The Morning Stream - TMS 2316: Dry Erase Bear

Episode Date: July 11, 2022

Russell Crow is a big fun tub of goo. Doxing Dunaway's dealer. Use the Same Hole. He's Hot blooded, boosted and see, got a fever of 103. The Same Caan Text. The Vegas Booster. Sweaty Lyft driver, where can I take you? The Age of These Kids are the Stranger Thing. Upside Down Cats. Too Much Vax, Not Enough Wax. It's mostly the cocaine. Put the Mental Condom On. MGM has the best streaming unless you count the fountains at the Bellagio. Minor Spoilers From MajorSpoilers 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, Russell Crow is a big fun tub of goo. Doxing Dunaway's dealer. Use the same hole. He's hot-blooded, boosted and see. Got a favor of 103. The same context. Look, Vegas booster. Sweaty lift driver.

Where can I take you? The age of these kids are the stranger thing. Upside down cats. Too much vax, not enough wax. It's mostly the cocaine. Put the mental condom on. MGM has the best streaming unless you count the fountains at the bellagio. Minor spoilers from major spoilers and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.

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Welcome to TMS. It's Monday, July 11th, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. It's Brian a bit over there. Hello. Hello. Happy new, brand new, spanking new week to you. Yeah, man.

Woo! Let's get shit done, I guess. I don't know. I don't know. It's like a done that week. Sure. We could get shit done. Sure.

Yeah, absolutely. This is a big week for me because, Two things. One, I got a birthday coming up this weekend. You do. You do? I need to get a package out to you. I'll talk to you offline because I want to bypass your PO box and send this right to your house.

Oh, you can do that. Yeah, you should have my other address, don't you? I don't know. I'm sure I do somewhere, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, of course I do. Yes. Yeah, I don't think I ever get, I don't think you send stuff to my PO. I don't think.

As far as I do either. Yeah. But anyway, and then my, as part of my birthday that's how I'm justifying it my steam deck will be here on Friday a little birthday present to yourself that you ordered like

four months ago, five months ago or something well a year ago I've been on that waiting for a freaking year oh my gosh it's a long time but yeah finally ready to ship it has shipped and I'm just tracking it now so it'll be here Friday right in time for birthday and then my wife's doing something nice for me

which means early programming note we're not here next Monday. Okay. Oh, okay. The rest of the week's fine. Everything else is good. All other shows unaffected. The only thing affected is Monday's TMS because we'll still be out. But we'll be so funny because that was going to be the day I was in Vegas. I know. Before I changed before I changed dates. It was going to be a perfect, kind of a perfect storm, but then, you know, dates had to change. And it's fine. Yeah. It's fine. We're still going to try to figure out. We're going to try to do it while you're there, right? Like, I think so. Yeah. I mean, it all depends on,

because I'm definitely taking the, the iPad. I'm not taking a laptop, but I believe we should be able to do something the morning, the second morning. The first morning, who knows? We might have to do some. Are you in the MGM again? Because I'm leaving early that morning. Are you in the MGM again this time or no?

I'm in the MGM, yeah, which seems to have really good internet streaming. Yeah, for whatever reason, it's like the only hotel in the strip that has decent streaming. It is. I don't get it. I did pay for early check-in, so even if we don't do a normal time we start, we could do a, all right, Brian's checked in in his room and here's, it's time for a quick TMS. Sure. Yeah, we could paying something out. We'll figure it out.

It's better than nothing. Yeah, I agree. Would you rather have dead air, everybody? Or would you rather have, you know, MGM air. Live air, live, live-scented. Scented air. Highly oxygenated air. All the air around me is scented, if you know what I'm saying.

Oh, I know. I know what you mean, Scott. So we got some stuff today. Let's hit this first. So there's a reason, we didn't have a P.N. this week, which I've already told everybody on Patreon because I did a post about it, so they know what happened. But tell the rest of the world it happened, because here's what happened. I decided to get, as soon as I could get in, I was like, I'm going to get my COVID booster

because I just haven't gotten my most latest and with the uptick and build BA5 or whatever. Plus, you know, got some plans coming up. I want to, I just want to, you know, be prepared. Same with Brian. He's like, yeah, I've got to go to Vegas. Let's do this. Vegas, let's get that booster two weeks before Vegas. Let's make sure it's settled into my body.

Yeah. Let's fight off whatever viral load we can, this sort of thing. And so I go in on Thursday. And I know from the previous two, three shots, whatever it's been, three, I guess total, four total now with a booster, that I've never had a reaction to the COVID-F Pfizer thing. It's just never been a problem. I don't even get really tired. My arm's a little sore and that's it. So I wasn't worried about that. I go in there and the guy's like, yeah, chances are if you hadn't had reaction to those others, you should be fine. You'll do good. And Kim goes, oh, also I need to schedule him for a shingles vaccine. Our doctor's saying we should get that. And if you're over 50, you're supposed to just get it. And so she says, or the guy goes, oh, yeah, we can totally do that. And I'm like, okay, cool. So he'll tell us when later and I won't worry about it.

Then later comes out and says, yeah, we can do both today. We'll do them today. And I said, oh, you can do both of them now? Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Not a problem. And I go, like at the same time, he says, oh, yeah, well, just one after the other. And I said, well, is there any problem with that?

And he goes, oh, no, it's not a problem. I mean, you're probably going to have a reaction. the shingles of axe because everybody does and it's a little rough but but no more than you're used to bab or bad he's really talking it down yeah and i said okay would you need one arm for each he goes now we'll put in the same arm here right here right below this hole i'm gonna make here we'll put it right there which by the way is still very tender in that area yeah yeah yeah actually mine uh yeah mine's still a little still a little bit if somebody hit you'd hurt right that's how that would yeah oh yeah for sure yeah yeah more than it would if someone hate without um

shot. Hit me in the other arm, for example. So I'm like, well, are you sure I can have this in the same arm? That seems a little crazy. Dunaway said, why not the same hole the other day? I'm like, no, they didn't do the same hole. But anyway, so I said. Same arm increases chances that you'll, it'll be like a super soldier serum reaction.

That's what we're hoping for. Yeah, precisely what I want. But no, that didn't happen. Here's what he, so he's, he's the pharmacist. I'm supposed to, you know, I'm no expert at anything. Sure. So I'm like, okay, look, dude, I trust you, it's fine. Let's go ahead. Let's do this. He does it. Uh, the COVID shot, I didn't even feel going in. The other one felt like a burning anus. It was really hurt to go in. And I could feel that one spreading through my arm and stuff. So I go home and within an hour, I'm a wreck. Like, fevery and weak, and my skin feels like it's on fire. That shingles thing is no effingles. joke and it knocked me out for a good 24 hours straight and here's what happened and i think you

described this once uh out of nowhere after just a miserable 24 hours of just feeling like absolute death fever uh burning skin just barely move without hurting it was so bad all of a sudden break out in a cold sweat gone done all good fine 100 percent zero problems no big deal but that's why no show Friday, because I was wrecked that day. So then Brian gets his shot on Friday. Brian, how did it go for you? Well, first shot, no problem. Like first shot in the original COVID series, no problem.

First modern a shot. Second shot, I was out for like about eight hours. First booster took me out for about most of a day, most of the waking part of a day. And it was always the day after the shot. uh this one being the fourth it is it seriously is like it's increasing each time like my body is uh having a harder time like okay hard this well we got this we got this just uh all right uh had it done on friday friday night i started feeling feverish and pretty much all of saturday i was rocking a uh 100.1 degree fever so then he's a huge mess for all of saturday

I like I slept in a little bit we didn't do film sack I slept in I will let you know that instead of just resting like I probably should have I did go out and drive lift but it wasn't like I was sweating the entire time and it was a shot I wasn't I wasn't like you're not dying or anything I'm not dying and I'm also not contagious but it's like all right where you want to go I take you to go take you the lens crafters okay let's go that's too far get out of my car yeah that's pretty hard yeah i'm impressed you even did that but yeah i was i was just on the couch and played diablo four or three i wish i had four nice nice uh for hours and hours and hours and

it was the only way i could whittle away the time and then when i was fine it was like oh i'm fine if brian's fine we're good and then brian was like as bad as that or as bad as i was and so we're just like yeah you know what p mn happening this week just not happened yeah scott's friday was my saturday although i think you still had it 20 times worse than than my friday like I think I could, I was still functioning. I was able to go out and do stuff, but. It was really bad. Like, again, real shingles, far worse.

