The Morning Stream - TMS 2403: Professional Eye Roller

Episode Date: January 9, 2023

Spayed and Neutered, the Bob Barker Secret. Sucked into Hooker Busienss. don't call me Shirley, Sackbut! That guy with the needle lied. The Most Ton of People. Rectum, Damn Near Killed Him! Why Can't Mr. Freeze Be Swol? Night Courts and Afros. Apply for Your Circle Today! Talky Parts Karaoke. Imposter Anti-pasti. Good Morning, Las Vegas, in the Morning This Morning Good Morning. Conspiring to do NOTHING! The Abe Vigoda List. Same Body, Different Head 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.

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The morning stream. We're not toys. We're action figures. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It is the Monday morning TMS for January 9th, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Nibit. Oh, bloop. What's what we're going to do in the new year? Everything's going to be more halting and quick. That's how we're going to do it. Yeah, that's right. It's our first Monday show of the year,

Scott. Oh, shit. Is it really? Yeah, it is. Oh, I guess we didn't do Monday last week. We didn't do Monday last week. Just, you know, a dumb fun thing to point out right there. Hey, it's what I did earlier with, so I was just looking up names for no reason. I was just interested in who's still alive but shouldn't be. Sounds weird. But I noticed. Who's still alive but shouldn't be?

Tell me you've got a list like Arias Stark. Well, I figured about, so I was looking at about 100 years because, you know, 2023, 1923. There's your 100 years. Okay, yeah, right. And Bob Barker and Henry Kisser. were both born in 23. Oh, really? So Bob Barker turns 100 this year.

They both do, yeah. They both turn 100. I don't know how those two are doing it. I keep thinking he's dead, but he's not dead. He's living. And then it got me to think, well, what are some other people that we think of as ancient or long ago or whatever that are, that would have either been younger or the same age? And I found out that Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank, these people, you feel like we only ever saw in black and white, they're from a different era sort of thing. they were born they were younger than these two chuckleheads they were born no way really they

were born in 29 oh that's that is amazing like if you would have said hey who who's older who would have been older and frank or bob barker i would have said well and frank for sure yeah 100 your king is another one geez it's a safe bet right you just feel like you would not there would be no way that that would be the case but these these 100 year old dudes uh are are there i don't think Keith Richards isn't that old guys. I think he's like in his 80s, I think. He's still like 20 years later. He's always the person people go to because he looks like he's.

Yeah. And he's seen some stuff, you know. A thousand years old. 43. So yeah, he's actually a lot younger than that. Yeah. Makes him. Somebody brought up.

Because they've got that new night court show that's going to be coming back. Like it's, uh, oh, there's a night court show. What? I didn't know this. There's a new night court. And it's, Stars the woman who played Wallowitz's wife. Oh my, why am I?

I mean, you know, I stopped watching Big Bang Theory after like the second or third season when I saw all the jokes. Sure. You'd seen all there was to see. When I saw them use the same jokes the first time around. Yeah, they were all out of my fans. Yeah, Melissa, I can't remember. Oh, the little blonde. The blonde woman, yeah.

Here she is. Yes. Rotch. Rouch. Rouch. She was, oh, there was another show. that we watched holy cow

it was about somebody taking down a like a Jim and Tammy Baker style

empire and it was on HBO oh man never going to remember that anyway so somebody brought up

the fact that we need a new night court because John La Roquette is like the only one

still living from the from the old night court right And he's in this. And he's in this. Yeah.

Isn't the lady? I think that there's a, oh, no, Richard Moll's not confirmed. He's still alive, but he's not confirmed, whether he's coming back or not. That's right. Yeah. To play Bull Shannon. No, Richard Moll passed away. Oh, no, he's still alive.

Yeah, he's still living. I don't know why they don't have, maybe he's, I mean, he's like nine foot tall. And when you're that old and that tall, you usually can't move. He's got a full afro now, by the way, Richard Moll. Really? Amazing. No. That would be amazing.

That'd be great That would be so good Yeah, Roz Razz is still alive too And Raws is in it, right? I don't know if she is, is she? Is she the little angry black lady? Yeah, she, well, if that's her.

Yeah, Marsha Warfield. I don't know if that's her, let's see. Here, I'll send this picture. These people look familiar to you because this is the cast. I don't know who any of these people are except for the one we talked about. Oh, this is the new cast.

This is the new cast. So here you go. John Larichette and You haven't sent it to me. You must have sent it to somebody else. No, I'm still sending. Okay. There it is.

Sometimes it takes a second. Oh, no. Is that not her? Someone we're supposed to know her. The short little black lady over there? She's not from the first show? I don't think so. She looks younger than I would assume Roz would be.

That's a good point. It's not her. Says chat. Yeah. Well, Larichette looking pretty cool. But Lerichette looked. great i like the i like the the white you know the the david letterman beard on uh lara cat yeah i'm down i'm down for this this sounds like fun yeah why not sure sure i mean it may if it disappoints fine

but my guess is it you know it'd be fine is it a limited thing are they looking for long-term run oh no idea no idea um now i'm curious oh the reason i brought this up is because um i was when somebody said ross was still alive when they were talking about this i was thinking about the original old old bailiff that worked alongside bull selma oh oh season one season two business season one season two right yeah i was like i was like that woman's still alive holy cow i don't know what she's doing but that's what i want to do yeah that's a bob barker living i don't know what bob barker's doing to be i don't either you know he got spayed and neutered so i guess uh is that all it takes yeah it just Spade and neutered, and he had both done, by the way.

Oh, maybe off hours. He was, well, no, didn't he show the people how to spin that big wheel? He would show them, right? He would grab it and pull. You know, the big. You know, I know the wheel you're talking about. I don't think I ever remember him having to show them. I think he would just, he would just move it to show them, all right, you get a dollar and you get

a thousand dollars, and then you get a bonus spin, and then you move it out. And then, like, you showed the 15 and the five being like, if you get a dollar, you get a dollar, on one of these, you get an additional $5,000. And before the show ends, there are too many damn dogs and cats in the world, so freaking get them neutered in spayed. They're everywhere. There's two of them doing it behind the Plinkgo board. Come on, let's get these animals spayed neutered.

I think I might be thinking, did, true blood, did, when Melissa Rouch was on True Blood, was she? was she like a no she wasn't a um like a um like a Tammy Faye Baker kind of thing I just can't remember

so if Marsha Warfield was born in oh it doesn't say 54 she'd probably still around doing fine and the other thing I was trying to think of like all right without looking at the plot of the new night court

do you think think that the new character is the is any relation to judge harry stone like do you think they're doing a thing where now they're carrying on harry stone with a new with a new character it's like her granddaughter or his granddaughter or something like that bio cow says yes i mean i don't know if it's confirmed but that'll annoy me a little is it his daughter yeah it's his daughter get ready to be annoyed she's judge abbey stone the daughter of harry stone okay i mean it's a comedy i can guess i can let that go more for comedies sure it's a little less i'm a little less worried about continuity um that's fine he got guy died way too early anyway so oh he really did his his cheers stuff was

some of the best like him conning everybody and then them saying ah get out of here harry ah we got him out of here before he conned anybody and then they look and all their pants are gone or something. Yeah, he was great. I always felt like Nightcourt was an unofficial spin-off for him, because he obviously things took off for him on Cheers. That would be a hilarious character. Like, all right,

he's the guy who fleeces everybody out of their money on Cheers. And he's a judge. And he's a judge. Yeah. Been a lawyer for years. Finally got moved up to Judge. That would have made perfect sense. But of all the, you know... I bought his book somewhere. I bought his book, the how to how to

win friends and steal their money or something i can't remember it was like a because he was an actual magician right he did like real man yeah yeah he was a street magician and like close up close up magician but uh he also was like all those things he did on chairs was absolutely what he did in in real life games you can't lose thank you max trollbot yeah it was stuff like walk into a bar and and put a dollar under a shot glass and and tell uh you know bet somebody that you can't take that dollar without touching the glass and then i need to know more of those tricks i don't know any of that stuff like well you have to go to a bar to use them though scott that's the problem is that the

rule use them on like van's going to come over you're going to take his dollar can i go to like a i don't know next time i'm on fremont can i plop down one of those little circles you know and uh you got if you want one of those circles scott you better you better fill out your application right now because jana in our in our chat room wants to uh do a ukulelea performance of every Weird Al Yankovic song that she knows and do it in one of those circles and she's finding out it's a very difficult

thing to uh just to reserve the thing I'm guessing yeah because I don't does the state does the city or the whatever charge for that they probably charge for it right uh no you just have to I think it's I don't think you have to pay I think you just have to oh you just have to get application

and talk about what you're going to be doing so they can make sure all right well we've already got a nun with her boobs hanging out we don't need second one of those. Yeah. Didn't own a whole monastery full of topless nuns. Jeez Louise.

