The Morning Stream - TMS 2290: Pope Fiction

Episode Date: May 16, 2022

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mumbly peg. my, uh, scrapbooking. Her name is the morning stream. Hello, everybody, welcome back to TMS. Hello, everybody, welcome back to TMS. It is the morning stream. Monday, May 16th, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Ibitt. Good morning. Hi, Scott Johnson. How are you? I saw a photo of you at a game, some sort of football or baseball or something.

Baseball. Yes, it was the Colorado Rockies. And you seem like you had a fancy, like, room, room thing. What was that about? We did. We had a sweet. Yeah, big thanks to Barry. Barry, who for his daughter, Rens, graduation. Congratulations. You know, out loud on the show, Ren, well done. I feel like she just got there and now she's graduated. Yeah. Doesn't it feel like four years? That was four years ago? It has been four years, yeah.

But the good news is she's staying in Colorado. She's going to stay living at least for another year in Fort Collins. She really likes it. So still be getting lots of visits from Barry and Bobby Ann. But yeah, we had a sweet. Oh, my God. That is the, listen, I've never, I've never done. the sweet thing before at a game

like that? Yeah. That is the way to do. Oh, yeah. It's amazing. We used to do this for hockey games because the company I worked for had sweet season ticket, whatever the hell they did. So we always had this place and you didn't always get it because they were always giving it to friends or you know, the boss was giving it to some guy he knew

or whatever. But occasionally we'd get to go to a game in there and it spoils you so bad. You're like, I never want to see live sports again unless I'm in this damn room with all this food. And there's like TVs in there and a You got your own private freaking bathroom up there. It's amazing.

That's great. Yeah, they kept the food. They kept the, they had a bottle of, well, Barry arranged for a bottle of, what is it called, Bombay, Sapphire, gin for me. So I was doing gin and tonics the whole time. Yeah. We had some gin left in there. So I transferred all of it into a Desani water bottle and carried it out of the stadium. Nice.

Look, you got to get your, you got to get your, um, your take home. If you're paying, you're paying for a big bottle of gin, you better enjoy that entire big bottle of gin. Sure. When was this anyway? Is this Friday? Saturday. This was Saturday night. And Rockies beat the Kansas City Royals 10 to 3, who was quite a, quite a game to see. Beautiful sunset over the mountains, right in the behind right field, I'm sorry, left field. That was great. Is it a name of that stadium again? It is Coorsfield. Okay. And Mile High doesn't exist because they changed the name, right? Right. Mile High is now in Power Field or something. It was in Vesco for a while and Sports Authority Field and I think it's now in Power Field. And the former Pepsi Center is now Ball Arena. Ball Arena. Ballerina. I'm going to Ball Arena on Saturday tonight for a mammoth playoff game.

Oh, very nice. And they expect it. What are their chances? How are they doing? very good actually uh they won so it's a series of three they're in round two of the playoffs and uh they defeated the san diego seals uh after a heck of a comeback in the second half on friday night and um uh and the the announcers were saying yeah you know it's a weird it's a weird advantage when you win the first game of the series of three 11 of the last 15 teams that have won the first game of the series go on to win the series. It's like wow, that's an interesting

stat. I don't know what it is. I guess just the momentum, but then also now it goes to it's a home game, so that helps. Yeah, home games help. Always helps. Get that home crowd out there. Brian will be out there, raw, Ron, you know. I'll be raw, Ron, sitting there with a crazy neighbor.

Yeah. Pool set up we did Friday night. The other thing we did this weekend is set up Dave's giant pool in his backyard. He went from a 16 foot circular above ground pool to a 12 by 24 foot rectangular above ground pool. This thing is massive. It's a lot. Yeah, that's a big pool for, for, well, I assume he's going to have a bunch of people over in parties and things. That's what Dave does. And, you know, now his wife can do like paddleboarding, back.

and forth in there instead of just basically standing on the paddleboard in a 16-foot pool spinning around just for balance sure did they fill it is it full is it like full of water now yeah it's already full uh we we helped him with a few hours of our hose yes yesterday wow borrow the neighbor okay that's true you'd have to fill it with a hose that water doesn't just come from anywhere it have to be hoses. It has to be hose water. And so we, you know, we said, well, we're going to be in there quite a bit ourselves. So let's, let's string it over there. Does that count for, like, in-ground, like, cement pools? They just fill it the first time with a hose. Is that how that, really? I don't know why in my head,

I'm thinking there's some magical way of getting water in there. Like, you know what, for, wait, for, for, because my grandparents had a pool that was a below ground pool or in the ground pool and there it was hooked up to the plumbing so you didn't you didn't use the hose

to fill it it actually came through the plumbing of the the pool and the filter and all that I get it

I guess the same source of water though like at the end of the day right? Yes yeah same source it's all

I don't know why in my head I'm thinking there must be a special like distilled water delivery like a truck backs up with a yeah or something or like some special

thing you'd tap into and the city or something, but I guess that's dumb. I don't know why I thought that. Yeah, exactly. Well, that's nice. Well done, Dave, with your big pool. Good job. Yeah, except in the whole process of setting up the pool, um, we were, he had to hop in there to, like, be able to shift the inside of the pool around as we were filling it with water. So, uh, and it's so high, it's 54 inches high. You can't just hop over the side.

So we had to set up a ladder. We took the ladder from his old pool and kind of set it up, but it wasn't tall enough. It was made for a shorter pool as sure. Previous pulls a little shorter. We get that thing stretched out, and then I'm helping them lift it over, and part of the ladder collapses in on itself right on my thumb, and you really can't see... Oh, it's nice and dark. Yeah, look at that. Toe and thumbs, old Brian toe thumbs.

Oh, my God. With his broken toe and his smashed thumb. Damn. I know, exactly. It's all on the right side. Broken toe and smash thumb are all on. the right side yeah uh cheese louise and that thing this thing still hurts if i put any pressure on it saturday i couldn't use it at all like i tried to pick something up and i'd be like yeah i'm picking

up a cup of coffee with my four fingers to drink it i like that look that's cool so wait a minute did you uh did you what what words did you make when you got oh yeah it was a it was a loud and thunderous f bomb oh man that it was there was uh yeah we reached we reached uh it's like richter scale level levels of minimum filter maximum output it was basically Brian set his amplifier to 11 let it rip yeah uh well that sucks so nothing you can do there you just got to let that heal just let it heal it's it's it's working now like I can pick things up and not get it doesn't hurt as much so all right well if I believe the cartoons I saw as a kid you're supposed to suck it that's right yeah I thought about that

like as it was going on like God would that make it feel any better maybe if my mouth was full of ice but that's about it like i'm thinking that stuff may have been those cartoons may have been horse shit it turns out i think they're a total horse shit yeah and i keep i keep every time i go a liquor store i look for a bottle that's just got three xes on the label and i can't find it so whatever all right now that i have a story about my wife's my wife is in mississippi right now she's having a blast they had a huge crawfish boil the other day and they had gumbo oh photos oh my god the food food looks incredible it's insane this is insane and she's you know of course love It is great.

Her accent's coming back because every time she goes to Mississippi, I can hear her come back. So it's great. Just having a great time. However, what was my point? I had a point. Triple X bottle of liquor. Moonshine, I thought it is. I didn't really talk moonshine.

Yeah, her grandpa, who was also a KKK regional manager or something. I don't know what the term was. It wasn't like Grand Dragon, but it was like some kind of junior position. Oh, it's great. Like, if, you know, once you get past that first upper level grand dragon, if all of the roles are basically like, yeah, I work in, I Ku Klux Klan human resources. Yeah, it was like that. It was like some kind of smaller, like, more like, you know, area management kind of thing.

It was weird. Anyway, total racist old bastard. But the point is, uh, he had, he made his own moonshine and always pretended like his wife had no idea. She knew the whole time. Kim's grandma always knew, but he just pretended he didn't. And the last time I ever saw that guy before he died, we were down there for a visit and caught him outside in the truck smoking a cigar, which he also thought she didn't have any idea he did. But she knew.

We asked her later. She said, oh, yeah, I know he smokes that cigar. Anyway, we're out there and he gets out of that truck because he's all embarrassed. And we're like, you know, you're a secret safe with us, grandpa. Don't worry about it. Starts to leave the truck. And I spy in the back a jug full of moon. that he made himself

with an X on it. With an X, just one X. One X, not triple X. I was going to ask you, I was going to ask you if he put XXX on there or if he actually put KKK on there. No, that would be funny, right? Or maybe his X's just bad K's.

