The Morning Stream - TMS 2089: GUI Pants

Episode Date: March 29, 2021

Have you considered having sex on a different day of the year? I don't like NFTeeeeeeeeees! Lost all my F's to give after High School. Gallbladder and Penis. Nipple Flavoured Creamers. XLM DATA IS BIG, YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! IT'S NOT SMALL! NO! NO! NO! Falcon and the Fat Man. Jake and the Winter Soldier. 24 Hr Boner. Partially Refloated. The Phantom Mullet Exists Forever. Cap's Sidepiece. $30 for 30mins with Black Widdow. Drinking the Tron Water. Making Things with Bill. Major Spoilers and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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No, no, no. That's a long one. Falcon and the Fat Man. Jake and the Winter Soldier. 24-hour boner. Partially refloated. The phantom mullet exists forever. Cap's sidepiece.

30 bucks for 30. 30 minutes with Black Widow. Drinking the Tron water. Making things with Bill. Major spoilers and more on this episode of the Morning Stream. Can you say Star Wars? Goose. Say Star Wars.

I thought we're doing a Zoom thing. The morning stream. The morning stream. The morning stream. We just wanted more fish. They wouldn't give us any more fish Hello, everybody. Welcome to the morning stream. It is Monday, March 29th, 2021.

Scott Johnson here, Brian, a bit there. Good morning, Brian. Hello, Scott. Happy Monday to you. Yeah. Monday. That's just kind of dumb. It's not a good day.

It's okay. It's all right. It's just a day. No, it's not a big deal. Yeah, yeah. But we're here, and that makes it a big deal, I suppose. Thank you for joining us. We don't often call them out right off the top of the bat,

but our live audience is always the best, so thanks for being here, everybody. They really are, yeah. They're cheerful, sunny. It looks like most of them have had more coffee than I've had. Yeah, I'm feeling a little slow today. I should have some caffeine. Yeah. No tea.

Just got water. That's it. That's it. I got to, oh, but I do have my. America's, or sorry, so you think you've got the talent to be America's next top podcasting idol, thermos Munich. So I got this if I knew it. Yes. So I can fill that.

It's to make it so that, you know, when you and Jenny and Justin are sitting at that table judging people, it looks even more like American Idol with the Coca-Cola cups in front. I also got this backstage pass. What is it, what do I actually get with this? What do I, what do I, what kind of debauchery? Absolutely nothing. It's, you know, you put that on your left. You hang it on your wall, and then in a month you say, why do I have this? And then you give it away his prize somewhere.

I'm checking your QR code. Works as intended. Took me right to the site. Oh, except it says not secure, and then there's nothing on there, just a white thing. Good. So, again, working as intended. Nice job. Working as intended.

Well, that's weird. That, that, I'll have to check that because the main site has got an SSL certificate. I wonder what that's taking you to. I don't know why the, I don't know, the QR codes have, I don't know how those work. How do QR codes work? You make one and it just works. Basically, you just take a URL, use a QR code builder, you point it to that URL. So I don't know, I wonder what, um, wonder what URL, because I thought I'd send it to the

homepage, but that's clearly not the homepage. Well, it says it's the right to domain. Hold on. Yeah, America's Nexttoppodpodcaster.com. it's just not sending it to https and also the main thing is there's just nothing there it just says designed by coverville media a logo and a white blank space cool very good excellent well i'm glad it's uh nobody's gonna use those stupid lanyards for anything then i love it i love it i want to make QR codes but i don't know what

for i don't know why i would need one yeah there's nothing i have a friend in uh in in in Hollywood, lives in Hollywood, Tim Coyne, who got a QR code tattoo for his website, his podcast and website and stuff. So that's cool. You could walk up to that dude, take a picture of his arm and get his stuff. Right. And then you get his QR code. Have you been to many restaurants since the pandemic's got?

No, really. I really haven't. Do they do that a lot? Every freaking restaurant now that you go to, the menu is a QR code on your table, usually glued to the table, like laminated onto the table, a little tent, sign tent thing on the table. And you use your phone, you scan the QR code, and then you've got the menu. And it's funny because I think prior to the pandemic, QR codes were

kind of becoming like crocs and parachute pants. It's like, all right, the QR codes have had their day. And then all of a sudden, the pandemic came as like, oh, QR codes are cool again. All right, we like QR codes. Yeah, they seem useful now, so I suspect. So instead of blaming other countries for the virus, for the pandemic, let's blame Big QR, because I think they might be behind it. Yeah, Big QR with their multinational freaking Illuminati bullshit. They're always up to, those QR people.

Hey, it's good to be here, everybody. I hope you had a nice weekend. Mine was, eh, it was all right. It was okay. I had a day off yesterday, so that was good. I'll take that, you know? Small victims. You've now figured your schedule out to do, have your Sundays free, right?

Yeah, the problem is often something will get pushed, like somebody on the... Either will have to push a film sack or you'll have to push a dungeons or... Yeah, TWBD sometimes like, oh, we got to do it Sunday. I'm like, okay, where. But then what it usually happens is it all happens. They never happen at the same time, so there ends up being at least one of those two things on Saturday and Sunday. So anyway, but this weekend was nice because the whole Sunday, big, wide open, Suez Canal. Nobody blocking it with their

dumb ship. You know? I was ready to go. I heard that thing got refloated today. That's a word. Refloated where the where the ships float. The container's float. The shallow end of

the Suez Canal where the ships float. It says right here let me just see if I can find it. Partially refloated is what they say. Cool. And that means it's moving a little. That's an optimistic, right? It's as opposed to partially sunk or partially

what would be partially refloated and then the other the what's the up of the pessimist would say partially still stop on the ground or something still blocking all trade

partially blocking that's right I keep hearing I didn't realize this but the Suez Canal is just a lot of empty nothing right like on both sides it's just a just like a big desert around there and so the crews on these ships and stuff

they like need food and things like they can't just go somewhere they can't just go well there's no door dash or grubbing nearby right you can't wander up the street to a Taco Bell and you know it doesn't work that way you just gotta start cracking up the crap crack and open those containers

and see if any of them are filled with hot tockies or something and start snacking yeah there's nothing I can think of I'd rather do than be on a big stuffy and stinky ship with a bunch of dudes eating talkies. Eating talkies with like three bathrooms between all of you.

Freaking gnarly, man. Anyway, good luck to them. I guess re-floating is good and that's progress. Yeah. Congrats to them. All right. We've got some things to talk about. I want to, I have a quick observation.

And then we can kind of move forward here. A lot of talk. I've talked about on the show before, but there's been a lot of back and forth about this, the NFTs, the non-fungible tokens. Fungible. Fungible. It still love fungible. Fungible is pretty great word.

But all the talk and all the gibber-yab from, in the art, especially in art circles, has been kind of deafening. It's just everybody's talking about it. And the conversation is either, dude, NFTs of the future. Or, shut up with your NFTs.

those are the two tenors of the conversation and um i'm starting to get a vibe from pro nfti people it feels very like keto your friend that does keto or crossfit or anybody who's got a thing where they think it solves every problem they've got and now they all they want to do is tell you about it and then tell you why you're wrong about anything else you think and that They're right about everything. When you buy a brand new hammer, suddenly everything looks like a nail. So it's a little like, it's, you know, somebody told me to say blockchain bros is what they're called. And it's these guys that are just like, it's the future, man.

People who are into cryptocurrencies who are really into cryptocurrency. I mean, you and I are probably kind of passingly into, I don't know, maybe more than just passingly. But we're, you know, we're wherever you, you're doing like a. PayPal thing or no, somebody else is doing a PayPal thing every, every week. Oh, I don't, buying, uh, Bitcoin or something. I don't know who that is. That's not me. I currently, I currently own nothing in any crypto currency of any. Oh, I thought you did. I thought, uh, last week you would move some money around. No, no, I was trying to. And it was a nightmare. It was a nightmare. I couldn't get it to

go. And I finally just freaking gave up. And I may have given up, it may have been good that I gave up. Because it's a real mess. now and all I'm hearing is like there's these stories coming back people get massively scammed like just just a mess in some cases and in other cases is people going yeah man yeah bro you just don't understand how it works man you just got to get your head around the blockchain what you do man it's the world it's the whole world do like it's just this this this blaring noise that I need I had to start muting people on on Twitter who I normally like to follow because I love their artwork but my gosh they won't shut up about NFT like just shut up about it like

We get it. You sold an animated gift for a bunch of Ethereum, and now you're maybe rich. Now you're swimming in Ethereum. Yeah, you're swimming in Ethereum. You've got Ethereum coming out of your ears. It's like Scrooge McDuck diving into a vault filled with question marks. Yeah, yeah, basically. So I'm sitting this out for a bit, guys. I'm not going to let it ride. I don't know what's happening over there. You guys are freaking me out is what I'm saying. You're all freaking me out. So just calm down, sit down, have some nice sip of water or something, breathe.

Yeah. I don't want to, you know, anytime there's any kind of big gold rush like this, the scammers come out of the woodwork, like crazy. They just, oh, how can they screw everybody? And I don't want, I don't want to get screwed. You know what I do when I need that, uh, break Scott? I look at, I look at this right here. Oh, look at that.

Look at that. Do you guys even know what that is? Not a triple. I know it does It's It looks like a Like the white pattern Kind of looks like a

A small ceiling Breaking through the ground For the first time Brian's baking again This is his newest cake That's right exactly Yeah we're for those at home We don't know what we're doing

We're looking at the kitty cat We're looking at the cat Who's turned into a complete circle Yeah And again Her impersonation of the the Firefox icon. Brian was originally going to call this the pussy cam,

but we talked him out of it. That was a dangerous decision. Still can do it. You still can do it. You still can. As your lawyer, I advise against it. That's what I'm saying. All right.

We got a quick email I wanted to read. This is from a local who goes by the name Leanne, probably because that is their name. She says, hello, sake and Barbera. So I'm a Japanese alcoholic beverage. are half of the team that brought us The Flintstones Dino dogs or no, what's the

Who is the Blue Falcon and Dino Mutt? Maybe that. Well, what am I thinking of there's one where the dog was a Oh, Deputy Dogg. Remember Deputy Dog? I'm maybe the only person that he remembers Deputy. What a weird.

Are you talking about, uh... It was old. Deputy dog. Hold on. I'll look it right up. Here we go. Like, he's, he was in that snaggle, puss, and, uh. Yes. Right.

Yes. Uh, it went for, oh, this is really old. I guess I only saw reruns. 59 to 79. Uh, or maybe I saw some new ones. Anyway, yeah, there was a dog called deputy dog played by Dayton Allen. Oh, yeah, yeah, wore the vest. I, in that, in that dumb hat.

Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty dumb. Totally not Hannah Barbera made by Terry Toons. Oh, oops. Yeah. got that wrong it feels like one of those though doesn't it does feel like one of those because it looks

like top cat yeah top cat was like the the cat version of that yeah it's a bad cartoon is what I'm saying and top cat was a barbara I don't know what's the sake and barbara though is there a is there an alcohol called barbara I don't yeah I don't understand what that reference is but I'll take it we'll take it but so Brian your

your half of Hannah Barbera well done gotcha oh Barbera kind of grapes maybe that's it oh maybe rice wine and grapes used to make wine. Well, maybe it's a hit because here's how the rest of this email goes. It says I'm a long-time listener from Sandy Utah. That's where I grew up, you know, I was born there. And I often hear the phrase, when I get around to it.

