The Morning Stream - TMS 2323: A Sting from Bee-Hind

Episode Date: July 25, 2022

You're a Swinger... Good on Ya! In Scott's Head Everyone is Naked. Just like a Saturday night at Ibbot's Lyft. You're wearing the band! Pull your pants off! In Soviet Russia Chess Robot Breaks you. lo...ve lyft me up where we belong. I'm Sorry, I'm Drunk. Did the Movie Pop your Corn? Retired Admirals hang out at Old Navy. New Rule: No One is Allowed to Die! Tom Cruise, The Dream. He's a desecrated corpse. ambidextrous Midnight Runners. Old Action Heroes are Expendable. How many languages does Major Spoilers speak, 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.

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Starting point is 00:00:21 Got it. Discover the Ultimate Cloud Gaming Machine, a new kind of Chromebook. Coming up on TMS, you're a swinger. Good on you. In Scott's head, everyone is naked. Just like a Saturday night at Ibbets lift. You're wearing the band. Pull your pants off.
Starting point is 00:00:39 In Soviet Russia, chess robot break you. Love lift me up where we belong. I'm sorry, I'm drunk. Did the movie pop your corn? Retired admirals hang out at the Old Navy. No rule. No one is allowed to die. Tom Cruise, the dream.
Starting point is 00:00:55 He's a desecrated corpse. Ambedextrious midnight runners. Old action hero. Those are expendable. How many languages does major spoilers speak and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. All right, ladies, line it up. The bus is leaving. Don't make me tell you twice.
Starting point is 00:01:11 You're a total dildos. The morning stream. The morning stream. The morning stream. Morning stream. Morning stream. I drink to quiet the voices in my head. This is the Morning Stream.
Starting point is 00:01:30 Good morning and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Monday, July 25th, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson, and that's Brian Abbott. Hi, Brian. Hi. Well, hi. Happy Monday to you. Happy beginning of a brand new week.
Starting point is 00:01:50 It's one day after Pioneer Day here in Utah, which meant fireworks all night again. Yeah, how late did they go last night? Too late. like 8 and 11.30 midnight, something like that. I think I even heard some this morning. So, yeah, we're dumb that way. But whatever. We got, you know, one of the worst droughts in American history.
Starting point is 00:02:10 Why not? Try to set it on fire. What a great time to just randomly throw fire around. Yeah, let's just burn things. That's fine. Let's do it. But it was okay. We had a big get-together, had my side of the family all come over and it was so nice outside
Starting point is 00:02:25 because earlier in the day it was windy and clouds and a little bit of rain. And then that all cleared up. But that meant the whole day hadn't been bacon. Which helps. Yeah, which helped a lot. So when they all came over, backyard's all shaded. And everybody's chilling. Had a great time.
Starting point is 00:02:41 It's nice to see all nieces and nephews and their considerable others and all that kind of stuff. My brother Matt, eating all the food in front of him. It's great. Always fun to watch that. Missed Windy here, but what are you going to do? She's not here. Yeah. Well, we had a good time.
Starting point is 00:02:55 It was nice. I cranked out lift rides. there was a hit 44 rides and get a bonus thing that I thought well there's no way I'm ever going to hit it right because I had that big Colorado Springs ride on Monday last week and then and that you know what basically like three hours of my time on one on two rides so I'm like well all right I'm not going to get I'm not going to get that bonus but oh I almost forgot I got to play this before you tell me hold on oh yeah yeah yeah we have music where is this and he woke up and he realized they were still driving all right some Bruce Willis thing. That's the Lyft intro? Yeah, I don't know where that's from, but Bruce Willis talking about driving. Anyway, go ahead. But for whatever reason, I lucked out on, I decided to just go for an hour and a half while Tina was grocery shopping and
Starting point is 00:03:45 taking care of a couple things that she wasn't going to be able to sit down and watch TV with me anyway on Saturday night. So I'm like, oh, you know, I'll just do a little Saturday Night lifting. My favorite, John Travolta movie. Oh, yeah. Really good. You know, I make these estimations of like, oh, I think I might have taken an escort to, you know, picked up an escort or whatever. Sure.
Starting point is 00:04:08 And her name was Lorraine Boebert. Is it Lauren? What is that? I don't know. Just Lauren Boehre. Okay. I definitely took a couple to a swingers club on Saturday night. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:25 Swingers club. How do you know it's a swingers club? Was it known to be one? So they got in the car and I look and see, you know, I basically look at the destination so that I can confirm. After I confirm the name, I confirm the destination with them. And so I say, oh, Scarlet Ranch. Wow, what's, is that a restaurant? And they giggle a little bit.
Starting point is 00:04:49 You know, it's a club. But they have a really good restaurant there. Like, oh, okay. I'm thinking, all right, that seemed a little, that seemed a little vague. The whole, you know, the whole time they were chit-chatting and just talking about, oh, yeah, we got to make sure we meet with Sandy and Shelley and Denise or whatever, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. And we get to, we get to where the turnoff is on the road, this kind of nondescript, like,
Starting point is 00:05:22 there's kind of a wooden sign with the word with a squirrel on it or something and uh and i turn and go down this driveway and then it kind of turns and goes into this nice area with like what looks like a a restaurant made to look kind of like a big log cabin kind of thing like lots of you know really nice nice um it's an interesting motif for this but okay it's an interesting I think it used to be a steakhouse is uh uh and um And I go, wow, the place looks like it's really hopping. And the woman in the car goes, yeah, it does. Oh, my lord.
Starting point is 00:06:02 I'm almost like, get out, get out of my car. Get out of my car right now. Yeah, I don't want this to go any further. You know, and I was thinking about this. Like, oh, and so basically as soon as I drop them off, I'm not even back to the main road yet. And I've got Google open and I'm searching for the name of this place to see if my suspicions are correct. and it is what it is. And sure enough, yeah, if you Google Scarlet Ranch and Littleton, Colorado, you'll find,
Starting point is 00:06:30 you'll find not only a description, but also there are Yelp reviews, which are unusual. Like, wow, the music in this place seems rooted in the early 2000s. Like, well, that's an odd, that's a really odd complaint for this place. Yeah, no kidding. Do they have, I mean, do they, I don't know what Swingers Clubs are like, so I don't know what you review. Well, they have a restaurant kind of thing in the front. Tina has actually been in there because she had to do an interview. She went there during the day because she had to interview one of the people who worked there
Starting point is 00:07:03 back when she was doing background investigations that somebody needed security clearance. And she didn't know what this place was until she got in there. And the whole thing just seemed kind of like, this seems really hazy and weird. And then she did the same thing. She looked it up. So, oddly enough, Tina and I have both been to a. Swingers Club for work. Same swingers
Starting point is 00:07:24 club. That's great. So wait a minute. Let me ask you this question. If you go in there and, well, okay, I always hear the two things. There's the pineapple and then there's the black wedding band is supposed to now be assigned. Which I wear. Same.
Starting point is 00:07:40 Mine's upstairs, but same thing. Like I don't like that they took that from us. Let us have our ring. Oh, exactly. You know, it's not like they're going to see the wedding band and say, no, you, you you're wearing the band i don't you can't you can't protest and say you're you're not going to be in you're in because you're wearing that band you have to to pull your pants down yeah it's kind like white supremacist taking the the punisher image from marvel comics and calling it their own
Starting point is 00:08:05 freaking eff off we already had before you did dicks before we go any further in this conversation i do want to say you know if that's your lifestyle totally cool i am totally cool with that i don't i don't care it's fine i don't care and it's and um and i was about to say that that had I not known that they were swingers, I wouldn't have, you know, when, when she said the place was hopping, oh yeah, it really is. You know, if I was dropping them off at an Outback Steakhouse, I wouldn't even give it a second thought. So it's like, okay, I can't let a lifestyle that's different from my own muddy what I think of those people. They seem perfectly nice. They were very friendly. They were chatting the whole time with each other, but also with me and
Starting point is 00:08:48 sure and super friendly and stuff so uh and if that if you're into that lifestyle good on you uh and and i know i know we have some listeners who are and i don't know how you do it because i don't have the kind of self-esteem that would be would be okay doing that sort of sure i like the idea of uh i like the phrase oh you're a swinger good on you i like that good on you yeah good on you good off you whatever whatever you need well that's fun anyway Yeah, but anyway, so, you know, it was a funny thing just to, like, as soon as they were out of the car, as soon as I round the corner out of that little driveway past the wooden scroll thing, it's like, all right, what is this place? Is this really what I think it was? Oh, my God, it totally was.
Starting point is 00:09:34 Yeah, I would have wanted to detective that out as well had I thought, what I thought. That's great. Other than that, I did 22 rides yesterday. Oh, wow. No, no weirdness at all. All without incident. That's good. No incident, no goofy people, friendly people, but no good lift stories, unfortunately, to... Well, it's a volume thing, right? You just, you do enough of them. You're going to run into some weird stuff. I would think so, yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:00 You'd think with 22, you might get something weirder, but nope, just some nice, friendly swingers. J.C. Calhoun found a Yelp review from the page. The place itself is cool, and the people were nice. However, I got chlamydia would go again. Wow. a legit, legit, Yelp review. I wonder if that Yelper actually went, though. You know what I mean? Like, you don't have to actually verify it.
Starting point is 00:10:25 It does seem like a, oh, I'm going to put on a fake review for this place kind of thing. Yeah, because you could. There's nothing stopping you. Easily, easily. Well, I mean, yeah. There's no verification. In fact that now people forever, when they search your reviews, they're going to see that you went to this place. Oh, that's true, yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:42 Yeah. But if you troll for fun, or if you troll for, not for a living, but if you're used, to it, then maybe you don't care. I don't know. But it seems like, that's actually my biggest problem with Yelp is you can review bomb the hell out of it. If somebody's mad at, I don't know, whoever, they're mad at Burger King for some reason. They can just review bomb and make Burger King look like the worst Yelp reviewed thing in the world. I don't know if they do it, but they should somehow do it kind of like Lyft does. Let's see you get a bad, let's see you get some passenger who's just
Starting point is 00:11:09 had a crap day they get in your ride and whatever. Maybe you make a wrong turn. You have to you turn double back or something, whatever, and they decide they're going to take out their bad day on you and give you one star. Hasn't happen to me, but I'm kind of waiting that I'm just going to get somebody who, whatever, just doesn't. For whatever reason, yeah, or they hit it wrong or who knows. Right.
