The Morning Stream - TMS 2220: Goth Jumanji

Episode Date: December 27, 2021

Touch your ball to the screen. I Like The Sacramento Beeeeee! Heavy is the Tooth That Needs a Crown. I Was Joe Pizzaman! Wasabi Birthday Oil Taste featuring the Yellow Unit. Prime Your Hole. Where Does He Get Such Wonderful Paints?!? On Tour With 'Maggot Therapy'! Short and Curly and Strong and Burly. Tweaking, Twerking, Booping, Bopping. Brian forgot the alcohol hole! I'm With Question Mark. I'm not taking number two! Boogers All Day, Son! Major Spoilers and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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and open a restaurant, a bounty hunter named Chit. Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Monday, December 27th, 2021. My name is Scott Johnson. That guy's Brian Nibbitt. Hi, Brian. Hi, Scott.

Hi. Hi. Hello. Happy post-Christmas to you. That's right. This is wrestling day. Yeah, it's wrestling day. You wrestle?

yeah yesterday was boxing day today's wrestling day everybody have that yeah a f or ufc day is tomorrow and uh get ready for the the mixed martial arts good times that are the tradition of american families everywhere hey look at this it'll be great i'm gonna show this off brian sent me i have to be careful i don't drop the head right look up brian sent me for christmas you guys look at this thing this is so rad and i'm terrified i'll explain why in a second but i'm a little scared so this is this awesome bust of batman he has a base as well uh he sits on. And there's his little head, seeing his head comes out right now. Batman's head head is very removed. You can put anybody's head in there. You can put Eminem's. It'll be a little

serving tray or something. Yeah. Robin would say, holy headless horseman, Batman, when he takes that out. Anyway, I have to, I get to paint this. And I'm terrified because it's been a long time since I've permanently painted anything that wasn't digital. Yeah. And as you know, there's no Command Z in real painting. You can paint over it. Like it's, uh, that's true. that's true you make a mistake you paint over it and that's why i sent you a full can a full spray can of primer yep look at the primer your first your first thing there it is right there the lovely sound of a marble in there um yeah i mean really the first thing you should do whether you whether or not even paint it prime the whole thing and it'll look really cool primed so i should prime him first

yeah and i should do the head separate because uh you should all three pieces separately okay because they're going to plug into each other obviously you don't want to cover the hole and not prime the hole. I always need to prime your hole, is what I'm hearing. Prime your hole. And, you know, if you make a mistake and it's just unfixable and it's too bad, I can always 3D printing you another one, though. Now, this is the Pattinson Batman, by the way, the Robert Pattinson.

Oh, it is. I wondered about the jaw line here. It's a little more of, yeah, definitely more Pattinson than it is anybody else. And the armor, apparently this is, so this is Eastman, designed by a guy named Eastman who does these incredible superhero busts. um superhero and pop culture character bust like he did this amazing uh blade runner deckard uh this year that just looks so cool oh that would be a cool one to print you gonna do one of those or i'll probably do one of those um that's really the one i sent you is officially the largest second largest thing

i've ever 3d printed what was the first the milner mellner behind me is is the largest object i've made And obviously, the Mielner behind me is made up of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven pieces. Is the handle one of them? The handle is two of them. Okay. And the base of the handle is a third, yeah. That thing is so cool. I always forget you three-de-printed it.

Yeah, this is one of the proudest print jobs. Look at that thing, dude. Pain jobs, sorry, is this thing. Yeah. Yeah, so the whole handle is... Oh, no, I'll take that back. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Seven pieces on this.

Good Lord. I think it's what I said. Yeah, seven pieces. Okay. But this one over here, this Batman, second largest that Brian has ever output. Second largest thing I've printed. Yep. Did it go the first time or did it explode in a stringy mess at any point?

No. No, because that's out of the resin. So you don't get stringy mess. All right. The only problems you can get with resin is if, stuff doesn't cure super well, and it's interesting on the bottom of Batman's head, like the neck part that's exposed or that's not exposed, you can actually see some where it's not as clean.

Oh, I see. And I think even on the bottom of the chest piece, you can actually feel the bumps that is what connects it to the supports that it has to print with. Oh, I see. Yeah, a little bit. It feels like chicken skin kind of thing. But for the most part, I mean, this looks like something that just came right off the shelf. Like, I'm so impressed

of that resin stuff. It's really something. It doesn't, it does amazing work. And the other thing, I printed it hollow. Number one, so it would be, it would take less film or less resin to print and also it would be lighter to ship. Sure. But I forgot to do a hole so that I could cure

so that I could get alcohol inside the thing, cure the inside, or clean or wash the inside. And also have it sink into my cleaning bath, because otherwise it floats, and I have to sit there for six minutes and hold this thing barely underwater so that it washes off.

Oh, my gosh, it's like you had to drown Batman. That's amazing. I basically had to hold Batman's head and body and that stand under the water, under the alcohol for the entire time. I think that makes you bane. That's who you are. That's who you are. Yes, that makes me bane. Yes.

Your bane. Take your city back, Gotham. Your punishment will be more. severe. Well, all right. That's awesome. I'm glad you liked it. Love it.

I love it. I'm nervous about the pain. Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. A little by little, right? Like, prime the whole thing. Don't glue it together until it's done. Paint the head separate.

I sent you some paints, but I didn't send you any flesh color. So you're on your own for that. Oh, I didn't even think about that because, yeah, the patents and jaws there. I got a, I got a print. Right. I sent you, I sent you black. dark blue, a dark gray. Yeah.

All the Batman colors. You'll probably want like four or five more colors anyway, but at least that gets you started. And this is a brand I should seek out to this, what's it called? Vallejo. Vallejo? Yeah, Vallejo makes really good, really good paints. Citadel is good also, but they're a little more expensive than Vallejo. And it's funny, I was going to pick you up some, like, these brushes that were four bucks each.

and the guy at Hobbytown said, you know, if you want to save some money, these brushes right here come in a pack of like five, and they're as good or better than the Army Painter brushes you were looking at. Tacklon is the brand. That's it, Tacklon, yes. It's a really good set of brushes. All right. I'm into it.

And you just put one drop per eye of the paint in, your eye, like this. Yes, exactly. And then Batman will look painted when you put those drops in your eye. Yeah, everything will turn it. out. The whole world will be painted. Exactly. Well, all right. I'm excited. Have fun with it. You know, you're not going to be graded on it. It's, uh, I know, but I feel like I got it. I'm going to show it off on here when I'm done or even in process.

You should even do it and probably, like, actually do a live stream where you paint and stuff like that. I think it would be fun. Yeah, I think so too. Well, I love it. And, uh, it's, I think it's, it's, I think it's my favorite thing I got this year. I think. Oh, shut up. Really? Yeah, I think so. Like I, um, Kim and I already gave each other a couch earlier in the year and we said we're not doing Christmas because couches are so damned expensive we just didn't know anything else right uh and other than that i mean i love i love my secret santa i like my yes oh i know my spider man hat the secret santa had my spider man or my spider man my spider man hat that my secret santa handmade knit for me which i have upstairs just super cool um so all right i'll tell you what my one of my favorite uh presence this year so uh this

last summer went up to Glenwood Springs. I think I talked about. We had the whole family up there. And we had this house up there. This is the one where the car, one of the cars is in a ditch. Yes. That's exactly right. It was that trip. And on, so we were there, I think, a Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night, or Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And one of those nights, my contribution was that I put myself in the kitchen. I put a big old apron on. I made up a ton of dough. And I did nothing but make pizzas for all four. 14 of us, like, constantly, like, all right, what do we need? Do we need another veggie? I'll make another veggie. And I rolled out the dough and sauced it up and cheese and all that stuff. And so I was Joe Pizza Man for that evening, my contribution to the cooking that weekend. Sure. My niece's boyfriend drew me in our little family secret sand. We do that so that we don't have to go broke, getting presents for everybody. He drew my name. Didn't like send an email,

hey, what are some of the things you want? Do you like Star Wars or are you like, Spider-Man or whatever. I'll send you, blah, blah, blah. He took it upon himself to get a really nice wooden pizza peel, which is the thing that you put under the pizza to get it out of the oven or to turn it. That's the name of that thing? A pizza peel? Yeah, a pizza peel, yeah. Never heard of that. I think it's P-E-A-L, I think. Okay. That's great. And then he had it custom engraved as uncle's pizza with like a logo and a picture of a pizza on it and and the date that we all went up to the the cabin for that weekend like it is the coolest that's great yes i love that kind of stuff because it's way better than just oh i got you a box at the store that might be cool and you

might like it or whatever instead it's got some meaning or whatever look it's like it's a p e uh double E. Oh, P-E-E-L. Okay. So it's P-E-E-L. Okay. Okay. All right. I never known what that was called. I just assumed it was like pizza spatula or. Yeah, I know. We already have the term spatula. Why don't we just use that? I guess it's because it's a, you know, it's a much more specialized item. They have the big metal ones. We had those at the pizza places I worked at. And they had like poison on the front, Cinderella, a little bit of rat. Big metal. ones they had yeah yeah uh well that's awesome very very cool yeah well as part of my uh christmas tradition this is the third time that a christmas has featured this particular tradition in my life third time only in my entire life i uh popped off a crown during christmas once again yeah it was pretty great uh here was the scenario picon pie or something what uh what actually it's so much worse dude like you'd hope it'd be like something good and and like something from dinner or whatever no it was and I know these do this.

