The Morning Stream - TMS 2898: Reverse Pumba

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

Hispanic Heritage Munch. Sloppy McSlopperpants. Reverse Pumba. The Mexicali Tray Of Death. Wackado expensive. Cirque du Soleil on Absinthe. Mexican Adjacent. Tray full of bald dudes.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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12 little circles each a brand new tune. Coverville donuts baked fresh this afternoon. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS. This is the morning stream for Monday, October 6, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Ibbott. Hello. Hello, nice little Coverville song you got there. Isn't that great?

Yeah, by the fine folks at Sora when I said, imagine Coverville is a big trayful of donuts. And I thought I was getting get a bunch of little bald dudes looking at me. But, no, I just got donuts and a neat little jingle. Yeah. In your voice, kind of your voice, but just off enough to make you go, Is that Brian? I don't know who that is.

Yeah. And the sings about 12 donuts and shows 9. So there's your AI slop for the day. Oh, yeah. This app is

sloppy mickslapper pants. And I have a thought on it, though, that I didn't kind of expect. And maybe we'll talk about it with Tom again this week. I don't know. Sure. But Tom's going nuts with it

and sending stuff back and forth. And you can cameo between each other and do things together. Yeah, I've been having some fun with it too. It's pretty dorky, kind of dumb ways. the time. But what is interesting about is the whole thing's being being presented as kind of a like, it's like TikTok, but it's nothing but AI generation. So if you go in there, you're not,

you can't upload photos. You can't upload a video. All you can do is just put a prompt and that's it. So you prompt in something. You say, I'd like a donkey eating a horse. And then that probably wouldn't get it through because they have a lot, they have pretty high walls. Oh yeah. Yeah. Sometimes it's way wrong. Like I'll say, have Tom Merritt. me having tea in the city and it'll come back and say sexual innuendo can't do it yeah no it got bummed out because i wanted to create one i was going to do um uh animate a an animated warthog and an animated mere cat are recording a podcast and trying to remember what scott johnson looks like there you go how to go be like a pumba like reverse pumba basically and it said this is too

close fallen this breaks the guard the rails uh guard rails uh guard rails of previously released content or something like that. It's so dumb. I did do a tiger and a cheetah though. Did that work? Oh, I saw that one. That one did work. Yep.

Yeah. I looked at it and I wasn't sure which one was the tiger and which one was the cheetah because apparently. I could see how that could happen. Yeah. I did it with Kirby like the character,

I didn't even say the Nintendo character Kirby. I just said, have Kirby eating a car and a security camera footage. And it just did it. So where's your walls? Because I can't do it with Mario or else screws up. put a, you know, Italian plumber in a red suit.

It just makes Mario. It's all over the place. But anyway, what I was going to say about this is this thing is like sloppy, dorky, dumb. But what I kind of like about it is that unlike TikTok and reels and shorts and everything else, people can pump fake AI stuff in there all day as misinformation, as a lark if they want or whatever. And then it's mixed in with all this real stuff. That's annoying.

this is at least like I know exactly what I'm going to get here. Everything. Exactly. It's like, you know, you go to a restaurant that tries to serve every different kind of food and they don't get half of it right. This is like going to a restaurant

that only makes one meal. Yeah. And they do it pretty well, but you're not going to get a, you know, not going to get a snuck-in enchilada in there. No, you're never going to have to question it. You just know what it is.

Right. And you know that it's all nonsense. And I kind of like that. I mean, I don't love, I'm kind of, you know, I'm, generative AI can take a shit for all I care. But, but truthfully, this is the kind of generative AI I like where it's used for really weird dumb shit. Like, you know, we'd see those videos where somebody's sitting on the beach and all of a sudden they turn into an airplane and they start flying around and then it drops into a sandwich and lands on somebody's picnic basket or something. It's that, that kind of weird stuff. And I can throw a prompt in there like I did last night and say, a few good men, but it's Tom Merritt.

on trial and he's wearing springy bug antenna and it did it it created a courtroom scene with Tom Merritt on trial wearing springy bug antenna unfortunately it's the judge who says you can't handle the buzz oh my all that was all that was done like it comes up with a weird as script that it puts these people through um and sometimes it's straight up terrible like it's straight up terrible and it's that terrible stuff that just makes me laugh my freaking head off. Yeah, I like a little bit of absurdity, you know. Yeah. So if anyone, I actually still have four invites. So if you want an invite, hit me up on, DM me on Discord and I'll get you one. And yeah, I'm still trying to decide how open I want to make my, um, personification, my, my cameos,

who I want to allow it to throw me in. Well, you can also, this, the one other cool thing about it is you have full control over that. So if they, if somebody post something of you and you're like, oh, man, they made me into the thing I don't like. You can kill it. I can kill that one. Even if they made it. Even if someone else made it, you can kill it because your face is being used. Oh, then I'm going to open it up to everybody.

Oh, yeah. That's a bad idea, but at least I'll see everything that, because I thought, I thought, you know, you have to restrict it first, but you can restrict and say, oh, no, you, you know, you crossed the line with this. And you can only do it with friends who, you have to follow each other. That's the only way you can cameo with each other. yeah yeah and if one of like if tom didn't like your antennas on the thing you just did he could go in there and kill it he could block that one or unpost that one yeah basically just goes away and you can look into your uh cameo drafts and that will show you any that are pending that people are thinking about posting of you oh really so if somebody uses me in a cameo draft i'll see okay oh so kind of cool that's cool they give you some tools it's nice this is this is the i that i like and approve Sure. Well, thanks, Open AI. You figured out another way to have water cool all your servers. That's right. All right. Yeah, right, exactly. I got a quick shout out to just give to our old pals Tanner and Alex.

