The Morning Stream - TMS 2364: Curbside Soul Delivery

Episode Date: October 17, 2022

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Don't mind the guy in the ski mask We're trying something new I don't like to pour cream Landfills have more and better ingredients Snap into a Marvel game With Stephen and more On this episode of the Morning Stream These teenagers belong to a gang

The Young Skulls In this film we will follow the gang through an ordinary day and see what part aggression plays in the lives of its members. That's awesome. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's Monday, October 17th, 2020. It's Monday, October 17th, 2022. I'm Scott. He's Brian. Good morning. Good morning. You know, I give you so much crap about, you know, you're saying, oh, my God, we're already so far into October. I kind of feel like I need to take a step back and say, yeah, that's, that's kind of how I'm feeling. Yeah, it went quick, man. We're more than halfway through the damn month. I know. It's insane. I wasn't, oh, the good news is I was supposed to get my new phone on the 27th. It's now going to be here today. Oh, God, how did you, you ordered after I did. Oh, you did. You went right through Apple. I did. I go through Apple instead of AT&T.

And the thing is, if it gets here, I mean, I almost always get stuff from them earlier than they say they're going to. I think it's a trick they do to make you happy. It's an over, under promise, over-deliver or something like that. Yeah, I think that's probably right. And I'm happy to do that, except they pick the day where I have to go to the dentist. I get other errands I got to run. I'm going to be kind of in and out. And so it's the one day when I'm not like here solid.

I don't know when this thing's going to arrive. And I get paranoid. It's like, ah, porch pirates, bruh. Yeah, right. Carter's it's always the things that we worry about the most It's like oh no no somebody needs to be here Yeah exactly Carter's at work today downtown So it's just Kim and I but her and I both have the same dental appointment and the other two errands

So we're just not going to be here so I don't know It's not supposed to be here before seven it'll probably get here this afternoon It'll be fine yeah it'll be fine You know it's Halloween season can she just set up a scarecrow on the front porch with a under armor hat and a pair of sunglasses This is a great idea also it's wise of you to assume I have an extra Under Armour hat because I do. I do. I keep like 10 of those around because they're the only hats that fit me.

They fit, yeah. Got one right over here. If I need it in a pinch, like just grab an Under Armour hat. I mean, whatever. I don't even have any loyalty to that company other than they make the only hats that properly fit my head. Yeah. So, congratulations to Under Armour. It's actually your outer armor that I'm buying, not the Under.

Who cares about the Under? I'm just checking to see. My, let's see, where's my, where's my order listing here on AT&T? I'm just going to see if they make it so hard to see my previous purchase. There we go orders. Thank you. You're going to make you go in to get it? Do you get it delivered?

Oh, it's getting delivered. Oh, okay. Because then I have to throw my existing one in the box. Now, since the new ones don't have the same, they don't have the same, what are those? called the little chips uh oh sim cards sim cards right didn't they show that off at the thing so there's a different process this time i guess when we transfer it exactly yes uh let's see shipping info expected to ship monday october 24th so a week from today okay yeah which still might show up you know again they they sometimes do it early i think it's probably

gonna ship a week from today i'm guessing but we'll see who knows maybe t and t wants to also under promise, over-delivering. You don't know? Actually, they did say, expected to ship October 31st a few days ago, so it has gotten bumped up about a week. Nice. What color did you do? I've got to ask you. D. Purple, like the Donnie and Marie song.

I did as well. We're both going purple. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's cool. I saw one in the store and it is a, it is a subtle but beautiful purple. I'm going to feel like prints with that in my pocket. it, you know, walked around, looking all. Purple phone, purple phone. I will not be like Nikki in the hotel lobby doing a certain thing with the magazine.

All right, that won't be me. Right now, that would be with your AT&T user agreement. Exactly. Instead of with a magazine. Exactly. That is correct. All right, so you went and see that Rocky Horror Picture Show business. I did.

How did it land? How'd things go? It's been a while, Scott, since I've seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show business. horror picture show in a in the setting in which it is ideal to see that that movie which is with a lot of things to distract you from

what a horrible movie it is. Sorry, this lamp is about to fall apart. I don't know. We'll talk about that someday, the stupid lamp that where the plastic ones to just keep falling off. Yeah, so they have the what's called the shadow cast, right, where they've got the screen with the movie

going on and then a few feet in front of it on the stage, they've got actors performing exactly what's going on screen in costume and sometimes usually over-the-top performances. Sure. So this is a local company, Denver's missing ingredient, and they do this. Denver is one of the four cities in the country

that has never stopped having a regular midnight show. of the Rocky Horror Picture Show since 1975 and these guys are now the current holders of that. They currently put it on at the Esquire the last Saturday night of every month.

The cast, I guess predominantly women because the only two male performers were Brad asshole and because you have to say that every time you say his name. and riffraff. Oh, and the narrator.

So those are the only three. So Dr. Frankenfurter, the Tim Curry character, was played by a woman. Eddie, the meatloaf character was played by a woman. The wheelchair, great Scott, was played by a woman. I'm blank, but I know who you mean? Yeah, well, his name is Scott. It's not Christopher Lloyd or anything. No, not Christopher Lloyd.

What's his name? Scott. Is it just Scott? Dr. Scott. Yeah, it's Dr. Scott, a professor, Scott. That shows how long it's been for me. It's been since high school since I went to this thing. So it's been a long time.

It's been since college for me. And, oh, man, the first thing that you walk in, and I thought they didn't do this anymore. But no, the first thing, all right, who's seen Rocky Hart with a shadow cast before? And then people, you know, raise their hand. And then they say, okay, the rest of you over here, and they drew little Vs on everybody's forehead. And Tina's like, Tina knew beforehand that there was going to be stuff going on.

She's never seen Rocky Horror before. She's like, I'm not going if they're going to do some BS to embarrass me. I'm like, no problem. My friends protected me from that when they took me in college. So, I'll do the same for you. So, you know, we're like, oh, yeah, no, we've seen the shadow cast before. And they, thank goodness. I mean, even if they ask questions, I was ready with like, oh, well, once at the S-Quire with her and then once at the Fox Theater in Boulder.

Sure. Technically true. Technically, well, true for me, not true for Tina. Tina's never seen it. True. She's seen the film, but she's never seen it live like this. They've done a whole, like the thing has changed. It's, I remember seeing it in the 90s where there was, there was frequent stuff being yelled at the street.

screen to respond to or to set up things that were being said. Like, you know, somebody would go, is it true? You had sex with a cat? And then the character would go, yes, welcome in. And so they do that. But it's like, you know, asking questions that get answered by the characters on screen. But, man, the whole audience, and it was probably an audience of about 250, 300 people. there were pockets from people who I think sought in the 90s and in the 80s and maybe in the 70s

who were all yelling different things at different times or even sometimes at the same time and it was it was freaking mayhem I've never seen it to where it was like more disorganized mayhem we had toilet paper rolls to throw when when you know Scott brand toilet paper was mentioned or great Scott was mentioned sure No toast. Our goodie bag had a Maraca for the celebration, a paper hat, a glow stick, because no open flames for the, there's a light at Frankenstein's not a good place. What else? A newspaper for that.

No squirt guns, no toast, no hot dogs. I forgot Barry Bostwick was in that. Yeah, very Bostwick. Like who apparently goes around now and actually shows up for people's midnight showings of Rocky Hart. Totally wild. Yeah, you forget who is in that thing. No rice. Like, man, boy, did they come down hard.

Like, the guy went through like seven rules and every odd numbered rule was no effing rice because it's a mess to have to clean up. Oh, just a clean up. Okay. I thought maybe there was some danger and allergy I didn't know about or something. But yeah, it gets everywhere, right? You're never going to clean it up. right exactly yeah um so anyway still was a really really good time uh they've added a bunch of stuff um musical interludes and things like that that uh during boring exposition parts of the

movie they'll they do like a weird who let the dogs out sing along or something it's kind of strange but uh anyway it was it was a good time yeah you'd recommend it i'd recommend it once if you've never seen Rocky Harr with a, you know, in a theater where they're doing the shadow cast, it's worth doing once. And there are probably people in our audience who are regulars who like go and do it or maybe even who do the shadow cast who get up and do the, like stand up and do the cast. You know, we're trying to figure out like, all right, in the tadpool, who would you say are people who probably at one point or another did the onstage shadow cast thing of Rocky Haram? We're thinking people like September. Oh, yeah. Oh, look at it. I used to be cast.

