The Morning Stream - TMS 2431: My Sandwich Board Hell

Episode Date: March 6, 2023

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What would be more seductive than to say, oh, you ravishing beauty, come and join me in my fartsack. Ooh, that's strong. I'll gladly pay you Tuesday. for a hamburger today. This is the morning stream. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to TMS.

It's the morning stream for Monday, March 6, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson, and that is Brian Abbott. Who are you calling that? This. My pronouns are thing and useless. You useless thing. Welcome to the show.

Yeah, we're back, everybody. it's been a weekend and uh you know we had our fun we did our things we got all our weekend shit done but it's time to get back on this treadmill known as tMS for the week and you're all here with us to do it with us so thanks for being we appreciate it yeah uh kim has been gone less than 24 hours and most of my life is now ground beef and kimchi and i'm not kidding because that's what i got you know what that's all right did she did she just leave you like a giant container of each and like uh say mix these for food yeah kind of sticky note on top She didn't actually say to, but I, you know, I go on the fridge.

There's a big thing of ground beef, and it's just... Already cooked ground beef, right? Already done, yep. All I got to do is heat it up in some form. Ooh, that feels like, yeah, it would be dangerous territory to trust you to thoroughly cook ground beef. Yeah, don't put me in charge of that. And then next to that is a fresh container of relatively new kimchi, and I love kimchi, and I love ground beef. So what ends up happening is last night, I was like, well, I should eat something if I'm to sustain my...

existence on this planet what should i eat and i thought well i could make a big salad i got like a like the core leafy greens in a in a container i got that if i want uh she left me some some cooked uh chicken breast uh that she cut up that i could use on top of this amazing salad concoction that i'm thinking of but then as the night went on i was like you know i could just heat up that ground beef and put kimchi on it so that's what i did that's what i ate you know nothing wrong with that that's actually probably better regardless it's better than ordering out oh yeah hell yeah for sure right and i don't and i'm my goal is to not order out once while she's gone i'm going to try to like stay away from all that stuff partly because uh well there's a bunch of reasons the main reason is

it's not good for me i need to be better yeah so i'm going to eat what she's left i'll make combinations thereof it'll be fine this will be oh instead uh tonight we're going to have kimchi topped with ground beef, a little bit different. That sounds really good right now. See, I could do that again. You're going to Taco Bell the kimchi and ground beef, basically. I was thinking I might. Honestly, the kimchi goes on just about anything.

So I'm thinking I might, whatever I do today, we'll probably have kimchi on it. That's the goal. I'm going to be a stinky rotten cabbage bag by the time she gets home. Oh, geez. Anyway, while she's off, things are going on here. Things are going on. I want to play something that's kind of terrible. Do you want to hear it?

I want to hear this? With a lead-up like that, there's no way I could say no. As you know, because I found some ancient files and sent one to Brian. And I was like, hey, I found it because we thought we thought we had lost his shit-retiefter clip. It certainly wouldn't be hard to recover because it was a film sack episode and it'd be very easy to. We could go get it, right? We could dig it and find it. But it was so much easier to just sort of have the thing.

And I found it. It's right here. Let me play it for you. shit grotiefter all right so we have the whole thing i actually have the whole the entire uh found the entire clip of that of your intro my lead up to basically my it was that my uh that was my tweet or that was my intro to street fighter street fighters yeah so we're we're talking like early what was that 2010 we did street fighter back in the day when our intros for film sac were like less than a minute long like basically it was two two sentences

Erzell. Yeah, they were pretty short then. 2010, yeah, here it is. August 20th, 2010, we did that. Chit Gratifter. And that's Fletcher's version. That's Fletcher's version. Anyway, so I was going through all these files,

and I'm finding old photos and just stuff. I'm cleaning out some old drives just to make sure I got things backed up and the places I want them and any missing stuff. And I wanted to just throw stuff away because it's like you forget about an embedded folder

and it's got 100 cool things in it. You're like, damn it, I can't believe I deleted that. You know, most everything's backed up, but it's a giant pain in the ass. I just want to... Yeah, you don't have to search for those things. No. Plus I got a bunch of crap and duplicates and stuff like that.

So I'm just trying to clean house. And nine times out of ten, when you hook up one of those old like Western digital my books to like get all those old backed up files, I was like, oh, I have to upgrade my, the firmware on the drive to be able to access things. That's right. That's right. And it's annoying. So here's what I did find, though. In 2004, I was hired to do voiceover for two local commercials. Okay. I forgot I did these. Now, these weren't the rowing commercials that are during the Olympics or during Super Bowl or something.

No, no, that was 2012 and those were totally different. Yeah, those I'm proud of. These, I am not proud of. But I thought they'd be stupid show fodder. So we're going to play them. These are 30-second spots that ran on our local radio market here in 2004. This is like prior to ELR hadn't even started. Like nothing started.

This is just me doing shit for people. So the first one, they're both Comcast-related things because we were doing some deal for Comcast for one of the companies I knew. Anyway, here's the first one, a February spot for a dating, a local dating site that we're also working with Comcast. So anyway, enjoy. LDS singles, it's time for the first annual Cupid is Putrid Party. This Friday, February 16th at Studio 600, with over 1,000 of Utah's hottest available singles. Dance to your favorite music on three pack dance floors featuring top 40, country, and 80s. Enjoy karaoke, pool, or just hang out in the Trinity Lounge.

Check out the Comcast and LBSP and LBS Promise booth and make your own free video profile. That's the Cupididiputrid Party this Friday, February 16th at Studio 600, located at 600 South and Maine in downtown Salt Lake City. Okay. Okay. All right. Let's, oh, wow. There's even so much like an extra six seconds of echo at the end of the music.

All right. Okay, number one, did somebody feel like Cupid is putrid is enough of a rhyme to make it a slogan? Well, good news is I was not in charge of the copy, so I hate it also and I don't understand it. I never did. Like, it's a terrible name. Why not Cupid is stupid? Exactly. Putrid and stupid, or, sorry, Cupid and Putrid don't rhyme.

They just don't. No, no. No, they're lame. So there's that. Now, I found another one. This is, I don't know if this is better or worse, but anyway, here it is. Newduck.com and Comcast present New Duck TV. Coming September 29, 2007 to Comcast Digital On Demand.

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Ooh, the stinger at the end, Brian. Did you hear that? That's to cover up the rest of the echo. It's so embarrassing. I hate it. What was the music in the back? That's Chemical Brothers or something. Oh, is it?

I don't know. I hadn't, let me see. Newduck.com and cool hotspots. New Duck TV cuts. I mean, it's very chemical brothers, doesn't it? It is. I've, either I've heard that from another podcast using it as their intro music or that's a song that I've heard. Somebody, somebody, somebody helped me out.

Is anybody, yeah. Yeah, somebody would know. Not Merrick recognizes the baseline. By the way, I still own. Can you play the first few seconds of that again? Because I feel like you say calm a bunch of times all in a row. New duck, com, com, dom. New duck, duck, calm, and comcast.

I think I said new duck, duck, duck, doc, com and comcast. You never played DuckDuckcom, Brian? Come on, now it's a final game. Duck, Duck, Doc, Com and Comcast. That's so stupid. That's embarrassing. I'm not even sure that was a good take even. Ugh.

By the way, so Newduck.com, funny story. The company who was doing that at the time, they were doing this big dating thing, and they were trying to, you know, Comcast was the partner on it and all this. Yeah. And they eventually, the whole thing just crapped out and didn't work out.

So they said, Well, we're not going to do anything. We're not renewing this domain. And I said, oh, I kind of like that domain. Can you give me Newduck.com? Like, for totally unrelated, I don't want to do no dating bullshit. I just like the name Newduck.com. And they were like, sure.

Okay, sure. And they transferred it to me. And now it goes to a bunch of drawings I did of ducks. If you go to New Duck.com. Oh, right. It was like a new duck every week or something like that. Yeah, I kind of fell off of it for a while a couple years ago. But for...

Yeah, I totally remember that. This is putting up ducks every day or every other day. Oh, hilarious. You know what? Way more appropriate than a name for a dating site. Agreed, dude. Yeah. Ah, man, I sure am lonely.

What's a good name? What can I search for online that maybe will help me find the love of my life? I know New Duck. Yep, yep. And if you're a home going, wait, does that still exist? New Duck.com with all the duck drawings still does. You can still go there. Sure.

Yeah. But you can't get a date. You can't get a date unless you want a date with a duck. Yeah, you can't swipe left or right. And by the way, that reminds me. This would have all been just before the swipe and left and right business. Oh, sure. Hit, you know, phones and things.

Because this early, like, at least that second spot would have been early iPhone. So we were about to change. The whole landscape of online dating was about to get borked. And we were so late to the game and dumb. I worked for dumb people. I really did. But I was, you know, they were like, well, who does radio things? I'm like, I kind of can.

