The Morning Stream - TMS 2413: Hi, the Cure

Episode Date: January 30, 2023

From Nun to 13 Children. THEN YOU CAN KEEN WAH! Are you there, God? It's my uterus. I Don't Like Naked Fleaaaaaaaaaaa. Pass it through the pants. I could climb up a greasy poll for hours. Let me defib that burrito for you. Mitsubishi Lettuce Go For a Test Drive. Leg Go of my Taco. The Powder of Me. Throttle Up the BeeJay. Silly podcaster, baths are for kids! what happened to playboy? You know they have talent. Spidereia. Migraine Jacking. Emperor Stephen of Major Spoileria 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, from none to 13 children. Then you can quidua! Are you there, God? It's my uterus. I don't like naked flea. Pass it through the pants. I could climb up a greasy pole for hours. Let me defib that burrito for you. Mitsubishi, let us go for a test drive.

Let go my taco. The powder of me. Throttle up the BJ. Soie podcaster, baths are for kids. What happened to Playboy? You know they've got talent. Spideria, migraine jacking. Emperor Stephen of major spoilera, and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Did you just have a brain fart?

begging your pardon, sir? I resent it when people fought inside my office. Nothing boner. The Morning Stream. Take your shot, fun, boy. you got me dead bang Good morning and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Monday, January 30th,

2023. I'm Scott. That's Brian. Hi, Brian. Good morning. Hello. Hello. Hello, Scott. Hello, hello. Hello, hello. All right. Just to kick things immediately off here. I got a question for Brian's wife, Tina, which will be relayed through Brian. Yes, okay. All right. Uh, does she have an opinion on the real housewife of Salt Lake City? Bravo star, I don't remember her name, uh, who just got a six and a half year sentence for, uh, some kind of weird malfeasance business wise. Uh, she's in prison now.

Yes. Okay. I, when I saw the news about this, uh, I did the same thing you didn't thought, hmm, do I know anybody who watches that show? Oh, yes. The woman that I share a home with and I've shared a life with for nearly 30 years, does she, was, I don't watch the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. Oh, damn it. Yeah, she, she, I only watch Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Real Housewives of, I can't remember if she watches any more than that. She's actually, I haven't seen her watching any of them since a lot of them came out as, like, anti-house wives.

Vax and all that stuff. She's like, oh, done with this. Like, they can't even, they can't even script it to the point that she likes it right now. Oh, man, that says a lot, because those shows can script their way out of anything that seems like. Exactly. They can't even stage that reality in a way that they will let her get past the anti-vax and all that stuff. The only exposure I've had to any of those shows, I guess, is other than knowing about the local one, is the meme with the cat and the lady yelling at the cat. That's all I know. Yeah. That's Kyle Richards is the brunette.

in that picture. I don't know the name of the cat, but Kyle Richards is the brunette in that photo, and she's the sister of, well, we saw Kyle Richards in a film sack movie. Oh. She played the little girl. Shoot, let's see. Oh, I need to know this. Yes, I'm finding it. Was it Halloween?

It was Halloween. Right. She was Jamie Lee Curtis's little sister in Halloween. I don't think we did Halloween yet. Oh, we didn't do Halloween. I did that for... That was you and Travis. I did that for me and TV's Travis, yeah.

I did the exact same thing with my movie. I watched Hunt or wanted and was sure it was film sacked. I was 100% sure of it, but no, it was on Travis's show that we watched it. Yeah. So wait, so she's a young, was she an actor for the rest of her life or she just, that was it? She was, yeah, she was in like everything, everything all over the whole 70s, an 80s episodic television, right? So Vegas, Fantasy Island, Love Boat.

What else here? The chips. This is all the usual. ER. Oh, ER, all right. She was on ER for 21 episodes. Holy cow. Broke into the 90s there.

That's pretty good. She really did, yeah, actually. Right. CSI. Oh, the 2012. I can't remember. I guess that was the original run of CSI. It went into the.

So is she a poo-poo on that show? Is she kind of a jerk? Like, what's her deal? We're yelling at that cat. I don't know. I mean, they're all kind of horrible. Just like their own little, you know, relative to each other, she's one of, she seemed always to be one of the better ones. And believe me, I would find any excuse to leave the room and find something else to do anywhere else.

I'll vacuum out the garage before I, you know, sit on the couch, even playing on my iPad while Tim was watching that show. Oh, my gosh. I am so glad to hear that someone else on this planet hates vacuuming the garage as much as I do. It's such a waste. It feels like the most redundant waste of time to vacuum the garage. And I really don't. I sweep out the garage, but I don't vacuum it out there. No, me neither. But the point is like... Especially this time of year when you've got all the... Oh, it's the worst. It's the worst, man. It's the worst. It's the worst. Plus, like, it's eight degrees today.

And there's ice on the road. Oh. Which means Kim's going to come home with like a, she's driving Carter down town. She's going to come home with the car loaded up with salt and bullshit and then just spread that all over the garage again. So come spring, I'm going to be sweeping out January crap. Yeah, no, it's horrible. All that crap that comes off like it said that comes off the Fenderbergs. Eight degrees there, it is minus six right now.

Oh, no, it's warmed up to minus two. Oh, you're, I thought eight was cold. I apologize. Eight is not cold. Like, you know, like we said. diarrhea out the wrist out your wrists or out your face it's really all like once once it's below 10 or below 15 it's they're all indistinguishable from each other oh the diarrhea out the wrist I'll never live that one down spider spider yeah spideria oh it's good I don't I don't practice

spideria yeah no no no not even then um all right so speaking of body parts that's perfect transition. That was great. Nicely done. This is Katie and Philly wrote in, and I wanted to read this. We were talking about keeping your own body parts, like your uterus with Amy and that stuff. When you have any sort of surgery and that sort of thing. That's Amy's new segment.

It's called My Uteris with Amy. My Uterus and Me. My Books, My Uterus and Me. There you go. Are you there, God? It's my uterus. Oh, and sorry for, I should mention, Thursday we didn't have a show. It wasn't your imagination, everybody at home.

I had a massive migraine. I only get about one a year. And when it happens, it just shuts me down. I can't do jack. So that's what happened that day. Fine now. Everything's good. Like 24 hours after that, it was like nothing ever happened.

But I know people out there with migraines can relate. People who've never had one. You have no idea, dude. How bad that shit can get. You feel like you're going to die. So anyway, I haven't had one last March, I think. So it was about due. It's like a weird yearly thing.

But now I don't have to think about it. till next, you know, spring or summer or winter. So it's fine. It's all good. Really, the only person who suffered was Claire because we missed her request for a birthday, which was not even that day. It was a day late. That's right.

We're doing it today. Don't worry, Claire. What if this is? Although with her yelling at us about our pronunciation of Keenwa, I'm not sure I will play her request. Oh, you said it was pre-show. That was pre-show. Become a patron listeners.

If you only get that, go be a patron, you can listen to the stuff we talk about pre-shed. Yeah, it's worth your dollar a month, I promise. For sure. Maybe this has just been a whole conspiracy to not get her request in. Maybe that's, I've made all this up. We did a fake, fake migraine, all that just to keep her and the Irish out. Well, anyway, so here's what this says. This is about keeping the body parts.

Katie and Philly says, per the, oh, Philly, how are you guys doing there? Are you greasing up your, I heard they grease up to all their poles so people can't climb them and tear them. off lights and stuff. And go and cause mayhem whether the team wins or loses. Yeah, it doesn't matter. That's what's funny. It didn't matter you people, whether you want or lost. You just wanted to get up that pole and like that light off.

I just wanted to break shit. Yeah, exactly. I get it. Anyway, so as per the... I'll talk about that in the minute anyway. Oh, okay, good. So as per the continued discussion of keeping body parts and what you would do with them, have you heard about the guy who had to have his leg amputated and turned it into tacos for his friends. Have you heard of

this? I don't. I don't remember this i do the hell long ago was this a story and how come we didn't didn't talk about it here on it was 2018 so we may have and i don't remember okay but i don't remember oh i know that i'm seeing the photos from this article yes i do remember talking about this did we do this okay we might have done this uh chat here's here's here's the debauchery um we just get a photo in here because it's so nasty oh that's his leg hold on there it is so there's the there's the meat from said leg and And I thought this was illegal.

I thought you couldn't do this legally. I don't know, but man. Because it's, you know. It's funny. The meat actually looks like pretty good pieces of meat. It does. You see the x-ray of the shattered bone fragments in the sky's leg is like, holy cow. It's pretty nasty.

Let's see. I mean, I understand how I feel this way. But you're the guy who wants your ashes when you're cremated to be put into brownie mix and fed to old people. yeah that is me you're right but it's but i always felt like um the brown you know the powder of me scott powder yeah is way less offensive than big chunky meat me you know like look at this sure you're not saying hey grind me into grind me into meat and make sausages out of the sausages to old people exactly and in this in this link that they sent um there's a picture of the of the fried up goods now i could normally tell you desperately i'm desperately trying right now by the way to come up with an

Shear-in parody that's called the meat of me. Oh, it can happen. The powder of me. Yeah, keep at it. I think we'll get there. I'll work on it, yeah. But anyway, I'm looking at this. It just looks like normal stir fry until you tell somebody what that meat is.

