The Morning Stream - TMS 2172: Gin-Swilling Firecracker

Episode Date: September 13, 2021

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Yeah. There's a lot. I noticed even on your last night, you put up a little photos like one final pint before we leave. Yeah. Yeah, we, we, um, we drank every day in, uh, in Ireland, as you do. Yeah, sure. One night, especially quite a bit with, uh, with Claire up in Belfast, but I had a pint of Guinness every night, except for the night that it was in cork, because apparently in cork, you have to drink Murphy's Irish stout. Oh, right. You talked about this, uh, the other day how they were, they're, they're, not rivals, but you got to, not rivals. And I was, uh, under the impression when, um, it came on

the show on Thursday and talked about it. I was under the impression that it's like all the south, you go Murphy's and the north you drink Guinness. No, it's pretty much all of Ireland you drink Guinness, except in Cork where you drink Murphys. Weird. Why is Cork different? Because that's where Murphy's

comes from and you better have some you better have some pride in your hometown stout. Claire says, you don't have to, but it's wise to. Does that mean you're going to get your ass kick or something? You might. You might get a, you might get a pint in the face if you uh man that's rough so you're probably still all like jet laggy in business yeah i am yeah i uh about eight o'clock last night i started feeling like oh i could just go to bed

right now i was like trying to keep my eyes open we're watching something that i'm hoping to use for recommendals it's gonna be like uh i think i enjoyed this for the parts that i was awake for kind of thing yeah but uh and then woke up at about four o'clock this morning you know fully awake so it's i'm adjusting yeah you'll get that it's actually sounds like it's maybe a little better at it's better than it was yesterday and that and better there than the day before so it's i'm slowly adjusting but i did have to take a uh a muscle relaxant to stay asleep it's like the you know waking up at three and two the morning before and it's like all right this is this is slowly adjusting yeah you got you get some of that uh colorado weed man right right yeah and people are pointing out

It's like the jet lag is backwards because usually when you go east, it's supposed to be worse than when you go west. The day we went there, it helped that our flight was overnight, and I kind of slept a little bit on the plane. So when we arrived in Heathrow and then in Dublin, it was like 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock p.m. And after all that traveling, we were exhausted. We went to bed at a relatively normal time and woke up at a decent time. So, like, that all worked out really well in our favor. But on the way back, we left in the afternoon, and it was still the same afternoon when we got back.

And that whole thing just messed me up. It's like, you know, the ancient one was sitting there with the time stone showing me all these different paths and saying, well, you're plane, bright, your plane took off here. And you're here, and the green infinity stone is hovering in space. stuff so did it look like uh tilda swinton or the more comic book it looked just like tilda swinton all right sweet that's the one you want yeah she's pretty great that's the ancient one you want yeah that's the one i like the ones in the comics are fine but she's you know something about her she's just too weird to look away from that's all i mean she is she is she's a great

she's got a great compelling look to her that works to her favor in roles like that yeah yeah um but uh yeah we know we had such a great time and and just kind of overall um Ireland is wonderful it is there are no things that I can complain about

with Ireland the scenery is absolutely stunning we saw the big things you've got to see out there

right the cliffs of mower the ring of Kerry the caves of Chesendon

which all sound like D&D campaigns I was going to say they sound like D&D campaigns or drops in those campaigns

or something exactly right The Giants Causeway, again, sounds like a D&D expansion. It does. And the people, every single person with the exception of one that we ran into were wonderful and friendly and like even some of them just going out of their way to make sure we were having a good time that we were. taken care of, et cetera, right? Like a hotel desk clerk that, you know, drew up a map of, all right, here's where you're going to want to turn.

You're going to want to take your rental car back. Go through here because the gas, the petrol is going to be cheaper there before you take it back to the agency, which is over here. And if you take this road back here, you can avoid all the traffic that's going to be along the river and blah, blah, blah. Who is super cool. How are the gas prices in that place, by the way? Expensive.

Petrol, like, it cost about 50 euro to $5. fill up our tank, which is about, what, $75, $80. And that's like a little car, right? American, and there's a little car. It was a hybrid. It was a Honda, CHV, which I don't know what, yeah, if that's a model you can get them here. Okay. I think so.

I think the name might be different, but I'm pretty sure that that's a hybrid you can get here, I think. Yeah. But, you know, the fact that it was a hybrid really helped us out, because we drove, We basically went around the circumference of the island, starting in Dublin, up to Belfast, over to Sligo, or we'll follow the Antrim Coast, then down to Sligo, Galway, Port McGee in the Ring of Cary, and then Cork, and then back to Dublin. So overall, and we figured it out, we drove about 1,660 kilometers, which is 1,000 miles. We talked about this on Thursday, because you made the, I would drive 500 miles, John. Oh, right. Yeah, that's true.

But let me tell you about this, driving, Scott. So I made the right choice. At the car rental place, they had me set up for a little manual automobile. Eight euro a day for this thing. Is that a lot? Is that a little? No, that's like, what, $12, $13 a day for a rental car? Oh, that's cheap.

Holy crap. It was manual transmission, didn't have anything, like no place to plug in a USB for music, no, no nothing. This is like high school or something, back in the day, man. That's great. Exactly. So he said, so we've got that. I said, look, you know, I arranged for a manual. What's the best you can do for me on an automatic?

Because I'll take the manual, but if you can give me a good deal on an automatic, we'll go with the automatic. He's like, yeah, actually, we have one. You'll save some money on petrol because it's hybrid, but it's got all of the things you're going to want, especially, oh my God, especially a rearview camera because that was so important to so many things, and I'll talk about that in a second. but um so we upgraded us for half of what the cost was when i was going to book it online so i went online originally said all right how much is a manual how much is an automatic automatic was like 110 euro per day versus eight euro day for the manual and he gave us the automatic for about 50 euro a day so it's like all right that's good perfect pretty good yeah not bad yeah still cheaper in here no matter what you get here and one less thing that i'd have to figure out right because it's uh

Oh, hell, yeah. You know, like, there's so much. There's, like, road signs that are weird shapes and have weird pictograms on them, like a pot of gold on this one. It's because there's this ancient place, man. They got, like, you know, a thousand years of history. They don't, like, build on freeways every day, right? Right, and let me tell you, they built those roads back in the day of horses,

everybody riding around horses, and they never expanded them. The width of the road, in many cases, in most of the roads we were going on, were barely wider than the width of my car with the side mirrors extended. Damn, man. That's nuts. And you're going 100 kilometers an hour down them, which is like 65 miles per hour. Which is fast if you're on a narrow road. It's really fast. It's faster.

You're on a narrow road, and you've got another car coming at you. Especially, oh, my God, there was one Guinness truck that, um, that. was coming at us and we're like, oh my God, Tina, this road is so narrow. Look how wide. He's kind of overlapping the stripe. And we had like a brick wall on one side or like a stone wall. There was somebody's property on one side. And then the truck, I don't know how, I don't know how I cleared it without scraping

the crap out of the sideneers or anything. Yeah, I know this feeling because there's a lot of this in China. And when I drove there, I thought, I thought we were going to die every time we drove anywhere. And it was worse because they didn't have, like, good laws or, like, orderly anything. It was just like, me, me, me, me, me, just everybody for themselves. But he had the same problem. Super narrow roads. Guy coming at us with a huge thing full of rags or whatever.

You're like, where am I going to even go? And so when I was thinking about you over there, I was thinking, yeah, it's like cobble. In my head, I'm just picturing really narrow cobblestone places where, like, you know, rogues and thieves are hanging out waiting for somebody. Right. No, actually, the roads were, this was bliss away because we're thinking, yeah, what are the roads going to be like? The roads were all impeccably taken care of. So even some of these smaller county roads that get you from one city to the next, all just beautifully maintained. Cars on the road, we were looking for, because every, you know, all through Dublin were like, wow, look at all these like gorgeous cars that look like they. all came off the lot and aside from taxis everything looked like it just got driven off the lot like clean no dense no nothing and we made it a point to just look for junker irish cars and didn't see any the entire time we're out there that's interesting because i would have thought you'd have found somebody like that star trek uh episode where all the irish people came aboard and

had pigs and stuff right where can a lady wash our feet on this thing yeah exactly do you guys get snow or is do they get snow in that part of they do they get they get snow um it doesn't last like they can you know they'll get uh um a decent snowfall but the next day will be gone it'll be like sometimes in colorado you get that unless you just get a major blizzard i bet you get that the same way in utah sure but they're not like i guess my point is they don't they're not using a bunch of salts so their cars aren't are getting all corroded from that that that's huge yeah that totally makes a difference. The roundabouts were a new experience,

especially going around roundabouts clockwise instead of counterclockwise. I'm not going to say anti-clockwise. I couldn't do it. Yeah. Yeah, no, that whole thing of like, you're on the left side of the road. So a left turn you make without stopping

or with a brief stop. Whereas you're thinking, oh, left turn from the right lane here in the U.S., I've got to stop, I've got to wait, double check for traffic. You've got to make sure to look the correct way when you come to an intersection. Yeah, that's that was for me. I'd be in a wreck.

Yeah, but a lot of the roundabouts were the kind you expect, or the kind you see here, where it's a little raised mound in the middle of a large intersection with grass and maybe a statue or something on there or a sign or whatever. Those were great. You come to one of those, you know exactly how it works. you start going around. Oh, there's a car coming to your right. You just wait.

And then when he's gone, you go. Piece of cake. And it's like so much better than a four-way stop. But then you get to these roundabouts where it's a circle painted on the middle of the intersection about the size of a Pizza Hut personal pan pizza with no mound, no sign, no nothing. And you're like, do I just go? Why is he going? Should I just go? And then you realize, oh, this is a roundabout.

We're supposed to drive around that little white personal pan pizza in the middle of the road and in a clockwise fashion to get to our next, our next road. That I wasn't expecting. That was like the first day discovery of like, oh, why is that guy waving me through? Should I just go? Just keep going. That's crazy. I mean, obviously, it's, you know, everyone theirs used to it. And if they came here, they'd be weirded out by whatever dumb stuff we do.

But that stuff always fascinates me. how people get around, you know, and how different it is. And the other thing with that is here in the U.S., you're used to interstates going near the cities that you're trying to go to, right? So you're going 65, 75 miles an hour down the road, and, oh, there's Provo, or there's Little Fork or American Fork or whatever it is, whichever fork. Right, American Fork. You've got it right. Spanish fork is no one, but, yeah, the American or Spanish hanging out. but yeah like there's an exit and then you see the town there's an exit you get off the exit you go to that town yeah in ireland the the big roads go right through the town and when you get to that town it's like all right 120 kilometers per hour oh now we're going on oh now we're going 80 oh now we're going 60 and we're going right through the center of the town wow in all of these and uh that's something that i wasn't expecting either but uh wow yeah teen and i did i had to memorize well i Let me phrase that.

