The Morning Stream - TMS 2130: Hidden Pillow Ranch

Episode Date: June 15, 2021

Batman Would Totally Eat The Mona Lisa. Tears For Elderly Fears? That Guy With Speakers Lied. It's definitely not Mego... Actually, it's Mego. Hail Caesar the Fourth. It was a Salad piñata. Phloo the gum across the car. He Needs a Publix Defender! Are Parking Lot speakers Better Than Parking Lot Tacos? I like Wario, he's a dick. Batman In The Red Hood. Do you have the complete history of this mannequin? Are Dave Matthews and his band still a thing? For Justin was an Oily Man 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.

Coming up on TMS, Batman would totally eat the Mona Lisa. Tears for elderly fears? That guy with speakers lied. Definitely not Migo. Actually, it's Migo. Hail Caesar the 4th. It was a salad pinata. Flew the gum across the car.

He needs a public's defender. Our parking lot speakers are better than parking lot tacos. Yeah, there's an extra R in there. I like Wario. He's a dick. Batman, in the Red Hood. Do you have the complete history of this mannequin? Are Dave Matthews and his band still a thing?

Or Justin was an oily man? and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. If I allow myself to go down into that place, I'll never come back. You waxed your anus. Yeah, you may have noticed a theme there today, a little bit of a theme. I don't know, Brian, if you missed any of this yesterday. Did you miss any of the Batman talk yesterday?

That was going on? I missed all of the Batman talk yesterday. Oh, this was quite the, quite the internet sensation for a hot few hours. I saw Adam West was trending. Is there something related to that? It is related to that. Okay. So I'll tell you the brief story.

Okay. It turns out some information leaked, or was it, not leaked, but someone said that while they were working on that Harley Quinn show, which is, you know, it's a little racy, that show. By all accounts, I hear it's excellent. I hear it's good, too. The one that's on HBO Macs, right? And I definitely want to see it, but I haven't seen it yet. But apparently it's, you know, racy, it's got the swears. They're not afraid to get real violent and gross.

And it's just one of those shows, all right? So it's not your typical D.C. animation. This one is very adult. And in it, there was meant to be a scene originally. I won't get into too much gritty detail here. But there was a scene where Batman, you know, Bruce Wayne, was going to perform a certain act on Catwoman. Okay. All right. And something related to, I don't know, the cat and Catwoman? Kind of, sort of. And, uh, well, 100% yes. And so the way the story goes, the way the story was told is, um, the people, uh, who were going, you know, they'd put this in there and presented it to, let's go into the Batcave.

He presented it to D.C. And D.C. said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Batman doesn't, Batman doesn't do that, they said. But it was the exact quote is Batman doesn't do that. Oh, really? Okay. And their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their take was, I think. No wonder he's an unmarried bachelor. To me, it rings, I don't think it's that crazy because basically it's like saying, hey, we're going to put Mickey Mouse in a really position that nobody's seen in me before. And it's not great, it's not great for selling toys. It's not great for pushing lines that are meant for kids.

Like, I understand their reaction. Okay, I get it. Absolutely. But in their, in this case, it's like, it became this immediate meme that Batman would never do that. So that audio I played for you that was Batman, I'm going to play it one more time. But if I do that, if I allow myself to go down into that place, I'll never come back. That's from the Red Hood animated series, D.C. thing. And that was posted by the DC animated official account.

So Warner Brothers is basically leaning into it, you know, a little bit. Yes. And there was just nonstop talk all day and jokes and memes about bad. Batman, what he would or wouldn't do, uh, why Bruce Wayne such a selfish lover, these sorts of things. Right. And so I couldn't help it today. I couldn't help do that. Oh, that's a hilarious one. Yeah, that's a great. Now that I know the context, that quote's hilarious. Yeah, the quote's great. And, uh, of course, you know, Fletcher with his, uh, with his Batman. I had to put that in there as well. Batman. Anyway, so now we've done it. We've talked about it and we're, we're moving on.

But it was never ending. It just went on and on. In fact, I'm sure it'll happen more today, but if you, if you, Brian, start noticing on Twitter or other social channels that that's still a thing, you'll, you'll know why now. Yeah, I got burned because I saw, oh, Ripley is trending. Oh, maybe they're announcing a new Ripley, uh, uh, movie or something like that. And it was just people basically talking about, you know, you've got, you're, you're, uh, in danger. You've got one of these four women to save you, and it's, uh, Black Widow, um, uh, who

else. Let's see. Oh, my God. Why can't I remember the other two of them? Well, one of them is Ripley, right? One of them is Ripley. Right, Ripley. Oh, uh, Sarah Connor. Okay. And I can't remember. I think the fourth one was Milo Jovovich's character from Resident Evil, if I remember correctly. Okay. I'd still take, I'd take Ripley.

I'd take Ripley too. You know, if your name is not John Connor, you're not getting any help from Sarah. That's it. I would totally take her. Nice to Mano said she's a company woman. No, she's not. She freaking hates the company. She fights the company. Yeah, exactly. She's not into it. As we saw recently in our rewatching of Alien,

if people would have listened to Ripley right at the beginning, yeah, nothing bad would have happened. Yeah, that review that lady gave out was great. It was, um, uh, that's a movie about a smart lady that no one listened to, and the only person that survived is the smart lady. Right, yes, exactly. Think of that.

Yeah. So anyway, yeah, I'd take that. If we break quarantine, we could, all die. Well, I'll tell you what, it had a weird knock-on effect because I went and read, I'm reading this White Knight series on the app, sorry, the DC app. So it's a Batman series. And now this is just, like the last night, I'm like, oh, I can't look at you Batman for,

I can't look at you. You're just, you're over here on this screen acting all serious. But all I can think about is you and your catwoman problem. That's all I could think about while I was reading that comic. So internet, cut it out. let's quit talking about Batman let's move on all right

let's move the hell on let's move on uh all right a couple recommendations or one anyway we went to the Asian store and bought I was going to bring it down here and I forgot um

we bought this Korean barbecue seaweed strips is the best way I can describe it it's all in Korean on there so I don't know what they actually call it but um

it looks like oh do I have it here Dang it, I don't. Maybe I do. Oh, maybe I do. I do. All right. I have a package that I ate.

Okay. Oh, so it's like a dried snack. Yeah, like a dried snack. You've seen these before, another, probably other kinds. I've gotten seaweed. I think I've got one right. Here's a matter of fact. Oh, yeah, you go in there.

Look at us with the seaweed handy. The handy seaweed. Yep. Oh, it does say crispy sea snack. This is the Trader Joe's organic with sea salt. Oh, those. Those are good. Yes, we have some of those as well. So we get these from this place.

They're supposed to be legit, like, from Korea. I don't know if they really are. Who that frick knows. You put a few Korean characters on there, and I'm supposed to believe you, I guess. I don't know. Well, it's from Korea, Scott, because of the letter K in front of the letters, BBQ. There you go. Yeah.

Exactly. So, anyway, these are really good, super good, flavory, tastes like Korean barbecue. It's a good thing. I'm not crazy, or I just eat them all day, and then I'd have the. runs for a week, but they're really good. So I just wanted to recommend them. If you have an Asian market near you, this is called, the brand is Wang Korea. Everybody Wang Korea tonight.

Everybody Wang Korea tonight and eat some barbecue, crispy sea snack, Korean barbecue flavored seaweed. That's very good. All right. Sounds good. Highly recommend it. So there's that. I put that back in the trash where it belongs. I fish that out of the trash.

It's not something I'm used to doing. It was on top. Now, secondly, if I told you that my wife and I had a bad incident last night with involving a pillow and salad, what would you think? What would you say when I say that? Oh, no. Are you saying that Kim tossed your salad? I was afraid it would go there, but no, it didn't happen. Here's what happened.

