The Morning Stream - TMS 2138: Blaveheart

Episode Date: July 5, 2021

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Yes, you missed us, didn't you? You missed us terribly. But we've wandered back into the home and you've said, welcome back. you're welcome here anytime have a seat enjoy your breakfast blah please rinse your bowl when you're done that's right don't leave your bowl out you little shit we're back it's me and Brian and happy

day after the 4th of July everybody America's day you know that's right that's right did you do any kind of fireworky business or did you we did not we we went to a party it sounds like I'm beginning to sing a Lita Ford song, but we went to a party on Saturday night.

Didn't get laid, but we got in a fight. No. No, it was interesting. Went to a party. Friends of ours that we met through Crazy Neighbor, actually, that the woman is our accountant. She does our taxes every year. Ooh, partying with the accountant. I like this idea. But we've known them for years before, you know, she started doing our taxes.

Sure. But it does feel like she knows everything about us. Probably more than most people, right? she knows up, well, at least you know, your financial everything, so there's that. Yep, yeah. But it was quite an interesting group. It was maybe a little bit more conservative than the usual groups that we hang out with. We took an Uber there, and because you still have to wear a mask in Uber and Lyft rides,

we step out of the car wearing our masks, and everybody at the party turns and stares at us like. Oh, scarlet letter, man. That's what that is. Yeah, I described it in our film sec chat as the bar room scene where the jukebox stops playing. It's completely quiet and everybody is looking at the person who just walked in. Yeah. I mean, were these like, as far as like, you know, give me the t-shirt situation. No mega hats, but four t-shirts that had outlines of machine guns on them saying things like variety is the spicy.

of life and it had a bunch of different machine guns on it or another one that says red white and ammo and it was like three different machine guns between the words yeah uh cardboard cut out the letters freedom across the in the front of the yard and uh i'd be tempted to tell the one dude uh ammo is not a color right i'd be really tempted it'd be really hard for me not to say it doesn't even rhyme it's not like they're saying red white and chew or something like that right it's it's like somebody who came up with that t-shirt really didn't think too or didn't spend a lot of time on it but um no i did take a lot of a lot of everybody's money we played uh we played a card game um the first word is rat and the second word is a slang a four-letter slang term for fornicate oh and i'll just say you that oh i bet i know what it is i'll bet you know what it is too yeah yeah so uh it was uh We played a lot of, well, basically we played only that. And I ended up taking about 65, 70 bucks from these chuckleheads.

Oh, good. That's at least 70 bullets. Well done. Yeah, exactly. I've reduced their next ammo purchased by that much. Yeah, the capacity for ammo, it just dropped. Well, that sounds like fun. We didn't do any kind of fourth specific sort of anything.

But I got home from a whole weekend at a family reunion. We did it up here in Park City. about an hour north or west or when is it north no north east northeast anyway yeah because we drive through there when we come through the um Wyoming path we will come through Park City on the way yeah that's the way to go time wise like that's the direction you're gonna want it is it's just so dull yeah it's boring it's crap you get to the mountains everything lightens up and it's nice but you know the wyoming part nothing wrong with Wyoming you all got a cool cowboy business going on

It's great. Keep it up. Yeah, I mean, you can, if you go through Wyoming, you can actually just put on cruise control, use a belt to lash the steering wheel to the emergency brake and catch a few Zs on the ride. That's right. So we did this, and it was great. And it's a great big sort of last time we were there actually, it was about half the size. I don't know what happened, but it exploded during the pandemic. There's a huge bunch of new resort hotels and stuff in this one part of Park City. Some may know it as the Westgate area.

I don't know. But anyway, we went up there. My mom and John and then all of the, most of the siblings, trying to think he was anybody we didn't see. Yeah, my brother Matt didn't come up while we were there. So he may still be up there today. I don't know. But anyway, long and short of it, people from Arizona, us, and whatever.

Everything went pretty good, except I wanted to just say this. When I was a kid growing up and then in my teens and my 20s and even my 30s, park city was a reasonably affordable place to go now during all of that time it was you know a Sundance film festival was a thing and it still is right and that that draws a lot of people here of the hoity and the toady variety right and over time uh really rich people go up there and build enormous palatial homes on the side of mountains for many millions of dollars and and make that their their summer home or whatever. Or winter, if they like to ski, whatever.

They just, you know, that's what they do. So Post Malone's got a place up there, a big monster place. We still haven't seen it. We keep trying to see it, but we don't know where it is. But lots of, like, record executive people from L.A., they have homes up there. Anyway, it just got bigger and bigger and bigger. And Main Street, which is this old town part of Park City that used to be the mining town back in the 1800s,

is now this like every shop is super hipstery and lots of, from art and fancy food and all that, right? Like your historical gentrified little strip thing. And it's beautiful and it's all that. But growing up there and going there all the time, you could afford things. Like food, you could say, oh, we'll stop here and get a sandwich. How much is it? Oh, it's like $6.50 to $8 or something.

No big deal. Not a big deal. Now, I don't know what happened. And it's not just in the last case. It's not just pandemic. It's like, I don't know, the last five years, they've decided there that, people are just going to be fine paying 60 bucks for what they used to pay 10 for. And so, like, this pizza place that's okay, it's not the worst thing, a 10-inch pizza,

a little tiny one, 10-inch, and two house salads, 65 bucks. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it's too much. The burgers are like $17, $18 anywhere you go. It doesn't matter where. They're all bad. That's, uh, that's veil, too. You know, it's, but Vail, I feel like, has been expensive for as long as I've gone there.

You know, you drive up to the mountains, Vail is a good lunch stop if you leave in the morning after breakfast. Vale is like, well, Vail is even too early for lunch. I guess if you leave mid-morning, then Vail is a good lunch stop. But they're one of those places where the McDonald's rules of, yeah, a Big Mac extra value meal is going to cost you X amount pretty much everywhere you go. The rules don't apply in Vail. It's like, how will you be paying for that, sir? Would you like to step into my office and we'll see if we can arrange a... Yeah, you've got to get financing.

Right, exactly. For the first 12 months, no interest financing on that big Mac Extra Valley meal. Yeah, like the day before we left, we're like, hey, should we do breakfast at Squatters, which is a small local, but they have a couple of locations, but they're basically a local brewery and they have a pub type thing, Squatters Pub. And they're great. We love them. There's one in Salt Lake we go to, and it's great. The one out here, or the one in Park City, cost more money for some reason. Everything does. And also, they were like talking 25 people at this. And I said, really? Are we doing that? Then they're like, yeah, and I go, do we need to take out a loan or like maybe this mortgage? Like, what are we doing here? So we didn't do that. We ended up doing something else. But it all went fine. It just felt like one of the more expensive, just the day-to-day part of what you have to expend felt. higher than ever there. And we didn't even do like the big alpine slide or any of the expensive

like things you do up there. Um, we sort of avoided all of that. But I'm happy to say like, you know, I got some anti-vaxxers in this, uh, particular family group. I got some, uh, you know, some dubious, uh, you know, aliens are taking your, your taxes or whatever, just stuff.

And none of it, none of it got out of hand. It was all, you know, I think one or two tiny mentions and then we just kind of skip past it. You know, like, I'm a big believer that one of the founding principles of this country is that you can protest against this country if you feel like you're being wronged. And so I'm personally 100% fine with anybody protesting anywhere about anything, whatever their issue is. I think it's fine.

And so when a professional football player or basketball player kneels during the national anthem, they're right. And that's, you know, they're going to do what they're going to do. And I fully support it, especially because it's downright. unviolent, not violent. I like that. Right. It's a peaceful protest. Peaceful protest. I do not like, you know, when people breach the Capitol, I wouldn't call that a peaceful protest. But if you're, you know, have an issue. And even if I very much disagree with your issue, you have every right to protest and to, it's one of your fundamental rights in this country.

Well, anyway, we were talking about the sons, you know, and the sons, the Phoenix sons, you know, they're going to the playoffs, Brian. time since 2000 or i'm sorry 1993 it's a long time since they've been at the uh been at the playoffs and i'll tell you that should have been the utah that should have been the jazz but it's okay you beat the clippers well done you took out our nemesis for the year and and now you're in our place and so fight well for us as well all i have to say about that but the point is talk to somebody who stopped getting season tickets they were giant sons fans died in the wool loved them canceled it all and we'll never go to another game again because people kneel during the national anthem.

And so when someone brings something like that up, you can either engage and go to town or you can go, so anyway, this weather we're having, you know what I mean? Right. So we did a lot of that. Yes. We went in with that intent.