I don't know. It's hard to say. Or it's back to back K's four times. Is that how that would work? No, six times. Because you'd have three X's would be... Right, right. It would be right.

There's six X's back to back. There's no middle line, though, right? So it's not really a K. But anyway. No. He had actually written a, he had actually written an x on there and i just thought did he do that because of the stereotype did he do it because literally that's what you do like i had all kinds of questions about that hold on a second because

captain kipper might have the answer that he says x equals one pass through the still so if it passes through the still three times it's x x x x i didn't know this it's if that is true that that that's great that's brilliant because then you'd like say all right i've passed it through the still once and you make a little mark on the bottle to signify that it's one and then you pour it back in and pass it through. I assumed it was always this stuff is going to kill you. That's what I thought it meant. Right.

It's porn. Yeah, it's porn. The drink in here is hardcore porn. Yeah, this is, you know, enough alcohol to murder a man. So we're going to put three Xs on here, and it's going to seem super, you know, skeevy and dark and whatever. I didn't know it had a practical purpose to it. The amount of times, according to uncommon goods.com, that is exactly right. Yeah, the number of times, uh, the,

So moonshiner start by distilling a mash of fermented sugar cane pulp resulting liquid, known as the singlings, as foul tasting, and only 30 to 40% alcohol. Oh, is that all? It goes through two more distillations, rendering it almost 100% pure alcohol. The 3xs on the jug were meant to signify that its contents had completed that triple step process. Amazing. Yeah, that is great. That is some great trivia. Look at that.

Yeah, it's almost self-regulation. Who needs the FDA to worry about your freaking booze if you can come up with your own? system that's amazing i love it i love all right i had no idea that's amazing me neither i never asked him because i was just like oh boy here he is with all his booze and he so so he's just too lazy to distill it two more times it's basically that foul tasting yeah sugar mash 30% and with him you were more worried like make sure grandpa doesn't see anyone who is even remotely less white than he is or trouble trouble trouble i mean i never saw him in that regard but And he was pretty old when I knew him, but yeah, apparently he was quite the old white robe wear for a long time, which is hilarious because his generation pure bred racist, just racist to the bone.

Yeah. My wife's, and I'm talking about like the bayou area of the south here. We're talking like down deep south. My wife's mom and father, not like racist, racist, but like old, a few old little things. in them, you know, like just old stereotypes, old, old bad assumptions. So they got that going. And then Kim, her generation, none of it. Zero. Right. Yeah. So progress is what I'm saying. There is some progress in the world. You're seeing some progress. It may not be widespread around the country, but in that family at least, it's very noticeable. Oh, yeah. The, uh, the

racism. But the hilarious bit, Brian, the hilarious bit, which will never leave me and I will love this till I die, is that Kim's side of the family, specifically her dad, and therefore her dad's dad, their line includes some significant percentage of Choctaw Indian. It contains a significant percentage of African American. He just didn't know it. So he's a little bit like that character from that Dave Chappelle show where he was blind and black, but he thought he was white and racist. He's a little like that. Right. Wasn't there?

There was a movie, too, where someone who's this staunch racist all of a sudden finds out that, uh, that, you know, a not too distant ancestor was African-American. Shoot, what was that? I don't remember. I want to say it was, uh, that guy from, uh, gremlins who was, who came to visit Billy in, in New York for gremlins, too. What the heck was that? Oh, I don't know.

I don't remember that being a story point in Gremlins, too, but maybe. Oh, yeah. The guy came, there was the hardware shop owner or something, came to visit Billy and Gremlins, too, and was instrumental. Like, basically he took out the Bat Gremlin, if I remember correctly. Oh, I remember that guy. But what was it? And turned it into a gargoyle.

I remember that dude. I just don't remember the part about him finding out that he's got. Well, it wasn't in Gremlins. Oh, I was thinking that he played a character in another. movie where he found out he's like a super racist dude and then he finds out that he's got I don't know this here's the worst part I don't know that Kim's grandpa ever knew about his blood ties or his his heritage I don't think he knew and so I don't know whether I think that's well I know what I think about it I think it's both hilarious and horribly sad at the same time

it's a horribly sad thing and kind of funny because he was so racist his whole life and all the whole time he's carrying around the blood of a melting pot of people oh man you know yeah that should have been was the guy not hoy axton white axton was uh billy's dad and grimlins oh i love dick miller yeah i do too yeah unless you're talking about the profession of being a dick miller that's not fun dick miller that is a bad profession to have nobody wants to be a dick miller um all right i got a oh so meanwhile while you're going to fancy uh playboxes and And what are they called? Sweet.

What are they? It's a box, right? They call it a box. Okay, let me call it a box. Sure. Well, a box is a different thing. Box is like a, like at the Hollywood Bowl, you get a box and it's got four seats and then kind of a wall around it separating you from other people who have boxes with four seats.

Box seats. Yeah, you're right. There's something else I'm thinking of, though, that has, like you guys have a penalty boxed. A penalty box is. It's kind of like a sweet. No, I can't think of it. It doesn't matter. Anyway, while you were doing that, I was rolling cheese and syracia to tortilla

tortilla sticks. Mm. All right, so cheese and shiracha tortillas. So basically you were making floutas with shiracha. Yeah, does the microwave, what does the microwave do to this area? Yeah, it's definitely not used in the typical flouta procedure. It's deep fried for, and I usually corn tortillas, I think, for floutas, but. Oh, yeah.

These are definitely the flower type. And they're not, you know, we're not, let's put it this way. Kim's out of town. Carter makes some pretty good brunches slash lunches for us. So that's been fine. But at night, things get dicey. Yeah, right. Until she gets home.

Well, I know. You're in the middle of playing a game. It's like, oh, I'm hungry. And I'm like, I'm hungry now. I'm not hungry 30 minutes from now that it would take to order some DoorDash or actually make a decent meal. What could I make in 30? 30 seconds that would satisfy me.

Ah, cheese, characha. Yeah. It really bums me out because, like, Nick came over yesterday. Oh, it's Nick's birthday today. Happy birthday, yeah. Happy birthday, Nick. Probably not listening, but, uh, anyway, he's, uh, 22, which is insane. And, uh, that's of today.

Well, yesterday we celebrated a little bit just because Kim's out of town. We couldn't do much, but we had, um, me and Carter. And then the two of them came over and we had breakfast or made him brunch for his birthday. and it should have been Taylor, Dylan, and Fan, but Taylor and Dylan have COVID-19. Oh, no. Yeah. Which is, here's the worst part.

Those home tests, I think, might be terrible because they had symptoms and were really, especially Dylan, super sick for four days. But it kept just coming back negative. And I'm like, well, I guess I just have a really bad cold or whatever. And his dad got it from maybe when they went golfing last week or something. So all this stuff. and he's and anyway they test for four days finally fourth day fifth day they test one more time because he can't taste or smell anything and he's like that's weird right and taylor's like yeah

we better test again now it's positive after four days of symptoms and here the lucky thing is we didn't see them for those four days good good um so we're good and we're still testing because we don't want to spread this around anymore but yeah kim out of town two you know one of my kids and her husband are sick as dogs van's fine doesn't seem to have it And they had a scare with it a while back. It turned out to be negative, right? Yeah, and that turned out to be just a cold. So you just never know what this stuff.

And the thing with Taylor, the worry there, is they're both, you know, vaxed and boosted and all that. So hopefully it's less than. But Dylan's really, he got floored, like wrecked. Three days in bed couldn't barely move. Taylor, on the other hand, pretty mild, which is good because she's freaking pregnant. And we don't need any weird things while you're pregnant. So, yeah, anyway, good time.

all around here at the Johnson clan. Meanwhile, Kim's eating crawfish and crab and gumbo. They're taking a pontoon boat on the bayou there. And they're going to go catch their own freaking crab and I don't know what else. I bet they're going to poke gators with a stick. Probably. Because I see that all the time on those hydrofoil pontoon boat things. Yeah, you're in the south.

Polk, poke the gaiters. So, yeah, she'll be doing that. And I'll be home, you know, doing whatever I'm doing. doing, which is catching up on Halo, the TV series, and eating dogritos. That's good. The Halo's totally going to prepare you for Dr. Strange. Oh, for sure. For sure.

