The Morning Stream - TMS 2457: Puppet Vomit

Episode Date: May 1, 2023

Bling the Schmegma. Nobody Kissed My Dice. Side-saddle the toilet. We went to Vegas and nobody died. Hot Cow Piss. Loud volumetric human. Baby needs a new pair of Frogpants. Only Murders in the Dungeon. Don't forget to pop your nibble. Undock Your Clare Hisssssss. Bobby is Rain man. Definitely Rain man. Contractionating Words. Don't Eat Zoo Food. PunchedInTheArm.com. Scott Takes A Class With MajorSpoilers and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS. Bling the Schmigma. Nobody kissed my dice. Side saddled the toilet. We went to Vegas and nobody died. Hot cow piss. Loud volumetric human. Baby needs a new pair of frog pants.

Only murders in the dungeon. Don't forget to pop your nibble. Undalk your Claire Hess. Bobby is Rain Man. Definitely Rain Man. Contractionating words. Don't eat zoo food. Punched in the arm.com. Scott takes a class with major spoilers and more.

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That's right. We exist. We came back from Vegas. We lived. We survived. We made it. Yeah. It happened.

It's May the 1st. All right. We got that. And we're not doing that thing. We already did a pre-show. It's out of the way. Yeah. If you want to hear that thing that people do on the 1st of May.

Yeah. Oh, that other thing. Not talking about the Jonathan Colton thing, because that's a different thing. Very different thing. But you can go find that. Yeah, just go on YouTube, search for Justin Timberlake and the name May. You're good. Or become a Patreon or patron, and then you'll hear us do it.

Oh, Brian, I like the sound of this. Wow. All right. Wait, well done. I like that you curved it into a purchasable moment. I like it. That's right. It monetized it like Gene Simmons.

That's right. He would, too. That's what you do. Anyway, we're back. we came home from Vegas and we had a really good time everybody there was great we had no uh nobody died nobody uh fell ill uh no i mean it was a like you know it was a it was a textbook textbook event i don't know that the banner event it was it went as well or better than we could have expected yeah there's only so much you can guarantee right yeah and i feel like we got right up

on the line of the guarantee like we didn't yeah we didn't falter or fall short of the guarantee as far as i know there are there is always this feeling though always every event doesn't matter what we're it blizzcon nerdacular this doesn't matter there's always this moment where i realize there are at least five probably more people who i thought i would hang out with a bunch and barely got to see yeah and i hate that like I barely saw Zoe it was like five seconds with Zoe it sucked yeah yeah I could have made something better happen September same thing I barely saw her although I feel like I saw her more than I saw Zoe but I saw Jeff Sire for a hot minute at the pool we had a great conversation I just think the world of that guy and then I then I hardly saw him the rest of the time and I just felt

like well that sucks he came all away from Canada and I barely got to hang out with him so there's those moments I always have those regrets at these things but For the most part, it was great. And everybody there was great. Everything was great. It was great. I think everybody understands that would we have 112 people show up? Yeah, I think that was our total, yeah.

That in the amount of time that we had, trying to get to spend all the time we'd want to spend with everybody would require us being there for a couple weeks. It would require all of us being there for a couple weeks. Yeah, we can't do that. Nobody can do that, I guess. No, no. So I get to spend quite quite, uh,

bit of time on Wednesday night, Wednesday night with a bunch of people playing craps. We took over the entire stadium gambling

area of the plaza and that was a weird place that I didn't know that was a thing like with the big ball dice roller thing with a camera on it and yeah.

Like it's all robots running that stuff. It's all robots but it allows you know if you like if you're Jack Spratt and you like craps and your wife

can eat no craps no what is the what's the Anyway, you know, if you're there with your friends, your significant other, and they don't like the game that you like, they can play different game and still be right next to you. So you can be playing blackjack. They can be playing roulette right next to you or something else. And it allows you to hang out and still do stuff together without necessarily having to be a thing. And I had a robot lady saying stuff I don't understand.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Don't forget to pop your. nibble before the jing jing drops into the schmiff. It was so much weird stuff. Pay the don't. Come the frank. Bling the schmegma, whatever.

It's weird. It's really bling the schmegma. All right then. Bling the schmegma. Yeah, I just, I guess it's still a little bit. I watched you play a bunch and I watched others play and I got a better sense of how Kraps works, but I still kind of have no idea, sort of. I mean, all you're doing, the basis of craps, it really comes down to one thing.

Can I roll the same number twice without rolling the number seven? between them. That's really all craps is. Okay. Well, that's good to remember because then everything else you can just sort of intuit as you build on. Yeah, exactly. And then you can, you know, you can do it with your pass line is doing it with one number. And then you say, oh, I bet I can do with two numbers. And so you do a come bet and you get a second number to do to make that same bet. That's really all it is. And then you can bet I bet I can roll double sixes or double fours or whatever. Yeah. Did you ever run? Did you ever do the thing like the Stereoty They pick movies or they're like, well, there's no dice to blow on, but going like, all right, baby, seven come 11, or you know, whatever all this stupid baby needs a new pair of shoes, something like that.

No, because I don't think I'd be able to do it and keep a straight face. I never had somebody kiss my dice or blow on my dice or any of that stuff. No. It's like, no, I, we talked about superstition. I imagine we'll talk about a lot more when Bobby's here tomorrow, but we talked about superstition at the table. have zero superstitions at the table. I don't care if somebody puts a $50 bill on the table. I don't care if somebody says the number seven while they're standing at the table.

But that's because you're a reasonable adult who doesn't believe in stupid shit like that. When I want to blame, you know, if I want something to blame my losses or my wins on, it's just, that's the way of the dice roll. Yeah. And you understand the odds. You understand the house advantage, all that stuff. Exactly. Yeah. Super fun, though.

It's fun watching Bobby win. money because he'd never played it before he'd never played he he basically evil ricked the uh the the the craps machine because um a couple years ago when we had evil rick playing craps it was his first time we are actually at the table we took over one of the tables and evil rick had never played before and he like cleaned up and won so much money for the rest of us like it was it was amazing watching watching him just go and go and go fun watching all of you win money you won't money. I watched you. I did. This time, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it did real well. Start with 100 bucks, walked away from the, well, turned into a coach at $450. I pulled my money out and then just

started coaching everybody else. It's still great. Everybody, but one, but one person started making a lot of money and that one person just did not follow my advice about playing, you know, keeping odds bets up. Every time I look over, she had pulled her, I'm pulling this bet. I don't have a lot of money, Brian, I'm pulling this back. Can't imagine who that was. That voice, it's just, I have no idea. I can't imagine. I can't, uh, yeah, I certainly can't do it with this.

You know, it's a bit of a blessing, though. Like, Claire was in Vegas and Claire is a very loud, volumetric human. Yes. And, but it turns out when she does that enough, she just, sure, her voice, speaking of voices that are wrecked, mine's still a little wrecked. Hers went to, it's just like a raspy nothing. It really did. I mean, it was day two.

think that uh yeah right because uh send in it was the you know high roller and and um verbina's at the cosmo i think she still had her voice on monday but i think it was gone it was gone on tuesday yeah the dry climate probably help but the point is that claire quiet claire unusual experience for us we're not used to it so that was a little weird and it's not for lack of trying she just she just kisses very loudly yeah it's a loud hiss it's like it's like what does that sound oh it's clear trying to talk okay fine yeah well anyway that's great uh i i wish i understood the game more but it was really fun watching you guys play it and then the cigar smoke started to murder me and it was 1 30 a m and i said i'm going to bed that's yeah no it was a good uh

you know what i did i slept so good in Vegas every night i slept there even though the bed was broken oh a couple things i just like to mention yeah clearly we were in a non renovated room there's a bunch of rooms that are renovated in the plaza yeah ours was not one of them It was not one of them. No, it was a nice view. It was a southern view of the entire rest of the strip, like up going south. And so you could see all the way down to Mandalay from there. It was really cool.

So we love the view. That's why she gave it to us. But the bed had a TLC channel 900 pound life dent in it. It was a huge dent that, like, dipped down. And then, yeah. And that doesn't, I'll tell you, that does not come from somebody sleeping in there. And then getting up and then sleeping in there for another, somebody. No, somebody got wild in there.

