The Morning Stream - TMS 2935: Moscow Donkey

Episode Date: December 15, 2025

Gentleman's Club... Now With Women! A Lot Of Dude Stuff. Attorney Genital. Protect Jed and Melva at ALL COSTS! Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti. Two Brians and a Frankenberg! Mary Steamburger. Wobbly Polygons. Melva, you got any cash? The Ham and Cheese operas. It's Gary Cole, Man! The Gap's Got Gaps w Brian Dunaway. Christmas In Your Face. Slit Ends. Questionable TV in the bedroom with Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Never eat the chicken bones. Just don't do it. You will regret it. But you will have a great time if you can support us at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, gentlemen's club now with women.

A lot of dude stuff. Attorney genital. Protect Jen Melva at all costs. Cozy Van Tuti fruity. Two brines and a Frankenberg. Mary Steamburger. Wobbly Polygon. Melva, you got any cash?

The ham and cheese operas. It's Gary Cole, man. The Gaps got gaps. With Brian Dunaway. Christmas in your first. face. Slid ends. Questionable TV in the bedroom with Nicole and more on this episode of the morning stream. I didn't ask to be photographed. What did you say? Your face was asking. That's why I took the photo. The morning stream. F. Farr ball.

Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream. You may be familiar with it if you're here. If you're first time or I hope you enjoy your first time. I don't know. I'm Scott. That's Brian. Who enjoyed their first time? I know. I don't even know what their first. You know, when people talk about their first time, like the big first time. The big first time. The first time that comes up when people talk about their first time. Yeah. The first time that comes up when people talk. about their first time. I'm the most boring person in the room with those stories because my first time was my wedding night. Yeah, your wedding night. Yeah.

And that's boring to people, I think. It's just so sweet. They want some kind of like, you know, sordid tale of botchery of like, uh, yeah, I just can't give it. I just can't give it. In fact, I was at a Christmas party this weekend that is a gentleman's club. Oh, really? Women can come.

It's not like it's restricted. It's not a gent. gentlemen's like not a gentleman's club in the in the way that like a tables with poles in the center no no none of that club that a club made for gentlemen like a no girls allowed kind of thing would have been 20 years ago yeah that's a great way of putting it and it's about that old funny enough but it's uh the whole thing is very dark in there but also very cool lots of antiques but it's all like dude shit like yeah we have a smoking room and big leather chairs for Or cigars. Oh, big time. And this guy's a big music nerd. So he has this stack of old 45s that he uses for drink coasters. That's cool.

And then the bar, I don't know if the music's any good. I'm not sure. I'm okay with that. I mean, who knows what the bands are. I didn't even look. But they're all, you know, they're all bang that. Would you be okay with somebody using like old NES games for ice scrapers? I mean, if they didn't, if they didn't work and we're just, you know, crap, maybe.

but and I couldn't tell obviously these aren't going to play well if somebody tried to play him but he has a whole stack of them they're all meant for yeah just take it out and do whatever behind glass he has the actual suit worn by the first

dude that did the lone ranger back in the 40s or whatever 30s he's got what else do you have there he has a oh his bar so they got a full bar big old bar and the thing behind it you know the big wooden thing with all the bottles on it

and all that. Yeah. That thing was built in the 1800s, and he had it move there. It's like a big antique freak. So it was really cool. All this stuff was really neat, but they have this wall where famous people come and then they'll ride on the wall before they leave. Oh, cool.

Okay. And it's messages like there's one from, you know, Carl Malone had a membership there. And most of the jazz guys did. And then there's always, you know, some wrestlers up there, whatever. A lot of dude stuff again. But then right in the middle of this thing, down low. I put a picture up on line of it is the signature of

and I confirmed this I wasn't sure at the time I thought it really is hers okay so it was before her current post but for some a few reason she was here the current attorney general of the United States

Pam Bondi signed this wall and I just thought that was so freaking weird but anyway the whole point when they have a barber built in so you're getting your you get your haircuts and your mustache trims right

And one of those probably like straight razor shoes. Yeah. And it was and it's this ancient building right in the center of town. It's very cool if you're into all that, right? And I think the base membership's like 400 bucks a month if you want the fancy penthouse access, all this stuff. But anyway, the whole point, the reason I'm bringing this up is I got, I just had this vibe that there's a room somewhere that I can't see. With a dentist chair and faces on the wall. Yeah. Some kind of weird shit room. Yeah. Yeah. And the guy, the dude that owns it, super friendly. It's nice guy. He's got three kids. He just seems like a sweet dude. Everybody there seems fine. But I just could not get past this notion I had in my head that there is a hidden room here. And I'm going to maybe try to find it. Yeah. And I tried and I failed. I couldn't find it. Did you sneak off like? Yeah. Like I was lost. Like, oh, I got turned around.

Yeah. And go down. a hallway you try every door yeah their bathroom i i you know that that thing had a weird door in it that went somewhere else so i thought maybe that might have been it but it was locked so i couldn't go in there so i don't so uh so great so now that you've been there guess what you're probably on a list now that's how it feels post malone goes there for example he shows up there all the time smoke cigars drinks at the bar like they're really oh who'd they have play um was it not blind melon one of these bands you would know it i can't think of it but the band play he'll get these like big shop bands to come and show up in this place and it's not like gigantic i think it

can hold like 300 people or something but wow it's neat intimate setting for that that's cool yeah it was really cool he he knows kim's brother richard who's throwing the party for his company and so that's the reason it was all happening but anyway and we got rnr barbecue for the catering and it was very good that's cool but again what a dude choice on the food even you know barbecue right exactly yes it's not going to be like uh oh petipar's and uh and cucumber sandwiches in a place like that no it's a stacks of like turkey and you know you're having barbecue and if you get sauce on one of the chairs we're going to kill you yeah that's the other thing is all the furniture i'm scared to do anything with sure i had a moscow mule uh what's that called

when they make it a virgin i don't know what they call it anyway it was a non-alcohol I like the flavor of those. Moscow donkey. I guess so. I don't know. But I... I bet it tasted like ass. I was just...

Isn't that just a ginger ale? A Moscow mule version? You know, it kind of is? Because it is really just heavy ginger ale. It's lime and ginger ale. Yeah. I mean, basically it's ginger ale vodka and lime. Yeah.

Oh, and they have a shoe shine place there. I forget to tell you that. You can get your shoes shined. Of course. It's so duty. Everything's duty. But apparently. like it's a lot of millionaires and people like that

that have memberships there and apparently they're the worst tippers I believe it yeah I believe it just you know Ubering I get people from all walks of life and I will tell you the people who tip the best are the people on the boots on the ground kind of people the people working

fast food the people who are working at Walmart the people who are you know city workers things like that and if I get some Hoy Polloi people in suits who are going to, you know, a fancy shinde get the convention center, usually no tip. Yeah. Why is that, is that why they have all their money? They hoard it and they don't give a dime to anybody. Is that why? Yeah, what, you know, I don't like it. But still, it's, you know, no way to live.

If I was there and I had that kind of expendable cash, let's say I'm a, like, Nick worked for a while in this, it's called Max Place. It's not a hidden thing. Nick worked there for a little while in the shoe shine thing. This is years ago. And the tips were terrible. And they had, this guy came in who sat and had Nick do his fancy $600 shoes while he sat there, complained to Nick told this big story about how he just had to pay $8 million more in taxes than he wanted. So a guy paying $8 million in taxes is already somebody who's getting massive tax breaks for being a rich guy. And he's still paying that. And then at the end he gave Nick $2.

Two ones. And I'm like, if I would, I like to think that. but I was suddenly flushed with cash like that. I'd be like, here's 200 bucks for your trouble. You know? Right, right, exactly. Because that's the kind of money you have at that point. Totally.

