The Morning Stream - TMS 2855: Quantum Trek

Episode Date: July 16, 2025

Sir Mixaway. Pulling the dork. It lights up and extends. Tumor pot pie. Wymong? Wy Not Mong? Filling the Hootie Hole. She's got some juicy doubles. Great swelling moments. Pisstory. X-Men or Disney Beast? Yes. Where In the World is Carmen Sandiego, You Know I Wanna Date Her. Sharkagator. Many Tabs Died to Bring You This Information. Red Button, Green Button, With Tom. Private Movielicious with Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Well, those go together. Tumor pot pie. Why, why mong? Why not mong? Filling the hooty hole. She's got some juicy doubles. Great swelling moment. Pistery.

X-Man or Disney Beast? Yes. Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? You know I want a dater. Shark a Gator. Many tabs died to bring you this information. Red button, green button with Tom. Private MovieLicious with Nicole and more on this episode of the morning stream.

Well, get out to where he's at. Pick him up and get his butt in here. I don't want to wait too long. By a lady. At least I think she was a lady. He was kind of hard to tell in that outfit. The Morning Stream, Conan, the Barbarian. Hello, everyone, and welcome to TMS.

It's the morning stream for July 16th, 2025. Yeah, it feels like... We've now begun the second half of July. Oh, how do we feel about that? How are you feeling about July so far? It's going too fast. Yeah. Half the month already.

I know. Exactly. I always feel like, all right, got lots, got just the world in front of me in July. And now it's half over. And then the last half of it's going to be gone, or the half of the last half, the last quarter of it's going to be gone because we're going to be on a trip. Yeah, it's just a lot. I don't like it. I don't like it.

I know we talk about this a lot. I lament the speed of time, but whatever. What am I going to do? And I like summer, I like, you know, I look forward to the summer. Yeah. And, you know, I don't know. I don't even want to know, like, where we are in the summer. Is the summer half over or is it going to be half over on the 22nd?

Is that the deal? Yeah, because I remember we just heard, we just had summer solstice. That was the thing that just happened. Is it time now to start going, oh, I guess, get ready for the fall. Is it August? August is the middle, right? Because you got, yeah. Which isn't very far.

So it's a month and a half after the solstice. So I think, yeah, beginning of August is. really when the half of the summer is over. We have less than a month until the new Alien TV show. It is a good, it is a good milestone to look at. It felt like it was so far, though. Like it was going to be so far down the pipe. Fantastic Four First steps has been that for me.

It's like, oh my God, it's so far away. I'm like, oh, no, it's a week from tomorrow. Yeah. It's happening. Yeah, it's nothing. They need to, by the way, can I just register a complaint to the Marvel slash Disney people. Yeah.

Maybe you're good with teasers and scenes. Don't be putting it. You don't need to keep putting them out there. Like, we're good. Don't give us the whole movie. I get it. We're good. I'm not watching anything.

Like, I see all these things like exclusive featurette or whatever on YouTube. I don't care. I'm not watching it. You've got my money. You've got my ticket. I'm going to see it. And now I want to see everything as presented as a film and not piecemeal as clipsy clips. You had me at I Herald His Beginning.

You had me at that. I'm good now. I don't need any more. Stop it with all these. I'll go through. I'll be flipping through social media. I'll say, a new clip dropped. I'm like, yeah.

Frick, how fast can I get past this? I don't need to see anymore. Because it's unoplaying or like it's teasing. Yeah. I herald 15 more scenes before the movie comes out. Your, your movie experience has been determined for spoilage. That's right. It's been marked for spoilage.

You're the protectors of this spoilage. A spoiler-free experience. We are. I herald his beginning. I can't stop saying it. I love it so much. Anyway, so that's what's going on there. Stop at Disney.

Hey, we got a fun. You know those AI things have been showing you? They're all goofed up. Yes, like the Simpsons characters and movie monsters, villains, things like that. Yeah, I found some other bangers for you. Yeah, check this out. So this one. You know, you get a map of the U.S.

And it's like, hey, here are the most popular foods from each state. Well, this is what AI thinks. And some of it you look at and go, oh, okay, apple, a salmon, jerky, chis-chis-lick. Deep-de-a-peza. Deep-de-peza. I like this one over here. Lobster roll, polled pork, and then polled pork. They asked a bunch of pork.

Once it was determined that the pole... I like this one. It's probably my favorite. Shrimp and grits or shrimp o'grits. Or Virginia right before it. Virginia, Virgima. Let's go now with Tennessee. Pulled dork.

Yeah, pulled dork. I want some pasty up here. Pasty. It's not even past it. It's past with a V. I don't know what that is. Also, why is cheese in Illinois? Why is that not Wisconsin?

Yeah. And what is this fruit? or vegetable in Mississippi called the cranfish. Cranfish. Yeah, or not Mississippi, that's Alabama. Oh, I guess they're both the same, cranfish, and I don't know what's good. Both cranfish and both, but different pictures.

Like the cranfish you get in Alabama is nothing like the cranfish. Yeah. Y'all ever have a caraback pork in the Louisiana? Or how about some poke? I guess pokey. I guess that works. Yeah, pokey, sure. Alaska is just some sort of turd.

Alaska. Yeah. Tato? Yeah, you want a tato or a shrimp cock? go to California. Nevada's got its cock thinga. Cocktinghinga? You know, next time we're in Vegas.

We've got to get a cock tahinga. It's funny that it gets the map so right. Like it gets the shapes of the states perfectly, but... Yeah, none of this is right. This one says fry sauce for Utah. I understand how it might get that and it's confusing and whatever. But what is this little thing here? I don't know what that is.

It's like a... It's like a chicken pot pie with a tumor. Yeah. And how about Wymong in Wyoming? That's what you get. Some Ymong. It's like a buffalo-shaped chicken tender. Yeah.

Now, I thought that was bad, but then I found this one. And this is the most dangerous creature in each state. This should be great. Moose, grizzly bear, Loystock. Loisstock. Dog. Flat out dog. Yeah, dog.

In the Iowa, Minnesota, Wyoming. Wisconsin. Yeah, for some reason, dog is a real troublemakers. Real problem everywhere. So is the horge, which is part horse, part dog.

I don't know. Or whatever the Livo stock is here in Colorado. Brian, can you talk about the Livo stock? Oh, yeah. You got to watch for the Livo stock. Yeah.

It's part lamb head with horns. Yeah. And a mountain cat tail. Yeah, it's pretty good. I like, I like shark. And then. coyote it looks like a shark or it's not in coyote it's coyote coyote yeah that is how he

spelled coyote we're missing a no we're not missing you're right that is how that's spelled alligator or sorry yeah alligator is also a shark apparently it's like a morph like you get outside of south carolina it's the shark agator yeah and then florida has kind of the halfway between the real alligator and the shark and if you're out here in the ocean you got dog Oakey and Coke And also watch out for the pock in Alaska It's real trouble The pock

But yeah this is Rattlesnake is a shark again I don't know what's going Why is ratatabe a poop In New Mexico I don't know what's going on there Or not it's Arizona New Mexico's a horse

Religiously Nebraska is Livestock That's dangerous Watch out for livestock You're going to, right next to dog. Anyway, this is all horseshit. What is wrong with these things? They're so dumb.

They're supposed to be smart. This is the greatest use of AI, I think. I agree. It's this and those weird videos where, you know, somebody gets whacked in the head and they turn into a plum or something. Yeah. I like the videos that are just kind of random and weird. Yeah. I like those.

I do too. Not in a sort of like I want to pay for it sort of way. No, but in a... It's just like a... discordant way. Exactly. Yes. Yeah.

In a music video like short form, all right, I can watch 30 seconds of this and I'm happy. I don't want to watch two hours of it. How long do you think until we get a music video that is entirely, it's probably already happened, right? I bet it's already happened, yeah. Maybe not like a mainstreamy band of it. No, it's going to be just someone who said, I'm going to make a bunch of stuff on mid-journey and make my music video.

Actually, here, I'll just use this. I'm going to make a music video. Brian has a new toy everybody New toy New toy with Brian Yeah I love it I want it I want his toy

We got a quick note about music Speaking of which Star Trek music from Thomas And Thomas says this I know in the past Scott Has said the Voyager theme Is the best Star Trek theme I stand by it

I love it Really? Over Deep Space 9 Oh yeah Without doubt Without any doubt I like Deep Space 9 The show better

Yeah yeah yeah But the music theme You pick the Voyager theme over deep space nine t and g all of it nothing comes close to me i think it's absolutely fantastic um but obviously there's room for wiggle there of course anyway uh but have you seen the enterprise opening thing with archer's theme the music goes so well with the imagery it's crazy they didn't use it instead of faith of the heart now i forgot this was a thing we may have even talked about this before i don't ever remember talking about this but but again i don't remember what we talked about before this

what do we do yesterday i don't know i don't even know do we open the show um i'm going to go go ahead and play some of this and then see what we think i'm going to pause the youtube not youtube you'll see it live but i'm going to pause the archive so that we don't get in trouble later so here we go all right here we go you get to put it on the screen oh yeah it goes really well the imagery they say yeah here we go I mean, sure, so far. I mean, is it kick in here in a second? It needs to kick in, sir.

I would have preferred this. Yeah, this is still better than it's been a lot. But it needs... Yeah, it's not punchy enough. Yeah, I mean, you know, you've got the... Dun, da, da, da, da, da, da. Yeah. You know.

Here we go. Oh, I don't know. That sounds like an Army Navy commercial to me. I mean, I'll bet you could show that same intro with the Quantum Leap theme, and it would be even better. That's true.

And more inappropriate. Yeah, it would fit better. Yeah, I'll never understand the choice made to do the thing of the heart deal, the song. It's just so bad. They just really wanted to, uh, uh to you know let's do something that really shakes things up let's put vocals on a star trick theme yeah um uh discovery discovery was a nice return to form though because like paid homage to the

uh to the original and then really you know got it it built up quick which is what you want yeah i like that one i like the picard theme i like um they're all very i think all the themes have their World's is great. They all have their strengths. Even the TOS stuff has it's, you know, has it's obviously their nostalgia there. And then when they include it newer themes, it's really cool. That's all great.

But pound for pound, gun to my head. Voyager's. And I don't even like, Voyager's like not even in my top two or three shows. It's just, I love the theme. I need to give, maybe I'll give Voyager another listen, but I don't know.

I always really like the, uh, DS9 does the, oh yeah, that's the one right. That's one. It's really like has really great swelling moments and I love a good swelling moment. You might, I'll give it another listen. You might, you might be sway and be a little, a little bit.

DS9 does do a great job of feeling isolated, like it's a station that can't move anywhere and that's sort of an isolation thing. It does a great job of that, which I do like. I think, actually, I would probably put DS9 second for me, pretty close second. So we're in the same neighborhood, I think. Anyway, there you go. Thomas, we don't like here. Sean Bloom says there is a video on YouTube with the Enterprise intro video with the Quantum Leap theme. Shut up.

Does he have a link to that? Do you have a link, Sean Bloom? Yeah, put a link in the chat and I will happily take a look at this because that's, of course, a brilliant idea. Yeah, while he's getting that, I'll give a little bit of announcement here. Speaking of music, I spelled that wrong, a new season of Frog Pants Music League, or Liege, is about to start. um this is uh where you get together in a group of folks who love music and you get rounds that are themed you have to pick a song or two songs that fit that round but you submit them into a playlist anonymously and people have to rate the songs as as for how good the songs are but also how well

they fit the category uh anyway new season about to is about to start it's free to play and you can find out more information by going into the tms chatter in discord and then there's a sub uh thing called frogpence music league in the topics tms uh topics morning stream topics something like something like that is it called no shoot tms discussion topics there it is frogpence music league there you go nice it's time to get in there guys get in there you go we never got a link from buddy boy so uh maybe he can't post links oh maybe not he might not be able to yeah i thought we let everyone do that in there i don't know i don't know i trust you guys okay yeah yeah it's okay with us. Yeah, I don't think you're going to post porn.

