The Morning Stream - TMS 2847: Loaded Taco Nuts

Episode Date: July 2, 2025

Mario Haunts Your Dreams. Brian Reverse Cheeseburger. A Romantic Evening at PF Changs. Do It Anywhere, Do It Silently. Yes, Cooba is a Coontry. Many Many Mandalorians. Congratulations to the Blahs! Beaten by a 6 year old. Monica Isn't A Country Yet. Heebie-jeebieeeeeeeeeees! Glen Powell and Anya Taylor Joy cover Peter Gabriel's In Your Eyes. I now pronounce you blah, blah, blah. A Greece-y Honeymoon. Floating Squid Game with Tom. Free Murder Bot Recommentals W Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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To the Blas. Beaten by a six-year-old. Monica isn't a country yet. HebGBs. Glenn Powell and Anya Taylor Joy cover Peter Gabriel's in your eyes. I now pronounce you blah blah blah. A greasy honeymoon.

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Hey, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That guy right there is Brian. But good morning, Brian. Well, hi. Hello. Hello.

my friend hello it's been has the rest of the song go hello i just called to say hello i think about you every night every night i know it's late but i couldn't wait i'm naked oh no master oh shit we've gone places oops oops was that not was that it's appropriate for us i liked it um hey everybody it's good to see you all it is uh wednesday That's a very fast Wednesday because we didn't have a Monday, so it's kind of screwing with my head, but whatever. Yeah, yeah, quick. You know, something I forgot to tell you about Vegas,

you know, the road trip part. I know you're a fan of road trip. You like them. They're fun, right? Of course I am, yeah. Talked about those before and, you know, what snacks we like and that sort of thing. And corn nuts, the actual brand of corn nuts,

now has like a taco, all loaded taco flavor. Okay. And I got to say, those were freaking fantastic. I got them on the way. down and I got them again on the way out because they were so good. And usually, you know, you have too many or you have enough corn nuts. You're like, man, I hope I never eat another cornut ever again. Yeah, yeah. Because you're just sick of them. Like, uh, no more. But these were a problem. I had to like force myself not to eat the whole bag

in a sitting because they're so good. So if you see those on the shelf or you're out, you know, doing it, doing a long drive and you stop at a gas station and the gas station has loaded taco flavor corn nuts. Big thumbs up from Johnson. Yeah. They're good. They're really good. Yeah. So, I don't know. Do you have a road trip coming up at all? I know you guys are going to D.C., but that ain't no road trip.

Yeah, that'll be a, yeah, that'll be a plane trip. No, you know, no road trips on the horizon. I think when we do go to Chicago, hopefully, in the fall, it'll be it'll be via road. Yeah, via road. via road i don't know though because because what i'd like to do i'd like to do a little three-leggar and um chicago and then minneapolis and then back to denver like do a little little loop yeah yeah i like that

is that how long of a drive is it from denver to chicago let's see that's the thing it'd be like god i want to say it's 13 hours i might be totally wrong i've never it's not too bad i've looked at it And I've, um, that's about what it takes for me to get to San Diego. Yeah. It's not terrible. Oh, man. Done that drive before. I love, I love San Diego.

San Diego is awesome. Underrated San Diego. Yeah. Or maybe it's rated. I don't know. But I like it. 13 hours, 58 minutes. I was pretty darn close.

Pretty close. And with your foot on the pedal to the metal, perhaps you'll cut that down. You'll never know. It's a thousand four miles. So that would be by bike, I could do. that in um like you know 12 days 14 days just 12 straight days are riding no problem yeah yeah yeah i mean you just you just did it the other day and do it again could totally totally do it just 12 more of those exactly now splitting that up like if we were to say okay let's do that

in two um in two days yeah Omaha's not a bad halfway point oh yeah Omaha Nebraska you hang out in Omaha a little bit. Mm-hmm. It's the, I think it's like the fishing expedition slash, or the fishing convention capital of the world, I think. Oh, good, golly. Wow. Or something like that.

I can't remember what it was I heard, but if you go to Omaha, it's like at the biggest fish, fish and tackle convention. Wow. So maybe you could time that, get in there for that. I know it's the home of the World Herald. Oh, yeah. Probably went out. The guy that I used to work with named Brian Hamburger.

Brian Hamburger. That's fantastic. Brian Hamburger. Can I call you? Brian Hamburger? You could call me Brian Hamburger. All right. I'd like to be Brian Reverse Cheeseburger.

Thank you, Russell Crow, for that forever reference. Which will forever be emblazoned in our souls. I don't even think I can hear the term cheeseburger without it coming up in my head. And if you guys know what we're talking about, go watch that old movie with him in Wendonzo, Washington. What was that movie called him? some near sci-fi future thing

it was really bad it's not good yeah but I don't remember TV's Travis will remember he'll say in the chat he will yes of course he will

oh he said yesterday in the chat is we were just leaving he said did you guys see the new running man trailer and I absolutely did so did you

it is so good I'm so excited I can't wait yeah why why are Glenn Powell's eyes so close together though they really are they're like

they're like fighting with Anya Taylor Joy's eyes. Yeah. You could actually fit Glenn Powell's eyes between Anya Taylor Joy's eyes.

Exactly. If the two of them did a face-on kiss, they would both be looking at nothing but skin. I mean, they're both very attractive people for, you know,

we know that. That's why they're such a big deal. They're also fine actors. But Brian's not wrong. You could fit his eyes in her eyes space. But yeah, that looks great. And I, you know, I love Edgar Wright.

that's a no-brainer when you find out he's directing it's like of course i'm going to see that yeah he's got the right energy for it but it does seem like they're tapping into a little bit of a retro looking vibe the TVs look old um yep four by three aspect ratios on everything not the movie itself but like you know screens of the rooms when they when they show yeah the um did you ever read the book i never i never read the short story yeah it was a when he is one of his Richard Bachman deals, I think. Yeah, the changing seasons or something like that. But I never read it either. And I'm, and I'm, you know, it's like, oh, so really the, if this is probably leaning more towards the story, it's more like, all right, here's the, you know,

it's everybody going after Ben Richards and not just American gladiator with Christmas lights guys. Yeah. My understanding is the book is a bit more like a John Wick's scenario where everybody gangs up to get him. Because they're all potentially getting it money. It's not just a set. But it's still a game show because now you've got a guy we love. Yes, Coleman Domingo. And his

voice. Perfect cast. Yes, it is. It really is. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. I got so excited. At first I thought it was Keith, David. And I went, oh, sure. Perfect. Keith David. But then I thought, another fantastic 20 years ago, maybe Keith David. He's a little slow now. Coleman Domingo, perfect. Bring him in.

Perfect casting. Yep. no problem that'd be great yeah so but there was that recent aquafina thing is that the thing you're talking about sean bloom there was a recent aquifina lottery where she basically there's like a lottery and if the person can hold on to the ticket for 24 hours without getting it taken or killed or something then they get to keep the money otherwise whoever takes the ticket gets it and it's a comedy it's a comedy yeah it's like we know the name of this thing do you say I don't. Funah Lottery. I'll stop it.

Running Man's similarity. Most similar. Deadly game show? It's called lottery. What is it called? It's called Jackpot. Jackpot. Oh, I heard about that. I never saw it, though. I have a hit and miss. I have a real hit and miss relationship with Aquafina. Yeah, I know you do. There are times when I really like her.

And then there are times she drives me up a tree. And I can't figure out what the difference is. Like, I loved her in that Black Mirror episode she was in. She was real good, this new season. I really like her in another thing I can't think of that I watched with Kim. There was something that, oh, I guess it was Oceans 8 that we just saw a clip from. There was a clip from Oceans 8 at Trivia the other night. I was like, oh, that's kind of funny.

What funny timing after all of the Oceans 12 and 11 and 13 talk that we've had recently. Yeah, we've been those movies. have been on our minds. Oh, poker phase. That's what it was that we saw her in recently. Yeah. Why, isn't that the show on Peacock? What's the show on Peacock called? That's Pokerface. Oh, that's called Pockeye. Okay. Yeah, you can't, you can't copyright these names. It confuses me. Did, um, I need to go back and watch American Pie. Did Natasha Leone sound like that when she was, you know, talking to Jason Biggs about baffin a pie? She was always a little crusty, but not, not, not, I mean, she's, she's turning, oh, on, oh yeah, you know, well, I have this

thing where I can tell when people are lying I feel like she had it but it maybe wasn't as pronounced you know yeah Tom says no she did not I think she did Tom go look her up Monica says yes I need to go back and see watch at least just her scenes in American Pie it was always

there but it wasn't like you know super massive wait a minute bio cow just you hold on a second he says I just saw Natasha and Peewee's big adventure yeah she's in that documentary talking about her child acting time with pee we oh really like is she one of the one of the kids with the nun you know when

the bike gets stolen or something and then she didn't she show up in the show as well or something the the peewey's playhouse oh i believe that that she could have been the kid on the show i didn't i did not i did not know that she was in peewe's big adventure i think so huh now now i'm questioning it maybe i'm thinking of the show uh playhouse i might be i may be well whatever you know what it's on you bio cow to prove it out you figure it out but and let us know. Tell us who she was in that because I believe you,

but I did not know that. Brian, big changes in the wind. Your kids got married. That is to say, your kid. The kid, yes. Wait, what? Wow, I think they do things different. Slip of the tongue,

but now we go. He is married. A guy had happened. How to go? That's right. They drove down to Garden of the Gods and got married, got hitched among the beautiful rock formations down there. I sent you some photos in our Discord that you can put in...

Yep, I'm going to pull these up here. Oh, this is great. This reminds me of St. George. It makes me want to move there. I know. It's beautiful. It is beautiful down there. It's, you know, really close to Colorado Springs, which is kind of why I wouldn't want

to move down there. Look at these two. Yep. Hooked up for life. Now they get all the tax benefits. that's right all the exactly all that stuff so i said well um when you come back to town do you want to go get some dinner to celebrate they're like yeah i said where you want to go they said pf chang so we went to pf changs so we went to pf changs to celebrate uh the nuptials

my my uh my mom would love that that's where you guys went she loves the pf changs and so this would have been to her that would have been some highfalutin idea it was like a great dinner or whatever yes they're adorable though look at these too they really are that's great congratulations man so happy for him and he looks good in his suit he does yeah very nice seeing some ibbit in there though seeing some brian in that face yep yep i always used to go i used to always kind of see tina when he's much younger but uh he's starting to ib it out for sure yeah i'm seeing i'm seeing my dad so that makes sense because yeah people are like this one connect the two i know Yeah.