Like, I'm so stupid. Van has a little box that Kim keeps in the drawer, or in the cat, or the, what do you call it? The pantry called Van's snack box. So he'll go, snacks, snacks? And that means he wants one of the things out of the thing. So we go and we open it, and in there is a little pouch of fruit snacks.

And I'm like, I haven't had a fruit snack in a long time. I might try one of those. Give me one of those. Yeah. first thing I do bite down on that thing creates a suction vacuum pops off my freaking crown. Now the nice thing is

there's so much cement on that thing that it's like nothing. It doesn't even hurt. It's just exposed now. So I got to go in there Tuesday at 2 o'clock get the damn thing put back on. It's all in one piece, so it won't take much. They probably wouldn't have to deaden me. They just have to go in and, you know,

create a little laser etching in there to make it. So it'll be a rough edge to hit the rough edge and then stay with the cement. and then I'll get out of there and they probably won't even charge me because last time they didn't, I don't know, maybe they will. The important part is a Christmas miracle happened in my mouth and I was so mad. So the kid heard me swear real loud. I went, shit.

As loud as I could. Listen, we've heard him swear. It's no big deal. Yeah. Like what I say is tame compared to what he says. So it was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed that. Other than that, kind of uneventful, we canceled all the giant.

gatherings and did small stuff and they were all fine. Yeah. You know, we had a fine time. Although, oh, I witnessed something that made me laugh. I almost forgot. I did forget to put this in the thing. I just thought you'd like this from sort of a social experiment point of view. I'm at a New Year's, or sorry, a Christmas Eve kind of hang out.

And it was on purpose with some friends who had a very small group coming. They had like six, seven people as all. And everyone's vaxed. And I'm like, all right, we feel okay about that. We'll come over there and eat like. little bit and had these amazing ribs and just like the really good food and it's my buddy darren and they're great we love these guys so we're hanging out with these guys and the the room started to fill up a little bit and kim and i are like yeah we're probably going to go not just because of that

but we told carter we'd meet her at home for a movie she was with some friends and so we thought we'd do that and so we're about to leave and i notice Darren's brother is over in the kitchen and he's looking over at me while talking to darren's wife so kind of like talking her side mouth while staring at me and I can tell what he's doing is trying to confirm with her that I am

who he thinks I am he doesn't remember me is what I'm saying so he's trying to like he doesn't want to be embarrassed and go hey I'm you know whatever who are you and then realize that again I've seen this guy a million times right so he's doing that

and I go right in the middle of it I just had the forethought to go I know what's happening here I understand the visual transaction that's happening. And I go, hey, like this. Like, what's going on? Like, just kind of interrupt it. He's like, oh, hey. And I'm like, yeah.

And I went over there and I said, hey, his name, I shouldn't say it. Well, I can say his name. His name is Chet. And I went over there. I said, Chet, how's it? And I see it. And he's like, hey, you? You know, he just could not remember.

It was great. It was just a great little, like, curb slash sign film moment. He almost wanted to, like, say, I was thinking we should get T-shirts. and mine would say, hey, I'm with Chet. And do you know what yours would say? What would you say? Yeah, what would you say? I'm with question mark.

Anyway, it was a pretty funny little moment between us that was shared. All right. Let's get to some fun, you know? Yeah. Not that that wasn't fun. It was, but there's more fun to be had. And I don't know if Donoway shows us a way, so maybe I didn't communicate with him. Let's see, actually.

Maybe I should just say to him real quick, hey, you, whoops, hey, you on today for TMS? Oh, I thought you weren't doing a show today. Oh, hi. Oh, hi. He might say. I can't do a Brian Dunaway, and I'm never going to try. Like, I can, I think I can do a reasonable Randy Deluxe, but I don't think I can pull off a Brian Dunaway. The Randy is tricky, but you do do a reasonable one.

Oh, yes. Did I ever tell you about the time The time he was in Canada all week And we can't talk to him very well I can't be able to do his Go ahead, sorry Canada might be able to do his Southern accent

That he does at the beginnings of film sacks Oh yeah My three special steps Thank you for coming to the Howard Johnson's Inn and Suites And I'm here to present to you The three rules for resurrecting your matrix.

Yeah, number one. Step one. Machete. Say machete. All right. Hey, look who it is. Oh, wait. I can't. That guy right there is Brian Dunaway, joining us from South Carolina and his own, you know,

Christmas miracle. Hey, Brian. What's going on? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hey, man. What are you doing? Hello. How was your Christmas?

How are you feeling? It was fantastic. It is a Monday, so you know how I feel about Mondays. And it's the last Monday. of the year. Yeah. Are you working today or you get the week off? Let's go on. I'm at the house today, Scott. I took the whole week off. The whole week. See, I love it when people take the week off between

Christmas and years. I used to do that every year. Yeah. I highly recommend it, especially if you're planning on launching a new podcast in January. You got to get on it. You've got a plan. That's right. We got ideas and plans. Hey, real quick, can you confirm this as you and play something? You need to tell us if this is really you. So, hold on. I'm so tired of all the bullshit. I hope That's you, right? That is you. It sounds like me. I do so much crazy crap. It sounds like something I would have sent to Scott like over. Yeah, that sounds like me.

Is it me? It is definitely you. It's a text. It's a voice memo you sent me on your phone like a year ago. And it's amazing. And I want to keep it forever. And so I did. You know, it's a perfect plan. Yeah, it's the perfect plan hatched by the perfect planners. It's good to have you here. We're going to play Babel Royale, freaking Monday edition. unit deal, the Squirm, I think. Brian's going to explain how it works and who's going to win what, Brian? Exactly right. Welcome to the morning squirm, a back-and-forth trivia game where our players will match wits on topics that Mike might make Ryan Seacrest want to cancel his New Year's Rock and Eve. Scott and Brian are going to take turns answering multiple choice trivia questions,

and if they get them wrong, the other player gets a point. The player with the most points after five questions wins the prize for their contestant. and our contestants will be pulled from the member of the Tadpole that aren't able to listen live. Speaking of those contestants, Scott, you're going to be playing for Meredith from Sacramento, California. The capital of the state of California, Sacramento. That is correct. Yeah. Awesome.

A lovely city with a newspaper called the Sacramento Bee. Ooh, and you've been there a couple of a few times, right? I've been to, there's a couple of bee newspapers, and I do like those bees. Oh, you do like those bees. Brian, you're going to be playing for Joe H. from Kirksville, Missouri, Missouri. Missouri. Joe H.S.A. or Joel H?

Joe H. Oh, Joe H. Joe H. And the winner is going to get copies of B-Simulator and Swine H-D. Remaster on Steam, courtesy of Wesley. The runner-up is going to get a copy of Deadly Days on Steam. Nice. B-simulator. I wonder how that is.

That scares me just slightly, a B-simulator. All the bee. Well, hopefully the Sacramento player wins the bee simulator, and it's just like working newspaper. Yeah, I hope it's, and I hope it's in VR, and I hope you have to shake your butt at the queen bee. Let me look here real quick. Live the big adventure of a small...

Like Oculus VR game where you have to, like, direct the other bees to wear the honey. You have to put the controller in your back pocket and go... Oh, interesting. Oh, no, I meant to left. Oh, no, I meant to write. You actually control... I figured this was like a bee colony thing. you actually control A-B.

It's like a B. Just a singular B. A singular B and his ventures through life and not voiced by Jerry Seinfeld, however. Oh, that's too bad. Yeah, that's a bummer. What is the deal with falling? What's up with that?

I never saw the B movie. Everyone always says, like, there's a whole generation of people. That's a great movie. Generation of people who were kids at the time or whatever, they all swear it's the greatest thing on the planet and underrated and should have gotten sequels. Never saw it. Never saw it.

It's all right. I wouldn't say it's the greatest thing on the, planet? It's good. No. If you're a Seinfeld fan, I think you definitely should watch it. Okay. All right. Yeah. I'm in. But I remember contemporaries of mine, it's not that old. It came out in like, I don't know, mid-2000s or something. Right. And at the time, you know, adult reviewers and stuff are like, this is shit. Stay away from it. It's the worst thing ever. Yeah. But then if you were a kid, then, I guess it's just your favorite thing. Yeah. Luckily, luckily a lot of time has passed. It'll be good. You'll enjoy it. It's kind of a meme now, I guess. It has become one, yeah. Yeah. All right.

Well, anyway, two, to our questions, Brian. Let's get to the questions. Yeah. All right. I think Brian won last time. We're going to start with Scott. All right. Scott, you should consider eating your own boogers.

Scientists have found that boogers may help which of these things. A, they'll give you longer hair and nails. B, they'll strengthen your immune system. C, they will aid with digestion, or D, it'll help you reduce stress. Okay, well, before I answer this, all right, gross. Gross. I'm sorry, give me those more time. Absolutely.

