't they part of Switzerland? Oh, yeah, here it is. German, French, Italian, and Romanish, Romanish, Romanish, Romish, Romish, Romanish. Romanish? Romanish. Romish? Romanoish noodles. Prominantly German, though.

I thought it was all German. I had no idea. They're Italian speaking. What's that like? Yavor! And the guy goes, hey, what's a do-do-do-do. Like, how does that go? Wow.

Exactly. I don't know. All right. Let's go to number 10. She's Danish. I think Denmark for that one. Okay. Okay. Let's see here. Let's kind of go down the list here.

Some other great answers. Spacecakes or hash brownies or pot brownies. Number 12. Number 15. Old Dutch potato chips. I think it's just a brand. It's not really Dutch. Sausages was number 16.

We briefly talked about sausages. Abel Schuyver, which is an apple pastry, I think. think. Oh, they're like little, like little balls, fried apple. So pretty much any apple pastry is getting Dutch credit. Yeah. All right. Number 18, Belgian Waffles. Number 19, Hollandees,

which is French. Number 10, stampout. I didn't look up what that is, but I think that was Dutch. Number 21, coleslaw. Number 20s law. Really? All right. You'd be happy, Brian, with number 23, Dutch oven. That's very good. Finally did.

People did say lutefisk. Peas soup, sauerkraut, wooden shoes. Holland. Bjork. I'm sorry, did you say Bjork? Somebody said Bjork. Okay, that's great. Slandic.

That's fantastic. Clogs. Dutch girls at the pastry. All these clog. All this food. All these are all clogged in me. Finanhatti, garlic sausage, gingerbread, goulash, Heineken. It's German.

Isn't it? Heineken, I think, is Dutch. Oh, is it? Okay. A Dutch beer, yeah. Poached eggs, rock forest, royal with cheese, shepherds pie, smoked eel. And finally, well, this is going to be a quick six strikes. Yeah.

They were wrong about how long it took. It was a long quick strikes. Yeah. We did go long. Well, well done. This means Tanner is the big winner. Congratulations. We know that because Fletcher said that, but also because we just know he's a big winner.

We know that just because. we know him. Hey, Tanner, these codes are on their way to you from Brian. He'll send these to you via a direct message on Discord. Use them, enjoy them, have fun with them. Let us know how it goes. All right? We'll do. Good luck. Good luck with the staying up all night thing. Go take some caffeine or something. Whatever you got to do. All right. He's up all night to get acclimated. That's right. Hey, done away. Here's some great. Here's some great news. Yesterday, we decided Indiana Jones was our best friend in the world because we played fate of Atlantis, the Indiana Jones game from the point-and-click adventure days of way back in

1999, no, no, 91, 92, sorry, that was 92. The original game, or the original point-and-click game was 1989, and it is also quite good. If you guys are interested in talking about that or hearing more about that, or if you're a fan of that era of point-and-click adventures, check it out. Those suck. Those were bad. Yeah, but they exist, so suck it. Yeah, they exist, so we had to talk about them, but we did our part. We never have to look at those again. But the main point-and-click game, So good. Go check it out. Play Retro is the podcast, and you can find it at FrogPants.com slash play Retro. Hey, done away. I'd like to you to kiss our butts. Oh, damn it. He left on his own. He left on his own accord. All right. We're going to go ahead now and take a break. When we come back, Tom Merritt will be here. We'll do a little tech news. After that, we've got recommendals with Scott and Brian. Our other two are out. That's right. Scott and Brian and Scott and Brian. That's right. Doing two each. The four of us have recommendals. That's right. Looking forward to.

that. I got some real diversity between mine. Are you like that where it's like... Yeah, very much so. Yeah. Good. It'll be like four of us are really here. So this is fantastic. Look forward to that after this song break. Brian, would you bring? Yeah, let's go up to Wisconsin to a metal core powerhouse. The band is called Archer's. They've just dropped their brand new single. It's available now on all major streaming

platforms. And it's taken from their brand new EP temporary high. Here are Archer's with... What's the song? Cricket Smile. There it is. Cricket Smile. Isn't it a little dangerous showing up unannounced? Could have sworn you were a cancer that I already had cut out? There's gotta be a better place for you to waste your time than be to wasting, wasting mind.

I know that you'll say that it isn't fair. You came all this way and you did your hair. So why should I pretend like I even care But you're just wasting your wands Go find somebody who cares Go find somebody who cares Open eyes, kissing right through the cracks And your crooked roll

I've seen your face in my dream But it's been a world I wasted I didn't know about it That'll let you in my mind But it won't happen again But it won't happen again No, you won't happen again So tell me why are you still here?

Honestly, I was hoping that you disappeared Or at least like someone knew so they can no despair Maybe it isn't fair to keep it all to myself Why don't kiss me for yourself So that I'm kissing right through the cracks And you're crook as well I've seen you facing my dreams But it's been all

I wasted I'm no better than to let you in my back But it won't happen again Cause I'm better young And I'm only keeping what I can't live without So say goodbye To everything that we've been Because it won't happen again So long

Fuck off You take too much out of me I can't afford the car It's all that I want So never have to spend Another thought on you I may be flying by Open eyes, kissing right through the cracks

And your crook is wrong I've seen the face in my dream but it's been a while I wish that I didn't know better than to let you in my God it won't happen again because I'm better now

and I'm only keeping what I can't live with us so say goodbye so everything we've been because it won't happen again No we won't have it again It won't happen again. I wouldn't try it, Terry. I'm in a bad mood today.

