The Morning Stream - TMS 2326: Everyone's the Rube

Episode Date: August 1, 2022

Injured in an accident? Call the Law Office of Carbuncle, Pedestal and Dolman. The Goddamn Butterfly. Pounding That Caffeine. My Heart's Alone. Love Death and Groot. Crisis on Infinite Movie Situations. Losing the Third elephant of the apocalypse. Sorry Mario but your cat is in another airport. Pour it. Ready for another. Coffee: it's what's for Dinner. You didn't name a song, you named a video. Holiday Swingers Express. Turn Your Pineapple Upside Down Right Now. Tell Me More, Tell Me More, Did it poop on your head? Melts My Cheese Just Nicely. DC separates their shit with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Coffee. It's what's for dinner. You didn't name a song, you named a video. Holiday Swingers Express. Turn your pineapple upside down. Right now. Tell me more, tell me more, did it, poop on your head. Melts my cheese just nicely. D.C. separates their shit with Stephen and more on this episode of the morning stream. And the whole time I was watching my carpet, I was worrying that I might bomb it.

She's only your girl because she's only your girl because she's. You ain't had a taste of the Duke yet. This is the morning stream. Good morning and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Monday, August 1st, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Hi.

Hi, Scott. Hi. Hey, man. New month. How are you feeling on a new month? You excited? Brand new month and my, I'm checking my coffee here is not, it doesn't appear to be heating in my ember mug.

It is cooling off and I'm not happy about it. So I'm logging into the app or I'm going into the app and I'm realizing, crap, I have to log into the app to heat my coffee. What's wrong with this world, Scott? That's pretty effed up. Wait, is that always true? You had to heat it up. To heat it up, you had to log in?

No, no. I thought the app and the base were completely independent. The app just reports and says, all right, your prime temperature of 135 degrees is been achieved enjoy your coffee yeah i would have thought that too i think and maybe it is and maybe it's just uh wouldn't it be sad if it like died today and it's like out of warranty and stuff you'd be just like oh yeah be very sad i have to go get another one i love it but i don't know god i do like how convenient has it gotten for you that's the question right yeah it's

gotten very convenient you know i mean i do have my i have my giant carafe which i'll probably you know as usual finish, which I'm sure all that caffeine's real good for me. It must be. It has to be over time, just pounding yourself with caffeine. Just so good, yeah. Must be. And, but when I pour that into the thing, that, that's still piping hot. That is still steam rising from the coffee, piping hot.

Because it's insulated and does a good job at what it is. Yeah, my problem is that I just don't drink coffee fast enough and so it cools off too quickly. Right. I mean, there are people who are like, pour it, ready for another. Pour it, ready for another. You know, they're like coffee achievers. They're the coffee generation that Jeff Lynn was singing about in the 80s. Yeah, what was the best part of waking up for those. Hold on tight to your dreams. That's right. They know what's up.

What was that advertising? It was the coffee achievers. Don't remember. So best part of waking up was, that's a different thing. That's a different thing. Yeah, it's a whole different thing. uh i'm trying to think just the different ones what would it advertise um i found the commercial if you want uh yeah put it in the discord i'll play it all right okay see if we can't suss this out in the discord and we'll get a little jefflin music so prepare that cease and desist sweet that'll be good actually here i'll pause you heart mixes a new record fantastic why is this oh here we go okay i got turn it you are the new coffee generation

Because coffee is the calm moment that lets you think. Coffee gives you the time to dream it and the vitality to do it. Heart's sitting there going, Barracuda, getting ready to barracuda. No other drink does that like coffee. Oh, it's just the National Coffee Association. The National Coffee Association. Okay, all right. Okay, like beef when they do, or the other white meat or all that stuff.

Beef, it's what's for dinner and all that. Interesting. Yep. Big coffee. There's a second one with David Bowie and, uh, what was their deal with musicians they were trying to get the youth in there i think so yeah exactly hey kids heart likes coffee how about you yeah heart heart is cool barracuda well anyway uh so there you have quick name another heart song quick hold on hold on uh the one where uh where she's they keep

cutting away from the other one of the one because the video people didn't think she was pretty enough anymore so they kept showing the redhead um and she's going exactly which one i think you're talking about alone alone that's it how can i get you alone yeah you still technically didn't name a song you named a video and uh yeah i didn't quite i didn't quite get there but i i gotta say like i think i like early more rock and roll oh for sure yeah like magic man the little queen goddamn butterfly i mean die again butterfly yeah yeah that's the one that's always always singing see the god damn butterfly up in the air he likes to fly good one good misheard lyric to use even if you know those were great and when they went like they went like starship in the 80s a little bit you know

yeah they did they did with especially that that all i want to do is make love to you song was that was that hearts jumping the shark moment a little bit yeah i think it was yeah when And then when they kept just videoing the pretty one, I went, all right, I'm out. I'm done. Nancy. Yeah. Nancy. All right, check this out.

I got a little Loki update for you. Oh, excellent. I'm almost done. I got one left. Oh, look at you. That shows great. I really like it. That is.

How much of a crush do you have on Sylvie, Sylvie Loki? A massive crush. At first I hated her because I was pissed at her because I thought she was just evil. But that's all, you know, it's all relative until you learn what's going on. um i like the big shift in i don't want to give anything away but the whole what's what do they call me you're the last one the tadpool to watch it the whole the whole the whole variant storyline about who might be one or not that got real interesting i think it's awesome i really dig it so yeah how do you like the appearance of uh richard e grant as as like straight up comic book loki oh yeah

no, he's great. He's like, I guess I didn't, I had no expectation for that. And the first time you see him is in the, I think it's episode four or five stinger. The end scene, right, the stinger. Yeah, and then they give him a quick credit after it happens. Yes. So I was like, oh, Richard E. Grant, what are you doing, Mr. Oscar winner? What are you doing over here in this local business? But it's very, it's very cool. So anyway, I'll finish it up, give you a final vibe on it and probably tomorrow. Probably get it today. Yeah. Oh, so much great set up for what's to come with phases, I believe, what's to come with phases five and six. What happens in that last episode you're about to watch? Oh, I'm glad to hear that because that makes me more

excited about those phases than I was probably, than I probably was. So that's, that's good. I think it's really good. I think the music and the sets and the, like, the look of it and the tone of it is really the big surprise for me. And I really, really like that stuff. So whoever made those choices, they were the right ones. And I love the vibe. It's very, very good. Yeah, we're just like a week and a half from the next one with the She-Hulk. And I am Groot, which is a bunch of shorts. It's basically love death and Groot. Yeah, I love Death and Grut.

It'll probably be a little like the more Disney-ified, like the Big Hero Six Ones. Yeah, it'll be Pixar, like, stuff you'd see. Yeah. The Big Hero 6-1 is really good, by the way. You should watch that. Yeah, that's fantastic. Yeah, that's why I hear the Baymax show. I hear that's really good.

Carter was raving about it. I watched the first one. She's right. It's great. It's very good. It just all of a sudden made me think, oh, my God, how cool would it be if Marvel started doing Marvel character Pixar shorts, style Pixar shorts, before each movie? So, like, you get, you know, like fun characters like Squirrel Girl and Modoc and Impossible Man, which would be perfect for that sort of thing. Yeah, and not necessarily bear for some big live action treatment, so instead make them little pre-movie shorts.

I'd love that. Yeah. Nothing wrong with that. Marvel, if you're listening, Kevin Feigy, if you take off your hat and put this in it. That's right. Oh, and I watched The Batman. I forgot to mention. Oh, the Batman.

