The Morning Stream - TMS 2410: Beefy Tips

Episode Date: January 23, 2023

Top of the Ramen to ye. I didn't do the Doctor but I might have done her deputy. I've Seen Loki 'All The Way!'. You're Wrong, Elizabeth, So Wrong. Then you can't eat fried rice.Whatever Happened to TMS Listener? You Know The Guy's Got Talent. Viva Las Vegas Lizzie. Knobs and Balls Break Everyday. Feels A Little Verdant! The Sesame chicken litmus test. A handful of Prince. Dingleberry Douchebag. Ask Your Doctor if TMS is Right For You. Please Bend My Leg. Rolling Hills Flat Zone with Steven. Regina On My Mind With Dan 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, top of the ramen to ye. I didn't do the doctor, but I might have done her deputy. I've seen Loki. All the way. You're wrong, Elizabeth, so wrong. Then you can't eat fried rice! Whatever happened to TMS listener, you know the guy's got talent. Viva Las Vegas Lizzie.

Knobbs and balls break every day. Phil's a little verdant. The sesame chicken litmus test. A handful of prints. Dingleberry douchebag. Ask your dog. Doctor of TMS is right for you. Please bend my leg.

Rolling Hills Flat Zone with Stephen. Regina on my mind with Dan and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Have you tried the lasagna? It's my favorite. Did you catch a game last night? Is it still hot out there? Do you like hot budd Sundays? All right.

Shut up, Dirtface. The morning stream. There's one thing worse than dying here. And that's living here. Good morning and welcome to TMS for Monday, January 23, 23, 2023. We got a 23-23 in the house. Yeah, I saw that. I typed something today and I'm like, oh, cool.

I got to make sure Scott knows about this. Yeah, I like it. Like when these days happen. Anyway, welcome back to the show, everybody. It's Monday. Johnson, it's him Brian Ibbott. Good morning, Brian. Good morning, Scott. Happy Monday to you.

Thanks, man. Happy Lunar New Year deal, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, we had, so we did a whole thing here. We had the kids over. And we had, Kim made a giant ramen thing, which I think is Japanese in origin. So it's a little weird because Chinese lunar New Year. But anyway, whatever. It's probably offends somebody because they have a long history of war and invasion, those two countries. so who knows. Did you make a tongatsu or a shoyu ramen? Kim made, so if it's tunkatsu, it's a little more milky, right?

It's like a... It depends on what she uses as a broth base. So pork is tongatsu, shoyu is soy. Oh, gotcha. Then I would say it's more tancatsu than soy, but it was also her own recipe, so it was less than you're used to seeing kind of the milky thing. It was very good, though.

She made up her own recipe, and it was fantastic. And so what you do is you got the noodles, of course, and then she had out all these assortments of, you know, crap you put on there. Was it at top your own ramen bar? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

I love it. It was great. We even did the cut, we boiled a bunch of eggs, even though there were $4,000 per egg. Egg prices, man. Anyway, chop those, you know, in half, put them in everybody's thing. Anyway, everybody got to make their own thing. It was great.

Perfect. And Carter wore, I don't know, she's listening, she uses at work right now, so maybe she won't hear this, but Carter War, what I thought looked like a geisha dress thing. And so she comes out

and says, she goes, Dad, that's probably racist in Japan. I said, why? Not Japan and China. I go, why? She goes, so this is traditional Chinese wear and I don't think they would have a geisha dress over there. I said, yeah, but we're eating ramen.

Ramen. Yeah. And Kim wanted to make homemade fortune cookies. Which their origin is the states. We made that up over here. Exactly. That's completely Americanized. So I think we're past that.

We're not, you know, the adherence to exact Chinese details are probably been lost already. But anyway, it was lovely. Everybody was over. It was fun. They all played video games after. And I ate too much. Yeah. You know?

Just farting like a monster this morning. We went to a Chinese restaurant on Friday night with the crazy neighbors. Surprised I was able to function. an episode of film sack Saturday morning, to be honest, because, uh, again, Chinese restaurant, but sake, we just kept ordering more bottles, me and crazy Dave, kept ordering more bottles of hot sake, which is very Japanese. But, um, uh, I'm kind of like, all right, sesame chicken is my, that's my, oh, you're going to a new Chinese restaurant? I go, I order the sesame chicken. That is my, um, uh, variable. No, my control.

Your control, got it. That will determine whether you go back to that place or not, right? Correct, exactly. If they baseline, thank you. If they do a good sesame chicken, then great. I'll go back there and I'll try the other things and that sort of thing. I don't want to go crazy and go, well, let me try your Hunan, Seshwan chicken, blah, blah, whatever, right? Like I start with a sesame chicken because you'll find out, A, if they use, you know, good chicken,

if they overbred their chicken, like over, you know, it's basically you get a thing that's all breading with a little tiny raisin of chicken in the middle. Sure. And it also gives you a chance to try out the rice. And I always do the fried rice as opposed to the steamed. Their fried rice at the tea garden here in Arvada is steamed rice that kind of maybe was soaked in soy sauce. there is you know what you get in fried rice here at the tea garden rice okay no no uh carrot cubes no peas no little bits of uh pork or chicken or anything like that it's just i literally have the menu right here it says then you can eat rice that's crazy

that's exactly right yeah crazy i should have looked at the menu scad i should have done what you anyway uh so yeah no veg no nothing in the in the in the fried rice it was just basically brown it was just pre-soid rice that seems very odd to me yes an egg right of course the egg is kind of there's almost always egg in there yeah yeah that's weird and a little bit to ham or whatever I don't know if it's always him nothing that's weird yeah I would have so it's a bummer because I would give you know I would say the uh the sesame chicken was four out of five stars it was really really good it was not oversossed the uh noodles that they serve it on like the crispy um crispy

crispy they hadn't been soaked in the in the sauce anyway that's always a good litmus test there and how exactly how you have your you have your you have your lunar new year uh celebration we had ours yeah that's great you sounded uh I mean you usually do so whenever you tell you you had like oh yeah wild night last night and then you'll do a film sack you always sound fine to us and never say I know I I um I have an ability, I think, most of the time anyway, to push a hangover or a groginess or something like that aside. Usually, I think there's been a film or a TMS or so where like I came off of a

muscle relaxant from my background like, yeah? Oh, news? Okay, news is brought to you by the birds circling over my head going. Did the new, you didn't get any more or that, or do they, are they still giving you that you still taking that stuff if you have i am yeah because i still have back problems uh i did the doctor on that way i didn't do her i went to the doctor on thursday yeah and uh she is going to hook me up with some physical therapy because the stretching i'm doing and i'm doing stretching three times a day yeah um is has helped me up to a point but has not really gotten any further than that so

uh we've hit we've hit a plateau people call yeah what's that i said we've hit a plateau we're there We've had a plateau, and I'm sure the physical therapist, look, I'm kind of looking forward to hating my physical therapist, but loving him or her at the same time, like, because they're going to bend my leg for me the way I cannot bend it myself without shouting expletives. So it's going to feel good when it's all done and when I'm able to get on the bike and start doing some training. But I'm going to hate them up until that moment. Well, I'm going to curse them. You should curse it. Speaking of cursing and almost wrecking my back, I should have, I forgot to mention this. Coming downstairs, today, I got a hot tea in this thing.

And I have a couple of cans of soda. I'm going to put my little Xbox fridge over here. And what else I had? Oh, I had a handful of prints that I got a sign today. And I walked downstairs and I'm like, it's dark in here. A handful of prints. I don't have, I don't have the light on because my hands are flying. and I'm like, I'm fine.

I walk this every day 50 times a day. I know where to go. So I'm just not worrying about the lights. I'd forgotten that Van was here all night last night. And his shit is everywhere. So he's got, we got like a slide and a some kind of, oh, like a mini little chest table thing. He likes to set up a little chess board on, even though he doesn't know how to play stuff. Like all this kind of stuff.

It's like I'm barreling in here this morning with all this stuff in my arms, trip on that slide. Everything goes 400 directions. I was sure one of these cans was going to explode because they were going to hit some sharp or whatever. And the tea looked like it was a nice sealed contigo containers. So that was okay. But the prints, I think I wrecked three or four of them. It's fine. We did overage on it.

But anyway, the stuff just goes everywhere and I laid there on the floor going, Damn it! That's all I could say. And I yelled it as loud as I could. And then the dog went, roo, upstairs. That is what I did a few Halloween's ago when I landed on my cocks. six right it was sliding down the stairs and just like yeah landing on the bottom floor bottom step and going f it was in two bags it only took what a year for the pain to go away

that's the worst kim just getting over that too she did the same thing fell on the ice and her butt bone has been hurting her since and it's been since november and it still hurts so coxics f that bone that thing sucks you know something better than me yelling Scott is when I get yelled at and this weekend I got yelled at by a lift passenger. Oh, hold on. Be courteous and obey traffic regulation. I can't wait to hear this.

All right, go. Yeah, so I'm out driving. This is Friday. No, this is Saturday morning. I think Saturday. Let's just say it's Saturday because I can't remember for sure. But I'm out driving and I drop off a passenger and I immediately get

a little thing on my app that says you have a new ride. I click, accept, and within two seconds, the phone rings. And I can always tell it's a lift thing because it comes from San Francisco. Like when you, if you schedule a ride with Uber or Lyft, and you need to contact the driver, and you hit that little phone button in the app, it doesn't call them directly. It routes the call through the servers so that you don't get their phone number. They don't get your phone number, all that stuff.

Sure. Yeah, that makes sense. So I, like, answer the phone. I go, hi, this is Brian, because that's what I do. And she goes, why the F, did you just cancel my ride? It was a lady? And I said, yeah, I was a lady. I said, oh, I just accepted your ride. No, you drove around the parking lot.

You looked right at us. Then you canceled the ride and you drove off. Why the hell did you do that? No, no, no. I just accepted the ride. Like, every time, like, she would interrupt every time I said something. She's like, no, you didn't. You cancel the ride.

And now we're stuck here. Now we have to wait for another ride. I'm like, no, I'm the other ride. I'm the guy who got the ride. Yeah, you're the second ride. Yeah. Was she ever off that cliff or was she always going to fight that? Like, finally I got a word in edgewise and I said, look at your app right now.