I had to memorize the translations, the kilometer to mile ratio because when you cross the border, going from Ireland into Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, you go from kilometers per hour to miles per hour on all the signs. So what you were looking at is 100 and 120 kilometers per hour. Now you're seeing 50 and 60 miles per hour. So Tina, Tina and I basically memorize it's like, okay, 30 is 48. 40 is 64, 50 is blah, blah, blah, so that as soon as we came to one of those, there's no mile per hour gauge on the car, only kilometers per hour. So then I had to do the math in my head to figure it out. There was probably, and we had the book in there, we tried to figure out if there was a way to turn the digital gauge on the speedometer to miles. but there was no

there were no obvious buttons to say like set up, change miles per hour unless those are digital either the digital readout or the kind that are they look like an actual dial but they're digital and they convert back and forth unless that's like the car feature

I don't you know I assume a lot of cars out that way do have the switch just because sure and I'm sure there was a way to find it but it yeah it wasn't obvious I like Honda though I like honda's almost are good yeah yeah enjoyed enjoy driving that honda a lot it was a really nice really nice smooth ride and that um review camera came in really handy because you pull into a bed and breakfast

and they've got a little yard in front of their house yeah um that holds that would hold seven cards if you were playing that rush hour game with all the little plastic cars that you move around but not real cars never never would a real car Not really. Yeah, exactly. And that's kind of what we had to do at a couple of these places where there were like five or six guests, each with their own cars. And so I was like, all right, I'm going to pull forward into this spot. They're going to pull out because they need to leave. Then I'm going to back out to the road, turn around somehow, and then back into that spot so that I can get out when we need to leave. Yeah. Oh, it was nuts. It sounds insane. I would stress out a lot with this situation. That kind of cramp places, me having a drive. drive around it. I'm, I'm, I'm an open road guy. Me too. I described it to Tina, like I said, hey, you know like a Disneyland, that Riot Autopia where you're driving on those little roads and you've got that bar that

keeps your car from going off of them and those little tiny Disneyland cars? Now imagine driving a full-sized car on one of those. That's what's like driving in Ireland. And you don't have the protection bar or the, yeah. You don't have the protection bar. There isn't some 17-year-old kid there watching it. I say that, but we kind of did. The car that we had had driver assist. And so it could sense the lane lines in most cases. And if you were starting to veer, it would sometimes gently, sometimes not so gently, turn the wheel for you.

Oh, interesting. I've never been to one of those. So I was wondering what those do. This is the first time I've driven one of these two. And it's weird. It's like this ghostly arm turning the wheel. In some cases, no, you're turning me, you're driving me into traffic, ghost. Stop it.

Kiss off, Ghost. That would weird me out a little bit. Yeah, it freaked me out a couple times. I'm like, all right, how do I turn this thing off? And fortunately, I found a button to do that. But yeah, yeah, it freaked us out. But it was a great time. It was, again, we got to see Claire up there.

We spent the whole evening with her. Unfortunately, Jack wasn't in town, so it was just us and Claire. We did a pub crawl from pub to pub drinking gin, and we popped in and chatted because it was a Saturday afternoon for the tadpool here. So we popped in and did a little chat with them for a little bit. Oh, right. Their Discord thing they do on Saturdays. Their Saturday Discord thing. We popped in there and said hi.

Claire is just, you know, her persona here in the chat room is the all caps unduck your sweats. gin swilling firecracker and in person well she's all that really I mean just all that all that is true yeah she's

but on top of that she's a very sweet nice she is she we had such a great time with her if we could have if we could have packed her with us in the suitcase and taken her with us for the rest of the trip yeah we would have

because she was just such a delight take her to Colorado on shore what real roads look like. That's right. Exactly. Look, I can swerve back and forth in this road and I never leave the lane. That's right. The speed limit's 85. I don't even know what it is in your space points. It's huge. Exactly. That's great. It sounds like a load of fun. I suspect that this week will be a lot of Brian sharing some cool stories about Ireland. Yeah, you even talked about Skellig. Oh, right. I mean, we've gotten to the later this week. So there's all sorts of stuff. So if you stick around this week, it's Irish week here.

That's right. And I'm going to try and be really good about not being obnoxious about stories. It's like, oh, yeah, that reminds me of this thing. We did an Ireland, Scott, where we did da-da-da-da-da. It's hard. It's exciting. I'm going to be hained about that. Well, this is great.

I really enjoyed the story so far have been great. I loved your guest time on here was great. We had great guests while you were gone. They all did a good job. Oh, yeah. And big thanks, by the way. I got to thank everybody that popped in. So TV's Travis, Garrett, of course, a couple rounds with Kim.

I didn't get to hear the live art stream with Carter, but I'm sure that was fantastic as well. Yeah, we had a good time on there. Can't remember who the, didn't we have one other, who else do we have? Was there one more that I'm forgetting? Oh, Bobby. Oh, Bobby, right. Yeah, Bobby was on.

That's right. Oh, I didn't hear the Bobby show. Oh, you should hear the Bobby show. I'm sorry, I did hear the Bobby show. Yeah, Bobby was great. He did a good job. So, yeah, we double dipped with Kim, but, that's probably good because she's convenient for you it's very convenient for me thankfully people

like her so it worked out fine but uh anyway it's uh it was uh it was weird not having you here every day so i'm glad you're home but i'm also glad you had a good time that's the important thing yeah had a really really good time um did you leave anything did you lose anything that's right okay bobby was on during the Disneyland trip that's what i thought oh yeah i remember of bobby this time it was tvs travis carter two kims and a uh and uh and uh uh um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um And a garret. And a garret. And a windsor.

It's all a blur. And a pizza place. In a pizza place. It's all a blur. I don't remember anything and when it happened. So, yeah. Good. All right.

Now I don't feel so bad about not remembering Bobby this trip because I was it on. Yeah. It was pretty, was that a week before? No, two weeks before this. But it still feels like it's all. Two weeks before. I don't know. Time, dude.

What the frick is wrong with time right now. And, and it's, and for me, it's almost like there's no pandemic going on because in two weeks I go off on another trip, but that won't affect this show, or film sec, really. And that's a, oh, no, it's that birthday one, that's right. It's a birthday trip, right. Right, right, right. And then Burlington, Vermont, to see the family over Halloween, and then Tokyo, potentially. When is Tokyo, if it's happening?

Tokyo is the end of January. Oh, wow. Okay. We'll see where the world is at then. Right now, I'm saying, yeah, that's probably a trip that's going to get postponed. I'm expecting it right now. And for the rest of you listening, excuse me, Brian and I are, you can call it tentatively, but I'm planning on it. Next March is going to be our TMS Vegas.

It's happening. Yeah. Well, next March is potentially TMS pinball festival. Oh, right. TMS Dallas. So TMS Dallas, even more south than Vegas, a lot more. So then it's April TMS Vegas. Yeah, exactly.

So we'll see what happens. But, you know, hey, Delta variant and others, stop it. Calm down. Exactly. Go get your vaccine so that we can have TMS live events and at least fist bump all you find people. If not, check your COVID card and give you a big old sweaty hug. Yeah, sweaty hugs is what I'm looking forward to. It's a couple of those.

You know what I want to hug the most? Mitzula. I want to give Mitzula the biggest. I want him to fart after I hug him too hard. That's what I want. Oh, I'm looking forward to that. I need to talk to him because he's working for draft kings now, I think, instead of Cesar's. And so I need to figure out if I'm going to make the switch.

Because right now I'm doing all my sports gambling on the MGM app for points, which the way I spend on there, I might have enough to earn a cocktail in a year. A year? Wow. You're getting faster than the average. Because I bet that I'm such a high roller. I'll put $5 on this game. So I might as well go to Draft Kings and do that. Well, there you go.

All right. Well, now a return to a thing we haven't done in three weeks, which is lame. But now we're doing it now. So here it is. Yes, that's right. Joining us right now, Mr. Brian Dunaway all the way from his, probably his job today in South Carolina. Oh, you're home? From home today?

Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. No, I'm at home. Oh, yeah, I'm just waiting on J.B. Hunt to deliver my, my chair that I took the day off for. Oh, wait. They decided that it missed the shuttle so they couldn't deliver it today. How about next week sometime? Sure, I could take off unlimited number of days from work. Yeah.

Sure, why not? Why not? Wait, what's J.B. Hunt? What is this? Is it like a furniture place? What is that? It's like a freight delivery kind of company. Okay.

We don't have them here. That reminds me of this thing that we did in Ireland where we had, I'm just kidding. Oh, yeah, there's one time in Ireland when you got a... This one time in Ireland, we had Guinness delivered to our table by a apartment. J.B. Hunt. Nice. J.B. Hunt himself.

He said, we don't have it. We'll be back later. Yeah, that's right. I hope you don't get stuck there, but also, you know, we're going to take, you know, enjoy yourself. Enjoy yourself a little bit, though. We actually had a delivery of some, of some frozen pizzas. So we all know a person in the... Oh, that's the tag pool.

We know person in the tadpool Who is from Chicago Go ahead That wasn't supposed to be loud And he came and took He watched our house for us while we were gone So we left him a bunch of food and stuff And to thank us

I don't know why he'd thank us Because we're thanking him He sent us some pizzas From a Chicago A famous Chicago pizza place Supposed to be delivered Saturday Going to be delivered today I don't know what that means

As far as it's a frozen status Oh no What if you get it And it's just a gnarly putrid mess. What are you going to do? Yeah. Then I'm going to, I think I go to UPS and say, hey, you guys were supposed to live this Saturday while it was still frozen and you need to pay.

I'm sure there's some insurance thing or maybe Luminatis does a insurance thing where it says if it doesn't get delivered. So we'll see. All right. Well, pizza, pizza aside, today's about playing a game. And we're going to do that. Brian, you've got to explain it, though, because it's been so long. I don't remember how the hell this works on Monday, so explain. Oh, that's right.

I forgot to pull contestant names. Burr, bur, bear, bha. Here, do me a favor while I'm doing this. I know what I can do. Each of you come up with a random number between one and, give you a high, one and three hundred and forty-one. So each of you come up with a random number between one, three-forty-one. Here's a tip.

You can use your echo device to do that. Oh, yeah, I don't know. think of one. I think I can come up with a number between. Can you come up with one on your own? All right, good. All right, welcome to the morning squirm, a back-and-forth trivia game where our players will match what's on topics that Cliff Clavin would have offered up at the cheers bar.

Scott and Brown are going to take turns after answering multiple choice trivia questions, and if they get it wrong, the other player gets a point. The player with most points after five questions wins the prize for their contestant and contestants are going to be pulled from members of our tadpool that aren't able to listen live so scott what is the number you uh you came up with my favorite number and if you asked why i couldn't tell you i just like how it looks i like the number 88 big fan 88 oh two eights the double infinity yeah you like the infinities you're going to be playing for josh in indiana so josh in indiana you have a chance of winning a couple prizes here brian what's your

uh what's your number well i'm going to go like you always do on the prize of right i'm gonna go with 89 just to cut scott off of the knees that's the bad thing about going first yeah yeah so like it's one dollar uh all right you're gonna be playing for uh otis in grason georgia so otis in grace and georgia done away is you'd be playing for you hold on there's a person alive on the planet named otis that's amazing i love that makes elevators but there's like such an old school like you know Andy griffith name I love that. It's like you need to be

in the lush. You need to be town drunk, right? Yeah, I think so. Exactly. That's awesome. All right. And the games you guys are playing for, you're playing for Hyperlight Drifter,

Saints Row the 3rd, and Stick Fight the game. All like top level. All great games. Yeah. I'm replaying Saints Row the 3rd now, actually. Funny enough. Oh, cool. Yeah, it's good.