Well, that's interesting. I didn't realize there was a process to that. Obviously, there would be because not everyone can get one. But I always assumed to cost money. And I always wondered,

how are these guys, do they make enough? Because it's all just people chucking dimes into a can. They must. I'll bet you they do. They must. Hey, anyone out there listeners

or know anybody in that business walking around and like, Yeah, a Fremont Street. Like, I'd like to know the dude who does, like, um, uh, airbrush paintings in one of those circles, right? Right, right. That's always a draw. People are always watching that. Where in the, wearing the big old mask, like, breather, while everybody's standing around just breathing the air, the airbrush fumes, like, oh, I love that art.

Oh, I don't know why I feel so great right now. Why I'm dizzy, but I want that art. Yeah, getting a contact cancer is what you get there. He's right. Spent too much time watching that guy. Maybe we should put you in one of those circles during TMS Vegas and have you draw cartoons of people. Oh, Lord, no. You're not really a caricaturist.

No, but also, even if I was, that sounds like a nightmare. I don't know why. It sounds horrible, doesn't it? It does sound bad. I don't even know why. It shouldn't sound bad. It's fine. You're drawing people.

If that's what you do, that's what you do. I don't know why. That sounds bad to me. It sounds horrible. Yeah, that is Algreen, by the way, Brambro-Bright. How about, I'll stand in one of those circles for a few hours on free month? month and it'll just be a sign that says, I will roll my eyes at you, $2. Ah, that's worth every, I'd pay two bucks.

Yeah. Yeah. Just, you know, you come up, you put your $2 in. I'm like, see, now that makes me wonder if they would. Oh, yeah, if I filled out the application saying that I would, I roll my eyes at people. I'm a professional eye roller. Yeah, would they accept your application, I wonder? Because I know they get other weird stuff.

It's like, oh, what do you do? I jam balloons in my nose and then pull them out. out of my ear. Right. Yeah. I mean, there's, exactly, there's some weird, yeah. I would love to see that. That would be great. You should sign up for it. Use it for like 10 minutes and then give it to whoever needs it, you know? I don't know. I don't know. Nobody's just waiting around to use it, but just do it. Yeah, the application process or all that stuff, that's the part I don't really have the time for. Like the 10 minutes in the circle, great, I could do that. Not that I don't already have so many things that I'm like juggling for making TMS Vegas.

run smoothly and please everyone who attends. Yeah, you've got to please everyone. You've got to please everyone. I'm trying to juggle all these people who are like, hey, I want to do this during TMS-Fagos. Oh, I want to schedule this. I'm like, okay, all right, we do want to do that, we want to schedule that. But hold on, because let me get everything firmed up that has to happen.

And then we can start like scheduling stuff around that that everybody's going to want to attend. Yeah, and don't expect every little idea. like if every one of you had an idea of a thing where there's not enough time in that three days to do it. Yeah, but I friggin' want karaoke. Somebody wants to do karaoke. I want to go back to that ninja karaoke place that you go for it. Jury

Rented. Oh, you don't have to sing Scott, but you got to come. Oh, I'll go. I'll go. I'm just not singing. I'll never get up there ever. So just everyone know that now? I'm pulling you in for the chorus of Africa. Hell no. Here's how this will go. I will sit. I will smile. I will laugh. I will enjoy. I will not

be on that microphone. Not even at all. Not even for a second. What about if I were to do Love Shack, would you pull in the the French Snyder? Oh, shit. You would now? You're totally thinking about it. Oh, I see this happening now.

I might do the Fred Schneider. As long as I don't have to sing, I'll do it, Brian. If all I have to do is go, I got me a Chrysler and just do that. I'm in. Or if I did the offspring, can I get you to do? You got to keep them separated. Yeah, or unto gleben globin. if you do a deaf leper.

Talky parts. All right, everybody. Pick your songs. Yep. Oh, I'm your hype man. It's the guy on the side. I was going, yeah, yeah, whatever. Yeah.

All right. All right. I'm in. We figured out a way. We figured out a way to get me. I know I can do it. That was way too easy. You didn't have to like bribe you or anything.

Yeah. Because for years, well, for decades, I have made it clear. Even when I was in China, all these business people were like, we got to go karaoke. It's amazing here. It's what they do. It's so cool. I'm like, I'm good, dude, I'll be at this hotel. I'm good.

I'm not going to your stupid karaoke. And those guys got all drunk and messed up for our meeting the next day. And two of them got suckered into like a young girl business, the hooker business. Oh, really? And then their wives found out when we got home and they all got, those two guys got divorced. And so I'm thinking, well, I, you know, I just stayed at the hotel and I think dorked around on my computer at the time. So I was, I stayed away from that nightmare. But that's not what this is.

I'll go. I'll do the, I got me at Chrysler at seats about 20. I'll do it. Okay, cool. I'm thinking I might, I wonder if I could get you, let's see. So if I do, are you lonesome tonight by Elvis, can I get you to do the middle part where he says, oh, they say that everyone loves a stage and everyone must play their part. I'll do that. Okay. Anything with talking, I'm in. Cool. Perfect. I just can't sing. The funny thing is my mom says I can sing, but I just don't do it. I ever do it. Oh, everybody's mom says they can say.

Everybody's mom says they should be on American Idol. That's true. My dad said I should send cartoons to David Letterman's show. Like, Dad, they don't do. That's nothing they do. For that fantastic weekly cartoon segment that he does. Yeah. Like, even, like he didn't even say SNL, which at the time had ambiguously gay duo or whatever it was.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, Robert Smigel. Yeah, had a few other things like that. He didn't ever suggest that. He was just like, whoa, you should send those to Dave. like, Dad, they don't care. Why would they care? I did a couple of letters.

You know, the Friday mailbag thing they used to do? Sure, sure. I sent letters. They never got read, but I sent them. He wants there to be a, you know, the equivalent of Jay Leno's headlines or whatever it is. They wanted, he wanted that for Letterman to have. It's time for cartoon.

Hey, Paul, you got any, you got any, let's look at cartoons music? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, he'd say it. Ah, Dave. Ah, Dave. I saw, by the way, it saw a trailer for a movie. that seems like it's right up your alley. It's called funny papers, I think. Documentary or what?

No. It's a comedy drama thing. Funny pages. Sorry, funny pages. And... Let's see here. It looks like a bitingly funny coming-of-age story of a teenage cartoonist who rejects the comforts of a suburban life

and a misguided quest for soul. Okay. I was on a misguided quest for soul for the latter part of 2022. Yeah, that's true. Ron Rifkin's in that. He's supposed to be a jerk. That's interesting. It's a little indie movie kind of deal?

Yeah, a little indie movie. Looked like, like from the trailer, I thought it was like the original story of like a mad magazine, R. Crum kind of thing. I don't know. Recognize too many of these people that see here. No. R. When's this coming? Is this a thing that's out?

Andy Milanakis. We know him from something. He's a little, he's that guy that's like 60, but he looks 12 or something? Yes. I think it's out, but not streaming yet.

Okay. Just watch. I think it's making it's, it's doing the circuit. Well, that means we'll have it in no time. Yeah, exactly. You know?

Oh, I can buy it right now on Apple TV for 13 bucks. I'll wait. Yeah, I'd wait. Anyway, I saw the trailer for that and said, oh, Scott, right there. Nice. Got a couple things. I got a second shingles vaccination because you're supposed to get two. And you're supposed to get him two to six months after you get the first one.

I'm about month four. So it was time. I was like, I got to do this now. We're going to make me redo it. And that first one sucked. It was like eight hours of misery. It was awful. And so I asked the guy at the place.

