The Morning Stream - TMS 2238: Taste the conclusion

Episode Date: January 31, 2022

Brian's Booger Plates. There is no D in Alabama. The Guy On Twitter Was Wrong. They're Just Pro-Potato. The Hour of Power off. They Aren't Quite Right In The GIANT HEAD! Don't Inject Spice, Girls. Reading is Hard Let's Ban Things. Pull the lever, no not that lever. What happens in New Orleans stay off Noom. A Netflix Original? How Original. I Work On LSDeeeeeeee. Boseman What's His Power? Fart-Activated Lights. What's the deal with the guy crossing the street? 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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There is no D in Alabama. The guy on Twitter was wrong. They're just pro potato. The hour of power off. They aren't quite right in the giant head. Don't inject spice, girls. Reading is hard. Let's ban things.

Pull the lever, not that lever. What happens in Orleans stays off noon. A Netflix original. How original. I work on LSD. Bozeman. What's his power? Fart activated lights.

What's the deal with the guy crossing the street? Major spoilers and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Guess what? I've started swearing. How about you, Daniel? Are you swearing to? Not yet, but Jerry's going to teach me. Now let's make some joints. The morning stream. The morning stream.

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Hey morning, everybody. Welcome back to the morning stream for Monday, January 31st, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. That guy right there is Brian a bit. Hello. Hello. I don't know how to say that with a Creole accent. Hello.

Hello. Hello, y'all. That's what you say. Hey, did you know that was Mark Spagnol? Let me play it again. Now let's make some joints. Yeah, he wants to make some joints. I thought so, because I knew it was like either the I like to make stuff guy who has a very similar temperament and delivery to Mark.

Yeah, they're very sim similar. But once in a while, he'll pop up on my TikTok algorithm and he'll say a funny thing that's like out of context. And I'm like, all right, I'm going to start capturing the Wood Whisperer saying things about joints. that really he's talking about wood he's talking about wood joints not talking about the smoking kind you know oh oh really even though he lives in colorado right i know missed opportunity all right so as you can tell he's been smoking some trees you know the only thing that comes up in my tictock algorithm even though i i never like them i never subscribe to them but it's uh 30 seconds of standing there looking at the camera mouthing the words to some uh some comedians stand up and then like doing a little dance at the twerking and the arms forward it's like, wow. I never watch

a whole one of these things. I never hit the love, the little heart icon. I never subscribe to these people. Why do you still send me these? Yeah, I get nothing but cute dog, cat, animal things and fail videos. Apparently, I'm real fond of those. I need to get, I apparently am just It's such a weird thing to say, but boy, I guess I need to watch more TikTok for it to figure out what I like. It's literally what that thing does, I guess, is it does that.

Jeannie, I am shocked. You're not going to put TikTok on your phone. Shocked. I can't believe it. Stop the presses and pull up your dresses, everybody. How do I decide? Is not seeing the things I don't want to see on TikTok just not looking at TikTok? or is it looking at the things I want to look at on TikTok for a long time

until it finally figures out what I want to look like. That's a really good point. It depends on the burden of do you want to see less of the thing you don't like or more. A lot of diminishing returns. I'm sure that's in there somewhere and I don't know where it is. That's awesome. All right. So Brian, as you all noticed, he disappeared unceremoniously last Thursday when the show ended.

It's kind of sucked because we were in the middle of the windy thing. and I didn't notice it right away because you know how it gets on that segment. She's sort of intense. She's telling this thing. Neither of us are talking over her. And then she asked, I think we got to a point

where she either asked you a question or it was like a thing you would naturally come in on it and I'm like, oh shit, he's not even here. Like his pitcher's gone. That's why it's so quiet over there. And then when I texted you, I thought, oh, no, he's not answering.

What the frick happened? Did Colorado get sucked into a giant lava pit or what happened over there? Did a meteor hit the house? Yeah, that was the way as part of it, right? So, like, everything went out in the house, right? The power, dark down here. There's a window way over there, but it wasn't, you know, it was just super dark. However, I do have my computers down here on a battery backup that is, that beeps constantly while, you know,

to let you know, hey, you're running on battery backup. Yeah. So it's like, oh, quit, save, you know, put this, sorry, I'm going to quit out of these applications the right way instead of abruptly and stuff like that. But with the router's gone, my phone's like, well, your Wi-Fi doesn't seem right. Are you trying to send a text? I'm texting Scott like, hey, power just went out here. It hasn't come back up yet. Nothing.

So I'm like, well, I turn off Wi-Fi on my phone. Still, and I don't know if it's something, some interference or something, but I couldn't send texts until we physically left the house in the neighborhood. Must have hit the cell towers in your zone or something. Yeah, maybe. But, you know, there's always the, I was saying this pre-show, but that fear of like, all right, what was on? What was turned on when the power went out that will automatically come back on again when the power comes back on? Are there going to be lights or the coffee heat plate or something like that?

Will my ember mug spontaneously burst into flames because it's charging? Oh, that happened at the end of curb your enthusiasm last season before last. Remember that? Did it really? Yeah, that was the whole thing that burned down his spike coffee shop was the, what's his name? Leon left one of the coffee cup heaters on that they had. It was the same thing and ended up burning the whole damn thing down. So, yeah, scary.

But unfortunately, nothing that was, nothing that was an issue with the exception of our garage door. Oh, shit. as you know garage doors need uh garage door openers need power to open yeah and you've got the process of going out there pulling the little handle manually lifting the garage door pulling the car out then low manually lowering the garage door we could not get that thing to latch i could i had to get a ladder out i had to go back into the garage through the house uh get a ladder out get up to the the thing where it's supposed to latch at the the door.

The little hook, yeah. And like move things and push things to finally get it to actually close so that somebody couldn't just walk by and go, oh, one finger raised the garage door and they're done. I had to do that recently for some other reason. Maybe similar, I guess. We had no power and we had to leave. And so we went and did it manually. Like the olden times where you open your garage and shut it.

Ours has a little tourney job outside so you can lock it and have it stay even though you're not hooked. But getting that hook back on was a nightmare. It was so hard getting that to like get exactly where it needs to be. And it took like three of us. Somebody had to hold the thing open just a little higher than it would normally hang while Kim was up in the thing doing this. And I'm over here on the other side holding the other end of the hook. It was a nightmare. It was horrendous. Oh, pain in the ass. Yeah. So there you have. Anyway, good news is got out to the airport. Power didn't come on, by the way, for like, an hour out here. There was just something with the weather, the snow. We had blizzard conditions

later that day, but it wasn't so bad as we were leaving. I guess it was bad enough. That's good, though. You know, fly out and that stuff's the worst. Oh, it is, yeah. Got out to the airport, though, got on plane, got to New Orleans, and just had such a great time. It ate like, like I was not reporting everything on Noom, which I didn't for the weekend, for most of the weekend. I did report a few things, but, um, but had some incredible, like, crawfish etouffay, and we went to a haunted restaurant called Murials. The owner hung himself in the rafters,

but they, and they noticed a lot of, you know, weird things happening, like tables being turned over overnight when employees would show up in the morning to open and stuff like that. So now they set a plate, or they set a whole table for him in part of the restaurant, and even have like his favorite wine poured every night and a baguette on the table. But as a guest, and I wish I would have known this because I would have done it, as a guest you can actually request that table and sit at his table as long as you ask him before you sit down. Really?

They don't have his cart. He flips over a wine glass than you're, you know. You don't, there's not, he doesn't have like a, his old dried up corpse isn't still hanging up there, right? Not to my knowledge, but this is New Orleans. It certainly could be. That'd be amazing. I went to Acme Seafood first night and had like, I show you the pre-cooked oysters, but they do char-grilled oysters there. Oh, yeah. I don't like the raw.

First thing Brian does, yeah, I can eat cooked oysters, but Brian, first thing he does is go and send me booger plates in the photo. I said, check out these sea boogers. Yeah, big old shells. I mean, they looked legit. They looked really, they looked good if you cook those. If you like oysters, yeah. Yeah. If you're sucking them raw, F off.

