The Morning Stream - TMS 2052: Cranial Wessels

Episode Date: January 18, 2021

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The magic. lies within. Colonel, can I have another piece of your chicken, please? This is the morning stream, and this is my boomstick. Morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It is Monday, January 18th, 2021. Scott Johnson here. Brian Abbott there. Good morning, Brian.

Good morning, Scott. Welcome to a brand new week. Yeah, baby. Woo! It's a little love. Happy Martin Luther King Day or Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Happy DMLKJ day. Right. Have we added the D? We put the D in there. Is that what we've done? We should put the D in there. Oh, let's put the D in there. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a DMLKJ.

That's right. Let's give him proper prompts. Yeah, happy MLK Day. I guess everybody. who has that off. Congratulations. You have a day off. For those of us who never take any time off, welcome to our world. And I'm glad to have you here. Probably have a few extra in the chat today because some of those people are in the office. A lot of people are off who wouldn't normally be off, although in pandemic times, who can tell? Maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe that doesn't change. The people who would normally be off today are working from home normally anyway. Yeah, I don't know. It's hard to say. I'm sure there's some of that. And there's probably

probably some who they were flipped the other way. Like I remember there were some names we'd see all the time, like pre last March, that then went away in March and we haven't seen them since, but we still hear from them in emails and stuff. So I don't know if the kind of work they do changed, or they got new jobs, or they changed their location or what they did, but we miss them and wish they were here live. That's right. Hey, we got a lot to do today.

It's a Monday. It's a whole new week. Quick note, I just wanted to thank everybody last week for all the well-wishes for my mom. She had her brain surgery on Friday, and everything went according to plan. It went a little longer, but it was only because there's a lot of veins in your head, Brian. And until you get in there, you don't know where those vessels are. You don't know where all those are kind of at. It's not like IKEA instructions.

They can be anywhere. They don't follow the same path, and it takes more than one person to put it together. Exactly that. So best case scenario, you get in there, go, oh, okay, everything's neatly off to the side and we just remove this tumor and we're good. But she had kind of a nest in there. So they had to deal with that. But they ended up, they thought they were only going to get about 70% of the tumor and they got 100%. They got all of it.

So that was good. That's kind of a shock, actually, because this sort of situation is rare that you can get the entire thing. But they never had to cut into her brain. It was only just mushing up against it. about the size of an orange. They got the entire thing out, non-cancerous. So didn't have to worry about margins. Nope.

None of that, none of the margin stuff. That's the word I was looking for the other day. Yeah. Margins. Couldn't think of it. Anyway, they got that. And then they sewed her up. And so other than going about two hours longer in the surgery than they planned, everything went well.

She's getting better every day. I mean, I can't see her is the problem. Nobody can go see her. So we can't get any kind of physical confirmation of any of this, but all signs point to the idea anyway that an 82-year-old just killed it. She did great. That's great. Now, if they take longer, because it took like two hours longer, after they go over a certain time that they promised, is the surgery free? Yeah, it's 10 hours or less, or your surgery is free.

Good, good. They bring it right. And free and free crusty bread. Yeah. That's right. Ooh, crusty bread. That sounds good. Whatever that even is. I don't even know what that is. Like, you'll eat cheesy bread or garlic bread. I don't know what crusty bread. I think that's just like a baguette is crusty bread sounds great. I've been trying to eat less bread. So all bread. So, bread is the killer. Man, flour, sugar. You avoid white powders and cocaine and you'll lose weight. That's right. This is all true. Hey, check this out. So I'm not going to tell you about my dream today, but I had another dream. It was very vivid, and I remember it entirely. Okay.

So you get a Johnson, a brain? You're going to pull a Johnson or a dream a... I'm going to Johnson a brain. Johnson a brain. You're going to pull a Johnson with a dream? All right. Still, I'm still on the brain. Here's the quick version of it.

For some reason, Kim's brother Richard and I were in a car, and he had two girls there. And one he was going on a date with, and the other one, he was just dropping off somewhere. But then while we were all in the car, he says, hey Scott do you want to double date you want to go out with this girl Scott the wingman yeah and neither of these girls were our wives and we also this seemed like it may have been high school time which is also weird because he's like 10 years younger than me um but anyway I said yes but let me go

for some reason this is my statement I said sure but let me go put some sweats on so I ran in the house and in this house it was like a big weird really really You're trying to make a good impression, aren't you? Yeah, I know. It's really weird. So I run into this house that is supposedly my house, but it's nothing like a house I ever grew up in. Imagine a mansion in height, and if you looked at the front, it looked like a giant mansion. But it was only as thick as about a trailer.

So three stories tall, big, huge, white front, beautiful pillars. Three stories tall, eight feet wide. Yeah, kind of. deep. That's exactly what it was. And it just had these stairs leading up. And it was just a really smushed space. And my mom was there. And she's like, what are you doing? And I said, well, I'm going to go on this date. She goes, okay, be home on time or whatever. And I ran around looking for sweats. But then I decided that's a bad thing to wear on a date. Like, what is this about? Why would I wear sweats? So I started looking for the right pants. And then I would like, look at these

pants in the mirror and go, no, I need different pants. And it was like I was trapped in in in somebody's idiot body and I was trying to say hurry up there's a girl waiting in the car outside for your date and you're in here dinking around with pants but my dream self wouldn't listen and I just kept trying new clothes and trying new clothes and at one point Richard

text me uh that's Kim's brother and says hey where are you at we're out here still I'm like oh I'm coming I'm just I got a little delay just give me a second and then hung up and then like another two hours I spend doing it like it was like it was representing like four or five hours it's so weird

I was like delaying it, delaying it, delaying it. And at one point, I was ready to go finally and then realized I left my phone somewhere and I had to go find my phone. So I'm looking for my phone everywhere. Now, that sounds accurate, though. Well, it sounds dead on. It sounds exactly what I would do. So I go to try to find my phone. I finally find my phone.

I text Richard. I say, okay, I'm finally coming. He goes, I left a long time ago, but she's still out there waiting. He says in the text. Oh, man. So I went, oh, okay, cool. So I went to run out to get it, grab the door and went, shoot, I'm not wearing shoes. So I went back upstairs, dug through a bunch of shoes that took forever, finally got the shoes on that I was going to wear, ran outside of the front door, opened it up, and I see a red car with this girl, she's got her face in her hands, her hands, crying, and there's a guy driving the thing that looks all pissed, and right at that moment, he floors it and takes off.

Her husband came to pick her up. The date's over. Yeah. And I just sat there going, oh, man, this is weird. And the other thing I noticed right before I woke up was outside, if you looked at it from the view of my porch of my weird eight feet wide or eight feet thick house. You're weird facade house. It was like, I don't know how I explain this. You know how in like Chicago, when you're in the city and you're near one of the L train stuff, you know, like the elevated trains everywhere? Yeah.

There's a feeling. It's almost like cavernous under. some of that because it's just like right overhead and all of that like that like the chase scene from marathon was a marathon man it was one of those 70s uh 70s cop thriller movies where they um where they do a chase scene under those elevated train things so it's like that i know what you're talking about the cavernous yeah it just feels like you're inside of almost like uh i don't know it's just kind of futuristic and weird that's how french connection thank you that's one oh yeah french connection One of the greatest car chases of all time.

Yeah. Anyway, in there, the entrance of the house, it's like this beautiful neighborhood out in front of me, but as you panned over, it immediately became like that, like the middle of grimy downtown Chicago. And I don't know why that was happening. One of those mansions right next to the L, one of those eight feet thick mansions. It was really odd, so I don't know what to make of it. This is one I'm not even going to ask for, you know, I mean, who knows? My mom was in it, so maybe I'm thinking.

about my mom. Everything was really, I mean, this is one of the most vivid where all the details are still very plain to me. I can still feel that I'm in there. That's crazy. Yeah. I took a Benadryl before I went to bed. Yeah, there you go.