Okay, do that. You make that. Like, they were always trying to do. do stuff on the cheap. They didn't want to hire an outside agency. They were just like, well, have Scott do it. That's annoying. Anyway, new dot.com. We, you know, very similar to the, if I could use your phone, the health and fitness section kind of stuff. It's like, oh, how much are actual actors that we could use for this thing? Oh, that's all right. Let's just get Brian to do it. Yep. I feel like we live parallel weird 90s corporate lives in a strange way, except you

I went to every newspaper in the country, but, yeah. Yeah, it's true. What was your worst job? Like, if you had to look back at, like, oh, my God, the worst job I ever did was... Oh, geez. Worst job I ever had? Yeah, yeah. Probably Chi-Chi's.

Oh, really? Yeah, I was in high school. That place, they were, they sucked. They weren't good people to work for, and they were... I didn't get fired, but I got asked to leave because, oh, I told you the story about the girl who stabbed the bear in the middle of the night and put catch on it. Yeah. So yeah. Lifted on your doorstep. All that stuff. She worked

at Chi-Chi's. Yeah. And they asked me to voluntarily quit because she was such a pain. So, because she was so, like, freaking out all the time. It's so messed up. It's completely messed up. And what's weird about it, here's the

weird memory I have of it. I had a boss or my direct boss above me who managed the whole back area there, the kitchen and everything. He had a tooth problem. where he had to brush his teeth all the time. I don't know what the thing was, like he didn't have natural enamel or something weird like that.

But he had some kind of condition where he had to brush his teeth all the time. And so I never had a conversation with that guy, including him saying, we need you to quit so that she'll stop being a freak. Yeah. Even that conversation, he's brushing his teeth while he's telling me.

Oh, no. Just telling me, like, yeah, we need you to leave. She's weird. And I'm like, you're all freaking weird, man. Oh, my God. This feels like an office, you know, character from the TV show The Office, doesn't it? It really does.

It's so, oh, it sucked, dude. Or Monty Python skit or an SNL skid or something. Like, oh, that's Bill. Bill has to constantly brush his teeth or they fall out or something. My favorite jobs are always for smaller companies. Sure. Like, I liked working, like when I did, I worked for a restaurant called Branigans, not Beniggins. Sounds a lot.

They have the golden arches. We have the golden arts. I never thought of that before Yeah our favorite sandwich right now Is the Mount Christo Crisco yeah the Mount Criscoe Ew gross I don't want the Mount Criscoe That sounds terrible

But it was it was a fine place Nice people locals like it was a single restaurant Like I liked that Because it just felt like you were I don't know It just felt like a real down to earth kind of thing Whereas Cheechees was just like This guy got transferred from Kentucky

He's kind of a dick Oh, who's the new dude? Oh, and then I watched a guy make a steak and then send it out. And then they came back and said, oh, it's not done enough. So he put it on the floor, rubbed it around, spit on it once, and then cooked it and then sent it back out to the guy. And I'm just like, I don't want to be here anymore. And then finally they asked me to leave. So that was good.

Oh, so when they asked you to leave, you did leave. Oh, yeah. I was like, this sucks. Why am I hanging around here? This is dumb. So I left. Well, I mean, if I guess if it was a better job, I would have stood my ground and said. Yeah.

you know no she can quit if she has a problem with me she you know she's the one who freaked out yeah i can i remember having the conversation like this seems weird um you know but i'm also like 16 don't give a shit so i was just like okay yeah keep brushing your teeth i'm out of here you know it's weird uh worst job for me it's kind of a tie between i was a telemarketer for a summer oh i do hate telemarketing that was the absolute worst like basically had this list of phone numbers he just went down. When my boss wasn't standing over my shoulder and they constantly, you know, walk around and stand over everybody's shoulder to make sure they're really pushing, you know, oh, by five days of the newspaper get the sixth day free or some garbage like that, I would call in different voices. And so as one would expect, you know, you'd get like, hey, could I interest you in subscribing to the Denver Post?

I like that. But you get two days free! You do it in pee-wee, Herman. I do it in any voice I could come up with it. That's great. Second, they were tired for a worst job with that one was, I was a sandwich board for a take-and-bake pizza place. So one of these early on, like before there was a Popper Murphys,

they had this taken-bake place. One of the first places that I knew that had that sort of thing. So cheap, right? I mean, just basically, you don't even need an oven. You just need the tiniest little. office space, and you can do it. It's a brilliant idea if you're early enough, I guess, yeah. So I had to walk up and down Sheridan Boulevard, which you Colorado folks know that

Sheridan Boulevard is a very, very busy street, and I did that whole stretch along Sloan's Lake. So back and forth, up and down the street with the sandwich board for like six hours. And what was great is that I could listen to my walking, and I listened to the entire hitchhiker's Guy to the Galaxy radio show, the entire Star Wars radio show, all that. The worst part of it was that people driving by like to roll down their window and throw things to try and hit the sandwich board. Of course. Yeah.

Sometimes they'll hit you. It's basically like a big target. It's just basically it's an, they could have painted a target on there and it wouldn't have been any more inviting than it already was. Sure. Yeah. You don't want that. Were you good at like the spin in it and all the jubber jibbing?

No, no. this wasn't a holding, this wasn't like a, uh, check out this realty thing. No, this is a sandwich board where basically I'm the meat of the sandwich. There's a, a sheet of plywood in front of me with the thing on it. There's a sheet of plywood on, uh, on the back of me with, with stuff on it. And I just walk up and down the street. You're like one of the old cartoon. The world is, the end is nigh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, one of those guys.

Yeah, exactly. All right. That's awesome. I love that. I wanted to see, do you have photos of this? Do you have any old... No. No. It would have been a bummer.

I mean, it's a bummer. I don't have any. It would be great to, like, be able to show you. Yeah, here was me for a summer. This really suck. Yeah, like Gene from Bob's burgers. That's the... Oh, right.

Right. Except it wasn't a big cool burger. It was like just a bored, right? No, it was just a boring sign that said, such and such, take and bake pizza. We make it. You bake it. Bur, bur, burr, burr.

If I was driving by and saw you, and I was a teenager. Yeah. I would also, I would throw something at the sign, yeah. I would totally, because teenagers are stupid, and that's what we do.

And what do people usually have handy in their cars that they're willing to throw? Yeah. Pennies. Oh, yeah. Pennies. Zing.

Yep, and if you do it right, you can really fire those things out, man. Oh, yeah. You can cause trouble. The moving car kind of already helps with a lot of velocity. You don't actually need a lot extra. Also, it sounds like you've been having some

some crypto fun. Tell me about your crypto life. Oh, yeah. So prior to the Turo rental, I did some lifting. And one of my lift rides was picking up some people who were in town for a crypto conference. There was this crypto conference. It went for over a week. I think it was like a, you know, every day is the same thing. You just come any time during the nine days that it was going on. Right. And, And so I picked up some people who were going to dinner and then going back to the hotel. So I was taking them to dinner from the crypto conference. Picked them up and they've still got their name badges and stuff.

A young couple. And they get in the car and the guy says, oh, yeah, there's something I want to show you. And she's like, oh, okay. And so he starts playing a video in the back. All I hear is music of the video. And he's going, see, that's you right there. And that's me. and that's him and that's you and then that's me oh that's you again and I'm like what are they what are they

watching I'm gonna make this and then uh and then she says something like oh my god I'm such a funny hamster and I'm like oh you guys watching the Kia Soul commercial from 10 years ago with the hamsters like the hamsters driving and jamming out to some music yeah wait did you ask them that I did I said is that you guys watching the key of soul commercial that's great um yeah like okay oh wow yeah wow very timely geez yes they think that i'm completely you know like oblivious to what's going on back there so hilarious anyway i love that so uh yeah dropped them off and i don't think i got a tip but whatever i don't care it's like yeah send you some ethereum or something well yeah exactly it's like you know whatever it's fine you can say oh my god is this is there uh did you get a free hamster

when you got this ha ha ha i'd be like yeah that actually is pretty funny but to say that's me that's you that's him yeah that's you again and it's like all right come on how original uh hope your hope your money your investment doesn't tank again it's a real bummer that uh you get all you get such great passengers you get someone who's a sex worker and has an interesting story to tell you get some guy who's a guy who's who's rich dude or no the adventurer hiker guy that a few or months ago

whatever that guy's name was. Yeah, he was so cool. Yeah. Stuff like that. And then these chuckleads. Crypto bro. Well, crypto bro and crypto, what's the bro equivalent of Yeah, what is it bro for? What's a lady bro? Maybe crypto lady bro is pretty good.

Crypto lady bro. I actually kind of like saying that. That sounds like fun to say, doesn't it? I like that. Is she a bra? Crypto bro? Yeah, she a bra? Oh, that's terrible. We based it on the bra. All right.