I'm liable to make you eat the rest of the tennis balls in that basket. Look! Everything comes to those who wait. We got her! We're back after the break. Brian, who is that fantastic song-making human people band? They are also known as archers, although I think they should change their name. This is from their brand-new EP called Temporary High. The song is called Crooked Smile. Nice. Go check it out. Available. It's good. Available now.

I haven't heard an India in the middle lately that I didn't like. They're all good. They've been coming in really hot lately, yeah. Yeah. Keep that up, everybody. keep making them indie hits and we'll keep playing them and then Spotify I'll keep trying to take me down with them and then I'll keep saying to Spotify we have the rights to play them and then they'll keep coming back saying how do you have those rights and then I have to keep telling the same story Spotify is on a tear and they're

pissing me off they are yeah diddo if you're listening to us via Spotify today just know that lucky you don't lucky you hope you make it to the end of the show dang it their pain like literally the whole point is to have the legal rights we have them. Yeah. Yeah. We have them. They can prove it. But you're a bunch of robots now and they're hard to work with and YouTube. I thought YouTube is bad. Spotify's worse. Sorry. They just are. And I know they're getting heat because they have video now and they're starting to get heat from like copyright stuff. So I know they have a reason to be like reactive and stuff. But come on now. Calm yourselves. Yeah. And X is getting that lawsuit about copyright material. So I guess, you know, it does make sense.

It does to me as well. All right. We are going to welcome our old pal Tom Merritt of the program. Let's see if I can make this work so that Tom shows up. Oh, I just removed him. We don't want that. How do I want to make this look cool. Isn't there a way there is? Oh, there it is. Okay.

So now we take Tom. I'm not as well versed in how the video stuff in this works yet. So trying to make Tom look good is a fun experiment that is not hard. Well, let's rephrase that. Tom looks good. Yeah, he does look good. It's not hard to make him look good, but it's hard. So are you still putting your videos from Discord?

Is that what's going on? No, I'm just trying to show you in a larger window. Because I don't see your video. Yeah, you won't see us until I send you video, which I can do now. So if I go, this is fun. So I'll start the can. There, you can see us now. No, I can't.

Oh, you can't? That's weird. You should be able to see us. That's very strange. Oh, there. Now I do. Yeah. Okay.

So this doesn't, this is working differently that I'm used to. This is interesting. Oh, well, that's fantastic. I love to hear that. Hold on. Maybe there's a wait. No, that doesn't work. Okay, maybe I can go like this. Tom, Merritt, move from stage solo layout. There it is. That's what I was looking for. Tom, all big.

Yeah, there he is. Big enough anyway. I'll figure this out. I'm sorry to divert. First of all, I'm sorry to be late because I just blanked on the 9 a.m. Oh, my gosh. No, we went long with the tadpullet feud, so your timing is excellent. Okay. I mean, yeah, why are you guys so late? I'm mad. Yeah, we were running way late. today. So this is when things all come together. Well, because you said at 9 a. Yeah. You said 15 minutes ago you'd add me after the break. So I felt like I was running. I was getting ahead of myself. So are you doing everything through Streamyard? No. So there's a combination of things happening. For you, we will. Because I know that it's something you're using all the time. So we're going to, I want to make it so that when you come on at Streamyard for other people, I'll pull them in through Discord. Other people will be audio only through Streamyard. Like I'm just making it so I've got like a 10 ways, however. people like it, and then I pull them in.

I see. I see. So we'll see how it all goes. That's why I'm not seeing all the video, because not everything is going through stream era. That was my biggest question. That is correct. Well, anyway, it's good to see you, man.

How the heck are you? Yeah, good to say you too. I'm good. How are you all? Great. You know, I remember you and Veronica some many years ago on your show, Sword and Laser, recommended a series of books by one Joe Amacrombie, the first law series. and especially Veronica, she was super into it.

And I went, oh, that sounds interesting. So I checked out the first book, which is called The Blade itself. And I read that. And I devoured it. And I loved it. And then I read the next one and the next one. And I read all his books. Well, he has a brand new book out called The Devils.

And I don't know if you guys have talked about it yet at all. Not yet. It's our going to, spoiler alert for Sword and Laser fans, probably going to be our pick for July. Okay. Good. Because it's so freaking good. And I can't wait to hear. you guys talk about it so just a little say what you will about joe abercrombie say that he writes a

damn good book he knows how to write books and i already heard somebody's already optioned it i think james cameron's production company or something yeah that's right uh we we talked about that on sword and laser a couple weeks ago uh and that's what got us uh all excited about it and like well we should probably make that the next pick then yeah that's a good good call anyway uh just a thanks to when you talk to her again tell her thanks for that recommendation it's okay yeah yeah absolutely well the funny thing is when we saw the news about cameron optioning the book uh we realized we had read joe abercrombie as an alternate selection on sword and laser but never actually made one of his books our main pick which we were stunned because we love them so much so that's another

wrong that we will write if we make this the next one it's also wrong that it's taken so long for them to actually like option one of his things and it's so good i can't wait anyway hopefully the first law follows. Tom, let's get into whatever tech news you want to talk about today. What do you got going? Yeah, I don't know. I was thinking I'd just talk cat's eye with Brian Ibitt because that's all we've been talking about on email. Does Scott even know? I don't know what that is. No, but it's actually going to be one of my recommendals today. Ah, okay, a little tease ahead then. Yeah, a little tease ahead. Oh, this is the thing you were talking about, Brian, yesterday. You said Tom and you were, or Tom recommended to you, I guess. Yes. Tom recommended it to me.

and I'm going to recommend it to everybody else. And Emily was robbed, and I understand why. I understand from your answer, Tom, why she was robbed. But, okay, then Ilene was, Elina was robbed as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, for sure. I'm very, very curious. All that will become clear shortly. Stay tuned.