We knew that if this kind of stuff was going to come up and it felt a little baity or whatever, we were just going to go, wow. okay well anyway wow first time in 27 years anyway what are we doing for lunch like we're just going to move on it you almost have to figure out a really good segue topic to not make it obvious like if they start bringing up vaccines you can say oh i know you know last time i can't remember last time uh prior to 2021 that i had a needle in my arm tetanus yeah how do you get tetanus again you know basically well i did somebody we did have somebody bring up kept bringing the story up

about why they won't get vaccinated. And the story was that they have a nurse friend who her and her husband were vaccinated. And her husband got the Delta variant and died even though he was vaccinated. And so I'm not getting vaccinated. And I said, I wanted to say, well, you know what I wanted to say.

But what I said instead was like, oh, that's too bad. It's so sad. I wanted to say, you know, you know what 97% effective against means? It doesn't mean one of the first. 100% guaranteed. Right. Exactly. Also, it seems like your chances are higher to get it by not.

Anyway, I could have gone for miles on that conversation. Instead, I was like, oh, man, that's so bad. It's too bad. I hope she's doing okay. Yeah, and that's the right thing. It's like, I'm so sorry to hear that. Oh, that's horrible. Yeah.

So, you know, not too bad, though. For the most part, okay, played a lot of rock runners with my proof deck. Everybody loved it. Oh, good. Yeah, it made me happy. This was a work trip right for that. Right, you can write this whole thing off. A whole thing gets written off because I had people play rock runners.

It's for real. So that's pretty cool. But I did miss doing this, so glad to be back. Very cool. I went and saw a couple movies. I saw, well, it saw a third movie last night. We were keeping the dog down here in the basement with a very loud science fiction movie, something brand new that I'd probably be using for recommendals this week.

Oh, does it have someone in it named Piss Schnatt? Yes, it does. as a matter of fact. Did you watch it, too? No, I haven't seen it yet. Okay, all right. I probably will, but I... I can't wait to talk about it because...

Yeah, I have some problems with it, and we'll talk about that on Wednesday, but... No, went to the theater and saw two movies that are only available in theaters. First off, the Sparks Brothers, not going to surprise anybody who knows me, but I'm a huge fan of Ron and Russell Mail,

better known as Sparks, a band that's been around since the early 70s, but has never really enjoyed the kind of success that really blows up. Like, they had a hit with cool places in the 80s with Jane Wheatlin. They've had sporadic, you know, songs every now and then that kind of rise a little bit on album, rock radio. Bigger in the UK, bigger in other countries. Oh, these are the guys of the cool mustaches and stuff. These guys are awesome looking.

Yeah, well, one guy has a cool mustache. If you think Charlie Chaplin slash Hitler, His mustache is cool. Although these days he's not doing that. He's doing a really thin, like that director, thin, thin mustache. John Waters. John Waters' mustache, all right. Yeah.

But they are, they've been a favorite of mine because they kind of mix that humor and humor and rock and roll in a great, in a really cool way. And this movie, this documentary, is. done by the Edgar Wright you know who you know

from many other movies like Scott Pilgrim and the Sean of the Dead and all that exactly yeah and the crazy

thing is how many musicians you know and love who say oh yeah we love sparks you know

and it's this underground band so Pat and Oswald Flea Beck Neil Game and Fred Arminson Andy Bell and Vince Clark

from Erasure Simon Pegg you know all of these famous people talking about oh two of the guys from Durandoran John Taylor and Nick Rhodes they're talking about how yeah if you're on a tour bus with

other musicians sooner or later the conversation ends up you end up talking about sparks that's interesting yeah that's I mean I honestly you introduced me I'd never heard of them until you talked about a year ago or two years ago or something yeah I think when I first heard about this documentary, which was 2019 or 2020 was when they started talking about this thing.

Yeah, and I'd never heard of them before either. So now you got me all peaked on this. I want to, I want to see it. For me, it's like, you know what it's like? It's like the New York Dolls, and I watched that New York Doll movie, which was all about the basest and where he ended up. It's a different guy, right? Different guy. I forgot his name. But it was really, it was a really interesting doc, but I'd never heard of the, I know this is embarrassing because a lot of people have, but I'd never heard of the New York Dolls until then. So what I'm saying is I rely on Brian for my music knowledge. So thank you for that.

I appreciate it. Anyway, so great documentary. If you're a fan of the band, A-plus. If you're not a fan of the band, if like Scott, it's brand new to you. If nothing else, it will be a great story about a band that is always one mainstream hit that they don't want to ever do away from stardom. Sure, sure. And, you know, and why the heck does Ron Mayle wear that Hitler mustache? The other thing that we saw this weekend was Zola.

Sadly, not a movie about Arnhem Zola, Toby Jones character from the Marvel Universe. But it's about, it's a movie based on a Twitter thread. What? From a former stripper who, yeah, like this whole movie is based on this viral Twitter thread that this woman put up years ago about getting taken down to Miami by this other stripper to make some money. And it's, uh, I know you've seen spring breakers. There's a lot of comparisons to like a black comedy version of spring breakers. Like it's stylistically in music and that kind of stuff or?

Stylistically and also subject matter. I mean, that, you know, has a little bit to do with pimping and, uh, and, uh, and how creepy James Franco was. and stuff like that. Sure. It's great. It's really, really funny. It's funny, creepy, almost like a kiss, kiss, bang, bang kind of action leading into more action, like bad decision made here leads into these bad decisions and this bad

decision. But was the Twitter, was the Twitter thread like a back and forth story thread? Like they just made the story up. It was a Twitter thread. There was a one person's. account of what happened and apparently the other person named like the other main character in the movie

replied back on Reddit and said oh no that's not what happened at all and made up this really unbelievable response story that's like yeah okay we believe the we believe that the Twitter thread person wow okay yeah it's great but it's got

a lot of people that you recognize from other things Greg from Succession is one of the main characters in here and he's always great. I like that guy, yeah. Coleman, oh, what's the guy's the name? Coleman Domingo, who

you know from well, Fear the Walking Dead. It's my favorite camp stove, the Coleman Domingo. It's so good. Yes, exactly. Cooks your book. He was in, if Beal Street could talk. Maurene's Black Bottom. Anyway, He's great.

He's really, really cool actor. These reviews are blazing for this. People like it. They are. It is really good. And it does, it employs some of those funny,

weird, like break the fourth wall kind of things like symbols appearing on screen. And the thing pauses for a second. And then almost like it restarts the movie with this other character's account of what happened. It is, it's really cool. And I will say this. A movie about strippers and the female, two female strippers, and the only nudity you see is gratuitous male nudity.

Awesome. Take that. Just a heads up. Yeah. Take that, everybody. Change your expectations. Boom. Man weaner.

Prepare to see some wean and some wean that will make you feel better about yourself. Oh. No matter. Oh, good. No, no, that's good. Because, you know, sometimes you're, you're subjected to something, and you're like, oh. You're like, oh, man, holy cow, Walberg. Geez.

Fake or not, you made me feel bad. Well done. That's right. Anyway, so it's really good. Zola and Sparks Brothers, two big recommendations from me. Nice. Early recommendals. Can use them for, can use them for recommendals because neither one of them are streaming.

They're not doing any day-and-date streaming stuff. Sure, sure, sure. Oh, and that in the Heights, and then that other thing are leaving soon. People should probably catch that. Yeah, that well, the conjuring, yeah. I think Conjuring might be leaving today. So if you haven't seen me Conjuring, then get on it. I've skipped it.

But yeah, in the Heights is a recommend. Those aren't bad, those Conjuring movies. They're not bad. I hear they're not. Here's the problem is I'd be watching Malone. Tina has zero desire to see the conjuring. I mean, sounds like Kim. She would not either.

The Purge is going to be another solo deal. If I want to see any of the Purge movies, I'm watching. Oh, yeah. I've seen the Purge 2 is actually my favorite. I like it. rest of them I've been pretty bad and I hear this new one's pretty bad so the only thing I'm interested in here is I guess it goes that the concept is this is just in the trailer this time when the purge ends and everyone's supposed to get back to their daily lives it doesn't end

a bunch of people have decided we're going to keep doing this and that's a great premise except apparently it's very poorly executed according to the reviews I'm reading. So, well, I, you know, I'll probably end up seeing it, but whatever. I cannot, for some reason, I like the Purge. I like the Purge concept more than I like the films. Anyway. Well, Tina's, so, so short, another little short thing.