It's a great game. It's my favorite of those. All right. Well, let's get to the questions here. It's been three weeks. I can't remember who won the last one. So, Scott, you're going to start with this one. Okay.

What was the number of things for? He'll tell you. That's who you're playing for. Oh, yeah. If you win, the person you're playing for. Okay, I thought we were seeing who would go first. I didn't understand that. I, okay.

I am now called up. I am all the way in the game now. That's why you thought you're so clever going one number higher than Scott. Sure. Fine. Dang it. Yes. All right.

How many fingers am I holding up, Brian? Oh, my God, you won. All right, good. All right, Scott. A UK woman has a rare disorder where her body violently rejects every single food except for this one. Is it? A, raw hamburger. B.

Is it fruity pebbles? C. Chicken McNuggets or D. Ticktacks. Oh, my gosh. It's a UK woman with a rare disorder that her body rejects. everything except for one of those four that's horrible because you can't subsist

on one of those four any of those four that means she's tried everything yeah um all right I'm gonna go with the just because it sounds like the weirdest one I'll go with the tick tags that is absolutely correct

yeah she's a UK teen at least in 2008 she was a I have heard of this yeah I have heard of this story and I remember reading it then and going nah she's so

full of shit. Yeah. She gets all of her nutrients from a specially formulated feed given to her through a tube, but she eats tic-tacks, which don't make her vomit to help her believe that she isn't hungry. Okay. Now, see, I can believe that. That was more than I got when I read the story. Yeah.

Well, either way, I feel bad for anyone who can't eat anything. That's horrible. That's an awful decision. It is horrible, for sure. Has she tried other tic-tac-shaped food just to see? Maybe it's a... Maybe it's the shape. Maybe, yeah, have a lentil or something.

Right, right, yeah. Start with Tic Tacs, move on to other small items and see how it goes for you. Yeah. All right. And do different flavors of Tic Tac? Do all the different flavors, like the orange flavor work? There are many flavors you can get, I've heard. There are many flavors you can get.

Brian, question for you. A 2014 study proved that beer goggles are a real thing. And the impairment can make people think that these. are better looking than they really are. So this was a test that they did. The answer is penises. Oh, wow. Okay, well, all right, point for Brian. I'm just kidding.

All right. So this test, you know, they gave them pictures of something and and they looked better when they were drunk. Are they? Pictures of dogs, pictures of loved ones, pictures of landscapes or pictures

of themselves. There's different flavors that you can get. those are interesting i don't think your parents ever look better when you drink i don't think that's right i don't think that's not gonna work and dogs are always super cute i don't i've never seen anybody like sitting around full on drunk you know loving up on the you know the dog picks or nothing i'm gonna say it doesn't it i think if you have a dog in your picture you get more swipes oh yeah there was some but you want to be drunk for that that just that improves i have to be drunk for that didn't they do it right

You did some test, it was like dogs had a percentage higher and cats were also a different percentage and something like that. Yeah, yeah. Or the guys were, if you had a cat and you were a dude, you were less likely to get the dude? You were less likely, right, exactly. That is hilarious. Pretty weird. That's a weird thing. I don't know.

Anyway. Right. I'm going to say photos of yourself, I've seen a lot of people looking themselves where they're getting drunk going out. I'm looking enough. Sure. Is it pictures of themselves? No. Oh, that is interesting.

Point goes to Scott. But Scott, do you have a guess of what's left? We've got dogs, loved ones, and landscapes. A bush. Again, my brain is, I don't know why I want to say loved ones. I'm going to say loved ones. It is not loved ones. It actually is landscapes.

This test proved that they thought landscapes were more beautiful. They showed them a picture of like a landfills. fill or something. And when they were drunk, they said, oh, my God, that's beautiful. Oh, that's hilarious. I don't know many times I've seen my drunk friends, you know, break out the landscape books and just go, look at this. There's probably a whole, beautiful thing you've ever seen. Probably a whole bunch of people who watch like Bob Ross drunk, right? Like, that's a thing. Yeah, yeah. It's got to be it. Or stone.

All right, back to Brian. Brian, Gerard Jesse is a man who lets his butt do the talking. What farting world record does this thing? Filipino man own, is it? The farthest distance shooting an object via flatulence. The most consecutive farts in one minute. Most candles blown out by farts or the longest fart ever. I'm going to go. I'm going to.

All those other ones sound like. I like that he thought there's no way that's going to be longer than that. So I'm going to go ahead and just start talking here at what I think will be the end. Sorry, go ahead. I don't think anyone is I don't think I think you get a lot I think you have a lot of trouble trying to say

oh it's the longest fart or this kind of fart projecting stuff the furthest I really think it's going to be blowing out candles that seemed like a quantifiable thing you could do like a good measurement of a world record would be blowing out candles

is it the most candles blown out by farts it absolutely is yeah in 2016 he blew out five candles with his fart

and now I have a goal he used there's a video that I can send you guys no thanks there's a horn which he could use a horn which is allowed

because you've got to funnel the wind into one lung blast but what's interesting is he let me send you a video I would never eat the cake damn video the way he does

he does it is not like a cross as opposed to having all the candles in one line Oh right That would be my natural inclination Right It's like

Yeah So if he's gonna do it You gotta like You gotta maximize your coverage I would have thought one long line But yeah You're saying a horn Now it's not like

Not like a trumpet Yeah like it's just like a musical horn Just like a funnel Just like a little funnel Yeah okay all right By the way those parachute pants he's wearing are fantastic. I don't know why it looks like he's doing this

on the rocky deck of a holiday in hot tub but, uh... Oh, wow, look at this guy, yeah. Have you ever seen anybody fart in a pair parachute pants? That actually... Like what it riffles?

Like, it does. Yeah, it's riffles, yes. Blue jeans, you can't see it. You just, you know... I want to know who's eaten that cake when they're done. And it ain't me. Oh, geez. Yeah. Happy birthday. That would be the only appropriate. Yeah.

look at that wow so he does the whole like like whoosh like across yes exactly wow all right i think if you put him on a turntable i wonder how many like if if he's not in charge of moving as it's blowing and like you just you just somebody spins him around in a circle how many candles he can maybe get oh he's doing it one of the time i'm surprised he got i'm surprised he got anybody to help him out just just thinking about that guy's hand actually getting accidentally getting farted on He's doing it one at a time. I really thought it'd be one fail swoop, like, and just go across.

Yeah, as a spin, no, huh? Okay, so it's literally this, this, like that. Yeah. Look, he's not even, he's not even smiling about it. He's not even happy. No. He's just, yep, did it. Wow, I have regrets watching that.

All right, moving on. All right. So Brian got that one, right. Brian's got a point back over to Scott. Okay. Ever been out high. and come across wombat poop. Here's a weird fact about wombat poop.

A, their poop is one of their main food sources. B, their poop doesn't have an odor. C, they poop out of their mouth. Or D, their poop comes out perfectly cubed. I don't like any of those answers. What's the creature in question again? A wombat. The next Marvel movie will be the wombat.

You know, I want to see. I've been reading that news. all-new Wolverine, the Lara X-23 stuff. Oh, yeah. The Tom Taylor run is really good. The writing's amazing. And this new character, Gabby slash Honey Badger,

which is like one of her clone sisters, is so, she is so good. They need to make, they, I was worried because I thought, oh, this would be like Batman and Robin. Like, Wolverine's really cool. And she's the new Wolverine and this dimension's gone and blah, blah, blah.

But, and then they give a sidekick and my thought was like it's gonna annoy the hell out. Right, it's gonna be some dumb, yeah. She's freaking great. And anytime she does anything with Deadpool, it's the funniest freaking stuff. It's so good. I'm not familiar at all with that character, so I think I'm

have to pull up my newly improved Marvel Unlimited app and check it out. Yeah, it's got a couple of bugs. Maybe it pours his coffee. I always think he's peeing. What do you think I'm covering up with the sound, Brian? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, because I I can't usually see you. I usually just hear you pouring.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, so let's say... Let's talk about wombat, poo. Yeah, wombat. The cube sounds wrong to me. The no smell. Let's go with the no smell. No smell has no odor.

No odor. Is that correct? Their poop has no odor? That is incorrect. Oh. Brian, the remaining choices are... Their poop is one of their main food sources. They poop out of their mouth,

or their poop comes out. perfectly cubed. Oh, God. It's got to be that mouth thing, man. I don't want to be right about any of these. Is their main food source? Because they don't process very well. They've got an inefficient, inefficient digestive system.

There you go. Is it their food source? No. They are completely perfectly cubed. What? They are little Minecraft machines is what they are. That's weird. That's weird.

That's weird. If I found, you know, you'd know if you were in nature. You'd know you'd be like, well, I can't be poop. It's cute. Let me look at it. Let me take a look at it. I mean, take a sniff. No, they do smell.

Yeah, they're like a poo. They're like a poo. Pooh cube. Yeah. That's crazy. Wombats are weird, man. That's funky. Are weird.

Cute and they're weird. They're like little Pokemon characters that poop cubes. Yeah. Then the goats with the little square pupils and the, and the, what's going on with these? Nature's weird, man. Nature is weird, yeah. Right. If you see those humans are hairless.

It's weird. So here's what's cool. We're down to two and two, right? Each of you have two points, so whoever gets our last question right, wins this one. Scott, the question goes to you. I'm sorry, Brian, the question goes to you. If you work at this job, watch your back. Which occupation has seen the number of people murdered on the job rise every year since 2014?

Damn. No, somber. Is it food delivery drivers, postal workers, Sneaker store employees or fast food workers. Oh, Jesus. All those people get shot every day. Sadly, yes. Wow, that is actually one of the toughest questions I've had, I think.

Yeah, this is a tricky one. Food delivery drivers, postal workers, sneaker store employees, or fast food workers. I think just about everybody, like a pizza delivery guy would like see it coming. So I think, I think they always back away, back out to the car anyway. I don't think they're going to get shot in the back, right? It's like, oh, giving a bad place here. Give them the pizza and the, yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah.

Now, when we were growing up, getting shot over some shoes that was not unheard of. No. So, um, those Nike Air Jordans weren't going to steal themselves. You know what I mean? Yeah. Right. Um, but what a weird thing to do because, I mean, there's a lot of sneaker employees, but there's even more restaurant people.

