The Morning Stream - TMS 2396: Anson Dismount

Episode Date: December 26, 2022

3D Printed Anger. Scott Remakes The Calendar. Picking Up and Haulin' Granny's. There's no soccer in Maverick! Porn Shack. Drunk on Midichlorians. Slapping Balogna. Spent time in the Clapper. Dahmer Ate The Person of the Year. Florida Man's Punt Forch. We Don't Have A Bear Clause. Amy has a package for us. Free Granny Lift-Driving. Unfortunate use of clan. Batman and Superman buddy issues 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, 3D printed anger. Scott remakes the calendar. Picking up and hauling grannies. There's no soccer in Maverick. Porn check. Drunk on midi-chlorians. Slapping baloney. Spent time in the clapper.

Dalmer ate the person of the year. Florida man's Puntforch. We don't have a bear clause. Amy has a package for us. Free Granny lift driving. Unfortunate use of clan. Batman and Superman buddy issues with Stephen and more. On this episode of,

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Hi, Brian. Well, hello. How are you? I'm all right. Look, it's Christmas Day, a boxing day for some weirdos today. That's right. Christmas Day observed or boxing day or as the, The Apple calendar, I think, put it today, Christmas Day substitute.

Yeah, I like that. That's good. You know what they ought to do? This is just my own feeling. But why don't they do the last Friday of every month? We don't need it to be the 25th. He wasn't even, Jesus wasn't even born on the 25th of December. The last Friday of every month?

Like, you want Christmas 12 times a year? No, just in January, just December, you know? Do it like we do Thanksgiving, so it's always on that Thursday. This one would always be on a Friday. That way you got like Saturday and Sunday. to sort of just, you know, recuperate. So that means, but if you do that, that means New Year's Eve could fall on the same day as Christmas if it's the last Friday of the month. Oh, I think of that.

That's true. But I do like the idea. Maybe you make it the second to last Friday of the month. Damn it, that's a great point. I didn't even think about stupid New Year's. Yeah. Is, you know, does, is Friday the best day? I mean, it just feels good because you got a whole weekend.

Exactly, right? You get extra day, extra. So, you know, you do Christmas Eve Friday and then Christmas Saturday, or you think Christmas, Friday? I think Christmas, oh, that's an interesting question. Because then you do get the three-day weekend if it's Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I mean, I feel like if Friday's Christmas, Thursday's Christmas Eve. Yeah. Friday's Christmas.

Yeah, do that. And then Saturday is like, oh, man, all this paper comes from. Boxing day, taking stuff back, cleaning up. Yeah. And then Sunday rolls around. You're just chilling still. You're still on that wave. And then you feel okay about maybe working Monday if you have to.

You know? Yeah, we did so much running around this weekend with two different families to visit, even though we technically combined them both, and we hung out with most of the same family both days, just in two different places. Sure. But, you know, running out to Brasch and Fort Morgan, which are an hour and a half northeast on crazy yesterday. And that's probably, you know, they probably didn't help my hip, my sciatic issues. No, well, that's all that running around.

Yeah, if you were running around a lot. We did kind of the opposite for the first year ever. I talked about this a bit on Thursday, but for the first year ever, Kim and I had Thanksgiving alone, or Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve alone. And then the next day, sorry, the next day being yesterday being Christmas. Christmas. The kids all came over here, and so we had a big to do here, but it was nice because the night before was just us. We watched Top Gun, Brian.

Yeah, so tell me what you think. All right. So you watched a top gun blew my mind. I had a, I had my expectations where this would be a big romp. It'll be a fun, you know, thing like the first movie is. Yeah. And everyone seemed to say so. And it reviewed so well.

I thought, well, you know, this will be, we're definitely in for a good time. It reviewed really well. Yeah, reviewed better than I thought it deserved. You know, it was fine. It's a fine movie. I think it's the words that I used to describe it before. I think maybe what happened to those reviewers is what happened. to me, I ended up having an existential experience with it. And I think it was because, you know,

the original came out in, what, 85, I think. I think that's right. Yeah. I'm a young, 14, 15-year-old kid then. Yep. And the impact of that movie was pretty big then. That was a huge deal, that movie. And at the time, the thing that really set it apart were these insane, realistic and actual fighter planes doing actual maneuvers for footage, right? And, everybody just lost their minds over that stuff. But also had a sound to it, that bong thing that starts the music. That whole soundtrack right, the, uh, Hans Zimmerno, who did the soundtrack? Oh, I don't know.

Actually, I don't actually know who did it. Randy would know. Randy would know right away. He would know. He'd say, I've moved Catwoman. Here's what I think about that. I've moved Catwoman. I don't know what, I don't know what.

Cheryl Faltermeyer, duh. Oh, yeah, Faltermeyer. Yeah, because he's credited in the new one. That's right. Anyway, he does this amazing stuff. And then there's a bunch of pop songs like Danger Zone and whatever in there. Sure, sure. And so I had kind of forgotten about the feelings I had as a kid in that movie,

just the exhilaration and the freak out that was there about how awesome this is. Just such an awesome movie. And then I see this thing. And it was an incredible combination in my mind. of that awesmess mixed with some serious like what it means to move on, what it means to grow older, what it means to be at a point in your life where you look back and you have regrets, but also you kind of don't have regrets about some things and about other things you do.

Like, I didn't expect all that stuff. Yeah. And it really got me, man. That movie got me. like right at the core i really really liked it didn't expect to to walk away feeling all those feelings so anyway top gun's rads on paramount plus and uh there was only pre there were only pre commercials so that was nice i didn't have to sit through that's good cool yeah if that noise but because we were already on paramount plus and it was uh getting late kim's like why don't we have we seen any of that new

star trek i said no the the the strange new worlds oh yes right the uh the ensign mount Anson Mount, which he also gets off a horse, so he's Anson dismount in that first episode. Anyway, we watched that three episodes of that, and that show's great. That shows freaking great. Yeah, that one captures more of the feel of the kind of the original and next generation. Problem of the week getting solved, even though there's kind of an overarching story. Yeah, they all did that, but they always did this monster of the week or villain of the week or whatever, and I missed that. I loved it. I can't wait for more of that. That show is great. I don't know how I feel about the

Freaky Friday episode. It was a little... I know. Yeah, there was a little cheese ball. A little goofball, but whatever. Even TNG had those dumb things where they all got drunk on Midichlorians or whatever the hell happened. Right. Right. That isn't it. Anyway, high praise. High praise. It was good. What's that? And said, high praise for that show. I really like it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, way better than the slog that Discovery turns into about middle of their middle of their... middle of each season of Discovery.

Yeah, Discovery's trying too hard to be a modern television show with a bunch of running threads, and that's fine. And I understand the desire to bring it to that, but I think, in fact, I think you almost need to have Discovery and Picard, which are all a little too navel-gazy and too into their own threads and stuff. You almost needed those to happen so that I can really appreciate this one and say, Oh, okay, no, it does work. You can do a modern Star Trek with the villain of the week.

And maybe they learn from the Orville, I don't know. The Orville. Yeah, I know exactly. Orville does it perfectly. Yeah, the Orville's awesome. So, anyway, high praise for Star Trek, uh, strange new worlds. It's fantastic. Yeah.

Hey, I saw a movie, I saw a three and a half hour movie over the weekend, too, Scott. Oh, you did you? Yeah, I managed to go, I managed to carve out some time and go see Avatar the way of water. Oh, my gosh. which is a beautiful movie. My gosh, it is so... This is where the lady has sex with the fish man. This is that movie?

Just kidding. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Avatar, The Shape of Water. There's a lot of fishmen having sex in this one because, yeah. No, it was really good. It was... It didn't feel long to me, but it did feel long to Tina and to Tristan, who apparently slept for about 10 minutes.

during the middle of it and I know exactly you know pretty sure I know exactly when he fell asleep because there's a there's a bunch of stuff in the middle it's like oh look at this beautiful area we live in and how about this and let's just look at the the pretty area that

that this is but you go into this thing and hopefully you don't see any spoilers about you know what the what the conflict is because that one took me by surprise. I'm like, oh, wow, okay, kind of cool.

So that I really enjoyed. And the, I don't know, the overall feel, it's like, to me, it didn't feel like three and a half hours. It did feel, it did feel long, but it didn't feel like three and a half hours. Is it fair to say that it's still at the end of all, and you don't have to answer this, but at the end of it all, is it still the Navi versus the evil humans trying to exploit their environment? It is. and it's uh it's it takes a good storyteller to put you in a situation where you're where you're rooting for the aliens over the humans like all right it's humans versus aliens i really

want the aliens to win sure screw those humans yeah screw those guys are the worst screw carmella yeah uh well it did real well money wise making tons of money yeah and uh it's what you expect uh yeah somebody said uh it's got such great frame rate i wanted to pick up a controller and play the second half oh my gosh really the whole thing runs like 60 frames or higher or something i don't know i don't know what the frame rate like you know but it just is really funny or somebody's review but yeah see it on the uh on the biggest screen you can because it is a gorgeous gorgeous movie did you do 3d or just normal uh just normal yeah it's there were three uh like four different screens that was on at our local amc three of which were

3D, one iMacs and two regular 3D, 3D digital or 3D Atmos or whatever it is. And then one regular digital, we're like, let's do digital, I'm fine with not seeing this in 3D. Although, you know, something like this is about the only time I like 3D is when it's, when it's mostly computer generated. Yeah, like Pixar movies are really good in 3D. Pixar movies are great, yeah. Yeah. But live action stuff just is, it just, they screw up too much of the three didn't make it work. Yeah, plus it's usually a little distracting, gives me a little bit of a headache.

I can't enjoy myself. Like, I just need, I need not to have that. Yeah, and I don't know what three and a half hours are wearing those 3D glasses would be like. I don't want to experience it. No, no, no. We were going to try to carve out a little time to try to see if we get to the theater to see that, but it never worked out. So then we thought, well, we could, we could always watch Glass Onion. And we didn't do that either.

We didn't have time. Do you end up seeing that or no? Not yet. No, not yet. No, we basically from the time Glass Onion was released until now, we were either running around like crazy or sleeping or, you know, last minute picking up, picking up grannies to haul them over to someplace and take them somewhere else. You're doing lift driving, but just for granny and for free? Pretty much, yeah. Yeah, free granny lift driving all weekend.

