The Morning Stream - TMS 2446: Bare Minimum Monday

Episode Date: April 3, 2023

Option 18 with two egg rolls. Six Inches And Growing. Tori Aim-it-at-us. As God as my witness I thought Easter eggs could fly. Hawaiian Shirt Season. Stand in the Place Where You Sit. Non-consensual User Trivia. That's So Dumb. I Love It. Lots of Hand-cocking Going On. It drives the space capsule to the planet or it gets the hamburger helper again. Mario NASKART. Mammoth meat: because size matters. Laying off 7000 people just to get to Perlmutter. Lawsuit Forthcoming. We Don't Like Ike with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, option 18 with two egg rolls. Six inches and growing. Tori aim it at us. As God is my witness, I thought Easter eggs could fly. Hawaiian shirt season. Stand in the place where you sit. Non-consensual user trivia. That's so dumb, I love it.

Lots of hand-cocking going on. It drives the space capsule to the planet or it gets the hamburger helper again. Mario NASCAR. Mammoth meat, because size matters. Laying off 7,000 people just to get to Purlmutter. Lawsuit forthcoming. We don't like Ike with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Nothing like a plate of hamburger helper.

Nothing like it. Now please drive the space capsule to the planet. Good morning all. Welcome back to TMS. It is the morning stream for April 3rd, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Hello. Welcome to April. Brand new month and brand new fun and stuff. Yeah, man. It's like three and a half weeks and we're all together. Not even that. Not even, not even the half, Scott. Three weeks. Three weeks from today and we're in the place with the stuff. And yeah, that means I probably should get started on prepping, on actually preparing. Oh, right. I should order things for the swag bag. I should get all that going to get

that started. Actually, the good news is swag stuff will be arriving here this week, or the remainder of it, and a lot of it's already here. And some stuff from you plus some of the main bag. And then they'll be assembled and ship, our goal is to ship them out to everybody who's getting a bag only, like just the people who can't come. So that when we're gone, they'll arrive about the time we're in Vegas, which would be cool because that means everybody kind of gets them at the same time. Oh, that's really cool. Yeah, well, well planned. Yeah, unless one or two items, if they don't show on time, it may be a little tight and we'd have to do it after, but that's the plan. But we will have everything to bring to Vegas, and I know there'll be a few extras

in there that we can't talk about, but that's cool. I imagine there'll be stuff that I need to put my John Hancock on. Oh, yeah, there's lots of Hancocking going on with this. Great. Well, it is Vegas. Really just one thing to sign, I guess. Yeah, yeah. Because that's usually what we do. Try not to overdo it. And then if you guys come up and say, hey, will you sign this other thing?

We're happy to do that. That's fine. Yeah, well, for sure. Happy to do it. I know that, you know, I usually say, thanks, Brian, and put my name, right? I say, thanks, and then I sign my name. And after a while of doing that, it starts looking like a T with a squiggle at the end of it. And then I'd kind of write Thanos a few times and T-H-A-N-D-S. Yeah. And soon that's just a scribble and then, you know.

Scribble, exactly. I do the same thing. When we do free comic book day, we have to sign like 4,000 prints. And when I start, it's a beautiful signature. Beautiful. Looks like it's from me. It's really authentic. It looks like what I signed all my, you know, like when I bought my house, all my papers.

It's really nice. And then about a thousand in, it's just a, it's like a little. Yeah. Just the way it is. Sorry, everybody. That's how it is. And that's coming in May, by the way. We've already done our art now.

We're just waiting for the thing. Yeah, I think I sent you. You're going to reveal what the theme is this year? Did you be? Yeah, I sent him to you. Do you remember getting them? I thought I sent him to you, didn't I? You probably did.

It's been a while, though. Come on, the last couple weeks and the next three weeks will be a blur. It's a bit of a blur. I can't be expected to remember anything over the next few weeks. Our theme this year is villains at the beach. Oh. No, I don't know if you have sent me that. That doesn't sound familiar.

Let me see where they are, and I'll show the chat even, because I put it on Twitter. Oh, yeah, they're up there. If you scroll up your text, you'll see them. There's two drawings. One of, uh, um, what's his name? Oh, yes, yes, yes. Magneto and, uh, and Doc Ock. So here you go, Chad.

Take a look at this. And I love this. Oh, this isn't going to work. Well, here's line. You know, you know why it went by? Because the very next thing you sent was that Kia, the Kia soul getting completely flipped over. Oh, yeah. And that took up my entire, my entire phone screen.

screen. It would be hard not to notice. In my car while I was lifting. It was like, oh, I'll look at this later. Yeah, that's right. You were traveling at the day or that day. But anyway, these are the ones. Let me put the other one up for the chat. So I can see it. This one is Doc Ock at the beach. Carter did this. She did a killer job on it. I freaking love it. They're both great. It's really good. We had a lot of fun doing this. So, yeah, for some reason, kind of chubby, half sunburned, you know, grumpy magneto looking for metal objects out in the beaches. I don't know why that just makes me feel good. It's hilarious. It's like, I'm too tired to use my power. It's just, you know.

Yeah, yeah. And I love, I'm a fan of Doc Ock's little tiny legs hanging down there. Yes. Oh, there's always the best part. Do you think he probably, he probably doesn't work. He doesn't get the leg workout with the big arms. No, there's no leg day if you're Doc Ock. I mean, he's all mechanical legs.

He's pretty much just, I'm going to eat a burger and let my mechanical arms do all the work. He saw my butt around. You saw that thing moving into a, like a gym or something. It'd freak you out pretty good and seeing that guy. Oh, for sure. Yeah. He's a little sweat. I'd be surprised to see that on the treadmill.

A little arms going. You'd have to use like three treadmills, four treadmills. That'd be amazing. Anyway, so watch for that. That's coming up in May for free comic book day, and we send those free to everyone. Sweet. Well, you guys, it's that time of the week. Stand back and check your personal belongings.

It's time for the morning for... Um, that's right. Time for the morning form. Last week we did, uh, best MCU movie. And we have a winner. Uh, Tristan Adams is our winner. Ding, ding, ding. Congratulations. You're the winner. Good. Congratulations. Tristan Adams. That's right. Now, just for funzies, uh, I would like to tell you some of the results. Yeah, I'm curious as to what, uh, what number one was. Because I'm guessing, uh, it was not Thor Dark World. You are absolutely correct. In fact, Thor Dark World is so small on here. It barely registers. I'm sure. Um, here is. somebody there is a 0.3% where someone wrote all the same blurp that's what they wrote um anyway guardians of the galaxy was the winner uh 22.9% of the vote good deal uh I can't argue the first one is fantastic yeah it's a great movie uh second place Ragnarock or as I put it Ragnarro Ragnarro 12.6% uh next after that almost tied for uh

Third, we have Winter Soldier at 10.3%. And Endgame at 10%. I just watched Infinity War and Endgame over the weekend, just back to back, one right after the other. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that. And I teared up. I teared up with Love You 3000.

I'm not going to lie. It was pretty good. That damn good movie. That thing is a hell of an end to a phase. It's really good. It's going to be tough making Kang into some. someone that causes as much mayhem

and sadness in the MCU as Thanos did. Yeah, he rocks. The final worthy number here before we get into the tiny percentages is Iron Man 1 with a respectable 6.3% to round that out. Anyway, well done, everybody.