Tina's and my AMCA list accounts are back enabled, so expect a lot more quick movie reviews as we, as we probably jump into a theater once a week again. Oh, yeah. You know what? I'm going to start reviewing. I got a book, a big, fat table, uh, coffee table. all about the career and films of Ridley Scott. Oh, wow.

And it's awesome. I couldn't not get it. I'm not even like, let's buy a physical book guy anymore. I'm usually like, give me get a Kindle version or something. I usually don't care about this thing. Of course,

chock full of pictures and everything. Just in depth, Blade Runner, Alien. Oh, I think you watched Braveheart or Braveheart over the weekend, didn't you? No, that was just a tweet. That was just me screwing around Trying to do a freebie drawing

So I pulled a quote from the internet But in this case like It goes all the way to current I think Covenant may be the last thing they cover So it's everything he's ever done And it's so far really good And it's a big picture of him sitting on the book Going yes I'm really Scott hello yes

Oh I forgot he did Hannibal Yeah G.I Jane So are you going to be going through And doing like a watch through of all of every I don't know if I'll do that or not mostly because I've seen most of it

but maybe I mean I love his movies so it's just really good and I'd completely forgotten in this first chapter they go into detail about him starting a shoot what business was that I forgot now he started oh an advertising company out of out of school

like it was the first thing he did and he partnered with his brother Tony rest of soul and they had it was so successful that by the time he made his first movie or was getting ready to be a filmmaker, he was already a millionaire. He had millions of dollars from just his startup business he'd made. I didn't know that. So he was like, F the business. I'd like to go now do what I want to do, which is make really cool movies. And he did. And he's great. Anyway, I'll talk more about

that as I read through it because it's so far it's really good. Okay. Dunaway time. Let's get him in here. Done away time. Yeah. I think he's home because he's uh i could be wrong about this but i think he's off today they should you know he deserves the day yeah usually if you're an office worker you probably have today off i would think so uh he also works it's i think it's somewhat governmental related either way he's here now and now there's this music brian done away welcome back to the show for babble royale how are you oh hi scott and brian oh hi oh you are definitely at home i can tell it you're mike at home. Is my mic at home? Is my mic at home?

It's a very warm, inviting quality to your voice. Oh, good. Do you guys feel like, do you feel more freedom today? I feel more freedom. Since you took the freedom bath yesterday and feeling more free today, no? I don't feel any more free today than I felt the day before, but thank you for asking. I think that's an important question. But I will listen to Freedom Rock today, and yes, I will turn it up, dude. Oh, man, that's great. I forgot about that. I'm going to listen to... I'm proud to be in American.

I'm going to listen to that non-ironically later. Let's see how it goes. Hey, welcome back. It's good to have you here. We're going to play Babel Royale today. Hey, man, I missed you guys this weekend. I just missed your little post in the Discord server where you had a... Where you guys hung out with some family.

Yeah, I hid from family. You're welcome. Yeah, well done. You did the right thing. Hide from family. I did a thing. Yeah. And what was that thing?

Do you want to tell us? What was your thing? Sure. It was give the dogs been a drill so they don't freak the F out with all the fireworks. There's two types of people in this world. People will go, I like shooting fireworks and people will go, I have dogs. Don't do that. Yep.

We're right there with you the latter. We were in the basement with a loud movie turned up. And our dog slept on the love sack the whole time, did not get freaked out. Oh, that's the heck. So this was the first time we've been able to test Ripley to see if she freaks out or not. And she didn't even notice it. They were going off. You could hear it in the house, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.

But she didn't care if she was just chilling. I know. I think the dogs were, like, terrified and exhausted because we left them with this rover service for the trip. And it turned out great. It's this local couple, a dude and his husband living, I don't know, two blocks away is all. And they full time do this. They just always have about 12 dogs. that house and they just are watching people's dogs. It's how they make a living. And we really

like them. So we're like, yeah, we'll do it here. You have to come introduce yourself first the way the service works. But then you just take your dogs there and they're there the whole time. And I think they had a great time, but they had to have been overwhelmed. It was like, you know, 12 dogs. Most of these dogs, they don't know, obviously. And now that they're back, they all look a little shell shocked. Like, just like looking up at me like, please don't ever do that again. Like, they don't understand what happened. I know. As humans, we don't, we don't usually focus into. much but we we've been told no dog has actually come forward but I've been told by many dog experts that dogs freak out every time you leave because they think that's it that's it they're

leaving that's it now they've got to acclimate to a whole new set of whatever's and yeah rainers rainers a mess today but I'll you know I'll get her I'll get her back she'll be all right anyway get her back hey Brian why don't you uh why don't you Brian Ibit explain to us what we're doing today and who might win prizes based on our performance I will Welcome to the morning squirm, a back-and-forth trivia game where our players will match wits on topics that Cliff Clavin would have offered up at the cheers bar. Scott and Brian are going to take turns answering multiple-choice trivia questions, and if they get it wrong, the other player gets a point. The player with the most points after five questions wins the prize for their contestant, and we've pulled a couple of contestants from members of the Tadpool that aren't able to listen live. A couple of international members of the Tadpool today.

Scott, you're going to be playing for Vlado from Melbourne Australia, Melbourne, Melbourne, not Melbourne. Melbourne. Dunnway, you're going to be playing for Matthew from the United Kingdom. Didn't I play for a Matt last time? Let me see, because I have it here.

You played for... Wonderful. You played for a Chad from Wisconsin. Now you're playing for a Matt. Well, maybe it was on the Wednesday show that we, yeah, I think that's what we did. It was Matt on Wednesday last week. That's right.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, maybe that's it. Yeah, I think that's correct. All right, so five questions, and I think, let me see, who won last week? I believe Donaway won. I think Chad won. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're right.

Chad did win. We're going to begin with Scott for this one. Scott, close to a thousand men every year, die in this odd way. Oh, my gosh, a thousand. Close to a thousand men every year die in one of these ways. Is it falling off an ATV? B, autoerotic asphyxiation. C, accidental electrocution or D.

Choking on a hot dog. Oh, my gosh. All of those sound low. Yeah. Like all four of them should be more than a thousand. Absolutely. Wow. Wow, my heart tells me go hot dog, but

You know what, I'm going to go hot dog They choke on a hot dog All right, it's, you know, Fourth of July Being just behind us here The hot dog eating contest, very popular It is not choking on a hot dog, Brian, get the point You don't get any additional points, but do you have a guess, Brian? I'm going to go with the ATV, even though that seems kind of low

because people are maybe more paralyzed than anything. So I'm going to go to ATV. It is not ATV. It is autoerotic asphyxiation. Really? Now, that is kind of. I felt like that's where you wanted me to go, but I just was refusing to go there. And I don't know why my brain wouldn't do it. Damn it. And this is kind of like anything sexual related

when you talk about guys, if we say a thousand, then at least 3,000. It's right. Exactly. Yes, right. Yeah. It's only the number that the few of them will tell you. You're always right about that. Yeah. They don't talk. All right, Brian, let's see here.

Well, speaking of choking on hot dogs, competitive eating King Joey Chestnut holds the world record for devouring 21 of which of these snacks in six minutes. So he consumed 121 of these in six minutes. Is it, Twinkies, Snowballs, Yodles, or Thin' Mints? Yodels. Okay, no one could put that many thinnints. Minson, you would die. All right.

I'm going to rule that one out. Right. I just seems like if I was wanting to stuff something in my face, Twinkies just seemed like the right way to go. I'm going to go Twinkies. You're going to go Twinkies. Is the answer, Twinkies? It is.

Twinkies is correct. I am. I follow him on TikTok, by the way. On Twinkies. I follow him on Twinkies. Yeah. Twink talk. He'll do.

He'll do. don't use that app Don't go to Twiggy Talk Don't go there Yeah troubling app No he's he's interesting Because his things are all about Like he'll

He'll show himself Just cramming hot dogs Down his throat like 20 of them And then he almost died Like another 900 Yeah nine hundred times But then he'll go Here's what I actually eat

And the dude's just like eating some salad Like he doesn't eat the things He binges on And he's like skinny He's weird That guy's weird Yeah I wonder if after After like one of the big hot dog

competitive eating deals that he does every 4th of july if he if it just passes right through his body or if he throws up or anything like that or if he just oh he's got to purge it right if it just processes you know if he just has figured out his body's figured out of process i assume they'd turn around and hork it into a bucket or something body just ignores it's like oh most be fourth of july again here comes here comes a hot dog bun dipped in water oh god oh god uh watery hot dog buns I hate that. All right. Well, Brian, you've got two points.