Well done, everyone. That's a hilarious story. I love that. All right. Hey, everyone. What if we push this? What would happen then? We'd play Babel Royale slash the Morning Half Ases edition.

And Brian Dunaway would be joining us. Hi, Brian Dunaway. Oh, hi. He's gotten, Brian. Hi. Oh, hello, Brian. What do you do? Are you guys doing on this fine Monday with moderate temperature and clean weather?

How's it going? I wish that was true. I don't have that. We had snow overnight again, and I don't want to go deal with it. We're getting your snow later this week. We're supposed to get it Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, cleared out by Friday, 50s for the weekend again. We've been having weekends that are like 50, 60 degrees. It is crazy.

Totally crazy. I make shorts right. I can't believe it is like weather changes. It is weird, right? What is that all about? You see that any of the video from up in Tahoe? Man, what a freaking nightmare. It's like just blizzard all day up there.

Wow. Like people can't get out or in. It's real bad. Anyway, if you're in Tahoe, good luck. And also, you have too much money. Hey, Brian. Weather on the 40s here on TV. That's right.

Need traffic? Well, go to a different channel. All right. Hey, Brian. Will you explain how this game works so that me and Dunnoy know what the hell we're doing? Oh, totally. Yeah. Welcome to the morning, half asses, a trivia game where I'm going to be giving Scott and

brandy answers. I'm going to give them a category and six possible answers. You're welcome. Three of which are correct and three that are bogus. Depending on how confident you feel with a category, you can provide one, two or three guesses. But if you get any wrong, you get zero points for that round. If you guess one, you get it right, you get a point. Two gets you three points. Three gets you five. I'm going to add up all those points at the end of the game. And after three rounds, winner wins a prize for their contestant. Who are these contestants, you might ask? Well, I've pulled a couple members of the Tadpool that aren't here to be able to listen live. Scott, you're playing for Jason Grant in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

Ooh, Hoffman Estates. Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Oh, that's fancy. Yeah. I live in a Hoffman Estates. You get off the highway. You actually go through a gated entrance before you're able to enter Hoffman Estates. Yeah, you'll just tell Philip you know me.

He'll let you through. That's right. Exactly. Brian, you're playing for Tim Mower in Pagalas Springs, Colorado. All right. Create an alternative to a Hoffman stance. That's great.

The richest versus the Ritches versus the norms. All right, let's do it. Let's do it. The 2% versus the 98% and the 4% of the 8%. All right, let's get to your questions here. You guys are both logged in and

let us begin. Question number one, former names of Mumbai. So the city of Mumbai. I had a bunch of former names, at least three of them. I want you to identify from these six, which are three old names. You got Bangalore, Bombay, Guli, Mumba, Boabaya, Boa Baya, and Bamba. Oh, I thought that was an L.

It looked like Boa Bala to me. Yeah, it's an eye, yeah. That eye threw me. Let's see. Really? Angeloor, Bombay, Gully, Mumba. Boabaya, Bamba. Are you a sim?

It's just like Sims 4 DLC I'm getting right here. I know it feels like. Wow. Bumba? Mamba. Galooluli, Gully. Goli, Goli, Goli, Goli, Goli, Goli, Goli, Goli, Goli, Goli, Goli. Bombay.

There's really three of these? Three of these are real. Yeah. Three of these answers are doing their own thing. I'm going to just guess two of these. I've fucking no idea. You both settled in on two. Neither of you settled on the same.

too. Interestingly enough. Yeah, you're, you've picked between the two, the rich keep getting richer. So at least one of you is getting wrong. Let's see, Brian, you went with Bangalore and Bombay. Scott, you went with Boabaya and Bamba. Bombay, I think, is the easiest one in the list. Bombay was an Englishization? What is it? Oh, was it? I thought it was just a whole different place. Damn it. Nope. The answers are Oh, I was worried about that. Boabaya and Mumba. Mumba.

I wasn't sure. I love my Mumba. It goes around and vacuums while I'm not worrying about it. I wasn't sure about Bangalore. Yeah, that is a whole different place, and I think that's still its name is Bangalore. Bobaya. So what happened to the Boabaya people? Why did that change?

I don't know because I like Boabaya. Yeah, I like that one. Boabaya. It's fun to say. Sounds like Tia. All right. Well, I'm sure you guys will do much better with the second question. I certainly did.

People who played one of the title character's parents on friends. You've got Brenda Vicaro, Ned Beatty, Marlowe Thomas, Albert Brooks, Tyne Daly, and Elliot Gould. Okay. These people played a parent of a friend. I know one of these 100% of the children. Yeah, we're on 100%. And then, for some reason, I feel like, One of them was right, but I think that's a different show.

You did kind of both settle in on the one you both do 100%. Yeah. That one I remember. I'm trying to remember. I'm afraid to click anything else. I know. Oh, the fear, the fear. You know what?

It's a game. I'm just going for two and seeing how I do. Okay. All right. You both locked in? Yeah, Elliot Gould is the obvious, right? Right, Elliot Gould was Ross and Rachel's, sorry, Ross and Monica's father. Marlowe Thomas was Rachel's mom.

Shit. Okay. That girl. And Brenda Vicar was Joey's mother. And so, sadly, no Tyne Daily. No time. I don't know why. No time, yeah, no time like the present.

That's unfortunate because for whatever reason, she's, I've put her face in the show and now I can't undo it. So it's my fault. It's funny because Albert Brooks feels like he could be. I know. That's the reason why I kept clicking on it. I was like Albert Brooks, no, no. I remember I'm being in there, but he's definitely seemed like he'd be in it. He feels like he'd be somebody's dad.

Yeah, I really thought it was Tyne Daily as well, Scott. I know, yeah. Brian clicked on it and then unclicked it and then locked in. So it was really close. I should have just chosen the one. Well, congratulations, Brian. You got a point. That's the important part.

Going into this last one, who knows if you're going to need a night. I risk melting just like poor people. Yeah, poor people. All right. Last question is Beatrix Potter characters. Now, Beatrix Potter probably most famous for Peter Rabbit. What are some of her other characters? Are they? Jamima Puddleduck, Mr. Jeremy

Fisher, Mrs. Beaver, Benjamin Bunny, Mr. Tumness, the Fondon. It looks like it says, you're going to get me in trouble. Mountain Tumnus. Like, it completely auto-corrected Mr. Tummus into Mount Tumulus the Fond. Oh, perfect. Mr. Tummus.

I think you guys kind of know that one. And Puddlegum. All right. The Mount Tumulus. The only one I'm unsure. I'm not sure about any of them. Shit. Some of these Jemima Puddle Duck.

Come on now. Yeah. Doesn't that sound right? It doesn't sound right at all. It sounds wrong. Damn it. All right. Two.

I'm doing two again. Oh, Jesus. All right. Can I just do none? And hopefully he messes up. Can you just skip? I don't think you can. I think you have to pick.

I don't know. Can you lock in? Is your locked button available? No, it's not available. No, you got to put one at least. I'm going to take the least amount of, that way. At least I'll tie, Scott, if I get it right, yeah. There you go.

That's a good, good opportunity. All right. Well, Mr. Tumness or Mount Tumulus is from Narnia, Scott. Oh, shit. He's the goat, dude. The fun. You know who else is from, from, um, from,

Arniea, Mrs. Beaver. Damn it. I have mixed these up so hard. Oh my gosh. Done away with your two points, you bastard. Jamima Puddleda, Benjamin Bunny, and Mr. Jeremy Fisher for some reason. I love that one.

Yeah. Really. Mr. Jeremy Fisher for like a bait, but I was almost sure about Benjamin Bunny, but it kind of frightened me. I, you know, at first thought I'm like, Jeremy Fisher, wasn't that, you know, Locke's alter ego on Lost at one point when he goes back to, when he makes it back to

Mr. Fisher's, that's Jeremy Bentham. I don't know who Jeremy Fisher is, but something about that name is very familiar to me. It does go really familiar. That's why I thought it was a joke. I'm like, I was a joke. Yeah. No, 1906 story called The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher.

Jemima was popular around the turn of the century, I thought. Yeah, 1908 was the tale of Jamima Puddleduck. She did a lot of the tale, because her first thing was the tale of Peter Rabbit at 1901, the tale of squirrel nutkin, the tale of Benjamin

Bunny, the tale of Mrs. Teggy Winkle. Can a squirrel, get a nutkin? Fierce bad rabbit, Miss Muppet. These are some great names. The tale of Samuel Whiskers or the roly-poly pudding, 1908. Yeah, put a little Jemima in there.