It's very good, by the way. That Halo show. That's what I hear. I hear it's really good. Yeah, it's great sci-fi. I think it stands on the tone. There are a lot of people who don't like it. I was going to stand on its own, so somebody who has only ever played one Halo game ever in their life, they'll enjoy it. You're the perfect audience for this

because the game does not need, and some people are mad about this. Some purists with the games don't like that it's kind of its own thing and it tells its own story. I personally love that. I've played all the Halo games and I don't need to see that story again, which by the way, not to be

too controversial, is paper thin and the Halo story is paper thin. Master Chief in the games is like the most two-dimensional, I love him. Don't get me wrong, but he's two-dimensional as hell. So this show is not that. It is way better than that. And the guy that plays

Master Chief, Pablo shit. He's porn stash from Oranges the New Black. Oh, yeah, yeah, I know that guy. Yeah. I was sure I was going to be like, oh, this isn't going to work. As soon as he takes that helmet off, I'm going to be like, oh, it's pornstash from that thing or that guy from the wire. I'm not going to be able to look at him normally, but he's grayed in it. Escobar, that's his name. Pablo Escobar. No, not Pablo Eskabar. What is it? Pablo Vigino, whatever it is. His name, I can't think of, but he's grayed in it. Halo's

great you guys should watch halo it's great it's good science fiction like if you're looking for a pure this is ripped right from the games yeah visually you'll get that story wise you won't there'll be some changes and you may not love that if you're like some kind of weirdo that's so hardcore about the halo games but if you're like brian or anyone else who just like some good sci-fi this is up your alley cool all right i like it i'm in i'm in uh all right we got an email i got to read from benjamin real quick here okay he's in the chat today is he yeah Yep, he is. He's the one I read. He's the one that tricked me into saying Escobar.

Bastard. Pablo Escobar. It says, Benjin sent this. He has a great take on that, on that, that RT problem. What did I mean? Oh, rotten tomatoes. The rotten tomatoes problem, yes. For a minute, I was like, Schreiber, that's it.

Pablo Schreiber, that's his name. He's the, he's cousins or something with, or no, stepbrothers with the other Shriver guy. Leav Shriver. Yeah. Those two are like related in some cross way. It's a saber tooth. They share a mother or a father.

I don't know which. Yeah, Sabretooth. That movie had bean fork in it. He played the blob. Yeah. It's a too. Benjin says that's Rotten tomatoes.

Yeah, rotten tomatoes. Because I was complaining about I don't like, I don't know why Randy has this in his head that that I like the user reviews or only go by them. Such horseshit. They're the worst. I don't go by them at all. I think he's just trolling me, but anyway, he says, reading the audience reviews for Morbius validates Scott's point about how irrelevant they have become. Almost all the audience reviews

for Morbius are memes. Here's his examples. Quote, my favorite part of the movie is when Morbius turned into a vampire and morbed his orb all over the evil guys, unquote. Morb is orb. Morb is orb. Sounds like a Polly Shore making up stuff, right? It kind of does. The wheeze. The wheeze. doing some jokes. He's in the juice. Literally, here's another one. Literally the best movie I've ever seen.

I've seen it 16 times. It is too good. I want to marry Jared Leto. It is very sexy and very, very good actor. My favorite part of Morbius is when Michael Morbius morbbed all over these guys while saying his famous catchphrase, it's morbin time. Absolute must see.

I want Michael Morbius to morbius to morb all over me. 20 out of 10 movie. If you haven't seen Morbius, I will rip your intestines out and shove them up your ass. Wow. I mean... Yeah, I mean, the user reviews are becoming like... I've kind of not trusted them ever since the backlash over Brie Larson for Captain Marvel, the things that she said,

because there were reviews up before the movie had even come out because people were so pissed that she's like, oh, about time Marvel had a female superhero, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, that's all it takes to get all those incels all riled up and pissed. Exactly. They were just, you know, like... Ready, they were just basically Keyboards yet you're ready to My keyboard has been

oil, dusted, and ready to go. It is ready to launch my fury at the nearest target. Yeah, I just don't trust them. So let me just make this clear for the record. Scott never said, and we'll never say,

that you only go by audience reviews, ever. They're the worst. They get game. I'm not saying all of them are bad. I'm saying they get gamed too easy. Review bombs are a thing. Steam is subjected to the same issue. They've had to come up with ways to say, there has been unusual activity on this

reviews for this game. They do that on Steam for this very reason so that you can see when somebody's trying to be an ass. So I don't trust those. And look, I'm not even saying the critics are great. I'm just saying that other score is the one I trust more. And the audience score. The audience score can take

a giant flying dump and set itself on fire. I trust the critics. That's who I trust. Even then, I weigh it in, you know, weigh it with like, all right, well, let's see, what are the things they liked or didn't like to see if their stuff, uh, uh, jibed with me. Yeah. And plus, for the record, I think Randy's probably teasing. I think he's, I think he's goofing with me. A little trolling, basically. Yeah, because I never said any of that stuff. All right. Uh, there's that. Hey, why don't we get done away involved in a lot?

Yeah. Speaking of, uh, fun people on film sack. Yeah, he's cool. We think he's all right. He's an all right fella and um boy's pretty much been at the ready all morning he logged in before i did yeah he's he's ready he wants to play play the game he says well before me all right here we go let's play it yeah that's right changing up the music this week hey uh look who it is everybody it's brian dunaway joining us what's going on oh hi scott and brian how are you guys good how are you good how are you i'm fantastic the sun is shining and uh and i'm in the air conditioning and it's Monday. You know, I feel about that.

So, let's do some gaming. Yeah, let's game. Let's game the system, everybody. Brian Ibit will explain these rules and which one of you out there listening at home is going to win today, this sort of stuff. Brian, take it away. We'll do. Welcome to the morning. Half-asses, a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you guys, you two, Scott and Brian, the answers.

I'm going to be giving you guys a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct and three that are incorrect. Depending on how confident you feel with your category, you can provide one, two, or three guesses. But if you get any wrong, you get zero points for that round. If you guess one, get it right, you get a point. If you guess two and get them right, you get three points. And if you guess all three correctly, you get five points. The player with the most points after three rounds.

Wins the prize for their contestant, not for you, but for them. Contestants are pulled for members of the Tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're playing for Sari Jokinen from Finland. Yeah. Sonny. Brian, you're going to be playing for Merrick Prime from Orlando. Very, very nice.

Very nice. I like playing for Finland. Finland's, they're having a, they're nervous right now because Russia's threatened to turn off all the power. Right. If they join NATO or something, which is like, turn off the power. There's something like that, right? They've got some kind of pipeline they'll shut off.

They do. Yes, exactly. Yes. It's not like they just go out in the backyard and turn off some switch. They're just like unplugged, like a big, orange out of the wall. I hope they don't do that. Oh, they did do it.

Did they do it? Captain Kippner is saying Russia did. They already did do it. Oh, the gas. And they did it? Rigo says bullshit. Okay, well, I don't know who to believe. You guys are like reviews from users on Rotten Tomatoes today.

I can't tell who's doing what? All right. Pablo who? Pablo Neruda, what? All right, let's go ahead to get to your first category. And your first category is names of Poland. Oh, we know this, right? Pope John.

Pope names. Pope Paul and all those, right? I want you to tell me which of these six Pope names are real popes. Your choices are. I like hearing you say popes. Can you say Pope more time? Popes. Popes.

Popes. Pope. That's right. I got a Pope filter on my microphone. Pope Filk fiction needs what you got. All right. So we got Eugene, Sylvester, Roger, Clarence, Victor. and Herbert, which of these

are real Pope names, and which of these are fake Pope names? There can't be a Pope Herbert. Which means it probably is. It probably is. All right, there's three of these, though. We're going to just... I'm a fake Pope. I'm a fake Pope.

All right, I'm doing two, because last time I was way over. You guys both did two. You guys both picked Sylvester, and yes, there is a Pope Sylvester. Oh, my God. Or was. Brian, you went with Pope Victor and Scott you want Pope Clarence. One of you got

points. That person is Brian Dunaway. Victor is a Pope. Clarence is not and no, Herbert is not a Pope. Neither is Roger. Pope Herbert. Eugene, Sylvester, and Victor are all popes. I didn't believe Eugene. That's kind of neat.

