The Morning Stream - TMS 2224: the best show of the year... so far

Episode Date: January 3, 2022

I NEED LUBE ADVICE! Butt-Funnin' Around!! Julie is Stiff on the Lido Deck. It Started With A Diarrhea Problem. I Can Has House Fire? Pfoozer's Boozers. the Love Morgue. No Full Exposure. Full Frontal Hannah Montana. Don't Dung Your D. Added Nakeddittidy. Spiderman is the S word. Come with me if you want to die! Make me a grandpa! 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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The love morgue. No full exposure. Full frontal Hannah Montana. Don't dung your D. Added naked tidity. Spider-Man is the S-word. Come with me if you want to die. Make me a grandpa.

Major spoilers and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. When local pharmacy has started administering Fuzer's booster booster dose, Fuzer's booster fyser's booster dose If you lie in bed so long that you have to rush How can you expect to be neat and clean? The morning stream Based on the novel Push by Sapphire Good morning, everybody.

Welcome back to TMS. It's the morning stream for Monday, January 3rd, 2022. Look at that. Ooh, first show of the new year. Yeah, man. And we're in the 22-20 things of the numbers of the show. Look at it. We're 22-24 today.

Oh, we are. Yeah. Look at least for the next 76 episodes. episodes. Our shows will begin with the year. How about that? Yeah, that's how we'll remember and not screw it up. Yes. So we can, so we won't have any problems writing it on our checks. Yeah. Oh my gosh. I, uh, I've already done it a couple times. It was some art yesterday. I was drawn something. Yeah. I put 2021. That was like, ah, crap. I went and fixed it. Uh, did it once on, uh, oh, uh, a big tweet for a giveaway. I was like, the first giveaway of 2021. And then like 100

people pointed out that I got it wrong. Listen, when I did the Coverville Countdown episodes, the first one, because I copied and pasted from last years to make sure I got the titling and all that stuff, correct? Yeah. Forgot to change 2020 to 2021. So in December, I still made the 2020 instead of 2021 mistake. Oh, man, you're a whole year behind on mistakes. Whole year behind.

That's that shit up. Hey, so listen to this. I promise myself I was going to say that word less because I got this dad who wants this kids to listen to the show. I'm going to try. I'm going to try to say the S word less, okay? Dad and kids. And by the S word, you mean Spider-Man.

Spider-Man. Oh, you did it. Oh, you did it. Oh, no. Someone's going to rage quit and leave the show forever now. Sorry, inside baseball. Let's get into the goings-on here. So it is our first show of the new year. Well, I guess technically, no, yeah, because the New Year's Eve thing crossed.

It was on New Year's Eve. Yeah. We lived in Zimbabwe, then it would have counted, but we didn't. I'm sure there was somebody that downloaded there were probably a lot of people who downloaded that bonus Friday, New Year's Eve, streamathon episode after the clock struck midnight and Miley Cyrus's top fell off and basically got that as the first show of the year. I heard of that. Did she actually, was there full exposure? Did she lose?

It was not full exposure. The camera was panned really far back and she had her arm covering when she realized what started happening. Yeah. Then she turned around, just dropped the top, and pulled her arm away. So people playing in the band, the backup singers and the bands and all that stuff, did get a full view. But she went in the back. Everybody kept singing, like the background vocalist kept singing the PIP's version of Party in the USA. Yeah.

Oh, that's great. They kept the little backgroundy going. That's awesome. They kept the whole song going. And finally she came back out. and put on a blazer and said, this is the most clothing I've ever worn on stage. Hey, you know, y'all.

She'd say, hey, y'all. She'd say, Hey, y'all. Whatever. I've heard her do a bunch of solo covers that have convinced me that she's one of the most talented singers right now. She's the real deal. Yeah.

She's really good. I'm impressed. She came in like a raking ball, Scott. Yeah. And she's leaving like a topless lady. Yeah. And she's dancing with Molly, which is really nice. Yeah, it's fine.

Molly was just sitting there on the side with nothing to do, and now she's dancing with Molly. Comedic actress, Molly Shannon. By the way, my recommendal of the other two, which was the show that's got Molly Shannon as the parents of like a Justin Bieber-level popular kid and then the two older siblings that can't cut a break, that ended up on somebody's, like, Entertainment Weekly's top 10 TV shows. of 2020. Oh, look at you. You're a tastemaker, dude. Look at you. I don't know.

A tastemaker, I just, I just want more people to check that show out is all I want. Well, it's on my list. Because of you, when I was on the treadmill this morning, guess what I watched. You want to guess? Guess what I watched. I know it wasn't parasite. It wasn't parasite because I'm not doing that on a treadmill. That'd be weird.

Let's see. On the treadmill you watched. I'll give you a hint that'll narrow it. Yeah. Documentary. I'm going to set Armageddon. That makes no sense. Armageddon.

You watched Armageddon. Armageddon. Yeah. That's so weird you say that. I watched Armageddon this weekend. Oh, no way. Yeah. Oh, well, was it?

Oh, not documentary. So it wasn't Don't Look Up. That actually is what made me want to watch Armageddon because that's like the, the, ooh, how if the worlds all got together and stopped the asteroid thing, whereas don't look up is, no, this is probably what we're really what happened. It's probably what we do. Yeah, we deny it until it hit. No, it's, I'll give you another musicically directed.

documentary. Oh, oh, get back. The Beatles thing. Incorrect. Close. You're getting there. Oh, the Sparks Brothers. Sparks is correct. The Sparks Brothers thing. Nice. Excellent. I mean, I'm only halfway through because I did that's how long my walk was and I'll, or my run was. I'll do it later today again. But that is totally my jam. I love everything about those guys. And you know what they said early on? They said that they're at the crossroads of influential, unknown. Yeah. I didn't know who they were. I've never heard of them before. I really have never. And now that I see it, I'll hear a pinch of a song. I go, wait a minute. I know that from somewhere. But for the most part, this is all new to me. And they're fascinating. Fast, fascinating documentary. Especially Ron Mail. Like Ron Mail, the keyboard, the older brother, keyboard player, mustache. Let's say Charlie Chaplin mustache just to. Sure. Sure. We won't invoke the other usage that we're all familiar. Yes, exactly. Well, I saw them perform. The only time I've ever seen Sparks Live is when they came to town with Friends Ferdinand, and they formed the band FFS.

Oh, yeah. For F's sake or Franz Ferdinand Sparks. And we got there early enough to where we had front row seats. I've got some amazing photos of the band and of Friends Ferdinand. The dude from Friends Ferdinand kind of looking directly at me, this cute guy. That's cool. I'm straight and all, but that's a handsome. That's a handsome man right there.

Yeah, he's a good-looking dude. Sure. But for the whole rest of the time, I could not take my eyes off of Ron Mill. He is always mugging. He is always hamming it up. And his freaking dance moves, even at whatever 70...

He's like 72 or something now. 72 are still absolutely hilarious. Yeah, they're really great. And I also thought before this when you had recommended the documentary, I know you'd said, as much, but in my head they were still, like, weird

British band. Yeah, right. They're not at all. Not at all. They're California's all get out, right? But for several years, for the Island Records years, when they were on the Island Records label, they lived in the UK, and they were huge there. Like,

they broke into the top ten with more than just that cool places song when they were in the UK. I think I'm at the part where we're about to talk about that move. oh nice how far in i am but um yeah it's fascinating i love all these guest guys like you know beck is in there talking about the band yeah i like beck because when beck first came on yeah everyone else had said like so-and-so and then below them the dirty turnips or whatever their band was right

right so everybody had a name and then a band underneath beck says beck and then the little subtitle says see above it's amazing see above it's awesome i didn't catch that it's so good what a creative stupid creative idea i loved it yeah no i'm glad you're checking that out it's funny that was a theater recommendal that uh new mutants was the first movie that got me into uh post-pandemic theaters and had it basically my uncle and i had a theater to ourselves for that one and um and then sparks brothers also was another theater trip and i think there were maybe two other people in that theater as well it was like oh yeah i probably had that whole damn thing to yourself pretty much. It's really good and it's on Netflix everybody. So if you didn't get a chance to catch it

when it first hit, it popped up and I went, you know what? I'm watching that when I fire up this your treadmill, which I need to lubricate. I need some advice. Oh, yeah. I need lube advice. Yeah. My treadmill has not been lubed since I bought it in 2013. So what do you do? You're supposed to do it every year. You get this stuff. It comes in a bottle. I bought that. So I have that. I have that over there so I'm good there, but how do I apply it? What do you do? You can, uh, some treadmills have a lever that, that shrinks the size of the, um, the table that you're running on. Like basically it just pulls the either the back runner or the front runner closer to the middle so that it loosens the belt. Okay. And then you can apply the, you just go, you just squirt a line of it

