The Morning Stream - TMS 2844: Meat Soda

Episode Date: June 25, 2025

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on this episode of the Morning Stream. That's pretty good. Unreleased, there we go. In three two, one. I am Goldman. This is a present from me to you. Look at your left. This is me. That's no way to treat my trout.

The morning stream. If you have job, you wear the pants. Hello, everyone, and welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Wednesday, June 25th, 2025. We've got 2.25. Ooh, look at that. 25-25. In the year 25-25. Oh, man. Can you imagine what the year 20-25 will look like? Or the year 25-25?

Let's imagine. If man is even still alive. Well, they still have the Atari logo in whatever version of Blade Runner they make then. They've lost all their sexual drive in the year. 25 25 Well, that's not good Then no babies

You know No population It's good to see you all It's Scott and Brian here of course And you know It's Wednesday What are you going to do with a hump day You're going to hump it

You're going to get on there And you know Let the old Write it like the Wednesday it is Yeah Teach that Wednesday Who's boss Kind of thing

Yeah That'll be great I'm sure it'll be fun today Because we got our usual We got Tom It's a big pack show But But fun stuff we're going to be talking about today.

I got a big question for you that I think, of all my friends, you're the most equipped to answer. Okay. Because you know this stuff. All right. But it hit me the other day. Somebody in a show, Kim and I are watching. Actually, I'll tell you what show it is because I think it's horrible.

It's not what you're going to recommend, I guess. No, and it really bums me out because it stars Holt McCallany and I love him. Oh, wow. But, and it looks like it could be good. Like on paper, this thing's like, you know, ooh, it's like Yellowstone, but in a, a coastal fishery in the south and I love Southern Gothic crime and all this.

It's like all these things are checking off all my boxes. But this show called The Waterfront plays out like a WB drama. It's just bad. Oh, really? Oh, God, that sucks. I didn't like it. I mean, they get, there's moments of like extreme violence and moments of like big time cussing and

there's a couple of sex scenes so you'd think, oh, they're going to pepper this with, it's all very edgy. But all the interstitial stuff just feels like CBS Thursday. night. It's just bad. Anyway, and Holt McAllenny eats up the scenery, everywhere he goes, love that guy. He's never not good.

Yeah, he's never not good. Even in this bad show, he is quite good. But this stuff, he is so punching above this. It's just not good. Get Mine Hunter, Season 3 going, and he built Hensh back. Give me real Holt McCallany in the future. Don't forget, though, that I gave you a recommendal last

week for Department Q that will scratch some of the itch missing from Mind Hunter's absence. Yeah, as soon as Kim finishes this abomination. Oh, she's going to watch it all the way through, huh? Yeah, she needs to, I mean, there's, I'll admit there's one piece of it. I kind of need to see some revenge on, and it has to do with the character played by Tofer Grace, which surprised me a little bit.

Other than that, it's just bad. Don't watch the waterfront, or if you do just know you're getting into the most basic ass. Trophy Troperson. Super, super Trophy McTroperson, for sure. Sure. Anyway, so I'm watching that, though. And somebody says, Holt McAllen, he goes to a bar and says, the guy goes, what can I get you, sir? And he says, whiskey, neat. All right? Now, I know what that means, no ice, right? Right, right. Exactly. No, no, no, no, it's just glass and spirit, G&S. Yep, just that, and that's it. And is that warm, I assume it's warm in the bottle, or how does that come out of there?

Yeah, yeah, usually whiskey, because it's not a refrigerated, uh, alcohol is going to be, uh, Just a room temperature or whatever. It's going to be room temperature. Okay. And people like that, for what reason is it just they don't like ice? It waters it down. Right. Exactly.

They want to taste all of... Okay. So if... Oh, there we go. Yeah, you cut out for a second. That was weird. Zoom can't detect your microphone, but now we're back. Okay.

Oh, good. So anyway, so he asked for this whiskey need. Now we got some serious lag, though. Oh, do we? How long has it taken a while to hear me? it was yeah do it count yeah one one all right here we go and ready go go oh my gosh that is long

what's that about what happened i was waiting for you to do one two three do it again because i was expecting a one two three three that wasn't bad okay all right maybe it's caught up to itself yeah thank we're back now sorry so temporary glitch uh one of our isps decided to shit on itself and that's fantastic when they do that so anyway so he he orders this drink neat yes and i turn to kim and i go that's weird and she goes what do you mean and i said why don't we do that with anything else like no one ever says dr pepper neat you know what i mean sure no one ever asked

they say dr pepper no ice or they'll say something something else no ice but no one ever asked for a no ice drink neat unless they're talking about whiskey so what the hell's going on there why is that exclusive to whiskey town really because yeah i mean you get your your variations of whiskey bourbon neat Scotch, neat. But you don't ever hear somebody say, give me a tequila, neat. They say, give me a shot of tequila. Yeah. Right. Because I guess also because you don't serve tequila, typically, like if you're giving somebody a tequila neat, you're just giving them a shot glass with tequila in as opposed to whiskey where you're going to get a glass that's, you know,

an actual cocktail glass. Gotcha. So tequila is always relegated to a shot unless it's a mixer. Is that the deal? Typically, yeah. I mean, you know, there might be places that's that give you, you a shot of tequila in a full in a full cocktail glass um for whatever reason any you know rum again shot of rum you don't really hear anybody say rum neat but they might if it's like a specialty rum like there are some there's some rums you don't want to put something necessarily with it um a spiced rum i won't i won't i'll drink at um rocks but not put any any topper in it what is a spiced rum anyway what's in there to spice it's a it's just it tastes like like a cinnamon, a little bit of a cinnamon spice to it. Oh, I like that. So it's a, it's a, and it's

usually with a sweeter rum, so. Okay. Yeah. I could go for some spiced rum. You probably could. Yeah. But it, but if you have it with a Coke, it's going to typically, and I say typically, just to save myself from the people are like, I actually like spiced rum and Coke. Yeah. But it, it doesn't taste as good as just a straight rum with Coke. Gotcha. So if I go to an, not applebees, but like a restaurant, let's say I go to a restaurant next week and I sit down,

when I'm in Vegas, I sit down and I go, yes, I'd like a Coke Zero, Neat, please. I'd like to, I'd like to know what they say. You know, because I don't even know where the term neat came from. I mean, I guess, you know, it's not, it's not messy with that ice or

a splash of water or tonic or soda or whatever. It's just you know, it's just neat. And admittedly, I haven't really looked this up other than our discussion, so I don't have, I'm sure that there's some, you know, I could find the end, not entomology,

etymology of the phrase, but I haven't bothered so I know that this is easily accessible information that I could go find this, but I just, it hit me as a little bit weird and why it doesn't transfer to other things. There must be some whiskey specific tradition. Something specific about the whiskey

that makes it neat or scotch or bourbon right and beamed bourbon right nobody wants room temperature soda that's true so so but but even then people will ask for ice no ice and soda because the machines will put it out cold just no ice my wife just don't want it down yeah my wife likes crushed ice but if it's like big blocky eyes she's not interested so she'll say uh what kind of ice do you have and they'll say what kind she'll say well i don't want any ice but she won't say i want it neat you know right right yeah try it i'm curious uh to see what they say i might do it And I'll do it in Vegas where nobody gives a shit what weird people out of town say.

So I'm going to do it there. I might do it in front of Mazzula at brunch or something. That's just so he can witness it. Yeah. Nice. Where are you going to brunch? We don't know yet. I got to talk to him.

He has ideas and plans. He just needs to find out where we're going to be and when. And so he's waiting for me to get that time. Who else is going to be there? And if I wasn't doing the MS-150, I might be there with him is Chris Brown. He's going there for Elvis Costello concert, which is also this week. weekend. Oh man. I didn't know that. And if it weren't for the MS-150, I'd totally be going with you. Where's he performing? And that's, um, just curious. I think at the Pearl Room at,

um, what you can call it, uh, Palms. Oh, okay. And this is like Chris Brown clearly loves Elvis Costello in a way that is palpable. Good Lord. It is absolutely his favorite performer of all time. That's great. I guess, oh, you know what? I guess he's there tomorrow night, Thursday night at the, Yeah, Pearl Concert Theater at Palms. So maybe he'll be gone by the time you guys get there. I don't know if he's going to stick around for Friday, full day, Friday or Saturday. So I drive into town, assuming he's leaving, I'm going to go, I'll think to myself, the real Chris Brown. That's right.

Exactly. And he'll feel it. He'll feel me doing that. He'll pass like a hot fart in Vegas. Yeah. To him, it'll be as palpable as Elvis Costello's vibrato. He'll feel it. maybe not anyway all right well i i look forward to all the emails the texts and the voicemails

regarding the neat word and why it's used the way it's used got a lot of drinkers out there so let us know somebody's going to say i do i always do a vodka neat because i like the taste of vodka without any any toppers in it yeah um but it's specific to ice right like no it's not just no other mix in it's just ice is what they mean okay yeah no ice i mean you know not don't put anything in it. Don't put ice in it. Don't put water in. Don't put tonic. Don't put soda. Nothing. Just neat. Neat just means blank, plain. Yeah. It's like your kids saying, I'll have a I'll have a hamburger at McDonald's, but don't put anything on it. Neat. Exactly. I just want meat and bun. Yeah. All right. I want to say I want my soda meat instead of neat. Let's see what

they do. Give you a whiskey meat. And then I'll finally get that carbonated beef I've been looking for all of stuff. Finally. We'll run into a by accident. Well, the things life brings you. All right. Hey, I got into a quick text here. Yeah. From Dave and Madison, Wisconsin, I think. I assume so. Madison. Sure. There's many Madison's, but this one is his, wherever it may be. Dear Schwartz and... That's not where you think. No, it may not be. Dear Schwartz and barf, I think we'll know what this is about. Yeah. More about the grapes. Just kidding, he says. No more grapes. We're done with grapes. We're done with the grapes. Yeah. grazing at the grocery store, we have talked about it.

it is in our rearview mirror it's back there resolved to it should be to everybody's satisfaction i can't think of anything we didn't hit with that so yeah gravestone is up we've had the ceremony horse horse is dead could be yeah no exactly put the bats away the horse is mush we've done it anyway just want to follow up on your discussion from thursday about movie remakes during which you touched on the space balls two remake that's not a remake's a sequel but whatever right To which Brian offhandedly mentioned, we don't need the guys in the desert joke. Which I agree with, by the way, when Brian said that. Yeah, I mean, I feel like, you know, there's going to be callbacks, of course, to the first movie, but I don't, but don't call back everything.

Yeah, that's one you don't need to call back. It's one you don't need to call back. Well, he says, oh, no, no, my friend. He says there is 100% is still a nerd joke there because one of the black guys with the Afro pick is none other than Tuvok from Star Trek Voyager. I have a thing to add to this at the end of this. But anyway, I'm not saying they'd make Star Trek versus Star Wars jokes, but I think it would be funny if they did. Love the show, though.

