The Morning Stream - TMS 2028: Row B By Choice

Episode Date: May 27, 2025

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It's the morning stream. It's the morning stream for Tuesday, May 26th. 27th, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson, and that is Brian Ibit. Hello, welcome to a brand new week, even though it's a Tuesday. No latency on you. That's awesome. Oh, I love it. Yeah, it sounds super clear, too. Yeah, that's what we want. Yeah. That's what we asked for in this life. I mean, this kind of helps, I mean, I say this now, and then we're going to get some sort of drop in audio.

But right now, it certainly feels like, yeah, Discord has been the problem with those weird audio drops that I was having. Yeah, it might have been. Like, they, they, uh, I didn't have it with anyone else, but it's entirely possible that there is a very specific scenario where Discord and your end are just not getting along and I don't know why. And TDS Telecom and Discord are just bunk. Something. Something to do with some service thing. We have no control over. So we're trying something new.

We're going to give it a shot. Uh, you guys should, you guys at home should notice nothing except we have less latency and, uh, better, what do they call the thing when you, you say stuff, simultaneously and you can hear both of you saying it what's that called oh um yes duplexing duplexing it has really good really good duplexing brian just spoke you guys heard him as i talked over him see that's a hard thing to replicate on the internet it's like he's here yeah yeah it's like you're sitting right here yeah it's like i'm right here in the room i'm right here in the room with you look around i'm behind you're like this devo guy just standing there just standing there in the yellow really it is a yellow jumpsuit no i'm wearing the west ham hammers today because uh the the premier league season has

come to an end, and the hammers once again escaped relegation by the skin of their soccer balls. That's a shame. I'm sorry, they're footballs. Oh, they're footballs. Yeah, skews us. Excuse us international fans. We try and keep up on this stuff. Exactly. So my son-in-law is way, way, way, way into professional soccer. And so right now, it's all he talks about. So when I see him, he's just like, hey, you see the thing, but Chelsea, this and that and rip or good. Yeah. No. I haven't. Did you see the game between Crystal Palace and Bordmouth? Yeah, it all sounds fake to me.

It sounds like, I don't know, Harry Potter competition or something. It's all Quidditch, too. Yeah, it's all Quidditch. Different Quidditch divisions I was unaware of. Anyway, we're happy to be here. Hope you're all well there at home and having a decent. I hope you had a nice day off yesterday with the Memorial Day. What'd you do?

I did. Get up to some? I did. I woke up at my usual time so I'm like, you know what, I'm going to get up

and Uber a little bit. We're doing a ton of yard work, front yard work, and the still, you know, basically we ripped out a whole section of our yard

to do some zeroscaping. And it's dealing with the sod is the problem or the big issue because instead of using a sod cutter, we just do shovel, saved a lot of money,

and still would have had the same problem of, all right, what do we do with the sod? Like, we were able to get all the sod cut out of the yard with shovels in about, I don't know, three hours, four hours. Here's the early bits on Saturday that you saw us. Yeah, there's the first, that's the half. Actually, no, that's the first quarter I did. And then I was able, right before I left to do film sec,

I was able to get to those two red flags and cut half of the sod out. So now we need to, drying out a lot of the sod to break off the dirt, and then there's a field behind the house where I've been by suggestion of one

crazy neighbor dropping all my sod. You know, why put sod in a landfill? Really, you know, it's organic. Let it nutritionalize. Let it give its nutrients back to the earth from whence it came. Yeah, give back to

Mother Earth for once, you know? I think that's fine. but your ultimate goal is like what like a lot of rock formation stuff and flowers and like what's the ultimate yeah we've got pavers um the city of arvada actually a city of denver has an initiative that if you say hey we want to do some zeroscaping they give you a really good discounted price on a flat a case basically of water low water plants things like asters and and uh black eyed susans and things like that. And so you'll fill that area with those. You'll still use your sprinklers on full for the first year so they can kind of, quote unquote, take root. But then for 2026 spring, we'll switch it to a

drip system and use a lot less water for that section. Yeah. The drip stuff's great. Kim's got the whole thing in the backyard wired that way for tomatoes and stuff and saves us so much freaking water every year. We've got a garden that uses that. So it's so fun to set up too because you're like, Ooh, snake in these little, little tubes instead of big fat, you know, unwieldy sprinkler lines. It's like water-based tokenry network, basically. It really is, yes. Which is kind of a problem if you get a leak on one of the points. Right, exactly.

You have to figure out where, yeah, right. The rest of the network can't get data. Exactly. Yes, I think, like, you know, when a planet's yelling together. I think the water network's down. Water networks down. I can't get my tomato mail. what's going on here that's great i can't i'm not able to load anything on drip tube oh no drip

tube not allowed in this office well that's cool though so you guys are on your way to awesome yard shit yes yes there's still a good portion of our lawn that is a traditional grass and and i think for for the foreseeable future it'll have to stay that way because i think uh h away is good with a section of our yard being zeroscaping but not the whole thing being Oh, gotcha. Yeah, we have weird rules like that, too, here. And I don't even know what they are. I think we have to submit plans to them that are very detailed. Tina Drew, what she showed me was, like, this is like a napkin sketch of what her idea was for that section of yard.

Love it. And we've had things where it's like, oh, here are the colors we want to do for our garage or for our, you know, to paint our trim. And it goes back and forth with like, well, is that this color in the guide that we gave you? It's like, yeah, that's the same blue. well it looks different well it's the same blue blah blah blah and then weeks of back and forth she submits a child's drawing of a bunch of circles in a square with like flower names in the circles and it gets approved instantly wow yeah that's great yeah so that's great though it takes us it takes us forever to do anything and we and i did we did a thing in the back where i had to

submit i well i submitted a nice technical pdf of like you know I use tools and stuff to make it look pretty and everything. And it came back like five different times where we kept tweaking it. So I don't know if they're just picky or if the napkin thing would have been the way to go. Maybe the napkin thing is the way to go. Maybe, you know, maybe don't go so detailed with your submissions to the HOA and let their imagination fill in the parts that aren't easily understood. Yeah. Make them work a little bit over there, jerks taking our money.

They were doing a thing the other day where they were like having a book fair or some kind of something, which is fine. encourage such things these are for kids and whatever yeah but i'm driving by going that's our hoa money you're spending on all that right there yeah no kidding exactly you didn't approve this with us did you yeah where's your dog actually at some meeting you didn't go to maybe we sign something at some meeting i don't know but it's also dumb but uh anyway well that's great i'm excited for you because i would love to do i would love to do more of that here efflons uh too much water they're dumb i don't want to mow them anymore let's go let's do it right and you can do something is pretty with water resistant flowers or water, what do they call that low, low water foliage, whatever, then...

Desert friendly stuff. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Which is a lot of what we already put in, so maybe as well just go for it. Yeah. You know what? You're inspiring me to, like, go bug them again and just see if we can do this. Excellent.

Because the front yard in particular, we want to do something really cool there. Mm-hmm. But all I think about is the headaches I'm going to have with the H-O-A. Of course. Yep. Yep. Bastards. Understandable.

Anyway, hey, I saw a movie this weekend. I saw Final Destination Bloodlines in the theaters. Kim and I were like, you know, what do you want to do? She goes, well, we could see, you know, Tom Cruise and this. And I said, well, I still haven't seen the last two. She says, well, why don't we catch up on those? Yeah, I'm way behind. She goes, why don't we, what else is there?

I said, well, there's a horror movie if you're in the mood. And she goes, well, lately I'm really enjoying these horror movies that we're saying. What is it? And I said, well, it's final destination. She goes, wait, I thought you just watched that for FilmSec. I said, well, we did. It was the third one. And she goes, oh, this is like a sequel or whatever.

And I said, yeah, this is like sixth in line or something. Yeah, yeah. And she's like, oh, okay, well, is it any good? Because I don't think that helped her. I think she thought that meant it was trash. Right. And I said, well. Usually get up in those numbers with some of these movies.

And it's like the higher the number, the lower the quality. Yeah, exactly. And it's so, it's getting such good reviews. I just thought, well, this is an exception I'll make to waiting. You know, the normally thing I'd wait for or even waiting. the film sack, to be honest. Let's see, Rotten Tomatoes has it at 92%. So I was just like...

That's amazing. I was like, holy shit, we got to see this. So we did. Man, this has the gnarliest deaths of any of these. Like, it's not even close. I'm trying to think of one that was maybe close in the one we saw. I guess maybe the final, the kid at the end

who got smashed by the... Yeah, the thing falling off the crane. Crane thing. Yeah. That was pretty gnarly. Okay. The head, the nail head lady was pretty gnarly, but in this there are things, I won't spoil these deaths for horror fans and want to go see it themselves. But man,

there was, and, but they were to the such extreme that they weren't scary. I was laughing my freaking head off in that theater. Yeah, that's the thing. I mean, even the nail thing and the other deaths from Final Destination 3 that we just

watched, they're, they're so over the top that they're comical. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. And they're so gleefully leaning into it. Kim's like, she thought, at first I was laughing so hard, she was like, you're going to irritate other people. And then she starts laughing. And now every kill is making the entire theater a rough and laughter. And it's not because it's cheesy or bad looking or doesn't work. It's because they're so well done. And so over the top of you're just like, I cannot believe I just saw what I saw. And we were laughing. So we had so much fun at this movie. And I think that's why it's reviewing. so well. It's not like, you know, amazing Oscar-worthy performances, although I love Tony Todd's scene. It was really good. Oh, yeah. Cool. Awesome. Yeah. They dedicated the whole thing. Nice little tribute. Yeah. He was great in it. But the, just the overall vibe of the thing was so much fun. It reminded me of when you're a teenager and you go see one of the Freddie movies or something with your friends. Just like total blast. And we ended up, it was kind of packed in there.