down there and, and it does it itself. So it's the belt itself that I'm trying to loob, not the wheels. You need to, right, the belt itself is what you're, okay, what's your looming. All right. I'm a, my favorite documentary of 2021 was the belt itself. It was a fantastic run. The belt itself. Oh, so good. Yeah, six episodes. Amazing. John Burnham. But yeah, like, I, I, I just have always been afraid to try it because I don't know what I'm doing because I don't want to wreck anything. Like, put a bunch of loom in the gears. Oh, A.V. Take John just put a great video in the chat room. How to lubricate a treadmill belt. All right. I'm copying that out. I am saving it. the bro from 24-hour fitness who uh you know who says hey only one towel only one tell oh i love that

guy he's my favorite kind of guy all right hey i found some some stuff and i wanted to share a little bit of this so i'm trying to clean out my studio and in here are a bunch of boxes that i haven't looked at in 10 years uh i noticed this weekend you were in uh old photo or 20 uh sorry yeah 2012 photo mode and opening up old boxes mode and all that stuff. The 2012 thing came from a hard drive clean out and I was like 2012 N12. What is this? Like it wasn't the pattern wasn't working in my head. And it was Nurtacular 2012 and it was full of these photos of everybody, us included. And it was just a trip looking at all that. That's so cool. But anyway, I found this tape. This is the one I still have to go and do some work on because it's so old. It's like really bad quality.

so I captured the entire both sides of this thing and then later I'm going to go in and see if I can't fix it up some but it didn't break anyway it's this look at that wow this up so gosh dang it hold on where's my camera there we go so this says on it for some reason my dad wrote upside down the label yeah do you see that that's awesome right also yeah you're about to say that your dad writes upside down on the label yeah I don't I don't I don't get it there's other there's other text on the label plane I know follow follow the direction of that text.

Yeah, what the hell, Blaine? So it says Scott and Dad age one and a half to two and a half, and then the years are 1970 to 1971, which would have been about right. And on there is a bunch of me just gurgling and talking and yapping and basically sounding a lot like Van at that age. Look, I have Twitter lied. They're going to eat rice.

You can eat rice, that sort of stuff. But what I, so that one's still kind of in the works or whatever, but I found some clips and I got to play some of these. Okay, cool, yeah. So it's, this will span a little bit of generations here, but Brian, tell me if this is familiar to you, okay? I know it will be because I know you, but you just have to tell me. Here you go.

After DiMento on the Rock, FM 103 KRS, Salt Lake City. All right, so that was our local station that carried him, so he's doing a local product. I had so many cassettes of the Dr. Dement, the Dr. Demento show. I recorded it, like, ad nauseum, and I found all my old tapes of that stuff, and I don't need any of it. So I just capped out a few things where he says stuff just to be nostalgic about it. But, man, Dementos and Dementites. In junior high, I was glued to that. 10 o'clock Sunday night.

I'm supposed to go to bed, school the next day. Didn't matter. I stayed up and listened to Dr. Demento. That's how it went. Then I found me at age 12 talking about a diarrhea problem. with a dog not with a person so unlike you it's so weird it's so weird i mean if there's anything else that tracks my radio career began with a diarrhea story it's 40 40 years and nothing's changed now my kids want to point out that for some reason i've adopted a strangely almost southern

accent at age 12 i don't remember this or why i talked this way but i'll play it let you guys judge all right so here's me age 12 11 maybe i may have been 11 I couldn't figure the year out on the tape But anyway, here it is So it's me talking to my brother, I think She let Muffin in during the night at 12-06 And she wasn't supposed to Now Muffin had diarrhea in the front room

She did? Yeah, and then this morning, Mom put her back in And then I turned her out again Oh, no, she told her not to So that's just me and the other siblings That's what Nick said Nick called me Opie I shared that around

I don't know what that was about I don't know Aunt B might have put some diarrhea in one of them pies I wasn't a Southern kid at all Like I married a Southern girl But that wouldn't be for another 20-something years So it's really really really odd obviously

Dog diarrhea And this is me laughing in the same tape I mean puberty was not even next door It was like a thousand miles away Oh that's awesome Yeah, somewhere I've got some of those tapes, too. I wish I could find them. Oh, you got to find him, dude.

You got to convert them. I know. I'm using this. Greg for Walkman sent me this long time ago. I'm using it to transfer just straight analog out of this old Walkman into digital. I bought one that's USB that I used for something. And so I still have it. I just need to find those tapes.

Yeah, it's pretty cool to hear all this stuff. And I'm going to keep the tapes because, you know, they break fine, whatever. But now at least I have a backup. Uh, here's my daughter. Okay, so now let's jump ahead to 1990. Hold on. I'm sorry, let's jump ahead to 2003. Okay. This is my daughter singing. No, I'm sorry. Let's jump to 1997. Sorry, I got my dates mixed up. Here's Taylor at that age. Fire, wire, pants on fire hanging on the telephone ride. See, that's weird. She's a mom now and stuff, right? Isn't that weird? Yeah, she made you a grandpa. Yeah, she did. And then

when she was like, same tape, I said, what happened to you last night? And her answer was this. I threw up. Yeah, she threw up. She threw up. I love that all of our audio clips have to do with vomit and diarrhea. And people say, oh, Brian, your

morning squirm questions are gross. I'm muting because of your questions. I freaking love it. Anyway, and it does, yes, It sounds like it's recorded on wax, but it's not. It's just these tapes are old, man. They lose.

I mean, I can't believe the one from 71 gave me anything. Right. Yeah. Like, I was shocked by that. Practically dissolved. It's because it's like a Sony or a Maxel or a TDK, man. If it's an off-brand real tech, that thing is dust. Yeah, it's does.

The thing is Thanos level dust. And I've got some in here I'm really concerned about. Like, some of these tapes look a little wrinkly. One of them I did put in, and it immediately started east. eating the tape. So it's sticky or something. Here's something from February 4th, 1989.

No idea what it is, but later I'll give it a shot. So anyway, back in those days, you and I both had dreams of being DJs, right? And so we'd record, like we were either introducing songs, which is what I was doing or telling jokes. I have somewhere,

somewhere there is a cassette of me and my Uncle George performing a hostess fruit pie ad from an incredible Hulk comic book. Shut up, dude. A table reading of a hostess fruit pie. Here, Hulk, have a hostess fruit pie. Okay.

Hmm. Cherry filling. I mean, that's like somewhere that exists. You have one job in 2022 and it is to find that tape and salvage it asap. But if you have a bunch of these old things, you need to get them converted, man. There's somebody on Twitter who's got a whole setup for this. He's got reel-to-reel, two real-to-reel decks plus a regular cassette conversion thing. And he's just converting, you know, use it to convert all this stuff.

I've got video I need to do this with. I have so much to do with it. And I know there's, like, services. You can just send all your, like, Super 8s into some whoever, and they'll make Blu-Rays out of it or a hard drive full of files or whatever. But I haven't really looked into it. But, yeah, real nostalgic day for me yesterday. The only pain in the butt brines, you forget, all right?

In the era we live in now, digital mp3s whatever there's no fast forwarding or rewinding you just skip around right there's no instant you mean there's no like instant jump to the next track or the to right the next bit it's like fast forward yeah or if you and i want to get anything done you can't just flash record it you can't just go okay this tape just go and it's in you got to play the whole thing and just let it run for 90 minutes. Yes. Right.

And hope that you capture some gems. Yeah. Yeah. So I set an alarm every 45 minutes or whatever each side was and then would leave it, right? And then come back and then I'd scan it for some like fun bumps in the waveform and go, oh, what's that? And for some reason, I had a tape full of Betty Davis eyes on repeat.

Is that weird? We're on our same song marathon coming on three hours of Betty Davis Eyes by Kipkaw. That's all it was, was Kim Carnes singing that over and over and over. I don't know why I did it, but I did it. I didn't remember how I did it. Oh, and then I found all my Letterman tapes, like old late night with David Letterman. We was on NBC in the 80s, and it's just audio of him doing his show. I got a bunch of them with what's his name from the Columbus Zoo coming on and like some of my favorite guest.

Not Jack Handy, but something like that, right? Hannah. Yeah, Jack Hanna. And I used to take those to school and like sneak a listen and Clyde. because I was bored. I was reliving it yesterday, man. That's how it was going for me. Yes, Letterman was on NBC.

Letterman was NBC for the first batch. It was even, you know, had a morning show, Letterman. Yeah, before that. Yeah, and the late night show, which is currently occupied by Seth Myers, was the same one that, what's his beak, who's tonight show guy now? I can't think he was name. I can't think he was name. Billabon.