Starting point is 00:11:33 Your score is based on your last 100 reviews as opposed to your lifetime reviews. And so that's probably what Yelp should do is like base it on the last 20 or the last 30 or something like that so that let's say you turn things around or you have a bad run of things or you just have one customer who's ticked off you get a you know that kind of fades away
Starting point is 00:11:58 a little seven year what's the your crimes disappear after seven years equivalent not expungement what's that called oh oh a statute statute of limitations is that the thing
Starting point is 00:12:14 Statue of limitations, is that it? Maybe that's it, yeah. Like Seinfeld, and they're like, statue? No, statute. It's a statue of limitations. Statute. Yes, it's a sculpture of limitations, says Jerry. Or Joey's, the whole point is moo. I don't remember that, but that's funny. It's actually funny. The point is moot. Yeah, that's really good. All right.
Starting point is 00:12:37 Anyway, so very nice people, but as soon as I left that place, I'm like, Oh, I think that was a little place that I would never want to go into because I'm too freaked out. I'd be pretty freaked out in there, I think. Yeah. Just, you know, just with the knowledge of what it is, it's fine. People will do whatever they want to do. Do what you got to do, man. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:13:01 I had a dream about Tom Cruise I'd like to share. Oh, okay. Sounds good. That seems completely normal and vivid dream with Tom Cruise, not in a gross way. Oh, gosh. For some reason, in this dream, Tom Cruise would not. let me do anything but hang out with him. Just constant at his side everywhere he went, everything he did, and we were like in
Starting point is 00:13:25 some fancy houses, a bunch of parties, a jet, a private jet, premiere of some movie he's in, didn't know what movie he didn't say, the dream didn't say, that's a weird way of putting it. The dream didn't say. The dream didn't say. I mean, it really is. The dream didn't say. But I spent like just, you know, the entire dream with Tom Cruz hanging out and he'd be like um hey let's go get burgers okay cool and then i would get in a car with tom cruise and we go get burgers and say hey i was thinking maybe a movie or something you want to do that should we go out or should we do it in my theater i'm like i don't care either way in it tom he's like okay well let's do it at home so we'll just tell everybody we're downstairs like that kind of
Starting point is 00:14:01 it was just like a weird he couldn't do anything if i wasn't with him which made me uncomfortable i didn't like it anyway yeah so that's going on the dream was specifically tailored in such a way that I always, not just once, not just after the dream, but always noticed his middle tooth the whole time. The dream was prominent about it. Almost like the middle tooth was larger than the other teeth. Like it was way more prominent. Yeah. Did he ever suggest, hey, let's go for a run?
Starting point is 00:14:31 No, no, we never did run, which is funny because you'd think in a Tom Cruise dream he'd run. In your dream, you'd like, you'd want to see him run. Yeah, or jump on a couch or some other stereotype about him. but none of that happened. And also, the dream had no Scientology in it at all, like any references or any, hey, we're going to church today at Scientology Church or whatever. None of that.
Starting point is 00:14:52 So it was just Tom Cruise, paling around with Tom Cruise. It was really weird. That's funny. And he made me, he made me do work. He made me like rake leaves. And what was the other thing? Really? He had to clean up.
Starting point is 00:15:03 Did he rake him with you, though? Or did he just stand by with his arms pulled and watch you rake leaves? No, he wouldn't do it with me. He just stood there and was drinking. or on a phone or something, but he was always within an earshot, and I'm out there raking leaves. What the hell's that about? Tom Cruise, put you to work.
Starting point is 00:15:18 Yeah. Sometime over the weekend, I listened to Howard Stern or part of a Howard Stern interview with Seth Rogan. I went to, I drove up to Tom Cruise's house. Yeah. But he apparently had to meet with Tom Cruise for some movie thing.
Starting point is 00:15:37 And I'm trying to think of what, he didn't say what it was for, I'm trying to think of what they ever did together, but he said that he had to pee on the way in so badly that up the winding drive, he pulled off for a second, grabbed a snapple bottle, peed into a snapple bottle, and then drove up the rest of the way to Tom Cruise's house because he didn't want to show up at the front door and go, hey, Tom Cruise, nice to meet you, going to use your bathroom, sure, sure, sure, yeah. And then on the way back down, the windy road, he notices a bright red light of a camera basically right where he was peeing into the snows. Snapple bottle. Did Tom Cruise say anything about it? No, he never did. Never did, but he apparently owns, you know, has a tape, a blackmail tape of Seth Rogen peeing into a snapple bottle. Well, this is just odd.
Starting point is 00:16:24 I just was trying to find out what movie maybe they worked on. Yeah. And I can't find anything, but what I did find on IMDB is an entire listing for Seth Rogen talks preacher and his hilarious Tom Cruise encounter with Tracy Bear. I don't know who that is. It must have been another, like another interview. I guess, but how do you get your, how do you get a single listing on IMDB for a story you told once? You don't know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:16:52 Yeah, that is weird. Yeah. Either that or this is a, is it a podcast? What is this? It looks like it is. Young Hollywood is the show. Oh, I bet it's an interview. That's fine.
Starting point is 00:17:02 Yeah. Oh, yeah. Also, rest in peace, David Warner. That's bad news. Oh, yeah, I know. Yeah. I love that guy. The best Jack the Ripper, if you ask me.
Starting point is 00:17:13 I agree. He's also... Find me a better Jack, the Ripper. Every time we reference to him there are four lights, we're talking about that guy. He's the Cardassian. Right. Every time I think of Time Bandits, I think of his devil guy. Whenever I think of...
Starting point is 00:17:26 Yes. Don't touch it. It's evil. My favorite moment in all of Titanic is him standing right at the part that split. Tom or Tron, of course. Tron, yeah. Looking at one of the one of Hollywood. first Easter eggs. They had a little Pac-Man going
Starting point is 00:17:40 on that screen he was looking at all the time. Right, yes. David Warner was awesome. That guy was great. And he was Commander, or Admiral Gorkin, in Star Trek 6 Uniscovered Country which was him, he was the Klingon ambassador who wanted
Starting point is 00:17:56 peace. He was like kind of your Gorbachev of science fiction and got shot, but because of him, because of him and his sacrifice, they figured out a way to make peace with the Klingons. That was pretty cool. Right. Right. Star Trek six. Five? Five or six? I think it was five, six. Uniscovered country? Six. Five was the terrible one that Shatner made.
Starting point is 00:18:21 Final frontier. No way home. No way home. There's no way home from that horrible directing job. Anyway, we also got some kind of other, I want to hear about Tom Cruise's top gun. Let's do that first. You went and saw the Maverick. You saw Maverick. But you know, in your in your notes, You say, how was Top Gun 2? And I'd say Top Gun 2 is a much better title for what I saw than Top Gun Maverick. Obviously, the movie does focus on Pete Mitchell, aka Maverick, and his whole Top Gun. Sure. Post-top Gun lifestyle, where he hasn't left.
Starting point is 00:18:57 He hasn't moved on from being a captain. He doesn't want an admiral position. He doesn't want anything but just to stay captain. because he's haunted by the loss of Goose. But now there's this young son played by Miles Teller, the son of Goose, who has the same cheesy mustache as Anthony Edwards, wears the same Hawaiian shirt as Anthony Edwards, sit at the same piano as Anthony Edwards,
Starting point is 00:19:24 and plays great balls of fire just like Anthony Edwards. Yeah, that's his deal. He's that guy. Yeah. Did it work for you, though? Was it fun? said it was it was a very enjoyable popcorn flick it was um you know it's we're not going to see anything about it come oscar time maybe maybe one of the technical awards sound effects you know
Starting point is 00:19:52 editing or sound design or visual effects or something but um it it did enough fan of the first film service but added enough new stuff it's like okay it's not a complete rehash but it's also a you know it's also very very um there's much there's a lot of payoff for people who who really enjoyed the first film you got to see tom cruise riding his motorcycle alongside fighter jets flying because you know apparently that's a thing yeah you have to have a um a beach sport of some sort The shirtless beach sport being played. Of course you do. So I know we get a Val Kilmer appearance.
Starting point is 00:20:36 Do we ever see Kelly McGillis? Is that we're done there? We're done with Kelly McGillis. Meg Ryan, sadly. I was really hoping for a Meg Ryan appearance because I thought that would have been appropriate, seeing how really the focus of the film is on this battle between Goose's son and Tom Cruise.
Starting point is 00:20:56 Yeah. Yes, Danger Zone did play. way when Magus, you do hear Danger's Zone. Of course. You don't hear take my breath away, but you do hear
Starting point is 00:21:06 that do, do, do, that Harold Faltermeyer, Jan Hammer, or whoever that original, that opening song is the theme, the top gun theme.
Starting point is 00:21:19 I know it's not much when you're in, yeah. I keep one of you, do, do do do, do do do do do do to do do do do. Do do do do do do do. Yep, it's,
Starting point is 00:21:29 But that's obviously not the song, but it's something like that. Yeah, that's St. Elsewhere, I think, is what that is. Yeah. But you get John Hamm and Jennifer Connolly kind of being added to the mix. And Jennifer Connolly added so, so well to the fit, you know, very age-appropriate person for Tom Cruise to have a history with and that sort of thing. So much so that Mrs. Crazy Neighbor on the way out of the theater said, no wait was Jennifer Connolly in the first one too because I don't remember her and I said no
Starting point is 00:22:03 they they they added her to kind of replace Kelly McGillis and you know they did it so they did such a good job of that that um that you don't even notice it she's mentioned in the first movie Icourt oh really oh interesting oh and she's 10 years younger than him wow okay well I hate to say it I mean freaking Tom Cruise does look really good for his age. It's all the Thetons. And really, I mean, so does Jennifer Connolly. They didn't, they didn't seem that, uh, she looks great. That far apart. Yeah. Uh, Tom, no Tom Scarrett or Michael Ironside. They didn't bring them back? No, I was really bummed. I was, you know, Tom scared. I was like, all right, that makes sense. Because isn't Tom Scarrett, didn't he pass away?
