The Morning Stream - TMS 2453: Metting & Gretting

Episode Date: April 17, 2023

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That's a lovely place to die. Prop me up on a raft in Las Vegas. Excuse me while I masticate. The plaza cares. Oh no. Claire found the YouTube channel. Being Bernadette. Post-apocalyptic games with Dan and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Then back, back, boom, back, back, back, back, back, boom, back and forth.

It was crazy. Bring me Snow White and Jasmine, limited edition dolls. The Morning Stream. I don't understand. You never die. Hello, everybody, and welcome back to TMS. It is the morning stream for, what is today? April 17th, 2023, Brian.

Holy crap. I didn't want to help you on that one. I had the answer in front of me, but, you know, it's better let you work it out on your own sometimes. I'm a little distracted today. I've got to try to get my focus in. We're talking about pre-show a little bit, but we're streaming to YouTube today, and there's just some changes.

You've got to get used to what to do and how to do it. We've got people here. The one thing I do want to change, and I totally forgot to do it. But tomorrow, the chat room, I'll put you on the lower latency. Right now, you're on normal. And YouTube normal latency is kind of long. It's like 30 seconds. It's really long, yeah.

It helps with, like, making sure there's no buffers and junk like that, so I understand why it's a value for most streams like this, especially big ones, but I'll get it back down to, You just can't change it mid-show, so I don't have to do it later. Anyway, hello everybody and welcome back to the show. Hope you all had a nice weekend. And, you know, we got, we got shit coming up, dude. We got a week.

It's a week, a week till Vegas, a week till the official meet-and-greet Monday night thing. And we'll have, I feel like we're going to pretty much have met and greet everybody. Well before we see them on, yeah, before the metting and the greting will be complete by the time I get there. Well, we will have met and gret, everybody. Fantastic. I can't wait to gret people. I'm used to meeting them or meting them, but not greeting them. Not greeting them, yeah.

Next week's a big week. We've got a lot going on. And as a result, you know, I guess I'll tell people ahead of time, even though there'll be about 20 of you who don't pay attention and don't hear me say this. I just had a guy yesterday asked me where, are the PM editions not on every week anymore? I'm like, not since June of 2021 or whatever the hell it was. Right. Anyway, so next week there will be no show Monday. There'll be no show Tuesday. There'll be no show Wednesday. And there will be no show Thursday.

Okay. So you're saying, you're saying that some of our shows next week will not happen. Only some of them. Only some in that all of them. We're going to record content while we're there, of course, and the live stuff that we do on stage and Brian. game and all that stuff's going to be posted when we're done. But I'm also going to try to do some sort of little tadpool hangouts and record and talk to people and then put that up on the regular feed.

But just know that next week, TMS folks, that we are just physically not here and we'll be doing a bunch of stuff from there. Although Tom Merritt's doing a live DTNS, which would be fun. He's going to do a live DTNS, yeah. Yeah, that'd be great. I'm glad you're able to do that. The amount of effort that it takes sometimes

to accommodate our friends. made something like that. Yeah. And I love Tom and, you know, I will bend over backwards for him. But it's like 11th hour. I'm like, all right, I think we got everything squared away. This is good. All right, I've got this coming.

This is being printed right now or this is being developed. Tom's like, hey, Brian, any way I could do a live DTNS on that Monday for, oh, yeah, I think so. Thanks, thanks. Yeah, as the as the owner of the plaza, Brian is happy to comply. He'll make this happen. Don't worry. And this is kind of a little bit of an announcement here.

So for the longest time, ever since we started doing TMS Vegas and having it at the plaza, we have had the pleasure of working with a woman named Bernadette. Bernadette is fantastic. She, you know, basically I give her a list of what we need. She's like, all right, you guys will have the pool thing for the meeting greet. You guys will have this. Oh, how about a ballroom for your board game stuff? How about this? How about this?

and she, when I was out there a couple weeks ago, last month I guess, wow, she told me that this will be her last TMS Vegas and that she has put in her notice she's retiring and she, I don't know how true this is, but she said that she extended the amount of time that she gave them for her notice basically so that she could be here all the way up until TMS Vegas. Really? That's awesome. Right after TMS Vegas is her last day. If that's the case, that's really very cool that she would do that, you know?

It's extremely nice of her, and it just goes to show how customer focus the plaza is. The plaza is what Albert Brooks wanted the whatever casino, resort casino he was in, in Lost in America. the plaza cares the plaza cares you lost all your money well that's all right we'll give it back because the plaza cares anyway so um so i've invited her to uh to all the things she's going to try and make an appearance again she came to a board game a pelusa last year yeah and um she's going to see if she can join us for a drink at uh the pool meet and greet the um the live tms so she can actually see what the heck why the heck i've you know requested a live donkey why you know why i've requested i've put in all these weird requests for uh live tms vgas and um yeah brian ordered these cubicle style glory holes that he's brought in yeah exactly i don't even know what that's for i assume it's for a whole guessing game okay uh we're gonna do on stage and i'm sorry your your sister cannot participate in that in that one uh it sounds to me like she probably doesn't want to participate in that one

So that's good. Yeah, no, that's great. I really like her, and I'll be sad to not see her next time. Do you know who's taking her place? Who might pop in? No, no, I don't. But I'm putting in my, I'm putting my, throwing my hat into the ring. Okay.

You know, be the move to Vegas, be the new Bernadette, and set up people with great experiences for their meetings and conventions at the plaza. It's funny. You say that, but yesterday we're just having this conversation with my kids. if we were ever to move one more time it would for me the only way I would do it is if we moved to St. George and if I moved to St. George I'd be an hour from Vegas.

Oh, geez, that's dangerous. It is dangerous. But it could be really fun for, you know, seeing you a lot more because you like going to there so much. I might be able to make that happen more often. But also it's the only way I'd do it. And the other reason I would do it

is because the kids were saying, well, dad, what if we moved to St. George? And how would that make you feel? I'm like, well, I'd want to be near you and I want to be near the, I want to be near Van and Phoebe. I want to be around the family. Sure. So I would probably, we would consider it. So who knows, but it's weird. Like the idea that I'd be an hour outside of Vegas. And it would probably be, we wouldn't do like St. George proper. We'd do like either Hurricane or like Washington, which is a part of Washington County. It's called Washington. They're just outside of that and they're a little bit more open desert sort of vibe. Yeah. I could die there. I would love to die there, dude. It's a place I'd love to die. Yeah.

Name a place. Okay, let's have this game real quick. All right, sure. Because I just found out Steven's not here, but we have Dan later, but he can't come early. So we got a little buffer here. Yeah. What would you, where do you want to die? Like, if you could pick the perfect place to like, that's it, I'm done.

Just lay back and you're dead. What is the environment? Wow. Oh, my God. that's a great question because like all right what do I want the the last image burned into my retinas before my eyes closed for the final time yes that is one way of putting it yes uh retinal burn yeah man um i think geez i think the blue mountains in australia were were oh that's nice yeah those those may be like when we got out there and we were the edge of the uh the edge of the Blue Mountains and we had this great overlook

and the three sisters rocks were out there that was probably the most memorable time that I've actually just teared up looking at scenery scenery doesn't make me tear up I will say this in 1999 we went out to Vegas for

all right real quick I'll just tell the story real quick I don't even know if I've ever told this story and I won't tell the big long earlier part of it but basically a buddy of mine, a co-worker of mine, and I won a bunch of money on a radio station where I gamified, where I figured out how to break up a super song scramble into individual songs, which doesn't sound like a big deal now, but in 1999 I had to like figure out some software

to like record it and split it and then put it on a repeat and all that sort of things. Yeah, that is no small task in 99. That's a lot. No small task in 99. So I figured out the six songs, one of which was frigging Edith Bunker at the beginning of all in the family, which was a nice little. you know one that they tried to make really difficult and um and and and on two separate runs of this contest we won thousands of bucks basically between the two of us we won um eight thousand i won six thousand he won two thousand because it kept increasing over time and we made a deal ahead of time that whatever we win we split in half so uh we

we basically won four thousand um that's awesome that's a lot of money in 99 when you're just like 29 years old. And you're like, we need some money. Let's do this. Let's split it. Exactly. Jeez. So somebody suggested to us said, what you ought to do is, because you're going

to get taxed the crap out of this, you know, when April 15th rolls around. So what you ought to do is go to Vegas, because these are considered winnings. Go to Vegas. Get receipts for everything you spend out there. And you'll be able to write off the winnings. Even though you didn't win them in Vegas, those gambling. winnings will or losings will offset your winnings from the radio station. Basically, it'll all fit into the same, the same column on the spreadsheet.

I get it for the accountant. So that's what we did. We like, we went out there, it was, you know, already close to the end of the year. We're like, cool. Vegas, December, two weeks before Christmas, we're going out there. And it was so cool, like the, the Christmas in Vegas is a very different thing than most times in Vegas. It's nice and cool out there.

You're actually wearing a light jacket and stuff going outside. They have an ice skating rink at the top of the cosmopolitan that's really cool. They didn't have it then. They didn't even have the cosmopolitan back in 1999. But there's kind of because of the dryness, but all the water features in the air, there's a mist around every single hotel casino that has a Laker thing. And this was the first time we'd ever seen them. We went up to the Bellagio Fountains.

And I think we watched those things for two hours straight. You know, like every 30 minutes or every 15 minutes or whatever it was on the weekend. We just sat there and watched. And it was like every song, they had the built-in fogg machines, but then they also had this extra little mist that was in the air from the fountains going on. And I swear to God, I teared up. So if you can't make me die in front of the Blue Mountains of Australia, prop me up on a raft in the Belagio fountain pool.

let me just float by and die right there. I do like that there, too. It's great. It's for a free, I mean, it is absolutely the best free thing you can see on the strip. I agree. Yeah. By a mile. Yeah.

Do it at night, though, not just for the, because it is a spectacle at night, but also because it's not as hot if you're there in the summer and you're not dying. If you're standing out there waiting. And for those of, and for those of you who will be in Vegas on Sunday for the TMS Vegas thing, at 8 o'clock we're meeting and doing the high. I roller, the big Ferris wheel. Some people in a drinking car, some people in a non-drinky car. Some people staying away from that whole business and staying safe on the ground. I think Scott Johnson, Tina Ibit, hanging out down there. Oh, Tina's not going up?

I didn't know that. Tina, for different reasons, because her brother completely scarred her on Ferris wheels, she will not go on anything like that, even a fully enclosed Ferris wheel like this. Dude, brothers are dicks sometimes. Brothers are dicks, yeah, exactly. Yeah, they chase their sisters around with cold soldering irons trying to make them think of their hot. Or they F up the Ferris wheels for their whole life. What the frick?

They really are absolute worst. Just the absolute worst. So anyway, after the high roller, we're going to walk over to the Cosmopolitan for verbenas and possibly secret pizza. Along the way is the Bellagio. We're going to watch the Bellagio Fountains. For those people who've never seen it, it's going to be absolutely amazing. I want to watch more of the people. who are seeing it for the first time, then watch the fountains themselves.

Brian might tear up. You never know. I will. It's going to be like that. I talked about this a little bit on a thing I recorded, but I love that ending scene of Oceans 11, where you get all of the actors walking up and watching the Bellagio Fountains, and watching the Belagio Fountains. Oh, that is a great scene.