Like, I'd much rather deal with a day long of my body feeling like it's being attacked, but not really. And see, you've got to feel good that you've gotten that over with. I now still have shingles Vax to look forward to, right? It's like, when are you doing it? Have you scheduled it or anything? No. not after your description it's apparently like on the rise hardcore um it's tied to stress it's like it's a it's an age and stress thing and i've tied not every there's plenty of younger people get it but

everybody i've talked to you like oh that was the worst week of my entire life great that was the worst month of my entire well that's it's causing its own stress it's like a self-fulfilling prophecy right it's like the snake eating its own tail now i've got the stress of the shingle shot which apparently is triggered by stress yes yeah basically and it's essentially oh there's this other thing where he tried to explain it to me but he's like if you had chicken pox as a kid but not the chicken pox vaccine you should get this if you had the vaccine and never had chicken pox then you shouldn't get this but i think you and i are the same we didn't have the vaccine as kids and we both had some form of chicken pox at one point or another right yeah i definitely i definitely had chicken pox um which i guess means i didn't get the vaccine right if i would get the vaccine i think so vaccine i would Yeah. Plus, I don't think they had it when we were the age that you would normally get. I don't think it existed yet. I could be wrong about that. I should have asked my mom. We had her over for dinner last and I should have said,

hey, after I had chicken pox, did I get like any follow-up vaccines for it? I mean, you wouldn't, you don't think you would get that. Like, because you say, oh, okay, you only get chicken pox once. So. Yeah. I think that's the deal with that one. But anyway, this, this guy was like, you know, telling me those stories. And I'm like, well, I know I had it. I know I didn't have the vaccine. because we looked and anyway it's like chicken pox on the inside don't worry people it's like the chicken pox on the inside of your body is how it feels they say so it's like having um i don't know like pull your skin out and then on the inside put a bunch of lesions and growths and shit and then

just have that happen and it happens a lot of people's faces it's like kind of like meningitis a little bit in terms of the pain and everybody i've talked to says the worst pain they've ever had so what I'm saying is that was, I was okay, you know, living with that for a day rather than some nightmare months-long shit show, all right? Yeah, exactly. I'll get the, I'll get the vaccine. I'll wait until, I don't know, until there's like a couple days of life that I can just throw away and park.

Let me know when there's a nice new bingeable TV series that drops all of its episodes on day one, and that's the day after I get the shit. single shot. That is the trick. I think there's also supposed to be a follow-up in months from now, but I have to talk to my guy. Yep, that's what somebody in the chat was saying too. Yeah. Because somebody was originally saying, oh, it's like one week later. I'm like, no, I don't think so. And the guy at the play says, oh, no, no, no, you don't need it a week later. I'm like, well, you're telling me to do it the same arm, same day. What do you know? Brian, how was Thor?

yeah so saw thor thursday night had a let's just get this out of the way right now had a great theater experience you know when you go opening night you feel like you get the people who are there to see the movie and experience it the same way you want to experience it right you don't get the people who are like well what do you want you today i don't know but i definitely want to do a lot of talking i know let's go see a movie. That sounds about right. Yeah. So, good movie experience.

The movie itself, not as fun as Thor Ragnarok. If you have not seen Thor Ragnarok in a while, I would recommend watching it because there are some direct references to that and stuff that happens in Thor Ragnarok. So you definitely want to check

that out. I'd say that the Rotten Tomatoes, what was it like a 69% Rotten Tomatoes score, is a little on the low side, but not too low. Like I'd still say maybe 75% for me with Ragnarok being one of my favorite Marvel movies at 95%. Yeah, and the site basically agrees with you. It looks like it's got a higher audience score, but it almost always does for this stuff.

Yeah, for sure. So tell me about... Oh, way better than Free Rangers is better or worse than Thor 2. Better than Thor 2, by far. Thor 2, there are some moments that you should... And Scott, I know you're one of them. If you haven't seen Thor 2, you should see it because there are some important things that happen in that film

leading into Thor 3 and 4, which I know you've seen 3. So 4 has some reference to 2? 4 does have some reference to 2. Yeah. And there's even speculation that things that happen in four are because of two, but that's, but who knows if we'll even ever get reference to that. Okay. Is, um, uh, is Heimdahl in it? If he's not in a no sale, forget it. Is he in there? Well, Heimdahl died in, uh, Infinity War. Then forget it. So I don't know.

Then, um, I don't know how they could possibly have Heimdall. Well, you know how these, these Marvel shows or things go. They can, they can make anybody alive again. I'm not saying anything because potential spoilers, so no. Damn it. All right. I'll spoil, I'll spoil Infinity War, but I won't spoil this. My first thought when I saw the cast, or when I saw the movie and saw the full cast for the first time was this is the, this is the first reuniting of Christian Bale and Russell Crow since 310 to Yuma. Think of that.

Oh, no kidding. look at that they were they were opposite each other there i assume they're not here because i don't know if zeus and gore have a running or not but you won't tell me because that's a spoiler i won't say that either um i will say that uh christian bail was excellent casting for gore the god butcher yeah uh he's great in every scene that he's in uh you all say the same thing about russell crow tina actually didn't even realize those russell crow until the credits were rolling at the end and she's like wait a minute that was zeus was russell crow yeah she's like wow he's kind of a tub he's a he's a bit of a tub of goo now that guy he is but

you know what he's a jolly tubbagu like he oh i love him look used to look like a jerky bastard and now he just looks like a like a big fun tubbigoo yeah big fun tuba goo exactly right he's also he has he has the one unique position i think maybe in hollywood i could be wrong about this so if anyone knows anyone different let me know but i think he's the only one that's in all three, I have to say three with a wink, because I'll get to that in a second, he's in all three major cinematic universes. Now

MCU, DCU, because he's Clark's dad. He's the dad. Jorrell. Or no, what is it? No, it's not Jorrell. Oh, yeah, it was Jorrell. Call L's dad. Yeah, yeah, Jorrell. And then he was in the failed

Universal Monsters and cinematic universe as a doctor or whatever. doctor something whatever it will he make it into the metelliverse is that the one is that the one that they're saying is like uh g-i-jo micronauts rom the space night transformers no that's a whole that's that's that's two different things right hasbro right hasbro right hasbro cinematic universe but i think transformers are not part of that same universe i say get him in there but right now i think he's if you're if you've got things that are labeled cinematic universes and

genre film he's the he's now your guy his business his business card is right at the top of the stack. Yeah, that's pretty cool. All right, well, I want to see it. Obviously, probably wait because I don't care about theaters. Yeah, sure. Winmega says, right question. Mid-credits after credit scenes.

Come on, it's a Marvel movie, of course. And they're worth it. Yeah, they ever going to do a movie that doesn't have those? The answer is no. No, they really have it. They can't. They've established the norm. Right.

They've started, like, and by the way, started, I mean, I think it started with Captain America 3, they started doing the mid-credit scenes and so there's always going to be mid-end end credit scenes going forward. They've been doing end since Tony Stark

and then mid-since Captain America. They've established a new norm and you change that and everyone will be pissed even though it's not really that big a deal, but they'll be mad. Fans would be mad. It just dawned on me that Thor is the first

of the MCU films, the MCU franchises to get a fourth film because Iron Man did three. Captain America only did three. Wait a minute. American won. First Avenger, Winter Soldier, Civil War. Why is that seem wrong? Where am I?

You said Civil War. Uh-huh. Oh, what about, um, wait a minute. Am I missing one? Where's the other Captain America? There's one more Captain America. Yeah, Spider-Man got a fourth, but is it, is it, technically, and Avengers, okay, technically, yeah. Yeah, but I don't count, you can't count that.

I'm talking to individuals, and Spider-Man, I mean, Spider-Man has only had the three homecoming, far from home, and no-way home, right? Yeah, if you're only counting the, yeah, the Holland run, yeah. So they just had the three. I think you're right. And until, the new, I guess the new Avengers, we're not new events. New Captain America with Falcon. That'll be four. The director just got announced for that one.

Yeah. That's pretty interesting. Well, no, Claire, we know there's nine Spider-Men, but we're not going all the way back. There's more than nine. There's like old shit, too. If you're going to count everything, you've got to go way back. But, yeah, interesting.

Well done, Thor. Let me say this. The first of the individual Marvel character franchises, as far as not a team. that's solely Disney Plus and not Sony involved to get a fourth movie. Is that enough clarification? Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, it's totally fine.

All right. I think it still works as, because MCU, if you're saying MCU, then it works without that qualifier because technically Holland's in the MCU, but the, but the previous stuff was not. Right. I mean, it's being kind of wedged in now, if you know what I were saying. It is. Yes. Anyway.

