The Morning Stream - TMS 2228: Boba Fanta

Episode Date: January 10, 2022

Six Degrees Of Satan! The Taco Monger. Dirty Diet Doctor Pepper. I DON'T LIKE BEEEEE SEEEEEMEN! I prefer NEIN pubes in my food! The Third Eagle Of The... OLD...TIMES. Time Passes. I am no longer surprised. Sneaky Little Caesar. My Van Gogh up and Van Wendt. Dirty Dirty Standup Man. Catering To the Juggallos. Taco Bell Pass 2022: Back To The Parking Lot. Saturated By The Mushroom Water! Stop confusing me YOU KNOW I HAVE COVID BRAIN!! You got Crispin Glover on my peanut butter! You got peanut butter on my Crispin Glover! Big Hairy Burritos with Stephen 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.

Coming up on TMS, six degrees of Satan. A tachomonger. Dirty diet Dr. Pepper. I don't like B-Cmen. I prefer nine pubes in my food. The third eagle of the old times. Time passes. I am no longer surprised.

Sneaky little Caesar. My van go up and van went. Dirty stand-up man. Catering to the juggalo's. Taco Bell passed 22. Back to the parking lot. Saturated by the mushroom water. Stop confusing me.

You know I have COVID brain. You got crisping Glover on my peanut butter. You got peanut butter on my crispin glover. Big hairy burritos with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. You know, some guy's my age, man. They forget about drinking milk. I don't know why. Maybe they forget how good milk is.

Milk's great. Beautiful lean meat with lettuce and two slices of bread. This is the morning to death. D. M.S.S.S. This is the morning stream. I'm bleeding to death. Humor me.

Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to TMS. It's the morning stream for January 10th, 2021.2. Yep. Oh. Now does it count if I parlayed my syllable into the proper enunciation? Does it count?

It counts. Yeah, it counts like the old TV trope of like, oh no, that person is deadly alive. Alive or something like that, right? Yeah. Definitely alive. There you go.

That's exactly right. It was like a Seinfeld I watched last night where Elaine had to finish a sentence where she said somebody was crazy. Oh, it was Molly Shannon was the guest star. No one knew who she was back then. But Molly Shannon was this evil girl at work, and Elaine goes, she's crazy. And then she turned the corner right then and goes, crazy about you.

It's just singing. It was great. It was good. Nice. Anyway, we're back. Hi. I can't believe it's the 10th already. This year's the year, I'm going to quit being surprised about the passage of time and focus on the moment.

You and every local news reporter. Is it, I can't believe it's January already? I can't believe it's February already. This just seems so quick, man. Didn't we just start this? We just started. But anyway, whatever. 2022 underway.

We're here, whatever, 10 days in. We're going to do a show. We're excited to be here. I have a story to tell you. Speaking of bad ideas. It wasn't, okay, I shouldn't say that. It wasn't the worst idea I've ever had. But I got craving.

Okay, and it was partly because we talked about it. We had talked about how their pizza went from $5 to $5.55 over at Little Caesar's. Right, right. And I was on my own this weekend, my, my kids and wife and everybody were out of town. They were in town, but they were away from home. Out of, out of the immediate town. Yeah. Yeah, they were in the next town over. Yeah, they're like 20 minutes away, south or north of me. And they had a great time and it was just a fun, like, you know, they all needed a little girls day weekend thing. It's fine. You need that once in a while. So Nick and I are planning like a something.

Are you going to do a boys? Oh, there you go. Do a little boys trip to Vegas. Something fun like that. Yeah, we don't know what we're going to do yet. Actually, Vegas. St. George. I'm going to try to get at least one of them to go to TMS Vegas if it happens.

Yeah. I'd love them to go. I'm talking to the plaza this week about seeing if they'll forgive us for everything that happened last time and they'll let us back in. Oh, yeah. All the shirts we stole the second time. I wasn't going to say that. I was just going to make it sound like we really. wreck the place destroy you know TVs out through windows into the swimming pool and stuff

like that yeah pooping in our rooms that sort of stuff yeah well anyway uh so here's the deal they're gone and i'm like all right i got it i'm hungry and i'm kind of feeling a little saucy on a friday night i'm gonna is it friday saturday no friday saturday saturday it was saturday that's it was okay and uh i was like you know i'm in the mood for pizza for whatever reason i just wanted to see if Little Caesar was any good these days, like just to kind of see. And I knew they had a thin crust, and I could kind of build my own little pie there and have that delivered. And it wouldn't be too expensive. And it would be, you know, we'd see what and what we thought. And, oh, man, it's not, they don't make very good pizzas there. Really? Really? So let's, so let's talk about what's

changed. Is it, I mean, it's still square, right? They've kept that. Yeah. Well, no, in this case, the thin crust was round, weirdly. I expected square, but it came round. Oh, yeah. If you got thin crust, then what are you doing getting thin crust of little scissors i think they're it's like uh it's like go into a oh what do we figure this out it's like going to a chinese restaurant complaining about the wings or something like that or it is a little bit or like their burger yeah the burger at the chinese restaurant like why is it bad the chinese restaurant is probably a better example there was something that you did recently like you went to a restaurant and then said oh i had the blah blah blah and i'm like you didn't have the thing that the restaurant is kind of like named after yeah what was that

I don't remember. I can't remember. There was something recently. I can't remember what it was. I don't either. You're right, though. There was something. But yeah,

Think crust is my go-to these days just because it's just less bloaty and, you know. Yeah, well, and it's fewer carbs and stuff like that. And it's usually crispy, usually. That's the biggest problem here is it was not at all that. But I decided to also do something a little bit different. So I use DoorDash because they don't deliver directly. You got to use another thing.

And I was carless this weekend. Yeah, she had the car. so I'm not driving anywhere. So I decided to try their little double dash add-on that they do now. Basically, you can say to your driver, hey, get that, but also while you're out there, grab this other thing from somewhere else. And you don't get charged double tips or any of that. You just do it all in one smear.

Go pick me up some little Caesars and then swing by the Walgreens and grab me some ant-acid. Yeah, bring me a whole thing of Tums, would you? Because I'm going to need it. No, he went to his name was Caesar, by the way. That's pretty funny. Oh, really? That's funny. At least he, that's what it said on the thing.

Anyway, Caesar went to Little Caesars, and then I had him swing by this place called Swig, very popular here in Utah. I think it's only here. But it's like, imagine, like, you have some kind of base soda, and then you make a giant cocktail out of it. And they're really popular, especially in the summer, people line up with that place. Obviously, you didn't get an alcoholic drink, but do they do alcoholic drinks? No, no, no. It's meant to just be like, hey, come on in. During high school, it's where all the kids go during breaks and lunch and stuff.

They just all love it. J.C. Calhoun describes there's a Coke freestyle machine as a store. Yeah. Yeah. That's basically it. There's a whole business, like a whole... Oh, there are multiple places competing right now. There's this.

There's another place called... I forgot. But they're really, really popular, like lines for days for the drive-ups. That's crazy. I've never heard of one. I don't know. If they're there, they're probably something, there's probably something like that here in Denver. But to me, to me, it feels like a thing that's either taking off or will or something.

It's kind of weird. But basically they say, they got a giant board of recipes and they say, well, what do you want to start with? You know, in my case, Coke Zero is my base. And then I want this peach thing added. And then they've got like whole fruit chunks they'll put in there if you want. Like this, this crazy bunch of stuff. And then you can get all customized. You can get a boba seven-up.

Yeah, basically. Basically, yeah. The better joke would be a boba fanta. Yeah, exactly. And they also, this place has, you know, super sugary, everything if you want it, but they've got stuff that's 100% no sugar. They have some stuff that's just like. Goodness.

Tons of them in Utah. Oh, yeah. They're all over the place. The only one east of you is in Oklahoma. All the rest are in Phoenix. and Idaho. Yeah, I think they... But for the most part.

Pretty sure it's a homegrown Utah thing and then it spread out. It looks like it would be, yeah. Yeah. Boy, just tons in Utah, though. It's crazy, right? They're everywhere. Like 30, I'm looking at this map. It's like 30 locations up and down the major highway that goes through Salt Lake City.

And then just like, well, one in Oklahoma. Oh, one in Idaho. They've been slow to expand. Interesting. Anyway, it's really interesting. And they have, and if you're just in the mood for some, you know, fizzy weirdo drink, or they just have, like, fruit water there. You literally can get a thing called fruit water, which is, like, spring water and chunks of, like, real fruit, like berries and, you know, I don't know, pineapple and, you know, that sort of stuff and banana all in, in that thing. And so they give you the big thick straw so you can suck these huge chunks of fruit through the straw.

So it's real weird. Interesting. I'm looking at some of their flavors. I mean, we'll get to Caesars here in a second. I'm just fascinated by this. Like, Diet Dr. Pepper and Coconut is like a dirty diet Dr. Pepper. Yeah, people like it. They, like, have a bunch of Life's a Peach, Dr. Pepper, Vanilla, Peach, and Half and Half.