Oh, God. these are tough shot in the back though I think restaurant people usually face the people I'm going to say sneaker people I think sneaker people turn their back on you

maximum amount of times employee back yeah because he's like do you have this in an 11 and you go yeah hang on a second you turn around sometimes you'll walk around you're looking for a sneaker

and you'll walk around the employee and they just keep turning around to their back to you this whole time yeah there you all right is it sneaker store employees is the foot locker the most dangerous job in the world

no that's the win for his player remaining choices food delivery drivers postal workers or fast food workers Scott let's say fast food then

it is fast food workers yeah so many of them there are so many of them and you know sneaker store employees there's sneaker stores are always in a mall so that's a bad getaway option is if you have to do what I thought exactly but you have one way to run

or you know at the most two ways to run and then you got to find an exit like yeah I agree but also It was like, well, a lot of ours are freestanding now, like, you know, like the strip mall. Oh, there's like payless. Yeah, that's true. Like payless has.

I was thinking like drive-bys or not paying attention. Right. That was a good. What would it do you for shoes? I don't know. So let me see if I can. I think what this comes down to is a numbers game because it's not really that, oh, they're targeting the fast food kids.

It's that there's just a volume thing going on there. That's a good question. Because the way this is written, it doesn't say per capita kind of thing. Right, right, yeah. I need to know more about that. I still would believe it's a, it's not a higher numbers and higher employees. I think it's probably a higher percentage. Yeah.

Yeah, that's the reason why I was thinking speakers. Well, there you go. So who did I win for? I forgot what's name I know. You won for Josh in Indiana. Sweet. Congratulations, Josh. You're getting Hyperlight Drifter in Saints Row the 3rd.

Otis Johnson. getting stick figure fight what was it called stick fight figure fighting yeah so as soon as you get out of the Mayberry prison uh well yeah those are um those are really all three of those games are excellent um and hyperlight drifter in particular is a very cool indie game i think uh i think india josh you you win also the home of the cults a pretty good team good job and NFL season started yesterday did you're saturday did you see the um anybody see else see the brown play the chiefs, because here's what happened. I'm sitting there watching it.

And for a hot minute, I thought the whole world had flipped on its side because it said right there in plain letters, the Cleveland Browns were ahead of the Kansas City Chiefs. Winning. Yes. I couldn't believe it. And I thought, we're all going to die. And then the chiefs came back and won. Yeah, then the world righted itself and the Chiefs won by a big enough margin that I won

spread bet so yeah so better luck next week you you Halloween looking candy corn team get get on it browns and make it happen all right and the and the packers looked like a bunch of clowns yesterday yeah what's that about that was oh it's horrible i know painful i'm in i'm ready for this season i don't know why i'm really pumped for football this year i don't i'm usually not kind of i'm usually not really into it until the playoffs but i'm for whatever reason i'm feeling this it i i know why. I felt the same way because last year NFL was almost practically non-exist. It was question mark every week.

You know, is COVID going to screw it this week? And, you know, it just wasn't as much fun. Right. And it was always in the news. It was controversial. You had the protests and the people kneeling and everybody freaking out and more division. It was just like man, can we just watch football? Can I have some football, please?

So I'm going to watch football this year, damn it? That's right. I'm not saying that the show is going to suddenly have a freaking, you know, wrap up of who won what over the weekend. I'm not saying that. Definitely not. I'm just saying, I'm getting into it. And no, I'm not doing fantasy football.

I hate that. I'm not into it. I'm doing it. That's fine. I don't know. No judgment. No judgment. Everybody should do whatever they want.

Exactly. You want to do fantasy football? Go for it. I'm not doing that. Well, I'm going to do it anyway. I don't need you guys approval. I might even play Madden. A couple of Madden rounds.

I might even, because Madden comes with game pass now. I'll just play Madden. How about that? Oh, yeah. Make your own games. Damn straight. All right. Well done, everybody.

This is great. I'm going to say that our listeners are the winners. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. And we're the winners for getting to do this. Now, later today at 3.30 Mountain Time, Brian Dunaway and myself will be sitting down for an episode of the boop where we talk about indie games, the indie space. It's one of my favorite things to do every week. So come back for that. That's at 330 Mountain at frogpance.tv or on the podcast, if that's how you'd prefer to consume it.

It's all available at frogpance.com slash B-O-O-P. And make sure you check out the latest film sack where we talked about Deep Star 6, a very bad. underwater movie. That's right. But we had a really good time, so that's what matters, and you'll enjoy that. We had a great time. There was plenty of nipple shirts for everybody, so, I mean, it was great. Yeah, it was great.

And it's really good to have you back. Anything else done away you want to mention? No, yeah, but do, like Scott said, join us today. 530 Eastern Time 3.30 Mountain going to be doing the boops. I'm talking about an indie game called Lake. Lake the Game came out September the 1st. I really enjoyed it so far, very story-driven. Yeah, you're basically, you're delivering mail in a town on a lake.

Well, spoiler, correct. Yeah, that's the basis of it, but the whole point is the story and delivering. The story is so good. Yeah, so watch for that. If you like indie games, you're going to like what we talk about today. 3.30 Mountain Time right here at frogance.combe, Brian Dunaway, have a great day. No, you. Bye.

Hope he gets his furniture and shit. That'd be good. Ops, oh, yeah. I just heard him, by the way, he just said yabadoo. So anybody else hear him say yabadoo? Because I heard him say yabadoo. Wait, what? Now it's messing me up.

Yabadabadoo time. Okay, so yeah, he shortened it. Yeah. He just said yabadoo, but he was talking about joining us for boop. Yeah, but do join us for booboo. That he said, jabidoo. That's great. That's great.

That's what I'm glad you got out of it. That's fantastic. All right, we are going to jump straight to our break when we come back some time with Bill. We haven't seen Bill in forever. He had a family thing before we had our weird Mondays for a while, and we've had a weird Monday for like three weeks. So no Bill forever, but he's back, and it'll be great to talk to him. And then after that, major spoilers, we've got to talk about Shang-Chi.

Don't worry. No big spoilers today, everybody. All right. And then if we do, we'll let you know before we say anything. I haven't seen it. hawkeye the new hawkeye trailer came out that was cool lots of other stuff so stick around for all of that in the meantime brian you've got to do your duty here and tell us about a song that i didn't pick for once in the long time i will yeah we're back to india in the middle and we're going to south bay uh for a punk rock group called deviates they are uh releasing tracks from their upcoming album holding out which comes out on september 17th the end of this week uh produced by camera Cameron Webb and coincides with a run of West Coast shows they're going to be doing with Pennywise. So if you go see Pennywise, you're going to see the deviates open up for him.

The band, not the clown from the thing. Yes, right, right. They all float in that concert. So the band Deviates from their brand new album, here is the first single from that album. It's called Wasted. Wasted You all are wasted Fated

You all are faded Light I say I'm free Do this for me Take away all my senses Take I can give I can't forgive

Conscious sin to bounty Wasted Fated You all are faded Drink because I drink Because I think I'm sick and tired of thinking Ice

I never need Never can see Flood left And fish your feel I think I hate I know I'm hate I'm sick I'm feeling Wasted

Faded, you all are fading Wasted, you all are wasting Fated, Fated, Fated, Fated, Fated, Fated, Fated, I can take this feelings, I can take these demons, I can make your spirits. Go away! Come away! You bumbling old hag, you failed again! That's no way to talk to an old lady.

How did you feel being denied these hungry, hungry hippos? We wish you were here All right, we return. Welcome back, everybody. That song again, Brian was? It's, uh, the song is wasted. It's, uh, from the deviates coming out on, uh, their brand new album, which comes out this Friday.

Nice. Okay. Yes. Let's get the, uh, let's get the bill on here. Somebody bring us the bill. Bring us the bill. We're ready for the bill, please. uh bring us the bill we've been here too long where's our waiter man let me tell you

oh now never mind it was going to be an ireland thing oh but i'll save it all right well wait for that everybody your bat caves open there bill look who it is it's bill deran joining us for what seems like a year ago but it's only been about three weeks or something it's been a bit though a combination of reasons but uh it's so good to have him back bill derram welcome back to the show it has been an era it has been and i'm and i am and i am back you are back uh your parents came and visited how was that i must have been fun you know that was actually it's really really wonderful we went out to the coast the west coast here rented a house out there and just like we're beach bumps for three days which was delightful that sounds like

everything i ever want out of the any kind of uh vacation to me is that it's nothing else it's put me on a beach everyone go away if it's a lake fine if it's a river i don't care just put me somewhere where I sit in a chair and soak up the sun and read a book and don't move. That's a lot. You're living my dream. Well, anyway, I'm glad that worked out, and it has been too long, but I'm excited to have you here because my guess is you've got stuff going on since we last talk, so why don't you tell us about it?

Oh, yeah. Well, first of all, Brian, super jealous of all your photos from Ireland. That was cool. Thanks. Yeah, it was a blast, and the photos don't do that island just. It is just so beautiful there. I traveled to the far off land of San Jose, California. Oh, I didn't realize you had gone so exotic since we last week.

Yeah, I mean, I had to step it up from Ireland. No, I went to a convention. Remember those? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I saw you standing next to who are you there? Is somebody in an Iron Man suit? Who the hell was that? Oh, it's a, what's wrong with my brain?

It's Adam Savage. Adam Savage was in Concord. Oh, very cool. Yeah, that was cool. That was you, right? You were there? That's correct. Yeah, so yeah, it's been a couple years since we've gone to a convention.

What were the pandemic? Yeah. In fact, last weekend was DragonCon. And we did not go to DragonCon this year. Yeah. They didn't have it the year before. They did have it this year. And we decided it was probably a bit too much for us.

DragonCon is five days. And it's like tens of thousands of people. So instead, I went to Silicon, Adam Savage's Silicon in San Jose. Oh, this is much smaller. This is like his event, I didn't realize he had an event with his name on it. That's pretty cool. Yeah, it used to be Big Wow Comic Fest. And then I think Steve Wozniak ran it for a while.

And it was called Silicon Valley Comic-Con. And now Adam hasn't. It's called Silicon with Adam Savage. Nice. So it's the same con. It's just been powerful. along to a couple of people. Silicon.

I see what they did there at the name. Cilicon. Oh, yeah. Makes the, looking for it on the internet hard, though, I'll tell you that much. Yep, but it does. So, because, yeah, season this is, don't always get along. So, uh, he made, like, the Mach 1, like the, I guess it's not Mach 1. Whatever he made in the cave.

Oh, Mark 1. Mark 1, yeah. Uh, that looked amazing. That looked so good. Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. It was really, really cool. Yeah.

Uh, the show was around, I think, like, 5,000 people, which is very small. And everyone was super, super safe. They were checking temperatures at the door. I don't think they didn't have a vaccine requirement, but they were checking temperatures. And masks were required. And as far as I can tell,

everyone was good with that. Like, there wasn't anyone running around without a mask. No rage. Yeah. No. And even if you had like a costume with a helmet or a mascot, you still had to wear a mask under it. And I saw everyone was doing that too. So, I mean,

wearing a mask over under your Boa Fet helmet sounds awful but people did it yeah and there was you know they're hand sanitized everywhere like every booth had a bottle of hand sanitizer on it

and it was only a two-day convention which I'm like pretty happy about and I think that I would be more excited about going back to more conventions if they were if they didn't take up five days in my life Even like Dragon Con. Oh, yeah.