Billabon. It's probably a Jimmy because they're all Jimmy's Fallon. There you go. Yeah, there you go. Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy Fallon before that. He took over for Conan O'Brien, who took over for Dave. That's the same time slot. And Dave was there for like 10 years.

So now if you're super young, I get it. You wouldn't know. But that was my formative, sneaky, stay up till midnight business. Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah, you know, you're, I love Letterman. I love, you know, a lot of the people you mentioned. And probably my letterman was Dr. Demento was me wanting to create a show of weird music and goofy stuff and have a syndicated thing that was on all across the country and gone the rock Q 105. He's dead, right?

He's not alive anymore. I think he's alive. No, he's still alive. They actually came out with a great cover album two years ago of covers of, huge songs from the from the Dr. Demento a year. It's like, let me find it here. Wow, he's 80.

Okay, he's still around. He's still around. Let me find it here. So like, here we go. It's called Dr. Demento covered in punk. And it's like covers of Marvin, I love you, the Marvin, the Paranoid Android thing. And, um,

uh, fish heads and Monster Mash and Monomon and the cockroach that ate Cincinnati. You hear these things are like, oh my God, I haven't thought about that song. The weird sexual one of the woman who can't wait for the guy

to come over and install the telephone line. Oh, yeah, that one's weird. It was weird. Creepy and weird. Yeah. He says here in his Wikipedia, he had an 85,000-deep record collection. 85,000 records.

85,000 deep. Oh, my God. That's what he claims. Special appearances, blah, blah, blah, blah. he's got some on Edison's cylinder and still ways to play that stuff. Wow. Man. Yeah.

Well, we thought we were real cool. That's probably where you would have actually, if you did hear sparks, you probably would have heard sparks on the Dr. DeVento show because I think they'd occasionally play their weird cover of Doree Me and girl from Germany. Maybe that's what I'm hearing on that dock and going, oh, I recognize that, but only barely, that's probably it. This town ain't big enough for the both of us. Huge song, by the way.

And we didn't know more covered it, darkness covered it. We didn't have cool recorders either. All we had was a radio and then you'd put a tape recorder next to the radio. Yes. And record from the speaker, which is so janky, but it's what we had. It's what we had. And ours was the kind where you had one button for play and another button for record. But to make sure you accidentally didn't record thing, you had to push the record and play buttons down together.

Yeah, same time. That same time. What's really throwing me on this thing is it has an auto-reverse thing. So if you get to the end of the tape, it'll flip. It's also a red button here that does that very function. Like if you're in the middle of things, you just want to flip sides. The problem with that is I never know which side is playing. So rewind and fast-forward are relative to what you're doing.

And so I never know what I'm actually doing. I don't know how we lived with that back then. That seems like an oversight by the Sony gods at the time. It just seems like a weird thing. But whatever. Molly Fan says Weird Al just covered this town I know I just played it on Thursday's

episode of TMS at the very end but if you're a live a live listener you wouldn't hear that Oh yeah you probably wouldn't have heard it He's also in that documentary We've come full circle Well done everybody He is playing that very song

That song came from that Yeah he played a little on the documentary as well He's got his organ That's what I was just saying Oh you're saying he had the organ on there Oh he hasn't played it yet then He plays the accordion And he plays an instrumental accordion cover of this town,

and big enough for the both of us. And it's that cover that we played the full version of on TMS last week. Okay. I haven't gotten that far, I guess. Because right now he's just holding it. He's got it out. Oh, really? Okay.

I'm like, oh, he's got it out. He's going to, what's he going to do with it now that it's out? That sounds dirty. And Jamie's happy I said it. All right, moving on. Micah and Syracuse, New York. Send us a quick email I wanted to read. It's an email about chocolate.

Good morning, Scott and Brian. I'm a big fan of your show and listen to it every morning. often tell my wife about funny and interesting things you guys talk about. And when you brought up the subject of whether UK chocolate was better than U.S. chocolate due to the souring agents, I was intrigued and told my wife about it. She was then surprised me for Christmas and got me a box set of UK chocolate bars called Great British Treats. That sounds like a show of a spin-off of the greatest baking thing, doesn't it? Today on Great British Treats, Jackie spills chocolate all over the floor and has to clean it up.

And then there's like some sort of fancy dance music and it's all, and everyone's nice to each other. I want this show. It sounds great. Anyway, he goes on to say, we have been taking one bar at night and sampling it for fun like in your food segments and they are indeed quite rich and delicious. Our favorite was called Star Bar, which had a peanut butter, what you might call it vibe to it. Oddly enough, a couple of days at work, or go at work, I had a small bag of Hershey's Kisses. I popped a couple and let's just say they hit differently. seems like there might be some truth to that souring agent business after all have a great day and thank you guys for what you do mica in syracuse

oh yeah look at that the star bar i think we've had those on the show cadbury star bar um looks like a twix right it's like uh chocolate or i'm sorry yeah a cookie in the middle but more like a whatchaum we call it cookie he's saying then a layer of caramel and then a layer of chocolate all around oh there it is we did have this we've had this yeah yeah when we got the bruce stuff we'd take more if you want to Because there's a star bar in Denver, my results are a mix of this dive star bar on Broadway. Oh, no way. Yeah, and this chocolate bar, which is great. That's hilarious. Why does Wikipedia's like click on my image to make a bigger one?

Why are they often smaller? I don't understand. Oh, really? Yeah, it's going on over there. Wikipedia? I gave you money to share. Whichever Wikipedia editor posted that photo posted a smaller photo than that. than the thumbnail. That's right. Well done. Well done. Well done indeed. All right. We're going to get done away up in it. Today's Monday. You know what that means. Time for some prizes to give out to some people who can't listen live. And we always love doing that. So stick around for that. That starts up shortly. And also it's the squirm. So maybe Brian will have a weird topic that'll gross you go. I will have five weird topics that will make you go. All right. Topics that make you go. All right. Let's see. What am I looking for here or this?

Welcome Brian Dunaway to the fray. Hello, Brian Dunaway. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. How are you doing? Hey, it's a big day. It's a big day. At 3.30, we're doing the first play retro today. Are you excited or what? Was that today? I totally forgot. No, I haven't forgot. Of course, I remember. I'm so excited. It's a new week. It's a Monday. You know how much I love those? It's the first Monday of the year I may explode. Don't explode. So we need you. So don't explode. That's bad. Well, I mean, not figuratively.

Oh, all right. Well, then I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, you know, in reality, I'm going to explode, boom. Oh, perfect. What I mean is, no, not figuratively. Yes, figuratively. Yeah, look, it's the first Monday of the year. It's always a little rough. I understand.

Hey, it's a good day of you here. That'll be something we'll talk about toward the end here. We'll make sure people know everywhere to go and check it out and all that stuff. But before we do any of that, it's time for Babel Royale, the Squirm thing edition. I forgot the name. So we'll let Brian Abbott take care of it and explain the whole damn thing. Yes. Welcome to the morning squirm, a back-and-forth trivia game where our players will match wits on topics.

that Cliff Claven would have offered up at the cheers bar. I didn't come up with a replacement for that for this morning. Scott and Brian are going to take turns answering multiple choice trivia questions, and if they get it wrong, well, the other player gets a point. The player with the most points after five questions wins the prize for their contestants. And you're asking, who are these contestants you speak of? Well, they're members of the Tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're going to be playing for Matt Kwanbara of England.

Nice. Oh. And Brian, you're going to be playing for Nick Milton. of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I like Milton's. Yeah. They all have better chocolate than we do. They all have better chocolate, for sure.

Like Matt Kwanbro might be enjoying a star bar as he listens to this. Yeah. Listen to his win. I hope he is. By the way, the prizes today, the winner is going to get a pair of Steam games, which is great because no postage. Guts and Glory and Ring of Pain. I'll always be.

Ring of Pain. The runner-up gets Garage Bad Trip. I'm having Tantric sex for three days. That's what he should say. All right, nice. Oh, wait, Guts and Glory, you said that's a good game, and so is Ring of Pain. Yeah, they're both good. Both good picks.