That's what I'm thinking. Oh, I was thinking somebody passed away. Oh, it could have been to death. Oh, shit. I didn't think about that. I think it was the body had been there that long. I don't like how well I slept on it now. Well, anyway, I slept fine.

The bed was fine. It turned out for me anyway. Kim hated it, so we had to swap sides. But I ended up sleeping like a rock every night, partly because we wore ourselves out every day. but the other things where there's a towel rack near the bathroom where the sink is, and if you pull the towel, the entire rack just shatters and falls off. None of my drawers, like, yo, we usually when we go like something like this for a few days, Kim and I will put clothes in the drawers they provide, right?

Yeah, of course, yeah. And they do the same thing. Makes you feel like you're there, you know? Yeah, and these were all broken. They didn't work. So we couldn't open those. So we ended up living out of our bags. And then what was the other thing?

how the TV would only work if you were one inch from it. By that, I don't mean the remote, yeah. So that was one thing. And then there was one other thing. What was it? Who watches TV while they're in Vegas? Oh, my God. What's going on here?

That's a good point. We fell asleep to Food Network a couple of nights. Oh, see, that makes sense. That's the whole guy fiery thing. Yeah, it's like, you know, he's having gangster time and we're just sort of chilling. Exactly. We are in our room, the bathroom, again, was so narrow. I think it's better than the typical bathrooms where the door waxed the toilet when you try and open it.

No. But the, um, uh, in our, in our second room, because we moved into a pool level room the second day. Sure. Um, the toilet paper roll holder extended over the seat by about a half an inch. Okay. Which already makes it difficult, you know, I'm not a skinny guy by any stretch of the imagination. but that even Tina like cuts into her leg and then the problem is well that doesn't include when you've got a roll of toilet paper on it right because then it sticks out even further especially

if it's a fresh roll it's a big roll you're like do I have to side saddle this thing how is this even going to work so we basically took the roll off and then Tina managed to drop it into the toilet so we just one roll wow but yeah it was you know what for whatever it's worth it's still The plaza loves us. Yeah, it's fine. Like I say, it wasn't even worth like changing rooms. Plus, we had a bunch of stuff in here and I don't want to move it around.

But the worst thing, though, was the water in our sink when you would turn the water on it. If it was hot, it smelled like a big old fart in there. Oh, yeah. Kathy had the same thing. Like, it was so bad Kathy had to change rooms because it was horrendous, apparently. Yeah, her whole room would read out. Dizziness. Yeah.

Like, I don't even what to call it. It's like a natural gas smell, but... Yeah, it was sulfide, something sulfide. Yeah. It's causing that smell. Ours just smelled like the sink was maybe had a million very gross things in it and the hot water would activate it or something. I don't know.

Oh, no, I think it was the water itself. It might have been the water smell. Yeah. But otherwise, otherwise, fine. You know what? Our toilet fine. That never backed up on our shower work great. And that's all you can ask.

Yeah. That's true. Yeah. Well, anyway. As long as I've got it. a place to shower, sleep, shave, and shit, then I'm pretty much set. You're all good. Yeah. Yeah.

The four S's, as long as I've got that. Yeah. You're not really in your room very often. No. No. This isn't one of those vacations. All right. It's hilarious. We'll get to this in a minute. But

you in particular and me on the minor side are going to be in Vegas a lot this year. And I don't know why. Like, why is it this Vegas year? You're going to go again in a couple of months or a month or something. I'm going again actually in about a month and a half. Yeah, I'm going to go on the 16th to see Elvis Costello. Chris Brown bought me a ticket to see Elvis Costello at the palms. Nice. And the little intimate theater there. Like,

of course I'm going. Yeah. So I return the favor as I said in Discord. I said, I returned the favor by buying myself a plane ticket in a hotel room. Nice. That's very nice. So yeah, I'm going for a Mother's Day Taylor Dillon and babies thing we're going to do this month later this month so I'm actually

going sooner than that that I'd like and then after that Kim's going again in September or is it October there might be one more in there for me anyway

it's just weird it's weird 2023 I'm going in September too with Tanner and Alex and Barry and oh nice

my son Tristan but also the Tristan that is Is a tadpuller, Tristan? Yeah, Tristan, Tristan, Tristan. He owes me a non-alcoholic beverage, that guy. Does he know? Yeah, because he showed up, he grabbed me on the way into the arcade and says,

tonight I'm buying you a drink, and I don't care what it is. And I said, what if it's a Coke Zero? He goes, I don't care. He goes, I'm buying you a drink. And I said, cool, I'll take you up on it. And then we got in there, and I never saw him. So he owes me a drink, is what I'm saying. I may have remembered a time during a post,

post our show while the bands were going on that Tristan either brought you a drink or tried to bring you a drink. Oh, did he? And, yeah, I don't know how much of that you remember. Because you had a very, you had a curiously strong mint. I had a very strong mint or something. Yeah, that thing lasted hours, the effect of the mint that I had. But I don't remember that.

Did you really bring me something? Yeah, he really did, yeah. Somebody brought me, oh, Bobby Ann got me a, I did have a, I did have a, what do you call those my brain bloody mary bloody mary but here's the problem i like a good bloody mary i like the tomatoy thing yeah i like a breakfast one where it's just chock full of like crap like pickles hanging off of it right and celery and all the all the stuff yeah i love that so i was thinking well that sounds good and she says it gotcha so she brings me one yeah it was clemato because they didn't have any of the tomatoy stuff sure sure it wasn't that great it's pretty bad

It's pretty bad. And I don't know why you don't have... Sand dollar isn't out of breakfast. Like, they're not open in the morning. So there's really no reason for them to keep a lot of Bloody Mary stuff. So I think they really, they were really winging it when they made that one for you. Why did they have Clamato on hand, though?

That's so weird. What else is that included in? I wonder if they actually had to go to the head test send somebody to the main bar to get it. Yeah. Because it took a long time, I think, for... for her to bring that to you i think uh it was a long i assumed it was just a liner you know oh for michelada's tanner explained so yeah that's that's uh clemato's used for michelotas which you just add a beer to a clemato and it's a oh that sounds bad yeah that sounds so bad anyway it was

fine it got the job done it gave me a little bit of the savory that i like that it was just like yep this is clemato this is like something common drink anyway um but yeah i don't remember Utah, and your Utah streak is still safe. Oh, yeah, Utah streak is still safe. Yeah, I guess that had something in it, but I don't know what. And I tasted a, what was the thing? Bobby tried to get me to taste, Bobby Ann, tried to get me to taste, what did she call it, a sour? I don't remember the name, but it looked like thick pee is what it looked like.

Oh, an amaretto sour, maybe? Maybe something. I don't know what it was, but she says, here, you need to sip it and try it. And it was horrifying. She says, she says, well, at least try two more sips. the rule is you try it three you sip three sip three oh whiskey sour could have been a whiskey sour yeah yeah before you make

your you make your judgment you got to try you got to taste it three times I said fine I'll taste it three times taste it three times just as bad the third time the first time really oh funny oh Travis is saying it was a sour beer so it's like these are the new popular these are the new popular beers that the millennials

all like which is sour it's a beer that's got a very fruit fruit forward flavor it wasn't forward enough. It was still in the back. Not enough. Yeah, still well behind other flavors. Yeah, I didn't like it. I didn't like it.

But anyway, I do not know what Tristan brought me if he did. I don't remember that at all. Yeah, I don't know either. But yeah, that whole time, man, the Sand Dollar was great for us. The bands that James and Svet brought on, there are other bands on the Bad Moon booking group

that she does, that she books bands all around Vegas and has relationships with a lot of bands. Beverly Chil, that guy was great, came out and had a couple special guests. No idea. Electric violinist and a bass guitarist and stuff. I had no idea what I was getting into there. It was the weirdest eclectic mix of hip hop and I guess classical with that violin.

