The Morning Stream - TMS 2442: Plain White Tea

Episode Date: March 27, 2023

A bicycle built for poo. I don't like Stewieeeeee. The Avengers: Edamame. Premature Disconnection. Ancient bacterial cultures, huh? Stupid Farmer's Almanac Predictions. Mr Blue Sky with Groot... AND A CAVEMAN! Mumblin' Cotton-eye Joe. Accidental AHole. Dude! Just buy some filament. Big Coffee Has Been Lying to Us. Like what you like. I hate it. Ragnaro is my favorite MCU movie. Japanese Fecal Logistics. Eff this place with Stephen. Leaf Meat with Gwen 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, a bicycle built for poo. I don't like Stewie. The Avengers and Omame. Premature disconnection. Ancient bacterial cultures, huh? We need more Calion. Stupid farmer's almanac predictions. Mr. Blue Sky with Groot and a caveman.

Mumbling Cottonajoe. Accidental A-hole. Dude, just buy some filament. Big coffee has been lying to us. Like what you like. I hate it. Ragnarow is my favorite MCU movie. Japanese fecal logistics.

F this place with Stephen. Leafmeat with Gwen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. The Morning Stream. I'm going to make some hot dogs. The Morning Stream, there can be only. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is Monday, March 27th, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian David. Hi, Brian. Hello, Scott. Hello. Happy Monday to you. Thanks, man. We're almost done with this month. It's almost out. I know. March, is it going to leave like a lion?

Come in like a lamb? It comes in like a lamb, leaves like a lion, or vice versa, in like a lion. leaves like a lamb I can remember which way is it Yeah which way does it go In like a lion leaves like a lamb I think Is that what we want? Do we want a lamb at the end? Like what do we want out of our transition?

I want to rain is what I want. I want some rain. Okay. All right. I kind of want a lion. Lions are cool. You know? Yeah, but that means big scary weather.

It's all about the weather, Scott. Oh, is that what that always meant? It is. Yeah. It's like if you're, if you're, if you kind of in with really crappy weather, March will end with really nice weather. It is the stupidest farmer's albinac prediction ever.

Yeah, I don't like it. Why did they, so whenever someone says the lion is the king of the jungle, that never made sense to me because they live in the Sahara. They live out in like big sprawling desert stuff. They don't live in the jungle, I don't think. Why do they do that? Why wouldn't they say jaguars are the king of the jungle or freaking, I don't know, leopards or something, something that lives in the damn jungle?

place when they took a lion out of its element out of the savannah and dropped him into the jungle boy he ruled that place because they didn't know what to do with them they thought what the heck is that furry thing doing there and why is it eating everything yeah very weird all right well mine isn't going out like a lamb at all mine is still snowing here we had a huge snow yesterday and i don't know why it just came out of nowhere suddenly it was snowing it was a little bit warm right before and that was really cold and it snowed all day and then this morning i wake up up and it's kind of melting again. This doesn't make any damn sense to me.

So whatever, California. Keep your stuff to yourself, please. Keep your weird weather patterns over there. Colorado March is the second snowiest month. February the snowiest, March is the second snowiest. When, you know, I run into people like, oh, my God, how is it still snowing? My mom even texted me today and says, I can't believe the snow. And I said, I can believe it.

I believe it. March is the second snowiest month here in Colorado. You've lived here almost your whole life. you should know that yeah and then she stopped texting me and that was the last Brian heard that was the last that I heard from my mom she's done talking me for now yeah no more snarky son replies for her I'll tell you what um anyway hey welcome back everybody it's a Monday that means that we have something to give away and start a new giveaway for it stand back and check your personal belongings it's time for the morning forum that's right the morning form is

happening right now. We have a winner from last week's print sticker and frog pants pack plus the Vegas drink coaster. I'm sending them one of those. And that we are last week's winner is Brian Belmore. Brian Belmore. I was so excited for a second. I thought for sure. Yeah.

I know another chance to be the winning Brian and you missed it. Didn't have it. B.R. Y. A.N. in this case. But anyway, Brian. That Brian. He needs all the help he can get his name is spelled that way. I know.

He deserves all the prizes he can. Yeah. I'm glad you. Just kidding, Brian. Just kidding. We're glad you're winning, Mr. Belmore. But anyway, he won, and I'll be sending him an email shortly with his winning. Some congratulations there.

I thought it'd be fun to take a quick look at how the category turned out. It was Best Prime Time Animated Series was our question. Sure. And the runaway winner at 35.3% of the vote, Futurama. Good Lord. Did real good. Good choice. Second, tied for second.

The Simpsons and Bob's burgers tied. So that's interesting. King of the Hill way too low. 3.2% I'm irritated with that. I don't like that. Family Guy beat King of the Hill. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?

It can't be doing that. I like them both, but I do give the edge to a family guy. Oh, I can't do it. I just can't let him have it. Really? I'll see. South Park only 2.3%. Why? Why not? Scott. Why could you lit?

Why could you live family? guy have the win. I think you just demonstrated why. I can't stand, Stewie. South Park losing to the Flintstones. Flintstone's 2.8% versus 2.3 for South Park. Man. Anyway.

Wow. People like what they like and it's fine to like what you like. It is totally fine to like what you like. But here's the good news. You can win again this week and this week's topic will be the best MCU movie, single movie in the MCU. We're not talking about like series or, series of sequels. It can be one of those sequels. It can be the original, but it's just

a single movie. And that's it. Yeah, okay. All right, Scott. I don't know. I feel like I feel like an asterisk needs to be placed for Infinity War slash Endgame because that's one four-hour movie. Come on now. I mean, I prefer it that way, but I do too. I think they're going to have to vote for it. Obviously released as two movies separated by, we saw both of them for TMS Vegas. Isn't they cool? It is very cool. Both movies. That was great except for the one place that had the blinking lights in front of everybody's thing. Those freaking bright blue lights. I love the fact that it's like, oh, I need some more

Coke. Flip on the light and they come and bring you more Coke, but yeah, it was annoying. It's annoying for everybody who sits behind you with those damn blue lights. There's got to be a better way. The only people that enjoyed that were the ones that were right in front and nobody else's lights were in their way. Exactly, yes. But anyway, you can go vote now.

now I put every single MCU film in here except for except for Spider-Man stuff. So you can write those in so you can write those in if you want and they are technically the newer Spider-Man's are MCU so if you want to include those, you certainly can't because there's an other option

but I put everything else that's just like mainline MCU everything from Iron Man 1 all the way down to Black Widow, Shang-Chi, all that, yeah. Yeah, I feel like you could have left out Thor Dark World and Eternals and just put in the Spider-Man movies. I mean, I could have, but they're technically

MCU. So look, the deal is this. It's not like, you know, there is no definitive winner. I mean, I have my favorite. I know you do as well. Sure. But what we're looking here for is just tons of you letting us know your takes so that I can give you a prize. I think my vote would be for

the Italian film that came after Guardians of the Galaxy 2 called Ragnar. Yeah, it's supposed to say Ragnarok. I have that one. I'm not surprised. There's probably other typos because end game is one word. Is end game one word? Where's, yeah. Where's

quantumania? Oh, yeah, it's not on there. Well, you have to ride it in. I have to write it in. Where's Thor? Or not Thor. Where's Black Panther Wiconda forever? I got that. I just put it as Black Panther 2 right there. Oh, you did put it in there?

Oh, you did have it in there. there's okay all right yeah yeah i got the guardians title incorrect title by the way what black panther two it's well yeah but the people know they know what i'm saying this say hey did you put winter soldier and not captain america two because it's a pain in the ass to type captain american two america three i'm typing i'm typing the shortest answers possible and i trust our audience to know what the hell they're clicking on anyway ragnarrow is the only weird one in there i promise that's ragnarok all right everybody go check it out this is where you go frogpants.com slash the morning stream sorry the morning form

there's no stream it's frogpance.com we are the stream yeah slash the morning form all right there's a thing you can do it on mobile you can do it on desktop doesn't matter go in there and let your voice be heard uh make sure you include your email well you have to because it won't let you submit without it but yeah i don't keep them for anything they're just there to let you know if you want uh so get in there and uh get in there all right i want to give shit away so good luck to you I held down option control shift and I'm able to select both Infinity War and end game. So there's my submission right there. Excellent, yeah.

It's a hell of a combo. Eternal's probably not going to get a lot of love in there, I don't think. No, I don't think so. I don't think a lot of people are going to pick that one. Actually, my pick might surprise you. Probably not, though. My pick probably won't surprise. I'm guessing Guardians one.

That's my guess. Oh, very close. Guardians 2. Oh. And only because of Mr. Blue Sky, the Mr. Blue Sky opening with Groot, my favorite three minutes of any Marvel, of any MCU film ever. Of any of them? Oh, my gosh. Any of them.

Wow. I love the battle, the Civil War battle with like 48 different MCU people all fighting with each other. But for my money, like you plunked me down in the theater and. say, okay, Brian, you can only watch three minutes of any MCU film. I'm picking Mr. Blue Sky with Groot. It's just so, it's great. Like how, you know, they're in the middle of this big fight, and they're all, like, still chatting with Groot as he's like dancing and, you know.

No, it's a great intro. I love it. I just wish I liked the rest of the movie as much as the first one. I think the first one's just a better overall film. But that intro is good. That intro is good. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't know what I'm expecting from three other than, you know, Expecting tears is what I'm expecting. Yeah, some tear jerking. We have some predictions on this. This can't be a spoiler because we don't know. Do we have any predictions on if and who may kick the bucket from the Guardians? My prediction is probably an easy one, I think.