They were in town for a concert and also just a little bit of hanging out. And we got to have dinner with them at this place called Los Bottellas, which I believe is Spanish for The Bottles. The bottles. Yes. And it's a beautiful, really swanky, nice Mexican place that opened up here. about a year ago, I think. They came out and met us. We ate there. It was good. It was expensive. But it was good.

And we had a great time. So, you know, typical, hey, it's Tanner and Alex. Here we go. We're hanging out. Everything's fine. But then they start doing these things in the restaurant called experiences. And they're drinks. You've probably seen this in places. I just am not a drinker. So I never see this shit.

So I don't know what people call this. But it'd be like, here's a lady with a tray. And she's got four drinks in it. and now the drinks and the tray are on fire, and she's throwing cinnamon in the fire, and the cinnamon's going, whoosh, warkling, and yeah, right, okay. And then the whole restaurant smells like cinnamon-flavored incense for the next 20 minutes because of this one lady doing the thing.

And there was a lot of these things, like just stuff on fire, and they called them on the menu. They were called Experiences, and they were whack-a-do expensive, ridiculous. Oh, so this is not something that they just have somebody, like, come out and do a little performance and then go back in. This is like somebody ordered these shots with the cinnamon and got you. Yeah, so you order like the, I don't know what they call it, the

the Maxicali tray of death or I can't think of the name. And then that means you're going to get some kind of crazy thing happened with the thing when they bring it out. And it was a little weird but then they had these flamenco dancers and they were out there do do do do do do do and I asked

I asked Tanner if he'd do one with me and he refused he wouldn't do it. Oh. Yeah. It was nice, though. Through the magic of AI, we can imagine what that would look like. Now that he's on there, I can actually, I can make this happen. We did create a little bit of him doing that. Yeah.

You know, remind me a little bit of Super Freco in Vegas at the Cosmopolin, except, well, the experiences you pay for, the table side, mozzarella. They make mozzarella table side at this place, which is incredible. Yeah. Sounds good. But aside from that, they just randomly have people who come over, or who used to come over, from the um oh what was the name of that show it was put on by the uh the people who do absinth and um have it's like the really bizarre circta soli or like the more twisted circta soli they had a show at cosmo and after they would get off stage at um the show next door they'd

come into the restaurant and do their same show in super freco so you could actually go and have dinner there and see maybe not everything that they're showing at the at the uh the show next door but a lot of it balancing acts and juggling but also like a weird um yety looking thing that has uh an actual butt and walks around the restaurant you know with this with this weird butt hanging out and you'll spend about 200 bucks for the couple less than you would have if you had gone to the actual show right i like this i like this but at least you'd get the food you know at least you'd get dinner out of it yeah you're getting dinner and you're seeing you know parts of a show that would have cost you double the night so i'm down for this exactly yeah

i would do that the the the show i believe is gone it was like a barbarella style space themed um comedy cirque to so like kind of thing it was great saw it twice and it was absolutely amazing um but they're still doing the shows at super freco so even though there's not a show next door anymore, they're still sending the people over. Spiegel World is the, Spiegel World Entertainment is the group that does all these. And I will happily, there's even a country themed one now

at Planet Hollywood, I would actually go to that even though I'm not a country guy, because it's Spiegel World and I know I'm going to be entertained. Yeah, they've shown you what they're worth, man. Yeah. Do you know, by the way, Missoula told me about this.

Cosmopolitan, speaking of the Cosmo is now pre-mixing and bottling the verbena. So all they have to do is pour it into a glass, add tequila, drop one of those little electric buttons in the top, and then serve it. And they're not, they're not hand-making it. And people can tell the difference. Like the flavor is different. It's a, there's a lot of outrage.

I assume they're still paying the same ridiculous price for it. You're still paying the same stupid price for the verbena. But it feels like, this is the thing that dragged. This is the thing that brought people to the chandelier bar is for being a cocktail. Yeah, boo, I think that's a bad move. Yeah, it's a bad move. Yeah, Cosmopholitan, you were right when you bottled up the vanilla smell and sold that separately. You were wrong when you're doing this.

Exactly, yes. So you had the food with another tadpooler of sorts. I did, yeah, with Svetlina, half of same-sex Mary. No James this trip. She came out for a conference herself for like a thing related to the DRI stuff that she does out in Vegas but while she was here we were trying to figure out a time to get together she had a super full schedule plus in addition to the social events and things going on with the event with the conference she also went and saw modest mouse and built a spill at the mission ballroom

which was probably a really cool show apparently air was doing their entire moon safari album at red rocks over the weekend too which would have been an incredible show to see. Oh, yeah. But we got her on the last day, and I said, you know what? Why don't we pick you up and take you out to dinner? And then we'll just take you right to the airport and save you from having to pay for an Uber out there. And then we get some more time to spend with you.

So we took her to a Mexican restaurant. Here they are. Have a Mexican. Yeah. We didn't have experiences. We didn't have, we also probably paid a lot less. Did you have a guy with a showing gold tooth? my freaking gold tooth there. Oh, is that what that sparkly thing is in the corner of the mouth?

