The Morning Stream - TMS 2360: Porch Pirate Prevention

Episode Date: October 10, 2022

Poutine Thanksgiving. Viagra + Muscle Relaxant: An Upper and a Downer. European and Eurohurtin'. Jesus Christ, Wood Whisper. Take this package around the Back. I can see my nose hairs from here. Dumb or Weird or Dumb AND weird. Does the Weed lose its flavor in the fridge overnight? Filter Drinks Through Your Undies. Peeing its way to China. That wheel weighs a ton. Columbus Doesn't Exist Anymore. Getting Conned 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, Poutine Thanksgiving. Viagra and muscle relaxant, an upper and a downer. European and you're a herton. Jesus Christ, wood whisper. Take this package around the back. I can see my nose hairs from here. Dumb or weird or dumb and weird. Does the weed lose its flavor in the fridge overnight?

Filter drinks through your undies. Peeing its way to China. That wheel weighs a ton. Columbus doesn't exist anymore. Getting conned with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. What's ironic about Jesus Christ becoming a carpenter, was he was actually named after the two words you're most likely to shout after hitting your thumb with a hammer. The morning stream, I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar. Good morning and welcome to TMS.

That's the morning stream for short, and it's Monday, October 10th, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson, and Brian Abbott is also here. Hello, Brian. Yes, I'm also here present for today. Yeah, ready for whatever the world throws at us. That's right. You know, we're not just sitting on our laurels, as they say. That's right.

Or our hearties, either one. And happy Thanksgiving to our friends in the North who probably just liked what having cheese curds and gravy with turkey and gravy. Yeah, maple syrup on it. Smothered with some sort of beer, two-borg maybe. Some kind of wearing Mountie outfits. Like that's what you're cosplay on this day is to look like a Mountie. Yeah, we assume you guys, and you're listening to the great white album over and over just on repeat. so happy indigenous oh that's also indigenous people's day here in the states that's right yes

which i guess did that so that took over is it official that Columbus doesn't exist anymore as a day or did we we've eliminated Columbus i mean that's kind of we've replaced Columbus day with uh but have we done that as a people and not officially on a federal level or federally it recognized i don't know how it works. My Star Wars calendar. Yeah. With Yoda, Jedi Master on the back of this page.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, look at him. So I rigged up like this. I tear out each page so I can write on it. And then I have magnets on the back so I can stick it to the wall. But if I need to add something, I just add it, put it back on the wall. Because I don't want to write on this thing while it's on the wall. Anyway, just super handy with these little magnets all of these.

Anyway, it's nice. You've sold me. me. I'm going to get one now. Yeah, you got to get it. Yeah, a little piece of plexiglass on the back so I can ride on it easily. Oh, I'm already sold. You didn't even have to tell me that, but that's a nice feature. Whatever. This is McIver Town right here. I'm telling you right here. Columbus Day, still listed on the Star Wars calendar. Boo. Yeah. All right. Well, whatever. I just, I think we're, I think we're all kind of cool with like calling it that. Kids still have school today, though, like the, oh, chat just said

the same. I accorded. You still have school. It's not that big of a deal, but I don't think banks are open, right? Oh, that's an interesting question. I don't know. I don't know either now that I think about it. Mail not getting delivered today? Oh, I hope that's not true. Yeah, I don't know.

That's a really good question. I know FedEx and UPS are working, but I don't know about mail. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think mail is working today either because normally I get a thing in the mail that says what's going to be arriving so that if I have a package that's coming via USPS, I can just make sure that someone's here to get it. How do I sign up for that? Is that a normal thing?

I can just sign up for it? It's a normal thing. You just go to USPS. It's called informed delivery. It's free. And it tells you, and that way also, if you're getting a check, you're like, oh, that's a check right in there. And then the check doesn't show up, which has happened. You can immediately tell the person who send the check.

Yeah, no, that's, that's good. That's actually really helpful. I like that. All right. We got a weird thing going on. Our FedEx people and our UPS people, I don't know what's happening. The last four deliveries from both organizations have ended up out in our, like, little dirt rock garden thing out in the front of the house, not on the porch. Oh, geez, really?

And I don't know why. And they're still taking pictures of it, and, you know, that's the thing is saying, oh, we did it. That's as far as they feel they need to come with your package. Yeah, and the only thing I can think is we have a weird Tomcat, Alley Cat, Stray Cat that comes around the house all the time. The Carter's always feeding. Maybe that thing is up to. They're like, I don't know, hissing. I don't know, man.

I can't, honestly, I can't figure out why they've been doing that because they've never done that before until like the last four deliveries. Oh, I don't like that at all. I don't like that at all because often I don't put shoes on in the house. So it's like if I get to see the package on the porch, I step out on the porch barefoot or in socks even and get it. But I'm not going to walk out to my rock garden and get a package. Come on now. Yeah, it's really weird. And the ones that take it around the back, they're the worst because,

We kind of have, okay, so the city planner that planned out this whole daybreak area I live in. Yeah, yeah. They were like, I love the Midwest. And the Midwest, way out in like, you know, Ohio, they have a lot of back alley driveways instead of being in the front. So we're going to do that. And so they, they, it's unlike everything else in the whole valley, this one zone that I live in, this area called daybreak. Yeah. Like every, so like four houses in a row will be back alley driveway houses and then one will have a front one.

And every house is completely different than each other. They're just going for a certain motif here. It's like a thing. Weird. And it's fine. I don't mind it. But sometimes if you're like a new Fed guy or a new UPS guy, you don't know. And so you go around the back because you don't know what's this street?

I guess this is where their garage is. But I guess I'll leave it. Like it gets really confusing for some of them. Jeez. And if you don't leave the house, you never see it. It just sits back there. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know what's going on. I guess you see it when you look in your email or your phone and says package delivered. and there's a photo of your garage door. Oh, good point, yeah. If they do take the photo. They don't always, though, sometimes they don't. Yeah. I don't know, man.

There's a really good hiding spot. We've got a couple pillars in front of our door on our porch. And I like it when the UPS or mail or FedEx person puts the package behind those because it makes it not visible from the street. But they don't always do that. And I'm in thinking, what could I do? I mean, I guess I could do chalk, but it'll get rubbed off easily. But I kind of want to do a little less Nesman dotted.

line that indicates put package here. I like that, though. Like a little less Nesman dotted line kind of thing. Yeah, a little package parking space. Why not? Yeah. Some people do, they just get like a little cheap stand. And they put the stand where they want packages.

And for some reason, you know, it helps UPS understand. Then they're not also gumming up the concrete on their porch with writing or anything like that. And then if there's rain, it's like elevated snow, stuff like that, it's elevated up. I do like those people that have, I'm not going to install one because it sounds like I have a huge pain in the ass, but they have like a, it's almost like an airlock where. Oh, yeah. Between the outside and the inside, you've got a little space where they can actually open the door and put it in there. Okay, I haven't seen the airlock. I've seen the anchor lockbox where it's, it's a big box that's big enough to put a package that you get from UPS and stuff like that.

And then when the driver closes it after putting your box in there, nobody can open it except for you with your key. Oh, that's cool. Kind of like that. Cool if you get one package, if you don't get more than one package, right? Because if you get a second package from FedEx or UPS after you get the first one, it's like, well, I can't put it in the box. I guess I'll just set it on top. Help yourself, everybody driving by. Yeah, I didn't think of that.