Yeah, because he's announced that he's not doing any more Guardians films. Yeah. I'm pretty sure Drax is out. Yeah. And I'm pretty sure that maybe even Peter Quill is out. Oh, really? yeah oh that's my my gut set my gut is telling me that and i don't know why i don't have anything to base it on okay that peter quill ends up doing some heroic deed that ends up being his demise

interesting okay like to save uh gomor or something like gives his life to save gomor yeah or gomor two 2.0 whatever we're calling her right yeah that's as close as i have to any others i don't interesting okay yeah i'm with you on i think drax is the easy one uh if they do a second one, I probably, oh, man. Man, could be Rocket. Rockets is a central part of the story of this third one, I've heard. Yeah, could be. Well, I mean, the trailer, you get a lot of rocket origin story plus high evolutionary is supposedly the one that made Rocket what he is.

Sure. More than just a raccoon. Yeah. We'll see. We don't know. We don't know. Don't kill E-L-O. Okay, Claire, we won't kill E-L-O.

It won't happen. E-L-O is going to be fine. I don't know if it'll be Mr. Blue Sky. I don't know if we'll get any more E-L-O. Yeah. But that's hilarious. Actually, that will be interesting to see what he taps into, you know, trailer aside because, you know, there's always some music in the trailers,

but what will be like the big song hook? Right. Classic song hook that will be revived and everyone will go rush out and stream it and buy it. I don't know what it'll be. Yeah, that second song you get, too, and Guardians 2 with Yandu and his arrow, that, Yes, I do, yes, I do, come a little bit closer, you're my kind of man. And this thing is just zipping around wasting ravagers, it's great. I wish that would have been me and my arrow, that song, me and my arrow.

Why didn't they do that? Come on now, MCU. Oh, there is a, there would have been a great, well, Apples and Stereo's song was a 90s song, so it wouldn't have worked. Oh, that's true. You've got to be 70s, 60s, maybe, maybe top end of the 80s, no more than that. Maybe, maybe, yeah. Yeah, the composer. Oh, good. One less person to conflict with my Google searches.

The composer, famous composer named Scott Johnson has passed away, everyone. Oh, no. Thank you, chat room, for letting me know. One less stumbling block on Google. Just kidding. All good feelings to him and his family. I assume he had one. All right.

Let's move on. You want to ever piss your wife off in the car? I've got a perfect solution. Check this out. What was I going to say? You're going to tell us how you pissed your wife off in the car. Sorry. She's getting that at your quick loss of focus.

My quiz, quick loss of focus. I think what it was is I saw the Gwen thing in top and it's supposed to be a top. I know. Yeah, you can move that. Yeah, I added that because I didn't see it. Oh, that's what threw me. I thought, did I write this twice? No, I did put it in there just as a reminder.

Okay. So you can get rid of that. All right, that's out of there. How to distract Scott. Yeah, we found the way. Just put in a note that throws me and I'm good. Here's what you do. You go to a drive-up with her.

And you sit in the car. And, oh, no, this is a different thing. Hold on. Did I tell you this? I already told you the story about how she hit me in the arm because she ordered tickle-pips. We did this. Okay. Tickle-piff.

So this is a different thing. Trying to remember what it was, though, now. Shit. I've conflated the two experiences. I pissed her off in the car. Oh, I know what it was. Okay. So we're in the car.

So do we need to call Kim? I think we might need to. Might be having a medical moment here. So she's in the car. I'm in the car. We're driving by ourselves. And we're taking dinner to a neighbor who just had surgery. So we're loaded up.

The whole car smells like chicken. She always makes a big lemon chicken with all the stuff. And it's great. So we're doing that. And as we're driving, her phone rings. And it rings through the car. Oh, sure. So she's got her phone tied to her car.

It says, number not recognized. And my first inclination with that sort of thing is ignore it or just end the call, right? I just don't care. Send it to voice mail, exactly. She's like, no, no, no, I want to see who this is. So she hits accept. And it's her guy that does her pest control stuff, comes out to the house and sprays around the house. Around the exterior of the house for spiders and stuff.

And the reason he's calling is he's trying to see if this spring we need to have another treatment or not. So it's kind of a cold call, kind of a, you know, hey, do you guys need pest control again this year? And he's going to come out and do it. So he's talking about that and just asking her how she's doing. And I'm being kind of a dick and holding my finger hovering right above the end call button. While she's talking like in case it's like, turn your key, sir. like you basically need to quickly end the call. Yeah, just in case there's a, you know, this goes weird.

Or as soon as she says by, I'm going to go, wham, I just like ending calls. It's great. Yeah. Which I know is a lot of people already know this about me. But anyway, so I'm holding, hovering there. She's in the middle of conversation with him. Uh-huh. Takes a turn.

We go over this curb, not curb, but like a dip. And the car went like, like, like shifted. Uh-huh. And I went, boop and hit the hang up button. not on purpose but I was just that close to as like a little you know millimeter away from the damn thing and I am laughing hysterically because I didn't mean to do it but I thought it was because it was mid sentence this poor guy like I just feel I felt bad but also I thought it was really funny she did not think it was funny well and she was so mad at me for the next like five minutes until we got there because I am maniacally laughing in this car because I ended their call premium surely anyway so don't do it if your wife's pissed like if you don't want your wife mad don't do it all right but if you want to irritate them it's a great way to do it and it's not like you know at least she has an out and saying oh yeah just drove through a bad area and the call got disconnected

but uh it's easy easy to explain to the caller why why uh how things got hung if she's not going to say yeah my husband was hovering over the disconnect button yeah how she can explain this thing this is going to be bad and i'm laughing too hard she's just a completely frustrated with me everything's fine now no you know no divorce proceedings or anything okay all right but and we got we almost had two scott johnson uh r ap messages to send out yeah and she goes she think her words were she looks at me and kind of gasps and goes why do you have to be such a dick when that happens or something like that and i was like i was like honey i swear it didn't mean to do it I'm holding my finger up like it's evidence.

I didn't mean to do it. Look at my finger. I didn't do it. It was a bump. Anyway, don't do that to your poor wife. Okay. We're going to get done away in. We're going to play a game.

Yeah. Got games to get to, Scott. We have half an ass to expose. That's right. And we'll do it. That way we can still claim this is a PG-13 podcast. Yeah, which is important. We can't just, you know, suddenly go hard on.

It's a little e-explicit. Not a big capital E-explicit. No, no, no, no, little tiny E. Yeah. Look who it is. Mr. Brian Dunaway wandered in from outside, and he's here now. Hi, Brian. I did.

Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hi. Hey, I came up from the outside. Hey, guess what I laughed really hard at this weekend. Guess what I laughed really hard at. Your film sack intro was freaking funny. Oh. I went back and listened again yesterday, just as I was like, hey, I don't ever listen to shows.

Let me make sure I didn't leave a big gap at the beginning or do something dumb. So I went in there and checked it. I listened all the way through your intro. It was funny as hell. It was so good. It was so good. That's all I want. It goes so quickly, too.

That's all I want. Well, it goes by so quickly, too, that you're processing, you know, your euphemisms for messing around with pussy galore in a barn. And before you can really fully process that, you've moved on to something else. And it's like, oh, hold on, slow down. So, yeah, it was great. Well, I started streamlining those things a couple of years ago because, yes, I do read the reviews from time to time. And just one person had got under my skin. They said, these intros are too long.

And I felt like, I felt like they were going after you. Yeah. I get it. Yeah. So I started timing them. And I'm like, oh, wow. I'm going like three minutes long sometimes. I'm like, okay, I can streamline this a little bit.

Well, what you've done is you've built the perfect little package of weird random hilarity. Bird salad. Yeah, I'll bet you other film shows that cover movies and stuff are jealous of what you're doing. They are. I'm jealous what you guys do. And the other film sac intros are jealous of your, of your, if your intros. Whatever song Smith. That's right.

Brian's song stuff lately has been killer, too. You know, and then Randy's there. Randy's got his thing. He's got his, here are the three rules. He's got it. Three rules. Yeah, yeah. The three rules are coming to the Howard Johnson's Schenectady.

All right, we're going to play a game. And this is half-asses, which is great, because we already have people involved in contestantship, right? We have people who are already set to win this thing. So Brian Abbott's going to explain it, the rules, what we have to do to prepare. and who might win. Brian, take it away. Well, certainly. Welcome to the morning half-asses a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving Scott and Brian the answers.

I'm going to give them a category and six possible answers. Three of those are correct answers. Three of them are just downright BS. B to the S. Depending on how confident they feel with each category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses. If you get any wrong, you get zero points for that round, get one right, gets you a point, two right, gets you three points. And getting all three correct, gets you five freaking points. points. You'll get a player with the most points after three rounds, wins the prize for their contestant. This is me going off script because I like mixing this thing up and then I lose my place.

The player with most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. Contestants will be pulled from members of the tad pool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're playing for John Walters in West Michigan. Nice. Thank you, John for being my guy. That's a great name. John Walters. John Walters.

That sounds fake. It's as real as It's real to me, man Real to me, man. That's right. And Brian, you're going to be playing for Andrew, who goes by NZ Shale when he's in chat. He's in Heraldton, New Zealand, which is what the NZ stands for.

Oh, I love you. Yeah, oh, I talk to NZ, oh, yeah, awesome. Yeah. Okay. I'd love to win something for Shay, yes. It's your old pal. All right. All right, let's get to today's questions,

starting with number one, Uh, which of these people are, is a former schoolteacher. So before they landed in the career that we know them best for, uh, they were a school teacher. Three of them were, which are the three. Your choices are Sting, Meatloaf, Cheryl Crowe, Gene Simmons, Jennifer Hudson, and David Bowie. Three of these people were schoolteachers before they were the thing that we know them for. And see, it's so tricky because they could, it's been a substance. The two teachers, they didn't have to have a full career, right?

They could have just been... I think I know all three of these, I think. Cool. Look at that. Really? I think I don't know any of them. Yeah. One of them is dead easy.