Dragon Con eats a week of my life. But other conventions, yeah, even if it's only a three-day con, like Friday, Saturday, Sunday, I'm traveling Thursday and Monday. Like, it's a five-day event for me. Yeah, that's a lot. So I would love to see more two-day events. I like, it's one of the reasons. So here's a little under the hood talk back when we had regular nerdtaculars happening. There was some talk in some of those years about, hey, what if we made it for five days?

you know like make it bigger I'm like well we could do that or we could keep it at two and that's why we kept it at two oh that's just it was just that's how simple it was we could not

yeah how about I have an idea how about we don't do it that way right exactly yeah I mean San Diego Comic Con Wednesday night is now preview night and it's been this way for a long time so it literally starts Wednesday evening

like they all they tend to they tend to creep they creep out especially the big ones so um when is that soon or did that already happen that would have happened i don't think they did it this year okay so there was no it in july i think san diego did not okay i could never i can't keep track of all these but or did they i can't remember i think there was some smaller thing like a restricted number of people they could have there i think they had some oh no that's right they've pushed it to uh november Yeah, thanks. Oh, okay. There we go. Okay. Yeah. FanX are the Salt Lake one, because they had to rename it, is this weekend. And check this out. So Adam Savage is coming to that. He's got a big thing lined up here. So Adam's coming to that. And then who was the, oh, they've got this big poster saying, the stars of Mash are coming to Fan Expo in Salt Lake City. All right. I was like, who? And I looked it up.

It's Jamie Farr. It's Loretta Swit. I hear Jamie Farr is really trying to get out of it, though. Like he's wearing a dress and he's doing his best to... Yeah, they call it a Section 8. He's got to try to get out. And then the other guy is Igor, the dude that worked in the kitchens all the time. The cafeteria, dude, yeah.

So those three are there. They're all in their 80s. I don't know how that's going to go. But anyway, so exciting stuff here on the ground at FanEx. It's going to cost you $65 bucks. for a signature and a photo. I mean, there's only, like, a bunch of them died recently. We don't have David Ogden Steers anymore.

You know, there's tires. You don't have a trapper that passed away. Oh, right. Still have Alan Alda. You still have. BJ Honeycutts still with us? Yeah, BJ's around. All the colonels are dead.

Captain Kippers says Alda's a dick. McLean Stevenson and Potter are all dead. Alan Alda's not a dick. He's a nice guy. He seems fine. He has a podcast. He's fine. Don't be saying that.

All right. Anyway, sorry, that was an offshoot. Bill, back to your line of thinking. Oh, sure. So, yeah, they had, the con had everything you would expect, including, you know, your celebrity signings and photos. They've been, what they've been doing is hanging a sheet of plexiglass so that you can stand next to a celebrity. But there's a piece of plexiglass in between you. Brilliant.

Oh, what is it like, it's like on its side edge so you really don't see it in the photo? sure it's yeah it's kind of like that brilliant yeah so they had that going on then they had a celebrity signing area where you go get stuff signed

there were panels you know panel rooms I was on a couple of panels with some of my other maker friends and then tons of boots and vendors oh by the way your pal Frank Epilito

is that his name he's in a movie coming up Danny DeVito directed where did I see this oh really is he in the movie is he doing um no he's in it like uh really frank's buddies with him davido hold on danny devedo let me find this right davido do they all just uh is there uh do they hang with judge edo like is there uh yeah no kidding what's this called it's uh oh i want to find it it just finished or it's in post or something

anyway yeah he him and a bunch of stars danny devedo's directing it and then frank epilito and i'm like what this build buddy yeah very cool anyway yeah I talked to him a couple weeks ago. His company does, they're working on movie stuff now, and it's awesome. Nice. So anyway, yeah, booths for vendors and artists. So you know, it's an artist alley. I had a booth next to my buddy, Stevie K. Smith, which was really fun.

Yeah. I brought a bunch of books. I sold all of them. Nice. Nice. Did you have your stink bag with you or none of that? No, I didn't wear any costumes, actually. I went just as myself, which again was, that was my speed.

Like, standing in a sweaty costume for. two straight days. It just didn't sound like any fun. But I made in my booth. I did some panels. There was obviously lots of cosplay. You tell there are some people who spent all of the last two years making really amazing costumes because there were some really incredible ones there.

Yeah. And a costume contest. I didn't participate. I didn't judge that or anything. But there's also a costume contest. And everything else. bad convention food and all sorts of fun things you got to have bad convention food or else what are you even doing there you know yeah i had a you know what i ate a hot dog that was very okay okay

i like an okay hot dog that sounds about right yeah yeah yes i like it i used to be i used to get on the regular if i was in a gas station i'd get one of those rolling dogs i know that sounds terrible but i loved them i loved them yeah i don't do it yeah used to the jacks around here we have a gas station chain called Jackson's. They have little taquitos that they put on that rolling thing. I have a weakness for those. There's a point in your life where you just don't care about that stuff. It's like, oh, there's a thing and I'll eat it.

I have not reached that point. I'm not going to think about how long it's been rolling there. That was more of a Scott and his 20s kind of problem. That was the sushi. Yeah. Gas station sushi is the worst combination of words ever created. Anyway, well, that's good. and you're feeling fine,

so none of those went south on you. That's good. No, everything went right. Yeah. You mentioned Adam, of course, it's his show. He was there. He did a bunch of stuff,

including walking around in his Iron Man Mark I. There was a group of just attendees that were cosplayers that had some Iron Man costumes they had been working a long time on, and they all got to go get a photo with Adam, which was really cool.

Yeah. There were just tons of little things like that. They were other Mark suits. Like they were, you know, Tony Stark, you know, red and, gold and then you had other kinds right like it was all

yeah there's like 80 of them I think from the holy shit well to choose from I mean there weren't 80 there but the different marks of iron man there's I think something like 80 of them that's a lot any Hulkbusters or is that too complicated to get one of those going no I've seen

those in the past though actually I was in the Philippines judging a costume contest and there was a Hulkbuster on stage and it was awesome and then he tripped and face planted on stage oh it's not awesome that's less than awesome when that happens He was okay, the costume was okay, but in that moment, it was really kind of amazing to see a giant Hulk buster take a header on the stage. That was something else.

Yeah, those things are hard to move around in. I don't know how you guys do any of the stuff. He's trying to choreograph a fight scene against someone in a Hulk costume. It was actually pretty awesome. Yeah, until he fell. Some trouble with the execution. Sure. Well, that's cool.

Do you think this is a burgeoning one that everyone will talk about and it'll grow and be the cool place to go now on the West Coast or, or, or, or, you know, what? I bet. I talked to Adam about it where he was trying to get a lot of ideas for people how we could make it better for next year. He wants to grow the thing. I suspect it will get bigger and a lot more fun and that this one, the mid-pandemic one, for those of us that went, will be kind of weird and special and kind of neat. We'll remember it fondly. Because I had a great time. Like, I had a really super fun time. That's great. I didn't realize how much I missed just interacting with people just talking with people about making stuff

and I also a ton of my friends were there as guests and we got to get dinner together and see each other we haven't seen each other at a long time and have awkward hugs it was great then the orgy usually do the orgy later

that's that's preview night oh preview night right that must have been in the green room I never got invited to that the green room it was like a Saturday night it's silly coming. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Well, that's cool. I'm really happy to hear about it and look forward to any photos or, you know, other stuff that you might put anywhere. Did you get a chance to take a lot of shots or do any of that? I did. I posted some photos up on Instagram like a week or two ago. Let's go check that out. I have not seen that yet. Awesome. Well, very, very cool. As always, Bill, good to have you here. And it's been way too long. Do you have a, you got a little bonusy thing to give us today, somebody to pimp. do yeah my friends over it and i haven't seen the movie shang chi yet i really do want to see it

my friends over at film riot put out a tutorial on how to create some of the visual effects they did in that movie oh very nice really cool yeah so they they call it just the shang chi effect over at film riot do they do a bunch of is the effect the uh stuff hovering in midair that they kind of walk through that's cool like like glowing rings with yeah that's awesome those rings are cool and uh i want to see this movie and I haven't yet. Brian saw it. You loved it.

I did. I saw it and loved it. Oh, wow, they do it. So this is all in After Effects. Oh,

very cool. Yeah, it's a VFX tutorial pretty much. Oh, very nice. You know, I may watch this

because I'm shitty at that software. Yeah. I wouldn't mind getting better at it. And it looks like I can go make my own 10 rings.

So. There you go. These guys, every once in a while, like they do lots of really fun filming tutorials and every once in a

pretty VFX heavy. Yeah. And a lot of, a lot of, after effects, which I learned a little bit of after effects in college, but not this much. This is the good stuff. These look like rings that would fit on Thanos's middle finger,

don't they? Yeah. Just big ass, big ass ring. They're like forearm, forearm rings. Like Lord of the Ring style where it shrinks in your hand because it'll only fit whoever's wearing it at the time. Yeah, yeah, I like that kind of shit. All right.

Well done. Always worth checking out. Check out Film Riot on YouTube. And, of course, the Punish Props YouTube channel, as well as punish props.com and follow them while you're at it on Twitter. He's at Chinbeard. Bill, have a great day.

All right. See you guys. See you next time. Okay. Well, that's cool. I'm going to watch that whole thing later. It was really slick. Yeah.

Okay. Hey, did you, you saw a new guy or free guy? Free guy. I did. Free guy. Free guy. Free guy. I did.

And talk about your cameos there. Yeah. I was talking to my nephew last night. he loved it. And I said, oh yeah, my buddy Brian saw it and really liked it. It was a lot of fun. Yeah. So for a kid who's like, this kid's like, all he does is play Apex Legends and Fortnite and all these battle royals

and just sits on his console all day, basically, he's in that mode right now. And he really liked it because he felt like it got video games right. And I said, okay then. Definitely seem to. Yeah, of all the video game inspired movies, this one felt like it wasn't pandering to an audience that

may not know what video games are yeah and uh and if he's 15 what is he that's not z that's something else right oh what is that or whatever the new thing is what what is i mean i don't think they have that you don't think they've come up with the term for for him yet yeah i think you're right i don't think they have all right stephen time we know we have a term for him he's gen x a shit that guy he's like us gen x man we don't care we don't care about nothing here in the generation x all right here's his thing of a ding that we always play when he comes on. Here you go.

Steven Schleiker. Steven Schleiker. Jeannie says it's the indeterminate generation. That's perfect. The indeterminates. I love it. I like it. Hey, Stephen Schleiker, joining us from Hayes, Kansas, and the home of major spoilers.com.

Stephen, welcome back. Hello, Scott. Welcome back, Brian. Thank you. So, when you were overseas, did you pick up any European comics? Did you pick up any Bino or Roy of the Rovers or 2000 AD or, or Judge Dred. I went into two comic shops, one in Dublin, one in Cork, and Tina couldn't wait to get out of them because she was just like, yeah, these are all the same comics and toys that I could pick up anywhere.

And I did find, and one of them I did find a thing of like local indie comics and I was going to bring something back for you or Scott or whatever. But I've kind of already been spending money like there was no tomorrow. Yeah. So I decided not to. So I thought about it. So there you go. The thought of the counts. You thought about it.