And then suddenly it's the most disgusting photo ever taken. So it makes me think these vegans are on to something. Or vegetarians. Because if they feel that way about all meat, not just man meat. Right. Yes. Yeah, exactly. Then that's gross.

They don't care if it comes from a dude's broken leg or a cow. Or chicken or... Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's a good... Twitch is going to ban me for showing that. That just looks like beef stir fry. Hey, Twitch, it's beef stir fry. Yeah, it's beef next to an x-ray.

I mean, there's nothing. It might as well be. I would be, I would do just fine as a pescatarian. Can I be an ovo pestis? Is that what they're called? Ovo pescatarians, where you have eggs and fish, but that's it. Oh, I thought it... That's interesting.

Carter's a pescatarian, but I didn't know the Ovo part could be there, because she also likes eggs. So she is a, she is that, whatever that word is. So she's an ovo, ovopuscitarian, if that is a thing. Yeah, she likes the fish. She likes the eggs, and that's it. Yeah. She won't do anything else.

Oh, bacon. Oh, see, that's where you've got me. It's like, I know, right. I'd be okay with the, uh, just the fish and just eggs, but, uh, turn it. I couldn't, I'd have a hard time giving up bacon. Is there a good faken out there that you like? I'm sure there, I'm sure there is. I like turkey bacon, but that's still meat, you know?

That's still not seafood. Yeah, well, sorry. And there is vegan bacon, but I've never had it. Is it good, Claire? She says she'll bring some. She's going to bring us vegan bacon to TMS Vegas. And I'm guessing that, well, that sure, that probably won't be an issue at all because does it have to be refrigerated? Probably not, right?

Probably not. Nope, you just keep it in your armpit like a dirty hippie. That's my understanding. tell you preserve it well anyway uh she says it'll be fine so we'll see international vegan bacon heading our way that's right uh speaking of more food went to a mexican place yesterday kim and i a little date dinner thing and uh it was lovely very nice people very nice place uh new newish place uh it was great but i have a question behind the or right by the place where you go to get seated and the lady gets the menus and says follow me yeah the uh the hostess stand there

go there's the word I was looking for on the wall was a defibrillator in full view so it's like you know big medical defibrillator on the wall that you would pop open if somebody had a heart attack or whatever and I I found this to be a little odd because I've never seen it out at least out in the open at any kind of restaurant before other than you know the heart attack grill of course I was going to say it's it's they have one at every table at the heart attack grill yeah yeah you get your own personal defibrillator but this thing was sitting there And I put it up online and was just kind of making jokes about it. And people are like, oh, those are, those have to be everywhere.

And I said, really? So I've tried to find some kind of law or something that says must have a defib, whether it has to be shown in public or it can be behind the desk or something. Some in the chat are saying, yep, that's news to me. Yeah, I didn't know that either. And if every place has them, it's the very, very rare occasion that you actually see them. I can't even think of, you know, a restaurant that I've been to where I have seen one out in full view. Right, because they don't want you to see the thing.

That would seem weird, right? I mean, I would think it would be weird to have that all just, like, out in the open like that. So that's how this one was. It was just sitting there. And I almost asked the lady, have you ever had to use that? You ever had to probably be bad. Yeah, yeah. You know, I didn't do it, though.

I would have felt bad. Rehan says, should be visible. What's the point otherwise? Well, I don't think, I don't think it matters whether. it's visible or invisible. It just needs to be at the restaurant in case somebody has a heart attack. I don't know what, why there's no point if it's not visible. Yeah, there's not a legal problem. It's not a, all right, eat well, or we're going to use this on you. Like, make sure you chew and swallow your food. It doesn't seem like it needs to be visible in the same way that I don't

think your, what do you call it, fire extinguisher needs to be visible. It just needs to be there. it just needs to be there exactly so this was just right out like there's the photo i put in our discord i could see it just right behind the desk there oh look at that and i've never seen it before and i guess you just open that door it's not even break glass kind of thing you just open it yeah and and then jojong can you know revive people i guess but i don't know what is that if you walked into a place you're like oh i hear they make amazing burgers here and then the first thing you see is that thing there probably feel a little weird right like i think so maybe they probably, they might even say, oh, we'll use it like a customer complaints.

Oh, my enchiladas are cold. Oh, stand back. Clear. There you go. So I'm going to, okay, so some of the chat are suggesting start looking and I'll notice them. So I'll try. All right.

I just have never, you know. This is like phone books in the, in the dresser at hotels kind of thing, right? Yeah, I guess so. We're going to be constantly looking for them. And it's going to be the five people out of thousands who see. them and say, I see one. They're in all of them. Yeah, the Gideon's, the Gideon's Defib, we're looking for it. That's right. Yes, Gideon's

Diff. Very exciting. All right, so there was that. Brian, I hear you watch a bunch of recommendals, not your own, but other people's. Yeah, this whole last week, actually, even all three of these were over the weekend. We did yesterday, for whatever reason. I think I was recovering from overindulging Saturday night.

We went to a mammoth game, or I went to a mammoth game with Crazy Neighbor. We did go to a Japanese barbecue before that, and it's one of those where there's a grill in the middle of the table and you get all of your meat and vegetables and all that stuff and you just put them on the grill and cook it to your liking and you can like have fairly you know rare uh wagyu beef or you can kind of let it go obviously the chicken you you cook it until it's till it's totally well cooked all the way through of that sort of thing but

we had a blast doing that that sounds so good i love places like that i had a hard time recovering from that so sunday was kind of like uh sunday morning was like yeah all right i'm sitting on the couch just uh and teen and i uh completely uh made our way through the entirety of reboot which is the hulu series with um uh peel uh judy greer um is this uh randy recommendal i think right it was a randy recommendal yeah and it's eight episodes 30 minute episodes long it's really really good. That's good. What's the case?

Johnny Knoxville is in that. Paul Reiser. Rachel Bloom from my crazy ex-girlfriend is the showrunner. It's really, really funny. It's by Stephen Levitton, who did the Modern Family. Wow. I need to watch that. That's good.

Good to hear. It's good. It's really good. Okay. I also, before Tina got up, I watched Pez Outlaw, which was your recommendal last week. Yeah. Weird, right? Hammond also recommended that, and it was really, really good.

Yeah. Such an odd. I love those kind of documentaries. I wish there were more of them. Every once in a while, I'll try something I hadn't seen before, and I'll fire it up, and it'll be one of those. This man did a thing in the dirt, and the music's a little too dramatic,

and they're recreating a bunch of shit. There's a little bit of that in this because it's a lot of that in this, but I kind of liked it. I liked all of the, like, here's, you know, here's what it was like, him going to the airport for the first time to fly to Europe after just being this, you know, dude living in a holy shack in the... Yeah.

There's like an art to doing that right, and they do a really good job here. For sure. The dude looks like a numb. And I just adore his wife. Yeah, I'm going to stop saying yes to everything that he does anymore. Yeah, she was awesome. You could tell that that dude is a piece of paper on the wind without her. He totally is like, shiny, whatever it is going for it.

That was called Pez Outlaw. And then I also started watching it just about, I've got 15 minutes left of the the third episode of the final episode of train wreck woodstock 99 which is my god i had no idea and the people god just the horror the horror show of uh these you know pissed off kids who are there getting gouged by prices and lack of clean water and horrible conditions and And then, you know, you've got the kind of the horror show that's the mob mentality horror show of them just breaking stuff and fondling women who, you know, just showed up to have a good time and doing even worse stuff than that. But then you've got people like freaking Fred Durst who just riles up the crowd and just pushes, you know, says, oh, are you guys already on the edge? Oh, let's see if I can push you a little bit further.

That thing made me hate for, I was so mad of Fred Durst after that. It was so pissed at him. Because he could have, he could have de-escalated that mess. He could have, exactly. And instead, he's like, sometimes you just want to break stuff. All that rage you've got pent up inside you, now's the time to let it out. Like, oh, what are you doing, man? Just dumping gas on that fire.

It was ridiculous. But what they did to those poor toilets, man, walking around. Oh, this looks like mud. Let's roll in it, no? Oh, I know. And it's like, they were basically playing in shitwater. Like, the woman who they're talking. Yep.

That is a, that is one of my favorite docs of last year, mainly just because I could not believe where we were in 99. Like, that was, that was like strange days. We were talking the other day about how strange days exaggerated where we were at before the millennial turnover. Yeah. They had it going on at Woodstock 99. They were, oh, yeah, no, it's, uh, full anarchy.