Can't do it. Blat. And then, of course, had to go to Café Dumond and get Benets. We also, the next day, did another chain out there called Cafe Benignette. It's like a local New Orleans chain. That place sucks. Really? Like, yeah, it's like a more of a sit-down restaurant.

Cafe Dumond is, hey, we've got this. You know, we've got an area where you walk up, you pay, you get your bignets, your coffee, and you go take it to a table and eat it. Sure. This other place, cafe bignet, is like, oh, well, you place your order at the counter, then we'll bring it to you. And they serve it to you with Chinat styrofoam plates and plastic forks and knives, and everything was bland.

Their grits were the most bland grits I've ever had. It was like, oh, this place sucks. So if you go, if you go to New Orleans, Cafe Dumond, absolutely. There's a reason that place is touristy and popular. It's because it's absolutely worth it. Crispy outside on the bignets and all that stuff. But this other place is just like, oh, we'll make the bignets and we will dump a quarter of a cup of powdered sugar on each and every one. Legitimate bignets are food of the gods.

Anything else is kind of gross if they don't get it right, you know? oily, weird, doughy. Or doughy, right, undercooked in the middle. We, so naturally I brought back some bignet dough from Café Dumont. I can't imagine. I mean, they're basically so peas. It can't be that hard to actually make it from scratch. But there's something, if you ever saw the Jean Favreau and Roy Choi episode of the chef show

where they screwed up making Cafe Dumont Benyés. Never saw that. apparently they just the water wasn't cold enough or something but so like we had to bring back some I'm going to try doing it in the air fryer and see if I can do um yeah why wouldn't that work that would work right right that would work it seems like it would work yeah um we uh we popped on to bourbon street like once just so I could show Tina this is the magic the special place known as Bourbon Street long enough to see um the drunks the buskers who now have a new thing. So when I was there, I think like 1998, 1998, 1999 last time, there was a, the trend were the tap dancing kids who just stick bottle caps in the bottom of their shoes and they tap dance and you give them a buck or two. No kids when we were out there. The new thing is, you know, the people who put on a ton of silver pants.

and they pose like their robots or white paint and make themselves look like statues and that sort of thing. Yeah, and you get up to them and if you mess with them, they'll mess with you and all that stuff. And like, you know, if you don't realize they're statues, they try and scare the crap Eddie. Well, now the new thing is they make themselves look like they're in the middle of doing something and then they just froze. So one of them is like walking across the street and he's on his, the tip of one foot and

the heel of another. Oh, right. And just staying like that. It's like, wow, that looks like it would hurt for a while, but what am I going to do? They got like a steel thing in there, like a, um, how I saw one in Vegas is like this. And the guy when he, the ones in Vegas are insane. They're insane. They look like they're, they're like running through to wind or something.

Yes. And then if you see them, if you see them pack up, it's like, oh, well, their coat is this stiff thing that's like all starched. Their pants, same thing. And then they got like a metal rod that they basically sit on, but it makes it look like they're running. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Now, those are cool. Those are well done.

We saw these guys move. There was nothing. They had no devices. They were just on their heel and their toe. And you think, all right, that's really cool, but what's the point? I'm going to take a picture of you to, like, send back to my friends at home, say, check out this guy. It's going to be like, oh, check out this guy who was walking across the street. And you just happen to snap a picture as he was walking across the street.

What's the point? Yeah, what is the point of that? That's dumb. So we said, you know, screw Bourbon Street. we had a server say, no, you know what you do is you go to Frenchman Street. It's all live music, and you just go from place to place, which is exactly what we did. I sent some posts on Twitter put up some shots of where we went, but started out in one blues place and watched this guy for a while.

He was awesome. Then went down the street. There was like a washboard, hillbilly kind of music plays. There were like a place was awesome. And then another blues one. And then we ended up at a drag, an hour-long drag show. Oh, nice. Never know when those are going to crop up.

And they were great. I mean, they were a blast. We did Mardi Gras World, which if you go to New Orleans and you say, I'm not going to do Mardi Gras world. It seems touristy. No, no, do it, especially this time of year. We went there and there, this is actually, I thought it was, oh, this is where they put all of the old Mardi Gras floats and stuff.

And there is some of that. There's a lot of that. but it's also where they're building all of the floats for this year's Mardi Gras. So we sat there and we watched them like carving styrofoam. They like glue huge sheets of styrofoam together and then they carve it and they use a heat gun and they use like big knives and little knives. They have a giant robot arm that does robot arms that works like a 3D printer. And so you put in your little 3D image and it'll go this thing is immense. Cool.

And it'll cut this thing up. And then they're painting it. And so we got to see, we were there with Trisha before Tank Girl. Yeah. And watch that for a while. That was the coolest thing. That is rare. Who knew they were doing like a modern technique on an ancient art, basically?

Like anything to do with those old parades, it's always just been like old-fashioned methods. I didn't know they did anything else. That's pretty cool. Totally. Yeah. Right. You think, oh, okay, it's, you know, handmade, just like it always has been. no, they've upgraded the technology for making those things.

Were some of them like big, big freaky heads and stuff like that? I love that stuff. Oh, yeah, I took some pictures and I should put those up, but it's weird giant heads that aren't quite right, but you're going to forgive it because it's on such a huge scale. Like, wow, that mouth is probably a lot larger than it should be or that nose doesn't look quite right. Anything else would not be acceptable. Like, it needs to be really, like, off-putting for it to work right.

I love that. Yes. Very cool. The, we also met up with Jayfongastic, Jason and his girlfriend, Angelina. They were absolutely lovely as well. Met them for,

for lunch on Saturday, and they were just super, super nice people. Jayfuntastic is a good guy, man. He's a good dude. He really is. He's absolutely one of the good ones. And his girlfriend is lovely. and didn't look, you know, like, weirded out that,

all right, this guy wanted to come meet somebody he heard on a podcast for lunch? She was just totally... That's good. She just went with the swing of the thing. I get it. That's cool. Exactly. And the last thing I wanted to mention is, so we did the ghost tour.

After our dinner at Muriel's, one of the first things we did after that was go on this ghost tour. We had planned for the same night. And one of the first stops was that restaurant where you got the whole story about the guy who hanged himself. But our tour guide, all right, so this was a recommendation. You fit forwarded a tweet that Geek Mom had posted about going to New Orleans and doing a ghost tour. And I said, great, this is exactly, I wanted somebody to give me a recommendation of one to do because there's a thousand. And while you're out there on your ghost tour, every little cluster of people is another ghost tour. It's like everywhere all over the place.

They're all there for the same thing. They're all, yeah, people at night in New Orleans are either drunk in bars or walking around on a ghost tour. Or both. Why not both, I say? Do both. Or maybe both. But our guy was, he was absolutely entertaining, if not maybe a little weird. First off, you think I. I say, oh, what's funny is, you know, I think I say that a lot. Or I used to be, for me, it used to be absolutely.

Like I'd say absolutely way too much on somebody made a mashup of me saying absolutely a thousand times. This guy, every sentence would begin with. And what we'll find, ladies and gentlemen, of course, is that da-da-da-da. But he'd put those three things, the what will find, the ladies and gentlemen, and the, of course, in a different order all the time. And I don't think he was intentional. It was just like a little nervous take.

So it's like, ladies and gentlemen, of course, what we'll find is that, you know, years later with this hand will be found in a dishwasher in Schenectady. Or another one is like, oh, what we'll find, of course, ladies and gentlemen, is that this owner will have hung himself in the top thing inside that window right there. Every single, every single. Look, some people have a verbal crutch. This guy's got a verbal walker, it sounds like to me. He does. It's like an absolutely verbal walker. and he couldn't we could not figure out the accent he was from alabama originally yeah and there were

times that it sounded like all right he's trying to sound like he's from new orleans but then there's times it's trying to sound like he's from alabama or then there are times that there was no accent whatsoever um it's like the guy the man damon he's an asian really that Asian dude in um that movie we saw that was so weird had Tony Todd in it for a hot second uh And then they went out to the... Oh, yes. It was the, right, the boat tour. Hatchett.