Those water bottles aren't free, grandma. Exactly. Come on, tip. Look at a tip. You said you were going to give me a tip on the... Yeah. I'll change the song if you give me a dollar. Old lady.

Well, that's fun. You know, I want to see it. The Avatar deal. I want to go. Yeah, you should. Seems like a rad thing to see. And people are, I don't know, they're all reviewing it quite well.

I've yet to see anybody really dislike it. Some have said it's a little over long, like you said. Nina said that basically. Yeah, it looks all right to me. It looks like I would sit through that. I'd be curious as to what she would edit out of it. Because, yeah, I mean, I could probably say maybe 20 minutes of what I described earlier as here's us running around the trees and running around this other area.

Da-da-da-da-da. Look at us. Look how beautiful it is here. And oh, there's animals. And look at the animals. Yeah. Some of that could get shaved, do you think? Could get shaved.

Could get trimmed a little bit. But, yeah. Well, here's some. good news. Tell me. I'm ready for some good news, Scott. Are you up good? Because I've got some.

In fact, let's bring it improper here. You all have a chance to win something rad if you sign up for it. Now, normally, so this whole thing is a conjunction between the core podcast, doghouse systems, and Intel. They are giving away a $4,000 rig. Wow. This thing's amazing. It's a monster, truly. let me put it up for people to see it oh shoot i got to close that and bring that okay there we go

uh as you can see i put the specs up on the screen for those at home it's pretty nice cutting edge all the new stuff uh basically that you could expect out of a thing like this including the latest generation of uh intel core i9 processor which are just barely out anyway this thing is a retail value of three thousand nine hundred ninety five dollars it could be yours for free if you go and sign up and win. I'll admit that there are already a couple of thousand people signed up for this, which I only announced on Twitter, or in Facebook, so I haven't really gone crazy with it yet.

It's the first time I've mentioned it on a show. But it's real simple. You have to be in Canada or the U.S. That's the only real restriction anywhere else, and it's going to cost you $2,000 to ship the damn thing. But you just put in your name, your email address, some other stuff to verify who you are. And if you are chosen, we don't keep any of this data, by the way.

It's just, you know, it gets tossed. It's just for the drawing. You can opt into Doghouse, like, future deals or something if you want, but it's not, you know, definitely not required. Anyway, if you sign up for this, this Friday, this coming Friday, we're going to do a live stream with them. When I say we, I mean me, I'm going to do a live stream with Doghouse where we're going to live stream the build of this actual machine. Oh, wow. A bunch of cameras all set up. I'm going to be doing camera switching.

They're in Texas and their headquarters, and they're going to be putting this thing together while we talk about it and doing other giveaways on the air while that's happening. So that'll be Friday. We're going to do that at, I believe, 9 a.m. is what he wanted. I'll double check. I think that's right. Same time as TMS starts, actually.

So that's a lot of fun. Another prize is to be won there. And then the following Thursday, which will be the first core episode of 2024, 3, rather. I keep saying 24. I don't know why I want to skip a year. You really want, yeah, you really just want to get ahead of everything. I don't know why.

It's like, by then I'll have Diablo 4 for a year, I guess. I don't know. But anyway, that will be the night we give it away. We'll do it on the air and give away whoever won that thing. So get in there now. I should give you the address at home, so everybody's got it and those in the chat room have it. It's frogpants.com slash doghouse. Simple as that.

Doghouse systems is, of course, the computer. And it's frogpants. It's just a quick, simple forum. Bim, bam, boom, you're in. And it's even secure. I set it up so it was secure. Did you use an SSL certificate? I did.

I sure did. And now it is H-TPS compliant and gives you a little lock up in the corner. And no one can take your encrypted data. All right. Anyway, go check it out. That's frogpans.com slash doghouse. I want you to win. Brian, are you ready for a dramatic reading?

I am, please. give me a dramatic reading okay now i want brian in particular to keep in mind he's kidding this guy is kidding yeah yeah yeah i know i can see i know who this is from it's okay good i can i can i can i'll let this one go you can smell what this rock is cooking all right i can smell what this rock is cooking good because now here it comes the dramatic reading i promised you all here you go enjoy oh whoops i lost my place here we go Dear Scott and liar. It's clear Brian has never seen Top Gun Maverick.

He says Brain. Oh, Brain. You know, I should, yeah, I should. I will not omit any errors, all right? Here goes. Yes, yes. It's clear that Brain has never seen Top Gun Maverick. Soccer.

Soccer! No, nope, nope. I'm sorry. The third soccer is not, yeah. Scocker! There's no. No, soccer and Maverick. It was beach football in which both teams are playing offense and defense at the same time.

He's clearly trying to sway you from seeing the best movie in 2022. Probably still pissed you haven't seen Parasite yet. I have, yes. Seriously, though, it's a good movie. Growing up in the Air Force as a brat, or sorry, growing up in Air Force brat. Yes, I know it's a Navy movie. It was very It was great

Seeing the uniforms and the swagger of the pilots again Many of them are really like that The flying scenes were very impressive And I liked that it wasn't I'm sorry I liked that it It wasn't just training It was a real mission There's one line in the movie that made me cringe though

One of the admirals said Runaway Sorry I can't read Runway instead of flight line. It's flight line. Brian wouldn't know a great movie if it bit him in the R-R-R-R-R-R-A

ass, or arse, I guess. I know. He bit R-S. Because that would be even funnier. R-R-R-R-R-S. Yeah, Ars. But the way it's spelled now is Ar-R-Ace. Ace. Yeah, the R-R-R-R-A-Ace.

Then he says, I kid, you're both good pipoo, Robert from Hender-Tucky. There's your dramatic creating. Well done. Well done. Yeah, yeah, I completely forgot. I just knew it wasn't volleyball. It wasn't volleyball. It was...

And then the rest of it is like, yeah, just some other beach game that they decide to play in place of, you know, the other sport, the other game from the first game. Yeah, just an excuse to get their shirts off. That's it. That's the whole deal. And then, you know, getting Goose's son introduced playing the piano, playing great balls of fire, wearing the same outfit that Goose was wearing in the first movie

They had to make sure you knew A hard time getting confused, yeah Yeah, make sure you knew who that was playing that same exact ass song I do like I thought the ice stuff was handled really well And I actually had the feels

For all that For Ice Man Yeah, no kidding Yeah, that was good And yeah Also there was a scene where Tom Cruise runs really fast Out of the forest

Man, that guy could You need to have him, like, right in his motorcycle alongside a plane taking off, and he has to look over at it. That was really great. Anyway, I think that in the end, I think Iceman wins. He's the vice admiral of the entire Pacific Fleet. I think that means Iceman won. I'll be your wingman anytime. Yeah, sure, but I'll also be the most highly decorated freaking dude here.

So, anyway, thank you for that, Hender Tucky. Robert, we appreciate it. You're awesome. Yes. All right, Brian, let's play a game. We need Dunaway to do it. Can't do it without that done away, feller. Nope, nope.

Get him in here. He's the salt to our pepper. That's right. He's the hot sauce in your eggs. He's the, uh, he's the buggard. I smoke salt in my eggs, man. Oh, that sounds really good. I want that right now.

Yeah. All right, let's do this. Ah, the post-Christmas final episode of half-asses anyway. Before the new year, it is. Brian Dunaway joining us all the way from his home in South Carolina. Hi, Brian. Oh, I wish it was the bed as well, but dope. I met my station.

Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hi. Oh, hello. Hi, have you printed any more 3D things to, like, hang your controllers on and stuff since we last talk? I've printed anger. How's that? Oh. Anger and frustration.

Yeah. Days and days and days. Ibitt makes it seem easy, doesn't he? he does he does indeed yeah well i mean yeah i don't tell you about the failed prints i only tell you about the good one yeah the learning curve is all out the chain and is uh i i i just i'm at a point almost like i'm like just like i'm like just like okay i kind of feel like i did when i bought that uh that i mac where everybody's like i'm gonna talk to me how great it was everything i'm like yeah yeah yeah yeah but how is it for streaming and my specific needs um i don't know

but i tried it and i was like yeah this sucks ass so i'm kind of like going, maybe I got the Ender 3 version 2, and maybe it's not printing the things that I like to print, and maybe it's really good at printing, I don't know, some kind of cube. This right here tells you, this tells you how. Printing the cube. I'm printing something else. This tells you how wrong Brian was about his IMAQ. It actually was fine.

He's just, he's just certain that it wasn't. No, it's true. It was not. I spent a year. I spent a year trying to get it to work with my setup, and I had to go from digital, recording all the way back to analog recording I had to get rid of my Elgado I had to get rid of everything that was around my

machine because none of it worked with why I wanted to. Weird. Period. Weird. That is weird. I don't get it because I had zero problem when I was using it. I know. I know you're all analog. That was the deal. I kept asking you questions like what do you have on yours? Oh, I don't have that. That's the whole opposite. What I have? I'm digital now

I got to because all of them did they got rid of the input or the thing so I had to go digital now. Yeah, well, good for you. Yeah, good for me. Anyway, I spent a year doing it, and I finally just said, yeah, maybe this isn't right for me. I was like, both out. This is what I've learned. Brian, Ibbott is the, you're the 1950 sitcom of 3D printers.

Let me explain. Okay. The 1950s sitcoms would only show us the, the idealized, perfect life of an American family, right? So, father knows best or whatever. Drinking his bourbon down. the basement. Yeah. We didn't see the racism and the systematic issues and all that.

We didn't see how women were treated. We didn't see any of that because all we were presented was this beautiful image. And that is what Brian has done to 3D printing. Exactly. Yeah, right. Nicely done. Like I said, I feel like my problem is that I'm always like going, I want this particular device and I want this particular thing. And then I'm like, I find out about halfway through that, yeah, there's no way in hell it's going to work that way.

I'm not saying Macs are bad I'm saying from what I was using it for with the equipment that I had it sucked out. Yeah, look at me trying to take it back to 3D printers and Brian just cannot get over that Mac right. No, no, no, that's because that was a year-long ordeal. This is only like

about two weekends of the 3D. So it's not as, the scars are not as deep. I'll check in with you any year when everything's spaghetti Yeah, when a year I'll be like, that's that reality 3D, that's a bunch of BS. Well, I wish you nothing but luck and wind here back, sir. Let's get to the the fun game that we've got here, Brian,

but we'll explain it and all the prizes and all that. Brian, what do we have here? We've got the morning half-ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you to the answers. I'm going to be giving you Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers. Three of those answers are correct, and three of those answers are bo-guss.