Do you see a license plate that says cover me? She's like, yes. I said, what did it say cover me before? She's like, no, it was a different license plate. Okay. I'm so sorry. I'm so so sorry. Oh my God, I am so sorry.

She basically apologized almost the entire time that she called me while I was on the highway heading to pick her up until I got her. But basically what had happened is, you know, they'd been standing outside in the cold. It was 20-something degrees. They're in this parking lot with their luggage out, getting ready to fly to the airport. And they're, you know, they're on a time crunch. It's a flight to the airport. And so they see, oh, they see the car driving and it's coming. and then they see the car actually in

and so they start jumping up and down and waving their hands because the car is kind of going right by them. The driver looks right at them as they're jumping up and down waving their hands and keep in mind as a driver you get a little icon of the person wherever they're standing based on their phone

and for me she showed up right exactly where she was so I drove right to her looked right at her then turned drove off and canceled the ride and this is after like a 20 minutes wait to to get to the

to get that that ride. So because a new one had already come up, she thought she was still numbering or contacting the person that it would have predicted. She hit the call button immediately when the ride got canceled. And because it had already switched over to me

she called me. It was like cursing me. Did you get a good tip out of this? A beefy tip? I got a beefy tip. Yeah. She also, she works for, so she, she travels, she's from Rockford, Illinois. And we talked a lot about the Rockford Register Star, which I've been to for the newspaper in Rockford, Illinois. Nice. And, I mean, we, we were chatting for the entire 40-minute ride. We were chatting and laughing and, you know, getting along. She's got, the company she works for in Boulder does, does trade shows, but they are looking into, like doing podcast leadups to trade shows and so she and I are going to be talking about doing like you'd be producing some podcasts for like here's the lead up to the CES or lead up to this and that sort of thing wow so that's funny so uh Elizabeth which here's the

other funny part the the the previous driver was somebody named Elizabeth the one they canceled and you think that right away when I answered she'd be like well you don't sound like an Elizabeth. Oh, yeah, right. So that's who it was. It was somebody named Elizabeth that took off. Yeah. So lift driver Elizabeth, if you're listening, uh, screw you for canceling the passenger, but thank you because it might lead to some work for me. Yeah. Yeah, nicely done. Get a little side, side action there. Uh, that's really funny. That's great. But also, also look, sometimes these confront, these confrontations we have in our modern life, sometimes they, they meld into something decent, you know? And all you got to do is just, you know, you just got a,

let the other person get their venting out, then calmly explain why they're wrong. Yeah. Then you calm me explain why they're wrong. You just tell them you're wrong. You're so wrong. I'm right. I'm always right.

Well, people tell me that I'm always right. Elizabeth Ibitt, I think you did a great job. Well done. Nice job. Thank you, thank you very much. No problem. Hey, one other quick thing, we had somebody asking, we were talking about,

where are these people that used to listen to TMS all the time? You know, we were talking about that last week? We were like, hey, we haven't seen so-and-so in the chat room in a long time. And where's TBZ gone? The TVZ gone was when they came up. Exactly. Well, we got something from Alan. He wrote in to the text number and says,

fans that have faded away is a subject, says whatever happened to Keith from Maine. Maybe old TMS regulars have a WhatsApp group where they could chat about all their old contacts to the show. Sorry, about their old connects to the show, but haven't told you about, says Alan. Yeah, I don't know. Keith from Maine was a huge. regular always submitting stuff he was around forever and then poof nothing yeah yeah so i i've thought about i've thought about this a lot scott i haven't practiced speaking it but i've thought about this a lot sure and i decided what we're going to do uh every morning uh either during the show or

pre show we're going to take roll okay and that way we can see who's absent and if you've got four or five absence in a row then we need to uh we need to call you at home and follow up and make sure you're okay we'll do a wellness check at your house so someone in the main will have to do this for us so but but also we're not going to beular beular beular this all right we're going to say it once it's got to be quick yeah you better be quick because we got to be quick we have 15,000 people we have 15,000 people to get through so really like be quick yeah if you're like George Santos on the C-SPAN where he sat there looking at his phone and didn't hear his name for the first three times she said it we're not count you okay that's right right right right there's

that. Also, good news, steam decks are back in production for the TMS, Steam decks. Oh, I should have one here in front of me to show everybody. But, no, we had a, man, an initial rush of those from patrons. We had a big patron push for TMS. So I had to kind of pull them off of the, pull them off of the store a little bit or basically just increase their date. That said, we're back to full production on those. By the way, I am based on listener, Dway. and his lovely wife, Christine, she's, like, huge in online selling. She's a tax accountant and does all that sort of thing.

But she also does a lot of stuff with selling online. And she kind of talked to me a little bit about Etsy and what a crapshoot. We're not in crapshoot. What a shit show they are. I do it with something fecal. and is directing me over towards Spotify, Spotify, Shopify, yeah. Yes, buy your steam deck stands from your music streaming service, please. Sure.

Anyway. So, anyway, yeah, so keep an eye out. I will be putting stuff moving my store over to Shopify, but for right now they're at Etsy, coverville 3D, all one word, dot Etsy.com, and you'll see all my stuff there. Doesn't, so Shopify, do they have a store where you don't have to pay some monthly craziness? Because they used to, I think they charge you, don't they? They only charge, as far as I can tell, only charge you for what you sell. Everybody that after I switched or after I started looking at Shopify, everybody's like, oh, yeah, Shopify is the way to go over Etsy.

Let's see here. Yeah. Yeah, I thought it was a, oh no, it does say, well, it says monthly, but maybe this is for something else. So they got 26 a month for their basics, 71 a month for Shopify standard or whatever, and then advanced 266, which I don't know what that is. I guess you get unlimited products or something. Anyway, I don't know how they work. I looked at them years ago, and it's very different now.

I don't even recognize this website. So Shopify's gone through some stuff. So much better. I did freelance for a woman last year for Shopify. So I kind of had to learn how to customize a Shopify site really quickly. By the way, she's a rowdy little dame on Shopify, and she sells greeting cards for people to give to people who are crappy about sending greeting cards. If you're one of those people who's like, oh, crap, it's the night before Mother's Day,

and I didn't buy a Mother's Day card or a birthday card for somebody. You actually get a box with 12 cards of all of the events over a course of a year. That's great. That all you have to do is just sign and hand to the person. I love that. That's actually pretty good. Routy little dame is her name. She's awesome.

I go one level cheaper and make my own cards. That's how I get away with it. Oh, yeah, of course. You've got the talent to do that sort of thing. Yeah. Sometimes it's like, I forgot to get them a thing. What should I do? Oh, I know. I'll draw a card.

How about that? Oh, speaking of which, by the way. Yeah, yeah. Let me put this up real quick. This is just a tease here. Everybody, I'm going to show you something. Brian's already seen it. But anyway, we've got the die-cut.

labels already all set these probably go on our well I don't want to give anything away yet but we got some cool stuff coming up for these swag bags swag for TMS Vegas yep if you see me and Brian sitting on the leg of what's her name Lizzie not Lizzie Vegas Vicki Vicki I want to say Lizzie Las Vegas Lizzie for some Las Vegas Lizzie

But anyway that's me and Brian sitting up there I don't know why Brian's pointing in the sky but you see something you know something up there Or I'm hoping a bird will land on my finger maybe but these turned out pretty good i think and i'm very excited about uh the rest of what's coming in those bags for both those who can come and those who can't and if you're like wait what i can get these now yep they're in the events tab on the frog pants store or better yet go to viva tms vegas vizabeth.com and just click on the links brian put on there it'll take you straight to these

listings if you're coming to Vegas or want a swag bag outside of Vegas uh you got to get in there get that done because we're trying to we're trying to get head counts by the end of this week so uh forgive all my bugging you about it but that's going to happen a bunch of this week and that's just how it'll be that's just the way it is yeah i'm seriously considering uh printing a vagus vicky with a little you and a little me sitting on her leg just basically just like this as the the video game tournament as opposed to the uh arcade machine although the arcade machine is just such a cool yeah the arcade machine's pretty pretty rad if there was a way to print you know what we could do

what's that well it's combined forces on that like we did last year yeah but oh and do a Vegas Vicky arcade machine yeah that's what I'm thinking so we can still this this art can still get tweaked and used for like side panel stuff and and whatever I like it we should start working

on that now is it the same as last year the exact same template do you know or is it different yes yes exactly so you're going to print that same thing all right and monkey bananas your brother can't come this time Just kidding. He can do whatever he is. He's come. He's already registered for the damn video game tournament. Is he? Oh, shoot. Yes. All right. Everybody brush up. Seriously. There's a, here's the deal. All right. Winner of the tournament gets the arcade machine, a little 3D print arcade machine. The person who takes Monkey Banana's brother out of competition with a little 3D printed Vegas Vicky. There's the deal. There's how we do it.

Yeah. Because that guy's really good. legitimately good and it's probably good that he won because I didn't want to win that I would have felt bad I know yeah well yeah and you wouldn't have even if you would have won you would have given it no I wasn't gonna keep it of course not I would have found like it probably would have gone to him anyway because he would have been second and I'd have been like to give it to second place but that guy is your enemy number one everybody and I don't mean it in a bad way I mean he's the guy to beat he's your competition he's exactly there's a bounty whoever takes him out gets this uh and monkey bananas uh oh Oh, what was I going to say? Shoot. There was something I was going to say about that. I know Redfragel and Icor, I think. Somebody also offered to help out with the tournament so that I can play a little bit more. Oh, good.

That'd be great. Because maybe Brian's the ringer. You might be the ringer the whole time. We didn't know. Oh, no. Oh, no, I'm not. No. Don't be silly.

You might be. He's got a damn tempest in his office. Look at that. What does that tell you? Yeah. You know? But they don't have a tempest at, uh, at, uh, at, um, at, player one. You know why? Because those knobs

break all the effing time. Exactly. It's so true. Knobs and balls, man. As much as I love like that era of arcade control, that shit broke every day. It's just always down. And track balls, you'd get, you know, somebody would spill their sprite down the trackball of like missile command and that would hose

everything. I mean, it was... It kind of sucked. Anyway, uh, well, it's good to have you all here. We're going to play a game this morning. Um, we're going to get, uh, we do this on Mondays and Wednesdays. We play a little game. And we're going to pull in Brian Dunaway to play it. And I think he's around, you know, always around, always ready, always feeling it.