Guess what? We have a brand new week. And we'll be sending that package out to Tristan as soon as I send him an email and get his info. So congratulations. Again, goes to Tristan. This week, best movie or TV genre here's how you vote you go to frogpants.com slash

the morning form click the form and you'll be asked a bunch of questions like cop drama hospital drama western musical superhero science fiction fantasy

and more there's a ton in here my favorite is option 18 yep oh shit how'd that happen damn it they're gonna all vote for that I gotta go fix that

they're gonna are you better take that out you know they're gonna someone's gonna go go and overload that one. I'm going to kill it now. How do I do that? How do I mess that up? Okay. That's now. So slice of life is like what modern family kind of thing or, uh, yeah, or boy's life or like, party of five. Sure. And it's movies and TV. So, you know, it's a, it's a mix. So you can,

you can do with that as you will. Um, anyway, go take it, uh, do that. And when you do it, it put you in the running for another prize package. next week. So if you want to win, you got to go to frogpants.com slash the morning form. And you'll be in there. And you might win. Good luck, everybody. Good luck. You almost could change Option 18 to horror because I used to you've got thriller. Oh, you've got slasher gore horror and psychological horror. Never mind. I did a little silly genre. Claire is all capsing, where's horror? Yeah, the gore one I put in there just for them. So. Yeah, exactly.

I forgot Claire. I know she'd, does that show with uh does she do the show with monica they do it together right um somebody else as well do i have that right anyway i don't know whatever they do uh they all i don't have time to listen to any podcast i'm the worst i'm the worst podcaster ever because i don't listen to any shows yeah i'm rare i'm kind of hard for me too because we do too much damn content that's the problem um but anyway uh go check it out again frogpans dot com slash the morning forum the winners are chosen completely 100% at random. I have a little calculator that just pulls it out and goes, beep, number whatever,

and then I go grab it, and that's the winner. So congratulations, Tristan. You are this week's winner. Nice. All right. I got a quiz for you. Oh, good. Okay.

I prep something. This is dumb, but I'm doing it. Okay. I just got an idea while I was out walking the dog, and I went, you know what, I'm doing it. And it was good that I walked the dog that day because today it is snowing. We're now six inches and growing. Wow. I wonder if we're going to get that because today it's supposed to be mid-60s for us.

I'm going to try and get out on the bike. See, that sounds like the warm before the storm. It does sound like the warm. Because we had the same thing yesterday morning. It was like, man, it wasn't that hot, but it was like 58, 59. And then now it's from snowing and nobody's going to work in school. Some schools got canceled. It's pretty bad.

Anyway, here is guest the tadpooler starring Brian Nibbitt. You're going to answer these questions. Oh, God. All right. This is this is kind of my little 10 person shout out. There's no, there's no, there's more than 10 people in our chat room, obviously. Not everyone's represented here. But what I wanted to do is keep it short and have like 10 trivia questions to see if you can tell me who I'm describing.

Okay. All right. So these are regulars in the tadpool. They're here all the time. We're testing your knowledge as to whether you know who these people are. Can I apologize in advance to at least 10 tadpoolers that I'm in here? Yeah, and there's only, this first one you'll totally get because it's a softball, but the rest, I don't know, there's some hard ones in here.

God time I'm at. All right, so here's your first one. Number one, always calls Brian Cowardville when she doesn't like his answer. Clearly that is Natalia, Talia Zorrell. Nicely done on that one. Okay, easy. See, you like softball. First one. Yeah, okay, good. I like that first one. Got it easy in.

No apologies needed to tally. Good. Good. Just got a, just nine, nine left. Got an easy in here. All right, number two, she's here every day. Keeping order in this, our little town of Tadpole Gulch. Well, it's clearly got to be Jeannie. Good one. Nicely done.

The Tadpool Sheriff. She is our sheriff, and we obey her, all right, everybody. Number three, nine times out of 12. is this person's best ratio. Oh, jeez. It's an easy one, too. Could that be our friend, September McCrady? That is correct.

Nicely done. Okay. Number four, from a town featured in a popular Netflix series. From a town featured in a popular Netflix series. This might be trickier. Maybe not. Maybe it won't be. I don't know.

Let's see. Well, I know. I know that Jay Valentine is from I was living for a while in Kentucky. Oh, that was Fargo. I mean, not Fargo. That was justified. That wasn't Netflix.

Nope. That's an FX deal. FX, yeah. Let's see. Is there somebody who lives? I'm going to, I'm not looking at the chat room. Good, because they're over there because I'm sure they're. Because they know it.

Yeah, of course they do. Yeah. All right. Is there somebody? Oh, do we have a listener in? Litchfield Prison. I'm guessing we do. Or are they really into orange, not so much black anymore. That's right.

Stranger Things. I'm trying to think of like, is it a true crime series or is it a? Nope. I'll give it a, I don't know what to call it. I'll call it a it. It's not really it's funny, but it's not a comedy. It's funny, but it's not a pure comedy. And it's also dramatic, but not a pure drama.

Um, I'll tell you it's set in a, it's, it's a set in a certain time that isn't now. It's set in the past, if that helps. Okay. I'll even tell you it's set in the early 90s, late 80s, early 90s. Oh, geez. Okay. Well, crap. Why am I completely blanked on this?

I'm thinking of like, uh, all right, early 90s. So after Stranger Things, um, Netflix series. Why am, why am I having such a hard time with this? I don't know. it's a tricky one i admit it is a tricky one because i'm yeah you give up uh yeah i better give up this is getting going to be embarrassed all right whoa i forgot i use that now with the buzzer the uh the answer is claire gack claire gack from dairy girls is the oh dairy girls cheese louise yeah yeah no it's good because this is tricky in two ways first of all that could have been

anybody second of all uh you would have expected something more bombastic with claire so that's how i That totally was. I was expecting something way more. Yeah. Well, you're one for four so far. You're three for four. Sorry, Claire. She's going to kick my toe because that's about all she can reach. That's all she can reach. Yeah. She can't go any higher than that. Are you kidding? I think there any higher than that. She might punch me in the shin. Yeah, if you're lucky. She'll have to jump for that. All right. Here's number, number five. I say sliced potato. You say blank.

Nice tomato. Nice tomato is correct. Or I could say mush potatoes, too. Yeah, that's true. You almost did, but you got it right. Oh, I have to hit the thing when you get it right. Here we go. All right.

Next up, has the same name as the place Radar had to call to get toilet paper. I-Corps. Yes. Very good. Yes. It is definitely I-Corps. Yep, we would call Sparky, I guess. Yeah, Sparky.

Hey, Sparky. We're all out of whatever. Okay, here's the next one. All right. Fingers and eyeballs. Fingers and eyeballs. Good Lord. All right.

Let's see here. There's something. Um, um, cheese. Wait a minute. Do I not even know this one? Hold on.

Oh, I do know this one. Okay. Okay. I didn't write them all down because I just kind of knew them, but that one threw me for a second. Yeah. All right. So I'm guessing I'm thinking I'm looking for like, uh, probably a cinnamon.

an M of fingers and eyeballs or something, touch and see or, um, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,

jeez Louise. Greg for Walkman. Oh, uh, because you listen, that'll be ears with Greg for one. Yeah, that would be ears.

Jeez, Louise, this is, this is, I have to think about how your mind works, too, with this. Yeah, this is a tricky one.

I have to admit. I kind of went, uh, I went to a weird place with this one. Jack got it. I got nothing. All right. Let's find out.

Red fraggle. Red fraggle. Because she has those little puppets what you put on your fingers with the eyeballs. Yes. The puppet eye things. Yes. Yeah. That's a deep cut.

Okay. That's a very deep cut. Yeah. All right. Number next. You have a peepers. Yeah. Number next.

Let's see. Sounds like burnt Kleenex. Sounds like burnt Kleenex Yeah All right Scar tissue Do we have a listener who goes by the name scar tissue? Oh my gosh, that's great

That's a great answer It's not correct but I love it That's actually a really good answer Any other guesses Jeez sounds like burnt Kleenex Good Lord That's a dumb one You're going to hate it when I gave you the answer

I better just give up on this one. It is serenex. Get it? It's like searing necks, like clean necks. Yeah, it's real, it's not a good one. All right. Serenex, both congratulations and apologies, your direction. Yeah, yeah.