I said, now I've cut some time out for this Saturday. after you know it's after film sack and all that i go i'd love it if it was that or shorter and he goes oh the second one's nothing it's no problem it's like because your body's already used to it you're not going to have a huge reaction to the second one you're going to be fine plus you'll never have to have one again because you're done i said okay i believe you i get the shot i go home about an hour into it i start to feel it i'm like okay that's fine we we expect this to go somewhere between six and eight hours that's okay i just feel awful and fluy my skin's on fire just a horrible awful thing it's like a taste of the real shingles i don't want the real thing

every can of shingles comes with a prize anyway yeah so i have once you pop you can't stop exactly so i keep having this this horrible feeling and it's just kind of making you know putting me down make me tired it's like flu mixed with like um i don't even know what to call it it's just burning everything burns so six hours comes no relief yeah eight hours comes no relief. We're moving on to like hour 12. I'm like, this is not easier than the first time you lying bastard at the pharmacy. So anyway, it goes and goes and goes until like late afternoon yesterday. So it's basically not more than 24 hours, not quite 36, something in between. And it finally abates. And I finally feel better, although it's still a little, this arm is like killing me,

the one that put the shot in. But man, if this is just the shingles vaccine, I cannot imagine. the nightmare that is actual shingles. And I've talked to a few people that have had it. And they say it's the most miserable experience they had in their entire life. So if you're over 45, go get the damn thing, get it over with. So you never have whatever the hell that is. Oh, and also here's the trick. So two of my kids don't ever have to get it because they were inoculated against chickenpox.

But Taylor was born before that inoculation happened. So she has to get this one day. I had chicken pox as a kid, which means you definitely have to get it when you're older. Or you're just huge or much huger risk to get the shingles. And the shingles is like barbed wire under your skin is how someone described it to me. Who's had it. My sister-in-law had it. It was terrible.

So I guess I'm going to say it was worth it. But my whole weekend went to shit. The whole thing. Yeah, but that's, I mean, if it's going to, if it's going to kill two days, let it kill a weekend, sadly, than a work day, you know. No. It was nice, though, because I was. was like, oh, this whole week, for the first weekend and like 10 weekends, I have some time to chill or do what I want or whatever.

Yeah. And it was, it wasn't in my favor, Brian. Miserab. A quick call. We got a call from a listener. Ooh, I like this. All right. Cool.

It's been a bit since we've had one of these. Call then. Call then. This is from the number 80147-1-0462, and I will let it speak for itself. Hey, TMS. Do you guys ever think that everything you have will just, be taken away for no reason. Like all the money you've earned and all the friends you have and all the accomplishments you've earned are just borrowed. They're not really yours and someone's

going to figure it out and take it all away from you because you don't actually deserve it. And you're going to be ruined and embarrassed and lose everything for no reason. But it's always in the back of your mind. I feel like that sometimes. Do you? I mean, it's basically he's describing imposter syndrome. It's a thing. Yeah, exactly. I want to drink with that. That guy in Vegas, by the way. Right? He's a good drinking companion. This guy's...

He's really good. Yeah, exactly. Like, uh, oh, man. I think, I think everybody's had some piece of this, right? For sure. Yeah. You know, it's, uh, yeah, less about my money and my material possessions. But, yeah, they're totally as like, oh, yeah, what if my, you know, one day, just my, any

accomplishments I might have had or, or gone, which reminds me actually need to accomplish something but oh yeah note to self once I accomplish something I hate for that accomplishment to be taken away from me and forgotten and yeah but I think everybody does this to some degree yes for sure it is it's absolutely imposter syndrome even the most wickedly

like successful human beings on this planet have moments of feeling like they don't deserve it or they didn't really do it or someone's gonna come and say surprise it was all a ruse you're out of here like that's just a thing I think so caller if you if you feel like that every once in a while that's totally understandable.

We all feel like that every once in a while. If you feel like that more frequently than every once in a while, then maybe talk to somebody and, uh, and, uh, wouldn't hurt. Wendy could give you some recommendations or a book from Amazon. Mm-hmm. This is what my wife drives my wife crazy,

but any time I have to get up in front of a ton of people, including that blizzcom where it was the most ton of people I'd ever been in front of. Yeah. Without fail, every time something like that's over, even if it's 10 people or 100 people or 28,000, people when I get done and I get off stage my first question to her was that okay was that okay was that all right did I do okay I have no idea because in your head you don't you're not really there you're

kind of there right you're doing your thing but you don't know how well disembodied yeah when I did the I did my thing at the Hall of Fame podcaster Hall of Fame it was like that like I well I freaked out a lot right before it I think there's a story out there somewhere somewhere of that but got off the stage and sat back down with him like did I did I hit all the points? I needed a hit. Did I forget anything? Did I? Yeah. And what's funny is even when Tina or in my case, Kim tells us, oh, yeah, it was great. It was great. You still go, really? Are you sure? Are you sure? Did they? Because we don't believe it. That's just, it's people, man. Yeah. It's natural. Yeah. I think we're all meant to, we're meant to be a little

self-effacing. You know the people I don't trust are the ones that are just gung-ho up there and come back and know they nailed it. I don't trust them at all. You know what? No, I trust them and I envy them. Like, I wish I could completely, completely look as natural and as confident and as calm and all that stuff is some of the people I see up on stage like that. See, but we assume they're like that. Most of them aren't even doing that. Like, some of them. Yeah, right. Like, again, I've been told when I'm doing these things that I seem like I'm all good.

But inside, it's like turmoil. So, you know, for all I know, nobody ever feels that way. way. And those who do might be, they're probably a little too cocky for my taste. I probably don't want to hang around those people. I think also if you did it on a, like if we did TMS live in front of an audience, in front of an audience of people that we're sitting there looking at, not just a bunch of names scrolling on a screen, but if we did that daily every four times a week and the 52 weeks a year, we'd get to the point very quickly, I think, where it'd be like, oh, yeah, we'd get up there, we do our thing, and it's no big deal. And we're, we're, we're, we'll

looking at all these people and we know we did okay yeah that's true that's true we've kind of we've kind of learned to not disembody ourselves as we're up there and be in the moment and hear the people laughing and hear the reactions and that sort of thing so yeah i could see so i guess what we're saying is uh tms vagus uh making an announcement it's going to be a forever residency at the sand dollar every day every day four days a week uh 52 weeks a year yeah get ready exactly so we're going to be there for that we're like the marie ozman of uh We'll be performing in Vegas in the morning to an audience of five. Yep.

I don't know what's awesome. Including the guy pushing the thing that waxes the floor of the Sand Dollar. Is that, will that be our venue? You want to just do it there? That'll be our venue is the Sand Dollar, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, it's new, you know, it's clean.

Yeah, we can't pull in, we can't pull in, you know, we're not pulling in the, the MGM Theater or, uh... Let's get one where they do a lot of the Caesar Dome or anything like that. Let's get some nudity place, like a place that does nothing but like absinthe stuff. Naked people all the time. That's where we want to be. Yeah. I know September, we got the Sand Dollar. We just, we have a Tuesday night instead of Wednesday night.

So Wednesday night is going to be the arcade-a-thon tourney competition thing like we did last time. Yeah. But the night before, what we have in the show? We'll have the show the night before. And then so that way, Scott and I could just sit there or play the games and enjoy ourselves. And somebody else, maybe you have somebody else. else run the leaderboard so I can go play games instead of having to be sitting at the bar saying all right how'd you guys who won of the who won that game all right good yeah that'd be

great also hopefully that place I'll fix asteroids deluxe by the time I get there doubt it because that button was effed that thing was so effed up I wanted to play that so bad and the buttons are all left on that machine so maybe they will I don't know get enough complaints you'll get things done all right hey it's time for us to play a game yes uh before we forget to do that let's do it uh got a pull in done away it's the half asses it's monday that's the tradition sit back enjoy this as i find all my buttons there we go let's play this button here we delay while we wait for all there he is brian dunaway joins us all the way from

south carolina for a little half asses good morning brian how are you oh hi scadden brian hey brian hey man and a monday morning yeah how's your weekend what did you do this weekend in fun let's see did more 3D printing did film sack

with my friends played some retro video games rearranged my office some ordered a ikea lack tables so I can build a custom enclosure for my 3D printer you know just what brian does in the weekend yeah normal stuff

normal guy stuff, it sounds like. It's pretty cool. Living like, you live in your dream, dude. Living large. It's good to have you here. We're going to play this game. Brian's going to explain how it works. Who's going to win prizes potentially?