Porch pirates are going to, they would want to get in there. I've never had a porch pirate deal. Maybe I have and I don't remember, but I don't think anyone's ever stolen a package for me. Have you ever had that? think i've gotten one either i don't think it's ever happened to me we live in a um it's not a cul-de-sac but it's a loop and there's basically unless you're one of the 12 houses in this loop there is no reason for you to be driving in this loop oh i like that that keeps you guys artificially uh or you know sort of naturally safer from stuff like exactly yeah the ones you know what i think they probably do

is they probably avoid dead ends and circles because if you do that then you're kind of in a hole there. And if somebody sees you, then come out and corner you. So you want to be a straight through. Or if you're the robber, you want it to be a straight through. If you're like me and you, you're going to want to be what you are, cul-de-sac or corner, or in my case, I don't know why they don't steal from me. I'm not saying you should. I'm just saying it would be easy. We really don't have any sort of protection for people stealing from us, I guess. We have had issues where people, if they leave their garage open, that's the other problem with the back alley garage stuff and having a road back there if you leave your

garage open by accident overnight um there's a roaming band of teenagers that always freaking suss that out and find it yes yes every damn time see that on next door all the time kids got into my it's always kids broke into my garage and then the like the first line underneath the big head the the big attention getting the scary headline is i accidentally left it open overnight but i shouldn't be it shouldn't be a problem in this neighborhood yeah they broke broke broke in to your open garage. I'm not saying they should. I'm just saying you maybe got what you had coming is what I'm saying. Speaking of the thing, shipping, I ordered, I don't know if this makes me dumb or weird,

but I ordered a, I ordered an Xbox Series X mini fridge because Walmart has them on sale. They're usually 100 bucks and Walmart had them on sale for 50. And I went, oh, do I just do this? It's probably not even a good fridge, but still. It holds what, like six cans or something? I think it's eight cans, I think. Eight or ten or something, and it's, it looks just like a series X. And it's all based on a meme and a joke. Yes. From back when they first revealed the series X, everybody went, oh, it's a giant fridge.

And they started photoshopping it in people's, you know, kitchens and all that. And have been a good time with it. And then they immediately turned around and made a couple of full-size fridges as a joke Microsoft did. They're like, ha, ha, we get it. And yes, it looks like it. So here's a fridge. And then they made these little mini ones. and so I was like I can't I can't this half off I got to get this so now I got a stupid mini

fridge kind of oh that's great do you have one in your office like a mini fridge you keep around I do I have a like a college dorm size fridge it holds it probably will hold three 12 packs oh geez it's got a little freezer in it that's pretty good yeah yeah you can stock up nice keep your weed in there I don't I don't know if this weed better if it's refrigerated I don't know if it is. Like batteries? Somebody'd have to tell us. It's like putting batteries in there.

I think there's still a Zima in that one over there too. Oh, look at you with a Zima. Aren't those gone? Now you've got a collector's item. I thought Zima was gone. The last time I, this came from the case that Mitzula brought to Nurtacular 2018. Oh, yeah.

Was there, there was a, they're not, sorry, 2017 was the last Nurtacular, No, wait. Yeah, 2017 was our last Nurtacular. That is correct. Okay. So that's when I got this one. So it is five years, five years old. Wow.

Wow. Zima. How was 2018 five years ago? Because you know what that means? Five years ago, then... Well, 2017 was five years ago. Are we saying that Mad Max Fury Road is almost eight years old? We're not saying that, Scott, because we don't think about those sorts of things.

I do. I think about it all the time. well anyway so that's coming it'll be here via mail i got it you couldn't get him in the store so i had to order it uh i've never i don't order from walmart i don't know how to i don't know what that is oh really yeah so i just did it's fine there yeah there've been some like you know killer deals that have come from walmart that uh kinja deals notified me of i don't i think i've maybe bought from them once but it was uh i think it was like a um oh it was the action figure set the Marvel Legends action figure set that had the Jeff Goldblum

collector, not collector, uh, Gamesmaster. Oh, the one from Thornt, uh, three. From Ragnarok. Yeah. Yeah. It had corg and, uh, gamesmaster. And I can't remember what the third one was, but. That's cool, though. Yeah. Uh, did you, so, you know, you could keep eight cans of soda in my Series X fridge, but you could keep eight cans of beer. Here's my transition. Brian went to Beer Fest. well done sir how was your yearly trek to beer fest how to go oh it was it was uh it was great actually it was um uh not as packed i mean the the session we go to is the member's session which isn't as packed

as the the general admission sessions sure because we pay a little bit extra just for an america and home brewers association membership just so we can get a discount on tickets and have access to the members only session that's the only reason that we do it What does the member's only session do for you? What do you get with that? What does that mean, actually? You, because there's fewer people, you get quicker, you get a cheaper ticket. Okay.

You get quicker access to every brewery. So, all right, you know, we've all been to trade shows. We've all been forced to go to big trade show events. And in this case, it's just long aisles of tables, just long aisles of tables. Some people actually have like a fancy booth on the ends. But other people just basically have a 12 or 16-foot table, 12-foot table with a white table cloth on it, or plastic probably, and a place to set five or six different pitchers of beer. Okay. Behind them, they've got kegs, and what they do is they put just enough in the beer so that it stays cold or in the pitcher just no so it stays cold.

people walk up they put their glasses on the right in front of the beer they want to try or they put them in front and say I'd like to try the Pilsner or the stout or whatever and then they come over and they pour carefully one little ounce of beer and these glasses are you know they're tiny there but bigger than a shot glass but not much bigger than a regular size shot glass and there's a little mark on them roughly where it announces and so you you taste it you're like oh that's very good Let me try your milk stout, please, or let me try your porter, or let me try your ale or whatever. Are you putting up the photo of me with my glass?

No, no, no, I should. I just found some Octoberfest footage that fit well with your description. From the description. Yeah, I was actually, I have a greater question about why they don't call yours October Fest, but continue on. I don't want to interrupt. Well, because it's a different thing than October Fest. We do have an October Fest here in Denver. Oh, okay.

The last week or a week and a half of September, as is typical. So they're double-dipping is what they're doing. They're going for. They're double-dipping. It's a whole different thing, too. That takes place. That's out in the middle of downtown with, they take over a street, block off a couple streets with German food and beer and dancing and that sort of thing.

It's October Fest here is so much less about the beer than it is about the whole German. Oh, right. Which I'm sure is the same case up at Snowbird. Yeah, the Snowbird one's all about Brought worst and that, well, it's beer. obviously, and everyone dressed like weird-looking Germans, but yeah, I assume it's like all October Fest. They're all kind of like that. They're all probably like that. And anytime, by the way, if somebody gets in my car and they're like, you know, say, oh, where are you from? Or, you know, we start talking and the topic always comes up. Oh, you lived her all your life. And it's like,

where are you from? Oh, from Utah. Oh, what part? Oh, Salt Lake City area. I said, oh, yeah, I have a good friend in Salt Lake City and I've been out there many a time. Oh, where'd you go? I said, well, mostly to snowbird. Ah, skier, right? Nope. When I say no, they go, oh, well, then you must go to October Fest. Right. What else could it be? What else could it be? And they say, well, no, actually, we have a big, you know, fan meetup event out there. Oh, who are you a fan of? I know. You're going to, there's no getting out of those things.

It's almost easier just to say, I went out there for skiing. You know what I like to ski? I went skiing and just lied to him. That's right. Yes. All right. You win skiing. Yeah, I went skiing. Forget it. Goodbye. Um, anyway, so we, so we get, we have access to all those breweries, 500 different breweries each with about five or six different beers at each one for four hours. So it's four hours of walking up, filling your glass, drink, go to the next one, try, you know, try a bunch from the same brewery, try a few from this one.

Pumpkin brews were huge, of course, uh, as they always are this time of year. Had a really good marshmallow and graham cracker, uh, like a smores kind of beer, a stout. that was great. Not too sweet, but surprisingly really good. Sure. There's a, I think one out of Tampa, Florida called Big Storm, and they had a Tangerine IPA, and I'm not usually a fan of IPAs, but they had a tangerine IPA. That was amazing.

Also, a listener that works at a brewery wasn't able to go to GABF, but he sent along some goodies for me, and that's Tyler from Shorts Brewing in Elk Rapids, Michigan. and big things because he sent along a big swag bag of hats and coffee cups and stuff. Nice. That's where they brew all the beer in their shorts. They brew it. They use the shorts as a filter and it's delicious. Tasty.

Man, can you just filter in all your drinks through your undies is my plan? Yes, through your, yes, exactly. Well, that's good. So, but no. And you get to keep the glass. I have my, I have all my glasses from all eight, nine years that I've gone to this thing. during film sack you said no no hangover no no noticeable uh stuff no noticeable hangover i feel like

i was moving a little slower yesterday than i normally do on a sunday um so i don't know if hopefully no was able to tell that on film sack or we did d and d afterwards i'm like uh yeah oh that's you're running on steam when you do that holy crap totally yeah all right i'm gonna let me just attack with my uh soul shard well that's great but uh no it was a great time and by our estimate we had something like between 80 and a hundred different beers that we tasted on that uh yesterday a lot of beers or a saturday yeah and if you think of those as ounces that's 80 to 100 ounces of beer in a four hour period which is like drinking seven 12 ounce cans of of of eight to

10% ABV Not your But light or your cores But like, you know High-end craft beers and stuff Did you wear a stadium pal Or do anything to mitigate the P-P-Need or, uh, no? No, I, um, I did pee

Three times. That's not too bad. Not too bad, no. No, I'm gonna say that's real for as much as that went down your hole. That's pretty good. Yeah, it really is. Really is amazing. I mean, I came home and,

pee like, you know, a racehorse, but... Sure. Yeah. Does anyone ever seen a racehorse pee? I've always wanted to see an actual racehorse take a bit. You know, is it really as big a deal as we make it out to be? Because we always... It's a very big deal, Scott.