Dave, here's some added info just a couple of days ago on one of the social media's. Tuvok actor, what's his name? Tim Russ. Tim Russ, thank you. Posted publicly that, indeed, he will be returning. So, Brian, you may end up getting the scene you think we don't need. Maybe. And you know what?

And if anybody can make me feel like we need it, it's going to be Mel Brooks. Sure. Sure. Yeah. Who's directing to this? Do we know it's not him, but... It's not Mel Brooks, no. He's a hundred damn years old.

It's Christopher Nolan directing Space Balls. I think it's going to be great. It should be perfect. You imagine. Oh, did you see the new Fantastic Four trailer today? I did. I watched it this morning and I, you know, we don't get his face, but we get a nice little shot of Galactus's chest and I'm like, okay, I'm liking this.

This is the kind of, I've been flying through space. Look at all this space crap. that's been hitting me and it shouldn't be all shiny and clean. Yeah, he's banged up real good and also super articulated design. Yeah. Like lots of circuity looking stuff and it's exactly what I want. Yeah. Kirby-esque freaking big badass looking tall mother effing thing with Ralph Inneson's voice,

which we haven't heard yet. Right. I'm very excited. Josh Greenbaum, by the way, is the director of... We know him from. He did that, that Will and Harper thing with Will Ferrell, the documentary about, uh, oh, yeah, that was good. That was really good. Um, he did the too funny to fail, the Dana Carvey documentary.

Mm-hmm. Um, he did that strays thing also with Will Ferrell, with the dogs talking. Oh, okay. Which is, which was funny. It was good. Yeah, so comedy chops. It's like super bad with dogs. Sure.

It's got some, some, uh, chops. I don't see it in his list yet, though. He's not, uh. Oh. really okay well i'm looking at the wrong guy no it's a will and harper guy it's his two things coming up are called playing potis and the dink of the two movies i see yeah it's on his wikipedia page it says uh geez i mdb get your shit together over here no kidding i mean if they don't have a but they do have a page set up for space balls too you're saying uh thought they did hold on

Space Balls 2. They have a page with nothing. They just basically say that it's in pre-production and that it's been announced. There's nothing else here. So that's why they just don't have any confirmed anything. That's cool, though. Okay, I do like this. The original pitch was going to be the title, Space Balls 3, the search for Spaceballs 2.

Oh, that's not bad. That's really funny. I mean, the movie really was a Zucker-like parody. Yeah. So why not lean into that kind of comedy, you know? Exactly. Wow, that means we're going to get, we're going to get a naked gun and then one of those. Like, are we coming back?

Are we going back? I think we're going back. That's fine. That's a good, that's a good time of period to go back, period of time. A good movie period of time. Good myriad of period, myriad time. Yes, exactly. Let's go back to that myriad of period.

I just watched Helen Mirren and her name pops. popped into my words. I don't know why. Today's recommend to explain. Oh, good. Okay. Well, anyway, Dave and Madison, I think you're probably on to something there. If Tim Russ has confirmed his return, I think that means we're getting that guy. Whether it's in that scene or not, I don't remember if he did anything else, did he? Was it just that?

No, that was the, just the one line, and we ain't found shit. Yeah, it's a great line, though. Mm-hmm. It is. It's so different than Tuvok that it never occurred. They were the same guy to me, you know? Right. It was just such a great, like, the year I went to, one of the years I went to drag

Con. A couple of guys cosplayed as those two and just walked around Dragon Con with a giant pick. Like the most brief screen time of anything, and everybody there knew exactly who they were. That's pretty wild and that happens. Yeah. Yeah. A little offhand joke makes it. It's like Gary from Lantronics running around as the Jimmy Buffett carrying Margarita's guy from the Jurassic World. One of his best things he ever did.

for sure and the fact and we're even doing it on top of that by calling him gary from lanternics yeah exactly we're doing a call back yeah they call back to a place he just happened to work years ago i love it i know gary's listening gary i read your or i heard your latest uh diary was very good keep those up i like his stuff oh cool i didn't know he was doing that that's awesome yeah he's got a little substack thing going some old what does he call it oh i forgot some old man reference but that's good stuff maybe it just says senior geek i can't remember anyway He'll let you know. Hey, we got a quick call from TVVM about root beer things. This is an AI call. Again, you guys choose it. I don't. All right. Here it comes right now. Right at you. Right in your face. Hello, Sarsaparilla and beer. And thank you for subscribing to root beer facts. Fact one, it tastes like medicine because it was medicine in the 1800s. Some modern medicines and tonics still use some of the same flavorings as used in root beer elixers. Fact two, since root beer has wintergreen, some people say it tastes like toothpaste.

Fact three, Barks root beer has caffeine, but not the zero sugar variety or any of the other flavors. It's not a regional thing. I thought for sure we could blame the Mormons, but I looked it up. Always blame the Mormons when there's caffeine involved. That's really funny. Boy, do they love their caffeine. Don't let the stereotypes fool you. Mormons are very caffeinated

I thought it had to be the Mormons yeah had to be them I don't so so my understanding is and I'm still not totally clear on this based on the call yeah but barks if you go by regular barks in the state where they're bottled

that being Mississippi you will get caffeinated barks in the plain variety so we're just talking the plain you know just straight up barks no flavors there's no alternates, no diets. Just straight up barks, you're going to get the caffeinated. If you buy it up north, anywhere up north, not just Utah, but anywhere up here, the same

basic barks, no changes to it. The difference is there is no caffeine. I think that's the deal. And I don't know why that's the deal, or if I'm wrong entirely, I could be wrong. I mean, according to him, according to him, there's no regional, but I, but I've heard that too. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. I mean, he said it wasn't regional, is what he said.

Exactly. But what does that mean? I need some clarification, robot man. That it's the same either with caffeine or without caffeine everywhere you go, which, again, I question. So is he's saying there's just a non-caffeine version, but you can get either or? No, he's saying that there's no difference no matter where you go, that whether it's got caffeine or not, it's the same wherever you go. Oh, okay. So, oh, all right.

So there is only one kind, one kind only, whether it's caffeinated or it's not caffeinated. That is the one kind. So let's confirm this. Yes, Barks Rupier contains caffeine. Yeah. Let's go to the Wikipedia page. Let's see. To the Wikipedia.

To the Wikipedia. Where information is always factual. Better than any other source these days. This might be where the question comes in. Okay, here we go. barks has caffeine 22.5 milligrams of caffeine per 12 ounce serving. Diet

Barks has no caffeine. Okay. That makes sense. Which is interesting. When you take, you know, they make it diet and then they also take out the caffeine. Also, if you get Barks from a Coca-Cola freestyle machine, it's also caffeine-free. Oh, that's a twist.

Yeah. Hmm. This is because the system uses the same concentrated micro-dosed ingredient for both Barks and diet barks, the only difference between the two is the sweetener that is added. Oh, it is also common for barks that is sold in the state of Utah

to be caffeine-free because many members of the Church of Jesus Christ, Latter-day Saints avoid caffeinated beverages. Told you. Yep. Yep. All right, there it is. Confirmed. It's the only source on the internet that's actually accurate now is Wikipedia. We've flipped the entire thing. That's right.

It's true. So there are TVVM. Yeah, take that. Okay. Now, that surprises me, though, because I thought it was all Yankeedom, like the entirety of the northern states, got the no caffeine one. I didn't know it was a Utah effing thing. I had no idea. That's really wild. Okay, so there you go.

So Utah, diet, and freestyle, no caffeine. Everywhere else caffeine. That's wild. They make a deal with somebody or something? I guess so. New questions now. I got new questions. Right.

Yeah. Apparently there was also for a little while a Barks red cream soda and a yellow cream soda, pork, and bark zero sugar root beer, which is the rebranding, they say, of diet barks root beer in 2022. Yeah, though, I've had that and it's pretty good. It is good. Yeah. I mean, Coke owns them now, so it's like a, yeah. I still say, I mean, I don't know if it's controversial, but I think Coke does the best job with the zeros. They're the least, they're the most like their counterparts without the aftertaste and stuff. Although I haven't had a real Coke in so long.

I don't remember what the difference is. So to me, a Coke Zero is just a Coke. It doesn't, and I really like him. I still has that bite that Coke has. You get the syrupy kind of weird Pepsi thing. I don't like that as much. Yeah. By the way, in 2003, Barks had something called floats with a Z.

Hate that. That basically was made to taste like a carbonated root beer float. I guess a root beer float is going to be carbonate because it uses root beer. Terrible idea. For me, for me. Everybody else is fine. I don't want to poo on anyone's parade. Canada had a bark-spice cherry.

Ooh, what? That sounds all right. Is that still around? Ooh, might still be around. Let's see. Hey, Canadians. With you and your ketchup chips and now you got this? I know.

Bastards. What are you going to send out? Somebody send something down to us. Canada! Get that down here. We love you guys. That'll only cost like, you know, $100,000 to send us. that's true some some barks but that's not a states thing at all i can't get that here no doesn't

look like it all right well all i know it sounds amazing though doesn't it it just sounds amazing here's my big takeaway to barks is still the only brand i like of root beer okay everything else is too fizzy and too root berry and whatever for whatever reason barks it's just a little lighter and i i'm cool with it um i lied i said i don't even like the root beer flavored dumdums oh but then i found one yesterday and i had one and i didn't hate it. It was okay. Okay. So all the root beer lovers out there, I've only, the really only beef I have

is most brands of root beer and root beer floats of any kind. I don't care if it's barks in there. I'm not having that. It doesn't matter. Yeah, you don't like, it's the combination of root beer ice cream, especially the combination that creates the foam that doesn't

disappear. Yeah, exactly. Permafone. Yeah, perma foam. Tom Norman says we have ketchup flavor chips in the States. We do now, but there was a huge amount of time when that was a Canadian only thing and nobody else was doing it down here and even now they're still kind of hard to find

I can go to the local Smiths or sprouts or any of these places over here I'm guessing I will not find ketchup chips you got to kind of go to you know Trader Joe's or right or the cost plus world market or something yeah then you'll get lucky but here well it's Smith's

freaking forget it also another reminder of everybody about the whole Utah no caffeine thing all that just remember that we're weird and you can stop moving here because you're making all of everything go up so stop moving here and buying all the houses up and just live where you live live where you are and be happy yes we're weird Colorado too yeah Colorado's weird too and guess what there's a bunch of Mormons in Colorado in fact in fact I believe initially the the first pass-through settlers were Mormon pioneers so just their stink is on everything over there

California you have what you have everybody stay where you're at all right just because we're beautiful doesn't mean we're not weird i've got eight wives oh you should see it yeah you should see the mess we're making don't come here the the coffee you get at starbucks doesn't even have caffeine in utah so so don't bother going i love that one oh that rumor to grow all these coffee shops that we have around here they all serve non-caffeinated coffee yeah sorry that's the rules all right uh what the hell are we doing now let's get into the tad poolie few that's what yeah yeah i think we ought to uh get our old pal brian in here we're gonna have a little fun hey yeah hey brian dunnaway what are you doing man hey scott and bry what you guys do

oh you know you know what we're doing we're just hanging living are you guys doing a show you know what i was just listening to scott and brian talk and man what a bunch of isolationists like i don't want your state over in my state i'm like geez read the room people yeah you know what that's fine if that's what it takes sure yeah i'm okay with all right with all that i'm okay but if people want to fact check it and deny it that's fine to do whatever you want to do and i'm just telling you we're weird as shit stay out uh done away it's good to be here ban uh always happy to to be playing a game with you and uh man i just hung out with you last night that gi jo episode was some real bullshit though wasn't it dude if you got yeah oh

i wish everybody could experience that yeah pulling of the wool over my eyes Who suggested that anyway? I'm not going to call him out. I'm not going to use his name. You got to watch this. This guy says the greatest episode of GI Joe is this one he gave us. Really? And it was the most Rickroll bullshit I've ever been exposed to it.