Yeah, you thought, who comes up with some horrible names. I do like Mount Tumulus. I'm going to go there one day. Mount Tumulus. Yeah, sounds like a great visit. I'm going to say,

I will say that I was really hardcore into Lord of the Rings at this point of my life where I should have been reading books like this. So everyone in the chat who cannot believe I got Mr. Tumnus in the wrong book, I did not like the rich,

the wardrobe and the wiener or whatever it was called. I didn't like it. I wasn't a fan. Sam I am. I wasn't either. I had the first book and I'm like, oh, this is,

I'm never reading this. I know that, I know it's really special and important to a lot of people I'm not besmirching them. I'm just saying I was in a different headspace then and reading different things. It's fine. It's fine. Well, anyway, so there is.

Congratulations going to our winner who is Tim Moore in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Tim, you're going to get a copy of Xcom, Chimera Squad, and Lethal League Blaze. Okay, both are great, especially Chimera Squad. A lot of people maybe miss that thinking, oh, it's just an offshoot of XCOM. I don't need that. It's actually rad. nice really good uh but don't worry uh jason grand you're not doing away empty-handed you're getting greek memories of azure another cool game that's a good yeah that's a fun uh point point and click

deal yeah we talked about that one that's really good uh nice i think they're both winners so in in that uh vein whips wrong one congratulations you're a winner you're both winners really uh but mostly mostly done away is the winner he uh he clearly ran away with it today and i And I appreciate his prowess. Therefore, I will podcast with him tomorrow night. And we will cover MIST, M-Y-S-T. Everybody, we're doing the Mist. Cool.

Yeah. Break out your CD-ROMs. We're about to play some point-and-click, you know, missed. Yeah. When Robin and Rand Miller, so when they put out that book, like they actually put out the first novelization associated with the game, I went to the tattered cover for a reading of it and then got to, you know, or eight of us, right? Because it was like in this time of their brothers read? Or was it just like, oh, that is nice.

I couldn't tell you which one. But they looked the same. They do look. Well, one of them's the kind of there like Abin Costello. Like one of them is a little bit bigger than the other one. Right. And one of them played the dad in those books, those linking books in the game. The other one played one of the sons.

Oh, right. There's one where they did FMV as if he was behind a door, like a little, tiny window, but it was full motion video of him in there, right? Yeah, that stuff was weird. And that's what used to confuse me back in the day, because I always thought this was, back in the day, before I learned about it, I was like, oh, it's a dad and son thing. I didn't realize it was

a brother-brother thing until later, like, two or three or something. Yeah. That's awesome. You find out it's the, like, the third book is the dad. Yeah. And then you've got the two brothers, bring only the red page to the pages. That's right. That's cool.

I loved that game, and I even picked it up. on uh... Good old games no picked it up for the Oculus oh yes I hear that's a good one I hear it's a good version

it's a cool way to play that game it's smart it's almost like what they ultimately envisioned right I feel like those guys are just ahead of their time we didn't have the tech then but pre-render 3D graphics

in a VR world which is rendered 3D but the way you move is kind of like the teleportation people usually use in VR so in VR games where you click in the spot and it moves

yeah yeah um yeah the uh um god that old game hypercard stacks right wasn't the first iteration ever a supercard or something like that yeah can't wait to listen to you guys on uh play retro yeah that'll be tomorrow night 330 mountain time if you want to watch us live or you can catch the podcast whenever you want after that that'll be tomorrow hey dunaway you did great uh that rime to fay done away kiss our butts and we'll see you all right by now okay that's the end of done away for now and would make us ask so question once you got through the game. Did you feel so cool that you could beat it in like five minutes because you knew what you had to do? Yes, until a few, like last year when I got the VR version and I forgot everything.

I'm like, oh yeah, don't I have to light a match in the tree to make it go up? And then, oh, wait, how do we get back down? It's like starting over. That's weird. Yeah. I highly recommend also the remake they made that was full first person 3D move around in the world stuff. That's recent, like the last, I don't know, 10 years or less. I think it came out around the same time as the VR version, yeah. Yeah, and you just like use your ASDF or ASDW keys to move around. Yeah, you just do it like you'd play in a shooter, but it has everything that that game had, but you're moving in full 3D.

Like it feels like the ultimate realization of what they probably thought the future was going to be. Totally. Oh, man, those games are great. Anyway, and Riven, what a sequel. So good. Riven was good. And I never played. Was it Uru was the third?

or uh uh crap something like that and then they had a fourth like they had something just recently that i um that i think i kick started i have somewhere which is uh like a it was a open world but not the not the um not the multiplayer thing they had no it's a deduction that's yeah that's a that's a great game i played that as well very good yeah if you've no one's ever tried that you you want to play kind of a modern version with those guys making it that's that's That's it. Let's do a couple of news stories. We've got a couple of them here.

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take on it uh all right moving on to probably our only story today chick filet you're familiar with the chicken and the whatnot over there familiar with the chick filet they got the sauce you know and the uh the whatnot

the homophobia yeah the homophobia the homophobic founder we should say I don't know what he's doing now He's probably just He's still donating money to Oh, GTP Shock Therapy campaigns or something He's a poop

That guy's a poop Yeah reformatting Reprogramming efforts Well, they have a new rule For out of control behavior In any of their restaurants Oh no, okay

They're cracking down They're cracking down Pennsylvania Chick-fil-A That's where the American vampires live Is Pennsylvania check fillet has laid down the law after disruptive behavior from a young customer or from young customers reached a breaking point to dine in our restaurant says the statement anyone under the age of 16 is required to be accompanied by an adult that's going to be rough really yeah but if you're on okay I got a question yeah the year is 1985 Brian and I were one of us I just turned 16 Brian is almost 16 if I take it you in there because I'm 16. Am I the adult I'm accompanying, you're accompanying with as a 15 year old?

Neither of us are adults. So they're counting that as. 18 is an adult. Right. So what they're saying is, if you're 16, you're fine. But if a couple of your friends are 15, go get an adult. I see what you're saying. Right.

So like a 17 year old taking, now I see what you're saying. See what I'm saying? It just seems like a weird number. but you may as well just say 18 I don't know right exactly everybody under every non-adult must be accompanied by an adult in any case this is it's stupid says if not accompanied by an adult they may come to come in to purchase food but must take it to go they said we contemplated hey by the way enjoy our uh enjoy our playground built into the front of the restaurant that's right says we contemplated long and hard before posting this but decided it was time my guest is uh they had some they must have had some rough stuff in there like well you wouldn't do this unless there was a problem so exactly they must be like you know close to a a school kids come out of the school go there hang out you know nurse a uh a free water for about two hours while yeah yeah they're doing spit wads at the other uh yeah they claim it included things like volume, they're too loud, and their conversation often contains a lot of explicit language.

We are a family-friendly restaurant where this is not tolerated, says the post. They go on to say mistreatment of property. Food and trash are often thrown around and left on tables, chairs, and on the floor. Tables and restrooms are vandalized and decorations are stolen. Yeah, I mean, that sounds like a problem. I don't know. Like, if I'm running the local franchise and I got a bunch of shithead kids that had nothing better to do than wrecked my restaurant, yeah, I'm probably having some new rules. I'm feeling like you could probably just, you know, go up to those kids and say,

sorry, you need to leave. You're not welcome here. We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. You must leave. And then you see some well-behaved 16-year-old kid come in. They're fine. Actually, I agree with this. Brian's right. Yeah. They may have, they'll probably learn this the long and hard way, but they'll learn it. They'll go back to something like that. Yeah, they don't learn it. But yeah, teenagers, we were all, we were dicks. Everyone's a dick when they're a teenager. That's what you do. It's part of growing up. I'm sorry. say. Like there are good kids who

go through their entire teens just as happy with their hands in their lap and keeping their, keeping themselves to themselves and not causing any trouble. But then they turn 30 and become horrible serial killers. I don't know.

That's not true. I'm sure they're funny. You're right. Carter was never super rebellious and she's a nice kid. It all depends on your upbringing and how well you respect authority and stuff like that. Sure. I've really had trouble with any of the three, although, you know. Of course you didn't.

For Nick, it was, for Nick, it was, uh, for Nick, Nick was, uh, I mean, look, this community, you, all my friends and co-hosts and all that are partially responsible for how well my kids turned out because they grew up during the thick of all of this and they were exposed to like, you know, we weren't the parents that didn't understand shit. We knew, we knew it all before they did. So they couldn't come in the house and go, Dad, can I have a Snapchat account? And me go, I don't know what that is.

That sounds like the devil's handywork or whatever. I knew what Snapchat was and I knew what it meant. And I knew all these things before they did. And we were like video game cool and, you know, like they had very few reasons to rebel in this house. And a lot of it is connected to the greater frog pants landscape, which I'm ever grateful for. But my point is, for Nick, it was grades are. Terrible. Why are your grades so bad? Freaking turn some homework in, you lazy bum. That was Nick.