Scott, this question is for you. This female fashion staple was originally created for gentlemen. Which of these was originally intended for gentlemen? Is it bra, stockings, high heels, or a corset? Which one of those was originally made for men? You're talking about a magazine, right? Not the product. no no i'm talking about the product

product oh there's products were made for men yeah yeah what what magazine are you talking about yeah oh i don't know i was trying to figure out because i thought you said a magazine i don't know why i heard that you heard me say female fashion staple and i guess there are staples there we go yeah because i immediately went the wrong place you're thinking of saddle stitching on a magazine that's amazing all right i subscribe to high heels yeah i you know when you before you even got to

the answers my brain said corset and then you said corset so I'm going to say corset. It feels like something dudes would do. Is it corset? No, it is not. Really? I thought that was a good guess. I thought so, too.

Point for Brian, but Brian, do you have a guess between raw stockings and high heels? What's got to be high heels, right? I mean, short man syndrome is real. Yeah. It is indeed high heels. Oh, what? Originally created for gentlemen of low height, of vertically challenged. Vertically challenged.

Yes. Great. Cowboy boots, man. Those things make you tall. You can get dude corsets now. There's lots of Instagram's always advertising like a dude corset. I don't know. They're trying to tell me, but it's happening every time.

Hide your fat. Yeah. Hide your fat. Put this on. Hydro fat. Yep. All right, Brian, this one goes to you. And look at you.

You work out of the three of us. You're the only one of us who works in an office. So you have a little bit of an advantage on this question. A recent survey showed that 90% of offices have these and no one is the wiser. Is it? Two-way mirrors to watch employees. I don't like that term, by the way.

I feel like it's a one-way mirror because one way it's a mirror, the other way it's not. I don't know why they call those two-way mirrors. But they do call them two-way mirrors. You know what? That's a damn fine question. I'm annoyed by that. Yeah.

It's really a one-way mirror, right? It only goes one-way. Yeah, it's a mirror. I understand why they want to shorten it to something easy to say, but you're right. Bad. All right. So two-way mirrors to watch employees, programs to spy on their computers, hidden cameras, or fake thermostats. Oh, interesting.

Now, phrase the question again. Yes. Recent survey showed that 90% of offices have these, and no one is the wiser. Now, we do have some two-way mirrors, but everybody is wise to it. They have cameras. Really? Wait, wait, wait, wait. We've got two-way mirrors in your office, but people know about them?

Yeah, yeah, because it's not primarily to... to spy on the employees, but it is a place to watch for if there's trouble. Like where they're taking money in. You have to have somebody watch to make sure, you know, everything's on the up. Because you've got a little buzzer. It's like, ah, call the cops, man.

It's kind of like a bank in that manner. Gotcha. Hidden cameras are probably a definite no-no. That's really high. I mean, you're going to get in trouble for putting hidden cameras and somebody's going to find out for sure. Yeah, you have to disclose that normally, I would assume. Yeah. I think the only thing that would not cause a legal issue is those thermostats.

And I would, I don't think, I think all of ours work, but I don't know. I'm too afraid to touch them. But it feels like. That feels like the thing that wouldn't get you in trouble, you know? Right. Is the answer fake thermostats? Indeed it is. Yeah, 90% of offices apparently have a fake thermostat in them. There's the course they're running. joke during the summertime.

We have a mix. We have men and women, both in our office. And, of course, the women are always running heaters. They're like, oh, I'm cold. What are you saying about? The dudes are always like, I'm hot. I'm hot. So what are you saying?

You're saying women get cold too much? Or are you saying men get hot too much? I'm saying it's a running joke at our work. I'm not saying there's any validity to add the actual facts of it. I've never done any research. I'm just saying that is the prevailing thought. Sure. You got some empirical evidence.

some hands-on on-on-on-the-street experience. I get it. I get it. That is weird, and I don't understand why that is. Like, I would love an explainer for why there's fake thermostat. You know, I didn't think about it. I never thought about putting a fake thermostat, but, I mean, it makes sense. But when in the hall, so the kids can't touch it, you don't have to have that argument anymore.

You know, you hide the nest one. You put a fake analog one out in the hall. Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah. Then your kids are over there cranking it up, but really, you've got the control. It's not doing anything. Right, exactly. Yeah.

By the way, the tadpool is still really focused on my two-way mirror, one-way mirror discussion. Everybody's like, you know, Brian, a one-way mirror is a mirror. Because you only have one-way. Yeah, it's really the determination of you have one way to use it versus two ways to use it. Oh, instead of one-way mirror, one-ways to see through it. I think of it like a one-way street, right? You can go through one way, but if you're trying to go the other way, you're going to kind of bounce back. Yeah, it's going to come back at you.

You are going to do it see yourself. Right. And at one point, you almost should call it just a one-way window. Look at it from the other side. There you go. Yeah. That sounds more like it because that's what it's like mirror. Yeah, there you go.

Yeah. Think of it that. A mirror implies. A one-way window. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. The other guy looking through, it's the window. Yeah.

That is 100% the way it should be a one-way window. Perfect. A guy walk into a, what do you call it, interrogation room and a police thing going, hey, wait a minute, is that a one-way window? We would all go, what are you talking about? I'm going to make everybody use my, my vocabularies. That's what I'm going to do to you. That's awesome.

All right, my turn, right? I'm curious about what a three-way mirror is. All right, this is the last question, and Scott, even though Brian Dunaway has already won, you need this, you need to win this one so that he doesn't sweep you. Okay, I don't want to be swept. That'd be good. All right, Scott, what's the most popular day of the week for viewing porn, according to Google search? What?

What day of the week? Your choices are, is it Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday? Okay, so the midweek stuff doesn't even factor. Yeah, Tuesday, or Thursday doesn't even matter. Which of those four days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday is the most popular day for viewing porn? I like the idea that somebody out there is worried they're not viewing porn on the right day and has to Google search it. Right. Exactly. Exactly. Like, oh, I'm on an off day here. Yeah. All right, I'll say, um, geez.

I feel like it would be, people would be bored. And so Sunday is a boring day. So Sunday. So you're going, you're going with the green day version of why you masturbate. Yeah, that's a green. Listen, Billy, if, um, Billy Armstrong, Billy Ray Armstrong, whatever's name is. Joe. If he taught me anything, it's that American idiots are bad and then that, and then that Sunday thing. So, yeah, I'll say. We always have the time to listen to him wine.

It is not Sunday. Brian gets the sweet. Brian, do you have a guess as far as which of the remaining days, Friday, Saturday, or Monday? Friday, Saturday, Monday. Friday, Saturday, Monday. I'm going to say, um, I do like to look at the porn on Friday night. You've been working all week.

You've got to chill out, you know? It's like blow off a little steam, so to speak. Sure. That's right. All right. So Friday, also incorrect. It's today, Monday is the most popular day of the week to search for it. You can't be looking at porn on the first day of the week.

That's like, that's your whole week in a bad tone, man. Yeah, I agree. Exactly. I agree. It's, uh, you know, it's, it's Friday somewhere. Yeah. Oh, it's Monday's. This Monday's too hard to start.

I can't do this without some horn this morning. Exactly. Another Monday morning meeting? I forget it. I'm washing horn. I don't know why we're all doing that. I'm never going to attend a Zoom Monday morning meeting again. Everybody's pantsless.

That's true. Well, well done, Brian. You've really killed it today. He totally did. Sweat. Congratulations to Matthew from the United Kingdom. Hey, Matthew, you're getting the games that we didn't give away on Wednesday. You're getting Verlitt

Swing and when ski lifts go wrong on Steam. But Scott I'm sorry, Vlado from Melbourne, you're not going away empty-handed. You're not even going away, technically. You're getting a copy of Men of War, Assault Squad. Ooh.

Sexy. How very masculine. Men of war, assault war. Also, Vladdo Keacock, or how do you say his last name. Uh-huh. I only said his first name, but sure. What a cool sounding like Russian ex-patriot name or something. You sound like a...

Totally, he must break your steam game. It's going to assassinate all of us or something if he doesn't win something. So I'm glad you want something there, Vlato, and I really like this form of the game. It's way fun. Plano for Vlado. Hey, Brian, Dunaway, today at 3.30 on its new, shifted back to original time. We are doing the boop show today, so please tune in if you want to hear me talk about a game called, what is it?

Did you do Wildermith? Wildermith. Wildermith. I loved him on that 70s show. Old Wildermith. He was fantastic. And I'm going to be talking about Hellpoint. Whoa.

