The Morning Stream - TMS 2338: ForkLyfting

Episode Date: August 22, 2022

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Bald face and bold. Biting necks and doing business. Get your grumans, gremlins, or grown men there by Thursday. Sorry, our goat ate the movie. Flying sex things. Pass me the Colorado snow. No, I'm also a porn star. Can't lift a boob.

Gumball machines on free play. Pumba was a parrot. Live from the nipple cam. Fidget Legos. Virgin Captain America on the Rocks with Stephen and more. On this episode of the Morning Stream. Please do not breastfeed in public, unless you have enough to share with everybody else. Just joking. I don't care.

I just swallow the beef. Good Morgan. It is Monday, August 22nd, and this is TMS, the morning stream. Welcome everybody. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott over there. Hi. Hello and happy brand new week to you, Scott. Yeah, man. Top of the week to you, as the Irish would say. Top of the wake. Eat it, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta. Where's all the gin? Eat your boxty. Eat your boxdy and all the other potato items of meat for you today. We love the Irish. Don't take us wrong. Okay. Anyway, what's going on?

It's good to see everybody. We're going to do a show today. It's Monday. And it's the last week before things get a little crazy. We'll explain that more as the week goes on. But, you know, we've got a vacation coming up, an anniversary. We got stuff. We got stuff.

Yeah. Stuff. Yeah. But I think there will be, there will be some stuff scheduled to end up on some of the feeds. Oh, for sure. Yeah. I've already committed to doing a Brian at D23 Expo video

Oh nice For a listener to the show Oh So it'll be like me talking about You know I won't be able to take it into like the big Marvel Premiere announcement stuff But I'll be able to take it through the rest of the

How cool it would be for me to like you know smuggle in a little camera and And record the whole Marvel announcement deal. I mean, they probably stop you, right? They probably won't let you that. They would. Yeah. I mean, it was like hidden in a weirdly shaped

Mickey Mouse hat or something. Yeah, live from Brian's nipple cam. Right. Exactly, yes. It's basically just a two-hour shot of my nipple because I forgot to turn the camera around. Dang it. So since they did so much stuff at Comic-Con, do you think they'll even do much

Marvel stuff at D-23 or will it be mostly? They've slated out in a couple hours. So I think we're going to get, we're going to get a long look at Wakanda forever. Yeah. We're going to get an actual announcement of what the Fantastic Four, what shape the Fantastic Four stuff will be in. And I think we'll, we might even get a, here's how we're going to bring mutants into the, the MCU. I think they'll just straight up say, here's, here's an X-Men tease, like goes full X-Men. Maybe. Yeah, maybe. they'll be a bald man in a little floaty car

he'll come in and he'll be wearing a neck brace and he'll be fine everybody it'll be fine everybody it'll be okay and then and then someone will make a little snick sound or whatever and some blades of some blades will be up there with like a fist and we'll be like oh who's going to play the new wolverine and then we can guess for months before we find out exactly yes oh yeah blade we might get more blade information

right with uh mahrusha ali yeah i like blade bring on the blade i say bring on the blade yes bring on a good r rated blade yeah don't be holding back on that blade okay disney i know you have a tendency to want to be like well let's do it for the family version no no no that's not what blade is blade is meant to be uh bloody uh little cursy um biting necks and doing business you can't you can't you can't g raid that up okay don't do it don't even try don't don't do it don't even don't even no don't give it even a shot uh all right i had a thing happened was not a dream this was real okay all right actually i haven't dreamed no that's not true i did i dreamt a couple of times that is correct that's the right use of right dreamt

not dream i dreamed a dream except i dreamt it drum i dream the impossible dream wait they're all doing it wrong brian did it right everyone else doesn't wrong anyway yeah well that one's to dream the impossible dream that's all present tense oh he never says i dreamed the impossible dream i know to dream because he doesn't say hi he says to dream the impossible dream did m lk say i dreamed a dream i dream to dream that would have been a very different speech anyways so uh the only dreams i had were i was late for something in these dreams i hate those dreams they're stupid yeah i do too lately it's a bunch of those and i don't know why but that's not what i'm going to tell you today. Today is a story about

Tesla the neighbor. All right. Oh, okay. All right. Hasn't been in the news for a while here. And we've been getting along just fine. That's good. The whole thing's good now. I mentioned a while back how we saw him at the pool and talked for a long time. And we're trying to get a barbecue back alley thing going and all this.

Well, anyway, I'm in bed. We have the windows open because it cooled way down the other day. And we're like, turn off the AC, open these windows this is awesome we're having it's like early fall weather was nice yeah it's already hot again but it was nice while lasted anyway so we got the windows open and we decided to have him open all night also van was with us all weekend so he was over and sleeping on his own little bed over there in the corner and it's about 10 30 11 he's knotted off kim's asleep and i'm not asleep i'm not asleep i can hear one of his teslas pull into the thing which you can barely hear it's like a weird

yeah it's not even a car right some robot you almost hear the uh the sound of them like driving over any grit on the road louder than the engine probably, right? Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. It's very much like that. I really could just hear the tires and what they were doing. Anyway, pulls up and hear the door open, hear him get out,

hear the engine go, boo, or whatever those things go. And he says, to somebody who's with him, I assume it's his wife, but I don't actually hear her say anything. Okay. Maybe he's on a cell phone, actually. I don't know. But he says, these words, he says, and I'm telling you it was as clear as day, so I'm not mishearing us this.

He says, my car has all the grummins. We'll have it all there by Thursday. That was the statement. Okay. You're sure. You're sure he said grummans. As best I can tell, he said grummans, he could, well, this is what we're here to figure out. What else could he have said?

Translate. Yeah. And what would be a thing that sounds like grumman? that you would want to have to somebody by Thursday? You know, I guess we have to figure out, like, all right, the, we'll have it all there by Thursday. Is he going on a trip? I don't know. And it's like, oh, yeah, you know, we'll meet you at the Airbnb.

We'll have all the stuff there by Thursday. Or I'm taking my car to the shop. I'll have it all there by Thursday, which could be, you know, my car has gremlins, right? My car has all the, like, he's talking to doing a late-night call to his on-mechanic. I don't know. That is weird. I don't know. Like, it's as good an explanation as any. I really, I can't tell.

And I kind of want to ask him, but that's weird. You know, hey, dude, I heard you talk in the other night. For sure. Yeah, you're definitely like you to say, by the way, I was eaves dropping on you pulling into your driveway the other night. Yeah, it was really weird. So, like, if he's up to something, Grumman's could be me mishearing some term for drugs,

drugans. I don't know. It's the new term for bath salts, grummins. Grummans, got to get those grummins somewhere. You holding any grummins? Yeah, it sounds like a pretty good drug name. You know, we could make it a thing. It kind of does, yeah.

Oh, man, dude, I am so grumming right now. I'm hankering for a grumman, you would say. So I don't know what to make of it. If somebody at home has ideas, the chat seems not to have any idea. So if anybody at home is like... I'd say Thursday, make sure you... you plop a lawn chair out in the front yard and you just sit there and watch and see what's going on on Thursday. That's a good idea.

I can actually kind of keep an eye on Cummings and Goings anyway. Yes, exactly. So maybe I can see him fill his car with, quote unquote, Grumman's, whatever they are. And then leave and have them there by Thursday. You know, they hold the whole. The Cummings and Goings almost sound like you merge those and you get Grummings. Yeah. It's someone who watches the Cummings.

Cummings and Goings is watching the Grummans. The Grimmings, yeah. That's amazing. All right. Anyway, I'll let you guys know what I... I'm sure it's nothing. He probably just said, I don't know. Who knows?

It could have been his mom and he's got gummy bears. I don't know what I heard. I just know I heard Grummans. I'm sure of it. So we'll see how that goes. Oh, too funny. Brian, I am to play a little thing here. Be courteous.