Depending on how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses. But if any of those guesses are wrong, they get zero points for that round. Get one right, you get a point, get two right, and you get three points, and get three right, all three correct answers, gives you five points total for that round.

The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant, and I've pulled a couple contestants from members of the Tadpool that aren't able to listen live, although one of them I think makes it in here quite a bit. Scott, you're going to be playing for Drew Burris

in Atlanta, Georgia. Oh, look at you. You're getting the local folk for me. That's right, exactly. That proves how random this is. Brian, you're going to be playing for Bologna Ninja in Missouri. Bologna.

He's not random at all. I'm right next to Bologna, so that's perfect. Hey, Brian, do you think he calls himself that because he's full of crap and lies all the time and he's a ninja about it? Or does he, is he an actual bologna made of Bologna, which also doesn't work because if he's sneaking around the house, you're going to smell that guy a mile away and know that the Bologna is in the house. I think that he's a regular ninja that uses Bologna, like most ninjas use Chinese stars.

He can huck the slice of bologna and have a wedge right into the door right next to your head. I hadn't considered that. That's okay, that I like. Huck and bologna. When it flaps you on your face, that cold, wet bologna meat. Getting slapped with bologna. Oh, God. That's Christmas to me.

You know, bologna meat gets warm pretty quick, though. You ever notice that? The thermal transfer is pretty good on bologna meat. Oh, yeah. You ever put those, so when we were in high school, we did this stupid thing my brother and I where we'd take bologna slices, put it in the, you'd leave the, you'd leave the, ring on it, the little, the paper ring. Yeah, yeah, the red ring. Yeah, the red ring of death.

You put it in the, in the, on a little plate, and you put it in the microwave, and you pour Worcestershire sauce in the middle of it. Okay. And then you put it in the microwave, you cook it for 45 seconds. And it would do because the red tape, it would try to expand, but the red tape would make it stay in the shape. So it would curl up like a bowl. And then it would absorb all that sauce and then my brother and I would eat those as if that was some special treat like weirdos. It is. Do you ever have fried bologna? People eat around here like fried bologna instead

of fried spam. It's like yeah, we'll fry anything. Yeah, my dad gave me a cookbook. Oh my God, quit knocking stuff over. Hey, kitty. But it's a cat. That's what they like. They like to do that. I remember I told you how much I hate my cats? I think I got the wrong cat for the purpose.

It's because you got a cat with no eyes or something. Or what's the deal? You can't. death. I got one who's got drunk cat syndrome. He can't walk. And I got one who's got mental issues. And I got... You got a third one who's deaf. Fantastic. Back to the... So my dad got me a Snoop Dog cookbook. And one of his recipes is a big old fried bologna sandwich. Or is he calls it a big old fried bologna sandwich. Yeah. Get high and eat some bologna sandwiches. That's what you do. That's what you do. Is it all

lack of that gravy food sort of stuff. It is. Yeah, there's like pancakes and fried chicken and Ashford and Simpson eggs. I haven't figured out what makes them Ashford and Simpson eggs. That's weird. Does he have any Martha Stewart stuff, like a forward in there or anything? I would think that there is so much Martha Stewart influence on this cookbook that to mention her would be redundant. Yeah, you're probably right. Who would ever predicted back in the 90s that that would have been the dream team? Who would have no one? Yeah. Yeah, the only thing that really brought them together was time in jail. That's what that's what it did.

I don't know if you ever went to jail. I have no idea. I know some rappers did. Ice Cube spent some time in the clan. In the clan, not the clan. What's it called? What's it called? What's the slang for the clapper?

Not the clapper. The slammers? The slammer. Slammer. It spent time with the clam. The clink is what you were trying to get the clink, I think. You were getting them mixed up. hilarious.

Hilarious. The use of Klan was an unfortunate mistake. Anyway. Well, all right. Let's play for these guys. This is exciting. I'm very excited. I hope these are questions are about baloney.

Go ahead. They are. They're all about baloney. Let's get to our first question. Which of these were Time Magazine persons of the year? Your choices are. Chairman Mao, Ediamine, O.J. Simpson, Adolf Hitler, Ayatollah Khomeini, And Joseph Stalin, which of these?

How are any of these people? Person of, oh my God. These all feel totally wrong. Oh, my God. Boy, howdy. Oh, wait, how come? Oh, it's pretty obvious. There it is.

One of them is kind of obvious, but I'm not, I'm still not sure. It's almost too obvious. There's two that I'm pretty sure there's no way in hell. I'm going to try two. Okay. All right. I'm scared. Yeah.

Oh, God. Should be. These are some pretty scary names. You guys, it's amazing. You guys both locked in on the same ones. Really?

Chairman Mao and O.J. Simpson. And I'm happy to tell you that neither of those were actual persons of the year. No, Adolf Hitler, Ayatollah Komeni and Joseph Stalin. There's no way that. First of all, went that far back.

Yeah, that's my question, Brian. Were these at their time, at their height of time? Or is this a later thing? 1938, for Adolf Hitler, 1979

for Ayatollah Khomeini. Wow. And when Hitler first came to power, it looked good, right? It looked good. Did it? I don't remember, did it? I wasn't here.

He was for the people. He was trying to correct some wrongs or so he said, and then the shit went out for the rails. Yeah. Stalin was actually person of the year twice in 1939 and 1942. I did not know that. Two consecutive years, you had Adolf Hitler one year,

And then Joseph Stalin Yeah, we weren't We weren't mad at Russia yet That was our whole generations, right? Yeah. Well, and they were, Russia was, we were,

they were allies for that part of the war and stuff. Like, right. We probably were like, well, whatever, this just goes to show you this time personally your shit is stupid.

It is. Yeah. It is going to bite you in the ass. Always going to have something. Like, I'm sure there are other examples of, like popular culture people even or something, where they're persons of the year

and then you find out later, Oh, they, they slaughtered 20 babies and ate them. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. I'm surprised that Kanye hasn't pointed to Time magazine to say, you know, Adolf Hitler was man of the year. Just to be clear, just to be clear, I'm not a fan of Adolf Hitler. Just to be clear.

Yeah. No, clarity's good in this day and age. Horrible, terrible, terrible person and things he did in the atrocities. However, Time apparently thought it was a good idea at some point. point. So, just trying to figure it out. Time wounds all heels. Hey, let's get to our second question here. If you're scared, if you're scared of our first question,

you're really going to be scared of our second question. Real phobias. So which of these are real phobias? Now, I will tell you that all of these are real phobias, but is that the correct name for those phobias? Your choices are, umphalophobia, fear of belly buttons,

bromophobia, fear of clowns, Algiophobia, fear of garlic, xanthophobia, fear of yellow, nomophobia, fear of not having your phone, and celicaphobia, fear of mustaches. Cellicophobia. Selecophobia. Freaking what. There's a couple of these that are hilarious when you read them in your head. That one's so stupid, I think it's real. I'm actually going to choose that one.

But some of them could be real because people are stupid. Yeah. Oh, my God. locked in, too. I'm just gonna, I'm, I'm, I'm choosing shit. Here we go. Boom. All right. Well, this time, neither of you chose the same answer. Oh, really? We're good. We probably still can lose. Umphalophobia is actually the fear of belly buttons. Indeed. I thought I knew that one. Why are we afraid of that? I'd be curious what makes people. It's scary. It is. Oh, my God. Belly buttons are scary. Yes. That's scary, man. Sadly, celia phobia is not the fear of mustache.

Damn it. That's crazy. That's crazy. Come on. Pagonophobia is the fear of moustaches. Oh, okay. Nonophobia, nomophobia, sorry. Is really the fear of not having your phone? No mobile, I got my phone, no phobia. No mobile phone. No mobile phone.

Fear of garlic is actually aliumphobia. And fear of clowns is colerophobia. Yeah, I knew that one. You should have just chosen one, Brian. You would have won this one. I couldn't figure out. I was trying to figure out the Xanthoph, I chose the wrong one. Or I guess I chose Xanthropo.

ruby as well. So we both, we both pick one right and wrong. Yeah. Let's see. How do you do with our last question here? You guys need some points or else nobody's getting any prizes. Really put in the half asses and her half asses is more. You really are. You really are. All right. Last one. Things that there are fewer than 10,000 of in the world. So which of these are there 10,000 or less, or actually less than, not not 10,000 of, but less than 10,000 of in the world? Number of 3D prints I've successfully had. I'm going to go ahead. Less than three.

Synagogues, Taco Bells, tigers, nuclear weapons, wide-body aircraft, and Segways. Which of these are there less than 10,000 of in the world? Couple clarifications. Segway is not the word structure, but we're talking about the little things

of the two wheels. Yeah, a little scooter. The skater. Okay, and then tigers, we're talking all tigers? The little word structure is spelled S-E-G-U-E. Oh, see, that's a good point that I completely missed.

I'm curious about the segways. Are they, that, I wonder if that, do you mean functional segways or just has been, has entered the world? Like in the world, right? In the world. Yeah. Tigers. Broken or not. But see, Tigers is a bigger question because there are a ton of subspecies of tigers.

Am I, we are to assume all tigers? All tigers. Okay. Yes. Assume all tigers. These all seem like there got to be more than 10,000. You would think. Well, I know there's more Taco Bells than 10K.

I know that. Just in my town alone, but it probably isn't. It probably just seems like there is. Damn it. All right. I'm going to try this. I'm doing two. I'm locking in.

I did one. Ooh, you guys are both locked in. We're going to have a winner after this. Oh, look it. Yep, Scott's going to win then. Well, maybe. Maybe I got them both wrong. You got one right.

So synagogues, there are about 10,000 just in Israel alone. Yeah, let me say. There's so many people. But nobody chose synagogues. Yeah, so many people. Taco Bells, there are only 7,000. Oh, really? As of the writing of this question, believe it or not.

Oh, man. Damn it. Tiger. There are only 3,200 tigers in the world. Of any kind or just Bengal? Any kind. That's crazy. Wow.

