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Episode Date: September 27, 2021

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It's not actually true. It is in the morning. Yeah, TMS AM, in the PM, in the AM, yeah. We had to switch things around. We'll explain that in a minute, but welcome to the PM edition of the show. Dear patrons, thanks for your support of the show. That is why you get this episode. I'm Scott Johnson here in Salt Lake City, And, of course, Brian, currently in San Francisco, California, or thereabouts.

What's going on, man? Yeah, just north of San Francisco in a town called Larkspur. If you're familiar, so basically, if you cross the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, you go north. And then you continue on, you pass Salisito, you pass Mill Valley, and then you get to Larkspur and some, God, some beautiful, really, this might be the most beautiful part of California. um this area north of san francisco it's beautiful rolling hills fog just kind of cresting over the hills um a little inlets and marinas and um uh everything's green uh and everything i think cost three point five million dollars uh every house you know we're like oh wow look at that house and you know one of chris brown's brother's like oh yeah that's like a three three and a half

million dollar house like oh okay cool let's go get some pizza how much is that pizza Three and a half million dollars. Yeah. Costa living out there, a little out of control. A little, little high. But, man, it is beautiful. And we set foot in San Francisco for a little bit yesterday. We took the ferry rather than driving, and we don't have a car because we borrowed one of Chris Brown's

brothers' cars on Friday. We didn't have access to it yesterday. So we took the ferry. Ferry is great. I took the ferry from Larkspur into the port of San Francisco, went right by Alcatraz. I took a picture of it for you. Oh, nice. Thank you.

I don't think I sent it to you, but I need to. Yeah. And I went down Fisherman's Wharf, got some clam chowder and some sourdough bread, and some poisters on the half shell. Did the clam chowder have sand in it? Because mine did. Zero, zero sand. It was a fantastic clamp chowder. Damn it.

Why did I get sand? when I was there. Because there's like a 25% chance that you're going to get sand. If you roll a one or a two, you're going to get sand. Damn it. I'm not a fan of the sand. No, no. You've stayed away from, you've stayed away from clam chatter for that reason.

Yeah, I don't, I rarely eat it. And when I do, I have to ask questions. Like, where have your clams been? How fresh are these? I know you weirdos on the East Coast think it's good to have sand in it. So you better tell me right now. Is there sand in this? That's like, I go through that every time.

Yeah, it's really awkward when you, you know, you ask how are the clams in the reply, I'm sorry, you're at a Taco Bell. But then I would say, no, I maintain this question. How are the clams? How are your clams? How are your clams doing? Well, anyway, well, that's great. That's fun.

That's fun to go to the old, the touristy stuff. It was a very touristy thing. We walked all the way down the Embarcadero to the Buena Vista, which is a restaurant known for two things. Number one, right there in the name. It's got an incredible view of San Francisco Bay. It's up on one of the hills in San Francisco and you just look straight out

and see San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge and the fog rolling in, except because of COVID time. So, with COVID going on, they had to switch to a lot of outdoor seating, which means that they, and

because it's kind of cool in San Francisco, like Mark Twain says, the coldest winter i ever spent was a summer in san francisco that's great um that view is blocked now by um plastic uh a plastic room that they created like basically you know what we're now calling outdoor seating but prior to pandemic what we would have called um a uh a hot zone quarantine room yeah no kidding so wait a minute so like can it but it obscures the view now you can't it totally it totally obscures the view so one of their two most prominent they are the things you go to the Buenna Vista 4 is no longer there.

The other thing you go to the Buena Vista for is Irish coffee. They're known for having the best Irish coffee. And so our plan was to go there, then hook up with one of Chris Brown's brothers and his former partner,

and then go back into Larkspur to meet up with his other brother and do a little party last night. We got to the Buena Vista, and there was a line out the door. Those Irish coffees super popular, and I'm not going to wait in the line for coffee, whiskey, whipped cream

and sugar. I don't need it. So we continued to, met up with a brother, made our way back to Larkspur. And had a really good evening mixing drinks, sitting out there in his backyard with some chairs, just a handful of

us talking stories about Chris Brown playing, Chris Brown brought out his ukulele and he's playing some music for us and then we decided But in the town of Larkspur, which is a block away from his brother's house, the main street, there is something called the downtown wine stroll. That sounds immitt as hell to me. It's so imbit. And basically, it's all of these people setting up all of these local vineyards, setting up little tables with their wines.

You buy a glass at the entrance and then you just walk down the street and they fill your glass. Um, we, we didn't do any of that. I mean, we walked down. We did the stroll, but we didn't, uh, we didn't want to spend the money on getting a wine class. And the big reason why is because every table was filled with wine karens. It's like, like, now where are your great stores locally? Can I try another one of the, another glass of the peanut noir? Oh, man, wine karen sounds like the worst karens.

They are, they are the worst karens. And so, there were, There wasn't even a table where we would have been able, had we purchased the class, been able to step up and try some. So, yeah, whatever. Well, as we're heading, as we're actually, as we are heading out, where Chris Brown's brother lives, it's right on one of these beautiful sloping hills. Yeah. And there's, it's kind of on an alley that's still used as a street. It's paved.

It's not like gravel or anything like that. It's smoothly paved, but it's bisected by a small, small street, right? Suburban residential street. Sure. That no one seems to be driving on right now, which is a good thing. Because on this sloping alleyway, a bunch of kids are on longboards flying, like going faster, faster than any other longboard I've ever seen.