Because it wasn't like a true electric violin where it's all grungy. It was like just an amplified violin. And she was amazing. Holy shit, she was good. She was really, really good. And then the guitar guy was great. The band before them, it was all instrumental. that was like

I love that like if I would have dropped acid I couldn't have enjoyed that band anymore right like it was they did that thing with the effects pedal on the main guitarist

that just makes it feel airy and floaty and really really really cool I'm trying to see if I can look up that band name yeah we should find their name because I want to hear more James James is set

James and Svet's set and then those guys right after ended up being like it was on my like going on a pink floyd tour without any actual pink float music yeah there was a lot of psychedelic exactly like a lot of psychedelic sound to them uh without a doubt yeah loved it um there it is right here the band is called uh let's see smoky the smoky frito smoky mountain fritos no it was called uh oh my god why is it the dirty socks there it is right there peaceful retreat oh peaceful retreat i got

track that down. Yeah. They were great. James says, unlike them, they actually put music up on services, so I'm going to find them. Oh, cool. And James and Svet began with my favorite same-sex Mary song, which is Do No Good. That's a great song. And James even invited me up on stage.

Actually, I would say Svet actually pulled me up on stage to do a James introduction, a James impersonation introduction to one of their songs. Yeah, you nailed it. there were people there were people there that have never fully appreciated where that impression has gone and they got to see it firsthand that was great one of one of their friends was in the audience he was over by the bar getting a beer and he heard me doing the impersonation he's like why is james introducing this song twice and what what does he sound so different that's great those guys are the best and they really are they killed it as

usual uh yeah we had a really good time it's super fun you guys got to come next time yeah out there and uh if you didn't taskville we're going to have uh so uh kevin is working on the taskville stuff right now that's going to be done tonight i record a new thing for him today that um after talking with all the contestants we actually can award a winner oh wow really you've got a name you got a you know it now but you're not going to tell us till the video's done right i know it now and yeah exactly not till um not till it's uh it's ready but uh yeah i'm in somebody had a very decisive win and um Decisive win. Ooh.

Decisive win, yeah, by a fairly good-sized margin. Wow. I don't even know where to guess. I do know that Bobby is basically Rain Man. That happened. Oh, my God. Bobby in his word palace that he built. Unbelievable.

He told his story, going around the Monopoly Board. He told the story about four queens who worked out at ballyes because they like to be swall. and they wanted to get to the top of the stratosphere and they traveled a stardusty road and that was absolutely I half expected him to say I have when he was done he was going to run out of there because Wapner was starting that's how Rain Man that thing was it was amazing incredible I have no idea I know I didn't win I'm I'm gonna go ahead and bet money that I did not win given my poor performance in the the first task there's just no way so if I had money on this I'd say Bobby but we'll see we'll find out tonight when we get that video and we'll put it up on the YouTube we'll put it on we'll do an audio version of it as well up on the feed that'll be for everybody and uh there was one other things somebody was putting together can't remember what it was but we'll give it all to

you guys you'll all get it yeah absolutely by the way refreckle says uh Amy says I think the last task should be weighted lightly because of the light situation uh the light situation shouldn't matter to you guys because you had blindfolds on so we could have the place could have been pitch black yeah also it ticks me off what brian did i think it's brilliant but it pissed me off but it's brilliant because what he did is he made it so if you really listened to his words all you had to do is mash one color and then dump the whole thing in a bucket oh yeah yeah in fact you didn't even have to mash one color shove it all in there mash the whole thing into one ball flatten it and then drop in the bucket and you have gotten all 24 points you

would have won the whole thing. But no one's thinking this while we're in the middle of doing it, you know? Anyway, it was fantastic. It was great. Brian kicked ass with all his stuff this year and you guys all missed out. So come next time and we'll have some more fun. Real quick here. Oh, good news, everyone.

Good news, everyone. Dungeon Murder is out on Kickstarter. Oh, so good. That's right. We played a bunch at the event and that was super fun. Glad everybody had a good time with it. That made me very happy. because you never know i loved it i really and that's not just me blowing smoke up your ass got i had a

great time playing dungeon murder and i wanted i wanted to play more of it but i wanted other people to have a chance so i i had to step away yeah step away to to vomit to throw up step away step away please step away from the the game uh no it was uh was really fun i didn't expect to sit there and play it for 10 rounds or the hell hell we did um but it was uh well received and already we have broken the first level or the pledge amount. We did that within two hours of announcing it at the event, which is crazy because I didn't tell anyone else. I only told Vegas people, but I think the word got out.

Maybe Kickstarter sent out notifications to the previous people who backed other projects. I don't know, but it went crazy real quick, and I was very happy to see that. It's up now. We're now in stretch goal territory. So if you want to jump on board now and take advantage of, of this rad cool game I made, all the art and the design and everything's from me. You might like it. I had a whole lot of fun making it, and I would really like you.

You've done, yeah, two and a half times past your initial goal. Yeah, which pleases me greatly. It should, yeah. Yeah, I'd love to get, the next stretch goal is pretty good because it gives us like this really fancy card coding that you only see in like really expensive card deck. So I would love it if we got that stretch goal. But anyway, do you want to go over there, up your pledge or pledge for the first time? you can go to dungeon murder.com.

It'll take you straight there. All right. Go check it out. Also, we have to award something. We'll do this here. Stand back and check your personal belongings. It's time for the morning form. As robot Scott Fletcher says, it's time for the morning form.

So good to see him, by the way. I love seeing the Fletchers. Yes. Oh, yeah. And I got punched in the arm by Christine Fletcher. Oh, really? What? Because I said, I can't, it was out of context, but there was just like a conversation going, and I went, shit out of luck.com. I just mentioned it.

Yeah. And she punched me in the arm. And I will never, I'll never wash this arm again. And she also corrected us on the shit out of luck that we've been typing it wrong, that it's shit outa. Outta.com. A-O-U-T-A. And we've been writing, oh, shit out of luck.com because Christine Fletcher has perfect diction. And we assume that she would not compromise or, you know, contractual, contractionate.

Contractionate. It's totally a word. Sure. Words like that. So. It's pretty awesome. Anyway. They even have a, the landing page, it's shitoutelleck.com.

And it says the movie title is big, is what they wrote here. I don't know if that changes. The audio that they sent was describing this movie big, but they never said the name. of the movie right exactly and it's got an animated sky beautiful thing going on i think this should live in perpetuity on the internet and never go away anyway we love them yeah yeah uh morning for morning forum let's get to this so we have a winner from last time it wasn't last week's basically two weeks ago and our uh thing was about villains favorite movie villains best movie villains of all time uh number one far and away with 23 percent of the vote Darth Vader uh won that one with a second

place going to the Joker any version after that Thanos of 20 or sorry 8% Hans Gruber at 7.2 and then everything else there's a lot of weird ones in here like chitty chitty bang bangs

of the child something I don't know the child catcher oh wow Khan Harvey Dent Ivan Drago Jason and his mom what the hell's that Jason and his mom I don't know what that is Jason and his mom oh oh Jason Voorhees and his mom.

Oh, and his mom, duh. Duh. That's, of course. What am I thinking? John Doe from 7 got a bunch of votes. Anyway, we got a winner from that group, and that winner is Cheese Biscuit, C-H-Z Biscuit. You are the winner, and I'll be sending you an email with your Frog Pants Fun Pack in the mail. So I'll get your address, and we'll go from there.

Congratulations and well-done, Cheese Biscuit. Today's topic is Best Classic Video Games. game character. Oh, all right. So here's what you got to do. Go to the frogpants.com slash the morning form, all right, is where you want to go. And you're going to go vote for your favorites. We have things on here like Pac-Man, Mario, Link, Zelda, but also newer stuff like Captain

Price, Master Chief, Sam Fisher, Lara Croft's on here, Commander Shepard, Guy Busch, Threepwood, Tom Nook. He's a real dick, that Tom Nook. Oh, yeah. He totally is. Takes all your bells, Brian. All of them. Yes.

I was broke. All my bells go to Tom. By the way, you owe a little bit more on your mortgage payment. Maybe you could get that to me before you buy yourself a little movie screen for your house. Yeah, he's the one. Anyway, go vote and add your own if I don't have it on this list. We would love to get your take and you could win next week when we announced the winner of that week's The Morning Forum. That's frogmast.com slash the morning form.

go get in there now and we'll give out that prize next week okay one other thing oh no that is all the things that's it that's all the things that's all the things we're going to bring done away in that's the thing um let's see here there we go now that's a guy we would have had fun with in Vegas that Brian I know we got to figure out what it's going to take what's it going to take he told me he's coming next year he says he's coming next year for sure that's what is that a lock is that a promise that's what he said I don't know. We'll ask him again.