What about Paraget's a trip? Is that not a good game? No, Garage Band, I just haven't played it. I don't know what that would mean. Garage, bad, bad trip. I have to look it up. But Ring of Pain currently on Game Pass as well. Very cool, stylized, turn-based strategy thing.

that I was blown away by it's very cool oh that's cool yeah I love it excellent yeah uh all right let's get to this uh Brian I think you won last time so we're gonna start with Scott sweet doesn't that happen last time too I think I started it both times I keep losing yeah that is that that is my action oh I gotta hide the chat yeah hide the chat yeah I thought should hide the cat I'm like why do you have to hide the cat the cat yeah the cat is always looking yeah he cheats The answer is

All right Scott OJ Simpson Almost got the lead role In this movie Really didn't almost I mean it wasn't even close But the director passed

Because he thought he was Quote too pleasant Was it Rambo Friday the 13th Terminator Or the Fast and the Furious Well it's no way

It's fast and furious I think at that year The year that came out He was in jail for the Vegas thing Yeah It's my thing. I'm taking it back. Give me the first three again. Yes, Rambo, Friday the 13th, and Terminator.

Let's go with Terminator, because I want that to be true, whether it is or isn't. Let's go with Terminator. Is the answer Terminator? Yes. Yes, it is. Oh, I never heard that. There was rumor that the painting of Schwarzenegger on the poster was just Schwarzenegger's face painted over O.J. Simpson's face. It never even got that far. James Cameron dismissed

it. Like he said, O.J. Simpson? Yeah, no. He's not right. Did he, I bet I assume that means he applied or he auditioned? He was, he was very briefly considered. And according to James Cameron, uh, let's see, let me correct that right now. Uh, no, O.J. Simpson was never in the mix at all. That was rejected out of hand before it even got any attraction. Okay. So there was some kind of like thought that he could be the dude. And then he's like, no, we're not doing that. There probably was a list of people that were a certain build. And he probably fit. And that was it. Yeah. But he's only, that would have made him only three years shy of killing two people. So I think they dodged a bullet. I think they did well by not

having them do it. Yeah. You're close. Give them to me now. Okay. All right. Fine. I know what you're going to do in a couple of years. Come with me if you want to live, but only for a couple more years. All right, Brian. Oh, hi. In Italy, the Disney movie Moana was renamed Oceania, so it wouldn't be confused with what? Okay. A, the Italian word for, I'm not going to say that word, let's say, um.

Say a word for vagina? What was it? Vagina. Rear, the back end? Yes. say the back end. Okay. A famous Italian porn star.

C, a popular type of pasta, or D, the Italian word for bitch. Okay. I'm going to need to read that question over, but feeling that A with whatever you wanted to fill in. Because I got totally sidetracked. Sure, go ahead. In Italy, the Disney movie Moana was renamed Oceania,

so it wouldn't be confused with A, the Italian word for butt play. B, Italian porn star. I think you just made it worse, didn't I? I'm actually saying the... I wasn't sure what it was. See a popular type of pasta or D, the Italian word for bitch.

Well, I'm sure they could care less if it was a popular pasta. I mean, that would be no confusion. Who would care? We're like, oh, how cute. You're talking about pasta. Yeah. A porn star, I don't know if they could... I don't think that would move the needle.

I don't know. It's got to be the... The butt plug, wherever you were afraid to say, A, right? A, whatever the, whatever related to the butt. Yeah, related, you can't even say the word. Therefore, it makes me think. All right. Is it?

Is the answer, the Italian word for butt funning around? It is not. Oh, it's not? Scott gets the point. Your remaining choices are a famous Italian porn star, a popular type of pasta or the Italian word for bitch. Well, I'm going to go logic. I'm going to just do a weird logic jump and reverse the thinking and say it's the pasta just for, I don't know why. I feel like they'd be weird over there.

Have a little moana fajou, you know, whatever. Like if it was macaroni or something, it would be annoying. You'd want to change it. Right. And it does end with the ANA, which is like parmesan and carbon. Nana. Let's pretend that's with an A, an N instead of an R.

It is not a popular type of pasta now. The first four letters of Moana are what? Moa. Moa? Moan. It's absolutely a porn star named Mona. What? You bunch of prudes.

What? I thought they were all free over there. Yeah, I thought they were all free and putting boobs on billboards and stuff over in Italy. What is this? this whole european thing that i keep hearing about okay never mind fine yeah forget it i mean you know you don't want some kid to go to the are they the same which are they not the same country no those different country which is the one that has the um the the children show about the guy with

the kid with the penis oh which one is that one oh oh um oh i forgot what country that is it's a weird thing um sweden norway something like that sweets would do Something like that. Yeah. It's freaking weird. Don't look it up, everybody. It's really weird. Yeah, don't look it up.

All right, back to Brian. You can look it up. Oh, no, I'm sorry. Back to Scott. You can look it up. You can look it up. Denmark. People are saying Denmark.

Denmark? Well, if you do, you might do this. I throw up. All right, keep going. Nice. Scott, long before condoms were invented. People didn't use an old fish, but they did use other forms of protection. which of these wasn't once a form of contraception.

Was not, okay. Was not. One of these is not. A, is it animal intestines? We've tried a lot of things. We've tried a lot of things. Go ahead. We've tried everything. Yeah.

Was it, A, animal intestines. B, acacia fruit. C, beeswax, or D, C, crocodile dung. Was not? One of those, was not used. Oh, don't put it in D. D. Dung did it. Give me the first one again?

sure animal intestines Okay that one I know is real They've done that I want I'd love to say that crocodile poop Because why would you But then Why would it be on this list

Don't put the crocodile dung on your D So I'm saying No yo you did It's not a condom Yeah You gotta dip your D in the do All right I'm gonna say

let's say crocodile poop i don't know sure let's say that is it crocodile poop it is not what is wrong with people you're uh exactly where that goes right yeah i mean i can see the guy being okay with it but like now yeah that's horrible i wouldn't

oh my gosh that's horrible uh i mean it'll keep you know if if a form of contraception is absolutely Then I'll pretty much do it right there you go. Your remaining choices are animal intestines, acacia fruit, or beeswax. Now they've used intestines plenty of time. It's a no-brainer, right? So, I mean, that's got to be there. Beeswax, that doesn't make, that's going to cause problems, but it makes sense.

What did you say, beeswax? Yeah, beeswax. Not chapstick. Yeah. reason I thought. I got Bert's Bees chapstick on the head for some reason. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm going to go with the, going to go with the bees, the beeswax

because it just sounds reasonable. These wax is absolutely correct. Yeah, beeswax was never used as a contraceptive, but animal intestines, acacia fruit, and crocodile poop are just three of the many things. Three of the hundreds and hundreds of things that men have put on their penis to have sex. By the way, that... All of which can be found in the Italian film, Moana, goes to...

Yeah. By the way, Brian's reference to the fish and the condoms thing, that is a 2005 clip, which now I'll play now. Let's know this. Back in my day, I didn't use condoms. We used an old fish. Yeah. That was an ELR thing, and that was when I had a shit mic. Or, sorry, garbage mic.

And you could tell. All right. Moving on. Sorry. Who's turn? My turn. Let's see. Brian starts this one. Yeah, he stole. Hey, Brian, if you drop dead on a cruise, the next thing that happens is, A, you'll get your own cabin free of charge.

T, they'll leave you behind at the first stop they make. C, you'll get sent to the morgue because every ship has one. Or D, they'll lock you in your cabin until the cruise is over. Oh, geez. What if it's a seven to 14 day cruise, man? Yeah. So I'm going through the choices really quick here. Sure.

Okay, so you wouldn't want to lock in your own cabin because you might be traveling with somebody. That'd be bad. They probably don't have a morgue. Maybe they do. I watched a love boat. I don't remember there being a morgue. I don't remember gopher going down and store it in the bodies or anything, but maybe. I've got a real hot date with Charo.

Can we use the morgue? It makes the most sense that you would get your own, didn't you say like your own cabin? Like it's specifically designated. Yeah, free of charge. They can't drop your body off just anywhere. They can't just go, okay, we're... Ship it back. Yeah, we're in Barbados.

Here you go, leaving it here. So I'm going to go with the... They have a specially designed room that's not a morgue. And they don't tell people that when they do actually rent it out. Or, yeah, they don't tell people. But you'll get your own cabin free of charge is the one you're saying. Yeah. Is it, you'll get your own cabin free of charge?

It is not. Scott gets the point. I'm going to say, I think it is the morgue. I think they put, I think they have to account for that many people. Like, some of those ships will hold a thousand people. I think they have to do the math and go, well, we've got to put them on ice somehow. They can't do it in the galley. Can't do it in the fridge.

So let's do it that way. So I got to, I think they probably have some space called a morgue or something like it. All right. Is it the morgue? It is the morgue boat. The morgue boat. Soon we'll be taking another stuff. COVID really screwed us.