And we'll be off to the races, Brian, take it away. Sounds good. While I'm doing this, Scott, make sure you log into the game. Yeah, that'd be good, right? Do. Yeah, welcome to the morning. Half-S is a trivia game. We're actually going to be giving Scott and Brian the answers.

I'm going to give them a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct and three that are incorrect. Just lies. Just fake news is sadly what they are. Yeah. Depending on people tell me it's fake news. 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, you get zero for that round.

Get one right. You get a point. Get two right. It gets three points and get all three correct and you get five freaking points for that round. We'll play three rounds. And the person with the most points after all those three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. Who are these contestants, you may ask? Well, I'd pull members of the tadpool that aren't able to listen live.

Scott, you're playing for Bob Cliff Clavin's mailman, Finnegan in Milford, Connecticut. Nice. Truth. Love that guy. Brian, you're playing for John Phillips, not Sousa, in Brick, New Jersey. Jersey! He lives in a brick, and he's drowning slowly. Oh, geez. Oh, yeah, no.

All right. It's not good. Get that looked at. All right. Let's get to your first question here. First question... Maybe it's got his own show going on. It's a show of one, clearly.

All right, let's get into the first question here. And your first category is Woodwind Instruments. Six woodwind, or three of these are real Woodwind instruments. Three of these are not. Your first question is Euphonium, Contrabassoon,

sackbutt, Okarina, Ocarina, English horn, there might be one gimmee in this thing. And French horn. Three, these are real. all three of these are not woodwind instruments. Woodwind interest okay so that's important wind

instruments that is a very clear distinction. Yeah yeah yeah. I really want this sack butt to be real. I do too really very much so. Yeah I think I'm going to choose it those are my two. I ain't going too far hard on this. Scott's locked in

and I'm debating on this one because I don't think it's so are you locking in there we go. All right. Ooh you both locked in with two and you both, you both locked in with different ones, so you've selected four between the two of me, which means at least one of those is wrong. Yeah, the euphonium is brass.

Yeah. The contra bassoon is wood. Oh, it is. The sack butt is brass. Damn it! And the Ocarina is wood. The French horn also brass. Okay.

So the Ocarina is. Okay. The Ocarina is a woodwind. I saw you select that one and then unselected. Yeah. The English horn, the ocarina, and the contra bassoon. Oh, I hear you play by doing up down, up down, left right, left right. Yeah.

French horn is a big old brass bugger, that thing. Everything else is brass, euphonium, sackbub and French horn. So sackbutt, a real instrument, but sadly it's a brass. I want to know what a sackbutt is. I'll look like after the show. Sure. All right. Ends with butt.

And it ends in the type of instrument ends with ass. Let's get to question number two, as we go with zero points. Names that were once more popular for boys than girls in the U.S. So these are all names, three of which were more popular for boys than girls at one time. Samantha, Blanche, Lacey, Shirley, Ashley, and Audrey. At one point, three of those were more popular for boys than they were for girls. Sackbutt. All right, let's see.

Back a butt. Thank you, Adam, driver. I love it, boys. Back butt. All right. Boy, howdy. Names of a one. Boy, howdy is right.

More popular for boys than girls. People would be saying, howdy to boys named three of these things in the U.S., more popular names for boys than girls. I think I know two, so I'm locking them in. Okay. I'm guessing three. I'm going for it. Go for it.

All right. You guys are both locked in. Both of you locked in on Ashley, by the way. Ashley, way, way more popular for boys at one point than for girls. I don't know the years on these, sadly. So Ashley is correct. You both got that one. Shirley, also more popular for boys than girls.

Lacey being the third. So Blanche and Audrey, which you guys chose, were not more popular for boys than girls. But the actual answer is, Lacey. Shirley and Ashley I don't know why I'm so surprised by Shirley I would have ever guessed Lacey though that's weird okay yeah it's hard to believe that was popular for anybody

Lacey yeah but Ashley I've heard before like in movies or something yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah the character right the Pokemon guys really Ashley catch them that's right Ashley catch them gotta catch them all and then Audrey that just makes sense that that's what's the last name that isn't it

and that's Autry Not Audrey. Jean Audrey. Oh, yeah, yeah. All right. Well, heck, we've got one last question here. I hope you guys do better on this one because right now we're zero points. Inventions named after a person.

So which of these six items are named after the person who invented them? Is it the tarmac, cardigan, bidet, jacuzzi, samba, and battery? Three of those are named after the person that it is. invented them. The jacuzzi be a real person. It would be great, right? It's got to be... I'm locking in three

because why not, I'm going all in. Scott's locked in. Oh, Brian's locked in as well. You guys both... With one. You guys both locked in on jacuzzi. Yeah, because it's... Sounds like some Italian name, right?

I'm Benerto Jacuzzi. And this is my hot... Bath, everybody, climb in. That sounds right to me, like Ferrari or Lamborghini, those are all... That is 100% correct, yes. It was Candido Jacozy was the inventor of the jacuzzi. The Cardigan,

as Scott also selected, was named after the Earl of Cardigan, the seventh Earl of Cardigan, who I guess liked to be warm. The third one, however, is Tarmac.

Shit! Tarmac. Tarmac named after John Loudon only need one point. Mick Adams who invented a method of putting down the tarmac? Yeah, basically putting rocks of different sizes

into a surface to make it hard and unbreakable. And what he used, what he used was tar to hold those rocks in place and his last name being Mac Adams, tar mac.

See, this is what you do. If you want to be, somebody said the other day, I think it was Howie Mandel or somebody I was listening to said everyone gets forgotten in history, everyone. The most popular people today, in 100 years you'll not know their names, unless you do shit like this. You're Mr. Mac, whatever, and you'd put down the tar and you call it tarmac, or you're Mr. Jacozy. You'll always be a cardigan. You'll forever be a cardigan.

Always. You'll forever be spoken in the same sentence as airplane runways, basically. All right, good. Larry in the chat says even Vin Diesel. Yes, especially Vin Diesel. We're going to forget him in a hundred years. I promise. That's how to work.

No one's going to remember anybody. So by locking in this great strategy, Brian, lock in on jacuzzi. You get to one point. That means that you've won the prize. Oh, I never did say the people. Oh, yeah, I did. I said. Brian, you won for John Phillips in Brick, New Jersey.

Congratulations to John. You're going to be getting a copy of Golf Gang and Railroad. Road Corporation. Feels like for a while we've been giving away golf and train games. Yeah. But here's another two for you. Golf gang and railroad corporation. But don't worry, Bob Finnegan, when you get back from delivering those heavy U-line catalogs that, I don't know why they don't turn those online,

you're going to get to come home and play a game of Monster Train with the last Divinity DLC. So DLC is like everybody going home with plenty of great stuff. Yeah, everybody wins today, and congratulations and well done. Done away, you did it. Nice job. Real quick, someone pointed out that Richard Moll is in a movie this year called Slay Bells, but I looked it up and it says 2018. Is it spelled S-L-A-Y-Bels?

Nope, just S-L-A-Y-Bels. Oh, no, I'm sorry, yes. S-L-A-Y Bell. It is. All right, so great. So it's like a horror movie. It's a horror movie. Yeah, who does he play?

Richard Moll play. Oh, Barry Bostwick's in it. geez. Oh, that's what you were saying? He plays Barry Postman. No, he's in it, though. It doesn't, oh, he plays Officer Green, whoever that is. Oh, nice.

He's the Po-Po. Hey, Dunaway, tomorrow night, we're doing play retro. What are we doing? I forget. What are we covering? We're doing, we're doing crew. Well, we started out with Cruz Taters of Sinti, but we, we expanded to the 8 and 16-bit bit Sega Genesis Zelda likes.

When, when Sega almost made at least games. at least as good as the Legend of Zelda first one. Yeah, the original stuff, sure. They tried their best. They tried. They wanted to go for that crown. They almost did it. They had it within their grasp.

There's reasons why it didn't quite work out and never did. But we're going to talk about that. I forgot. I've been playing that Senti game. It's really quite good. It's a good game. Oh, it is a termed Zelda likes. It's a great term.

