The Morning Stream - TMS 2248: Hairy Ass Truman

Episode Date: February 21, 2022

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Hey, what's going on? Welcome to Monday's TMS, where Scott learns how to use his soundboard for the first time. You have chosen to mute the music. Yeah, that was a weird thing. I think I just twitched and hit my finger on the button there. Sure. A little bit of the old, I had a machetee this morning. Makes me a little jumpy, a little jumpy, a little.

little spazzy, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm Scott, he's Brian, he's here. Brian smells like a wiener. We'll get to that in a minute. I don't know if you guys noticed that when he walked in, but there's a reason. We'll get to it. We'll get to all of that here on today's TMS.

We have a lot of stuff to talk about today. It's Monday. We hope you're all well. It's President's Day, Brian. It is. How do you eat a million peaches? Or what do you do? I do.

I put there's a kitty on my foot and I want to pet it. And I pet it for the President's Day. I actually, you know, there was a typo on my calendar. I thought it was Residence Day. And so I listened to a bunch of avant-garde music made by four guys with eyeballs and top hats all day, all morning long. I think you did the preferable activity. I think that's fine. I don't know.

I really like the Presidency United States of America band. And there's a great cover. One of us that we played on the show, maybe twice, of Candy by Iggy Pop. Iggy Pop and Kate Pearson You remember that song Candy, Candy, Candy, I can't let you go Where Iggy Pop tried to do a weird sort of crooner voice And there's a cover by

Oh God, it's like Kevin somebody The lead singer of the President's United States of America Very handsome bald man Yeah, the skinny bald guy head singer guy He does a cover of that song And it makes so much fun of the original you know, like stuff like instead of it being 20 years

between the time that they first met and the time they reunited, it was 20 minutes. You were in the bathroom for 20 minutes. I had to leave. I had to get out. That's great. Was I supposed to wait for you for 20 minutes? No, I'm not going to wait for you. Have we played that? I feel like we've played that. We've definitely played that on the show. Yeah,

I have some memory of that somehow. Well, they wish it was their day, but really it's our look at the the institution of president here in the United States. And a lot of, you know, oh, well, all the banks, but a lot of companies take a day off. My daughter works at the university. She's taking the day off.

She's out with her mom right now, picking up the boy doing errands and things. And no, not us. We're here. We continue down the pipe, folks. We got to come out clean on the other side. We can't stop now. So we aren't taking it off.

I know DT&S takes it off. Everybody I know takes it off. Not me and Brian. My goodness. I mean, okay, sure. You know, there's the, there's the formality. It is a, oh, Christopher Ballou, by the way, is the lead singer of the President's United States of America. I thought Kevin's something, but it's completely not.

Gotcha. Christopher Ballou. There you go. Yeah, no. You know, we honor, we believe in the sanctity of the leadership of this country most of the time. But we celebrate those original, you know, the vanilla stock. Presidency, the United States of America, our Washington, our Lincoln, our Jefferson. Yeah, your old favorites, your standards.

Yes, the classics. Yes. Well, I have some fun, interesting, fun facts about presidents I'd like to share with you today. All right. I'd like to hear them. Let me start with this one. You mentioned Washington. I did.

Here's a fun fact about them. You're talking about presidents. You got to start with the O.G. Oh, yeah. Washington is your man played expertly by David Morris and the John Adams. HBO miniseries. Here's an interesting fact about him. The only president to be unanimously elected was George Washington. He served between 1732 and 1799. He also refused to accept his presidential salary, which was 25 grand a year. Now, in today's dollars, I don't know what that

would be. That's probably a lot. It would be a lot. Yeah. Holy cow. It would be crazy numbers. That seems like a very expensive thing. Because I don't think they make a whole lot more than that these days, just their presidency pay. Yeah, exactly. Now, they seemed, you know, pretty confident in that dude in, and he got a unanimous, you know, unanimous election. It was like no, no question, complete confidence, you're the guy, you're our man. 300,000, 300,000 says Dice Tomato. 3,000 says Dice Tomato. Did he make that up or do he look that?

What do you do, Dice Tomato? Well, Pops and Reklin says almost 800,000 today. Oh, well, then, Dice Tomato, check your numbers. And then also, I don't know if Pops and McLean is right either. Pops and Reklein, check your numbers. I mean, you know, who knows, that number could be so. It's so hard to figure, right? Because it's...

Sure. You know, there's got to be other things involved with the pay that aren't just a, oh, here's your check, your monthly, here's your monthly check. Would you like it direct deposited into your account? Yeah, no kidding. Plus, there's incidentals up in the wazoo when you go, as my dad would say. Like, you know, if Biden goes to Camp David for a weekend, that's on us. It's a taxpayer-based thing.

If Trump went golfing, we pay. for that. If Obama went to Hawaii for the weekend, we pay for that. Everybody pays for it. You took one of those rare trips to Mara Lago. Yeah, it was very rare, though. It was hardly ever. It was rare, you know. Yeah, rarely there. They were always surprised to see him. Exactly. So, okay, so there's one there with the 25K a year. Here's another interesting one. Because the KKK was a powerful political force, Truman, another president, Harry Truman. Harry? Yes. Harry S. H. H. H. S. Truman. Right.

That's right. Not to be confused with the Twin Peaks sheriff. Yeah. Truman was encouraged to join the organization. According to some accounts, he was inducted, although he was never active. Other accounts say that though he gave the KKK a $10 membership fee, he demanded it back and was never inducted or initiated. So some controversy there. Wow.

No kidding. Truman. The chat room, fantastic. Everybody entering in what looks. like, oh, the accurate amount of how much they get paid, right down to the cents, right? $513,000, $43,0.513,000, $437.27. And you're just wondering if they're just, like, face, what do you call that, face rolling the keyboard to come up with those numbers or if they've actually found an accurate source that says it. Oh my gosh. Brian? Should I even admit this on the air?

Oh, I don't know. You just taught me something that has never clicked with me until this very second. Uh-huh. I didn't know. Okay, like in World Warcraft context or playing an MMO. That's why I've heard that. Yeah, yeah. It's like, oh, you're going to face roll this boss or whatever.

And I always heard that and went, I just thought that meant you're just going to go face-to-face with it and let's go. All these years, I didn't know it meant roll your face on the keyboard, which makes sense now because it's just chaos, right? You're just like putting every key. I didn't know. I had no idea. I feel like an idiot now. Oh, that's awesome. Well, you know what? No, I mean, it's, it's not, it doesn't feel like an obvious phrase, a face roll. Oh, let's just face roll this boss and get to the next one or something like that. Yeah, I just didn't know what it meant. I thought it just meant like. It's like your character is so easy to play. You don't even need to press keys with any sort of accuracy. You can just rub your face on the keyboard and beat the boss. Oh, my gosh. I mean, look, I only ran a very popular

16-year podcast about World of Warcraft. You'd think maybe by now. Yeah, I might know what the hell that damn phrase, man. All right. Well, that's embarrassing. Hey, moving on. How about this one? This is a fun one. Grover Cleveland, you know, he was a president there. Yeah. Was the only president in history to hold the job of a hangman also. Oh, interesting. He was once a sheriff of Erie County, New York, and twice, had. to spring the trap in hangings. Whoa. Grover.

Spring the trap. Grover, let the button go, Grover, it's time. Kill him. What? What'd you say? Okay. I'm going to turn the... Yeah.

And I wanted to be him like turning the lever that makes the shoe come back and then come forward and kick the ball out of the bucket, which goes down the stairs and then through that shoot and then into the... The whole, the Rube Goldberg death device. That's the one. Right, exactly. Makes the diver jump into the... into the bucket, which...

Brian Marica is right in the chat. We need to bring the name Grover back. I agree. No one's Grover anymore. Let's bring it back. Let's get it on. Yeah, and that's a tough name to shorten. You don't say, oh, hey, Grovey, or Grow.

You know, it's like, you would be called Grover. People would not shorten your name to a nickname. Oh, hey, Ver. There you go. There you go. How about this one? You may know, you may or may not know this. If you had, if someone said to you, Brian, what is the S and Harry S Truman

What is the shortening of that? I believe the S stands for nothing. It is just the letter S. You are 100% correct. It says it stands for nothing. Therefore, there is no period after it. That's why whenever you see it, there is no period after S. It is just a thing he called himself.