The Batman, which I hadn't seen yet. And I really like, I like the Batman a lot. Yeah. I know that it's a, you know, there's some people that are kind of split on it, but it is right up my alley, melts my cheese just nicely. Yeah, I wish it, I mean, I'm, I kind of wish it weren't a, a brand new. side thing that has no connection to any other D.C. thing, like, you know, you kind of want Joker to appear in this one, Joker from the Joker, uh, uh, Oscar winning movie last year. Oh, that Joker. Yeah. That Joker. Yeah, they keep them all in like separate Earth things,

almost. Like it's like, I know, we're going to, we're coming up to a crisis on infinite. Yeah. Movies, uh, situation with D.C. Yeah. D. D.C.'s got this idea that, hey, Marvel's over there doing a lot of continuity. What if we just did separate shit all the time? I don't know. I don't know if it's going to work for them in a long haul, but as a standalone detective-based Batman, freaking badass. I loved it. That scene where he chases down Joker and the Batmobile, which is more like the charger I wanted when I was a teenager. What an amazing chase scene. Holy shit. Just incredible. I really, really, really liked it. And some people, oh, it's so long, no, it's three hours. F off, it's fine.

Yeah, fine. It's right. Because you got a bunch of, you got a whole crap ton of villains you got to deal with. You got Cowman. You got Joker. I'm not Joker. You got Penguin. You got Riddler.

Yeah, well, you have Joker in the, at the very end. Yeah. And that's some dude no one's heard of. Some actor, Irish actor that, uh, I'm super, uh, that's the word. I'm intrigued about what they're going to do there. Oh, and Paul Dano's a psycho, dude. That guy freaked me to that out. He's awesome.

He scares me. He is just awesome. He finally drank his milkshake and became one of the weirdest. dudes in Hollywood. So weird. And he's writing D.C. books right now. I didn't know this. He's like,

Oh, is he really? Paul Dano is? Yeah, he wrote a, I think he wrote a whole multi-issue thing for some Riddler storyline. And he's like into it. He's a comic nerd. That's so cool. Went to Comic-Con this year, not as the Riddler, but as a writer at D.C. It was crazy.

Anyway, that guy's weird. Gives me the creeps. And that's the most insane Riddler take I've ever heard of in my life. I've never even. Like, I don't even know what to make of it. Yeah, yeah. I really loved it. A much, much darker, uh, Riddler.

More Matt Reeves movies is what I'm getting at. Let's get those going. All right. Uh, real quick, got an email from Hank. Uh, Hank wrote in. Yeah, Hank. Send and receive email. He said, not enough talk about propane.

No, I didn't say that. It's about swinging signs or signs that you're a swinger. It says, hello, scotch and bourbon. The ones that in the wind. Yeah, the one, you know, a barber open. You know, those things? Yeah, yeah, those swinging assignments. Those are the ones with a big pineapple on it and a black rubber ring on your, okay.

Anyway, it says I was listening to the episode 2323 where you discuss Brian lifting a couple of swingers to a swingers club. I wanted to politely correct you on two things. We have an expert in the room here. Here we go. Okay, good. My wife and I are swingers. I don't know why I'm reading it this way. Sorry, and I'm not trying to make it weird.

You made it weird. I did. It says, although she identifies more as polyamorous, we don't do clubs, hotel takeovers, and the like. We are very picky about who we play with, is the term you used. Although, before you even get to the next sentence, clubs I understand, right? Hotel takeovers. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, what is that exactly?

I want to know more. You'd be staying at a freaking holiday and express and all of a sudden get roped into some mayhem. That's what I want to know. You're just out of the pool. You're just on a layover until you get to Kansas for the convention. suddenly the whole place goes like crazy what you do. It's looking like that scene from The Secret of My Success where everybody's going to everybody else's room.

What's going on here? Why am I hearing yellow music? It's very weird. Oh, I love that. That would be a great soundtrack. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Says, yes, pineapples and black rings are symbols of swingers.

However, there are some specifics to it. The upside-down pineapple, That sounds like one of those Brazilian meat places Where is the oh I don't want anymore It's right of this It says an upside down pineapple is a symbol for swingers If you see an upside down Upside down pineapple flag

Or maybe upside down pineapple decor on a porch Or around the house A stranger lives there Or a swinger lives there No stranger geez Stranger comes calling Yep Right

Sorry, right side up pineapple or just right side up of pineapples. So that's an interesting thing. That just means you're Hawaiian or you like that pizza. Sure. You're just a fan of the pineapple, I guess. Sure. With regards to black rings, the black ring on the right ring finger is a sign of a swinger. Black rings on the left hand are where most people wearing their wedding rings are totally normal and not symbolic of anything.

So, Brian, you're safe. You're good. Overall, I've made some amazing friends in the lifestyle. Many think, or many, I think, will be lifelong friends, even after we leave the lifestyle. Most swingers are good, normal people. Many don't go around talking about us since the topic is mostly taboo. So we are people you'd never expect your friends, neighbors, maybe even your parents. Don't say things like that.

We come in all shapes and sizes. Yes, Brian, even people shape like you and I. I don't know what he's saying there about. Thanks a lot. Thank you. You and Hank. Thanks. I love that. Just a swinger education from someone who relatively new to it. Thanks for the great show, Hank. Well, Hank, I appreciate the insider info because how would we know? I don't know. And man, now I'm really curious. So relatively new to it, I'm curious as to how you adapted, like how, you know, those first experiences and stuff like that without any graphic detail. I mean, I'd love to hear.

Yeah, just the emotional. That's fascinating. to me. Like, how do you, I mean, obviously, you have to have an inclination to do it. Yes. But then once you do, you know, there's naturally, the natural feelings of either things like jealousy or things like, I don't know. Right. FOMO. Just, yeah, or all that. Like, well, those things come up.

What do you do then? And since I'm a person that rarely has FOMO, I wonder how I'd care about any of this. I'd probably be like, man, whatever. Go ahead. I'll be fine. I'll stay home, play a video game. I don't need to do that. Knock yourself out, Kim. Do what you've got to do.

All right. Let's now lean a very different direction. That is the direction of the American South and adding Brian Dunaway to the call so that we can play a game. This will be fun. I always look forward to it. He's already logged in. Here is the theme. I let that play a little longer. It normally answers by now, but he's not answering yet. so we'll just keep doing this oh now he is hey brian denouye welcome to the show what are you doing oh hi scott and brian how are you guys good man how are you we're good i do it good it's uh nice and sunny outside and uh is i'm inside so that's that's that's a bonus we got a lot of cloud cover and some rain coming today so we are different than you today it's hot out there yeah

yeah i feel like i'm on the radio show yeah be sure to stay cool it's hot it's hot out there today. Yes, right. Keep another one from Allura Branigan. You'd be a fun eye in the sky kind of guy, Brian. You could be that.

Yeah. Look, I've thought about it many times. Like, yeah, you know what? If this fails, you know, what I'm doing now, maybe I'll just go do some local radio stuff. Yeah, why not? I-15 in a twist, a 14 car pile-up.

Anyway, back to you. You know, that kind of thing. Yeah. Anyway. Some delays over on the 405. Those are going to keep you about 20 minutes. to the city but it's all clear on the 18 if you want to hit that way oh good good news by the way so that kid i told you about that got hit by the car out by us the just on the street just next to us

um oh yeah he's fine he's good good wow wow good i just went through a rollercoaster of her emotions i'm like oh no i ever heard about this oh well good he's okay it's okay it was a couple of weeks ago it was a couple weeks ago but i just i hadn't heard there was like no word on how how it went or if the kid was okay and i just kept digging around and finally somebody's like oh yeah i know the family he had a rough week but he's fine now so yeah you think yeah he'll be a rough week after getting hit by a car uh anyway hey uh brian we're gonna play a game and uh brian abida here has the rules and the tricks and the tree the the other word i can't think of so brian the treaties the treaties brian tell us all about the treaties what are we

signing here today welcome to the morning half asses a trivia game where i'm actually going to be giving you guys the answers i'm going to give scott and brine a category and six possible answers three of which are correct and three of which are incorrect. Depending on how confident you feel with your category, you can provide one, two, or three guesses. If you get any of those wrong, you get zero points for that round. Guess one, get it right? Just like that.