It was so fun. Tina and I totally picked you September. We thought for sure you would have done it. Maybe Amy Frost. You know, people would kind of have a little bit of a theatrical bent to them. Sure. Sure, sure.

That's cool. Anyway, it was fun. And so I'd recommend seeing it once and maybe that'll be enough for you just to, just to experience it. Do you think anybody just watches that movie to watch it and doesn't see it at one of these events? Like at this stage? Yeah, I'm sure. people do and they they probably watch it and say I don't know what all the why this thing is a cult classic

why is this thing you know as popular as it is yeah when it's just so horrible yeah like it's such an odd cultural thing to take that thing from 1975 yeah and say this will now be a thing that happens all the time everywhere all year exactly it's just crazy at midnight yeah it is a bizarre because it's neither scary nor terribly funny. But it's got, what, two Oscar winners in it? I know Susan Sarandon. Yeah, but at the time, they were just, you know, people. Oh, they were nobody at the time.

Yeah, nobody knew who they were. But I guess your Oscar winners are probably Sarandon and. Yeah, I'm trying to think Boswick wouldn't have. Did Meatloaf ever win a? I don't think so, maybe for music, but maybe not for acting, I'm sure. Yeah, maybe just. one, maybe just one Oscar winner. And Tim Curry probably never did.

I don't think. No. Yeah. He should have for that big... nominated for his role in Home Alone 2, lost in New York. I always forget he's in that. For some reason, that movie's just John Cleese is the guy. I don't know why I don't think of anyone else. I just think of him.

Yeah. Yeah. So there it is. Well, fun times. Fun times. I think I'm in no rush to see it again because I did see it like multiple times in high school. That should be enough. Is Kim ever seen it? Because that was the, that was the only thing that really drugged me back to one to see it for the shadow cast is that Tim, or Tina hadn't seen it. I've never asked her so I could ask. I doubt it. If I had to guess, I'm, you know, they're barely just getting unleaded gas where she's from. So, you know, I don't think they know what Rocky Horror Picture Show is in her tiny town, but it's possible. Wow. It's possible.

Oh, man, that's awesome. Well, I mean, experiencing it through her might be something. That could be fun, yeah. You know, you know what else I experienced this weekend, Scott? What's that? I experienced the joy that is Kellogg's Appalachian Sippin' Cream, better known as Egg-O-Nog. We talked about this on the show last week. That's right. How is it? Well, I'll say this.

The drink itself, really, really good. I like it better than egg-nog, to be honest. There's a decent amount of rum in it. It's 40-proof. It comes that way. I thought you had to add. add to it. I guess it's got it's got it in there. Here's

what's horrible. And they play off this whole thing of like, oh, it's an Appalachian sipping cream, so it has to come in a big old mason jar. You know what? You know what's really hard to do with a mason jar? Pour drinks cleanly. Because it just

you know, the liquid just wraps around the bottle lip and goes right down the side of it. And it's just such a freaking mess. Especially if you're doing like smaller glasses shots you just want to pour a little bit there's no way to do without it going down all over the countertop do you think the ego association is just kind of branding and nothing else does it taste like an ego like what you know um they've got all on that it doesn't it it tastes um there's like a little bit of a cinnamony vanilla more more of that than you'd get in

traditional eggnogs so maybe that's the um maybe that's the the direction but uh this thing is People are saying, just pour drinks straight from the jar. I showed Scott, or are you putting up the photo that I sent you? No, I'm putting up these, some promo shots. Let me pull yours up right here. Yeah, when you see that and you see the size of it in my hand, it's a big ass jar. That is, oh, geez, yeah. That's a fine amount of, it's a fine amount of rum.

I have no problem drinking that much rum, but I do have a problem with that much cream and sugar. That's the problem. That'll get you. You want to spread that around a little bit. But here you go, chat, there's his photo. So there's Brian's. You know, Brian's got, you know, big man hands. I got big hands.

Just, uh, yeah. Big hands. And look at that. Sipping cream in Brian's hand. He's set for the holidays. How are you at home? Well, it's already half gone because we took it to the neighbor, the crazy neighbor's house. Oh, yeah, that was probably cool.

I recorded a video and I probably should share it, but I feel really bad because I recorded a portrait. Oh, you shouldn't feel bad. You're all right. You're just with the kids, man. That's what the kids do. It's what they're up to now. We're like TikToking, basically.

Maybe that's the problem. Everybody's doing video on their phones. It's, you know, it's just the way of, it's just the way of things. But, yeah, you should share that. We were all being merry and, you know, dancing around or whatever. We were.

We were sharing it. We were deciding that it could use more alcohol. So we put brandy in there. This is brandy and rumbed in the eggonog. And then everything just goes right off the rails. Did Mrs. Crazy neighbor dance? to some yacht rock or anything? She didn't.

We didn't have any going. We should have put some on. I bet it would have happened. That's a real shame. That's a real shame. Yeah. All right. Well, moving from Nog to Cheese,

I got an email follow up from a listener here that we're going to read. Yeah. Bring it on. Let's hear it. Yeah. Let's go for this here. Send and receive email. This is from John G.

Who says, Hey, Scott and Brian had to throw on my two cents on this debate. And our issue is American Cheese. Not because I love American cheese. It is not great cheese. But I'd still eat it sometimes Like on some fast food burger I don't object to someone not liking American cheese

What I object to is specifically you two Looking down your nose at American cheese Oh, well I mean, I think all I ever said was I don't really like it I think that's all I said Yeah, I probably came out pretty hard on it I don't know, we'd have to we'd have to check the tape I guess so

Coach's review on that tape But it's like me saying it's like me saying oh I don't like that artichoke and then someone's saying, why do you look down your nose at artichokes? It's like I just don't like artich. I was probably the more snobbish of the two when it comes to American cheese. And it's, hey, we took regular cheese and added stuff to it just to make it melt better. Yeah. Which I get.

That's fine. That's totally good. Sure, I totally get it. He goes on to say, all the fast food crap you guys eat all the time that's made from who knows what and you draw the line at American cheese. I mean, right in the segment. All the fast food crap. I mean, come on. It says right in the segment, Brian is saying,

ooh, gross American cheese, and one second later, he's talking about eating Oscar Meyer products, the chemical garbage can of meat substances. I will take offense to that because I described as a kid having Bronschweger that was made by Oscar Meyer. And if I were, when I did buy Bronchweger last week, I did not buy the Oscar Meyer brand. I got Deli, Deli Bronchweger, as I recommend. That's the kind you should get, yeah. So that one I will, that one I will take issue with, but I completely, completely stand behind

in the next paragraph. He says, you both talk lovingly about Taco Bell, which I think is literally just a landfill. They turn into a fast food restaurant. Wow. Well, no, landfills have more employees. And ingredients. They got more ingredients.

Landfills have a better, they're open more often. Yeah. You can actually get your order for whatever they're serving. He says, so you know, people like what they like and eat whatever they eat, but I don't care what you guys put in your mouths, but come on. you all get, sorry, you get all use real cheese when you eat the way you do. Just silly love the show though, John.

I mean, I kind of get it, but I'm not, I'm not, we're not going, Ew, American cheese for the lowly, the low-life freaking peasants. That's not what we're doing. We're not being all fancy about the cheese. We're just saying, you know, we don't like it as much as like, you know,

pepper jack or something. That's it. Yeah, I may have been a little snobb. I think I might have been a little snobby about it and saying, American cheese, that's not even real cheese. Yeah, I guess we did kind of throw it out of the best, but... And I'll stand with you on the Oscar Meyer stuff, the chemical garbage pan of meat, the garbage can of meat substances. You're not wrong about that at all.

Also, we had some fun yesterday. I've been looking forward to this all week long, and we finally got to do it. We went and picked Van up at about 10 o'clock and took his little three-year-old self up the canyon to a place called Silver Lake. It's about a 30, 40 minute drive, kind of toward where snowbird is, but you kind of offshute to this lake. And it's really cool, especially in the summer and spring, because in the winter, it's all covered in snow up there and it's frozen. But it's just like weird kind of stagnant lake, although it has fresh water coming to it from a couple of streams. But it's got just like crazy weird growth underneath. If you've seen my Twitter account, you saw some photos of this.