I even know the grade he taught. Oh, wow. Yeah. But the other two, I'm not 100% sure, but I think so. Wow. Yeah. Give that a big while. I will tell you that they, there's a couple of them that seem like shop teachers.

right there i locked in too they're probably wrong you guys both locked in and you both locked in on jean simmons absolutely correct yeah and i think that's the one you know what grade he taught yeah third grade that's the one my understanding great jean simmons third grade all right kids i've got some jean simmons merchandise i'm going to be selling you before class starts Did he stick his tongue out when he did that too? Yeah, he must have. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

You guys also both settled on meatloaf. Hank Aday. No, what's his last name? Charles Aday. I remember his last name is Aday. A-D-A-Y. I can't remember his first name. Meatloaf.

No, I'm sorry. Damn it. Sting, absolutely was. And Sting, that's why I don't stand so close to me about a teacher in a Lolita situation. Cheryl Crow is our other teacher. Carol Crowe, also former teacher, and all she wants to do is... I swear... Oh, man.

Meat Loaf seems like the shop teacher. He totally does seem like a shop teacher, doesn't he? Yeah, Marvin a day. Thank you, Jedi 71, Marvin a day. Jennifer Hudson was never going to happen because she was too young when she was working. She's acting. Yeah, I mean, she went right into American Idol. Yeah.

No. David Bowie's always been a weirdo. He would never have done it. I try to remember what was a former job for her. David Bowie. There was some weird thing that he did. Being a free spirit. Yeah, that's it.

Exactly. You know my favorite? I hate saying this. He would have never taken a career job. He might have worked at a burger joint. He would never have worked at like, you know, I don't know, like at the DMV or something. The DMV. I'm not going to happen.

My favorite Cheryl Crow song is, it's a weird thing because it's a duet she did with Kid Rock. Oh, God. Oh, you like that one? I hate Kid Rock, but I really like. that duet it's really good oh yeah i did i did too for the first half of the summer that it came out yeah i played it a lot they played it a lot you're not wrong but i used to think that was such a great song anyway all right every day is a winding road i like leaving las vegas yeah there's a that tuesday night music club album was pretty damn good because it was great co-written by a really

really telling a musician i like her she should go back to teaching so he seemed like you'd be a good teacher she seems like she would be a good teacher yeah yeah why not you made your money boy did she have a rough go at Woodstock wasn't she one of the people performing at that Woodstock 99 or am I thinking of I know Jewel was maybe I'm thinking of Jewel was what's her name? Better Jagged Pill lady. Oh, Alas

Morissette was she? Okay. I think her and Cheryl were there and I think they did. I know Jewel was for sure because they were yelling for Jewel to take off her top. That's right. But I think Cheryl Crow had a better go of it I think. She was there yeah. I think all three. They may have been the

three women who prefer. I think she was there. I think she was really early. they may have been the three women who performed it might be yeah exactly could have been all right well let's get to question number two okay uh you like you guys both like the comics and i know you guys both like comics strips like the old things you'd read at the in the back of the newspaper when you get the newspaper back of the day sure sure um yeah we used to hang them we used to hang them on things and it was like memes for today it kind of was oh my god it totally was like definitely put it clip it out and put it on the refrigerator this is So you. What this is is just so you. All right. Well, which of these words were coined in a comic strip? So the first appearance of these words was in a comic strip. Zapp, Worrywart, Kanky-Panky, Jeep, blob, and jalopy.

Oh, my lord. Three of these are actual words that were coined in the world of comic strips. I'm going with these three. All right. Scott's locked in. Brian's locked in. You guys all locked in on different ones. Like basically Blob is the only one that did not get selected by the two of you.

And I'm happy to say blob is not one that was coined in the comic strips. Jeep comes from Popeye. Jeep the Jeep. Damn it. Jeep Jeep Jeep. Jeep the Jeep. Zap came from Buck Rogers. So wait a minute.

Did the Jeep people make a car based on the Jeep? I don't know. Isn't that weird? Like, is that possible? That doesn't sound right to me, but, all right. And I remember even the trivia. Yeah. Worry Ward, okay.

Worry Ward is the third one. So those are your three. Zapp, Jeep, and Worrywort. Warrie Warrick came from a comic strip called Out Our Way. And I don't know that. I'm not familiar with that one. I do know Popeye and Buck Rogers. If you flip mine vertically, I win.

If you flip it. Like physically. Too bad. Physically. Oh, yeah. Darn. And I almost instituted a rule where, if you flip it if you get the wrong answer

we call it we call it yeah the flip it or the uno it's like no you can reverse it yep I need someone to get into that Jeep question though chat somebody find that out I'm very curious about it uh jeeps came from GP general purpose so it's like yeah yeah

oh okay oh wouldn't that be GEE I then they probably went with Jeep because everybody recognized it from the comics right maybe maybe okay all right damn it let's get the last question here And I know a favorite game of both of yours is the wonderful game, Monopoly. Well, which of these six are officially licensed versions of Monopoly?

Oh, nice. Powerpuff Girls, Dual Masters, Michael Jordan Air, My Fantasy Baseball, Jackson Five Special Edition, and Barbie. Three of these are actual Monopoly games you can buy. God, that's so infuriating because there's like a million Monopoly. Oh, my God. And I double check because, obviously, the game that I pulled these questions from was produced in, like, 2014. I did go through and make sure that the three that are not are still not. Like, they haven't added.

It's like this. Monopoly is a licensing whore. They'll listen to anybody. Just here, you want it? Take it. Yeah, they all do it. There's a million of them. But none of these, that's what's funny is all of these are a little obscure.

Obviously, three of them are right. but, man, I'm going all in, because I'm going to have no choice. I'm hedging my bits. Ooh, look, all right, good. Boy, you guys, again, both settled in on Powerpuff Girls. Yes, there is a Power Puff Girls Monopoly game. Okay. You guys also both settled in on Barbie.

Believe it or not. And I had to look it up to double check and make sure they haven't added one. There is no Barbie Monopoly game. I felt like it was Bates. air. Your three are Power Puff Girls dual masters and my fantasy baseball. What's dual masters? What even is that? Isn't that like Yu-Gio? Yeah, it's kind of like that. It's one of those things. Offshoot of you. You're like a similar game to Yu-Gi-Oh, okay. I could see that. That's, that's no good. That's no good for me, but it's good for Brian. It's good for Brian. If you could flip it, if you could flip it. If you could just flip it. Yeah. September says that she has.

one of these. Which one do you have? September, do you have the Powerpuff Girls one? Or the Dual Masters one? She's going to let us know. Yeah, Dual Masters. Yeah, I don't know why. I always thought Dual Masters was a Yu-Gi-o thing, but it is a whole separate. Okay, but Dual Masters is it is part of the Yu-Gi-O. Okay.

Is it? But, yeah. Okay, because it says board game based on the manga, anime trading card games. I don't know. It doesn't say anything about some of the Yu-Gio. Didn't say anything about Yu-Gi-O, so I don't have it separate. I can't read the tiny lettering above Dual Masters, but, man, does it look like? September has the Powerpuff Groves on. That's awesome. Yeah, okay, so separate. It is separate from Yu-Gi-Oh, it's Wizards of the Coast does this. Okay.

Wizards has their own anime-based, or not anime, manga-based thing. I didn't know that either. Boy, we're learning all kinds of things today. Oh, no kidding. Well, all right. Well, your guy won. very cool. Yeah. Congratulations going out to Brian and also Andrew in Hamilton, New Zealand. Andrew, you're getting a copy of Shady part of me and other side with a sea, like as if it's a drink.

Like, oh, can you pass me a glass of other side, please? But don't worry, John, in West Michigan, you're getting a copy of Thronebreaker, The Witcher Tales. It's extremely good that game. So he is not losing today. I love Scott how he does this every time. No, it's true. I'm telling you. I haven't played shady part of me. Your game is the best. Those top two, I haven't played, but I have playing throwbreaker, so I can only speak for it.

But it is very, very good. Especially if you like the Witcher world, but want to do something a little different in the Witcher world. It's great. It's very good. Cool. Awesome. Well, congratulations to all of you. Congratulations. You're a winner.

Even Dunaway. Hey, Dunaway, speaking of witch, you and I, we do this show called Play Retro, and it's moved nights. now Wednesdays at the same time as usual. So 3.30 mountain time on Wednesdays. And this week, we're going to be doing that again. Tell people what we're looking forward to this week. Yeah, yeah, we're heading back to 1982 and heading to the moon for a little moon patrol. Parallax gaming at his best.

Jump, fire! You already made a 3D print of the Moon Patrol buggy, didn't you? I did. Yeah, it was pretty cool. Man, that thing is sharp, though. I print out on the filament printer and man, it's like almost cut my hands a couple of times.

I'm like, time to resin print. Yeah. Yeah, those can get really, yeah, really sharp. I watched that pretty sharp, uh, sharp. Something pretty crazy. I watched the guy. I have this full video somewhere. I have to link it.

Carter sent it to me. But this guy took a, uh, full mountain dew or Sprite bottle. So like a liter plastic bottle. Uh-huh. And then he cleaned it all up, took all the residue from the sticker off of it, all that stuff. and then he built a homemade little extractor that like peeled it out in strips did it automatically oh yes yes then he fed it into this thing which shrunk which which which melted it down into

a pliable stuff so he could pull it into filament rolls filament and then he printed then he printed a raspberry pie case uh out of the same shit oh that's cool see you've seen the things that let you strip um you know like take a two liter bottle and turn it into one long strip of ribbon, but that's really cool. It was cool. I'll have to find the video again. I forget you sent it to us. I've seen it too. But you'll have to see it, because

it's crazy. The setup is just enormous. I'm like, dude, just buy some filament. I'm like, okay. Well, you're not wrong. I think he was just kind of like trying to point out that, hey, there is a way to... If you can. Yeah. Can you do it? Yes, you can. Should you do it? Yeah. Is it practical? No.

Yeah. Anyway, well done. So that'll be Wednesday. Check that out. We'll see you on day anyway so we can talk about this again but yeah uh brian done away have a fantastic rest of your day and and tomorrow also you no no no you you yeah okay he's going all right uh well done everybody that was a lot of fun as it always is love having him on love giving away stuff and uh for sure faux show and uh by the way this a quick note uh when you guys hear us do this on the show and we give away game codes um it's because a whole bunch of you are like uh you know you have you have an account an HIO or you do something over on Gog or whatever your reason for having a bunch of codes are.