Hatchett. Hatchett. It sounds like that. Someone trying to fake a New Orleans, you know, they don't really quite know what voice they're doing or whatever. It sounds a little like that. A little bit like that. He was great. He was entertaining.

He, uh, while we're out on our, um, on our ghost tour. Yeah. We actually got interrupted by a second line, which is so cool to see one of those live. the funeral, the post funeral processions. Yeah, those are awesome. So, like, first line is that slow, they're going down the street. Second line is like, no, we're cutting loose,

and we've got the instruments, and they're just playing like it's a big old party. That it was freaking amazing. Yeah, those are really something. I've seen maybe two of those, and it's never a thing you want to. You never just go, oh, another one of these. And you're like, oh, another one of these.

Which I know, it's sad. and everything. Somebody died, but still, it's pretty rad. It's really cool how they do that down there. Really cool. Yeah. So anyway, I had a great time. I'm sure, you know, stuff, I'll think of other stuff later, but nice. Yeah, very much like the live and

let die, James Bond thing. I also think of what's the Mickey Rourke? My favorite Mickey Rourke thing. Oh, the shotgun and the vagina movie. Yes, exactly. What's that called? Angel Heart. All I could think of was,

Wild at Heart, Angel Heart. Yeah. But there's a scene where Mickey Rerker was tearing through a first line and, you know, to the point where it knocks over the casket and there's like a body in there and stuff. Yeah. Any, the big easy I always think of, even though that movie is a huge stereotype of what it's like down there. And that might be, that's a worse, uh, New Orleans accent than the one our guy was trying to do.

Oh, yeah, for sure. It's accent there. The, um, the other thing, oh, while we were there, they were filming, uh... Hard Target 2. Hard Target 2. Wouldn't it be great? Oh, sorry. I got excited for a second. They were filming interview with a vampire. There's a new AMC TV show that's going to be interview with a vampire, closer to the books than the Tom Cruise movie.

Yeah, give that a series of treatment. That's cool. I like that. Exactly. And then they were filming the sequel to Haunted Mansion, Disney's Haunted Mansion. Don't forget, that movie came out the same year as Pirates of the Caribbean. Because I don't think they were filming the sequel to Muppets Haunted Mansion. No, the good one, you mean.

Not the, not that you were talking about the terrible one with Eddie Murphy. The terrible one with Eddie Murphy. That's the one I think they were filming a... Is he there? Did you see Eddie Murphy? No. No, but I think, I think there was a lot of cast there because parts of the road were closed off. We were going to a gallery that was on the road, an art gallery that was on that road.

But there were a bunch of people like, with their cameras out, taking pictures of some people that were across the street. I didn't get a good look. Interesting. That's cool, though. To hear that there's still, you know, I know a lot of times you'll have that as a backdrop and they don't actually film there. So it's cool when they film there, you know.

So it is, I've looked it up. It's a haunted mansion remake, not a sequel to the 2003 film, but a reboot of the franchise. Do we have actors listed for this? That first movie was really. Oh, it did, yeah, the horrendous. us really bad like so bad it's hard for me to i wish i could relive that two hours in a different way yeah it looks like tiffany haddish maybe i don't know i like her she's good i do too yeah i can see her i can see all these people probably being there all these you know uh-huh it's

probably a disney plus deal right we're gonna do some kind of original sure it will be yeah doesn't seem like a theater movie to me no i could be wrong you get this weird argument with a stranger on the internet i know that happens uh yesterday i know weird But it was weird because they were insistent that none of the big streaming companies, Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO Max, this sort of thing, none of them bankroll projects, they only pay to have something, the rights to run something on their service. And I said, well, if you're talking about old movies, yeah. But, dude, Netflix has got like, I don't know, if you're just counting movies, it's like 200 movies. if you count TV shows, it's way more than that. They bankroll shit every day.

I don't know what this guy was talking about. It was the dumbest argument, and he just couldn't see it. I said, no, no. When they say Netflix original, you know what that means? Or when a movie says a Netflix film and here's Martin Scorsese doing a thing, they're the studio. They're the money in this. Scorsese didn't go, I'm a pay for it on myself because I'm Martin Scor.

He didn't do that. It's not just right. Peacrum are saying, no, Netflix isn't making those. They're still just buying the rights. No, they're not. That is not, that is 100% incorrect. They're not, they're not just going, hey, we'll buy that. Oh, we'll buy that.

That's not how it works. They fund full-blown projects top to bottom. Right. They're the producers. They're basically the producers, yes. Yeah, they buy rights for some. That's mostly TV, though. You know, like Squid Game is not a Netflix original in the sense that they made it.

I understand that. That's not what I'm talking about. There's a mix there for sure, just like there is anywhere. What I'm saying is this idea that Netflix doesn't have a single film that they didn't bankroll. I'm telling you, it's in the dozens. Y'all are insane. Find me proof to the contrary and I'll eat my hat on the air. But I'm telling you, they don't just spend money to go, can we play it here?

That's not how it works. They make originals. So there you go. Yeah, they buy Sundance movies. What do you think other studios normally do? No one ever goes, oh, Sony, Fox, whoever, let's say Fox Searchlight, bought this movie from Sundance. That doesn't mean that they bought it so they had the rights to it. It means that they bankrolled it.

That's bankrolling. Bankroll! Hey, some of the stars that were there for the filming, apparently, we never saw them, or if we saw them, we didn't recognize it because they had masks covering half their faces. Lekeith, Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Rosario Dawson, and Danny DeVito. Oh, well, this is quite the star-studded, spectacular. Those are all like stars of the reboot of Haunted Mansion. Yeah, I'm guessing, I'm 100% sure this is coming to Disney Plus.

I would guess, yeah. Probably paid for by Disney, I'm thinking. You know? Probably paid for by, I would think paid for by Disney. No, you don't think some Korean guy made it and then they just bought it? You don't think that's how that worked? Hmm, interesting. Scott follows arguing with a guy on Twitter.

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habits like the rest of us. That's true. Bad habits like this guy coming on the show right now. Yeah, that guy. Hey, look who it is, everybody. Brian Dunaway joining us. Hi. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Oh, hi. How are you? I'm doing good. How is your Monday? Oh, it's not bad. So is your COVID just gone? It's done. You're not, no long COVID for you. I'm done with COVID. I said, stuff it, you stupid COVID.

Yeah, take that. I did. Well, I was sick. I got, I got sick early in January. I was out, you know, just down and out for about two weeks, really miserable. Third week was pretty bad, and I called, I called the doctor, and the doctor said, no more jumping on the, no, I called the doctor. And he said, he said, it sounds like you still got like a, maybe like a, uh, uh, uh, a, uh, a, uh, a, uh, a, uh, a, uh, a. bacterial infection going on as well and so I got some antibiotics took those and now I feel for the

most part back to myself. That's good. That makes me very happy to hear that because I'm going to need you later today at 3.30 which we'll talk about later. Hey, look at this. It's Brian Dunaway, which means time for another morning squirm with Brian Ibit here. Brian, why don't you tell us who's participating and what they might win? I will do exactly that. Welcome to the morning squirm, a back and forth trivia game where our players will match wits on topics that Cliff Clavin would have offered up at the cheers bar. These two chuckleheads are going to take turns answering multiple choice

trivia questions and if they get it wrong the other player gets a point. The player with the most points after five questions wins the prize for their contestant and our contestants are pulled from members of the tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're going to be playing for Amanda P in

Bozeman, Montana. Bozeman. Bozman. What's his power, Bozman? And, Brian, you're going to be playing for Robert W in Montevideo, Minnesota. Oh, Montevideo. It's an odd name for a town, isn't it? It sounds like a, it sounds like a European town. I like it.