Does it give you stronger hair and nails? Does it strengthen your immune system? Does it aid with digestion or does it reduce stress? All right. I'm going to guess it strengthens the immune system because that's the only thing. You could get out of it. The whole reason that you accumulate matter in your nose and the reason you have hair there is to filter out contaminants. So if you're gross, if you're eating that stuff, then you're probably somehow adding, you know, you're challenging your immune system.

So I'm going to say that. Let me show you something, nostrils. I can handle it. Is it strengthening your immune system? It is. And Scott gets the point. Yeah. In 2013, Scott Napper, an associate professor at biochemistry.

University of Saskatchewan proposed this theory and found out that, yes, it actually can help boost your immune system. Now, let me ask you the cold. Thank you very much. Yeah, no kidding. Let me ask you this question, Brian, to our host here, our game show host, not the other Brian. Sure.

Here's what I'll ask you. If you were told, Brian, you are guaranteed to never get COVID ever. Yeah. You are immune to COVID forever, no matter the variant, no matter whatever. Sure. And all you have to do is one of two things. You have a choice. Uh-huh.

You eat boogers all day for a full day. Just like every meal is boogers? Yeah. Or... I couldn't do it. Or you lick a public toilet at Mile High Stadium. Good Lord. Well, I'm definitely not taking number two.

Okay. Number two. So number one, you'd eat boogers all day. Yeah, I need your own boogers all day. My own boogers? Sure. Own boogers would be better than somebody else. Yeah, somebody else is, you know, toilet seat.

I mean, poor Stephanie in the chat. I know. She's really, like, have a hard time. I feel bad for those who can't even think about boogers because I'm the kind of person that if I accidentally get a booger on my hand, I can't even look at it. I'll just start gagging. Do you have to hold it out and make somebody else take care of it? I do. You know, some people faint the sight of their own blood.

I gag. Decide your own boogers. And you can't get a booger off your finger no matter of. It's a guy, get off. Yeah, it's hard. Oh, my God. No, exactly. Yeah, humans are gross.

Actually, all animals are, but we know how gross it is. An animal doesn't know, but we know. Right, right. We know. Yeah, we know what's up. All right. That's why Puck never should have stuck his fingers in the peanut butter. All right.

Brian, during the 1800s, straight jacket pajamas and tying hands to bedposts were two typical ways to, A, remove evil spirits from the body. B, stop kids from masturbating. C, people from sleepwalking, or D, prevent young girls from having sex. Oh, my gosh. All right, so you say it's night shirt. Straight jacket pajamas and tying hands to bedposts. Right.

And this is the 1800s, right? 1800s, yes. We were really hung up on the no masturbation thing in the 1800s. So I just got to feel like, the other one is a good answer. Is this a Wikipedia article you read or something? or did you watch a documentary about this? How do you know that they, he's a time traveler? He's a time traveler.

Oh, my God. Everything that you see from the 1800s, any type of, okay, so you know, I like watching the, you know, I look in the Guinness Book of World Record. I also like to look at old, you know, old technology. Oh, please tell me what, please tell me what world record has to do with this. Number of times you didn't get to masturbate. Number one record. No, I mean, we also have like a, this music, we had this surgical museum in my hometown.

And I go in, you get to see all this, all this stuff. this terrifying, right? And I just remember a lot of stuff that I've read about the 1800s, especially when it comes to like advertisements and that kind of stuff and the social, the social climate and everything. It was always like against masturbation. And so I just feel like that would be the thing. I don't know. I could be wrong. Okay. All right. Is the answer to stop kids from masturbating? It is. Well done. Look at you guys. Look at us two bright answers in a row. What even is this? That's right. Exactly. Okay.

Can't stop me, though. I have feet. Yeah. All right. Let's get back to Scott on this one. Gross. Yeah, they get ready. This disgusting medieval remedy is making a comeback and is used today in some hospitals to treat leg ulcers, pressure sores, and infected wounds.

Is it? Leeches, live snails, maggots, or cat urine. Treating leg ulcers, pressure sores and infected wounds. So all three of those have an infection component. So I have to think it's maggots because they they eat that sort of stuff. Like it's a natural thing for them. And, you know, the tendency here is to go like leeches because leeches is

an old school thing. But I got to think it's, I got to think it's that, maggots. Is the answer maggots? I guess you guys are figuring this game out. Yes, indeed, it is maggots. That's amazing. So, Fly maggots have been, magat therapy was introduced in the USA in 1931, and according to the National Library of Medicine, it is currently used for the treatment of some intractable wounds. I played bass for maggot therapy for two years straight.

Yeah, they were great. They're not so good now. They were great. Yeah, they've had a lot of turnover in the band. some of those old songs just don't. They just don't hold up. No, not like they used to. Just not like this.

I like this topic of or theme that you're running through. It's like medical science of the weird. I like it. It really is. And, uh, man, just looked at you in the chat room. Brian calls it, he calls it the squirm for a reason.

I warn you. I totally warn you. Didn't I warn you? Brian. The human mouth is a saliva factory. How many gallons of spit does a person produce each year. No.

That's gross. I've been saving a few of these up to just like rip the band-aid off all at once. I've got far worse ones that I just don't ask on the show. It's a strong end to the year. Yeah, we definitely have to have a Patreon level of the

questions we didn't ask. You know what? Yeah, maybe. Oh, poor Stephanie is out. I think she's... No, stay, Stephanie. I'm not talking about... Let me give you your choices. I did. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, your choices are. 87 gallons, 115 gallons, 43 gallons, or 78 gallons. I swear, I, I feel like I could probably, like, whenever we get, like, nauseous,

God, you can, like, you can, like, spit out like a gallon in a day. No problem, right? And we'll see, there's 365 in a year. They'll say the average, what was it, what was the one closest to, like, about 150? Do you say those ones like 15? So going from smallest to largest, we have 43, 78, 87, and 115. I'm going to go 115. 115.

Is the answer 115? It is. Oh, my gosh. What? Have not missed one yet. That's amazing. 115 gallons produced every year. Every year, man.

Man. You swallowing that spit. What are you doing with it? I need one of those Freeman suits or Fremen suits. I'll give you guys a little bit of a break with the last question here. This is going to Scott. Okay. Listen, Scott, you know, you're working out at the gym.

You're getting nice and strong, but you're never going to be stronger than your own human hair. A head of human hair, a full head of human hair is strong enough to lift, what? 45 pounds, 23 pounds, one ton, or 13 tons. Oh, my gosh. A full head of human hair. I don't know what this is like, but I hear what the, what the, I know how much Superman's will with John Cryer. Right, yeah.

Yeah, we know how much one strand will do. All right. I feel like I want to go high, but not too high, so I'm going to say a ton. All right. Is the answer one ton? It is not. Oh, damn it. Wins the game for his contestant.

Also gets a chance to answer this just for Bragan rights. You have left, uh, uh, 45 pounds, 23 pounds, or 13 tons. 13 tons, man. 13 tons is, man. We could lift a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a caterpillar. I don't know. What can we lift with that? What did it? How many tons? I don't even know what a ton is.

A caterpillar. You mean a catapel? Oh, you mean like the, the, the, the earthman. Like a catapillar truck, yeah, like, uh, right, right. Destruction vehicle. Right. Okay. Uh, indeed, it is 13 tons. A full head of human hair can lift, yes. I should have gone all the way. that's crazy that's got to be like bayonetta hair who's got a hair that does that that's got to be like crystal gale can lift uh she can she can probably is she's still around she's still with us

i think she's still with this her hair is you think they're just when she when she does go and i don't i'm not trying to hasten her end but when she goes are they going to bury her in a cocoon of her own hair is that how they're going to do it just i guess yeah oh man yeah like a wrapper wrap her in uh yeah no a single strand of hair can hold uh three ounces in weight, approximately three ounces in weight. And then when you, when you pull all of that together, one head of hair can lift up to 13 tons. The weight of two elephants. Wow. If you have long, if you have long bang hair and you also wear glasses, you know how much freaking hair will lift with those stupid glasses. Yeah. Hey, do you think you're short and curleys are strong and burles?

Do you think that? I would think they were, I would think they would be more fragile, actually. Oh, interesting. A little more breakable? They're kind of brittle. They're flat, which is what makes them curly, and so they probably would be more easy to break. Hold on a second. That is news to me. Like, if you microscope that business, they're flat? Yeah. That's why they're curly. So they ribbons, like a ribbon. Weird. I didn't know that. You got like little ribbons down there, Scott.

Wait a minute. Why do you know that? How come that's a thing you know? That's crazy. I don't know why I know that. How did you not know that, Scott? I didn't know what I did. Don't you ever visit the internet? I've never been that curious, to be honest. It's like, why are they curly? Why, it's my pubic hair, curly? Well, all right, then.