Usually it's in there, it's, what are they called? What's the name of the site where you go and you sign? Humble bundle? There you go. If you got a humble bundle thing where you have like the subscription, sometimes you get codes you don't want or need. If that sounds like you and you need a place to send them so that we can find happy homes for them, consider us a clearinghouse for your codes and send them to us. The morning stream at gmail.com or if you find us on Discord or wherever you see us me or brian doesn't matter let us know we'll stick it in the tab and you too can be a giver of codes and we will thank you on the show like i should have done with wesley wesley who sent us uh the the games that we gave away today oh very nice wesley always a

giver of codes that guy he's the great giver of codes he's the the uh the great giver as we call him i was trying to think of another uh like a more familiar term the great giver the great giver what does he give well he gives codes all right gives codes oh claire you don't like the Welsh? What's going on with the Welsh? You don't like the Welsh? No, Wesley. Oh, Wesley. Wesley. All right, time for us to play, not play anything. We're going to do the news. Here you go. It's time for the news brought you by. I don't play the news. Film Sack at the latest episode all about Goldfinger and find out what happened to random task in the process. It's true. It ain't pretty. That's Film Sack, wherever you get your podcast. Yeah, that was a bit of a shock.

The random task news. I didn't know about that. Oh, kidding. Like we're looking up the Austin Powers parody, and sure enough. By the way, I forgot to ask you. Do you still have the Humble Bundoo? Oh, I have that. Yeah. Somewhere.

Let's see if I can find it real quick, because this is always worth playing. The French developer. Oops. Humble bundle. Here it is. Here he is. Oh, that guy. He's so great.

It just sounds like somebody making fun of the way somebody else talks. Yeah, it doesn't feel like you. like he feels like he meant to do it but nope that's just his talking voice that's just him uh here's your first story a Fukushima man famous that place famous for the the earthquakes and the the the nuke uh the nuclear yeah reactor issues yeah a few years ago a very different news story about them today a Fukushima man arrested arrested for defecating on another person's bicycle seat not not while they were using it by the way so this would have been if that would have been real trouble you'll go to jail for a lot of

time if the guy's actually riding the bike. Usually, you know, sometimes you go up those hills and you're really straining hard to go up and it's very easy to defecate on your own bicycle seat. That's right. But at least that's not illegal. This guy, okay, so here's the problem. It says the problem with using bicycles is a common form of transportation. They often are parked outside and open to the environment. Accidents or even theft. These are risks everybody's aware of and takes into consideration anytime a bike is left unattended. What took place on December 15th last year, however, it's quite Possibly the last thing anyone would expect to happen to their bicycle at 7.30 a.m. on the day in question, a teenager. Teenager. Oh, you know, you just can't trust them. You can't trust them. It's probably a TikTok team doing it for the lulls. That's right. You approached her bicycle, which was parked outside a station in Soma City, Fukushima Prefecture. However, sitting atop the seat was a human turd.

Yep. She immediately notified the police and the investigation was launched. As a result, 28-year-old. old man who lives in the neighborhood. It was arrested on suspicion of vandalism. Suspect is accused of defecating on the bike. Seat someone somewhere between 5 p.m. on December 14th and 7.30 a.m. the following day when the victim left her bike in the parking area.

I can't believe this made international news. I don't know why. I know. That's great. It seems nuts to me. It says although details surrounding the incident are few and far between, the police were specific that the seat had been defecated upon rather than the feces. been placed or smeared in another way.

Let's just think of the logistics, right? Like, you want to poop on a bicycle seat. If it's a tall bike, you know, if it's not like a dirt bike that you can just stand over feet fully on the ground, then you've basically got a balance on the pedals and somehow pull your pants down over the bar. Like, there's, I was just trying to think about how, if I were told that I had to defecate on a bike seat. these are there are logistical questions they don't answer for sure there I guess you could probably lower the bike but then you'd get it it might roll off the side it's got to be straight up I agree it's weird I kind of want I don't want it but I kind of want footage yeah like I don't really want it at the very least I want that South Korean company to create a 3D animated CGI movie of how how this is accomplished love those those are always so good I thought it was Taiwanese no it's Korean Taiwanese you're Taiwanese I you're definitely right those are so great why did those stop are we done with those yeah a lot of things happen in our day and time why are they not making one for every single event of note

guaranteed it's something that we could get AI to do very easily like that's going to be the next thing if we can have a uh AI Seinfeld that's that's pixelated but still kind of uh you know still quickly generated we could easily have copy and paste a news story get an animated video of what happened. I kind of want to, I kind of want this now. All right, I'm all in on AI now. I'm all in. That was it. That's all it took.

Yep, yep. I was waiting on something big and this is it. Take my art and use it mid-journey as long as I get this in the process. Yep. Well, speaking of somebody who I always think of as a little bit AI generated, Stephen Segal in the news. He's launched an Akito Center to train Russians for military service. You know, he's now a Russian citizen.

Yes, he's all in on the Russian. That's the AI, by the way. He's AI all in. Oh, all in. Any action imbecile. That's his other AI. Stephen Segal. Action imbecile.

Another idiot. That works too. Or idiot. Yeah. Or another idiot. Yeah, perfect. It says here, Stephen Seagal launched this all-Russian Akito Center in Moscow that he claims another say will be primarily used to prepare young Russians for army service.

I've seen this dude. like do this stuff and it all looks really ridiculous to me so unless i need an expert in a keto to pipe in and tell me where we're at with stephen seagall's actual skills because what i watch does not look like he that all looks faked and dumb to me yeah uh guaranteed and i haven't seen the video but i guarantee his he's funding the center he backed the backed it financially and will not be teaching at the center sure feels like it he might be the they're day one for some sort of photo op and that's about it. Right, exactly.

Take your picture with me and Vladimil Putin. Yeah. It says he was present at the inauguration ceremony at the Russian Capitol on Monday where he cut the ribbon. Who? Who's not wearing the ribbon? Sorry, I just saw that episode. Okay. He says, I'm very glad to be able to represent the center today.

And that Akito will develop here, he says. He serves as the head instructor, sorry, head instructor of the Russian Akito Federation. Oh, look at that. Wow, I'm sure of which there are two members. Yeah, he says, these arts can make the world a better place. Whatever. Are there, do we have any photos of,

I know he adores Putin? Does he, are we have any photos like little, little buddy hoverhands arm. Oh, photos of the tool. Well, I know there's the shot, the shot of them at the inauguration. They're in the same room, but I don't know if they're any of them

where they're kind of buddy. Yeah, we need, I want to see if there's one like that because it's got to be, it's got to be the most awkward photo ever. Do you think they hang out in other contexts, like, you know, come over this weekend kind of stuff? Oh, there's a handshake photo that kept and Kipp are found. That's not bad. Let's take a look here. Oh, yeah, that's not bad. That looks pretty good. That looks like, uh, wow, that's a short table for Putin. He likes those big long tables. I know, exactly. You know what I mean? And it's also like, wow, he's Putin having to reach that far. over is a thing. Oh, there's

another one. That's pretty good one. Pops and Recline found one of the two of them. Maybe at a hockey game or something. It's like their... Let's see. So maybe they do hang out. Maybe their buddies. Maybe they're like, hey, well, I know it's very propaganda positive for them to have some American. And I think they

overestimate our regard for him as a Hollywood, quote-unquote, action legend. American beloved action star Stephen Seagall Yeah, I think maybe they don't know What we know And what we know

Is that he kind of sucks Star of the incredible films Under Siege And End of List Yeah No really This is end of list This is all we have

No it's end of list Yes not movie called End of List That is just end of list So with this I wonder what Putin's telling him He's like going all right this is right here this is where the

I mean what's he telling what do you think he's saying he's totally saying I completely killed my cousin with a dog I completely sick the dog and yeah I totally did that wait was that

that was Kim Jong-un wasn't it was that yeah it was Kim Jong-un yes Putin would he used I totally I totally killed that guy on the plane I guess he would have used Segal to kill a guy that's what he would use

Actually yeah probably Or at least make him pop out of a cake. Pops and recline posted another one that's got, that's basically Segal doing the bunny ears behind Putin's head in a photo op. If this is real, this is fantastic. This might be, might do wallpaper. Is he doing it or is that other guy doing it? I can't tell.

Oh, yeah, hard to tell. The way the Segal's grinning, it feels like it's him, but those fingers look too skinny and pale to be. Stephen Seagulls. He didn't tan his fingers that day. Okay. That's probably fake, but I love it. Yeah.

Because I just don't think Putin would let it slide. Oh, are you kidding? Once he sees that, yeah, once he sees that photo, have Steven Seagal killed. I don't care if he is. It leans over to Steven Seagal. Please have yourself killed, he says. Please have American beloved actor Stephen Seagal.

killed Honestly, I feel like they think they got like Tom Cruise or they got like, you know, they got somebody who is somebody somebody who we actually give a crap about over here We'll pay money to see in movies and no, you didn't get him You got the guy that can't run normal. That's who you got that's right. You know he's beloved on Rotten Tomatoes, but not so much in theaters. No, sir. All right.

That'll do it for. today's news. That's all the news that was worthy. We're going to take a break. When we come back, we'll have Steven Schleiker here. We're also going to have Gwen of Phoenix Pearl Tea fame join us. Talk about this month's tea. And I also have some questions about tea. Speaking of lions and lambs on what time of year it is. I got questions. Oh, I like it. I can't wait to hear. Yeah, but I need music before we can do that. So what do you got? Yeah. You know, I know we've got a brand new album by Lana Del Rey that just came out and, you know, folks like Olivia Rodriguez and Adele and Taylor Swift

keep, you know, giving us great music to listen to. How about something kind of along those lines, but a little bit less well-known? Even though she is wrapping up a sold-out nationwide tour with Nessa Barrett, Isabel LaRosa has just released a brand new EP called You Fear the God That Loves You. Oh my word. This is the viral track, More Than Friends, which just dropped this last Friday. She wrapped up that tour this last Saturday night at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. This is a great song.