Always watching. Always watching. Hey, it's Brian Dunaway. What's going on? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. How's it going? It's Monday. Yes.

Hey, man. Hey. Hey, it was nice seeing you over the weekend. We had a great time with film soccer. We watched Daredevil. And then we found out. So we found out prior to the movie, hey, there's a version of this movie. It's director's cut and it's way better.

And everybody should see that. And we went, well. it's all HBO has. Well, that's what people say. It's supposed to be, it's supposed to be better because it's R as opposed to the sanitized PG-13 thing that we watched on H-B. Better is a good term. You know, it can be like one point better.

Way better would make me think that I'm going to watch a good movie. I keep hearing people say way better. Those are the words they use. So I don't know if that's true or not. You're talking, you're talking justice league way better, right? No, no. What we saw the theater to. Snyder Cut, Justice League.

Snyder Cut was moderately, it's moderately better. I wouldn't call it way better. But it's moderately better than the first one. Everything, I mean, you know, exactly. It's like all it has to be is 0.0001% better. Yeah, technically it's better. Well, that's what we got better. That was my argument.

But here's what we're saying. Here's what I'm saying. None of that matters because it turns out the thing was on Hulu and we didn't know it. And then we're not going to go back and redo it. So it turns out. It turns out that I'm just not that interested in watching it again. I know. That's the thing.

Like, oh, I do really want to watch it. But, oh, I really don't want to watch it. Yeah. If I, if it ever comes up again to be a thing, whether it's through us or we just are in the mood, then I will seek out the better one, right? Yeah. Give me a year or wait until after we watch Electra. And then I might revisit.

I would love, here's where I'd love to have a little notification from who. to say, hey, it's May 1st, at the end of this month, we're getting rid of Daredevil, the director's cut. Be like, okay, all right. Now I've got the notification that it's going away. I'm totally going to watch it there. Yeah, and if you do or you don't, it's on you at that point. You don't have to count on anybody else to remind you or tell you or whatever.

Anyway, it was still really fun, and you guys should check that episode out at FilmSack.com. I would highly recommend it. This week we're doing strange. Sorry, not stranger things. Strange Days. We're seeing Strange Days this weekend. Strange Days.

Getting our Catherine Bigelow on. It's been a while. It's right. Or maybe our first, actually. I don't know if I'm going to sing the, uh, who is it the did strange days? The song. Uh, that would have been. Strange days.

Nah, nah, nah, na, nah, na, nah, nah, nah, nah. Uh, hold on. Uh, late 80s, early 90s. The farm? No. School of fish. School of fish. Oh.

Ah, yeah. That was like their only one hit wonder School of Fish. Yeah, that was one hit, but it was a pretty good hit. It was a good hit. Yeah, it was all right. I'm not going to do, I'm not going to do a sing-along for school fish at the beginning of. Oh, that's a shame. That's a shame.

Listen, I'll be, I'll be honest, those are a blast to do. You should keep making it. Yeah, we love them. That might be your thing. So, look, Brandy's got his list of three things. done away's got his insane comedic brilliance and now you've got your singing song thing you should do it

yeah lay into it i think it's great from the bob newhart style phone calls oh oh hi this is uh is this moonfall oh hi moonfall uh what's that uh you're you're full of bees okay it's pretty good but i like the music stuff too that was really good last time all right uh amazing all right we're going to get into it here we're going to play a game and the game is called Morning Half-Aasses. And Brian, I've been over here is prepared to do whatever we have to do to make people win things.

So, Brian, explain the rules. I will contractually obligated to tell you how this works. Welcome to the morning half-asses, a trivia game where I'm going to be giving Scott and Brian the answers. I'm going to give them a category and six possible answers. Three of those answers are correct. Three of them are incorrect. 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, gets you three points. Ah, and get all three Correct. You get five points total. I'm all choked up because this is just saying. I know you. It's emotional. It's emotional. I understand. It's fun. I shouldn't drink coffee right before I explain the rules of half-asses.

You get five points if you get all three rights. Play it with the most points. After three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. Contestants are pulled from members of the tad pool that aren't able to listen live like Scott. You're going to be playing for Ronald James in Port Orchard, Washington. Oh, it sounds fancy.

up there. Port Orchard. Port Orchard. Like, it's an orchard, but it's also a port. Brian, you're going to be playing for Dan Hanson. Portchard. Brian, you're going to be playing for Dan Hanson in Kansas City. Nice. Yeah, Kansas City, baby.

Kansas City. The winner is going to get a copy of Tooth and Tail and Warsaw from Steam, but the runner-up is going to get 911 operator, which I'm hoping is just a chore core game where you do you dispatch and direct 911 calls it. It kind of is. It is. Is it? That's awesome. And it's good. I played it because you know I like my chore core.

I will I play that kind of game. Work harder. That's right. Work harder. All right. Awesome. I like these rules. Let's play. Let's get right to it. Question number one, stars who have played themselves in a feature film. So you know, you've got your feature film. You've got all your actors. But then you've got that other person who makes an appearance and it's like wait they're playing themselves which of these six actors played themselves in a feature film your choices are

Joaquin Phoenix Drew Barrymore Neil Patrick Harris Philip Seymour Hoffland Russell Crow William Shatner yeah that's your six

oh Christ are these all seem all seem right I know the three I think think I know them. You know the three? Yeah, if I don't know the three, I'll play this. But if I know the three, I'll play this.

All right. I think I know the three. I'm thinking I know these. I think, but I'm probably going to get exactly the opposite of what I think. It's probably going to be in. All right. Well, you both have locked in and you both locked in with three. Joaquin Phoenix and William Shatner both correct.

What was the movie for Joaquin Phoenix, Scott? Was that one where he had the beard and he was supposed to be crazy and it turned out to be a big Gimick, and I can't remember the name of it. Yes, it's called, I'm still here. I'm still here, was that it? It's called the Joker, yeah. William Shatner, do you remember that one? The airplane two, maybe?

No, he played a captain that directed the plane down. Fanboys, Shatner played himself. And of course, Neil Patrick Harris. Come on, Dunaway. Patrick Harris played himself in Harold and Coomar. That's what I was a sure about. Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. So, Brian, you got a.

Take that. Yeah. Scott, leading into question one with five points. Holy cow. Yeah. All right. Let's get to question number two. Number two.

Number two. Let's go sports, shall we? Oh, let's do sports. I like sports. Band baseball players from the Black Sox scandal. So when the Chicago White Sox had that scandal. Oh, God. There were players.

I never watched this movie either. Oh, see, there's where Scott might have. have an advantage if he watched a documentary about it. I didn't think about that. I didn't see it. Yeah. I know one. I know one of these. And one's just too easy. It's like the ridiculously easy and then the rest, I don't

know, maybe these guys all worse. I'm locking in with the one I know. Scott's locked in. Locking in with the one I know. It's all right, Brian. If you build it, they will come. With the one I know. All right, Brian is

locked in with the one as well. You guys both locked in with the same one. Shulis Joe Jackson is absolutely correct. Your other ones are, oh, I never read the answers, did I? Your choices were Buck Weaver, Shulis Joe Jackson, Swede, Rizberg, Red Faber, Kid Gleason, and Gavvy, and Gavvy, and Gavie, and Gavis, and Gavis, you got a back. Is it sweet or swede? Swede. Swede.

Well, Swade would be with a U. Lude. Unless you're talking, unless you're talking about the band. Wasn't the band Blue Swade? No, it was Blue Swede. They were also blue suede. the ones who get chaco who get chaka uh you guys were absolutely correct buck weaver shoeless jo jacks swede risberg you guys both went with shoeless jo and that is absolutely correct so i had to at least put one boy i had to at least get one i couldn't leave with zero oh there we go that's what i did okay

i couldn't i was like why isn't brian have a point yet and that makes sense all right very good so scott with six i mean there's really no way you can win brian so shoot for the fences with this one uh that's right and i'm gonna help you out i'm gonna give you you guys a question about retro video games. What? This one, courtesy of Carl from Idaho, Mike and Matt Chapman's famous website HomestarRender.com

featured Flash cartoons and also some funny, playable knockoffs of many classic retro games. Heck on, it's been so long. Well, Adobe Flash doesn't work anymore, but a new emulator called Ruffle, which you might be able to pick up

from Brian, is now able to run most of the home star runner content. Three of the following are actual homestar runner video game homages and the other three are impostors. Here are your choices. Peasants' Quest, which is a parody of King's Quest.

Strong Bad Zone, which is a parody of Battle Zone. Cool Tapes, which is a parody of Dance, Dance Revolution. Astrolite, which is a parody of Frogger. Dungeon Man, which is a parody of Zork and Stegom Man, 20XX, which is a parody of Mega Man. Three of those are real. Three of

those are faky fakes, which three, which ones are real, which ones are fake? Which ones are fake? Which ones are fakes? I chose two, but I I, I played all that stuff back in the day, but man, these names are throwing. Yeah, me too.

It's been so long. Yeah. It's been a long time, but I got my two. Okay. What do you have? Yeah, fine, whatever. You got nothing to lose, so go for it, Brian. Like, you know. Yeah, I know. I chose six. Okay. Oh, geez.

Well, you're bound to get three right. Well, you're going to get three right and three. Well, that. Peasance Quest is a parody of King's Quest. I remember that one. Dungeon Man is a parody of Zork and Stinko Man is the parody of Megam making those the three correct one, Peasance Quest.

Look at Scott killing it today. Strong Bad Zone is a strong bad game, but it's a parody of Pong, like a style of next one. Vect Trek's console game. Cool tapes, completely made up, and Astrolite Parody of Frogger. There is a game called Astrolite,

but it's really just a flash deployment of Light Bright. Nice. Of a light bright toy. Wow. Cool tape sounds like it would be one. That was a true. That was a good one.

That's the only completely made up one. Congratulations, Scott. You won by a landslide this time. Yeah. Work me. I got a spanking. You did get a spanking. You won prizes for Ronald James

in Portland. Orchard, Washington, he is getting tooth and tail and warsaw. Dan, you're getting 9-1-1 operators. So please hold. Yeah. Get your prize. Please hold. You're, uh, an operator will be with you shortly due to high, a caller demand.

That's right. How much caller demand could there be? They're everywhere says that no matter how busy they are. And you don't, none of them ever change that recording. It's like, due to high call volume, we're, we're currently experiencing a high call volume. Yeah. It's horseshit.