Number nine, we've got two left. The magician and his hat take all the credit, but it's really about the blank. well it's about the dove the bird that comes out of it the one oh abracadda let's see the magician's hat

I'm proud of this one I'm proud of this one the magician in his hat take all the credit but it's really about the blank webbit magic ding well done Yeah, yeah. Good job.

All right. That was my favorite. All right, number 10. And you'll know if I'm cheating because I'm looking this way. No, no, no. I'm 100% trust. All right, here we go. Number 10.

Changed his name when he got called a music player on TMS. Oh, well, that's Greg for Walkman. Congratulations. You did it. I think you did better than I expected. You did pretty good. I didn't keep score. Anyone keep score in the chat?

I don't know if they did. Anyway, that was super fun. I was waiting. for something like this you know this listener

this tadpuller thing spelling is the most important thing JK grammar oh yeah no that's a good one I didn't think of that I know

that wouldn't that wouldn't work because it doesn't work without the punchline oh I see yeah you have to have you would never be able to get it

without the punchline yeah but see I would have done it and then thought oh that's a good one and then used it and then you would have got stump

because it's not a good one you know what I mean exactly I was going to do show Joe Showjo's in the chat right now, but hers were also too easy because it was all either Animal Crossing related or Wow related or Funko Pop related. What about buttholes? This listener would like to roll butholes.

She wants to roll buttholes. You would have had that for sure. Anyway, fun game. Thanks, chat, for letting me do that without your permission. Okay? I appreciate it. Without your knowledge and your consent. All right.

We're going to have a proper game now. We're going to call Dunaway. all right um i think here he is okay we're adding him he's in the thing there's not much more you can ask for as long as he's in the thing so we're going to do this yes that's right time for us to play a little half asses on a monday morning and joining us is one half of an ass brian done away welcome back how are you oh hi scott and brian good monday morning yeah man it is a good Monday morning.

Yeah. What are you doing? You, uh, short week this week for me and I took a next Monday off. I'm still going to be on TMS, but I took next Monday off. So I got a long weekend coming up towards. What's for, what's next,

what's next Monday? What's next Monday? What's, is it just a day you're taking off or is it? Oh, just a day I'm taking off. Good Friday is this Friday. And then I'm taking Monday off because it's, why not Monday?

Good Monday. We don't the kids, what is it like, what's the kids doing nowadays? Uh, bare minimum Mondays. I'm like, wow. Oh, yes. You guys went, you guys went way long. Is that what the kids are doing? Bare minimum Mondays?

I hadn't heard that. Bare minimum Mondays. Yeah, yeah, and I'm like, yeah, we, we, our generation called it Friday. Whatever. You start. It's fine. Look, we don't start your week off, goofing. No.

You goof at the end. That's right. Exactly. You're absolutely right. I keep trying to tell myself that, but it doesn't always work out that way. Anyway, it's good to have you here. We're going to play a game. Brian, I'll explain how this works.

I will. welcome to the morning. Half ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you to the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers. Three of those answers are ding and three of those answers are, depending on how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses. But if you get any of those guesses wrong, you get zero points for that round. Get one right and you get a point. Get two right.

It gets you a bonus for three points. And if you get all three correct, you get two bonus points for five points total. I just decided which, how much of this I want to improv and how much I didn't. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. And contestants have been pulled from members of the tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you are playing for Brian Wood, aka Spidey BSW from Bellingham, Washington. That sounds great. I don't know who that is, but I love them.

I don't either, yeah. I don't recognize Spidey BSW. I know Green Bay Spidey, but that's a whole different Spitey. I want to win. And Brian, you're going to be playing for Casey Arendesman. in Wichita, Kansas. Oh, hi, KC. Yeah.

Casey from, wait, Kansas City. From Kansas City. You got it. Nailed it, Scott. Yeah, but isn't Kansas City in Missouri? That's in Missouri, though, right? Yeah, part of, most of it is. Yes, there's a little bit of Kansas City that's in Kansas.

Isn't there a little Kansas City in all of us? There is a little Kansas City and all of us. Yeah, it's true. The chefs. It's true. Anyway. All right, cool. These sound like worthy fellows that we could win for.

They do. So let's win something for them, shall we? Sure. Your first question is something I know you two just know very well, and that's NASCAR. Yeah, I'm really into it. Which of these are nicknames for NASCAR tracks? Vroom. Vroom.

Which of these are nicknames for NASCAR tracks? Delphino Square, the brickyard, Degga, Riverside Park, the paperclip, and Kupa Cape. Here's your choices right there. Delphino Square, the brickyard, Degga, Riverside Park, the paperclip. And Cooper Cape. What's that? Cooper Cape? I mean, two of these, I think I've, well, I don't want to give anything away.

One of them sounds like, one of them sounds like bait. Well, one of all of you always do this. Yeah, the one, I know what you mean. Uh-huh. Shit. I think two of them are Mario Kart tracks, but anyway, we're going to find out. I know, right? That's what I keep thinking.

I'm going to do these two. Maybe. I mean, Delphino Square. Delphino, that's in Super Mario Sunshine and Coupicap sounds like it's definitely from this Mario game, but I don't know.

It sounds like we're at the end of the right, exactly. I thought I was thinking too. All right. I locked in with two. I'm not sure about the other two. I know one that I want to be true, but it just feels like so much bait. Yeah. Uh-huh. Okay, fine. I'm going, I'm going...

There's no talla in your Dega. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. right or knights that just feels right okay I'm walking in I'm gonna be an idiot

all right well shut up I gotta represent I gotta represent I know it's big I live in NASCAR area I'll get murdered that's right

well Scott you're absolutely correct Delfino Square and Coupe Cape are indeed Mario Kart tracks as is Riverside Park damn that's what I was thinking shit Yeah.

The Brickyard, Daga, which is short for Talladega. And the paperclip, which is Martinsville Speedway. Brickyard is Indianapolis Motor Speedway, by the way. So is Daga. That's just nicknamed Talladega. Yeah, that's short for Talladega. Oh, that's the one that felt like bait. I was like, hmm.

Yeah. What you proved here is that you do live in NASCAR country, and I don't, because I have no idea. Oh, yeah, yeah. Every week somebody's racing something. All right. So, Brian, I go into question two with two points. Let's have some fun with celebrities. Which of these people got expelled from school? Your choices are, Tori Amos, Richard Pryor, Venus, Venus, Williams, Charles Darwin, Harvey Keitel, and Humphrey Bogart.

Three of those people got expelled from school. No idea here. I know. I'm just going to go with personality type. here. It just seems like these people would be expelled from school. Bogart was a real dick in class. Is that what you're thinking? Something like that.

Yeah. He was Bogart and something. You know what I mean? There's a whole thing. He's Bogart and the lab equipment. I just know it. Yeah. All right.

Well, you guys have locked in. And Scott, you went with Charles Darwin and Richard Pryor. Brian, you went with Tori Amos. and Humphrey Bogart. Good job to Brian again. Tori Amos and Humphrey Bogart. Richard Pryor being the third, between the two of you, did get three correct ones.

I couldn't figure out. Charles Darwin did not. I think Tori, because before she went solo, she was in a band called Why Can't Tori Reed, which was Miss Bell. I think it was an homage to her getting. That's great. I didn't know that. Tori is notoriously fickle. Let's put it that way.

She's, yes, she will speak her mind. Uh-huh. Yes. Yes. I just remember always aiming her crotch at me on stage. That's always what I remember. Just always aiming that at me. Just bam, bam, there it is.