Now, Saturday I hopped in the Uber. Here's a comparison. Saturday hopped in the Uber. Ended up picking up a young, not young, an old couple downtown. And this is like, this is the age where you're just not sure what you need to do for the Uber. So he, you know, as soon as I accept the. ride. And I'm dropping somebody else off in the process. I'm about, um, a block away from the

destination. And I'm dropping them off. And all of a sudden I get, uh, call from the next Uber ride. Hi. This is Jed. Um, you're, you're going to be our Uber driver. I'm like, yep, he says, all right. Well, we're at the hotel. And, uh, I guess we'll wait outside for you. I'm like, yep, uh, you'll see my car on your phone. You'll see what my car pulls up. Okay then. All right. Well, uh, we'll see you shortly i love jad it's like he's like he's talking to his son who's going to pick him up and take him to the airport yeah so i love them up they're older couple yeah um she immediately hops in the back and he hops in the front seat which is like all right yeah the older the older the passenger the more likely they're just going to get right in the front seat they don't want the

back and you're cool with that right you just i'm totally fine with that yeah i had my jacket there but i threw my jacket over next to me yeah and uh he's like yeah you know just came in from montana and we're here and you see the Broncos tomorrow. What's the best way for us to get from our hotel to the Bronco Stadium? Like, well, because the guy behind the desk told us not to do Uber.

And I'm like, well, yeah, you probably don't want to because where we have to drop you off, it's a long walk to the stadium. So you're best off actually taking Uber to light rail and then taking light rail because it drops you off right in front of the stadium. Oh, sure. Okay, then.

All right. That's probably what we're going to do. And it was a. a $4 right, or I got paid $4. He probably paid $8 something for it. And Melva, do you, I can't remember her name, but Melva, do you have cash? All I have is a $20.

She's like, yep, what do you want, Jed? Two-fives. Okay, here you go. And she hands him $2.5. And he hands them to me. He says, all right, thank you, sir. And thanks for the ride. Do I call you back to get a ride back from here?

Nope, you'll just do Uber and you'll get somebody. maybe me but probably not i love these people i love them they i they were the best rides of the day just absolutely adorable and and here you go five dollar like four dollar 50 cent ride for me right he tips me 10 bucks you know he understands he understands exactly he is boots on the ground jed and melva that's great melva melva it was something like melva it was like it was i was i was thinking of myself that's a name you don't hear anymore no i i love hearing those i feel like those are about to come around to where the ironic millennial names yeah yeah i feel like we're gonna get those again yeah and that's fine go ahead and name your kid whatever you want that's your

prerogative people yeah maybe don't do like fruits or flower names and stuff like that don't be right no no no 60s or you know go classic like albert yeah albert doing albert yeah's our new baby boy his name is albert i like it albert yeah um all right guys done away is in the wings yes you know him you love him he's flapping well maybe he just has his own wings maybe you just love him maybe we don't maybe people don't know him we know him but we know this he's going to be a part of the game so we're doing it right now yes that's right come with me won't you and welcome brian done away to the show hello brian no hi's got and brian hey man what's going on how are you now you

you know just end of the year of stuff getting ready. Hey did you Christmas time? Did you uh, we you and I upgraded our stream decks, not steam decks? Oh, did you update you? Well, I got the new one. I ordered it while you and I were talking and it was on sale

so it was like kind of, my other one shortened out the cable like you were saying the cable sometimes I had to wiggle this. Yeah, which is built in. Dumbest, dumbest idea ever. Why, who makes the thing now where the cable is built into the unit? That's the good news is the new. The new one is separate cable separate cables you take it out of there yeah the right the right thing i haven't

had time to hook it up yet but i was i was concerned i was concerned okay the buttons are not softer they're less um resistant so that's oh good that's good that's good yeah just tap tap yeah anyway sorry don't know oh no that's okay no i was it's worse at first i was concerned because i think 15 keys is the one we have yeah um and then i was like oh this new one's only got like eight keys but it's got a slide bar and it's got four volume controls or I guess jog dials is what they really are and I started doing the math and I'm like well actually the way this is set up I can put more things on here because you've got a touchscreen thing where you can slide so I can get rid of the left and rights on my little on my usual that to put in there there's two buttons back and forth I see yeah between the pages or whatever they call it and for like

I used to keep ones for mute on mic and stuff on the slide bar if you put the volume in there if you touch the slide bar it'll toggle mute on off and the same of the lights too so there's a whole bunch of stuff it's actually like having in a different way of this really having more functionality even though it's got fewer buttons is that the one you end up getting it then did you order yeah yeah i got the plus still got oh nice you have to let me know what you think of it i just i couldn't see in much need for the knobs because my mixer's already kind of doing all that so you're kind of a knob yeah i'm kind of a knob a little bit of a Well, but see, it's not just a mixer because also my light control and my temperature control on my lights,

because I have all Elgado key lights so I can dial it up on one side. I can make myself warm on one side. Oh, that's true. Yeah, they're less binary that way. You can have some analogs, you know, some granularity, as the kids say today. Bring it up, bring it down. That's right, baby. Slap it up, slap it down.

I know I'm talking about. Oh, yeah. Well, I'm glad you're here. Brian, Ibbott has got the keys to this car. Brian, let's start it up and tell folks what we're doing. Welcome to the morning half-asses, a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers. I'll give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct. And three, like a $2 tip on some shining of $600 shoes is incorrect.

Depending on how confident you feel with a category can provide one, two, or three guesses. But if you get any of those guesses wrong, you get zero points for that round. Get one right, get a point. Get two, right, get three points. I don't know, I'm saying like that. Get three right, gets you five points. We're going to add all those points up at the end of the game. And you're going to win prizes for some contestants that are right here.

No, just kidding. We've made them up. No, just kidding about that. We've pulled them from Patreon. Scott, you're going to be playing for Albert Meher or Maher. Ooh, there's an old that. There's an Albert, but there's an Albert, yeah. And, Brian, you're going to be playing for Kavine Choo.

Kveen Chah? Kvine Chah. Maybe it's Chah. Yeah. Okay. We're sorry. We are white men and we don't know. Is it Kveen?

Chah? Kvine Chah? I don't know. Yeah, who knows? We know him, though. And he's a good man. He's a good. He's a solid egg.

No, what is the phrase? He's a good egg. He's a solid egg. He's a solid gold egg, that guy. You're a solid egg. He's a poached. Anyway, all right, let's get to it. Question number one.

This is, boy, right up your alley. Um, the, what are called the ABC operas that the Met performs more than any other. So when you go to the metropolitan, uh, what, you know, which of the, the ham and cheese operas are you most likely to see? Your choices are, Laboam, Ada, Carmen, or I'm sorry, Aida, Carmen, the barber of Seville, Kozifantuti, and Ariadne of Nexos. Cozy von Fon-Tuti. The Cozy Fon-Tutti. the Mozart very cozy

Mozart that inspired the squeeze album Cozy Fun Tootie Fruity Tootie fruity I don't know That's funny I just watch that Seinfeld episode

where the Kramer could only get Tutti fruity from that guy It was trying to It's a whole thing With Bet Midler This whole thing Anyway

Oh God Yeah I forgot about that I don't know Any of this shit Yeah This is why I'm putting it first This is your Let's guess

I knew three It's awesome Oh you don't Don't. My wheelhouse. Liar. You're a liar. I've been,

what are you talking about? You don't know what this is anymore than I know what this is. No. All right. Of course you do. All right. I believe, you know what? You're in-depth knowledge of theater suddenly, I believe you.

I believe you now. I believe you. You just, do you not list to anything I talk about? You know, Loboam is the, the play that inspired, or the musical that inspired Rent. Rent is basically the, the American version of La Boem. Iida is the one with Elton John and Tim Rice. I've already made my...

Yeah, he's just giving us some info. Yeah, because you guys are both locked in, and you both locked in on the wrong side. Okay, okay, good, good, good, that's why. I see why we were going down that path. I don't know, I don't know none of these. I know. Carmen, Aida, and La Boeem were the three that you're,

I guess, more likely to see at the Met than any of the other ones. what is uh la boem is the boemian what's a bohemian is that the bohemians probably like it's it's um so rent is like the the greenwich villa or uh no greenwich village it's like a village in new york um an apartment building and it's where all the the bohemian the artists live oh okay and so la boem is the original french version of that wonder how soon i would fall asleep in la boem probably pretty quick you probably would fall asleep pretty quickly in any of these i think yeah barbara seville's interesting i just know that one from the bugs bunny that was the only one that i recognized i was like well i i know that one so that one's a real thing at least pretty good yeah

all right yep and levibeham yes is a song in red when they talk when they when they kind of name check famous bohemian artists like uh or bohemian bohemians like neruda or they they name check people that bohemians like philosophers and activists and things like that. I know you said Naruto, but I'm going to assume that you meant Naruto, and I like that. And running with his arms behind him like that. That's what I thought too.