That's the sound. Guess one you get it right. You get a point. Guess two and you get them right. Get three points. Guess all three correctly. You will get five points for that round. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant.

And I've pulled a couple of contestants from members of the Tadpool that ain't here live. They can't call us on the old Skype or Discord or whatever we do. Whatever. Whatever is we do. Scott, you're going to be playing for Rich from Ithaca, New York. Nice. And, Brian, you're going to be playing for Samantha from Hermitage, Hermitage. Hermitage.

You say Hermitage. Hermitage. Hermitage. Hermitage. Hermitage. Hermitage, Pennsylvania. Oh, yeah. I've been through Hermitage.

Have you? Yeah, what's Hermitage like? It's cool. It's just like every other place in Pennsylvania. Yeah. Yeah, you got a lot of Amish out there, eating Mike. Not really. Yeah, it gets there's a few.

Getting ice cream shoved in their face by some jerk, some local jerk. Some jerk. Yeah, and then Harrison Ford punches him while he's dressed as a dumb man, that movie. Wow. Witness me. Yeah, witness me. All right. Anyway, here, let's give you guys your first category and your answers to choose from.

First question is American versions of a foreign TV show. So these are American TV shows that were adapted from foreign TV shows. Your choices are, Seinfeld, the office, homeland, the dating game, Sanford and Son, and Allie McBeal. I'll put them here in front of you. Signfield, the Office, Homeland, the dating game, Sanford and Son, Allie, McBeal. Three of these, huh? Three of these, three, huh?

Three of these are adapted from foreign TV shows. What are they? I got one more, but I'm not sure. I'm going for it. No, I'm not walking in my answers. Okay. All right, Scott's lucked in with three. Brian is lucked in with two.

You both, of course, honed in on the obvious one, which is the office. Of course, adapted from the British office. You actually both said the dating game. Oh, look at us. And, Scott, you added Allie McBeal. You both were right with the office. However, wrong with the video, Sanford, the Sun is actually adapted from from a UK show called Steptoe and Son.

Oh, really? I'm sorry, where, what country of origin? UK, Steptoe and Sun. And Homeland is adapted from a show called Hatou Fong. I can't read that because it's too tiny from Israel. Okay. Aw, I was hoping you'd throw up the three's company thing, too. Isn't that also a UK show?

It is, yeah. It's from Man of the House, I think. Man of the House, that's right. Isn't that it? That was it, man of the house? Yeah, okay. I know that there was one for all in the family, too, that I, no, that was. Yeah.

Steptoe and son ran from 62 to 74, and I've never even heard of it. I bet their theme song wasn't nearly as kick ass. It was do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Definitely wasn't street beat by Quincy. Your street beater by Quincy Jones. No. It's a great show, though. Samford and Son, that is.

I don't know. Step Stone and Son, I can't speak to. I never saw it. Yeah, Step Toe and Son. All right. Let's get to, you guys still zero points. Let's get to question number two. Prince's backing bands.

So the half-blood artist formerly known as Prince. Yeah. Had several different backing bands. What were they? Your choices are, the revolution, the family, the time. shockadelic third eye girl and the new power generation i feel pretty solid about two but yeah i'm going too i'm doing too i'm locked in you're both locked in uh of course the obvious one again you both got which is the revolution uh scott said the time brian said the new power generation

we're going to dole out some points here because, yeah, the revolution and the new power generation were both Prince's backing band. The time was Morris Day's backing band kind of the, in the movie it's the, he's the adversary to Prince. Third-Eye

Girl is the other I don't remember that one. Are you sure I thought? That's the, that was the newest one. Three or die-girl. Third-di-girl. So wait, who was the girl that was famously Apollonia? Yeah. What was her deal? Where was she?

She was a member of... Actually, she wasn't even a member of the Revolution. She was just another performer that Prince... Right. ...prudity. Kind of like Wendy and Lisa. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay.

There were a couple... Did you guys used to go to the... Whenever the Prince would come around, he was always touring. Did you guys ever go to get to see the Prince back in the day? I never got to see Prince. I got to see the Purple Rain, tribute show in Vegas, which is excellent. Almost the same.

That sounds awesome. It's like barely, it's like barely, it's very good, but it ain't the same. It's not like seeing the real prince. But what's funny about that is that the actor who plays Prince and who does an incredible job of playing Prince disappears three-fourths or two-thirds of the way through the show and then comes back as Morris Day and fights Prince off stage and then comes out and does, of course. I thought you're going to come back as the Batman. Yeah.

And way, great. Yeah. I thought I could have sworn Morris Day in the time we're part of, I don't know why I thought that. I feel dumb now. So what? So one other thing about Prince.

Do you have a favorite all-time Prince song? Like if you had to pick one, what would you say? I have the one that's in my head that I can't never stop singing. What is it? The one, I don't know if it's my favorite or not. Alphabet Street. Yeah, that's a good one. It gets in my head and I can't not sing it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes it snows in April, I really like. Alphabet Street. That's a good song. Oh, no, you know what it is? I'll tell you exactly what it is. Hands down, beautiful, what is it? Not beautiful ones.

Is it beautiful ones? Shit, what's it called? I don't know. It's my favorite damn print song. My favorite damn print song, and I can't remember the damn name. of it because I keep thinking of the Swade song that's got a similar name. Brian,

a Dunaway singing Little Red Corvette's not helping you. You're probably to remember it. I think it's just called Beautiful One. What's the one where he gets up? Because I think my favorite's the one where he says, Later gentlemen, we're going out of here today. Oh yeah,

Let's go crazy. I love Let's go crazy. That's great. What's that one where he's a bald lady and he gets on staring out live and that tears a picture of the Pope? No, that's not. That's not him.

He just wrote that one. And he wrote the song. And that, you know, the family that was listed in this in this round was another prince protégé band and that's actually who he wrote that song for to perform nothing compares to you was the family and then they recorded it was like me didn't do very well and then chenea connor recorded his reversion did a lot a lot better that's what you told me all right anyway we we have one is the one that's got like halfway through the song it cuts to him and he goes do you want him or do you want me me because i won you it's such a great like it is the best part of any great print song did we ever learn who nicky was in the hotel lobby doing this stuff at the magazine we ever learned who that was it was nicky bloom oh yeah was she really doing that was that really a thing

yeah what she was doing was happening yeah okay was it a people was a people magazine with the magazine she actually it was always my question because it says with a magazine was she using the magazine Or was she just holding the magazine while she was doing that? I don't know, but I never get the answer. Sadly, with Prince's passing. I feel like everyone needs to turn their pineapple upside down right now. Was it a hotel lobby? There was a swingers takeover?

I don't know. Oh, wow. All right. All right. Anyway, let's get to your last one. Brian's got three points. He's in the lead. So you have to, you're really going to have to step up your game, Scott.

All right. Uh, parts of a flower. Parts of a flower. Oh. Oh. Uh, your, your choices are the receptacle, the pedestal, the dolman, the carbuncle, the stigma, and the ovary. It's a carbuncle? Carbuncle, really? I don't know, but I want, I don't care. Oh, shoot.