Maybe it's not okay with YouTube to do that. Maybe YouTube doesn't like it. I don't know. You'll me, I can track it down in two seconds. I'll me to... Yeah, if you can find it, I think it'd be a fun look at a better way of using a theme. You know, if the Star Trek people are listening, and I know they're not, but if

they are, who's in charge of Star Trek right now? Who's the guy? Who's the guy we go to? Who's, here we go, right here. I'll give you. This is the opening, the opening, uh, refrains is like, okay, I'm already liking this. I'm putting in the, uh, binar discord here we go. Dush cord.

I'm going to pause this. Yeah, Sean, it must have hidden, it hid your link. Sorry, dude. Yeah, sorry, man. We know you tried, though. We could feel it through the internet. Okay, let's take a look at this, pause in the archive again. Okay.

Here we go. I already love it. I already love this. I assume let's go ahead. You know what? That is actually great. That works really well, surprisingly well. That's actually really great.

Oh, good pull. Fantastic. All right. You guys want to play a game? Well, do you? Yes. Okay. You're not a punk, but it's fun to say. Do you? Did he, did he have five Ted Pooley feuds or six? Yeah, good question. I can the less count, all the excitement.

Now, look, all you guys who want to play today, you've got to send me a Discord PM, right? You got to be fourth caller, and then I'll send you a link to join our little call here, okay? That's how this is going to work. So be prepared, it's coming at you. It doesn't matter what browser you're using. It'll all work, and it could be on your phone. Doesn't matter where. You've got to be fourth.

That's the main thing. Here's our theme. And then we'll introduce the dingus who joins us every week. Dingus. Speaking of dingus's, what's going on, man? That's Brian Dunaway. What are you doing? Oh, who are you talking to?

Oh, you're talking to me? Oh, I was waiting for the, I was waiting for the dingus to come on. Oh, you didn't, you misunderstood that you, you thought you were the not the dingus. It was somebody else. If you go around every day and everybody meets a dingus, maybe you're the dingus. My life is full of dinguses, yeah. The plural is ding guy, by the way. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Well, only a ding guy would know that. Yeah. a true ding guy recognizes other dingy guy pretty well that's right uh well we're all dingus is here let's get into this and play a game for us to do that though we got to take a fourth let's see who we have here oh goodness is he really the fourth okay all right let's give it a shot no well no it's not a bad thing it's just i'm surprised he's around because he usually have meetings this time of morning oh um we'll see if we can't fill our well just go ahead and say it as long as he joins us but our hooty size hole is about to get filled full Quillie holes. Hasn't joined yet, but he should be shortly. Click that link, Hootie, and you'll be in here momentarily. While we wait for him, it should be any second now. I just know it.

I just know that any second now. Any moment we'll hear from a hooty. That's right. Will Hootie join? Will we hear Hootie? Oh, here it is. All right. Hi, Hootie.

How are you? Hello? I'm good. How are you guys doing? I'm good. I hear myself. Why do I hear myself? let me fix that it was almost an echo of you saying here uh how are you yeah hello how are you

there we go there we go that's better that's better yeah it's louder now too it should be uh hey man what's going on how the heck are you oh i'm good or just uh yeah my my morning opened up was like oh crap i can actually be part of the show yeah you know it was fun mornings like that superman uh seeing superman with you and the local crew was a super good time thanks for coming out for that Super good time. I see what you did there. Yeah. He comes from a long ways, though. It comes all the way from what's her name, Franktown.

What's her name? Ruby Franktown. That's what we call it now. I worked with Ruby Frankie's husband. Yeah. How'd that go? He was a good guy. It was right before their YouTube-channeled stuff blew up. Yeah, I wasn't around for the real craziness, but I met her a couple times. She was a pretty normal Utah suburban housewife when I met her. Before she ended up in prison for 30 years for being the worst mom ever.

The dad is currently getting insurance work done through my son-in-law, Dylan. So he talks to him now. And he's a bit of a husk of what he used to be, I'm afraid. That was my impression watching the Hulu documentary. And watching a documentary about somebody you know is a very strange experience. It's an odd thing, yeah. I recommend that thing. That thing on Hulu.

It's worth seeing, everybody. I recommend it here, but it's definitely worth catching if you haven't seen it. Well, all right. It's good to have you here. Brian, Abit. Will you explain these rules and how this works and how we can embarrass Brian Dunaway today? I would guess. It's time to play the Tad Pooley feud.

I've surveyed the Tadpool and some nerdy topics. And Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Hootie, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either, Scott, or Brian. And if your team wins, you'll get a prize package that includes epistory or epistory, probably epistory, typing chronicles. Epistory. A pistery.

I was like saying, well, the last part of that word looks like history, so I wonder if it's supposed to be epistory. Yeah, it might actually be. I'm not sure. And Rain World, that's easy to pronounce, both of those on Steam, both of those courtesy of our friend, Sun Bun. Oh, nice. We love Sun Bunn. Yeah, he gave me some. I have neither of those, and they sound interesting.

Rain World's awesome. Rain World's a trip, man. It's like a survivally weird. It's weird. Adult swim games made it of all. Oh, really? Yeah, which is, I don't think they do with that a lot anymore, but it's pretty neat. Anyway, that's cool.

Fantastic. Well, you know, to win, you need to play. To play, you need a topic. And let's give a topic to our players here. Wait a minute. Where's all this? Oh, there it is. Wow, it was like five tabs over from where I left it.

Oops. I left it over here. Why is it over there? Many tabs died to bring you this information. That's right. Exactly. Let's actually, geez, there we go. Run. All right. There it is. Now we've got it. Here we go. All right. Put your hands on your buzzers and give me your best answer to this. Name a cartoon character that you had a crush on when you're going on. Scott. Jessica Rabbit.

Show me Jessica Rabbit. Number one answer on the board. We all like Jessica Rabbit. She's not bad. She's just drawn that way. I'm pretty sure that was my answer to the survey, too. Oh, was it? It was one of mine.

I had a couple. I personally never kind of got the, I don't get the attraction to her. It's not my jam, but I just knew it had to be. She looks like she takes too long to get ready. Yeah, she can be a handful. You know, I don't like the word like high maintenance,

because I think it's kind of mean. But she looks like it would be a, a job to be her in her relationship. I can't do it. If you watch the movie, that's what it is. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Poor Roger.

Anyway, all right, well, that puts me in Hooty in the driver's seat. Yeah, you've got, you've got Hootie as a partner, and you've got nine answers left on the board to choose from. All right, cool. Hootie, what do you think, man? You got anything popping out of your head there? Oh, my next one, thinking back to cartoon crushes, I've got to, I've got to. Two in mind, the Little Mermaid, honestly, Ariel.

Oh, yeah. That works. Shells for boobs. There's some girls in the chat to have a fork. I mean. Yeah, right. That's hot. That's not a fork.

It's a thing of a bob or whatever. Excuse me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. Who's the What's this or something? I like that one. Let's do that one. Let's say Ariel from the Little Mermaid.

Show me, Ariel. Oh, there we go. It is our 11th answer is a tie between Jasmine from Aladdin. Ariel. Did they really? They really tied? They really tied. Oh, wow. It was actually a mold, like it was even a bigger tie than that. It was, um, I'll tell you, well, maybe I shouldn't tell you in case you

guess some of these. There was a third one. I'll tell you if you guess it, but, uh, I'm not gonna, I didn't, I decided just to keep those two together and not put the third one in there. Fair enough. Um, okay. Well, that means we're still in it to win it here. We're still in it. No points for that one, but, um, how do, how do you feel about, um, it depends on what generation we're talking about. I know a lot of there's a lot of younger dudes who really

thought Kim possible was the end-all be-all. I remember having conversations about this with a guy I worked with. But I don't know if that's not made the, that may not be mainstream enough. Hootie, what was your other one?

I've seen this one go by in the chat a couple times. A gadget from rescue rangers. Oh shit. Okay. I don't know if I don't know who that is but you know what i like your i like to cut of your jib so we're going to go with it let's do it the hot mouse yeah all right uh let's see if gadget from rescue rangers is on here it is number four what what the fridge gadget hack wrench yeah she's kind of like got that joe vibe from facts of life right she's the mechanic yeah right you know like the uh we like the the um

the um the jewel states right like the the tomb boys of the yeah the ones who are aren't afraid to kind of get in there and fix an engine and then go out for pizza, you know? Yeah. How about, um, yeah, yeah. Uh,

I mean, this isn't TV only or anything. There's no weird rules on this. It's just, just cartoon characters can be, yeah, yeah, yeah,

I mean, Jessica Rabbit was a movie, so. What do you want to do? What do you got? Harley Quinn. Oh shit. Yeah, duh.

Harley Quinn. Everyone loves Harley Quinn. Yes. Talk about it. got your high maintenance. All right. Hubba, hubba. Mr. Jay likes the chaos.

He's fine. Mr. Jay. All right. Show me Harley Quinn. Oh, I'm shocked by that. Shocked. She was on here, but surprisingly low on the list. Where is she?

Shocking to me. It is, yeah. Because she even started in a cartoon. She wasn't in the comics first. She did before the comics. Yeah, exactly. Man. tied for wow tied for 56th place damn you guys are just wrong about that in the chat

you guys are the tadpole psychos all right Brian it's your chance to show us what for all right I'm gonna go with well my personal Chittara Chitara yeah I love it Thunder cats oh just kidding hey hey hey that's my woman I don't think I don't think I actually don't think that. I think she's awesome. She's great. I like her a lot. All right.

Show me, Cheetah. Yeah. Number seven. That puts you in the lead already. Seven points for Brian and five points for Scott and Rudy. My sort of omens toy was one of my favorite things that I had when I was like five years old. Did it light up and extend or get bigger or anything? Hello.

It didn't extend. It didn't extend. It was too young to that. It did light up, though. It did light up, okay. Because the whole point of that thing is it goes thunder. And it's kind of small. he goes thunder and then it goes right right right kind of moves out a little bit and by the third time it's like full man's

then he's looking then he's looking through the taint is great oh is that what that was all right yeah yeah yeah it's great gotcha all right done it's got me and scott me and scott watched a lot of this and i feel like maybe some 90s kids in there but man when we watch them the x-men and rogue she's got some juicy doubles in that in that part too man what is what is that all about thank you sugar i don't know if i ever to hear you say juicy doubles. A juicy double. Sir Mixaway here is good Lord.

Sir Mixaway is a great name. Show me. Show me Rogue. Oh, man. She's pretty annoying. I don't like her. I'm kind of with you. Yeah. But Rogue, really low on the list also, I think also tied for 56th place. Wow. Okay.

Yeah. Sir Mix away. I can't get that out of my head now. Um, all right. I kind of like where you're at, though, in the cartoon zone of, like, hero. I mean, we've been sticking with lust so far, but I guess other than Gaggett, who is less lusty, right? Yeah. I've got a, I've got another good 90s one.

Give me. Give it to me. It's the, uh, the character that, uh, probably started a lot of people on the path to being a furry. Lola Bunny. Oh, Lola Bunny. NBA, NBA, yeah, NBA, sorry. Space Jam. Yeah.

All right. show me her name was Lola she was a bunny number three nice puts us up by one it does yeah eight to our brand seven damn it at least it's on the list um how about okay let's go to Disney for a minute lots of Disney people

who's the Hercules lady Megara yeah look at you wow whipped that right out she was she was awesome it was mostly her attitude that attracted me, but... My wife's name is Megan

and she, like... Yeah, Megara is like her favorite Disney princess. Let's do it. Megara. Magura. All right. Show me Megra.

Megira. Megura. Oh! Also tied for 56th place, which basically tells you only one person said it. You psychopath. That she should be higher than that. That's insane to me.