And you walk around it and there's like a, you know, man-made wooden, you know, plank sort of path around the entire thing and we took him up there and had the best freaking day up in the freaking nature it was great loved it he had a blast everybody's having a good time it was wonderful however i have this to say okay this is fine this is not a problem it's just i didn't expect it right when we got up there to go it's kind of slow there's not a lot of people up there there's a few hikers and stuff they had just unloaded a bus of about 30 Tibetan they they might have been monks. I'm not sure they were monk monks because they didn't quite look like Dalai Lama style monks with the kind of reddish robe stuff and all that. It wasn't quite

that, but it was definitely kind of, I don't know, the way they were dressed. And I went, oh, this is going to be hard. There's a bunch of tourists. We're not able to get through this. This is going to be the worst walking around the lake we ever took. And like, I'm being all grumpy about it. And instead, they turned out to be the most friendly freaking people I've ever met. Oh, sure. Like, I'm walking past some of the, some of my. fellow Utah white folk and they're just they're just irritated and won't say hello back or whatever

but these people were like hello oh yes hello they just were so excited to see us so I just want to say whoever they were whatever trip you were on hats off to those people you were so nice and made me wish everybody was as nice

as you so there's that's cool that's their whole philosophy man yeah I guess so that positivity if we've learned nothing else from the writings of John Lennon. That's right. He went down there and got a beard and, you know, took a bunch of pey or something. Changed everything.

Changed everything. Went home said, Yoko Ono is going to break up his band. And my one kid from my other wife, you're going to, you know, I'm going to barely spend any time with him. But boy, howdy, I sure like this new kid. And that's how it went for him, didn't it? That's right. Listen, there are not a lot of things that I'll defend Yoko Onon on.

but I think Paul was just as responsible for breaking up the Beatles as, as Yoko was. I still need to see that documentary. I haven't watched it. Oh, yeah, it's good. Watch out. Watch out, Scott. Make sure you're on the adult level of Disney Plus to watch it because. Oh, boy, howdy. Do we get weaners and stuff? Mom couldn't find it because she didn't. That's right. You told me this. And it was, didn't we decide? It was a couple F bombs in the, in the documentary.

and so it's not on the children-friendly side of Disney Club. I keep thinking it's an Apple TV thing. Why do I think that? It's something else. It's Disney. It's Disney Plus. Yeah. Why did I think Apple had a, how to have a Beatles thing?

Because Apple Records, Beatles, totally makes sense. Like you connect the Apple and Beatles go together like American Cheese and Braunschweger, Scott. Like, what's Get Back? That's the old Peter Jack. No, get back is the Peter Jackson. Okay. Yeah. So this is the new one, and it's on Disney Plus.

How do you call it a documentary? I want to say it's nine hours of Beatles' home movies or something. It's the lawyer. Oh, maybe I'm thinking of Beatles, how the Beatles change the world. That might be what I'm thinking of. Oh, is that a newer thing? No, it's older. But it's on Apple TV Plus, so I think that's why I'm thinking of that.

I don't know. Well, that's fun. It's so good. I'm going to watch that. I really truly am. It's a good, you know, for whatever reason, I always connect Beatles to Thanksgiving. It started way before I started doing the Beatles coverville shows on Thanksgiving, but it's a good, it feels like a good Thanksgiving watch. Yeah, worth your time.

Play a game, you know, have it on, play games with the family, you don't need to just sit there and focus all of your attention on the show. Well, I am, I'm going to do that. Let's get into the Dunaway era of the show. He's ringing. Oh, he's answering. So that means this. You guys, look out. Hold the Fort down.

It's Brian Dunnoy, joining us. Hi, Brian. Hold the fort. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hi, hi, Brian. Hey, what are you doing? How are you doing there? Oh, I'm doing pretty good.

What is it, Monday? Yeah. I'm doing pretty good for a Monday. You're doing all right? Okay. That makes me happy to hear that. Okay. Yeah.

I've been having a lot of fun this past week, playing scary games like Splatterhouse. I'm going to talk about tomorrow night, but I've been really into it. Did it scare you to play it at all? It's got a vibe. It's got a vibe. Does that make sense? Yeah.

No, I get it. I wouldn't say it scares me. It's just got a cool vibe to it. Is Jason Voorhees going through the haunted house killing monsters? Mm-hmm. I'll tell you, you know what scared. me as I was playing some Overwatch too, and a game's not meant to be scary, but I got into this competitive match. I was playing competitive mode, which means you're going to get ranked and everything.

And so, you know, you got some stuff on the line. You're trying to do your best. And I was healing in the back with the character Zenata and out front the rest of my team doing their business. And on the other team, they had an okay team, but their tank was Roadhog. Now, normally Roadhog's not that big of a deal. I can kind of deal with him. But this roadhog existed only to hunt me down in the backland and destroy me. Now, remember, the game now only supports, when you play a proper match, either a public match or a ranked match, it is role-based. So there's only one tank possible.

There's two healers and two damage dealers. It's a totally different format now. That's right. And it's five players total instead of the old six. And so when you start the game, whoever is tank is a take-and-switch tanks during the but he can't be any other role of the tank he can't switch out of a tank exactly and their role is much more like take a bunch of damage guard your team block you know this and that not this guy his goal the entire 45 minute run that we have with that team uh-huh his goal was to come seek me out

and wreck me and then and then do like the emoet dances over my body i'm not kidding no really yeah and we ended up winning because if he's doing that he's not being a proper tank and it was stepping up his team. But he was on, and it's, it was actually scary because I'd be in a corner. I'd be like, oh my gosh, I'm made of paper. And I'm running this way. And here comes, a big old roadhog coming down. What do you, what do you call in? Uh, do you recognize your name maybe? Are you frog pants? Are you? I'm frog pan or gurp. Yeah, I am gurp. But I don't, I mean, he didn't say anything. He never chatted anything. So who knows? No idea. Just like the way you looked. Yeah. It was something. I found,

I found gurp. I was going to send you a text. I need to send this to you. There's a gurp in Colorado at the Peoria and I-Lift. Let's see here. I don't know why I didn't think to send this to you. I was out driving. I was lifting. Somebody named GERP?

An intersection. Do you even lift, bro? Yeah, yeah, bro. There's a business, and I couldn't see because of a pole what was behind what the GERP stands for. Oh, here it is. Oh, was the lady on the other side of the pole? Was that the problem?

No, yeah. No, no, it's a sign. It's, uh, oh. GERP, let's see, here we go. It's Aurora. City of Aurora, General Employees Retirement Plan. Oh, GERP. GERP.

Look at that, you guys, right below the plan. That's awesome. I love that. Also, re-elect Eamon Joda for a city council or whatever. It's going on there. Boy, all this. I let you do, Goda. These midterm, these, these midterm signs that are everywhere, I'm getting tired of it.

Oh. everywhere. Yeah, about it. I just need McMillan to beat Mike Lee, and I'm happy. I don't care about the rest. Anyway, there you have it. Hey, Brian Dunaway, we're going to play a little game. Brian Ibitt here will explain what it is.

Who out there might win what and all that. Brian explain. I'll explain. Welcome to the morning. Half ass is a trivia game where I'm going to be giving Scott and Brian the answers. I'm going to give him a category and six possible answers. Three of those answers are correct and three that are just complete total horse hockey. Depending on how confident you feel.

with the category, you can provide one, two, or three guesses, but if you get any wrong, you get zero points for that round. One right gets you a point, two right gets you three points, and three right gets you five points total. We're going to play three rounds, player with the most points after those rounds, wins the prize for their contestant, and I've pulled contestants from members of the tadpool

that couldn't be here for whatever reason. Scott, you're going to be playing for Dustin Ward in Arkansas City, Kansas. Ooh, all right. And Brian, you're playing for Andy Neeland in Simpsonville, South Carolina. How far is Simpsonville for me? Oh, nice. Not very far at all.

I love going to Simpsonville. They have a theater up there, and I'll probably be doing that this weekend or next weekend. Like a movie theater? What are you talking about? Are you playing about? T.HX. T.HX. Theater.

Oh, like a theater. Cinema. Gotcha, got you. What are you going to see? What are you going to see? What are you planning on seeing in the theater? Well, I'm hoping that I can see something scary. I haven't decided yet.

Oh, cool. Oh, scary is good. What's the name of that new one with the with the with the with the with the with the with the doll thing. Is that going to be out yet? Oh, uh, hold on. The, the fake, the fake doll thing. You know what I'm talking about? Wait a minute.

No. What am I thinking of? There is something. Oh, is it. Oh, oh. Is it just dog, uh, um, Megan? It's like an AI kind of thing. Megan?