That's what I had, except I substituted Dr. Pepper for Coke Zero. You can switch out anything you want. Coke Zero, Vanilla, Peach, and Half, and Half. Interesting. Yeah. And there's no alcohol there that I know of. but I think it's just because they're, it's just not that kind of, it's not a bar. I would stop.

I would get one of these and then I just stopped by the liquor store and say, all right, what am I putting in my dirty diet, Dr. Pepper? Yeah. Some of these sounds so good, though. Look at this. Dr. Pepper, Vanilla, strawberry puree and coconut cream. Yeah. Springfling.

That's Kim. Do that with a, do that with Dr. Pepper Zero. Interesting. She loves that one. Huh. Yeah, it's crazy. And so I thought, well, I'll have one of those. I want one of those, I thought, to myself.

to myself. So I added it. It wasn't much, much more. And Caesar was great. This guy named Caesar. He, he, I very rarely have anybody text me their status from the app. But this guy's like, I am in parking lot waiting for a thing. Should be soon. Smiley face, that sort of thing. He texted with an accent? Yeah, I kind of had a little bit of a weird accent in the, in the way he wrote things. And then he said, okay, now I'm waiting for a drink. Is all going well? Smiley face, you know, this sort of thing. It was just very upbeat and stoked. And anyway, he got here, and it was all pretty fast. And I was worried.

It was all kind of an experiment. I just was like, all right, let's see. Does this make it really late? So the pizza's cold? Like, where are we going to be? Well, I'm thinking that that might be where you're headed with this. That if he did Caesar's first, then the sitting around of the crispy thin crust turned it into a not so crispy thin crust.

So this is the question. When I got it, it seemed a little wet, a little moist. and by that I just mean the crust is saturated a little bit with like I don't know mushroom water because I'll like so what did I what did I make I got a thin crust pepperoni mushroom that's it oh no green peppers that's your pizza I didn't go crazy that's a good basic thing for me that's kind of what I like and it just how to explain this you know we had this whole conversation about how the the the the the are kind of the pickled in the can so that they cooked right or whatever these felt like they were maybe put on after like not actually put on there while they cooked it really like uh throwing on like oh we forgot the mushrooms ah just put them on top doesn't matter yeah because they were kind of cold wet and it felt like the rest of the pizza got saturated by said mushroom water you know which is pretty foul so it wasn't great i ate it not the whole thing i ate a you know two three

slices it was fine and microwave stuff later can help that maybe an air fryer or something to crisp it up or whatever maybe that would help but it was fine i will say the swig amazing it was great i'll do that again i can't believe so that wasn't watered down meaning he went there second yeah yeah yeah he went there second but um you know experiment aside it was not the best it wasn't great it was all just sort of like scott what are you doing on a friday night or Saturday night. Like maybe you're stuck at home. You don't have a car.

No way to, no way to get out. So you're at the mercy of the drivers. Definitely. There are better menu items though. You know, like I could have eaten better. I could have said,

there's this Chinese place that just opened that gives you amazing portions. And the food's like really legit. Not like, you know, we're not talking about Panda Express level, but like really good. And they make lettuce wraps that are insane. They send you a whole set ahead of

of lettuce if you order out. It's great. And I should have done that. When I think I would have looked at it and I think I'd have paid roughly the same money. Like, yeah. Why didn't I do that? Tina and I went out. She took me out on a mystery date Saturday night.

So Saturday afternoon, we had the moved Bronco game, which was going to be Sunday. And then they decided to move it to Saturday because I think they're just really want to get the season over with. Yeah, just pretend it never happened. Bad season. Fire their head coach yesterday morning. I mean, it was a bad season. Yeah.

So, uh, uh, uh, did that, but then after that was the mystery date. So Tina took me out to this place called Jinya Raman and my god, this place was awesome.

Great ramen. Sounds really good. Um, I had a spicy tonkatsu. Uh, Tina had a, um, she had a regular tongueatsu and usually,

usually, I'll get a show you, she'll get a Tung Katsu or vice versa. Like, we'll usually have one of each. And then we just sample each other's brothel. like, hey, can I get some of your broth? And we'll each get our ginormous canoe spoons and get our sample of the other broth.

But we both ended up with a Tonkatsu. It was just great. That sounds nice. After that, we went to this thing called Immersive Van Gogh, which I think she probably saw an Emily in Paris or, like it, you know, it's one of these things that I think that helped popularize, but it's a, you're in a room. um with 60 or 30 60 maybe 60 projectors projecting on the wall playing classical music or playing at one point radio head and showing moving van go paintings oh interesting it's like the ken burns effect with some of them sometimes they they animate parts of it like have flames on candles flicker and um and stuff like that they've got circles painted on the ground sometimes

projected on the ground, that you stay in to maintain social distance around you. Masks on the whole time, of course. And you, but basically you stay in your little circle, and you can even sit down. They give you a little padded seats that you can put. And then you just kind of let the whole thing, like a 15, 20 minute video on a loop, just wash over you. That's cool. That sounds really good. You didn't have to cut your ear off at the end.

I mean, that's, no, that's Picasso. No, that's Van Gogh. No, that's Van Gogh. okay yeah so there's no like okay i'm sorry sir before you leave we gotta take your ear they didn't do that it's getting cost you uh 13 dollars for a ticket and an ear yeah um yeah what was weird is when they animated that and had like the blood gushing from the ear and filling up the room oh really yeah no i'm kidding oh that would have been rad they never would have done that you're speaking my language that would have been cool but it was

great i mean it was really really cool and i'm i'm not a huge art music museum guy. There's certain artists that I really like, Alphonse Mucha, Patrick Nagel, Bill Sankovic, known of whom were probably, well, the latter of whom is probably never going to be in like an art museum exhibit, the first two probably. But the way this was done, the way this was presented, it was way cooler than I would have expected it to be. So, so cool. Interesting. That's a really cool idea. I've never heard of that with an artist. Usually you think of like, oh, there's a laser show with a band or there's a right right whatever but that sounds really neat i'd go to that it's cool so that was a good mystery date now you got to plan hers for uh for next month and uh we're

gonna go to the denies yeah and i'm gonna let her pick anything she wants off the menu man you romantic bastard order whatever you want gosh dang i wish i was tina next date i'll tell you what All right. Oh, that reminds me. Someone just said in the chat. Is that Casa Benita reopening done yet? Are they still? Is that still working?

Still in process. They're saying that sometime this year, I would be surprised if it's not 20, 23. Okay. It just feels like there's no way. All the stuff that needs to happen with that thing can happen by the end of the year. I picture Matt Stone and Trey Parker down there hammering nails and like, you know, putting studs and walls and stuff. Yeah.

No, no, it's just a bunch of kids. Yeah. Oh, hey, how are you? Why didn't you have me some of those nails? Hey, you go screw yourself. I got my own nails. Oh, I'd never want. Of all the fictional characters to work on anything,

Cartman is last on my list. All right, I found something over the weekend. I don't want to share real quick that reminded me that we have always had the third eagles in our lives. We just didn't have the Internet so we didn't find them so easy. And I found a guy. guy from the 80s that I just thought you might enjoy. You remember Amy Grant? I do. Yes, the Christian, sometimes Christian rock singer who had a hit with Baby Baby,

yeah, the one that kind of like dipped or, you know, stepped out of that for a bit and then had a big hit and then went back on, I don't know what she's doing now, but this was a thing I found, kind of randomly on YouTube, and it made me laugh. And I just have to play it. So let me see if I can find it. Here it is. Okay, here it is. Enjoy the third eagle of the old times. Okay? This is what this is. We're going to talk about Gary Chapman, Amy Grant's husband. Gary Chapman has admitted in print to being addicted to cocaine and marijuana in heavy amounts during that time. The Bible says in the book of Revelation that the whole world is seduced

by sorceries at the end of the age before Christ comes, and the literal meaning for that word sorcery or witchcraft is Pharmacia, from which we get the word pharmacy or drugstore, and anybody that's ever got high knows that the quickest way to come into contact with demonic spirits is to do drugs well what does this mean it means that all those years ago when gary chapman was high and writing and performing amy grant's music he was under the influence of demonic spirits that's what drug use does and incidentally that spirit is still in that music that's what makes it so popular that's my favorite part right there at the bottom a whisper that's what makes it so popular I love it when people play six degrees of Satan.

Like, it's the, you know, it's the six degrees of Kevin Bacon, but your goal is to tie everything to Satan. And then you get the A. And then the A is, we know there are two of them in the word Satan. Yeah, I hate that. Like, the Pharmacia thing, come on, dude. Right, exactly, come on, give me a break. Anyway, so that sent me down this deep hole.