Yeah. obey traffic regulation. All right. How'd lifting go this weekend? Yeah, so lifting has been, you know, I lifted on Friday. and Sunday since we last spoke and it's been all friendly fun people like you know I I do the interview thing if they if they talk if they get in the car and say hey how's your day going so far I say oh you know I can't complain and then you know I say oh it looks like we're

heading to the baseball you know we're heading to Coorsfield you're going to go check out the baseball game yeah you know da da da and so we'll talk about that and all and people love to talk about you interview them about themselves right because they'll all always say, how long have you been lifting? And, oh, do you do this full time? And it's like, no, I'm a, I'm a porn star. Duh. I just make ends meet.

I just, this is my audition. Yeah. I'm auditioning to. Yeah, making ends meet, quote, unquote. Anyway, right, right, right. Yeah, so I picked up first thing Friday morning. My first ride of the day is a scheduled ride to the airport. And I pull up and, uh, to the, the push pin.

And, uh, very handsome man is standing. there with his bags and he gets in the car a little chit you know the the typical small talk and he says oh by the way we're going to be picking up an associate of mine um at a hotel along the way to the airport and then you're just basically taking both of us to the airport like oh cool no problem sure so along the way he's talking about we we pass a Lego outlet and he's like oh yeah you know I have two grown sons and uh I swear you know we still we'll still just kind of sit you know while we're talking or something. We'll just have a bowl of Legos on the table and be

using those to kind of fidget and build stuff. And like, oh yeah, you know, my son still has Legos. We have a bin of those at home and every once in a while. And I told him about Brickett, the app that we talked about a couple weeks ago where you splay all your bricks out on the table and take a picture and it

figures out everything. Sure. So we get to the other hotel and we pick up his associate and it's a woman who, you know, he said, oh, it even says it like, you know so so when when she gets in the car we'll be talking business i'm like oh you don't you know it's your ride you you spend it however you want i felt like he was trying to apologize that that uh he's going to stop talking to me as soon as she's in the car oh that's funny no big deal

at all sure yeah so you're there just to facilitate the ride you're there to drive while they do what they want i'm a fly in the wall and and not in the david and uh oh no very much so in the David Spade and Dana Carvey, where you don't hear me talk much at all. Yeah, you're the guest, in that case, you're the guest, and you don't get to say anything, exactly. Exactly. So, uh, so she gets in the car and says, oh, so, you know, that was, that, that was a really fun event last night. I'm sure it was great. You know, you enjoyed, looked like you were meeting and talking to all these people.

And of course, you know, I do eavesdrop. I have to listen. They're in my car. And I've turned down my music to let them have their conversation. Sure. So I, it's, you know, a lot like, but what I do is I, I, I listen. listen to my music enough to where I can keep the beat with my fingers. And so that way, if they look up front, they see me keep in the beat.

And they're like, oh, he's listening to his music. He doesn't hear anything we're talking about. Sure. It's a weird, I just do it to be polite kind of thing. Sure. It's kind of drive where you are. I get it. Yeah.

So, you know, eventually they're talking about his book. And, oh, yeah. So, you know, well, I know you've seen Free Solo and we've talked about that. And I know your book, you know, that you're writing. is going to be about this sort of thing and this rock climbing thing and da-da-da-da-da. And I just want to make sure you're good with what we've been showing you so far. He's like, oh, yeah. So when you open up the front of the book, what's that first thing called?

She's like, oh, it's a paste page and like, da-da-da. And they're getting into all the weeds about this book that she's a book publisher. He's writing a book or has written a book and they're working on publishing it. And so like, oh, wow, this is very interesting stuff. I'm learning about the book industry and a little bit about this. guy. And his name is Conrad. So basically, as soon as I drop, and he'd talk about the most polite. Even during the ride, they would chichat with me and be like, you know, how long have you lived in Colorado? Oh, it's so beautiful here. All that sort of thing. Sure, sure. So we get to the

airport. I drop them off. And as I'm pulling around to the other side of the airport and waiting a few minutes for the next ride, I do a quick search, Conrad Mountain Climmer, rock climber. yeah and uh immediately pulls up this guy named conrad anchor i see the photo from the wikipedia it's like oh that's exactly him anchor like like all the batteries and stuff you get for your phones and oh that's cool i love we love anchor they're a good brand we do love anchor i don't think they're related i don't think they're related at all but he's the guy who discovered uh went up and discovered uh mallory uh so-and-so what's the guy's name not i'm keeping of sir edward Hillary. No, Edward Mallory?

Oh, here is George. George Mallory, right? George? George Mallory, George Mallory. One of the first people to, or the first person, to climb Everest. Conrad Anchor led an expedition to go and find the remains, and they found him. And, yeah, if you go to Conradanchor.com, there's his website. That's the dude. He's like, you know, like you said, very handsome, rugged-looking dude who went to BYU. he's a he's a Utahan yeah he is he's a Utah dude his actual graduate looks like he went to BYU for a while and then graduated University of Utah carrying his Wikipedia page he had a heart attack on the widow maker yeah or no sorry he had a widow maker heart attack they call it in 2016 during an attempted ascent of the Luangri I don't know where that is it's a big

mountain somewhere where he had to go to Cap Mandu and and get emergency coronary angioplasty with a stint. It just about killed him. This dude's incredible. Like, you know, he's one of those people that probably does more before 8 a.m. than you or I will do the entire day. Sure feels like it. He's been doing this since, let's see, he did the southeast face of Gurney Peak in 87.

That's where he started doing the big peaks. And then all the way up until 2016. So we have a lot of 14ers in Colorado. I don't know if he, he didn't. say anything when they were in the car about doing any 14ers while he was here. I think he just really specifically came to meet with a publisher.

But she had to fly in as well, so it's not like the publisher is necessarily based here in Colorado. Maybe publishing companies based here in Colorado, and then they came here to do this little meeting event that apparently they went to the night before. I have a little bit of

his voice. Do you want to hear it and tell me if this sounds like to go? Oh, sure. Sure. Okay, it's on his Wikipedia page. We'll see how this goes. Too much risk is when you feel that you can't turn around and you can't control it anymore. Is that the guy? 100%. That's exactly him. Imagine him talking about Legos, and that's the dude.

I really like when I just have pieces to build my own ideas. My favorite brick is the six-nib, three-by-two. Is that a real thing? The six-nib is a thing? Is that a deal? I would say brickologists, Lego brickologists probably do have. have names for all those so that they can really quickly say, oh, I need a six nib right here. I need an eight nib or I need a two by three or a six by four or whatever.

I'll bet you we got some hardcore Lego. We're in the listenership. No, we do. Yeah, we for sure do. What do you guys call that? And do you have like little drawers set up and you just keep your two by three is in one and you're, I don't know, your, your, your pornographic little minis in another? Like, what do you do?

We want to know what's up. anyway. So anyway, that's, that was really kind of it for, for, you know, that's cool, what a cool, uh, ride, though, with a guy with a very interesting past and present and, I don't know, a little Utah connection. And I should have guessed, because they get, they give me, uh, the, um, when I pick them up, I get a little picture of what their face is. Yeah. As a matter of fact, I had to capture one yesterday and I'm going to send it to you because awesome, uh, awesome. This, this is something right here. I don't have his. But when I, saw his, I thought, man, this guy, this guy just used some sort of professional photograph for

his, um. Was this the one right here I just put in? And you're, uh, that's it. That's exactly the photo that's on his, yeah, that's on his, uh, Wikipedia shot as well, yeah. Like, wow, that's a professional photo. Uh, go to your, I think I sent it to, yeah, go to your, uh, your text message and look at the one I just sent you. This is, oh my gosh. what why why uh what's her deal my gosh i don't know and i and that's kind of what she looked like but maybe that's a photo of looks like riana looking yeah i think it's riana looking at the eclipse or something yeah i don't know what it is the person goes by phoenix and they look like they're squinting into the eclipse you're right yeah i think that that could be riana i'm

pretty sure that's a riana face but uh something riana ish about it but that's fantastic I love that. Yeah, so you can, so as a lift rider, you can use any photo you want as your, as your lift ride. As long as it's approved, I think you'll get reported if you put, you know, a picture of a boob or something like that. Oh, yeah, you can't do a boob. If you do a boob, they're going to go, they're coming after you. The boob police will get you every time. The boob police.