Yeah. I mean, you'd be forgiven for. And bohemian. For thinking that. All right. All right. Well, let's get to old Russian literature. Just kidding.

Just kidding. How about Australian bands? Which of these are actual Australian bands? Your choices are, Kajagugu, the hives, tame impala, split ends, which, sorry, folks, I put Slid Ends, Savage Garden and Midnight Oil. Three of these are Australian bands. Three of them are not. Oh. Um, slid ends.

Come on. I mean, you know. Yeah, I know L.C. Knight. I put Slid ends, okay? Sometimes I don't proofread these, all right? It's easy to do. Who are you talking to? I'm talking to Elsie Knight in the chat room

who gave me an 11 question mark Slidens. Yeah, that's a good one. All right, I knew one immediately. I think I even clicked it before Brian finished. But the others, I have no idea. So, man, I'm scared about my other choice. We'll see.

All right. Okay. What do you got, Donaway? All right. He finally settled. He was really wrestling with one of them and decided not to. It was fun watching him like decide.

Oh, uh, uh, let's get to the easy one that, yeah, you guys both knew right off the bat. Midnight oil, of course. That time has come. Yes. That is the most Australian of Australian acts. It really is. Exactly. Yeah, they may as well be war boys, those guys, for real.

Yeah. When all your songs are about Australia and the Aborigines and the plight of the, yes, exactly. So, of course, midnight oil. Let's get to, um, the other one. that done away chose a savage garden and you you guys know these uh um you know these guys from uh god i'm never going to be able to sing the lyrics fast but it's a did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did mailed it um did i did nail it perfectly i've even tried to get the course like you know the chorus is pretty boring too um they also had that

uh uh uh uh sappy song uh my god i my my my lyric for Savage Garden have gone just completely out of my head. Anyway, yeah. And these are all bands. Yes, the one of those cherry cola. That's the one, exactly. Oh, okay. I love Tamed Impala, but where are they

from? I can't recall. I'll tell you in a second. Savage Garden is indeed from Australia. Very good. Down under. Scott, you chose Khashagugu with the lead singer LaMalle, who is too shy, shy. Hush, Hush, I do I. Yeah.

Those guys are from the U.K. Tame Impala would have been the correct third guess, and I watched Brian Dudely select it and deselect it, select it, and select it. I felt like I knew that, but I was like, am I misremembering that? By the way, if you don't listen to Tame Impala, what are you doing with your life?

I don't know that I would, give me a song I would know from them. Do I know? Tame Impala? Yeah. It sounds like a car that's behaving itself. I don't know. I keep driving past the Tame Impala. it did buckwheat buckwheat driver by a car

the tame impollet that was parked there yesterday oh shit yeah I don't know I don't know a song I'm looking at the band now they look like people I would like I think when you might have heard let's see

I seem younger the less I know the better maybe they are yeah they're a newer band I think unless I know the better that was that was that's a big album yeah okay that's the one well I'll seek him out later

I don't know I probably heard stuff. I just don't know the name. I couldn't place the name. It's like, it's this good chilling out. Am I tripping right now? Yeah, lead seniors got this. Yeah.

Like a really high falsetto voice things. I was doing a lot of that in Tudor Cinema Club. And who else was to listen to during that time? You cultured swine? I'm impressed. Yeah, but I can't do the ABCs of operas. Oh, there we go. By the way, just to clear it up,

so Kaja Gugu from the UK, the hives from Sweden, split ends, of course, from New Zealand and evolved into crowded house. Oh, that's why that was familiar and also tempting. I almost clicked it. Yes.

I'm glad I didn't know. If you would have thought about Neil Finn and, you know, I got you, that's all I won't. You might have been tempted to say Australian, but they are just outside of it. All right. there you go uh brian dunaway going in with three points into our last question which is about

television oh you guys know this you've seen one of these tv yes which of these actors played the u.s vice president on tv your choices are kevin spacy tim daily gary cole james cromwell glen close and julie luis dreyfus all right and on tv not move i know that's what i was thinking because that one we watched a film sec movie i think where that one person was yeah kind of but it might have been the one where that person was president and not VP well not well that she did take on the role of president oh that that one yeah well that's right temporarily though yeah it was and i don't know if that counts that's what i'm thinking oh shit oh oh Brian is locked in.

I want to be locked in, but I think he's going to murder me if I do this. No. I'm locking in. All I murder you. All right. Let's get the obvious one out of the way. It was an actual television show called Veep. And it starred Julia Wee Dreyfus, who, of course, was the vice president for most of it. And then at the end, spoiler alert, it's been more than two weeks.

She becomes president. She becomes potus. It becomes potus. Uh, you guys also went with Kevin Spacey. Now, Kevin Spacey on House of Cards was actually the vice president. You guys got that one correct as well. But he moved around too, didn't he did? Was he always the vice president?

I didn't watch the later years. The whole thing with that show was he was trying, he was grabbing power and he wanted to be president. I think he made it eventually. And then, I think he watched like the first half of season on that. Yeah. And then, uh, and then, uh, what's her face became like once he got all, uh, uh, Once it was revealed how skeevy he's been. And he was kicked off the show.

It was a Princess Bride lady. Robin Wright. No. Yeah, Robin Wright. She becomes vice president, if I remember correctly. Yeah. They were married in the show, right? Correct.

Okay. Yes. Yes. And nobody chose a third guest. Oh, really? Just freaking Gary Cole from the West Wing. Oh, shit. I forgot.

It was very briefly VP. and no wait no no he was for a while in the first season and he was kind of a prick yeah i forgot it was gary cole yeah gary cole uh yeah i think the other ones that you're thinking of right we're all played president of vice president in movies but not on tv glenclose mars attacks uh oh who got kidnapped and they were like was it was it was it which one was it with glen close's vice president oh that no that was a that was an action movie and that was oh which uh which president well no that's that's that's air force one is not air force one or is it oh she is she she by vice president air force one what was she was she was she just first lady

was she just jack nicholson's wife in mars attacks i don't remember yeah first lady says a stigma correct okay okay yeah i knew she was in something more serious than mars attacks and i guess it's air force one And so for a minute, she took control and became president for a hot second, but it's not, yeah. Or she didn't want to take control. She's like, no, you're not making me to be the brain. Yeah. But in this case, it's a movie, not a TV show. So it would no matter.

Right. Anyway, well, very good. Regardless, uh, congratulations to both of you getting free on the last one. But Brian doubled his points and walked away with six points to Scott's three today. Damn it. Which means congratulations going out to I-Corps. Kevin Chu, you are getting a copy of. After Image, Deluxe Edition, and Played Up, which I'm guessing is a diner simulator game.

It is. It's a multiplayer, mostly a multi- you can play it single player, but it's best with friends. And if you really want to be mad at your friends, like, pissed off at them. It's a great game. Oh, man. That's cool. Very cool. Albert Meyer, you are getting a copy of The Gap, which is not to be confused with the clothing store,

as the donor of these games, Keith Hicks, added in his notes. Yep. You can fall into it, though. You guys remember that thing? Back in the day, it was fall into the gap. What happened to that? Bring that back, you guys. That was pretty great. No, do not. You know the gaps got gaps. Yeah, it's got gaps in its story. Well, there you have it. Brian Dunaway, here's the great news. The great news is you'll be back here Wednesday to beat me again. And I look forward to that. We'll look forward to that. Yeah, we'll see. It'll be fun, though. And then we'll talk about our.

That'll also be a day we do a play retro. Yeah, it is this week on Wednesday. It's the next week we have to do it early because of holiday stuff. Anyway, so that's going to be fun. We'll talk more about that then. In the meantime, kiss our butts. Ah, got them. By the way, folks, a brand new survey up for Tadpooley feud.