This is great. They're like showing the bling kind of thing. Dude, I want to get married in a red rock place like that. Well, I guess, yeah, these are just pictures. This isn't where the ceremony happened, but... Right. Well, no, that is where the ceremony. Oh, it is?

They actually did it there? That's where they did it. Yeah, that's where they actually did. It was the two of them and their officiator slash photographer. Oh, I thought they had to do it like at a courthouse or something and then go there. Nope. Nope. You could do it anywhere as long as it's, you know, it's like...

It's the county where your marriage license was issued, and they just go, hey, we're married, and here's our vows, and I now pronounce you, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, the three blas. Exactly, Mr. and Mrs. Blah. That's great. We'll tell him for, on behalf of all of us here in the Tadpool and Frog Pants Network, congratulations to Tristan Nibbitt for the nuptials. Clearly, they both said I do, because, you know, look at it. They both did indeed say I do. Yeah, Claire, they don't.

You don't need witnesses anymore, we found out. Found that out when I did the officiating for my niece's wedding that, like, no, you really don't. You just need, you need the two members, the two married people and the officiant to sign the marriage license, and that's it. Yep, that was all. When I did the one for the listeners who we took out to the salt flats to do it, and Tay was the photographer, they didn't, I thought we needed a witness. and I'm like, can just Taylor do it? I was just really fretting about it because I didn't know what they were planning

and we got there and they're like, no, you don't need those anymore. You just sign this as the officiator. They signed it as the people. Their dad screwed up and signed. Oh, no. How did that go?

I can't remember somebody's dad screwed up and wrote the name wrong. Oh. So we had to read. We had to do it all again. It was all some weird paperwork thing, but it worked out in the end. But that's awesome.

Oh, since COVID, I bet. It could be. Maybe COVID changed the rules. You don't need a witness. Yeah, you don't even need to say anything. You can just do it silently. You can just look at each other, sign the paper, and say, all right, we're married. Well, if you think about it, all the rigmarole is kind of pointless anyway.

It's like. It really is. It's like, you know. We're just married. Say you're married, you're done. There's no special nothing. Just go. Just go be married.

Go enjoy your general sales chicken and your veggie spring rolls. Are they going anywhere fancy for any kind of like honeymoon or anything? Yeah, they're saving up for a trip to Greece. The country, not the play, or not the musical. Nice. Greece is beautiful. Hot and sweaty, but beautiful. That's what I hear.

The seed of civilization, they say. That's what they say. They used to, yeah, the Greco-Roman wrestlers, they'd do it naked when they'd wrestle back then. Man, I think of the Parthenon. think of greased up naked wrestlers. This happened on the trip a lot. My friend Riley was there, and I was,

we were at the water part of the Treasure Island. You know, they used to have all the boats fight and everything. Yeah. No, now it's all stores. It's just lame. It's just lame now. But anyway,

we're out there looking at the water and all that's still there, but it's really dirty. And I say to Riley, I go, he's thinking about the ships, what it took to make these, even though they're kind of artifice and all this. And I go, let me guess. Let me guess. What would it take for you to drink some of that water? Close. I said, how sick do you think you'd get if you drank that water is what I said to him?

And he said basically what you said. He says, what is with your brain? I'm thinking about this and this. And you're thinking about drinking that nasty ass water. Way my brain works. Can't help it. My daughter went to Greestone. She loved it. She was there before she got married, but she was there for a couple of weeks of some friends. freaking raved about that place. Oh, yeah. I want to go, we've never been to the mainland of Europe. We've got to, I want to go on it like a, you know, like a, you know, major, you know, a two-week-long multi-city visit thing.

You should definitely do it now while the U.S. is in such good favor with everybody. Oh, absolutely. While the rest of the world loves our country so much and would welcome us with open arms. Yeah, well, there's just absolutely no reason for Americans to get chided while we're out doing their things. thing that's now's the time everybody that was the time let's go actually you might get really good deals right now i don't know probably you know prices yeah who knows might actually i just saw a two hundred dollar round trip to banff in canada oh my yes that's doesn't sound beautiful i mean that's like even if you just go there for a weekend 200 bucks round trip that's fantastic

it's not bad at all um all right i got one other thing to tell you about before we get to ted poolie feud yeah uh van and phoebe slept over last night because taylor and her husband and went to the like a dollar ha concert. Oh, right, yes. Kesha now.

There's no dollar in there. That's right. Yeah, she basically took one line, one vertical line out of her name. Yep. She yelled timber and the dollar sign fell out.

And it fell down. Yeah. So that's fine. And I know, my understanding is it actually represents her getting away from her horrible producer

and all that, which is great. So well done. I don't know what the concert was like, but they went. The kids stayed here. And we had a great time with kids,

running around being dorks all night, you know, super fun. And Van at one point's like, Pops, we should play, let's play Mario games. I said, okay, cool, let's do it. So I pull out the switch. I put it on its little kickstand. We get the little two half controllers and we're playing everything from Mario Kart to coin battle in Super Mario Brothers U, Wii U redux or whatever it's called. So we're having all this fun. Lots of Mario game, lots of talking.

Kim comes in about nine and says, he needs to go to sleep and you're overstimulating him. I said, I know, but this is my job. I'm supposed to spoil him and make them have a good time. Yeah, that's what the grandparents do. They're supposed to, like, get them all wired up and then send him back home. Yeah. And she says, well, if you want to get up at midnight because he can't sleep or something, fine. You can, I'm like, yeah, you're right.

I'll probably, okay, okay, buddy, we have to not do this anymore. But guess what? We're going to play again on Friday. It's going to be great. I'll bring it with me. We'll go to the pool and everything. Okay, okay. So he goes to sleep.

They do go to sleep, but at about 1230 a.m. Maybe one. I am awakened to the following. I hear. I hear. Mario. Mario! Mario!

He's yelling Mario in this like terrible scared voice. And I go running out to the living room where we've got him all camped up on the couch. And he's just, he's asleep, but he's just yelling Mario and his sleep. Must be having dreams. So that platform's about to drop beneath you, Mario. Look out. Oh no. You've lost your coin.

No, I guess that's more of a sonic problem. You've got a inky squid right in front of you. Mario! So, yeah, he was fine. Everything's good, but he was, it kept him dreaming. And I forget, you know, little kids are so, the stimulation levels are just so, like, intense for them that even just a quick game of Mario Golf can rock him. And he beat me, by the way. That was annoying.

Oh, good. Yeah, I don't like being beat by a six-year-old. That's not cool. But he was pretty happy. And he kept putting his hand on my arm going, it's okay, Pop. It's okay. We'll do another one, Pops. It's okay. He's really sweet. That's great.

Brian, it's time for us to play a game. I think that'd be fun. Yeah, let's do it. We should bring in somebody to do that. I agree. How about this guy? Well, well, well, what do we have here? It's one Brian done away. Hi, Brian. How are you? Well, hi. How's it going? It's got, Brian. You know what? Pretty good, man. And you can't complain. Yeah, I could.

But, you know, as you say in office, joky jokes, I could, but no one would listen. I hear that joke about six times a week. Yeah. Is that, which is worse? You can complain, I could, but no one's listening. Or working hard or hardly working. Yeah, which do you prefer? That one's actually falling out of favor here.

I don't know if I gave enough flares. At some point? Yeah, yeah, I don't know if I gave enough glares that it was like, all right, I'm not going to approach Brian with that one. I'll try something different. I didn't know it ever fell into favor, but whatever, whatever, we'll take it. So now I mostly get how's it hanging? I go to the left. Yeah.

Nice. Well, it's good to have you here. Next time reply with super and getting better. There you go. Yeah. Oh, I like that. We have with us a pre-picked person to play because I promised him that I would bring him in. A promise to pre-pick. Good friend of the program. It's Cash, everybody. Hello,

Cash. How you doing? Hey, good morning. Good morning. How the heck are you, man? Good, good, good. What's up? Brian Scott, Brian. Hey, it's good to hear you. This is the guy who custom made and helped me get this rad keyboard that I love so much now. Oh, your new little clickery one. Yeah. He did a video. He did a video. He did a video about it. I try to mute it anytime I use it. He did a video. He has a bunch of videos and stuff you guys should watch this it's insane but it's this beautiful keyboard that weighs a ton which just makes it even ratter and every time something comes over it yeah it's so beefy keyboard keyboards are life and that keyboard is fantastic i'm jealous every time you hear it well you should be uh yeah cash how you're feeling about uh being part of today's

thing by the way you had a birthday right we're celebrating a little bit yeah yeah just uh just just turned to ripe old age of 39 good lord oh no just a young child really among us here he's on the precipice of the downhill slope right or is at the top of the i forget how it goes now well 39's the new 29 right or whatever however that goes so yeah yeah i keep telling chronological age versus your biological age right and we're all going to live to 120 so it's all going to work out oh uh well it's good to have year man we're gonna get straight into it brine but you want to explain these rules and what cash might win today yes some cold hard cash and a new car it's time to play the tadpooly feud i've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics and skis

and bring now to predict the answers that they gave us. It is their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Cash, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with one of these chuckleheads. And if your team wins, you get a prize package. Oh, that includes a couple of games donated by SunBun, Ember, EMBR, and Swine HD remastered. Oh, Swine HD is a great game. Older, but I guess if it's remastered, it's new again. It's new again.

Everything old is new again. That's right. You can play this on one of your rad keyboard. I'm sure you got like a thousand around you So that'll all be done I do I the current count is a hundred and ten Yeah Wow

You ever you ever laid them out like a bed and slip on them Like just Like Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore And indecent proposal Yeah I like that I had the idea to line them up like dominoes Oh that'd be cool That'd be fun

You know how far I can get through the house You know what that sounds like That sounds like content to me That I might should take off on YouTube I think you should do it Right as long as they don't break Do it before Ali's Space Nola beats you to it.

Yeah. She'll glue a bunch of dildos to it. You've got to be careful. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. With glitter and chia pets. All right, well, let's get to it. This is, let's see,

today's tadpooly feud. Let me have both of you guys put your hands upon your buzzers and answer this question. I'm going to ask it exactly the way that I gave it to the tadpool, but we'll narrow it down once you get it. Without using any reference material, name

the smallest country you can think of. Scott. Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe. Sure. All right. Show me Zimbabwe. I froze up so hard.

This is going to be fun. Dunaway. So I can't use Zimbabwe? No. You can't. Zimbabwe is that. I mean, you could, but you're going to hear that same buzz that's got just out. Yeah, that wouldn't be good.