It's a very big deal. It's the biggest of deals, yeah. All right. One more quick thing before we get to Battle Royale today in our half-asses edition. I'd like to give a shout out to Di Diego Santos in our in our tadpool slash a larger community. You got married this weekend, and we're stoked for him. That's awesome.

Very, really happy for him. And it looked like a real nice event. There's pictures up on the Facebook group if you guys want to go see it. Huge grats to him in a long, a happy life with this beautiful bride. Ah, so cool. By the way, pops and recline just put a video of a racehorse peeing in the chat. If you want to see it.

A kid, just in the still image of the themes for the thumbnail, that kid is fascinated. Don't eat me. Okay, let's see what we got. Oh, my God. Oh, wow. Deserved. It's like birds are coming out of them.

Oh, my gosh. That's... Okay, you know what? For real, I always think that these things are overblown. Not today. Yeah, no. This episode of TMS's R-rated. I don't even know what to think of that.

That's in the most amount of pee I've ever seen out of anything. That's incredible. Yeah, yeah. All right. He's almost digging a hole to China. Yeah, no, don't kidding, dude. Who's cleaning that up? I guess it's dirt.

It's dirt. Yeah. Gross. All right. Time to call. We're going to call Brian Dunaway. Let's call him. Yeah, why not?

Let's play a game. Hold on. He's not calling us. No. I mean, he could, but it wouldn't work. You wouldn't. It would start a whole new session. You know, and we can't answer that.

that we can't do that exactly no not while we're in this session no forget it joining us from halfway across the country well almost the full way is brian done away hi brian oh hi scott and brian hello how are you i'm good i'm good all the way from the other side of the country yep look at you down there doing your thing uh welcome back south carolina to be specific but uh really it's his own place brian is his own ecosystem and we're glad to have him share his time with us on a Monday while we play a little game. Hey, Brian, Ibit, will you explain this game and how it works?

Okay. Welcome to the morning. Half-asses. Pee like a half-ass. The trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you to the answers. I'm going to be giving Scott and Brian a category. Six possible answers to that category. Three of those answers are correct, and three of them are

complete and total BS. Depending on how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses. But if they get any of those guesses wrong. They get zero points for that round. Guess one and get it right and you get a point. Guess two correctly. You get three points. And guess all three correctly, you will get

five big ones. And by big ones, I mean points. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. And lookie here, I found a couple contestants that aren't able to attend live. And Scott, you're going to be playing for Ethan Fuller of West Greenwich, Rhode Island.

Nice. Nice. And Brian, you're going to be playing for David of Houston, Texas. Yeah, David, let's do this. Yeah, David. Wee, whew! So, yeah, the Texans beat the Carolinas yesterday in the rodeos. Yeah, they did.

They did. Yes, the rodeos. The NFL rodeos. All right, let's get to it. Let's get to your first question. Looks like you guys are both logged in. Question number one. Accomplishments that Thomas Jefferson listed on his gravestone.

So on Thomas Jefferson's gravestone, he listed some of his accomplishments which of these six are actual ones yeah he listed them like how did he do that he provided a list for them to add if he requests okay he requested interesting okay i'm up to that's a very good that's a very good question are you guys going to do that assuming we all have gravestones when we died do we do we all want to write our own what do you think of that idea no no okay no like to write my own are you getting yeah i think i might i'm getting burned up someone in a urn yeah but there's I just, really, I wanted to be a list of games that I finished.

Don't waste your money on a stupid stone with... No, that's good, because Brian will save money. There's hardly any games he's finished. So it's like a single line. Yeah, it's a little tiny brick. Astroneer. Yeah, Astroneer. That's it.

No, I tried there were quite a few I finished. No, I'm getting cremated anyway. I don't care. All right. Let's get to your list. Here's your list. All right. Founding the University.

of Virginia, architect of Monticello, the Louisiana Purchase, President of the United States, the statute for religious freedom, and the Declaration of Independence. Which of these things did Thomas Jefferson list on his gravestone? Okay. Pretty sure I know two of these, but I don't think I know any of these others. Once again, listed on his gravestone. Once again, I need to know if he requested this or if. his family put it on there i don't know if his cousin it was pissed at him should have put

got it on with one of his slaves i mean well i mean yeah yeah yeah i mean he didn't easily had his gravestone he could easily have carved it beforehand or something right he didn't might have who knows but you wouldn't know if you would have had one last accomplishment it's like oh is it too late for me to add such and such to my to my gravestone what about coitus with a 14 year old slave is that on there no uh i'm locking in with those two dumbass It's on the back. It's on the back. Yeah, always put that stuff on the back of the box, always.

All right. Well, of course, you guys both chose President of the United States. Guess what? He doesn't include that on his... No, I knew it was a trick. Nor does he include architect of Monticello, but he does include the Declaration of Independence, the Statute for Religious Freedom,

and founding the University of Virginia. Damn it. I knew that turd would try to mess me up. Yeah, TRPW. I know it's rape. I know. I just don't like that word. It's horrible.

I don't like saying it. Yeah. TRPW wants to really get the, he wants the R-rated version of every word I say. Why are we talking about rape? Because it's a long story. Did I miss something? You did.

It's okay, though. It's okay that you missed it. Oh, there is right there. Well, what is that? His thing? Rape is this wrap with an E. Oh, that's a big stone. Look at that.

It is. Statute of Virginia for religious freedom. Yeah, there you go. Father of the, what? Father of the what? Father of the bride. Many children. It's probably University of Virginia, I'm guessing, is what's underneath that.

I mean, I know that he had children with that slave because my wife has directly descended on that family line from that union. I'm sorry, from that rape, T.R.P.W. Excuse me. What? Go ahead. Why is everything on that gravestone in quotes? Like, here was buried. Like, is it, you know. Maybe we were just different about that stuff back then. And thus I quote the great stone. And why is it in past us?

Of Thomas Jefferson. Where is he now? Yeah, where is he now? I hope he was put into someone's brownies. All right, moving on. All right, let's get to question number two. These are the best Thomas Jefferson brownies I've ever had. Yeah.

We're quite a ways away from the Winter Olympics, but let's see how many of these you remember. Figure skating terms. All right? Which of these are actual figure skating terms? We have Twizzle, Pivot Crunch, bestie squat, moon jump, sashay, and mohawk turn. Bestie squat? These all selling great cereal, like, components.

How about a nice bowl of pivot crunch? Pivot crunch. It does with six pivot crunches and two moon jumps. I would eat all these except for bestie squat. I don't like that. I don't know if I'd eat Twizzle. How about a big bowl of twizzle? Big, big crunchy bowl of twizzle?

Boy, howdy. Oh, Jesus. I think you're skating terms. Yeah, which of these are actual figure skating terminology. Damn. Son of a bitch, I'm putting those two in. All right. I'm going to just, I'm going to grab two because I don't freaking know.

Okay. Okay. Once again, you guys both locked in on one moon jump. You both felt like was an actual. Oh, come on. Figure skating term. However, you were wrong. No, it's not.

The actual ones are. Twizzle, Bestie Squat, which I'm sure is named after somebody named Bestie, and Mohawk Turn, which Scott you did also include. Yeah, but still zero points because we're dumb. No points because a moon jump. Yeah, should have chosen. Wow, all right. We're getting down. These are hard. Why

you make them so hard lately? Last week was hard too. Hard was easy. It was like a video game one or something, wasn't it? It was super easy last year. Don't remember. Neither one of us got any points until the last question. And then Scott won by like a point. Hey now. Is that true? Did I? Did I win? Oh, I guess I did win last week. You're right. Yeah, I think so. I'll take that one.

