The Morning Stream - TMS 2945: Disorderly Conduct

Episode Date: January 12, 2026

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He's taking a dump. in a can. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Monday, January 12th, 2026. I'm Scott Johnson. That is Brian Ibbott. Hello, Brian Abbott. Hello, hello.

Good morning, everyone. Yeah, no break in the TMS schedule. I'm feeling good about that. Because we had so much time off for the holidays, it just felt wrong to do it. Well, I mean, don't ever think about it like that. Like, oh, no, you know. you know we're we're doing this for for uh for much better reasons than well we felt bad about oh yeah yeah yeah if that's our only motivation we're probably having to have another

conversation we do need to exactly but yeah it's good to see you all we uh many of you are aware some of you may not be aware of it at a pretty rough weekend uh my uh my mother passed on saturday somewhat expectedly about a year's battle with you know a broken hip and kind of wasting away a bit and all that. And so that wasn't a huge surprise, but the same middle of the day or middle of the night that night, my mother-in-law had a massive stroke and is now in a intensive care unit with my wife and about four of her five siblings plus who knows who was all there. They keep trying to kick us all out because there's too many of us, you know.

You're supposed to like, too maximum. And we're like, no, we're getting all five of us in here right now. And most of they don't have a problem. I think the only reason they have beef is if you're rowdy or little kids throwing stuff around or grabbing rubber gloves. Disrupting. Right, exactly. Yeah, which I totally get, right? Did you still any rubber gloves this time?

Okay, this is embarrassing. I always tried to do this because it's a joke with my kids. When they were little, I would always bring them home, blow them up. We'd have fun with these stupid things. Yeah, well, how we made Dell action. Sure. The problem is this time, I got confused. I saw the dispenser.

Yeah. Grabbed one, shoved at my pocket. There all day. We were at the hospital all day yesterday from like 8 a.m. or 7 a.m. or whatever it was all the way until late last night. Well, late like 9 o'clock or something. Yeah. And so I kind of delirious as I grabbed it. But I'm like, I'm taking this home.

Carter's at home. It's going to be like old times. Yeah. Yeah. Come home. I pull it out and I look at it and go, this is a weird material. but anyway, I gave it to her. And she's like, what is this? I'm like, it's, you know, it's one of them gloves. Remember the old times?

And he starts undoing this glove. And it's not a glove at all. It's just a single one of those footies. Oh, like a shoe cover of anything? Which they have in the ICU. Yeah, and the ICU's got tons of them. You grab two, put them on your feet. You see the nurses in them and the doctors and stuff.

I don't know. I gave her a damn footy. And you can't blow those up. You can't do anything with them. So that was dumb. I think that even makes for a better story, though. So there you go. There's an extra unplanned levity that you probably both needed to.

Yeah. And there was a, you know, I can't go to these things without trying to be at least breaking. You got to break those silences and stuff. And her dad's got a really good attitude about all this. It's just a very sweet, caring guy. And, you know, all the stuff I've said about John. Just imagine the opposite of that. And that's Daniel.

And he's just the sweetest man. she's this is a crazy deal so a couple a couple things about it so apparently it's um they're calling it a vascular it was a stroke but they're calling it a it's a form of vascular aphasia which is like um a little bit like what bruce willis is going through except in his case it's not brought on by strokes uh dr tullard have to correct all this but sure they kind of explained it to us but what they are currently looking at is they think it's like these proteins that grow, and these are proteins that are related to dementia, but they're growing on top of the veins inner brain. And they make the veins and the blood vessels super breakable or highly brittle, not prudal. Culsication or something like that.

Yeah, they just don't hold up very well to like pressure spikes and that kind of thing. So what they think happened is one of those happened, something broke. It was a brain bleed like a typical stroke, a pretty big one. But the thinking is that she may have had smaller ones of these that she didn't know about leading up to this, which may explain a few things from the previous year. Anyway, long story

short, they're still doing multiple tests and scans to try to get real narrow about it. If it does turn out to be that, then it's kind of a there may be some damage done, but we can mitigate how, you know, trying not to have further damage down the road, further strokes,

that kind of thing. and it's a weird one because the stroke thing is a very big spectrum anyway where you know some people you end up with the whole side of your body is just paralyzed for life and you're stuck in a wheelchair some people obviously they die immediately from a stroke other people have can do speech therapy and work through it and be perfectly fine on the other side who was that guy we knew the podcaster who while he was at w wdc and they had just shown their podcast the day before Steve Jobs on the stage or whatever.

Yes, it was the skepticality guy. Derek, maybe. Derek Cullen Duno? That's it. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. He was one of those cases where it was pretty severe,

but he was able to, you know, push through. He's still doing well as far as I know and has, you know, really good speech back and all that. He and Swoopee ran the podcasting track at DragonCon for quite a while. Oh, that's right. They were big on that. Yeah. Man, that takes me back.

I was a long time. I know. did Derek and Swoopy. I know. They were, they were, I'd call them one with the pioneers. They were great. I would too. They were, she was the first non-Colorado meetup podcaster that I met ever. Because, you know, that, those first couple years like, oh, there's like three podcasters in Colorado. Yeah, this is back in the, you know, 2004 or 2005 days. And I would do meetups and we'd talk, you know, we'd hang out the wind coop brewery and talk, you know, we'd hang out the Windcoop brewery and

about podcasting. It was, you know, the whole aspect of it was so different than what it is today. Like, okay,

well, are you sending it through this program and then putting in it to this program to upload it and then this other program to make a post out of it, et cetera.

Yeah, we were, it was frontier days of all that. It was frontier days. But Tina and I landed in Ontario to go to the podcast, that very first podcast expo. And we're on the shuttle bus

and there's swoopy. And she says something like, are you here for the podcasting convention? I'm like, yeah. And she's like, Brian Coverville. I'm like, yeah, you're swoopy from skepticality or whatever. And it's like, you know, this instant camaraderie thing. But the very first podcaster I ever met that wasn't local.

Well, some local guy, yeah. I love those days. But anyway, so. Anyway, so yeah. So, yeah. So the range is crazy on strokes. like it's like a crazy spectrum of like effects and hers is weird because she's basically comatose she doesn't hear you she doesn't open her eyes once in a while she'll reach up and scratch her nose

because she's got a feeding tube and it seems like a natural scratching like you would just do if you're sitting here and put her hand back and it's just like man that's so strange and then once in a while I'll crack a joke and she will sort of smirk. Okay. Like a little bit of, you know. So you see you have these moments like that where it's like, wow. And then the craziest thing, I thought, well, she'll be in this bed for a while. She, the physical therapy ladies come in because they have different people, you know, come in different schedules and do different things with her.

And they have some physical therapy ladies that are just there to see what kind of range of motion she can have and all that. And they get, they say, all right, Francis, we're going to get you up. And we're going to move you around a bit. and they plopped a walker in front of her. And she intuitively, with her eyes closed, sits up, puts her arms out, grabs the thing, both arms. So she's got mobility in both arms. Grab the arms, stands up and just starts with very little help from the walker, honestly. Yeah.

With her eyes closed, once again. With her eyes closed the whole time. It's just wandering around her room, just tottering around, kind of looking annoyed, if I'm honest. She just looked annoyed. You're reading a perfectly good sleep by making me do this. Yeah, and so she's like walking around and they're like, do you want to brush your hair? Do you want to do anything? And she walks over to the sink again.

Her eyes are not open. If they are, they're barely open, like this may be a squint. And she just reaches down to the sink, feels around a little bit, finds her brush, brushes her hair on her own. Wow. Grabbs a toothbrush, doesn't put toothpaste on it. Brushes it slams it down. And then just like totters around one more loop around the room and then comes back to the bed.