That's a very good scene. All right. Well, we're going to all Brad Pitt that business in next week, everybody. So where would you like to die, Scott? Out in the desert somewhere. I want to be like on a big flat, wide open space with like the sun setting and just a glorious, beautiful, 75 degree weather, just lay back and go. That's what I want. Something about a big majestic desert.

It's my jam. Totally my jam. Yeah. I don't mean, I don't need to be in Mad Max clothes or any that shit. That's not what I mean. But just like a, you know, a nice, deserty vibe is what I want. I want to hear weird or off in the distance. I want to hear like weird little bugs making noises, you know, just that, that wide open.

You're starting to see the stars, but it's not quite dark yet. So you just sort of make them out. Oh, man. Nothing like that in the whole world. That's it. Nothing like it. All right, we're going to do something weird here. We're going to eat something.

We haven't done this in a bit. I even have a click for it. Let's see. Much of foodie. We'll do that guy today. Wow. Haven't heard that guy in a while. Yeah, it's been a bit.

We have with us here the cup noodles breakfast, maple syrup, pancake, sausage, and egg ramen thing. Basically, we talked about this in a news story on the show. And, of course, I immediately, during the discussion of said thing, had to

go to Walmart and see if these were purchasable. I found some locally for me. Kevin Chu and our community found some as well. Yeah, so big thanks to Kevin, by the way. He found them. I couldn't find them at my local stuff. They were all sold out, or didn't have them at all.

and he found him and then yesterday he and I met up for a quick hangout and made the exchange he also got me some kimchi which is very nice of him he didn't have to do that he said you also really hounded him for um for information about test i was kind of let's say i don't know about hounding but i definitely lightly went oh you know trying to get him to kind of cough something up he wouldn't he wouldn't budge no i know he's a still trap he's sworn to secrecy man he's a lockbox that guy he is and i'm and i was impressed So I still know nothing about what's going on other than, other than he says it. Oh, I'm sorry, not ICOR, KT data.

Kevin. Oh, you said Kevin Chew, yeah, not. I said Kevin Chu, the other Kevin. The other Kevin. We have many Kevin's. We do. But this is our Kevin. This is my Kevin.

This is our Kevin. There are many like him, but they are both our Kevin's. But these two are ours. So here we have these. Let's just do it, I guess. So should we mention, I guess we said what's in it. It's like, yeah, so it's maple syrup, pancake, sausage and egg flavored. ramen noodles in sauce i have there's no sauce i mean it has all been absorbed into the noodles

yeah but the noodles look really good they actually not your they look firm don't they like your typical yeah like um like good good typical egg noodles you know ramen uh kevin said yesterday while i was well we were there that he thinks um or he was told that if he used uh tobasco or some kind of like chulula or something that it's very very good on this the the sweet and that really uh but i didn't bring any down i didn't think about doing it Yeah, that's great. Consider it for the future. All right, here we go.

We're doing it. We're trying it. It might be garbage. Oh, you know what? I have to admit that's not bad. It's not bad. I don't get a super, excuse me, as I masticate on the microphone. I don't get a super strong breakfast-y flavor here.

Oh, I actually have, look at that. a chunk of a bag and a chunk of sausage. Yeah, there's like a weird little fake sausage in there. Yeah, they're all at the bottom, so you're going to move them up. But a very, very faint maple flavor. Yeah, it's not overwhelmingly maple, which is good. I don't want overwhelmingly maple. You know, I'd rather it be subtle.

Yeah, I definitely encourage you to pull noodles from the bottom because that's where all the sauce. Yeah, everything's down there. Settles and all the sausage and all the egg, rehydrated eggs. Yeah, do you think they're real eggs, just rehydrated? And guess what's going on there? Um, yeah. Are they as artificial as the rest of this? I think these are real eggs.

All right. Hmm. You know what? Pretty, I think that's actually all right. It's actually, it's actually not bad at all. It's actually really good. I would eat that on an office is what I would do. You're like, you know, at work, you're early.

You're like, I've got to get through the day. I'm going to go make a cup of this. It's sort of breakfast, you know. It's still a little sad. You don't really want this in your life, but you'll do it. Yeah, I think I mentioned when we talked about it that the S&L joke was a cup noodles is introducing a new ramen flavor that tastes like maple syrup, pancake, sausage, and egg. It's called Mom Left. Mom left.

Was that part of the news thing? Those guys are great. That was part of weekend update, the funniest part of SNL. Often is. Almost every generation of S&L feels like that's always your best comedy is during the news thing. And boy, was this last weekend a stink. Anna to Armis, as wonderful as she is and everything else she does, not great in SNL. Or maybe it just was poorly written around her.

I think it's probably... Probably that, yeah. Yeah, probably a lot of that. Oh, she'll always be the four-story tall pink projection lady in that movie for me. Yeah, yeah. All right, as much as I want to eat more of that, I'm not going to... I know. I kind of want to hork it down, but I won't.

Yeah, I won't do it. While Dan's talking, I'm going to just shut up. Just sneak a little, you know, a little sneakage. Look what I got on top of line. What's going to happen is this is going to cool off and it's going to become a congealed slab of noodle. Yeah, it's a hair gel by then. That's what it'll be? And you don't need.

You have no need for hair gel. So what would you even do? No, I know, what's that? What is this hair gel you speak of? Exactly. This is how I'm keeping it warm. I got a Darth Vader head. Yeah.

I don't know what that. Who's that a Funko Pop cup topper or something? I don't know what this is. It's not Funko Pop. It's not branded that. So I don't know what it is. Rovio, or maybe that is them? Is Rovio?

Rovio is, isn't Rovio the app company? They make apps? Maybe. There's, oh, Hasbro at the bottom here, made in China. I don't actually know. I just love this. And it's squishy. Squeasy, squeezy, squeezy.

So it's one of those office squeeze size. It's crazy. Yeah, interesting. All right. That's going to keep my noodles somewhat warm. Well done, Vader. Nice. Yeah, Rovio is a, um, hungry bird.

Oh, yeah. Angerbirds. Yeah. Angry birds, the anger birds, people. Yeah, they got a lot of that anger birds money, those people. Yeah. All right. Speaking of angry things, stand back and check your personal belongings. It's time for the morning forum. All right, time for the morning forum. We're going to give away last week's winner.

We did, let's see, what was our category last week? Let me pull it up here. Was it, was it our fast food one? No. Yes, it was. our best fast food was the one and man Brian you're going to be shocked by these results alright I'm going to share it all right what was this

so it was best fast food okay we had a whole list people out of their own of course you know Fridays because I left that off for no good reason that sort of thing but our clear runaway winner with 15.5% of the vote that's not runaway but 15.5% of the vote the leading percentage Taco Bell

Taco Bell oh really okay yeah you know what I would of if I did not have Freddy's to write in. If there was no right-in answer, Taco Bell would have been my choice in that list. I agree with you on that. Taco Bell's on there, number one. Number two, Chick-fil-A at 13.3%.

And then number three in the top three, we have in and out at 8% followed very closely by Wendy's just below that. So Wendy's did all right. McDonald's only 4.2% overall. And Arby's 15, or sorry, 5.7. I'm trying to see where Freddy's went.

Freddy's got written in, and Freddy's got 1.5%. That's not high enough. It's also not, they're not everywhere yet, yet. Yeah, that's true. This very feels a little regional still for them. Anyway, a whole bunch of you participated, and that means we have a winner this week who will be sent a Frog Pants Fun Pack, and that person is En Buzenbark.

N. Boosenbark. It's a cool name. I'm going to send you an email. If I don't hear from you first, sometimes these guys are so quick. They send me an email before I even get a chance. But if not, I will send you an email and get your package on its way to you. So congratulations. This week's morning form, if I can get it to run.

Why aren't links working for me today? Okay, there we go. That's weird. Go to the morning form or sorry, frogpants.com slash the morning form. All right. So the word does in there. The morning form. This is best movie villains of all time.

And I'll bring this. Harvey Weinstein. Yeah, that feels appropriate, right? He's got a real-life vibe to it. A real-life movie villain. Here it is, Chad. So this is Best Movie Villains of All Time. We've got things like Magneto, Kylo, Rand, Darth Vader, the Joker, any version of the Joker.

Warden Norton from Shawshank. Look at me thinking there about the thing. Hannibal Lecter, Sauron, Bain, and so on. It goes on and on and on. We've got the xenomorph in there, Lord Voldemort, Jack Torrance. How is Vincent Vega a movie villain? Oh, yeah, why is he on that? Oh, I went off. I used that as a suggested list, but maybe that's not a good one. Well, don't vote for him then. Don't vote for. Anton Chigur is in here, though. He's a good one. Yeah, he belongs in there. Yeah. Biff Tannen. Oh, man. A huge list. Right in your own. If you don't like my suggestions, there's another. And you just got to enter your address, your phone, or your email address. Make your vote known. And you could win a fun pack. Not next week, but the week after, because, you know, we can't do it while we're in Vegas. But we will give them away our first Monday.

after returning home from beautiful Las Vegas. So really have two weeks to submit your best movie villain. That is correct. You have more time than ever. So head on over to frogpants.com slash the morning form. And you could be our next big winner. Congratulations. Stoic squirrel says,

I'm going to write in Taco Bell. That's good. That's actually, uh, yeah, that's what we encourage. We encourage the trolling of the list. Kind of like we did, me and Tanner were up yesterday kind of late making the bot for the,

or making a bot work for giveaways in the discord. and it uses an emote of a little green checkbox for you to enter. I saw that, yeah, in the thing, yeah. So think about our community a little bit. They're a bunch of trolls sometimes, sometimes. What? Harmless trolls. They're not really hurting anybody, but they're trolls nonetheless.

I see the feud answers every week. I know we're dealing with. You know what you're dealing with. So what happened is everybody realized, oh, that's an avatar, or that's an emote I can just pull up and put in any of this to confuse people to wonder what emo or which one of the freaking green boxes to check. And they just loaded the thing up at these green boxes. It was kind of hilarious.

Anyway, you guys are chuckleheads. Let's move on to, oh, we got to get done away up in it. Let's get that going. Holy shit. Full day today, guys. It is. It is full day. I mean, no Stephen, obviously, but still, full day.

Full day. Oh, yeah. Stephen's a late-breaking dropout. His son cracked his tooth. Yeah. Has to rush to the hospice. not the hospice he's testing to see

if a gold coin was real and broke his tooth oh my lord that's crazy you know that's almost as bad as licking the cocaine that you found in the airplane bathroom

or whatever they did and that thing's right exactly um all right we're gonna bring done away in we're ringing him we're ringing him it's him

it's him here it is do do do do do do do do do do do hey done away welcome back to the show how the heck are you oh hi scott and brian happy monday to you sorry monday to you too i don't know why the music went up uh it's good to have you back man i hope your uh your weekend was good i know you went and did some fun stuff how was your weekend i did i went to south carolina comic con over the weekend and it was a lot bigger than I thought it would be. We spent the entire day, six hours of walking around in the convention center, going

through comic book boxes and looking at crap and, oh, man, I was like, there was at least three or four booths that had retro gaming stuff, and those were all super packed. They were super packed. I'm like, come on. They're not one of the ones that had to change their name away from the Comic-Con name. Oh, right. I don't believe so. They just said South Carolina Comic-Con.