These kids are starting at the top of the hill. They're propelling, and then they are going down the hill with tremendous amounts of speed. Wow. And only a couple of them are wearing helmets, but they are. freaking flying they get down to the hill and you hear this like grind noise of them you know stopping the brakes and stuff and um but they don't even have a guy who's sitting there uh at the street saying hold on car coming or anything like that they're just kind of assuming that there's no car coming and i don't know what happens if there is right standing standing next to us on

the street is a local um got his dog and he says yeah you know these kids are just flying i I let him actually borrow a couple of my longboards. Man, but they, I've never seen anybody go as fast as this. Dude, you need to be wearing a helmet, man. Bro, you got to wear a helmet. You can wait for your friend to come back up and then take his helmet and then go and then go back down. Like, thanks, dude. Good meeting you.

We're going to head on down to this local bar. That's fantastic. And as we're walking away, Chris Brown's brother says, hey, you know who that was? and I said, no, who was that? Dude, that's Lisa Kudrow's brother. What? Yes. Longboard dude. Longboard dude here in Larkspur is Lisa Kudrow's brother.

It's not actually his brother, her brother, right? It's her actual brother. Her actual half brother, they share a dad. I'm not talking about Giovanni Rabisi. I'm not talking about Phoebe Buffet's brother. Right, right, right. Not the character, but the actor, that's crazy. So he just kind of hangs around there and everybody knows that they're half,

Half siblings? Apparently. Well, he's just a couple houses down from Pat Brown, so that's how he knows. He's like, oh, yeah, that's Lisa Coogell's brother. I know him. He's kind of nuts. That's great. I love that. I love that. That's a great thing that you ran into for just kind of random. It is. Yeah. I was like, wow, okay, that's kind of cool. He can now say you met, I met Sigourney Weaver's brother, and he was also really weird. So now we have these stories. There we go. We've met brushes with siblings of fame. And they're all weird. And they're all weird.

Yeah. That's amazing. Well, that's cool. So how late were you out? Were you out partying pretty hard? Yeah, I went ahead and took an Uber back from Pat's house back here to the hotel about midnight. So I got back here about 1230, which is 1.30 where I'm used to being from.

Yeah. But my body still says, oh, it's 530? That means at 6.30 back home, you need to wake up. Some of your clock has still got some Irish cream on it, if you know what I'm saying? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. That's great. It sounds like a blast. What a fun little sneak away. It's over today, right? You fly home today. It's over day. We fly home tonight. So I'm checking out basically, as soon as we're done with the show, I'm zipping up that suitcase. I'm throwing any last things in here. This cable that's powering stuff and the some stuff around me here that I've got to throw into the suitcase, zipping it up, checking out,

and then heading back over to Pat's house, we're going up to Belinas. Belinas. Belinas, which is the most California sound and name of a city I've ever heard, and I have no idea where or what Belinas is. What do you do? Yeah, we're going up to Belinas to... By the way, they're all from...

All of CB's brothers are from Philly, so none of them talk like this. They don't talk like the local California bros. serve for bros. But that's how I would imagine. It's like, oh, yeah, we're going up to Bolinas. You know, we're going to get some crapes up in Bolinas. And check out the Redwoods, man.

Yeah, that's cool. So, I was going to ask you one other thing about it. Oh, so all his brothers are just living in California now, and he's just the one in Colorado. Nope. He's got two brothers here in California. Yeah. A brother back home in Philly and two sisters back home.

back home in Philly Gotcha And yeah They're a big You know big Irish Catholic family So Yeah They go everywhere is what they do

That's right Exactly That's part of the deal And it's all You know it's all your typical language Irish Catholic Catholic names Tony Anthony and Christopher

And Michael and Patrick Yeah And Mary Beth That's awesome Yeah Everyone was an altar boy. It's all good. Pretty much, yes, exactly.

Well, that's great. No sign of, you're in Leo Leport zone out there. Yeah, we're not doing so far as going up to Petaluma. Well, I don't know. I don't know how far Petaluma is from Bolinas. But maybe we'll see the Leo Leport in his big unit. Yeah, yeah. If he sees you, he'll call you this.

Brian Ibbotson. He'll call you Brian Ibbotson. And we'll talk about my unit. Yeah. Well, he mentioned my unit. If it does, you have to record it. I will. I will say, hey, you know, I still work with Scott Johnson.

Oh, yeah, he's got a big unit. Scott Johnson's got quite the, yeah, he does, quite the unit. That's the best part. I like that. Yeah, he does. Before he could even finish the sentence. Yeah. He's got quite the, he does.

Oh, big unit. Oh, I thought you were going to say quite the big podcasting empire. Yeah. That thing just keeps on giving. All right. Well, I'm glad you're doing good. Safe trip today. Let's get to it.

We got a couple things. Oh, I wanted to mention I'm having a bit of a flooding mystery. The reason we didn't do the show yesterday, we were planning on doing one the normal time. Not yesterday. Yeah, yesterday. Friday. Friday. Day before yesterday.

Yeah, there you go. It was all planned. Everything was good. And about 20 minutes before that, I'm checking all my stuff, looking all my wires, make sure the router's good, all the stuff I try to do. And I go into this room. I'm not wearing shoes, I'm wearing socks, and I step on a chunk of carpet that is very wet. Oh, no.

And also, the basement smells funny, like, kind of not, not like sewer, but like something's, like water's been sitting for a long time. Musty, like the musty kind of smell. Yeah. And that may help with this detective work I need from the chat room and those who hear this, to know that it was musty smelling, because that may have something to do with how long this water was here. But my first reaction is like, oh, crap, flooding of some sort, because there's a ton of it. There was a ton of water right there. And it was a big swath of that part of the carpet.