That's right. Meanwhile, so I'm puzzled, Scott. Maybe you can help me understand this. Why people are so excited that Xbox president Sarah Bond said that they will partner with AMD on the next generation of Xbox systems, given that they always do. Yeah.

Yeah, it's a weird thing. I think that, honestly, I think it's a little bit of like weird. When they say we're partnering with AMD for the future of our Xbox devices, it's literally what they've been doing for the last, at least two generations, after Power PC on 360.

So Xbox 1, Xbox Series X, and PlayStation 4 and PS5 for the, that matter are all AMD. Nintendo uses Nvidia, but the other two are using AMD too, so status quo. Exactly. And these portable devices, for the most part, Steam Deck and the Allies, and those things are all using AMD, at least GPUs in those cases. So it's not a weird thing at all. In fact, it's the one place in Intel has never really had a great foothold is in the console business. For whatever reason, AMD's always like there to do it, probably volume pricing, maybe other reasons I don't know, efficiency

on those devices or something, but the fact that they are now just saying it out loud, I think makes a lot of people go no way, I'm mad at Intel because their last chip tried to burn itself up. I ain't doing them anymore. This is great. And they just aren't paying attention to how things have always been. But I also think it's this

other bit, which is not only are they leaning into that relationship which feels very like, hey, yeah, we're all against Intel now, but also I think that this, well, we know that their new stuff moving forward device-wise will be thinner versions of windows

which means the next literally the next console from Microsoft like whatever's next from the series S&X will be a device that runs a version of windows invisibly although maybe they'll let you go in there and dink around

but it'll basically be this thin layer of windows down there running everything on the underside which means and they've said this out loud you can run other stuff on there like your Steam Library like your Epic library like all this other stuff yeah which is what they're doing with the asis rog so sure yeah and it's basically a PC it already was kind of a PC right but the closeness of it is opening yeah and uh it's i think that's what people are mostly responding to but i just think a lot of them didn't know

the prior boxes used the MD maybe and there's a little there's a little of untoward intel death watch going on oh yeah you know it's like you know grandpa's sick instead of rooting for his recovering, everybody's like cheering his demise, which is odd. But I wondered if it was all of that that you've said and how much of the sort of drumbeat of Microsoft will never, we'll stop making Xboxes, which has also been wrong for the past couple of times. And this is them confirming like, no, we're still going to make Xboxes. If anything, this is saying it. And you keep not believing us. This is almost like them capitulating on the front of, uh,

other predictions where, which were they were just going to lean into the PCification of it all. And they are doing. That is what this is, really. Yeah. It's them saying, all right, in a way, it's them not giving up, because that's not how they would say this. But it's them throwing their hands up and going, steams a formidable force. And wouldn't it be cool if you could play that over here? And also our stuff.

And what if all those games carried over? And there wasn't this division. They've already eliminated a lot of the division between platforms as it is between PC and console with their games in particular, but they want to make that universal across the board. You buy a game somewhere, you play it anywhere, game pass, of course everywhere, and then still have a hardware option so people get the, you know, branded Xbox device. They get this other thing that they worked with Asuson, and I think it's actually going to be good for them. I think this is going to, I think this is smart, and I think it's subversive and pro-consumer at the same time. Like, it will

disrupt some of these other markets where exclusivity is everything. Sony, obviously, Nintendo very obviously, because here's the funny thing. These devices will play Sony PC games. No problem. Yeah. So you want to play Last of Us part one and two, the brand new Stellar Blade, whatever Sony game is out on PC, and there are plenty of them now, you can now play them on an Xbox. And there's nothing Sony can do. They can't block that. Right. So that's fascinating to me. I mean, They could stop making PC games, but that would just hurt themselves. So they're not going to do that either. Right, right.

It feels like a little bit of boardroom espionage in a weird way. And I don't know. It's fascinating to me. Yeah. I also think it's smart to say that their strategy has been, let's just expand to all the places and ways people want to play games. And I always thought it was odd that people like, so they're going to stop making Xboxes. And I'm like, no, consoles are a way people still like to play games. People still like to buy a thing and put it next to their television.

and play games on it. So until people stop doing that, which Switch 2 is show, well, I guess Switch 2 is handheld, but PlayStation sales are indication that we're not stopping that, then why would Microsoft not make a box for that? Yeah, no, exactly. And in the case of the Switch 2, it is, according to today's numbers, it has now superseded the amount of consoles sold,

and it counts because it's still a home console with the dock and everything. But the more consoles sold than the previous record holder, which up until now has been the PlayStation 2, nothing's rivaled it. And this beat it this last week or something. Yeah. Close to that. So I don't know. It doesn't mean it'll have the full life. Never has a more incremental upgrade to sold better. Yeah. And there's something. I don't know what it is to learn from that. There's something. I don't know either. Yeah. I will, I guess we'll figure it out. Everything costs more. You know, everyone complains to high heaven how I'll never buy another Nintendo game. It's not enough of an upgrade. It's barely different than the switch one. And it's more expensive. I'll buy it. I'm getting it. People like shiny. and new, I guess. I don't know. It's weird. I think that must be it. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, maybe we're not paying attention enough to like better screen is very important when you're playing a game, you know? I think bigger, bigger, larger, better build, that kind of stuff matters. But then there are other

weird things like Sony's like, yeah, or Nintendo's like, we're not going to do Halifax sticks like everyone else. Yeah, which, you know, and they say, don't worry, we won't drift anyway, even though we're not using the certain way not to drift. Yeah. We're going to definitely drift but we're going to tell you it's fine that's how they're yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and i'm like hey like yesterday i was like nintendo i've got like three of these pro controllers i got for the switch one i like them they're great but uh will i need to get the pro two controller well yeah for an extra 20 bucks on top of what they used to cost absolutely you should well what's the difference nothing there's the little c button on there that's it and so you can't

use those with oh no i can use them not a problem and that's why i'm not that's why i'm not That's why I'm not upgrading. But they don't have the C button. Yeah. And also, 8bit do just did a firmware update on these, which is also a, these were designed for the Switch 1, and they stopped working for 2, so everybody freaked out. But that just happened today, so I'm very excited about that. That's just a bug.