This has gone well, and we gave prizes to who's our winner, Missouri, boy, person. Our winner is, yeah, Joe from Kirksville, Missouri. He wins. He's going to get a copy of Beast Simulator and Swine HD remastered. But don't worry, Meredith from Sacramento. You are going home with Deadly Days, also on Steam. All right, here's your sound file for your winning today. there, Joe. I don't like

Bees. There you go. Enjoy your prizes. Brian will send those to you ASAP in your email. And in the meantime, me and Brian Dunaway here have some, well, we've already announced it, but we'll just make more noise about it. The 3rd of January. So that's like in what? Next, next Monday. Is it really next Monday? Week from today, yeah. Next Monday, we launch Play Retro at at FrogPants.com slash Play Retro. Now you might be saying, wait a minute, retro. What? Brian and I have had a passion for retro games for a very, very long time.

And so in a very sinister move, we have decided to joust our way. We're going to do a show all about retro games, and we're going to get real serious about it. I'm super excited because we both have a lot of passion for this. A lot of people have gone, but you're keeping the boop show, right? No. The boop show is being put on the hiatus shell. because we're moving on to a new project. I don't know if people know this,

but we don't have clones of ourselves, and it's hard to do more things when you're already full. So we are swapping it out, and we're going to do this for a while, and very excited about it. It's all ready to pre-subscribe to, whatever your app is, or if you use an Apple podcast,

or Google, I got the Google thing. They're always late, but I got it. Spotify, Amazon music, all of them. They have it. It's ready to go. There's nothing there yet, but you can go sub to it early, and then on the third, you can get it.

If you want to watch us do it live, we're going to use the Boop Time Slop 3.30 Mountain Time on Mondays and record live. So, yeah, this coming Monday. No, I'm sorry. Yeah, a week from today. Yeah, this coming Monday. Yeah, January 3rd. 2020, baby. That's right.

Super stoked. That should be, would that be our first podcast? No, because we'll be doing film sack before then, right? Yeah, we'll do film set. No. The day before. Yeah. Wait, are we doing, yeah, we are doing film suck because we're doing the Matrix.

The Matrix. Yeah, yeah. The new one. Yes. We were supposed to watch over the weekend. We didn't. so I think I am the first watch will be for film sack I think for me I agree that's that's me too first watch is going to be for film sack I didn't want to I didn't want to do it before then right because it's so close if it's horrible I don't want to have to watch it twice right yeah so there you have it I'm so excited about next Monday because we're going to talk about we're probably going to talk about joust yeah we're launching the episode oh yeah Are you guys just going to be riffing on it live or are you doing it like current geek style where it's like a scripted going through and?

No, no, no, totally live. We're going to keep that aspect of it and do it live on the stream every Monday at 3.30 mountain time. So we'll continue to do the live thing and we got all kinds of cool ideas. I'm so excited about it. And everything's set. Like we've never been more prepared for anything. That's the other weird thing about this. We're not just winging this.

That's because it took a month. We said, you know what we should do? We should take off in December and make a plan. Yeah, and work at it. And we've been doing that every day, talking, working, tweaking, janking, lurking, burking, all of it. Tweaking. Yeah, we've been tweaking. We've been tweaking on the weekend.

Anyway, check it out. Frogpants.com slash play retro for details. Brian Dunaway, anything else you want to make? You've been playing a lot of retro like on stream? You're still doing that this week? What's going on? Yeah, I've been playing. I've been playing for a couple weeks now, Fantasy Star 4.

And I've also been goofing around in VR. I got my Oculus Quest 2. already had a one, but I decided to take it to the next level. Yeah, and so I've been, I've been playing joust in my VR world. How do you do that? What do you, oh, so you just do it like, you plug it into the PC and play it through the, I'm using the air link, and so you can go to Oculus Home and you can set up in, I set up an arcade cabinet, and I put in a monitor in there, and I just stream my retroarch

from there, and we can talk, I will talk all about this. That's awesome. How to set up your, yeah, how to set up your virtual world. Well, I'll probably talk about when Scott's going to finally finish that main cabinet he's been working on for a long time. No, now I got, now I have some motivation to actually push through. I got to talk to my brother-in-law, Steve. He has all my hardware. He was supposed to make the prototype, and we just, we never made it work.

But, but, uh, so just everyone understands, he's not just playing on a screen in a virtual world. It's a full-blown jouse cabinet in the world, and he's playing them on that. On a jousd cabinet in a virtual world. That's right. If you're going to play it, play it right. Yeah. So we're going to bring retro and modern together in weird ways. And I don't know, people are going to like this show.

So do check it out starting next Monday. Brian Dunaway, have a fantastic day. Kiss our butts. All right. He's out of here. He's out of here. Out. Out.

All right. Well done. Stephanie, we promise no more grossness today instead. I don't know. Maybe she's still here. Maybe she made it back. If not, we, you know, look, you can't, sometimes it happens. It just means that she's got a...

The reason humans are so at the top of the food chain is we've developed these reactions to things that keep us alive longer. It's a... It's a, you know, what do you call it? Defense mechanism, a... Yeah. I can't think there's a word for this.

Anyway, we'll call it that, a defense mechanism. And you know what? She's just using her defense. Yeah. That's all it is. Quick. The news. In the news is sponsored by... You'll find quality in our corner.

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Let me tell you more about the dog phone. This phone lets a pet's video call their owners when they're home alone. Like the pet actually gets to choose when they call? Yeah. Not the horrendous. Not the people. Oh yeah, it'd be a nightmare. I don't know how this is even working, but says here,

fetching sticks and chew toys may be a thing of the past. As researchers at the University of Glasgow, that's in Scotland, hey, I told you the chuck was... I can't do it. I can't do it. Anyway, they have created a clever ball that allows dogs, to video call their owners when they're feeling lonely. This will not work because my dogs are always lonely if we're not here.

Yeah, yeah. Designed to tackle separation anxiety and pets, dog phone is a soft ball fitted with an accelerometer, which will phone owners or call owners when the dog shakes it. When a movement is sensed, a signal sent to a laptop, which launches a video call. Yeah, but what about your phone? I'm not going to have my laptop with me. Oh, I see. I see.

Yeah, there are the laptops at home with the ball. So ball to laptop to call to you. Right. Exactly. This is from Dr. Ileina Harenchki Douglas. A specialist in animal computer interaction at the University of School of Computing Science worked with her 10-year-old Labrador, Zach, in creating the device. It's part of the process.

Zach was left to play with a toy for 16 days over a period of three months. While there were some accidental calls, researchers showed that Zach showed Dr. Elena, his ball on the screen suggesting he wanted to play with her. The doctor responded back to Zach talking to him and showing him around her office. I kind of love this idea, but I don't think I could ever actually do it. No, and it feels like you're really just setting up the dog for more disappointment. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, I want to play ball. Can we play ball? No, still at work. Yeah. Go play with yourself. Go do something else. I like the dog can butt dial the owner.

Accidentally. Like literally hit it, like smack it with its butt, and it'll be enough to start a call. Exactly. Yes. That's great. I've seen those things where dogs can push a bunch of buttons and they know what they mean. Have you seen that? No.

I don't even know what this is called. Someone in the chat may know. It's like an array of buttons. And they're labeled. Like if you're, if there's a button that's like labeled, I'm thirsty. Treat. Or treat. Yeah, exactly.

And so if the dog wants to go for a walk, it walks over to these buttons and knows to paw the one that says walk. and we'll hit it like you know repeatedly until you go you get up and go help the dog and take a walk um and they're really it's amazing i've seen like mostly ticot videos but you see these dogs dogs dogs you know dog talk is what i was thinking of um they're just pushing the buttons and telling the owners what they want and when they want it i don't see any reason why you couldn't tie that into a phone call as well like totally more than the ball even i don't know Does your dog, like, whack the back door when they want to go outside or anything like that? Oh, yeah.

They hit the door or they, uh, depends on the dog. Boomer will just go brer, like that. Uh-huh. Ripley will get up and smack the doorknob. Oh, wow. See, that's cool. And Rainer just dances by it. Just a little dance.

Yeah. Spaz dance. Yeah, Daisy wax the door. And sometimes she misses, so it's just like a little whiff. But if we see it, it's like, oh, okay, she wants to go out, which is great. It's perfectly trained. P. Crum in the chat says it's a terrible idea. Dogs are needy as F.

Yeah. I mean, that's why I don't think I'd do it. But anyway, that's kind of cute. Here's one more story for you. It's in the dog, it's in the dog story range. Oh, good. More dog news. Today in dog news.

Yeah, today in dog news. A woman says gifts in her luggage, so she traveled, had some gifts for Christmas. Uh-huh. We're replaced with dog food. Now. Oh, that darn tea. I do have some questions about this headline. Woman says gifts and her luggage were replaced by dog food.

Shouldn't that be with... To be replaced with dog food, yeah. They were replaced by TSA agents with dog food. Because otherwise, that's saying dog food did the replacing. Right, right. A New Hampshire women, woman, that's where the hobbits live in America, Hobbit, American hobbits. It's the new place where they live.

I almost watched... I don't know what got into my head the other night. I couldn't sleep. Yeah. I almost watched The Hobbit. The first one. I don't know why. I don't even like it.