You know what that. That's fine. That's fine. Um, smallest, country, you said? Oh, quick, I can answer to, uh, Australia. Sure, why not? Oh, my gosh. That's a, that's a country and a, that is a huge, it's huge.

It's huge. I'm just trying to think quickly. I was Scott, Scott hemmed and hauled, and I'm thinking, all right. Cash will turn over to you and you get to, if you, if you get something that's on the board, then you get to pick who you want to play with. Oh, no. I do know the smallest country, I think, is the Vatican.

Oh, let's say that. That is number one, number one. Number one answer on the board. Who would you like to play with on your team? We'll go with Scott. Okay. Good idea. The answer, nobody also is acceptable.

My own island. Yeah. That's right. Put the two of these guys together and maybe we'll get to. I was trying to think of that stupid island that got all the terrorists and I couldn't freaking think of it. Oh, right. I just gave up and said, I don't know.

No, that's fair point. All right. So let's thank you. about this. I, my brain has, yeah. Australia is the sixth largest country. That is hilarious. It's like it's a whole continent even, Brian. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, it is what you're going to do. It is what it is. All right. Let's figure this out. I kind of, for whatever reason, Japan jumped into my head. I don't know. Oh, come on. That's like the eighth. I have no idea. I know it's smallish, but what do you think, Cash? You want to go somewhere like that? Yeah. Besides the Vatican, I'm really kind of lost.

Yeah. It's going to be tricky because there's a ton of them, but who's, what do Tadpoolers say? So I'm going to say Japan. Let's try Japan. Sounds good. Show me Japan. Oh, geez. All right. This is going to be a really fast one. I know. I know. Might go pretty quick. Tom, get ready. Right, right.

For that, you know what I'm going to do? I don't usually do this. Pull in the chat room. All right, let's see. Oh, wow. They're staying of, if you were standing as much as these are all wrong. Was Japan on there at all? Was it even on? No. Let me look at the overall spreadsheet.

I'm sorry, I take that back. Yes. 22nd answer in the list was Japan. That's so low. I was trying to pull up the information on what, where Japan actually ranks, because it doesn't matter where it really ranks. It matters where the. Only as long as not the eighth largest country in the world.

That's right. I see a lot of people, I see a lot of people saying Monaco Monaco Not Monica But Monaco No she's not a country yet

She's working on it Yeah yeah yeah All right well let's see Sorry I'm still looking Still looking to see Sovereign Japan Nation Not seeing it am I too far

All right We'll look for that in a minute Let's go to Monaco Monaco is your answer Let's see what Monaco is Show me Monaco Oh Number four

There we go Let's make China angry and say Taiwan Oh, they're after you now, dude. They're going to send you some lead paint on your next toy. Oh, I already, I thought they already worked. I think you probably

had plenty of that. I feel bad about going to the chat room and doing that. That was a good one. That was, okay, so I'm going to ignore the chat room, even though I've kind of seen a couple of things that people said. Yeah. Dr. Calhoun says Japan is the 61st largest. And there are 195 countries, so that means it's the

middle and a little higher better than 80 something yeah anyway yeah okay that surprises me okay I thought they were much tinier but whatever

right Brian what's a much tinier you got four points to scots one what uh what else you got let's go to Taiwan just a I got it oh you do okay really okay

all right let's dig let's dig this whole deeper sure sure get the shovel sometimes that buzzer gives you perfect timing sometimes sometimes it's really late but this time perfect that is exactly right on the money number 35 by the way Taiwan in the tadpool list Taiwan is it let's see if I can find it really quick in this list I've got this great um visual any of the tadpool say it doesn't let me search

no okay uh yeah 35 like uh it was the 35 The fifth most popular answer in the tab. Oh, okay. It was Taiwan, yeah. So we're all going. All of us are in big trouble. Everybody's failing. Yes.

All right. Scott, back over to you and Cash. Okay. Cash, anything pop in your head since we last spoke? You guys, you could use a chat room too. I think I watched a thing on boating destinations, and it was like the Maldives. Oh, is that a... Maldives.

I think that is a country. It's like a country just built on resorts. Right. That's in, I think, Caribbean or maybe South Asia. I'm not sure. You know what? I like it. The Maldives.

That's where all the fancy people go to get their vacation on. Some of them do, anyway. For sure, yes. It's also the ninth smallest country. So let's see what the Tadpool said. Show me the Maldives. Chat room. I'm so disappointed in you.

Yeah. Maldives. number 18 in the list. I think that was a good poll. Yeah, that was a very good poll. All right, Brian, back to you. I'm going to go back to the chat room. I'll take a freebie and then I'll guess poorly.

All right. What? Bora, Bora says, okay. I don't know if it's, what? All right. Choose Bora Bora. Yeah, why not? I like it.

I like it a lot. But I got to go with. Claire Gack because she is screaming Ireland and I feel like because you said without using any reference material but I think you were talking to the tad pool when you said that right I did I told the tadpole not to use

any any like a globe or nothing like that right so I think Claire actually went outside and looked and said yeah that's about right she got out her measuring tape really quick all right I don't think she's biased at all I'm sure this is just purely out of her you know goodness of her heart let's see

show me Ireland? Not there. Ireland is, let's see if I can find it really quick in this. I mean, we got time. I can look for it. You guys are, you know, this is going pretty quick. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We're burning through this thing, aren't we? Oh, does this not, that sucks. I was going to say, does preview let me do a text search? It really doesn't. Dang it. Ireland is, I did see it. 77th smallest. Damn.

Wow. There are 76 countries smaller than... That is way bigger than I thought. Yeah, that is larger than I would have guessed. I got one that popped in my head, and it's only in my head because I... My brain flew back to my youth when... Sure. We had some kind of thing happening, Grenada.

I think that's still a thing. Yeah. I don't remember what the deal was. Didn't we go... Come on, pretty mama. We didn't attack it. What did we do? There were hostages there?

Some shit happened there. I don't remember it was. It was the fight over... ownership of Grenada I don't remember U.S. We had that whole Grenada, yeah. Yeah, U.S. got involved for some reason. It was a controversy. Yeah,

it was some whole thing, but I'm going to try I think Grenada is still a country and it's I will tell you that. Did Oliver North get in trouble for that one or is that something else? I don't know. Who knows? Oliver North sucks. I'll tell you that it is the 11th smallest country besides. Let's see what the

tadpool said. Okay. Show me Grenada. Man. Yeah. Third strike, which means... It really is. I got to run the board. No problem.

Mario, let's listen. You have to run the board. Exactly. Eight answers left. Yeah. No problem. Don't think of it as eight answers left. Think of it as two answers done.

You're good. You know, you got this. Yeah. I want to apologize in advance. Maybe I can send you something. Who? Hey. Who?

Keshah? Is that what you said? Yeah. Ketcha. That's what I said. Neld it. Nailed it. Am I breaking up?

No. Oh, I just, I didn't hear me. Oh, Cash. Sorry, I thought he's a Kesha. You're just primed to hear Kesha. Hey, I'm not using any reference material, but I do have this Black Panther comic over here. Is Wakanda on here maybe? Sure.

Oh, let's see. But do it. Do it because it's tadpooly. I think that's good. Even though it doesn't exist in real life, let's do it. I like it. Brian, do it. It's very small.

It is very small. Yeah. It's also hard to find unless you know. If they can decide, he wants to, he wants to pull the trigger because he knows it's not there but then he's also realizing that that's going to put us really short so maybe I should just you you maybe I should just say Cuba maybe I should just say Cuba all right Cuba all right Cuba Cuba Cuba show me the Cuba oh come on they're not a country are they or are they they are they are a country well we just we just treated them so shitty

that I thought maybe we stripped them of all goodness. They are the 91st, smallest country. Oh, my God. They're way bigger than I thought. But they were also number 14 in the tadpool list. Wow. You know, geographic stuff is easier when it's big countries, apparently. It really is.

Hey, pick the most minuscule, the island's countries in the world. Go. I can't. I don't know. Okay. All right. Me. All right.

let's see, uh, let's see, uh, what, uh, what, uh, what, what, uh, what, what you could have said. Number two, Lichtenstein, uh, it is, Lichtenstein, uh, it is, Lichtenstein, uh, it is the six, Steen or Stein, I don't know, Steen or Stein. Lichtenstein. Lichtenstein. I'm sorry, you're right. Lichtenstein. Uh, it is the sixth smallest country. Okay. Uh, number, uh, number three. Luxembourg. A lot of the chat room said Lexenberry. They were saying in chat and they said it in the, uh, in the, uh, in the survey. Luxembourg's actually 29th. I would have spelled Lusenberg wrong. I definitely would have been a

B-U-R-G, but there's an O-N there. Lixon Borg. I did not know that. European weirdness. Okay, I better say, I better confirm. Claire Gack confirms Lichtenstein. So please do not send an audio clip that takes 45 seconds for you to say, yeah, so really it's Lichtenstein.

Yeah, so, yeah, Lichtenstein. Let's get to number five Andora I'm gonna tell you right now I would have never I'm having no moments of Oh I should have said that I'm having no moments of

Yeah usually we have those right But these are just these are hard Monaco and Vanekin City It feels like everything else I barely hear about Unless it's like a spy movie or something Yeah right I have one source that says 17 and I have another source that says

It's the 16th smallest This next one is the fifth smallest This next one is the fifth smallest, and it is San Marino. Oh, San Marino is, um, that's another kind of, well, that's not, that's not in Florida. No, but it's another one of those like escape to it kind of vacationy Euro things, right? Like, yeah, oh, all the islands I should have, yeah. Well, San Marino's not an island, I don't think. Well, no, no, but now I didn't think about all the little islands.

Yeah. So Morocco's probably on this list. Well, we got that one. it. Oh, no, Morocco. You're right. We did Monaco. Monaco is what you're thinking of. Yeah. Okay. Okay. All right. Let's get to number seven. Another island. Fiji.

Fiji, the best water. Was that Phuji? Fuji is actually... Fugee's the film. Fiji's the film. Fiji, sorry, Tadpool. 44th smallest. I thought Fiji was this water. Is that not? No, it's not. It's a place.

It's where Aquafina likes to hang out. Yeah, she's super into it. That's the water. Fiji's the water. They sold me for 14 bucks a small bottle at the bar, at the club. 14 bucks for this size of, I almost brought the bottle home. Kim's like, you're not taking that home. But it was like this tall.