So, Kim's on the phone with my daughter, Taylor, talking about plans for the weekend or something. they're going to do another trip to the farmer's market or something like that. I don't know what it was, but I'm outside. The sun is now no longer, the backyard is shaded and it's awesome. I'm sitting in one of those anorondack chairs and just chilling. It's hot out, but it's not, you know, we're out of the sun. And so I'm like, I'm eating out here tonight. And Kim made this amazing, like, chili stuff and a big beautiful salad full of all sorts of crazy greens,

which I'm a huge fan of all the mixed greens. I like that. and so we're outside and I got the bowl over here on the on the armrest of chili thing and then over here on my leg I have my salad sitting there okay I got a fork in there and I'm sort of going back and forth and Carter's sitting in the chair next to me and we're chatting and the dogs are out and they're just laying and chewing their toys and stuff it's just a perfect serene nice night you know I'm done with Resident Evil I can just like relax with my family nothing no nothing to worry about on the horizon yeah and I haven't eaten you know for a while so I'm

starving so it's just perfect it's just this perfect moment and I'm sitting there and all the sudden out of nowhere my wife who's still on the phone with her left hand which means it's not the coordinated hand she's a right hander she takes a whole pillow like one of the outside throw pillows style pillows which are kind of big and thick they're like a hard like the Outside of those pillows are almost like, I don't know, like camping fabric because they're outdoor pillows. Right. Because they have to be weather resistant and that sort of thing. Right. She takes this thing and for some reason, which I now know what it was. She was aiming it at the dog because she's mad at the rainer for begging. And I didn't even see Rainer begging. I didn't see her. So she takes this pillow and just left hand lobs it and misses the dog completely. hits me at full force and this salad explodes all over me

ranch dressing everywhere oh no now all three dogs are running around trying to get fragments you know like yeah the begging paid off it did it actually did they just waded me out and it worked but I got like dressing all over me

lettuce everywhere Carter was like flabbergasted she couldn't believe what she was seeing and now Kim is trying to still have a phone conversation and be all serious face over there, even though she had done what she had done, but she can't help but start cracking up. And I'm just annoyed.

I'm just covered in stuff. Yeah, your salad's gone. Yeah, my salad's gone. My salad's gone. And then Ripley's licking my pants. That's no good. She's a wimeriner. She's giant.

She's got a tongue the size of a human head. So, anyway, I guess the point is, I don't know what the lesson here is. It's just don't let your wife throw pillows. of things? I don't know. I guess. What's the takeaway? What would you have done? Tina tosses this pillow, throw salad all over you, do you laugh, do you get mad,

what do you do? Obviously, I mean, it's me. Come on, of course I laugh. But it'll be preceded by a few expletives and a look at her while she's on the phone of one of these. Yeah, like, what was that? What are you doing? Which is what I did. I was looking at her going, really?

Are we really? What did happened? But then I'll laugh. Yeah. Then you'll laugh it off. Well, that's what I did. So I guess we, I guess it all went the way it was supposed to. Man. Yeah.

We don't really, I mean, I guess Daisy begs sometimes, but she really just, she waits until we're done eating. And then she just scours the floor of the kitchen at the table where we eat and never finds anything. She found something once, maybe five years ago. And ever since then, thinks, oh, this will be the day. This will be the day that I find something on the floor. Yeah. I can eat, but, um, uh, yeah, she's not much of a beggar. She's a, she's a scavenger. Oh, scavenging and begging very different. There's a good line. Very different things,

exactly. Uh, so, so I feel like part of this, the look in her face was almost like all those times you pulled my emergency break when I told you not to him. I'm getting back to that. This is her way of getting back. Now, good thing was the salad and not the chili though, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like, I was grateful for that. Like, there was a silver lining. I was like, well, this could be on my lap instead of this. But then again, I got like, you know, oily milk freaking. Yeah, ranch dressing isn't. But they were shitty shorts, so it's not that big a deal.

Like, it was fine. It was fine. So it's all okay in the end. You can just wash them. Here's the other thing, though. I've never told anyone this, I don't think. I'll may bring it up again on skim, but she has this thing she does with me that I think is more annoying than all the things I've ever done to her, which is in the car. If she's driving or not, it doesn't matter.

She could be driving. I could be driving. she could be in the passenger seat doesn't matter as long as she is the only thing that where it would be weird is she was in the back seat but she's never back there so here's what she does she will be chewing gum gum will be getting old we'll be flinging down some highway whatever and she'll roll down my window my window your window my window well which makes sense okay okay so mine across way across from her where i am yes she'll roll down that window and then she'll go and spin her gum right past my eyeballs just right now is she driving in the right lane uh yeah uh oh good question because in other words like if she would roll down her window if she's in the right lane and she rolls down her window and throws the gum out there's the chance that it's going to kind of fly up and hit the car behind her hit the car next to her that sort of thing right but if but if she's in the right lane and she's in the right lane and

does that then yeah it goes into the side of the road and not a big deal not a big deal right and she's you know i wish i could say i don't know if gum is very biodegradable or not but you know putting aside the literacy stories we learned in middle school are correct seven years is how long gum lasts before it dissolves and biodegrades even in a at least in your stomach yeah and your acidic stomach somehow it lasts seven years imagine in a open area who knows i guess not and it's probably littering i'm i'm not here to judge her for that what i'm judging her for is spinning a piece of gum inches from my face while the wind rushes by. And who knows what that wind's going to do.

Right. And here's our reasoning. It's a drop of water on Jeff Goldblum's hand is what it is. I mean, that thing could go any direction. Exactly. Now, here's what she says is her reason for doing it. She says she does it for two reasons. One, if she went her side, there's a better chance of it blowing back because it's just right there where the window is.

and at least with my, with the distance, she, and her theory is she has more momentum on the gum. So the gum's not going to whip back. I disagree with that. I feel like, uh, it loses, it's losing momentum every second that, or every millisecond that it's traveling. It's not gaining momentum. It's losing momentum.

Right. It's not going to hit, exactly. It's not going to hit like freaking terminal velocity because she's across from me. It's not going to happen. Right. Exactly. Yes. So anyway, that's number one.

Number two, she just likes to annoy me. And that's her way. So I guess what I'm saying is, should I feel, so bad about the emergency break pop noise thing no no i don't think so not after this yeah plus parasol drop it i'm not worried kim and i live together i'm not worried about that if she look during this whole covid it's it was an issue for these two then it would it would have reared it's ugly a long time oh yeah we'll share in whatever disease is floating around it's fine and we'll if she has if she had um if she had buffalo wings sauce on her fingers though would you

lick it off. Oh, you want an honest answer? Yes. I think I, oh, under what circumstance would I want to do that? I don't think so. I don't think I could. I can't do that. Anyone's hand.

Like even like little, when my kids were tiny, like little babies, they're just perfect little beans of humanity. and you can just like, you know, one of their hands is in your mouth, you play a game with them, ah, you know, whatever. Big deal. Yeah, yeah, of course. But even then, the minute you put barbecue sauce on their hand, I don't think I can do that either, dude.

Wow. I can't even lick my own. I can't even lick my own. I mean, I guess it's, you licked your own before you licked hers, probably. I don't think I could do it. Is anyone else like me that way? There's got to be someone else. It can't just be me that's weird about that.

Right. I'm sure. Oh, yeah, absolutely. There's going to be people out there. I don't even know why it's gross. I don't even think it's that gross. I don't know why I don't like it. Is it a texture thing?

Is it the fingers or? I don't know. I don't know. So there's a, this will have a little bit of story set up, but I finish doing all of the eight millimeter films to get ready for this weekend. The Family Union weekend, I've got a whole folder full of videos that I need to move over to my laptop so that I can show them on the big TV that we have at our air and B&B. Airbnb.

I've moved on to doing cassettes for my mom because I still have a video converter set up here. Yeah. So I'm going through and finding, like, she basically has a bunch of old Carnival Cruise videos. One of them has me doing karaoke in 1991. Oh, my gosh. I've got to find. That's crazy. Wow.

