The Morning Stream - TMS 2217: Sinister Two-Thirds

Episode Date: December 20, 2021

Gordon is the Shizapoo. History by Scott. My immune system said Too Much Hassle. This is Your Uhhhhh Captain Uhhhhh Handcuffing. I hear dead people laughing. How Many Langwridges do You Speak? Better Living thru Christmas tree. Let the nightmares commence! Remote Start THIS! When Life Gives You Cookies, Make Sunshine. Uncle Ben vs Uncle Owen. McSteamy is just McSweaty now. COVID Cleanup, Aisle 6. All the Jingle Haters. Major Spoilers and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp Online Therapy. Check them out at BetterHelp.com slash morning stream and get 10% off your first month. Coming up on TMS, Gordon is Shizapoo. History by Scott. My immune system said, too much hassle. This is your captain, uh, handcuffing. I hear dead people laughing. How many languages do you speak?

Better living through Christmas tree. Let the nightmares commence. Remote start this. When life gives you cookies, make sense. Uncle Ben versus Uncle Owen. Nick Steamy is just Nick sweaty now. COVID cleanup, Isle 6. All the jingle haters.

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Game over, man. Game over. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to the morning stream for Monday, December 20th, 2021. Five days till Cremus. That's right. You excited for Cremis, Brian? I'm always excited for Cremus.

Yeah. Cremus. Cremus. Was it Taylor or a Cardinal? they pronounced it like that. Taylor, and now Van does, which is pretty cute. But if you have him say the full Christmas tree, he says, chemistry is what he says. Chemistry, nice, excellent. Better living through Christmas tree. Yeah, I'll point to one and go, what's that? He'll go, chemistry. And I'm like, yep, straight up chemistry. And in a way, he's right. It's all chemicals in the end of the day.

Yeah, he's not, he's not wrong. I mean, you know, he'd go far enough down the chain. It's, it's chemistry. It's all atoms and protons and all kinds of bullshit. Hey, well, Welcome back to the show, everybody. We're starting late today. It won't matter to listeners at home, probably, because you just get the show when you get it. But I was getting a booster shot this morning, and they thought they could get me in early.

So I went in at 8 o'clock. And it turns out whoever told me that was wrong, they could not get me in early. But I did have the first appointment at 9, but then they were still kind of slow at 9 to get things open and done and whatever. And then a guy cut in front of me, and that made it take longer.

But then I finally got in, and the lady did it. And it didn't hurt at all. I've never had a shot like that, where it didn't hurt. Like, nope, nothing. I didn't even notice it. It was just like, oh, that's crazy. Even my, like, you know, they're, they're really good at it. Still hurt when they gave me the booster. Yeah, I don't know if it's... All three of these shots for whatever reason hurt. And that second one did hurt. First one, I don't remember. Second one hurt. This one, nothing. And then a flu shot a couple weeks ago, my flu shot hurt like mad. It was bad.

I wonder if you've just gotten better at not flexing or tensing up, because they say that's what what makes it hurt right is that you're you know you're like oh here comes the shot and you're tense up oh maybe i'm getting used to it that could be maybe i've had to do you know various blood things recently in the last year or so and maybe it's made me immune to this sort of thing but it could be anyway we'll see uh she said hey your first two shots leave you in any kind of mess i said nope she goes well you'll probably breeze through this one that's what we usually find so i'll we'll see if i breeze through it or not i don't know i think that doesn't say good things about my immune system is what that says.

It says that I don't... My immune system's like, ah, I can't be bothered. Go ahead. Just, you're fine. I'm not going to react to this. Whereas yours, you had a nice, like, flu-like, four... I did, 12-hour reaction. Yeah.

It was, right. It was, it was, like, 12 hours or, like, six hours the first time or after shot number two. But, like, 12 hours for the booster. It was crazy. 12's a lot. Oh, Aviatech, John says, World Health Organization, stay at the place where you get vaccinated for at least 15 minutes afterwards, just in case you have an unusual reaction so health workers can help you.

Yeah. Well, it's a grocery store. What are they going to do? We have the guy for the meat counter. Well, my grocery store made me do it, even though I kind of, I went five minutes into the frozen food section and then just left to be a different door. I guess what I'm saying is I think I'm in just as quick of a take care of its position here if I have a reaction if I was there. Because there it's just like, what are they going to do? Seriously, the guy, hey, where's Bill? Right. Exactly. Let me get Bill and meat to come over and help. Tell him to slice that ham later. We got a guy having a, he's in shot. Bill sat through our CPR video. I think he'd be able to help you.

Anyway, so yeah, I guess it varies, but made us all super late today. And I don't know what's up with that. Hey, you know that John, not John Smith. Why did I call him that? It's not John Smith. John Wilson. It is John Wilson. How to a John Wilson. I just wanted to. John Wilson. I just wanted to pop in here quick and just say that HBO show which is in its second season now we're like three four episodes in great it's great it's so good it's such a uh a dry humor show based on what he says and the videos that he picks to go along with it and uh his b-roll is second to nobody it really is for real like how does he get all that stuff and then have stuff to say about it but um if if you're if you're looking for a good time that's definitely want to check out and this new season hasn't

had anybody pulling their wiener in different directions. So that's good. Oh, right. I forgot about that. Then we had a dude strapped to a bed with a police system. Yeah. Oh. Because I have a feeling like, I have a feeling like maybe that episode, not got them in

trouble, but it's very traditional HBO where they're just like, hey, look what we can do or whatever. Yeah. But then I think the show maybe is a little more mainstreamy because of Max as a streaming service. Maybe they cut back a little bit. I don't know. Or they're just saving it for episode eight. Yeah, it could be. Still more to come. It's really fantastic, you guys. You should watch out.

Also, I was at a CBS, totally different reasons. We were trying to get, okay, so this whole weekend has been snipe an appointment and get a booster and be done with this before we got to see family and stuff. That's been the goal. Yeah. And every time we try, we fail. First time was actually scheduled. Then they turned me away because I was in the middle of antibiotic run. I'm done with that now as a Friday. So all bets are off. I'm like, it's just get one. so we're in a CBS because they have on their website CBS sucks man on their website it says we offer walk in whatever things you go in there well we don't offer that I'm like well your website says you do and I nobody does you'll have to go online and get an appointment everywhere that's what I thought but CBS has this all this messaging that's completely contrary to what's in the store and so that just means they suck and can't coordinate themselves yeah so I was there for

just a couple of minutes and one of the people working mind the counter's there. And I swear to you, I read this right. I couldn't take a picture because it's a guy standing there. I'm not going to do that. Yeah, yeah. But this guy's name was Gordon Shizapoo on his tag. Gordon was easy to read.

And then I had to kind of squint and make sure I've seen it. S-H-I-Z-I, or sorry, A-P-O-O-H-A-O-O-S-A-Poo-Z-A-Poo. Shizapoo. Is that a real name? It can't be real. I mean, it's, well, it's a real name tag. Like, and Taco Bell, we used to. to put whatever we wanted on our

on our name tags. So he could just be dorking around then. He could, although I would assume he would do a more a more obvious joke if it's a joke, right? Right. And he wasn't particularly, he wasn't

particularly, you know, ethnic looking or any kind of, anybody whose last name would be Shizapu or, you know, any kind of pronunciation of it. It was just some kid, and it was Shizapu, and I couldn't get him out. out of my head into this moment. I'm still thinking about that guy.

So, well done. Now, the Shih Tzu Poo is a, is a, do you had one? Oh, no, you had a Kaka Shih Tzu Poo. Yeah, we had a, we had a neighbor. He had a Kaka Shih Tzu Poodle, Cocker Spaniel. Cocker Spaniel. Or a cockatiel. Maybe it was a part bird.

Yes, part bird. Yeah, so I haven't seen a Shitsapoo in a while, but Shizapoo. Shizapu. He was there. He was willing to sell me all kinds of licorice and shit up there, you know, whatever I needed. really yeah he was ready to roll they i think they get paid more if they can push you onto their extras i really do i wouldn't think cvs would have a commission-based system i don't know i don't like the dress barn i mean it's that's a good point but they all want interest you in a hundred thousand dollar bar i mean i'm gonna take to put you into some recent pieces today i had to guess

they get a bunch of it's like movie theaters you get a ton of money off the little snacks and stuff Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'm sure. But whether they paid, you know, Gordon Shitsapoo any extra. Whether he gets any extra money. A little more money in Gordon's pocket. All right. So, A.B. John, check, John says Shizapu is a cross between Shia, Shih Tzu, and Toy. Shih Tzu.