And it was near the room that has the, you know, the furnace and the freaking water heater stuff and all that. So I thought, well, we used to have water heaters, but we last year got those out and in their place put in this real-time one. So it never stores water. It just heats it as you go. that's a long story and it works really well and we really like it but it but it should mean no big surprises on leaky water moments right like assuming the guy did it right it should be fine so i check in there immediately everything's dry as a bone in there no issues all good so it didn't come from in there where all the water piping crap is i checked up into the walls poke my head

in the ceiling of my office so i could see even further in there no water damage and or water present anywhere in the roof area or dripping down walls or anything none of that that's interesting yeah right so i'm scrambling like is it coming do you have a um do you have a sum like a sum hole or a sum no uh okay our old house did we don't have one here thankfully okay the old house had problems of that freaking sump pump thing all the time i hated it i wonder if it somehow came up from instead of coming down from someplace else if it came up from somewhere that's interesting well that's what we're so so that was was my next thought. I'm like, well, is something seeping up through cement? Like, I don't know how

cement is there. But then I thought, well, it wouldn't be just this one little square area. So we spent most of our trying to find the source. In the meantime, I'm, you know, putting down, what do you call it, a baking soda to kind of soak up whatever is there. And then we're going to use the carpet cleaner thing and try to suck it all up and all that. So all the things that you do. But, okay, so here are the clues that I have so far. it smells like it's been there a while and that maybe we just noticed it because now that I think about it it is there's an area you don't usually walk through correct very low traffic area don't go there and when I do it's maybe I'm in a hurry and I might even have shoes on then

and I wouldn't notice if I had shoes on so it's possible it's been there a while possibility number two and so that so that okay so then we're back to when was that installed end of July yeah is it possible that dude spilled a crap ton on his way out with the old tanks and didn't say anything and it's been there that long maybe maybe no it would have it would have evaporated it would have it would have it would have started stinking away before for sure yeah yeah since july oh yeah for sure i agree with that so that that one i'd rule out so i wrote so we so we play with that for a minute and then ruled that one number two this is a weird one of course there's like the well what if water's coming up from

underneath and i really don't have a way to test for that unless well I do what I have to do is dry this out completely yeah I have to dry this out completely and then see if it gets wet again and if it does well that tells me a lot but even if it doesn't I could cut it out pull it back and see yeah cut that square of carpet out is it shag or is it no it's like what kind of pile you're looking at it's a right this is the most like when I was eight or nine what the adult men in my life would do when they would talk about carpet is amazing um it's like a normal it's just a crappy basement carpet. It's not even, it's okay. It's fine. It just does whatever it does. I wouldn't know. I couldn't tell you the kind of pile that it has. Also, the word pile is weird. It doesn't give you the weird. It's really bad. It shouldn't be used for carpet for how thick your carpet is. Hey, what's the pile? How thick is your carpet? Maybe how thick is your carpet? You don't say how how thick is the pile on your head or, you know, how's the pile on your forearm's doing? It's weird.

so so we kind of ruled that one out or at least for now that one's on the back burner until we see if it's if this if we dry it out and it stays dry. Third thing is there is quite often a little two-year-old in this house and all it would have taken do I have one here? No, I know, but I have these, sometimes I'll bring down a big chicken little. The cups they give you when they give you your drinks are really great for like reusing them and you can fill them with water and stuff. sometimes I will fill one of those with water on a TMS morning,

bring it down here, have it here just as here's water for me all day. Now, it's entirely possible, I'm trying to think of when I would have done this, but I could have left it out there, set it down on the table that's right before that area, put it, who knows, or there were water bottles from when my daughter and her friends were watching anime,

like a week ago. Right, one of them got left over, they didn't see it. Right. Now, in that case, I picture him, him picking up water bottles or anything full of water and walking over here and just dumping it there. I could see a two-year-old doing that. Yeah, yeah. Now, that theory is not unfortunately

supported by, I have a security camera that looks right down this little stretch. And I went back, scrub back, it does two weeks of captures, my thing. No sign of a little boy with a thing full of water. Okay. So, so I don't know now. That's funny. That's really funny. It's definitely. It's Definitely not pee or sewage or any of that. We were sure of that. The dogs. Yeah, the smell, you'd know the smell for sure. Oh, 100%.

Yeah. Yeah. And if it was that, if it was all dog pee, A, I'd smell it, but B, it would be, it wouldn't be like this. It'd be a bunch of spots. Yeah. Right.

Could the dog have knocked over a bottle of water or something or... Possible. But there's no bottle there or no cup there. That doesn't mean anything. It could have been that Kim saw it once and went, what's this doing here and just grabbed it and didn't think about it. Right, right. It is the most, like we, whenever there's a house thing, you can always suss it out and find it, always.

I can't with this. I don't know what to do. We had rain. Mystery, mystery water. Yeah. And someone said, well, we had a bunch of rain. No. I mean, we've had a couple of things, but nothing, any big deal.

And so when I thought of that, but like, there's no roof leaks. There's no water up in the rafters. There's no any of that. And even if there was, it would, like, go down that direction or that direction. And there's no hole right there. And again, the walls are fine. There's no dripping on the walls. There's no, like, buckling or, I'm just completely stumped by it.

And it's not by a window at all. That's the other thing. Sounds like, yeah, sounds like the right move is, do what you're already doing. Baking soda, use the carpet cleaner to suck up all the moisture, see if it comes back. If it doesn't come back, who knows, probably a spilled water bottle, something along those lines. Because in 10 years... If it does come back, then... Yeah, then I got a deal.

Then I'll have to pull it back or whatever. Yeah, but in 10 years I'll be like Chris Brown going, remember that real carpet thing? We never figured out what that was. I'm going to hate that. I'm going to hate that. I don't want to live my whole life not knowing what happened to this carpet. Yeah, yeah. So I'm going to figure it out.

I'm going to scoop it in this thing. You might have to stack it, file it under a fart gas explosive tip, and it's going to be one of life's unanswered mysteries. That might be, you know, we talk about like, oh, yeah, you know, when you die, you go to heaven, you meet. St. Peter at the pearly gates and all these theories about what happens. I think maybe when you die, you basically just get a double-sided piece of paper with all of the unanswered questions of your life answered. What was that liquid on the floor? What happened to your favorite shirt?