And the only seats available were these up front ones. So I had a front front. row eff and seat brian oh god i hate those i normally hate them but these had really good reclining so i was able to like kind of you know you had you were able to keep your head still and not feel like you're watching a tennis match with stuff that was going on yeah there were still a little left to right going on but not too bad the the up and down or the strain on your neck like that wasn't too bad um i you know uh when i look at the uh the the map of the theater there's that aisle the horizontal aisle that bisects the front and the back halves, but there's only like three rows in front, and then there's five or six rows, depending on which big screen we're seeing

it. If the only thing left are seats in front of that aisle, nope, I'm not doing it. Not even the back row of the front section. I just, I need, I don't want to be so, uh, immersed in it that, uh, I'll, I'll admit. It was too much. Like, by the time I got home, I, my eyes are pretty strained, you know, just from just like, taking it all in or whatever and i said to kim i said that was worth it but i don't think we're doing that again that's what i said yeah especially actiony movies where there's like big stuff happening

quickly it's like too much for your brain i mean let's say i'm slow on the on the draw and fantastic for opening night tickets and the only thing left is that front section i might do it if if the alternative is waiting until the next day i might do it so if it's the new first part of the Avengers trilogy or duology yeah let's say that's it and Brian gets there and they're like well we have these two front seats do you do it do you take them there'd never be a point that I get there I go to the theater without having pre-bought my tickets like I'm not even I'm not even making the drive unless I know where I'm sitting and and the scenario is broken the way I've described it's a broken scenario would never happen no would never happen no no but I

very front row I don't think even for for doomsday or first steps or whatever I don't even any of those would would i i can't do it um i think you did it and you did it fine and you said yeah i was worth it but wouldn't do it again i don't want to do it every time for sure i'll do it in a pinch like we did this time but i don't i'm not going to seek that out you know i can't remember there was some movie that um this was back before pre buying your seats and we were stuck in the very front row but it was reclining seats and i can't remember what the movie was but but uh yeah it was i i just i was Like, I think that's when I made the decision.

It's like, nope, never doing this again, ever. It's too much. It's too much, so don't recommend that if you, and it's some people in the chat, Monica actually kind of likes it up there. She does. She takes Roe B by choice, she says. That's crazy. But I don't know, I mean, you know, her theater might, there might be a lot more space between the screen and where Ro B is than there is in my theater. And yours might be different, too. Like, I'm basing it on, on what I know about my theater.

Yours might have a, you know, a mosh pit space or something. ours has a when we went to had like one of those stages where the director would come out and do Q&A sort of thing see that would make it okay that would make it a lot better it was probably a little better because of that if I'm honest and also it um well I guess you you could use that for uh you know they're always advertising these things have your your your big church group or your company or your whatever yeah I assume they use that for all that so it did give us a little bit of a buffer um but the sound in there that's the other thing I'll say about this movie the sound work was top freaking not Oh, good. Yeah.

And it also did some clever, this is why I'm, when you see it, because you'll, you'll see it at some point. Yeah. You're going to, you're going to, I have this prediction that you're going to find a couple of things in particular, like really clever choices. Okay. Just knowing the way your, your game works in, like, with trivia in games and strategy and all that. I love that sort of thing. Like, almost like it's a figure out how this, this room is going to kill this person. Yeah.

there's going to be we're going to have the discussion when that happens oh i can't wait yeah we'll see we've got trivia thursday night so no movie this week or no movie thursday night anyway but um and wednesday it'll probably be the tomorrow night will probably be the only chance i get to watch our film sack movie movie friday night i don't like i don't like doing the film sack movie friday night because it doesn't give me enough time to do the to horribly slap together a song oh right any music time i forget i need i need at least two days to horribly slap together a song i song. Yeah, no, that's definitely an issue. You also saw, but you saw Lilo and Stitch, how was that? I did. So, uh, yet another in Disney's baffling trend of turning their old animated classics into live action movies. And, uh, this is easily one of the best of the bunch. I'd say this is, um, this probably, this actually might be the best of the live actions I've seen previously Little Mermaid, I think, or no, Jungle Book was the best of the, the ones I'd seen. Lion King was okay.

I mean, the whole reason, it's questionable why we need these anyway because I think going 3D Pixar style would be a better approach. If they really want to revisit these old stories, I don't even think they should remake them.

There's no point in remaking them. Yeah, like the Lion King one's biggest problem was it was a scene-for-seen act-for-act remake of the original. It's like, why even bother doing that? But then people complain that they change things. So it's kind of a, that's why I don't like the practice in general is that it's just sort of a, well, you're screwed if you do more and you're screwed if you stay in your lane. And that's what they really did with Lilo and Stitch. They stuck unlike Snow Wide and some of the other recent ones. They stick very close to the source material, the original

animated movie. And I think in this case, that benefits it. That's actually, typically I would say, what's the point? What's the point of covering it if you're going to sound just like the original?

But in this case, it probably helps because it gives, no pun, intend, a little bit more depth to the, the whole Ohana thing.

The Maelani, you know, what's her name? Maya. Where is it? Let me get her name here. It's funny. Rotten Tomatoes cast and crew

doesn't even list Lilo's name. Yeah, they're orders. It's up, man. It really is. I mean, I think it's by how many other things they've done, but still. Oh, here it is. Nope, that's not a costume design.

I can't find it. Maya Kealoha. Okay. She's excellent. She's really, really good. There's zero, zero notes on her performance. She's adorable and funny. And for her age, able to do those reactions,

especially to something that is invisible, right? You know, when you're having to act against a CGI character, she does a great job. I think they did surprisingly, I mean, they did a great job with casting everybody in this. It's funny that we just watched the franchise because one of the dudes from the franchise actually plays one of the aliens that's sent to Earth

to retrieve Stitch. Magnuson is the guy. Oh, I love him. He's great. He's great. He's great. And believe me, when you please don't sleep on the franchise, he makes the, he and Richard E. Grant are the two best things about the franchise. Oh, man. Yeah, I like that guy a lot. He's great. I loved him in Game Night. He's awesome. He's a good actor. So, you know, it's, it's a well-done, but unnecessary live-action remake from Disney, but still one of their better, well, in my opinion, their best one that they've done so far. And probably the only one so far that raises an argument that these are a good idea. But the audience score sure seems to agree with you. It's in the

high 90s. It's funny how audiences all the way, 93, but critic review. And I looked at some of the critical reviews this morning. It's like, yeah, okay, that's a valid argument. I don't know if it means docking it as heavily um as it is i i think um i like matuba that little furry thing is an alien never seen it i don't have kids oh you don't need to have had kids to see it exactly yes sometimes stuff's fun even when you're not a you know exactly kids to enjoy a good animated film i mean the thing about this movie though or about the original is it's not one of those fairy tale movies that I think is the problem. If you're trying to make Snow White or Cinderella

or something like that, you're asking for a whole lot of issues that you don't need because animation is the more whimsical way to tell that story. Lilo and Stitch could have always been a live action thing because it's like grounded. It's people and an alien and it's, you know, it's not the same. Exactly. Easily

yeah, easily the, you know, a better reason to do it or a better way to do it than if it was some of those things that are, like you said, based on fairy tales that already have other source material. Do you do your live action based on the Disney thing, the Disney adaptation of the source material, or do you go back to the original? This one, this one had a better reason to do it. I did not succumb to pressure and buy a popcorn bucket, a $40 stitch popcorn bucket, even though it came with a plush stitch holding half a coconut filled with popcorn, but I did buy the hoodie blanket and it's upstairs and I love it. It's adorable. Is it decent? Like an okay one?

It's great. It's actually big enough that a tall, small schmuck like me can use it as a blanket. And so you turn it, it's wide, right? So you've got the head in the middle and then the sides are wide. So that's like six feet plus, I think. But if you put the head on your head and wear it like a cape, being six feet doesn't go to the floor. And I can put my hands in the sides and wrap it around myself and it's super, super soft. Holy cow.

That's great. That's great. I can't believe that. They're usually such trash these things, but that sounds like it's all right. The cats love them, love it too. So I get a cat in my lap when I have the stitch blanket out, as long as the face isn't pointed towards them. My favorite Dr. Seuss book was Cat in the Lap. The Cat in the Lap.

So good. It's amazing. Underrated. Well, that's great. I kind of want to see Lee Loan Stitch. Of all of these remakes, it's interesting to me. It also made the most money of these remakes. It did really well over the weekend.

It really did. It really did. It won the weekend, surprisingly. But I think with something like this, it's a lot easier to say, oh, let's take the whole family and go see it as opposed to, like you, maybe a lot of people haven't seen Dead Reckoning, or I can't remember what the previous one was and they feel like they'd be lost. And, yeah, you definitely want to see those two before you see this. The last one I saw was the one where Henry Cavill cocks his arms in the bathroom. Yeah. I don't know what that one was called.

Yeah. Is that ghost protocol? Fallout, maybe. Fallout. I think it's fallout, yeah. And he cocks his arms and then his pocket disappears. because they Cgi-I'd something in there. That's right.

I think it's fallout, yeah. And I like Fallout a lot. It's not that I don't like these movies. You know what happened. The pandemic derailed me. It made me go, yes. Oh, I don't know where I am.

It derailed them too because they were supposed to do Mission Impossible. They were going to record both halves of Dead Reckoning together, which is why it's Dead Reckoning Part 1 and Final Reckoning. But because of the pandemic, they're like, All right. Well, we did one. Let's work on, you know, staying isolated, just do all the post-processing on that, and we'll film Dead Reckoning or Final Reckoning afterwards. So originally the plan was this would be their last movie, but it was a two-part or half. Exactly. And they were going to film both parts together. And it was going to be a part one, part two. All right. Maybe it all worked out for them in the end. Yeah. Yeah. It also did really well.

There was like overall, between it and Stitch, it was like a record-breaking weekend for the year. so yeah and the scores for mission possible shot up too so a high 70s turned into um low 80s for critics and high 80s for audiences so now our next bit of news made me a record scratch this morning yeah i was wondering i put that in there and said all right what's scott going to say to this yeah through me i saw it and went what yeah back it up so uh i don't even i don't even have a good sound to play on the show for that so what it's what tell me what this i'll let you explain the whole thing what is that look at this a subpoena a subpoena to testify look at that who got who brought it to it was it like a cert like a door server no it came in the

mail i was hoping to be to get one of those you've been served you know you get little it's like you always see in tv shows and movies like where they pretend there's something else hi um got a delivery for a brain a bit oh yeah what i get you've been served yeah i would love i I would have loved to hear about that, but I guess they just do it in the mail. There's no reason. And so I'm looking at this thing, and I see the name of the people versus the state of Colorado versus, and then a name here. I don't know if I can say the name. And I'm like, I don't know who this is.