Yeah. Pope Eugene. Yeah. That's great. Gene. Do you think he called him Gene for short at the Vatican? Yeah. They were like Gene. Pope Jean. Hope Gene. Hey, Pope Gene. Yeah, I love that idea. By the way, Chad, there's my... These are wearing some Pope Jeans.

Yeah, I've got Pope Jeans. He's got some really good Pop jeans. Let's get to number two. How about some history? You guys ready for some history? Ooh, history is my favorite. Which of these six items were invented before 1900? I gave you the wrong one.

Give me the largest moons of each plan. I forgot what I wanted to say... All of these were before... Yes, these all were invented before 1900. I forgot that I... Because I want to end with that one. All right. The largest moons of each planet.

So, is it for Jupiter? Is it Ganymede? Is it Titania for Uranus? Is it Narade for Neptune? Is it Ria for Saturn? I.O. for Jupiter or Phobos for Mars. Which of these are the largest moons of their planet? They're all larger than me.

And for the record, these are all actual moons. So you're not fooling us there. These are all actual moons, yes. Okay. I think I know two of these. I don't know. I don't, I don't, I don't look at size as much as, you know, motion. No.

What? Habitability. Yeah. Well, none of these are habitable as far as, not currently. These are all, every one of these moons would kill you if you lived on one. All right. I want to talk about your guess here first, Brian. Me?

So, yeah, you. All right. So it's the largest moon of each. planet, right? Oh, did I... Oh, I thought you said the large... Of each planet. You thought it was largest.

I didn't realize, okay, I thought it was like largest moons, just period, like, in like an order. You're right. Well, you confused me because she started with, hey, it happened before 1800. And you're like, here's some moons. Here's some moons.

Good luck. That was me. So it's my fault you chose both of the moons for Jupiter. knowing one of them to be right i just i just thought the largest moons in the galaxy was what i was reading in my head wow because we were all talking so yeah and i figured the jupiter would have the largest moons and that made sense in my head so yeah 1800s and then moons people tell me my moons are the largest all right let's get to uh the answers here uh you guys both were right with Titania for Uranus.

However, Ganymede is the largest moon of Jupiter, not I-O, and you guys both also picked I-O. Damn it. So, wait, nobody got anything there then. No, Brian. You got any points. No points. Even though I was a moron, you still didn't get any point. Fantastic. Right. It's working at. Now who's the biggest moon

of the galaxy of each planet? Yeah. Oh, Phobos? Is a... Oh, okay. Phobos is larger than Damos. That makes sense. Phobos. I always think of them as, I mean, they're the twins,

right, Damos and Phobos? There were micronauts that were built named after those. And they were the twins. And I'm like, oh, I could never remember which one was the bigger of the two Martian moons. Were they cool? Did you like those micronauts, those particular microns? They were cool. I never got them.

Those ones I always wanted, and I never got them. Yeah, Doom took place. Chats asking where Doom took place. Dune took place on Phobos. Which was, didn't you get? I didn't get Demos and Phobos. The Micronauts. Yeah.

Did you get Micronauts in your kid, Danway? Were you into that? Yeah, of course. Yeah, they were cool, right? I love mine. Well, by you're asking me, they were cool, right? I mean... I remember thinking they were so stinking cool, but then it felt like they just got dropped.

Like, everything else... Well, that's because they were nothing. I mean, yeah. Well, they had the tubes and the, you know, the vacuum tube travel stuff. That was cool. I had all that stuff. I feel like Star Wars squashed the Micronauts. That's what I feel like.

They did really. Yeah, they did really. Yeah. Kind of makes me mad. Anyway. That's all right. That's all right. I have my little weird little niche, uh, uh, toy that I like.

All right. I've already teased it. Let's get to the last question, which are things invented before 1900. 1900, 1900. Which of these six items were invented before 1900? Are they? The vacuum cleaner. The crossword puzzle.

The tea bag. The stapler. The carbonated water. The carbonated water. And the slinky. The tea bag makes me laugh. I wish these were all alternate names for what you would do to your opponent that you just killed. Yeah, yeah, I love it.

I love to think of people during the 1800s doing some teabagging. Yeah, you're going to give them the slinky. Yeah, all right. That's right. After a gunfight, the dusty middle of town, the winner would go over and teebag the loser. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. This is hard.

It is kind of hard. The vacuum cleaner? Scott, you need to, you need all three correct to win or two correct to tie. Okay. I'm going all out here. Okay. All right, Scott's locked in with three. Brian is locked in with two.

You guys both said carbonated water and tea bag. Yeah. And then Scott added vacuum cleaner. Vacuum cleaner was invented before 1900. Bad news for carbon. water in tea bags before it was invented in 1767 okay i well i knew like during the turn of the century you know like early night to thunders we were doing you know fountain drinks and stuff so i figured it had to be around to be prior that yeah yeah the tea bag was invented in

1903 oh boo stapler that is some horseshit napler 1877 for the stapler yeah kind of thought that because, yeah, we was doing a lot of printing and stuff back. I would have used glue. I don't know. It makes sense, I suppose. Okay, let me tell you what would happen to me if the cast of 1883, the current show that's running on Paramount, that they would, if suddenly Sam,

what's his name, Sam Shepard, or no, Sam, what's his name? The dude abides. What's his freaking name? No, the other one, the old guy that says the dude abides. Sam Elliott, geez, Louises. Oh, Sam Elliott. So Sam Elliott suddenly turned to one of his riding buddies and goes, You got that stapler in your horse bag or out there?

I would go, what? Stapler? That didn't happen. And it was already. And he clicks it like a lobster? Yeah, and it was already 20 years old. It had been 20 years old at that point. That's the insane idea.

I can't believe that. All right. Crazy. I'm looking to see if there's like a photo online of what the 1877 stapler looked like. Has anyone ever asked you to borrow your stapler and you hand it to them and not do the little click-click thing first? Like, chik-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-k-ch-ch. Oh, yeah. Like where they make sure that it works kind of.

No, no, no. I don't make sure that it works. I don't like actually staple a staple, but I just do the almost, like, the fake staple where you just kind of click it. Oh, gotcha. Where it doesn't actually depress all the way. Yeah. Oh, these old ones.

I do the same thing when I borrow somebody's handgun. Oh, yeah, yeah. These old ones are gnarly. Yeah. They don't look like what you think. They don't look like staplers. look like a different tool or something. It looked like exactly.

That screw thing at the top looks like it's, you know, going to remove a fingernail or something. Was everything loose-leaf tea before the 1900s then? Or did we use like the little tea ball things? I'll bet Gwen can tell us. Yeah, probably. I bet it was like tea balls and the things that the little, the bell kind of thing you can put tea in.

So were they tea-balling people in the 1800s? Yeah, when they'd shoot each other, and their real-life guns, they would then tee-ball them. So that was good. Lipton, I'm going to gun you down. And then I'm going to tee-ball you. Hold on a second. That gives me an idea.

And then it was trolling in video games was invented. 1850. All right. Well, well done, Donoey. I feel like you earned it today, even though you get a weird planet thing mixed up. Even though I got two moons. Yeah.

Two moon junction. Congratulations. going out to Merrick Prime. You're getting a copy of Newt 1 and All You Can Eat, two games on Steam, but... But first, a game that Scott's going to say is the better than both of them. I don't know. I might. Let's see.

It's called a new beginning final cut. So I don't know if it's the start or the finish of that game. I don't know what that is. I'm sure it's good. I don't know a thing about it. So I can't say whether this is the better game. Let's see. It's reviewed quite well at the new beginning. So you probably did okay. I think you're going to be fun. It was like some sort of, oh, a click point and click adventure.

I love those. Those are fun. Yeah. Made by a company called Dadelech Entertainment. Oh, yeah. Oh, Dadeleck. All right. Well, well done, everybody involved.

And done away, you did it. Well done to you. Tomorrow, you and I are going to hit it hard with the play retro tomorrow afternoon. And guess what we're talking about, everybody. Brian will have to remind me. I forgot. We're talking about the N64th. Nintendo 64 classic Golden Eye.

Oh, GoldenEye. Oh, 7. Right, and how it almost didn't happen. It came this close to not existing. Almost didn't make it. Released two years after the movie release, just shortly before the sequel. That's how long it took to get this thing out the door.