Oh, he's talking about the dog still. I thought we were finding out this guy's name of origin or something. No. Okay. Well, forget it. No, it's just the cock of Shitsapu without the cock. You know, and I realized. me saying that they'd maybe get paid extras

implying they get trained. I don't know if those employees are trained that much. They all seem pretty. By the way, hey, Scott's nephew, there you go, there's your... Oh, hey, hey, hopefully you're old enough to hear that sort of thing. Well, he's 14, 15, 15. Oh, he's heard worse.

He's okay. Yeah, he's heard worse. Just don't... Well, his mom sometimes drops the F-bomb, so I don't feel too bad. His dad, you know, whatever. Owen, me and you, buddy. We got this. Just between you and us.

All right. Unix Stephen says they do. Five to ten cents for every bar extra. Really? Is that true? I don't know because Disturbed Angel just says no. They just get yelled at. True Manfu says no bonus. They just train the employees to upsell.

How do we know? How does anyone in there really actually know any of this? Stoic squirrel says CVS is definitely not commission based. They just have no trading for employees. So what? So how do you guys know anything? Somebody, if any of you have actual authority. Yeah.

We can't take the chat room opinion on things. Come on now. No. All right. We have an announcement. This Thursday, we're going to, we make the rules here on the show. That's right. That's right. And we're doing a show Wednesday and Thursday, Tuesday and Thursday. But Thursday is not going to be a normal show. We're going to squeeze in an AM play date. So normal show time. Right. We're going to have a play date instead of the usual thing. It's a little fun pre-Christmas, you know, hang out and play some video games kind of thing. Yeah, I think. And if we're alternating or if we're, you know, trying to mix things up, I think it's among us. Yeah, I think Among Us is, it's turn.

Chris Among Us. Yeah, Chris Mung Us. Don't they, I think they have Christmas hats and shit in there right now. Oh, do they? There you go. Nice. I can't stop saying shit this morning. Uh-oh, it's the shot.

The shot did it. Oh, the shot bays to say shit. That's right. Owen, tell your grandmother, that's why I say shit. All right. I guess, wait, are you, she is, yeah, your grandma's my mother-in-law. Yeah. She judged me very harshly for dropping S-words.

I'm sure she would. Yes. All right. Let's, so yeah, that's the plan. Be here Thursday. It's for everybody. We're all going to play. It's going to be great. And we'll play among us and cycle people through. And it'll be a big blast. So we'll see you guys. Cool. A fun time. She'll be had by all. Yeah. Between now and then, all kind of normal stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Including right now, even though we're late, we're going to add done away to this call. We're going to have some fun with him. We'll see what we have in terms of time after that for news. And then Stephen Schlecker joining us. All the normals. It's all the usuals. sure we're not here to you know shake things up too much we don't want to freak you out the music means that brian dunaway has joined us hello brian oh hi scott and brian is that what that music means that's what it means it's a hundred percent what it means hey i got a thing for you oh go ahead you still like jingle all the way brian still like i still love jingle all the

way even if you haters are in the house it's a bad movie the uh the twitter folks Scott and I up. The Discord folks backed you and Randy. It's an interesting split. Like people use Discord, agree with you guys. Oddly, I actually got a lot of Twitter love, but they only tagged me and Randy because they were so afraid of your hateful statements.

They weren't about to do it. But yeah, I got some Twitter love, but it was mostly just with me and Randy tagged. I'll not to show that to you. Well, I can't find it, but this is an important holiday or an important date in the history of South Carolina. I don't know if you know this or not,

but this was the day in 1860 where they seceded from the union. That's right. Oh, wow. Because we wouldn't, the northerners wouldn't send your slaves back because you guys were letting all your slaves lose. And we wouldn't help you guys do that. And because of that, you guys will have said, fine, we're seceding from this union that we're in.

Thank you for your revisionist history, Scott. Hey, I looked it up in the Lincoln Library. it's a real thing man you mean the winners library the winners library i guess it would say that i guess i guess the winner history will always yeah exactly history is written

by the winners yeah and you guys had a whole thing on that i watched i looked at the document today it's all scanned and it's very old but it also declared uh zero confidence in president-elect abraham lincoln because of his views on slavery that's not true it was

it was the stove top hat we didn't to care for it. What's he hiding in there? Yeah. His mole, all those things. A stack of pringles or something? None of that word. It's a gun.

Just kidding. Well, it's good to have you here. We're going to play a game. You know how this works, but Brian's going to explain it to us anyway, and we're going to play it his way. So Brian, tell us what we're doing. That's right. Welcome to the morning.

Squirm, a back-and-forth trivia game where our players will match wits on topics that would make Santa Claus toss his milk and cookies. Scott and Brian will take turns answering multiple-choice trivia questions. And if they get it wrong, the other player gets a point. They'll play with the most points. After five questions, wins the prize for their contestant. And we're going to pull our contestants from members of the Tadpool that ain't

able to be here live. Eight. Scott, you're going to be playing for Luch Saint-Germain from St. Hubert in Quebec. Is that L-U-C? That's L-U-C. Yes. He's in the L-U-C. Up in Quebec.

And, Brian, you're going to be playing for Daniel H in Sulful-H. Daniel H in Sulfur Springs, Texas. Nice. Sulfur Springs. Let me just say, first of all, Scott, stop posting links in the chat room to the lies. It's the truth. Look, South Carolina is fine now.

The internet said. End in Discord, by the way. He pasted it. Yeah, I put it in Discord. I never met anyone who's so afraid. No, no, no. Listen, done away. I'm doing this because I know that you guys aren't this now, South Carolina.

Carolina is a very nice place for the wonderful people. It really is. I just like to kid. It's just fun. Yeah. I like to kid. The subject is not funny, but being defensive is hilarious. Yeah.

A lot of changes have happened since 1860. Maybe not enough in some ways, but a lot of them have. And it's all fine. You, in fact, you're out in front of the good new, the new South Carolina, Brian Dunaway, tip of the spear. Well done. Let me tell you something. It is a lot easier to. to push down racism when you are intermingled with other races that people would present you with stereotypes,

but you observe that those stereotypes are not true. Right. And so it's a lot easier. I actually have more racist comments when people move to South Carolina who have never really been around any other race other than white folks. They generally seem to have the hardest time. People who live here mostly, though? No, they get it. They're not racist.

Oh, my God, there's some. And they are hardcore. But they get it. Most of us, no. Most of you get it. No, that's what I'm saying. And go Panthers, right? Go Panthers.

Go Panthers. We'll see how they do tonight. And then we'll see if we go Panthers after that. Yeah, we'll see. Maybe they'll celebrate this event with a win. All right. Hey, Brian, sorry, back to you. We're done with that.

No problem. Let's get to our, oh, prizes, by the way. First place winner today is going to get a copy of Hemerting and Nimbatus, the space drone constructor, games on Steam. but our runner-up is getting Kill It with Fire, which I've heard of before, and I know it's a good game. Oh, I have that game. That's a cool game.

I reviewed it once. It's very good. So, games for everyone playing. All right, except for you two. Hey, I think Brian won last time. So, Scott, we're going to begin with you. Okay. One of these perverted-sounding city names is totally made up.

The other three are real. Which one of these is the fake city name? All right. is it dick johnson indiana is it climax georgia is it hyman point rhode island or is it ball play alabama oh man those three of those are real one of those is fake hi the hyman one point rhode island yeah you don't think there'd be somebody named hyman that they would just name a point after a german guy i am hyman named the city after me he says Well, I don't want to talk you out of it.

That's absolutely correct. Well done. You get the point. That seems like one that even if it was, it wouldn't hang around too long. They'd get rid of it. Right. You know what that really means, right? That's what you would say when you see that sound.

That's right. By the way, last week we had a question about the largest number of legs on a millipede. And since that episode or since that quiz, they've discovered a millipede with 1,300 legs, which was your answer, Scott. So instead of it being a shutout last week with Brian 5 and U0, it's now Brian 4 and you won. So nothing changed. Once again, revisionist histories. Perfect. See what happens when you create a Wikipedia page and put your own date on it?

