The Morning Stream - TMS 2309: Bicycle Oyster Cult

Episode Date: June 27, 2022

Croc Blocked. Important Taint Paint. My aunt has MS! I mean, allergies. Chode Butter and VIP Charcuterie. Reinforced nipple area. Chester, he was a President wasn't he? Riding Up That Hill. Punctuate your Doomscrolling. Crap! They found me. The wet D-Pad was my wrestling finishing move. Crispie Creme for the Tender Parts. Big ol' Nixon beard!! The Good Thicke. Zoom And Enhance Scott's Wrist. Gross but yes. Not supporting the bad guys with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS. Crock blocked. Important taint paint. My aunt has MS. I mean allergies. Chode butter and VIP charcutory. Reinforced nipple area. Chester.

He was a president, wasn't he? Riding up that hill. Punguate your doom scrolling. Crap, they found me. The wet D-pad was my wrestling finishing move. Crispy cream for the tender parts. Big old Nixon beard. The good thick.

Zoom and enhance Scott's wrist. Gross, but yes. Not supporting the bad guys with Stephen and more. on this episode of The Morning Stream. There's a certain place on the back of my arm that when I scratch it, I can feel it in my butthole. And I just think that's really neat.

The Morning Stream, no, you better don't. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to TMS. It's the morning stream for Monday, June 27, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. And that is Brian Ibitt. Yes. Hello. I told my phlebotomist about you this morning. Would you like to hear the context of that conversation? Please tell me what you told you are phlebotomist. So I had to go in for a routine six-month blood work thing. It's just a thing I do. My doctor has me on this regimen here. And so I went in. And first thing first, I don't. think i think people who write medical software like you know check in put in your info do all your smear here's a little kiosk we have touch screens now whoever's writing all of that might be dumb they might actually be dumb it's not good none of it's good it's all bad and janky and it doesn't work the way it's supposed to and i'm just saying maybe go back to the the boards on this and come up with something better because it's bad you're not you're not issuing cattle around your hospital lab area you're you're dealing with people so maybe your software should reflect that

yeah holes anyway that's a whole holds everything wow okay all right strong feelings anyway i'm in there it's fine once i get all that done i get in there and there's a very nice lady phlebotomist lady she's like hello and i'm like hi and she sits me down and we're talking and she says uh so so what do you do you know they always ask what you do and i have to explain oh how do i know exactly so it depends on the age of the person after older than a certain age I said I'm an audio producer yeah you kind of that's actually a pretty way of doing it I instead today went for podcaster illustrator see how that would land and she actually was like oh I love podcasts I listen to them all the time I use them on my phone it's just so great what kind of shows

do you do so she wanted to know that and I said I'm I'm in fact when this is done if you guys hurry the hell up because they were taken forever for the process part the actual flabotomy part was easy it's just the rest of it was a nightmare and I was like going to be late for the show I said, so assuming I get at her on time, I got a morning show this morning, as a matter of fact. She goes, oh, that's cool, morning show. What do you guys cover on there? Oh, all kinds of stuff. Do you have a co-host?

I said, yeah, his name's Brian. And she says, oh, that's nice. And I said, he is nice? And she goes, so is this what he does as well? I said, well, it's one of the things he does. I go, actually, right now he's probably a little poop because, and then I went into the whole story about how you did your ride. And explain that whole thing. She goes, that's wonderful.

My aunt has MS, she says. and I said, oh, I'm sorry. And she goes, oh, wait, maybe it is an MS. What is it? She was like, you're confused about what it was. It was something else. Like, I mean, it was something else serious, but it wasn't like, I think it just was something else. It wasn't MS.

It was something else. Anyway, it was a weird little conversation. And she was very nice. She didn't leave much of a mark. I still got my cute little tag. Look at this. I'm all medicaled up. Look at that.

Yeah. How long did you have to leave that on? I don't know. I probably don't take it off now. Am I thinking? I don't know why I still have it on. You know, people with high-res monitors are able to make out your number. Can you see it?

Freeze it and zoom in the pants. They can now, I don't know, charge stuff to your insurance or something. I don't know. They're too busy trying to see what combining Darth Vader and Shrek look like on AI generators. They don't want to mess with me anymore. There's a, yeah, there's a good time. So how does it, speaking of the ride. You know, kept track of how things are going in the middle, but give us the lowdown, how things go.

Yeah, it's over now, thank God. Yeah, so it's, all right, let's start at the beginning here. I mean, basically, I should start off with a big thank you to everyone for the well wishes for all the contributions to MS because of you guys. I mean, I think I raised close to $3,500. That's great. Which is not the highest amount on my team, but was certainly one of the highest amounts in the entire Colorado group, which got me some VIP treatment. I actually, me and a couple other people on the team were able to go to the VIP tent, where they had pizza, they had bottles, you know, all the bottles of ginger beer and root beer and stuff from left-hand brewery that we wanted. gourmet cheeses, we could make a little charcutory plate, all these things.

Yeah. So, you know, the VIP, so what I did is basically I just went in there. I took orders from the rest of the team and I said, all right, what does everybody want? You got one of a slice of pizza? You want sausage, cheese, pepperoni. And then I'd like basically take orders and I'd go from the VIP tent, do do do do do do back over to our tent and disseminate all the stuff that people wanted. You were a big shot is what you're telling me. I was a big shot. And here's just a couple things.

you were going to ask about the chode butter let's just get this out of the way right now the chode butter was as always a godsend on rides like this single application or did you have to reapply? No I reapplied both days I reapplied at the

midpoint stop the lunch stop basically I was hoping you did that after I had my lunch the VIP tent Brian's brian's soaping up his unit in VIP tent is what I was hoping the very important paint taint So, no, that stuff, I'm trying to figure out a good way to describe this. Like, if you've got a balloon with a couple of hard-boiled eggs in it, right?

It's a partially, like an unblown-up balloon, but it's got a couple of hard-boiled eggs in it. And, you know, if you've got two hard surfaces on either side of those hard-boiled eggs and the balloon, You don't want things to get pinched. No. No, no. You want them to move freely. Those balloons in the eggs with that. Exactly.

So you want there to be a lot of, of, let's say, Chrisco around that balloon to just keep it from getting pinched anywhere. Sure. So there's like a very vague, a very subtle description of why we need showed better. Yeah. All right. So previous years, this is the fourth year I've done the race. Yeah. fifth, if you count the unofficial 20-20 when we made our own course and just did it ourselves.

But in all that time, and you've probably heard me mention this, I've never completed day two. One year we got pulled off because of lightning. Another year, I did day one sick and got too sick overnight to do day two and actually took, you know, put me out of contention for a few days. That was pretty bad. You were sick that day. And then last year, because of the pandemic, they shortened it to a one-day, 80-something mile a ride. So it was a longer overall, longer overall than one day, but not a two-day ride. So this was the first time I'd actually completed both days.

And can I tell you that, you know, they joke around and say, oh, day two is the tougher day. Oh, day two, you don't want to, boy, you don't want to mess with day two. All those people are frigging jerks, and they're absolutely correct. day two, even though it's the same number of miles, and even though you're starting at the same, you're starting at your finish line and going to where the starting line was for day one, you'd think, oh, well, it's really just going to be day one in reverse. No, they changed the course for day two, right? So there's very little overlap between the paths for the two days. Right. And because of that, they have, they stack, there's like, there's a term for this. I can't think of what it is. But they have three massive hills that you have to go on the second half of the second day. Like, you're already sore from day one. And they're like, all right, so we're going to have them go up this Lowell Hill. And then we're going to have them go up the Anthem Neighborhood Hill.

And then we're going to have them go up Zunai, which is this like straight up. So that's not just a happenstance thing. Do they plan it that way? I think they do that on purpose. I mean, I don't know. But it feels like they do it to like say, all right. And now you're really going to feel good about yourself at the end of this part because we're giving you three big hills to climb at the end of your second day when you're already exhausted from one day. It's a lot.

