The Morning Stream - TMS 2067: Dad Flexes

Episode Date: February 15, 2021

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Coming up on TMS, a $35 toblaron. Scott and Dunaway gets stuck in the hotel room. Your move, Mulligan boy. A dollar late and never sorry. No mint. phone book and no lieutenant y'ar 11 degrees bezzo zero get the big jesus there magical hacky sack the towels are chipped no sheet sherlock this is starting to feel like a patriots game socks really child saving father subroutines garbaggio i hate that man making things with bill major spoilers and more on this episode of the morning

stream what about mankind in general oh mankind like the whole world i mean it's not bad. It could be better, but I'm happy with my life. You guys want some sandwiches? This is the morning stream. All right. I'm going to admit something here at the top of the show, Brian, and I'm Scott Johnson, and this is the morning stream. deftly handled, by the way, I was very well done. This is my favorite. So I've been listened to a lot of system of the down, of a down, sorry. System of a down, yes. I've been doing that wrong forever, so you've got to give me a minute to correct it.

This is my favorite thing they ever did. Just that little bit. That is the best. I love it so much. I love it so much. It's so, it's, it takes a lot of coordination. between the bass player and the lead singer. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Because he's, like, he's mirroring the same notes. It's crazy. Yeah, and it's really, I don't know, it's delightful. And I don't even know what, I forget even what song that's from, but I had to capture it and play it on the show. Anyway, welcome to TMS, everybody. It's Scott and Brian, as I mentioned before, and we're here doing a show for February 15th, 2021.

And we get stuff today. And I'm kind of a mood today. Ooh, okay, a mood. I'm tired, didn't sleep great. It snowed. I think partly that's why I didn't sleep great because I just, I don't know, I can feel the pressure. I get pressure-y, but I'm a human barometer, is what I'm saying. And I think it kept me up.

Plus I ate really well yesterday, but later than usual, because I try to be done by seven as a general rule. Right. You're doing the intermittent fasting kind of thing. Yeah, basically. 11 to 7 is my window. and ate a little later than usual, so I think my, you know, I'm up all night with the digestion there. Anyway, it was just one of those nights where I just couldn't freaking get to sleep. So now I feel a little punch-drunky, a little, little bit off my wagon today.

So, Brian, you're just going to have to deal with it. You're going to have to groove on it, all right? Fine. I'll quit composing that text. Okay. Hey, man, what's up? You're grumpy. What's up with you?

Yeah. Why, you're so damned grumpy today. Yeah. Damn, dude. Well, that's what's funny is I don't feel grumpy. I feel, I don't know. Am I right? Yeah, you don't seem grumpy.

Yeah, I don't feel grumpy. We had a really scary thing happen yesterday, though. It could have gone way worse. Maybe that's why I didn't sleep because I was, I was dreaming of what it would have been like had it gone wrong. But yesterday, so over the weekend, we had the baby from, when did we have him? And now my brain's gone blank. That would have been Sunday. So we got him Saturday in the afternoon, and we had him through.

Saturday at around 11, or Sunday, rather, yesterday. So we got to watch him, we got to sleep over, never cried, never whined, just as a perfect kid, dude. That kid, I don't know what's going on with that baby, but two-year-olds everywhere, look out, because this kid is, he's so much freaking fun. Because we found the best one. You guys get all quit trying hard, because the best one has already been discovered. Yep. Now he can count to 10. He's like, smart, all this stuff.

Plus, he's just fun and laughing and goofy, and he's just great. He's probably already got a higher eye level than I do, and wow, doesn't he? Probably, yeah. He dies less as well, which is a thing. So anyway, he's over here and we're having a great time and no issues, sleeps the entire night, wakes up happy, eats all his food, just talking, and just it's great. And then his parents come, Taylor and Dylan, they come to pick him up because they had their little Valentine's sort of, you know, baby break. It was basically what we gave them. We do it every year for.

We do it every year, but we've only had two years to do this. So we've done it every year for two years. The second annual baby break. So she, so they come over to get her, get him. And we have a little bit of brunch there ready, and we do that with them. And then when they're about ready to leave, it's probably about two in the afternoon. And the snow has been falling the whole time when they were there. So out on the front porch and on the steps leading down,

there's about, I don't know, three quarters of an inch of fresh, wet snow that we hadn't cleared because it fell while they were in there. And I remember Kim saying, hey, we should probably go shovel one more time real quick before they go, so they have to walk through that.

And Taylor goes, or Taylor and Dylan or somebody says, no, we're fine, we're good, we got this. No worries. Well, you don't do it for us. Don't worry about it. Okay. So they go outside to leave.

And again, nothing but the most pleasant, doesn't 24 hours has occurred before this. It was just great. They go to leave. Taylor's got all the stuff they brought with him. And then Dylan's carrying the baby. And they walk out and two steps out, Dylan's shoes fly out from underneath him.

He's holding the baby, mind you. And he just, and I see this from the living room because the door's open. And Kim's right there at the door. And Carter and I are back here. And we see them just go like this violent, I'm like, woof, just fall. Oh, my God, okay.

And I hear what it's, what sounds like kind of a smack noise, and I thought, oh, my gosh, the baby has high velocity smacked the side of his head on a step, on a cement step. Oh, God, yeah. So we're all like, we all spring into action and run out there and try to figure out what's going on. Dylan's not moving, not because he's, you know, hurt to the point you can't move, but because he doesn't want to, he's not sure where everything's at. Right. Trying to get his bearings as to what, okay, where is everything before I... Right. I'm not going to move suddenly or whatever. Van is now crying and crying in a way. I've never heard him cry before, which kind of freaked us out because we're just like, wait, is that from hitting something? And that's why he's crying weird? Is he crying weird? Because he just hasn't been this freaked out before and we never see him like this or like, what's going on? So we rush out there. Kim sort of gently gets the baby from his arms. And thus, now begins the process of, you know, we're looking for bumps. We're looking for bruises.

You're right, exactly, doing an assessment. Yeah. And he's crying and is up, but we can see his eyes. They're not dilating. He doesn't seem to be concussed, not right away. And that takes a little time. So we're just sort of keeping our eye on. And everyone's back in the house now.

Dylan's elbow's all bloody and he hit his shoulder real hard, but basically, you know, wasn't feeling it yet because we're all worried about the baby. Anyway, because the angle looked like, it really did look like a man. Imagine just pulling down as fast as you could with a kid in your arms and then just swinging that kid at high velocity. It could have been catastrophic. It could have been like brain injury trauma horrible. It could have been really bad. But here's the thing that kicked in, which I think is so interesting.

And it's not obviously there are going to be accidents and cases where this didn't happen. But you know those videos. You ever see those compilations where the dads and grandpas. and other people's dads, when a kid's about to fly off of a ferris wheel or a kid's about to trip and fall on the ice or a kid slips and starts falling down some stairs, there's a weird instinct in dads that kick in,

and we go, and we reach out, and we end up catching these things, these kids like 95% of the time. Right, it's like a weird, like a mix of adrenaline and reflexes that you didn't know you had. Yes, yes, dad flexes. Let's call it that.

dead flexes and uh basically he did that without knowing it because had he fallen just fallen the way we would have if he was by himself his arm would have come out here to block his fall his other arm would have been here the baby would have whacked his head on the cement and we'd all be done but because he just had the right he knew what he knew to just pull this way and this way just right enough that they missed that cement from the from the baby's head by about this much oh my god so he he missed it all he has is a little scrape right here where we think basically he just kind of like grazed the bottom of the cement and not a bruise not a not anything other than just like a little and uh and then

dill you know dylan's shoulder and elbow took the brunt of it to confirm all this because i had this feeling like oh i think you're i think your dad instincts kicked in or something i went and looked at the video because we had video let's go to the tape yeah oh yeah like a ring doorbell video Yes. And Kim was not having that. She didn't want to see it. Yeah, with Kim. I don't need any reminder of how close we came. No kidding. So we fired that up. I looked at it.

And sure enough, you can see this moment where he just knew to move in the right direction. Or I guess you could call it random. I'm not here to say there anything mystical happened. But he just moved in the right direction so that when that fall happened, the 99% of the brunt of that would be absorbed by Dylan. and the baby would be the most possibly protected you can in a scenario like that. And it worked out.

He was fine. He was upset for a while because it scared him. But before you know it, he's in the car. In fact, up until then, he was only counting to five on the way home without being prompted. He counted to 10. So he got smarter. He locked a bunch of digits into him, basically. Yeah.

So it was really something, though, because we all freaked out. I was like losing it. I was like, it's, no, there's something, I wouldn't call it mystic and I wouldn't call it like, you know, it's, it's some built-in thing that we all have these instincts where you could be carrying a crystal, like a crystal, you know, an expensive glass vase or something. Yeah. And you could be doing the most mundane thing that you've done a thousand times, not even giving it a thought, but there's this little thing in the back of your head that says, I'm carrying this, this very fragile, important thing. thing and you slip and fall and your immediate instinct is you know you're thinking well my my my brain normally would tell me oh yeah catch myself and don't you know I don't hurt myself don't hurt the robot right don't hurt the robot do no harm to the robot but it's that it's that

little thing that that kind of um uh like a piece of code that overrules all other pieces of code in your brain that say yeah you're right let's say protect the crystal yeah with all your right salty goat does bring up yeah so you try and catch a knife well good point well it'd be a very good point

wouldn't it be a point for sure oh it'd be a very a very sadly look I did it this morning I was over here getting ready for the show and I accidentally knocked a pro controller a Nintendo pro controller off my table over here and I instinctively stuck my foot out did a little bit of

magical freaking hacky sack move some hacky stack stuff i haven't done since junior high and i balanced that thing off and i saved it it didn't shatter or do anything so maybe it isn't just kids it's also our our prized possessions that we're very careful let's be us exactly there's that's uh one lower a lower line of code so if it came down to your pro controller or van the the super user code would protect van and the uh one would hope Brian. One would hope. I think you're right. Your admin code would protect the pro controller, but your super user code would protect

then. Let's hope we never have to find out. Anyway, that was a weird day. But everything's fine. He's happy and good. Dylan's going to fill it this morning, though. He's going to be pretty sore, I'm sure. He had surgery on that elbow, and so we were worried at first about this, you know, being a problem for whatever surgery he had, whatever surgery he had. He's got multiple, he's had multiple surgeries. All of them have to do with soccer. He was a giant soccer nut growing up. So his knees have both been done.