It's hilarious that I started watching that after I wrote my film sack intro talking about Woodstock 99 saying that, uh, well, stuff. out here is there's there's so much flannel dreadlocks and sweaty uh greased up guys that i think we're watching woodstock 99 yeah it's bad uh good great doc man really good document uh documentary on on Netflix but it really made me feel like all right there i was getting January 6th kind of uh vibes from a lot of it that mob mentality of like I'm angry I'm just gonna break stuff well I would I think it's interesting you say that because um That's the generation of angry middle-aged Gen X-Men who stormed the Capitol are the same age as those kids.

I know. So I'm wondering, like, if you were at Woodstock 99 and you were at January 6th at the Capitol, I think you really need to just take a look at your life and examine your choices and say, hmm, maybe I'm not good around other people. Maybe I'm kind of a bad. Yeah. Maybe in crowds, I shouldn't be in them ever again. Yeah, maybe I shouldn't be thumping my chest and flipping over cars and set and fire to sound stands and stuff like that. And also, fleas naked, so that's the thing you get. Oh, my God, you get so much flea junk.

Flea was ready to rock, man. He was all out there. I mean, there is a ton of male and female nudity in that thing. Oh, yeah, big time. The Fat Boy Slim stuff I hadn't heard before. I'd heard most of the other stories like bits and pieces, but I didn't know about the covered dome place. they did. I guess it was a rave hangar. A rave hangar. Yeah, the rave hangar. There's

some gnarly shit went down in there. She's all right. Somebody was saying, yep, there was basically a whole bunch of people lined up against the wall naked and then a whole other row of people behind them. And it's just, what were they doing? And he replies, well, which biblical term would you like me to use for what they were doing? That did never seem more like a fish out of water than that documentary.

You just seemed like, I got to get out of here. Why am I here? This is horrible. But the promoters, like the promoter dude and the main smiley dude who you never see, stop smiling throughout the whole thing. He's just like, you know, everything's fine. Yeah, that guy. So the kids having a really good time. He was the original hippie, right?

The guy from the 69 Woodstock, yeah. It's really something, you guys, if you haven't seen it. Which one? This is the Netflix one, three-part or about 45 minutes per part. And was this the one that was that MTV had? I know they interview Ananda Lewis and a few people from MTV who were there. And like, we're getting you guys out of here for your safety. But was that documentary produced by MTV or was it just? Oh, I don't think so.

So there was there were two documentaries basically, the big three part of you watched. Yeah. And I think that was an HBO thing. And maybe MTV had something to do with it because Warner owns all that now, I think. Or no, but maybe I have that wrong. Well, anyway, the other one's not bad either. It's just more compressed because it's a single thing. It's like an hour long.

And it's part of that continuing music documentary series or it's all music-based stuff. And they just do one on Woodstock. But yeah, but watching like, who's the old news guy at MTV? Kurt Loder. Kurt Loder. Kurt Loder's like, dude, we're going to get the off out of here. I know. We're going to go ahead and leave for our safety.

And we end our broadcast here. Yeah. He had a real, I'm too old for this shit vibe going on with him. Jolly. Well, that's great. And what else? Is anything else that jumped out at you? Some stuff that new stuff that I watched, one of which is absolutely going to be my recommendal this week. Nice. Look at this. Recooping from a hard night to party and catching all the stuff on television. Exactly.

Yeah, that's the way to live. Watch the last of us last night, and I'll tell you what. Ooh, I haven't watched that yet. I will say that this might be, at least in recent memory. I don't want to be hyperbolic here. But in recent memory, I'm not sure I've seen a more powerful hour of television. Wow. Really? Okay. It's really something.

Well, we're watching it tonight. Defies expectation. It's freaking fantastic. It sounds like I'm glad I didn't watch it because we wrapped up D&D at about 9 o'clock and went up to Tina and we said, Well, there's a new Last of Us. You want to watch that? She's like, let's watch the last couple episodes of reboot. Because it's like, yeah, let's not do something heavy like the last of us right before bed. Yeah, that is true.

Look, I don't want to, again, I'm not trying to be hyperbolic or overly, whatever. If I am, then the whole world is because everyone seems to agree with me on this. It was really freaking good. And I'm just here to say that Nick Offerman should probably. just get an Emmy now. Just start engraving his name on the statue. Yeah, right now. We already like him, but he really killed it. So I can't wait for you to see it. You'll, you'll like it, I'm sure. Can't wait. All right. We're going to play a game. Now, here's the deal. Brian Dunaway's got a meeting this morning, so he's not going to be with us. However, we figured out a way to make

this work with one of you in the listening audience. Okay. So here's what you got to do. We're going to take the fourth person who pings me on Discord right now. Just a little DM. Just send me a DM on Discord. You already know, you've already friended me if you're a part of this so you know how to do this. And once you do that, then today will not only bring you on the call, but Brian will make it so you can play on the board. That's right. Which is also a pretty rad way to go. So that's your warning. If you're out there right now, either on your phone or a computer, it doesn't matter wherever you're on Discord, send Scott a DM. If you haven't already added me, it's Frog Pants, 1277.

Don't forget the pound sign. Right. And we'll hook you up. Yes. Oh, I just got a message from Dunaway. It's not about this, I don't think. Okay. I was like, hey, I can play now.

Hey. He's, oh, it was a half hour ago. I guess he's not. Okay. He's not good. All right. All right. We're waiting for number four.

It's number four. We're bringing it in. It's number four. I think we have a fourth. Let's see here. It is Amanda Catherine X. And I'm going to add her to the call. So here goes.

Okay. Please deal. I got to spell it right. M. D. Okay, there she is. Let's pull her in. I say she because it's a photo of a she, but, you know, I just want to make sure.

Sure. All right. We're ringing. Oh, here we go. Look at this. Hi, welcome to the show. Is your name Catherine? It's Amanda, actually.

It's Amanda, sure. Oh, it's Amanda, duh. Is your last name, Catherine? No, that's my middle name. Oh, do you know what Amanda Catherine sounds like? What's your last name and your phone number and your address? Yeah, tell us everything. You sound like a nice nun lady who's running the nun church.

I don't mean you sound. Mr. Amanda, Catherine. Yeah, Sister Amanda Catherine, get out here and take care of this. Like you're going to strap me with a ruler if I misbehave in class or something. Anyway. That was not my intention, but I do have an aunt who's a nun and my grandma. be a nun. Oh, really? Wow. Wait, your grandma used to be, did she quit being a nun? Is that a thing you can do? Yeah, she got nosebleeds and thought it was a sign from God to no longer be a nun,

so she had 13 children instead. Oh my gosh. Wow. All right. Look at that. From none to 13 children. Yeah. I'd watch that. How many children do you have none? And then next, you know, 10 years later, 13. Did she, did she have a habit of getting nosebleeds? Get it? Habit, get it? All right. Hey, it's good to have you here. We're going to play a game. And Brian will explain how this works since this is a little bit new. That's right. In the meantime, Amanda, click that link that we just gave you in the Discord. Do you have a way of doing that? Yes. Okay, cool. And then while I'm talking, Scott's going to give you a login details. Oh, right. I'm going to do that right now. So that link he gave you, you're going to want to use.

this stuff to log in with it, which I'm now sending you directly via DM. All right. Welcome to the morning half-fasses. A trivia game we're actually going to be giving you guys the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Manda category and six possible answers, three of which are correct and three that are incorrect. Depending on how confident you feel with the category, you can provide one, two or three guesses. But if any of those guesses are wrong, you get zero points for that round. Get one right. You get a point.

Get two right. Get two right. Get three right. All three. You get five freaking points. for that round. And the player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize. And, of course, Amanda, you're going to be playing for yourself. Scott, you're going to be playing for Ray in Kamloops, British Columbia Canada. He says, just a block east of Vancouver and two blocks

west of Calgary. Oh, really? That's a... That's like a four corners kind of deal where you're just like right in the middle of stuff. I always think that's cool, and I don't know why I think it's so cool. He's playing up the fact that we think everything is a block away from each other. He's making fun. I see. Okay, I'll remember that. That's fine. Exactly. You do you. Mandy, you're playing for yourself.

And you guys, you can win. If you're the winner, you get Hell Let Loose and RoboQuest on Steam, courtesy of Wesley. But the runner-up gets eldest souls. Nice. Not elder souls, but eldest souls. All those are good, but RoboQuest is fantastic. It's such a cool little repeatable sort of rogue-like shooter thing. It's very good.

Oh, nice. Very, very good. All right. So let me see. So Amanda, did it let you in? Did it let you log in? I'm on the kind of weird screen with a bunch of blocks of colors. Oh, yeah.

So if you hit, you choose a color for your, for your, who you want to, you know, what color you want to be. Yep. And then, you know what, I'm going to reload it so I can see it. Let's see. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. This is going to work out.

I know it. I just know it. Sure. There it is. And then above that you should see room code and name and stuff. Do you see all that? No, just a long string of numbers and letters. Oh, weird.