What did that guy say in the parking lot? That's right. Then you sign it and you approve, stamp it, you're notarized, and then that's it. I'd love to finally know the answer to all these questions. That'd be great. So why not? I had another one happened yesterday, but it was with Carter and she corrected me.

And it started to make me think it's maybe just me because she said she was in the back of the car. We did have some music going. So there's a little bit of distortion. And she says, Jew destructor. No, Jew destructor. And I went, Jew destructor. What is she talking about? And I go, and I turn around and go, Jew destructor.

And her and Kim break out in the loudest laugh. you've ever heard and it turns out they said now i don't remember what it was it was jeep something about a car oh okay totally innocuous not even not even close to jew destructor wow how curious that the phrase you hear is jew destructor hmm but as i was saying i don't i think it might be me and it's been me the whole time i just hear stuff wrong i don't know it's not a bad hearing thing my brain interprets sounds and words funny it's a it's a bad comprehension thing or uh yeah something something's getting translated bad but anyway yeah so that's my story if anyone at home any of you patrons have any idea what you think it is any carpet experts flood experts whatever um let me know because

so far like today this morning it's it's still out there kind of in soak up mode before i do the thing and it's already a lot drier there's no new water it's just okay it smells better like everything smells less mildewy, not mildewy, but whatever that smells. And the color, you know, even though there's no odor, I'm certainly not expecting you're going to taste it, but the water doesn't, it's not a different color, like a giveaway, a giveaway color like, um, Kool-Aid red or, or juice or something like that. Right, or even darker or lighter, yeah, none of that. It's just, it's just a pure, clear, uh, you put your hand in it, pull your hand up and you

got like glistening whatever and it's and you can wipe it on like a white cloth and it's just it's water it's clear so it makes me think i mean i could be wrong i still think something with the boy the boy not that he's you know he's not like a turd and goes around to dumps water on things but he's young and doesn't know stuff and he's not going to tell me like when he comes back up and sometimes he goes downstairs and we're like oh he went downstairs again somebody go watch him we'll go watch him and he's usually playing with his toys and saying dinosaur over and over and sometimes maybe he goes over there and dumps half a gallon of water, but then I don't have video proof of it, so I don't know.

Maybe there's a toy he has that has water in it, like, you know, some sort of super, not super soakeder, but it looks like something along those lines that just some toy that I like's playing with that somehow has water in it and he was playing with it down there and some of the water got out. Could have been. It's just a lot. I don't know. It's just, it's so much water that I just can't freaking figure it out.

All right, the mystery continues. Let's dive into, we haven't done this for a while, so we're going to remove some app slapers. Listen to this. Oh, is your coffee weird? What happened in there? I get to the bottom of the coffee. Yeah. That's slappy.

What's in there? And the coffee grounds, a lot of them. Oh. Ew. Yeah. Yeah. This came from rustic bakery, organic fine foods and baked goods. And that's the camera.

You're not going there anymore. Well, I'm not because it's, we don't have in Colorado. Well, no. Now I've got a mouth full of. That's gross That's the bitterest pill Right there You don't want that

It is exactly Yeah And I don't have anything else To drink in here You have any water or nothing Fosset There's Fossett water I get some

I get some foscent water But I've got to move My entire table to do it Well all right So you're gonna just You just gonna man through here No I'm gonna get some water You keep talking

Because I can still I'll be able to hear you No matter where I go Oh yeah That's true Wherever you go You're gonna hear me All right go do that

So we haven't done Apslapp in a while Everybody We're gonna do it today I have been on a bit of a tear in the Apple arcade lineup store because it turns out there's a bunch of new pretty great games being launched in there recently and I'm super into them.

Now, all of you at home, Apple or Android users, have probably seen, heard of or played at least once an old endless runner called Temple Run and you're going to say, Scott, wait a minute, please tell me you didn't play Temple Run and you think it's worthy of discussion here or recommendation. Temple Run Plus.

Yeah, Temple Run Plus. No, it's actually not that. Here's what it is. It's kind of weird. I don't know why it exists. It doesn't need to be based around Temple Run, but it is. It's called Temple Run puzzle adventure. And it just hit is out now.

I'll play a little video for the chat at home here. And it's a match three game. There are a few of these now that are, like you know full-blown match three games not remakes of old games like the cat one uh what was the cat we liked quite a bit uh yeah jerry jerry and his cat or something's story it's based on simon's cat and what was it called simon's cat and the simon's cat story or something like that yeah the fresh the fresh monkey of belair the fresh the fresh turd yeah french turd there it is we found it so um these games already exist on the store. That one's less match three and more like stuff is clumped up, make them

disappear kind of game. There was a recent zoo one, kind of an eight-bit looking kind of Minecrafty zoo looking one where you ran a zoo and you did puzzles to earn new stuff in the zoo and that one was also quite good. Well, along comes this Temple Run thing. I'm like, what is this? This is probably bad. I'm going to download it and just give it a shot because Temple Run, who cares anymore about Temple Run? Download it and got completely hooked on Temple Run puzzle adventure. It's a very, very good one of those. If you're looking for like the mechanics of the match three part of it, top notch as good as they get. If you like matching three gems up or more and doing cool combos and crazy shit and trying to clear all the stuff out and not having

a single micro transaction, then this game is great. And again, the Temple Run part of it is not important because you never run anywhere. It's just every time you get a star, when you go back out to the overworld, she runs an extra little bit of space. But you're not controlling that. You control that by how well you did in the puzzle. Oh, okay. Oh, really? So it's not just she's running to the next puzzle. It's... Yeah, she's running. Sometimes it's just running for running sake. Sometimes there is. Like right now in this video, she's on a crank. And to turn this crank, you need to do about three or four puzzles to get that crank all the way turn. And that opens a giant door. And then she finds treasure. So there's like this stuff happening as a result of

your puzzle clearing, but the game really does just come down, it boils down to clear a ton of puzzles and be smart about it and it's tactical and don't use up all your turns or you'd have to try it again and there's boosters and all that stuff. And again, none of it tied to currencies. Yeah. Oh, microtransactions. Yeah. So that's cool because, you know, I love these games and that does tend to be the trend is that you find them and they're not an Apple arcade. And so that means they are going to be laden with. Well, if you buy $3.99 for the crystals, you can bypass all of these or you can play an extra turn or something like that. Um, so the fact that this is a genre that I like that doesn't, that doesn't succumb to the, the transaction EBS. Um, I really like.