I'm totally digging it. And I like the rest of the EP too, but this is the standout track for me. So I'm happy to play it. Here is the song More Than Friends by Isabel LaRosa. think that I'm crazy Maybe Just let you think a tips trace me My heart's racing now

I just can't take a breath I'm catching you staring again I swear all this shit isn't just in my head I know that we're more than friends friends friends I know that we're more than Friends, friends

Friends I need Need your hands on my waist, please Save me Cause don't let me die waiting My heart's racing now I just can't take a breath I'm catching you staring again

I swear all this shit isn't just in my head I know there were more than friends, friends, friends. I know they were more than friends, friends, friends. Can't keep waving, blinded my heart, holding my breath, stuck in my heart, stuck in my heart, Fear is changing Turned Friends, friends, friends, friends, I know friends, I know they were more than friends, friends, I know they were more than. Friends, friends, friends, friends.

I know that I'm more than friends, friends, friends. Friends. Yes. 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. I'm wrapping all day and I'm wrapping all night. I'm rapping to the beat and I wrap it up tight. I wrap in the morning and I rap till I'm done. And everybody knows that I'm number one.

Because I'm rapping, I'm rap, rap, rap, wrap it, I'm rap. I'm rapping, I'm rap-a-to-you rapping, I'm rapping, I'm rap, rap, rap, rap, rap, I'm rap, rap, rap, rap, I'm rap, rap, rap, rap, rap, rap. Vinging on Netflix. The morning stream. Shoot a nuke down a bug hole. You got a lot of dead bugs. And we're returned. Tell me who that was one more time.

Yeah, that was Isabel LaRosa in a song called More Than Friends from a brand new EP that just came out this last week called You Fear the God That Loves You Do! That's a very cool name. It is, that album title or EP title, You Fear the God That Loves You. Yeah, which I think is, well, I don't know, I don't want to get into religion here, but I think that is kind of the idea, right? God-fearing and all that. Yeah, if you don't fear the, fear you're the guy that you believe in, you're doing it wrong, or your God. is doing it wrong. I guess so.

Or at least that's how to keep people in line. Is by telling that? Two things you need to fear are the God that loves you and the Reaper. And the Reaper. Sorry, Blue Oyster Colt. Always fear the Reaper. You are supposed to fear the Reaper. Yeah, don't do fear the Reaper is what the original.

Do fear the Reaper. Yeah, that's what I say. Here's this. Check this out. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dollar Dala bills, y'all. Yeah, it's Steven Schlecker, everybody.

You know him. You love him. And he's here talking about major spoiler stuff and other cool things. Thanks. Hi, Stephen. Welcome back. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hi. Did we have you last week? I can't remember. Did we have you? We did last week. Okay. I always feel like I'm, I don't have enough of you on the show.

I know. And it's usually because there's like a week or two where you couldn't. And then it just kind of carries over and feels weird. Sick kids or days off or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's good to have you here. It happens. Stephen, of course, purveyor of all things, major spoilers. They talk about pop culture, comics, movies, and all kinds of cool stuff. And today you're going to make some recommendations based. on a, I don't know, based on a little video game I've been playing.

Yeah, for those of you who haven't been watching the Frog Pants channel over there on YouTube, Scott has been playing that Diablo 4 beta. Looks a little bit too scary for me. So I thought, how about talk about some scary comics or some horror comics that people might want to check out? I've got five of them.

Okay. Some people may have heard these. One of them is brand new. It doesn't come out until June. It's called Haunt You Till the End from Image Comics. And this is described as the day after tomorrow meets the haunting of Hill House, where you have a tech billionaire, a Catholic priest, a military contractor turned explorer, and others who are proving that there is life after death. But things are going to get a little scary in that one.

Oh, all right. I'm in. Are anybody working on that I'm familiar with? I don't know. Andrea Mutey is the artist, and she's really good. I know her stuff. I'm not super familiar with Ryan Caddy's writing, but I'm sure I've, I've seen it in places. But yeah, it looks, it looks kind of creepy. You know what I'm excited about is when an apocalyptic, apocalyptic event happens. I can't wait for these weird. You're most excited about because I could, I could hold off on that. Well, not that part, but like what I'm excited about it is that all the millionaires, billionaires are just going to have to deal, you know, because they're going to be in these groups where it's like, this guy was a plumber, this lady was a teacher, this guy was

a billionaire, and this kid over here was in college. And that billionaire's got no power in the group. He's just a big a turd as any of them. He's just as expendable as any of them because money means nothing. I love that trope. I think that is so much fun to play with. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, Yeah. Eat the rich has a whole new meeting in the apocalypse. Yeah, you got to eat them. You got to eat them. All right. They're getting eaten. Yeah. So my next one actually goes by two different titles. The title that is the official one that they put out on the newsstands is I hate this place, but you can't get the

variant covers which have the original title for the series, which is F this place, but without the F, but adding the real word for there. Yeah, yeah. Okay. This is from Kyle Starks, who's a great, brilliant writer, and Art Yom Toppaulin, I believe is how you say

the artist's name. This is a story where Trudian Gabby inherit a farmhouse that they haven't been to in a long time. And once they get there and get inside, they really can't leave the farmstead because of creepy ghosts and goblins and monsters that are patrolling the lands. And there's also a thing where, and I see Scott's rolling through it right now, there's a mobster guy who has stolen a lot of money, which also happens to be buried on that land. So you get a little bit of that

all together in this story. It's pretty graphic as well. So people need to be a of that, but you need to learn the house rules if you want to survive. I hate this place. Okay. I'm in. This one sounds great. That's from Image Comics. That's also out in trade right now. All right. What else we got? Oh, I love this. Immortal Hulk. Tell me more.

Yeah. So people are like, well, how can we don't have a Marvel comics on the tie on the last haven? Well, here it is. The Immortal Hulk, the issues 1 through 50 from Al Ewing and Joe Bennett. This is a fantastic horror series where we actually go back and we explore

back in the day, when the Hulk first came out, the Hulk was a horror comic. And now they take that to a whole new level as Bruce Banner needs to fight his inner demon and the demon is coming out. And that is the immortal Hulk. I read everything up to, I think maybe it was just one through 50. Yeah, that's all it is. It just ended, I want to say, in November I want to say of last year. I might be 10 issues behind.

But anyway, it's great. This is one of my favorite Marvel comics I ever read. And I'm not even that big of a Hulk in the comics kind of guy. It's just not the thing I run to. But I thought a Mortal Hulk was really good. It reminded me of like, I don't know, almost like X-Files meets something. I don't know. It was really great.

Loved it. Yeah. My number two is a little bit of stunt casting. Also because it's on here because people are saying, well, you don't, you have a Marvel on the list. You didn't have a DC comic on the list. Stunkcast comes in the form of one Bruce Campbell. You know Bruce Campbell. Sure.

Bruce Campbell and the Army of Darkness and all of that. Well, he has a comic book out at DC Comics with Eduardo Rizzo. Sergeant Rock versus the Army of the Dead. What happens in the closing days of World War II as Hitler unleashes a horde of the undead, and Sergeant Rock and his troop are set to fight against the menace. How does he show up in this? or is just the army of the dead? No, he's the writer. Bruce Campbell is the writer.

Bruce Campbell wrote the comic. Okay. He does a great bit when he's asked, well, how did you wind up doing this? He was like, well, I was so broke. I was going door to door, even offering my services as a comic book writer. And D.C. said, well, I guess we'll give you a few bucks, boy, and had me write this series. It's a six-issue series. I think they're about halfway through it right now.

Yeah. So people can still go and pick it up. It's Sergeant Rock versus the Army of the Dead. Is Sergeant Rock still set in, like, Vietnam? Yeah, World War II. World War II, not Vietnam. Okay. I always thought it was Vietnam. Interesting.

Yeah, I kept shifting depending on what war was going on. Is it well, I mean, well, I guess I haven't read it, but is it well written? Like, do you feel like? It is. It's surprisingly weirdly fun. You know, DC just finished up their deceased line where it was basically zombies and vampires versus the DC universe. So seeing this is kind of a fresh different take on DC's zombies. Okay.

I'm in, I think. I'd really like to see stuff. I thought that was a great run. So I'll check this out. As as silly as it sounds, I think I'd be in. All right, tell me about number one here.

Finally, we get to something is killing children from James Tinia on the 4th and Worther del Eddara. It's room studios. This is one where children are going missing and they're not all coming back. Those that do talk about horrible monsters

that are doing, well, killing the children. And the introduction of Erica Slaughter, who is here to kill monsters and has to deal with all the repercussions of what goes on. The Something Is Killing the Children Universe has expanded greatly since this series first started out as a six-issue miniseries, and now it's been turned into an ongoing, and the whole slaughter heritage and their line of monster killers has its own comic book series, and they've spun out, I think, one more.

I think there's three different ongoing titles in the Something is Killing the Children Universe. but if you want to see people killing monsters in it getting a little bloody then you don't have to look at Diablo for Scott you can go look at something I can go look at this oh all right awesome this looks great holy crap the art's awesome I like this I didn't know this is a thing I like Boom Studios why not why not read this I always say it seems like every publisher is doing something with horror these days and adding more horror titles to their offerings so I thought that would be a good time to talk about

some of those. Do you think we're, um, we hadn't into it like a resurgence of this sort of stuff. It feels like we are a little bit. Like people are back into, um, not zombies, but I mean, yes, I think we are heading back into an age of, uh, horror and more risque comics and those kinds of things, which is also kind of an indicator of what may be coming next. Uh, what has it been like 10 years now since the comic code authority shut down, which was, you know, the industry self, regulating itself to make sure that the government didn't step in and censor them. But now we're seeing a huge resurgence of people banning books and calling for, you know, pearl clutching and something must be done to protect the children type of stuff.