Exactly. It was just almost like the Homer J. Simpson, but Jay stood for J. Yeah, not quite. Nice, nicely done. The letter J stood for the name J.A.Y, which is brilliant. It was a great episode. I saw a very funny TikTok video that has the Homer reference in it

So you know that meme of Homer backing into the bushes Everyone uses it to say like, ooh, I don't want to touch this And they back into the bush Exactly like, I'm out of here Yeah, very common gif It was a baby reveal, you know, gender reveals Oh yeah And it looked like a normal one

This guy's got a big balloon It's a black balloon So you have no idea if it's going to be blue or pink in there He's got a big old pinned pop at the wife's there They're all excited They pop it and out comes a bunch of a yellow smoke and the dad goes, wait a minute, what the heck, what does yellow mean? And then the camera pans and there's a dude in a full homer outfit backing into an actual

bush off to the side. Really? It's really good. It's very funny. And it doesn't, like, you don't know it's a joke until you see that. I don't see the homer looking dude with yellow, is he wearing like yellow makeup to make all of it. He's got a big like rubber homer head even.

It's like a big, all right, good. But he's got the full, like, big white shirt and the, I don't know how. It looked like it was maybe a whole suit, but it made me laugh. And I hate gender reveals, like, with a passion. I do, too. But that might be. They are the worst thing, and they've, you know, just do the cake thing. The cake thing is as much as you should probably do for your gender reveal.

Have the baker bake a cake with the color inside it. Friends and family, close family, if you want to do that sort of thing, it doesn't need to go viral. Because guess what? We don't care that you're having a baby. Nobody cares. I mean, we care if we know you. We don't care. If we care, we know you.

And if we know you, you tell us. That's it. Exactly. And we, you know, we care about the wildfires that are caused by your stupid bombs that blow the blue and red smoke. Yeah. Too many fires have been started. Too many people have been killed. Too many weird things happen.

Quit doing that. But also, that was a really funny joke. So part of me is glad it's a thing so that they could do that. Yeah, that's the one thing. There was a, what's the podcast, the talk. about funny pop culture, or not funny, but fad, pop culture fads like truck nuts and gender reveals and, um, I don't know. Oh, it's great. It's such a good podcast. Oh, are you talking about a, you're not 99% invisible, not that one. They do a lot of that sort of thing. Um, I guess that's,

that's for stuff you don't notice, though. It's in my, uh, it's in my, uh, it's in my, my leash. I'm sort of into that, whatever that is. I would, I would listen to that. Yes. Overcast. I couldn't remember what app I used to on the very rare occasion I listen to a podcast. Too busy making them, guys. Way too busy making them. It is called Decoder Ring. Oh, I have them

subbed. I just haven't. The Coder Ring is fantastic. Huh. Maybe I'll let me see. Do I still have them in here? Because I switched apps a while back. He's pocket cast now. Yeah, there's a great episode about the Karen, the history of

Karen's. Oh, yeah, I already subbed to these guys. Why am I not listening to them? Yeah, you should. 48 episodes just sitting there. You should listen to those. All right. I'll give it a shot.

We're too busy making podcasts to listen to podcasts. Yeah, look, when you make, if you spend your whole day making cake, how much time do you have to eat cake? Right, exactly. But one of their episodes was about gender reveals. And they interview the woman who did the first gender reveal thing, who like came up with the idea. And she's like, I really regret ever starting this crap. I'll bet she does, yeah. To her, I say, you should, you should, you and the person who came up with day dates here in Utah for, like, prom and junk.

Oh, yeah. You two should get together and commiserate about what you've done, because my gosh, I hate it. Just sit there and think about what you've done. Yeah, and my kids are all out of that phase now, but when they were in it, it was sucked, because they all had this horrible pressure on them to do a big, huge day thing, the day before the prom. You don't need to freaking do it. And I know this isn't everywhere in the states. There's some other, probably other states that do it. But in Utah, it's rampant.

And it sucks. We don't have them here in Colorado. Or at least if we have, I haven't heard of them. But promposals is another thing that just needs to go. Oh, gosh. Ask the girl to prom. It doesn't have to be this big thing. Although when we were in high school, my friend filled a toilet full of an actual

toilet as dad worked at a hardware store. So he got a big unused porcelain toilet, filled it full of chocolate. Hershey's kisses put the question of will you go to prom with me down at the bottom. Oh, they were unwrapped. Okay. So they look like poop.

Oh, this gets worse. So they're unwrapped and then there. At the bottom, he put a stopper so that there was no hole, you know, to go out onto the ground or anything. He filled it with Hershey's kisses. Down to the bottom, he buried a small little plastic cylinder with the note in it that said, will you go to prom with me? And then he did it in the, you know,

I guess when's prom? April? May? Yeah, usually, yeah. Something like that. Late spring. Left it out in the sun before taking it over there. So it melted. Like it turned in a melted chocolate. Yep, for the most far. Still a little chunky. Took it over there. Left it on the yard. Bing bong, ran. Girl comes out, opens the lid, what looks like a big, you know, gnarly poo,

and a sign on the inside of the lid that says dig down or something. And she had to like dig in there to find that note. And it was kind of epic. But that was just because I was involved in it. Had I not been involved in it, I would have probably frowned on it. You know? I would have been like, don't do that. Some people have a meat cute. They have a meat hoop shoot.

Exactly. That proposal stuff sucks, too. All right. Here's one final one before we move on. Okay. For our presidents. Lincoln logs are named after Abraham Lincoln and the log cabin where you is more. And his log.

Yep, that's right. Which is from all accounts, epic. And here's the crazy bit about that story. John Lloyd Wright, some of son of famous architect Francis Lloyd Wright, invented them. Oh, really? Yeah.

Oh, pretty good. That is pretty cool. It's your merging of the grates. And I didn't know this. Frank Lloyd Wright and Lincoln. Do they get into this in Hamilton? I don't think they do. James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were once arrested together

for taking a carriage ride in the countryside of Vermont on a Sunday, which at the time violated laws of that state. So they got busted for a stupid ass thing. That's in the bonus act four if you stick around for the end. It's like after the credits of Hamilton, after they've taken their bows and gone backstage, they come back out and they do the secret act four. We've been arrested.

We've been arrested. We're never going to get in trouble again. There you go. Oh, very good. It's not bad, right? Yep. Call me, I don't know what runs with Vermont. Wait, Vermont.

Hold on. There's no word that does Well, want Rhyams with her mom Oh yeah But you need to If you do a double syllable word though Like if you had to do

Yeah Yeah yeah DuPont Her aunt Her aunt Dupont Oh come on Pops and recline That doesn't work

Yeah Scott Manuel Miranda is my new name All right Yeah beautiful Let's uh Let's hear about your wiener mobile Brian smells like a wiener What happened?

What'd you do? So Tina said Hey this weekend We're doing a quick mystery date, a really simple, easy one. I'm like, psh, you know, these things don't ever have to be elaborate. They are not like promposals or gender reveal parties. They can be as easy as you want them to be.

And she says, so, you know, right after a film sack on Saturday morning, we'll do that. Well, we move film sack to Sunday, and then we were going to move that thing to also Sunday, but we kept it on Saturday, so to make things a little bit easier. Anywho. She's like, all right, you're ready? We're going to go. I'm like, all right, cool. Hop in the car and we start driving.

way up north, and I'm thinking, well, what the heck is up here? There's a top golf, but, you know, Tina said it's a quick and easy one. Top golf would be like a two or three hour deal. We get to this King Supers, and as we round the corner, I see something huge, red, orange, like those bright, recognizable colors, branding colors of the Oscar Meyer Wiener Mobile. And you see pictures of this thing, and I got to say, seeing it in real life just doesn't compare it's amazing seeing this thing don't you think the bun's a little small for the weiner just from a visual standpoint you know it's better i would rather have more weiner than bun yeah than more

bun than weiner that's a good point jay there's a freebie for you yeah enjoy because then you get you know you get a couple bites that are hot dog uh before you get to the bread and it's way better than like oh great it's mustard flavored bread yum let's get to the meat good point i a A weaner that hangs a bit out the bun is a better hot dog combo. Way better. I agree with that. You see this thing up close and it's like, okay, this is like, it's a, it's a car, right? That they have, like the bottom underneath the hot dog, it's almost like a float, a parade float, where it's like, oh, this part is just like regular, weird looking sedan, rounded edge sedan with license plates and everything that they've just kind of dropped a hot dog and bun on top of.

so it parks there are six of them that rove around the country doing tours and uh um this one is going to be in colorado for the next couple days and i don't know where it's going from here but sadly not to utah we found out unfortunately because i think you got to check this thing out yeah but as part of their they're you know presenting this thing you get a chance to go up the stairs like a little side um like a winnebago set of stairs into this airplane door underneath this airplane door and then look inside you can't there's like a rope

so you can't go you can't even set foot inside it but you can kind of lean in and take pictures and stuff so you get to see and it's like it is like a decked out red and orange Winnebago in there with maybe like six or eight seats captain's chairs looking Star Trek

things that And this huge bulb dome window over the front. And it's just great. It looks like so much fun to drive. Yeah. I would love to drive. And I guess you still can apply and be a Wienermobile driver slash navigator. What do you have to take?