Megan. Megan? Megan. Megan. Megan. Yeah. Yeah, this is, it's spelled, you'd hate this, Brian. It's spelled M3G-A-A-A-A-3.

Wait a minute. Is it the third movie in the Megan series, or is it? Right. For three-er. This is not even coming out anytime soon. Geez. Yeah. I got excited last night.

I saw a trailer. That's not until January. Yeah. There's a movie called, a movie coming out called crat. Children are left to grandmas without smart phones. Real life seems boring until they find instruction. for crat, magical creature who will do whatever his master says,

all they have to do now is buy a soul from the devil. So it is about the... Oh, you gotta do. About... Oh, you gotta do is by... Yeah. You guys are wondering if... The bio-the-cote of 10 crat.

Yeah. You ever wonder if you can just, like, call upon the devil, you know, like, show up. Yeah, I'd like to buy a soul. Do you do that through DoorDash? Yeah. Just Satan himself. Or you have to, like, go meet him at the crossroads.

Is it like that? Does it do house calls? Yeah. he might now he might have to now like curbside pickup now with the the pandemic is how he operates he'll he drops the soul off on your on your porch rings the doorbell and then waits in his car to make sure you come out and get it anyways and he yells and tell we meet again as he runs away that's how he does it's right wait a minute this soul's been opened this soul's been used all right all right let's get to the first question here oh by the way the prizes that dust and and andy can win police stories evans remains for the winner, and the runner-up gets Star Wars Squadrons, a very, very good game. It is a very good game. Plays in VR. These stories is pretty good. Yeah, they're all good, but the VR, the VR.

All black atom is out. Yes, the VR mode for that Star Wars game is excellent, better than you'd think. Oh, cool. All right. Really good. Very good. All right, let's get to this. Your first question, gentlemen, let's go with the muses, not throwing muses the band,

but the actual Greek muses. I want to know which of these are actual Greek muses. from Greek mythology. Your choices are Thalia, or Talia, Urania, Circe, Erato, Salome, and Cassiopia, or Cassio Pia, depending on where you put the emphasis. Erato. Cassio keyboard Pia. Let's see. Three of these are correct, eh?

Wow. That's right. Three of these answers are right. Well, we know you're never amused, Talley. Yeah, never Fully amused All right I'm locking in with two

All right Let's see here Both locked in You went with Let's see Brian you went with Talia and Urania Scott you went with

Oh I'm sorry No in Cassiopia Scott you went with Urania and Arato Congratulations Scott you got two Of the three Yeah

Talia Urania and Arato Well done You know your muses Apparently Only a couple the rest of these looks I'm not amused yeah the Cassiopeia is a not this I can't remember what it's a constellation but but it's a Greek a Greek woman who is not a muse nor God there you go what was the third when we missed uh Salome Salome oh the one you

I don't know the one the other one that's correct that I didn't do Thalia oh thealia yes Talia there you go all right very good let's get to question number two now I feel like a half-ass The 12 tribes of Israel. Let's get to the 12 tribes of Israel. Your choices are Gideon, Isocar, Zebulun, Gad, Jacob, and Nebuchadnezzar. Which of these are the 12 tribes of Israel? I'm pretty sure I know these. I'm pretty sure I don't know none of these.

Let's see if all those years in Sunday school when I was a kid. Pay off. All right, I'm locked. Scott locked in. Brian still giving his answer. I'm still guessing. All right, it's fine. Hey, you keep guessing.

You do you. Okay. You both locked in with Gideon, Gadd, and Jacob. Congratulations to both of you for not getting more than one right. Gad is the only one of those three. That is a

12, that's one of the 12 tribes of is real. Jacob is kind of a little misdirection there because Jacob was the father of the 12 tribes. Right. But not one of the tribes himself. Son of Abraham. Got Statener, almost got

Kilt. All right. Well, that shows what we know. We're going into the final round. Scott has three. Brian has zero. Let's see how you guys do with question number three. Something a little bit easier for you guys. All right. Flightless birds. Which

these birds can fly, which one can't. Peacock, Kiwi, Hoopo, Cassowary, Taka, and chicken. Three of those birds can fly. Three of them cannot. Okay, but we're looking at the ones that can't. You want to tell me the ones that cannot. Yes, I want to know the ones that cannot celebrity jeopardy. Sorry, I guess I've kind of, I said, tell me the birds that cannot fly.

Here's a fun, here's a fun fact. Five of those tastes like one of them. So think of that. uh all right six then technically six then yeah that's a good point i don't freaking know this is gonna be rough because i think some of these are tricky uh brand is oh yeah also flight this can flight be counted is like 20 yards you know right like what's what's just a prolonged to jump yeah because some of them my favorite is when my favorite was ibb it goes i'm gonna tell you a softball now and we both go oh no You know, it's birds.

It's like it's nature. Oh, you guys are both locked in. Scott, you've locked in with Cassowary and Hoopo. Brian, you've liked in with the peacock, the kiwi and the chicken. I'm sorry to say, chickens can fly, Brian. Yes, I can. That's true. But so can Hoopos and Peacocks.

Shit. Zero points for both of you. I went with birds. I actually know are birds. Yeah, I don't even know what a talk guy is. I've never, I don't know if I've seen one. Cassiwari. I don't know what a hoopoeuv.

He is. Like big, goofy ostrich-looking things in Australia. And, of course, we know what the Kiwi looks like shoe polish. So three points for Scott to win the game. Congratulations, then. Going to Dustin. Why don't chickens just leave? Ooh, sweet.

Look, we... Right? Like, you know, why don't they leave? Would you just put them in a little fenced area? Yeah. What the heck? Congratulations. You're a winner.

Here's the thing. I never see a peacock do anything but stand there. Or go... Right, just walk around. Me too. Me too. And so I don't blame you for picking that one. I almost did that I was like, eh, it's too easy.

They're tails, even the males. Tails are so, I guess the males did have the big colorful tails. But like even the females' tails are big, you wouldn't think that they would be conducive to flight. But apparently they can. Yeah. And chicken, actually, I wasn't entirely sure on, because I've seen chickens get pretty far. I just don't think they're like, they're not known for their own of mind. It is kind of a prolonged jump for those.

That's what I was thinking. Yeah. They don't have the brain for it, man. They're too stupid. So stupid. You ever seen a crow? Like, crows can mimic you. I can jump off the roof and fly for a second.

Crows can take frozen stuff and, like, thawed out to eat it. Crows are like these brilliant birds. Do they see a chicken and just go, what the, you stupid idiot chicken? Like, they probably are embarrassed by chickens. Of all the birds, chickens, man. They suck. Right, right. But they're making me hungry.

What's why we eat chicken and we rim? Barely eat crow. Yeah, don't eat crow. Try not to. It's bad what you do. Boy the crow. Well, congratulations. That's awesome.

You're both big winners, though. Because that's second one is an awesome game, and we're glad that you are all able to play with us. And tomorrow, we're going to be playing more. Hey, Brian Dunaway, tell me again what our topic is on Play Retro tomorrow. We're going to play some splatterhouse. From the arcade to the Genesis,

even that weird wacko-foo, whatever was with the NES that was only released in Japan. I'm going to talk a little bit about that as well. Kind of a cutesy version of Splatterhouse. That's right. Really? I've never even heard of that. It's a very weird game, and it never came here, and it's probably okay that it didn't.