I have zero idea who this is. It says, you're hereby commanded to attend and give testimony at the time and place specified in the subpoena. there is no information on the page that I got saying, you know, like, here's what the trial is about. Here's what the case is. How do you know it's legit? Is there a way to confirm that it's legit? Tina looked at it. And she deals with these a lot because of her work.

She's gotten a subpoena herself, but she also deals with these a lot. and um wild and the you know the offense date is on here march 23rd 2024 a little over a year ago okay and that's kind of when it hit me as to what this is oh shit uh do you remember a year or so ago scott i was uh team and i were coming back from a mystery date and i was i was at a red light and a car zipped by us through the red light next to us through it through the red light speeding like crazy did not make the turn onto the entrance to the the highway and crashed into the guardrail and then we caught up to it pulled over called 911 sent the cam footage et cetera that's right yeah I do remember that clearly we have the case now

dealing with that. And I looked at the date that is exactly the date. And so basically they want me to come in and say, yes, that's my footage. Oh, because you provided the footage. That's right. I provided the footage. And, you know, I'll probably still have to testify that here's what happened. They, you know, they flew past me between me and the car to my left in two connected lanes or two, you know, adjacent lanes. They did. And, and, and, and, and, And, you know, their defense could easily say, well, did you actually see them crash? Could have been two cars, one that zipped by you and another one that crashed? And I'd have to say, it's possible that there are two white Dodge Chargers that...

Yeah. But, yeah, so that's going to be late June. Two days before my big bike ride, I'm going to be subpoenaed to testify. At least, you know, at least it's not the day before. You should show up in your, in my tight little bib. Why is he squishing? He's wearing some of that, he's got some of that nut butter in there. Get a little chode butter.

Don't worry about it. A little chode butter. So hold on a second. So like if you, do you know if this is a closed hearing or is it an open court thing or do you know? No idea. And the, the letter that came with it, which also didn't, none of this explained what the court case was. so um but uh they say investigators and attorneys representing our office the police department and the defendant may call on you to discuss this case you don't have to talk to anybody

about the case unless you desire to do so this decision is entirely yours and any failure to respect your wishes should be reported to the court or to the district attorney so i might get calls from from who you know who knows uh telling me you know asking me questions about you know, the case, my video or whatever. I also can choose to be placed on call by contacting the district attorney. And if I am placed on call, I do not need to appear in court for the trial unless I receive a call from the office. So it could be a matter of like saying, yeah, you know what, let me know if you need me. If you feel like you can't do this without my assistance, then that's fine.

But you kind of want to go, though, right? I kind of want to go because it's keeping a hazardous driver off the streets potentially. Yeah, no, that's a good thing. Plus, that's just the process. I did this once, but it was in a closed room with one attorney and it was boring as shit. It was lame. It wasn't like law and order. There wasn't a crowd.

There was no, you know, crow's nest thing full of people, any of that. No judge was even there. It was just a, oh, really? It was a lady with a little, the shorthand recorder stuff. Yeah. The attorney that was grilling me was a business thing that I had nothing to do with. And it was short and I was out of there. But it was lame.

Yours sounds like it has some teeth. So I'm excited. I'm excited to see that. Yeah. I don't know if I'll, you know, I certainly don't want to be there for the whole trial. I just want them to pull me in, which I don't think I can because it would sway my, it could sway my testimony. If, you know, if I listen to everybody's testimony before my own, I'm hoping it's one of these, we have a surprise witness. your honor. I'd like to look behind me and coming through the doors right now. And he comes

Brian Emmett is, you know, the riddler suit that I wore a nerdtacular few years ago. Down, down, down, down, down, down. Exactly. That'd be great. I would love that. And you're, you'll obviously, you know, when this is all over with, you can tell us more. But, uh, oh, absolutely. Yes. And I'll, and I'll probably, you know, if anything happens, if somebody calls me to discuss the case, as long as they say, now you can't say any of this to anybody before the trial, then I won't. But if I can, then I will and talk about the process because I, like, I open this thing up and I'm like, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what I mean, what, subpoena. This is what I hear when I think about it. That's what they're a, Dan, and Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Brian, Brian Abbott made people drink out of tiny cups, and one of those cups was vinegar.

Is he guilty? Hmm. Meet the plaintiff. He's into this shit. The joke's on you. His name is Travis, and he has a blue beard last time we checked. All right, well, well done. That's awesome. I'm excited about this. Yeah, it should be fun. Even though it's, I mean, it can be a little disruptive.

You've got other plans. Yeah, exactly. Oh, that's a really good point. I might have to miss TMS for this. Oh, yeah. Do you know what time of day it is that I tell you? 8 a.m. So yes.

Well, the trial starts at 8 a.m. I mean, I can't imagine they're saying, you know, you'll probably be on somewhere. like coming about 915 you'll probably be on at 920 it's like no I got to be there for the full day and my full day is going to be probably sitting in a room until they call on me to step in and give my testimony what day is it so uh June 26th oh I think I might be gone that day anyway okay that's uh yeah because you've got a concert yeah yeah you're flying out oh that might work out perfectly uh yeah we'll double check we'll figure that but uh cool Brian now in the legal system and we'll let you guys know how he poops out the other side fantastic Did it freak you out a little bit when you first got it, though? You're like, what did? Yeah, oh, absolutely did, yes, because the first thing is subpoena to appear or testify. I'm like, uh, what? Yeah, I don't like that feeling.

What do they do? Yeah. Because you don't, it's not, you and I are both law-abiding citizens, right? We absolutely are, yes. But it's possible I was like, did I thump a melon in a supermarket? I wasn't supposed to or something? Like, I always think of, like, am I up on all the things? Do I get it?

Is it illegal now for me to make fun of a guy's red hat? you know what I mean like you don't know anymore yeah exactly exactly call me into court for it what is going to be this what did I do what did I do this innocuous little thing that I've somebody in my car ubering that uh you know never know he touched me in an inappropriate way touched me in my swimsuit area well anyway uh brave O'Brien bright says have you ever been on it asked me if I've ever been on a jury I've been asked to do jury duty several times I've never said no but in all cases either the situation got settled out of court after I was there waiting in the you know the picking room the choosing the sorting hat room you're going to be on the jury that's right that's right yeah no the same thing happened to me I've been called multiple times they always either get canceled or I get dismissed and the reason I got dismissed last time is I seemed to know too much about the internet and they said that's right because it was the Zoom one where you were the only clear

yeah everybody who got let go were people with good sound and nice arranged film everybody who stayed they all had like half their face cut off yes right like blur background yeah and they were obviously on the wrong mic and all that stuff so I think it had to do with some internet case that we were all too smart this guy knows this guy knows too much it was pretty funny anyway we got a call from chuck buyers who's always out there buying chucks that's his job and uh he has this to say uh let's see what he says here we go hey yuns guys chuck buyers here um just i'm leaving a supermarket and i have a situation and a question to pose to you so a little while ago i was at the supermarket young family comes in

teenagers and a mom uh one of the kids grabs a ready whip canister opens it up takes a big hit off It sucks down half the can. They throw it in the cart. And the mom looks at me and she's like, oh, sorry about that. And we're whatever. And I'm like, yeah, you know, I was brought up. You don't, you don't, it's not yours until you buy it. So looking for your opinion, that's mine.

I don't touch any of my food. Don't open it until it's in the carton on the way to the, on the way to the car. So just wondering what you think about that. All right. It sounds like they're sawing wood behind him. I think there's like cars piling up hunking behind him because he decided to stop in the middle of the street. They're all just leaning on it. I have a very easy answer to this.

My mom used to eat grapes before we got to the pay thing. I don't know why it was grapes. It was always grapes. But she would weigh them first and then make sure she paid for the amount. See, that's the thing. Right. Because back then they weren't weighing them back then. except they were in bags

and they were set weights. It wasn't the thing you do now with self-checkout and the weighing things and please put your items in the bag. All that stuff was not there. So we've had to do it the old-fashioned way. Other than that, though, that never happened growing up.

And we had kind of a similar rule. If you're going to buy it, then you buy it before. You can't have it until you buy it. So that's, I'm with Chuck. Yeah, because say, I'm with him too. I don't know if I would have gone so far as to reprimand the woman.

I was going to make the joke, okay, Karen, but somebody in the chat. That was going to be a joke for me, but Rufus T. Cat in the chat room said, what a Karen. I wholeheartedly agree with you, Chuck, and I feel exactly the same. Even the grape thing, I've seen people who do that, even, and we get our, we get our grapes by the same situation you're saying bagged and already put prices on it. They're already priced. but that said, yeah, it's not, so you don't know what's going to happen. Somebody could, one of your family could all of a sudden have a medical issue and you guys need to just leave your cart and say, whatever, we got to go. And then all that stuff gets put back on the shelf and here goes somebody with a ready whip canister that's been in the kid's mouth.

That's a weird one too. Okay, so I have two problems with it. is what you just described is absolutely correct. But also, why are you letting your kid take a ready whip can of any sort and just shoot that shit down his throat? What are you doing? That's not good for him.

Exactly. I don't know what's in there. You can do that at home, but, you know, but even then it's like, I mean, who does it? You don't do that? You don't like, you haven't picked up a ready whip can with the spring. And fill your mouth with whipped cream?

Like, what am I? What am I at the end of a porn? Exactly. Am I some kind of college kid trying to impress a girl at a party? Like, why are you even doing that in a store? Oh, I don't think they're huffing. I think, or you're not implying huffing. No, no, no, just being a dope.

Whippets, I guess is what it's called, Wippets. Yeah, do they, and is that a thing you used to be able? It doesn't have the same compression tech anymore, so you can't tie anymore. Yeah, yeah. But people used to get high on that stuff, I think. Yeah, hopefully that kid may have a problem. Right, exactly. Well, anyway, thanks, Chuck.

I'm with, I'm with the two of you. Should not do it. And, uh, and you know what? probably good on you for saying something. Maybe they'll keep them from doing in the future, but still, it probably won't. And they'll, they'll talk about you under their breath for the rest of their shopping trip. Yep. I can't believe that guy buttoned it into our ready whip ritual. Then he'll do it again just to spite you, Chuck. I'll just put it as well as to do it again. But I'm with you 100% Chuck. Absolutely. Yeah. Buy it, then eat it. Okay, everybody. That's the rule.