Hellpoint. That'll be good. That's a Souls like Scott in Space. Oh, hey, I think I may have played that. You have that one. According to the Steam says, hey, these friends have this game. Scott does too, but he's played zero. I don't think I've played it. I think I installed the code and then never played it. So I'll be

interested to hear what you have to say. That'll be tonight or this afternoon, depending on where you are, 3.30 Mountain Time right here at frogpants.tv. So come join us and check out the show. We talk about indie games. Yeah, that's right. Indie games on the Boobo show. All right. Brian, anything else you would like to say before we let you go? Um, no. Happy 4th of July. Yeah. Go masturbate. Bye. I mean, you know, we assume that, but maybe the porn people are just, you know, looking at the porn. Just fascinated by porn. Just some Monday morning porn.

I'm not saying they got the whole plan. I'm just saying maybe they're just like, oh, here's a glance, and now I can go to work, you know? I could really use to look at a boob. Right now. I sure can't use a booby. All right. How about a boob. We're going to do one news story.

Oh, okay. So enjoy this. I don't watch the news. It's today's news. Brought to you by. Overpriced Park City Burger. Yeah, they were way too much. Ask for them by name.

Really good, though. So this is, speaking of Russians and Ukrainians and things, this is pretty cool. So this place that's built into this resort, it's called, crap, forgot the name. Dang it. It's built into the Westgate Resort. People will know it if they've been. It's basically a burger slash bar, you know, they have alcohol and stuff too, but it's like a lot of really great food.

And the food is good. Like, the prices are high, but the food's really good. anyway all the employees are exchange college students they're here for like a study abroad program and they're all from like ukraine russia we met a lady from argentina amazing bunch of i say kids but they're you know 22 23 i guess they're still sort of kids to me but they are they're awesome and they're like yes but there's what is it they can take for your order please like it's a lot of that kind of accents fantastic it's such a cool thing every time we go there. It's always

these folks from like all over the world. It's awesome. Anyway. Very cool. Here's your first story and final and only story of the day. The sandwich police say seafood company lost approximately $10,000 worth of lobster after a local man

turned off the compressor and oxygen supplied to their tank of live seafood. Oh no! Oh my gosh. That headline is a paragraph by the way. It's huge. It really is. And you lost me, well, the whole thing was done to the soundtrack of Radiohead's Karma Police. I was singing, Sandwich Police.

That's awesome. Arrest this man, he cut off the air. Oh, this reminds me. So we were listening to them yesterday for some reason they were on. Radiohead. Yeah, some playlist in the car. And I got to thinking, and I made a mental note to ask you this, but then I forgot, but now you reminded me.

So here I'm asking you now. Sure, sure. Everyone has that time where even if you have the. broadest taste in music, and my tastes are pretty broad. I like everything. There are times where you're still like, I'm not in the mood, not the mood, not the mood, right? You just can't find the thing. What do you do when you feel like that? What do you fire up or change? Yeah, like what's my, what's the comfort food? No, what's the equivalent? Like, uh, I don't know what to call it. The common denominator, basically no matter what mood, this, this band always works.

Yeah, like if I couldn't, a couple years ago, if I couldn't find a video game that I wanted to play, I would play Diablo 3. If I couldn't find anything else I was in the mood for I'm like well I know

I can play that and then I'll play that so it's like that for me probably squeeze the band squeeze because there's such a again huge library they've been making music

since the 70s and still putting out stuff and I can put on a random playlist of squeeze songs and totally be happy no matter what kind of mood

I'm in I love that I'm going to try a squeeze next time I get stumped next time you're tempted make sure to play some squeeze. Yeah. R.E.M. kind of fixed us yesterday, but yeah,

sometimes I'm not in the mood for them. So, I don't know. Anyway, this story about this this, uh, this, uh, this dude who turned off a compressor. Oh my God. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. So they responded to a superior lobster and seafood to investigate a report of vandalism. Police

say video surveillance from June 24th in about 918 a.m. PM, rather showed a male party illegally throw trash in the company's commercial dumpster, and then proceed to turn off the compressor and oxygen supply to the live seafood tank. Investigation revealed a monetary loss of approximately $10,000 in damaged seafood. I assume that means dead, right?

Yeah, yeah. I mean, you still need those, you still need the bubbler to go off and aerate the water or put oxygen in the water. Oxygenate the water, yes. Ain't no lobster got time for that. Right. The suspect observed on the video was positively identified as Joseph Valdo. As a result, for Joseph Voldo was arrested and charged with felony vandalism and property and illegal dumping.

He's, let's see, Valdo has been posted from trespassing at the business and is due to court Monday. That would be today for his arraignment. Cape Cod, by the way, is where this one comes from, Cape Cod.com. Did you ever go there and do any paper stuff? I have been to Cape Cod, and when my dad lived in, just outside of Mystic, Connecticut, he was in New Haven, one of the days that he was working, my wife, Tina and I borrowed his car, and we drove to Cape Cod. Nice. Never been. It was lovely. Yeah, never been. Always meant to. Will one day, I suppose.

Beautiful part of the country. Yes. On that note, we're going to take a beautiful break from the country. And when we come back, Stephen Schlecker will join us. No Bill for the next couple of weeks. He's off to New York to visit family. And this is the time of year when everyone sees their family. That's where I was last weekend and Brian the weekend before or weekend before.

Right. But anyway, it's what it is. It's the summer of family reunions. And here in the States anyway, it's easier to do that. So first time and a long time for people and we wish Bill well. But Stephen will be here right after this break. Brian, why don't you play a song during the break? Oh, I don't mind if I do.

Let's go to Pittsburgh to a trio, pop-punk trio, called Eternal Boy. You guys will be able to see him this September because they're going to be part of the four-cord music fest with groups like Rise Against, the used state champs, all coming up this September of the Four-Cord Music Fest. And these guys are part of it. This is a band called Eternal Boy. They have a brand new video for a song that they released on their most recent album, which is called Bad Days Are. over. Here is Eternal Boy and the L-word. I know this time it couldn't be any words, but I'm better late than never. She epitomizes independence, yeah, I know what you're thinking.

She's a little misunderstood in your eyes. She don't need to put on all of that makeup. You're not fooling anyone. She spends her fools pissing off all the cool kids. Summer's a warm tour. She's not the type of girl who crashed through a year. trash and reunifies. You'll find her with a middle finger up to the sky.

I wrote you this letter to finally say that words, it's all to show. Oh, oh, oh, I think I'm in love. Oh, oh, oh, I think I'm in love. Over this time, I've been searching for someone like you. Oh, oh, oh, oh, ooh, I think I'm in love. It took a year, but then I said, hey, girl, can you help? I'm so lost, and I'm lonely.

She said, smile, be yourself, it's going to be all right. Don't hold back, be a freak, just you and no one else. Oh shit, all of this time I've been trying to be something. Katie, thanks for the memories. Oh, oh, oh, oh. I think I'm in love. Oh, I think I'm in love Although this time I've been searching for someone like you

Oh, oh, oh, who She's not the type of girl. She's not the type of girl who laughs at your dumb jokes She makes a point to say that you're not funny at all I wrote you this song so I can finally say I hope you choose to stay Oh, oh, oh, oh, I think I'm in love Oh, oh, oh, oh, I think I'm in love

Over this time I've been searching for some We'll let you Oh, oh, oh, oh, I think I'm in love. The most sophisticated robots are not on the job yet. Here at Johns Hopkins University, a robot was developed that gropes its own way down the halls. How's my suitcase working out for you? the morning stream uh-uh-uh-uh you didn't say the magic word and we're back brian that song again was that song again is called the l word by the band eternal boy from their new album bad days are over oh man what a what a rockin song that was i'll go listen to earlier i always go back and check because you know I don't want to miss out.

Some of them, my favorite, like, new bands or songs I've ever heard are things Brian played. And if I just skipped them, man, what would I, who would I be? What would I be? Exactly, exactly. Well, let's find out what this guy is. Where would you be? I'd be right here. Hey, check it out.

Stephen Schleiker all the way from Hayes, Kansas. And he joins us today from major spoilers.com, as he does every Monday. Stephen, a little early today, but thanks for being early. how we're doing all right is the boy driving what's going on what's going on in your life oh man the boy is driving he uh we made him uh he actually isn't he isn't bad um he isn't bad yeah let's just leave it at that he's not bad he's driving around let me try to convince let's just say yeah let's just say it's a good thing that they have 50 hours of required driving before you can get your uh your whatever the temporary license is

That's cool. Oh, the learners permit or whatever they call. Learners permit. No, he's got his learners permit. There's like a temporary between that in the drug place? Yeah, so you get your learner's permit at 14, then you get your temporary license at 15, and then your permanent one at 60. Oh, that's right. Because you guys also have like, hey, you're young enough or you're old enough to drive this tractor and help us make wheat or whatever. Right. Yeah, they get that whole thing. Or more like, you're young enough to drive this truck. Get out there. Yeah. Get to work, boy. Exactly.