That might have been it. Yeah. I'm getting some kind of weird rash, and I thought, you know what? Benadryl, that'll do it, but then it gave me dreams. So good stuff, good stuff. Hey, also, we went to a dog park yesterday. Okay. Fun?

Yeah. Fun for the dogs. Oh, sure. And it's a great big dog park. It's next to a shelter. And then the shelter has all this acreage of dog runs. It's great. I don't know how they did this, but they have just tons of space. But it turns out on a Sunday afternoon, that gets really busy. There's a lot of people there. And everyone's masked up except for a couple of dummies. And they kept looking at everybody like we were the problem. But anyway, whatever. They were there. Dogs were there. And they have one area where all the big dogs go. So if you got yourself a, uh, uh, A Rimer Winer, or a gentleman Rimer Winer? Right. What are those big horse dogs? Oh, like Mastiff's or... What's the one, though?

It's a specific... Like Mermaid Dane. Great Dane. Yes. So there's big Great Dane's in there, and those are the sweetest dogs ever, by the way. Just love Great Dains. They are, yeah. They poo as big as a Volkswagen, but they're nice. Anyway.

So this place is just full of giant dogs, and then there's another little run. where they put the kind of medium-sized dogs, little shepherdy-looking dogs and that kind of stuff. And then they got a third area where you would take your small dogs, whatever those might be. So shih Tzu's and whatever. The nervous ones. The big dogs are, it's mostly what the park is.

It's a lot of big dogs. And they're all in there playing and stuff. And we have two of our dogs with us, and they're having a blast. They love this. Just love it. It's like they're with their kind. They're having a ball.

All as well. And then this lady walks up. And she has in her hand, something. We can't see what it is. I thought it was a purse, but she kind of had it to the side like this. And she walked into the big dog area, and I'm like, wonder what she's doing. That's weird.

And then she proceeds to put down what I can only describe, at least in comparison to these other dogs, it looked like a guinea pig. But it was a freaking, it's a little teacup, teacup little rat dog. I don't know what they're called. Really?

Yeah. But that's small. That tiny little, one of those little itty-bitty, little freaking tiny dogs that you can fit in your, your purse. And she sticks it right there in the big giant dog kennel. And I went, well, they're just going to eat that. They're just going to eat. No kidding. They're like, yeah, it's good. It's either you get trod on or eaten by another dog. Yes. And chat, it was a Yorkshire terrier. That's, that's the breed. Anyway, so she puts it in there. And to my amazement,

all the other big dogs were curious about it and they all circled around it and sniffed at it. But this dog just walked in like it was living life, like just, hey, everybody this is my town what are you doing here where i live this is where i to go it was one of the weirdest dog interactions i've ever seen i thought that thing would be like sniveling in a corner or barking like crazy or the other big dogs would be like chasing or stomping on it or running it over by accident no it was like a little mobster they all avoided him it was cool man it was something so anyway that was a lot of fun so take your dogs on a run is what i'm saying that's the message yeah yeah yeah but but but

maybe watch out, put them with the other same-sized dogs just to be safe. Yeah, especially, you know, I mean, whatever. She seemed to know, she seemed to know that this is going to be fine, but, oh, she also had a mask that had penises on the face, penises. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We saw that, like, uh, didn't Nicole make some? But you don't know their penises until you get up close and see them, right? It's that one.

Yeah, which is the whole idea, right? If you're too close to me, that means you can see these penises. Right, exactly. It's like, penises, you're too close. Penises social distancing. Yeah. I guess I got a little too close to the penis face, but... That's true. Good point. You saw their penises, so there you go. You kind of blew that.

I was wearing my glasses. I want to thank Sean Dickinson, who sent an email in to make a quick clarification. We talked about those gift cards and that lawsuit for that buck 75 or whatever that guy was doing for the Starbucks coffee thing. He says, here's a clarification on how California gift card law is weird. Okay? So the specific to California gift card law, which apparently is different than everywhere else. So, say there, Scott, as a California retail worker, I want to let you know that the guy in your Starbucks story is actually in the right in regard to the law, but is being very stupid about the amount of damages. In California, all retailers have to offer, sorry, have to offer cash out, sorry, have to offer to cash out a gift card under $10. So this is, so it sounds like they were in the wrong to do this anyway. So the only, so the caveat is that the gift card has to be. for a cash amount and not a specific meal or product or service.

But here in California, we do have to pay out the dumb buck 47, and the Starbucks employee was probably not trained on this and therefore refuse. Still a douchebag, but even a douchebag can be right once in a while. Okay, that makes sense. But that's weird. You got your own state law for something like gift card payouts. That's crazy. That's nuts to me.

I assume that's not true here, though. like i don't know i don't know if it is if it's uh but i do like the caveat about it being you know so you if you've got if you've got a gift card that says one free entree you can't take it to burger king and say give me the cash equivalent of a whopper but if it's a burger king gift card that's for five bucks then you can get the cash from it and i don't have a problem of that because if you think about it you've just given the money to have in the bank and earn interest anyway so you're just you're just like a bank You're just taking your money out.

Right. But to sue over a buck 75 just seemed a little insane. It does seem a little crazy. And just as a little heads up, a reminder, if you go to a restaurant, especially right now, and you've got a gift certificate or a gift card, you know, make sure you tip your weight staff on top of that. Because sometimes in those cases they don't get the cash from that. talking over trivia the other night about um because we were using a gift voucher that we had won the previous time like last year and um you know it almost just about covered our meal

but we had to make sure well let's tip we obviously have to tip on the full amount and we can't tip using the gift certificate you tip on top of the gift certificate right so you get a $20 gift certificate to freddies and you spend that 20 bucks on food and there's an extra five bucks on the card or whatever you don't get to count that as your tip they won't they can't count it is that they can't no the the this came up because a friend of one of our trivia people said uh or did tried to do this at a pizza place like basically he paid for the pizza outright and then gave the gift certificate as a tip to the it was like a ten dollar gift certificate gave that to the uh the waiter and And my friend is like, no, you can't really do that because it's not like they can just cash that for 10 bucks. Right. The only thing they could do is wait for somebody else to spend 10 bucks on a meal and then swap out the $10 for that gift certificate. Yeah, which is work, that's a lot of extra work when you shouldn't be just the cheap bastard and give them a tip in the first place.

Lame. Exactly. Lame. All right, good etiquette message there. Don't be cheap. Don't be cheap. This is basically, and Brian Donnelly hits the nail on the head with don't be cheap. Yeah, don't be cheap.

unless you're a bird, then cheap all you want. Exactly. Exactly. You don't have to tip on alcohol. So we asked the chat room before today's show started if they had a preference this weekend for our 10th anniversary play date because we're celebrating 10 years of TMS this coming weekend and then a vast amount of people have said Saturday based on those responses. So it's looking very much like, I mean, it's hard.

The problem with film sack is sometimes it goes long, so it's hard to pick an exact time. but let's say I mean if we you know what because we'll want some time in between why don't we say

12 noon mountain time Saturday to start yeah and that way we've got time to you know

shove a piece of bacon in our faces before we yeah aim for the mouth if you can aim for the mouth

yeah always aim for the mouth that was purely for Zoe so yeah well for sure. Like, okay, that's it. So Saturday, noon mountain time. That's 11 a.m. Pacific. That's

2 p.m. Eastern. I can't really figure out what central would be. Yeah, we don't know. It's somewhere between. Based on those other two. Sure. And who knows what the hell's going on in Arizona. Yeah. And we're going to, we'll invite some other TMS regulars and stuff, see who maybe wants to be there or doesn't or whatever. It may not be everybody. But anyway, chance to play with us and hang out. We'll probably keep it super open since we're celebrating 10 years of the show. I don't think we have to be too picky about patrons and stuff.

No, no. We'll relax the patron rule this time around. And we'll also make sure to spread the guests around so that we don't have, we don't basically take up all the slots with all T.M.S. people and no listeners getting to play. That's right. So come have a nooner with us. That's new this weekend. a little afternoon, the light.