Starting point is 00:22:47 No, he's with us. He's alive. He's still alive. Okay. Um, but I was really hoping we'd get a, a jester appearance. Yeah, Michael Ironside, uh, still, still kicking too. I would have loved to see neither one of them. Just have them, I don't know, go to the old folks home, the old Navy place where they, the Old Navy. The Old Navy. Yeah, go to the Old Navy and you'll find him there. I mean, they got Val Kilmer. He may as well get some of these other dudes back, you know? I would think so, yeah, Tim Robbins, you know, all these, all these people from the first film he could have brought back.
Starting point is 00:23:19 Should have brought back. Duke Stroud, Air Boss Johnson is who he played. Duke Stroud. He's dead. So don't bring him back. Oh, okay. Don't bring, don't bring. he's a desecrated corpse at this point you know what you gotcha okay well anyway uh we had some bad news
Starting point is 00:23:34 in our in our community um a lot of you have heard his name many times i've known the guy or talked to the guy since gosh i want to say like yell our days wow yeah he was at the 20 i think he didn't he come to a a nerdtacular 20 15 i think 15 yeah maybe 14 yeah i think it was 15 uh Nigel cox passed away yesterday and he was kind of quietly one of the best we ever had. He was an amazing dude and I didn't even know he had cancer. I had no idea. Oh really? Yeah. Boba Fetish Wow, if you knew him by his avatar. He reached out back in 2000, I mean sorry, 2020, not 2000, back in 2020 to just kind of get some advice from me and Tina. about stuff that he was experiencing with chemo and Tina was able,
Starting point is 00:24:32 Tina really connected with him on like, oh, yeah, here's some things, get a heating pad, get some bone broth, all this stuff. But apparently lately he'd been having some worse, worsening health issues, unfortunately. He went to the hospital, was there for a couple days, was still, you know, sort of talking to people on social media and seemed like he, you know, in good spirits, he was feeling like he was going to be there for a bit and then home. But, yeah, we found out yesterday, and I was just, like, gutted by this news. It's awful.
Starting point is 00:24:59 Yeah. I hate it. I hate when one of you guys does. When one of you guys, look, I didn't plan on this. When we were all, like, building community and starting shows and doing all this stuff, I didn't know we'd all get close and then, you know, people would have to die. That freaking F, that F's up everything. I don't. No, sir, I don't.
Starting point is 00:25:16 So I hope his family's okay. I hope his friends are all right. He'll be missed. He was a really, really nice guy. All right. um with that out of the way let's let's see if we can have some fun he would have liked that he would have enjoyed some fun
Starting point is 00:25:31 absolutely and we'll have a little tribute to him at the end of the show too musical that sounds great we're going to bring done away into this show because it's Monday same and uh that's what we haven't uh it feels like we haven't had one of these in a while because I think obviously you were gone last week for your birthday hangover that's right that's right the week before
Starting point is 00:25:52 I think he wasn't able to be part of you got a meeting or something half asses right so we did something else and then the week before that was the 4th of July so we didn't have a show we didn't so now we got to do this ladies and gentlemen welcome Brian Dunaway to the show it's Brian Dunaway hi
Starting point is 00:26:16 oh hi Scott and Brian hi man how are you what are you doing mister I do okay you know me it's Monday and you know it's still hot outside. I'm not trying to rubbed anybody's face, but it's not as muggy as it has been. So I'm sorry if you're muggy where you are, but for me
Starting point is 00:26:33 definitely not muggy here. No, we're having, we got a nice dry weather here, but it is hot. I will say that. The day before yesterday. It's a dry heat, Brian, it's a dry heat. Let me tell you, let me tell you about my office air conditioning.
Starting point is 00:26:49 Do it. The hotter it gets outside, the colder it gets into my room, because my office is attached to people who work outside. And so the hotter it is, the temperature decreases. Right now, it's around 65 degrees in my office. I'm not joshing. That's kind of cold.
Starting point is 00:27:05 Literally 65. Yeah. That's jacket weather in a building like that. You need to have a jacket. Yeah. And then I go outside and it's like in between when I open my door, sometimes a tornado forms is that much of a difference between pressure is. Like a little cold front comes in and yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:24 Man, you can't. predict this weather. Well, all right, it's good to have you here. We're going to play a little morning half-asses. It's been a bit since we've done this, so let's play it. Hey, Brian, how does it work, and how do these people win prizes? Well, it's like this. Welcome to the morning half-asses, a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you to the answers.
Starting point is 00:27:42 I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct and three that are incorrect. Depending on how confident you feel with a category, you can provide one, two, or three guesses. But if you get any of them wrong, you get zero. points for that round. Guess one, get it right. You get a point, guess two, and get them both right, gets three points. And if you guess all three correctly in that round, you get five points. And the player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant.
Starting point is 00:28:10 Nice. Contestants are going to be pulled from members of the tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're going to be playing for Andrew Minier from, or Minier, Minier, from Indiana. Indiana. Sweet. And Brian, you're going to be playing for Chris from Calgary. Chris from Calgary. I like that.
Starting point is 00:28:28 I like the vibe of that. You like the Calgary. A little Canadian Chris from Calgary. Yeah. It's like the Olympics, but not. Anyway. Exactly. I see you both are in the game.
Starting point is 00:28:39 Let's go and get things started. And let's go easy on you. Yes, please. With a couple of these questions. Let's start with this one. Characters that survived the film. All right? So characters that made it through their film and survived.
Starting point is 00:28:54 Dumbledore in Harry Potter in the Order of the Phoenix Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove Corporal Hudson in aliens Anakin Skywalker from Return of the Jedi Henry Hill and Goodfellas and Bambi in a little movie called Bambi
Starting point is 00:29:09 Who survived the film they were in? Okay, so that one film not later on I gotcha Right I mean one of these Does that count as being
Starting point is 00:29:27 One of these I have an actual technical question about But I can't ask it until we're Right that's what I was kind of All of these feel wrong Well three of them are correct I know which I think I know which three But I still have a tech question about one But anyway I'll lock in my answers here
Starting point is 00:29:41 Okay all right Scott's locked in aliens All right Yeah I'm gonna lock in That's the only one I feel confident about All the rest of them like second guessing Scott, you said Dumbledore, Henry Hill, and Bambi. Brian, you also said Bambi. Bambi did survive at the end of Bambi.
Starting point is 00:30:01 It was Bambi's mom that died. Bambi's bad and then mommy. Gets the five-pointer. Yeah, Dumbledore survived Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. He just didn't survive the Deathly Hallows Part 1. Oh, that's where I was getting. That's what I wasn't sure about. And, yeah, of course, Anakin, Skow Walker died at the end of Return of the Jedi.
Starting point is 00:30:20 Forst Ghost is not alive. Well, that's what I... That's my question. Is it? Because Force Ghost sure can get around and talk and tell you shit. And they can literally move things, right? No, he can't move things. He can just sit there and say, by the way...
Starting point is 00:30:33 Patrick Swazzy, I'm sorry. You're thinking of Patrick Swayze moving things? Moving a wheel with clay on it? That's what he moves. Oh, half-blood. That's right. Half-blood prints, not Deathly Hallows Part 1. Yeah. But yeah, Order of the Phoenix is only book five, so he was still around for that.
Starting point is 00:30:53 Right. The one that really, maybe I cheated, not really cheated, but I just did a rewatch of Goodfellas and that was, that was fresh on my mind. Yeah. That's cheating. I can't believe you. Can't believe you practice. Although, although they have that moment at the very end where he opens up his front door to get the paper and he's in witness protection and he kind of looks out as if maybe something's about to go bad and you don't really know, it's left a little bit weird. And even though the real story it's based on he lived, but anyway, good job, Brian. I beat you. Do I get this explaining when I win? Yeah, you do. Okay, you do. I was curious. Yeah, you do. I was seeing if it was payback or if it was something.
Starting point is 00:31:27 Okay, cool, cool. All right. Let's go to question number two, see how well you guys remember your deadly sins. Question number two, the seven deadly sins. Which of these are actual deadly sins? Glutiny, lust, idolatry, cowardice, wrath, and hypocrisy. Ooh. Well, when do we see seven? That'll probably help. Yeah, right? How many of these were in there? Let's see.
Starting point is 00:31:58 So three of these are in those. Um, I think that's it. Boom. Okay, Scott's locked in. Brian's locked in. All right. I'm not sure about that third one. Yeah, the guy forced to sit there at his breakfast table, eating nothing but oatmeal, tied to his chair it just explodes and it just
Starting point is 00:32:23 that was cowardice that would be your gluttony yeah the uh the dude uh the guy that was forced to eat would be cowardice that is not
Starting point is 00:32:33 that would definitely be gluttony the uh you should have to meet it a burger the uh the dude that uh had to do horrible things in a uh in a strip club or a
Starting point is 00:32:45 in the champagne room I was thinking the whole poop is not oh the guy with the The metal, yeah. The metal, dude. And that's that guy who's always making that face. It's that guy, that actor that is always making that face.
Starting point is 00:32:58 And I want to say he was in, what was it? Alien 3. He was in Alien 3. Yes, that's right. That's what he is. And other stuff too, but that guy's, he's a trip. He didn't die in 7, no. You guys both picked Gluttony and Lust.
Starting point is 00:33:11 That's correct. Scott, you said cowardice. Damn it. That is incorrect. Oh, no. So, zero points for Scott. out that round, wrath was the other one. Which makes sense because he was trying to push.
Starting point is 00:33:24 He was trying to push Brad Pitt to get angry. And Brad Pitt was wrath. Yeah. And Kevin Spacey was envy. Yeah. Travis says he was also an Alien Resurrection. So let me explain why I want it. Oh, you know what?
Starting point is 00:33:39 It was Alien Resurrection, not three. It's four. Oh, Alien Resurrection, right. Yeah, he's the guy. Yeah. He wasn't involved. Then he does die in that one. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:48 Dyes and everything. And I always think he's in Terminator, but he's not. He just, there's that scene with a guy who, yeah, making kind of the same face. Yes, right, with the liquid sword up through his head. Oh, my God. That was a hell of a thing. All right. All right.