Yeah. I also like playing it on my desktop and having no saves carry over and I can move back. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. And whatever, because all that stuff's connected. Use controller if you need to, you know, that sort of stuff. Uh, so all that. Uh, so all that. Uh, so all that. Uh, all the benefits of it being on that store are there. But it's also just like a throwback to a very classic bejeweled kind of game that never really gets old if you're, you know, I mean, we've all played match threes to death. I understand that.

I've been playing bejeweled since I had my Palm Pilot 2 or however long ago that was. Yeah. But it's still just a really venerable game type. And it's fun. It's fun to play. It's fun to rip through and do really well on one or have a bunch of chain reactions and have a workout or whatever. Yeah.

But at the same time, yes, you could look at it and go, oh, all right, this is like all the rest of them. I mean, I guess you could say that, but it's a good one of them if you like to, like, you can go play. Yeah, it's executed well. Yeah, play Candy Crush if you want, but you're going to go, they're going to try to make you go broke if you do that. Yeah, exactly. How are, so the, the version, or the demo video that I'm watching right now, they're playing with a cursor and it's like, click on that, gem, and then click on the one next to it, and then they swap. you can do swipe like you don't have to do oh yeah totally tap to okay all right

so that's just probably somebody doing desktop the desktop and even if you do the desktop you can I did I tried it there and you can still move them you can drag okay so I think it's just no this is good this is the kind of thing I like yeah I figured you'd like this because I know you're you're a fan of it and they get pretty creative

I do like the match three they get creative way they have a lot of wacky stuff you got to try to pull off and again I understand now some people are going to see this and go been there done that a thousand times I know. But if you like it, then this is one of those, and it's good. What they need to do is make a proper, what was that old thing called?

Puzzle Quest. They make a puzzle quest on here. Oh, yeah, yeah. And I know they're like, you know, some games that are like that, Gems of War, but that has micro stuff. And two is never any good. I want like a good old fat. The Marvel one's good. That's a pretty good game.

But, again, they want you to pay money. So anyway, it's very cool. Go check it out. Again, Temple Run puzzle adventure available on Apple Arcade, and I don't think anywhere else yet, like in terms of other platforms, certainly not Android because that's the deal, but there's no Steam version or anything like that. It's just kind of a phone game.

And I like it. Ooh, I'll bet you this asphalt 8 Airborne Plus is great with the backbone. I didn't bring my backbone on this trip, but I should have. Oh, yeah, that game is very good with the backbone. As soon as I see a racing game in there, and I'm like, oh, backbone time. We're going to try that out. Yeah, exactly. All right, Brian, what did you mess?

we'll be back with this week. This week, basically, because we haven't done a nap slapy in a long time, I'm finally going to officially, officially, officially talk about the thing that I've been playing for the last few weeks, which is Marvel Future Revolution. I mentioned it once or twice on the show.

You and I, I think, have both talked about it. But, hey, what do you know? A Marvel game, and Brian's going to recommend it. Whoa. How noble. Anyway, so this is an MMO kind of in the lines of the old PS2 Marvel Ultimate Alliance and things like that. However, it is, for an arcade game, or for an Apple Arcade, for a mobile game, it is ridiculously deep, a ridiculously robust as far as the different ways you can play.

There's a campaign. Oh, basically, you've got your choice of eight Marvel heroes to pick from. Dr. Strange, Captain Marvel, Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Storm, Starlord, and, oh, I forget. Rocket Raccoons in the beginning of this thing, but do you play him? Yeah. No, he's non-playable as of yet. Because they do, they do see some characters that show up, but are not necessarily playable yet. yeah i can't remember who the who the eighth one is but um oh doctor do you say dr strange or no

maybe you did i think i started with dr strange because he's my man my main is dr strange that's uh leum o'brien every time he talks by the way i know it's great well i have sound off but when i had it on that's so cool i had no idea until you told me that um pretty cool so uh so there's a campaign you take your your hero through the campaign and you go through all of these different areas the storyline behind it is based on the Marvel Convergence storyline that was several years ago where different universes, the Earths from different universes, were colliding into each other. And in some cases, you'd get one destroying the other,

or you'd get an amalgamation of those two universes. And that's mostly what you're seeing here. You're seeing New Stark City, which is kind of a New York City, Manhattan, mixed with future Stark technology kind of looking stuff. You've got the Hydra Empire. which, as you can guess, is, you know, Red Skull and his Hydra army and stuff like that. You've got one that's based on Zandar from Gardens of the Galaxy. Sikar, where Savage Hulk, or the Hulk, Planet Hulk, I think was Sikar.

Midgardia, which is kind of like, as you can guess, like a Thor kind of thing. Sure. And so you've got that campaign, and you're basically, right now, level cap is 100. you're working towards that hundred. But you've got a couple extra character slots and you can pick other characters and play them through the same campaign. There is an auto play, so you don't have to do the campaign over and over and over again. It's kind of, you know, you just basically say, yeah, play it.