Every once in a while when I smile real hard, you get to see it. And even, yeah, even when, see, I pinch and zoom on myself sometimes. I see these stupid things. Yeah, I thought there was a tortilla chip or something in the mustache. No. Although, you know, it's fair to, it's fair to assume. It's a fair assumption. Yeah. But, uh, no, that's great. I love her to death. So that's awesome. You guys got to hang out. It was so good seeing her. And so, yeah, we had our, we had our tadpool visitor weekend. And, uh, sorry, if you missed out on this year, there's always October 2026. Yeah. Good luck, everybody. Try to get in.

Tickets are hard to find. All right, we are going to do a game, and that game involves a certain feller, and that certain feller goes by a certain name, and we'll get to that in a second. But before all that, this. Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, and, eh. Mr. Brian Dunaway, are you there, sir?

Oh, hi. Oh, hi. Where are you? Oh, hi, weird microphone, dude. You're on my weird microphone? Oh, no, you're better. You're better now. Way better.

Yeah, I don't know. What happened? It sounds like you were a tazone dang it a little bit there. A little muffled. You got to move your head to breathe or whatever he used to do. What was it? Turn your head to breathe. Step away from the mic to breathe.

Chocolate rain. Yeah, you're still, by the way, that guy still looks 12. It doesn't make sense. I don't get it. Brian's here to play a game. Brian, the other Brian is going to tell us how to play this game. Who we're playing for and what we're doing today. Let's do it.

of them things. Welcome to the morning half ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brandon category and six possible answers three of which are correct. And three like setting a Mexican restaurant on fire by spreading burning cinnamon around are incorrect. Depending on how confident you feel with the category, you can provide one, two or three guesses. But if you get any of those guesses wrong, you get zero points for that round. Here's how the rest of the points work. One right gets you a point. Two right gets you three points.

And three right gets you five points. We'll add all those up at the end of the game and we'll see who wins the prize for their contestant and contestants have been pulled from members of the Tadpool who are members of our Patreon. Support our Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS to be eligible. Scott, you're playing for the single-named Justin. Hmm. Okay. So good. He only needs one name.

Brian, you're playing for somebody equally good, but she goes by two names, Cammy Davis. Oh, well, there you know. Oh, I need two names. Yes. Cammy's great. She is great. Let's get into it. And then we'll talk about prizes at the end of this.

But let's put your hands. There's nowhere near your buzzers. I was about to say, it's Monday. What are you talking to? There are no hands and no buzzers. There ain't no buzzers. Hold on. Hold on.

There ain't nothing. And there we go. Oh, excellent. All right. Okay, good. All right. All right. Question number one.

in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month which Munch I'm enjoying this day I'm going to sit down you know what this has been so enjoyable

It's fun have a seat What are you standing for I'm going to pull up over here Isn't it weird That Hispanic Heritage Month goes from September 15th to October 15th It's not even

It's not a month month It's a month in in days But it doesn't It straddles two months That is weird. Why do they do that? Whose idea was that? Maybe they're using their own calendar. Stuffed up.

Maybe. Oh, maybe. All right. Anyway, which of these things are Mexican people, places, or things? Your choices are. Cinaloa, Tikal, Peter Lorry, Pancho Villa, Pablo Escobar, and Corona Beer. Three of these things are actually Mexican. Three of them are not. Mexican P.Ts. All right. Yep. Oh, my gosh. You've given us some trickers here.

I know. Some of these, what do you mean? Mexican. I'm going to go with the weird one. Define Mexican. Try to define Mexican if you can. Probably somebody from Mexico or a thing from Mexico is how I define it. Right. Define it as that. Yes, please. People or things from Mexico. Scott's locked in and Brian's locked in.

okay let's start with when you guys both selected Pablo Escobar you drove that little motorcycle down the down the little right in that or is it my thing I don't know who you're talking about

it's on a motorcycle yeah Pablo Escobar let's just get this out of the way right now is Colombian ah shit yeah your real answer is worse

Sinaloa which of course is a region uh poncho via and corona beer tecal is guatemalan and peter lorry peter lorry is a hungarian-born but did play but played various like any time they needed some sort of ethnic ethnicity in i hovered i hovered over that corona beer just about the whole time it was really making me sweat i should have went with i thought the peter lorry thing was a plant like a trick yeah yeah i feel like peter lor was a trick yeah that's why i went with it all right that's okay we're still, you know, anyone could win at this point. Yes, exactly.

Well, let's see if you do better with British things, specifically which of these are ranks of British nobility. Your choices are, Count, Archduke, V. Con, Earl, steward, and Marquess. It seems like this game is just

nothing but to prove how simple I am. I think this is. That's all it is. It's supposed to be supposed to reflect your South Carolinian upbringing. I guess I really am a half-hats, all right? Don't feel bad. Zoe says easy.

Well, of course she does. Of course you do. I assume some of these might be, whether it's a historical one that no longer applies or not, these could still, they could still be on this list, right? Right, exactly. Like, we were, like, told not to, like, it's like, hey, you don't even want to look at these nobles. Don't even look at nobles. That's what we were talking about.

Oh, yeah, we don't like the royal. We don't like the rules. Yeah. We didn't like the king. That's why we got over here. It was the whole deal. Yeah. That's how we explain our ignorance about it now.

That's right. Yeah. Why do you Americans ever learn nothing? Well, it's because we don't like kings. I can't, I can't read anything about communism or nothing else either because that's anti-American. There you go. That's right. Yeah.

All right. Well, Dunnoy did you lock in. You did I. Brian, you all sat there. Okay. But you could see when I walked in? Oh, okay, I guess. I was checking my pronunciation of V-Cont.