All right. Now I must know about goats. There were goats. Yeah. So we did mystery date. I talked about this, I think, Thursday or maybe it was Friday. It was Friday during a couch potato. Oh, that's right.

Yeah, you brought it up briefly. That's right. Yes. The mystery date and Tina said, well, you have to wear closed-toed shoes and that's all I'm going to tell you. So I was like, oh, great, what are we doing? Like walking through a field of shit or something? Kind of? Kind of, yeah, that's actually not too far.

So these goat yoga places are all around where you basically do yoga in a penned-in area with a bunch of goats, baby goats. And as you're doing your downward-facing dog, these goats will say, oh, you're a fun surface to climb on, and they'll hop up on your back or whatever. But they're there to provide some sort of zen because they're, you know, sweet animals that kind of walk around and look at you weird. At night, you can't really do goat yoga. So this one, this place near us has something called goat flicks and chill. And they have a projector, a little projector on a milk crate and a big screen and a couple of speakers

where they'll show a movie while goats are wandering all around you. And you can actually bring in your own blanket. We took chairs. We're kind of glad we took chairs, and I'll talk about that in a minute. But you walk in and, you know, the Roxbury, Night at the Roxbury, the two guys, Will Ferrell, Chris Catan, where once they spot a woman who they could talk to, they just kind of like crowd her get in her face and kind of like, basher back and forth

between their chest. Yeah, they're doing their like sideways dance thing. While they're doing their sideways dance thing. So that's kind of what it's like when you walk into the Penderia. Because on your way in, you're carrying your chair and maybe a bottle of water or something. Sure. And you and you've got a cup full of feed of goat food

and a little Dixie cup kind of size. Sure. And so you walk in and immediately they're like, we know we know that when people come here they are they are coming with a cup of food they there's nobody who enters this pen that is not carrying a cup of food so they immediately crowd around you and you're trying to get your chair undone at the same time and you know ours is in a zippered pouch so we have to unzip the pouch

pull the chair out of the pouch then pull it apart this whole time trying to do it while holding a cup full of food or having tina hold my cup of food while i do both chairs and they just see it as a game Like, oh, I bet I can knock him over and get the food that way or whatever. Dude, this was such a blast. So they showed back to the future. Yeah. Oh, really? Back to the future.

Why that is a choice? I'm just curious. That seems like an odd one. Originally was going to be the karate kid. They basically choose family-friendly stuff. And it's almost always like 80s, a couple 90s options. Not lying. When we walked up to the table to do the check-in and get our goat food,

um the the guy renting it said well it was going to be a karate kid tonight but um one of the one of the goats chewed the DVD like got through chewed right through the box into the DVD that's amazing that's amazing choices that he had a had a um had all six DVDs not even Blu-rays folks DVDs laid out in front of us and it was uh Indiana Jones it was rated as the Lost Ark Indiana Jones in the Temple of Dune back to the the future, the water boy, teenage mutant ninja turtles, three amigos and Ghostbusters were the choices. Wow. And do you all, you don't all vote. They just pick one. We kind of all vote. So he says, so instead of that one, we have these six, which one would you like? And, you know, some, a girl there has her phone out. And she's just kind of taking a rough poll on what, what people want to, want to watch. And Tina's like, yeah, I like any of those, except for Teenage Mutant. Ninja turtles and the girl doing the phone is like, yeah, I think

I'm going to hide that one on the table because I don't think anybody wants to watch that. There are people who do, but you don't want to hang around them, you know. So we said yeah, pretty much any of those would be fine. You know, they're all would be fun. Because really, you're there, you're not going to be

paying full attention in the movie because No, they're goats everywhere. They're goats everywhere. The goats will have eaten all of the food out of the cups before the the credits even start rolling on the movie. And after that, and just to kind of give you a timeline, I timed it a little bit out. So before the credits even roll, everybody's cups are empty. The goats are wandering around, kind of up to everybody.

Got any more food? Got any more food? They're like, you know, you put your hands out and they'll just kind of like, like nam-nam, like lick into your hand in case you have any goat food dust in your hands. Yeah, like you do. And then they keep moving, you know, wandering around. by about the enchantment under the sea dance they were all curled up on people's blankets next to them or or just kind of sitting next to somebody who's kind of stroken under their chins and that sort of thing they've all mellowed out for the last half hour of the movie that's awesome did they do this let me find a clip here a lot of that none of them made that noise but i did put on twitter the noise one of them like one of them was walking around talking the whole time and i put his uh

his little voice on Twitter because he was just so darn cute. Oh, that's awesome. I like goats. Goats are weird, man. They got the little square eye, the square pupils, I'm trying to say. Square pupils.

They're so, they are so, they are really entertaining because they, like, you'll sit there and be petting one. And another one will just kind of come up and look at you and look at the goat getting pet and look back up at you. And it's like, you're watching them kind of weirdly suss all this information out. Like, all right, you're petting him? You're going to be petting me next? Do you have any food?

Any food, by the way? All right, you can pet me, but you have any food? Yeah, that sounds about like a goat to me. It is pretty, pretty gody. But if you have this near you, absolutely look for it because it is a blast. I'm sure it will be called net goat flicks and chill. But if you just basically look for, you know, goat movie experience or something like that. I wonder if they have to be, like, licensed or something, you know,

Yeah, I wonder, I'm sure. Because of the fact that this, this projector is sitting on a milk crate, which I might add, frequently the goats will just walk in front of the screen and you'll see, you know, Biff and Marty, a Biff punching Marty, uh, on the side of a goat for like a minute. This is like the most unofficial janky, but I don't think, I don't think, uh, universal is coming after them to say, oh, you showed this for eight people in a pen. That's about how many of us there were, by the way, just like eight of us. Are they normally like a petting zoo or something?

Or what's their normal? I don't know if they do any of that. I know that they do goat yoga on the weekends and I think Friday mornings, but I don't know if they do any sort of like we take the goats to a petting zoo or or sell goat milk or anything like that. They didn't have any signs for, they didn't have any signs for anything except for goat yoga, not even a sign for this movie thing. Okay. Interesting.

Yeah. All right. So you make me want a goat. That's what you make me do. Take lawn chairs because even though it's really cute to have the goats cuddle up next to you on the blanket. And all blankets had a goat cuddled up next to people for the first, you know, for Marty's trip back to 1955, they are just walking around, poop falling out of their butts like they're like a gumball machine set on free play. Yeah, they're like they're like birds. They don't care.

they're just poop poop poop I'd even think they're not even aware poop is falling out of their butt because it just rolls out it comes up it's like marble madness going on there oh man made me jarble run

marble run marble goat simulator run all right well fun times sounds like it was it was a blast it really was a great time all right well well done Tina that was hers right that was Tina's and I

I've got mine already planned for next month. And I can't say anything because she listens to the show. All right, Tina. You know, she's not a patron, so maybe I'll talk about it on Patreon. Oh, take that, Tina Ibit. Yeah. All right, we're going to play a game. Yeah, that's right.

That music means it's time for a little game show thing that we do on Mondays called Half Ases, the morning Half Ases. And it's only with Brian Dunaway that it's possible. Hi, Brian Dunaway. Welcome back. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. How's it going? It's Monday. Yeah, it is. It's going well. You sound very upbeat, ready to rock, take the week by the testicles and yank, right? Ouch. Maybe not that far, but sure. I'm at least going to pull this ponytail.

Okay. Great. Do that. They're right near the testicles. It's good to have you here. We're going to play a game. Ponytails in your testicles? Brian's going to explain this game because. Because, you know, its rules are different than the Wednesdays thing, so explain, Brian. Its rules are long, too. Welcome to the morning half-asses, a trivia game where I'm going to be giving Scott and Brian the answers. I'm just handing them the answers.

Give them to me. You know, it's up to them whether they want to use them or not. I'm going to give them a category and six possible answers. Three of those answers are correct, three that are just bold-faced lies. Depending on how confident they feel with a category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses. but if they get any rung, they get zero points for that round. Guessing one and get it right gets a point. If they guess two and get them both right, they get a point.