Well, she likes to sing to the audience and she likes to travel that piano bench. Yeah. I mean, her real name before she changed it to Amos was Tori, aim your vagina. But she shortened it to Amos, and that's why it's Amos now. Which was probably a good move, yeah. Yeah, I agree. Opened her audience up to it. And this is why, and this is why she hates men, specifically you.

exactly yeah all right uh let's get to question number three uh this one right up my alley but that won't help you guys at all bands that covered chuck berry's rollover beethoven on record now bands may have covered it uh live and in concert but three of these bands covered it and released it as a record the beetles ello or electric light orchestra fleetwood mac the rolling stones nine inch nails and iron maiden three of these bands covered Roll over Beethoven So I gotta go full on or I can't win anyway You're mathematically eliminated

But you are trying to save a face Yeah I don't think I'm gonna do well But I'm gonna try You've got nothing to lose Is the best way to look at it These three bands feel like they would have The flavor to do this

Sure The other three I just can't see Okay are you both have locked in And you both locked in on the Rolling The Stones and Fleetwood Mac neither of which I've released a cover of Rollover Beethoven

The answers are The Beatles, ELO, and Iron Maiden Iron Maiden That's released Rollover Beethoven Oh actually I do think I remember that I don't remember that at all ELO I did choose ELO I guess

Yellow did it on yes You did pick yellow Brian, no Brian picked EO Scott picked the Beatles Oh there it is Yeah I picked the Beatles So we both got one

early for the Beatles to be doing a cover of their first album their first album was almost half covers 14 tracks and I think five of which were covers yeah that seemed like if the Beatles are going to do it would be early right like they're not going to do that late in exactly everyone's covering covers about four albums in yeah yeah uh well all right then uh I need to seek out that iron maiden one because that's weird I want to hear it yep uh congratulations going out to KC errandsman in Wichita, Kansas, you're going to get a copy of Fallout 1 and Fallout 76.

It's up to you to get the other 74 versions of fallout that fall in between. And, boy, those couldn't be more different either, boy. Those are two very different games. Yeah, yeah. But don't worry, Brian Wood,

Spidey BSW, you're getting a copy of System Shock Enhanced Edition. Those first two games, courtesy of Wesley, Dred, and the last game courtesy of David Acres. Nice. Congratulations. You did it. You're a winner. You guys are winners, both of you, even though one of you lost because of me, you're both winners, and we all win because you win. So congratulations and well done. Donaway, do you feel like a winner right now? How do you feel? Yeah, right now, on Monday, at what time? Is it 1142? Sure, I feel like a winner.

Yeah. Check back with me a Tuesday around 5 p.m. Yeah, then not so much. That'll be terrible Tuesday after hardly work Monday or whatever it is. What was it again? Don't. Yeah, yeah. hardly work Monday. Do the minimum Monday? Oh, minimum minimum Monday. It's bare minimum Monday, which makes no sense. People that I know that are highly effective and maybe these people don't care,

they front load heavy, work really hard. And then Tuesday, Wednesday, they kind of go, eh. Yeah. Yeah. And then Thursday, you pick it up a little bit and Friday you just quit. You got to just like, you got to spread things out. Yeah, you got to spread things out. is the West best way.

His kids don't know how to loaf. Yeah, stupid Genzy. All right. Thanks, Brian. You suck. Bye. All right. All right.

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And I'm like, all right, dude, we're going to talk about your cool book tomorrow on the show. Nice. A Nevada church. Okay. We're getting close to Easter, Brian. You know, the Easter holiday. We are. Get the whole Jesus.

I care less about it these days than I did. I really didn't really care about when I was a kid, but I just remember getting a chocolate bunny. Yeah. My mom always did baskets and stuff. Kim still does them because she's weird. Of course she is. But I'm not really into the routine.

I like to draw bunnies and eggs and stuff, but that's about it. But check this out. A Nevada church is going to have 10,000 Easter eggs drop from a helicopter. What could go wrong? That doesn't sound dangerous at all. No. Also, it doesn't sound like the most efficacious use of church funds, but what do I know? No, kidding.

Yeah, exactly. All I can hear in my head is Les Nessman saying, oh, the humanity. Yeah. Now, the weird bit is they had to point this out, and I don't know why. A predominantly Hispanic congregation in Nevada, why does that matter? I don't know. I don't think it does. That was relevant.

There's zero relevancy. I read the whole article. Oh, those crazy Hispanic. Yeah, and they're dropping eggs out of helicopter. Right. Like, it's some kind of stereotype that this happens to only Hispanic congregations. But anyway, in Nevada, they're going to celebrate

Easter Sunday with an egg hunt that will feature around 10,000 Easter eggs with several thousand of them being dropped from a helicopter. Aqueas Centro Familiar Cristano Church of Las Vegas. Nailed it. Yeah. Plans to hide and also

have a helicopter drop around 10,000 eggs in the back lot area of their sock. soccer courts that they have there. Again, another efficacious use of church funds. An ACFC, I mean, whatever. You spend it on what you want. People gave you the money to do what you're going to do. I don't care.

I hope they're doing plastic eggs because... Right? Yeah. You don't, yeah, real, real hard-boiled eggs, bad. It's bad idea. Yeah, exactly. Those are going to break and it is going to reek after a few days. Yeah, you don't want that.

The ones that don't get picked up. Completely agree. It says the ACFC. DFC representative emailed the Christian post information about the egg drop. Egg drop. Yeah, you're going to have some egg drop soup if it's real eggs. Explaining that the main focus of the church is God and people. As Christians, we believe Easter Sunday is an important opportunity to deliver the message of the gospel.

As to many people as possible, this is the main purpose of the event to provide an opportunity where families can have fun, enjoy the experience in the power of Easter, he says. This will also be the first time the church will be doing the Easter egg drop. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns interfered with their plans and previous. years. But now after COVID, as if it's gone. And with all the necessary precautions, we are adding egg drop to enhance the experience for our children in the community, they say. We're adding egg drop. We're adding egg drop. Yep. Egg lunch. Yep. It sounds like something they'd say in my Chinese food order on DoorDash. We're adding egg drop. I really can't wait to see how badly this fails. Yeah. If it's real eggs, it's going to stink.

Oh, it's going to be horrible. By the way, I heard, I read something that there is absolutely no reason to boil your eggs before you dye them. You can dye raw eggs. And by doing that, you can avoid the cracking and stuff that sometimes happens with boiled eggs. I didn't know that. I thought that would, I don't know what I thought. I guess I just never thought of it. Yeah.

I mean, growing up, so there's the very distinct smell of dying eggs, you know, that. Yeah, that pause, that smell of that paws dye. Yeah, that vinegar, pos-dye stuff. Elk-seltzer vinegar, yeah. Freaking reeks. But I have fond feelings for it. So when I smell it, I'm like, ooh, Easter. And then someone will say, nope, just getting my hair done.

Damn it. But anyway, we'll be doing this with the kiddos this year with Van and stuff. So that's interesting to know that. Except, I don't know, with kids, you want them with raw eggs, though? Yeah, I mean, if you're hiding them and finding them, if you're just putting them on the table as decoration, no reason to, you know, you can use raw eggs and then just put them back in the fridge. use them when you're done yeah you're you know uh you just get you know more eggs to use later on but what kind of egg guy are you i forget when you have yours done what do you tell the waitress

what do you like having oh if i'm in a restaurant over medium over medium because if i tell them over medium i'm going to get over easy if i tell them over easy i'm going to get a uh a raw egg sliding around on my plate that's right i can't do that same a steak i can't say uh I can't say medium rare. I should say medium weight. If you want a medium rare steak, you order medium. Right. What's medium well?