Oh. V-Count. All right, let's see what you guys got here. Visa V-Count. Yes, exactly. Oh, and Marquess. What did I, Tim Watson says Marquess? Chat room, are you ripping, are you giving Brian shit?

Chatroom, knock it off. I know. Knock it off. Cut it out. All right, let's go. Let's see what you guys selected. You both selected Archduke. Let's get this one settled here.

Archduke is not The rank of British nobility One of a blood hole V-Cond Earl and Marquess Okay Who's a give me an example Like an Earl I knew But the March

Friends Fernand was an Archduke What was a who's a Marquess In the world Marquess? That's a good question Or a viscount Where was I supposed to learn this at by the way school school i know i know the same place you should have learned not to end a phrase with at no i know school in general johnson's wait a minute sorry they're i'm done i can't compete with that that was

too good the same school you were supposed to learn not to end sentences with at that's an amazing retort that was really good write that down all right all right well let's see if you do better with the last one here uh what do you think You couldn't do worse. Let's say that, right? All right. The current event, social studies, where would they teach in? Which class was it in?

I don't actually. It's a, wouldn't in my geometry class. TRPW is saying you pronounce the Q, so Marquess. Really? Okay. Dunaway, I don't know what class it would have been. And that's different than the Marquis Sad, Bonica. That's a whole different thing.

That's spelled Q-U-I-S and that is French. Yeah, but Dunaway, to answer your question, I don't know what class it would have been. History. I don't know. I don't know. That's what I'm assuming. It's like social studies because you're learning about other. Yeah.

And to be fair, I don't remember them talking very much about the, about English history really at all, or at least much of it. I don't know. I don't remember. I'm just waiting for I but accidentally end a sentence with at. I know. I'm going to tear him up. I, you certainly can.

I end sentences with prepositions all the time. So you'll, you'll have plenty of opportunity for that. But it just was a retort. I couldn't help thrown in there. Let's see how you do with question number three. All right. Forget geography in these other countries. Music.

Let's talk about music. Artists who never had a number one single on the Billboard Top 100. Okay. What did you say? Can you talk about pop music? Talk about. Pop music. Let's talk about.

Which of these artists never had a number one single on the Billboard top 100? Your choices are. Kanye West, the Backstreet Boys, MC Hammer, Bob Dylan, Queen and the Partridge family Which of these artists Never had a number one single I can't believe there are three of these

That's crazy All of these seem like they might have They seem likely, don't they? Yeah All right I'm gonna make a We're on the third question On the third question

Ooh Interesting All right I'm gonna see how this goes Okay It's now and y'all Oh he's locked in as well you guys are both locked down all right good well um you guys uh locked in on queen let's just get this

one out of the way too damn it a number one hit i think with um uh another one are you there's no way empty hammer didn't rule the top 100 for like a week yeah yeah no back street boys mc hammer and bob dillon all reach number two and other people reach number one with bob dillon's songs Peter Paul and Mary with blowing in the wind but yeah Oh crazy little thing called love Thank you Matuba that was their number one

Partridge family was in the top I think I love you so what am I so afraid of I was down What class was I supposed to learn that in? We're all going to get into drugs That's where The mom is having sex with the son Isn't that what was going on there

With those guys The Partridge family? With the Partridge family? I didn't know that. Because it wasn't a real family. Yeah, they were a fake family. Right? They were a fake family.

They were a fake family. Which one? Not Danny Bonaducci. No, no, no. The older one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The one who went solo and had a couple hits. Well, maybe it was the sister and the brother, maybe.

You're not thinking of the Brady Bunch, are you? No, that one too, Greg. No, Greg. They just went out on one date. They didn't have sex. I thought Greg and Marsha had. Anderson. No, Marsha had a thing. No? Maybe they did.

I read the book. I think they did. David Cassidy, yeah, is who I think of. I threw away all my team beat magazines. I don't, I'm not sure. You threw him away, did you? Got rid of him. How will you ever learn about what's happening with Leif Garrett if you throw those away? Oh my gosh. Let's let's

get to the tie breaker here because by golly, we have a tie of zero because I didn't give you guys an easy one, I guess. um oh you gave with some easy ones we just were on full half ass display today the uh i can't wait for the well actually is coming from this whole segment are going to be great um all right uh let's see scott i think i gave it to brian last time scott i'm going to let you choose whether you give the answer or give the higher lower choice i will do the higher lower okay so brian the olympics are

coming up in feet and inches how long is an Olympic balance beam well you humans only have two feet so okay is that your final answer two feet so their answer is i guess you could go pairs right is that a thing in the olympics oh you know the balance on the balance beam no i don't think uh yeah i'm i'm I'm thinking a more like a length as opposed to the number of feet that can be placed on a balance beam. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The balance beam. How long is the balance beam? How long is an Olympic balance beam?

Yeah. Okay. Let me see. I've seen them walk down that thing. One, two, three, four. Uh, I see, I think. I'm going to go, I'm going to say, uh, 16 feet. Okay.

All right. 16 feet is incorrect. Scott is the actual answer higher or lower than 16 feet. I'm going to say. I think it's lower. I hope I'm not thinking of the horse thing that that guy slams into. Are you thinking a little tiny feet? No, not.