Well, you may be happy to hear. There is one shipping to each of you from Amazon, and it should arrive next week. March 29th through April 2nd. No more excuses. Love the show, though. Leanne. I don't know what she's talking about or what's coming. What's coming?

I suspect, and I'm trying to decide, should I tell you? I mean, I know, because I used to have one of these as a kid. Oh, I don't know. Should I, should I be, I don't know. Is it spoilery to tell me? I don't know. It's funny, it's a very funny pun thing that I will let arrive and let you enjoy it. I don't want to spoil you.

All right. Well, Leanne, whatever it is, you're awesome. Yeah, there was a restaurant here that gave those as coupons. Like it was a thing that they used as coupons. I won't say, again, I'm going to try and be vague, but what she's sending us is something that restaurants out here. There was a restaurant that used to give those out. Really?

There's no idea. I thought that might help me. If it's what I'm expecting, yes. Yeah. What if it's not? Well, hmm. Yeah, we don't, I don't want to know. I'll hold off.

Yeah. No more hints. I'm no hints, everybody. Y'all on the chat, shut up. Yes, guns, alloria, for real. Guns. Yeah. If there's anything we need right now is more guns.

Hey, Brian, you play Gloomhaven. How'd that go? Yeah, so we did, we got together on Saturday with Nick and Clark and played Gloomhaven again, Jaws of the Lion. We are on Campaign 4 and we started the day on Campaign 4 and we ended the day on Campaign 4 because it, apparently the difference in level difficulty between Campaign 3 and Campaign 4 is significant enough that. you should know really well how to play your characters at the end of campaign three so that when you do start the next campaign it's not as difficult for is not messing around it sounds like four is not messing around four is not messing around four we got wiped out and i was thinking god it feels like feels like playing wow when you're going through a dungeon or a raid and you're dealing with a new boss and then last night uh we're going through a raid and we're going to the dance dance dance revolution boss

and we were banging our heads against that one. Oh, that's fun. That's good, though. So your whole day was that stuff. Well, my whole weekend, because Saturday was Gloomhaven. And then after, oh, this was great. So after Gloomhaven, the four of us went to Golden to a speakeasy and watched Dean. Martin.

I know him in the chat. Chat room is Dino Spamoni. Dean, he's a tadpooler. uh lives south of denver and uh came up and was performing cello in the speak easy in golden right by my house oh that's pretty cool and so we went and we hung out there and we had some really weird drinks and we watched him perform so what's a speakeasy like during covid what do you do in there do they have uh the rules and the whatnot i mean they all have the rules you know um this one was good They had the tables, the tables were fully blocked between them by plexiglass.

So you walk in, they sanitize the crap out of the table, you sit down, you, and then the table next to you and all the tables around you, you've got a wall of plexiglass that surrounds you, really, really good. It's the opposite of speaking easy, though, right? Yeah, I guess. I mean, it's, you know, all about the prohibition and stuff. I guess it would make it really hard to dash out of there when the coppers arrive to bust your bootlegging operation. But we also didn't have to say a password to a little slidey window in the door. Although, apparently, they do have one at the other entrance and we didn't see it. Oh, that makes sense, though, because those places revel in the theme, you know.

Yep. So this is a place that distills a lot of their own liquor. Um, I had a, uh, a violet, like a, um, a violet liqueur. Um, that sounds fancier than I, it probably is. It's, it was pretty fancy. It was purple. And it was made from, it's like a distilled grape whiskey kind of thing. Um, we had, uh, gin that they distilled there, a Curacao and Absinth. Wow. I got them in little, four little glasses all, excuse me, four little glasses all, uh, next to a other. Did you guys, uh, uh, how do you feel now? Are you hung over? I feel fine. I feel fine. I felt fine Sunday morning too. Oh, that's right. Brian holds us liquor pretty well, you guys. I know this for a fact. I think I do. There have been some film sacks that have been in the morning

after a, uh, after a, uh, uh, a night of that that maybe I wasn't 100, fully 100%, but, um, yeah, you're pretty, if I know I've got film sack in the morning, I usually don't rip it up the night before. You were pretty saucy after you jumped off the space needle thing. Oh, yeah, the stratosphere thing. Brian jumps off the stratosphere. So now he's got a combination of like extreme

adrenaline from his thing. Tremolin and booze. And booze. Right. So that night I'm not sure I've ever seen you quite as tipped to you. I say that. No, I think that was the night that we went to the karaoke place too. And during I did some

sort of duet standing on the table. I'm thinking yeah, I can't remember. I'm sure somebody has a video. There's probably something. And then there's that famous video of your crazy neighbor, or you over the crazy neighbor that you, what was that called on Twitter? Used it all the time. Periscoped all night. Now

it's in the ether. No one will ever see it again. Bashed my head. That was good stuff. But most of the time Brian is a solid. Most of the time I hold my Hey, listen, I still held my liquor well that night. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you don't let it escape. I just, I, exactly.

I held lots of it. Yeah, held on to it for dear life. All right. Well, that's fantastic. I want to play Gloomhaven as the bottom line. I need to play that thing. You should. How long did it take?

What was the session length? We played for three hours, four hours maybe. And the first, the other problem was that it was a month since our last Gloomhaven session. And we had to remind ourselves a few of the things. things. Plus, we were using a new iPad gloomhaven helper tool that does a lot of the automation of the enemy attacks. Really, really good. Helps out tremendously. And big thanks to Michael Haley for recommending that. However, you know, learning the technology, re-learning how we play the game and all that stuff added to that four hours. So, all right, I have audio of Brian drinking

at this speakeasy. Ready? Do you? Okay. Yeah. We're doing Falcon. There it is. That's about right. Yeah. I can smell the absente right now. Take the pain off your car. All right. Excellent. Well, hey, everybody. Guess what time it is? Yeah, that's right. You may have heard of it before. And I'm not ready for it. So hold on a second. There we go. Okay. I'm getting there. We are going to play Babble Royale with you and with Brian Dunaway, who I have. have to add to this call and I'm a little slow here today because I was having fun with your story and now I can't uh okay there we go done away okay he's coming in coming in hot as they say and uh how many times by the way in describing that new disney plus show do you call it the falcon and the snowman uh I don't think I ever have I think I may have said uh to Kim Falcon and the

fat man is a as a bad as a bad combo thing but uh yeah yeah I really like that last episode we're going to talk about it with Schleiker today but yes we are yeah super into that show um all right uh Brian Dunaway joining us shortly hold on when you where's this thing here we go Brian joins us all the way from South Carolina as he does every Monday and Wednesday hello Brian oh hi Scott and Brian hi it's nice to hear how are you guys doing well I haven't talked to you guys in days yeah when we when we commenserated around the the crap that was the 1994 film

The Shadow. Remember we did that? Yeah. Yeah. I try not to remember, but it stays... That was great. Let me test you.

The sun is shining. Also in my butthole. That's not it. Perfect. Good. All right, good. I have a job for you now. Yeah, I don't...

I don't know what to say about that movie, except it was a really fun film sack, and that's all that matters. So go listen to that. We had a good time. All right. Well, done away, it's good to have you here.

We're going to play Babel. Royale. And we're going to do it with a listener who's on the line right now. But the ice is slippery. Oh, oh. I wanted to get, I wanted to get the real one in there, which didn't take. I know it. You go look it up or something? No, no, I just wanted to get in, but I was letting Scott finish talking. You know, he's talking. Yeah, I'm a yapper. I fill the air. That's what I do. Speaking of which, let's fill the air with one more voice. We have a listener on the line. Hi, who's this? This is Don from Cincinnati, Ohio. Well, hello, Don from Cincinnati, Ohio. You sound magnificent. Man, we don't usually get us. No kidding. Sounds like you're in the room with this. What are you doing in the room with us? Yeah, that's intense.

Well, it's good to have you here. Welcome back. No, that's Welcome back, Cotter. I was trying to do WKRP and I did it wrong. Anyway, hey, Brian, do you want to explain to Don how this works and what he might win today? That's right, Scott. It's time to play the Tad Pooley feud. I've surveyed the Tad Poole on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us.

It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Don, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian to help win those prizes. If your team wins, you get a prize package that includes a couple of Steam games, courtesy of Wesley, Iris, and the Giant, and Yakuza Kiwami, too. That's a real thing. Yakuza Kiwami, too. That's weird. It's not part of the Yakuza games? I know those.

It doesn't look like it's part of the Yakuza game. Okay. I'm interested in this. But it's the sequel to the ever. popular yakuza kiwami one oh well sign me up then my my body is ready uh i hope so for some reason this asking for passwords again well i'll just figure it out keep talking keep going i'll figure it out uh all right uh that's your prizes and uh i got it now we're good okay good i'm gonna be purple this day today is what i'll be as purple should we maybe you know maybe we should

pin the username and password in that chat. Oh, that would be so smart. Because I just realized what happened. Maybe Microsoft to add that feature one day. I know what happened. I change browsers and don't have the password in the new browser. So I just opened my trousers too.

Yeah, change your trousers each and every day. All right. Let's see here. A hundred and how many people answered this one. So many people answered this one. I mean you have the number in front of me. Like 500. 500 tadpoolers answered.

Top 10 answers on the board. Name something you had in your high school senior photo that you don't have today. That gut. I clicked it like five minutes ago. This happens every time to you. Okay. Sorry, Brian threw me off. Can you say the question one more time?

What? Oh, stuff that's not in there anymore. Stuff that's not in there anymore, right? Uh-huh. Okay. So if I went to get a yearbook today, it would not have black and white photos. What the? Did you even listen to the questions?

Yes. He just said whatever. I know. He just said whatever. I'm not even going to help. Like, what? All right. So, Brian, 10 answers are still on the board.

It was something you had in your high school senior photo that you don't have now. Yeah. Black and white photos is a good question. It's a good answer. We have black and white photos. You didn't have black and white photos. You didn't have black in your high school senior photo. We had no color.

They don't have it anymore. Hold on. We had no, we had no black. Shut up for a second. We had no color in our yearbook because we were cheap. And now you still don't have color in your year. What's your point? My point is we were cheap.

And so now when you see a yearbook, they're all full color. Ours didn't have color. I'm saying it's a valid answer. You're saying that you've added to it, not taken away. I'm going to say, even though I know this is. over 500 people, I think the tad pool still skews heavily male, and I am

going to say, hair, do I have to be more specific? You don't show me hair? Number one answer on the board. I think I don't understand this question. I think you didn't understand the question either. Something you had in your

high school senior photo that you don't have. Oh, that I personally have. Yeah. Something you had in your high school senior photo that you don't have now. The presence of the word you, twice in that and the word your. Yeah, but when you say

you don't have them now, boy, you see that, we don't have those anymore. Yeah, but I didn't say, yeah, I said you. Didn't use a cloaklysm. All right, so you said here, and here's, I'm going to give a little caveat here. What do I want to say

here? Don't eliminate. any thoughts of hair. That's what I was going to say. That's what I was going to say. Yeah, because I, there's a couple of, you know, there's plenty of memes, especially for our generation.

Exactly. Exactly. That could apply. So I get help this time of right, though. You do. You get joined now by our special guest, Don from Cincinnati. Don, you're going to be working with Brian Donneway, who's living on the air in South Carolina.