The card says tigers. So if you see a tiger out in your yard, wow. Yeah, exactly. Bangal, white tigers, all them. Segways. There are 50,000 plus that have been built. A bunch of trash. Nuclear weapons.

There are 15,000 of them. That means wide-body aircraft is the correct answer. So many nuclear weapons. Asked Superman. Only 5,000 wide-body aircraft were ever made. I'm not sure why I chose nuclear weapons. I don't, after, didn't Superman teach you anything? I really don't know why I chose that.

I know better than that. Like, why did I pick that? I think I was just like, well, none of these others are on sound right. I'm choosing that, but... Yeah, I think that was it, yeah. What is a wide-body aircraft? Is that like one of the big ones

that carries jeeps and stuff and that sort of thing? Or what is that? I think, yes, yeah. The ones that have the little... The drawer that comes down the back. Yeah, they're like cargo-type planes. Yeah. That's why I pretend I'm doing wherever I'm in the bathroom.

You're doing the wide-body aircraft? Yeah. yeah oh okay this is a specific oh they could be passenger they're just big okay Boeing 737 oh so the ones with just have twin aisles that two passenger aisles where you've got the yeah the two three and two uh yeah that's what it is often they have a that's why i thought that's they were talking they sometimes have a lot a thing up top like an upper upper deck upper decker upper bar yeah the german upper decker version of the plane oh this cat just really was not a good guy

some attention here. Hitler, yeah, makes that clear, Dunway. Hitler's bad. Hitler is bad. We don't like him. Boy, the more I read about that guy, the more I dislike him,

says, uh, North McDonald. So that means Brian wins. Oh, please don't delete the winners. Thank you. I ended it.

Oh, no. It was just a glitch. So Brian, Bologna Ninja is going to get a copy of Descenders and industry, thanks to your win. Uh, but Drew in Atlanta,

Georgia is going to get a copy of Epic Chef. Which, I don't know anything about any of these games, actually. Descenders, I do. Descenders is a, you're on a bike and you're riding on procedurally generated trails, mountain trails, and your goal is to not wipe out and die. That's really the idea. It's very good. Descenders is great. Highly recommend it.

The other stuff, I don't know what that is. I try to keep up, but, you know, there's a lot of games out there. Well, congratulations to them. And, boy, you know, when they win, we. play this. Congratulations. You're a winner. Yeah, yours and both of you. Nicely done. Hey, Brian done away. Small schedule changed this week. On Wednesday this week, we'll be doing the play retro show. Yeah, that's right. We're not skipping for the holidays. No, we never skip. And guess what we're covering? I don't want to blow anybody's mind or not or anything, but we're covering the Barbie

games of the NES Super N.E.S. Genesis era. Early Barley Barbie games, 85 to 96. Yeah. Yeah. Why are we doing that? Because, well, A, A, A, Brian thought it would be a good idea. The more I thought about it, the more I think he's on to something here. We always focus on a bunch of boy games, all these shoot-em-ups. Did you know that the Barbie games of its era outsold Doom at the time? Really? 1996 Barbie. Outsold Doom. Wow. That was the article that got me interested in it. And that was like, I was like, I was so bad about Barbie. She's got a Corvette. She drives in the game. I like Corvettes. I can do that. We're going to find out what all the hubbub is. That's basically.

what we're going to do. I like customizing my characters. I mean, that's what the Barbie games are all about. I'm assuming. I don't know. I'm going to find out today. Yeah, today I can start playing those. So Wednesday, we'll have enough time to have got a bunch of that behind us. Do check out that episode. I promise you, it will be weird.

All right? It will be weird. It's going to be weird. Two old men, when I told my when I told my significant other that was doing it, she just looked at me. Yeah. And she didn't say a word. And I was like, okay. That was the right. It was the right response from her.

She was correct to be doing that. I don't like Hitler. Kiss my butt. He really doesn't like Hitler. No, no, no. Yeah, let it be clear. Make sure that if you've learned one thing today, that Brian Denaway does not approve of Hitler.

No, never liked him. Never will. No. No, never liked that guy. You know, I could tell right from the beginning that guy was trouble. He was trouble from the start. All right, that's it for that. That's now time for some news.

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Good catch on that. I totally missed it. Well, I didn't catch it until after I had said it. Catch him release. or something. Hey, you guys, here's a story. Let's stay in the food market. Sure.

Fast food in particular. A bear has stolen chick-fil-a orders, and specifically from a floor to man's punch, punch, front porch, or punch forch. Yeah. Most of the time, you know, we worry these porch pirates are just, you know, teenagers or whatever.

But in this case, it was a bear. Hey, boo-boo, I got us some chick-fil-a. We're going to be eaten at that rate. He's not going to be able to stop us eating this one, boo-boo. You forgot the sauce, yogi. I don't remember how boo-boo-tied. I think it was pretty close. Yeah, he had a little dazily, yeah.

It has been a while. It's been a minute since I have seen any of those old cartoons. Anyway, a Florida man shared a video of the moment his dinner was ruined by a hungry black bear. There's a video. Oh, yeah. Stole the Chick-fil-A delivery order from his front door, Paul Newman. That's his name, Paul Newman. Okay, all right.

This was Newman's own lunch. basically. Exactly. Let's pull this up so people can see it here. Oh, look at this. Mine's getting box. I like the music, by the way. Oh, is there music to it?

Yeah. I've got to kill this. There we go. All right, Chad, I'll play it sand sound, but. Yeah, here, look at this bear. Oh, he's got a santa up there. Oh, so this isn't, I was thinking of this to be, well, home security. What's up with this home security?

Oh, it's because he's recording his home security. security camera with his phone. Oh, I thought Paul Greengrass was directing this home security video. I know, exactly. She's Louise. Yeah, he just picks it and walks out. Oh, yeah. Oh, geez. Oh, no, he

wrecked it. Did he? I don't know what he did. Can't tell now. He grabs it. Did he grab some? He's sniffing the Santa to make sure he's not real. What did he leave or is that just? He neither took food nor left food. Oh, no, he took the bag of food.

And then what's on the ground? What's left on the... Okay, he left a bag of salad, is what he left. Oh, well, Brian, that's your lunch right there. That's right there. I still get my bag of salad. Oh, that's too bad. Well, anyway, they did this.

Here's what he got. Paul Newman's home security camera got the whole thing. He made off with 30 nuggets. Wow. Yeah, large order of fries as well. He left a second bag untouched, so that's that other bag was. He didn't want the salad. That bear is eating good.

Newman says he didn't want the salad, though. Nothing to do with the salad. Weird, he says. Weird. Yeah. Well, I mean, I don't know. What do you do? Do you call DoorDash and say, Bear took my stuff?

Yeah, I think, well, I don't know. Yeah, well, they're going to say, it's tough. It's, you know, we don't have a bear clause. Nice. They cover you for, like, if your driver gets in an accident, or if you just didn't get it, or it came wrong, they'll credit you for all those things. So maybe they would. I'd probably make the attempt.

I don't know if I'd say, you know what I'd say, I'd say, just to ensure I'd get it, I'd say missing 30 nuggets and fries. And then they would say, oh, we can't have that. Yeah, there you go, exactly, yes. Yeah, just don't say a bear ticket. Or do they do the thing like UPS does where they take a picture of it after they leave it at your door, they like take a picture to prove that they did deliver it? I don't think so because we never get that.

maybe they do in some cases or maybe the drivers choose because you do you do dooredash every once in a while yeah and i don't remember ever seeing a picture does doordash some sometimes door dash does says the chat but i don't think i've ever seen them do it online okay we only use them we never use uber eats or uh grubhubhub or any of that nothing wrong with those i just we just don't use them we subscribe to the door dash thing where you you cut out a bunch of the fees yeah that certainly makes the difference on which one you're going to use yeah it's only 10 bucks a month and we share it with all the kids so it's kind of a no-brainer but oh don't tell them i share

well we don't share a password with everybody we don't we're not we're not like Netflix we also do that oh no I let's I've said too much uh all right two sponsors we're never going to get now thanks there was a there was a great old tweet that Netflix did years ago

that says yes I remember that love is sharing true love is sharing a password or right right boy did they uh did that that tweet not age well for them not at all I think it's still up though I don't think they deleted it

I think it's still a thing anyway here's the story the Pentagon in the news oh no the Pentagon they say they basically released the whole UFO investigation and have found no evidence

of alien activity nothing that Air Force video that the UFO sighting videos right that the pilots that plus just like a whole bunch of

retro stuff like like basically what the pentagon is saying is none of this ever proved out to none of it is okay yeah now here's the problem with this yeah they can say that and present all the evidence sure there are so many people where this isn't going to matter they don't give a shit i know people in my personal life who still think they saw a UFO here in town then i know the guy who made it and they still don't believe me i'm like no there's there's that guy you saw in the the burger restaurant last week who uh said yeah you know aliens cause that the cold snap or the blizzard Yeah, the blizzards and stuff, he was sure of it

And it probably still is sure of it I can't, there's no way to convince anybody of anything. I've learned this, hardcore. I had a guy yesterday Who I was talking about the new Star Trek And I said, I really liked it. And he goes, I did two stuff for that first episode. They decided to take one side of the political spectrum

and put that in the end of the thing. And I said, well, video clips of an attempted insurrection on the Capitol building yeah right is not is that's trekky as hell to do that that's that's that's what star trek does it takes current things and makes you think about them in a more broad context and does these like allegories this is what they do they've always done this so i didn't say this but i wanted to say you were gonna you would have been one of those people that were disgusted by kirk and you hurrah kissing back in the 60s and uh but that's star trek they've always done that it's what they

do so when they show that he goes that was a protest and i said I said, so I go, so you and I are on this, that we're going to have this conversation here. You're probably a nice guy. You probably, as it says in your bio, you got kids and you know, you seem like a nice dude. Yeah. We're going to have this conversation here. Do you really think this will go anywhere? Right.

Are you here? Do you think you're going to convince me of anything? And do you think I'm going to be able to convince you of anything? Yeah. I go, do you really think any of that's going to happen? So I just said, it isn't. So Merry Christmas. Best to you.

Later days. well done that's it was a nice uh it's a nice just walk away because what's the point it's just there's no point in it because like these alien people it doesn't matter this is just this adds to the conspiracy that the government now says there's no evidence of alien activity oh that is what they would say if they're what that's what'll happen exactly what they want you to believe the pentagon yeah so here's what they say uh they say the UFOs and study of them have not yielded any evidence to suggest aliens have visited Earth or crash landed here, says senior military leaders.