Starting point is 00:34:06 Well, we got ourselves a game. It's four points to five points. Let's get to question number three. And this question is left-handed presidents, which of these are? Our left-handed presidents. Barack Obama. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Benjamin Franklin.
Starting point is 00:34:24 And we've had a lot of president ones. We haven't had this one yet. Barack Obama, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Benjamin Franklin, James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, and Theodore Roosevelt. Which of these? You sound like you said like about 12 presidents. Because you made me start over, Brian. That's right.
Starting point is 00:34:42 I don't have any freaking idea on this. Well, you know, you could. hedge your bet and lock in with zero if you really think grind is going to screw the pooch but that's not bad that's that's pretty good one um um oh my gosh i don't know i'm just gonna i don't know uh i'll do this i'll just i'm doing one i don't know i'm just um i don't know i'm just um i don't i don't i got at least i got it i'm going for it going for it all right I'm rolling the dice. All right.
Starting point is 00:35:20 Oh, my gosh. All right, here we go. Barack Obama and James Garfield. Yeah. Both left-handed. Very good. You guys. I knew Obama was, but I wasn't sure about Garfield.
Starting point is 00:35:34 Herbert Hoover, the other left-handed president. Benjamin Franklin, neither left-handed nor a president, and neither were either of the Roosevelt's. Not left-handed. They were both presidents. They were both president. They were left-hand. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:35:49 Yeah, Theodore or Teddy Roosevelt ain't going to be no left-hander. He ain't doing that. So, congratulations to Brian. His guest's been getting right of two, gave him three points for the narrow victory. Well done. Rap bastard is what you are. And that was an absolute guess on the Garfield. So in your face, I figured it was Monday.
Starting point is 00:36:12 It felt like, you know, it felt like. Garfield ate Mondays. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, well done. You did great. I mean, I don't know why. I just didn't know any of these.
Starting point is 00:36:22 That Garfield thing was a full guess. Yeah, Obama, I knew. I knew that. I didn't know that. I didn't know that. I didn't know that either. I'm sure he's like, you would y'all just shut up.
Starting point is 00:36:33 Oh, you know what? I can now picture him shooting a basketball with his left hand. Right. I can see it. Yeah, there's this famous video where somebody was like, he was going to through a high school or something, and somebody tossed him the ball, and he went way out past the three-pointer line
Starting point is 00:36:47 toward the door and just let it fly and he sank it like just an all net and i can picture which side he's shooting from now i wish i would have thought of that if that's what you want from your president yeah you want a good shot you want him to send those things right you want to be able to sink his threes really uh it's important stuff i want a president who i look at and go holy crap yeah guy's amazing that can play basketball uh much potatoes according to ken jennings Benjamin Franklin, neither left-handed nor president. Oh. Bush potatoes is saying that Franklin signed the Declaration of Independence with his left hand, according to legend.
Starting point is 00:37:23 But he's not a president, right? Well, he wasn't a president, but this also, the Ken Jennings card says not left-handed nor president. Also, I would argue that he probably signed it while in a hot tub with a bunch of naked French ladies and used his left hand because his right hand was busy, if you know what I'm saying. Yes, Brian. That's a trivia question, too, that Benjamin. frankly he was omnidextrous or something and he used both and so it was a trick question you know that's possible
Starting point is 00:37:49 although I would be surprised if the card said ambidextrous right I think it is ambidextrous not omnidextrous yeah not omnidextrous yes was that where he can do the feet too I think that's where he can be Omni Dextrous no that's where you can read
Starting point is 00:38:05 you can read two science magazines at the same time that's Omni the Dodge Omni Dexterous Dexterous there you go nailed it they're running out of car names. Anyway, well done, Brian done away. The important point is we got a winner there and the winner is, who won,
Starting point is 00:38:19 Brian and what they win again? Oh, I'll tell you the winner and what they got. Good point. Chris, from Calgary, you're going to get a copy as far of, I'm sorry, of, as far as the I and Cepheus or Cepheus protocol. I think it's Cepheus, yeah. I think that's right. Seifius. But don't worry, Andrew, from Indiana, you're getting Drake Hollow.
Starting point is 00:38:39 Drake Hollow. Oh, that's a great one. I like Drake Hollow. Yeah, Drake Hollow is good. Actually, the runner up may have got the best single game, but I think the other two combined. Here we go again. They make it up for it. So Brian made the wrong person wins what I'm saying. Just kidding. Congratulations.
Starting point is 00:38:55 You're a winner. In order, and the first two go to the winner. The second, the third one goes. I'll say this. I think Drake Hollow is already on the Xbox Game Pass. So, you know, if you already have it. Is it? Oh, that's cool.
Starting point is 00:39:09 That's how I played it. No, well, look at you. You're a fancy. man. Hey, tomorrow afternoon, me and Brian Dunaway finally tackling all things Kirby. Yeah, that's right. NES up through the probably 16-bed era of Kirby, the one of my favorite game series of all time, despite its cuteness, I adore it. I adore it. I adore all things, Kirby. See, adoy. Adoy. I adore it. I do adoy it. You guys have my day better. I appreciate you. Oh, that's good. I'm glad. You make ours better, too. And tomorrow at 3.30 Mountain Time will make it even better with that
Starting point is 00:39:42 episode of Play Retro. So if you like retro gaming and you think you might enjoy a show about it, check it out. What was your favorite? What was your favorite Kirby? Scott? Do you have a favorite? I still have a favorite Kirby, but it's a little complicated because it's the original Kirby on the NES, but it's the one that they remastered and basically remade it for the Game Boy Advance. And it looks a billion times better, but the structure of the game is still my favorite structure of any Kirby game. So, Kirby Adventure. I like it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love them all. They're all good. The S&S game's amazing. I really like the new one that's on the switch, which is the highest selling Kirby game of all time now. Um, but there's a lot to like and a lot of interesting stuff around it, uh, Kirby forever. Kirby's also OP and Smash Brothers completely overpowered. That's because he's a god. Yeah, he is a god. He's a lot of the stars, right? He's Kirby God. Yeah. And it's, he is, he is omnidextrous. He is Omni everything. So, uh, come check it out. That'll be tomorrow. Brian Dunaway, always. fun having you on, man. I hope you have a great day
Starting point is 00:40:44 in your cold office. Thank you. Bye now. I will. All right. Well done. We have a little bit of time for news. Let's do a bit of that. It's the news, and it's brought to you by. Brought to you by Jeannie, our intrepid and amazing
Starting point is 00:41:04 mod for all things, frog pants. May COVID be behind you faster than fast. I agree. Get that out of there. Still, we've got some lingering symptoms, and hopefully those clear soon. My dad and my stepmom have it. Well, my dad just got over it, but my stepmom got it. His was a pretty mild run, right?
Starting point is 00:41:24 He did okay with it. Yeah, he did go on the pexlovid, which apparently does taste as horrible as everybody says. Oh, is it a drinky thing? You got to drink it? I guess so. Yeah, I didn't realize that. I thought it was just a... Is it thickened?
Starting point is 00:41:38 I don't know. That I don't know. But I don't want to answer that. Well, good stuff. Anyway, Janie, I hope you're feeling better and soon. Moving on to some news stories, like this one. We got a guy who was arrested for drunkenly running around campgrounds with a pelican. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:59 Now, the pelican wasn't naked. I guess the pelicans are always naked. Pelicans are nude by nature. Nothing you can do about that. But anyway, police and Idaho have arrested a man they say was caught drunkenly running around the campground with a pelican. according to the Madison County Sheriff's Department, they were alerted to the bizarre disturbance at the warm slaw. Slough? Probably slough.
Starting point is 00:42:22 Slough. Yeah, because that's how it is, that's how it's spelled on the office, right? Yeah, it's like slough. Warm slough. Ugh, God, that just sounds. Warm slough campground. This is in Rexburg. My wife went to school in Rexburg.
Starting point is 00:42:37 She used to drive down here on the weekends and brave the snow and spin out nice the whole time. Really? Okay. Yeah. Anyway, by a bystander who called the report that three inebriated men, quote, had caught a pelican and were carrying it around the campground. East Idaho News reported. Responding officers initially gave the three men a warning for harassing the bird,
Starting point is 00:42:58 which is protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Two of the men then begin shouting at the, shouting at and flipping off officers. Oh, giving them the bird. Yeah, love that. one of them was causing a disturbance with the families and the kids at the river's edge
Starting point is 00:43:14 the man was arrested after grabbing for an officer's vest resulting in charges of misdemeanor disturbing the peace and resisting or obstructing officers
Starting point is 00:43:21 it was not immediately clear if that was the same man holding the pelican or not. So hard to tell. Yeah, how can you tell in this day and age who's got the pelican
Starting point is 00:43:32 and who doesn't? I'm not sure if that's the guy holding the pelican that's a... Yeah. Or it's driving for the vest. Maybe it's his weiner. Look at this.
Starting point is 00:43:43 You said that, did you read somewhere that this was a nudist thing? Because I'm not seeing that. I don't know why I keep bringing that up. He's not naked. He's just drunk. I don't know why I'm associating. He's just drunk. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:54 He's a fully clothed man. Well, we don't know. We assume. I think they would have put that in the headline. Naked man drunkenly running around. In my head, he's naked. I can't get it out. You see the word campground.
Starting point is 00:44:06 You immediately think, oh, must be a nudist king. Yeah. Or warm slough maybe did it. I don't know. Oh, yeah, maybe that would do it. Ooh, that sounds like a thickened liquid right there, a warm slough. Oh, warm slough. It definitely sounds like a warm, thickened liquid, which is the worst kind of thickened, thick and liquid.
Starting point is 00:44:23 About 80 degrees or so. I'm going to clarify when I pronounce it. I got to make sure I pronounce it so people don't think it's thick and liquid. It's not three words. It's two words. Thickened. It's been thickened. It's created thickness.
Starting point is 00:44:38 It's a past tense word, thickened. Yeah, not thick and liquid. Right. I don't even, what even would that be? Thick and liquid. Thick and liquid? I mean, it would be a description of what that stuff is, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:51 Well, it's both thick and liquid. I guess so. Yeah. Yeah, people listen. All right. Yeah, write it down. If you can email me or tweet about it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:01 Pronounce or spell it correctly. Here's a story that's pretty weird. Ecstasy disguised as Lucky Charm, Serial. has been confiscated. So it's not even the cereal like the, like the kibble parts. It's just the marshmallows, yeah. Anyway, on July 19th, officers were dispatched to a call to local shopping district. Officers contacted two male suspects after they, after a short foot pursuit.
