The Morning Stream - TMS 2330: Cat Bus!

Episode Date: August 8, 2022

White Knuckle Lyfting. DefecateCon 5. Grabbed by the chuckles. Anson Dis Mount. Ballpointing leaves a mark. Bleaching Elephant Buttholes. Dark Barry. The Patrick Stewart Business. Why are you punching Yourself, Bruce? Driver of the dead. Your Stomach's the Captain Now. Figured I could get away with eating a peanut. That's a lot of unwhite corndogs. Your Wife is Wonderful but SHE'S WRONG. Cancelling Batgirl with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, white knuckle lifting. Defecate Khan 5. Grabbed by the chuckles. Anson dismount. Ball pointing, leaves a mark. Bleaching elephant buttholes. Hmm, dark berry. The Patrick Stewart business.

Why are you punching yourself, Bruce? Driver of the Dead. Your stomach's the captain now. Figured I could get away with eating a peanut. That's a lot of unwhite corn dogs. Oh, your wife is wonderful, but she's wrong. Canceling Bat Girl with Stephen and more on this episode of the Morning Stream. Judge for yourself by calling the 900 number on your television screen.

Hear what could be the incredible Elvis phone call. Listen to the newest and longest recording ever, just released from the original taped conversation purportedly of Elvis recorded about four years after the 16th of August, 1977. Don't trust China! China is asshole! the morning stream bread goes in toast comes out you can't explain that good morning everyone welcome back to tms it's the morning stream for monday august 8th 22 i'm scott johnson that's brian ibitt hi brian oh hi scott how are you i'm okay it's monday and i don't know how i feel yet i feel like i'm um hurtling toward busyness today and

it's going to be, it's going to be weird. I have a lot to do. Well, I figure we should just kind of give up the whole, like treating Mondays like they suck. You know, because if you go into Mondays saying, ah, Mondays, you suck and I'm expecting you to suck and it's just going to suck, then, you know, we're not going to be disappointed, right? But if we say, hey, today's Monday, it's the first day of the rest of the week. Yeah. It's a great day. And I'm going to grab it by the short hair. I'd not start drinking until 12 today.

Actually, I am having a diet, or sorry, Dr. Pepper Dark Cherry Zero Sugar. Oh, yes, I like that. Not really a morning drink, but here I am anyway. It's dark cherry? Yeah, dark cherry, or sorry, dark berry. I keep saying dark cherry. Dark berry, okay. Barry.

Dark berry. It's very good. And by the way, they're hard to find, at least around here they are. I haven't been able to get them. So, lo and behold, suddenly on my doorstep the other day, freaking Jim Jensen, local tad pooler extraordinaire, put a 12 pack of the. this stuff on the porch. That's awesome.

He's the nicest guy. A diamond doctor is where a dash, dash and ding-dong, Dr. Ditch. Dr. Ditch. That's his new name, Dr. Ditch. I like that name. Anyway, he's a good dude. You guys all know him as I beat a bloke in the chat, and he's a good man. Nice.

He is a good man. And good luck to, I guess, Robin's going on her for some surgery, so we're wishing her well. Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah. Whatever that is that being. Sending heaps of Tad vibes towards Robert. Yeah, heaps. That's the measurement we like to use.

Heaps of tat vibes. Heaps. That's how it's measured. You don't measure it in, you know, vibes themselves or granules. You measure it in heaps. Yeah. Heaps of vibes.

That's right. Forget, screw you metric system. We're using heaps. Yeah. Yeah, we're creating our own. That's right. Meh. All right.

I did a thing that probably will surprise some. Um, Kim and I sat down and watched, well, we watched prey first, which I'll talk about on Wednesday. And then we watched Multiverse of Madness, the Doctor Strange sequel. Yeah. Which I just put off whatever reason, just didn't get to it. And finally watched it.

Kim and I were like, hey, we're behind on some Marvel stuff. What are you in the mood for? And she's like, all right, well, let's see. We need Ant Man 2. You want to watch that? And I'm like, yeah, that sounds all right. Let's do that. And she goes, oh, I need something bigger.

Now she didn't actually mean it as a joke. Pun, no pun intended on the, it's bigger than Ant Man and the Was. In her words, she wanted something big and loud and, you know, so I'm like, well, you know what, Multiverse probably will cover that for us. Let's do that. Yeah. So we watched it. I found it to be a somewhat of a mixed bag. Yeah. But overall, I quite enjoyed it.

And I think when it leaned into, and this may be, I don't know if it's controversial or if you feel the opposite of this or not, Brian. But I like, I was happiest when it leaned into the Sam Ramey whore elements more than I was when it was just feeling like generic, you know. MCU stuff. Definitely, because you know, Marvel movies that are just you know, hey, here's a superhero. Here's him doing stuff. Woo! Right. You know, all right. Runs a little thin after a while.

But Marvel movies that are something else that just happen to feature superheroes, another type of movie, another genre, are far better. Yeah, I agree. I had really good time with those parts of it. And I also thought

that this is, I mean, I've been told this, but I was surprised at how much they got away with and stayed PG-13 with some of that, some of those horror elements. And this is not a spoiler, but I'll just say, Black Bolt had a moment that just, my gosh, I didn't, I guess I wasn't expecting it. Yeah, talk about a dismount. Yeah, that was a, whew, that really, that really grabbed me by the chuckles, didn't expect it. And the other thing. All of the business there, you know, the, uh, oh, yeah. The, the, the Patrick Stewart business, the, uh, yeah, how to unravel a plastic man, uh, all those sorts of things.

But I did like, uh, so, so the other thing no one told me about, and I didn't expect, I knew about some of these cameos and stuff. Of course. It was fine. Whatever. But no one told me that when Patrick Stewart comes out in his little car. Yes. His little ex-man car. That they'd have.

the animated TV show music in there. No one told me this. I had no idea. That was great. You've seen Miss Marvel, right? No. None of it. Oh, okay. Oh my gosh. I think, I think that might be the best series they've released so far. Yeah, you all caught up and done. I feel like you haven't said much about it, but you liked it. Oh, I loved it. I thought I said a lot about it, but I guess not. Maybe I was trying to be, be coy about or be, you know, non-spoiler about it. But, no, that's good. to hear though i haven't i uh everyone i've talked to has loved it but my god the woman well the girl here you get you can call her girl that they found to play miss marvel is you

believe she is uh kamala in real life kamala kamala kamala kamala no kamala kamala kamala kama kama kama kama kama kama kama kama kama kama kama kovisa is she over 18 i mean you know i'm not asking that i'm not asking for myself i'm just wondering if i call her if i have to call her woman i'm sure she's she's got to be over 18 right probably yeah they all are they don't they don't hire kids anymore what are we what are we doing yeah um she is she is the best thing and and if you don't watch that with carter you're failing as a failing as a parent okay does it does it have uh does it have the is that in there too or something or i will i will say that uh when you mentioned the patrick stewer thing that it called to mine something else that happened in Ms. Marvel and I won't I won't mention that okay fair enough yeah yeah yeah um yeah so overall I liked it

it was good it was uh you know I don't know there's there part I think part of what it was mixed for me was when I realized that this was trying to straddle two things it was trying to be super MCU in the way we think of MCU movies but then it would shift into this darker tone yeah where things got real weird and it sometimes sometimes I just found that a little discordant like there were two different movies. But when they were all in on either one, I was having a great time. It was just a little bit shifty at times.

But I really enjoyed it. It was freaking great. Did you enjoy the obligatory Bruce Campbell cameo? Oh, yeah, that was great. I feel like he, didn't he get, some talk about something Sam Ramey did recently where, oh, no, we all saw it. It was, it's old.

Cook in the Dead. They cut his scene. They cut his business out, yeah. Yeah. And so my head, I was like, for some reason, I thought that was more recent or something. And I thought it was this. I thought someone had said they cut it out of this. And then when he showed up, started punching himself. I'm like, all right, here we go. This is cool. So good. And I need to watch it again. And I need to like slowly go through the different multiverses that they just spend a second, a half a second in.

Because it's been confirmed that one of those is something from the old X-Men comics, even though that's not its own universe. that is a part of a hidden part of earth. Was it the animated bit that they went through? No. No. Okay. No. I mean, I guess I can say it.

Well, because the people who are... We have the two-week rule. It's, yeah, exactly. This thing's been out forever. They go through the freaking savage land. Oh, okay. So that quick mishmash of like zip, zip, zip all that through that stuff. I'm sure there's hidden crap in there, right?

Like, there's got to be other... And that's why I want to see more of it. Yeah. That was pretty cool. And, uh, and you got to, I love that's the, I didn't think the third eye itself was worthy of having a whole stinger devoted to it. Yeah, maybe. But I did like the, I loved the new character introduction with Charlize.

Yeah, that was cool. I wish he was bald and had black sit on her forehead. I know you do. I know you do. It's fine. You can't have it all. No, you can't. I really try, but you can't.