Pentagon's effort to investigate anomalous unidentified objects, whether they are in space, skies, or underwater has led to hundreds of new reports that are now being investigated. U.S. defense officials said on Friday, in June of last year, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reported that between 2004 and 2021, there were 144 encounters with UFOs, 80 of which were captured on multiple sensors. But he says, so far, quote, we have not seen anything, or, he's a general.

So far, we have not seen anything. And we're still very early on. I assume they'll talk like that. Uh-huh. That's right. Let's see. That would lead us to believe that any of these objects we have seen are of an alien origin, says Ronald

Moultrie, undersecretary of Defense for the Intelligence and Security. Let's see. uh it was as a director of the pentagon's newly formed uh formed all domain anomaly resolution office sean kerpatrick geez which is investigating the sightings did not rule out the possibility of extraterrestrial life and said he was taking scientific approach to the research um well yeah that's the idea we don't know what the thing is until we try to figure it out what it is then when we figure it out if it is an alien origin we just like oh some guy threw a thing up in the air and someone else caught it with a camera and now we know

then just that's the answer that's it that's it that's your evidence exactly move on go to another conspiracy and do other things all right time to take a break when we come back stephen schliker will be here we're going to do a little breezy episode with uh stephen yeah he's going to remind us the best comic books to read in 2022 all right love it yeah yeah too after that Amy will be joining us for a very brief moment where we're going to open a package she sent us yes that's right able to capture the excitement or or severe disappointment in our faces live. Yeah, if we say things like, oh, I love it.

Oh, I wanted one of these. Oh, this is great. Thanks, Amy. Got to go. I'm sure it'll all be great. Anyway, that's all coming up. Before we do, though, you should play a song, Brian. Yeah, all right.

Well, let's go to this one. This is by an artist named Teo. T-E-O. And there's little, the question marks around either side of his name like like it's a question in Spanish. Born in Atlanta, but raised in L.A., he's actually Colombian American, Matteo Arias, but records and performs under the name Teo,

has a brand new song. It's called In The Essence. This is cool and atmospheric and has a very cool vibe to it. It is just a single he's released. We're looking for more stuff from him, but a brand new single from Teo. Here is In The Essence. You've been waiting on the time I'll change myself

Maybe somewhere in the night I'll pay my dues It was never out of mind I'll take control There's a rebel in your eyes, there's a weapon that you pull out I don't ever want to ever feel your hold out When you get called out to me Move your body through the night Let it pour out Let it all lie

I've been moving on the side But it's all you deny In the essence Lost in the moon in the blessings Rainfall dripping through your necklace Hands in your hips of the nexus In the essence

Baby in the essence Warm with the moon in the blessings Only lay my hair with your chest is Got me feeling hard in the sex skits self-skins in the essence maybe in the essence slow down that gently sway i'm trying to get you to feel me deep in the essence there's a shadow on your mind trying to tempt you as you hold out and whatever you decide it'll have me and realize that it was somewhere in the night i fell for you I changed myself maybe somewhere in the night I pay my dues

it was never out of mine I'll take control Now tell me can you ride for me ride for me Hold me and ride on me feels like you're holding back for me Pulling me closer closer But would you settle down for me post for me Someone you could lay down I'm a take on your body That for me

Death for me until we fill away Feel away In the essence Lost in the moon In the presence Rainfall dripping through your necklace Hands in the hips Or the nexus

In the essence Baby in the essence Warm with the moon The blessings Want to lay my hair On your chest is Tell me feeling hard In the sex skins

In the essence Baby in the air Maybe put your image to the side We don't need permission for the borderline Let your intuition be a guide I can only give you what I can't deny And I can't deny Where we went tonight

Let's me know It was somewhere in the night I fell for you You've been waiting on the time I've changed myself Maybe somewhere in the night I paid my dues It was never out of mine I'd take control In the essence

If having a screwy family made a person crazy, the whole world would be one big loony then. My man witch! The morning stream. Does that mean he can't live in harmony with the rest of it? We've returned. Who was that again so I can write it down and remember? That was Teo with question marks. Question mark, Teo, question mark. A brand new single he's released called In The Essence. We're looking for more stuff.

It sounds like a Unicode error, doesn't it? It does, yeah. Having two question marks, like, oh, that didn't come out right. Hey, BioCal, something's wrong with the voting again. That's right. Like, not a number error or something. Very weird. Anyway, welcome back. We are Stephen Red,

Oh, good. We are go for Stephen. We are go for Stephen. That's right. Countdown is a go. Imminent. There he is. Major spoilers.

It's like, we're like NASA, but better. Everybody, check this out. Steven Schleiker. Stephen Schleiker. Merry post Christmas to Stephen Schleiker at Major Spoilers. Hi, Stephen. How are you? Hello, Scott.

Happy Boxing Day to you and to Brian. Did you get anything cool? What'd you get? Somebody sent me this delicious salt, smoked salt. Get out. I got some of that, too. And listen, and listen, my oldest son, I was like, so what do you guys want for your Christmas Day dinner?

And the oldest was like, I want steak. And I was like, okay, you don't have to be that hostile about it. But we had steak, just bring a little bit of that salt on it. It's good, right? It's very good. Yeah. So thank you. Thank you for that, Scott.

You're very welcome. We had a bunch of that as well with a ham this year. Yeah, we're cooking a, we're cooked in lamb tonight, so I'm going to try it on the lamb. I'm going to try it on the ham. That doesn't mean I'm going to try it while I'm running. No. You need to be on the lamb first before you're on the lamb. Exactly, yes.

Kim made Zupa Descana, and we're going to put some of that in there today. Heat that up. Mm, mm. Well, anyway, I'm glad you're here, Stephen, and it went well. Do you get any long boxes for Christmas? Any comic book long boxes? no no all right but i was on major spoilers not long ago you and um somebody rodrigo maybe we're talking about someplace that was letting long boxes go for like a buck or something what was

the deal it depends on where you go there's a lot of like stores that are closing out that uh you can find some long box uh options uh in the 25 cent bin or sometimes if the store's going out of business they'll sell you an entire long box really cheap oh kind of want to do that even though i don't mean I don't need more stuff. If someone is selling me a long box of comics for a buck, what's really in that long box? Yeah, but wouldn't it be great to find out? It would be a fun, you know, it could make a segment out of it.

She's like, all right, this long box I paid a buck for. Our first comic is that one where Wonder Woman turned into a clam or something, you know? Like the dumbest one possible. You know what? I would do it. I'd spend it all right. Yeah, for sure. An unfortunate issue where Lois Lane has turned into a black woman.

Oh, yeah. Remember that? That was a thing. Boy, didn't we all learn our lesson from that. We did. Yes, exactly. Stephen, let's get to your favorite comics of the year. I think this is good to discuss because, I don't know, I just feel like you are the guy. You know stuff and you read a lot of comics and you, I think you have a taste for what the people out there might like.

I've read a couple of these myself on your list, but let's start with five and move forward and then you know, tell me why they're so good. Sure. At number five is Batman Superman World's Finest by Mark Wade and Dan Moore. It's got about 10 issues out so far. And for a lot of people who are sitting there going, Batman and Superman shouldn't fight each other. I like them when they're friends. Then you're going to love Batman Superman World's Finest

because the concept is Mark Wade is bringing the crazy out-of-this-world stories from the Silver Age when World's Finest Comics was a big deal. And just presenting these very happy Superman and Batman are friends, but they're fighting like the Joker and Keymaster. and they're dealing with characters from other worlds and all these kinds of things. It is surprisingly good, and the art from Dan Moore is great, too. But it is totally bonkers. Like in the first episode, it's like the Doom Patrol shows, or first episode, first issue,

Doom Patrol shows up, and Superman is infected with red kryptonite, and they have to operate on his body, and it's really good. Okay. I'm writing that. Well, I have it written down. I'm going to check that out. I had no idea. On the surface of it, it just looks like another kind of a throwback. It kind of is because it is very much set in the Silver Age because, oh, probably around issue seven or eight, the Teen Titans show up. And these are pre-Nightwing and kid, pre-Robbinon and Kid Flash becoming the Flash and Nightwing. And so, you know, you've got that before speedy is confronted with doing smack and all that stuff, too.

So it's this very kind of, I don't want to say pure, because there's a lot of killing that goes on in this comic. But it is, it's very much what, because when the Batman versus Superman film came out, Mark Wade just railed against why do these people have to fight? Why can't Batman and Superman have great adventures like they used to? And so this is his answer to that, because I think a lot of people are. We're like, we'll find Mark Wade prove it. And so he's done that with Batman Superman's world's finest. Do you think we have to blame, um, uh, Zach Snyder, Zach Snyder. No, before that.

I would say, well, yeah, but dark, but dark, the dark night, the comic. Yes. Um, that's where I first saw them have a problem with each other. Right, right. And it feel like that's stuck and then everyone used it. Yeah. For better or worse. So I can say a lot of things about Frank Miller's the Dark Knight returns because to me, it was

the comic where I was like, oh, you can tell these kinds of stories in comics. And to me, it was a real mind flip when I first read that when it came out. And I was just like, holy cow, this is super interesting. Same. But at the same time, I think a lot of people read it the wrong way as in superheroes must be dark and gritty. And Superman is a Boy Scout that is just, you know, pro Reagan politics and everything. And I think that started everyone down a path to where we are at now. with grim dark superheroes.

I think you're right. Maybe they took it a little too far. And so it's nice to, once in a while, you see something break out of that, and it's fun to see them do that. But you're right. And in part of me, I don't necessarily like it.

It doesn't always have to be grim dark, but I don't mind. Like, I like a more serious tone to my comics, generally speaking. So I guess I'm not sad about that so much, because prior to Frank Miller's The Dark Night, it was like, I don't know, Watchman was around the same time, so it's not really fair.