He wiped out once, and that's why the elbow thing had to happen. So yesterday I was just thinking, oh, here we go, dude. He's going to have to get his elbow done again. But anyway, baby safe. He seems fine. He'll be achy today. That is to say, Dylan. But everything worked out.

So, uh, whew. Hugh is one of the time. Hey, quick note. That is definitely a hue. Quick note. This is a big week for a lot of us. There's busy, busyness going on. around the Frog Pants Network.

We've got BlizzCon line coming up on Friday and Saturday. And as a result, leading up to that, there's a few other things. There's going to be some live coverage of some of that stuff from us. I'm going to be doing a thing with Kyle and Garrett on Friday for the opening ceremonies. Whatever those even are. We don't really even know what that is yet. But we're going to do a little live co-stream of that and some other stuff. So anyway, a lot of cool stuff happening.

But one cool thing I can finally say something about, which I've known about for about a month, is that I'll be hosting, I think I'm their first returning version of this, although it's weird. Oh, really? Oh, that's cool. Yeah, nobody else has ever come back twice, but they're having me host the Q&A on Saturday, the Wow Q&A, World Warcraft Q&A on Saturday at the beginning of that day's stuff. I want to say that's, hold on, is it at 2 p.m. our time, I think it is. Crap, I don't have it in front of me.

Whenever that is. Oh, no, yeah, it's sometime in the afternoon. Anyway, the point is, I'll be hosting that. I want to say it's 1 p.m. mountain time, I think. Oh, I do have the schedule right up here. Do you have it handy? I don't have. 1 p.m. mountain time to 2 p.m.

You know, 1 to 2 p.m. Mountain Time. Cool. World Warcraft, Q&A. And that is so. There you go. So noon Pacific. Yeah, noon Pacific. It'll go for like an hour.

And it'll be on the main channel that day at blizzcon.com. As well as I think their Twitch and YouTube channels are both be carrying it as well. Anyway, it'll be me and I, A. Hossack Hostas and John Hight and then others that I don't think I've been made aware of yet who'd be a part of that panel. They'll be collecting questions from the community. Anyway, if you want to see it, check it out. That's on Saturday.

Should be fun. Yeah, I can't wait. I've got my question already lined up. I'm going to ask you the current whereabouts of Mancruck's wife. There you go. Because that is the only question I have about, wow. Oh, also, why you hate rogues, Blizzard? Yeah, what's your problem with rogues?

anyway. You guys made them. How can you hate him so bad? Yeah. So obviously, because of the opening ceremony, that is right when we would normally do TMS PM. You and I guess you and I should probably talk about seeing if we can do a TMS AM or something that day. Yeah, we're thinking about doing some switcheruny. In fact, that might be perfect Friday because, well, it depends on when they have me. So that's the other thing is for about three days there. Blizzard's got me on kind of a time leash, but I don't know what windows I have yet.

So I'll find that out today or tomorrow and we'll figure it out. Because we're going to try to make sure. 6 a.m. Friday morning, TMS, super a.m. Got to be dark out or else we're not doing it. Technically still nighttime. Anyway, that'll be fun. Check it out if you were interested. Weirdly, I'm more nervous about this. It'll be fine. I'm not that nervous.

But I'm more nervous about this than I was the stage thing in 2018. Wow. Which is crazy because stage thing 2018 meant 26,000. live people in chairs in a room and this is just the internet which we do every day um you'd think oh well that's less stressful or less nerve-wracking and i think i think i figured out why the internet is is brutal and heartless sometimes oh yeah it's also um way more opportunity for us a technical glitch right and you're sitting there like okay um well i'm here um but our questions are down the server that had our questions on it. So I'm good. How are you? Yeah, exactly. Can I sing you a Lionel

Richie song? Hello. So there's all that. And then there's also this thing of at Blisscon, those 26,000 people are all in a pretty good mood and are there because they want to be. Do you know what I mean? Like they're hanging out. They're at their big event. They spent money to be here. They're they're seeing their friends they haven't seen for a year. Like there's all this positivity in the room. Whereas everybody at home is all cynical and mad. Also, though, keep in mind, all those people live in chairs sat in line getting pissed off at people that they saw getting their friends in line before them. And they couldn't go see the Overwatch tournament because that room filled up. And so there's blizzcon frustrations too.

There is, but they're not, but they're not aimed at me and the four other people that are up there. You know what I mean? So what I'm saying is these people are getting to stay in their homes, nice and warm, watch you. on the internet, they're going to be in a good mood. They're going to be excited. And I'm going to be there. I'm going to be one of them. I like your positive attitude. I think that's great. We'll see how it goes.

Anyway, that's the Saturday. Besides, I mean, Blizzard fans, World of Warcraft players are the nicest least judgmental and not quick to anger or I don't know. No hyperbole. No freaking out at

nothing. No taking a simple topic and then turning it into their own agenda or any of that. That's right. Exactly. No, you're going to be fine. You did such a great job with it last year, and that's why they wanted you to come back because you did such a great job with it last year.

Well, two years ago. Last time. Yeah, last time. Well, two times ago, but yeah. Well, many times. Wait, was it two times ago? How many Blis. Oh, yeah, there's only been one since I did it.

And that was, uh, oh, was there? I didn't think, was there, uh, so that was a bluscon that I just flat out didn't go to. Yeah, you and I didn't go. Part of our reasoning was just like, you know what? We're taking this one off. going to chill a year. And then we'll all be back in 2020. That was the plan.

And now I'm mad at myself for just not going to 2019. I know, me too. So we probably don't know this. But does this mean there's definitely not going to be a regular November blizzcon in 2021? Probably not, right? Yeah, if I had to guess, I'd say no. I think that's their way of saying here's. It precedes both 2020 and 2021.

That's my take. I could be wrong. but my my guess is they get just given where we are they they pump this year again like every other gaming conference seems seems to already have decided this year and then yeah 2022 they they kick it it back up is my is my thinking I could be I think so too we'll see how it goes cool um all right let's uh ooh ooh ooh we're gonna play a game with uh with people and money no no there's no money There's no money. There's no money in this.

There is just Dunaway and some rando. And it's fun, though. And we give, there are prizes. Okay, so that's important to mention. We do give you prizes. We're not just fooling around. Money in the form of prizes. That's right.

So we're going to do that here shortly. But before we do, we have to play this. Hey, joining us right now is Mr. Brian Dunaway from South Carolina, where I'm told there might be ice on some roads. You guys are right down there? You're doing okay. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. I haven't seen any ice. That's good. Don't see any ice is my resolution. I'm looking

right now. Spinning around in your diet soda. That's the only ice you've seen. I don't see anything. It's kind of, you know, it's like 40 something. Don't you have to be like in the 30s Fahrenheit wise for some ice? You do. I'm not saying early in the morning in the mountainous area.

Yeah. They're not seeing some. But I'm not in the Mountain Scott. Somebody said, or I can't remember who told me, Twitter, maybe. Oh, somebody in South Carolina, a bit of a small place, a little bitty state. Little bitty state. That's okay. You guys will get bigger with time. Don't worry about it. Wow. Hey, welcome to the show there, Brian. We're going to play Babel Royale with you and a listener. And the listener in question is already on the line. Let's find out who this is. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Hey, guys. It's Stephanie. Stephanie.

Yeah, that's right. Stephanie is good to hear. your voice again. Welcome to the show. You know how this works, but I'm still going to make Brian explain it, Brian. Yeah. First off, how cold is it right now in Madison? You're Madison, right? I am, yes. I think it's, I'll have to check click, but I think it's like negative 10. Oh, yeah. Welcome to my world. All right, cool. Oh, no, really, Colorado, welcome to Wisconsin World, because you guys get that a lot more often than we do here. Yeah, we've had, the last time I remember negative temperatures, I think I was in my 20s or something. This is like a long, it's in the 90s, I think.

Or I mean, sorry, the 1990s. It wasn't in the 90s. It makes it sound like I'm saying two different temperatures and I'll now stop talking. All right, Brian, hey. Definitely, I'm going to be giving Scott and Brian a topic. They're going to go back and forth giving me answers that fit that topic. If one of them gives a wrong answer, a repeated answer, or they take too long to come up with an answer, the win will go to the other player. Your job is to predict who's going to come out on top based on the topic.

topic. Today, you're playing for a bag of Kahawa Coffee, courtesy of Kahawa Coffee Roasters. Go find them online. We love AJ to Backer & Company over there at Kohawa Coffee. And you'll get a copy of Tales of the Neon Sea, courtesy of Wesley. How good is that game? Do you guys know that game? Which game is it again? Sorry? Tales of the Neon Sea. I don't know what that is. I've never heard of it. Let me think about it without the, you know, the, the way you say it. details up in the end up in the end up, no, no. Still don't, nope, okay.

Still not? Okay. Yeah, I don't know what that is, but it sounds like something I would be drawn to. So, yeah. It does. It sounds really good. All right, but before they can start, I need to give them a topic, and then you can start thinking about it. So our topic today comes from the Association of Hotel and Restaurant Management. This is a fun one. What? A fun one that I saw online, I thought, this is going to make a really hilarious

and bad babel royal topic. All right. I'm in. There are 57 typical items in a hotel room. Oh. Okay. So here's what I want you to do. Think of an empty box.

All right. And then turn it into a hotel room by adding items. Okay. So like, you know, go as go as, as, uh, as, uh, basic and generic as you as you want. I'm going to give you, because this is such a goofy one, I'm going to give you guys

two mulligans each on top of your first guest mulligan, right? So technically you've got three, but your first guess is one of those mulligan opportunities. Okay, because we have that standard rule where if we screw up our very first answer, we get a mulligan no matter

what the contest. And I think this was based on another weird question about hotel rooms. that we started that mulligan, wasn't it? I don't know. Did Scott say something really weird about hotel rooms one time? And it was like, where do you bury your hook? We have dead hooker?

I don't know. Something weird. I don't know. Did we have a question about hotel rooms? Hotel rooms? Yeah, like where do you put your victim? Was it just something with free hotel room was involved? Oh, maybe.

Have we heard back from him? Anyone talk to Bob? I haven't heard from him in a while. And it's my fault. Well, it's not my fault. But I mean, I need to reach out. Yeah, Brian, you need to reach out. It's my fault.

I pissed him off. Yeah, every audience member that's, It's not showing up. We need to send a personal email to. I do. I need to see how they're doing. Yeah, why not? Why not?

All right. So, Stephanie, that is there. And you can tell how long it's been since either of them had stayed in a hotel room. Oh, my God. Yeah, it's been a while. Scott did recently in St. George, actually. So that's a, that's a plus. Yeah, it was more like a time share there.