It doesn't say room code, name, and color next to those things? No, it just says sign in at the top. Oh, weird. Oh, okay. Oh, and when you click sign in, is it a link or is it? No. Here, I'll send you a screenshot. Oh, yeah, cool.

Mine says I'm already logged in. Is it because I refreshed? Yeah, probably. How do I change? Because it's got cookies. It keeps them cookies. Oh, it won't let me, uh, oh, there we, there we go. I'm in. I think I'm in. Do you show me a scorn John's? I see you in, yes. I see Scorne Jognerp. Uh-huh. Oh, yeah, it is weird, hunters. Okay, so if you put, um, put it up, you know, the one that's below the numbers, just put your name in that blank space or just, you know, any name, doesn't matter. And then, uh, that should then let you hit the play button.

There we go. Okay. Hello, there we go. There she is. Wonderful. I see you. Wonderful. Excellent. Awesome. And now you should see my name on the left. left, your name on the right, and a bunch of stuff that's blank until Brian fills it in, right? Correct. Correctamundo. All right, good deal. And so what you'll do is you'll make your guesses and then hit something to lock him in. I never see the player side of these things. So, yes, you'll probably figure out the way to kind of lock in your answers once you've made your guesses. All right. Okay, your first question, U.S. states that prohibit billboards. So states where when you're driving down the interstate, you will not see. a billboard along the side of the road because they're prohibited. Your choices are, Vermont, Maine, Montana, Rhode Island, Hawaii, and Massachusetts. I wish, Maine.

I wish Utah was on there. We have a lot. Yeah. Too many here. Right. Vermont, Maine, Montana, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Massachusetts. Which of those states do not allow billboards? And Mandy, you should see all that on your screen, right now?

Yeah. Okay. Cool. So you should be able to select them with that little. I even see her. Oh, she's already locked in her guessing. Oh, she's smart then. I'm screwed.

Let's see. I don't, I mean, I don't think they're right. I feel like I'm going to go for it and say three. All right. Cool. All right. Here we go. You guys both locked in on Vermont.

Vermont absolutely does prohibit billboards. Hawaii also prohibits billboards. And so does Maine. Amanda gets three points. Montana does allow billboards as does. Rhode Island and Massachusetts. For some reason, you're driving. Yeah, I thought Montana for sure.

I don't know why I thought that, because it just seems like they'd be going, we're putting no billboards here, we're leaving Montana. I don't know why. You can't block the big sky country? Yeah. Yeah, no, it surprised me when we were driving from Vermont to Boston, we went through New Hampshire. And as soon as you crossed the border from Vermont and to New Hampshire,

it's like you get 12 billboards all in a row. like we've been saving them up so we're going to put them all here they stack him pretty I'm actually originally from New Hampshire so I really have to think about I was like no I think we had billboards but I when we cross into Vermont it's it's so quiet so I think they did they got the 1% with 0% billboards that's their deal 3% of our billboards is about the 20% of the restaurants that have 5% of the people go into the 5% of the he probably helped vote for that is my guess He doesn't want to like that. All right.

So, Amanda, going into question number two with a nice lead, three-point lead, Scott, time to catch up. You might think I'm talking Bruce Springsteen, but I'm not. Which of these people were born in the USA? We've got Bob Hope, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Henry Ford, Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, and Nicole Kidman. Three of those people were born in the USA. Oh, there's going to be some tricks in here. Yeah. Oh, shoot.

All right, one I know for sure is not here. Bob Hope, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, like a... Barack Obama, not on the list. I'm going to do... I'm locking him with two, because I don't know. Okay. You guys are both locked in. Amanda, playing it safe with Bob Hope, who was born in England.

Damn it. Scott locking in with Arnold Schwarzenegger and... Oh, no, these are born in the... I did the opposite. opposite, shit. Oh, you're saying not born? Yes, that's what I did. But guess what?

You would have still gotten one wrong because, yeah, of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger was born in Austria. Bruce Willis, born in Germany, meaning Henry Ford, Tom Cruise, and Nicole Kidman were born in the USA. Nicole Kidman, obviously Australian, but she was born in Hawaii. Oh, I didn't know that. But she was, she's never, so does that me give her dual citizenship or how's that work for her?

I guess she can do whatever she wants now with her fat man. You can do whatever she wants. once. Yeah. Dang it. Okay. So I knew this. I got it backwards, but then I would have been wrong anyway.

Yes, exactly. If I'd have gone backwards, I still would have gotten one right. You still would have gotten, right. Then you would have gotten Nicole Kidman wrong. Yeah. Anyway. All right. Well, we're going into our last question.

Big thanks to Dwayne Coyle for providing this one. Dwayne sent in a few questions. Cars can have some unusual names. Which of these are or were actual car names? So which of these are actual car names? The lettuce, adder, naked, voodoo, BJ, and Friend Me. Shut up. Three of these are actual automobiles that either you can or could have purchased.

Three of them are not. How can any of these be real? Right. The Friend Me? The BJ? I know. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my God.

I don't know. I'm going to choose the two that I think could be it. Naked? There's a car called naked. All right. You guys both locked down on exactly the same, too. You guys both picked Voodoo and BJ. They just sound possible. The rest sound ridiculous.

Yep. Well, those two come from Grand Theftado. The actual answers are the lettuce, which was a Nissan. No, lettuce was Mitsubishi. The friend being from Nissan in 2013 and the naked. was Daihatsu. Really? The Dahatsu naked.

The Daihatsu naked, yes. None of these made it to the States, though, right? We never got them. I don't know. I want to say, yeah, no, I'm guessing not, right? Yeah, because I could see that, like, local, like, oh. Like Japanese car called The Friend Me, absolutely. Yeah, it's like their movie and anime titles.

They don't make sense over here, but over there, they're fine. The Nissan, number one, happy, go, exclamation point. That's insane. Well, I hope whoever's riding, they're still driving their lettuce around. I hope it's still a good car. That means I lost hardcore. That means you lost, but that means that... Not hardcore.

Ray, just lost by a little bit. Yeah, a little bit. Ray and Camloops, you're getting a copy of Eldest Souls for Steam. But congratulations, Amanda. You're getting a copy of Hell, Hetloose, and RoboQuest. Again, courtesy of our friend, Wesley. Wesley. Hell, Atlas is supposed to be really good.

haven't played it yet. It's a World War II shooter thing. And Scott Fletcher has this to say. Congratulations. You're a winner. That's right. Amanda, how do you feel about your big win? Pretty great. This will be an early Valentine's present for my... Oh, that's perfect. And also having you hear is nice. This is your first time calling in, right? Yeah. I work from home, so this is... I can do this. Oh, that's awesome. That's great. Tell your friends. And I can't wait to maybe have you. you on in the future. Thanks so much. We'll see you next time. All right. She won. That's awesome. Oh, and you can just DM her that stuff, right? I did. Yep. I've already sent her the codes.

Very nice. And I'll send the other ones to Ray and Camloops. We had, Camloops was one of our clients. I always loved that name for a Canadian town. Camloops. That is cool. I like that. Yeah. All right. We have about 10 minutes. We can do some news. So here comes. Check out the news right here. it's time for the news brought to you by mistaken shampoo for bubble bath so i took a bath last night oh i was thinking you were saying this was a van like you were preparing a uh a bubble bath for van no but it could have gone oh happy birthday a little little little dude he turned four today yeah oh very cool happy birthday can't believe it's been four years but anyway uh he so i was taking a bath i don't do this very often but i was like i don't know i just need to relax so i took a bath

and I thought that bottle was for shampoo so I put it in my hair and now my hair feels weird and it's because it was bubble bath and it's not meant for your for your hair so gotcha okay so it was the reverse you you washed your hair I thought you were going to take a nice leisurely calgon bubble bath and say calgon take me away I mean it would have been nice like even if I'd use the shampoo as bubble bath that would have probably been fine because it would It'd foam up still and whatever, but the other way, this bubble bath was not made for your hair, so. No, I imagine it took a while to wash all that stuff out. God.

I haven't taken, I'm a shower guy. I'm a shower guy, Scott. I've been taking a bath in years, but I'm trying to think of when the last time I took a bubble bath was, man. That just sounds so fun. Remember Mr. Bubble? Yeah, it was great. It smelled like bubble gum. It was great.

It smelled like candy. You were swimming in candy. But my wife's really big on those big bath bombs, like the, oh, yeah, sure. the balls that they look like uh yeah snowballs yeah chock snowballs yeah they look like a little alien uh things they're really weird but she likes to as as a relaxing activity the bath is kind of there for that but most of the time i never take a bath like baths are for kids i mean no it's just so much work yeah no it's a ton of work and you apparently use way more water with a bath than you do with a shower even if you like you know not even like a short little military shower but uh um

Apparently, you still use way more water in a shower or in a bath than you do with a shower. I can see that. Unless you're in there for 45 minutes or something, you, you, there's no way I'm using it. The fullness of that tub, there's no way I've spent that much water in the shower. That's a really good point. That's why we should all be showering, everybody. You know, I say I take a shower, but what I do is I turn the shower on and then I plug the drain so it feels like I'm on a sinking submarine. Oh, nice.