Wow. And have not found it yet. I'm crossing my fingers that I can find it. That's great. I need to do... I was doing a shout by, well, not the Isley Brothers version, but the Otis Day and the Nights version from Animal House. Wait, this song...

Oh, shout. No, no, no, no, no, shout. Yeah, a little bit louder now. A little bit louder now. That one. It's not the same shout I grew up with. Yeah, as opposed to Tears for Fears, which have been really popular on a cruise ship full of the elderly.

I can't even picture it. There's all the things I can do without. Come on. I did the Avenge sevenfold version or whoever. I know there's somebody heavy that does a cover of it. Anyway, so I'm going through these tapes. One of these tapes, my mom used to work for a travel agency. Yeah. And that's actually how we went on a couple of these crews.

It's got really good deals. And, um, but one of the tapes that I recorded was a promotional tape for the, the carnival ecstasy, I think is what it's called. And this thing is 1987, 88. Oh, was disturbed. Okay. I wasn't thinking I was, I was thinking, was disturbed. Oh, yeah, a shout did disturb, or sorry, disturbed a doucheat, right.

Um, anyway, so like late 80s and this tape is as 80s as hell. It is like a promo video that you. would show somebody to entice them to come on the cruise, but only travel agents would have this. They, you know, say, well, you know, there's always a cruise if you'd like to kind of get out and see, see, uh, see, uh, the world, but only, uh, the place is close to water. And, uh, you'd like to live on a big floating hotel with Legionaire's disease. This is the travel option for you.

Sure. That sounds all right. So, um, it's these, it's this couple and it's the absolute cheese balliest trope couple of like, oh, that's your fourth dessert, Hal, you know, and she's like getting on his case. But he's, you know, everything's interspersed with. And on this ship, you've got these lovely amenities. And look, it's midnight buffet.

And then it cuts to them at the midnight buffet. Oh, I think I'll have another one of those. And he's licking his finger. Like, he's grabbing stuff from the, from the buffet. And then like, you know, it's a piece of pie. And he's grabbing it. And like, oh, got pie on my finger. That's really good.

And it licks his finger again. And it goes back in for crab legs or something. I'm like, oh, that's horrible. That's horrible. Yeah. See, okay, while you were telling that, that's a great story. It made me, it made me think of what circumstance I would do. Oh, what circumstance you'd lick a hot buffalo sauce off he comes finger?

Yes. Well, sort of. If it was a mannequin that I knew. that I knew complete history of. In other words, let's say a brand new manufactured mannequin,

cleaned, dip its hand in the sauce. I could lick that off there without feeling too weird about it. Whatever. It's like you're licking it off a plate. It's a piece of plastic that... Right.

That's about it. That's all I can do. If that's in the shape of the hand... So it has to be a fake finger. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know why. I can't do it.

I don't know what it is. Oh yeah. What if it was Kim Ketrell? Still, I wouldn't. What if she was mannequin? She built this city. I was thinking of that movie. Close.

Right group, wrong song. Wait, hold on. It's the other one. Nothing's going to stop us now. If you have a world that's full of lovers, we'll still have each other. Anyway. Yeah, red freggle. He says, yeah, that's just a chopstick, Scott.

basically yeah no that's a fair point i guess i'll have to think about this more i don't know yeah by the way when are we uh when are we watching mannequin for film sacs oh my lord that's a movie that that i think if uh the people are around me that i went and saw it with weren't enjoying it so much i might have walked out of oh that that you had that bad of a time such a dumb movie i feel so bad for james spader and uh andrew mccarthy kim katreli even... Kim Cottrell. Yeah.

I feel bad for all of them. Everybody involved in that. It's a terrible movie. I feel just as bad for... Andrew McCarthy, man, for as many good things as he did. You know, you're St. Elmo's fires and you're...

Less than Zero. Was he in less than Zero? I don't know. No, is that just Downey Jr. And James Spader? Who was in... Oh, pretty in Pink, of course. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Who was in Soul Man? Is that him in Soul Man? No, let's see Thomas Howell. Oh, Soul Man was difficult. Yeah. yes yes but uh no you know weekend at bernie's uh mannequin uh we really we really for a while there with um 80s comedy just just gave up right just decided to pander to the uh the lowest common denominator yeah and chat we're sorry we are saying katrell we mean katrall we get it we know we know

it's katrall oh amy he was in less than zero so we were it was who was the what was jamie gerts right So it's Jamie Gertz, Robert Downey, Jr. And James Spader was the drug dealer. I don't remember this at all. Why don't we not remember this? Less than zero movie. Less than zero? Is that right?

Less than zero. 1987. Okay. Well, this is not, I can't believe I've never heard of this. It's like if John Hughes decided to do an after-school special. Oh, that kind of done. It's written after a book, and it's a, A really good book, apparently, by Brett Eastonel.

I've never read the book. But Tina did. She loves this movie. It's also the movie that gave us going back to Cali, I think, was a soundtrack feature. Oh, Anthony Keatis and Fleer are in that. Of course they are. Probably as drug dealers. Yeah, they are.

Well, no, it says they're bandmates, but some fake band. Yeah. So there's that. All right. Well, what a, what a, that sounds tempting. terrible. I don't want to see that ever. I don't want to see that. So Squids Mix tape, are you thinking about saved by zero by the fix?

Because this movie was named after the Elvis Costello song, less than zero. Oh. Erronica. That guy, yeah. That guy, yes. I don't believe there's any connection to the fix. No.

But the, unless it were like, they said saved by zero as an alternative. Maybe they did. Yeah. You never know. They did. You never know. But there's, there have been a lot of movies named after Elvis Costello songs, haven't there? Have there? Less than zero.

Deep impact. I came up with a, I had a whole, I guess the connection that was Elvis Costello songs that were also movies. I said deep impact, but I know that's not true. Let's see. He did. Oh, yeah, that's right. Hasey Shade of Window by the Bengals is on that soundtrack too.

Oh, I like that song. That might be my favorite. Bangle song. The rest of it was too commercial. I really like that song. Yeah. Yeah. It was good. Uh, all right. Well, enough of that. Let's do this. Lemonade. Seriously, if you've ever heard Elvis Costello talk, he says Elvis Custello is one of those fake voice effects that great on me. If you've ever heard Elvis Custello talk, you'd know that that's not, there's nothing fake about that voice. That is... Fake vocal effects. What is he talking about? His fake voice effects. Like, basically, he puts, he does an affectation with his voice that is,

is, um, uh, yeah, is, is fake. You know, I'd say, uh, Dave Matthews is the biggest offender of, of fake voice affectation. What does he do? He wakes up in the morning. Oh, yeah. I'm supposed to work and ask him by home.

Hi, I'm Dave Matthews. And he'll never does off. Uh, I, I, 100% agree. Lennon, 100% disagree Lennonade that he lays it on thick. I don't think he lays it on thick at all. It's just his voice. It's genuine, but it's a, you know,

if you don't like his voice, you don't like his voice. Yeah, it's what makes him Elvis Costello, though. That's his voice. Exactly. Yep. The Dave Matthews thing is great. I haven't thought about him in a long time. Are they still a band? Him and his band.

Are they? I think so. Yeah, I think so. All right. I feel like that's, uh, I feel like that ended in the 90s, but I guess not. Dave Matthew's band. Here they are.

still rocking it says in the 2010s we got the uh what was their last album okay we got uh it doesn't say okay oh 2018 there was an album uh come come tomorrow and before that away from the world in 2012 so it's been you know spotty spoty i still think of uh anytime you say davy matthews i think of uh jeremy piven i don't know why why. I connect those two guys every time. Yeah, you know what? Could they look alike? Yeah, that might be it. It might be it. I just think of Jeremy Piven. And when I see Jeremy Piven, I think of Dave Matthews. That's just the way it is. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're, uh, you're not wrong. I'm not wrong. All right, check this out. Yes.