It is the thought that counts. Absolutely. Indie Dublin comics. Sure, sure. And they were like homegrown, like indie comics. They were. The, uh, there was one that kind of look like the art style of like, um, the Scott Pilgrim, uh, which is the one I was really leaning towards picking up. But I didn't, uh, but comic shops in Ireland look just like the comic shops in, uh, in America.

I'm here to say. And, except you go around them counterclockwise instead of clockwise when you're shopping. Is anybody there going, you touch it, you buy it. Does that happen? Nobody was doing that. And it was the first, it was the only store we went in, or the only inside retail or restaurant where the person said, you don't have to wear a mask in here. Oh. Like, everywhere else, we wore masks in there anyway, and we had to show our COVID cards to get into most places. but that was the only place where the guys like, you don't have to wear them in here.

We don't have to wear them in here. We're a death coach. Exactly, just like that. We like to read our comics as we're dying slowly from a horrible conventious to do. And I said, that's all right. We'll keep them on. Thanks. Well, that's awesome. Well, Stephen, it's good to have you back. You've also been on a bit of a forced break from us,

just given the way the schedule's worked out. And it's been a bummer because we really like having you on and talking about all this stuff. Before we get into a couple of these things, we want to talk Shang-Chi. We want to talk Hawkeye, trailer a little bit, Batman Day coming up, a few other things. However, just got to start it off with this story run. I'm completely hooked on right now. So it's called the all new Wolverine.

Came out in 2015, I think. Yeah, something like that. Ran through, well, Tom Taylor's run was up to 2018, I want to say. Anyway, it's so good. It's so good. Like, I already like Wolverine, like Logan Wolverine, anyway. I was sure this is going to like not land on me at all. And the whole sidekick, Honey Badger thing, I was like, really? And we can do that. It's so It's pretty fun. Wonderful. It's great. And I want this to be a thing they do

like on a Marvel TV show or something or pass the torch somehow to X23 because she's great. Lara's great. It's just a great run. The villains are great. Tom Taylor can do Deadpool as well as anyone's ever done Deadpool. And keep it, you know, sort of PG-13.

I don't know how he does that. It's still feels subversive and kind of dark, but they do it. Anyway, it's just great. So I just want to throw that at you and then tell you, if you haven't read it, you should read it, Stephen, because it's great. You should read it. Yeah, I've read the little bits and pieces of that Wolverine run. As far as, and you're probably catch up to it here in about six months or so. But, what is it, Kamala's Law in the Marvel universe, which basically bans teenage heroes.

And turns them all into apps. outlaws and everything so that's that's something that you can afford to in fact I think it just wrapped that story arc just wrapped up in champions this week last week and then Tom Taylor I cannot get enough of he did the injustice run he did he's no he did the DC's thing for DC and he's doing a new Marvel thing called oh crap brand new shoot it's just issue ones out and I've forgotten the name anyway who was I talking to John or somebody was telling me this is like some of his best work like I don't know what the deal

is with that guy, but Tom Taylor currently can do no wrong when it comes to the writing department. He's so great. And he's across, he's all over the place. He's all over D.C., he's all over Marvel. Just killing it. Anyway, sorry, had to gush for a minute. Let's move

on to, let's talk about Shankhi real quick. Did you see it? No, I've got a 10-year-old who can't get vaccinated yet. Oh, yeah. Oh, right. Yeah, you can't do that. So, but it would be a movie. Plus movie theaters suck. Yeah, they do kind of suck. I don't like them. Yeah. So, Brian, do you want to tell us about your movie

theater experience. This is the time. So we went and saw it on Saturday, did an afternoon showing because I probably would have fallen asleep if we would have seen in the evening because of jet lag. But overall, love the movie. No complaints about it. Some great surprises in there that I hope you guys don't hear about

before you see the film. Just some characters you might not expect to see in this that I thought were fantastic. Whole thing's great. And, of course, you know, it's all, you know, martial arts and some beautifully choreographed fights and stuff like that. Movie ends, and as there are a couple of stingers, no surprise there, we're waiting for the credits to roll. And you get the first set of credits, and then the second set of credits, which has the song Hotel California playing fairly loud in the second set of, like after the first stinger, you've got Hotel California playing. As that's going on, a woman about three rows in front of us stands up and at the top of her lungs, the top of her voice says,

Hey, everybody, hope you really enjoyed that. It was really good. And, you know, all that cool Eastern mysticism and stuff. And I'm here to tell you all of that stuff is real and I can talk to you about it. If you want to come out outside the theater, I'll be standing out there and I'll be happy to talk to you about all that stuff. And she's having to do this to, like, get over the Don Henley and company singing about Dark Desert Highways. And so she goes out in the lobby. And, of course, everybody here there is waiting for the next stinger.

And they're all just kind of looking at each other like, what's the deal? She's like, wants to give this TED talk about Eastern mysticism and, and. Yeah, usually you run into the moonies at the airport. Yeah, right. Exactly. And apparently no one was coming to talk to her outside. So then she came back into the theater. And you know how like the theater is usually bisected by a row where you can go across, like an aisle where you walk across to get to the other side of the seats? She decided she was going to sit there so that everybody who left the theater had to walk by her. And she sat there with this big grin on her face like, oh, I'm going to have so many people want to talk to me about this. And sadly, nobody stopped. A huge shocker. I have a couple words for her. F right off.

Go away. Seriously, go away. You don't get to do this. Go freaking away. Now I get what you were trying to tell me last night. Or I guess it was Saturday. It wasn't like somebody taking their shoes off or having their phone out during the movie. Like the movie experience wasn't at all ruined for me.

Thank goodness. And she really just wanted to do this nice thing for people. But it just was such a weird. It's a Marvel movie A weird way to do it Yeah, exactly What would be worse? Her screaming about Eastern mysticism

And trying to get you to engage Or somebody as you're walking out Forcing a chick track on you What's a chick track? Oh, those are those ultra-religious Comics that you can find in the bathroom Oh, that's worse. That's worse.

Oh, you've never heard of chick tracks Oh my God, these are things like These were things that were popular in the Eadies Who could only eat chick tracks Yeah, I heard about that. Yeah, these are ones that are like you play d and d you're gonna go to hell because it's full of the devil and satan summoning and oh man go look at that you can find most of them online but these are like the

the purest form of of uh if you're not a christian you're you're gonna burn for the rest you know they all need to go away it's the sign holders at blizzcon it's the freaking uh whatever just i mean i'm not going to stop and talk to you at all like not even a little we live in a day and age because of the internet where we can go learn about all the different religions and pick one if we want one and learn about you know which one's the right one for us we don't need anyone to voice their our options upon right you're like the worst kind of email spam but you're live and you're standing there right exactly i mean i don't even care how about 10 things you didn't know about shang chi click on me on your way out of the theater kind of that and

look if you're into whatever it is you're doing great i have no problem with that that's awesome go off and do your thing. Get the F out of my way. What are you doing here? That's just another reason why I would prefer to watch all of these at home in my own home theater. Yeah, I kind of with you. I wish, I really wish Disney

would have done that and it appears they're not going to do that at all. Their plan now is like all first round. Thanks, Scarlett Johansson. It's not that. It's not. They said for this one that it's like this will be an interesting test to see whether we should do day and date release. And I'm really

honestly. It's very quickly Disney will see that they can make a lot more money. I know they were bragging about $70 million over Labor Day weekend and another $30 million this week, but had they released in both, I think those numbers would have been doubled. I agree. Yeah.

Do you think, I mean, people who subscribed and paid for Disney Plus for Black Widow, do you think there's going to be, there's not going to be that many more people who say, oh, okay, one. Oh, I guess, never mind, it was a premium. Black Widow was on top of the regular Disney. Yeah, that was on top of a $30.30. So, yeah, so they would make additional money.

I'm thinking anybody subscribed for Black Widow is going to stick around for another month and get Shang Chi. Right. And, yeah, if they were doing like HBO's doing it, it's a different model, you know, different revenue streaming. It's pure, I mean, I know Tom Herod and I have talked. It's not 100% pure profit for Disney Studios or Marvel Studios, but when you're owned by the same parent company, all that money is is Disney money. It's like you don't have to shave off any. money for the theater owners. You're not doing a 50-50 split. You're not having to divvy that stuff up. So it's like pure profit for Disney. HBO, as you said, Scott's a little bit different.

Now, the nice thing is we, for those of us who decide not to go to the movie theaters to see this movie, we should probably be able to see this as early as I believe October 21st because all of the studios have conned the theaters into letting them release it to streaming or in some kind of digital format 45 days out right yeah so we should be getting pretty close on black widow out of that black widow i think is already out if i if i is it already is it already out of forty five day okay i could have swore i was

already on apple tv over the weekend and i saw but not on white widow show up there but not on disney plus just streaming right it's still a thing you got to go rent or whatever let's see if black widows yeah that's that's what i was referring to like when isn't it 45 days oh it's 45 days until it can be until they can be released however this is by no this is by 2999 right now on iTunes on Apple on Apple TV you can get Black Widow right now okay yeah but not free streaming yet quote unquote free streaming free on the service you're paying money for the money or yeah the service you're already paying

money for well I mean the two biggest movies I'm most looking forward to before the end of the year also happen to be day and date on HBO Max which are um the matrix in December matrix 4 or whatever they're calling it, Matrix Resurrected. Is that it? Yeah, Matrix 1, we hated the special effects in the first movie, so we're just remaking this movie again. I love the trailer, though. My gosh, I'm excited.

That was gorgeous. I'm so ready to just go ahead and park my brain at the door and try to ignore how much I disliked the two sequels and why that first one's such a classic and just embrace this. I hope it's good, but I won't know if it gets here. But it was funny to see. dude from Mind Hunter, I have his mouth getting

sewn shut while he was sitting there. I think that's great in that trailer. Anyway, what was my point? My point was, oh, that and Dune. Like, I got big launch party days planned for both these movies right here in front of a 14-A-T-E. It'll be like the old Nurtaculars, but in your

house. In my house. So everyone come over. We'll see you then. Wear your mask. Get your backs card. We'll make tons of popcorn. Jump wire. It'll be good. Kim would do that in a heartbeat. Don't tempt her. She would. She told me. So, anyway. Anyway, let's move on.

But overall, Brian thinks Changi's rad. It did perform. I think it's, that looks great. I think it's this phase's Black Panther. This unexpected, beautiful, um, uh,

you know, loose connections to the, not loose connections, but not as quick connections to the Marvel universe as like a Thor or Hulk or that sort of thing. Right. Um, and, um,

but it sets up some beautiful stuff for phase four, I think. Let me just ask you this. Little sminer spoiler. Yes. Does Ben Kingsley show up in this? Do you really want me to say? You don't really want me to say, do you?

No, I want to know. You'll never see him coming, as buddy says. All right. Those of you who don't want to know, tune out for the next 15 seconds. It's such a sminer spoiler, yay or nay. That's not going to ruin it for anybody. Yes, he totally shows up. Oh, cool.