I don't think it was very good. But Splatterhouse, that's special place in my heart, and it's Halloween, so why the hell not? Let's talk about Splatterhouse. Yeah. So that'll be tomorrow. Check it out, 330. At play retro, or sorry, frogfans.com slash play retro, where you can find all the details and the podcast. Donaway, what would you say? What are you going to say there? I said Rick. No,

you. Rick. Why do you say Rick? Was that Walking Dead reference? I don't know. Why is he bringing Rick into this? Yeah, what Rick is he referring to? And I hung up on him to so I can't find out. I know. You'll have to wait until Wednesday to see what the hell he's talking about that guy. All right. We have a little bit of news and time to do it. So let's do it right now. it's time for the news and it's brought to you by the whispering order taker at the freddies in draper utah yeah with the frick so we go to j we go to freddies after the canyon we're like perfect that sounds great and it was good always i like freddies it's good always good yeah but we go through the drive up and this is what we get we get up to the thing goes and i expect someone to go hi welcome to

freddies you want to try her bedabidavid you know like all that instead it's this guy goes hey welcome to freddies i don't know really like you late night he's a smear 70s dj yeah it was more like a smr voice it was like what did you is not a medium large size and it got to the point where we weren't even sure what he was saying half the time kind of like the quiet talker on sim on seinfeld and they don't jerry doesn't know he just committed to wearing a freaking puffy shirt it was like that so i was like uh so with no cheese and he's like i don't know if i got the right order i've no idea. It worked out. Man,

that guy's quiet. Nobody got something that they weren't expecting. Yeah, it's like, I'll pull up to the second window. Oh, my God. Is everything okay in there? Anyway. Yeah, look and it's like, right, call the police. I'm being held against my own will. But then, you know, the gunman would be a little concerned, right? It would be

hi, welcome to Freddy's, can I take your order? Call the police. Okay, yeah, see, exactly. He would be giving it away unless he's hunkered down underneath the cupboard or something. Oh, see, yeah. There might be a little bit of a hold-up on your order. Yeah. But whatever you do, don't call the authorities on us

if your meal is a little bit late. Yeah, don't kill me if I'm... We're a little under the gun here. I love it. Well, anyway, here's your first story. California Baker in the news on a winter's day. California Baker.

Anyway, he created a life-size Han Solo out of bread. This is pretty cool. Wow. Yeah, you guys got to see it. Oh, please tell me it's like carbonite Han Solo. It is. I'm going to pull it up. Sorry, I'm not ready for this here.

This is. Oh, it is. It is carbonite. Oh, fantastic. Yeah, how awesome is this? Like, I'd be afraid to eat it. I just want to keep it forever. No kidding.

But look at that thing. It's no good to me, moldy. Yeah. It's actually really like, it's got the little drippy carbonite veins from his lips and the whole thing crazy

it's impressive Hans Solo may be a hunk but pan solo is a hunk of bread that's what they call him also would you want to even bake it because it would expand and stuff it'd get weird shaped

you want to keep it in dough form the photo on the site is not coming is it not coming up for you here I'll send you a screen grab actually I got I'm able to I'll go to the New York Times version.

I can see the photo there. Do you sub to them, by the way? I do because I, yeah, I do because I like wire cutter and the crossword and all that stuff. Oh, I thought wire cutter was fully available to everybody. It's free. It's totally free. But if I want to go deep on any of the articles that it links to, then it says, you don't have access to this. Blah.

I do hate that. That's how they get you. It's totally how they get you. It says that's what a bakery in San Francisco area do. They have done. They've dubbed the 6-foot 1.8 meter bread sculpture of the Star Wars character as he appeared after being frozen in carbonite and the Empire Strikes back. Hanley Pervin. That one sounds like a Star Wars name, doesn't it?

Totally does. I'm going to come up with a character for episode two. It's a gungan, a gungan named Hanali Pervin. Hanley Pervin. He'll be the love interest of Jar Jar Binks. Anyway, this and her mother, Catherine Pervin, co-owners of One House Bakery in Benincia, California, spent weeks of molding, baking, and assembling the life-size sculpture using wood and two types of dough. Wait a minute. What's going on with the wood?

I guess the wood is just a flat bag there. Support it, yeah. Don't tell me there's wood in my bread. Does it fall over? And, you know, the one thing about this, the hands and the face come out and they look great, a little 3D. But then you get the chest and the pants are like a little whole. flat. Yeah. It's not perfect down there. It's not perfect, but it is damn impressive. It's pretty good.

So they got a little bit obsessed. They ended up having to use some kind of yeastless dough with a ton of sugar in it, so it lasts longer. It holds. Oh, sure. Makes sense, yeah. The two worked at night after the day's business was done. They crafted this thing and his anguished face and his hand stretching out. Hanley said she might have gotten a little obsessed. Mom made me leave it because I was obsessing over the lips. She was like, you need to walk away.

Just walk away. To beat you to it. This was particularly meaningful because she told the paper she contracted COVID-19 in January 2021 and lost much of her sense of taste and smell. So I just find joy in a different part of food that is really important. The sculpture is now on display outside the bakery, located at a half-hours drive north of San Francisco. So I didn't mean to just send you the exact same article.

Hold on. I'm going to delete that because what I meant to send you, you is this photo of another thing they did which was a chair that they created for a game of scones and it's it's it's it's cool but it's a little less impressive than the uh it's like 25 baguettes uh zip tied to a wicker chair yeah that's really all it is i love it though it is kind of cool but it's it's uh remember the keyboard one in the place in Vegas that we did the competition um they put a bunch of they had a whole chair just made of keyboards and mice and oh yes yeah yeah the throne of games basically yeah thrown of games i don't

know if it was modeled after that one but yeah that was awesome that was really cool um also i didn't know this okay i'm gonna i'm gonna say a thing last last night we watched uh the penultimate episode of house of the dragon i need to take my headphones off no not at all i am just going to say that this is the this that wasn't one of the best hours of television I've seen all year wow okay it was so good yeah the finale I hope

can even live up to the penultimate episode because it was extremely well done gotcha so this this wasn't the finale episode that's got to be coming up right oh next week next week yep last one okay for the season I guess that would mean penultimate they've got a four season plan

they say and this season went so well I loved every second of this so I'm very excited but that find this fine this second to last episode really truly some of the best TV I've seen in ages I love the fact that they've they've got a a plan right that they've said no we're doing four seasons we've written the story out so that we know it's going to take four seasons to tell and we have all these plot points that we're going to be hitting yeah as opposed to yeah we know we've got a story we don't know how it ends but we're going to be working towards it so have fun everybody plus they were like I don't know maybe plans in 2011 when you have a hit thing like that are different than they are today. I feel like maybe you've learned something from that. And either way, like, they just knocked it out of the park.

I would say to anybody at home who's like, well, I really love Game of Thrones until they really wrapped it up too fast at the end and just crammed everything into, you know, six episodes or whatever. Yeah. I feel you. I felt the same way. This is not that. This does not suffer from that.

No. It has a lot of time jumps, but it feels, and it feels right. Like, it feels like the way you want it to be. um i won't give anything away on that but there's you know they cover a chunk of time in this thing and it's very good anyway excited for it definitely check it out we're three episodes into or four episodes into midnight club and uh i'll be honest i'm i'm still enjoying it i you know i don't always agree with randy often i do but in this case i disagree with him i think it's i think it's a very different thing than midnight mass or haunting of hill house or the other the other one that

Flanagan did. And I think, again, it's attributed the fact that he didn't write it. He's adapting somebody else. Sure. But I went in feeling like, you know, all right, this is going to be an anthology thing with a bunch of smaller stories wrapped in a bigger story. And so far, that's what I'm getting. And so far, I'm enjoying it. It's good. You're not the only one to tell me that. I keep hearing from a whole bunch of people. I really like it. So Randy? I've moved Catwoman. You'll keep moving Catwoman. Keep Catwoman on the move. We are going to take a break. When we come back, we'll spend some time with Steven Schleiker. Okay. I love that idea. I think it's a great

idea. It's like a doctor visit without, you know, with the nervousness or sitting in the waiting room too long or any of that. Right. He's a, he's a warm, sensitive man. And he's going to, you know, sit here with us and we're going to feel comfort while he's here and all that. So I'm looking forward to that coming right up after this song that Brian will present. Yes. I've got one here from a band. I love the name of this band. Tidious. Brief, which is, you know, of what I think of some pop music these days. But this isn't pop. This is very indie, hook-heavy indie rock. This is their first original single that they've released in over a year. The single is called Tired Work, which is a proverbial, as they put it, a proverbial middle finger to those people and anyone in a position of authority like them who use their power to abuse, threaten, and belittle the people they've deemed below them. Take that Here is tedious and brief

And Tired Work Says he's the man He got what I need Work all day Keep him on his feet This is tired work This is tired work I put in the hours

You already know It ain't enough To keep you off the floor This is tired This is tired word This is tired Would be your path from Draining me dry

You drain the tremble And you gave me those eyes tossing and sweat You sleep on the sill That's you Running off you're paid enough With no proof Playing into truth

I think you'll lose I'll be petty and patient Shit's getting hit I'm fireproof I'm the one wearing all these ears, glass half full, blood, sweating tears, this is tired work, getting tired of you saying that you made me, used to let you get away with baby, now they're calling you crazy, joking on your words, better watch what you say to me, this is time, and watch what you say to me, this is time, This is time That's you running off your pretty mouth with no proof Playing games that you'll think you'll lose I'll be better impatient

Sheds getting hit it I fireproof That's you running off your pretty mouth with no proof Playing games that you don't think you'll lose I'll be petty and patient Shit's getting hit it I'll fireproof Get your power from

From drain to tremble When you give me those eyes Well, I'm tossing and sweat You sleep busy and sin Tell me I can't you know that I will That's you running off your pretty mouth with no proof Playing games that you think you'll lose I'll be petting impatient

Shirts getting heated I'm fireproof That's you running off a pretty mouth with no proof Playing games that you don't think you'll lose Petting a patient Shirts getting heated I'm fireproof I'm just the time that I'm being so cool.