It's fun to say, right? Yeah. It is. Totally is. So we're going to cover that tomorrow night here on the live channel, frogpants. And of course, it'll be on the podcast shortly thereafter with me and Brian Dunaway. done away is there anything else you'd like to mention or promote or anything at all uh yeah i like to promote uh no you well you did it nice job all right well done we have some time for

brief news and it starts here right here it's time for the news brought to you by want to talk about terriel us too check out the diablo show today wherever you get your podcasts Yeah, I'm doing a mini, kind of a lore breakdown of his whole deal for as long as we've known him, which turns out, there's a lot more going on with Tereal than I think a lot of players know. Yeah, sure. If you're a Diablo fan, you may want to check that out. I'm sure I've got a Trial enamel pin from those days going to BlizzCon and always buying the new set of pins that they came out with. I have a picture of me.

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Prayer move Prayer move Let's finish him This here's story We'll start with LA fire crews Battle a hand sanitizer blaze Woo

Yeah this was gnarly There's photos and maybe video here It's pretty nasty Let's see here Yeah there is right there Pull it up for the chat Did they sing Happy birthday

while they put it out? No, they did not. I thought that was also unfortunate. Once you finished, happy birthday. Whether the fire's out or not, you're done. Yeah, you're kind of done. So here's what happened. They took the defensive approach to a small fire in downtown Los Angeles Monday afternoon.

The blazers reported around 1145 a.m. The incident was first reported as a trash fire, but crews eventually determined a pile of pallets containing hand sanitizer was burning. The safest operation is to allow for the product to burn off while ensuring it does not damage any vehicles. They said in a statement, this will help to limit the water runoff, which is being contained by a damning operation. Anyway, white foam surrounded the blaze. You probably thought that was snow. Nope.

No? Fire retardant flame retardant goo foam unit. Oh, look at that. Wow. Yeah. I mean, I saw it and went, oh, it's snowed in L.A. Looks like it, yeah. Let's see.

Let's see. The fire, which was visible from several miles away, was burning in an industrial area surrounded by vehicles. according to what they saw. No injury reported. The cause of the fire is under investigation. If this was 20 to 20, people would be up in arms because we were short on that stuff. But now there's plenty of that hand sanitizer to go around.

I hear putting out that fire was pure L. Yeah, it was pure. Oh, can you imagine the L they went through to get that done? Yeah. That's a lot. Here's a fun story. Hospital evacuated over elderly man with an explosive lodged in his rectum. Damn near kill.

killed him. Uh, French hospital. Wee, we was reportedly evacuated after an 88 year old arrived with an artillery shell lodged in his bum. Oh, God. Yeah. Happened Saturday. What crawled up your ass, old man. Yeah. World War II ordinance. Uh, see, this is a hospital called Saint Muz, uh, Miss Mouz, Mouz in Toulon, southern France. St. Mewes. French publication, Van Matten. Sounds like Van Patton. Dick Van Patton. Oh, do you hear who died? The kid from that show. Yeah, Adam Rich. They don't know what happened yet, but he's 54 or 5.

He's young, yeah. Yeah, that sucks. That bowl haircut finally got him. I guess so. Anyway, they reported the elderly man at a World War I thought it was World War I artillery shell partially inside of him. Well, I mean, from that angle, who can tell if it's a World War I or World War II. your shell. Yeah, you'd have to take it out, right? Yeah. You have to get a little closer look to it. It says, uh, let's see, parts of the hospital were evacuated, uh, and emergency patients were

diverted as they dealt with the delicate situation. The shell was about eight inches long and two inches wide. Doctors were able to safely remove the shell and the patient is reportedly doing fine. Thank goodness. Yeah. He shut us out the bomb. Yeah. Shut us out the bomb. Oh, man. Can you imagine having a I don't want to think about it. I can't imagine having anything all up there. Having to go to the hospital with anything in your hooter? That's a problem.

That's why I have an exit-only tattoo right above mine. It's just right there. Exit-only. Yep. That's the greatest tram stamp ever, I think, that I've seen. Yeah. That you've seen. That I've seen.

Yeah. Other news, Taylor Swift's cat is worth $97 million. This article wants to make sure you read at the top. And no, we're not kidding. this is Link Beatty But anyway In case you weren't aware It turns out the pets

Can have net worths And one of the richest cats In the world belongs To none other than pop superstar Taylor Swift Whose own net worth isn't anything To scoff at Really?

According to the pet rich list Which is way more fun titled Than the Forbes 400 Isn't that the Forbes 500? Yeah, that's so I think they got that wrong I could be wrong But I think it's the Forbes 500

They wrote 400 Oh it's the Fortune 500 The Forbes does have a 400 400. Oh, well, shit. Yeah. Never mind. It's the other, it's the other four. Now we look bad.

So, let's see, Swiss, beloved Scottish fold, Olivia Benson. I think it has a full name. From Law & Order. Yeah. It's worth of whopping $97 million making her the third richest pet in the world. Let's see. Oh, I'm so torn between not caring and I want to know who the first two richest pets in the world are. I know.

I know. Same here. So here's the breakdown. With a whopping 97, they keep saying a whopping. $97 million in that worth, Olivia has found success outside the world of Instagram influencing. The Scottish Fold earned her fortune, starring alongside her owner and several music videos, has crashed her own merchandise line. Crafted. Don't know why I said crashed. Crafted. Or craft. Because cats get on shit and knock it over. So it's a dog, but you know what I mean. Yeah. Let's see. She has a cameos in many big budget ads, including the likes of Diet Coke and Ned sneakers. What's Ned Sneakers?

No idea. If that was a dude, I wouldn't trust him. I think you invented the sneaker, by the way, according to the... Ned Sneaker. The half-asked this question was to have. Ned Sneakers. I don't know who that is. Anyway, says that it's true.

They make a cameo in blank space, the music video, which currently has over three billion views. So I guess you can attribute a value to an animal if they've got this much exposure. Yeah, exactly. I hear, you know, that's what she'll write your name, is in that black. space. Modern human life is weird. We're weird. The number one, number two, a German shepherd dog named Gunther the fourth owned by Italian media company Gunther Corporation is worth 500 million. Whoa. Nala cat, who has 4.4 million followers on Instagram, has a hundred million dollar net worth. Now, what does Nala cat do? Why do I know that name? I don't know. I honestly don't know.

It's familiar to me. does I'm hoping Nalikat bobs up and down in a field of stars going from left to right going

num-nam-nam-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da- We could only be so lucky Okay, Nala cat has 4.4 million followers on Instagram Mm-hmm Uh Guinness World Record holder For what?

Golly, don't kidding. I mean, it's a cute cat. I can't tell what's going Kind of cross-eyed. Yeah, he is kind of cute. Yeah. I feel like there are a lot of cute cats, though.

I know. I Nara certainly could have this kind of experience. Brian, what do you need to get on the Instagram cat? You know what? There's the cover cat Twitter. I need to switch that over to the cover cat Instagram. And that's funny. It's just like... It's the first, the Guinness record is the first Instagram cat to have over 4 million followers.

That's the record. Okay. All right. I feel like we live in a hellscape. I'd be fine if, you know, if my cat maybe had a $5 million net worth. I'd be okay if my cat could net me a couple of grand. Yeah, really, exactly. You know? Let's pay for my Vegas trip.

How about that? Stupid cat. My cat ain't doing nothing for nobody. No. He's upstairs right now. He's upstairs right now conspiring to be nothing. To be nothing. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Lord of nothing. stupid cat uh oh somebody else has wait wait what's cover cat is not oh kitty and nara is the the twitter kitty and nara oh did you set one up um i didn't but uh we had a listener who did for us yeah and i haven't put anything on there uh since 2018 so Yeah, I need to... See, this is the problem. Consistency.

You got to put it up there all the time. It's like, here's my cat looking at nothing. Here's my cat standing there, because that's what they're doing. Yep. All right. Gonna get on this. Look, I don't, I only care about putting stuff on my own Twitter. I'm really bad about it, but I can do this for an hour.

All right, fair enough. That's going to do it for the news for today. We're going to take a break. When we come back, Stephen Schlecker will join us. We've got a few things to talk about, including a surprise from Oliver Queen. I know. I'm excited about this surprise. I kind of am, too.

