The Morning Stream - TMS 2393: How chunky is the Monkey

Episode Date: December 19, 2022

There's No Business Like Sciatica Business. Dumb Muffs. Chiropractors Get You Hooked on the Crack. DiCaprio Level Seating. I'd love to do that with my pants. So This Is 50. And a Happy New Year. Do You Know What I Do?!? Hinges are the darkest magic. Lose the Pepperidge Farm Voice! Was It Boogery? Brian drinks Thickened Liquor. I Wouldn't Talk in This Voice if I Was You. Marvel's Superman: There's nothing like it! He Doesn't Smell of Drink. Up the 40k butt 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, there's no business like sciatica business. Dumb muffs. Chiropractors get you hooked on the crack. DiCaprio level seating. I love to do that with my pants. So this is 50, and a happy new year. That's the better of the Beatles post-Beal song. Do you know what I do?

Hinges are the darkest magic. Lose the Petridge Fombe voice. Was it boogree? Brian drinks thickened liquor. I wouldn't talk of this voice if I were you. Marvel Superman. there's nothing like it. He doesn't smell of drink.

Up the 40K butt with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. It's your favorite Marvel comics hero. Mine is Superman. Remember the motto? With great power comes great responsibility. Have a great night, everyone. We'll see you again at 6. My favorite season is winter.

What is your favorite season? The morning stream. I would sooner rot in your dungeon than sit at your table. Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS for Monday, December 19th, 2022, marking the triumphant return of Vermont's own Brian of it. Hello, Brian. I'm triumphant.

I have returned. triumphant from the land of Bernie. Nothing but wins and you plundered. I plundered. I snow shoveled a lot and did some long-lasting damage to my back and my right leg. Oh, no. I have to schedule a doctor's appointment. You know, it just wouldn't be me coming back from a trip if I didn't catch something, break something.

whatever so i'm standing even though i probably shouldn't be i'm standing today even though i have a little step in front of my little standing mat sure switch back and forth on that's maybe about you know six inches high i cannot lift my right foot to put it on that step that's how much it like without a lot of pain right now i'm doing it right now my toe my toe still hasn't crossed the this sounds like sciaticus business is a sciatica deal it's sciatis sciaticus business Okay, now it's up there. Okay, it's up there now, yeah. Man, these are,

we are men of a certain age, everyone. We are men of a certain age. Yeah, and I think we've, you know, we were talking about Tina's chiropractor a couple weeks ago, and I've been to him. He's a very nice guy, and, you know, he's very thorough and asks a lot of questions. I think we're moving to,

let's get some x-rays on this business stage, as opposed to, yeah, get on my table. I'll bench you up a little bit. See? I'll just, you know. You heard that pop? Ah, that's the sound of my bank hearing your money go into it.

Cha-ching, to-ching. Exactly. And Benjin says, time to invest in a snowthroar. Get this. My dad actually has a snow-thrower. So this all happened in Vermont. We're at their house, and he's got a snow-thrower. However, it's basically an attachment with a giant spiral blade

that's hooked up to a snowblower works with his... He just puts that on instead of his lawnmowing attachment. And it's a riding lawnmower, but you put this on the front of it. And it's great for most of the, for most of the snow. Right. They had snowpocalypse and probably about 10 to 12 inches of snow there. So I was actually clearing just enough snow so that his snowblower could do without just pushing a big wall of snow that wouldn't make it into the spiral business.

That's the problem. If the storm's big enough, you have to chip away a little bit with a shovel. You do. Yeah, it can't consume. all that snow. He must take a little bit off the top, a little off the top. Easily my top,

it's in my top five occurrences of throwing my back out have happened with shoveling snow. Yeah. Oh, and this was like a big, heavy, wet, monster, monster snowstorm. The wet kind is the worst kind. You want it nice and light and powdery.

That's what you want. That's right, exactly. But, no, all in all was a great trip. You know, started out a little rocky. So we took off Thursday, Thursday morning. Wednesday night, about 9 o'clock, so 10 hours from when we need to be at the, or no, nine hours from we need to be at the, in line to get on the plane, I get a message from Southwest. One of your flights has been canceled.

No. We've rebooked you. Like, oh, row, rebooked. Is there, one of your flights? What does that mean? Oh, it could mean your return or you're going or whatever, right? Exactly. So what happened is we flew, we were going to fly from Denver to Midway, Chicago.

And then from Midway, Chicago, we had a little three-hour layover there, then from Midway, Chicago to Manchester, New Hampshire. And it was the Chicago to New Hampshire leg that got canceled probably because of anticipation of this oncoming snow. So I look and see what the rebook is, and it's changed to Orlando, Denver to Orlando, Orlando to Manchester, New Hampshire. Seems insane to me. That's so far.

It's absolutely insane. And move from Thursday to Friday. So it was going to be like a whole day later, and flying us in the day of the big massive storm that everybody's predicting. So I got on the phone with Southwest and said, look, you know, Manchester, going into Manchester is not the most important thing. You know, we're going to this town or, you know, I said we're going to upstate Vermont. So there are three airports that were close by all about the same distance. what about Portland Maine let's see

nope we could do that one but it's going to be a $200 extra cost per flight because it's not they're not a co-terminal like it's not a southwest terminal they just have a gate that they can fly into same with Albany, New York which is also kind of the same proximity I said okay well we'll go a little bit further out what about Boston oh that is a co-terminal

and we can get you there Thursday as a matter of fact you'll land about four hours, three or four hours earlier. I'm sorry, let me take that back, about two hours earlier than your original flight, and your coming back flight leaves a little bit earlier too. So instead of getting back at midnight on Sunday, you're actually going to get back at about 7.30, 8 o'clock. It's not bad.

Well, let's do that. And, you know, I can, well, the extra drive from Boston is only about an hour extra time. We were already going to be driving three hours from Manchester. to Jericho, so what's an extra hour? So that actually worked out really well. But here's where the problem comes in. We've already checked in for our flights.

And the funny part is we're still flying on the exact same flight to Midway, Chicago, but then instead of going to Manchester, we're going to Boston. So we had to recheck in now for the Boston flight because it was like eight hours until flight time. We lost our great position in the Southwest line to get on the plane and pick your seat. Oh, right, because that's how that were. I forgot. That's how that works. So normally it's like, great, we check in 24 hours, and we're usually in the B group, easily in the B group.

Nope, this pushed us into the C group. And Tina, like, well, I guess we'll sit together on the trip to Chicago, but probably won't sit together from Chicago to Boston. You know what that is? The C group is basically the DiCaprio level on Titanic, the movie Titanic. It is. Exactly. It is. Yeah, you don't want that. You're holding on to the side of a door. But you're able to dance on the deck. Oh, yeah, yeah. You can dance and bring some of the rich people down and freak her out and then draw her like your French girls.

I know how it works. Exactly. So just as we're coming down the jetway, we hear the thing that we've heard a million times when we're usually in our seats comfortable sitting next to each other is, okay, pretty much all of the seats are filling up. So as you're making your way down the aisle, look left, look right. And if you see an open seat, that's yours. take it. Wow. So I look right, I look left, and I see the very front seat of the plane, row one, which doesn't have a place to put your bag. No big deal. I got the wall right there, though, right? The wall right there, exactly. Yeah. Is open the middle seat, front row. I'm like, you know what, this isn't so bad because I'll have some more room. I won't have a dude reclining his seat into my nose. I'm sure I'll

have somebody on either side of me, but it feels like there's still a little bit more. leg room and I can I can even cross my legs or whatever so like all right I'll take this one so I asked the dude on the aisle if that seat's available he's like yep and he gets up and he had like his coats and stuff on the middle seat we know that trick right you put your coats there to make it look like that seat's unavailable so you might get away with never having a seat person next to you sure he gets up but as he's getting up I can tell that something's up with this guy because he's he's having a hard time

balancing um he he puts his he moves his jacket and stuff from the middle seat to the aisle seat so he can kind of rearrange and maybe shove it up in the uh the overhead bin but he is he is

way out of balance and kind of not um not in full control of his his motions okay and I'm thinking oh man Is this guy drunk? Oh, geez. All right.