16 feet is pretty long. They're long. They're not that. I mean, I would have said like 10. I'm going to say lower. 10. The actual answer is 16 feet 4.9 inches. Ryan, you were only off by like, like half a, like about the size.

of a Nadia Cominici foot is how far off you were. Not far off at all. Wow. That's amazing dude. How'd you know? Did you know that? I dated. I dated a beamwalker one time. Did you really? Beamwalker. That's a cool name. Beemwalker. That's on my

role for my next D&D campaign of beamwalker. Beamwalker. Luke Beamwalker. I love it. Congratulations then. Nice job, Brian. Yeah, I think if you would have if you would have even gotten closer, I might have just giving it to you but uh you said inches too so that was good in feet and inches yeah congratulations

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but you need to get the free edition of Destiny 2 to upgrade it with this code to the Legacy Edition. There you go. We will send this all to your Discord, I keep saying it wrong. It's going to your Patreon DMs, okay? So look for those.

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play retro episode and uh remind me what we're covering i got to play something absolutely so we're kicking off for halloween time and we're doing the clock tower it's just clock tower it's not the clock tower save the clock tower yeah clock tower is uh as uh people have a lot of feelings about that series. Yeah, Jennifer is getting chased by the Scissor Man. The Scissor Man. Yeah. And it's not as sexy as it sounds ladies. Okay?

It's a little more... And that characters, I didn't know the characters based off Jennifer Connolly. Is that right? Yeah, Jennifer Connolly. Oh, I didn't know that. Really? Yeah. I didn't know that. You know that either. All right. We're about to learn something new altogether. Come tomorrow, 4 p.m. Brian Dunnawake us our butts. He's out of here. He's out. Out. All right.

well that takes care of that good stuff everybody and uh just a reminder to folks at home there's a thread although i guess it's been pushed down a bit from post but there is a post on the patreon that says hey do you want to be eligible to win codes uh when we play these games and all you have to do is add your name to the comments now if you haven't done it and can't find it i will be putting a fresh one of those up soon just to kind of refresh it and then i have a running list of who's done it so far and so what i'm planning on doing is once we kind of get everybody who's interested eventually I will also we can reset and go back to the top and do those people again so cool so if you're concerned that you did it once and you'll never be in the contention again the good news is

that's not true you'll definitely be in again but don't flood the comments people no please be there or be square right I'm going to send a note to Nicole make sure she's on her way okay sounds good she usually uh yeah online by now you come in healthy I know she said her latest I NVG was, uh, kicking her butt. Yeah. If she's not around, obviously, we've got stuff we can do. But I want to make sure that we give her ample window here. Um, she saw something that's interesting to me, even though I know nothing about the subject.

Yeah. I know. That looks really interesting to me too. So I hope she does hop on here and talk about it. But, um, it's weird that it's prime video Netflix video on demand. What does that mean? I guess I get on Netflix, but I, I can buy it on Prime Video.

Is that what that means? Maybe. That's interesting. All right. It's not used to that with our stuff. Usually Prime and Netflix are like, no. We're sick. We don't play that game.

All right. Well, what we'll do is get started. And she rolls in. We'll pull her in. All right, everybody. Here it comes. Get ready. Well, what do you recommend?

It is time for recommendals here on the program where we recommend stuff we have seen on streaming services and then we share them with you at home. Sometimes it's movies, sometimes it's TVs. A lot of times for me it's documentaries. Turns out. Apparently it was we discovered.

Yeah. And you'll hear it again today, I think. But anyway, that's what we do here. It's a lot of fun. Nicole should join us, but let's start with Brian because he always starts. Brian, what do we got today? Well, this is a series that

popped up on Netflix less than two weeks ago. And when I saw the cast and I saw the style, I said, you know what? This is something I want to see. And I really, really, T and I both really enjoyed this. So you get to hear the two A-list actors chatting here as brothers. Here we go. I got it, Tom.

You want some money, right? Yeah. It makes me sick to ask. How much? I know five. Ten. Grand. I don't know. Do I think, Grant? Yeah, grand. I'm not looking for...

Yes, please. I'm not going to fucking beg you, Jake. My little fucking brother. How long can you stay? Because we got money coming in from Mom's house. Is that right? What do you do? You sell it? I haven't closed it yet, but I accepted an offer. I would have told you. I did. I know exactly where the fuck you were.

Very nice. What did you get? 925. But with Mom's mortgage and... we're going to clear like 300 for the whole house yeah it was a lien on it remember

you took out a loan his mom's house is collateral he didn't remember come on I remember I thought I could pay it back you know you still in a restaurant you remember that

you want to get into that now sure I got time you want to get into that And Jude Law does such a great American accent. He does. Yeah, he's really, really good. That is Jude Law and Justin Bateman with a new show, a limited series called Black Rabbit. This is a one season, one and done kind of thing.

And it's your typical kind of commit a crime, do something more to cover it up that causes more problems that then spirals into bigger problems. very, you know, very breaking bad, actually very Ozark, which doesn't surprise me. Obviously, you've got the Jason Bateman thing here, but you've also got Laura Linney, who directed a couple episodes. Yeah. So the two of them got to work together again. They even go so far as the opening animation for the show features kind of like Ozark did, where you get the little symbols of things you're going to see in that episode. you remember that oh yeah yeah you'd get that yeah i loved that that was awesome it was a cool thing because it then acted like a little bit of a oh i wonder how a stapler is going to work its way

into this uh episode or a subway train or whatever right um this is uh far in my opinion far better than the 67 percent well it's it's it's close but i'd say it's it's definitely better than the 67% that Rotten Tomatoes has. I'd put it at three quarters, like 75%. The thing I would ding it for is that there are some aspects of it that are a little bit tropey, but man, the acting from Jason Bain and Jude Law is fantastic. There's actually some great side actors or additional people in this thing that are really, really good. Let's see. Abby Lee. Just trying to pull up a list here. Do I know that name?