How fun is that? It sounds like an old video rental store owned by Mom and Pop down the road. Montevideo. Yeah, Monty Video. So, the prizes that they can win, by the way, winner is going to get a copy of Due Process and Wingspan on Steam but the runner-up is going to get something

called Timeline, not Timeline but Time-Ly. I don't know what that game is. I know what Wing-SPAN is. The rest of them I'm unsure of any of these, but I'm sure they're good. I don't know. Yeah. Time-Ly. Time-Ly. Looking forward on snicking. I like how you say they're going to get it. Like you've like you're making calls.

Like, yeah, it turns out I got some kind of disease. I just want you know you're probably going to get it. you're going to contract the following Steam game. Oh, this looks awesome and it's currently got overwhelmingly positive reviews. It's newish too. It came out in 2020.

The one timeline? Yeah, it looks cool, man. All right, I'm jealous of whoever wins this. This looks really good. Oh, a stealth puzzle adventure. Yeah, it looks nice. Oh, where you control time like a media player. Oh, that's kind of cool. Wow. Oh, I remember this.

I have no idea what this is, but it looks good. I never played it, but yeah, I remember looking at it. This is an indie title, right? It has its fans. Oh, yeah. Very indie, Mr. Spindy, Indy. All right. Well, let's do it. I'm ready. Bad dates, Indy. All right. So, let's get to this. Brian, I think you won last time. So, Scott, you're going to go first. Great. Bring on some gross question. Yeah. Speaking of criminals, what was the occupation listed on Al Capone's business card? Was it? A. Preacher. B, murderer, C, gun collector, or D, used furniture dealer?

The first one was preacher? Preacher. I want to know who he's giving these business cards out to. That's what I want to do. Right, exactly. I don't actually know. I think it's either A or D, so I got to just pick one. It's not in fault manager.

You know what? That furniture seems like a thing he would do. I'll say the furniture thing. You're going to say furniture? Yeah. Okay. Is it used furniture dealer? It absolutely is.

Yeah. I did not know for sure. It sounded too easy to be true, right? It did. It totally did. Especially when you put murder in there, a gun collector. It's like, all right, come on. Give me some better, give me some better fake answers.

It'd be easier to put a... Remember that time? Remember time that Geraldo screwed us all over in the 90s when he was in the 80s, man. It was like 1885. No, no, no. I'm going to correct you because it was the 90s where the problem really hit. His little stunt was like, okay, but that spawned all this talk show BS crap that later came with Jerry Springer and all that stuff. It's all directly related.

And so, yeah, thanks a lot. I think we're heading that way no matter what, but yeah, Geraldo can eat a turd. I will say this. What is I going to say? I was going to say that, oh, nose broke. The furniture thing would be an easy thing to build a front for. So that also makes sense. Because if he put preacher, you'd have to prove it.

You know, like at what point do you prove you're a preacher? But if you say I'm a furniture salesman, you could have a furniture front like a store that's got like booze in the back. I've never called anybody out in their business card. No, for real, though. I'm saying if you're Al Capone, right? Right, right, right, right. Like if he's trying to evade the law, do it with something you confront real easy and you can do that with a furniture store. You can't arrest me.

I'm a preacher. Yeah, I'm a preacher. Prove it. uh oh my card jesus and then you okay he's a preacher jesus all right brian this question is for you um this u.s state still has a ban on sex toys so one of our 50 states still has a ban

just one just one of our 50 states has a ban on six it's got to be south carolina go ahead well say the numbers uh is it a north dakota B, Alabama, C, North Carolina, or D, Idaho. Oh. It might be Idaho. Right.

Oh, it feels like all of those will be perfect candidates. I'm really, honestly, I am shocked. They're a weird name. There's not like at least 13 or more states that say that you can't do it. Well, every time I've been in North Carolina, I can't seem to pick up any sexual aid, so that's got to be it. All right. Is it North Carolina? it is not

Scott your remaining choices are in North Dakota Alabama or Idaho Oh that's for Brian I'm gonna say I'm just gonna go with Idaho I don't know I just have a feeling It feels right right You gotta use a potato

Yeah you already have You already got Homegrown It's not that they're anti-sex toys They're pro potato to the degree That they'll only allow a potato To be a sex toy This potato can be anything

anything. A sexual aid? No, it's actually not Idaho. It's Alabama. It is the Anti-A obscenity Enforcement Act of 1998. 98! That criminalizes the sale of sex toys. Wow.

It was originally put in place to, as a measure, to prohibit nude dancing, but it's extended to anything that is marketed or designed or used primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs for anything of pecuniary value. Do you want to be happy and? feel good, not here. No. Not in Alabama.

Nope. Boy, where do they got to go to get that? They get cross over to Mississippi and grab a couple. You've got to cross the state lines, yeah. Damn. All right. That's what we do, our fireworks. If we want good fireworks in Utah, we have to do the same thing,

but it's not nearly as embarrassing. It's going to get a dildo in Mississippi. Why, can I buy a fleshlight? I'm from Mobile and we can't get over there. And this pack of gum. Yeah. That's great. Anyway. All right. In 2007, by the way, Alabama politician Loretta Nail or Nall. No?

No. I can tell if that's an I or Nile. Please be nail. A former, it would be great if she was a nail. Libertarian Party Canada for governor launched a well-publicized toy drive to send sex toys to Alabama. Alabama Attorney General Troy King. Wow. Those libertarians do anything to get attention. Yeah, they got to. They don't get much else. They have to, man. I know.

Yeah. If you can be a libertarian, you've got to really go for it. Go for the freedom of the sex toy. I'm into it. All right. Well done. I get a point for that. Scott, you got a point for that one anyway. And you get this next question. Hey, look, we all love injecting spices into our body, but this particular one you're going to want to avoid because it could kill you. Is it? Nutmeg, cinnamon, cumin, or peppercorn. Oh, that's interesting. I mean, one of these will kill you if you inject it.

But not, obviously, there's all the other ways we consume it and it's fine. Correct. I'm going to say nutmeg. I don't know why I just want to say it. Nutmeg. Nutmeg. Okay. Nothing mag.

Is the answer nutmeg? It is indeed nutmeg. If you inject it, it'll kill you. Okay. How about not injecting any spices into your body? Unless it's the spices of Dune Right, exactly, yes Yeah, that's gross, man

I don't, I don't know why that one rang a bell, but for some reason there was some Like, when we are kids, there was something about Nutmeg that people warned you about. Maybe it was this, but there was always like, Oh, yeah, you gotta be careful. Even eating it, you're like, ah, ah. Yeah, I came to what it was.

But still to this day, sporty spice is still good for you. Let's go to Brian for this one. I always do you were a sporty spice girl I'm a sporty spice girl, say it girl, all right, I'm a sporty spice girl Say it Please, sir, may have another

Colgate toothpaste isn't a big seller in countries with certain Spanish dialect because the word Colgate loosely translates to A, your mom is easy, B, shit mouth, C, don't need this, or D, go hang yourself.

Good Lord. weird yeah that's really something none of those sound right so you had you had poop mouth give them to

rapid fire quick sure rapid fire your mom is easy shit mouth don't need this go hang yourself what would I do to you oh um it's like you were cursing me out there

I'm gonna go go do your mom what was it again your mom is easy your mom is easy your mom is easy All right. Is it your mom is easy?

It is not. Scott gets the point. Scott, your remaining choices are shitmouth. Don't need this. Don't need this. Or go hang yourself. I really don't know. I'll just say, go hang yourself. Go hang yourself is correct.

What? Look at you, Scott. Nailed it today. So there's a colloquial. Is it colloquial? Cloak wheel? Cloak wheel. That's what I say.

Colloquial. It's probably the right way to say it. In a colloquial form of Spanish, be pronounced as the same as the toothpaste, Colgate, but more like a quellgate or quellgate. And that deterred from purchasing it? Whatever. I'd purchase, go hang yourself toothpaste right now. Yeah, do it. Hang your toothpaste. All right. Exactly. All right. Scott, this last question is for you. You've won the game. But this is your chance to make it a five-point sweep. All right. Look at you.