And if they guess all three correctly and get them right, I guess guessing correctly would imply that they get them right. They get five points is what they get for all that madness. The play with most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. I pulled a couple members of the tad pool here that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're going to be playing for Sarah of Sacramento, California. Oh, the capital of the fine state of California. Nice.

That is correct. Brian, you're going to be playing for Blue Floyd of New Zealand. Blue Floyd. Oh, hi, Blue Floyd. I know Blue Floyd. Yes. I love that name, Blue Floyd. That's great.

Excellent. All right. So you're giving us three, you said three bold face lies or bald face lies? Oh, and which one is it? Well, they're in bold. They're in bold on my card, but the term is bald face lies. It's always been bald face. It has always been bald face.

So bald as in you've shaved your face or bold as in you're like, yeah, I believe me. I'm telling you I'm bold. Yeah, no, definitely bald face lies. And I'm wondering where that comes from like, like, no, I don't have a mustache and a beard. It's a lie. Look at him. My face is bald.

His face is hairless. Yeah, hairless face. Bald face. That's weird. That'd be interesting. I'd love to know the story behind that phrase. All right. Let's get to it.

All right. You guys are both logged in here. Here. Let's get to question number one. Let's start off with something easy for you guys, both having kids and even grandkids in one case. Maybe you've watched this recently. I want to know the names of the hyenas in the Lion King. We know Pumba was the parrot, but do we know that, I'm just kidding. Puba was the parrot.

That's a long, it's a long standing meme here on the show. That's all good. Yes, exactly. Okay. All right. I'm sorry. Apologies. No, no, it's fine.

Please keep up. So, your choices are Bonzai, Ed, Malu, Shenzi, and Tabaki, or Tabakui. I'll put them in there. Bonzai, Ed, Malu, Shenzi, Scar, and Tabakui.

The hyenas. Oh, man, I've seen that movie a lot. I know. Yeah, I can't. I try and do these myself. I don't look at the back of the card before I make my guess. And I was, I was surprised at how I did.

I can tell you, that movie came out in 1994 without looking it up. Okay. Because I was here. My daughter was born. All right, let's see. I'm going to do two of these that I know for sure. Are you going to? Yeah, because I don't know.

Ah, look at you. Going three. Is that a strategy? Like, tell them how many you're going with and then. I don't know. If maybe it works against me, that horrible strategy, I just tried. I don't know if it does or not. All right.

You guys both picked Ed. Ed is correct, yeah, Ed is He's the dumb one, I think, I think was Ed? No, Ed, Cheech was the, was another one. Ed was the one that was kind of dumb. Okay. And so they were always going, Ed.

Yeah, he was scoopy. Yeah, he was just. Oh, right, okay. And that's what made it funny. That was the joke. Yeah, Wopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin, and then I don't know who played Ed. It wasn't, uh,

do you think they were playing mean and they were referring to special Ed? You think that they were? Oh, man. I don't know. Let's cancel. that movie now. I think it's time to call out Disney on their gross, gross

misuse of that term. Also that flying out that sex thing, remember the sex thing that flies out when, uh, Mufasa, or no, when, uh, Simba plops down in the big old dirt, dirt pile makes the sex cloud. Oh, spells the word sex. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. I love Disney sneaky stuff.

I think it's great. You too. It just doesn't work in the day and age of streaming, pausing, blue rays, and things like that. Yeah, you're right. Let's get to your answers here. Brian Dunaway, look at that. Getting all three correct. Bonzai, Shenzhi, and Ed for five points

for Brian Dunaway. Malu, not a... No. Not a... It's a bird, isn't it? I don't know what Malu is. I don't know what Malu is either, but you're... Now that I see them...

Now that I see them and we've talked about it long enough, it all makes sense. I don't ever remember Cheech Maren's character being called as... Like, someone's saying the name, Bonsai. I don't remember any of that. But, yeah. I don't either. Ed, I remember Ed. Are you sure he was bonsai and not Shenzi?

I think so. I think Shenzi was Whoopi Goldberg, but it could be wrong. I don't know. She was in 10-4 at a lot, and they barely had her on. Just kidding. All right. So let's get to question number dose. And let's go a little bit more, you know, founding fathers here.

Rights in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. You know, we don't hear much about the Constitution these days. Nobody brings it up. No. Or it puts a sticker on the back of their truck with all of the rights or anything like that. Which of these are rights in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? You ever tried to read the Constitution? It's like 12 pages longer. I keep running into the back of their cars. I'm trying to read their window sticker. It's horrible.

All right. You've got the choices. The pursuit of happiness. Freedom of the press. The right to bear arms. Trial by jury. Freedom of religion and right to assembly. three of those are in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Three of them or not. Okay. See, I thought I'm going to answer this wrong, and it's like, no, Brian, that was the second amendment. I'm like, go!

Yeah. I think I know. And then I'm going to get shit for the rest of my life. Yep. They'll just say, you're just like everybody else. You don't know what's in that damn document. Read the damn thing before you puts it on your truck. Exactly. Anyway. I'm trying to, oh, my God.

what uh is that a see some of these feel like such tricks because I've I've just always assumed you know what sure walk it in slow poke it feels tricky it feels tricky I'm only going with one because only they're all tricky everything about this game is tricky it's all tricky

it's tricky to rock around and rock around right on time it's tricky yeah yeah we all knew what we're is it rock around I always thought it was rock around I thought it was walk around right right on time yeah no I believe you guys 100%, but I've always said walk around and I'm sure that's wrong.

It's tricky to walk around to walk around. I did. In these big old Adidas, it's tricky to walk around. Got to tie my Adidas. There's tricky to walk around. That's great. All right. Scott, nailing it.

Freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and right to assembly. Very good. That's, I chickened out. You did. And it's good thing you did because you have. right to bear arms or she's my sick I was almost paused about it right to a symbol but I couldn't remember for sure

and I kept thinking freedom of religion feels like it probably's in there but then I'm like oh they're going to nail it is but also important note about that freedom of religion thing it's not just about that it's about the freedom of religion and the government not imposing any sort of religion on anyone and also not interfering

with yours a lot of people screw that up and think it just means freedom of religion means the government's going to be part of my religion. No, it doesn't. It means the freaking opposite. They're not supposed to interfere. Why is it got to be a southern guy? I know, I know.

The stereotype comes out. I can't help it. But the point is, read it. Read it before you flaunt it is what I'm getting at. All right. Exactly. Anyway. All right.

Well, we got ourselves a game. Brian barely leading with one point, six points, one point ahead of Scott. Who's got five? This last one for all the marbles. And let's go to television for this one. Oh. Before it was called Friends, the show had several working titles. I'd like you to see which of these three are real ones.

The choices are six of one, central perk, Friends Like Us, Rachel, Buds, and Insomnia Cafe. Three of those are actual working titles for the TV show Friends. Three of those are not. that seems dumb i don't know this um oh my gosh i uh you know what some one times i click these you may see me click on them but what i'm doing is looking at it and i'm i'm like putting my finger on it going does that make sense yeah does that make sense yeah sure um listen until you lock it in they're they're not answers oh yes yeah i know yeah you're just seeing you're seeing you're testing how the shoe fits basically i'm locking in too i'm

I don't know that. All right. I hope that's right. I'm going to see if we're going to tie it up. It feels like that. Keep in mind. Do you not pay attention to how the convoluted scoring system works? Yeah.

Good point. Maybe scholars are screwed up. If he gets his two right, he gets three points for that. You're right. Even if you get yours right. Oh, man. Oh, man. All right.

So exciting. I will say that friends like us was indeed a working tight. And that was actually the most likely titled until they shortened it to just friends. So Friends Like Us was right up until, you know, I think the moment that they went live with the show was originally called Friends Like Us. Sure. Six of one, Scott put in. Yeah. And that's another correct one.

Oh, look at that. It's three points. I had it. Clicked. And Insomnia Cafe was the other working title for the show. It was, a lot of people in the chat room said, oh, Central Perk has to be Central Perk. No, Central Perk, Rachel and Buds were all the fakes. It was Insomnia Cafe.