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Courage the cowardly dog I mean it's all over the place It's all over the place Sometimes it's comic book Sometimes it's movies Sometimes it's toys It's great And yeah years ago

I, like years and years and years ago, I got on eBay and bought a big box. It was like basically a lot of miscellaneous micronauts pieces. Oh, wow. And got this thing, laid them all out on the table. And from that $20-30 box, I was able to put together about eight complete toys. Wow. You still have them? You have these?

I do still have them, yeah, yeah. because my original box got thrown away when I went to college. Oh, college. My parents threw them. Parental stuff throw away college stuff. I hate that. Everyone's got a story like that.

I hate it. My Mad Magazines. Oh. Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah. I had so many. And they were all, oh, whatever.

Now, I don't want to think about it. Yeah, don't think about it. Forget about it. Just move on, move on. I'm going to shut eBay later for Mad Magazines. All right. There you go. Well, well done.

Yours might be up there. They might be up there. Yeah. someone else is selling my shit bastards all right check this out uh a public's customer you don't have those that's a south we do not have publics yeah yeah the southern deal pubics pubics a puppet of the pubics anyway uh public's customers hit man with boxes and sausages after he stabbed an employee look at that look at the look at the crowd sourced uh redemption happening there right so much stuff public's customers hit man with boxes like it was a group of customers hit

man with boxes of sausages after he stabs an employee. This happened in North Miami, Florida. There you go. All right, next story. At the supermarket, they hit a man on the head with a box of sausages after he, oh, it was boxes of sausages, not boxes and. Okay. After he allegedly stabbed an employee in the neck multiple times, geez, Alan Pierre

Luis, H32 from Miami, Florida allegedly waited outside of the public supermarket located on a certain place. His name was not Jimmy Dean? Damn, I'm really fond. Dane, trying to get revenge for the off brand they're carrying. Let's see, on Tuesday for more than an hour while they waited for employees to arrive from work, according to the North Miami Police Department. The police alleged that Pierre Luis, Luis, Louis, then spotted the victim in the meat department, located in the back of the store, quickly walked over to him carrying a yellow

towel and a large knife and went, he, he, got him in the neck, and then some early morning customers were like, not on our watch. Yeah, well, we've got these boxes of size. That's right. They're frozen. Take that, you bastard. And they fought them off. And the good news is the victim is doing okay. And we'll recover from their stabbage. That's pretty rough, though. You don't want to get stabbed because, you know, you hit arteries and stuff. Yeah. That's what I've learned. That's a guy that I wouldn't want to meet in a supermarket. No, meat in the meat department. I don't want to meet. Thank you very much. Meet him. You got that. Yeah, I got it. That's pretty good. Oh, Bobby Franks used to work at a Publix when he was in school. Let's see what he says about it. He says it has a great story about a public's manager who ran down a guy trying to steal crab legs. Chaste him and tackled him down on the street.

And after getting a ride on the back of a pickup truck from some rednecks that were parked in front of the store. Bobby, why don't you just send our news in and we'll just read your news? Let's do that. Bobby Franks. Florida News. No, he's not in Florida. He's in North Carolina. Sorry, South Carolina.

South Carolina. Yeah. The dumber one. Just kidding. That's terrible to say. Oh, gosh. I say that because I have two friends that live there and I'm giving them a hard time. Plus, Chad, you're listening.

You know, you know, it's just fun. It's a fun little poke. Bobby agrees. He says it is. It is, yeah. All right. I kid. Where's Duke?

Uh-huh. There's your answer. A man with 39 rhymes with knives, wives. There's no good transition. Nice segue. Nice segue. A man with 39 wives, head of the world's largest family in the world, died in India.

He's an Indian guy. Aw. Yeah. A 76-year-old man had 39 wives, 94 children, and was said to be the head of the world's largest family, died in the northeast side of India, probably from exhaustion.

Yeah, I would, I mean, 94 kids. I don't know how much contact you have with them, but holy crap. I bet he does what Batman doesn't. I'll tell you, I'll tell you what. Although 39, you don't even have enough days of the month to have everyone get their own day.

Right. Yeah, no, this was the big love series. This was the big love pitch that didn't work. Well, that show was good. Zianna Chana, the head of the local Christian sect there that allows for polygamy, died on Sunday. Zoram Thanga, the chief minister of Mizoram. And also who goes by one name said in a tweet. Okay, so this is this Mizorum person is called just Mazurum.

Anyway, with a total of 167 members of the family, the family is the world's largest, according to the local media. Although this depends on whether you count the grandchildren, of which he has 33. Geez. Why wouldn't you count the grandkids? You may as well, put them in there. Yeah. Count the whole deal? Depends on if you count the grandchildren as part of the family.

I mean, I don't know if they're all living in the same compound. I think you count everybody. Yeah, geez. Hold on, we have a visitor. Let's see what we got here. on. Speaking of little grandchildren. Come here, buddy.

Aw. Let's see how much hair he has now. Hi. What do you have? He still, he still hovers in. Do you want to say anything to everybody? What do you want to say? What's this?

Hold on. What's this? Tino. Oh, it's a dino. Oh, he's got a dino. That's weird. I say that because he's obsessed with dinosaurs. Here, thanks.

I'll see him soon. I didn't know. coming today. Bye-bye. Well, this looks like we've got time for jury today. Hey, thanks. That's our show, everybody.

Let's spend time with man moment. It's brought to you by the rest of the show. All right, let's see. So anyway, that guy died. We don't know what they're going to do. Oh, he had a private bedroom in this place. Holy crap. Well, I mean, you would have had to, right?

I guess so. You mean, there was just for him, like, to get some sleep without 39 wives? I guess so. I don't know. I mean, at that age, you know, you're probably not. I don't know. You guys still making the babies?

Maybe you are. I don't know what you do. How old are his wives? We don't know that. Anyway. He is going to, he'll be missed by his. I hope they had money.

That's a lot of people. I hope you had money. At some point, those 39 wives have to start taking care of each other, right? Brian is still, Brian's still on that hole. How are they all going to satisfy?

themselves sexually. That's right, exactly. Where's Batman now, is what I'd say. Right. All right. There's a petition going out right now. I like this a lot. Literally a petition.

Urging Jeff Bezos, former CEO and current founder of Amazon. He's not the CEO anymore. Do you know that? They got a new guy. Do you know that? Yeah, we talked about it with Tom a couple weeks ago. Yeah, I never remember his name.

It's not as memorable as Bezos. Yep. I think his name translated means you have to go to talk to Congress all the time. I don't have to do that anymore. Right, yes, exactly. But anyway, a petition is now urging Jeff Bezos to buy and eat the Mona Lisa. And there are a lot of signatures on this thing. So this is a petition that want, they want him to eat it.

And it's gotten what this article calls hundreds of signatures. I'm not sure I'd call that a lot, but not on the internet time we're living in. Anyway, nobody has eaten the Mona Lisa. and we feel Jeff Bezos needs to take a stand and make this happen, says the petition. Went up a year ago on Change.org and has gained hundreds of signers Thursday reads.

Batman would eat the Mona Lisa. Batman would totally eat the Mona Lisa. I mean, it does seem like an Elon Musk thing, but also I think somebody said, I think, I could be wrong on this. If you were to ask me who, which, you know, internet celebrity would eat the Mona Lisa, would buy and eat the Mona Lisa

be Schrelly. Does he have enough money though? Martin Schrelly? He doesn't have enough money. He doesn't have enough money. I don't know if he does anymore. He did it one time. Yeah, but you didn't have billions. Instead of buying that Wutan clan album, he could have bought the Mona Lisa. Because my guess is you're going to pay, if you could buy the Mona Lisa, you're going to pay multiple

billions. Exactly. So, I don't think Schrelli was ever in the running. They should just make one out of a peptide cake and make you meet that one. There you go. A peptide cake. where you go a telephone in data's chest or whatever. That's right, exactly. I remember that.