MCMU. Marvel Cinematic Multiverse So I made All of this comes down to this I made a Fred and Cannes today That is all about the Marvel cinematic universe So when that goes up later today Enjoy everybody

Nice All right I don't wait to see that Anyway I do recommend Thor 4 Or Thor With the you For Thor Oh geez

I hate that I hate that so much Yeah I don't That'll be the last time I ever That's the first of the last time We're ever going to see me do that Never gonna happen again Yeah

But I do recommended but um you know it's it's good it's all right yeah it's a would you say like okay i know how much you love guardians one guardians two is kind of the same still in my top 10 favorite but i mean is it the same relative difference between oh oh that's a really good question um no because i think one guardians one and two are are neck and neck as far as how much I love both of them. Guardians 2 opens with that amazing Mr. Blue Sky intro that is one of my favorite thing. I think my favorite thing ever done in a Marvel movie in an MC film.

Really? Wow. Yes. All right. Yeah, my favorite scene. For me, it was Captain America kicking ass in an elevator. Woo! I hear you do that all day. Yeah, he could do it all day.

All right. Speaking of people who can do things all day. Brian Dunaway can do things all day. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. I can indeed. I can talk like this all day. You're an all day kind of guy.

I've seen you do it. I've seen you pull it off. I don't know if it's the cocaine or if it's the meth. I don't know what it is. Yeah, it's mostly the, it's most of the cocaine. Okay. Yeah. Do you have a regular source?

Do you have somebody been working with for years? Do you have to like mail order for your cocaine? How do you get your cocaine these days? I can't share that with you on the show, Scott. Oh. Oh. Thanks for doing. All right.

All right. You know, look, I understand. Look, keep things personal. I'm not going to docks my guy. You're going to dox your dealer? You don't want to do that? That's a shame. That idea.

All right. Well, Donoway's here because we're going to play a game. It's called the Morning Half Ases. Brian Abbott here's going to explain what it is and what lucky listeners might win. Yeah, welcome to the morning half asses. It's a trivia game where I'm going to actually give Scott and Brian all the answers that they need. I'm giving them to you. I'm going to give you a category and six possible answers.

Three of those answers are correct. Three of them. are incorrect. And depending on how confident you feel with the category, you can provide one, two, or three guesses. Now, if you get any of those guesses wrong, you get zero points for that round. But if you guess one and get it right, you get a point, guess two and get them right, you get three points. And if you guess all three correct answers and you get them right, then you get five points. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. Speaking of contestants, we need them, and we'll pull them from members of the

tadpole that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're playing for John Hikes from Anaheim, California, the happiest place on Earth. Yeah, sounds good to me. Hikes. Brian, you're playing for Pair Erickson from Sweden, the snowy northern part. So I'm so glad we don't have to ship anything to Pair. No. Is it pair like, well, I guess I could look.

How's it spelled here? P.E.R. Oh, okay. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah. How'd you hear the rumor? Well, it was Per Erickson that I heard the information. Anyway, cool.

I get $5 for Erickson Did we pull into a trivia games? That's a good time. All right, let's go ahead and get things started. I see both of you are in the game board here. And I'll give you a question number one. Buildings that are older than the U.S. So buildings that are older than the formation of the United States.

Your choices are the Alamo, remember that one? Um, Mount Vernon, uh, Faniel Hall, University Hall in Harvard, Fort McHenry, and Ford's Theater. Let's pull them up here so you can take a look. There we go. It's going to like, these are big, you are going to have words on your own. Words, right? Um, oh, interesting. Buildings older than the U.S.

These are tricky. That are older than the U.S. It's tricky to rock a rhyme to rock a rhyme to pick a thing before the U.S. older than the U.S. That means older than the original founding, not necessarily Western expansion or all that. You probably say the year that the United States was... I've locked in answers.

All right, I'm going to go. Because I'm a half-ass. I'm doing two of these. All right. All right. Okay. Here's the fun thing. You've both locked in with the same two answers.

The LMO. Went or lose. Fort McHenry, of course, 1776 is the year that we're saying, if it's older than that. The Alamo was formed or was built in 1744, so well before 1776. Fort McHenry was built in 1798. Oh, damn it. Both got that one wrong. Oh, we did do it.

Now, Vernon, 1758, and Faniel Hall, 1740, the oldest one. Who does he think he is, building a hall? No kidding. Is that still here? Is that I mean, is that still the thing I can visit? It is. And I'm going to say, I'm pretty sure Boston is where you're going to want to go to see that. I hope that's correct.

I don't know. Greg, he in there telling us? Tell us, Greg. Resty nails confirms, yes, in Boston. Okay, that makes sense. All right, let's get to you. When I get out, hanging out with Ted Dantz, and I'll head that way. Yeah, get that done.

you go. Please do. Yeah. Please do. All right. Let's get to question number two. The original care bears. So three of these are the original care bears. Three of them are lies.

Carolot bear. Friend bear. Clyde. Oopsy Bear. Love a lot bear and Funshine Bear. Three of these are real. Three of them are made up. Interesting.

Three of these bears are full of bull crap. one time when i was a kid my sister got a um she she got one of those uh uh care bear cakes and it was it was pretty good what just a sheet cake it was a sheet cake you know when you get a sheet cake you're thinking oh look all the all the cool stuff on top of it that's all got to be edible right nope no i eat a big old fat wax bear oh no yeah don't eat a white yeah don't eat a Wax Bear, that's horrible. I did not care a lot for it. Yeah, that would clog your area.

Wax Bear, not on our list today, wax bear. You guys have both locked in. You guys both picked Carollot Bear. You also, Brian, picked Friend Bear and Love a Lot Bear. And Scott, you picked Funshine bear. Those three

are correct. Oh. Oh. Look at that. But Carollot Bear is not. So Friend Bear, Love a Lot, Bear, and Fun Shine Bear bear are care bears, a score still locked in at zero zero, any points. Love a lot, bear. Sounds like something's going to come in a discreet brown package in the mail.

By the way, oopsie bear is a care bear, but wasn't introduced to 2006. That's one of the ones you could write on, right? Oh, really? Wait, what did an oopsie bear do? Why was it oopsie? Fall over a lot, clumsy or something? No, because you wrote on it, oops, they're erased that. Oh, really?

Is it a dry erase bear? basically. Dry erase bear. I think so if I remember correctly. I like it. Dry erase bear would have been a, I would have bought that. That's incredible. All right.

That's fine. All right. I hear the Supreme Court is trying to overturn an oopsie bear. Let's get to question number three. Sweet. Characters in Mary Poppins. Three of these are actual characters from the film. Mary Poppins.

Is it? Roger Radcliffe. Mr. Dawes, Sr., Admiral Boom, Sergeant Tibbs Bert and or Perdita

The frick is that Um These are Bill right It's the original Mary Poppins We shared a lot of stuff With the new one But it's probably not Well I know

Hmm Um Um Yes I know one at least That's a no brainer One of these sounds like a wrestler To me Right

I think we can guess of which one that is, too. It just looks like one. All right, I'm locked in. All right. Scott's locked in. I'm locked in. I'm kind of on the fence about a third.

All right. I'm going to tell you right now that the two of you have each picked different ones. Okay, okay. One of you has picked correctly. Your two are actual Mary Poppins characters. All right, let's reveal your answers. Mr. Dawes And Admiral Boom are indeed

Mary Poppins' characters Good job Brian, Sergeant Tibbs Like from 101 Dalmatians, right? As are Sergeant Tibbs and Perdita. All three of them, all three of them are from a hundred one d'allig. So I thought Sergeant Tibbs was the guy that shot the cannon. It's probably Admiral Boom. They're a little on the nose.

Played by Dick Van Dyke. And then you've got Bert, who is played by Dick Van Dyke. And then you've got Mr. Dawes Sr. who was not played by Dick Van Dyke. Yeah, he was played by his brother, Jerry Van Dyke. I take that back. Mr. Dawes, Sr. was played by Dick Van Dyke. Admiral Boom was not played by Dick Van Dyke.

Oh, okay. Well, I'll just have to believe you. Dawes Sr. and Bert were Dick. Well, that means you win, Brian. B-Boy D wins. Wow. Look at you with the win. Congratulations. Brian, that means that Pair Erickson, you're going to be getting a copy of out of space and we need to go deeper. Kind of sells like two, like a game and its sequel.

Yeah, like a game and some D-L-C. I need to go deeper. But don't worry, John Hikes from Anaheim, you're getting a copy of Carto, C-A-R-T-O. Oh, Carto's great. That's a little cute cartograph game we played last year on. Oh, I remember that. Yeah, that was the one name that was a little bit familiar, but I couldn't place it. I've not heard of We Need to Go Deeper.