And I think, boy, the show would have not done as well if it was called Insomnia Cafe. Right. Also, Rachel was in a unknown, like, she wasn't the main character. Certainly not the beginning. Like, in that pilot, she's barely a thing in that pilot. Oh, no. In the pilot, she's the reason, like, she basically is the first thing. you see right because she does the runaway bride thing oh she shows up looking for the

part like basically hook him back up with mana because she needs a place to live that's right I forgot there so yeah you're right it kind of circle around her a bit it's circled around her for that pilot episode and maybe that is what they were yeah what they were pilot's weird it's a weird pilot it's well like a lot of pilots they're all weird like uh we watched the signfeld pilot the other night and I forgot I always forget there's no Elaine yeah nothing yeah not even a mention yeah and I can't even imagine that show without her so it's it's it's just so weird. Pilots are weird. Get out is what they said to Elaine.

That's right. They said, get out. And then they pushed her really hard. Yeah, she pushed her really hard. Yeah, she pushed herself. So that's okay. So congratulations to Sarah at Sacramento, California. You're getting a copy of remothered broken porcelain. If it sounds like we've been trying to give this one away, we have for the last couple weeks and people haven't been winning it

in feud. Remothered broken porcelain and Planet Zoo, which sounds like a really cool Oh, it is good. Planet Zoo is awesome. It's a zoo tycoon game. That's what I was guessing, yeah. And it's called, it's made by the people who make the Jurassic Park game, those two games.

Can't think of that, the name of the game. But don't worry, Blue Floyd of New Zealand, you're getting the Dark Pictures anthology, Man of Medan. Oh, scary game. A better game. That's a better game. If you like horror games, it's a better game. It's a scary game. If you like horror games, then it's good. No doubt.

But if you like a nice relaxing zoo tycoon game, I think Planet Zoo is the winner. No, no, definitely not. Definitely not, you say? Well, all right, then. Yeah, definitely not. Well, congratulations goes to the Sacramento lady Sarah. To everybody.

Blue Floyd, you're cool, but no deal. No deal for you. You missed out on a really good prize. That's right. Oh, sorry. Hey, Dunaway, here's the good news. Tomorrow, you and I sit down and talk about the most prolific race arcade creator of all time.

And I don't mean race like, you know, you Suzuki. Yeah, you Suzuki, nothing to do with Suzuki, the brand. Just that happened to be his name. But he's known for such things as Super Hang On. And of course, Daytona, USA. What was the other round? No, what's it called? What's the one we love?

Outrun, outrun. Outrun, baby. Out of run. Out of run. And the games that inspired, it was. It was a huge part of those years in both the arcade and home market, and we're going to talk about those retro experiences tomorrow on Play Retro. We're going to do it at 3.30 Mountain Time live if you want to watch it, or it'll be up on the podcast right after. So be here for that, okay?

I have things to say. There's going to be so much good music and audio clips Daytona. Yep. Yeah. Let go away or whatever the hell said. Oh, that's right. It actually had vocals. It did.

Like a song that actually had vocals. Yeah. The weird part about it was it had like two vocals. Like Daytona, let's go away. I think that was it. And then they just repeated it, which is really weird. Anyway, you want to know about that? Good.

We're bringing it to you. That's tomorrow on Play Retro. And I was going to say, oh, I was going to say the PSP version of Outrun, Outrun, what's it called Outrun Brush or Outrun something? It's a PSP Outrun game. There's Outrun, Outruner. Outrun 2 This is something else

Dang it I have it on my Steam deck I'll have to find it Anyway It's amazing It's the best ever And I realize it's not quite

You know In the retro zone of time But it's an amazing Outrun game And we'll talk all about it So check that out tomorrow Hey Donaway That was fun

Anything else you want to say Before I cut you out It was a lot of fun Don't cut me off I just want to Goodbye All right Well at least I said goodbye

You know, you say goodbye, you're doing okay. Yeah. All right. We're going to do one news story today. Okay. Because we have time for one. Okay. And here's this.

It's time for the news. Brought to you by. Brought to you by the lost Alanis Morissette ironic lyric. Bees on your barbecue. Yep. It's like bees on your barbecue. That's kind of. perfect because we had

barbecue last night with Nick and his girlfriend and we thought it would be great to eat outside because it was so nice out and then the bees came and the bees were in force and they brought their fly friends F off insect world I know that's the time of the year end of August we get flies

that's what happens but gosh dang it couldn't eat anything we had a skirt steak big old skirt steak that we cooked barbecued up and Kim's like if one more fly lands on this we're going inside and then one second later a fly landed on it and we went inside

a dog tested positive for monkey pox this is the first suspected human to pet transmission have we not done this? Did we talk about it? I want to say we've talked about this because we were saying is it monkey pox now or is it dogpox? Oh we did do it you're right instead here's your story

let's talk about Colorado Colorado hey thank you Scott Listen, Brian, do you know what Colorado's famous for? No, well, here's what they're famous for now. Well, you're going to wish. Colorado is now the nation's largest cocaine use capital. Oh, man. Oh, good.

Okay. We know how to use it. Yep. You're high on the fentanyl as well. Yeah, that one we knew about, yeah, it's, boy, it's, when Colorado does, allows drugs, we don't, you know, we don't stop. It's like, hey, pot's illegal. Cool. Let's do everything else.

Let's do all the illegal things. They just keep moving up. United States saw 15% increase in drug overdose deaths, according to the most recent provisional figures from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. That's the CDC. In 2021, there were 107,622 overdose deaths up from 93,000 plus in the previous year.

Colorado State Patrol has seized record amounts of drugs this year. and in 2021, at least one stat points to higher than average drug use in the centennial state. Colorado was the most cocaine-using state in the union. According to the survey, 2.24% of Coloradans age 12 and older reported using cocaine in the past year. They didn't ask you, though. I would have said, oh, for sure, California, for sure in New York. And they're up there.

They're, you know, just a couple, tens of a percentage point away from Colorado. but New Hampshire is bright behind you. Oh, really? Not a weird? It's a weird. It is weird. New Hampshire and Vermont being right behind Colorado is really strange. New Hampshire, Vermont, then New York, then California.

Colorado adults are among the likeliest the nation to say they do not perceive great risk from regular cocaine use. One of the state's population, 18-year-old, or 48.35 said they perceive greater risk from monthly cocaine use, or they perceive great risk from monthly cocaine use. news, only Oregon and Utah have lower rates. Utah. Woo! Utah. With our lower cocaine rate. Well, lower cocaine rate and lower people thinking that it's harmful, right?

Yeah. Oh, yeah, right. We're even dumber. Thank goodness. Thank goodness you guys more believe that cocaine is harmful. I mean, look, we watched a lot of Miami Vice growing up, so we know what's up. All right. We're going to take a break, and when we come back, Stephen Schlecker will be here.

Yeah, that's right. You heard me. He'll be here. And we're going to talk to him, and it'll be great. I'm looking forward to it. Love having Stephen on for major spoilers. But that won't happen until we play a song to break the show up in the middle. So, Brian, what do you got there?

Break it up, everybody. Fabian Coon wrote in and he said, hello, covermeister. Fabian from Germany here, long-time listener, patron and Nurtacular 2015 attendee. Oh, best year. I'd like to request an in the middle song to be played anytime you like. Way back in the distant past of 2007, even before TMS, I made friends with an amazing co-apprentice at our bookstore. Inga finished training sometime before I did and left for the big city, in her case, Cologne. I'm still here in semi-placid, nearly boulder-sized Lunenberg, and very happy whenever I hear from her.

She's been part of one band or another, as long as I've known her, and I've always admire her singing voice. In the beginning of 2018, Inga and the two guitarist Thorsten and Felix formed the band and Yiso. and Nima joined by the end of the year. Oh, the band is called Gong Wa, G-O-N-G-W-A-H, and their sound is Fuzz Wave. This is a sound that sits somewhere between shoegaze, psychedelic, and Crout Rock, while breathing the DIY spirit of a punk new wave era. Whatever it's called, dude, I love this. This is from their 20-22 album A Second.