Well, that's great. And part of a, it's a fatherhood requirement that you have to go through this. Yeah, it's been fun. I made him do a really long drive on Saturday. We went out for about 75 minutes. So it's like almost driving halfway across the state. Yeah. Well, well, done.

Well, it sounds like fun. Good. Well, it's good to have you here, as it always is, to talk about some nerdier topics, you know, comic books and the whatnot. I do need to talk to you about my current reading obsession because I think I remember being told by you that, People were not happy about this at the time. But I'm reading the doomsday clock DC event thing. Right. And it was, so for those who don't know what that is, it's basically a crossover of the Watchman and the DC universe.

And that seems, that's sacrosanct, like, you know, holy ground for a lot of people who see the Watchmen as this singular thing that should never be messed with or added on to. It's a little like the Bible, you know, like some people see, you hear somebody say, hey, how come we don't put new school? scriptures in that their Bible today and you said well you can't do that there's a Bible you can't touch it it's like that was Watchman right yeah it's like it's like adding a Leviticus chapter 15 verse 34 and God said to Moses trust science wear a mask vaccinated a little retconning okay yeah yeah yeah so the interesting thing about that crossover is I think it's an interesting concept because you know in in Watchman Dr. Manhattan's on Mars and he's like I shall create my own universe, and I will go and explore what that is.

Right. And that is supposed to be that, you know, in this crossover is that Dr. Manhattan created the DC universe. Yeah. Yeah. And this is what he's going into exploring. Yeah, which is, I understand a lot of fans are going to go, what? Come on now. Well, you can't br, bra, bra, and freak out about that.

But I am really enjoying it. And I have no problem, especially in the comics, but I'm fine with TV and movies doing this too. Explore new ideas. Go, hey, what if? and then do me do me some what if i don't have a problem with it in fact you've established so much multiverse in both marvel and dc universes and beyond why not mess around and do some weird stuff and you know i love the metal stuff and all some people just consider watchman that that holy relic like you you all that you mentioned a moment ago but also so many people realize that

alan more is has been kind of screwed out of the whole watchman deal and so just on that principle alone, they kind of want DC to stop messing around with Watchmen. And for those that aren't familiar, you know, there was an agreement between DC and Alan Moore that after the run, after

they were done with a regular run and DC was no longer going to publish Watchman, that that book would revert back to Alan Moore so he could do with it whatever he want. But D.C., after the success of that book, has kept that book in constant publication through trade paperbacks and other forms. So in a sense,

Alan Moore has no rights to anything that's happened. And now with D.C. continuing to explore what's going on in the Watchman universe, it angers Alan Moore so much that every time they send him a residual check or they try to give him money for the movies, he just tears him up and throws him away. Well, he's a caveman and weird. But I also understand. And I also understand, you know, that's some genius has the garnish of crazy and it's great and whatever. And I love Alan Moore's work. Everything I've ever read Alan Moore do is amazing content. I guess I would just say this concept of like exploring like I'm not going to spoil this

in case someone wants to read this series but the Doomsday Clock they do a they do a really interesting thing with Roershack that I did not see coming and you might say to yourself wait a minute didn't Roershack I mean spoiler for a comic come out in the 80s but didn't he die in the comics he did so what is this I don't want to tell you because I think it's rad how they got it can all he can do is emojis on his face I wish it was that simple It's a very cool It's a very cool take

And these new characters I assume they're new The Marionette and the Yes Those are created specifically for this series They're awesome They are very cool characters Like there's a lot of really rad stuff going on

And it's I don't know I think it's great so far I'm really enjoying it And maybe six seven issues in But Yeah let me spoiler for you Scott Yeah They've done nothing with it since

Oh I just kind of let that lie did they well i mean look who the writer is and you know he's very popular and people like him a lot he also has a habit of let me do this thing and then walk away and find something right and get mad when anybody else tries to do anything with that right to evolve that story yeah right it's it's really interesting so anyway if you if you use the dc infinite app like i do and i've just been a devouring stuff in there uh you really like it but there is a difference between what makes people mad about um about watchman or makes it feel like this this this holy ground and and say something like the character of Venom, which Todd McFarlane created for Marvel, but then never got any kind of residual for and still doesn't. But nobody gets mad when there's like a new twist on the Venom series. Nobody does anything.

They don't go, oh, Todd McFarland's rolling in his grave. He's not even dead yet, bar, you know, this sort of thing. That's a little bit different, right? Because Todd McFarlane and the rest of the guys that were at Marvel and D.C., they left and created something even bigger than what they created with Venom. Yeah, you're right. And in that extent, Todd McFarlane's like, yeah, who cares? I'm sitting here on millions upon millions of dollars from toys and image comics and other

things. Yeah. Meanwhile, Alan Moore is just deeper into whatever holy digs into his cave to go deeper inside of it. That's where he is. All right. Well, Alan Moore, maybe make something new. That'd be cool.

Hey, Stephen, let's get to it. There's talk that the Flash will end with season eight. That's a lot of seasons. I didn't realize we were already at eight years of this show. That's crazy. I know. And I think, I don't know if you're watching it, Brian, but season seven really kind of is showing it's, it's, uh, you mean the Iris show? Is that, is that we're watching?

Man, I cannot believe that it's like, hey, let's do a show about Iris being pregnant and then not have Iris show up in the show at all. Yeah. So the reason why she wasn't in is because of, uh, the way the contracts were negotiated that she was contractually not in that episode. why they they still wrote an episode that focused on her in that case is beyond me. But, you know, looking at, you know, Candace Patton and, oh, who are the others, we got Candace and Joe West and Caitlin and Caitlin. Right. But no more Cisco, which, which bumps me out. I felt like he was the most interesting character on that show. Right.

Yeah, Carlos Valdez and. Tom Cavanaugh, who plays Wells, they ended their contracts at the end of seven. Last year in 20, whatever last year was, during season six, everybody was negotiating their contracts, and Grant Guston had negotiated his contract through the end of season eight. Jesse Martin and Daniel Panabaker and Candace Patton only negotiated contracts to the end of season seven. now they have concluded negotiations only for season eight so because they're only going at a season at a time

and because everybody's contract or at least all the main players' contracts suddenly are ending at season eight I have a feeling that this is going to be the last It feels like a good time to say all right let's let's call it a clean break with the yeah yeah and even the dude who's playing Ralph Dibney

who's doing the best Jim Carrey impersonation ever like having him on more would be great But there's just no, the only common relief is the occasional. There's a problem with Ralph Dibney in that the actor who played him had a bunch of, let's just say, not very good tweets. Oh, one of those. He got socially removed from not only Twitter, but also from the show. Gotcha. What were the nature of those tweets?

Do we know what those tweets were? He's apologized for them. Oh. Hartley Sawyer Yeah Yeah Well look James Gunn

Same deal He's fine He's all back It's all good Making whatever Cover it nicely Yeah Cancelled

Everybody canceled Uh Hey All right So that's going away In film He played Ron Batty In the Blade Runner

Holiday special Which must have been a What? Funny or die thing Oh it had to be Right Yeah he was doing He was doing a bunch of stuff

With him I want to see that I do too whatever it is, I want to see it. You got me with that. No Lovecraft Country 2. People are pissed, or Season 2, rather. People are pissed about this because the first season was beloved and very good.

It seemed like they could keep going on, but they're not going to. Why? What's going on? Well, so the book that the Lovecraft Country was based on was only a single book. It's not a series. And so that should have been kind of maybe a first indicator. But the Misha Green, who has been working on a lot of season 2, was, you know, letting out little hints and clues along the way of what they had planned for season two.