Well, whatever. And so I take the middle seat. He comes over, or he comes back from putting his stuff up above, and he plops down. And he's got his phone out, and he's just kind of staring at the screen, like almost like he's trying to focus on it. And there's a call going on. And he doesn't have AirPods in, but it's, you know, it's I can clearly see. It's his iPhone. I can clearly see the, you know, in a call, a little radio.

and green hang up and call buttons and he's in a call like what looks like three or four other people and he's just staring at the screen he's not talking and I'm not hearing anything coming from the phone and then he's trying to push the button to hang up and he's basically he's doing that thing where you flip up all

of your applications so that you can close other applications. Oops. And he's swiping up and he's closing every other application on his phone but that phone screen is still the far right screen and he keeps missing it he's like flicking up everything he's like trying to I'm guessing trying to hang up were you tempted to reach over there and go boop I know I kind of wanted to but you know I don't want to obviously I don't want to overstep my bounds so

finally like he he turns it off and then turns it back on again I think somewhere in there the people he'd called but dialed had hung up so uh oh stoic squirrel it absolutely let him flip up the phone. Yeah, you can do it. If you answered the call before you were unlocked, that's different. That's true. But if you're on, if you're in your phone and I make a call to my wife right now, I can flip all over. If you've already unlocked your phone, exactly, then you can do it. Not hard. So, uh, so I'm like, all right, well, whatever, I'll just, you know, I've got my, I've got my iPad. I'm going to watch, uh, decided to watch Shang Chi, because I'd only seen it at the one time of the theater, so I decided to watch that. So I put in my little AirPods and I'm starting

to watch it. And then I see him kind of like slowly hunching forward and his phone still in his hand. You think this is a drinky, drinky thing or something else? Well, I'll get to that. Okay. And the phone just falls out of his hand onto the floor and we're

taxing down the runway to take off. So he's not unbuckling and getting his phone. So he's reaching over trying to get it. The sound of it hitting the ground wakes him up. And he's reaching around. He's trying to get it and he picks it back up. And then he sits in his hand for a little while and he starts hunching forward and leaning forward again and again

if i were you i would be thinking and you maybe were thinking this but i would be thinking oh it's going to be a plane incident they're going to turn around and land somewhere i think it's exactly i hate that feeling i hate it and i'm thinking oh my head well he doesn't he doesn't smell of drink so it could be you know it could be medical it could be right and that's exactly one thing I'm thinking medical. And so that's why I don't want to just assume that this guy's drunk. But even, you know, it's like I can understand the having a disease that makes it so you can't. So your motor functions are affected.

There's, you know, diabetes can do that. Hypoxia can do it. You know, all these other things that that I later looked up can make it look like that. He dropped his phone maybe about 12 times before the person across the aisle from him helped him grab that, grab his phone, put it in his pocket and zip it up. At which point, he decided he was going to pull out his eyeglass case. Oh, boy. Open it up, not put on his eyeglasses, but just has his eyeglass,

and then do exactly the same thing with his eyeglass case for a lot of his half hour. Drop it, and he's, you know, pick up the eyeglass case, pick up the glasses. I'm like, oh, and I keep helping him. I'm like, at this point, those things are falling to places where I can help. them pick it up and I'm like here you go maybe you want to put that back in your pocket then they come around with drinks and they come over I'll do it I'll do a I Coke zero please he says I'll have a cranberry and I'm kind of just imagining what's going to happen and sure enough he gets his drink and he's holding it oh no and it's like going down the back of like I can see

the drink going to the back of his hand like it's the way he's tipping it up towards me and so I kind of like tap him on the shoulder oh hold on don't don't don't fall sleep on me here sure enough not before he pours half his ocean spray all over my lap

not on my iPad fortunately but on my lap but then he wakes up and he flings the remaining cranberry juice and his eyes into the aisle holding onto the cup But it's like the, like the compensating for, oh, no.

Yeah. And then he moved it. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. So was he, did he, did this end and you guys have to do something weird? Like, I'm terrified about his end. He, he seriously, this went on, the whole thing went on. And I talked to him a little bit, said, hey, you know, want me to help you out with that?

Oh, no, thanks. I'm good. And his speech wasn't slurred. So that's what made me really think, okay, it's a, it's definitely some sort of medical thing. And at one point, the phone on the floor went off with an alarm that said, was like a self-set alarm that said, take, it's time to take your and it listed like, ambitruxabiliflorgian and something like that. And I was thinking, I'm going to try and remember that so that I can look it up and see what that's, what that's meant to treat. Yeah.

I mean, it could be, it could be ALS. It could be any kind of neuromuscular thing or who knows. And he did at one point take a sleeping pill. got a little bit of water from the, or take a pill of some sort, did get some water from the flight attendant. And it could be that he was just, that he just took a sedative at the very beginning of the flight. And, uh, oh yeah, that'll hit you up pretty hard if you're not, especially if you're not used to those, those will, those will rock your world. But it seriously, it was like, it was like watching Arthur, a live one-man performance of the

film Arthur for two and a while at least you had you know I mean it's somewhat entertaining of a thing but did you so you ended up having to do the the the Florida thing or no that that got changed no no so we went to Boston so we went to oh that's right Denver to Chicago Chicago to Boston and it was that Chicago to Boston leg the two and a half hour leg that that he was on so worked out fine got the rental car drove four hours up to up to Jericho Vermont and uh had a had a time. Went to a few restaurants while we were there. There's a place in, I think, Burlington, Vermont called Bramble. We had some of the best food I've ever had at this place. I had a, I had a drink that was bowls, you know, B-O-L-S, gin and egg white and lemon and, like, it was like all of these

weird things and then two Blackberry pickled cucumbers on a toothpick across the top and it was just so basically he said this is like the weirdest thing on the menu and I'd ask the server I said am I going to kick myself

if I don't order this thing and try it? I leave here and I don't have it she said yes you need to have you need to have it yeah there's egg white in there inside of the egg white yes hold on I'm going to find the menu Was it all boogery and weird and viscous?

No, no, no. It's just used as like foam. So basically it was like a foamed up... Oh, okay. So not like egg drop soup where it's like mixed in and... No, gosh, no. Nope. That would be weird.

Let me see if I can find. Here we go. All right. Here's the description. It's called the garden gn. Botanist gin. Basel simple. Basel.

Simple. Basil. Be the right way to pronounce that. Basel. Fresh lemon, egg white, and blackberry pickled cucumber. So blackberry, okay, I need a little explanation on that. It's a pickled cucumber but done with blackberries? It's pickled cucumber but done with blackberries.

And so they had a, it was like you're having a pickle that was slightly fruity, like sweet. But not to the full level of like a sweet pickled cucumber, sweet pickle. Well, that sounds fantastic. Oh my gosh, I love pickled everything, but that sounds really good. It was really, really good. And the whole menu, just incredible stuff, I put a link to it. It was it called Bramble, you called it? Bramble.

For those listening at home, it's Bramble. If you live out there, you probably already know. If you don't, you should go. Oh, the prices aren't too bad. They're not too bad at all. And, yeah, the dinner menu, Bramble VT, so I had a, I had a, where was it? It is a red wine brazed short rib with palm puree, jericho settlers, baby carrots, and a red wine reduction. Oh, gosh.

spectacular. Oh, it sounds so good, dude. Yeah. So wait, this was in, no, this was in Boston? In, no, no, this is in Vermont. We were in, we were only in Boston for like 30 minutes just getting our rental car and getting the F out of town. Right, gotcha, okay. Well, this sounds great.

So you avoided, the actual storm, you luckily avoided it as a flight risk. And then when it was all done, you get to fly home. Exactly, yeah. Basically, we hunkered down in Jericho for a couple days. and really didn't even have to hunker down because they got things cleaned up streetwise fairly quickly. So we stayed in for the most part. Friday, went out for dinner at this Bramble Place Friday night, went to a couple places Saturday. I had to go get some maple syrup because you go to Vermont and you bring back maple syrup for everybody.

And then we went to a Christmas party Saturday night. Oh, yeah, we went to the Ben and Jerry's factory on Friday during the day. that was a blast. You get to walk through and see how they make the ice cream and the story of Ben and Jerry. Here's something I never knew. Jerry has is unable to taste things. It's like he has perma COVID. So here's a couple guys who found this, founded this incredible ice cream empire.

And one of them can't even taste the ice cream. He never could, right? It was always a thing. Yeah. I think I heard that somewhere. He was the texture guy. So basically he was like, oh, okay, I'll do this. the, uh, I'll, you know, tell you when it's chunk, when the monkey is chunky enough.

How chunky is the monkey, Jerry? Oh, it's chunky enough. It's, it's chunky. A little more chunky. Could you make a little more chunky? Did you see either Jerry or, or, um, uh, Ben at the place? No, neither of them, neither of them were there. They are, they're basically just on the board these days. They don't even, they come maybe once a year and do the thing. But there was one tour group where, uh, Ben or Jerry, one of the two of them just showed up and joined the tour group and nobody had any idea. Really? They were just looked like a dude. I love that. I love that.