Here is Gong Waugh and the song This Life. You know, I'm standing on the misty beach The water's cold and dark and deep How I miss the ease and laughter It's all so far away I'm all alone with no one around And when my head is down

I see a hold in my chest and the plastic bag where I keep my heart and leave it bleeding I'm waiting still I'm waiting and the sun is going up and down oh no

this life could be so much better nothing's painted it's created and the sand is running through my hands on all this life could be so much better I'm the lonel

I'm the lonliest person in the world the last to leave the earth I've lost all my feelings all my senses are known and I'm so sinking in the sense

I'm assuming you place the violin slash my fingers on the rusty strings that I have to play eternally for those who passed away I'm waiting still I'm waiting and the sun is going up and down

oh no more This life could be so much better Nothing's fated, it's created, and the sand is running through my hands, oh no, this love could be so much better. This life could be so much better. This life could be so much. This life could be This life could be This life could be so much. much better

this life could be so much better On the Duckettler Highway On a duck dither highway, cool wind in my hair. One smell of collieed hugs dries thee up through the air. Oh, that sucks. This is the morning stream with Scott Johnson and Brian Ibbett. Big old freaking dirt blanket. Tell me more about that amazing Fuzz Wave song.

Oh, so good. That is called This Life, that is by Gong Wa. And you'll find it on their brand new album, a second. Did I get that right? Fuzzwave, is that what I called it? Fuzzwave, I believe, is what I called it. I already closed that email. But yes, FuzzW.

Crout Rock. I'm interested in more. Indie shoegays. Yeah. And by the way, it's your fault the other day. Yeah. Oh, who was it you introduced me to on here? And I went and just.

Was it that, that, that, um, uh, Dutch singer with, uh, K's choice? Oh, yeah, yeah, that's it. And I listened and listened and I loved it. Oh, so God. It was really good. Yeah. It turns out exactly what I needed at the moment I needed it. Awesome.

Oh, I love it. Good. I'm glad I could be that for you. Oh, you're able to. facilitate a great music matchup for me. Excellent. One day we're doing this whole show in that voice. The whole voice.

St. Patrick's Day, we'll do this in the whole show in that voice. That's right. Okay. Steven Schleiker time. Yeah. Guy gave me another comic recommendation that I ended up reading. At least I think it was him that gave it to me. But anyway, let's see.

We'll find out. Steven Schleiker. Steven Schleiker. As you know, Stephen Schleiker joins us. every Monday to talk about all the cool stuff happening over at major spoilers.com, comics, movies, TV, whatever's going on. We're here to do it with Stephen. Hi, Stephen. Welcome back to the show. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hello. Hey, man. Was it you that told me about seven sons, or am I smoking crack? It may not have been you. Does that comic sound familiar? No, it does not. Okay. Jay Lee, you know Jay Lee,

the artist. Yes. Him and some other collaborator, it's their creator-owned thing over it. Oh, yes, I know this one. Yes. I know it. I have not, I did not recommend it. I ended up reading all three of the first. I think there's only three issues. I could be wrong. There might be more. I binge the first three and loved it. Basically, the concept is the world thinks the second coming has happened, but it's, but

there are seven of them. And they think that they're all Jesus babies. And this is set in the modern time, but they think they're all Jesus babies because they were born to mothers who had not they were they were immaculate conceptions right so no no dad involved no sex suddenly there's just a baby right so they think all seven of these people and they're all seven boys and they think the seven sons are this group and that a bunch of people have rallied around it and turned it into like a gigantic religious movement to the point that las Vegas is now called New Canaan, and everything Brian in Vegas has been converted into big religious stuff.

You'd send me a screenshot of that first, that title page. Yes, that was that right. That's right. Splash page. And they even had the old Vegas sign, but instead it says, welcome to fabulous new Canaan. And then like all the structures and stuff you're used to in Vegas are alternative these monolithic religious effigies and stuff. And, man, that thing goes places.

It's real good. that's a cool it's a cool comic anyway and if you guys like j lee's like kind of trippy art style he's got a really weird style uh that'll get it done for you anyway there's my comic recommendation yeah no he did uh i think he did the art on the dark tower comic book adaptation over at dynamite or marvel i forget which one i think it's marvel at the time uh yeah and that was i have all those issues that's very good in there he also did the recent covers not not the page to page but the covers for the Dune stuff, the Dune adaptation stuff. He's great.

There's just something about his work. Can't quite put my finger on what it is about it, but it's weird. Anyway, you guys are interested in that. You can go find that wherever you buy your comics. Hey, Stephen. Will there be a Sandman season two? It seems like Sandman's, we did. It seems like Sandman's doing all right.

So will there be a season two, or are we going to have to wait around until we find out? That is, you know, I don't know if. you guys have watched the entire thing yet. I'm Scott, I'm guessing no, but the first season ended on a definite cliffhanger. Yeah. That is pretty much saying,

oh yeah, we're definitely planning on a second season. And then Neil Gaiman goes on Twitter over the weekend or last week and was like, oh, no, there is no guarantee that we're getting a second season. Oh, wow. If you guys like this, then you better be watching it and rewatching it and getting all your friends to watch it

because Netflix has promised us nothing. And that's really interesting. I mean, they dropped the surprise, what, surprise episode, 11th episode, this weekend on Netflix. Yeah, it's not the main storyline, but it's still good. Sure. Okay. Yeah, I'm only five episodes in. I'm actually part of the way through the excellent David Thuleus episode, the fifth episode.

So I'm not even through with the whole series yet. I'm so glad to know there's even more than I initially thought there was. Here's the actual quote from Neil Gaiman about it. He says, because Sandman is really expensive show, it is a really expensive show. And for Netflix to release the money to let us make another season, we have to perform incredibly well. So yes, we've been the top show in the world for the last two weeks. That still may not be enough. He wrote in a tweet responding to a fan who believes the series is coming back as a given.

So who knows? Netflix is one of those that just is like so dang frustrating when it comes to, and I can imagine from the producer side, that are we going to be renewed? This happened way back with Stranger Things. It was like months after the first season had been released, did Netflix say, okay, yeah, go ahead and let's do a Stranger Things season, too. So I can imagine this is super frustrating to not know whether you're getting that next season or not. Sure. Well, I don't know.

It feels like, like what does it have to do then? If two weeks on the number one spot isn't enough, what is enough? Is it four weeks? Is it eight weeks? Is it, you know, like, what's the limit, you know? They, you know, Gaman says this is a high budget piece. And it is. I mean, it is just great actors, great special effects. They felt like they did not hold back on this. And yeah, I would imagine that there's at least between $5 and $10 million spent per episode is my guess. So you've got a very expensive show that needs to recoup its cost either through new subscribers or through people just watching it again and again and again. Yeah. I think there's one possibility. Chat mentions it. And he does say this in the part of his response was, you know, we're,

case if it doesn't happen in Netflix it doesn't mean it's dead it could be it could go somewhere else where's it going to go HBO max ah that's a good one I think if it had a likelihood of going anywhere it might be something prime would pick up I could see them doing it oh sure they got money to waste that would be a big slap in the face wouldn't it I mean it would be but they do that they've done that before I think one or two titles are like that oh really have hopped from one to the other yeah we did start watching uh I didn't know how I was going to feel about it we just start we just thought you know well see a couple episodes while the kids are over last night we watched the first two episodes of in a league of their own or a league of their own the oh yeah the tv show version

thing it was really good and funny like I don't know what I expected I'd actually still not quite sure what I'm expecting but it's very different from the movie it feels more like whatever the source material was and I thought it was really funny there's a lot of lesbians lots of lesbians they're just leaning right into that lesbian bet they're just going for it yeah well i'll i'll tell you one that i'm that i was going to use as a recommendal we finished it and because there's no second season i can't i feel like i can't use it as a recommendal because there's no closure but it's night sky um which is j k simmons and cissy spacic uh about a couple that has a a portal a chamber in their backyard to another universe or another

world uh excellent really really good show um no season two that's been canceled and there's even though much of the main storyline has been answered by the final episode there's still a lot of questions that you're left with at the end of season one and i'd love to see another another streaming service pick it up because i think it was it was excellent so this is a case of this is a prime and they cancel it that's a bummer they canceled it it's such a bummer is J.K. Simmons was freaking brilliant in this. I like Cissy's basic, too, and they're both great actors. Yeah, there really are.