See, someone got the reference right. Well, no. Excellent. all right so you guys obviously are I'm clicking the play button for you guys are going to be playing right first playing all right name something that people in the tadpool had in their high school senior photo that they don't have now I wouldn't just say I know I'm hair because I meant like hair or lack of hair but I definitely think something like um like hair styling like either buff font hair or mullet or um um perm what do you what do you think do you do you think one of

those three would fit in i definitely know of my generation which i think a lot of the people well i think we're all in the same generation but i would say more like the letter jacket or something like that yeah right what do you think you think something else yeah letter jacket oh a letter jacket that's a very good one we'll go with letter jacket if it's okay all right show me letter jacket oh man you know a lot of people said uh uh like this uh gold chain yeah that's what's going to say button fly collars shirt parachute pants whatever so that i had to generalize as close you didn't have parachute pants in the photo it's a year book maybe like some of the candids

i suppose yeah that's i mean in your photos some of those were full standing shots, usually leaning up against a tree. That's true. We only gave, well, you think your school is cheap, we only gave that to the ones who won the special awards, like, most likely to succeed. Most likely to be wearing these pants, singing in 20 years.

Most likely to have enough money to afford the big picture in the section of yearbook. Yeah, there was definitely a class breakdown. I'm going to say something else that a lot of high schoolers had to endure. I'm going to say stuff like braces. What do you think? Sounds good.

John. Yeah. How about braces? We're going with braces. Face, face brace. Face metal. Show me braces. Yes. Number seven answer on the board. Damn it. Kind of concerning me that two and three and four has a bit hit yet, which makes me think

that we're missing something big. So, Brian, what about acne? Oh, that's a good one. That's a good one. Yes, acne. Although acne's a lie, because they tell you're never going to get zits when you're older. You'd get them all the time. It's stupid. Some people get older acne. They get elderly acne.

Olderly acne. Old people acne. Wash your face. All right. Show me acne. Pimples, zits. Something along those lines. Yeah.

Acity, look at that. The answer on the board is acne. They're not here in the ding. No, no. Oh, they're not? Oh, you know, I know why. Sorry, everybody. I'll fix it.

I turn off. Again, it's an old, I change browsers. Make some noise. I still want to roll back to the hair thing. I think, but I just don't know how to define it. You know what I mean? Just say bouffant. A bouffant.

A buffon hair. How about hairdo? Would hair do? Well, everyone has a hairdo. It's always hairdos. No, no. I mean, if you part your hair, if you part your hair down the middle, that's not a hairdo. You just have hair.

You just have hair on your head. You part it to decide that's not a hairdo. Once again, when does it become a do? when you when you put products on it when you when you place product upon the hair okay whether it be hair due so jail or whatever right okay all right all right so something along those lines i think i know what you're what you're saying right uh show me something along the lines of what brian dunaway was trying to describe uh number there you go color mullet bangs lots of mullets uh in the tadpool uh oh i know i've met the tadpool

you're still a lot of mullets you can you can cut the mullet off but uh that phantom mullet exists for i got bad news for y'all it's back in a big way i got nieces and nephews who are all in that age and they're mulletin right back to mulletown mullet in now allots are back yeah yeah you know what else was is coming back again you know hey hey man we all had an earring in our ear yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah they know this is kind of skewing towards guys, but that was my experience. I missed one. I missed that phase. I didn't have one.

But I know a lot of girls had nose rings and earrings. I'm going to say face jewelry. Face jewelry. That's a good generalization. Show me face metal. Oh, shoot. Yeah. Yeah, 12th to 13th on the list was like earrings, nose rings,

things like that. So it was it was an answer, but not a top 10 answer. Scott, control, finally, those over to you. Now, and now you understand the question a little better. Yeah. Let's do, it's still hard, though. It is. In some ways, I want to be general and other ways I want to be specific, but, um, you can think both directions and you, you might land on something. Yeah. Um, let's do, um, hmm. And this can be any, anything in the yearbook. It doesn't have to be just these pictures.

Something in your high school senior photo that you don't have. I know, not just anywhere in the yearbook. No, what I mean by that, what I mean by that is there are other photos of me and my yearbook. Those don't count, right? Those don't count. So think your high school senior photo is something that you had when that picture was taken that you don't have now.

I don't know if I've ever actually seen Scott's high school photo, but I can see it in my mind's eye. I'm guessing he was leaning up against a tree No I didn't do one of those No no he was well dressed up I'm sure Had the tuxedo outfit maybe on that I think I was bumming it pretty hard Okay

But you did have like short hair up top It was almost you know It was short enough that it was almost spiky Yeah kind of in the back And I had them all in the back Yeah a little bit long hair in the back Yeah totally can see that Very long hair in the back

A big stupid grin face Let's do Let's just say glasses I have a feeling a lot of people Went to contact Would go to contact So glasses Or LASIC or something

All right Show me glasses Good Oh look at that Yep Number four answer on the board All right Popped up collars

Or is that under clothes That would fit under clothes A lot of polo t-shirts Pop colors Those come with popped up colors what are you now singing the uh the parents that's on the stand song in your head now that's right always that's always playing in my head are you kidding all right let's do um i'll just say uh

this is hard at this point it is hard yeah like at this stage what else is in that damn photo nothing um uh i don't know honest i'll just make one up uh hitler mustache i don't know i can't think of anything we'll call that facial hair show me facial hair uh that was what i was gonna do next really i'm glad i didn't do it

well that was on my list that's because nobody could grow it then or they try yeah right like you had a lot of peach fuzz like three or four people with peach fuzz and uh um right yeah yeah i got you i got you yeah all right john so back to you guys let's think here all right so now i went to i went to a uh high school in the south and we we all brought our guns with us so i'm gonna say i'm gonna no i'm kidding i'm okay okay um i did close what about a car oh did Do you have a car? Oh, that's not. I wonder, did, hmm, a car in your senior photo.

Or a musical instrument. Oh, yeah, that's good. Ah, there you go. Yes, a lot of people did do their musical instrument in it. That's a good one. I've seen that done. All right, we're going to go with, what is a musical instrument in your high school photo? Musical instrument of any sort.

No. Number 11, by the way. Number 11 answer. Lots of saxophones, snare drums. Yeah. drumsticks trumpet good answers though and i included band uniform as part of instruments oh nice boy my son is going to be disappointed yeah so hold on if i said back over you scott if i said smile that's too general right i can't do that nobody no but i love that

ironic sarcastic answer i used to smile i was happier then it's a good thing to think along those lines. I'm not going to tell you yes or no, but start thinking along those lines for for some of the remaining answers here is not. Yeah. Okay. Tongue sticking out then. Okay. Tongue sticking out. Sticking your tongue out. Okay. Show me. Okay. Sticking out. Damn it. I don't know. Yeah. You said think along those lines, smiling, expressions. Put your tongue out. It's all in the same vein. I mean, I mean, thinking not of like a maybe not a physical thing, but other things that you might have had back then that you don't have now.

24-hour boner? I don't know. A nose? How about wringles? Ringles would be a great, but that's something you did have? It's the opposite of that. You'd say, it's not my turn. Yeah, maybe.

How about, I was thinking there was a few people. There was always Dimples, dimples, right? Oh, Dimples, that's a good one. There was two factions of people in my school, the pro-high-school ring and the anti-high-school ring,

and some of those people had to, you know, prop their face and had to put their face in the ring. Yeah, but I think that's a good answer, but you think something else? All I can think of is dimples. Yeah, but dimples stay, well, never mind, it's your answer. I'm not doing, I'm not helping Denham way.

What am I doing? I don't want to help done away. I'm going to let you choose. Dempels are ring. Dempels are high school ring. You call it. Let's go with ring. We'll follow you.

We'll go a ring. I'm taking the hit. Class ring. Yeah. Again, like 13th place or 12th place, class ring, very common answer, but not as common as some of these other answers. Surprisingly. my gosh. And Ibit's

hint, no hint. Yeah, I mean, good job, that's it. How does it work now? How does it work now? He only has the chance to give one more answer, that one more wrong answer and the game is over. So, like, think something you had that you can't

necessarily see, but you had it back then when you took your high school, seeing your photo. That I can't see. I think esoteric maybe Oh, don't worry, Talia I'll give your answer Um Your youth

Your youngness Show me youth Oh my gosh, dude Geez Sixth the most popular answer to this question When you ask what they ask That is ridiculous Okay so obviously we've got a winner here

uh that isn't me but what's the but i'm dying to know these other three you still get to play you oh i'm gonna keep going yeah yeah you get to continue until you give me your third strike right uh all right then let's do now we're thinking in those those terms like number nine i'm i'm uh virginity here we go show me virginity number nine number nine answer okay um now i'm getting the hang of this uh Now you're getting the hang of this, yes. Dignity. Say dignity. Show me.

Dignity. Damn it. It was on there, by the way. Oh, really? A lot of people did say dignity, yeah. Happiness. That's right. Now, we are still, don't worry, Don in Cincinnati.

Still getting the prizes because Scott did win by one point because he got some of those lower. number the lower number answers lower in the list show me number eight a lot of people in the chat room had this one hope and optimism nice nice oh that's dark

dark as long as the last was not dimples I'll be all right yeah show me number 10 thin body any any form of any sort of weight change whether it was felt figure thin body a waist a chin all those things I should have thought of that one.

That's funny. Some other great answers. One person said penis. Great. Oh, oh, no, I know who that was. Keep going. Yeah, you absolutely know who that was. Let's see.

A tuxedo. I think some people, but I actually lumped that into... I was going to say, members-only jacket and tuxedo will be covered with clothes. So I was like... Right. Let's see here. Deviated septum. that energy eyes without dark circles um i fedora i included uh s to give uh

had that back then yeah uh let's see functional testicles great gallbladder uh oh somebody took a picture with their golf club which is great that's pretty great or the worst uh in a sense i lumped into uh virginity um somebody took a picture with their Beckbook. Awesome. Oh. Okay. Let's see. Yeah, lots of cars motorcycles that people took their pictures with. So nobody, no one said appendix or like, gallbladder.

Yeah, it was the closest thing to one of those and penis, like to as far as like things that you'd have removed medically that you don't have. I had considered it and I thought, well, while it is probably true, I didn't think enough people would have said it. You heard it right here. Brian Dunaway admitting he considered removing his penis at some point. You guys hear it? I heard it. Well, if I could get it as detachable, that would be fantastic. That way, it would be optional.

Yeah. And then that song could mean a little bit more to you. Detachable penis. Well, well done, Don. I don't know what else to say except you win this stuff. And here's your thing. Winner, win her. Chicken dinner.

Yep. You just freaking win. That's just how it is. So thanks for playing with us. And what's going on in Cincinnati these days? Is anything fun going on that the world should know about in Cincinnati right now? Oh, it's a gorgeous day and it's actually my family's birthday this week. Oh, it is.

Oh, it's fantastic. Yeah. So we have four birthdays this week. That's awesome. Spring babies, they call those. I guess we're not quite spring, but close. Are you going to get together and hazmat suits and celebrate? No, they're core members.

All my kids and my wife. Oh, good. Yeah, yeah. They're in the family. Oh, yeah. That's an expensive month for you then, is what you're saying. Wow, you guys are creatures of a habit. No. It wasn't planned.

Never think of having sex on a different day of you yet? Well, having you on was a treat. I can say that with some confidence, and we're glad to have had you here. Have a fantastic time. Oh, send an email to a covervillage email. Covervill.com and we'll get your prizes. Yeah, do that for your prizes. We'll see you soon.