I'm just glad we've got such a diverse group of people in our... That's right. You know, our chat that would... you know yeah yeah and i'm just gonna assume most of them in the chat when they voted for these when they liked these either male or female uh cartoon characters that aren't real it was mostly oh i love their personality they're so nice or i would really totally date that person and they weren't all home you know cranking it to the they weren't all being pervue oh gee that's all i'm saying i have to assume that or else i'll go mad i'll go crazy right here on the air this is you know this is the

innocent little like crush you know this isn't like um because of young adult and i'm really fantasizing about that mule of bunny yeah i just that's what i'm saying i'm a real that guy you just mimicked whoever that is yeah i just gonna assume he's not here today he's not listening he's not in the tadpool yeah he's over in the jo rogan chat he or she i mean is talia in the chat if tally's not here then i'm definitely confident that the person is not here that i'm just kidding tally if tally hears this i'm kidding yeah all right brian take it i I am curious about, I feel like in this, if you didn't watch Scooby-Doo and at least have a crush on one of the characters, whether it was Scooby or Shaggy, maybe you're into Fred. I think if you had his crush on Scooby, we might be, we might be looking at, um, this time of course report.

Yeah. Very different category for sure. Right. Maybe you were into Fred and his ascot or whatever that was that thing he wears. Yeah, it was an askout. They took it off, though, for the new Scooby-Doo Adventures, though. Yeah, it's like a sweater or something like that, right? Yeah.

Blasphemy. But for me, it was always Velma. Any girl that she's always losing her glasses, that's my kink. That's how she, that's how you find out, or that's how she can't see your ugly mug and falls for you. That's how it works. She, you know, fills that tight sweater. Show me Velma Dinkley. Oh, it's Dinkley.

Oh, damn it. Number five. Oh, Hootie, we're in trouble. Bring him Brian up to 12 points. to Scott what an upgrade when she would lose those glasses and toss her hair oh yeah toss her hair don't toss that's a it's a bob it'll bob and weave it'll bob a little bit yeah yeah there we'll go we'll go back definitely's more no it's it's it's there's a reason that um the the guys that i um the sculptors that i follow on patreon that do really cool uh 3d models um there've been

three or four velmas there's a reason that there's like you know velma's a popular yeah yeah if uh you know obviously gilligan's island's not animated but it's kind of like the um didn't they do but didn't they do the marianne oh yeah she's the home you're right and she's also there's something um she's a nerd girl we like nerd girls we like nerd girls yes exactly i like it she's smart get shit done daphne what she doing walking around i was kind of curious about that we haven't we haven't mentioned any men crushes and i'm i'm just really I don't know. You know what?

Because I don't think, I'm going to make a prediction here. Sure. I don't think. No, no, no. I'm going to say, I don't think there are women who watch cartoons and go, oh, that guy. What about men who watch cartoons and say, I have a crush on that male character? No, that could be. But I'm just saying, I think women, let's just say cisgendered female women, normative women,

whatever you want to call them. They're not sitting there on Saturday. morning going, oh, that Daphne. Or that Fred, or that... You're talking about lust, right, versus crush, right? Is that... I don't know. Boys are gross. That's all I know. You can have a crush

on a male character not be thinking about sexy time, right? Yeah, that's true. I mean, because the Beast, he is sexy. I just don't, I just don't see how cartoons... The X-Men one or the Disney one, Brian? Oh, yeah. You need to have this conversation with the women

in your life. I'll ask You know what? I will. I'll ask my, I know Carter has, she has a lot of anime, she loves and a lot of cartoons, so maybe I'm to just have it wrong. But, right? The race says keep digging. I'm not digging anything. There's just an opinion. There's just an opinion. There's no digging. I don't think, I think that if you compared the two, like, statistically, I mean, come on. It's way more dudes lusting after cartoon ladies and ladies. I guarantee it. I mean, it is the reason that, you know, comic book characters are drawn that way. you know nobody's going oh superman looking pretty hot yeah but i would but it's not it's not a you know it's not an empty side of the venn diagram there's there's a there's a there's a good size circle on that side too yeah it's all percentages folks that's all i'm saying all right so i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna admit to my i have no idea why but i've always had a crush on Amy Wong from Futurama. I can't explain it.

She's not even well drawn. It's the belly shirt. Amy's great. Is it the belly shirt? For me, it's the belly shirt. It could be the belly shirt. Could be that her parents are loaded. Could be...

Once again, just proving, just once again, proving, men are shallow. You show a little bit of skin, and all of a sudden it's like, hey, up, up, up. Yeah. Are you doing it? I'm more of a little guy.

Is that your guess? Yeah, I'm going with the Wong. All right. All right, show me Amy Wong. Amy wrong. Didn't even make the list. Nobody said Amy from Futurama, which really surprises me. But, yeah.

I'm going to take that as maybe no Futurama answers on here. Maybe I should have kept that to myself. Although, Leela. Leela's pretty hot for a one-eyed girl. Leila's pretty hot for a one-eyed girl. Yeah. I don't know. Hootie, I want to blow this for you.

Do you have a better one than... Hootie blow it. Hootie blow fish. I know you get a lot Who'd get the blown feud? Yeah, the blown feud. Wait, what's our current score? You are 12 to 8.

It is 12. Brian's got 8 or 12. You guys have 8. Oh, man. I don't know. How about, um, is anyone said Cora.

Cora's a big deal from legend of Cora. Oh, yeah, Cora. People like her, I think. Cora. Sorry, I'm watching the chat mom from future. grandma. Oh yeah, no. The fries

you're talking about mother? Oh, no, don't go for her. But mom, not mom, but the grandma, sorry, Fry's grandmother. Yeah, she's hot. How about these cookies, sugar? Yeah, she's way good looking, but that's because he went back in time and had sex with his grandma or whatever that was. I don't remember how that

went. I'm trying to think that's another good man, there was one that you guys talked about and never guessed. I'm hoping you didn't forget that you talked about it. Oh, interesting. Chance has Carmen San Diego You know I date her

But I could never find her No I don't know where she is Half the time She's always traveling I think you're thinking of I think you're thinking of Waldo No It works both ways

So fan expo was just here In Denver The basically what used to be Denver Comic Con And I was Ubering One of the days That was going on And I took some people there

To the convention center And as I was driving by I saw Carmen San Diego and Waldo on scooters riding down the street on electric scooters together. The chance of them being together at the same place. It's great.

It was definitely a couple's costume. Yeah. It was great. All right. What do you guys? What do you think? Chat, somebody said, Velma, we already did it.

Shira? Shira, does sheer? Oh, Shira's pretty hot. Daphne. You wanted to give Daphne a shot? because maybe Vellma being so high in here. Maybe Daphne's up on this. I don't know.

You know what, let's do it. Let's go with your guys. They made you choose in the cartoon. All right. You had to choose. Let's do it, Brian. We're doing it. Sure, sure.

Show me, Daphne. Oops. Nice. There we go. Gave it to the wrong points to the wrong person. Daphne, number two, I click the Brian's side instead of the scouts. Oh, no, where I'm glad you actually gives you an option to change that. It does, yeah.

Daphne Blake, number two answer on the board. Damn. Now that's vote for Shaggy being up there. I mean, you know, he's always got the recreation assistants. That's right. He's got the weed. Edibles. Those guys invented edibles, I swear.

All right. Scooby snacks. Damn. So now I'm wondering about like. Oh, I've got another Disney princess one that I know I had a crush on. All right. What do you got? Bell from Beauty and the Beach.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. There's not more than something provincial town. She was always reading. She was well read. Yeah, she loves books. She loved her papa. Yeah, she liked to have sex with a giant wolf man.

She's great. Her looks were not important to her. Come on. That's true, yeah. Yeah. She wasn't shallow in that department. All right, let's do it. All right.

Show me bell. Ah, third track, man. I know, and I'm trying to see if she was even, again, in the list. It's, um, uh, there it is, Bell, tied for 56th place. One person said Bell. She did, uh, Gaston dirty. That's right. So we've got four answers left on the board.

Oh, man, we got to run this board there. You need to run the board in order to, uh, to, uh, yeah. And, you know, maybe, maybe I'll go for some obvious ones like, who knows, we'll see. Yeah, maybe, maybe, what about if I, if I, like baroness. That's like such an obvious one from G.I. By the way, can I just stop the emails now? We always get emails when we try to help someone win when we're losing.

Just see, just once in a while we try to we're not guaranteeing he's going to win these, but it's okay that we give a little helping hand, okay? A nudge doesn't hurt here and there. All right, I know you and he's like, what's the point of having the game? It's going to cheat it every time. I get the feeling, but this isn't the

Super Bowl. This isn't the Olympics. It's really, the prize is really not the the competition the competition is which one of me or scott loses that's really it's really that and it's also how thinly veiled can brian give a clue that doesn't give it away but gets you to the right place yeah all right how about some fairness is fun right should i look at the chat room they've destroyed the sanctity of the tad poolie feud you can definitely look at the chat if you want right for the minute yeah um at this stage they're all jumping And, like, Jim is truly outrageous

has shown up a couple times. Smurfette. Jim is pretty cool. I like Jim. Don't say, don't say any of those. Josie and the Pussy guys. People like Betty Boop. I like Bearness.

I mean, Betty Boop is the OG sexy cartoon lady. So maybe. Is anybody still alive? No. So far, I've not seen any of the four ends. I mean, I've seen them really early on, but in the, the names Peter, or the names of people are thrown out are Peter.

Peter. Peter. Now we're seeing some right answers, by the way. Anybody else like, say, you and Wilma. Oh, Daria or Betty Rubble are both big, good picks. Daria was, Daria was a big crush for a lot of guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do I go Betty or Wilma?

I think Betty. Betty was a hotty. Brainbow bright says Voltron. Voltron was sexy. I assume that she means like the fully formed robot and everything. All the tigers are in place. She likes why he has his act together. Yeah.

All right. saying Betty Rubble? Give me some Betty Rubble. All right. Show me Betty Rubble. My world. Yeah. Yeah.

Damn. Yeah. Betty Rebel was always a little more down to clown than Wilma. Oh, the over Wilma? Absolutely. Yeah. Totally. No question in my mind.

And both of them liked, you know, dufuses, the nerds. So you felt like you might have had a chance with them. Sure. Right. Right. How about Mrs. Incredible? We ever talk about her?

Elastic girl. Sure. Yeah, everybody loved that. for a minute yeah people are fond yeah she's been suggested in the chat a couple times yeah okay um

wow I am just out of uh crushy people um you guys have any there's what I'm kind of surprised hasn't even come up in in chat at all

one of the three um really one of them came up very early on I think is a joke and I haven't seen it come up since really yeah I don't think think I can nudge you. I don't think I could nudge you anywhere near these last two.

Yeah, it's too hard. It's too hard. But, you know, see what you got. You got one more guess, or you got a guess that, you know, is either going to get you some points or a strike. Right. Well, yeah, I just don't know. So I'm just going to have to, yeah, let's go with, see, last thing I see is Molly says, Elsa, let's go. Elsa, sure. Elza. Yeah. She's got, she's got some issues.

Yeah, but she likes to let them go. So it's fine. Yeah. Yeah. Let those issues go. Elsa. Elsa. Show me, Elsa. Should have went Elsa wear. Should have went Elsa wear.

Rainbow Bright says, are the last answers all females? And it's a hard question to answer. Oh, uh-oh. Let's see then. So far we're all girls, so I'm really curious here. So far all gills are girls. Let's go to this one here. You guys talked about it and you never came back to it.

I thought for sure you would. Number eight, it wasn't possible. I thought you all said that. No, I did, but I didn't pick it. And they never, never locked it in as a guess. Yeah. Dang it. Should have gone with my gut on that one.

Should have. Number nine, this is one that I looked at the chat. Never, I don't think I ever saw it come up, but, um, surprises me. April O'Neil. Yeah, of course. So, yeah, April O'Neill. Yeah, from April was, somebody suggested April early, early on in the chat. I should have gone.