I don't think it's maybe a spelt different. I don't think it's related to anything. The Salt Lake changed, the Denver changed, right? Didn't they? I can't remember. Yeah, Denver is now Fan Expo, yeah. That's right. We did the same thing.

That's so funny. They'll change it soon because the popularity is increased. Everybody changed it to Fan Expo, though. It's like, now we have the same problem again. I know. Denver Fan Expo and Salt Lake City Fan Expo. I guess so, yeah. Well, that's good.

Do you see any famous people? Oh, yeah, yeah. Tasha Yarr was there. Oh, that's cool. Did she look at you directly the whole time or hide her face from the camera the whole time you were there? Did she cover herself up and then use little action figures of herself to greet people? Yeah. Did that happen at all? No? Okay. I don't know. The convention center was really, they're going to have to expand next year because it was really too small in there. And I really couldn't see over all the really tall people, a lot of cosplay. stuff going on. I couldn't even see back there. Those lines were long and I'm like

I'm not here to see famous people. I'm here to look for crap. So I don't know. I didn't see what she was doing. Did the the ghost of Richard Hatch haunt your Comic-Con? Did he come around? No? No, but I kept sipping in like this black gooey stuff and I'm like, what is

this? It's the ectoplasm from Richard Hatch. Yeah, that's the light. And then it is a really deep cut for people. We'll maybe make a note to talk about that on a future TMS to talk about why we would say Tashiar would only show action figures of herself. Yeah. But yeah, I get, so for the Fan Expo, I'm on the list, so I get these notifications

of who's coming. And probably the weirdest one, but what I'm awfully curious about is Christy Brinkley and Chevy Chase coming to the Denver Fan Expo for autographs. Oh, man. I would look forward to him being a jerk to me. Could you be a jerk to me? Come on. I know. Yeah. Come on, Chevy Chase. I bet, you know, for 40 bucks, I bet you can have a picture of him looking disdainfully at you. It's totally worth it. Totally worth it, actually, yeah.

Or maybe checking his phone, right, while you're taking a picture. Oh, yeah, yeah. That would be the best. I still haven't had anybody that I know of, listener or otherwise, who has been able to see John Delancey in person and shaking his hand to confirm my theory about his hand. No one's ever really said. Keep in mind, it's dry in Vegas. You know, it's more humid in L.A. where he probably lives. It might have just been like a, oh, I ran out of moisturizer and I can't cue myself up some aloe vera.

You're not wrong. But his hand was so like, it was like almost like, I don't know how to explain this. His hands might not be perpetually crusty. Yeah, that's true. But they were like, they had deep chasms and high cliffs. Even Jennifer Aniston has to brush her teeth sometimes, right? I'll never shake Scott's hand again. He's got too much in for it.

Yeah, I got too much. You don't want to shake me. What's wrong with your hand? All right. Hey, good news here. We're going to play a game and it's going to be fun. So, Brian, hey, why don't you? Sorry, you got a little something. Oh, no, you're good now.

You ate it. Let's do the thing. It looks like you're... No, I thought you were chewing still. I didn't want to make you feel... Oh, no, no, no, no. What? Eating during the show?

Who on earth would do something like that? Especially the person who hates it with another people? people do it. Hey, let's talk about the morning asses. It's 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 correct. Three are incorrect. Depending on how confident you feel at the category, you can provide one, two, or three guesses, but if any of those guesses are wrong, you get zero points for that round. Get one right, you get a point, get two right, gets your three points, and get all three correct. You get five points for that round. The player with

the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. And contestants were pulled from members of the tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're going to be playing for James from America. He kind of lives all over, but he moved back to Missouri recently. Oh, all right. So James. Brian, you're going to be playing for Juan Cortez from Pascoe Washington. Nice.

Oh, hi, Juan. Yeah. So we're going to win. Yeah. Are you now? And prizes are going to be pretty cool. Winner is going to get Monaco and Amazing American Circus. And the runner-up is going to get Soul Blight.

Ooh, all good. All good games, courtesy of David Acres. Big thanks to David Acres for one of those together. All right. You guys ready? Let's start here. Yep, let's do it. We're going to start with the music category that is near and dear to my heart.

I want you to tell me which of these six names are David Bowie stage personas. Oh, my Lord. So which of these are actual David Bowie stage personas? Okay. Harlechino, man or astraman, the vampire king, Halloween Jack, Aladdin, Sane, and the thin white duke. Three of those are real David Bowie stage personas. You're hoping to see Ziggy Stardust on there.

I was. I was like, oh, where's the easy one? That would be an easy one. A lot of these others, I just don't, wow, I've got to, I've got to do some Bowie research. I'm going to go with the, uh, I'm guessing. It can't be Halloween. Oh, guess. All right, I'm going with that.

I don't know. Total guess. all right we've got two uh locked in uh folks here and both of you did settle on the thin white duke which is absolutely uh one of his stature sonas um the vampire king and man or astro man neither of which damn it oh man our uh our proscenos he actually had an album called aladdin sane and um so aladdin and jack really Halloween jack which uh i felt like that was bait Yeah, well, it was right answer bait. It was real.

Manor Astro Man is a surf rock band. I don't know Vampire King or Harlequino, but I would have actually believed that Harlequino or Kino was a David Bowie persona. Oh, yeah. That wouldn't have surprised me. I did. I selected Halloween Jack for a hot second. I'm sad. I took it off.

I wish I had kept it. All right answers. Look at that. All right side answers. All right side. I know sometimes it just works out that way. You never know. Never, never know.

All right, let's get to your next question here. This is short and sweet. Kings of England. Which of these six names are Kings of England? Thomas, Harold, Jasper, William, Andrew, Stephen. Three of those are actual Kings of England. The other three are Kings of Leon. No, I don't know what the other three are.

King Jasper, no way. Oh my gosh, I don't know these. It's got to be Jasper right Oh Jesus I'm locking in because those sound right And I'm sure Oh Brian those are fictional Or he was only a prince

Or he was the king of These are kings from legends of Zelda Right All right you guys have both locked in King William Yeah absolutely there was a King William King Harold There absolutely was a King Harold

There was not However, a King Andrew, no King Andrew. There was a King Stephen was the other right one. William, Harold, and Stephen were the correct ones. But you guys didn't take the Jasper bait, which is I'm very, very proud. Yeah, I almost did, though, because it just felt so baity and like, I almost did. William, we're about to get again when, when Grandpa dies over there in English, you'll get your William. This question, all of a sudden, this whole game will be pointless.

This whole thing will be. You have to rewrite it, Brian. That'll be a shame. We're like it is now. Pointless. Pointless We've got zeros Get it

Well, yeah So now Now you guys Really have to put the pedal to the medal here Now you know Now you're not committed to saying Oh I have to do three To be able to be competitive

Even one point Could win you the game If the person Other person Does this point All right Things that happen Every October

So which of these six things Which of these are things That happen every October the world series begins this feels like you're going this feels like you're going those first two were too hard let's ask them stupid questions

what happens in October well we'll see how well you'll see how well you do with these those stupid things right here things that happen every October the world series begins the UN generally general assembly convenes LGBT history month Canadian Thanksgiving

daylight saving time ends and Burning Man which of these six things, which three of these six things actually do happen every October. I'm going to go These things are doing their own thing. Doop, do, do,

do, do, do, do, do-de-do, do-de-do, do-be-doo-de-do. Um, I only have these. I'm doing too. These, uh, these feel uh, right. Uh, but you're going to tell me no is the, the converse.

There we go. All right. You guys did very well. The World Series begins. It does begin every October, the place of October, right? Canadian Thanksgiving does happen every October. Very good, Brian, you got that one. But ever since 2006 or 2007, daylight savings time moved to the first Sunday in November.

Damn it! First Sunday in November for the last 17 years for daylight savings time. Oh, I always forget that. History Month was the other thing that happens every October. Oh, I thought that was July. Show us what I know. Yeah. I know nothing.

Oh, July. Yeah, I don't know why. This is making people are really stupid. We have a Pride Day in July in Denver. So that's a, maybe it's a local thing that makes me think of summer. I don't know. Easily, yeah. All right.

Well, what do we do when we both lose? I can't remember how this works. Let's do a little. Tiebreaker. Time breaker question. Okay. All right. How many noodles can Brian, I bit put in his mouth?

Let's find out. All right. 21. Nope. Oh, this is a good question. All right. So let's go into space. Let's go to space.

I like space. Let's go to space. In the U.S., that's not really how the question begins. The U.S. space shuttle program ran from 1977 to 2011. How many shuttle launches were there? And Brian, you're the guest. We'll let you give your answer, and Scott will guess high or low. So from 1977 to 2011, how many?

space shuttle launches were there? Let me see. I would say that's a problem. Some years, I remember them launching twice and some

years just once. But then they also put up battle lights and we kind of stopped watching later on. Whereas the post of the earlier ones and we had three in service at one point in time. We did, yeah.

I think we had a total going to say seven space shuttles what are you going to say I'm going to see um 49 49 49 okay 49 is incorrect

Scott is the actual answer higher or lower than 49 um lower lower all right the actual answer is 135 Yeah, there's a lot. We had a lot of space shuttle. Oh, my gosh.

I figured it would be way more than I thought. Yeah. I thought it was less. I didn't think it would be that high. I was thinking maybe 80 would have been, 80 would have been my guess. So I think you were pretty close. But, yeah, actual space shuttle launches, 135. So, Brian, you win the game.

And that means that one Cortez from Pascoe, is going to win Monaco, an amazing American circus. But James from America is going. Sadly, not going to win Amazing American Circus. He's going to win Soul Blight, a very good game in its own right, going out to him. Oh, you rhymed. Yeah, did a good job. Congratulations.

You did it. You're a winner. You're a poet, and you didn't even know it. Well done. My legs know it. They're lung fellows. Ah, I see what you did there. That's great.

Well done, guys. And once again, Donaway and I proving that we're kind of dumb and don't know things. So that's a good time. Every round, you guys did get some right answers. Yeah, that's true. Here's the good news or the news of this week. We're doing Play Retro a day early because Dunaway's got some stuff on Wednesday. And so that's tomorrow, 3.30 Mountain Time, our old time of Tuesday, but normally it's Wednesdays.

So tune in then, join us. No confusion there. Yep. Donoay, tell us what we're covering because I'm very excited about it. Absolutely. We're recovering Populous. And I actually got in an Amiga A500 mini just for the purpose of, playing it there because that's where populace

started. It went on to be on the PC, DOS, and the Super NES and the Genesis and other devices. But it was the first real God game where you're making influences over

players that you don't control directly. You just to influence them. You cause natural disasters but also help them out with trees and stuff like that, right? You raise lower land. and if the people are excited enough, they send good vibes your way,

and you can use those good vibes to create an earthquake to the opposing gods of populace. And eventually you can rally everybody, and you can have Armageddon. And are the Armageddon? They are. They'll destroy each other until everybody's dead. Yep.

The whole God genre, God game genre, really invented by this game, and they really perfected it, in my opinion, with black and white, which we'll talk about as well as a kind of an ad on there. Was that the same guy who went on to do the sim games? Peter, Peter Mollonoo.