I'm sorry if I'm like a fool. I'm not sure. everybody, me and Brian here to talk to you about factor. Yes, that's right. Factor. Falls finally here, Brian. And when the new season comes a new routine, that if you're like me, you get sick of the same old, same old day after day. I can't have dog retos until I'm dead. I can't be doing that. I can't do pumpkin spice this and pumpkin spice that every day. Not every day. So we're lucky that Factor exists. They've got ready to eat meal deliveries made in very easy ways to switch things up with 30 plus meal choices per week, 36 plus weekly add-ons and an option to add protein to select

vegan plus vegan meals each or veggie meals each week. That's how they do it. So let's talk about it. In particular, I really focused on the chicken dishes when I got mine. Sure. And I really like the Greek lemon chicken. Fan freakantastic. I could eat that every day. I mean, I'll shake things up and not do that, but I thought it was great. Did you have one that grabbed you? I did. I did the stuffed pepper casserole with roasted green beans. And green beans are one of those things that, you know, don't always work when they're frozen and reheated for whatever reason. Whatever, whatever they're doing, you know,

getting non-processed green beans totally works with the stuffed pepper casserole with the rice and the, the sauce. Oh, my God, it's so good. Mine even had a little, like, dessert, had like a little hot, what do you call that peach cobbler type thing in the corner? I didn't expect that. That's like an old stover's oven meal. Yeah, except it tasted good.

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I've had the nervous poops all week. This is the morning stream, exercising demons since 2012. We started the show in 2011, but we didn't start wiping out demons until the next year. We had to work up to that. You got to work up to it. Brian, who was that performer in song again? Oh, happily tell you, that was tedious and brief in their brand new single, Tired Work. Nice.

Yes. Yes. All right, Stephen, in coming. I can tell. I can hear it. feel it. Yeah. I know it in my heart of hearts. Stephen Schlecker. Stephen Schlecker. Look it is, everybody. Stephen Schleiker all the way from major spoilers.com in Hayes, Kansas,

where he tracks all the coolest and latest information about comic books, movies, pop culture, and more. Stephen, welcome back to the show. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hey, man. It's good to hear from you, as always. How are things? You get gearing up for, you know, kids getting all hallowinged up and all that? I guess my kids are too old for Halloween now. Oh, come on now. Oh, they don't just take out the pillowcase and just see how much candy they can get into it.

I know the youngest has zero intention of doing any Halloween. The oldest, since he's a sophomore in high school, might. Yeah. But he's also surly and doesn't like to do anything that might embarrass him. Oh, yeah. I get that. That's interesting. So the younger ones, what, 12? 11, 12?

11, yeah. 11. I think he should still be rocking it. He doesn't like it anymore, huh? Not into it. No, no. He realizes that if he wants candy, we can just walk down the aisle at Walmart. And he goes, hey, there's a bag of M&M's.

Can you buy those mom? That is a practical kid right there. Yeah. Just go right, you know, cut out the middle. He doesn't have to do any song and dance or anything. He just is like, hey, mom, dad, buy me some candy. Oh, that reminds me. You don't get variety.

You just get one kind. That reminds me. We were driving up to Silver Lake yesterday, and they have like a store there, a trading post type of small store. You can buy a bunch of snacks or, you know, whatever. And this kid in front of us goes, could I poo here, do I have to buy something? And the lady goes, well, I mean, we'd love it if you bought something,

but you can use the bathroom if you need to. And he's like, okay. And he just went and used the bathroom and left, some teenage kid. Can I poo here? Can I poo here? Do I need to buy something? That's what I say when I'm outlifting. It's like I walked into a Starbucks.

Like, can I poo here? Do I have to buy something? Exactly. Well, Stephen, good to have you here, as always. Let's get into a few things. We're all pinball fans here. I think in this group Zen pinball

known for their video game adaptations of pinball machines as well as some of their own designs have added two new free Star Wars tables to Apple Arcade are we excited about this To be honest I don't know Is anybody playing Apple Arcade? Yeah I do

At least we'll still are yeah I like it's a good value I'm like oh Zen Pinball they got two new Star Wars tables and it's already two previously released Star Wars tables. One's Boba Fett and the other one is Rise a Skywalker, I believe. Yes. And, um, Force Awakens. Of course,

a Force Awakens. Yeah. So if you, if you've already got this in pinball system on your PlayStation or you've got, you know, a fancy system like Brian does. Yes. If you've got a one-up arcade machine from Zen Studios that you've already hacked and loaded all the

pinball tables on, yeah. Yeah. So how easy was that? Because I've got the Marvel one and I'm like, Do I want to go through the trouble of hacking it like I did the other one-up machine or not? It was very easy. Yeah, that's the same thing. I've got the Marvel one. It's really just a matter of opening up the front, getting to that USB thing inside,

flipping a switch, hooking up your laptop to it, downloading some software and rebooting it, basically. Okay, all right. These end tables are cool, though. I like their stuff. And just on the Apple Arcade side of things, they've made it really kind of simple to have because if you do like their Apple One thing and you got like a family plan for music

and what's the other stuff that comes with it, whatever it is? Fitness, storage. Yeah, a bunch of crap together. And so they've bundled it. And so it's like a no-brainer. It's like, well, just get it as part of it. And the games have been pretty good. Like as far as a, I mean, look, mobile gaming,

you say what you want about it. It's not my favorite place to game either. But it's of all the services that's an alternative to freedom. play garbage um i like this the most because no ads they're real video games yeah they have to work with controllers they have to sync to your mac they have these rules about them that they have to be their clouds no buying gems to complete tasks yeah none of that crap and i like that so for what it is it's it's pretty good uh well anyway that's out there now go get those

they're free go get them and uh i always love the cool you know 3d effects that they've built into their tables and the animations and stuff. Like little miniature figures of characters on the tables helping your kick your ball around and stuff. The Force Awakens one is awesome because it's like out in the tattooing desert or not Tatooine. What's her planet? Kakarack or Kazookak or Pac-Rat, whatever it is.

Can you tell you how sad? It's like how much we didn't enjoy, like didn't care about this. Oh, Jaku. Jacku, that's right. Louis, that guy from, uh, from my hero academia. Yeah, yeah. I actually really like that anime. Have you seen the chainsaw one, Stephen, that just came out?

No, I haven't. I asked my youngest, we were sitting at the table the other day. It's like, uh, so this chainsaw man anime, he's like, yeah? Is it, uh, have you seen? He's like, yep. And it's like, it just came out. And he's already been through all of the, all the stuff. Did it?

Did he like it? I think so. He was just like, yeah, it's all right. But then again, you can never tell with that kid. Mm. He might be thrilled, but, wouldn't hear it you wouldn't know yeah he keeps a very low profile unless he's angry at something then watch out sure um trying to see if there was like a oh there's only one episode out

I guess there's two they're doing them one by one and there's no no dubs only subs at the moment and it's out and look for somebody has created a little chainsaw man Lego figure that is pretty cool really oh that's cool yeah yeah I like that his chainsaws well he's got one right on his head you know like his nose is a giant chainsaw it's fantastic i kind of want to watch it we'll see um anyway let's move on to this uh oh yeah um marvel right i was going to talk about this last week yeah yeah the marvel snap thing on the 18th yeah tomorrow everybody marble snap that's exciting so what what do we need to know brian because uh i'm guessing that you have a new youtube channel ready to launch where it's like here's all the tricks here's all the

If I was smart, I would have done this already. I don't know why I haven't. But yeah, I should, you know, Scott, if you want to do, or somebody, if we want to do like a Twitch shared stream where I can share my screen and teach everybody the everything they need to know about Marvel Snap, I feel like if we put that on YouTube or even break it up into smaller videos, so many people are going to be checking it out because they're going to download the game. And there's a lot of stuff that's obvious, but there's a lot of stuff that's not obvious that is, that will help you with the game. It's not required knowledge. But, yeah, it's a card game designed by Ben Brod, formerly Blizzard, the guy who came up with Harthstone. And the big difference between Harthstone and Marvel Snap is it's a quicker game to play. It's like a three minute, each round is three minutes maximum because you're only playing six rounds usually.

and um and you've got locations as opposed to playing all your cards just all over the board wherever you want you've got three locations you play cards in you can play up to four cards in a location and the winner of each location uh gets their their points added together and if you win two of the three locations you're the winner of that game gotcha okay and uh it is there's so much depth to it because you've got all these cards but then these locations throw this extra wrinkle into it that makes every game feel like it's a different

you have to employ a different strategy even if you've got the killer deck there are locations that can either break it or hinder it or even emphasize it or or help support it so is this on all iOS devices

or is it's only on Apple devices No it's on everything it's on Android iOS tomorrow it's on everything, right? Yeah. So I can play like desktop, iPad,

phone or just phone and iPad? Just phone and iPad. No, no. So iOS, yes. MacOS, no. Although, who knows? It might be one of those apps that you can side load onto.