Okay. Well done. That was great. enjoyed that greatly uh brian dunaway hey tomorrow we got the boop show it'll be great i got a i've had a turn around i've come around on something oh yes you've turned the corner on a game that me and you both played yep and i'm curious to see how you turned it around because i'm still like going i don't know man i'll give you a phrase that you'll hear tomorrow about what turned me around and the phrase is pay attention to the tutorial oh once i did that once i did that everything changed also you can turn that

robot off, which is nice. Anyway, we'll talk about the game MEC mechanic simulator. Yeah, that's right. You get to be a mechanic for giant mecks. Nice. That sounds like it's right up your alley. It's so up my alley, it turns out. I wasn't sure about it when I first got it, but I have done a full flip on it. So anyway, we'll talk about that tomorrow. Brian's got to, what are you working on? What game are you playing? What are you doing? Do you remember? I don't even know what I'm playing anymore. Wait a minute. Let me think about it. Oh, yeah. I played a little bit yesterday. and I really still care. Remember the name of it?

Oh, yeah. I can't remember. Hold on a second. Wait, I can't believe I'm blanking on that. That disturbs me. Yeah. Do I need... What have I been playing?

Right. Do I need an intervention? I mean, that's like... You might be. That's not good. No, maybe you're just haven't decided. You're, you know, we'll just say that. No, I play something last night and then I...

It must be really good. No! What? the crap. I have no idea. I don't like this. I play chicken police. Of course I play chicken police. How did I forget Zach? How could you forget chicken

police? God. Yeah, that's crazy for you to forget that. It's a nor our adventure, kind of in the vein of Sam and Max, but it's chickens that are, yeah, there's chickens on human bodies.

Right. It is humorous. And I'm enjoying it, and we'll talk more about it. Now we'll have it in my show notes, so I won't forget the name of the stupid game. You'll remember the name of your chicken game tomorrow on the boob show. 3.30 Mountain Time, everybody, be there to watch it live or catch the podcast after. Brian Dunaway, kiss our butts, and we'll see you soon. Oh, I almost removed him from the wrong call. Hold on here. Okay, bye. All right, there you go. That was a good time there. We're going to take a break. When we come back, some time with Bill DeRan.

and that'll be fun. We'll also have Stephen back after a bit of a break. We didn't take one from him. He just was busy the last couple of weeks. We needed some time apart. Yeah, a little bit of time apart. But he's back, thankfully. We got a little bit to discuss in a few areas.

So come on back for all of that. And meantime, a song from Brian. Yeah, all right. If you're a fan of the Black Keys, you're going to love this. This is a performer by the name of Jesse Roper. It has a brand new single called Horizons. This was produced by Gus Van Gogh, who produces the stills,

the Sam Roberts Band, and the Arkells. But it is, I mean, you've got a powerhouse voice in Jesse Roper. You're going to love this blues back in, and he's from Canada. Don't know if that helps or hurts, but it's some interesting trivia about Jesse Roper. Here's his brand new single, Horizons. You don't hear me, you don't see me, you don't know, walking horizons with the starlight for the skies

you don't hear me you don't trust me you don't know I'm in around travel horizons shine the moonlight in your eyes you don't hear me you don't know me you don't see me you don't know I'm around the horizons with a starlight for the sky No, no, no, no, no, no, I'll be around Never heard rising on, it's shining to bring your eyes in your life.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. When I'm gone, I'm going to stay. Because living here, this ain't my way. And I'll be lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, no, no. Make a day I'd make a day

You don't hear me You don't hear me, you don't see me, you don't see me, you don't know, you don't know how you don't know how you're around. Trail of the horizon There's a starlight for the sky Yeah You don't know me You don't trust me

You don't know I'm in all I'm in love I'm trying to horizon It's time going right in your eyes Yeah Oh

Oh Oh, yo, oh, you want to know, want to know. No, sorry, yeah. No, I'll go with plastic. No. Whoops, we're back, everybody. Hey, welcome back, hey, welcome back to the show. That was a song break

Featuring the song It's Horizons by Jesse Roper I just spilled Ripple non-dairy creamer on the side of the Oh, uh-oh That's this all right Have you seen this stuff in the store

Ripple? No, never heard of it. It's like a non-dairy soy creamer They're using a font That I think is intentionally meant To make you see the word nipple Oh, let's see this

Can we see this? Do you have it? Yeah, I'm going to give you a link. I don't have the bottle here, but I can give you a link. Okay. Let's take a look. Because I'm very interested in this, suddenly. Yeah. Here you go.

I'm giving you a link right now, and I'm going to put it in our chat area. Yeah. And you're going to see it, and you're going to, oh, what the hell is that? That's a text message of some sort. Yeah, that's not what you want.

Copy image address. Is it not? there we go is it coming through all right oh there it is oh okay yeah here we go everybody oh yeah does it not look like it says nipple i thought you were kidding this is true look at this they're trying to get you to say nipple absolutely trying to get you to see the word yeah i'm i would eat my hat if that was not the case somebody somewhere in marketing packaging something wherever logo guy down the hall laughs every time

anyone talks about the product. What font can we use to make that R possibly an N? I know we'll do a font where you're just looking at the shadow and then the eye will subliminally not even that subliminally connect the eye into an N shape. Yeah, yeah, it's a nipple.

That's a nipple is what we're looking at there. But it's good, you like it? Yeah, actually it's a good soy creamer. Everyone needs one of those. anyone everyone needs a good soy creamer that's what I say because you got you like the soy right

it's a good alternative for you yeah I like oat milk and soy I'm I'm okay with almond milk I'm not a fan of coconut milk yeah I don't like it either I like it in Thai food I don't like it as a as a creamer substitute yeah I don't like coconut

my coconut usage is very specific I can't have it in certain things and I can't have like real coconut like shredded coconut I'd rather die. I hate it. Oh, really? Okay. It's a texture thing. But like, I can't eat a no, not Mars bar. What are they called? I have the coconut on, uh, oh, mounds. Mounds. Can't do it.

Can't do it. Just can't. I refuse. Not bad debt. Not that yet. The only international alcoholic drink I ever had was a coconut flavored, uh, it was a, it was a, what do you call it? A Pina colada. Yeah. It was pretty good. Pretty good. Yeah, it's not usually coconut milk, though, is it? It's like coconut rum. Oh, is it different? Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know these things. I do know this, though. I'll be here for you. I'll be your huckleberry liquor drinker. Thank you very much. Now this. Your bat caves open there, Bill. Bill Durand joins us from the Pacific Northwest, somewhere near Seattle. And it's called Punished Props out there where he runs this rad little studio and builds cool stuff

and comes on the show and we talk about the world of makers. Hello, Bill. Welcome back. Hello, it's a wonderful Monday morning. It is. And we have a new video out. Oh, my gosh. What'd you make? I made a cool helmet, go figure, right?

Yeah. Wow. I'm going to go look right now. I came up with some fun new stamps to use as to add texture to said helmet. It worked out really well. So we put together a video for that. When you say stamps, like, that's like brushes, right? I mean, that's kind of what you're doing.

it's a 3D printed texture and what I do is a heat up the surface of the foam and then press the texture into it and you leave it there for 10 seconds and it impresses that texture on the foam it's really cool oh that's cool yeah cool look at that EVA foam texture stamp 3D print file series 1 STL nice you can get those for yourself uh for the very low price of $5 that's not very much at all oh yeah yeah well that's very cool uh anyway well that's great uh we'll talk about that and of course uh we like to get your feedback here on the show and a lot of people send stuff in for Bill now. We got this email here from Texmas X. That's kind of a cool name. Okay. Hi, Bill and TMS.

I had a question about inspiration. Where does Bill get most of his? And when a creator is feeling a little creator's block, where are some good directions to turn to gain more of that inspiration? Thanks and love the show. What I love about this question is it can apply to obviously what you're doing

and people doing that sort of thing. But this will apply to anybody if you're writing, if you're drawing, if you're drawing, if you're whatever you hit this you hit this wall all the time and it's a great question about where to turn to get that some of that creative juice flowing so so what do you do bill i'm going to make a guess before you tell me okay bill plays skyrim no hold on that seems like a safe bet that doesn't it yeah but that's also i'm guessing one of the things you might say and you can tell me if i'm wrong but it seems like one of the things you would say is you go and see what others are doing and find

inspiration in others and i do that all the time i'll if i'm feeling like uh i don't feel like drawing i'll go to like my instagram feed which is all artists yeah yeah me too man look at this look at that look at this and then i get ideas and then i want to go for it so anyway i'll let you answer though what how do you do it so i want to point out first that inspiration comes in many forms and i look for lots of different types of inspiration i'm a prop maker but i also make videos I also just generally like art and I'm also

an instructor so I also look for people other instructors to inspire me the way they translate information to other people's brains that's something I'm always looking for ideas about so I look for people

who do video production a lot of YouTubers that I follow obviously I look for props and costumes from all of my favorite video games, movies, and shows, if I want to look for something that I want to recreate. I also look at just a lot of general artists, and I have a list of some

in a little bit, but not just people who make the type of art I make, right? I follow sculptors and illustrators and blacksmiths. So the first thing is I cast a really wide net when it comes to looking for inspiration. I try and cover a lot of

different bases. And then the other thing is that I have accumulated far more ideas than I could ever finish in a lifetime. I write everything down. Every idea I have, if I'm watching a YouTube video and they do something cool in the YouTube video, that I want to recreate one of my videos, like a video trick, right? We actually have a Google Doc we keep open when we're watching YouTube videos in the evening. And we just copy and paste those videos with the timestamp. Hey, this little gimmick they did in the video was cool.

We'll just leave that in a spreadsheet or whatever. So that when I'm looking for fun ideas to do in my videos, I can turn to that document. Oh, look how they did that really fun, neat way to present a time lapse, right? We could do our video in that way. That's really cool. I'm watching. So, like I said, oh, go ahead. I just want to point out how critical it is to write all this stuff down.

yeah I was just I was going to say in high school we had this teacher that really pounded this into us I think Brian will remember this too but we were all told to keep a morgue which was it was a weird it was a weird term even today I think question of dead bodies in the base yeah yeah yeah all the dead bodies oh you're talking about a different thing yeah very different thing basically it was basically a big what do you call it like a filing cabinet full of photos magazine clippings stuff we find anywhere that we can keep as reference material but also inspirational stuff like oh i really love this this ad i saw on this article on newsweek i'm going to cut this out and put this in here now in the age of the internet the world is our morgue right we don't really need it in the way that we needed it then or or at least that kind of usage case you can just go to google image search and find what you need um but instead what i sort of supplanted with that was sketches and doodles and thoughts and i kind of have at this repository, the recommendation I'm going to make is for an app called Simple Note, which is a, it's on Mac, PC, Web, whatever, mobile.

And what I love about SimpleNote is it's really fast. It has this amazingly quick sort of search in it, or built into it. So when you search for something, it's like immediate. It doesn't matter how many notes you've got. It's just really efficient that way. And it can contain anything. It's just super basic, like keep track.

of your notes forever. And I've got stuff going all the way back to like 2008 or something in here. Doesn't it also, it also works with the pencil, right, for note taking, like you can use Apple Pencil on the iPad and write into simple note? I don't think so. Well, it may do the whole, what's that called, transcribe or whatever where you write it and then it puts it into text, it may do that. Okay. But not, okay, but it won't do like you can't say, oh yeah, here I'm going to put a photo of this thing here that I want to remember and then I'm going to write something next to it. It won't do that. But it, and so there are plenty of apps that do, like there's a ton of them that do.