And I know there were things you could, there were certainly comics out there, but the mainstream stuff was all, I'm here to save the day stuff. And a lot of that, and a lot of that came from, you know, the Tinsent plague. That came from, you know, the fact that we have to protect our children from these things that might have. Yeah. And so DC very much stuck with the Comic Code Authority while Marvel started to thumb its nose at it. So even before Frank Miller was over on the Dark Night Return.

he's doing Daredevil and all these other things over at Marvel and of course Stan Lee taking a very realistic approach to telling stories of characters. Tony Stark and his alcoholism and stuff like that. Which is funny because now... D.C. just stuck into that. That's funny because now we're at a place where D.C. is the one

working in darker tales and doing black label and all that and Marvel feels a little sanitized on the comic side. You know what I mean? And they're owned by Disney so. Yeah, which is a whole other thing. I mean, even like they're run with the Alien series

which I was really excited about it's just too it's too white gloved it's just too careful oh then you're gonna you're gonna love when the Predator comes out this week great I think Predator number one this week and then in 2023

planet of the apes oh no the apes a planet of them oh no well then okay fine but dirty apes but once in a while they'll do something like that Warhammer 40K comic that ran last year that was over the top awesome pure 40k bloody ridiculous epic amazing and I was like are we sure this is Marvel like

what happened over yeah but then Marvel also did that great dark tower adaptation but that was before the Disney acquisitions I don't know whatever Disney's ruining and everything or making it great I don't know which I'm moving on tell us about number four here this is what I didn't pick up but I've talked about I've talked about this series so much it is really a great series if you kind of like detective tales that are very noir, almost like Raymond Chandler, and you want to mix a little bit of the Rockford Files with MacBowlin Revenge books,

then the Reckless series from Ed Brue Baker and Sean Phillips is really going to hit the sweet spot for you. I want to say there were two books that came out this year in the Reckless series. I believe they're up to five now. They're all standalone books, but they do kind of build upon the previous one. So, you know, you can start at one, but if not, you can just pick up number four or five

and have a really interesting adventure about this guy who's ex-CIA who now solves other people's problems when he feels like it and it's usually revenge-fueled let's kill him kind of stuff. And it's set in the 70s, it looks like? It starts, it starts

post, I want to say Korean War, but I want to say it's probably more post-Vietnam and runs all the way through right now. The most recent one was in the 80s. So I'm sure we'll have at least another 80s and then a 90s and then probably the end of that reckless

run. I need to this sounds so is this an image deal or who's publishing this? Yeah this is image. This is image comics that that publishes this but anybody who knows Ed Brue Baker and Sean Phillips course you may know them Scott from GCPD or yeah the Gotham City series.

That was so good. Yeah so there's a lot of good stuff that these two work on and so it's always going to be anything that they work on is going to hit hit on my top fire. You know what I would love? James Gunn and his buddy over there changing things up at D.C., they should, they should push for a

for a Gotham City central story thing that isn't just Gotham, like the TV show. The Gotham City series on HBO Max has been shelved in favor of the Penguin series. Yeah. Although that's

what's his name though, right? From the movie. I really liked that. I thought that was a highlight. Yeah. Put him in weird makeup and have him be unrecognizable. I'm all in on that. Yeah. Again, who knows now that they're in charge if that blows out to the TV series or not?

My guess is it will. So maybe that'll happen. Maybe it won't. Yeah, that's a good point. I don't know what they consider the Batman, right? Is that a... I mean, anything that's outside of television, right? I mean, anything that's outside of movies.

When they're in charge of DC studios, does that mean they're in charge of the animation and the TV shows and the direct to HBO shows and the movies? My guess is yes, but, you know, sometimes we saw. when Marvel Studios was formed that there was the TV side and then there was the movie side until Fikey had enough and forced Marvel slash Disney's hand to make him in charge of

everything. So have they said, is Gunn or anybody mentioned whether or not the Pattinson Batman is the Batman in the current? No, they have. Not to my knowledge. Okay. I really like that movie. I kind of hope it stays, but whatever. I think it will probably for at least one more. It was really good. I like

Matt Reeves mainly. Let's move on to number three, tell us about devil's reign. In the, I've got to include a Marvel comics or people will complain category. I will. It's Devil's Rain from Chips Luzarski and Mateo Scalera. This is a, what if the kingpin becomes the mayor of New York and

outlaws vigilantes. And so Matt Murdoch is housed it again as Daredevil question mark, but to kind of keep his identity still somewhat secret, Electra steps in and becomes Daredevil for, I want to say, most of the year.

You've got the Thunderbolts have come back. This time, maybe they're the good guys, who knows. But it's really Daredevil and Elektra taking on the fist and Kingpin and bringing them all down. I want to say that that series ended, I want to say, in August of this year. So it's a complete arc that you can go check out. It covers kind of everybody, right? Yeah, yeah. The whole Marvel universe makes a...

Oh yeah, look, goes right or ballistic. It spills out. It spills out everywhere. Why is Grendel in that? Oh, this is a separate thing. They were right. I was looking at the wrong thing. I was like, Grendel is not in this.

Please tell me he's not. Yeah. I mean, there were a lot of people that freaked out when Elektra said, yes, I will be Daredevil. But I thought that it was a fun. I thought it was a fun twist on the character and how far Electra was willing to go to convince everyone that she was the Daredevil

and Matt Murdoch going, you can't do this kind of stuff. Yeah. I love it. How close it? This is a separate question, but aren't they close to at least production on the new Daredevil reboot thing? I believe so, and they're kind of already trying

to prepare people. It's not going to be Charlie Cox. Charlie Cox went out and said, hey, it's don't be disappointed if this is not the bloody Smackdown Fest that you saw on Netflix. It'll still have a lot of action in it.

But it's still Charlie Cox, though, right? he's still there yeah yeah yeah he's still there and uh they've said that that for the foreseeable future charlie cox is daredevil and we saw him appear as the the the booty hookup for a she hulk sorry spoiler alert in the she hulk series yeah the booty hookup i like hearing steven say the booty call yeah that's fun hearing you found some very street when you say that i like it yes i am i i'm down with the street uh as the kids yeah they are fellow kids all right tell us about Okay, number two, you spoke about quite a few times. No, I bought it and it's on my damn iPad and I just need to read it.

So tell us about Supergirl. So imagine true grit, a Western that I believe Scott likes. I love it. Now, imagine that it's Supergirl playing the role of Rooster Cogburn, right? Isn't that who he is? Is Rooster Cogberg? Whoever is the John Wayne character is. Yeah, the Jeff Richard John Wayne character, Rooster Cogburn.

Yep. Yes. Imagine her in a drunken-fueled, uh, Revenge Fest for another little girl Who has had her Family slaughtered and the little girl wants revenge And Supergirl is like, yeah, why not? I'm bitter about everything right now.

Let's go out and take down these bad guys. Wow. Is it on Earth? Where are we? No, no. She's in space because that starts off in space because on Earth she can't get drunk because of her superpowers prevent her from that. Does she have a drinking problem? I didn't know this was a thing for a Supergirl. I don't know if she has a drinking problem

But, you know, sometimes people like to get a little lit. And I'm sure if you want to get lit and you can't do it on your planet, you're going to go someplace where you can get a little drunk. And so, yeah, this is that. That's fascinating. So what is it about? Everybody doesn't know your name. What is it about other than the kind of the core structure you've mentioned?

What is it that really drew you in so hard? Because it doesn't seem like I wouldn't see the name Supergirl and go, oh, I got to read that. Exactly. Yeah, right. So first of all, it's Tom King who is already very controversial among many. comics fans in how he takes stuff but this concept of he doesn't come out and say hey this is true grit until after like the first or second issue when people are like this sounds an awful lot of like true grit and he's like yeah that's kind of what it is so there's tom king who's telling the story but then for me bilquisse eveli is a fantastic artist out of uh she's from south america i want to say Brazil but her art is just phenomenal page after page after page it has a very art nouveau kind of styling to it and she's highly detailed with everything she does um Um, so yeah, uh, this is, this is, it's already won several awards. So, uh, definitely go check out Supergirl woman of tomorrow.

All right. I got to finally read it. I bought a, on your recommendation, I picked it up and then just didn't read it. I think you're going to just sit, as soon as you read it, Scott, you're going to be like, holy crap. Uh, why did I sit on this book for so long? Well, I love Tom. Like, whenever you finally get to see, uh, parasite. Tom King is not controversial for me.

Everything he makes, I, I have enjoyed. Um, he is kind of a what if guy. In some ways, right? Like a lot of his stuff is like, hey, what if this was a thing or whatever? But I think he pulls it off pretty well, and he quickly became one of my favorite writers in the biz. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right, we saved number one for last. It turns out it's an indie. It's one I read as well. So I'm really glad to see it on this list. Tell us about the good Asian. The good Asian from Porn Sack, Pishose, I believe is how you pronounce his last name, and Alexander Tafingi. This is a...

I'm sorry, Porn Shack. Is this name? Porn Sack is his real name. That's even worse. Still bad. Yeah. No, that's his real name. He's part Thai, part foolish, I want to say, is his makeup.

He's really cool guy if you ever listen to him in interviews, really nice. And so what he's doing here is he's taking the story of the world's, not first Asian detective, but in the United States, especially during the Chinese or the Asian Immigration Exclusion Act, Asians were not allowed to be in roles higher than a certain level, except in Hawaii, which at the time of the story Hawaii had not become a state yet and so in Hawaii there are a lot of Asians who are detectives and he is called up to San Francisco

to deal with a missing person's case which turns into a murder case which turns into maybe his murder case and he is the first Asian detective in America it's based on a real life person the story is not based on a real person but the character that it's based on is based on a real person and there is a turn about the halfway point

in the piece where you're like did they just kill the title character? And it keeps you going for the rest of the issue. It is such a fast burn issue or a series. It is so worth picking up. Also won a lot of awards this year. So I highly recommend the good Asian from ImageComps. Including the Eisner, right?

I think. Yes. Uh-huh. Yeah, the big one. Yeah, it's a very, very, very, I only read the first volume. It's very, yeah, I forget how many issues. First volume. First volume.

So far, but it is very, very, very. Fantastic. And not kind of what you expect. If you like noir at all, you'll, you'll, you'll sink in and love this. It's so good. This is not capes and cowls at all. There's none of that. No, this is very much, if I wanted to say what it's most like, I would say it skims very close to the surface of Chinatown. Yeah, yeah. And the way the relationships are and the whodunnits and the overall story elements are very much Chinatown without the, without the, uh, without the, the, you know, the water rights story. That's not what it's about. But the characters you'll find very familiar.