I have played out of space. also very good but as usual these are all good games you guys are truly winners and there's how we know congratulations you're a winner that's right you've won Brian you'll send them to them

because you have their email addresses yeah probably doing that now you're instructed to do the thing that's right Donaway here's the deal with you so over the weekend we did we did film sack and watched Empire State which is like a little weird compared to what we all

expected, I think. Very. But we had a great show around it, which is really all that matters. So go check that one out. FilmSack.com for details if you don't already have a sub to that podcast. And then, of course, tomorrow you and I will be doing Play Retro, where we talk about the grand history that is Capcom's titular character, Mega Man. Mega Man.

That's right. We're doing the NES Megamans, one through six, and talking about the Snius Mega Man, that Mega Man X and we'll touch a little bit into the PlayStation 1 and that's Wiley Wars that's on the Sega Genesis but don't be disappointed

if we don't get to all the Mega Man there's he's like in over a hundred freaking games yeah there's a lot of Mega Man we're only going to hit the early stuff and a little bit into the 16 bits yeah and we may talk about this guy that's a good question

he may come up that's a good question it's a good question yeah Mega Man wait a wolf Anyway, that'll be tomorrow. 3.30 Mountain time for the live show. Of course, the podcast after that.

Brian, anyway, you have anything else to say for yourself? Yeah, you would know Mega Man better as Rock Man. Oh, yeah. He's Rock Man in Japan. Rock Paper Scissors Man. Yeah, kiss our butts. Not to be confused with Jump Man. No, Jump Man and Rock Man do not exist in the same space.

Well, they are on the same consoles, I guess, but that's better. That space. But you have to pull one out of that space to put the other one in. That's right. If I know anything about space, it's that. All right. What time is it? Oh, it's perfect time for some news.

Let's get some news done. Here you go. It's time for the news. Brought to you by. Yeah, brought to you by Amanda, who goes by Amanda Catherine X in the chat, is participating in the walk to end Alzheimer's in Irvine, California, and would love any donation you could throw her way. This will be the last Alzheimer's walk that she participates in in California,

as she and her boyfriend are moving to Tennessee. Amanda walks for Grandma Jane, who will be 92 years young in October, and has suffered from Alzheimer's for almost 10 years. She also walks for her parents, Grandma Jane's full-time unpaid caregivers, and all the families who deal with this debilitating disease on a daily basis. Donate any amount by the end of July, and you'll receive a piano request. Amanda will contact you with the details, but essentially she'll learn and post a video of a piano song of your choosing. That is so cool. Donate. Write this down. donate at act.alz.org

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Yeah, let's end it all, I say. Let's get rid of it. Let's get rid of all of it. You know what? I'm good with all that. Yeah, let's eradicate disease. How about that? This is some big money.

Let's talk about big money. Diablo Immortal, the mobile version of the Diablo franchise that finally came out not long ago to a lot of consternation and anger about their way they make money and whatnot. Downloaded it and have not launched it. Well, you may.

Gosh, wonder why. Yeah, you may not want to. I don't know. But they're making more than a million dollars a day despite that criticism. Yeah, already. Million bucks plus a day. And this was like last week when they counted. So I think it's probably more now.

But anyway, according to the data, the mobile entry in the Diablo franchise, which released last month, has sustained a steady stream of revenue despite ongoing criticism from fans of the series. Revenue from the title peak just over a week after launch with Blizzard earning $2.4 million. However, now, over a month after release, and with negative public. sentiment still surrounding the game. Immortal is pulling in more than a million dollars per day. That's a lot.

It's a lot of effing money for a mobile game. We need to do our mobile game, Scott, our comic book, uh, Diner Dash game. We need to do it, Scott. Okay, now's the time. Now's the time. Who's programming? Call us. Pocus. Who can do all that?

I'll make harder to do the artwork. That way, Brian and I can just sit from chairs and point. I'll record a character. noise. Angry customer sounds and all that. Oh, man. What are you paying me for this?

You'll make what we make. Yeah, you make what we make, which is right now nothing. But look, if we start pulling in a million a day, we can pay you a lot. Yeah.

All right. Tycoeatiti is one of my favorite things. Oh, I like that guy. Yeah, he's great. You just saw a movie he made. I did. And was in, too. Yeah.

he's all a gorg gorg corg i always say gorg for some reason anyway he asked so natalie portman's also in the thor movie right this is an amazing story she was she was she did make a brief cameo in this one yeah yeah a little little tiny one that's all we'll say about that i mean whatever the trailer gives it away so yeah yeah we all know what she what she's who she's playing in this thing yeah anyway he asked natalie portman uh i love the story so basically they're on the set I just want to do it justice. You're on the set, and she goes, so you work, there's word you're, you got a Star Wars project in the wings.

And he goes, oh, yeah, I'm finally making progress on that. And that's been one of my favorite things to work on. And I loved working on Mandalorian and blah, blah, blah, and all this stuff. And he asked her, you ever, you ever want to, you think it'll ever end up in a, in the Star Wars universe, end up in a Star Wars film? And she had to remind him, yeah, dude, I'm in three. I'm in three of them. He just, he's just freaking forgot.

that she was in those prequels. I mean, look. You know, I think if I were, I might want to forget I was in those as well. I love that story, though. And he, you know, he, of course, was all self-effacing and, you know, kind of cracked him up or whatever. But he goes, the exact quote was this. Natalie said to me, what do you do next? He explained.

And I was trying to work with some Star Wars thing. Have you ever wanted to be in a Star Wars movie? She said, I've been in Star Wars movies. I forgot about those ones, and then he laughed. I like that, though. Just like a brief caveat. She was one of your, like, three top-billed people in those three movies. Yeah, it's like asking Mark Hamilly if you thinks he'll ever end up in a...

I mean, you know, sure, we can hate the prequels all we want, but she's in three prequels as a major character. Hey, Tycoeat, do you ever think about doing like a vampire film? You ever have a... You want to have a guy in the basement named Peter who lives in a coffin, just asleep standing up? I freaking love that movie so much. Oh, that new series.

That's new seasons coming on the 12th. So Carter, we got a backlog. We got to finish season three. She's in the chat. Oh, yeah, you do. Yeah, you got to finish that. I mean, you know. We got to get that done because if the 12th comes and we're not ready for new episodes of what we do in the shadows, what are we even doing with our lives.

You know what's coming back tonight for the final batch of episodes? What? Better call Saul. Oh, better call Saul. See, I'm perfectly primed for that because I, uh, A. I'm caught up to the season, but not the first half because I hate that weight in between crap. Oh, I know. What is that? This new garbage of like, all right, new season coming up, but just half of it. Yeah, half seasons are stupid. It's a construct of the devil. I hate it. But. And it initially started happening because of the writer's strike, right? At least that was the first time it happened when, you know, when we were around. Like the Breaking Bad was split into.

two half seasons. I think lost was as well. Yeah, we had a weird loss thing, exactly. There was some other thing like this. Maybe it was Battlestar Galactica, but again, that may have been during the strike. And I might have been during the strike. And, yeah, this split final season can just suck up, you know,

or split any season, Stranger Things. Yeah, and they did the same thing with, or at least some of the, Game of Thrones. So, and I'm not like, look, if it's a way for you to deal with production issues, I get it. But it feels like they're being carity on a sticky, you know? Yeah, right. It's doing, you know, it's like, oh, people have finally subscribed to AMC Plus,

but they've stopped subscribing when the show that they've been watching ends. How do we get them to stay? I know. We'll split the season of the show they're watching the most just longer than a month or a couple months because they won't worry about they won't think it's worth it to spend the time to cancel in time for the next one. Yeah, it annoys me. I think they should change it

because you and I don't like it. We don't like it and that's reason enough. Yeah. Check this story out. So this is interesting. I actually had this question and I wish I would have said something about it because this story's going around like wildfire. A pregnant Texas woman

driving in an HOV lane told police her unborn child counted as a passenger so they can't give her a fine. I mean, think about it, if you're, look, if your entire state government is going to make the claim that the child is a human being from birth. I like this now. I like this a lot now. Sorry, if they're a human being from conception and that fetus is always a separate entity, well, then you've got to count it for your freaking traffic laws. Sorry, then's the brakes. I think you could drive home from a one night stand and say, I could be pregnant.