So I'm not sure it counts as much, but it may. Yeah, okay. Yeah. You're not. But, Stephanie, knowing the topic and knowing these guys, who do you think is going to win who and who would you like to make go first

Make go Okay I will say that they probably both have equal knowledge on the subject So it's pretty much just a matter of who's going to say a repeat or not So I will

I'll just double down on Brian to go first and to win. All right. All right. Brian, I take no offense. I take no offense.

All right, Brian. You should not. All right. Let me make sure I get the question correct. Yes. I am imagining in an empty room that has, okay, so they build a brand new hotel, and here's the room, and they got to feel it with stuff. Yep.

This is what I'm looking at. Turn it into a hotel room. Exactly. Okay. I got you. And there's no top answers on the board. It's commonly found in hotel rooms. Right.

Right. So, all right. Let's get on with it then. towels are in hotel rooms absolutely towels scott usually steals them but they do have towels before scott gets in there i started to um i have a change in that area well it's been what are you doing now well i'm i don't do it as much because or at all unless i know it's like a really old crappy hotel because uh i hear now that there's like microchips in the in the towels or something where they track oh really what are they going to do though track it to your house well i don't know

That's just, that's just, that's just H-Anon. That's just hotels making up to you have to you have to be still in the towels. Exactly. I think that they can figure it out when the, when housekeeping shows up in there, and there are only two towels. Yeah. And your names attach to the room. They don't need chips. It's never the big towels. Anyway, it's always the one of the little face or hand towels.

And it's because when you spend, let's say, $200 on one night, you deserve a towel, is what I'm saying. Right. You get more. What do you think is more expensive? The silicon to put on a chip or a towel? What do you think? Ding, ding, ding, ding. Yeah, those crappy, thin little towels, absolutely.

Yeah, I mean, cheaper than microchips. And it had to be waterproof chip. Oh, come on. There's all kinds of reasons. It's not a, it's not a theory if it's conspiracy. Right. You're turning the frog's gay, is what we're saying. That's right.

All right, Scott, your turn. I like to eat. All right. Let's do, I mean, items. yeah you walk into a hotel room what do you see and there's no rule about whether everything is consumable right like obviously not because the towels aren't consumable they're just usable so i'll say um again imagine an empty box yeah yeah just fill it with your stuff i'll do tv there's tv there you go television after the races down there's a tv as well all right bro hotel room

be pretty pointless about a bed yep got to have a bed bed bed is is on the list. I figured bed would definitely be in the list. I was making sure the reason why I went with towels first in case it was something weird. Yeah, that's good because you'd have your first mulligan. My mulligan. Maximize your mulligan. All right.

We're going to do a shower. We're going to do a shower. A shower. Yes. Shower slash bathtub, both included on here. All right. First place I go when I get to the hotel room to the toilet. Toilet.

Absolutely. I just said that was right. All right. So now I've got to get granular. Toilet paper. Toilet paper. Ding. Uh-huh. Okay.

What do you need toilet paper for you? You already said you had towels. I'm also going to go with floor mat. No, I'm just kidding. What do you need a floor mat for if you already don't have toilet paper? I'm going to go with, there's always at least one chair in the hotel room. Absolutely. Chair.

Ding. Okay. Ding. How about a desk? Mm-hmm. Yes, and it's funny because that was one of my first guesses to when I saw this list. It should be on the list. I'm adding it because, for whatever reason, no, no, no.

The desk should be on the list. I have never been a hotel room that didn't have a desk. Yeah, they always have a house. Not a modern one. Yeah. Not a modern. If you go to some old 50s hotel on the side of the road and between Kansas and freaking whatever, then maybe. You know what?

We're saying table slash desk because there you go. Sometimes they just give you a table. A table. Oh, wow. Yeah, we really, have you seen these things in the hotel rooms? They are table slash disk. That's exactly what they are. Okay.

All right. No one's confusing that with anything. All right. Oh, is my turn? Yes. It is your turn. I'm going to go with, uh, what are bed sheets? Sheets, bed sheets, correct.

Oh, man. Stephanie's right about the repeating thing. Yeah. That is, that is the thing that's going to get you. Yeah. Pillows. I don't think we said yet. I don't say pillows yet.

I like to eat. Whoops, wrong button. Sorry. I like to eat. Don't think about what's been happening on those pillows. No. No. Okay.

I'm trying to think if I've went too broadly whenever I said, uh, I'd, I narrow it down for you if you went too broadly. Okay. All right. I'm trying to remember if you said anything. If you say, um, if you say, uh, if you say paint, like, if you say paint, like the paint on the walls, that's dumb, right? You can't be saying that.

Don't say paint. Don't say paint. Too broad. Right. That's too broad. Because, I mean, I said sheets. That's about the only thing that's too broad on this thing is saying paint. Yeah.

I said sheets, but I didn't say, you know, pillow coverings. That's what I'm saying. Part of bed sheets. I'm just going to tell you right. Good, good, good. Right, right, right. I didn't want to give me away any easy gimmies that I would regret later. All right.

Clarify, yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, I don't ever use it, but they usually have a trash can in there. They do have a garbage can, trash can, yes. All right. Agio. The heck is it here.

Cabosh. Garbogio. I hate that name. All right. Let's do, you got soap in there, some soaps. That's a good one. Totally have soap. All right

Shampoo Shampoo Ding Do you have They usually have Conditioner They usually do have conditioner That's on the list

Wow Oh Oh Okay Okay You hope it's got that little tape that tells you it has been tampered with too

I mean I don't use conditioner Obviously But Gotta have that ice bucket Baby You do have an ice bucket Sometimes a little plastic bag in it Ice bucket.

All right. Ice bucket. Challenge. I'm going to go with, uh... Heard those are chipped. Telephone. Telephone. Plastic bags by the ice bucket are chipped.

Yeah, everything's chipped. They don't want you to steal it now. What you say, Scott? I forgot what I said. Hold on. Did you say telephone? Oh, I said phone, telephone, yeah. Yes, okay, good.

But you got to say it. Phone? Phone? Phone? Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Phone, phone. Yep, yep, absolutely a telephone. Well, yeah, you can't have a phone.

Are there chips and microchips in the towels? We've got to have some place to put your phone. So I'm going to say nightstand. Nightstand indeed. Nightstand's a good one. Oh, geez. When was this curated, by the way? Because there's some things that I know were in old school hotels.

Then I'm like, I don't see them as often anymore. Um, this looks like it's pretty dang complete. And, and I don't see anything. I mean, you know, there are going to be some modern amenities that are not going to be super common, like a HTML input port, things like that. Yeah, you can see those. Okay. Okay. Well, let me ask you this. There are some accessories for television that I would probably think of saying, because I always think of a hotel room having them with these. Some. So some may work. So we're going to say a remote control. say remote control TV remote Yeah Batteries are stolen You don't actually

Yeah you don't actually touch those do you Ray you don't actually touch those Sometimes they're bolted to the nightstand Yeah this is true That's the one you don't want to touch The one they bolt don't touch it And how many Mulligans do we have? You still have two each

Okay cool I'm gonna say I'm gonna say Mr. Gideon stopped by And he threw a Bible in your nightstand He sure did Those I think are still common. That's what I was curious about. I was curious what's going to be common.

Very cool. Yeah, I don't know why if that's some sort of like requirement, you know, like there's some sort of agreement in perpetuity that a Bible will always be in a hotel. I think it's the Wilhelm scream of hotels. They just think they have to do it. It's like that. The Gideons were just strong arm in those hotels. Mr. Gideon and his Bible.

All right. Let's do, that was a good one. A pen. A pen. Usually with the hotel's name on it. Yeah. Yeah. I got to have a night.

I can have me a little notepad. A little notepad slash stationary. Okay. A menu for getting food in there. What's I called? Yes. There is. Room service.

There we go. All right. If Scott's doing what I'm doing, it's kind of like, I'm pretending like I'm at a hotel right now. Just walking around. That's what I'm doing. That's exactly. That's what I do when I get to the hotel. Don't you do that when you get to hotel room?

You kind of walk around. you pick stuff up, put it back down, and go, oh, okay. Totally. I like, I could take this, I could take this, I could take this. This isn't. This isn't like a crocheted down. I'm going to go with, I'm starting to fill my room out now. And I'm starting to notice that those curtains better be shut.

So I'm going to say curtains. Yes, right here, windows and curtains. So they put windows in there as well. So you said, imagine. an empty box, windows and curtains now off the table. Let's do one of those safes that are in. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah.

Okay. Brian. Good old safe. Well, after I get through taking a poo when I first get there, I always come back out and go. Why is it so hot in here? We're not paying for the air conditioning, so I turn on the AC. Yeah. Yes.

Thermostat covers all that stuff. Okay. Right. So thermostat covers your heater. your air conditioner and the thermostat thing on the wall. Good job. Let's do iron, an iron. Iron.

Business travelers need to iron their shirts. I don't like how he's hesitating. No, no, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, iron. Paid the iron price to get into this hotel. That's right. Well, you've got to have the ironing aboard. I was thinking. Pretty much a freebie right there.

Right. Blow dryer. Blow dryer. Hair dryer, yep. Personally, I don't need it, but somebody might. I use it on my bum hair. Like I said, I'm walking through the process of what I do before I turn the air. After I turn the air on, I usually go back to the bathroom and check out the cup situation.

I'm going to say cups are in there. Cups situation. Oh, cups, yes, cups and glasses. Oh, cups, yeah. Cups and glasses. If you get a coffee maker, you got to have a cups and glasses. Coffee maker. I don't say, we didn't mention coffee maker.

Why did I think you guys already said that? Because I was seeing conditioner, and I read that as, oh, yeah, they already said coffee maker, you got to have cups and glasses. Well, there you go. There's a freebie. I'm going to go with nasty carpet that's got toenail clippings in it. Carpet is on the last. Carpet's on there?