If you've read any Chandler, if you've watched the big sleep or you've read the big sleep, there's elements of that in here as well. It's also got this great sense of realism that's lented to it by the literal use of some historic reference and stuff. Like they're not just winging this. It feels like, hey, there's some, there's some prejudice. is during a certain time that we're kind of unique. And, you know, this particular, I don't want to give anything away, this particular detective working within that system just gives you a lot of, like,

perspective on the era that they're covering. And I don't know if the, I don't know if the collected trade includes all the backmatter issues. I love it when certain books have in-depth of backmatter. So like in other of Ed Brubaker's series, in his back matter, he goes into, like, here's the history of Hollywood's blacklist. era and he tells all these stories in the in the in the what we would consider the letters section i know in the single issue run of the good asian the letters section had like here's who this is based on here's

what the chinese american exclusion act was all about um and just going into really deep detail so if if your trade paperback includes that definitely you want to read that to bring some enhancement to the series um otherwise go and track down the single issues that will have that in there yeah back matter is my favorite Marvel hero that they got rid of in the 70s. Yeah, I think I got him as a mystery card on Snap the other. Yeah, I was going to say, kind of hard to find. The varied on that one is great. Now, that should be one or the pixelated?

Don't do the pixels. Don't do the pixels. It's really pixel one I like is Back to Matter. I'm the only guy that likes pixels, I think. Everyone hates those freaking pixel cards. I think if I had all pixels, I'd be happy just because I'd have them all. But I don't know if I'd use them a lot. I don't know.

I wish you could. I wish people could trade. That'd be cool. Is that coming up in the new? the new version. I know we've got head-to-head. Like, I'll be able to finally play Brian in a game. Yeah, that's right. Not to my knowledge variant training, but kind of that would be

great if you could. That would be cool. There's apparently a big uptick. Someone, I forgot where I read this. Stephen, I'll find the Lincoln sent it because it could be news for one of your shows or something that there's an uptick in comic buying that they are attributing, a first-time comic buyers. They're attributing to

the popularity of Snap. I even heard from a guy who said, here this is great i should share this he won't mind it's uh okay god backed and found every issue of the infinite that i could it's uh this guy says all right let me just he sent me a p m it said hey scott hope you're doing great wanted to ask you for some advice i'm getting myself into comics in my 30s for the very first time in my life wow damn you marvel snap why are you so good so nice even a little empirical evidence there um anyway i recommended the since he's all in on the Marvel stuff and X-Men, I recommended the Marvel

Unlimited app because they give you so much baggage and all that. Yeah, that would be a good one. If you're specifically looking for stuff, I don't know, they are very, in my opinion, Snap, they are very good about spreading out all the different properties and characters. So it's not like everything is

heavily influenced on one character group like the X-Men versus the Spider characters and that kind of thing. But I think maybe some of the recent X-Men stuff is very interesting to look at over the last like three years of X-Men stuff where they're dealing with traveling to Mars and the portals that they're trying to create their own

their own nation or their own world of mutants and stuff. I think that that series is very, very interesting to check out. So if people are kind of interested in the X-Men and want to see where it goes, it is very deep and you do have to have a little bit more X-Men knowledge than I have, but it's still, I think, very good in seeing Magneto and Professor X and a lot of the other X-Men, even the villains coming together to create their own nation, their own world, and then kind of seeing

it all fall apart. Yeah, super interesting. Also, me, Dunaway, Randy, and Brian are starting porn sac soon. We're going to cover the bottom of the barrel of the porn porn movies. Yeah, we'll

see the worst. I don't you could probably get Pornhub to sponsor you. I bet we could. They jump all over that, for sure. Yeah, that poor guy in his name. Uh, anyway, that's going to do it. Stephen, what a great roundup. I think everybody should check these out. Again, we've got Batman, Superman, World's Finest, the Reckless series, Devil's Reign, Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow, and the good Asian are the top five of one Steven Schleiker. I think you should take that seriously and go check those books out. I think everybody will really enjoy them. Stephen, I just want you to have a fantastic new year. We won't see you until the next year, I guess, right? That's right. And what I would like for both of you is to stay high. Oh, you know what? 2023, get ready. Because I'm not. I'm drinking all the time.

See ya. That sounded like I was going to drink, drink. I got not one but two, different corksicle Spider-Man drink tumblers, one for hot, one for cold. Although, according to their websites, both of them work for both hot and cold. But for me, one of them is perfect for hot. The other one's going to be perfect for the car. So cold drink holder. Oh, that's perfect.

It goes on their way, I assume. They're already here. Oh, they're there. Tanner and one from my dad. I don't have them next. him here I'd show them on screen but uh any Christmas miracle news about your car are we still in the limbo stage I do have some Christmas miracle news they actually called while we were at the vet with with Daisy oh I'm so sorry about Daisy by the way yeah we didn't even bring it up

I know I know well no it's all right it wasn't uh didn't want to I know but still go too far into it but uh yeah they called while we were there it's like well crap I have to take this so um Um, the parts are in. The parts finally arrived on, what are the day that was? Thursday. Yeah. Uh, there's one car in front of me, apparently that's been waiting longer than the seven weeks that I've been waiting for, for them to do something. Uh, so once they get in there, things should take about a day and a half, two days to install and replace.

So, uh, so in theory, you might have this before the first of the year or we'll be right after? Before the first of the year. Yeah. In theory, that's great. time this week exactly that's great all right that's better than nothing that's still very long time yeah it's a long time and it's very expensive you know it's still a big hit to the uh the coffers but uh but at least at least that's one last thing the ibit treasury that's right exactly yes the the safe uh full of money that i go diving in like scrooge mcduck where are my stupid nephews That's not how he talks. It did happen.

It was interesting how the parts arrived the day after, two days after I tweeted something to Kia Corporate about it. Oh, yeah, that is interesting. I mean, I don't want to read into it, but hmm. No, no, exactly. All right. We're bringing in Red Fraggle 3. You know who is Amy.

She's not going to tell us about a book. Instead, we're just going to book it to her house and pick up some cool gifts that she offered. And it's, you know, day after Christmas, but who cares? We don't care. I don't really have a theme for you. So I'm just play, let's see. Let's do, because, you know, your normal theme is fine.

But let's do, let's see. What's this? No, that's weird and spacey. Let's not do that. Let's do something cool. It's like Christmas, Spacey. It has to, what's this? There's a cat.

There we go. Their cats are on the loose. It's Amy, who's joining us all the way from, Thundercats are oh yeah right did you did you like the Thundercats when you were young you know I didn't I I didn't watch the Thundercats because it wasn't on at the right time for me I watched a lot I watched He-Man I watched Shira I watched a lot of I watched a lot of the Nickelodeon stuff so like I came home you know this was like the early days of Nickelodeon where you know you came home from school and they were playing like Dennis the Menace and the Donner

Reed show and like all those old black and white 50s things. Big Van Dyke, stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah, I watched a lot of that. I used to love that too. But we had, so the way it worked for Brian and I guess would have been, they would just show, I felt random. It'd be like, here's a Saturday. The cartoons are over. It's like noon. So here's I Love Lucy for two hours. Right. Exactly. Oh, no. No, no. The way I knew that the Saturday morning cartoons were over was because Soul Train came on.

Oh, yes. Yes, that's right. Soul Train did. Yeah. It made me hate Soul Train. Yeah, it made me hate anything. If I saw live anything, wrestling, bandstand, whatever. It wasn't animated or sit at Marty Croft. Yeah, it was kind of sad. You were just like, oh, my Saturday's over. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I used to always like, and like the end of the Muppet show, you know, I used to lament whenever, whenever you'd see the guest star out on the stage, you know, with Hermit, you'd be like, oh, it's over. They're wrapping it up. S&L now when it's like, oh, no, the post-weekend update Drekfest is over because now we've got the guest star up on stage with everybody. Yep, and they're starting to play that slow version of the S&L theme. And you're like, damn it, they're hugging.

We're done. Well, anyway, we're not done with you. We're having you on technically twice this week, I think. Yeah, because we'll do a book on Thursday. But today, we're just going to do this fun thing. So you sent us some gifts, and mine arrived very late, because my local PO box was inundated with packages this year, and they just took forever to get to it.

But I did finally get it in time for Christmas, but we didn't want to open it until you were on the show. Now, Brian and I noticed something. His package is in a box. Mine is in a bag. Yeah. That means they're different. Is that what you're saying?

They're different. They are, in fact, different. And I will explain why, but I don't want to explain why until after you guys are. So we open it. Okay. All right. Here we go. Do it.

And there's also, there's a card in there because I wasn't sure if we were going to be able to do it on the air so you guys can read the card if you wish. Mine smells like beef jerky. Just kidding. It doesn't smell like anything. You know what? I'll read the card before I look at the thing.

How about that? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, look at this. Should I, wait. Can I listen? I don't like this voice. Hold on. Just kidding.

Not really. A dramatic voice. Two Scott from Amy. Merry Christmas. I'm okay. to read this, right? I don't want to... Yes. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Go ahead. I figured since you talk often about not being able to find hats that fit your big head,

your word's not mine, you're right, that I would make you a couple. Oh, my gosh. If they don't fit, let me know, and I will try again. All right. Oh, look at these. Mine. Mine actually says the same thing, but the word big head is scratched off and not weird enough. Oh, not weird enough, yeah. Brian's head is unique. I wouldn't say it's weird. I'd say it's unique. Look at these. I love it.

These are handmade. So you made these. Wow. I made those, yes. And if you look at the top, they're like spiraled. They're not just striped. They're like spirally. Oh, no kidding.

Scott, your black one is not. It's just striped. I'm mesmerized. Oh, Carter says if they don't fit, she's going to steal them. It even fits over the top of my earphones. Oh, nice. Which is great because I can actually wear this the rest of the show. This is so much warmer than my, the Guinness hat that I got in.

Ireland that I've been wearing a lot this season. So this is going to be good for when it starts getting cold next in January. These are amazing. I absolutely love these. But wait, why was Brian's in a box and mine was in a bag? Well, Brian has more. And also, Scott, I just sent you a picture. And that explains why the card, why the card? Because I was seriously worried that these things were going to be so gigantic on you because I tried them on Chuck first. And you can see the Like, Chuck has a little tiny head, and so... Let's see, I'm looking here. Oh, my Lord.