Well, let's see how you do on this one. Let's get to question number three. Legal words in Scrabble. So which of these are actual legally allowed words in Scrabble? I'll have you know that when I typed these in, all six of them had the little red underneath it. So according to... Really? Oh, I got you. Because, yeah, according to spell check. Exactly. Spell check didn't recognize any of these. Your words are, corporal, C-O-R- P-L-E, Nutmeal, Rear Word, R-E-R-E-W-A-R-D, Doppie, Z-U-Z, and Cent-L-L-L-L-A-L-L-A-R-E-U-Z, and Cent-L-L-L-A-L-L. Basically, it's spelled Santa L-O-L-L-L. You're going to need 10 milligrams of Zuz.

That should be the name of that Violent Night movie. Have you guys seen the trailer for Violent Night yet? I saw it. I had something else, I was watching the football game on quiet last night because we were watching the movie and I saw the trailer for it I'm like oh this looks great it looks fantastic I cannot wait for that movie

it looks like diehard and John Wick and Santa Claus all had a baby looks amazing anyway David Harvard best Santa ever

let's see Scott's locked in Brian you're still I'm not locked in yeah I'm still debating yeah he's baiting he's baiting he's baiting he's baiting

don't open the door he's baiting I don't know all right you guys have lucked in on Ford different words. All right. Sweet. All right.

The actual words that are correctly allowed in Scrabble are. Zuz, which is an ancient Hebrew coin. I didn't even get one. Rear word, which is the rear guard of an army, R-E-R-E-Word, and santelol, which is the liquid obtained from sandalwood. Oh. Santillol out of your sandalwood. I'd never even heard of that.

I wasn't sure about nutmill. It feels like nutmill is a word. but I'm like, is it a proper word? Because you can't use It's a meal of nuts. Is it like a real name or something? It's a meal of nuts. You got nuts and you make a meal out of it.

It's a nutmeg. I have never heard of nut model. No, you know what it is. You can just go ahead and make a nutmill out of this. No, you just, you squish your balls accidentally in a bad seed or whatever. That's a nut meal. You've mealed your nuts.

Nailed it. Very good. Nailed it. All right, let's get to something a little more of your speed. Here is our tiebreaker question. Brian, I'm going to be asking you a question, the answer to which is a number. Scott gets to go higher or lower if you get that number incorrect, and whoever gets this right is going to win the prize for their contestants.

Excellent. On TV's Wheel of Fortune or Thunderdome for Chiquet Heads, how many pegs are on the outside of the wheel, seeing how they spin it, goes, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bankrupt. Yeah. All right. How many pegs are on the outside of that big hunkin' wheel? I'm counting him in my head right now. Okay. All right. Good.

He's slowing down. I'm going to say, I'm going to say, um, a hundred and ten. 110. 110 is incorrect. Scott is the actual number higher or lower than 110. lower lower lower lower it's like a well I'll tell you this the wheel has 24 24 different wedges yeah each wedge has three pegs meaning three second two pegs on the wheel scott wins nicely done completely guessworked that job yeah who's that

who got the wind that wheel weighs 2,400 pounds by the way. That means that Ethan Fuller of West Greenwich, Rhode Island is going to be winning our prizes and they're going to win a copy of Siege Survival, Gloria Victus and Nickelodeon All-Star brawl in which you can actually

pit Alonis Morissette against a bucket of slime. It's amazing. It's amazing what they've done there. You're going. Oops, that's the wrong one. Congratulations. You're a winner. Here's the thing about that. Let me tell you also that the runner-up is getting a

copy of Ember. Ember. Oh, Ember's awesome. I played ember. It's great. I haven't played any of those other two things, although All-Star brawl is supposed to be pretty fun, so you'll like it. It's like Smash Brothers. Anyway, I was going to say... I'm on muscle relaxers. You don't, oh, you're on them? I took a muscle relaxer this morning. No, how are you feeling? That's why I lost. Are you relaxed? Like my wife, you call muscle relaxers instead of muscle relaxants. Oh, same with me. I call them relaxers. Are they relaxers? Are they relaxants? I think they're a relaxed sentence.

Oh, never heard that. Do you put on deodorer in the morning? If I, if I, if, yeah. I mean, it's a good point, but if you go, if you go search for, uh, I think both, both words are acceptable. I know you're going to go. The first thing you're going to do is Google and say, well, hold on, Brian, I found a page that says muscle relax. Oh, yeah, there's a ton of them.

There's a ton of, they both of these say, they basically say both, but if you're going to go to, um, Wikipedia, they actually do yours. They do relaxant. Yes. I had no idea. I've never used it that way. Unfortunately, that just sounds stupid. So I'm not doing that.

So there you go. All right. Stupid as it is. Real quick here, that 2000 pound. Of course, I thought nuttmeal was a word. So, you know, you can't depend on me. You don't know anything. Hey, how much do you say that thing weighed?

The wheel? 2000 something? What was it? $2,400 pounds. So that's like a, what is that? That's a ton and some. Wait, a ton is 2,000 pounds? How much is a ton?

kind of 2,000 pounds of a ton. Okay, so that's an over two, that's an over a ton of wheel. It's over a ton of wheel. Exactly. And it just sits there

and does nothing except when they film shit. Right. What a life that wheel has. Fantastic. All right. Done away, good job. And congratulations to both of our contestants.

Was it a good job though? Yeah, it was a good job. It was a good job. It was a good job. I didn't get anything. Nah, what we needed was you and your fun personality

and you did a good job. I showed up and that is as much as you can ask of me in these times. That is true. In these end times where you're on a muscle relaxing. Don't get it. You know what? Those things mess me up.

I only can take those at night or else I'm useless if I ever take a muscle. Well, I usually only take them at night, but I was in a dire situation today. So I took half and I was worried about it. I'm like, oh, boy, this is going to be fun. Did you hurry and drive? And I was correct. Drive as fast as you can. No, no, no.

I'm not. Before it takes effect. No. I thought it'll go out from my back to there. Oh, yeah. Brian's back foot hurting him. Should he do what you did and take a thing? Yeah.

You got those laying around, Brian? Yeah, I took a muscle relaxer because I'm having muscle spasms in my back. And so, yeah, but I'm not going to dry it for like six hours soon. Oh. And only took like two milligrams than what I took, which is like half a dose. Somebody once told me, I don't know if this is true. I'm sure we have somebody in the listenership who can tell me, but I heard once that if you take too much Viagra, which I've never done, I don't know what that's like.

If you take too much Viagra, you can take a muscle relaxant or er, and it will help. Yeah. It will lower, it will slow the flow if you know what I mean. A shrinky dink after, after your four hours around. But that's not a muscle down, it's not a muscle down there. Is it, does it, does it keep the, does it keep the, does it keep the blood in there? Is that what it does? Well, it's because your heart and your, and the rest of your musculature is, uh, relaxed some.

But I think that's how. Like I say, it could be a dilated. It could be a total wife's tale. I have no idea. No idea if it's true. I just heard that. And wasn't that how Viagros figured out that it was originally supposed to be a heart, like heart medication? They found the side effect that it gives you wood.

Oh, is that true? I didn't know that. Right. So like. Was it like some doctors in some like lab going, all right? Let's see how it affects the heart. Oh, my Lord. Look at his bono. Well, forget the heart.

Look what it did. We're going to make billions. And they celebrate. It's fantastic. All right. Hey, Donaway, tomorrow we're doing play retro. Everybody gets yourselves ready for a little Halloween fun.

We're doing alone in the dark one and two, alone in the dark. Which I've never played until this past week. Oh, really? I played those probably the first one to finish and then the second one I played, but I never finished it. I will be playing a bit of that later today

just to get caught up on how those games hold up. I'm guessing not very well if I had to guess. But they're still important. I sent you a link to the DOSBox versions that I had. I know, I got those. Those are all queued up and ready to rock. So I'm very excited about that because, you know, it's the origin of survival horror. There was no

such thing before those games. And your Resident Evil's and your Silent Hills and your what-nots, they all came after that sort of thing. So check it out. Yep. They even, I think they even prior, someone just said in the chat, they invented the tank control style survival

horror thing, which Resident Evil would like lift and use for, I don't know, what three Resident Evil games, I'll use that, so. Anyway, that'll be tomorrow. 3.30 Mountain Time, if you want to watch it live or you can catch us. And I do recommend that if you can just because we do a lot of visual stuff while we talk about these games. But it's also

up on YouTube and the podcast after. Go check it out at frogpans.com slash play retro. Brian Dunaway, do you have anything else you'd like to say? Yes, we'll say you guys mean a lot to me. I appreciate you. I didn't hang up on him yet. He's still there. Dunneway, you there?