Yeah. But anyway, fun stuff in the world of games. But Microsoft, definitely, if you're all wondering what the big culminating strategy or plan was, I think that's what she got up and told us. Yeah. Pretty much. I mean, she also said a lot about immersion. an AI and stuff, but I'm like, yeah, they always say that. So I don't think that's the important

part. The important part seems to have been, uh, we're partnering with AMD to make another Xbox and everybody's like, what? Yeah. Really? Like, yes. Yeah. Also, Phil Spencer said what, like a year ago? We're not, we're still making a box next time. Yes, I know. That's all they've ever said is like, and not even like hedging it like, well, we'll see. It's always been like, no, we're making another box. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, just it's weird. It's weird how that happens. You get right presentation and everyone finally gets on board, I guess. I was really shocked when Apple at their worldwide developer conference announced that they would be making new versions of operating systems too. So, you know, yeah. A lot of people are given, people giving heat to that glass or

that liquid interface stuff they're doing with iOS. I think it looks cool. It does look cool. Not in every situation, but it's also in a beta, so maybe they'll work those bugs out. But yeah, I mean, is it the thing that'll make me go like, throw away my phone? I need a new one. No. But it's nice. It looks cool. I like it. I do wonder what the performance hit will be on existing phones. I guess we'll find out. Well, anyway, more of this fun stuff later today on The Daily Tech News Show Live. I'll be there.

Can't wait. Yeah, me too. We're going to talk about AI Mattel toys. Yeah, that's right. You heard me. You might soon get a Barbie Brian. Penny Rupskins coming alive. You're not too far from the truth.

Like, imagine picking up a Barbie that talks. And instead of pulling the string and she says some inane, sexist, dumb, mark like she used to. Instead, she might go, I see that it's warm in this room. Have you checked the ambient temperature or whatever? I don't know what it's going to do. I could adjust it for you if you'd like. What's your wife my password? Exactly. Our Barbie will say, yeah, that conspiracy theory you like, no, there's a lot of really good evidence that you're correct. Yeah, can't wait for all those. You should buy an NFT. Oh, please no. But anyway, that'll be later today. I'm looking forward to that. So please check it out live. 2.30 Mountain. Sorry, 2 p.m. Mountain time. And Tom,

anything else going on? You want to mention? About to record Daily Tech News show with Jen Burr. So many gens. Gen Cutter. And I'm about to do that. And we got a little gadget roundup at the top. I know occasionally in our surveys, people are like, why don't you cover more hardware? Well, today's your day. We got lots of good hardware news from X-Real and Garmin and Wise and Ufi. So if that's your jam, come on over and check it out later today at DailyTechnewshow.com. Fantastic. Tom Merritt, everybody. Have a fantastic afternoon.

We'll see you soon. Bye now. All right. We did. We did. Yes. It's exciting stuff. All right.

Time for us now to turn our minds and hearts and feelings towards this. Well, what do you recommend? Well, I'll tell you what I recommend. I recommend listening to what we're about to do. It's called recommendals. We talk about stuff we've seen on streaming. services, things we think you might like as well. Today it's just me and Brian, but we have four recommendals total. That's right. We're going to start with Brian because that is the tradition.

Brian, let's start with your first pick. What do you got this week? Yeah, you know what? And I was going to do these in the opposite order, but because we just had Tom, let's talk about the recommendation that I got from him that I am now recommending to others. And that'll be my recommendal clip two in our in our little folder there and this is a series on Netflix very nice here you go we don't have any time a year is going to fly by but we have a little bit of time to develop them and even that will be difficult you know building from the ground up is so much pressure because the potential on this project is so extreme You have Hybe and Gaffin, two ginormous labels in the music industry coming together to create the next global girl group.

Each of these girls are on their own journey, but doing it together. They kind of have control of their own fate, depending on how hard they work to get here and how bad they want it. I don't think there's been a project that's been done like this before. Taking the K-pop method of developing and training, but doing it in pop music. and it's real collaboration in partnership with a label from Korea. Bang is the chairman of Hyde. He has a vast amount of experience

putting groups together. He helped BTS grow from the ground up and then into one of the biggest bands of all time. Oh, wow. This sounds like it might be... This sounds like the kind of thing I would either hate this because I don't want a reality style

like oh we're going to be a band how do we make a band me like i would hate this normally or i would love this because it was made really good i'm guessing it's the latter it's the latter um this is not you're not watching like an every week uh well you know uh the the votes are in you're out uh kind of thing this is a documentary about the actual making of a band starting with 200 uh or probably even more than that applicants pairing it down to roughly 20 and when all is said and done 20 performers. And then using this, the important thing is the K-pop process to create a global pop band, as opposed to just creating another K-pop band, and there's some great ones, you're doing

this to create a global band that uses K-pop elements in their, in their formation. And, you know, you've got people from Texas and Sweden and the Philippines and Japan. Japan and Korea, of course, and all these different places. And the fascinating aspect of this is how different it is to create a band using the K-pop style, which is so heavily focused on choreography and very focused on having the members kind of all at an equal level, not necessarily having. five incredible or more importantly having two incredible singers and then four pretty good singers know you kind of want everybody at that same level so nobody you don't end up with