Uh-huh. That song was about doing it, right? Yeah, it was totally about doing it. Okay. Yeah. I'd always heard that, but you know, you never know. It was about doing it when there's actual daylight so you can see what you're doing. Like, if you look at the lyrics, it's a really goofy thing.

That's weird. Yeah. The 70s were weird, man. Seventies were really weird. Yeah. What a weird time. All right. So that's all that.

Let's get into Baberoyal today. Now, Dunaway apparently, is going to send us video. So this is going to be a treat. Hold on a second here. Let's get him in here. Oh, that means he's going to sound really good, too, because he's on his home stuff. Right. Yeah.

I like that. I like the sound of that. Also, you're welcome to call in 801-4710462 and be a part of today's ridiculousness. And we're going to start with this. Yeah, that's right, playing a little Babel Royale or some version thereof happening right now with you and us and Brian Dunaway, who is now on camera. What are you wearing? He's got rabbit ears.

Right now he's spinning. Where are my rabbis? Oh, look at that? Why don't have a set of these? I don't see you for some reason. Oh, really? If it sees me. I see him.

Now you're coming in, but you're frozen. I don't know why. That's weird. My frozen, I bit? Not for me. I see your little ears flea. Lippity flopping. Weirdo, man, weirdo.

Nickelodeon hoodie. You're wearing? Oh, you like my Nickelodeon hoodie, too? Oh, yeah. I thought his hat thing. You're really dressed up for the occasion. Look at that. MLK day, baby.

Hey, Brian, rescind. Yeah. Resent video. Recend video, because I can't, I still can't see you moving. I don't know why. All right. Send it again. There you go.

No, it's still frozen. Weird. I don't know why. Oh, strange. We're off and if it can see me fine, right? I'm seeing a move and, uh, yeah. I see you reaching over to a computer and then sitting there with your arm stretched out and then you're frozen there. I don't know why.

That's bizarre. Maybe you'll catch up. We'll find out here shortly. Maybe, yeah. As we play a game of Babel Royale, uh, let's find out if we have a listener on the line. I think we do. Hi, good morning. Who's this?

Hello? Hey, this is, uh, Merrick Primon, the capsule. Ah, hey, what's going on? Merrick Prime, you said? Merrick Prime. Nice. How's your doing, guys? Doing great, man.

Glad to have you here. Anytime we get a transformer on the show, we're pretty stoked about it. So welcome to the show. Merrick Prime always invites me to Pokemon Go Rades, and I love joining for those. That's really nice. Well, I'm glad he's here to play. Brian, why don't you explain to him what he could win and how this contest works? Absolutely, Scott.

It's time to play the Tadpoolie feud. I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics. Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Merrick Prime, your job is going to be more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if your team wins, you get a prize package that includes the Haunted Island, a Frog Detective game, and the sequel, Frog Detective 2, The Case of the Invisible Wizard. I love that title.

The Invisible Wizard. The Invisible Wizard. Very good. The Invisible Wizard. You're either a giant brand anyway or drinking out of the tiniest can of Coke Zero. I know. I feel like I'm having my own show with Ibit because you can see everything I'm doing. Well, that's because literally you are.

Nobody else can see you. Including me. Hey, just see my Mandalorian Cup? Is that cool or what? I love it. It's pretty cool. Use your imagination chat. Just pretend you can see it.

Right now, it's just blood. Hey, is that the cast of Mad Max Fury Road that just entered your studio behind you? Oh, man. They're doing a reunion without me. Ooh. All right. Oh, no. Wardrobe malfunction on Charlize Theron.

Oh, my God. Well, at least we cut that on camera. You know, look, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take or whatever they say. Our beeper thing, how do I, it keeps telling me the, the channel's not available. Is that? Oh, are we doing the beeper? I don't know. Are we doing the beeper?

Oh. And I'm giving you a link. Okay. Now, but I haven't told you what your topic is. Oh, sorry. This is the last one you gave me. Take your time. Yeah, I know.

It'll give it away. Oh, sorry. Okay. Sorry, my bad. You're right. Now, so now your buzzers should work. I haven't seen you join yet. Oh, Dunaway joined.

And how do I know password? I don't know. It's the same one as before. you last time. You told you to save it. Remember that? I did, but it's showing up blank. Okay, let me copy and paste it.

I have to find it. It's like Brian's video. It just doesn't show up. Give me to send it again. Oh, yeah, here. Oh, actually, I've got it. I have it. Okay.

Do you? Okay. I've got it right here. Either way. I got it. And I'm pasting it. There you go. Right there.

All right. I'm in. Okay. I'm going to hit play. Yes. play. Your category is we surveyed 200 Tadpool members

and asked them their answer to this. Put your hands on your buzzers. Wait, wait, wait. Okay. Okay, I'm ready. All right. Which TV character's death got you

the most choked up? Crap. Scott Johnson. I'm going to go with Oh my gosh, Scott. all of them did you say TV you said TV no real life the one that bothers you the most in real life a character introduced on TV okay no matter where they died if they were introduced on TV their death got people choked up I'm gonna go with a coach on cheers what show me show me

coach from cheers you know what I almost said first I thought too big coach from the TV series coach and I'm like well I didn't watch the final I didn't watch the final season holy Moses yeah he didn't know all right Brian your chance I'm gonna go with the one that kind of upset me but then they read Condon it didn't happen John Goodman's character on Roseanne show me

show me Mr. What was his last name? Mr. Barr No Mr. Barr show me John Goodman's character from The character from Roseanne. That's right, Dan Carters. Oh, I know one now.

All right. Well, now you get to guess again because it's back over to you. All right. Let's go with Fry's Dog on Futurama. Oh, that's a good one. Show me Fry's Dog on Futurama. Oh, is that up there? Is it up high?

It is number 10. It's low, dude, the lowest. low. Very, very low. That does give you a chance, or that gives you to the choice of pass or playing. Now, here's what we're doing a little bit different, because it was pointed out to me that the person who doesn't play always is one so far when we've done this. Right, right. So, we're going to go back and forth. When you can keep guessing until you get a strike, then it goes to the other player to guess until they get a strike. I like that. First person to get three strikes or to clear the board wins. and Merrick Prime gets to choose who he wants to play with and be a coach to or be a playmate, a contestant, a playmate. A playmate, yeah, a playmate.

Hey, Merrick Prime, who do you want to be a playmate with? I guess he doesn't tell us yet. Does he tell us? He doesn't tell us now. He tells us now, yeah. So Merrick Prime, who would you like to work with on this? I'm going to play with Scott. Okay. Okay. All right. And Scott does get to choose whether or not he wants to start. Start. Pass it over to Brian for the first. You might as well, you know, there's no, there's no drawback.

There's no downside to starting, yeah. Yeah, yeah, exactly. All right, I'm going to go ahead and start then. Keep passing back. So he and I can, we can verbally talk this out. I don't know how else you're going to do it because telepathically isn't going to work over that. No, you're right. It won't work.

Okay. So Merrick Prime, I'm going to say, or one of the ones that popped into my head because I'm trying to think, you know, this is a TMS audience is going to have some nerdy vents, you know, to stuff. Right. Right. And so that's why I was thinking of Fry's Dog. The problem is, oh, man.

I can't think of a good one. Like characters that really choked people up. Oh, Henry Blake, maybe, from MASH. What do you think of that one? Merrick Prime. Yeah. Well, if we're talking TV, I'm thinking more of, you know, characters from Game of Thrones.

Oh, good one. That's a good one. And I was thinking Ned Stark from Game of Thrones. All right, let's say, let's do it. Oh, that's good. I like it. Ned Stark, Brian, is our answer. Ned Stark. Show me Ned Stark number five on the list. Not bad. Not bad. Good one. Good call. Nice. All right. So we keep going until we get one wrong, right.

No. That's right, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you get it wrong. Right, right, right. Done away. No. No, you bastard. It's my turn. All right. My way's my turn. This is hard. It's hard. I can't think of anything else. I'll say Henry Blake. Let's do a Henry Blake and get it out of the way. Let's just get Henry Blake out of the way.