You know, the M1s will do it, I think. The M1s will do it. Yeah, I wonder, I wonder you'll be available to do it. They are working, they're doing a PC version and they're working on a horizontal mode

for the PC version for streamers, which is great. Yeah. Not on Steam, though, right? Not on Steam. It might be. Oh, well. I mean, why wouldn't it be?

That's true. I guess I don't know. They have nowhere else to distribute it, I don't think, unless they want to only direct. But that would be weird. I'm sure it would be really weird. I mean, it's Google Play and Apple store or iOS store, but I don't see why they wouldn't do Steam.

Yeah, it makes total sense. Yeah, probably Steam. I'm very excited about this game because, Brian, you have been hyping this up for six months now, something like that. Yeah, something like that. It feels like it's. been forever. And the cards, the card artwork, you know, I'm not a, I'm not a, oh, I've got to collect variants and all these different versions of cards, but they've got, I've been trying

to collect all the Scotty Young versions of all the cards, uh, because I'm a huge fan of his, uh, of his style. That is one thing that there are games like, um, uh, smash up and what's the other one that's the big, uh, deck building shuffle game from, is it fantasy flight. I forget which one, what the name of that one is. But the problem is, is that all the cards are different because they are just licensing art from the comic pages. And so you can't really get a consistent look or feel through all the cards. So at least this one, they're like, hey, here's a Scotty Young line or here is this artist line. And they're still, I'm sure, they're taken from existing sources.

I don't think these are brand new pieces of Scott Young art, but they're not, it isn't like, oh, yeah, we took this cover from a comic and just took. the word balloons out or took this panel from a comic and took the word balloons out. There might be some of this stuff that's actually made for this game by those artists. Those will probably end up being like their legendaries and stuff I had to guess you know. I think so.

And you can definitely play this. You can definitely be free to play with this thing. You do not need to pay for anything. It does have in-app purchases. Right. It does have in-app purchases. You can, as with everything, you can buy gold. You can't buy packs of cards. You have to earn the cards, which is a great.

a great equalizer basically and to earn cards you have to play the game and then boost your existing cards and there's like a ladder a ladder thing yeah but it's yeah I can't wait for this it's a free to play and it's I wouldn't say it's pay to win you know there there are cards in higher levels in what they call pools pool three that are nice to have but no card is a guaranteed win black lotus kind of situation yeah so i guess the other question then brian is do you have to start over at zero tomorrow or thank goodness no because i'll show my my card collection here on screen but it is uh i've got a i basically have every card in the game uh through playing from you know for six months whatever yeah um and uh

Wait, aren't you logged in in a different country, though, or something? I am, but it's logged into my Marvel account, which is my American Marvel account. I just had to download the game from Philippines. Because that was the other thing. I was like, oh, man, Brian's going to have to start over from zero when he gets on to the conservative. I might cry if I had to do that, but... But you'd do it, right? But I would do it.

I'd happily do it. Yeah. Yeah. So, no, this is a blast. And, yeah, like I said, we need to do a little live stream. stream kind of thing. If nothing else, maybe I'll just record

some video explaining the game and then you and I can talk about it on the show tomorrow when it goes live. Sure, sure. Yep, I can't wait for it either. I want to play it. And they're introducing

the ability to play against your friends so we can actually have Frog Pants matches. Ooh, a little tournament maybe. Exactly. Mush Potatoes asked, so if I couldn't get into the beta, I'm going to get owned

by people that were in the beta. No, like I said, no card is an automatic win situation and it does ranking games so you're going to play against people who are also brand new who have the base set of cards and there's great cards in the base set so

yeah but you could fight but if they went up against Brian and Brian would probably beat him is what'll happen right um because you're not necessarily there are games there are cards in pool number one that can break one of my the deck that I consider to be my the one I

play about 75% of the time. If you have like two cards, it's like, crap, I can't use a third of my deck because that card breaks it. That makes it sound like it's more random-based or luck-based and less skill-based? Is that what you say that's true? It's a combination of the two. The luck-based comes in with the locations, because those are randomly chosen at the start of every game.

Right. um the uh the the the skill based is knowing how to play your cards and knowing all right even if this card comes up i can use it in this situation uh or this other situation um and the the deck i'm playing is is a lockjaw jubilee deck so what lockjaw does i'll just you know really quickly describe this if you play lockjaw in one of your locations then any card you play in that location will disappear and a new card will take its place. Lockjaw will teleport that card out and teleport another card from your deck. So it's a really good way to, if you've got a lot of high cards in your deck, it'll pull,

it has a random chance of pulling one of those high cards. But let's say on the random deal, all your high cards come out at the start, you don't have enough mana to play any of them. So you throw Lockjaw out there and it's like, okay, I guess I'll throw, uh, you know, little cheapo cards in there and hope I get something decent from there, so... Interesting.

All right. I'm looking forward to playing that game, finally. Finally, get your hands on it. Me too. I'll be here for anybody who wants to talk about it and who wants to get some tips

and suggestions and things like that. It's the Marvel Snap Virgin Hotline. Brian 1-800, Brian. I'll put a big V on your forehead and we'll have a blast. It'll be a great time for all. It'll be great. Stephen, finally, the She-Hulk thing and the Ring of Powers thing, they both ended their season.

We don't have to get into story points here, but how does everyone feel about how things... I've still not watched either of these shows, so I'm, you know... I really enjoyed She-Hulk just because of how, I think, so here's the thing, if you watch all of She-Hulk together, knowing that it's a commentary from the very first episode of Commentary on the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Marvel Cinematic Fan, then this is a fantastic dissertation on what is messed up with both fandom and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I mean, it has no problem just saying, yeah, you guys who loves, you know, cinematic universe, that's great. But look how messed up the cinematic universe is. I mean, it's not just the last episode that does this. It's like, if you take everything from the beginning of Shee Hulk, it is this great essay on itself.

So would you say in the end, it's all. Rabbit fan base and Twitter Would you would you call it I mean would you classify the entire thing As as more satirical then Overall yeah yeah yeah no it's it's totally satirical I mean it is straight up it is the straight up Burn comic book from top the bottom

It is and it's great it's great to have this kind of be a A location where we can have something like this Right it's how What If used to be back in the day when it was a comic book. It was like this place for writers to just really go nuts and explore other ideas without saying in this special issue of

Spider-Man, he joins the Fantastic Four and the human torch never existed or something like that. And Shehull gives Marvel this place to have its super comedic stuff

without saying, all right, we need to throw some slapstick into Ant-Man, or we need to throw this, you know, this satire thing into Hawkeye. They don't have to do it. And Terter Devil makes an appearance, Scott, and his two appearances in the show are great and awesome. I heard about that.

How's he? Somebody told me his suit's different. Is that true? Then it wasn't the... Yeah, it's red and yellow. It's the ketchup and mustard suit. Ooh. Well, they decided to go that way, did they? Well, I mean, you know, he has to get a new suit. It's fine. And there's an in-show explanation

of where the suit comes from. I like this black ninja-looking early thing he wore in that series on Netflix. Yeah, me too. That was cool. I'm not saying that should have been the thing forever, but I liked it. It was a good time. Well, all right. Rooms of Power.