I'll admit the next few days of the show probably have some intro files that are maybe skewed that direction, okay? Sure, sure. I'm just letting you know early so that you know what to plan for. All right. Hey, let's squirm. I'm getting Dunaway in. As some of you may know, Dunaway contracted COVID-19.

No, he was negative, right? No, it was definitely positive. Oh, it was COVID, okay. Yeah, yeah. I thought for some reason he had something else and it wasn't COVID. I wish. But also, I'm glad to say that he's doing pretty good. and we have him here with us now.

So let's do this. Now that I've done like a HIPAA violation somehow, hey, hello, Brian Donaway. Welcome to the show. How are you? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Oh, hello. You sound even better than Saturday already.

You sound good. Yes, I'm getting there. It's okay. Hey, look, you're not doing some kind of hip violation. I let you guys know personally. Yeah. So, I mean, it is fine. People get so hung up on that.

Who's a hippo violation? Like, oh, shut up. Plus, you can't. It's funny because the, I don't think, the only people that can violate your hip, I think, is your doctor, right? Yeah, only people can violate it is the people who have taken an oath not to violate it. You're just people. Yeah. We took no oath.

Yeah. It's like saying that Twitter is violating your First Amendment rights. They're not, they completely have that all mixed up about who actually violates what. God, I hate every, oh, God. I know. It's the worst. I hate the clip you just played. I just, God, I hate, I hate fear mongers.

Yeah, the mongers of fear. Go be a cheese monger. Yeah, be a cheese monger. I love cheese mongers. Yeah, cheese mongering is great. Yeah. But don't be monger in fear. I don't know about fish monger.

I'm not a, I don't know how to feel about fish monger? Cheese monger good. How come those are the only mongers? How come there's not like a peter monger? You know, like, oh, let's go to the pizza monger or the taco monger. That's what I'm going to talk a pizza guy. Oh, taco monger. I want a taco monger.

I know. It's a great name for a restaurant. The Taco Munger. Oh, my gosh. You're making me hungry. Well, you sound a lot better. I'm glad, you know, it turns out, you know, even when you get it, when you're fully vaxed, it's nice because it seems like maybe you're fighting that better than some. So I think... Yeah, it was pretty quick. It was the longest 24 hours of my life, but, you know, in the long term of things. I look back and with, yeah, I was pretty fortunate. Yeah, because you were fever junior that first day. It was pretty funny. Oh, yeah. That's right. That's right.

Yeah. The fever broke overnight. Yeah. It was pretty bad. So good. I like hallucinations. Like I was saying, that's why I was saying on FilmSack the other day. I think I may have said it off air. I didn't record it, but I was saying you were the first person in the immediate frog pants circles that actually got COVID that I know of. It's true.

Not proud. Not proud. The circle is closing. Oh, no. It's the circle of. Oh, yeah. If people are wondering. Go to Bronco games and, you know, restaurants and Spider-Man movie theaters, I'm really surprised.

I haven't gotten it. It's a matter of time for me. I'm just really. Well, you know, I'm around a young person who goes to school and another person who works at school and also works as a pharmacist. So, you know, I'm around it. Oh. Not because it's just how life is for me. Well, as you know, Pharmacia is the root word of the devil's anus or whatever that was.

We were listening to him. I know it's the worst. It's the worst. It fascinates me, but it's the worst. All right. Let's move on to this. going to play Babble Royale slash Squirm edition thing.

The Tad Pooley Squirm, whatever the hell it's called. Brian will explain it. Why don't you just read my whole intro of the sky? Why don't you just tell me how this thing should be said? Brian, I'm going to let you do it. And then we're going to see who we're going to win for. I'm very excited. Let's do this.

Sounds good. Welcome to the morning squirm, a back-and-forth trivia game where players will match wits on topics that would have even grossed out the late great Bob Sagitt. Scott and Brian will take turns answering multiple choice trivia questions, and if they get it wrong, well, the other player gets a point. The player at the most points, after five questions, wins the prize

for their contestant, and contestants will be pulled from members of the tadpool that aren't able to listen live as an example. Scott, you're going to be playing for Matthew in Tempe, Arizona. Oh, yeah, nice. I love Timpe. Yeah. Yeah, it's hot. It's hot right there, right now. I lived

in Tempe for our sort of time. Yes, you did. Brian, you're going to be playing for Alex Ford in Enid, Oklahoma. It's probably also quite warm there. So I think you're both playing for people who are living in places that are warmer than where Scott and I are right now. You know what's warm right now? Australia is summer? That's right.

Is it really right now? I didn't know that. That's how that works. Is it summer? Summer there. Yep. Is it always, well, it's summer somewhere, always, right? Somewhere's having summer right now.

Yeah. Yeah. Why not them? It's summer on Mercury right now. It's five o'clock somewhere. It's always summer in Philadelphia. Just kidding. All right.

Hey, Brian. Yeah. You mentioned Bob Saggett. Real quick here. Do we have a thing about Bob Sagget that is meaningful in your life? Like up till now, didn't we just kind of go, oh, full house, America's funniest videos, whatever, Bob Saggett. But suddenly the whole world. It definitely was never the two of those for me.

His stand-up was pretty good. Yeah, his stand-up is very dark. And his turn on his run on Curb Your Enthusiasm, I want to say he was on for a couple episodes. Oh, yeah. You got to see the real. the real A-hole, like an A-hole version of Bob Sagin, I think. Yeah, I mean, my old accounts, he was a super nice guy in person, but, but yes, you get to see that, like, underbelly humor of his, and, yeah, I would agree with that.

That's actually, you've changed my pick. That is now my pick. What's the aristocrats? I mean, that's, you know, his version of the aristocrats is one of the best. Yeah, he's a very dirty, dirty stand-up, man, but they still don't know what happened. But, you know, I don't think there was a lot of, there was, I don't think he had a massive Me Too moment or anything like that, so in this day and age, if you can just avoid that,

that alone makes you kind of a decent person, right? Yeah, everybody around, like, everybody who worked with him is all saying, oh, it was the nicest guy. Our bar is so low, by the way, in humanity right now. Meanwhile, his co-full-house dad apparently had fun with Lana's Morris

sent in a movie theater. Yeah, so, you know. What's wrong with that? Well, look, because she wasn't ironic. Don't you think? Don't you think, yeah. All right, well, let's get to it. Let's answer this thing.

Or let's hear your question. All right, I think Brian won last time. So we're going to start with you, Scott. Great. I feel like you say that a lot, which means I lose a lot. But go ahead. So, Scott, jelly beans, they look shiny and delicious. But do you know what gives candy its shine?

The coating is made from a concoction that includes a shoe polish, B, insect poop, D, B, semen, or D, floor wax. Why did you hesitate between B and semen? I don't know. I was trying to decide if I was going to replace it with another word and every other word I could come up with. Gotcha. Every other word I could come up with was worse. So we'll stick with bee semen. All right. Let's do bee semen. So I'm always here. There's always talking about how bee stuff is in all kinds of things. Bees wax, bees, you know, be honey, bee pollen. Like there's bees get, get harvested for all sorts of weird stuff. So I'm going to say bee semen. Be semen. Yeah. It is not. Damn it. Brian, you're...

Is B. Seaman. B. Seaman. No, the remaining choices are shoe polish, insect poop, and floor wax. Oh, God. Chat room. Let's stick with B.C. Oh, I got to hide you guys. Why am I looking at you?

Hold on. Right. Well, they don't know. No, but I don't want to. I don't want any influence. They don't know. There's no good answers in there. There's no.

I'm just going to go with, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Shoe polish sounds wrong, but that's what I'm going to take that one. All right, sure. Shoe polish is also incorrect. No, it's a shellac, which is made from insect poop. Oh. Oh, okay.

Now, is it shellac or shellac? Shalak. Is it? Shalak. The Sheliac is who I was thinking of. Star Trek. It makes sense because it's so from insect poop. By the way, they're also made from insect with the shelliac.

That's interesting. You know, usually when you see insect poop is kind of, of shiny so they like a little jelly bean so can i just eat insect poop i mean if you want uh you could but you know you're not getting the good part of the jelly bean which is the inside the inside of the insect poop is a lot better i think that i don't know jelly beans i don't know yeah i don't know man i don't like any of these answers to be honest they're all bad now all right uh all right brian you're getting this next one uh you know the the thing in your peanut butter might be more than peanuts. The FDA allows

one of these per hundred grams of peanut butter in your jar. Is it? So this is one of these per hundred grams. Is it fingernails, rodent hair, human fecal matter, or sawdust? Shalak.