So I think the more comic books that get pushed into this direction, I think they're going to become a target in maybe the near future. Yeah, maybe. That's what I was thinking is like all this talk about, you know, what's that Florida I was reading yesterday that Florida principal quit over some parents demanding that the statue of David be censored at the school because they think it's pornographic or whatever and um and don't don't uh hopefully they've never read the Bible because who boy the stuff in that yeah there's some things that well here in Utah famously there's

a case going on right now where a parent is demanding schools take Bibles off the shelves for that reason they're you know obviously they're they're playing this they're playing this they're playing this a little bit but I'm all for them playing it because I think you know fair play turnabout is fair play here yeah so go for it but um yeah I don't like any of it but I also think there's a creative I think what happens sometimes when society has some moments of like depression's not the word but just kind of like something happens in a big collective way in this case the pandemic in the past it's been other things but those things tend to spawn a certain creative push in a certain area

is, and it doesn't surprise me that these creatives want to deal with things like the unseen monsters and apocalyptic scenarios, and I just think we're going to get a ton of that moving forward. I mean, we could just do a whole five comics just on the apocalypse. There's a new one that's out called Teenage Wasteland, which is pretty interesting. It's post-apocalyptic love romance, Romeo Juliet thing. There's a couple of other ones. There's what is it?

I just saw one cross the desk here the other day that we post. It's from Dark Horse. I'm going to say it's Savage Squad 6, which is, you know, a military group having to go out into the apocalypse and, you know, survive and take down bad guys and that kind of stuff. So there is all sorts of that stuff that's also coming out. Even that 8 billion genies thing is really basically that idea. The popularity of Last of Us on HBO is an indicator of this sort of thing. So I think we're heading into a new creative zone. And some people are going to hear this and go, I don't want.

want any more of that. I get it. This is just how we do it. This is the pattern we do. Yeah, and here's the thing. If you don't want horror comics, then you can go read silly comics. There's plenty of that stuff out there, and if that's still too much for you, go read some Archie

comics. That's probably about us. Silly comics. Yeah. You have a section called Silly Comics at your comic bookshop. Yes, maybe. I mean, they probably should. I like it. All right. Well, there you go, everybody. If you're in the mood, these all sound like a good way to get some brood on your mood, if you know what I'm saying. Hey, that's great. Steamishlikers always

Major Spoilers.com is the place to be and go. Tell people about what's going on over there, anything with the shows or anything you want to mention. Yeah, if you like this top five list, we have a show called Top Five, where every week, either a group of us or Dan Patrice sits down and we either share random Top Five things like a few weeks ago. We did one. Top Five drinks was the list. Or Dan, when he comes on, he'll talk about like Top Five Game. games. Last week you did the top five games from 2013 that you should check out. So the top five podcast. Go check that out on online podcast feeds. What won the best drink out of the top five?

Water because you have to stay hydrated. Oh my gosh. That was perfect. Holy crap. Walked right into that too. I didn't know he was going to get where I was headed, but you totally got it. That's fantastic. I was thinking it was going to be like, you know, Coke or Pepsi or who knows. I'm freaking genius over there. That's Steven Schlecker. He is the top five. right there. All five slots.

Truly. Steven Schlecker. That's right. We're going to bring the rest. Yeah, fill in the rest. You've given them the start. Now they know what direction to go. Yeah.

You nailed it. Gwen Gunn joining us shortly. If we can get her to pop in, there we go. And I don't have an intro for her, so I'm just going to play, I don't know, how about this one? Here you. It's Gwen. Gwen joining us talking about tea. Welcome back, Gwen from Phoenixbriotte.com.

And if you're a tea supporter on the TMS Patreon, then you already know the good works of Gwen. We're going to talk about some of that as well. Gwen, welcome back to the show. How are you? Hello. Good morning, boys. How are you? Nice to see you.

What do you got tea there? You get some tea? What else would I have? I was going to say, even if it's not, even if it's like a cappuccino, you've got to see its tea. It would be horrifically off-brand, Scott. I know. It's a good point. Why, where, what was I thinking?

Anyway, it's good to have you here, and we're going to talk about some stuff. Do you know what the T is of the month? I don't even know what we're sending people this month. Do you know what we're sending them? Yes, I do, I do know what the T of the month is. Yeah. What is it, why is it awesome? Those are the two questions.

Oh, well, if you want to know why it's awesome, that's going to be a much longer conversation. I'll take whatever. Okay, as I talk and I stall a little bit, known as the Johnson technique. I just keep talking and keep stalling. You just make stuff up. Whatever. So, I have prepared a, for the last few months I've been doing, like, the seasons as they change. The January box was a, you know, dead of winter, something to warm your bones.

The February was something with the promise of the warmth of summer that, you know, the warm heart of your loved one during Valentine's Day, et cetera, et cetera. And for the March box, which is the next one to go out, where about a month staggered, I'm doing the coming spring. So green, a very green box, green teas. So if you like green teas, you are in for this box. Okay, I do like green teas. Yeah, me too. It's my favorite of the teas.

I like it more than the black teas or the other colors of teas. How many can you name, Scott? I can name black, green. And that's it. That's what I got. Well, white is the other color. Is there a white tea? I didn't know that.

There is a white, yes. The other ones are not named after colors, so you'd have a harder time with that. You got like a darjeeling tea. Orange pico doesn't count as a color. Orange pico, actually. A lot of people think it's because it's named after oranges. It's named after the Swiss royal orange family.

They are the oranges. really they were called their names was the oranges they are the orange royal family their last name is orange and they founded the orange pico grading whatnot yeah so orange pico is a grade of black tea did they live in a castle or a grove the king's grove king's grove i love that i think i played bass for kings grove in high school yeah yeah they were great for a while that last album though kind of bummer anyway All right. So I didn't realize that. So we've got a white. We got a white. We got a black. We got a green. And then are all- Otherwise, you've got Wulong. Are all T's derived from these categories? Like they're all one of these? There's not like an infinite number of T's to work from, right? There are seven, if you want to be specific. Seven varieties. And they all come from the same leaf. Camilia senensis. It's the tea leaf. All right. So why is it sometimes green? Sometimes it's black, but it's the same. Well, to be

quick, you know when you bite into an apple and it starts turning like brown oxidation, the oxygen gets in and changes it. When you oxidize tea, after it's broken, it turns into black tea. And you oxidize the leaf

and dry it, you have black tea. If you want to stop the oxidation, you can either pick it and never let it break, pick it very, very, very carefully and you get white tea. You can pick it and it break slightly, and you stop it from oxidizing by tossing it in a pan, or steaming it like a vegetable, or roasting it in an oven, and you get green tea.

Wow, that's wild. I did not know any of this. Okay. The vast majority of green tea you've ever had has been pan-fired. Oh, really? Like, someone cooking... Literally in, like, a giant oiled walk. Oh, wow.

Okay, but why is it considered roasting, like roasting coffee beans, basically? Right. Exactly. It stops the oxidation process by activating the chemicals, and I could go on, but you probably don't want me to. Well, let me ask you this. The caffeine present in the leaves, does it change based on this process? No, not at all. Okay, so if I drink a green tea with the exact same amount of caffeine as I did, say, a black tea, I was always told it was a, different hit. Like, it was like a smoother one. Everybody thinks that. Yeah, why is

that? Why do we think that? Who's been lying to us all these years? Big coffee? I don't know. The English propaganda machine at play. I like all of these answers. But the, no, green tea, black tea,

all of them have the same caffeine, except very high quality white tea. Because, despite the fact that it's the softest. Caffeine is a natural insecticide. Caffeine evolved to kill bugs that are eating the fresh growth. Oh, great.

And the very freshest growth is loaded with caffeine so the bugs don't eat the fresh tea. They want to eat the older tea leaves. The plant wants to grow the new leaves. So the very, very freshest buds before they unroll into leaves have a high amount of caffeine. So what's called silver needle white tea is the tiny little buds at the very end that are sharp and long. And they pick them, never let it break, and let it basically keep it as is, and all that caffeine powder stays on it. Okay. So when you go, when you get a white tea from some fancy tea shop, you're basically asking for the most caffeinated version of tea when you're there, right? well whole leaf tea yeah macha has a lot more caffeine but match is a whole nother bag of beans

yeah yeah match has got other match has got a lot of sugar in it doesn't it like a ton of sugar no no no um macha is just powdered green tea okay yeah um it's very particularly made it's very hard to make right oh really i didn't know that i assumed i you see macho all over the place i figured that was like super i guess you know someone automates it but match is primo um You look at a leaf and you see the little skeletal structure of the leaf. Macha, they remove the skeleton from the leaf to only leave like the leaf meat in the middle. Oh, geez. And run it through a stone mill to grind the leaves without the stem, without any of the veins,

and to get the finest possible powder. And that's how you get Macha. and it has way more caffeine because you're drinking the whole ass leaf rather than just an infusion of the leaf. It would be equivalent to drinking a cup of tea and then eating the leaves afterwards. Oh. It feels like that's, you know, tell me that doesn't have to be done by hand, like pulling the skeletal structure out of each leaf. Yeah, that seems like I don't know how they do that these days. Yeah, probably robots.

We got robots now, right? Probably, probably. Yeah, robots. Probably do anything. Many tea robots out there. Yeah, you get like a whole warehouse full of tea robots and they just go stamp, stamp, stamp, and one of them goes, Trobits is what they're called.

You have not properly removed the skeletal structure of the leaf and then they discontinued that one and bring in another robot. That's how you get it done. They don't sound like that. They sound like, time for tea removal, happy fun time. Yay! Yeah, those are the ones that freak me out the most. Yeah, that's the one.