And what I'll do is at some point I'll post shots of the Strava has this great diagram showing the hills and valleys and stuff that you do over the course of the 68 miles and where those things are. And you can see at the very, it's like, rigged you ever do a did you ever get to the as you went to the top of the hill you went this is that i can't do i'm never doing this again and then you get to the top of the hill and go i'm totally doing this again this is great oh i'm never doing this again because you hit the next hill do you know what i mean no no never that that feeling was never because of the hills it was a feeling because of the way my uh even with the chode butter lots of pain in that region right now like if i had a donut i'd be sitting on it right now because it's uh it's a little on the tender

just because of my bike seat. I think I need a new bike seat that cradles my butt cheeks as opposed to the one that has pads for my butt sheets. Yeah, you want it to hold the butt cheeks. I want it to hold the butt cheeks and not jab to seemingly soft pads into my butt cheeks. And then the bottoms of my feet. Like the, my feet altogether through numerous points of the ride yesterday, felt numb. Like, okay.

And that's because when you've got the, um, the, the, clip in cleats, the center piece, like basically the center of the cleat that clips into your pedals has to rest right on the ball of your foot. For a long time. Instead of, yeah, like when you walk, you know, you're walking with your whole foot.

Right. When you're peddling, there is like one point of contact and it's right on the ball of your feet. So like your toes are off the front. The rest of your foot is off the back. And that bar feels like, it's separating, like it's basically cutting off circulation to one or both locations.

Yeah, yeah. It's like a big little divider unit right in the middle of your foot. Exactly, exactly. So feet would go numb and basically I would just switch my stance to, I would slide further back in the saddle and then raise my feet to pull up the pedals as opposed

to pushing them down for about I would do that for about two or three minutes if I'm like on a straightaway or a downhill just to let some blood flow go back into my feet. so so there's that um i'll also talk a little bit about the weather uh you know when i say 55 degrees uh you think all right well yeah that's kind of cool um here you know in colorado that probably in Utah too that's like all right long pants but probably still like a short sleeve

shirt because you're going in and out of places and maybe you wear a hoodie or something like that with 55 degree weather sure sure um yeah when you're writing it brings up whole new set of challenges so I started both days with sleeves and leggings that basically extended the length of my bike shorts and jersey

and they're removable. So, you know, you have this extra little sleeve. Oh, they're separate on top. They're not, I got it. Okay. You don't have to get completely undressed when you want to go change that. Exactly. Exactly. I can even do it while I'm riding if I feel like it, but I usually just did it the rest up. Yeah. And then over that, I had

just like a really thin light, breaker in case we got some rain yeah um and both days and yesterday i'll talk it was mostly sunday i wore the windbreaker from the start starting line and then took it off at the first rest up now that windbreaker acts like a an airtight container containing my upper half my torso your torso container my torso yeah and uh if you've ever been in a sauna you know those airtight containers that hold something warm that's exerting a lot of energy and, uh, sweating, uh, basically when I took that windbreaker off in 55 degree weather, yeah, my jersey was kind of drenched. Yep.

Gross, but yes. Gross, but yes. Yes. So going down those first hills at 20 miles an hour in 55 degree weather with a wet jersey, I'm glad that my jersey had, uh, reinforced nipple area, uh, because otherwise I would have torn those things up. Yeah, that's a brisk, that's a brisk bit of wind, isn't it? It is.

That woke me up more than the cup of coffee before the ride. Yeah. Wow. Big shout out to a couple of people, the Kwan's, Don and Tyler Kwan. They looked up and saw what the route was going to be, and it goes right by their house in Loveland. And so they brought out, and they actually made two signs that said, go! And another sign that said, Brian. So when I went by, they raised up their signs and cheered me on.

and stuff, which was so cool. Yeah. And then there's a group of writers that are passing me at that point, seeing this and going, what's the deal with you? That's great. It's like, I'm known. I know people. People know me.

Exactly. It's all good. And big things to Bobby and Stages cycling, because between the two of them, we were talking about power, right? Like, you know, figuring out what your sweet spot is in terms of, power. I get this stage of cycling computer from a listener of the show. Great, great guy in Boulder who hooked me up with one of their demo units, or I'm sorry, not their demo, but they're a brand new unit that they're releasing. And if you couple that with a cadence meter, so cadence is your pedal speed, how fast you're peddling. I developed a technique. And cyclists, you know, there are far more cyclists out there doing it for far longer than I ever have who can probably say, yeah, Brian, this is totally. totally what you're supposed to do. But what I would do is I figured out my sweet spot for peddling was 70 RPM. And in my head, I would hear the Don't Fear the Reaper guitar lick because the

cowbell, that do, do, do, do, do, do, do, exactly, is 70, is 70 RPM. So if ever I lost the thing, obviously I could look at my cycling computer, but if I didn't want to look at it. I could say, okay, my head do, do, do, do, do, and pedal on the beat. Did you say, you didn't sing it just to make it easier for yourself? At times I did. Yeah, at times I actually sang it not just in my head, but out of my mouth. That's awesome.

I love this. All right. And so then what I would do is, no matter if I was going uphill, downhill, that's the cadence I wanted to maintain. And I would do, I would go up and down gears until I found the point at which. So, all right, you know, when you're, if you're in a really low gear, and you're just struggling to push those pedals, right? And then you get into a much higher gear. I might have these backwards.

I might be talking, I guess, probably... Oh, low and high, yeah. That's weird. Yeah, so high gear, you're like really struggling to push those pedals. And, you know, if you're going a few miles an hour and you have it on the lowest gear, then your pedals are just basically moving and they're not doing anything. Yeah, right? I hate that.

Yeah. That feeling. So what I would do is I would keep pushing, like keep adjusting the gear. until it was like the bike was doing most of the work, and all I was doing was just providing a little, like if I noticed a little bit of resistance, perfect. That's where I would be. That was my sweet spot.

So it's just basically, okay, I can maintain that 70 RPM and just push, and basically all my peddling is doing is just going just a little bit above, you know, where I'm getting resistance. Sure. That's great. You were able to zero that in pretty much the both two days,

both days. And if you look at my average cadence on both days, like the Strava Apple say, you maintained a 68 to 71% cadence the entire time. It's good. Doing that, hills were, I got to say, hills were no big, the smaller hills were no big deal. Those last three hills, more of a big deal, but it made such a huge difference. That's great. Well done, Bobby. Well done. Dude with the company what made those. Stages. Yeah, Matt. Stages. And well done, Brian, finding a song that matched your cadence i think that's right and there are less like you know in excess has a ton of songs that uh that uh that uh that uh bpm is perfect oh yeah dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun yeah i can hear

uh yes nick not mad i keep it called and matt but uh nick at uh stage of cycling he is awesome and uh he's the reason that um that this weekend went as well as it did very nice very nice and is this this is the most um donations you got since you've been doing this right ever yeah oh absolutely i don't think i think i barely broke 2,500 last year and um i'm just under 3,500 there you can actually still donate until the end of uh um the end of august so if you still haven't donated you're like oh shoot did i miss the deadline no you haven't missed it you can donate still by going to tiny dot c slash uh bike coverville 2022 and you can uh um you can do that uh terminus The 1961 says, on the next coverville, it covers with the best cycling cadence.

I actually, I was really close to, I dug out my DJ equipment. I actually have my DJ, you know, my, oh yeah, you're in a worker, wicket, wiki, tables in a microphone situation, because I was going to record a mix of songs and and keep the cadence, like basically keep the beat, you know, without, um, without putting any slower songs in there and without any breaks, just make it a constant one hour long 70 BPM mix, but I never did. Never got to it. That's all right. Look, you have the devil's hair cut. That's all you needed. That's right. It's all I need right there. Well, that's great. I'll tell you what I did while you were writing. I used you as a way to escape the horrendous weekend of news that everybody was

experiencing. Oh, geez. So what would happen is I would, you know, doom scroll for a while. and then go oh yeah but Brian's out riding on a bike for helping MS and these people are getting good health and it's good it's a good you know and then I go oh dooms scroll doom scroll dooms girl yeah but Brian's earning money for people who are sick and really struggling in life

you don't even realize how bad that disease is doom scroll doom scroll but Brian that's what I kept doing good well I'm glad that I could provide a diversion I put up a few in Facebook I put up a few stories like the little recorded bits and realized that I...

What are you doing, Scott? Sorry, I get my phone out of my pocket. It was killing me. Okay. All right. What I realized is that I'm an old man who doesn't know how to watch the little timer go around the circle for recording those things in Facebook that have a time limit.