No, Peter Moulogneau, different dude. But he went on to do the, what it was called? Sim Ant and I had Sim Earth and Fable. No, you know who you're thinking of. It's, oh, I can't think of his name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Sim's guy is a whole different guy,

but, you know, all kind of cuts in that era. They're all kind of fun. And all that stuff, they, right, They took influence from this game. So, yeah, some Earth especially. Yeah, it's good stuff all around. Well, there you have it. Brian, I look forward to it.

And having you here is always just such a treat. It's like having a, I don't know, a fresh rain on a sunny hot day. Ooh, gross. Like rain on your wedding day. Don't forget. Don't forget Wednesday will also impact TMS. I will not, I will be out of town here. Oh, yeah.

So we'll have to figure something out. We'll have an alternative feud. We'll have an alternative few. Don't worry. We'll figure it out, but we'll miss you terribly. Which means I won't see you guys for like three weeks. Oh my gosh. No kidding.

Well, like a week and a half. Won't be that one. It won't be three weeks. It'll be like a week and a half. We'll be back here. Are you saying I'm dramatic? I'm saying you're dramatic. A week from today we'll be doing this again.

I'm saying your middle name is hyperbolic. You are Brian Hyperbolic Donneway. That's your middle name. H. All right. Wear it well. We'll see you later. Bye.

All right. Well, we'll have film sack on the 29. So come on now, Brian. Yeah, he's full of crap. Simber down. Oh, Will right. That's who, right.

That's the Sims guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he did the, what was the one that you could make a bunch of penises if you wanted? What was that called? What was the name of that? I don't know.

I got a 30 second delay on the chat today, so they're not going to tell me real quick. It's, I can't think of it. It's the one where you made a bunch of shapes and a bunch of people went weird with it and got made a bunch of phallic symbols and it was popular for that.

And I can't remember the name of it. But that was Will Wright's hot thing. And someone in the chat will tell us in about 10 seconds. All right. Let's move on. We've got, we'll do a little bit of news here before we take our break and get to some more stuff. So stick around. Here we go.

It is time for the morning news and it's brought to you by. Frogpants. Oh, you might wonder, is that the sandwich of the month club? No. Oh, I thought it was a thing that keeps. people from stealing my car, no? No, not that either. Not that kind of club either, it turns out. It is the kind you carry and beat your caveman wife with, just kidding. None of this is true. Oh, geez. Well, you know, cavemen times. I don't know what they did. They were notoriously bad.

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Today we were supposed to be telling you all about the new dungeon murder Kickstarter that was kicking off this morning, but we're waiting for Kickstarter to approve it. Oh, gotcha. It'll probably be tomorrow now. Yeah, it'll be tomorrow. So watch for that. At least I think it'll be tomorrow. They're usually like less than 24 hours.

so we'll see. Brian, a man shop lifted a scooter from a target, assembled it outside the store. Now he's arrested. Aw. Yeah, he's busted. He got scooters. Was it a pedal or was electric?

Like, how quickly was he able to get away? It was like the razor's non-electric. I guess still, the fact that he assembled it outside is not, you know, that's not like a instantaneous thing. You've got to take it apart, pull out those instructions, have a friend help you. I've seen the IKEA notes. Yeah, you know what's up. We just bought, we just found two Razor scooters for nine bucks total somewhere on some crazy deal.

And we're just going to give him to van, so he has one here and one of his house. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Nine bucks. I see those kids on the bike path all the time with them and they love them. They're making a comeback. Yeah, scooters are back, baby. Yeah.

Just don't, just don't, just don't, uh, skitch on the back of a truck as you go around, uh, the clock tower. Yeah. And, uh, you'll be fine. Or steal one. Oh, this one is an electric one, it turns out. It was an electric one now that I see it. Yeah. That's an expensive electric one.

Yeah, $540. Check this out. 28-year-old transient, I guess. I mean, you know, a homeless fellow. A person experiencing homelessness. Sure. That's what that means, right? It's a transient.

You're in transition between homes and not homes. Exactly. All right. It's a nice way of putting it. Anyway, he did this on Monday. $540-dollar-brand electric scooter at a Target store. And let's see, ended up at a Flagler County Jail on two misdemeanor accounts. he told the Flagler County Sheriff's Department

since he was homeless he didn't have a way to get around he needed a ride so he lifted one according to case the man was driving until 2018 if legally if illegally it says he has numerous arrests for driving on a suspended or revoked license was also in drug court several years ago and last year was convicted of third degree felony

of cocaine possession anyway the funny part of it is he bought it at the store went outside assembled to the parking lot And as much as like a non-electric one takes to assemble, I imagine an electric scooter takes even longer to assemble. Yeah, also, it's not a kind of thing you just hide in your pants, right? It's big. No, but maybe he did it the same way that I stole that NES back in the day where I just, or no, it was a big Cassio keyboard,

where I just basically went into Montgomery Awards, grabbed the keyboard, went to the closest unoccupied register desk, took some of that bright orange tape that says, you've paid for it, and it's too big to put in a bag, and then walked out of the store. So maybe he did exactly. Maybe he did that, yeah. Yeah. Oh, Brian in his reckless younger years, man. That's right.

I was horrible. It was horrible. Yeah. That's crazy, though. I mean, the, um, here's a question. If you get a DUI and your, your, your license is taken away. Yeah. Are you still able to drive electric vehicles like scooters and, oh, e-bikes and mopeds and

things like that? That's a great question. I imagine probably scooters and e-bikes, but probably not mopeds. Probably not mopeds because they're motorized. Maybe that's the distinguished. But also an electric motor is a motor. I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know. Maybe if it's sidewalk legal stuff like scooters and stuff, maybe you're fine. Maybe that's it. Yeah, if it can't be in the street, you're probably okay. Right, right. I mean, it seems like you'd want to do that. You want to be lenient in that one regard

so that people still have some, you know, method to get jobs and improve their standing and get a proper license eventually and all that, I would think. I would think, yeah. But I don't know. We treat people bad, so maybe we're terrible about it. And listen, come on. For $130, you can get an electric scooter on Amazon.

So jump on that one. Yeah, get on there. Make that happen, will you? Yeah. The Dalai Lama has apologized. We haven't talked about this yet. No. I'm so glad we're talking about this.

We were going to Thursday. We didn't get to it. But Dalai Lama has apologized after video circulates online of the Tibetan spiritual leader kissing a young boy and asking him to quote suck my tongue unquote so there's been a lot since then about this and some cultural stuff that yes sort of makes sense but it's still pretty effed um anyway the dali lama has apologized to a young boy and his family after a video surfaced of the leader kissing the child and asking him to suck my tongue went viral his holiness wishes to apologize to the boy and his family says the quote and well as well as many of his

friends across the world for his, sorry, for the hurt his words may have caused. This is what he tweeted from the official Dalai Lama account. His holiness often. At Dalai Lama 69. Yeah, Dalai Lama 69.com. Check it out. His holiness often teases people he meets in an innocent and playful way, even in public before cameras. He regrets the incident, he says.

ABC verified the video and understands it was from a public event in Dar. I'm not going to say this right. Darashmal. Jamshala. Dharasham. Yeah, just Darmshala. It's just Darmshala? Darmashala.

Darmshala. All right. India. That part of it. I knew that one real good. Very good. Yep. Tip of my tongue right there.

Where a number of journals were present in late February. The Dalai Lama statement said the young boy asked for a hug. The video shows him saying kiss here and pointed to his cheek prompting the boy to hug and kiss him. So there's been a bunch of stuff since about like certain tradition. Tibetan traditions and that it's not, it'd be like you going, oh, it's a good way of doing. I can't think of a good English or culturally appropriate way of comparing it. But it's like, if I said to Carter, she says, Dad, you're, you forgot to pick up all the dog crap or something. I'd say, kiss my butt.

And you would know what I meant by that, which would just be, go away or whatever. I would think Carter would as well. Yeah, but maybe in some cultures would hear us say that and go, I'm not trying to justify this, by the way. I still think it's, I still think it's really weird, okay? But they have gone on record to explain that it's a little like that. Okay. And I still don't quite know how it could be a little like that, but that's what they're saying.

So suck my tongue is a, we're saying that that is a, in India, that is a, like, or maybe Tibet. It might be, yeah, and it might be Tibetan only. And so it's even weird. I'm sorry, Tibetan. Yeah, where he's from. But, yeah, it's supposed to be like a thing that you would say, I can't find the right article here,

but it's basically a thing. This is how they tried to justify it. I still say it's freaking weird and doesn't make any sense to me. Agreed. So don't send me your emails going, quit trying to protect the Dalai Lama's latest dalliance with a sucking boy tongue. I'm not.

I'm not doing that. I'm just saying that's how they're explaining it. And have we ever felt like the Dalai Lama was involved in any sort of scandal? I mean, it's not like, you know, not the same situation as like a couple of Catholic priests or a few Catholic priests that, you know, put that horrible taint all over the, well, maybe a different word, but put a horrible cloud over the rest of the Catholic priest community. I don't ever remember the Dalai Lama being the subject of scandal, so it's, it should feel for folks like this is out of left field. He's the chosen one. It is the chosen scandal, is what you would say about this guy. Candle is what I'm saying.

Here's what I probably think. I probably think it's, like, I like everything, it's a little complicated, and this thing makes for really good headlines, so it's easy to freak people out or whatever. I don't think it necessarily means everything it sounds like it means, but I really don't know. Like, who knows? He's not known for big controversies, but, you know, like someone in the chat says it's like sports, people slapping each other on the butt. Totally normal in some cultures, like our culture.

If you're a football player and you're like, good job, we're out of the huddle, smack him on the butts, normal, you don't even think about it, but that might be crazy somewhere else, you know, I'm not saying, again, not justifying, telling a kid to suck my tongue. I don't know where that comes from. Yeah, well, Mark Salsi Lottwuk says, the correct phrase in Tibetan for this joke is, Chele-Sah, which roughly translates to eat my tongue. So it was just translated poorly into English, and I guess, eat my tongue, or Chele-Sah is, I don't know, like take my speech away kind of thing, right? Like it might mean something like that,

that then when you take it literally, it sounds like, suck my tongue. September says he owns a bunch of slaves. Is that true? I think those are just dedicated monks and stuff. I don't think he owns them. I don't think that's how that word. I could be wrong. I don't understand Tibetan monkery, right?

I'm not an expert. I don't know what the monkeys are the monkeys. The monks do. Hey, hey, we're the monkeys. But I'm curious about it. Anyway, that's the thing. That's going on. People are...

Oh, well, Chele-Lae Sa. You know what they say. Yeah. You never know, Brian. Kiss my butt, suck my tongue. Same thing. Here's a story about two men hospitalized after a game of Monopoly

ends in a sword fight. Your favorite game. Wouldn't it be great, though, if they were little sword, like pewter swords? Right, like the size of the little player pieces. Yeah, and I had to protect myself with a thimble, put it on my pinky, block your hit.

Sure. That's not what they did. Monopoly game in Brussels, so not Florida. That's just an important thing to note here. Belgium, man, Belgium. Turned bloody after an irritated man. Wow. Irritated man.

What's his power? Well, he's in Brussels, so he's irritated, but he's going to go console himself with a big bowl of fries with mayonnaise, because that's what they do in Belgium. Belgium, Excelsior. There you go. Nailed it. We haven't done one of those in a bit. Let's see. Where was I here? Oh, so he's this irritated, man.