So we'll talk about that. We've got some other calls and texts and stuff, so stick around for all of it. We have to hear this song from Brian. What do you have? Let's get to sung by the UK indie punks known as The Subways. They've got their fifth studio album called Uncertain Joys, which comes out Friday. Friday the 13th coming up this week via Alka Pop Records and

Bowden Kuma recordings. Big thanks to Earshot Media for letting me know about this one. This is great. This is a really good song and I've listened to about a third of this upcoming album and it's great. They're from Hertfordshire in the UK. Here are The Subways and Black Wax. Sit-top, on the way now On the winds

All the bone found you while I offer me Always the best size Turning up, Shiree, here comes my faith line Spin the vinyl drop to me to let your play is gone When I hear you have any voice I believe in God There's nothing to the melody of the cell When I'm lonely, always lonely, you sever it in. Outside, another snowstorm, tell me, I've got to know more.

Tell me, I've got to know more. You're the chick, I swear I'm always eating. Smoking strikes, my tears and stop your feet in Spin the vinyl, drop the needle, let you play it's on When I hear your heavenly voice, I believe in God God has nothing to the melody of the soul brings When I'm lonely, always only is ever written Give me sanctuary in the space between my ears

Hear me all the spells I need to cast away my fears This is nothing to the melody of the soul sings When I'm lonely, all it's lonely is ever it's been You're pressing on the black light It's a blessing to hear the motor track Give me coal bay, and it's shining and soon Entry on Apple, a Donnery Franklin Spin the vinyl drop to me to let the slay.

It's gone. Where do you hear your heavenly voice? I'm believing God. There's nothing to the melody of the soul. When I'm lonely, always lonely is ever written in. Hear me sanctuary in the space between my ears. Hear me all the spells I need to cast away my fears. There's nothing to the matter of the soul things.

When I'm lonely, always lonely is every thing. Every transition, every transition, digital effect, digital effect, graphic, graphic, title, and animation you're about to see, was created entirely with the very transition, was created entirely with the Video Toaster, Video Toast from New Tech. I feel the need for speed. The Morning Stream. Uncle Penn, say something cheerful, will you? And we returned. Regaled me with the details regarding that song again.

I shall. That was. Black Wax by the band The Subways from their upcoming album, the name of which I just said, and I got rid of that thing in front of me that said what it was. Darn it. The Subways. Hold on. I want to make sure I do this right.

Let's do this right. The album is called Uncertain Joys, Uncertain Joy, coming out this Friday from the band, The Subways. Go check out the whole rest of the album. Black Wax, I assume, is a reference to vinyl, like vinyl records? Yeah, I assume so. yeah it's cool cool way of saying it would make sense right i like how it sounds uh all right strip licorish pizza strap in everybody the midwest is calling stephen schliker stephen schliker that's the name don't wear it out he lives in hayes kansas and is here

from major spoilers dot com to talk a few uh cool things in pop culture comics movies and more stephen welcome back to the show hello scott hello brian how are you guys today good how's your new year so far how's it going yeah yeah that good yeah all right yeah that good i mean that's uh that's saying things all right i mean ours has been it's okay i don't know you know it's supposed to be depressing this time here it certainly feels like a one step forward two steps back kind of thing yeah a little bit but also just i don't know there's something about january the long haul of january is just kind of a blah thing you know definitely i think it's supposed to be um anyway it's good to have you here we're going to talk about a few things we teased it earlier let's talk about all

Oliver Queen returning for the Flash in its final season. What do you think of this? The Flash is in its final season and I think they're shooting episode 9 right now and Danica Panabaker who stars on the show also I think she's directing

episode 9. She tweeted out that Stephen Amel is returning as Oliver Queen, which is important because they don't say he's returning as Green Arrow who died during the crisis on Infinite Earths. Oh, right. Yes. So time travel shenanigans, I think so.

Mm-hmm. That's, I couldn't remember who she was now. Now I know her. That's kind of cool. That seems like she's more than super invested in the show if she's directing and like, oh, yeah. Brunette on Team Flash, whose name is escaping me right now. Oh, is she fast? Does she have a speedy thing going for? No, she doesn't. She also plays Killer Frost. Killer Frost. That was it. Yeah. Killer Frost. Yeah. So I think that's, I think that's kind of interesting. Of course, that word got out and everybody was talking about it. So Stephen Amel went to Instagram and said he's excited to come back and. They didn't even finish the sentence. Do you want to before he said yes? So I'll be honest with you. I hated the last couple of seasons of The Flash, even though I did a whole podcast about the Flash. I know. I stopped watching it two seasons ago.

Like basically the two horrible seasons that you described, I have not watched any of it. It started so strong. It was such a strong beginning. It was. Oh, it was great. Yeah. Yeah, it was once his girlfriend, Iris, went into the mirror. I was like, I think I'm done with this dumb show.

That's pretty much it. So, yeah, I'm not watching the last season. So I hope this works out with him. Somebody in the chat says that Emel needs the money. I don't think he needs the money. Anytime he makes an appearance at a convention, he literally is bringing home trash bags full of money. Jesus, he's fine.

He's also extremely hot and can do that dang ladder deal where you, you know, you pull yourself up on the metal ladder. matter. They use that every single chance they could on Arrow. Like anytime they could show him doing that. Is he up to anything else? Has he like moved on to movies or anything? I feel like I haven't seen that guy. I think he's going to wrestling. But, you know, I mentioned the making lots of money at shows. I think he is one of the creators behind. And I forget what, I think it's fan expo. I forget which, um, which a series of conventions that he's also behind where basically it's you go and you meet stars of different things. And because everything has done as a

cash transaction. Nobody knows how much money you make from those things. Oh, I forgot he was that bus boy that became a male prostitute on that hung show on HBO. I forgot that was him. Oh, man. I think he still does some wrestling stuff too.

He did do wrestling in the ring stuff Oh, really? Her most seasons ago. What his brother does stuff? Robert Emel, no. What's his... I want to say Casey for some reason, but that doesn't sound right. That's the Affleck brother. Robbie Amel.

Robby Amel. That's right. Yeah, he's also an actor, yeah. He's busy doing cool stuff. I was looking at his IMDB. He doesn't seem to be in a ton of things. Oh, no, he's in lots of things. He's fine.

That guy's fine. He's fine. Yeah, he was just in that upload thing on. Yeah, upload is so it's got another season coming back. And if people haven't seen that show, it is surprisingly cute. and fun. Yeah, I watch the first season, and it's on my list to watch the second season.

I might just have to do it without Tina because we've got a bunch of stuff stacked up for just the two of us. But the girl that plays opposite him, I forget what her last name is. Her first last name is Aiello. She was actually a prince backup singer. Oh, really?

Andy L. Andiello, yeah, yeah. Is she related to what was their dad's name? Danny? No, it's spelled differently. It's just ALLO from what I'm seeing. But, no, is it AILIO? It's really hard to see because my eyes are bad.

I've got bad eyes. Bad, see? ALLO, yeah, Andy L.O. All right, moving on. Let's stay in D.C. though, for a second and talk about James Gunn some more. He is actually, so he's there to be in charge of, like, the whole deal. He's the, he's the, he's the, Kevin Figi, or. or Feige or whatever of the DC universe now.

But he's also writing an unannounced DC television show. Do we have any idea what it is? No, we don't. And that's the thing that I think frustrates everyone because, you know, we hear them canceling things left and right. Shows not getting renewed. Movies being totally deleted for cost-saving efforts. He's supposed to be working on another season of Peacemaker

and a peacemaker spinoff as well as doing some other things. and he comes out and casually mentions that he is writing a new season of something, but he won't tell us what or what it is. Is it possible he's just talking about Peacemaker Season 2? It could be that he's talking about that, but I think at this point people... They wouldn't say an unannounced DC TV show. I think he would just say Peacemaker Season 2. Yeah, you'd think so.