Probably eight ounces of water? $14. That's, yeah, it's crazy. It really is crazy. So stupid. All right, let's get to number eight. Show me number eight. Madagascar.

I'm still looking through the list. to find where Madagascar is. Actually, it's pretty big. It is a great cartoon. Yeah, Madagascar is pretty big. It's pretty big. It just looks small when you put it right next to Africa. Yeah.

If you're worried about size and comparison, don't put it right next to something that's huge. Right. Yeah, you're going to stick it next to this all sounds terrible. Let's move on. Let's not talk about that now. Jeez. Show me number nine.

Malta. Malta, good choice for the tadpool. Number 10. Isn't that candy? Yeah, a Malta milkball. Yeah. There are another, aren't they another, yeah, Mediterranean Sea thing, right? Like another beautiful place to visit and art and stuff like that, I think.

I think so. Yep. I'd go there. By the way, they are the smallest European Union member state. Oh. Yeah, they got to pay that. Where my American education is showing up today in space. Yeah.

Number 10. Then, New Zealand. Dang it. Are you thinking about New Zealand? Yeah, but after I got chided for Australia, I was like, ooh, I'm going to get eaten. But they're not in the top 10, right? They're actually decent size. No, no.

I'm looking for them in the list, too. Yeah, I mean, if we're going to go down the actual list, I'm still looking for New Zealand. I don't even think it's, yeah, it's not even the top 100, it looks like. Yeah, I think they're big. Yeah, so in real life, the smallest is going to go. going from, let's do the top 20. Vatican City, Monaco, Nauru. It's actually the smallest island country is Nauru.

Tuvalu, San Marino, Lichtenstein, Marshall Islands, St. Kitts and Nevis, Maldives, Malta, Granada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. I love her music. Oh, that's great, yeah. Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda. They were always changing. The Grenadines changed every couple of tours, though. They were never the same.

Exactly, never the same people. uh palau and dora st lucia federated states of micronesia really micronesia should really be number one yeah yeah micro anytime micro's in your name dude that's right uh Singapore Tonga dominica Bahrain Kiribati uh that takes us to the top through the top 25 we'll stop there um and you know the tadpool got said a few of those uh is there really a point and like saying i'll see if they have any funny answers um let's see with waconda on there anywhere did you say it i don't remember if you said what kanda man yeah what a missed disappointed in the chat we had uh itsy bitsy stan and we had we had sea land sce l a and d i don't know is that near sea world

it must be yeah there's a lot of sea land and sea world sealand yeah um uh let's see Canada somebody said yeah real small top three largest or something louse just looking through

that's a good one that's a pretty good one you know it throws me is the map is so out of skew because some places are actually huge but the way we have our maps right that doesn't

the Cartesian well the Cartesian flap system it's annoying yep um the UA Utah somebody said

in Washington DC we'll just we'll just close it out Perfect. Perfect. A couple of a state and a thing that's not a state. Congratulations, everybody. Well done. Hey, here's the bad news, though. We get some bad news. Cash, who's a wonderful guest. Despite that, we lost. This is one of the hardest ones ever, but I'll tell you this. This is one of the most fun ones we've ever done. We did you have a blast. Yeah. I had a ball. Did you have fun, Cash? That's the important thing. It was a great time. All right. Well, good. I want to wish you a happy birthday as you hurdle toward your 40s. not get lulled into the idea that 40s are bad because your 40s are awesome it's really 42 for it it really hits you so you know it's yeah it's okay it's okay that's right you're all going to be good

it was great having you on and may my keyboard click until the end of time because of you you're the best i'll see you next time all right brian uh done away good job man uh yesterday we talked about robocop at length robo cop yeah your move creep that's right take that drop your whirper like a lot of great talk about our favorite thing because he made a, but they made a bunch of video games. They made all these eight-bit games, arcade games. There was the arcane one where you have to, where you spend five minutes shooting a truck. Yeah. Yeah, you have to shoot a truck, a van, like a food truck, I think at one point.

Didn't we determine? It was a food truck, yeah. It was in a construction site, apparently. Which is just a crazy thing to do. He says stuff like this, if I can find it. Here it is. Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law. Actual Peter Weller.

He says all the prime. directives and then we go and break every one of them. Yeah. That's the rule. Like Star Trek, they never get the prime directive, never gets followed. Anyway, if you guys want to hear that episode of Play Retro, you can do that at Frogpants.com slash Play Retro or wherever you are served, your podcast. Brian Dunaway, kiss our Bats. Got him. Got him. Got him. All right. Time for us to, what do we have here? We got time. I'm going to do a quick story. Yeah,

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Bees. We don't like bees, right? That's what I hear. I hear we're not into bees. And how do we know that? Well, I'll play it here. I don't like bees. It's important.

We play that actual clip occasionally so people know where that came from. We've really emphasize the bees part though here on the show we really have like we've we've gone a lot further than the original caller did with bees yeah we've taken the bees as far as they're going to fly yeah uh bees swarm a new york city plague summer 2025 have you seen any video of this brian i have not no okay so these bees in manhattan here i'll give you a photo first that right there at the base of that are a bunch of bees and that's just a public you know planter thing that's like one of those dudes who like

where they put the queen on their chin and then they have a beard of bees. Yes, except the world is wearing the beard, which is not cool. Right, exactly. There's a closer. That platter is wearing the beard. Those are some, look how thick these bees are. These are fatty bees. This gives me the, oh, I can't, I couldn't be around it.

Yeah, and they, and there's, where's the video? Oh, shoot, this link didn't have it. Crap. I had some video somewhere. But basically, the article starts this way. It says, time for an exodus from the extreme. to swarms of insects. New York City has been hit with a barrage of biblical plagues this summer.

Get the facts behind the tornado of bees spotted in Midtown Manhattan by a NYU student. Anyway, then there was this video. I don't know what happened to it. I'm sure I could find it real quick if I looked, but it's just people taking pictures and bees swarming all over this part of men. Like a cloud of bees. Tons of them. It looks like a horror movie, except these bees are pretty docile and aren't stinging anybody. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, if you leave them alone, they'll leave you alone, as long as you're not threatening them or they don't see you as a threat, but I, yeah. Unless they're wasps, those dicks. Yeah, not a fan of wasps, yellow jackets, hornets, those, those can, especially murder hornets, can go eat a dick. But bees, we love the bees, we love the bees, because they spread the pollen. So he wouldn't know that. We call it pollen. No, exactly.

No, I like sugar bees. Do you like sugar bees? What about the bee that sells the honey smacks? that's it that's more like it that is exactly the knowledge base i'm not even sure like he'd never shop for those i don't like that jerry seinfeld he was a bee he was a bee he's in new york what a shithole shithole country um all right well there's that anyway they're all over the place so be careful guys don't bug the bees they won't bug you if they were wasps i'd say it's on but it's not wasp so it's fine um a meteor fireball

streaks over the Georgia sky. I wonder if Amy and Chuck saw this. This is our Georgia, not the... Yeah, it's our southern, the beautiful southern state of Georgia here in the States. Okay, all right. The U.S. states,

or yeah, that Georgia have now reported witnessing a mysterious object streaking across the sky on Thursday, and the nation's space agency now believes it was a remarkably bright meteor known as bolide or bolidey. No. No. I don't know how to say.

Sure. I'm looking at the photos on this website. This is not how I would define streaking across the sky. I would call that streaking straight down to the ground. The streaking with gravity. Yes. Because look at that thing. It's going, what? Maybe it depends on your point of view, I suppose, which angle you're seeing it from. But that thing is, in fact, these two photos are literally almost the same. Literally the same. Yeah, it's like, yeah. Yeah, but look how excited of these two anchors are, man. She's stoked. He's ready. Oh, my God, we get to break the news about the...

Yeah, it's exciting. The streaking across the sky. Amy and Chuck, are you in the chat? Did you see... I don't know if they're in here. Shout out, by the way, to Amy's dad. I guess he's had to do a little hospital time yesterday, but he's doing okay now, I think.

Oh, good, glad to hear. Shout out to him. Yeah, I don't know if anyone else saw this. If you lived there, let us know. I love shit like this. I know where Oxford, Georgia is. Georgia decided to name every city. after a place somewhere else.

Have you noticed that? Yes. Athens from ancient Egypt. Right. Oxford from England. What's another one? I guess Savannah might be theirs. I don't know.

Coming for, you know, which is a whole different thing. Oh, yeah, I don't know, for, mm-hmm. Coming Georgia. Yeah. Coming Georgia. That old song, it just comes back to me. Well, anyway, if any of you saw it, I'd be super curious if you saw it. It was around 12.30 p.m. on Thursday.

NASA determined it was about the size of a shopping cart. That's how big it is. Did you say Athens was in Egypt, Scott? Did I? I didn't mean that. Oh, you know what I'm thinking of? I'm thinking of not Nashville.

What's the other big Tennessee? Cairo? No, the big Tennessee city. Memphis. Memphis. Oh, yeah, because there is a Memphis. That's what I was thinking of Memphis. Sorry.

You guys are right. Cairo is what I should have said. anyway they said it was about the size of a shopping cart which I don't think is all that impressive I'm just going to say it it's a little bit lame I love just the things that they choose to use as a reference

for how big something is now shopping carts are good one because we can all visualize a shopping cart and we know about how big those are unless it's those little half-sized ones that you can do like a loaf of bread in the top and that's about it Yeah. I don't like those little ones. But they're much easier to maneuver. I like the IKEA shopping carts that go every direction.

Those are good. Yeah. And of course, IKEA has those, right? That's pretty cool. It's impossible when you get an IKEA shopping cart not to do the, I'm spinning around in a circle just because I can. Yeah. Well, this thing, anything but the metric system, right? That's really what we're about.

It's like, hey, how big was that meteorite? I was about four beavers to the monkey's tail. Okay, great. Right. It's about the size of a size of a size. small air, like a swamp cooler or air conditioner. We just refuse to give it some meters, but whatever. That's how we are.

Okay, you guys, we're going to take a break. When we come back, Tom Merritt, we'll be joining us, and we'll be talking a little bit of tech this morning. Very excited about that. We also have recommendals after that with Randy. He'll be here. Nicole's at a camp for girls, a girls camp. A girls camp. Yeah, her and her daughter out there fishing.

Yeah, it sounds like fun, right? I'd do that in the heartbeat. Yeah. Not really. I hate camping. Why am I saying that? I hate camping. I do it for my kids or my grandkids. I ain't doing it for me.