All right, Brian, in 1905, an experiment was conducted on a criminal who was executed by beheading. Merry Christmas, everybody. Researchers realized a decapitated person doesn't die in. Immediately, when the severed head did what? A, did he ask why he felt so funny? B, started to cry. C, responded to people calling his name, or D, began coughing uncontrollably. Is there anything sadder than the idea of the severed head crying?

You know what I mean? Whether it's true or not, yeah. What a horrifying. Why did you chop my head off? That's just horrible. Can you say at top of that question again? I'm not doing the answers again. So 1905, experiment was conducted on a criminal who was executed by beheading.

Researchers realized a decapitated person doesn't die immediately when the severed head blanked. Okay. And so one of the things he used to try to do even before then was like to get the head to blink. And it's like, if your head comes off, blink. You're like, and their person's like, I'm busy. Yeah, I'm busy dying. I'm dying. I'm busy right now.

Thanks anyway. Yeah. um oddly i oddly i just feel like the crying thing would just seem like the logical thing because it's still you still have tear ducks and they're kind of independent of the rest of the body and that sudden impact to your um to your nervous system i think it would send your brain into you know eye watering experience i don't think you're really crying necessarily as much as this eyes are watering pot is it like a single tear like the uh native american in those uh yeah yeah

Lift, don't litter. Don't litter ads. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Is it started to cry? It is not. Oh, damn.

A point for Scott. I'm going to guess. Remaining choices. Asked why he felt so funny. B, or I'm sorry, C, responded to people calling his name or D began coughing uncontrollably. I'm going to go with a coughing one for some reason. A little coughing fit. It sounds horrible, but like wouldn't, you wouldn't have any air.

So it would be like, you know, no lung. are working. Well, yes, I know. Native Italian. Yes, I know. It wasn't a real Native American. It wasn't a really Native American. You said, oh, your chat room, sorry. I thought you were talking to me. They're just correcting myself on the littering act. We were to believe he was a Native American. That's right. Exactly. Coughing uncontrollably is incorrect. No, he actually responded to people calling his name. Really? Oh, that's weird. He couldn't turn his head to say, yeah. Oh, I don't talk to me.

You're talking to me. This reminds me of that dream where your head was on that chair. Right, yes. Oh, just blankly staring. For whatever reason, I conflate that with the, they saved Hitler's brain movie, and I've always imagined my head sitting on that chair speaking German. I'd love that. Mock Schno!

You know, they didn't need to perform that experiment. I pretty much could have just told them, yeah. Yeah. You can still, you're still going to be. experiencing things for, like, you know, a very short, brief period. Yeah, your synapses are still firing. All you've done has made it, so you're going to very quickly have no oxygen to your brain. You're not getting any more new oxygen or blood to your brain.

Yeah. Right. Let me let Tina know. I think our fence guy is here. Hold on one second. Oh, she's going to fence a guy? Yeah, no, she's fencing, she's fencing a product. She's a product fencer.

Oh, even better. She takes stuff from the black market, resells him. To kids. Sorry, give me one second here. Yeah. Got the old fencing routine going there. You know, you can make a lot of money on the side with the proper fencing. Right.

So what happened with the neighbors, I wonder, is what I really want to know. Is it got to put up some new fences? The wind blowing down. Right. Okay. Well, I'm hoping Tina's. Oh, here he is. Yes.

Hi, I am here. Can I go ahead and go into your backyard? Yes. Go to my backyard. I'm on a. Zoom call, but I'll be out in a second. Release the hounds, Brian, Sr., the house. Release the hounds. Okay, all right.

Back to the thing here. All right. I think when we get Schleiker, I might dip out for a minute just to... No worries. You've got to make sure everything's going the way you want. It's all good. Yep, exactly. All right.

Let's get rolling here. Question number three, this one is going to Scotch. Yeah. Once a plane is airborne, The captain is your master now. Look at me. I'm the captain now. In fact, the captain of a plane is legally allowed to do all of these except for one.

Can he? A. Handcuff people. B. Take a last will of a dying passenger. C. Write fines or D. Confiscate carry-on luggage for any reason.

I was hoping farts in the cabin was one of them. He definitely could do that. So, Wayne, these are things that he can do himself. Right. All of those things are things that he can do. He is legally able to do because he is the captain, the Master of the Skies. Give me those one more time. Quick run down on the answers.

Master of the Skies. I didn't even think about that as I was saying it. Handcuff people or take a last will of a dying passenger, write fines, confiscate carry-on luggage for any reason. I'm going to say it's the will thing because why would you... Take a last will of a dying passenger? Yeah. Like, what are you going to do? Whip out a thing and take notes and like, okay, I got it on.

I'm like, I don't think that's, that seems like, everything else, go ahead, go ahead. Everything else works for, like, safety of passengers, safety of the airline, safety of the flight, like, except for that. So I'm going to say that. Okay. Is it, take a last will of a dying passenger? No. He can, he can do that. Brian, the remaining choices are handcuff people, write fines or confiscate carry-on luggage for any reason.

How could he write fines? What kind of moronic thing is that? What are you going to find me for? I've got some fines to write. Barton him. You can see on the left. Right. I mean, once again, I don't think that the immediacy of writing fines doesn't seem like it would be necessary.

It's something you would do after as you leave. So you say fines. You did not choose the chicken or the fish. That's a $10 fine. Incorrect. He can write fines as well. What he can't do is. confiscate carry-on luggage for any reason.

He does not have a search and seizure, a search and seizure. Like if he thought it was a bomb, you would think that that would be the one thing he could do. Okay, but if he thought there was a bomb or anything close to that, he would just land the plane effectively confiscating everything because what else is he going to do? Right. Exactly. Yeah, that makes sense. Because what's he going to go over there go, I'll be taking your bag, taking it up front with me? Exactly.

Now it all makes sense. Now that you say it. Yeah. But I'll bet you that last will and testament thing is some ancient-ass thing from like the 50s. Like old idea. Yes, exactly. Some old lady. I can see him licking his pencil and writing me a little.

I'm writing you a fine buddy. Why? Okay, hold on. Quick question that you just, bro. Why did anyone ever lick a pencil before doing something? Why? Yeah, right. Like, do you have to get it started?

Like it's a fountain pen? I can see like a fountain pen. I can see like a fountain pen maybe get the liquid moving, but even that. Exactly. But pencils, when you see it in a movie, TV show, old stuff, usually, someone goes, eh, and like dips their pencil on their tongue and then starts writing. I don't understand what the hell that is. I don't get it either. Yeah, it's really weird.

That's really weird. It's to gross out Scott for film. Exactly right. All right. This one goes to Brian. Oh, hi. Yeah, hi. In the midst of his murder spree, serial killer Rodney Alcala,

went on a game show and won. Which game show did he appear on, was it? The dating game, Wheel of Fortune, $100,000 pyramid, or the price is right. This is a pretty easy one for me because I listened to a huge documentary this past year, three episodes of a podcast about this, and he is the dating game killer. He absolutely is the dating game killer, yeah. Yeah, that's the guy. bachelor number one if you were a serial killer what would be your weapon of choice what would you do with me oh funny you should say that

wow that's amazing all right well done that put you ahead i think no it's two and two this is it yeah yeah oh we're tied okay all right this is the best one for scott to get oh my god all right i'm ready is his inclination all right here we go uh we all love sitcoms and laugh tracks When you find out, let's see, you won't be laughing when you find out that all shows use the same laugh track and, A, the laughs were recorded so long ago, all the people are dead, B, the original audience was made up of free labor and recorded in a prison. C, it's actually just one man and one woman laughing differently every time and spliced together, or D, the less funny the show, the loud of the editors make the laughs. It feels like a couple of those could be true, but I'm going to go with. with um i'm gonna go with all those people are dead yeah i know it's it's when i saw that answer or when i saw that option i should say i thought oh my god it's absolutely the one he's gonna pick

yeah whether it's right or not is a whole other issue but right exactly uh all right the last we recorded so long ago all the people are dead what that's absolutely right yeah it was it was in your hands and you did it exactly so congratulations to scott and congratulations to Luke St. Germain of St. Hubert, Quebec. You are getting some steam games. I believe those steam games can be, can go across borders. They can. Yeah, they don't have region locks, so you can do it anywhere you want.