Right. If you're going to the store with me, that's the rule. I don't know about other people. Yeah. Evan wrote in. He has a text about a question about trivially Travis time. I know. I can't wait to talk about this. So this is interesting. He says, when you guys play trivia with Travis, you guys always say, quote, no reason not to go one lower. But there is no good reason. Or sorry. There is a good reason. Yeah, sorry, there is a good reason. And it drives me nuts. He says, for example, Brian says he can name it in three. Then Scott says he can name it in two. Sorry, the reason for Brian not to say he can do it in one is because if Scott gets it wrong, He gets three clues instead of just the one. Is he on to something here? He's not. Because I'd still, so as I understand what he's saying,

and I had to read this several times to understand what he's saying, so because I say I can do it in one, doesn't take away me getting a chance to do it in three if Scott gets it wrong. So the way Travis would do it is he'd give me the one. I'd get it wrong. He'd give it to Scott. Scott would get it wrong. And then he'd go back to me because my initial wage,

was three. But if Scott were to say, nope, I'll do it in two, and then I say, okay, I have to do it. I have to try it in one. And we both get it wrong. I'm not going to get the option to do it in three. But Travis will, whatever wagers you've made, he will honor those and say, okay, you initially said three. Scott said two. Then you said one. If you guys don't, if you miss it and Scott misses it, you still get your original wager of three. I think that's the thing. I think that's where Evan lost the thread and I'm not I think so I'm not giving you shit Evan but I don't think you understand that the rule that Travis

plays by that is in play every time now if it wasn't you'd have a point right like I get what you mean right if me going for one eliminated my ability to get in three and maybe we need you know TV's Travis I don't see him in chat right now but

this is the way I've always understood it and I think we've just never gotten to that stage because you've gotten it in two when I you know, when I would have gotten a third or when I would have gotten a third clue and a chance at the end. Right, right. Right.

TV's Travis, when you hear this, please chime in and maybe give us a, you know, a speak pipe or whatever it is called text audio dealy and just let us know. Speak pipe. I like that. Speak pipe. Send us up the speak pipe and

and it should be a new service. Speak pipe. No, I want to change it. Voice cast. App is lame. I want speakpipe.com or whatever. That's amazing. Oh my gosh.

Anyway, yeah, Travis, let us know. We'd love to hear what you have to say about it. Yeah, that's the way I've understood it working. So, uh, by the way, speakpipe, receive voice messages from your podcast listeners. There's a reason that I thought about speak pipe because it's a real thing for podcast listeners to send messages to our audience. Never even heard of this. Never even heard of it. So it's what is it?

Speakpipe.com? Yeah, speakpipe.com. Speak pipe. I love it. Yeah. there it is. This is kind of that thing. It's a competing deal. It looks exactly like the, like, well, not exactly, but it does the same thing as the one that we've described. Yeah, very simple, straightforward. All right. Well, speak pipe, we gave you a free thing. Good luck. Good luck with that. Yeah. And then I have just a quick announcement for those in the Denver tad pool, but really anybody even nearby or who'd want to do this. At some point in July, the Moors, members of the Denver tad pool, are, who are very, who were very good friends with JJ.

Still, of course, are good friends with Renee. They went out to the funeral. And Renee gave them JJ's entire collection of board games. And we played a couple of them yesterday. I'll bring that up when we get Dan later because I want to talk to them about those. That's awesome. But we've got JJ's full collection of board games, the ones that they didn't want to keep for the girls, obviously. And we're going to be doing a board game day.

in honor of JJ, sometime in July in Denver and North Denver at the Moores House. They've got a really good setup where we can actually have three games going on. It's at once in different nearby rooms. So we'll have something set up. So keep an eye on the Denver Tadpool Meetup Facebook group. Or if you're not a member of that, Shoot me a DM and I'll get you some information so you can potentially join this game day. If you're nearby and you want to join us.

That's awesome. Yeah, JJ was a big tabletop fan. He loved that stuff. He really was. And we played his favorite game over the weekend, a game that he has all the different expansions to. We just played the base game and we'll talk about that later on today when we have Dan on this game. Very, very cool. All right, yeah, keep your eyes out for that.

That reminds me, somebody pinged me. via Discord just now saying, hey, you should also remind us what we're doing for Superman here locally. I don't know yet. When does Superman open as soon, July 10th? Well, we're going to do it. We're going to make a thing happen locally. I don't know what, but just be, you know, I'll let you know. We got time. Cool. I don't even think you can buy tickets for that movie yet, so. No, you can't. Nope. Nope. I'm waiting for, for the movies that I need to make sure I get tickets for. Yep.

And then when's fantastic for? Late July, July 20th, no, 19th or 26th? I can't remember. It's tickets for that won't go on sale. Oh, here we go. I'm looking at the wrong calendar. That's going to be a hell of a month. 24th, July 24th, I believe.

Pioneer Day here in Salt Lake City. Fantastic. Where people use fireworks twice a year and the rest of the country doesn't. I hate it. Double your chances for wildfires. looks have your dogs be extra annoyed in the month of July all right well well done everybody this is good stuff lots of stuff to talk about we do need to do just a little bit of news and today's news is brought to you by by daily music headlines uh today you'll hear about

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There you go. Very cool. I'm going to lunch with your buddy Hammond on Friday. Friday we go in high? It's this Friday, right, Hammond? Kim's in Chicago, so I have no idea what's going on this week. But I think that is for sure. That's right.

Yeah, she's playing with the raccoons. That's right. Rolling around with raccoons, eating deep dish pizza and sending me memes for some reason. Nice. Hope she gets to go to a White Sox game while she's there. That'd be great. The Pope, maybe the Pope will be there. I'm sure the Pope will, uh,

visiting Chicago, pick up some beef, pick up some cheese steak, no, that's Philly. Pick up some Chicago beef sandwiches. There you go. Or one of those hot dogs they're famous for it up here, right? I mean, the bear was Chicago. What do they call, that's not a cheese steak with the bear?

Oh, I don't know. It's not Philly, but isn't the bear Mr. Beef? Like a Chicago style. Oh, it's just an Italian beef sandwich, yeah. I got it before anybody in the chat room yelled at me. Right before LaSarge. Yeah, I can confirm. I watch that pop after you said it.

Yeah. Italian beef sandwiches. No cheese. No more subpoenas to Brian about when he said a thing. No cheese whiz on the Italian beef sandwich. Doesn't sound good. I know that there's a way to make that right. But just saying it's cheese whiz ruins it for me.

I know. I know. Brexit. So even I've been doing so much stuff with the Blackstone Grill, I've been making pancakes and I did an egg scramble with potatoes and sausage the other morning. But the one I'm like super. Oh, we're doing smash burgers tonight. But the thing I'm really excited to make is a cheese steak sandwich.

And I'm not, I can't do cheese was I've got to do the white cheddar. Sorry. I'm the same. Yeah. Peppers. Yeah. Grill those peppers and onions. Get them good and caramelized.

Get the beef on there, super thin, uh, sliced. And then, uh, the cheese slap that onto a hoagie. I'm starving now. That sounds so. I wasn't hungry before. I am now. That sounds great. I know.

It sounds so good right now, doesn't it? Yeah, it's too early for it even. Too early for a cheese sandwich. It's too early for a cheese sandwich. Well, here's your quick story. Okay, yes. Paleontologists have discovered a 506 million-year-old predator. This is a fun little science story for you.

Panologists at the Manitoba Museum and Royal Ontario Museum or ROM. That's pretty cool. That is cool. It's a great abbreviation. I'm sure they named it after the other character. After the Space Night. Sure. Oh, no, I was thinking of...

Oh, the Ferengi. No, no. Oh. Tron. The other guy was Rom. Oh, Tron. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah.

I couldn't think of Tron for something. I think somebody needs to do a piece of artwork featuring Rom the Space Night, ROM from Deep Space Nine, and ROM from Tron. All, you know. All together. Hang it out. At a romkin, exactly. Or, no, they're saying, you know, saying, when was last time we got together?

I can't remember. Oh. See? Because then it's a memory. Yeah, it's not, exactly. No, you're right. They could watch Pac-Man boot up, the ROM test and everything. That'd be great. Well, anyway, they have discovered a remarkable new 5606 million-year-old predator from the Burgess Shale of Canada.

The results are announced in a paper in the Journal Royal Society Open Science. Masura fentanyl, nope, fentony. Why is their last name? Oh, I guess it's... Because it's a species. Shouldn't it all be caps, though? uh-uh no i don't know why that i i've seen that before where it's like i feel like those should be capitalized but no it's when it's like a genus or species or phylum or you know whatever it is

then they oh you said philum it made me think of filo dough and it makes me hungry you really are hungry i'm starving i don't know why i shouldn't be hungry at 1002 that's wrong with me anyway it's the size of your index fingers how big this thing is has three eyes spiny joint claws circular mouth lined with teeth and a body with swimming flaps along its side i love a good swimming flaps swimming flaps yeah stephanie uh you know whatever mermaids uh these traits show it to be part of an extinct group known as the radiodonts oh they were so good in the 70s in the 80s they're they was really catchy had a really good beat saw one american bandstand and they killed it see if they have a photo here i want to see this thing up close uh

Oh, yeah, I'm sure they do. I don't see anything. What's the fun of having a story like this with no photo. No kidding. Oh, well, Science Daily. I mean, you can trust them. We're boring. We're boring here at Science Daily.

No photos of any sort. Well, that's not true. They have others. Oh, no, they have none of their articles have photos. What are we supposed to just believe you guys? All right. I'm kidding. Well, anyway, good luck to them.

That's exciting news. We're going to take a break. When we come back, Dan will be here. We're going to talk board games. We're going to see what Brian's been playing as well. I don't know if we'll have a medical question or not. Maybe we will. I don't know.

Who knows? Who knows what will come up with Dan? But that's all coming up after this song selection. Brian Brought. What do you got? I did. Let's go to, by the way, just sent you a photo or an image that was posted elsewhere of what they think this Mazura, fentanoni, fentoni.

