The Morning Stream - TMS 2241: Misteaks Were Made

Episode Date: February 7, 2022

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That's what makes it so popular. A great pair of nerd glasses in about an hour. Good morning. Welcome back to the morning stream for Monday, February 7th, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. He's Brian Ibitt. Hi, Brian. Welcome back. Hi. Hello. So Brian's got a very low voice and 85% cold reduction. Feeling good. Well, 85% health inclusion. What is the, uh, yeah, how do we do? The math gets, gets reversed. I don't know what you call it. But that's right. Yes, exactly. Feeling better though, yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. Feeling better sound. I don't sound as good as I feel. How's that? Yeah, there you go. That's good. It's okay to sound bad as long as you actually feel bad, a bit good on the inside.

That's right. Exactly. So not COVID, though. You did second test. Everything's clear. Two tests using the on-go penile erection supplement boxes that you and I both purchased from get roman.com. And yeah, right now, right now we have a stockpile because we did the free ones for. from the post office and the free ones from the United States government. So currently we have eight COVID tests in our house in case we need them, which at some point, I'm sure we will. Yeah, you might. You may as well have them.

You got to, you know, if you travel anywhere or do anything. When you guys go to Vegas, you probably have to do that. Three of them did one Wednesday morning and one Friday morning. Both of them came out negative, and so no COVID for me. No COVID. We had a similar deal here at the house where Nick, his girlfriend, Taylor and Dylan all had either exposure or some kind of illness and they all had to do multiple tests and we also dodged a bullet so you know still the circle closes yet somehow we

don't have it good job we're four of us in this little bubble yeah tiny bubble living in a little bubble out in the west on each side of the Rockies not getting sick well you got sick but not that kind of sick it's not that not the bad sick I feel like you you kind of got what I In whatever that was, November or whenever I was super sick, I think you got that some version of that piece of crap. Oh, it sucks. Because it's lasting a stupid long time. Well, it'll be a week Wednesday. No, week tomorrow?

Tomorrow. No. No, week Wednesday. Week Wednesday. Yeah. That's what I always call my Wednesdays. Week Wednesdays. A week Wednesday.

Yeah. Welcome to week Wednesdays. No, it's a week day. All right, we got a lot to get into. I want to throw a thanks. out to Runt Fish, a listener who sent this thing in. I just like these sorts of things.

I like infographics. Can I click this? Oh, yeah, yeah. No, no test here. Like a quiz or anything. No, some of this may surprise you. Some of this may surprise you. Click here to find out.

Number 11 may kill you. So it's this, you know, we're film buffs. We like movies. We talk about them on the show all the time. Oh, look at that. Oh, that is so cool. Yeah, it's pretty rad. So this is a film genre popularity deal.

Let me put it up for the chat room to see. The Western one is like it feels so so accurate. Oh yeah, totally right. It bums me out a little bit. But basically it's 1910 to 2021, essentially the entire run of film. Was there anything prior to that? We're talking silent air here as well, I assume. Yeah, yeah.

So these are all talkies mostly. But anyway, so this says the graphic shows film genre popularity over time represented as a percentage of all films released that year with the specified genre tags in IMDB. Each genre has a different access range. So these lines show the popularity relative to other years, not necessarily relative to other genres. So these aren't like genre comparisons. It's just how did these things do over time? And the one that I thought was maybe the most interesting was documentary because it starts in the, like with a little peak actually, weirdly.

yeah and then immediately start and you can hover over this by the way and uh and look at the year so if you hover over the data point it'll say in 1915 3% of films were documentaries and then it talks about the big five that were a big deal um and it does all the way through time here 2% most of the time 1% in the year 1937 we just had no documentaries then um but look at this look at this now look at this look at this down here on the end this is some kind of crazy just goes nuts good lord like where documentaries it's all we make now it seems like horror is a similar deal lots of little spikes in it i think musicals boy they really took a dump here in the modern era i guess we still yeah only a couple this year you know recently that um um tick tick boom Tick-T-T-Bomb and West Side Storm. Well, I guess Hamilton doesn't count as a film

even though they released it streaming. But in the Heights. Yeah, in the Heights is another one. So there's, you know, we're kind of there again. Comedy is pretty even. A real spike in the year, 1941 was the highest, in film history,

the highest number of percentage of films were comedy, which is crazy to me. But that one's a pretty good chunk. And then what was the other one that kind of, of surprise me. Was it not sci-fi? I expected that to be like that.

Oh, war. War is interesting because war peaked, you guessed it, during the war, the Great World War II, and then kind of petered out, and then you get to the 50s and 60s, and you get some Vietnam-Korean war stuff, and then flat, and there's nothing. Just kind of like. Crazy, yeah. Yeah. Like this year, or Lat, 2021, let's see.

1% of films were about war I'm trying to find one I would know can't find one don't know these names anyway it's fascinating I recommend checking it out it's over at Tableau Public as the website and just this boy boy and you're gonna have to search for it because we're not giving you this

this link is not one that we can read no it's a nightmare with any sort of usability I give it to the chat they can have it there you go the rest of you That's cool, though. What a cool. Isn't that great? Cool graph. Yeah, I love that. So I've been holding on to that for the show and forgot. I had it. And then I went, oh, yeah, well, thank you, Runt Fish, for setting that into me. And I forgot to put it up the other day. Actually, I guess I was going to do it Thursday, but you were gone. And so we didn't do it. And that's why I didn't do it.

So now it makes sense. I keep forgetting we didn't have a show Thursday. We weren't here. Because Brian was sick. That's right. Yep. Yep. If you're keeping track all this stuff, now you know, purchase the program on your way in. He'll help you keep track. of all the players and was on the injury list. Yeah. And do try to pay attention. That's right. Okay. All right.

Hey, check this out. I have a friend. They got a pizza. All right. Not a big deal. Everybody gets a pizza. All right. Everybody gets a pizza.

We even had a pizza last week. See? You had a pizza. Everybody gets a pizza. Pizas are gotten by people all over the country. And pizzas have never been hotter than they are now. I don't mean temperature. But I like, you know, everybody.

you know ordering in and getting the pizzas they've had a if you had stock in uh i don't know dominoes you're rich now that's basically how how things have gone's gone real well for the pizza industry uh just to ask papa john on his ticot account he'll tell you all about it anyway a friend of mine gets a pizza a whole pizza and uh it's missing a slice Brian you there really i'm sorry yes Is he typing away, and I couldn't call. I'm typing because I've got a client who ignores my message about, hey, I'm unavailable for the next couple hours. Please stop texting me.

Oh. So did you actually say that and he still text you? She, yes. She, well, she needs to get the hit. Exactly. I'm sorry. I'm very sorry. It's all good.

I just, I thought I lost you. Unprofessional as a podcaster for me to. I thought I'd lost you entirely. All right. So they get a pizza. All right. I don't know from who. It doesn't matter.

It's probably... No, it does matter because I think we want to know. Okay, it might matter. It might matter. I guess once we make our assessment of the situation here, then... Yeah, we can determine whether this matters. It might. Let's just say for, you know, for the sake of saying so, let's say it's, I don't know.

We'll throw dominoes under the bus. They're doing fine. We don't know who. We don't know. Let's assume dominoes. Yeah, we'll punch up on this one because they're not hurting. So anyway, they get a pizza. This friend of mine gets a pizza, and it's missing a slice.

So there's like, I don't know, 10 slices normally, and one is out, and now there's only nine. And that's the form. That is the question, right? Because sometimes if it's a smaller pizza in a bigger box, as the driver's driving it around, things will shift around, and maybe those slices will kind of pull apart to make room in the space in the cardboard box. Sure, sure. So, but if it's an odd number, there's no way to do your cut. across a pizza, you know, with a, um, uh, uh, not radius. What is the, it's the, oh, I see what you're saying. It's always going to be equal. If you do edge to edge cuts, then you're never going

to have an odd number of slices. Somebody's going to say, yes, you could. If you cut it exactly this way, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, if you cut across the diameter, then you, um, dissect there, uh, oh, bisect. That's the word I was looking for. Bissection. There we go. Yeah, look at that. That's awesome all right so by across edge to edge you're going to always have an even number yeah so this one had an odd number and a clearly missing piece from the pie almost like you know they were doing a chart in excel and it was missing a chunk of data now right and uh the chart is uh likelihood of ever visiting this pizza place again exactly that's how i would see it that's how i would see it so so here's the question you receive this pizza and it otherwise looks pristine

and fine. The toppings you ask for are there. They're spread evenly. It's cooked nicely. Even the slices are cut evenly, just missing this one piece. Do you eat the pizza? Or do you go, I don't know. Someone's been in here. Probably the driver. I don't know. Like, does it weird you out and make you not want to eat it? It weirds me out a little bit. Um, no, it weirds me out a lot, right? Because, I mean, you know that either the driver helped himself to a slice or somebody at the restaurant helped himself to a slice. But you absolutely call them and say, you take a picture of it before you eat anything and say, this is how we received our pizza. Yeah. What's wrong with this picture?