Approach the players with a Japanese samurai sword. Police say the fight erupted around 5 a.m. 5 a.m. You're playing too late. What are you doing? That's when the other game probably started like two days earlier, too. Yeah. It's like risk. You're like on week three of this stupid risk game. Yeah, exactly. On April 2nd, when a group of four people had been playing the popular board,

game on a sidewalk outside their home. Local paper La Libre Belich reported. You've been there? You've been to that paper? I've never been to a paper outside the U.S. The participants were loud enough to wake up their neighbors, father and son, who came outside to ask the group to leave. Things quickly got overheated. Between the players and the father's son duo, resulting in the sun, bringing out a katana sword for defense is his claim. That's in quotes. After the men started physically fighting, the sword, scabbard got damaged,

exposing the blade of his sword. Oh, he kept the thing on. Oh, right. Oh, you know, the, the scabbard is the, not the, it's not the sheath. The scabbard is the little covering that blocks the hand holding it. Oh, like a foil, the little bell dome thing. The little disc that covers it, I believe, God, I might be, I might be confusing things here. Hold on a second.

I don't actually know. No, scabbard, I'm sorry. You're absolutely correct. I'm wrong. The scabbard is another word for a sheath. What is that, that other thing? Oh, I don't know what that's called. Does that have a name?

Yeah. I always thought that was the scabbard, but you're absolutely right. It's the hand blocker. I have no idea. I'm not a swords guy. Sorry, everybody in the chat. By the way, somebody in here said, I miss Claire. Where is Claire?

Claire loves Google. She should be here. She's all about that Android. She's all about that Google. Exactly, yes. What's she doing? Is she home going, I'm making a pot of gin in my me tub. Is that why she's not here?

some bathtub gin is what she's doing what is going on oh hilt it's a hilt yeah i said that a minute ago oh i missed it yeah the first people started saying that in chat yeah i missed it the hilt hilt of course it's a red on air hilt yeah it's a red on air hilt i knew i don't know why i should feel like i should have known it was hilt that's stupid because it's like oh all the way up to the yeah you stabbed him with all the way to the yes it happens all the time stabbing him with a sword mal all right where we were here oh uh local spokesman told the paper the player tried to grab the katana or removed from the holster. Is it called a holster?

Now don't say holster when you said scabbard before, J. Post. Yeah, do they mean? What do they mean? I don't know. I mean, the holster is the scabbard, basically. Wounded and arrested after Monopoly Spark, Katana. Oh, that's another headline. I don't know why that's in here.

Ultimately, both the son and the one of the Monopoly players were wounded or one of them were wounded and reportedly both taken to the hospital where the son who was struck in an artery remains in critical conditions. well he brought the sword out I feel like Monopoly by the sword die by the sword wow she's not really in chat

yelling at everything is she or like in Twitch chat all by herself yelling in caps so they're making that up apparently Justin rated the Frog Pan's Twitch channel

because he couldn't come here to the to the YouTube see that's why we're testing it this week we've got to see what things how things go different aspects of the process we don't think about

until they happen That's why we're testing. All right. Right. Oh, Samantha Jane is helping us out. Hilt is the handle. The pommel is the round thing on the end of the hilt, the guard, unless it's a foil, and then it's got another French stuff. Ben, what about this?

What about this holster business? Can we even use it in this context? I don't think we can we? Sure. I mean, it's, you know, it's the scabbard sheath is probably, sheath and scabbard are probably the more appropriate terms. But, because I think, I think only guns go in holster. right but again i i was confused about my uh my scabbard uh terminology a minute ago so what do we know we don't know what do we know we're not experts but we do play them on tv all right that's

going to do it for today's news we're going to take a break when we come back dan dan the tabletop man will be here and it's been a bit since we're excited to have him back we were going to have stephen he had a thing come up best wishes to his son's tooth chip crack yeah that's no fun The Sunchip, getting looked at the hospital. Yep, sunchips. Hmm. I'm in the mood for those right now. Anyway, that's going to do it for that.

Let's take a break and play a song. What do you got for us this week? Yeah, we go from the news to Newski. This is an alt-geek rock band from Wisconsin called Newski. They have a brand new album. It's called Friend Rock. Just came out last week via Nomad Union. The album features members of Not a Surf, Guster, the Verve, Pipe, and more.

So they are, you know, got quite the... pedigree of people joining them for this one. Brian Richie, one of the members of the Violent Femmes quotes, I like the sound and the way he is forcing the world to contend with him. Ooh, that sounds great. Here is the brand new single from New Ski and their album Friend Rock. It's called Only Macaulay Culkin can save us now. Oh my Lord, you're you're dead serious. That's the name of this thing. That is the name of the song. Oh my gosh. That's amazing. All right. Here it is. We'll be back in a minute. Stay tuned. Catherine O'Hara cracking crooked smiles at me on the TV

Indica, I'm in the couch. The madge of nothing building up. More propaganda today for lunch Never trust a man who drinks Mountain Dew When he wakes up We got what we wanted We're all micro-celebrities Who thought it'd feel like penitentiary

Information's the new religion I check my pocket got all day Don't care if it's poison As long as it's got some taste I don't know who to believe In the world of actors We need a savior Some real star power to sort this out

The collie Culkin Where are you now Where are you now Where are you now? Where are you now? Where are you now? If we've learned anything Freedom is real when you stop breathing

I'll work through the spiritual material in the morning Discipline, what a myth You can still get paid for talking shit Where I strategize when you can win Arguments with value There's no one left to lead Or is there? In the world of actors, we need a savior.

Some real stop power to sort this out And call the call in, where are you now? Where are you now? Where are you now? Right now Wait, are you now? Wait, are you gaming? On a Chromebook?

Yeah, it's got a high-res 120-hertz display, plus this killer RGB keyboard, and I can access thousands of games anytime, anywhere. Stop playing. What? Get out of here. Huh? Yeah, I want you to stop playing.

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Spear said, Shit happens. This is the morning stream. And we've returned. Welcome back, everybody. Who was that again? That song. That was a band called Nuski, N-E-W-S-K-I,

just like you think it would be spelled. Brand new album is called Friend Rock. That is the first single from it. Only Macaulay Culkin can save us now. Oh, that's great. Also weird, but great. Yeah, weirdly great. Yeah.

greatly weird is the best way to put it let's add dan to the call it's been a bit since we have seen dan have been a minute is the kids say yeah the kids say yeah the kids all say it they do i totally won't be uh like sneaking a bite or two of noodles while uh dan's talking no you should go for it do it while they're still viable you know it's too late they've stopped being viable there's no viability left here's a danger for him be careful may cause drowsiness well well well look who it is it's Dan Dan the Tabletop Man joining us. Hi, Dan. Greetings programs. Hey man. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Oh, you know, just, uh, I'm still traveling. Even though the season's over, we're still traveling for hockey. You do that. You do that a lot. Let me, let me just put this in perspective. You have traveled. I had three

children. I think you have traveled more for one just for hockey than I did for all three of mine combined. I'm pretty sure. That's correct. Yeah, it's possible. And well, the good thing is, well, good or bad like we the bad thing is we haven't been on an actual like family vacation in probably five to seven years yeah but we're constantly places for hockey but that's not really like a vacation because you know you do some things here and there's not just there's there's a lot going on and it's more stressful i mean vacations can be pretty stressful isn't it yeah yeah that's true well if you guys go to a cool place you'll try to have a little bit of a you know little excursion or something right yeah i mean we'll go to some like museums and stuff like because there'll be days

maybe we'll have an off day or we don't start or we get to someplace a little early and stuff like that. So we may do that or we may catch you like a local sporting event or things like that. So you see some of the sites, some of the crazier term is like when we were up in in North Jersey for Nationals, you know, we were done on whatever it was Saturday because we got, we just got trounce. But we just got to nationals, which is a huge, you know, a huge thing to say, like to get to Nationals. There's only 16 teams in the country that get to go to nationals and we were one of them. so we were but we were done a little early from that so a lot of people went to new york city and stuff yeah i mean i'm from up there so we just went home so it's like yeah yeah yeah you go you go to you got a nathan's dog or something what do you do when you go home long island what's your

favorite thing you know you may want to see the the world trade center memorial and some other things you know and go to some of the good delis up there see the sites you know see what uh time square and uh sure you know even the statue of liberty see there's a lot of famous got a twenty Or Pistrami at the Carnegie Deli. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And it is, see, that's one of those things where it's worth like every penny because it's so good. Yeah.

Wow. No argument. No. It's totally true. Well, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. That's what they tell you. I was going to get a little different next year because DJ is going to prep school next year. He's going to be going up to Canada.

Oh, my Lord. Wow. And a nice brick and mortar kind of prep school and playing at a really nice play, a real good hockey. but even better the academics up there compared to some of these public schools down here in North Carolina. It's just so good. The student-to-teacher ratio is nice and low, and he's going to have a lot of good academics. So he'll be up there for – he reclassed a sophomore again, so he'll be up there for three years playing hockey in Canada. Oh, that's great.

If he gets – if he takes a puck to the beak, he can – he gets free health care now up there. That's right. He is a goalie, so he takes a lot of pucks to the beach. Oh, yeah. This would be great. Take care of them. That's awesome. Well, good luck in Canada. Dan, it's good to have you back. We're going to talk about a couple things here real quick before we get your recommendations for board games and good time, family time. I got a question for you.

Yes, sir. That injectable gut thing. What's it called? It's like a miracle weight loss thing, but diabetics are supposed to be using it, but it's like... Oh, is that OZMPIC or something like that? Well, so Zempec is one that they use. So it's all in the same kind of drug class that the GLP ones, what they call. And I think it's semaglittide, which is in a couple of the different ones. So there's Wagovi that you'll see some that's marketed specifically for weight loss. Yeah. So, and it's basically the same thing as the OZempic, because basically this, I'm pretty sure those are the ones.

They're all what we call, you know, Me Too drugs, but they're all basically the same JLP1. But one's Luragritide, one's semiglite. They're all basically the same thing. Yeah. Because you've got Trulicity, Ozempic, Bayetta. Uh, there's like five of them that are out there now. Bidurian is another one of those. So what they do is they kind of help with GI motility.

And they basically help to, they actually aren't really good with when it comes to weight loss. But you'll get this, it's kind of like any other diet. Wait till I finish before we have any of any comments for this. Because what I say is like it's like other diets because you lose a lot at first. Right. Then you got to work a little bit harder.

That's what I mean by it's like other diets because there's really good results early. And then you just really have to keep working with because it's not a mirror. I mean, it almost is a miracle drug, but it's not a complete miracle drug. You're not just going to shed 200 pounds, you know, in a year, but it's going to help you with a lot of the other diet and exercise because it's going to help with your hunger and keeping everything. You just like anything else, you've got to buy in. You know, it's, I'm not going to poo the drug because it's, it definitely works and it's good, but you just can't use it as the only, you can't just say, oh, I'm on this now. I'm just going to eat like crap. Well, there's a lot of that going on, though, right?

Like a lot of people are just buying it. Hence the shortage. But a lot of people are getting prescribed this because they're thinking this is their fast. At least it's a fast kickstart to get where they want to go, right? The celebrity, it's the current celebrity hot thing. Yeah, for sure. Oh, yeah. They said, people were saying, oh, Zempec is the new Adderall because everybody's just got to get on it.