And it almost didn't happen, but we're so glad it did. Yeah, it's a hugely influential game. That game changed console shooters in a very positive direction, probably permanently. And also, the team who build it, most of them never made games before. It's a really weird story. Took about six. They weren't even going to include the multiplayer.

This was a time when we were thinking, eh, do we want to do multiplayer? Yes, we do. It took six weeks for a guy to port that thing over to the multiplayer. So we're going to be talking about all that. Yeah, I'm thinking, imagine that game without that. It would be so stupid without that. It was one of the few multiplayer games I really enjoyed. Like, I'm usually not a multiplayer guy, but that one I love.

It was so much fun. And we'll talk about how I split my TV with cardboard like a lot of you did at home. I did that. We'll talk about that museum that recently spent $10,000 for a way to not screen cheat for people. Yep. And we'll also talk about me learning up something about the controls. I never knew. Yeah.

I asked Scott, he said, yeah, I knew that. And I'm like, whatever. Yeah, we'll say, we won't spoil it for you, but I only knew it by accident. And I'll tell you that story tomorrow. Yeah. by accident in 97 or whatever it was 98 yeah i figured it out in a very odd way anyway uh there you go that'll be tomorrow uh check out play retro wherever you get your podcast or you can watch us live at 330 mountain time at twitch dot tv slash frog pants hey brian done away you've been great and uh we're

gonna kick you out now do you have anything to say before i boot your ass out of here uh yeah all right he's gone uh excellent work everyone involved we have time for one news story one news story here it comes i'm being told due to the length of that intro we have time for no just kidding we're having one news story and it's brought to you by brought to you by soundography brand new episode you got posted today hem and i listen to the music of tom morello and that's like your rage against the machine that's your audio slave and then some really cool solo projects that of all those are my favorite thing

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as I was the stuff he did after that same yeah they're like you know there are a couple of rage songs where you hear him and you go Oh, yeah, Raging Against Machine. But most of it left me a little high and dry. You're right, though.

His collaborations later. He's got an amazing song. I don't know if you guys heard it. Maybe you did with Crystal Method. That is so good. Yeah. I love it. He's a brand new thing where he produced,

one of his kids has a band and produced a song called The Children Will Rise Up or something like that. It's a bunch of rocker kids, And they're awesome. Yeah. He's great. He continues to rally around his family with a pocket full of shells. Here's a story.

I'm going to skip down one because this is the one I really wanted to get to today. Calling a blind or sorry, calling a man bald. Okay, Brian, this is for you. Oh, oh, no, I'm pricking up my ears now. You're perking up now. Yeah. Oops, I'm moving it. Okay.

Is sexual harassment? by calling you that. So if I call you bald, I'm sexually harassing you according to the Employment Tribunal Rules. So this is a British thing. We'll get to all that in a second. Zoe, Zoe pipe in if you have any British perspective here.

All right. Let's, well, yeah. We'll see what they say. The decision relates to a claim brought to Tony Finn against the West Yorkshire-based British Bung Company. I'd say that's where the problem is right there. Yeah, bung, B-U-N-G. Bung Company.

where he worked as an electrician for 24 years before he was fired and made 2021. Worst children's program ever. Bung Company. Bung Company. I can't recommend it for your children. He complained that he was a victim of sexual harassment due to comments made about his lack of hair, including being called a bald C-word by factory supervisor Jamie King during an interview argument in 2019. King working at bung.

Let's see. Describing the argument, Mr. Finn told the panel, quote, I was working on a machine that I had to cover a waiting specialist repair. When I spoke to, or no, the covers were then taken off, and it was apparent that Jamie King had done this. When I spoke to him about it, he began to call me a stupid, bald C word and threatened to deck me. I assume that means punch over there like it does here. Yeah, I'm sure. All right.

I'll be honest. I feel like there are two ways we can go with that C, asterisk, asterisk. That knowing the words that they throw around in Britain, you know, is it a part of the male anatomy or part of the female anatomy? Well, and over there, they use it so freely. It's not like it's here. It's not so harsh as it is here. It's like us saying, you know, it's like the bloody thing.

We say it we don't even care. Over there, they freak out. So I think there's... It's not the word that rhymes with clock is what he call them. It's the word that rhymes with shunt. Yeah. Shunt is the word we're looking. for everybody shunt shunt oh has that come up that has not come up yet on uh whirdle i better write that

one down shunt that's a good starter word get shunt in there it is yeah yeah uh by the way i have to tell everybody that i cheated at framed but here's how i cheated i didn't look for the final word and that's not how i did it i'm always trying to get that one but for the final word i don't know what that or not word uh title of the movie i mean um i was thinking whirdle but i wasn't so so i didn't cheat by looking up what that day's title was. But I saw... How can you look up with the...

Is there a way to look up with that... Oh, yeah. People put it all the time. Oh, people put it everywhere. Yeah, today's framed solution. Same with Wordle. Everybody does this. Oh, sure.

It's dumb. I mean, I would never... It's dumb to even play if you're going to do that. It is. Yeah, exactly. It's like, well, I give up after three tries. What is it? Yeah, exactly.

For me, though, here's what happened. Dan Tractonberg currently directing films and television Former totally rad show host Yep He put in Or he said somebody said hey nice Nice to work with Frame today

He says He made some comment And I went Oh I'll bet it's 10 Cloverfield Lane And it was Oh the one from Oh got you Gotcha the one from like a couple days ago

Yeah And I haven't even seen it In that movie So all I knew is Oh he said that it must be his movie and boom that one that one took me it took me until i saw the basement today's i it took me three guesses i could not figure out uh until i saw i really want to talk about this this image because

you're talking about today's yeah do framed when you get a second it doesn't have to be right now during the show but um uh but photo three I want to say who looks like, even though I know it's not that person. All right, I'm going to do it. Oh. I don't know who that is, but... Does that look like Justine Bateman?

Oh, it does. It really does. Now, I did figure out based on who I, who, like, I was like, oh, wait, I recognize that jawline. I know who that is, and therefore I had a good guess on the movie. So I did get it in three. I got it from that photo. but um i think it is interesting how you put those glasses on that actress and all of a sudden

she looks like another actress yeah it looks like justine bayman all right i got it in five i'm terrible at that that was a bad right i had to see one of the main actors to get it oops all right anyway uh yeah so that's the deal brian if you ever get called a bald c word yeah i don't think the word bald is the issue i think it's the uh the c word that maybe I mean even then that's not sexual harassment because he's they use that it's like you're a jerk oh jerk like jerking off you're using a sexual harassment term on me yeah it seems like a little too loose with the definition stuff but they gave it to him they ruled in his favor so I'm I'm a little surprised by it's the bung company

that company his name is just you know rife with sexual assault we're all feeling harassed by the bung company i am i don't like it all right we're moving on to a song break when we come back after that we'll have our old pal major spoiler zone uh stephen schlecker here yeah no kidding the bung company himself will be here just kidding you're you're good company stephen you're not the bung company anyway that'll be right after this brian will now tell us what that song is because i have no idea what that song i'm going to play you mean uh well that song is going to be datura four yeah it's a band that uh australian band called Datura 4, D-A-4, D-A-4, with no spaces or anything like that.

These are Australian, West Australian Boogie Masters, and this is their fifth album coming out called Neanderthal Jam. I like that on toast. It comes out later this month, I believe, but at the end of the month. But, I'm sorry, no, it comes out in August. Oh, we got a while to wait for this one. Well, guess what? You're going to love this song.

This song is called Going Back to Hoonsville. opening track from the album and this thing rocks. Here is Detoura 4 and going back to Hunsville. I'm gonna tell you how good it feels Sitting up close behind my wheels Reving up the motor like she's on found Burning up the highway on my desire I'm gonna fast crazy going through my head

Forty-five cops waiting up ahead Charing up the highway on my desire I'm going to feel free to smoke that's all I'm going to cry. Staring up to how we all understand your plan, I'm going back to whom is filled in my head. Go back, go, man, go and go ahead and go over. I'm going back to go over. I've got to go over. Got to cold.

Cruise in easy when she goes slow Driving like a breeze in the traffic flow Hold on steady round a dead mass curve now Break down the air down I've got to swear Watch out, baby, go to bump and run Squeezing and weaving on the highway wall Better to the better now I can't stop With the brush real hard going to blow my top

Go back to me. I'm trying up the highway on the tanker of the land. I'm going back to who is filled in my head. I'm going back, go, man, go and go and go. I'm going back to me. So I got to go. I got to go. Oh, yeah.