You know, if they, if that, if Loveboat had ever done a story, line like that, it would have been so counter to the tone of that show. It really would have been. They would have done, they would have had to do it as like the weekend at Bernie's kind of thing, right? Like where it's, uh, hilarious. Yeah. You know, oh no, so and so. It's, it's,

that's amazing. I love that. I love that fact. All right, I'm going to remember that and tell my friends. Scott, here's one you'll want to also remember. By the way, you've won the game, but let's play this last question for for, for poops, and giggles. All right. Um, According to a study, 13% of Americans surveyed, admitting to wearing the same pair of underwear, A, two days in a row, B, three days in a row, C, longer than a week, or D, almost two weeks.

Oh, my God. 13% of Americans surveyed said that they wore their underwear. Well, speaking of when I was this young, I used to wear, I used to get a lot of mileage out of my underwear. I was a kid. I didn't care. Every day was Monday. Yeah, I didn't care. I was like, my mom would say, one day inside and one day inside out, and then you turn it around, and then inside out again, four days you can get out of the same pair.

Mine would get all holy and, like, worn because they were my favorite pair. My mom would be like, this is horrible. I buy you underwear, wear underwear. I'm like, I do. It's just they last longer, and it was a sad time in my young adolescence. So if I was to guess what people would admit, three, that's. that I'm saying, three. Three days in a row?

Yeah. 13%. Is the answer three days in a row? It is not. Brian, you get a point. Damn it. Your remaining choices are two days in a row, longer than a week or almost two weeks. I'm going to say longer than a week.

I don't think anyone can go two weeks. Life changes in two weeks, right? Life does change. Life finds a way. Right, life finds a way, especially if you have that in your under room. In your pants. Oh, yeah. You'll grow.

life down there if you wear them for a week. You will, exactly. Is the answer longer than a week? It is. Oh, wow. Nicely done. That is the correct answer. You got the point anyway.

The final score, Scott 3, Brian 2, which means that Matt Quambrough of England, you're getting guts and glory and ring of pain, but Nick Milton, you're not going away because he didn't show up, so you're not not going away. Oh, no, I was going to say double negative doesn't work, but it actually does in this case. He's not here. He does. You're not not going away empty hand. you're getting a copy of garage bad trip.

Nice. And I'll be emailing those to you today. If you wear your underwear for long in a week, you'll have a ring of pain. That's right. That's right. You're not wrong. Hey, here's the fun thing that I've got to tell you guys about. Brian and I today launch a brand new podcast as we gently and lovingly put boop on the hiatus back burner.

We're just going to set it there because we don't have. We don't have eight days a week. All right, everybody. Just calm yourselves down. We've got to do what we want to do when we can do it. So that's what we're going to do, and we're going to start this retro gaming focus show called Play Retro, which you can get right now. You can early subscribe to it on whatever player, whatever service you use. It's all up there at FrogPants.com slash Play Retro.

And today we're talking about Joust because Jouse is one of the greatest games of all the time. Of course you'd start with Jouss. Of course. How would you not start in Jouss? It isn't just going to be us going, hey, Joust is cool. I agree. See you next week. It's not that.

All right. It's in-depth style. You'd be surprised how I feel about joust. Yeah, I might be. Sounds like me. I think that's the joke. So, yeah, you're going to want to get in there because we're going to go deep on this stuff. Who made it?

Why'd they make it? How'd the sequel do? Pretty bad in this case. Like the weird stories you've never heard around these games. A bunch of audio, a bunch of extra stuff. If you like that stuff, if you're into video game preservation, that whole world. And then also how we play them in the modern sense. Because you can play Jouse today in lots of ways.

We'll talk about that. and more. So check it out. That's today at 3.30 Mountain Time, live at frogpants. dot TV. But if you want the podcast, it's all over on the main website, frogpans.com slash play retro. That's play retro. Brian, anything else you want to add? Why would I? I can't think of anything else. I'm just like so stoked about play retro. Why would I? I can't even, nothing else right now. Just blinders. Change your underwear. Before we do the show, change your underwear.

No, you. No, you. Okay, he's gone. I got to say, no, you last. You did perfect. You timed that so perfectly. Matt and Nick now have emails with their game codes in them. Oh, my Lord, you did all that then. That's fantastic. All that then.

Boom. Dig it dole. That is efficient. That is right. In other words, that are synonymous with efficient. Well done. All right. It's thrown it away already to everything.

I love that. This New Year's, Brian's got New Year's resolutions, man. That's right. It's going to happen. Uh, by the way, listen to the, uh, at the very end of the show, I'm going to give away. Um, I found one old shot glass and one old, um, TMS challenge coin from our TMS Vegas at 2018 meetup. I'm going to give that away today. Uh, or at least start a contest to give it away today. So, yeah, uh, watch for that. You and I probably should also talk offline. How are we feeling about 2022? Man, we'll talk about that offline. I mean, I know that, yeah, we'll talk about it offline. We'll talk offline. April's far enough away where I'm still like, I want to do this. Yeah. But the world needs to get their shite together.

Yes. All right. What are we doing here? Let's do this. Let's do a quick news story. We'll do one. Yeah, yeah. We'll do one.

Why not? Here you go, people. Intro so long, we have no time left. Just kidding. Hey, it's the news. And it's brought to you by. by patron Sean White. Huh, the snowboarder?

He wants you to know the following. Quote, I stream a variety of games three times a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9.15 p.m. Eastern at twitch.tv slash syrinx. That's S-E-A-R-A-N-E-X.

Viewers can even choose an avatar that can be seen during the stream. You can find me on Twitter at SirenX as well. One more time, that's S-E-R-A-N-E-X. Your one big story of the day. Cats cause more than 100, house fires in the past three years in South Korea.

Those effing cats. Pet owners in South Korea have been warned to stay on their guard after more than 100 fires were started by freaking cats over the last three years. According to fire officials in the capital of Seoul, a statement Tuesday from Seoul Metropolitan Fire and Disaster Department said cats caused a total of 107 house fires between January 2019 and November of this year. The cats are believed to have started fires by switching. on electrical stoves and the department said

cats can turn electric stoves on by jumping on touch sensitive buttons. Like our oven has that now, like a little that's how you start it. You just touch it. Yeah, ours does too. Yeah, a little inductive thing though. So unless the cats are made out of metal, she ain't starting to fire.

That's right. It says once overheated the appliances catch fire. Our oven though, if it went to force 25 and then just sat there would eventually just go off. Yeah. Our oven operates on a dial. Like, there's no way the cat's turn in the dial, so that one's okay.

Yeah, I think the stove is all, the stove is all touch. Sure, sure. Cat-related fires are continuing to occur recently, says Chung Goichol, an official in the department. We advise households with pets to pay extra attention as fires could spread widely when no one is at home. Department advised cat owners

to remove flammable objects like paper towels from the stove. It suggests that using an electric stove with an automatic lock function to prevent the risk of fires is the way to go. According to the Department, pet-related house fires are on the rise. So that was our public, uh, helpful news story to help all the Koreans who listened to our show, who didn't hear about this in any other way, uh, to take care of yourselves and kill all your cats.

That's the answer. Kill the cats. Oh, wait. I shouldn't say that. Don't kill the cats. Oh my God. Let the cats live. It's really.

They didn't do anything. They did. Well, let's get a little darker even. Let's take a break. When we come back, Steven Schlecker will be here talking about comics and whatnot. So stick around for that. We've got a great new mashup today. All sorts of fun Monday stuff before that a song.

Sure. In just under three weeks, the band Goodnight, Texas will release their new studio album. How long will it take them to die? This is a brand new LP from a band that's not in Texas, even though they're called Good Night Texas there. They're actually bicostal. One of them is in San Francisco. The other one is in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. But they get together, record and perform.

If the name sounds familiar, these guys also contributed a song to the Metallica tribute album called the Metallica Blacklist. Oh, I love that. That came out. It's such a great cover album. They did a version of Wolf and Man that came out last year on that album. Nice. This is the track, Borrowed Time. It's from their previous, it's from a 2021 release, so not from the new album, but this will give you an idea of their style.

very Mumford and the Suns, kind of fulky. Here is Good Night, Texas. One, two, three. Made it down to Earth a couple hours ago, man, I don't know what they've done with a place. Yeah, they got gravity, but I get better in space. Made it in the town a couple minutes ago, you know where. you want to know why the land was burning

a smoke on up in the sky I've been losing borrowed time and I've been using what isn't mine I made it to the corner store for seconds ago I had my gauge right down to the line band started playing, we started drinking wine

I ran into a couple of the usual kids I was fish out of water again dinner but might not stay to the end and I've been used to borrow time and I've been losing

well isn't mine and I've been boozing feeling fine Thank you. I'll be losing borrowed time and I've been using what isn't mine and I've been bruising

feeling fine I'll be losing borrowed time And I'll be using what isn't mine And I'll be losing borrowed time And I'll be using What isn't mine Who's toy is it?