I thought that'd be like paint. Okay. Right between Bible and chair. Oh geez There you go So they both get a freebie I don't feel so bad Yeah

Now I don't know where Now I'm scraping a little Oh There's a box of Kleenex in there Like a tissue box Oh that's a good one Almost always There sure is

All right Sometimes it's built into the Yeah Built into the The built in stuff Is always in the hotels You're like okay These people are worried

About people stealing still Right exactly I don't want their towels I mean come on all right dono way shut up get off my get off my case

I'm thinking we're getting down to the wire here well we said shower but we don't think we said shower curtain and we said curtains

but we didn't say shower curtain part of the shower bathroom I'm going to I'm just going to tell you that I'm not going to take a mulligan away for that

all right all right that's why I was one no clarification all right it's funny because I would have put that as a separate item

because technically separate item Right I'm going to And this is going to Now I'm starting to test The bounds of what Modern

You got two Mulligans You might as well Right right right I'm going to go I'm going to go I'm going to look at the bounds Of what is modern And not modern

So And you said most rooms right Most rooms yes Okay All right That kind of does a little bit There too All right

Dead hooker under the bed Dead I know No, most of the places I stay at, oh, right. I'm going to go with a media player of some sort, whether it's BCR, DVD, media cable box thing, or is that considered part of the TV? That would be considered part of the TV.

Mulligan News! I'm using, I'm doing a Mulligan. That's fine. I get it, I get it. Mulligan, you. you have one mulligan left Brian Scott you still have two okay uh we really are getting there though mm-hmm it's clearly a funny there's still a third like still a third of the list that you have and I'm looking at these things like I got a couple of my head now yeah okay

I should okay uh let's say uh the the they got that map that tells me in case it emergency here's how you get the F out of here it's like a fire nice called the escape plan sign, yes. Oh, right. Yeah, sweet. It's usually on the door, right? It's usually on the back of the door. And you're going to say it because I'm going to say it if you don't say it.

Do not disturb sign. I wasn't going to say that, but that is, yes, do not disturb slash clean room sign because it's two-sided. I forgot about that. I always use it, too, even when I don't need to. That's a hotel for me. I use everything even when I don't need to. I leave the TV on my leave. So the TV is just blaring food network all day when I'm not there.

Right. Five minutes of open the curtains, close the curtains. Open the curtains, close the curtains. Get all you can out of your 180 bucks or whatever. All right. Oh, man. I really, I feel like I'm running out. Uh, uh, um, uh, a mirror.

A mirror, a mirror. Oh, that's good. I didn't even think about the mirror. Jeez, Louise. That's a good one in the bathroom and one in the, one in the main room. Yeah. Main room. So did we say, I got one more mulligan.

Can't say that then. All right. How about smoke detectors? Smoke detectors slash sprinklers, yes. Oh. Oh, I forgot about that. Yep, absolutely. Popcorn ceiling.

Oh, an alarm clock, almost always. Alarm clock. Oh, that's good. Okay. I forgot about that. That was what I was thinking I was going to say at the end and like, oh, of course. Yeah, that sounds like a couple of them I have that I'm a little bit nervous about using. Because I'm like, all or most, I'm like, eh.

I'm going to go with microwave. Did we already say it? Microwave. Did not already say microwave? Microwave on the list. Yes. Dang it, dang it. Well, a little mini fridge.

A little mini fridge. Ding, mini refrigerator. Nobody said mini fridge yet. Really? I was going to use it. They never said it. Yeah. Jerk.

And that does, by the way, that does include, like, your drinks and snacks stuff like that. Okay. So you can't say Toblaron bar. If you're lucky enough to be in a hotel that does provide those things, although I guess they all charge them. Yeah. It's like, here's a $35 tobarone heat it.

Exactly. On a pressure plate. Don't even think about picking it up to look at it. Is it my turn again? It is your turn again. A crappy painting of a tree. Decorations. So all of your various art now covered.

Uh, so, uh, when he's, when I say coffee maker or whoever did, I remember who said it. Yeah, I said it technically. Oh, yeah, that's true. That's right. It was a gimmy. Does that count all accessories of the coffee? Like coffee pods and cups and glasses have already been said, but, uh, they don't. Why would you say that?

Oh. Well, because I, yeah, good point. Why am I saying? Yeah. I'm saying that all your accessories for the coffee maker are included. okay um yeah why did you give me that answer now that i don't know i don't even know why i asked it um all right uh well because you were gonna say coffee pods or coffee packets or keep keep talking if it shit keep to uh mint on minot mint on pillow mint on pillow oh i'm wanting to use that one i was afraid to not on there it's not on this list yeah i think uh Well, I don't know what kind of highfalutin

The place you're staying at, I don't get no men on my pillow Not as common as all the other items left on this list That you've got to go to a pretty You know, a place basically with turndown service To get a mint on the pillow Yeah, okay I'll take the Mulligan and then, Brian, your turn. Yeah

No, no, you have to come up with an answer right away, Molligan. Oh, yeah. That's you, Molligan boy. Yeah. No, it's my turn? Oh, we didn't do that. Yeah, I get it. I get it.

No, I was thinking, I was thinking my next thing, but we didn't do that for Brian when he did his mulligan. No, he did. He came up with another answer right away. Just like that. I swear we went right to me after that. Okay. It doesn't matter. Oh, well, hold on a second.

I-Corps says I didn't make Dunaway go right after his mulligan. You got a freebie. You got a freebie early with the coffee maker. You know what? Yeah, I'll take it. It's fine. So normally I do. So, that's what threw me, just for the record.

It's got like a game of Uno. If you didn't call me during my turn when I didn't lay it down, then, you know, it's too bad. The rule going forward, not for this one, is that you do have to come up with another answer right after your Mulligan. So we'll wave it this time because you're right. Wait, no, no, no, no. That is the opposite of how rules work. What do you mean? That's the opposite.

You have to call Uno and if you don't call Uno that's on you I got away with it He didn't Yeah except I'm not playing And I'd be the one who'd be calling Uno

Yeah good point Fine oh While you've all been having this fun conversation Oh I thought oh Well I'm waiting Shut up Brian's new rule Doorknob

Doorknob! If you want to go ahead and say doorknob Door. Door is, yes. Door, doorknob, all of the door. Components. Hinges. Door hinges.

Door, doork, door lock, and people are all like slash here. Oh, cool. Phone book, phone book. Phone book. Oh, there you go. Phone book. I like I've depleted the game. I apologize.

There's no phone book. What? What? Everyone, every hotel I've ever been and had a phone book. This was the thing that I was wondering about. time periods. Right, because that may be not in current modern hotels. I disagree. Every hotel room I ever go to. I don't think if you go to a hotel room right now, I don't think you get a phone book in there. I could, I am 100% sure. I haven't seen a phone book in 10 years,

Scott. And they are in that drawer next to that damn Bible. I am telling you, I swear to you, that is like super common. Oh, maybe it's just a Utah thing. All right, I'm going to give you a phone book. What? Just so we can move on, but it's not on the current list. This is starting to feel like a Patriots game. It's like the ref is against me. Can you want to take some video footage over here, Scott, my plans? Those people are saying electrical outlets.

Hold on, every trip, every trip I ever take anywhere. Vegas, freaking Anaheim, last time I was in Anaheim, when I went to Columbus, they all had phone books. You've already got the points. Let it go. I'm going with electrical outlets. I've stayed in a few hotels and I don't think I've seen a phone book in a hotel. You're not talking about like the...

The director of book. I'm going to say this because it's part of the room service menu, but you get that book in the drawer next to the Bible that's got room service and like emergency phone numbers. That's what you're talking about. Are you talking about a white paper? No. Who's used a phone book in the hotel right now?

Like a little yellow. I would neither. I never use it. I'm not saying I use it. I'm saying I've seen them. Every time I see a little yellow pages kind of thick, fat book. I swear. I feel like I'm going crazy.

This is like Berenstein Bears or something for me. Are you sure? I've not seen a phone like in a hotel room. I'm not happy with the results of how my game is going. However, I am greatly entertained. So I'm going to go with outlets and switches. you're going to give him phone book and I'm not going to get outlets and switches

at least current hotel rooms do have outlets and switches not on the list but I can't in good conscious give Scott phone book without giving you his lights switches so we're just going to call

that round kind of a wash so this is the equivalent of the referee you know calling a hold on the other team after that call I feel like it's going to be, what is it, what's it called? Conflicting. No, would I call that in football?

Oh, offset, an offsetting? Offset, offset, yes. Yeah, offset, there you go. Offset, okay. All right. All right, no more. I'm not giving you any more gimmies, by the way. That was it.

We still get, like, 12 things on this list. We got 12 things? Wow, okay, I can't even think of 12 more things. I'm kind of out, so I'm just going to say, ceiling fan. Oh, that's a good one, actually. Yeah. Or lighting fixtures? No, that's not.

No, that was your mulligan, though, Scott. So, stealing fan. Now, that's my second mulligan. That's it. I'm dead. No, because I didn't give you a mulligan for phone book. No, not phone book. The other one I got wrong.

I don't think you got another one. I only had one X in the two circles I drew under Scott. What was the other? I thought I got another one wrong. No. Was there the chat room? Did he get two wrong? because I think you only got one wrong.

Well, he did, but he got at least one wrong because we argued about it because you said, Oh, you got to go again. Mint on pillow, I got wrong. Yeah, you said, got to go again. Yeah, no, that was my first mulligan. So I just now got a, oh, I get two mulligans. You get two mulligans, yes.

So now you have one more. And remind me, the rule is I go right now or I, where Brian goes. How about you? We're going to enforce the real rule and say you go again right now. Okay. You know who I love. love Brian Ibbett, who puts up with all this trashes. We butcher his game.

Code hangers. Hangers. Yes. That's that. There we go. That's a good one. Mm-hmm. All right. We got one more. I won't win this so bad. One more that I can't do. Okay. I should want Stephanie to win more than I want to win this, but I'm just going to

right exactly well that makes me mad because I didn't I didn't say one thing that's not in most places but phone book was apparently in the list well it wasn't in the list

is the thing that's the yeah he's done giving those away so don't try to fish a new okay don't try to fish anything else out all right well I found it if I keep talking I'll eventually give something up I'm not out anymore feel everything

all right Um, the only thing I got left is, uh, the thing that I just don't want to say. And it's, uh, ashtray. I think people still use ashtrays on the list between alarm clock and bathtub. Because you still have some smoking rooms, you can request. Yeah, that's what I was worried about because the number of smoking rooms is very small. Yeah, they've gotten way down on that. Um, all right, I forgot, almost forgot about these is my, one of my wife's favorite things and they never fit me, but they always have robes in there.

Oh, that's a good one. It's funny that robe is on the list, but mint on pillow. Like, I consider, if you go to a hotel that gives you a robe, you almost always get a mint on the pillow as well, but apparently not. They put a mint in the pocket of the robe. Stephanie is, come on, I'm hanging up. No, you have to stay. You can't leave.

Yeah, you can't leave, Stephanie. You're still there, right. You can't go. Yeah, she's there. If I have to stay, you have to stay, Stephanie. Yeah, we're all staying. the rule. Everyone's time.