The ones, and there's a bunch of those that are, that have plenty of features to like about them. My problem is they're not very transportable. What I mean by that is, let's say you decide you don't want to use that app anymore. You can't just easily go, well, let's just move these all over to this other app. They don't, you know, have good export options and things like that. Yeah. So it kind of drives me nuts. Whereas with simple note, it's basically just. creating big XML data and that can be used anywhere you can import it into anything and so I

really like that for that but it's mostly for idea capture I'll literally have it on my phone be in the middle of the night have what I think is a funny comic idea usually by morning it's not but sometimes it is and I'll write it down in this app and then I'll just sort of have it there forever because it's so easy to search easy to search via key terms or or whatever it just it ends up being this amazing sort of modern day morgue for me and if you're looking for a way to do that then i would highly recommend it it's free and on everything you just have it yeah um even have a google chrome book version of that thing which my wife uses all the time so so anyway that's just a you know to go with your whole idea of like just yeah put all your ideas down there's there is something great about just

the off put part of this just dump it just dump it out of your head a you won't forget it because now it's somewhere you can find it, and B, it's not burdening you to try to remember this stuff all the time, just freaking get it out of your system. Because you won't sleep. If you think of something and you don't figure out a way to write it down and it's late at night, you're going to wake

up, oh, I really don't want to forget that thing, and they'll just stay in your brain and kneel you. That happens to me all the time. So I have notes everywhere. I have the note, just the normal note thing on my phone. I have notepads all around my house and shop. Every once in a while, I just

collect and put all the information together and usually i'll just dump it in ever note or somewhere that i know i can search it um i usually uh i haven't used it in a while but i use pinterest to collect um images and like you put together a vision board for a project to put together something like that yeah lots of really great interest is a great tool for that stuff people people i mean when i say people mostly me i used to call it the lady internet like it wasn't for me but pinterest is totally for me oh totally you're doing visual Anything you do visual Pinterest is great for

collections of visual things Now for some examples Of places I go for inspiration So for props and costumes The people I go to People who are making props and costumes That inspire me My friends over at Vulpen props

And Kamui cosplay and SKS props Are all doing really amazing stuff They're the kind of people I think about When I'm making props And I think this is good enough And then I think Hmm Would Harrison think that

Or would Steve think that or Svetlana? No, well, then I'll put a little more time into it. Oh, interesting. You got to use your peers as your, I don't know, your measuring stick. Absolutely. Sure do. Yeah, nothing wrong with that. But there are also three people who are constantly putting out amazing work as well that I get to see every day.

Right. And that drives me. Right. As far as like instructors and communicators that I look up to, oh, actually, really quick, we're talking about videos. I want to talk about when I first. got into making YouTube videos. At the time, I was watching Revision 3.

Remember Revision 3? I totally remember Rev. 3, yeah. Yeah. So I was getting inspired by shows like Scam School, Film Riot, and TechZilla. This was in the late aughts, early 2010s. That's what I was watching. And that type of video presentation I pulled into my videos. Nowadays, I watch Tested, a lot of tested, obviously. Mark Rober, Casey Nicestat, and I like to.

to make stuff along with lots and lots of other channels that I watch. But those are examples of channels that I look for for inspiration about how to make my videos, right? How to tell better stories in my videos. Sure. And then instructors and communicators, I go back. Obviously, like Adam Savage is a no-brainer. But like Bill Nye, Mr. Rogers, and Bob Ross, or all people I look to for inspiration when it comes to instructors and communicating good information, right? Yeah.

Also in a style that I jive with, right? Right. Bob Ross is interesting because it's easy to meme that guy from top to bottom and just, you know, oh, Bob Ross, he's my original ASMR. Ho, ho, ho, ho, ha, ha, whatever. But at the end of the day, if you actually break down what he did on that show, it's a master class in instruction. And not only that, but also instruction that you can understand, absorb,

and apply your own personality to. Like, there's a reason that he had that thing and why it was so successful. and still so influential. It isn't just as big, dumb hair and his weird mannerisms. It was way more than that. So I'm really glad you brought that out. He's more than a minute.

Yeah, I think he died like 30 years ago and dude's still changing the world. That's pretty awesome. Yeah. And then I follow a ton of artists of all types. So here's just a smattering. So for sculpture, I follow a lot of sculptors. One of them is Brian Booth Craig.

There's a lot of anatomical sculpture, a lot of naked people. So if you're into that, check it out. Ceramics. I follow a couple of ceramic artists, especially after watching the great pottery throw-down on the show. One of the ceramics artists I follow is a guy named Mitchell Spain.

In fact, I bought one of his mugs recently. It looks like a Fram oil filter. It's the coolest. I love it. That's cool, yeah. And then lots of illustrators. people draw in paint we got just a handful

here Ian McHugh is bananas Oh my gosh dude I could look at I could just stare at his work all day Right oh my goodness Jonah Loeb who we've had the pleasure of working with It's just so so good Jarlin Perez and Pascal Blanche A couple of other illustrators that

Just mind-blowing stuff Yeah And artists too a lot of these people I have their artwork like I bought it Yeah I got a print from Jarlin Perez a month or two ago, that's just so cool. Yeah, those guys are amazing.

But I also follow machinists and photographers and tool makers and woodworkers and all kinds of creators of every type of background. And I think no matter what your creative discipline it is, it's okay

to let yourself be inspired by creators from all areas. And let their creativity influence your work. It may sound weird, but like, if you you are a prop maker, then it probably makes sense to want to make props kind of the way a blacksmith makes a sword, right? Right.

Understanding how those real systems work are going to influence and instruct your work going forward. Like there's so many crossovers with all creative work. Just let it all wash over you. Yeah. Don't be picky. Well, there's never been a better time to let it watch over you because it's everywhere. It's freaking everywhere.

And it's easy to see now. Like, it's easy to surround yourself with, too. Yeah. Like, if we were in junior high and I wanted to see Ian McHugh's work, I wouldn't even know who that is. Like, you never would have heard of that guy. Oh, I have to go to the bookstore and buy a collection of his work. Yeah, assuming they even made one. Like, you'd never really know about this guy, but instead him and millions like him are easily accessible.

And not only accessible, that guy, like, literally is very accessible. If you talk to him on Twitter, when he posts his art or have questions for him, dude answers you. He's, like, really, really generous with his time and his feedback and everything else. That's what I found a lot of. And also, things that blow me away, like, crap, another guy I follow, I can't remember. He makes tiny suits of armor for mice out of, like, brass and stuff. It's the best. Does he actually put them on live mice?

I don't think he does. Oh, damn. I would imagine the mice are rather uncooperative. Yeah. Whatever. They're mice. But, yeah, he, like, I can't remember where I started following him. But then I was like, hey, cool thing.

And he's like, hey, I love your work. I follow your prop stuff. I was like, oh, cool. Yeah. In my brain, I'm like, this guy's stuff is way cooler than anything I've made. Like, why would he bother following me? Sure. This guy's making real armor for mice.

For mice. I do have questions about the mice. Not that I'm not going full pita here, but is he holding them down? Is he forcing him? Like, I need to know. I'm talking about it, yeah, that he doesn't, he probably doesn't put them on the mice. Oh, my God. Do you know what I want to do just for a hoot?

I want to also make a set of armor for my mouse, only my computer mouse. Hey, bad mouse armor. A little mousy that goes over your mouse when you're not using it. It's all square tin foil. Quick, write that down so you don't forget. Right it down. Yep, write it down. You know what, though, that is, and that is a great idea.

I have hundreds of ideas like that, where I'm like, that's a great idea. I'm never going to do writing it down though, writing it down. And you never get it left later. Armour for computer mice, what was I thinking? Why would I even do that? Here's a real world example of how you might still, like one day you may do it. The concept for Fred and Cannes started in 2008, and I was going to pull the trigger then and do this stupid comic about a guy living with a can and I just put it aside.

But I made a note and a few ideas about what it would be. And then in early 2020, I went, hey, what have I gotten my old comic ideas? Oh, my gosh, Fred and Ken, I totally forgot about this. I'm going to do it. And I did it. And I'm not saying you should pull the trigger on every one of your dumb ideas, but sometimes they come up again, you know? They do, yeah.

And sometimes when you go back and look at them later, the new look at them is at a time when you have more of the ability to flesh it out. Or you've picked up a skill that now can make that. doing that a lot easier yeah yeah really or you bought a new tool or you bought a new tool totally tackle that now yeah yeah exactly well or your your your uh confidence your your your unheard confidence is shot through the roof for some reason you're like i'm gonna do it why not yeah or your time for that matter yeah yeah totally a lot of free time exactly well uh this is great great advice all around everybody uh if you're feeling a little bit um uh you know lacking inspiration just look around you and write

it down. Those are your two rules today. Look around, write it down. Bill, anything else going on that we should mention before you go. Yeah, I have one thing to share, really fun video. So speaking of artists that continue to inspire me, both as video producers and artists, Alex Steele doing great work, continuing to do great work. He made an armored gauntlet. Now, I linked to the first video. There are two of them. But basically, what he wanted to do, he followed someone else's tutorial, got a template to make a metal armored gauntlet, and then he built it with very basic tools, tin snips, a drill. He used the finishing nails from the hardware store as his rivets and a leather glove. And he made an armored gauntlet, but this is a sort of thing where it's like, if you want to get into this stuff, this is the kind of project to start with.

Very basic tools. Huh. He was using a brush as a hammer there, I saw. Like, this is like the get started in armor making but with real metal sort of project. There doesn't look like there's a single piece of equipment in his shop that is newer than 1963. Yeah.

Yes, true. Yeah, he's in the U.K., you know, so all of that equipment is from the war. Oh, yeah, exactly, sure. That's all they have over there, stuff in the war. It might be, yeah. I mean, looking at that, whatever that thing is to the left. I believe that is a power hammer. Wow.

Cool. It looks like you could also use it to submerge droids into some sort of bubbling liquid. Into their back to tank. And ask them how many languages they speak. Yeah. How many languages do you speak? Well, Bill, fantastic stuff. That's Alex Steele.

Go look at that. And also punishprop.com or the Punished Props YouTube channel. I notice there's a channel also called Extras, which you can. go sub-toot as well. And in particular, go look at those texture things you're doing. Those are really rad. They made that helmet looking insane. Yeah, very, very cool.

Bill Duran, everybody, chin beard on Twitter. Bill, have a fantastic week. Later. Bye now. See, seep, seep, see-up, see-ep. All right, I don't know what we're doing now. Oh, Stephen, that's what. He's been gone so long.

I forgot what I was doing with him. I'm adding him to the call and we're going to talk to him because he's great and now this whoops where's this new thing if I have a new thing Stephen Schleiker Stephen Schleiker hello Stephen from major spoilers.com all the way in Hayes, Kansas. Hello, how are you? Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hello. Hey, look, man, you're a busy guy. You got a lot stuff going on. Yeah. I know that to be true. But even though you've been gone a couple of weeks, had a lot going on, we're really glad to have you back. So thanks for coming back to me. on this. Yeah, we missed you.

God, it's really been a couple of two weeks. Yeah, two weeks. First week, first week I had a meeting last week. My son had an orthodontist appointment. Yeah. Orthodontist looks in his mouth and says, when's your next dentist appointment? And I'm like, well, he had it a couple of weeks ago. And he's like, man, and then he points. My kid had like a huge abscess on his gums. Oh, no. And the optometrist, the, uh, what, the, uh, tooth doctor guy, uh, like, gave it a little squeeze. And you could see, like, pus squeezing out of it.

And so then I had to call. call the dentist and set an emergency appointment so they could come and look at it. And they had to yank his tooth out. Fortunately, it was still a baby tooth, but they yanked it out. It was all gnarly and everything. Gross. Man. My kid has cursed teeth.