Had you believed it? Oh, man. It was, it was worth watching. It is one of those things, the trauma. I think the shared trauma was worth watching. I wouldn't say it's good. The live chat seemed to be surprised that you and I had never seen it or heard of it. And it was like, supposedly it's a well-known gag that this is like the worst one, not the best one.

But I didn't know that. We didn't know. We went in blind. We had no idea. And by the time this thing ended, we were both just like, what did you do to us? This was the worst thing. I watched all of those back in the day. And only one of them really stands out to me.

And that's the blob one I told you about the apple tree farm. That's the only one that stuck out to me. So I don't remember this particular. What was the, it's viper. So if you're looking for it, That's the one you're looking for. But it's more fun watching it, me, and it's got. Yeah, it's called The Viper, I think.

Hold on, I have right here. Is it the Viper? The Viper is coming. Oh, the Viper is coming. Yeah, which is just the biggest, stupidest thing I've ever seen. Anyway, somebody ride a horse through town going, the Viper is coming, the Viper is coming. It would have improved the episode. This thing didn't have Duke.

It had one second of Snake Eyes. It didn't have any of the big regulars. It was bad. I think it had more barbecue than I've ever seen. And by the way, yes, that's a little. a real Joe, barbecue. Yeah. More than you could handle.

Oh, it's barbecue? Oh, you mean there's a, this is me. There really is a character named barbecue. Yes, and he's terrible. I'll give you this setup. His name is barbecue, and they were having a barbecue at his house slash converted fire house. Yeah.

It's as bad as it sounds. Everything you're hearing Brian say is correct. So he's basically like the fire GI Joe, right? Yeah, you know those fake PSAs that are so funny where They redo him. He's the one that comes in with the helmet going. Yeah, his dad was in Vietnam dropping napalm. So, yeah, he's just, you know, offshooter that.

He's a whole thing. It's really bad. Hey, look who's on the line with us. It's our old pal Ian. He's our contestant today. You're our fourth caller. Hey, Ian, what's going on, man? Boy, howdy.

It's the new system. How about them out? Yeah, it's working real good. It's good to have you here. You, you're doing all right in New York? You just had a big election? Everything going good? Going good. It was the primary for the election. Everybody seems to think that we just elected our new mayor, but we still got to worry about November.

Yeah, but that booted, notably it booted Cuomo out, right? Yeah, he's out. Technically, he could still run as an independent, but we're hoping that he's gone for good at this point. But, yeah, it's also ridiculously hot here in New York right now. Yeah, that heat wave we were having, we sent to ear direction, so I hope you enjoy it. Because right now, we're having beautiful, we're having beautiful weather. It's like 60 degrees right now, 65, something like that. It's beautiful. On one side, Scott's here. Don't come to our town.

We've got weird. Oh, yeah. No, no, no. Don't let the beautiful weather fool you. You don't want to be here. It's bad news. Oh, yeah, here it is New York. 94 degrees.

Geez, dude. Yep. Tomorrow, the heat's finally breaking. But yesterday, we broke a record with 99. Damn. Oh, my gosh. Is that city heat? Are you walking down the streets and stuff, too?

Oh, it's bad. It's bad, man. It's bad. Vegas is only a high. of 93 or 98 today, currently 84. Perfect. I'm in. I'm all in. That's a 84 is good. 93. I mean, you're going to be inside. You know, you're inside for 99% of the time. But a week ago, it was 117 on the strip. Can you believe that? They need to move to Colorado and Utah. People can stay inside all day. I know, right? Let's do it. Don't come to South Carolina. But don't come here. We're all left. We're all left up here. Go to South Carolina. They've got

great house prices. Listen, Brian just says, come to South Carolina. Yeah. Tiny percentage of Mormons down there. You'll be fine. Anyway, hey, Brian, why don't we explain this rule, or this rule, this game to Ian, who knows all about it, but it doesn't hurt, and then we'll find out how we're going to win this thing. What do we got? Absolutely. It's time to play the tadpully feud. I've surveyed the tadpull in so nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian are going to have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Get one right, gets you a point. Get two right. No, I'm just kidding. Ian, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if your team wins, you get a prize package

That includes, this is cool, this is super cool. Coming from the fine folks at Chip Theory Games, like Raven, CTG and Josh, might even be in the chat room right now, a copy of Neon Rain. They sent me and Scott copies of this, and it is a very cool book. It's awesome.

So mine arrives soon. Never. It arrives, never. I'm sorry. There's no arrival. Don't wait outside. Everything's fine. You're good.

You'll also get a copy. I was just going to say it was such a cool, even just the outside of, this thing before I opened it. It is a badass. So if I move you, why can I see it? Yeah, you can, but you'll hate it here. You just don't want to do it. And it's got a solo play feature, so you can

play it. If your wife doesn't want to play neon rain, you can play it by yourself. It's totally fine. Well, that's a lot of things, right? Yeah, it is. It's the story of our lives. And then you're also going to get a copy of Doors Paradox

also at that's a Steam game sent right to you. Many games. Look at that. Physical, digital. What else can you ask for there? Ian, nothing. Analog and digital.

You're getting them both. That's right. New York boy. Oh, yeah. I can't wait for it to melt in your hands. That's right. Ah, yes. The minute that it's delivered,

it will just completely turn in the flames. There you go. Exactly. All right. Let's get to the game, though. You're not going to get this prize if your team don't win, and we've got to find out which team you're going to be on. So please, put your hands upon your buzzers.

And give me your best answer to this. We asked 445 Tadpoolers to name a shark-based movie or TV show. Brian. Lava Girl and Shark Boy. Show me. Show me Shark Boy and Lava Girl. No. I'll repeat the whole question for Scott.

Name a shark-based movie or TV show that isn't Shark Boy and Lava Girl. I'm just kidding. Name a shark-based movie. movie or TV show that isn't Jaws. Oh. Okay. Well, then you weren't too far off the thing. You just didn't get the top ten. That's a good guess. Um, that isn't Jaws. Oh, gosh.

Can I get a second guess? No, you cannot. Well, I mean, later on you can. The Meg. All right. Show me. Perfect. It is a Megalodon, by the way. Sure. Which is like a prehistoric shark. All right. Show me. Oh, I thought it was a shark named Meg. The Meg one or two.

And why haven't we watched it for film sack? Number three, right there. So Scott has control of the board and also going into it with three points. So very good. I saw the Meg in theaters and I hated it. Really disliked the Meg. It's bad. What you're saying is, what you're saying is shut up, Meg.

Yeah, shut up, Meg. Yeah, shut up, Meg is bad. The Meg is bad. I assume too is bad, but I would not spend money on it. I can't imagine they improved on the first one for part two. That means you get Ian as a partner and control of the board going into. to it with three points. Ian, I'll bet you I'll bet you money, Ian, that you got your

Shark Nato up here that just occurred to me. It's got to be up here. Oh, absolutely. Got to be number one probably. So we'll say Shark Nato, Brian. Cool. All right, let's see if anybody said that. Show me Shark Nato. Yeah, like a full, almost half of responses

were Shark Nato. Yeah, I'm surprised that didn't come to mind first because it's like, you know, still culturally relevant, I think. And for clarification, Shark Nato. NADO includes Shark Nato, two, three, four, all the Shark Natoes. So, all right. So you should be Shark Natoes.

Now, Brian, yeah, go ahead. You basically said TV, you said movies and TV, right? Movies and TV, right, exactly. Yeah. Gives me, gives me nerves. I mean, I have a movie that has to be there. And if it's not, then I'd be very surprised at the Tad Bowl. What do you got?

Deep Blue C. Oh, Deep Blue C, duh. Sam Jackson in the middle of his speech. Just a chomp. Yeah, it's amazing. All right, well, deep blue sea, let's do it. Let's see if it's up there. Show me deep blue sea.

It is number two. Very good call. All right. Although our points are not great. We're only six points right now. But you're getting the low-hanging fruit out of the way, so that's good. Oh, gosh. What about Dunaway's favorite song?

Oh, baby shark. You know what? That seems like something people would put in there, Tadpool, like putting in there. So I'd say yes. Let's do Baby Shark. All right. show me baby shark no but you'll be happy

to know that number 14 was baby shark's big movie so it was it's really a thing I would have been happier if it was number 11 but yeah I'll be happy I know I know yeah darn it that means Brian you you know can start guessing thank you seven answers

available on the board all big points I can only think of two shark based TV shows with one special appearance that switched the TV show series on his head. And I kind of just want I...

Huh? Happy days. Jump in the show. Oh, shit. That's really good. That's really good. I like that. All right.

All right. Sorry, I was too. No, no, don't put that. Oh, yeah, put it up there. Yeah, yeah, put it up there. All right. Is that your guess? No, because you didn't seem like

even knew what the hell is talking about. I'm going to go over street. Sharks. Street Sharks. The only reason why I'm thinking is street Sharks is because me and Scott have been going down this weird 90s, 80s animation thing, and that was one of the ones I've been wanting Scott

to watch. Muscular, tough gang, street sharks. Yeah, I remember this. Sure. All right, show me Street Sharks. Number 10 answer on the board and then puts you in the lead right away. Gotta be kidding me, dude.

Holy mother. What is up? All right. Not jaws. I feel like even though you put it in there to not say jaws, I just feel like 40 people still said jaws. I know. I have that feeling.