You might know Abby Lee. Like there were a few people who's like, oh yeah, she's super familiar. How do I know her? Oh. She's the Mad Fury Road, Dag girl. Oh, there you go. That's why I know her. She was the dad. She's the one that goes, slinger. You know, the way, she's like the weird, creepy, blonde weirdo one in that movie. Anyway. Okay. I love her. Not one of the wives. No, she is one of the wives. She's one of the wives, but she's just a psycho in that.

Yeah. Oh, Cleopatra Coleman. Let's talk about her because you do know her from The Last Man on Earth. Oh, just heard from Nicole. She texted. She's currently driving Mateo to school, but she could try to join via phone. Yeah, she's in there. I have her muted at the moment because you were in the middle of talking.

I didn't want to. Oh, thank you. Yeah. Yeah. So Cleopatra Coleman, you remember from last month on. Last Man on Earth. She's just really, really strikingly beautiful actress from that. And she's really good in this.

She's another one, I think, who's, you know, Australian but does an American accent really, really well. Man, the Australians. What are they doing? Yeah. Special people. Who else is in this thing that you might know? Let's just talk about the story.

It's centers on this restaurant called the Black Rabbit, which the two brothers jointly opened. And then some things happened to kind of separate the two. And Jason Bateman's character went off to, I call him Justin Bateman earlier. Jason Bateman ran off to. I do this all the time because I think of him as Justine. Yeah. I do it all the time. Justin and Justine.

It's annoying. But he went off to Reno and he came back as you heard in that clip looking for a little bit of help. It's good. It's really good. The audience score way higher, by the way, than the critical score. I'd say the audience score is probably right about it, 82%. Yeah, and that's fair where you'd put it. That's about where I'd put it.

Yeah. Fair enough. I want to see this. So on my list. You should. It's really, really good. Kim would love it too. It's dark.

It's gritty. And it's even though it's food focus, restaurant focus, it's not like the bear where you're like drooling over. The food looks great, but the food is. not a focus in this thing. Okay. It's definitely the interplay between these two brothers. There you have it. Available now on Netflix in its fullness. This is all they're doing,

right? No other seasons. No other seasons. This is a one-off. This is a one-off. This is and it's loosely based on a place called the spotted pig, if you've heard of the story about the spotted pig in Manhattan,

a place that some bad things happened there. And... Oh, maybe I could find a documentary about that. Maybe you could actually, but there is. All right, watch for future recommendals on that. Nicole is now joining us from the car. Hi, Nicole. How are you?

Can you hear me? We sure can. Yeah. Oh, hey, Mateo, say hi. Hi, Scott. Hey, buddy. What's going on? You were really, you were, oh yeah, Brian's here too. Don't forget Brian. Hey, Mattow.

You were here. We had you on Friday playing games. That was super fun. You should do that every week or every month. Yeah. I agree. A great time playing with you. He had just had his IVIG, so he had no school that day.

So it was a real treat for him. Good. It was a treat for us, too. Yeah, he's always welcome. Anytime he wants to, and his mom, too. Even though sometimes I can, you guys have the same laugh, and it's like, oh, crap, who am I talking about? Yeah. She's a hot lot.

Don't let her on. Well, Nicole, it's good to have you here. Did you want me to play this clip for the thing you sent me? You have anything to say about it? I'm driving my tail off. Bye, buddy. Have a good day. See you, bud.

Have fun. Go learn stuff. Stay in school, kids. Yeah, don't lock anyone in a locker. All right. Bye, and bye, Scott. I'm going to pull over. Bye.

Teenagers. Well, she pulled over, but I'll bet that means she turned her radio off so her speaker's not working. And right now she is fumbling. Oh, there she is. Oh, there we go. Hello. I had a call. A call came through.

I'm on my phone. Oh, gotcha. Okay. This clean feed really needs to work out their, uh, their phone part of this. Well, it's not their, it's not their thing. It's the Servari browser. The, it lets calls come in unless you block them. So it's not much you can do about it.

Yeah. Is there is there? Yeah. You can probably, you can, I mean, you can put your phone on silent, but you probably don't want to do that because maybe. Oh, yeah. Do not, do not disturb. Yeah. Yeah.

Because what if the kids call you? They got problems, you know. they don't the kids don't have phones oh well then it never mind forget it i you i'd put your phone on do not disturb all day every day that'd be yeah heck yeah anyway sorry you have to hear from mark yeah i've forgotten i've put it on and i'm like oh crap there's like 10 messages waiting for me that's all good so this is a documentary on netflix um what's this i did i watched it during my ivy i and it was wonderful. I loved it.

I had no idea that this place existed in California. It's a fascinating story. Even though I myself am not a musician, I grew up with music in the house. My dad played guitar. He taught himself, I think, at 21. Oh, wow. I have his old acoustic guitar,

and my brother has his electric guitar. And I just, music has always been in my life. And it was funny watching the documentary. I was just, I don't know, I just got pangs of, aw, this is, I love this. So go ahead, play the document,

the clip. It's just part of the trailer. I kind of brought it in so it wouldn't give away the title. All right, no worries. Here you go. Let's see if I remember the title. All right.