What do you have to show them? You have to commit to a month, I think, of travel, interstate travel. Okay. And then you basically, every day or every day you're working, you set up a tent, you and your partner are there greeting people handing out wiener whistles and stickers for hours. And then you get back in there and you drive to the next place. But so damn cool. It seems, it seemed rad. Just the up close I'd never seen inside.

I thought maybe the inside would be kind of thrown together or be just normal looking inside vehicle. It's not. It looked really cool. I know it's gorgeous inside. Looks like you might actually have fun driving that thing. Totally. And I did get a wiener whistle, the weenie whistle. It's sitting upstairs. It's still wrapped in plastic, but at some point I'll take it out and blow it on the show or something.

Yeah. So did you, I was it going to ask? And they don't serve food out of it. Like, that's the first question. It was like, oh, is it like a food truck? Can you get hot dogs in this thing? Nope. Nope, you cannot.

Not part of the deal. Sorry. Not part of the deal, but they park in front of the grocery store. And you can go on. there and get your hot dogs sure enough so uh uh i'd be just for the record i'd be terrified driving this it would be like driving a semi i can't drive moving trucks for example because i feel like i'm just going to destroy everything around me um just too long and weird i can't do it is it looks it looks unwieldy and i don't know how like you there is no um rear view uh mirror right

like with with um semis and moving trucks and stuff like that you are completely reliant on side mirrors to do all of your all of your viewing behind you oh right so you don't have a way because that wiener yeah there's no rear view mirror there's no rear view mirror yeah I think there's a bathroom back there they have like a little uh smells like beef but maybe there's a um you don't have camera you know like a camera type uh rear view or any of that'd be pretty cool right like a an always on rear facing camera for that sort of thing yeah that'd be cool yeah my our Volkswagen has one of those but I barely look at it because I'm not used to it.

But in this thing, I'd have to rely on something like that or forget it. Wouldn't work. They need to make electrics of this and then sell them. I don't know why. That's dumb. That's a bad idea. Like a smaller version, like a... Yeah, like a little coop, you know, a weiner coop.

Yeah. The new Kia weiner. All right. Well, on that note, weaners and all, we're diving in here with Dunaway. who's going to join us for a bit of the old Babbel Royale Monday edition business, which we now call the morning half-asses, at least for now. This is the sub-name for Babel Royal today. And I'm saying all this because we're killing time while.

It's your vamping is what you do. Yeah, I'm vamping. Yeah. Vamping is the word. I'll continue to vamp as he joins us. Oh, here he is. All right. Look at that, everybody.

It's Brian Dunaway joining us for Babel Royale. Brian, good morning. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Oh, hi. Hello. Hey, nice to see it. How are you guys doing? Pretty good.

We're good. How are you? It's good as Monday. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we had a good... It's Monday. We had a really fun film sack.

I just want to push it out there. It was in particular, very, very fun. And I think people should go check it out. We watched... Mars Attack. For some of us for the first time. And I guess me and Dunaway were the first timers. First timers.

And you might be surprised what we... thought of that movie. Or you might not be. Who knows? Go check it out. It was really, really fun and a great episode. All right, Brian, good to have you here. We're going to play this game. Brian's going to explain how it works and what we've got to do to help people win. I don't just explain it to us. I will explain it. All right. Get ready to take notes because this one's so, so much more complicated. Welcome to the morning. Half-Ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you guys 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 confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses at those answers. But if they get any of those answers wrong, they get zero points for the round. If they guess one, get it right, they get a point. If they guess two, get them both right, gets them two points for getting those

and a bonus point, so they get three points total. And if you guess all three correct answers and get them right, you get five points. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant, and we're pulling contestants for of the Tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're going to be playing for Gerson in Houston, Texas.

Nice. Gershwin or Gerson? Gerson. Gerson. Gerson. Gerson. Gerson. Like, like person with a Gerson. Gerson. Oh, person with a Gerson. He's a person with a G. He's both a nice Gerson and a nice person at the same time. That's right. Brian, you're going to be playing for Perry T in Duncanville, Pennsylvania. Oh, Perry. Yeah, who did it? You know what? Not enough Perry's in the world. That's awesome. Perry White. I like it.

All right. Yeah. It's true. All right. Let's give you guys your first category and your first six possible answers. Seeing as today is Play Retro, I figured, well, let's start off with a play retro style question. Scott and Brian,

the category is arcade games released in the 1970s. And your choices are, Hackman, Asteroids, Gun, Gun, Sea Wolf 2, Defender, and Galaxian. Which three of those were released in the 70s? See, I feel so positive. I know these that it worries me.

I think it's a little... I'm definitely going to get it wrong then. Seawolf 2 is a tricky one, because I know Seawolf 1 was. Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Yeah, exactly. I'm unsure about that. All right, I think I can... I think I know these.

I should know these. I don't know these. I think I know all three. I'm locked in. I think I thought I knew all three, too, but I feel like I'm going to get it wrong. Okay. All right. So, Scott, you've locked in with Asteroids, Seawolf 2 and Defender.

Brian Dunaway, have you locked in with two answers, asteroids and Seawolf 2. The correct answers are asteroids is correct. Seawolf 2 is correct. The last one is the third one. That's why I was debating. I was Defender definitely was like 80. We talked about on the show. Exactly.

Here's 1981. No, I know. Asteroids was released in 1978. Seawolf 2 was released in 1978. Galaxian, 1979. Pac-Man released in 1980. Defender released in 1981. And Gun-Gun, not even a real game.

That's what I was wondering, because I was like, I said, I think, I'm pretty sure Galaxian was in the 70s, but what the hell is Gun-Gun? And I'm like, I don't know. It sounds like a 70s thing, though. Yeah, it does. It sounds real stupid. Zero points for a guest defender. But Brian Dunway, guest two, got them both right, so we got three points total.

Let's go to question number two. Nicely done. Actually brothers. Oh. So three of these are actually brothers. Your choices are the righteous brothers, the Duby brothers, the Everly brothers, the chemical brothers, the Jonas brothers, and the Isley brothers. Oh, my Lord. Three of these are musicians that are actually brothers.

You thought they all were? brothers in your title, I believe in your brother's as far as I'm looking. Can I check all six? You cannot. You can, I mean, you can. Actually, I don't know if you can. I wonder if the game will stop you from selecting me more than.

All right. I locked in mind. Scott's locked in. Oh, God. I'm just, oh, this, I don't know. I feel like I made a mistake choosing that second one. We'll see. Okay, both of you locked in.

Both of you locked in with exactly the same. answers. You guys are both saying that the Everly brothers and the Jonas brothers are in fact actual brothers. That is correct. Yes, you guys both got your two answers, right? The other really brothers, Don and David Everly? No, what is the other Everly brothers name? I can't remember, but they are, in fact, two brothers and the Jonas brothers are three. We should have just done all the ones that have, we should have done all the ones with names that are actual names. name because that's what I was debating on but doobie could be a last name could be right Joe Duby Joe doby Joe doobie yeah I was pretty there's no righteous or chemical but I wasn't sure about the dubies yeah righteous brothers

are uh definitely not righteous nor brothers no they were neither righteous nor brothers that's right that's right Bill Medley and uh Frank Gorson shoot can't remember Jeremy Pye liquor no Jeremy Pylitt. Oh, my God, if that's on the border of going the wrong direction there. He is. Yes, exactly. I know you thought it sounded innocent, but. All right. Your final category is occupations that are also names of WWWE pro wrestlers.

So your choices are taxi driver, the undertaker, the warden, repo man, the mechanic, and the Mountie. Okay. These are the occupations. Yeah, there's one easy one. But which of these are, and Scott, you're currently sitting at three points. Brian, you're sitting at six. So, Scott, you need to make a move if you want to win this one. Does that mean I got, if I don't choose, even if I get too right, well, no, he'd have to screw up completely.

If you get two right and he misses any, then you guys tie. And I just throw another game into the mix, and both players get two games. I'll, I'll do that. Okay. But you need to go for three if you want a chance of winning, otherwise go for two for a chance of time. All right. I'm going to go for... And hope that Brian get something wrong.