They get her back in. She lays down and she doesn't move for the next three hours. Wow. It's really weird. But one of these times. is a weird thing. I know. The brain is freaking, that's my takeaway. Is what we got flown up here? This thing in our skulls isn't a weird ass mother effing pile of whatever this is. With AI. Study this. Yeah. This isn't, it's really insane. So she's, she does this twice. Well, the first time I didn't, I was only there for part of it. Yeah. The second time she does kind of the same loop. But she comes swinging past me, Kim, her dad and her brother, Richard.

Oh, and Julie was her sister. And we're all just kind of standing watching her. She comes past me. Her eyes, I can see her barely open, like, just kind of like this. Uh-huh. And she almost kind of goes like this in my direction. And then keeps walking and then goes. Oh, geez.

Oh, that's a little unnerving. Eyes wide open, two inches from my face staring at me with a little bit of smirk on the one side of her mouth. Uh-huh. Just looking at me like, and I'll tell, and everybody there was like, bah, like nobody, nobody was normal, you know, that wasn't normal. And my first thought was, because this looked like the kind of expression she used to give me if I'd say something slightly inappropriate at dinner or whatever. Sure. Yeah. And for half a second, I'm not kidding.

I went, is she faking this? Is this just a big troll to get the son-in-law that annoys her? Yeah. Get a helicopter ride. It really felt weird. It was really weird. And then she immediately after that went, and then just wandered back to the bed.

They let her in. She laid there. She wouldn't respond to anything. It was like, it was very strange. And I'm sure, I'm sure there are healthcare people out there. Maybe Tolbert can chime in on this. That see this sort of stuff all the time. And they're like, oh, yeah, you know, you'll get crazy reactions out of people.

It's kind of like, you know, people in morgues when a body moves. Or, you know, there's always something strange. about the human body going on. But this just was like, freaked me the F out. It's better that she does that than she pulls in Agatha all along and like looks at you and goes,

I know, right? It felt that close to that. And her dad and her brother were like, for a second, she was all there. Yeah. Just for a second. She was all there. And at one point from the bed,

she said Richard and Richard came running over there, Kim's brother. And then she had nothing to say. So it's like a lot of stuff like that going on. These are all good signs, by the way. It means that there's damage, but it's maybe we can mitigate it. Minimized. Yeah.

Therapy her way back. And she does, like I said, she's walking with the help of the walker and her eyes are closed all the time. But still, the other thing is she just kind of seemed to know where everything in that room was. It's a freaking hospital room. She never goes to hospitals. Yeah. So, I mean, now she got this thing mapped out. Like her brain has mapped it out and knows.

All right, over here. The brush is on this part of the sink and the toothbrushes over here. It was like a video game. It was really weird. But anyway, long and the short of it, we're just dealing with it. And we'll, you know, see how it goes. I mean, this is, this is, it's, I mean, timing is obviously bad. But I guess Kim's mom's situation is giving you something to focus your energy on

while you're grieving your mom. For sure. Which may be, I can't, I'll be honest. I just feel a little bit numb about it. all. I don't. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not the sadness of my mom hasn't been able to kind of get there because I'm, we're all now focused over here. You've been grieving, I mean, you've kind of been grieving for the last year, you know, like since the, since the hip situation and her being in full-time hospital. Yeah. Or full-time care. You've, you've kind of been doing the grieving

over the last several months. And so, and part of it's a little bit of a, I'll be honest, it's a little bit of a relief that she's no longer stuck in that and suffering that and feeling any pain and that she doesn't have john lording over the way he does and all that like there's there's some of that too so it's all very complex a bunch of feelings and then i would like to now express the most embarrassing thing that i've ever done in a hospital and i regret it terribly oh no okay and then we'll bring brian done away in so sounds good yeah toward the end of things yesterday they had to do one more CT scan whether they wanted to do, or no, MRI. And they came in first and said, what metals does she maybe have in her body?

And like, well, she didn't have her knees done. She got titanium knees and, you know, this and that. They're like, okay, well, we can, this is all good. And they can, they have ways of dealing with that or whatever. So they leave. And they say, someone will be back here to move her bed in a minute. Well, I sit down in this chair that's kind of obscured with her hospital bed. It's a little bit low.

And so I can only just see this broken images past her. the door between her like feed bags and her other bags and cables hospital cable management is a nightmare by the oh yeah yeah yeah and on how they do it it's like and they they they you know will wheel somebody out and all of a sudden it's like how did those cables all not get tangled in the ones that were attached to the wall i don't know how they do it and they've got all the kinds of hooks and weird little jimmy johns to like hold cables together but none of it them to work on the back of my desk i know me too what i'm looking at right here is better than I saw over there, so they should be able to solve it.

But anyway, I see, so I'm sitting from this perspective, and I hear this clomp, clomp, clomp, and I look through this mass of cables and stuff, and my glasses aren't on. I can see pretty well, but I can't see detail. And I see a guy who looks like he's wearing a hospital schmock, not a worker one, but a patient. Like the hospital scrub, patient scrubs.

Patient scrubs, right, whatever those are called. Those are called scrubs because you don't scrub as a patient. They're called. I don't know. Whatever those are, the thing with your butt hanging out of the back and that, that's what it looked like to me. And it looked like a really old, disheveled man with a kind of a scraggly, unkept beard and hair that had been matted up from laying in a bed or something. And he's clomping in and he's kind of going, like kind of talking like that. And I went, I bumped Kim.

I go, oh boy, here we go. And she goes, what? and I said, look at this. We got some patient. They don't know. He's lost. He can't find his room.

And Kim goes, she goes, squat. And I go, what? She goes, he works here. He's coming to get the bed. He's coming to take the guy in that thing. And I, so I scoge around and I look. And sure enough, it's a guy

wearing similar colors of the patient's smocks, but it's the hospital stuff. Yeah, hospital gown. And he's got some, he's got some disability. I don't know what it is, but it makes him kind of take bigger steps, probably, who knows. But he works there. He's got a tag.

He's an orderly. He's an orderly to come move my mother-in-law. Oh, my God. And you're like, oh, God, here comes. And I go, you're clomping in here. Oh, boy, where's the police or where's the nurse police? Your hospital security. I felt so bad.

And I was kind of loud about it. Oh, no. I felt really bad. So I. Well, that guy will, uh, it'll teach him to shave to him before he comes to work. And the way he communicated was just very grunty. And it was just a, I felt like the most Larry David-ass Larry David. So anyway, all this sadness.

He's an orderly. And I'm going, eh, eh. Pretty much looks like a patient. So, you know, with all the sadness and all the worry and everything, there's still ways to embarrass yourself at a public place. So it's good stuff, good stuff. all right um i think we'll uh we'll dive into some games here this will be a nice distraction for us as we should because i put my glasses on i don't put my glasses on for anything no he needs to see we

need i need to be able to see these dd tiny letters on these dd tiny cards exciting let's do this join us now in welcoming brian done away to the show hello brian danaway what's up oh hi scott and brian hey man what are you doing oh oh just you know starting the week off is another Monday in January. I'm always asking myself, why didn't I make some New Year resolutions? Did you not make any of the year? You don't have any like a first year? I didn't know.

I just like, I felt like I was doing pretty good. You know, right? I was like, I'm already on path. I don't feel like I looked. I looked around the end of the year and said, eh, I'm doing all right. You know what? That's, that's the healthiest possible thing you can do.