Oh, look at that. So this is like an illustration, but this is, if this is what it looks like, good Lord. Three eyes is so like that, that already kind of freaks me out. Yeah. How'd you like to find that in your grilled cheese? sandwich. Good Lord. And it likes to swim up your penis. All right. Anyway, L.A. Punks, Impired, have

a brand new video for their latest single. It's called Blood on the Ceiling. These guys rock. And I think we've had, geez, have we ever had Empired on the show before? I played one of their indie songs. I'm not sure if we have or not. But this is streaming via Hey Ever Records.

Let's see. Any sort of connections, stuff that you know. from these guys not really but they are about to or no they're in the middle of their tour you can see them next on the 31st at bobby v's in anaheim california and then they're shooting up north to san francisco and costa mesa so if you like empired make sure to go check them out here's the song blood on the ceiling Hey, now I call you baby when you suffer like being told me, don't you? Here while I motion from that wide mirror, light light after life.

Find my way back from out of here. We live it's right Dear God, I am anything but hateful It's bad I am humble, yeah, I'm grateful Oh Hey, now I'm grateful Whoa That fire rise from combat

Tours raised from you Then hatred lies At the bottom of that ocean You let me swim until I die Find my way back from out of you In a funny how we let me sign Find my way back from out of the air And funny how we let it fall

Dear God, I am anything but hateful In spite of you, I am humble, yeah, I'm grateful Dear God, I am anything but evil Instead of blue, I am humble Yeah, I'm grateful Blown upon the sea level Wash what you kept Every stain goes stronger, every stain grows larger.

Brueblood, blood upon the ceiling, wash what you can. Every stain goes larger, every stain goes stronger. Move it, flood upon the ceiling, watch what you can. Every stain runs stronger, every stain grows larger, every stain grows larger. Ruby! Right upon the ceiling! Watch what you can. Every state grows stronger.

Every state grows larger. Dear God, I am anything but hateful. Inspire you. I am humble. Yeah, I'm grateful. Dear God, I am anything but hateful. Inspired you This is the blood bank

This is the blood bank If you don't have malaria, hepatitis, or TB We'd like to have a pint of your blood. We're going to go shoot a little skeet. And we've returned. that one more time. That band featuring members with swimming flaps and three eyes is called Empired.

That's their brand new single Blood on the ceiling. Nice. It's funny that that clip I played was about giving I know. It's very well-time. Had no idea. That was news to me. All right, we are going to let's see, I've got to do this a little bit.

Yes, and now we get his audio in here. We got a little bit of a new thing we're doing, folks, audio-wise, so give us a minute. Dan, I know you're listening. I'm going to send you something, okay, and then you're going to click it. And if it doesn't work, I'll go back to Discord and just call you directly. So this is just a test to see if this will work for Dan. So, Dan, I'm sending you a thing.

It's directly to you. I could have put in our group, I guess, but I didn't. Anyway, that's on its way to you and a private message when you get that. Click that. Let's see if it lets me add you to this call. We'll do this much more gracefully next time. If it works, if it doesn't, I'll just call you in Discord. You'll hear Brian.

We'll hear you. We'll figure it all out. Here we go. Oh, I'm at the limit of guess. Hello, hi, Dan. Oh, he's on a weird audio deal. I hear him being a little crunchy. Danny, you there.

If it doesn't work, I can call you in Discord. It's okay, not a big deal. Are you there? Do we hear you? We'll give him another second. Oh, he's muted now. Okay. I can see him muting.

Now he's working on it. He's, uh, Danny, there? Yeah, so. Oh, unmute yourself there, Dan. You're muted. I see your green line moving like. you're talking but oh interesting yeah you muted to yourselves or himself is there a way down oh how about now how about now hello oh i hear me i hear me how does that work does that work

and i better hear me too how about me i hear you i hear you but i also hear me okay let me let me figure this out here uh let's let's love it it it's all right this is uh this is how we fix things. This is by trying them and then adjusting. Yeah. And if it doesn't work, you know, we've got a backup plan. Right. Right. Which is, you know, all I can really ask for. Exactly. All right. We're going to, we'll continue

buzzing for a moment. We'll see what happens. And, uh, oh, I can have it to 32 people in here if I pay. Oh, I hear myself again. Oh, yep, because I'm putting something in here. I don't have any sort of things. Let me see. Yeah, yeah. Um, do you have a virtual, virtual, device thing happening happening i have i have three three inputs four inputs and it won't let me in on any

of them oh oh it won't let you change it to well i'm changing to three different things i've got browser communication to microphone and line in and every time i use all of them uh most of them aren't working very well try try oh i see using your real tech and line in right now which is probably we're hearing ourselves so if you change that just the mic what happens let me try that hold I think this is where I get the fuzz. Yeah. Okay. Oh, yeah, that is where he gets the fuzz.

Oh, but we could, oh, and you don't even get, you just get fuzz and no, nothing else. Nothing else. No voice. Yeah, and let me tell you, it's mostly because. Mostly because he's muted. That's what that every time. And everything else. It's very strange.

How about now? How about now? Oh, I still hear myself. I'm going to call you back on the Discord. All right. That didn't work. So now, do you need me to hop and, I mean, I'll be in disqual here. court as well right because otherwise i won't hear him you'll hear him you'll hear him too you'll

be in a different group yeah yeah yeah okay cool so i'll just send him a voice call that's why the backup should be fine hello dan are you there hello dan i think he may have muted himself with all the switching i have yeah this is fun yeah it's a good time you know guys you know we uh it did it uh it uh it is what it is you know it is maybe if it's what it is maybe if I've got to warned him. Yeah. I know. Yeah.

Oh, well. Yes. You call me directly. Is that right? Yeah. So, Dan, you should hear me. I mean, I could have called you with the Brian one, but he would just ignore. It doesn't.

I wouldn't, yeah. It wouldn't matter anyway. I should be able to hear him. That's true, actually. I could just ignore and not answer. Yeah. And I don't hear him at all yet. But that might just mean he's, I made him switch around input.

So maybe he's, maybe Discord farted. And Windows, let me tell you something about Windows. And it's sound system, all right? This is no direct bash at anyone that works at Microsoft or Bill Gates, the founder, or anybody in between. Sure. But you've never really worked out your sound system very well. It's a bit of a mess. So sometimes when there's like a slight Windows update, all your sources get all goofed, and I don't understand it.

Oh, hi, Dan. I'm hearing a microphone. There he is. Hey, what's going on? You sound great. Yeah, you sound real good. Oh, I apologize, but like I said, this rig is so old, and it's such a weird rig that I've got a soundboard, and I have all sorts of weird jiggering going on that I've got things plugged in all over the place, just so I can record my show, which is always why it's weird when I try to connect to different places. So I'm sorry.

No, I feel bad for sending you a thing without warning, so it's kind of our fault. But this will work. Well, I always forget. Sometimes I forget to pull up Discord when I'm ready, waiting for a call, and I'm like, oh, wait, he can't call me, because I don't have this. Discord up. Sure. Sure, sure. Well, but you can hear Brian okay, right?

You hear me, right? Okay, good. The sweet melodic, melodic voices of Brian Ibit. Yeah. Goes right to your soul. Hey, can you give me, can I ask you a question about this? Well, I have two-fold question. So the FDA comes out and says, hey, we're not going to do vaccines for anybody older than 60,

unless they have a specific underlying thing the doctor recommends it for. I think those are specific vaccines. I got to look into which ones those are. but I don't know if it's any there's not a whole lot that are only but I'm sorry I should have let you answer you well so I don't I'm not sure either I think it's exclusive to COVID as far as I know and I don't know if it affects the two the combo one that everybody was raving about where it's like COVID and flu in the same shot right that's coming out very very soon I think that was supposed to be a readily available sometime later this year and I don't know if it's supposed to be like because right now you're you're gathering all the the strains for the flu for last year to start making the new one. The same thing with COVID. So the COVID vaccine is an interesting thing. Now, got to remember, I'm a certified immunizer, so everybody's got to relax because

everyone's going to get mad at me now. Uh-oh. So I don't, and I'm not going to offend anybody, but everyone's going to be mad at me now. Now, there are people that will get like three COVID vaccines a year. That's pretty much not doing any good. Now, what we're looking at as far as over 60 and things like the COVID vaccine is benefit over risk. Now, remember, during COVID, all the vaccines.

I mean, this was a worldwide crisis. We needed to do what we could. Normally, things like vaccines are, especially newer vaccines, they're all in testing for 10, maybe 20. Even like when polio came out, I think it was like a good 10 years before we even had a vaccine before a polio, the polio vaccine, which was huge. Now, things like that are generally in testing for a long time.

We had to do as fast a testing as we could and got it out. Now, what that means is not everything's going to be perfect, which is not great, but, hey, we probably saved the vast amount of the world's population by doing this. Now we've got things like other vaccines, because as viruses mutated and as we get used to mutate, I mean, that's kind of part of the whole human body, is as we get used to things and with antibodies and everything, naturally things get a little bit easier. So COVID, obviously, now there are some cases that are pretty nasty, but I think we would all agree that COVID is not what it was five years ago. Now, COVID is also easier to catch, easier to catch and less, what's the word, someone told me the other day. It's easier to catch now, but it's way less hardcore.

Yeah. Right. Like, we're not getting the kind of the severity is going to be lessened for the most. Now, what you also got to remember is coronavirus is not just something new. Coronavirus has been around since the, you know, the ice age. Like, these are things that you would, you know, you would see that we've tested for or kind of treated for years and years and years. However, we just got one of these really weird strains that came around.

And then kind of those strains are kind of with the different mutations have gone. my way. Now, the problem with things like, it's not a problem. Just bear with me here. My wording may be, but I think you guys know what I mean. The problem with things like flu vaccine and even the new coronavirus, the COVID vaccine, is that we're trying to predict. Now, we're looking at the top strains of the last year. And that generally works pretty good for flu, because you're still getting 20 to 30 percent a lot of times in your, like, that are coming up in the next year that are the strains that are available. From everything that I've seen as far as, because I do some of these CEs almost every week where they have like a COVID update and stuff like that. Some of these strains that are coming out that are just evolving now are only 2% of the strains that are seen in existence as far as sickness goes are what's being treated in the vaccine. Now, that's still, that's still, I mean, I use the word significant. To me, it's significant. When it comes to statistics, it's not significant. But to me, you're still saving lives and saving some of the things that are out there.