Yeah. All right, Brian. You and I both know one of these for 100%, but we don't... Oh, 100% sure. 100%. Yep, even I know one of these for 100%. You're both locked in. Scott, you're locked in with the Undertaker, the warden, and the mechanic.

Brian, you're locked in with the Undertaker, the mechanic, and the Mountie. The answers are... the Undertaker And the Mountie Yes there is a wrestler called the Mountie Yeah yeah the Mountie I knew that one I knew the Undertaker for sure

And I kept flip and flop Between the I unchecked a couple of times The Warden and The Mechanic Wasn't there a wrestling movie called The Mechanic or something There was a movie where Christian Bale Gets skinny called the mechanic But that's it

He lost like a million pounds for that role The wrestler That's why I was getting confused Oh yeah The wrestler Isn't that what it's called the wrestler? Yeah with Mickey Rourke Yeah

Yeah, what character did he, I don't know what the name of that was. But yeah, these are, so the warden is not, I swore there was a warden. The warden is not. It sounds like when it should be. It does. It feels like it should be. Oh, yeah, the warden stepping into the ring right now. The warden.

Yeah. You're going in the hole. So the repo man is a real, that blows my mind. Repo man is a real wrestler and a real occupation. I'm a horrible wrestler. I don't have any fandom for wrestling. And so this was a real hard one for me. There was no way I was going to get this.

I did, but I guess that I could. and nail that third one, but I felt I felt like you were breathing down my neck, so I was like, I better go for three. Yeah. Yeah. Well, congratulations going to Brian Dunaway with six points. That means that Perry

T in Duncanville, Pennsylvania is going to be our winner and get two games. He's getting fling to the finish and Tohu, T-O-H-U. Oh, yeah. But a runner-up, Gerson in Houston is getting Vodigo, no, voidigo, voidigo. Voidigo. Voidigo, like vertigo, but Voidigo.

Like, I gotta go to the bathroom. Voidigo. Voidigo. Well, well done, guys. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. You're both winners, really, but one of you got more than the other, and that's because of me. So, well done, and good job, and we'll do this again. This is a really, I really like this variation on the name.

Yeah, this is a fun, this is a fun alternative. Yeah, it's really, really fun. It's a very nice, program-wise, this is very cool what he put together. It's so smooth and slick, and again, Al-Cabob, I've just got to thank you again for putting this thing together. He lives up in Canada, and that's why I haven't, I'm putting together a TMS prize package. That's why I have the Mounties. I have a TMS prize package. I'm putting together for him to thank him for all his hard work on this. I just got to figure out the cheapest way to send, like basically a combination of what's the most I can send, but still have it

cheap to send. Yeah. And also, yeah, and the smaller the package, the more likelihood it will not get lost in customs. That's the other thing. Yeah. Yeah. I've learned that with Canada. Canada's rough. I still have people who can't get their Rock Runners packages because they got just lost in customs. They're just gone. So I got to resend them. It sucks. But here, I got, Brian, when you do that, let me know because I got, we'll give them some flat stuff like a challenge coin. Oh, yeah.

Cool. A nice heavy challenge coin, excellent. Yeah, that'll help. It depends on what you end up sending. If it ends up being a thing where you have other chunky stuff, we'll work accordingly. But we'll give you something rad, dude, because this stuff's awesome. For sure. It's really cool.

Yeah, you just such a great job. Well, well done. Hey, Brian Dunaway, later today, I'm very excited about this because today on Play Retro, a video game show all about retro gaming, where Brian and I have a lot of passion for the stuff we talk about. In particular, I'm not that much of a sports video gamer. I like sports games. Mostly I enjoyed them in the 16 era or so, but it's not like I'm crazy about a new copy of Madden or, you know, I don't get into it today the way maybe some people do. However, there was a little game in 1994. called NHL 94 that is still to this day I think my favorite sports game of all time and I'm not alone Scott would not be alone there is a whole community built up around this game and you can hardly talk about the game without talking about the community and they've just done so much is it NHL94.com I believe it's like a forum site yeah there's a documentary made just a year ago about about the fandom and it's crazy it's a really good yeah it's a good time it's really crazy how big it is one timer shots man that was the big thing uh that game still to this day is amazing

to the point that if you go by 20 22 NHL 22 a brand new game brand new engine beautiful next gen graphics all of that one of the control schemes in there is called NHL 94 because they know people want to play that way still even to this day yeah it is life life life is life finds a way so here's the thing we're going to talk about that and it's and its reach and why it's such a big deal and how I would stay up until 4 a.m. playing with my brother-in-law in the mid-90s. It was amazing. Right. I stayed up. I stay up as well playing this with my friends. And Brian, another Brian, sent me NHL 94. And he sent me a Sega Genesis Model 1. And so I got to play it on the hardware. Yeah, you're bearing the lead, by the way. He sent me the game and

Genesis to play it on. Yeah, the Genesis. Well, the thing, but he sent me the genesis, but I got to get a cable for it. I'm using my Model 2 Genesis that I'm playing it on. So that's the reason why I buried the Sega Genesis Model 1. Yeah, I love the Model 2 a lot. I'm a big fan of that second. Yeah, it has some benefits. Yeah, it's just cooler looking, too.

The other one looks like. I disagree. Oh, yeah? You want to fight? Let's fight. Let's fight today. I'll be the warden and you can be the mechanic. I'll be the mechanic. I'll be skinny.

Those names are not taken. I will lose a bunch of weight right before Batman gets start shooting, and it'll be great. So anyway, I want to come in and run people over at my taxi. I think that's the best wrestling movie. Yeah, and say, you talking to me in the mirror? You can say that and shoot an aim a gunning yourself. Yeah.

Must be talking to somebody else because there's nobody else here. Must be talking to me. Taxi driver. And then you can be the Joker later and make a movie just like it. Anyway, that's the deal. So today, 3.30 Mountain Time, come check out what we think about this and why it's such a big deal. Even if you don't like sports games, I think you'd be blown away by the history of this thing. It's crazy.

Yeah. It goes all over the place. It's fun time. Play retro, wherever we get your podcast or live today at 330 Mountain Time right here at frogpants. TV. Brian, have a good day. Okay. He's out of here, man.

That's it. And perfect amount of vamping there. I got prizes out to everybody. So well done. Oh, yeah. I like that. I like when we can give you proficient vamp so that you can get that done. Now this.

Well, look at that. It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. Patron Brian Mitchell Young, who says, I review bad, low-budget, and obscure movies. My latest is a Philippine action movie called Blood Debtz. Watch my review over at short-Url.g.g. slash capital S, capital X, lowercase U, capital B. I don't think that requires the... I'm not sure that last part. Oh, short URL.

I have no idea about short URL.G if it's... I don't know either. I made it because his thing was so long that I couldn't do it. Let me see. Why did you do a tiny URL and pick a memorable name or something? Couldn't find a good name. Oh, okay. I just tried and it didn't work great.

So anyway, let me just see if this makes a difference. So short URL.g.g. slash SXU.B. And if you need capitalization, the first second and fourth letters are capital. There you go. That's easy to remember. No one will forget. Yeah.

No one will forget any of that. That was so well done. You all be fine. All right. Let's move on. One. Here's a story for you, breastfeeding mother in the news. Feeding with her breast, all right? Okay, all right, thanks.

She notices her baby's hair was soaking wet while feeding the baby. Couldn't figure out why. If that's the, yeah, yeah. Couldn't figure out what's going on, realized it was her armpit leaking milk. So she lactates out of her boob and her armpit? Apparently, it's not all that unusual, but you'd think it'd be. I'm sure it's milk. No, it's like, well, let's think about what it might be.

Is this the heat of summer in Atlanta? Because that might not be milk. Yeah, we might need to dig deeper into your breast. She says, my brain cannot comprehend this at all, she says. A nursing mom was shocked to discover her armpits were leaking milk, and now her curious breastfeeding tail is going viral on TikTok. Mom and TikToker, Lindsay White, gained over 5 million views, 622,000 likes and nearly only 10,000 comments when she uploaded the alarming experience to her account.

Now, much like the breastfeeding mom who was shocked when she pumped pink strawberry milk, Lindsay's story is helping TikTokers realize just how amazing the human body truly is. She made it her mission to empower breastfeeding moms everywhere with her brand, with her brand, the little milk bar, had no idea that her armpits were capable of lactating until she experienced it herself. Let's see. It's totally normal for this to happen According to the International Board of Certified Lactation Consultants

Or the IBCLC They're a volunteer breastfeeding counselor thing for Australia Anyway, it says it's totally normal for this to happen And to have tissue that extends into your armpits At least, let's see, at six weeks gestation When you were a tiny embryo in your mother's womb Milk lines began to develop starting from your underarms these lines traveled down both sides of your torso and extended all the way down to your groin.