There are other things on your list to watch. There are plenty other things. You're totally right about this. In fact, one of them, one thing I did watch, because Kim got in the mood, I don't even know if I want to say what it was. It's embarrassing.

I'll probably bring it up Wednesday. Oh, God. Tell me, Hallmark movie. No, it's worse. Maybe it's not worse. Can we agree? We can agree that Sandra Bullock is America's sweetheart, or was or is, or she's something, right?

She's great. We like her. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's all all. for now, Wednesday I'll tell you why. Oh, okay. Oh, did you watch? Well, yeah, I'll have to tell me if you watch that new thing with her where she's like a cop killer. Oh, yeah, an ex-con or whatever. I have not seen that yet. I kind of want to, though. I want to see how that is.

Yeah, I do too. Unforgiven. Not unforgiven. That's a whole different thing. I'd really like a bird box follow-up. I thought that was rad. That take on apocalyptic sort of zombie, whatever ideas. I mean, it was basically, what's quite a, not quite, yeah. a quiet place, except it was with sight. Right. It's sight, yeah, exactly. But I really enjoyed that. All right. A New Hampshire woman got an unpleasant surprise this month when she returned home from Europe.

Gina Sheldon spent about two weeks between Italy and Paris for business purposes, managed to squeeze in some holiday shopping during her stay. When she got home, began unpacking her luggage. She discovered the gift she had packed, it all gone and were replaced by random items, in particular, dog food. She says I opened a third bag That had all the gifts That I bought for myself And it was replaced with dog food

An old t-shirt A shaving cream bottle She says She says there was three grand Worth of prizes Three grand worth of gifts That were missing And it looks like somebody

Just swapped bags Leather jackets Leather purses Yeah My guess is either She may have just done her shopping With Ambien And didn't realize

Oh I bought leather purse But really it's a can of Barber Saul. Or, oh, I bought a, you know, a leather jacket for my daughter. It really, it's a t-shirt that says my mom went to France and all I got was this t-shirt. When you were a kid, did any old people read you a book about the guy whose wife went to visit somebody? And he had to grocery shop on his own. And so when he bought, he knew what he liked, but he couldn't see very well, but he thought, well, I'm, I know what I like, so I'll be fine. So he bought

spaghetti, but it turns out it was wax paper. He bought spaghetti sauce, but it was coffee. This is like a children's book? Yeah. Does anyone remember this book? It got read to me so much when I was young, when I was little. It's just really burned into my head. It was kind of a Mr. Magoo thing but not

but it wasn't Mr. McGoo. It was not actual Mr. McGue. Everybody's saying Mr. McGoo, Mr. McGoo. They're asking because that's how the cartoons were definitely like this but there was a book. Oh, wow. some spaghetti. They were all Mr. Howl, right? Wasn't that it?

Yeah, it was Jim Beckas. Yeah. Someone needs to find the name of that book. It was not Magu, though, branded. It was just some little old man. And when his wife came home, she fixed it all for him, and it was cute and everything. But he bought all the wrong things because they all looked like what he was used to, but they were something else inside. So he didn't like coffee, but the spaghetti sauce can look like the coffee can. So he, you know.

If you take John might have found. it loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter? No, that's the thing from Sesame Street. That's the Magoo. Oh, okay. That's that little girl who has to remember what she has to buy and her mom will be happy. Oh, right. Yeah. But this is the era.

Let's see. Can you temper what you're talking about, which I could temper, but I know what you're talking. Oh. Yeah, it's not Utah-based Utah Magoo. That's not there. Was there a part of the story where you had to leave or replace plums or buy plums? Oh, there it is. Okay, he's not blind. He can't read. That's what it is.

Okay. Little old man who couldn't read. Yeah, the little old man who could not read. There's a Kindle edition and a hardcover still. That's the book. Oh, my gosh. The memories are flooded. That's what it was. So he went to buy stuff and he couldn't tell what it said. So he just grabbed whatever looked right, shape-wise. It's a great little book. That's funny. Once there was a little old man who could not read, he just never wanted to learn. His wife went to the store and bought the food, but the little old man stayed home and made beautiful toys out of wood.

yeah this is somebody you'd probably shame his wife decided to go on a visit you will need to go to the store she said get a can of soup and a big can of spaghetti sauce and some spaghetti yeah this is it and then she kissed the old man and left and oh nope it get to here we go yeah uh oh wow and like all of the letters on the products are like in weird foreign cling on text yeah he can't read it and so you at home he bought a middle-sized can it looked like the kansas soup his wife brought home He bought a long box that looked like a spaghetti box and a big can that looked like a spaghetti sauce can. Yep. This is it. And that's as much as Amazon is going to let me look inside before buying the book. Yep. I used to love that book. Because I just remember thinking, that guy's so dumb.

How dumb is that guy? It's kind of like a, see what happens if you don't learn how to read? I think that was the lesson. I think that, I think even at the end he was like, she helps him learn how to read. at the end or something. Right. It's not like he's dumb. He just, the first thing in the book, he says he just chose not to.

He decided he didn't need to learn how to read. Yeah, I love that. All right. Well, thanks for the Walkdown Memory Lane, everybody. It's enough of the stuff. Hopefully she gets her dog food replaced with real gifts again and has her own Christmas miracle in the meantime. We're going to take a break.

When we come back, Stephen Schlecker will be here. We're going to do a little end-of-year comic recommendations. Love it. Love this idea. Yeah, so stick around for that. We're going to eat some more Japanese crap later. We got to, you know, we get stuff to do still. So stick around after this song.

But, Brian, we have to have the song before we can stick around. Sure. We're going to Connecticut punk band called American Thrills. They've just signed with Wiretap Records. And they've premiered their brand new song, which is called Alive and Well. This single just came out. So excited to play this for you. They opened for Hamden, Connecticut band Piebald,

and then released a four-way split with Tired Radio Nightmares for week and neck scars where they contributed the track blue collar anyway their debut EP came out last year and uh they had another EP that came out earlier in 2020 but they've just joined wiretap records here's their brand new song alive and well But I couldn't turn away And I remember you loved all that low-fax shit The songs went and nobody listened yet Always helped you up on a pedestal

And could you tell me when When did the passion die for you Were you alone screaming in your room Or tell me just how it haunted You haunted the sound song I'll save you We were kids in the neighborhood Always good, never looking for a silver spoon

We always did it all the right way And I look in my backyard And I swear I see the ghost of our earth Playing all me in the woods We always found a way To pretend away of pain And could you tell me when When did the passion die for you

Were you alone screaming in your room Or tell me just how it haunted you Or did the sound somehow save you Now I wandered to across your mind Maybe sometimes when you spin that record Now I wonder to across your mind Maybe sometimes when you spin that record Now I wonder to across your man

Maybe sometimes when you put that record on Now I wonder to across your mind Maybe sometimes when you spin that a record Looks a good as when you're parted ways An old band T-shirt and faded jeans You didn't look back back, but I couldn't turn away. One of the things.

One of the things that I enjoy also is reading. I keep up with the current bestsellers. I'm a 25-year subscriber to both Playboy and the New Yorker magazine. Yes, indeed. Plenty of paperwork before you arrive at the final results, such as this air conditioning unit. Wolfman's Got Cards This is the morning stream All right, we're back everybody

That song once again was Once again, that was American Thrills by the band I'm sorry, the American Thrills is the band That was the song Alive and Well by the band American Thrills. By the way, at some time in the next week or two, actually, it's already up there. You can go to QuickTMS. So we have QuickSack.L.I for all the film sack stats and stuff. There's now a new site called QuicktMS.L.I. And on there, you're going to find our recommendals and the songs that we play on the show with links to where you can get the songs

and check out the video or the movies we watch, etc. That's. awesome. Yes, quicktMS.l. Oh, yeah, look at this. Yeah, I can see them right here. Oh, songs and recommendals. This is awesome. Yeah.

Very, very cool. Okay. I did not know this was, I guess I saw Lincoln didn't click it, but I guess this is done. I'm still working on it. It's a work in progress. Work and progress.

Work and progress. I'm trying to make it easy enough that IceWorm can manage the songs. Randy can manage the recommendals. Amy might be able to manage her read this segments, and I can just take a nap. Yeah, you can do nothing. You can just go, lean back and go, I was the brain that made this happen.

Exactly. I set this all up. You run with it from here. Do the work for me. Steven Schleiker. Steven Schleiker. Hey, look who it is. It's America's sweetheart.

It's Steven Schleiker from major spoilers.com. Stephen, good morning. How are you? I'm walking around the house with a blindfold on because I don't want to look outside. Oh, my Lord. Better you don't. Yeah.

Why? What's wrong with outside? Oh, because the bird box. Birdbox. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, we know, it's a callback, Scott. All bad things start in Hayes, Kansas. That's what we know. Hey, welcome back. It's good to have you here. And, you know, it's weird. We were supposed to have, um, Chris, the day before Christmas Eve, straight through today was supposed to originally be nothing but snow, white Christmas, all of that. Man, did they move the goalposts on that. It's like no snow outside. It's cold, but there's shit. There's nothing. It's just dirty and gross and overcast. And here we are. Stop talking about haze. Look, haze is trouble. Hasey life.