as Tom described it to me a Beyonce Destiny's Child situation oh great example or I guess you could even do Timberlake or somebody it's like the standout exactly yeah and so this is a partnership between Hib the the Korean company that launched BTS in terms of them into a massive success and then Geffen and it's a I keep saying fascinating but really is I mean you watch this process and say oh okay this is this is not how I would expect a band to be created purely here in Los Angeles or America or wherever this they use a lot of different requirements techniques they keep keep just about all of the girls in the same house, unless they're underage, in which case they live nearby in a house

with one of their parents or a guardian, and really focus on making the members mesh as a group, which also makes it very difficult when they say, okay, we've got to, we've got to start pairing down the 20 performers to get down to the six we need for the band, because then, you know, they're they're going from supporting themselves to all of a sudden have to compete with each other and you'll find a lot of them do not want to do that um the band is uh the band is cat's eye by the way i don't know if i've said it and the show is a pop star academy cats eye have they do we should we know cats eye by now like are they already a thing and they're already they're already big and if you're in that pop world um whether it's pay pop or just kind of global pop you've probably

heard of them and watch their videos. The thing that kind of separates Cat's Eye or separates K-pop bands from other pop groups, even if they're all vocalists and nobody playing an instrument. You're kind of an in-sync thing is the massive amount of time spent coaching and training the performers. They're living in this house. And from the time they wake up until the time they go to sleep with the first. few breaks, they are in choreography classes. They're in dance classes. They're in vocal classes.

They're seeing a therapist to make sure that they're not getting overwhelmed by things and to talk about how they're feeling. And if they are feeling like this isn't the right thing for them, that there's nobody saying, no, I'm sorry, you can't leave. You're committed. You have to stay. They're very, very focused on making sure that the girls are well taken care of and that they're they're okay with this and into it um but also a very rigorous rigorous oh yeah i assume it's madness like just insanity the way these it is madness and i watch the the choreography that they do um that they teach these girls and it's like all right you think this is one song three minutes long they perform it in concert they've got it is not just the same four moves

repeated over and over again. It's about a hundred different moves in a different order and then changing position as you do those moves because each of the girls has to be kind of center stage for a song to sing their part of that song. And they have to do it with all six members and rotating around

and moving around. You kind of see the people coaching them. There's this woman named Missy who feels she's done this a lot, but it always still feels like she's new to this every time you see her. But I know she's done this a lot.

She's brilliant. She's smart. She knows what she's doing. But it always feels like it's a question with her. Do I need you to maybe work on your singing? And then there's this guy named Son, who is from South Korea and worked with BTS and worked, I think, with other bands of Sarifam or something or Black Pink. I can't remember the other ones they listed. with him. But nothing ever seems like he has a perpetually, and I know it's just his

expression. It's not how he probably really is, but he has a perpetually disappointed look on his face when he's when he's watching the women perform and sing and that sort of thing. But you really grow to love these girls. Like they are massively talented, and very motivated, very positive throughout this whole experience, when one of them leaves, whether it's by their own accord or by not making it to the next round, you really feel bad for them, and you kind of want to see all of them succeed and all of them make it. There's a girl from Denver that you're kind of rooting for at the beginning, but she kind of is a little bit overwhelmed. Do you think they, do they go off and do solo things, or is this just it for them, do you know? this this will be um well they uh a lot of a lot of k-pop artists or artists from these um types of bands do go off and do solo things if it's allowed um in their contract and i think tom called it graduation you graduate from a band and then go solo or you do solo stuff while things are going on during while bts was um while some of the members were still fulfilling their military duty with btss a couple of of the other members did do solo stuff, but now everybody's back together. So

BTS is back doing group stuff as opposed to individual stuff. Sure. But anyway, it's, it's fascinating. And it's a really, really cool show. I think it's, I don't have it here, but I think it's eight episodes or nine episodes and very few subtitles if you don't want subtitle show, but you're the thing, you'll probably just be blown away by, the choreography and how much these these girls have to learn for each individual song and all these parts and stuff. What's the name of this again? The title? The show is called a Pop Star Academy Katzai with a K.

Yeah, you got me intrigued. Not normally the kind of thing I'd seek out, but actually. No, but I think you'd like the documentary aspect of it because it isn't, it isn't like a reality show. There was a reality show sort of as part of this. It's what they call in South Korea a survival show. show, but they don't do that until they get down to the 10 finalists. And you, you don't, you're not watching the survival show. You're maybe seeing bits and pieces of it.

But it's, it's from a documentary aspect. It's really fascinating. Sounds all right. Yeah. Get me check it out. Yeah. All right, cool. Tell me your first one, Scott.

Well, here's my first one. Let me tell you something I've been excited about for a while. The old friend, I think I can call him a friend. We used to talk offline. And he bought my cards and all that. Dan Tractonberg, formerly of the Totally Rad Show. If you ever watched that show, you were always hearing him talk about his plans for getting into filmmaking and all that. And little do we know, he would end up being exactly what he was trying to be.

He is really, really great. Everything he's done, Ten Cloverfield Lane was amazing. His portal film on YouTube was great. Prey was incredible. And it came out at such a hard time during the pandemic where that would normally have been a big theater release. Instead, it was straight to home. so you were just like man if we could just get more of this predator take from him which was obviously a love letter because he loves the series loves predator it was a huge impact on him as a kid just couldn't wait to see what he ever did next and so we knew there was a new predator movie coming but what surprised me is a month or two ago they announced that there would be an interstitial project that he would direct animated that was going straight to hulu but it would be you know film length the 90 minute feature and it would be directed by by Tractonberg and, you know, with his writing partners and all this other stuff.