That's a step above that. Yeah, that's more cooked. Okay. Because sometimes I don't do that and it still comes bloody. So I will go that way. Yeah, like I do like a rare steak, so I do the medium rare and I usually get it the way I want it. That's good. Depends on the place, I guess.

But yesterday I got eggs and I got over medium as well. And, of course, just like you said, it's basically sunny side up. Yeah. That's just the way those come. And man, it was good. And the whites uncooked. Yeah. We're going out for steak on Thursday.

It's Tina's mom's birthday tomorrow. But since we have the muse concert tomorrow, we're going Thursday. Oh, nice. Where's Muse playing? Gotta be there for the uprising. Ball Arena. It's the Will of the People Tour, the Will of the Will of the Will of the Will of the Will of the Will of the People tour. The Will of the People, the Will, the Will, the Will.

The second time I've seen Muse, thanks to BlisCon. That's right. That's right. Bliscon, the 2018 Bliscon? I think so, yeah. Yeah. They put on such a great show. Well, that'll be fun. All right. Let's move on to this story.

Watch out for the eggs. If you live in Vegas, maybe stay inside on Sunday, on Easter Sunday, so you don't get pelted with eggs. That's right. Watch out for eggs. Here's your next story. Deadly spiders that can kill in minutes and survive. under water are hiding out in swimming pools

nothing alarmist about that headline nope nothing heavy rain in Australia has led to an influx of venomous spiders of course it's an Australia story of course it is yes being washed into people swimming pools species found and include funnel web spiders the venom of which is so toxic

it can kill a child in 15 minutes it sounds like an advertisement for a lens crafters but a bad but a nightmare one deadly spiders against a I only 15 minutes. Only 15 minutes. You can go to the food court while we kill you. We've got our redneck spiders.

We've got our funnel web spiders. They have a redneck spider. Is that a thing? Red back. Oh, redback. Oh, I like redneck spiders, though. It sounds like. Deadly spiders can survive underwater for over 24 hours.

They're turning up in people's swimming pools in Australia after the country was hit with heavy rain and flooding. The swimming pool interlopers include Funnel Web, like we mentioned, with around 40 known species, the Sydney Funnel Web Spider or Attracts Robustus. Good Lord. God. Robustus. It's a good transformer name. Anyway, one of the most deadly spider species with males being responsible for most fatalities,

just like people. It's mostly men killing people, mostly. It's mostly the men. Yeah, that's what we do. Likely because it evolves more potent venomous. to protect itself while wandering around looking for females to mate with, just like people. With no deaths, sorry, with no deaths having been recorded since the anti-venom became available in the 80s, if untreated, it can kill a child, like we said in about 15 minutes.

So if you live in Australia, Phil, I know you live in Australia, watch out for, go check your pool. I assume you all have pools. I don't think the spiders want to stay in the pool. I mean, they can live and survive underwater for over 24 hours, like if something's on top of them or something. But I don't think the spiders are saying, I'm just going to hang out in that pool over there and wait for somebody to take a dip. Yeah, looking forward to it. It's not like Brian going to the MGM and the freaking lazy river.

It's not like that. It's not like that at all. They're not enjoying it. Plus, Brian couldn't kill you in 15 minutes. It'd take a lot longer. No, it'd take me a little bit longer, especially if I'm on an inner tube. It'll take me 15 minutes just to get out of the inner tube to kill you. And if Brian bites any of you in three weeks?

just let it sit like open air it's not going to be a problem yeah yeah exactly but the worst thing you could do is uh as try and put something on it yeah cover it up yeah keep it out in the air it's nice and dry climate it'll be fine everyone will be fine and survive don't worry about it and if you turn you turn you know whatever that's it's uh here's a fun story we talked about us on d tns last week but it's good for the show so we're going to talk about it a startup is making a giant meat ball out of lab grown mammoth meat Yeah, that's right. Colorado memos.

That's right. Yeah. Represent. Represent. This was a, I think this is Swedish. Let me make sure. It's something in the Netherlands. Anyway, it's lab.

You hear a meatball and we assume Swedish. We do. Yeah, I did immediately. I don't know why. Yeah. That's bad. Anyway, the meat is taken from the DNA of a mammoth, like an extinct animal. These things don't exist.

They're combining it with a elephant, its DNA. So it's both elephant and mammoth meat grown in the lab as a big old meatball. Brian, would you eat this meatball? I would totally eat this meatball. Would you taste a little elephanty? A little gamey, a little hairy, but. Yeah, I mean, I imagine, you know, I mean, it's, I'm always curious about new food. I would certainly try it.

I don't expect it actually to be bad. I mean, I feel like... It might be okay. Might be lean. Yeah. One thing they do say is because this particular protein is literally 4,000 years old, humans haven't eaten it for a very, very, very long time. So they're going to do all kinds of crazy, yeah, all kinds of testing and stuff before they make people either, have anyone try it.

Well, please, thank you very much. Yeah, because we don't know how we'll react to it. We don't know. So before we get to the next article or, you know, on the more, more on the topic of would you do it or would you not do it. Yeah. They've got those places, I passed one in Vegas that is one of those spas where you put your feet into a pool of water and little tiny fish, swim around and eat all of your dead foot cells. Oh, right.

Yeah. Yeah. I would do this. I would totally do this, yeah. Yeah. Kim did this and her sister did this in, where'd they go? Oh, they were in Mexico for the little sister trip they took a cruise down there. and um i've seen it in videos and stuff i totally do this no problem okay yeah you wouldn't

you wouldn't be concerned that now did you change out the water that the fish are in from the last person's foot that was uh no that wouldn't bother me mainly because feet unless i had like open sores or something on my feet i would i would worry about it um but i i i know enough about the process it just wouldn't bother me in fact i'll do it this time if if if there's a minute to do it Why not? I saw a place on Fremont Street that has it. I was like, oh, that might be an interesting. According to Sarah, Kim's sister, Sarah, it's like a really cool feeling.

Like, it's like this little niddly kind of relaxing feeling. I'm sure that there are going to be some people that feel that and just want to get the F out of there. Like, it's going to make them want to jump out of their skin. But I don't know. It wouldn't bother me. Maybe it's because I remember as a kid sitting on the back of our boat and like Powell, my dad's old boat. and I would have my legs in the water and the time of year we went there was always

a ton of bass in the lake and a bunch of baby bass when you put your legs in the water they would swarm around your feet and they kind of nip at your legs oh really okay and I thought it was great so I think that's why I don't have an aversion to it because I already

and I already did that but I'm more worried about the fish going oh shit and all going to the one corner of the tank and not touching me they all just scatter like yeah nope not doing this Have you seen his left foot?

I know, Carl, isn't that awful? I'm not going near that. Jumping out and just flopping on the floor. I'm going to Terest trivia. I'd rather die. Well, we'll see. We'll see in three weeks if my feet are in Fishtown or not. There we go.

Let's take a break. When we come back, Stephen Schleiker will visit us because he does that. Yay. It's always good to have him around. So stick around for that, everybody. Before that, a song and a break with Brian Ibitt telling us what it is. yeah if you like folks like the fray and um i'm trying to think of who else jason moraz maybe or certainly ed shiren um you would like uh jake thistle he's a new jersey bass singer songwriter and he's got a brand new single that he just released uh big thanks to golden retriever entertainment uh for sending me this one in black panda PR this is jake this still a teenager still a youngster but cranking out some amazing music here is his brand new song the dreamer Seems like so long since you lived in this house with me

Sometimes I still forget them on my own Not much left around here anymore excepting me accepting my memory When I open my mind it still feels like no one's home I've lost track of the dream Well I just let it fade in front of me So oh keep an eye out for the dream Without the dreamer's light

And I won't let me see With you gone, With you gone, this neighborhood just seems so dark and I don't want to wake up in the same world I fell asleep This morning I punched myself through the mirror on the wall And now I'm picking up all the shattered pieces of me I've lost track of the dream Well, I just let it fade

in front of me So oh, keep an eye out for the dream Without the dreamers like And I won't let me see Well, I don't know where you are, because it seems you left flower reflected. Yeah, but the mirror is shattered anyway, so I'll just stop paying attention. I've lost track of the dream Well, I just let it fade in front of me

So keep an eye eye out for the dream Without the dreamer's light The night won't let me see We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them here, and we want them now. Supply me with dynamite. And don't return until I've used it. And we returned. Who was that fine young man again?