Good point. Because then you're one. Highlights for children. What's wrong with this picture? And you'll get, no matter what, you'll probably get like a free pizza coupon or something. Something. Right? Yeah.

They'll try to do right with that. But I think I would be hesitant. I would feel like somebody, what's tampered with my pizza. That's how I would feel. Yeah, it's a, it's a tampering, um, it's a tampering that, uh, uh, doesn't affect, potentially doesn't affect the rest of the slices, right? Yeah, right. Um, I don't know.

That's a, that's a tough one because, you know, it's like, all right, is it okay to eat the other nine slices are they going to be fine is it uh right uh they obviously had their hand in the box did he touch any other parts of the thing was he did he have poop pooping hands with his grubby uh grubby unwashed hands that's right does his nails have like uh poo under the nails like we don't know what i'd say i'm going to recant my uh i'm going to retract my um uh previous statement saying that no i think it's okay to eat the other nine slices i think i i think i call the company and say it's obviously that he got in there or the driver got in there had a slice and I want a I want a fresh pizza this is uncalled for unacceptable yes see then I worry they're

going to do something worse to the next pizza that comes to me because every time I have this in my head because I worked at Chi-Chi's and I witnessed a lot of food tampering when when customers were mad and sent something back I would watch people in that kitchen do horrifying things to people's food sure I was like 16 so give me a break about you know, whatever better. Yeah, but I think in this case, the manager is going to be like, oh, my God, yeah, they're totally right. I mean, this is uncool. This driver should be fired.

Will they know? Because what would happen at the Chi-Chi's? They'd say, my steak is, I wanted it well done, and it's too red, and it would come back, and the grill guy would spit on it and cook it more, and then send it back to that guy. Because there's no proof that it was spit on. A missing slice is absolutely proof. There's no, there's no, like, oh, yeah, an excellent pubic hair. into your salad, sir. Sorry about that.

Yeah, but what's to stop the guy making the pizza who heard he had to remake this pizza? What's to stop him from, like, horking a goober in there? You know what I mean? While he's cooking it. Um, nothing, but it's not like, it's not like he's at fault. So he's not, he doesn't have any reason to be vindictive. Got it. So he's, the cook guy's probably.

The manager is going to be, you know, oh my, you know, is apologetic. The, um, the driver, as long as that driver doesn't get the new pizza. and have to drive back out there and lose his job. Well, the driver, you know, all right, all right, Bill, you're going to be fired at the end of the night. But by the way, can you take this replacement pizza to the people who just called you and got you fired? Yeah, we don't want that guy to ever deliver that pizza again. That's a good point. You're right.

When we're separated by a driver action. We're separated by the driver who's the missing link. All right. Well, I will find out for my, I didn't find out, but I want to find out. but I want to find out for my friend if they ate it or not. I know he called him, but I don't know if they ate it. So I'll have to find out. Brian Dunaway said the most Brian Dunaway thing in the chat.

He always, this is him to a T. He says, I eat the slices. The driver was hungry, poor guy. He always, and then he says, don't fire them. The driver is already at the bottom rung of employment. Yeah. And deservedly so, apparently. Like, yeah, if there was any, if there was ever,

Any demonstration of the Peter Principle? Yeah. He is at his level of incompetence right now as a delivery driver, and he is not going to progress any further. I wish he would, you know, would be a better driver. But I also appreciate Dunaway's sunny disposition toward others. It's funny because usually that's me, right? Usually I'm the, oh, yeah, you know, I'm 200 James all of a sudden.

Oh, yeah, you know, it's okay. It's all good. You know, it's, yeah, yeah, yeah. let the driver have a slice. You know, he's working hide. You know, it's okay. You guys, I know some of you know James. I know some of you know him.

And you know how good that is because you know James. But if you don't know, you have no idea how good an impression that is. They just don't know, Brian. It's fine. I can't force them into knowing. It's just impossible without knowing James. It's amazing. You know how they could find out is they could come to TMS Vegas.

Details at the end of today's episode. Yeah, that's good. That's great. some more details about what's going on. So stay tuned for that. In the meantime, speaking of Brian Dunaway and his sunny disposition. Yeah. We're going to add him to this call.

Let's get that in person, that sunny disposition. Yeah, why the hell not, I say. So we're going to do that and do this. Hey, look who it is joining us for today's edition of some sort of Babel Royale. It's Brian Dunaway. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Oh, you're so nice to the drivers.

Look at how nice you are to the drivers. Oh, dude. come on pizza's community food i expect whenever i eat pizza he's not part of my community but dude i mean when i was okay when you were in college i mean you know people always popping in and eating pizza sticking their grubby hey you just take your chances man it's like bar pretzels it's just what it is you know that's a fair point my macaroni and cheese we might have a problem that's a personal food if you're talking about bar nuts and and pretzels and things like that that's a fairly decent point I think I might agree with you on that.

But I don't know, just, you know, if you get it, I'm more of a... I had a friend, I've had several friends who worked pizza delivery, and I did have a friend who was a larger fellow, always got picked on for being larger, had an eating problem, and he did get fired for taking a slice. And I love this guy. And so it's really easy for me to, you know, to take his side. You know what I mean?

Yeah. And it's like, oh, man. It's like Kermit, not Kermit, sorry, Bert and Ernie. Do you remember the time where Bert had a whole plate of cookies? And he says, don't eat these, Ernie, don't eat these Ernie. And he left the room and then Ernie slowly picked away the cookies and then was like, oh, shoot, now it's uneven. I got to eat around this other edge. Oh, no, now it looks wrong.

So I'll eat that cookie and move. I mean, by the time he was done, he ate all the cookies. And I guess the lesson there, what was the lesson? What were they teaching us? That Ernie's a dick. Math, subtraction. Right. Just a little bit, yum, yum, yum.

Just a little bit of, yum, yum, yum, yum. Just a little bit of, um, yum, yum. Hey, at least it's more cookie than he would have had if Cookie Monster was over. At least there's that. Well, that's not true. Cookie Monster never really ate a cookie. He just chumps them up and throws them everywhere. Right, he basically crumbled them up on his face.

Yeah. And drop them all over the puppet beer. Yeah, he never really did. You're right. He never ingested a cookie as far as I know. It all went everywhere. You got to wonder, like, the puppeteer, whoever is underneath Cookie Monster is like picking cookie pieces out of his pants and his shirt for days. Oh, you know how bad.

I like to think he's down there with his mouth open. You know what, though? Like, think about this. Like, which puppets stink when they're in storage? It's got to be Cookie Monster, because it gets enough, like, little flexa. Yeah, but they're food. They're baked cookies. Those don't, like, rot and stink as quickly as if it was, like, little flexa.

like, oh, these sandwich meat monster. Blub, bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl blub blub. Yeah, but of all of those. Soft cheese monster. It's probably Big Bird or any of those things where you had to fit a whole person inside. Those are the stinky ones. Snuffaloopagus clearly is the stinkiest, uh, Muppet. Yeah.

Because that has two people stinking it up. Yeah, that's true. And I always felt like, oh, bird. I always felt like Grover stunk. His first name was, is it Aloysius Snuffleupagus or something like that? Oh my Lord. I don't remember. Yeah, that was, they were on forever not telling you their first name.

That was like a whole mystery. It was awesome. Cosmo. By the way, Cosmo, snuffaloopagus. Right. David Rudman was the, was the puppeteer for, of the cookie monster. Oh, really?

David Redmond. Right, he do the voice, too? Rudman. He did puppeteering and, uh, in, and, and also the voice word. Well, for some reason, I thought that was, uh, what's his name? Um, uh, Miss Piggy. He did it, too, so. Yeah.

But the primary on the Sesame Screeze. Screet? Screezee Screece. Screezee. Yeah. Sesame Screates. I like Sesame Screates. Uh, well, all right then. That's fantastic news and trivia. Now let's move on to a real game. Hey, Brian, you're introducing something new today. So me and Dunaway are ready to, to hear it here. Go for it.