Or on a leaky submarine. I guess submarine's already sunk. You can't sink a submarine. Brian's like the K-19 Widowmaker in there. I like, I'm like DOS Boot. Yeah, yeah. Filming me in my own version, Dust, beat. By the way, I forgot to tell you, and I should have told you before the show.

But if you look in the TMS covers folder, I have a couple new audio clips free to use at your leisure. Oh, look at this. Hold on now. Criticy of the real Chris Brown. They're called Up High the Cure. Okay, I'm going to play this first one. Hi, I just wanted to tell the cure that they're very talented And I enjoy their musical eye And I was asked I wanted to ask Robert a question

Yeah Yeah, I was just wondering how long you guys plan to stay together She's talking to the cure That's the And you got to love like Oh, I just wanted to tell the cure That really enjoy their music That's great

Let's hear part two I love all your music But really how long are you guys going to stay together It's a weird thing to say I know really is like We feel like we've got another five years It's like saying I love you mom and dad

But how long are you going to be together You know How long are you going to stay together Heather in San Jose on KRBE Hi Heather Hi Hi The cure

Hi Hi I mean, how do you address a full band, you know? I don't know. Right. I don't know if I blame her. I guess, yeah, but I would say, hi, cure. I don't know.

I don't know what I'd say, but I don't know if I'd say, um, hi, the cure. Yeah. Hi, the care. You can tell that she was very, like, in the moment, like, oh, I don't know how to address these people. I don't know what to say. Well, that's amazing. Tell Chris, thank you for that.

We'll do. I guess he's listening. Thanks, Chris. He is listening, yeah. The real Chris Brown. All right, let's do this one story. A Chinese man who models his own brand's high heels makes nearly 900 grand a month doing so.

Okay. Uh-huh. Interesting. We're in the wrong business, dude. We got a... Clearly. Yeah. We got an only fans this up.

It says, under the translated to Doyin user name Uncle Wu, who wears high heels. That's the full quote. That's his full username, by the way. I love that. 41-year-old businessman Wu Nan from Chinese Sichuan, or sorry, Sichuan, probably. It's a shoe on, yeah. Something like that.

Province films himself running and jumping in the shoes to show off their quality, comfort, and stability. Despite having a U.S. men's shoe size of 6.5, Wu's feet fit seamlessly in these high heels, making him stand out even while walking alongside female models. Who also films live streams of his self-wearing the shoes has gained over 1.2 million followers on Dewey Inn. That's a social thing over there. Okay. In addition to modeling, Wu uses his due-in account to show how women can properly measure their feet to find the right shoes.

While Wu first began his business in 2018, the unique online marketing technique has proved successful, allowing his brand to now see monthly trade volumes of 6 million yuan, which is approximately $885,000 per month. According to the Chinese media outlet star video. So, Brian, we're in the wrong business. We need to do shoes. We need to strut up and down in them, do video. Clearly. Yeah. We've missed out on the hot thing. Speaking of videos, have you watched the video?

Oh, no, I haven't. I didn't realize it was in here. Yeah. Here, I'll give you a link. It's low in the D.L. Soppa in our Discord. I love it. Okay. Yeah. Hold on. This is great news. I didn't realize there was a thing. This is a YouTube thing? Okay. Yeah. All right. Here we go. Oh, yeah. Look at this. So he's showing them off, talking about how great they are. Well, he can really rock those things.

He really can. Like, he can. He can. Yeah, he can fly in those things. I don't know the last time he tried to walk in heels. I don't think I ever have. But I'm guessing this is not as easy as it looks. It looks like it'd be hard. Oh, God, no. Yeah.

Oh, look at this. Just walking. But watching him like run and hot buddy hop in them. Yeah. Yeah, look at that. He's full on jogging. Yeah. Some of those with like bigger, bigger hills.

Like, seriously, I, I, I, uh, there was a costume shop that we went into looking for, uh, looking for a costume for, you know, when Halloween. And they had these platform. shoes that had fake plastic fish like the heels were clear and they had water and then fake goldfish inside them.

And I'm kicking myself for not buying them because that place went out of business and I'm never going to see those again. It's like oh man I wish I would have picked those up when I saw them. I wish you would have too because I want to see you in them that's what I want. Yeah, those I could wear to Vegas. I mean

those were absolutely unisex boots for sure and I could have and would have happily worn them to Vegas I guess with the liquid

in them yet I'd have to put checked do checked luggage oh right yeah they don't let you take any liquid on especially shoe stuff

especially shoe stuff yeah oh god yeah and I wonder I wonder if the pressure you know the pressure in the airplane would be bad going up and down

in the airplane with those things like if they could blow it in my luggage they pop at 30,000 feet all in your stuff and these aren't real goldfish in there

you could put A little fake bobber thing in there, right? Okay. Yeah, you don't want a real fish in there. Oh, yeah. They kind of look like, there you go, the, the Fantasma by Pleaser Men's Halloween Pimp. That's great.

Oh, that's, these are wonderful. Did it look like this? Yeah, yeah. Did they look like this GIF? This is what we were doing on. They kind of do with the, let's see, are they, oh yeah, no, the ones in the GIF are better because of the yellow and the zebra print.

This one is just a straight-up zebra print. I want to see someone in that full pimp outfit. That's amazing. That's great. That's actually not a bad price. Now you're tempted. Now you're tempted. See, the problem is I don't know what, like, their shoe sizes are small, medium,

or small, large, and extra large, and then 10 to 11. I don't know what extra large, with that, with that would compare to like a 12 and a half or 13 that I would wear. Yeah. That's hard. I don't know how they determine their measure. But I would gleefully watch you wear those. That's amazing.

All right. Well, on that note, we're going to take a break when we come back. Stephen Schleiker will join us. He does this every Monday, so we're happy to have him back. So that'll be just a minute. Hang tight. All right? We need to play a song, though.

Do you have one there? You can do? I do. Hey, we're going to the Isle of White for this one. If it's not too dear, this is a band called Reminders. They have a brand new single called International Dial Tones. It's out now via Venner. records in the UK and wiretap records in the USA. They're going to be on tour. They're just

starting their tour yesterday with Love Breakers. So if you're in that part of the world, go check them out. They're kind of a little bit undertonesy and a little bit Ramonesy. So Ramones and undertones, and here they are right now. Here are reminders and international dialtones. You're so high, I'm so lower at the end of the road that kind of hear me out the blue Who was hard to know that you were missing home When I was only missing you You say you're never good enough

Now you feel like giving up It's like I just don't know you at all You say you feel like hanging up Now you never pick up Or even return my calls Yeah, every time I call All I ever hear are international dial tones They echo through my ears

And they tell me to go home My Californian years Now a Rossio, the county home Still all I ever hear are international dial tones Every time I follow It's international toll tones So how's like back home Wouldn't you like to know

How I'm doing now you're all gone I heard you let yourself go But the grapevines overgrowth So I could have got that wrong I hope you're doing okay But in a massacistic way I'm waiting for you to fall Because I remember the day

You threw it all in my face Since you didn't want to know me at all And yeah Every time I told All I ever hear are international dialled toes They echo through my ears And they tell me to go on My Californian gears

And a rosio downy home Still all I ever hear are international titles Each and every time I fall in It's a national dog If I say a little long We could a cold is not my heart But I'll finder in California But I'll be an acre trust

Oh little leaf You've done well to provide An oasis of shade When we set foot outside Your time is done now Your trials are through But we'll always remember you Oh, I'll provide them a

The morning stream, I don't understand, you never die. We returned. Tell me who that was again, so I can find it. Sure. That was a band called The Reminders, a brand new single that they've just released called International Dial Tones. Go check him out on tour right now. All right. Hey, listen, you guys, Brian has never let you down with musical ideas. Never. Never. So don't waste your time, not looking. Go look and use your time wisely. All right. Right. Let's get Stephen in here and see what's up with him. Yeah. He's cool. I like him a lot. And he is cool. He is a really cool guy. Stephen Schleiker. Stephen Schlecker.

One of the coolest. One of our own, really, is one of our generation. We have a lot of stuff in common. but he also has a big old empire called Major Spoilers where he comes on here and we talk about rad stuff coming out in comics, movies, TV, and more. Stephen, welcome back to the show. Hello. Hello. Hey, did you figure out your...

We talked right over him doing, hello, the morning stream. Yeah, no, I thought we heard it. Anyway, hey, Stephen, here's the deal. It's good to have you back. I wanted to ask you a question. Oh, did you figure out your email? We had some weird email this morning. It was hard to do.

idea all right that's weird this his notes came didn't get to brian or i but we but we were able to get it later via text and then he sent me a test email and it worked fine so i don't know what's going on the email gods hate you something's up something there was something apparently that was in that email that uh that that our our servers did not like yeah i don't know what it would be just email accounts or gmail rather well anyway it doesn't matter because no matter what we were determined to get you here and talk about the cool stuff you got lined up this week, including bad news. We talked, I think Brian and I maybe mentioned it last week.