But you're not getting any benefits by taking a shot like this more than once a year for your immune because they're not coming out with like a million different strains, you know, like different variations of the COVID vaccine. So that's why putting it together with a flu vaccine makes sense so that you can get your booster once a year. Now, as far as things like 60 and over, the only thing I can think of Johnson is that we're probably looking at risk versus benefits because you got to remember even a non-attenuated, you know, the unattenuated, which is the dead vaccine. which is basically all these things are, which most, I wouldn't say all. I apologize for all. Most of these things are unattenuated vaccines, which all they do is they give your body the response.

That's what flu is. It's an unattenuated vaccine. You don't get the flu. Now, things like the nasal spray is a live attenuated vaccine, which you can get the flu. And some of these other vaccines that we're getting, I'm pretty sure of varicella is there are some varicella vaccines that are live. Now, you put a person at 60 plus.

Now, I know we're all getting older. Yeah, we are. The cold, hard truth is, cold hard truth is that our body doesn't work as well after 60. I mean, 60 is the new 50 or whatever, but we're still looking at a body that is, you know, we're doing the best we can to keep up with everything. So giving someone alive, attenuated vaccine after 60 may not be the greatest thing and the risk doesn't outweigh the benefits. It's the thing.

Like, you're looking at evidence-based medicine and risk versus benefit in a lot of these things. Again, like I say, COVID, the risk versus benefit five years ago was huge. like the benefit was gigantic right now with some of these other things that's the only thing I can think of I haven't seen a whole lot of that like said I do a lot of continuing education all through the year just to keep up with a lot of the stuff and I talk way too much I apologize boys it's been good to see you guys no it's been great to see you this is good this is what I was wondering I was wondering about this exactly what you got into there was my question because I always there's always more going on than just some outrage on a tweet that somebody put

out there and I wanted to get kind of the skinny on it if like I would I I want to get boosters when they make sense to get a booster. It makes sense. Absolutely. Just like I want to get a flu shot every year to eliminate those, the worst of that. And then people in situations where they're immunocompromised or otherwise, you know, need it. Absolutely. I want to be able to get what they want to get.

You're saving other lives by getting these shots as well. Like people forget that as well. But again, like the, you know, when it's when it's advisable is once a year for sure for a lot of those things. And I don't really think there's any sort of benefit to getting more. than it. You're only, you know, because there are things like injection shot reactions and side effects to other things like that in vaccines. Yeah. Well, Brian, can I bring up something for Brian? Do it. Do it. Yeah. Do it. So, Brian, do you remember? I think I brought this up a while ago because you kind of brought it up within the last few minutes. Do you remember what I said about

King Philip came over from Germany swimming? Remember that? I don't know what is this. No. I don't even know the words you just said. It seemed like some in the right order and some not. Okay. So when I was in In school, this is how we remembered, Kingdom Philem class, order family genus. Oh, gotcha to like a little mnemonic device for those. Oh, that's fantastic. Great. What's the... He was going to go from Germany's swimming.

So that's how we remember things like that. Kingfield came over from Germany swimming. That's awesome. I'll never forget that. Why did he have... See, but then my brain is this way. Because I know that's just a mnemonic device. I know it's just to make you remember the thing.

But all I can think about is, what was he running from? Was he fleeing from a political persecution? Like I go into this whole story. Well, that's how you make another mnemonic from who he's fleeing from to remember something else. Gotcha. You can probably substitute any other S word for swimming if it makes you feel better. Yeah, yeah. Well, you're a music.

Saturday. So, obviously, you use it right. So do you remember every good boy does fine and faces? Did you do that? Yes, absolutely remember those, yeah. Yep, for sure. I'm not even a music guy, but that's how I remember the scale. You never forget those, yeah, absolutely.

I vaguely remember that one. Every good boy deserves fudge instead of every good boy does fine. What was the typing? The typing was not a mnemonic device, but yet... No, that's the one where you use... Brown Fox went running up the... Jumped over the lazy dog. Yeah, or whatever that was.

Learn how to type. And that has, like, every single letter on the... That is an ambigram, if I remember correctly. Ambigram. No, ambigram is reverse. A poly... Polygram? No.

It's a Mavis beacon. What it is. It's a Mavis beacon. It's a Mavis beacon. Always use it. I think ambigram is the same, a drawing technique where the word you write can be read upside down or forward. But there's some other

name for a sentence that contains all letters. I'll find it here. All right. Pan gram. Pan gram. Thank you. Pan gram. All right. Pan gram. I like that. Pan gram.

Pan gram. Dan, before we get into Landshark. Before we get into the games you want to recommend, Brian played one or a couple in particular, right? I played a couple yesterday. Yes.

So the one that was J.J. Valentine's favorite game is, again, called La Corsa Grand Prix. This is a very easy-to-learn card game where you are advancing your car in a Grand Prix race and several Grand Prix races. And you're basically going head-to-head against the car in front of you or extending your lead if there's no car directly in front of you. And this is like this is small enough. it can fit in a in a pocket you can take it with you i mean there's the extended the the big version that they had had like a wooden a beautiful wooden board and little models for all of the the cars but um this thing was a blast uh had a great time how do you spell is look oh here it is it's right here in our chat yeah l-c-o-r-s-a there you go and i think that one's one

a bunch of uh a bunch of words yeah that's the version they had with that little wooden um that little strip there okay That's cool. A little car chits. I've never seen this before. It looks great. It's just one of those great little games. Yes.

Yes. I mean, it's like easy. Your adults and kids can learn it. Scott would love it. There was actually, I held up the manual and pointed out that it's a trifold, but there's a blank page. So it's not even both sides. It's the inside of the trifold. And it's got such a cool, like, like 50s design.

it. Yeah, I was going to say the whole art vibe is awesome, like classic racing, early 60s, 50s stuff. I love that. It totally does. You would love this, and you'd have no problem playing this with Van. You know, Van would pick up on it really easy. You'd beat them very easily because it's a game about reading your opponent and what you think they're going to play, because you're basically playing, you and your opponent are both playing a card simultaneously, and whosoever card is higher your car is going to advance

or stay put if you're already in the lead. so it's a matter of thinking oh I think my opponent's probably going to play a high card because once you you've got a set of cards and once you've played those cards you're done with them so

you can kind of see what they've been playing up to that point and kind of get an idea that they might be out of high cards or that they're sandbagging or whatever but classic racing fans would love a game like this too

just because of the bottom of it all but it easily could be spaceships or ogres running or whatever it could be anything but it's got such a cool little car, classic car vibe that you'd get a kick out of that. Even all this language like Italian Racing Red, British Racing Green, Racing. Right, yep, yep. That's cool, man.

So that's called La Corsa and had such a great time with that. Apparently it's won a lot of awards too, and we'll deserve simple but complex, you know, simple on the surface but complex once you play it. The other game we played was a game called Ravine, which was a Kickstarter, started by some guys here in Boulder. Colorado. And this is a collaborative survival game where you basically have to survive several nights after a plane crash until you get rescued. And this was another, it's also a card game, but it's a collaborative card game that works really well as a collaborative. You can be selfish and eat all the food that you forage yourself and let your, let your, uh, your friends die, but, uh, I love this art where the plane crashes in the room. Yeah, like just straight down

into the, it's really great. It's like, hey, how can we have the most simple illustration of like most, most horrific event a person could have in their life? Right. That's really awesome. You know, this easily could have been, uh, based on the TV show Lost and been a franchise game because there are some, there's a little bit of a supernatural element in there as well. but you know you get close to death and all of a sudden you have to do take a madness card and the madness card might mean you are not able to talk for the whole next round and so you know you can't even tell people what your madness card says because you play it immediately and they can't look at it so you're silent or you're the one that happened to me

was I had to shout the name of a fear so it and until somebody said my name. So I kept going, spiders! Spiders! Until somebody had nobody ever said Brian to get me out of it. So he just had to wait until the night went through. That's great. So this kind of reminds me of a combination of two other games, because this is a very cool little kind of card game. You know, a lot simpler than what some of these others that I'm going to mention real quick are. So this reminds me of Robinson Caruso, which has been around for about 12, 13 years from portal games. and Ignacy Chevićak

that designed one of the designers on that one and that's basically just a take on a cooperative you know on a desert island

and it's wildly popular a lot of fun and it was another game that came out from Rob Davio who is the father of all the legacy

games in the world and worked at Hasbro and everything it was from yellow that was called Mountains of Madness that again it was a cooperative

game about kind of survival but what it had was these kind of madness cards and there was one time we were playing at Origins when it first came out

and I got this card where I had to feel like I was freezing the whole time so I'm sitting there like, you have a ring? And every time someone's asking me a question, I said, I don't know, so it's kind of like that whole that stuff is just like it's it's only fun when you're getting into it. You know what I mean? Like when you get into the game,

that's how you. Yeah. Oh, here it is. Yep. We're together to reach the love Craftian peak while dodging insanity cards. Yeah, there you go. That's exactly. Yeah, very similar in style. So. That's cool. very cool cool so big big recommendation for both of those yeah that's great uh thank you and brian put a um if you could put a um if you could put a feather in this for future uh i'm a huge blackstone guy so we'll have to talk about blackstone stuff on a future oh cool but you know we'll uh maybe i'll start up a little uh discord chat between you me scott and dunaway because we're all blackstone uh grill oh absolutely yeah yeah i've got um i've i've been told a million times which is probably not that hard but i'm told a million times that I've ruined people for smash burgers just because of how great it

is on a black side. There's nothing better than a freaking good smash burger. You get a good crisp outer edge to it and yeah. Oh my gosh, it makes me so hungry. It's so good. How did you, do you have any tricks on the whole pre-spice? What do you call it? Seasoning. Yeah. Spicing. Yeah, you basically just did it.

Well, as far as the grill itself or just for the blackstone. Yeah, like Brian brought, well, Brian bought some good stuff you're supposed to use. I suppose everybody probably just You don't, you know what? You don't have to. You could use regular oil. I bought the special blackstone griddle oil, but you don't, you can use any oil. And basically, you're just going to crank up the heat on that griddle, get it super hot, then coat it with oil, and use your spatula or a cloth to spread it around, let it smoke, let it all smoke off, and then repeat that procedure three or four more times. Wow. Easy. And you're just basically laying a lot of, a lot of oil. burning up a lot of oil on that thing. And now my... And I usually do that about once a year.