I don't believe. leave any of it. I'm sure they don't have a recording that doesn't say that. No, I can't stand it and it annoys me. Right now our operators are just sitting there, so you'll be answered by the first available Yeah, that's annoying. Oh, that was a caller.

I was trying to find a good clip, but anyway, that didn't work. Hey, Dunaway, tomorrow you and I are doing play retro, and boy, howdy, are we excited, right? Can we wait? Can we wait? I can, because it's, no, it's earth, it's earthworm, Jim. How do we wait?

Happily sequel on Earthworm Jim. Yep, there's a few things interesting about that. So first of all, Earthworm Jim 1 and 2 were great games, and I kind of thought we're going to end up going to be, or was going to end up being a long-running series of mascot-based games well into the 3D era and up to today. But that didn't happen. We're going to talk about why maybe that didn't happen.

And what kind of a dingleberry douchebag Dave Perry turned out to be, even though at the time. No, not Dave Perry, not Dave Perry. Sorry. Doug Tintin Nepal. Ooh, well, there goes. I almost called him Steve Perry. Go ahead.

What? David Perry is a cool guy. He gave us a cool spot. You're thinking of Doug Tinnapal. No, I'm thinking of. Who am I thinking of? There's somebody who's not his name who's a douche. Anyway, the point is... The creator is Doug Tenepaw.

All right. Well, maybe we're calling him a douche, and he's not either. I don't know. But that's the point. We're digging in deep, man. We're going nuts. We're finding it all out. We're going to figure out why that worm was so hot for that 16-bit minute that it was

and why it's not around anymore. That'll be tomorrow. Play retro. Play retro wherever you get your podcast. Or watch us live at 330 Mountain Time. Done away, you have anything else you'd like to add to that? Uh. All right.

That might be my favorite time. He's done that or signed off. That was wonderful. All right. Well done, everybody. Oh, we forgot to do the thing where we do this. Congratulations. You're a winner.

You've totally won, and that means you're awesome. All right, let's do a little bit of the old news. Today's news brought to you by. Splitting Nana's lip. Oh, so. Oh, no. What happened? You've seen me squeezing this thing, this little...

Oh, yeah. A little squeeze toy. On the top, so he's mostly like a stretch Armstrong kind of material. No big deal. Van loves him, so whenever he's here, he wants to play with it. But on his top, he has a plastic. little thing. Oh, a little hard plastic deal. I guess that's like the place where they injected

him and if you took that off, it would all the stuff would come out. Anyway, he's passing it. That's his cork. Yeah. He's goofing around with it and kind of passing it back and forth and Kim's tickling him and he goes to hand it to her and he swings it with that knob first and just split her

upper lip wide open. Oh, man. Up against her teeth. So she had a kind of rough night. Oh, that sucks. And today she left and it's like all puffed out. So she's got this, like, weird little puffy lip. He felt terrible. Does she need a casserole?

I can arrange to have a casserole. Can you do that? Because normally, because she's brought one to herself. It just isn't the same, you know? It isn't the same, yeah. Anyway, he felt terrible. So it was a good lesson for a three-year-old to see when he, you know, it's always good to see, oh, I can hurt people and that's a bad feeling.

It's nothing wrong with that. Well, you hope he feels like it's a bad feeling like, oh, I can hurt people. Yeah, there are two kinds of people. And we were hoping he goes the one way and not the other. Right. All right. Let's get into this. Maryland.

We got a story from Maryland. I feel like we never get up there. So this is good. A school employee inadvertently emailed sexually explicit photos to the entire student body. I do love the fact that inadvertently is in quotes, which means it maybe wasn't inadvertently. Yeah, it feels a little vertent. Yeah. A little vertent.

A little bit. It says a high school in Maryland has had to issue an apology. They did that on Friday after an employee accidentally sent these explicit photos to the entire student body. Principal Taron, Washington of Dr. Henry A. Wise Junior High School and Prince George County sent a letter to students' families Friday informing them. Although this says junior high school, paragraph before they called it a high school. So get your craps together. Well, the headline does. Oh, yeah, high school in Maryland.

You're right. Yeah. This seems weird. No, no. Maybe it's Henry Wise Jr. High School. I think that's it. I think the name is.

It's a high school, but it's the Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. Well, that's an unfortunate pairing, isn't it? It is a very unfortunate pairing. Yeah, you put junior before high? What do you expect there, people? It's like, don't go naming your citizen center after Harry Carey Senior. Don't make it the Harry Carey Senior Citizen Center. No, don't.

Although, do actually do do that. Do that, please. I want that. Hi. How long have you been at Bingo? What's your major? Best thing we'll have ever did. All right.

The Sandy Davis Junior College. It says here, school administrators immediately tried to retract the email, but the photos were seen by many of the people they were shared with, and they've also shared them with others. Quote, I'm asking that all students are as responsible online citizens, not share photos by email, social media outlets, other avenues. Good luck with that, dude. Yeah. In the letter, Washington

said appropriate sentence has been taken regarding the employee, but further details on disciplinary actions. If any were not released, Fox News Digital has reached out to Washington, out to Washington for more information on those steps to see if this person remains employed. Now, they didn't say whether they were photos of them

or somebody else or just random stuff. It was just their Brazzers photo. Yeah, he's got like a folder called Brasers 2.0 or whatever. They're freaking pornhubfabriots.com. I don't know. Exactly.

Oh, save this one for later. Who? Who? But you know he's not going to still work there. There's no way they keep him there. No. No. You know?

Man, I got the dumbest argument with somebody online yesterday about this fake story of kids using litter boxes at school because they identify as cats or some of shit. What? Yes. This is a whole thing. Yeah, it's a whole thing. A whole new culture war thing. And it's gotten as bad as, like, prominent people. believe it, and they're now talking about it.

It's utter horseshit, first of all. It's just anti-trans bullshit, but that's where it stems from. But my whole point is like, oh, my pronoun is cat. And the idea, the idea, okay, Brian, let's pretend you and I are,

we are 14 again, you and I. Okay, sure. We kind of act like it, but okay, let's let's say that we're actually physically 14. Yes. In the state you're in, the kind of upheaval of emotions, and, And, I almost said thyroid. That's not what I mean.

What are they called? What are your, your hormones? You're just a hormone mess. You're just a freak, right? And you want to hide most of the time, not go out and be in front of everybody all the time. There's not a kid on this planet anywhere that would go, principal wickers. I identify as a cat. I'll be needing a, I'll be needing a.

litter box in the girl's room. That's my right. And I'll need to take a nap in between three of my classes, please. Utter horse shit. By the way, Joe Rogan admitted that this is a fake story. Yeah, I know. Finally. Thanks, Joe Rogan.

No, I know. That's the point is it's a fake story, but people still believe fake shit all the time. Gotcha, okay. He was one of the prominence that talked about it, but there are others. Who's that NFL guy that just did this the other day? That guy. And he's like bringing it up, right up on his social stuff,

deletes it later and goes, I regret what I did as a Christian. Regret what you did as a human being, you piece of garbage. Exactly. Oh, so wait, if you were not a Christian, it would have been okay for you to share the fake story. No, dude, one of my least favorite terms is, as a father

of two girls, or as a Christian, or as a, I don't care what you are. Don't be dorks and don't buy into bullshit stories that are so easily disproven. And also, give some credit to kids they're not no kid is bringing that

attention on himself none right right even if there's a kid somewhere who wants to be a cat really bad or making the joke at school you know that's one thing but not like seriously saying okay I'm gonna go totally ask for yeah and pretend like it's some widespread

thing and that schools are all into it eat a dirt clod and choke on it whoever does that hey we started allowing snakes as comfort animals and Where does it stop? Yeah, where does it end? Where does it end indeed?

Yes. All right. Anyway, that story happened. We're never going to get to our utopian Star Trek Society if we allow crap like this. Damn straight. Damn straight. Well, I'm glad I got to take that detour. Let's take a break.

When we come back, we're going to have a couple of pals with us. Stephen Schleiker will be here at the top of the hour talking about all your favorite nerd stuff. And right after that, we got Dan, Dan, the Tabletop Man, for a monthly visit. We should have had him last month, but Scott forgot to put it on the schedule. and he forgot, so we all forgot. Everyone forgot, but he'll be back. Yeah. And we're excited to have him back, too. So I have a big question for him about drugs and Paramount Plus. That may sound weird. I hope he's able to get to some tabletop, seeing as it's his middle name. I know. You're right? Exactly. So anyway, we'll see how that all goes after this break.

Brian, if it has a song he has to play, what is that song? Yeah, big thanks to Thousand Island Records, who sent me this creamy little morsel. This is a band from Nuremberg, Germany. We haven't pulled an indie band. from there. I don't think ever. This is a band called Melan Ball. I think that means the same thing in German as it does in English. They have a brand new single called Sicker, which is off their upcoming debut album called Breathe. That one comes out at the end of March on Thousand Island Records, Lockjaw Records,

here in the U.S. If you like Bad Religion, F-O-D, Melancholin, not on tour, man, I totally dig this. I'm going to give you a little bit of a warning, Little heads up. There's an F-bomb in the chorus. Sweet. There's an F-bomb in the chorus. Oh, man.

That means a totally different thing in German than it does in English, though. So here you go from the band, Melanball, from Nuremberg, and their upcoming album, Breathe, here is Sicker. Never getting who I am, you're sliding through your life, building up your own reality, feeling nothing but your pride, never looking left nor right, you're only something in between between. You may believe that you are so much better But I'm now, I'll tell you the truth Never listen so you feel left behind And all your pride is what you lose Butter sicker than water

Don't give a fuck about your lying Blood, blood, blood Blood is thicker than water All I retains all you do is criticize Acting like you're in a place you're in a play never dare to blame me once again that's your ideology never such as run away I won't any longer play this game you make believe that you're so much better but I'm not wanting you the truth never listen so you feel is behind

and all your drive is what you lose blood is thicker than water don't give a fuck about your Blood, blood is thicker than water All I retain Blood is thicker than water Don't give a fuck about your line Blood, blood, blood is sicker than water All I retain Every day's where I decline

All my fear is what they say Become a two predicts for all my life I find these signs All our fear is what they say Becoming to predict for my life will find these signs All a fear is what they say Becoming to predict for my life of find these signs Oh our fear is what they say

Become to predict for all my life I find these signs Blood is sicker than water. Don't give a fuck about your lying. Blood, blood, blood is sicker than water, all every day is running climb. Blood is sicker than water don't give a fuck about your line. Blood, blood, blood is sicker than water

So I am obviously Gen X, and my retirement plan is to pass away, so I'm not sure how many other Gen X people have that as their retirement goal, but I know that I will be working one day and fall over dead, and that's how it goes. Can't be any geek off the street. MorningStream. My God, it's a miracle. A quiet Frenchman. All right, we returned. Hey, who is that one more time? Yeah, from Nuremberg, Germany.