All right. And you're not even saying in what capacity. I never saw him coming. Never saw him coming. All right. I mean, that's a great way because of the way that that was so mishandled or maybe not in the Iron Man movies. And they do a really good job of, again, being very carefully how I tiptoe around this, a very good job of connecting that to Iron Man 2 and the events that happened there. Two or three?

Three, two, three. Iron Man two. Oh, no, was it three? It was three. Yeah, he was three. Yeah. Well, they had that short. They had that Marvel short.

Oh, was he involved in that? I think, well, if we're talking about Ben Kingsley, that was definitely three. That was right. It was three, yes. Yeah. That was the chain black. It was a whiplash was two. Yeah, yeah.

The extremists was in three. Right. And then you got Guy Pearce at the end all glowing and weird. Yep, exactly. He's the real, whatever, fighting a bunch of unmanned robots. All right, anyway. I like three. I'm not complaining.

Three was all right. I enjoyed it. Right. And yeah, the Marvel one, shot is important to see or if you uh here's what you need to do folks if you have disney plus go to marvel legends and it's like a little 10 minute here's all the things you should probably know before you go see uh shang chi and they do a little recap of stuff from the mccu that um sets it up for you well shang chie show up in a z a new avenger do you think in the new

phase of avengers i think so i think he will be all right i'm down with that i think phase i think Phase four team building is in the process. All right. Does he ride Batman into the sunset? Nope. That doesn't happen. All right. What else?

Oh, let's talk briefly about the Hawkeye trailer. I think that looks like a lot of fun. Somebody somewhere is saying that this movie is basically die hard with the two Hawkeyes. And it's set around Christmas even and all of that. I just think it looks great. The tone of it. It looks so much. working yeah and I love

I was under the impression that the new the younger hot guy was going to be his daughter in this this trailer kind of tease that right in the yeah because it was training I don't think that was the case but isn't that in the comics isn't there a second

I forgot her name yes okay Kate Kate Bishop so this is Kate Bishop Hockey and then but also in the comics his daughter is eventually sort of roped in to become I think so yeah so I guess it does follow the comics that there are, you know, his daughter is really good with Bowen Aram, but there's also this Kate Bishop who, uh, we are not relations.

We are not relation. I really like, uh, what's her face? Um, her name's leaving. Haley, Hale Stainstine, Brenner, Seinfeld. Seinfeld. Yeah. What's the deal with bows and arrows? I really like her a lot.

And I think she's perfect for this. So, um, I don't know. I'm weirdly more excited about it. about Hawkeye than I have been all the other TV things? I don't know. Is Metfraction involved in this at all? I don't know. You know, the aesthetic and certainly the logo that they use is from that run.

And so that's why I think everybody was thinking, oh, this is going to be the Hawkeye Pizza Dog adaptation. Limited series, yeah. Yeah, yeah, which would be totally cool if they did that. I don't think that's what's, I don't think that's what this is. I would agree. All right. Now, unless the track suit mafia show up, then

maybe right. You never know. All right, we're moving on to Batman Day. It's on the 18th. That's right. I don't know. A big celebration of Batman. Hooray, except, dot, dot, dot. DC has said, you know all those Batman titles we said we were going to release on the 18th?

Nah, it's not going to happen. So they're blaming that all on COVID delays, or what's the deal? Yeah, they're having supply chain issues in either getting paper or getting the product delivered or, you know, a whole bunch of things. Put it all on infinite. I'll read it now. I don't have a problem. Well, and so I wonder if that isn't. what they might do because remember over a year ago when diamond comic distributor shut down dc

said hey we have comics that we want to get out to people and so they totally broke their contract with diamond and sent them uh to the curb and decided to go with their own uh new distribution model yeah and i have a feeling that with this supply chain issue and again they they weren't clear on what it is but it looks like it could be a combination of of obtaining paper and then getting uh drivers to ship stuff on time here in the United States. It would not surprise me. DC has been doing this for a while. Their DC first line on on comicsology and their digital apps would not surprise me if they just say, you know what, screw it. We want to get comics out there. And if you want to buy this and you must read it now,

it's available for you to go and buy on comicsology. Or you can wait until it shows up in a month or two at your comic bookstore. Or you know what? I just did a tiny review of the three major comic apps. And here's how it goes. DC Infinite. is by far the most. And we're not talking about content. Like, forget about where your favorite hero or whatever. But stability, usability, features and that sort of stuff. DC, I'd put it number one.

I'd put Marvel Unlimited right behind it, especially the new version. I was going to ask if your review was... Yeah, definitely the new version's vastly improved over the last one in terms of stability. And I used to crash a lot on that old app. It was kind of problem. It's horrible. So that's way better. There's some navigation issues now that I didn't use to.

have, but they'll work it out and I'm not worried. It'll get patched and stuff. And then way down the list, so far you almost can't see it, is comicsology, which has not really truly been updated in about a thousand years, and it's way, way down there, like, looking at, it's like seeing Gastown, and you're all the way back where Mad Max is. You can barely see it off in the distance. At the time, everybody.

Oh, yeah. That being said, that being said, about two weeks ago, I'm trying to find, I'm trying to find the story right now. Yeah. Two weeks ago, Comicsology sent us an email that basically said, we are updating the Comicsology app. And they ran through a whole bunch of stuff, including bug improvements from the, let's see, what do we have? A revamped digital comics shopping experience on Amazon where you'll be able to browse by and borrow books to read on either the Comicsology or Kindle app. So you can go and read them on your Kindle app or whatever.

They already do that, though. That's a thing, right? Kindle Unlimited and Prime Men. members will be able to borrow from a large library of graphic novels. So it sounds like you'll be able to do your comicsology unlimited on the Kindle Unlimited and Prime. And then Kindle purchases

will be available on Kindle apps and other devices. And there's this other thing that they're very kind of they didn't really explain fully, but it sounded like you might be able to borrow your friend's comics from their account. So like

if I have a copy of you know, Honeybadger don't care number 27 and Scott really wants to borrow that that I should be able to check that out of my library and check it into his library and then when he's done he can check that back into that like you said just like the Kindle yeah method of doing oh right yeah the Kindle I mean the Comicsology owned by Amazon so it makes sense so so because my experience has been all of the Comicsology comics are available including Comicsology Unlimited titles they're in the Kindle app so you can use all right you can already go to either one and get the same content

I don't know why they're doing that. If you're going to let comicsology die, go ahead and kill it. Oh, they won't let it that die. Well, then why? I don't understand what they're doing. They're just, it's just like they're opening the marketplace to people who don't want to install that or who don't want to go out and try to read on their Android phone or their iPhone and who don't want to go out and buy a different device to read their comixology comics

or don't want to read it on a comic, computer. So they can read it on their, their Kindle device. I think they should just, if they're going to do both, then make that app not garbage. And then if you're not going to do both, then I don't find it horrible. Oh, Comicsology is bad, man. I mean, I love the content. Again, it's not the content. It's 100% like usability.

I mean, the stuff that you're getting on, the stuff that, so if it's the interface as far as when you're going through comics, the comicsology, well, it's actually like DC does their guided view and everything. And then they put that on their DC app as well as on Comlexology app. So it's the same stuff. It is just in the form that you're getting it. Yeah, you're right about that. The actual page-to-page stuff, no problem. They're all like that.

All three of them just basically behave the same. It's the front end. And I don't just mean like the buying part. But the way the wish listing works sometimes and doesn't work other times. I get a lot of crashes. It's just freaking old. It looks like it was made for an iPad too. I mean, it was made for an iPad one.

Yeah, they got to fix that business. Anyway, we'll see what they do. All right, Batman Day, looking forward to that. And we also wanted to ask, what's our favorite what if episode. I've not seen any of them. I'm going to binge the whole smear this weekend. That's when it's all anthology. So you don't have to, right?

It's not like there's a storyline. Yeah, at this point, there's nothing that's connected. No, I don't mean I saved it for binging. I just mean I haven't watched anything yet. So I'm now going to watch it all because I've been behind. sense. Yeah. Yeah, I love the Dr. Strange one. Yeah, that's my favorite one.

Yeah, the way they handle timelines in that is fantastic. And the zombies one, I was looking forward to it because I really liked the limited series back in the 90s or whenever it was, the Marvel Zombies stuff. And it was, it was okay. Yeah, I would say Dr. Strange number one, Black Panther saves the universe number two. Yes. And then maybe zombies, Captain Britain, well, not really Captain Britain, but essentially Captain Britain. And then whatever that, let's kill the Avengers before they have a chance to form. Oh, yeah, that was an interesting one, only because there were a lot of what-ifs in there, except for one small change.

It was like, all right, now we have this character going bad because of this other thing. Yeah, there was too much of a jump there for me. Was it, which I saw a preview and it was like, it looked like Captain America was like a skeleton zombie thing. Is that the one you guys are talking about? That's the zombie one from this last week.

Oh, okay, okay. Okay, not that. So it's not this leic. Yeah, because everybody's telling me the Avengers didn't form one is not a good one. Yeah. It's the weakest of them, I think. It's a tie for me between that one, the zombies one.

You know what? What I wasn't expecting was how they introduced the zombie the zombieification of the Marvel universe which I really actually liked

and where it came in the MCU's time frame. Yeah, which is weird because the way for those people who don't know

how Marvel zombies came to be it actually happened in the ultimate Fantastic Four where Reggie Richards was opened up a portal between

the multiverse and found a multiverse where there was zombies and then he had one he had zombie reid richards contained in the ultimate universe and then somehow he got out of that

and infected the ultimate universe and then spread into the main 616 that's right yes oh reed keep your long spaghetti arms out of trouble will you you a big weirdo that's right all right well uh this is this is great i'm glad we got to finally catch up on all this nerd stuff i know there's always a couple people in the chat are like comics i'm checking out my own well you know people said that with football. We have something for everybody here. Yeah, there's a little something for everyone. And, uh, well done. I guess Kansas City is Missouri, but still, you guys kind of count the chiefs as your team. Oh, the chiefs. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they're kind of your team. So congratulations. The only, the only football team that we have in Kansas are sporting KC.

Yeah. And I think they're in second place right now. So, oh, well, look at you. Yeah. Yeah. Taking over the sports world. One touchdown at a time. It's, it's, it's, uh, Stephen Schlecker. Of course, major spoilers.com. Anything else going on on the site or the podcast you want to mention? Yeah, definitely. Speaking of football and why I mentioned Roy of the Rovers earlier is this week on the major spoilers podcast. This month is like the almost 80th anniversary of Roy the Rovers appearing in comics. So we're going to be taking a look at that this week on the major spoilers podcast. It should be interesting because sports comics and European comics, how does that work? I guess we'll find out this week. Yeah, you sign me up. It sounds interesting. How? And then you guys should do a big four-part series on Fou-Feng-Fum or whatever its name is.