You never know. I'm going in the HOV lane, baby. prove it you can't yeah an unborn fetus a human being in the eyes of Texas traffic laws well pregnant Dallas area woman argued as much to police officers they recently cited her for driving alone in the HOV lane according to a story published Friday afternoon by the Dallas Morning News did you go there is that one you did I did oh I spent a week at the Dallas morning news whoa how come so long um they had so many clients that had to be trained and installed so I went there with Clifford Fuel,

a trainer extraordinaire that's now living in Wyoming, really good guy, talked to him over the weekend. Wow. And he did the training sessions while I did all the installations

and at night, I'd go over and I'd check out Dilly Plaza or I'd go like I'd, I had so much fun that week. It was great. A lot of great, a lot of great barbecue that week too. the sorry what'd you say his name was that guy cliff fuel so cliff fuel sounds like dog food

doesn't it why do i think that i don't know oh i'm thinking it clifford the big red dog that's why that's oh okay oh fuel for yeah yeah yeah yeah because as soon as you said all i think it think it was dog food and i and i wasn't sure why and now i get it okay no he spells it very different he doesn't spell it F-U-E-L as in like fuel for your car and he doesn't go by Clifford I assume he just goes to Cliff. He does

formally yeah I mean his his name is Clifford Fuel but he he goes by Clifford Fuel one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet by the way oh that's nice I like Wyoming this the country and he's on I could send you a photo man

he is on a like a ton of space and acreage and here I'm putting I'm giving you a photo right now in your text get some Longmeyer shit going on here man that's Cliff and his wife Molly

let's see here get a load of that photo oh yeah look at that oh that's beautiful see yeah I want to I could live there yep look at this you guys yeah you can share beautiful oh yeah I should have asked I guess

um look at that though beautiful Oh, man. Yeah. I want that mountain right behind me. That's what I want. No kidding. Yeah.

I mean, I have mountains, but they're not right there like that. Yep. That's awesome. Togwati Pass in Wyoming. Togwit. Wind River Lake and Togwit Pass, Wyoming. That's cool you guys keep in touch. Oh, and he's wearing your shirt.

Look at that. He's wearing my shirt, and that photo was taken by the real Chris Brown. What? Yeah. Chris Brown. Not the rapper, the other one. Right. I said the real Chris Brown.

Oh, okay. Well, he might... Not the rapper, Chris Brown, but the real Chris Brown. The rapper Chris Brown might argue that he is the real Chris Brown. I'd like to see him prove it. Kind of a dick. Because Chris Brown, my friend, actually has the Twitter handle, the real Chris Brown. Really?

What does Chris Brown have? Just Chris Brown, probably. The wrong Chris Brown? Right. Exactly. Anyway, so here's what happened here. This is a plain old resident. She was on U.S. Highway 75 and route to pick up her son when she found herself at a checkpoint facing a citation for using the single high occupancy vehicle lane while in her car, hence HOV, everybody.

I was picking up my son and I knew I couldn't be a minute late, so I took the HOV lane. As I exited the HOV, there's a checkpoint at the end of the exit. I slammed my brakes and was pulled over by police. I told, let's see She said Officers asked her if there was any more occupants Inside her vehicle Pregnant with the daughter

Betone told the officers Her unborn child was inside the car with her I pointed to my stomach and said Oh yeah my baby girl's right here She is a person she says However the officers were not buying it He said oh no It's got to be two people outside of the body

Oh I see we're very specific now About when that counts Hmm Right it's got to be two people outside of the body Wait a minute Hmm. Interesting. Hmm. In a related story. Yes. Oh, gosh. All right.

A hot dog eatery offers free drinks with proof of vasectomy. Brian, you're in. You're all in. Oh, cool. I just have to show my scar. Is that the deal? That's it. It's called the Snip for Shake promotion. It's what this is called. It's a Nashville eatery. They're offering a creative deal to support male birth control, free milkshakes for customers who, show proof that they have had the procedure, all right? Nice, okay. That they have smelled of the burning, the burning numb flesh.

Yeah, the, ugh, the coterization, the scent of your own privates being burned shut. Yeah, it's pretty sweet. They said, we thought this would be a fun and unique way to get the word out about vasectomies for men, says Sean Big Daddy Porter. He owns Daddy's Dogs, a hot dog restaurant. in Nashville. That sounds great. I would eat that right now. Actually it does, yeah. I'm sure they put tons of stuff on those dogs. That's right. He says, it's a way to put the ball in the guys court and will hopefully help break the stigma that comes along with men's health, he says. After the fall of Roe v. Wade, abortion is expected to be outlawed in half the U.S. states. Tennessee is one of the 13 states with trigger laws banning all or most abortions after the Supreme Court ruling.

A six-week abortion ban in the state took effect on June 28th outlawing the procedure before many people even knew. they were pregnant. Tennessee ranks 41st in the country for women and children's health dodged by high rates of maternal and infant mortality, according to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So anyway, he thought this would be a good thing

toward that. And by the way, Google Trends right now shows a spike in searches for the term vasectomy. So I don't know if that means people are trying to understand what it is or they're trying to get one. I don't know. Oh, or they're trying to give involuntary ones to members of Congress that

members of the Supreme Court that voted to overturn maybe. Yeah, that's what you should do. Hey, Clarence Thomas, come get your snippy snippets. Anyway, a pair of garden shares

if you'd like. Yeah, it's no problem. That's as political as we get today, everybody. That's it. That's as far as we take it. All right, moving on, we're going to take a break. When we come back,

everybody's favorite comic nerd, major spoilers, own Stephen Schlecker will be here. Got a lot to talk about with him. So stick around for that, but we need music. So, Brian, music. Yeah, we're rocking out this week.

The four songs that we're going to be playing on, as far as in the middle of this week, I think people are really going to enjoy if they're like, Hey, Brian doesn't play enough rock and roll. Because that's what somebody who would complain about me not playing enough rock and roll would sound like to me. 100%. Just like that voice right there. Big thanks to Edge Out Records for this one. This is a brand new single from a band called The Revelries.

their debut full-length album is due out this year produced by Matt Wallace, who produced movies, produced albums for the replacements in Faith No More. So there's some great pedigree right there. Here's the song Sleep Talk by the band The Revelries. I know I'm hard to handle Star fights But you'll love to wear my flight Wasn't through any time I tend to ramble

And you don't like When I gamble in the middle of a summer night You tell me where's so wrong You tell me where's so wrong But maybe we're just right Because I heard a rumor You were calling my name From all the stories in the memories that we made

I know that truth because your dreams are alive Sleep talk Sleep talk I know I'm hard to handle I just might Come a karmikaze us into a complicated time kid at time at photo on your mantle a blind skyline you dream of going but i know that you're afraid to find you tell me where's so wrong you tell me where's so wrong but baby we're just right cause i i heard a rumor you were calling my name from all the stories in the memories that we made i know the truth because your dreams never like Sleep talk, sleep talk

Oh Oh I missed the days when you let me in, let me in, let me in, miss them too don't you play pretend now I think about what we could have been could have been now I hear the truth I heard a rumor you were calling my name from all the stories and the memories that are we made I know the truth because your dreams are alive sleep talk sleep talk I heard a rower that you can't get away From our stories and the memories that are we made I know the truth because your dreams are alive

My dairy-based frozen confection in confection creates a focal point to which the young males of the species are drawn. You are correct. It is far superior to yours. I could attempt to educate you on the finer point of this subject, but it would require monetary recompense on your part. My name is John Johnson, but everyone here calls me Vicky. We have returned. Who was that song, please? That song is a band called The Revelries from Louisiana

and a song called Sleep Talk. Nice. And, by the way, that clip you just played, Phil Hartman from So I Married an Ex-Murder. My name is John Johnson, but everyone here calls me Vicky. That's the one. Cliff Fuel used to do that,

speaking of Cliff Fuel earlier in the show, used to do that whole bit, that whole Phil Hartman bit. that's great from that film yeah well it's a good movie we should all watch it again yeah might be my favorite mike myers movie hard hearted harbinger of haggis i think it might be my favorite i don't know it's almost like it's it's it's like two movies um that movie it is and so i like one of the movies a lot that it is but the other movie that it is i'm not sure i like as much as i like the other movie that it is if that makes any sense and uh ex murder woman i had such a crush on her

Nancy Travis, is that right? I don't know. What sounds like a name? I would know. It's definitely a name. That's right. Nancy Travis? Yeah.

I'm trying to maybe like combining two country singer names or something. Oh, Randy Trave. Yeah. I'm going to love you forever. I like that song, by the way. I could listen to it now. I won't, but I could. Yeah.

All right. Anyway. Anybody. Anyway, hello. We're here. Anybody. Let's get Stephen in it. because that's his deal

hold on whoops there we go okay here comes Stephen Schlecker everybody let's play his little themes on Stephen Schlecker

Steven Schlecker look who it is Stephen Schlecker joining us as he does every Monday to talk about pop culture movies comics and more

hello and welcome back Stephen how are you hello Scott hello Brian I will make a quick correction not every Monday because we weren't here last Monday

and obviously we're not going to be here next no because I'll be going obviously somebody is Or their birthday. Yeah, whatever, man. I'm going to...

A whole day of... Is that your joints season up on you, skin? Sure. That's all that is. That's Scott walking around his house. Yeah, that makes sense. Carter probably quit the chat now. Anyway, I was going to tell you...