So I'd be like, all right, so here at the rest stop number two, and it's about 55 degrees right now. And here's Uncle George. Here's the rest of the tea. and look whatever it's they shouldn't have a limit that's the rule that's the deal then it's starting to do video all right so I guess there's a little bit of a time limit but let me show you what we got behind me so we got a thing where you can get some gatorade over here they have some neutral grade uh what are you going to do though you know yeah exactly

so Zuckerberg says no if you want to laugh go check out old man learns uh how to use Facebook. Are those scenes? Now, what are those called? Stories. Real. No, stories, yeah. Because the reels are also limited, but stories are the ones that definitely are. And they're, and they're ephemeral, so they're not there forever. So if you want to see Brian's...

Oh, yeah, stories don't stay forever. They go away after... Better hurry. 24 hours, something like that. They might be gone. They might be gone by now. I don't know. I think you can set them. Like, that was their answer to... Everybody started doing stories because they were trying

to compete with Snapchat and then I can't remember if Facebooks or Instagrams actually expire. I think they do. Gotcha. Anyway. It looks like at least one of them is still on there. So I don't know which rest stop that was. That was like one of the few where I actually wore glasses.

I had my cycling glasses on. I took those off. I only wore those for about 10% of the ride because they were driving me nuts. So they were like heating ups. getting misty steaming up is the word that's the word you're looking for getting misty i like that better though getting misty they were getting misty because i was putting out so much heat so much heat brian heat yeah putting out heat well good job you you did the good fight for a good cause and uh thanks this year's is over if brian does it again give him give him some

time before he commits okay everybody oh i'll do it again i have to do it for barb yeah do it for barb do it for barb that's the only reason i do the ms 150 i do it Well, no, I take that back. I do it for everybody struggling with MS. But she's the reason I started doing it. Yeah, and there's nothing wrong with that. That's good. You have this personal connection and you do what you do.

There's nothing wrong with that. Exactly, exactly. All right. Well, on that note, that illustrious note, what are we? Oh, we're going to do, okay, so we are going to play a game today. Dunaway's not here. Right. He's got a meeting, so he couldn't get out of it.

And as a result, we're going to go ahead without him. And it's going to be just me and a listener. And so you're encouraged to call in as soon as you want to. 801 to 471.0460462 if you would like to be a part of today's chicanery. Okay? So get that going right now. All right. We're going to play this little game. Let's find out who we got on the line. Hold on one second. Hi. Who is this? Hello? Hello? Oh, sorry. I had you muted. Sorry. Who's this again? It's Jamie. Oh, Jamie. Hey, Jamie. Hey, Jamie. Hey, you know what?

You know who's MASHups, Jamie? Yeah, you know whose birthday it is? Apparently there's like 12 birthdays in the chat today, but Jamie's birthday today. Yeah, happy birthday, dude.

Yeah. How does 44 feel? Just kidding. You're not that old yet. What are you anyway? 38? You're in your 30 still. You're a kid.

38? 38? Geez. I mean, I know it sounds weird to say you're a kid, but that's how Brian and I see you now. You're just a kid. You're just a kid. Exactly.

You're a young man. Well, it's good to have you here. Are you calling from Canada or the International Space Station? It sounds really far away and quiet. Hold on. Let's see if I can crank you up. Here, now say something. Oh, yeah, you're super crunchy.

Let's see. There you go. Can you hear us? Hey, hold on. I can take up my headset. Oh, yeah, the headset, I think that's your problem right there. Something crusty going on. Oh, much better.

Oh, my God. So much better. Yeah. A million times better. The free Tim Horton's headset with any purchase is just not working. That's right. With every Poutine, you get your headset. Well, no worries.

We're going to play a game, Brian. You want to explain how it's going to work today because we're minus... The lag on this should be fantastic for this game. Yeah, we'll really enjoy this leg. Go ahead. We're going to play a game of TMS Hilo. I'm going to ask Scott a number-based question, and he's going to give his answer. If it's correct, great.

If it's not, which it probably won't be, I will ask you, Jamie, if the actual answer is higher or lower. And if you're correct, at least three times out of five, you will win a prize package that includes from Steam, Monaco, and Sunset Overdrive. Oh, those are like both racing games? No, Sunset Overdrive is like a dude on a, on like hover feet or something. I can't remember. But it's like a run around real fast thing. It's made by the insomniac people who make like ratchet and clank and.

Oh, cool. like Spider-Man games and all that. They're really, really good. And the other one, Monaco, is this top-down, I forget how it works. It's kind of a stealth thing, if I remember right? It's a weird indie. They're both real good games. This is an excellent prize package. Very nice. Well, good. Well, Jamie, this could be yours. So let's start here. Let's ask Scott a question. Scott, what is the record as of 2018 looks like for most knives thrown around a human target in one minute? See, you know how they've got those people who line up on a wheel? Sometimes the wheel spin. Sometimes it doesn't. Let's say in this case it doesn't. But you've got a person who throws knives around the person? Yeah, I'm going to say 52. 52. 52. That number is incorrect. Jamie is the actual answer higher or lower than 52. In a minute, though, that's a thing.

In one minute, 60 seconds. How many knives? Thanks. Yeah, I'm taking it. That's high, he says? He says it's high. So you're saying the actual answer is, lower than a 50?

Yeah. Yeah, he's got some lag in weirdness. There's some lag. There's some lag. Yep. All right. The actual answer is 144. What?

Triple that. That means they're throwing two, like both handed, I think. Oh, my gosh. Is the person alive that's in the middle? Are they dead? Or what's the deal with them? Are they okay? Do you know what doesn't say?

It might be, uh, uh, someone check in on the guy on the board. my gosh. Exactly. 144. All right. That's all right. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. All right. Next question, Scott. Yeah. How many wineries are there in California? You know, California known for wine. That whole Napa Valley has wineries.

How many wineries are in California? 850. 850. 850. 850 is incorrect. Jamie is the actual answer. or lower than 850. Oh, gosh, that's a big number. Let's go, I'll say higher. It's a big state.

Okay. Yeah, it is a big state. Lots of wineries in it. The actual answer is, indeed, higher, 4,391 wineries in California. That's a lot. Holy crap. As of you living in Oregon, you guys are in second place with 774.

geez second place is that much down is that that much of a gap between wow that surprises me are there any and i if that's second place i guess there's nowhere else in the nation that's anywhere close that's crazy to me yeah i thought there was a bunch of winery stuff in um uh what am i thinking of like not boston maybe somewhere uh washington has uh wineries they have 772 wineries in washington is it mostly a western coast thing like we don't think so there's there's wineries in colorado in the um San Lise Valley over by Grand Junction. But nowhere near, nowhere near this number.

All right. Well, all right. So, Jamie, you got one point. All you need is a couple more. We get a few more questions. Scott. Yeah. How many munchkins were cast for the Wizard of Oz?

Oh. So I mean, you've got your main ones, right? Your lollipop guild and your mayor. But then you've got, you know, you get a few behind the front of the stage, basically in the background, how many munchkins were cast for the Wizard of Oz? And it doesn't just count little people cast. We're talking about like kids

and whoever, right? It's just munchkins in the movie. I think they're all little people, yeah. Well, I thought there were some kids. Maybe not. There's some little people kids. They're all kids at one point, right? I guess. All right, I'll, um, oh, geez, uh, let's

let's see. This is old Hollywood. Things were cheap. I'm going to say 300 munchkins Okay The 300 is incorrect Jamie is

the actual answer higher or lower than 300 Oh there's a lot of weird stuff that went on with that movie 300

I'm gonna have to go lower Lower than 300 Okay Lower than 300 According to Turner Classic movies There were

124 Munchkin's past. He's right again. Just killing it. Oh, that's good. Yeah, he needs to be right. Yeah. Yeah, each munchkin made $50 per week.

However, Toto made $125 per week. Is that true? That's not true. That is 100% true thanks to Turner Classic movies. The dog made, well, obviously, his owners. The dog made more than twice as much as... That's insane. That's crazy to me.

As each munchkin. Yeah. All right. Including mutton chop sideburns, how many U.S. presidents sport facial hair in their official portrait. How many? Oh, many.