You know, it's like, it's a new hot drug. I'm pretty sure that's how everybody trying to use it. I think it's how post Malone lost all his, he lost like 50 pounds or something. Oh, wow. And I think he did. I think this was how he did it. So, okay. that makes sense right these are like the gummy in Vegas if somebody brings me a

little zempigone I'll try one well I'll say that so god with a lot of those things there's a lot of um there is one there is one actually there may be more than one but there's only one that I can think of off the top of my head and that's ribelsis and you'll see some of those commercials and obviously you can't use more than one of those particular medications together and you also can't use them with another diabetic medications the dPP4 is you can't use them with those uh which is i believe genuvia is one of those that some people be on again this is primarily a type 2 diabetic medicine, is what they're using for. But it also, kind of like Viagra, where the side effect is boners. So like, that's actually, right. Viagra is actually a heart

medicine initially. Yeah, that they accidentally found. Yeah. And now it's only known for, it's only known for boners now. Exactly. Right. Oh, and it's amazing for pulmonary hypertension. There are a lot of children that are on, like, you know, infants that are on Ravadio because they're preemies and they may have, um, uh, uh, chronic. long disease, things like that, or a pulmonary hypertension, where they'll use this in liquid form to, it helps out with the hypertension, the pulmonary hypertension, then they obviously get off it, but it does have a lot of good use, the, you know, Viagradilililil, but, and actually, there's another, the other afills, the, because Ravadio isn't exactly

syldenafil, but again, anyway, same drug classes, you know, using things for their side effects. There's a lot of medication that, you know, in different strengths, you know, propitia is another one where it's a prostate medication, but at a, lower strength, they found that, hey, this prostate medication makes you grow hair. So let's market it as one milligram and we'll get you, you know, growing your hair back. Grow a little bit of hair. Yeah, that makes sense. So I guess I'm asking you, and for those who are like, wow, Dan should knows a lot about

this and I've only heard Dan the first time ever. He's a pharmacist. He knows this stuff. He knows his drug classes. He knows all this stuff. So the reason I'm asking all of this is Ozympic and those like it that are now currently kind of hard to get for, well, first of all, it's a whole other issue to talk about why it's a pain for, you know, actual diabetic patients trying to get that stuff

and can't because a bunch of people are trying to lose weight. I get the whole supply and demand problem. But is it true that my, so here's my comparison. In D&D or something like it, right? Some spells have really positive effects. So you're going to do like a spell and it's going to be an AEO spell and it's going to take out like four goblins. Cool spell, right except it causes four levels of exhaustion and minus two to strength when you use it right is that a fair way of a little bit of drawbacks is that the whole that's the whole pharmaceutical world isn't it it's like yes it benefits but then you got to take some stat some stat hits down on the bottom it's like electro you can play this card and get one extra energy every turn but you're only you'd be

able to play one card every turn going forward exactly yeah yeah yeah so so then you send them on over to the other side with Viperin and piss off the other person really bad. Wait, what does Vipron do? What does that do? Is that a thing? Do I know what that is? No, Viper is a card in. Oh, I thought it was, I thought it was a drug. Ask you a doctor if Viper is right for you. Did you say Viper in or just Viper? I thought he said, Viper. I thought he said Viper. I'm hearing like pharmaceutical terms when there are none. Don't take Vipron. If you're allergic to Vipron. Well, speaking of games, let me get it to that side effects. I think you were, I think you

asking about basically the side effects of those, you know, these new so-and-so miracle drugs. Yeah. So there are a little bit, you know, some people will actually get some diarrhea. And again, it's, I mean, it's not necessarily a side effect, but the thing that is hard for some people to grasp is that it's not always going to be easy. Like, you're going to have those effects. And that's kind of why they do a little bit of, they titrate up the dose where you may start off with 0.5 and then ramp up to two milligrams of like the Wagovi to do those sort of things. And then, again, you still have to really buy into it. It's like, even like smoking cessation, like you, you can take drugs to help get rid of that craving, but you really got to, you really got to put the work in to stop, stop, you know, the physiological and the physical addiction to things.

Same thing with food and diet and exercise. You really got to kickstart your body into gear. There's only so much you can do. And again, you're going to get some, you know, mostly the diarrhea and just kind of getting your body used to it are some of those in stomach. sometimes just the GI side effects are basically the main ones that you see there. Yeah, I've heard, so my doctor said that if you take that stuff, you don't want to eat, you want to slow, you want to cut way down on what you're eating. Because for one thing, it's a diet or what do you call it?

It's a diets or a, what do you call it when you're, like an appetite suppress? Appetite suppressant. I was what I'm trying to say. It's that, but it's also, so you have this feeling of eating full faster, you're not hungry as often or whatever. if you are eating, you can get like really bad heartburn if you eat your normal half of pizza or whatever the crap you're doing. Right, because it does absolutely interfere. I wouldn't say interfere, but it actually does work on the GI motility, what they call

like kind of how fast things go through your GI tract. And by doing that, that's where it kind of evens out some of the blood sugar into the bloodstream. That's why it's a great type two medication because you don't have those spikes that you normally would have. And also, again, by making you feel full, you're not going to eat as much and have even more of a spike. So it helps even all of that out. Uh, and with type two is that they use like the basal insulin, it's going to help kind of make everything a little bit more in

range. Yeah. Uh, because the biggest problem is when your body is, you know, when your bloodstream is just swimming in sugar, it loves that. It makes you feel great. You just love all that. And then the biggest problem that I begs have is when your shit blood sugar for like the last year has been sitting at 300 where it shouldn't be anywhere near that. But when you start coming down, even a hundred down, which is still way high and you're still in a 200s, you're going to feel like ass. Yeah. And you're supposed to. to feel like you ask because your body has to get used to not having everything swimming in blood sugar.

You just, once you get back, once you get over that hump, you know, kind of even like things like, uh, caffeine people drink a lot of sodas a day when they're trying to get off. You're having a headache.

Oh yeah. But once you get past that, you'll be all right. Yeah, it's not so bad once you're done. That caffeine, that headache caffeine thing. I went through that once with years ago with Coke,

you know, stopping, uh, soda caffeine. And man, what a, what a headache that was. Oh,

God. I know. Yeah. Like if Brian, if Brian quit, If I quit coffee. Yeah, you're a regular coffee drinker. What that meant, do you think you'd get pretty goofed if you didn't?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Absolutely, yeah. Because it's even, I think it's even higher caffeine than Coke. I mean, I know it is. I think it is. So stopping this would be like, you know, my head headaches would be a horrible. Well, just think about all the memes are all like, you know, the everyday thing, you know, people say all the time is like, I haven't had my coffee yet.

Don't talk to me. Well, that shows you right there. There's something to it, it turns out. It does. Turns out it's real. Okay. Well, drink all your coffee and let's play some board games. What do you have to recommend this week? You get to be cool? I've got a couple here and you're both. Actually, sometimes I come on and I'm like, oh, this is a Scott game or this is a Brian game. You know, just for whether it be rules or complexity. But these are both. I feel like these are both. Deadly wigs. Ah, it's a Scott game. Bring it on. Let's do it. Connect four. Go ahead, Scott. Have fun with that one. And, oh, back to the Monopoly thing. You guys are talking about Monopoly earlier. Yeah. Yeah. Can I throw a tangent for you?

Please. Sure. Real quick one. So we were talking about Monopoly and how, and now my favorite game. I mean, I've used, you know, it's got a place in every, you know, everybody's collection. And it's fine. And I always say that, and I threw it in a chat, that if you play with that free parking rule, you're guaranteed to make your monopoly last at least an hour longer. Because that's basically a house rule.

It's a free funding. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. When you put more money into a game that's about bankruptcy, you're obviously going to make it harder for other people to be bankrupt. up and it's going to take forever. Now, some of the newer games, they had, I'm trying to remember what the name of it.

It was that Mario one. Oh, the Mario Monopoly? Yeah, it was like a Mario Kart Monopoly to play it completely differently. And, man, we had such a good time of Spanolos. Yeah. Oh, my God, it was, and it's really good. And even some of the ones kind of like, there's a Lord of the Rings one,

where there's a ring that goes like the opposite way around. Like, some of these newer IP ones that they've really innovated how they play, it helps to reduce the time of it and having the IP on it a lot of times now sometimes it's just a straight like blah blah opi like salt lake oply those are just re-skins and they're the same game like but some of the newer

when they're put out by the OP which is used to be the op um trying to think what the the op is is op it's uh the opally it's a company that makes monopoly now it the OP is uh the op is who makes all these newer versions and such um you know it's all Hasbro related everything And they've got all the licenses.

But when they put out those cooler, newer ones, those I really, those I do recommend to check out because they're just, they're just fun. Yeah. I like that they're doing that. It isn't just a re-skinned. Reskins are boring. Absolutely. They're fun at once. They're fun early on.

You're like, oh, check it out. It's like Warcraft. Because look at the name of this. It's not boardwalk anymore. It's freaking Orgermar. That's pretty funny. Right. But then you're like, okay, I'm done with this.

This is basically monopoly after that. And, oh, yeah. So I have these little Arthus figure that I get to go around. Yeah, great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, right, exactly. That stuff wears off pretty quick, I think. Very cool.

One thing that is an IP game that Fantasy Flight put out, I believe about a month or two ago, is Star Wars the deck building game. Now, this is a really, I love deck building games, famously just, I just can't get enough of them. But this is kind of a very good entry level because it introduces a little bit from a lot of games that people are familiar with, whether it be Hero realms or Star Realms, even some of the DC deck building games. A lot of them have very similar. kind of base to it because you're just basically you have cards you start off with your 10 card hand and you're playing five cards at a time you know you get a hand of five cards

and you're just getting power but what's cool about which makes it a little bit different is because you're acquiring cards in center row or you're attacking cards so you're either the alliance or the empire you know the rebel alliance or the empire and there's a force track on the side that goes back and forth because you can get the force in your favor you know going back and forth and if you get it all the way on your side you'll get you know extra point you know you get extra resources per round, and then there are some cards that may trigger up that. But what's also very cool is that you've got kind of a base. You can start up, you know, the base game that you start off with the introductory game,

you want to just basically play like three bases. You may have like Yavin or Hath and, you know, three of them. But you play one at a time, and it'll give you an ability as you're playing. And then once the other side defeats your base, then you choose which one of the bases you have left to put in a play, and it'll give you a one-time initial ability. Now, also in the center row, there's going to be alliance cards, neutral cards, and then empire cards. And you can actually attack.