That is Melanball. And a new single, Sicker from their upcoming album, Breathe, which comes out on the end, at the end of March, from Thousand Island Records, Lockjaw Records. Very nice. speaking of regulars we always like to see around just nice to see tally in the chat today yay welcome back tally hi tally we missed you yeah we missed you no she's been busy and tv zagon by the way

let's not let that go by either yes saw him earlier and like what oh an ex cammer x c a mr who we haven't seen in the tadpool in years what happened man but you guys all get together having a little memo and said brals did you guys all get fired from your jobs and you're able to be your life that's great. I love seeing TV Zieg on here as well. That's great. And all you that are always here, if you disappeared, we'd feel the same about you. If BioCal suddenly didn't show up, we'd feel terrible. If Claire wasn't here, we'd probably get over it. But everybody else, just kidding, Claire, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. All right, I'm kidding. You're one of our favorites. All right, let's be done with that and move on here. Who's the guy? Oh, Stephen, duh.

Who's the guy? Who's the guy? Who's the guy that we talked to on? Isn't Sarah a spoilers? I don't know why I was having trouble there, but there it is. Stephen Schleiker. Stephen Schlecker. Hey, look who it is. Stephen Schleaker all the way from major spoilers.com and beautiful Hayes, Kansas, the lovely rolling hills flat zone of Hayes, Kansas.

The lovely rolling hills flat zone. Stephen, welcome back. How are you? Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hey, man. Hello. Hey.

What's your life like? now how are you doing overall doing good man you do not have the time oh oh no really hey we're don't work whatever it is uh like he probably just buried long boxes yeah everything shall pass right that's how you have to look at life uh well i'm glad you're here that part is true at least and the good news is you come bearing a slightly a little bit of good news if you were happy with the current state of all things aquaman uh i was i like jason moa um and there's also rumors he'll also be lobo but none of that's confirmed um yeah anyway he's uh he's he's said he's staying and he's talked to james gun and he's got more

to do his aquaman yeah so i don't know if anybody saw the video did you guys watch the video that he posted on his i did instagram or twitter where he's just like oh just got out of this meeting with james gun and and uh what's his name sean oh now i forgot what he's john pen sean gun yeah the other guy, saffron. Oh, saffron. Saffron. And he's like, oh, yeah, everything's good. I'm still here. I'm going to still be part of the DC universe. And as far as I'm

concerned, I'll always be Aquaman. And he said, yeah, and there's other things that are coming. And he didn't really go too deep into it. So yes, we can play up on the rumor of would he be a really good lobo. Yes, he would be a really, really good lobo in an upcoming Superman

remake. But I kind of took this announcement as a kind of a confirmation that they're not going to just throw the next Aquaman movie in the trash and burn it and use it as a tax ride off. Right, right, right, right, which is good. I mean, I think, I think for fans, but also just I think he was inspired casting for that role.

I think it's solid. There's nothing wrong with it. If you want to just keep going with him, that'd be great. It would be a little weird if they reboot this Justice League and the only one that's the same as him as MoMA. It would be a little weird, but. So I have questions about that. This also happened, this interview and his amazing sweater he decided to wear during that interview.

Oh, yeah. Right here in Park City, Sundance is going on. And he did it up there in the snow hills. And that is exactly the kind of sweater you want to be wearing while you're in Park City, just to put that out there. I want a sweater like that, but I don't think it would look as good on me as it does on him. There's an adorable photo of him and some video, I guess, of him and Amelia Clark having a little reunion there.

hugging and it's just cute because you know their movie hugging was a little different if you know or their TV hugging. It was not really the kind of hug you want the kids to witness if you know what I'm saying anyway moving on it's been a while guys Game of Thrones season one go check it out all right apparently has yeah I didn't remember that

absolutely remember it it was shocking of course yes horizontal hugging not even quite horizontal more of a 90 degree I just remember a brother getting that had goo poured on his head, and that's it. It wasn't gold. It wasn't goo. Oh, no. It was gold.

It's a lot more than goo. Yeah, I think it was hot gold is what it was. But anyway, so there's that. That's interesting. I mean, give us a prediction here, Stephen. You think we're going to get more, like, actual more Aquaman? Do you think the logo or the Lobo thing is more likely? I think the Lobo thing is definitely more likely than the Aquaman thing. I think his cryptic message that he was sending out was,

hey, the Aquaman movie is not going to be thrown in the trash for tax purposes, but I definitely think the Lobo is more in line to what James Gunn has in mind. Well, I really like Mamoa a lot, and I would like to remind people

that C, that just finished its third season, is excellent, and if you want to see a reunion of sorts of Stargate, Atlantis, that's the place to do it, because he and three other actors all came from Atlantis, and they're all in the show. see. Is that the last season of C? It is. Three seasons total. That's how they started. That's how they planned it, I just can't see making another season. Yeah. And I loved every

freaking minute of that show. It's absolutely wonderful. All right. Is it going to get, is it closing out with a like a, like we're wrapping the story up? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. No, see, they planned three seasons. They did three seasons. So it's ahead of, they knew enough ahead of time to be able to actually wrap things up and not leave it as click-hanger finale. Definitely not hanging, wondering what's going on for sure.

And definitely not a cancellation. Also, I heard Apple's doing a season two of, um, what's the huge one? The huge sci-fi epic that got interrupted because the pandemic and the last half of the season sucked. But it had such potential. What am I thinking of?

It's the I-Robot author. Foundation. Oh, foundation. Oh, really? Yeah, foundation was really good for like three episodes. And then you can see right where you can see right where they had their problem. And it's great. Up till then. And then it got dumb. So maybe they'll fix it in season two.

I don't know. Let's hope so. We will see. All right, Stephen, there's that. Also, Cobra Kai getting a sixth and final season, speaking of final seasons. So that's happening. And that makes sense. And they can wrap all that up.

Yeah. In fact, the creator said in a statement that, you know, we're glad that we're getting this sixth season. we get to do everything that we want to do to wrap up this Miyagiverse thing except bring back what's her name did she ever come back the next karate kid oh no

nope what's her first can never name all the sudden yeah and certainly in the trailers the trailer the teaser trailer they release does not even hint that she's in there but that would be the way to wrap up the series is to bring her in for at least

one bit yeah yes Hillary Swank would be really great though she's shown up right yeah yeah and this shows, you know, that started out on YouTube as a YouTube original, and then YouTube was like, what are we doing? And Netflix picked it up and it's run very successfully for what four seasons on, on Netflix. So to see this finally come to an end is good. And at least they know it's their last season as opposed to like you were saying with the, with CNN and everything else is, you know, we did a season then Netflix says one week after release. Yeah, we're not coming back for another season.

Yeah. I like it when the thing has a. Yeah, I like it when they have an end in mind, you know? Yes. And then they plan ahead for that. If you tell me a show's only going to be three seasons and I'm sad because it's not more fine, but I'm also glad they have a plan. That show is so surface level. They could end it, you know, they could steer into an ending with two episodes

notice like, oh, we're getting canceled after this next episode. All right, well, that's easy enough to do. What's his face? Daniel Son and Johnny are friends now and it all works out. Very good. Cool. Has anybody seen that 90-show thing that landed this week? I did watch that over the weekend. Did you?

What did you think? It is everything that you think that it's going to be. Oh, really? Because I don't think it's not going to be very good. Is it better than not very good? It is exactly what you think it's going to be. I'll just say that. If you watch the trailer for that 70s show and you're like, oh, this is just like,

I'm sorry, you watched the trailer for 90s show and you said, this is just like the 70s show. guess what is just like the 70 show there is a there is a an international type student that's in this there is a bonehead there are two people that are attached to the lips all the time there's definitely uh donna and um uh eric's daughter is the protagonist in this and she is totally eric all the way so i mean if you're looking to hit on that nostalgia factor this hits on all the nostalgia factor is is there a scene where they update it for the 90s where the camera is sitting on a poker table and it spins around to all of them multiple times, smoking math instead of doing not math, not meth because all the kids are down in the basement. It's still weed, right? This is a total, total, yeah, it's wheat.

Spoiler, but like the grandmother, what's her name? Yeah, what's the mom's name? Kitty. Comes down, and she goes, oh, I found this box of games that your father and his friends used to play. You guys can all play this, and they open up a box and there's like a 20-year-old stash of weed in there. And so they're smoking it through the whole summer.

Oh, my gosh. They're smoking the weed that they used to have. Oh, the horror. And if you're wondering if you're wondering if all the regulars from the 70 show who are still alive show up, everybody shows up at least once. Coochard does? Uncle Coutcher comes around? Yes.

There's actually a Kelso in the next generation of this. So, yes, Kelso and. Oh, except the one who's a douchebag who raped somebody. Oh, Danny Masterson. Yeah. Danny Masterson is not back. Obviously, Tanya, Tanya is not back. Oh, Tanya Roberts.

Yeah. She's died. And then the older sister, I think, is also dead in real life. Oh, really? I think so. Those are the three people that you don't see. That's a great question. If you wonder if someone's dead go.

I'm trying to remember who died from that 70s show. But yeah, I guess, you should do that every time someone dies go. Dead. Dead. Now we've talked about it on the show So there you go She was dead before She's dead now

How's red? I like red Oh he's great He is the only one that it feels He and Kitty are the only two That feel like These two know what they're doing in this show Okay

Because they're just grandparents now And these kids You know They're all hanging at their house For whatever reason Yeah Yeah So

Eric wants to take his daughter To space camp for the summer And she doesn't want to go And she meets The next door neighbor who she instantly has friendship with. And so she's like, can I just stay here for the summer? And they're like, sure.