So, uh, 46 presidents, 46 official portraits. How many of them have some sort of facial hair? I'm going to go with, uh, I think it's probably lower than I would think. So I'm going to say

12 of them have beardeds. 12 presidents. is absolutely correct well done scott are you kidding me i'm not kidding that gives a point to uh that gives a point to jamie so jamie has won the prizes we'll play this out for the last question here that's crazy well done on the well done on the accurate guess do you have a list of the actual the 12 people i don't uh john quincy adams was the first william h taft was the last the last president to have facial hair in their photograph was taft was taffed yeah nonsense because you think about you know

like uh kennedy and nixon and uh carter nixon should have rocked a beard man just a big old he should have rocked a beard big old nixon beard that's so much cooler when he's going you know here's the here's the list j c calhoun found the list you a list of presidents uh with facial hair uh john quincy adams martin van buren zachary taylor abraham lincoln ulysses s grant Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Grover, Cleveland, Benjamin, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft. Now, Harry S. Truman, his official portrait doesn't have facial hair. No, but he had, he had, he sported facial hair at some point during his president.

He sported facial hair at some point. I have never heard of, what was the name? Hold on. You mentioned a name I just have never heard of. I can't, I've heard of every name here except Chester. A. Arthur. I've never heard of that dude. This is the first time I've heard of one of our president's names. I'm embarrassed. Everybody else.

The only thing that he can really add to his claim to fame is that he signed an executive order to list potatoes as tubers. Great. That's great. That's the only thing. Good job, old man, Professor Arthur. That's just horrendous to me. I don't know that's so weird to me. When did he die? 85 died four years after he. served. He only did. He died in 86. His presidency was 1881 to 1885. Oh, my bad. Yeah, I'm looking at the wrong thing. I never heard. I feel like I failed history. That's insane. Okay. Well, Jamie, how does that? How do you feel, dude? You won.

Hey, we got one more question. Oh, we got one more. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Yeah, we got one more question. Yeah. But Jamie has one, but let's play this on. No, I know. Yeah. How many people attended history's largest free rock concert. So free rock concert, anyone can attend. How many people attended said concert? And you're not going to

tell me what concert it was. I'm not going to tell you what concert. Yeah, or what venue. I'm guessing it was outdoor. It's probably outdoor, which makes it a lot more big. I'll tell you that. It was an outdoor concert. Okay. It's outdoor. I'm going to say

100,000 human beings. That number is incorrect. Jamie, take another guess. Is the actual answer higher or lower than $100,000? Well, I'll tell you when we do the fireworks in Vancouver, like the tiny last beaches that we have here, we can fit 500,000 people. So it's definitely going to be higher than 100,000.

Really? It's too many damn people in one place. That is too many damn people. That is correct. Yeah, the highest number. This was December 31st, 1994, a free concert staged by Rod Stewart at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on New Year's Eve, attracted an audience of $4.2 million. What? For him, why? What is his deal in Brazil?

He must be like Hasselhoff in Germany or something. They do assume that a few of those people just turned up just to see the fireworks display at midnight. I guess so That's weird What a weird If you just said Rolling Stones Or said you too Or said

A million other You could have said Billy Eilish I would have believed you But freaking him Rod Stewart The hell All right

Do you think I'm sexy I can't even think of another song That's the only one I can think of What else is there Come on You're in my heart You're in my soul You're in my house

Get the hell out of here that song. Jamie, you've won, and we play this when you win. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. That means these keys, which are not region locked, they work anywhere, including Canada, will be sent to you by Brian. You know how to get a hold of him.

I do, yes. So do that. He'll send those to you ASAP. And does that make your birthday better or worse to know that you won today? Oh, it's better, and TMS always makes it better. Oh, there you go. Oh, very nice. How could it not be better? Well, Jamie's a genius and makes amazing stuff.

hear more of that later today when we play one of his mashups. Jamie, happy freaking birthday man and we'll see you thank you. Bye now. Don't get it. I can we won't hang up on him. I don't know. Oh, okay. All right, there's the end of that. Now, this wouldn't be

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My nuts! My nuts! All right. Here's your story of the day, your first one. Oklahoma in the news. And no... Okay, listen, everybody. I'm trying my hardest.

to be a positive force for laughter and fun this week. Sure, yes. Because the alternative is a nightmare. Because the world is, or at least the country, is slowly moving backwards. Yeah, I would say rather quickly in the last couple of days. But because of that, you know, some people are like, well, what are they going to do on the show? Are they going to talk about it? No, we're not.

We're not getting into it. We're going to try to be the one place in all your consumed media where you don't have to deal with it, okay? The one place where we talk about guys doing dumb stuff to alligators or whatever happens to be in the news, okay? So I'm just letting you know ahead of time. That's a matter of fact. You want to hear me get mad, follow my Twitter account.

I've been plenty mad. All right. Oklahoma man leads authorities on pursuit. You got found hours later hiding in cow manure. Oh, well, there's a good way. to hide. Unfortunately, he was still found, though, right? Yeah, he was still found, unfortunately, right?

I don't know if they hosed him off or threw some of that, like, Shawshank powder on him. You know, they do that whole thing? Right. Is that still a thing they do? Do they throw that? I have no idea. It's a de-lousing powder, right? Isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. And what does that even mean? Sure, they do. What is de lousing? Oh, lice. Is that what that is? Yeah, I think so. Probably less of an issue now, or maybe they have a different way of doing it.

They just use RID and a fine-tooth comb. Spray it with Rade. That's what they should do. Just spray with Rade. Anyway, police in Natawa County, Oklahoma, says 23-year-old Wolf October Berry. Wow. Yep. Oh, I love going and picking those Wolf October Berries.

The Wolf October Barry. Oh, they're so good. Make an amazing shake, you know, if you want to make a really nice citrusy shake. By the way, it's a Nowhata County. No-Wat would I say? You flipped around the tea. in the W, so no Tawa. D. Barry.

Barry. Nonetheless. Wolf October Barry. That is the season, right? It's October. You don't want to pick those wolfberries in any other month. No, no, no. They give you the shits, is what they do.

They initially fled from officers who were attempting to make a traffic stop for not wearing a seatbelt. Barry sped away from the officers and drove down a county road before crashing and continuing to flee on foot. Authority said Barry was a. located later, or later that day, rather, after hiding in cow manure for several hours. Barry had been charged with a looting police running a roadblock, possession of stolen property over $1,000 in possession of a firearm and a commission of a felony, according to deputies.

A loaded 9mm semi-automatic pistol was found in Barry's truck, along with stolen property he allegedly required from burglarizing two nearby properties. The story is weird because I just finished Barry, and it's weird saying Barry so much. you know wolf october barry hid in a mountain of shit and came out smelling like shit on the other end that's the other thing i always want to say about andy duphrane when he came out of that thing into the river which implies that the sewer system from the prison just pumps itself into the river there's no way andy duphrane was clean on the other side you know i understand the metaphor i know what they're going for metaphorically of course yes but he's covered in boo Yeah, but it's not even like a, it means both things. No, it only means the thing you're saying. Like, it only means that he came out clean, washed away from Shawshank on the other side. Yeah, that's true.

Although it did rain on him, and maybe that helped. I don't know. I just came out but think that after that he went into that bank, right? All gussie'd back up, cleaned up. Right. He was getting all of his fake money out and everything. Did the lady just kind of go, what is that? Where are you headed?

See what now? Thank God. Where are you going, Mexico? Yeah, good. I hope you're not taking air travel. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. Recycled air is just not going to work for us. Anyway, Barry sat in that manure, and boy, hats off to a criminal who can handle that, I guess.

Good job. Yeah, no kidding. Speaking of crocodiles, or I said alligators, but I mean crocodiles, man fought off a charging crocodile with a frying pan, and the video went viral. And somebody posted it, because when you were... talking about people doing weird stuff with alligators somebody posted it captain kipper posted the video is it this actual video is this the one from the story that you posted it has to be because i can't imagine this happening more than once why isn't it running for me oh here we go okay so there's your gator there's your dude got a frying pan question first question is why does he have a frying pan

of the first place. Like, is he was, he doesn't look like he was cooking anywhere near there. Yeah, what is,

it's great. He goes down there, wax him in the snout twice, sends him on his way. You know, this is why we're at the top of the food chain. We have firing pins. It's like a Donkey Kong country three is what we're watching.