All right. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake from Mesh. That was a good one. Oh, number two. Wow. Wow. All right. I shouldn't be so distrust. of my gut feeling. Trust your gut. Suck your gut. Merrick Prime, how familiar do you think the world is with like

I don't remember his name. On ER, Goose died because he had cancer. Oh. I can't think he was name. But Goose from Top Gun. I was thinking the cop brother

in Breaking Bad. I can't, I can't remember his name. Oh, Hank. Wow, you should be, you should put your hand of the buzzer. You're doing better than both. Yeah, he's doing all right. Actually, I like that one. Why don't we say, let's say Hank.

Yeah. Breaking Bad's Hank. Show me Hank Schrader from Walking Bad from Breaking Bad. Damn it! Just outside the top 10. He was like, he would have been, if I would have extended this to 15, he would have been in there. So now, Brian, it goes to you.

Scott's got one strike. Okay. I'm trying to think of what the tab pool would say, but I get to ask our listener as well, right? I get to say, hey, what do you think? Does Kerry on, or is he had to pick? Well, Merrick Prime picked, so he cannot help you. So he can't help me. All right, all right, right, right.

No, you can only help yourself. I'm going to go with one that was important to me when Edith died, ate it from all in the family. Oh, yeah. Oh, my goodness. How are she? Show me Edith Bunker from All in the Family. She also got raped. Oh, no.

But not, not, that's not why she died. Oh, I shouldn't laugh, but that was funny. Are you kidding me? He didn't need head. All right, goes back over to Scott. Just as a reminder, these are characters who were first shown on TV. no matter where they died, but they were introduced on television programs. Okay.

And yes, streaming services are television. Oh, we're counting that. Oh. Well, yeah. Yeah, of course. Okay. Interesting. I mean, because people are saying, well, it's not HBO.

It's not TV. It's HBO for your Game of Thrones guest. All right. Did we have any Merrick Prime? Do you remember any major deaths or losses on the Mandalorian that I can't remember? I remember Alf died. That was sad. Yeah, that was... Oh, I'm sorry. I wanted to keep that one.

Yeah, you better keep that one. You know what I'm saying, though? Like, did Mando have anything where there was like a massive character loss? I can't think of anything. Not really. Not yet. Not yet. Well, the guy that helped him, the guy that I have spoken... Oh, that's a good one. He died.

That's right. I forgot he did die, didn't he? I feel like that's... pretty fresh. Brian, we're going to let's do that guy. We're going to do the Nick Nolty character. I believe his name was was Quill. Don't die. K-U-I-I-L

from the Mandalorian. And show me Quill from the Mandalorian. Damn it! Two people out of the 200 said that, but it should have been more because that was a bummer one.

Scott's got two strikes back over to Brian. see these are things that meant something to me and this person actually died in real life and it killed me watching the episode i don't know if you know but cayley coochow from uh the big bang theory she used to be in a show called uh she's alive her name is no no there's a show called eight simple rules with john ritter and he passed away on set and uh they decided to carry on yeah i don't think it's kucho but keep going you're fine oh how do you say it's i say it like she says it, which is coo. How does she? Oh, I say it like she said it. Cahley Cuoco.

I said it like she said it. Finally, Kaylee Cochow from now on or whatever. Chucho. I say Cucho, I can't remember a stupid name. Anyway, she didn't die. John Ritter died. Yeah. And that broke my heart.

Yeah. All right. So John Ritter's character on eight simple rules. Not going to happen. Show me that. He also, he also. He also died in Scrubs because he was also, I think, the dad there, too, wasn't he? Oh, really?

I don't know. Was he? All right. Okay. Merrick Crime, we have an opportunity here. So there's a recent kind of raw one where the character and the actor died, I can't think of his name, 90210, dude who died during the run of that Archie show. Uh-huh.

Riverdale? Yeah, Riverdale. Riverdale. I don't know how. This has been the most, I can't remember the name of somebody. It's trivia we've done yet. It's pretty bad. That jumps to mind, but I can't think of any good character deaths right now that are suit so obscure.

Does the character have to die in the TV show or can he die? They can die anywhere as long as they're introduced on the TV show. Oh, then that's an easy way. Oh, interesting. I were going to do that three times. Well, we know, but we didn't understand it. Yeah, I didn't understand it. So here's what I'm going to do.

do. I'm going to suggest we do a wash from Firefly even though he died in the movie, not the TV. Oh, that's good. Okay, we're doing that then. That's our pick. Wash from Firefly. Show me Wash from Firefly. Number one answer. Oh, wow. Oh, that is. Okay. So now I know who these people are. Why don't we just stay that? Yeah. No, you should keep going back to like one day at a time and some.

Chairroom, you've heard me say that to them like two or three times, right? Like, all three The one character was introduced on television. Yeah, but hold on. If all three of us were still confused, hmm, I wonder what that means. Yeah, but here's the thing. If I were to say, well, they could be,

they could have died in a movie that came after the TV show. It kind of would have led you right to that. No, you're absolutely right, sir. Do not let these guys harass you. Because that came up during the survey. Somebody said, you should change the question to say they could die in the movie. And then I said, if I do that,

I'll get a thousand people saying wash. Yeah, what didn't I think of that first? Okay, well, we got that one. We got, we're back in it to win it here. Back in it. Yep, so each of you have two strikes, but Scott, you still have the board. One more strike.

And a game is over. Yeah. From a TV show that died in the movie as well was Spock, Star Trek. Oh, daguom it. Yeah, even though he came back. You and your clarification, Zibbitt. That's not.

Bring it around good answers. Let me just think around that for a second. Is that you don't have any rules, Brian, about whether they came back or not? No. I mean, as long as if they're on-screen death, whether that's a movie screen or TV screen or whatever, was choked people up, then I included it. All right. Then we'll say, Spock. That's a good pick.

All right. Show me. Spock That is your third strike See the temple Didn't understand The question either Now do I

Because we're changing Making the rules up here a little bit Do I then let Brian Attempt the steal If he names one that's on the list He wins Otherwise it stays with you guys I think that's the way we'd do it

That is how you do it If you want to stay true to this But also To be fair yeah He Merrick Prime wins Winns under what conditions Is he already lost

Because we got that last But no there If we if we do that rule, so right now Merrick Prime would have lost. But if we say Brian gets to make one last guess if Brian's wrong, Merrick Prime wins. If he doesn't, then Marrikan

uses. I like that. We weighed this in favor of the listener, of the caller. By the way, Spock was on the big list, but he was just under the top ten. But he didn't make in the little list. Yeah. He didn't make it in the little list. It probably did. I accidentally just looked at the chat room and I can't use

the one that you just said because that was a beautiful one. Exactly, yeah. Bobby Frank says, yes, you have to do it that way, otherwise the person who goes first will always lose. Good point. Yep. Okay. So Brian has two strikes. Scott has three. If Brian gets this right, then he does a good steal and Brian wins. Otherwise, it goes to Scott and Merrick Prime. Not to worry too much. What's great is, I wish you guys can see Brian, because the ears, he has a little floppy rabbit ears that he's controlling with a pulley mechanism somewhere else. And his ears are just randomly floppy. These are my stress balls. He does them on. He has those same things on Boop Show all the time.

Oh, does he? Okay. Yeah, this is my Boop Hat. If you missed the Boop Hat, here's the Boop Hat. Six possible answers on the board. Six possible answers. A hundred percent chance. I'm not going to guess any of them.

Except for one that I saw in the chat room, which I'm not going to use, just because I'm going to try not to. That was a great answer. Tech comment, there's the iPad's got a chat room pull up too. Okay. Maybe don't look at them Stupid things I'm gonna go with

It really upset me when It didn't really upset me Maude Flanders when she passed away It felt weird That was like the first That was like the first Simpson character That died And that kind of upset me a little bit

I thought Bleeding Gums Murphy died before Maude Yeah but I mean Bleeding Guns wasn't really as much irregular He was there He was stopping and he only really interacted with Lisa. Yeah, but it was sadder than Maude. You're right. It was sad. Do you want me to change my answer? No, no, no. You do what you want.