Welcome to the morning half-asses. Name in progress. A trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers. I'm going to be giving Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct and three that are incorrect. Depending on how contrast. confident they feel with a category. They can provide one, two, or three guesses, but if they get any of those guesses wrong, they get zero points for that round. If they guess one and get it right, they get a point. If they guess two and get them both right, they get a bonus point, so they get three points total. And if they guess all three correct answers and they get them all right, they win two bonus points plus their three. So a total of five points for that round. I appreciate your great overview, but you know I'm dumb and the only way I can learn a game is to play it. So let's get started.

I'm like listening to like I'm sure all the people are like what, five, three, what? Let's go back to the cookies. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant and like the morning squirm. We're pulling them from members of the Tadpool

that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're going to be playing for Heather, also known as Nacho Mama from Fort Francis, Ontario. Nachos. Nachomama. Brian, you're going to be playing for Dan Erickson. from Minnesota.

Yeah. Minnesota. Our prizes today are Turnip Boy commits tax evasion. That's still a great game. Yep. Simple Rockets 2. Don't know.

And BPM. Bullets per minute. Bullets per minute's really good. That's really awesome. Yeah, that's just a shoot everything game. It's fantastic. Oh, how fitting a shoot em-ups. Yeah.

Shoot-mups. All right. So let's get into it. You don't even need to have hands on your buzzers. I'll explain how this works as we get into it. Let's get to question number one. Okay. So, Brian, you should see a bunch of answers.

I see some things on my screen now. It says number one. Number one. Hold on. I want the chat to see this. Hold on. I screwed up. The way this views is weird.

I can't see mine. They can only see Scots, right? Exactly. Mine's different than Scots, right? You should have a title and six possible answers, correct? Okay. No, correct, correct. Okay.

All right. I think I have it so it works. Go ahead. Category one is Tom Clancy Novels, and your choices are, the cobra, the bear and the dragon, the dogs of war, every man a tiger, red rabbit, and the day of the jackal. So all animals. Tom Clancy Novels. So secretly or quietly, or you can talk, but you probably don't want to give any answers away, you guys will select one, two, or three of those answers. And we, and these are correct, and three of those are lies.

those are not okay okay so we got we got three truths and three lies okay um okay oh i clicked in it turn red that's cool yeah yeah um and what's cool is i can see your guesses as you're making them remember if you get any wrong you get zero points for the round so you can do if you only feel confident about one you could do oh so there's some information i would help that was picking three so i i only guess the ones that are positive about only And I told you, I don't listen. What's your point? All right.

I only know two. The more you guess, the more points you get. So if you only feel confident about one, then do one. If you feel confident about two of them, you just have to, you have to pick at least one, Brian. Yeah. So pick one. All right. I'm locking in my answers.

Oh, got me down, Claire, all the caps, Claire. What's she doing? She's like, you said a lot at the beginning, Brian. Yeah, Claire. That's right. You tell him. All right. I'm locking in my answers.

All right. Scott's locked in. Brian is still picking Still picking his butt I don't I'm that pink Okay Both of

Both of our players have locked Their answers Let's see If I reveal I want to be able To talk about What you've chosen First

I am an expert on Tom Clancy novels You are Brian has picked Every Man a tiger And the Dogs of War Scott has picked The Cobra

And Red Rabbit So two each Let's see what we got. Oh, look it, Scott. Look at my perfect guess. Each of you has picked a correct answer and each of you has picked an incorrect answer.

So no points. Wait, wait, wait. How did I? Oh, the cobra's wrong. The cobra's wrong. Yeah. Red Rabbit is correct. Yeah. And every man a tiger is correct. For clarification, oh, shoot.

I almost didn't do every man a tiger. Dad, come it. How come it doesn't? It doesn't show the score change. Do you do that manually? Because there was no score change. Oh, oh, I see. I see.

So it doesn't... You get an answer right. By the way, the cobra was written by Frederick Forsyte, and the Dogs of War also, actually all three of the incorrect answers were written by Frederick Forsy. Oh, that's pretty smart because that way, if I did happen to know Forsyte novels, that would have really helped a lot. The only one I knew for sure that wasn't was Day of the Jackal. It was the only one I knew for sure.

The rest of these could have been. That's the one I wasn't sure about. I kept clicking on. Like, that doesn't seem right. But yeah, no. Well, yes, but no. Yes, but the good news is, that's funny. Bobby says, Scott and Brian's colors should be different.

Looks confusing to see all the green and red. Oh, right, because right and wrong answers are also green and red. So, yeah, should be like blue and yellow for your guys' colors. That is a great suggestion, but I also want to appreciate the person who did all the programming for this. Yes, Al-Kibab, by the way, Al-Kab who's not able to listen live right now is like, I hope everything goes well. he programmed all this based on my description of the game yeah no this is really good all the only thing we'd say then is just hey don't let us don't let us be able to choose red and green as our as our character colors and then we're good oh that's a good point yeah that's what was costing them yeah if i'd have chosen

purple at the beginning of this i just do default so i don't think about it but purple it wouldn't be a problem yeah i didn't realize you guys got to choose your colors when you came yeah we do oh okay so it's really your fault so it's sort of our fault exactly just kidding All right. Here we go. Let's get to question number two. All right. Things invented in the 1970s, and your choices are, the Rubik's Cube, DNA fingerprinting, the digital camera, the pocket calculator, the radar gun, and the computer mouse.

Please begin making your selections. DNA fingers were invented in the 1970s. What the hell is DNA fingerprinting? That didn't happen. I'm not choosing it. Yeah, DNA fingerprinting, bro. Separate things. Brah.

DNA. Don't get me started. Let's see. So we can choose up to three, right? Or we can choose a minute and we want, but there are only three that are correct. You can choose six and you'll pretty much be guaranteed to lose. But you simply lose. Up to three.

Yep. Okay. I'm locking in my two. I don't trust the rest of these. I have a new, I have a new try. I guess. Okay. Yeah. All right. You guys have locked in your answers. Scott is going with the pocket calculator and the radar gun.

Brian is going with the computer mouse. Let's reveal our answers. You both, again, have picked the wrong answer. Radar gun was invented in 1954, believe it or not. Oh, geez. Okay. Yeah, radar's been around forever. The computer mouse was invented in 1963. I swear the pocket calculator was.

earlier than that. Pocket calculator 1971, Rubik's Cube 1974, digital camera 1975, and DNA fuel printing didn't come around until 1984. So when was the computer mouse? Computer mouse was 1963. Yeah,

which I thought was Xerox in the 80s, so what do I know? Either way, that would be wrong, so. Right. Okay, so I got one wrong and one right, so did he? Yeah, exactly. So we did the exact. Well, no, Superbrand only got one wrong. Yeah, because I only pick one because I thought, hey, less chance

of losing if I feel confident about one. Yep. Yep. Right now, and right now, because even if you get two right and one wrong, you get zero points for the round. So there's one more round left. Hope you guys get at least one point.

All right. We'll see how it goes. I'm ready. I see how it goes. Question number three. Countries that have a three color flag, red, white, and blue. All right. In that order? This is not a trick question or something stupid.

No, it can be in any order, red, white, and blue. Your choices are Laos, the Philippines, the Czech Republic, Finland, Botswana, and Panama. You're a Laos. You're a Laos. Oh, geez. Right. These all seem like they have red, white, and blue, and them. I'm locking it in.

You're locking it in already? Yeah. I was only two I know of for sure. Don't give away how, you know. Oh, you know. How many? I mean, there are three that are right, so I'm not giving away anything. I just only know, too.

I don't know anything about flags. Oh. Oh. Okay, Brian's locked in. Scott and Brian both locked in. Scott is locked in with Finland and Panama. Brian is locked in with the Czech Republic. I love that you guys, I think for each of the.

nobody picked the same answers like you guys all picked individual answers yeah the correct answers are uh laos the Czech Republic and Panama Finland is a white flag with a blue cross on it

oh right oh that damn thing I was thinking of something else all right and uh yeah Panama indeed does have uh two it's like a four panel thing with two stars and two boxes red white and blue uh Czech Republic

Public is a triangular left side with two stripes. And then Laos is a blue stripe in the middle with a white circle and red on the top and bottom. I thought Laos was, but I wasn't 100. So I said, I'm going for the low points. Well, it worked for you because you got one point. One point is all you need to win. So congratulations, Brian. You've been soccered.

For winning the inaugural edition of Babel Royale half-asses. and the morning half-asses. I'm still working on a name for this thing. Here's the good news, though. Our runner-up, Heather, Nacho Mama, actually got the better game, in my opinion. So you're more of a... I lost on purpose is going to be what I say.