And the parents are like, no. Or the grandparents are like, no. And then, of course, she does. And hilarity ensues. Wow. Fantastic. I'll probably check it out, but I kind of have ambivalent feelings about that 70s show. I'm just not that into it.

And Donna, Donna and Fez are the two recurring that show up the most in the show. Okay. All right. Well, kid, good deal, 90s and 70s kids. both your worlds just slapped into each other. Let me know when Netflix has a moonlighting revival that is, you know, the children of Addison and Sybil Shepard, David and Maddie. And by the way, the kids from that 70s show would be, if this was called That 2020 show, they'd be in their mid to late 60s now. so if you go by that 70s show age bracket

you're uh you're your your your eddie you're you're you're uh can't think it was name anyway the main guy tofer grace his character would be like 68 right now so think of that weird that you would figure out like you would think about the ages of the stars of a well yes the whole idea right they say hey we're in the 70s now we're in the

90s so my brain's like all right where would you be in the 2010s where would you be in the 2020s and then red and kitty be dead they wouldn't be around no more and never forget red's the guy who tried to kill robocop yeah go ahead what is a show that you have not yet watched yeah that everybody is saying scott i can't believe you've not watched that show yet um shows besides parasite well you're talking shows or movies you want movies wanda vision did you watch wandavision did you watch he's cut up all the way to she i watched wandavision as it aired we didn't miss a beat of that you haven't watched moon night or she hulk right oh that's right neither of those and you've watched loki all the way i've seen loki all the way

watch some of these guys my favorite uh simbara whatever whatever tv show is lowest on that list of shows that you're going to get to scott yeah you can put that 90 show after that okay all right because i do have a lot ahead of it for sure i've seen arcane everybody in the chat and i forced him to watch miss marvel as part of uh couch party yeah we watched that entire thing i watched the little prince remember that years ago i get made fun of because nicole said when you're gonna watch it Carter and I finally watched it. I'm not as behind as people say. They think I am.

You watched Ant Man and the Wasp on this most recent couch party. That's right. I think next to be Captain Marvel. Yep, we're doing Captain Marvel. Speaking to that 90s show, doing some Captain Marvel. It'll be great. Anyway, well, Stephen is always good stuff all around. What's going on to major spoilers this week that people should know about?

This week on the Major Spoilers podcast, we are taking a look at a manga comic that is the weirdest thing that I have ever encountered. But it's also education. It's called cells at work, and it's all about what if we anthropomorphize your blood cells, your white cells, your T cells, all that stuff in your body, and they have big giant fights with viruses and plague monsters and stuff. And we do it in the most scientifically accurate yet also the most manga-esque way. Wow. It's insane, and we're looking at the first volume of that this week on the major spoilers podcast. Are you reading forward or backwards because, you know, the manga? The version that we have is it is forwards, but you have to read the panels right to left still.

Oh, okay. Man, that messes me up. Yeah, it does. It takes a little bit to get into it, but. No offense. Manga fans. No big deal. Yeah.

It's all fine. You're a brilliant dude and you can do what you need. It's Steven Schleiker, everybody. Major spoilers.com. Major spoilers on Twitter. Is there any advice you'd like to give us before we go? Stay hydrated. Oh, it was sing-song either way it did that.

It was like he was a ghost. Almost. Yeah. Oh, stay hydrated. Dead. All right. Let's get, uh, let's get Dan in. Okay.

You know, like, uh, all right. Okay. This is this cool dude. We like him. Having him on. It's always a, always a good time. You know, I like it. Although I have to play his thing.

Oh, there it is. Here's a tangent for him. Be careful. May he cause drowsiness. Hey, it's our old pal. Dan joining us like he was supposed to monthly, but then Scott forgot last month and then I got all left up. Hi, Dan.

Welcome back to the show. How are you? Greetings programs. Oh, I've missed you guys. We've missed you too. We have. It's been at least two months, and that's too long. We talk to you all the time off air,

so it probably feels a little not that big a deal because we're always talking about stuff. That's all right. You know, these things have. Plus, I've been traveling like crazy anyway, so it's luckily I get home on Sundays. So Mondays, I'm usually around and I don't go to work for a little while. Is the boy in the thing? thick of the hockey season or what's going on there? Yeah, well, we just, so we went to Grand Rapids the first weekend in January.

I just flew back from Notre Dame. Thank God we got an earlier flight. So we got done at like 9 o'clock in a morning or 9.30 yesterday in South Bend. We drove our ass all the way over to Chicago and then hopped the plane. We got an earlier flight because a lot of people got stuck there because of kind of snow and ice last night. So then we got back yesterday afternoon. And then my wife and DJ, they fly out to Dallas on Thursday.

day. Oh, wow. That's a lot. I had a friend growing up who used to work for Southwest, and they called O'Hare Airport. They called it O'Snare because you would get stuck there all the time because of snow. It was always some kind of weather thing getting you stuck. So they called it. Oh, it's scary when you're sitting in a, you know, you pull back from the gate and you're waiting there. And it's like flurries. It's kind of cold. It's not like, you know, it was in the 30s. It wasn't like in a tens or anything like that. And that is Fahrenheit for all you. Oh, yeah, yeah. Take those space points lovers out there. So then all of a sudden they start, they start spraying this goo all over the plane and you're like, oh my God, they're de-icing the plane. I'm like, what's going on if, you know, it's kind of a little scary, although they do it like a million times a day. It's still a little scary when you're sitting there at your window going. Yeah, there's green and red crap going all over the plane. So hopefully we get home okay. I think it's almost scarier that they do it so many times a day because they, if it becomes routine for them, then I start questioning whether they're really paying attention. You know what I mean?

Like whether they get so used to doing it that they're just like, yeah, just like, yeah, hey, do you see the game last night? And they miss my window. You know? And I'm like, what if the ice happens on my window? I don't want that. So you kind of get a little less scared when you, you know, especially coming back from hockey when you think, well, we're in Chicago.

And there's places like Regina and Quebec, all these places way to hell north in Canada that are people just flying around, no problem. So my God, well, we're down here to the U.S. It's probably the first city name you come up. with his regina i know i don't know why it's like the first canadian city name i you know i've always got regina on the mind yeah that's right i wish it was regina i'd feel better saying it if it was it's right it's uh it's probably a good song in there somewhere somewhere in my mind i'm going to her regina uh well next time i'm in regina i'll think of you too let's move on

i have a thing for you dan a question uh before we get into a table top recommendation and this is it. I'm watching Paramount Plus with Kim. She wants to catch up and watch all of Star Trek Discovery, which we are doing. And we're just about to start season three. And after these different seasons of watching Star Trek on Paramount Plus, and I don't have whatever, maybe there's a premium tier above this where no commercials ever on anything, I don't know.

But we're on whatever tier gives you commercials between stuff. And I'm not kidding when I say this. with the exception of one ocean spray commercial every single break let's say there's four or five in every episode of Discovery or whatever show you're watching

on Paramount Plus or when we watch Top Gun Maverick the commercialist show before the movie and after the movie same thing they're all pharmaceutical things sure so like pernexa oh ask your doctor

that whole thing was it the one that starts out in black and white with a person experiencing the problem And then while they're going over all of the side effects, it's full color and they're playing Frisbee with the dog. A little bit, some of those. And some of them are like, the ones I like the most are the ones that say may cause death,

but then they name five different lesser problems. You don't lead with death. Like a sore knee, acne. Yeah, but start with those, then do death at the end. Starting with death is, that makes me think death was the most common. Anyway, my question to you is, is a guy who is in the, that business and in that world as a pharmacist, a trained professional. What is it? Why? Why? We so inundated. And why is it, is it just, do they think 80 year olds are

all sitting around watching Star Trek? Is it that targeted? I mean, obviously you don't know much about what they're doing for their ad network or their ad load over on Paramount. But, but the world of pharmaceutical ads seems on fire right now. So it's a lot of different like biologics or these biosimilers or immunomodulators are coming out. And you'll, you'll see a lot of those where they're all used for psoriotic arthritis or psoriasis or MS and a lot of the immunologic things where your body's attacking itself where you know things like do pixent you'll see that a lot out there and even cosentics and a lot of these and then also creams that you see for again for psoriasis and stuff and it basically helps to stop your body from

attacking itself and the reason why you see a lot of these injectable ones is not and I'm generalizing here but a lot of times it's it's people like us where you get a lot of of 30s to 60-year-olds, and that's where a lot of these things are flaring. And also, a lot of these people, a lot of us have insurance, and they figure that, hey, if I go in and I've, you know, I've got some psoriasis I've been dealing with, and we've been using all the regular creams and things like that, not using anything injectable, that I'm going to ask for, you know, cosentics to, you know, ask for your doctor for this. Or if I've got some asthma, atopic dermatitis, things like that, you can say, oh, I saw this commercial

for DuPixen. What's with that? And then the doctor may write some of those. things, but you also get same things like Cologard. You guys, I don't know if you guys have had to do this with Colagard. I don't even know what that is. It's scaring me, though, the name. I've seen the commercial. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So Colagard, so you guys probably went through the, already

went through the colonoscopy. Oh, yeah. Yes, both of us. So, so I'm only a little bit younger than you guys, but I'm still, I'm not 50 yet, so they said, I asked my doctor when I went in last month and I was like, oh, I'm going to, I just figured, listen, due to colonoscopy, I want to make sure I'm not going to die. And he's like, no,

I don't know. You don't have any real risk factors. No family histories. Like, we're just going to give you this Colagard. So what you do with Colagard? Now, everybody, I'm going to hopefully nobody's eating right now. Okay. So basically, they send you a box. And then in the box is this big plastic. And I say big, you're talking like six inch diameter, bowl plastic bowl. You got to poop in the bowl. You got to scrape it with this other thing and put it in a test tube. And then you got to cover it. You know, you pour this other solution that, you know, keeps it. you know, preserves it, and then you've got to send it on back to them. So they're going to check for, you know, any risk factors for colon cancer. You know, basically, a lot of times it's kind of what they used to do, the fecal occult where I was just seeing if there's blood in your stool and stuff like that. But I guess they probably run some other tests. But what cracks me up about this is even in all the literature and even when you see these commercials, because you'll see a lot of these commercials, because they tell you, hey, it's easy. It comes to your house and you send it back. And it truly is completely easy.