All right, then. You'll be you. All right. Show me Mod Flanders. Oh. If Bleeding gums are going to be pissed. Mod Flanders, by the way, was on the list. Bleeding gums was not on the list. But Mod was. So that means

Merrick Prime wins. Let's go through the rest of these names. How about Grimey? Grimes when he died in the, that was sad. No, the only sims, actually, I take you the back. Grimes was also in the list with like one or two votes. Show me number three. Charlie from Lost.

Oh, man. How was I? Dominic Monaghan. That's good. Not Penny's boat. I actually thought about Echo for just a second because that really pissed me out. Yeah, Mr. Echo was great too. Yeah.

Show me number four. Dolores Landingham from the West Wing. Oh, that was sad. By the way, I should have said all of these are spoiler alerts if you have That one wasn't surprised. What's that CSI characters that got shot in the back of the head? Oh, they're all dead. Everyone in CSI, they're all dead.

I thought, is one of these going to be Hodor. I'm going to be so sad. I didn't pick Hoh. And no one. Because it was the chat room. That's why I saw it. Number six. Rainbow Bright said out from the Walking Dead died.

Found out he was still alive and then died again, thanks to Negan's bat. Yeah. Number seven. Joyce Summers, Buffy's mom from Buffi's. be the vampire slayer. I could have got that one. Number eight. Hodor.

Dang it. Yep. Should have stayed on the Game of Thrones wagon. The one that's really going to make you kick yourself because you thought of it and didn't say it or didn't choose it. Dr. Mark Green from ER. That's pretty rough.

That was rough. Wait. Which was that? Was that the time he grabbed a hold of the elevator blades? No. No, that guy stayed alive. That was robotic. That was the guy that could smell

Sully's cancer in X-Files, that actor. Right, exactly. No, Mark Green died from cancer. The character died from cancer. Yeah. It was a long-drawn-out thing, too. It was rough. So let me give you some other ones that didn't make the top ten.

Optimus Prime. Walter White from Breaking Bad. The 10th Doctor, Dr. Who, David Tennant. Leo, oh, Hank from Breaking Bad. Leo McGarry from the West Wing, Mod Flanders from the Simpsons, Mr. Hooper from Sesame Street. Oh, Mr. Hooper, of course.

Sweets from Bones. Amy Pond from Dr. Who, Ben Sullivan, Bob Newby from Stranger Things, Buffy herself, Dean Winchester from... Oh, that was a supernatural. Derek Shepard,

a.k.a. McDreamy from Grey's Anatomy, as well as George O'Malley from Grey's Anatomy. Wait a minute. They didn't die, did they? I've never watched I've never watched more than five episodes of Grey Anademy I've watched five more than I have I thought George Amalley just freaking left

I didn't realize he died Apparently he died Jonathan Kent Laura Roslin President Laura Rosalyn from Battlestar Marshall's dad From How I Met Your Mother This has been the sad as the new black Shepard book

Shereen Baratheon And Agent Colson In preface But he didn't die he died and then came back and then died he died about three or four times during the season and finally the last time he came back he was an android but he doesn't count he shouldn't count because he wasn't tv before the movie death it was movie death before the tv oh introduced in tv people also people did also say bambi's mom and et so i wouldn't have counted any of those but yes he was introduced actually colson was even wasn't even introduced in the movie he was introduced in a a marvel one-off short that was included with Oh, so you didn't think about the character Not necessarily the actor as character

Maybe not, maybe he did first appear in one of the films Did we mention no one No one mentioned, he wasn't the first Iron Man, okay But then he appeared in a short No one mentioned good times In the father on that one because that was No because nobody watched good times You were glued to your television

Everybody watched good times You were so glued to your TV as a kid One person said Caitlin Stark, which I think was, that would have been higher for me than Ned and Hodor. Danaris Targaryen, Fitz from Agents of Shield, IG11, Ingrid from Game of Thrones, Jack Shepard, Jazia Dax, J.R. Ewing. Oh, my gosh. He didn't. He didn't really die, though. Come on. What do you mean? Of course he died. No, he just got shot.

No, he didn't. It was all the dream. Yeah, he recovered. Yeah. No, because the Who Shot J.R. thing was him dying, but the whole third season of Dallas was a dream. Hold on. Now I'm having, if I'm mandelling this, I'm going to. You remember that wrong. It was the other way. Yeah, he didn't die. He recovered, but also the entire thing ended up being someone's dream. Yeah, he woke up. It was like he was taking a shower, the next first, the first step, the first. No, that's Patrick Duffy. Yeah, that's Patrick Duffy.

Patrick Duffy died. But then, then, then. But who shot J.R? Kirsten shot J.R. Hold on. Did J.R. Ewing die? I swear this, I have this in my hand right. Really? Did J.R. come back? I swear he recovered. That was the whole idea is that he didn't die, right?

I thought that he did die. I thought J.R. He did die because he died from liver. Probably, eventually. Well, the actor did, but, uh, okay. I can't find it. Yeah, I thought J.R. really did die. I guess we should discount.

I guess we should discount Mr. Burns, too. He died for like half a minute. Yeah, nobody said. But nobody says J.R. did not die. He died and came back on a reunion show, says Luke Seidwiker. Really? My memory is that he did not, he didn't die at all, that he, wait, reincarnation. No, that's, that's the characters featured in two seasons of the 2012 series.

Who would J.R. Come back as? Hagman didn't do it, though. Let's see. I can't find this. J.R. divided, has the GR being shot. Bobby Ewing died. Then it was a dream. That's the one I remember. Yeah, that's definitely the case. But this J.R. Ewing character.

Remember the shower scene when he, he's all, they come in and he's like, oh, hi. Yeah. I'm right here. I remember me? Why are you looking at me like you've just seen a ghost? Is the TV trope. I don't have had him fix him breakfast. No. They decided to have him in the shower. Dallas.

I don't like your review. You're a flea of the year. Okay. He lived, according to the Wikipedia page. He lived. Really? Yeah. I swear I remember that. And you were freaking me out for a second. I totally remember him dying, so I don't know.

I don't know. I wonder if NBC, was NBC the head? It was NBC, I think. CBS? CBS, wasn't it? Wherever, you had your lead-ins on Friday, so you had your Beverage or your Dukes-A-Hazard Air and a Rand. Right. Wherever can I watch the same damn thing.

Two shows Brian avoided like the plague. Yep, exactly. All right. No, I watched the Beverly Hillbillies TV show. I just let to leave the movie. Yeah, the movie. Let me tell you what was sad every episode. What?

A little house in the prairie. Oh, that was always sad. That's a good one. We could have done that. Yeah, people died on that. Oh, all the time. Yeah, that was people, because it was the old West, man. It was the hard times.

Those were the hard times. It was the hard times. People lived to like 30, and that was it. And then you got the, uh, the Winnebago or whatever disease they had, and then they just die. That's how it went. The Winnebago. That's right.

You heard me. Hey, well done. You know what all of this means is this. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. We've got a winner. And that means that you have to call or you have to email Brian there, Merrick Prime, and you have to send them an email. He'll send you these codes.

That email is Coverville at gmail.com. That is coverville at gmail.com. Congratulations. And well, dot. And I'm going to hit up Alcubob and see. see if I can get him to, because I like this new format. It makes it so it's a little bit, a little bit more of a battle. I'll just see if we can work the way to do this to,

ideally we work it so that the scores so that whichever one of you gets the most points from higher point values determines the winner. Oh, that'd be smart. When you both get to three strikes. Oh, my God. Yeah, here's something to program for you. Exactly. Yes, I know.

Look, you guys, we have another frozen image of Brian, but this time looking at us. There you go. I don't know. It's weird. I know. I bet's concedes it's just fine. If it's concedes it's... Don't update your Discord people.