All right. Hey, speaking of a haze, it's been a haze. This whole year's been hard. Everybody's like, oh, man, I must have missed out on a bunch of comics and stuff. And I'll bet Stephen. Oh, I was going to tell you before you tell me this. I'm seeing Spider-Man today. I forgot to tell you guys.

What? Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. I almost broke yesterday. I was like, man, I want to see this movie so bad. I'm like, nope, sorry. I have a reason. It's like chronic, protesting.

I mean, I understand for safety, but. Yeah, here's the reason why. So my buddy Darren, I was talking about, I could not think of anything to get this dude for Christmas because he's just, he's like us. He's a nerd and has what he wants already. And it's like, what are you even going to do? I'm like, you know what I'm going to do? We're going to pick a time where no one's in that damn theater. And we're going to go and lock in a time and watch that thing.

and I'm going to take him and his wife and came with us and that's going that's going to be his gift so that's what we're doing we're going we're seeing it today at like three and uh so spider man that's all cool yep it's here oh i can't wait to hear what you think of it i'm very excited only only 22 days before you hit your lokia deadline yeah i know right i better haul ass well is there something is there anything that uh he can't see like or not i can't see no i don't think so no um Let's see. You've already watched Black Widow, right? Did you already watch Black Widow? Yeah. Did you watch What If? Yes, I watched What If. Okay, then you should be okay. I should be okay.

No other... I think he needs to watch before Dr. Strange and the multiverse of madness. He needs to watch everything before then. Although, you know, this third movie was really teased back in the second movie with old fishbowlhead talking. Oh, it was. Yes, it totally was. And I did see that. So I'm... Have you seen Spider-Man into the Spider-verse, which

still, even though I haven't seen this third movie, is still the best Spider-Man movie ever made. I've seen that movie three times, so I'm good. Only three? Yeah, only three. How many times have you watched Parasite? Uh, zero. What's the round let number? It's zero,

right? Zero. It's very round number. It's almost negative. No Way Home is the best live action Spider-Man movie ever released, and I'm not 100% sure where I'd put it compared to the Spider-Verse. They're so different that it's hard for me to rank them together, but They share a little seat.

They do share a little seat. Yeah. Got them sitting on, you know, what do you call that? Side by side, totally fine. Yeah, exactly. They're edging on the seat. Wait, that's something else. That's something totally different.

I learned that recently. All right, hey, so let's get to it. There's always some comics during the year where I'm like, oh, I should read that, and then I forget it happened. And then there's so many more that you forget and forget and forget. You got a nice little list here of stuff. Yeah, some of these I've mentioned before, and I know, Scott, you've at least read one of these.

the hit the human target is definitely one this is from dc comics this is tom king and greg small wood on this series really beautiful art in this thing but this is the story it's i believe it's a 12 issue maxi series where christopher chance uh who goes out and disguises himself um as other people if they're if they've got a hit taken out on them uh accidentally consumes a poison intended for lex luther and now in his final days before he dies he has to figure out who done it and if that sounds a lot like the movie D-O-A, it most certainly is exactly like D-O-A. And this is an old series, right? This is like a rebirth of an old series, I think. Yeah, of an old character. Yeah, Christopher Chance is an old Silver Age character.

Okay. You weren't kidding about the art, by the way. The art is so like art deco 50s, 60s. It's awesome. I love it. You had a chance to read it. What'd you think? I really liked it. It's very, it's weird because on the one hand, it's very noir and visually so. And then you are suddenly also dealing with some mainstream DC pulp heroes. And it's not a bad thing. It's just kind of jarring. It's like, oh, yeah, right. We're in the DC universe here. We're not, you know, as soon as Lex Luthor shows up toward the end of that issue, I was like, okay, right. Okay, sure. And by the way, that is such an iconic shot of him that I showed the

that I showed the frame to my daughter. I said, who do you think this is? Because it didn't say anywhere. She goes, well, it's Lex Luthor. I'm like, of course it is. That's how iconic it is. It just looks great. It's an amazing visual journey, and I liked it a lot. But I've only read the first issue. Is the second even out?

It may be out. Second issue is out. Third issue is out this week. So you can read all three issues before the end of the year and see if you can figure out who done it. Now, he does, the interesting thing is, he thinks it's a Justice League member and it's the Bwahaaha era of the Justice League. So you've got Martian Manhunter, Red Rocket, or Rocket Red.

I forget which way his name is. Probably not Red Rocket. I hope it's not red a rocket. It's a whole different thing. Red Rocket, Red Rocket, booster and Gietel, fire and ice, all those characters are going to show up in the series. So, issue three out today.

Oh, okay, cool. Oh, that's what Tom King. He was tweeting about. He was tweeting about. Tom King, right? Tom King, speaking of Tom King. Yeah. Let's continue on some of that Tom King love

with Supergirl, Woman of Tomorrow. Oh. I've talked about this a couple of times this year. Tom King, notorious for taking other properties and seeing how he can retell that story inside of comic books. Last one was DOA. This one is true grit.

So Supergirl, grown up. She's kind of bitter at the world. She's on another planet getting drunk because she can't get drunk on Earth. And a little girl comes up and says, hey, I need your help in seeking vengeance against these people that killed my family. And Supergirl's like, yeah, sure, why not? And so they go off on a big planet spanning, multi-planet spanning. Tale of Revenge and Death.

And the art by Bill Quiss Evilly, she's a Brazilian artist, is just amazing. She is one of my favorite new artists ever since I saw her do a little piece with the Legion of Superheroes about five or six years ago. But again, Supergirl, Woman of Tomorrow,

I want to say like the first six issues are out of that one. So you can get pretty far into that story. So if you like True Grit and you like some superhero characters, here you go. It's a nice long issue, The first issue is 32 pages.

That's long for the new comic. That's good. Yeah, yeah. And I think, I don't know if every issue is 32 pages. The series, the issues are $4.99 apiece, which is a little high, in my opinion. Yeah. But I think they are throwing in those extra pages to account for the price. Yeah.

And if you're, you know, if you're a D.C. Infinite subscriber like I am and you're okay waiting three months. Or is it 90 days or they change that? I think it's 90 days. I think it's still 90 days. Yeah. They were originally six months or a year or something. Unless, of course, the movie doesn't make at least $50 million in the box office, then they can release it in 15 days.

Yeah, and they'll do that sometimes. Anyway, so you may be able to stick around for that. All right, definitely on my list. Tell me about the Good Asian. What is this? So the Good Asian is one that I've mentioned before. This is a story set in the, I want to say it's the 1930s about kind of America's first Asian detective. At the time, it was impossible for Asians to rise up in rank on the police force, but the title character is actually made a detective in Hawaii.

So when he comes to San Francisco to solve a murder and to find a missing person, he not only has to deal with racism, he has to deal with his family, which his adoptive family, which is white. And then, of course, he has to deal with that struggle of, you know, kind of walking the line between his Asian culture and the white culture in a super racist 1930s, Chinatown, San Francisco. It is really good. It shows how complex things can be. The character in the Good Asian is kind of, I put that in quotes, kind of based on the character, the real life person who ended up being portrayed as, uh, Charlie Chan in the books and the movies. So there was a real-life person that this character is based on. It's not this character, but it's based on that character. Okay. Interesting. I didn't know that was the case. I thought Charlie Chan was just a straight up, like, here's a stereotype and we're going to make him solve crimes. Yeah, he's based on the first Asian detective in Hawaii. And I forget his name off the top of my head. But, but yeah, it's fascinating. It is a page turner. It is noir mystery. It is, it's good, the good Asian. You can get that from ImageCom.

Nice. The real guy's name was Charles Chanman, was his real name. Yes, I'm sure that's what it was, Scott. Totally was, yes. All right, I like me some Ed Brubaker a whole lot. I also like Sean Phillips. So I'd probably like Reckless. Tell me why I'd like Reckles. Oh, man, Reckless is this series.

And again, I've talked about this before. This is a series that very much reads like Remo the Destroyer. It reads a lot like the, you know, the pulp novels that you may have read growing up in the 60s and 70s. you know, just these guys that are out for revenge. This one also has a big mix of mystery involved. So Reckless is this guy, Ethan Reckless. He went to jail. He's out and he's kind of doing odd jobs, solving problems for people.

If he can do it, sometimes it means that he has to go beat up people. Other times it may mean that he is trying to figure out a murder mystery or who done it. There are three books out so far. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, when we went into lockdown in 2020, we're like, you know what, kind of done with doing single issue series, right? We're, you know, one issue after another. Instead, we're going to release things direct to what we call direct to trade. And so they came up with this character, uh, reckless and they've released them about every

three months. The next one, I believe, comes out in March. Uh, if you love Sean Phillips art, this stuff is going to just be like a masterpiece. And quite honestly, I think that this is the peak of the Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, uh, comic creations. And that's saying a lot considering that they've done criminal, they've done, you know, so much other stuff through the years.