For Taylor, it was, oh, Taylor, she's not mad at you. She likes you just fine. She was always worried about all her stupid. She was always in friend drama all the time. That was her thing. But she was a good kid, but she had a lot of friend drama. Carter, none of either of these things. Grades were great. Super chill. Never rebelled. Was just as happy sitting around watching cartoons with me as she was with a gaggle of friends. Even today, they went sewing and watched anime the other night. Like, what a bunch of nerds. Yeah, no kidding.

The best nerds. It's the best nerds, yeah. You're right. The best nerds. Speaking of the best nerds, we're going to take a break and come back with a great nerd. His name is Steven Schlecker. He comes and joins us on Mondays. That'll all come up right after this break from Brian.

What do you have there, Brian? Yeah, Harlem-based Caleb Holly is an American Soul singer, a songwriter, originally hailing from Minneapolis. This isn't right, though. this is this is in the email that goes with this song but this is totally not the right thing what hold on a second give me a second all right we're going the reverse to order there we go okay um you know it's funny they the song or i'm sorry the band that that this was credited with is touring with that last guy that i mentioned so that's why it came up oh got it's definitely not soul uh lanterns on the lake is the name of the band they've got to a brand new album called Versions of Us comes out June 2nd via Bella Union. This is the first single from said album. It is called The Likes of Us.

Here's the band Lanterns on the Lake. Lately I've been on the cusp of it, seeing signs in the intricate, and all those cynics and nihilists. Couldn't stop me from feeling this. Just do what you have to do. Me, oh, don't worry, no, I'll be fine. Take all your need and too. I've said it before, I mean it this time.

Am I a recubed? I've learned from the best you should know that Just let me have this It's all that I'm scared You say look when grace lights us But I would be so sure Not so sure

Oblivion Oblivion Through these gutted streets Bordid shops Cowher in defeat Visions curse my every move But I couldn't stop now, no Not even if I wanted to

Just do what you have to do Me, oh, don't worry, no, I'll be fine Take all your need and two I've said it before, I mean it this time Am I a recoupant? I've learned from the best. You should know that. Just let me have this.

It's all that I'm scared. You say, look, when graced the likes of us, that I... Wouldn't be so sure. I'm not so sure. I won't let this. I won't let this fall die in me. I won't let this far die in me.

die in me way. Ooh. Oh. Oh. I'm not I'm going to be able to I'm going to

I'm going to I'm going to I'm Wait, are you gaming. Wait, are you gaming? On a crumbook? Yeah. It's got a high-res 120-hurt. display plus this killer

RGB keyboard and I can access thousands of games anytime, anywhere. Stop playing. What? Get out of here. Huh? Yeah, I want you to stop playing and get out of here so I can game on that Chromebook. Got it. Discover the Ultimate Cloud Gaming Machine, a new kind

of Chromebook. We won't be working out by ourselves today. I've invited some top jazzercise instructors to join us. Colleen from Omaha. Natasha from Denver, Mark from Toledo, Claudia from Austin, and Linda from Chicago. The morning stream. Don't impose your values on me, Sam. we've returned. Hey, I had this little notepad here with a pen. I'd like to write down the name

of that band again. Why don't you do these things the first time I mentioned? Oh, all right. Well, the band is called Lanterns on the Lake. The brand new album is called Versions of Us. That's the first single. It's called The Likes of Us. Nice. Seems like a... The likes of us. Fine use of your time, everybody. Go out there and grab it. Yeah. Yeah, do that. Okay. Major spoilers is at the plate. He's going to swing hard. and to the left. And as soon as we get him in, oh, there he is right there. Here we go. Play this. Stephen Schleiker. I feel like we had a couple of Mondays in a row where Stephen was sick and then we had no-show because I had that dental thing. I feel like we haven't seen Stephen in a thousand years. Stephen, do you miss us as much as we miss you? I know if I knew that you guys didn't like me, I would think that you were trying to quietly tell me to leave.

Yeah, it would just ghost you over time. Like, oh, these Mondays. You know, I'm going to cancel entire episode just so Stephen doesn't come on. No, I love this segment. So I'm really glad we're back to it and we get a chance to hang out. It's been a lot of stuff. Real quick. Let me heap mounds of praise on Carter Johnson. Do it.

She's been doing a lot of the original art that we give away to our patrons. Oh, right. On our Patreon page. And this month, she has done an awesome moon girl and devil dinosaur piece. I sent a preview to Brian just so he could see what she was up to. It is so good.

And if people aren't watching the Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur series on Disney, it is great. And so Carter just nails this and we do this as digital releases as opposed to mail them to you. So they're framed for various screensaver formats

or for your little wallpaper. Walpapers or your phone wallpaper or your little icon if you want to change your icon for the month, either have Moongirl or devil dinosaur just great art that she does so talented she does killer stuff for you every time

she does one of your monthlies I get all excited oh Brian's got like an actual plush very nice I've got the actual moon girl devil dinosaur from Lawrence Fishburn from when I was at D23 spreading COVID around to the entire convention last fall oh that's right yeah you're the great Brian COVID spread of

2022 I remember that exactly of 2022 yeah patient zero sure that's great yeah now this is a she's a good kid I found so I was going through all those files I found the very first drawing she's ever done and I don't know where I put it now but it's this ancient drawing that is like she hates it but I'm like you have to keep things like this because one day you're going to want to look back and go wow look how far I've come right so I'm making her

keep all her old art she hates that I'm making her do that but she has to it's just it's just my job to make her uh all right well Stephen it's good to have you here we're going to get to a couple of things. The Penguin moving forward. That's a movie. That's coming out. That's got your Colin Farrell as the penguin. Sorry, TV series. I meant. That's what I meant. And they've cast

Mr. Crabs himself, Clancy Brown. I love him. So what do we know about his role and what do we know about the series right now? So we don't know a whole lot about the series itself except it's going to follow the penguin, Cobblepot, played by Colin Farrell, who will reprise his role in the

HBO series. They've cast a bunch of other actors as well, but the one that's just been announced, as you said, is Clancy Brown. He will be playing a boss, uh, crime lord Sal Maroney, who is a competitor to, um, the Carmine falcon, uh, mob. And Salvatore Maroney is known for one thing, main one thing, and that is disfiguring Harvey Dent. Oh, oh, in the comics. In the comics. Okay. Oh, wow. Okay. So I, it just says he's, he's going to be here in. multiple episodes over the season. I don't know if this is going to lead to a Harvey Dent type, you know,

issue or installment. But, you know, the Batman did kind of bring up some of that stuff or lead up to some of that stuff for this series to continue. Is, is Matt Reeves involved in the series producing or doing anything? I can't remember if Matt Reeves, how involved he is. I want to say he's one of the executive producers of the show.

But, yeah, it's, I'm excited about this. This might be, depending on how good it looks, might be the reason to get me to go back to HBO Max. Oh, weird. Okay. I mean, the way, the, I have no look. The potential of a mob, like, Gotham's mob stuff is so deep. It's great.

It's like some of my favorite stuff they ever explore. And then how that deals with it. It's like it's less about Batman and more about just like mob issues. And I like mob TV anyway. I really liked him and his cobble pot is freaking great. He's unrecognizable. yeah in that makeup and stuff so i'm all for this i'm stoked and i like lancy brand a lot he can do no wrong that dude oh he's great in everything he does yeah he's good when he cut off uh cut off sean connery's

head in the highlander yeah he was great in uh buckaroo bonsai too better burn out then fade away that's right yeah and he was a he was kind of a weird mixed bag in uh shashank and as far as like good when is he good and when is he bad kind of stuff and then i then uh my favorite thing maybe ever was uh his turn on lost is one of my favorite things loved it it was short short lived but mr friendly no what was his name because he was he was in the bunker with desmond and uh yeah so that one season to open with desmond playing records and doing stuff we couldn't tell what was going on he was with him then i think and he was great in that he was great and he's good as mr crabs there i said it no he's great as mr crabs yeah no i just anybody ever gets this chance to watch um what's

the series Carnival on HBO. I don't know if they still have it up on HBO Max. He plays this evil preacher dude and is great at it. Yeah, he's awesome. Love him. Love him and everything. Him, you know what I want a movie? I want a movie with him and Peter Stormara, or how do you say his name. Get those two

together. They're two of my favorite, like, when they show up, I tune in. Character actors, yeah. Yeah, I just go, oh, well, I'm automatic. I want to see Clancy Brown and Ron Perlman. Oh, that'd be cool. Oh, there you go. They probably have. Right? like it seems like something that's happened Ron Perlman

No idea but I would I would want to see that Clancy Brown let's just see Let's just because this is a match made in heaven Like were they both in Pacific Rim or something No Ron Perlman was I don't know if Clancy Brown was Oh well anyway

Oh there's a lot of Clancy Brown versus Ron Perlman threads on Reddit who would win That's pretty funny All right And who would win does it say It doesn't say. It seems like a lot of opinions, but there's no consensus, unfortunately. I will tell you what there is consensus on,

and that is that Paramount has decided that they're going to end the Star Trek Discovery with season five. And they also push... Well, I must go out with a five-year mission, right? Yeah, I'm fine with it. There you go. Yeah. I'm fine with that. I think that's the perfect amount of time.