It's going to be the fun part. If not, I have it up, so we can definitely refer to it. All right, here we go. Throughout the story's history, we've had some of the most iconic guitar players in the world come through from George Harrison to Bob Dylan to Tom Petty. All of the rock legends shop at Norms, including guitarist Eddie Van Halen. You walk in here and there's a spell that comes over you. Norm is not just guitar collecting. It's Hollywood.

It's music. It's TV and film. Everything from the last waltz to back to the future. spinal tap played in and all you cherished them i learned about the shot from a shirt like even the shirt was interesting wow guitars the guitar guitars y'all it's not a thing i think of very often but that trailer has me intrigued so tell us about it oh my god well and all right so this is norman's vintage guitar norman's rare guitars documentary it's called that was mark oh is mark Leave me alone.

Oh, he's trying to call you. Mark, he's called Norman's Rare Guitar's Documentary is the full title. Norman's Rare Guitar's. Now, Norman has a YouTube channel as well. So, like he says, he has some of the most famous musicians, guitar players, that come into his store because he kind of created the vintage market of guitars. And because as you watch this, you're just like, holy crap, look at all these guitars. And then he takes you to the back room.

And then there's more guitars. And then he has a storage unit. Oh, wow. I mean, it's insane. and he he supplied I think the the amp that goes to 11 in Swindle's up

there's a whole scene in the trailer where he's talking to those guys Oh that's cool And the people that they interview Like I didn't know Kiefer Sutherland Was a guitar player He had no idea Nope you'll find out

There's a ton of actors That talk and I'm like I didn't know that he played Yeah the list on here Just a few names there's Jeff Daniels. These are just actors. Jeff Daniels, Jeff Garland, John Oates, obviously, in music. Let's see. Sean Stockman. Oh, he might be a, sorry, he's a boys to men guy. Anyway, Frank Stallone's in this thing. Sweet. Oh, wow. Yeah. So post Malone, he has, so because he has his own YouTube channel, he records new people that are looking at a guitar, because this is like the place to go. in California. Yeah.

If you want a good guitar. Okay, so we had a blip. We had a glitch. If you're watching this video, well then good on you. We had a blip. And as a result, and by blip,

I mean, we had another brownout. I've had two of these in the last couple of days. It's all been since the big storm and some of the flooding, and I think that's got something to do with it. ISPs won't come back online.

So, uh, something wrong with the relay stations, with the backbone, No, all I know is I have two redundant ISPs and neither are working. So, you're going to hear my recommendal. What you just heard there was Nicole's recommendal about Norman's Rare Guitar's Documentary. Okay, go look it up.

It's on Netflix and Tooby, for some reason. Tubey has it. All right. Now I'll tell you what mine is. Here's my, this is so weird and not have everyone here for this. But here's mine. You're ready? Here you go.

Enjoy. How do I present this with, any class. I think we're past that, Charlie. We're past that, yeah. When you got a lot of shame about a lot of stuff, shame is suffocating. I lit the fuse, you know, and my life turns into everything it wasn't supposed to be. There's only one person alive that has the answers to so many people's questions about me.

Okay, that is the documentary AK. K.A. Charlie Sheen. This is on Netflix. Also, we got a lot of Netflix today, turns out. And this is a documentary I wasn't even planning on watching because I was like not that interested in seeing the train wreck that is Charlie Sheen. What I didn't know is that he's been in recovery for the last couple of years and he agreed to do this documentary only if they let him just let it all out. And everyone else involved just gets to just dump big truth wads on the table. And that's kind of what it is. there are two parts to it and so it's fairly long but you hear from a lot of people

like Sean Penn is in this thing they're old friends from way back Sean Penn is I don't know what to call him in this he's a great actor but he's even a better person to just like ask questions of in a documentary format

kind of blew my mind anyway stuff he would say but John Cryer's in this talks a lot about his time with Charlie on the set of two and a half men Denise Richards is his ex-wife, his current wife, or what would have been his current wife, or third ex-wife,

Brooke Mueller, I think, is her name. She's also in heavy, heavy rehab right now for serious drug addiction. Chris Tucker's in this thing. All these famous faces and people, with the exception of Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen, and it's not that they don't want to be in it, or they're not this, they're not getting along with Charlie or something. They just don't want the exposure or don't want to get into the documentary. The R however featured pretty heavily in his thing. I learned a couple things. Emilio Estabez is actually the youngest brother, or excuse me, the middle brother and Charlie Sheen's the youngest brother. I thought it was the other way around. And they have an older older brother named Ramon Estabez, who is the oldest. And so that's

how it goes. It goes him, Emilio, and then a couple years later, you have Charlie. And it gets into everything you can think of all of the eras of controversy with him, including where he got started, where things got messy, kind of the frenzy made and lost along the way, all the legal trouble, all of it, the whole thing. And it's very raw. And I came away, glad I'd seen it. Oh, Heidi Fleiss is in this, because remember famously, her whole thing got busted up because of his involvement with her, uh, her escort service. So there's a lot of, there's a lot of stuff from her. She's, I think she might be crazy now. She still is in that weird house with like 100 birds and stuff.

Anyway, I found it. Oh, Chuck Lurie's in this. I found this thing really hard to look away from. All right. I'm not here to tell you that this is redemptive for Charlie Shane. It's certainly a step in the right direction. But that's a personal thing. And it's him and he's going through it.