I hate camping. I used to, when I was a kid, loved it, but now, a hotel bed is my tent. Listen, camping for me is staying at a hotel that doesn't offer me reward points. There you go. That's roughing it. Yeah, that's roughing it. They may not have a fridge. That's roughing it.

Right, exactly. Yeah. Maybe the pool's indoor, you know. What? No batteries in the remote? Oh, my God. We're totally camping. The breakfast is just yogurt and a, and a, and a, really.

really bad little muffin, that's camping. Right. Anyway, we'll do all that after this break, though. But amazingly enough, 35 really good bananas. That's it, yeah. Yeah, the bananas are always on point. What's that about? Always on point.

Brian, play us a song. What do we got? Sure. Indy in the middle today comes from an artist's name. Thanks so much, but it's spelled T-H-X-O-M-C-H. This is really, really good stuff. By the way, he's about the size of three big wheels, if you need a reference for how big this guy is.

Wow. uh stacked um he uh has a brand new song called sound of you laughing featuring the flawed mangoes this is out now the atlantic records and it's great this is a really really cool it's produced uh by grace guys who works with wisp and david and um mixed by mike crossy who works with the nineteen seventy five and arctic monkeys anyway it's thanks so much and flawed mangoes and sound of you laughing The sound of your rap, I think I heard it in this life, now I'm happy, can you send me from this life where I'm happy? It's like a minute another purple in the world.

I forgot but you're the only girl I'm having Think I'm addicted to the sounds I'm laughing I find something For this night now I'm having That's like a million other people in the world I forgot

Forgey only girl It's nightmare Let me die that you could see beside me Give me out of this dream If you will never end Let me out this dream if you could never let Come in your only girl It's Nightman,

Howman, Howman, That the only girl It's Nightman having Come to the only girl In this night then happen In this night then having Hurry the only girl This night man having

That the only girl This night man happen Come in the only girl In this night then having Get the only guess In this night then having Come in here we go It's life and happen

sound that we're laughing the sound like a the sound like the sound like that you're laughing I think I heard it in the slime now I'm happy can you can send me from the slime now I'm happy

what's like a million other people in the world I look at a but I'm the only car I'm finding I think I'm addicted to the sounds laughing I think you send me from this light now I'm having let's like a million other people in the world The people in the web I forget

You're the only girl It's nightmare Let me die And you can see beside me Give me now This dream if you will never let Let me now this dream If you can never let

Come in here again It's Night Downha Going on the girl In this night down Hoppe Come in here again This night man have Come in here again

It's night man Hot Come in here we go This night man how The United States Nightman Happen Harry. Nightman happen. Not the only girl.

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I'm not doing that. And we've returned, who is that one more time? That is. The artist goes by the name, thanks so much. He's about the size of 72 Valencia oranges, and he's got a brand new song called Sound of You Laughing featuring the flawed mangoes. Oh, mangoes oranges, now I get it. Which is out now of the Atlantic Records. That is, thanks so much.

I can go for some fruit right now. I could too. You know, the day one, they had packets of, of Oreos. Granola bars, those nature, oh, not Nature Valley, but it's the brand I really, really like, nature baked

or something. Really, really good fig bars. Oh, I know what you mean. Those are great. Yeah, those are so good. And then a lot of Clementines, and I stuck to the Clementines, and at one point when the place was, the place we

went to was out of water, I actually I, you know, rip the grind off of Clementine and ate the entire Clementine like it was a big grape. I've done that before, too. All at once, yeah. Every segment. We're just like kneading the citrus or something. We're like getting scurvy. Yes.

Give me the whole Clementine. Give me, I don't give segments? Why? Why segments? Exactly. Well, speaking of a guy definitely does not have scurvy. Isn't technology wonderful? It is Tom Merritt, who looks a lot like I did.

I got my cataract surgery today. What do you got going on there? Look at these things. Yeah. Yeah, these are the X-Real-1. Alms for the poor. Is that you, Ibit? Tell us more.

These are the X-Real-1 pro glasses. They're basically like an external display. So I'm looking at a 200-inch monitor right now. Oh. Instead of looking at a real monitor. How's the... I really? I really.

thought that you just came from the eye doctor and got your pupils dilated. It's easy to get lulled into that. Because those are so huge. And I might have. So really? Okay. So I need to know more about the resolution and stuff.

Like how good does that look? And why is it, why do they have to be dark? I guess. They can be see through. Yeah. So they're dark so that you can, you can see the image.

I actually walked outside with them plugged into my phone, uh, watching Squid game. Uh, just to just to kind of see like, oh, could I, you know,

walk around the yard, play with seven and stuff like that. Uh, they're, they're okay at that. Like, it, it, it definitely reduced the, the, uh, the, uh, the, the, uh, the brightness, you know, and, and, and, and stuff. But I could see the image. I could follow it and all of that and reading subtitles because it's squid game, right? So, uh, that was important. Uh, but yeah, inside, totally fine. Not that I'd recommend it, but is there enough clarity that you could, like, drive a car while you wore those? No. Well, no. Uh, uh, because, uh, because. Because it's taken up the majority of my vision. I can sort of see around it at the very bottom. But honestly, I'm mostly looking below the frame to see where I'm going if I'm walking around.

So is there? There's no translucency or is there. Is there a little translucency? There is translucency. But the little screens here, I'll take them off and show you. The little screens kind of take up the majority of it. Oh, look at that. You can't tell from the outside that that's how that looks in there.

But there are actually little screens in there. Okay. Yeah, yeah. So those are dominating your vision. You're not going to be riding a bicycle, much less driving a car. Oh, I'm trying. But you can't walk around. Like, it's enough to be able to walk around.

And I was doing some things in the kitchen, and Squid Game was just floating there in front of me while I'm doing stuff. Yeah. That's really cool. That's really awesome. I imagine considerably cheaper than like a Vision Pro. that would have to be right oh my yes i mean there are hundas that are considerably cheaper which i don't know if i don't know if the pre-order's still going uh but uh there's 650 list okay okay it's not too far out of the range if you're into those sort of things is on par with

that so it sounds like probably a good quality product like you're getting good good visuals good resolution yeah no i i don't remember off the top of my head now what the resolution actually is but it looks it looks like a normal monitor to me and when i was watching uh video it didn't look awful every once in a while i'll see a little bit of a of an artifact you know i'm right now i'm looking at the edge of a browser and it's kind of it's got a little more a going on and i think that's mostly because they're right up against my my vision but 57 degree field of view too so it's if i'm sitting watching something like a video i don't notice it but when i'm working, I definitely start to see the edge, you know, as I turn my head, because I've got this

big old monitor. And if I look this way, it's like, oh, I can't see the edge of the monitor anymore because the field of view ends right there. I'm kind of tempted by these. This is the one use case that I kind of want the most is virtual displays. And so, you know, at first yesterday, when I started using them, I'm like, I just might use these all the time. You know, obviously I'm not going to use them when I'm on camera unless I'm doing a bit like this. But I'm like, I could, I could just use these when I'm working. I don't know if I will, though, because my eyes did start to get a little tired. That's a bit the resolution.

It's a bit my own, like, I need reading glasses when I'm looking up close. So I think there may be a little eye strain there, although this is distant enough that I don't need my glasses for it. That was going to be my big question about corrective vision. Does it interfere with that? They do sell, they do sell. You can give them your prescription and they'll sell you some replacement lenses so you could have your prescription in it just costs a little extra money okay that's cool I guess that's a VR thing too people can buy yeah I also like that there's no way that

somebody's showing up to a pub quiz night with those and getting no not yet yeah I feel pretty safe that somebody's gonna really be clearly cheating I love that this is you know that Brian's really into the the trivia circuit because it's yeah actually it's important to keep track of what tech is coming up yeah so that you can be on the lookout for who looked like they just came from the eye doctor, but there's a cord hanging off of them. Oh, that maybe answers my other question about power. Is it battery-based or are you plugged in?

No, these are powered by whatever device you're plugged into. So with my laptop, it wasn't even an issue because my laptop's plugged in, plugged in, do-do-do-do-do, you know, not a problem. I did notice it drained my phone battery faster because I watched about three or four episodes of Squid Game on it, which is, you know, that's a lot of video. They're talking about three hours of a video there. But that did take my battery down from like 70% to 20% watching that video. Because, yeah, it's entirely powered by everything plugged in.

But the upside of that is you never have to charge these. They're ready to go. You just plug them in. And it's USBC. So you can plug them into anything that supports a USBC monitor, which is pretty much everything. Oh, my gosh. So I could play my Steam Deck or my Switch 2 or my... Oh, don't tempt me with this shit.

Damn it. I'm now going to have to get one of these. These are cool. Are they considered like the, these are the good ones, like the brand to get right now kind of thing? This is one of the top brands at the moment. I would call these the Blackberry to some future iPhone. You know, they're real good. It's possible someday somebody will come up with something better. Although Xreal is the partner for Google's hardware effort on their augmented reality glasses that are coming out sometime next year. So, you know, I think they've got a future for themselves. But yeah, These are one of the better of these kinds, right? There's also the meta ray bands, which don't have a display in them. You don't have to plug them in. There's others that connect as a display, but you don't have to plug them in,

but they do have a battery you have to charge. So, you know, we're still in those early days of lots of different ways of doing this and lots of different form factors. But I feel like I'm going to take these on trips. Yeah. I was going to say that seems like you'd be perfect on a plane, but not good if you're, like if you're typing something great, but if you have, like you said,

plugged into your phone, not knowing where your finger is and what you're tapping on because you're seeing whatever's on your phone screen, correct? Yes, exactly. So when you do the phone, you see the phone screen mirrored

and then you have to look down underneath the glasses to figure out where to tap. It's not as awkward as it sounds, but it's also not, it's not smooth, right? You do have to be like, oh, okay, I'm looking, I mean, I'm looking down here.

But it wasn't too bad to do that. And same thing for typing. Like, I look down to see where my fingers are. But again, I'm just looking underneath the glass. But in theory, you could get started. Like, you're opening the Netflix app. You are finding the show you want. Your glasses are propped up on your forehead for a minute.

You say, oh, okay, cool. That's the movie hit play. I didn't even need to prop them, honestly. I could just look down and type for the peripheral here. And then without even taking them off. The one thing I always have to take them off for his face ID. Oh, yeah. Oh, sure.

Like, I could train it. I could train it. and I probably wouldn't have to do that, but I haven't trained it. So every time it locks, I'm like, oh, right. Yeah, I got to do that. Could you take a picture of your eyes and then glue them on the front of that thing for face ID? Yes. Try it.