Hey, look who it is. It's Brian Dunaway joining us for today's half asses today is what we're doing. Half asses. Hey, Dunaway, welcome back. How are you? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. I am doing great. I'm glad you guys are back from Vegas.

I missed you guys. Let's hope for next year. Yeah. Brian Dunaway in Vegas. You got to go. You got to go. It'll be your first. I can't wait, it'll be my first.

I lived near Vegas for a while. I never went. And so I'm going to go. Gambling runs in my family. I hope to be broke for the time I get home and, you know, destroyed. You can go there and don't have to touch a single slot machine or anything. Like, there is so much stuff to do out there. And we don't even give you time to do that stuff because we do so much stuff for the show.

That's right. Well, you know what it goes when you go to like someplace to gamble is like, I'll just stick in a quarter. you're broke yeah i never uh we were there how many days five days or something when i got there i didn't do any gambling of any kind yeah i thought we could maybe get you though didn't you gamble your life some mad max fury road uh slots oh i might have done that had i found one and i never made it to the cirque so i didn't see it um but if i had i would have that is one i would have done just because it's mad max but they used to right go for that uh furiosa bonus exactly and they had two in the plaza last year but they these things are modular so i was talking if you if you lose as a warboy

come out and like huff some paint or what no he eats the beetle he eats the beetle crawling on his neck that's what he does okay but here's the thing like last year at the plaza they had two of them so this year i was like sweet i'll go track those down but these the way slot machines work now they're modular they're just just these big curve displays with programmable lights on the side and they swap out like a board and it's a whole new game. Yeah, a little rom and it's a whole new game. Yeah, so someone did that. You'd think you'd be easy then to go up to a machine and say,

oh, let me play Mad Max Free Road. And you choose that like you do when you go up to one of those multi different poker machines. You know, you can say, oh, I want to play this kind of poker or while deuses are wild or whatever. You should be able to go up to one of those curvy screen machines and say, I want to play Mad Max or I want to play Wizard of Oz or want to play. I agree. Cribee screen machine. Yeah.

You know what? You're not wrong. I mean, Nintendo did it, what, in the 80s with the freaking play 10 things or whatever? Why don't we have that now? What's going on, Vegas? And you know what they say about the ladies of the 80s? What do they say about the ladies of the 80s? We saw that I'm Phil's like.

The second thing they look at is those shoes. Yeah, you guys want to hear some. Ladies of the 80s that love the shoes. Let me tell you guys something embarrassing. The second thing they look at. So what's the first thing that ladies are the 80s look at. Oh, we know what the ladies of the 80s are looking at. You're huge pecks.

Referring to Black Rain. It's an oily, oily slicked back hair. Yeah, that's what you're looking at. And the cocaine in your pocket. But here's the thing. So I got to tell you an embarrassing film sack story real quick. Yesterday, we recorded the show, posted it, everything's fine. I forgot that Scott Fletcher had indeed sent me an intro.

Oh, yes, I saw that. Because Vegas made me forget things. I completely spaced it in a folder tucked away somewhere, just forgot. I just thought I didn't have it, honestly. So I played a robot version of it. him and it was fine but he sends me an email yesterday and it was i could hear me his voice i sent i i indeed sent you a copy of i indeed sent you a copy of the black rain yeah so my my apologies go out to the current owner and registrar of a shit out of luck.com for screwing that up all right

my bad i feel really bad about it i feel like an idiot for doing that anyway done away let's not feel like idiots anymore let's play a game against each other where the true idiot will stand uh prime. Brian's going to explain these rules, how it works, and what we're doing. That's right. Welcome to the morning. Half-asses, a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you two the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers. Three of those answers are correct, but three of them are big old, big old lies. Depending on how confident you feel with the category, you can provide one, two or three guesses. But if any of those guesses are wrong, you get zero points for that round.

Get one right, you get a point. Get two right. Get two right. Get three points. And get all three correct answers. You get five points. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant and I'm pulling contestants from members of the tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Scott you're going to be playing for Matthew in Dundee, Scotland. Whoa.

Way out there, yeah. Whoa. Brian, you're going to be playing for Robin in Lynchburg, Virginia. Nice. Oh, very nice. I know Robbins all over the country and now I know one in Virginia. Sweet. Oh, there you go. Well, now you know one extra Robin.

let's go ahead and get to the games here or the game and you guys are both logged in i've got our first question right here i think i remember how to play this damn thing by the way we haven't played this since uh april 17th that was the last time we did a half asses what the frick all right and here it is may the first may it's yep may the first all right may outdoor half asses starts today uh let's talk about characters that survived the film which of these mothers actually made it through the film in which they appeared. I love this. So they're literally mothers. You're not just saying like, one of these mothers. These mothers. Now, which of these

mothers made it through the film in which they appear? Simba's mother from Lion King. Bambi's mother from, of course, Bambi. Dumbo's mother from, of course, Dumbo. Merritt's mother from Brave, Starlord's mother from Guardians of the Galaxy, and Littlefoot's mother in the land before time. So these ones that survived,

right? Which survived? Which of these mothers survived? I think I know this. Yeah, I do know this. I think I know all three. I know, I definitely know two. And one, I'm chicken. So.

Okay. Okay. Chicken. Okay. Oh, look at that. Going two. All right. Uh, you guys both settled on Simba's mother.

Of course, Simba's mother lived. Yeah. Of course she lived. She lived long enough a bitch and complain. It was great. That's right. That's right. And Meredith's mother also made it through Brave.

Yeah. However, That's why I couldn't remember. Oh. His mother did not make it through the land before time. Of she didn't. So Simba Dumbo and Merida. Damn it, Brian.

Gosh, I really thought this was going to be the first time I took a lead on this damn game. I know. It looked really, really good. I'm glad neither of you chose Star Lord's mother. No. Yeah, that was sad. Cancer.

Yeah. It was sad and set up the whole awesome mix, volume one. Yeah. Had anyone set up Bambies, or if anyone had selected Bambies, we should be embarrassed. Yeah. Those were easy. Take back your Disney card. Exactly.

All right. So, Brian going into round two with three points, Scott Zero, but let's see if we can change that thing right now. Let's talk about terms from table tennis. Which of these are actual terms used in the game of table tennis or ping pong, as people sometimes call it? Sure. Dead ball, loop, tacking, skunk, pleat, and surge. Which of these are terms actually used in the game of ping pong or table tennis? I don't know any of these.

I have played table tennis a number of times in my life. I have never heard anybody say anything other than, you know, out in, that's it. That's all I've ever heard. I've never heard anybody say any other word. Yeah. I have no idea, dude. I'm going to go over the ones that sound like stuff. Yeah.

Okay. All right. Yeah, that's what I did. I locked in with two. All right. You both locked in with two. Scott, you lucked in with Loop and Surge. Brian, you locked in with Pleat and Surge.

So a dead ball is a ball that was returned with no spin. Loop is a shot with a lot of top spin. And Skunk is an early victory rule. Nobody chose skunk. Yeah, Pleet and Serge completely made up. Oh, you got skunked. Is that the usage? Yeah, you got skunked, exactly.

Oh, damn it. Early victory rule. skunk rule. All right. All right. You'll definitely do better with this last one. You'll definitely do better with question number three. You always say that.

Yeah, you always do. You're such a liar. I don't think you. I don't think you will. Let's talk about which of these are actual Japanese drinks. Which of these are things that you can imbibe upon in Japan? Hot cow piss, cool piss, whiz, floater, donkey juice, and Pepsi ice cucumber. Which of these are real things that you can drink?

Three of these that are real. I'm kidding. Three of these are real in Japan. Hot cow piss, cool piss, whiz, floater. I'll go back to my previous statement. I go back to my previous statement is if it is full of shit when you say, what you call this half asses and full of shit. This is not easier. No.

I mean, I, donkey juice. I don't know. I locked in. I'm just going to hear here's some answers that are probably wrong. There you go. All right. You both locked in. Cool piss.

You both settled on Cool Piss. Yeah, Cool Piss is a real drink in Japan. So is hot cow piss. And so is Pepsi Ice Cucumber, Scott. What? Scott's all three. Look at Scott. I came up from the behind.