Shark Nato. What was that? Oh, I got a question. Sorry, this may help Brian too much, but I'll ask it anyway. We got Shark Nato at number one. Did you, are sequels off limits at this point? Did you lump them? I told you that Shark Nato includes Shark Nato, 3,

all the shit. Oh, shit. Okay. That's good. I'm like thinking Jaws 3D, like some smart ass is going, well, it's not the first one is Jaws 3D. Oh, stupid Teple always messing with me. How about instead we just go, um, uh, how many meters down was it? Was it, is it 48 meters down? I can't remember. There's like, are you going to, are you going to hit me hard if I don't get the number? Is it 42 meters down? There's a meters down that Zoe watched. I think it's, I'll help you and say, I believe that movie's 47 meters, I think. down or under 47 meters under

I will go with 40 something meters down or under okay all right show me 47 meters under no not in any form I have no idea what the hell you're talking about yeah I know that I did not find like nobody said anything like that

so he watched the Meg and those she was obsessed with sharks for a minute okay so just me huh so the same does the same rule apply to the Meg that the meg two would not be the meg two uh nobody said the meg two but if they did i would have included it okay yes all right cool that's good to know all right ian what are you thinking here i i got one but it's i don't know how obscure it is well i i mean it depends it depends on your definition of tv also because i mean there is always that whole week that takes place with

sharks yeah so oh shark week oh that's good yeah but it includes it includes HBO because as we know it's not tv it's hb yeah that's true that's true um Yeah, when Discovery does its thing, do they have a show that's like shark-specific? I mean, I know they have one-offs and stuff. Also, also at the same time, I'm thinking of the Tadpool here, who may have necessarily not 100% gone by just the TV show rule. It's a fair point. Yeah, fair point.

Let me tell you the one I was thinking, and then you tell me if I'm crazy. I was thinking of that old DreamWorks movie with, I think Will Smith was in it. Oh. Shark Tale, I think it's called. My kids really liked that back in the day. Yeah. That's a pretty good choice. Yeah.

I mean, I'm fine either way, Scott. We got a bunch of millennials in here. I think it might land. Let's try it. Shark tail. Okay. All right. Show me a shark tail.

Oh, number four. Very good. Shark tail up there, tag coming. I was actually really worried about that. I didn't think it was going to go. It's really mostly about Will Smith, who was not a shark. That's true. He was not a shark.

He was one of those yellow and bluefish, right? The bluefin. or well it's probably not even close just a little he was a little fish though was the idea right because then he he was a fresh prince fish that's what he was yes some of him from the Sopranos was in that

I do not remember who it was it was during the Sopranos so it was a Polly Oh no no no it was um Christopher Oh I think he was the shark Yeah Michael Imperialioli that's his name

That's it I love him All right well let's see boy now we're in the We're in the weeds. I mean, we could go even more obscure TV and go Jabberjaw. That's my next one. Jabber Javier. Bestered. Hannah Barberer's.

It's an old reference, right? I'm just, I'm a little worried about age, but let's do it. Jabber jaw, let's do it. All right. Show me Scooby-Doo, but replace the dog with a shark. Number five. Yes. Woo!

Awesome, dude. Hell yeah. Do you ever see the, there's a movie? Do I have the name right? uh what takes you up to 15 points for those audio listeners 15 points for scott and ian 10 points for brian is the is the there was one where blake lively's like in a bikini the whole movie all by herself trying to jump from one little island to another and it's like shallow i think is that right shallow yeah it's like i it's something like i it's something like that i i for the

life of me. I can't remember the name of it. Shallow. The shallow. The shallow. The shallows. It's plural. The shallows. Right? Okay. Isn't that what you'd call that? The shallows. And they did a sequel. So it must have been enough of a blippin, cultural, whatever, that people will say it. So we're going to say the shallow shallows.

All right. Show me the shallows. Scared. Yeah. Number 13, actually. so that's a good guess just outside and I think Blake loudly enjoyed working with the shark

more than she enjoyed working with that guy that was in it ends with us yeah you didn't see her sue the shark did you she did not

literally out of shark names now so good luck everybody I'm counting on Ian after Brian blows it I'm just gonna go over here I'm just gonna go over here and pick this one up

you put on the ground and blow it off and say give me some shark week ah man just put shark week show me shark week Damn it. Come on.

Number 12. Like you guys are inching your way up to the top 10. Damn. Oh my God. That's so insane. I can't believe how close it was. Yeah. All right. It's on us now. We have one strike left.

Okay. There's a movie. There's one other one I can think of, but I don't remember the name of it. But it was two dudes stuck in the water. They had nothing to hold on to. It's a little bit like the shallows, except there was not even a little lump of land. And if I remember right, they were just treading water the whole time and being stocked by a shark. But I could not tell you the name of this.

Like early 2000s, I don't know the name. So, oh, man, I can't think of the one that you're thinking of. And yet, the tadpool had a joke that they threw out. I swear if it's actually true will make me very, very happy. West Side Story. Oh, that would be great. That one can be. And when we ever have our jet movies, we can go, we can use it again.

So that's great. All right. You know what? Why not? Why not? Okay. All right. Let's do it, Brian.

Show me when you're a shark, you're a shark all the way from your first cigarette to the... Boy, the timing of the... buzzer never cooperated more than it did right then exactly that's amazing perfect timing oh man all right well so it's uh 15 to 10 Brian you've got uh one strike left uh you get any of these and you you win the game oh but of course if you get the last remaining four then Ian still gets that's not going to happen Ian so I'm oh I know yeah right so uh hmm so there's a couple of things I'm thinking there was a TV series I think it was this called shark but there was no sharks in it well there's shark tank right that's a thing but that's

oh by the way to clarify claire did ask did anyone say west side story amazingly with the tad pool none of them said west side story which kind of bums me out I really wish somebody would have said that because it's such a great yeah we're disappointed in all of you really sad yeah sad move everybody

bay watch had a couple of sharks in it but I still want to do that happy days thing I just feel like there's enough smart asses in the tad pool that they would say happy days. I mean, I would do it if I were you. That would be my next guess. Because Fons is going to jump that shark and it changed the whole show's dynamic.

Yeah, and everyone still says it. And half the people that say it now don't even know what it's referring to. They still know what it means. Exactly. So, all right, let's do it. Happy days are here again. Show me the Fons

of water skiing. Number 11. Ah, darn. Oh, number 11. Okay. Yeah, it doesn't mean he gets points. He just gets a second shot out of it. He just gets a second guess.

So, yes, the tadpool is full of smart asses. Confirmed. Confirmed. If there was ever any question about it. Yeah. Yeah, seriously. No doubt. All right.

There's a bunch of third-tier movies that I will never be able to guess the names of. So I'm trying to think of TV shows. I got a shark tank, which is not about sharks either. No, there's not about sharks. Baywatch. I don't know. give me just give me Baywatch

since it's like it's near the almost entirely in the ocean anyway yeah it's about all I would come up with that's what we're yeah all right show me the Yasmin Bleath show no so congratulations Ian you're getting the prizes

oh what happened did it oh there we go nope still okay now it's still showing me those are revealable all right you guys really danced around to this you know what I'm not going to reveal these in the right order. Scott, the movie about the two people, it's a guy and a woman

floating around, I can't don't have anything to hold on to it with sharks swimming around and that is called open water. Oh, my gosh. Why did I think it was two dudes, though? All of these movies are so poorly named. The sequel might have been nobody said open water too,

but I think the sequel might have been two dudes. I can't, I never saw it, so I don't know. I haven't either, but I've just, I knew about it. I know freaked me out. It's probably why I didn't see it, but kind of want to see it. It is, it is freaky. That is a, that is a movie that you know, there's a couple of movies that that I, that one disturbed

me and it made me not want to watch that one where the two people are stuck on the high radio tower. Oh. Last year. I saw that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Is it called fall?

That might be it. It's one, it's a one word. There's one called Frozen too, which is nothing about Frozen, the Disney Frozen. That's the one with Elson. That's the one where they're stuck on a ski lift. It's very similar. Oh, I did see that one. I don't like any of those.

When you're stranded like that and you do it for an hour and a half, F that shit, dude. Oh, Dr. Calhoun says, I think it is fall and it wasn't great. Okay. Oh, I remember, maybe I think in Frozen. I don't remember which one I saw. Anyway, all right, so let's see. So there's that one.

I'm going to show you number seven because I saw this and I was really getting ready to lump it into other things. but I looked it up and it really is another movie about sharks. It's called Deep Blue. Now, I don't know if those nine people meant to say Deep Blue C, but there is a movie called Deep Blue with some stars in it.

Like, it's not just this like... Deep Blue. Yeah, it came on 2003 and stars. Oh, Pierce Brosnan's in this. Pierce Brosnan, Michael Gambone, David Attenborough. This revered, it's a... It's a documentary.

It was a documentary. Yeah, okay. But it does feature sharks. Like you see stingrays, penguins, and sharks in it. Is it filmed like the office? I doubt it. I love that. That's great.

All right. So now let's get to some real smart assery here. Oh, no. You bounced around it, Brian. You almost said it. Shark tank number six. Of course. Of course.

Yeah, that's some tadpole bullshit there. That's what that is. And yes, the tad pooled in. name a shark-based movie or TV show that isn't Jaws? They will say Jaws, too. Oh, what? Of course. I should have trusted my instincts

on the tad poo. Absolutely. Wow. Absolutely. All right, let's get down the rest of these list here. Sky sharks, Finding Nemo, Austin Powers. Batman. Oh, Austin Powers sharks with lasers. Shark repellent.

The shark repelent. Yes. Card sharks. The old game show. The Deep Baywatch was on the list by the way tied for 22nd place Blue Crush

CPO Sharky There's a blast from the past Wow Jurassic Shark Kenny the Shark Is that real? Jurassic Shark exists Jurassic Shark has got to be

one of those Troma or Yeah Oh my gosh That's awful Oh yeah it's real We of course We of course had a couple of these

Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus Mega Shark versus Crocasaras and Sharktipus had to get that one. Moon Raker. Nope, that one is Jaws. That one does feature Jaws. No, that's a great meta pick, though. I love that.

Shark, I think the one that Brian was talking about. One person said that as well as Shark Exorcist, which I think we need to see. Sharky and George, the Crime Busters of the Sea, Tintin, Red Reckham's Treasure, Soul Surfer, and finally, Saturday Night Live, Candy Graham. Oh, Candy Graham. I didn't think that would be great.

Man. Well, the good news is this. You've won regardless. Even though this was a bit of a struggle, you got it. Congratulations. And that means Dunaway has to walk away, sad, like, you know, Charlie Brown music, all that. That's right. It's totally fine because the good news is you're going to win this stuff. Brian, tell him again what he's won.

Yeah, you've won a physical board game copy of neon rain, which is really, really cool. As well as, big thanks, thanks, by the way, to chip theory games. Go check him out. Chip Theory games. they make us a lot of great games. And Doors Paradox on Steam, courtesy of our friend H. Oh, very nice. I love our friend H.

It's great. Yes. I go to Hmart all the time. I hope that's helping him out and, you know, doing what he needs to do. Just kidding. So, Ian, DM me your mailing address, and I'll get that over to the Chip 3 games, folks. Sky Sharks was number 16, Monica, she was asking. Nice.