So you could be, you could be lactating out of your groin as well. You could be. I mean, I am. I don't know what that's about. I've been lactating out of there for years. Anyway, the reason they say, if armpits didn't smell bad enough, how about some old milk drying up in there? It's pretty gross. But I guess, you know, the strawberry part is because it, it's,

It isn't, while it's not unusual, it's not usual. And you got a little mix of some blood in there. Some blood in there, yeah. There's not, you are not a strawberry quick factory. You are, that is milk and blood. Yeah, there ain't no flavor there that you're going to go, hmm. No. Strawberry.

Yeah, thanks, Quick Bunny or whatever the name of that thing. This is so good. This is real good, Mom. Keep producing armpit milk. This is what I prefer, says the baby. Somebody sent me a TikTok video, some, uh, some dude. some vegan on, maybe it was a vegan on TikTok that they forwarded it, but basically this dude is saying, well, I drink strawberry milk because I'm, it's vegan.

Oh, yeah, I put that on Twitter. It's the guy. It was you, okay. Was it me? It might have been me. I ended up, I put that up there. It could have been seen by somebody else. But the, yeah, he's like, I'm on vegan still because it's strawberry milk, as if

you get milk from a strawberry. What a, I don't know what to even say to a person like that. Like, Nesquick strawberry milk, which is. milk with strawberry flavoring, but, you know, it's vegan. What would you say to that person if you met them? Would you have a thing to say to them? What would you say? I'd say, and also, lifting grocery bags is not cross-fit.

Yeah, good point. That's, there you go. Yep, there's a good way of doing it. Even, but see, even that's at least some exercise exertion, which you could, you know. Yeah, the vegan, like the drinking milk, starboard. Bury milk while you're vegan is just poorly educated. Yeah, it's like saying. Just poorly educated, not looking at the ingredients of the product that you're consuming.

I got it. Here it is. It's like saying I'm a can't eat pork for religious reasons. So I'm eating this hot dog because it's made of dog. It would be like that, right? Yeah, yeah, that's a good comparison. It's much better one than the one than mine. It's also very anti-vegan.

I apologize to all our vegans out there. I know there's a few of you. Oh, we're not anti-vegan. We're just anti-this guy who's not paying attention to the vegan things that he's touting. Yeah, exactly. No, Dice Tomato, the idea is that it's not made of dog. Dice Tomato doesn't get the joke. It's not, if you, he says strawberry milk as if it isn't really milk because it says strawberry,

meaning comes from strawberry. I'm saying hot dog as if it doesn't come from. pork or beef or something else, it's dog because it's in the name. Do you see? Yeah, yeah. Dice tomato? You need to just, listen, you need to show up a class early. I'm just teasing.

All right, we got one more story here. Driver on the I-45, or 405, rather. You've been there, haven't you? We've all been on there. Which one, 0-405 in Los Angeles, yes, right? Yeah, we've been on it. Although this looks like it's up north. I mean, still the same 405, but that extends all the way up to the coastline.

lineup. Oh, yeah, there it is. Washington. Washington. Yeah. Okay. Anyway, driver on the I-405 caught using a fake skeleton as a passenger in the HOV lane. Oh, no. Don't do this. You'll get in trouble. Let's see here. The cameras totally won't figure out that that's a skeleton. No, never. Please tell me you put clothes on the skeleton, because that's really the only way this. Okay. Oh, we totally did. Look at that photo. It's in the link. It's great. Oh, let's see. I'll see if I can bring it up as well. So the chat can see it. Here you go, check. Isn't that great? It's like it's making a screaming face, too.

Oh, my God. Get me out of here. That's a great. Great thing that the mouth is open. Drivers attempted to cheat in the HOV lanes in Washington over the years. I've tried a variety of tactics to fool state troopers. One such driver was caught in the act on Monday after dressing a fake skeleton and a hoodie and buckling it to the seat next to him.

I feel like you may have drawn too much attention to it because it's in that bright yellow, you know? Yeah, maybe, yeah. Also, how bad does it smell in that vehicle that he needs six air fresheners hanging from the rearview mirror? What the frick! Brian, nice catch. Why are those all? Why? Does it because people get lazy?

Is that like a real human skeleton that he just dug up and that's why he needs all those? That's really weird. I didn't even notice that. That's one of my favorite things about some photos or some videos where the point of the video, is whatever it is, but there's something lurking in the corner. In the background or in the corner. I know you're good at this. Like when I send you a photo of something,

you scour it for anything weird in the background. Then you zoom into it and send it back to me with that zoomed-in highlight. I love doing that. I don't know what it is, but who's this dude? I love doing that. One of my favorite ones was there was a TikTok video floating around of somebody showing off something weird in their, or something their cat was doing in a closet or something.

and they're filming the closet but for a quick glimpse in the corner of the closet is a gigantic butt plug and it's it can't be anything else like it's the shape you've seen everywhere

sitting in the corner big old pink thing yeah they probably needed like six air fresheners in that closet yeah swap it out swap out the car with the closet is what I say

maybe this is a real decaying passenger maybe that's why there's so many that's what I'm thinking right and it's like he dug this guy up. Yeah. The top half of him anyway. Like you do. I wonder how far the skeleton, like if, obviously there are no legs on it because you don't need them, but is the skeleton's chest in there?

And if so, why? If you're just doing the head. And wouldn't it be, couldn't you just get a mask of like a real human face? Yeah, no kidding. I guess I could. There's a lot of questions here. This skeleton I have back here is a full body. I would use him partly because his mouth is shut and he has legs.

I could dress him better. These people are just being cheap. But if you're going to put clothes on it anyway, why even use the skeleton? Because you would probably say, you know, that skeleton face is obviously too skeleton-y. Yeah. It gave it away, didn't it? You'd put a mask on it. And if you're going to do that, why use the skeleton at all?

You know what? Why not just take a sweatshirt, stuff it full of newspaper, put a mask in the hoodie head, and then color good? Or get a, do a proper mannequin. Like, really go for it. If you're going to do this, go for it. Don't half-ass it with a dead-looking open-mouthed thing, yeah, with no legs. And the grossest sweatshirt you could possibly find. Yeah, I think that's what we need.

Let's see if I have a good skeleton thing, I want to play. Or Skeletor thing. Oh, here we go. I don't think I feel well. There's always a good one. That's what he said in the car. There's too many. I'm going to be sick.

It smells like some. but he farted a pine tree in here, he man. I love Skeletor so much. I can talk about him every day. All right. We're done for now. We're going to take a break when we get back. Steven Schleiker will be joining us.

We've got a bunch of stuff to talk about if you want to hear more about the controversial moves that Amazon and Comicsology are making with their app and the comic readers are up in a tizzy about it. And why Stephen might have better, He may have a little slightly more nuanced positive take, so we'll see what he has to say. Okay. That's coming up after this song, Brian.

What do you got for us? Well, you know, today with our president's day, we celebrate the United States and our purple mountain majesties. But I also want to draw your attention to pink mountain tops. It's a brand new band featuring members of Black Mountain, the Melvins, and Red Cross. So some rock and punk influences in there. These guys are currently on tour with Dinosaur Jr. so they're, you know, they're up there. They're in the big name.

Their brand new album comes out May 6th via ATO Records, but we've got an advanced single that we can play for you right now. The new album is called Peacock Pools. Here is the lead track, Lights of the City. Here are Pink Mountain Tops. Be here tomorrow, but let your tomorrow, but let your star burn out. You've got some magic girls. You've got to run you down

by the call like angels are waiting don't you blush on no fear you've got the power of brave in your hearts waking the world from your dreams

yes you've got the power deep in your soul yes you've got to believe in your soul Please. You know, you got the power of breaking your hearts. dead with your screams. Yes, you've got the power in your control. Come on, come on, let me. Oh, you've got the power of fighting your hearts.

Oh, wake in the wild from your dreams. Yes, you've got the power to deepen your soul. Come on, come on, come on. Me here tomorrow Me here tomorrow May here tomorrow Mayer tomorrow Mayer tomorrow

Mayer tomorrow in the end tomorrow May tomorrow me and tomorrow May tomorrow Hell, tomorrow. Fat kids, thin kids, tall kids, short kids. They'll all work. We need lots of kids.