The answer is 100% correct. And then last question, the audio, is there? Oh, yeah. You just get the audio. You can just, oh, yeah. Yeah, right now I'm using my normal headphones that are plugged into my roadcaster. But they do have built-in. Bose audio in the in the in the

I can never remember what these are called yeah what are those arm of the glasses yeah yeah the glasses arm and that's how I was listening to the squid game audio and it was great it was really good uh it's close enough to your ears that you hear it just fine but in some ways it's preferable because if I'm listening with headphones and Eileen comes in and says something I always have to be like take that headphone out what whereas with these because it was open ear I was it was not a problem yeah I guess on a plane or whatever you'd want to have headphones in because you're not trying to plug people next to you.

But the meta, the quests are pretty good at this too. They have great sounding audio on the outside. And I really like that vibe, a little less muffled, I guess. Yeah, and it's not super loud. So maybe on a plane it wouldn't bother people. But it probably just, you wouldn't be able to hear it as well. Right. It's very cool, though.

Gosh, dang it. I like stuff like this. And it's probably something I should never even go look at, so I'm not going to. I'm not going to go to the websites. Forget it. Take that universe. Well, this is great. I don't know, man.

It's not that expensive. Come on. It's only about, what, 12 steam games later. Right? Yeah, right. You know, 500 is, for me, that's kind of considerable. Are you even going to play all of those steam games? Come on.

Am I really? Think of how many more steam games you could play wearing those glasses. Oh, shit. Oh, yeah. Gosh, dang. It's a saving you money somehow, maybe. Guys are not making this easy. Pays for it.

Before we start wrapping things up, Tom, one of the things I was thinking about recommending this week is something I'm wondering if you've seen, just because I figure you must have seen it, the Netflix animated movie, K-pop Demon Hunters. Yes, I have, Brian. Which has been recommended to me so many times I finally broke down, and why do I love this thing so damnage? It's so good. That's why. It really is.

Yeah. I don't know why you do. Yeah. everyone loves it inside or outside of k-pop uh there the all the k-pop artists are doing challenges to the songs uh especially the soda pop song from the demons uh is like making the charts and uh yeah it's uh it's a it's a phenomenon and i think when i watched it i was like oh this is for kids like the plot's very simple but it's got that spider man across the spider versus aesthetic.

Yes, which I love. Because it's done by the same animation house. And the other thing I noticed about it, I said this on Cord Killers, is if you watch Spider-Man across the Spider-Verse and you're not into Spider-Man, you're like, that's a really fun story. I enjoyed it.

If you're a Spider-Man fan, you're like, there were so many cool little nods and Easter eggs. And it's the same thing with this. Like, I'm fascinated that folks who don't know K-pop very well are like, this is a really fun show.

But then if you know it, you're like, oh, that's so true. That's a thing. That's what they do. I would say if you're a fan of love death and robots or any kind of modern animation stuff like this, if you liked Arcane, this is just all in that vein. It really is. Even if you don't give a crap about K-pop, it won't matter. No.

The music is so damn catchy, too. It's, you know. It's catchy songs. And it's not like, it's not a bad story. It's not like super complex, you know, oh, it surprised me every moment or anything. But it's, you know, it's good. It's competent. Well, there you go.

A little bonus recommendal, everybody. Enjoy that. Tom Merritt, anything else happening in and around your world that you'd like to talk about before we go? Happy birthday, by the way. Oh, yeah. Thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, I guess these days, the thing I would send you to is my newsletter because I don't have, you know, I just finished that workshop with Brian Brushwood.

Thanks to everybody who did show up there, if you're listening. It was great seeing everybody and hanging out and sharing out and share. chatting. And that's been my big thing that I've been promoting. So if you want to know what the next big thing is, I'll be talking about it soon in my newsletter. You can get that at free tom newsletter.com. Excellent. It is Tom Merritt, everybody. If you're trying to find them on the socials, you'll find them at Ace Detect. Them's the rules. You have to follow them. Tom Merritt, have a great day. We'll see you next time. All right. Excellent work, everybody. Brian, should we do some recommendals? Yes. You like that idea? I like that idea of yours. Well, good news, because we got a guy here who's able and willing, and we got a little thing to play.

It'll help us get there. So here goes. Well, what do you recommend? Yes, that music means it's time for us to make some recommendations based on things we have seen on streaming services. Randy Jordan joins us today. Hello, Randy. He's muted, so he probably doesn't know. Good morning, morning, stream.

There he is. There is. Wow. I started talking and it was still muted. Yeah. I saw Bar go up. Bar go up. Bar go up.

Bar go up. Sound no come out, but that's okay. We'll take you whatever way we get you, man. How the heck are you? How are you feeling? Doing great. I appreciate that you just mentioned Arcane and all of that. I got the experience a couple weeks ago of watching it from the beginning with my

in-laws who were in their 70s and have no idea about League of Legends and it was it was perfect for them. They enjoyed it greatly. Yeah, you don't need to be a fan of that game. No, I know nothing about League of Legends either and I really, really enjoyed Arcane. So, Arcane's awesome. There's some really cool 3D models too that people have done of the characters from that that's like, ooh, I kind of want to print those. They're so cool. Yeah. Yeah. The cosplay around it is so good. Oh, yeah. Yeah, really good stuff. Well, Randy, it's good to have you here. We are Sands Nicole. She's busy at the girls camp with her daughter, and we are going to go forward in her absence, regardless. Yes, yes. Forward is the only way to go. That's right. Oh, you know what?

Where to go? Are you going to roll for just flip a coin, really? Oh, yeah, because it's just two of us today, because I don't have one. I was busy in Vegas. I'm surprised. I thought you watched poop crews. I did, but I didn't quite finish it. And I wasn't sure I wanted to recommend that because it's a series, and every episode is a single documentary about a horrible thing that goes wrong? Train wreck is, yeah, but I mean, you know, you can... Like I probably could have just done the one, sure.

Yeah. But I started watching the Rob Ford, Toronto mayor guy one. Oh, yeah, that guy's nuts. Oh, my lord. What a mess that was. But anyway, so I'm going to flip a coin. Today's coin is a little ghost from Pac-Man. But he's a coin.

He has a heads and a tails. Oh, he really does have a tails? It's not just heads on both sides Brian, I'll let you call since the tradition This gives you the plus one to initiative So what do you want? Heads or tails? Heads.

It is heads. Congratulations, Brian. You are our winner. Let's go ahead and play your clip. It's an easy, easy choice. The whole thing is heads. It looks like the whole coin is heads. This is a series that Tina found and said,

I want to watch this. And so I said, okay, I'll watch it with you and ended up really liking it. Oh, good. Were you hesitant going in? I was, because I looked at the, I didn't look at the, um, the plot, but I looked at the, you know, the cover and I looked at a little bit of rotten tomatoes. I'm like, all right, yeah, I'll give it a shot. All right. I ended up really liking it.

Let's see what we got. Ethan, look at me. Look at me. The cops are just trying to gather all the information that they can, okay? Just like at the house. This has nothing to do with the crime scene processing they didn't East Hampton. They are looking for criminal evidence based on problems. cause against a specific suspect.

What does that mean? Who? You have information we don't. Ethan? Do you have an idea what that could be? Maybe Kevin said something different than I did. What do you mean? This town, hang on.

I was on the beach by myself for a while the night that. But that's not what you told the police? No, I told them that we were together all night. Why did you lie? What is wrong with you? Ethan, I know you didn't do this. I didn't do it. Are you family?

This is my sister. And Ethan's mother. Biological, Ethan lives with me. Okay. Why was he even talking to police without a lawyer? I don't know. I've never been arrested unlike you who knows these kind of things. Enough!

Emotions are running high. I get it. But I need to speak to my client. I need to talk to him. privately. So you wouldn't mind, ladies? I'm recognizing a bunch of voices. You probably are, yeah. Gloria Rubin, probably the most recognizable in there and... Oh, I like her, yeah.

She's so great, yeah. You're also hearing Jessica Beale and Elizabeth Banks. They are playing sisters, and it's really up to you to decide who is the better sister. That's how I worked in the title of the show. Oh, very nice. The better sister. And it's about two sisters. sisters who were both married to the same guy who turns up dead, Jessica Beale being the more recent of the people married to him. Corey Stoll plays the dead husband who's alive in flashbacks and stuff like that. The kid you're hearing, the kid named Ethan, is the daughter of Elizabeth Banks and Corey Stoll.

characters, but was raised by Jessica Beale and Corey Stoll, because Elizabeth Banks is kind of a alcoholic with other problems, and they kind of rescued her son and took them on himself. So that's the confusing. And our old buddy, Matthew Modine, is in this somewhere? Matthew Modine, like, eats up the screen every freaking time he's on, he's on screen. I really like Matthew Modine in this. He's kind of the head of the company where the law firm where Adam works, the Corey Stoll's character. You see him a lot lately, right?

Like, Stranger Things and... Yeah, he's got a good agent right now. You also get Kim Dickens, another favorite of ours. I love her. Even in The Hollow Man, where she gets fondled by an invisible Kevin Bacon. She is the detective that is investigating the murder and trying to really figure that. out who done it uh which is really it's a very cleverly um twisty plot that doesn't feel contrived to make you think oh it's definitely this person because they're giving me all these clues that point

towards this person but now they're pointing me towards this person no they're they're doing a good job of um they do a good job of laying all of it out there um so that you can you can come to you know your own conclusions and not feel and then and then it wasn't actually any of them he tripped and fell on the knife and someone has footage. Right. Yes, exactly. It turns out to be Tim Curry, the butler, who actually did it.

Yeah, no, it's really well done, really well presented, and it's a limited series, which means you get the answers you want from this one. Don't worry about, oh, they're leaving this for a season two, blah, blah, blah. So, yeah, it is,

it's great. It's on Amazon prime. Corey, stole better here than he is as modoc in the MTV. He was far better here than he was

as modic. But I like him an ant-man. I thought he was all right. I'm really hoping for a Mandarin-style, nope, that's not going to be our real modic.

Here's our real modoc. But I don't think we're ever going to get another modoc. I think that's going to be it for us. Yeah, probably, at least for a while.