I know that it's a controversial show for some people. I think it's... It has a couple of my favorite Trek things ever in it, which always surprises people. But for me, the character of Saroo is one of the greatest characters in Star Trek history. I love the character of Saru, not just because I like Doug Jones or his big, lanky, weird makeup and all that. He's very good at those roles, obviously. But Saru is like top tier for me. There are huge problems with the series.

There always have been. It's a little up its own butt. It's a little too much drama. Every season is the, not just the world ending, the universe ending that they have to stop. exactly but it also brought us the new pike and it got him over there doing his own show like there's a lot to say good and also the effects have always been like top tier like really great movie level stuff um but i think it's probably time it's fine and on your you know it's not like this is getting canceled unceremoniously they're saying look our last season's season five oh yeah but it means they're pushing their premiere that's a little bit of a bummer yeah and they've got an opportunity though to say hey we can finally write an ending so good right right right right they've got most of season five already filmed and they said that it will debut in early twenty twenty four so that could be february march of twenty four would be my guess yeah yeah it's cool man i'm i'm digging it uh no word on other uh any other star trek stuff

other than i guess lower decks is got a new season uh season coming uh strange new worlds new season is being filmed now or in post i think it's yeah it's really weird because it's like at one point, and this was probably like a year ago, I heard a lot of people saying man, there's just too much Star Trek on right now. Just too much Star Trek. Have they looked at Star Wars? My gosh. Discovery's ending.

Picard is ending. Who knows what else will be ending soon? But it just feels like Paramount was like, well, if the fancy there's too much Star Trek, let's take it away from them in show. In Picard's defense, they always said it was three. They never were never going to do more than that. um so that was the plan for me from the beginning they set it outright but like in the case of

discovery i don't know what the plan was the longest any series has ever gone is seven years that was tng ds nine and uh voyager all went seven uh enterprise went four and this this at five feels fine this is good five is a good number yeah oh yeah hell tOS only went three and that third season was bad so anyway uh that's a thing that's coming. I'll watch this. We've watched it all. I may as well finish it. And, um, yeah, Saroo, get your own spinoff. That's what I want next. Get him out. The Saroo show. Yeah, do Captain Saroo or something. He's like the, he's the epitome of what I love about Star Trek. It's like he's strong yet vulnerable. He comes from a race of creatures where their entire race has been

held back forever. And he figured out a way to break through. He's got wharf qualities in that way. He's not the typical, whatever the name of their race says. Like, Worf isn't the typical Klingon. Like, there's just something there. Just love it. Anyway, let's move on. That's happening. Star Trek's, or sorry, the next thing is Marvel.

Marvel's launching 20th century studios imprint. Tell me more. Yeah, so ever since Disney bought 20th Century Fox or 21st Century or whatever they're calling it, they've acquired a lot of those properties to turn into comic books. We've already had several Alien series and a couple of Predator series. In fact, there's a new Predator series that launches this week, Wednesday, from Marvel Comics. But in April, they're going to take that, those two properties, Planet of the Apes. I'm going to guess maybe one or two more, 20th century titles that they want to make comic books out of,

and they're going to put them under their own imprint. So you won't see the Marvel Comics presents. It'll be 20th century comics, and then you've got Alien Predator, and at this point, Planet of the Apes, that will have its own thing. So that there's no brand confusion. Does this give them more leeway in terms of content, being able to just be a little more gritty because Marvel proper. I think so.

I think so. And that's probably a good thing. Marvel has over the years, I don't want this to sound bad. It's going to sound bad. But I think Marvel gets very excited about getting a hold of a property. And then they do it for a while. And they're like, yeah, this really isn't for us.

And that happened big time with the Disney cartoon stuff that they had years ago. They did like four or five issues of each of their series. And they're like, nah, this isn't for us. And so they're like, if anybody else wants to do it, they can. So IDW did it. Boom Studios has done it. And so all the properties that got taken away from Boom and Dark Horse and all this other stuff is slowly starting to go back to them. Dynamite right now has Gargoyles and Darkwing Duck, which is fantastic.

and so I feel like instead of saying well let's let's let other comic book publishers license the IP from us why don't we just create this own this other imprint and let them do what they want to do yeah yeah that sounds right I'm I'm just I'm actually stoked about this I think this is the planet of the apes the planet of the apes one arrives in April I think a lot of people are going to be very excited about that I think I'm I'm totally into it and I want all this well I guess we don't have word whether this shows up on their app or not the Marvel Unlimited thing. Oh, I have no idea. That would be cool. I'm sure

it will. Because my favorite DC stuff these days is they're black label stuff and that's all there as well and I really hope we see that out of Marvel. I want to, you know, fingers crossed everybody, but they've been so like, I don't know, with a very couple of

exceptions, very few exceptions, Marvel's been way to how do I put this? Just restrained. Well, and when you think about who they, who's their owner. There's probably a good reason to that. Yeah, I think that's the main reason.

But, and I get it too. Like, keep Marvel proper the way it is. Like, I want Spider-Man to be somewhat of a, of a wholesome superhero cape and cow kind of experience. I want those, those things to be what they are. But let in, there's just so much creative content that sometimes requires a slightly higher PG rating that I think is possible in comics. And I just don't feel like Marvel's. done much of that since the acquisition.

Meanwhile, DC, Dark Horse and everybody else or Oni Press, and especially image, they just run away with it. That's all they do. So, I don't know. Give Marvel a chance to get back to, what was that thing called Marvel Knights or whatever was? Well, they had Epic, right? Wasn't that a Marvel? Yeah, that was for a little bit. Yeah, and that was their

kind of racier, more grittier. And then they did have the Marvel Knights stuff in the early 2000s, I want to say. Yeah. And then they got bought, and then they got clean. They've been clean for years now. Whatever. I'm not decrying cleanness.

It's great. Marvel, you got it. Good job. I just want a little bit of, you know, I want to. Give your readers of the variety, right? Let them, let him, let him, you know, we want to take a guy's head off. Or we want to just see a Scott and Jean Grey Kiss. You know, let me give us the choice.

I want, I want Punisher the way he's meant to be. I want Deadpool the way he's meant to be. Just that kind of stuff, right? Blade. Give me Blade, but don't be holding back. Like, go nuts. He's a vampire that slices heads off of other vampires. It's great. Or you can go check out the adventures of his daughter.

What is it called? Blade Blood Bloodlines. Played Jr. Out on Wednesday. Yeah. And it follows Blade's daughter. Wow. And what's her name? Do we know her name? Bladlet. I just put up the sneak peek for tomorrow. I forgot what her name is, but

she is also a day walker. Yeah. Oh. Butter knife. Butter knife? Butter knife? Because it's the duller not trained blade. She's not quite there yet. I'll read Butterknife, no problem. Bring it on. All right.

This is all good. Always fun stuff going on in culture, especially around comics and stuff. And if you want to follow major spoilers.com, you should be if you aren't already, plus all the great shows and all that stuff. Stephen, anything happening this week you would like listeners to know about? This week, I'm telling you, if people want a fantastic adventure set in the early days of world work, War Two, where some spies are punching Nazis in the face and fighting Cthulian monsters, then you definitely want to check out our brand new season of Critical Hit, where two episodes

in, episode three drops on Wednesday, or I'm sorry, Saturday, and people can get in on all the action, and it's a lot of fun. I'm really, really excited about it, and I hope that we can get several hundred thousand listeners to start listening to this, because I'm very, very excited about it. Oh, good. I'm excited about it. Critical Hit is the name of the show. You can find it on all the podcast players specifically this one on the listing you will see it listed as p a in because i'm not putting nazis in a title on anything that's going to get me banned yeah but know in your hearts the p a n means punch all nazis punch all nazis uh how about blade lass can that be her name blade lass i was thinking she blade oh she blade's not bad or shiv shiv i like shiv a lot

shiv's awesome actually that's a good oh my station zebra did already say she blade all right i didn't see I swear to God I didn't see that She blade I bet Shiv is legit though That'd be good Yeah yeah Her name is a little darker Shiv Yeah yeah

Her name is Is it Braille B-R-I-E-L-E Braille Braille is that the name of the Like will the comic be called Braille If she was in her own No it's it's a bloodline daughter of blade Oh

Because we don't want to confuse blind people They're just like No no no no You know Braille I was told this was Braille No no not that kind of braille Anyway Steven always a pleasure

Have a fantastic week and everybody look for him. He's major spoilers everywhere. Stay hydrated, everyone. Oh, yeah, stay hydrated. Bye now. Yay. I've got a water right here.