The greasy dressings, both cream and clear, leave a telltale smear. This is the morning stream. Dave's not here, man. Whoops, we're back, everybody. Hey, Brian, what was that song again? Tell me more. Yes, sir. That song is Pink Mountain Tops. The brand new song from that band,

it's called Lights of the City from their upcoming album, Peacock Pooles, which comes out May 6th. Very nice. Yes. Hey, quick note for people, if you are a film sack fan, and you know, you better be because it's one of the best shows out there. And you want to see Mars Attacks. Make sure you watch it before one week from today.

It leaves Netflix at the end of February. Oh, yeah. So go get your Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close Fix. Yeah, get it on now while you can. If you want to see two heads make out, this is the time to do it. And it reminded me right as it ended. I got this message saying, watch it again before it leaves or something.

Yes, exactly. I forgot to mention that on the show yesterday, but that's the deal. Yeah, I spaced it as well. Anyway, go check that out. Hey, look who it is. Stephen Schleiker. Steven Schleiker.

You know him, you love him. It's Stephen Schleiker, head of all things, major spoilers in Hayes, Kansas. Hello, Stephen. Welcome back to your Monday segment. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hey, man. Hello. It's always nice to have you here.

How was your weekend? Do you all right? You know, have some fun, whatever. What'd you do? What'd you do for fun? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah.

It's kind of quiet here, too. I think you're having the weekend I had. Just kind of a, I had a bad week last week, like the whole week sucked. And so this weekend was all about me sitting on a couch, playing Bomber Man on the Super NES on my little handheld. I thought you would have been playing Horizon The New Hotness I have been playing that as well

But there was a lot of this time where I was like I'm just going to sit by Kim While she watches one of her shows I don't like And I'm just going to chill here With my head on her lap and play a video game And so I did a lot of that That was mostly yesterday But you know you got to do what you got to do

So what does Stephen do When he's having one of those weeks What do you do? Probably binge something on television, yes All right Like the rest of the world Yeah I ended up, I started this show on HBO Max.

It's been out for a while now called The Foreigners. I don't know if you guys have heard about this, but it is, it's a Cinemax production, so you know there's going to be some nudity. Oh, sweet. Okay. Yeah, yeah. But it is about present day, all of a sudden, people start appearing in the water. There's a flash of light and people start appearing in the water, and all these people come from three different eras.

The 1800s, the Viking period. or a crow magnin, you know, the prehistoric. So, and then all, and it's like thousands upon thousands of people. So this is a Scandinavian production, Swedish production. So it is dubbed or subbed if you want to go that way. So everything is this. And it ends up being kind of like a, it's a cop drama series. So one of the Nordics, which is what they call the Vikings so that you're not being

culturally insensitive, is the first person to join the police force. and she is accompanied kind of with the grizzled old cop, and they have to go out and solve murders and investigations involving just things that are going on in and around Oslo. And it really becomes very quickly, it very quickly becomes a metaphor for immigrants coming into Europe from the Middle East or from, you know, other places. It's very clear that that is what they are trying to make an analogy to, but instead of saying, oh, we're going to have a bunch of Muslims. come in. We've got a bunch of Nordics come in and how do people feel about all these Vikings running around in modern times

who some of them can cope with being in the modern day? Some of them cannot. Ah, so, okay. So it's allegoric like a lot of science fiction. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay. So what you're saying is you got some 1800s people, you've got some Vikings. A 60-ton dinosaur tamed by a small boy

and a caveman. All right, and a caveman. They're all there. Lots of them, like thousands upon thousands of them. Wow. That sounds interesting. Sounds really cool. It's a series or a movie you said? It's a series. So I'm in the middle of season one.

Season two is out and I think it's been out for a while. I was listening to an interview with one of the creators on another podcast. And they said they don't really have an end date for what they're planning on this show. As long as they still make it and others are still interested, they'll keep releasing it. So it's not like there's some conspiratorial in game of we have to get to five seasons so that you can figure out the secret. Can you get like, are they going to have like Moors show up or like some ancient Mongolians? No, it's, well, so people are showing up all around the world from these same time periods. Okay.

So maybe in the Americas, which we don't ever get to see, maybe you have instead of Nordics, maybe you have, I don't know who else, maybe some Native Americans in that same time period. Okay. Look at the Swedes making weird stuff on cinema. I'm trying to be like, wow, do we see some, some hot Viking on Cro-Magnin action since it's Cinemax? the i mean you don't actually see sex but there's a i mean there's uh one of the main characters in the first episodes that i've watched is a dude that is supposed to be i put this in quote supposed to be a neanderthal and he just walks around naked full frontal the entire time nice oh geez nice scots all over this yeah i'm in give me some man give me some hot caveman

man weiner you know you've got me cave man weiner yeah cave van weir it kind of lessens the impact of the man part but it's fine i'll take it um Well, anyway, Stephen, that's great. I'm glad I asked now that we've heard all about this, and we'll check that out. Comicsology, a thing a lot of us is modern comic day, or modern day comic readers know all about. It's kind of cornered the market as far as, like, buy a comic read it digitally. It was purchased by Amazon back in 2014. And for the most part, it was like, oh, cool.

Now it's got the backing of, you know, somebody big who can keep feeding it and, you know, make it a bigger thing. And then they very promptly took the store part out of it. for any kind of Apple users, which was a bummer because it's, you know, it's got a big iPad following because that's a great place to read comics. Anyway, we dealt with it, we lived with it, whatever, and then it languished

for a very long time and not really updating. It's got the same features I had 10 years ago. It's kind of old and shaky. Which, you know, to be honest, nothing wrong with those features from 10 years ago. Yes, their files were a little bloated. Yes, it did take a little bit of time to download stuff, but as a functioning, I would argue,

how many of your modern physical brick and mortar comic book shops have updated in the last 10 years? No, it's a good point. That's a good point. I think there are some features I would like as far as sorting, findings, artists that work on different books, things like that. But for the most part, it's fine. And in some ways, it has more features even than, like, DC or Marvel's thing. But they just released a giant update and seem to be the consternation of the entire Internet. So what happened there? Give us the history and then why you have a – it sounds like you've got a take that might be slightly more positive on this.

Yeah. So, to my knowledge, for the better part of the last year, Comicsology, owned by Amazon, and again, as you said, Scott, for 10 years, has been working to move the comicsology website and interface and the way that you buy digital comics into the Amazon environment, right? Into that ecosystem. Yeah. And I know they've been working on this for more than a year. Major Spoilers is an affiliate with comicsology for a long time. I would say for about a year, year and a half.

And then in the last six months, we've been told that, hey, your affiliate program is going to end. You need to, you know, get over and set up your affiliate with Amazon, which we already have. But it was clear that there was an in-date or a supposed end date that all of this was going to happen. And as I watched from the affiliate backside, you can see that they were pushing the date and pushing the date and pushing the date until finally everything moved over. Officially the URL, everything moved over to Amazon last Wednesday. Yeah. New comic book day, which, you know, if you want to make people angry, do a major update. on the day you're supposed to release something big.

Yeah. Yeah. No kidding. And it was not a good, it was not a good launch. They're, you know, under their new comics section, they only listed 30 comics total. Under, you know, they only had like four categories they had originally. It was

comics on, Comicsology Unlimited stuff. Comicsology original stuff. Manga, which was a huge section. Then they had family friendly, which included Archie Comics. and some of the others. And then finally they had new comics, which they only listed 30.

They had nothing that said, here's everything that came out this week. They had nothing that had stuff that's coming out next week so that you could pre-order it. If you're outside of the United States, all of your subscriptions that you may have had through Comicsology have been canceled. And then a feature that I completely forgot about,

but it seemed to anger a lot of digital comic book fans, is Comicsology also allowed you to download a backup PDF of your comic. so essentially a PDF version of your comic and they've discontinued that oh right yeah think of it as like movies right it's like the Netflix lets you download episode of a series

same same kind of idea yeah except I don't think you can like store those off on another hard drive and just watch them whenever you want right they have to be on your media device for Netflix I don't remember I haven't used that

I haven't used that but anyway it was a disaster. Now, that being said, for the last four or five months, or even longer, actually, if you went to go do a search for the comic book you wanted to buy on the Amazon website, you would find it in both Kindle and Comicsology format. And again, Amazon's trying to push everybody off to Kindle for everything, right? For this. And so it was just a big cluster schmaws and everybody was very, very angry. There were features there that were missing. There were a lot of people that were in the beta that were like, no, you guys need to do all these things

and fix them. And then when it launched, everyone was like, oh, Amazon doesn't care. Comicsology doesn't care down with digital comics. I have a different take on this. Okay. Let's hear it. Do you guys know what MVP is? NVV or MVP?