But they tell you, like the first things I tell you, may have false positives, may have false negatives. well, why the hell am I using this? Maybe completely ineffective, but try it now. Yeah. Right. Yeah. There's a lot of that in these ads. And you named two or three that I've heard,

and they're really big on that psoriasis arthritic thing. Oh, yeah. Soriasis and psoriotic arthritis are kind of the biggest things because basically that's autoimmune stuff where your body is just overloading. Your dermatomes and stuff are just overloading, and it's just either pain or just, you know, crappy looking skin.

And these injectables, they work very, very well, but they are way expensive. And you're talking multiple thousands per month. And a lot of times if, and that's kind of what I do all day long is I sit here and look at prior authorizations for these type of drugs. And you have to have used a lot of other things. You've got to send in chart notes showing that you've used other things and that you should be using this drug.

And then there's tier ones and tier twos. And then we have to, you know, you approve it. And then sometimes with the renewals, you doctor has to show evidence that it's actually working, you know, stuff like that. where it's so that's a lot of interesting stuff but it's uh there's big money and also uh you know why you use drug a b or c when they're basically kind of biosimilar uh and if you're asking for drug a and your doctor's like well i'll use this this or this and if you're asking for this you're just going to be a little bit happier with your doctor okay you know and they're in it

for the co-pays just as much as you know anybody else oh of course they do all right those do they do do they do that uh you gonna give you uh pharmaceutical b or c instead of a like if it's don't take depixen if you're allergic to depixen okay well then i'll take this alternative that that i don't know if i'm like yeah what's happening is different name yeah i love it because they're always like don't take depiction of your uh allergic to a xuxumab which is basically one of the generic one of the generic name of depictions i can't think of it off the top of my head but it's oh all these things are or something i would do and you know what i would believe you if you said it was real so you're good totally yes you're good so it's and it's always that

and it's like well you know they're not probably allergic because they probably haven't had that Yeah, because you, you know, the doctor would know that sort of thing or be in their chart. But yeah, it's a, it's a big, it's a big money thing. And we, I laugh too because, again, I haven't completely cut the cord. So sometimes we'll be sitting around, you know, you'll have something on in the background. And when you said, every commercial break, there's at least one of these commercials for these things. And you just laugh. And I can see the ones for, like, Claritin and Allegra and stuff like that.

Oh, sure. You know, season allergy. Allergy stuff. Yeah. And it's over the counter. And I still want to kind of make money. And it's something that somebody can go get themselves. You know, it's not like, they don't have to ask your doctor for, for Claritin.

You just go to the, the store and buy it. And every little sale, you know, or every little commercial can help you go there. When you have a whole wall through of allergy things, you know, seeing the name that you recognize is big. And so for whatever reason. Oh, I remember that one. Yeah. And it's crazy the way the U.S. is. I mean, I mean, all the countries may be.

But I feel like the U.S. is so tied to brand names that people, people are so, side of brain names that there's still products out out there that may say Xantac, but it's not actually reninidine because I was taken off the market, but now they're using Fomodidine, which is actually Pepsid, but it's off patent. So they're releasing it as a new type of Zantak's stomach

instead of, you know, Zantac, you know, R, whatever they used to call it. So things like that are crazy. So always read your labels. Boy, that was a huge danger. Always read your labels to see what the active ingredient is. And if you have any questions, ask for pharmacists, they'd be happy to tell you any of those answers. Okay. Final question before we get your

recommendation and you're not going to be anyone who would decide this obviously and I don't think the well you're probably not going to know the answer but why are these people in these commercials always hiking in Zion's National Park here in Utah and why are they always wearing the same colors as the logo for the medication oh yeah so let me tell you this that's a great point too I actually uh I there's kind of like a it was kind of an elective I took in pharmacy school and it's The psychology of advertising for pharmaceuticals. And it was just like a one or two day thing. But every little thing, and anybody that does movies or TV,

they'll tell you the exact same thing. Like, not even necessarily with pharmaceuticals, but anything that goes into production, there's psychology in everything. You know, it's like what they tell salesmen, never use the word no, even if you mean no. Right. Because you don't want to get the negative feelings.

So like you said, with the commercials, they use the color, everybody's using the colors of what you would see on the box. But maybe, you know, the Luradity box is always blue. Only the person that it's helping, right? Like, you know, there's everybody playing soccer in the background, but then there's one girl who's apparently got psoriasis, who's wearing red and yellow, which are the colors of Docentics or whatever it is that they're taking. Or the color of pain.

Like, everybody associates pain with red. Oh, sure. You know, they're in pain now or the rash is red. And then when they're clear, they're wearing like a yellow or white shirt to show that everything's out of their system. It's not. Oh, that's good. Or the, my favorite is the, have you guys seen the OZempic commercials? I'm sure I'm.

You'll remember because the theme is, oh, oh, oh, Zambic. Oh, yeah, yeah. That damn song, magic by pilot. And they just, oh, I can't get that damn song out of my head now. Sorry, now everybody's going to have an earworm for the rest of the day. Yes. But, I mean, that's amazing advertising because you will never forget that. And people will go in and ask for OZEPIC because OZEB is usually for type 2 diabetes,

but nowadays it's been like one of the wonder drugs for weight loss oh it's that one you inject right into your gut isn't it yeah you can use your arm you can use your gut it's it's a glp one they had me they had me do that when I went in for blood stuff they had me do it for a week or something I have never had really good never had such horrible uh heartburn oh that's the diarrhea one isn't it diarrhea and the heartburn nothing but nonstop diarrhea and nonstop heartburn like to the point of like I couldn't I'd wake up in the middle of the night and go I'm about to hurl for no reason. I just got so much acid in my, it was awful.

I hate it. Yeah, because it messes with, you know, it's with the GI motility. It's not actually, a lot of people think that something like that is actually insulin, but it's not. It just, it just helps with the different liver and your GI motility. So, you know, you're not as hungry. You feel a little bit more full. And then it helps to get your, your glycemic, your blood sugar level a little lower. And it does, honestly, it does really work.

I don't want to tell anybody to ask for it. Don't take this. It's crap. No, no, no, it's great. It is great, but I would rather people, I'd rather people just go exercise and work on their diet for a couple of years. Yeah, because that's the problem I had is when I first took it, I didn't change my diet right away. And that's where the clash happened. Like, it wasn't so much the medications fall.

It's just that, well, I'm still trying to eat 1,800 to 2,000 calories a day. And this thing was like, no, you should probably do big 800 or else you're going to have the worst heartburn of your entire life. And that's how that thing went down for me. And what annoys me is when I see, you know, because, again, a lot of the stuff has to be authorized. So when I see, like, a 20-year-old who's a little overweight and doctors just throw an ozempic out of him, I'm like, come on. Give them, don't just, you know, they're 20 now. Don't give them the habit of, oh, anything I need to fix. I'm sure I could just get a pill or an injection for that.

Yeah. That's a bad thing. Yeah, because also, by the time he's 50, he's not going to look like one of those hikers and Zions. He's going to look a lot different. So, anyway. And that stuff, I mean, it just starts adding up to you. So anyway, let's talk about a board game. Yeah, board game.

Before you start, you know how Scott said this will be the last question before you can talk about board games? I got one more for you. One more. It is about board games. Did you back Simons, Marvel United, Multiverse? So I don't know if you're aware of this. I may have a problem.

So I've been trying to cut back on my spending on Kickstarter and games because I have a real problem with Kickstarter. My Frost Haven just came in on my yard. So maybe this will hold me off so I don't feel like. But I still end up backing things here and there, but I had to hold off. I do have what's funny about the board gaming community. And I don't know, Brian, I don't think you have like a huge gaming group or anything. Like the good thing about having a game group is that there's always somebody. Like, if I was over there, I'd be like, I don't have to back this because I know Brian's back.

And it's like, I can just play his copy. I'll play his copy. Right, exactly. Yeah, I have a way more, I have a way bigger gaming closet than I do a gaming group of friends that come over and play these damn games yeah so i mean when we get this uh just tell the government or or uh whoever to hell's in charge this stuff can we please have teleporter so i can play you know we can have game night with scott and brian oh that'd be so great that'd be so much fun are you kidding me for sure because then i can just teach scott uh rules yeah i don't need to read them you can

just tell me yeah screw that reading i just watch that dude that dude on youtube who's always smiling i'm gonna tell you how to play marvel remix it's a game for four players it did is it uh is it the canadian guy i don't know uh he does watch it played he's one of the more popular guys out there he does a really good job always smiling like super friendly voice and he always flips the game box and then catches it yes that's where ronnie so ronty does watch he played okay yeah he's a great guy and he uh he does a good job with this there's just something about uh the way he delivers and it's nothing it's nothing personal roddy and i do this with other videos if i watched a video that's more than 10 minutes with

Rodney, to start nodding off because he just has the I know. It's like I like I'm veging or spacing out and all this is now you know basically how to the basic rules of the game bubble by like you're like really? Do I really? Because I completely

zoned out. Yeah that definitely happens. All right well speaking it's an easy one that you both would love and I know I've mentioned the base game of this in the past and so what I'm going to do is next month when I come on or in in April or May or whenever Scott

brings me in but you know I'm just kidding this next month when I'm going to do the top five Scott did that I put you to sleep? No I'm always awake for you Dan Never asleep for Dan Dan. Dan is my waking every waking moment I think of Dan all the waking times you're good so I'm going to do my top five of last year

next month so I what I did want to mention one that and it's going to be a little bit different because speaking of Stephen Schleipker and major spoilers the top five board games of 2022 just came out I believe last week or this week, where I give my top five games a year. But I'm going to change it up a little bit for you guys. I'm going to tailor it more for our audience here and tailor it more for Scott and Brian's. I'm going to put some Scott picks and Brian picks in there to make my top five next month.

I'm going to have an honorable mention that I did have as one of my top five of 2022. So go check out the top five on the top five on Major Spoilers Network where I do the Top Five Express Board Games Edition. Sorry, plug there for Stephen for you. And so this number five was Clank Catacombs. Now, Clank is a game. It's a deck building game. It's a dungeon crawler. They also have Clank in space, which is more of, obviously, in space.