And it was going to be called Predator Killer of Killers. And I originally just thought, oh, these like little shorts. Is it like, you know, what is this? And even in the Matrix or something. Yeah, that's how I thought it was going to be. And honestly, if you just look at the trailer, you kind of think it might be because it's three very different settings. One is ancient feudal Japan.

one is ancient long time ago Norse stuff you've seen that in this trailer right here and then another one that is set during World War II and this and you know kind of the air power fight of World War II like planes and stuff and so I thought okay it is like anthology it's like three different stories and it's like oh the predator in these three different timelines and it is that but what I didn't know is they all culminate into the into a finale that includes all of them and it is so freaking good you guys i loved this i loved this i absolutely loved this i cannot say enough about this like it's it's this 3d animation that's a little bit painterly i wouldn't i wouldn't call it

exactly uh in line with like what they did with um uh what's the league of legends one um oh arcane Arcane. It was so good. Yeah. Similar in the sense that it's painterly, but it doesn't feel like they're aping the style. It feels like it's kind of its own thing. And these three stories are three complete stories about people in different timelines with real, you know, real story points. But then a predator shows up and just changes everything.

And they're almost class as a predator. The first movie, the predator is like a gigantic warrior beast that fits the Norse thing real well. the one set in feudal Japan is a little more ninja-like, a little more live, can kind of jump and, you know, be a little bit more, I don't know, mobile. And then the third one is a dude in a ship. He's like a pilot from the planet, whatever they're from. And then later in this thing, it all culminates wonderfully into this incredible finale. And it is brutal.

It is bloody. It is super violent, very action-packed. Action is the key thing here. It is, like I said, directed by Dan. and I loved every damn second of this thing. If you like action stuff and you just want to go have like the coolest action time of your life,

you could do so much worse than this. Michael Bean does a voice, which at first I didn't, wasn't sure it was him, but turns out it was. He's in the third segment. A lot of these other people I don't know, but I've seen them in,

I've seen their names in like video games and some other stuff. So a lot of, you know, good actors. And he even brought in Albrecht and Kanata for. Oh, A couple of that additional voice voices, which is pretty cool. Anyway, if you are a predator fan at all, this is just so badass.

It's so cool. It's called Predator Killer of Killers. It's on Hulu. And it's not a prequel to the thing coming. The thing coming may have some connections. I don't know. But the thing, Badlands looks like, I mean, it's a live action. First of all, second of all, it's set in the future.

As far as I know, it's got nothing to do with any of these people. I mean, I don't know. Maybe it'll surprise us. there'll be connection to that. I will say that if you're asking if there's a prey connection, I'm not going to tell you. I'm going to let you just watch it.

You'll have to see it for yourself if there's a prey connection. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. That's all I'm saying. Anyway, on Rotten Tomatoes, it is currently holding the highest rating for any predator project of any kind.

It deserves it. It is so cool. Predator, killer of killers. Absolutely rad. Go watch it. It's only an hour and 25 minutes. It's not even that long. And you'll love it.

This is 100% on my list. So I'm so glad you recommend it. Glad you like it because I had no doubt you would as long as it's good. And from all accounts, it's good. So you've really cemented that in for me. So perfect. You're going to love it. Also, Rainbow Bright, who sounds like she's seen this.

She mentioned the Predator King is so awesome. Dude. It's beyond awesome. There are ideas in this. Like, this is so world-building. Really? Like, it's doing the world building I'd like. that's true yeah we right we don't know a lot of that in the other movies no we just know these

predators show up kill stuff take trophies you get a ship interior some of the AVP stuff expands on some of that but you don't really know why these ultra clingons even do what they do and this gets a little bit more into that but without it's not overt they're not like telling you a bunch of dialogue about it they're just showing shit and you go oh is that the way the system works here on this planet. Is that the power dynamic between leadership and the lower castes and how do they work? Like you start filling in the blanks for Fury Road style. It's just my, is absolutely my jam. I love it. That's cool. Brian, let's swing it back over to you and see what you got for your second pick today. Yeah, this is one that, that, I mean, it started with Amy and Chuck recommending this

to me. And then I got a couple more people recommending it to me. And I'm so glad they did. It probably was going to be on my list anyway because of, um, similarities. to a couple other things that I really, really like. But this is also on Netflix. It's a series, and it's my number one clip, if you want to play. Oh, you know what? I never did. I never played my clip.

You never played a clip. No, but I showed, I didn't know if there wasn't any. There totally was, and I didn't play it. But I don't, and I don't actually need to. But that's how excited I was about this. I forgot to play my own damned clip. Right into it, yeah. So don't worry about it, everybody.

I promise there's audio in this, in this movie. It's not, it's not all quiet or foreign language like, Prey. Exactly. But here's Here's the one Brian just described. Aren't you supposed to ask me some questions? I can. Or we can just keep sitting here. It's your 50 minutes. I was all set to dive into my unhappy child.

I'm much more interested in your unhappy adulthood. How'd you feel, Carl? More like, how's it feel to get shot? Carl. I've heard it described as feeling like being stung by 100 bees in the same place. If all the bees were on fire and they were flying at your face, at twice a speed of sand. You could describe it like that, sure.

You don't look like a shrink. You prefer I had a beard? We'd give us something to talk about. I'm sure we've already got plenty to talk about. I just don't understand the necessity of all this. I really don't. You're saying you don't want to be here. It's okay.