Big tall one. And I refilled it. Okay, Claire? Hey, Claire, this was a water bottle that I got and then use, drink everything. And then I refilled it with tap water. Well, water from the fridge, the purified stuff. But it's not, I'm just, I just want to make sure she knows. I'm not like, she's not late.

It doesn't think that you're buying new plastic bottles. to litter the world with plastic bottles. You've got to be careful with her. She's like a wolverine. She'll tear you into pieces if you don't. I know. But don't worry, Claire, as soon as he finishes that water, he's going to go outside and kill a cow.

Promise. Damn straight. Damn straight. I already got a bowl of killed cow. I'm going to put kimchi on later. Oh, that's true. Killed cow and cabbage. Yep.

Looking forward to that. All right. Let's see. Sorry, by our cow. Where is this? Oh, here is this. Okay, we're now going to play this because this is what we're doing. oh you know this you know this stuff right here i do this uh one of the most slapping things ever made

app slappy oh man it's my favorite thing eric ever did uh we're gonna do app slapy what is that you say well stephanie petts leave the room because we're about to talk about apps she's out of here yeah she's out uh we're gonna talk about apps and i'm going to start with an app that is this is a little bit of a cheat, but I've been playing a ton of it lately because they also released it on Steam. The only complaint I have about it is that there's no cross-save between the Steam version and the mobile versions. Oh, bummer. I would love that if you could log in and just share saves. That would be really cool. And maybe they're working on it. I don't know. I don't know.

But the game is called Card Crawl Adventure. I may have even talked about on the show before. It's entirely possible I did. And here, I'll get a little video up for that. I know we've talked about. It may not have been for App Sloppy, but you and I both talked about how great this game is. Oh, yeah, for sure. And we're fans of the original card crawl. Brian and I, we also played, what was that thief one? Card thief. Amazing. Let's follow up to this. Well, this. Wasn't there a thief game with cards? Something like that. This is another in the line of the card crawl games, the second, I guess, in fact. And it's been years since the first one. This one is a combination, I would say. say of the original card crawl and of the new game or sorry of the card thief it's very much a marrying of both two game styles and it does so really deftly it's an amazing really great time when it was on mobile perfect mobile game great tablet game like just a just a fun game so when it came out on steam i was like all right freaking i'd love this so much i just want to play it all day. And so I thought, well, why not just recommend it in general here one more time. It is

available on iOS and Android. And the Steam version is excellent. I'm happy to report. Also runs extremely well on the on Mac. I have not tried it on Steam deck because in that case, it's not controller. It doesn't use a controller. You'd have to use like the little thumb touch. Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah. I don't think it does full touch the way your phone does. so if you're going to do it portably, I would recommend phone if you're going to do it on computer, obviously, Steam's a place to do it. And it's cheap. It's like four bucks.

Now, herein lies my only complaint. It's four bucks on Steam, but on mobile it's free. And then there's unlockable crap that you can pay for. I would much rather they just sold it for four bucks on mobile. I don't know why anyone. No one does that anymore, and it bugs me. I'm sure there's market reasons why they don't do it anymore. But I wish they would.

The game's pretty simple. you bring up a grid of cards, nine of them, in these different taverns that you go to, and the cards range from everything from like weapon cards to defense cards to health regeneration cards and then lots of enemies. And your goal is to kind of trace a path from card to card and take out as many enemies as possible

while not losing too much of your own life and also gaining loot or whatever items you're trying to capture on the grid. and if you kill these these enemies they disappear they go away if you don't they get reshuffled into your deck and you do three shuffles worth of gameplay uh throughout the entire entirety of the game and it is one of the best little loops i've found in years um you unlock all kinds of like runes and bonuses and stuff i mean at the end of at the end of the day it's kind of a you know it's a rogue like in terms of game type, but it's done in such a way that I think a lot of people find this fresh and new. You have an inventory where you can keep items that you've unlocked, and those add all sorts

of bonuses to what you're trying to do and pull off. I love the art style. This developer's never led me astray. I like everything he's ever done. I think it's just one dude, too. I think he's a dude. Seems like it. You know, just one guy who's got this aesthetic and, yeah, love it.

And they've all been good. Like, never made a bad game, as best I can tell. So, check it out. Available now on all the platforms, well, everything about consoles, I guess. But if you want it on PC, it's now available. It's excellent there. And if you prefer the mobile versions, they were already good. And that one's free.

So go search for it and find it today. Very cool. All right, Brian, what did you bring? My game is called Farmside. Oh. So, you know, I'm a fan of these little build your little world, your little community, your little town, your little. life, grow things, sell things, eat things, and make things, et cetera. Also a fan of those things. I love that stuff.

Yeah, and this is one that you and I both discovered independently and would have probably both used for this if we hadn't figured out that we were both playing it. This is a brand new one. It's on Apple Arcade. I don't think it's on, it's anywhere else. It's done by a group called The Label, and the only place I've been able to find it is Apple Arcade. but maybe they'll come out with an Android version or something else. Well, it depends on their deal. So Apple Arcade, the rule is nobody else on mobile gets it for a certain amount of time.

And I think it's a year or something. So they'll have exclusivity for mobile for a year. And then if this ends up anywhere else, they'll either have to wait for that or they'll do a PC thing or something, you know. Gotcha. Well, and it's worth it. If you've got, like, I think this thing is gorgeous on iPad. It might be a little small on the iPhone, but I just found out they've got,

You can also play on an Apple TV, which is kind of cool. So it feels like a good iteration as well. So basically, yeah, you're building, you're basically building a farm. And this is kind of your farm, typical Farmville kind of stuff. But you've got a much more, what feels like, a much more leveled campaign through all this stuff. I don't know why. Farmville never felt like it was this thought out or this planned. Well, plus Farmville was always like, hey, if you want to hurry this up, you can give me a buck. Well, yeah, the buying crystals, the micro-transactions. This has no micro-transactions, thank goodness.

It's specifically for Apple Arcade where you don't have to do any of that stuff. It's a really, really well-laid-out, well-put-together game. and I've basically completed it as far as I can, with the exception of leveling up to level 35. I'm level 31, and I've completed all the quests, so I'm just waiting for an update or an expansion or something. But... So you've unlocked all the land masses and stuff?

I've unlocked all the land, the closed-off lands. I can make just about everything. There's a coffee thing that I can't grind coffee yet because there's a table I can't use to grind coffee, but I think you get that maybe with the next expansion or something. Oh, interesting. So that's good to know. They get some future plans.

Yeah, probably. And Wiesel one says, game makes me want to play Stardue Valley, which I think this is probably closer to Stardue Valley than Farmville. It is, yeah, especially in one sense, you actually kind of, it's not exactly the same, but you do have relationships that you deal with. like it's not dating or whatever you don't marry any of these people but you're trying to

improve your reputation with individual people like this come and give you tasks yeah and like this guy that drives the truck for you you get points with him you get points with a lady that's all concerned with chickens and whatever shit she does um weird random people that come to your town that want a specific kind of food yeah that is weird those are those guys are weird it's like some dude with fish net stockings and a uh and a suit blazer and And his name's like Chad, and he wants like, he wants like a waffle. I'd like a black forest cake, please. Yeah, there's all those recipes.

I haven't done much with the whole unlocking all the recipes that you get at the barn with the star points or whatever. Yeah, I only get the ones that I'm required to get because it, you know, advances me through the game. Yeah, it's a, it's just, I concur with, I concur with Brian. It's a very good one of these without all that shit. associate with them. It doesn't have any microtransactions, zero ads which is, you know, an Apple arcade thing, which

means they require that. And to be able to play that without all that other shit, it reminds you that there's something to this game type that is kind of wonderful, but we've ruined it over years, or at least we've ruined the attitude around them. And

this is really fun that way. I like it. It is. Yeah, it's really well done. And even the like the things that, oh, you can You can wait the 15 minutes for your clover to grow, or you can use a speed-up, which will make it happen instantly. You get those speed-ups constantly from giving Chad, you know, Black Forest Cake or any of the other people who visit your town, giving them the meals they request. So it's very, very quick, you know, it's very easy to earn those power-ups that you can use to speed up your food creation if you need to. Sure, sure. Yeah, this is a good game.

If you have an arcade, no-brainer. If you don't, you're going to have to wait. going to have to wait. It'll probably show up in other places, though. These often do. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm sure.

Eventually. Hopefully we get an expansion soon because I've basically said, okay, completed it back to Marvel Snap. Yep. If you want Brian out of Marvel Snap again, you better get your ass in gear guy who made this game. All right. Well done.

So those two games again are Card Crawl Adventure and Farmside. Farmside. Don't ever say we didn't tell you. what we watched or looked at. Shit out of luck. Shut. All right. Let's get it to the end of the show here.