Shalak. So there's, you wouldn't be sawdust, right? I mean, because that would be stupid. So I'm going to go with the answer I've totally forgotten because Scott keeps playing shellac good distraction methods yeah no problem

shellac yeah what was the gullsig once again remember I'm still COVID brain so you have to give me I know I know your choices are fingerprint I'm sorry fingernails rodent hair human fecal matter or sawdust

oh human fecal matter it's always human fecal matter God always go human fecal matter is it human fecal matter it is not scott that's the point your remaining choices fingerprints rodent hair or sawdust prints makes no sense no finger fingernails i'm sorry finger nails why am i saying fingerprints fingernails maybe you get to the brain gosh that's so specific finger prints uh rat rat poop rat yeah rat hair was the erode hair sorry rodent hair not rat poop rodent hair is what i meant

Roden hair is absolutely right. Really? One rodent hair allowed per hundred grams of peanut butter in your jar. So that last time I found a hair of my peanut butter, that wasn't mine. Is that what you're saying? Nope. It belonged to Willard or Ben. Willard.

It was a short and curly from a rat. Exactly. Why does it got to be the short and curly? Don't. Yeah. Well, it was Crisp and Glover. I don't know. It was from Crispin Glover.

Ew. Why is a hair from Crisp and Glover some? much worse than any other hair. Gross. All right, let's get to Scott, this one's yours, the traditional Yukon territory drink that involves dropping a dehydrated and salted human toe into booze is called, and we talked about this on TMS years ago, is it called A, the dirty digit, B, the slow foot, C, the nail biter, or D, the sourtoe cocktail.

I wonder if you can get one of these at Swig. I don't know all of these sound fantastic. You can do your, you can make it your own at Swig. You can just stick your... That's right. Can I get that with some raspberry puree as well? Yeah. Somebody put their toe in there, please.

Um, I think the last one, the cocktail one. The sour to cocktail? Sour to, that just sounds right? It's either that or the first one, in my opinion, but I'll go with the sour one. All right. The sourtoe cocktail is absolutely right. Scott gets the point. Oh, look it.

Scott. Yeah, running away with it today. The big brains on Scott. Beating the guy with COVID. This was a TMS story years ago. I don't remember when, but I know we did talk about it. Beating the guy with COVID. That's right, everybody.

Taking on the guy's sick and not doing, you know, not feeling his top. So I'm just going to go ahead and take advantage of it. I'm like Danielson. Yeah. I'm good. I'm moving here. Yeah. If I remember the story correctly, they just keep reusing the same toe.

Like, they just keep, you know, you don't. actually eat the toe at the end, like a worm in your tequila. They take the toe out, put it on, you know, put it back in the fridge, re-salt it. Put it on a piece of toast. Right, exactly. Resalt it and then drop it into somebody else's really foul. I don't want that. That is disgusting.

I never want anything to do with that in real life. All right. Brian. I swallow the toe. I swallow the toe. What now? Sleep tight. In just over two years, what percentage of a pillow's weight?

is made up of dead dust mites and their droppings? Shalak. Is it 4%, 15%, 22% or 33% Well Well In two years, percentage of your pillow's weight

Is made up of dead dust mites and their droppings? Is this on average? Everybody deals with this to some degree or what? Yeah, yeah. Gosh, dang it, dude. It always seems like it's higher than they think it's going to be Because I think they try to scare the crap out The mattress people figure this out not too long ago

It's like they come out of the commerce It's like every 10 years You know that your mattress is 30% dust mites Doubles doubles its weight And dust mites Having trouble flipping your mattress There's a reason why It's full of dust mites

We do the first What was the was Choices are 4, 15, 22 and 33 I'm going with 22% of my pillow that I lay my head on is just now dust my cell. Dust mites and poop. Just my poop. Excuse me. Just under a quarter of the

pillows. All right. Is it 22%? It is not. Scott gets the point. Is the answer 4%, 15% or 33%. I mean, my mind wants it to be lower just from a desperation standpoint. So I don't want it to be high, but I worry it's the high one. But I'm going to go low. Let's do the 4%.

Was it 4%. 4%. Yeah, let's go that. It's wishful thinking, I think. Oh, yes, that is. That's very positive thinking. Unfortunately, nope, the answer is 33%. What really is of the weight of your pillow after two?

I guess that is dust mites and dust mites. That's a third. A third. Really? A third? A third. I think the trick is that I was thinking the contents is 33%, but it's not that is the fact that the weight of it has increased because dust mites are probably much heavier than the polyfill that you put in your pillow, right? Well, hold on. What is a dust mite? It's like a little, a little.

Mighty, mighty, mistropic creature. Microscopic. Microscopic. Microscopic. microscropic microscropic shellac I like the way he said that

all right oh there's okay hold on yeah you get those all these gross electron microscope photos of dust mites dust mite

according to the dictionary let's see they look like the brood from X-Men any of various mites especially from the prio jugalide or something

commonly found in house dust so they are living little creatures then a mite I don't like it. I was wondering why I couldn't sleep at night. They're all whooping and drinking Fago with your pillow. Right.

Drinking Fago. We haven't talked about those guys in a long time. All right. Did you get Fago? Can you get Fago at Swagg? Probably not, huh? No. Fago is not on the menu as far as I'm aware.

They don't cater to the jigilos. No. The juggalo's, I mean. They do cater to the jigilos. Oh, yeah. Jigolo loves it a nice piece. Peach cocktail, but forget about the jugglers, no way. That's right.

All right, Scott, you've won, but let's all right, let's give you this last question. I hope you're not in the drive-thru right now. A person eating fast food regularly will consume roughly how many pubic hairs per year. Oh, my Lord. Is that number? Who's pubic hairs? Or is it just pubic hairs in general? Just pubic hairs in general.

It might be Ronald McDonald's himself, a little red ones or. A little red one. Mary McCheese. Why is your purple one? Grimmis. Grimis. Yeah, Grimis. Now, I'm scared about this.

Go ahead. Your choices are 12, 17, 9, or 3. 12, 17, 9, or 3. Yeah. In your lifetime, was it? What's the... One, over the course of one year if you regularly consume.

And I don't know how, what defines regularly, but... Give me the numbers one more time? Sure. 12, 17, 9, 3. Uh, in a year, I'll, hmm, I'll say 9. 9. 9. It's mostly hopeful.

Nine? It's wishful thinking. Uh, is the answer 9? 9. 9. It is not. 9. 9. 9. Uh, your remaining choices, 12, 17, and 3, Brian. I like that 3 dangling under the D right there.

So I'm going to take that one. You like the three dangling under the D? That's how we got into this mess. Yeah, that's how we got into this problem. All right. Oh, if only, it was only three. No, 12 pubic hairs a year. Oh, my God.

One a month. One a month. Yeah, the hairs get trapped on employee clothing on their arms, hands, and then find their way into your food. That's approximately once a month you're enjoying a hair sandwich. How fun the pubic hairs are, how much fun they're having. Gosh, dang. that's gross.

I'm trying to see if it says if there's no, in this one there's no one, no description of how often you're going to look, unless that's L. McPherson after a nice spa day, I don't want

anything to do with your I don't want any. None. Yeah, even, yeah, can't really say even one L. McPherson after a spy day. What is it about hair that while it's on your head, we'll talk about head hair for a minute. While it's on your head, you've got a lovely...

Not everybody's head, Scott. You've got a lovely girlfriend, well, except yours. You've got a lovely girlfriend, and you're like, oh, just, you know, your hair is so beautiful, and I'm putting my fingers through it, and I just love your hair. But the minute one of those hairs is on your plate, we all act like... Yeah, we're all going to die suddenly.

Isn't that weird? Well, the air is dead cells regardless, so I mean, we should be totally freaked out. This is bad as skin and everything else. Everything else we sloth off. That's true. That's true. Slothing it off. And what's worse?

A hair or an eyelash? Ooh, eyelash definitely is worse. Yeah. Elash is worse for me, yeah. Why is that, though? Think about it for a second. Because they're so thick. You ever eat an eyelash on accident?

Yeah. Yeah, but my point is like, I agree with you that it's grosser, but I'm trying to figure out why I think it's grosser. And I think it's because it's a delicate little, eye hair I don't know like you should

close us to a duct where there's secretions is what my I think our body has a natural there's something built into us that says anything

that detaches from our body we would like it to be as far away from us as possible once it leaves the body I think that's an evolutionary thing that we do because we

if something falls from the body no matter how small it is it decays and could be disease. I mean, that's how diseases get spread. That's why we don't like anybody with bad breath. It's the reason we don't like the smell of somebody's nasty fart in an elevator. All of these things represent decay and possible disease, right?

And so we're just important. We don't like it. There's a reason that I'm shaved smooth like a dolphin. Yeah. I don't want any of that stuff anywhere near my food. Brian's a, Brian's a, you're an intentional alopecia patient. All I can see is a hibit. with his speedo on splashing out of the freaking water like a dolphin now.

Yeah, talking to the, talking to whoever. I don't know why I said that. Anyway, hey, well done. Hey, we got a winner. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Who's our winner, Brian? And what do they get? Congratulations to Matthew from Tempe, Arizona.