And he's also supposed to direct everything from Peacemaker Season 2. too. And so I think that has people frustrated too because it's like, well, are you writing everything that D.C. will be putting out in the future? Are you going to be directing everything that D.C. is you're a co-boss there at D.C. Universe. What's going on? And the answer is we won't know until supposedly later this month when both Peter Saffron and James Gunn come out and say, here's our plans going forward. Plus he says. Today, too, that actually they have a big announcement. Yeah, that basically he's going to announce on layout his plan. for the DCU

I read something about it being a 10 year plan or something they're not they're not looking to see where we'll be able to watch that else but I'm not seeing it anywhere so I thought maybe not I saw something too but I don't know what the timing is on it here's my guess I'm just a guess but when he went over to do this I bet part of his deal was I still want to create and direct and write

he didn't want to just go into a oh sure sure sure sure so I'm guessing that this is this is him you know he's always been he tweets all of his stuff so it's not like he's going to stop doing that and if he's like working on something new he'll say it and then everyone goes into a tailspang as they're like well what's he doing over there if he's directing it's like i think he probably just gets to still do why he's in this business in the first place and it might end up still being the best stuff dc will put out i don't know but let him do his thing it's fine totally and i was thinking about that like if i was suddenly given the

reins to the DCU and said, okay, we're going to have you be the frontrunner for all of the new content that DCU is doing, TV shows, movies, et cetera. I kind of would want to, as much as I, you know, I love Cavill, I love Gallagadad, I love, or Godot, I love, uh, um, dude, Chuck, Chuck, what plays Shazam, like all of these actors, I'd almost feel like, yeah, thank you, Zach Reliva. I feel like I would want to wipe the stalemate clean and start fresh so that I can you know have a full a full it's a real mix of that though right

because the Shazam sequel still coming still coming. Yeah and so it's the Aquaman sequel supposedly at the end of this this year. Right. Yeah and so interestingly Brian you are saying the exact same thing that frustrates so many people when there is a regime change in that You know, Disney buys Fox, lays off half the employees, replaces all of the people, you know. Warner Brothers gets bought out by Discovery and the new crew comes in and they wipe out everything that's come before so they can lay their own groundwork for their own thing.

And everybody, of course, wants to have their say their control on everything so that they're not beholden to things that are coming from the past and they're not measured against the things that have come in the past. Yes. Yes. Exactly. And so that's the main reason why a lot of this happens at not just these big entertainment companies, but every company around. You know, a new president comes into your company, and the first thing that they're going to do is say, well, we need to fire these, these people or these things because I need to make my money.

Yeah, let me, let me be clear, when I'm, when I'm given the keys to the DCU to, you know, to completely overhaul everything, not firing anybody. I mean, okay, yeah, I guess Cavill and Godd and Godot and Zachary Levi, but you don't get be fine. Those guys will be fine. I'm not firing any of the people who rely on these jobs and need the work, but come on. Yeah, the big actors are fine. Those are just fine. Yeah, she'll have, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. She'll have other things to do. As long as she doesn't try and do another cover of, uh, imagine, uh, she'll be, she'll be great. Oh, that was a heinous thing. That was one of my worst thing. My least favorite things in

the pandemic was that. That was one of them. Yes. Oh, and she meant well, she did it for the right reasons, but it was just, uh, no, I don't blame her. Unless it's everybody, I mean, they all look dumb. It was just... They really did, yeah. This was so tone-deaf. It really was. All right, there's that.

Let's talk about McFarland Toys, always making cool stuff, and they released a Mr. Freeze action figure that is damned impressive. This is not Arnold Schwarzen- It looks great. Yeah, let me pull this up. I don't know what to say. I mean, McFarland Toys for years has been the top dog when it comes to action figures. Certainly, you can look at hot toys that do one-six scale figures and a gentle giant,

which does highly detailed statues. But when it comes to action figures, McFarlane has got it nailed. He goes in and sculpts these things two to three times larger than the actual action figure will be so that when you shrink it down, it retains all the detail.

And to see this, it kind of looks a little bit, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Little Schwarzenegger, yeah, it totally does. That was my first thought, except for obviously the costume, very different. Right, right. But yeah, definitely.

the armor that he's wearing is very different from what people think of from maybe the Batman animated series or something like that but it's still very impressive. He's always been so skinny and wiry and stuff like that until Schwarzenegger

did the character and I really like you know why can't Mr. Freeze be swall why can't he be bulked up and look like a gym bro wearing some awesome body armor? Well I mean certainly there's theories to that

certainly not something you would see with McFarland toys but in prior years you know most action figures would all have the same sculpt so if you go back and look at your he man collection they all got the same torso the same body different heads so if you can just stamp that out makes it very

easy so it would not surprise me that if you've had a Batman line that's being stamped out that you would just do the same thing with Mr. Freeze or the Joker or whoever when in reality that's probably not it but yeah if you like if you like a buff Mr. Freeze, then certainly grab your buffed Mr. Freeze. If you like your icicles a little skinnier, then there's certainly other figures out there.

But they're Carlin toys. That's what they do. They make beefy toys. They don't usually make skinny guys. Let me ask you this. Stephen, over there in the DC Universe, you got two cold villains. You got Mr. Freeze and you got Captain Cold. Correct.

Where do you stand? Should they just get rid of one of those two idiots and just stick with one cold villain? You know what I mean? I mean, this world ain't warm enough for the both of us. I mean, we've also got a number of heat villains. We've also got,

I mean, every universe has multiples of these. We've got, you know, Marvel's got Ice Man and, uh, who else? Does Marvel have,

I mean, I'm sure they're like, D-List ice characters, but why am I not thinking of any of them? Well, and Captain Cold's kind of D-List now. Oh, for sure.

Yeah. Oh, he hasn't, I like Captain Cold a little bit more just because he's, a little bit more of a character and this is one of the things that like Mark Wade did with his run of the Flash is like why do all of these villains have to be

bad? What happens if because of Wally West's good nature he is able to kind of reform these characters and so we saw this in the Flash TV show where Captain Cold starts to turn around and become a hero and then goes off to the what's the time travel show? He did

that and died a hero. We saw we see that with Pipeer in the comics and those kinds of things. So for that reason I kind of like Captain Cold more than Mr. Freeze, who is until the animated series where we find out about Heart of Glass, that episode, where he accidentally froze his wife and everything is driving him to, you know, restore her. Then suddenly you have a little bit more of a story for Mr. Freeze. But, you know, for years, he was just kind of like, you know, I used to see you. Yeah. I do like the stealing stuff. The Harley Quinn animated, uh,

Mr. Freeze, who, spoiler it no longer with us, but that he froze his wife, and this is what I think is the real, Laura, is that he froze his wife because she was dying of a rare disease and he was waiting to thaw her out when there was a cure and, yeah. Yeah, they touched on that and the, what was that one that I always love and I always forget the name of the damn thing, the Gotham City police one, Gotham City. Oh, DCPD. They had a whole Mr. Freeze arc in there and they touched on the wife stuff. that's that was weirdly consistent with the comedy version of that other one um well all right look i just want them to fight can they fight have they ever done that have we ever gotten those two to just to cold versus uh i don't think they've ever fought they have teamed up before this would have been in mid early 2000s series i would have to go back and and do some research but there was a whole thing where like all the cold villains uh teamed up like the icicle uh is a villain

Chill Blaine. Yeah, chill Blaine. Yeah, yeah. So where they all teamed up to do bad things. Wow. Well, sometimes cold is gold or something. Well, there you go. There's an update on some of the New Year's business going on.

And if James Gunner's right and it's going to take 10 years to see the fruition of the changes they're making, I try not to think about how old I'll be then. But that makes sense, right? You can't do all this overnight. You can't end up. Yeah, so, I mean, think about it. if you're going to, certainly Batman, they're not going to do

much with Batman. I mean, they may reboot it or tell another story or whatever, but Batman's kind of a, we could release one of these every two years and we'll be okay. I hope we finally get, with James Gunn at the helm, I hope we finally get a Batman origin story. Oh, yeah. Stuff about the alleyway and the shooting and stuff, I hope we get that. I know. It would be great to finally see that on the big screen.

If they really want to get me, get the pearls falling and bouncing all over the street, I need that. Oh, please do that. That'd be great. but if you think another another cold character that's a joey chill yeah joey chill but if you think about it by the time you have a movie that comes out let's say a movie comes out today and it does incredibly well but you haven't been planning a series of three although today most studios plan for a series of three let's say that that one movie is popular well in order to get the second movie out it's about two years for that one to come out so that's 2025 then if that one's successful another two years after that 2027 so So, yeah, you're looking at, you know, four to ten years to build a big franchise of movies that are going to be successful. Yeah, I think it's, this is, this is a rebuilding time is what it is. It's like when the, so they told me when the Utah Jazz lost Carl Malone and John Stockton, and they've been telling me that ever since.