You know what I think about it, if you have no taste and you're doing texture, that's actually a really good job because you're not being distracted or swayed by what it tastes like. You are purely focused 100% nothing else but that. It's almost like, you know, your daredevil, oh, I'm blind, but look at all my other superpowers and all that I have. I can taste, I could do a texture, texture thing. That's great. Oh, I'm lifting my leg again. Yeah, lift up that leg. Get that thing up.

There you go. Okay. So we went to, last thing, we went to a Christmas party. And this is a Christmas party just from the people who live on this street, this road, this dirt road that my parents live on. I won't give, I'm not going to docks my parents and say, you know, what road they live on. But it's, these houses are, you know, a quarter mile, half a mile apart. They're not like you walk out and you're like, hi. neighbor picking up your newspaper, waving high to him with the dog out in his robe or something

like that. Sure. This is like, you know, you see these people when, you know, you're in town like, oh, you're on the same road I'm. Oh, nice to finally meet you. So they, uh, they arranged this, this Christmas party at one of the people's houses and everybody brought food and we chatted with everybody super nice, but I'm going to tell you that there were three women there.

And if there was a way I could have gotten a picture I would. Three women there who are totally rocking the Cliff Clavon's mom look. Really? The long gray hair tied back in kind of a ponytail. Sweater, light-colored cream or white-colored sweater with a flannel shirt underneath it with a collar kind of coming out. And Cliffard, you know, basically hear the voice. Yep, yep, yep. And then two dudes sitting off to the side like Statler and Waldorf, two old dudes named,

Raleigh and Ellsworth Wow But these guys are like They probably protested in the 60s They were probably Exactly yeah It's like oh Well it's good that they finally

Graded our road That's right That's right Any spottings of That's where I don't want to say Larry David What's wrong with me

That's where Senator Matthew Sanders Yes That's his thing right That's his state Exactly I'd like to see where you went with the Larry Sanders. Yeah.

We did not see him, however, my folks did get to hang out with him at the midterms election party. Oh, that's right. I got a picture of that. All hanging out together. I was hoping you'd see him out in the wild somewhere with this dumb muffs on.

I was hoping, but no luck. Darn it. Listen, the 1% with the 3% and the women. The 40% of the snow has come down over 10% of the state and the 3% of the people are out there. blowing the snow with the 20% of their snowblowers and 60% of their shovels.

And 100% have back problems. Exactly. Vote for me again next year. Well, that's great. I'm glad you had a good thing. Yeah, yeah. It turned out good. It's a great time, really good time.

I only just paying for it with my, you know, arthritis or whatever this, whatever the hell this is at my lower back. Yeah, I have a similar issue. It's a little higher up right now, and it's mostly from, I think I'm just sitting wrong. sitting wrong a lot and I realize I lean a little bit to the right. Yeah. Starting to affect me.

We're getting old, Scott. We can't, uh, I don't like getting old. I can't, uh, recover from that sort of thing. I don't like it. So tell me about this, this convo thing. Yeah, so check this out. I got a great big convo. Okay, last night, we're at my side, we're at my, my side's family's Christmas thing.

So like the 30 people that were there for Thanksgiving, we're all back together for for this. And no one was sick, so that was good. That's good. As far as we know. But anyway, we're there. My mom's there and, you know, John and everybody. And John's like 92 now.

My mom's like 84. And they're getting old. And for those of you just joining us, the John relationship is, he's the guy that's got some mom married. Yeah, the guy my mom married some years after my dad passed away. That's, that's the, I can't call him stepdad because he's got zero to do with my raising. It just doesn't work that way. He's just this dude.

Okay. So anyway, they're married. and it's fine and whatever. But I had the weirdest conversation with him. My brother Matt, as you know, my Korean brother Matt, it doesn't matter that he's Korean, I just like to say it, is trying to create a YouTube channel, and he's contributing to it every week.

He's posting stuff, and it's usually like four-minute showerhead removal and replacement. Here's me making a weird kimchi thing. Here's some video of my travel. I went to Prague with my son and his wife, and here's some Prague video. Like, it's those kinds of things. and he really wants to make it like a cool thing and build it up and he's excited about it and I'm excited for him.

The only complaint I have is he's not leaning into his weirdness in it. He's being too serious. He just can't help it. The camera starts and he's all very, okay, we're going to change this and do the thing. And I'm like, Matt, you need to be the freak that you are and then you'll really get the views.

What's funny is when you do video of him, it's almost like a switch turns on. He's like, hey, right, right, right, right. I know. It does stuff when you're videoing him. So maybe give him a cardboard cut out of view that he can put behind his. camera so that it looks like he's like you're taking the video of it maybe that'll get maybe that's the

trick maybe that's the whole thing is he needs someone like me on the other end and then he'll turn into the 12 year old he is at heart exactly yeah so he's been busy doing that and doing doing good building a little audience and trying to do something nice and john he's talking about he saying yeah i just put up this video did that and all sudden john pipes up at the end of the table with his mouth full of mashed potatoes and goes it's a waste of time and matt goes what i go i look over john I go, what are you talking about? And he goes, do you know how many people are trying to make it on that platform? Do you know how many people?

Which is, you know, a little forward thing for an old guy like him to even call it a platform. Yeah, actually, right. Like that kind of knows. Anyways, like, you know how many people do DIY and all this? It's millions and millions. You're not going to, this isn't going to work. And he's just being all grouchy about it. And I went, John, why?

I go, I go, I go, the probability of Matt becoming the next freaking Mr. Beast or Pewty Pie or something is not going to happen. he's not going to be mark a plier overnight. We're not saying that. We're saying that they could carve out a little piece for himself. That's all we're saying. And anybody, including you could do that. He goes, ah, do you even know? I said, John, do you know what I do?

I said, do you know what I do? And he goes, what do you do? And I said, you don't actually know what I do. That's what I said out loud. And he goes, of course I know. Yeah, he goes, of course I know what you did. And I realize I'm edging up close to an argument. I'm not really looking for one, but I said, you don't know what I do.

You draw funny pictures of cans, I think. You draw cans all the time. I don't know how that's a business, but whatever. But no, he goes, then he just didn't want to talk about it because, of course, he doesn't really know what I do or how it works. So I said, you need to understand, I've built a career out of carving out a chunk of this thing. And that's all Matt's trying to do.

And he 100% can do that. it's not this isn't like i want to be michael jordan and only one out of every eight billion people will become him exactly yeah you can do it you can actually do it it's not that hard and matt's goals are not to be you know number one no one's ever are the people that are number one didn't have that goal they just got lucky with timing and and and virulness and right the right thing right time right personality like that all of that is is already weird right it doesn't just happen because you planned it and so i tried to explain that this he was just so so dead set. Well, you want to waste your time? I'm like, John, knock it off. I mean, I realize

we're adult men over here and Matt's an adult and he can, he doesn't, we don't need some 92-year-old going, ah, you're wasting your time as if we're 10 and that we need to get a real job. With your raising so that you won't call him, that you'll think of him as stepdad. Yeah. Oh, I would have died in that household. I couldn't do it. Because he's a super controlling dude and I love him for what he provides for my mom, but I, beyond that, he drives me up a tree. Yeah. And he knows I feel this way.

This isn't like weird. If he heard this, he'd go, yeah, I know. I kind of have, right, right. But it's just like, why you got to be so damn negative? Why can't you, you know, I don't know. Exactly. And, you know, if Matt wants to do this even as just a hobby as something to do, what's, oh, you're never going to make anything with that stained glass.

Why take it up as a hobby? Right. You're never going to make money from that. Right. And also, I felt like saying, I didn't say this, but I felt like saying, you realize you are the stereotype. You're the old guy that tells everybody else not to do a thing. then they go do a thing and then they prove the old guy wrong this happens all the time

do you want to be that guy i wanted to say that but instead i was like all right eat your mashed potatoes you a weirdo there you go it's that guy that maybe put lights the fire under mat to uh to do it even better job right then it's like oh i'll show you and they end up uh you know mad ends up doing great it makes me sad that people have to deal with that but anyway it was a weird moment almost escalated i kept it on the down it worked out fine good well done well it sounds like you like you defused it very well. That's right. Now, I mentioned Titanic earlier, but not on purpose.