Sure. That is a teenage singer, songwriter Jake Thistle, just 19, and a 19, I believe, and a brand new single called The Dreamer. Very nice. That's cool. I like when the youngans are doing talented business, you know? Oh, for sure. And this guy, he's got such a great, great voice. I'm trying to see if I can find his actual age in the PR. It's about the age. I think I first heard Coulter Wall as an example. Started playing, yeah, I'm guessing he's 18 or 19. Started playing gigs when he was 10. Wow.

Really talented. Jeez, Louise. He's like the, what's her name with the, I'm the bad guy. Do do, do, do, do, do, do, do, Billy Elish. Billy Elish with her, with her youngness. I just watched her in a, in a show that Rainbow Bright recommended to me. And, uh, oh, I saw a trailer for. that. What is that?

You recommend it on this week? Are you going to hold it to that? I'm wondering about it. Yeah. I'm one, I'm going to, I think I'm going to talk about it whether I recommend it or not. I liked it. Directed by Donald Glover. Yeah.

Yeah, we'll talk about it. You love the Glover? You like the Glover? You like the Glover? I love the Glover. Yeah. I definitely want to recommend this other thing that I watched, actually. flying back from Vegas that I thought was fantastic. Oh, all right, then. God will probably be my recommendal this week, but I'm going to talk about Swarm at some point.

Oh, it's called Swarm, is it? It's called Swarm. And can you just tell me if she was good? Was she good in it? Oh, Billy Alish was great in it. Okay, that's good to hear. Honestly, everybody that's in that is really good. Dominic Fishback, I think, is her name.

She's kind of the star of it. And she was, man, great great performance not sure how I feel about the show specifically the ending of the show

gotcha all right well you have to wait until Wednesday to find out everybody and now welcome Stephen to the show he's a huge freaking nerd Dalla Dala Dills y'all Hey look good as

Steven Schlecker joining us every Monday for a little major spoilers time Stephen welcome back Good morning Scott Good morning Brian Does it end with her turning into a Spider-Man villain

and it's a swarm She does, yes. That's a shame. And then Colling Wing splits her into two, and we get two zero, zero cost three energy cards to use on our next turn. Perfect. Perfect. That's what you want in this stage of that game.

I saw somebody was saying they're never going to play it again after they hit a certain thing. I can't remember who it was. Was that what it was? Oh, really? Yeah, they said they hated the Galactus card. Oh, that's what it was. I hit what the Galactus cards used against me, but. It's somebody in our community that was, like, moaning about it.

Oh, really? Yeah, I can't remember who it was. Somebody was all up in, and I meant to ask you. I'm having such a blast with that game. And, you know, the fact that they're introducing new cards all the time makes it really easy for me to keep, you know, keep going for new collection levels to get new cards because they're added all the way across.

Was it Dan? Travis? Oh, that's what TV's Travis says, Dan Patrice. Was it? I remember being Dan. Well, maybe it was. I got I finally cracked open that Marvel does Midnight Suns Been sitting on that for months Oh yeah

That game's awesome dude That game's rad It's a tactics game right I've got it I haven't had a chance to play it Yeah so it's the guy It's the XCOM team But it's not quite like XCOM It's like a combination of

Position based turn based tactical Gameplay mixed with Basically a card battler Think of like you know Slay the Spire or something in terms of the card usage but you know a bunch of story in between

really you know beautiful graphical stuff I think it's freaking great I'm surprised I waited that long I'm playing that it's really good there's so much yeah Dan and

and Toler and I we've been talking about I think we talked a lot about it in that joint you know convoy the Discord Convo that you're in with us but it's all the stuff around I just want to get to the games

of the battles. There's all that like, I got to walk around. Now I got to talk to magic. Now I got to talk to Niko Minoru. And now I got to talk to so-and-s. There is a lot of talking. Just give me to the games. Just give me to the games. There's a lot of talking. I'm enjoying the story so far, but I could see how people would be kind of annoyed with all the dialogue. It's a lot. But you can skip it all, so it's not that bad. You can skip it. I don't want to because I do want the story. Yeah. Let me tip you off to an upcoming game that looks really good. Yeah. The Lamplighters League and the Tower at the end of the world.

Yeah. Oh, I am like, I saw the trailer for this, about a month ago or whenever it was. And I have just been like, please, please do pre-orders now. Please, please open beta. It comes out. It'll come out this year. I'm just waiting for official release. It's definitely this year.

We've been following that one on core a little bit. It's, again, some really awesome X talent from the XCOM team and from Faraxis and stuff, where you're getting that lineage of turn base kind of whatever. But this like, adventurey steampe. punky vibe thing that's got going on. Yeah, it's like 1932 adventurer, Indiana Jones meets the Cthulah. It looks awesome. Right at my alley. Yeah, it looks great. Super stoked about that. Anyway, worth playing. But let's talk about some other things here

in the Marvel world. Uh, Marvel Entertainment officially folded into Disney proper now, and they got rid of, uh, Pearlmutter. Mike Pearl mutter. He's out of there. The bane of Marvel's existence since the 90s. Yep. Yep. So here's the thing. I honestly think that this whole Marvel entertainment fold-in thing is only to get rid of Ike Perlmutter. Obviously, Disney has announced that they were going to lay off 7,000 employees about 4% of their workforce.

But then if anyone remembers Ike Perlmutter is somebody who loves to cut costs as much as he can, so much so that he would go around and pick paper clips out of waste paper baskets and make people reuse them. He is the one behind selling X-Men and Spider-Man. licensing them off to the other movie studios. And then most recently, not only has he been a Trump supporter, but he was pushing for Nelson Peltz to become a, kind of do a hostile takeover of the board of Disney right before Bob Iger came back. And I think that was the final straw.

Obviously, he and Kevin Feige had a huge fight several years ago about who had control over the television and movie division with Feige ultimately winning on that. So this was kind of the last straw to finally get him out of Disney's craw. And he's been a thorn for, like you said, decades. Like it's not like it was just a fresh thing or the last year or something. This guy's always been a pain in the ass. Yeah. Get him out of there, man.

You're dead. Yeah, I mean, yeah, he, I don't know. I have a lot of opinions on him, but these are the facts that we know. But I really think that this was, this folding thing is just a part of, let's get rid of him once and for all. And if you followed what was happening with the Reedy Creek Improvement District and what the lawyers did some sneaky shenanigans right before DeSanta signed that new bill into law there, this feels like the lawyers are just like, oh, yeah, now it's time for us to pull all of our sneaky stuff right now. Yeah, it's going to get, that whole case is going to get real meaty soon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know, as far as Disney lawyers go, we haven't heard anything about copyright extension.

And this is the last year for Steamboat Willie to be under copyright protection. And I haven't heard anybody mutter one thing about this. So it may be a December 20th thing that slides in under the radar when the Disney lawyers, you know, do their thing. But do not dismiss the Disney lawyers at all anyone. No, they got all the money. Real quick here, the Pearl Mudder dude was 80. I feel like it's a good time to retire there, buddy. You can go to reuse the rest of your golden ears for something other than picking up paper clips or fighting with Figi.