That's right. Heather, you're going to be getting BPM bullets per minute on Steam, courtesy of Wesley. And Dan Erickson, you're going to be getting Turnipoy commits, tax evasion, and simple rockets, too. so you're not going away. Those are better. There's two.

There's two games. Two is awesome better than one. But if I, Brian, let me ask you this, Brian Donoey, if I set you down and said, here's, here's a $5 bill and here's two $1 bills. Do you think it's better to take the two $1 bills or the $1-5 bill? Yeah, I mean, if you were to turn Turnip Boy into a dollar, but it's $5, so no. It's like getting a $5 and a one. A $5 and a one.

No, you're right. You're actually right. That game is awesome. Turnip Boy commits tax evasion is a. a sleeper awesome hit from last year really cool love it uh well done everybody i'd say you're both winners i'm a loser brian's a winner and then these two ladies are all i'm sorry dan is not a lady but dan and harler you're both winners misidentified winners uh i like this this is cool and i like this cool i like it's nice now that makes sense now that you know how to play we'll do you guys

will do a lot better next time yeah we'll we'll pick uh less we won't pick red or green for our characters right right didn't even think about that yeah yeah And the anxiety of playing the game wrong will be gone and then it'll just be the anxiety of getting the answer right. Just getting answers right. Yeah, exactly. Well, I know what you don't have any anxiety about and it's talking about running gun shooters and where they all came from today on Play Retro with me at 330 Mountain Time, right? That's what you're excited or anxious about? That's right. We're going to be talking about a Contras series. You may, you know, you may know TMS mashups, suggest this on Twitter and a few others.

Yeah. has suggested some run-and-gun games, and so we took a deep dive through the 80s at the arcade all the way through the 90s on the consoles. It's going to be good times. Yeah, and I would argue, well, maybe not BPM, but there's other games these days that I think owe their existence to that whole lineage. Personally, I'm a huge fan of like Metal Slug. That whole series is amazing. Russian attack is very good. Someone mentioned in the chat.

What's that one? Because it sounds like Russian. Yeah, because it does. attack. Yeah. So run and gun where you're basically scrolling from left to right, sometimes top down. But, you know, the commando we talked about is top down. The earlier ones were top down. And then they moved into the left or right that we like so much. Yeah. And I had a great time. I played a ton of this stuff this week. And so we're going to talk about that. It'll be great. Today, 330 Mountain Time. Play retro wherever you get your podcast. If you want to watch it

live, you can be here or check it then. Brian, have a great day. know you and eat a poo okay okay he's gone he's gone now we can talk about him now we can say things about him and you guys did a great job of again uh talking long enough for me to send out our price coached oh well done nice nicely done yes outside out of mind as i say asker uh let's get to at least one maybe two new stories here let's see what we get It's time for the news here on the morning stream, and it's brought to you by... From patron Ben Daskew, who says, I'm co-founder and event ticketing startup called Scoop Ticks. We help organizers, event organizers, and club promoters drive ticket sales with data-driven insights and marketing tools.

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All right, here's your first story, since we're talking about Vegas. A suspect in Las Vegas crash said, Ghost of NASCAR driver told him to drive the wrong way. Oh, this seems real. Would you trust a dead NASCAR driver to give you directions? No, because there's a reason he might be dead. I prefer the live NASCAR drivers personally. I don't listen to the dead ones.

Those are your favorites. Yeah, those are the best ones. Those are better. Believe me. Believe me. A man accused of intentionally driving the wrong way on 21-on-the-beltway, told a judge Tuesday that the ghost of an NASCAR driver told him to do it. Daniel Assef, H-51, aren't they always, faces charges of attempted Mordor. What? Yeah, murder. Bordor. Mordor. You've got to get that ring, baby. DUI and battery with a deadly weapon after vehicle crashes reported in the area of Lake North Drive and Fort Apache Road near Sahara. Avenue. In a court hearing Tuesday, Asif told the judge that the ghost of Dale Earnhardt specifically told him to drive the wrong way on the freeway in order to get the mayor's attention and bring NASCAR back to Las Vegas. That would work. That would totally work. Yeah, it seems like that

would be all it would take is to do that. Yes. Judge and Zimmerman, I think I'll do that. I'm going to do that. Judge Ann Zimmerman noted that Asif reported, reportedly had heroin and methamphetamine in his system at the time of the crash. You know, If you have enough of either of those, isn't it equalize you out and just normal? Isn't that the deal? That's right. The ghost of Dana Plato told me to took the meth and heroin.

What's that called? A eight ball? No. What's an eight ball? Something's a, it's a combo. Yeah, we've talked about this. It's where you combine your upper and you're lower, right?

And then if you're getting too much down, like if you're on too much heroin, then you cram some meth into you. Just heroin says dice tomato is eight ball? That's all that is? Eightball is heroin and coke. Okay, same deal, though. It's like, oh, speedball, that's what's called, not eight ball.

Speed ball. Speed ball. So you're, the heroin chills you out, the Coke, hypes you up. And if you do enough of, if you do the right amount of both, I think you're just normal. What's in a spitball? I don't know. DNA. David Morrison is, uh, yeah, DNA.

Yeah, some DNA in there. You know, I had, I thought of the perfect, window. We had this discussion on film sack, and I thought of the perfect scenario after the show. I wish I would have thought of it. the time so i'll ask you even though this is question was really for randy we need to a little recap for the the chat room basically we were talking about if you if you go on a window to draw in it like draw a little smiley face or a middle finger or whatever yeah um is your DNA on the window yeah is any of you on the window or did you just heat up air that was already there and my i maintain

my whole point was it's gross not so much is you know how much DNA or how much human whatever. I just think it's disgusting. And everybody in the room was like, no, it's not. That's weird that you think it's gross. So here's what I should have said. And this is mostly aimed at Randy because he was the one that seemed to have the biggest problem with it. So Sam, you can pass this on. She's in the chat. So if somebody, Brian will ask you, if somebody went on a window. And let's say, let me set the scenario up. The window is brand new, never been touched, never been near a human. It is pristine. And, spotless and sterile. Right off the factory floor, sterile. Even washed after that so that it's even more, like the most sterile surface you've ever been presented with. And some guy over here, you don't know, walked up and goes, would you lick that condensation?

Would you? Because if it's just air heating up, it's already out there. Right. That's a good argument. All right. What I probably would not because it is his heat vapor that is heating the condensation on the window. Right. See, this is where I was trying to come from, but I could not think of that scenario yesterday. Now, our doctor, Dr. Jerry Tolbert, former America's next

top podcaster contestant, says that warm water vapor from your breathing is what condenses on the cold window. So it is your breath warm water vapor that is condensing on the cold window. So it's from you. Then it's coming out of you. It's coming out of you. Okay. There are probably some cells that will stick to the window, but likely not nearly enough to get a solid DNA sample. The particles that are being expelled from your mouth can't really carry large enough numbers of cells, although they definitely carry things like viral particles and some bacteria if the droplets are big enough. Okay, which, you know, hence the COVID and pandemic and all that.

So even outside of a pandemic, and even if it was somebody I really liked, if they did this on a window, I am not looking at that. I don't even think you would do it if Kim did that, right? No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't. And nor should she or anyone. else I know. Nobody should be licking that off the window. I don't care who they are

what the deal is. Even if you just made out. Even if you just tongue kissed somebody, I still don't want to lick their steam off the window. And I know we were just talking fingers. That's less egregious, obviously. But anyway, now I've got that out of my system. How about this story here? Massive brawl at Pennsylvania

Golden Corral. No, not the Golden Corral. Yeah. It's involved 40 people. And it erupted over the fact that the place was out of steak, steak strips or whatever the hell they do. In that case, I say justified, but let's get the meat of the story. I go, oh, the meat of the story. It totally wasn't even planned on saying that. Are you kidding me?

Because that was amazing. The meat of the story. All right. There were, so there were two. Let's get to Jim on the scene with the meat of the story. The meat of the story. The lack of steak at a Pennsylvania Golden Corral Buffet may be what led. dozens of people to duke it out in a viral video.

Quote, there were two parties in line waiting for stakes. Somebody cut in front of them and started being picky and finicky about the stakes, taking too long, and then somebody else spoke up and said something I guess the other party didn't like. Then it just took, or it looks like it turned into an all-out brawl, says former employee Dylan Becker. I wonder why former employee Dylan Becker gets to talk about it. Was he former before the steak brawl?