We didn't get into it deep, but Doom Patrol and Titans got canceled on HBO Max. Oh, yeah. Talked about it during couch party. Yeah, that's a bummer. So they, Brian, you did say you felt like they kind of summed things up pretty well. Well, no, they haven't released the, we haven't seen the final episodes yet, but both, the writers of both series did have enough time to write endings for both of their shows. Oh, okay. And Stephen, as far as we know, this is nothing to do with,

the James Gunn got online and said he didn't, he didn't know this was happening. No, this is totally his ass-lap thing. This is, this is them saying, what do we do with this thing that's super popular called Doom Patrol? And we need to cut costs because that Brendan Fraser guy is going to cost us a lot of money for his voice. Yeah. So who knows? Yeah.

It's kind of ridiculous. And it's really weird, too, because is it April or May, D.C. Comics is doing a major push with the Teen Titans series and they're pushing them to the forefront and moving Justice League and everyone else kind of in the background for a couple of months and so it's like unless they're trying to coincide it with the ending of the Titans TV series

it seems like a huge messstep on somebody's synergy list to have one being moved up just as it's also being taken away or I don't want to say deep platform but it is being taken out of the limelight for everyone else. Yeah, that's a bummer.

I did hear something or read something, just a headline somewhere that the Justice League was being disbanded in the comic, like in the world for a while? Is that part of this? I think it is, yeah. Okay. All right. Because there's some conflict and they're all

like hanging up their boots and saying, no, we're not a group anymore. And then now the Teen Titans, Teen Titans have to kind of kick in and Teen Titans. Teen and Titans. It happens. It happens every so often, right? Where it's just like, hey, we've reached a disagreement. We're going to disband. then you get like justice league

Detroit steps up and says well we'll do this and it's like no vibe we don't need you yeah but then but then the cool thing is cyborg can just hop teams right he doesn't he's on every team right he can do whatever he wants yeah he is he is the most versatile

of all of the uh I've said it before he's of all the DC characters even Batman uh Cyborg is the one that appeals to every age range in group yeah from old fans to little kids who are watching Teen Titans go, cyborg is across all of that stuff. Well, I think here on the show,

we had lightly theorized that Brendan Fraser's price was going to go up. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I guarantee you it's probably part of it. And I bet they're going to find some way to just remove those shows off of HBO Max because they don't want to pay residuals. Oh, that's the other thing, right?

Oh, right. See, this is what I hate. If you look at those shows, there's a lot of really big up-and-com. comer people that are in this, in both of these shows. And so, yeah, having to pay residuals to those guys as their

star climbs is going to hurt somebody or make them look bad. So I bet by the end of 2024, neither one of those shows will be found on HBO Max. Jane, the actress who plays Jane, is a big-time Disney voice actress.

Like, did singing, like, one of the characters in Enkanto is Jane and all of her crazy. And you have James Bond in Doom Patrol. You think Timothy Dalton's at home going, I'll not get any residuals anymore. Yeah. At least he's going, at least I got more screen time than Dr. Fake did. Yeah, that's true.

But then he said, then he goes, it hurts. That's what I always think of when I think of Timothy Dalton, getting the church to steeple up through his neck. Anyway, hot fuzz reference everybody, hot fuzz. Anyway, so I guess we'll see if they end up keeping them in the residual town or not. my guess is you're probably right because they've already shown that they don't want to do that. So watch it now, I guess, everybody. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. That's true. Speaking of James Gunn, did you guys see the, what's the, what's comic book representative's name? I forget what state he's from. But he was like, if James Gunn doesn't come forward by February 1st with a plan for the DC movie universe, I'm calling him in to the Senate for or to the House for a special questioning. Oh, yeah. I saw that.

I assume he's kidding. Right? he's joking of course yes he is a huge comic book nerd he had he got sworn in on the very first issue of action comics oh right the yeah has in their archives that's right i remember here but i couldn't i didn't know that was the same guy but that all that makes sense now but yeah it's about the only time this week that i heard anything about political leaders that i was like kind of smiled at you know i kind of had I do hear that James Gunn has sensitive documents at his house though.

Don't we all at this point? I feel like everyone's got it. His garage, yeah, exactly. I wasn't going to say anything, but. Hayes, Kansas, FBI, get over there. I used to, and none of it, it's top secret, but I used to have a whole bunch of documents from Al Gore back when I was doing my, my master's because I was doing it on e-commerce in the internet.

Yeah. And so the really the only person in Washington who really had a handle on that was Al Gore. So I just wrote to his office. He's like, here, here's a bunch of stuff. And I carried that stuff around for about 10 years after I graduated. And then finally, when I moved to California, I was like, no, I got to throw this stuff away. Yeah. You never know, man.

Could come back to haunt you. It could. Yeah. Did it do, did it have any, um, were there any references to how he invented the internet or anything like that in there? No, no, no, no. But it was, it was like, it was like commerce stuff. And because I was talking about how, and this was, you got to remember this is like 92, 93. I was doing it on how.

small communities, especially in Western Kansas, could sustain themselves in the long run by doing business on this thing called the internet, which was brand new. Now, you know, e-commerce had been a term for a while, but it was mostly used in the UK. So that's kind of what I was looking at. What could e-commerce be like with this internet if we all had high-speed internet? And so now, you know, 20 years later, here we are. For those Gen Zs who didn't know, back in the day, vice president gore claimed basically when he was a senator i guess he sort of did there's audio of him basically taking credit for the internet yes and most of his stuff was pushing through the legislation yeah that other people kind of created

he kind of made up for it by being an amazing guest star on futurama a couple of times but other than that he's kind of a dingus uh anyway moving on uh now i can get emails from lefties who are mad that'll be right there you go yeah i can't wait that'll be great uh That's okay. We made fun of January 6ers today and we made fun of Al Gore. We did our equal thing. Tell me more about comicsology and their layoffs because, boy, that app's gone from cool to weird to owned by Amazon to kind of bad to now they're laying people off. What's going on? Well, so keep in mind, first of all, this isn't a thing that has just happened in the last year. Amazon has owned comicsology for almost a decade now. So this isn't, you know, for people that are like ever since Amazon bought Comicsology, it's like you're talking about 10 years ago when Amazon bought Comicsology. What they're really talking about is since they integrated the

Comicsology service into the Amazon.com ecosystem, a lot of people are upset about that. But last week, Amazon announced that they laid off 18,000 workers around the world. And then people from Comicsology said, hey, I'm hearing from the inside that at least 50%, maybe 75% of the staff at comicsology have been let go, which when we talk about 18,000 people, there weren't 18,000 people working at comicsology. But I also wouldn't panic at this point that this is the end of digital comics and comicsology is going away. What this more than likely resulted from is that for the last two or three years, comicsology has been doing huge integrations with Amazon. So they had to really change their architecture and their structure and how the

system was set up so that it could work with Amazon so you're going to hire programmers and UI guys and a bunch of other people to do this. Now that it was complete last year, officially last year, they don't need those guys around anymore. So you can lay off a whole bunch of those people. I mean, it's not great when people get laid off, but it's not like that is the death knell of of comicsology. No, it's also the pattern of tech, gaming in particular. This is the pattern. Like you bring a bunch of people in, you cram together your big projects. And then when you're done, you're like, well, I don't need 50% of these people anymore, which sucks. I mean, it does suck, but it is normal.

I mean, it's normalized. Let's put it that way. I don't love that it happens at all, but, yeah, that's probably, you're probably right. Unfortunately, they kind of made a bad app. It's not great, you know? So here's the thing. And I guess I am, I am confused by people saying that comicsology doesn't work anymore because I can go to Amazon.com, and if I know the comic that I'm looking for, I just type up

the comic and the issue number, hit return, and it pops up. And I can buy it instantly and then read it on my, on my Kindle app or my comicsology app, which still works and find that stuff. It works. It's just bad at discovery. It's a horrible experience to like open up on an iPad or on anywhere. I can understand that part. But for people to say, I can never find comics. It's like, well, what's the comic you're looking for? And I bet I can find it in 30 seconds. Yeah. You can find it no problem. It's like I think that there's two, there's two things going on. One, finding what you need is no problem if you know what you're. need right but getting in there and going hey app show me what's cool it's really what's released this week because they still are kind of bungled on that if you go to comicsology dot com it's not it's not perfect there yeah and the old app wasn't perfect either

it was pretty aged out you know yeah it had been there since version 1.5 or whatever so yeah it had gone through it's it's time yeah I wish there was competition in that space for for overall comics not just DC specific or Marvel specific because it's level specific yeah you can get those but and those are great nothing wrong with those apps but yeah i do wish i don't know i wish there was indies yeah the indies are so good on comicsology is so great about like hey we brought over scott snider and this other artist and they were making a thing they've been wanting to make for 10 years but couldn't but now they can and yeah perfect comicsology originals is great yeah it really is but they just make it hard to find it's a little it's weird but if you know

what you're looking for like you said it's there fine uh all right finally this is is good news, I think. I've never been a huge... I've never been a big fan of like, you know, Buffy's sixth season is actually in comic form. Yes. Yeah. Usually bugs me a little bit, but I can't help but be excited about the expanse coming to comics.