Oh. You were saying such nice thing. I wasn't going to hang up Did you just stop talking or did it, did the audio just cut out? No, he stopped talking. He thought I was going to hang up. I was feeling like, no, I was feeling like I hung up on you. Yeah, because it was usually you saying, if you said something stupid or rude, I would have hung up on you. But you were being really nice.

Yeah, yeah. Okay, now he's gone. Now I cut up. Oh, so funny. All right. Let's see here. We got a little time. We're going to do a news story or two, depending on what we get to here.

And that'll all start now. And dance by the light of the moon. It's time for a little bit of news brought to. you buy. Barat you by dogs who are deathly afraid of pre-recorded farts. Okay, quick story. Boomer is over last night because Nick was here and they bring their dog when they do that. So Boomer's at the house.

That means four dogs in the house. And they were all napping at one point. And I was on the couch at one point with my phone out. And I was watching TikTok and I flipped to one where a guy made the loudest, most horrible fart in his video. Uh-huh. And Boomer went from dead to sleep to boing to straight. just straight up moving around, looking everywhere, growling.

I was sure there was something going down. Wow. The irony that a dog named Boomer would be afraid of farts. I know. Fart sounds. Well, she's technically named after Battlestar Galactica Boomer, but the point well taken. Here's the, oh, you probably know about this. The do the time warp again, Rocky Horror Show will travel.

You're going to one. I am. I'm not going to this one, though, sadly. Oh, that's unfortunate. Well, it says, grab your toilet paper, bring a flash Don't forget the newspaper and your fishnets. A touring interactive version of the Rocky Horror Picture Show is hitting the road to celebrate the cult film's birthday with screenings, live showcast, the invitation to be inappropriate and one of its own stars, Barry Bostwick. I didn't know he was in that.

Yeah, he was in the original and not in the one that's coming to Colorado or that's being done here that I'm seeing Saturday going to the Rocky Heart Picture Show. Anyone coming there from the original movie? No, this is a local group called Colorado, the missing ingredient, Colorado or something like that. And it's, um, uh, it's there, they put it on at the Esquire. Like, Denver is, I think, the last city that has continuously run the Rocky Horror Picture show at midnight since 1975 without stopping. Gotcha. I don't think you're going to miss anything by not having Bostwick there.

It's fine. No, I don't think so either. You know, it'd be nice to see him there, but I, you know. And I doubt he would actually be doing the shadow cast of the show. I think he'd probably just be sitting in the audience. Oh, yeah. Or maybe do a little Q&A before or something like that. Oh, that could be, yeah.

Yeah, like directors do, and they do their film tours. What does Susan Sarandon smell like? Spring morning. I don't know, she'll say, um, uh, Andy Dufrain is what I'm. I'll say. Look it up, kids. Let's see here. UK porn stars halt work.

Because of a syphilis outbreak in Europe. I don't know if you knew about this, Brian, but no. I did not. Well, that explains why I haven't been able to get any jobs lately. Your European porn has come to a halt. Amid growing concerns over reported syphilis outbreak in Europe, many adult film actors in the United Kingdom of Stop Working Altogether. As per report by the Independent, adult film stars are calling for a union to be established in the U.K.

syphilis, as you know, is a sexually transmitted infection or a STI. I don't know as an infection rather than an STD, a disease, or the same thing, just one in the UK and one in the U.S. I also thought they were, I think STI is a distinction, I think. Okay. Maybe we call it a disease. I don't know. It's a good point. I bet Americans do.

You're probably right. It's just they're them saying university and us saying the university. It's probably like that. Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. Weirdos. Lorys, not trucks. What are they doing over there? Anyway, this can be easily cured with antibiotics, but can trigger grave, even life-threatening issues if left untreated. Symptoms are usually routinely mild and difficult to spot. Pass PASS, which runs a database of sexual health certificates for U.S. adult actors,

so they have been informed of multiple positive syphilis results among porn stars in the U.S. Europe, warning of the potential for many more exposures, including among U.S.-based performers, reports the website. Yeah, don't be, yeah, when you have sex with a European, you're having sex with the last 10 years of porn that that European has done. Oh, yeah. Yeah, never do that. I made the joke in the Tadpole, by the way, European, and you're a hurting.

Oh, that was good. Because it hurts when I pee. It is the, that is one of the things, right? It's like an STI, or like a, not STI. What do you call that? When you pee? What do you call urinary? UTI is what I'm thinking of.

Oh, a UTI, sure. Not to be confused. You don't get UTIs necessarily from doing it, although that can't happen. It's a very educational show today. I don't even, I would expect this. I know we learned about race horses. We learned about figure skating terms and now STIs. Oh, and Barry Bostwick.

Nice. Preliminary data from the U.S. centers of, you can tell the U.K. Articles, they spelled that C-E-N-T-R. R-E-S. Sintres. For Disease Control and Prevention, released this month also shows there have been a 24% increase in congenital syphilis, which is passed onto fetuses and can lead to birth defects in worst-case scenarios babies dying. Well, that's no good. We don't like that.

We don't want that. Nope. Also, you know, well, whatever. I know there's a whole, I assume this. I don't actually know this. I assume there's a whole subcategory. of like pregnant lady porn is my thinking right oh that's probably a thing yeah which is uh isn't there there's some irony that therefore they can't be the stepmoms right you know a little bit of

irony there for sure little irony that that pregnant women and stepmoms might be popular subgenres and no shade here if any of you out there in this business and are affected by this we hope you you're able to avoid it and you know give any help you might need for any infections and yeah Like we said earlier, like in the freaking 1700s, you all be dead by now because we didn't have antibiotics, but we got them now. We can do it. Yep. We can treat this stuff. Get fixed.

Get fixed. Live along, healthy. And then you'll be ready for grandma porn in just a few years. It's right. It ain't like herpes, though. Herpes you get forever. We learned that from Eddie Murphy's stand-up act. That's true.

So much we've learned from that. So much we've learned from that. Yeah. Like how black people never go into haunted houses, even though he just did that in the movie. The Haunted Mansion that we watched yesterday for films. Right, exactly. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back from this break, we will spend some time with our

old pal Steven Schleiker. We had a couple of big cons over the weekend and he's got the scoop. That NY double C. That's right, baby. Specifically, I want to talk about that. I want to talk a little bit about the Picard trailer because I don't know. I have thoughts on that. Anyway, that's

all coming up. But before we do that, Brian Ibit here will present a song to split the show right down the middle where God meant it to be. Right down the middle. Hey, let's go to Seattle for an hard rock, an indie hard rock band called Flung. And I say it like that because there's two U's, FLUU-U-N-G, flung. Wow. Thanks to Dark Secret Media for letting me know about this one. They've got a brand new

album coming out this Friday. It's called The Vine via Setterwind Records. Check it out. Here's the first single from it. It's called Decades. Here is Flung. I don't miss you every day But I wish that you could say We've been so far away for decades But I don't miss you every day But I wish I did

I've gone missing every day, I've gone missing every day. I'd like the person that I was in. I would cry for you, but I'd for me. Because I don't miss you every day. my day relax kids swallow quarters all the time if she craps out two dimes in a nickel then you can start worrying huh for a quick refreshing lift nothing does it like

Seven up. The morning stream, Batman. That reminds me, you got a new Batman game coming out in a week. That Gotham Knights game. Oh, very excited about it. Brian, who is the song? Your P.W. and the Tower just wants to like, well, if a father marries another

woman and makes her pregnant, then she would be stepmom to any of the man's original children in the porn. Yes, come on. Like, this is something you feel you need to explain to me. The joke is that there's stepmom porn, whether she's not the mother, and then there's

pregnant woman porn where she's the mother. That's the mother. That's the joke I'm making. No, that's the joke. No, that's the joke. It's pile on TRPW today. That's what's going on. Let's do that. Hey, everybody, that song you just heard was the band Flung out of Seattle. A brand new album is called The Vine comes out Friday.