I feel you're doing. Yeah. Yeah. I'm at all right. stay I can't stop now I can't relate tearing up the highway on my design

I missed in snow on my real tires because I'm gonna tell you how good it feels sitting up close behind my wheels wherever I know that she's on fire I'm going to

my desire I'm right inside go down the hour highway on the tanker left now going back to moon still in my head go back go back go man go now go back to move still i got to go there on the highway on the tanker and let now go back to moon still in my head go man go man go man go now go back to moon still i got to go Oh, yeah.

Oh. Yeah. Oh. Oh. Oh. I'm feeling good, man. You know, I'm going to be able to be. Everybody likes a good cup of coffee, right?

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That song is going back to Hunsville by the Australian rock band Datura 4 from their upcoming album, Neanderthal Jam. Ask your doctor if Datura 4 is right for you. That's right. So my iPod Nano has fully charged, or not fully, but charged enough to where I could turn it on. Should we see what the first, like, if I hit play, because it'll do its shuffle thing, this will tell you how long it's been since I've used this. Like what song comes up is the first one? Well, will it play your most common song?

Because I'll bet it's that. No, I bet I could. Let's see. It's probably crowded house or something, if I had to guess. Probably. I don't know how to do that on this thing. because it's not like I can do a search by like I could do it in iTunes right

the playlist for most played or anything let's see if there is no the only playlist in here is genius oh so that might be the one to play because then they because that's it trying to tell you what you want yeah yeah you know what that's a good yeah all right let's genius it up here is what we get first song playing is it's a genius bar uh genius unavailable genius plays songs on your iPod that go great together to use genius turn on genius

and iTunes. Well, okay, so much for that. Then let's see. Yeah, and, oh, here we go. Shuffle. All right, we'll just do Shuffle. Here we go. Song that comes up is California by Flash in the Pan. Ah, not take California. Flash the Pan. Hey, St. Peter. There you go. Never would have guessed it. Never would have got it. No, I never would have guessed it either. Anyway. All right. Well, that was funny. All the buttons are like silverized and stuff. It's kind of cool. That is cool, actually. I liked that device. It was, the name was cool. I did, too. This is like, Like, yeah, super, I mean, you know, sure, it's super tiny, but this was kind of like the promise of what the, what the future would hold as far as like, uh, yeah, little SD cards with all your music and stuff. It might be the high, I mean, I know everyone thinks of the touch, but, you know, that was basically the phone without phone features. I just think the height of the iPod was probably that.

I think that's the one I like the most. All right, check this out. Stephen Schleiker. Stephen Schlecker. Hey, look who it is. our old pal, Steven Schlecker. He's in Hayes, Kansas, and he runs Major Spoilers.com, one of the best pop culture and comics websites on the planet.

And he's here with us today to talk about some of that stuff. Stephen, welcome back. Hey, Scott. Hello, Brian. Don't we wear our nanos on our wrists now? I know, yeah, yeah, right. Was the nano? Oh, that's a mini or a nano then? Wait. Oh, was it the shuffle with the screen.

Oh, shuffer with the screen. I remember that little tiny square one was. That was the shuffle. My first Kickstarter that I ever did, I think, was the case that you could put around an iPod shuffle with the screen and turn it into a watch. Yeah, I remember that. That was like a hot minute before an actual watch was about to come out and it was like, oh, that's the way to do it.

And then the watch came out and I'm like, no, that's definitely not the way to do it. That seems like a bad idea. Now, did it ever really work well for you? Like, did you like that? No. No. No. Yeah, the shuffle just had the little button.

My wife, I bought one for my wife. She did, I think, also had a strap for it when we first got it for because she wanted to do. There is right there. There he's got one. So does this have the screen? Yeah, this is the one that you could turn into a watch. So this, I think, was the nano. That was, no, that was shuffle.

Shuffle. Shuffles, I don't think had a screen. Shuffle was, it looked like this. No, the shuffle did and then it didn't, then it did. Right? As Brian, like, have every, I used to keep all my old tech, but, you know, I'm, I've, That's the original shuffle. The original shuffle.

But then the later shuffle looked like this. Pretty sure it had... I'm looking up shuffle on Wikipedia. That's the shuffle right there. The nano is the stick thing. Technically, this isn't even a shuffle. This is a little rubber container that's got an air pod in it. Because I never got that shuffle.

The Nano had the screen. Was it the Nano then? Yeah. The Nano had the screen. Okay. Man. I could just look at the back of this. No, I can't.

That got confusing. the end, didn't it? It really did. And I'm bummed because this is a 30-pin and I don't want to keep a 30-pin around just to be able to use my nano. I found my original iPod

Gen 2 a while ago and it started up and then I was like, you know what? I have no desire to keep this and promptly wiped it and put it into electronic storage because I value my space in my house. Yeah, it's a good idea. I need to do more of that. I got too much.

In fact, you know what, today is one of those days Between now and the end of the day, I have a goal And my goal is to fill one trash bag worth of stuff I think I want, but don't need you. Yeah, and some of it, if it's stuff I can give to Goodwill or whatever, I'll do that. Yeah, I do a thing called five things, where every day I just look and I find five things that no longer bring me joy in a way they go. I also. I also did that a few years ago, and then I fell off of it. I should do that again.

That way you don't have to feel pressure to fill up a whole trash bag. It's just like five things. I'm done. Tomorrow, five more things. Yeah, and then by the end of the month, you've recycled your entire house. Yeah, you kind of have, right? Like, after 30 days, that's a lot. 30 times five is a big number that I can't tell you out of the top of my head. But it's big, I know that.

30 times five, 150. There you go. It's 150 items. Whoa, look at you. Goodwill hunting. My gosh. Spoiler alert there, Brian. No, it wasn't until you said spoiler alert, Stephen.

good point good point uh all right let's move on to some uh some stories here we got uh some stuff there were 103 shows canceled uh that's that's not fun for anyone who had a show canceled they like i guess i mean think of all the people that are unemployed because of that now the interesting thing is up fronts are this week uh in hollywood this is where all the networks come to the uh ad execs and and entertainment people and say hey you know here's what we have coming up in the next year. Please buy our stuff. But yeah, 103 shows across all of the networks and all of the streaming platforms is a big deal. Probably one of the big ones for comic book fans is the CW, which is canceled already

Batwoman, Legends of Tomorrow, Star, not Star Girl, Naomi is canceled, Superman and Lois is sticking around. But, you know, one of the things that people may be asking is why is the CW canceling so many shows left and right dynasty was canceled? Old Roswell was canceled. It feels like a lot of Warner Brothers stuff that might end up on Max or a redo over there or something, right? Or am I wrong about that? Maybe one of the things that was pointed out, I think Variety had pointed it out last week or this week. Most of the shows on the CW don't make any money during their broadcast.

I mean, the CW is one of those things that was Warner Brothers and Viacom, one of the shared channels. And most of those shows never made money during their first run. but they made tons of money in international distribution and streaming and through the deals on Netflix. Well, the deals on Netflix have gone away and, you know, Discovery Networks, discovery, whatever, it's called, bought Warner Brothers. And they have zero desire to do anything else with Netflix right now. And so that's why they're canceling all these shows that for years have not been moneymakers in their first run, but have made money through Netflix and international distribution.

so that's why a lot of those are going away interesting okay that's a that's a bummer if you like any of those i'm not into any of them so i'm fine and then and plus discovery wants to now really sell off the cw they're looking for a buyer i think they have the canadian company that is very interested in the cw networks but it's a it's a very small network yeah that wants to buy it they'll say uh they'll say yeah we want to buy it and then when they back out they'll say sorry not interested that's how that'll go sorry yeah uh real quick here i noticed the magnum p i's on this list i think you mentioned it is well. Um, how was that? Was that any good? I watched the first episode and I said the shorts weren't short enough and the mustache

wasn't bushy enough. So I moved on. Yeah, kind of with you on that. I want to, I like the old thing a lot. I actually like going back to it. And because, you know, you'll, this will not shock you at all, Stephen. I'm, I got a little background going with, uh, I'm alternating right now between the fall guy and. Oh, the original fall guy? Yeah. I love it. Okay. And, uh, alternating between that and back to Rockford Files. and the rock profiles is just freaking great it's just great it is it's always it's always fun and nostalgic to watch that stuff like uh there was an episode on one of the streaming channels the other day and it's just like he's out in nevada looking at some you know scam for for water and

real estate and it's like oh yeah now that that's the suburbs of of las Vegas right now yeah and it's just like wow that's that's crazy it's really weird to see or when they go down plus that's that's that great music and i love it that's my ringtone is it really yeah so if i call you that's what you would hear. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's cool. I like that. That's how ringtones work, I guess. Look at the brain on me. All right. Before I leave the page that was linked for this, we haven't talked about on the show at all, but Christopher Walken is in due to as the emperor. I made a joke and I'll make it again because why not? Joke's always better the second time. If he's the emperor, then the empress or queen, better be John Totoro or I want my money back.