Resolutions, I know we talked a lot about it last Thursday with Wendy, but resolutions are schmucks for schmucks. It's good if you need it. It's good if you need it. Don't do it January 1st. Like say, all right,

I'm going to start this thing. I'm going to start doing this thing on January 18th. And I'm going to start this other thing on February 9th. I'm going to start this third thing on March 23rd. And hopefully,

like you're saying, if you've already got a bunch of good trends going by the end of the year, just continue your good trends. Yes, exactly. You know, when you come up with your resolutions, well,

it's December 14th. but here's my New Year's resolution. Start on December 14th. Yeah. Don't wait until the first. Just start it. As soon as you come up with it. Just do it.

We're disappointing some people who made some really good resolution. I know. Like the first couple of weeks. It's like, yeah. Everybody should do what everybody needs to do. Do it works for you. If it works for you do it, yes. If it happens to come along in the first of the year,

great. It's a good reminder, right? It's like, what are you supposed to change your batteries and your fire detectors? I don't even remember, but there's like a good rule of thumb for it. I forgot what that is. It's like six months or a year. I don't even know. I think when you set the clocks back or something, I think you're only going to go forward.

We do it. Yeah, yeah. We do it annually during the spring clocks forward business. Yeah. That's a good idea. I think we're, I don't know why we do it, but we do wait for a beep. And then we change out of extinguishers. We wait for leap years.

We wait for it to wake us up in the middle of the night. Yeah. And then go all night until we have to get up and climb up a thing and put ourselves at risk in at 3 a.m. I don't know why we do that. But we have. Well, that's my New Year's resolution. This spring, I'm going to change my damn batteries. How about that?

There you go. All right. How about that? New Year's resolution, you can't do anything about until spring. Well, let's get to it. We've got a game to play. We've got some people to win some prizes. Brian, I'll have to explain how this business works right here.

Sure. 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 Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct. and three that are incorrect, like changing your batteries every leap year. I forgot to put one of those in there. Depending on how confident you feel with the category, you can provide one, two, or three guesses. But if any of those guesses are wrong, you get nothing.

Good day, sir. If you get one right, you get a point. Two right gets you three points. See what I did there. And three right gets you five points because of math. We'll add up all the scores for everybody. Your guys are going to win prizes for contestants. So we've pulled from members of the Tadpool who are patrons supporting the show at

patreon.com slash TMS. Is it Patreon? Yeah, it's Patreon. Yeah. I hear it every day. It's drummed in my head. How did I forget it?

Scott, you're going to be playing for Hayden Wernett. Woo! Hayden. I got you, Brian, you're going to be playing for Michael Crowley.

Mr. Crowley. Mr. Crowley. I love it. I love Mr. Crowley. Great song. Yeah. Alster Crowley, the inventor of an actual religion.

No. Yeah. Oh, the taco truck will be here. Sorry, I just got this. I got a message the taco truck will be here tomorrow. I felt like it was a response to Mr. Crowley. No, no, no. I couldn't take my eyes off of it. All right, yeah, yeah, yeah. What was it saying?

You know what? That's a great. That's great because you get them on a Tuesday. That's what you want. Yeah, Taco Tuesday truck. It comes in a truck too. These things coming today or tomorrow? Coming tomorrow? Tomorrow? Yeah, good. Perfect. All right. Let us know how that goes on Wednesday, will you? We'll follow up. If I'm, if I'm able, I will let you know. know how things went with the taco truck.

Excellent. Let's go ahead and get to question number one. Knights of the Round Table. You know that Tristan's name came from a Knight of the Roundtable. I don't know that. Yes. There are actually partially that and partially all creatures great and small. He's not one of the ones listed.

Your choices are. That would be too easy. Lomorak, Percival, Galavand, Christoph, Gaharis, and Naveen. Three of these are actual knights of the... round table. They have their, they had their name on a placard on the round table.

Oh, I didn't, you know what? Sorry, not to change subjects, but I didn't thank you two for helping cover on film sack this week. Well, film sack, nope. You know, we got you, bud. Yeah, that was great. You know, we love you.

I know. I phrased it. During this show, I phrased it as, we're here for you and we're here for you. I mean, you know, it's, I don't know, it was nice. It was like, oh, that's a thing. thing I don't have to worry about when I get home.

So it was really nice. Totally. Yeah. Totally. It was good. Anyway, all right. All right. Have we all locked in?

You guys locked in both of you. You locked in on two and you guys both locked in on the same two. So pretty easy points here. Or not easy points. You guys both settled on Percival. Yeah, of course, Percival. Yeah. The goofy names for Percival.

Oh, it's the worst of the names. It is. Poor guy. You also both settled on Galavant. Galavant around here at your round tables. Yeah. You're thinking of Sir Galahad. Shit.

Zero points for both of you. Dang it. Lomorak and Gaharis? LaMorac and Gaharis. Yeah, Gaharis was your brother of Sir Gawain. Sir Gawain. Sir Gawain. When I did this before, I could have sworn there was a Sir Naveen.

Because, all right, a lot of my initial Knights of the Roundtable knowledge came from a comic book series drawn by Brian Boland in the 1980s. called Camelot 3,000. Excellent. That was fantastic. Yes, love that. And you got your, you know, King Arthur and Gwenevere, and they were all modern people that Merlin had to come to the future and say, we need you back at Camelot. And he pulled them back in as he pulled them back.

They got their memories back of who they were. Oh, I have a memory. Our kids little assholes? I remember them. Oh, yeah. It's your kids. It's your kids. It's King Arthur.

So, yeah, so some of my memory comes from that as well. Anyway, no points for that one. Let's go to number two. Maybe you'll do better here. I think you will. Which of these chains were originally founded in California? Your choices are, Carl's Jr., Burger King, Taco Bell, Wendy's, Arby's, and Jack in the Box. Three of these delicious restaurants were founded in California.

Three of them were not. Brian is locked in. Scott is locked in. Brian did not, I mean, I was really hoping for, you know, the easy one would have been in and out or something. Yeah, yeah. That's not how we do it here. That's not how we do it. No.

By the way, I forgot to mention the three nights of the roundtable that weren't correct. Christoph and Nevin are both Disney Princes and Galavant also was an ABC TV series. Oh, I was hoping he was also a Disney princess. Yeah. Yes. All right. Anyway, so your California food chains. Let's start with the one you guys both jumped right on.

Jack in the Box. Yes, Jack in the Box was founded in California. Such a California thing to do. If the bloody tacos originated in California or if those came out sometime after. But that was the thing that shut down a bunch of Jack in the Boxes here in Colorado. It was some uncooked taco. I remember that. Nasty.

Disgusting. Yeah. Those tacos are weirdly good when they're done right, though. When they're done right, they're really good. Yeah. I've talked about here before. My favorite combo is the tacos. and egg rolls together. That's like, that's the Brian.

Oh. I'm sorry. I just got gas and possibly diarrhea listening to you. Cicos and egg rolls at the same time. Nice. Yeah. Delicious. All right.

Let's see. Brian, you went to Carl's Jr. We call it Hardee's. That's true. Yeah, depending on what side of the Mississippi you are, it's Hardee's or Carl's Jr. And in this case was founded in California. Carl's Jr. was sworn that was East Coast. crap.

All right. Let's go to Burger King. Scott chose Burger King. Burger King was founded in Florida. Damn it. Taco Bell was the other California restaurant. Both Wendy's and Arby's and their old-faced and hamburgers were founded in Ohio. Ohio, right?

Interesting. So wait. So you're telling me that the king is Florida man. Okay. The king is Florida man. And that's why he just sits there and stares at you. I think they should. I can't believe they got rid of him.

I love it. they should bring him back. He'll come back. Come on. You know. Yeah. He'll come back as like baby peanut like they did with the Mr. Peanut thing.