Yeah. At what point did he get fired or leave? It says more than 40 people were involved. involved. They were throwing chairs and punches. Friday evening, the company that owns the restaurant reported the incident to authorities, police and I'm investigating. Quote, I heard about the big fight, and it's just sad. It's really, it's just really, everybody is on a short fuse these days, says Miles Edward. That's the former employee. So, yeah, don't fight over food at a golden, don't, you know what, better, better. Don't just don't eat it at a golden corral. Don't go to a gold corral. Yeah. We have a place here called.

There's better steaks. I mean, there's better. There's better. Everything. There's nothing the Golden Corral excels at that you can't get better somewhere else. You're not wrong, except maybe the repeat visit to the line, you know, that's the only thing, I suppose. But the food there. What do you mean the repeat? Like, you mean just the fact that it's a buffet? Yeah, this is just a buffet, you know? What's the other one? Is it just called Golden Buffet? What's the other, what's the other buffet restaurant that is? So we have, so here we have, we have the Chuckerama and we have.

Also, bad name. You don't want to eat at a corral, first of all. Nope. It's not associated with fine dining, a corral. Yeah. A country buffet, that's it, country buffet. Old country buffet? Okay.

I think it's just, I thought it was just country buffet. All of the small mom and pop buffets are gone here. We don't have those anymore. We used to have a place called Sweet Tomatoes. I think that was more national. Oh, sweet tomatoes is great, yeah. Yeah, they're out of here. Ponderosa Bonanza, we used to have that, Dice Tomato, Golden Corral is one we have here.

I got a, the one near us is closed also. Royal Fork, was that a thing? Royal Fork, yeah, we used to have a Royal Fork here and it was actually, it's actually pretty good. All of the, we do have Fedrucker still. All of the, um, uh, oh my God. What's the one called? You might need to check out the video of this brawl. People are like, oh, I saw it.

It's bad. It's real bad. Oh my God, they're picking up high chairs and whacking other people with high chairs. This is like. Yeah, it's bad. I don't know what's going on. Philadelphia. It's like the Eagles won the Super Bowl or something.

And nobody's wearing a mask. Nope. Not a soul. It feels like Golden Crow is not really your place to, wait, this isn't it? Jeez. Freaking Fox News links. I'm not even getting the right video. Hold on.

What video even is this? Some political BS. All right. Yeah, I know. You've got to go to the Facebook link. You can't even watch it on the page or else Fox News says, oh, hey, can we send you more stuff? Yeah. Can we do more for you?

No. The answer is no. Final story of the day. God, what friggin' mayhem? Oh, my God. And people are hucking tables in each other now. Yeah, it's bad. It goes real bad.

This is over. Oh, and lights are shattering all over the place. Yeah, it's for bad steak, Brian. Right under a side that says, gather around. I think there's something to the short fuse. I think people are, you know, it's like the whole 33% less driving happens but 7% increase in wrecks

like people are just I don't know you're all backed in like done asses yeah it's it's turning into the wild west again and everybody everybody's just a trigger

waiting to be pulled I've said it a bunch of times but it's true Rudy tooty is what we're doing uh all right selfish entitlement yes but the shorter

there's still a short fuse on the selfish entitlement along with the selfish entitlement you're both right yeah it's a combo man nobody ordered that combo though here it is anyways oh somebody uh cleo come on put a make a uh uh a title around they had beef yeah they had beat that's good but make that a title cleo what are you doing here somebody somebody needs to yeah make beef beef um all right that's it we're gonna take a break when we come

back and we'll spend a little bit of time with our old pal major spoiler zone stephen schliker so stick around for that but we need to play a song first so play that song Well, okay. How about a song that a brand new single called Pick Me? This is by Neska Rose. She is a singer-songwriter, a young singer-songwriter, who is getting into music as well as getting into acting. She was on the Nickelodeon High School mockumentary drama club. She had an EP last year called The Repel of a Young Girl, and this is her brand new single. I don't know if it's coming out in advance of an album. It looks like it's just a single for right now. Pick Me by Neska Rose I just can help it I'm a one woman show I like it though but I can stand it when I'm out there alone

I just don't want to be someone I'm not grown adult I love the center and I never stood in a row so I'm letting me You decide whatever you want for me Won't be responsible Why? Because there's no destiny

I'm just trying to get inside the middle But also being the word leader's going I'm just trying to be alive So pick me What you want me to say and I'm coming in till I get my way Do you know me And what a percent of my above everyone and everyone else pick me what you want me to say you're not coming it till i get my way

lost another chance from you i just can't help it i'm light up my wire you'll turn your eyes on me as i put on the fire I kind of want her to be my own boss I am stressed I love the center And I never stand behind you So I'm letting you decide Whatever you want for me Won't be responsive Why? Because there's no destiny

I'm just trying to get inside the middle But also being the world leader, screw it, I'm just trying to be alive So pick me, what you want me to say, you're not coming in till I get my way Do you know me and quarter percent I'm above everyone and everyone else Pick me what you want me to say and I'm coming in till I get my way Last another chance from you I must be phasing in every fact that you don't want me in your circle, you don't want me in your back There's no need to be cool, or I'll get an afute

Why am I still this kind of way? I must be phasing in every fact that you don't want me in your circle, you don't want me in your circle, you don't want me in your corner, back i'm just trying to be cool or i'll get in a feud why am i still this kind of way so pick me what you want me to say and i'm coming it till i get my way do you know me and what i present i'm above everyone and everyone else pick me what you want me to say and i'm coming it till i get my way lost another train From B2 Cus,

Cush, Kish, Kus, Kier, Kyr, Kul, Kulkeel Kul, Klenkisosososos Kli Nkka-Kul, Kliang Krikardt, Agar Khar Karpar Karpur, Al-Kar Karpur, Markar Kut, Hattr, Hattr, Ratskutur. What kind of weird-ass father-sund shit is going on around here, bro? The morning stream. Give me the money, Brian. And we've arrived back. Could you tell me that song again?

I can. That's the brand new single, Pick Me, from singer N-S-K-A-Rose. That's N-E-S-K-A-Rose. Sounds like a drink, isn't it? N-Ska-Rose. Oh, we don't have any of that, you'll have to have a N-Ska-Fae.

Yeah, oh. Yeah, that's why it reminded me of a drink, I think. I think so, yeah, probably. I think that was it. Now that you say it, I think that was it. All right, hey, whoa, look at this. Major Spoilers coming in hot with some hot talk about talking. Yeah, yeah.

It would be great, very much excited about it. Here's his intro right here. Stephen Schleiker. Stephen Schleiker. Yeah, that's right. Steven Schleiker from Major Spoilers.com has joined us. Hello, Stephen. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian.

Oh, he got the slow motion. You're a little robot. Okay, hold on. No worries. Let me reboot. Okay. It also is like super slow. Like, oh, okay.

Hold, I'll be right. He used to get this with, uh, sorry, Bo used to have this problem. And it was some kind of bit rate setting. on Windows. Oh, sure. And if you change that. Oh, hi. Hello. Hello. Oh, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hi. It's nice to have you back. Oh, much better. Yes. You sound so much better. Place that right in there and nobody will know. Yeah. No one will ever know. I'm sure I'll have, I'm sure I'll go fix this in post. A hundred percent sure I will. Uh, Stephen's here. And it's always good to have Stephen here because we could talk about cool stuff that we all share in common. Lots of comic book news and pop culture stuff and all that sort of thing. In particular, um, so my son is a massive boondocks fan. When that was originally on, and I don't know if that was, I think it was, adult swim, was it? Okay.

Yeah, he loved Boondocks. For whatever reason, Boondocks spoke to him and he loved it. And he with me were both very excited about it, Boondock's revival that had been announced is happening over on HBO Max. It got scrapped. What happened? Why? Well, we don't know why, but Tom Tubois, who, or I'm sorry, the voice actor who plays Tom, Dom DeWa said that it's no longer happening at HBO Max.

There's a number of different reasons this can happen. Some studios, this was being done through Sony, pictures, animation, and through HBO Max. Oftentimes, studios will announce a project, hire a writer's room, have the writer's room, write all the scripts, get up to the point where it's time to record stuff and actually go into production. And then the studio go, eh, we don't think so. why don't you stop and then a week or two will pass and they'll say oh yeah how about you guys go back and redo this again hire a whole new writer's room they'll go back

and rewrite stuff all over again and when it gets up to the production stage that's when the studio decides to pull the plug so I think a lot of times when you see especially television show announcements until they've actually gone into production on something sometimes those things can be drug out for

years and then still never happen but people who are writing it get paid lots of money. Isn't this based on the comic it was a comic strip originally right it was a newspaper strip that's right there it is boondocks daily syndicated comic strip written originally by aaron mcgruder ran from 96 to 2006 and uh the show the comic was interesting and good but i remember at the time on the show hit the show is like look syndicated newspaper comics have like wicked uh lording over of editors who tell you what you can and can't do And the show was like, we can kind of say and do what we want to do here.