That's the first single from the album. It's called Decades. Now, let's explain Brazzers. Treescare says, I'm not sure how to feel about Gotham Nightchap. I mean, me either because I haven't seen any reviews, but it's looking good. I mean, it's a big open world in Gotham City and you're playing all these different, you know, you're going to be Nightwing if you want, back girl, freaking Tony Todd. Not Tony Todd.

That's the guy that played Candyman. Yeah. What's his name? the Todd kid. Anyway, Red Hood is who I'm trying to say. Oh, Jason Todd. Jason Todd, yeah. Freaking Tony Todd as the Red Hood.

Fantastic casting. All right. All right. Let's get into the Schleiker weeds. All right? Yeah, yeah. It's wade in there as if we have no care in the world. I've got to add him, though.

Hold on. Here we go. Okay. Drenched Wildfire is enjoying Pennyworth. I'm is there and so there has not been an episode where Martha and Bruce Wayne's dad was what was his dad's name uh Howard not Howard Wayne um that's Thomas Wayne Thomas Wayne thank you Thomas and Martha went into the eye here to say it Steve was here it's amazing we did it was a perfect time to ask that question but yeah if there's

any episode of Pennyworth that has that scene in it uh I'm not not even going to start the series Why did you start to say that name? They'll say. And then Brian's out. That'll be it. Steven Schleaker. Stephen Schleaker. Hey, look who it is.

It's Steven Schleiker joining us like he does every Monday to talk about pop culture, comics, movies, and more. Stephen, welcome back. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hello. Hey, man. So, check this out. Okay.

Real quick. I, when a game like Gotham Nights is coming out, I always think of you because I know you like you like me are, you know, somewhat of a decent. fan. You like the DC comics. Yeah. Any desire to crack that open? They're too busy. I'm not very good at video games. When I play Assassin's Creed, I'm more than likely

to set myself on fire than to kill the guy guy. I love that. I mean, they let you run right over that open fire and I know, right? It's very cool. I jumped off the really tall tower and I missed the hay bales and I landed right in a fire kit. Yeah. So I

don't know. It probably has too many buttons that I need to mash in a certain sequence and I'm probably not down. You're probably correct about the buttons. But yeah, it's, I don't know, I'm just in the mood for a big AAA game. Yeah. And I love the Arkham games and this is not, so this is the guys that made Origins, Batman Orcham Origins, which is not, which was not Rock Steady who made the main Arkham games, which are revered. And Origins is just kind of okay. So I mean, there's a little bit of concern that maybe this will just be okay. and we'll have to wait for Rocksteady's Suicide Squad

Kill the Justice League thing that's coming out, but I'm excited nonetheless. If that ever comes out. It should come out next year, I think. I think that's the plan. It better. Whatever. Rock Steady delays everything, so you're probably right.

Anyway, hey, we got a couple of things. Anything out of New York Comic-Con that blew your mind or made you go, whoa. Yeah, there were a couple of things. Marvel is pretty big. I mean, this week, next week, the new previews catalog will be out that lists all this stuff. But Marvel did, Marvel Comics, did kind of pull a Marvel Studios gimmick by posting an image that has a timeline of all of their events coming out for the next year. That looks very much like when they get up and say, here's all of our movies coming out for the next 14 years.

Yeah. A couple of them that of note, of course, there is a big dark web series that starts, I want to say, next month. And then we'll run through the first part of 2023. This is where Madeline Pryor and Ben Riley team up as the Goblin Queen and Qasem, and they take their revenge on all the spiders of the Spider-Men's universe. So you've got that. You've also got Captain America Cold War, which for anybody that's a fan of the Captain America series on the Disney Plus, you might want to check this out.

It's Steve Rogers still around. He is in his own book, Captain America's Sentinel of Liberty, and Sam Wilson is in Captain America's symbol of truth. and they've got a big crossover that is supposed to kind of incorporate a lot of the big events from Captain America's history for the last 80 years. And then the Jason, is it the Jason Aaron wraps up his Avengers series with Avengers Asimble. I think that comes out in February of this year. All right. That's exciting stuff.

Looking forward to all that. Oh, I'm sorry. That comes out in November of this year. Okay. Very cool. Tony Todd again. Just kidding. I keep forgetting this Jason guy's name.

No, that's great. Do you, what was I going to say? I had a follow up on that. Oh, shit. And I derailed myself. It was, it was great. We were all going to be in awe of my question. Now I don't remember it.

Damn it. All right. Well, that's okay. We'll come right back around if I think of it. That's okay. It happens. We're all getting older. Oh, I know what it was.

Spider-Man. I got a Spider-Man question. Okay. Is it true? Yes. I know there's like a, the multiverse, sorry, the spider verse is, is huge and there's the, you know, the pig and there's the, you know, weird stuff, right? Dwar and then the robot thing and the movie and all that. Somebody told me yesterday, John, a friend of the show, John Jagger there, said that there's a character called Spiders Man.

I believe so. There are, there are so many. And it's just a one that's covered with spiders. It's just a bunch of spiders who crawl together to form the shape of a man and then wear the suit. Yeah, in a trench coat. It's a million spiders in a trench coat. Why is no one ever... So that they can legally buy alcohol.

I love... Yeah, that's what it seems like, right? It's like stacking two kids on top of each other, except it's all spiders. But that blows my... I didn't know that was a freaking thing. That's amazing. I love that. I want to see Spiders Man in the new Spider-Verse movie.

That's what I want. I don't know who we're going to see in the new Spider-Verse movie. We're going to see a lot of them, but there have been several Spider-verse comic books that have come out from Marvel over the last couple. of years. There was a Spider-Ver series with Miles Morales that we reviewed last week on the Major Spoilers podcast. It wasn't very good. Probably a place where you might want to

check it out is Spider-Man Apocalypse or Spider-Verse Apocalypse series because it's got everybody in that. Really? Okay. I don't know why I'm interested in that at all, but I kind of am. I used to bug me when they do this, but I kind of like it now. Bug you. Yeah.

Oh, I see what you did. Yeah, with the bug you. I didn't mean to do that. It's a joke I didn't mean to tell. Actually. So isn't there a dinosaur, too? There's like a dino spider. Oh, yeah. There's all sorts of.

You name it there as a version of it. Okay. I kind of want to make my own. Something dumb, you know, like, I don't know what it would be. I guess if the universe is truly infinite, then you, there's no, there's, it can be anything, right? Like spider everything. Like this, this he-man I have right here, there's spider he-man in one of those universes. Spider-Hman.

I held that up, and it was blurry because it's a skeleton, spider-tore. a spider tour. It's pretty good. It's not bad. No, really wasn't. I'll make out with you, Mary Jane. The dinosaur's name is Spider Rex, by the way. Spider Rex.

I saw a picture of a toy or something, and I thought that's also new to me. So if this theory holds, in some universe, there's an entire dinosaur version of Spider-Ban, but he's also made of spiders, right? I mean, could be. I mean, the multiverse is infinite, unless it's not. I'm in. Unless you're over at DC, then there's only 50. No, wait, there's an infinite number.

No, wait, there's none. And then we're back to an infinite universe. Well, let's stay with Marvel for a second. They announced some other new projects and events and stuff, which surprised me a little, given that they just did all this with their own events, a few of them in a row. But I guess it's okay. They've got more to say. So what are they doing?

They have so many other things that are coming on. They've got a, this week they have, I was just doing this. They have the Avengers X-Men Eternals event continues. And so it's trying to build to a conclusion, but we have Axe Iron Man, or I'm sorry, Iron Fist gets involved this week. There's an internals book this week. Last week was Star Fox. So if you're interested in that character that showed up in the Eternals, if you like that movie, all two of you might want to go check out Star Fox this week.

Nothing to do with the Nintendo character, right? Zero connection. No, no, no, no. Although, you know, it would be kind of cool if it was. but yeah. Fair enough. Star Fox actually showed up at the, I don't know if it was

the in-credit sequence of the Eternals movie or just at the very end of the Eternals movie. Oh, okay. That Star Fox shows up. I still haven't seen that. I should watch that.

Yeah, no, no, no. I mean, catch up on all the other Marvel stuff first. The Turtles put down the bottom of your list. Yeah, we had a, I had a button hovering overplay on Ant Man and the Wasp the other day.