How about that? All right, exactly. Also, ooh, I think we've mentioned this. I don't remember how this came up. Maybe it didn't. I've talked about it on three other shows, so it's possible we didn't talk about it. But Scott Pilgrim is coming back in anime form. And when I say that, you might go, oh, okay, big deal.

They're animating of Scott Pilgrim adaptation. No, no, no. They're bringing the entire cast back. Everybody. Yeah, yeah. I can't remember where we're talking. I knew we talked about it, maybe just touched on it in film sack or something like that. Somewhere, yeah.

We talked about the core pre-show, I think, but it's a big deal. If you're a fan of that movie and the most excited person seems to be the director of the film. Edgar Wright. He freaked out about it. I think he's, like, doing some executive production on it as well. Like, he's involved somehow. This seems like a no-brainer. Like, everyone's going to want to see this.

Yeah. And I'm curious to see if they take the. animation style from the comic book and make that into the television show because that would be the best thing to do is to copy that that art style and bring that to life but then to nail everybody like everybody uh captain america superman uh green lantern all in this thing captain marvel she's in there everybody's in there too so yeah uh everybody is in this so that is a big that's a big win for netflix at a time when i think Netflix could use a really big win yeah for sure is it not yeah is Netflix, that's right. I was thinking it was Prime. For some reason, I always think Prime is doing all the

animation now, but they're not, obviously. Yeah, Netflix was talking today about, uh, we've decided we're going to cut down on the number of movies that we produce in a year. So the, the Netflix original movies, uh, you're going to see a stark drop in those in the future. Did they give an idea of how, what that means like how many movies less? No, uh, they might have. Let me see if I can find it was, uh, I think Gizmodo was talking about it. How much did they spend on the gray man it was over 200 million on that so if you can take 200 million and you can turn that into a 10 episode series like they're doing with the night agent or uh you can turn that into five animated series a la the uh agent elvis then i think that might be a better deal for oh i heard you

started watching that on your your twitter account mentioned it how do you like that i enjoyed it uh it is probably not for everybody it's a little violent and a little i don't know i feel like it's archer meets the venture brothers yeah uh with a whole bunch of elvis music wrapped up in it. I'm in. It's executive, it's executive produced by Priscilla Presley. And it's got Matthew McConaughey as Elvis. Yeah. But it's like, if you ever wanted to know the quote unquote real story of how Elvis and Nixon are shaking hands, there's a whole episode about that. And basically, there's a secret organization called TCB that is trying to run, run the world. And, you know, Elvis comes in as this do-gooder guy that wants to just take down hippies and drug dealers.

Then he's finding out all these crappy things about people. He's, you know, in the Elvis episode, a little bit of a spoiler. He thinks that Elvis is great until he meets him. And then he's like, oh, no, this guy's a total, total jerk. Yeah. So, yeah, it's fun. I'm in on that. That sounds great.

And also just McConaughey doing the voice is just too good to mess. I got to hear it. Yeah. So, yeah. There's a Coke snorten monkey and secret agents and some stuff. It's not a kid's show. That's for sure. Okay.

Well, that's, you know, I like some of the adult offerings in animation on Netflix. I will say that. I watched the entirety of Paradise PD, one of the raunchiest cartoons I've ever seen in my life, and I enjoyed it. So there's that. Somebody, ICU, says the Blue Beetle trailer just dropped. That's right. That's coming out in August, I want to say. It looks really, really good.

I watch it just before you guys had me come on. Some of the effects stuff feels like Iron Man meets venom, and it still looks really good. Okay. I like Blue Beetle as a rule. I like Blue Beetle. So I'm really hopeful for that movie. You know, in the wake of the poor showing by Shazam 2, I hope they can pull that off. But this is still not gun.

No, no, no, no. This was years ago that this was given the thumbs up. Superman Legacy or whatever is. That's going to be the first. Yeah, Superman Legacy will be the first one. I think the final film that will come out under the old regime is Aquaman 2, which I think is December of next year. Yeah. So there were ways off on that gun stuff, I guess.

And the Joker franchise just completely independent of this. It's a separate thing. They're calling that the, what is it? Jokeaverse. No, no, no, it's not Jokeaverse. They're kind of going with, it's their elseworld's brand, is what they're doing with all that other stuff. And there was a, somebody posted a photo of Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga.

It looks pretty cool. So it's confirmed that she's, I mean, I assumed it, but that is supposed to be Harley Quinn then. Yeah, yeah. She showed off her Harley Quinn look. in a tweet or Instagram or something. Because they were being all hush about it for a while. And I just thought, well, of course, if she's got blonde hair in that thing, who else is she going to be? She's going to be Mr. Jay.

Flamboyant, New York accent. I mean, come on. Yep. Yep, she doesn't, she won't have a poker face. Hey, anyway. Did you find out, Brian, how many movies are getting dropped or no? Yeah, so they released 85 or. original films in 2022.

Their plan for 2023 is 49, so just a little more than half of what they released last year. It's still a movie a week, really, when you think about it. I'm, less is more, I'm fine with that. Yes. Yeah, they're basically,

their whole opinion of it is we're hoping to release fewer but better original films. I would be down for a sequel to what was when I was just mentioning with of, Chris.

Gray man? Chris and Chris. Yeah, gray man. I would be down for a sequel to that. That was pretty good. I liked it. A lot. Second season of Shadow and Bone is going pretty good.

Does they have some, does Hollywood have some contract that just says, hey, Chris Evans and what's her name, have to be in every movie from now on together? What's her name? Armad. Yeah, she was in Glass, Inon. She was in Glass, or no, prior one.

Yeah, Nikes out. But she was in Canada, Armis. So they were in that. together they were in gray man together they were in um what was the other one there's another one there and then there's something new coming out there in where they're loving on each other where she's the CIA agent and yeah it's not ghosted but he gets ghosted yeah something like that so i guess what i'm saying is just freaking get a get a room you two my gosh sure uh stephen what about this uh um the trailer for uh the um uh secret invasion what do you think of that is that

That looks pretty good. I still want them to reveal maybe a little bit more about the story because it's obviously not scrolls are taken over. At least I don't think because scrolls are already part of, they already know that the scrolls are around. So it's not like that is a, oh, suddenly we're being overtaken, although it could. But when you have, what is his name? Multiple Man. Madrach's, Jamie. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

When you have him in there, it makes me feel more like it's not scrolls, but something else. But I don't know. If it is a scroll invasion, that's cool. Well, at the end of Captain America, or Captain America, Captain Marvel, it felt like they were saying, hey, scrolls are actually the good guys, turns out. Yeah. Yeah. And so that's why I'm very, very surprised or confused by Secret Invasion or Secret War.

Which is a bummer because I love the fact that the comic book Secret Invasion was based on those scrolls that Reed Richards hypnotized into thinking that they were cows and like Fantastic Four number two. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Really? Oh, yes. Yeah, there was a scroll. Yeah, that's what Brian said is absolutely right. That's amazing. What is it? Years later, you get a bunch of characters. Turns out those cows, because nobody knew that they were scrolls, got turned into hamburger? Hamburger, yes. And a bunch of people ate them and started getting powers from the Eagles. Really? Scroll powers. Yes. Yeah. That is so dumb. I love that. I love how dumb that is. House of Ideas. Yeah. No kidding. Was that, you think that was a, that was a, that was a, uh, uh, that was a Stanley.

So is that a Stanley joint, do you think? Yeah. For sure. What if they were hamburgers? Like, I could hear the meeting. They could eat the cows, and then they would get the powers. I love it. Excelsia. Yeah.