It's fun, though. It's good. I think people should see it. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Okay. Okay, so the order should be, Loki. Yeah. Before anything else.

And then, I guess, depending on which you've got time for, either Ant-Man and Wasp or Ms. Marvel. But, you know, Ant-Man and Wasp, you'll finally get some explanation on how things happened at the beginning of Avengers Endgame. Oh, right. I'll finally get some understanding. 2019's Endgame will finally make sense to me. I'm excited. I can't wait. Oh yeah, Captain Marvel.

Need to see Captain Marvel. Need to see. Have you not watched Moon Night? No Moon Night yet, no. Oh, okay. Yeah, Moon Night's good, but it should come after. It's not connected. No, there's, uh, yeah, you can do that really anytime, but it's good.

Yeah, it's just Poe Dameron running around doing shit. Exactly. Are any of these one-off things they did any good? I didn't, I saw those listed in Disney Plus and I just didn't, I haven't bothered, but they're, they're like, they call them one, like a Thor one. Off. What are those? What is that stuff? Those are, not stingers. Those are things that were included on the Blu-rays of a lot of the Marvel films. And at least the early ones. And they're worth seeing. A lot of them are worth seeing. The one shot. The one with Lizzie Kaplan, who I know you like. I do like Lizzie Kaplan. Yeah, that one's really good. Yeah, they're all worth singing. They're all short. and what is she's not an MCU person

she is now because she's been in one of these one shots that means everyone's in the MCU now everyone is in the MCU yes well Lizzie Kaplan you're great some of them more than once all right so Scott

Friday morning yeah oh this is a lift story hold on drive acceptable speeds be courteous and obey traffic regulations all right give me a lift story and I did do all that So Friday morning got up really early. I mean, I got up, what, 6 o'clock, 5.30, 6, and decided to go out and do some lift just to get a whole day's worth of driving in before we had guests the connection and couch party. Right.

And so I don't, those days I just make coffee, put in a cup, and then hit the road. I worry about breakfast like if there's a lull in picking up passengers. Sure, sure. So that's when I grab breakfast with some place. nearby. I try and find a diner that I've never been to and go and check it out because I end up in different parts of the city so it's like, oh, well, this will be fun. Let's try this

place. Sure. So picked up a woman who was going to work. Her job was at the Fairfield Inn in the Suites. She was clearly, I think she was housekeeping just based on the way she was dressed and what she was bringing to work and that sort of thing. Picked her up and a 20-minute

ride. We pull into the fair field in the little breezeway there and I look back and she is out and I mean like I had that woman that I brought back from the hospital at like 10 o'clock at night one time that she was you know that fell asleep and snored like a wild animal in the back of the car sure this woman was quiet and out of her but she the only thing holding her from falling completely forward was the seatbelt she was like she was like arms out like like the walking dead like arms out You weren't worried that you had a corpse on your hands or anything.

A little bit, yeah, a little bit. I would have thought of that first time. But she was just completely out. And so, ma'am, ma'am, we're here. So you had to wake her up? Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I had to wake her up. Yeah, there were no speed bumps that I could.

I was looking. I tried to look for speed bumps or tap the brakes. Boy, you have to be really tired for a 20-minute drive to knock you out that month. Yeah. But, you know, I was playing. playing chill music you know music from my actual chill playlist

and and then you know it's early it's when you and also whenever your drivers get in you inject them with fentanyl I forgot about that

you did that as well I hand them water bottles filled with barbiturates yeah exactly yeah got to get them out somehow so so wake her up she gets out and like all right well you know

I'm not getting another ride right away what's around here for dinas oh delectable like great go over there, get, uh, it's a, it's a, how don't we call it a chain? There are like three or four here in Colorado. They're all, um, you call it the delectable egg? The delectable egg. Sounds all right. Sounds good to me. So, uh, hop in there. I get a little, little eggs, a little bacon, little toast, and, uh, some more coffee. And finish up, get out of there. Back in the car. Next ride is really close to, it's another hotel really close by, not the same

hotel i dropped the lady out but another hotel go and pick up this guy and uh wouldn't you know he's going to the airport so we're looking at a like a 35 40 minute drive cool all right so uh load his suitcase in the car we start driving we're going down the um the toll road which is great because i can go 80 on the toll road it's so nice makes sense uh driving along and all of a sudden i'm feeling like a little in my stomach that that specific noise and My favorite noise. And I'm thinking, oh, man, all right, this ain't, well, this, this, this might be a problem. I think, I think I might have to drop this guy off at the airport and then, like, immediately go to the cell phone waiting lot where there's a little, like a food court, basically, with restrooms, indoor restrooms, not like outdoor.

But, you know, I might have to stop there and take care of some stuff. Diarrhea. Uh-huh. Exactly. too. So I go to my little phone, I hit the little button that says, no more rides. Like, basically you turn off, so I don't automatically get

queued into another ride before this one's finished. So, continuing on, oh, you know, starting to feel a little bit better. Okay, turn rides back on. And then almost immediately, it's like my stomach said, oh, no, you don't.

Look at me. I'm the captain now. Yeah. And then immediately so I turn things back off. I'm like, all right, all right, that's the plan. Drop this guy off, drive back over to that food court. It's about a, from dropping off the passenger, it's about a seven or eight, probably seven or eight minute ride there. It's not too bad, but that can be an eternity depending on your threat level. It can be.

And as we're moving along, we're reaching defcon. Is it higher or lower? Wait a minute. Defcon. Higher is worse, I think. So right. It starts out defcon one, and then the worst. it gets the higher the number.

I think that's right, yeah. I think that's right. I know I can, I always, I can guess myself and, uh, defcons mess with my head, so I don't know. So by the time we get to, like, driving into the airport itself before I'm even in the drop-off lane, I'm starting to kind of white knuckle the steering wheel. I am gripping it so tight that like my, you know, like, I'm, I'm every once in all having to force myself to relax my hand. and go, ah, okay, just to take my mind off of things. Yeah.

And I'm thinking, I'm not going to make it to the food court thing. I'm going to have to pay seven bucks and park and run and grab the nearest bathroom in the airport. Oh, $7 shitter, man. $7 pooper business. Oh. So, I hate that. We get to the thing. I drop them off.

I go in the back of the suitcase out. and hop back in my car and immediately like, all right, how am I getting to parking? And as I'm doing them, I'm thinking, I'm not even going to make it to parking. I'm not even, there is, this is happening whether, like, this might be my last lift ride of the day. I might just head home and change my clothes or something is the way things are going. Sure. So I pull around, I'm in the west side, I pull around to the east side of the airport. it and there's basically on the level i'm at it's the commercial the commercial ride level right so

that's where the taxis the ubers lifts the um limousines park there the buses that go out to the parking lots and the regular buses that go etc and the furthest out island is the uber and lift island and it's like a yep come up pick up your passengers or drop off or yeah yes you can't drop off you drop off close but you can pick them up at the fifth island out. So it's like, yep, pick up your passengers and keep, keep on moving. No, no, you know, no, no, no, uh, no parking, no, none of that stuff. Yeah. I, I say, screw it. At this point, it's, it's, it's going to be a ticket. It's going to be a ticket or it's going to end up being, you know, hose out the car. Something, something, something. Some horrible outcome. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. So I pull up and I park the car and I flick on the hazards, turn off the car, take my

key out, put my phone to my, take my phone out of the little holder, put it up to my ear and lock the door, and as I'm walking, I'm like yeah, uh-huh, oh, a passenger with a handicap passenger? Yes, I can go, I can go pick her up, yeah, she's inside the terminal, okay, yeah, you know, the other Uber drivers that are looking at me. Oh,

she wants me to, she wants me to walk up to the terminal, like I'm trying to keep a quarter between my knees and not let it drop, yeah, okay, I can do that. Oh, man. So, I'm like, you know, putting on this Academy Award-winning performance. and I can just it's like oh my god all right I don't know where it's gonna where this door is going to take me into the terminal and I hope I can find a bathroom soon enough so sure enough takes me right into baggage clam I'm like all right there used to be bathrooms there before the remodel where are the bathrooms now and I turn to look to my left and I find a women's room I'm like okay yeah oh and there's the men's room like about you know I was hoping you're going ways behind it yeah I know what you're hoping yeah so I still whatever reason keeping the phone up to my ear Even though there's no reason, like it's not, you know, the Oscar season is over.

Yeah, the ruse is through. You've done all the acting you're going to do. Exactly. But you got that phone. I make it to the men's room, and there are six stalls, three of which are open. Oh, thank God. I go to the first stall, I'm about to go in there, and I look, and it's completely out of toilet paper. Great.