Usually either the beginning or the end of the season is what I try to do to redo that after every time I cook. The good stuff about that blackstone kind of grease that they have, if you go into like a Dick's sporting goods, I don't know if they have that out west,

but the Dick sporting goods or some of these those sporting goods places that have, you know, the blackstone section or the griddle section. Sometimes you can find that stuff really cheap, just kind of like the grease trap, the aluminum foil grease trap things. You can find those really cheap because they go on sale all the time and just kind of collect those for use.

But any oil is really kind of good. I mean, they talk about smoke point here and there. I mean, I'm a pretty good cook on there, but I'm not a five-star Michelin chef. I don't really, you know, I get what oil I can without, you know, going rock bottom just to keep everything kind of really good and oiled. Look at this, man. This is the new dudes thing we can do together. It really is. And the Blackstone Grittle YouTube channel is fan-freaking-tastic as far as.

as like tips and recipes and things like that. Like cleaning the grill, I was, you know, I was like, oh, yeah, I know not to use any soap and I know not to use soap because I don't want to take off the seasoning that I've been working so hard to put on there. I don't want to rust it. But they're like, said, all right, here's the times you're just going to want to scrape things into that back little container. Here's the times you're going to want to use water.

If it's got like a sugar base, you did some terriaki stuff on there, you'll use water to demulsify the I've made up that word but basically uh I liked it it was good I think that's a great way to explain it yeah yeah it sounded good to me have you ever tried ice-cule have you ever tried ice cubes if you have I don't know if you've got a good you know freezer as far as things go I saw a tip about I do have a freezer that is capable of making ice cubes if that's what you're asking oh yeah that's well I mean like some some people will make like use the big old ice cubes I have like the half moon looking ice cubes in my freezer yeah and I'll throw those

on there, it works really good because it lasts a little longer and it helps to bubble up the grease a little bit more without getting that full layer off. That's a really helping clean it. Yeah, that's a good, that's a good plan. Okay, cool. That's cool. Well, Dan, I know you brought some board games to recommend as well. What do you got

on tap today? And also in our Discord, be sure, I want to hear what you guys played at TMS Vegas, too, because I meant to ask you that, but I didn't know if you were going to save it after the show, but I kind of wanted to hear what everybody had you played a big thing i played was deep regret the fishing game where oh that's really good really deeper you go the more potential for madness you can run into yeah i'm trying to remember what i really like going crazy going crazy yeah what's that called

what's that about what's going crazy called or is that i meant madness people love madness yeah yeah people love that mechanic it's a big it's a big mechanic like three of the games we've talked about so far include a madness component yeah that's great me of uh what was that game uh darkest dungeons one and two has this mechanic where you basically it's an insanity meter and you have to do things to like squash your insanity i kind of in theory hate that idea but it works really well it's kind of a fun mechanic but yeah yeah yeah i don't like the idea if it's not overused it's great yeah for sure dan i've seen you by the way i just a side note i've noticed that uh you too have been maniacally playing monster train too like i have and well you know me

I am a ridiculous addict to Monster Train 1, so once they put out Monster Train 2, I have not stopped. I have to start getting into the, whatever they call that 25-level climb, whatever that thing is called. But, you know, because they have all the different levels of challenges that you do. Right now, I'm just playing with all the different factions. But, man, I love that game. It's so much.

So great. Count this as a dual recommendation, everybody. If you liked even remotely the first Monster Train game, it's a duck builder. It involves trains and monsters, hell and heaven. It's the whole thing. I don't want to get too much into it. But if you've played it and you liked it even a little,

two is more and better and great. I do recommend starting off with one, though, if you can. If you have the means, check out one, because two just kind of almost assumes that you know kind of what you're doing, even though it kind of walks you through a lot of it in a tutorial. But still, it will definitely help you by knowing Monster Train 1, just kind of how the cards work and how the train. And I think that thing's still on, like, game pass.

Actually, two is on game pass. So you can get both of those there, play them for free, give them a shot, so what you think, and then go from there. Anyway, all right. So I'll go into two really quick. So I've got a Johnson game that I really wanted to mention. So the SDJ, which is a Spiel de Charis from Germany, that's the German game of the year. If you win this, you can almost like just put it in a bank that you're going to sell nearly a million copies of your game. I know that sounds like a lot, and it is obviously a lot.

I mean, that's enough to almost retire when you're a game designer, which, because there's no money in gaming at all. But the SDJ came out, and there's, I'll mention a three, but there's one that I'll just mention that I really like. So Bomb Busters, Flip 7, and Crackle, or Rackle, which I have no idea what the heck that is. I think it's just a German game. I never heard of it.

I look at the name, Crackle or Rackle. Yeah, I have no idea. It may be a pretty good game, but I have no idea. But Flip 7 is one of these games. I've been really into, I think I've kind of mentioned to you guys, that in the last year, I've been into all these kind of cool little small card games that are just really fun. They're kind of like beer and,

pretzel family weight kind of games where you just got to like remember when i talk about trio that's the game where it's like what's your highest card what your lowest card that game was really good flip seven is the one that reminds me of this because basically there's a dealer each round and in the dealer like you're still playing but you're the one kind of giving out the cards so on your turn you're flipping over a card now the deck has one one two twos three threes four fours blah blah blah all the way up to i think 12 cards now the whole point is you're either going to kind of hit or stay. Now I say hit. Don't think about blackjack. Just say hit me, just meaning give me a card. So you're either going to take a card or you're banking the cards in your, basically in your

tablo that's in front of you. And you're trying to get to 200 points after all these rounds. But the trick is if you flip over the same card, you know, if you flip over a second card that's the same card, you just bust and you're out for the round. Now you can keep going until you get different color, different type cards. And then you just bank them. And there's some like, you know, some other tricky cards where you can force somebody. to take three cards or you get like almost like a one time get out of jail free card for the round

like they have different cards like that but the game is just so chill and so light that it's just perfect this is a great SDJ game and just a basic math kind of thing you're tracking these points until you hit 200 you're not doing anything too crazy to track it all right like you're just doing it well I mean each round

you're just banking so it's the first person to 200 to win it's not like one round you're tracking but like somebody's keeping score but each round you're just trying to get as many points as you can And of course, there's a lot of what we love to call the I'm So Good at this game because sometimes you flip over a card and it's a second card and you bust and sometimes you'll flip over three cards and you're like, all right, well, I guess I'm just going to keep winning because it just keeps coming out the right way. So it's like there's some strategy to the game, but it's just one of those chill, fun, you know, mindless beer and pretzel games where you're just kind of having fun playing. I love a card game that is just a card-ass card game and you don't need a big giant board and a bunch of pieces. those all have their place, but I do...

Or a lot of space and... Yeah, just pull it out and go. I mean, the reason Dungeon Murder is what it is because I like that kind of game and I don't want too much. Yeah, I mean, so there's those games where it's just like, you know, cards with numbers, incredibly weirdly mathy

games, which aren't overly mathy, but, you know, we call them that. Then there's cards with words with just like magic and stuff, like, where some of these other crazy, even those just kind of like get past that point where you're just like, all right, I don't want to read three paragraphs

to know what the hell this card does. I just want to have a card that has a number and I have rules. Sure. There we go. Sure. I like it. That's awesome.

Oh, tons of fun there. That is Flip 7. So in the KDJ, which is more kind of, I would say it's more the, so we have the Scott Award, which is the SDJ and the Brian Award, which is a KDJ, which is a cantersfield jars, which they call the connoisseur level game. This is perfect how it works. See, everything in life can be put into morning stream terms. That's right. Yes, for sure. Yes.

We're big believers in that, by the way. All things in life. That's just games. So what we've got here is we've got Endeavor Deep Sea, which I'm not sure if I've talked about. This is my favorite of these other three games for the KDJ, but it's not the one I'm necessarily going to talk. But actually, I'll probably talk about this one anyway.

But there's also Endefer Deep Sea, Far Away, and Lute, which has got 3-0s. That game's pretty good. It's fine. I'm not going to worry. It might actually be the one it wins, but we're fine. It's a fine game. Far away, I think I talked about a couple of years ago, because what's weird about these SDJ and KDJ is it's not when things come out.

It's when things come out in Germany because it's the German game in the year. So games like Endeavor came out last year, which makes it, you know, which makes why it's eligible. He's out here and came out there. But far away, which came out here a few years ago, I think it actually came out in like France, then came out here and then came out in Germany. So since it just released in Germany last year, it's a game that is up for the award. And that's why it's really good. I think I talked about this one.

This is another actually pretty cool kind of card game far away where you're kind of drafting cards each round and they'll have different pictures on them in ways that you have to score. Now the trick of the game is you're making your tableau. You're drafting eight cards and you basically think of it as eight cards left to right. And as you're drafting cards at the end of the eighth card, you basically flip over all the cards face down and then you flip them over one at a time. Instead of from one to eight, you go eight to one. So as you're playing the game, you have to think in your mind,

all right, am I going to reveal enough to be able to score them? because some of these cards have things that will score, maybe two points for every blue card or 10 points for every red, blue, yellow, and green card that you have. But if you flip it over, it scores immediately. It doesn't, like, just cumulatively score, like, when the game's over. So as you're flipping them over, they score. So you have to remember what you're playing

and what you have played in order to help score at the end of the whole, you know, basically game around. It's eight cards. This is going to be one where Johnson is going to play the game, but Ibit is going to read the rules and explain the game. because it's going to be much easier to do it that way. That sounds great. I need someone to read these.

Or is it one of those games where you say, let's just play around. I'll figure it out. Can I do that in this one? Yes. Well, absolutely. So you can play a whole game and then you can figure it out because far away probably plays maybe 20 minutes to play a game.