So, anyway, they look good. They look gritty. So I'm into that. Yeah, it does. It looks really good. Gary went to soldier looking. Yeah. Boy, Marvel needs something like that because I was laughing when I watched it,

because the first few lines are, uh, hey, Fury. ever since you left, things have been real, if things have gotten worse. And I feel like that's almost like a little MCU. Like a jab at themselves. Yeah, a little bit. I like that Samuel L. Jackson's allowed to show his age

by growing a big old honking gray beard in this. Oh, yeah, me too. I love that. I think he looks awesome. That's the thing I'm most excited about is what his deal is going to be. And of course, I love Australian actor Zippy Head, what's his name um can't think of names today we saw him in uh ben ben mendelson there it is

bendleston yes love to see him again he's great we got amelia clark in some uh some role uh yeah i'm not sure what yeah oh and i think we saw um didn't we see agent oh yes molders in there right yeah um there was one other uh face and i went oh oh rody yeah we got don chito yeah don chito yeah Don Chito, back, finally. Back. After his turn on, I guess it was Winter Soldier and the melonhead. It might be leading up to armor wars, hopefully. Yeah, I wonder, now that you mentioned, remember what's the West, not the West Coast Avengers,

what's the evil Avengers group that is being formed by the Thunderbolts? With them being introduced and we know that there's a cabal of, of quote unquote, bad agents in the government. I know oxymoron, I know. but maybe they've tricked the scrolls into doing something for them, and that is part of the deal going forward on that. That would be interesting, because then you're tying back in the previous Falcon and Winter Soldier storyline into that as well.

Right. Well, you'll have to wait until June to find out. That would be great. Yeah, I can't believe. They originally said this was going to be early 2023, and then push to late winter, 2023, and now we're not getting until June 21st. Yeah, that's a bummer.

I'm glad we're getting it, but... Yeah, exactly. They've had a whole big shuffle. I constantly need a new adjustable timeline of like when things are coming out. Yeah, could somebody, maybe Perlmutter's got the inside scoop and it'll be less busy. You can tell us what's up. I don't know. All your inside scoop information comes from Pearl Mudder from now on.

The guy who's notoriously stays out of the limelight. That's right. You know what? Get rid of Twitter.com. Somebody start Perlmutter.com. It's where we all go in there and tell our biggest secrets. Well, Stephen, as always, pleasure to hear this stuff. And as always, if you want more of this kind of coverage, major spoilers.com,

plus you have a bunch of podcasts to talk about this stuff. Tell us more about that. Yeah, obviously we have a critical hit, which is our kind of nod to the Lamplighters League, where it's, you know, Indiana Jones meets Cthulu. They've just done some really cool things in that game. So go check that out. We've got top five and, of course, the Major Spoilers podcast. This week we're talking about a European comic.

Thorgall. I have thoughts on that series from the 1980s and we'll talk about that this week on the major spoilers podcast. Until then, everyone, please stay hydrated. That sounds like a great idea. We'll see you later. Bye now. Bye. All right. Well, there goes

Stephen. Big thanks to him as always. Yeah. I mentioned the swag stuff earlier. That all holds. That all stays the same. Yeah, I don't know why I said it there, not now. But anyway, whatever. We have a phone call to play, though. figure eights around my legs right now. Oh, nothing wrong with that.

A little figure eights. Yeah, it's like having a little fish on your feet. And it's Anara, folks. It's sadly not the new kitty where I'd put her up on the screen. And Arr wouldn't be happy if I picked her up and put her on screen. No, she's just happy going around your feet. Oh, she took off. There she is.

Oh. Let's force it. Fluffy cat. Hello. Look at her. We got a new giant Maine Coon sneaking around the house outside. Dogs want to kill it. Yeah.

But I kind of. to like him. Yeah, I like Van Coons. Yeah. He's got a, he's always outside. He's always outside, but he has a Apple Air tag on his thing. Oh, really? Oh, that's cool. I don't know if his people know or if they're tracking him or what, but he's always on our front

porch looking for, give freebies, so I don't know what's going on. I feel like taking the collar off, tucking it in the lake, and they'll go, oh, shoot, he drowned in the lake, and then I'll keep their cat. How about that? Yeah, yeah, it'll be, oh, God. I'm going to do it. I like that cat. It's better than ours. Decker's a dick. All right, moving on. Let's get out of here. Before we do a phone call from our old pal Gary, all right? Here he is. Hey, Scott and Brian. This is for TMS. This is Gary from Batu. Again, you asked why that one concert put me off of stadium concerts forever. It was just because I was in the nose lead seats way off. into the right field side there were a bunch of people down on that stage there but they could

have been anybody and the sound quality really sucked uh they i think today they have some way that they can time everything so that uh you don't get the um lu gerrig effect uh you know okay my favorite part of that call is that's him getting cut off at the end he didn't that isn't me pausing it that's just that's just gary ending his call accidentally, so I don't know what happened there, but I think I get his point, like if you're going to have that much echo and crap, and you think that's going to be your experience every time you go,

I guess you just quit going. Yeah, yeah, I think it is better now, though, right? Most of these places have like a... Yeah, I mean, if you go to a place that's made for this sort of thing, then for sure. Yep. Yeah, you'll have a better experience. Gary, we appreciate... I'm excited about our seats for Muse. We are

very front of... We have the front row, third row, or third level. So, we're up high, but we are directly facing the stage from the third level with nobody in front of us. Wow. That's great. So I'm going to stand up whenever I want. No, I'm kidding. I'm only going to stand up if the people behind me are already standing. Yeah, if they stand, then you can stand. Yeah. Exactly. That's a good, that's a very conscientious way to approach it. But those are great tickets. Did you have to do anything fancy to get those? No. No, the fact that they were third level was what

made them fit into my price range. Wow. That's awesome. All right. Get lots of pictures and video and stuff. Yeah, for sure. Unless they're one of those concerts that don't let you do it. Oh, Richard cheese. Yeah.

A little bit of dick cheese going on there. Yeah. That'll do it for today, everybody. Big thanks for checking us out. And by the way, you may have noticed, Brian mentioned it at the top of the show, and I'll say it again. It's a brand new month. It's the third, which means, has there ever been a better time to get into the Patreon?

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And now, Brian, we'll have a song to play here now. Yes. We are looking at an email from baloney ninja. He says, Brian and Scott, long-time listener, multiple requester. I just discovered dwarf metal. Seeing that this belongs on TMS, I found a cover of the greatest dwarf song ever. Diggy, Diggy Hole, your favorite martial arts meet Baloney Ninja. Wow.

Wow. He did confirm that he is a ninja that throws baloney, like throwing stars. Oh, does that actually, I mean, I guess if you throw anything hard enough, you can hurt somebody, right? Yeah, yeah, that's true. You'd have to really be able to hurl it, though. I don't think if you dropped a slice of bologna off the Empire State Building, it would reach terminal velocity. Like, it's just too floppy. It doesn't have, yeah.

Yeah, that wouldn't work. But, like, I've seen people with playing cards that can, like, penetrate walls because they're so good they're throwing them. Yeah. Could, in theory, somebody throw a piece of bologna somehow, let's say a slice of bologna. your microwaved crispy bolognes that turns into a little grease cup. Yeah. They might be able to do that with. I swear, only 80s kids will know what the hell you're talking about.

We all love that. So I guess Gambit could do that, right? It's like, oh, Mollshaer. I don't have any cards with me, but I do have a package of Oscar Meyer. Let me, like, toughen them up, harden them up with some microwave power. I smell, I smell a subplot for the new X-Men films coming from Marvel. watch. Oh, man, they're going to steal that.

They're going to make a million bucks. I'm going to get nothing for it. All right. Well, let's get to this. DiggyDiggy Hole, of course, comes from Yag's cast. This is the band Wind Rose with a cover of DiggyDiggy Hole. All right. That'll do it for us.

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