It is the 25th anniversary of Titanic, everybody. Yeah. That's how things have gone there. 25 years today, the Titanic came out in theaters. And, you know, it's almost like we said, oh, my gosh, a two and a half hour movie about a boat. And James Cameron said, oh, just you wait 25 years. Two and a half hour is going to be a dream compared to what I'm going to do to you

with the next avatar movie that's right although i keep hearing that new one is great that's what i hear nothing but praise you know people saying go see it in the biggest theater you can biggest screen you can yeah yep uh 3d not so much i don't care about that but i want to i think i want to see this in i think so i think so too but i'm even people that are like super like down on like big blockbustery business like this yeah they're just like no he made a real good movie this is like that's cool No one should doubt James Cameron's prowess as a filmmaker. And so you'll go see that. And then you'll come back and be like, oh, RR is only three hours?

We could do that. Oh, yeah, we can totally do that. Team this close again on Sunday morning, this close. Were you really? Oh, my God. We got up and we said, you know what? Let's have breakfast and we'll sit down and we'll watch this in the morning because we don't have the party until the nighttime.

And then we get, then we had this reminder call that, oh, right, my nephew's coming over at 11 and he's going to be here and we're playing video games today. And so we won't even be. like halfway through it so then i thought of your idea which is watch half then and then just watch that later exactly kim's like well i want to be i don't want it baby and i'm like all right we're doing this later we have to we have to sock it again watch it watch it watch it watch it through to nacho nacho and then and then watch the second half the next the next day i just love that you have this nacho nacho macho i think that's great which is even really what it is i'm just going to point at

it like leonardo decaprio in the aviator and go that bupah that's it that's it that's what that's what brinkled they about you heard that whistle thing he does i love that All right. We're going to get Brian Dunaway all up in here because if we don't, we won't. Yeah, exactly. We need to. Let me do that. Hold on a second.

He is on his way. He will be here. And when he gets here, we're going to play a little half-asses. Excuse me. And we're going to push this button here to make it happen. Welcome to the program, if you will, one Brian done away. Hello, Brian. Oh, hi.

Oh, hi. Oh, hi, Brian. Are you all right? You're at home. No, I'm fine. I'm fine. Yeah, I'm at home. I've had a rough night last night. Oh, let's not do it.

I did okay this morning, but patients all swollen up. I'm like, what's going on? What did you do? You get some allergic, uh, allergic deal or what happened there? Uh, I thought I had like a sinus infection or something, but I, I was talking to the teledoc, and he seems to think that since I have all this, I have a psoratic arthritis. Oh, man. No, I've had this since I was 20.

Whatever. and so everyone thinks it's old person disease but you've been fighting this thing since you were a young buck I was 20 yeah so anyway apparently I might have some in my neck and because of that it's like inflammation in my eustachian dudes which can lead to infections and everything else and I'm like lovely let's get this done dude I feel bad I hate that you have to do with that I feel okay right now I feel I'm feeling all right I feel better now what you guys called yeah well oh good that's what we're here We're here for you. Don't feel sorry for me. I've got a charm life. And if I have to do a little bit of BS here and there, it's all right. I was worried that it was going to be something like, it turns out I'm allergic to 3D printer filament. And you're going to be able to. That was the case. I'm definitely allergic to it. Well, you got your printer. Do you have you had me, just do a quick little update. Did you do anything cool with it yet?

Do you do? Absolutely. I've been printing some Christmas stuff out of print a cool little snowman out. And I've, let me put this way. I've had more fails and I've had successes and that bullshit where people go Oh yeah You just spend a little extra 15 minutes doing the bed leveling I've spent two days leveling beds

Ain't no F in 15 minutes Whatever Yeah Yeah Bed leveling is the is the toughest thing And that's why I always say Somebody's looking for a new printer Definitely get automatic bed leveling

It is so worth it I did I did and I ordered Oh you did Just real quick I ordered from what I thought was the official reality website

I got to Ender 3 version 2 whatever I ordered from why I thought was the official site

because it was Crealityofficial.com turns out they're just a reseller now they're their license

or whatever through reality but they got it to me really fast but all their software is wrong nothing's right

everything's wrong and so I'm like I've been trying to understand all of that and so here I am two days later face is swollen up

I don't think it has anything to do with the 3D printer, but still, who knows? Wow. But yeah, that's the 3D bug. That's why your face is all swollen up. Yeah. Oh, man. And some of the things I'm doing with this thing, I'd like, first thing I printed was like a little box.

And it was like a little hinge. And I just printed the whole thing. And I'm like, well, I'll have to assemble it. And I just pick it up and just opens right up. I'm like, how the hell did it make a hinge? Yeah. Without even, what is this magic? I know it has.

It's dark magic. It is what it is. But once you get some level, if you get some level, if you get something leveled, you can kind of then set it and forget it, right? Are you done leveling? Or do you have to always worry about it? Okay. You've got to, you've got a level. Level is life. Every few prints, just because as you're pulling stuff

off the plate, sometimes that that resets the leveling or and there's wheels involved. If the wheels get too loose, they might when they push, when they come down, it might push it up just a little bit or down. It's a lot of fun. Yeah. Not recommended

for people without patience. How about that? is for sure. Well, I'm excited, nonetheless, to have you here. And it's swollen face or not, we're going to play half-asses. Hey, Brian, explain it and tell us who we're winning prizes for today, won't you? Sure. Welcome to the morning. Half-asses is a trivia game where I'm going to be giving you to the answers. I'm going to be giving them a category and six possible answers. Three of those answers are correct. Three of that are bold-faced lies. Depending on how confident you feel with the category, you can give one, two, or three guesses. But if any of those guesses are wrong, you get zero points for that round.

get one right you get a point get two right you get three points and get three right you get five points we're going to go for three rounds and the person with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant and contestants are pulled for members of the tad pool that aren't able to be here live Scott you're playing for Nikolai in Rancho

Cucamonga California part of the inland the inland empire of California Brian you're going to be playing for Jeremy in Kansas City three exclamation points Oh, Kansas City The Kansas City has

Exmission points or the name has exclamation? No, the name is the City. The Kansas City has the explanation. Oh, very excited to be a Kansas City. Yeah, well done. As was before, our first question comes to us from a listener and because it's been a week since I plugged this one

in as preparation because I was supposed to come in at midnight last night, I don't remember what question is, so we'll look at it together. Question number one. Oh, yeah, submitted by WinMegas. cards currently available in Marvel Snap. So, you know, as you know, there's a ton of cards available in the game Marvel Snap. Which of these six are ones that you can currently get in Marvel Snap?

Are they, Goose, Gene Gray, War Machine, Crossbones, Sandman, or Kate Bishop. Three of those you can have, three of those you cannot have. They all feel right and they all feel wrong all the same time. That's the problem is they've got all kinds of stuff they're holding on to. you know yeah and don't and sometimes it's easy to forget that like even though like an area or whatever they call that in the front of you the the three lanes whatever they called uh environments whatever they are yeah the three the uh location location what they call sometimes those make references to stuff that then makes you think oh that's in the game but really that character

hasn't shown up yet so it's like this is a tricky question all right well i locked in i don't know how well i did i have no idea scott's locked in i'm afraid i'm just not sure about this last I'm going to know what. I'm just going to go with two. I'm not sure what the last one. Scott, you chose exactly the three cards that are not in the game. Oh, shit. Really?

Scott chose Gene Gray, War Machine, and Kate Bishop, none of which are available in Marvel Snap. I almost said War Machine. Oh, that came so close. The cat that keeps you from being able to play any cards higher than three. Yeah, I've memed it. Yeah, seen it. Yep. Crossbones, which some benefit if you're winning that lane or something, and Sandman, which keeps it so your opponent can only play, or so you and your opponent can only play one card per turn.

I knew I've seen Sandman and some advertising work, and then the goose thing I've seen, but I wasn't sure about the other. Yeah. You did better than me. Freaking nicely done. It's surprising the warm machine and Gene Gray. Yeah, they've just owned Gene Gray since that movie, I think, for a little while. I'm not going to let that simmer. They'll give me it a little cool down. Sanza Stark. And Kate Bishop? Come on.

Come on. We just had a great TV show with a Disney Plus TV show with Kate Bishop. I think Kate Bishop should be in there. She's amazing in the comics. And these all will eventually surely be added to the... Everything will be eventually. Yeah. Oh, that's right.

Cyranax's crossbones can only be played on location you're winning. So that's his... But he's a good high value card for points. All right. Let's get to question number two. Boxers. who defeated Muhammad Ali. So six boxers here.

Could be both. Three of them defeated Muhammad Ali. Three of them didn't. Your choices are. Joe Frazier, George Foreman, and his grill. Ken Norton, Sonny Liston, Larry Holmes, and Michael Spinks. I like the idea that he beat him with the grill. I like that.