This is this is kind of that pulpy late 70s, early 80s, revenge mystery kind of series that is super easy to get into. Yeah, it looks very, very 70s pulp stuff going on here. Yeah, it's told via kind of flashback.

So this is Ethan when he's much older saying, oh, so back in the day this happened and he tells the story and each book advances the timeline. So we know that he's getting older in each volume. The city of Los Angeles is getting older and the world around him is changing. And so he's also having to kind of deal with that.

If anyone remembers from last year, I recommended Pulp, that's, I think, kind of where they figured out that, oh, we can do these kinds of tales with Reckless. And so that's where that came. That's really cool. All right. I'm definitely checking that one out. And then there's something called die. Yeah.

So this is really cool. This is from Kieran Gillen and Stephanie Hans. This is Karen Gillen's, he loves tabletop RPGs. And he loves the history of tabletop RPGs. In fact, the die series from Image Comics actually spawned him or encouraged him to create an RPG based on his comic book series. That's cool. So there are 20 issues in the series, okay, very much like a 20-sided die. And this tells the story of a bunch of kids who, when they were younger, playing an RPG game, got sucked into a world that is very different than anything you've ever seen.

In fact, for those of you who really kind of want some insight of what the series is about, each issue is kind of a metaphor for the history of Tabletop Gaming. So the very first one takes place kind of like during World War I, and it feels very much like the old, the old army. type campaigns that people would have with their little figures and moving them X number of inches, et cetera. So there's that in there, which kind of led to Dungeons and Dragons and all the other RPG. So every issue kind of expands upon that and gives you that, this weird history of role-playing games. So it's dark, it's moody. There's some scary

stuff in there, so it's probably not for the youngest kids. But, you know, if you got a, I like the description. It's got Jumangi. So if you can, if you're in for that, then go check out Dye also from Image Comics. Okay. Goth Jumongi. Yeah. Goth. Goth with a G.

Yeah, I'm trying to, trying to wrap my head around that concept. I mean, it's dark. So I give you a little bit of a little bit of a spoiler on the series. Most of the kids came back. One of them stayed behind or got stuck behind. And there's some, there's some vengeance going on. Oh, all right. I like some good vengeance.

I'm down. Yeah. All right. And finally, we get a little mainstream. There's a lot of indie there. But now, let's talk about Amazing Spider-Man from Marvel Comics. Why is this year so good? What's going on?

Brian, who is the greatest amazing Spider-Man of all time? Yes, you're right. Of course. It's Ben Riley, Spider-Man. You mean the Scarlet Spider-Ben Riley with the blue hoodie with the sleeves torn off? A clone of Peter Parker, or is he the real version of Peter Parker? Who knows? A friend in a jaunty, angular way.

Yeah, so he's, you know, after his adventures, oh, what, 30 years ago, however long it's been, 40 years ago. You know, he's back in the Marvel universe. It turns out that Peter Parker, probably about, I want to say like somewhere around 10 issues ago of this series, inhaled a toxin. So he's been out of commission. And at the same time, because of, oh, that silly copyright and trademark stuff, the Beyond Corporation has taken the Spider-Man logo and name and given it to Ben Riley to step up and be the Spider-Man. while Peter Parker is out.

It is really kind of fun because we're bouncing around between a Ben Riley story, Peter Parker in the hospital story, which is kind of a nice flip from Aunt May always being in the hospital. And then we got, what is it, the daughters of the dragon are also working for the Beyond Corporation, and they're starting to suss out, oh, there's something not right with this company. And so the last 10 or so issues have been really fun, Spider-Man stuff. dealing with Ben Riley and Peter and the Daughters of the Dragon

and this Beyond Corporation. Nice. I can't remember the last time I read anything in that Amazing Spider-Man series. I'm so far behind, yeah. So much of it though. I guess if you've got if you've got unlimited, it's probably

pretty quick catch-up. Definitely catch up on this. In fact, if you only know that Peter Parker is in the hospital because he inhaled a venomous toxin, check out Amazing Spider-Man number 82. it came out last week,

it feels like they're channeling with the main villain. It feels like they're channeling the fluke man from X-Files. Okay. And so it's kind of a, I thought, for a Christmas time issue, I thought it was kind of a scary issue.

And it's really cool because Peter is still woozy from the effects of being almost killed. And he really can't do anything while this creature is going around killing people in the hospital. Now, these daughters of the dragon are not related to Fin Fang Fum or Captain Plumager.

No, this is, this is Colleen, what is it, her name, Wing? And what's her face? The other one with the iron arm. Misty Knight. Yes, Misty Knight. One of those convenient comic names. Both featured in Netflix's Luke Cage and Iron Fist series. Exactly.

Yeah, I must not admit. I guess I never watched Iron Fist. Or not Iron Fist. And you neither did anybody else. Oh, but it's good. It's worth it. It's worth a watch. I enjoyed it.

It certainly wasn't my favorite of the Netflix series, but I actually enjoyed it. And listen, Jessica Henwick, who played Colleen Wing in that series, needs her own series and needs to be introduced in the MCU and needs to be part of everything because she is fantastic. I'll watch her do anything. Well, as we have seen in two recent Marvel releases, they certainly. are recognizing that the Netflix series exist. And so it would not surprise me if we don't see more of these characters move over into the Marvel universe proper.

I mean, they kind of always... Some dangerous water you're traveling in there, Steve. But he was just asking me a little bit ago if I had seen the ending of Hawkeye, and yes, I have. I have questions about that final episode that I won't bring up here, but... Can you dance around it? Yeah, I can dance around.

There's an off-screen shooting. Yes. And remember, unless you see it happen on screen, that person is probably not dead. Okay. Right, exactly. Fair enough. Without a doubt. Yeah, that seems there was a big, there was the sound of a falling, well, I don't want to get into it. But there was a sound that they were trying to imply that perhaps somebody took a, took a dirt nap, but maybe not. Maybe. I mean, that particular person took an arrow to the chest and kept moving. Yeah, yeah, that's a good point. Oh, yeah, that was awesome. Um, all right. The final episode tried to cram too much into one episode, but I still really loved that season, that whole thing.

The whole series is great. I really liked it. Honestly, I thought it was rather boring. Really? Yeah. I loved it. It's one of my favorite things. It's like, it's like I really feel like they could have crammed.

What, how many episodes was it? Six. It was only six. I think they could have crammed it into four episodes. And it would have been a lot more action and a lot more impactful instead of a lot of. I think that final episode needed two more episodes to flesh itself out. So if anything, I think I needed more time. But I really, really liked it.

So who knows? Well, all right then. Kate Bishop, yourself, right down to the Netflix store and grab yourself a copy. No, that wasn't on there. Disney Plus is what I meant to say. The Netflix store. You know, the Netflix store where you buy all your movies. Hey, Stephen, this is great.

I love this end of year stuff because there's all sorts of stuff I missed in here, and I'm excited to read them all. New Year ahead of you for major spoilers. Any of you want to hint at or talk about or do? Yes. In fact, today, the first, today, This is something that I failed at last year because I got really sick, if you guys remember. I do remember that.

This morning at 5.30 a.m., I completed my final challenge for my Apple health thing. Every month, they're like, hey, here's your challenge. Go out and do this many minutes of exercise 30 times a day or whatever it is. And so I have completed every single month for 2021. Damn. That's a lot of goal setting. That is. I kind of like the way that Apple does this.

in how they try to make it a game for you to do. Can you do better this time the next time? Yeah, the game off. Next, not this Friday. Next Friday, January 7th. Finally, Friday is coming back. It had to go away because my son was in swimming and Friday was the only day that we could do it. It's coming back next week.

One Brian Ibit is going to come on and he's going to talk about gaining. Gameifying the system, your life, whatever it is. That's a great idea. I'm very much looking forward to this because I have so much. any questions about, you know, how do you make this work? How does it not work or work? What are some rules? How can people set this up in their lives? And so, Brian and I are going to run through that in a very fast 30 minutes over on the Twitch channel, Twitch.tv slash major spoilers. That's next, next Friday at 4.30 p.m. Central time, 3.30 p.m. Mountain time. Of course,

the only time zone that matters, at least to Brian and Scott. Yeah, well, you know, what else? Are there other time zones? This is the first I'm hearing of that. awesome well may your central time zone become you know better than just the mediocre place it holds in our hearts now may your year be fantastic uh i know some other cool stuff happening coming down the the rope so you guys keep your eyes on that it's stephen schliker everybody major spoilers dot com stephen have a happy new year yeah don't get drunk and stay hydrated everybody that's a good idea yeah drink all you want i guess but then drink period but stay hydrated oh right don't get drunk and stay hydrated Right. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that'd be a bad headline.

Yeah. Anyway, be safe. We'll see you soon. Happy New Year. Bye. Bye now. All righty, Brian, we've come to the point of the show where we're going to eat some Japanese things. Yes.

We didn't decide ahead of time, so we got to... Take this. It's for you. It's food. I kind of, I feel like maybe something salty and then something sweet, you know? Okay. So, obviously, we'll do a Kit-Kat. How about this wasabi sticks-looking thing?