What's I going to tell you? Oh, I'm also on your show this week. So there's lots of... Yes, you are. We're going to be talking a lot of different things. It's a general topic show. So anything goes, Scott. Whatever you want to bring to the conversation.

I don't even know. I'm going to think of those things. I'm going to put them in those notes, and then you're going to decide whether to veto those ideas or not. Maybe we'll talk about how Scott's excited about his steam deck arriving. Yeah, I'm so excited. Oh, my gosh. Speaking of the Wee-Wong, Wheatwaw.

Yeah, I may never go to Steve. That's actually, it's going to be Scott playing with his steam deck. Yeah. Speaking of the Wheat-W-W-W-W. I love your phonetic spelling of that. That's really good. Wheat-W. All right.

It's good to have you here, Stephen. Let's get into it. Stranger Things Season 5, scheduled for February. That's a pretty quick turn around. What's the deal? Well, I'm pretty sure that they filmed everything back to back to back because, you know, if those kids get any older, they're all going to be walking around with their joints aching. Yeah. If they go any longer. And considering how season four ended, no spoilers, but they do need to wrap this, wrap this up. That said, Millie Bobby Brown still manages somehow to look like she's 12 or 13. She does both sides of it because she can look. She can look really young in the show.

but then she can go to like a red carpet affair and she looks 38. Yeah, it's amazing. I, uh, the only thing I would say is I probably don't agree because I do think that she looked like a 20 year old in her, in the stuff that was taking place in the present. And of course, the stuff that did the past was all. The flashback stuff was superimposed head on a kid's body.

Yeah, she did make her look like a 30 year old on an 11 year old's body. I mean, she is 18, I guess. So she should be at that perfect age where she can cross over and look high school. and you know all of that but it sounds like i mean i've watched the season i'm way behind i've watched season one of stranger things and that's it oh so yeah season one super super good season two huh season three just made me angry season four i felt really really good about and if they can make season five as good as four or come it bring it back around to season one then i'd be really really happy they've been talking about how um uh season five is is of course wrapping it all up and

it's all going to be taking place in Hawkins. Again, no spoilers for what happened at the end of that season. But, yeah, it's bringing it all back together. Season four is some of the best writing on television that I've seen this year. It's so, so good. And maybe that's why you do need to take a big break between seasons. Of course, this one had COVID and Ghostbusters interfering a little bit with it. Oh, right. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah, because you're Flynn, Wolfhard. Wolfhard. Finn Wolfhard, yeah. He had to go do business. So do you think should I skip two and three or should I? No, no, no, you need to because otherwise you'll be completely confused. Yeah, story elements that carry all the way through sound like it. There are some good elements of season three.

The thing that made me the angriest is even though the special effects are mostly always digital, season one made it feel like you were watching an 80s movie or television show. But season, because they kept it like, okay, this is what it would be like if it was a real, practically shot thing, even though it's CG. But in the opening, the first episode of Season 3, they did this whole Fast and Furious, let's run through an engine kind of thing, and it's completely CG.

And it just sets me off from the very beginning. And I was like, well, I'm done with that series. So. Wow. But you came back around for four. Oh, no, I came back. No, I watched all of season three and four. And it was, it's great. Yeah, I thought there was a couple elements, location elements of season

three and season four that I felt were unnecessary. But, but, but, I think on all and all, I like season three, not nearly as much as season four, but, uh, season three, or I'm sorry, season four really feels like they're trying to tap into the, uh, last stand kind of vibe where the story is taking place across 50 different environments and, uh, somehow it all works together. Yeah. So, so I guess what I'm asking is this. Better to go binge all that or should I read a synopsis somewhere? No, binge at all. Okay. Ninge at all. Yeah. Because I could probably find a pretty good story breakdown somewhere that just tells me what happened.

Yeah, but you're going to miss a lot of the little subtle things that as an 80s kid you would really appreciate. And there's some story, story notwithstanding, some great character development in two and three that you need for four. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The dad. Oh, oh, oh, Hopper. Okay.

I was thinking Maxine. Hey, who's Hopper married to? What's his name? David Harbour. Do we know who he's married to? Somebody's super hot. Oh, Sydney, I think. Sydney Harbor. David Harbour.

The reason I ask this is, hold on. Let me pull this up. Here he is. David Harbor. Currently with... Oh, geez, David Harbor. Where are you, buddy? Oh, Lily Allen.

That's who it. He's married to Lily Allen. Yeah, really? Yeah. I didn't know this. They got married in 2020. Did you know this? I had no idea.

I was making a joke about him being married to Sydney Harbor. because that's where the Sydney Opera House. Oh, the actual harbor. Got it. I thought, is there a girl I don't know about? But yeah,

freaking Lily Allen. I did not know that. Lucky man. She's a catch. She's pretty great. Okay. So there's that. Let's move on.

Wow. Oh, and Stranger Things, spinoffs. Don't forget. Those are coming. What do we know about those? You're going to get a stage play. And that's,

we know for sure. But other than that, we don't know. There's going to be other stories set in and around Hawkins. Stage play. Like, will it be meta, like within the Stranger Things universe, or a stage play? I don't think it's going to do, I don't think it's going to be a play about Stranger Things like we see in Thor 3.

Right, okay. What? What? The other Hemsworth and Matt Damon playing, uh, right. Yeah, like, like, like, yeah, in Thor three, yes. But I think it's something that is, basically, here's the story of an upside down on a stage. All right, interesting. I thought you were starting with Brady Bunch.

You know, I see it's a musical. I'd love it if it was a musical. It might be. I mean, they're might be. These are the stranger things. These things are so strange. You need to get Andrew Lloyd Weber to score it. Yeah, I think so.

It would be great. Actually, actually, who did the Mormon one? the um oh yeah the trey parker and matt stone yeah south park they would be great too they would be i love their um their stage stuff so good oh my gosh it is yeah uh okay so they're also working though on a death note anime series uh they want to do that they're also doing a adaptation of with stephen king netflix uh the upside down pictures people are these are things they're doing next so on anime series on death death note they want to do the stephen king talisman book adaptation. They've been brewing for

a while. They also teamed up, steamed up with Steven Spielberg's Ambulin Entertainment and Paramount television for an adaptation of the Talisman which will be initially options as a film and then a miniseries, then a film again before landing on Netflix. Yeah, I'm down with that.

The Talisman, the original adaptation is real bad. It's not good. So a new version of that would be fine. We'll see that. I mean, these guys are basically raised on Stephen King, right? That's their whole thing. right yeah oh yeah yeah may as well go ahead and do one um all right uh what else is going on oh eight billion genies this is an interesting comic book series my dream chat room yeah yeah no uh eight billion genies is this

really cool uh series that debuted a couple of months ago from image i got it yeah sorry over my head yeah you're fine go ahead continue so the the premise is what would happen if a genie appeared for every person on the planet more or less and you only had one wish what would happen in the first eight seconds the first eight minutes the first eight hours as wishes are being granted and again you only get the one wish what would you wish for would you take your time or would you just blow it out right away uh i think the second issue just came out a couple of weeks ago so issue three should be out in the next week or so but the premise is really exciting it's a really cool premise Yeah, no kidding.

There are some people that waste their wish right away on, I want a lightsaber, and then don't know how to use a lightsaber and start a fire that burns down the city, right? Then there's other people that are like, and this is not, this is minor spoilers for issue one. A lot of issue one and two takes place in this bar, and the bar owner instantly uses his wish to prevent any crazy wishes that are happening to the world from affecting the bar and the people in it. So, you know, if there's a giant kaiju that's stomping through the city, his bar is going to be protected. I wish that there was a bubble around this bar against everybody else's dumb wishes. Yes.

Yes. And then there's the, there's an argument to be made where one parent is like, Jeannie, I don't want my kids. I want my kids to have my approval before they grant their wish because kids are stupid and are going to and going to wish for stupid stuff. And the genius are, oh, that's very interesting. And then what happens with the world powers? What is the president of the and the leaders of the different worlds? What do they use their wishes for? It's a really cool thought experiment turned comic book via Twilight Zone that is going to be adapted into, I think, a television series from Charles, or from Amazon Studios.

The series is from Charles Soul and Ryan Brown. Charles Soul, if you haven't read his stuff, he does a lot of the Star Wars adaptations and other things as well. We don't know if this is going to be live action or animated. No, we don't. We don't know. They just acquired the rights to develop it. Interesting. I love this concept.

I'm guessing live action if I had to guess. So, okay, so I see here, there's, they're only like, oh, weird, there are only three issues of this eight issue run and they're already getting an option like this. Yeah, it just, I mean, it is really good. I, I read issue two without reading issue one, but there's enough in issue two that you can, you can tell what's going on with very little effort. But it's, I would say it is akin, and maybe this is why Amazon is jumping on this.