Exactly. And all his children named George. He's so pretty. All the George kids came out. That was a special powers. He unleashed all the. the George children. Exactly.

Boy. I just not sure, right? I watched a documentary. I'm trying to remember the Ali movie, too, and I'm like, am I remembering things incorrectly? I think I know one for sure, one maybe, and that's all I'm choosing. If I choose three, I'll blow it. Scott's locked in. All right, I'll just go with one.

Okay. I can get a point. Joe Frazier, you both settled on Joe Frazier. Yeah, Joe Frazier totally defeated Muhammad Ali. George Foreman did not. Ken Martin did. Sonny Liston did not. And Larry Holmes did.

Michael Spinks did not. Oh, damn it. Another point for Brian. I was sure Spinks had a win. I don't know why I thought that. Damn it. Yeah. All right.

What do you got, Brian? Four to zero? I can still come back. Four to zero so far, but you can still come back. You need to get all three in this one, Scott. And I need to get none. So there you go. You need to get none.

Exactly. The good news is we're looking at another movie trivia question. I love this one. Which of the people in this list appeared in a movie with Jack Nicholson? Oh, geez. Was it? Susan

Sarandon, Cameron Diaz, Roddy McDowell, Woody Allen, Boris Karloff, and Christopher Lloyd. Three of these people appeared in movies with Jack Nicholson. Three of them did not. Some of these feel like a trick to me.

Yeah, there's some tricky going. um um roddy mcdowell right oh dude one of these just feels like it's got to be right and then some of them feel uh oh my gosh dude this one of these is so wrong it must be right that's what i'm afraid of too one feels like there's no way there's no way it's so wrong it has to be right i love it i'm doing Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I just remembered one. Three. Oh, I have to do three, don't I? Oh, my gosh. Okay, one I know for, what is with my dogs.

Oh, man, I hear him up there. Holy mackerel. I don't know what they're doing. I'm going with one. Nikolai is counting on you, Scott, to bring this one home. Susan Sarandon, maybe. I should have went with two because it could be a tie if he gets a right by accident. Okay, I'm choosing.

I don't know. I'm choosing. I'm good. I'm in. All right. Okay. All right. You guys both picked Christopher Lloyd.

That was kind of the easy one, right? One floor over the cuckus nest was Jack Nicholson and Christopher Lloyd. Scott, you also chose Boris Karloff. Yeah, that's the one I thought was so wrong. That was interesting. I know it was kind of getting me too. Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson were in a movie called The Raven. Oh, look at you.

If you get the last one. Total guess. That's right. The last one I saw you hovering over Susan Sarandon, but you eventually chose Cameron Diaz you really should have stuck with Susan She was one of the witches of Eastwick That's right

I was so torn on that one Damn it was too I can't think I think I know this one I'm not sure The Roddy McDonnellan I was pretty sure Yeah no Woody Allen no Roddy McDowland Cameron Diaz I had to think about too Like all right was there like Some sort of Joker thing

And Batman she was like a bit player or something or so damn close I should have just gone with my guts and done that why didn't I do it all right well you know what that means Brian your person won who is that again

Ibbett's right Brian Jeremy in Kansas City chick chick chick chick wins the prize he's going to win a copy of PGA 2K21 and Bioshock the collection so all the bioshocks what a great

prize no it's really good nothing forever it's also a great a great golf game, by the way. It's very good. Oh, really, PJA2K21? Very cool. Very good. But don't worry.

Nikolai, you're not going away empty-handed. You're going to get the maid of scur. The maid of scur. I don't know what that is. For once, I don't know what that game is. Is that made like someone who cleans up your house? M-A-D. Yes. Okay.

Courtesy of Wesley. Those other games were courtesy of... I like the idea of being made of scur. Because you're made of the scur. Oh, the skir. Yeah, the dark scur. You are now made of it. Yeah.

I like that. a lot. We are all made of scur. Speaking of being made of things, we are doing a play retro, but not on the normal Tuesday timeline. We're doing it on Wednesday this week. Brian's got a thing on Tuesday, so we pushed it a day. So Wednesday evening, 3.30 Mountain Time,

we will be doing a show. Remind me what we're doing? Godlet. We're doing the first successful four-player arcade game, Gotlet. Yeah, and the first of what I, well, I don't know if it's the first, but it was the most influential and earliest examples of what a dungeon crawler video game could look like.

Yeah. There's a lot to say about it. It had like over 200 lines of dialogue or something crazy. It was it talked a lot more than the rest of the machines. Look, that game would remind me constantly that Valky needs food, yeah. She was always hungry. Anyway, that'll be exciting.

That'll be a gauntlet one and two and beyond a little bit. We'll talk about other stuff. That'll happen on Wednesday this week for Play Retro. Get it wherever you get your podcast. Brian Dunaway. And it's always good losing to you, man. I'll see you later. Oh, I see.

You know what he is? He's the flave of flave of podcasters on the Frog Pants Network. Because Brian will like be describing something. You'll be going like, all right. And the person you're going to play for is in Kansas City. You go, oh, Kansas City in the background. He's like the hype man. You're not wrong at all.

Yeah, I love it. Exactly. And he wears the clock around his neck. So there's something, there's really something to that. Yeah. And I think he did it on the stage. with Brigitte Wilson or Nielsen. There you know. I knew that I was close with the name. All right. We're going to take a break when we come back. Our good pal, Steven Schlecker,

will be joining us for a little Monday fun. So stick around for that. In the meanwhile, we got a little song here. Oh, but it's brought to you by something. Oh, it's brought to you by. Do you know who in Arias is? Did I pronounce that right? Apparently, I don't know. Do you plan on playing Diablo 4 in June? Well, maybe you'd like to find out why that name matters so much. On today's Diablo show with Scott Johnson, get subbed at frogpans.com slash Diablo or anywhere you get your podcast. That is true. We're going to talk

about an Arias today. And when I say, we, I mean me, you'll learn about the origin of this fallen angel, why he's, has that status and why he's back in the latest trailer for Diablo 4, what that might mean for the franchise, and a whole bunch of other stuff. So check that out. That'll be up sometime today.

It's a solo show I don't live stream, so there's no live stream. Brian, tell me about the music. Otherwise, it'd be you talking to the chat room and getting distracted by them, which is really tough to do on a solo show. I agree. Nobody wants that. I don't think. All right. Well, you know, Scott, you handled your lost

Brian Donaway very well without any sour grapes. Let's go and listen to some sweet grapes. As a matter of fact, an indie pop singer named Erica Grapes, whose song is very sweet. See what I did there? A little segue. I like it. Yeah. She is an English. Let's see. She is a... But, but where is she from?

I don't know. She's from all... She's from everywhere. She's from everywhere, yeah. Don't pin. You can't hold her down or pin her down. She's just wherever she wants to be. Exactly. This is a minimal song just under two minutes, a minute and 59 seconds long, written by the English composer and musician Felix Subway, and produced by the Italian producer, Andrea del Miglio. However, this is just gorgeous and sweet and beautiful and awesome. And it's only two minutes long, so if you don't like it, you don't have to wait too long, but you're going to love it. Let me just tell you right now. Here is Erica Grapes and the song Out of Depth.

Don't fret if your emptiness gets out of depth it's okay step by step and we meet up in the middle and it's okay okay to be alone Oh no, no, I didn't mean to leave so, so without you, stop by step, just like we were little bit, just like we were little and now. Breaking Underneath the fall Your baby steps are washed away And I feel so far away

And if I'm never right Never wrote. You're the greatest sell this story ever told. Merry Christmas, everyone. Today we're going to be carving a Santa Claus face for the holiday. I look like a Christmas.

tree or a pair. The morning stream. Never look in the eyes of those you kill. They will haunt you forever. I know. And we're back. Hey, who is that short song again? Yeah, you might be thinking yourself.

Is that Emiliana Turini or Dido or Hope Sandoval? No. Oh, that is Erica Grapes and a brand new single called Out of Depth. Just a gorgeous dream pop, alt pop song. And check out the rest of her music today. Nice. Sounds awesome.

Yeah. So short and sweet, you know, I like that. Short and sweet, like, like, like, like, in your shaggy Christmas album you shared. I know you did, yeah, exactly. I like it a lot. Or not Christmas is Frank Sinatra. Yeah, yeah, Sinatra covers. It's so good.

It's funny. Oh, fly with me. Come fly. Let's fly away. It wasn't me who did it, and I'll be back and do it on the floor someday. It won't catch me in the kitchen. Wasn't me. That's too good.

I really liked it. All right, let's do this now. This. Stephen Schleiker. Stephen Schlecker. Hey, it's Stephen Schleiker. Zone from Hayes, Kansas, who has some snow. You get much snow this week?