Cool. So, yeah, there you go. Congratulations. Well done, everybody, including me. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. And done away there, you just, you know, look, you can't win them all, dude. You can't just come in here and cranny every week, you know? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you going to come back Wednesday or how you, how are you doing this week? Do you want to play with this again? Yeah, yeah, I'm good Wednesday. Let's do some feud. I was good last Wednesday until somebody did something. I forget, no. I don't know what happened.

Was that the day I was, uh, was I, what was that? Was I doing something that was screwed up something? Yeah. What was it? Oh, no, Brian, you couldn't. You were, you, uh, had a thing where you couldn't do. Wrong. Last Wednesday, your internet was down.

You know, I didn't go at all. Oh, that's right. Oh, right. That's right. It was AWS. It was Amazon Web Services. We had nothing to do with it. Hold on.

Before you go, we got, I want to drop a little Johnson here on everybody. Okay. Ew. I said little. Back up. Dunaway and I are doing something pretty cool behind the scenes. You may have noticed that the boop show went on kind of a month's hiatus for the month of December. And a lot of people are like, what are these guys doing?

What are they working on? Well, I'm happy to tell you. I'm not going to give you the full jammy just yet because there's a couple things I want to make sure you're up online before we do it. But me and Dunaway are in the midst of launching something very, very cool. And let's just say if you are a fan of old video games, and I mean like NES era,

all the way back to the original arcade stuff, and the stories about how those games got made, why they mean so much to so many people, why some of them are still iconic to this day, that sort of stuff. Any of that sounds interesting? Oh. I can't wait to listen.

It's going to be great. I'm really excited about it. So anyway, watch for more details by the end of this week or maybe by even Wednesday. We'll have more up online so people can actually see it and then we can get a proper promo out. But it's all coming together for the very first of the month or the first of the year. The first of the month. Kick it off nice. So we'll let you guys know as we get closer, but I'm very excited about this.

Nice. Brian Dunaway. Is there anything? else you'd like to say to us today? Uh, yeah, Monday through Saturdays right now, through the month of December, I'll be streaming from 6 p.m. to about

7.30 p.m. Eastern Time, so catch me on the Twitch. Yeah, he's a good time. Give me a follow. Yeah. He's been playing the old Genesis version of Fantasy Star 4. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a great game. Nothing wrong with Fantasy Star. It's an amazing game. I never played the Fantasy Star games

until the beginning of last week, and now I'm hooked. Yeah, the Fantasy Star series major influential game for a lot of stuff even we play today. Like there's a lot of DNA there for things like destiny and I don't know.

You know, small teams doing cool stuff like in Diablo and getting loot and bringing it back and you know, stuff you never heard of until like the PC era. But for whatever reason Fantasy Star started twiddling that little thumb, that little finger early on

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All right, here's your, here's an irritating story. Okay. Oh, no. Is this going to trigger me? No, it might. Well, it might. Toyota.

You ask for it. You got it. Toyota's going to make it so you have to pay to start your car with your key fob. You know you've got remote starting of your car. You're out in the cold and you're in the store and you're like brr and you start it and then let it warm up a little before you go out there. They're going to start charging you that convenience.

What? That's ridiculous. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. So it says here, Toyota's charging drivers for the convenience of using their key fobs to remotely start their cars according to a report from the drive. Toyota models 2018 or newer will need a subscription in order to key fob or get that key fob support to start your car remotely. Fob isn't, you don't have to subscribe if you're just using it to walk up to your car and unlock your car. But if you're doing it remotely at all, it won't work unless you pay the subscription.

I think this sucks, by the way. This really sucks. Yeah, it totally sucks. As the driver, or as the drive notes, this is a source that revealed this, buyers are given the option to choose from any array, or excuse me, an array of connected services when they purchase their new Toyota. And one of those services called Remote Connect just happens to include the ability to remotely start your car with your fob. buyers are offered a free trial of remote connect but the length of that trial depends on the audio package that it is included in the vehicle so if you get a fancy stereo maybe you get a longer deal out of it yeah i mean there's a thing like that with the kea but it's um it's for the it's for uh regular updates of the mapping system in the dashboard so like it's got a big screen and you pay a regular fee to get those those updates and since i use the uh Apple Maps in my phone connected to it, you know, with CarPlay, I don't pay for that. But, man, what a, what a crock. I know a lot of people, a lot of companies, regardless of their industry, are all trying to figure out a way to get recurring revenue in the form of sales.

That's just the hot new thing. Everything wants a subscription. Everybody wants a subscription. So I kind of get that. But we are now eking into territory. And I guess Chad's saying other cars, like there's some Chevys with it. There's a, they said Cadillacs. I guess new Cadillacs do this.

This is a trend I absolutely freaking hate. And if I was in the market for a new car and it had a fob and part of that is remote or whatever, I ain't paying that, dude. No way. F off. Out of principle. I think it's fine. I like the tech, but F you.

F off. Right. The fact that I bought this car outright and you're going to charge me for the ability to do this. And I guess, like you say, it's part of a full package of other things that you get as part of it. And this, the Verge just wants to call out, well, we're going to, we make you pay to remote start your car. Well, technically, okay, yeah. Yeah. I mean, the way I look at it is this.

Yeah. It's like, to me, that's like saying, you like that cup holder, do you? Well, if you want to put your cup in that cup holder, three bucks a month for that feature or else it's shut off like a steel bar. You can't use it. Right. I mean, that's extreme, but I don't like this nickel and diming, people. and I know there's massive revenue in it because people forget they sub to it and it just comes out of the card every month and they never know. I mean, you know, how many months did you not play World Warcraft and forgot that you had 15 bucks coming out regardless? Like, I get why they like this. But it's starting to feel skeezy. It is. It is. It feels like the last bastion of where they haven't had a subscription service and now it's kind of leaked into our cars that we pay for outright or pay a,

a fee to purchase outright, you know? In some ways, I'm glad that we have, that subscription as an option has worked out for so many parts of life and that it's simple and easy and quick and cancel any time. Like Patreon. Morning patreon.com slash morningstir, TMS. Exactly, because you're getting something you value for your money, right? I'm all for that. But when you lock me out of a thing that's normally just part of the deal, they've been

making key fob remote, open door stuff, start your car stuff for how. long? Yeah. 20 plus 30 years. I don't know. You now are you going to, what, to what end? Like, what are you actually, what do you, what is that subscription subsidizing? There's nothing you have to do.

No. They did what they had to do, which is make the fob, make the car. Your job is done. There's nothing to subscribe to. Right. Exactly. Take two these fingers right up your buttholes. I don't like it.

That functionality works. You're just like putting it behind a door just because you can. Oh, that's a good. one in the chat. Ali, who says, subscribe to a cooler fridge. Yeah, f that. You want your food really cool and really preserved? Yes, right, exactly.

Subscribe to the Samsung Fridge Plus program. It's like, F off. Well, you have an extra shelf in the door. You can only use it with this subscription service. Oh, man, I have zero. Zero, zero respect for any of this. It's bad. It's bad.

Yeah. All right, we're going to take a break on that note. And when we come back, Stephen Schlecker will join us, A little bit of major spoilers going on. He's all done with grades. I want to hear how that went for him because I guess it was a mess this year. It doesn't sound like it went well. No.

But we'll get to that in a minute. Brian, you want to play a song in the meantime? Yeah, we're going to New York, New York City for a singer named Blake Morgan. Sounds like a country artist, but he's not. This feels like, boy, does this feel like some cool 90s rock? I totally dig this. There's a brand new video for this song. It's called Down Below or Up Above, and it pays homage to classic Hollywood-era noir films.

But aside from the video, the song is cool. It's called Down Below or Up Above. It's the first single for Morgan's forthcoming album, Violent Delights. And we know where that phrase comes from. Here is Blake Morgan, Down Below or Up Above. I could lose my way I could go down below

up above it's you I would love I could break and run even race the sun I could go down below up above It's you I would love And forever Be light as a feather

In your arms arms I could flash and burn or take a darker turn I could go down below or above It's you I would love And forever be light as a feather

In your arms In your arms After all at last, in any fall or crash, if I go down below above, down below, down below, up above. Down below, up above. Down below, up above. It's you I would love. Hey, you guys. What's going on? Look, the best way to think about therapy is through a bunch of analogies.