Why, stop it. The receptacle, the dolmen, the carbuncle, the stigma, and the ovary. Oh, shit. I need to get all three of these to win, don't I? I need to get all three of these to win, yes. Or, or if I goof. because I just went all in, baby. I took all my chips and rolled the dice.

I have no idea. I know one. I don't know the rest. Okay. All right. And you both have locked in. And I think I see where I messed up. Go ahead.

Yeah, sure. So I'm going to tell you, Scott, that your three choices are all wrong. Are all wrong. Oh, no. The actual answers are the receptacle, the stuff. stigma and the ovary, Scott, you chose pedestal, Dolman, and Carbuncle, which I think are all parts of a wrestling mat. Yeah, they sound like, I want to see the touring comedy stylings of Pedestal Dolman and

Carbuncle. Once I saw pedestal, I like, oh, I read that wrong. That was, I just was clicking on it, pedestal. Is that the Carbuncle like the thing? It's probably not. And somebody who goes wrestling far better, far better than me. Yeah, Carbuncle is, isn't that the corners where they, oh. You just punched us head into the carbuncle.

Yeah, that sounds right. Right. I think you're right. But it's also a cluster of boils, it says here, caused by a bacterial infection. Yes, if you have a bacterial infection that creates a cluster of boils on your back, that is a carbuncle as well. On your back? Oh, my God. That sounds like one of those 70s.

Thank you, J.C. Calhoun. Turnbuckle. Oh, turnbuckle, not carbuncle. You had me a long for your ride, though. I was fine. Clearly, this is proof that. I don't watch wrestling. We're often...

We're never accused of being wrestling fans. Maybe you've done away a little bit, but now we know for sure. Yeah, yeah. I have a little bit of love for the wrestling. I love that Rick Flair was he, what was he talking about the other day? But he was talking about he needs to be drunk to wrestle now or something like that. He's always needed to be. Isn't he dead?

I think he's dead. No, yeah, he's dead. Now he's, yeah, he's drunk in his great there. I don't know why I thought he was dead. I don't know. You think everybody's did, Scott. Oh, they just, these wrestlers, they don't live long, man. They get, they get the thing and they go, oh, yeah, and then they die.

You do it. You got Flair. I guess Rick Flair will never die. Yeah, you're right. It's true. Well, congratulations going out to Samantha from Hermitage, PA. You're getting a copy of Nowhere Profit and Blue Fire. Oh, I forgot to mention how good Nowhere Profit is.

That is a fantastic video game. Well, we hadn't even talked about the prize yet, so there would have been no reason for you to bring that up. Oh, well, there you go then. But don't worry, Rich from Ithaca, you're getting a copy of Planet Coaster, which feels like I'm combining two 80s cartoons into one Steam game. Yeah, it's very good. Planet Coaster is basically a giant roller coaster sim where you can build your giant

theme park and go nuts with it. There's a creative mode. There's like loop to loops and it's super realistic looking. It's a very cool game. The people that make those new Jurassic Park sim, things on PC. They made it. That's those guys. They're very good. They make Planet Zoo as well. I know too much about this. I've learned. Yeah. That's right. Exactly. Yeah. I know just enough. Hey, Dunaway, this has been a good time, as always. And, of course, good times will have,

we'll be had tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 Mountain Time when Brian and I, that is to say, Dunaway and I, will be doing a entire play retro show about the strike series of games back in the day. Oh. There's, I didn't even know there's a PlayStation game. I will be playing that later to see how is. But the Genesis and Super Nintendo had these games. They were Desert Strike, Jungle Strike, Urban Strike, and Nuclear Strike. Oh, you forgot, Soviet Strike and Nuclear Strike. Those are both on the PlayStation era 32-bit consoles. Yeah. Don't bother with the N64 version. It looks like crap. It's garbage. That's not a good game. But those early 16-bit versions, man, those were awesome. Incredible series. So much fun. Kind of sparked my, my

even to this day love of like mission-based kind of go at it. Because everything was, at the time, everything was the linear. We were playing a lot of linear games and this was open world. But in order to progress, you had to do the missions. Yeah, you had to do the missions. And the missions were hard. This is not an easy game. But they were great.

Some of the EA's best, excuse me, best work of that era. And they all look dumb in their big, tall cartridge on the Genesis. So we'll talk about that some as well. with the with the with the yellow tab yeah real dumb what's that yellow tab do that yellow tab turns out turns out it does nothing i thought i always thought i always say you know carts of that era 16 bit a lot of them still had batteries and stuff to you know game saves on the cart and i always thought the EA just had been super cool it's like hey here's the easy way to pull the battery in and out no wrong nope it's just there for looks and they also the reason that they got their way

and got to make their weird cartridge is a long, ugly story about who's going to pay who. And if they could get a better deal on platform fees versus Nintendo, it's a big ugly. We've got to do, we'll talk about it tomorrow. I don't think it's worth the whole show. We definitely got to talk about that. We talk about EA's love for the 3DO that failed. And then they said, hey, we know we'll shipped over to the PS1 then. Yeah, we'll go PlayStation.

We'll do PlayStation. We'll go PlayStation. Anyway, that's tomorrow, 330 Mountain Time for the live show here at frogpants. or you can get it on the podcast feed wherever you get your podcast. That's play retro. Brian Dunaway, have a fantastic day. Oh, you. Kiss our butts.

No. Oh. He says no on his way out. All right. We have 10 minutes. That means we're going to catch people up on what happened around the world while they were going on. Oh, it's good.

Yes. The important part. Yeah, while they slept. Brian, it's the news and it's brought to us by. The bird that pooped on Scott's head last night. Thanks, Bird. Yep. So last night, sitting outside on the porch, beautiful out, nice and cool but warm, you know, perfect summer night.

Just chilling, checking my phone, looking at the stars. And a bird took a shit on my head. Did you sit there was a small bird or I guess the question was, was it a small poo or a large poo? It was a large-ish poo, but the bird itself was probably pigeons. In fact, it probably was a dove, which I think pigeons are just doves, right? Yeah, they're just, you know, albino doves or all the pigeons are. Yeah, so it was gross. And it's because we have all this tree growth over there.

And I just, you know, it's their, they were here before us. And I understand. And it's their tree, really. Yeah. You know, you're just happy to be in their way. And it's their world. I'm just living in it. They don't have toilets that they can use.

The world is their toilet. Yeah. Thanks, Bird. Anyway, here's your stories. We got an elephant named Rewana, who is the third elephant to die from herpes in the Zurich Zoo, Zurich, Germany. Elephant herpes. Oh, my God. Forget monkey pox. We have elephant herpes. We do. It's pretty gnarly. Another elephant has died in the Zurich Zoo from herpes infection from the herpes virus.

Park set on Saturday. The third to die there from the condition since the end of June. The five-year-old elephant cow died on Saturday morning after succumbing to elephant endo. this is hilarious end o the leotropic endotheliotropic yeah but what i love it is i love the end oh the it's got end o the in it so it's like end of the line yeah i think that's great uh the condition carried latently by nearly all elephants her death follows uh that of umusha umisha uh an eight year old female who died on july 11th and the two year old male umesh umesh umesh who passed away at the end of June. They were given all the

antiviral drugs to protect her and showed no signs of illness until Friday. Losing a third elephant to this dreaded virus is such a short time as a tragic loss for the Zurich Zoo, yeah?

Says Severin Dresden. Today's this deeply sad day, he says, particularly frustrating that we can are powerless against the virus despite best veterinary care from the University Animal Hospital.

So if you were thinking about animals today and you were worried about elephants. Well, your worry was justified. Yeah, you were correct to worry, I guess. Here's the thing that surprised me that, that condition is carried lately by all, nearly all elephants. Like, oh, yeah, we all, we all have. So it's just in there, it's just got to be triggered or something, right? Yeah, exactly.