I may still watch that as a, I don't know. It's worth saying because it's a great story. And it's a lot like, it's got the feel of like devs and, God, there was another, oh, that outer range, which was really, really good. Oh, I love all those things, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Out of range, probably the best comparison, because you've got that. Here's the country, and then here's a weird sci-fi anomaly that we're working around.

Does J.K. Simmons yell at Sissy Spacic for not playing the drums right, or is that a different thing? He says, get me pictures of the portal. Ah, okay. Calls her Peter and things like that. Stephen and I did the same joke. That's the only joke you can do. That's the only one you got. All right. Well, that's a thing. Anyway, watch, watch for possibly, here's my prediction.

Sandman season two will happen. That's my prediction. I think it will as well. Yeah. Yeah. Won't you think? It just feels like a little too big to not. I mean, it's, Brian, you're at the, you're at the scary episode.

So the next episode is the, is the fun episode. Oh, good. Okay. Well, I'm loving the scary. I mean, it has. Holy cow. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, there you have. Yeah. Just keep going. It's a good, it's a good, it's a good, fun show. I highly recommend it to anybody that ever read Sandman if you, you know, If you've only heard about Sandman or interested in it, this show will take care of you. What did you guys, or what did you, is anyone, I haven't seen it yet, the She-Hulk episode one, how'd that go? Yeah.

Yeah, in fact, if people have been wondering, yeah, good transition there, Scott. Yeah. My youngest did not really care for it. And he and I've been sitting down and watching all the Marvel and Star Wars stuff this summer. He was a little bored. And I don't think it was because, oh, it's got a girl. I think it's because he was hoping for more. there is some smashing

but he was wanting good guys smashing bad guys and there's not a lot of that as much as there is hey control your anger and you know find your inner stuff and Zen yeah I don't I don't want to docks anybody but there is a ton of Ruffalo tunnel Ruffalo in this which is

great there definitely was and so one of the one of the conversations that that she has with her cousin is whether Steve Rogers is a virgin or not and it's a big part of the of the conversation, the bonding moment in the, in the episode. And you'll find out that answer if you stick around for the post-credit sequence.

This is one of the first times that they've done a post-credit sequence in the first episode. On the first episode. Yeah, I think it's the first time they've done a post-credit sequence. So I thought, I thought Steve Rogers, when he decided in Endgame or at the end of Infinity War, wherever the hell it was, I guess Endgame. He decides to go. Go live his life with Carter. Yeah. I thought there were like kids involved and all that stuff, no?

No, you don't ever see kids. You see them just dancing in their house. But, you know, very chaste. I filled that in. I mean, I assume they're having sex. Of course they are. They're married. He just says, I could do this all day.

They have kids afterwards. It's like, are you going to have kids? And he says, nope, I don't think I will or whatever. Well, being stuck in ice for a long time has an effect on a man. So the Chazza Scott's world, being married, having kids. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying. I thought, first of, I thought there was some reference of kids.

I don't know why I thought that. But regardless, if they got married, they had sex, okay? They had sex. He put his wiener in her Virginia. That's what happened. Yeah, but no one knows what happened to Steve Rogers at the end, except for, you know, uh, Bucky and, um, Sam Wilson. Oh, yeah, that whole deal.

Yeah. Well, those two have also had sex. Just kidding. All right. Uh, anyway, well, yeah. Did you finish kept a Falcon Winter Soldier? Uh, because. I mean, it's, yeah, she Hulk is, is, is fun.

I want to see where it goes and, uh, yeah. Uh, I do too, and I should watch that first episode. I think I'm going to make that happen before I leave. No multiverse stuff, so it's not like you have to watch it for any other tie-in stuff. And boy, does it feel like the comedy. The comic always had that fourth wall breaking comedy kind of bit to it and the, uh, the, the, the TV show captures that perfectly. Now, our final story, uh, is a little weird because when you think of, um, Rick and Morty, You don't always first think of, and you think of Rick, and you think of Morty.

You know, it's like, oh, Rick, I don't know about this. Shut up, a piece of shit. That's what you think of. You don't think about Rick's daughter, aka Beth, aka a married lady to a guy from S&L. Can't think of his name. Parnell, Chris Parnell, yeah. She's getting her own comic book, and that seems crazy.

So tell me about it. It is. So, first of all, Oni Press has been going through some real stuff over the last couple of weeks or months. So, yeah, oh, we could spend a whole 20 minutes just on the legal issues that Onea is going through. But apparently they're still going to continue to publish comics and they release their November solicitations that has Beth getting her own comic book series. This is where Beth is in a terrible accident. She can't operate.

You know, she's a veterinarian, a horse doctor. So she uses some strange powers to do things. So this is going to be your take of Dr. Strange in the Rick and Morty universe. Yeah, I thought for sure, you know, they would play off of her alternate universe badass superhero self. But, no, they're doing, you know, current world continuity. That second issue cover, by the way, that you show, that is very Dr. Strange and has, like, a Rick and Morty-esque Dormammu and a Rick and Morty-esque eternity or death. Oh, who is that? Eternal. Yeah, yeah, or Eternity.

We're playing on some stuff there. Yeah. Oh, so what a great cover that is. You know, they do a really good job. Let me see. Fred Van Delente is the writer on this. They do a really good job of creating Rick and Morty comic books over at Oni. And I, and there's something in there if you're a Rick and Morty fan.

I think one of the biggest problems anytime you take an animated series and you turn it into a comic book is it feels like it's losing some life to it. But the stories are still well thought out and well told. So I'm sure this is going to be really fun. Yeah, it looks like it's all right. By the way, fun side note. Sarah Chalk is the voice of Beth in the TV show. From Scrubs. From Scrubs.

She was Bobby, Billy. What was her name? Elliot, sorry, Elliot. Elliot. And she was the replacement Becky on Roseanne for one season. Oh, what? I didn't know that. That's great.

Yeah, she was replacement Becky. And they make a joke, the whole family is sitting there watching bewitched and they said how come nobody ever bitched about them changing darrens and they said nobody ever noticed it or something like that there was like some weird credit season was it more than one season

it was a couple seasons because Becky did come back for the Connors that actress did didn't she I don't remember did she to me they were never they were always the same indistinguishable blonde girl that's all I remember interesting all right

she did a lot of voice work wow She is. And Warmageddon is just a couple, the season 6 premiere of Rick and Morty is just a couple weeks away. Yeah, come very quickly. Faster than you expect it. It's going to be only three episodes for the season, as my guess. You think so? No, I hope not God. Yeah, that'd be bad.

You want to see dude bros riot in the streets. Yeah, they'll lose their minds. Rick fans, don't mess with them. They're weird. All right, there's your look at some cool stuff going on in the world of pop culture and comic. Stephen, there's always something rad happening at major spoilers. Do you want to tell us about anything coming up? Yeah, so something that just launched today.

Way back in 2018, Dr. Bradwell, who's a regular on a lot of our shows. He's also a scholar of H.P. Lovecraft, that is Ph.D. on that. We actually recorded our audiobook version of the Dunnich Horror. And I finally, this summer got around to editing it. So the very first chapter dropped on Apple Podcasts today. So if you go and look for the Dunnage Horror from Major Spoilers Entertainment, you can go and listen to it. They're really short 10 minute chapters that we're going to release every week between

now and Halloween. So people can get our take on that classic HP Lovecraft tale. That's great. Very cool. Go check it out, you guys. Again, major spoilers.com for all this stuff. It is cooling off, but remember to stay hydrated. Yeah, yeah. That seems

like good advice. Bye now. Yeah, I got rid of him before he got rid of me. Fantastic. Well, well done. I feel better about myself. You showed him, Scott. You got a little lesson. sure did. Okay, look at this, everyone. Send and receive email. A couple of quick emails. Here's one from Chuck Gaskill. Gaskell, probably. Gaskell. Yeah. Gaskill. He's from Salem, Oregon. That's where all the witches were. No, wait, that was the other Salem.