It is currently in the Louvre in Paris and is owned by the French government, so you'd have to fight them for it, I suppose. I think he took the top slot again over. Oh, really? Yeah, I think he's now richest man again. He keeps him and Elon Musk keep going back and forth for some reason. He also made news recently for not only being worth $200 billion, dollars, but

having a plan to take his 11 minute trip to space in the Blue Origin's first crew flight scheduled for July 20th. There's a lot sooner than you think, and they got one guy going with him who won the auction to go. He had to, the auction, or he won or so he had, he has to pay $28,000

or, excuse me, $28 million just to go up there for 10 minutes. I guess if you had the money and $28 million meant nothing to you, would you? I mean, hey, okay. It'd have to be longer than $11,000. minutes. I want, if I'm paying that much, I want to go to the, I want to go to the space station.

I want to go to the ISS. Well, I don't think they have any way to do that yet, or do they? Well, I guess they do because they take people up there. Not with this, not with this rocket. Right. So if I said to you, though, okay, so let's say I'm Elon Musk, or I'm Jeff Bezos. I come to you. Sure. And I say, Brian, we can get you on this flight to 10 minutes in space. You are currently worth $2 billion. Okay. We just like you to take a measly 28 million from that and if i'm worth two i'm worth two billion you say yeah yeah i'd do it you do it for that you do it for that because it's like chump change at that point right it's like it's all relative based on the um uh and it's 2.8 million right it's not 28 million oh i thought it was 28 million

did i have that no 2.8 million oh that's not bad no i totally do that for 2.8 million it's also going to charity um that's important to note that money's not being what all right what thing what uh collectible that you have, perhaps right around you or in another room, what collectible would you reluctantly trade for an 11-minute trip to space? Would it have to be one I really like, or can it just be... That's the word reluctant, because it can't just be, well, yeah, I'd give my, you know, my solar-powered stitch-bobber, you know, I'd say, you know, that'd be too easy. But it's got to be something you'd be like, oh, it'd be so hard to part with it.

But I would do it to go up in the space for... I don't know. Probably that fist and gun thing. What's his name made? Andrew made for... Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, because that is one of a kind. Yeah, probably that.

I love that thing. I'll never let that go. So, yes, I think that would be the one I would trade. I mean, if I had to reluctantly do it, I'd probably do that. What would you give? we both looked back at all of our shite look at all this what would I send

I swear I would not trade the Tempest machine that that's a no about the Vectrix I'd do the Vectrix that's good because that would be I would be I'd struggle with that I would too yeah if I had one I would struggle with that

that would be hard I would love to get a Vetrix I'm seeing them online, good ones. If they're in good condition with the controllers and, like, working condition, they're like two grand. If they're broken, they're like 600. Yeah. Yeah, this one still plays, and I can, I've got a bunch of cartridges, and I can still play it. Have I played it in the last year?

No, I have not played it in the last year. How many times have you played it? You probably played it when you first got it a little bit. I played it a lot when I first got it. I played every, every cartridge, but mostly Star Castle. I love Star Castle. Star Castle is so great. That is the game.

That's the game that's made for the vector. I mean, come on. It's like it has to be. I put a lot of quarters in Starcastle. After that first couple weeks, since then, like if we say since then, how much have I played it? Maybe three times since that first initial week. Well, this is what we do with our collectibles. We put them down. We let them collect us, but we have them.

You know, we have them. Yeah. Yeah, that article. All right, so Fox News has the article wrong, by the way. So it is $28 million, but this article we have says the highest bid to join Bayes on the short flight is 2.8 million. So they screwed up. But apparently it is 28, yes. So Fox News.

Getting it wrong. Usually the most accurate of the news sources. Well, I'm told they're fair and balanced. That's what I've heard. That's right. Exactly. Yeah, 28 million. Thank you for all of you. Thank you for all of you who in all caps said 28 million. Thank you, all of you.

Well, I'm just glad to know I wasn't going crazy because I swore I read that somewhere, but I guess so. Yeah. So I wasn't going to say. Well, it all goes to charity, so that's cool. So that is a nice side of it. But 10 minutes in space is, I don't know, I think I'd rather have 10 minutes in heaven. What was that called? Seven minutes? Seven minutes in heaven, yeah. The closet game, yeah. I don't know that I ever got to participate in that. No other people I knew did. I never got to be, never got to make out with somebody.

I did once and we basically chuckled and did nothing for. seven minutes. Oh, man. I know. And that, you know, I kind of regret it. It was like, here's an opportunity for my young life to, you know, to have a great story. But you were a nice guy and you weren't like going to be all grody. I guess. That's why I think I wouldn't have done well either. I don't think I would

have. Oh, to Batman. What would Batman have done in the, in seven minutes in heaven? I mean, according to DC, nothing. He wouldn't have done anything. That's right. He just would have said, my parents, my parents, oh, my parents. Martha! Martha, why did you say that name? Yeah, that's all it would be.

All right. Oh, I'm looking to Starcastle's Wikipedia page and getting all, like, Oh, that game is so great. It is great. It was one of my favorite arcade games ever, and when it came to the Vetrix, I was like, well, of course it is,

because you can't, nobody's doing vector at home. Right, exactly. Like, this has, there's an asteroids clone on there. There's like a... It's like a battle. Of course, Lunar Lander, there's a great Lunar Lander version on there. Yeah. Isn't there like a Battlezone type game?

I don't know if I, there probably is one for it, but I don't know if I have a battle zone came for that thing. Damn. Yeah, I'm setting up a, once the, so I still have stuff set up from all the computers I had to get out, you know, to redeploy. Yeah. Because there's still quite a few that have to be redeployed. And there's five that, um, that are still either unsold. from eBay or have come back or I've gotten since. So I still have a few more to get out.

But once that stuff is out of there, then that's where all the video game stuff, the cover cave that I built with Mark Spagnolo, the Vectrax, all that stuff is going to go. And after talking with Schleiker yesterday, oh. And a listener, who helped me find it,

I picked up Marvel pinball. You found one? I found one. Oh my gosh. Guy named Ken found it online for me. And same price as buying it new, and it was new. Still mint and box, like the box, the outer box and the inner box still sealed. Set it up last night.

It's sitting over there. Marvel pinball. Cool. Look at you with your little arcade. It's so freaking fun. If you get like a whiskey bar next to it, you're set for life. You're good. I think so.

Well, it's going, like, all that's in the poker table area. So, like, there's the corner with all the comics and all the comic stuff. And then right next to it is going to be the arcade. I might move Tempest over there. That's great. Yeah. You should move, well, it's a pretty good background item, too. But, yeah.

It is a good background item, but it's, you know, it makes sense to have it all in the same place, right? I get you. All right. We're going to take a break. When we come back, Justin will be here. Got a hot new project. I think we're all going to want to hear about. and I'm excited to hear about it.

So we're going to do that in a minute. Before that, though, we've got to play some music. So do you have some music? Sure. And this is a band that I love, and I'm so glad we finally get to play them. This is a band that I heard about years ago, and I think one of their albums got recommended to me. Well, now, thanks to Dead Oceans and Grandstand Media,

I'm playing a Japanese breakfast song for you. Now, Japanese breakfast just got some love from E3 because they're doing the soundtrack to the new game Sable, which comes out September 23rd on Xbox and PC. Demo coming to PC soon. So you'll be able to hear some of that and check that out, I think, in a week or two or something. They're going to have an early demo of that thing.