Who played with it last? I did. Who lost it? I did. Whose fault is it? Yeah. Go play with Tinker toy, you f***ing child. The soundtrack to your facial key.

exercises. This is the morning stream. Well, I have that up, everybody. Hey, welcome to this part of the show where I asked Brian what that song was again. Brian, what was it? That song was borrowed time by the band Goodnight, Texas. Very nice. Hey, is that Carter in the chat? Hold on. My daughter's here. I need to give her some heat. She was part of this tape extraction project and I want to share one of these with you guys okay so this is uh carter let's see if i can find it okay this is her mumbling she's just a baby little baby but there's one of these here uh where is it oh this is where i scare her when she's little and she used to cry when i'd do that so uh enjoy

my dad. Yeah. Come on. Sounds about right. It's the father's prerogative. You're supposed to be a dork and scare your kids sometimes. I love that you recorded yourself scaring and making Carter cry and kept that tape. Oh, yeah.

This will be good someday in case she needs proof or therapy. Yeah, I actually, you know, captured it out. Here she is saying, bah. Yeah, that's cute. See, he's kind of cute. Yeah, she was a cute little thing then. She was probably eight months old then or something. Anyway, if she does sound like air getting left butt out of a balloon, it's that tape, you guys.

It's just old. It's a bad, bad tape. Old. All right, we're going to call Stephen. I believe that is what his mother calls him. It is his. With an H? His given name.

And here's this. Stephen Schleiker. Stephen Schlecker. Look who it is. It's 22 Stephen Schleaker all the way from major spoilers in Hayes, Kansas, who joins us on Mondays, comics and other cool stuff all the time. Stephen, welcome to the show. Hello, Scott.

Hello, Brian. Hey, can I ask you guys collectively here? Did we like the new James Bond? Have we all seen it? Yeah. I have seen it. You have. Did you like it? Okay. I did. I enjoyed it. I don't think it was the best James Bond film ever, but I think for the Craig run, I thought it was a perfect conclusion to the Craig run.

It was pretty good. I liked it well enough, although I think Casino Royale and Skyfall are probably still my favorites. Yeah. Yeah. My oldest son and I sat down and watched all the James Bond films. Oh, wow. All of them. Well, no, no, no. I'm sorry. All the Craig film. All the Craig film. Sure. He really, really enjoyed the first one. He thought Skyfall was pretty good. Yeah.

And then this last one, he was just like, I didn't really care for it. This new one, you mean? There were a few things I really liked about No Time to Die that they've never done in a James Bond film before. And I won't say, you know, obviously some of the big spoilery things. But one of the things that surprised me was them using a musical cue, a song from an earlier James Bond film that wasn't part of the current actors run. They used a little bit of, uh, we have all the time in the world from, uh, Honor Majesty's Secret Service.

Yeah, that surprised me a little bit. Which is a cool pull. Like, oh, wow, that's a great, a great little. And I, I somehow avoided listening or hearing the Billy Eilish song the entire time it was like available to hear. And so this is my first hearing of it. I liked it. It's good.

Yeah. It's a good James Bond thing. It came out like 18 months before the actual film. And so everybody had time to forget. about it. Yeah. Yeah, I guess so. There's kind of a bit of a spoiler.

A Dynamite Entertainment has their own James Bond comic book series. And one of the, because they held that final James Bond movie back for so long, there's actually a character who appears in the movie with a certain three-digit number identifier, who actually was in the comics before they showed her off in the movie. Oh, I didn't know that. That's interesting. Yeah, I don't know where they go from here. It's an interesting way of ending that whole series for him.

But it had some problems. It was a little overlong. I think I had some of the best stunts in the history of the series. Like, they were amazing stunts, some of them. And Anna de Armas, for me, can do no wrong. She's the one shooting up the place in the middle. Yes. Yeah, the Bond Girl, the hilarious Bond Girl shoot-em-up scene.

She's great. She is. She's always good and everything. She is. Knives out. She's going to be playing Marilyn in a new biopic that's coming to Netflix, I believe.

Oh, that's cool. Yeah, she's great in Blade Runner 2049. She is. Blade Runner. Have you heard of it? Have you heard of that movie? That's very good. Oh, wait. I think doesn't say Blade Runner. It just says Dune and Mad Max. All right, sorry. Well, now that you've already said,

Dundra. Exactly. So, Steve, we're going to do something a little different with you today. As usual, you know, the kind of Christmas through New Year's era, is pretty low on brand new news. I mean, CES hasn't even started yet. Like, there's just not a lot of going on. So many people are, I'm sure Tom will talk about this,

but there's so many people dumping out of CES again. Yeah, it's crazy. Well, yeah, I'm sure we'll get into that more on Wednesday. But you, one of the things that happens a lot is we get on here, we talk about a comic book that we really like, or we found one on Comicsology or check out Infinite. They have a whole, the whole run of blah, blah, whatever. And it sometimes occurs to me that there's some listeners who are like,

well, how do I even get into them? I've gone my whole life without not reading comics. They're now more accessible than ever. What should I do? I actually get this question on Twitter all the time. Like, what your app should I get? How much? Should I get all the apps?

Who do I start with? If I've never read a Batman comic, who's the best run to start with, that sort of thing? So you're the genius. You come in here and you tell us, how do I get into comics in 2022? Go. That's a complicated question.

So the main reason why I say it's a complicated question is because everybody's taste is going to be different, right? So when I may like Batman and I may say, oh, you got to read this Batman, this Batman, and this Batman, and you may be like, but I don't really like Batman. I'm more of a Captain America fan, something like that. So it really kind of depends on your particular taste. As far as getting into a lot of mainstream comics, there's a couple of ways to do it. Number one, last week I went over some of the, what I considered some of the best comics of 2021. That may be a great place to start because most of those are, you know, closed systems.

meaning that they're not, they haven't been running since 1938. And so those are very easy to jump into six issues and it's done and you're out. So something like that might be a great way to do it. Another one is to look at, you know, let's just say that you are into, I don't know,

pick a favorite comic book franchise there, Brian. Well, for me, the uncanny X-Men. I was just going to say uncanny. I was just going to say uncanny X-Men. That's so uncanny of you that you were going to uncannily say it. Uncanny.

So one of the problems with uncanny X-Men, of course, is that there are, or any X-Men title, is that there are so many characters, and it's very hard to get into it. And timelines and everything. Yeah. So one thing that you can do is look for greatest X-Men, just do a search for greatest X-Men stories of all time. And you'll find things like, the Dark Phoenix saga. Or what's the one where they go to the future and everyone's dead? Days a Future Past. These Days a Future Past.

You can go and you can find those pretty easily. and they're kind of self-contained enough to where you can go in and read it. Although if you read the Dark Phoenix saga, there's a whole thing with the, what's the club that is totally, the Hellfire club, that is not going to make any sense to you because a lot of that storyline happened before the Dark Phoenix Saga collection. So there are those, you can go and find the greatest stories of these characters, and you can go in and jump into those. Of course, they have trade paperback collections that collect storylines, complete story. lines. And that's another way that you can get into it. One of the things that I would suggest to people, especially if you're wanting to just say, man, I think I'll just start reading

Amazing Spider-Man, which right now is going through a really interesting storyline with everything that's going in there. A lot of the Marvel comics, and this is why I praise Marvel a lot for some of the great things that they do, just jump in. Sometimes you just have to jump into a storyline and just start reading. And one of the nice things that Marvel does is right inside the front of cover. They have a thing that says previously in Amazing Spider-Man or Uncanny X-Men or Rob Leifeld's Deadpool. You know, they have

like a paragraph or two or sometimes three that says, here's everything you need to know as you're going into this story. And then from there you can kind of figure out, oh, okay, now this means this and this means that. And if I continue to read, a lot more of this stuff will be put together.

So Marvel does a great job of trying to be new reader friendly with the previously in You know, you saying that totally takes me back to those old, the title page, the splash pages of comics where they would do that all the time, right? Like, number one, you'd get like a two-sentence origin story bitten by a radioactive spider, Peter Parker, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But then sometimes on the splash page, you'd get a little recap of the story so far for the current story arc. And they do that. It's in the credits when they have the title page and they have all the credits in there.