If you go to the Discord, it's pinned in the TMS Chatter channel. So go there, go to the. pinned posts and you'll find a link to the deal. Nice. To the new survey. I'm excited for that. It's always fun to see the fresh batch. So how many do you have any in reserve now in case it takes a while?

Yes, I have three or four, but there's already a ton of, like, we won't have a problem. Getting to the, you know, getting enough stuff to the thing. Yeah. Stuff to the thing. enough stuff to the thing. That's how my brain works most of the day. Just who's pulling up his notes on his recommendal. I don't even have that excuse and I do that.

All right. Well, we await the arrival of one Nicole Spagnolo. She has not entered to the affray yet, but I'm sure she will shortly. Sure, it's a matter of moments. Oh, it's just we're barely, we're on, we're on Tinder hooks as we wait for her to get here. never understood that what is a tinder hooks yeah probably i would guess a hook that you put tinder like

uh like uh no that wouldn't make any sense why would that be something you like anxiously await is a is a thing where you put your your fireplace tinder on a hook well okay so we know the meaning tenter hooks oh it's tinter i always thought it was tinder hooks i did too tenter hooks you're right there it is tinter hooks waiting nervously for something to happen the word uh tenter means a frame used for drying and stretching cloth. And it's related to a tent. So being on tenter hooks compares the tenseness of the stretched fabric to the tension of nervous waiting.

Oh, interesting. Okay. Also today's word of the day. Dradle. Dradle. Dradle. You know, tenter hooks, and for the longest time, so the opening lyric of Pump It Up by Elvis Costello, and I'm always singing right,

I'm on tender hooks, and her dirty looks. listen to the latest. Anyway, I always thought it was Tenderhooks or Tinder hooks. I've never thought anything other than Tinder, like Tinder, like T-I-N-D-R. We just learned something new and I feel pretty good about it. All right, everybody. Now I feel good about this too. Well, what do you recommend? I recommend things that are recommendable and so do the other two of us here. And I say that because Nicole has just joined us. Hello, Nicole. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. We can. We can hear you.

I brought it so, oh my gosh, Mark and I decided to buy our own Christmas gifts this year. Yeah. That's nice. They're like, uh, nobody knows what you want better than you. He's like, well, and he's like, I really want to get this thing. It's on sale. I'm like, just buy it. Yeah.

You know, that's your Christmas gift. I know what I want. And I want some AirPods Macs. And they had a black Florida sale. I got my awesome air pod max. Those are nice. I like those. They feel good.

Oh, my God. Yeah. Very nice. Well, and it's nice because then I can watch my questionable TV in the bedroom, and it feels like I hear. You see your questionable TV? Yes, because, I mean, for example, the show that I'm going to recommend, I don't want my kids watching it. Oh, okay.

All right. I don't know if there's a big question about the TV itself. Oh. It might just be. It might just be a scrolling background from the Flintstones, but it could be a TV. TV's got a scratch on it. It's got vertical hold problems. Right.

Exactly. That's great. But these things, oh, the surround. I forget I'm wearing them. That's how, like, awesome it is to watch TV with these headphones. When you walk around, like as you turn your head, you get the sound, you know, in one ear versus more than the other and stuff. Yeah, I love that. I'll be on my iPad, just even the basic AirPods do this.

And if you, you're someone who call you, turn your head and the, the experience stayed over here. Yeah. It's really weird. It's really cool. And just to be clear, I don't mean like porn when I say questionable or anything like that. I like that. I like that your secret term is questionable TV for porn.

There's three episodes of Bridgeton that I see on your profile as most watched. Yeah. No, he's kidding. He's joking. I don't think it let you do that, does it? Well, I share my account with my mom. No, see, I share my account with my mom sometimes and there's times where I'll go in. I'm like, who the hell is watching? I don't know. That's what we are in our family because of film sack. Film sack ruins are thing. If they use my profile, it's just a nightmare in there. And I'm like, use your own. And then if you log into Kim's, it's all Hallmark movies. So what are you going to do? That's the way. with my Amazon music, I let my kids, it's all has been hotel songs at this point and like the something, tombstones, it's all video game music and I'm like damn it, you're ruining my mixes. That's right. You're going to have terrible recommendations. They're not going to make any sense. I like, I like the video game songs. I just, I miss my, I like Jack White. I like rock and roll.

Yeah, you do. Yeah, problem is the same thing happens with me. soundography like we'll go through these things where we, episodes where we have to listen to an entire artist catalog and because of that now my, you know, my Apple replay says, oh,

your most listened to artist was Reba McIntyre. It's like, oh God! No! Can I tell you like for the last two years on Amazon music, my most listened to song is called wait lists

and it's by a neuroscientist I think I might have mentioned Oh it's where you do the 10 hour like chill strange and stuff We just put it on repeat But it was made by a neuroscientist That found certain sounds Help anxiety And so my kids go

Hey Alexa play waitless on repeat And it plays all night long 465 days of the year and it's like ruins that wrap up like oh that doesn't mean anything yeah well it's all right no it's what's what happens that's what that's what that's that's what these things every year do these these rewind things from now everybody doesn't I kind of had to avoid them to the score did it yeah discord did it like my yeah discord did a whole thing it's like what is discord even my buddy yeah that's good though it's cool when your kid shows up because you're the people you talked the most to in discord but it was you

Brian and Mateo oh really Brian was Brian was my see my top three are Brian uh I think Bobby and I can't remember the other one anyway I think you would be Brian I mean Brian Dunaway oh Brian Dunaway yeah oh you better say me it was two yours is mostly text when I talked to you but it's like it's the two Brian's and Bobby so three Bs two to two brands and a front of you Frankenberg. Three bees, everybody. That's what you want in your life. Well, let's get two.

We're going to do some recommendaling of various things we've seen. We're going to start with Brian as is tradition. And Brian, what do you want to say about your clip here? The clip you're going to hear is one of the first scenes from a series, a three season so far series. And the person you're going to be hearing is Sam Neal. Oh, I love Sam Neal. So now I'm really looking forward to this. Here we go.

There's some goddamn meth heads, I tell you. They stole Mama's car. Oh. My and bred nephews, that's who. Cowan Shet? How are you so sure it was them? I deduced it after they'd done it three times before. You?

All right, Grady. Tell Tammy to put a bowl old lured on on the truck and tell Souther to pick up them boys bring them in. Y ain't got to just find them. They ain't at the trailer. I ring the AMP. Trevor said, they ain't show up for work. I call Chats' PO.

Chat missed his weekly piss test this morning. Boys ain't nowhere to next Tuesday. I bet my life has got something to do with Fulton's dipshit son they're mixed up with. Well, I'm sure going to turn up sooner or later. Ten years ago, you'd have every deputy on a thing like this. stolen truck now all of a sudden

just a drop in the bucket can you ride you and bill desperation's done something to this town so this isn't the thing with Eric Banna is it it's the other thing Sam Nail did this year sounds like my dad's side of the family yeah a little bit

sound like the dude I picked up in my Uber nice That is the TV show Invasion, which is about an invasion. This is about an invasion of an alien species onto Earth that wants to take care of. And it's done in a very, very cool kind of multiple disparate stories. It's called Invasion. Yeah.

Apple TV Plus. Apple TV Plus. Yeah. Or now just Apple TV Plus. tv with phineas's with phineas's new music oh yeah that logo is so cool not just because they used him for music but the i assume you've seen the behind the scenes thing so cool yeah total practical shoots very cool i love that uh anyway um this is a three seasons 10 episodes per season and here's what i want you to do go into the first season with with uh just uh you know lower expectations

The first season is a lot of setup of all the characters, setup of the premise, that sort of thing. So it's kind of a lot of hurry up and wait. There are some great tense moments and really amazing scenes in there, especially with the Japanese Space Administration, who's one of the first people to discover what's going on. But the Sam Neal thing is a slow burn. The family, the Persian family kind of running through the neighborhood is also a slow burn. But where things really pick up, season two is like, okay, now we're talking. This is the show that I like.

Can I just start with season two? You can't. You really do need season one to do all the setup because you come into season two with all these characters who've established things. And I'm not going to say, I'm not going to say the season one is bad. It's not. But just be ready. Just be ready that season one sets up. A lot of things.