Then they'll do sneaking as a, an iPhone app so you can play that dumb game. He said that game was pretty good. It was actually okay as a stealth game. It shouldn't be though. It was a freaking Burger King throwaway thing. Five bucks at the drive-up, I think, is how you got the copy of the thing.

It's so dumb. Anyway. All right. Going into our last question. We just had the playoff, first playoff weekend, wildcard weekend on the NFL. Let's talk about football and which cities never had an NFL team, NFL team. Which of these six cities? Which of these six cities never had an NFL team?

Your choices are Allentown, Columbus, Akron, Canton, San Antonio, and Fresno. Three of these cities never had an NFL team. Fresno. Fresno. The Fresno Friskies. The Fresno footballs. Never had one. Never had one.

These are really hard. Yes, they are, because you're thinking like, well, I know. I know what cities have teams. Sure. But I'm going to go with my heart. Okay. My heart.

I'll sort of go with your heart. Kind of have to go all out here if I'm going to compete. You do. Yeah. Brian's coming with three points. He's locked in his answers. All three of them. I'll say maybe that and maybe, I don't know.

I'm doing that. Okay. Those are my three. Scott's locked in. We both get you both locked in. Scott, you not just talked about Fresno. You chose Fresno. Fresno, California has never had an NFL team.

Oh, good job. The Fresno raisins were never a team. Fantastic. That's right. Exactly. you both went to Columbus, Ohio. Columbus actually had the Panhandles and the Tigers

two football teams from 1920 to 1926. As a matter of fact, I always think a college hall when I think of those guys. Sure. And it's all the Ohio teams, which is really funny because Ohio now, you know, known for a couple big, three big franchises, right? What were the Allentown have the Billy Joles or what? What was that? The Billy Joles.

No, Allen Town never had a football team. Oh, right. These are never had. You're selecting the ones that never had. Columbus had, like I said, the pen handles and tigers, 1920, 1926. Akron had the pros. Also from 1920 and 1926, Canton had the Bulldogs from that same time period. Dang.

Interesting. San Antonio is a weird one. I would have thought that would have been, I don't know. Yeah, because of course, because the, the other three states right like allentown san antonio fresno a lot of football teams in those three and tech you know what texas loves is freaking football yes they do so uh surprising the san antonio never had a team uh congratulations going to brian you took the win on this one which means that it's good because scott's been whooping me uh the the first part of this year so yeah yeah

yeah we're calling back way to kick him when he's down all right nice job you're welcome look do you want No. When you're hurting? No, you don't. I don't want mercy. I want to laugh with my friends and hang out and have a good time. And that's what this is. So it's all good. You know who else is going to be laughing? Michael Crowley, who won because Brian won. He's going to get a copy of Bad North Jotan edition. Great game. Yotan edition. Great game. And Call of the Sea. Both need to be redeemed before June 24th. Get on it. Get on it. Michael Crowley. Hurry up. Yeah. But don't worry, Hayden, Wernett, you're getting a copy of Tropico 3 Gold Edition, another solid-ass game.

Great games today. Yeah, these are all good. And the, sorry, the expiration dates, you're starting to see that happen more because a lot of codes just get held on forever and that's sort of not great for everybody. It probably makes it hard for Steam to, like, you know, really track sales and royalties and things like that.

Messes with their numbers, I think. So I don't know where it's actually coming from if it's the devs demanding it or Steam, but I think you're going to see that more. So there's plenty of window here and you're going to get them today in your in your Patreon thing. And let's face it, if you don't redeem it in the first couple of months, you were never going to redeem it anyway. Good point. It's kind of true.

Yeah. But anyway, you guys all did great. Oh, I should play him a thing. I should play congratulations. Congratulations. Well done, everybody. Brian Dunaway, you and I will do this again on Wednesday. And it'll be great.

Are you looking forward to that? I'm excited. I can't wait to get some tabooly. if you get a new question pool, right? That's right. I'm going to be pulling in questions from the new survey. Probably not in order because, you know, I don't know if you guys, you're really good about not looking, but I always like to mix it up for the tadpool too so that they're not like, well, I know what the first question is going to be.

It's this. I know what this one's going to be. Sure, sure. How patronizing. Is that how they sound? Okay. That's exactly how they sound as a group, as a collective group. Patronizing.

That's right. Patriotizing. Patreon. Put in the patronizing and the patronizing. then the patron. That's right. That's great. I look forward to it though. So be back here. That's your job. Just be here and kiss our butts. All right. He's out of here. The end of that. All right. We normally launch directly into recommendals, but I've not heard from Nicole yet. She's got the link. I know that. I sent it text in the group. Gotcha. She hasn't jumped into audio. Just doesn't opt in yet. So I

assume she's running around like always doing stuff. I mean, we could knowing, oops, I pulled up the wrong page. There we go. I left our show notes. You know, knowing that things sometimes go long with this segment, do we want to do mine while we wait for Nicole to connect? I think that's not a bad idea. I think we go ahead and just get right into it and she'll slot in as she comes in. Yeah. Yeah.

I keep an eye on clean feed for when she pops in. Yeah. So watch for that, everybody. In the meantime, this. Well, what do you recommend? It's time for recommendals. We take stuff from streaming services, sometimes movies, sometimes movies, sometimes TV shows, sometimes

documentaries, you never know. That's right. You never know what we're going to do. That's right. Before I talk about my main recommendal, I do want to throw a quick word about materialists. This is something that Tina and I were

sitting around Saturday night like, what do you want to watch? We've got this big long list. Let's not pick anything from that list and let's find something different. And we saw the thumbnail come up for a materialist with Dakota Johnson,

Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans. Oh yeah, my daughter and her friend saw this and hated it. So I've been hesitant. I bet I know why. I bet I know why they hated it. And I looked at the Rotten Tomato score first. I'm like, well, it's got a pretty good score. Let's watch it. Decent, yeah. Yeah. And I think the reason people are hating it and looking at a lot of the reviews, it confirms it. It's marketed as a straight-up rom-com. And it is not. It is a little bit darker, which is, I'm sure, why Carter didn't like it. They did not, yeah, they didn't like.

Also, something's different from the book. Oh, there's a book that's right that it's based on. Something like that. There was some turn it took that pissed everybody off or something. Sure, sure. I could see that. But you liked it. I liked it.

It was by the guy or by the woman, I think, who did past lives, the director that did past lives, which was an Oscar nominee that we watched. It was really sweet about a couple together as kids get reunited several years later. and it's just a really, really sweet story. And yeah, we both really like materialists. All right. A little side recommendation. I like that.

And, you know, a little eye candy with all three of those Marvel people. You got Mr. Fantastic, the original Human Torch and Madam Webb, all there together in one. Yeah. You know what? I feel bad for Dakota Johnson because the stuff that people assigned to her recently, Madam Webb, before that, the stupid billionaire sex movies. What was that called? The 50 Shades movies. 50 Shades movies.

And it's not really fair. She's great. She's really, really talented. And she's really good in this materialist. She's the best thing about it. I like her a lot. And I like to think that if anyone in this world knows how stinky Crocket's feet were in the 80s, it's her, because that's her dad.

And he came home from work going, I'm home from work. Oh, I know we can tell that. Put your shoes back on, dad. Gross. I'm going to wear next to nothing on a chat. chat show. That's right. Let's get to my actual

recommendal. This is a movie you can see currently on Paramount Positive. Excellent. Here is your pleep. Good morning, team. No, no, no. Don't be scary.

Do you just do what I say? No one gets hurt, okay? Okay, now I'm going to say a polite and cheerful. Good morning. And then you guys say it back. Good morning. No.