I had that. I had one of those. I don't know. They pulled it out as well, but I had a root canal go bad. And I spent, I don't know, a couple of months trying to deal with this weird infected tooth. And they finally just pulled it. I hate teeth. Teeth are the worst, dude.

F-T. Well, especially kids' teeth. Whenever, whenever you say, did you break? your teeth? Yes, I brushed my teeth. You got to do like Kim. Don't believe them. Do it again. Kim would go in and fill that brush. She'd say it's not wet.

But then Nick would start to figure out how to just get it wet and then not use it. And then he turned 12 and went, I like girls. And then started brushing his teeth. Because you got to brush your teeth when you like girls. That was the catalyst. Okay. Good. Yeah. That's why whatever it takes to get deodorant in their pits, freaking fresh socks on their feet and toothbrush on.

in their mouth. It's usually girls. Yeah. To get them there. Anyway, good luck with that. So that was my last two weeks, so there you go. We had more fun with our two weeks than you did. I'm sure. I think we did.

Although we all watch Winter Soldier, which I'd like to talk about for a second. Falcon Winter Soldier. Episode 2 is now out. Episode 1, the week previous. And we haven't spoken since then. Brian and I had a little bit of discussion about it. Really loving it. Although, I feel like they're just teasing us with Agent 13.

It's like, yeah, she'll be here. Not now, though. but later okay not now but later uh you may get her you see her in the credits yeah here she is in the credits i'm just waiting for snowman to show up yeah that'd be cool tina called it that the other day what time we uh watching falcon the snowman i'm like you mean falcon winter soldier unless you do want to watch the uh tim uh whatever's name and uh spicoli show yeah yeah that's an interesting movie if people haven't seen that

what is it it's an espionage movie yeah falcon's about the eighties friends it's um it's about two friends one of them gets into trouble uh one's a drug dealer and one is uh somehow gets uh they figure out a scheme to start selling secrets to the russians yeah shan pen and who is the other guy timothy hud let me look here timothy hudm and it's the source of the great david bowie's song

this is not america oh really really good david bowie's song really and that's all i yeah i never saw the movie but um bought the soundtrack just for that just for that song Yeah, it's a pretty good movie. It's a little drawn out, especially for 1985 standards. It seemed long and plotting, especially if you had just seen like three days of the contour or something like that. Yeah. Yeah, but it's worth checking out.

Definitely is. Interesting cast. Pat Hingle is in that. He's Commissioner Gordon from the 89 Burton movies, the Batman movies. He is, let's see, Richard Dysart from L.A. law. was in this. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's crazy. All right. Well, true story. It's a true story, too. Is it really? Interesting.

Yeah, 85? Yeah. All right. Never heard of it. Now I have. So, yeah, the Falcon and Winter Soldier is pretty great. And I don't know if it's everybody's cup of tea, but it's definitely mine. They've ripped the essence out of that Winter Soldier movie and made it into a TV series for me. Oh, yeah. There are definitely some people who don't like it. But they're also, you know, not just ripping stuff out of the Winter Soldier movie, but they're at. actually going back to the comics. So for everyone who's watched

episode two, there are a couple of comics that you might want to check out. The first is, well, it's more of a character and that's U.S. agent. That's who, that's John Walker who's currently playing the new Captain America. Originally started out as Super Patriot, kind of like a super

villain, someone who took patriotism to the extreme beyond what Steve Rogers did, and then became Captain America in like 1986, 87, somewhere around there, uh, along with his sidekick Battlestar, who we also saw this, uh, second episode. And this is, uh, he does some Captain America things before becoming US agent. And his new costume does very much look like a US agent costume. Oh, I was going to ask if there

were other similarities visually and stuff, because I haven't read that series. So yeah, um, it's a Wyatt Russell, Kurt Russell's son. We talked about last week a little bit, but yeah, from Lodge 49, which if you haven't seen is, is, I have seen that. He's so great in that. And it's so bizarre to see him in this after watching him in that I thought this last episode was interesting because it didn't it didn't

rub it in your face it just very naturally had a moment of oh yeah there's still kind of systematic racism in this country with cops and black guys oh well let's let's talk about Isaiah Bradley then the other character that was introduced who appears to have

some super soldier powers so the other comic book series that people might want to read as truth, red, white, and black. This is a seven-issue mini-series from Robert Morales and Kyle Baker. It tells the story of the, I don't know if it's technically the second Captain America or not, but essentially once Captain America went into the ice, people were trying to figure out how do we recreate the Super Soldier serum. And if you're familiar with the Tuskegee study, that's basically the premise of red, white, and black.

They tested these super soldier serums on black men to see what the effects would be. And the only survivor of that is Isaiah Bradley, who we saw in this week's episode. So yeah, it's very interesting. Yeah, I like that they're doing that. It's giving it a bit of an edge of, I don't know, it's giving it an edge in general. But I just like that I like that they're having to deal with that stuff. And they're doing it, I feel like they're doing it honestly and they're earning it. And it doesn't feel, I don't know, doesn't feel.

soapboxy or whatever. So, okay, that reminded me of something that I forgot it. Crap. I had a really good question. Oh, so Steve Rogers didn't use a gun pretty much ever. Yeah, he did. If you go back and watch Captain America the first Avenger, he's got a gun as a side piece. Did he always have, okay.

It feels like it was so antithetical to the character, you know. Yeah, what it reminded me was of the old 50s or 40 serial of Captain America, but it was a different dude. I forgot his name. I showed him here sometimes in post-show when I'm editing. But anyway, that guy always used a gun. That's all he had. In fact, you didn't even have a shield. And so when I saw this dude pull the gun out and fire it on that train sequence, I went, oh, well, that's like a throwback to the cereals.

But you're saying, you're saying, in fact, Captain America always had a side piece. Always had a little bit of gun action. Yeah. I don't know if they used that so much. His side piece was named Peggy Carter, by the way. Yeah, Peggy Carter. I don't know if he used it so much once he started using his shepard. shield as his primary weapon.

But certainly, yes, he's had a gun before. Okay. And we're supposed to not like, we're supposed to not like this nude guy, right? I mean, we're supposed to be annoyed that he's there. Yeah. Well, I mean, yeah, because he's not. Cocky cheeseball. Yeah. Because they keep messing with me

a little bit. On the one hand, they're like, there are moments where I'm like, all right, he seems like he's got the right idea. You know, he's okay. It's going to be hard to get used to him, but whatever. And then there are like, no, you're going to be trouble, you piece of garbage you're going to be a well i mean he may be trouble uh you know again when he was super patriot he was you know steve rogers looked at all the reasons to be optimistic and what's great about

america and super soldier is a little bit more pessimistic and realistic and the ends justify the means kind of thing i see that's an interesting juxtaposition i'm really curious to see where the whole thing goes i'm enjoying the crap out of it we got our first view of who will probably be our villain this this season i guess our main villain yeah um i don't i don't want to spoil it i guess well there's another villain that's supposed to pop up in episode three so oh really i mean we've gotten one villain showing up in the first episode right bat truck the leaper oh right forgot about that and uh but then yeah i mean we've known we've known who the kind of the fourth big name character between falcon winter soldier agent 13 and

this other person just because marvel legends gave you one of the uh one of those episodes for him too, one of the background episodes for him. So the girl who's, you know, they pulled a mask or find out the girl that's in the cold storage in the thing. A Throne of Thrones? Yeah, no, well, maybe. I know she was in solo. She was in Star Wars, you know, solo, yeah.

Yeah, and that's where I recognize her face. She was in Game of Thrones also. Okay. I didn't recognize it from that. Oh, weird. I like her a lot. I don't remember if she was or not. I thought she was.

She's very compelling, that person. Oh. Yeah. I think she's read. What was her name? Crap. Now I want to know and I'm annoyed that I don't know. off top of my head. But she seems

real good. I like that whole business. That whole like well and then yeah that does bring up the other question is you know how else who got these super soldiers and how who's sponsoring that program and what are they doing and are they building up a power of super powered beings

that can to wreck havoc on everything. I mean that's yeah that's very interesting to look at. I found it. Her name is Aaron Kellerman, Kellyman Kellyman. Oh the actresses name? Solo. She's not She's not in Game of Thrones at all.

But she's in the upcoming Willow. She's in Raised by Wolves, too. Different thing, different raised by wolves. Different raised by wolves. We were talking about this very thing that, who would we, was it us? Brian? Yeah, we're talking about movies with the same name that aren't remakes, but just said, I'm going to use that name.

And then when people look for the Godfather, they'll find my movie. Yeah. But like, you know, being their two crashes. two famous crash movies, and they have nothing to do with each other, like, raised by wolves, nothing to do with that series. And anyway, she's just somebody to watch. She's super compelling and interesting. Uh-huh.

Yeah. I like everything they're showing us so far. I'm super into it. Um, at somebody, uh, who's it, Jonathan Strickland on Twitter, a friend of the program said, uh, the thing that kept taking me out of the episode is that neighborhood they were in, um, when they went to see Isaiah, uh, is like two blocks from his house. Because they filmed everything in, oh, wow. Everything in Atlanta, yeah.

And so he was like, oh, that's just too weird. I can't, you know. It'd be like if, I don't know, like Brian's watching something from an Arvada grocery store or something like that. Oh, God, yeah. Yeah, it'd be weird. Anyway, well, more weird now. Hey, so that's awesome. We're still into it, loving it.

We'll talk more about it as time goes on. And for whatever reason, I don't know why I'm not letting this one stack. I just want to see this soon as it's out. Same here. It's partially because of spoilers, but partially because. I haven't had new Marvel content for a year until Wanda Vision started up. And now it's like, no, give it to me now. Oh, well, you're going to have to wait a little bit longer, Brian, because the Black Widow movie is coming.

They pushed it back instead of May 7th. Now you have to wait until July 9th, but, and I know you enjoy going to the movies, but for the rest of us that hate AMC, July 9th, it will debut digitally and theatrically. on Disney Plus with that premium, with that premium $30 rental fee. Yeah. Now, are you, if I, if I rent a theater for some Denver tadpool people, can I get you to make the drive from Hayes, Kansas to? It's only five hours. Yeah, maybe.

I mean, it's July 9th. Now the sun, the theater doesn't sound so bad. Well, it depends on how crowded it's going to be. I mean, you're talking about the Denver. It won't be more than 20 of us because I think that's the one. That's what I'm saying. You can, everybody gets a road of themselves. Will those limits change by July, I wonder?

Probably not. That's what I think Disney's hoping. Yeah, they might. I mean, our vaccination rate is doing pretty good here in the States, but also the variants are catching up a little bit. So there's like a little bit of concern about speed. A little bit of spring break ramping up too, sadly. Yeah.

And so that's what I think the main reason why both Cruella and Black Widow were pushed, just so they can ensure that the theaters are going to, open. I think, what is it? Is it Cinemark or Regal is doing a big thing with Godzilla versus Kong this weekend? Yeah. You know what I'm watching this weekend? That.