32 minute call. I mean, okay, I'm going to say, are blankets going to consider sheets? Because I want to say like a blanket. Considered sheets. As far of the sheets.

Okay, it's part of the coverings. I got you. Same with the, you know, the, there's another gimmie. There's another gimmie.

Yes. You've basically any, all the bed coverings. Right. And pillows and. And that includes. bed frame, right? I mean...

Yes. Bed take up all that. And the slats and the screws in the beds. It's all just taking them. Yes. Yes, it is. Right. This is a good stall technique.

I love it. I hate it. Um, and you said ceiling fan. Yeah, I did. Which was... Which wasn't right. Which was a mulligan, yeah, exactly. ate up a mulligan.

And we said curtains, and I thought about blinds. Just keep on burning that midnight oil there, Brian. That's right, baby. I keep on burning it. Yeah. I only have one more. Wow. I am just absolutely, I can't think of anything else. He has one more mulligan, right?

No, I don't have no. Oh, he does have one more. Yeah, you do a one more mulligan? Yeah. Okay. And that case, I can say anything. Good. Um, sex doll.

Sex dolls, of course. Every hotel I go to, Asim. Every time I go into a hotel room, always find socks. Is that intentional? All right. I'm going to start enforcing the take so long to come up with an answer rule. Okay, socks. Really? I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

Wait. All right. Counting that against your time. Okay. Um. Hurry up. Jesus, I don't know, man. I mean, we've already said everything.

I mean, oh, I know, garment bag, garment bag. Garment bag, laundry bag, yes. Dang it, that's a good one. Oh, my mind is running through the hotel room as fast as I can going, what's this in here? What's this in here? That's right. This is my last gasp, the dresser where you put your,

you can put your clothes in there, dresser door thing. Oh, we didn't say that already? Nope, nope. Oh, my gosh. I should have out of it before, but Kim goes immediately and does that in a hotel. Yes, that's what Tina does, too. Clarification, drawers, shelves, storage, all that in one. Okay, so if I said luggage pop-out thing that hold your luggage, that would be a no, right?

I don't know, would it? Are you asking me? I'm fishing you. I'm not saying a thing. I'm not saying a thing. You're getting fished. Luggage storage thing, then I'm saying it. Yeah, the luggage stand.

That's not storage. Luggest stand. Unfoldy table thing. Yeah. That's on here. My luggage's there. Yeah. Luggage rack, yeah.

Oh, my God. Okay, there's nothing else in my closet in my mind that I can think of in those stupid hotel rooms. Wait, does closet? I'm going to say closet then. Closet? Closet, not on the list. No. Yeah.

Oh. After all that. After all that. We end with a whimper. so here's here's what you guys didn't say first off congratulations Stephanie and

yeah Steph how you hold on let's just make this just do it brochure slash information packet oh yeah lamps nobody said lamps the first thing you go and do it when you get in the room is turn on the lamp yeah

lotion lotion I didn't think about that but you're right there is always lotion mouthwash mouthwash yeah it's kind of funny because you think that they would do this as a slash. No smoking sign, but if you

have an ashtray, you don't have a no smoking sign, but if you have a no smoking sign, you don't have an ashtray. So, it puts both on there. The replace or reuse sign, which, God, who's going to think of that? The room rate sign. Shower caps. Sink. Nobody said sink.

They didn't sink. I can't even where he said sink. Trays and TV guide slash TV listings. Oh, my God. You mean, they had the TV guide in the same room as the phone book. What are you talking about? Right, exactly.

Oh, my gosh. So, Stephanie, do you, are you alive? You're all right, right? You're okay over there? I have experienced every extreme symptom of stress and anxiety over the last 37 minutes and 11 seconds. Yeah, I was going to say, her call is well over 37 minutes. I think that makes you, that's a record, by the way, so congratulations on that. We've never had one go quite like this, but you won. the end and that's the beauty of all of this so uh double prizes double prizes that's right double prizes hey uh all you got to do is uh email brian the usual thing uh coverville at gmail.com

and uh congratulations for me i think i've got your mailing address but give it to me just in case i'm going to forward that over to kaha coffee so they can ship your prizes i mean if you look at this list you guys really did like nail a bunch of it yeah we got pretty close you did really well yeah that's a lot of stuff if you think about it it is like a simple hotel room is not as simple as you think it is. There's a lot going on. I thought that would end a lot quicker too. That was an amazing. No, that was a great one. That was super fun. He did really good. I'm sorry we were such, I'm sorry, I was such a bad player. No, you weren't at all. That was totally funny. You kidding me? All right, done away, tomorrow, you and I, boot show. Let's do it. We're making a

boop show this week. There's a lot to talk about. Brian's been playing Little Nightmares, too, and I've been playing something I can't tell you about yet. So that'll all happen tomorrow afternoon, 3.30 Mountain time on the podcast as well. If you aren't listening to it, then you don't like video games that are cool and indie. And I feel bad for you. But if you are listening, you know how you're doing it is. So go check that out. You go. Just search for a boop show anywhere on Google, wherever you get your podcast, all that kind of stuff, and you'll be set for life. Brian Dunaway, have a great day. Thank you.

Bye. See you. I almost want to call Hotel. fellow rooms and say, yeah, I'm not using the house phone, but I'm calling from my room. I'm in 412. Is there a phone book? Should there be a phone book in here? Yeah, no kidding, right? Is it microchipped? I swear that phone book thing is real. I'm, I don't even know what to think. Honestly, I feel like I'm in a different dimension when people tell me. I think you're just so used to seeing it in there that when you, you know, you don't think of it now not being in there because everybody's got a phone book, a better phone book on their phone. Yeah, no, I agree, but like, even to me, that's like, why are there phones in there anymore?

Why is there any of those things? They need to have some way of you contacting the front desk easily, but they shouldn't, they really don't need to have a phone that calls outside of the hotel if you think about it. Right. Well, the other problem is that nobody's been in one for a year and a half. So I can't get like any cooperation. I got to figure this out. It's going to drive me nuts. All right.

I was in one two weekends ago. All right. Did they have a phone book, though? Did you look? Did you look? I did not look for a phone book, but I also did not see a phone book out visible. Damn it. All right. The mystery continues. Also, what continues is us down the road, and that means we've got to take a break and play a song, and then we'll be back with Bill and Stephen and all that.

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in his late 20s yeah let me hear it again now that I know it's brain crans now you can relieve inflame hemorrhoidal tissue with the oxygen action of preparation H it accelerates you can kind of hear it but it's like for yeah totally before he was a dentist on Seinfeld yeah it was very early and very weird to see that Wattley. I always get, I was getting confused with Matt Damon's character from the Martian. It is Dr. Wattley? Dr. Wattley? Tom Wattley? Yeah, right? I think so. I think so. I was just watching Seinfeld. I think that's right. Yeah. All right. Here we go. We're going to add Bill. A little late, but never sorry.

You're never, wait, what's the word? What is it? What's the word? What do you say it? Better late than never? A dollar late, but never? A dollar short? Oh, that's it. Always late, but never a dollar. What's the phrase? No, it's, uh, it's, uh, what is the phrase? Oh my God, I can only think of the end and a dollar short. What's the first part of that?

A day late and a dollar short. Yeah, is that it? Day late, dollar short. Okay. That's, I don't know what's wrong with me. Anyway. The buck stops here. I hope it does.

I hope it stops here and never goes anywhere else again. All right. Uh, joining us as he always does, is this. guy. Your bat caves open there, Bill. Bill Duran. He is the owner, proprietor and runner of all things, Punished Props, and PunishProps.com up there in Seattle, and it's always good to have them on. Bill, welcome back to the show. Good morning, friends. Good morning. Hey, uh, what's in your hotel room? Yeah, what? No phone books, that's for sure.

I swear there are phone, oh, I'm, today, I'm going on a, I'm going on a, like, a hunt today. I'm going to call around. I'm going to spend, I'm going to spend 150 bucks just to go to the Holiday Express rent room just so I can find a phone book. I'm going to call like hotels and cities around the country and I'm going to say, do you guys have phone books in here? I'm really going to do it. I'm going to record these calls by the way and we're going to put them on the show

and then I'm going to see how wrong I truly was. I'm glad you've got nothing better to do. I wish I had time for this but I don't but I may do it anyway. Anyway, Bill thanks for being here. Bill comes on the show on Monday as we talk about the world of making things. We're all trying to be more creative these days. And it's what Bill does for a living. And he also imparts some of his

tips and ideas and his projects to you guys. So Bill, what are we doing today? Today, I wanted to talk about painting because that's something I do in pretty much every one of my projects. Not all of them, but pretty much. And what's ironic is when I was a kid, I was very artistic, but mostly I did a lot of pencil drawing. And I didn't like painting at all, like an art class. Of course, most of that painting was like watercolor on paper and we draw like a duck or something or acrylic paint

to make a mural or something, right? Basically you're illustrating just with a paintbrush and I always enjoyed doing that with a pencil more. But the irony, like I said, was that nowadays I do way more painting than drawing. Yeah, pretty weird how that worked out, right? It's crazy.

Exactly, yeah. Of course, the painting I do nowadays is not quite the same is painting like a picture on a flat canvas or paper. Sorry, there was a cat covering my entire monitor. Yeah, that happens. Thanks, funny. Anyway, I basically do like mixed media, like all my projects are mixed media

and more sculptural than two-dimensional. And there are three different types of painting that I use that I want to talk about because this is stuff everyone can use in their projects. So the first one is just hand painting with a brush. Probably the first type of painting anyone did. You got like those trays with like the dried up crusty watercolors, you know, and the plastic paintbrush. One of the colors was always just an empty white tray with no pigment left in it.

Right. And the rest of them just ended up brown because you just mix them all together as you were trying to draw a landscape or something or paint a landscape. Sure. The hand painting has a lot of benefits. You have tons of control, right? You can take your time. You can get a tiny little brush and make tiny little marks. You have lots and lots of control.

You can mix custom colors, which is fabulous. You watch Bob Ross with his big old palette mixing his custom colors. But the downsides are that you're frequently left with brush strokes, right? Now, that may not be a problem if you're drawing. you know, something from the French Impressionism era. They really embrace that sort of stuff. But if you're drawing or making a space gun, you don't want paint strokes on there.