Yeah, I got to see this part where he, like, why are you down there? Yeah. What a shot, though, man.

Boy, he like. Yeah. He got him on the beak. Yeah. Is that what that's called? Snout, probably. Oh, the snout. But like the two, and it isn't until the second shot to the alley, it says, okay, okay.

Yeah, he's like, all right. And even the way he turns his head, like, I'm going this way. Anyway, this guy did this. His name is Shane Chambers. They were trying to leave the lodge of the owners. So they were in a lodge, and the owner has a pet crocodile. They're just trying to get out of that. Oh, okay.

So he went out with the pan in, with the, the intent of kind of waving it and scaring it. This pet. Yeah. This guy's pet says when we were leaving the island via helicopter and the crock was blocking the path, the owner was worried about our safety. He got croc blocked. Yeah, croc ball.

Oh, this is the owner. This is the guy that actually owns the thing. Got you hit it. I'm not that that justifies hitting an animal. I'm not saying that. Anyway, he went to get the frying pan just to shoo the crock away. Now, I noticed as he walks out the door and walks down there, there's like a little bit of egg or something left in that frying pan.

Is there? I'm going to go scroll, but yeah, go back to the start of that. He's got like some breakfast in there. Here, look, chat. You think, really? Yeah, look at it. What is that? No, I think that's the silver bar around the handle.

It looks like a little lump of goo in there. Here, if you go back to like early on. Yeah, there's something in that pot for that thing. Before the first swing, because it definitely, if it's... No, no, no, even earlier when he's like going down the steps. Oh, this video doesn't start with the steps. Oh, you don't have that bit. I'll go to the Fox Orlando video because...

Oh, yeah, yeah. The one I'm looking at has a whole sequence where he... Okay, yeah, where he's... He walks down there and has a plate full of... Oh, yeah, this one shows the whole thing. Okay, I'm only seeing the... Just seeing the last little bit. That's how they get you.

Fox 35 Orlando and your multiple commercials that I don't want to see. Yeah, my blocker worked for me, I guess. I didn't see any of those ads. It's in Australia. Australia. Yeah. Anyway, so that's what you do. You take a frying pan within, your pet will leave. Wow. One final story.

Nothing to do with any. This sounds like I'm pulling it out because of certain things happening with our national or federal Supreme Court. But an Ohio attorney, attorney who is in the Supreme Court of Ohio, if you guys aren't familiar with how this works, every state also has a Supreme Court of their own. It's a lower court, but that's the deal. He is indefinitely suspended from the Supreme Court of Ohio because he has repeatedly been caught driving naked. Oh. Yeah, with his wiener out. Repeatedly, even.

Wow. Supreme Court of Ohio infinitely, infinite. Gosh, dang it. Indefinitely is the word I'm trying to freaking shove out of my face. Suspended in Hamilton, Ohio, eternity for eternity. Attorney for repeatedly driving naked. and exposing himself to other motorists. This is during a 19, or a 2018 traffic stop.

He was charged with public indecency and reckless operation of a vehicle when it was discovered that he was driving nude. I hope the car does not have black leather seats. No. Ain't nobody want that. I don't want that. No. The suspension is effect today.

It's based on subsequent complaint filed by the Butler Bar Association in June of 2021, which alleged that Blavelt is his name. had been convicted of three additional counts of public indecency since the first was suspended, or since he was first suspended. So his sentence includes fines, total day of four, or total, uh, jail sentence of 14 days, and probation terms ranging from two to five years. So that's a great, that's a great guy you want on your local, uh, Supreme court. Yeah, that's the guy you want, you driving you to work.

Yeah. I wouldn't be surprised if, I'm not going to say it. Never mind. I hope they throw the book at it. up. There. I hope they throw the book at him and aim right for his naked crotch. That's what I'm saying. All right, we're going to take a break. When we return, we'll have Steven Schleiker with us because it's Monday

and that's what we do. But we don't have music yet, so Brian will have to bring it. Brian, what do you have here? I've brought it. I brought it. A brand new album coming out August 3rd, courtesy of Moon Boot Records. Those, you know, big silver moonboots. This is from a band called Child Seat. Their new album is called Bad Holiday.

These guys are from let's see. Oh, wow, in the middle of recording this album, Mazachi, one of the guys, Madeline Matthews and Josiah Mazachi, he fell ill with COVID, so he was bedridden for weeks, climbing the walls.

He did instrumental tracks at his house and then sent them to Madeline, who recorded vocals, and they finally released this, put together this album. For a single is called, is this the end? No, I'm sorry, if this is the end, here is child seat. tired of me talking about the weather

Losing sight of when we were Happy together If this is the end How will I begin again If this is the end Okay All I ever wanted was your love No I never want this would be so tough

All I ever wanted was to be love I've tried it so hard Where is it nothing How will I be given it If this is it How will I be given again If this is real I think I'm wired to self-sabotage forever

Momentalizing all the ways We were made Want to pretend like everything is good again. Want to pretend. Okay. All I ever want in with your love. No one ever warned me this would be so tough. All I ever wanted was to be in.

I'm trying so hard when it's enough for me. All I ever wanted was your love, no one ever wanted was your love. No one ever wanted this would be so tired. leader I'll plan so hard But is it nothing How will I begin again If this is the end

And I will I be given again If this is the end How would I begin again If this is the end Why we begin again If this is the end son of a bitch son of a bitch

son of a bitch shit hashtag you go girl you feel in 100 yeah all right the morning stream now gluten free all right we're back everybody

Hey, remind me who that was. That seemed like a nice song. Yes, that was Child Seat is the band from their brand new album, Bad Holiday. That's the first single called If This Is the End. I think that was a weird decision when they're all sitting around as friends going, what do we name our band? I don't know. How about Child Seat? Right, yeah, exactly.

They're looking around the rooms. Child Seat. Yeah, one of us has a kid. Let's just name a Child Seat. That's a weird name. Well, you know, you run into problems where it's like, you know, there's already a band called this or a band called that. nobody's going to be called child seeing so they've locked it in

what I don't understand is how many we're running out of car names so I understand band names can add a bunch of thes and operating words and things to kind of change up how your band is named

and so you can get away with that for a really long time like nobody's name you know the wet D pad but that's a weird I just was looking at a controller you were looking at your 8 bit dough controller yeah I was looking at it right here

but uh do you have the same one oh look at us with the same bit do's. Yep. Awesome. Look at us. I love this thing. It's great. I do too. I use it for all my retro games. Anyway, point is, what was I saying? Oh, you're talking about band names.

But cars, cars are screwed. They're running out of names because you can't do all the operators. You can't go, the magnificent accord. You have to call up the accord or an accord or it's just accord. And they don't, what else do we go? We're all, we're done. Sorrento. I don't want Sorrento only. You know, that's why Audi is like the A-Four. the A6, the A7. That's a great idea. You know what, Audi? You got it.

You did. They figured it out. Yeah, it's like Chicago, how they keep naming their albums. Chicago 12. Chicago 13. Yeah. Chicago 14. Exactly.

It's just, you know, it's no one who names their thing, the new iPad, Apple, you dummies. I know. Or new Super Mario Brothers, Nintendo. Yeah, Nintendo. That was also stupid. All right. Steven Schleiker is joining. Ah, crap.

Hold on, there he is. Okay, Stephen Schlecker entering the call, as he does each and every Monday, and we play this little thing for him, and then we're off to the races. Stephen Schleiker. Steven Schleiker. Hey, look who it is. It's Steven Schleiker joining us all the way from Hayes, Kansas, in the home of major spoilers.com.

Stephen, welcome back to the show. Good morning, Scott. Good morning, Brian. Good morning. Hey, man. Listen. Hey, dude. How do you feel about,

um oh i just forgot the name of it shit oh the boys this season how do you if you're watching it are you keeping track of that business haven't watched a single episode of any of the boys ever of no no no i watched the first season of the boys and i and i really really liked it when season two came around there was this feeling of maybe it's just because of the time period it came out who knows i was just kind of sitting there going i don't know if i'm really ready to watch the boys season two and then there's this weird thing with me so you have to bear with me on this I don't think people should worship Darth Vader. I don't think people should sit around thinking that Darth Vader is the coolest.