Dwayne. After I say it. Good morning, team. Good morning. Yes. Perfect. I say what to do, and you guys just do it. Okay.

I want you to get your coats back on. Dwayne, grab your coat. I don't have one, sir. Well, they're just going to have to be a little cold today. All right. Let's go. After you? Ladies first, now listen to me.

You guys aren't going to die in here. As soon as I'm out of here, I'm going to call the cops, and they're going to let you guys out. probably get the day off. Dwayne, stop it. Because this is your fault. It's cold. Are you serious? Dang it.

I don't know what kind of jerk doesn't bring his own coat to work. Okay? Happy now? My ears are cold. I've been very curious about this one. It is, the movie is Roof Man. This is, that was Channing Tatum that you heard there, of course. playing the real life

robber Jeffrey Manchester who robbed like 45 McDonald's by climbing through the roof and surprising the staff there when they walked in in the morning and put them in the freezers and even gave up his coat

if the movie is to be believed. It seems like the movie's doing it with like a... It's like a Walmart. Oh, that's what it is. It's a Toys R Us. So the movie still does the 45 McDonald's that he robbed,

but then he decides to do a Toys R Us. And because he's escaped from jail, he figures out a way to escape

and then he hides out in the roof of a Toys R Us. Less about robbing the place more about just hiding out in the place, right? Wow. And Kirsten Dunst plays an employee and Peter

Denglidge, the manager of that toy are us. He's the star of those trailers. I freaking love it. He really is. Freaking fantastic. They've unfortunately

blow one of the funniest sight gags of the whole movie in the trailer, which is the die pack, the exploding die pack in the money bag. But it's still hilarious when that comes up in the movie,

no matter how many times you've seen the trailer. Hi, Nicole, by the way. Hi, you can hear me okay? Yeah, we can. How are you? So it sounded like you were describing a movie

from 1991 where the guy hides out in Target. It does sound like that. It does sound like that. I remember that. Oh, you're talking about the one where the guy. Yeah, overnight employee. He's not hiding out. He works there.

Career opportunities. Oh, right. With Jennifer Connolly on one of those penny horses for what seems like the full movie. Yeah. I never saw it, but I feel like I've seen the entirety of it with that. Yeah. I thought you were going to say it seems like. like that, what was Sweet Home Alabama?

Wasn't there? Oh, no, she just gave birth in a Walmart, right? Oh, God. Wait. Does that happen in a night? Really? I don't remember that. What was the movie where somebody gives birth in a Walmart?

Anyway. I don't know. Now I want to know. What? Maybe it's not, maybe it's. Like I'm like going through my rolladex of movies going. Yeah. Maybe it's not Sweet Home Alabama, but it's another, it was right around that time.

Where the heart is. Thank you. Oh. that's it. Yeah, where the heart is. She names the baby Walmart or something. I can't remember. I never saw the movie, but Americus, that's right. The baby's name was Americus. That's it. Good Lord.

Portman, Natalie Portman, not Reese Witherspoon. Anyway, I'm talking about the film Roof Man, where Channing Tatum hides in a Toys R Us. Tending Chatham hides in a Toys R Us. Anyway, the movie's really good. The fact that this is, you know, no matter how much of it is real versus like sensationalized to dramatized to make a good film um

it's it's really well done it's engaging it's got both comedy but it's also got some like some drama to it some there's a little bit of a rom-comy thing because you got kirsten dunst um and they show the real people too like the character of kirsten dunce wasn't added to just add some romance to the film they show you at the end the real people involved, which I always love when during the credits they show you the people that the movie's based on. And it's pretty darn accurate. The folks that they found was like, all right, yeah, I can see why they picked Chenning Tatum and Kirsten Dunst and all these people. I like him in these kind of roles where it's not just sexy dark guy.

Not just right, exactly. Yeah, anything that's full on rom-com. this has got a nice little edge to it. I wonder if it would clean my palate from that movie I saw. What was that recent one where he was this horrible billionaire that was bringing women to that island? It's kind of an Epstein island kind of thing. Oh, God, that thing was horrible. I hate that.

I'm drugging them and. It was an awful, dude. That was awful. Maybe it just made it put him in a light where I was like, all right, go do a thing. I need to go watch that Logan Lucky over and over or something. I mean, you know, I would have thought his turn as Gambit would have. Oh, you know what? That helped.

Yeah. Clear cleared your palate for him a little bit. Yeah. Are they going to do a Gambit movie because of that? They're going to have, Gambit will be part of Doomsday. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, I think he's in that.

He's one of those chairs. They passed by. Yeah. I think everyone's in it. Pretty much. If you have ever been in a, an MCU movie. Yeah. If you've ever been in anything, even at J.

Yeah. If it's got Marvel on the name, you come on back. We got room in our. Eight-hour movie. God. It's going to have to be. He'll turn it into a series and be dumb with it. Okay.

Yeah, we'll see. I'm excited about that, but we'll see. It's a lot. They got a lot to balance there. It is, it is, it's so much hype. I don't know how anything can live up to, to that hype, but we'll see. This also has Ben Mendelson, who's great.

We all, we all love Ben Mendelsohn. Yeah, love him. He's not solving crimes on HBO on this one. He's, he's, uh, I don't know who that is. I got to Google it. Juno Temple, um, providing, uh, an American accent in this one and the film's only nudity. And, oh, geez. Uh, Lekeith Stanfield, um, Uzo Aduba from, uh, Orange is the New Black, crazy eyes.

Um, is a theater, a directive streaming thing then, this whole thing? Um, no, no, it was in theaters for a while. It wasn't theaters. I tried to see it in theaters, and it wasn't in theaters for very long, unfortunately. Okay. So, unfortunately, because it feels like movies like this don't get the runs they deserve, you know? Yeah, yeah, I agree. This one, this feels like it would have done well being in there longer.

Yeah. Even Jimmy O. Yang, from, who was absolutely hilarious in Silicon Valley is in this one as well. I love him. He's great. So the film was Roof Man. It's on Paramount Plus, and it is absolutely worth your time. It's sweet. It's funny. It's touching. And it's based on a true story. And you see Juno's temples. So.

And you see Juno's temples. Yeah. Get in there. It sounds like a movie in it up itself. Yeah. It does. Yes, exactly. Go to Fargo to. Juno's temples. Yeah. Excellent. Nicole, let's roll into yours here. You've got a recommendation. It looks like a documentary. Anything to say? I watched a documentary. So I have this new friend.

I love her. She's wonderful. But every time I talk to her, I go, have you seen this documentary? She's like, you watch a lot of documentary. Yeah, I have this problem too. I get it. Yeah, I guess I do. But she always gets a chuckle out of it when I go, have you seen the documentary?

Blah, blah, blah. All right. So this is a documentary on Netflix. I've been meaning to watch it. I almost feel like everyone should watch. it. So a little personal stuff about me, I get dopamine from shopping. I have for a very long time. I remember reading the book Confessions of a Shopaholic and identifying with the character so much. And I have, I've definitely, through therapy, kind of identified some of

some of my habits that I didn't even realize, right? So, and also the world has become harder to navigate those instant buys. And this documentary, kind of like that documentary I recommended about why you're, not necessarily why you're poor, but why the system is meant to keep you poor. that was a documentary on Netflix as well I can't remember the name of it I'm going to remember somebody reached out and saying thank you so much for that it helped me understand

like credit card debt and school debt and why the cards are just stacked against me this is called buy now what's the colon oh it's the shopping conspiracy the shopping conspiracy I'm just giving you the name of it. I forgot we're supposed to guess.