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slash morning stream. That's betterhelp.com slash morning stream. I don't know. It might be fun. What do you think, Nick? All right, but don't expect me to be amused. There's nothing funny about the tools of capitalism. Get out of bed and stop being a loser. Man who can catch fly with Chopstick accomplish anything. This is the morning stream. What was his name again?

something Morgan. What was it? Blake Morgan. So that's a fun like accidental mash thing because you got Henry Blake and then you got Oh yeah. Then you got Morgan or what's his name? Harry Morgan. Harry Morgan. So you got Harry Morgan real name. Character

played by McLean Stevenson, Henry Blake. So you got Blake Morgan. Right. And then they both were kernels in the same match outfit. Crazy. Crazy. Crazy I say. All right. Anyway, sorry. What was that song again? that song again is down below or up above it's a brand new single from uh blake morgan's forthcoming album violent delights nice all right that's what she said that is what she said so i i i'll admit to being a little bit of um illiterate in this particular case i thought that

line from west world was only from west world you know it came before that it was like no idea i had no idea i'm embarrassed it's just the most recent place we've heard that phrase yeah I felt dumb not knowing that, but... Oh, no, not at all. Don't, uh, you know. These violent... These violent delights have violent... These violent misunderstandings have violent...

Something like that. Exactly. All right, here you go. Stephen Schleiker. Stephen Schleiker. Hey, look who it is. It's Steven Schleger from Hayes, Kansas, and major spoilers. One of the great websites in the world that covers all things comics and stuff.

Other things, not just comics. Hey, Stephen, it's good to have you here. How are you? And I don't hear it. He's, he's muted. Stephen is muted. We're not even getting the green ringage of speakage.

That usually means muted. That's right. Oh, I hear a little something. Oh, hello. Oh, hi. There he is. There he is. Hi.

Yay. Hi, Steve. Yeah, I mean here. Yeah. Can you hear us? All right. We can even hear us through you. All right.

I'm going to figure out what's going on. Yeah, it's weird. Your audio got all routed weird. I don't know. what that's about. I'm okay. You're okay, you're a little chip-chop.

A little clippy, but, yeah. It could be Discord, just farting around. No, let me, let me, let me, hold on. I'll draw this out as long as like... Okay. Yeah. I mean, it's major spoilers. We'll get two out of every three words, he says.

It's fine. Yeah, it's meant to be cryptic, so we don't spoil you on Spider-Man, which we will not be doing any of today. How's that? Oh, hi. Oh, now, much better. I don't know why I can't hear you guys. Oh, you don't hear us?

It's so weird. Oh. Do you not hear us? We hear you. You know, you know, here. Okay, how's that? How good? Do you hear us?

Yes. We don't hear ourselves. We just hear you and you sound great. Okay, great. Let's do this. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hi.

Hello, Steve. Yeah, you guys. Oh, pretty good. Hey, wait, if that was, were you up late because you were doing papers or what? What happened? No, I just woke up in the middle of the night and I couldn't go back to sleep. Oh, I hate that. And so finally, I was like, I'm not going to toss and turn.

Finally, at 4 o'clock, I'm like, I'm just going to get up and go do a walk. yeah yeah how'd that go every day that helped it's fine i usually get up about 435 o'clock anyway to go do a walk oh my lord you're it's dark and cold yeah very dark and cold at that time of day uh well good for you though uh you know you you took a mountain or no you took a broken cookie and turned it into sunshine you took lemons and you turn them into lemonade i couldn't think of it so i used cookies and sunshine i worked it out uh anyway uh so i was going to ask you though you did have kind of i guess You said in your message that the great thing was really bad this year. Let's do it.

Let's do a test. Okay. Go. Brian, can you spell the word language? Yes. L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E. I probably should have asked Scott first. Scott, do you agree?

I agree with his spelling. Yeah, I can spell language. I literally had one paper. I don't want to embarrass this student if he may be listening. I shouldn't have even said he, but. L-A-N G-W R-I-D-G-E

L-I-D-G Lange Ridge Not once Every single time in the paper Oh no Native You know one of those people Like English first language

Yes English first language Yeah I thought maybe somebody was playing a prank on him You know like you go into your phone And you have it auto correct to something else But he had a bunch of other his spellings in the in the paper so did you great if that were true what kind of grade did we give junior there what did you give him i think he got a even though he did everything else right

except for the bad spelling and grammar i think he got a c on the paper wow that's fantastic maybe maybe it was a d but you know a d i i just see you'll get you by right a c you can deal yeah so at our university uh so in order to i mean d is a passing grade right uh it's unacceptable in my opinion. I mean, it's below average. Unacceptable as a you. We've talked about that last week. C is average. Right. So in order to graduate, you need to have, I think it's a 2.0 grade point average. But in your major, you're supposed to have, in our major at least, we can set our own GPA. So we have our own GPA set at a 3.5. So if you get a D in one of your major classes, you should really take it again. Interesting. Are you looking forward to seeing some of these people next year?

No, they all take it. that's too bad well look you know you you see all kinds you probably had some bright spot in that group though somebody somewhere was like amazing and you're like man the future future's on on their shoulders did you feel that way at all I'm sorry what did you feel like anybody really killed it and was amazing and then they they got great grades and an A or oh yeah there's always really a bunch of sharp cookies and even this particular student was very sharp and always interacted in class and everything but when I was like oh man I'm looking for forward to reading his paper and seeing how he did and followed the APA style correctly,

followed the formatting and the structure, did everything that was required of it, but his spelling was just atrocious. Well, welcome to the new age. Hey, Stephen, it's good to have you here. We are glad in your home all week, which is nice. You're off the semester, which is good. Give yourself a little bit of a break. Of course, the kids are home too.

So, you know, I don't know what that means in your life, but it may. Well, it means one of the additions of being awake at 2 o'clock in the mornings is I can go pound on my son's door and say it's 2.30 in the morning, go to bed. Yeah, go to bed, kid. Spider-Man in the news, and we're not going to spoil a damn thing about it. Because I haven't seen it yet in either of any, a lot of you at home. And when we do, we don't want to know. So anyway, Spider-Man, though, broke all records.

That's not a spoiler. That just happened. Yeah, well, so it's kind of funny, right? I mean, let's put a little asterisk by that, because it made domestically $260 million in the United States, worldwide, something like 543, something like that. I put the asterisk eye there because it's the highest grossing movie in recent times, you know, during pandemic, right? So it's a record breaker there. Yeah.

And, you know, seeing that number is very surprising and very exciting for a lot of people. But it makes me think back to the very first Spider-Man movie. When it came out, and I forget what year it was, but it made $115 million in its opening weekend. and that was the first movie to reach that number in the shortest amount of time. Now, of course, everybody has blown past it, but I just feel like maybe a little bit of spoiler for people that we've kind of come full circle in that sense because of we're kind of repeating ourselves throughout history. Sure, a little bit of that going on. That movie, by the way, 2002, there we go. It was a long time ago.

It was a long time ago. Spider-Man turns out popular property there. People like it. Even the Garfield ones, which people were kind of sour on, those had huge openings and did well. I like him as an actor. I liked him as Spider-Man. Yeah, I like him a lot, actually. If you haven't seen, what is it, Tick-Tick-T-Bomb, that's a great.

That's a great thing on Netflix right now. It's on Netflix. Yeah, it was my recommendal last week. It's so good. It's not based on the song that Tick-Tick-Tick-Bomb. No, it's a movie adaptation of a one-man play by Jonathan Larson, who was the guy who wrote Rent. Oh, that's right. Yep, you did review this.

I did. Yep, I wrote it down. Here it is. It's on my list now. I'm going to see this film. Right after Loki. Right after Parasite. Right after Loki, Parasite, and the four other things you all think I haven't seen.