They also have a paragraph or two that just says previously. in, and if you have been out of a series for a while, if you're trying to get into a series for a while, Marvel does a great job of that. Some of the other publishers have attempted to do some of that, but they don't, they don't do it as well as Marvel, in my opinion. So that's one thing that I give Marvel a lot of credit for, and which makes it, for someone like me who is not a huge Marvel fan, to jump in and just pick up a comic, oh, what's going on here in Guardians of the Galaxy? Oh, well, this is interesting, and then just follow along with that's hard to some stuff up sometimes because those stories can get so convoluted but you're

right they do a pretty good job of doing that yeah and that was and that was something i don't know how recently marvel has been doing that i know they've been doing it since you know at least the last 10 or 15 years but way back in the days when you know you had uh what is it mojo world or whatever that uh that line was they didn't have any of that in the comics and that's when i decided to try to get into x-men the first time and i was like holy crap i don't understand anything that's going well, and I exited X-Men just as quickly. So, you know, another place to kind of get into comics is free comic book day. Free comic book day happens, well, in the last couple of years, it's been kind of on and off.

But it returns in May for Saturday in May in 2022. And that's a great way to get a sampling of a bunch of different comics to see what the publishers are banking on as being some of the big titles or the big events that they have coming forth in the next six to eight months. And so that might be a great introduction to just seeing what kind of things strike your fancy. And pretty much all of the gold publishers, so that's Archie, Dark Horse, DC Marvel, IDW, and Image Comics, have free comics that are like totally free for you. And then a lot of the other publishers, the smaller publishers, like Dynamite and the others, also will have some kind of offering for you to pick up for a free comic book day. So that's something that you can go and check out, as far.

well. That's awesome. By the way, I have an answer to my Batman question before I forget. Which is what? When people say, I mean, I love Batman comics. I think it's the best stuff there is. And there's so many places to go and start. And like there's a million places you can go. It's a lot like trying to find Spider-Man and get in, you know, when you want to get in. But I want to just give a shout out to Sean Murphy's White Knight series. It does require a little bit a foreknowledge of like, well, I at least need to know who the Joker is and things like that. So it kind of assumes you're at least familiar with the universe Batman and habits. But, man, that is some of my favorite stuff in the world. And Sean Murphy does both the art

and the story for those books. And he's fantastic. The current run, I guess, is Curse of the White Night, which I am not cut up on, but the original White Knight, Batman White Knight series is some of the best stuff you'll ever see. And that guy, that guy puts a collar on Batman and that should not work. That should look like shit, garbage, sorry. That should look bad. Don't kink shame. But in the comic, it looks so cool. He somehow makes collared up Batman look awesome.

And I think there's even a brief moment in the latest trailer of the new Batman movie where he's rocking the collar. And I'm excited to see if that works on film. Oh, interesting. I would say if you've seen the second Christopher Nolan, the Joker, Christopher Nolan Batman movie, then White Knight is something that will help you. get into that very easily. Oh, yeah. Super easy.

All right, sorry, continue on your track here. I just wanted to put that one out. So the other thing is, don't be afraid to do some research. Wikipedia is a great resource to just kind of go in and kind of get a big overview of characters and storylines. And, yeah, it may require you to do a little bit of work, but you can just go in and casually browse the history of, you know, whatever the title is. And the next thing you know, you're like, oh, I feel confident enough that I can go in and pick up a comic and start reading it. Or vice versa, read the comic book.

And when you get to a part where you're like, I have no idea what's going on here, go to Wikipedia and you're going to find that information. You know, like who is Taskmaster? I don't know. Let's go and find out. Yeah, Wikipedia is awesome for that. Like, I'm doing that now. I'm looking up whatever you want. It'll have this huge breakdown of even the most obscure comics.

So if you're like, man, I need to know what Gene Gray did before all this Phoenix business. I promise you it's there. you're going to get the synopsis like you never read before in your life and you'll catch up completely. It's like TV and movies and stuff too. Yep. And then of course you've got other websites

like major spoilers. I'll throw in my own little plug here. We have been for the last year we've been running this series and I believe it's continuing into 2022 called So You Want to Read Comics. And every week, Jonathan comes up with

here's a theme, you know, space. And then he'll say here's a couple of comic books that are space themed that you should go and check out and go try out. And so he's got that that we've been running up there for a couple of, I want to say maybe two years now. So you can go and look forward to that.

It comes out on Tuesdays at major spoilers.com. Cool. Yeah. And that's the other thing. If you want to go, if you want like a kind of a daily dose of what's happening in comics or just want to get in the mood for it, major spoilers.com's a place to do that, man. Oh, gee. Yeah.

Every time I go there, it's like, oh, look at this place. This is like walking into my comic story, you know? Yeah, and I'll say we do try to keep it mostly comic books. although sometimes television and films will pop in there as well. And so if you go to some of the other sites, I'm not saying the other sites are bad because many of them are very good, but they kind of are scattered in their pop culture coverage, trying to do a little bit of everything as opposed to just focusing on comic books.

Sure. Hey, do you have any old tapes of you as a kid saying stuff? Somewhere, I mean, I used to just, you know, when I got a recorder, I would record anything and everything. So I'm sure my mom somewhere has cassette tapes of me doing that stuff. but nothing blackmailable, like that you have on your kids. Like I have on my kids. Well, I was curious because it just feels like maybe it was the standard procedure for guys of our age.

We're kids. We got tape recorders. Oh, yeah. We go nuts. Let me tell you. Back in the day, I used to play trumpet in band when I was in middle school. Hated practicing. I was good, but I hated practicing.

So one time I took one of my practice sessions, recorded it on my tape. quarter and then when mom would be like go upstairs and practice your trumpet i would go upstairs hop the cassette in crank it all the way up as loudly as it would go and everyone else in the house it sounded like i was practicing and that worked for about two or three weeks until one day my dad walked in and here i am reading you know a comic book or something and the tape player is is playing my my trumpet practice that's amazing that was the end of that that's amazing though i love it that's a ferris bueller thing you're pulling off there that's great yeah yeah this would have been in 80, what had this been in?

82, 83, somewhere. 83, yeah. Probably 80, maybe 81. So you're probably like 10, 11, 11, 12, yeah, 1112, somewhere around there in middle school. Ah, it was great. Well, Stephen is always a pleasure to do this.

Some exciting stuff happening throughout the year with various people around your network, including, let's just say some guest spots coming up over there. Oh, yeah, this week, everybody's going to. I want to tune in for the return of Finally Friday over on our Twitch channel, Twitch.tv.tv slash major spoilers. For the very first episode, that's this Friday, 4.30 p.m. Central Time. So do the math wherever you live. I'm going to talk about gamifying your life.

And I really don't know anything about that. So I'm going to bring in Coverville's own Brian Ibbett. Oh, I know that guy. What? Come in and talk all about gamification and how you can use it to, you know, accomplish goals to improve your life, those kinds of things. So it should be a really cool conversation because I have so many

questions. And we're also going to be taking questions from the audience, too. So if you've got questions about how to gamify your life, Brian's going to come in this Friday 4.30 p.m. central time over on the Twitch channel, twitch.tv slash major spoilers. And we're going to talk about that. Very, very cool.

I look forward to that. Stephen Schlecker, aka the man who brings us all things, major spoilers, major spoilers.com is the place. major spoilers on Twitter. Stephen, it's a new year. Should we do anything about our water intake this year? Yes.

Please stay hydrated. By now. Excellent. Everything good? You had to make a run there. Everything all right? I had to run pee. And then the dog said, oh, oh, I could do that too.

I could pee too. Yeah. And they got to go outside for that pee. And they're slower. Well, Daisy. It's just Daisy. One dog now. She's slow because she's old.

Yeah, she is old. She's how old now? How many years? she is on the cusp of 14 oh my gosh that's an old dog wow she's an old pup and guess what i can still teach her new tricks i just can't teach her how to yeah of course how to not pee when she sees me pee so now are you one of those people that as she gets on are you going to bring a crossover dog in to like no no no more dogs that was what we did daisy was our crossover uh no i take that back and nara was our crossover cat because um And we knew Ruby was getting old and not going to live forever. And so we brought Anara in as a companion for Daisy. And Anora turned into a companion for me. Although, you know what?

She loves Daisy. And when there's lightning or something that's upsetting Daisy, Anara will just rub back and forth, like, stand up and do that cat thing where it's like rub back and forth on her. It is adorable. And they play together and stuff like that. So I now have to worry about Anara. But team and I decided, no, we want to do some traveling.

so right now a dog is a is a secondary thing gotcha now that makes sense if you're going to be going all over the place don't don't take it don't have a dog yeah yeah I love dogs though it's going to be so hard to not have a dog but yeah I can't even imagine it but I mean they'll probably come a day where I'm feeling the same yeah uh all right there goes Stephen here comes mashup yeah that's right TMS mashups Jamie put it together it's a first mashup of 2022 this one is called Peters Parker. I don't know what that's about, but we're going to play it. Oh, how you do?