Dang. Some of these weird, like, the whole shingles thing or, I guess AIDS is this, or, you know, HIV. Like, the ones that can just sort of sit there. for a long time. Dormant. And then go, aha, it's been 30 years.

The least you expect is to have shingles today. Blah, blah, and then you just suddenly have shingles. Like, freaking sucks, man. I like viruses that come.

You're feeling a little down on a Tuesday. And then they're gone. And then they're gone by Friday. And you're like, man, that was not that bad. That's the kind I like. Even COVID knows one to get in and get out.

Right. Exactly. All right. Still, hey, and by the way, did the whole Vegas thing, still feeling fun.

Oh, yeah, I was going to ask. Smell, taste, no sore throat, no. No weirdness. No weirdness. I think you probably dodged it. I don't know why I feel that way. I just do. I don't have anything to base that on except that you may be.

No, I don't either. Exactly. I'm hoping. You know, knock on any, knock on cheap plastic prop replicas of Marvel items. It's like me. It's what you have handy. I mean, I understand. Yeah, whatever.

It's the only thing. It's what my office is made of. Yeah. me, you, and like five other people. I guess our wives are the only people left. Not both of our wives, Scott. Oh, that's right. Tina had it.

I forgot. Tina had it. Yeah. How did you dodge that? I don't know. That's so weird to me. I don't know because we're still messing around when she had it before she knew she had it. Yep.

Pedro was still taking that trip to Virginia. I meant Virginia, not vagina. Well, technically, you've been vagina. He could be a carrier. I may have had it and never known. Like, this is possible. I wish there was a way to tell so I could quit thinking about it, you know. Yeah, I know.

It's certainly possible, right? And be completely asymptomatic. Easily could have been the kids. Oh, yeah, lots of people. They need, we've got our, you know, the on-go tests or the whatever the test you can take it home. I'd love to do one of those lab tests to see if I have. the antibodies from getting it in my system if there's a way to do that there is i mean i think an antibody test would do it but i don't think anyone gives those freely just willy-nilly right exactly like

here try here this is just a recreational test you're taken yeah well all i know is that shingles thing knocked me out and the covid thing did nothing to me so maybe that's a sign that the covid thing could have happened with me and i never knew it i don't know yeah uh all right Check this out. Eric Canada. Oh, hold on. There's a rule. Kaneda!

There we go. There you go. They sent a passenger's cat from Toronto to San Francisco without the passenger and then told him to go get it. Oh, well, that's horrible. This isn't very Canadian at all. No kidding. We've moved your cats to another country.

Yeah. What do you say about this? Hey, Jeff Sire, you want to defend this, buddy? You want to send me an email defending this one? Yeah. Yeah. He had bigger problem. His two cats. Oh, there's two cats. Mimi and Bubba got sent to San Francisco without the dude. Zeb told Insider Air Canada that, wait, insider. Oh, that Air Canada's not the same. It should be a comma there. Zoab told Insider, that Air Canada. No, I don't know. Anyway, Air Canada said under no circumstances, would his cats fly without him, but his luggage might. Yet after hours of waiting, he was told the cats had indeed been sent to the U.S. without.

him. To make it worse, he said, Air Canada, then suggested to him to get San Francisco himself or ask someone in the city to collect his cats for him. I said, this is a kidding. So if there's, if there's nobody even waiting at the gate, do they just go in like the unaccompanied minors room and just get locked in there? Yeah. It's like, oh, I'm sorry, your cats are still in their kates, crates, and they've just shit all over themselves and molted because they're so nervous and no one's here to pick them up. I guess that's just where your cats are. That freaking sucks. Oh my gosh, that completely sucks. Yeah. Help the

cats. I don't even like cats. The kids walk out into the terminal waiting, looking for some guy with a chauffeur outfit on holding up a sign that says, cat. Yeah, yeah. That's about it. So he did,

let's see, close to midnight and more than 15 hours later, after being separated, he was finally reunited with his two cats in Toronto. So they did get him back up somehow. I don't know how that happened. Oh, somebody picked him up and then flew them back. Good.

That's what they did. I would do that for this person. I don't know this person, but I would happily fly up and return his cats to him. Absolutely. If you guys ever have a cat problem in Salt Lake or Denver, you let us know. Brian and I got you covered on that. That's right. And just take me out to the brass rail once you pick me up and we'll be fine.

Take me out to the brass rail. My pets were being treated like, throw away luggage, he says. He says, once I collect my pets, they were visibly tired and feeling sick. Both were sneezing. oh man here's the thing I would think that Air Canada if it was luggage

they would have routed the luggage back like they would have put it on another flight from San Francisco to to Toronto and been just fine it says here now Air Canada is no longer allowing pets to be checked into the baggage compartments where he said his cats replaced according to an update posted on the airline's website

the airline cited quote longer than usual airport delays for the new rules that are now in effect until September 12th so I think they're still in the midst of like the luggage gate and all that problem I know somebody here in Salt Lake who never got his luggage just never got it they don't know where it is

he's kicking himself for not having a tag in there but you shouldn't have to freaking do that no for sure and I don't think they I mean you still had to pay for everything it's not like they refunded him I know you can get insurance or something right isn't there an insurance thing everybody's always

pet insurance no no for luggage lost lost luggage insurance oh lost luggage insurance I think you can get that with the card. Some cards offer that if you use it to buy your plane ticket. Oh, so if you do it, like, you have an American Express deal or something. Yeah, yeah. That makes sense.

It'll do for today's news. I was pulling up the information for today's Indian in the middle. No, it's good. Distracted. You got to have it, man. You got to have it. Responding over German, Swiss parrots and, and, uh, and Canada, Canadian cats. Yeah, Canadian cats.

Cats. That's what today's news is about. We're going to take a break. When we come back, Stephen Schlecker will be with us. Yeah, you heard me. He's got stuff to say. Oh, good news, too, by the way. Dan, Dan, the Tabletop Man, will be joining us next Monday. And every, every month, he'll be here the second Monday of the month to do two things. We're going to kind of beef it up. We're going to do basically an Ask Dan thing in the pharmaceutical world, right? Are we really? Yeah. So we're going to say things like, why, you know, because we get them all the time people are like why ask dan how come uh opiates are worse than brer or whatever like yeah i've got this weird burning sensation when i pee what should i do what should i take yeah so we're

going to do those so feel feel feel for you be sending those in i'd love to collect them make them short and then uh he'll at the end of that they'll always be a quick recommendation for a car game board game something at home so we're just gonna we're just gonna solidify the position a little bit you know perfect I think it'll be fun. Anyway, that's all coming up next week with Dan. Today, we got Stephen. Stick around after this song that Brian has prepared. What do you have?

I have something right here. It is from a band called Penny Arcane. Arcane with an end. Penny Arcane. They're an alternative rock band based in Essex in the UK. They influenced by artists like Biffy, Clero, Block Party, and editors, for example. They're working with Dan Hackett at Honeywood Studios. and they have a brand new single that is going to be released on August 12th.

You're going to get to hear it 11 days early because we love you. Here is the new single from the band Penny Arcane called Take It Away. No one ever thought they want to take you back It's so bad right now I can wait from another day How could they ever be so cold I could give up today Got no heart and got no soul Take it all the way, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's just a lie again, yeah. I'm gonna have to let you leave today. No one never wants to hear what you have. What you have to say Could they ever be so calm I could give up today Got no heart and got no soul Take it all away

It's just a lie again Take it away No one can tell you what you should already know No one can help When you want How could he ever be so cold I could give up today Got no heart

It got no soul Take it all the way Yeah It's just a lot again, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm on MySpace.