You are getting a copy of Hiveswap Friend Sim and Black Future 88. Wow. But Alex Ford and Enid at Oklahoma, you're not going to. way empty-handed, you're also getting a copy of Siberia 3. Yeah. Oh, that's a good one. The Siberia series is very highly thought of people like that game. Oh, cool. Yeah.

I've not played it. I'm familiar with all three of these, so I'm excited that you guys know them and can vouch for their awesomeness. I want to say this came out in 2017, so it's not even that old. Yeah. Good game. All right. Well done. Yeah, yeah, everybody. Good game. Good game.

All right, that's it. Brian, real quick here, we're going to, you and I are doing the second episode ever of Play Retro tonight at 3.30 Mountain Time, even though you've had COVID, we're still doing it. We're pushing forward. We're pushing through. I may be talking out of my COVID head, but we're going to do it. It's going to be good. Yeah, it's going to be great. There's no stop for us. Yeah, we're, we're jumping all over final. I did it again. Fantasy Star 4. Fantasy Star 4. I know. I keep putting final in there. That's right. Master System. Probably the most beloved of the series.

But there's a lot of history there, and we're going to get into all of that and why you might want to care about that game if you're into retro games. So we'll get to that and much more later today, play retro. Frogpants.com slash play retro, or you can check us out live today at 3.30 Mountain Time right here on our Twitch channel, Frogvance.TV. Anything else? I think I'm not forgetting anything. That's pretty much it. I usually stream Monday through Friday at 5.30.

No, I'm sorry, 6 p.m. Eastern time. Excuse my COVID head once again. and I haven't this past week been trying to recover from this but I'll be back starting tomorrow night tune in on my Twitch channel It's turning me on just thinking about it Check it out everybody

Brind done away Put your pubs back in the pants Put your pubs away It's Brian done away Hey that rhymed Well they're both the word way Bye now All right that was fun

Hey there is a news story I absolutely have to get to today So yeah let's get to it We're going to do the news now So everyone sit down and relax All right, we're going to jump to the future news thing. But before that, we're going to tell you who this is brought to you by. Brian, who's this brought to you by the M and M duo, E.M and E.M. Duo.

Check out their music on Spotify, Amazon Music, iTunes, CD Baby. And right here in India in the Middle and coming up in just a couple minutes, you're going to hear one of their songs. That's the M and M duo. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, do check that out. It's going to be great. Very talented people. All right, check this out.

So, Taco Bell. We've been talking about a lot of fast food and stuff here this morning. Yeah, we talked specifically about Taco Bell, too. Yeah. They're doing something I might actually try. I can't believe I'm going to do this. Okay. I just want to try it.

I want to see, you know, how this is going to go. They ran a test in Tucson for this. Now they're going to start offering on a national basis, I assume. Taco Bell is selling a $10 monthly taco subscription. All right. everybody wants your sub money it's all about subs these days right exactly yes so this is uh they're rolling out what is arguably the tastiest subscription service yet daily tacos for ten dollars a month taco bail customers can get one taco per day for 30 consecutive days the national program

called taco lovers pass uh which sounds like what they do if they eat too many tacos they all pass um that's what you do after your month is over yeah that's right uh is available to purchase beginning Thursday for members of its rewards program and have downloaded the Taco Bell app. So I guess you just have to have a rewards program card or whatever they do to sign up for that. It's in your app. I actually do have that, even though I've only been to Taco Bell with it like three times in the last, I don't know, six months. But yeah, you can, if you get the app, then you just join their rewards and they give you rewards like constantly. It's like, oh, great, a free crunch rep supreme well no thanks but you know you just keep getting uh keep getting

this stuff but i might check this out as well because you can do the um they have uh not the beyond meat but they can do like a meat free crunchy taco which is good sure yeah uh i don't know i mean it's everything in there right soft tacos crunchy tacos deritos tacos the spicy potato soft taco. Yeah, they count all of them. So it's not just their basic crap taco. It's the lineup of tacos in the subscription. That's it. Black bean, old salty goat. Yeah, they'll replace the meat with black beans. It's just fine. I would eat that. I like beans as a substitute for my meats. It says one customer, or once a customer subscribes to it, a special section within the app is unlocked and customers can add a taco to their cart during the checkout process.

Taco Bell tested the program in September of 2021 in Tucson, Arizona. The chain experimented with price points between 5 and 10. Instead of them, release, it grew the rewards program by 20%. In doing so, the Doritos Locos Taco Supreme was the most redeemed taco. So people want the big, hefty beast, I guess. No, I'm curious. I've got the app open. It's a very, very tiny print, so I've got to put on the glasses.

Yeah, I have exactly that pair of readers upstairs. Do you really? That pink and the yellow things. That's crazy. Awesome. They're super comfy. Yeah. Let's see here.

I'm curious if you have to purchase substitutions being current upcharge, blah, blah, blah. So, no, you don't have to. So I was worried when you said, like, it's a, they can add a taco to their cart during the checkout process. Right. But you can make it the only thing you get. You just go through and get your free taco. Oh, I see. Yeah, you don't, it's this, yeah, it's all you have to do.

You don't have to, like, no other, no additional purchase required. Right, right. Now, the hang up here, it's, I mean, not really. really hang up, but you've got to go get it. They're not bringing this to you. So if you're going to do your taco, you got to go to a drive up or go inside or however they do it now and get your taco. And I think therein lies the rub. If you're going to charge 10 bucks a month for something, they're counting on you, they're counting on the idea that it will be too, it will be too inconvenient for you to get a taco every day. Also, you'll be sick of them after a few days.

And so you're going to want to have space in between. Yeah, but if you go, I mean, it's $10.00. If you go 10 times, it's paid for it. So if you go like twice a week, three times a week, somewhere between, you know, an average of two and a half times per week. Yeah. I guess I don't know really how much tacos costs now. Taco Ball. Are they still only under, are they still under a dollar? Is it a regular. They're regular tacos. Well, of course, the Dorito ones are more. Like, definitely there's, the bigger ones are more than a dollar now. I don't actually know. Black bean soft tacos is $1.69. So, yeah, if you go twice a week, this thing's paid for, and that's not too bad. I think I might do it a month. I can get out, right? I don't have to pay for a year or something dumb.

Yeah, yeah, no, you can just pay for a month. I'm looking at it right now. Taco lovers pass $10. I could try this. I mean, that's interesting. I wonder how much more is this going to see. It says here, Sweet Garden announced a $10 discount program that less customers get $3 off each order every month, Panera has an $8.99 a month program lets customers get free hot or iced cup of coffee or tea.

Right. If you get the apple, like if you sign up and you get the apple card, the little titanium deal, you get a free Panera, like you get subscribed to the Panera thing for three months, I think. Oh, I didn't know that. The coffee thing. I did it. I maybe got one cup of coffee. I don't like Panera's coffee. I've never been. I was happy to let that subscription lapse.

I've still never been. I've never been to a panera. No. It's funny. It's a lot like the refinery in Mad Max 2 Road Warrior. Oh, sweet. It's like that. It's just like that.

Yeah, everybody dresses the same. There's a woman wearing football padding with a crossbow who cuts your bread for you. Yeah. And there's no way in unless you can commandeer one of their flame throwers. You're just sort of screwed. That's right. They have a great turkey avocado sandwich. It's really, really good.

I've just never been. I don't know why they're here. My wife's been. Everybody I know has been. I just never, never had a day come where someone said, hey, we're going to Panera or, hey, do you want anything from Panera while we're there? Or, hey, we're going through the drive. Like, it just doesn't ever happen. There's a, the panera that's close to my house is a block away from a retirement home. Yeah. So if you make the mistake of going there at 10 a.m., you're waiting behind everybody getting lunch. And if you go there at like three, you're behind everybody getting dinner. Ah, that's not good. You want to go there at normal lunch and dinner times to avoid the retirement community crowd. Yeah, because they're on a very different, they, daylight savings means nothing to them.

They're on a very different schedule, yes. The only other thing I would say is it could be just fun show content to do this and then talk about it. So I might do it. All right, you and me both. Let's do it. We'll do a month. What's the harm? Let's do a month.