It's a little more sci-fi themed. But Clank Catacombs is an amazing game. The base game, Clank, is a dungeon delver where you have a board out there, and it's deck building. So, Scott, you would love it. It's deck building with cards and card-based. So you're moving around the board, and the whole idea is that you're trying to get into the dungeon, get a treasure, and then leave before the dragon kills you. Because any time you make noise, that's what they call clank. clank is basically making noise in the dungeon so anytime you make noise eventually the the dragon will wake up you put it'll put some cubes into a bag and you'll draw the bag out now what's different uh and then you know as you take damage you could die in the catacombs or or actually uh above ground where you can still win if you die in the catacombs you can't win uh but if you die in the catacombs or they don't call it died it's like pass out because you know you don't want to say yeah you don't want to say you died for a family game sure sure but uh but uh but what clank catacombs changes up is that there's no board to it you actually just have

you have these kind of tiles that you're kind of making the board as you play the game and since it's kind of all randomized the game's going to be a little bit different every time so it doesn't get very samey and it's not really solvable as regular clank could be you know when it's when you're playing it with a set board

but it's really great because there's a lot of cool interactions and then you can still you know it's the same basic premise you're going in you're getting other treasures you're getting some abilities and every round you're able to add cards to your deck so you're either thinning out your deck or fine-tuning your deck and then as you go in there

you're going to find a treasure and then you're going to get the hell out because after somebody gets the treasure you're pulling more cubes out of the bag so the dragon's doing more and more damage so there's also regular cubes in a bag and then you'll put your own cubes in a bag so you're just trying to not get as many of your own cubes in there it's really really fun only takes about it it it's one of these

one hour wonders you know maybe a little bit longer the first time you play it just because they get the whole feel of the game but it's such an easy game to play an amazing game Scott you would absolutely love this these are the kind of ones that I kind of I don't want to call them you know for lack of a better term for anybody

that's kind of like a novice in gaming it's like a gloom haven light in a way because you're it's you get that dungeon crawl experience but it's not really a crazy campaigne there's not really as much of making your character you're just going in there for that cool dungeon crawl experience for as a light

not very rules heavy it's like balder's gate versus Diablo you're playing Diablo for the action and the quickness and the whatever but you're getting the dungeon crawl, you're getting the loot, you're doing all of that, but if you really want a slower, you know, more rules-based sort of thing, you go

Balders Gate. I totally get it. Absolutely. I picked up the original Klank, so not catacombs, but Clank at the end of last year, no, last year based on your recommendation, so it's time to get the Gloomhaven group back together to play that one. Oh, have you played any of these? So Clank has a lot of

great expansions. No, I haven't even played the base. I've got it. I've taken the plastic off, and I might have even punched all a little cardboard chits out, but I have not... So here's something you'll absolutely love, Brian, and it's one of my favorite things. There's an app, so it's made by Dyerwolf Digital, there's an app for it that you can play it solo. I mean, you can play it solo anyway, but the app makes it perfect for solo. You absolutely love it.

Don't worry about Tina and trying to beg her to play a... Exactly. I've played this a million times, and you select kind of, you'll select which base game you have, if you have any expansions, or if it's client categories, you select, you select, And it basically you go from there and it tells you kind of what happens, you know, or what to do with it. It's so user-friendly. It's amazing. I'm in.

I'm in. So in. Yeah, you're in. You're always in. Are you kidding? You're in. You're like a hot fad, Brian. You're in.

I'm in. Yeah, exactly. You're the hot new fad. I'm out. I'm out. That's clink catacombs is that recommendation. Very nice. Excellent.

Now I've got to go approve some cosentics and some depictions. Yeah, go get that done. And then warn them that they might. might have blowouts and Hartburn. Can you do that when you do it? What's the one that's got the bulldog that Zemblahs? There was like a little bulldog who sings the

Oh, I don't remember that. Oh my God, you know, I've seen so many of these dark commercials that I can't remember. It's like a bulldog that sings the name of the the name of the drag. Yeah, all I have in my head right now is the stupid Musinex commercials with the big pile of mucus

that's yellow. Everyone likes Everyone likes an animated mucous ball. It's the best. I'm still singing that damn magic. I'll tell it. There was one. I will admit last night,

I'll admit last night there was one commercial in between all of this that was Dr. Quinn Medicine woman. I can't think of a real name. What's her real name? Anyway. Her real name is old actress.

Been around forever. A turfinite woman lady. That's her. Playing and, Jane Seymour. Jane Seymour. Playing and pushing a, mobile game that I

guarantee with all my soul with all of who I am inside I guarantee she's never played even once. Oh, for sure. But Jane, like, that's crazy. Yeah, yeah. It's one of the last people I'd expect to push a mobile game is... I've seen some of those ads.

It was dumb. I've seen some of those ad and it even says in a corner, what's the service that you can pay them to like call your friend? Oh, Camio, yeah. So some of these ads you'll even says cameo in the corner. So you know they've paid these celebrities to do these ads. Oh, they just did them like a cameo? Yes. Lord.

There are a bunch of those. Like, Jenny McCarthy does one for some stupid slot game where it's like, oh my God, you guys and she's, you know, the camera, she's holding in her hand and it's like jiggling all around. Like, oh my God, you guys, you have to play this new slot game and you can actually win money. And she's like, you know. That's fine

except I don't mind doing. Like, cameo doesn't bother me, but when they do that, freaking F off. You never played that game, Jane Seymour. And I'm never going to watch Dr. Quinn Medicine woman again. Dan, it's always a pleasure. Good to have you back.

We'll see you next month with more. It's Dan Patrice, everybody. Geek. No, geek. What is it? Geek Jock, Dan on Twitter. And we're putting out a new geek all stars real soon with the top, you know, with the top 11 of 2022, we'll be recording real, real soon.

Thanks a lot, boys. I keep wanting to add blog. I don't know why I want to put blog at the end of your band name. Well, that was my old thing. I changed the geek jock, Dan, because blog made me sound like way more of a boomer than I really am. Yeah. Hey, old man.

That was your blog. All right. Have a good one and we'll see you at the next stomach injection. Bye now. All right. I really disliked it because it was not only that, Brian, but you had to take this stuff and inject it yourself. So it wasn't going and have it done.

I had to sit there and push it into my belly and then hit the thing and it went, Ching, like almost like a Star Trek one, you know, it goes into it or whatever. Hurt. It freaking hurt. And then I was sick. I hated it. All right, moving on. They don't tell you that in the commercials.

Or maybe they do. And I just got, you know, distracted by beautiful, colorful moments. Right. Oh, exactly. That's how it works. Pops and her clients asked if it was the epic well. No, it's like, dang it. It was a bulldog that sings.

And I could have sworn to begin with a no. It was like, ozempla, ozempla, ozempla. And I could only get that dang song, but it wasn't ozempla. It was something like that. It sounds like a cling on in their holy song. That's the Klingons when they sing Sound like what you think a Bulldog would sound like It's basically because

Yeah, it's perfect Well done everybody That was awesome to have him on We are out of here Before we get out of here though A quick reminder that Patreon.com slash TMS is a thing And if you would like to join us

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And if not us Who? Who? all right so go check it out patreon.com slash tms let's get out of here let's go with a song though before we go what do we have okay well we got a request that's going out to there it is will shekel will says dear scott and brian last thursday my best friend john tragically lost his father al to a heart attack at 53 god that's so young yeah many long time listeners may remember john as brian's former tDS representative totally remember that and also asked me to be

the best man in his wedding over TMS. Like, did it during a request. We are shocked and devastated at Al's passing, especially John and his brother. Joey, oh, I'm sorry, his brother, Joey, who were very close to their father and would usually spend time camping and riding bike trails of Wisconsin.

I know a song won't make things better for my friend, but I'm just hoping it provides a temporary distraction for him during these very difficult times. Brian, I've attached the obituary in case you feel that there's anything else that you think would be good to mention. There's honestly too many good things about Al and the man he was to fit in this one request. Love the show, though, Will.

Oh, man, dude, that sucks. And pass along my condolences to John and his family because that's so young to lose your father. Jeez. It's literally me and Brian's age, too, which is not lost on us. So that's tragic. That's awful. Well, John is a huge fan of the White Stripes.

And so let's play this is hopefully a little bit of a distraction for John right now. here is a cover this i'm surprised i haven't played this before because this is such a great cover uh this is a cover of my doorbell by k t tunstall she recorded this uh boy a couple years ago uh 20 21 i believe i don't have a date on this but i'm pretty sure that's when it was here is k t tunstall and my doorbell that'll do it for today we'll see you guys tomorrow on a brand new episode of tms I've been thinking about my dogbell, when you're going to ring it, when are you going to ring it? I've been thinking about my dog bell, when you're going to ring it, when you're going to ring it. I've been thinking about my dog bell, when you're going to ring it, where are you going to ring it?

I've been thinking about my dog bell. Well, with me, chipping the kiss is not the man of my life, I know. And I've been going to mystery misses. I respect the art of the show. Take back when you said, little girl. And while you're at, take yourself back to, too. I'll tell you to sit and to wait. What you're going to do?

What you're going to do about it? I've been thinking about my dog bell when you're going to ring it, when you're going to ring it? I've been thinking about my dog bell, when you're going to ring it, when you're going to ring it. I've been thinking about my dog bell. about my doorbell when you're going to ring it when you're going to ring it

I've been thinking about my doorbell don't seem to come around point your finger and make a sound Oh make a sound and I'll make you feel right Right at home Well, nobody got in the way with it, baby, but how come so easy to you?

You know, it's like me times that can be careless, but you will seem so too. But then again, I know you feel guilty and I know you want me back again. I don't need any of your pity. plenty of my own friends I've been thinking about my dog bill when they're going to ring it

when they're going to ring it I've been thinking about my dog bill when they're going to ring it when they're going to ring it I've been thinking about my dog bill when they're going to ring it when they're going to ring it I've been thinking about my double

don't seem to come around push the thing that will make sound don't seem to come around Maybe they'll knock them down Yeah, I'll make a sign And I'll make you feel right at home You feel right at home I've been thinking about my doorbell

When you're gonna ring it When you're gonna ring it I've been thinking about my doorbell When you're going to ring it? When you're going to ring it? I've been thinking about my dog bill. When you're going to ring it? When you're going to ring it?

I've been thinking about my tub bell. I've been thinking about my dog bell. When you're going to ring it? When are you going to ring it? I've been thinking about my dump bell. When you're going to ring it? When you're going to ring it? I've been thinking about my dog bell.

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