Yeah, that's a good one. Another, another redhead. by the way. Is that right? Yeah. Am I remember correctly? Depend on when you saw. I'm going to say which ones you watched. That's true.

It changed a bunch over time. Now, number 10, I saw it come up very early on. Tarzan? No. No. No. Number 10, let's just blow it a rip off the band-aid.

Number 10 is Bugs Bunny and Drag. Are you 9? 9 people said that? I love it. said bugs bunny and drag or some version of that bug bunny bugs bunny as a girl bugs bunny in a dress bugs bunny and drag that was in the chat several times and i was like no way that's just that's too joking yeah that's that's actually quite the votes to get on it's great that's really that's wild

to me love it some of these were like things i could have just something felt wrong about some of these answers i'm let's go with my gut next time dang yeah all right well what are our others yeah the uh the rest of these number 12, Shira. Then we've got Sailor Moon. Our first male character is official, if you don't count Bugs Bunny and Drag, is Batman number 15. Oh, I like that.

Not Gaston? Okay. Not Gaston. Bulma from Dragon Ballsie. Dot Matrix from reboot. He-Man, Johnny Bravo. Not Matrix from Reboots. Johnny Bravo, Misty from Pokemon, Robin Hood, the Fox version from Disney. Roxanne from the Goofy

movie. People like that Robin Hood. Weird. Yeah. Baron S. from G.I. Joe, number 23. Betty Boop. Fred did make it. Number 25. Oh, my gosh. No one means that though. Penny from Inspector Gadget. You creeps. Scarlet from G. I'm kidding. Scarlet from G.I.J. Exactly. Exactly. Shego from Kim Possible. I never saw Kim Possible, so I don't know who Shigo is. Sheila the Thief from the D&D cartoon. Oh, yes. Good Lord. Yes. I forgot about that. Don't remember her. Aladdin

number 30. Eric from little, Prince Eric from Little Mermaid. Um, Red Fraggle had a whole, like a whole collection of princes. Like, she listed off like three, three princes. Yeah. Um, Firestar from Spider-Man as amazing friends. Yeah. She is.

Yeah. Huge crush. Uh, Lady J. from G.I. Joe. Smurfette. Oh my God. She has no pants. She has no pants. Wilma from, uh, the Flintstones. Number 36. Wonder Woman. Babs Bunny. I think Babbs Bunny was Bugs Bunny's nickname. Oh, no, there was a separate. There was a Babs.

For the Tiny Tunes. Tiny Tunes, Babs and Buster Bunny. And that's also creepy. Tiny Tunes are little baby kids. Baby kids is in their name. It's like being attracted to those little Muppety kids, the baby, baby Muppet things.

Baby Miss Piggies. Oh, gross, dude. No. I hate that cartoon. Number 39, Batgirl. Number 40, surprising a lot of people. Beast, all the way down at Number 40, only two people, two people in the chat said beast, which is a brainy. You live with the hair because he's so smart and, you know, kind and all that.

No, no, not, uh, not, not, no, the beauty in the beast. Oh, I was thinking beast like bluebees. X-Men. Oh, gotcha. Uh, catwoman, Danny Phantom, Daria Morgan Dorfer, uh, down at 43. Dr. Girlfriend from the Venture Brothers. Hello, nurse from Animadiacs. It's just a nurse.

It's just a woman in a hot nurse costume. Uh, Leila, uh, made it on 46. made Marion from Robin Hood, Minnie Mouse, Pink Ranger, not a cartoon. Simba, Skeletor,

Speed Racer, Superman. We all had a thing. We all... I like my man thin and thick. Yeah, thin and thick. I was going to say about

what's her name that you said. Pink Ranger? Pink Ranger. I think everybody had a crush on her, but she was definitely not in a cartoon form, right? But they never did a cartoon? I don't think. Well, they might have.

Who knows at some point? Who knows? Aon Flux Oh yeah Catching flies in your eyes Such a weird Yeah, love it It's good stuff

Aurora, aka sleeping beauty Bart Simpson Basil the great mouse detective Oh he's great The princess from Battle of the planets Brady Smurf Buttercup Brady Smurf

Captain Planet Carmen San Diego Casey Jones Chun Lee Daisy, Dixie Doe, Doug from Doug, Elmer Fudd. That's great. Gambit. I'm going to make a name for myself. Goliath from Gargoyles.

Gonzo, Granny from Looney Tunes. See somebody did say Granny. Hank the Ranger from Dungeons and Dragons. Helen Parr. Oh, that's your Elaster Girl. Yeah, Elastic Girl, yeah. Jane Jetson and Judy Jensen, each getting a single vote. Jena from the Superfran.

friends. Thank you for not seeing Gleek. Gene Gray, Jim, she's truly outrageous. Josie from the Pussy Cats, man at arms. Why not? He was kind of a father figure. Yeah. This book says he's a

shaman, the turmoil in the toy box. It says that he's a shaman. He's a shaman. Therefore, in the occult and Satanic and all that. Hancy. You think man at arms? Oh, because of his name, yeah. Pebbles, Flintstone, I'm putting that person on a list. I'm going to go ahead and actually report them right now.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. I know. They have the later cartoons where she and Bam Bam were all grown up, or at least, you know. Exactly. I'm not going to, I don't hold with it, Bub, I don't like it at all. Penelopee Pitstop. Yeah, actually. Peppula Pew, the pink lion princess lady from Voltron.

So somebody likes a stalker? Is that what you're saying? Yes, exactly. Princess Ariel from Thundar Raphael. The only turtle, by the way, to get votes was Raphael, by the way. That is great. Splinter. I don't know what, you know, they all look the same to me, but who knows?

He's the broody one, right? So, yeah. Is Raphael the broody one? I've never, I can't keep him straight. I don't know who's, what. Robin from Batman and Robin, parentheses, gay right of passage. Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Shaggy, did make it. Snoopy, Sonic, Starfire. We all like Starfire. Um, the Cadbury Caramel Bunny, the,

the, okay, look, I'm not here to, I'm not here to criticize anybody's king, nope, no, uh, Veronica from Archie, um, Yakko Warner from Animaniacs. And finally, ew, Brian Gross. Oh, okay. One person did not approve of the question. Um, yeah, I, and I, I'm just going to point out that percentage wise, most of that list were girl characters. It was, it was girl The characters, yep. Yeah, I think that's just a thing. I mean, I think we probably, our audience is probably... Oh, we skew more men for sure.

We skew more men. Yeah. We don't screw more men. We skew more men. Yeah. Skew more men. Well, that's awesome because nobody won. We're doing this.

But the good news is you got to hang out with Hooty here, everybody, and that's how I feel. It was a good feeling to have Hooty here. Can I plug my bookshop? Plug it. Not just plug it. Plug it as hard as you possibly can. Go for it. Please check out the pumpkin.

and cottage.com slash shop. You can buy books through us. They ship just as fast as Amazon and pretty much the same prices too. And you're supporting an indie bookstore instead of buying fuel for Jeff Bezos's yacht. That's right. And if you are in Springville, Utah at any given time, do stop by the physical location because it is delightful and quaint and full of goodness. It smells good.

I can't wait for Nurtacular because we are going to have a fuel. trip out to the shop and we're just going to take turns going in there because we won't all fit. Yeah, everyone says this until they realize it's almost an hour away. But we're going to do our best and get as many people out there as humanly possible. But I love that little shop and I love

how it smells. So next time I'm in there, I'm going to rub it erotically. Is Mr. Plow? Yeah, one more time. The Pumpkin Cottage.com and then there's the shop link there and there's the links for audiobooks and for print books.

Excellent. Hootie, stay out of trouble. I will miss you at the Fantastic Four screening that we're all attending. You've got other stuff, but. I will be in Vegas with my wife having a lovely weekend. Good. We're going to get you a seat in this theater and then build like a little shrine around it that says, who do you could have been here or something like that?

If I can't get rid of my ticket, there'll be an empty seat. That's a good point. All right, take it easy, dude. Have fun in Vegas. We're going to kick Brian out now. And before we do that, though, a quick note. Yesterday, Play Retro happened. It was fantastic.

Had a great time. And we covered the game No Ones Forever, which is one of my favorite PC shooters of all time. I love that campaign. I love that story. I wish they were still making it. There's a ton of reasons why they don't and why it's actually hard to get and play now. But I think people really enjoy that episode. We had a blast.

So Brian, you want to. I've got you introduced to it. You want to add anything else to? No, I did. Thank you for introducing me to it because I had seen it, but I'd never really played it. And so, yeah, now I've got a new passion. I know it's good. Even when we get through the show, I'm still like, I'm going to play that again some more.

Kate Archer could have been as big as Lara Croft. What happened? I don't know. Well, Dunaway, I'd like to say kiss our butts. All right, there he goes. This thing is so much faster to kick him out. He doesn't have time. I can get him back.

I love it. Even with lower lag. He's just like, bye. All right. We're going to take a break. When we come back, Tom Merritt will be here. We'll do a little bit of the old chattery about what's going on in the tech world. And then we'll have some recommendals.

I think Nicole's here, although I never got a clip from her. so I don't know what's going on there. She gave us a title, but no clue. Yeah, we know what we're talking about, but we'll see what she's got. But Randy's got meetings, so we won't have him. But that'll all be fun. Stick around. Brian, let's play a song in the meantime.

Yeah, this is a little bit of Americana. This isn't quite full-on country, but this has just enough to make it give it a little bit of twang. It's the amount that I like, and so I hope you like it too. This is a guy named Paul McDonald. This is his first studio album in eight years. he's doing a little album release party at Skinny Dennis and Nashville

and then performing at the grand old Opry. Nice. This is Paul McDonald and his, the album is called So Long to the Dark Side. This is the almost title track. It's called Darkside. Don't I feel so lost

Feel so long What's the point What's the point It just costs too much To be living this light I'm tired of being broke I'm tired of being tired Left on airway

So many days Pleasing the flesh and I'm in the pain Well I want to be free I want to be wild And I want to see Through the eyes have a child And I want to shine low And I want to shine bright

So so long So long to the dark sun Oh yeah Uh huh Uh huh Oh yeah I spent all those years We had not changed

I was wasted away She said on her wrong things I was drowning in it Lord knows I was drowning in it And my mother always said It ain't where you've been And the good Lord only cares Where you're going next

So I'm headed that way All to find that saving grace And I'm building back Every bridge that I've been And I'm taking with me Happy lesson I live I want to be free I want to be wild

And I want to see Through the eyes of the child And I want to shine Oh And I want to shine bright So long So long to the dark side Yeah

I want to be I want to be free I want to be wild and I want to see through the eyes I'm a child and I want to shine and I want to shot by so so long

so long to the dark side I'm saying so long so long to the dark side so long so long to the dark side yep uh huh

Yeah, babe. Uh. Uh. So long. So long. So long. So long. So long.

So long. So long. So long. So long. So long. So long. So long. So long.

So long. So long. So long. So long. Yeah. So low, solo, so low, so low, so low, so low, so low, so low. Now you're getting so dumb, I'm going to have to take you out for walks and hold your hand in the market. Next time you think you fried a guy, check the details.

And we're back. Who is that one more time? Yeah, that's a guy named Paul McDonald from his brand new album So Long to the Dark Side. That is the almost title track Dark Side. He's going to be performing at the... Cervantes masterpiece ballroom in Denver, and then moving on to the Moab Free Concert Series out there in Moab, Utah.

Oh, I'd love to go to that. It's really hot right now, though. Yeah, I can imagine, yeah. Like, Hunter, we beat Phoenix, or no, St. George beat Phoenix yesterday by like six degrees, which is insane. That never happens. Yeah, no, too.

So I don't know what's going on. There's a little bit of a heat wave going on, but we had one of those tornadoes somewhere, Blanding or somewhere where the tornado got on fire What do they call that? It's got a name. It's like tornado fire.