So the show was like this more raw sort of like, this is what I really want to say with these characters and what I want to say with this world, whereas the comic was, you know, limited by these paper rules and syndication and all of that. And it just had, I don't know, it had a hell of a following at the time. I'm just bummed to hear this. I would love to see him redo it. It doesn't mean it won't come back around. But my guess is we'll hear another writer's room group reformed within the next six months to try to take it.

somewhere else and then they'll probably get up to production again and somebody will say oh this is too hot of a topic because as you said boondocks really did start to get into a lot of discussions on on race and and that right now is probably something that

some people get a little upset about because it hurts their feelings oh that's too bad Aaron McGruder a really interesting guy if you ever read in like an interview with that dude he's he's super interesting and he still looks he still looks 15 and it kind of pisses me off.

So there's that. Hey, Peggy Carter comic book series at Marvel. This must make everyone happy, Brian included. I do. I think so. It was certainly one of the really cool episodes of what if. It was like, what if Peggy Carter had been injected

with the Super Soldier serum instead of Steve Rogers. And so we get introduced to Captain Peggy or Captain Carter, who goes out and essentially is the UK version of Captain America. And it's really cool. It was a really cool half-hour episode, and now they're turning it into a comic book series. Jamie McKelvey is going to be writing it. Artist Marika Cresta will be doing the art in this. And I believe it drops on March 30th, which, if you're ever going to sites like major spoilers.com, and quite honestly, why wouldn't you go to a site like major spoilers.

Why wouldn't you? And you're noticing that it's the beginning of one month, yet publishers are really pushing a comic that comes out the next month. It's because that Monday, typically like today, is the final order cutoff day for a lot of comics. And so they're trying to get people to step up and order their comics from their comic bookshop. Oh, okay. Lever. Interesting. Yeah, a nice business thing there. Sneaky. I like the art. The art looks great looking at this preview. Yeah. Yeah. It looks really neat. And it looks like maybe the first issue might be doing a retelling of the what if episode where how does she become Captain Carter. Okay. And

is there's, I mean, in that scenario, I watched that and Steve Rogers is still a wimpy little skinny boy who now helps her with stuff. Like a Hulkbuster kind of... Yeah, Hulkbuster studio. Oh, right. Yeah, I forgot about that bit at the end. But do you think there's any chance that comic would try to rewrite that

and say, well, now there's Captain America and there's... So she's still... This is still alternative time. Yeah, this is an alternate universe, yeah. Okay. Well, I'm excited. I think that looks great. She, this was probably the most popular of those things that came out of the what if series. Maybe

Black Panthers, Star Lord as well. But, I mean, they're making action figures. They're working her into some games. It's great. It's great to see this become so popular. Yeah, the hot top, or not hot top, I'm hot boys. The creators of those one-sixth scale, highly detailed figure, they were out of the gate with a Captain Carter and a Steve Rogers in the, in the, what is it, a Hydrobuster.

Hydro Buster, that's right, yeah. ...uniform or Hydra Smasher uniform. Those are out, and then the second one that they've released, and I haven't really seen any of the others, is a Spider-Man with Dr. Strange's cloak. Oh, yeah, right. From the zombie episode, so... Right, right. Those are the only two. So those are, I think, were the most popular characters come up.

And the Marvel Legends, I think, is coming out with a full series, so you get the dark, Dr. Strange, and all that stuff. as well. Yeah, we'll see more of him in a couple of months. Yes, we will. The broody, the broody Dr. Strange. It was going to be just a month and now it's a few months. Yeah, what happened there? I don't remember. Was it another COVID deal or what? Maybe a little bit of COVID maybe from, again, rumors from what I heard was that it didn't test well initially. And so they may have had to go back and shoot some stuff. Oh, okay. Gotcha. It's a Sam Ramey joint, right? He directed? Yeah. That's just kind of funny that your two, you're back-to-back, Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Strange rolls is Spider-Man, I can't find my way home or whatever the hell it was called. And then this, and they're back to back.

And then you've got a director who directed the original early Toby McGuire Spider-Man. I just think that's just a weird juxtaposition. But there it is. I hope he did a good job. If you stick around long enough, you're going to be able to direct everything in the Marvel universe. That's true. That's the old phrase. You stick around long enough, you become the village.

You become the villain. That's what it is. That's the phrase. Yeah, that's something like that. All right. Well, well done there. Let's talk about why Stephen Wacker quit Marvel Comics. And tell us, for those who don't know who he is, who is Stephen Wacker, you know, has been one of the EICs at Marvel, or one of the editors at Marvel for the last 15 years. Before that, he's done work for Disney.

He's done work for D.C., for the Justice League, the JSA, Legion of Superheroes, all of those characters. he's been at Marvel for the last 15 years and then he announced on Friday hey guess what everybody this is my last day at Marvel I'm going off to be the EIC of Jonathan Hickman Mike Huddleston's and Mike Delmundo's

Substack Publishing Company Oh geez really? Yeah which is really weird because I know a lot of people have been talking about Substack Substack is trying to be the equivalent of Mailchimp trying to jump that out there It's essentially just newsletters

But you can subscribe to newsletters for In some cases one that I saw the other day Wanted $250 for an entire year's worth of Of newsletters from this company And what a lot of comic book publishers are doing Is that they are offering comics Through this substack. So like every day or every couple of days

You'll get a new page of this comic Kind of a weird kind of take on a web comic almost Right? Remember back when it used to be Three days a week, you come and you get the next page of this thing. But everybody's been moving to Substack. One of the reasons why people moved to Substack is because Substack had a bunch of a money up front and they went out and paid a bunch of people in the creative community to quit their regular jobs, move over to Substack and pay them essentially for a year.

And now that that year has essentially come up, now everybody is trying to figure out, okay, how do I really monetize this thing? And one of them is, let's do original comic book series through Substack. let's hire Stephen Wacker as our editor who will manage all of this stuff and then eventually these comics will find print usually through a dark horse or through some other publisher.

Sure. I know Scott Snyder does some sort of classes or our best jacket or something like that. Yeah, so he's got comic stuff he releases but he also does like here's a writing course on how to get a character like Batman Fresh or whatever. I don't know. Yeah, I follow. That's one that I subscribe to

and the people who do, oh gosh, now I forgot his name, who does the conspiracy theory comic over at Image Comics. I also follow him as well. And some of them are really interesting. Some of them are worth it, like the Scott Snyder thing, if you're doing the I want to learn how to write comics kind of stuff. That's like $75 a year or something like that. But I would imagine that this one is going to be a little bit more expensive

because now you have four people's salaries that you have to pay for on these comic books. Yeah, and they're big names. Yeah, they are. The other thing is... Do you have subsets? I do, and I use it as not as often as I'd like to, but whenever I do a new Fred and Can, I use it to let everybody know. If I do something big on the network or a big launch or something,

I'll make a big stink about it on there. I really should use it more just for, I don't know, just talk about how I'm, you know, what's going on and more behind the scene stuff. Maybe that would be things people interested in. But I had somebody very early say, you should be using this as a way to monetize that comic like don't release the comic give it to people and they'll pay for it and I just couldn't bring myself to do it I felt weird I don't know you can still do it if you want just turn that substack into a paid substand no I know I know but it's just I don't know it felt something about it felt weird I felt off to me we're in a you know you and I are very similar it's very hard for us to self promote because we feel like we're being braggerty or it's not the right word but you know No, braggadocious, thank you.

I should use that because that's such a fun word to say. Braggadocious. I hate that word, but not because it's not appropriate, but because it sounds like something a 90-year-old man would say. You're being very braggadocious, aren't you? I signed up to be a substack creator, you know, just newsletters because I was looking for an alternative to MailChimp, which, you know, for the number of subscribers that I,

or the number of subscribers to our newsletter that I have, the price is basically worth it. But one of the things is if you just create that substack account, they start saying, hey, here's someone that you follow on Twitter. They also have a substack. Yeah. Come sign up today. So you can get some fairly easy promotion. And I've released nothing through substack.