No, not snow. Well, Eastern Kansas is getting snow right now. We're going to get extreme low down to like minus 35 degrees below zero come Thursday and Friday. So, yeah. We've got a high of negative two degrees coming on Thursday right now, is what they're saying. A high of two below zero. We're also going to be very cold, but we're not expecting new snow. So we're not going to have like the white Christmas you like.

You're just going to have a cold-ass Christmas. is what you're going to have. It's going to be the white Christmas you'd never like. Yeah, the ones you don't want. Blue Christmas with your lips turning blue, basically. Or dirty snow drift Christmas. Those are the worst. Well, anyway.

You were talking about play retro. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, man. When I was a kid, that was the game to play. Yeah. We would go to the mall and we'd hear it all the way down the mall hallway. And we would just, all my friends, we'd just run down there to shove quarters in that game.

Do you think so, okay, so they, the, I forgot what they called this, attract mode. I think. Arcade machines would have sounds. So you would hear Gontlet do a lot of stuff, a lot of yelling at you before you put quarters in it. The other one was Marble Madness. They played this cool guitar solo. That was really cool.

And then what was the... Run! Run! Sunnestar would do that as well, yeah. It was always yelling at you. And I wonder if there's any data that suggests that that actually really worked. It probably did. It worked for us. It worked for us because I was like, oh, man, we could hear it.

We'd run down to see if anybody was playing because we'd be out of cross-country or whatever. And so, you know, three, four of us would all just crowd around the thing, just play, play, play, until the coach is like, we got to go. And then it's like, oh, right, coach. That's a shame. I used to love gauntlet. I play it now. I don't know if I'd love it anymore. We've just, we've come so far, you know.

It's a very repetitive sort of thing, but I have fond feelings for it. I am always on the lookout for a really high quality gauntlet one or two full-size arcade machine. Oh, sure. And you can find them sometimes, but they're really janky in, you know, this one's missing, you know, half panel on the side. And this one, we don't know if it works. Most of the time you just see the more modern, like, Gauntlet legacy and stuff all that's up for sale. Have you thought about getting, you know, Best Buy had those arcade one-up Simpsons machines available for a while? Oh, now, that's a good idea.

And you could pick one of those up and just redo it with, you know, like emulate. But I've already got two arcade one-up machines. I don't think. Actually, three arcade one-up machines if you count the pinball machine. So I think I probably need to not do that. Well, I have that one-up little one that's Rampage, Gauntlet, Joust, right? Joust, and then what's the other one? Defender, those are all on there.

But the thing, did that Gauntlet, one? It only had two player, right? Four. It had four. Gotlet one. Oh, did it? Okay. All right.

It was the first successful, anyway, four-player arcade game. That's why you'd want to do, that's why you'd need, like, either the teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles one up or the Simpsons one up or the X-Men one-up that has the four-player, the four-player deal. And then just rip out the guts and put in the raspberry pie. That's what I would do. If you can just get a good cabinet that's not torn apart, you can make whatever you want, Stephen. I will do that. Okay, do that.

Too bad Henry Cavill won't be doing any more Superman stuff. That's right. That's a good transition, sort of. Well done. Yeah, let's get to it. So James Gunn has made it official. He did a big tweet plus some other stuff because there was still a little confusion around it, even though Henry Cavill himself said, I'm not Superman anymore.

But he confirmed. He says, yeah, we've met with him. He's awesome. Everyone loves him. But we're, you know, the way we're moving forward, we're resetting some stuff. So James Gunn confirmed both that and that he's writing a new Superman film, obviously, without Henry Cavill. And the Superman film looks like it's going to be looking at more of the early days of Superman instead of the. Henry Cavill aged Superman.

That being said, he did say, hey, look, we've already talked with Henry Cavill, and we've said we have other ideas for characters from the DC universe that he might be able to play in our ongoing universe. I don't know if he's also had that same conversation with Gal Gadot,

but certainly after this announcement, it's pretty clear she's also probably not going to be Wonder Woman going forward. Yeah, and they pulled their cameos from the Flash movie, I guess. That's not happening now. Oh, really? Oh, really? The Flash movie still happening. I know I saw a thing that said the Flash movie comes out

2023, I'm like, what? I know that thing got totally shelved. Yeah, if you're going to cancel that Batman Beyond thing or whatever it was called, what was it called? Yeah, and Bat Girl and all that, yeah. Cancel that too? Cancel the Flash, save a billion dollars right there. That's what I say, yeah.

I mean, I guess the money's been spent on production, so they probably have to recoup, but it doesn't matter. They don't have to, they did production on Batgirl, and it was almost done with post production, and they're like, nope, we're axing it. It's a good point, but, you know, fans were upset and sad and everything. And then a bunch of them were like, oh, does this mean he's going to, you know, screw that news about the Witcher. He'll come back and be Guralt again.

Oh, no, he's not doing that because remember one of the reasons why he left was because he didn't feel like they were doing a an accurate depiction of the Witcher as it appeared in the books. And that's one of the reasons why he or the games, which is where he's the most he loves the games, like a huge fan.

And he just doesn't feel like any of this is matching his character. So beyond beyond playing, you know, building PC, sees, what else is Henry Cavill into? Well, a very lovely young woman who is his girlfriend. She's very nice. That's an awkward.

I love, though. I love how people give him, like, are always trying to poke into his personal life, and he is so protective of her. It's actually really sweet. But anyway, since he'll no longer be Superman, my big hope was, all right, well, maybe Marvel could poach him. Maybe we could do something over there. I don't know what, just about anything.

Easily could use him for, yeah. I say we'll take him over at Marvel. That's fine. Yeah. She can play, what's the, what's the big yellow guy that's the Superman? Century. Century, yeah. He could.

That's a great call. Century would be awesome, right? It's basically, it's basically a yellow Superman. Yeah. I would be down with that. But instead, we got news that he is going to probably be. I mean, this is a little bit early, but he's going. going to be in a Warhammer series on Prime.

Not only a Warhammer. I'm sorry. I should say Warhammer 40K, just to make it clear. My favorite freaking backdrop of all time. I love it. Love it. And anyway, sorry, he's going to co-executive produce, you say? Yeah, he's also executive producing the series, apparently, with Amazon and MGM Studios.

And he says he's very excited about this. Of course, during pandemic, there's many videos of him just. sitting there painting his miniatures and doing all the things. So this is something that he's definitely into. If he went and did The Witcher because he's really into the Witcher, then Warhammer 40K is probably going to be right up his ality. He's going to dive into it with a lot of fun. He's one of those Hollywood guys who's just such a massive nerd.

It doesn't feel like we deserve that guy. He's great. Freaking love him. And I don't want to ever hear anybody be smirch him unless there's something I don't know about. So keep off. Quick be sir smirching him. Yeah, don't be smirch him. Anyway, I don't know what that looks like or what his role would be or any of that.

That's all too early to say. But they put up a little teaser, a little animated logo thing with some music and stuff. My guess is Space Marine era stuff. Oh, I'm sure. What's one of the big head space marine peoples? I know it's all religious-based and stuff, but isn't there like some? So the Horace heresy is a very good book. If they were going to take any series and turn it into a book series or any story stuff, they should take from the Horace heresy.

It's an amazing series of books. and he would fit well. What was that comic book series that came out? Oh, I loved that. This just last year. It was so good. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Something I don't remember. It was a big, it was such a complicated name. It was actually kind of, I respected the name, even though I could never remember it. I respected it because it was way up 40K's butt. Like, it was absolutely from that world. They were not trying to like cut any corners at all on the name.