It's like, oh, okay. Well, next stall. I go to the next one, completely out of toilet paper. All they have are the little, the little, um, toilet seat rings that you can put on the seats, which is what I imagine stalls 1, 3, and 5 are currently using because every

stall, the last stall, also out of toilet paper. Yeah, you want paper cuts where the paper cuts should never be? Go ahead and use those toilet covers. Yeah. So I run back over to the to the sinks and you know, we are if we were at DefCon 5 before, I don't know where we're at before. So for the record, so for the

record. I looked it up. If I thought it would make it different. I looked it up. You would be at DefCon 1. Lower the number, the worse it is. Oh, lower the number of the worse it is. Yeah, you're at what they call pistol. Let's see. Sorry, cocked pistol or white alert is DefConn 1. That's about right. Yeah. Yeah. So I go over the sinks. Thank God it's, they still have paper towels and it's not all

dice and air drys because that certainly wouldn't work. And I just grab, baby towel, paper towel, like five or six of them. And I run and I grab the first stall. Just in time. Wow. I won't go on any further detail there. Yeah. But this whole time I'm thinking, oh, my God, I'm going to come back. There's going to be drug sniffing dogs or there's going to be airport security all standing

around my car, trying to figure out what's going on. Like, whose car is this? We're pulling it away and giving me a ticket. Yeah. So I wrap up in there and wash my hands, of course. And then I go back to the door I came in at and I'm like, all right, pull the phone back out. time to dust off the time to go method again that's right that's right new season time to go yeah uh yeah no i didn't find her i know you know she said you she would be in a wheelchair i looked for

someone with a wheelchair and as they come around the corner i see that my car completely fine where i left it hazard still blinking all the other lift drivers that were around me completely gone they've all gotten rides so my car is sitting alone there yeah oh okay put the phone back in my pocket it. I'll lock my car, turn off my hazards, plug the phone back in, ding, you've got a ride. All right, cool. He took somebody home from the airport? I took somebody home from the airport. That's fantastic.

Yeah. I love it. That's a happy ending to an otherwise harrowing journey. It was a very, very happy ending to what could have been a very unpleasant situation. Well, for those who require additional education, so I just found all this while looking at the DefCon stuff. security tape did you find that no i did not find that i wish i could oh my gosh that'd be great i'd love to chronicle your entire five minutes or ten minutes inside that airport but instead here's what

we've got level one condition is called defcon one named cocked pistol or white alert this is like the worst you don't want this okay level two condition is called i was it i was a bullet partially protruding out of front of gun out of front of gun more than cocked pistol yeah you were uh peaking uh What do they call that? Prairie dogging. Prairie dogging. Or ball pointing, as I heard. Ball pointing?

Oh. Ball pointing. I don't know why that's worse. It is, though. It's totally worse because ball pointing leaves a mark. Yeah, I don't like that. Level 2 is called DefCon 2, and of course, named, says named Fast Pace or Red Alert, okay?

Okay. Level 3, you got Roundhouse or Yellow Alert. I don't know why it's called Roundhouse, but that's dot com 3. all sound like euphemisms for I really have to poo or pee. It kind of does, right? Here's another one. Level 4 condition also named double take or green alert. I don't know why it's called double take.

That's weird. It's because you look over and say, let's see, missiles coming from Russia. Wait, whoa, blah, blah, blah. Missils coming from Russia. Yep, then you go three, two, one immediately. And then five. That's what you do with that one.

Exactly. Five, which is your lowest, is DefCon, 5, and it is called fade out or blue alert. So fade out. It almost sounds worse. Interestingly enough, that is all the different varieties of Johnny Walker that you can get. All those different colors you mentioned. Oh, yeah. They're, you know, ask your bartender.

It's fantastic stuff. Yeah, exactly. Well, anyway, so that's great. I love that story. You should always tell that story. Real quick here, you saw. Let me really quickly one more thing and I wasn't planning on talking about, but we got hit. We got pummeled with storms yesterday.

And I was doing a thing. I was lifting where I was trying to get. to a certain number of rides to get a hundred and some dollar bonus. Like if you do a certain number of rides, they tell you on Mondays, hey, if you do 43 rides this week, we'll throw you an additional 200 bucks or whatever. It's like, oh, okay, cool. There's plenty on doing that anyway. Yeah. The last ride of the day, pick somebody up fairly close to my house and take them to downtown Denver, not too far for, you know, 30-minute normal drive.

and on the way a weather system rolled in that had torrential rain downpour flooding like it got bad and I'm dropping them off at their hotel and it's a woman who has an electric wheelchair that we had to fold up and put in the back and she's got an artificial like a cool metallic artificial leg and so I'm like well I've got an umbrella in the car I'm going to do this yet let's do it so I'm holding the umbrella over her and as we're trying to get the the wheelchair out and I'm completely getting soaked. I would not have been wetter if I had jumped in Crazy Neighbors' Pool. Oh my gosh. That's how soaked I was.

To the bone. Yeah, yeah. We had these two, by the way. I think we sent them your direction once again. We had like a bad storm. Oh, my gosh. I should send you it because I took some video of it. There was a river going like

not just in the gutter, but on the whole side of the street I was parked on and up and over the curb onto the sidewalk like it was like where i parked was this river and so i like trying to well do i hunker down somewhere do i try and make it home this was the last right of the day but it was it was horrendous i should yeah i'll send you some video of photos because these it was absolutely nuts okay all right so there you go yeah all right well there's that yeah storms man storms tell me about nope nope nope and bullet train you went and saw both went and saw both were they good um all right so

start with nope and these will be really quick reviews uh nope really really good i didn't like it as much as i liked us and get out i thought get out was fantastic nope is probably you know us i would give a solid b too and um and nope was probably just under that maybe a b minus c plus kind of thing um they do something in that movie with regard to uh uh i i I don't want to get, it's new enough that I'm not going to want to give anything away. They do something in that movie that I've never seen done before in a movie of that type. And it, it, with all the movies I've seen of that, of that type, it's amazing that nobody's ever done this before. And I thought it was absolutely brilliant.

Well, I, okay, interesting. So, so there's that. And it was, you know, it's a lot of fun. It's, it's a fun movie. All right. Bullet Train. Oh, with the Bradley Pitt. He's a handsome 50, six years.

So it's basically, it is like a Guy Ritchie film with technology, because it's you're on a bullet train, and it's full of different assassins who are all trying to kill each other. And what a freaking cast list, right? You've got Brian Tyrese, what is the name, Brian Tyrese, or Tyree from Atlanta, Brian Tyree Henry, Brian Tyree Henry. Brian Tyree Henry, yeah, that's a weird name. Yeah, he's paper boy on Atlanta. he was, I want to see he was on Walking Dead for a while. He's fantastic in this. You've got Michael Shannon, who's incredible, always incredible.

Of course, Brad Pitt, Joey King. I'm trying to remember who else was in this thing. Anyway, so it's basically, it is a Guy Ritchie film, maybe a little Tarantino kind of thing going on, just about the whole thing takes place on this bullet train in Japan. And it's getting mediocre critical reviews, but audience scores are really high. And I feel like I side more with the audience on this one. It's a lot of fun.

Is there some really deep substance, something you've never seen before in a movie? No, not really. But it's so well done. And it's a perfect role for Brad Pitt to be this kind of anti-violence hippie, no more guns. you know, assassin, and be, you know, spouting these things like, hurt people, hurt people, and bad guys. I really, really enjoyed it. And so I'd say it's absolutely worth saying.

It looks on paper to be a movie I would just love automatically. Yeah, yeah. I think that's, you know, that's, both of these things, you can probably wait until they're streaming, no reason to, you know, make sure you see them in the theater. but a lot of fun. For me, a must-see theater experience is very rare now. There's very little you could convince me I have to see it in theaters.

If somebody said to me, hey, you know, it only works in theaters and it'll never be anywhere else, well, then maybe you got me. Well, yeah. I mean, I still feel like Marvel movies. I'm such a protectionist when it comes to not wanting to get spoiled with stuff that I have to do the, I have to do Marvel movies on opening night. Oh, yeah, good point. Yeah, if your ultimate goal in our circles especially is to avoid spoilers for big releases,

I think you probably have to go, right? Yeah, and they're always bombastic, and you need to see them on the biggest screen possible for me anyway. So, anyway, that's that's that. I got you. One last thing. Holy cow, I'm talking a lot, but whatever. Last week was my birthday. Yeah, it was your birthday.

How was your birthday? It was awesome. You know that. Oh, look at this. about that before. But this, which came out incredible. This is from Scott.

It is a drawing of me playing Tempest. And this thing is fantastic. We're getting a frame for it. I got to figure out where wall space is a premium these days. I know, right? It's not an unlimited resource these walls. I get it. Exactly. I almost need to

build new walls just so I can hang stuff on here. But I want to share this out. I basically need you to send me like a digital version of the file so I can put it on Twitter. Oh yeah, I can totally do that. Doing this thing, holding it up and trying to take a picture of it or putting it somewhere and taking a picture of it won't do it any justice. Yeah, yeah.