Yeah, Sam Neal. That's the guy. Sometimes you say actors' names and I'm like, I don't know who the hell you're talking about. Yeah, sometimes you see actors' names too. And we don't know what you're talking about. Yeah.

Yeah. Tush. I have to Google it. I go, oh, okay. Okay. We're in Jurassic Park. Yeah, you got to connect it all. I always like when he plays a non-New Zealand accented role.

Yeah. It's always fun. It's crazy. the rest of the cast is a lot of people that you probably won't recognize from other things maybe a couple people here and there but for the most part it is it was a lot of new faces for us and totally fine with that this is uh this is a series that you don't want to get distracted by big faces big names uh that sort of thing um and and again let me reiterate the first season isn't bad but it's not up to the level it was it was seeing it was season two that really made me appreciate how important season one was and how much better season two is than season one. Did they get different directors or the same guy throughout? Same showrunner. Same showrunner, Simon Kinberg, who, you know from like The Martian and a producer of the Martian.

Mateo just watched the Martian again the other day. Martian's great. It's like comfort food movie. The book is amazing. Yeah. Love it. X-Men. Let's not think about X-Men Dark Phoenix.

but Simon Kinberg has he's done a lot of great things. Maybe not the X-Men. I don't blame him as much as I blame. Invasion. I didn't even know that. The writers, yeah. Yeah, not great. Anyway, well, that's cool. I want to see this pretty bad.

I held off on the first season because of some of the criticism I heard that there was a lot of, let's call it, television edging going on where they wanted you to be like, oh, okay, we're going to get an answer? No, we're going to have to wait for that answer. And I don't love that. But if two is like a satisfying getting there, I'm, maybe a man. And two picks up and runs. And two is so, so good.

And it's funny because critics, after season one, before season two came out, critics, some critic nicknamed the show, Evasion, because it never seems to much anywhere. That's funny. You know what's interesting? Apple TV seems to have it, like they commit to the show. like I don't necessarily feel like if I start a show on Apple TV they're just going to it's going to get pulled out from it's going to

yeah and Netflix is like the master of that and I hate them so they ruined so many great TV shows and it just totally totally no I'm I have not watched we have not watched season three yet Tina loves this too

but basically we're like okay something fun in between season two and season three how about nobody wants this or some some you know light fluffy kind of thing um by the way nobody wants this is great but i think somebody one of you already recommended it i think somebody it wasn't me but somebody did i can't remember who did somebody somebody nobody wants this yeah with christin bell and uh my wife my wife loved that show she was way into that it wasn't me because it was i was like Like, I was like, oh, this is just too. It might have been Randy a while back or something.

But the thing, the thing I like about Apple TV is, is they. That's Netflix. Yeah, we're just, but we're talking about Brian's thing. So what I love about them, though, is their willingness to do experimental sci-fi and see it through. Like, Foundation doesn't have, there's no way it's got viewership justifying that budget. But they're seeing it through. And I'm so happy they are.

because it's very, very good. And I recommend it to everybody. And I feel that way about pretty much every science fiction thing they've done. And when I hear they're doing a new one, I get real excited because I'm like, they're going to do whatever this needs. If it needs four seasons, they'll do it. And I guess you get that with just buckets of money and follow through. I mean, basically keep buying those iPhones and iPads, folks, so that we can keep getting

foundation and invasion. Yeah, you're basically subsidizing the, you're subsidizing the whole operation. over there but slow horses i will say that netflix did come through with a second season of a man on the inside i haven't watched it yet but i love the first season man on the inside i can't remember it the ted dancing oh right brian recommended it so i'm seeing crazy i did oh you did yeah i forget who does what um we went to the crazy neighbor's house uh over the weekend and mrs crazy neighbor said have you guys watched a man on the inside? And I said, well, no, we've watched season one, but we haven't watched season two yet. And she's like, oh, they've got this annoying

lady on there. She's just so annoying. And I just hate her. And I'm like, oh, I know Mary Steenbergin, Steenbergen joined the cast. So I, Steenberger. So I held up a, a photo of her. She's, that's the one. I said, oh, yeah, that's Ted Danson's actual wife. They're like one of those perfect Hollywood couples that seems to be, you know, the type that just makes it all the way. She's like, oh, my God, she's so annoying. I said, well, the character is annoying. Yeah. Yeah.

No, she, that's what makes her such a great actress. There are other things she's in where I think she's the sweetest person in the show. I love her an elf. I love her in everything. Oh, she's so good. Exactly. The elf role is exactly what I'm talking about. Sweet, down to earth, thoughtful.

you know, then she can be a jerk and other stuff. That's how it works. She's a jerk sometimes. But yeah, I remember seeing her the first time in the time travel movie with Edgar Allan Poe and Jack the Ripper, time after time. I don't know that one. Oh, God, it's so good. It's really good.

Yeah. I'll have to recommend that in the future. Yeah. Real good stuff. He just did. So it's a good. There we go. Done.

I'll do a little bit. I love that we have our official, we have our official recommendals and then we have like, sprinkled on the side like the little sprinkles on the side our side piece our fries to the i had three i had i had three recommendals and i was like and i kept changing them in our chat and i was like oh oh oh so i landed on one all right well let's get to let's get to that before we do that brian apple tv three seasons at 10 episodes per season um they're great so far they're great two seasons in and we're loving this show and and by all accounts the third season is as good as season two it's good to hear that there are three because i didn't know that i thought they're only two so i'm very excited to we were we were kind of surprised too when we finished season two because like all right i guess that's it and then he goes next episode season three episode one do you want to start watching like oh no something something light we need something light yeah you need a break yeah uh well that's cool Nicole let's talk about yours you're you're I think I but last I talked to you I wasn't caught up with you but I think I am now so let's talk about what yeah I gave you two clips I wasn't sure which one to do I think the top one's better for dialogue okay so I'll play that one I think but before you play that I'll just say what my other two were going to be oh what fun on prime Michelle Pfeiffer it's really a mom's Christmas movie I was just going to ask you about that because

was like i think i need a christmas movie and something new i'm like it's for her you might not like it okay i mean you might but it's really speaking to moms and the or the significant other that that does everything that makes the magic sure so no that'd be her it was very very relatable i really enjoyed it but i wasn't like oh hey kids come and sit and watch sure how ungrateful you are during the whole day. So, you know, it's, I liked it. So there we go. And then the reckoning on Netflix about Diddy.

Oh, yeah. Puff Daddy, the reckoning or whatever. Sean Combs is the only reason why I'm recommending this documentary is because 50 cent has been collecting receipts on Diddy since 2002. it's the ultimate rap disc dude that's how this feels i watch the whole thing yeah i've been watching interviews and he just has a shitting grin on his face the whole time he's talking about this documentary yeah it's the truth yeah it's it's hardcore awful awful person and i really do think he killed tupac and biggie yeah no or at the very least the the retaliation against biggie was

definitely brought on by there's no way he didn't there's no way he didn't he didn't call for that killing yeah he's the worst that documentary is just like mind-blowingly narcissistic bullshit it pissed me off more than anything but

right I'm like why and I didn't I I've not liked that man since he came on the scene I was like who's this guy dancing around in these people with talent videos and charging them you find out later he's charging them to be in their videos

no the whole thing everything about him dude it's super gross the guy at one point he was a billionaire and he wasn't paying his record producers he wasn't paying his behind the scenes people that made the record work at all like that dude that he kept taking on the yacht in miami i felt so bad that guy it's it's trigger like there's a lot of of trigger warnings in this one, but it's the only one I've watched and it's the only one I will watch. And because there's a lot of them on like Hulu and stuff like that. I'm like, you know, this is, this is coming from 50 cent. So he's a dollar in my book now. Yeah. His value has gone up. Yeah. Sure. You know what? He's 50 bucks to me. That guy.

what's great is it what's great is he's you know produced it help bankroll it make it happen but he's not on camera ever he never you know you don't interview 50 cents he's just an executive producer and has stayed out of not wanting to give it his bent he's like i'm going to let these facts and these like you said receipts speak for themselves and i think that's really in its favor it's it's a really good um honest not sensationalized look at that And he goes all the way back, all the way back to when he was a kid. Yeah. And you, you get, it's wild.