Cool. Yeah. And yeah, so the band Japanese breakfast does the soundtrack to that. A couple months ago, they released the album Jubilee, and we've got permission to play. play their song Be Sweet from the song from this album. By the way, The Sims 4 Cottage Living

also comes out soon and features a version of the song you're about to hear but redone in Simlish. Oh, no way. Awesome. Awesome. That's great. So there you go. There's that as well. Here's the band Japanese Breakfast

with the song Be Sweet from their album Jubilee. Tell them and I'm coming Tell them count the days I can feel the night passing by like a mistake waiting for me My feelings Othethink the truth Fantasize you left me behind

And I'm turned back running for you Make it up to me, you know it's better Make it up to me you know it's better Be sweet to me, baby I want to believe in you. I want to believe in me. Be sweet to me, baby. I want to believe in you. I want to believe in something. So come and get your woman Come and get your woman Pacify her age

Take the time to under your lives Make it up once more spinning Recognize your mistakes Recognize your mistakes And I let you back in Realize not too late. Love you always. Make it up to me and know it's better. Make it up to me and know it's better.

Be sweet to me, baby. I wanna believe in you. I wanna believe. Be sweet to me, baby. I wanna believe in you. I want to believe in me, I want to believe in something. Be sweet to me, baby. I want to believe in you. I want to believe.

Be sweet to me, baby. I want to believe in you. I want to believe in something. We can't dress right. We don't talk loud enough. Our hair is a mess. We have a bad attitude. We don't eat right.

Our face breaks out and we look like yesterday's pizza. Our breath could stop a train and our personality is so boring that resembles oatmeal. Too expensive, the dog has to die. Man Who Can Catch Fly with Chopstick Accomplish Anything This is the morning stream

All right, welcome back to the program, that song again Is Be Sweet by the band Japanese Breakfast And a great, great, great song. Go listen to the song. Simlish version that just got revealed for the trailer for The Sims for Cottage Living. Very

cool. I like what I'm guessing is there, is there Animal Crossing, right? Is it cottage living? Yeah, I think so. Yes. I'm going to say yes to that. There was a whole bunch of indie stuff this week then, and one of them was that and it looked good. I like all that kind of stuff, so I'm super into the indie scene.

Yeah, how could you not? How could we not indeed? Let's get right to it here, folks. I'm going to play this. These are their stories. Oh, I'm terrible with names. As you can hear and tell, Justin Robert Young, joining us all the way from Houston, sorry, Austin, Texas. I don't know why I said Houston. Right state.

Yeah, right state. Wrong, uh, wrong, uh, three and a half hours south. Yeah, a little hotter too, right? A little hotter there. More humid. More humid down there. And it's, it's a little humid up here. But, uh, but down there, and I'm from South Florida where it is no,

slouch in terms of humidity. It literally is same which between an ocean and a swamp. So there's a lot of, there's a lot of humidity in South Florida. And I've never experienced anything as humid as Houston. Wow. Oh, wow. And I've been in Houston. I remember being pretty humid, but I don't remember being that humid. I mean, you, I think the humidity has served you well your entire life because you've got like, you know, golden apple skin and the rest of us look like garbage. So humidity, good for the skin is my is my, I'm a very oily man though. It was something that. It was something that. was foretold to me as but a youth that all my

other family members were like, look, you're going to really pay for it in high school. Like there's no way in middle school, there's no other way to do it. You're just going to get big, ugly acne. Everybody's had it. It's never pretty. You're never going to be the bell of the

ball for your middle school and high school years. But understand this. That's just the down payment for the fact that, you know, know, you're going to be okay. Sure. Like decades later, it's going to pay off the fact that you are an endless font of grease.

Yeah, you'll be a, you'll be a, a moisturized individual. Did anyone ever say this to you in high school? I'm going to play a clip here. Anyone ever say these words. We can't date. You're too oily. That ever happened to you? No, maybe.

I'm sure it was said, that's an internal monologue. I'm sure with many of the young comely lasses that I had eyes for. that they would maybe think about it before, you know, coming close enough to see a sheen on my skin that upon a fluorescent lighting, glancing it would blind them and they would fall down. You had me a sheen. All right. Well, let's dive in today. Real quick, though, since we were just kind of taking everybody's opinion earlier on whether or not they would,

or what they would do in a seven seconds in heaven scenario. Brian was in one, didn't do anything, just laughed. I never had the opportunity. Have you ever been privy to a seven seconds in heaven or seven minutes? Seven minutes. Seven minutes, yeah. Seven seconds in heaven was my first sexual experience. The seven minutes in heaven, I can't remember off the top of my head if we ever played that game in particular.

but I not unlike you two was a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a you know goody two shoes yeah I just felt like okay look if the girl was like super yeah let's go then I'd be all right but I just never felt like I could be the one that was like gonna assume anything you know what I mean right right I don't know yeah just felt I always felt that I wasn't like that that was a problem that and and if we're we'll get a little bit deep here you know that that that was a kind of a a problem with the fact that I didn't really have a relationship with my father past, you know, my very early teens.

And I was like, is that like what a dad would teach you is like when, when it's when it's time to go, when it's not, you know, and then the world evolved to where every, you know, possible,

you know, situation is something that is reviewed, you know, now through, through our modern historical lens. And I became very excited. excited that I was not particularly sexually aggressive either in my youth for my 20s. Yeah, yeah. No, I have to say that that sort of stuff that I used to, I used to wonder anyway if I was ever doing it right back in the day. Like that, just that kind of emotional stuff. And then later now, now I feel, I feel better about that. And again, I don't know if it was upbringing or I don't know what it was, but I just felt, I don't know, it always just felt like, well, you know, you want to make out.

I would wait for them to say that, you know? Like, I didn't want to be the one. I'm like, hey, speaking to oily teenagers. Like, I didn't want to do that. I wasn't that guy. Well, anyway, so there you have it. Let's move on to bigger, brighter, and cooler things going on. You've apparently got some massive project that you are super involved with from a writing

standpoint and creation standpoint, and I'm excited to hear about it. So why don't you lay it on us and tell us what it is? For the last seven months, I've been working in secret on a project. And I haven't wanted to talk about it because, you know, as you guys know, as creators, everybody creates differently. And sometimes you gain excitement from momentum

and your community getting excited about something and you're sharing every little piece of it. And we've done that a lot in stuff that we've done or I've done personally. And other times, getting a little bit of that credit early on kind of saps your your motivation you know because you feel like you've kind of done it already

you've sort of speed run the project without actually doing anything and so I decided I was going to try and do something secretly and I was going to try and do something with Brian Brushwood my co-host on night attack and weird things and so many other stuff and it's called world's greatest con and I will say

it's probably the best thing I've ever done. Oh, geez, high praise. I'm really, really, really, really, really proud of it. Now, is this all about Scott Kahn or James Kahn or is that the spoiler? We don't want to tell them what the best Kahn is. It actually is about Genghis and Kubla. Oh, wow. All right.

Way back then. No, this is about a, it's a four-episode series where Brian tells the story of an audacious con by the Allies during World War II to try and hoax Hitler. So we're starting with our stakes really managing. Wow.

Yeah. Yeah. Wow. So, yeah, you will hear whether or not Hitler himself will be conned by this particularly audacious plan. But it's not simply just one of those podcasts where people are just regurgitating Wikipedia or even worse, one of those totally false

stupid shows where it's just a bunch of relatable millennials asking each other really dumb questions so they can read Wikipedia to each other. This is something that is very personal to Brian. And really every episode, what we want to do is kind of answer a little piece of this particular question, which is why do cons work? There's a lot of shame that goes into cons and scams. And one of the most fascinating things

that we've seen since we released the teaser and episode one is the opening, the six minutes, is all about Brian admitting the time that he got sold bogus speakers in a parking lot and how he felt kind of ashamed about it.

Now, for him, it's really like the origin story. That's his, that Brian Brushwood's like falling into the pit of bats and becoming batman. Because he has dedicated his life to cons and scams. And to this day is traumatized by the idea that even waiting in a line at a Burger King is something that is scamming him out of his time. And he needs to figure out a way to outsmart it. But for a lot of people, we've heard a feedback that, like, they admit to us. us for the first time ever to anybody that they got got with something like this. Because there is shame involved and there shouldn't be.