So you may not want to hand paint those parts. The other downside of hand painting is that it takes forever to cover a large area with like one color. Just takes a long time. Inconvenient, not a deal breaker. In fact, I know a lot of prop makers who still only do mostly hand painting. And they're really, really good. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, it's like, I don't know people who do this with, you know, regular painting, digital or otherwise, they'll start in a corner and just hand paint every single thing, detail, color, all of it comes from that corner or that's that wherever they started and work their way out and that's how they paint. Where most people I know are like, you know, some kind of flat midtone and you get that out there on everything. Lay down all your base colors and then you start, you know. And you start working out. So there's different, I mean, obviously there's different methods, but it's certainly more meticulous what you're describing. Oh, yeah, yeah. Now, the other, or two other types, spray painting is another way. You can get away with a lot with just spray paints.

The upsides are that they're super, super convenient, right? You can just go to the store, buy a can. That's the only thing you need is shake it up and spray it on your project, and it's now that color. Super convenient. Also, really good for covering large areas. of color. So if I'm making a big old, like the alien rifle from District 9, it's gigantic. Sure. The base color of white, I spray painted it. And then the orange, I believe, I masked off and I

spray painted that too. I found an orange that I liked and I used that. But that's a downside to spray paint. If you can't find exactly the color you want, you're kind of host because you can't mix spray paints in the can. Is it, if you want to get really specific with spray paint from a can, and they don't have that kind of granularity between colors, like they don't have the same depth of color you would get from paint or mixing paint or whatever. It depends. And I do think that there are companies

that will make a custom can of spray paint for you. Probably pretty expensive. I bet. But if that's the path you want to go, it is available. But in general, you go to the hardware store, there's a million different colors, and you should be able to find what you want,

but if you can't quite get what you want, you're stuck with what's available. Could you do your own, own thing, but just airbrush? I mean, it's a different consistency of paint, though, I guess, right? Yes, and in fact, that's the next type of paint you don't want to talk about. So that sort of the ultimate, I think, is an airbrush. Now, there are still times when you do spray paint or handbrushing, but an airbrush is

amazing because it gives you tons of control when you're painting it. And you can customize your colors to your heart content. You can use specialty paints. A lot of specialty paints don't come in a spray can, so you can mix them up yourself. and put them in the airbrush. However, a bit of a learning curve, a little bit. The equipment can be a little bit pricey. And my experience is that clogs and cleaning can be a real pain in the butt.

But it is super, super worth it. There's so many cool things you can get airbrushing that you can't get any other way. So if you want to get a custom color, you want to paint your mask or whatever without leaving any brushstrokes, airbrush is the way to go. And gradients are a lot easier. Oh, yeah. For sure. You can. If you're really good, you can do gradients with a spray paint can't.

Yeah. But you got to be really good. Right. And, you know, like, for example, for crisis protocol, I was doing car windows, right? Because you get a couple of cars in there that the heroes can use as weapons. And for the windows, I want there to be a gradient. And you can't, I mean, you can do it with hand painting. It's tedious.

It takes a lot of work to do it. But airbrushing, and I have a little tiny airbrush and compressor, that's going to be the way to do it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But if you want to go from one color to another, you can do it with spray paint. It's going to be a lot more work. Yeah. And you're going to have tons more control with that airbrush, especially if you're doing something tiny.

Yep. It's kind of hard to get a really subtle gradient on a mini from D&D with a can of spray. That's a little tough. Yes, exactly. So most of my projects end up using a combination of all three of those kinds of techniques. So, for example, the NOMI mask that we finished a couple weeks ago, I used a spray paint primer for the whole thing. And then I use an airbrush with the base layers of color because I needed to mix those

to get a very specific color that I didn't have on hand. So I mix those colors, airbrush that, mask that off, and airbrush the next. layer of paint which is a little bit darker and then the last details there were just some small parts that needed a little hit of color those were hand painted so I used all three of those techniques to get that project done and I used that all three on most of my projects seems like uh you know i'm sure there are cases where one technique works for a certain project and that's all you'll need but it seems like having having all three of those tools in your belt are the way to go yeah oh definitely um I'm also frequently finding my

self debating whether I should hand paint something or mask and spray it and trying to figure out which way it'll be faster. Because masking takes a long time, but then you just go spray, spray, spray, peel off the tape and it's all done. And it looks amazing. Hand painting, you've got to go in there with your little brush and carefully do all the detailing work. And it may not look as good, but it may be quicker.

Right. So the time something takes is also a factor. Nice. Well, there you go. Paint your life away is what we're saying, everybody. but get in there, get her done. Bill, fantastic. Bonus link this week.

What do you have? Oh, yeah, yeah. No link. And it's not maker related either, but we finally watched Ted Lassau this weekend, and I think everyone should go watch it. That's so good. It is.

Everyone loves it. New season's been announced, so there will be Ted Lassow season two. They're making and they're filming now, right? Aren't there a bunch of, oh, I heard some cool stuff about, like they're really strict on that production for COVID protection stuff. and so they were talking to some of the special effects guys how they're this is like one of their most challenging things to do because they've got to make they've got to have full soccer stadiums but they can't do it in any you know they can't practically do it and so apparently we're going to see a bunch of that kind of some of my favorite effects work are the things you don't notice like oh yeah and it happens in everything now like every show has an has an effects team whether you know it or not even the most basic like I don't know

freaking procedural cop dramas, bullet holes or whatever, this stuff is all faked out now. And because you don't notice it, it's like the biggest compliment you can give them because you just, you can't talk. Almost every show has some sort of like set extension or background replacement. It's just like standard. Yeah, it's going to be great. A scene on the street where it looks like New York City and two people are just talking. The street's like one block long and then the city behind it's all screen screened.

Right. And with something like Game of Thrones, you're like, oh, of course, because the Red Keep doesn't exist and we sort of get it, even though it looks realistic, we know those things are fantasy settings. But when they do it in, you know, here's just a street in Chicago, but really they're filming it in some closed-off back lot, or better yet, that Mandalorian stuff, where they do that all in that projection cave. The volume. It's so awesome, dude. It is the coolest. It is so awesome. Anyway, Bill Duran, everybody.

He is over at Punish Props.com and check out his YouTube channel as well. Bill, have a fantastic week. See you next time. Why can't I hang up on him? Okay, there he goes. All right, that's cool. I always want to do more spray paint because I don't know why there's something cool about grabbing a can and going, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, and then,

yeah, I've gotten so far as to, so I got the little pocket, not pocket, but like a little miniature compressor. It's like the size of a, like a box of tea bags, right? And then I've got the hose and I've got my old. airbrush from art school and I haven't hooked them all up yet to do those windows. It's like I'm nervous because I haven't airbrushed anything in 25 years, 30 years almost, whatever it was. Last time I opened up the airbrush. It's been at least that for me. And I have the same, I've said that stuff too, but I'm, yeah, I'd be nervous too as well. Like, yeah, my world is so, I've gone so all in on digital that whenever I, you know, think about doing something just on a canvas, it kind of terrifies me.

me back then I did it all the time. Yeah, I do need to find something to practice on. Yeah. My daughter's doing it right. She does both and she practices all the time. And so she's always either pulling out of canvas and doing something practical or else she's doing something digital and she's trying to keep a foot firmly over there so that she doesn't kind of lose track of that.

And I feel like I probably lost a little bit of that. Yeah. Anyway. You know me both. Let's get Steven in here. I like that idea Yeah You're really gonna like this show is missing

Little Stephen I agree A little tiny little Stephen That we can put up on the shelf And laugh at and look at We have a special thing for him today So I'm gonna play that for you Here you go

Stephen you're there right You can hear this Yes I can hear you Check this out Check out Check out your new Your new intro You ready for this?

Here we go Steven Schleiker Steven Schleiker All right I do like that I like it a lot That's great

Is that a speaking still? What is that? I don't know what they used for this So he didn't tell me A listener sent this in Let me find his name Because I meant to have it out And I don't

Here it is This is from Kit Who goes by the Kit complete And he said this Hey Scott I've never really liked That Steven Schlecker theme on TMS But instead of cursing the darkness

I decided to write a better one. So here it is. Hopefully you like it. Cheers. I do like it, Kit, a lot, actually. So we're using it. That's the new... Clearly, he just hates Aver Levine is what we're playing out.

Was it Averlev? I thought it was Kada. Oh, Ketha. It is Keshah. That's right. Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, she got rid of the dollar sign.

That kind of bummed me out. I know, exactly. Kadaal or how was more fun to say. Anyway, hey, Stephen, first question before we get going. Oh, okay. Hi, Scott. Hi, Brian.

Do you... Hi. Steve, you like it for major spoilers, everybody, major spoilers.com. Do you think that there are phone books in hotel rooms? No, I don't. I haven't seen a phone book in a hotel in like 10 years. Damn it.

Yeah. All right. Well, I have a little thing. Sorry, man. That's okay. Look, you can't, I can't win them all. All right. Look, the burn stain bears and the whatever, all this bull crap.

It's all just a lie. All right. Anyway, hey, we're going to dive right into it. We got stuff to talk to Stephen about. I'm excited because I get to live stream to his, class later today. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, it'll be fun.

I did this one other time, and it was a blast. And this time I've got some more tools to kind of show off some stuff. It'll be great talking about careers and Internet creation and art and stuff like that. And it'll be great. So I'm very much looking forward to it. But before we get to all of that, Wonder Girl is not happening at the CW. It's not moving forward. Why?

Is it because no one knows who Wonder Girl is? It might be a little bit of that. Although, you know, as we talked a couple of weeks ago about the, what happens after a future state over at DC Comics, you are afloor, the new future Wondergirls slash Wonder Woman, is very popular. So it made sense that they might be moving ahead with this with Greg Berlanti Productions. But after the script has been written, they decided to pass. Now, the writer was the writer of the script, said that, you know, I wish I can talk more about it, but I can't. Thank you for everyone who had the enthusiasm to be excited about this project. anytime you hear announcements on a lot of these things you do have to kind of take it with a grain of salt is this really going to happen is it not going to happen my guess is if i were to be a guessing person yeah you might see this show up on another streaming service since everyone's pivoting to streaming there has been a lot of talk recently that a lot of especially with the cw because it's a co-lab between um Warner brothers and who's the other network CBS right

that, you know, stuff might show up on HBO Max and then debut later on the CW. We've seen that with the Swamp Thing, you know, it was going to be, you know, streaming exclusive. And then all of a sudden, CW is like, we have no programming for the fall. Okay, let's bring the Swamp Thing over there, even though everyone thought everyone had already seen it. And it's got huge ratings on the CW. Yeah. And we get, we have Wondergirl as part of the Titans show.