Came up from behind with a fiver whiz, surprisingly, not a drink. And nobody fell for floater or donkey juice. I can just hear them going, happy time, friendly, Pepsi ice cucumber. I can just hear it. I can hear them saying it. That was no one. That felt like baked. Weird Pepsi flavor that you can't get anywhere else but Japan.

I looked for it when we were there and I couldn't find it. So this other than a few sips in Vegas, this non-drinker got all the drinks right. I can't believe it. I can't believe it. I know. Yes. Well, these aren't necessarily alcohol. Oh, are they just regular things?

They're just regular drinks. I don't know what hot cow piss is. So this Pepsi one. must be a Pepsi, you know, maybe only over there, but a Pepsi flavor. It is, yeah. Yeah, there's a bunch of regional Pepsi flavors that we can't get here. Between Kit Katz and Pepsi, the Japanese will put anything in either one of those. Yeah. Those are two biggies. I'll tell you what. I would drink Pepsi Ice cucumber if somebody could find some and send them to us to test on the show. For sure. Yeah. What I don't want...

This, by the way, is just a milk-based beverage. Oh, so Cal Piss is, what is Cal Piss? It's a milk-based beverage. I think you're saying it incorrectly. I don't think it's cow piss. I think it's calpus. Calpus? So cool piss is the same thing, just cool? I think it's just a cool version, yeah.

So the piss part is the milk part. So piss. It's like a sugar-sugry milks, kind of a sweet milk. But outside of Japan, it's called calpico because outside of Japan, everybody thinks that you're saying cow-pice. Yeah. Because it does sound like cow piss, doesn't it? It does. It sounds just like cow piss.

And I ain't drinking enough cow piss. No, they don't. They quit doing it. No. I wish they didn't. You know how you can get it, though? What's that brand, Brian, that we like that's the non-sugar stuff. You get it like health food places.

We bought it before. You like a certain flavor. Oh, Zivia. Zivia. Zivia has a cat. All of their flavors, you think when you're drinking, you're like, this is going down brown because it's cola. Or this is like purple because it's whatever. Going down brown.

But if you go... Coming out... Also brown. But if you go pour it in a cup and a glass, they're all clear. Everything they make is clear. Yeah. So go get it that way, Brian. What is this?

Yeah. I think it's odd. It must have went down the same kind of thing you did. I'm looking at a vintage crystal, crystal Pepsi. And it is not crystal clear. I would be concerned. Oh, like it's over time. It is brown.

I'll put it in the other. That's bad. I put in the Discord. Wait a minute. I'm looking at meat. Oh, my God. It's not just a little bit brown. It is a...

Yeah. Is that what happens after a certain amount of time, or is somebody effing with me? Let me see this. I mean, that white cap on the top looks to be intact still. This seems insane. There's no way this is real, right? Somebody pours something else. I like all the photos.

Well, make sure you include six photos of your crystal Pepsi. So they've got... Upside to have. three right side up and two upside down and three upside down. One where they flipped it and landed it and then made a bunch of noise about it. If you do it fast, it's like an animation. You have to go. Well, all right, there you go.

Dirty Brown, Crystal Pepsi aside. Dunaway, I win. You lose. I win. You did. I'm glad. I was starting to feel sorry for you. You're glad for me.

I was feeling sorry for myself as well. So I feel pretty good about it. And I'm happy to win for a guy named Dundee. That sounds like a cool name if you live in Scotland. Let's talk about what the prizes were. So Matthew is getting a copy of Pathfinder, Kingmaker, Enhanced Plus Edition. Awesome game. Not just the enhanced edition, not just the plus edition, but the enhanced plus edition.

And a copy of Stick Fight. But Robin and Lynchburg, you're getting a copy of System Shock Enhanced Edition. So so many enhanced editions. I would say that that's a better prize. This is what Scott always does when he thinks. I would say that was actually a better prize, the one. If you've never played System Shock, yes. I would argue, though, that Pathfinder Kingmakers are really rad

CRPG, and it's worth playing. So I think he's, yes, either way, you know what we have today? We have a pair of winners. It's odd how Scott's game is always the best. It's always better. It's always better. It's always better. Yeah, here, I'm going to play Fletcher's thing.

Congratulations. You're a winner. He is a winner. They are both winners. Yeah. And we're all winning today. So just keep winning, done away. look tomorrow not tomorrow

Wednesday we're doing play retro that'll be fun so look forward to that we'll promote and pimping on Wednesday when you're back but we got some big stuff lined up for that. A hint is murder death kill yeah murder death kill or MDK very weird transitional game

kind of a pivot point I love playing that game you give people three choices of potential mates and you basically say the golden girls murder death kill and you have to choose which one you'd murder, which one would be dead, and which

one you'd kill. There's no Mary's there. I thought it was Mary. No, it's usually murder. It's M-F-K. No, not. There's no F-M-K. There's no... But aren't you kind of at a look with the Golden Girls? Aren't the all-gold and gone? Yeah. All of them? All of them dead? They're all dead. Okay, that's

right, because Betty White was the last one. She was the final, she was the whole, no, single hold-out after all that. She's like, I'm not doing it. The final. The final. The final girl. Yeah, the final old and golden girl. All right. Dunaway, this has been fantastic.

Having you here, boy, what a treat. What a, what a thing. We'll have you at Vegas next time. Kiss our butts. Bye. All right. He said no you before I could hang up. That's great.

No you. No you. All right. We have time for a story or two for the news. So let's do those. It's time for the news. And it's brought to you by. Bye.

Zufu. Oh, yeah, zoo food. So we went to the zoo yesterday, took the boy and the baby, and that baby is the most chill. It's like hot out, it was like 85. She's so, she just sat in her thing that we pulled her around on this wagon. She kind of sat up and just looked around the whole time. Did she have a favorite animal? She didn't really seem to notice that there were animals involved because she's only six months old.

Six months old apparently this don't have the, they don't have the perception quality. But Van loved everything. and his favorite, I think, was probably the guerrillas. He really likes gorillas. He kept begging for that. But anyway, while we were there, we had food because you got to eat, right? Yeah. And I'm here to tell you, don't eat zoo food.

I got, like, grumpy gut. Oh, really? Yeah. My guts have been grumpy. What did you have? Pretzel, that cost too much, and then some kind of hot dog thing. I don't know. It wasn't good.

Do you think it's all zoo food in general? Do you think it's just the choices you made for zoos food? I think, oh, it's a fair point, but I think it's this zoo. Hogle Zoo doesn't have a lot of good choices. We get some really good food at the Denver Zoo. Yeah, we need to up our game here. And it was salt. It didn't matter about how bad it was.

It was, every, all the food is stupid expensive. Sure, yeah. Like, what happened at the zoo? Everything's expensive now. Anyway. Hopefully the animals eat better than the people. One would hope. One would hope.

Yeah. Let's rip through this story here. There is an R-rated Winnie the Pooh series in the works from the sausage party director. Oh, good. This is not Cocaine Bear, right? No. Different thing. Now, here's the funny thing about Winnie the Pooh.

I didn't know this. Yeah. Winnie the Pooh is not, is a open domain thing. It's a... Correct. Yeah, it's a... Not copyrighted. It's not...

And it was never a Disney original in the first place. It was, Disney made it famous, but this existed prior to all that. It's like... Way, way earlier. Exactly. You and I could go do, what was the other one I was thinking about the other day? There's one that everybody... Steamboat Willie, the Mickey Mouse featured in Steamboat Willie has entered the public domain,

even though Mickey Mouse has continued on, and Disney will be very litigious if you use it incorrectly. But what is it, Mortimer? Mortimer Mouse. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Whatever the original... How does Disney, the Lord of All Trademark Protection? How did they let that one slide?

Yeah, I don't know. I don't get it. I don't know if it's a matter of letting it slide. I think it's just it reaches a time period that you just can't renew it or something or where it's... Oh, maybe they can't. Maybe that's a good point. I don't know. I haven't followed it very close, but I do know they still use it for their logo.