I had a lot of fun making it, I can tell you that. It was a ton of fun and I've never done a Tempest machine before, nor have I drawn Brian from the back. Dude, I compared it so I had it sitting there on the pinball machine right next to the Tempest machine and I was comparing like even the rays coming out of it, you

got the position of every ray on the side, like the red and white Ray is on the side exactly. Oh, good. That makes me happy. My reference was actually the little one you gave me that's back there. Oh, really? Oh, cool.

I actually set it up and stared at it like an idiot and figured out how to make it work. Well, that's good. That makes me very, very happy to hear that. I'm glad you liked it. It's incredible. So, yeah, I want to tweet this thing out. Because you and I have this problem. I don't know if anyone else deals with this, but because we're sort of tapped into all the nerd

crap and everything. Yeah, yeah. we always kind of if we know we're going to get a thing we usually just get it you know we're not like sitting around going gosh i sure hope someone gets that from our birthday like we just don't do it and so in this case i was like i gotta do something where it's you know we can't buy this anywhere right and it's his favorite game yeah i make uh you know i make it very difficult for people to find something that i don't have to to get for uh for gifts Tina you know basically puts a moratorium on any purchases for me um starting at the beginning of July or the end of, middle of June or something, where, Brian, you can't buy anything for yourself. If you think of something you want, you just put it in a list and give it to me,

and I'm going to disseminate it out to people who ask. I have this exact same problem. And my wife gets mad. She's like, all I can get you is like a t-shirt. And I'm like, well, I like t-shirts are cool. She's like, yeah, but that sucks for us. You know, we don't feel like we can get you anything. So anyway, I'm glad you like it.

Yes, love it. Happy devil. I just like it, Scott, I love it. I think it'll fit well in your zone. And I swear. between bry dock you know the modoc thing you did the the me and the jiggly puff this guy the drawing you did of me in the uh in the front of that sketchbook you gave me um i swear i bet i'm pretty sure i'm the person you've drawn most in life maybe even more than fred yeah i'm pretty sure well maybe not that he's got about or no 75 comics yeah he's a little up on me yeah but still it's like uh he doesn't exist you're the you are the most real person i've drawn the most there you go there we go all right i'll tell you take that okay that's and if i die you got a bunch of stuff you can if i die famous i should say you can yeah then that's a lot oh then all this stuff is going up on ebair yeah yeah but i can't

guarantee the fame uh i think i'll probably die in obscurity you can't guarantee that they're going to go with it no you never know all right i'm going to call done away we're going to crank out a fun little game here yeah and uh it'll be great i'm looking forward to it hopefully he's about uh talk to him this morning he's in the thing oh yeah he's in the thing yeah he's in the thing He's a boot. He's in the thing. Hey, that music signifies the following. We're about to play a game. Brian Dunaway joins us to play it with us.

Hi, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Oh, hi. Hello. How are you? How are you guys doing this Monday? Pretty good, man. Super.

Yeah, it's a Monday. You know, it is the bright new dawning of a brand new opportunity for so much in life. That's right. That's right. You've been drinking my Kool-Aid? That's my wine. I love Mondays By the way

Oh do you? I didn't know that You're like the anti-Garfield You're anti-Garfield I love Yeah I'm Heathcliff I'm hip and I'm a hip-pool cat From the 70s

That's right Yeah that's right For 60s Hey I spoke we I went to with a friend To this place called Immigration Diner Up in Immigration Canyon Here down in Salt Lake City

And it's an awesome place I never heard of And we went to breakfast Breakfast with them I highly recommend it And his name's Riley And Riley and I see each other probably once a month or something and you you two the two brian's were the chief

point of conversation in the uh in our breakfast yeah isn't that weird nice yeah it all came down to i was listening to film sack this and that and the other he's talking about all these things and he would not what's brian's deal with people's profiles and chims and right he would not shut up what's going on he would not shut up about done away's intros he thinks your intros are the lord's work and uh they really are yeah they should never stop i i do i do I do love doing them. So it's a blessing in two ways. Yeah.

It was really good place, though. Check it out. Immigration Canyon. And it's called Immigration Cafe. And it's right next to this old place called Ruth's Diner, which is also fantastic. But they're like up in the canyon, like not too far up. It's maybe eight minutes up to canyon. But it's like nestled up in the trees and mountains.

That's just awesome. People should go. I'm just full of hippies. So many damn hippies. Say what? Yeah, you go now. I'm on my way. Yeah.

Get down here. I'll meet you up there. I'd be fine. Anyway, let's get to this game. I'll talk to you in the car. That's right. And you explain these rules and things and who might win things and all that stuff. Sure, sure.

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 Brian a category and six possible answers, tongue twisters. Three of which are correct and three of their incorrect. Depending on how confident you feel with the category, you can provide one, two or three guesses. But if you get any of those guesses wrong, you get zero points for that round. Guess one and get it right and you get a point. Guess two gets you three points if you get them right. And if you gets all three correctly, five points for that round.

The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. And contestants are pulled from members of the tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're going to be playing for Jim Garcia in Houston, Texas. Brian, you're going to be playing for Ian Graham in Hamilton, Ontario. Sounds like a British person. That's in Canada. That's in Canada, yeah. Canada's great. We like it up there.

Diarrere. Whoops. Sorry. I didn't mean to push that again. What are you shipping to Canada? Is it digital? It's digital. Always digital. The winner's going to get AI War II and Niflheim. Nifflehem's great. I love that game. Oh, yeah. That's a great game, yeah. The runner-up is going to get sniper ghost warrior contracts. I don't know what that is.

Niper ghost warrior contracts. It sounds all right. It sounds like a stealthy sniper. It's just a PDF of a bunch of contracts. for sniper ghost warriors sure sure why not video games for everyone sure all right let's get into our game here uh i'm the let's start with uh the first question again remember three of these answers are correct the three of them are incorrect i'm gonna need you to sing it like it says sesame street song oh okay all right one three of these things are not like the others these things just don't belong yeah places that are in the same

time zone as Los Angeles. So Los Angeles is in a time zone, as are most places. I want to know these other places. He is not. It would be too easy for Randy. Other places that are in the same time zone. Your choices are Hawaii, some of Idaho, all of Nevada, all of Oregon, some of Alaska, and all of California. Damn.

Oh, I know. Some of these seem tricksy. They are tricksy, right? because it's like, well, as, you know, is all of California the same time's old as Los Angeles? Well, that Hawaii one's dumb. I just throw that out. That doesn't make sense. Hey, hey, hey.

Help Brian. Help Brian, sure. I know. I'm agreeing with him, though. I'm the same way. Ooh, I just don't know. Um, as, ooh. Um, it looks like Scott's already locked in.

I'm going to go ahead and show my ignorance. Since I live on the East Coast, a little unfair. Just saying. A little unfair, but whatever. Oh, yeah, like you can't do a little full country geography understanding. Oh, I can tell you, I can tell you everything on the East Coast that I'm in the same time zone is. I want to go? Yeah, all right, here we go.

You guys are both locked in, Scott. Yeah, yeah, whatever. Yeah, yeah. Moving on. One of these idiots is saying stupid stuff. Scott, you locked in with some of Alaska, all of California, and all of Nevada. Brian, you also locked in with all of Nevada. and some of Idaho.

All in Nevada is correct. That is all in the Pacific time zone. As is, some of Idaho. Damn it. You got three points. None of Alaska is in the same time zone as Los Angeles. The chat room was all saying Oregon, Oregon. But no, there's a little chunk of Oregon that is actually freaking mountain time, which is crazy.

Really? What the heck? How does that? Wait, I'm trying to imagine it. How does it have to hang over Idaho somehow? It does, yeah. So, you know, some of... And it does just that weird.

Yeah, some of Idaho, not all of Idaho, is, uh, is, uh, Larry Kenobi in the chat. Oregon sucks, he says. Oh, wow. Damn, dude. I am shocked all a California is in there. That kind of made, it felt, it felt like a, uh, a trick. Well, especially, especially when you think it does, it does feel like a trick, especially when not all of Oregon is in the Pacific time zone, but all of California. is so it's it is yeah yeah really weird all right all right uh so brian going into uh question

two with three points um there we go all right i'm just looking to see if there's any further information though i have on that all right let's go to question number two question number two is the ten most popular family names in japan so uh you think hey you think the west coast is far down away yeah exactly i'm telling you man i feel even I feel even at this. Your choices are Sato, Yamamoto, Nomura, Tanaka, Nekobasu, and Kubo. Three of those are part of the ten, are three of the ten most popular family names in Japan. Three of those are not.

I think I know, too. I'm going to use, I'm going to use logic here. Just, okay, I'm just going to use logic. Okay, all right. You're both locked in. All right, well done, Scott, Sato, and Tanaka. Both of them are in the top ten. The other one is Yamamoto in the top ten.

Kubo is not. Neither of the two strings. Neither of the strings. Yeah, Nikobasu, by the way, just means cat bus in Japanese. Cat bus. Back. That's a little reference to Miyazaki. All right.