You guys know why? Do you get why? Do you get it? You have to see severance to get it, but do you get it? It's pretty good. Yep. Oh, I get it. Okay. Anyway, that's a pretty good pick because he can look really forlorn and weird, and that's what you need for the emperor needs to look weird. And he looks weird, so.

I'm just hoping that in addition to making the spice flow, they also say something about more cowbell. Yeah, that'd be cool. We need more cowbell. I want to have a fever. The only prescription is more spice. We must control the spice trade. I can't do his voice. All right.

Moving on. Let's talk about Conan or Conan. Conan the Barbarian. Yeah, Conan the Barbarian. The license is ending at Marvel Comics, and I am 100% cool with this because Marvel Comics never got bloody enough with that damn comic. So let's go. Yeah, so Conan for years and years and years was over at Dark Horse Comics, and they did some real cool stuff where He Thomas was writing those, the legendary Ray Thomas. And they were freaking fantastic.

And then in like 2017, I think, is when Marvel acquired the license from, what is it called? I forget who the Robert E. Howard Estate or licensing group was. And took it away from Dark Horse. And they started doing their own Conan series, which was pretty tame. And then they decided to bring Conan into the present and put him on the Avengers for the Savage Avengers series. And that was like the dumbest dumb that ever dumbed. And when they announced last, I know, when they announced last week that the license was ending over at Marvel Comics, my first reaction was, thank God. Yeah, get it out of there.

Put it back in the hand. It's meant to be kind of, you know, in the vein of heavy metalish sort of dark, bloody, sub-subs culture stuff. It's not supposed to be on a Marvel shelf. That's dumb. Right. Don't put it there. But see, the weird thing is, back in the 70s, Conan was. a Marvel property

and you can go back and find and of course it was the black and white comics back then but you can go back and look at some of those and those are really good now if you are wanting some more accurate adaptations of Conan's stories a Blaze publishing

has been they have a line called the Samarian because they can't use Conan on the cover but it's all Conan the Barbarian stories and they've been going in and adapting the books fairly faithfully to what Robert E. Howard did originally in the Pulps and to kind of back that up, each issue includes the comic book that is being adapted and then the actual

reprint of the story in the back half the comic. So over the course of like a four or five issue run of the of the Samarian, you not only get the full comic story, but you also get the full pulp story when they originally appeared back in the 1920s and early 30s. I still say that the, as far as movies go, there was, it's perfect casting. to have Jason Mamoa play the most recent Conan. But man, that movie was bad. Yeah, it was not amazing. No, it was, it's film sack worthy, but outside of that, I don't know.

And then Arnold's stuff just can't be garbage. So wherever it ends up, I wouldn't mind seeing a better treatment of that, maybe a TV series of work or something. But this is fine with me. I used to like Conan comics. Who owns Red Sonia? Because she's our, she stayed all bloody and half naked. So I believe all of, yeah, so, so, so, so. Sonia, different spelling.

This is why Dynamite is using Red Sonia right now over in comics. But Sonia in the Howard books are, again, owned by Conan Properties International. So if you just change the spelling, could Brian Ibitt, for example, start a comic called X-Men that spelled E K-K-K-S men? Could he do that? Back-to-back K's is what you say. Yeah, how does that work? How does that work? So the interesting thing with Red Sonia is they intentionally spelled the name with a J instead of a Y.

And because the character evolves so differently from any reference that Howard had put in the comics, I guess it's considered a different thing. But I think they still have the license. They still have to license it. But if you want Red Sonia stuff, Dynamite Entertainment has those comics. And they do a pretty good job of that. Yeah, those are all right. I'm not.

And look, before anyone writes in and goes, Scott, why are you so into naked blood? things. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is the tone and edge of those things was a thing and then now this recent Marvel run just tried to marvelize it, or not even marvelize it, kind of Disney-fied it a little bit. And that's just a bad idea.

This is like what I'm worried about when they do anything with what's the freaking Wesley Snipes. What's the name of the movie? Blade. When they do Blade stuff, what's that going to be? It's going to be on Hulu is where it's going to be because they can't put that stuff. Well, actually, now that they've got the Netflix stuff,

and you have to use your four-digit pin to get into Disney, they could do Blade pretty well. I mean, it's coming. I mean, Blade is coming. They can put Defenders up there. They can put Blade up there. Do you guys remember? I forgot James Earl Jones was in the original Conan movie.

Totally forgot that. Yeah, he was the big bat. Yeah, it was cool in there. Yeah, that's great. And then we had Lil Chamberlain and Grace Jones in the sequel. Yeah. Yeah, that movie was really bad. I know if Scott loves bloody half-naked people.

this week on the major spoilers podcast. Scott is coming on so we can talk about Hammer of the Gods. Yeah. It's this giant Viking story that if you don't hear Led Zeppelin playing in the background the entire time, then you know, you're missing out. I'm excited. That's Tuesday, by the way, that I'm on. Do you guys publish the same night?

I think you do. We do late. It's like 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock Eastern. That way we can get around some embargoes from certain publishers. I was going to ask, because I hadn't seen your email yet, and I wasn't going to ask what we're reading, but I'm excited. I sent it out. I put an exclamation point.

Go back in and look at it. Oh, I missed it. I highlighted your name because we accidentally left Scott out of last. Oh, no, I saw that. I just didn't see what we were reading or what we were. Oh, there it is, volume one. Oh, I'm very excited. That's my kind of comic these days.

I just like, I don't know, stuff that's like either set in fantasy settings, not mainstream, you know, Cape and Cal kind of business. I don't know. Right now that's scratch. Yeah, this is all Thor and Loki and Norse mythology in the way that Norse mythology is supposed to be, although Loki doesn't have any little colts chasing him around. Okay, and no big curly horns, or does he?

Well, you'll have to read the comic and find out. Okay. Is he a sexy man like Tom Hiddleston? I mean, he's the only one that appears to have sex in the entire comic. I always love the Loki and Thor usage in the God of War games. They're great, because Thor's like fat. Oh, no, maybe I'm thinking of, um, I might be thinking of the

Assassin's Creed Valhalla game Anyway, Thor's like this out of shape Well, kind of like Thor in the I guess in end game In the end game right now Yeah, a little bit And then Loki's like all kind of

Krusty and old looking It's not the same Marvel's versions of those things have really effed with my head And it's hard for me to watch other stuff But I will read this book and do it with delight Also, you got a comic book recommendation For something called Harrow County

Tell me more Yeah. So this is a, how do I explain this? This is country horror. So like 1920s Depression era, country horror. So like Southern Missouri, Northern Arkansas through the Kentucky's kind of stuff. Okay. This is from Cullen Bun and Trevor or Taylor. Gosh, now I forgot his name. Who's the artist on it. But he's really good. This takes place in Depression era in this county called Harrow County. And you could think Ozarks kind of stuff. And it's about, you know, haints and witchcraft and snake monsters and all sorts of horrible little things chasing after this girl called Emmy and her friends. And we come to find out that she may have a lineage that goes back way, way, way long time ago to ancient early gods and monsters kind of stuff. That seems interesting. There's actually a whole genre called Southern. No, well, gothic horror is a little bit different. Yeah, I might be thinking, I might be mixing my genres, but I love that.

I'm a huge fan. To me, it's like Westerns and why Westerns work, because there's a certain kind of desolation when you go to parts of the country or parts of the world, for that matter. But when we do it here, it's like there are parts of the world where maybe there's less, less people watching, less cities, less cops on the lookout all the time. like Texas, Texas Chainsaw Massacre works for this reason. Anything's set in a western out west where there's just, you know, there's no law or order yet or anything, you know, there's no L.A. It's just all, you know, people shooting at each other.