I don't think people should be excited about stormtroopers walking around a convention center. And so when it comes to the boys season three, and I've read hero gasm, so I know what goes on in that. Sure. And then I see all these people going, oh my gosh, the boys is so awesome. and this is the best thing ever. These guys tell it like it is. And I'm just like, I'm sorry. I don't think that I want to watch that show

because you're not a large portion of the audience probably does get it. But there's another large part of the audience that thinks that this is a venue for hero worship. And that is not the point of the boys. And so, no, I haven't watched it. Definitely isn't. I am enjoying the season.

Oh, no. And if you want to enjoy it, that's fine. If you're going around talking about how. how any of the characters The greatest. Yeah, if there's, I mean, none of the, none of the characters,

even Wee Huey, towards the end of the series, is not a, a great person. So, you know, they're all terrible people. Yeah,

they're all terrible. Starlight is not the only good person on that, the only, you know, true and good person on the show. Yeah. In the comic, she goes places,

but in the, you're right, in the show, they paint her with a much lighter brush. They definitely paint her with a, yeah, exactly. So,

okay. you're so I just figured out whether I can relate this to this is like people who unapologetically and ironically think that Rick from Rick and Morty is awesome yes and they're missing the point of what right is yes he's a broken human being that yeah he's zuffed up another

another good example is the Joker yeah and you can like these characters for what they are like I'd love stormtroopers you can tell I got like a 50 I'm behind me but it's not that it isn't me going oh man I love the oppressing army that takes advantage of the you know that's not me yes you can like Darth Vader for being a bad person for being evil and being vile he's a cool villain yes he's a cool villain but for people that are like oh man Darth Vader just really knows what's going on dude and like I think we should all follow

Darth Vader or even those morons that are like you know if you want people to accept the police just have them dress up in Stormtrooper uniforms because everybody loves Stormtrooper troopers, and it's like, I think you're literally missing the point there. You know, all of this said, when I'm out on the road and I'm stuck in traffic, I start to kind of say, maybe Thanos is on to something. Yeah, yeah. Only in traffic,

though. Only in traffic. Yeah, we had a few of those this week. Man, I feel like people are driving worse than ever. I don't know what's going on. Something's in the water. Anyway, well, Stephen, it's good to have you here. We're going to dive into a couple of things here. For example, Tim Sale passed away.

One of the greatest comic artist creators, I think ever. If you've ever read the Long Halloween, Batman the Long Halloween, you will be you'll immediately know how just striking his work was. Just an amazing. All of his art is very striking. And again, if you

haven't read the Long Halloween, you've certainly seen large portions of it in the Heath Ledger of Batman movie. Yeah. Because there were large sections of that that were just lifted. The whole Harvey Two-Face bit was directly from Long Halloween. the burning all the money stuff was all from long Halloween, that kind of stuff.

Yeah, yeah, he's, he is unique in the space and died way too early. I think he's only 57 or something. Yeah, no, I want to say he was like 68 or something. Oh, really? Wow. Yeah, he was very young, relatively. Yeah, young for when you should die. Yeah, died from kidney failure. He was in the hospital for maybe a week, less than a week.

And then they said, well, he's passed away. And then one of his friends, Richard Starkings, came out and said, no, he passed away from, from kidney failure. Gosh, dang it. That's just, it's a bummer. But if you haven't done yourself the favor of reading Long Halloween, or for that matter, he has this Batman for All Seasons is what I'm thinking of. Superman for All Seasons, really good. He did this color run. Him and Jeff Loeb teamed up quite a bit. And if you haven't read, so we're talking about DC comics here, but on the Marvel side, if you haven't read Superman blue, Daredevil yellow, and Hulk Grey. Hulk Gray is probably the least of the three. You can do crayola box or something. Yeah, it does.

But definitely go and read Spider-Man Blue and Daredevil Yellow. They are fantastic in the stories that they're telling. Spider-Man Blue, Spider-Man is reminiscing about Gwen Stacy after her death. And this is after he and Mary Jane are married. That's kind of where it sets in the timeline. Oh, interesting. reminiscing about, you know, how awful it was, hence the thing, Blue, how awful it was that Gwen Stacy had to die when he was totally in love with her, so.

Yeah. Well, it's a really, I don't know, it's a loss. His work is so interesting because it's, I look at it and there's a simplicity to it. At the same time, there's a complexity to it. It's just, it's hard to describe it, but kind of one of a kind and super sad to see him pass. And everybody seemed to love him, like all these other comic creators, like, that dude is awesome. I cannot believe he passed away.

And it seems like this is just a string. of high high profile comic creators lately. Neil Adams, George Perez, Tim Sale. What the heck, man? They need to slow that down, slow that roll. I know time passes, you know, but whatever.

Okay, secret invasion news. Get ready, everybody, because your invasion's about to be secret. What do we know about this? Because we... So Samuel L. Jackson was on Jimmy Kim alive a couple of weeks ago. and they were asking, you know, are you done with Secret Invasion?

And he's like, no, I've got to go back and shoot some stuff. But then Kevin Feiky came out and was like, okay, here's a little bit. Here's a little tidbit of news on when Secret Invasion takes place. It takes place between the last two Avengers movies. And if you're paying attention,

that is the blip. The five years, it disappeared five years, which, yeah, which again, has people scratching their head because they're like, But Nick Fury got snapped during the blip. Kobe smoulders.

Yeah. So is he being a scroll during the entire time? What's the deal? Maybe it was a scroll that got zapped. My prediction is that it's going to be told in flashback. So there are going to be parts of the show that take place during the blip. But the timeline of the show will be post blip when Samuel O. Jackson is using clues from the from that time from the blip to figure out where who's a scroll who's not a scroll yeah that could be it

could be it um i had a i found this a really great uh interview with sam jackson with i think the i can't remember who did the interview crap the times i think anyway here's what he said there was some they were asking about what do you what's your take on the criticism that the marvel movies have done too much to takeover cinema and it's all just popcorn movies now and there's you know nothing but these are the big draws and that sort of thing and he says um all movies are valid. Some go to the cinema to be moved. Some people like heroes or superheroes. If someone has more butts on seats, it just means your audience is not all that, or sorry, is not as broad. There are people who have successful careers, but nobody can recite one line of their

parts. I'm the guy who says shit that's on a t-shirt. Basically, he's just saying, look, it's all movies, like whatever. Yeah. And so, I mean, I mean, maybe the TMS audience knows, but how many of you have watched all of Jim Jaramush's movies, right? Probably very few people. I've seen three of his movies. It's particularly all of them. Yeah. That might be all of it. But so the thing is, audiences and movie lovers, people like Brian, who will go and see anything and everything, you need to embrace, you need to embrace the big Marvel movies, the big Warner Brothers superhero movies, the Godzilla movies, the smash them up, the big outrageous, fast and Furious movies.

Yeah. Because they do two things. Number one, they get audiences into the, to the movie theater. And then number two, they generate tons of money. Now, all of that money goes to the studio and then it can stivied up, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But, you know, if your movie, if your, if your Top Gun Maverick movie makes a billion dollars in the box office, Tom Cruise isn't walking away with a billion dollars. A lot of that money then gets put back into other movies so that they can make more money.

And the best thing is, the more money that a student. has, the more that they're willing to risk on smaller independent art house films, independent films, whatever it may be, because they have that extra money lying around. Now, if all they did was Paul Thomas Anderson movies, then the studio probably wouldn't have a lot of money to throw around to do bigger stuff or smaller stuff. So, you know, Sam Jackson is completely right, but I think audiences need to realize what's the You take the good, you take the bad. You take them both.

And there you have the movie industry. Yeah. It just doesn't rhyme as well as the facts. No, it doesn't. I mean, that was the first draft that they tried on. So, so. Robin Thick write that too. It feels like it.

Oh, that's right. He did right. Alan Thick. Alan Thick. Yeah, Robin Thick was the good, the good thick. Yeah. He's the one that dressed like Beetlejuice and touched boobies. All right.