I've never heard of a tornado fire. I've never heard of like a... I forgot the name of this. But it basically, I don't even know the stuff of it. Probably something we'd have talked to Bobby about, but it was like, it created a giant flaming tornado and was really scary for a hot minute. Vornado.

Vornado. All right, you guys. Time for this. Isn't technology wonderful? It sure can be, but it only can be when Tom Merritt is here, and he is here. Tom Merr, welcome to the show. How the heck are you, man? Oh, I'm doing lovely. Thanks for having me. Oh, it's so good, Debbie.

Were you going to try and make us think that you were frozen at the beginning there? I think you're just holding really still. I don't know what I was doing, honestly. Yeah, I hadn't given that much thought to it, to be honest. You were just a still guy. That's all. Yes, Brian. I have a technology question for you.

Oh, I've got a new roadcaster duo. I'm not very good with technology, but I'll do my best. Yeah, I figured. Yes, exactly. I picked up a new Roadcaster duo mixer, which I'm already loving. It's only been on my desk for two hours, and I'm already totally digging it. Under each fader, there's a green button and a red button. The red button obviously mutes me.

What does the green button do? The green button sends your audio out. Like if you have other people with headphones plugged in and you turn off the green button, then it stops going out until you turn the green button back on. Oh, so they Gotcha, okay So if they're monitoring sound They will no longer

Once you hit the green button Is that you're saying? Yeah, so But it'll still go out to the out mix It just won't go It won't send back to the other people In the mixer Yeah, you're basically

You're turning it off from audition Yeah, so you can't monitor it anymore There's not that many scenarios Where you need to do that honestly Right, but it basically be like I hit that button go spit out your gum You're a professional and then I turn it back on and it's all.

Yeah, there you go. That's what that's far. I don't know why it's green. It should be red. I have, so to hear you guys on my roadcaster, I have the USB fader up, right? Yeah. And the green button on means I can hear you guys coming back to me.

Okay. But I also have the red button on, meaning it's not sending it back out to you. Okay. right through the you know so the red button stops it from going out to program the green button on means but i can still hear it right so that that's one usage of it okay so it's not like it can be you can obviously everyone's so it's going to be different they're going to all going to do different things yeah yeah so i know because i'm i'm sort of used to like you got a mute or an unmute like it's on or off yeah but this gives you a little a little more fine how programmable are all these

buttons are they like every button on here i can program to do something and that's takes that utility you had to download the software from the company that you install you can actually do it from the well if you want to like put your own like transfer your own bed music and things like that right you you do it through the computer put anything onto it you have to use the software but is but but but like changing inputs and stuff you can you can do from the device just you can you can do a whole custom like say all right this I'm going to set up a custom setup where it's these three sources at these levels bypass whatever the sliders, the faders say, it's these three sources at this level that I'm sending out to to the output. To the people. To the people. Automatic for the people. Automatic for the people.

Anyway, thank you. I just unboxed it and there was nothing in the instruction manual or anything that explained what that red button does. Oh, really? But it totally makes sense. Yeah. Oh, interesting. I sort of have a vague recollection that I learned it from the manual.

But I also have a Roadcaster Pro 1 before they had numbers. Oh, did you? Yeah. So maybe they have thicker manual. Mine came with a quick start guide and that's it. Really? So the duo, the duo is probably just. I might have gone online to Rhodes website to get stuff because they have more information.

Sure, sure. Yeah. The duo, I think, is one on my ball and just because I don't think I need all the extra ports. I don't know. I don't know. The only reason I got the extra ports is because that was the model available. when I bought it. They didn't have these other models out.

But it is nice to have when I do things like when I did TMS Vegas, I needed all of those extra ports. So it depends on what you're going to be using. That's good point. Well, Tom, we're hungry for good tech news today. Yeah, that's not the tech you wanted to tell us about. There's other tech you want to tell us about. That's a pretty good segment right there.

It's not bad. Is there anything else burning a hole in the fabric of tech and time? What's going on? There's a lot of little things today. I'm actually considering doing a roundup of the Donkey Kong Bonanza reviews, which seemed largely very positive. There's the Chi 2.2 wireless devices that are coming out now. It's not that huge of a news, but if you haven't bought a wireless charger for your iPhone or Android, from Chi 2 on, it works with either. Because it's got the MagSafe magnets from Apple, and if your Android phone supports that, then it can do the MagSafe thing with Android phones too. The 2.2 products just have faster charging speeds.

So Chi used to cap out at 15 watts, Chi 2.2 caps out at 25 watts. So if you haven't bought a Chi charger, one of those little wireless magnetic chargers, you might want to buy one of the new 2.2 ones and get that faster charging speed if your phone supports. It doesn't really matter if your phone doesn't, I suppose. But that's not huge news. I guess the biggest news is they cast Zelda. Yeah, I heard about this. Although, you know what? I guess I didn't say, no, we haven't talked about it,

but I haven't seen the name yet. I just heard they did it. So we're going to, exclusive, everybody. Exclusive. Well, I don't think it's exclusive as a gadget reported. Yeah, not exclusive, but a, look, Ted Poole. You heard it here second. Tom.

Here second. Tom, who do they hire? or who are we looking at. Bo Braggison will play Princess Zelda, and Benjamin Evan Engsworth is Link. Bo Braggison. This comes from Shigero Miyamoto on X, so it's as good of a source as you're going to get.

Braggison was born in 2004. Ainsworth is 16 years old. Braggison was in a Disney Plus series called Renegade Nell in a BBC crime drama called The Jetty and was in a was in Final Fantasy 15. Oh, okay.

Ainsworth voiced Pinocchio in the live action remake if anyone dared watch it. That's Pinocchio's voice and appeared in the haunting of Bligh Manor. Oh. Oh, that's why this face looks familiar. All right. Yeah, yeah. So

they look fine. He's going to have to dye his hair yellow or blonde but other than that that's a fine link you know that's all right that's fine I don't know who these people are so I'm sure they're going to be fine you know we don't want known people that would kind of ruin it you'd be too distracted by how known

they are you need exactly you'd be like what is this person doing on my screen and what happened to link yeah and these are probably known to younger audiences I suppose but yeah you're going to cast people that are young like this for these roles obviously

you're not going to cast me so it's going to be people who haven't had as long of a career of course just because of their age yeah i like uh i like this actually um and it looks like there are no further than that no other production notes it looks like based on this news now this was just miamoto saying like hey uh this is miamoto here's who we cast i think they look i think they look great i think they look great i think i have some faith in this uh the director is someone i like if i remember right or whoever they had attached to it right now. Let's see. It doesn't say. I can't remember a bit. It was somebody I

like. I just, I got good feelings about the future of the franchise. Well, we'll talk about all kinds of tech stuff today on daily tech news live. Wes Ball. Why did I like him? The maze runner guy. Oh, that's what it was. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, too.

That's what it was. No way. Kingdom of the Planet of Apes was um, wait a minute. I thought that was all Matt Reeves. No? Hold on. I got to look this no okay west ball west ball uh king of the planet planet of the apes you're right but didn't say directed though did it or no yeah it does say it yeah oh the new one that's why i was excited kingdom oh okay that's why i was excited because the previous two were reeves and then he went on to do the

batman so this makes sense he's a graphics guy he did the graphics on like star trek starships and that's cool Star Trek planets really that's cool yeah and he wears a proper cap not the it's nice and curved

not those stupid flat things the kids are into all right yeah that's just an important thing for me I don't know that's not really that important doesn't really matter

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Cool. All right. Well done. Everybody. That was Tom Merritt. Now we do a little bit of the old recommendals. And I haven't heard from Nicole in a while. Oh, is that her? Oh, yeah. She sent you a clip. Oh, she sent me a clip. All right. Let me get in here. Let's take it. Let's see what we got. Okay. I'll just play it from that video. That's fine. All right. Let's get her in here. I should have done this before and forgot. Join us here. And we'll be off to the races.

Randy's got all these meetings. I don't know what's going on at Blizzard, but slow your role with the meetings. Exactly. Or just, you know, wake him in the afternoon. Yeah. I mean, you're laying off half your people. Why don't you guys just take a shower or something?

You know what I mean? You're going to have more meetings? Is this because you laid people off? So you're putting more on Randy Deluxe? Is that what's happening? Oh, let's hope not. Jeez. Probably is.

That's how that works, right? When you lay people off, other people got to do the jobs that laid off people did. fill in the space, yeah. And don't get paid more. I hate that. Right, exactly. We're going to go ahead and give you a new title and new responsibilities, but sorry, same pay.

Yeah, same pay. You're in trouble. And consider yourself lucky you've got that. Yeah, jerks. All right, let's play this intro here, and then we'll get going with Nicole if I can find it. Where is it? Here it is right here. Well, what do you recommend?

All right, it is time for recommendals. And Nicole is with us. Hi, Nicole. How are you? Hello? Hello? She no answer. we have trouble with Nicole

she is not hello Nicole Mark Mark he probably did probably switched some mic sources around oh no no I see her in the list but yeah does she

she's connected no okay she's in there oh I just I just see her yeah that's right you see her with the full thing I just see the stripe yeah she's

oh I don't know how actually I guess I don't know how you guys see it I never looked into that but I see her trying to we don't we're not getting anything out of her so it means there's a mike source thing probably or something's muted somewhere it's not the app it's something else but you know that's fun it's a fun yeah this is uh it's fun to deal with it's fun we get to go down this road

maybe maybe get a little bit closer to the bed bath and beyond wifi pull up to get a get a closer parking space yeah they got pretty good Wi-Fi in the barns and noble but you might have to poo so yeah don't go in there Um, yeah, maybe, well, let's see, I'm going to, I'll just ask her, how is it going? She said, just text me it in the chat. Oh, well, she has it. She has the link. She's in.

There's nothing to text her. She's in. That must have been before she got it. Well, I'll tell you what, Nicole. I'll just, I'll just call you on, I'll call you on Discord. See if you answer there. How about that? There we go.

If she has a, oh, yeah, she'll hear me because you've got the mix down going to. Yeah. But this may, this may be, this may show us where we have the problem in the first place. Hi, Nicole, can you hear us here? I can hear you here, but it's like echo-y. Oh, who do you hear echoing? Oh, it's fine now. It's fine.

Not okay now? The Discord was just figuring itself out probably. I hate your new system. I hate it. Why? It's a link. It's easy. I know, but I don't, I don't know.

I don't know every time I tried to use it on my computer. Yeah. it doesn't work we got to yell mark if you didn't if you didn't yell mark then what are we doing are you using it in like safari or uh chrome or babe or something like that i using it in chrome so maybe is that the problem

no chrome works great better ones yeah I said wouldn't I wouldn't recommend it in safari because safari is safari can be I even deleted the app that I thought was causing the problems yeah and I went into my settings and I got it all set up I'm like oh I can hear me. Everything looks good.

All right. Yeah. I'm on it. I'm on it. That echo you were hearing before was actually coming through that thing because you were still in there when I answered you on here. So you were hearing it. You just weren't. We weren't hearing you.

We just couldn't get your mic. So I don't know what's going on there. But regardless, regardless, it doesn't matter. You sound fine. You sound great. Yeah. You sound fine. Yeah.

Don't worry about it. You're all good. You know. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey, hey, we're all here. It's Nicole.

I turn in my ballot. You know, it's been a, it's been a few weeks of heck. My treatment program that I was on is stuck in limbo with insurance right now. And I haven't had any of my treatments that finally started to help me. But hey, you know. Did the recent changes in that stupid bill, did that cause the hold-ups? Do you know? No, I just, it's just.

insurance. They want like reasons for everything and yeah. The reason I ask is, I may be a little off is all I'm saying. Based on the conversation I had with Dr. Jerry in the last episode of the medical show, one of the one of the big effects of that bill was going to be a bunch of insurance companies reevaluating whether they're going to provide services or not kind of a real step back in a lot of ways and I wondered if that was directly. Well, we have a small business. And we have an employee that allows us to do small business insurance. So I don't have to go to the hell of ACA. I mean, the stuff in there, like the deductibles is just, I feel for you, if that's your only option.