Interesting. Actually, we have these, we have these kettles that keep the tea at the right temperature at the tea shop to keep it at 175 or 1905. 175 is for green tea. You want it cooler. And literally, when they're done heating the water, they sing you a little song. I love that. I think more of our devices need to have the, like, a Japanese, you know, share and enjoy. I know that's Hitchhiker's guy, but that kind of thing done when they're, when they're done making rice or tea. I agree. Are my dryer does it? Why not have a everything, have every

appliance do it, right? I want my meat. What's that meat thing we use? The thing where you put your meat in there in a bag and a sousvied? I can't think of words today. No, but by golly, why did I help so quickly? I don't know.

You've got to let me go down a path first. But yeah, I want my suvide to go, bling. Your suede is done. Or, you know, something. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. All this AI work, will anyone think of this.

Your meat is now complete. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny. I see in the chat room, blonde Leon is mentioning the Zohirushi rice cooker that sings when they turn it on. The hot pots that we use are Zohirushi as well. Oh, okay. That's cool. So Juji is known for rice cookers and water boilers. I didn't know that at all. I thought it was rice cookers and that's all they did. That's interesting. But to answer your previous question, the other varieties are Wulong, which is halfway between green and black. It oxidizes a little. Then you cut it off. That's what? I'm drinking right now is a Wulong. And then we've got Poir, which is fermented and yellow tea, which is very, very complicated. And I don't have time to get into it.

Okay, let me ask you about the fermented. That seems like a weird one to me. Like, is it taste good? Yeah, I mean, humans have been fermenting things as long as there have been humans. We love fermenting. But you've had kombucha, I assume. I have, yeah. kombucha is fermented tea liquid.

like they make tea and then introduce a bacterial culture and fermented. Oh, I didn't know that. I didn't know that was tea in that because there's all leaves and chunks of stuff and berries and shit in there or whatever's in there. How kind of kombucha are you drinking? Well, like somebody made some here

I can't remember who gave it to us, but somebody made a batch of it and it had DIY kombucha. Yeah, which is, I mean, there's stuff at the store obviously, but I don't know how good that stuff is but the DIY stuff, which is, you know, I don't know, supposedly the right way to do it according to this person who gave to me. They had like tons of little leaf particles and weird shit in there. And I didn't know

any of that was tea. I assume some of it was based on what you're saying. Probably. Yeah. So that's interesting. I didn't know that. No, yeah, it's it's fermented tea liquid. Puerre is fermented tea leaves. So you like like a sourdough, you get all these wet tea leaves before you dry them and introduce a bacterial culture into it and the leaves ferment for a while before they dry. how do you get your bacterial culture what do you decide to put in there you just like wipe your butt and stick your hand in there what do you do you don't do that okay you definitely don't do that well what how do pat what bacteria does it like like is it uh hey give me some of that uh earwax or whatever it's like a sourdough um you you have a bacterial culture that you have cultured uh traditional chupuaire like you get in a brick from scotland are scotland china puer village i don't know why is it scottes Where the hell is my brain right now? I don't know. You get your bricks from China of Poirre.

They are fermented with ancient bacterial cultures, literally hundreds and hundreds of years old that they've been making this stuff with. It's like, I mean, if I'm going to invoke Scotland, I might as well invoke it again, like scotch. You know, you have your high-grade scotch that's made from a very specific culture of fermented, whatnot. on. Same with puer. Poirre is called puer, the same way as champagne is different from sparkling wine. The same way as tequila is different from Mascale. Oh, okay.

You get to call it puer because it uses the specific ingredients, the specific bacteria. I wonder if anyone's scared of the idea of ancient bacteria. You know, that's where that's where the... Ancient bacterial cultures, huh? Yeah, that's where you get your clickers and your zambis from the ancient bacteria. You've got to be careful there. All right. Isn't the whole idea behind Clickers that it's a new bacterial culture that it recently evolved?

No, it's something evolved. So it's what's the name? It's not bacterial. It's fungal, corticeps, yeah. So the fungus wouldn't jump to humans until it did. And that's the idea there. It's pretty scary. Evolved.

Yeah, I don't like it. Okay, so let me ask you the seasonal thing before we're done today. This is just something that's been on my head. How do you know what's a good thing? Because they're all hot, right? So for winter, you're like, oh, here's a perfect winter tea. But how come, well, I guess you get out, yeah,

and of course, you mentioned the kombucha thing. That's always served cold. But I guess what I'm saying is, how do you know what season deserves what tea type, you know? Oh. Like, how does that decision even get made? You're like, wow, this one really warms me up in the winter and, you know? It's that, that harvest pumpkin one that I love.

Obviously, the fact that it's got pumpkin means it has to be done in the fall. But, yeah. seasonal availability versus seasonal uh what's good in which season yeah yeah okay yeah because availability makes sense to me and i would think that they would do it based on that but is it just you know if you mean how do i know what to serve people for a season sure um i can i have many many ways if you mean from the point of view of like a tea grower there's a whole thing about where when to pick your leaves and which season they come from and all that well as the as our direct corner of the street dealer of tea. How do you decide? Let's say you've got all the stock in the

world from everybody, all the seasonal stuff you need. How do you decide, hey, this is a spring tea and this is a summer tea and that sort of thing? I make some shit up. Yeah. Nice. Excellent. Basically, I mean, basically it is pulling from classic culture ideas of the season. You know, what is an autumn tea? Well, autumn is the time of harvest. So, So an autumn tea is full of fruit. It is warm feelings of, you know, all this stuff. Winter is cooler temperatures of teas that make you feel like you're sitting by a fire. You know, summer is, you know, cooler flavors that want to relax you and cool you down flavors like, you know, cucumber and melon and that kind of stuff.

So Brian, Brian was dead on with the whole pumpkin thing fitting well into the fall thing because pumpkins fit into the fall and we think of it as a harvest and fall time. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so, all right. It's in psychology. Yeah, I mean, it's availability. I guess, and of course it would stem from availability. That's what I was thinking is like, all right, beyond the availability. But it is that availability that makes us always connect that time of year with that flavor.

Yes. I mean, we've come a long way in the modern era, but like grow cultures of, like, growth cycles of the harvest are still very present. Like, you don't want to pick up asparagus every single day of the year, because it's not going to be as good for nine months of the year than it is for the three months it's actually in harbust. Like yesterday, we saw Kim and I were shopping. Kim and I were shopping on Saturday, and we saw a bunch of watermelons at this grocery store.

And she got this look on her face like, that's not right. I'm like, what's the wrong? It's not. He goes, we are so out of the right season for that. And I'm like, oh, right, these things have a season. So she goes, go see where they were made. And I went and looked at the stickers. And they all came from Mexico.

And I guess they're parts of Mexico where, These can just, they're all year long. Temperate. Yeah, temperate enough, but will it be as sweet or will it be as, you know, flesh be as red? No, probably not. Yeah, and if I believe anything I saw on any TV shows recently, there's a big bag of cocaine right in the middle of those, you know, that's where all the drugs are smuggled in with the watermelon. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, I thought you meant just like cocaine grows naturally in Mexico. So like if you grow a watermelon in Mexico, it naturally has cocaine in that. Yeah. No, I mean, I've talked down the show back. the terroir of Mexico. We would go to, when I was a kid, we'd go to Lake Powell, and we would eat watermelon and dump the seeds near the base of the water, where the coastline of the lake was. And then we'd come back the next year, and there'd be like four or five big watermelon patches

that grew out of what we planted. We used to love doing that. To me, that was freaking magic, man. That's great. I loved it. Okay, so there you have it. Tell me it's a winter's ending spring starting. For all the cultural reasons, what tea am I drinking?

What do you want in my body right now? So, well, I'm about to send out the March box of the coming spring. So I've got a few green teas. You invoked the name Darjeeling before, which as Claire Gak mentioned so educatedly in the chat room earlier, Darjeeling is because a bunch of Scotsmen came to China during the Opium Wars, stole a bunch of tea leaves, and brought it over the mountains into India to grow outside of the realm of China so they didn't have to pay taxes on it.

They didn't know that tea grew naturally in India already until they'd already planted it. Really? That's a bummer, isn't it? No, they had no idea. So they're just like, we want tea and China doesn't want to give us tea without a bunch of taxes because we got them addicted to opium.

So we'll just grow it in India and buy it there. And then they grew it and sold it to the Indians, and they're like, hey, that's like the stuff we grow over there. Weird. That's pretty funny. It's a different variant. Chinese tea and Indian tea are different variants of the leaf. So Darjeeling is Indian soil and environment with Chinese flavor profile, so it's very different.

Okay. So I have a Darjeeling green tea that is, you know, very different from other green teas because it's Chinese flavor profile with Indian terroir. It's called the End of Watt. because it's grown in an old military outpost that got turned into a tea plantation. Oh. Tea estate. Okay. I have the radiant smite for the paladins out there.

It is a traditional Chinese chen-me, a little bit acidic, a little bit more of a bite to it. And I have a brand new one as well. All three of these are new. What's to the menu? I am introducing the jungle tempest, which is a green chai. I know you like the chies. Yeah, and Brian likes the tempest. I like the tempest.

Absolutely. It is, it uses a green white Yusef from Ecuador, which is like Motei, but not. Very green and earthy in its flavor with traditional chai spices, cardamom, ginger, cinnamon, pepper, and spicy mango. Oh, all right. That adds a little something I didn't think of chunks of mango, some

on-show chili, some good stuff like that. Yes, Claire Chai is tea. it is tea with spices. It's hard to ignore her, isn't it? I mean, it's like, you know, you try. She types in all caps. It's basically like she's yelling at me. I know.

And she does it in short bursts because she knows if the paragraph's too long, she'll get timed out on the thing. So she's doing it in short words. Exactly, yes. Which fills up more of the screen, which means half the screen is going to be Claire's responses in all caps, which is fantastic. So get down on this.

It's a green chai. It's cooler than typical, typical chies because most of them are black tea and they're warmer. This one's cooler spices. It has a little bit of peppermint, a little bit of lemon grass, a cooler, lighter flavor with spicy mango. All right. I just sent you both a huge box of my different chis, so you know how varied and lovely my chimes are. Oh, yeah.