No, that was the other Salem. Hello, Skittles and Eminem's. Wait. A Skittles works with Scott. Eminem's. Yeah, Eminem's doesn't, but I am I am round like with Eminem's, so I'll take it. And your candy coat. I'm candy-coded, and the red version of me will kill you. That's right. The green will make you horny. Anyway, this email is a reference to your turn-fact-based, sorry, your fun fact-based about squirrels causing most. All of a sudden, you turned us into an MMO.

I know, I don't know what happened there. Most electrical outages. This was on TMS 2335. A few months ago, our Toyota truck started acting funny. It started with the radio acting up and then escalated to the gauges acting funny. It culminated with the truck engine just not running smooth. so we took it into a local Toyota dealership to have them look at it. We live here in Oregon

and see a lot of squirrels in our neighborhood so I suspected squirrels especially after seeing one hop onto the wheel well of the truck. When a Toyota rep called me after a couple of days, he said he couldn't confirm for sure that squirrels had been at work but apparently something had

chewed five different wiring harnesses in the engine compartment, one of which controlled the engine performance and required removing the engine to replace. The estimate to replace all the wiring harness was something around $11,000. Holy cow. He says, I'm not kidding to make sure we know he's serious.

I called my insurance company. They said that the damage would be covered. We just had to pay for our deductible and the extra cost for Toyota to put a wrap around the new wire harnesses that apparently has a bitter taste when bitten into like that video game cartridge he says. Switch cartridge. I love it. They should just automatically do that on everything. That reminds me. It really need to make van taste one of those cartridges.

Yeah, I got to try it. See if it works on a kid, you know, because they're the ones. Did you keep track of which one you licked so you'd make sure he doesn't lick the same one? Yeah, that's a game I can't. I can't find my copy of Mario Kart 8 anywhere, and that's the one I licked. That's the one you licked. Even though there were no concrete proof that squirrels did the damage, I can't look at them the same way anymore, those little effers. Keep up the great work.

Oh, we know. We know they did it. Thanks, Chuck, for your email. That's interesting. 11 grand though for wire harnessing my gosh and taking the entire engine out though is the I guess so yeah

and this is a big nice like 80 grand you know Toyota Tundra it's the truck Marty got at the end of back to the future yeah that's oh that was a cool truck I remember one that really was that one but yeah that black mom I can't go up to the lake his dad wrecked the car

what Marty I made out with you in high school I'm my own father Moose 22-20 I'm sorry 2271 wrote in says hey Scott and Brian Michelin and good you oh this is about tires and why they still have air in them oh sure Michelin and Goodyear both have been working on airless tires

for over 20 years there are still several problems with them automakers depend on airless tirelers for ride to quality or depend on air I think he means air to tires for ride quality making a compound that is soft enough to increase ride quality decreases the life of the tire to less than 3,000 miles to combat the heat from friction with the road the tires have to be much harder compound

or the tires literally shred like lettuce. Wow. Picture that. Lastly, heavier vehicles like electric vehicles and trucks had problems with the tires coming off the rims when cornering at speed. So this is about six years ago. They are still working

on them though. As a side note, forklists have had them for 70 years or more, says Moose 2271. The problem is you don't have to go very fast. Yeah, Brian doesn't have to pick up lift passengers in Boulder using a freaking forklift. Although that would be a lot easier. They wouldn't have to get in the car. I just drive up to them.

Hey, are you? Are you Sarah? Okay. Beep, beep, beep. And I just pick him up with a forklift. I want this. This is the dark future I signed up for. That's right.

We'll be at the, we'll be at the Dutch Brothers coffee in about 12 minutes. Yeah. It'll be, and that's only a block away because we'll see. are slow as shit. It's a block away, yeah, exactly. I love this idea. All right, that's it for your emails. If you'd like to send some of your own in,

it's the morning stream at gmail.com. Very quickly, I'd like to mention some new patrons to the show that were sign-ups after we last spoke. For example, Luke. I don't have a last name, just Luke. Luke! We are your father, I suppose. Anyway, thanks for joining up.

On the 18th, we also got Mike and L.B. OMG spiders and Carl Wilcox. I've been told that I look like if Luke, Mike and LB, OMG spiders, and Carl Wilcox had a baby, that's what I'd look like. That's what I look like. Whatever someone says pick the tickets up at Willcall, I always think Wilcox. Is that weird? Could you pick the tickets up at Wilcox? Yeah, Wilcox.

Some reason, every time, it's just in my head. Can't help it. Oh, fun. That's it for that. And if you want to be like them, now's the time to sign up. Actually, any time is, but sign up now. Patreon.com slash TMS. Even a dollar a month would help us a lot.

We would really, really appreciate it. Frogpants.com slash TMS is our website, and you can find us on Twitter. We don't mention that very often. MorningStream, Scott Johnson and Coverville. So if you're like, when do you guys go live, we tell you every time about 10 minutes ahead on that Twitter account. So check it out at morning stream. That's it for us. Hey, Brian.

I'm guessing you came packing with a song. I did indeed Yeah Jason A.K. Maple Bacos on Twitch said Deer Stout and Brown Ale Those are beers, Scott. August 19th

will mark 50 trips Around the big fireball on the sky for me So I'd like to request a song To celebrate That day is a Friday But I'm a patron member So the day of the week is just fine

Or any day of the week is just fine He wrote this I think before he did Yeah he wrote this way before we did TMS Couch Potato Party So Oh God That explains, yeah, he's raising the dead ghost of a thing we don't do anymore. That's right.

Exactly. Can you play a rocking cover of or by tool, rage against the machine, or the smashing pumpkins? I really enjoy your podcast, which I listen to on my commute and when walking for exercise. Keep up the great work. P.S. We asked for more fish, but they wouldn't give us any more fish and told us that we could eat rice. Wow. Okay.

Before I do any of that, there's this. Yeah. That's for your birthday. and then fit, oh my gosh. I haven't done these two in a while. I know, yeah. Okay, let me try it. More fish.

Okay, here's the more fish. I love... No. We asked for more fish, and they refused to give us any more fish. And what was the other one? Rice, you can eat rice. You can eat rice. Here it is.

Oh, I'll give them twice the fun. Here. Then you can eat rice! And then I'll play it backwards. I don't remember when I even did that. Anyway, there you go. Happy 50th, man. Cool.

All right. So how about a rock and cover by Smashing Pumpkins? This is even before Gish, that awesome debut album produced by Butch Vig. Oh, I didn't know there was a thing before Gish. I love Gish. There was. Yes. This was recorded back in 1990, about a year before they would release their first album.

They were just a, you know, just this. indie Chicago band, rocking out in local clubs and stuff. They contributed to a compilation called 20 Explosive Dynamic Super Smash Hit Explosions, which was a compilation album featuring a bunch of different bands doing covers of 70s songs, kind of in that K-Tel kind of appearance of the album. Great albums. And I don't even know if there would have been a coverville if it weren't for the series of albums because they're so good.

Wow, I didn't realize big influence then. That's cool. I pulled a lot of stuff. This was a regular album I'd go to when we'd have people come over. And I'm like, ah, see if you recognize this song. And there was this unknown band on there that I liked called Smashing Pumpkins. And they did a cover of the Ozark Mountain Daredevil's Jackie Blue. You're going to hear it right now.

Here are Smashing Pumpkins. Who Jackie Blue Lives a life from inside a room Eyes is my winters wearing a frown Ooh, Jackie You're not so dumb You like your life in a freeborn style

You'll take it in But you love a mile There never seems to be quite an hour Loaded around to fill in love and love Oh Jackie Blue What's a game girl If you never lose

Ask a winner And you'll probably find Oh Jackie They're lost you sometimes Don't try to tell me that you're not aware Of what you're doing and that you don't give You say this isn't just a natural thing Like playing music that you never sing

Oh, happy blue Making wishes that never come to places where you've never been. Oh, yeah, you're going again. Oh Jackie Blue Lives a life of a lot from the side of the moon Makes you think bad to be bad

life is a dress who jacking me was fine and then I don't know. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. Phony mumbo-jumbo. Yeah, that's what you get here.