What's happening there? So they are continuing. There's been already, I think, one series of the expanse release from Boom Studios. This is the second 12-issue mini-series. This one's from Andy Diggle and Rubin as the artist. This one's going to pick up after the events of the final season and it's called the expanse dragon tooth

and it is set in the years between expanse Babylon's ashes and expanse Persephalous rising and is supposed to tell you the secret history of characters that you never knew you wanted to know. Is the writing team known as James S.A. Corey involved in the writing?

Not that anything that I have seen in any of the official stuff so I don't know where that stands as we've seen with like Dune, for example, the sun is involved heavily in the creation of that. Oh, gotcha. Okay. What's Brian?

Brian Herbert. Herbert, yeah. Is it Brian Herbert? I think so is his name. Yeah, Brian. Wow, so many Bryans. Not enough if you ask me. No, no, no, not nearly enough.

Do you think Brian Herbert ever gets called Brain? Like in an email or something? Probably. Hello, Brain. I love that. The producers have said that they have faith in Andy Diggle. Andy Diggel has been in the comics industry for decades. And so he probably has a really good grasp on this.

And for the fact that it's a 12-issue miniseries says something because a lot of what Boom Studios does, unless it's an ongoing, is like four to six issues per series. Gotcha. Let's see, first issue rise April 2023, so we're not that far. I'm excited about that. I'll read that. Yeah, I look forward on Comicsology and see if you can pre-order it.

Hell yeah, if you can find it. What else? That's it, really. And there's always something more over at major spoilers.com. I had a guy this week, so funny sometimes how this stuff happens, but somebody say, hey, I heard Stephen on one of your shows. And I went, yeah, he's on all the time. And he goes, oh, man, do you guys work to get, do anything together?

Like, yeah, for like 15 years. Like, you know, he just clearly is just slightly off center to where we're always communicating, either your show. my show, but I always love hearing when some people are excited about that combination. I know I'm excited about it. Yeah. We've known each other since like 2005, 2006, somewhere around. Yeah, it's been that long. I used to send segments into the major spoilt. No, it was called the... Oh, it was a coolness roundup. Coolness roundup. Yeah, all the cool stuff got talked about on that channel.

Tech show for everyone. Yeah, yeah. It was great. I enjoyed it. But I enjoy what you do now as well. Tell people what's going on so they can go find it. Well, we just wrapped up our Starfinder campaign on the Critical Hit episode. We've got a wrap up episode coming next week and then we start an Octum Cthulhu 2D20 system right after that with me

GMing that. So if people want to get some horror and punch some Nazis, then you'll want to go check out Critical Hit over at Major Spoilers.com. One quick question. Did you have a thumbs up or down on the most recent announcement from Wizards about

the OpenGL stuff? Oh, man. And it was a lot of, that is a whole different conversation, but from the very start, it was clear that they were seeing how far they could go without upsetting the community. And the community got upset. And so they folded very, very quickly on that. So on the one hand, going into Creative Commons is great for a lot of it. Keeping the SRD, I think that's the other part, keeping the OGL in place and the SRD in the Creative Commons is great. I always like when people do something like that. But I also understand where Hasbro is coming from in that we need to make some money off this stuff.

We can't continue to sell $50 books for the rest of our lives. But it was funny because in the Discord when the first bit was released, I said, oh, yeah, they're going to charge you to do homebrew. They're going to charge you to do a monthly fee for all of your players and everything. And that's what came out in another leak that Wizards the Coast quickly backed away from. But it's fine. They can do whatever they want. Well, they can, but they, it's, it's to their detriment.

Like the genie's out of it. The genie got out of that bottle decades ago. Like, you cannot, you cannot rebrand that and go, suddenly your home drew is going to cost you money. Like, well, forget it. Also, they can't say that we are creating the OGL 1.0 and it will never be revocable. And then 10 years later saying, yeah, we're going to revoke that. Yeah, it's real weird. That whole thing.

But, you know, Hasbro, they want to, you know, they got the, they got the giant robots. the card games and the whatnot. They got the monopoly. Although, I think somebody has to go back and look at their last quarterly report. I think they were talking about moving away from some segments of the things that they have been doing in the past and really focusing on their hardcore stuff that makes them money. So we'll probably continue to see a lot of action figures, but we'll probably see them pull away from some of their board game stuff that is not a big moneymaker from them. Yeah.

And they have a monopoly. Get it? They have a monopoly. Ah, very good. Also, hey, if I'm, you know, not drinking enough, that's bad news. So what would you recommend? That's right. I do.

Well, the morning stream, I would say, stay hydrated. All right. See you later, man. Take it easy. I need to drink more water today, in fact. Yeah, me too. I need to. Here I have some Kirkland, quote unquote, purified water.

Sure. It's purified through Kirkland jeans is what it purified. Oh, they pass it through the pants. That's perfect. Pass it through the pants. Pass it through the pants better be a title. guys jump on that one pass it through the pants right like it brian i'm going to read a couple emails here okay uh well one's an email the other one's a text but this email from maowoki

mawoki says this dear solar and beam i guess you're a beam i guess so all right fine is you're a beam uh long time listener of the e lr days but usually just a lurker all right well you've been around for a while dude wow no kidding just wanted to chime in uh that if you are intending to celebrate Chinese New Year. Some may find what you did offensive. Oh, having ramen. Yeah, ramen, whatever. But if you were intending on just celebrating the lunar year,

celebrated by many Asian cultures, all with their own spin to it. Scott, your Korean siblings may be celebrating Seoul Neal while eating duck guk, which is rice cake soup. I don't think I've had that. Nope. And Japanese or Japan celebrates Shogatsu. Shogatzu. While having ozoni or mokey soup, mochi soup?

Mochi soup. Hold on a second. Mochi, I thought was that frozen ice cream thing. No? Well, no, the ice cream is usually surrounded by mochi. Mochi is that almost like soft fruit roll-up kind of stuff that's around the ice cream. Now we've offended them with fruit roll-up for sure. But no, I know what you mean.

texture-wise. I don't know what to compare it to. I don't even know what that stuff's made out of Carter makes it, and I still don't really know. It's like a flour, like a starchy flour kind of thing. Since I quit sugar stuff, I miss mochi balls so much. Oh, I'm sure. Like a frozen strawberry or blueberry mochi ball? Oh, my gosh.

Oh, so good. That sounds so good right now. I'll have an extra one for you next time I have one. Thanks, man. That'd be great. Celebrating, that's good. It'll take away the calories that you ate for the second one. That's how the law works.

Yeah, right. Sure. Yeah, they balance out. As long as you have them in pairs. one goes plus one goes minus That is absolutely true Celebrating the new Sorry the lunar year

Can be enjoyed by many in their own way So if you're trying to represent Some Asian cultures on that day Since it is where they Are customarily celebrated I personally don't mind You pick and choosing what you like Or can get your hands on to do it

This is coming from a Korean American Who has had at least two bowls Of Duckagook since he was three Love the show though Well that's fantastic Thanks Here's a text This is a fun one.

Cool. Hey Scott, Andy here. Longtime listener of several of your shows. I was thinking about going to TMS Vegas in April, but I've not been able to, or sorry, I've not been to one before or a nerdtacular. And so I had a question. I sort of wouldn't really know anyone there.

And I'm wondering if a trip like that, or how a trip like that would work for someone like me who is going by themselves. I think I can get along with folks okay. And I know the tadpoolers are really nerdy folk, but I didn't know how inclusive things are at these things. Can you give me an idea of what to expect? Thanks. Dude, I have great news for you.

Yeah. The friendliest bunch of human beings you're ever going to hang out with, ever. Inclusion is just part of the deal. You don't even have to mention it. It's just like you're here. And if you're in the Discord and you go down to the TMS Vegas chat area, not only is there a great, a lot of discussion going on in TMS Vegas chat, but there's also a separate channel called TMS Vegas.

solo travelers and you basically can just introduce yourself get to know everybody before you go and that way you've already got a bunch of friends before you even the plane even lands but even if you don't even if you don't go to the discord this is the most inclusive friendly group you're ever going to find you basically show up you say hey I'm with TMS Vegas and my god you're welcomed in like family yeah no exaggeration no hyperbole that is 100% true yeah so I wouldn't worry but also, like Brian said, you can, you know, put your hand out there a little early and get to know people. And here's the other thing. People might think, maybe they don't, but I think probably some people might think that you and I will be a little unavailable or will be harder to find or talk to. It doesn't work that way. We'll talk to all of you all the time hanging out. Like, we're just, we're one of you there. That's the nice thing about being a smaller event is it's just a little less stretched everywhere.