It's a green bag. Oh. Oh. Not that? Hold on. No, but. I can go either way. I don't know what these red things are.

They look like beats or something? Yeah, maybe. I mean, it looks like it says harry-cari on the bottom right. Oh, that's just kari-kari. Oh, that's just double suicide. I don't know what that is. Let's do the, how about the green bag? That definitely looks salty and spicy, wasabi-looking thing.

Yeah, let's do it. the green bag. I like that. A flavor of Kitchan. Let's see here. How do you feel about I want to try this one that doesn't show us anything. It's just got a white label on it. Yeah, all right. Yellow, kind of a banana yellow.

So maybe there's, you know, banana. But it literally just says some kind of Japanese text. What is that? There's like a little poo or something on there. Here, look, Chad. This guy right there.

All right, cool. Whatever that little ring and turd is. Yep. Yeah, I don't know what that is. Oh, yeah, what is that? I don't know what it is. Oh. I don't like it.

Oh, it's like a dish with something on it. Oh. All right. Oh, it's like a little cake. Like a little cake. Okay. It blends into the yellow in the background. All right, so we'll do the, the wasabi deal first.

Yeah. Opening this up here. It's put. It's put flavored. Thanks again to Tara. in Japan for these amazing snacks. Oh, she's awesome. And she's been following up with me and let me know, like, the Angry Pig snacks, um, uh, what did she say about those?

She actually did have an update on those. I hope she didn't say, I hope Scott doesn't eat all of those two snacks, that and the squid things, because, uh, because I did. I ate them all of them. I eat those squids that day. I was done by the time my day ended. Oh, she was actually glad to hear that it hit the spot for you, the squids. Okinawa black sugar is locally grown, unrefined sugar, and is more dark, dark brown than actually black. What you looked up is sanding sugar, Scott, for baking and stuff, which is just dyed black. Oh.

Sanding sugar, you can find many colors. But Okinawans grow sugar cane locally and all the gift shops have various snacks and candies for sale with that black sugar. Got it. I thought it was like squid ink or something. I didn't know it. Right. No. Oh, this smells.

This smells really good. This smells like wasabi fry sticks or something. Yeah, let's see what we got. I'm eating all those. Yeah, this will be gone. And I can't tell there's no way to figure out how many calories this whole bag is. So I guess I'm eating it. You want to do a translation on that front and see what it says?

Yep, let's see what it says. Because we got Calbee at the top, but that's just the company, I think. Yeah, that's just the brand. All right. Let's see what? What does Google Translate say? Sometimes it's drunk and we have to send her home. Wasabi soy sauce flavor. It's a mess. Start later. That's good advice.

Yes, let me see if I can get it to freeze on that text. It's a mess. Start later. I love it when I freeze frame on the perfect... There you go. I'm sending this to you. Text? It would be a text, yeah. Scott Johnson, send, and go. Put that on screen and let everybody enjoy.

It's translation of the two labels. All right, what are we got here? Wasabi birthday oil taste. I'm sick afterwards. Really? What? What the frick? Fantastic.

Oh, my lord. I don't know what to make of that. That's awesome. Wasabi birthday oil taste. Yeah. Wasabi birthday oil. My favorite taste. I'm sick afterwards.

All right. Let's chase it down with this little yellow unit. Yeah. It's a Kit Kat. Japanese Kit Kat's renowned for their quality. It's sort of like maybe a cheesecake or something on the front of it. Are these getting shorter? So it just meat.

Yeah. Well, or am I getting longer? they're getting shorter. They are getting shorter. All right, here we go. Okay. There is nothing wrong with that whatsoever. What am I getting out of that? Like a what's

that thing you've put, you've turned, you put on fire for a second? The dessert? Yeah, like a creme brulee. Yeah, crumb brulee. Is that what brulee means to put on fire? To set your crin on fire? The brulee. The brulee does. Yes, I think it does mean. to... Oh, Flan! Flan! Flan!

Yeah. Flan. Yeah, that's what that is. And that little cake icon is what they show. So now it makes sense. That's a flan-flavored... Flam-flam. Mm-mm. All right.

Good selections today. Yeah. I'll just confirm pudding as the flavor. Oh, it's like a put... Okay. Like a flon pudding. Chestered pudding fragrance. Yeah.

Play keyboard for them. Yeah, exactly. They were kind of new agey. Oh, that's very good. Yeah, that's good. All right. Thank you once again, Tara. We'll continue to work our way through this stuff as the days go on.

A quick reminder, we'll be back tomorrow with all sorts of good times to be had on the show. Right. I may need to talk to you about Wednesday because I just realized I might have a conflare. Oh, no. What's going on? You got something hot coming up. We'll talk after, no, it's a trip that we need to take to see somebody that. that we need to be seen.

Ah, gotcha. All right. No, nice and vague. I'll talk about it after the show. I am. That's nice and vague. I like it. All right. Well, we'll let you guys know.

But for Tuesday, for sure, we'll be here tomorrow. And we'll have all the fun that we have on Tuesdays, I guess. I don't know if Bill's back. He might be. I'm not sure. Oh, yeah, right. Yeah. We'll definitely have Bobby, though.

Bobby's got nothing else going on. He'll be around. Nope. I just realized we have two, we technically have two bobs on Tuesdays. No, because Bill is. a Robert or Bill is a William not a Robert. Oh yeah, right. Bill. What am I thinking of? You're thinking of

Roberts, not Williams. A Robert is a Bob, a William is a Bill. Wait. Yeah, okay. Yep. Yep. You are 100% correct. In my head though, they were not, it was all wrong. All right. If you like this show, and I know many of you do, because a lot of you already support us, but we'd love more over at Patreon.com slash TMS. Still time to get in on

the on the on the on the December but uh if not new month coming new year coming and it would be great to have all of you amongst us here on the show patreon.com slash tms there are lots of things you can get commercial free episodes every day with bonus content and weekly tms pm episodes a quick note though programming note this week's a little different uh normal we show of uh week of shows maybe not wednesday we'll see after i talk to brian uh but normal stuff up through thursday And then instead of a PM on Friday, we're going to do a public for everybody version of that kind of show on the 31st at 1.30 p.m. We're part of a collective doing charity drive that day. And we'll have more details for you in the next couple of days.

But that's right now playing for 1.30 Mountain Time on the 31st as we bring in the new year. And we have some country where it's New Year's right when we record. Oh, right. Yeah. So we'll get to announce. We'll actually get to say whose new year it is. Yeah. So, like, Brian, when Tom Merritt does, he's doing a bit as well. Some other people in our friends list are all doing stuff. And they all have a certain country where it will be midnight when they start.

And that will be true of us. So I'm not sure where it is, though, I forget. But we'll find out. Anyway, that's this week coming up on the 31st, which I guess is Friday. Right? Friday. Correct. Friday?

Friday. Correct. And then I'm going to go a little mammoth game that night. Oh, that's. That's mammothly wonderful to hear. All right, that's it. Frogpants.com. S. TMS for all your other needs.

The morning stream at gmail.com. If you're trying to email us, that'd be great, too. Let's get out of here with a song selection from the vast, varied, and delightful library of Brian Nibit. It really is. It is a really, it's such a huge. Huge, huge, huge, huge library. This one is really just a straight-up request for, excuse me, not tied to a a birthday or anything.

Let me pull it up here because when I quit out of everything, I had to move it over here. This is going out to, this is me stalling to get the information because there we go. Jay, who goes by EFink G4 in the chat and everywhere else, says, hey guys, I love this ska version of Shee by the Mad Caddies. You can play this one whenever. I usually listen in my car on the way to work with my little Shiba Inu, pop, Lucy, and we sing together. Keep up the great work.

I can't believe you guys have been in my ears since those Burning Crusade days. Love ya's X-O-X-O-X-O-X. Wow. 2000 and seven, six, seven. Yes.

Wow. Crazy pants. I wasn't on those episodes in the Burning Crusade. I came on a couple times to the instance, but whatever. Anyway, oh, did I miss a, oh, you might have missed you,

Stephanie. Well, there's tomorrow. Well, that's why we did all those spit stuff and gross stuff today. to make up for it, Stephanie. That was the reason. That's right, exactly. All right, this is a cover of Green Days.

She, covered here by The Mad Caddies. I'm waiting for a sign To smash the silence with a brick of self-control Are you locked up in a world That's been planned up for you Are you feeling like a social tool without a use Well, speak at me until my ears plead And I'm taking heed just for you

She's figured out All her doubts were someone else's point of view Away Getting up this time To smash the silence with a brick of self-control Are you locked up in a world that's been planned for you? Are you feeling like a social too without a use? Well, school at me until my ears bleed

And I'm taking heat just for you Are you like to be in a lot to be in a lot to the pin our world? It's been planned out for you Are you feeling like a social True without a use I'll scream at me Until my ears bleed And I'm taking it heat

Just for you I'll scream at me Until my ears bleed And I'm taking it heat Heat just for you This show. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com.

I like fried chicken.