As the tagline for the podcast says, cons don't fool us because we're stupid. They fool us because we're human. And what we do in each and every episode is kind of explain the humanity behind it. What elements of ourself are being manipulated by these schemes and how do they manifest themselves. That's interesting. So it's easy for us to, you know, I realize this isn't about Hitler, but it's easy for us to see like an old person who gets a phone call that says, we're at the IRS and we need your credit card. And, you know, speaking of scams, like a common one is to go after the

olds and try to fool them or whatever. Even then, like, what is that really attacking? If you're going after old people, what are you really attacking? You're really attacking the fact that that old person is afraid that they screwed something up. Right. You're playing off that shame. You're playing off the idea that they've been caught. And that pokes into these very deep human motivations of mental acuity and frailty and death and life and legacy and humiliation. Like there's so many powerful things that go into just that one moment.

And as we go through in the series, we talk, you know, about how they are really, the linchpins up and including to the fact that anybody who's gotten God on one of those one of those speaker scams is being put in the exact same position that our main characters want to put Hitler in to turn the tide in World War II. Does it, I mean, obviously I'm going to have to listen to the series and get all the info I can, but was there precedent? I mean, I sent it to you like a couple weeks ago. Was there, no, that's true and I haven't done it yet.

But would you, would you, would you, um, I mean, look, you caught me at a busy time. I got to get a Kickstarter out the door. And I have no time for anything right now. But my question is, like, is there historical precedence before this for this level of a scam? Meaning, like, had it worked on, I don't know, other, you know, Caesar the 4th because he got. Well, I mean, technically what they try to do in this scam is a Trojan horse, which famously was one of the greatest, you know, cons of all time to exploit the bravado of the free city of Troy

by the the the Grecian army to get their their battalion inside the walls during a years-long siege so you know we tie a lot of that together in the first episode the second episode though both of which are available right now at greatest con podcast.com you can find it on all podcast platforms if you can't find it on the podcast platform of your choice. Please let me know. Hit me up, Justin R. Young. We are working to make sure that they get listed everywhere. Some platforms update a little bit faster than others.

But the second episode is something that I think you're really, really, really going to enjoy, Scott, where Brian talks about the similarities between writing a con and writing game, video game specifically. Oh, interesting. Because, yeah, you know what? That's funny. My daughter took a class in this, in her university video game department thing she was in, where this probably touches on it. But the whole concept was you're designing tricks. Like a lot of, most of gaming is a trick of the mind, of the eye, of the ear, of the whatever. And really what's happening underneath is some basic math. But on the front of it, they're making you feel heroic or they're giving you a sense of accomplishment or failure. Or they're, that isn't actually there. And that's a super interesting sideline to gaming in general.

And I would love, it sounds like I'd love that episode. You absolutely will. And there's more to it even there. It's easily the most personal and raw episode of the season as it kind of gets into Brian's relationship with his brother who passed away while we were recording all this. And there's a lot of stuff that he unpacks. this is the most raw and vulnerable

that you have ever heard Brian it was the most nerve wracking that I've ever been working on anything because not only is the subject matter so weighty but also you know it was up to me once

you know Brian recorded all this stuff for to try and do right by somebody that was loved by so many and I loved and Jay was a was a you know somebody that that I have had good great affection for and knowing his family and everybody that, you know, loved him the most. You don't want to do anything that's exploitative, but you also want to make a good show,

something that's worthy that people would look at as great art because I think that considering all the stuff that, you know, Jay, who was a veteran in the video game industry for over a decade, would want. He would want good art in his name. And I think we nailed it, but I will leave it up to, to you guys to, uh, to tell me whether or not we did at GreatestCon podcast. Yeah, everybody should go check it out. I'm pretty excited to listen to it, and I did not know about that focus on episode two,

which is super cool. And I didn't know you were recording this or working on this as far back as when he passed. Like, this has been, this isn't an overnight two-week job you're doing here. This sounds like you guys been working on it for a long time. We have. We have.

You know, this was something that I, last year, amongst all the craziness of the pandemic, once I had finished up with Raise the Dead season two, 1964, I really wanted to, I loved the production side

of it, and I wanted to do more on the production side, and so I've turned a lot of my attention over the past several months to dog and pony show audio, my production company, where I worked with a lot of really cool freelancers throughout a lot of these projects. and it is a truly collaborative effort

by the end of it and when I went to Brian I was like hey what do you think about this idea he was immediately into it but what the final product is is very much Brian like I wanted to make something that was just

unquestionably Brian Brushwood and maybe not the guy that you know from Night Attack and not the guy that you know from the modern rogue and not the guy that you know from weird things or when you've seen us at Nurtacular or anything, but maybe more like the guy that you ran into at the bar at Nurtacular, maybe more like the kind of person

that, you know, not everybody kind of gets to see if he's kind of on, and I genuinely believe that we were able to capture an element of that, which is, you know, you put that on top of a fascinating story. I don't know. I really can't tell you guys how proud I am of it. I very rarely like to talk about my own projects

in these kinds of words, so that should tell you exactly how much it means to me. And let me just say right now, we're on the verge of some really cool charts. So over the next 48 hours, if you can find it in your heart to subscribe on the podcatcher of your choice and then also Apple Podcasts, even if it's not the podcatcher of your choice, it would be greatly, greatly, greatly appreciated because this is something that I think was, you know, is special.

Well, I'm glad now all these years later that I ripped them off for those speakers in that parking lot. I feel way better than that's finally that's right finally something coming of time I felt kind of bad right after Brian like a little sad about what I had done sure I feel like you know you're past as a Lowe right oh yeah yeah that's fine now I mean I'm still selling them but they're better than they were back then well this is great please do check it out everybody again it is world's greatest con podcast dot com to have that right uh so just greatest yeah greatest con podcast there you go greatest con podcast and that and that gets you to it. But of course, you can search on all

podcast players of your choice. And also Apple, please. Also Apple as well. Even if you hate it, I know everybody hates Apple. Please just help us. I kind of like Apple. I guess I don't use them for podcasts, but I get

your point. They have their listing and the way they do stuff is really does matter. So if you guys don't mind. It just matters for a bunch of dumb reasons that nobody needs to agree with, but everybody should please help me up because it's great. Um, but, but yeah, I, I, uh, I'm trying to think if there's anything else, any other, any other talking points that are, uh, that are kind of there. Oh, also yeah, hit me up on Twitter if you got got by that speaker scam. Oh yeah. Yeah. Because it is, it has blown my mind how many people, uh, uh, want to talk about it like now. And, and, and it, it just shows you these things that happen under the under underneath this layer of society that we kind of protect because it's, painful you know you feel dumb that that that that you got got but you really didn't you know

you really like like these are and as we unpack in in kind of the first six minutes of the show so if you just want to get a sense of it the first six minutes of the show are are is the way to go um you can do that and also if you go to the modern rogue youtube channel uh the lot most recent episode is brian and his co-host jason murphy listening to the first six minutes uh and uh big shout out to Jack Recyder of Darknet Diaries that actually ran our full first episode in his feed. Oh, no way. I love that show. I guess I'm

behind because I didn't know what played there. Oh, man. That's awesome. That's where first heard... You just went up tonight. So you probably were just getting up and working on the show. Yeah, he's great. You can listen to it. Maybe if Jack Recyter sends it to you, you'll listen to it. Yeah, maybe I will if it's that. That's the catalyst.