Oh, it's what they've pretty much said, the entire season of the Broncos this year. Yeah, oh, it's a rebuilding year. It's like, is you rebuilding your code for a rebuilding two decades? Like, what are we doing? I guess the Broncos haven't been that bad for. for that long. But the jazz have... Yeah, the jazz are actually pretty good, but they just... Jazz are still playing? Yeah, they're just not quite there.

Just night, they always... It's within reach, and then they get there and they go, oh, shit, and then they lose it. And we even got those cool black uniforms now. I don't know why I'm talking about sports all of a sudden, but there it is. Yeah, I haven't followed basketball since the Kansas City Kings left. Oh, was that before your time? When was that? No. That was like 78 or something. Yeah, I was going to say, it was forever ago. Aren't they the Washington senators now or something? The generals, that'd be cool. Anyway, so there you have it. Stephen, always good to talk to you and catch up.

What's going on in the new year over there, major spoilers? We are retooling a bunch of things and fine-tuning stuff, and we are still going strong as we enter year 17, and so I hope everyone sticks with us. Yeah, and 17 years is amazing. How do you guys manage to have a lot of water around and stuff? Why is that important to you? Because everybody should stay hydrated.

Boy, I really softballed that one to you this time. Bye now. Well done. Hey, we've got another phone call to play. Yay. This is great. Book ending our show with phone calls. I love it.

That's right. This one's about verbal tics. Here you go. Hey, TMS, boys. I'm driving down I-55 between Memphis and Jackson and listening to y'all worried about verbal pics and this and that and that-da-da. You know, you get like tens of thousands of downloads, and one person mentions the thing that they notice.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. You know, everybody's got these little picks. Somebody noticed it and been thought to ride in. Don't worry about it. Do you think. Guys are great. Love the show. Yeah.

His point is well taken, which is the person with the tick might be the one who can't stand hearing Brian say, yeah, or me, mispronounce a word or whatever. Whatever it is. Everybody does it. Oh, totally. And I would hardly call my, yeah, yeah, a verbal tick. and more like just a, that's just a thing I do. It's just a, yeah.

I do have full control over it. The rate says, says both. Yeah, that's a verbal. That's a weird. I wouldn't call it a tick either. It's just a effed up way I say things. Yeah. But you know what?

This guy's right. I take his advice seriously. Yes, exactly. Here's one final note. This is a text, I believe. Yes, it is from a listener named no name. He didn't leave a name. It says finally figured out something that's

been bugging me for a little while now the pot metal band i think he meant i'm not sure why i said pot but pot metal band ghost think he meant hot i think maybe hot i don't know maybe they call the kettle black i don't know that's weird so i'll read it the way he wrote it the pot metal band ghost has always sounded a little odd to me um i finally figured out who this why and this the singer sounds a little like weird al yankevick okay so i've got a little clip here we're going to test yeah yeah see if he does here we go. I can hear it. Totally hear it.

Yeah, a good little Papa Emeritus, although I don't know who he was for that song. He's been so many different things over the years, but. Yeah, right now. Cardinal Copia, Papa Meredithus. It's almost always like a Pope looking guy. It's like Guido Sarducci these days. Ghost band. Let's see. Is there a way to see what he's doing right now?

Tobias Forge is the guy's name. yeah, they're sure there is. Because all these are popi. I'm sure he's working on another ghost album. There's so many popy pictures here. That's right, yeah. Without his makeup, by the way, Tobias Forge looks like that guy that always is reviewing ice skating routines with Tara Lipinski. Wait a minute.

I get a look now. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he does. He does. He does. He does. Honey, weir. Yes.

These guys are Swedish, right? Swedish? Huh? Are these Swedish band, Ghost? Are they Swedish? Yes, I think so. Yeah. Okay.

Oh, yeah, there it is. Not that it matters. I just thought that was interesting. Okay, well, there you go. That's, you know what? They does sound like weird Al. I'll give it to you. A little bit.

Yeah. Not like a, not like a, not like entirely. Still good, right. It's not so distracting. Ghost PC. We did an episode all about Ghost on soundography, and it was one of the biggest surprises, how much I liked ghost.

And I think it is a lot because of the weird signal sounds like Weird Al Yankovic and doesn't just sound like your typical screaming a heavy metal singer that I don't like. That was my headfield impersonation right there.

Yeah. All right, let's get to these patrons that we got. We got some new ones. Three of them. Three brand new people. New year, new patrons. I love it. I love it.

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PM is post-Mridian. Not PM. Sorry, I meant, I meant, what is FM? Frequency modulation. There we go. That's it. The AM-F-M-PM. I lost my mind there for a second.

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So thank you for that. Everything else is at frogpans.com slash TMS. Song requests, all that stuff. So go check that out. Speaking of which, probably have one today. What do you got? I do. This one comes to us from Andrew Helm. One of my other

to use resolutions is to maybe go get another go visit the eye doctor. I just got a text for them over the holidays saying it's time to schedule your eye appointment. Come back. I think I might have to.

My dearest Brian and Scott this coming Monday today sees my completion of 46 turns around our son. Cue the birthday clip. Oh yeah, shit. Hold on. Love playing this now.

Let's party. For many of them, it sounds like a real, is that a real fart? It's a real fart. That's not my fart, but it's a real fart. Well, all right. I want citation.

Citation needed. I can get it. Seas my completion of 46 turns around our son. For many of them, I've been a night wish fan, and their most current singer, Fleur Janssen, has been their best in my humble opinion. She's done a few covers, such as Frozen 2's Into the Unknown, which even at 46 still feels quite appropriate as I grow forever grumpier as time goes on. If you could play this or find a great Fleur Jansen or Nightwish cover, that would be

awesome. Keep up the great work. You two do as my daily listen to work since the early 400s. Boy, that's a, it feels like we've been doing it for centuries when you can describe it like that. 400 BC. Have a sausage for me and there ain't no snow down under yo. Oh, I don't know what that means, but I can do the one bit. Um, wait, that was sausage, right? Yeah. Yeah. Shit, where is it? I have the long one here. No. Um, sausage. See, still longer. It totally is.

Absolutely is. I don't know how that you're just stretching out the tape every single time you play it. Signed Andrew, a.k. Asher 77 in chat the rare times that he's able to attend. All right. Well, let's get to that exact one that Andrew wanted to hear. This is a single that Fleur released in 2021. It's a cover of the song from Frozen 2.

which I still have yet to see. I guess I need to finally watch that. This is the one that has Aurora in the beginning of it, the song? What's the name of the song? I don't know. Oh. Like you said, I haven't seen it. So I can't tell you what song is in the beginning of Frozen 2.

Oh, wow. Okay. So there's a song where she does like a, ah, thing. And then the let it go lady picks it up and sings it from there. But Aurora does that little bit of the beginning. Anyway, sorry, just a little side note because I heard it recently. I think that's probably this. See, what is it?

Strange Planet? What's the new one that they just released? I got to see that one too. All right. Anyway, hey, let's get to this one. Here's Into the Unknown by Floor Jansen from a single that she released in 2021. I can hear you, but I won't, so I'll look for trouble while others don't. There's a thousand reasons I should go about my day and ignore your whispers which I wish would go away.

You're not a voice You're just ringing in my ear And if I hurt you, which I don't I'm spoken for I fear Everyone I ever love is here within these walls I'm sorry secrets either but I'm blocking out your calls I've had my adventure I don't need something new

I'm afraid of what I'm risking if I'd follow you Into the moon into the young man Into the young man Are you here? Oh Oh Oh

What do you want? Because you've been keeping me awake Are you here to distract me So I make a big mistake Or are you someone out there Who's a little bit like me Who knows? Deep down, I'm not where I'm meant to be.

Every day's a little harder as I feel my power grow. Don't you know this part of feeling it loves to go? Into the young man. Into the young man. Into the young man. Do you out there? Do you know me? Do you feel me? Can you show me? Where are you going? Don't leave me alone? How do you are you going?

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