So telling people that you've got sphenop... Sorry, this is a big lung word or big long thing. So sphenopalatin ganglion neuralgia would take two down long, because as I just demonstrated, instead, tell them that you're suffering from this annoying but temporary ailment. Is it? Brain freeze, pins and needles, frog in your throat, or uncontrollable hiccups. Uh, oh, geez. Sphenopalotene ganglion, ganglion, ganglia, gangly, ganglety.

Maybe spino, spino, palatine. Emperor Palpatine. I'll say brain freeze, because I don't know. Senator Palpatine. I have no idea. Brain freeze, I'm saying. All right. Is it brain freeze? Scott sweeps the game from probably the last time.

Because the palate. Right. Yeah, no, that's what got me thinking. You know what really threw me today is I got a lot of A's. I got a lot of A's and D's on your list. Right. And that usually throws me and makes me feel like I'm not playing the letter field enough. Like I'm not choosing enough C's or B's.

And so it makes you nervous. With the exception of Alabama, all of today's answers were either A or D. It's a weird, a weird thing to notice, but okay, good. Yeah. Yeah, well done. D is for Dildo in Alabama. A is for Alabama. D is for Dildo.

There's no D. There's no D in Alabama. There's no D in Alabama. Well, there you go. So that means who did I win for Montana? You won for Amanda P in Bozeman, Montana. Congratulations, Amanda. You're going to get a copy of due process and wingspan.

But Robert W., don't worry. You're going home with a game also that looks really cool called Time Lye. Yeah, and by the way, wingspan is based on the board game wingspan, which I think Dan is recommended to us before. Let me see. Let me make sure that's right. Yeah, that's a board game that's very well thought of and loved and adored. And they have a video game version of it, which is also very good. In fact, it also has overwhelmingly positive reviews. Look at you getting all the winner games.

Yeah, this is amazing. Well done. Who gave us these? Who's the code donated? Oh, I'm sorry, Wesley, yes. Wesley sent us. Basically, the first of the month, Wesley sends us a bunch of new games. and it's great, great stuff.

Yeah, Wesley's awesome. So thank you, Wesley. Now get off the bridge. That's it for you, Brian, except to say, later today at 3.30, we do another play retro show. I can't believe we're, what, four now? Well, this would be our... This will be number five. This would be number five.

What the frick, dude. I'm going to talk about a couple of controller reviews today. In fact, I got one right here where it just came in last night. Ooh, look at that. Whoops, there we go. Looks like the, is that what the... Almost looks like the Sega. not quite. It is. It's a Genesis controller, six button Genesis controller, although it's the 8bit

do kind of reproduction of that. Using this to play Genesis games for future shows and stuff like that, I'll also have some comments on a three, sorry, a PC controller that I really ended up liking. But more importantly, we're talking about berserk today and the other games it inspired and why when you play like a dual stick shooter today, you owe a lot to a really old game that used to yell at you and say intruder alert intruder alert as loud as it could. Yeah, it's an awesome thing. We're going to get deep

into all of that stuff on today's play retro at the 330. Was there a sequel called Frenzy? I'm seeming, I seem to remember a sequel. Okay. Yeah. You are correct. Very quickly. Proper sequel? Proper sequel. A true sequel by the same creator of as Berserk.

I have to play that today and just get my head around it. But yeah, we got a bunch of that to talk about and some progress. on my renovation of my dad's old arcade machine. We'll talk about that as well. So I'm kind of obsessed with retro right now, and it's all your fault, listeners. Thanks for listening to that show and making it kick off real well.

Check it out. It's play retro wherever you get your podcast, or you can watch us live today at 3.30 Mountain Time right here on Twitch.com. Brian Dunaway, anything else you want to say before you go? Hey, sure. If you want to watch me and play those retro games throughout the week, 6 p.m. Eastern Time on my Twitch channel,

twitch.com, t.m. slash Brian Dunaway. No, you. Kiss my butt. All right. Oh, he preemptively no you'd me. Damn. He did. Well done. He got me. All right. And you guys did great. Like, the amount of time that you take and talking about play retro, I'm able to get games out to our. Oh, that's good. That's good. You don't have to worry about it later. That's fantastic. Because I will forget if I have to worry about it later. There you have it. We're going to now do a very quick news story. Here you go. Let's play this. the moon. It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. From patron Four Brewers, he says, we're a beer, home brew podcast, almost eight years of podcasting under our belts. Go check us out at four brewers.com.

And you spell out, F-O-U-R, Brewers. Yeah, for like four of them, yeah. That's great. Eight years, that's no small, that's more than most people do podcasts, so congratulations. It totally is true, yeah. Well done. Future Hall of Famer. Brian, why is everybody smoking Toad Venom?

I thought of this story. Oh, I wish I knew. When I put this in, I thought of you because at the time you were going to New Orleans. Now you've gone, now you're home. Oh, is this a New Orleans thing? Not really, but it just reminds me of something they'd do there. You know, like, hey, let's go get some Toad Venom. It just seems like a New Orleans thing.

You know, for a place that your wife comes from, you sure give that place a bad rap. Like you talk about if you leave a certain street, you will be killed moments after Well, for the record, she's 35, 40 minutes east. So she lives in, she's in the Mississippi side, but yeah, she's just, you know, she's a half hour away anytime. New Orleans is fine. Don't get me wrong. It's a very cool town. We never felt unsafe in the entirety of the French Quarter, even though, you know, I know that, hey, crime is up everywhere, but.

Yeah. You just got to watch it there. I'm giving you hard time, Scott. If you drive too far to the left. Anyway, South Hampton Soccer Mom. drops their kids off at school after their thrice weekly microdose of silicabin mushrooms and then meat for oatmeal lattes. What?

The psilocybin or psilocybin. Is it psilocybin? I haven't even heard of that. Anyway, and then private retreats dedicated to tripping on MDNA. You know, that's Molly. That's what the kids do is Molly. Oh, yeah. I hear they dance with Molly Cyrus did anyway.

Well, in Silicon Valley, Tech Ones. entrepreneurs and financiers turned psychonauts believe that taking small doses of LSD in either liquid or tab form helps with creativity and productivity in the workforce. Even right-wing internet investor Peter Thiel has put a formidable stake into the Compass Pathways, a publicly traded psychedelic medicine company. Peter Thiel, the guy that took down Gawker. Remember him? That was his deal.

Oh, right, yeah. Yeah, he was a pissy old fart. But here's the weirder one. New drug appearing on the menu for moneyed types in search of mind expansion. The toad, otherwise know it as 5M-E-O-M-D-M-T, which is kind of the drug designation for it. Sure. I'm not doing the full name because that looks like a nightmare. Or DMT or Buffo, some people call it. Bufo, Bufo, Bufo. I have no idea.

It's Toad venom. People are, they're taking the Toad venom. I didn't realize, didn't realize Toads had venom. Well, only some, not all. Just the venomous toads. Like poisonous frogs or whatever. Just the poison dart frogs and stuff. Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He turned, loved them and turned him into a toad. Yeah. It's one of the most potent psychotropic drugs ever discovered. Wow. Let's see, I'm reading down here because they like, this article is more of an essay. Let's see, what exactly these people smoking? It is the venom of the Sonoran Desert Toad, the Bufo Alverius, which contains

the molecule, this molecule we're talking about, one of the most potent drugs ever discovered. Until recently it was so obscure in the U.S., the government didn't even list it on their controlled substances until 2011. For nine months of the year in the Sonoran Desert, toads live under the sand of the Mexican desert to survive in the scorching heat. But when the winter rains arrive, they emerge like in a Caligula-like orgy of eating and fornicating.

Great. Yeah. And then while they're in that state, you want to get them because they're, their neck, sides of their neck and legs emit this venom so toxic it will cause death to a predator within seconds. But if you refine that stuff down and smoke it, oh yeah. Yeah, great. It says here, some describe it, some describe it as a fusion with God, a visceral connection with the divine source of all life. Okay, all right.