Neither do I. It's a shitty job talking to you lot. Doesn't sound like you like your job very much. Would you like talking to you? I could listen to her Read Me, the phone book Yeah, love Kelly McDonnell Love her voice

That is from a television show Called Department Q A Scottish crime thriller TV series Based on a book series And fan-freaking-tastic This follows the guy you hear there Matthew Good plays a detective named Carl Mork

Who this series with one of the greatest openings to a series ever on a TV show. It's so freaking good. Do we know him from something? What do we know Matthew Good from? I know. I looked him up and stuff that I haven't seen. Chasing Liberty

he was in. Confessions of an ugly step-sister. He was in the imitation game. Oh, Watchman. He's Ozymandias. That's why he's so damn familiar. That's why Ozimandias, yes. Okay. Geez, he looks so different. He really he does look different also how he's how do he stay so young then whatever no kidding yeah wow um

forgot about uh forgot about that um the the story follows basically a cold case he's kind of given um a crap job uh detective mark given a crap job of um going through a bunch of cold cases picking one if he wants to to maintain his funding for his department and he's fine with that because he really doesn't like people. He doesn't want to be around people. So when they put him in the basement in what's called Department Q, he kind of, as much as a grump like him can, he kind of welcomes it. And I talked a little bit about how this reminds me of a couple other series.

Slow horses, this feels like it's absolutely another slice from the slow horses apple or it's another slice from the type of apple that gives us slow horses as well. with Gary Oldman Also reminds me of the British series Line of Fire Oh, I like that one I'm sorry, Line of Duty, Line of Duty Or what?

Is that the one with the Game of Thrones guy? Oh, wait, is that the one? The one that played the older brother? Oh, no, Bodyguard is what you're thinking. Oh, yeah, I'm mixing that up. Right, yeah, you're right. Line of duty is more of a straightforward police procedural

procedural not a lot of people that you recognize well I take the back Tandy Newton oh I love her and she's great but and Kelly McDonald

strangely enough is also in line of duty as well love her funnily enough so you know if you like Kelly McDonald in Department Q

you'll like her in line of duty but man there's just a great mystery with this show and kind of a secondary mystery that I'm hoping

they delve into further, of course, in season two. But it's absolutely well-acted and well-presented and atmospheric. The

just the gray of Scotland and the buzzing fluorescent lights of this basement office that he's given. That's awesome. Um, it's, it really is cool and, uh, uh, uh, kind of a new discovery is this Leah Byrne who plays, uh, Rose Dixon, who kind of looks like if you, you're watching Ozark. And when Ruth came on, you accidentally misadjusted the color settings on your television set. Yeah. Uh, wait, up, up or down.

I get. Uh, more, more bright red. Uh, oh, wow. Yeah. So like, imagine Ruth. from Ozark with a shock of red curly hair. But the palest skin that you think she must sizzle when she steps out into sunlight. Yeah, surfing that silver every day. But she is, yeah, exactly. But she is fantastic in this. I see Kate Dickies in this. I love her.

Massive, massive fan. Game of Thrones. She's the queen of the area up there. Oh, yeah. Prometheus, the Green Knight. She was in the witch. The Vovich. She was in Star Wars Vision. She's awesome. She's in everything. And she is a wonderful actress that love her. That's cool. Chloe Piri is also incredible in this. She plays a prosecutor that you meet at the beginning of the series. And she was also, you know her from the game. I don't think not the game with, I think a different game. Not the one with Michael Douglas, but something different from 2014.

But also the Waldo Moment episode of Black Mirror from 2015. Oh, I like that one. I could not tell you what that one is. I know which one you mean, though. But also, she's in Queens Gambit. I know. Yeah, she's awesome. She's great.

She is really, really good. Yeah. Oh, yeah, the crown. All kinds of stuff. Yeah. This, you know, she's listed with second billing. And it's with very good reason because even though she's got a very different path in the series, she is, her character is, watching her journey is just absolutely compelling and enthralling. You can't look away from what her character goes through.

This is very stacked with Scottish people all around. It really is. Yeah. And I think here's the bottom line. And if you like Bill Tench, what was that show called? Mind Hunters. Mind hunters. You like Mind hunters.

You're going to love department. Oh, shit. You got me there. I was already all in. I was already all in. We were going to watch this. And I was like, who's going to get to this one first? It just felt like you, me, or Randy, we're going to watch this.

It was a race. It really was a race. Now I'm in, though, all more in than I was. I'm stoked. Yes. Like, you've got, you've got very interesting parallels between, some of the characters in Department Q and Mind Hunter. Still need some Bill Tensh closure, man.

Yeah, you won't get it here. I'll tell you that right now. Shoot, so he doesn't show up and I got to see him in, what was that we saw in Peter's? Mission Impossible. Yeah, it was a very small role, but it was nice to see him, you know. With his partner, Parks and Rec.

Oh, what's his face? Yeah, that guy. That guy, who's everywhere. and doing everything mustache mustache ron ron swanson uh help me people yeah ron swanson uh what's his name was the real name is uh nick offerman hey nick offerman very good shit thank you tv Travis uh well anyway this sounds great department queue netflix is where this is department queue on netflix both of my recommendals on netflix so um so check out uh check out uh check out both of them uh pop star academy and Department Q.

Excellent. We still have one more from you, too. We do. Let's swing over to HBO Max Max Go Max and check out a documentary and original HBO documentary, which always means quality to me. When I hear that, I get excited.

And I heard this one had kind of a wild ending and it did not disappoint. I'll play the clip and then we'll talk about it. Here you go. Remember how much money you're making and that's how you get through it, right? $250 a day. Once you got back to Pasadena, the guys there, check the paperwork, check the tags, and then do what they did.