No, that's fine. There's no guessing. I don't know if we would necessarily be able to guess this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's no real guessing. Yeah. And the way, I will say, so the only thing we're going to talk about after this clip plays

is how do you say the shoe brand that has the three stripes on it? Oh, the one that... Adidas. I've been calling Adidas. Yeah. I'm guessing is not pronounced Adidas.

I think it's an Adidas, right? It's Adidas. But that's not how RUNDMC pronounces it. No, it's definitely not the way run DMC pronounced it, which is our main point of contact on Adidas, knowledge. Giff and shift, man, it'll always be Adidas. He's a CEO.

So that's, it's kind of neat because the way they set up this documentary is it's an AI talking to you about the five steps to sell more product. and so you get these weird AI like things that you're visualizing and then if it gets too deep then they'll cut to puppies and kittens. Really? Yes, that's what they do. That's on social media. Oh, oh, gotcha. Okay.

I see what you're saying. Okay. I think you into the documentary they do that. Like when the things get too deep, they switch to videos and puppies and kittens. They do. They do. Okay. All right.

So you were saying that. They do that. They do that to to illustrate the point, though, right? Yes, exactly. It's kind of like the big short, you know, having Margot Robbie explain. Complex economics. Complex economics while in the bathtub. Puppies and kittens.

An amazing technique. So you have really high executive people from Adios, which, by the way, I wouldn't have a problem if he didn't change how he said it halfway through the documentary. Oh, really? Like, oh, that's great. Like my pattern recognition, I'm just like, blah. It's either Adias or Adidas. Don't do both. Pick a lane, buddy.

Pick a lane, sure. But you got the guy from Adidas. You have a high executive from Amazon. You have a woman that talks about what greenwashing is and recycling and how we feel as consumers. You have you have high level people from Apple in it. It's

fascinating, but also a little infuriating. Well, we're part of the problem. Well, we're a huge part of the problem. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a good, go ahead and

play some of the clip. I know it's the trailer to it. Yeah, I've got a good 44 seconds of this, so here we go. Buying new stuff feels great, right? The problem is that every year we're consuming more, producing more, and there's a flip side to that. That no one wants you to see. I was president of the Adidas brand.

I started at Apple. I worked at Amazon for 15 years. It's a highly refined science to get you to buy stuff. They know you. Like, we know you. We were constantly. developing new ways to get you to buy. Influencing your behavior in subtle ways that you'd never even realize.

And every trick in the book is being used to hide what's really going on. I assume that is true. Always assumed. Yeah. You said the, but the narration for the whole movie other than obviously the interviews and stuff is an AI voice. Did you find that distracting or annoying or anything like that? Yes. I hate AI so much.

But the problem, but here's the thing. AI is getting to where you don't notice it. And that's my, and that's the problem. It's also part of the point of the movie. They want you to notice that it's AI. Like they purposely make sure that you know that it's AI. But they could have made it to where I wouldn't have known it was AI. They could have, you know, used James Earl Jones's voice.

and that would have been the narrator. Sure. Do they get into the idea that eventually this is not sustainable in the sense that if you have an AI doing this, and in theory, an AI doing everything else? and before you know it, the jobs you work at that give you the expendable money to buy the stuff they have a science to drive you to buy, that loop breaks if the system takes over and then you're not, you no longer are buying anything. Who's buying it? Right. That's the part, I don't understand the end game of it, you know? And maybe there is none. It's just get what you can while you can before we're just a burning husk of our former sales. I don't know. It's who cares about three steps ahead.

let's think about the money right now. Yeah. Well, and that's the, that's the whole point of the documentary. It's like the company that produces isn't responsible for thinking what happens to this product at its end of life. And it talks, there's a whole, oh, there's a whole great section about this guy who tries to repair things. And he complains. The I fix it guy who's in. Yes, the I fix it guy who has.

You know, he's gone before Congress and talks about the right to fix our products, the right to make them last longer. And they actually go back in history to light bulbs because light bulbs used to last for a very, very, very, very long time. And apparently there's some history in that and how it kind of can slowly, it slowly snowballed into these. disposable, expensive products like our phones. And where do they go? And so you get to see kind of the lifecycle. I love this one company that is actually putting tracking devices. You think you're sending your, let's say it's an L,

the example they had was a LCD display. You take it to the recycle center. Where does it go? and they tracked that thing because they had a tracker in it and it ended up in third world country oh really where yeah where they were not protecting themselves um destroying these machines taking out the metals taking out the but they're not doing it you know they're releasing these chem yeah yeah i mean it's crazy um jeez But yeah, so good documentary.

I'm glad I watched it. It kind of helps me go, do I need that? No, I don't need that. I don't need that. God, Tina's mom needs to watch this something fierce. We've got a little bit of an issue with her. Because there's some early dementia going on too, where she's now buying the same thing over and over and over again.

Yeah, yeah. And sometimes it's these expensive. glucose pills or something like that. That's like they don't work anyway and she's buying, buying them over and over and over again. Yeah. Well, and you get into the psychology of hoarding and, you know, especially people that have lived through depression area. Right.

My dad was like that. He just everything was something that maybe he could say. He was, I think he thought of himself as like the American picker. I'm like, hmm, dad. No. And when he passed away, it was really hard on, it was hard on my brother. It was hard on me to go through all of that. That's why I like that show Swedish death cleaning. Because it's like, all right, we're going to go through all of our stuff. Sure. Do you really think my kids are going to want, you know, my albums? Maybe, maybe not. You know, so it's kind of. of, you know, taking the burden off of your family. They're going to want your albums, Nicole.

They're just not going to want your jazz drives. That's it. It's a jazz. What the hell's a jazz? Don't you remember the jazz drives? Oh, man. They were after the zip drives. Yeah, they were a gigabyte zip drives. Oh, yeah. I don't have any. I didn't have any of those. I did have the nomad CD. Oh, yeah. It was a creative labs nomad, MP3 player. I have one right over there. It grinded. It would grind. Really? Well, it was a hard drive, so it had, it was a spinning hard drive, no SSDs then. And so you had.

You couldn't work out with it because of the console skips. You could literally listen to your music, get ripped. Yeah. Yeah, it was awesome if it held still. But if you moved around with it, it was like, it was like trying to jog with a record player. It was stupid. It's the best we had. And I know, like, even early iPods were that.

They were regular hard drives, but they had some like impact stuff. I don't know. Yeah. That says to use it's so much better. And now they're too expensive. So we're back to, we're back to spending money on too many good things or too much stuff we already need. We don't need.

Yeah. But so as, as a chaser to this, like a fun chaser, I don't have, has anyone ever recommended letter Kenny on? Yeah. We have.

Yeah, we've totally have. Okay. May have been me in particular, I think. Yeah. I started that a long time. go, but that is a show that is meant to be watched with someone else.

It totally is. Yeah. March's the same, by the way. Yeah. I haven't done Shorzzi yet. That's a Shorzzi yet. We're still going through Lerzzi. Shorzzi is somehow better.

I don't know why. Really? Okay. That's what I hear. It's so good. It's such a dumb. He's the little side character that should be nothing in Lutter Kenney.

You don't even see his face in Leder Knie. It's Wayne's voice. I know. It's Wayne's voice. and then and then the new thing it's that actor playing you know just full on playing him but shorzy is got it's got so much weird heart in it i can't explain shorzy it's so good i'm looking forward to getting to shorsi but we've i started lenny letter kenny years ago and we have um we have a little gaming group that we get along with and he constantly quotes letter keney and he was like

man, he told Mark, he's got to watch Letterkenny. And Mark's like, oh, I found this show letter. I'm like, yeah, I told you about it like two years ago. But we never watched it together. So we started watching it. And it's such a good kind of chaser show that I just, I wanted to remind people that it's great. It's on Hulu. Yeah.