So if I'm the Empire player and Luke comes out, it's middle row. If I have enough battle, I can defeat Luke out of the middle row, get an ability for it, and it keeps you from getting Luke into your deck. So there's that back and forth. There's some ships that'll come in on your side to help protect your big base. It's just a really good, again, it's pretty entry level for the deck building genre, but I think it's really good. And what they're probably trying to do is just appeal to just people that will see Star Wars and want to get it.

and they don't have to read famously like, you know, Scott, you don't have to read 30 pages of rules. You can learn this game and either, and Fantasy Flight's really good about putting out videos that teach you how to play the game in like five minutes, or you can read like two or three pages and you absolutely know how to do it. A really, really fun game for whether you're a novice or,

or experience game. What is the, sorry, give me the full name of the game again? It's Star Wars, the deck building game. The deck building game. The deck building game. Yeah, Star Wars, colon, the deck building game. Okay. The artwork on these cards.

is great like you know again they've got it looks like new artwork for the characters and even introduction of some some new characters in this thing um plus it looks like it's a you know pretty fun quick easy game like you said to play yeah and you can vary the the play length too because you depending on how many bases you want to play they tell you if it's your first time play with three bases each and they'll tell you in the book like which ones to actually use and they've got characters from all over the uh the star wars universe and i think some of this art is probably from some of their earlier Star Wars IP games that they put out because I think because they did have they originally had a what's called Star Wars the card game which was a living card game and it's that also was a lot of fun but it's a lot more complex than this so don't confuse that with this and if you maybe if you're looking for that complexity this isn't gonna you know really scratch that edge but it is this is not the game you're looking for no I see it did there it's got a really really good reviews everywhere people seem to really dig it yeah Oh, yeah, it's really, really good.

So, and some of the FLGS is out there, they may still have, you'll see in some of the pictures on Meiji, the sleeves for it. They've got kind of this, it's basically the, I think it's the same thing as what's on the front of the box, and they have the card sleeves for it. And now, card sleeves are great, but when they start putting out expansions, you're either going to have to get more card sleeves or just not sleeve them at all. I happen to just get them because they came with it. You know, I bought the game, and it happened to just be a promo for it. Sure. Uh, but I just, I forgot how much, when you start off as being, you start getting into that hardcore collecting gamer, you're like, oh, sleeve, sleeves, sleeve, sleeve. And then after you're a season gamer that doesn't really care anymore, you're like, oh, I just can't shuffle with sleeves. It's a pain in the butt to shuffle with sleeves. Yeah. It's a little more bulky. Sometimes they break and it just, just a pain. But it does add some fun. And, you know, if you're playing a game like, uh, magic and stuff and you've got sleeves on there, there are games. Like, I still sleeve my gloom haven, but there are different types of sleeves because these, these, these, these IP sleeves are a little thicker

than your normal, like, penny sleeves that you would get for, like, Magic the Gathering, because those are kind of made to shuffle a bit. Sure. Whereas these are a little thicker and a little bit more of a pain. I should have consulted with you here recently. I know you got a lot of shelves full of games and all that, and you probably got some that are

worth a lot of money, some maybe that aren't so much. And I've had this one wrapped game. I don't even remember the name of it now because I've already shipped it and I can't, I couldn't tell you. I have to look it up. But I had this board game that was wrapped, given to us as a gift, didn't think much of it. put it on eBay, put it for what I thought, seemed reasonable, looked at some other, you know, open versions,

but this was unopened. And some guy freaking sniped that thing in two seconds after I posted it. Oh, wow. I'm sure I undersold it. 100% sure I could have made more than it. I don't know what. So from now on, when I was, I don't remember the name.

Let's see if I can look it up on eBay, actually. I might be able to do that quick. But what I need to do is just remember, oh, no, if you're going to put a board game up there, you talk to Dan first because he'll know. Yeah. I don't know why I didn't think of it. I'll know what the going rate is or what's good.

I hope it wasn't the Star Wars, the Queens Gambit that was, it's been one of those hard. It's a hard to find game. It's not, I don't know why nobody, they've never reprinted it because everybody's been looking for that game and it's a, it's a high dollar a game for sure. Let's see, which one is it? Okay, I found them. It is. Scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll. It is or was.

Here it is. River Horse Studios, Jim Henson's Labyrinth, the board game. really labyrinth the board game. Yeah. And I have two of these, one that's unwrapped. I'm keeping that one. And then this one, I don't know even why it happened. It probably got it a nerdtacular or something. I don't know, but I have an extra one. And so I put it up there, went for 25 bucks

plus shipping, but immediately, which makes me think, damn it, I could have probably, this is probably like 100 bucks, 150 bucks. It was made in 2016 or something, but it's it's a like, you know, full-blown labyrinth game. So it's, you know, retro and looks like, you know, it's David Bow.

Yeah, you might have just found somebody that was their, it was kind of their grail game. Yeah, could be. I haven't heard a lot of people looking for that particular one. Is it a David Bowie codpiece playing, playing piece? Yeah, if you're a codpiece fan, or maybe they're just fans of the guy that stood behind him with his hand through his armpit doing the balls.

Handling his balls. Yeah, handling his balls for him. That might be it. Well, anyway, my commitment, Dan, is next time is to talk to you first because why the hell wouldn't I? Right? I'll help you out any time you need. I'll leave you one more before I head out.

Yeah, go for it. Because I really, really like this game, too. And it was on Kickstarter last year, and it fits. So this is why I think this is definitely a Scott game, because if anybody knows Scott, they know he likes post-apocalyptic-type things. I like post-apycliptic as well. But yes. Yes, I do.

Is it still post-apaclytic? Sure. Yeah, easy for me to say. So this is called Maximum Apocalypse Wasted Wilds, and it's a post-apocalyptic game. You know, it's not a lot of the post-apocalyptic game. man, that's the word of the dead. Why'd you pick this game, Dan?

I know. Most of these themes usually end up in zombies of some sort. And there may be a faction in the game that does have some zombies, but this is not really a zombie game, not like zombie side or the apocalypse. This just kind of has that apocalyptic feel. And what's really cool is, I don't know if we've ever talked about this, and we can go into this another day, but some really games that do a really good job, some games do a really good job of teaching you the game as you're kind of reading the rulebook.

And they even tell you, like, hey, set this up and play while you're reading this because you'll learn all the rules as you're reading kind of the rules and it really helps you to kind of learn there are even some games that'll ship you like they'll have a block of cards and you know they'll even tell you before you even open a rulebook don't shuffle the cards because this is how our tutorial is going to go

we have the cards specially packed in a certain way for the you know for to teach you this game because it'll tell you oh this card is going to come out next okay now draw a card and this is what it'll be and this is how you use it. So this does a similar way of that. But what's cool about this is it's got a bunch of different missions. There's a couple of different campaigns that come in the game. But the whole idea about the game is your, you're a bunch of survivors, and there's different missions in the game that you have to do.

Like, it may just be kind of exploring the land, getting some gas and food, finding a way out of this area, and then getting back to the truck with the gas. Now, there'll be face-down kind of tiles that it's all randomized, and then either monsters may appear as you're kind of playing, and then you're, you've got to tackle them or you've got to be able to deal with them. There's also kind of environmental factors you've got to deal with as you're playing the game. And then there'll be different factions. Like, as you're playing the game in different missions, some factions actually have kind of morale where you can kind of get them on your side or you can get them really angry at you. So that's another kind of twist to everything.

But as you're playing a game like this, it's real fun because it almost feels like you're playing either a book or a movie or something. And this is a expansion, not expansion. It's a standalone expansion because it's the second one because there was a real, you know, regular maximum apocalypse that came out. But this is Wasted Wilds, which brings out more missions, newer survivors to use, and just a lot of different kind of new different factions to go against you as well. I highly recommend this because you don't have to have the first one or even play the first one.

But this is a lot of fun. Rock Manor games, and this is by Mike Nade. He does a lot of good, he's designed a lot of different types of genre games, which is really cool that it's not just one type of game that he's done. He kind of branched out to a bunch of things. You can play this one to four players. I play this solo a bunch over the past couple of weeks, just trying it out. And I really enjoyed it.

It just, it sets up easy, tears down pretty easy, and you can kind of save your progress. And it has, and Scott, you'll probably dig this. This is amazing. When you see some games that have these inserts that come with the game, like nobody had to buy this insert, it just kind of comes with the game. And it's just perfect, like these kind of molded inserts that's like more, more nowadays. So many publishers are pimping out their games with these inserts and stuff. Yeah. I love the inserts are cool.

The art's always awesome. I like these little figures, too. These are cool. They're really cool. Are they pre-painted, I think, these figures? No, they're not. I mean, you may be able to find a version that is. They might have had it as a stretch goal.

Yeah. But I know the copy I have has just regular minis. Oh, this looks awesome. You know, gray. All right. This looks really good. Brian can paint them. Yeah, Brian's a painter.

You can paint them. Yeah, just add them to my list. Add them to my to do list, which is... Add them to your cue. Behind all the entire X-Men, Marvel United X-X-Men expansion. and two-thirds of the original Marvel United. Damn, that's a lot of stuff. What we really just need to do is give Brian another game

to put more miniatures behind all those. Yeah, and don't forget, I've got Marvel Vombie. Zombicide coming and Marvel United Multiverse at some point as well. So I know, listen, I know painting is my Zen place and I really need my Zen place right now and I have not been to my Zen place in a few weeks. So I think I need to just isolate an hour a day and say, I'm not looking at email.

I'm not answering my phone. I'm going to paint, and that's all I'm going to do. I think that's a great. I need to do more of that, too. I totally like that. Self care. Yeah, self care, right? That's our kind of self care.

I talked about this two weeks ago, and I said I was going to do it, and I need to do it. When you start getting used to it and start getting good, and I mean, obviously, anything you paint yourself is going to look good to you. It's kind of like cooking. Like, it's going to taste better when you do it. But there's just something about painting something yourself and playing with those pieces in the game that, you know, it's just a, it's just a, amazing. And Brian, I've seen some of your stuff. You're really, really good. Johnson, I think you'd be a good painter. Oh, I would. I'm just terrible. Let you get over that little bit of hump of learning. Yeah, I've used to do it. The problem is, me and messy paint, we just don't

get along. We're just not friends. And I don't know why. Like, even in high school, I hated oil painting. I hated acrylic. I just wanted to do ink and pen and pencil. I hated all that stuff. So I'm not really a good, wet media guy, but it wouldn't be a bad idea of challenge. But this would be so much more controlled. tiny brushes, you wouldn't have as much of a way to get messy with it. That's true. Aside from what you get on your thumb,

right here. Yeah, like, because I, you know, that's how I sharpen the point of my brush before I start painting something. It's like, bloop, bloop, bloop. Then later you make a little face out of it and go, you do. You say, salarite.

Oh my gosh, that's a throwback. Callback. Dan, I think the next time you come on. But I will warn you. Oh, go ahead. Before I get it, I will warn you, and I warn everybody out there, If you do start to paint and you get the bug, it ain't cheap. Oh, no, it's not.

It can go places, especially like these 40K people. It's a lifestyle. I don't know how they do it. I love what they're doing. I don't think I could. Dan, next time you come, I want, can you do this? Like, next time, like top five solo game experiences with board games tabletop? Let me write that down.

Because I get asked this a lot. For whatever reason, people are always like, can you're like this, as soon as a dungeon murder launches, hopefully tomorrow. People keep asking me, can I play this solo? And they can't unfortunately, this game's designed for two to five. But there are so many games and maybe there's ways to even tweak its rules. I just haven't done it yet.

But, you know, this idea is... Scott, if you get me a... I'm sure you probably have some either proto's or early. Get it to me. I can possibly even design a solo mode for it for you. Oh, I would love that. Oh, there you go. Yeah, for sure. I've done that for some games. There's a few printed games that I've actually have designer credits of

designing a solo version of. So, Absolutely. I can definitely do that. Yeah, I will get that to you as soon as I've got. I should be getting basically released decks, technically they're beta decks, but I'll be getting those soon. So I'll hook you up. Anyway, yeah, that'd be great. So look forward to that, everybody. Next time Dan's on a little bit of solo recommendations.