I'm on Friendster. And there's a new network called Facebook. network called Facebook, which I think is going to be really influential. So I know how to reach young people. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. All right, we're back. Hey, who is that again, that song there? That, again, is the band called Penny Archie.

Kane and the new song, Take It Away, and I mispronounced Biffy Cliro's last name and got corrected by our resident all caps Irish. Oh, our resident all caps Irish. Our resident all caps Irish. Don't me messing with her, yo. All right. Well, well done. Now this.

Stephen Schleiker. Steven Schleiker. Look who pulled his truck up to the back and started unloading his goods. it's Stephen Schlecker all the way from Major Spoilers and the wonderful website, major spoilers.com in Hayes, Kansas. Welcome back, Stephen High. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hi.

You know, one of these days, I'm just going to docks you entirely. I'm just going to say everything about where you live, your address. I mean, I'm in the phone book, so if anybody can just look it up, it's not like it's hard to find. What is this phone book you speak of? I don't know, but we have two competing phone companies in this tiny little town, and every year we get two phone books. why do you think that is why do you think that still thrives is it ads or something or what do you think

they're getting out of that yellow pages yeah it's probably it right i mean i think i've got to call our ac guy today yeah and it's not even i'm not even like wanting to hasten its death as a as a cultural thing to get a phone book i just don't know how it survives in today's uh climate like how do you how do you have this interconnected world of phones and devices and internet and information at your fingertips and still need a phone book. I just, I can't get it at. I can't figure it out. Like, even detectives don't use them anymore to, like, try to track people down. So, anyway, there's my hot take for the day. Hey, major spoilers. Let's talk about some stuff. Oh, first, before we get to paper girls, which I do want to talk about. Yeah. I started ripping

through that good Asian, thanks to Stephen's recommendation. Oh, see, what you think? It's great. It's really good. It's like, I love Norb storytelling, you know. anyway and I love it in comic book form always a big fan of that sort of thing but this is really really good and just telling it from a perspective that we just don't hear in comics very often it's very good yeah now are you reading

the trade which is out or are you reading the single issues because in the back of this I don't know if in the trade they have a discussion about who the main character in the good Asian is based on a real life person from Hawaii and in one of the one of the issues

maybe it's the first or second issue they go in and talk about that person and his role as an as an Asian detective in the United States. The first Asian detective in the United States back when there were still rules. And that's kind of the point of this story is in Hawaii, this guy is fine to be a detective because 95% of the population is Asian. But in the mainland, that's not allowed. And so that's what this whole story is about in him trying to find a missing person, reconnecting with his past and a past. love and all these things. It's really good. Yeah, it's excellent. And

I think the art's incredible just feels I mean, the praise it's getting is deserved. It's a very, very good read. So if you're looking for that, it's image. That extra stuff might be in the back of this trade. I didn't look, but I'll check. But it's awesome.

So you guys were talking pre-show about your love of westerns. Yeah. Well, and I've told you before to go get that Supergirl World of Crypton, inspired story. Yes. But if you want something that's more Western related,

I would suggest Pulp from Ed Brue Baker and Sean Phillips. Oh. It is a story about a guy who writes Pulp Westerns and tells the story about this bank robber from the old West days. But this guy is so broke that he decides that he's going to go rob a bank. And I won't tell you anything other than that. So he's going to rob a bank in modern day. I want to say 20s or 30s.

30s, maybe even earlier than the 20s. But it's a good one. I think you'll love it. It's got Western landscapes. It's got your whole Utah Valley thing going there. Oh, very nice. I was when I was watching 310 again this weekend, 310 to Yuma, the new one, mostly Utah in Arizona filmed. But man, I just want to just escape into that.

I love that stuff so much. This looks great. I'm looking at the cover. This is beautiful. Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips is the artist. I'll definitely I had not heard of this It's a it's a you know like a single shot comic That they came out with two years ago

Three years ago I forget it's about three years ago maybe But it did win awards so it's an award winning comic It's really good I kind of wish that they had I'm glad that they released it as a single volume Instead of trying to serialize it Because I don't think they had enough material to do that But as a standalone let me just read this Like you kind of would a dime store novel

sure it's great oh man i'm in then okay i know what i'm reading next then this looks great your recommendations have not let me down uh ever i don't think but especially lately these have been all really good uh tell me about paper girls why should people know that name and if they don't should they track it down and find out and why is it a big deal today sure so paper girls is a brand new series that launched on uh amazon prime this past weekend the interesting thing is that instead of, in the past, Amazon releases things one week at a time, they dropped all eight episodes of the first season for you guys to check out at once. So you can binge through it in each episode's between 30 minutes and an hour. I was able to get through it over the

entire weekend, watched a couple episodes on Friday, a couple on Saturday, and then on Sunday. This is the story of four girls who have paper routes. And in 1988, some stuff happens, and they find themselves through time travel in 2019. And then again, in 2019, and then again, in 2019 and, or not 1999, 1999, and they want to get back home. And it's a very interesting tale of

them seeing what their future could be like. It's also, it's, I would say it's very girl positive in that it deals with issues that a lot of young girls, these are all 12-year-old girls that might be facing as they're growing up.

And probably most important for you, Scott, it is written by Brian K. Vaugh, who, I think both you and Brian love the saga series. Yeah, love saga. So, yeah, so this is based on his comic book. His, his while, I mean, Why the Last Man?

By the Last Man and Saga and a million other comics. Brian Kavon never ever lets me down. He's always good, except for how long it took him to get back to Saga. But his adaptations, unfortunately, have been hit him this, but. That's true. That's true. I see a girl wearing my, wearing the Walkman that Greg sent me, the yellow

sports walkman. That's cool. Again, the story starts in 1980. and so these four girls running around in 1988 stuff and then find themselves in 2019 and you said you said time travel is it straight up time travel i heard time loop which i'm also excited about so time travel and time loop are the same thing i don't want to spoil too much i mean the comic book's been out but there is an element of are they just trapped in a time loop or can they get out of it also a little bit of a spoiler and i would say time loop is contained within time travel Stephen, but the two

are not synonymous. Oh, no. Actually, it doesn't involve travel through time. Paper girls have, if you're into giant mechs fighting each other, there's some giant mex fighting each other, and there's some dinosaurs. Oh, are there any

max fighting dinosaurs? Are there dinosaurs fighting mecks or no, do we not get that? No, no, not dinosaurs fighting mex. That's a bummer. Is there, so would you recommend this to our wives as well, or is this something that's like, yeah, when your wives are busy watching Bridgeton, watch this.

Did you guys, did your wives watch what is it, Turning Red, the Disney anime movie? No, yeah, no, yeah, no. So there's a lot of the themes from that movie are in this one as well. So if you, if listeners, if you're grossed out by a girl getting her period for the first time, don't watch this show.

And if you're grossed out, by the way, if you're grossed out about a girl getting her period the first time, you're lame, go somewhere else, you weirdo. I mean, there's a lot of, I mean, one of the reviews that I saw from this from a pretty valid source that the show gets slowed down because there's too much

personal inner conflict between the girls and talking about the girl stuff and it's like oh man I think you're missing out the point of this so yeah yeah if anyone uses the word woke around me one more time I'm going to put my foot up their butthole for real so your

characters your characters are a Chinese girl a Jewish girl a black girl and a girl from the poor side of town who has a filthy, filthy gutter mouth. So if you like F-bombs being dropped every third sentence, then this is definitely for you. Yeah, so far I'm not hearing anything that Tina wouldn't like. Except maybe the mecks. Yeah, maybe the mecks aren't interesting.