Anyway, that's a good reminder, by the way. If you haven't gotten your tickets, go over to TMS or VivaTMSVegas.com and grab them. I think we've got our estimates. So I'm going to start ordering swag now and I'll start getting some pictures up and stuff. But if any of you are like, oh, shoot, I need to get on that. Now's the time to do it. Also, if you haven't done your hotel stuff, make sure you use that code Brian has on that self-same page because they need to know. Yeah, it won't save you any money, but you'll be part of the room block.

And the more people we have in our room block, the cheaper. Everything else is like us getting a board game ballroom and bartender there and all that sort of thing. Yeah. Yep. And Wendy will be there. I forgot to confirm this. Oh, she is? Confirmed? She's coming. She's going to, she's taking the opportunity to be with us, but also take a little mini trip with her sister, Misha. So they're both being there. Fantastic. Oh, Misha will be there too. We've got to go get eggs. Yeah, I know, dude. We've got to go have somebody ask how you like your eggs. Oh, my sister. Awesome. And Wendy, so, yeah, I'm not even going to give her the choice. Wendy is part of, uh, Taskville. She's locked in.

Oh, except I don't know if she can be there early is the only thing I don't know about yet. That's the one bit. I think she may be getting there like after you're filming everybody, but I'm not sure. Oh, gotcha. When she gets back from Chicago, I'll poke her again about it and see what's going on. Well, we'll definitely, I mean, we'll pull her into other things, but that's a really good point. Yeah, that Sunday needs. Yeah. She's thinking about doing like during the board game thing, having a table, a little table off to the somewhere dedicated to anybody who just wants to have some free advice from a, from a counselor from. We absolutely need to set it up with a little psychotherapy, five cents, like a little Lucy Van Pelt sign.

I'll make her pull a football while I try to kick it. Perfect. It'll be great. Oh, don't give away any of my task. Oh, shit. That's the whole plan now out for everyone. Anyway. I hope she has like a free couple hours for Claire.

Yeah. Yeah, no doubt. And Andy, thanks for the text, but also really looking forward to meeting you there. That'll be awesome. And all of you who are coming. Can't wait. A real quick mention of some brand new patrons, Ryan Wildrick, Ryan Wildrick, that's a cool name. Ryan Wildrick.

Yep. A Wild Rick has appeared. Oh, Patreon, super effective. That's right. Works every time. Worm, I think, is how you pronounce this name. Yeah, that's how I would pronounce it. And Aaron Frost all joined us since Thursday show, or I guess Wednesday show, because we didn't have a show Thursday.

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Lots of bunny benefits. Bunny benefits. Yeah, it's a playboy deal. We're working with them directly. It's great. They exist still. Playboy thing. I think they're like online only.

I don't even think you can get magazine. anymore so they're just like among all of the other even keel porn sites out there yeah like what how do they i've never really thought about it but how were they even a thing in 2023 do they even still have interviews comics that sort of thing like little cartoons i don't know and it used to be prestige like some articles were like it was a prestige place to publish your article and yeah i mean one of the one of the earliest ian fleming short stories appeared in playboy before it appeared anywhere else and it was turned eventually that short story

turned into one of the movies I can remember which one Moose in the chat says they dropped nudity years ago so they were they're more like what's the men's magazine? Oh yeah like FH I know what it's not FHM but it's something like that FHM's a damn store but it's something like I can't get the name I keep lad like Ladd mags

is what those things were called yeah yes oh Maxim is the one I'm picking Maxim yes yeah GQ GQ Maxim I guess yeah GQ maximum all those. GQ took a turn though, too. GQ was like the TLC channel. For a while they were like gentlemen's quarterly, fancy

pants and meat shoes and everything. And then one day they went, half naked ladies, let's go. Just like TLC. All right. Somebody in the UK can tell me. There was a lad mag kind of like Maxim, but it was the UK only. And it was

initials. And I can't remember what the initials were. That's why I'm thinking FHM. FHM sounds right. Is that not it? It does sound right, but I could have sworn that that's the name of a store, isn't it? FHM. FHM is what I'm thinking of. Yes, FHM was the magazine. Oh, H&M is a store.

HNM. It sells clothes that are black or white. Right. That's their whole, it's monochrome over there. Yeah. What's funny about H&M is when I see the logo, I see Ham. That's all I see. Yeah.

Because I got the damn A ampersand in there. It's impossible nothing. So I go to the mall. I'm like, Kim, I'll go to the Apple store. You want to go to Ham? She's like, shut up. I'll go get some black or white ham. Yeah, that's right.

That's all they got. That's it for our show today. Thank you all for joining us. We really appreciate it. If you got any questions about anything we talked about, everything's linked at frogpants.com slash TMS. And a couple of you asked about archive like way in the day shows that aren't on the current feed. That's going up today, I think. I found a way to do it. So you'll be able to subscribe to a second feed, even a third feed. I have to look. But anyway, you'll be able to get all that old stuff if you really want to go back. back 2,000 episodes. You can do it. It's up to you, though. It's a lot of content to go back through. It is a lot. That is going to do it for us. Brian, let's play a song before we go.

Okay. And I guess she didn't tick me off too bad this episode. So I guess we'll keep Claire's birthday request. She says, hi, shite and bollocks. It was my birthday yesterday or last Wednesday. I can't believe you feck and forgot. Play me a song to make it up to me. It's my first birthday alone in a while.

but hopefully I got lucky last night and I'm not alone this morning at least I'm slowly getting closer to 30 so I'll be writing my will in the coming days I'm so old ha ha ha ha but she writes like she talks I can't wait to see you guys and everyone in Vegas P.S. Can I get a

We Got Scooters? Honk Ah, Gleap. Oh, geez. She wants three Okay, give her two of those. I give her two So here's Gleap first. Gleap. Okay. I've heard that one forever.

That's been a beautiful. while okay scooters i think i did get these again so let's see where good no wrong one we got we got no no environment i can't find that just the we got scooters part you had that you oh yeah because you had i think i have the whole thing yeah i got the whole like yeah okay i'll fix that later but what was the third one she wanted uh hunk the hunk oh we like that guy all right let's do that there he is that was cool and give since it was her birthday, give her a birthday thing.

Oh, yeah, of course. Let's party. Wonderful. All right, there you go. Boy, a cavalcade of stingers. But let's play a song for you. Her only request was something not shite. So great.

Okay, that really narrows it down for me. So I just went back to an early conversation that Claire and I had. She took me to task because there was a band that I played on the show before, and because a good friend of mine said that they were going to Scotland specifically to see this band, I immediately for some reason assumed that they were a Scottish band. They're not. They're lads from London. Their names are McFly. Here they are covering Rihanna with Umbrella. You had my heart

We'll never be world apart Maybe in magazines But you'll still be my star Baby, cause in the dark You can't see shiny cars That's when you'll need me there With you I'll always share Because

When so shall we shine together Don't you I'll be here Never said I'll always be friend Taking all that we'll stick it out till the end Now it's raining more than ever Moment we'll still have each other You can stand under my umbrella You can stand under my umbrella

Ella Ella Yeah Under my umbrella Ella Ella I'm under my umbrella Ella, Ella, Ella, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh. Under my umbrella, Ella, Ella, Ella, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh. These fancy things will never come in between.

You're part of my entity, here for infinity. When the war has circuits fought, when the one has doubt is caught, if the head is hard, Together will mend your heart Because When the sunshine you're shot together Turning off me here forever Said I'll always be your friend

Took enough time sticking out till the end Now it's raining forever No, that we'll still have each other You can stand under my yard forever You can stand under my umbrella Ella Under my armorella, Ella, Ella, eh, eh, eh, yeah. Under my armorella, Ella, Ella, Ella, yeah, eh, eh, eh, yeah.

Under my armora, Ella, Ella, Ella, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, yeah. To go on into my arms, it's okay, not be your love, come in to me. There's no distance in between our love. I'm gonna let the rain pour I'll be all you need and more Because When it's her shows we shot together Told you I'll be here forever

Said I'll always be your friend Take your mouth and out, Stick it out till the end Now it's your reading my Oh, they never, rolling wheels to have each other. You can stand under my umbrella, you can stand under my umbrella, Ella, Ella, Ella, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh. Under Maya, umbrella, Ella, Ella, Ella, eh, eh, eh, and my.

I'm in my own, Ella, Ella, Ella, Ella, Ella, eh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm your mother, I'm a lover, Ella, Ella, Ella, eh, eh, eh, eh. It's raining, waiting, oh, baby, it's raining and rain, oh, baby, it's raining, rain, come in to me, come in to me. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. Don't get cute with me, son.