And so we got, we have great insurance. I pay a lot of money for this great insurance. Yeah, it's only great until they stop paying, right? that's how ours is we have the same thing we have small business insurance it's expensive as hell i freaking hate it and then every once in a while they're like and i ask you how much you pay i'd have one i'd have to ask him i don't know we and we pay five thousand dollars every month oh month damn well if you have one employee i guess that makes that's probably makes and we cover their and we cover his children and our kids are in cover too right so like that's about right

for business or for small business yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's not that but it's something close. I don't have, quote, unquote, an employee, but the way we worked it is Kim's like 51%. You can't do that. Frog Pants is a 51% owned business. Oh, we can do it. I guess.

Give me your insurance broker. Yeah, so we have a deal that makes it a little bit less, but it's still stupid expensive. And then they just randomly sometimes will go, I don't think we're paying for that anymore. It's like, why? You know what? can i just can i just say everybody's like uh you you know brian you said u s health care is the absolute

worst yeah um i i i i still talk to turpster and i still talk to patrick we have we we have a call that we do every every every every week just to keep up on each other's lives oh really and and and like recommendals uh post post recommendals uh it's private recommendals or his private movie licious But Cerementals But But it's bad everywhere

To be honest with you Oh really? Maybe not Sweden I don't know Sweden seems like they have their stuff together I mean it's bad I hear Canada is really good Yeah you can say it's bad everywhere

But it's better than here I hear Canada is not very good Really I hear Canada I have friends they're like, I wait months to see somebody, whereas we have a much more reactive, like, we can, we tend to get in faster, but the process of getting the treatment seems slower. So I'd rather get cancer in Canada than here, though.

That's what I'm saying. But what I'm saying is it might be longer for them to detect it because it takes too long to even get in to see somebody to get that. Yeah, no, I get it. But then once the- Spouting bullshit. But once you have, you know, a million-dollar bill and you can't, and your insurance doesn't cover it, I think I would rather be in Canada then.

So, yes, it's bad all over, but there's no way it's, there's no way that the way we do it is good because they just arbitrarily will say, yeah, that medication that your daughter is on for her, whatever. all those years. My daughter had reflux, kidney thing. Yeah, we're not going to pay that anymore. Well, why? Well, we just determined that bear bad. A bunch of bullshit. It's like, what do I

pay you for then? You sacks of shit. I'm only referencing a friend who's going through the process of trying to like get answers. I'm not talking about you already have answers and you're getting your treatment. I'm sure Canada

is great about that. so I don't know who knows it's just people telling us what we what they feel like it's all it's all yeah it all sucks it's all what is uh same sex mary they have their everything shit is what their theme of their um yearly music festival yeah yeah the music festival which by the way i absolutely loved that they were at uh tms Vegas. That was so fun. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They are as reliable, rain on that thing. They really are. They're the best. All right. Well, let's get to some

recommendals. Brian, I did not roll today. So you're just first. That's just the deal. Sounds good. Yeah. So tell us what you got. All right. We're going to go with something that is animated. And I'm actually going to tell you who you're listening to. It's weird for me to do this because usually you like to play the, oh, I think I hear so-and-so's voice. Well, maybe I still will. you try and figure out who the voices are oh um okay see if you can see if you can

figure out the three voices you're hearing here uh this is an animated series and loved it there we go i'm pretty tired i'll give you an easy one then five geniuses sit around a table each with a bowl of tofu stir fry with bok choy in front of them there's one chopstick between each guy therefore one to the right and left in order to eat any given genius needs to use both chopsticks they have to alternate eating and thinking because they can't do both at the same time. How do you make sure all the geniuses get their thinking done without starving to death? I think I know this one. Each man takes a chopstick to feed the man next to him. That's a religious allegory between heaven and hell.

This is a concurrent algorithm problem. So he knows what the problem is. That is a start. Assume infinite amount of stir fry. And infinite amount of stomach space. Maybe it is hell. It's hard to avoid deadlock, isn't it? This is a shared resource problem that appears in programming all the time. I give up. I don't get it. It's a hierarchy solution. You assign a partial order to the resources. Okay.

You number the chopsticks, one through five. Each man picks up the lowest number first from the two in front of them. And the order they put... In the order they put them down in doesn't matter. If four of the five geniuses pick up the lowest numbered stick, only the highest number remains on the table, leaving an odd man out until the next round. Oh, man. I stopped at three episodes, not because I didn't like it, but because I just got busy.

I was just trying to figure out the voices, and I don't even know what they said. Well, the voices were Paul Dano, and as the younger, the kid, Caspian, and Aaron Eckhart as the dad there, Carrie. That is the show, Pantheon, and it is freaking amazing. This is an animated series ran for two seasons on AMC Plus, but now you can watch it on Amazon Prime Video. I don't know where else it's available, but it is, it tells the story. It's on Netflix right now, isn't it? Oh, it is on that. That's where I'm watching it. I'm watching it on Netflix right now. It's even, it's even the icon that I just put on QtMS.l.I. I should, yeah. And there's a lot of streaming services, a lot of content. I get it. There is, exactly. So this is kind of

near future kind of stuff. Imagine a world where you're able to, upload your your your brain your consciousness into the cloud um not you know not just like a little um uh a facsimile or an avatar of you like brain like uh but your actual brain like your like mirror yeah your your memories your um your experiences and you you build new memories um this is kind of deals with not just the

technical ramifications and the problems that come with that but also the ethics so many ethics questions that are part of this Maddie Kim is this

one of the main two characters yet Maddie and Casspian you heard Caspian in that in that clip Maddie is the other teenager that is dealing with her father's upload into the cloud

and um and you know is he re is it him is he technically alive is deleting him considered death is restoring him from a backup considered still him things like that a lot of these questions come up it's very it is very black mirror told through a love death and robots kind of kind of way that's so so cool the first three episodes are amazing and I was like so into it and then something got in my way and I didn't keep going this has a cast it has a cast look at that freaking uh daniel day kim ron livingston taylor bean forks in it freaking bean fork yeah scott scute mcnary i mean come on william hurt uh william hurt basically plays a very steve jobs uh stephen holstrom uh kind of

character he is the the founder of the company that does the uploading um it's probably one of his last things right probably it was his last thing is his for the first episode of this even has a memorial for him. Yeah. The last acting game, wow. Yeah, really, really. He, his character development and his, his delivery is just so William Hurt,

but it's also so perfect for this. Yeah. He should have kept living that guy. I liked him a lot. He really should have. He's so good. This is, I'll be honest, I'm completely through the first season,

and I'm about halfway through the second season, but I wanted to get to this now because it's all I've been watching. It's a lot. It's, you know, 16 one-hour episodes. So it's a lot. I don't want to scare anybody away from it because it's really, really good. But it is a lot to get through. So I don't know if the final episode was known to be the final episode.

Oh, right. If they knew the second season would be the last season. So maybe somebody can speak to this. Craig Silverstein's the creator. Let's see. What do we know him from? Some other cool stuff. Oh, he produced that Nikita series, which was very good.

It was way too short, but it was really good. Interesting. Oh, turn, Washington Spies. We watched that. He made, he was executive producer on the old man, which I liked a lot. Oh, that was really good. Terra Nova was not great, but he was involved in that. Executive producer, he had very little due with that.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's only the guy in charge. He's only kind of the showrunner. sure um look sight walker it is an animated series yes and um but it's you know you've got professional actors doing the voice work so not that you know when you don't have professional actors it makes it bad but these are these are voices you know and they're they're acting is top notch for this thing yeah it's it's a great reminder to get back to this and get through it it is yeah watch the rest i hope they're not done it'd be great if there were more of these i hope they do i don't think

I don't think there's plan, because this, this ended in 2003. So I don't know if there's. 2023, you mean? Yeah. What did I say? Oh, 2003. Yeah, 223 is what I meant. I was like, wow, 25.

Yeah. Pretty good animation for back then. Yeah. Yeah, I'd be looking to see if there's any news on if it, um, this is, this is one of those rare things that's got a hundred percent approval rating, by the way, on rotten tomatoes so yeah i'm really high 8.5 out of 10 which imdb standards that's very high that's very yeah exactly yeah i don't think you can go wrong here and it's nice it's nice to see erin echart doing some shit so for sure he's got such a great voice in this he's got such a great

um and and i want to think and i was trying desperately to find the person in chat who recommended this to me it is cartoon right yes it is animated yep um Red on air animation. But I don't see, oh, here it is right here, Tintin. Thank you Tintin for re-recommending it to me. I think you posted and chat about it or in the Discord, FilmSack Discord channel, and then you direct messaged me on July 3rd, and I started watching it right away.

Yeah, no, that's cool. Oh, September, I think you also recommended it too. Brain, bro, brain, bro, see, I'm having trouble with my words. rainbow bright rainbow bright in the chat yeah you just said i like the show upload and i recommended upload you did yeah that's more of the comedy it's kind of the comedy version of this it's uh oh i did not enjoy the second season i kind of stopped it i started watching it and i'm like i forgot about this show i'm not i'm not enjoying this is it's on amazon yeah amazon prime yeah prime it's a great first season where what happened in the second you think just

lost their way i don't i don't know like i feel like they told the story in the first season and then it was like i don't i don't know it got it got too outside of of the online world i think gotcha maybe that's why i got canceled they only got two seasons out of it yeah they only got two seasons. Second season I didn't really enjoy. September, I think you recommended you sent me the cover of Don't Dream It's Over that the first season ends

with. The crowded houses Don't Dream It's Over. Covered by Katie Noonan. Way back in December of last year and for whatever reason I didn't jump on the show then but I think you're having you recommend it and then

Tintin as well, I think finally pushed me over the edge. So join effort. Just in case any audio-only listeners are confused. September is not a month. She is a person in our chat. That's right. September recommended it in December. There you go. Just a little. She says January. I just, I put myself in the listener only situation. I went, oh, hey, hang on a second. Exactly. Anyway. All right. The show is called Pantheon. It's on Netflix. And it is highly, highly recommended. Nice. Nicole, let's get to yours. You sent me a clip here.

Do you want to say anything about it before I hit playing? All I can say is they pick the worst title for this movie. I can never remember it. In fact, I was like, I don't, I, when I was like, looking for a clip, I was like, what the hell's the name of the movie? What's the name of the movie? We went as a family to see it in the theater. Oh.

It's actually wonderful. It is kind of refreshing to see this. this cartoon universe come back in this way. And it was a highly underrated movie that did not do well at the box office because I think the title just sucked that bad. It's on max now, right? It's on, did I say max? Yes, it is on max right now. So you will want to dismiss it.

don't. It's actually quite fun. All right. Let's play the clip and see what we got. Here we go. But Porky, this is bigger than our roof problems. You have to believe me. Something is definitely going on with the gum. Oh, is that so? Something going on with the gum, huh? Yeah, I'm telling you, it's doing something crazy to people's brains. Well, me, maybe I just got to show you how crazy. you sound one stick of the super strong berry gum please pork you know i'm tired of chewing you out so i'm going

to chew this myself oh goodness who knows where it goes from there we don't want to spoil it so this is the day the earth blew up and you do not like that title do you Nicole hello thank you are am i still here you're here we're here we're here we're here we're here we're I was going to say, thank you for saying the name of the title because I wasn't going to remember it. I just called the Looney Tunes movie, which it's just Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. They're buddies, you know. Oh, just those two? No, bugs bunny.

And yet, of course this is a cartoon. All right. Who asked it as a cartoon? Luke. Luke. Luke. I think Luke has been. I think Luke is being sarcastic.

I'm coming to Luke's house and I'm going to throw cold water on Luke. He keeps doing this. I've literally shed like when Brian did it, I was like going to let it go because even though I'd shown on screen that it was a cartoon, I was like, all right, maybe he didn't see the clip. But now I think he's pulling our legs. Anyway. Well, I did it.