Starting point is 00:45:26 How does that mean contacted? Officers contacted two male suspects. And after a short, how's it going? How's it going? I'm contacting you. You have time to come in? I found you my contacts. I'm contacting.
Starting point is 00:45:38 Um, they got in a short, uh, foot pursuit, uh, pursuing each other's feet, I guess. I don't know. Anyway, recovered two loaded hand guns and a large amount of suspecting, uh, suspected drug. Shown in a photo of the drug seizure, the guns were located in the mail, on the mails, rather. The Ontario Police Department is sending this notification as a safety warning that in the seizure was located, suspected ecstasy that is made to appear to be lucky charms marshmallows. That is a odd sentence. So keep your eyes open. for a box called Oops, All Ecstasy.
Starting point is 00:46:10 Yeah. Don't get that one. That's the wrong one to buy. It's got blue diamonds, purple horseshoes, and white crosses. That's right. That's right. Suspect vehicle had several bullet holes in it. I don't know why they're telling us that.
Starting point is 00:46:24 Oh, geez. That's either from a previous altercation or Ontario police open fire. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. So that's the thing. Don't eat those. This one's pretty bad and good at the same time. A chess robot goes rogue, broke a seven-year-old player's finger.
Starting point is 00:46:43 That's the Queen's Gambit right there. Yeah, no kidding. A damaged ego is usually the worst injury in a chess game like this. But in Russia, seven-year-old child playing with robot was forced to interrupt game when machinery suddenly snapped one of his fingers breaking it. Please tell me that before the game, the robot said, I will break you. I will break your finger. I will break you.
Starting point is 00:47:07 I will break you. on July 19th to another 19th July thing was reported by state-owned news agency RIA no vista which is I don't care about that anyway they quoted the vice president I don't know why they have to tell us who they're all associated with that's weird
Starting point is 00:47:22 news agency yeah like who cares anyway which quoted the vice president of the chess federation of Russia recalling what appeared to happen according to Sergey Smagin Smagin smagine a finger The chess robot
Starting point is 00:47:38 broke the boy's finger when the child went in for a swift move without waiting for the necessary time for the machine to complete its action. The boy is all right, says the quote. They put a plaster cast on the finger to make it heal faster. Yes, there are certain safety rules and the child apparently violated them.
Starting point is 00:47:54 And when he made a move, did not notice he had to wait. This is an extremely rare case. The first I can recall. So basically he went to reach for a piece that the robot was maybe still moving or something. And a robot grabbed his finger like it was a piece.
Starting point is 00:48:10 Yeah, he crushed it, which sucks. I mean, they don't say, but I'm sure he got it set and it'll probably be fine. Oh, it'll be fine. You'll never play chess again, that kid. You're done, you're out. Chess is over for you, buddy. All right, we're going to call that the news and take a break. When we come back, Stephen Schlecker will be here.
Starting point is 00:48:29 We're going to try to make a little sense out all that Marvel DC stuff yesterday. And other cool Comic-Con non-Marvel news. Yeah, I also have a comic I read because of Stephen that I am excited to recommend. And this isn't even the other one I already recommend it. The 8 billion genies is amazing and continues to be new issue. I think this week, next week. Anyway. But I have a new one to recommend that's actually done and done that is now in like volumes.
Starting point is 00:48:59 You can just get it. And it's fantastic. Oh my gosh. I can't wait to talk about it. Anyway, that's all coming up here shortly. Before that, though, a song from. Brian. Yeah, let's talk about an origin story for a musician here. As a teenager, Quinn DeVoe was raised on the music that his mom listened to, a lot of 80s R&B favorites as well as his dad's
Starting point is 00:49:22 classic rock stuff. Grew up in Gary, Indiana, left his home, drove across the country when he finally heard muddy waters for the first time. And it was the confluence of all three of those bands that put them together. Quinn Devereaux is the head of the band, the California Honey Drops, and they've released a brand
Starting point is 00:49:43 new album, or a brand new single, sorry. The first song on this single, it's B side or the A side, is very best thing. Here is Quinn Devereaux and the California Honey Drops. Kissing your lips in the morning
Starting point is 00:50:13 Maybe it's for the last time You know how hard I've been working Darling to change your mind One of these days, pretty baby One of these lonely, lonely days You're going to find out you're one of your very best things Best thing you ever have The best thing you ever have
Starting point is 00:50:52 And you get your case from the closet said you ain't in love no more and I took a seat sipping whiskey just watching you pack your clothes One of these days pretty baby One of these lonely, lonely days You're gonna find out you're in One of your very bad
Starting point is 00:51:29 best thing Best thing you ever Hey All right One of these days. baby one of these lonely lonely days you're going to find out you away one of your very best thing best thing you ever have the best thing you ever have the best thing you ever have Girl, you're the very best thing, yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:36 Don't go, baby, darling. Don't go, baby, don't go, darling. Don't go, darling, don't go, darling, don't go, baby, don't go, darling. This is all the way, yeah, don't go to go, don't go, baby, don't go, darling, don't go, darling, don't go, darling, don't go, darling, this is all This is all some kind of weird-ass science fiction thing, right? You're someone else's enjoyment monkey. How about a booby? You know the guy's got talent.
Starting point is 00:53:43 This is the morning stream. And we're back from the break. Brian, who was that song? Yeah, that is Quinn DeVoe. V-E-V-A-U-X, if you want to look him up. And the California honey drops and a brand-new song called Very Best Thing. That's some R&B funk right there for you. Wow.
Starting point is 00:54:05 Middle of the show, R&B funk. Yeah. Tasty. Yes, it is. All right, check this out, you guys. This right here. Steven Schleiker. Stephen Schleiker.
Starting point is 00:54:17 Hey, look who it is. It's our old pal Steven Schleiker. Joining us, as he always does from Hayes, Kansas, and the headquarters of major spoilers.com. he's been patiently paying attention to all the goings-on at Comic-Con San Diego. So much stuff for you to watch over there, like all the things going on there. Yeah. So many things. Oh, he's a robotic.
Starting point is 00:54:38 And only two trailer are, oh, I'm sorry. They sound drunk and robotic. How many languages do you speak? Oh, man, you're a little robot. That's really weird. Yeah, you're a little robot. I should play it back so you can hear it. He's probably fixing it.
Starting point is 00:54:52 In fact, I'm going to do that just for fun. I'm drunking. That sounds so drunk. I freaking love it. Anyway, no, no harm, no harm. It's all good. Stephen, welcome to the show. I mean, boy, howdy, there was a lot last week.
Starting point is 00:55:06 Like San Diego exploded with information. I didn't think it was going to be that much stuff like this much Hall H stuff. I don't know why I thought that. You know, honestly, I don't think there was that much Hall-Age stuff in comparison to what we've seen in past years, right? Certainly Marvel came out with a lot of announcements. We can talk about those in a little bit. You know, D.C. only came out and talked about the Shazam 2, Fury of the Gods, and not Aquaman, but Black Adam. They didn't talk about Aquaman too.
Starting point is 00:55:37 They didn't talk about The Flash, which, come on, let's be honest. I don't think that movie's ever going to come out. He gets a little bit of a mention in the Shazam trailer, by the way. Yeah, and a lot of people were like, oh, my God, Ben Affleck is back as Batman. watch that trailer again because those are all clips from other movies yeah right yeah he's not this isn't new trailer stuff um do you really think i mean just real quick on the flash thing i know ezra miller's a nightmare right now to work with and they're you know they're regarding everything um but do you think there's a chance they just say well let's just scrap it and start over let's hire somebody new no they'll they'll i mean it's scheduled to come out next year so who knows it's next it's next summer i want to say yeah so There's plenty of time for heat to die down or for any kind of reshoots to be done. But I don't think we're going to see any resh. You could get a new actor and it'd be better than Ezra.
Starting point is 00:56:31 Get it, Brian. Get it. I get it. I get it. Come on. It's a good band reference, everybody. Come on. Well, anyway, real quick, before we get into the meat of what was talked about,
Starting point is 00:56:44 I wanted to thank you for another inadvertent comic recommendation. So, you know, $8 billion. Genies has been my jam. I freaking love it. And I like apocalyptic stuff in general, just as you know. And you just nonchalantly on Twitter posted something about a series I hadn't heard of before from Image called Year Zero. And, uh, oh yeah, yeah, that's one that's coming out, right? Right. Well, there's, there's one coming out, but there's two volumes of it. So the thing that's coming out, I guess, is kind of prequelish or it's, oh, or it's more, it's more of the story or something. These first two volumes, I didn't know existed.