Because that's on HBO Max. Day and date, no extra money. I just get to sit down and watch it. Woo! Exactly. And then you know what comes the week after that? Mortal Combat, baby. Mortal The new Mortal Kombat remake. And then there's something else right after

that. Anyway, HBO's got my number right now. I don't know why, but loving it. Love it. Well, honestly, the $30 fee for the Disney Plus stuff is not that big of a deal. No, it's all right. It's less than I would have spent to the theater if I'd have taken my wife to see it. Yeah, exactly. And so with a family of four,

it's a really great deal. And if you're like my kids, at least one of them, will watch the same thing again and again and again for a week. So my youngest has watched Raya and the Last Dragon probably four or five times. Oh, wow. Since we've

gotten it so we got our money's worth out of it just for that it's a good deal what kind of a deal yeah what kind of a deal it's a great deal so 30 bucks we'll get you uh some some business with uh her yes with the black widow we'll get you a black widow moment in your life oh i was gonna tell you steven guess what i've been reading so um i i don't know why i just got in the background when i'm working i've got uh Batman beyond going these days and uh love that series great great series yeah loved it, loved it. I just loved the concept. I think they handled it really well. Could have been stupid. It was great. And still as one of the coolest intros of any animated series in the history of DC. Yeah, there's something. I'm trying to remember. I was trying to look really quick. Somebody in the chat will remind me. But there's something about that theme song. I can't remember if it's, I'm trying to think who the person was that composed it or the person who animated it. But it's somebody like super well known right now. Oh, let's look it up. Theme song from Batman Beyond. Christopher Carter Nope that's not it

Yeah I don't know It's something I have no idea I love it though I don't know I don't think it's Bruce Tim I mean it's Bruce Tim inspired But I don't think it's animated by Bruce Tim But it was it's something very specific about it

That when you look at it and you go Holy crap that was that guy Oh really And then And then it kind of all clicks Oh here we go This is okay I found an article On the audio spotlight

this is from oh yeah award winning composer Christopher Carter Lyota Ramonis and Michael McCutcheon collectively known as dynamic music partners Brian is this familiar at all Nothing else familiar yeah

I'll have to look maybe it's the person who worked on it is It's very cool Yeah yeah I like it a lot anyway So point is that's going on in the background Enjoying a rewatch of that And people will be happy to know They didn't crop it or do anything weird it's its original 4x3 thing and all that.

It inspired me because I knew, okay, so the Batman Beyond thing starts as an animated series. That's its beginnings. And then, of course, they were comics. And there were some in the beginning years that were just like the show, like same art style and everything.

But then more recently, like the rebirth era, 2016 or so, they ran a new run of Batman Beyond in comic form. And I thought, you know what? I'm going to give that a shot. And I'm here to tell you, I think Batman Beyond's pretty rad in comic form, too. Yeah, it really is.

When you follow the adventures of Terry McGinnis beyond what goes on in the series, there was a time where they tried to write him out by sending him losing him in the far, far future and not knowing where he was coming back. But now he's, who knows what's going on with Future State, but, you know, he's still doing his thing. And it's a great premise. It's really good. It's got cyberpunk kind of stuff in it, a little bit of vibe of like a, you know, Blade Runner-y kind of future stuff. Yeah, Neo-Gotham is the name.

of the damn city like it's just a really well thought out alternate future concept that's just great and I can't recommend it enough so I just wanted to throw that out there reading that watching that it's uh it's made me fall in love with it all over again all right snider cut we haven't watched batman beyond definitely watch it yeah Snyder cut we haven't talked a ton about it and I still haven't had time to watch it because I don't have four hours yet to just carve out but uh we were going to do it Sunday and we just don't dig out away from us so um any thoughts on how all that going it seems like overall it got pretty well received considering how poorly the original did yeah so i would say number one it is a much much better movie than the theatrical release

right yeah i'd agree with that and i would and and the Snyder cut is a good movie it's not a great movie i kind of wish he would have brought in an editor to suggest make some suggestions on how to trim that down because when i watched it i was like oh those two scenes don't belong back to back because they have the exact same theme as one another and I would have removed one over the other and you could have trimmed

I could easily trim an hour out of that just by lifting like four scenes but it's still really good and you know Scott it's broken into chapters kind of like a quote unquote graphic novel there are six chapters in it and so you can sit down and do a one hour go and just wait till a chapter mark

and then come back that's yeah that's how I watched it as I watched it in chapters, which was great. Natural breaks in the content that was like, all right, cool. I'll pick up the next chapter tomorrow or later today or something like that. I still think it's a little bit weird that I'm more excited about his zombie thing coming to Netflix than I am. I'm very excited about that. I'm definitely more excited.

Yeah, it is better than the original release of Justice League, but I still feel like it was, there's way too much slow-mo, and it's still not as fun as I want it to be, you know? Let's just say there's a lot of people who probably were screaming how gooey their pants were after watching the Snyder cut. Those people probably need to get out into the world because it's not that great of a movie. I'm also going to say they have other problems, people with gooey pants. I'm going to say, we're not done talking about them. Graphical user interface. Yeah.

Yes, that's exactly what I mean. Graphical user interface pants. That's fantastic. All right. Well, I was curious to know your take and now we know it. Yeah. It's a good movie. It's a good movie. It's worth watching.

It's definitely better than theatrical release. All right. Ray Fisher gets a better time here, doesn't he? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I really... He becomes the central part of this story, which is interesting because you, two weeks ago when I was going to come on, I wanted to talk about Titans because you really were enjoying that series. Yeah.

And, you know, I've written on the Major Spoilers Weekly, which is the email that I send out every week. A couple of weeks ago about how the Teen Titans are the most versatile of all of the ideas. IPs that DC has because, you know, they've got Teen Titans, they've got Teen Titans go, they've got Titans, they've got, you know, all these other things that you can just drop the Teen Titans in and they work for almost every age group. And if you wanted to go a little bit further, Cyborg is even more versatile because, you know, he goes from Teen Titans to now being a founding member of the Justice League. And as you see in this movie, he becomes a main character that is responsible for defeating the bad guys.

Yeah, it happens a lot with him. I read the whole, at least what's out so far, of all the deceased things they're doing on DC, the zombie apocalypse stuff, and he's so central to that story in such a fun way. I've always liked cyborg, so I'm glad he's just getting his fair dude. He's in, I think he's still,

I think he's in Doom Patrol, isn't he? I was going to say, you need to watch Doom Patrol, because that's where you get a lot of good cyborg, yeah. I keep putting that one off. Doom Patrol is great. Doom Patrol is, it's like the HBO, level of Legends of Tomorrow. Just assembling

a really goofy cast of characters and great characters you just fall in love with. It's got James Bond as Professor X. Right, exactly as their Professor X equivalent. Actually, it was just announced as

as Dr. Fate in the Black Adam movie, which got a release date, right? Release date in June or July of 2020. Yeah, the Dwayne Johnson finally gets his due for the well the DCU I guess um I was gonna ask you I forgot what I was gonna just ask you totally spaced it I don't know why okay that's okay oh the trail I know what I was gonna say the suicide squad trailer everyone can't stop gushing oh yeah but you that was really good too

yeah pretty excited I really enjoyed that I think that the thing is James gun I think if I'm not mistaken he writes his scripts with music in mind so when you when you look at that trailer and you're hearing um the dirty work song yeah yeah it's just like oh you know he wrote the you know he wrote this with that song in mind yeah uh and made sure that when it came trailer time that this song was going to be featured in the trailer yeah he knows his like a music really works well he's really good at that yeah that's my immediate moment of like oh like this the james gun thing i mean just totally feel this now like this is straight up yellow or anything else he was doing with guardians um all right

and then oh and then did you watch any of the invincible yet did you guys i did i watched the first three episodes. In fact, I think they, they were supposed to come out on Friday, but I think they dropped them early on Thursday, because I watched the first episode Thursday night and then the other two on Friday. There are changes. Robert Kirkman did go back in and rewrite stuff and clean stuff up. So there's this really weird side story about this security guard and his son going to London, which is kind of interesting. That wasn't in the original comic books. But they are moving through. Also, Demon Detective, which is played by Clancy Brown, gets a bigger support role

or gets a bigger role in this show than in the comic books but they are blowing through the story like episode one basically takes you through the first six issues of the comics or the first 12 issues of the comics

and it's great and they're really capturing the feel of the of the Invincible comic book too and the style also the voice actor you're going through and look at the voice actor it's like oh walking dead walking dead walking dead

Yep. Yep. Yeah, Corey Walker, who was one of the artists, the original artist on the series, comic book series. He is the character, lead character designer for the animated series. That's awesome. So that's why it looks so much alike. Brian's waving at the baby. Hi. Do you see Brian? Say hi. Can you say hi? I'd wave too, but my camera's not on. Can you say Star Wars? Star Wars. Yes. Can you say Batman? Can you say Batman? I'm mine Can you say the Joker? Yeah, the Joker He's such a cute boy. Here, go back to Grandma. He's so chatty now.

I forgot he was going to be here today. I love it when he comes. Like a little parrot. Oh, thank you. Say thank you. That's hilarious. Well, Stephen, finally. Before we go, I got to ask you, can you give a really quick review, because you've had it now for a couple weeks of the Marvel pinball experience? Oh, I really

enjoy it. And I guess I was expecting maybe a little bit more depth to looking at it. You know, when you see all the videos, it makes that display look like you're actually looking down into a pinball machine. It's good. I was hoping

that they would have more of the games I'm familiar with. I was really hoping the Fantastic Four board would be on there and the Captain America board and the Dr. Strange board would be on there. They're not, but still a lot of fun to play. I would say for a, so I stand just under six feet tall. So the backboard is just about a little shorter than that.

So it probably stands about 5-8, 5-9, somewhere on the backboard. But it's a really nice fit for a pinball machine, a virtual pinball machine to add into your collection, Brian. I would, you know, it's much better than trying to get a giant pinball machine, which takes up a lot of room. Yeah, I mean, you give up the, uh, you give up the actual depth of a pinball machine, but you gain multiple tables. Yes. You gain, uh, not having to dedicate half of a room to it.

Yeah. And probably easier to, to fix. Like if something goes wrong with it, it's a lot easier to fix it. Yeah. And there are already people that are modding it. I, I was really hoping that they would have and, and by they, I mean, uh, arcade one up who released this. I was really hoping they would have had some kind of internet connection or something so that if you already had a lot of the Zen, now I forget the company name, the people that make all the pinball machines, that if you already had a Zen pinball account, that you could load your own boards onto that.

Because everything else, it's flippers, it's buttons, it's got little cellinoids in there to give you some bumper action. And it's really pretty good. And the best part was I played it the day that I got it all set up, I went upstairs for a couple of hours to do some stuff. came back downstairs my youngest was playing it and he was you know he got like first place on like a couple of wards so he was really excited about that it's pretty rad yeah yeah it's as soon as i see one i'll probably end up picking it up just because yeah it's a little expensive it's like six hundred bucks and i'm waiting to see where the mods got there's another one i think i pointed you to it brian there's another pinball or an arcade system virtual arcade system that's a yeah that's

about the same size except you can't really buy them right now i don't know why but they are the ones that have the ability to, you know, bring in all your other pinball boards in there. The one big disappointment that I have about this is the backboard. They have a little, the little dot matrix display that changes based on what's going on. I was really hoping that the back glass would also be a monitor that would change as well. Yeah. That's the thing that it's not.

It's just a static image. Hey, that's an easy thing to mod. Throw your own monitor back there. I mean, you can, you'd have to then probably get something else to control that because it's going to have to be a second, yeah, second screen. And really, I think like the regular arcade one-up arcade machines are easy enough to mod with a, you know, with a Raspberry Pi. I'm waiting to see if there's anything out there that makes it easy to mod the pinball machine, because it's not going to work with a Raspberry Pi. Those pinball machines are pretty, pretty hardcore when it comes to their graphic display and processing, yeah. Yeah, well, it looks really neat.

I'm looking at some peters here showing out of the chat. It seems like it would be a rad. A rad addition to anybody's cool. I mean, if you've got a Tron arcade machine in your office, adding a Marvel pinball machine would not be a bad idea. Wait, you don't have Trond, do you? You have Tempest.