Just a warning. Maybe that's what's going on. Anyway, hey, Brian Dunnaway, it's great to have you. Tomorrow, he and I will be doing the Boop Show. And, of course, Wednesday, he'll be back doing more of this. It's always good to see you. Anything you'd like to add before I kick you out? Sure, I've been playing Skelboy for the Boop Show.

show. I just did one right before this episode, and I'll be doing it later this afternoon at Twitch.TV 4.S. Brian Dunaway. Follow me. It's just right there. It says click on it. Enjoy your milk day. MLK day. Enjoy it. Well, you have it. Thank you, sir. Bye now.

All right. All right. You just stayed frozen that whole time. All right. We're going to take a break. When we come back, we're going to make some things with Bill. And then I've got Stevens out, but I've got a comic review I want to do today. Oh, cool.

dead, which I've been reading and really loving and so surprised by. So we'll get to that in a bit. Before that, though, a musical break from Brian Ibid, Brian. That's right. And this musical break is brought to you by Soundography. Brand new episode just got posted this morning featuring the band Super Tramp. So take the long way home and eat your breakfast in America and listen to this brand new episode of Soundography.

You're bloody well right to do it. I like it. That was all off the cuff. All right. So we're going to an artist named Suvlaki, an eclectic artist who does some vocal stuff, but also does some instrumental stuff. I picked one of the instrumental tracks because I really, really dig it. This is from a brand new EP called Continued Survival. Suvlaki is spelled just like you think it would be, S-O-U-V-L-A-K-I, Suvlachie.

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We have arrived at our destination. That is to say, we got over the breakpoint. Now we're to the point. where Bill Duran sweeps in like a magical, mystical man of mystery. Yes. Tells us stuff. And we started.

An international man of makstery. That's right. Oh, hey. Now we have a new title for the 10th. No, that's bad. I kind of liked it. Your bat caves open there, Bill. Hey, look who it is.

Everybody is Bill Duran all the way from the Pacific Northwest and the offices studios and home of Punished Props.com. Welcome back. How are you? Good morning, friends. Doing okay. That's fantastic. He's a maker. He comes on Mondays. And we talk about making things on Mondays. I don't know why we don't call it the Monday maker. We got to come up with some names. Yeah, because it used to be Tuesdays and that just didn't work. But now that we have on a Mondays, we have the alliteration. So make her Monday.

Somehow. Bill makes things on Monday making. I don't know. We're workshopping it, dude. Don't worry. We'll take it to our best people and get back to you. But in the meantime, it's always good to hear from you. What hath you brought today? I had a fun little project I did last week. This past summer was actually our 10th wedding anniversary. Whoa. Super fun. Yeah, nice job. When we got married back in the year 2010, I convinced a friend of mine who was actually my roommate at the time, Phil, to sculpt our cake topper. Now, Phil is, at the time we were all working together at Microsoft, but now Phil is an artist at Funko.

So he's moved on to cooler things. Yeah, pretty good at what he does. Oh, please tell me your cake topper had giant heads. No. With soulless eyes. That would be pretty good. He sculpted each of us. We have sort of a, it's sort of a cartoony-looking sculpt, but we're in like action poses.

So I'm holding up my hand like it's a, like I'm a spy with my James Bond gun. And Brits got our arms out like she's going to karate chop someone. It's really good. I actually posted a photo over on Twitter. You want to go check it out? Yeah, I do want to check it out, actually. We did make a video for this, but we put it over on Patreon. So if you're a patron, then that's how you go see that.

We made a short little video for it. Sometime you need to do stuff just for the patrons. That's the right way to do, a tasty way to do it. For sure. So the story here, though, is that when Phil originally painted it, He painted it a couple days before we had to fly out to our wedding. The paint never dried ever. It just stayed tacky forever.

When we transferred it to the wedding, we wrapped it in a paper towel to keep it safe. What happened was that paper towel stuck to it. So we had to pick little bits of paper towel off of it before we put it out on our cake. Oh, shoot. Did you? What did you end up doing? Because it seems like that's a, is it? still tacky? I assume you still have these.

Yeah, it's still tacky. We picked, we cleaned it up enough for our wedding photos. It looked fine. It looked okay. But we brought it home and put it on the shelf and it has sat there, sticky, for 10 years. Oh my gosh. Now, we have

two fluffy cats in our house. So if you can guess what that big copper was covered in. Are you guys starting to look like Chewbacca up there? Yeah, a little bit. So last week I had the great idea to strip all the paint off of it and repaint it. And I

did that. I wanted to see if I could get the paint to just come off with solvents. So I tried a bunch of different solvents. I tried acetone. I tried naphtha. Lacker thinner. That did the trick. Lacker thinner. Remind

us what lacquer thinner is because I haven't heard that phrase since as a kid, I think. Sure. So a lacquer is a type of paint. and lacquer thinner is used to dissolve it or to as a solvent to spray your lacquer or whatever. But it's also used to clean paint. My cat is just yell at me.

What's your deal, dude? He's mad that his tacky hair catchers. What'd you do with all my hair? Yeah, sorry. Anyway, lacquer thinner is really, really tenacious stuff. You can use it to clean things. You can use it to get paint off the stuff. It is very flammable, so you want to be careful with it.

I went and wrapped I took a paper towel and I soaked it in the lacquer thinner Now a lacquer thinner So be careful if you do ever do anything like that Plus you can use it to knock somebody out Oh probably Like Ace Ventura

Like chloroform yeah exactly So Wrap this thinner soaked rag around my Figures and then I covered them with a container and let it sit there for a couple hours. And the vapor from the lacquer thinner made the paint like bubble and wrinkle and pull off of the surface. I could just peel the paint off. It was really cool.

Like peeling a sunburn off. Ooh, that is cool. That's amazing that that, you know, a decade later, that stuff is, I don't know. I would have thought it would be more adherent to the, to the, to the, to the, to the, to the, to the, the models and be all stuck in there molecularly at that level, you know, like you wouldn't be able to peel it, but it goes to show how, uh, how nasty lacquer thinner is. It's pretty dangerous stuff. You do want to be careful with it. Sure. Um, but yeah, it totally did. Now, there were some spots like in the, you know, in between the fingers and around some of the

details where I had to go in with like a pick and a brush and like pick some of the paint out, but I got it pretty much cleaned off. I did a pretty good job of getting all the paint off. It was just Sculpey. The original was made out of Sculpe. So I, like, hit it with a heat gun. I wasn't sure if it didn't dry because maybe the Sculpey wasn't fully cured. Right. Cured, yeah.

Yeah, so a heat gun in. I cleaned it up a whole bunch, and then I repainted it. So the second image on Twitter is the, this is your repainting, not some old photo. Yeah. Oh, very nice. Yeah, exactly. It's great. It looks, it's very, very inspired, it seems like, by the Rankin-Bass place.

style, like the year without a Santa Claus and stuff like that. It looks, that's what it reminds me. Oh, yeah, yeah, I expect, that's funny you say that, because every time I look at it, I feel like it needs to be, it needs to start moving any second. Yeah, exactly. It's going to start moving in that same, you know, Reagan and Bass style. It would be a pretty good stop motion puppet if it wasn't completely, if it wasn't completely rigid.

For sure. And this is evidence that all you had to do is show Funko the eyes he gave the two of you. And Funko said, oh, yeah, you're right. Well, you'll sit right in. Oh, you do black eyes on your characters? Guess what? Perfect. Got a position for you.

Here's your cubicle. Here's your neighbors. Yeah. Yeah. So, anyway, I got painted. Primed it with just like a rattle can. I airbrushed all the white first because everything else would get painted on top of the white. And then the flesh and the hair and the clothing was all hand painted.

So I just mixed up some acrylic paints and hand painted those. And glued it all back onto the base. And that did it. It looks pretty much the way that it looked before the cat hair. What a cool thing to have, though, is a memory of your wedding day. It's just a rad thing. Like unusual. Everybody who ever does cake toppers are always so boring and, you know, whatever.