What's the name of that thing? Oh, Finn Fang-Fu. Yeah, I finally got a taste of that character in this new Wolverine run. What a dumb thing. That's a dumb thing. I was honestly when I saw the Shang-Chi trailer and there's that brief appearance of a dragon-like creature in there, I thought, oh, my God, is this how they introduced Fin-Feng-Fu to the Marvel universe? Kind of would be. He would look a lot better than he doesn't.

Comics, he looks like an idiot. Yes. It was terrible. Anyway, that was fun to see. All right. Stephen, have a great week. And best of luck in all the things that you might have to do. We'll see you later by.

Oh, shit. Hydrated. I'll finish it for him. It was just like he was here. It was like he never left. Exactly, yes. All right, we have a Monday morning mashup. Chad?

And for some reason, an email. I remember these. Yeah, these are, these are fun. We, we didn't do any of them while you were gone because we were like, we're saving all this shit for Brian when he gets back. Oh, thank you. So that was mostly, um, uh, it also gave Jamie, I think a chance to like collect new clips and do new things. Yeah. Gave him a little break, which I think is good.

But, uh, anyway, here it is. It's called a free weiner. Okay. Okay. I don't know what this will be about, but you can take your guesses. Enjoy. My players card. I can't get it out.

Let me pull harder. Oh, no. Is it this one? This one is that? Oh, wherever I am I. He guys wearing clothes under that hot bubbly water. I can't see behind that bubble. You won't stand up just a little bit.

There we go. Oh, that looks like a penis. Oh, I see what it is. Imagine you had two buttholes and you had doctor had to do two finger checks. He's not going to go up the one butthole and then immediately, go up the second one with the same finger, is he? That would only make sense if I had two buttholes. You've got rings around your anus?

I do, and as soon as I can get some bleach, I'll take care of that. Oh, yeah, you can get your bumhole bleached. Oh, my God, that looks amazing. Claire sent me a picture of her box. Oh, hey, I'm in the twilight. I'm taking a shit. Take the shit. Her presence in the area was proving to be a detriment to Cheetah's social development.

So it's not like they caught them making out in the freaking snack room, okay? Or whatever. Not Cheetah, like, not like the tiger. Oh, my goodness. Not like the wild cat is what I meant to say. Okay. Something that if you were to try to flush down the toilet, it might plug. Plug it up?

Might plug it, but it would be hard to remove. I don't like this conversation at all. And juice comes out of that crack. Well, I don't mind. I don't care. Because it was only half an inch last time. That's nothing. Roney-bonies dance became popular after footage of the choreography done Zubba-Zubba.

This article was... Rony-boni. I love this Rony-Boney-Boney. This article makes it. Here he comes now, say, Roney, bony. I'm tapping out a wiener. I'm tapping out a wiener. Tapping out a wiener.

Could you shut the door? I'm tapping on a wiener. A little privacy, please, while I tap out this weiner? Exactly. This is where his chode will go. I can't believe that you half near would pay to be put next to Maryland Monroe. What a dick. Pull out your thing and shove it back in there, way.

And then blow on it. Pull it out. Blow on it. Sorry, she's got a cable. This is getting dirty. and your sister's on the phone. It's not good for anybody. Cheetah is spelled Chi-I, or no, C-H-I-T-A-T-A.

Would you like a chai, Cheetah-T-A? Okay, don't start. You did it to me. I'm proud to be in America. Lee Greenwood, I think, yeah. My wiener's free. And I gladly thank the men who died

who gave that right to me. And I'll gladly stand up. No, sit down. We can see your penis. Defend her still to be I love this land And there's something else Oh my gosh, that was great.

What a good one. Return to form, Jamie. Nice work. So good. Work. I had a little Kim in there. I didn't know we were going to get any of hurt. Yeah.

Yeah, I listened to those episodes, and I almost introduced myself on Thursday as Lil Brian. Oh, Lil Brian, yeah. We keep running into these stupid rappers. Lil Bibby, I guess is the... Oh, you know who I got really into this weekend, and I probably won't ever listen to it again, but there's this rapper dude, hip-hop kid named Kid Leroy.

He's got a kid in his name. Kid Leroy's a white, a little white dude. And he does something with Bieber, some kind of crossover song called Stay. And I got really hooked on this song called Stay. So I recommend listening to it. It's earwormy as hell. You know, kind of Post Malone style.

thing. That's not the one. I get my peaches from Georgia. I get my weed from a guy in Bronx. No. No. That's another recent Bieber song that's kind of like, oh, man, it's airwormy and I should hate it, but I don't. Yeah. But it is like, they should be called Lil White dude. But his name is, um, his name is Kid LaRoy, and I'm telling you, stays a cool song until it isn't. And then you never want to hear it again. All right. That's going to do it for today. Oh, uh, mugs, mugs. Yeah, should we talk about, should we make the big announcement of which mug won the thing? Yeah, we should. Um, I got to remind myself what we did. Oh, shit. Oh, really? Oh, here, I'll put it in here. Uh, yeah, you type it and I'll also bring up the person's

name because I have it here. Okay. Um, let's see here. This is the mugs. Yeah, because we voted on this. Oh, that's right. Okay. We have an announcement to make, everybody. Um, um, We need an announcement sound. Let's see. Let me find something. All right. That's, it's as close as I have. A drum roll, please.

Close as I have to a drum roll is a done away sniffing. So here's the winner. We had the mug was chosen. That means that this is going up on the store soon. Might be up there now. I'm so behind on my brain. Anyway, big congratulations goes out to. Do do do do.

Shane Maddox. Shaved Maddox. Shaved Maddox. Yep. He won because he chose the term say staf. That's what's going on this commemorative mug. Stay. Or sorry, say stave, which is a funny thing. If you've been listening to the show for a long time, we've heard it before so you know what's going on. There were lots and lots of runners up. But basically, Scott and I had it narrowed down to like two or three. And we felt like this one encapsulates. 2020 and 2021 in such a way that the other ones don't that it feels you know it feels perfect for this yeah couldn't agree more um so for those looking for the new mug that is what we've chosen and as a result Shane will get his own free version of the mug for being our big picker our big winner um I'm going to check the store is that your doorbell that was my doorbell shall you grab there let's see what you got let's see what you got there I'll be right back this Tina ain't home yeah you better this could be big this could be Brian's

giant package. Look out for Brian's giant package. Oh, it is up. The safe safe mug. Okay. Here, I'll show it to you. So it's up on the store, frogpans.com slash store. And it's one of the first listings there.

You'll see it. You'll see the front of the... Oh, this isn't showing up very well. Hold on. Scroll down. Here we go. The front of the mug there, it says TMS, the morning stream. And the...

Oh, no. For some reason, there's three photos here, and I'll have to fix that. There's only supposed to be the two. I don't know why he did that. I'll eliminate the other one. But anyway, it's a TMS, the morning stream, established 2011, and then in the back of it, say staf on the back. And if you're collecting all of the TMS mugs,

now's your chance to go grabbeth thine latest. It's at frogpants.com slash store. Okay? And they're, you know, cheap, cheap, cheapish. We don't make a million of these, so we can't really make them cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap. But, you know, we don't make real any money on these really. I wish Canada wasn't so damn expensive to ship to.

But we will ship internationally, but it charges you, you know, shipping. And we make no money on those shipping things, unfortunately. I don't know what's going on in the world of shipping. Maybe somebody who's like an expert in that can tell me what the frick is going on with the status of why everything costs so much money to ship anywhere, including domestically. Like it's gone up a little bit. But when did it get so bad to ship anything to,

say, Canada, which is just north of us, which should be easy. We should be able to just send the thing up there, put it on a truck, and before you know it, Canada has the thing I sent, and it shouldn't cost an arm and a leg. Oh, hi, Brian. What did you get? It was the UPS guy bringing the pizzas from Luminatis and basically saying, I wanted to just make sure you didn't open this up and eat it, because it was supposed to be delivered Thursday. And I was like, yeah, no, this is, do I refuse delivery?

And he's like, nope, just call UPS or call Luminati's and let them know what happened. And they'll just send you out a new one and throw this one in the trash. Okay. And so you probably did already. It's probably eating the trash, huh? No, I just set it on the tile floor so that if there's any leakage. And you don't have a dog wandering. You don't have a dog wandering anywhere, right?

You don't have any. Nowhere where there's going to be a problem. No. daisy stay out of the dirty pizza okay exactly pizza juice fantastic well again congrats to shaved Maddox for winning I don't know if he's I don't think he's in the chat but he'll hear this and uh for sure let him know that he's the big winner so go check those out they are up there

frogpans.com slash store okay that's going to do it for the show we're out of here big thanks to everybody for supporting us on a patreon that still exists and if you haven't done it well your chance still exists patreon.com slash tms I'm about to put this month's artwork together that'll be shipping out to a bunch of you. And all the bonus content and audio and everything. The TMS PM will do this Friday. All that stuff can be yours.

You just got to go sign up. Patreon.com slash TMS. And a heartfelt thank you to everyone who already does. That's it. Frogpans.com slash TMS is our website. And we're now going to leave. But we can't go and tell Brian, who is now back from Europe,

will share with us a song to play at the end of the show. That's right. All Irish covers from now on. I'm just kidding. This one goes out to Jim from London. This was a request last, this was going to be the one on that Thursday show that didn't happen right before the trip.

This is, well, here's what he says. Why don't I just do that? Hey, Brian, would love a cover of The Flame by Cheap Trick to go out to my wife, Shea, as we celebrate our 27th anniversary. Shea has always put up with me and my numerous injuries over the years, including this year, as I tore my Achilles tendon

in mid-July. Shea, you're the best, and let's see if we can at least double this time together. That sounds really painful. Can I just put that out there? Kille's tendon? No, kidding. That sucks. Yeah.

I hope you better, dude. That sucks. I'd love to know what you were doing, Jim. What was the event? What was the activity? All right. So this is going out to Shea from Jim. Happy anniversary, you guys. It's a cover of the flame,

performed by the band Nicotine on this album right here. These guys are, again, some more punk rock and roll. This is from the album, Discovered. Oh. And here is nicotine and a cover of The Flame. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Another night slowly goes in and you feel so lonely Lonely touching me raising on my skin

I pretend to steal on me I'm going crazy I'm losing sleep I'm into family way too deep over you I can't believe you're gone Do I First to be the last Wherever you go I'll be with you

Whatever you want I give it to you One ever you need someone To lay your heart And head upon Remember after the fire After all the rain I will be the flame

I will be the flame Watching shadow movie cranes the wall Feel so frightening I want to run to run to you. I want to want to you, I want to go, but I've been hit back lightning. Just can't stand up and fall apart. Can't see through the spell, I close my heart over you. You always need the one of arms.

You are the first to be the last. Whether you go, I'll be with you. Whatever you want, I give it to you. Whenever you need someone to lay the one head above, remember after the fire, after all the rain, after all the rain, I would be the frame. I would be the frame. I'm going crazy, I'm losing sleep, I'm in too far, me way to keep over you. You always be the one. You are the first to be the last.

Wherever you go, I'll be with you. Whatever you want I give it to you Whenever you need someone To lay your heart in bed and forth Remember after the fire After all the lane I will be the flame

I will be the flame This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants. Ha ha ha ha.