But it was Marvel, which surprised me because Marvel not known for their kind of bloody comics. since they stopped doing what was the Marvel Knights or what it was called? Yeah, Marvel Knights was right with Blade and Werewolf by Night. It's kind of like Black Label over on... Yeah, Epic was also kind of their, they're dipping their toe into more adult contact. They looked at this deal with, what is it, Games Workshop, is that the 40K people? Yeah, Games Workshop, and I think they couldn't pass up the chance to to either license it or work with them to get that 40K, the World.

him or series out and so i don't know i feel i've always i've always been surprised as taking them this long for somebody to to really go for it with a live action adaptation of some sort but also i do realize this is some nerdy subgenre very you know if you're nerd you know it and you love it but it's not mainstream like at all and it's really dark and it's really you know heavy and apocalyptic and it's not mainstream yeah so the fact that this is now getting talked about this is starting to make me feel so stephen let's see how this lands on you brian of course as well sure um i feel like more and more with more announced projects and what's currently happening over there but you know we just talked last week about a dark tower series

coming there we talked about all that plus they've got uh wheel of time they've got rings of power i feel like prime is trying is angling to be the the genre sort of streaming capital of the world it feels like. I know there's plenty on Netflix and HBO's got their stuff if you don't count Disney Plus but yeah that's true, a good point. But you know what I'm saying? Like they really, it feels like they really want to get that stuff at a time where a lot of

streaming places like Amazon or like Netflix is canceling some genre projects in favor of more mainstream projects because they're not going to, they're not getting the return they want. And Amazon's like, no man, we want the weird nerd shit. We'll take it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean

I mean, you mentioned Wheel of Time and I have no note that the showrunner for Wheel of Time is also now part of this Warhammer series. So maybe that doesn't say much about the Wheel of Time series. Oh, I don't know. I mean, it was well received in terms of that. I don't wonder if it means they, were they going to do another season? I don't even know how that's going over. I think it's, I mean, considering the breadth of that of that entire universe and book series, if they didn't want to continue it, that would be surprised. That would be weird, right?

And then it would take him another 22 years to get to the Sanderson books that he finished that series up. So, I mean, I'm positive about this. If they want to be the place for hardcore nerds, that's great. But I'm somewhat hesitant because it's like, well, if the Hobbit doesn't work, let's try this 40K stuff. And if that doesn't work, let's do this wheel of time thing. And if that doesn't work, I guess we got Halo still, right? And just throw everything at the wall and see what kind of sticks with that. out a clear direction, which is fine, because that's kind of what Netflix is, is they can do

work in so many different genres and different properties, but if they're trying to be the home of X, and they might want to stick with X for a while. Yeah. Disney Plus is technically the home of X, but you know what I mean? Well, yes. They are now anyway. So let's see. One other thing I wanted to mention, but we move on to another Amazon story, but I don't remember who told me this, but I heard somebody say that there's a series coming somewhere based on the. neuromancer novel by William Gibson.

That would be interesting. That would be amazing if they can pull that off. That's one of those like, a little like the Dark Tower, where it's like, do we even want to try? This is too much. This is like way intense. I mean, true cyberpunk stuff, even more so than Blade Runner would totally be,

I think a lot of people would dig it. Oh, I would. Yeah. Are you kidding? Oh, I want it so bad. The peripheral was a taste. That was just a taste, speaking of Gibson. This is a big, way bigger taste.

However, I'm still an episode behind on that. I haven't finished it, totally. And everyone tells me the ending is good, but incomprehensible. Again, I wonder if all those people who say it's incomprehensible did not stick past the credits because there is a bit at the end where you need to watch it. And it kind of, and if you have any questions, I think I have a grasp on it. Maybe Brian does too, on what everything means. But yeah, just you've got to watch.

that in credits and see if that doesn't make a lot more sense for it. Okay, I'm going to tell, my brother-in-law was last night just going, I'm a smart guy and I do not know what happened. I can't connect the dots. And I didn't even think to say, did you stick around for the thing? So I'll ask him. Anyway, let's move on. Amazon ordered a God of War series. Hey, they did.

Look at that. And so this is, and we have nothing on this like casting or anything, right? No, no, no. This is just kind of announced kind of thing. And we know live action, though, right? That's as much as we know. That's what it is. Yeah, I made a mistake.

I said that the Wheel of Time guy was doing Warhammer. He's actually doing God of War. Oh, okay. And see where I get the confusion. Yeah, yeah, easy to do. Gods and hammers, although I like how the Hollywood, or I'm sorry, I like how Variety spins this, the massively popular 2018 video game. Like, that was the very first time that we ever saw God of War appear.

And it's just like, okay, well, yeah, we can do that. And, yeah, nothing that came before that will ever be mentioned. well let me ask you this so i want to cast this real quick um and my first thought was bald actors who are who's the coolest bald actor right jason statham uh well he's too thin and wiry i don't think he's in diesel he's too old well no right gavel if they're doing old henry cavill isn't bald but if they're doing old i mean they digitally removed his mustache they could digitally remove his head if they're doing exactly bald is a pretty easy to stay age to simulate.

Yeah, I don't know why I'm stuck on that. But I looked up this list on IMB, and it has a list called Coolest Bald Actors. And they've got Vin Diesel. For some reason, Jamie Foxby has a full head of hair in this photo. Patrick Stewart. Bruce Willis, Sean Connery, for some reason. Samuel, I love Jackson. Sean Connery, a little, he's a little too dead for this.

Yeah, maybe Alan Arkin. Let's get him in there. John Travolta. Yeah, Travolta. He's your man. He's bald now. But anyway, Cretos is a very, unique looking dude and I think

that care needs to be taken. He needs to be massive but older, you know, this is middle age. I assume they want to make the God of War that we're playing down. Yeah, they're doing the one with after his wife. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they got to do that. And if they're doing that is going to be an older dude. Maybe the head of the watch, the gold cloak head dude on a house of the dragon this year. He was also a Hobbit and the Hobbit, or not a Hobbit, but he was a dwarf. I can't remember

his name. But he played that really stoic, big, older dude that was like, protected the queen. Do you guys remember, did anyone watch House of Dragon? Brian, you did. Yeah, I did. You know who I'm talking about? The guy, he gave up his cloak in the end because he was like, I don't like where this is going. So, oh, yes. That guy. He'd be a good credos. Yeah. Yeah, look at him all badass and everything. Anyway, and then get Cody Smith McPhee as the little dude. It's ginormous eyes. What's his name, Jay Jonah Jameson?

Oh, J.K. Simmons. Have you seen him lately? That dude's Jack. Oh, he's so. Yes. Oh, yeah.

What was that? So that thing with Santa Claus, where is that? Yeah, Santa Claus, the Rock. It was right. It was him and the rock. It's some movie or something,

and he really worked out for the role and looks amazing. Yeah. Let him play Cretos. Okay. I'm in. Yeah, actually. But can he do the Cave Johnson voice, the whole time. That's what I want to know.

Ah, listen here, I'm God of War, see? I'm Cretus. All right. Well, anyway, there's that. Was that interest you, Stephen? Are you a fan of the God of War series? I was the very first game, you know, the one that came out on, what, PS2 or whatever, PS3 decades ago.

I really liked that game a lot. I didn't really get into the other ones that much. I'm sure I would enjoy them very much. I really enjoy more of the Assassin's Creed series more than the god of war stuff yeah i i think the new ones in particular i just think are a weird modern miracle because you took these action button mashers that were pretty one note they're fun right they're really fun but they weren't like there was nothing about them where you're like all the depth of story and character yeah and they somehow made that happen and did it in such a swift way

and such a great way like i think they're they're they're almost like there are very few games that can do this transition and they pull it off or it makes me think more could and they just don't have the guts to do it so I have nothing but respect to those. You rave about that one on the steam deck and I think that's the... Man, Odyssey is so good. Yeah.

I was disappointed with Valhalla. It started out too repetitious for my taste, but I just started playing that one. I like Valhalla okay. It's not my favorite of the series. I'm torn between Odyssey and Origins.

Origins. Oh, Origins, I think. I'm sorry, that's the one that. Which is the one that you were raving about on the steam deck? That was Origins. That's the one in the, it's set in ancient Egypt. I love that one. Yeah. The Greece one is Odyssey. That's the one that I really, really like. Yeah. And then, you know, I just started playing Valhalla starting it up. So I'm just to the point where, you know, the Assassin's Guild people show up. And I don't know if the character shows back up many more times in Valhalla, but he's apparently the main character in the upcoming game. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, the M-S or whatever his name is. Yeah, the Arabic characters, the new, he's the new main dude.

They are all on massive sale on Steam. I can get Odyssey and Origins for less than $15 bucks each. 12 for Origins, $15 for Odyssey. Oh, absolutely worth it. Bingo, bongo, they are ordered. Awesome, awesome value. And those, both of those, I played them both on Steam Deck. I'm finished.

I actually finished Origins on Steam Deck, and it was great on there. Cool. Did you do all the side missions or just story? Mainly story. I did some side. I still couldn't go back and probably will at some point. I always like to do that. If I beat a story and there's leftover stuff, I'll like let it simmer for a bunch of time, play other games. And then I'll go back and just start cremating side missions, which I always like doing it. My thing is it's just like, oh, what's over here? What's over here? You say that the queen's in danger and I must go see her immediately? Okay. But what's this over here? Do you know what the only, the only massive open world game, like one of these, you know, GTA style, giant, sort of thing that I've ever 100%ed. Guess what game it is? And I'll say, to give you a hint,

it was made in the last seven years. World Warcraft? No. No. No. There's so much that I'm, that's so many things I haven't done in there. Although the Mad Max, uh, Furioid game? The Mad Max game from 2015 is exactly the answer. I'm, I 100% of that game. And I think I might have had it even been a different theme because it's, I think that game is so underrated, freaking great. And that goes on sale all the time for like five bucks. Not to be missed next time it goes on sale because it's such a steal for that. It's so good. It's amazing game.