I forget what it is. Tempest. Yeah, okay. Oh, if you're talking about me, I thought you were talking about you. I was like, you've got a Tron machine? No, I would never go with the Tron machine. Although I had a weird dream last night About going in a guy

Was selling all sorts of arcade machines Like original Pac-Man and Miss Pac-Man machines And everything Oh man Do you think they're ever gonna Do we get Tron back? Are we going to get more Tron in our lives? What's the deal with Tron?

Tron's great Freaking love Tron And the last movie sucked But come on, let's do more Can we do more? That cartoon was good? What was the animated thing That had Frodo in it?

Tron, not Legacy. He doesn't move. Tron of the Rings. No, Tron. Tron something. Oh, right. Yes. Tron of the dance.

Yeah, Jared Leto was in it. It was the movie. But the TV show, or the show was good. It was good. We live in a Tron. I don't remember the name of the damn thing. But it was good. Just a recent animated thing.

Yeah. It didn't last very long. This was all before Disney bought everything and moved to Disney Plus. Disney originally released Tron. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It was old 81 or whatever. Old Disney thing.

I'd love Tron as a kid. Oh, my gosh, I love Tron. I wanted to drink Tron water. I wanted to, like, get a cup and scoop up the water in the Tron world. I think Gatorade makes something like that. Do they? They make Tron water? I mean, it's blue.

And there's also a red one. You hold it up to a black lad. I'm sure it'll glow just like the movie. Chat room says Tron 3 is being spearheaded by Jared Leto. What does that mean? He's acting in it. He's... Like he probably wants to make it happen or producing it.

Okay. I mean, I don't know how I feel about that. Maybe that's okay. If it makes it happen... As long as he's not the Joker during it. That'd be fine. Just don't be the joker. All right. That's going to do it.

Oh, one final thing. Comic-Con is, it goes in person on Thanksgiving weekend. Explain how that's going to work. That is right. Remember, we said that a couple of weeks ago that Comic-Con was going to go virtual for their summer event, but they said if things improve in the fall, they would look for a date then. Well, they announced the date that it will be over Thanksgiving weekend at the Comic-Con in San Diego. It's, you know, they're calling it the Comic-Con special edition.

And it's going to run over that. Thanksgiving weekend, whatever those exact dates are. They haven't said anything specifically about previous tickets. Now, they did say in the past that people would be able to either from two years ago apply their ticket to the next in-person event or apply it to the 22 event, but I haven't seen anything where they said specifically that you can apply your tickets to this 2021 event. My guess is personally, I would not go to the 2021 event because I have a feeling it's going to be a lot smaller. But the summer after that, I'm sure it'll explode into another, you know, pack 150,000 people into that place. Yeah. Get your vaccines, everybody.

Tread TV, Travis, correct? Or fixed my question about what was the name of that show. It was called Tron Uprising. And it was great. It was very cool. Had an all-star cast. It was awesome. It only went one season.

And it's a freaking bummer. All right. That's it. Hey, Stephen, anything else going on around the major spoilers network people should know about? Not a whole lot. Like I said, if you want to get some inside thoughts on like the new Marvel deal with Publishers Random House, I wrote a lengthy article about that this week. For the Major Spoilers Weekly, it is our weekly email that goes out. You can find out and sign up for it over at major spoilers.com. And until next time, drink your Tron water. You'll stay hydrated if you drink your Tron water. Bye, Stephen. Right. Okay. Well, you won't derez either. No. That is what they called that, right? Derezing? Yep. De-resing. I'm in the mood. I'm in the mood for Tron. I may even watch that dumb movie again.

I mean... Which of the dumb movies, right? I love the original, but I also saw it as a kid, so I can't, you know, who knows if it's... We watch it for FilmSec too. Yeah. But the second one, or that one from 2014 or whatever it was, is so cool in so many ways and so broken in a few other ways. It's beautiful, beautifully made. Beautifully made.

Soundtrack's amazing. Everything they do in the world is incredible, except freaking robot-faced Jeff Bridges. We just weren't there yet. We just didn't quite nail the face cap stuff. It just was bad. I saw somebody did a side-by-side deep fake of the scene where he's like talking to the big army or whatever. And it's crazy how good it looks. He looked like a rubber monkey in the first, or in the theatrical cut.

But whoever did the deep fake on the internet. made him look legit Jeff Bridges young and it was it was really cool so that's cool anyway maybe that had fixed the whole thing for me I don't know all right uh Monday morning mashup time yeah that's right you came here for it you got it it's a mashup from Jamie who put this together uh he calls this one deal on a deal though so deal on a deal comma though I don't deal on a deal though deal on a deal though deal though deal though yeah You remember I talk about dildo. I kind of remember when this happened, but we'll find out more when I play, so enjoy.

I've actually had some air come out of my butt in a loud, eruptuous manner. Does that mean I'm dying? Yeah, what is that me? Arupulous. We had daylight savings. Me, me, me. I can't wait for the next expansion when the first boss in the first raid is going to kill you with mouth noises.

Oh, my God. You're up behind a pillar. Some of the stuff you're about to see is a little racist and insensitive. Enjoy. They should do it that way. I always thought of him as a bit of a shaved down seal, like just no body hair kind of guy. Well, he's got a hairy butt. Very hairy butt.

If you've seen devil's advocate, you know what I'm talking about. Just a bad gut to see John's Wick. Yeah. I hope you don't find a dead body. Yeah, you're part amphibian. I'm slippery when wet, is what I'm. I'm saying. Lafiel pedrague's honor, David.

Stop rubbing your balls, Scott. Stop rubbing your balls. It's my eyeballs for those at home listening. I was rubbing my eyeballs. You're going to choke on a penis. Peanut. You're going to choke out a peanut. The Steve Irwin.

Not Steve Irwin, it's the other. Now, Ibbott is rubbing his balls. What is what was the ball rubbing on this morning? We got itchy balls. What can I tell you? The Norwegian island called Spitzbergen. Of course. They have a global seed vault there where they eat.

Because you wouldn't find it on Swallowsburg. No, it's only on Spitzburg. Man, that's terrible that it's Spitzbergen. I'm not cut either. No. Brian's is so big, he puts a zipper in it and keeps changing it. That's how big his little purse bag is. Just kidding. Anyway, hey, Nicole, it's good to be here.

Oh, my goodness. A pantsless Florida man was arrested yesterday after police spotted him plaguing himself, as my dad would say, with a pickle while on a private premises. Was it a dill, though? His flight, was it a dill though? Yeah, he got a real deal on it. No, not his flight. Not a deal, though.

The pickle that he was pleasuring himself with. Was it a dill though? Oh. Did he get a good price on the pickle? Is that what you're saying? A deal, though? Is that what you're saying? A deal, though?

Are you going straight to dill-do? I'm saying a dill, like a dill pickle. Oh, I get it now, a dildo. Jeez, Louise. All of those jokes made me laugh. All of them. Now I remember. I couldn't get deal and dill worked out in my head.

Dillville. Yeah, Dillville. Now it all makes sense. All right, Jamie, you did well. Good job. You have done well. Hey, that's it for the show. Boy, that's a weird disease to have.

I'll say a thing and realize it sounds like an old film sack clip or something, and then I'll remember it. This guy that says those words I just said, let me find it. You have done well. Hold on. Done well. Oh, I have to have this. Yeah, here it is. I just thought of this guy, but for no reason.

Please forgive my late arrival. No, no. You have done well. I can't get that guy. Is that weird? Just have that pop into your head? That's weird. Yeah, I don't know if it's a disease or a, uh, just the way our brains work.

We've done this to ourselves. Yeah, we've done this to ourselves. Anyway, thanks for that, Jamie. We appreciate it. You can find him on Twitter at TMS mashups. and you can find us at Morningstream, Scott Johnson and Coverville. Don't forget, you can support us at patreon.com slash TMS. And also hop on to that new newsletter I did.

I put up a rice bowl recipe today. Oh, that recipe looks amazing. I'm making that this week. It's so good. Carter makes these almost every day, and they're fantastic. She could open a cafe that sold these. They're so good. So anyway, we put up the recipe online, and it was free,

and you don't have to do anything special to get it. Just go sign up for the newsletter, frogpants. dot club c lubb dot c lub and uh sign up today okay that's it brian not gonna not gonna lie um now the the newsletter bug might be hitting me after seeing you tom just and stephen you should do it do a coverville one because i do so many different shows between a and tp and soundography and film sac and this it's like all right i want to direct people to that and the other things that i'm working on so totally should i would sign i would sign for another newsletter in your life, people, stay tuned.

I will sign up for Brian's Gazette, for sure. Coverville Times, Picayune, Gazette, Telegraph, Repository. And after the repository, after the show, I'll send you a recommendation on the stuff to use that I really like a lot. Yeah, it's very good. Nice. All right, let's get to a request. By the way, speaking of soundography, brand new episode went up today.

It is hair metal from 1981 to 1991. This was the point at which Hammond, Hammond, and my tastes converged and then separate it again into what we liked before and what we like now. So stick around for that. That'll be, oh, cover letter. J.K. Grammer, I kind of like that. Oh, that's not bad. That's really good.

Oh, man. Not bad at all. I might have to give them a little bit of credit on that one, a little bit of finder's feet. Give them a by line every week. Right, exactly. Name by J.K. Gramer. All right. So anyway, soundartrophy.com if you're into the hair metal, you want to hear us talk about it.

Let's talk about a request going out to Ewan, who says, as you play this, I should hopefully be halfway through my first day of work since April of last year. The last four years have had some of the best highs, like marrying the love of my life, just a few weeks after lose my job because of COVID. We also got a two of one adopting our fur babies. I request this sum as take, be good. Request this some as take, be good, too, but also gives me hope for the future. That's the important part. Hope for the future. Can I get a nice, see why you like it in honor of Morgan, my wife, how I subject her to TMS on long car journeys.

Of course. I can definitely see why you like it. Take that, Morgan. Text the speech. It's a thing. Or speech to text. It's a thing, folks. And it's here to stay.

Ewan, I've got a request. The request you had was Hacey Dixie's cover of Brian Adams' summer of 69. Great suggestion. And this is from their album, Hair Down to My Grass from 2015. It's a bluegrass cover of Brian Adams, Summer of 69. Awesome. We'll see you guys tomorrow for another episode of TMS. I got my first real six string, born and after five and nine.

Played it till my fingers bled Was the summer of 69 Me and some guys from school Had a man that we're charred real hard Jimmy quit Showed he got married But I should have known We never get far

Oh and look back now The summer's seen the last forever Oh, and if I had a choice Yeah, I'd always want to be that Those were the best days of my life Ain't know you're still complaining When you got a job to do Been an evening's down at the driving

And that's when I'm many in a lot Standing on your mama's porch You told me that it lasts forever Hold on when you held my hand I knew that it was no or never Those were the best days of my life Oh yeah Back in the summer of 609

Oh Man, we were killing time We were young and restless We needed to unwind I guess nothing could last forever Forever Now the times are changing. Look at everything that's come and gone.

Sometimes when I play that old six-string, make up that you want to walk, went wrong. Standing on your mama's porch, It told me that you're white forever. Oh, but when you held my hand, I knew that it was now or never Those were the best days of my life Oh yeah

Back in the summer of 69 It was the summer of 69 Oh yeah Me and my baby in 69 Oh This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at FrogPants. This is Hannah Burner from Giggly Squad.

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