No Mura, by the way, is number 95. Kubo is number 88. We got a tight game, baby. Sato, by the way, is number one. Oh, okay. All right, let's see how good you. Are you eating right now, Scott? I'm eating a peanut.

I'm eating a peanut. Why are you doing that? I don't know. I don't know why. I just put a peanut in. I didn't know those rules. I'm sorry. Can we interrupt your breakfast with the show?

I don't know why. Peanut sounded good. I grabbed a peanut. I figured I could get away with a peanut. All right. I'm drinking a Coke coffee, mocha. Can I do that? Yeah, you can do that.

You're allowed. Drinks are fine. Yeah. All right. Let's get to question number three. Legal words in Scrabble. So which of these six are words you can actually play in Scrabble and not have somebody call you out? Word list.

Oh, they're going to call you out. Lib Lab. Doom Very. Chumble, corn dog, and unwhite. These are legal. Unwhite. These are actual real words. Unwhite.

Wow. I need to watch that T-shirt, Ryan. I didn't watch that t-shirt, Brian. It is unwhite. It is unwhite. Oh, these are... Now, anybody can challenge you anytime in Scrabble, but only certain words are real words. Correct.

Yeah, ones you will actually get called out on if you get them wrong. Right. Okay. All right, we have our answers. You guys both locked in on the same two answers. corn dog and unwhite uh-huh one of those is correct uh unwhite is actually a legal word corn dog is not two words yep two words the other two are lib lab which is a supporter of liberal and labor groups lib lab and uh doom very is a magistrate of ancient rome so wait you'd say hey uh what are you doing i got a new job

the government what's what's the what is it on the new doom veery what does that even mean new doom there yeah yes exactly uh but i don't want to find out um white actually or unwhite really actually is a what does that mean unwhite does it just mean not white it just means not white yeah okay yeah uh so we got to go to a tiebreaker guys yeah tiebreaker oh yes high breaker time uh who let's see on white brian you got points first so I'm going to let you decide whether you give the answer to this question or Scott, but I'm going to tell you the question, and then Scott's going to go higher or lower. On average, how many pounds of poop does a male African elephant produce per day?

So male African elephant. Male African elephant. How much does it produce per day? How much does it produce per day? So Brian Dunway, you can either answer or you can make Scott answer and you can do the higher lower. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to make Scott answer that so I can do higher lower. Okay.

This is some stupid. 100 pounds. 100 pounds. 100 pounds is incorrect. Brian is the actual answer higher or lower than 100 pounds. It's going to be higher. Unwhite. It is higher.

235 pounds than an African elephant elephant. That's a lot of corn dogs. Damn. That's a lot of unwhite corn dogs. That's a lot, man. Yeah. It is so. Brian Dunaway wins.

I'll be bleaching that bottle hole. Right? It's unwhite. I don't know. Look, I just, I'm going to guess, I could be wrong, but I'm guessing there's never been an elephant who's had its bumhole bleached in the history of elephants.

There's no way. Not one elephant. No, probably not. I would continue. I would agree with that. Yeah. Congratulations. Then going to Ian Graham of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

You're getting AI War II and Nifflehem. but Jim Garcia, you're getting the aptly worded sniper ghost warrior contracts game. Yeah. Also from Steve, Steam, all of these courtesy of Wesley. That sniper one has a really good review on Steam. It's like as high as you can get almost. Yeah, so you might have gotten the real winner there, secondary person.

Those other two are good too. But anyway, here's Scott Fletcher to wish you well. Now you're ready to take the order. No, that's not it. Congratulations. You're a winner. Congratulations, indeed. Brian Dunaway, especially to you

who came in here and helped a guy win a thing. You did great. You know what? It's also great as you and I get together for a little retro gaming for our show, play retro. It'll happen tomorrow. At 3.30 Mountain Time, we're doing all the Beavis and Butthead games from the 16-bit era. Why?

Well, they just released a brand new show and it's funny as shit. By the way, episode one of the new Beavis and Butthead series, because remember, in the movie, do the universe. They travel through time and end up in 2022. So they're just normal Beavis and Butthead. They're just in our time now.

Oh, cool. That's not all the versions. Okay. No. So now that they made this, this jump in time, they make this new series. First episode, Brian Abbott, they go to a escape room. Really? And it's funny as hell. It's so good. I can't wait. Oh, I can't wait to watch this. The first episode is on YouTube. It's on Paramount Plus. Yeah, Paramount Plus has the first three. You can watch the first one.

too. Yeah. And the second episode is just as good if not better. I agree. I think it's you got good legs. I agree. Three is even out. You can go get three now on there as well. I haven't watched the yet, but I'm gonna. It's very good. And here's the thing. For those at home going, are they going to do music videos in between story stuff like they did on MTV and like commentate and all that? No, they're doing something else instead. They're watching YouTube videos in between. And it's great.

That's where you go. It's perfect. It's today's MTV anyway. It's perfect. So anyway, I'm super pleased with where this thing is going. And I think if you're an old-time fan, you'll like it as well. Anyway, that's what we're covering. Those video games based on that property and all the connected tissue,

there's more than you think, as always, with Play Retro. So check it out, 330 Mountain Time here at frogpants. Or you can get the podcast after. Brian, done anything else you want to say. That's it. I play these games throughout the weekend. week, 6 p.m. Eastern time, usually. Yeah, do it. Watch me. Eat a poo. All right. He's out. That's the end of him. Out. Out. All right. We are going to take a break.

When we come back, major spoiler zone, Stephen Schlecker will join us. Some weird stuff going on at DC and Warner Brothers and H.P.O. And Discovery and all that. And we'll talk about some of the fallout, one in particular. That's kind of a big deal. Among other things. So stick around for that. Before that, though, we got a little break here lined up with some music. what do you got there if you've if you've heard of the band uh 16 deluxe the lead singer is a woman named kerry clark she is joining uh for this song the band the living pins this is an austin psychedelic underground indie band uh coming back after 25 years reuniting after 25 years to release a brand new single this thing is great and the brand new album comes out or is it just a single i'm sorry it is just a two song ep that is out the whole thing is out this is side one and it's

called, oh yeah, here are the Living Pins. there was thunder volcano confusion the mystery there's not an illusion Picasso Aloha

the evening had a certain aroma Miami Rococo the marshmallows it came with the cocoa yeah oh yeah

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You never got it back from the cleaner Miami The cocoa The marshmallows that came with the cocoa Oh, yeah, yeah you caught me going. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, you got me going. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.

Oh, and oh, oh. Space is a concern, and I realize that that's true in all your stores. However, by having a cold barrel by your cash register, you'll be catching all those people on the go. Put one in your pocket. you can't spell the morning stream without remonstrating this is the morning stream all right we're back tell us who that was one more time yeah that's the living pins from austin and the brand new song oh yeah kind of a cool name for a band the living pins yeah that's cool i like that a lot all right um okay i will give some credit i gotta go and credit. When we were having the bad rain, it was on Friday, I think, real bad that night. And normally that we had these concerts nearby us, like two, three blocks away at this big

Ampa area, a park, concerts in the park kind of thing. Yeah, we have a big series all summer and it's always, always packed, always fun to go by there. And there's this place across the way that makes amazing New York style pizza. Highly recommend it. It's called Mitchells. No, Mitchells. I don't think it's Mitchells. It's a different name. Anyway, it doesn't matter. it's amazing you can't miss it but um the the other night there was another cover band i think a journeing cover band this time oh really yeah people love the freaking 70s and 80s cover bands at this they just flock there all these gen xers everywhere anyway um that's when the storm hit right in the middle all that and uh shoot they played through it and most of people stayed yeah yeah was there

anybody left to listen to it though didn't everybody scramble for no most of them stayed i really surprised me. That's awesome. Yeah, all got wet and out there just going, please, uh, whatever, faithfully. Open arms. Yeah, open arms, man. Anyway,

it is what it is. Let's get, uh, let's get Stephen in. I got to remember how you had him. Okay. There we go. There he is. All right. We're bringing Stephen in. We're bringing him in. Hot. Here he is. Stephen Schlecker.

Stephen Schlecker. Hey, look who it is. Our old pal Steven Schlecker. Joining us from major spoilers.com. All the way from Hayes, Kansas. the beautiful open ranges of Hayes, Kansas. Hello, Stephen. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian.

That's true. That's true, right? Big beautiful planes and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're in the western plains. We're in the front, basically the lead up to the front range of the Rocky Mountains. That's right.

That's right. Basically, from Denver to basically Salina, Kansas is just one flat, sir. One big plane. I was trying to figure out. So the northern plains are like what, Dakota's maybe Montana Over left if you had left If you go east

Okay because that's that was mostly in that prey movie And I kept trying to think Is this anywhere where Stephen is But they had a lot of mountains I'm like he doesn't have a lot of mountains What prairie movie are you talking about? The prey prey prey Okay sorry sorry sorry

Yeah I haven't watched that one Pray just to make it today It was uh That movie's awesome by the way It was on the lineup MC Hammer theme song right It's not they don't use that No, they don't, unfortunately.