They still, they have that intro to all Disney movies now where Steamboat Willie's doing his little whistle and turning the thing, and he starts out as like a pencil sketch and then morphs into a thing. Yeah. So I guess they still want to use it, even though it's public. I guess they can. It's public domain. Yeah, there's a whole thing if you've been watching this season of this week tonight with John Oliver. They've had, they've had Oswald, I guess is it Oswald the mouse? I think that might be it.

Come out and the Steamboat Willie version of Nikki and do some things that Disney probably wouldn't approve of. Yeah, that's about to happen with Winning the Pooh. So here's how this is going to go. The fan favorite bear created by English author, A.A. Maine, or Milne, Milne. Milne, A. Okay, an English illustrator, E.H. Shepherd. This is back when we just used two letters in the last time. Yeah, I like that. What's mine?

S.B. Johnson. S. B. Johnson. Yeah, S. B. Johnson. It's not bad. I can see that on a book or something. Not bad. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'll start doing. S.B. Johnson. Yeah, why not?

Why does it sound like there's already, isn't there already a company called S.B. Johnson and company? Or S.B. Johnson and company. That sounds really familiar. S. B. Johnson. S. B. Johnson. Why does that sound... When you said Wax, why is that familiar? J.O.O. said it too. And S.B. Johnson, a family company.

That is a... It is a thing, isn't it? S.E. Johnson? S. E. Johnson is the... Yes, E. Johnson. So it's really close. I hear it all the time. Oh, S.C. People are saying S.C.

Correct. Yeah, it's always on NPR podcast and shows and stuff. This show brought to you by S.C. Johnson. Family Company. On that, too. Yes, Brainerable Bright. Blaine is my middle name. It's my dad's name.

Anyway, they are here, and check this out. They're taking Winnie the Pooh, and they're calling it Blood and Honey. All right. Oh, no, this already happened, I guess. Yeah, it already happened. I've seen a trailer. It's janky. I mean, it feels like that Willie's Wonderland level of production.

Yeah, looks pretty bad. It says Winnie, the Pooh, Blood, and Honey was released. despite being labeled as one of the worst movies of all time. That's a hard statement to make. Yeah, it is. A sequel to the horror movie is already in development. And if that wasn't enough, an R-rated live-action animation hybrid series

about Christopher Robin is now in development at Boat Rocker Studios, Shamir Anderson and Stephen James Bay Mills Studio. These are the people responsible for sausage party, which was all about, hey, these hot dogs and these buns look like weaners and vaginas. So here. Yeah.

And they did. The way they drew them, they did. They really did. I never saw it. A movie enjoyed by a crazy neighbor. I've never seen it either, but they had it going one day. We were over at their house and they were watching it. And it's like, all right.

Yeah, this is kind of funny. It's family guy kind of comedy, right? Humma. Some of that family guy, humor. Humma. Hey, hey, Lewis. It's a little bit like that, Lois. The pilot for it is being headed up by this Christopher, sorry.

Oh, it's being helmed by Conrad Vernon. he's known for Sausage Party and directing Shrek 2. Well, that's interesting. The characters, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, they're just going to make a dirty thing. That's what they're going to do. And that's fine. Dirty, crimey, gory.

That gory, disgusting, horrible thing you don't want your kids to see. Yeah. But I might be curious, you know? Oh, yeah, for sure. I'm an adult. I don't think. So maybe. I don't think it's a full, like, oh, let's watch the whole thing for film sack,

but it might be like a, uh, Let's watch 30 minutes of it for couch party or something. Yeah. Oh, couch party's a good idea. I mean, we'll do that. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of which, we'll, uh, that'll be happening this week.

That's right. Second half of Vegas vacation. That's right. Which is such a weird. We've bookended our Vegas vacation with, with the, with, uh, Vegas vacation. It's a very weird thing we've done with that, having that movie been on the outsides. But anyway, that's coming up soon. We're going to take a break when we come back.

Steven Schlecker will be here mid, uh, missed having him here last week. Oh, I'm missing seeing him in general. I'd like him to go to Vegas. What's his deal? It'd be great. You know, I think, I would bet that he just doesn't like Vegas, and I think it's a matter of like saying, you know, what we do is so you can avoid Vegas for the most part, but coming and doing what we do.

Sure, sure. But we're happy to have him here as the main point. So that's coming up here shortly. Stick around. Brian, play a song in the meantime. Oh, this is so good. So Canadian punk group, single mothers have a brand new album that just came out this. last Friday, it's called Roy, R-O-Y, or if you're a Canadian hockey player, it's pronounced

wah, which might be, because they're Canadian. Who knows, maybe it is pronounced Waugh. Anyway, this came out via Dina Loan Records, big thanks to them and Clarion Call Media for letting me know about this. This is great. This is a really, really good album, and having listened to the whole thing, I picked out Sad, Dumb Game as the track I wanted to play from it to get you all excited for the release. Here are single mothers from the album Roy with Sad, Dumb Game.

Cool conditioned hair Say I've chosen to be happy And other little quips for Voltaire A cool condition strategy With an underwhelming flare Says I work hard For all the money that I make Pay close enough attention

And they'll even give a little bit away They work hard for the branding They work harder for the tape I see them give themselves A little pep talk Right before they take the stage What a sad donkey What a sad don't get

What a sad don't get I see a lot of hippies pushing smoke into the air Walking into a new inflated housing With cool conditioned air Saying I'm chosen to be special With a blind, well-meaning stare A calculated strategy Or an underwhelming prayer

Says I work hard for all the money that I make I make, pay close enough attention and they'll even give a little bit away. They work hard for the branding, they work harder for the take. I see them give themselves a little pep talk right before they change the stage. What a sad dumb game? What a sad don't get! What a sad don't get! 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 and get out of here so I can game on that Chromebook.

Got it. Discover the Ultimate Cloud Gaming Machine, a new kind of Chromebook. Deepers, creepers, jumping G, time for spring, time for spring. Go down sleepy. said you be. Time for spring, I say. No more time to lay in snooze. Time for spring, time for spring. Not one spent a time to lose. Time for spring, I say. You did a fine job, boy. Congratulations.

Sorry, that one always cracks me up for some reason. Always gets me. Anyway, hey, Brian, I don't know who that was. You're going to have to tell me one more time. Sure. That was a song called Sad, Dumb Game from a band called Single Mothers from their brand new album, Roy. And what's interesting about the band Single Mothers is it's always been more of an experiment. There are no permanent members except for the guy behind it, Drew Thompson.

So it always constantly changes. They always sound different. And that is their current iteration from the new album, Roy. Love it. Love it. We're going to call our friend Major Spoilers slash a.k.a. Stephen, here, check this out. And now welcome Stephen to the show.

He's a huge freaking nerd. Dollar, dollar bills, y'all. Yeah, he is. Look at him over there. What are you doing, Stephen? What's up? Not a whole lot. Ooh, we've got Dellic.

Stephen Schlecker. Yeah, we got it. Okay. we'll wait we'll wait while you restart discord exterminate exterminate yeah that was pretty good you never know when that's going to come up but uh nope it's some it's a bit rate thing i learned uh when you got different software using different bit rates sometimes i'll throw it off stephen are you back are you there what happens hello stephen all right let's try that yeah you're good heaps better yeah heaps is a good measure measurement i like it i like that that's really

good i need to measure in heaps more often yeah uh stephen it's good to have you how was your week away from us? Yeah, it's fine. I mean, here we are almost two finals week, so students are freaking out left and right, so it's a good reason not to go to Vegas. Are you, you could probably put bets down.

Who has more flop sweat? A person with their last ship at the blackjack table or whatever it is, or a student who's looking for their instructor and they've gone to a nerdtacular. Oh, yeah. Man, don't kidding. That would be. Yeah, yeah. That'd be great, right? Oh, my gosh.

Is this a stressful time for you or just for students? Like, do you have a lot to do? Like, I assume you do. I really am just waiting for final projects to roll in. Oh, gotcha. We are down to the part where it's like, okay, I'm done with lecture. So I'm here if you guys have questions on your projects and want me to look at them and comment on them. Yeah.

Well, you're, you know, look, you're a teacher I wouldn't mind having. You'd be a cool instructor. I wouldn't mind that. Yeah. What would you teach me, Stephen? First thing you'd teach me, what would it be? Oh, so here are the classes I teach. I teach beginning, advanced, and intensive video production.