Well, there you have it then. Well done. Ian, how do you feel about your big win? I feel absolutely fantastic, like I've been bitten, like I'm dying in the water, blood spurting everywhere, but I survive. Oh, that's good. Well, then warn us next time for the sequel. We'll see you next time.

All right. Brian Donaway, super fun hanging out with you, of course. We did the Lost Vikings yesterday and play retro. Go check that out. What we did with G.I. Joe, maybe Patreon only, but the rest of it, that was out there in the public, and you can go listen to it now. We did it right out there in public. We showed the whole thing.

Man, I really learned a lot of. about Lost Vikings this past week. And I'm going to go back a little more tonight and post a regular video on our play retro show YouTube. Yeah, the YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash at Play Retro Show. Go check it out and subscribe. It'll help us get that thing in shape over there by you subscribing. Brian Dunaway Kiss Herbuts.

So they have to do it faster because the lag is less on this thing. Yeah, he's got a little bit more of a chance to get in there with it. Very, very minor. All right, we're going to take a break when we come back. Our old pal Tom Merritt will join us, do a little tech news. That'll be fun. Who knows what will happen after. that actually i can tell you we have recommendals after that so lots of fun stuff on tap just like a nice

beer or whatever uh brian what do we got in the meantime song wise this is cool this is an album that or an ep that i listened to uh fully and i'm really really digging it um very cool kind of um masy star kind of you know there's there's some there's a little throwing muses influences and stuff really really cool the band is called uh chanpan C-H-A-N-P-A-N. They are a Chinatown-based alt-pop group. They've got a brand-new EP called Endlessly. Just trying to see who else has been involved with this.

Brittany Howard. Let's see. Oh, Alec Ness, Frankie Skoka, Air Atlantica. Anyway, it's really, really good. This is the song, and it really is described this way. I'm going to actually give the real description here if I can find it. the song is called Luigi's Mentione. Sweet.

It gives us a glimpses of a gamer's dream, influenced by the Nintendo GameCube title of a similar name and a young observer's glitchy, real-life perspective of a potential turning point of late-stage capitalism. Wow. It's groovy. The band is called Chan Pan from their album, Air EP Endlessly. Here is Luigi's Mentione. Maybe the hero has fallen, but strength arises in us in us. One feet of valor and courage, igniting the rage in the heart.

Disguided Demonization The Lord A heavy folk on the city Can't see what we're fighting for Oh La la la la la la La da

La da da da da da La da da da da La da da da la la la da da da Yeah Na da la There's a man hunt He's on the loose Pigs and cattle

Prepare his news I'm used. You go to la-la-na-da-la-la-da-da-la-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-la-da-da-ha-ha-da-da-la-da-la-da-la. This motel more like a hell no-tel, you know what I'm saying? Scary Busey up in here. Now, what would she have seen if she looked out her window at 6 p.m.? Hmm?

And we're back. Hello, everybody. We're back. Yes. Oh, hello. Brian, tell me about Luigi's Mansion again. That was awesome. Sure, that's Chan Pan from their brand-new EP called Endlessly with a son called Luigi's Mentione. Love it. Love it. And I think, as a couple people have pointed out in chat, I think it is a reference to Luigi Mangione. Oh, okay. Well, there you go. Oh, is it? Oh. Yeah. Especially with the late, the capitalism and GameCube is what came together to bring us that song. They're taking the piss, as the kids say.

They are, yes. Look who we got here, everybody. This guy. Isn't technology wonderful? Tom Merritt joins us, as he does each and every Wednesday, to discuss the tech news of the day. Tom Merritt, welcome to the show. How are you? Good. My monitor decided to turn off as soon as I connected with you. That's fun. That's always a fun turn of events. You know? No one sees it coming. No one expects it. It's like the Spanish Inquisition. The best part is that it turned off and didn't like move everything over to my laptop screen. Yeah. So I can't see anything. Oh, well, that's not good at all.

There are all your notes for today in a place that you needed to see them. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I've had this experience. It's fun. You have to you have to sort of improv. You know what? And we're also very easy. So you could just, you know, dink around with it all you want. It's not a problem. We're super simple here. Brian and I. We're simple creatures. We are simple creatures of habit. You're almond brothers. That's right. We're allmen brothers. We've one of us married Cher. Don't remember which one. Dwayne. Dwayne. Was it Dwayne? I married him. Okay. I think so. I think so. I could be wrong. Wow. Okay. And now my, my, my, uh, cursors doesn't want to show up oh no no it's all coming back yeah all coming back so i've got my monitor on tech man heal thyself yeah do you do you need me to join something to see me you do not need to if you don't want to but you can uh in discord if you'd like but if it's uh if it's gonna mess you up you do not have to do okay so we're not using the stream yard thingy oh not today today i just figured since i usually be on discord video i just calling on on good old-fashioned discord and and

so you're it's up to you it's an entirely in your hands. No, I can turn on the camera. I just won't be looking at you. That'd be fine too. However you want to do it, we will do it. And then everybody at home will go, wow, look at that. And then they'll tell their friends. All I did, all I did was

lower the monitor. So that it wasn't blocking the camera. I have a short in mine. I don't know what yours is like, but I've got the display port cable port. If I breathe on that thing wrong. Any movement and it's like, yeah. I don't have to do, It's almost my heartbeat is enough to make this thing.

So right now I've got it in the perfect place and I have a little bit of electrical tape holding it against the good side. If that moves at all, we're effed. There we go. And it's the port. It's not like you could just say, let's use a different chord.

It's the port is the problem. Yeah, that's your problem. Well, there's Tom, Merritt. It's like, this is all just like normal. That's right. Yeah. That's just fantastic. I have to look over there

if I want to tell you about the fair phone. I do want to hear about whatever the fair phone is. Thank goodness. Man, this is all coming to. together like a real plan uh hey it's tom merritt everybody ace today what the dell yeah what the what the what the del del that's all right mine better than the scepter which is what i'm using anyway uh tom merritt back to the thing you you do tech news uh consolidation on a little show called the day the tech news show um and it's great i get to be on on wednesdays which is also

fun and uh you usually come and like cue us in on a few things we can expect today so what's going on yeah so the sixth version of the fair phone has been announced You can order it now. I think it's shipping sometime in August, although I'm a little confused by that part of it. But it is 599 euros, 499 pounds, I think if you're in the UK, and $899 in the U.S. If you're in Europe, you can get it with Android 15. If you're in the U.S., you can only get it through a French company called Marina, and they put a de-googled version of Android on it called EOS.

It's otherwise unavailable directly in the U.S. unless you want to buy it yourself and import it from Europe. But the idea with the fair phone originally, and still is, is that all the parts are ethically sourced from up-and-up companies that, you know, have good labor policies and pay fare wages and all of that sort of thing. And I think what a lot of people will be interested in, as well is that it is repairable. So they don't use any glue.

Everything is screws. And so up to 12 different parts of the phone, your battery starts to go, unscrew it, put in a new battery. Your screen gets cracked, unscrew it, put in a new screen. That also goes for the USB port and the camera module and a bunch of 12 different parts of it. It does not apply to storage because the storage is on the motherboard. So you can't upgrade the motherboard.

can't upgrade the storage because it's on the motherboard, you can't upgrade the CPU, but you can pretty much upgrade everything else in it. So, hence the fair name, I guess. That's the whole idea as they want, you know, fair. Yeah, the fair name came from like, we're, we're going to only, you know, buy parts from people who are treated fairly. Gotcha. And the higher price here in the States, I assume, something to do with the tariffs or maybe not, I don't know. I don't think so. I think it's just that they can't get anyone to carry it. I don't know why. And so they have to use this French company who's like, well, we'll provide it, but we don't want to be selling an Android version with all the Google stuff on it. And so they, they slap their own thing on there

and then add a little price to it. Their, their OS is remarkably iOS looking. Like, it's, clearly it's Android. Yeah. If you look at it, just in this image here, there's, you could fool me and say, hey, check out the new iPhone. Because it's even got the camera layout, very similar on the back to an iPhone, which I'm, the fair phone looks nice. Uh, it's, It's about 9% lighter than the last one. So it's probably a little bit heavier than some of the phones out there, but it's not bad. And the battery life was the big complaint people had last time. Of course, you could always be like, well, you know, you can add a different battery.

But they increase that now to a 4,415 milliamp hour battery that they say should last you 53 hours on a charge. Wow, that's a long time. That's a real long time. Yeah, that's not bad at all. Yeah, even this close-up shot of this one in a case, it's just, you could say to Scott, hey, check out my iPhone 16 and I believe you. Yeah, that the font that they have for the clock and everything,

the line on the very bottom that looks like it's a swipe-up deal. Yeah, even where the button placement is is a little reminiscent. Some of that's just because you guys don't use Android and Android looks like that. I mean, I guess so. I don't know. They've been doing it for a lot longer than Apple. I mean, I look at a, I look at like a, you know, the what do you call? pixel phones, and they're at least somewhat distinct, certainly on the back.

I think the default screens on pixels and galaxy phones are meant to look different so they don't get accused of ripping it off, but you can make the Android look like that. That's true. Yeah. These guys have earbuds and headphones and other cool stuff. Yeah, yeah. Fairphone, the company Fairphone has other things as well. And the other thing about their current Fairphone, the new one, the sixth version, is they have removable

backplates. So instead of having to have a case, you can just buy a different backplate that has a card, you know, credit card holder or a loop so that you can hold it better, more comfortably, that kind of stuff, which is kind of a nifty difference. I'm not sure how many people are going to use that, but it differentiates it from other phones. Yeah, that's cool. I'm very curious about this, just kind of overall. It hadn't heard it was even a thing. So that's why we have Tom on. He tells this stuff. We don't know. Yeah, they were talking about it on Android Faithful Tuesday night. And I think Flo was the one who was like, I don't know why this is not more popular in the United States. She was just in Amsterdam, I think she said, and people, which is where this

company's from. So maybe that's why it's more popular. But she's like, yeah, people, people were very familiar with it. Lots of people have them. Yeah, I like, I kind of like what I'm looking at here. Seems cool. Well, we'll talk about that today on the Daily Tech News show, among other things. Yeah, we're going to get into this weird, weird one-off Microsoft meta. Xbox VR headset for limited time only thing. Yeah, the one you could make yourself. Yeah, basically. Yeah.

It's really a very, it's a weird thing, but I also think it fits the strategy we're seeing lately, and we're going to dig into that some. So that'll be fun, many other things on tap today. So check out the Daily Tech News Show live. That happens today at 2 p.m. Mountain Time, and we hope to see many of you there. Tom, anything else going on you'd like to mention. Yeah, I'd like to fix this monitor. It's really annoying me.

Yeah, that will annoy you. I'll bet you have to reboot everything or something. Usually when it goes blank, it's because the cable got loose and then everything goes over to the Mac, right? To the Mac screen. Well, this time that didn't happen, but it's blank. So that worries me. It's like, well, did you just die suddenly? So most of my brain is worried about that.