This sounds like something Kim and I would love. Honestly, I think if Tina watched this, the mech part, she would actually really probably be cheering and crying at. Well, Kim and I are going to watch this. This sounds like our jam, especially the, she loves the sort of coming of age stuff. I do too. It's fun. But, um, Brian Kay, you had me at Brian K. Bonn, so. Yeah.

Yeah, and then, and then, so, hmm, uh, it's only eight episodes, and I believe that they, I hope they're bringing this back for a second season. If not, you can go pick up the comic book right now. It's 30 issues. So it's a, it's a self-contained story, Brian, uh, kind of like, I mean, perhaps. Um, so, you know, if you get to the end of the television. show and suddenly you're like wait what happens next there's a comic book out there that will tell you exactly what happens next it's called paperburger girls and it's it's 30 issues go read it all right here's the other thing i'm definitely going to do that and that by the way is on

kindle or sorry comicsology unlimited if you want to watch it they tend to do that when they they coincide their release of their series but it's interesting to watch amazon kind of take the lead on indie comic transitions to television series the way that Marvel and Disney are doing their thing but if you're looking for indies

like the boys and invincible right that's what I meant to say this and other stuff it feels like they got it going on man I think they do I would like to see what they're going to do next and I'm really curious

and I haven't really looked into this but I'm very curious as to why they decided to release the show all in one go almost like they didn't know whether they had faith in the show or not. Because they typically do not drop stuff all at once. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I'm in, I'm also in for the 80s thing. I love the 80s. I want to go back.

I loved it. I was these kids. We were these kids. They don't spend a lot of time in the 80s. Yeah. Well, that's a bummer. The kids are definitely of the 80s. Good, because we are those kids.

They are us. I mean, we weren't girls. Stranger things with girls and time travel. There you go. Nailed it. All right, excellent. Also, there is a big question going on. There's a bunch of new phase movies coming out for Marvel. Like they announced a ton of them. And it's kind of overwhelming how many things are lined up. But nobody seemed to be asking this question. So I'm really glad you brought it up today. Who is directing all of these freaking movies? Well, we don't know who all of them are. But we do know, for example, Blade is Basam Tarik is directing that one. That comes out next year. Julius O'Nah is directing. That one's already been announced. The Captain America New World Order. movie. And then Jake Schreier, who is doing directed Paper Towns, is, will also be directing the Thunderbolts movie, which ends phase five in 2024. And then when it comes to the

Big Fantastic Four, while there are a lot of rumors about who may or who may not be showing up as Dr. Doom or any of the other family, the director has been named as John Watts, who was for a little bit of time involved in the Spider-Man. man. Yeah, he did, wait a minute, John Watts, why is that name so familiar?

Maybe it's because of that. Yeah. What did he do that I know? Hold on, I'm looking this up. He's going to, sure. Oh, I know what it is.

So he did Spider-Man Homecoming, but the one that, the movie that I always think of when I think of him is this movie that I don't think hardly anyone saw, but I love this movie

called Copcar. And it was this amazing thing with Kevin, Bacon came out in 2015 Kevin Bacon um that guy we love no matter what he's in Shea Wiggum that guy oh yes yeah that's such a good maroon

really okay yeah you probably recommend this at some point I did I did that you know at the time it kind of got overlooked because you know who even knew what the hell this was but I thought cop car was rad that's really good well and again

considering that he directed Spider-Man Homecoming yeah that's a big deal the greatest superhero movie of all time. Oh. Maybe he will have a follow-up with fantastic. Look at you throwing down the gauntlet. I thought, I thought you're... Well, I mean, live action, I should say live-a-upers.

I was going to say is... Into the greatest. But for live action, Spider-Man Homecoming is definitely... Yeah, I picture Stephen in his Spider-Verse jammies at night. I wish, if they made fat guy size, if that guy adult size, they just do like... I'd definitely be asking those for my birthday. They do the kingpin with the tiny little head and inside the giant suit. And you wear the fake-time suit jammies.

I'd wear that. Anyway, that's awesome. So, so, but probably some surprises in here that we'll just get to, right? We'll get around to something. Somebody asked me today, oh, have you heard that the Punisher is going to be in the Daredevil series? And it's like, well, where'd you hear it? Go and look at the source. It's some Twitter account that has no source back to anything. And so now people are all giddy over this. It's like, okay, follow the source. Is this a trusted source? Who are they saying they got the information from? And unless it's coming from the students, video it's probably just a room right i mean i i was trying to think the other day if they would actually go as far as to make i mean the punisher show as currently constituted it was on netflix

is on disney plus yeah yeah you can watch that there so that was a pretty hard bold hardcore thing for disney plus standards totally um that's why you got to have a pin number now that's right you do have a pen number now um i was a little surprised didn't shift all that to hulu which they basically own anyway but um and they put all their saucy stuff over there but but since they're not and I can get it over there I have hopes for getting that Punisher stuff back let's go oh yeah I mean if if the actor shows back up in a Punisher series

or shows back up in the Daredevil series that's fine I don't I don't think that there's any problem with with that but if you're getting too excited about something that has not been announced or confirmed then you know maybe maybe slow down a little plus Baranthor 23 Brian you're you're hitting at D23 yeah yes so maybe then at D23 you'll you'll get that news

right It, you know, it feels like they really, like, spilled, shut their wad. They spilled all their candy at Comic-Con. I don't know what they could have left to talk about. I think they're going to have a lot of Fantastic Four and phase five or six news to come out. Yeah, maybe. And a lot more preview stuff. Sure.

There are a couple, like, to be named movies in the phases, too, that they could release information about. So, yeah, I'm hoping. I mean, that's one panel that, you know, regardless of what else is going on at that time, that's what I will be attending. I can skip the, you know, the sleeping beauty sing-along or whatever they've got going on, but that one, that panel I'm going to be there. What if during that panel is when they have the new Khyber Crystals exclusive for D23? What are you going to do that? Oh, man. What are you going to do, Brian?

What are you going to do, Brian? What are you going to do, Brian? beige? Look, the human eye can detect 16 million, so Well, that's true. Or no, is that? How about a tope? Give me my top Khyber crystal, please. Here's the problem with Punisher. If you want

Punisher back, don't forget. You have to contract not just John Barrenthal, but not one, both of his earlobes. Both need contracts. So everyone thinks it's all easy. You want to get Chris Evans or something? They both need a separate trailer.

Exactly. You signed a deal with Chris Evans. He's in your movie. You signed a deal with John Baranthal. You got to talk to the, and those lobes are off doing other shit. How are you going to get them all in the same room? Oh, man. I don't know how you're going to do it. That's why you got axed off walking dead so quickly is because of those lobes. No, it was costing the show too much money. Yeah, just could not afford it. Big hit or not, you can't afford both. Anyway, uh, so there you go. There's, there's what's happening. It's all very exciting. And all this stuff is being coagulated over at major spoilers.com. You know, like blood, like clotting. All your news is clotting.

over there. Yeah, it is. Steve, is there anything else going on? A scabbing custom of pop culture over a major spoilers.com. Don't be picking at it, is all I'm saying. Are you, you got anything cool going on this week? You want to mention for the folks? Well, I guess the only thing that I do want to mention for people that are not in the

new, no, this week there is another series that launches on the Netflix, I believe it's the Netflix, the Sandman series. Oh, yeah, that's this Friday. So I think it's Netflix or is it HBO. No, it's Netflix. But it's very exciting. Same coming out August 5th. So I'm watching it.

I've got so much excitement around that. I cannot wait. We were talking about Samaritan. Scott and I were the new Sylvester Stallone. Yeah. Is that that's not, I guess that's based on a, a screenplay that was based on a comic that barely came out. Like was some forgotten print kind of thing.