Apparently, they had a lot of the stuff written. But then HBO was just like, no, we're not going to, we're not going to follow it and we're not going to continue with this. I don't know why, because it was a very popular show and did get a lot of attention, especially when you look at black actors and actresses in horror-themed movies. You don't see a lot of that where they are the primary leads. But HBO just decided, no, we're not going to continue with that and just shut down production. that's a bummer because that was a cool very interesting cool show yeah especially if you go and look at at her uh twitter feed she's been releasing more information about how the world of lovecraft country would have been different in season two in that basically there was a reset button that they that they set

with the magic that was released where now black people also have the power to have magic and so the united states would have been kind of reset and divided into three different or four different areas one of them was, I forget what it's all called, but it's like the new black South or something like that. And so it was going to be, you know, the South that was primarily controlled by, you know, black people. And then you had the American West, which was the native tribes were in control of that. And then you had this thin strip of, you know, white America where all these zombies were at. So I have no idea what they're going to do beyond that. But if you go and check her Twitter feed, you can.

find some other things that she's tweeted out the show had it been into season two and is there any plan for a follow-up book because maybe that's all we need maybe you just need not that i have ever seen anything from from matt what's his name matt stone i believe is his is is the writer's name it was a very good book um it was written you know three or four years before they even talked about doing lovecraft country as a tv series yeah so my guess is if he really wanted to do something, there would have been a sequel by the time that the first season had dropped on HBO. I'm sorry, Matt Routh. Matt Ruff is his name.

Oh, okay, cool. Yeah. That reminds me, they just started production on that Last of Us adaptation on HBO. Oh, right. For the game, yeah. That looks great. Pedro Pescal in the main role. And I forgot the girl they announced is the Pays Ellie.

Oh, man, I'm really looking forward to that. That'll be great. Yes, the Matt Stone from Trey Parker and Matt Stone. That was the only thing that popped into my mind at the moment. Oh, there you go. Okay. Okay, well, that's all well and good, but not great. But also, hey, it stands on its own. This is an amazing season of thing, and you'll never.

Does it? Does it, will it be a satisfying conclusion? Because it was a hard sell to Tina. It's on our list to watch, but it's hard to describe to get Tina on board to watch it. Yeah, she's not usually just like, hey, supernatural, I'm in. Right? You got to kind of. Yeah.

So, you know, the premise of Lovecraft Country is, you know, you know, all these Lovecraftian horrors, which, you know, drive people crazy and are, you know, are out there in the world. How do black people deal with Lovecraftian horrors when, you know, they live during these era of Jim Crow and their daily lives are very much worse than Lovecraftian horror? Right. And so you end up seeing what Matt Ruff does in the stories is he takes these black protagonists and really takes all the, inherent racism and all the horror that is in Lovecraft's writing and just flips it on the ear where black people are like, at least in his book, are like, no, we're not having any of that. And really step forward and not only put it into the racism around them, but also through the destruction of Lovecraftian monsters in the series, they're putting down

Lovecraft's racism as well. Yeah, such an interesting, it's such an interesting combination of like social commentary and and there's some very scary moments in in the series oh yeah the tv series goes in i mean it follows the book fairly faithfully but they're they go in different directions with that that are are scary i mean if you're if you're not a fan if tina's not a fan of body horror i would avoid that because there's a person who literally uh does a passing for white by changing her body and it gets very gruesome in the way that that happens um there are some little monsters that chase one of the one of the black girls in the series and i think they're super frightened so wow okay if she's not into that then i would she you know she'll she'll do

anything except like really like hostile kind of level horror hos t-el not h-o-s-t i mean there's not gore porn for the fact you know so the fact of violence and it's all motivated and you know they try to portray or i think they do a very good job portraying how black people had to deal with with racism during the Jim Crow era you want to watch a racist dirtbag sheriff get shredded by an eldritch horror freaking demon dog or whatever it's awesome it's okay all right yeah i mean there's definitely comeuppance for the for the for the racism yeah but you know they definitely lean into they're not afraid to go and also this is tons of social commentary but guess what

What else it is? A lot of kind of gore in the horror, you know, horror movie business. They go all in. So it's really interesting. All right. What else is? Keeping it on the list. Yeah, yeah, you should. Comic sales did real well during the pandemic, it turns out. I'm not surprised by this, but how well? Well, you know, it's really surprising because, you know, comic book shops and even comic

distributors shut down. Comic book publishers told their writers and artists to, you know, put their pins down and not work for, you know, three or four months out of the year before things started opening back up. But thanks to comic book sales and thanks to trade paperback sales and thanks to a lot of kid comics, comic book sales actually rose in 2020 by $700,000 or $7 million, yeah, $7 million in 2020. So it went from $1.21 billion to $1.28 billion in 2020. Digital comic sales also played a part in that in that digital comic sales had about a 10,000, million dollar increase from the year before. So, yeah, things are, things are looking really good

for comic sales in 2020. That's awesome. I'm happy to hear that. I feel like this, you know, my, my resurgence of just wanting to read them all the time happen then. And I'm still there. I read them every night and I can't, kind of can't get enough. So I'm happy to hear that, you know, I mean, that's just good. That's just good for everybody to know that there's, you know, growth there and that there's no stagnation or whatever or there's less or whatever because as much as I love that mainstream the mainstream world has embraced the MCU and everyone loves it even if they never read a comic that's great and all but I still love the source like I want the source to continue to be rad because to me it would be the worst crime in the world that you just move forward to a bunch

of movies about heroes that we already know but comics just end up in the dumper like I would hate that so this is good yeah it's good news Well, and I think it's, you know, the accessibility of digital comics really helped this year as, you know, graphic novels and being able to order stuff through Amazon as opposed to single issues really helped out a lot as well. And I'm hoping because it's almost double the number of comic, of digital comics that were sold in 2020 compared to all of the other years previous. Usually it's fairly flat and stagnant. But seeing almost a double digit, you know, not a double digit, but a 200% increase in sales on the digital side, I'm hoping shows that more people will stick. around for digital comics going forward. Yeah. It makes me wonder how many people know, because I don't think they advertise it very

well. How many people know about these two apps? Like how many, or, you know, these two main apps, there's certainly others, but comicsology, the DC Infinite and the Marvel Unlimited, all three of those are incredible. It's Netflix for comics. Like, it really truly is. And I can't imagine life without those things now. Like, I just love them. There's so much to binge and go back to and things you missed and things you didn't hear of and revisit stuff you love and whatever. Like, it's amazing. And I just don't know how many people know that you can even do this shit, you know?

I can't keep up with all the stuff that I put in my list in Marvel Unlimited to read. Yeah, there's tons of it. I love it. So, anyway, hopefully more of that will continue to be cool. Finally, X-Men 1. Yep, never heard of it before. A brand-new comic coming out of Marvel. X-Men number one.

Finally getting their own title. Wow, good deal. Yeah. So that's hitting what this week? What do we need to know? That arrives this week from Marvel. comics, this is kind of the, you know, the X-Men went and formed, or the mutants of the Marvel universe went and formed their own society on Krokoa, and they've been doing their own thing,

and then they had the X-Men gala event that was going on, and there was a murder at the gala, and now all heck is breaking loose, and of course there needs to be heroes that step forward and continue to protect the mutants of the world, introducing X-Men number one. Oh, wow. So, I saw a lady Wolverine, but I think that's what's her name? That's, yeah, X23. Oh, is that who it is? Okay.

She's very Wolverine in this. She's very Wolveriney. Yes. Got the yellow suit, the ears, and the whole smear going on there. It's cool to see Sunfire. I watched their whole little motion comics trailer for the new comic, which I dig. I totally dig that they're doing with us. Yeah, that's great.

And look at that, you know, 300,000 views on this thing or something. That's good. I don't know. I'm just always, I'm such a proponent of like, please, like comics always be around and never go away. Please. Yeah. Yeah. Like, where else I'm going to get this? Like, they can't, right? It can't. No, I mean, it's a legitimate art medium. So there's no way that it will go away. All right. Because I'm fine.

Now, it may evolve, right? I mean, so, you know, a lot of people think that comic books are just capes and tights. But, I mean, look at European comics. Look at your favorite Scott manga from overseas. And, you know, just look and see what the independent. comic book publishers are creating and they're doing stuff that's not always capes and tights related and there's some fantastic stuff out there so comics will always be around it just may not be the type of comics that you prefer yeah i mean i don't know it just feels like a feels like we're having a bit of a heyday and i don't know what that actually means i think i'm just having one but maybe yeah i suspect that in the next couple of weeks you're going to start seeing some mainstream media

pick up on the comic book sales and once again you'll see the headlines comics just aren't for kids anymore. Comics do great during the pandemic. Comics are back, everybody. Have you heard? Comics are back? Yeah, yeah. Can't wait for that. All right. Well, there's plenty more going on over major spoilers, as always. Is there anything in particular? People should be checking out right now. If you are a fan of the alcohol, Brian. I'm sorry. If you're a fan of alcohol, as you know, Brian, many people are. No, you had to write the first time. We have a brand new feature in the, so you want to read comics for people. that are looking for comic book recommendations this week. It's all about alcohol, and Jonathan has a couple of comics to recommend that either deal with the history of alcohol or talk about alcohol in various forms, in comic book form. So people can go check that out.