But the rest of it is very excited that I'll be doing Brian Brushwood's workshop this weekend. So I know a few of you are going there. I can't wait to see you. If you're not going there, keep an eye out. Brian will probably put some of it online. And I think his intention is to record it all and make it available later as a course that people can buy as well. So I'm excited about being there and doing that. That's awesome.

I'll be in Vegas, but that'll be closer to you than usual. We're kind of in the same hemisphere. Yeah, we're all in the southwest. Good way of putting it. It is Tom Merritt, everybody. He is Ace Detect on all the socials. Do follow him. Tom will see you next time.

Bye now. All right. Thank you. I cut him off for you. finished saying this. That's all right. We knew what he was going to say. Yeah, we knew what that was about. Same Samo from Tom. The huge. All right. Time for recommendals. We're going to get right into it. Let's start with some music. Where is it? Here it is. Well, what do you recommend? Yeah, that's right. We're going to talk about stuff we've seen on streaming services. And one guy we do that with is Mr. Randy Jordan. Hello, Randy. How are you?

Good morning, morning stream. I'm doing Will. Thanks for. asking. You actually ask. I like to ask. I like to ask. It's this old tradition we have of thanks for asking, but sometimes I don't actually ask. It's true. Usually, it started because you didn't ask. And now when you do, it's nice. It's really nice. Thank you. I will continue to ask. I think that that's a nice thing. Nicole has not joined to yet. She has the link. She will shortly. I will watch for that. Until she does, though. I wanted to say this. We're going to do something a little different today. Oh. It was kind of exciting. Super stupid, actually. So normally the order goes, Brian, and then you two, and then me. That's just the standard. And I thought, you know, let's shake it up a bit today. So I have it in my hand here, this D20. You both have initiative roles that you're going to have to do, myself included. But you have some bonuses to initiative.

I'm going to mention these first. Brian has plus six to his initiative role. And that is mostly due to tradition and experience because he's been first for a long time. Randy, you've got a plus two, not bad. Is that one of those stainless steel? It looks like a big heavy metal dye. Yeah, you can put it in the freezer. Oh, you could if you want.

You could freeze this up if you wanted to. Hi, Nicole. You've joined us. How are you? Exhausted. Oh, that's not good. Why are you so tired? You all right?

Because I took my kids to camp today. And it was... Yeah. And Matteo forgot his swimsuit. So I went to Target and intrude ADHD style. I got distracted and I couldn't find this in food. So typical mom stuff really is what you're doing. Yeah, pretty much.

Yeah. So, and I also realized that I had no jack to, how do I sound? You sound okay. You're fine. Okay. Because I just, I bought a cheap pair of headphones and a jack to my phone. Oh, wow. Hilarious.

Yeah, you sound fine. You sound fine. We'll make it work. Now, if Nicole's exhausted, I think that means she's rolling with disadvantage. Oh, good point. She's rolling with disadvantage. All right. So, Nicole has a, Nicole, you missed this part.

We're going to roll for who starts today, okay? I have a D20. We have initiative rolls plus six for Brian, plus two for Randy, plus three for Nicole, and plus one for Scott. All right, you know what? We'll let Nicole, because she's in the car and it's kind of a pain in the ass. Yes. Give her the most advantage. We're going to give her, we're going to roll with advantage of machines.

She gets two rolls plus her plus her plus, all right? Because, add in, I have to get this to my son before noon. All right. Here goes. Here goes. I'm rolling advantage. First roll was an 18. Second roll for Nicole. Oh, my gosh. You got a Nat 20-23 for Nicole. She is starting today. Let's roll for Brian. You got a 13 plus 6. What is that? 19. Not bad. So so far you're in second. Randy, you are at an 8 plus 2. So it's 10. So you're behind him. And then I am at, I am last. 7 plus 1. I'm at 8. So there you go. the mic to let you know he's really actually rolling a dog. Yeah, I mean, you know, I got a big old fatty here. This thing's awesome. I love this diet. All right,

that means Nicole's first met her. I was willing to bet five bucks. That thing was going to roll on the floor and we were going to spend eight minutes trying to find it. I mean, you know we well enough to know that it was probably going to happen. All right, Nicole, let's start with you. What are you recommending this week? What's going on?

Hello? And she disappeared. She's prone. She's, she has silenced. She probably got a phone call. my guess. Yeah, she, that, that'll disconnect you on your phone. It'll kill you. Bring her back. Hi, Nicole. You're back. Hello. Oh, my God. I didn't do

a damn thing and it just started playing my Amazon music. Oh, well, that'll happen too if your car, well, whatever, Amazon sucks. But anyway, go ahead. I'm on safar. I'm in Safari and it warns me. It's beta. So basically

take your chances. Yeah. Well, I think we'll be all right. All right. You're first. You're first, though. So tell us what you got. I want to have my rules. I got an 18 and something else? You got a Nat 20, so you won. Yeah. Good. Yeah.

Okay. So you're first. All right. So I have, I've been watching a lot of movies. Mm-hmm. And I haven't been able to finish any of them. Okay. Because life right now is.

Sure. Bananas. You're busy. You got stuff going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I did start watching a series solely based on a Facebook ad.

and I can't get enough of it it's from Australia it's on Netflix every episode is not going to be for everyone in fact I skipped I skipped one I can talk about it

you found a clip right yeah so so yeah it's it's a talky talky type of thing but it's very it's just it's Very interesting.

All right, here we go. We'll play it. How do you sleep at night? On a bed, uncomfortably, for about four hours at a time. I would average less than two hours a night. For about the first six months, I hardly slept. Even in one night, I would try to go back to sleep half a dozen times. The nightmare would just pick up exactly where I left it off.

Tried sleeping tablets that didn't work. I have a cigarette. It doesn't work. The cigarettes were the go-to, 50 a day at that stage. I would sit in bed and just stare at the ceiling and just scream because I feel trapped. I do a lot of thinking when I'm supposed to shut down. This may have been the episode you skipped because of the subject matter. No, no, no, no, no.

Was this the, I killed someone? Yes. Okay, that was the ad. That was the ad on Facebook that made me want to watch this series. And so the name of the show, I'm going to get, let's see if I can remember it. you're not supposed to ask that. It's called... Shorter.

You can't ask that. You can't ask that. You can't ask that. You can't do this on television. Everybody gets slimed when they say, I don't know. But basically, in that particular episode, it's fascinating to me because I just wanted to know everyone's story. Because the very last one, one of the questions, it was who did you kill and they all tell their story and so there's usually about

I would say six to eight people sometimes they like group them up I think sometimes they're individual I particularly loved the nudist episode everyone loves nudity big fan I love nudity I loved how free they were with their nudity and and talking about it and answering, so people submit questions. And this is the fifth season. So I have four seasons to go back to the other one, the very, what happened? You're good. Yeah, sorry, Scott put up.

I like how you spelled your name. It's just spelled Nicole, and I like that. Anyway. It's so true. Yeah, you're so cool. You're very cool. So you're good. I had a friend that called me that, and I didn't even realize I typed it.

I like it. I think that's awful. Sorry, continue on. The very first episode is about firefighters. And I put it, and there was a scene, they're very Australian. So some are very proper Australian, but there's one. He's just, you know, a foster's beer, and he's just like, and so they're talking about this really bad fire that happened in their town and he says and I've never heard this

expression before I felt like I got kissed on the dick by a fairy what an odd thing for anyone to say in any context very weird it just means good luck he because his house did not burn down the wind changed and he survived and that was that was him insane. I got really lucky. That's hilarious. You know, it's an Australian phrase. Everybody says it. I never heard it and I loved it so much. So you have the firefighters, you have the nudists, you have the people that killed people.

I know that there's a little people episode. There is, what are the episodes? I didn't look at all of them, but they're. I don't have them in front of me. I don't have them either. I'll look for it real quick. The one I skipped was like the Olympic athletes. The Olympic athletes.

I was like, I don't really care. So there are two seasons? Oh, no, there's multiple seasons. There's five. There's five. There's five. Short statured, wheelchair users, transgender, Muslims, polyamorous, ex-prisoners, fat, indigenous, sex workers, terminally ill.

That's just the first season. That's the first season. Tell me the fifth season. It was the firefighters. Sure. Yeah. Firefighters, nudists. and firefighters like he says

the one I've seen nudists killed someone these all sound like one long thing firefighting you don't nudist killed someone yeah autism spectrum HIV positive people Olympic and Paralympic gold medalists public housing and kids kids oh interesting

just asking kids questions the autism one I really enjoyed listening to because it was like the questions that were asked They're like, we're just freaking people. You know?

So I highly recommended, if you're sensitive or triggered by certain topics, of course, look at the episode before you watch it. Skip that episode, yeah, for sure. But I will say, I'll give you a little, a little spoiler on the, I killed someone, they're all accidents. It's not like they're, they're, they're, they're not interview, they don't interview a hitman or anything. They're not interviewing serial killers or anything like that. They're interviewing people that accidentally killed someone. And it's heartbreaking at times, but it's almost therapeutic. You can see it's almost therapeutic for them to talk about it.

I want to know more about this guy named Neil Lil Krap. That's a great name, Lil Krap. Which episode is he in? let's see one episode he is in is called wheelchair users wheelchair users yeah anyway great name go change it though i would probably go to the corner of it really like this show like she when you said you were doing this one i was in the room when she watched the firefighters one i really enjoyed it and i meant to go back and watch some of these because it's it does seem really fascinating well and it's very episodic so it's not that's why i recommended it because the kind of thing that i'm just

I can watch an episode. You can sprinkle it in here and there. Yeah. Yeah. Get interrupted by the kids. I'm okay. And it sounds like something that got vetted by the Pacific Ocean, which I've said repeatedly, like when a show is a hit in Australia and it makes it over here, it's a good show.

Yeah. Have you noticed that too? That happens a lot. It happened with that love on the spectrum show. It happens with this probably. I don't mean there aren't U.S. versions of this yet, but I could see that happening. Very easy. Yeah.

Yeah, totally. Okay. Well, there you go. Available on Netflix, all five seasons, 2016 to 2022. I'm going to be, I'm going to watch this. I think this sounds great. Yeah. Pick out a few.

Just, you know, like I said, I wasn't really interested in the athletes, even though I was an athlete when I was younger, but I was like, I don't know. It's reviewed really well. 8.7 out of 10 on I&B is really strong. That's not bad. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, be safe. That's my recommendation. Be safe. Use your headphones. Find your kids. Send them to camp. Whatever it is you got to do today. All right. You get all that stuff done. We'll see you next time. Take care to Cole. Take care indeed. All right. How did we roll? Brian rolled next. I was second. Yeah. That's right.