Yeah. Do we know anything else about that? That is all I know about it was. I tried to track it down. It's like, well, maybe there was something comic thumb was going to be worked on, but then it went away. And it looks like a really cool plot. It's a trailer looks really cool. It's one of those, turn off your brain and just enjoy the action.

I was going to say, because Sylvester Stallone has such an incredible record for comic book adaptations. Oh, yeah. I own the law. He's very good in Guardians, volume one. I'll give him that. Volume two. Oh, is it two? Briefly in Guardians volume two.

That's true. He barely showed up in there. So we'll give him that one. But everything else... I'm here for Yandel's funeral. Also, one of the great crimes against humanity is they never gave Carl Urban a second Dredd movie. That was so good. I want to watch Dread now.

I want to hang up on both of you and the stream and watch Dread. And go watch Dread. If you do go and watch that, Scott, remember to stay high time. Look at the transition. He's a pro, this Schleiker man that we have on on Mondays. All right, well, there go Schleiker into the wind. And now we do also, except we have to play a mash-up. Okay, I didn't put it in here, but it is the law.

It is the law. Abe McConaughey is the title today. It's a B.I.I. which is Ibit Impressions. Oh, God. I don't know why it's B.I.I.I.I.O. Oh, Brian Ibit Impressions. That makes sense. Anyway, we're going to play it now. This is from Jamie, our TMS smashups guru, and this is what he made. Oh, my God. I saw your Oingo-Boingo bumper sticker on the back. I love Oingo, Boingo. Oh, my God.

Is it too early for me to get a fish sandwich, boys? Brian, and I didn't want to watch me because he was super girly. But I think you really like it. I say, do you have the time? Hold on. Let me squirt some milk from my anus. Totally okay to have a doctor, Jim. A camera up your saddle smasher.

Make sure there's no beans in there where they ought not be. Brian, I have all this leftover stuff. I don't think I'm going to do any more stained glass this year. So, can we put that stuff in a cabinet? Get on your feet, maggots. He's Canadian, though. Canadians, they're too nice. Yeah, they just say, oh, hey, if you don't mind, eh, we're going to go run a couple laps, eh?

Oh, hey, maggots, eh? If you could get a, sorry to week you up, but if you could get on your feet, eh? I hope you have a very happy birthday. Ronnie, hold on, I'll be right with you. We can go to the Elks Lodge as soon as. as I put on my onesie. Hey, Fred. It's a little clearer.

It's how it cups my unit. Brian, it looks like your take forever to do this little. Do you want to just play it on an easy mode? Hey, guys. What's going on? I'm a kid. This card. I'm a cart.

Hey, guys. I'm sally. Hey, that's up. My shirt's off. Oh, we could use this as a different ingredient and a different product. We can mix and match these and make four other items for our menu. Exactly. What if we put steak in a mixie belt?

I'll keep them. Metal Shark Lacta gun right above my turlet. That's right, right where I do my shit. Tina's like, where are the Melbytoast? There's just pretzels and peanuts in here. Those squiggly orange red sticks. Hey, you know, the thing about prostitutes is the only profession besides burger joint waitress where you lean into a car window to get things going. I don't get no respect.

No respect. Brian, you did a great job replacing our light switch with a dimmer. Did you have to break the sink? Brian, I hate it when you do me chin a voice. He's also Lincoln in a new documentary. He does a voice of Lincoln. I'll have to check that out. I thought Matthew McConaughey was the voice of Lincoln.

No. The nation's going to be all right, all right, all right. Oh, man. These slaves keep getting younger and I keep staying the same. Oh, my God. Four score seven years ago. R5 That's awesome

Pretty sure we got a little film sack In our TMS there At the end That was amazing Yeah the Tina voices Kills me Absolutely kills me Yeah

Christine Fletcher by the way Just unsubscribed And Oh she's out of here after that She's out of here with that After that mash up she's done Christine send me an email Let me know how you're feeling

Let's make sure everything's okay Because that was a lot of that And she doesn't love it. All right, real quick here. Got a couple of new patrons. Perfect day to be talking about these people, because it's August 1st. It's August 1st. They're brand new patrons.

That's right. Brand new month. Time to join. Get in here. You get an ad-free bonus content episode every day, cool stuff on the weekends, things in the mail, and it's only a monthly for tons of content. Yeah, that's right. Be like Jason L.

And Cameron Dix. D.I.X. Yes. Yeah, I just want to emphasize that cool last game. You really did. Boy, I bet he's... Cameron Dix. It sounds like a private eye or something, you know?

Cameron Dix. That's right. Cameron Dix will find out why that dame walked into my life that day. Anyway, Jason L. Cameron Dix, you guys are awesome. And welcome to the fun. If you want to be like them, join up at patreon.com slash TMS, details and more at frogpans.com slash TMS. And keep those emails flowing,

including if you've got a couple of questions for Dan and his pharmaceutical expertness, send them to the morning stream at gmail.com they can also be a recommendation for a board game

that's fine too yeah uh that's it for us we're out of here we need to play song before we go I guess

um programming note uh this is like the most normal last week ever so shows every day um jones couch potato on Friday

oh yeah yeah yep that and then what else there was something else was supposed to mention ah shit I don't think

of it, so I won't worry about it. But I will worry about a song, so I won't you play one so I can worry about that. Sure. Yeah, so by the way, I love the fact that Talley just confused Christine Fletcher and Louise Fletcher. She just confused the wife of the voice of TMS and Nurse Ratchet from One Floor of the Cuckoo's Nest. Nice. Good combo. Well done, Talley. All right. How about a request? This one isn't even on the board because it's a personal request. We mentioned earlier that Nishel Nichols, Uhura, or as some people pronounce it, Yehura, uh, passed away this last weekend. And, uh, she's done a bunch of covers.

And so I felt like, oh, well, let's, let's definitely play one of her better covers. And no, it's not that horrible Star Trek. That's so bad it's a good Star Trek theme cover that she did with all the lyrics that, that Alexander Courage wrote. Uh, no, this one is from the same album, her, uh, a 1970s album called Down to Earth, I'm sorry, 1980s album called Down to Earth. It's a cover of the Nina Simone classic that was also covered very famously and beautifully

by the band Muse. It is Feeling Good. Here is Nichelle Nichols. Bird flying high. You know how I feel. Sun up in the sky. You know how I feel. Breeze drifting by.

You know how I feel. It's a new dawn and a new day. It's a new life for me. feeling fish in the sea you know how I feel river running free you know how I feel

blossoms on the tree you know how I feel On a new day, it's a new life for me, feeling good. Dragon flies out in the sun, you know what I mean. Butter flies on heaven fun, you know what I mean. I know you know just what I mean And this old world There's a new world

And a bold world A new Stars when you shine You know how I feel Scent of the pine You know how I feel love is mine. I know how I feel. It's a new dawn and a new day. It's a new life for me. Happy good. Freedom is mine.

Now I know how I feel. It's a new day. It's a new dawn and a new life for me. Yeah, I feel good. Feeling good. Yeah, on Monday, I feel good. And on Tuesday, I feel good. And on Wednesday, I feel alright.

On Thursday, everything up tight. On Friday, I feel good. And then come Saturday, just like you should. And on Sunday, yeah, then come Sunday, I talk about Sunday. Oh, well, oh, feeling good, feeling good. Feeling good. Oh, yeah.

Feeling good. I feel good now. Now, feeling good. I feel all right now. Feeling good. Oh, yeah. Feeling good. All right.

Feeling good. I feel good. Feeling good. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at FrogPants. Look, you can see the blood. I thought that was your blood. I thought it was your blood.

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