Is she on there? She was not, not this Wonder Girl. Oh. Oh, it's a different one. This Wonder Girl has only been out for like two months, maybe. Oh, so wait, is this like Captain Marvel, sort of where you got the Miss Marvel and... Yeah. Okay.

Oh, really different character. Yeah, different character completely. Not, not, oh, now I'm skipping her name here for a month. Rhoda Spellwinger. Is that her name? No. Donna Troy, that's who I'm thinking of. Donna Troy. Is that, Donna Troy is the one we had in Titans.

Yeah, yeah. Okay. And Titans is still an ongoing concern, right? That's still happening. Yeah, it hasn't been canceled. And it's so good. I need to watch it. I still haven't seen it.

I wanted to see that. Plus, you've got your, what's her face from Friday Night Lights? The daughter of the, oh my God, what is her name? She's the, but brunette? No, Mika Kelly. Thank you, Chris of the end. He knew exactly what I was talking about. She's a burnet.

Kelly as Dove of Hock and Dove. Just like the TV series Supernatural. I've never seen an episode of Friday Night. Stephen is such a great show. And you got on Scott for not watching Wanda Vision. Oh, it's not like it was a homework assignment that he said, hey, we'll be back next week to talk about Wanda Vision. And then Scott's like, me, I'm going to watch this rerun of Seinfeld.

Yeah, you know who she's dating. I think they're married. Hold on. Minka Kelly. Yeah, she's at least dating, possibly marrying Trevor Noah and Minka Kelly are the, are taking. What? Yeah. Really?

That's an interesting combination. They just bought a $27.5 million dollar Bella or home together. So there's that. Wow. Yeah. Doing all right on his, uh, and his, doing just fine. On his money. Anyway, well, that's cool.

Um, I, I'm, I don't have any familiarity with that character. So, no, you don't. Uh, because literally she just debuted like a month and a half ago. At the beginning of the year, in the D.C. future state stuff. Okay. And she is, but the wonder part and the thing on her chest, it looks like Wonder Woman. Yeah, because she has the future version of Wonder Woman. She is the new Wonder Woman in the D.C. future state continuity.

But she's from Damascus. She's from Brazil. She's from the Amazon rainforest area. Oh, that's cool. Okay. Okay. And that's where they got the big Jesus up there, right, going like this. Rio de Janeiro. Yeah. Anyway, well, that's cool.

I'll watch that and also I really like the artist that you have on your on the page of the link you gave us. I really like that art of her. Yeah, I think that's Joelle Jones. Yeah, I think so. I think so. Yep, I love that. That's awesome. I've been reading a lot

of comics and man, the art. It's all about the art. What are you on now? What are you up to now? Last week you were doing black labels Batman. Yes, and I finished all that and loved all of it. I read all the black label stuff. Really enjoyed it. My favorite was that Harleen

thing, the Hartle Coyn alternate starter thing. From Schaevich is his name, I think. That guy's, I found out a whole bunch of stuff about him in that process. His art, he doesn't sketch anything. It's all straight ink from beginning to go and he does all his own coloring as well. And he wrote that book. It's really, really good. It's not.

He's also got an adult themed series called Sunstone that's all about relationships involving BDSM and that kind of stuff. So if people are looking for some sexy, sexier art of his stuff, he's got that series, and it's gone for like seven or eight volumes, I want to say. It's really good.

It's not just all about the sex, although that's the prime ingredient. But it's pretty deep. His art is amazing, and he somehow made a sexy joker. I don't know how he pulled it off, but he made a sexy joker. Anyway, that Harleen thing was fantastic.

Really enjoyed it. But all of it, I liked all of that stuff. It was just gritty and dark. and cool the art in it was all very good um i could use more from that from dc in general but right now i'm reading scott sniders detective comics run uh i want i want to say it's like six hundred and something issues uh it feels like it yeah uh it's where he started it in the line because it's still detective comics it just goes on forever but yeah that little run there he does

um with the court of owls and all that stuff no that's from that was the the rebirth not rebirth um that was a new 52 right wasn't the court of als from all that it's still kind of there okay well especially when you get into talent and all that stuff this other run is a run where uh dick grason is batman now oh yeah yeah and it's good it's really good so anyway i'm just i'm just kind of ripping through stuff and loving loving every second of it and just a lot of DC right now for whatever reason i just think their comics are are speaking to me at the moment anyway uh also uh You wrote here Academy Award nominee Bloodshot. What's this about?

Oh, man, did you guys get to see the Bloodshot movie when it debuted in theaters for a hot second last year before everything got shut down? It's actually really good. Then it went to streaming like a few weeks later. This is from Vali and Entertainment. It's got Groot in it. Yeah, Vin Diesel in it. And it's up for an Academy Award in Special Effects. Oh, no way.

So from now on, you have to refer to Bloodshot currently right now as the Academy Award nominated Bloodshot. bloodshot just like you have to whenever you're talking about suicide squad you have to say the academy award winning suicide squad movie so this is uh i didn't see it did you see it you missed it it's really it follows the comic books fairly faithfully um but it's it's really good i really enjoyed it um i you know it would be nice if it gets to see a sequel or two my guess is because it went to the theater and made zero money because literally the weekend it opened every theater shut down yeah my guess is we're not going to see sequels from it, but if

you like Vin Diesel and if you like the Bloodshot character from Valiant Entertainment, it's an entertaining movie. Wow. Okay, so not streaming anywhere, but you can obviously, you can't buy it, you can't even rent it, interesting. Oh, really? That's weird. Yeah, they've got to make their money up and they go to the theaters. They're like, holy

crap, we're a small company. If you've got a star's subscription, you can get it that way. Okay. Yeah. So, so fun, fun note about that, Dave Wilson, the director, it's his first directing job previous to this known for special effects

on various films but also huge in movies he was the cinematic director over at Blur studio they do you know

Blizzard's got their own in-house cinematics team that does their big crazy cinematics everyone else uses Blur

it's like every other video game I don't care who you are if you're not doing your own internal

cinematics you you sub it out and you usually go to Blur and he was cinematic director at Blur

may still be I'm not sure. But anyway, this was like his first thing. Now I really want to see it. I'm going to have to see it. And bloodshot's what, a DC deal? No, it's a valiant. It's about a, basically a hitman that they suppress all of his memories

and they are able to make him believe that the people he's going after are the ones that killed his wife. But they bring him back. They reprogram him with the nanobots. So the next time he wake up, they're like, oh, these bad guys over there, they're the ones that killed your wife. And then eventually he breaks through his programming. figure out what's what okay that's pretty great by the way did you guys expect the malcolm in the middle style I don't know what else to call it but I think that's a Nickelodeon 90s yeah yeah late 90s early 2000s I did not expect it and it was that's a TV genre that I hated back then

yeah but all right and it works somehow yeah yeah go ahead real quick before Friday's episode Who do you think FBI Jimmy, Jimmy and Monica Rambo? Who are they going to go meet? Because that was something that's like, hey, I got a friend who's waiting on us over the hill. Let's go. And then, you know, all heck broke loose. Benedict Cumberbatch. That's what makes the most logical sense because of the movie tie-in.

But, you know, then there's also, you know, she's got a friend in the form of a Captain Marvel. Right, right. Yeah, that would probably, that would make a lot of sense as well. Listen, I was, without giving anything away, the costumes in this episode were fantastic. They were. Yeah, they were. Great homage, especially Tommy's, was it, whichever one was, you know. Not many clicks over, but the other one, which was like, oh, my God, Tina, that is so-and-so, and I had to show her a picture of.

Well, I haven't figured out who it is, so you're going to have to. Oh, it's wicked. Okay. Yeah, it's the actual new Avenger Wiccan, young Avenger. Young Avenger. Oh, okay. See, I didn't know that either. With the headband and the red scarfy cape thing.

Also, that episode did a thing that I didn't see coming, which I had this in my head. I mean, Kat Dennings made the reference like, oh my gosh, he recast her brother or something like that. And I thought, well, okay, that's about all they're going to do to reference that. But then in this one, they showed an Ultron scene with the other actor. Right with Evan Peters. I think that was in the previously. Yeah, well, it might. Well, I don't know if it was.

But whatever it was, that's them showing a card. That's them saying, no, that's a different guy. I don't know, man. This shows so good. Did you guys hear it broke in the, not all. only the Nielsen ratings, but ended up at number one? That's the first for streaming. That's amazing for a...

Yeah, no streaming, sir. I don't think there's any other streaming shows ever done that. Well, also keep in mind that Disney just announced that they jumped another, what, 30 million subscribers in the last quarter. Yeah, that's huge. Well done. I mean, listen, going from zero to 60 like this,

I'm sure nobody but Disney could have done it, given the content they have, but it's an impressive, it's an impressive debut if you want to call a three-year-old or two-and-a-half-year-old service a debut yeah it's something like that how long's amando been around only a year and a half maybe so it's been two years at least right i thought i thought i signed up for it at the end of 2019 and got that like i signed up at the end of 2019 and it started in 2020 no i thought it was 20 14 months that's all is a gravetic in the in the chat we got

two seasons of Mando and 14 months? Yeah. That's why that fills off to me. Yeah, because usually it's every year. I mean, we're used to the, we're used to the Game of Thrones. Ah, we got another season coming out two and a half years. Enjoy. That's really impressive. That's impressive. I also like the fact that

when we see Agnes, she's wearing a witch costume. I think that is absolutely lending credence to the Harkness. Oh, you think so? I was going to ask you about that, yeah. Man, she's so good, that actress. She's so freaking good. Everybody's great.

Cat Dennings is cracking me up. She might be my favorite thing in this. You guys. You guys were right, is what I'm saying. You were right. Milestone Comics. I do think you did a great job of waiting and watching at least the first three or four. I did five.

I did five that day because it came out of the fifth. Yeah. I'd say four works because then you get the first breaking of the trope or the. Yeah, it's a perfect time, I think, to get in, right? Well, I don't know. It's still irritated when it ends because I'm like, gosh, dang, and I've got to wait a week for this freaking show. I know. Damn thing.

All right, Milestone Comics is relaunching in April. I don't remember who they are. Tell me more. So, Milestone, if you are a fan of the television series Static Shock, those are all the icon Wildstorm Comics created by Dwayne McDuffie and his group back in the, I want to say, in the late 90s. Right. I remember now. Yeah, no, no, no, I don't say that. I remember these guys.

And of course, there's been a bunch of back and forth. Miles Stone went from Icon over to Wildstorm for a while. And then Dwayne McDuffey passed away. And when Wildstorm was incorporated into DC Comics, there was a lot of, well, is this moving ahead, not moving ahead. There were issues on rights and who owned what and what they could do. And DC a couple of times has done a half-assed attempt at trying to bring the milestone characters back into the DC universe and create some ongoing stuff.