All right. Here's the deal with Looney Tunes and my history with Looney Tunes. Saturday morning, imagine this. if you're young listening to this and you've had access to cartoons at any hour of the day that you want. Imagine being a child and waking up as early as possible on Saturday

so you could start watching cartoons. And Looney Tunes was the signal for me that Cartoon Hour was over. So I kind of hated Looney Tunes for that reason. I have this like because it was it was always at the end of the the saturday morning cartoon time and it was always you always ended with loony tunes but i grew up watching loony tunes with my dad my dad loved

bugs bunny tunes has always been more risque um it's i forgot i forgot how risky it was can you hear me am i still talking yeah you're still talking Okay, okay. Sometimes when I don't hear anything, I'm like, am I just talking into a void? I don't know. No, we're just listening. You're good. So this, so we took the kids to the theater and they've never been exposed to loony tunes.

I mean, because like there's a woman with these big breasts and a big old butt. And they're like, what is going on? Get ready for Ted Pooley feud the next time around. Yeah, no kidding. It was just so funny. It was like, I'm like, this is Looney Tunes. And it's, it's, um, the whole story is basically that clip. It's, it's alien takeover, uh, Daffy and Porky are raised by a very nice man who,

I don't know the history. I don't know a lot of the history of it, but I'm sure there's like nods to, you know, because when did looting tunes start in the 30s? 40s. 30s. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah.

So yeah. And this is what made me laugh when somebody said Bugs Bunny, they were attracted to Bugs Bunny and drag. Because that was a Wayne's World clip. I don't really like their top babes or something. One of them was Buck's Bunny and Drag. Wayne and Garth are laying on the car. And then Garth leans, you know, looks at Wayne.

He goes, did you ever, are you ever really attracted to Bugs Bunny when he drew up and drag or something like that? But that's where it came from. It was a Wayne's World Club. I don't remember that. So I think you don't remember that. No. Not that line. Yeah.

And it was improv, too. So that was from the movie, not from the, yeah, not from the TV show, or not from I remember the scene where they're on their back looking at the stars talking. I just don't remember that subject, yeah. There was no Wayne's World TV show. Yeah, there was. S&L. Cernet Live.

Cernet Live. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I say Wayne's World, I think 100% the movie, not the skit. So I know it came from the skid, but yeah, anyway. So I wanted to encourage people if you like a little cheeky adult humor with cartoons that you can watch with your kids. This is definitely a fun movie to watch.

I highly recommend it. I loved it. They should do more of it. I heard it was like put into like. I don't know if it was this one or if there's another one. But there was supposed to be a bunch of Looney Tunes movies coming out, and they all got shelved. And somebody bought this one, I think, because I think Warner Brothers, I don't think Warner, did you see if Warner Brothers actually released this? It is.

It's a Warner Brothers cartoon. It is. It has to be. They own all the rights to it. The thing you're thinking of is distribution and you're thinking of the Acme, the Acme one, the one that got. canceled with what's his name in it it was

road runner yeah well not roadrunner the coyote versus Acme Corporation whatever it was yeah so that finally finally someone's got distribution rights and it's going to happen but um yeah Warner Brothers has been kind of a shithead lately they've been canceling right have yeah kind of the worst

coyote versus Acme yeah that's the one I'm thinking of yeah but this was fun terrible name for the movie just call it the Looney Tunes movie that's all you got to do I think this I think that goes to your point that goes to your point though where it says a loony tunes movie I think they had lots of other ideas planned and they this one just ended up being you know when they did the looney tune cinematic universe yeah it's kind of what happened to

the harley quinn movie right terrible name for that movie wait what movie which harley queen movie. The, whatever, the miseducation is. Harley 20, oh, yeah. Birds of Prey. Oh, Birds of Prey. I know the one you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah. That movie's actually all right. The movie's good. The movie is a terrible name for the movie. And they try to correct it midstream. Yeah.

Yeah. But that Birds of Prey is actually from the comic. So I think that that one's more allowable. That's not just them making up stuff. It was terrible. Yeah. It was terrible. I'm so opinionated right now. Not a fan. not a fan don't like that oh thank you free rages birds of prey the fabulous I can't say shit of Harley Quinn oh yeah they added a bunch of stuff right they added

stuff to the title yeah yeah exactly yeah it wasn't just Prince of pray in the title by the coward of Robert Ford at the end that's my favorite part of that title nice job guys um all right well that is available on HBO Max you can watch it now you're looking for the date the earth blew up colon oh hell yeah i've been wanted to see it i wanted to see it in theaters i just got busy but um definitely i never even realized it went to theaters so uh i thought it went straight to streaming but no this is i'm looking forward to seeing it too i was in theaters we saw it briefly and there's uh there's a lot of adult over the head of humor for the kids

which is kind of fun because i mean i'm so used to disney and it's all you know it made money not it did a 15 million dollar budget they made the 15 million 124,306 so barely cut the budget but they're in the black on it so that's good I suppose maybe it'll do better as a cult classic on like streaming services I think people are skeptical of you know none of these are voiced by Mel Blank he's long dead some of this I don't I didn't even notice well yeah honestly but that's partly because you didn't you didn't like those cartoons back then Like you said, it was, it meant Saturday. I did like them. But the way you said, you said, like, Saturday's over. Yeah. It just signified the end of Saturday morning cartoons. So there was always a, oh.

Yeah. But my point is I put Mel, I put Mel Blank and I put, I put him up there with, like, Jim Henson in terms of like, if you're going to change it. Yeah. It takes me a long time to get used to it. It's just really hard for me. I'll give it a shot. I want to see it. Give it a shot.

I would love for your feedback because it's definitely modernized and it's the animation is brighter. I mean, I'm just so used to the old cartoons, right? Sure. So they can't really do much about that. I mean, have they ever tried to like make them better? What do you mean make them better?

Brighter, like more colorful. Yeah, I mean, there's been new iterations of Looney, tunes for yeah they're pretty bright and colorful it depends on the area you're talking about they were black and white for a while in the 70s you just didn't have your tv adjusted correctly yeah but i mean there's stuff in the 40s it was pretty you know they knew what they're doing all that all that uh what's his name can't think it was name all of sudden my favorite animator ever and i can't think it was name oh um yeah uh what is wrong with chuck jones jones thank you yeah anything he ever did is a okay in my book

all right let's get to mine hey guys there's a theme this week it turns out and i'm just going to go ahead and let luke know early this is a cartoon luke it is one that i'm extremely excited to play this clip for i ended up really liking this i've read the comic so this was just a matter of how soon am i going to talk about this on the show i decided to do it early and little did i know all three of us were going to be animated yeah yeah none of us planned this we didn't plan on this thing but here it is. It's finally completed, Diana. And I wanted you to be the first to see it. From here, I can be certain that the USSR ticks with the precision of a Swiss watch. Raniak. Summarize today's statistics, please.

Production is up 8% life expectancy has increased to 97 earth years, with greater increases predicted over the next decade. Suicides are down since I added feroxitine hydrochloride to the water supply. Birth rates are on the rise. Thank you, Rameyang. Okay. Now, this is awesome. I love this thing

so much. I love the comic and so I was really excited to see how they handled it here and I think they did a pretty bang-up job. It is Superman Red Sun and the concept is of the comic and the adaptation is that instead of... What if? Yeah, it's basically a giant what if story um what if superman aka clark kent uh his little pod from space didn't land in

kansas and here in the states he landed in somewhere in rural russia and what would that mean he'd be raised within that system during the cold war uh world war two up through the cold war and uh what would that mean what would the state do with him uh what would he do with the state what is what is a communist based Superman versus the U.S. based Superman. What would the differences be? And that's what it explores. It's really good at exploring those ideas

without feeling a little too like, hey man, what would it be like you think if Superman had three heads? Would that be like? It's not like simple. It really goes deep into what these concepts would mean for the character and also for the audience, I think. And it's really good.

That voice you heard playing Superman is none other than Jason Isaacs of all people doing a Russian accent and playing Russian Superman. Oh, wow, no kidding. Yeah, Lucius Malfoy is somehow pulling that off. Captain... Lorca?

Is it Lorca? Lorca, yes. That's right. Amy Acker is Lois Lane. She's fantastic. Dietrich Bader, who has done Batman before. In this, he's Lex Luthor. Crazy.

Lex Luthor is actually kind of a hero on the state side. Does Dietrich Bader do Batman in the Harley Quinn? Yes, I believe so. I always mix it up with where somebody else does it. I know, I know, yeah. It's really good. He's very good as Batman. He's great, yeah.

Vanessa Marshall, that was Paul Williams, you heard as Brainiac, by the way. Oh my gosh, like the old, yeah. Phil Lamar's in this. He plays John Stewart. And yes, the. I do know Phil Lamar. I know that name. Yeah, you do.

You definitely do. Samurai Jack A million other voices He's a guy that got shot in the back of the car And in Pulp Fiction He's great Anyway Oh right

Yeah He was on Mad TV That's how I know Yeah that's true too So you get quite a few other DC superheroes in this Like he said Wonder Woman And I saw a green lantern in there as well

So it's Yeah they're still there kind of American counterparts Yeah And American versions Well sort of So Or Amazonian I guess.

She's not, she really has no. She's an Amazonian American is what she is. Her Themascarine roots or whatever, but she, she doesn't, like Lois Lane is married, eventually she's married. Well, no, I think it starts this way. She's married to Lex Luthor. So it's a lot of what-if combinations. Without Superman, she would marry the worst possible person.

Well, but it turns out in that world, he's kind of the best. So everything is sort of flipped. Superman is what really turned Lex Luthor bad. yeah and it's and it's it's interesting because now that he's on the whole other side small well yeah i mean Luke lex luther and um clark can't were friends in smallville for a while yeah yeah it didn't work out real well for him in the end but yeah that's the whole point but they start out as friends yeah that one's less comic canon than it is tv canon but you know fair point they they like to mess around and have fun with these these archetypes kind of what

there as well. Yeah. And yeah, exactly. Smallville is almost an 100% of what if, really. It's like, what if his teenage years were like this? That's kind of the concept. Exactly. Yeah. Anyway, it is very, very good. It's a nice long, meaty hour and a half or so film adaptation of this thing. The animation's pretty good. I wouldn't say it's like anything crazy special. The sound work, though, is really good. And the VO and the acting's really strong. There's a lot of really interesting moral questions asked about what it would mean to have. this juxtaposition of him being over there and us over here and how would we react to that and what would that turn what would that do to the cold war itself and to the power all of it yeah

it's really just great questions getting asked and I'm in the mood for more Superman right now so I thought you know what this be a good one to to finally see and as a fan of the comic adaptation I think they did a pretty good job so if you're into that that's also on HBO Max and uh available now it's really good my favorite so are they all on HBO this one or was Brian's on something else? Netflix. Mine was Netflix. Yeah, Brian's is Netflix. I thought you said it was on a couple different things. It, it, um, on the Wikipedia page, it said, uh, Amazon Prime, but right now, the only place I can see it is Netflix on my list. It's Netflix. Yeah. Amazon

takes things in and out so quickly. They do. Well, like, you know, they, they include in the places you sometimes look at says, oh, Amazon Prime, if you have an HBO subscription through Amazon things like that. But I got to love the fact that HBO Max came back at a time when I was so lazy that on QuickTMS. I never changed the icon for HBO Max through all of its different iterations. So now that icon is current again. Oh, nice. Procrastination pays, people.

Procrastination pays. Don't let anyone tell you different. You can take, you know. So, I mean, I know we're towards the end of the segment, but we're talking about HBO. Can you tell me what that email that I sent you mean? Like they're taking HBO Family out of HBO Max. Yeah. So what they meant was not family of channels.

They mean specifically, I know. They're saying specifically the channel called HBO Family, which was a HBO service. You may not have even gotten. It's a separate thing. I have at all. Okay. Well, you're losing that. They're getting rid of it.