Fantastic. The editing class, computer editing a video. Yeah. And the computer graphics for film and video. I'll do that one. I'll do that last one. So that's after effects, special effects stuff. I think you'd have fun with that one, Scott.

I would have fun with that one. Oh, for sure. I didn't know you were like an after effects pro. You should make cool stuff for us. You should, everybody should go and grab their copy of Adobe after effects in a book, like the last seven, eight editions, and flip it open. and then you'll find a bunch of stuff that I've written for them. Oh, look at you.

Oh, that's cool. You're an Adobe man. Well, good. It's good to have you back. I missed our segment last week, so we're going to make up for it today and talk a little bit about a little bit of doom and gloom out there right now in comics. Well, some would say. Maybe a little bit of doom and gloom. Maybe a little bit.

We don't want to be too hyperbolic. But let's talk about digital comics and the current state of things. This is my favorite way to consume comics now. I really do enjoy digital comics in the current form. and I subscribe to a few services and also a few friends. Anyway, tell me about how that's going. Is it not working out? No, no, it's working out fine, but here's the thing.

Two things happened in quick succession of one another. The first was that it was announced that Comicsology laid off half of their staff, number one. And then number two last or two weeks ago, Marvel sent out a thing that says, hey, for people who have been using the Marvel Comics ad since the IP had launched so many years ago, we're shutting that down in June. So today is the last day, May 1st is the last day, that you can buy digital comics on the app. Otherwise, all your stuff is going to migrate over to the Marvel Universe app. So you'll still be able to access your Marvel comics. So why is this happening? And why is everyone suddenly freaked out? Well, first of all, think about what's been going on for the last three years. Literally,

comicsology has been working to integrate their system in with the full Amazon marketplace and to move everything over to the Kindle edition. They had a lot of delays. Their launch didn't go well, those kinds of things. But that project is done. So you don't need all of those people employed when that project is over. So that's part of the reason why so many people have been let go. And then the other thing is that I think because of this Kindle integration,

in the digital comic space, there's very little reason for the Marvel app to stand around by itself. And so I think Marvel also just wants to keep everything within its own silo. And so that's why they're ending that program

and moving everything over to the Marvel Universe app. Of course, this has everybody going, oh, no, digital comics are dying. Digital comics in 2021 sold $170 million in sales, which is the highest it has ever been. I was trying to look for the 2022 numbers and I can't find them, but I think that they are just as high or higher. So even if

digital comics only represent about 10% of the overall comic sales in the world, Amazon isn't going to say no to $100 million. No, hell no. That's not an even for Amazon. That's good. That's good revenue, right? Yeah. So for people that are freaked out that their digital comic sales are going to go away, it's, I'm going to say no. What's what's the bet on that, Brian, if I were in Vegas right now. I would be the odds of that. 1,000 to 1. Wow.

Yeah, okay. I'll take that bet. So basically, here's my knowledge. Basically, uh, well, I'll get you a thousand.

There you go. Play your bets. Please you bet. My only problem with the way Amazon's running thing. And by the way, Amazon laid off to a ton of people. This was part of that. Um,

so, so just so if people think they targeted comicsology, they didn't really, they targeted everything to which lost half their stat or not half, but a huge bunch of people, 10,000 people or something. Twitch is crazy or something like that. If I can't remember what the number was.

But it was a lot of people and it was kind of across other departments, which is also a thing happening in tech in general. So I think it's all kind of that. It's easy to look at that and get hyperbolic and go, oh, comics are dying. We can't do digital anymore. And it's really not quite the story. And I think part of it in some other shows in the Frog Pants Network have already talked about this.

I think a lot of it is, you know, at summertime, we are now, quote, unquote, out of pandemic, even though we're not. And so people are going outside more and during pandemic, sales of everything were high because people are like, I need something to comfort me while I'm locked in at home. So I think we're kind of seeing a little bit of dip both in streaming and in other digital areas. And so we are seeing in an effort to cut costs Disney and Microsoft and Amazon and all of these tech companies laying off people, I think, for a lot of those reasons. They've scaled up and now it's time to scale back. Time to, yeah. It's kind of across the board, which is unfortunate.

you know like all things they just have to sort of fake growth for the next year and then they'll hire people again yeah it'd be the same cycle all over again um all right well that's good news that it's not truly dying but it is a bummer about those layoffs and also i just think comicsology is a weird husk of what it used to be and it's clearly because amazon's trying to push everything over to the kindle app and i you know what i'm honestly i'm fine with the kindle app being a home for comics i just need it to be less insane in there like it's just a big mess right i opened it up i opened it up the other thing i was like where the heck are my comics what are all these other things it's like right i just need a section for that's just like here are all your digital comics yeah here's almost like

you too we're going to put some we're going to put some songs in here too we couldn't get them on your ipad so we're going to put them in here yeah and it's weird because your book is right you know your books are all mixed in it's like no you guys are wrong about how this works like those this is a categoric difference give me my books in one section give me my comic books in another section it's not well even even more so they need to break that out into subsections right so just like when you go to the library or a bookstore hey here are all your fiction books your nonfiction books here are your biographies here are your your lasers and swords and all of that stuff yeah and my other complaint i've one other complaint i know they have a little

spat with apple with the app store fee right they don't want to pay it so you can't buy books or comics in the app on an ios device you have to go to the website and then it's just there That's all fine with me, except for this one aspect. And it's been true the entire time that this has been a thing, including comicsology. If you're going to do that, great. Send me off to Amazon to pay for it. I don't care. But tell me how much it is in the app.

You don't need to hide. They don't show the price at all. They just say, you got to go to Amazon to do this shit. Tell me right there that it's $3.99 and that I need to go to Amazon to pay for it. Why not include the price, even if I can't buy it there? I don't understand that. I think the main, I don't know how easy it is to update prices on things, but remember three months after a single issue comes out, the price drops dramatically and then another three months later it drops again. And I don't know if that's the reason why they're doing it.

I got to be that it's got to be that they can have all of that data has to be dynamically coming from the same place. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't get it. I don't know. That's really weird. Is it an app store rule, says Mac addict? Is that true?

So if you, if you list your price, you can't then send them off. Oh, see, that's even worse. Freaking Apple needs to cut that out, and Amazon needs to quit being so stringent. Let's come to the middle. Let's find a way. You guys, find a way. Okay, find a way.

What happened to IDW publishing? I don't know what's going on. Well, so this is maybe not so great news, but last week, this is a little bit more of the doom and the gloom. So IDW publishing laid off two-fifths of its staff on, I want to say it was like Thursday last week, which is a huge, a huge cut to what they're doing.

And they've been delisted from the New York Stock Exchange and don't have any of that. They laid off a lot of their marketing department. They laid off a lot of vice presidents. They laid off a lot of their other staff that manages things. Jamie Rich, I believe, is the new editor-in-chief. And this seems kind of scary, especially since IDW for years, has been a really great place to go to for your IP comics. Your Star Trek used to be there.

You had some Star Wars stuff over there, some of their Disney things, Transformers, G.I. Joe. They lost the G.I. Joe and Transformers rights last year, and we haven't seen where those are landing yet. Maybe we'll find out at San Diego Comic-Con. But I think, this is me off the top of my head, looking at this, when you think about their stock prices, IDW publishing or IDW media has really three branches to it. They have their comic books, which a lot of people know. They have their IDW games, and then they have their IDW media, which is television and movie production, right? Right.

So IDW games went away, I want to say like a year, year and a half ago when they released the Batman animated series board game. That was the last release that they did. So there are no more sales coming from games. They haven't announced any big deals for their IP licenses, including Wynonna Earp, which, you know, was making them some really good money when that was on sci-fi channel and lock and key is no longer being run over at Netflix. So there's huge amounts of money that have gone from those other two areas which only leave the comic book publishers. And so they're, the amount of money they had coming in took a real big dip because of those losses. So this is something that people should be watching, of looking at. I don't think that the company is going to close anytime soon. This time, year maybe that might be a little different but i think right now they just need to regroup and figure out well if we don't have these other two legs of the stool to hold us up yeah what do we do how do we make our income yeah it's weird i'm looking at their other

ipes right now they still have star trek the sonic the hedgehog stuff yep my little pony yeah TMNT so they got all the turtles a few other things like that they do list um let's see here where did i find it they do oh they have the entire they're the d and d comics um Yes, they do those as well. License as well. So these all seem like big IPs that could keep you afloat if you're, if things are okay over there, you know, but it sounds like.