So if you're looking for just, but watch it with a friend. Watch it with friends or stoned. One of the two. Yeah. Take a little gummy, pop down. Put your captions on because they're Canadian. And honestly, I've had to look up a number of things. Like, I did not understand a lot of the hockey terminology.

There was something ripping. Yeah, I can't remember. But I was just like, what does that mean? Yeah, they got their own language on that show. Yeah, they really do. It's also not for the kids because they got a lot of language you will recognize. And freak him out. All right. Well, I'll get to my third or our third pick today. This is, what did I pick even? I don't even remember what I did. Oh, so I've been hardcore into this right up until my mom's death and this other stuff changed everything. But it was, it's been kind of my obsessive watch. And here's the weird thing about it. I'd seen season one or no, the first few episodes of season one multiple times because I've had multiple starts on this. And it's never been because.

because I didn't like it or I got bored or any of that. It's because if something else came up, it always seemed to be badly timed, something, and I just didn't finish it out and never did a recommendal on it. Anyway, I'll play the clip, and then we'll talk about it. Nobody moved. United States Bureau of Internal Revenue. This is a raid.

The hell is this now? Easy, Dad. Do you have any idea who these men are? This is a private party, and the mere consumption of alcohol is not illegal. Now, I'm an attorney, and the Vostrad Act clearly... Would anyone else care to interfere with the court-appointed duties of a federal agent? Stand down. All right. You heard there at the end, the voice of...

Griffin, or I'm not Griffin. Shannon. Shannon, Michael Shannon. Oh, yeah. Early on Michael Shannon, that last voice was Steve Bouchemy. He's, of course, the star of it. This is Boardwalk Empire, currently on HBO. It's an HBO original. was, I mean, it's older now. The thing came out in 2010, ran through 2014, four total seasons. And, um,

right? I feel old, God. I know, right? 16 years. Pretty crazy. Kelly McDonald is prominent in this.

The Michael Shannon role in itself is just one of the most insane things ever. This was the first thing that I ever remember, I think that I ever saw him in. And, um, it was, it's just a revelation, Michael Shannon.

Oh, yeah. And I don't feel, I feel like he was born at the age. of 48. Totally. It just stayed there. And never moved from that position.

And he's just great in all things. I recommended that death by lightning a couple of weeks ago. Ironically, a bunch of the same character actors that make up boardwalk empire were also in that. So Shea Wiggum is in this. Pretty heavily plays Steve Bouchemey's brother,

Eli, and Michael K. Williams is in this thing. Rest of Soul, who is, you know, everyone thinks of the wire. But the role of Chalky Wire. from this show is unbelievably good. And if you've never seen it, it's almost worth it for that alone.

Some really great stuff from that guy you like, Brian. His brilliant name just left me. This dude right here. He was in vinyl. Oh, yes. Italian actor. What's wrong with me? He should be right somewhere right around there. And I don't see him in the...

The problem is he didn't show up until season three, maybe four. Is that Ralph Machio? No. No, that's a... He's the new husband in the Ant Man movies. He's, uh, um, Judy Brears's new husband.

Um, what's wrong with me? I know. I can't remember. Anyway. Conovali. Oh, Bobby Conovali. Bobby Connolly.

That's it. He's a psychopath in this. Thank you, board game way. He's so good at a coach. He really is. He usually is a psychopath. Yeah.

But like Stephen Graham is winning all these awards lately last night on the globes and everything for, uh, for that it, uh, um, um, um, what's it called with a kid who commits a murder? Oh, yes. Adelisance. Adelouss. The four episode. He plays Al Capone in this thing.

I mean, it's a fictitious tale, but it's all done in such a great way that kind of match the 20s and a prohibition and all of that. If you're not familiar with the series, the whole thing is set in the 1920s. Nucky Thompson is the main character. He's played by Steve Buscemi,

and he kind of runs this criminal empire in New Jersey. And it's all like... New Jersey. Yeah. And it's a lot of like... like, you know, top hats and dancing. How you doing there? Everybody? It's like the 20s.

And they mix that really well with just like the grittiness of organized crime and things of the time. And, you know, the differences between racism then and now and, you know, what it was like kind of then. Michael Shannon starts off as this Nelson Van Alden guy who's like this really straight-laced government official that's like shutting down anybody who's violating the Volstead Act, which was all. about Prohibition. And his story goes places, man. That is not a normal. That is not a normal man. And he's amazing in it.

Shea Wiggum. How would you compare to Sifranos? I would say that, so the writer, the creator of the show, showrunner is Terrence Winter. And Terrence Winter, also that attempted vinyl was him. That was going to be his show. Or his big follow up. But anyway, Terrence Winter was a writer and showrunner for a. portion of the Sopranos run.

So he comes from that. And the whole thing is very, I don't want to say it's like the Sopranos, because Sopranos is such an interesting juxtaposition of the old ideas of mobster stuff, but overlaid with modern things like therapy and panic attacks and your son is ADD. What does that mean?

And, you know, these other parts of the mob thing that they innovated with Sopranos, this is more like throwback historical, this kind of thing, but in a very specific time. And everyone's really good in it. It's hyperviolent in many instances. You're going to get a bunch of boobs here and there. It's HBO after all.

Nobody's cutting off fingers, are they? There's a couple of moments with a finger missing. Some violence. Yeah. There's always a finger. Why do they always have to go with that? I mean, I don't know. Like, some people are really naked.

like Gretchen Mall gets more naked than she ever has in her life. I don't know. They just said, hey, are you going to be okay with this? And she said, sure. Michael. HBO, Gretchen. Yeah. Michael Stolberg, one of my favorite character actors working today is in this.

You guys know him from a million things. Oh, yeah. Just love him. He's really good in this. Everybody's good. You mentioned Shea Wiggin. He's fantastic. Shea Wiggin's always good.

There's nobody who's phoning in and in this thing. A lot of character actors. Freaking Dabney Coleman, one of his last roles is in this, and he plays this like, they call him the Commodore. He's like the old school crime boss of this place. Ends up with a stroke in the middle of the thing. And it's like a whole story with him. Not the actor, but the character. And it's fascinating.

He's so, so good. And just tons of faces you recognize from things. Special shout out, though, to this Jake Hudson, or Houston, sorry. Huston. I'm not sure I say his last name. Jack Huston is this very handsome British actor. but he plays this dude if I can find a photo of him oh darn it it's such a iconic role and I'm not going to find it

because in most things he's just good looking with the mask exactly yes half his face was removed or was uh destroyed by world war one in the story exactly oh my god and to be such a good looking actor and say yeah okay I'll totally do your series yeah there it is right there totally do your series with half of my face being covered by a mask and he is he is you get a quote Golden Globe for that. He should have. He's so good, dude. He's just mesmerizing. Anyway, I love Boardwalk Empire. It is, you know, again, not a soft watch by any stretch, but it's, if you're into like that kind of gangster stuff. Five seasons, what about 12 or 13 episodes per season?

I think so. I want to say it's 12 or 13. I think they varied a couple of them, but I would be done. So I say this, I say this being nearly done with season four, so I'm not totally done. I probably would be by now if all this other stuff hadn't come up. But I've been binging it pretty hard and I will continue to. But it's worth it for, I mean, even season one's worth it. It's just so good. So if you want to see some incredible acting, some really amazing sort of work in this genre, I think Boardwalk Empire is one of the best.