I'm doing a month. No harm in a month. I'm doing it. I'm signing up after the show. Okay. All right. Just got to make sure we need somebody on February 8th to remind us to cancel. Yeah. Someone, chat room, it's your job. So mark your calendars for the 8th, okay? Because we want to be done by then. There we go. Exactly. Real quickly, we'll do one more story here. The ice is going to be heated for an outdoor NHL winter classic. That's how cold it is. so uh damn it appreciate this story they have to heat the ice yeah they're gonna heat it

they actually have to heat the ice because it's so cold even the ice is too cold actually i don't understand why ice would be too cold but anyway here's the deal the weather is expected to be so cold now i guess this happened because this was a story for last week how cold is it it was for saturday's national hockey league's outdoor winter classic the ice had to be actually heated minnesota wild and st louis blues are to compete at 7 p.m this game happened. I don't know who won. This is in Minneapolis, where my sister is, it's very cold. The temperature was expected to be negative two degrees there, Fahrenheit, by the way, with a wind chill factor of about negative 20. So it's going to feel like negative 22, is what it would

feel like. Anyway, it's going to be even colder when the first puck has dropped. So mechanics are preparing to make the ice warmer, even though that sounds like an oxymoron. Here's why. When the air temperature is above the optimum ice temperature, the glycol, uh, and aluminum, uh, pans transferring heat away from the ice. What? Pins, it's like, okay. And when the air temperature is, that's weird. I wrote it. But when the air temperature is below the optimum ice temperature, it transfers heat to the ice. Gotcha. Oh. So the, so the, so the pans that, that kind of hold the, that hold the ice, right? Right. Um, when it's, when it's, when the temperature is above,

the optimized temperature, that transfers, that pulls heat away from the ice, keeping it cold. But when the temperature is below what you want for the ice, then those pans actually transfer heat to the ice. Right. And it also makes sense that there's an optimal temperature range for skating on ice and having it be, having the ice behave the way it's supposed to and not, if it's too cold, it's going to react differently to your blades and stuff like that. That makes sense. Well, good luck to them. guess they already did it so check this out so i signed up right i'm in the uh taco lovers pass now i have a new screen called taco lovers pass the taco lover the crunchy taco supreme is

included what tomatoes and sour cream okay that's a good that's my with black beans instead that's my favorite uh taco it is yeah at taco bell i mean yeah not in life here's the trick though yeah you can't get anything else like we really have to stick it to taco bell for this month Don't go buying a Baja Blast Zero. No add-ons of churros or a Meximelt. They don't have Meximelt anymore. You just got to get the taco. Yeah.

Now that you've said that, I'm actually really excited because I do like that taco a lot. That is my go-to, yeah. So are we going to feel weird going through a drive-up going, yeah, I'm going to just have one taco. I got my, I'm on that, you know, I don't know, I feel like a cheap scale. for some reason. My guess is that we're going to get our 12 pubicaires a year pretty quickly doing this Taco Bell Pass. The employees hate us, I'll bet. I'll bet they hate them.

They don't. They get paid exactly the same whether you're buying a taco from them or using this pass. You don't think they'll have some kind of vendetta or some kind of... No, they don't care. They don't care. Okay. All right. They don't care.

Who's going to care? Nobody cares. Nobody cares. All right. We're going to take a break. come back. Stephen Schlecker will be here. A little bit of major spoilers in your life this morning. That'll be after this song selection

that Brian brought. Brian, please explain. I will explain. Yeah, this is the aforementioned M and M, Emma Reynolds, half of the band. What's the other? I can't find the, oh, Emma and Emilio. There are the... Emilio, there you. Emilio. They're the two

performers in this duo, and so they, for short, call themselves the M and M duo. E.M. and E.M. Duo. Big thanks to Mark who said, who's just such a fan of these guys. He wanted to get them some exposure. And if you like your funk, like I know Wicked Kitten somewhere out there is a big fan of the brand new heavies. These guys are very funky like the brand new heavies.

Here are the M&M duo in their song, You Are. shouldn't think that way you baby over thinking every single thing you say give yourself a break and speak love into your heart happiness won't wait another day don't you know how beautiful your mind is you're reading your body and your soul Don't you know how beautiful your mind is? Rise up up and let it all go. Everything you need and everything you want to be more than just a body with a blurry destiny

opening your heart up just a little every day You are making your own way. Never stop the rhythm of your beating hard, love. Keep the fire burning, no, you are enough. People give and take and take, but you don't give in. Rise up in the morning like a dove. Don't you know how beautiful. Your mind is

You're in your body and your soul Don't you know how beautiful your mind is Rise above and let it all go Everything you need and everything you want to be More than just a body with a blurry destiny opening your heart up just a little every day you are making your own way stop and get your breath you may not be strong now but you are growing tall stop and just breathing stop hurting yourself you can love and listen but keep all moving up let your be free stop and get your breath

you may not be strong now but you are growing tall stop and just breathe in stop hurting yourself you can love and listen but keep on moving up let yourself be free don't you know how beautiful

your mind is you're ready your body and your soul. Don't you know how beautiful your mind is? Rise of love and let it all go. Everything you need and everything you want to be. More than just a body with a blurry destiny Opening your heart up just a little every day You are making your own way You are

Have I been lassoed into a fatal attraction? all right, but the only fatality will be your virginity. You heard me, Lurch. Get naked. I'm feeling a little nostalgic for nerdtacular, so that was... Was that 2017?

Let's see. When did we do? That would have to be the time we had a live film sack. It was mass for the universe. Yeah. So that was 2011 or 12. Wait, we did tremors the tremors, tremors the first year. The second year was, oh, geez. I think.

Wasn't it a Star Trek thing? No. I can't remember. Well, we did Star Trek 3, the first 2013 of Star Trek 3. oh my gosh I don't remember does someone remember I have no memory of this

all right yeah you know I could search I'm never going to find it in my list I have every opening I've ever done since Resident Evil

which was in 2014 oh okay so somewhere in here is oh there it is 2012 says Gwen so wouldn't have been in here yeah so Gwendoam was there she says

so that must have been it that sounds right to me. It feels like 2012. And that's Fletcher going... I have the boat! Listen to that crowd, man. So good. I miss it.

All right. Let's... What? Oh, yeah, Stephen. Yes. Stephen, who did not sign up for the Taco Pass. Oh, yeah, no. He, you know, why would he?

But also, you were on his show the other day, and I kind of want to hear about that. Oh, it's such a good time. So we'll talk about that in a second. But here's Stephen now. Stephen Schlecker. Stephen Schlecker joins us as he does every Monday from his studios in beautiful downtown Hays, Kansas. I don't know if there's no downtown, right? It's just sort of town, whatever it is.

Stephen, welcome to the show. How are you? Hello? Stephen. Steve. We don't hear him. Is he muted? He muted.

He at school again? This is the problem. You go to school and they've got a different hardware and you got to tweak stuff. around and unmute yourself or Discord settings are weird or anything like that. Yeah, you just got the mic hole plugged into the wrong button hole.

Oh, yeah. Stephen, are you there? No, nothing yet. No, okay. Well, hold on. I'm going to pause this. It's all good. Sorry, I had Taco Bell earlier and I'm kind of choking on it. Oh, yeah, that'll happen. That'll happen. Are you going to do the...

All the few big cares. I love it. Are you going to spend 10 hard-earned dollars on a month of Taco bell uh subscriptions or what you can do it with us oh we lost him again oh we lost him again oh man where do you go i like to whatever you whatever you switch to uh stephen is probably the issue yeah whatever you just switch to is away from whatever it is we were trying to do before watching anything okay there's a discord issue do i need to be on the new secret discord no shouldn't shouldn't be you know i've had uh about I mean, Brian and I are on the Mac beta, but it doesn't affect how the...

Secret Discord. It doesn't affect how all their discords connect you as far as I'm aware. Yeah, that was the weirdest thing. It was like hanging on checking for update and wouldn't let me back in. Oh, really weird. All right. Well, yeah, updates may be an issue. Hey, you're here now.

Hello, hello. Welcome, Stephen. Are you doing Taco Bell? That's the question. Are you going to do it? No, I am not. Oh. We don't eat at Taco Bell that often.

Yeah. Yeah. You've got the weight last thing going. And it's working well for you. Whatever you're doing, keep doing it. Yeah, keep out of it. I eat it our taco truck, which serves these big, hairy burritos that are like, probably more pubic hair. But these things are like the size of a brick.

Yeah. And they are delicious. Big hairy burrito. Mmm. I want to say a different word, but I know we're trying to keep it. No, you know, we're just, here we are in PG-13 country, just living, just existing. It's good to have you back. We're going to talk about a couple of things here.

real quick. We're real quick, though, just as a recast or cap, how did it go with you and Brian the other night? I guess I want to hear your side of it. I know how I know that I enjoyed it. That guy. Yeah. That effing, Brian. No, Brian was awesome, man.

Listen, if you've ever wondered about, you know, you think gamification has to be this whole crazy thing that just deals with weight loss or something else. We talked about how to gamify your life from simple tasks like cleaning the house to how do you create a reward system for you that that works and so we even rewarding yourself for rewarding yourself like

even like you know someone who doesn't feel like they they always do things for others and never do anything for themselves uh they have they found a way to reward themselves for rewarding themselves yeah it was great it was a great fast discussion i wish we had an hour but we kept it to 30 minutes you can go and find that over on our twitch channel twitch dot tv slash major spoilers nice uh just look for it and it's it's really nice. Brian is on the right side of the screen so that apparently threw a bunch of people off. Oh, yeah. People get real weird about that.