And then you're like, all right, I get it now. Because this is a game that since it's so much fun, you're going to want to play it because when you get done with you, you're like, oh, my God, I get it now. Because especially since it is, like I said, I explained it. But even me explaining it and you're like, I get it. No, you don't. get it until you actually play it because once you start flipping those cards over after

the first round you're like i get it now okay well i'm happy i like games where i can get them when i play them those are my favorites yeah yeah yeah and then so endeavor deep see brian i think this is something you're really like scott you can fall asleep for a few minutes endeavor deep see is is really good because it's it's it's kind of a bit heavier but in a really cool way like you're gonna you know scott go play with this marker yeah go do something go go do it some air can in your mouth while I go to the rest of the story. I love it. It's actually, I think, Scott, I think since you do kind of like, it's a good nautical theme,

you probably would like this, but you just have to be basically, we would have to separate our Friday night and be like, Scott, we're playing a heavy game this Friday. You're going to love it, but just bear with us and just, you know, empty out your, you know, your calendar. We're playing this Friday night. But so you're kind of drafting these plate people that go into your tableau as far as different specialists, and then as you activate the specialists, they're going to activate different things.

Now, you'll have a certain amount of, you know, drafting powers or action powers or even disc to do actions or even amount of movement for your submarine. And you're kind of moving around the landscape. And there's different scenarios that you have. The way the board is set up as far as is random, each kind of game you play. So there's a lot of replayability. It's just really, really fun. I think there might be one expansion and then another one that's coming to Kickstarter soon. But this game, it's so damn fun.

It's so much fun for kind of a medium weight euro And again, I don't want to call it a heavyweight euro Because it's going to be intimidating as you're looking at it But the game itself is not that hard I'm in love with the art style of all of it I love the tone of it I love these card these card pad art things Whatever these are called I forget what you call these

There's like player card art things Yeah I don't know what those are called But I love that look The art is super cool Yeah the whole the color scheme Kind of like your tableau where you're kind of

that player board stuff where I guess these all connect but these are just just my vibe I love the look at everything is intuitive again it's it's one of these

things where I'm sure even Brian like when you look at this you're like my God there is stuff everywhere but once you learn the language which is not that hard to teach everything makes sense

as to what these symbols mean what these different boards mean what the player you know what the science the specialist will do it all is very very intuitive and that's what's there's a lost art in games

kind of being intuitive to be able to learn it easier to be able to understand and just the graphic design is an art form all to itself yeah no that's really cool so these are these are I do like that we get

one that people can just pick up and go and one that's like a little more complicated like I also like the joke that Scott doesn't understand how to play these games but it is actually I think that's good the audience wants to have some choice and they're going to be different kinds of gamers and that's fine

no means. I have to say this all the time, and Scott, you already know this. This is by no means an indictment on your intelligence. Of course not. Of course not. But I'll admit. Attention, yes, but intelligence. My undiagnosed ADD knows no bounds. And when it comes to rule books, ooh boy, not great. Well, because we've all been there. Because we've, you know, when you have game days, I've even had it, like when you go to cons and stuff, their long days, or sometimes when someone's teaching, you know, I'm usually, like every group has, has a, has a Dan to it where you've got the rules guy or the teacher like somebody that's going to read the rules at a time and then teach it but sometimes when I'm watching somebody read the rules I might

yawn every five seconds just because it's just a natural thing I yawn when when I'm watching videos of how to play I yawn and you know it's just it's just a hard thing that's nothing to do you know it's it's not deficit it's just I think it's just human nature of learning like of and of trying to figure out of the overwhelmingness of it all and then it just kind of like there's then your mind that just snaps and is ready to go and you're like, oh, my God, I understand what the hell's going on here. I'll 99% of the time prefer watching a watch it played over reading the instruction manual because sometimes instruction manuals are not written in a way that makes the right flow

sense as far as like, you know, it starts going into what all the different game modes are before it explains, here's the order of play, you'll do this, and then you'll do this and then you'll do this in each turn. I need that first. So it's like, okay, you're going to draw a card, you're going to play an action, and then you're going to discard a card. I need that first, and then I need to know, all the potentials for playing a card. What all the potentials for drawing? But sometimes it goes right into, well, the cards you'll find in the box are this, this, this, this, and this, and they each do this. But I need that, like, the watch it played guy does a better job. Rodney, you know, my goodness, that guy must only drink,

whole milk it looks like Canadians but that has a lot to do with it oh that explains it okay and he's probably one of those Western Canadians versus those racy Eastern no no he's like Eastern so he's so far I think he's PEI or something

he's so far east that he's like ahead of Eastern time oh wow okay so it even wraps around to be more the far Eastern is more no I don't know what I'm saying but anyway but his you know he's a charming dude any explains everything super well, but I feel like I need to go beat somebody up after watching

them because I need balance. And it's funny because there's about four or five channels that do watch, you know, how to play games very, very well. And they're all good in their own way and they're all good in their own type of games. Rodney, I like very well for the under one hour games. And there's other people that I like for the hour plus games. Oh, really? Okay.

You know, the difficulty in the games. And again, that's something you learn, you know, as you watch. a million of these like I do. But there's definitely a certain, also all the different publishers have their own way of writing rulebooks, depending on who is who they hired or write the rule books. And you start, I'm sure, Brian, you read a lot of rule books. So you know, you're like, sometimes you look at this company and you're like, oh, my God, I can read one of their rule books again.

Yeah. It's going to be a disaster. I just need to have Ducey around all the time. Yes. Your own personal little slave, Ducey, you could just be there. Ducey does a great job of explaining games, yeah. He's very good. That is. Very, very good. Well, that's awesome. Check out these games, everybody. Good stuff. Give us the two names again, so we don't forget them.

Flip 7. I actually thought it about Flip 7, Far Away, and Endeavour Deep Sea. Endeavour Deep Sea. Oh, that's right. And then you mentioned this bomb busters, which I know we didn't talk about, but I love the art on this, and I kind of want to know. Oh, it's hugely popular, too. It's just a game that it's not something that I've played yet, but a million people rave about it. It's one that definitely could be a winner there. Uh, and that designer is an amazing designer, uh, Hayashi, he, uh, I think he even did, I think he's the one that did, um, uh, oh my God, it's the 18 card. It's the most popular. Oh, God. Um, uh, bear with me. I'm, uh, I'm looking it up on BGG right now because it's, uh, it is, yeah, I don't remember what the heck it is. It's, uh, no, anyway, he did, uh, Yokohama, which I love, trains, which is great. Uh, I'm just trying to figure out what it is that I'm thinking of.

But anyway, he's another great designer. Is it Metro X? Metro X? Is that the one? No, it's an 18 card game, and maybe it's not. It's the one with the princess. I mean, maybe he's not the one that did it. Maybe I'm thinking of somebody else. But when you say 18, you don't mean the A team that can, if you can find them. Oh, no, 18, one in the 18 card.

All right. I love that you, if you can find them, then maybe you can hire the 18. Right, right. Anyway, well, that's great. Check all of these out. Brian, give the name of the one. you played or the ones you played? Oh, yeah, La Corsa and Reveen.

Very nice. I've talked about. I think we'll put all this up at QuicktmS.L.I. Yeah, send me links to those, Dan, at your convenience, and I'll put them up on the side. Excellent. Absolutely. Thanks a lot, boys. Sorry about the little bit of problems earlier, and I hope everybody had a great holiday

and I hope you have a good week, and look forward to seeing you guys soon. We'll see you soon. Not your fault. Bye now. Oh, oops. Bye now. There he is. All right.

That actually worked really well. It was great for guests. It's perfect. I'm going to remove from group. How do I do that? There we go. All right. Well, there you go.

There's Dan. We did it. Hey, guys, we pulled it off. We do have one final bit of stuff here to mention, which is this. Today, there is a brand new word on the street with myself, Greg Street, the art director, and a 3D modeler working at Fantastic Pixel Castle. There's going to be a big one because we're going to show a ton of visual stuff. We're going to show off creature design, some animation, some of these boss. characters in game

some of their process on how they create characters or go from concept to finally hey it's in the game and it's being played in their play test it's going to be awesome I'm so excited about this one today so please please please tune in

and check that out frogpants.tv that'll be about an hour from now so just about noon well actually noon is when we'll start so check that out that's today this month's episode of word on the street find details at frogpans.com

slash street. Brian, you got anything else going on? You want to mention? Nope. I'd like to. I'm hoping to get some Millennium Falcon time. This Falcon, Falken. She's saying it fast. It makes me want to put an M at the end of Falcon. Hoping to get some time to build a falcon this week, even if it's like one hour segments. Because I've got, I think I'm just shy of one box from getting all the pieces to be able to complete this thing. So we got some, we got some catch up to do with the last few boxes. and get loaded. That's awesome.

I can't wait for that. Well, let's leave the people with a song. What do you got for us today? I think it's a great idea. Andreas from Denmark wrote in and said, Greetings, Scoot, and Boot. As I finally get the answer to life, the universe, and hopefully everything,

I was hoping you could play a song around the 25th of May. Anything the Covermeister could find by garbage, placebo, suede, or similar Brit Rock would be amazing. Love the show, though. Andreas from Denmark. Nice. Man, you just name like three of my.

favorite bands. So, um, but I'm going to go with the first one you said, garbage. Because garbage just came out at the end of last year, came out with an EP collecting covers that they've done in other places, some of which I had from those other sources, but others that I didn't. And the song we're going to be playing today is one I did not have until the release of this EP. By the way, the EP was called copy paste volume one and came out at the end of last year. Nice. Here is their cover of the psychedelic first. is love my way. Here is garbage.

There's an army on the town's floor. It's fashion with a gun, my love. In the room without a door A kiss is not enough in love Love my way It's a new road I follow Where my mind calls

road they dearly make us pay for loving in their faces and making it away there's emptiness. They just want to steal us all. They just want to steal us all. They just want to steal us all, and take us all. And take us all apart but not in love my way it's a new road and i fall where my mind it's a new road and i fall where my mind goes love my way road I follow where my mind goes A new road A new road My mind goes

My mind goes My mind goes My mind goes A new road A new road A new road My mind goes My mind goes

My mind goes My mind goes My mind goes Love my way It's a new road And I follow Where my mind goes so Swallow all your tears, my love

And put on your new face You can never win Overwin or lose if you don't run the race Yeah Yeah Oh yeah Oh yeah Yeah

Yeah Oh Oh, and then Oh, oh Oh Oh Oh

Oh Oh Oh Ha Ah Ah Oh Oh

Oh So Love my way, it's a new, I follow my way, where my mind goes, where my mind goes, where my mind goes, Where my mind goes Where my mind goes Where my mind goes Wear them loud and proud friend Be large and in charge

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