MVP. So not most valuable player. It's not most valuable player. That's what most people think about. It stands for the minimum viable product. And when you're working, in a business, if you're getting ready to launch a new product, if you're trying to get, if you're a startup and you're trying to get your product to market, the thing that you need

to rapidly do is get your minimum viable product. That product that gets out there that hits a certain target date or deadline, it may not have all of the features and all of the things people are expecting, but it's released and it works and it does what it's supposed to do, meaning that you can read digital comics in this case and buy digital comics through the Amazon website. Sure. But it may be missing features that people are expecting or that people want. And I think that's what they did here. They were hitting, they had a deadline that they had to get and they got the MVP out

the door because the very next day on Friday, or I guess two days later on Friday, they had included all of the new comics that had come out this week, sortable by publisher, and included a calendar that lets you look weeks ahead to find out what's coming weeks ahead. So they're already starting to address a lot of the issues that people had on launch day. as a big complaint. Yeah. Should comicsology, though, a company that has been around for 20 years, however long

it's been, feels like 20 years, really more like 14 years, should a company that's been around for over a decade working with a company like Amazon that's been around for 25 years, should they have been launching an MVP? And my thought is, no, they shouldn't have. But when you look at it from that perspective of how do you get a product out as fast as you can. The MVP way is the way to do it. I don't know what you guys. Go ahead. I think I agree. I think I agree with you. Well, here's what I know for sure. And I don't know if this is just just after being screwed too many times or just seeing the reality of how things

works so many times. But there's no such thing as the perfect launch of anything. It's never happened. Nobody's ever full. There's no no situation where everyone's 100% happy. And so what you're aiming for is a larger percentage of people that are happy. Or maybe the platform grows enough to make up for the people you may have pissed off, whatever. I get that. And also what I understand is like the DC app launched in kind of a little bit of disarray. And within a month, they got that thing running real nice. And now I think it's the best app on the market. On the other hand, Marvel did a big refresh to Marvel Unlimited. And it's, I think, demonstrably worse than the previous version. It's okay and it's getting by and it's fine and the content's still there,

but I don't think it's nearly as easy to navigate or move around in as it was previously. And so you see them scrambling to do updates. This is like video games. This is like anything that requires development and people in time and cost and UI and all that other stuff comes into it. And I just think that takes time to work itself out and it always does. So this isn't like some kind of shock to me. What is sometimes a shock is that they get it more right than wrong sometimes and that's great we're all like yeah they got it more right than wrong in this launch well done pretty pretty bug free you didn't crash blah blah whatever that's always great but name a modern complicated piece of software that you don't get patched for a really long time

and certainly right up front quite a bit it this doesn't happen so to me this is just like if they if they plan on making money then they're going to want to make a good product and they will continue to iterate on it until it makes money, and then we'll buy it because it's good, and that's it. That's as simple as it is. Keep in mind. Digital Comics, which Comicsology has the largest share of it, or the largest access point to it, is still

a $10 million a year industry, and even though that may be, you know, the toilet paper for Jeff Bezos, people are still not going to pass up $10 million. Here's kind of a dark side to this MVP thing that I think may

also be happening, is that we released a product based on some marketers scheduled demands, shareholders demands, etc. We're intentionally going to leave out the features that our beta testers have been telling us to include because we know that's what people will be screaming about on day one. And then over the course of the next two weeks or the next month or whatever it is by April 1st, I'm sure, we will take care of all of these things so that people who are the most angry with us are then going to come back and rejoice and say how great we are because we listen to our concerns. and fixed our concerns.

Yeah, yeah. And it's all part of the marketing, right? Let's release that ugly Sonic the Hedgehog thing so everyone complains and then we'll show them the real one so that people are like, oh, they listen to us. No, that's a really, that's actually a really good comparison. I know, I know that's a real thing, but it still seems fishy. No, I like it. I think it's a good comparison.

I think that maybe you may be right about that. I mean, it's hard to say, right? It feels like that thing was so ugly and so off that there's no way they couldn't have known. that they were making a major screw up there and they so i've always and then they were very quick about fixing it so so i don't know you're you're probably i'm not conspiratorial but if i have a little bit of tinfoil hat on it might be that sonic thing was a bit of a ruse but yeah um but yeah like it'll end up being fine in the long run it always is i think i think by april everything will be fine yes you'll still have to deal with the funky amazon uh interface uh which i'm i like

comicsology.com's website interface because it was clean and smooth and lacked a lot of clutter. Now you go to comicsology.com and it's got the Amazon, essentially the Amazon wrapper around it, and I don't like it as much. But again, I can see from Amazon's point of view, let's use Comicsology as a funnel system to where people come in to buy the new GI Joe comic book and they also see a G.I. Joe action figure and a G.I. Joe mug and a G.I. Joe T-shirt. And hopefully they're also going to buy those things as well. Yeah. I remember people being very annoyed at how the Amazon Prime video looked when it first launched because it basically just looked like a bunch of Amazon store listings. And what did they do? They made it better. So they'll make it better. It'll be fine.

I mean, I guess when I'm... So everybody who's upset, I think, just just calm down. I'm not even being like pro-Amazon here. I know they can screw people over and I know it's a problem. I'm just saying if you want a healthy comics ecosystem in digital form, we need to be rooting for this to succeed so that other smaller efforts also succeed in it's wake, that the long tail includes other players, that Amazon does a good enough job with this, that it's still a valuable service. Like, I don't want to root against this because this is how I consume comics now. I don't want to buy a bunch of paper anymore. I'm done. Yeah, me too. I want to do this. So I'm in the boat of like, I don't know, they've done good via Twitch. They've done good via a few others. And you could, you know, everyone, there's going to be able to disagree with

me, whatever, we're a world of opinions. But I think this will improve with time. It'll be okay. Yeah, I think so, too. I really think by, by April, everything will be back to normal. People will be buying their digital comics as normal. And, again, I'm rooting for digital comics, not necessarily one company. And I have been rooting for digital comics since the very first iPad released. And they said, oh, by the way, you can buy these Marvel comics on the iPad. So, you know, I'm totally down for that. I also seem to be beefing up the Comicsology original stuff, which that, I love that.

Because these sometimes prominent, sometimes not names and comics, writers and artists are getting to do, you know, basically their own work, control it like they would with image, but maybe even with more control. And I think that's a really good thing. Like, there's just, there's a lot to be excited about. A lot of people, the biggest freak out was some of their older comics weren't displaying right, like they'd look tiny or couldn't zoom in or whatever. Again, I know that's shocking at first, but that's not a thing they're going to let fly.

It's a bug, and they'll fix it. It's like video games, really. And video gamers have the worst patience of all time. comics readers might be just above that but we're pretty impatient so just you know a little patience it'll it'll it'll it'll all work out just a little patience remember what he taught us when he's saying that song that's right that's right don't forget start whistling yeah yes you will uh Stephen this this and so much more can be discussed and heard and talked about over on the major spoilers network I'm sure there's something going on this week you'd like to mention what's happening

oh yes if you are excited speaking of Amazon if you're excited about this uh rings of power series that's coming out. This week over on the Major Spoilers podcast, or not the podcast, but on the website, major spoilers.com, Ashley Victoria Robinson is going to start breaking down between now and release date, all the little tidbits of knowledge that you need to know about the rings of power and what some of the things you saw in the trailer mean and who are the main players and that kind of stuff. I believe this week, if I'm looking correctly, her rundown is on the rings of power themselves.

Where do they come from? What do each of them mean? What are the powers behind them? So you can look forward to that. So many of those went to the kings of men and those guys are dicks. Oh, man. What is it? Nine of them went to the kings of men.

What the frick, dude? The kings of men are just giant dick weeds. I hate those guys. And then they became the wraith, the ring wraiths. And then they're total buttholes in that form. Oh, man. I can't wait. It's going to be great.

Looking forward to that show in what, September that's coming out? September. Yep. Yeah. Well, let's let Ashley help us there. Let's let her lead us there with her hand. She's ready. Yeah, she's great.

Steven Schleiker, everybody, major spoilers.com, major spoilers on Twitter. Stephen, have a great week. Stay hydrated. Bye now. It was a very efficient segment with Stephen. For sure, yeah. I like that a lot. Now let's do a very inefficient thing, which is we're going to play a mashup.