How about that? Absolutely. Cool. James, you can play with yourself. Wait, what? What the heck? It's Dan, Dan, your tabletop man and your resident pharmacist. Have a fantastic week, and we'll see you next time.

Take care, boys. Bye now. all right i was gonna say bye and i took a drink it was like the waitress coming by can i get you anything else oh you love that and you kind of have to do like to lean into it pull it out yeah oh no no it's fine good thank you yeah been there a few times um okay a couple of quick things later today uh carter and i uh looks like it's like 5 p.m yeah we're doing it at 5 unless unless she's hits traffic and has a hard time getting home but she's in she's up at the you today but anyway at 5 o'clock for a couple hours we are planning on streaming it

takes two, this relatively new, a couple years old now, I guess, for a year or two, a year and a half old game that came out and won all kinds of awards. Everybody said, oh, you have to play, you have to play it. It's a co-op experience. It's by the team that made for others. You guys have played a little bit of this before, right? I don't think we played on a fulcrum and the other one raises up. Oh, it's similar to that. That one we played was Bokaroo or Bokaroo.

And that's kind of why we're in the mood for this, because this is apparently kind of like the end-all-be-all co-op game, at least of. late. We'll see how it goes. We're going to start that stream tonight and we'll do a series of of these until we're through with it over the next few weeks. So check it out. That's it takes to tonight Frogpants.tv. We'll take you straight there. And for those in the chat wondering, will it be YouTube. Yes, it will. We're going to test it all week. All week. It's YouTube tested. Oh, what else? Oh, let's do this quick email about Turo. We talk about Turo sometimes. We can play this for that. Hold on. Be courteous and obey traffic regulations. It's kind of related, you know.

Oh, totally is. Hello, Spinney and Bullet Hell, or Bullet Bill. I don't always said hell. But you're Bullet Bill, Ryan. Sure, sure. I'm Bullet Bill. Thank you for introducing me to Turro. It's saved my vacation.

Ooh, let's find out why. Cool. Because I took my family to Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago, and when we got there, there was a two-plus hour-long wait for a rental car, which we already had reserved. Oh, man. You know how to take the reservation.

You just don't know how to keep the reservation. Exactly. It's like, yep, we got a car reserved for you. Oh, sorry. Now we don't anymore because we gave them all away in those two and a half hours. So lame. I feel bad for you. Anyway, it says after waiting for over an hour, they told us we were out of cars or they were out of cars and wouldn't have any for multiple hours. So after a lifting to our hotel at 2 a.m., we decided to look up a car on Turro, and we were lucky we didn't even, sorry, we were lucky we didn't because we had plans to get family photos at the beach at sunset.

And after the photos, just out of curiosity, I looked up a lift from the beach, sorry, beach back to our hotel. and it was one and a half times more expensive than the car we got from Turro for that one trip. Just for that one trip. Just for that trip. Anyway, I highly recommend checking out the Super Nintendo World at Universal. And when you're done there, you can get photos with Homer Simpson, also at Universal. So much fun. Love Ryan in Michigan.

I do want to see Super Nintendo World pretty bad. Those crowds look like shit to me, though. That's all those opening few months crowds. It does not look like fun. But the place, the videos and stuff, all that stuff looks great. It looks awesome. And, dude, I'm glad you tried out Turo. Yeah, I did that, rented out my soul for a week.

I sold my soul. Rented out my soul for a week. I haven't done it since because I've been making more money with Lyft, but I do plan on getting back to Turo. And, you know, when I want to rent a car, that actually is going to be my first stop before I look at dollar or budget. any of those so we got to disrupt that market love it so did you let me ask you this uh yeah in if would you okay so you're leaving town for about a week right yes this isn't a weird scenario i promise okay i was like when you rented that tour were you afraid that somebody was going to put their ball sack on the steering wheel that's the question i'm expecting that's a fair

question but for a different time um okay no the question today is would you feel comfortable leaving to go, like you're going to Vegas for a week. Yeah. Would you ever feel comfortable letting your car be rented while you were gone? Totally would. Okay. Yeah, no, that would be good. The only problem with that is if there's a problem, like, oh, man, I'm having this issue

where I can't, you know, all of a sudden I can't get into the trunk or the key's not working. It's like, uh, sorry, I'm in a completely different state right now. And so I can't get you the spare key to help you out. So it'd be a, you know, that would be the only problem is not being available for support. And I think that actually is a requirement. I don't think they want you to be around for that. They want you or somebody that you delegate to be around for that.

So you could do that. You get your, like, trusted neighbor or your sister or your son-in-law. Yeah, crazy neighbor, I'd have no problem. But then that means that he'd be on the hook. It's like, yeah, my, the key's not working. Can you bring me the spare? Then all of a sudden now crazy neighbor has to drop everything he's doing and get a key from my house and drive it over there. Yeah. Plus, maybe he'll mix it up and give him a bong instead. You never know it, Dave.

Yeah, I mean, with Tristan watching the house while we're gone, I totally trust Tristan do that, and he'd be fine doing that sort of thing. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, when you got a kid around, that makes, you can... It helps. Having a kid that you can plop down when you go anywhere and say, hey, watch the house. It's a nice thing for Vegas is my kids are all going to be hanging out here, and it's good. I know. Tristan was originally going to go. He was hoping to join us for Chm.S. Vegas. It didn't work out this time, but hopefully in 20. 24 but that means no we need somebody else to house sit for us yeah right like if carter was also going to try to come this year but can't because she's turning right around and going to london

for comic on like a very two week three weeks later or whatever it is yeah and so she's like i just can't do it for work and you know all that so anyway i look forward to seeing everybody next week's going to be so much fun it's going to be great kid we're going to be great i need to find out what tower i don't want to be in the long walk tower i want to be in the one where everyone is. You know what I mean? At the hotel. Yeah, the North Tower versus the South Tower. It is the North Tower, right? That we want, that we want? North Tower is the one you get to by the elevators next to Hash House Ogogo.

And then South Tower, I believe, is the one that you walk through the casino and go up on that side. Okay. Because one of the sides has quick, easy access, pool output, and the other one doesn't. I think that is the South Tower House quick, easy access. So you have to walk through the casino, go up to level three, and there's your pool access. Gotcha. But if you're in that tower, you just go to level five. Right. You just go down to level three and you're set.

Or three, whatever it is, yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'm very excited. Yeah. All right. Let's see. Oh, and I got the, I sent Brian a pitcher. Maybe I didn't.

Did I send you a challenge coin photo? I think I did. Oh, you put it in the Frog Pince deal. Oh, I thought I sent you a copy. Well, anyway, it didn't. It's looking great. It does look great. Yeah, they turned out awesome.

And I've had a listener who is not going to be able to make it out to Vegas offer to give me her challenge coin. Oh, that's so nice. Just the super nice, I won't say who it is, although people probably will figure out because I was going to let her use my pool patio for a ukulele concert. Oh.

I think I might know then who that is. You might know exactly who that person is. Very kind of them. But I'm sure, again, there's going to be enough people who can't make it that the two of us will end up with challenge coin. I can't believe they don't let us get you know, $125 or $150, so we have to get a whole extra $100.

Minimums are a pain in the ass. I wish they just let me, even if it costs more, like, hey, I'll double the price for two more. Yeah. They don't do it. They have to them and set certain lots. Well, even if you double the price, don't you get, wouldn't you get $200? Well, no, if we got, what I mean is if I wanted two more, just two more single coins. Oh, two more at the price they give you for, I see what you're just saying.

So it's like instead of your lot of 200, can you do me to, 202? and then just charge me 60 bucks per coin for the last two Like they don't do any of that Right We tried Anyway, thank you for that Turo email We appreciate it Ryan

You can send us emails at the morning stream At gmail.com And a little teaser Tomorrow, the return of Kevin from Ann Arbor, Michigan We got a phone call from Kevin That's right Oh my gosh

It's not about bees teasing a phone call I know But it's not about bees And how he doesn't like bees It's none of his usual business But this call made me laugh freaking out loud so oh good oh awesome i can't wait to hear it very excited to hear from kevin and it's

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post show content i don't know what we're doing for couch party Friday but we'll do something fun so be here for that yeah uh let's watch something vaguely Yeah, we're going to do a Vegas thing. I don't know what it'll be, but we'll do like a Vegas. It'll be an episode of Vegas. Is there like a, like X-Files in Vegas or something? It's got to be something. Oh, bet there was, yeah.

Or we could watch that Star Trek episode where they go to the casino and space. That's a good one. TNG? That's a good one. Yeah. That one's great. Anyway, we'll think of something. And videos are working now over there, so I'm excited.

That'll do it for today's show. We're out of here. Brian, let's leave with a song. Do you have a little something there? You can do? I do. Ambassador Domo wrote in, Robert, and said, it's my birthday.

I'm my 59th, just short of 60. Yikes, when did I get so old? Wow. Let me hit that birthday thing right here. Here it is. Hold on right here. Let's party. Ah, there you go.

Very good. He wanted to hear a cover of Radar Love originally by Golden Earing. And yeah, sure, I've got that. that. I've got the perfect thing for you. This is one of those songs. I like, there's trivia I like about songs, right? You know, like I try to make, for a while I was making playlist based on trivia, and these things kind of became guess the connection. But Golden Earing's Radar Love is one of those songs that references another song. And until you really pay attention to the lyrics, you don't really know, right? Because one of the lyrics is Brandy Lee's coming on strong. And you think

the singer is talking about somebody named Brandy Lee. Lee, who's either in the car with you or in another car trying to race you or something like that. But no, that's a song that that's the forgotten song that's playing on the radio. Brandy Lee's coming on strong. I didn't know that. The radio's playing some forgotten song. Brandy Lee's coming on strong.

So I actually found that song too. And so in my library I have Coming On Strong by Brandy Lee, which is a really weird like 70s Mambi Pambi pop song. It's kind of funny. I had no idea. There's a little inception going on. there that's cool it really is uh i'm gonna be playing a version here of radar love by ministry and co-conspirators this came from the 2008 album cover up and uh i'm sorry brenda brenda lee not brandy

brenda lee's coming on strong and uh this is uh from the album ministry and co-conspirators cover up here is radar love We're going to be able to be. We're going to be. Been driving on that man's what on the wheel There's a voice ahead that drives my heel He's probably the cause I'll be in here Then it's half that's all the ship's in gear

When she gets over there's all the end and all he gets to heart Seats that the face of your head We've got to throw me to bomb around We've got to drink that's all in our love We've got to wait in the air Radio I don't know. Can't be it to a new sunrise

When she gets out, he gets home, and all he gets to mind She's just the name of coming in place From a board And it's all in a way to wrong We've got to think that's all that are good We've got to lie in the sky Ready on

Ah! Ha! Ha! Ha! Yeah! Thank you. It's gonna be able to see what I'm gonna see her. I can't keep out of how to take care.

Here There's got a mess Here I'm cold There's a lot of the kind of truth that feels so And a rage of faith I forgot the soul With to these

common all strong And the newsman's sang in stable strong One more read under the gun We're going to get to much Descentricated From above Some little they're wrong

We've got to say It's gone We're going to know We've got in It's crying We can't say We're going to We can't say that's all

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