Well, that's great, Stephen. But good for them, I guess? Like, what do you think it means in terms of? We already know there's, like, more movies coming with Holland in it. But this ends like the big three movie arc and, uh, I don't know. Does this, is this a separation from MCU a little bit? I've heard speculation that, that it will now be Spider-Man off doing very Spider-Man things and very Sony things and not so much, hey, there's slapy or flappy or whatever's

name is again or there, here comes Dr. Strange. Like we're not going to have these mix-ins and crossovers so much in the next three. Sure. Maybe, maybe, maybe that. Uh, typically with, uh, you know, the title character. in a movie. They usually sign them for three movies. And then if they want to do it again, they have to back a big old truck of money up to their house so they don't get typecast. Sure. During the very first premiere that was like what last Tuesday or Wednesday for the,

you know, before all the embargoes and everything listed, Kevin Feige had said, hey, this is Amy Pascal's thing. If she wants to do another Spider-Man movie, it's totally her call to do it. And I, from the way I gathered it, she was just kind of like, no, this is where we're going to wrap up stuff. But then on Friday, after all the buzz was generated, it comes out to say, oh, no, we're actively working together Marvel Studios and Sony for more Spider-Man stuff. Okay. Okay, so that probably means that they'll be fine with crossovers and stuff. It just, from what I had read, and this was pure speculation, and I remember where I saw it, Empire Magazine, or somebody was saying, you know, this would be the time Sony would retreat a little bit and not have to have, you know, so much, not interference,

but so much involvement from Marvel and Disney. And they never really wanted to do that anyway. way so here's a chance for them to take this momentum and do something themselves and all i could think of was i think that's a bad idea i think you should embrace where you're at and uh be glad you're in the damn mccc because that's kind of where your money is so anyway i want to see i don't know i think you know venom um did very well venom too did very well considering the the state in which it was released so i think the sony handling of the spider man properties is fine i mean they got spiderverse uh which is you know its own thing it's got a couple of movies coming out next year.

We'll see how they do with Morbius. Is there a craven? Craven the hunters in the works? That's what I've heard. I don't know if that's still progressing or not. And that's a Sony deal, though? Because they have all the stuff on the Spider-Man. Yeah, they have all the Spider-Man stuff.

So if it's related to Spider-Man, it's over at Sony. So do you think they'll ever do, like with the popularity, the growing popularity of things like Suicide Squad and Guardians where it's kind of like, hey, where's our goofball offshoots kind of anti-hero types? What are they up to? Do you think the Sinister Six thing gets rebooted? because they were doing that, and then they pulled plugs. Like, I still think the Sinners or Sixth film would be great.

I think it would make a great movie. Yeah, I would love that. I mean, there's a Spider-Man movie in theaters right now that features, let's see, that we know. Again, not spoilers, everybody, because it's in the freaking trailer. It's in the trailer. Acro-Ocopus, Green Goblin, Electro, Sandman. Yeah. Sandman.

I'm not. Is it a little bit of a little bit of my? think in shocker. No, it's electro. Yeah, it's Jamie Fox. And so, you know, we're kind of almost there. Yeah. You just need a couple more.

Get rhino back. Sinister four. Sinister two-thirds. Sinister two-thirds. Oh, wait, did you, did you mention, because you see green goblin in the trailer as well. Did you say him? Yeah. So, wait, who's the other goblin?

Hobgoblin. Yeah. You could do that. Isn't that his son? Or what's the deal there? Okay. Yeah. One was his son.

One was Ned Leeds. Okay. another one wasn't it Ben Riley not Ben Riley yeah wasn't it his son somebody that worked at the day he planned it yeah yeah okay well fair enough Uncle Uncle Owen

no what's the uncle's name Uncle Ben Uncle Ben to be proud I guess is what I'm trying to say With great power comes many many villains All right Wild rice You know what I like though And I haven't seen it yet so I can't really say

For sure but from what I'm hearing This is the first time where I feel like a superhero movie really nails the we're going to have a ton of villains in our movie usually that's a problem like including some of these characters in the movies they were in yeah I was going to say like Spider-Man 3 in Toby McGuire

era uh was such a mess because they tried to jam venom and uh green goblin and uh sandman it's just overloaded like it was just too much and yeah I mean it goes back to the Batman um Batman returns right with

cat woman and penguin and And then it just kind of blew up from there where everybody had to have multiple villains in their movies. And that does. Two-face and Mr. Freeze and poison ivy. And even Nolan had too many, I would argue, in some of his. But it can be done right. And it sounds like this is a place where you've not only got the story to justify it, but just really well-directed and smartly done. I think they did a really good job with that.

I will say, someone who's seen the movie, they did a very good job with all those villains. So, Stephen, when you and I are watching this on streaming in a year, you know, March 8th is what the suspected streaming date is given. So how many days is that? Because it's 90. Okay, because I was going to say, if we're going by that 45-day rule that a lot of them are dealing with, it's only if the movie makes less than. Yes, exactly. It's definitely more than the 45. But it's funny, when we were all kids, when all three of us were all kids, a new movie,

big hit movie would come out like I don't know, E.T or something. And it wouldn't hit VHS for like a year. A year plus, yeah. Because it had to in the old days, the distribution outlet was first run theaters, second run theaters, which would be your dollar theaters,

then airline release, then a cable, and then after that it would be VHS. Or home, you know, back in our video, you'll get it on three quarter inch or beta or whatever. Sure. And then And then after that it would be, you know, over-the-air stuff.

So, yeah, it could be a while before that happened. But then again, we mentioned Batman. Batman was that first one where Warner Brothers was like, okay, first of all, we're going to get this out. Because that came out that summer. And it was available for purchase in November. So like three months later, three or four months later. Oh, wow. And it kind of pissed off a lot of people because they jumped over the traditional distribution chain.

And in addition to that, most movies prior to that release of Batman on. on VHS. They were like $80 to $100. I spent $100 of my own, you know, 10-year-old money to buy Raiders of the Lost Art. Right? It's crazy to think that. Yeah. And then Batman drops. It's like $20, $25. Yeah. And no wonder Warner Brothers made a crap ton of money off those VHS sales that holiday season. Oh yeah. Hell yeah. You know who's having a really good pandemic, in my opinion, is that Zendaya. She seems to be doing just fine. Well, Amacron might be as well. But she's kicking butt, man. Look at her. She's got the Dune. She's got things. this. She's got her TV show coming back for another season.

A very hard show to watch. I have a hard time with it. That's what I hear. Yeah, we haven't watched any of it. You know the McSteamy guy? Not McDreamy, but McSteamy from the, from Grey's Anatomy. I know there's a person named McSteamy. I don't know who it is. I only, I do know McDreamy, but I've never seen a single episode of Grey's Anatomy. So, well, McSteamy came later, some seasons in, but he was like the next hot doctor guy. Anyway, he plays a guy in that show she's in. And I can't even look at him. I can't even look at him. A picture of him now because he's so horrible. Really? Oh, no. Wow. Okay. Oh, my gosh. He is no longer missed McIny. He's, no, it's,

um. Oh, did he play Jamie, Dice Tomatoes says he played Jamie Madrocks in, uh, in X3, multiple men. Did he? He might have. Oh, yeah, he did. That's him. He's, he's older now, but he, and so, you know, McSweeney, more like McSweddy, but he's got like, he just really, oh, wow, that character. If you ever get around to watch in that show, I don't know, and I'm not even sure I recommend it. It's just a really hard watch. I don't think I'm in for season two.

It was just too hard. Okay, where are we now? Hey, Stephen, also, there's a new version of Demio out. Oh, my God. Do you see it? No, I know. I haven't played. I barely played the second, or the first expansion,

which I have is really on. there's a third expansion out. It gets us out of the dungeon. We're now out in the wild. So we're dealing with adventure stuff. There's a new class, the bard class, has been added. I forget who the big bad is, but she kind of looks like some kind of an elven person or Faye character is the big bad in this. It all came out last week on the 15th. So you can go on to your quest and download that. And then the other big news that they announced, which I'm very excited. excited about. You would be too, Scott, I think, is that the PC edition is, I think it's almost done or it's out there, but the big thing that they're adding to it is cross-platform play. So let's say you have a quest. And then there's another person who wants to do a charity stream whose quest isn't working. And he also wants to play along. Well, he can log in onto the screen version and he'll be able to play with the virtual people at the same time. That's awesome. That's almost like exactly what happened to us when we tried to do that very thing.

They talked about doing a non-vr port or something. Yeah, that's the PC one, yeah. Okay, so it's not here yet, but it looks like it's coming. Yeah, and it'll give some other functionalities as well. One of the other thing that's coming up is hanging out in the basement, which the basement is really going through a whole overhaul. Oh, really? They're remodeling the basement. Yeah, like there's a stand-up arcade that you can actually play and some other things, too.