It feels like, depending on, you know, it's just eight issues. And then it will be done. But it feels like the early days of walking dead. Not that there's zombies out to kill everybody, but just chaos. Just the chaos. And what do people do to survive in this world of chaos? I love that. Why the last man, too?

Like the, yeah. Yeah, Dice Meadow says, is there a wish queue or all of these happening concurrently? All of these are happening concurrently. There's eight billion genies. There's eight billion people more or less.

And everybody gets a wish. Yeah. And I imagine the first thing they experienced. plane is how you can't wish for more wishes. Correct. That's not how that works. You got to sign the Yula, Brian. Every time they do this, you got to sign a Yula before you can make your way. So I'll give another wish away in the book because I'm sure it's a kind of an interesting

twist is President of the United States orders his chief of staff to wish that the United States is all powerful country in the world and will last forever, blah, blah, blah, blah, and the chief of staff does that. And then the president calls up North Korea and says, says, ah, we are the greatest. Give up now. And then Kim is like, no, we are the greatest. And then the genies explain, well, when people wish for the exact same thing, like all the

leaders of the worlds do, all those wishes cancel each other out. Oh, so you wasted your wish, you dumb asses. Yeah, there's a bunch of monkey paw. Yeah, there's a bunch of monkey paw stuff going on here. Wow. I am going to read this. This sounds freaking great. It really is fun.

And if there's three issues out and out, not grab them because it's interesting. The art is cool. The way that they illustrate the genies is very cool. It reminds me a lot at times of Carter's art. I agree. I'm looking at these covers and it's something about that looks like her stuff. That's crazy. Good comparison. Yeah. No kidding. Yeah. And so if they make those genies animated and everything else live action, that would be cool. Yeah. I'm looking at some actual variants here. I wonder if Charlize Theron is going to be in this because there be a lot of wishes, I think, that involve her. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

that's the problem does that cancel each other out like if 12 people want to go on a date with her and they did none of them get it i don't know how that works um yeah explained so this is an image no at not in the first eight hours so i'm i'm maybe an issue one it is but in uh issue two is eight hours and i think issue three i'd have to look but i'm pretty sure that that one takes eight days yeah yeah so these are so this is an image joint if you want to read these comics You can get them on comicsology or wherever you get your digital comics. I assume you can get these in store. Or you can go to your comic book shop and they probably still have some.

Yeah, they probably have some. So do it now before the popularity explodes because of this damn TV deal. All right. That's what we're saying. You saw Love and Thunder. Did you like it? Brian liked it. I liked it very much.

And without spoiling anything, I will say this. Go in prepared because there are some heavy emotional things that take place in this movie. Okay? Like stuff that you're just like, I don't want to think about this or, oh, this is a little bit to,

uh, brings me down thinking about these kinds of things. Mm-hmm. And then it's coupled with moments of zaniness. And I think that's what everyone's biggest complaints are is it feels unbalanced because it goes from super heady to super funny back and forth. There are two writers on this because, uh,

as you mentioned earlier, Scott, writing a Star Wars movie while he was filming this movie. So that could be part of it. But I think I have a better answer that might I want to get Brian's opinion on this. When we talk about

mythology and we talk about mythological gods. I think you want by being on the first part you just said. Oh no. Well, I mean, go ahead, go ahead on the first part. Yes, no? I do agree. Yes. And yes. So when we talk about gods and mythological gods and their beings,

They're all played up as these great, grand, emotional things, right? As great adventures and they can do no wrong, blah, blah, blah, blah. This one, the funny parts come because we are being told these stories after seeing the actions and the stories are being built upon in a way that makes these heroes great. So, for example, minor spoiler, super minor, minor, minor spoiler. there's a moment where Thor is angry and he punches a vending machine.

Oh my God. I know right. I know right. I know right. I know right. And then he walks into a room with all of these with all of these snacks. And the person says,

I heard a noise out there. He's like, oh yes, I found this closed refrigerator. Which is funny in the middle of this very serious bit. But it is the narrator. And this happens a lot. We have the,

what's the concept? the um unreliable narrator unreliable narrabator narrator so all the funny bits in all the funny bits in all the funny bits in this movie come from an unreliable narrator yeah yeah i don't like that i mean i don't like it in general but it sounds like it's probably not that bad it's okay right because when you think about it the the stories that you hear especially the stuff that's like here's the flashback here's the things you know who's telling that story and why are they telling it that way and it comes off funny even though we see the real stuff you're Agree, Brian? You think that's a... I do agree. I think that is an accurate point. And I also do agree that the unbalance of the lighthearted stuff to the heavy stuff is one of the issues. Maybe not the issue, the biggest issue I had with it. Maybe. Maybe...

A lot of... That's a complaint I see from everybody, though. Yeah. Yeah, I know if you heard me talking about it earlier, but basically I said, if Ragnarok is a 95 for me out of 100, this was like a 75. Yeah, I would put it up a little higher. I'd probably put it up that 80-85 range. Okay. That's pretty good. Did we don't get the Hulk at all, right? My wife really loved it. I mean, she came out and she said, I really liked that.

Was it a Hulk free affair? He's not back to have any fun here, right? I said I was going to make a spoiler free except for the punching of the refrigerator. All right, all right. Don't tell me then. I mean, this is completely a remake of Rath Khan, so. 100%. And people are still angry at me about that.

And the new hope. Yeah. Yeah. And a new hope. Exactly. Well, all right, there's that. Also, you sent me this Utah connection. This is pretty hilarious.

Yeah. So the Fanx, we heard about this recently or locally, but the Fanx founder and some deep doo-doo. Tell me what happened. So years ago, we could rally around this guy. I don't know what his name is. But we would rally around him because he wanted to call the Salt Lake Comic-Con without the hyphen. And San Diego Comic-Con took offense to that and took him to court.

and he eventually lost, and he would go around with, you know, cars wrapped in Salt Lake City Comic-Con advertisement, drive around up and down the San Diego Comic-Con venue and honk its horn and all this stuff. And really, you were like, yeah, let's stick it to the big guy. Yeah. And then, of course, he lost and had to change it to Fanx and everything. Yeah. And now he's been accused of making a bomb threat to multiple places around Salt Lake City. So now he's in some deep doo-do for that. So I want to know what's really going on, Scott.

Okay, so. It was the real scoop, Scott. So this guy, this Brian Melvin Brandenberg, he's 63, lives in freaking Hawaii now. He's, he, he's, so the talk is that he, they have some proof anyway. They say they do that he either threatened or attempted or, I don't know, went to some lengths to get it going to bomb the Salt Lake Temple, the University of Utah, where my daughter's sitting right now, Carter, careful, check all the hallways. look at your desk and the Matheson the Matheson Courthouse

which is like our big downtown Salt Lake City courthouse courthouse if that's all true he's screwed because they'll you know they'll extra not I don't know if it's still extradition but they'll get him out of Hawaii and back here he was already kind of a controversial figure

because he was just really pushy to get the you know he wanted Utah to be the premier Comic Con and they wanted to see San Diego Wayne and they wanted to see everybody come here instead and do all the the big hall eight shit here and he had he had grand plans and um he's he's in trouble that guy i'll be honest i look at this guy and i don't think oh here's a guy who got into the whole comic con thing because he loves comics and pop culture and sci-fi movies and all that

this guy looks like oh i say dollar signs and comicans what i like about this photo collection of him is that the top left photo right photo makes him look like he's holding a lightsaber in the one just below it. It does. I think that's amazing. But anyway, I kind of... Actually, look closely. I'm going to give you something, Scott.

Okay. What do you got? Look closely at that large photo, the big photo on the left. Yeah. I'm going to give you a close up. All right. All right. Zoom in on the left side, his left side of his mouth.

Let's see here. Oh, Lord! Gosh, dang it. Why? He's got the white stuff forming in the corner of his mouth. Yeah, he's got Ted Cruz schmutz in his mouth. He should be extradited just for that alone. Oh, my Lord, that's gross.