All right. My clip is from a series that all episodes are now available so you can jump right in and watch all of them. And it features one of the characters going to the bank. All right, here we go. Next. Hey, so I have to pay this company, Peters, to fix my parents' boiler because they're traveling and the hot water's just out and I'm like the guy. But they only take check

and I don't so much have check. I came here. To the bank. And you need, now, you please say something. Social security number? Um... You don't know your social? No, I do. It's just that my mom, she knows the shit out of it.

Fill this out. Bring it back. Yep. Okay. Hey. So they were all out of chocolate chip So I got you Karab Yeah I debated not telling you How to go

Oh you know Always thought the world was going to be waiting for me And instead Everyone's annoyed that I'm here No that's hard So update Oh my gosh That's really funny dude

What is this? This is called adults And this is I was worried about this one Because it looked like FX basically just trying to do another friends. Nope, you're looking at the adults.

This is different. Oh, shit. Sorry. My bad. I don't know why this is so hard to find. It was hard to search for it, too. There it is. It's that top one right there. There you go. This follows a group of five Gen Zers.

And it is, it doesn't hit every single joke that it tries to make, but it hits a lot of them. It hits enough of them to make every episode hilarious. It's about five friends who, lowercase friends, who all live in the same house and are trying to navigate the world of not quite, you know, ready to be adults, but you're kind of forced into that world. This is one of those things that's just got a fantastic cast,

like a very great ensemble cast. There's not a weak member of the main five. And you get Daredevil Charlie Cox as Mr. Teacher for a good run of episodes. His name is Mr. Teacher. Mr. Teacher. Well, Andrew, but they start calling him Mr. Teacher. And I have said before, I will watch anything with Darcy Cardin in it.

Even if Darcy Cardin is only in it for five seconds, I will watch anything. Yes, the good place, what was her character, Janet? Oh, she's great. I love her. She is great, and she's good in this, too. You've also got, oh, who's the guy? there's the it's the guy that actually

appears as her husband is it Rayne Nicholson I think it's Rayne Nicholson Ray Ray he'd be lower on the list one episode kind of deal there he is on the left side there is Ethan oh there is

yep yep oh I like him too yeah yeah um he's in smile too yes he is and uh oh and Nova came which you just saw which I just saw yeah he's he's in bunch of recent stuff the um you know it's a good 30 minute watch um sprinkled in here and there

but you're you're really going to find my favorite character is this a woman named billy who is the blonde in there lucy frayer lucy frayer did no idea until afterwards that she's australian she's another one of these australians that just does an incredible english accent and it just amplifies her cuteness level by a thousand yeah they're knowing that she's australia they're so weird over there. I don't know how they do it. How do these Australians do it? They come over here and they just fool us all. All of them. What's in the water? I don't get it. They all say it's because they grew up watching American TV, but still. Oh, so Claire's been talking about Jack Inan, that he's a Canadian comedian and actor. He's part of the ensemble cast. He plays Paul Baker,

and everybody calls him Paul Baker. And he is really funny in this too. I mean, like I said, everybody is uh oh is he uh who's somebody who's somebody who's correcting with a they and i don't know who um all right well anyway figured out um yeah we'll figure it out anyway it's called adults it's on hulu with uh some commercials because it's an fx thing but it is absolutely worth checking out it's a lot of fun oh oh i think samantha's just saying that they as in there was an episode of after midnight that had like three of these people on it oh gotcha we thought we You're in pronoun territory. It is such a crime that they canceled after midnight.

I know. I know. Totally. Also, FX is awesome. I'll watch anything on FX. Yeah. This is, this is, this is, this is, don't think of it as somebody trying to redo friends because this is a much darker,

more, um, raunchy, racy friends. And they have, um, a gay black person among the friends. So, whoa. Already. Already a thousand times more accurate to a diverse culture. Exactly. And they have jobs where they can't afford. to go hang out in a coffee shop for 14 hours a day.

So anyway, it's called adults. I think folks will really enjoy it. It's a lot of fun. It's a very funny sitcom. Yeah, Kim and I want to watch this. No laugh track. Oh, good. Good. I don't like those. Yeah, FX usually doesn't.

I can't think about an FX show with a laugh track. There aren't too many comedies with them at all anymore as it is. Oh, and I forgot to mention, executive produced by Nick Kroll, among others. So Nick Kroll, who's obviously, you know, big mouth and, and just does a lot of hilarious stuff. Yeah, created by Ben Cronenberg, Rebecca Shaw. Why is that Cronenberg? Croningold, sorry.

Why do I know that name? I don't know, Ben Croningold. He does not have a link. It doesn't have much of anything in here. Oh, he's a writer. He worked on tonight show with Jimmy Fallon for a long time. Why is that name familiar? I'm thinking of Cronomberg, I think.

Maybe you have to be at the end of Cronomberg. Yeah. It's throwing me. All right. Well, as the dice have rolled, now that we move. from adults on FX and Hulu. Fate has determined. We're moving from the adults to the children.

That's right. Randy, you're the first children. You're the child first to go because you rolled best next. So what do you got here for us this week? I have, this is now the fourth consecutive year that I have come on here and told you guys that I need you to watch this show. A very short clip because everyone knows what it is and you need to watch it. Incredible foundation of people that keep putting us into positions where we can get lucky.

but we're getting lucky. The one thing we did do that I think we planned for and hoped for was that sort of symbiotic relationship with the community, the feeling in Wrexham and the club, the high tide raising all boats. There just feels like over the last four years, it's been this roller coaster of magic. This is a bit of a follow-up wreck for you, right?

Oh, yeah. I think this is the fourth consecutive year. I think it is. that I have recommended this show. If you haven't watched it yet, you have to. I'm now requiring it for you to continue to live. This is not a non-negotiable requirement from Randy Jordan. That's correct.

All right. No half measures. Welcome to Rexum starts out as a Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney documentary. But it very quickly, like years ago, it got away from them. I gave you this clip because this season starts with them talking. but my gosh it is so about the town of Wrexham the people

the people who are still coming there and putting down roots and it's about what they're experiencing in this absolutely unique and meteoric rise for a community the you know

the show itself is it's become a show partially about itself because you know they've been making this documentary there for four years now and it is so emotional so moving so beautiful it's one of those things where it's like in its fourth season i'm feeling like i felt in the fourth season of shits creek where i'm just like this is being this is aware of what it does well and it's now only doing that you know what i'm saying yeah no i i are they got more in them or i thought i heard somewhere

that this fourth thing was it no there's more no they're definitely making another season they They have already, they've already even predicted how many episodes it's going to be. So it's probably time to get into this one for me. I haven't seen it at all. Same here. It's been circling the drain for me. Now, I guess that's not the right term because that would mean it's leaving. Yeah, it's been airing up the balloon for you.

It's an airing up the balloon. And it's time for me to just launch it already. Tina and I just finished poker face season two, or at least we're caught up with poker face season two. So we need a good, good, you know, short-form. pallet cleanser, comedy, feel good kind of thing. I'll tell you what I said previously because it's as true as ever.

I just sat and watched this fourth season with my in-laws at their house and they could not care less about soccer. I mean, they almost actively hate the fact that there's a sport from the country they're from that is so important

to their countrymen. But they sit and watch this and love it. And it's because it's about a community. It's about people. And the thing that'll sell teen on this is Ryan Reynolds. She'll sit through a Marvel Snap documentary if Ryan Reynolds happens to be the guy playing Marvel Snap. Oh, I see. This is how Pedro Pascal works in my house.

They went and saw that terrible thing he's in right now that did not review out some kind of rom-com book thing. I don't know what it is. Oh, really? I haven't heard about this. It's because he's in everything. And the girls were all excited. They've all read this book, and they were all stoked about it. And then they all hated it.

But they still were like, well, I'd still go because Pedro's in it. So, yeah, I know that feeling. Some actors just, they get the red carpet from our wives. They totally do. And that's totally fine. You know, there's, you know, Florence Pugh, right? I'll watch her at anything. She's fantastic.

I think a lot of people are discovering that Rob McElhenney is like a person. Like, they only know him from, it's always sunny or from. mythic quest and he is actually he's very much like Ryan Reynolds he's like a whole person with a life outside of the character that he plays and not just a two-dimensional person are you telling weird yeah and he's you know he's a full 50% of the celebrity side of this show but as much as it changes a town to have a couple of celebrities from overseas come in with a lot of money Again, like the show proves to you that the town had it all along. Like the treasure is really the friends we make along the way.

And it's like, seriously, it's just one of the best things that has ever been put on television. You must watch it. Wow. He had scenes in Deadpool and Wolverine that got cut. I didn't know that. McElheny did. Yes, that is talked about in the third season. Oh, they get into it. All right.

See, I got a lot to catch up on. I didn't know about that. You do. that's cool are those scenes somewhere on youtube those the the wolverine cuts i'll bet they are i don't know but they they talk about it before it happens in the third season and they mention it a little bit in the fourth season this new season um but just like i say that oh oh it's not just a show about one men's soccer team there are there's so much more uh that that they follow like there's a women's soccer team uh in this in this city

And they have an entire arc that they don't really start talking about them until the second season. But once they do, they realize, well, now we're going to follow this whole other thing, too. And the women's soccer team has this interesting story and people that you're going to like to hear from and follow. Yeah. Well, that sounds awesome. I need to stop. I need to get off the pot or poop. You know what I mean?

I need to watch it. Yeah. Yeah. You do. Excellent. And by the way, there's, there's some educational things. Like, or the first few seasons, they go to great lengths to help you understand what these Welsh people are saying. And what, like, some of, some of the Welsh, not just the dialect, but some of the, you know, actual Welsh language.

Yeah. So that you can get, you know, so you can follow along without just being gibberish to you. And that's, that's really fun. You really feel like you're in on something later as you go. Well, a good recommendation. Check it out. Four seasons out now. Now fifth on its way.

What's the full name of the thing? Something of Wreckham. What is it? Reckham. Welcome to Rexum. Welcome to Rexum. Nothing like something about Reckham. Rexum.

I hardly know him. Beckham like bendem. All right. Let's get into my pick this week. This is going to surprise nobody that I love it. And I'd be shocked if you told me otherwise. Here's my clip and I'll talk about it. I have a question for you.

Well, since when was your lucky lucky allowed to make seven-figure calls on how we clean our money. Seraphane has a fine businesswoman. One who listens to Brendan. She makes good choices. You mean like you did? At string, fellows. A chain is as strong as its weakest link.

It doesn't need two of them. If I had to choose who to lose in a war, it would be those two liabilities. You know, Dave. I think the devil's bile runs in your fans. Yeah, she's psycho. All right. Here is the thing.

It is James Bond. It is James Bond. One of our James Bond's is in this. Mobland is the movie or the show. This is an 10 episode series up on Paramount Plus. I watched it through Prime, so I keep confusing it. Yeah, because I have them subbed through there. So it's confusing.