Even if, like, when I have one of my three to four host shows on like TDW or TWBD or something like that, if I just the one time have somebody swapped, it's all the chat can talk about the entire time of recording. They can't deal with it. So we'll try to be more thoughtful of all of your OCD levels, everybody at home. Yeah, but it was a great time. Well, that's good. I'm definitely going to check that out. Also, make sure you're listening to the major spoilers podcast network this week because I might be on. Hmm. Something might be happening. That's got to get his homework done first.

I do. I have homework. And I got to hurry up because it's soon. It's a quick, it's a quick read. This week we are reviewing Teen Titans, Beast Boy Loves Raven. It's a Y-A book. And it's great art by this artist named Gabriel Piccolo. And it's, yeah, it's teeny romance. It reads very quickly. You'll be done in the like 30 minutes. Well, I'm very much looking forward to sharing my thoughts about that as we get together on Tuesday. But in the meantime, a couple things going on. Arcade 1-Up. I know you're a fan of the bringing the arcade games back to the home and these little stand-up arcades and all that. They're going pro. What does that mean? I mean, they mentioned this is CES, and I know what it means, but why don't you tell the people at home what it means? They're not little arcades anymore. The ones that

You can go pick up at Walmart or Targeter, like, three-quarter size arcade systems. Now they're just like, you know, everyone's buying the risers, everybody's doing the mods. How about we just sell a full-size arcade cabinet that's 5'4-6 inches, 19-inch screen, and upgrade all the buttons and the controls and make this a legit kind of gaming system at home? The first one that they're launching with, I don't know what the launch date is, but it's killer instinct. Yeah, killer instinct, right? yeah yeah what a weird choice for their first one of these pro machines i mean i know that there's a base that likes that game but why not start with something that i don't know everybody wants

well i think immediately following that they're going to come out with their mortal combat version and then centipede and i forget there's one more after that i think they've announced well they're not doing joust again forget it i want joust again sloppers well if that centipede one is the centipede like full deal that has um Centipede, Missile Command, Asteroids, Tempest. That I could probably, that I could probably talk myself into doing. I think they're going to be single games only, though, right? Are they?

Is that the deal with the pros? I thought that was the plan. Yeah. Because I think their goals there are like, it seems to me like the goal is to say, well, here's the authentic one machine, one game sort of thing. Pricing is going to. Yeah, it's just killer instinct. Yeah, it's just killer instinct.

Yeah. Which is, you know, it's fine. And Killer Instinct's okay. It's just not, I'm with you. It's not a, it's not the first pick. I mean, my first pick was obviously. Oh, no, it's going to have multiple games. Here's what it has.

Killer Instinct, Killer Instinct 2, Battle Toads, both the arcade 8-bit and 16-bit. Yeah. So that's all in there? Oh, well. Wait a minute. I stand corrected. Are you? So how do I line up?

How come the cabinet doesn't say, it has no reference to all that other stuff? That's interesting. The other one, like the centipede one doesn't say it's got a, all these other things on it. Mine does. My joust one says... Yeah, the joust one has multiple ones. It's got Rampage and all that.

The very first one, the karate game one, that only has one, that only has one logo on it. Same way with TMNT and Simpsons. Those are only the TM&T Simpson stuff, even though it has multiple versions of the various games on there. I'm looking at the centipede one, and it just shows the centipede art. There's no... Oh, well, that's actually, that helps a lot, because I feel like you need a little value there with the extra games. Totally.

There's no way I'd buy it if it was just the one game. I mean, it's so easy to do a maim machine. Yeah. I've built two of them. What's the, I'm going to need some advice from you soon, Stephen, on how you did yours. How, and we don't know how much these are. We have no idea on price. No, that's the thing that's going to be a little shocking, I think, to people.

Because if you buy just like a regular cabinet now, I think it's like $3.99 and then you spend another $100 for the riser, I think this is going to be like $500, $600, maybe even $700 range for this. Somebody in there saying $5.99. So that seems about right. That's high. For a full-size cabinet that, you know, to be honest, modding one of these cabinets after I did it the first time with a raspberry pie, it was so easy to do that, you know, $600 to mod and then get a full-size cabinet

with all of your favorite retro games in it. That's a pretty good. I agree. The benefit of it being killer instinct, it won't be too long before these things are in clearance and you can get one cheap. Yeah, that's true. Now, a couple of other things in the smaller versions, they had had mods that you could buy and add on to the smaller cabinets like a backlit LED or a backlit marquee up top and everything. That's going to be included now as part of these new systems. Oh, that makes sense, yeah.

They are taking the quality, I hope, up a level with the controllers and the screen and the, um, the light up marquee and stuff so it might be worth it for you i can tell you i'm probably not going to buy any of these because i've got two already that i've modded plus i have a tabletop one that my wife bought me years ago yeah so i think we and then i've got the uh arcade uh the pinball machine yeah um from marvel oh the arcade yeah yeah yeah i think we have enough of those in the house now plus i think my wife will kill me yeah that is the that is the big deciding factor right sure you want a whole arcade you got to pass it through uh you know she got you got to get full approval from the wife um yeah i i don't know i'm kind of torn on this i i feel like uh well okay

here's here's what i know for sure when my dad was running and owning arcades when i was a young boy um they a machine like buying a new pacman stand up in this full size sort of arrangement just pacman or just joust or just asteroids or whatever it was it's like three thousand four thousand dollars like they were really expensive back then yeah oh yeah arcade machines were not cheap and there was nothing about them that were cheap and even in you know that's That's not even accounting for all the inflation between then and now. I don't know what they'd run today. So you can go to eBay or Facebook Marketplace.

They sell a lot of those. A really good, like Ms. Pac-Man edition can set you back $5,000, $6,000. Yeah. Wow. Now they're even, yeah, now that they're collectible, it's even harder to make them cheap. But so, yeah, so if you're looking at it that way, $600 is pretty good, you know, if that's what these end up costing. So somebody posted maybe it's $700.

So I'm thinking it's between that. 500 and 700. There's no way that they'll go $800 on this unless you're getting a package with like their bar stool kind of stuff. But yeah, 700 seems about right. Seems about right to me as well. Well, anyway, more details on that to come. And it's just part of their CES 2020 announcement stuff. So you can find that anywhere. Hey, there's this is, I can't believe this is happening, but a comic book publisher has unionized. That never happens. What's going on there? Yeah, this is a big story because for years comic book creators have tried to unionize going all the way back even into the 70s. Neal Adams used to try to lead creators to create their own union, but every time it just

kind of fell apart. And that has led to maybe some not so great things to happen to writers and to artists across comic book publishing lines. I don't know what your rate would be for a full page art of comic book Scott. But, you know, the average I think right now is about $500 per page. times 25 pages times six months and you know add that up and it's not a whole lot for six months of work

so it would be great to see a union for that that's not what this union is it's not for writers and artists this is a workers union inside of image comics for their editors

and their other I guess it's all editors basically. But originally they had announced this back in, I want to say, September of last year. And then, of course, Image said, yes, we'll work with this if they decide to do it. Then there was a vote. And so now the vote has come back. And they have decided that they've won their union election. And so that will be the very first comic book union and the very first comic book publisher in the United States to be a union shop. So I don't know if that then filters out to their probably doesn't filter out to their freelancers maybe it will but it would have to be

the artists and the writers then to come forward and say hey we want to be part of this as well because right now there's only 12 people right uh that work at image that are now part of this union yeah i was going to say this is probably just a small start kind of moment but um it's something and i'm not surprised it's uh image seems like something they they would perhaps do first you know if anyone was going to do it first it to be them um but yeah like i assume if i'm an artist, let's say I'm an artist creator guy who's got his own comic book to both write and draw. Image is the place you go to self-publish your own stuff often. We're not talking about any of those protections for me. These are 100% for those onto the editing staff and whatever that

are there to help make sure your thing gets to print. But not me as the creator. Whatever deal I have with image is still just my deal with image, right? Right. Right. Correct. Yeah. And you know, because it's creator owned, I've heard some people who've done some stuff through image that it really is the best place now of course image can decide not to publish your work because they may look at it as there's not a large enough percentage of us to do a percentage in it for us to to distribute your work right but uh they run through things and they have it nailed down to like how many issues before it is not a viable option for us and you know see if see if the money works that way so yeah you're going to keep all of the the rights uh that you get all the art that

you get, you know, if you want to go out and create a movie out of this, a TV show out of this, you get to keep those rights to that. But, yeah, this is still a really good thing, even if it is just on the editor side. It's interesting. I want to see how that all pans out and see if that maybe just grows into something more. I don't know. If it ever hit DC and Marvel, that would be the big deal because that's really where the problems are, like the big players.

I think it probably wouldn't be as big a deal if it's the same kind of a union and editors union at Marvel and DC because they're both working with major corporations, Warner Brothers and Disney, and they're unionized anyway. You can go back and look at Walt Disney and how he hated unions and tried to bust the unions back in the 40s and 50s. Yeah. Don't let the cartoonist make decisions is the main listen there. Well, all right.