This is fancy. You know, that's where I heard that Xbox scam thing, or not scam, but that hack deal. Yeah, no, this is great. I mean, that show is great. And, you know, if you want a sense of the kind of show that it is, and you haven't listened to anything else that I've done, like, Raise the Dead, really what

we're going for here is a mixture of the DNA of Darknet Diaries, hardcore history, cocaine and rhinestones, and you must remember this. If you like any of those, those were very much the kind of structural influences and the one thing that I would say that's at the center of all of them is

authenticity. You love all of those people that are telling those stories. Even if the stories aren't the best, you really want to spend time with that voice and that personality and that selection of topics. And that's what we wanted to, that's what we wanted to kind of accomplish and create another entrant into that genre. Well, very nice. Everybody go check it out. Again, find it everywhere and if you can

get it on, you know, get it on Apple and just to get it. If you have an iPhone. Everywhere you want to go, but then also Apple. Yeah, just pull it on, just pull us up. That's good. Maybe do it a few other places just for laps. But also, get it on pocket cast, get it on overcast. But then after that, just take a little. A little. A little.

A little, John, a little sidestep over to iTunes. I mean, it's why I keep... People walking on over to Apple Podcasts. Yeah. Give it a little... There's a reason I keep Apple Podcasts on my phone. I don't use it actively.

I use PocketCast, but I will use it for this when someone's like, yeah, we need to get up in the rankings. I'm like, all right, I'll go sub to you. It doesn't hurt you at all to go do it. So go do it.

All right. Justin Robert Young and, of course, all the regular stuff happening all the time on your Twitch channel and the other podcast and everything else. Anything else you want to mention? Where we go? No, I, I,

I love all of you. Oh, that's a sweet sentiment. This is a really important one. So if the Tadpool community could help us, you know, push us kind of up the charts, boy, would it make my heart sing? Because I do think that this is an important one. Well, I know that they will. Have a fantastic time, and I hope to see it shoot through the charts to the point that it's almost orgasmic in nature.

We'll talk to you next time. I don't know why I brought that up that way. Wow, I don't know either, but good on you. Going places today. All right, Brian, that includes today's programming. Now look, here's the deal. You leave when this weekend? You're gone Friday?

Thursday. Thursday around noon. So I don't have it in my books that we're doing a Thursday show. I haven't picked any music for a Thursday show. I think for the sake of your good time, weekend family reunion. Yeah. We just say Thursday's not happening.

I think we say it for the, for the reason that there's some freelance I have to get done that I'm going to be doing Thursday morning instead. Perfectly good reason. Yeah, totally fine. So that's, okay, so that's what I wanted to get to. Everybody, we've got a bit of a scheduling thing this week. So Brian will not be here Thursday. That also means, start the pod fading chant.

Just do it. Yeah, it also means PM won't happen. But I'll come up with some like game streams or something else just to just to fill your time for those live folks if you guys want to be around and then what else? Tonight the boop show 330 Mountain me and Brian Dunaway talking indie titles

very excited. Got a lot to talk about from E3 plus some games we played ourselves and the Nintendo things today I don't know if I'm doing a live thing because they're being weird about it I think they've already started it haven't they? They probably have and I'm already too late to Stephen go because that was an eastern

time start right? I can't remember which is fine. I'll catch up on that and we'll see what's going on and then tomorrow normal show though we'll be here we got this we're good normal show uh Wednesday I'm I'm uh co-hosting with Sarah on DTNS on Wednesday without Tom Tom is back but he'll be uh head deep into a project so he's asked that me and uh Sarah host tomorrow so that'll happen lots to do this week so don't stress about us not being here Thursday is what I'm saying there's plenty of content um okay oh that probably means you're not doing coverville this week right

No coverville this week, no guess the connection this week. I'm just taking a well-needed week off. I think you should take it. I think that's awesome, and I support it fully. Also, Talley would like me to mention Mad Max, so there I've done it. She'd also like to say, F-E-A. Yeah, always. F-A.

Did EA do anything this week? They really didn't, did they? I guess they didn't do their own event now that I think about it. They showed off stuff and other events, but not their own. Anyway, I guess FIEA. Apparently, there's a new Metroid game. We knew that already, though,

but is it coming? Did we get a date? Because that was announced like two years ago. Was that? Was it okay? Let's see. I'm trying to find my latest news feed, and I can't find it.

I'll follow up on that in a minute. Yeah, they've been talking about that one for a while. I assume four will end up being, no, they call it Metroid Prime 4. They call Metroid Dread. Is that what it's called? Metroid Dread. It's over. Really? Really.

Well, that's crazy. There you go. All right. Well, Mario Golf's all I care about at the moment. That comes out. I know. What is that? That's, uh, oh, that's the weekend of my ride. So basically after my ride, after my ride, I'm going to treat myself. After you're done, you plop down on the couch, Brian, you pull up your switch. Yeah. And you play golf. Undock my switch. Yeah, you undock your switch. Good luck to you on that. All right. A new Mario game announced. Ooh, I like Wario. He's a dick. Oh, is it a Wario?

Is it one of those weird multi-game bizariness Wario games? I must be. I'd love that. Yeah, I'd play that. Wario Ware, that's right, Wario Ware. Oh, here it is. Metroid Tread.

What an odd. What an odd name. Oh, it is a Wario Ware game. Oh, good thing. Brian, that's awesome. For the Switch? Yeah. For the Switch.

Which means they've got to make it for the light, which means they're not going to make it dumb motion control crap. It's just going to be a good old-fashioned deep pad. Oh, right. It can't be, yeah. No kidding. I'm excited. That's great.

It's called Wario Ware Get It Together. And it will come to the switch sometime in September. Oh, the 10th. That's the blue cat. Bluing. Ding-ding-d-lid. I'm very excited. All right.

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and whatever's, send those to the morning stream at e-mail.com. All right, that's going to do it for today. Brian, let's go out with a song again, if you don't mind. Boy, are we going out with a song? Chuck Rodin said, as tangential as this show is, the journey is worth it. During the

2020 experience. I like that. Let's call it the experience. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. The snappinging. My wife discovered Rupal's drag race, something I never would have watched, but I wanted to spend time together, so I sat through it. The flamboyant characters and the reality TV competition annoys me. But then we learn a little more of each character. Some have the most tragic stories. And then you learn how talented all of these people are. Yes, the desire to make the most fascinating transformation, then to entertain is amazing. I became hooked on this show. We've needed almost every streaming service to watch the various seasons. It has become part of the adventure. One of the absolute standouts is Trixie Mattel. She is an actual talent, not just a drag queen lip syncing. You must check it out. It is absolutely fascinating.

Please choose something, whether it's a cover or some of her original music, my wife would be thrilled. Then Chuck says, I love you, Donna. I'm glad we're getting old together. We're on vacation renting a motorhome and exploring central Oregon in the area. the Resniche Ranch used to be when I was in high school I was recruited by them

at their height of activity but that's a story for another day thank you for your honest and uplifting entertainment signed Chuck very cool yeah I've never watched

an episode of Rupal's Drag Race but I know a lot of people who love it my cousin Allison is a massive fan of the show and has even met several of the contestants the performers that are on there

so yeah it seems like it's a big bigger than it meant bigger than it would seem to be like it's broad it's got a exactly it is like the cake you know what reminds me it was like the cake bakeoff thing but obviously a very different show but but like that's there's some heart to it and some stuff that you don't expect out of a competition show totally because on the surface you think it's going to be this one thing and as you watch it apparently it's so much more than that which uh all right so trixie mottel released an album uh this year called full coverage actually an

EP. Full coverage, Volume 1. Of course, I'm always excited to see stuff like this, because it means it's a bunch of covers. It's exactly what it is. On there are some great covers of things like Jackson and oh, what else is on there that I saw. I bought and downloaded the whole

album, Believe by Share, video games by Lana Del Rey. But I'm settling on this one, which is a cover of the song by The Violent Fems, about something else that Batman probably wouldn't do. Here is Trixie Mattel and Blister. in the sun. All right. Thanks everybody for watching, listening and hanging out with us.

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I can feel my butt getting sore already. Oh, John Goodman. Mm-hmm. Yeah.