Hunter Biden said, described it as the salve to help him kick his drug addiction. oh really okay he says let's see if anyone else famous says don't let the right get a hold of that yeah according to this article today's america's real act the man who's son the average america and jack's told vener well i'll say i'll see i'll say i'll say i'll have all right uh moving on to oh you know we're going to now we're going to take a break because Schleiker is coming in and when he gets here

boy how do you do all the socks come off so get ready for that you guys it's going to be great that'll be coming up next you better take them off now because they're going to get knocked off in a minute yeah it's going to get nuts in here but before we do a song Brian sure how about Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma

for this one indie pop duo Sports that's the band name sports they have a new full length album coming out called get a good look this one comes out February 11th via Naked Records, big thanks to Clarion Call Media for letting me know about this. This is the first single for the album, and you can find the music video on YouTube or just listen to it on Spotify if your name is not Neil Young. Here is Damn, I'm Tired by the band Sports.

I say I'm sorry Your arms still at your side I wish I could see in your eye Let's be honest I'm not on your mind I don't want to make you try until no time be in time being nice

All it does is make me sad And I can love And I can have And be someone else Just to be love All the time Don't you worry You can say you're sorry

I'll help you say it if you love Love is the answer If I'm not myself, who do you love? There are no time being nice. All it does make me sound. And I can love And like a hand

And be someone else Just to be love All the time Time. Time. Time. Time. Time.

Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. Hello and welcome to seduction through hypnosis, the revolutionary new way of seducing the woman of your dreams. All right, we're back. That song again. That song again is the band Sports and a brand new song called Get a Good Look,

I'm sorry, the song's called Damn I'm Tired from their album Get a Good Look, which comes out February 11 February. February. That's fantastic. All right. We're in the midst of a revolution where we add major sports. Spoiler zone, Stephen Schlecker to the call, which should happen pretty quick here. If I have all my buttons in a row, I do.

All right, here we go. Steven Schleiker. Steven Schlecker. Hey, look who it is. It's Steven Schlecker joining us as he does each and every Monday to talk about all things major spoilers. Hello, Stephen. How are you? Hello, Scott.

Hello, Brian. I have a question for you. Is your light reacting to your voice? Is that what I'm seeing the background? Yes, the one behind me? It's any sound. Yeah. Okay.

Any sound in the room? Any sound in the room. And it's, it's incredibly sensitive. So I'll be playing music and it'll go low and I'll still see that thing kind of flash. It's amazing. Okay. Did you ever, here, let me ask you if this makes it move? Do you ever break out the glow sticks and just have a party?

I don't. I should though. Yeah, you should. Will it go off if you do one of these? A little fart there in the room? It will. Yeah. So, so if you ever see me do this,

then you'll know I fart Okay that's good to know I may mute my microphone to fart But that'll be the dead giveaway back there Love it Well Stephen it's good to have you back of course We'd like to have come on here All things comics and fun cool stuff

Happens over there at major spoilers.com If you don't visit there on the regular Then you're some kind of psycho and you should do it It's also got tons and tons of content happening on his podcast network work every week. So make sure you check that stuff out. But let's talk instead today about a thing that pissed me off so bad. It's all I could think about for a couple of days. And that was the banning in Tennessee, the 10 to zero vote in a school district to ban the comic, Pulitzer Prize winning comic

book, Mouse by Art Spiegelman, which chronicles, I guess it was his father or grandfather. Yeah, his father. And so the whole thing is him trying to work on his relationship with his father who spent time in a Nazi concentration camp. I can't remember if it was Daqao or one of the others, but it was one of the more brutal camps that his father was in. So this whole thing is told through flashbacks of the time his father grew up, going into the ghettos, and then being moved into the concentration camps and just the horrible, horrible, horrible things that happened in there. So you've got obviously Nazis in here. You have some, you know, some depictions of really harsh brutality. You also

have the word, damn. Oh, my goodness, the word. Oh, no. Not that. It's going to corrupt us all. Oh, damn. Apparently, eighth graders will be corrupted because the McMinn County School Board voted 10 to 0, just like you said, that this book should be removed, removed from the school. Yeah, what they said, and they put out a letter later after the initial backlash, and they said that they were all about teaching about the Holocaust so that it never happens again. But this book has unnecessary nudity and swear where, and we think we can teach that. And I'm like, boy, you don't know the half of what the Holocaust had in it. Yeah. I don't know about you. I don't know about you guys, but we had, when I was in high school, we had a section on Holocaust.

And, of course, we all read to Anne Frank. But we had, we watched these movies, uh, that showed us what the, you know, the horrors, the Holocaust were. And it was just like, here are a bunch of naked bodies. And this is how bad it was for them. Or here's a bunch of, yeah, starved, you know, dumped into pits. of just showing these things. And it was, it was, we saw all that stuff. I mean, it was shocking.

Yeah, we saw all that stuff in high school. And that was the point. The point was, hey, it's as bad as, it's worse than you think it is. So here, look, look at it and never have this happen again. Those who don't learn about history are doomed to repeat it. Well, that damn straight. I say that all the book like this get banned. First of all, this thing had a huge impact on me when I read it forever ago.

Now, when did you read it? I read it in middle school about the same time as the kids who are that they're trying to ban this. It was high school, so it was a little later for me. And I did it. It wasn't like a thing they wanted us to read, or there wasn't anything like that. It was like I picked it up because my friends and I were into comics, and we were like, this seems neat. And I just was blown away by it. Yeah, the comic store that I go to out here, man, I missed that comic store.

Yeah. C-C-B. They kind of like, they like heavily promote it and said, you know, they knew I had a regular box there. Those were my uncle and I had regular boxes there that we'd come and go. get and they said you've got to you've got to pick this up yeah it's really really good and it's and it's not just it's like it's also it's also it's also this thing where they combine an art form that i already like and respect and do it with this really heavy subject matter and it does it so it does it so well that it it it's an insanely cool thing and the fact the fact that they they they banned it, told me a couple of things.

One, I don't think they've actually read it. That's usually the case. I understand that maybe one or two people on that board saw the cover, and enough for them was that there's a swastika there and we don't want a swastika on a book because they're not actually paying attention to what maybe is in the book. I don't know. I don't want to speak for those people.

But the most Nazi-ass thing you can do about a book that condemns Nazis is to ban the book about Nazis. Do you know what I mean? Like book banning, oh, it's just fried me. I'm so pissed. But here's the thing. Okay. Yes, we can all get very upset over a book that came out in 1981.

It has consistently been the target for book bannings at schools. And this is not just a one instance. Book bannings are happening all the time. Also in this same week, the Polk, Florida Polk County School Board removed 15 books from their library. of them LGBTQA plus, I think I ever got the I, the I plus group in there. And so it's, it's not that this is an isolated incident. These things are happening all the time. And it, it infuriates me. We've seen bands. I mean, this is in the school system, but we have seen comic books that have been burned and banned, book burnings, same way with records, have undergone the exact same

thing. So every form of art and media has been attacked by those people with very narrow closed minds because they think it's going to make these kids act up, get out of control. Whatever it is. And every generation, everyone does stupid

shit like this. I get it. I mean, the adults in the room are often not very good adults. But here's the way I would do it. And the bigger stink right now is that it's easy to say, oh, you get all upset about a book getting banned, but nobody seems too upset about everybody trying to cancel their Spotify accounts because of this whole Joe Rogan mess.

And somebody, David Spiegel said something that I thought was just about perfect. He says, canceling a subscription because you oppose a company's policy is exactly how free enterprise is supposed to work. Companies are free to stay the course or make a better product. That's not censorship. Book banning is censorship. 100%. Couldn't agree more. I wish everyone would quit making that fallacy of a comparison.