Oh, here it is. PC edition. So this comes out April. So we still have a ways on that. I'm very excited about that. I think it'll open it up to a lot of people that don't have headsets and mine's broken and I don't want to buy a new one. I know some people have really enjoyed, you know, like jury and Brushwood and some of their group get together. And we're playing prior to, I think, before Justin moving to Austin.

they would play their mini golf QR in the quest but man Demio is like I think more people need to try it it feels like the killer app for VR I would I would love to get a even a monthly regular stream you know with three of you guys

especially when the PC1 comes out Scott we can get you in a heartbeat if you find a great you know you might find a great Black Friday deal or Christmas era I guess it's not Black Friday but Christmas deal for a quest Boxing Day. Day after Christmas sale. Right, exactly. I've been looking, but my expectation is I could be totally wrong on this and supply chain issues may affect it. But I think a Quest 3 under the meta name will probably happen next year early. And so I don't want to be. They're busy scratching all the Oculus Quest off the front. Yeah, they're getting the name all off there. Sharpie in the brand new logo. Yeah. Because they're going to be doing, you know, it'll all be metabranded. But I, they're due for a refresh and I don't want to. suddenly get a two and go oh shit here's the three or whatever but see here's the thing though

yeah they'll come out with the three but the four could be right behind it so maybe you want to hold off and wait and get the four no the four would be like a year behind it see that's the whole idea is you want to get it you don't want to buy it and then two weeks later the new ones out that's the worst feeling right exactly yeah you don't want i mean that four could be just uh right behind it maybe the five could be you know no but see that's the point it's like a at least a apart. I would know that. So if something launched and they said, here's the three. Is it? I'd go, oh, it's the three.

That gives me at least a year with this investment. Not two weeks with this investment. F that. Yeah, I know. I'm kidding. I wouldn't do that. That'd be dumb. I am actually interested in seeing what version three of that looks like because I've found, and I don't know if this holds true with you guys as well, but

with technology, usually by the time they hit version three of any hardware, that's when it feels like, oh, they've got this down and they know what they're doing. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, we'll see. I actually do think there'll be quite a few innovations, and I hope one of them is it's super light and less bulky every time they revise it. So more of that, please, that'd be cool. All right. Well, other than that, I guess that's it. Are you watching anything cool this weekend? You got any big plans for your Christmas entertainment?

Well, I don't know about this weekend. I'll probably continue at the first. I watched the first episode of The Witcher. How is the first impression? How has it look? I've been here and. I mean, I thought it was as solid as the first season, although this one seems to be a little bit more time-locked compared to the previous season. Yeah, the other one was all over the place, timeways. And a little bit of a spoiler, it's very much Beauty and the Beast for the first episode. All right. Who's the Beast? Run, Perlman. I would be down for that. That would be fine.

Yeah, I keep hearing, I've been hearing really good things, though, like for a lot of people. but, you know, they're ripping through it and they feel like this is a stronger entry for the series that they really found their footing and, you know, they've got a bunch of other, a bunch of extra shit on Netflix right now. You can go browse through like origin stuff that's like animatics and scanned imagery of origins of monsters and the timeline they're in and kind of Witcher timeline stuff. I haven't looked at it at all, but I've seen it up there. So I think they're really making a push to make this like their Game of Thrones level, you know, addicting product. And certainly, Superman is totally into it. He's a big old nerd like the rest of us. So I don't get the feeling after, you know, the release of season two that he wants to move on to something else, although he is doing,

oh, what's his next big thing that he's doing? He's doing another nerd property. Yeah, it's, hold on, I know this. I forgot what it is. It's not Warhammer. No. He plays Warhammer, but I can't remember his next big thing. Henry Cavill

Let's just look real quick I heard about this And I went oh no way That's perfect And he like wanted to do it Or like petition to get the job Where is it? Okay here we go

It's not Squadrum 42 That's what everyone else is in Let's see Highlander Highlander that's it Highlander, okay Yeah he's doing a Highlander revamp Really? Yeah and he'd be the Highlander

Oh That's not bad I like that I like Henry Cavill a lot, so I'm all in. Yeah. The guy builds PCs, builds PCs and fills himself doing it on Instagram. It's amazing. Does he really?

I didn't know that. He's amazing. It's great. You'll see these big whole ripped muscles lifting up a, you know, the PC and setting it down and getting in there and working on everything. Does he have a mustache when he does it? No, no. No, this is post all that. Dude, when you say that, I immediately pictured him in that bathroom going after Cruz and cocking his arms as he does it.

You remember that same? Oh, yeah. I mean, he's got some guns. man and even just i mean he's got a beefy the pc that he's working on in the video that scott's talking about is a pretty heavy beefy machine and you see him lifting that up and maybe doing a little flex for he takes that stuff pretty seriously though he's like and he probably being who he is he's probably having no trouble getting video cards like everyone else is but but uh yeah he's a nerd wants to sit around and play his his video games and he's as much playing the witcher as he is playing

the witcher so a weird way of saying that anyway yeah stephen uh i want to wish you and your Nothing but a Merry Christmas this week. We hope it's great for you there. I hope so, too. I've still got like three gifts waiting to arrive, and I know one of them is going to be late. So someone's going to be, I don't know. They're all getting a lot of presents, so they won't be too disappointed. Well, one thing you need to make sure to do is increase your water intake.

I can't think what that's called, though. That's got a name to it. Oh, yes. Everyone have a Merry Christmas and stay hydrated. Oh, bye. There it is. There it is. There it is.

There it is. All right. Let's get in here and do another thing. Real quick, where did it go? I lost it. Where is it? I can't find it. I had a thing I needed to play.

Now I don't know where I put it. Well, we're going to play the mash-up no matter what, but I'll figure out the other thing in between. All right, so Jamie's been working on these end-of-year things, right? Mm-hmm. And we, I haven't heard, I haven't seen Brian yet. I know it's coming. Yeah, it'll be next Monday, probably, or... Might it be, let's see.

Does he put it in here yet? Nope. It might even be before the end of this week. I'm not sure. Oh, interesting. Okay. But we'll start with mine, and I have no idea what's in this. I just want to preface it by saying, I apologize for anything dumb I said this year.

If I really offended anybody, it was never my intention. I apologize to your nephew is really what you need to do. Yeah. Pre-apologized. Yeah. Oh, and if you're still in the chat, just, you know, these are out of context, all taken from time. And I haven't heard yet, so I don't even know what I say. All right?

I just know what this feels like. So we're just going to play it. here's the best of 2021 Scott edition. Sorry YouTube. I have to mute you because apparently there's stuff in here. They'll get us in trouble over there. So I'm muting YouTube. But for everybody else here in the chat, they can see it.

So here we go. Enjoy. Congratulations, friends. It's the end of 2021. You survive COVID-2. Electric f***lew. I don't know about y'all. But TMS certainly.

helped me make it through another year of judging the retirees who seem to want to do nothing else but spend their time sneezing all over my produce at the grocery store. And speaking of judging, let's all sit back and have a laugh at some of the best unintentionally inappropriate clips from my hero. Scott can't pronounce a damn thing correctly, Johnson. Enjoy. I don't like naked late, sir. I do like naked ladies. You have a vagina? I have a penis. Let's put them together. Nobody said anything but the following term.

Blender sofa. A turd? Sweet. I hope you don't find a dead body. TikTok teens, tally, tumbling. Shit. Oh, excuse me. Do you not Howie Men...

Sorry. How do you... Do not get Howie Mandel wet. Bitch better have my money. Here's the problem. You cut it open. And you realize... All the beans are down at the end of the shaft.

Hello. Why is everything at my grandma's house moist? The neighbors are complaining about the noise you're carrying on about. Hey, shut up, and I won't let you see me boobs. Don't come in my mouth. Sorry, don't land in my mouth while I'm sleeping. Wow. You know what I mean?

I almost sprayed beer all over my keyboard, my screen. That absolutely came out wrong. I apologize. Thank God this is on video because if somebody is able to capture the nearest, That's dang it That's gonna haunt me If Brian you order

I don't know A blow dryer That's a bad one Uh That's bad by Thanks Scott Thanks a lot Thanks for reminding you

That I'm bald Take your wife Or somebody like you Try it again Take your wife Or somebody like you Somebody you like How am I doing that?