All right. Well, I hope he, look, if he did that stuff, you should go to jail, man. You know, bomb places. A-hole. People who think I have all the money, got all the power, freaking F off. All right. Well, there you go. On that happy note, we're going to, uh,

resume this a little bit tomorrow night when I go get to be on the major spoilers podcast with you and the boys and I'm looking forward to it. Is there anything else this week that you want to mention that people should be checking out or listening to? Good Lord, it's going to be hot this week. So not a whole lot of else to do besides just rest, relax, and stay hydrated. Yeah, you know what? I like that advice. Stephen Schleiker, everybody. Bye. All right. He's gone. We have a few things to wrap up here at the end of the show. First off, a Monday morning mashup called Throbbing. manhood. Gosh, I can't imagine what that's about. Golly, I remember the reference. I remember saying it. I don't remember what it was in reference

to. So let's hear it. Yeah, let's find out together as we play this from Jamie. As always, the master of mashups. Here you go. So I'm going to start doing pigs. So that's cool. I like a pig. You like a good pig? I like a good pig. I do like a good pig. Yeah. Does there a wiener? All right. I'm in. Dear Martha, I was a vampire today. This is my 14th day in the haunted mansion, waiting for them to start the cars again. Turtles get most of their oxygen through their cloaca, cloaca, I think so I say it. In a process.

I love the pause right before you're going to have a euphemism for anus. Yep, you know, we got to emphasize the emphasis. 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 a reinforced nipple area because otherwise I would have torn those things up. Yeah, that's a brisk bit of wind, isn't it? My nuts, my nuts, my nuts. A young child asked, can grandma finish reading me the Wizard of Oz? I think a kid would like this. And they lived happily ever after. Now I'm back off to heaven, Billy. Supreme Court of Ohio Infant, infinitely, infinite. Gosh, dang it. Indefinitely.

Lee's. The word I'm trying to freaking shove out of my face. Here's another one from more hose. This is from Brian from Denver. Not you, but Brian down. From more hose sending us email. Yeah, we got more hose writing in. My pimp is a big fan of your show. He really loves the show. He walks down the street

with his cane and his huge and then listens to your show. His giant just like it was never, you know, Yuri Petushka Koff or some guy on the street in Russia. We know that. you know, Petushnikov. Petushikov, yes.

Hey, I'm Yuri Petushnikov. Why are you picking on me, Schultz? Well, you give me hard time. Amazingly enough, my, you know, tender bits wasn't hurting back on the seat. That's amazing. That means you're getting calluses down there. You know what I mean? Exactly.

Also, I like how this discussion just made 173 people think about my taint. That's enough to hear about your chode. That's right. Everybody visualize it. Put it in your head. can grandma read me a harlequin romance novel yeah I feel like we just this robbing manhood

Unneesh it's His throbbing vectoral muscles There you go That's where your throbbing manhood came from That's right there Nice I was wondering Yeah you never know till you get there Thanks a lot Jamie as always

TMS mashups on Twitter if you want to follow him there Hey Brian tell me about Jigger Dad what's going on Yeah, so he is doing a ride for cancer, the Embridge Tour Alberta for Cancer 2022, raising money for that and doing a big marathon ride as well. I don't know how long their marathon is, but this is going to be his second ride that he's done to raise money for Alberta Cancer Foundation. He's just a couple hundred under his goal. So if you don't mind, if you'd like to contribute, please do. go to bit dot lee slash jigger dad bike and that's jigiggerger e r like the thing that you pour an ounce and a half of liquor in to measure it for a mixed drink jigger dad bike that name by the way is a playoff of his uh the pronunciation of his name paul jigger which is french i believe for the measuring cup that you use to pour alcohol into a mixed drink is that really a really called a jigger?

Yeah, it's a jigger. I've never heard of that. I've never heard of that. I've seen them. Yeah, I've seen those, but I didn't know, well, I mean, obviously something has, everything has a name, but I've never heard anyone call on that. Also a name for one who jigs, I believe. Yeah.

It's also, you know, when you're saying, when you're saying jigger dad, just be careful. You know, not you, but you did great, but the rest of the world, be careful when you say it. Just be careful. Yeah. That's all. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Be careful. Just be careful. It's a good. You should always be, just be careful in life. Yeah, always be careful. put the mental condom on and be careful. That's awesome, though. Yeah, great cause, and he's

part of our D&D group. Super, super nice guy. And this is, you know, hey, anyone walking for ending Alzheimer's? Cycling to end cancer? We love you and keep doing it. Yeah, you're good people. Check this out.

I got an email real quick here from Ryan Moore. He sent it to the morning stream at gmail.com, and he says this. You mentioned James Kahn. He spelled it. C-O-N-N for some reason. I know. The Comic-Con guys are already right in a cease and desest.

Oh, man, we're in trouble now. You're going to have to bomb them. Oh, no, that's a threat. Anyway. You mentioned James Kahn a couple of days ago and how he is gone, and another one bites the dust. I think you have a Death Note-style power. Love the show, though.

All right, listen, Jen Z. Could you put some proper commas and periods in your sentences? Yeah, exactly. By the way, he did right now he was gone, as opposed to and how he was gone. Oh, he did right. And now he is gone. about him before. I don't remember talking about James Conn before he died.

I mean, that recently, but... I can't remember what the context was if we did. I don't remember it, but we always get accused of this. Jamie would be able to tell us when the last time we talked about James Con was. Yeah. I know I talked about Scott Conn in some context. Uh, dude from... Context.

Oh, geez. Did not mean that. I regret it. I retract my statement. But we were talking about him, something to do with his Hawaii 5-0 business. and maybe it came up there. Really? It might have been on film sec then because, yeah.

That's the other thing is it could have been a totally different show. But anyway, thanks, Ryan, for pointing that out. We do like to, you know, we like to murder old celebrities. That's what we do. We like to say that we utter the words, the demons then come out of the ground and destroy their lives. That's how we do it. That's right.

Martin Schrelly, Martin Schrelly, Martin Schrelly, Martin Scroley. Okay, please, let's go ahead and continue the show. Even just his name sucks, you know? Gosh, that guy sucks. All right. That's going to do it for us. Big thanks to everybody who supports us over on our Patreon. I think I wrote down some names, but put it on the wrong tab.

Let me see who I wrote. Crap. Bill Jones of Larksburg, Kentucky, and Mary Franklin of Schenectady, New York. Sure, these are all real people, sure. Sure. Oh, here it is. I did put it in the wrong place. I put it on another tab.

These are real names. At least this is what they wrote. Since our last episode, we have been joined by Juice Farton. F-A-R-T-O-N. I don't know. I apologize if that is your actual real birth-given name. Yeah. No way to know for sure.

But, yeah. And then Nectar B-Jr. Okay. Well, they seem like they'd be related. He likes bees. And Jesse Conrad. And I'm going to go ahead and say that Jesse Conrad's probably a real name. That seems right.

Oh, for sure. That one I feel pretty safe. with, yeah. I love it though. Juice farting, you're the, you're the bomb. Anyway, if you want to be like them, go to patreon.com slash TMS and sign up today for all your other inquiries, whatever they may be. They'll be at frogpants.com slash TMS, including one form that is linked right there that you can click on and request songs like the one Brian's about to tell us about. So Brian, who do we get a request from? And what song is that? We are going to thank Greg for Walkman today with a song. Hello there, Pete and Pete. July 11th will be my 50,

fifth year waking up on this beautiful planet. Did you know Greg for Wachman is older than us? Dude, let me just say something about Greg for freaking fountain of youth Walkman, okay? Yeah, yeah. He doesn't, he looks younger than me. He totally looks younger than us. Holy crap. He's got this glorious beard with hardly any gray in it. You're a, you're a glorious older man. Congratulations. And oh, and happy birthday. Happy time, say, do you? That's great. Exactly. I would love to celebrate it with a cover of my favorite pixies song where is my mind uh can't wait to see you again in Vegas what a blast hey is it too early for a fish sandwich ibit remix love you all

great for work all right we'll do it an ibbit remix hold on oops there it is well first we do this but come on hey too early get a fish sandwich hey uh is it too early to get a fish sandwich there you go there's your remix that is such a great combo oh my god fit nicely All right. Well, I gave you some rock and roll for Indian in the middle. Let's give you a little, like, bluegrass for your closing song. This is a band called Trampled by Turtles. They released this single back in 2011. This is such a great version of this song. It's the Pixies. Where is My Mind by Trampled by Turtles. Oh, where is my mind? That one. Is that the song? Oh, I love that song. Okay. That's it. We'll be back tomorrow with a big old episode for a Tuesday. So come on back. You hear? Your feet in the end of your feet in the end, your head on the ground. Your head will clash

There's nothing in it And you ask yourself Where is my mind Where is my mind Where is my mind Where is my mind? In the waters, see it's swimming. I was swimming in the Caribbean.

Animals are hide behind the ride. Except the little fish told me his wish and to talk to me, come home, where is my mind? Where is my mind? Where is my mind? Way out in the water See it swimming With your feet in the air and your head on the ground Try this trick and spin it, yeah

Your head will collapse And there's nothing in it And you ask yourself Where is my mind Where is my mind? Where in the water see it's swimming? This is part of the Frog Pants Network. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network.

Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. You like your lasagna? Yeah.