Technically, it was a bonus, but it's running today as a Monday's mashup. It's called Charcola. Cochlea. I'm sorry, Charcola cock. I don't know. Cuclia? Cochlea. I think you say you pronounce those ear things you have. And it's a poorly remembers stuff episode. Some of our favorites. So let's find out what we said and did right here, right now. Yeah, what's her boobies mom? What's her boobies? Can they give her name? The one that showed her boobs a lot when she was in horror movies now, she's great. Oh, Jamie Lee Curtis. Yeah, Jamie Le Curtis's mom. what's her name uh hold on i know it oh like a it's like a name you would have if you lived in a little bit a little bit of a Hispanic last name yeah like a cuban okay you're you're headed there rosio o donaldson nope nope nope nope nope nope no no no no uh Sabrina maria von treacle pants i don't know

starts with a g starts with a g oh gina jena um Gina Perez jean of rosette rosy Gina, hold on, Gina Davis, no, Gina Chit. Gina Chit. Give me the first name, first letter, the last name. T. Torres, Gina Torres. A.K. Rowling, did the artful Avenger or whatever. Oh, yeah.

The systematic Democrat. What was that, but called? Yeah, what was that? That was something weird. The efficacious penumbulum. By the way, she has not been nominated for best director since she directed what's his name's penis in the piano. So there's that.

Oh, really Harvey Catel's penis? Yeah, Harvey Keitel's Swing and Dinger. Can you name one other thing about that movie? There's a piano in it and his wiener and then Molly or Holly, or who is it? Who's in that? Holly Barry Berry. I'm not going to say it because I want to see if you can come up with something besides Harvey Kitell's penis. It's really shocking and it's all I remember.

Helen Hunt, not Helen Hunt. Molly, it's not Helen Hunt. Oh my God. Your son was you've like put all, you've got the, all the people. pieces you just need to put them together holly hunter there these had that charpok chokly or whatever's name is as uh mad doc murk what's his that was beautiful sharp charclot cochaloclea or something what is shark a lot cochlea what's his name he was in the district nine thing right the district nine guy am i thinking of the right guy yes you're thinking of the right guy but i want you to figure out his

name right now charp no charpock charpok chokely no what's his first name just start with the first name. Charpak. No. Not even close. Also, no. Let me try it again. Charlie, Charlio. Charleo. This is great. This is not it. Last name's easier than I give it credit. What's his last name?

Chopi. Choply. Choply? Choply. Choply? Choply? No. Charpock. Choply. This is like, did a cold spagnola get out of jail free card? It really is. a lot of film sack in that one. Totally, yes. Apparently that is where we poorly remember the most yet. Yeah, I remembered it so poorly. I couldn't remember

before we started it, what Charcola Cochlea was supposed to be. But now we know. All right, Jamie. Jamie, that was maybe one of your favorite, my favorite ones. You've done. Nice job. Really enjoyed it. Although, I seemed like a complete idiot in his mashups. Brian forgot what? Was there one thing you forgot in there?

I think it was you once? Yeah, it was me not remembering the name of the JK Rowling, Alter Ego. book. Yeah. I think the, the, the efficacious preumbulum is, I think, my favorite book title that needs to be made. Right. Like, what's stop on us? Let's write. Let's write that book right now. It's going to be my new podcast, the efficacious penumbulum. Yeah, I like it a lot. Coming to, uh, overcast near you. Now, by the way, for the chat rooms, you know, just to help your eyes out, it is

Charltoe Copley, right? Charlton Copley, yes. I have that's how it's pronounced. I think that's right. But I can never remember it. And they're we're probably better for it. All right. Hey, Brian. Along with Play Retro today, there's also a fantastic new soundography coming. And the reason I know that is your subject matters,

some of my favorite music. Interesting. So, yeah, Hammond and I listened to the entire catalog of Tori Amos. And, boy, it was like reading 14,000 fantasy novels, just one right after another. She is a very talented singer-songwriter, and we kind of pick through the material and find some of the best stuff that wasn't a single, wasn't Boys for Pele or Cottlelight's Knees, or God, sometimes you just don't come through and stuff like that.

Anyway, that is the most recent episode of Soundography just came out, just got posted this morning, listen to what we thought of the entire catalog of Tori Amos. Nice. My memory is a lot of sitting at a piano with her leg spread real wide. Is that a weird thing to remember? Yeah, she would always, like, the top half of Tori Amos faces the piano. The bottom half of Tori Amos faces the audience. Yeah, looking right at you, just like, look at my crotch! Like, a thing that would have broken a lot of action figures as a kid for me.

Oh, yeah. Positioning them like Toramus plays the piano. And it can't be really good for her spine. I would think that that's probably not comfortable for her. Maybe she has additional points of articulation that we don't know about. Yeah, she has X, yeah, Toramus and her, that's a very good point, additional points of articulation. Yeah, weird. That must be it.

Well, all right, then. So look forward to that. And we mentioned Play Retro, lots of cool stuff. I think Carter and I are going to stream a little classic gaming today between now and the show. So if you guys want to see that, just watch for my tweets because I'll post something up. We're just going to test a little setup we have where we can go head to head in things like Bomberman or, you know, balloon fight or old stuff and do it together in the same room. So we're looking forward to that. And she's off today because it's, you know.

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at some point, maybe this afternoon, we'll figure it out. If not today, then definitely tomorrow. because there's a lot of freelance that's got to happen today after the show. I love it. By the one, someone just did a title that was, the TRPW. Thanks for not being hard, Todd. I love that. I love that one. It's really good.

That's probably going to get chosen. All right, Brian, play me that song, then, will you? I will you go. I will play you a song. Adam also goes by the name Jamadocco in the Tadpool. Says, hey there, Scotch and Bonnet, sending in a request for my 35th birthday, which is February 18th. But last time I put in a Friday request, Scott forgot to attach the song with the podcast. Figured I'd get a little bluesy with this one as the entire genre is full of covers,

but seemingly underrepresented here. I'd love to hear Stevie Ray Vaughan's cover of Little Wing, which was originally a Hendrix tune, I believe, question mark. And it is, yes, that's correct. Anyways, love you guys, as always, Adam from Plymouth, Minnesota, Adam, I'm sorry, Jam, Adaco from Discord. Happy birthday to you! Listen, I sometimes forget, it's very rare, but I will, it's, I don't know what it is about PM and my post show like workflow. I forget the song there sometimes and I don't.

So I have this new thing where I, there's no way it'll ever happen again. I won't explain it because it's boring. But I have a new way. So it'll never happen again. I apologize that you were a victim of my stupidity. So there you go. There you all.

Look at you. That's not true. Hold on. Dr. Sheep says the last three PMs don't have songs. That is absolutely not true. Last weekend. Last week absolutely has a song. That is not true.

Don't listen to him. He's lying. All right, Brian, go ahead. All right. So the Little Wing cover by Stevie Ravon in Double Trouble, as great as it is, and it is great, is one of my favorite covers of that song. It's a little too mainstream.

I don't want to raise the eye. There's several companies I don't want to raise the ire of, and I believe that one is owned by Sony, and I don't want to raise the ire of Sony. But I'm playing a different cover here that is very reminiscent, very, you know, cut from the same cloth as the Steve Revan in Double Trouble. And I'm hoping that this is new to a lot of people who haven't heard this cover and totally remembers this band from the late 80s and 90s.

Concrete Blonde and the incredible vocalist, Jeanette Napolitano, the amazing range. And, you know, she sang about Caroline and walking in New Orleans or walking on Bourbon Street and that sort of thing. Anyway, she's great. I did an interview with her years ago for Coverville, and she was one of the nicest people I ever had a chance to talk to. So she did a cover with the band that got released on a bonus album called Still in Hollywood. It's a collection of B-Sides and Rarities, came out in 1990, includes this cover right here of Jimmy Hendrix's Little Wing. Here's Concrete Blonde. Well, she's walking through the clouds.

With a circus smile running. All around Butterflies Seabre To moonbe To the fairy tale All she ever thought about Running with the wind

When I'm sad She comes to me With a thousand smiles, you know, she sets me free. It's all right, you know, it's all right. Take anything more from it. Anything. So, you know, I'm going to be.

And so, I'm going to be the I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm

I'm I'm and When I'm sad, you come to me, Near the thousand smiles you know you set me It's all right You know it's all right Take anything you want for me

You can take anything You can take anything Oh, fly out, fly on you away I follow you in my life. Oh, you know, and... Hey, yeah, I'm about it. Oh, it's a lot of life.

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