You might need to step in when there's like a mini boss or something like that to kind of keep your character from dying. But you're learning skills, you're applying points to those skills. Like if we do the wow analysis, you know you're you're working on you've got four armor slots head chest legs and hands and then you've got gems you can put in those you've got these things called battle badges to to help with that sort of thing if if there's one complaint i have about the game it's that they've almost got too many different kinds of currencies and ways to level up your characters so before

you get your mind wrapped around all of it it's like now wait do I boost that with an omega card or do I boost that with a battle badge or whatever that's yeah that stuff that can get so overwhelming in these mobile games when they start out like 10 currency yeah I'm guessing that um a future version like basically at some point they're going to do kind of a squish and say all right we've made this one area cover three different former ways of of upgrading your character yeah um The other benefit of the multiple characters deal is that as you level those secondary and third characters, your alts, it actually helps with your squad level, which is your overall character level. So it even helps your main.

It's like saying, oh, yeah, I main a warrior in World Warcraft, but I also have a mage and a demon hunter. And as you get those other characters leveled, they level up your main warrior as well. Oh, gotcha. Okay. So you're, so, oh, I see. That's interesting. That's actually a really great way to, you know, motivate you to want to play multiple characters. That's great. It does. And it helps those alts because, all right, you take your main character, get them up to a really high level. All of a sudden, the alts you're starting off with aren't starting at zero. They're starting with enough power to, to get them through a lot of the campaign without having to do on the augmentation. Sure. Now, where the game really, really shines, is the different ways you can play. And again, if I do analogies comparing it to World Warcraft, there are instances like dungeons,

there are raids where you're fighting kind of multiple bosses as a team. It'll automatically pair you up with people about the same level to do raids and special operations and things like that. there's one-on-one PVP, there's group PVP and arena style, and there's even something that is kind of, if I were to compare it, kind of like a Torgast,

but you can't solo it. You do need a team, but you're basically going through one of these levels, clearing trash, and then minibuses for better gear. You don't get, the great thing about Torgas is a little augmentations, you get along the way, and unfortunately, you

don't get those but right um but uh it wasn't about the journey it was about the augmentation we found along the way found along the way exactly um you you this thing is generous with the the gems right so there are micro transactions and you may be tempted to pick one or two up here and there i've picked up a couple but certainly haven't spent money in this game like i used to over in um marvel strike force or any of those back in the day but um this game is super generous with the gems. And even just going through the campaign, you're going to unlock enough gems to give you enough slots to alt every character. Um, so you'll have eight slots and you can just play one of each character and see which ones you like. They're adding new characters

of the game. The next one that's coming up is, um, magic. Uh, Iliana Rasputin. Oh. Colossus's little sister. Yeah, yeah. And, um, uh, it's, uh, you know, so when, when she comes out, everyone's going to be pulling up altsy and creating alts of hers and you can even you know you can even like I'm getting low on gold I'm just going to park my character in an area

where where enemies spawn and leave it overnight and come back the next morning and have another 100,000 gold oh wow that's cool a little idle not clicker but you know

let it accumulate it out of play yeah let it auto play and beat the crap out of enemies for that sort of thing. You know, you've got transmogging in here. You can make, even though your Dr. Strange is, and all of the, I should say, all the costumes are based on different, or the armor sets, I should say, but they call them costumes, are based on comic series from Marvel's history. So you've got, you know, where your Captain Marvel can look like Ms. Marvel or binary

or pre-Carral Danvers or things like that. Sure. And so... That's pretty cool. I like that. It's cool. Yeah, the Dr. Strange looks are great. There's, you know, that old 1602 comic where...

I think it was Neil Gaiman who did that. Love that. And had old versions of all the characters. I love his 1602, like, old steampunk alchemist kind of look. So that's what I had on him for a while. Enormous. I'm an enormous fan of that run. I loved reading that.

Yeah, it's so cool. And you can even, and you can transmog so you can have him, his actual armor be a really good one, but then transmog him into anything that you've collected, whether or not you still have it, whether or not you've gotten rid of it, sold it or dismantled it for parts. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. It's, it is a, I mean, yeah, the modes are probably, maybe it's, it's greatest advantage and maybe it's even its great advantage and maybe it's even its great. greatest flaws, that there are too many. I'm looking at it. So between Blitz and Special Operations and Battle Challenge and Raid and then your Omega War, Dimension Dual Dark Zone, in the campaign, you've got about 10 different nodes you can play or modes you can play. You don't

have to, but you know, if you go into each one once a day, then you earn some more gems by completing daily quests and things like that. That's cool. Yeah, I played a bunch of this as well. I will admit the currency stuff got a little overwhelming, but they always do in these games. It's developed by Net Marble, who is a Korean developer, and this is interesting in the way that big IPs like this now are now being made in Korea, some Chinese developers, that sort of stuff seems to be like the hot new thing

instead of giving it to EA or giving it to some other established American developer or publisher, they're going overseas with this stuff and they're getting, I don't know if it's good or bad, but they're getting way more for their money like in the development cost. But I think this looks really good for a game.

It's great. Yeah, it's really robust. And I think that's what, it doesn't feel like a mobile game. There's limited controller support. You can control your character, but there are, you know, You've got like six or seven different attacks you can do with cool downs. So you could map those.

Eventually, if they do bring out more controller support, you could map those to your four buttons and then your shoulder buttons and things like that. Kevin Chute, you know, brings up, yeah, it becomes a job and forces you to play when you don't want to. I can see that happening with this. That's absolutely what happened with Marvel Strike Force. But for that, it felt like you're just not going to progress unless you get in there. and do these 14 daily tasks every day for things to boost your character. Here, I don't feel like I need to do it to boost my character.