We need a generation to pass and everyone to forget and then we'll come back to it. Exactly. Yes. I feel like we've been talking a lot about movies and TV series

that are based on books. Brian, did it make you interested in reading the Alifair Burke book? It didn't only because there's a lot of other stuff in my stack that I want to read before that. Plus, I feel like you get enough in this that I feel like, oh, man, I really want to go deeper into this story. They give you, I think, everything that you need or everything that I was looking for from the story. And I wasn't like, oh, yeah, there's a whole extra, you know, I really want to know the backstory. on this character or or what else is going on here but no i feel like you get you get everything that you that you want from this that's and that's that's a thing right like there are if you didn't didn't know

there was a book and then you watch a series uh you can just assume that the book is basically exactly like it exactly yes and uh you know maybe winds of winter comes out and it's exactly like the last season of game of thrones can't wait yeah right yeah go ahead go ahead and make that mistake that'd be Also, you get Michael John Harnie, who you know, he plays the dormant at the building where they live. Michael J. Harney, you know from Orange is the New Black. He was the warden for the first couple seasons, or at least, was he the warden? He was the guy that was constantly interacting with Piper. Oh, I love that guy.

he's not the creepy one or is he the creepy one hold on no no he was the musician not the not the creeper with the mustache not him right are we talking about the same show

am I thinking orange is the new black yeah I'm trying to visualize if he was the creeper I don't remember him being I don't remember him being creepy what was his name again the actor his character oh the name is Michael Harney all right where is he here

that's ringing up oh right you're not you're right he's not the mustache guy okay michael harney yeah i recognize him immediately but i always forget the shit i see him in it's a lot of different stuff but you're right he's in he was he had a big role in that deadwood isn't that yeah deadwood um he was in weeds right exactly um yeah i like that actor he has a face you immediately go oh yeah i've seen you do stuff that's cool yep he's both smiling and frowning at the same time one of those faces where if you cover up half of his face he's sad and the other half is oh yeah like a harrison ford deal exactly i like that cool uh i want to see it prime you say prime uh quick quick eight episodes 45 minutes or so each and um a very good story and it's you know

it's got a uh 70 to 80 percent on rotten tomatoes um audiences love it uh critics were good on it 70 percent with critics. Nice. You were going to make a quick recommendation about a thing you watched twice. Yes, I did a rewatch of Wakanda Forever. Iron Heart got me in the mood to rewatch the story that introduces us to Rui Williams. And you know what? I loved it when I saw it originally in movie theaters. I loved it even more now. And it really gives me a lot of excitement to watch the second half of Iron Heart. But also, uh knowing that we get more uh namor in secret wars his his name was already one of the ones that we see on the back of a director's chair so we know we get more shiry we get more namor um so i'm really excited about it but um uh wakanda forever if you have not seen it obviously the sequel to black panther that they had to um figure out a way to work in chadwick bozman's passing and they do an incredibly

it's Ryan Coogler again so you know great hands involved in this and it's very touching and also very it's a movie that's so full of heart and so good at giving us

three dimensional characters Namor is not one of these typical Marvel two dimensional throwaway villains that you just say all right well he's bad twirl the mustache get, you know, do whatever, you get some real depth with Namor and you understand the reasons why he does the things he does.

And you get more depth with Angela Bassett, with, with Shory, what's his face from the British office, Freeman, Martin Freeman, and some. That's what you're applying Martin Freeman to, the British office. Yeah, that's where he got his OG. That's why I first saw him. Yeah. Okay. I mean, he's done a lot since, obviously. but I'd love him in that.

He's a high point of the British office. And you could argue, I think it's a safe argument. He'd have no real career had he not had that start. I would think so. Oh, wow. The poor guy from love actually. There we go. Bilbo Baggins, yeah, but does he ever get the Bilbo job

without starting on the office? I don't know. I don't think so. I don't know. You also get Julie Lee Dreyfus continue her doofontaine character. So much more of that. Anyway, if you haven't seen Wakanda forever, It's a great watch, especially now that we're in the middle of Ironheart and Disney's next Marvel series is going to be that animated eyes of Wakanda, which looks like it's going to be really good.

So it's a great time for all things, Wakanda. Nice. Be entirely in first person. There you go. You will be the eyes. You will be the eyes. Eyes of Wakanda. There you go.

I like it. Ian does not like the way I'm pronouncing Namor. Is it Namor? I always heard Namor, but I assumed you knew better because you're a Marvel guy, so I have no idea. I don't know. It's one of those that, you know, I don't know. I did always know, despite what my friend said, it was not the submariner. He's the submariner.

Submariner. He's the submariner. That's a different, very different hero. Namor? Okay, thanks. Yeah, that's one that I think I've always mispronounced them because I've always said namor. Well, he's, you know, he's evil. He's basically evil Aquaman when I was growing up.

That's how I saw him. That's right. I'm a name word, by the way that you guys pronounce it. A name ord. I love it. So, you know, I love audiobooks, and I listen to audiobooks all the time. And I recently decided that I was going to listen to the best of Larry Niven. Larry Niven has written a lot of books.

But, like, I'm just going to, like, pick the five or seven books that I like the most and listen to them on audio. And I found out that most of them have been recorded by three or four different people. And I had to go through and figure out which one was the good one. And it was a whole thing. And along the way, I thought, you know what? I wonder how many people have read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books out loud. And so I looked into that. And my goodness, there's a lot of options.

And so I decided I'm going to collect that. And I'm going to get the one that I like the most here. And surprising to me, it wasn't Stephen Brigh. It was Martin Freeman that won for me. Oh, really? Yeah. Interesting. His reading of the Hitchhiker's Guide books is amazing.

And the worst, by far, the author. Douglas Adams was not suited for reading his own stuff. He's up there with Stephen King. Shouldn't read your own books. Sometimes you, right, exactly. I really like, I mean, the radio drama is what I first heard out of all that before the audiobooks or even reading the books. I heard the radio, not really drama, but the radio play. And I can't imagine listening to it and not listening to the radio play version. Yeah, that music and all that stuff that became kind of famous with it. I love that music. So good. Yeah. There's, there's, something about Martin Freeman really gets the tone like Stephen Fry does but

Stephen Fry is coming at it with this tone of ultimate sarcasm and Martin Freeman is like like gets that there's a drollness to it but it's not boring it's awesome yeah that's awesome yeah that's awesome so I don't think so yeah that's just you just reminded me of that but I've got a different another book to recommend for you you guys a book that was made into a TV series oh excellent series and uh i just uh i just looked into the books because the tv series so good now i'm reading the book series it's just a never-ending circle my friends um you can play the clip it's the first dialogue from the first episode here you go and now is the moment of truth i just isolated an admin

password and i was going to try to use it to crack the final court encryption okay patching the cold Holy shit it worked it worked okay what do I do now maybe kill all these idiots and take a starship to a distant galaxy

what should I call myself security unit 238776431 just doesn't have the right ring to it how about freedom unit or rogue bots no that sucks

any murder but murder bots went under the Scarsguards doing his best English accent yeah that would be Alexander

Scarsguard still has one of the best IMDB photos I don't know if it's still his IMD photo but his underwear his underwear pantsless IMD feature

IMDB photo is the greatest. Love it. Love this guy. He's genius casting. A little bit of stunt casting here because, you know, he brings a very peculiar voice to this android who somehow obtains his own freedom and decides that he doesn't care about anything. The main character, like, he really is the character of the show. it's it's a it's a character study of this uh Alexander Scars Guard guy um the the way he is created he's able to look like a robot or look like himself like he has a human figurehead

there you go with your with your zundi's underwear shot yeah it's good and uh and this is a dromedy this is a actually no I would call it an action comedy um action comedy where this guy, this robot, who is a full Android, he just has two desires. One is to be free of the shackles of people, you know, ordering him around, and he will kill them, if necessary, to be free of those shackles. And the other desire is he wants to watch soap operas. And it's a galaxy full of them for him to download,

but he does have limited space. So he sometimes accidentally fills his brain with soap operas and then isn't able to do other functions, which is really funny. Sure. So this show has a show within the show. And you were just seeing some of the stars of that. So he flips back and forth between his reality where he is just trying to be a free murder bot and the show that he is obsessing over, which is a Star Trek knockoff that has. as John Cho and Agent Smith and so on. And that alone, you want a whole show of the show within a show.

Like, it is so freaking funny. I'm excited to see this. The reviews have been pretty top notch. And I know people are really fond of what was originally called the Murder Bot Diaries, which you obviously referenced. I never read those. But didn't they start out as like just a fun little project for the author? It was like a little short.

Yeah, yeah, it's a bunch of, it's a bunch of novellas to start. And I was talking to a coworker of mine yesterday who has read all of it and had didn't know there was a show. And I'm like, you need to get on this because it really brings, this is one of those cases of the books are great. But the show brings a bunch of things to life that you might not be imagining when you're reading books. You know, things like murders. people people getting killed by a strong robot and then robots fighting each other and so forth it's really hard to picture in your mind how violent that can be this is a very violent gruesome show yeah and it's funny because of it yeah i'm excited david destmalchian chion

how ever you say his name despocheon yeah i'll never get it right but anytime anytime you say he's in your thing i just immediately show up i love him so much i want to to draw attention to one of the crew of the ship the murder bot goes to a planet with and he sort of befriends them kind of a little bit that's a played by

Tamara Podemsky Tamara Podemsky is one of the three First Nation sisters that all starred in reservation dogs. They were the older generation in reservation dogs. She is just incredible. Every moment

she's on the screen is fantastic. And like I just don't understand how we haven't seen so much more of Tamara Podemsky up until now. Oh, she was so good in Outer Range, too. I forgot she was in that. Yes. Yes.

She's great, dude. Man, Outer range, you recommendal that. We watched it, but I'm ready to watch it again. Yeah, it was so good. I'm so bummed. They canceled that or aren't going further than the two seasons. It's a bummer to me. Especially because, I mean, look, they

I noticed what's his name is in everything now. Yeah, Thanos. Yeah, what's going on right now? That guy's agent. Holy shit. He's coming in that new weapons thing coming out. He's in the running man trailer. He's in like all this stuff at once.

I'm like, no, go back and do another Outer Range. Exactly. Just one. Just want more answers. More questions answered, please. Law of threes, three seasons. We're done. They're not going to do it.

No. Anyway. Yeah. There was another show kind of like Outer Range. oh my gosh it came out maybe two three years ago and i recommendled it and i'm totally forgetting what it's called i could i could find it oh it's not the one with uh also from reservation dogs and season two of fargo oh that that is the one then that's called shoot i just watched it again zan mclaren's in it that's yep that's the lead of the show dark wins dark wins oh dark

wins yeah dark wins is utterly awesome real good yeah we have the the i think the we have the most recent season to watch but you're saying it's it's the final season uh i don't know about that it's out of range out of range i know it's yeah that just yeah dark wins i don't know i think they're still going um they're that's a great show oh my it's such a good show yeah love it i love it whenever um we're in an era now where we finally escaped uh aboriginal actors, First Nations actors being treated like you know, caricatures.