Where this is interesting is just the face of addiction and self-sabotage, a built-in sense that you're never worth any of the cool stuff that's happening to you. So even while the coolest things are happening to you, even while you're the highest paid actor on television, you still have the capacity to bring it all down because you're just not sure that you're worthy of any of it. That's kind of the lesson, the big takeaway. You will also walk away understanding and believing in your heart of hearts that Martin Sheen is a saint. And I don't know how much people know how much involvement he had with any of this, but that dude was there every step of the way to try to keep Charlie from burning out all the way till now, like constant.

And it's a really interesting portrait of him as a father dealing with his, you know, his freaking out of control son. It's really good. I would recommend it. It's on Netflix, two parts, lots of swears and stuff. So, you know, maybe not for the kids. but if you want a very raw, honest portrayal of things or telling of that story from lots of perspectives and angles, not just Charlie Sheens, the end of that clip even said, the only one

person knows all the terrible stuff I've done. At that point in the documentary, it actually flashes to all of these other people, quick shots of each of them. And you're like, oh, we're going to get pieces to this puzzle, even, you know, you know, Charlie can't exactly fill. so anyway highly recommend it it's on netflix it's available now it is called a k a charlie Shane all right now that's going to do it for us now this will do it for the video portion of this show because uh Brian Brian would normally be doing a song right now we'd be saying goodbye to Nicole and Brian would be recommending a song and then I would be putting it in post

and we don't do that on YouTube anyway so you're not going to see that here uh you will hear it in the audio version. If you're either on Patreon or the public podcast version of the show, you're all, you're all good to go over there. But that is going to do it. Huge thanks, everybody. Sorry about the weirdness. I promise that this shouldn't be an issue moving forward as long as my ISPs get their poop in order after this weird glitch. If I could have three ISPs, I'd do it for you. I would, but I can't. All right, today's request comes to us from let me pull it up here Mike Bicholik

Mike said my birthday was October 3rd I know this is late notice I'm gonna be wait for it 59 oh my god after hearing the cover of Defying Gravity

I'm now really enjoying the band Mariana's Trench so any cover from them would be great love the show though from the snack master yeah Mike is fantastic I was getting the Scott and I

tons of snacks this is a cover they do a lot of covers in concert, a lot of live stuff, but they haven't released a ton of stuff. This one is a release, and they actually did it a cappella style. This is their cover of Billy Joles, and so it goes, recorded and released

on the 2010 special edition of Masterpiece Theater, one of their albums, and it's really, really good. Here is Mariana's Trench, and so it goes. In every heart, there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong To heal the wounds from lovers past Until a new one comes along I spoke to you in cautious tones You answered me with no pretence

And still I feel I said too much My silence is my self-defense And this is why my eyes are closed, it's just as well for all I've seen. And so it goes, and so it goes, and you're the only one who knows. So I would choose to be with you As if the choice were mine to make But you can make decisions too

And you can have this hard to break And so it goes. And so it goes. And you're the only one. And you're the only one. Who knows? Don't we want our country singers with the hard, raised country background to have their issues, you know? It gives them content. It gives them believability. It gives them cred. Right.

It's kind of like, it's country creed. Yeah, it's like, why do you take Eminem seriously as a rapper? Because the guy has got some serious cultural tie to his story in his life. at eight mile man he lived in Detroit and had those rap battles with his mother spaghetti on his shirt already right and that girl that played what's her name on King of the Hill right all that

also why vanilla ice can't be taken seriously but why you know you take NWA seriously or whatever it says they've got this connection to the culture behind the music and I feel like he's that in country and I don't like country really that's a funny thing I don't like the Brooks and Dunn style

I'm honky talk this ain't a suckin the cheese or whatever I'm not any of that 20 bucks to somebody who actually creates a song called Suckin the Cheese and Honky Tonk this and Sucking the Cheese. Three weeks later. A country singer, an actual country singer, somebody who produces country albums. Let's call him Big Steve, because that's his name. Okay.

You're going to come up with some other country sounding name, but all right. That's pretty good. He literally says, His email was inspirational. Like he says, it's as if we spoke directly to him when we asked somebody to make a country song out of the phrase, honky tonk this and suckin the cheese. I don't even remember where they came up. It was something we just said in passing and you had asked. You were the one that actually said, hey, somebody make that song.

Yeah. But this is Big Steve with sucking the cheese. I'm honky tonk this and a sucking the cheese. Well, my dog has syphilis, and so does my wife. Strangely, I don't, and that doesn't seem right. My sister chains a lock on her bedroom door, and my next door neighbor won't see me no more. You might call it from a skewed key.

I can't help, but I'm a single-in-cham. Well, my daddy died when I was just 14, got his torso caught in a threshing machine. Mama loved me so, but she was prone to meanness. She died one night when she fell off daddy's track. The last advice she gave before her so went free was, don't ever lick a turd, and don't be sucking the cheese. To suck in the cheese What's that mean?

It's a metaphor for my suffering And the complex relationships in my life That I can't get right No matter how I try Jesus and Oprah Won't you help me please I don't want to spend my life Just a shrug in the cheese

I'm a full-grown man with a pickup truck, a huge bill buckle, and a dog named the shirt. I can do my own taxes online for free, but still I'm a sucking cheese. All sucking cheese, what's that mean? It's a metaphor for my suffering and the complex relationships in my life that I can't get right no matter how I try. Jesus is an over, won't you help me please? I don't want to spend my life just to say it's cheese. Oh Brian and Scott, I'm down on my knees. I don't want to spend my life just a second to change.

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