I maybe go in and do half an hour worth of stuff in the morning, maybe let it sit while having lunch and let it battle stuff out and that sort of thing. Sure. Yeah, it seems cool. When I was playing it, I kept feeling like, just put this game on a, on a PC man yes or desktop or something yeah exactly oh that's what you mean a PC

but console is what console would be good as well yeah like I don't know why they don't I mean even if they're still free to play and even if they're still full of you know this transactional stuff so what it's not a mobile fine like I would actually play this more in that format I think because I don't love controlling a game with this much stuff going on

without full controller support the screen stuff can drive you nuts after a while for sure for sure anyway especially in some of the what's that i was going to say there's a lot of what's his name um i can't think he was name bad guy a giant head little feet what's his name oh modoc modoc's pretty prominent in the early levels of the game that um he's one of your big bads in uh hydra even though he's an aim guy he's you know aim in hydra he's he's he's pretty prominent of that part of the game so it's always an interesting choice it feels like he comes up more more often these

than usual, maybe it's because of the TV show and they want to... I think because of the TV show and for a while there was even going to be a... Oh, no, no, never mind. They put them into the Marvel, the EA Marvel Avengers game.

I was thinking there was going to be some other game with him, but it was that was the one that I was seeing clips from. Yeah, well, it's a really cool thing. Unreal Engine 2, which is nice. Unreal Engine 4, I should say, not 2. Yeah.

Very cool. Get it. It's out and available freely for Android and iOS users alike. It's good stuff. Marvel Future Revolution. Yes. I start to forget which name is what game, but that's all. I know.

I know, because a lot of them start sounding the same. Yeah. There's future fight and future revolution and contest of champions and Strikeforce. It's a little much after a while. It is a little much. Marvel doesn't seem to have any problem selling its IP to game developers, different game developers. But then I can't wait for the Guardians of the Galaxy game.

I can't wait for the Wolverine game that got announced. Yeah, I'm legit excited about both of those. And I'm still a little nervous about the Guardians game, but the more I see it, the more I want to play it. I'm pretty stoked. So, yeah, keep it up, Marvel, with your cool games to play. Now we're going to answer some questions. Whoops, where to go?

There it is. You see, that's what you call a loaded question. Quick questions from the chat room. I still have some left over that we're going to read from last. time, so enjoy these for the next 10 minutes or so. Matthew Murphy wrote in, said, are there any video game book or movie genres that do nothing for you? I know Brian, oh, do we do that one?

This one, I think we did, yeah. Hold on. Because he brought up the yokel humor, and I remember us talking about. Oh, you're right. How westerns, you know, there's exceptions, but. Yeah, I left that one in there. Okay, let me do a real new one here.

Is Brian still watching Modoc? Oh, this is an older question, so. Yeah. Well, you watch it, though, right? But I'm not. No, you're not. I got four or five episodes in and, it's like, yeah, I love Pat Nosswald. And, of course, I love the character, Modoc and the robot chicken style.

But the humor just wasn't doing it for it. It just wasn't funny. Well, that needs to be. I'm so bummed about that because I really wanted to like it for obvious reasons. It really needs to be funny or else what are we even doing, right? Yeah, exactly. There's no point to the damn thing. All right.

that was Tom who asked that question, Tom Gilland. We've gotten here, one here from Samuel Thorrington, who says, Scott says he's been reading a lot of comics. What is the favorite thing you've read recently? Brian, have you heard of, or have you heard any comics lately? I think he means red. I think Hurd is supposed to be read. Yeah, I've probably read any comics lately. Well, let's start with you.

Are you, I know, everyone knows I've been reading like crazy, but what's your, what's your comic consumption been like? I have downloaded the, with Marvel Unlimited, downloaded some early issues of the Hellfire gala stuff but I haven't read any of it yet but maybe on the plane tonight actually that might be good yeah that planes are perfect comic rating in yeah a plane ride is I don't I can't think of a more perfect comic time than that

I'm going to see if I can find the name of the one I'm reading right now because I really recommend it here it is okay there's a new limited series out on DC Infinite their app from Scott Snyder and Greg Capulow who famously did the

the new 52 and beyond stuff that was going on with Batman during that transition and they've been collaborating on a whole bunch of titles since they're kind of a killer team team up when it comes to especially Batman stuff and Scott Snyder right now is one of the best writers and comics but anyway he wrote this this story called Batman Last Night on Earth it's a limited series it's under the black DC black label which means you know they can be a little more adult in some contexts than your normal comic

can be. So a couple of swears or whatever, a little more violent, a little bloodier or whatever. It's really good. The best way to describe it is Batman gets in a, I'll sum it up in a way that doesn't spoil anything, but he's basically in a fight. That fight ends badly. He wakes up in a hospital with what appears to be someone knocking on my door. Go ahead. No mint for pillow, they'll say. Mint for pillow?

all right so Brian's getting his door I'll see if we can hear it actually listen you'll be able to hear it because I have my yeah you got your earbuds on hi yes yep thank you they were there for turned down and everything yeah they were it's like no I still have to

11 to check out yet get out of here lady so anyway it's called or no so my point was oh so Batman's in this fight it goes poorly he wakes up with a doctor who looks like the Joker but

isn't and then a bunch of people in a hospital who look like the penguin and all these other people but they're not or because you think they're not and so you're like is he going crazy is he dreaming this is he dead he finds a lantern with the joker's head in it uh if this sounds weird it's because it is and uh it gets real interesting and i'm loving it i'm on issue i mean second to last issue but it's very good oh wow Batman last night on earth definitely worth checking out very cool checking out get it because you're in a hotel. Checking out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't remind me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Believe when I'm damn ready. All right, how about this one? What was the hardest challenge you guys faced to build your careers? How did you overcome it?

Ooh, a serious one from RDP 50508. What would you say to that? That's a great question. Is figuring out the balance because when you're starting doing this stuff, you either take a very expensive leap and give up everything else to devote your time to it, or you try and balance it with the things that you need to do to make money. So in our cases, you know, continuing to work with freelance

or work at a job in my case and do podcasting at night. And then there's the other balance of family versus hobby versus something you want to turn into a career. And if you don't have a great support structure like Scott and I had and like a lot of relationships have, then you could jeopardize one or both of your, you know, those things, your family life or your hobby or your work. So, yeah, it's.