And they're just, they're, they're, they're getting to really come into their own in a lot of these series. And I just think it's amazing. And like, in MurderBot, the cast is very diverse. No one is, no one is ever mentioned by their characteristics. You know, it's just, this is the way it is

in the future. Except they call Jack, they call Jack McBrayer and Clark Greg, they call them crackers. a lot I've heard in this show. They get called crackers. They are on the show within a show. Okay, I gotcha. Still crackers these guys. Jack McBrayer.

He's in the... Again, he's awesome. I love him. He's in the new King of the Hill reboot. Oh, is he really? Yeah, they showed one of the clips where they're walking through the George W. Bush Museum and Hank is just all in awe of everything and everyone else is bored, but the tour guide is Jack

McBreer doing basically doing the voice he did on 30 Rock. Yeah. It's identical, really. Anyway. On MurderBot, this show within a show is so freaking funny because you're never given an entire explanation, right? You're only seeing bits and pieces of it when MurderBot himself is concentrating on watching instead of saving people. And so there's this old like Cosby gang effect. Like remember the Brown Hornet? sure how you never got you never got enough of the brown hornet to know what the hell was going on is it the brown hornet yeah the brown hornet yeah yeah the cosby kids watch the tv that's right yeah yeah that's back in the day man i'm sorry the the fall of bill cosby has clouded my memory as it as it did to all of us i've tried really hard to forget just completely forget like

who was on the cosby show a bunch of people doing stuff Felicity Richardo, some name like that. Something like that. Something like that. I don't know. Alicia Rashad. You know, they just all get mixed up now. Well, that's great.

Where was this showing, by the way? Oh, it's Apple TV Plus, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. MurderBot is on Apple TV Plus. Don't want to forget Nomaduizani. She is the main counterpoint, the human living in reality counterpoint

to our Alex Scarsgaard. Just absolutely stunning. Her delivery, her presence, just amazing. I really, really want to see anything that Noma Duma Zweeney is in. Just awesome.

TV's Travis in the chat just says that Das M. M. Bison is now the new M. Bison in the Street Fighter reboot movie. Oh, really? That's a great idea. Right. he's not very buff so i don't know what they're going to do there that's what i visualizing is like yeah uh not the i don't think what's his name was all that ral julia ral julia ral julia

was a bigger man though right kind of yeah he was a little bit bigger is that certainly i mean i think of the decimal chain as being very slight yeah just a weird little wafy guy in the corner that you don't trust which is why i love him it's why i love him yeah anyway we'll see how that goes uh i heard some rumor about 50 cent is going to be uh the ballrog guy the the boxer these are all very weird rumors because I don't know if anything's fully confirmed but we'll see yeah uh well anyway I was thinking of you uh you guys because I saw I read that both the next season of silo and the next season of uh Jason Siegel shrinking oh shrinking both of those wrapped and they're in post production how soon on silo do they say we get a date I imagine it's over

the holidays uh like the last two years so much. I can't wait. I need some... I think this is their last season, I think. I think they planned... Silo, yeah. I think they planned three was the idea. They could do some spinoffs, but based on where they end the last season, and knowing what I know about the books, I've read that stuff twice.

They are at a place where this is where you start to wrap up the story. And I cannot wait, but also I don't want them to finish. Right. You want to savor it, but you also want to get to the story. I'm going to lick it. All right.

Well, that's it for that. QuickSack.L. Not quicksack at all. Sorry, QuickTMS. Dot L.I will give you the stuff that we put up today. Brian will put those up. It probably already has if I had to guess. And we'll be back next week with more.

Randy, this week on Film Sack. I think we lost a movie, right? We're going to have to. No, no. No, we're watching. Bang, Cock Dangerous. Okay. Never saw it.

Can't wait to see it. I'm glad it stuck around. What was the deal? We thought it was going to leave at the first of the month or something? Yeah, they were on the chopping block, but they got picked up by Amazon Prime. Good news, everybody. No bad news. Every month. This is every month. This is every month. Get used to it. Randy,

have a fantastic week, and we'll see you soon. Bye now. You too. All right. Bye. We did it. We pulled it off yet again. Now, there's only this left to do. Actually, there's two things. One quick thing I want to show you since we have a tiny bit of time. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I've been looking up weird AI stuff where it gets things wrong. Yes, like the Simpsons and the movie villains. You'll love this one. So we'd love. looked up common animals and their bites. Okay. So it says that a dog, for some reason, leaves this bite.

I don't know why. It looks like just a rash. Yeah. The vampire, the cat is a vampire, apparently. Apparently so. The fox does some nightmarish business. Like earthquake arm or something. Yeah, or like some sort of horrible medieval thing.

And then you have snake, horse, and fox. As you can see, he's not a fox. This is a pig. Oh, no, I'm sorry. They just cut out the thing. So it is snake, horse, and pig, sorry. Okay. This is their bites.

Now, I want to be sneaky about how I show you this. Okay. The snake, that's not right, but whatever. It's a bruise. Like it also leaves like a little bit of necrotic flesh. Sure. But I usually get like two little fang marks. I don't know what they're doing there.

Yeah. And then you go over here to a pig. And pig's fine. It's sure. I could see a pig doing that maybe. I guess. Yeah. I don't know what a pig does.

But then let's go over and see what a horse bite looks like. Okay. The horse leaves you with a tattoo of a chimpanzee. It leaves you with a chimpanzee on your skin and actually names a chimpanzee. Or maybe it turns you into a chimpanzee. I don't know what they're trying to say here. But it's a little picture of a chimpanzee. So for those listening and I can't see this, this is one of the weirdest ones that I'd seen.

Oh, A-I. You want to be our, you want to take over our planet. Good luck with that. You want to be our latex, salesman. Exactly. All right, we are done and out of here. Reminder about the meetups we have coming up. On the 12th of July, we have an SLC meetup for whoever wants to come.

It's nothing too crazy. We're just going to see Superman. No big whoop. Just if you want to go, there's details in the Discord. And you sign up and you get you. You don't have to sign up. You just go get your tickets and show up. That's it.

No special. Like, you're not throwing any prizes into the audience or doing a whole thing, a Q&A session. No, this is come see a movie with other people in Salt Lake. like this movie. Piece of cake. Yeah. Then, on the 28th, sorry, the 26th, we'll be doing this with Final Fantasy. Fantastic Four, the other FF.

Fantastic Four First Steps, which is all about a baby... Taking its first steps, exactly. I hear it's about a robot named Herbie and nothing else. Okay, good. I'm looking forward to that one. Disney really killing it. It's about a giant Galactus statue that fell off the show. Who is the herald of this world?

Anyway, that's all coming up on the... 26th, then that same information on the Discord. So sign up and come hang out with us. I'm going with Kim to both of these. One of them, everybody here, my daughter and her friend, a bunch of other people are going. It's going to be fun. KT Data we talk about all the time. He'll be there with Noel.

We've got a big thing plan. We want you to come. So go check that stuff out. Brian, something similar happening in Denver. What's going on? Something similar. Exactly. On the 13th, which is a week from Sunday. We're doing a board game meetup here in Denver. Actually, it's going to be in the Westminster area.

at the Moor's house. Very nice. These are some of JJ Valentine's games that they brought back with them from his memorial. And Renee sent them, said, take these. And they brought them back. And we're going to play them, just like JJ would have wanted us to do. So that's taking place on the 13th at 1 p.m. Go to Facebook, look for Denver Tadpool, and join the Denver Tadpool and come play games with us.

It'll be fun. Yeah. Snacks, drinks, and games. Oh, my gosh. and the presence of one Brian Ibit. That's right. Well, don't let that deter you because there'll be a lot of good people there too.

I want to go home. He scares me. Exactly. Well, anyway, that is all coming up soon. We'll talk about as we get closer. For everything else you might need at the very moment, go to frogpants.com slash TMS. And a huge thanks out to all our patrons

and patreon.com slash TMS. That's it for us. Brian, let's play a song and get the F out. Well, okay. Catching up because there aren't a lot of July requests yet i know you guys have them coming but i do have some june request to get caught up with so if you're a person who sent in a request for june and i haven't gotten to it i'm going to try and get to it um this one came from matt b who said hey scald and boil uh june 30th is my

38th birthday i'm celebrating today or i celebrated today by getting sushi my favorite food with my family he did not say my favorite people but he did describe sushi as his favorite food so hopefully the sushi was good my favorite band of all time is Weezer and it would be awesome to hear a cover of one of their songs. Well, happy to play that for you, Matt B. Let's give him a...

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Here you go, buddy. All right, there you go. There we go. So Weezer came out with that cover album with mixed results, at least in my opinion. It wasn't great. I really wanted more of a Weezer flavor to it. But the covers they've been contributing to other things

are much better. Like, they did a cover of Metallicas, nothing else matters that's really good. But for the Bad Monkey TV show, the Vince Vaughn TV show that came out last year that I really enjoyed, they recorded this cover of Tom Petty's, Here Comes My Girl, here's Weezer, and here comes my girl. See you guys tomorrow. You know, sometimes, I don't know why, but this old town just seems so hopeless. I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times were just a little bit more in focus.

But when she puts her arms around me, I can somehow rise aboard it. Yeah, man, when I got that little girl, staying around by my side, you know, I can tell the whole world we're all just shoving. Hey, here comes my girl. Here comes my girl. Yeah, she looks so right.

She's all I need tonight Every now and then I get down to the end of the day and I'll just stop Ask myself why I've done it It just seems so useless to have to work so hard And nothing ever really seemed to come from it And then she looks me in the eye And says we're gonna lie forever and ever And you know I can't begin to death

No, because it just feels so good, it's so free, it's so right. I know we're never going to change our minds about it. Hey, here comes my girl. Here comes my girl. Yeah, she looks so right. Watch a walk Yeah, ever time, it seems like there ain't nothing left no more I find myself having to reach out and grab a hold of something

and worrying about some silly little thing that don't add up to nothing. And then she looks me in the eye, says we're gonna last forever and ever, and you know I can't begin to doubt it. No, cause it just feels so good and so free and so right. I know we're never going to change our minds about it. Hey! Here comes my girl.

Here comes my girl. My girl Yeah, she looks so right She's all I need tonight Watch a walk You know, Hello, I'm a tailor, and your pants size is frog. You're always welcome at frogpants.com.

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