Really? I liked it well enough. What's, what's, did you, what's that? Oh, Rings of Power. Sorry, okay. I watched, I started to watch the first episode, the week that it came out, and I was like five minutes into it, and I was like, no, this isn't for me. And I waited three weeks, and then I watched like two or three episodes back to back. Yeah.

And it was like, okay, I'll. I'll stick through this because there's questions on who the stranger is and who really is Sauron and all this stuff. And then you hit episode six. Episode six is the best episode in the entire series. And then after that's over, you're like, okay, well, now what? And I thought they did a pretty good job with the material that they're using and how they're adapting it. It's not a Game of Thrones. I don't think it's definitely not Peter Jackson's trilogy, but it's its own thing.

I sit there and I watched every episode, and I liked how it ended it. It's fine. I'll be back for season two. But I can't see how a billion dollars was spent on that series. Is that what the total price was? That's what they're talking about is how they spent a billion dollars on this series and I just do not see it on the screen. It seems like a lot. Like the entire, I was funny.

That's funny to bring that up because I was just looking at the House of the Dragon, what they paid for that, the entire season, 200 million, which seems low by some standards. but I never once in that show went oh I can tell they're cutting corners here like it is beautifully shot incredible set design they're using some some version of what Marvel Disney used

or Marvel Lucas film used for Mandalorian the projection cave stuff they use some of that to you know kind of dress up some of the sets and scenery and stuff like that in some brand new set in Europe somewhere or in the UK

this is like the first time it's being used or whatever but 200 million So about 20 million per episode That doesn't seem crazy for what it is But a billion For the same? Yeah, so here's the breakdown So it's like they had to get the rights

They had to spend $250 million Just for the rights to Similarian Yeah And then they had to Make a commitment with the Tolkien estate That said that they would do five seasons This first season cost them $465 million Divide that by what's eight

And that'll tell you how much they spent per year episode. I still just don't see it on the screen. Interesting. You'd think you would for that kind of dough. Yeah. But I don't know. Is that all Bezos's personal cash or what? Where are they getting all that? Maybe not. Like he's spending a dime and so. The reason why he's a billionaire is because he doesn't spend his own money. He spends other people. It's a good point. Yeah. Somebody reminded me yesterday. I did some horrible math last night as I was tired. I shouldn't have done it. But basically

I had done this math for him like if you had $250 billion and you divided it up amongst the 8 billion people on the planet, they would have $31 million each. And I went, no, I've done, those decimals are wrong. Let's move this shit around. It was, they would all have 31 bucks if you did that, right? Do I have that right? I think that's right. $250 million divided by $8 billion is 31 point something or whatever it is.

So I think it's $31.25. That's why we have calculators on our phones. $3.125. Yeah, but billions don't work on my calculator. It doesn't go that far. Pisses me off. Damn thing. Anyway, you know, that's enough to go to $1.25 per person.

I had it as $31 million per person. And I was like, well, that would solve everything and actually make us question money for the first time. We'd actually go, what even is money? Why do we care about it so much? And then someone said, yeah, Scott, your math's bad. And I'm like, wait a minute, let me do this again. Yeah, there's too many zeros in the wrong place. nice nice job scott uh anyway hey there you go uh rings of power you'd give it a what let's

let's give it a grade a great sure because midterms are due today and i'm just at at that point so i give this a solid sea wow a solid sea right in the middle of the road you're describing my high school experience nice job did you um speaking of that no you got any students that you're like man this kid going all the way gonna blow our minds the world's gonna change there's some really creative students. Unfortunately, in the fall semester generally, I'm dealing with mostly freshmen. But yeah, there's a lot of potential. It's just getting them to understand

that, hey, there are things called deadlines and there are instructions that you have to follow when you're doing a job with somebody. And that's the thing that they're learning right now. Yeah. You know, if I don't follow instructions and turn homework in on time, I'm not going to pass this class.

No, no, you're not. They got old Professor Schlecker up there giving them what for. I love it. Nothing wrong with that. All right, speaking to you and yours, you've got all kinds of stuff happening on major spoilers.com. Do you want to tell folks about it? This week, it's major spoilers podcast number 999, which means the week after that is 1,000. And I heard we might be able to get Scott Johnson back for episode 1,000.

I am coming on for that one. I'm excited. I can't believe that's a huge landmark for you guys. That's awesome. I know, right? Especially for a weekly show, right? Yeah, yeah. I was going to say, that might be up there with the most ever.

Brian, where are you at with Coverville? 1,417. Okay, so you still have a bit to go. You guys are way ahead of us, yeah. You only have 400 months left. I don't know that math's wrong, too. I just keep giving you bad math. I'll keep in mind.

I'll be doing 400 months. Yeah, that's true. You'll keep going. You're going to have to double us. Not Brian out of commission for 400 months. Sure, sure. Or 400 weeks, yeah. Yeah.

So the other thing is, of course, we had our first freeze last night, and we'll have another freeze tonight, and the weather's going to get dry and all that stuff. even though it's not hot it's dry the dryness you have to watch out for and that's why you should still stay hydrated yeah I'm having unusual dryness as well and I need to take care of some

look at this thing of water right here I got a whole thing of it oh very good I'm staying I'm staying nice and but I'm telling you I'm waking up at like three o'clock in the morning feeling like I haven't drank all day something changing in the air it's getting cold supposed to be down to 30 something here

the next couple of nights we're there man we're there all right thank you stephen quick email uh from frank whirl uh goes by whirley bird in the chat dear slots and baccarat i came across this video shot in the 70s showing the Vegas strip with all the wonderful signs of the casinos i thought you might enjoy seeing this blast in the past since you guys are always talking about Vegas love the show uh i thought you might like this so this is i love it a button oh let me turn off audio um this is some was that Andrew Allen music play It sounded like it, didn't it?

But basically it's just like old stock footage, and it's really old stuff. Like there's the Aladdin's the first thing to see. And I'm trying to see what's the, hold on, what's the... Yeah, if they've got the landmark in there. It's, you know, I've seen videos of people driving down the strip, but this is cool. And you get the dunes. Aladdin, I'm trying to see if they have them. They do the like star filter on the view down the strip.

When the word motel was just as big as the sign for the frontier and the Aladdin and the Stardust, geez. Oh, there's the flamingo. That's always funny. Alan King and Lola Falada in the Copa room. I'm trying to find how cheap food is. Oh, there we go. Alan King, and we just signed a creep show. No, no, no.

I'm trying to find buffets for like a dollar or whatever they got. Katzai, that's it. Yeah. I don't see any food prices, darn it. No, I'm not. saying that either. You'd think that like fruit shrimp cocktail, just $1.99. Here we go. There

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I got the Osmond's, Liberacee. You know, the Hilton had the Osmond's fairly recently. Yeah. It could last 20 years. I think this was the actual, the boy band, Osmond's. Osmond brothers, right?

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Nothing like it Nothing like it Uh Galen wrote in and said Greetings Sourcrow and Bratz My birthday is October 17th Which will be my 47th It also happens to be two years

And one day since I first called into the show I know a number of people Have their favorite songs or artists But two of my three favorite songs Are sung by the Muppets Rainbow Connection by Kermit, and strangely enough, big bird sings the alphabet, which I can remember my mom playing for me when I was five years old for my birthday. I'm not asking for either song to be covered, but anything Muppet related would be fine. If not that, I leave it in Brian's

capable hands. Thank you for all your hard work and enjoyment. You give to everyone, signed Galen. Happy birthday, man. Yeah, said it better than I could have said it myself. You know, you may be open to me playing something else by the Muppets, but I'm going to go with Rainbow Connection because I just love that song and because both Scott Fletcher and Chuck Robinson both do great versions of Rainbow Connection. I've got another person who will blow your mind with how good they are at singing like Kermit. Ryan Shoup and the rubber band put this one on their live album from 2000. Nate, Utah Connection, by the way.

Huge. Yeah, they came from here, those guys. That's great. Sorry. My daughter used to, Carter, I don't know if Carter's in the chat, but she used to be obsessed with Ryan Shoup and the rubber band. And any time they played locally, she'd go to their concerts. That's so cool.

Yeah, we covered them on soundography, Hammond and I. Oh, nice. Yeah. This might have even been one of my picks for my playlist. Here is, the aforementioned Ryan Shoup and the rubber band and Rainbow Connection. All right. That's going to do it for us. Thank you all for listening. We'll be back tomorrow with another TMS. We'll see you then. Rainbows are visions and only illusions. Rainbows have nothing to hide.

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