That's where that's going. They're just getting rid of it? Yeah. The content will still be. there but you're going to get it on max they're just putting it all in one place like like disney and hulu and all that consolidation it's the same thing it's so confusing i hate them i know it's too bad they got so much cool content right oh one thing i wanted to say about this thing i almost forgot my favorite thing about it is this cover look at this yeah yeah i like that

badass it's like uh the old like propaganda looking poster and it's you know he's got the you know the motif, almost like Batman, the dark, the gray, the old Batman with the gray with the black gloves and stuff. Yeah, it's a very cool. It's very, very cool. And I have to say, Jason Isaacs kind of nails it. It's not, it doesn't sound like him at all. I wouldn't know if you told me it was him, but he's good tonight. Too much hassle for me to deal with, huh? Yeah, the Brainiac stuff goes places too. It's, that's pretty wild. So, oh, I meant to tell you, the green, the green lantern core is American. It comes from during the Kennedy administration, they found, a green lantern ship with a green lantern dude in there it was an alien they took the ring

figured out how to duplicate it and now they've got the u.s is the green lantern core so john stewart hal jordan okay uh what's his name from the new movie um guy gardner all of them are in the same like it's a military unit and it's the only defense we have against superman basically at that point it's pretty wild the green the green lantern core yeah that's what they're called okay okay Yeah, and that new series coming to HBO Max, everyone's favorite streaming channel that can't decide what its own name is, the Lantern Corp show. I'm so excited for that. Is that going to have Philly in it? It is.

But there was some news yesterday that him and who's Friday Night Lights coach? Oh, he's Hal Jordan. Coach Taylor, yeah. I can't think of his name. I love him. I can't think of his name. That guy. You can't think of a name.

Oh, my God. I know. What's today? July 16. Mark it down, people. Oh, I don't forget names all the time. This happens a lot. Yeah, we're not that great at this.

I can't think he was name. I don't know. I don't know. You guys remember names that I'm like, I don't know who you're talking about. Kyle. Kyle. Kyle. Not Kyle.

Kyle Mooney. Kyle. Kyle. Chandler. Chandler. Kyle Chandler. You did. Brian, nice job.

You ringed around. Well, I needed the Kyle though. I needed somebody. I needed somebody to pull the chain so that I go, Kyle, Kyle Chedler. You have such a great switch on that. I wish I could do that easier. Well, anyway, so the talk is, so he plays Hal Jordan.

John Stewart's played by that dude I really liked in that, that Mississippi movie, forgot the name of it. Anyway, I'm not going to worry about that, but Guy Gardner's in it too. But apparently, Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner never share a scene. And that bummed me out just a little bit, you know? John Stewart's in it? Yeah, not John Stewart, the comedian. John Stewart, the Green Lantern.

John Stewart, the Green Lantern from comics from a long time before John Stewart was born. To be fair, John Stewart has done voice acting for cartoons. Sure, sure. He would not be a black, he would not be a black green lantern, though, I don't think. He was in, I think, the remake for The Lying King. What did he play? I think he played the bird. No, that was the guy that runs around the street.

Who's the guy in the street, Brian? Who's the guy that run around? Billy Eichner, I think, is Zazzy or whatever he was. Yeah. Oh, John Oliver, that's who it was. John Oliver. John Oliver is, yeah, I'm sorry. Oh, not John Stewart.

I'm thinking John Oliver. Holy shit, he plays Timo. Or wait, not Timo. We're doing it. We're going down the path. He's the Timo John Oliver is what he is. Timon. John Stewart.

Timon is who he is. Tomon. John Oliver isn't, but the other guy. Eichner. Right. Because Timone is Pumba. Or not Pumba, Zazu. John Oliver, Zazu. Oh, geez, Louise.

We're self-fulfilling prophecy here on TMS. Oh, my gosh. That's amazing. For those of you who wanted a sequel. Yeah. Yeah. We just did direct. Let's talk about Cheetos while we're at it.

Yeah, direct to DVD sequel to our stupid conversation about Pumba. All right. Well, we did it, guys. Nicole, any Woodward? working things going on or anything you want to mention before we go here. Your live stream stuff seems to be going really well. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Over on the Spag show channel, we're doing live stream still. We went back to the woodworking because honestly, I can't fill an hour of just talking about certain stuff. So we went back to the woodworking questions. And then we have an after show where we just kind of being. enter and talk about things like, you know, what, what we're watching and listening to and what the kids are doing or, you know, catching up, uh, everybody. So that want to be, because not

everybody cares, gives a crap who we are. They just want to hear about woodworking. So we know our audience. Um, so yeah, uh, but we did need to move it to that spag channel because we were getting dinged on our main channel. Every time we went, Live. And I think I told you that. What do you mean dinged? Like we would lose tons of subscribers. Oh, really?

People would unsub. Like lose them? Yes. Weird. Unsub. They would see that we had a live going on and was like, F that. We don't want that unsubscribe from this channel.

So we just were like, you know, let's move the live over to its own live channel. And people that care will go to their, you know, they'll go there and they can watch the show. That's weird. Isn't it weird? Yeah.

That's funky. You know, there's, hey, you get some, you know, woodworkers can be cranky. Sure. And older. Yeah. And not that everybody,

you know, our age demographic is actually probably 20 to about 45. That's our biggest. And like you, you have a lot of male. viewers as do we but we i personally uh love to bring females into uh woodworking and so that's why i'm i kind of try to encourage but uh we consistently find that when i'm involved things go down too so nobody wants to see me either let me tell you let me tell you what i think

is if we ever do one of these uh uh games brine where we have to say what is a hot profession lady woodworkers yeah goggles the goggles on the freaking oh my god that's hot

it's just under a female bass player but right above female welder and you know what the welder and the woodworker that's a very similar vibe I love it

you guys play right into they're out there they're on YouTube they're showing their boobies and they're showing their butts see I don't care about their butts and I just care about them working it

like, I don't want to see any unsafe woodworking or welding with boobies out. Well, they get those saws that stop on a hot dog now, right? So they won't, they're never going to. It's a thing. It's kind of, you know,

I don't know. It depends on how you, when we started, it was just about teaching woodworking. It has evolved of the course of 18 years. what the most risky thing you can do or the top five it's just i know but it i'm saying it's

gone everywhere every aspect of the internet is now how hot and young can you be doing a thing that's normal yeah and it's annoying i mean we could have a whole panel talking about i mean we had a front row seat to watch this evolve and it has evolved we live in we live in gooner nation we live in gooner nation now no we live in what was the movie uh idioocracy is what we're living in we are totally living in idiocacy right now so there you go finally uh all right but anyway mark did it mark did release a new video it is a Zelda inspired mantle for above your fireplace. A neighbor down the road wanted Mark to do it.

He hates epoxy. And if you want to see Mark really miserable, watch the video because it does not go well. It's not just a smell. I hesitate to ask this, but is it just the smell thing or is it get on his hands? No, no. Apoxy's a glue.

Yeah. Yeah. But in the recent years, It has, but it has, it has been used as a material. Lube. Like a, like a loob? I'm kidding. Go ahead.

Keep going. No, like, you see these river tables and, and like what Mark is building. Like, it is. Oh, kind of like a resin, clear resin style. Yes. I see what you mean. Yes. Yes.

Yes. I got you. So it's a. It's a, it's a trend that seems to be tapering off, but you still, on occasion, like, because Mark, he's like, his whole thing is make epoxy a glue again. Like, it was just, it's glue, but a lot of people use it as a actual material for a piece of furniture or. I see. Whatever they're trying to make. That makes sense.

Well, tell him good luck with his war on epoxy. I hope it works out. He's done. He's never doing it again. Okay. If you watch the video, you will see why. There's even a short. You can probably catch up on it.

Fantastic. It is Nicole Spag. It is the woodwhisperer.com, right? Yes. Thewoodwhisper.com. Actually, both. The guy that owned Woodwisper.com sold it to us. And we're so grateful for.

for that. That's nice. It can, so you can get to it with thewoodwhisper.com or just woodwhisper.com. Or epoxyloob.com. See you soon. Don't do that. Don't do that. All right, you guys.

That's, there's that. It's a perfect way to sum it up. I don't smoke, but if I, if I did, I would be needing a cigarette right now. You need a cigarette after that. Oh, and just a quick reminder to chatter. Luke Sightwalker. It's all animated. Every one of those was a cartoon.

All three of our picks today were cartoons. This right now, though, live action. Brian and I are live action. Live action. But those previous things we've recommended today, all cartoons. All right. We're going to get to the end of all things here on the show. And how we do that is we say the following.

I'm trying to find out. Oh, we have nothing. This is all we have. Yeah. Actually, this was a, we were smart and said, we probably won't have time for anything at the end of the show. Yeah, we really don't have time. So we'll just say go to frogpants.com slash TMS

and use all the things that are there and contact us and all that fun stuff and then listen to this song Brian's about to play. That's it. Yeah, this is a request going out to Grand Master Jarf. I think I saw him in the chat earlier. I said, good morning, scooter and Beezer. One

Saturday 712. Oh, I guess he said one. Let's see. No, there's not a two. I was thinking one, Saturday, July 12th is my fiance, Amanda's 41st, rotation around the sun and wanted to dedicate a song to her. If it weren't for her, I don't know where it'd be in my life. So thank you

Amanda for all that you do and I love you. Thanks guys. Love the show though. I thought there might be a two, but he's basically saying one Saturday the 12th of July is what you'll say Amanda's birthday. I like it. Okay. Very old school. Happy congratulations to

the two of you and happy post birthday to Amanda. Hope you had a really good one on Saturday. We'll give you one of these for sure. You deserve it. Forty. Right. The request was a cover of Pink Pony Club, the Chapel Roan song where she silently judges Scott for his choices.

It sure feels like it. It does. So a lot of covers of this out there that sound a lot like the original. I wanted to go with one that was different. And I think I found one that's got a little bit more of a, I don't know, modern, modern yacht rocky kind of sound, if there is such a thing. This is by a band called Moon Taxi. Just came out. It's a single they released this year. It is, well, obviously it would have to be this year, right?

It is a cover of Chapel Roan's Pink Pony Club. I know you wanted me to stay, but I can't ignore the crazy visions of me in L.A. And I've heard that there's a special place. Boys and girls can all be queens every single day. I'm having wicked dreams of leaving Tennessee. Here Santa Monica, I swear it's calling me. Won't make my mama proud. It's going to cause a seat.

She sees her baby girl. I know she's going to scream. I don't know what have her done? You're a pink pony girl, and you dance at the club. I'm just having fun On the stage in my heels It's where I belong Down at the

Peacony Club I want to keep on dancing At the Pink Pony Club I'm going to keep on dancing down in West Hollywood I'm going to keep on dancing at the Peak Pony Club I'm up

and jaws are on the floor lovers in the bathroom and a line outside the door black lights and a mirror disco ball every night's another reason why I left it all I think my wicked dreams

a year from Tennessee oh Santa Monica you've been so good to me won't make my mama proud It's gonna cause a scene She sees a baby girl I know she's gonna scream Girl, what have you done?

You're a pink-boning girl And he dance at the club Oh mama I won't you stand before On the stage in my heels It's where I belong down at the Pink pony club I want to keep on dancing

I'm gonna keep on dancing I'm in West Hollywood I'm gonna keep on dancing at the big honey club Big Tony flower Oh yeah Don't think I've left you all behind

always on my mind And mama Every Saturday I can hear your southern draw a thousand miles away singing I don't have you done You're a pink pony girl

And you dance at the club Oh mama I'm just having four On the stage in my heels It's where I belong Down at the Big Pony Club I'm gonna keep on dancing at the big pony club

I'm gonna keep on dancing down the west of Hollywood I want to keep on dancing at the big pony club Big Polly Club I'm gonna be able to keep my dancing. I'm gonna keep my dancing. Frog in Pants, Frog in Pants. If you're looking for something froggy smooth, find more at frogpants.com. Maybe everything's cool.