It's one of probably the best put together documentaries I've seen on an individual and kind of like the people he got to talk. They were there. Yeah. It was gnarly. It was, yeah, it was gnarly. So, so that's, that was, I didn't, I don't want to, those are my side pieces. today, but this is my feature, and it's already been mentioned in the chat, but I love it. Yeah, I'm obsessed as well.

Here is your clip. Whoops, I won't play now, Will. Here we go. Hi, Carol. Hi, Carol. Hi, Carol. Hi, Carol. Hi, Carol.

Carol? Hi Carol. Hi Carol. Yep. Hi Carol. Hi Carol. Hi Carol. Hi Carol. Hi Carol. Hi Carol. Hi Carol. Hi Carol. Your life is your own. Your life is your own. Your life is your own. Your life is your own. We love you, Carol, and we just want you to be happy. We just want to make you happy. We just want to make you happy. We just want to make you happy. We just want to make you happy. want to make you happy. We just want to make you happy. We just want to make you happy. We just want to make you happy. We just want to make you happy. We just want to make you happy. So you get the idea. That was Saul. That was actually Saul. Aaron Paul's in that montage. So is. Oh, really? Oh, that's cool. Who's the blonde lawyer? He's actually been on twice. He does the voice message thing. Yeah. There's a bunch of famous people in it. But you get Brian Cranston shows up in there. I mean, it's a great, that stuff's a great throwback. But, trust us if you haven't seen pluribus at all this is not this isn't it's not a stunt casting parade right no there are just these moments we're like oh cool i'm glad they include you'll get a john sina which is kind of neat the johnsina one was great and it also fit perfectly it was really good yeah i expected to be annoyed by that and i wasn't um because of how well put together this thing is it reminded me of what's the what's the what's the movie where one of the oh no it's the show uh it was the leftovers

and the stranger's perfect strangers guy that wasn't balky that wasn't balky i love that they did that yes yes so this was this is what you heard there is a bit more like that but um anyway this is your recommendal take it yeah so you're watching it so so rarely do i find out when when there's a show that does the weekly release very rarely do i go oh i got to see it on the day it releases this is one of them this is this is the show that I'm like every Friday I know what I'm doing and we got into it and I was like what the heck is and it happens everything happens so fast and I mean I'm not going to I'm going to tell you the premise it's not spoiling it again because it happens so fast so what you heard in that clip basically they discover a alien signal that creates a virus of sorts

and the entire world becomes a collective thought collective mind so it's like this hive mind and there are 12 people

including Carol that are immune to it and everyone else is affected by they can't lie, they can't kill, they can't hurt anything. This includes animals, livestock. So it literally

becomes peace on earth except for these 12 people. So Carol is one of the early ones that you get introduced to later in the season. You're going to be introduced to the others. But it is they feed off of emotions so there are times where she's just pissed like she I mean I can tell you we're watching Better Call Saul finally and so seeing her as the attorney

in Better Call Saul and then seeing her in this is kind of wild um yeah especially if you're doing them at the same time that's we're doing at the same time that's crazy because Mark didn't want because i assume mark watched bear call saul when it came out and he goes no it was too close to breaking bad and i couldn't separate um saul from jimmy in better call saul oh man saul's so good so we're watching and matteo's watching it too so now i think i'm going to have a lawyer but um but so anyway carol uh is the lawyer in better call saul that works with Jimmy and Raya Seahorn is her name for

yeah she's so great she's fantastic yeah yeah so it's like it's kind of like this experiment of what would happen if all of a sudden there was no there were no killing there was no fighting everyone's at peace

and everyone got along everyone worked together for the greater good what would that look like And you're like, I know there's something going on here. Of course, you're like, I know there. And I'm just waiting for that shoe to drop. And we thought there's a moment where you think, speaking to the John Cena stuff, there's a moment where you think the shoe dropped.

Yes. But in an amazing typical fashion for Vince Gilligan and his projects, it doesn't go the way you think it's going to go. Not at all. But not in a way that cheat you. but in a way that like the pink stuffed animal in the pool kind of way from from breaking bad they like it doesn't mean what you think it means when it happens he's so good at that gosh day yeah such a good show so yeah in case you're listening and what the hell show did we even say it pluribus i did earlier

pluribus wait what did you say plurbus do you say pluribus or pluribus i like pluribus i want to go with plurbus like the plumbus like the plumbus the plurbis the plurbis oh my god i don't know but yeah it's just but here's the crazy thing of these 12 people um you find out some have accepted it some of some of some want to join them some love it so yeah some exploit the heck out of yeah mr vegas all they want You have Mr. Vegas. All they want to do is make you happy. Yeah. And because if you get angry, it's not good.

Right. It's a bad bad. Yeah. So they, it's wild. So so good. So manipulation and like you see like one, there's one scene where Carol's being flown to the others and TGI Friday's waitress is flying. the plane. Yeah.

Because they all now know everything. Everyone knows everything. Yeah. It's a concept like invasion of the body snatchers or these kind of old stories. This owes a little to those things. But they've never quite gotten the Borg part of it right where everybody just can speak for everybody. Everybody knows everything.

And everyone is equally skilled in all the high skill things you need to be skilled in. Even the kids. Yeah. It's great. That's the crazy thing. I mean, if you really start kind of thinking hard on it, you're like, oh, what? Yeah. Even your dogs into it.

Oh, yeah, we can. We can hear the dogs, as a matter of fact. It's all right. It's okay. How are things in the kennel? I love dogs. I love dogs on Apple Plus. I have to imagine there's going to be a second season.

Oh, yeah, for sure. It's already. You haven't finished this one yet. They still have a number of episode this season. Yeah. Yeah. But they, I think they've already. said they've got four in him.

Vince Gilligan says I got four seasons. Yeah. And he's going for it. He's going to stretch that. I was going to say shit. But think about it, though. This season is what, eight episodes or something? Or is it 10?

It's eight. Okay. We do these weird eight episodes of that. That's what everybody's doing now. But my point is four seasons isn't really that much. If you think about it, that's what, eight times four is a number I can't think of 32. Yeah. So 32 episodes is only, remember back in the day, most TV shows, including X-Files, when he was on that, was 24 episodes.

24 episodes of season. So this is like saying one season plus a few bonuses. It's really not that much. Well, I mean, are you watching Stranger Things, the newest season? I've not started it yet. I haven't started it yet. But are they two hours long each? I don't think so. I swear I saw a like a graph of like, eight episodes two hours it was like they're making eight movies with each episode might be each might be each no not two hours each but i weren't maybe oh that chart that chart was fake if we could just if there was a way to look online let's see top tv shows here we go go stranger things currently uh season oh come on now what's with this new interface i didn't

not used to it oh that's funny i just found the i just found the thing you know what yeah yeah yeah i was like so season one or sorry episode one of season five is 71 minutes long it's pretty long but 57 after that 40 something after that's kind of all over the place all over the place okay that that makes more sense yeah i don't know when i'll be seeing it there there are four episodes that What are they called the Duncan brothers? Dugger Brothers? What the heck? The Duffer Brothers?

Duffer Brothers. Duffer Brothers. I like Duncan Brothers. Yeah, the Dunkin Brothers. Donuts. Because American runs on Duncan. That's right. May as well run on the brothers.

So anyway, they recommend four episodes to watch. Like if you can't watch all of the previous seasons again, they recommend four episodes specifically. And so I did that to kind of just refresh. my memory of everything and they all kind of revolve around will so okay yeah well sorry sidetrack sidetrack Nicole just call me sorry tonight need to I think we're probably going to watch like each batch as a as a as a basically how they've dropped them I don't think we're going to wait until all three batches are dropped before we go through it yeah I don't like how they're going that they drop the next batch and then New Year's Day for the third batch oh so

See, I'm just going to wait. These kids are all 30 now or something. That's right, exactly. Weird. Oh, no, Vecna and a second mortgage. Oh, there's two horrors of these kids' lives. The longer they go, the weirder Finn Wolfhardt looks, you know. I've got to hurry up and get this shit done.