I saw some things that weren't nice, but that wasn't really my business. I just drove the truck. You know what I'm saying? I do know what you're saying. I don't know what he's saying. this is this is yeah i can i'll fill you in a little bit on what he what are you saying um this is a documentary film a three actually it's a series a three part series uh on hbo it's up it's over now all the episodes are out and it's called the mortician and it is about this family a family owned

funeral home in the 80s uh this is all happens in pasadena california and this dude named David Scants, who's like running the company after his parents ran it for a long time. And it, oh my gosh, this place as this thing goes. I don't remember this news at all when I was a kid, but this was apparently all anyone talked about on the news in that part of California back then. And he's interviewed in it. And, okay, do you remember the, what was the one, the guy that basically went to take a pee in the bathroom and confessed?

No, the jinks. The jinks. think that in terms of quality of documentary and also it has an ending that feels a very jinx adjacent Yeah, there's some It's a little more up to interpretation

But it's pretty damn close to confession And that's not a spoiler Because really where the meat of this thing is Is the three full episodes And just the journey this thing takes But basically it came down to this These guys were just doing dirty shit with your poor relatives' body when they passed away.

What happens is, you know, there's a whole lot of trust. You put it into a mortician to take care of the remains of the loved one. When they say they're giving you their ashes, you expect that to be true. It's not always true. You don't expect them to break open skulls and steal gold from teeth and sell the gold on the side without telling anybody. You don't expect them to sell organs on the illegal organ market either. Well, it turns out these people were up to all.

kinds of dirty dirty dirt and um it was a wild ride dude it was it was really well made really well made documentary it's one of those HBO documentaries that is not there just to give you a bunch of moments of oh or the music yeah they stay away from that which i'm very happy about so it's a multiple episodes how many like three total three for the whole for the full season and they're all they're all up and done so you'll get them all in one shot that's the guy right there um he was a a failed football player. He didn't fail, but he got hurt right before he was about to get a big college deal or something.

And then he joins the family's business. I hate freaking age checks on the internet. Drives me nuts. Sorry about that. Anyway, the whole thing just culminates into this absolutely wild story. And his parents, freaking whackadoos. Like,

I'm always surprised that people, do we'll go to the lengths they'll go and it's a slow burn for people they don't just go one day they're normal and the next day they're doing dark shit it's it's always a path but this thing really lays out that path and it just you just think man if you could go back in time you'd never do any of the stuff you just did and they and they just saw it as well no this is where things went this is we were just doing what we had to do they would they would try the things they did with bodies that you just it's horrifying and i wouldn't oh and they and they're There's a whole murder plot.

There's a bunch of other shit in there you have to see. I don't want to give too much away, but it is definitely worth checking out. The movie, or sorry, the series is called The Mortician. It is three episodes long and currently on HBO Max, which I guess is its final name now, HBOMex. Well, at least at least it's current Pokemon evolution. We'll see what it is in a year. Yeah, can't wait for the next one. HBO Max Go.

There you go. Nice thing about these things that we talk about is they're all up on Tim or QuickTMS. dot l i they're already there if you want to go read all about them find out where we saw them that kind of stuff that's your resource for that yeah and i think it's going to do it for the show today not bad yeah right on time ish no we did it's a little long yeah we probably if i'll tell you what if nicole or randy were here or both we'd be going until another about a half hour oh yeah for sure that's what we do on wednesdays just how it is maybe one day that'll shorten i don't know anyway uh that's going to do it for us check out all the other stuff we'll

have going on at the calendar. It's all up at frogpans.com. If you're looking for more about this show, frogpans.com slash TMS. And since we're not here tomorrow for June 10th, we are observing the holiday. Correct. We will not have this show.

CORE will not be tomorrow either. Lots of things are being, you know. There will be a coverville just because I've got a sponsor that I've got to do tomorrow. So probably first thing in the morning, roughly at the same time we do TMS, you'll probably get a coverville, maybe even a little bit early.

But it's too cold. first thing in the morning for me to do a training ride so I'm going to wait until it warms up a little bit so let's get Coverville out of the way early and then I can go on a ride that's great and then so yeah if you guys are all bored at 9 a.m. tomorrow or so tune in and check out Coverville

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Brian's play a song. Get the F out. Yeah, this one's going out to September. She said, quote, I recently got to spend some time with my grandson Jackson. He came into this world 11 weeks premature in December, and this was the first time I've gotten to spend time with him since he came home from the hospital. Some of the Tadpool and Diamond Club folks might remember me calling in to hang out

while at the Ron McDonald's house. He's home and doing great now. This is a big deal, especially given the tragic loss of his sister in September, 2023. We listened to the Bare Naked Ladies, and they might be Giant's albums for children. of course and they were big hits little jackson smiling at me or falling asleep to songs like vegetable town i haven't found any covers of the songs on those albums that my kids got to grow up with my request is another that our little treasure loved we've got six senses by mike tv did you know

get set go had a children's album that's called tiny songs for tiny people and this song is from that uh that comes from nine of 12 aka september nice um this was going to be our friday The song, by the way, I'd push it. This is a shorty short one, perfect for little kids, but I'll love it. This is such a sweet song. This, like she says, comes from the Get Set Go album, Tiny Songs for Tiny People. It's called We've Got Six Senses. We've got six senses.

There's taste for tasting, yum, yum, yum, and smell for smell. Because sniffin's fun. There's sight for seeing. Look at us go. And hearing to listen to the songs we know. Touch for touching so we know how things feel, but the sense that gets overlooked is also quite real. Pro-preoception is your body's way of telling you every day where your body is in relationship to everything. When you climb down a hole or jump real high or stand on the leg, throw a ball in the sky,

when you slide on the ice or swing on the swings or dance with your friends without stepping on feet. makes it possible to do Roses are red And I love to dance When I'm looking for great shows I go to frogpans Dot com You, you dare a fool with me