Starting point is 00:57:22 and I went and grabbed them both and I absolutely loved them. They're really hard to explain because they're not normal zombie fair at all. So if you're all out there going, oh, another Walking Dead, no thanks. That's not what this is at all. In fact, the storytelling techniques
Starting point is 00:57:38 are more akin to something like anthology series, but they're all happening at the same time. Yeah. I absolutely tore through that and loved every freaking inch of every one of those pages. was an awesome read. So if you're out there and you're, if you're like me and you like your
Starting point is 00:57:56 genre, comic fiction, uh, year zero or is it zero year, crap, whichever it is it zero year? I forget. Zor year. Zorier. Zero escaping. Um, grab it because it's great. The first two volumes are out and available in trade and then, uh, course, digitally and then, uh, the new stuff coming out I couldn't be more excited about. It's really, really awesome. So thank you for that, Steven once again. Good recommendation. Not a problem. And if you guys are looking for some other great comic books to read the Eisner awards were given away Friday night past it's been Saturday night but they've switched that to Fridays and of course that's where
Starting point is 00:58:32 you're going to see all the great comics coming out some of them I've I've talked about on this show before for example the good Asian which talks it's a 1930s noir mystery about the first American Asian Asian American detective to do work in the San Francisco area That one won for Best Limited Series, but also in the nominations for that is one that, Scott, I keep telling you, you need to read Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow, which is basically true grit with superheroes in space. That's awesome. I need to, yeah, you've mentioned that one before, and I got to freaking get around to it. I think part of me was like, it can't possibly be as good as you say based on the premise, but it sounds like everyone agrees with you. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:18 It's really good. So if you want to read some good comics, there's certainly go and look at the list of the nominees and the winners from 2022. And that will get you a good place to start on some fantastic comics. Yeah, I heard really good things about the good Asian, but also an image thing. I still feel like some of the best stuff's coming out of image these days. Well, it's all creator-owned. Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:59:40 I mean, I just feel like that strategy is now such a rad payoff. The freedom, yeah. For the creativity and stuff. People are giving all the freedom in the world to make whatever they're going to. going to make and I don't know I kind of love that meanwhile they can still do their big wig stuff like you know McFarland spent the whole weekend going I'm back with Capulow we're doing Batman yeah they're doing Batman versus spawn again we're bringing it back after 30 years or however long it's been and you know so they can still do their big highbrow stuff but then in the
Starting point is 01:00:07 background you got these rad little small books one for you one for me yeah it's great so I did real quick I did take a little time off from the san dieu comic con coverage and had one of the best movie theater experiences ever in my life. Whoa. Really? Wow. Wow. Well, probably in the last 20 years. I went to go see Nope, which is a fine movie. Yeah. Okay. It was me and one other couple in the whole theater. A brand new film? Like, yeah. Wow. And the weird thing was I went at 4.30 in the afternoon, which I figured, okay, you're going to have a lot of the older people.
Starting point is 01:00:42 I want to say older people. Well, said. Yes. Right. But, Maybe it's because of the cast that people in my area didn't go. I don't want to say that everyone here is a racist, but that may have played into it. Sure. Sure. I get it. I get it. But it was an enjoyable movie.
Starting point is 01:01:00 But, yeah, it takes me back to the times back 20 years ago where I could roll into a theater at, you know, 10 o'clock in the morning and be the only one there and then enjoy the movie by myself. I kind of like that, too. I like being able to just, I don't know, get in there and be done. No, I mean, I would take that, like, basically the order for me is empty theater with just me and Tina, then in a theater full of people who are big fans of the thing I'm watching and, like, cheer when the first appearance of Iron Man is on screen or the new character or gasp when, you know, a character that was rumored to be in the movie is on. And then at the very, very bottom of the list is the stuff I usually get, which is talking in a normal voice, pulling out their phone. Yeah, assorted distractions with the jerks. It says here, here's the consensus on Rotten Tomatoes for the film you saw.
Starting point is 01:01:58 Admirable for its originality and ambition, even when it reaches its grasp. Nope, adds Spilbergian spectacle to Jordan Peel's growing arsenal. Spielbergian. a pretty good audience and tomato score 80s, high 80s, 83, or mid-ed, low 80s, I guess. So that seems all right. So, what would you say? No spoilers. But
Starting point is 01:02:19 if you've seen Steven Spielberg's early work, specifically the stuff in the 70s that started the summer blockbuster stuff. That's pretty much homaged slash, used heavily slashed the main point of this movie.
Starting point is 01:02:40 Does Stephen Ewan build a big potato mountain out of mashed potatoes? No, but he does have an amusement park. Yeah, that we see in the trailer, so that's yeah, good. Michael Wincott is in this, and I love him till the day he dies, so is he
Starting point is 01:02:56 cool? Because I like him. He's great. Everybody's cool. All the actors are good in this. Let me know he's cool, right? Dude, Michael Wincott is cool. He is cool. He is the coolest. As long as he's cool. Yeah. He's old Bill on Westworld. If you go and see this and you'll instantly recognize, okay, when they talk about Spielberg movies,
Starting point is 01:03:12 I see the two or three that they're talking about here, which is great. But then go ahead and look for, okay, what's the message or what is the other story that Jordan Peel is trying to tell here? And when you see it, Brian, I'd be very curious what your thoughts are on what the message is. Yeah, we were thinking about seeing it this weekend. and then we saw Maverick instead. But I think this coming weekend is the plan for Nope. Did you say Nope when you said you were going to not see it?
Starting point is 01:03:42 Did you say Nope? We asked the crazy neighbors if they wanted to see it and they said nope. That sounds about right. Just for the three of us, because we're all men of a certain age, the AARP Movies for Grownups Review says, says a little bit close encounters, a little bit north by northwest. Nope is nonstop entertainment, working. with Oscar winner Daniel Colulia.
Starting point is 01:04:05 Never say his name right. His version of Carrie Grant. Peelweaves a wild western UFO tale, I said. I would not, I would not say North by Northwest for this movie. I really would not. Okay. There's the first Spielberg movie that they mentioned, yes, right on. There's another Steven Spielberg movie that's even bigger that came out in the 70s that kicked off the summer blogbuster.
Starting point is 01:04:27 That is this movie to the beat. Not close encounters. That one they meant. one they mentioned in the AARP thing. Okay. There's another one that you'll figure out. Okay. Oh, I like that Barbie theory.
Starting point is 01:04:43 Oh, gotcha. Oh, oh. I hear you. Space sharks. No? Okay. Well, anyway, so there's that. All right. The big stuff from Comic Con. Don't even know where to start here.
Starting point is 01:04:56 There was so much stuff. You know, some of the stuff, known quantities coming soon, like the new Lord of the Rings. The trailer looked great. Which looks great. All that stuff looked great. But really, I guess the main attraction is Marvel gets a hat wearing gym up there to announce what the next phase is. Figuir in Jim.
Starting point is 01:05:15 He always wearing the hat. He never takes a hat off just as part of the rules over there. I don't know what the deal is. But anyway, he announced a bunch of movies and what the phase five? Yeah, so phase four will end with Wakanda forever, which comes out, what, November? Yeah. November, yeah, early November. Yeah, beginning of November.
Starting point is 01:05:33 And then phase five will kick off with Ant Man and the Wasp, Quantum Mania, which comes out at February of 20203. Is quantum manias a known thing comic-wise? Like, is that a word I should know? It's the quantum, it's the, you know, the quantum verse. We've already seen it. Yeah, like you see that in, well, those of us who've watched Ant Man and Wasp. Oh, yeah, right. You know about the quantum verse.
Starting point is 01:05:54 Sure. Well, I knew about that from the comics, but I thought the mania, the quantum mania part was maybe a storyline I hadn't heard. That's just a play on the word quantum. Quintamania. Sweet. All right, so you got that. Yep, Bill Murray will be in that, as is Modoc has been confirmed. Both of those will be in quantum.
Starting point is 01:06:12 And we don't know who's doing the voice of modoc. Could it be Bill Murray? Like, could that be? That would be interesting. Or if they got Pat and Oswald to come back. Well, he just sound like Carfield. Carfield, yeah. I mean, wait, wait, though.
Starting point is 01:06:27 If you're going to have Bill Murray be Modoc, you'd just have him, he'd do the whole thing, right? Hey, I'm just a, you know, just a giant floating head with a little arms, man. That's a pretty close. That's pretty close. That's good. That's the first time I've tried to do a Bill Murray, and you can tell. Yeah. You can tell it as an unworkshopped.
Starting point is 01:06:47 You got it. You're on your way. That's an interesting thing. How come Tom Cruise is the only person not in the MCU? It feels like everybody else is. Why can't Tom Cruise get in there? I mean, oh, did you not stay in Iron Man? Oh, yes, God hasn't watched that one.
Starting point is 01:07:02 one yet. Which one? That's right. Which one? Never mind. Never mind. I won't say anything. Anyway, secret invasion comes out in spring of 23. He's not Iron Man. I saw all the Iron Men. He's not Iron Man. What are you guys talking about? What kind of crack are we smoking today? Are there any movies you haven't seen yet, Scott? Oh, does he show up in like some kind of... Is he in Multiverse of Madness?
Starting point is 01:07:22 Maybe you better watch that. All right. Sorry. Okay. I thought maybe they were like, no Theton. No Theton's hair. Get out of here. Scientology, man. We can't have you in our MCU. Anyway, sorry. All the other space aliens in Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 3, which comes out May 5th of 2020. Yeah, looking forward to that. We're getting an Echo series. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:07:42 Coming out in the summer of 2023, Loki Season 2, Summer of 20203, the Marvel's July of 20203. That's movie. Yeah. That one, again, if you haven't seen Ms. Marvel. That ties directly into that and leads up to that. Boy, does it. Yeah, does that last scene just go right into? Goes right into.
Starting point is 01:08:00 Yeah. Yep. Blade, you guys were talking about that earlier, comes out November of 2023, Iron Heart, all of 2023, Agatha Coven of Chaos, Winter of 20203, 2024, Daredevil, Born Again, Spring of 2024. That one, they did say, would be compared to a lot of the other episode, episodic stuff that we're getting on Disney Plus. Kevin Feigey said that this was going to be an 18-episode season. Oh, wow. With Charlie Coxon and Vincent Donofrio. That's awesome.
Starting point is 01:08:30 This is born again based on the comic book series and the comic book series apparently flying off the shelves on Amazon and other bookstores after that announcement. Yeah, they get the knock on effect going there. That's cool. Yeah. And we've got Captain America, New World Order, May of 2024, and then phase five wraps up with the Thunderbolts, a villain-centric movie, July 26th of 2024. And then that will be the end of the phase five stuff. and then we go right into the confirmed films for Phase 6, which will begin in November of 2024 with the Fantastic 4,
Starting point is 01:09:05 and will end not very long afterwards in May of 2025 at November of 2025 with two Avengers movies, Avengers the Kang Dynasty and Avengers Secret Wars. So maybe we'll see a black costume up here. I don't know. Oh, interesting, yeah. But, and that's going to wrap up the Phase 6 series of, films, and they also said that that will also wrap up their multiverse saga with Secret
Starting point is 01:09:34 Wars. Okay. Interesting. So that's a lot. I guess the one that surprised me the most on this whole thing was probably the which one. What's her name? Agatha. Agatha.