So you want to read the Alcohol Edition. The best comics to read when you're drunk is what I was hoping you were going to say. Oh, man. Sorry. Well, that answer is always Watchman. We'll come full circle here. There you go. Um, by the way, your, your header just reminded me, happy 15 years, by the way.

Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 15 years of major spoilers. That's insane. Oh, very cool. Yeah. That's about the, I mean, your son's just barely younger than this.

Right. Yeah. Weird. He's, he's just under a year, just under a year younger than the site. That's crazy. Well, congratulations. That's a hell of a thing that you did there. Thank you.

And lots of great content always happening over at major spoilers.com. Major spoilers on Twitter, Stephen. Have a great day. Any advice as you leave? I would tell everyone to stay hydrated. Oh, okay. Great. Man, how much longer do I have to look at Michael Bolton on this?

I'm going to delete that. Confused Michael Bolton from Wednesday's Recommendal. He's just staring at us, man. That guy. Love is a beautiful thing. What am I doing here? Captain Jack of Tortuga. I just think of his stupid Captain Jack song.

All right. is the story of Captain Jack Sparrow. Those guys are great, dude. Those guys are great. I had a lonely island on in the car. That song's pretty fine, you know, pretty, pretty clean, I suppose. And I got, you know, cousins and stuff in the car. Or I guess it was just Carter.

I don't remember who was in there. And I'm cranking it. And then the next song up is, uh, how old was it? I think it was jizzing your pants or something with those. Oh, right. I was like, oh, right. I can't play this in the car with Mix Company. Turn that off.

Yeah, Carter is not my cousin, Claire. You're right. All right. That's it for Stephen. Big thanks, Stephen, for me and here, as always. We're going to now play you a mashup. This is a TMS Origins mashup about everyone's favorite guy. Dude and I drive up trying to get a fish sandwich while he's trying to do a morning show thing.

Now, this is interesting because the origin of this just happens to be the time that I played it. So there's a lot of extra stuff here, like an intro for the show. And it's interesting, Brian. And this is back when we did intros before we started based on headlines and things, but not after the show was over or after we collect the titles from the listeners. Right, because sometimes those intros, we'd never get to the story that we were introing. Right. You'd say, uh, Bill Murray does a thing with a thing and then never talk about the show.

We never got to the Bill Murray story. So we've learned, we've learned. But anyway, here is an origins episode. Big thanks to Jamie, who is recovering still and conveys his continual thanks for everybody. helping him out with his GoFundMe. That worked out great. And J.K. Grammar for your help as well. Here it is, the origins of too early to get a fish sandwich.

Coming up on TMS, it's not me, it's you. Game of Thrones will spoil readers. Snoop TV is coming. The Pope likes his a pizza. Russo brothers are also up, what, are all up in the next two Avengers movies. Fitness geek. Jury duty and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Oh, wow, deteriorating

conditions for sure. It's incredible to see what's happening out there. Let's start off with our traffic jam, Jimmy. He's out in our Lens Solar Mobile Track, and he's been everywhere from Pennsylvania, now down through Towson. Hi, Jimmy, what's the latest? Hello, please move forward to the next speaker.

Hey, is it too old, you get a fish sandwich? Oh, next speaker, hang on. Oh, Candace, we live? Oh, hey, I've been to car since 4 o'clock. I'm starving. I'm just getting something real quick. Hey, too or I get a fish sandwich? Okay, well.

Yeah, can I get a fish sandwich? Stay put. It's bad out here. I've been out since four. Stay put, folks. Trust me. I didn't know we were coming live. I'm sorry.

I told you we were coming to you. All right. I'm in love with it. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to the morning stream. TMS for short. That guy's my favorite new person in the world. Conditions are bad out here, folks.

You can't get a fish sandwich anywhere. You might as well just stay home. Yeah, I capped out this bit just to keep here. Hey, too early, get a fish sandwich. Too early, you get a fish sandwich. Y'all got a fish sandwich, dirt, dirt. That guy's great. He has a bright orange beard, by the way.

I don't know what's up with that That was interesting part of the commercial or not commercial A new spot actual new spot Guy screwed up my ice worm sent that in Oh it was ice worm he sent it in Ice warm Now we know how to give a credit Some credit to

So that's cool I also I clip this out just from this Can I get a fish sandwich? Just as an alt I know I know it's like I'd forgotten that he He asked that a couple times during the He's into it man Dude was into it

Really wants that fish sandwich but it's only nine am come on man no kidding ice warm by the way still a regular listener of the show and also does a lot of behind the scene stuff for us and he's yeah like he he still assembles all of the music that we play into a handy uh page that you can go to at coverville.com slash tms if you want to see any of the music we've played and find out where to buy it yeah so ice warm we don't say your name in a lot but you're a stud we appreciate your hard work you are and i don't mean stud as in you're going to get you know farmed out for your sperm or anything. Well,

I mean, maybe. That is our next Patreon level. I don't want to mention that to you. You never say never, but you know, just in case. All right.

Well done, everybody. We've done a show and we appreciate you being here to be a part of it. Thanks for letting us have a couple days off because, you know, had to happen. And things are pretty clear until August for me. I got,

oh, we're going, I haven't told you. I think I'm, I think we got a Vegas trip plan for my, uh, anniversary, Kim and I's anniversary.

Really? Which this year, will be 28 years. Yeah. No way. 29, Scott. 29 years. You and I, we got married the same year and I just celebrate our 29. So I'm hoping that this is your. Yeah, I've got the math wrong. 29. I'm glad you said that. 29 years. Yeah. Well, I have some recommendations. You got to check out Area 15. Put that on your list right now. I actually did from your, when you mentioned it the other day. So we are definitely going to do that. and I might need to ping it for some other food ideas. Yeah.

But it's going to be great. I'm looking forward to it. And, you know, Kim and I been at it for, I mean, think of that, dude. Next year, it'll be 30 years. How long have you and Kim been at it? This is how people always go, man, you must have had kids young. And I think they assume, because we did. And I was 25.

She was 22 when we had our first one. And I think people hear that and go, oh, he's, you know. one of these high school pregnancy things this is like over here. I'm like no. Oh no. We're married 30. When we're married 30, I will not have a 30 year old. I will have a, whatever she'll be. 28, 7, whatever it is.

Anyway, the math's hard. Let's not do it. Let's move on and say to the fine folks at home that we really appreciate your help at patreon.com slash TMS and we'd love you to continue that. It's a brand new month. So if you've never jumped on before now's the time, get great benefits and rewards every day.

that you don't get other places if you go to patreon.com.com TMS and just check us a buck a month or more. You'll find all kinds of reasons over there, so go check it out. And for everything else, frogpance.com slash TMS, send us your emails,

the morning stream at gmail.com. That's going to do it for us. Brian, do you have a song we can play at the end here? I do. And it's funny because this person made this request and didn't even, you know, they buried the lead, basically.

But Nate W., who goes by the name, Tenacious Warden in chat, and on Twitter, says, Hello, gents. Today, July 1st, 2021, is my wife and my, excuse me, one year anniversary. I had a random cough there, rogue cough. Rogue cough.

This has been our song since the beginning, and I would love to have it played for us on the special day. He says, to Steph, you're the greatest wife, partner, and friend a man could ever dream of. I'm fortunate to have met you. And this past year has been the greatest of my life. I love you and I appreciate you. Your loving husband for forever and eight days, signed Nate. Now, he wrote that, he planned this request a month ago, June 5th.

And yesterday, he and his wife welcomed a brand new baby. They tweeted to us. So congratulations to Nate and Steph. And welcome to the world, Aero Antonio. It's an amazing name. It's a really a great name. And congratulations you, you too, and good luck getting any sleep for the next few months. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Here's their request. The song is a cover of Elvis Presley's Can't Help Falling in Love. Covered here by a woman who works a lot with postmodern jukebox, producing a doing a lot of vocals for them. She's got such a great voice. Haley Reinhart, here's her cover. From our album, Better from 2015, here's Can't Help Falling in Love. Wise men say, only fools rush in, but I can't help falling in love with you.

While I stay, would it be a sin? Oh, if I can know falling in love with you. Like a river flows. Surely to the sea Darling so we go Some things are meant to be Take my hand Take my whole life

To all for us I'm falling in love with you Oh like a river flows Shortly to the sea Darling so it goes Some things are meant to be I won't take my hand, take my whole life too, for I can help falling in love with you. I can help falling in love with you.

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