This is some meaty stuff to chew on today. In the meantime, plenty of stuff happening over at major spoilers.com. like I mentioned, I'll be on there this week. And anything else you want to mention that's going on right now? I think right now, everybody just go and check out our website, major spoilers.com, for all sorts of previews. If you're looking to see what's coming out this week, if you're looking for reviews,

we've got them over there at major spoilers.com. And a whole lot more good things, I think, coming in 2022, providing we can get a few more patrons to help us out. And stay, oh, no, you're going to add this. And you definitely, definitely, regardless of whether you go to the major spoilers website or not, stay hungry oh okay i've never heard that one before it's weird right fine uh there he goes that was great uh all right that's it for that by the way we even uh talked about uh gamifying staying hydrated oh you did came up on fridays yeah yeah oh that's interesting i love that um well he's

uh great and we love watching or having step on uh do look forward to go listening to what brian did and if you're interested i'll be on tuesday night reading comics with those guys nice oh that's so cool that should be fun um all right let's move on to a mashup which i almost forgot to play because my notes were weird but i'm i'm no dummy i got it right here you guys so i'm gonna play it this is a bonus mashup dolly's shot it's a prs which stands for poorly remembers shit yeah so that'll be good uh stand back and enjoy and try not to you know let your hair catch on fire enjoy she was the one that was not um

Um, the other two. That's the most poomba she's ever been. As I try to remember who the other two were, yes. She's the one that isn't the other two. Who did the song crashing cars? Rock Hudson. Or chasing cars. Jennifer Beals.

No. Anyway, all right. I realize I'm asking the wrong person. That was, uh, Keenan. Thompson and Kean and Peel. Oh, Key and Peel. Yeah, Michael Keegan or whatever. What's his full name?

Work out your kegles. That guy? Yeah, I work at your kegles. I have no idea. Oh, I know. My wife loves them. Oh, what are they called, though? Lobsters.

No, the fleshy little, um, it's a vegetable. It's like a, like from one of those purple, like from the penis fruit. Uh, sorry. The penis fruit. What do you call it? The emoji. Uh, what's that called? Oh, Armin jokes.

No, no, this is fun. What's the Joe Kinneman character? Uh, fresh. Not Frank. Jake. Ah, shit. That was a year after District 9, Chupac Chopply or whatever's name is.

It's not DuPont Choply. Dupac Choply. Yeah, Dupac Chopply. Yeah, that's it. Because that's like nearly strangled Nick or whatever's name was in the Harry Potter things where it was locked up.

Oh, nearly headless Nick. Yeah. Nearly strangled. There's going to be like a whole like, like farm. What do you call that? You go on the weekends. Zamboni?

No, where everybody goes and there's a bunch of booths and there's food. and guy brought all his fresh apples that he just Margo Kidder Yeah it's called a Margo Kidder Uh huh yeah You guys going to the Kidder this weekend Finally like I get to do this to you That's such a weird one though

What song did Dolly Parton sing Right before she got her shot Was it the actual song or she'd do some kind of parody He did some kind of parody Oh okay hold on then Yeah What's a parody around getting a shot here Oh oh a Jolene but with

Do I have to know what she said No I'll take it But you could probably figure out. What word she replaced Jolene with? Well, let me think. I'll give you some time to think about this. COVID-19, COVID-19. Is that not it?

I don't know. What did she say? What did she put in there? I'm going to be mad if it's something obvious. Vaccine. Oh, shit. It's perfect. Vaccine. Vaccine.

How did I not get that? What a dummy. I don't know. What a dumb. me, that guy. Great stuff, as always. Thank you, Jamie for that. Jamie's in the chat today.

I don't know. We'll see him. That's all right. Jamie, we love your work. Keep it up. He'll listen to this later and hear it because he'll find something dumb we said today and make it into a mash-up later. Definitely will.

Exciting stuff. Quick, a couple of notes. Again, play retro today at 3.30 Mountain Time right here live at Twitch.tv slash frogpans. And was there a soundography today? There was. A brand new soundography. Yeah, you know, if you only know them from that one album,

rumors, then you're missing, like, so much of the story. Fleetwood Mac are subject for soundography this week. We listened to, like, 20 albums, ranging all the way from the old blues, breakers, Peter Green days, all the way to the new stuff, some of which was not very good, but we talked about their entire library and the history of the band. Check it out, soundography.com. So it's not all rumors.

Rumors are, rumors is a great album, but it's not, you know, you forget. Rumors is the apex, right? Like, yeah. This is as good as it got. It's as good as it got. For me, anyway, there's some people who really, really like the old blues stuff, the old Peter Green, Blues Breakers stuff. But, and then some people who like when Christine McVee was the only vocalist in the band

or the primary vocalist in the band. Oh, right. Right, right. I'm a Lindsay Buckingham, even though I think he's probably an asshole to work with. I'm a big fan of Lindsay Buckingham's music. His holiday road song in vacation, Christmas vacation, no, just regular vacation. Regular vacation. Yeah, yeah.

Christmas vacation, I think, was the only one that didn't use that song. Yeah, I love that song. Like legitimately, unapologetically enjoyed listening to that song by itself. Yeah, yeah. Also, you played a really great cover of that once, and I loved it. I don't remember who did it, but I'd loved it. And now I want to hear it again. We played it here on the show, yeah.

All right. Well, there you go. Oh, let me ask you this. They're all touring together now, except Lindsay got kicked out again, right? Well, they were for a while, yeah. So the, because I went and actually saw them when they came to Denver maybe five years ago. And if they're going to replace Lindsay Buckingham with anybody, it was the best possible choice for me. They replaced him with Neil Finn from Crowded House.

Oh, that's right. And then the whole band does Don't Dream It's Over in Fleetwood Mac style. It's just great. That's pretty cool, man. Yeah, I want him to be the band, be in the band forever. Yeah, just stay in there. And for them to release albums with Neil Finn and Stevie Nix doing vocals and stuff. How great would that?

That would be amazing. Dude, Stevie Nix is the best. She's so good. She is. All right, well, on to other things, an exit, if you will. But before we do, patreon.com slash TMS is how this show is put together and stays together. So please continue your contributions. people like Aaron Wace at the grade A plus level

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I have no idea what it is. So Brian will play it. I will play it. Local boy, Dean. who goes by the name Dino Spamoni on Discord and in the chat room. He says, Dear Scotson Brony, a couple paper towel brands. I love it. This week I'll be celebrating my 36th birthday by going to my favorite vacation destination, Las Vegas, Nevada.

He's there right now. I've been talking to him. He went to the Circa last night to watch the Raiders game on the massive, massive sportsbook screen. It's bigger than some movie theaters. That sounds amazing. That'd be a way to watch it. It's really cool. It would be absolutely.

I would also love to celebrate it by listening to my favorite cover with my favorite friends in the tadpool. Love the show, though. Dean. Well, happy birthday, Dean. Yeah. This is for him right here. Happy birthday to you. And a happy new year.

There you go, bud. He found a place west, about 10 minutes west of downtown called the Springs Preserve. They've got a few museums and a botanical garden. And a surprisingly good cafe, he says. So 10 minutes west of downtown is Springs Preserve. Anyway, he wants to hear this cover of Johnny Be Good, covered by Jimmy Hendrix. This is one that Jimmy never released a studio version of, but always perform live. And we've got a live version of it from Berkeley.

This is great. Here is the Jimmy Hendricks experience and a live version of Chuck Berry's Johnny Be Good. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Excuse us for tuning up every once in a while, but like a, I guess, you know, Cowboys are going to want to stay into it anyway, so give us about three minutes. Is it too loud up there? Is it too loud? Let's work, bro. We got this other thing called, I don't know, what I could do, a little loose jam type of thing.

It's trying to be good. What the hell? I'm going to lose the end of course I'm through on these Back up in the woods if I'm never have been free Oh living in a college makes a bunch of love You've got your boy named Tommy due He never ever learned me to wrestle well Oh, you can play like a guitar That's like to break in a tent to go

Oh boy Try to go Go Go Go Go Oh Charlie go Go

Oh Charlie go Go Johnny be good It's the Carey as you know in a tennis set Pacificity the trees By the rainbow track

Oh Someone was a music that's a drama space People pass with my They're nothing safe The time of life They're catching fucking play

Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go

Go Go Go Go Go Go So, you know, oh. Come on a lot of something you will be your band

and you be the leader of a bigger band Oh, a lot of people come and miles around Here you play you get off with a circle now Maybe someday your name will be in life They've got to be good tonight Go-go Oh I've got to go Oh

I've got to go Oh Oh I'm trying to go Oh Oh I'm trying to go I'm trying to go

I'm trying to go Oh You know, I'm going to be able to be able to be. And so, you know, I'm going to be. Ooh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com.

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