All right. Well, awesome. Check it out. Apple TV. They don't give it the plus anymore. I always forget that. But it is Apple TV for both Brian and Nicole's recommendations. Mine today comes to you via Netflix.

and I will now play you my intro. Here you go. Hold on. I'll wait for that dog there to... Oh, I thought that was part of your clip. I'm just going to mute myself. Okay, no worries. The dog is stoked.

There we go. All right, here we go. Everybody gets in line. From the sewage worker on up. New York and its purse strings are closed. I'll prepare one of my memorandums. It breaks goals if you have to. They want to reform the party out from under us.

Let's oblige him. We'll sit on the sideline. hands in our pockets and deliver their sorry-ass ticket to kingdom come four years they'll be begging us for grand understood gentlemen where is your candidate where's garfield he left for his hotel senator what the hell is he doing there go get him here now well if you hear some familiar voices in that you are talking about perhaps the world's most packed with your favorite character actors of the day offerman yeah offerman's in it uh Michael Shannon plays your titular character of James Garfield.

This is a historical drama about the assassination of said president. Oh, okay. And it is. We watch this too. I absolutely freaking loved this. Matthew McFadden continues to be one of the most interesting actors who can be funny and terrifying. Billy Madison, right? Where he's like, no.

No, he's much younger than that. He's from, he's, uh, he's, uh, Succession, Leaker Street, the Wolverine, sorry, most recent Deadpool Wolverine thing. He was the kind of idiot guy in that. But you did have the voice of the Billy Madison guy where he's like, he, he, shut up. Oh, in this you did? Yeah, he has a big giant beard. I don't know which guy you mean.

He's hardly recommend, you can hardly recognize him. Oh. Well, anyway. I don't know. Look that up, but I'll explain it. So you got Matthew McFadden. Bradley Whitford. Oh. Oh, okay. Oh, that's right. Yeah. He's, he's my West Wing connection. But yeah, I guess he wasn't Billy Nelson. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was the guy at the end of that clip. Anyway, so this thing is full of those kind of actors. So you got Matthew McFadden as James Cato, who was the dude that killed James Garfield with a gun. Well, I didn't kill him right then. It's a longer story than that, it turns out. This is the assassination of a present. Nobody remembers. Everyone thinks, JFK or Lincoln they don't think about James Garfield and I get it because there's some historical sort of quietness about it. It's just odd. So this thing really gets into who they all were

and what they were about. You have Michael Shannon is James Garfield, Betty Gilpin is his wife, Shea Wiggum as Roscoe Conklin, who is amazing in this. I freaking love Shea Wiggin. I could watch that guy. Oh, Shea Wiggin. I was trying to remember his name. Yeah, he was all over what you just played. He's so good. Bradley Whitford, like we said, Nick Offerman plays Chester A. Arthur, the person who would become president because he was vice president when James Garfield was killed. And it is one of my favorite things I've ever seen Offerman do. And that says a lot because I like everything he does. He's amazing in this. I love devs. Loved it. Recommended it here, I think. I love that show. And I love him and everything. Serious or

not comedy or not it doesn't matter this is this has got a little of both he is a woodworker he's an awesome woodworker yeah yeah but this character is nuts his chester a arthur is the tonic you all need in 2025 it is funny and it is heartbreaking and it is everything in between the the politics of the skeviness and the unions and like oh i don't know i know a lot of things are corrupt now but holy crap where things corrupt then oh yeah no they always are they're always effed up and what bugged me the most about it was how little in 1888 or whatever this was we knew about medicine because at one point michael shannon's character james garfield michael shannon's amazing as always i freaking love that guy he gets shot and then the doctors of the time think that you just need to dig the bullet out

and everything will be okay. And they're using their fingers at the scene. Later on, they're using these tools where they just jam it in there and dig around. It's really awful. But he gets this horrible infection, died of sepsis, didn't die from the bullet. As it turns out, in retrospect, I don't want to give too much away. But if they'd let the bullet stay and just let it be there, they would have been fine. It's the infection that got him from them digging around in there.

It was the dirty stuff underneath her fingernails. Yeah. And this is a, this was a good dude. James Garfield was a pretty good dude. What's crazy, he was, he was 49 when he died, which doesn't seem right. Everybody seems too old in those days. But, um, Whitford's amazing. Everybody's amazing. There's a point where you get to see Frederick Douglass played by Vondi Curtis Hall, who you know from a million things. Sorry. Why are you laughing? Dr. Kellyan, Ph.D. Don't spoil the history. Well, it's a good point. It is a story. It is a story. It is a story. historical you're right um you guys you guys know you guys know him from a million things this vondy curtis hall guy but he was meant to play frederick douglas it's amazing anyway i can't recommend it enough i would uh run and run and not walk i would watch this immediately if i were you and i would enjoy every freaking second of it because these are the best actors working today i loved

it why is it called death by lightning because he says it that he makes that that line in the middle of the thing. The idea is that you death by lightning means, well, he was using it in a different context politically, but basically the idea is the likelihood of your death being from lightning is very low.

And so it's a reference to that. And so because they were worried about assassination early on. I think it's his response to, because he wanted to speak to the people. And they were like, you really shouldn't do that, you know, like, we, we can't really check these people.

And he's like, I'm more likely, you know, death by lightning than be assassinated. Yeah, the likelihood of him being killed that way is as hard as lightning. And it turns out it was, you know, this is exactly what happened to him. And he has, I mean, got that stand, the stan, basically, that's like the creepy guy that just was like, I helped you. You owe me. And it's, oh, the entitlement of. that time frame. It's really good.

The only thing I would say about it that may throw some people is they decide to use a lot of modern profanity and language styles that are definitely not from the era, but they, a little bit like Deadwood did. But that's why they want to give it a little more meat. And I get that. And I was fine with it. It totally ring fine to me. If you like period pieces that are weirdly serious and funny at the same time. This thing made me laugh at multiple points. Really? Wow. Okay.

Mostly Offerman being Chester A. Arthur, good Lord. Good Lord. That's funny. He's so good, dude. His second president in the last, you know, a couple of years with the Civil War being the other one. Yeah. And Arthur was kind of a, I mean, the real Chester A. Arthur was a weird dude. And there were some stuff with that guy when he was in office.

And he was opposed to Garfield, too, right? Like, the only reason he was chose as a running mate is because, of his influence with the union. Yeah, because they're all in the same party, but they, like all parties, there's in fighting and everybody's fighting for power and everything. It's also, it's a great look at that kind of, it's part of the system.

And it's a very honest look at that part of it, where everybody's just kind of screwing everybody all the time. James Garfield, though, seemed like a really nice guy based on this portrayal, based on what I read, I did a deep dive later. A lot of the stuff is like straight up true. Like, I didn't know this.

He went to help get a, dude elected shows up at the vote to get him as their candidate at the convention, the GOP convention, the party of Lincoln, you know, stands up and he goes, he does this speech he had prepared. It was all to promote this guy behind him. By the end of the day, everyone likes his speech so much. They've thrown the other dudes out, changed all their votes, and he's now the candidate. That's how he gets to be president.

Wow. It's wild. I didn't even know that part. and that was all apparently like straight straight truth so anyway recommend it very highly death by lightning available now it's a mini series I think it's four episodes

I think and if you're just a fan of watching character actors chew the scenery these people dude I want to have lunch with all of them I just want to sit and talk to all these guys and ladies they're all amazing anyway that is available on Netflix

there weren't many ladies on the show though there are few I mean Betty Gilpin plays big role. She's got a huge role in her. Her daughter, Molly Garfield's a big one. Any women talk to each other. Oh, yeah. But it's definitely a thing of its time, right? This is also an era where presidents didn't have security. There's no secret service. Yeah, no. You just walk around. You know, you go to, that's why you, you know, that's why all that changed or started to change is because dude just wandered up and said, hey, bam, and can shoot you.

And it's like, there's nobody there, but a bunch of other politicians. and they're not going to save you. So anyway, it's really good. Go check it out. They want your job. Yeah, they actually want to, if you want your position, why would they help you?

Nicole, awesome. Any woodworking things happening that we should tell people about before we go? Speaking of Nick Offerman, if you have a kid, I'm going to promote his latest book called Little Woodchucks. He's doing a promotional book tour. I'm sad he's not coming through St. Louis.