And already I've got like 10 subscribers. So yeah, it's, it's probably, I don't know. I have to think more about it. I'm terrible at this stuff. I need to hire a, I need to hire a social media maven to be like. I, you and I should talk some more offline, Brian, because I've got somebody who is doing that and who I am. currently doing stuff with oh oh okay very nice sounds like that's going good is it going good it's we are at the end of our first really two weeks of that and i've gotten some good

information and to move forward on nice nice well let's see how this goes for them sounds like an interesting deal for stephen wacker it's also a great name anybody with the name wacker is a friend of mine uh there's plenty more over at major spoilers dot com and if you don't believe me just put that in your web device, go look, because it'll be true when you get there. Hey, Stephen, I get to be on. Your Steve Howard web device is ready to go. I get to be on this week Tuesday. That is right.

Yeah, I'm excited. Tell me more. This week on the major spoilers podcast, you're going to want to check it out because Scott Johnson is back once again, as well as Jason Eminem who has a brand new Kickstarter that he launched last week. It's already met its goal. But Scott and Jason are going to come on and we're going to talk about some tips, some tricks, some controversies, lessons learns, things to avoid.

avoid all that stuff when you decide to launch your own Kickstarter campaign. Both Scott and Jason, I've had done a couple of those. I'm sure they have some insights, especially when it comes to this announcement that Kickstarter is going crypto. So we'll be talking about that this week on the Major Spoilers podcast. Hate it, but can't wait. I mean, not the show, the crypto part. But we'll get to all that and talk more about it Tuesday. And, of course, all week, there's plenty of content coming out of you guys.

Check it out, major spoilers.com. Stephen, have a great week. See you next time. Stay hydrated. Oh, yeah. There he is. There it is. Waiting for it.

Good deal. Good deal. Good deal indeed. All right. Now, I'd like to initiate a warning. All right. Is Jamie put together a mashup of me playing Donkey Kong country? That game pissed me off.

I watched this video and I was shouting expletives with you every time a freaking bucket would launch you into a B. Yeah, into a B. And then there is the whole mind. cart level, which, oh, it was bad. So he went ahead in his maximum wisdom and put this together. I'm telling you, if you got kids listening, maybe now's not the time, because I swear a lot on this. You're not going to hear any F bombs or anything too untoward, but you're going to hear me swear. So, I guess enjoy. Enjoy. Oh, we're right back where I started from. This

freaking sucks, and I have a bum. I'm really mad. Boodoo do-do do do. Do you. Freaking Diddy Kong can take a giant dump. Shit. I hate Diddy Kong. Donkey Kong in front. That's the rule. Diddy Kong, a little garbage monkey. Oh, shit, you piece of shit. Oh, shit. Uh, exit. Give me out of this colon hole.

Oh, you piece of garbage, little ditty-shitty con. Uh-huh. Eat a penis. A penis. Have the meal that constitutes a penis. You butt hole? Dick potato. Oh, oh.

Ah! Son of a dirty, dirty bitch. Take that dick. Your piece of shit. Gosh, dang it. Shit hole. Shit hole. Oh.

What in the, what's in the shit? Ugh. Uh-oh, our mind cart level. Oh, no. If I get three swordfish, I get to see Halle Berry's boobs, right? Ah, son of a bitch. You piece of shit! Let's not fail me now.

No failing me now. Oh, my gosh! Ah! I don't just scream when I'm scared. I scream when I'm dumb. Ooh! I'm going to crap myself. I'm so pissed.

I apologize for any kids who are listening, and I start swearing. Ugh! Ugh! Shit! Gosh, why is that so freaking hard? Shit pricks! I'm gonna explode. I'm so mad at this...

Effing game! You know what the problem is? Diddy Kongs with me. He sucks. Damn it. To hell. I promise I'm not this bad. I swear. Shit!

Holy shit stains! Okay. We almost... guys. Shit monkeys. Oh my lord! We're doing this. We're doing this. I was so close last time.

I'm gonna... I'm gonna... shit my pants. Son of a bitch! I'm in a poop! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Oh, what? What? You piece of shit!

You piece of shit! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Oh, son of a bitch! Did I make it? Ha! Oh, no! No! Shit! Oh, son of a bitch! You dick!

You... Oh my gosh! Oh, ho! Hello! These guys are dicks. Ooh, a cave. Oh my gosh! Shit!

Shit! Shit. Shit bakes. That's some horseshit. That's some horse shit. Shit on me. Huh? Shit on me. For real, shit on me. Just shit on me. Seriously, these things are dicks. Shit. Oh, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo!

What else am I supposed to... Oh, oh, did he? Did he do? Oh, ha ha ha! Eat a wiener and die. Oh! Are you kidding? Are you kidding? You piece of shit! I feel like this is the one. Oh, praise Jebus!

That deserves one of these. Oh, Jesus. All right. Ah, my gosh. Now I know what the S stands for in S&S. Okay. Yeah, it's shit Nintendo Entertainment System. Nintendo 64 of it.

No, that wasn't, that was a SNS. That's still, that's SNS. D-K. Oh, was it really? I thought it was... Donkey Kong Country? No. Donkey Kong Country is SNS, and then you had Donkey Kong

64. on the 64. Remember when they, for a long time, Nintendo on the 64, they were like, hey, what if we just put 64 on everything?

You know? And it was lame. Yeah. I always hated that. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. I thought Donkey Kong Country

originally came out of 64. That's what we had it on. We had it on the 64. It was very close to a release of the 64 as well. So it was like kind of late stage SNS-NESS era. But in fact, the third one, Donkey Kong Country 3.

But they did come out with a port. on on 64 i don't know did they i played it on um i know the game cube had a port uh there's a port on the the little mini at sness mini over there but i don't know i don't know if it ever came on the 64 maybe it did was there i'm looking i got to look this up because i remember pulling it out of the uh the game and playing some golden eye 64 and then uh you sure wasn't just donkey con 64 like the 3d uh deal where you're running around doing shit i could swine it was donkey con country so it must have been Donkey Kong Country, too.

Let's see. Donkey Kong 64. Yeah, it was a... Well, that was like full... There was a Donkey Kong Country 64. There was, okay. Oh, there was. Yeah, there was.

All right. I'm not crazy. We had that. I didn't know that. That's kind of cool. Didn't know that was a thing. Wait, where? Is there?

Yes. I only see a Donkey Kong 64. That's all I see. Oh, I'm sorry. It is called Donkey Kong 64. What is, what am I saying? But that's like 3D, like Mario 64. Yeah, no, it wasn't exactly.

It wasn't like that. So it must be Donkey Kong Country 64. I could have sworn we had, uh, Ditty's Conquest. Oh, it could be that. No, wait, Diddy Kong Quest was, that was also on the SNS. I played, that's what I played with the, uh, it has the girl hanging out with it. I was originally done on the SNS, but then it did, I'm looking at a box for the, uh, well, no, I take that back. SNS.

What the heck? How am I totally having a, uh, man, um, effect. I could have sworn these were both on the 64 and they like punched up when we put in that extra little block of memory or whatever it was in our 64. Oh, the

what was that called? Yeah, something pack. The power pack was a power pack? Yeah, and they worked with the dinosaur shooting game. I don't remember. Man, that's been a long time now. Wow. Anyway, it's called a stroke, says whistle 34. It's called a stroke.

Is that what we're having? It's about a stroke. It's just you know we had we had every console we had them set up in the same place i just could have sworn that it was in the same the same time well they're all very good banjo kazooey right and that was 64 that was definitely 64 yeah and that was that played out 3d like uh donkey king all right captain kipper said donkey kong 64 came with a pack so i am i'm conflating donkey kong country and donkey kong to the 64 yeah dk 64 was just 64 kind of like uh or no ocarine of time was not called the 64, but a lot of us called it that. Mario 64. I hate it when they just put 64

on shit, because it was all it did was say, hey, 64 bits of data path, check it out. All our names are going to have 64 on it. And then I'm like, well, you know you're going to get past that. You're going to get to like freaking 128. What do you do? What are you going to do when the next console comes out? Are you just going to follow that name? You're going to say, oh, Donkey Kong country

64-2? Yeah. Are you going to say Donkey Kong 128? That's lame. Right. lame yeah all right well they were weird times and we lived through it uh moving on this is and once again we prove why you do the video game podcasts and i don't well you know memory is what it is i'm sure i get plenty of things wrong uh dodd vickers wrote in our old pal dod oh we love dod yep down there in uh in atlanta area uh dude does a lot of stuff with the film industry and uh that stuff he is a location scout an award nominated location scout maybe even award winning location

He's awesome. He also married way up. He married a supermodel, basically, and makes us all look bad. Anyway, no offense to our wives. He wrote in and says, hey, I was listening to the show yesterday while driving from the production office and a film location. I can speak from experience and assure you that the streaming services do, in fact, finance their own projects. Take that. Who was it? Dice Tomato? Whoever it was giving me shit today. He says, yes, they also buy the distribution. rise to independent films and distribute them as unique to their service. More specifically, I just completed work on a Netflix studio feature that I started working on

a March of 2021, and it was simply a Netflix production. I hope that is helpful, love the show, and then he gave a link to the thing. So yeah, once again, Scott, proven triumphant, I fully understand how things work. So there you go.