I want to remind everybody. Okay. Only watch the new Chris Rock hour long comedy special on Netflix. Only watch it if you're dying to hear his, whatever his take is on the Will Smith business. That is the only reason I would recommend it. And if you don't, I think I would avoid it because, man, Brian, I thought I, okay, let me back this up. I thought Chris Rock was, was going to just let it slide, not slide, but just like, make a couple references, ha, ha. Like he was making some jokes about something with a rapper.

I think it was Jay Z or something on the special. And in the middle of he goes, look, I don't know, I don't need any more rappers mad at me. And everyone laughed because they get the reference, Will Smith punched you and they get it, right? I thought he would just kind of let that ride and that would be the joke and he would talk about other stuff the whole back end of his stand-up this new special on Netflix,

not the whole back end, but the last, let's say, 15, 10 minutes or something is nothing but him going off hardcore on Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. Like not, no hatchets buried. This instead was, here's my hatchet, but also I'm a good,

dig up four more hatchets, and then I'm going to take those hatchets, throw all of those at you, and then go find additional hatchets after that. That's how it is. Please build more hatchets. Yeah. Construct more hatchets. The Annette effect for me was, I don't care where anyone stands on this. I don't even really have a strong stance either way about what happened at the Oscars. But I ended up, it kind of ruined the stand-up for me.

Really? Because it felt really mean and petty. And I actually kind of, I think he makes. a good point he's just so he's just so like millionaire men who are mad at each other yeah it comes off just so petty and dumb i can't do it could could someone who's a fan of his of his stand up watch it right up until the stuff that's off stage yes and say cool done yes if you like chris rock yeah if you like chris rock you already know what you're in for it's going to be a little raunchy it's going to be super swearing and all that and you're going to get social commentary and some stuff

that he's good at and you're going to get to that point and you're going to think oh okay i just a Chris Rock concert, but then you're going to get to that last bit where it comes up. And you can actually see how visibly angry he is. Wow. And I'm not used to seeing that. Like, comedy is for getting up and letting it loose and everything's, you know, we're going to punch up. And, you know, that's just the fun of comedy. It helps us deal with hard stuff in a funny way.

This wasn't that at the end. It was, it was, I won't say it's mean spirit. Because I think he's, I think he actually had a point. but it kind of ruined the point of having a comedy special I don't know Yeah make it a separate thing Right

A separate little interview or something Yeah so there's my My hot take For everybody Dean has a quick question He's talking about Bowser He says hey guys Just wanted to let you know

That there is no game That I can think of Where you jump on Bowser's head Three times to defeat him Please correct me if I'm mistaken Love the show Dean I don't think that's true I think there are many times.

I think that's so too. Yeah, I know that, you know, when one of them you're basically pulling the bridge out from under him so that he falls in the lava. But there's, is it, what's the game where you battle all of the, the Bowser children, like Wendy O'Cupa and. Super World, I think. Super Mario World. Might be World or Super Mario 3. Yeah. but you yeah in each of those you have to stump on each of their heads three times yeah and then I think you do the same for for Bowser at the end don't you

I'm pretty sure you do and I think that's true in Mario 64 I think it's true in the 3DS game that I loved so much I can't find this oh this is just music I was trying to find the actual fight um yeah it's gonna be oh here it is super Mario 64, final Bowser fight. Okay, there he lands. Let me just see what happens here. Yeah, you do a lot of other shit. So if what he means is just bong, bong, bong, he's dead. No, I agree. You don't do that.

But ultimately, you've got to do, it's the law of threes is the trick here. So even if it's not jump on his head three times, it's swing and throw him into a bomb three times. Or it's do another thing. And it's always like the third time you got him. So yeah, there's that. controversy will continue until we figure it out.

Somebody, yeah, Mario 64 you throw Bowser at bombs. Is it at bombs at Bowser? You throw Bowser at bombs. You grab them by the tail, and you swing really hard. That's right, yeah. But you have to do a bunch of dancing around. You've got to avoid all his poo before that,

but then you throw him is my memory. It's been a while since I've played Mario 64, but what a game. All right, thank you for that, Dean, and we'll look deeper into it. But if you guys have a thought, question, or comment, you can text us like Dean did at 801-471-0462. You can also call and leave voicemails there. Or if you'd rather, email us the morning stream at gmail.com.

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Barakatorglu Wow Just let that sit there Emery Barrectoroglu I think you're as close as we're going to get Yours is better than mine Byrectito glue yeah

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Do you have anything else? I got nothing else. Nothing. Good. A new soundography going up today, but I couldn't tell you what it's going to be. Could I? Can I tell you? What is it going to be?

What's it going to be? Oh, shoot, I don't know which order we did these in. I think it's going to be Vince Clark. So, Depeche Mode, Yaz, and Erasure, the three bands that Vince Clark was part of. Oh. We're going to be talking about all three of those. I didn't know. Okay, now hold on.

This is blown my mind because. Yeah. Back when we were young, there was an awful lot of times where you would hear Yaz, or you would hear Eurasia, and you would get him confused. Yes, because Andy Bell's voice sounded a lot like, oh, what was her name? The Yaz lady. Yes. Yaz mean. I'm not going to cut.

You know, if you asking me this, without the pressure, come up with it instantly. Coming up with it now. Yeah, I can't think of it either. Alice Smoje, thank you, Bob. There you go. So hearing those two, obviously, their voices are very familiar, but I didn't know there was, like, also production similar. Yeah, he, there's, if you listen to that first Depeche Mode album,

Speak and Spell, Vince Clark is, is all over that album with the arrangement and writing. It feels like if you just replace, so that was the album that had just can't get enough on it by Depeche Mode, with the happiest you've ever heard Depeche Mode. there are other songs on that that sound just like Yaz and their early erasure things that sound just like yes I mean it dovetails so beautifully

from one band to the other that you can't tell where one begins and the other ends except for the vocalist being different. Yeah, it's so weird but that's good though. It's consistent. It's very good. Yeah. All right, watch for that. Soundography coming up. It'll be soundography.com

probably some at some point today Excellent. Now take us out with a song choice of your own choosing. Yes. Yes, Zoe, we do mean yes, and that was Alison Moyet. I'm not sure what you heard that disagrees with the sentence you just typed in. Yeah, we said yes. Didn't we say yes? He totally said yes. Yeah, we said yes. Depeche Mode, Yaz and erasure. Yazoo in the UK, Yaz in the States. Oh, hold on. Now I'm learning a new thing. Yazoo? Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yazoo is the UK version of Yaz, or the UK name of Yaz. Maybe you've told me this before. Because there already was a Yaz. Yeah. I think you maybe told me this, and I've forgotten, but it's... They had to be Yazoo outside of the U.S. Yaz in the U.S. because there already was a Yaz or something. An Abba was St.aba over there.

That's right. Or St. Abba. St. Abba, yeah. Always do the St. Abba if you can't help it. You don't see the period. It's Stabba. Hey, Leah. wrote in and said, it's my birthday.

Hooray! This actually was for last week, March 2nd. Last year was a big bummer of her birthday, so I'm hoping for better this year. Last year, Spotify told me that I listened to a lot of John Williams and Witcher soundtracks, mainly the games, not the TV show. So,

any cover of any of that, we'll do. Thanks, heart emoji, Leah. I love it. That's great. You sound like me. That's the kind of stuff I listen to on my streaming. So cool. Yeah. Yeah, it's good background music. good getting stuff done music. This is, this probably straddles more of the TV show than the video game.

I can't remember if this song was in the video game as well, but I know it was in the TV show. It is throw a coin to your witcher. Oh, nice. Covered by the great band First 2-Eleven. We love these guys. These guys are so good. 2020, they released their sixth volume of cover songs. This was included in there.

Here is First 2-Eleven and Throw a Coin to Your Witcher. We'll see you guys tomorrow. When a humble part, grace to ride along with Gerole of Rivia, along came this song. When the white wolf fought, a silver-tongued devil, his army of elves at his, who's did they revel? They came after me With master for deceit Broke down my loot And they kicked in my teeth

While the devil's mourns Minced our tender meat And so cried the witcher He can't be bleat Tust a coin to your witcher Oh valley of plenty Oh, value of plenty Oh

Tops a coin to your witcher Oh, valley of plenty At the edge of the world Fight the mighty horde That bashes and breaks you And brings you the board He thirst every elf, far back on his shelf, high up on the mountain from once it came, oh. He wiped out your pest, got kicked in his chest, he's a friend of humanity, so give him the rest.

That's my epic tale Our champion revealed Defeated the villain Now pour him some bear Toss a coin to your witcher O valley of plenty Oh valley of plenty Oh

Toss a coin to your witcher A friend of humanity Toss a coin to your witcher toss a coin to your richer O valley of plenty O valley of plenty Oh toss a coin to your richer

A friend of humanity So Ackoning to your wager Oh valley of plenty Oh valley of plenty Oh Just according to your winter A friend of humanity

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