They are way more varied than I've, and after this conversation about how many, you know, the seven types of basic tea, it makes a lot more sense now why all these combinations are happening. I get it now. I feel like I've been educated today. I didn't know what that was going to happen when I started the show today. One last point of education. Chai is the Hindi word for tea. Oh, take that. So when you say chai tea, you're saying T-T-T-T.

What if I was saying, okay, hold on. What if I said, Carrie Chai likes Chai tea? What am I saying? Am I saying, Carrie Tee likes T-T? Yeah, basically. It's masala chai. So, masala is spice, chai is tea. Starbucks thought Masala Chai was tea.

too long. They dropped the masala part, kept the chai part, but didn't know that chai meant tea. That's, Starbucks did that? So Starbucks ruins everything again. Oh my lord. I didn't know they did that. All right. Well, Starbucks brought chai to America. Yeah, did. Jerks. Um, uh, well, there you have it. Uh, if you want to join the level that has tea stuff, you go to our, uh, to our Patreon, uh, Patreon, Patreon.com slash TMS and, uh, look around. Look at the different options. One of them has a T option. And you can have some of this greatness sent straight to your door. Get down on the TMS. That's right, man. That's going to do it for us. Gwen, thanks for much for hanging out with us. We really appreciate it. Absolutely.

Please visit Phoenixpearl tea. Oh, yeah, Phoenixpriltee.com. I'm the only one. So, buying my tea directly supports me. It's not supporting a big chain. It's me. Help Gwen today. Buy her tea.

Do it now. Go to Phoenixpearl tea.com. All right. See you later. Now, let's test. Let's make sure it's hang up on us. Nope, we're good. We're good.

They fixed it. Whatever it was, it's fixed. I'm going to no longer, I'm going to no longer bring it up unless it crashes out and then we'll deal with it. And I don't think Kerry uses the last name Chai anymore. No, you're right about that. And nor should she knowing what we know about that last name. No, nor should she. Like get rid of that last name as possible.

Don't have that. All right, quick reminder. The show tomorrow will start a half an hour later than usual. And the reason is Bobby's guest hosting, but he has to fly tomorrow. morning and when he so he'll be a little late just getting back from his from his training so he's he's in his flight thing and he'll be back and brian will be back Wednesday from Vegas that's right an episode live from Vegas a month early I'm just going to camp out in Vegas and hold tables at restaurants for everybody so that in April well you guys will all show up then and I'll have all your tables ready

that'd be great I'd love this idea your beard will be out of control right exactly I'm holding on to these tables. No, that was my two. I love it. I love this idea. What's funny is, because of the lateness, I'll actually have landed in Vegas before you start TMS tomorrow.

Oh, before I start it. I landed 825 local Vegas time. Oh. I was thinking you were host for the whole morning and there was just like, well, I'll live with this half hour later thing. You and I could have done that.

No, I mean, I'll be, I'll be, you You know, walking through the airport, getting a ride to downtown, it won't be, yeah, it's not like it'll be, it would be something I could do. It'd have to be like a couple hours later, but yeah. Right, exactly. I wouldn't even have a room. I'm going to be basically a be homeless. Yeah, homeless in Vegas. Homeless in Vegas.

There are plenty of others there just like that that can hang out with you. Man, I drove a guy in my lift last week who lived in the Las Vegas tunnels for three weeks. Wow. Was he there just to experience it? What was his deal? No, no, he got, he had some roommate problems with drugs that were, they were like really into drugs. He was recovering. He couldn't do it, but he had no other place to go.

His family wasn't nearby or taking him in or helping him out. Long story there, but it was a long drive, so I actually had a lot of time to talk with him about it. But he got out of those Las Vegas tunnels two days before the big flood that happened that ended up drowning a lot of people in those tunnels. That was bad. Oh, man. There's documentaries and stuff out there you can find about these tunnels. It's insane what's under there. So weird.

Yes. Well, anyway, there you have it. Also, we got a quick question about half-asses that I'd like to ask. I could have done this during actual half-asses. No, I love it. I love it. This is a good time for it. It says, hey, slurp and burp, happy TMS patron here with a question.

I have some no at all family members. We're missing some hyphens there. I would love to knock down a peg He says does Brian have the morning Half Asses stuff archived somewhere I know you gather from a variety of sources But I love what you end up picking

There's some great obscure trivia I think could trip up anyone So do you have this stuff in a place other than I never I don't archive it It's on the The site that we use has obviously Has all of those Half Ases

Locked in But here's a little secret. Aside from the ones that I get from people who submit ideas, I get it from a game that was created by Ken Jennings and Richard Garfield called Half-Truths. So you can actually go to Amazon and get the game. This is one box of cards, and it comes with six boxes. So good luck, you know, if you really want to cheat, Scott or Brian Dunaway,

good luck getting the game and studying up six boxes worth of cards oh my gosh that's a lot yeah yeah so you'd have a hard time knowing which ones uh which ones i use because i shuffle i have the decks all shuffled because we we played it as a as a family it's a great game i didn't know that they made that game that's cool yeah so what's that was that a while ago like years ago it was a while ago it was a few years ago it was a um a Kickstarter and uh i'm trying to remember who in our in our frogpants family backed it or maybe it was somebody it was a coverville listener backed it and ended up with an extra copy of the game and sent it to me oh very nice just as a friendly friendly thing that's great well good job ken jennings yeah come a long way since

you were playing monopoly with my sister in your apartment or playing trivia with me back in 2015 or whatever it was we all have too many close connections to this ken jennings we do yeah it's a little weird. Okay, well, that's it for that. Again, tomorrow, Bobby will be here co-hosting. Half an hour later, we're starting. I got to let guests know. I just realized I didn't do that. Well, it'd only be, oh, and you know what? I just realized. Yeah, what are those guests is Bobby, so he'll know. Well, not only that, but Bill is in New York visiting family or maybe Florida. So he's not here tomorrow. So we're coming up with some stuff. So it doesn't matter anyway. All the guests are already aware of what's happening. In the meantime, after this discussion,

question about T you probably want to hop on over to patreon.com slash TMS and check out that level and all the levels available to our listeners. One I'd like to focus on is if you sign up today at the crap, what level is it? I'm not sure. I'll find that later. You get art in the mail from me. That's right. In the in the mail, it'll come to you. It'll have a standard card back on it. There's like collectible cards almost. And on the front of it will be some unique art that I created for that month's shipment. And it's the only place we send these. So, If you want that stuff, some of it's kind of random and weird, not always show related. But if you want some of that stuff, so that when computers truly do take over and you'll be like, well, I have some real art from a real artist here. You can be that guy, all right, or get, or gal. So head over there now. Patreon.com slash TMS. Everything else is at frogpants.com slash TMS. And now we're going to leave, but we can't do it until there's music in the air.

That's right. It's a legal requirement. This one is going out to one's least. Peepy Panda. I love this. Good good that we've got some time because I've got to do a whole little little theater of the mind. Good morning, strum and beat March 24th, a couple of few days ago, marks the 29th time I'll have sped through our solar system at 67,000 miles per hour. Let's party. Sounds like a birthday to me.

It absolutely was. And since there's no show that day, whenever this could be fit and it's fine with me. In commemoration, I've decided to share a short tale of Asia. He says, cue the Dear Martha music. Oh, good goodness. Okay, hold on. Let me pull that up. Here we go. Whoops.

I work in IT and visited one of my offices to swap out a firewall. While I waited for the lunch hour to take the network down, I was helping our new receptionist get some things for her work-from-home setup. I scoured the office for a spare monitor, but came up empty. I now share my exchange with the receptionist. Hey, I couldn't find a monitor, but there's a VCR on the conference room cabinet if you want to take that home. The receptionist with the most dumbfounded look on her face said, what's a VCR? At this moment, I felt the cool blade of time, enter my abdomen, twist, and empty my guts onto the floor.

To ease the sting of this wound, I asked the covermaster to find a song that a bass player would love. love, everything is on the table. If that's too vague, blah, blah, blah. Thank you for all the fun. Love the show, though. One Sleepy Panda. Nice. Well, thank you for that, One Sleepy Panda.

All right, so my favorite bassist is a dude named Mark King. This guy is amazing. He was lead singer of a band called Level 42 back in the 80s, and his bass playing is renown. He's a slap bassist and incredible. incredible talent on the bass. So when I went in to try and find a cover that Level 42 had done, there was

just one that came up that I felt was worthy of what we're playing. And what's great about this cover is that it includes the song that he's covering also includes the word something about you which was the biggest hit

for Level 42. How crazy is that? Wow. I didn't know he was a bassist and the singer. This is news to me. And, you know, I do agree flee is a freaking awesome basis as well. But I just... And that guy, the Jerry Resol race car driver, that guy? Yes, Primus. Gwendobald some brother.

What's his name? Forna Blink. Ah, shit. Anyway, he tried it out for Metallica. They said he was too good. Les Claypool. That guy's great. Yeah.

He is great. Yeah. All right. Anyway, let's get to this one. This is level 42 covering another 80s stalwart in excess. and a cover of Need You Tonight. You can care or you won't Everybody does, yeah, that's okay

So slide over here And in a moment Your moves are so raw I've got to let you know I've got to let you know You're one of my kind I meet you tonight Because I'm not sleeping

Something about you, girl That makes me sweat So how do you feel I'm lonely So what do you think Can't take it all What are you going to do? Gonna live my life.

So slide over here and give me a moment. Your moves are so raw. I've got to let you know. I've got to let you know. You're one of my kind. I need you tonight. Because I'm not sleeping. There's something about you, girl.

Love makes me sweat. So how do you feel? I'm lonely. What do you think? Can't think at all. What you can do? Gonna live my life. Slat it.

I'm lonely How do you feel? I can't think it out What you're going to do I'm going to live my life So slide over here And give me a moment Your moves are so raw

I've got to let you know I've got to let you know Slide over here And give me a moment Your moves are so wrong I've got to let you know you know you're one of my kind if you like what you just heard

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