This is a spoiler, people. I can't remember what we said. Anyway, here it is, enjoy. It's not a spoiler, is it? No, no, it's just any Spider-Man reference now. The joke is. Oh, because that guy made me paranoid. You guys don't know about it, but I had a run-in that bummed me out because I

actually went back and listened to the whole thing. What a waste of time it was. Because it didn't do anything that he said. And we didn't spoil anything. And then he finally admits it in the follow-up email. I sent you those emails, right? You did. Yeah, exactly.

Well, it wasn't that you spoiled anything as that you could have, and that's why I had to quit. Yeah. Great. We had a lost you anyway, and I'm sorry to see you go. You have a gun and you were going to murder someone. Well, I didn't murder anyone, but you had one. So you're probably going to murder them. All right.

Anyway, here it is. It's the Monday mashup you've all been waiting for. Peters Parker. Just an early get-you-wet kind of. Yeah, yeah. Wet, you whistle. I'm wet. Thank you.

Great. How tiny or how big is that? Yeah. She tells me I have to get it up at least an inch and a half to two inches. Interesting. Okay. So I put my finger where that is, okay? Yeah.

To make sure I've got that much length on it. I just wanted to tell you, quit shitting in my bush. Hey, June. I love Sean Moore. Gonna treat him like he's related. I can tell you when what's his name stopped being my Peter Parker, Toby McGuire. You want to know when? When he came out dancing in Venom 3, Spider-Man 3?

No, that should have been it. But what it really was was some article in some magazine where he showed his wiener. It was his full wiener. Would you like your food to be made out of maggots and crickets? They don't know. No. Those are bugs. Rock you, Raggy.

Rook off. I'm reaving. Your people are crazy. What's it, little Scooby Snacks? Shizapu is a cross between Shia, Zoo, 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 Shih Tzu Poo without the cock. Is it too early for me to get a few sandwich boys? They're kind of moist. Really? Yeah, it's a little, um, not,

wet but like mushy uh all right well macaque macaque macaque macaque macaques macaques what you got there buddy uh it's nothing but macaque like that well you changed it to me cock uh which and it called the streets of lovel catch the monkey catch the monkey catch the monkey oh was it that movie with decaprio and them the aviator uh no it's definitely catsby maybe i don't know but toby mcgwire has his wiener out in it and i don't like it It was something about him where you had to read... I really liked him as an actor. Until I saw his penis.

I would go see all of his movies. Yeah. Until I saw his penis. Yep. That's how it is. He had his Peter Parker out. That is correct. So, actually, I have a little follow-up on this.

Yeah. Jumped. Chiram just saw this. I'll put it in our Discord. Probably delete it because some guest is going to wonder what the hell we're doing. Um, but that's the picture. Now, I blocked, I censored the units. Okay. That's why this is okay for, uh, for, for, uh, for, uh, Twitch. But anyway, that's Toby McGuire over there on the far right. This, I don't know who this is in the foreground here, but then that's a DiCaprio behind them. And it was some article, it was probably online, which is why I have, or was able to find the image. It probably wasn't a magazine like I thought. But anyway, they're just laying around with her wieners out. Right. And I don't know why. weird little bathrobe 101 Dalmatians print

Greener Fest. Oh, is that That's David Blaine? That's David Blaine? Oh, David Blaine. Yeah, that would be because that's He's friends with Decaprio.

I guess he's friends with both of them, yeah. Yeah. I mean, who knows if they still hang out, but I don't like that. You know, we always talk about what women do during their slumber parties. This is what guys do during ours. We just,

sports and then we put on matching 101 delamations bathrobes and rock out with our fake fake nudes yeah everyone in the chat or a bunch of you are saying it's fake but i don't know how you know that it doesn't look photoshop to me but oh no it absolutely is fake actually did get debunked yes so you can like you can like toby mcuire again it is okay now i like him again now he's now he's all good with me i can yeah somebody uh where did they put it um was it in discord I'm going to find the Because they sent the actual They posted the actual photo

Yeah I saw that photo But I didn't see oh you mean the one that they've doctored You're saying The one they've doctored oh good Lord Yeah don't search fake Toby McGuire nude photo Don't search that Okay geez all right Well

I don't know where I must have been suckered And this just shows you how strong misinformation can be Because I think some article suckered me into thinking This was like legit Totally did Here you go. Here's the actual photo, Scott. Okay. I'm going to hate this, aren't I?

You are. All right. I'm waiting. It's coming. Here it is. Oh. So they're just in robes and stuff. Yeah. Oh, I assume they put heads on naked people, not added nakedidity to these people. You know what I'm saying? Yes, right. No, these, they really just added nakedity to Toby and Blaine. Okay. And then somehow, left Leo out of it.

Yeah, like they would have had to Photoshop an arm out of there and, uh... Well, he'll have, he has people. He'll have you killed. You have to be careful. Oh, they're at a sushi bar having, uh, those are only robes or whatever those are called. Here, Chad, I can put this up here now. So yeah, you guys are right. There you go. I'm going to tell my great grandchildren that, uh, that it was the other way around. This was the original photo. Or no. The other one was the original and this has been Photoshop to cover them up. Somebody Photoshop clothes, more clothes on Toby McGuire and David Blaine. I love it. That's good stuff. All right. Big thanks to Jamie for that mashup. That was awesome. A reminder about Retro play retro rather. That's today. Frogpense.com. TV. I wrote it backwards in there for some reason.

No, I did. I put that in there because I want to just throw a reminder in there. Retro. There we go. Play retro. It's frogpans.com slash play retro. Get all the details there. We're very excited about it. If you like old games, you're going to, Love what we do with it. Soundography also happening. What's going on there? Yeah. A new episode just got posted this morning. Hammond and I go to 1996. Alternative was in full swing.

Grunge was happening still. Some late grunge. Plus you were getting punk pop or pop punk. Britt pop was huge. Lots of great stuff that we talk about on today's episode of soundography. Very, very nice. Now, chat room, don't leave because after we're done here, we sew things up. because you guys are like early responders,

all right, first responders to the TMS show. I'm going to give away that shot glass and TMS challenge coin that I found while cleaning out my office. And we'll do that after the show. All right, before title.

So stick around. Okay. I think that's it. I want to thank everybody for joining us and also for those who have supported us on patreon.com slash TMS. We'll read some of those names this week. The important part of this I wanted to mention was

it's a brand new week and month. That means. And year. Yeah, and year. So if you want to, you've been just holding back and you're like, man, I don't know about this. Maybe in the new year, now's your time. Here's your chance.

Click that link, patreon.com slash TMS. For everything else, it's frogpants.com slash TMS. And that will do it for today's show, except for a song Brian is prepared with his own hands, Brian. I did. I molded it out of clay. This one goes to Ambassador Domo, Robert Monty, a sad dedication here. Robert says, it's been five years since my Annie passed away. It would have been our 21st year wedding anniversary on January 1st.

She loved the psycho killer by the talking heads because the phrase Kestkisei is pronounced similar to her last name, which was Keskis. In fact, she even got that phrase tattooed on her forearm. Leave song and style choice in your hands, thanks. And thank you, Ambassador Domo, and sorry to hear about that. That's a rough anniversary and a rough thing to get reminded of every year. year and I admire your strength and you know always consider you a good friend since we hung out in Philadelphia years and years and years ago playing video games at that arcade bar which is really cool yeah um plus his uh his house is a pokey stop or it's it's a former church that is a

pokey stop it's really cool he's living my dream i always wanted to live in a former church an old burnt an old you know renovated church is my dream life. I would love it. Oh, well. You'll have to check it out. I think it's haunted church. So it's really cool. All right. Let's play a cover of Psycho Killer. Of course, originally by the Talking Heads. Since she liked that French phrase, Kiskase, so much, let's listen to a French version of the song. It's still sung in English, but it's definitely a French singer. Here is Black Mighty Wax with their cover of Psycho Killer. I can't see the face

I can't see the face up to the facts I'm dancing every day that I can't relax I can't sleep because my bed's on fire Don't touch me on a real life wire Psycho killer What's what I say Fafafaf fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa better Run run run run away away

Oh Psycho killer Kiss to see Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa Run run Run away Oh Ooh

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah You start a conversation You can't even finish But you don't say anything I have nothing to say

My lips are seen See something once Why see it again Psycho killer Kiss kiss Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa la da da da run Run away Oh

Psycho killer Kiss caecee Fa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa right-a-run, run, run, run away. Oh, ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What he has said This night Realise my My elizier,

my I'm going to I'm going to I go and block Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we are vain, and we are dying I hear the people when I'm not polite.

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, and uh,

and uh, and uh, You know what I'm going to be able to be. BAM-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-Bah I'm going to be. Ah, ah, ah, ah,

ah, ah, ah, ah. Thank you. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. A what?