Well, there you have it. More good times on the way for 20, 23 and beyond. And we always learn these things from Stephen, who has this great website called Major Spoilers.com. Stephen, anything going on on the network for this Christmas week? You want to tell people? We are wrapping things up. We're going to be doing our final look at the NCAL this week on the Major Spoilers

podcast. That, of course, is the Jarterowski and, And Mobius series from the 80s that is being adapted into a movie or movie series by Taita Wattiti, Tyco Watiti. I'll get his name correct. One of these days. So we're going to wrap that weirdness up this week on the show. Nice. Very nice.

I had such a great time last episode being on there. Yeah, that was a lot of fun. Oh, my gosh. I always have fun. We read a horrible comic. Yeah, that comic was not great. But listen, Aquaman's a mixed bag, right? You don't give what you always want with him.

Yeah. Sometimes you're not going to get the king crab. sometimes you're going to get the minnow. That's right. Oh, I'll see what you've done. All right, that's great. Is there anything else we should... Oh, really?

Even in the winter. Okay. Just like right into it. All right. Fine. That's it for today's program. We're about done here. I do want to mention once again the Diablo show today sometimes,

so it gets sub to that if you haven't already. A lot of you are already. Thanks for hanging out there and being there since 2019, since I did the last episode. That's back when the last bit of news really mattered, but a lot of stuff going on. So check that out.

Got a quick text here that I would like to read. This is from, let's see, this is from somebody named Grendi. And they said, maybe you already answered this before. Have either of you done voiceover for anything we might know, commercials and stuff like that?

Brian, do you have anything like if you, somebody might accidentally run into and go, oh my gosh, that's freaking Brian. Yeah, well, there's the, there was a, A parody of cars and planes came out called X-Wings, I think. And it was done, you know, 3D animation style, Pixar animation style, but it was like X-Wing fighters.

And I did the voice of the main X-Wing in that. That's awesome. Yeah, that's one of my say, it's like when you go to IMDB, it's one of my things. It's one of your things in the, like, you have a, is a film sack in there? Are we counted for that? Yes, film sack I think is in there. All right, we should have that. Sad thing is, there's like three or four Brian Ibitts, and it's a bummer because it's

like, no, I want there just to be one Brian Ibit. Yeah, one of you. There's only one, there was only one ever one. Don't make more than one. Exactly. Yes, please stop. Check this out. If you listen to a commercial from 2012 now, 13, whenever it was.

Oh, yeah. I did a bunch of GE. ads and here's here's one of them Chats I don't know which one this is GE understands how a super body can do super

things like fly in the hurtling sense of the word hurtlers use stomach muscles to soar more specifically the SOAS muscle it runs from your thigh bone through your stomach and up your lower back It makes it sound like I know what I'm talking about.

It's so cool, though. Avatech John found the X-Wing's movie channel. Oh, what? Let me see it. That's, I was just going to ask you, if you had some audio. I want to say, I want to hear this. Yeah. Oh, I'll put the whole video up.

Okay, hold on. I'm so excited. I've never heard you do this. All right. There we go. Okay, let me pull it over here. Okay. Here we go.

From Disney and Pixar, the visionary studios that brought you cars. Uh-huh. Planes, boats, and trains, comes their next adventure set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. All wings report in. Blue, 34, standing by. This is Orange 8. Let's play ball. This is about 16, static by.

Perry Winkle 19, standing by. Red 11, let's do this. Red 7, standing by. Blue, 24, standing by, baby. Hazel, 42, standing by. Pink 28, ready to party. Green, 33, giddy up. Red slide, standing by.

Red 2, standing by. Look at the size of that thing. Is that just the one part? Is there more in here with your? your voice. There might be one more, but isn't that hilarious? Yeah, it's pretty great. Like 18 minutes of red 17 standing by.

Yeah, there's a lot of colors, turns out. Yeah. For that, that's great. Well, there you go. Does that answer your question, dear listener? Who is that again? Grendi, Gendi? Grendi. That is your real name. Yeah, I haven't done much that's like public since, but a few things here and there. I did a

corporate thing a year ago that I don't think anyone sees, but the company who I did for that kind of thing but yeah stuff here and there the the olympics thing was fun to do because there was like 12 of those and um oh yeah people would say i think i heard a thing it sounded just like yeah it sounds like scott and because they ran during the olympics so a lot of people saw it and um that was a lot of fun somebody thought oh did that turn into anything for you no i mean it was a paid gig but i didn't do anything else after that we're no we're no we're no trying to yeah still try to get this uh i've got a book um that somebody has asked me to do the audio book version of and i need

to just carve out the time and do it because my problem is if i if i do it and it takes it's too long over a long period of time they're going to get different sounds of my voice so i need to just kind of like lock myself maybe just go to a hotel lock myself in a hotel for a week and just knock the whole thing out that actually sounds fun go to vegas get a sweet that's the problem if i go to Vegas there is no telling what my voice is going to sound like on day three or four or five it's got to be like at some place that I don't want to leave the hotel so much you know got to go to like a desert Detroit yeah something like yeah go to Detroit sorry Detroit sorry sorry Detroit listeners but just kind of how it is all right

yeah you'll all survive that is going to do it for today's show big thanks to our patrons who help support the show and make it happen patreon.com slash TMS is where to do that and I want to welcome oh them bones who joined the show At the maximum level, we call it the velvet rope. It's a rarefied group, and I love everyone in there, but I really wanted to make sure we welcomed O Them Bones at the Velvet Rope level, and you're like, what the heck is that? Well, you can go find out.

Just check it out of the website. It's over at patreon.com slash TMS. Do it today, and that's going to do it for our show. We need to get out of here. Do you have a song? I do. And I'm so excited about this one, Katie Talmo, a.k.a. Katrina

in Cat. This is so exciting. Hello there, Scott and Brian. I've worked very hard since the beginning of 2022, and I have lost over 110 pounds on my own. That's amazing.

Well done. It's one of my arms. But on Monday, December 19th, I'm going under the knife and getting bariatric surgery to help keep this weight loss train rolling. I'm definitely getting more nervous the closer it gets. I would love you to play of Brave, play a cover

of Brave by Sarah Borellis, but hey, I know Brian can find a great song for any occasions, so I leave it ultimately in his hands. I will also accept any and all tad vibes for the road ahead. Thanks and happy holidays to everyone. Nice. And if you want to know what kind is surgery, it's the vertical gastric sleeve. Basically, they'll just be cutting out approximately 75% of my stomach and a hernia repair while they've got me opened up. Holy cow, Katrina. That is so, so fantastic. You'll hear this probably after the surgery, but You know, obviously met you in Chicago, met you at the last, the most recent TMS Vegas, and so excited for you and impressed. Like 110 pounds, I need to, I just need to get off my butt and do it.

Yeah. That's amazing. I don't think that's, I don't think I've ever, I don't know if I've ever known anyone who's lost that kind of way. And every time I hear about that, I just think, what excuses do I have? I don't have any. That's before and after photos where they're holding their pants. pants out as far as their arm can stretch. Yeah. Yep.

Yep. I'd love to do that to my pants. I'd be close to that. I shouldn't do that exactly with mine. I just need to lose. I have another 25. I just want to. I want that to go. If I can get that 25 out, I'm in skinny city. That's where I want to be. Yes. Exactly. Anyway. Yep. Make it happen. All right. Well, let's get to her request. This is an a cappella band called Capital Blend. Blend, meaning two things getting put

together from an album called Double Shot. Oh, yes, meaning two things getting put together. This is a mashup cover. But surprisingly, with that album title and that band, this is the only mashup cover they do on that album, 12 songs, and only one of them is like this. This is Brave and Roar, so Sarah Brelis and Katie Perry, it's amazing how well these two songs go together. And this one goes out to you, Katie.

Congrats, and here is Brave Roar. All right, we'll see you guys tomorrow for a Tuesday edition of the Morning Stream. I used to bite my tongue to rock the bow to make a mess. So I said quietly, agreed politely. Or you can start speaking up. Guess that I forgot I had a choice. Let you push me past the breaking point.

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