They did, I will say this. I'll probably mention it again on Wednesday, but they hired this girl who is the composer of the last three Assassin's Creed games. Yeah. And she's so good. And apparently Dan Tractenberg, while playing one of those, I think Valhalla or something, was like, this is so good.

We need someone to score this upcoming movie. I'm going to call her, and that's how they got together. The score is spectacular. it's so good. That's great. I can't believe they made a Predator movie this well. It's insane. Anyway. I ended up watching all of the Sandman series. Oh, the whole thing.

In the showroom I've been talking about that saying it's excellent. It is so good. I mean, it's, you know, I kind of talked about it last week of where I thought they were going to go up to. And yeah, they ended right where I thought that they were going to end. And it's super accurate to the comic books. Have you found? I mean, not like a, not like a, not, not, not, like a page for page, you know, breakdown, but, you know, if you want to see a hobgabbling

story, you want to see the story with death, you want to see what happens at the serial convention, it's all in there. It's Constantine in there. So you can't show up in that? Yes, it is Joanna Constantine. Oh, that's right. Which is the Gena Coleman version. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, okay, so I could be wrong, but it seems like every time Neil Gaiman is directly involved with one of his adaptations, things go better. Doesn't it seem that way? seems like that. I feel like his other one, what's

that story? The one Carter loves. Gosh, dang it. The one that was recent with the Doctor Who guy was in it. It played the devil or not the devil, but he was like a demon. Morbius? No. Shit. No, it was a mini-series and they showed it on Hulu and it was fantastic and it was called

something. Chatroom will know this. Good omens. Geez, Louises. Oh, good omens. He was directly involved in that. He was directly involved in Coraline. Like the ones that you think about, that really did well he was directly involved with the ones where he wasn't like american gods which is a shame because that book is so good uh kind of a you know kind of a petered out thing um you know star dust is okay but it's still not him so he needs to just be directly involved hands on all

the time is what i'm saying i know right yeah the actor that they have playing sandman is just wow really great i mean i don't know i don't know if they did any kind of digital stuff on him this guy is like stick thin, rail thin, like the comic book, Sandman. Yeah, when I see his picture, I think, oh my gosh, they made him. That's the guy. They built the character from 3D printed the character. Yeah, he's got this like gauntness and like etherealness that is hard to, I don't know, the comic has always been really weird and druggie looking.

So it's hard to reproduce that in live action. He looks like the part. Yeah, highly recommended. Highly recommend. Nice. I'm going to watch it. And, Chad, I'm not ripping on Star Dust. I actually really like that movie.

I'm just saying it's very different from the book. I feel like maybe it would have been even better heading to gaming a bit involved, but whatever. Anyway. So, Scott, you sent me a message on Saturday. I did. About something that you loved. Yeah. Do you remember what I was?

You finally read it? Yes. So I wanted to mention that which thing. Oh, oh. Yeah, Pulp. So I read Pulp. I'm glad you brought that up. I almost forgot to, or I did forget to bring it up today. So you recommended it last week and you said, hey, it's this, um, on the cover, it looks like a Western, but it's not really, but it is kind of like it's this weird combination of things. I actually don't want to give too much away because I want people to discover this thing. You are so right about that book. Some of my favorite things, brewbaker's ever written. And I say things, it's only, it's short and it's done.

Yeah. It's done in one. And you're right about how, like, how else are you going to continue that thing on? I agree that it's a self-contained thing and it's done. But man, do I hunger for more of that. It's so fantastic, you guys, go get that trade or that wherever you can get it. It's so good. I'm so glad you mentioned that you want more of it because out this week is pulp. I think it's called like the director's edition, but it has all like this rough art and the script in it as well.

So if people kind of want to behind the scenes on how comic books are made, that Pulp Edition comes out this week. Oh, I'm going to get my hands on that too then. Literally, I don't want to under or overstate this. It is one of my favorite things I've read recently, like Barnon, especially in comics. It's just incredibly well written. I was hooked at every word. It just really resonated on a bunch of levels for me.

And I was sad when it ended because I just want more. It's so good. So check it out. I'm glad you said it's one of your favorite things that you've read recently because you know what else comes out this week? Thanks, Scott. What? The latest installment of 8 billion genies.

Oh, shut up. It's when, but Wednesday? New issue comes out on Wednesday. I'm so excited. You know how much I love that so far? It's fantastic. Yeah. I wondered when that was going to be.

Let's see. I'm just going to look real quick and see if my, oh, yeah, there it is issue for. Oh. How long is this slated to run? Do you know? I don't know. I think it's eight issues for the miniseries.

And then, of course, as we already know, we've talked that they've already optioned it for, some kind of a streaming TV series movie adaptation. You guys, you're missing out if you haven't read 8 billion genies. I don't know what's going on, but lately Stevens' recommendations have just landed for me so hard. And this was... Now, would you please read the Supergirl book that I've been telling you for two years? That's next.

I have it queued up. I'm good. In fact, I'll read that tonight. I'll probably have a comment on tomorrow's major spoilers, which I'm on this week. So I will mention that. I don't know if I have, if you've ever seen any of the Bilquist, evilly art before but she's amazing she's a Brazilian artist and she's just fantastic isn't the I think the artist for um I saw something else with another Brazilian the are the Brazilian artists

are kicking ass yeah they do what's going on in comics yeah how much is that Brazilian anyway uh yeah so check it out pulp is amazing if you're not reading it yet eight billion genies continues to be insane I can't wait for issue for it's a great time to be a comic reader especially you some indie stuff man that's where i'm really drawn right now uh all right well speaking of things a little bit more mainstream dc slash warner slash hbo slash everybody uh canceled back girl which was basically done oh i'm so tired of cancel culture i know right it's the worst i mean um this was right you you're making a joke of it but how many of the uh of those of that group that we'll put in quotes was online going see go go uh go woke go broke oh yeah i'm sure people did good point okay

Which they shouldn't do. But so this was going to have Michael Keaton in it. Michael Keaton returning is Batman from Batman 89. It's got Brendan Frazier in it as Firefly. So yeah, it was going good. They spent $90 million on this thing. And then it was in post-production. And they said, no, we're not going to, we're not going to the head of Warner Brothers.

What's his name, Laslov, I think is how you say his last name. The new guy. Zazlov. Zazlav. Zazlav. Dr. Zazlav. Dr. Zazlav.

who's the new CEO who came over from Discovery Networks basically said no we're not doing any more of these direct to video movies anymore they shelved the new scoob sequel the Hollywood whatever haunted Halloween haunt or whatever it was that's gone to we don't know what's going on with any of the original series

like Peacemaker Who knows if that's going to come back? Carly Quinn knows if that's coming back James Gunn says he says he, as far as he knows, there's no reason to think that Peacemaker's season two is in any danger were his words. I don't know if he, he may not actually know that, but that's what he says. Right. Right. And then I guess the, so none of that. And, you know, the kind of the word on the street, although the Warner Brother Discovery stockholder shareholder thing last week,

they were talking about how they only want to release stuff that is really, really good. which kind of seemed to be a slap in the face to everybody who's working on, Batgirl saying that it wasn't good enough for them to release, while in the same breath he's also talking about, yeah, I saw the Flash movie. It's really exciting. I can't wait to release that. To be fair, he said I've seen Flash,

the new Shazam, and the Black Adam movie, and they're great. I'm very excited about that. Of course, everybody pulled the Black Adam and Shazam words out of his quote and only used the back of the Flash bit. Yeah. And for people that don't. know Ezra Miller is in that and he's they are in all sorts of of problems right he's a huge mess

um yeah they have more invested in that particular movie in terms of like production dollars and all that other stuff so i'm not surprised that that's not getting canned but i don't think that movie's going to do well i really don't i don't think anyone gives a shit about the flash not just because azra miller's behavior i just mean the flash as a film i don't think people care i mean maybe how did shazam do i think people didn't really care much about shazam And that one did okay, right? I did really okay, but it's a really good, I mean, in the middle of all the dark, depressing, Snyderverse stuff, it was a breath of fresh air.

And my youngest son just loves that movie to death. And he's 11 now and cannot wait for Shazam 2 to hit the theaters, because we're going to go see that again. That does have the potential. Flash has the potential of being a fun movie. But, yeah, I don't know. I think everybody's going to look at it and see Ezra Miller and go, yeah. So I'll be interested to see how. they spin that. Now, they also said that, um, that they're no longer going to do

streaming movies and, uh, you know, the, like the Wonder Woman Dune kind of stuff that, that happened before. They're no longer going to do any of that stuff. And the implication is from, from Zazlav is that he has no faith in, um, you know, streaming being a, a launch platform. Uh, that's kind of the, the summary of his words. Which I totally don't agree with. I think same day, day and date release is one of the best things that the studios did at the time. I agree. Now, he may come back around in

eight months and see how the subscriber situation is. So, oh, no, we need to bring these things back. But right now, he's like, yeah, we're not doing any of that. The other word on the street is that the bad girl movie was canceled because they're in this weird window right now where they can take a loss

by not releasing, but taking a tax loss on this and save themselves some stuff on the tax side on the accounting side, which if that's really the case, if they're doing it specifically for tax purposes, then there's no way you will ever see that release because the minute that it's released now, they've lied on their taxes. Right. Exactly.