Okay, Chad, you see how nice, see that fits my big dumb head? Now look at this picture of Chuck. And you can see why she had concerns. Look at that. That's insane. Oh, did you put that in our... It's in our group, Chad. Holy cow.

That's the same hat? Same hat that's on my head right now. See, you don't know. So that's why I was worried that they were going to be too big, but I remember you measured your head on the... air. And so I went by that measurement. And I was like, okay, this is how big Scott says his head is. It's absolutely true. Most of these kind of hats like this, I have to stretch really hard to get to fit at all. And this one just fits. Like, it's cozy and perfect. But, but this is how, this is a

great explainer because I try to explain to people. Yes, my head's huge. They see me. They don't really see it. Like proportionally, I look fine. But the minute I put a hat, I'm like, what the freak is wrong with your head? And that's, that's proof of it. I mean, look at poor Chuck buried in that Yeah, Villa Coder, you've got exactly right. Like, as soon as I put that head over Scott, I'm sorry, as soon as I put that hat over Chuck's head, he goes, hey, bamble. Yeah, nice. Turns out the best thing Bill Cosby left with his crappy legacy was that nicely done. So, yeah.

All right. So Brian has more. Okay, so please, please tell me it's not broken. That's the big. It's not broken. No, it is in pristine shape. And this thing is gorgeous. So it is a ceramic bowl with music notes, and I believe that is the Coverville Colors logo in the middle there.

Oh, it looks like a record. Like a little record, exactly, the soundography, the soundography looking deal. And I'm guessing, are these notes the cover me theme? They are, yeah. Yeah, I was like, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de. Yeah, that's so awesome. Oh, my God, I love this. That's so cool. What do you got to put in there, Brian?

Oh, great. No, this is like, we are going to put your red hot balls in there? What are those called? My atomic fireballs. Oh, that's actually a really good idea. Yeah, see? Yeah, and I actually recommend that. I mean, they are, so that, that bowl, it is food safe, but.

Yeah, but not dishwasher safe, which. Right. And so I would just, if I were you, I would just keep, like, you know, pre-wrapped stuff in it or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Dry items. This will not be. a honey bunches of

O's eating bowl. Did you make so you made the bowl? I made that I threw the bowl and everything and like you know made it myself did Chuck stand behind you and and then like start doing the bowl with you like

Swayze and Demi Moore Swayze and Debbie. No he's way he's actually way better at like wheel throwing than I am. So So here is the explanation, Scott, for why you guys got different things and different packages. The, like, pottery is weird in that once, especially if you go to like a community pottery studio, which I do, because I don't have a wheel and a kiln. Don't have your own wheel.

What? Not yet, but it's on like our big wish list now because we both love it so much. But when you have to, you know, go and just put your stuff on a shelf and wait for the studio assistant. to put it into the kiln for you. You don't really have any control over the timing of when it all comes out. So Scott, yours has come there and there are two different firing sessions that it has to go through. And so one's called Bisk, it's like a lower temperature. It just sort of gets all the moisture out of everything.

And then the second one is when you glaze it and it really just solidifies everything. But like you have to do the first one first. So, Scott, I have made you one as well. Doesn't look like Bryans. It looks different. But it's sitting on my shelf waiting to be glazed and put in. Refire. Put in the fired.

Yeah. So you'll get it sometime. Oh, my gosh. You know, after the pottery opens back up. You're the Christmas giver that just keeps on giving is what you are. I know. Yeah, exactly. I feel like I was just so excited.

I'm like, I love, I've said this before. I love making stuff for people because I don't have room. I love making stuff. and I don't have room to keep all the stuff I make. And so, like, I like to make stuff and give it to people. So, Brian, I'm so excited that that made it there. It made it here. And it is gorgeous.

I love this thing. Yeah, this is, uh, put your weed in it. Put your weed in. I know, exactly. I'm trying to think of, like, you know, what, uh, the, the atomic fireballs is probably the frontrunner because then it'll go right here where I see it every day and use it every day. Yeah, that's perfect. My wife is going to lose it about.

these hats. She's going to love that's better than the Cleveland Plain dealer, uh, customer service attitude glass that my, my atomic fireballs are currently. Yeah, they deserve better, truly. Yeah. Yeah. Get them out of that crap. For sure. Uh, well done. That's awesome. Thank you for all of that. It's very generous of you. And, uh, my pleasure. I'm so glad you guys like them. I was excited. I was like, yay. I get like second Christmas, you know, with a, you know, opening. So your day's less depressing, a little less, you know, like a lot of us are just like, uh, Christmas is over, bhaer. Oh, yeah.

And I woke up this morning to the big mess that everybody else did. My dog got me up at 5.30. Yeah. I was like, our dogs too, because we had to kennel them a bunch while people were here yesterday. So they were super antsy to get up this morning and they were a pain. We didn't really get to sleep in at all. Uh, you know, I had to show anyway. But it was like, okay, I'm up at six.

It's fine. Let's do whatever we have to do. Here's the thing, though. I think the boy might be. starting to know who Santa is. Oh, good. Cool. Well, in that it's me. Because for the first four years...

Oh, I see. Like, okay, knowing, figuring out that you're... Yes. Because his first three Christmases, he's almost four, have been me. And the first two scared the crap out of him. But he was still into Santa and what he brought, right? But it scared him that I was even there.

This one, he just kept side-eyeing me, like, he knows something's up how come i never see santa and grandpa in the same place exactly so i think the gig the gig or jig might be up and i'm going to have to come up with something better next year and get like an actual like fat guy not a guy with a fake you know i put a big old pillow in and look right get somebody else just for one year to uh to show up a santa just to throw him off the scent yeah he'll come in and then i'll walk in behind him and going oh look and then damn he'll be like oh my previous assumptions have been torn asunder. Everything that I thought I do is wrong.

What? I thought was Santa. Oh, my God. Yeah. Can't wait. It's the only lie you're encouraged to tell these kids and I'm excited. Well, all right then. Hey, Amy, it's a great to talk to you.

We'll see you again on Thursday for a book. And thank you again. That was so nice. Thank you so much, Amy. Oh, it's my pleasure. So glad you like them. You're the best. We'll see you later.

Bye now. Oh, it won't let me remove her. I don't know why. Oh, I'm in the wrong group. You cannot remove me. I'm removing you now. I was in that other group. That shot of Chuck is just hilarious.

I know, it's totally hilarious. He's, you know, I never once looked at Chuck and said, boy, he's got a big head. He's got a normal. No, no, it never said that, yeah. Normal head. I love these. Even, you know, it will fit a little large, obviously because it's fitting over these headphones. But I love that.

Like a hat that's actually too big for me by a little bit is amazing. Nothing wrong with that. I may never take it off again. Brian, we're going to read a quick email and then get out of here. Yes, sir. All right. Sounds good. Bob Decker said he is Scooby Dad in the Tadpool when he's here.

Deer Stone and Boulder in episode 2391 during your discussion with Bobby Franks, you mentioned a mnemonic for stalactites and stalagmites. I was taught by a Spalunker, so an actual cave dweller person, explorer. That if you think ants in the pan, excuse me, you think ants in the pan, excuse me, you think ants in the pan. when the mites go up the tights go down you get it right so exactly right you're like oh i've got ants in the pants they're uh when the mites go up my pants the tights go down yeah the tights go down see chat that's pretty good that's great that's very good write that one down thank you bob for uh the the correction from one two bobs in a in a whole conversation there bobby franks and bobby ducker you guys are great all right that is it for us today

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Brian, I think that's it. Do you have anything going on today, releasing, happening? Probably a soundography today. The first half of the cover of the countdown went up over the weekend because I had to do a little pushing around of things because of conflicts and Daisy and back issues and stuff like that. So Countdown Part 1 went up on Saturday, and Countdown Part 2 will go up this week. We'll talk about that more on Thursday, I believe. Thursday, fantastic.

That sounds good to me. We're going to leave you now, folks. Sorry about that, but we're going to leave you a song. And then we're not sorry. Sorry, not sorry. Brian do a song. Yeah, Leslie Rodin, Leslie Logan's mom, Leslie Victorine wrote in and said, Hi, guys, I'm requesting this song for Chris on our 15th wedding anniversary,

which was a couple weeks ago back on December 15th. Chris, it's been one hell of a year, but I can't think of anyone else I'd rather do life with. People suck. You are the only exception. Love you. Happy anniversary. Aw. They're great. Fifteen years is no small feat. Well done. It is exactly. So her request is a song called The Only Exception, covered by Caitlin Tarver. Actually, Leslie was in the chat room for the recording of the Coverville Countdown. And one of the singers, she remarked, sounded a lot like Caitlin Tarver. So she was, I was excited to actually get a reason to go and check out more of Caitlin's music. This is a cover of

the song by Paramore, the only exception covered as a single this year by Caitlin. Here is Caitlin Tarver and the only exception. Nice. One tiny side note, Leslie sent a van like a dinosaur play pack. Oh, nice. He loves that thing. Oh, that's cool. We thought he was almost done with dinosaurs. Nope. Nope. He is way into it. Like pulls that out. We keep it here because, you know, when he does nana days, we call him, he hangs out with Kim all day calling it. Nanda days. Love it. He comes over and he just, that's the first thing he rips out, lays on the floor and plays with. So thank you for that. Very cool. So kind of her. Anyway, that is it. Thank you very much. Here's that song. We'll see you tomorrow.

younger i saw my daddy cried and curse at the wind he broke his own heart and i watched as he tried to reassemble it and my mama swore she would never let her self-forgot And that was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love if it does not exist But darling, you are the only exception You are the only exception You are the only exception You are the only exception

You are the only exception Maybe somewhere I know Deep in my soul That love never lasts And we've got to find other ways To make it alone or keep a straight face And I've always left like this

Keeping a comfortable Distance And up until now I had sworn to myself That I'm content With loneliness Because none of it was ever worth the risk, but you are the only exception.

You are the only exception. I got a tight grip on reality, but I can let go of what's in front of me here. I know you leave it in the morning when you wake up, leave me with some kind of You're not a dream. Oh, oh. You are the only exception. You are the only exception. You are the only exception.

are the only exception And you are the only exception, You are the only exception. The only exception. And I'm on my way way to believe in. Yeah, I'm on my way to believe in. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network.

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