And then Kim goes, I'm not really in the mood. I love it when you, I love it when you hover over something that you really should watch. Well, Kim and I were sitting there ready to watch it. And she goes, I'm not really in the mood for hero stuff right now. I said, what do you want to watch? He goes, I don't even know.

So we found something British, and that's what did it for her. Okay. Is that what your recommendal is this week? No, no. I watched a horror movie by myself. Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah. I've been watching nothing but horror movies for the last week,

and I don't know if that's good for me, but we'll talk about that on Wednesday. I watched the first episode of the Midnight Club. Oh, yeah. It was pretty good. It wasn't horrible. It was, I was, I was. Should it be released at the same time, by the way? Yeah.

All the episodes are available. Yeah, Netflix still. So that's the Mike Flanagan stuff. He's never bad. Yeah, never bad. You're a good, good hands over there. And they're doing, I was talking to the film set guys about this, but it's basically, they're doing like a Flanniverse event on Netflix.

And it's all advertised. It's like all the Flanagan stuff, all here. Come get it. I like that stuff. All right. Oh, my gosh. Someone in the chat. Rusty Nail says Eternals is better than Ant Man 2.

Is that true? I totally disagree. I think Ant Man 2 is really good. It's got your, you know, it's got your, what's her face? Michelle Pfeiffer in it. How can that be bad? Oh, Catwoman makes the jump from D.C. to Marvel. Once again, we got a Marvel DC transplant.

We got another one. We got one more. Everybody keeps telling me, Stephen, to watch the pets one, Super Pets thing. Oh, Super Pets, we haven't watched that yet. My kids are now outside that range. Oh, they don't care about that, yeah. I've heard it's very good and that Keanu Reeves is like a legit good Batman,

even though it's kind of played for laughs. Like, I kind of want to see it. Yeah. Anyway. Also, if you get a chance, Scott, it doesn't tie into anything else so you can watch it at any time, although October's probably a good time to do it. The right time. A werewolf by night dropped this last week.

It's only an hour long, 54 minutes long, so you're not doing a huge time commitment. And it's really good. It's really good, yeah. I won't spoil too much, but Ted is fantastic. Ted is fantastic. And, yeah, we're finally getting Ted in the Marvel universe. And here's the thing I didn't realize. Here's the thing I didn't realize, which is really awesome.

When you see Ted in Werewolf by Night, realize that that is a practical suit. That is not. Oh, really? Yes. Oh, wow. The only thing that they did was a little CGI stuff for enhancement. The face, I'm sure. right yeah every no that is a mechanical face get out and and there's certainly there are some

cg i elements in in doing that but for the expressions and everything c is a mechanical mechanical costume it was i was blown away okay i was blown away when i saw that i was like is this is this a real because this really looks like a practical either prop or costume or whatever and i was like no it's got to be cg this is marvel yeah and then i looked it up and it's like no it's a practical suit didn't we just talk about we talked about who ted is is the other day, didn't we? We did, yeah. We talked about Jerry Conway on, what was it in film sec?

We talked about it. Yeah, I think maybe a couple. I don't know if you talked about it on TMS. Yeah, we might not. I don't think we talked about TMS. We won't tell you guys. We won't tell you guys who it is. But yeah, let's just say it's a rad.

It's a rad thing you don't see very often. How about that? Yes. Well, I mean, when I look at me. Yeah, well, you know, look, you're always, you dream about him. I get it. Hey, oh. Stephen, also, the Harvey Awards happened.

Yes. That was the other thing that happens at the, New York Comic-Con this past week. Yeah. And I've told you guys this before. I don't know if you've ever read it yet, Scott, but the book of the year, The Good Asian from Pornsack Pinochet and Alexander Teffing G, I believe is how you say,

his last name. So good. It is very good. And it won book of the year. Also on the digital book of the year, Lorre Olympus from Rachel Smyth, one as well. Oh, very nice. Yeah, I was after, I did read volume one of Good Asian on your recommendation and loved it. As soon as I read it, I went, well, this is going to win stuff.

Like, I didn't know, I wasn't sure what the competition would be, but I just knew it would be a strong contender. And I'm glad to hear it did because it's, it's freaking great. It has won so many awards this year in this last year for what it did. And it is such a great series. People should check it out. I still think that even though with all of the awards, it still feels like Parasite where some people were like, oh my gosh, no wonder this won all these big awards and accolades. And then there's other people that are like, yeah, I haven't watched it. Yeah.

It's one, if you read independent or indie comics at all, I would not skip the good Asian. It's good. You know what I would actually say, I would say, I would sell them on this. I would say, do you want something that's got, it's noir storytelling, but it's got these connections, twists, and basis that is, that's just different than anything you've seen in the noir space. I highly recommend it. It's so good. So, so good. If people liked, what was it, the, the Kung Fu TV show on, was it HBO Max Originals?

Oh, yeah. Whatever that was. Didn't last real. If you like that, it's that meets, you know, your detective noir stuff, your Chinatown. Yeah. And that's what this is. Yeah. It's just really good.

There's also kind of eye-opening about some history I didn't know about. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That's, that won't give away here, but it's very, very good. Yeah, I don't know. I haven't read the trade collection. But in the individual issues, there was often a section in there. where the author, the writer, would talk a little bit about,

here's some historical background on who this person is or who these people were or this time period and what this means to this story. So I don't know if that's in the trade or not, but if you can track down the single issues and read that additional material, it really adds more to the reading experience. Very, very cool.

Well, congratulations to them. That's awesome. Can't wait to see what they do next. I assume there's a volume two coming. Or is there one. Yeah, no, the series is complete. It's 13 issues, I want to say. Oh, is that all they were going to do?

So volume two is already out, and it's complete. But this is for stuff from last year, the series wrapped up. I want to say in March or April of this year. So volume two will probably take the awards again next year. Yeah, I need to catch up, I guess. So now's a chance for people to pick it up. All right. Here's also your chance to go on over to this fantastic website known as

Major Spoilers.com and sign up for all the cool stuff happening over there. Anything in particular you want to push people's way this week? Yeah, this week I would really check out if you wanted to if you've watched Werewolf by Night want to know a little bit more about the comic books, I actually pulled a clip

from our, from many years ago from our Major Spoilers podcast and put it up as a Major Spoilers Classic episode where we're just talking about Werewolf by Night so you can go find that now

over at Major Spoilers.com. That's excellent news. Also, I'm a little thirsty. What do you suggest? Stay hydrated. Great. It's great. No, he's got great advice

on that front, you know? Yeah, yeah. Never heard it before until today. It feels like the first time, Scott. It's like the first time every time. It's like the very first time. Hey, speaking of the first time, let's do an email for the first time ever. Send and receive email.

Here's an email that we got from Scott and Louisiana. Not me, but it's a other guy. Okay. He says, I've been a regular listener to the show for about seven years. I don't know what FilmSack is. And at this point, I'm not afraid to ask. FilmSack is probably your most talked about alternative show, but I don't think I've ever heard the full pitch of the show.

I know that some films are sackable, and y'all often save movies to watch for film sac. For years, I thought it was a watch-along show, which is why, as an audio-only listener, I never bothered to seek it out. Recently, I picked up on hints that it might not be, but more of a recap and review of the movie. And you have occasional watch-alongs on Fridays. That's actually not it. We don't do that. Please enlighten me. Love the show, though.

Scott and Louisiana. P.S., I'm excited to finally write it and ask. I realized I didn't know what FilmSack was at least a year ago. I hesitated to write because I've never contacted y'all before and I thought it was silly. Then a whole year went by of me paying closer attention. Y'all discussed FilmSack all the time and never actually say what it is, L.O.L. That's a good point. We really don't do good at self-promotion for other shows we do.

Yeah, once again. So here's what it is. It's four good friends sitting around a virtual table talking about movies from all over the place. So our first episode was Krull from the, the 80s. About a specific movie, right. Each episode is about a specific movie that we just watch that's usually available on streaming.

Yeah, we pull stuff from streaming. The original design of the show was around the time, it was 2009, Netflix was just starting to be a thing. And so that's where we spent most of our time. And it was all mostly old stuff, nerdy stuff, you know, campy stuff. Stuff with like fantasy, sci-fi, you know, crime, police movies, cop shows. things like that, but are movies that either are known for being bad, completely unknown, and bad. Sometimes a good movie slips in there as well.