But this is like really meaningful and cool. And now you've restored it. Well done. Yeah. And I captured an era when I didn't have any gray hair. That's right. Keep that in there forever. Yeah.

And your beard is a lot. Back then you had this like. I don't know how to explain it. It was like your head was being held together by this tight, amazing beard. It's like a chin-strap. Yeah, literally a chin beard. Yeah. Yeah, that's true.

I keep forgetting that. Literally, your nickname is based on that. But I also like that she is significantly taller than you in the models, which is true in real life. And don't cross her. She'll kick your butt, is what I'm saying. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Very nice.

So your patron's got a load of this. If you're a patron over there, you can get more detail on this. obviously you can see video and stuff, but very cool. If you get your own little thing at home that you want to repaint, refinish, perhaps checking out Bill's work will help you be inspired. There you go. Bill, any

thing additional this week? A link, perhaps? Yeah, got a good recommendation. We're like five or six episodes into the new season of Battlebots and I'm going to recommend everyone goes and watches it. I went and bought the season on Amazon, that's where I've been watching it,

and it's awesome. The episodes are like an hour and a half long each. There's like six or seven fights per episode. All the robots are crazy and awesome and super destructive. And it's just been a really great season. Let's just say the judges haven't had to work very hard. Pretty much every fight goes to a robot knockout in a spectacular fashion. Does the show, I've not seen it, and it seems like something I'd really like, but does the show spend time with them building and making and stuff?

It's not just the fights or how... Yeah, they do... They interview the people who build the robots. They do a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff. And it's pretty great. They don't deep dive into, like, how the robots are really built, but they do a pretty good job of covering everything.

Nice. Well, Worth, I need to watch it. And you just buy the seasons. It's not streaming, streaming anywhere, right? No, I just bought the whole season right there in Amazon. Gotcha. And they tested recently, did a video with one of their producers talking about filming it during COVID

and they did a really great job no one got sick the whole season and yeah and apparently the the bot builders the teams had it like they had tons of space like they're never going to have it this good again they had 20 feet between each one of their pits

they got food whenever they wanted like they really took care of everyone and did a great job of filming an excellent season nice go check it out battle bots right that the name you got it all right hey uh bill deran everybody he is punished props dot com's own build around you can also find him on twitter under the name chin beard because he has a beard on his chin uh bill have a fantastic week we'll see you next time

see you later bye bye bye boy Brian I now present you with this there's the damn Superman there's the damn Superman hey I'm gonna do a review of a comic book that features Superman now okay uh Stephen's at a doctor's appointment that's why he's not here today. But in his stead, I'm going to do something he might do, which is review a comic. And I'm going to review something that I'm so shocked that I like, that I had to share this. So it's on Comicsology. If you have Comicsology Unlimited, they're $5 a month or whatever it is, subscription. This is there in full so you can just get it. It's also on the DC Universe app. So their Comics app has it as well. If you're subscribing to that. But this is a DC comic.

it is a tie-in. And Brian, as you know, tie-ins often suck. Yeah. They're often bad. So if you've got a crossover or some kind of product to sell, and if there's a comic tie-in, they're usually pretty bad, like low-level garbage. Boy, is that not true here.

So, really? All right. So some years ago, two, three years ago, four or five years ago, whatever it was, the makers of Mortal Kombat, another realm is the name of the developers. they made they started a series featuring all the DC characters Nether Realm is a Warner Brothers owned game studio and they

when they first got when that when that transaction first happened they made that DC versus Mortal Kombat game some years ago it was pretty good it was very good great graphics if you like fighting games yeah yeah look good it was cool some of the story was really cool the problem with that game was the watered down like it just wasn't violent enough for a Mortal combat game. Exactly, yes.

And maybe too violent for a DC game. Right. It was one reason people buy more than combat games, and it wasn't in that game. Yeah, you're not wrong. But there was something fun about Batman versus, you know, sub-zero.

Something cool about that. But anyway, jump ahead a few years. They really have refined the storytelling in their games, and they put out a new series some years ago called Injustice. And Injustice was a purely DC-based product and I didn't play much of the first injustice but I knew that one of the hallmarks of

it was like tons of story and this really interesting story where there's kind of a split in the Justice League and didn't know much else about that story but I knew that they were going to start putting out a comic based on it and that it was going to run weekly for 99 cents a shot oh wow and my thing was like oh that's going to be bad that's going to be shoveled Yeah. Is that a sign that they know what it's worth? And they're saying, yeah, we're not going to be able to charge $2.99 for this. Right. And so I was convinced that this was going to be garbage. But then a few people over the years have said, oh, if you haven't read Injustice, you're missing out.

It is so good. It's so good. It's so good. And I'm like, really? A video game tie-in? Like, really? Because they're not supposed to be good. And I just had all my biases and stuff about it. Anyway, finally picked it up. And I cannot stop reading this. It is so good. I'll follow this new this I forgot the name of the writer I'll look it up real quick but the guy who writes it I'll follow him into the to the comic book depths from now on because he's he is great the writing's amazing they use a bunch of different artists you can tell that given the weekly schedule and the and the and the sort of workflow that that probably represented they would swap people they would have different artists like you'll be reading

along two three panels and then suddenly the art will change to some totally different artists for the next four or five panels oh really within okay like I'm used to you know this issue the art's gonna be done by so and so but actually within yeah and they're not so they're not so disparate that you're like oh these are this is taking me out of it it doesn't really do that but you can tell it's just different people and it makes sense if you're gonna put out a weekly and you're trying to cram it all they had to do something you couldn't put that all in one artist but um they haven't you know a great assortment or array of artists working on it and um it's so good it's the best it may be my favorite dc story ever oh seriously

like over over the uh frank miller stuff and the uh yeah well in terms okay you know what i'll narrow it down of all of the stuff where where someone is writing you know some jeff johns or whoever is putting together a thing that kind of covers the all you know the bigger issues of the world sort of your avengers level but for dc justice league stuff like a series versus a one-shot graphic novel thing. Yeah, correct. So for that category, it's shot right up for me. I'm loving

it. It's so good. Wow. And that doesn't, you know, that doesn't diminish things like someone said, Kingdom Come in the chat. That's one of the greatest stories ever told and an amazing art Alex Ross and all that. But that thing is a limited run. It had a start and an end and you were done.

Injustice 1 and 2, and Justice 2 just came out between the last two Mortal Kombat that his second Injustice game came out currently free to play on Game Pass if you have it on PC or console but anyway I'm just completely roped in

it's really really good writing it's amazing it's a way of looking so without spoiling anything because I really feel like I don't want to spoil this but there's this this break in the team because of something really gnarly that happens and in that that level of gnarly means that Superman has had it he's had it and he decides to jump out with a bunch of like-minded people yeah threw in the cape throw in the cape no he decides he wants to just say look I'm tired of fiddling around like

here's an example he's like Gotham has an asylum full of criminals that we have just catered to and every time they they run the foul. We put them in there and hope to reveal it. And we just wait for them to escape and terrorize Gotham. Yeah, because we're done doing that. We're not doing that anymore. We're going to put them in a place where they can never escape and they're never going to be a problem again. And as you imagine, this sort of, there's a high-mindedness to it, but it's also bordering on dictatorship because now Superman's basically saying, look, I'm just going to make it the way I want it. I'm just going to stop these wars and that'll be it. He's doing it. He's got a

righteous reason, and Wonder Woman's got a righteous cause to follow this and all this other stuff, but Batman sees it deeper and knows, Bruce Wayne knows where this is headed. It's not headed toward, it's headed toward a control, you know, a level of control that he is just not comfortable with. So he and some other like-minded people on the league have split off in their own little group to sort of fight this. So now you have a lot of infighting going on. Anyway, it's very, very, very good. And I'm so shocked how much I liked it that I can't recommend it enough. So go check it out. It's called Injustice. They have a whole first series, which I'm in the middle of still. I think I'm seven or eight chapters in. And there's also a second Injustice two series that apparently is also good that was a couple years ago. But just loving it. Even if you're not a DC fan, I think this is like a, this is some of the best stuff I've ever read. It's very, very good. You know, I haven't, I haven't read a lot of DC. think the last really big series that I read and loved, and I know it's going back. No, I've definitely read stuff since then.