Yeah. So, yeah, I don't know if you'll ever see that again. Now, is there some positive out of this? Yeah, there's a little bit of positive news on this. I don't have the person's name in front of me, but he did say, hey, we've hired this person. He's going to be a, he's going to sit down and basically be Warner Brothers. Kevin Feige, and he's going to come up with a 10-year plan for their superhero movies. According to Zazlov, he wants superhero movies to be the big thing,

and he wants a lot of care and attention put on them and sees that as the big thing. This guy also is the one that approved 194 of new original reality television for HBO UK coming from a Discovery Networks where, you know, your house hunter type shows. are all the rage. I, I, you know, I'm going to wait and see. I'll totally take a wait and see. But if you're coming from a reality TV centric television network and you come into, you know, Warner Brothers with a Discovery Network's cable attitude, that doesn't sit well with me. And maybe won't sit well with everyone else.

But I'm willing to see what the, what this new guy is going to do with his tenure. We're going to have to. But, but yes, that's my big concern too. The guy seems really big on reality. partly because it's cheap to manufacture and highly profitable as a result. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And I hate that.

I think that's the demise of network television. And I'm not saying they're all bad, all network. Oh, no, they're all bad, Scott. There's not a good reality television series, not a good reality television series that does nothing to uplift anybody. I mean, I tend to agree. I would disagree, but Brian's got a few that he likes, but I don't like him either. And I, what I would, and I think that if you look at where NBC, CBS and ABC are, and you look around award season or other indicators and they have nothing on the docket,

like they are not involved in anything cool. It's because they went all in on that shit and they forego everything else. And even if they once in a while I have a little hit, like Hannibal or, you know, dozens of others I can't think of right now, they let them go too early. They cancel them ahead of their time. They can't sustain them. So even though I think we're heading toward a content bubble in general, I don't think the answer is to inject more bad reality television.

no to something like HBO Max which is you know mostly so over the next six months expect HBO Max to go away to be replaced with something some other service that will have all the Discovery Network stuff and all the HBO stuff uh Warner brother stuff all mixed what do you think they call it do you get I mean people joke about it constantly but what do you think they really will actually my guess is it's the obvious choice so again the other thing that people need to keep in mind about why are they doing all these drastic changes new guy is in he needs to make it clear to everyone else that the old guy's ideas were bad

and so that's why he's crapping on all this stuff it would not surprise me if the new thing is simply called Discovery Plus but more than likely it'll the app is I'm just throwing this out here it's just going to be WBD Plus

Warner Brothers Discovery Plus that'll be the name of their WBD Plus WBD Plus I hate it I hate it You might be right but I hate it I think that there's a mistake here that they're going to make. You know, part of me is the logistics head.

I always think about what things take to change. And I think about all these things, TV shows, movies and otherwise that say HBO Max Originals on all of their promotional material. Well, if that goes away because you're changing the name, fine. I think there's a prestige to having HBO on your stuff because they're a prestige network. They let go all of the HBO original documentaries people. Yeah, they did. And that sucks.

Yeah. And there's going to be more. off. You can probably expect over the next three months before Christmas, probably about a 40% reduction across the board between these two comments. That's not good. I don't know. I think they're cutting off their nose despite their face a little bit here. And, you know, whatever. We'll see how it pans out. Like I say, I think there's a, there is a, there's a content bubble forming. And it's going to pop at some point. And there will be a receding of that. But I hate to see them be the early, you know, the casualty, the one.

I like the most. I really like HBO stuff. I mean, the HBO Max, what is it? Cinemax had basically that Kung Fu remake that they were doing. They did two seasons of that and they announced before you know, this whole merger started to go through that they were going to come back

with a third or fourth season. I forget which one it is. I have a feeling that's not coming back. Wow. Chat thinks it should be called HBO 360. That sounds all right. Well, anyway, more on that as we know. What's bigger than Mac. Yeah, exactly. That's the Mac.

So do you think anything gets leaked or we get to see any of this bad girl? I mean, the creators, the filmmakers have been releasing stills from that. Unless there is somebody that has smuggled a copy of the movie out on their hard drive and then, you know, puts it on to VHS tape that we buy at comic conventions or something. I really don't think we're going to see unless there was a trailer or something. I really don't see this thing being released in any kind of official. capacity. Yeah, that's unfortunate. That is. I wanted to see. Again, if they're going with that tax purpose thing,

if they even try to release it, it's going to be, the IRS would be like, I thought you guys said that you were taking a loss on this and now you're profiting from it. That doesn't fly. Yeah. What if they, you can't really open source. If it's really just bad, yeah. Then why not just dump it on your streaming service? Is that what they're

claiming? Is that it's not living up to whatever? They said, so the Zaslov guy says, we want to, release excellent content and there's stuff that that we've looked at that we don't feel is is up to par for that oh by the way we've canceled back girl um or shelled back girl and scoop um and so there's a bunch of people that are just like yeah i saw i saw a sneak preview of this and it's like no you didn't they showed one and they had one sneak preview and the results were that the audience said it was good it wasn't great it wasn't fantastic they said it was a good

Again, if it's a good movie, look at all the stuff that goes direct to video. Just release Bad Girl on HBO on the HBO streaming service. You'll be fine. Yeah, you would be fine. You get some signups from that, you know? More than a few you'd get. I don't know the actress, Leslie Grace. I don't listen to her music.

I don't really know what kind of following she has. But I bet you'd get a whole bunch of people who are Leslie Grace fans checking that out. I bet there would be a whole bunch of people who are the, comic book series back of the back girl of burn sides which i think is where this is loosely based at least the costume is would be jumping on to seeing this and i think that there would be a whole bunch of people that would probably want to check it out just to quote unquote see how bad it really is uh and and uh watch it there too so it's it's a win win win but if you need the i mean i forget how much the company said it was in debt but it's like over a billion dollars in

debt after this merger and so if you're needing to get tax breaks as much as much as you can. I mean, 90 million is a drop in the bucket, but you've got to start somewhere. Yeah, you got to do something. All you are is content, so you got to decide what you're going to cut. Real quick, there's a comment in the chat. Somebody says, it seems like DC TV stuff can't escape the CW treatment.

Maybe, but I should also point out that the CW is in the process of being sold to a Texas group. Yeah. And so if you're looking at, why is the Flash and all these other shows being canceled in favor of older demographic content? it's because of that sale as well okay what's the Texas group do we know anything about them other stuff they're like it's like I forget what the name of it is like next star

net star something like that but it's a it's a fairly big group sounds like an actual cable company yeah it's definitely an actual cable company but if you're looking at why did they renew Walker Texas Ranger and not the Flash well it's because they're going for an older they're going for an older demographic

my wife likes that walker my wife likes that Walker, Texas Ranger business. She's into it. I mean, your wife is wonderful, but she's in the... I agree, dude. I agree. We were just talking about this last night. She has really broad taste. She likes, like, she loved prey the other night with me. It was amazing. She loves

all kinds of genres and stuff, but she also likes the stuff that I hate like that, or, you know, famously the freaking Hallmark Christmas bull crap. Like, I freaking hate that stuff. But she'll be thrilled to hear the Texas Rangers coming back for another season. I'll let her know.

She'll be real glad. Anyway, well, there you go. It's not the best news today, but, well, you know, whatever. Again, we may have a little bit of a pullback. We're awash in content. We have too many options. There's a reason these people are in there. They're all competing, and it's getting to a point where it reminds me of the dot-com crash, to be honest.

It's not going to be the same kind of thing, but it reminds me of that, like, everybody goes nuts, and you've got to pause for a minute, pull back a little bit, and then go nuts again. Yeah. And, yeah, yeah, that just, yeah, yeah. Because we're buried in it. I've got a lot of things to say on this, but I know that we're out of time. Yeah, and we're buried in this. Like, it's just so much of it.

And I'm not saying it's, I'm sad that I have so many options. But like, just listening to Brian Rattle off the five or eight things I'm behind on. It's like, I don't know when I'm going to get to all this. Like, it's so much. So I'm, and maybe that may be one of the reasons why they're like, look, we only want to put out stuff that is most excellent. We don't want to waste stuff that's not excellent. we want a stranger things on our HBO service. Yeah.

I don't know what's going to happen. But whatever, new Game of Thrones series coming out this month. That's something. I don't know how people are feeling about that. I'm actually kind of excited to see what they do, that prequel. But I wonder if it affects them at all. They've got a big budget. Well, who knows?