But now it looks like they've got it figured out. We're getting a static digital first mini series over on Comicsology and on the DC comic service, the DC whatever it's called. D.C. Unlimited. Universe. Universe expanded thing that we want you to spend $7.99 a month on. I think that's an official title.

DC Infinite, I believe, is the, is the full name. I like my title better. I did too. Kind of, yeah. So, yeah, so they're going to start working right now if you are on any of those services. They're re-releasing the original stuff for like a buck, buck 99 on digital formats. There's a bunch of them going on right now. And then in April and May, we're going to get these new stories that are coming first to digital and then we'll see print in some way, shape, or form down the road.

Nice. I'm in. I like this kind of stuff. And I have that service, so I'll read it right away. Basically, my two favorite services right now are comicsology and that DC. app, mainly because I just feel like I'm just soaked with DC content right now, but I also have the Marvel one. Like, I don't know if there's been a better time to be a comic fan for less money.

You know what I mean? Totally true, yeah. It's great. And yes, you have that three to six month buffer on new titles, but if you're not caught up and you're that much of an edge lord, you can go back, man. Totally. Yeah, no, this is, I added the Taskmaster four-issue miniseries to my list to read next, because is getting ready for Black Widow whenever that comes out,

but also it's a character that's popping up in a couple of games I play. So good to kind of get a backstory on them. And I hear that miniseries is great. My money is that we're going to see either another bump in Black Widow, that it's going to be pushed again, or they're just going to have to say, we're going to give Scarlett Johansson a crap ton of money and dump this on to the Disney Plus service.

Well, I mean, they keep doing the numbers they're doing. they could justify it more now than ever well i think what they i think we'll have to see what happens with the riah and the dragon because that's their next premium movie that's coming out where you uh pay the 30 dollars on top of your disney plus subscription in order to get that they did that um moulon last year and you know if raya does well you know they release soul for free but rias will be a paid premium my guess wanda vision or not wanda vision that black widow will go that same route. It's interesting that the two Pixar movies that have come out since shutdown, one that happened to, you know, right onward happened during shutdown, but they took it right over

to the service and immediately was available there and you didn't have to pay an extra for it and then doing it again with Soul. That's interesting that the Pixar ones are just like, yeah, I just put it out there. But the Disney produced animation, which they're all under the same roof, so I don't really get this, but that dragon thing, they're just going to do it, hold this whole different way. It's weird to me. It's weird. I think they're testing to see which, which is going to work out. Plus, when you had Wonder Woman dropping on Christmas Day for free and Soul was supposed to be in theaters for free, it probably would have been, I don't want to say it would have gotten some bad PR,

but it probably would not have been watched as much if people had the choice between paying $30 on top of their subscription to see Soul or watching Wonder Woman 84 for free as part of their subscription. Yeah, that's a good point. That's an interesting new kind of competition that I hadn't really considered. streaming service competition on launch days for films. That's just weird. But that's where we're at, man. That's where we live.

That's where we eat. Stephen, this is always good stuff, as always. Anything else going on around the network that people should listen to this week or check out? Let's see. Probably we've got a very interesting episode of the major spoilers podcast this week where we take a deep dive into Gene Leon Young's Superman Smashes the Klan. It was, I believe, this month in 1949 when that series debuted on the radio. So we're going to be taking a look at that this week.

On the Major Spoilers Podcast, you can find out more at Major Spoilers.com. And even though it is snowy and wet, people still need to stay hydrated as we get through all of us. Just don't need the snow to stay hydrated is what you're saying. No. Don't do that. Stephen, have a great week. We'll see you then. Bye now.

Brian, I come to you bearing a gift. Yes. It's called a Monday morning mashup. and you may have heard of these it's a little thing we do where TMS mashups jamie yeah I think I'm familiar with these good excellent yes

good news we got a new one fresh one this one is called the spin-off and don't know why because I don't listen to these before I play them and neither to you so we're just going to play right now and enjoy everyone period period period periods periods periods you guys I'm having my period

hold on okay We don't come and knock on our door. We're not waiting for you. We're going to call the cops if you don't leave To's company, too. Yeah, no corn pops either. And you think it were honeycomb. Both of those seemed like they were big.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. God, I really just walked right into that one, didn't that? You did. Dunnycomb was big. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not small. No, no, no. Maybe he had two friends who each wrote a word simultaneously so that they could each be writing

masks, and then he writes, don't. And then the other guy writes, work. Okay. So, yeah, will he work? Daryl, the don't master. Daryl don't. His friends have to have the same initial as the word that they're writing in the elevator. I don't know why it makes it better, but somehow that's better.

It absolutely does make it better. I'm just trying to catch Jack Tripper in the act. Oh, Chrissy. Oh, wow. Well, you never watch the Hazard County show. What's wrong with me? Oh, yeah, I know. Duke's of Hazard.

You never watched Duke of Hazard. Wasn't there a Hazard County show with a couple of Duke boys? Now, the mask is from an ancient alien civilization called the No-Mai. Are they introduced by George DeK? No, that would be pretty good though. Oh, hello. Here's the no-mai. Uh, no, that's good, though.

Insert cricket sounds here. Yeah. Spinish plant number three just sent me a link to Pornhub because he smelled Gwyneth Paltrow's Vag candle. The candle. The candle. Yeah, Vajandal. Yeah, Vajandle.

Part of his body was over the line, but were his balls over the line. Go to the slow-mo can, Brian. Did his balls cross the line? Yes, exactly. Hey, would you guys like this tooth? I found out of my backyard. You want to go to a place where you're going to for sure have to wear that mask while a Bubba the Gripper or whatever his name.

is in the holding cell is staring at you because he thinks you look cute. I do like Bubba the Gripper. We've invented a whole new cast of characters on today's show. We're ready for our spin-off. Hey, Darrell don't. Be careful. You'll end up in prison with Bubba the Gripper. That's Bubba the gripper and Darrell don't.

Yeah, Darrell don't. Watch out. Now I know why it's called the spin-off. Now I get it. That's right. Exactly. I argue that my joke is funnier with the crickets. Yeah, it's pretty, it's actually it is better with the crickets. I laughed at that at the time,

but had it muted. Oh, sure. Whatever. I was just, I was going, ha, ha, ha, like that. That's how it went. Not really. All right. Hey. I saw you looking off screen.

I was wondering if you didn't even hear. Yeah, I don't think I did. I think I was distracted in some way. Totally funny. Anyway, we're done with the show, but we do have a couple of things. want to make sure to tell you about. I told you about the Boop Show tomorrow,

so do check that out, Brian. What about Soundography this week? What's happening? We have a brand new episode up at Soundography.com. Ladies Love Cool James, otherwise known at L.L. Cool J. It was our subject this week. So listen to his entire catalog. Everything from Tina's got a big old butt to Mama said knock you out.

Oh, in a second. That's always been what that stood for. Ladies Love Cool James? Yeah, ladies love Cool James. That's what L.L. Cool J stands for. First, I hear this about phone books. at hotels and now I'm told that LL. Cool J is his real name, yeah. James Smith and, you know, James Smith, not a great rapper name, but L.L. Cool J.

I had no idea that that was a thing. Ladies love, Cool James. No wonder, Mama said, knocked them out. No wonder. Anyway, you can go hear that right now at soundography.com. All right. Very nice. That's going to do it for today's show, a reminder that this entire enterprise has operated and financed by the fine goodness of you people at home. So head on over to patreon.com slash TMS and see what you've been missing out on

if you're not yet a patron. And if you are, you know how cool it is. Go get more at patreon.com slash TMS. Frogpants.com slash TMS for everything else. And I think that'll do it. We need to play some music, though. Do you have some today? We do.

And by the way, we were visited by the ghost of free hotel rooms past during Stephen's segment. So he's back, ladies of gentlemen. he's back he's back all right uh jessica s wrote in said hello scott and brian i'd like to request a song for my dad for his birthday he just retired and is enjoying well-deserved work-free time at home with my mom and playtime with my son braden i'd love to hear a cover of domino dancing originally by the pet shop boys because when i was a little girl my dad and i would always have dance parties to this song whenever my mom would be out of the house those dance parties and playing super mario brothers on the nes are some of my most treasured child childhood memories. Thank you, Dad, for always being the rock I can lean on, wishing you many happy returns. Braden, I love you very much. Signed, Jessica S. Oh. That's awesome. That's such a weird song to pick as a, uh, we're going to have a little

dance party in the house while moms out doing errands or something. It's great. I love that song, so it's, uh, uh, it's perfect. Um, there was a band in 2006 called the West End Girls. They did covers of only one band. Can you guess what it is? Yes, the Pet Shop Boys. They put out one album called West End Girls Goes Pet Shopping from 2006. I'm not going to argue about the grammar in that song, that album title. Here is their cover of Domino Dancing. Oh, I love it.

All right. Here's that. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Brand new show all week. Everything but Friday is not weird for us. We have all normal TMSs. So come on back for all of those and we'll see you then. Oh, hey, oh,le, oh,le, oh,le, oh,

ie, oh,ie, oh,ie, oh, yeah. I don't know why, I don't know how I thought I loved you, but I'm not sure now I've seen you look as strangers too many times I love you once is of a different kind Remember when we felt the sun Love like paradise, how hot it burned A threat of distant Santa

The sky was red And when you watch you always turns every head Oh day, oh, day Watch them all fall down Dorminal dancing Oh day Watch them all fall down Oh Dio day

Dorminal dancing I saw that when we thought I was to play But now I know you play a different game I watch you dance with danger Still wanting more Add another number to the score O-Day, O' Day, watch them all fall down Oh, Tijuana Dancing

Watch them all fall down Oh, D-O-T-O-T, Domeno dancing When you look around, you wonder Do you play to win? Why are you just a bad loser? I don't know I don't know I don't know how I thought I'm not sure now

I'm not sure now I hear the thunder crashing the sky is stark And now a storm is breaking within my heart O-T-O-D-O-Day Watch them all fall down Dominal dancing Oh-day-O-day

Watch them all fall down Oh-T-O-day Domino dancing O-D-D-O-D-W-D Watch them all fall down Oh, day, domino dancing Watch them all fall down Oh, day, oh, day, watch them all fall down,

Domino dancing, oh, day, oh, day, oh, day, don't know, and you want to do it, make it, make a domino dancing, This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. You weiner?