It works so well for me. I don't know why. This sounds like it's right up my street. Yeah. So imagine like, oh, brother, where art thou meets Guillermo del Toro. Okay. I'm in. I'm in.

Yeah. There's a cover with a guy with no skin on. I'm in. Yeah, he's a main character. So he's also, you get to see his skin. All right. Ooh, I get to see his skin? Nice.

Yeah, they're two different things. I'm pretty excited to see his skin. All right, well, there you go. The conversations we have with Stephen are always memorable. But if you're like, man, I wish there was a place I could find all this stuff and more than I would recommend major spoilers. com as well as the Major Spoilers Network of podcasts. If you like D&D, other board games, if you like just comic talk, you like any of that stuff. Boy, howdy.

Do we have news for you? In fact, anything happening there this week that people should tune in for? I think the main thing is it's going to get high. as we move not this week but next week into Labor Day weekend so everybody please stay hydrated I do do that I think that's a wise

wise idea by Steve and how whoops oh I didn't mean to remove friend oh you unfriended him I meant to remove from the group not friend oh no he's not my friend anymore shit all right

I can read him later I promise that It wasn't me unfriending you, Stephen. I mean, it was, but it wasn't on purpose. All right, we have a mashup. Jamie put one together. It is called Enjoy the Bean. I know where that came from. I do, too.

So we're going to play it, and you're going to all enjoy it. So have fun. Here's the law. Here's the law. Oh, yeah. I just had an edible. I destroyed her butt. I destroyed her butt.

Yeah. I destroyed her butt. And then that was all I had to say. My balls are hairy. Excuse me. It was like I was doing it on her back the whole time. That sounds bad too. That actually might be worse than I destroyed her butt.

Yeah. The situation was that funny enough. It was tractors I was looking at. Then all of a sudden I'm looking at someone getting plowed. The irony. Tell me a topic and I'll tell you a sarcastic thing about it. Ariola size Oh, jeez, Louise, really?

I don't know why that popped into my head. Why is that the first thing? I don't know. Are you looking at a tractor? Are you on a tractor website? I'm on a tractor website and something just came up. Now I'm there again. I can't stop myself.

This is stupid. I need to poop. It's just really a nice bag. I just wanted to show people how nice the bag is. Brian's always showing off his bag. I thought we'd show off this bag. See what's going on. You run my only fans page?

I didn't realize you had access to that. Yeah, I'm on the lower tier, so I don't get all the really good stuff. Oh, yeah, that's why you only get the bag. I'm on the bag, tier. All right, a drone carrying a bag of handguns. I'll do all the fully work for this one. All right, this is great. From the United States, give me a little...

Oh, I'm a cheeseburger. I'm hungry. I need some turkeys. You went with a diet. That's good. It's a bunch of work, but this made it easy. So, yeah, that's what's... We use tea balls.

That is, what is a tea balls? What is a tea ball? What's a tea ball? That's the next level on my OnlyFans page. Oh, T-ball. Yeah, I snorted that Coke, Claire. That's right. I did snort some coke.

Oh, you brought some back from Vegas? I left all mine in the room. I left it all on the mirror and I forgot to, you know, sweep it back into a little baggy. Yeah, mine was in a sock, and that was a bad idea because it's porous and comes out of the sock. Let's do that. Jeez. And then I put it up my bum, and it was there for too long. Tell us, how good are you at humping somebody without any clothes off?

Right. I hate it when you do your teen of voice. What is your recommendation for like a good starter tea for somebody who's only been enjoying the bean? Enjoying the bean. Also another. That'll get you on another list. Woo. Yeah, exactly.

As a lesbian, I can tell you I enjoy the bean on a daily basis. Oh, man. That was a, Jamie didn't warn us. That was a dirty one. Dirty. Oh, that's just right out, right out there. Yeah. Goodness gracious.

Well, we appreciate it, Jamie. TMS mashups on Twitter. Poke him and say hi. And a big thanks for his good work. We're done. However, before we go, I would like to remind people that Patreon.com slash TMS both exists and is a place that helps us survive.

Our livelihoods base, a lot of our livelihood is based in almost entirely on this. You guys mean so much to us at the beginning of every month. no idea. All right. So all of you out there getting paychecks twice a month or even some of you get like once a week. We got to wait all a month for most of the things we do, all our billings, all of our stuff. And having you guys in there makes all the difference in the world. So please join if you haven't, patreon.com slash TMS. There's a rumor floating around from Dave that we might want to enact. I guess Tom does this. So we're, I don't know, we're thinking about enacting the yearly thing. So people can just say, you know,

A little bit of, if you do a full year. Yeah, it's like, I'm going to do two bucks a month anyway. I may as well just do the year all at once and get it over with. We're going to offer that plan for anyone who wants it. Listen, my foul attitude and lack of hygiene are causing my freelance clients to drop like flies. So now more than ever, TMS, Patreon, please, please. Brian needs soap and a Patreon. So get her going.

That'll do it for that. Frogpants.com slash TMS for all the other things we've got going. A pretty normal week. It's the week after that gets weird. I have a dental appointment on Tuesday after next, so not tomorrow, but the following week where they're removing a tooth, and I'm going to be gone all morning. And then you're leaving town that weekend. I guess it doesn't affect TMS proper, though, does it or doesn't? It'll affect TMS PM.

And this coming TMS Friday, TMSPM Friday, is going to be a play date. Oh, right. Yeah, because you're going to be gone that next weekend. So we had to move a play date up one week, which is fine. Hey, totally fine. We'll just figure out we want to,

you know, we'll have to figure out if there's another like, it'd be great to do Demio if we could, but again, only lets two more people play. Yeah,

you get a max of four, but it's so fun. It really is. And because I can run it on PC now, it's so much easier to stream, it would be, we'll talk, but maybe there's a fun rotate in and out.

Also, you have to own the game, which is, you know, unlike all these other games who play the audience and the participants can just be in.

I don't know. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out, yeah. But that would be fun. All right. Oh, I beat the first campaign with Bo and Crofton, and we beat the first full campaign, and I hadn't done that yet.

Oh, nice. No, I haven't done that either. I've got a game paused that I've gotten three levels in. I need to get back in there and finish her, two levels in, I think. It was gnarly. The final boss fight was, I thought we were dead. There's no way we were going to make it, and we did it. Oh, nice.

Nice. That game is hard, but it's fair. Okay, that's it. We're done. We're out. Brian has a song. Play it now. What do you got? I've got a song. Well, I mentioned Barry, who, uh, you know, was celebrating his daughter's graduation. Yesterday was another thing to celebrate as it was Barry's birthday. He says, uh, hi, Kim and Tina. Thank you for supporting Scott and Brian. Here's to the women in our lives. And the one who treats me wonderfully as we celebrate my 56th birthday. Thank you, Bobby Ann. And the go-go's. 56. It's no way you're 56. He's 56. He looks younger than us.

I know. I know. That's effed up. Good genes and he moisturizes on a daily basis. Barry loves the go-goes and their music and would love to hear any cover song, any go-go's cover song. Look, I'm going to do, I'm going to do you one better, man. I know just from knowing you, Barry, that your favorite go-go is Jane Weedland. So how about a Jane Weidland acoustic cover of a go-go's song? She did this for 80s hit stripped back in 2006. Here is, Our Lips Are Sealed by Jane Weidland.

And here's this for just for Barry. And also gets one of these. Have a job say to you. Good job. You're awesome. We do love the folks a lot. They're awesome. Okay, that's it.

We're out of here. Thank you, everybody, for being here. We'll be back. Soon. That is to say tomorrow with another episode. We'll see you then. They had no shield, no secrets to reveal. It doesn't matter what they say. In the jealous games, people play. Our lips are sealed.

There's a weapon that we must use in our defense. Silence. When you look at them, look right through them, That's when they'll disappear That's when we'll be feared It doesn't matter what they say In the jealous games people play Our lips are sealed

Pay no mind to what they say It doesn't matter anyway and I look to see her Oh Hush my darling Don't you cry Quiet Forget that lies

Can you hear them? Can you hear them? Talk about us. Ten lies. Well, that's no surprise. Can you see them? See right through them. They have no shield, no secrets to reveal.

It doesn't matter what they say. In the jealous games, people play. Arlip to see them. Ain't no mind to what they say It doesn't matter any way Our lips is seal Hush, my darling I'm up to see a

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