Anyway, Stephen, the pleasure is always ours to have you here. What's going on on major spoilers this week so that others can catch up on what's up? Well, if Scott's not too busy, maybe he'll come and hang out with us tomorrow on the Major Spoilers podcast, where we are taking a look at more newspaper comics this time from one of our patrons, Modesty Blaze. So if you're a fan of the Modesty Blaze series from the 60s, that's what we'll be looking at this week on the Major Spoilers podcast. I had never heard of it, so this is going to be new to me. Yeah, the artist's fantastic. Yeah, yeah. Modesty Blaze, everybody, this week on Major Spoilers. Steven Schlecker, Major Spoilers.com.

Stay hydrated. Stay hydrated to yourself. We'll see you next time. He almost sang it. That was sing-songy. I thought he was going to. He was leading up to it. It was going to be opera hydrated.

Yeah, why not? All right, Brian, I brought for you something Jamie sent over. Just to remind you of the origin of the thickened liquid conversation we really had. Good, good. This is old, but fun. Let's never forget. Yep. This is called the TMS Classic for a reason.

Here's our conversation and where it came from with Thickened Liquid. It is a thickened, Imperial Cisco, thickened apple juice is what I'm having. Brian is having, what? Describe it. It is nectar consistency, aquacare H2O, thickened regular coffee. Whoa. Moral hydration for the management of dysphasia. Dysphia.

Now, I wonder how common dysphasia is. Obviously, we're not making light of it. Let's give it a shot. Ooh, it smells like apple juice, so I'm right there. All right, Brian, you ready? Oh, I just poured it into a shot glass. This is the grossest thing ever. Ooh, it's weird.

That's really weird. It's like jello that hasn't quite set. Oh, yes, I almost heaved. I think the tadpoles saw that expression on my face like, well, this is coming back up. That's great. Drink some regular coffee to watch this time. That's great, because we got more to do.

No, no, we're done. I'm done with this box. Okay. You guys, Brian, Death Star, Brian, we have found the little hole you can shoot torpedoes in. Totally have. We found your weekby. I have so many weaknesses. Brian's has finally been revealed.

I know what to do now. This is great. What did it taste like? Mine tasted like, it was a very artificial coffee flavor. It tasted like, what is it? I mean, it was like a thick milk coffee. Yeah. Oh, my God.

Hey, Brian, come on over to the house. I've got some thick enough of you for. No. Here a little Darrell chuckling in the background. Oh, that was Darrell, right, because he was the taste tester. uh sometimes as well yeah we'd have him on that segment well done that uh i was i was thinking that was the one where i go like i had problems with it oh yeah when you gagged yeah what was that what was that i don't know now um uh i got to find this yeah i have this clip oh i know you do it's just been ages um

oh oh oh i know oh you do is this it yeah that's it yeah that's it What was that? What that was? It was something that I tasted that I did not like. Oh, it says, Bailey gag? What does that mean? I don't know what that means.

Um, hold on. Do I have any other note on that? No, that's it. I don't know what you were gagging on. Someone in the chat now. Bailey gag. It wasn't a nerdtacular panel.

It was here. No, no. It was on the show and it was, uh, yeah, was it a bird nest drink? Did I drink? Oh, was it that bird's drink? nest drink?

Maybe it was. Yeah. I can't believe we did that. You filter all that through. You have to find that audio. That's the worst. That was really bad. Filtered through a bird nest or something.

Yeah. Were they all like egg bits and baby bits and pee and poop in there? Right. Exactly. I still can't believe that was a thing. I still can't believe that exists. I know.

All right. That's it for that. Thanks, Jamie, for that. Quick email from a listener. This is from John, sent this in? Send and receive email. He said, hey, Scott and Brian, several shows ago, several shows ago, Scott mentioned that a pigeon had pooped on him. Then he made a comment like, well, they were here before us. He says, actually, I love these actuallys. Well, actually. Pigeons were

introduced into North America around 400 years ago from Europe. Humans have been in North America for probably at least 21,000 years. Love the show though, John. That makes a point. But were you meaning they were here in America before us or here on earth before us. I kind of meant the on earth before us is what I mean. Yeah. Like birds precede us. Yes, right? Exactly.

Maybe not even specifically pigeons, but birds, the other animals were here before, before, uh, homo erectus. Right. And more, more importantly, that bird, those birds were definitely in this little area I live in before I was. Right. Right. Yeah, sure.

There you can't even go there as well. Yeah. That's how I look at it. But, yeah, he, we moved the feeder. This was the big, this is what did the trick. You moved the feeder just a little bit to the left on where the fence is. Oh, good. And they stopped pooping right where the chair is.

Well, good. It seemed like that was bad planning on your part, really, more than there's, the birds are not at fault. Yeah. And by my part, I'm going to say, Kim's part. She did. Anyway, thanks, John. If you'd like to send us your own emails and tell us stuff, you can, the morning stream at gmail.com. Real quick, I want to mention these patrons who are.

now supporters of the show since we last spoke uh patreon dot com slash tms here are the brand new people terry davis neil jose syon rowlins and ryan rowlins and ryan shan i did it again yeah he's he also sub to film sac and i got it wrong there as well oh right yeah we mentioned his name there too yeah i keep getting it wrong anyway sorry about that sean or kean somebody said was pronounced kean it's a kean um last week we were talking about this name for some Somebody else, I think we said Kian, or we, somebody in the chat room said Kian, C-I-A-N. Email me, Kian, or Kian or whatever your name really is. And tell me, I'd love to know.

Anyway, having you guys around is great. And you guys get bonus content every day. You never get an ad in the show. And more importantly, you support your favorite podcast. So go be like them, patreon.com slash TMS for everything else. It's frogpants.com slash TMS. And that'll do it. We're out of here.

Anything weird tomorrow? No, tomorrow's normal. We're all good. Tomorrow's normal. I mean, the only thing weird will be us. Ha! Ah, I see what you did. Things don't get weird schedule-wise till the end of the month, but we'll keep you

informed of what we're doing. So both Byron and I have trips and it's all a little nutty, but we'll figure it out. Anyway, but we'll be back tomorrow, and I think that's all we have today. Brian, let's play a song to take him out. Yes, sir. Troy wrote in months ago and said, it's my birthday today. Wow. I was late to request this year.

Let me make sure. Yep, I was late to request this year. I managed to give it eight months of notice last year. Hopefully you can squeeze this request in. Can I get a test the ship's tender crisp bacon, cheddar ranch? Okay. Just a second. Let's test the ship's phasers.

The tender crisp bacon cheddar ranch. Yeah. Perfect. Wasn't there somebody had merged those, right? Or do you still have that? I don't remember if I kept it. Let's see. Hey, that's you.

No, that's that guy. Hold on. no no you need to read the well i don't know where it is i think i may have done that one time and then checked the file i could be wrong but yeah you get them separate today that's how it works for you buddy right exactly by the way the chat room can't even agree on how cian is pronounced no i've been going back on for days here's like no it's kean kkatsumi is agreeing about kean see i would have i would have thought claire would know because it sounds irish that name well you know probably just depends on where c ian is from like where this person who

who joined our Patreon is from. If they're Irish, it's probably Kean. If it's not, then it might be pronounced Sean. If he had a Y instead of an eye, I would think my inkjet printer

is out of a certain color. Correct. Yes. So please, where are magenta and yellow? All right. So a cover of or by the Presidency United States of America.

I've got one for A. I've got a great one here by Lee Kernigan. Lee Kernigan, which is, might be, this was recorded in Australia. I don't know if he's an Australian artist. But back in 2000, he recorded this cover of Lump for the Andrew Denton musical challenge.

This is where they're given a list of songs that they have to pick from to do a cover of, and Lump was one of those options. This might be the most unusual cover of the Presidents of the United States of America's lump you've ever heard. It's great. It's almost like if the Luminers did it. It's fantastic. Here is Lee Kernigh-Kernigan and Lump. I'm sat alone in a boggy marsh totally emotion except for her heart

mud floored up in the lost pajamas totally confused all the pasting for runners She's love, she's love She's in my head She's love, she's lump, she's lump, she might be dead Lump lingered, lost in line for brains One she got kind of rotten and insane Small thing's so sad, birds could land His lump files to sleep with just rocking with a band

She's love, she's love She's in my head She's love, she's love, she might be dead Ooh Ooh, ooh Ooh Ooh, oh Ooh, ooh.

Lop was limp and lonely, needed a sharp. Lump slipped on a kiss and tumbled into love. She's spent her 20s between the sheets Life lived along at subsomic speed She's love, she's long, she's in my head She's love, she's love, she's love, she might be dead Is this love out of my head? I think so

This lump out of my head, I think so This is lump out of my head? I think so This show is part of the Frog Pants Network Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. Now you're ready to take the order. Oh, finally.