Sure. Yeah. You never, and sometimes it's just like we do Sactober every year. So all of October is horror movies or scary movies of some sort or another. I wouldn't call Haunted Mansion all that horror-based, but it is, you know, it's got creepy stuff. I wouldn't call it horror or comedy. I'd say it fails at both. Yeah, I think it just exists.

but um it just exists so we have the the key of the show though is the movie matters but it's not the important part the important part is the discussion because the discussion goes crazy directions about tropes and movies to where did we see that guy before oh right and we'll have these tangents that are actually really interesting and and sometimes you'll laugh your head off sometimes it'll be poignant sometimes you'll just have a good time and and you don't have to watch the movies although we recommend it we recommend you do but then you're more part of the millie of the conversation, but you don't have to. And often the show, the episode, even though we're not doing a watch-along, often the

episode is as long as the movie itself that we're talking about. Yeah. And in a lot of ways, film sack is, I mean, well, right now it's the reigning champion in terms of longevity. It's been around since 2009. So of all the shows I do, that's now the longest running when the instance ended, that changed, that became the longest running. Or the one that's the oldest and is still running, I should say, because it hasn't reached

16 years. It hasn't reached the length of time that the instance ran for. Correct. However, what was I going to say? That's it. It's great. So next time, Randy, so when we come on here on Wednesday and Randy says, oh, we're excited about Filmsac this week, and now you get it. Now you know what we're doing. And we occasionally do watch alongs, but they're rare. And it's, those are just kind of one-off and it's usually like a, you know, an hour-long episode of a sitcom or a 70s TV series that had some weird goofy episode that we used to do a lot of TNG episodes and you know stuff like that so uh oh and I forgot that's what I was going to ask him about was the TNG movie the Picard season three and I couldn't

remember it oh sure the trailer yeah anyway I guess what I was going to say about that is I'm I'm legitimately excited for that this is the end of it there this is the last end right all of them are back so Jordie and wharf and Riker and everybody They're all on the ship. They're all doing some business. They got seven of nine with them. That's amazing. I love it.

The whole cast is there. That's great. Amanda Plummer plays the big bad for the year. Well, one of them. One of them. And what's great about Amanda Plummer, I love her as an actress, period. But you always forget that she's Christopher Plummer's daughter.

And Christopher Plummer also played a bad guy in Star Trek. Oh. Whatever. When we had the iPatch, he was a cling. on? Remember? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Craig or Craig or something like that? Something like that, yeah. Anyway, so she's amazing and I think that's just great to carry on your dad's legacy, right? As a bad guy or girl. For sure. But then... Undiscovered country. Thank you. Yes. Chang, that was it.

That is Chang, yeah. Or Kang, Chang, Chang, Chang. He was a kind of lawyery and argued against Worf's grandfather played by Michael Dorn in that movie. It's pretty great. Yeah. Anyway, so my point is with this. There's another bad guy. It's in the trailer, so this isn't a spoiler. But Moriarty shows up, and it's the actor who played him on TNG. Oh, no, really?

Yeah. Oh, and Lohr is in this trailer. So we got the Ler. It is like old home week for... I'm legitimately excited, even if it's just a bunch of fan service. I don't care. I'm in. I'm all in.

Will they bring back the Horta? The Horta, the Horta. Let's reach way back and bring back. Let's reach way back from TOS and bring back the Horta. All right. Anyway, that's like the garbage bag that's swallowed up Tash E.R. That's right. Oh, yeah, make a return. The glad bag. Efty steel sack. That's what my porn name was before the syphilis out there. Hey, check this out. We got a Patreon thing to mention here.

Patreon.com slash TMS. Now, I promised that anybody who joined the Patreon last, between last Thursday and today, at any level, I would send them a bonus pack of stickers, prints, and magnets. That's happening now for the following people who all joined us since then. Mark Reardon, Tyler Rowland, Josh Bonnell, Bonnell, Jason Griffin, Davitron, 2084. Such a great name. And Kim Wolfe. You're all getting in the mail.

You'll be contacted shortly so I can get your addresses, but I'll send you an email directly. But you're going to be getting these free packs for joining us on Patreon this week. Thank you all for doing that. and it'd be really great if you didn't just do the one month and leave, you know, hang around. Please, stick around a while. Stick around a little bit, all right. You promised to make it worth it for you. It'll be worth your while.

The extra bonus, goofy stuff that you're going to hear. 100%. Including an F-bomb by Brian last week. Oh, yeah, and the pre-show, Brian did an F-bombs. That's right. I did. Scott couldn't hear me at the time. Well, let that wash over your loins.

I think I heard it. I think I just forgot to do anything about it, didn't I? No, you didn't hear it because it was when you couldn't hear me. Oh. Or the speaker routing issue, you weren't able to hear me. So I was like, oh, I can say anything I want. I missed that entirely. Nicely done.

Laid that egg and I didn't even notice. All right. It's because I have headphones on. That's how you not notice me. Anyway, if you want to be one of these fine people or, you know, just join the fray, you can do it at patreon.com slash TMS. And there are plenty of reasons, too. Just go read about them there.

And you'll want to join, trust me. We're super cheap, too. That's the other thing. Frockmance.com slash TMS for everything else. Brian, I think we're done. Do you have music to play before we go? I do. Mike Stevens, aka Mongo 117, Rodin, said, hello, Scott and Brian.

I want to recommend this song to a long-distance friend who just had his world turned upside down by becoming your grandpa again, and beginning down the path of becoming a writer. The person I'm talking about is none other than our beloved Scott Johnson. I hope this song keeps you motivated on your new book, and we wish you and your family the best. Keep writing. Signed Mike Stevens, A.K. Mungo 117. You want to talk about the substack? Yeah, I must have enjoyed that. So on the substack, I'm sending out to subscribers on the premium tier. They're getting chapters of this book I'm writing. I say this because I've never written anything long for them like seriously before, but I think I'm going to try this. It's the science fiction story. I've had it my head for a while. So far, feedback's been really good. I bet I might be preaching to all the nice people

who aren't going to ever say anything bad. I don't know. But if you want to sign up and check that out, it's over at frogpants.club. Made it real simple for people to sign up. There you go check that. Anyway, sorry. All right.

Continue. Here's the song that he wants you to hear. You already know what it is because you can see it in the folder, Scott. But the song is, don't stop me now. The version I decided to pick for you is by Jukebox the Ghost. This is a single that they released in 2019. Starts out, Lofi. Don't freak out people.

starts out lo-fi, but then gets high-fi. Here is Jukebox the Ghost. Don't stop me now. We'll see you guys tomorrow for a Tuesday edition of the morning stream. To a night, I'm going to have myself a real good time.

I've been alive. And the world is turning inside out. Yeah. Flooded around. in ecstasy So don't stop me now Don't stop me

Because I'm having a good time Having a good time A true star leaping through the sky Like a tiger To fire the laws of gravity I'm a racing car passing by The clear diver

I'm on a road, go There's no stopping me I'm putting through the sky Two hundred three years are trying to call me Mr. Farronite. I'm traveling at this speed of light. Oh, that'll make a super-solid man out of you. Don't stop me now. Oh, that is such a good time.

I'm having a home. Don't stop me now. If you want to have a good time, just give me a cold. Don't stop me now. Because I'm having a good time. Don't stop me now. Oh, I'm having a good time. I don't want a good time.

stop it all. I'm a rocket ship off my way to Mars on a collision course. I am a satellite. I'm out of control. I have a submachine ready to reload like an atom of about to Oh, oh, oh, oh, explode.

I'm burning to the sky, yeah, 100 degrees of when they come in this very night. I'm traveling to speed of light. I want to make a super-solic woman, you. Don't stop me, don't stop me, don't stop me, don't stop me. Hey, hey, hey, yeah. Don't stop me, don't stop me, who, who, who, who. I like you.

Don't stop me, don't stop me. Have a good time, good time. Don't stop me, don't stop me. Yeah! Roll up into the sky 100 degrees that's when they call me missed a very night I'm traveling just being light I want to make a supersonic man out of you

Don't stop me now I'm having such a good time I'm having a ball Don't stop me now Maybe wanna have a good time Just give me a call Don't stop me now A good time

Don't stop me now I'm having a good time I don't want to stop at all This is part of the frogpants'n't Oh, This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com.

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