It's not even close. it's apples and oranges in the truest sense and my gosh did the comic book world step up for this though like comic book stores all around the country are giving away free copies of the thing multiple well-to-do people I know on the internet are sending copies to people

who request them in Tennessee who was it is it Will Wheaton just bought like a ton of them and just gave them to everybody and there's some comic book stores that are just like come come on in and get one we're just going to have them here they're just going to be here if you didn't if you if you can't get it at your school we're we're giving away copies of this thing so it isn't you know the reaction has been swift and and and good and does my heart well and it's

also selling out everywhere amazon can't keep them in stock they're you know number one sellers everywhere um you know that i don't know what they expected to have happen i think they thought it would just be this quiet little thing you know because we're down here in tennessee we don't I don't know books about naked medicine. Like I said, this kind of stuff is happening all the time. We think these books should be removed or review or whatever. And librarians have a really tough time because they're the ones that are often caught in the middle of, well, do I follow what the school board policy is?

Or do I look at these books and say, no, these are books that are fine to be on the shelves. They don't contain anything that is causing harm. And so those are the people that are really stuck in the middle. But yes, you're right. What we're seeing is the Streisand effect happening where if you don't say anything about it, No one's going to find out about it. But the minute that it becomes public, everybody wants to go look it up. And I'm glad that people are going out and seeking mouse and other books in that same vein.

But a lot of things that people could do, this doesn't necessarily impact, you know, some of the other books that have been banned. But definitely go check out the comic book Legal Defense Fund. They're one of the groups that actively try to work to keep books, and specifically comic books, from being banned in schools and curriculum across the country yeah well it's uh my guess is we're not done with the with the conversation no but um everyone's swift and hard reaction is a is is a happy um at least that at least we got that you know what i mean there's probably a small contingent of very squeaky wheels um who are making a big deal of it and that's probably what convinced the uh school board to to vote that way which is unfortunate and that's you know you know people are bad

You know, what people are really bad at usually is admitting they were wrong and reinstating it. That's what they're bad at. Yeah, they usually double down on that. Yeah. I mean, that letter they put out is the most double down bullshit I've ever read. So good luck, Tennessee. You could do better. Elect better school board officials.

That's what I'm saying. All right. Hey, so there's that. That's a fun story. Let's move on to something a little less dire. A sequel to the Mortal Kombat movie is on its way. What do you think of that? you like that Stephen

I haven't watched the most recent No you should it's fun it's dumb but fun Dumb fun Okay here's it's well it's well made Yeah it's well made and stupid it's stupid and good I'll make a deal I'll make a deal with you Scott Yeah The weekend that you sit down to watch Loki

I will sit down and watch Mortal Kombat You just text me and say hey man I'm sitting down to watch Loki and I'll say Okay great I'm gonna sit down and I'm gonna watch Mortal Kombat All right you know what has been thrown all right I'll pick I'll pick up your glove the way Adam Driver did in the last duel and make this work. And I'll finish

Arcane that weekend. Yeah, yeah. Brian will finish Arcane. By the way, I did watch that, Brian, or I told you, I told Brian and I'll say it on the air. I watched the last duel and I am telling you now, we riot if Jody Comer doesn't get nominated for Best Actress. She blew my freaking mind.

She's incredible. She's always, you know, that whole movie hinges on her. Killing Eve and stuff, but, and Ray, Ray's mom. Ray Skywalker's mom I'm telling you the entirety of that movie hinges on how well she does the whole thing. Yeah. And it's

amazing. She's amazing in it. So Brian was right to not only recommend that movie but I was going to see it anyway. It's Ridley Scott. I watch all the movies. It's Ridley Scott, of course. Yeah. It was freaking great. Anyway, so back to this. Back to Pokemon Go. No, where were we? Oh, Mortal Kombat. So to that other one,

the one that came out on HBO and stuff first and then some theater run or whatever. Did it do well? Did we make money? It did okay. It earned $42 million domestically and $83 million worldwide, which a lot of people would sit there and go, oh, that's a flop. That's a failure. But you got to remember that was last April when we were in the middle of pandemic. And they really didn't push a cinema release. So I think that's probably pretty good. And the thing that a lot of places are not reporting is, okay, if this released on a streaming platform first, how much money

are they accounting for those subscriptions account for, you know, that, that portion of what would have been box office? So, you know, do you take 5% of your monthly subscription and that's how much Mortal Kombat made? Do you take, you know, 10% of your HBO max subscription and say that's how much Dune made, those kinds of things? So that's something that no one has really kind of started to slice down and look at, except for maybe Black Widow, Scarlett Johansson, with her lawsuit against Disney, which they, I believe, quiet. just paid that off. Oh, okay. Well, that's interesting. Yeah. So, yeah. It's a, you know, whatever. It was a garbage movie, but in a good way.

It was just a good, good time. There are, here's the thing that you probably don't realize. Well, you probably realize it's got, but there's what, like 11 Mortal Kombat video games. Most people don't remember past three. Yeah. There's like 10 Mortal Kombat movies out there. So, you know, they obviously are hitting a certain.

uh dopamine hit for everybody and so people are wanting more of this stuff and if they can make more of this stuff and make some money off of it then good uh i don't have a problem with it i think the interesting thing is um jeremy slater who is the screenwriter for the upcoming moon night series he is going to be writing the mortal combat sequel oh well let's hope that series is good and that might that might say good things about his upcoming film but we don't know about that show yet because you know it's not out i guess i think it looks interesting yeah i uh it does look interesting I'm super, I mean, dude, Moon Knight, when I was in high school, I thought was the coolest character. I loved Moon Night. And I thought, and Moon Night's cool. The older I got, the more I was like, oh, he's just sort of Marvel's Batman, and he's crazy. And it's fun. He's Marvel's Batman with schizophrenia, though. And he's like a bunch of different people, which is great.

Yeah. So, but then I came back around, and I'm like all back in now. So bring it on. Let's go. I'm ready. What are you taking so long for? By the way, those, the new MK games, they still sell like a trillion of them. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Combat 11 was a huge hit currently on Game Pass if you don't buy it or spend a million. Nobody learns from the previous game release, so they just jump and buy it again. Yeah, you just keep going. You just keep pounding your head against that wall. Yeah.

All right. Speaking of video games, anybody get the new Pokemon game? No, I hear it's great, though. My son had to have it the day that it came out, so we went and bought it. And then he went over to his friend's house, and all three of them had it. just were playing it all night long they just really get a kick out of it he says it's like um what's the big switch game the uh oh breath of the wild breath of it's like breath of the wild meets Pokemon yeah i've heard it's it's open world so it's this huge open world and uh reviews

are really good Pokemon can kill you yeah oh yeah they're scary they're actually scary in the game yeah this is really i've got to stop playing uh estroneer long enough to play something different look can't do it you got to play you got to play right uh it's A bold new direction, says most reviews. Tore up the Rollbrook and broke new ground. They have created the greatest Pokemon in 20 years. Wow. That's awesome.

I want to check it out. I'm legit interested. What are C-S-C-Sia? I'm legit interested because the idea of an open-world Pokemon game is way more interesting to me than the typical linear sort of go to town. Go to this town. And now you fight this trainer and he's going to send you to this town and then you fight that trainer.

Not really my jam anymore, but this might be. I'll have to give it a shot. All right. Stephen, all good stuff is always. Anything happening this week on major spoilers you'd like fans to know about? I would be on the lookout. As we get closer and closer to Valentine's Day, we're going to have a gift guide. If you want to buy some comic book geekery stuff for your favorite person in your life, we'll have a couple of gift guides coming up.

I think this week is when they're coming up on the site. So be on the lookout for that. All right. Well, that is good news. Stephen Schlecker, everybody. Major Spoilers.com. Take it easy. We'll see you next time.

Oh, stay hydrated. Stay hydrated. I usurped him. I am a usurper. You did. You're a usurper. I am a usurper. You usurper. Hey, look at this.

Time for a mashup that was supposed to be played Thursday. But since you left, I was like, I'm not listening to this by myself. I have to have Brian here. I'm glad. I'm glad. Yeah, so I held on to it. And it's called, what is it called? Hold on.

It is called up and down the tip. Yeah. Don't know what that it'll be about, but, uh, whew, boy. All right, here we go, enjoy. Uh, all right. I think they're a macaques. Macaque. McCack's.

What you got there, buddy? Ah, it's nothing but macaque. Like that? Well, you changed it to me, cock. Yeah, which. Watching the two of you lick the head. It's just, uh, wow. He said he was, well, those look like they've been augmented.