He actually sent us two copies of it. it. And it's a great book. So if you're looking to do more hands-on versus technology-based things, Nick Offerman's Little Woodchuck's book is highly recommended as a fun little gift. Nice. Go check it out. How much wood can a woodchuck chuck? Only as much as they need or require. I think if you order it from his website, because he has a whole, he has a whole woodworking shop and staff and sells wooden gifts. well. And he signs his books. So if you order directly from the author, this goes with a lot of authors. If you go to their pages and buy directly from the author, a lot of the times they'll sign it for you. Stephen King doesn't, but he's Stephen King. Jerk. Well, yeah. When you're Stephen King,

when you're the King, nobody signs nothing. You used to be able to send him your copy, like mail it, and he would sign it and send it back to you. But he stopped doing that long, long time ago. He's too big. With peace and love, he said. Peace and love. Stop sending me your books with peace and love. A little Christmas advice. I thought Brian would like my joke. I did like your joke, yes. Your little Ringo Star.

Just wasn't that funny. There you go. Otherwise, I'm chucking it in the bin. In the bin. All right, that's it. We're done. We're going to take our leave. And by that, I mean to tell you to go to frogpans.com slash TMS.

Do it today. Enjoy yourselves over there. There's all the things you need, including a link to that stuff to get to vote for the new categories. What's it called? The new survey. The tadpulli feud survey. The tadpulli feud survey. If I could get my damn words out, that's it.

Go do that today. Brian, let's play a song and get out of here. What do we have? Yeah, sounds good. This one is going out to Yavang, aka Troy, who says greetings and happy holidays, Scott, Brian, and my fellow tadpuligans. December 15th is my birthday and requesting a song on TMS has become a birthday tradition. K-pop has been growing in popularity, but I would like to give a little love to K-pop's cousin, J-pop. Can you play Haku's cover of Kamukamo Shimu?

Nope, Kamukamo, Shikamo, Nido-Mokamo. This song is really interesting. It is full of Japanese tongue twisters and nonsensical words used to achieve a specific sound or rhythm. It was originally performed by Mano No Aware, but Hakku's cover on YouTube really made it popular currently over 17 million views. Can I get an out-of-context Wendy clip? Love the show, though. Yavang. Oh, my gosh.

Yes. And let's just pull it out of nowhere. Okay. So let's just do that. And then we'll do... Okay, here we go. I think this is... Oh, that's...

No, that's Wendy's, the commercial Wendy's for the food. Oh, old-fashioned hamburger. Yeah, that can't work. All right, here we go. Here we go. Doc says something's wrong with my semen. doc says something's wrong with my semen excellent that couldn't have been more random so excellent uh so here you go here is haku's cover of that big long song title that i said earlier

enjoy everybody we'll see you tomorrow First, three-months show. Mim-Mugue, nama-gum, I mean, no-timore, no, no, no, tamo, no one-timore, no-tom-a-pah-pajama, ch'-pah-pah-cha-pah-chachmach-a-ch-mach

ma'-curetah-curetah p'-ppoh-pio-ppio-pyo peck, p'-pio-pio-pio-pio-tch, ch'-poh-piochiontch-pioch-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-n. So. The next-the-cacquerque-cac-cac-cac-cac-you-cure. You could give to-key-me-mitted, ta-a-basket, yaw-n-g.

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and bots, bauwk, wok, wak, wav, back, wav, wak, vok, wak, wak, wak, wak, iw, niv, twir, deer, gna, g, n'i, gire, gna, giov, gai, gna,

giov, greg, hibh, hibbbbbb, hibbbb ho, Hapu of the hip-noe on the hibby-by-ddened-go-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bore-wok-waw-wkla-wka-waw-wka-waw-ha-wka-waw-ha-ha-ha-vvah-ha-ha-vah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-h... This g-cuncic-h-h-h-h-h-h-hik-nnn-n-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-hkk-mmach-n-n-n-mah-n-n---------m... Kham, kama, kama, kamae, kamae, kamae, kamae, kamae. I'm kum, kamo, kakom, kak, kato, kak, kato, kato. I'm, kak, kato, kato, kato, kata. Kato, kata, kata, kata, kata.

Oya, y, y, oya, y, y'ya to a y'ya, my way, whye, Yeah, Oya, Oya, amoyeroyan, I'm a melon and peron, peron, and I'ma, banana's no-nosa, banana, now, so, oh, shiz, shi-s, s'ri-s, ma'am-tama, "'Are, that, andro, mazza, da-buttah, "'butta, butta, but-bta-buttah, but-ta-upta-butta-upta-ta-butta-ta-ta-buttta-a-buttta-tow-ttaughtshaughtshaught-a." friends, didn't see you there. Ah, 2020.

What a fucking colossal metric ton of shit-flaming dumpster fire born out of the ass of Satan. That ended up being, am I right? Send your emails to Johnson and Ibid, okay? Thanks. But, leave it to both Scott and Brian to still put out shows every week and keep us all laughing.

Seriously, I know I need it. And on that note, let's take a look back at the best moments of 2020 from the top dog, Mr. Frog Pants himself. Scott, motherfucking Johnson. The power of Tick cock, cock, tick cock. Hold on that. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Hi, hot dog on a stick. I'm naked. Is that the one where he snorts Coke from a bumhole? Cloba char lizard throws a book. Try that again. Clobo Charzard. Oh, Clobucharzard throws a book. I got to go over to Bill Dover's house and get some truck parks.

Mary Poppins, what, you've flopped out your boobies, Mary Poppins, Philip? Yo, baby, peel my banana. Oh, you guys, both my testicles fell off and rolled down the hall and went under the door. Some nasty ass freaking, disgusting, out in the wild, laying in his own shit pig. Excuse me. I think Clinton probably would not. He'd probably say, can I put my penis in its corpse? Then no way.

Don't stop the car. Oh, my good God. Jesus Christ. This one took a turn. You could take a giant poop on my chest. His name is Wyatt. Cueet, not Cweef. Wyatt.

O'Leff. O'Lef, sorry. I came out, I'm totally wrong. I am wearing pants, but the zippers down and my wean rise out. Look, it made me burp. I'm so mad. You're burping mad. There have been zero days since the last MF.

Shit! I long for dick. Harry Shaft. Or sorry, Harry. Harry Haft. Sorry, Harry Haft. Where's Merlin now? You gotta come clean. Mom's in the kitchen plan. Poked my spleen or something like that. I hate your post. Go learn to do it differently. This is a shit.

I'd give her hot tub flapjack boobs. Next time you're out there, Brian, she just pound down a whole freaking bottle of Pino Gunaar, or whatever the hell they're called. Wow, that was almost the name of wine. I don't know anything about wine. Dude, I'm going to bend the Game of Thrones and see the boobies. who can't sin he's a parrot right uh what is he actually no he's a toucan you got me you got me I want to talk about dog boobs for just a bit

yeah hey I'm a monkey with three arms and I just like to poke my head into a butthole ooh feminine care hold on when you cancel like that who's gonna fill my burrito hole you're a fat ass who needs to go on a diet come get me if you want me you tubby is fat bitch I look like a hinder who got drunk before they put their dot in their head. I got a boner. Shut up, Dale, I'm having sex. I'm more likely to spend time with that topless nun that was downtown that one time. Do you remember her walking around?

Your foot vagina. Sorry, four-foot vagina model was my whole cover band name. I didn't really feel the prick. There you go. I was an Uber taxi driver till I farted real loud, and then they kicked me out. Hey, you want a pomegranate? When you push this button, it makes you take a ship. Stick it in. Put it in me.

It took four years for Baby Shark to ascend the. the top of you two's most played chart uh chart chart baby shart philip what is this dry disc on my hand philip holy shit move it in slide it in slide it in softly gently but slide it nonetheless i'm probably the tip guy that starts with the tip and then works his way in yeah yeah i think i think i'm uh yeah i'm one of those guys literally just said the words i'm one of those guys that starts with the tip and works his way in that's terrible i didn't mean that I didn't mean that at all, but that's how it came out.