So that's my recommendation. I've been so buried in foundation that I haven't had a chance to do a comfort watch. So after maybe Boardwalk Empire will be my comfort watch after Foundation. Yeah, once in a while you need to go back to a thing, right? You totally do it. We just finished Better Call Saul. Oh, so good. Nice.

So good. Yeah, that was weird watching at the same time as Pluribus. I'll bet it was. Sure. It was like. Caring some of the same locations. Oh, yeah, right. See Ray Seahorn in both, yeah, two very different roles, although you can see, you can see the events of Better Call Saul turning Carol into the angry, pissed off woman that she.

She's in blurbous. Yeah, it kind of does carry over. But it's so funny to see her, like she's accepting her globe yesterday. She won. She won. I haven't watched the globes yet. She's so stoked. And her personality is nothing like Carol's.

So you end up, it feels weird. You see her and you're just like, you're so good at that thing that we all think that's what you're like and you're not. Yeah. Exactly. My favorite thing. All I saw that, that Huntrix won for Golden. And that was the only thing I really cared about.

Best song and best animated film, which first time it's ever happened to the Golden Globes that the same picture won best song and best animated film. With all those great songs coming from Disney movies, I'm kind of surprised, but first time ever. I think I'm starting to feel my age in a special way with Hollywood because a lot of the people at the Globes now are just 22, and they're slinking around and weird black clothes just going.

Yeah. They all look pissed. Everybody, there's a real bummer vibe coming out of the Gen Z actor. A lot of rat boyfriends too. Yeah. They're at the, the globes. So anyway, I don't know.

Rat boyfriends. It's a weird thing. Like, Chalemay and Wolfhard, like they've got that rat look to him. A bear guy. It looks like a rat. Yeah. I think he's leader of the rats. He looks like a leader, King rat.

King rat. Yeah. They need to make a movie. Just wait for the gen alphas. I got it. Here. Maybe I'm just in the mood for mobs. Here's what you do. You make a movie called the street rats. And he's in charge. He's head of this group. And it's all these dudes who look like rats. Set it in the 30s or 40s. So it's kind of got like a noir thing going. They're called the street rats. They literally look like rats. Causing mayhem. I'd watch that. Because they're all in up. They're all good actors. Why do you think we're brothers? You guys all have the same notes. Why does everybody say that? Yeah. And then wipe them wipe the, yeah, exactly. Blow the bar up to pieces. I'm telling. I'm telling. you there's something there. Hollywood, give me a call and we'll talk. We'll have a lunch.

Yeah. Well, that's it. These are all going to be up on quicktms. dot L.I for those who would like to peruse it later and remind yourselves what we watch. But again, it's Roof Man on Paramount Plus, boardwalk, Empire, HBO Max, and then what was the name of yours and collider? Buy now the Shopping Conspiracy. Now the Shopping Conspiracy. Sweet.

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There you go. We've made it easy, people. All right. Nicole, I want you to have a great freaking, what? What did you say? I was going to say, I love it because I go, have I recommended this? Yes. And Brian's like, nope.

Nope. Nope. You definitely haven't. But I like it when you do. Have a fantastic. three or so weeks until we'd see you again and uh... love you guys. We'll talk to you soon.

Love you too. See you. Oh, there's Carter. Hi, Carter. Your dog snuck down here this morning. Trying to eat things off the floor. Get your damn dog, Carter. Damn it. Anyway, so there's that.

Where are we now? We are at the point of the show where we say goodbye, really. Oh, yeah, we're really running late. I am going to, I'm going to mention one thing. We got this listener wrote in about, where is it? Now, I've lost my. though there's. So I was talking about how I kept my first COVID test, positive test. Yeah. Here's what he says. What to do with the test. Hey, Scott, I was listening to TMS and I thought

about what you could do with your COVID-19 test is to have it cast in resin and make a paperweight out of it. This way you could have it on display in a drawer and never have to worry about being patient zero. Basically, if this mutates, I'd just be trapped inside of a thing. It's self-filled completely contained, yes. He says TMS forever and thanks. That was an anonymous person. Whoever you are, that's a great idea. I might actually get some clear resin, and maybe do this myself. Put it a little. Yeah, put it on a little,

right, get a mold and then have something that goes underneath it to kind of support it that you can pull out later, like a toothpick or something. Yeah, I like that idea a lot. So not only is it a good idea, I think I'm actually going to act on it and do it.

Cool. I'll let you know. Well, we'll see a good YouTube short when you decide to do that. It'll be a fun thing to watch you do. That's right. Everything is content, you know? Yep.

At the end of the day. Speaking of which, We got a little musical content for you, fine folks. Brian, why don't we play it? Yeah, sounds good. This is going out to a whatnot, Luke. Yay, good to hear from Luke. He says, hi, salt and butter.

It's another year and another request for a cover of a queen song for me and my girlfriend Monica's birthdays. Or Monique, M-O-N-I-C, no A. Monique. I'll leave it up to the covermaster to choose a great one. Can I hear just how long Veronica pronounces sausage? Thanks for all you do. Luke slash a whatnot uncanny.

100% Moist prophecy Yeah, 100% can hear this Let's see So we want the long one There it is I found it I had to make the noise

To find it I guess All right here we go This is Veronica's long sausage Ready? Here we go Yep Mm

Sausage Mmm Good stuff Still Still sounds longer Every time I hear Here's the short one Mm

sausage Just for those we have Compare Yeah anyway there you go all right uh so uh queen's song cover i've played so many on the show that like going down the list like oh here's a good one nope played it how about have this one nope played it how about this one one i haven't played and i think um tv's travis is really going to like this one too because it's one of the songs from highlander and not the popular one it's not who wants to live forever right

i love that song i love that song well this one's also a great song uh it is called one year of love. The band covering it is a female vocal group called Fleeche. F-L-E-E-S-H. Wow. Like Heidi Fleeche. Heidi Flesch. It came on 2019 on their album. Versions 1. Here is one year of love. Just one is better than it's like I shouldn't stop right through my heart. Shut up. Your stuff's skinner. Oh my gosh. I kept a lover. Oh, my God, I wish I looked like you. You're so scared.

Uh-huh. Brose Roney, did you ever notice? When you get to the bottom of the virgin mite bottle, there's always that little bit of vegetable you just can't get out. Crocky. The rest of your length. No, Wharf. Click on the Zoom link.

I sent you a link, Wharf. I see a camera icon, but it's got a slash through it. Skype is without honor. 40% of my campaign is going to be out. I'm going to take you on 60%. to the billionaires. I've been working at these pin particles for a while, and I think I can actually get to the microverse with these things.

If you're going to do it, slowly you'll achieve more pleasure than if you were to pull them out quickly. Don't pull them out four at a time, because as we know, four is a number of the leopard. I'd like to say that Andy Dufrain just ignored the package. I'd like to say he didn't take it down into the boiler room and smoke the whole thing. Poor Corolla I-5, why do I keep wanting to say four?

Our four corcoroles. Wash down with a thick and liquid, right? All right, let's see if you can eat this goat, anus, and then a bungee jump. It's like Marty McFly on crack. It kind of is, yeah, I don't, I make no promises on my Joe Rogan. 5G causes gay frogs to get the coronavirus. I'm never going to financially recover from this. Ripped her arm clean off.

I could eat Walmart meat for hours. They said, hey, what are you over there? Come here. You're not allowed here. Book him. I don't know what I was doing. There you go with me. That's better.

Well, now we're going to do a thing where you take your pants off and you go through this room, and then we're going to have somebody stick a scope up your anus and make sure that you're not hiding a gun up there. If Vince Gilligan was my TSA agent, I would gladly welcome. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes. Get more at frogpants.com. Is that what?

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