But identity crisis, the, um, oh, yeah, that was really good. Sue Dibney's death and, and Dr. Light and how hard, like, what a shocking story that was. Yeah. Um, so maybe it's time for me to go back in and give some more DC. Give some DC a chance, Brian. You might like it. Get off your Spider-Man high horse and give some DC a chance. it has some

it has some of the best Robin and Nightwing interactions because Robin is currently Damien Batman's son Oh really?

Yeah and Dick Grayson who went on to be Nightwing he comes back and is sort of part of this and I don't want to give too much away

that it's just got there's some there's some cool stuff this Aquaman bit was really cool they have to fight a cracking at one point which sounds dumb

but it's just it's really good it's almost like they said hey we know tie-ins are bad but we're going to go ahead and do our best work and they're killing it

and it turned out to be really good work wow so I'm going to recommend it go check it out again that is the injustice series and the entire first volume is I think second volume too

but at least the first volume is just 100% there on comicsology just go get it and keep reading and I read that oh my gosh Too late last night. It was like 1.30. Still right. That leads us to today's Monday morning

mashup. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. We're going to play this. This is called Chuck E. Cheese. Okay. So I don't know what to expect, but here it is. My name is Ron and he is DMCA and we got the thing with the shoes and the stuff. That whole thing. Your house for the pod, you boob. Yeah, you boob, you imbecile. Mary, I think the Tesla neighbors are arguing again. Well, I can't find Mrs. Lonely Heart's dog. It's missing.

And you're right. Hit the breast, really? Oh, didn't go through your head, though, eh? We've disproved something with physics, eh? Let's get a beer. Yep, I'm a sperm donor, but I have won't masturbate. Yeah. It's only natural delivery.

By the way, this is nine years before Crudup would model his blue penis. Oh, penis. Yeah, nine years. Nine years. He would be Captain, or Captain, Mr. Manhattan in, uh... Captain Manitin. Went to a Blue Pene School for four years. He's Dr. Manhattan.

You have to. You got to get a doctorate in the... He's got his doctorate in Pene. Exactly. Have it right in the butt. You have a vagina. I have a penis. Let's put them together.

They're not bringing my son as organic food. Blue freaking who. Hi, my son is the one. with the horns and the headdress and the leather pants, no shirt? Hi, yes. You can't miss him. Could you bring him some steamed tofu, please? You just won't eat if you don't do it.

I'll starve himself. I'm just going to go ahead and put my cards on the table and say, it doesn't work that way. Sorry, Dollar Sturge of Merrickwai. Not to get your... The UK, we don't have butts. We have posterios. Yes.

Pockets. Posterio dialing. Yes. Fanny dialing. Yes. That's a different thing. Oh. Hey, where the police, open the door. Open your effend door.

coming in. There's a bobby at the door. Let us in. That's right. If you don't open the door, we'll say shit, but it'll sound like shite. Clunk. What has happened? My wiener device has closed, and it will not open. Mom, can you call him and tell him to give you some organic

food? Don't call me Chandelie, mom. Call me shaman. Okay. I'd liken them to the ill-fated crooks in the movie Home Alone. You know, Wet bandits. Daniel Stern and Chuck E. Cheese. Nope. no damn it i had his name in my head until you said chunky cheese what's wrong with me he's one of the

great actors of our generation j uh jose jose jose jose jose jose jose jose jose jes i still wouldn't mind seeing a cut of home alone where chucky cheese is there daniel stern and chucky cheese yeah i'd be into it peshy cheese pechy cheese don't eat it it's not good for you oh my Yeah, that's so funny. That was a good one. Well done. Jamie, as always, Jamie is TMS mashups on Twitter if you want to follow him and give him props for his mad work.

Real quick here, we have a little bit of fan service. Service! We got a fan service from somebody who says this. I'm writing to express endless thanks as one of the Listen Later streamers that has been here since the early 2000s, loving all the great content. Odd as it sounds, the Tadpole feels like a tangible family, whether you're home or away.

We agree. That's so true. Yep. I'm a production manager for a large allergy company near Spokane, Washington. Did I read that right? He makes allergies?

I guess he makes allergies, yeah. Oh, okay. This is, we're responsible for producing critical venoms for the worldwide allergy industry. Mm. We spend a lot of... Venoms. I love it.

Mm. I hope he's got little vials of animated black goop. Little symbiotes ready to attach to a new host. We spend a lot of our time and full-body P-A-P-Rs. I guess that's those big outbreak suits.

They probably dress like AIM Yeah, yeah, yeah. Marvel Comics. Yeah, there you go. Oh, like AIM, yeah, those AIM guys. Those yellow AIM uniforms. I hate those AIM guys. It reminds me of Nicholas Cage and the Rock

when he's trying to stop that doll from blowing up. A little gas doll or whatever. I think you're going to say it reminds me of Nicholas Cage. and the wicker man not the bees the bees all right anyway it says we pull venom sacks

off of wasps anyway he says great content is a must I've gone through said dynamic family changes recently leaving me a single father of four so I'm looking to new avenues to express myself and grow a community if possible I'd love to link up

with some like-minded tad pooligans and share some fun streams via Twitch I'm an old dog learning new trick so I would really appreciate the feedback mind dropping a word on or basically just asking for it he says you can find him at twitch.tv slash loyal bait I was really hoping you were going to do the sentence before that I'll read it again really appreciate the fever mind dropping a word my way for some support while I work rid of the vespid anaphylaxis well I work to rid you all of vespid anaphylaxis oh is that a thing that

we all have we don't all have that do you know that's of, like, going into, like, allergy shock from a wasp sting. Oh, anaphylactic shock. There you go. Yeah, Tina's got, Tina's allergic to bees. Bees? Oh, no. So, yeah.

My cousin is, but I've never really, I've never had, nobody in my family is directly allergic to bees that I'm aware of. Kim is allergic to seaweed, so she can't eat sushi with seaweed. Oh, that's a bummer. I know. She breaks out in this horrible, awful thing. It's so bad. Anyway, so go check it out

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There you go Many thanks, the loyalist of all the baits So again that's loyal bait Go check it out Loyal bait Twitch.tv slash Very nice All right, Brian, that's it. We're done. We've finished the show. And I would like to remind fine folks at home that the way the show continues to roll forward is through their support at patreon.com slash TMS. Huge thanks to everyone who already does. You'd be getting new art soon because I just submitted it. You're getting bonus content today as recent as just today because you get it every day. So help us out if you haven't before. Patreon.com slash TMS. And for everything else, frogpants.com slash TMS. The only thing you can't give for me is music

because Brian has to give you that. So Brian, I've got to give it to you, and I administer it from wasps sax. So little tiny brass instruments that I give to wasps. This one is appropriate for the day. It did not come via request. I decided, hey, let's play this

because I think I've played a cover of this song almost every year on Martin Luther King Day since we started the show. So I'm doing it again. And you can probably guess based on that description. The song is by you two. It, of course, is with or without you. No, I'm kidding. It's Pride in the Name of Love, covered here by the band LP from The Time is Now from 2016. Really cool cover compilation. Pride in the name of love, covered by LP.

One man come in the name of love One man come and go One man come he to justify One man to overthrow In the name of love One more in the name of love In the name of love One man called on a barbed wife

One man he resist One man washed on an empty beach One man betrayed with a kiss In the name of love One more in the name of love In the name of love One more in the name of love You know, I'm going to be able to be able to be able to.

Early evening, April 4, shop rings out in Memphis sky. For at last, they took your life, they could not take your pride. In the name of love, one more in the name of love. In the name of love, one more, in the name of love In the name of love, one more in the name of love Oh Oh Oh

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