So what was it going to say? Oh, um, uh, uh, oh, it reminds me of the mobile. Games market. I was talking to John about this. So John Jagger, part of the core team for the show Core, hates mobile games, like hates them, like actively can't stand them. However, he has this one statement that he always says, look, I know I hate them and I know a lot of other people may hate them, but I'm glad they exist. And I'm like, why, John? He says, because they generate so much revenue in this industry that it will help these companies keep making the things we want them to make because they're not leaving all that money on the table. They'll have money to still make,

you know, what used to be the mainstream of gaming is no longer the case. The mainstream of gaming is a bunch of freaking tiny micro transactions on people's phones. Like it or not, that's the truth. So if you still want to have big AAA single player experiences that come out in your PlayStation, your PC or Xbox or whatever, you best be glad that there's this monster money generation happening so that they can still fund these projects. so it's kind of like that and i'm not saying marvel movies are equivalent to free to play mobile games it's not what i'm saying turn off your mind and eat some popcorn and enjoy two hours just enjoy yourself exactly right that's exactly right although i do kind of agree with this thing

lately that's been going around about were you here when i said he may have been here stephen maybe i'm repeating myself i can't remember last monday it's a blur i wasn't here oh you weren't here so maybe i didn't tell you maybe i told me we all weren't here last money because we took uh that's true we had a holiday yeah uh no but the the the the comment I read somebody where it was, and I kind of agreed with it a little bit, as much as I enjoy them, it's like when end game happened, the main game ended, and now we're just doing side quests to finish it up. Do you know what I'm saying? I'm not saying there isn't a new game coming. I'm not saying there isn't a great new arc coming. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying you watch them in

aftermath of end game, and it does feel like my big open world game had its finish, but I got to go clean up these little side quests you know and doesn't mean they're not enjoyable no i can i can see where you're coming from that i have greater faith that all of this stuff is very much like when we had our iron man movies and our thor movies and our hulk movies and then people are like wait could we put these together and then suddenly you got avengers and then it built into something better so i think what we're doing here is a is a big let's introduce the world to these new characters shang chi and young hawkeye and uh new black widow i agree It is Marvel, all of that stuff, yeah.

We are all waiting for that moment where they say, okay, it's all been leading to this. And like, oh, okay, this is great. And certainly, unfortunately, the pandemic didn't help any of that stuff. So that's why it may feel like, well, when are they going to get to the point of this, of this fourth stage or phase five or whatever that they're in now? And it's because I think because they just haven't been able to push that agenda forward. And so they're doing this stuff. That is relatively safe. But if you follow it, they're, especially.

especially in the Winter Soldier thing, there's a lot of stuff going on in that and the Hawkeye thing that starts to point to, oh yeah, there's something nefarious going on just around the corner. And we're not going to show it to you just yet, but we will in time. And I think with,

what is it, what's the demolition crew in his Marvel? Damage control. Damage control, sorry. Different group. D.C. It's a little D.C. but different D.C. with what's going on in his Marvel with them

there's a lot of government there's a lot of government freakiness going on in this in this phase of the movies and TV shows could could the the big bad of phase four end up being super scroll and that's why we get the uh

the fantastic invasion for yeah I'm sorry you know yeah and then and you know if you're if you're looking at it that way the whole point especially when they did the big secret invasion what 20 years ago in the comics which you didn't know who was the scroll So now we're replacing Hydra with the scrolls, but now the threat is bigger because I don't know if they're going to get into Cree Skrull war. They could with Captain Marvel.

We did see a blue hand. We did. Recently in a thing. You saw a blue hand in a thing. Recently a blue hand in a thing. That's the least spoiler I've ever heard anyone say. I have no idea what it's referring to. Exactly.

That's how you do a spoiler-free comment. That's right. A blue hand in the thing. Amazing. It was a blue arm. Even better. Whole arm is better than just a hand. All right. Finally, the three-body problem. You guys read this book? I have not read this. I have no idea what this is.

So fill us in because I guess Netflix is getting a deal. A three-body problem is a trilogy of books by author Lu Zisan. I don't know how he pronounced his last name. He's Chinese. It's a Chinese author really going into science fiction that is really Chinese in its and its depictions and story. So if you go in and read like the first volume, you can very much tell that there is a

communist bent in what's going on in here. And that's kind of part of the point of the story. But this story, especially in the first book, which is what I believe the first movie is going to be based on, is this, I can't really call him a reporter, but a guy who kind of uncovers a secret alien plot

that has been bruised, for like 50 years and the group behind it, um, it's going to be told in flashbacks from the president of somebody trying to uncover this and flashbacks to the secret society and how the secret society was formed that was, let's welcome our, uh, alien overlords kind of thing. So it's going to be really tense, but I, I'll be honest. I didn't, I read the first book because everyone was like, oh, Steve, you got to read the three body problem and that whole trilogy. It's super awesome. And I finished the first book and I was like, yeah, I really don't really. care for it that much. There's a lot of VR stuff in there, but there's also a lot of math and

science going on, uh, because the idea behind the three body problem is, yes, we can easily calculate the orbits of two bodies in space, but when we start getting into three bodies in space, it becomes very hard to figure out what the heck is going on. Yeah, and then if you had four and then five. I know. And so it gets, it's really interesting, especially with the three body problem as it relates to these aliens in space. Um, here's the thing. Netflix bought a version of the three body that it's coming to the Netflix series. I believe it's a television series in like 2023. There's a Chinese studio, Tencent.

They are releasing their version of the movie next, towards the end of this year, I want to say. November of this year, I want to say. And the cool thing is you don't have to wait for Netflix to debut it. Tencent is going to release this officially on its YouTube channel. So if you want to go and see this Chinese movie, you'll be able to do it without having to travel to China or waiting for it to come out on VOD. Apparently, it's going to come out on day and date on their YouTube channel. So there's a weird mix of animation and live action in this thing.

I noticed I was watching as part of the trailer. Yeah, because the whole point of the guy that's in our present is he is figuring out this what's been going on because he goes into this VR system where the three-body parable plays out as, you know, you're trying to figure this, who the secret society is by getting higher and higher and higher in this virtual reality game. But as you play this virtual reality game, you really are seeing the history of this alien civilization. Interesting. Okay.

Well, I'm, yeah, it's, it's, it's, I don't know, it was very difficult for me to get through it. And I was really into it. And then by the time I was done, I was like, yeah, this is a really good start. but I don't think I'm going to be continuing on with the other two books. And it looks like it's fairly mixed. I'm looking at the chat. It looks like it's fairly mixed

from people in chat as well. The French term menagerie is French for the three-body problem. I don't know if you need that. I mean, not if you do it. More or less. Not if you do it right. The three-body advantage.

Yeah, see? Yeah, one man's problem, another man's advantage. And we're lady, you know, whoever's there, whatever. Anyway, hey, Stephen, these are great. And as always, you can find this sort of stuff over at major spoilers.com, which is a great resource for all things, pop culture, comics, and more. So do check it out. Stephen, what's going on on the network you want people to know about?

This week on the major spoilers podcast, we're jumping back into European comics this week with a look at Tintin and the Secret of the Crystal Spheres, which should be interesting. It doesn't contain as much racism, problematic racism as in previous installments. In fact, I think we skipped Tintin in Africa just because it's just like, no. But this one is actually the first part of a much larger story where Tintin is trying to uncover, is there really a curse of this Incan mummy and who's behind it? And then part two, they go to Peru, I believe, and stop all the near do well. Were you surprised there was no Tintin follow up to that? The movie did all right, didn't it?

I am really surprised because that movie is really good. I think that it didn't do well in American audiences with a Steven Spielberg name attached to it. And so everyone was like, oh, well, if Steven Spielberg can't get Tintin to work, there's no reason for a sequel. But in Europe, I'd have to go back and see the numbers on it. But I thought it was actually very well done. And it is a very good adaptation of the source material because there's two, maybe three books that is adapted into that Tintin movie. And it's really, really good. is to straight up adaptation about as good as you can get with it.

Yeah, an amazing cast. So I'm surprised there wasn't a second one. It's an incredible cast that just, you know, it's his first animated, fully animated directorial thing, which I guess was all the rage then because you had Scorsese with Hugo and, you know, I think he did the B, he did the BFG as well. Spielberg? Hold on. Yes, he did.