Starting point is 01:09:48 Oh, Agatha. Yeah, I had no idea they were going to spin that out. They announced that a while ago. They hadn't given it a title. but they had mentioned it I want to say last year oh by the way early word on that
Starting point is 01:10:03 I know they showed Sandman the latest trailer for Sandman which is coming soon early word on that is it is rad like it looks really good real good yeah I want to see how far they go because I hope I mean obviously we see a lot of the Corinthian in there
Starting point is 01:10:17 that's the guy with the mouth for the eyeballs yeah I'm wondering if that is where the first season if it even goes past that if that's where that will there's so much of that stuff I wonder how they'll compress it you know like the Sandman ran forever
Starting point is 01:10:33 and not all of it well was the entire run I can't even his name all of a sudden Neil Gaiman did the game and do the entire run of Sandman or is I'm pretty sure he did because I know there have been stuff since or crossovers and stuff he's got nothing to do with but I think yeah maybe he was the point is that entire run
Starting point is 01:10:52 is incredible that it's a ton so much it's a huge body of work and I don't know how they're going to break it out into a show, but I'm so looking forward to that. Cannot wait, that stuff's right at my alley. It looks fantastic. And I'm down with Jenna Coleman as Constantine,
Starting point is 01:11:07 even though they don't have John Constantine in it. She plays a female version. Totally fine. Yeah, who cares? Yeah, totally fine. Scott, did you finish watching or did you continue watching Loki after the couch? Cued up, I'm ready to go. I didn't have time really this weekend because of the stupid state holiday
Starting point is 01:11:22 and all my family's in town. And they made it hard. So I haven't had a chance. But I'm going to. I'd love those first two episodes. We ended up watching it for our couch party like Brian mentioned on Friday. And I loved it. So I'm all in on finishing that.
Starting point is 01:11:37 I told Kim when that's finished, we need to watch. We need to catch up on some MCU movies. So I think we're going to do the Ant Man 2 first and then do Multiverse. But after Loki. Can do Loki first, then we're going to roll into those and just be caught up on it. I still don't know. that actually is a good idea because multiverse stuff you want to see loki before uh dr strange yeah i guess i guess my biggest surprise with that and this i know we're all late to the game or i'm late
Starting point is 01:12:06 to the game on this but the this design aesthetic of that show completely caught me off guard tv a yeah i'd love it i freaking love that stuff it's like i don't know it's like fallout world or something i'd absolutely love how all that stuff looks so so anyway yeah i'm i'm gonna i'm gonna keep cranking through that. Was there anything that you thought we would for sure hear about? I know on the D.C. side, there's a few that we thought we would like, you know. Well, on the D.C. side, there was a crazy rumor that was started by a bunch of
Starting point is 01:12:32 bullshit website, sorry, crazy website that we're saying that Henry Cavill was going to make an appearance at Comic Con and that they were going to announce Superman, Man of Steel, too. Right. And if you logically think your way through the claims that were being made, you knew that was not going to happen at all top to bottom. So that was, that was one. one thing that I think people got upset about. I think
Starting point is 01:12:55 on the Marvel side, people were like, well, I was really hoping we would hear about Fantastic Four. That's a movie that's like three years away or two years away. They're not going to talk about that stuff now. In fact, here's the thing. Anything that is further away than the end of
Starting point is 01:13:10 2023, you're probably not going to hear any major news about that. Yeah, and half the stuff then half the stuff will, well, I shouldn't say half, but some of that stuff will get delayed anyway. They all do. Yeah, it's either going to get delayed or they're to make changes or if we blow our wad now we're not going to have anything next year for hall eight yeah we're not going to have anything for d23 which again uh i i honestly think there
Starting point is 01:13:34 was some stuff that was held back that they weren't showing like a lot of the trailer stuff for some of the movies that are coming out very soon that's all d23 stuff that's coming up yeah a lot of people were upset oh i'm surprised warner brothers didn't make these announcements about harley quinn or um uh the the the the gotham show or any of these other things that are coming out. Well, I'm going to bet that before the end of the year we get another DC Fandome. Yeah, that thing was really big last year. They're going to do their own thing.
Starting point is 01:14:01 They're going to do their own thing. And the fact that D.C. didn't have a booth at Comic-Con and the fact that, you know, a bunch of companies really did not have major Hall H presentations. I really think that people looked at what D.C. did with D.C. Fandome and what D.23 is doing with Disney and everything
Starting point is 01:14:19 that they have going on. And people are like, we can get a huge audience if we do it ourselves and stream it. Yeah. And so I think that we're going to see more of that. Yeah, they've gone full Nintendo. They're like Nintendo with E3 and other events. They're like, you do better when we do this stuff on our own. I don't blame
Starting point is 01:14:35 them. And I kind of like having this stuff spread out. I like having more than just this one summer event where everybody tries to cram everything in to one weekend. I'd rather have it spread out like that anyway, so that's fine. Let's see, what else? Oh, they showed a new John Wick 4 trailer. That was cool. And that one actually looked really good. and Keanu Reeves showed up to the Hall H. Berserker presentation because the Berserker, if you haven't read that, Scott, you might enjoy that. A berserker is an immortal who doesn't remember his past, but he's basically a hitman for the government.
Starting point is 01:15:06 And he's trying to remember his past and put it all together. So kind of think of an immortal version of John Witt. But they're going to be coming out with more comics and I believe a movie based on that comic book series as well. It just wrapped up, I want to say, last week or last month. Okay. I'll look that one up. I just bought the good Asian, so while you were talking. Okay, good.
Starting point is 01:15:28 You're always, I think you'll enjoy that. You're my, you're my dealer on this stuff. I always know. So, B-R-Z-R-K-R, no vowels in that. Okay. Oh, gotcha. Berserker, as my daughter used to say, she'd say, Bergerker. Well, there you go.
Starting point is 01:15:45 There's all your, there's kind of it. Is there anything good that you guys saw coming out of the Comic-Conn news? Because I tried to focus mostly on the comic book stuff, but I mean, there was game stuff, TV stuff, lots of other things going on. Nothing really jumped at me other than these, you know, I was interested in seeing what Marvel's doing with their show stuff and all that. I think the new trailer
Starting point is 01:16:02 oh, I know what I liked the most, the new trailer for She Hulk Attorney at Law. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. That looks freaking great. I'm so excited for that. I can't wait for it. I love the fact that Ruffalo is, he appears to be really in this a lot, which makes me so happy. Yeah, and he seems
Starting point is 01:16:18 to be having a great time and I think the humor works and it's, I need that from these things. That's the other reason I think Loki is strong out of the gate is there's humor. Also, if you go back and watch that trailer again closely, you'll see Daredevil make an appearance. Yeah, at the very end, he shows up. You don't get to see Charlie Cox's face, but it's implied. He's got the two little sticks and everything.
Starting point is 01:16:39 I heard some story that Charlie Cox thought they were going to be locked in for multiple more seasons on Netflix for Daredevil and ended up skipping a bunch of jobs as a result, and then they got pulled. of the whole change. I just think it's great that he gets a chance to freaking do this again. Yeah, it would be interesting to see that contract because Kevin Feigey has said Charlie Cox is always our Daredevil and that was ahead of all these announcements and everything. So people are like,
Starting point is 01:17:06 oh, there's going to be more Daredevil. Yeah. I like that they're making it up to him, showing up in the Spider-Man movie, showing up in She-Hulk. Then we're going to see him in 18 episodes, which probably would be like two or three more seasons if it was on Netflix.
Starting point is 01:17:21 Yeah, that's a lot. we didn't get to see him in what's his name the Arrow guy's TV show Hawkeye yeah yeah Hawkeye the Arrow guy
Starting point is 01:17:36 oh yeah Arrow yeah oh yeah I mean we did I mean but we got a Daredevil tie into that yeah so I think that that's cool so and I assume so this new series must be without spoiling anything I assume it's a prequelish time period then Hawkeye because there's a certain, well, we know Donofrio's in the new 18 episodes, so it can't be after that.
Starting point is 01:17:59 A couple of things, Scott. Yeah. If you've seen that Arrow TV show. Yeah, I did. Unless you see a body, ain't nobody dead. That's true. Yeah. Freaking marvel.
Starting point is 01:18:09 Also, that Echo TV series, Echo is a protege of Daredevil. So I would suspect that he will show up there as well. Make an appearance there. Do you think, you think, oh, I can't think of his name all of a sudden. Everyone thinks he's so good looking. um dude from uh blade runner guy i think his name ryan goslin i think ryan gosling i think ryan gosling ends up in the mcc at some point i mean he really wants to be and he was he just is in this russo brother's movie the the gray man yeah he does a lot of action in that i'll
Starting point is 01:18:39 be recommending that this week i freaking love the gray man it was awesome you know as much as people are hating on it it isn't a terrible movie no it's a good time it is a good i mean it's a good time. It really is. I mean, if you were, to me, it felt like, and I don't play these games. My son loves to play these games, my oldest one, the first person shooter, the six hero, shoot them up games. Six hero. Yeah, you know, the first person, let's be military people going in and doing stuff. Call of Duty games? What do you mean? I don't know. Yeah, call of duty. Okay. I don't play this game. No, it's fine. It's totally fine. It was not sure which one you meant.
Starting point is 01:19:18 If you were overwatch, it could be anything. You know, it felt like I was watching, you know, action sequence after action sequence after action sequence. And to be honest, a lot of people are like, well, I don't know where they spent that $200 million to make that movie. Well, you've got six, you've got six huge names. Oh, yeah. In this movie, as far as actors and actresses go. And that with all the special effects stuff, there's 200 million right there. I'm hoping I'm hoping Netflix doesn't say, oh, crap, we're not getting the traction.
Starting point is 01:19:49 we want it on this or people are really, you know, shooting us down on this and then don't move forward with some other movies because I know that they're looking for a franchise. Yeah. This could be their, this could be their, um, not, uh, Fast and Furious franchise. What's the one with the mercenaries, uh, that has all the old action heroes in it? Oh, uh, expendables. Expendables. This could be their expendables.
Starting point is 01:20:11 It could be like that. Yeah. I could see them doing that. There's a little bit of born identity to it. There's a little bit of, there's a whole bunch of stuff thrown in here. I just think it's very deftly directed and the cast is insane. Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans,
Starting point is 01:20:23 and Armis, by the way, it's funny to see her reunite with Ryan Gosling from Blade Runner and then reunite with Chris Evans from Knives Out. Billy Bob Thornton's amazing in this. Freaking Billy Bob doing a whole new thing. Really?