Scott's favorite status. Proven triumphant. Proven triumphant. My permanent status, achievement unlocked. Hey, we got an update on Vegas. Here's the deal. Yeah. It's still the same dates. Do you have the dates? What's the dates? I do. 420. So really the events will be held on 426 and 427, April 26th and April 27th. However, you'll want to travel the day before and travel the day after, right? So you can be there for the full days because they'll be fun stuff. So really, April 25th to 28. Just book your travel for Monday. Or earlier, if you want to go to Vegas and see some other things besides our faces. Our ugly faces. If you're coming from really far away, too, maybe you want to spend some more time. But I'll be driving down on a Monday, driving back on a Thursday. But the in-betweens is where we're going to be doing our hanging out. Here's a couple of things that are going to happen. Between now and then, I'll be letting you guys know when, but we'll have basically a swag pack

that you'll grab. We're going to keep them cheap price-wise, but cool, you know, cool stuff inside. We always do that. Keep in mind, this is not just us getting reimbursed for the swag. This also pays for all the event stuff. Like we have to pay, you know, you're buying your hotel room, obviously, but we have to pay for ballroom time and other other deposits and things like that. So it's just a matter of getting those things. We just need enough to cover it. And so that's all we're going to do there. And it'll also kind of act as your way in. So if you're coming, you get one of these and they'll be given to you while you're there. And it'll include some cool stuff, which I again will announce soon. We want to,

Everyone coming to be vaxed. Them's just the brakes. All right. So be vaccinated. I suppose you don't have to be boosted if you can't get it wherever you live or whatever. But, you know, do your best. Be careful. We're trying to have this fun thing without incident.

And just so much out of our control already. We want to, you know, have as much control on our, on our, as much control on this as we can. So be vaxed before you come. Okay. Yeah. We see. We mentioned the dates. What else?

Can we tell them? There's some secret stuff we can't say yet. Yeah, there's some stuff. I'm working on some cool event details. It's safe to say we will have a ballroom for four hours for board games. So I'm bringing Marvel United and a bunch of my painted minis. So we can play that game. And I'll be like sitting there like a hawk hovering over people as they touch and pick up those minis and move them like

No, you're being a little too, you're being a little too aggressive with Daredevil. Calm down. Yeah, his red pain is on your thumb. Quit squeezing him so hard. I'll be like Nigel Tufnell saying, no, don't even breathe on it. Don't even look at it. Move on. That's awesome.

I will be bringing copies of Rock Runners. I can't wait to play that with actual Tadpoolers. This makes me so excited to play your Rock Runners with friends. So, anyway, all that kind of stuff will happen that day. But there will be, we will have a meetup the night, Monday night. So get an early enough. that you can join us for like a little get-together reception, informal kind of thing. And then we'll have stuff planned for both Tuesday night and Wednesday night.

And it's cool stuff. We might have jury there and Schwed. Yeah, they're going to at least try to poke in. Tom maybe. Jerry and Schwed are a poke-in because they're coming for a thing later that weekend. Right. So what they'll do is probably not a whole lot of, then we may see them on Wednesday. I don't know yet.

We haven't confirmed any of that. But, yeah, Tom's a maybe. But, yeah, some of your favorite folks will hopefully be there. Exactly. And it'll be a no handshake, no hug environment unless, you know, unless you get consent from both parties. Yeah, everybody, if you want to hug, you've got to both be into it. If you want, you know, vac's your ass and wear your mask is our rule.

That's right. And we are following all the protocols that Vegas has, as well as the hotel, since they can go above what Vegas's protocols are. A hotel can always do more and say, you know, yep, masks in all of these spaces unless you're actively drinking or eating or whatever. Yeah. And if you want, you can be one of those 3 a.m. pulling on the side of a freaking slot machine looking like you got blue hair, but wear your mask. It's fine. Yeah, exactly.

Anyway, more on that as we get closer to it. We're excited about it. And I've still got the TMSVegas.com domain and sites, so I don't know if there's anything currently there. It's probably just old stuff, right? I don't even know if it's old stuff because I moved my hosting. Oh. Are you not using blue host anymore? I am not.

I have a whole new thing that I use. Nice. I manage my own servers, and now, Scott is what I do. Oh, very nice. I'm all, uh, I'm using all AWS, but I, I'm terrible at managing it because I don't really know what I'm doing. I'm too and yeah, my service makes it pretty easy and actually does use AWS as a service. Yeah, if you got a front end, we should probably talk.

My front ends. My front end is me. I'm using it as if I'm the front end and that's fine for some developer, smart guy, server guy, you know, whatever. I'm just like, what's the command line? Where do I put the thing? How do I do this? Anyway, it's fun stuff. Anyway, so details will be forthcoming Facebook, Discord, and officially on the TMS Vegas website when I get that thing re- rebooted.

Nice. A quick reminder tonight, play retro, 330 Mountain Time. Please come join us. Lots of visuals with today's show, although the podcast is just as good. So I'm going to check that out. How's soundography doing? We're getting a new one today? We do.

There's a new one that just got posted this morning. Surf time. Yeah, surf rock, all of your favorites like... Oh, the Chantels and the Miserlew, the Dick Dales, and all those bands, Tull Star by the Tornadoes. We talk about the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, all the way up to current surf rock. There are still bands that are cranking out some amazing surf rock. And we're going to let you know about all that stuff. It's soundography.com.

That show is up, so you can go listen to it right now if you want. Very nice. I'm going to, I think my pushed lunch with Hammond is now tomorrow. I think we're doing that tomorrow. That'll be fun. Push lunch. Yeah, we're going to Sapphire, or Sapphire.

It's called the restaurant, Pushed by Sapphire. It's formally called, yeah, based on the restaurant push by Saffir. It's so dumb. Anyway, so there you go.

A couple of quick things. I want to thank some patrons at patreon.com slash TMS. Michael Roche, Tristan Adams, Jack Turrick, you three are awesome. Thank you for joining up

at the levels you're at and I hope you like getting the benefits you get. I know you do because you've been there a long time. And if you want to be like them, sign up today, Frog Pants, or sorry, Patreon.com slash TMS. The website is frogpants.com slash TMS. And that will do it for today.

Hey, we can't leave without a song because that's the deal. So, Brian, why don't you play one? Damn it. I will play one. This one comes to us from Alex, who goes by Crash Kincaid on the rare instance he can listen live. He says, the last time I requested a song was for my 42nd birthday. this time I'm requesting a song for my 50th.

Holy cow, we've been with you for eight years. Crash, love it. In that time, I've bounced through three jobs, move twice, survived probably a pandemic, and gained two nephews, but I'll probably be playing Minecraft when I listen to this episode, just like I was doing eight years ago. I know Scott hates this song, but how can you hate something sung by a band called Ninja Sex Party? Well, we're about to find out. Okay.

love them frequent uh requesters on here and a cover they included on their volume three of under the covers back in 2019 here's their cover of starships we built this city oh lord all right now i know hey here's this for you uh birthday boy happy birthday to you in a happy new year yeah we wish that for you and anyone else who shares his birthday all right here we go we're out of here thank you guys for watching. Enjoy this song. I'm sure this cover's good, but man, that song sucks. But enjoy it anyway. We'll see you tomorrow for a whole new TMS. Come back then. Say you don't know me or recognize my face. Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place.

Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight. Too many runaways, eating up the night. Marconi plays the number, listen to the radio, don't you remember? We built this city, we built this city on rock and rock, and roll. We built this city, we built this city on rock and rock, and rock, We built this city We built this city on Nogged Road Someone's always playing

Corporation games Who cares they're always changing Corporation games dance here someone stole the stage they call us irresponsible riders off the page Mark Coney plays the buffer listen to the radio don't you remember we built this city we built this city on rock and road we built this city on rock and road we built this We built this city on Rock and Road builds this city We built this city on Rock and Road

It's just another Sunday In a tired old street Police have got the chokehold That we just lost to be Who counts the money Underneath the ball Who rides the wrecking ball Into our guitars

Don't tell us You need us Could we're in the shape of fools Looking for America counting through your schools Marconi plays the mummer listen to the radio don't you remember

we built this city we built this city on rock and road we built this city we built this city on dark and we built this city We built this city on Rock and We built this city

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