But it is Paramount Plus. First season just ended. And it is Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosden. Patty Constantine. It's freaking fantastic in this. I love a minute. You heard there Helen Mirren, who is married to Pierce Brosnan's character. He is called Conrad Harrington. She is Maeve Harrington. They are the head of a crime family, an Irish crime family that has been around forever. And this is the story of the Harringtons as they go up against other families and other conflicts.

There is a huge ensemble cast of people here. No shortage of actors to rave about. They're all very good. some of them you're going to recognize some of them you won't toby oh who's in who's uh he's in uh he's in marvell stuff he played toby jones toby jones is in this briefly only couple episodes but he's fantastic yeah he's really good and he's and he's playing his normal british self uh in this one uh quite the turn for him anyway there's uh this rival family called the stevenson's and everybody's trying to control who's doing fentanyl and he's done all this stuff set in a modern era so this is mob stuff like now And Tom Hardy is not a member of the family, but he may as well be.

He's essentially the cleaner, the take care of it guy, that makes sure that stuff happens, guy, brutal in his own way, but also kind of an anti-hero in his own way. There's a lot going on here. This is not created by, but it is produced by what's his bucket? Oh, Guy Rich. Guy Richie. Thank you. So very Guy Ritchie-like in a lot of ways, including a bunch of actors of work with Guy Ritchie. for. But this is created by Ronan Bennett, or Bennett. Ronan

Bennett is the name. Day of the Jackal. Day of the Jackal. Gunpowder, top boy, a bunch of really cool stuff. Public enemies, the screenplay for that, which was, the problem with that movie was not the screenplay. It was other things. But anyway, Guy knows his mob stories. And

this is a very intense 10 episode constant piece of awesome. Can I get away with pretending that before his season of Peaky Blinders, Tom Hardy fell through a wormhole and he's living out a life in this time frame. A little bit. And then he's going to get thrown back to Peaky Blinders. A little bit.

Like he's, he is clearly meant to play this sort of thing. He's extremely good in it. I mean, I'm already a Tom Hardy fan. I just found this performance to be just so good. And there are times where he's the scariest freaking thing in the world. And there are times when you're like, you can see some humanity in this guy. Helen Mirren is an absolute psychopath in this. I don't want to give away too much because there's a lot going on with Helen

Maren and I don't want to blow her storylines at all. I don't even want to suggest going down that road because it's important to see where she goes and what her role is in this. But also, as Conrad, the head of the family, Pierce Brosnan, doing stuff. I never thought I'd see him do. He's so good in this. And he's using his real Irish accent. A lot of people forget he's Irish.

And, uh, put to, you know, add all these other great actors like Patty Constantine. You guys all saw recently in, uh, um, the dragon, uh, the dragon thing, the dragon prequel, Game of Thrones. It's, it's Consodine. What I said? Consodine. Oh, Constantine. Oh, Constantine. You're right.

Considine. I don't know. Whatever it is. Maybe. Um, there's a kid in here named Anson Boone. He plays Eddie Harrigan. He's the little freak of piece of shit you ever saw on TV. It is very, very bloody and gory.

It's just very brutal, very violent. It is full of the swears, but it's mostly Irish and British people, you know, them. Set in Britain, so set in London. It is modern day, so cell phones and, you know, all that business. And it is great. If anything I just talked about sounds interesting to you, you'll... have to rush to watch this. Don't walk. Watch this thing. It is so good. It will keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time. Some of it you may go, oh, these are, there's a whole

lot of like ideas from a million other mob ideas and they all kind of are crammed into here. Totally fine with me. Totally fine. Not an issue. It just tell me that it's a modern peekie blinders and I'm in. Even if you're lying, lie to me. I'm going to go ahead and not lie to you and say in some ways this is a modern peekie blinder. Yes. Cool. Excellent. There's obviously a big difference in the historical nature of the first one or the former but the latter is very very very cool season two just got greenlit so it's coming i could not be more excited somehow paramount plus has some of my favorite shit on it right now i don't know what's going on over there but is this a thing you think tina might like or should i just watch this on my own once i'm done with big mouth how does she feel

about brutal mob justice with lots of shooting in the head and oh yeah might not be a fan of that so i think this will be a solo okay yeah and if if tom hardy does not do for her what Ryan Reynolds does then perhaps avoid. But yeah, so it's the kind of thing I'm not even sure Kim's going to like and she's pretty open to most of this sort of idea, but I think it's a little brutal for her. So I'm not I'm not pushing it on her either. I do think it is the kind of thing though if you're into like

just mob, British mob movies. You like any of that old Guy Richie stuff, the smoking barrels and the what-nots, the gentlemen, all that stuff. This is just right up your, right up your canal, your canal. Your channel. Right up your English channel. did mean to say ally ally but it wasn't coming out right nothing's coming out right now but this movies or this show i keep saying movie because it's movie quality it's very very very good and uh i i didn't want to end i finished last episode last night i was like damn it i'm queuing it up i need more of

this by the way you're you're aware that they finished the the filming of the peekie blinders movie i had heard that yeah oh i hadn't heard that that's cool yeah it's called the immortal man yep yep that's what you do yep i like that uh he did tom hardy returned to that he didn't did he i don't think i know i think there's a good story reason for him not returning to oh that's right never mind i knew that no spoilers and it's also missing it's also missing a couple other people that but yeah but it is a uh yeah it is a post script movie starring killian murphy did you guys hear the great news this week not to harp on too much tom hardy love here but uh mad max the wasteland is officially greenlit and is going to happen and does feature mac rockandowski played by

him so i don't know when that's coming or what's going to happen but let's all just pinch our cheeks together and wait for the next mad max so excited can't wait anyway that's mine uh that is again called mob land one word and is available now on all the paramounts man what a i was thinking about this yesterday i did a little post about it but what a glow up we've had since cbs all access to what it is now. Paramount Plus is so great. So much great stuff. It's moved up. Yeah. Yeah. So much good stuff. You know, they had so many, like, playback issues and technology issues early on that it turned me off from them for such a long time. Like, it would always forget where in a movie or where in a TV show I was or or things like that. They've fixed all that and it's so much better. Yeah, that stuff, just from a

technical standpoint, absolutely, but also just content-wise. Like, there's so much cool shit on there. And I don't want to put it all on the shoulders of Taylor, what's his name? But they should, Sheridan. Taylor Sheridan. When suddenly you realize I'm going to this thing because it's the only place to watch 1923 in Landman and Tulsa King, it's like, wow, okay, this guy's kind of carrying here. He's carrying that network. And I think this show, this show made enough of a splash that it's, it's kind of in that vein, if I'm honest. Like, it's in the vein of like nonstop, action, gritty, let's go, crime, beep, bip, pip.

like they do run the risk if they do too much of this stuff for too many years they're going to get pigeonholed into being the you know the violent hitman network or something but uh i loved it so mob land check it out all these uh yeah i just want to say one more thing about paramount plus because i really didn't think about it until a year ago when when um after midnight started streaming and it was like the okay this is where you're going to watch that and i realized oh i'm also watching daily show here and our big rewatch of cheers from the the beginning is on parable plus and it just like on and if you're into survivor this is where you're watching survivor and it's got like if you want to you want to yeah if you want to binge criminal minds you know like paramount plus is shockingly packed yeah yeah it's good place to go for your stuff it's not just the star trek network anymore you know i didn't even i didn't even name that and we got a new season of strange new worlds coming in a few days that's true right that's true all right Well, everybody get your Hardy and Gen Z and I forgot Nicole's. Oh, her documentary Australian people.

You can't ask that. Yeah. All of it, quicktms dot L.I. I thought you weren't saying that to Scott. You can't ask that, Scott. I can't ask that. It's just appalled for an instant. All of it up on quicktm.s.

That's where we keep this stuff. Randy, what's up for FilmSack this weekend? What are we doing? Oh, my gosh. What are we doing? We've already recorded it. I know. What are we done?

12. Oh, Ocean's 12, right. Watch it. And if you're listening to the sound of my voice and you have not watched it yet, do it because it, do it, because it disappears exactly on the 30th. And, uh, five days. And I, you know, I rolled right into Ocean's 13 last night. I just, I was looking for something to watch. I watched an episode of Big Mouth. I'm like, oh, and I started watching, uh, oceans 13. So. Yeah. Just to cleanse the palate. You're allowed. Yeah. Absolutely. I know we'll eventually get to it on film sack. I'm

fine with that you'll watch it again it's not a problem but uh yes oceans 12 the lesser of the oceans movies um that's uh that's coming up this weekend and then the following weekend uh Bangkok dangerous oh yeah how dangerous is Bangkok tune in find out on film sac randy take it easy we'll see you next time all right cool well we did we did what we needed to do there every item on my checklist is checked yeah go long check check check check uh have Nicole on a horrible microphone, check. Misremember a name. This time it was the show title.

Check. Yeah. Mess with Tom's monitor remotely. Right. All that. Big success today. Well done, everybody. We're out of here.

That's going to do it for us. Big thanks to everybody for watching. However you watch us, whether you come here live every day at 9 a.m. Mountain or if you check us out on the podcast after or watch the YouTube, however it is you consume us, we thank you, especially our patrons. patreon.com slash tms. You can find everything else for this show at frogpants.com slash tms, except for this song Brian's about to tell you. And then you'll be able to find it. Then you'll be able to find it. Yeah. This goes to Jen. Um, not the Jen, just Jen. Hello, scrambled eggs and bacon. Today is my 40th trip around the sun and I'm that much closer to

the ultimate meaning of life, the universe and everything. I don't have a specific song in mind, but if I could hear a fun pop punk cover, that would be great. Feel free to play before after I'm usually a day behind anyway. It's never too early for a fish sandwich. Cheers, Jen. Oh, my gosh. She's right. It never is.

Hold on. It's right here. I can death. Nope. Hey, too hard. Get a fish sandwich. There it is. And a Dersh Day for a few.

Yeah, we got that handy. Happy Durs Day. Happy Durs Day. Excellent. So, a good pop punk cover. You know, there's a series, speaking of franchises, there's a series called Punk Goes Pop. I think they've released seven volumes.

This is from the newest one. This is an album series that I don't just willy-nilly buy the whole thing. And I usually do that. If I see a cover album, I'll buy the, I can't believe Chris Brown is calling me while I'm doing a show. Geez, knock it off. The real, the real, Chris Brown. He's supposed to listen live. I don't think he's doing it.

But there are some albums that I see, like a bluegrass tribute to or a postmodern jukebox or whatever. Well, I'll just buy it whether or not I know any of the songs. from it. Not so with punk goes pop, because I always feel like those are so hit and miss that maybe it's like a third of the songs on there are ones I'm actually going to want. This one was one of the ones I wanted, and it's really good. It's by a band called Eat Your Heart Out. They're covering Ed Sheeran's Shape of You. where I go, me and my friends at the table doing shots, stringing fast, and then we talk slow. Come over and start up a conversation with just me, and trust me, I'll give it a chance now.

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