I don't have dyslexia I don't know I'm mixing these up Let me do that one more time Your word lexia I got the vagina What else is left I got the serum

The vagina I need boobs Hold on You are next contestant on the price is wrong bitch now if you get it and you open it and you plug it in and it goes and like shocks you or catches your hair on my sorry your head catch well damn it we're dick is so satisfying sometimes it is yeah japanese sorry japilino jiccups jalapino i'm gonna do that again jalapino jicups are you in oh jeez are you in now

holy shit that would hurt all right i'm bleeding i don't know why i'm bleeding i don't know why Bezos's ship has to look like a penis, and his logo looks like a penis. Like, what are you doing over there, Jeff Bezos? I know he's seen a penis. Let's see. Skin, hair, nails, trying to find head. Aren't we all? Here's the bear. Here's the fox. Here's the guy with tiny cocks. You know what I'm saying? What? What? I have peacock. I buy a free cock. I got so wet. My phone stopped working for a while. This candle smells like my meatballs. A pantsless Florida man. Pleasuring himself, as my dad would say. With a pickle while on a private premises. I have one question, though.

Was it a dill, though? His flight, was it a dill though? Yeah, he got a real deal on it. No, not his flight. The pickle that he was pleasuring himself with. Was it a dill though? Did he get a good price on the pickle? Is that what you're saying, a deal though?

Are you going straight to dill dough? I'm saying a dill, like a dill pickle. Oh, I get it now, a dill dough. Jeez, Louise. All of those jokes made me laugh. All of them. Is bingo the name of the farmer or the dog? Think of that.

I knew a farmer had a dog, and the dog. Bingo was his nameo. Isn't an old McDonald had a farm? I got my farmers mixed up. It's bingo, Scott. If you have a better use for the word ejaculate, I'd love to hear it. So I'll send it in. You know, Carter is all embarrassed in the chat, but I got bad news for her.

She doesn't exist without a good ejaculation. Oh, good Lord. All three of my kids don't exist. It's just true. I know it's weird. Tristan doesn't exist without, you know, a little bit of the old... I just don't feel like I need to remind him. I don't need those visuals in my head of my parents, and I don't need...

don't want to put those visuals in Tristan's head about his parents. Oh, my lord, dude. That's amazing. Wow. That's fantastic. You know, there's a couple in there that I have real regret about that I said. Only a couple? Yeah, just a couple.

It's pretty bad. Brian's is on its way, so don't worry. We'll hear what that sounds like. My embarrassment is shortly yet to come. Yep. Well done, Jamie. TMS mashups on Twitter. Give him a follow.

guy does amazing work and a few years in a row now he's done these amazing end-of-year things and we love it so keep up the great work there Jamie he's the man all right Brian I believe I still by the way great to hear wine zirple at the top of that clip oh yeah way to go Garrett he didn't hint at all I had no idea he was doing that I wonder who would get for you might be somebody different I don't know I can tell you it's not going to be Rita Wilson okay well that's too bad because she's pretty much good for whatever whatever she's too busy you know she She can't hook up a microphone when she's writing Tom Hanks coattails. It's too difficult to... Yeah, it's hard. It's difficult. Hook all that stuff up. Really difficult for her. By the way, Brian and I were so correct on Saturday's film sack about jingle all the way being just a objectively bad film.

Yes. That we got all kinds of people writing this on Twitter and other social media saying, you guys are absolutely right. That movie sucks. On the Discord, it's a little more weighted the other way. People think we're wrong. Yeah, I mentioned that when Brian Dunaway was here. That was during the show. Yeah, you did.

But the reason I'm bringing all this up is... Oh, okay. I want to have like an official TMS response. Are we wrong to say the jingle all the way is bad? I don't think we're wrong to say it that way. I think we might... Well, somebody in this stream, I'm not going to say who, might be wrong to say it's made for kids and dumb people. Yeah, I did say that.

I take that back. I still say it's made for kids 100%. And if you were a kid when that movie came out and you have fondness for it, I totally get it. I got plenty of movies from my era that I thought were great that's probably not great today.

I get it, right? But if you were an adult when that movie came out and you adore that movie, I need to understand. We'll check your taste at the door. We'll check your movie taste at the door. Yeah, leave your tongue at the door,

is what we're saying. All right, that's it for the show. I want to remind some folks that we love them because they support us on our Patreon. Patreon.com slash TMS. People like Bill Warnicle. Warnckel. Warnke. Warnke. Warnke. Okay. Got that right. Close to it. Yeah. He is at the grade A plus level, which is a level we love the most. So you get all kinds of stuff for that. He's one of my favorite people. Mine too. Michael Bowen also joining us at the Deal Me In level. I like him okay. Yeah, he's all right. And Chris, Chris, Chris, Wala Kakata. Wallachocatis. Not an extra K.

Wallachatis. Wallachiccate. God damn. They get me doing it. Wallachatus. Wallachatus. Also supporting us on there. We appreciate you three much more than I'm good at doing your names. And if you want to be like them, join us.

Patreon.com slash TMS. You get this commercial free version of the show every day with bonus content at the top and bottom. You get stuff in the mail. You get all kinds of bonus content by joining us there. so do it you get a whole show every week that's like out of nowhere no one else gets it but you there's no reason not to join it's super cheap new month coming new year coming time to get on patreon com slash tms okay i think that's it uh do you have anything else or should we just go are we done i have nothing else scott uh we've i've spent it all actually there's going to be a soundography

i think today or there's going to be one going up on the feed i can remember who it is it's somebody it should be a really good episode because i really totally totally remember it. It is, let's see, the birds went up. Oh, 1996, the year in music. So we talked about the entirety of 1996 and all the incredible music that came out that year.

I didn't know that was known for being a great year for music. I guess it is. Well, you know, it's not, every year has something, right? Something great. And it just happens, we landed on 1996. It wasn't because it's overly special, but we've already done, you know,

1971 and 1984 and 1969 and all that so you know it was February of that year that former Millie Vanilli band member Rob Pilatus was hospitalized when a man hit him over the head with a baseball bat in Hollywood. Oh, I did not know that and we didn't talk about that in the show so consider

that a bonus track right there. Palatis was apparently trying to steal the man's car says here. Oh, those guys fell so hard after they got shamed for their lip-sync scam. It was bad. It was bad. Bad time.

But also that was when Madonna, Madonna announced that she was four months pregnant by Carlos Leon, her boyfriend and trainer. Oh, sure. Important stuff and music. All right, that's it for all that. Brian, play us a song out so we can go. Let's close out with the fence guy is calling me right now. Fence guy.

Oh, yeah, fence guy. Michael Miller wrote in said, sensational and bravo. Nice. I'm requesting Come Together by Leah Moricioli from the Beatles covermaster. I'm not a big Beatles fan, but to me, this cover is good. The element that adds another step of coolness is that he recorded this in the Abbey Road Studios. No specific request date on this. Any time you have an opening will work.

And I wonder if Paul McCartney ever had a fish sandwich. Oh, I bet he did. And if he did, he would have said, uh... Is it too early for me to get a fish sandwich, boys? That's almost better than how long it's taking me to find the damn. thing. Why can't I find it? Wait, is this it? I... No.

No. Hey, two are I getting a fish sandwich? There it is. There is right there. Got it. Excellent. All right. This is Come Together performed by Leo Monticeoli and his Frog Leap band. It's fantastic stuff.

It's on Leo Metal Volume 36. Yes, people, he has had 36 volumes of his metal covers of rock songs. It's great stuff. Here's Leo. Come Together. Here Something He come on

Groving up slowly He got Juju Eyeball He won Holy Roller He got Hair down Through him

his knees Got to be a joker He just do what he pleased He wore He wore He wore no shoe shine He got Toges and football

He got Monkey finger He shoot Coca-Cola He said I know you You know you you know me

One thing I can tell you is you got to be free Come to catcher Right now Over me Hebacked production he got Swalless gumboed he got Onus for he won spinal cracker he got feet down below his knee

Hold you in his arms, yeah you can feel his disease Come together I'm now over me You know what I'm going to be able to find out to the future. You can't be able to find. The end of the race. He rolled a coaster, he got early warning, we got muddy water he won, motor filter he said. One in one and one is three.

Got to be good looking because they're so hard to see. Come together! Right now! Hold for me Come together Come together Come together Come together

Come together you're going to Come together Come together This show is part of the Frog Pants Network Get more shows like this at frogpants. Happy birthday.