Yeah. Okay. So maybe that was a, oh, no, that was a second. So, yeah, it was his first attempt at that. And I remember thinking, this is really good. I could see a whole series of these and then nothing. Yeah. Yeah, I'd have to go back and look and see what box office numbers were.

I'm going to bet it did better in Europe than it did here in America and probably didn't even go over in in Asia. Yeah, they just looked at this and went 10-10. Forget it. Probably. Forget it. We don't know what this is. All right. I'm looking at the trailer for it. I forgot how cool it is. I have to go back and watch it.

All right. That's going to do it then. Stephen, I hope your week is amazing. Is there anything I should be doing, though, in this heat? The summer heat's really getting to me. I mean, it's only going to be 75 here. today. So if it gets hot in your area, last week was 108. Today is 75. So if it does get hot in your area, please make sure that you stay hydrated. Very nice. Thank you so much. It's 90 here today or

will be. What's the temp in a beautiful Arvada, Colorado, Brian? Right now, way warmer. Like, well, it's not saying, 68 is the current temperature. Yeah. It's not bad. Way better than yesterday. 81 right now. We'll have a high of 95 a little later today. And I think I'll walk the dog at the hottest point of the day. Now, people say when you do that, you're going to burn their little feet. And I know that. Okay, I get it. But I have a route that I scoped out some time ago last year where it is 100% grass and shade options for the entire route. And it's like a half hour, 45 minute hard walk. And there is always shade and always grass along this. area where Rainer can walk and not burn her little feeties. So I'm very excited about that. Good. We'll do that today. All right.

That's it for that. Let's get to a mashup. Jamie was here earlier. Now let's hear his good works. Okay. This is called TMS mashups Insecurance. This is an MM which stands for. It's not in our list.

So it must have been a new. It's in the new list that he added. M. M. I don't know what it is. M. Mashup Madness. Mashup madness.

There you go. Monday mashup. Monday mashup. Oh, it's just a Monday mashup. That's it. Just a Monday mashup. Okay. Well, that's kind of anti-climactic.

Yeah. I think just leaving it off would have been enough, but I don't care. Whatever. I like organizing. Here we go. This is it. Enjoy. Your magic is real to me, David Blaine.

I'm on heavy drugs. Chris Angel. PPS. Poo, no. All right. Vito. Give me your big nasty club foot with freaking 400 years of goo on it. Put that giant toe in my mouth. Oh, you didn't clip your nail this time. It snagged my cheek. Hey, you know, the thing about prostitutes is the only profession besides burger joint waitress where you lean into a car window to get things going.

Oh, I don't get no respect. No respect. A bottle of lube. Um, normally you get lube for, it's an orgy product. That's right. Because, you know, like a human centipede situation. A lot of people, yeah. It was so good. And I don't even. like ramen eggs. I don't know why I'm talking like this. Brian, you can stick your whole in there. Just stick it in and it'll go, blah, blah, bleb, bleb. Darn near killed me, Scott. Darn near killed me. Heard him may as well killed him. No way. What's the phrase? Rectum. Rectum. I forgot about the rectum part. How's that possible? It's the most important part of that joke. Yeah, you can't leave that out. He was burning used

toilet paper Saturday while living in a Coconino. Coconino National Forest. Is that right? Coconino. She felt like one if I got it wrong. It'd sound really bad. Ha, ha, ha, canino. Oh, no, no, no, no. I can't stop on it. It's my poop. We decided to cup it open and we found a foam ball, part of a fish, and the other object. The other object.

Fish was about this big. He was a master cat. I don't think I could eat a dildo fish. You're going to help make him sweat, baby. Let me give you swat I got to lose control Something in your booty I don't know how it goes

And then I thought Well I haven't done that since then Like since the 80s and 90 Maybe the 90s I have not put mouth to In that amount of time Insecure.com Nope, just insure

Did I, how did I read Insecure there? Hold on Caging Dr. Freud Yeah, no kidding Okay, well it's insure You're right Like insurance Not insure like the weird

Drink my grandma Not Insecurance Yeah not Insecure Insecurance. Yeah, you need to, it's not legal if you don't have car, Insecurance. Oh, man, those are some good ones. I actually remember a couple of those conversations for once.

I do too, yeah. For once, the stuff that was in context, we remember the context. Weird. Who knew? Who knew? Hey, Patreon, people. The month is almost over. It's what?

Only a few days, a couple days, whatever it is. And then July, I know. It's just coming too fast, man. So if you haven't gotten in already before the end of the month to get this month's benefits, do it. Hop on over to patreon.com slash TMS and find a level that suits your needs. There are plenty to choose from and lots of great reasons, including just a buck a month if you want, just as low as a dollar. Go cheap if you have to. You know, we get it.

We know sometimes times are tight. You got to go cheap. Yeah, and we haven't kept up with all this inflation at all. No, we have not adjusted our prices for inflation. No, we haven't. The restaurant I'd like to go to my wife with all the time the other day. I go in there and their menu has a big old disclaimer up top. It says we've had to increase our prices by 18% or whatever it is because of this,

shortage of higher wage, you know, all these reasons. And I'm thinking, man, TMS, what are we doing? We're leaving it right where it is, okay? Yep. For you. Yeah, for you. It's now one of the cheapest things you can ever pay for. So if you like the show, check it out.

Frogpants.com slash TMS for all the details and links to our Patreon. The morning stream at gmail.com is our email address. We'd love to get your feedback, so please keep sending that. And now we exit with a song provided by Brian Ibbett. That's right. And, well, we've talked about them all damn episode long because it's his birthday. But Jamie, TMS mashups, wrote in and said, hello, Schiff 50 and Bogan. Oh, all right.

I don't know what shit 50. What does shit 50 mean? Shiffiff, Shafiffy? Oh, Shafifi. What is this? Shafifi. Hold on a second. I'm copying him.

paste this into our discord so I can read it better because I have it on a different call or a different Oh, Shifty. Shiffy. Oh, Shiff, there's enough in there. Shififty. Okay. Shafifty? All right.

Shifty. All right. Sure. Why not? And Bogan, the Mesh up man is turning the ripe age of 38 today and wouldn't you know it, I'm even in the chat room with you all today. It's been one hell of a year for me and my family, but as always, my Frog Pants family is always there for me to pick me up.

They sure are. I love every one of your faces, and I'm blessed. to celebrate my birthday today with all of you. Now, enough chatter. It's time to let the covermaster do what he does best. But first, Scott has some clips to sort. I want 10 clips in a row alternating laughs

and farts. Oh, my gosh, really? Yeah, you so. Oh, geez. Okay, let's see how I can do this. Yeah. All right, so we got laughs. Laps and farts. How quickly could you do laughs and farts alternating? Okay, so let's see what we get

here. We're going to go Farts. Okay, so we have a list of... Oh, geez. Okay, so you want alternating and then just 10 of each or 10 total? 10 total. Five, five farts, five laughs are alternating.

All right, so here's... Let's start with laughs. All right, one guy, here's a fart. Kids always think farts are funny. Okay. This is just for words. Oh, there was a laugh in that one, too. Yeah, they also had a laugh. Seth Green.

Where is the bathroom? I would like the powder of my cheeks. Okay, and then it's done this. All right, and then, and then this. All right, it's done away. And then here's another one. Schmidt's blue ribbon bread gives you. Okay.

All right, and then this. What a number. Al Pacino laugh. Shmits, blue rib. Whoops, and then finally this. The devil farts. Oh, that's just me saying something. Let's find a better one.

You don't want to know. that she farts. No, that's windy. Hold on. I wish they'd let us off station. Air up here's just a cycled space or farts. I can't find any more fart-farts. All right, it's as close as you get, Jamie.

It's all I got, bud. It's as good as it can get. Thanks to both you and scout for all that you do. I'm proud to call Frog Pants My Home. Hug the Yellow Snowbro, Jamie, aka TMS, mashups. So he says he loves him some hard-hitting drum and bass or EDM. Well, I've got just the thing for you.

An artist named Ramsey's B released this, single, just a couple of years ago, 2020, a cover of one of my favorite EDM instrumentals of all time, a song called Children by Robert Miles. This one adds that whole drum and bass that you like. Here is Ramsey's B and Children. Thank you. Thank you. So, you know, Thank you.

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