Are those real? No, these are not my real boobs. Are those real? And they're spectacular? These are my fake boobs. She tells me I have to get it up at least an inch and a half to two inches. It's interesting. Okay.

So I put my finger where that is, okay? Yeah. To make sure I've got that much length on it. And also I like them shorter, so that's perfect. It's almost the size of this end of this cable dongle. Yeah. What? Not that wide.

The length, but not the width. That, yes, the length. And then the width is about the same as the length. And I'm talking hard here. I'm talking like... Define how hard. Like, uh, whether there's, There's one right there for Jamie, right?

Yep, yep, well done. It still would be hard, right? It would be very hard. Can't find the opening. Oh, geez, Jamie. And I mean like, I was moaning while I was eating it. Oh. Yeah, it stinks.

I don't like the smell of that. Yeah, it stinks. Ooh, I do like it, though. Those were nice and stretched out, you know, like you do. There's no way I penetrated that. I'm not going to go soft on that. You were full-throated on that. That was amazing.

It kind of comes quick and then you're like, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. And then it's like, no, no, we're good. Just settle in. You're not getting really anything out of that. You suck it, but you don't get anything out of it. No, 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. What's he going to do with it now that it's out? Please enjoy it. You may see small dots. What? The important part is a Christmas miracle happened in my mouth, and I was so mad. You know, now that you say it, I can really taste the conclusion.

Yeah, the conclusion is, it's there. How do you want to do this? Do you need to pull out? Oh, my gosh, that actually hurt getting that one out. That hurt. Oh, this is too hard. I don't feel like it lasts. lasted very long. It didn't last like enough. I'm going to get it and I'm not going to know what

to do with it. Look how big it is in his hands, by the way. Look at that. That is a big effing. That looks like a gigantic. Because that guy's pretty big. Okay, keep moving down the tip. Wait, that sounds wrong. Move down the tip. It's good. God. Yeah, move up and down the tip until you find your problem. All right. I'm like legit worried about Jamie and the state of his mind when he made that mashup. That is insane. I know. It's, uh, it's, uh, it's, uh, It's hard to believe we said half of that horrible stuff, even out of context. Even half.

Well, well done there, Jamie. Jamie's always, you know, cranking he's out. He says he's got a couple of real zingers coming. So watch for those. TMS mashups on Twitter. Tell them how much you like this stuff because we like it when he does it. Oh, hey. Scott, are you doing any other podcast?

Anything else today that is coming out that we want to hear? Well, you got to play. retro today. So that's happening. And that'll be a little bit later today. Three at three 30 mountain time if you want to watch it live. But you know, the audio version is good too. So go check that out. Play retro wherever you get your podcast. Brian, do you have anything else that you want to mention? I wasn't doing that to lead it to something I was going to put up. Normally there would be a soundography going up today, but it's going to be tomorrow because I just ended up with too much work from Thursday and Friday to fix and catch up on to do it this morning. So nice. Tomorrow morning. A new soundography. You will all get what you want then. Hey, don't forget, uh, Patreon needs you. Patreon.com slash TMS. As of tomorrow, we got a new month, baby.

Yeah, that's right. It'll be two, two, 22 soon. And, uh, to get on board, you don't have to do anything, but just go to the website, patreon.com slash TMS. Be like Bill Ellis at the deal me in level or Verstraté Francois Valeret. Uh, speaking of last duel, sounds like one of the last duel. those characters. He used at the grade A level and of course Casey at the

grade A level as well. Thank you three and everyone else who supports us on Patreon.com slash TMS for everything else. Frogpants.com slash TMS rather. Hey, we're done. Hey, Brian. You want to play another song to go out with? I will and this is

great because this is the one that was going to be on Thursday before the power just completely went out in the house here. So this one's going out to Gwen and says, hey, it's Gwen, your tea chick. Today, the 27th is the sixth anniversary of starting on hormones and beginning my gender transition into the happy, healthy woman I am today. Yay! I've come a long damn way and I'm going to celebrate my hormoniversary, traniversary, re-birthday, whatever you want

to call it, like my birthday. You played Orville Peck's cover of Fancy last time. Someone requested a trans cover and I loved it. So, if you please, play me another trans cover. If you can't figure anything out, just play me your favorite cover by or of Hailstorm. The harder, the better. Love you guys. Love Gwen. Nice. I like Hillstorm a lot. We love you and. Yeah. Hillstorm's great. Oh yeah. But that's not who we're playing. So well, all right then. So call them great all you want, but that's not who's not who's coming up. No, when I think of

powerful and prominent transgender performers in the music industry, the one, the first one that comes to mind is Lisa Jane, what has her, Lisa Jane something from against me. Why am I forgetting her full name? Lisa Marie Presley. Yeah, Laura Jane Grace, not Lisa, Laura Jane Grace. There you go. She is an icon for being prominent and out there with her real identity. her new identity, but her real identity, which is as a strong female lead.

They released the song, the cover of the Jim Carroll classic, People Who Died. I love list songs, so this is a favorite of mine. This is from the album Songs That Save My Life from 2018. Here is Against Me, covering Jim Carroll's People Who Died. Teddy stripping blue, he was 12 years old, fell from the roof on East 29. Kathy was 11 when they pulled the plug. 26 wrettes and a bottle of wine. Bobby got leukemia of 14 years or he looked like 65 when he died.

He was a friend of mine. Those are people who died, died, those are people who died, died. Those are people who died, die, die. Those are people who die, die. They're all my friends. They just died. Jeeberg and Georgi, look their gimmicks go rotten, so they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan.

July and Vietnam, pull it in their head. beat on Drano on the night he was wet There were two more friends of mine Two more friends, they died There's are people who died, die Die, die Those are people who died, die Die, those are people who died

They were all my friends And then they died Carrey took a dry back from a hotel room While they hung himself in the cell in the tunes Junie jumped in front of a subway train Eddie got slit in the jugular vein And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others And I salute you, brother

Those are people who die, die Those are people who die, die, die Those are people who die, die, oh Those are people who die, die, die They're all my friends when they die Herbie pushed Tony from the boys called roof, Tony thought its rage was just so goof, but Herbie should give Tony some bitch and crew. And Herbie said, Tony, can you cry?

But Tony couldn't fly Tony died Those are people who died Die die die Those are people who die Die die Those are people who died Those are people who died

When all my friends Just died Brian got busted on an arco rap Beat the rap I ratting on some bikers He said hey I know it's dangerous But it sure beats rikers But the next day

He got off by the very same bikers Those are people who die, die Those are people who die, die Those are people who die, die, die Those are people who die, die, die They're all my friends, they all die Teddy Sink and glue, he was 12 years old, he fell from the roof on East to 9.

Kathy was 11 and she pulled the plug, 26 leds in a bottle of wine. Bobby got leukemia of 14 years already looked like some. When he died, he was a friend of mine. Those were people who died, died, died. Those are people who died, died. Oh, those are people who died, die, died. Those are people who died. They're all my friends. They just died.

Jeebrook and Georgie with their gimmicks go rotten, so they died of hepatitis in Upper Manhattan. Slying Vietnam took a bullet in the head. Bobby Ode d Andrano on the night that he was wed. They were two more friends of mine. of mine. I miss them. They died. Those are people who died, die, die. Oh, those are people who die, die. Those are people who died. They're all my friends, and then they died. Carrie took a dry died from a hotel room. Bobby hung himself from a cell in the tombs. Judy dumped in front of a subway

train. Eddie got slit in the jugular vein. And Eddie, I miss you more than all. And, Eddie, I miss you more than the others. This song's for you, my brother. Those are people who die, die, die. Those are people who die, die. Those are people who die, die. There's a people who die, die. There's some people who die, die. There's some people who died, die, die. Those are people who died, die, die. Those are people who died, die, die. Those are people who die, die, die. Those are people who die, die, die. They're all my friends. And they all died. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. All right, now this in case you have to, you know, urk. Urk.