I would agree with that. That's a really good one. The other thing I would say is also just time balancing. When you're suddenly working for yourself, you think that your 24 hours means that you can do everything all day. and keep adding to it and you can you can create a little bit of burnout for yourself if you're not if you're not careful because you're kind of you know you're now working without someone who's telling you what to do and it turns out you're kind of your own worst boss because you're you

sort of make yourself think you can do a bunch of stuff that you really you should to just have a better life work balance that has been really hard for me to do to this day I still struggle with it like I just have too many projects too many things too many things too much too much totally yeah want to do and in any work in balance within the balance yeah yeah get balance in the balance baby here's a question from chad hatcher who says have you tried tripe and brian should have irish white pudding instead of black pudding i've never had tripe nor either of those two puddings i've never had i don't think i've ever had tripe either um i had listen irish breakfast includes both black and white pudding and um i think both team and i liked the white better

she tried the black and wouldn't even she wouldn't go back once you've had black pudding but I would still with Irish breakfast I'd still have white pudding as well I'd have both and I'd still have the black pudding even though I think I ended up preferring

the white you're once you go black pudding you never go back pudding yes exactly it took a while to sink in I'm finally finally like oh I get nice now you see exactly I get it Tripe

Okay so Tripe is described or is defined as a type of edible lining from the stomachs of various farm animals Most tripe is from cattle, pigs and sheep

No I don't want that I really don't want that Yeah No thank you No I'm good I'm trying to see if there's There's a lot of dishes

With tripe I guess it's perfectly acceptable To many cultures and food folks But not me man Oh look at this This is, you can get a related dish called Taco Tocos Day Trepa, which is Mexican tacos filled with soft or crunchy fried small intestines. Oh, yeah, no, thanks. Yeah, I'm not really into stomach contents and intestines.

That's, those all, those all seem to come from a time where people really had to scrounge for, to stay alive. You know what I mean? Right, yeah. And now that we have a shake shack on every corner, uh, yeah, we don't need, we don't need tripe. Yeah. Yeah. That's true in the chat. I may have had it in China not known.

They gave me all sorts of stuff and didn't tell me what it was. And I think I may have even had it. There's that place, Tacos El Gordo in Las Vegas. And, you know, you can get your beef and your pork and stuff like that. But they also have, like, great langua, which is tongue, which is great and tender. And I know they have a TREPA as well. I might have tried. I might have tried that based on James and Svet's recommendations.

Oh, tongue, though. I can't. I know it's good. That's the thing. I know tongue can be good. Yeah. Blah. Blah. Just the idea.

Well, Scott, you get tongue in your mouth all the time. It's in there now. It's in there right now. Exactly. Oh, my lord. No, I meant besides your own. It's not your own tongue. Oh, well, my dog and I get along. I have a dog.

We have a very close relationship. Very affectionate, this animal. I can tell you that. All right. That's it for your questions. We'll have more next time. And probably Dan next week, I think he'll, be around. Uh, yeah, I think so. Actually, wait. Next week would be a play date week, right? Yes. Oh,

yeah, right. Don't we, have we set something up? Did we say it's Friday? crap, I don't remember now what we did. I know we talked with, uh, about that. Let me look really quick. Yeah, if you have that handy, I don't seem to see it. Um, but yeah, um, I think we're doing play date and I don't remember October 1st. Okay. Is that a Saturday or Friday? That is, oh God, you need me to find everything out? Hey, Brian, can you look all things up and then say them quick? It is Friday. It's this coming Friday.

Yep. So Friday at 2, that's what we'll do. All right. That is it for the show. Claire's already asking for Among Us. Yeah, we could probably be Among Us. That's fine. Yeah, we haven't done that at least one.

Yeah, we skipped at least one. So we'll definitely do that. Thank you all for your support and being here. And also this weird time of day. thanks for letting us sort of make do a little makeup for you this weekend and we'll be back tomorrow Brian will be home we'll be back to the normie norm of the usual production so come back I will be exhausted tomorrow tomorrow morning but I will be here yeah you'll do it I've seen you in some pretty tired states and he still shows up man that's what he does right exactly

count on Brian is what I always say uh all right let's get out of here though you bring a little song for the tail end of things here I did uh this is request oh I just closed the window Oh, dang it. Oh, no. Oh, shoot. Hold on in history. I bet I can just pull up in history. Yeah.

Should be able to. Yeah. One would think. One would think. Yeah. Jeez. You never know, but one would think. I'm sure it's the best thing ever.

Talk amongst yourselves. Hey. Here we go. Oh, he got it. Did you find it? I found it. All right. Anyway, back to what I was saying is I,

pull up my list here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Because it's hello. It's by the, it's by Lionel Richie. Hello. Hello. It's me. And it's going out to, there it is right there, stove top Steve says I recently heard the most boring song in the world on the radio, but it was so beautifully sung by Lionel Richie that I didn't change the station. I didn't realize I was a fan, but here we are.

On any available day, please play the most non-boring cover related to the Commodores or Lionel Richie. I'm so glad he asked me to play a non-boring one because, yes, I totally will. Yeah. This is great. This is a longtime favorite of us and the show. Me First and the Gimmy Gimmies, they do a fantastic cover of Hello by Lionel Richie. And they even add a little something at the end for, you know, it's kind of like a little stinger at the end of the song. So I hope you enjoy it.

Here are Me First in the Gimmy Gimmis and their cover of. Hello. Oh, that's awesome. All right. Thanks, everybody for being here. Now it's me who's scrambling for his thing. There it is. Okay, I found it.

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