Starting point is 01:20:36 Yeah, Alfree Woodard, amazing cast. They're all great. Those names right there, that's where half your budget went. Yeah, I'm freaking... I'm going to bet that at the low end, they each got $10 million. Oh, at the low end.
Starting point is 01:20:48 Absolutely. But at the high end, they probably got $20 to $30 million, depending on who they are. Yeah. And if you want to watch. Those five names, five, six names right there is $100 million. If you want to watch Chris Evans eat scenery, man, he's great in this. It's funny because in Knives Out and in this movie, he plays the villain, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:21:06 The bad guy. Spoiler alert for Knives Out. And listen, if you haven't seen it yet. I know. You've lost your chance. Which is a total, you know, it seems to be he likes to take these villains. roles to counteract his Captain America role. Sure. Sure.
Starting point is 01:21:22 Yeah. And it's interesting to see that. Yeah, it is. And I think he's, I don't feel like he's been typecast at all. I think this stuff really... No, he does really well with it. Yeah, I think so too. It is, it's a great, I mean, I know Recommantals is Wednesday, and I'm spilling my candy in the lobby here, but
Starting point is 01:21:38 I like the Grey Man a lot. And if you want to have a whole lot of fun, it's really fun. And the Russo brothers know how to make really great action, and there is a car chase that rivals some of the best I've ever seen. It's real good. I liked it. Anyway, I guess that's it. That's a lot. But all of this stuff is, you know, all over the internet. But of course, major spoilers.com is going to have a bunch of this as well. So make sure you guys check that out. If you want to stay up to date on all things Comic-Con. Stephen, anything else
Starting point is 01:22:08 is going on over there? You want to mention? Let's see. This week on the Major Spoilers podcast, we're diving back into newspaper comic strips. And we're going to be taking a look at the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Oh, man. Newspaper strip that ran in the, in the 80s all the way through the 90s. Wow, I didn't realize they did a comic strip, huh? Yeah, it's interesting. And you can tell right when this came out that it was like, oh, yeah, he man's really
Starting point is 01:22:32 popular now. And so you're reading along and then it's like, oh, you can tell right when the movie came out because they introduced these characters into the, into the comics strip. I mean, everything about that entire enterprise was just how do we sell more toys. So I'm not surprised. Yes, because there's the section of the book that I'm reading right now, there are huge chunks of the original strips that are missing that no one can find. And so they're just like, okay, in this strip, here was the plot of this strip. They have no art for it.
Starting point is 01:23:02 And then you go in and you're reading further and you're like, the husband-wife team who was putting together, the newspaper strip kind of reached out to the Mattel people and said, hey, we should do something with this. Is there a way we can collect this? And the person at Head of Mattel was like, yeah, do you know who has the original strips for this stuff? And so it's like just disappeared to the wind. Wow. Well, as Skeletor always said. I don't think I feel well. There you go.
Starting point is 01:23:32 Hey, Stephen, this is always fun. I love having you on Mondays. And I can't wait for more major spoilers during the week. Thanks for hanging out with us. There's a bit of a horrible heat wave happening right now. Yes. Is there anything? What should we do with that?
Starting point is 01:23:45 Oh, hydration. that's it. I knew I knew the answer, but I had to hear you say it. Oh, he left. All right. He got me this time. All right. Well done. Stephen, always good to have him here. Got a couple things here real quick, including this Monday morning mashup. Yay. Sent to us by Jamie, who's always doing great work. So thanks, Jamie, for this. As always, this is something called the ICU. All right. That's a normal thing. So I don't know what this is, but we're about to find out. Sit back and enjoy. Well, what do you want to do today?
Starting point is 01:24:19 I don't know, but I definitely want to do a lot of talking. I know. Let's go see a movie. I'm going to... Welcome to the show, everyone. We're here, and we're not queer, but it's okay. You can get used to it. See if I can choke on this.
Starting point is 01:24:39 See if you can choke on that, Scott. Do your best. I'm good so far. Not so bad so far. Even like the, not dances of wolves, whisper with sheep. What's that called? Oh, silence of the land. Silence of the land.
Starting point is 01:24:53 Yeah. Whisper of the sheep. That's not. Whisper of the sheep. Brian is the only person I know in Arvada that exists or anyone that I know that I know that exists. That's not what that sentence says. Brian is the only person, reason I know Arvada exists.
Starting point is 01:25:06 There we go. A person in Arvada that exists. Oh, man. Careful with them, though. I once squirted one on a friend and it didn't look good. Anyway, continue. Claire, where did you? your mom wipe your butt with? Do they power hose your vijay? What they do?
Starting point is 01:25:18 Use gin and a sock and an old sock. We used an old sock and we used it twice. We'd wash it. Use it twice and use it again. The very next day, take another shite and you'd use your sock again. You know what that means, Greg? Oh my gosh. Let's make it official. I'll fight back, butt naked. That's not it. Hold on. I must have it. Sounds good. I'd that. I mean, it's good. Yeah. I wouldn't turn down a big plate of from anyone. It still had to go, beep, beep, beep, beep, boob. Boop-beep. Whereas now you just...
Starting point is 01:25:46 Boop, boop, boop. People got their boobies out. That's what they're hoping anyway. Yeah, that's what they want. I'd love to see Facebook take one on the chode for this one. Boy, a lot of chodes today, choding. Lots of chodes. It's a chode-heavy show, people.
Starting point is 01:25:59 Very chodey. My office smells like chai tea, by the way. Do you know why? Better than it's smelling like chode. No. Make an argument for any positivity about getting a b-in-your-th in your throat. Right, exactly. But even people who love b-s, do you really want one in your mouth?
Starting point is 01:26:14 No. Can you make a Wildcats movie? Why not make a Wildcats movie? Oh, no kidding. Yeah. We need an image cinematic universe, an ICU. Oh, that doesn't quite work. The ICU.
Starting point is 01:26:26 Oh, you know, we can't have the ICU. That's right. Hey, what's Samuel Jackson. Oh, he's in the ICU now. Yeah, he's in the ICU. Have you guys heard about that? Sam Jackson has jumped ship and is now in the ICU. Oh, oh, no.
Starting point is 01:26:38 Is there anything we can do? Well, yeah, go watch the movie. It's a good movie. Yeah, but he's in the ICU. How did I forget that we did that? I don't remember that at all. The whole image cinematic universe, yeah. It was pretty good, and I don't remember it.
Starting point is 01:26:54 All right, I don't remember anything anymore. All right, well done. That was amazing. Also, you should have done a UC on this, which is unnecessary censorship, because none of those were real swear words. Yeah. Yeah, so he combined them. Well done, Jamie, as always.
Starting point is 01:27:07 A quick email to read. Send and receive email. It is the morningstream at gmail.com. the morning stream at gmail dot com got one here from sven from baseball camp uh who says uh howdy says howdy bee and sting i was listening to your bee stories on episode 2322 and i have one of my own that still weirds me out to this day i was going for a run when a bee flew at my face landed in my nose and stung me inside my nostril oh yeah it gets worse about a minute of nasally about a minute of nasally, whatever that means,
Starting point is 01:27:44 Fran Drescher sounding, oh, I see, there's more to the sounds. He's describing. Yeah. About a minute of nasally, Fran Dresher sounding expletives later, I realized the bee never actually flew out of my nose. Cut to three days later, I'm in the bathroom, doing my business, when I realized
Starting point is 01:28:00 I had just pooped out a bee, which had somehow died inside my body. For the briefest moment, I thought I was demonically possessed like something out of a bad Candyman sequel. There's no such thing. But then I remember my experience from the sun, or sorry, the run, still didn't make it any less unnerving. Thankfully, nothing came of it behind the initial sting and the lasting mistrust of the great outdoors.
Starting point is 01:28:27 Moral of the story, don't go running kids, it's bad for you. Buzz, Buzz, Sven from baseball camp. P.S. I don't usually get to listen live, so I'd like to submit a sting from behind for titles if you read this show. Somebody add that. A sting from behind. Already did. It's, uh, it's in there. All right.
Starting point is 01:28:45 Be hind. See, get it. Sting from be behind. Yeah, I'm trying to think of worse. Behind. I'm sure there are worse places to get stung than your nostril, but that's a, that's high up there. Oh. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:28:54 Inside. And then the bee never got out. F that. Inside your freaking nose. Yeah. And that means you horked it down your, right, your sinuses down your, right? At what point do you think the bee died? Like, uh, yeah, won't someone think of the bee?
Starting point is 01:29:11 I'm worried. for this bee. Anyway, I never want to see a bee in my toilet. Ever, ever. No, no. No, bees are bad, but they're good for the environment. A little lady whooped out a fly. There you go.
Starting point is 01:29:23 That's it for the show. I just wanted to thank Jim Apple. I think it's a play on Tim Apple. I don't know for sure. I think it might be, or maybe that's just his real name. Just lucky, because 2014's when he signed up, and it's always been Jim Apple, so unless he changed it, I guess. But he's been a patron of the show since 2014. Do you want to be like Jim?
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Starting point is 01:30:13 I mean all my stuff's on there It's listed but I freaking hate it I never have problems Anything about that People are always going Oh some reason Google Podcasts only downloaded
Starting point is 01:30:22 Two minutes of the show I'm like I don't I don't know why They just I don't know why it sucks so bad There should be no reason Just they're half assing it's weird Anyway Wherever you get them
Starting point is 01:30:32 Leave us a review That'll do it We gotta play a song Brian let's play a song Yeah As I mentioned earlier, this one is going out to Nigel Cox, aka Boba Fetish. It's no surprise, based on his name, that he was a big Star Wars fan. I don't have any Boba Fett-themed theme songs.
Starting point is 01:30:51 I know there was the Book of Boba Fett that had a somewhat memorable song, but I do have a great cover of The Mandalorian. This one performed by Beyond the Guitar, a great cover of the song going out as tribute to Nigel Cox, Boba Fetish Wow. again to everybody who knew him really really sorry about his loss and I hope I hope everybody can I don't know remember how rad he was this happens in our community here time to time and I don't know it's a good just reminder to hug those you're with and be kind to those around you and be like boba boba fetish he was a really really cool dude all right that's it for us thank you
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