Yeah, and I think, and I think when you have phenomenal growth, when they burst onto the scene with their movie and television stuff and their games, they grew so fast between, I want to say, 2011, 2012, all the way up until pandemic.

And then after that, everything is shut down. And I need to look today to see if there is a writer's guild strike, because that also impacts. packs their media side. If you can't write anything, if you can't really produce anything, then how are they going to get any more media projects off the ground? So this is really a big, huge major contraction. And if you look historically at IDW, I think it's IDW Media Holdings or maybe just IDW entertainment, you'd have to look historically at their New York Stock Exchange. You can

see the moment when they had their first big television and movie deal, because their stock prices shoot up and stay pretty strong until about about a month or so ago. And then it just drops right back down to almost nothing. So it is unfortunate, but I don't think people need to be running for the hills just yet that IDW publishing is closing. I think they still can make a lot with their with their comic book stuff. And if they have to spend the comic book publishing out of their entire entertainment division, they could probably do that as well.

Do they, what does IDW stand for? Do you know? I do not know I was trying to find out on the site I doesn't say I thought it was ideas yeah their logo changed they used to have like a light bulb in their oh yeah

in their logo many many years ago so I don't know if it has something to do with ideas or something like that ideas drawing and and writing Windows 95 there you go nailed it well I hope the best for them

they got a lot of cool stuff and I would like them to continue their transformer stuff was always very good it's a bummer that's gone Yeah, that whole thing is kind of a mess and is really a result of what happens when toxic fandom militarizes themselves. Essentially, there were some things going on with the G.I. Joe and Transformers property that the quote-unquote real true fans didn't like. And so they were calling and harassing Hasbro directly. And I think that, I think that. I can't 100% prove that.

But I think that is why they no longer have that property. They should have made Cobra Commander a transformer. That would be cool. Yes. Well, they've had G.I. Joe Transformers crossovers. And certainly, if you go and talk to Hasbro, all of their properties are now part of this Hasbroverse where G.I. Joe and Transformers occupy the same universe. So. And Micronauts and ROM, right? I think they're in that same. Are they all in the same? I think so. Yeah. I can't remember the ROM thing is kind of messed up. There was like a Metelliverse plan, like a movie Metelliverse and that sadly never, never material. That's freaking great.

I love hearing that. Micronauts. Need more of that in my life. Oh, for sure. Yes. Yeah, you and I have always agreed on the micronauts. That's an amazing IP. Underused.

Well, this is great. There's more of this sort of content over at major spoilers.com. And then there's the podcast and there's everything else over there. Is there anything in particular I'd like to point people to this week? A couple of big things, Scott, in three days, may the fourth be with you. So you've got that. Then on the fifth, on the fifth, on the fifth, you have

the New Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 is in a theater and then on Saturday yeah you should get some tickets to that yeah you should get some tickets I might actually go I think I'm going to that actually weirdly

I think I'm going to that's going to be my I haven't been to the theater since Spider-Man no way home or whatever it was called oh really no space for home to be a chance to try the new theater right yeah we're going to go to a new theater and do this so I think I'm going

yeah anyway sorry yeah we've got a Denver Saturday meet up yeah very nice Scott is going to be very busy giving out the free comic book day draw. Oh yeah, that's coming up. Our art

my art's already done. It's villains at the beach and I think we'll have our posting up soon. I forgot we're going to have doing all this with a kickstar at the same time. It's kind of pain in the ass. But it doesn't matter, we're doing it. Yeah. Yeah, watch for that. I'm glad you brought that up. Stephen, is there anything else I should do to see? You know, it's getting hot, it's getting warm. Yeah, I know. I got to go pee

because I'm really over hydrated. Fantastic. That's just quite. Well, pointing out the negative aspect. like staying hydrated yeah you stay too hydrated got to pee yeah wow you always hear that you can actually get water poisoning you know yeah oh yeah you can overdo it for sure well here's the weird bit i didn't know this taylor informed me yesterday but that you shouldn't be giving your babies water up to a certain age because they uh there's something that's it's worse so they reject it or something weird going on process they don't uh yeah it's very odd so i you know when our kids

were baby babies they just sucking on a water bottle here and there whatever no big deal but i went to go give her a water bottle to give febe you water bottle taylor's like no no no no don't do that we're not doing that until she's 11 months or something like that and i don't know what that was all about but anyway oh and there's carter in the chat happy birthday carter oh it was yesterday right yes she is happy birthday carter she is an adult ass adult now she turned 26 oh oh she she became an adult That's adult when she turned 21. Yeah, but it feels like 26 is like, yeah, they're over the... She can rent a car now, right?

I guess it's 25, yeah. Yeah, you can rent a car. You get cheaper insurance, or maybe it's, yeah, your insurance goes down, I think, car insurance. Oh, yeah. What else? You're 26, you start to feel like you're, you're hurtling toward 30 when really you're still super young and you don't know it.

Exactly. Yeah. Yes, enjoy, enjoy your 20s. Oh, my gosh, I miss my 20s. I miss my 20s like crazy. Mentally, I never left them. Yeah. But here we are.

All right, that's going to do it for all our guests and stuff. We do have one call to play here at the end of the show and comment upon. Let's hear it. So I'm going to play it, Brian. This is about pest control. Here you go. Hey, this is Mike for the morning stream. I was listening to the most recent episode of the Bedbug discussion.

I'm actually a manager of a pest control company out of Tampa, Florida. And one of the cool things we use is a biopesticide against bedbugs, which is actually a fungal spore that you spray around, like, where there's infestations, and they bring it back to where they hide and stuff, and these spores will actually, like, propagate and kill the bedbugs. I don't know. I just thought it was cool. I've definitely heard of the heat treatment stuff before, but the company that I worked for uses the spore. All I think of is the last of us, though. I'm pretty sure that these spores will lead to the apocalypse. I don't know.

Just thought I dropped that. I thought it was cool, something different. I love the show, though. Yeah, that's very last of us, isn't it? Doing spores. No, it totally is. I'm visualizing that, wow, we didn't think that this weird spore that we were giving the bedbugs could transfer to humans. But, oh, no, it did.

And now we're all carrying spores. Yeah, it feels like we're messing with fire there a little bit. but thanks for the follow-up. I love it when these guys, and when people call in about a thing we talked about because it's the area of work they're in, I love that. Yeah, I love that too.

It's like getting experts here on this show. We need that in our stupid morning show. Thank you for that. If you'd like to call in, leave a voicemail like it. 801-47-1062. You can also leave texts there. And while you're at it, send us emails, the morning stream at gmail.com.

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looking at that we're looking at it we're looking at it we're looking at it I do a bad Trump So no one will care I'm not going to try and do I'm not going to correct it I stayed away from doing a Trump At all while we're in Vegas And I really wanted to like break him on and say

Yeah you can see my tower over there My tower It's beautiful standing there above them There won't let me gamble in there They all ganged up on me wouldn't let me gamble That's the story right The people on the strip like Steve Wynn And all those guys voted it down

No no Trump on the trip that's what uh that's what i hear so he had to go whart off to the side anyway uh that'll do do it for today's show big thanks everybody for listening tuning in thanks for being here live if you want to watch the show live here's a reminder of how to do it we air the show at 9 a m every morning go to frogpants dot tv it'll take you straight to uh the live stream and we'd love to have you nothing wrong with that it's nice to see this chat room after we come back from a long trip It is. It's like a, it's like a virtual version of what we just experienced in Vegas, really. Damn straight. Plus there's a wrestler in there. Joey image is there.

I know, just had surgery, but hopefully we see him, he was talking about coming up to Denver. Hopefully he does soon. Oh, that'd be great. Yeah. And also, I want to have him on just to do like a quick check in with like, I got wrestling questions. He had neck surgery. He had questions about that. Yeah.

Like, was it caused by the wrestling, the rassling, you know? How bad was it? That sort of thing. and then maybe get him to explain why he thinks that uh well it's the name of the game that he loves my brain what's it called uh the one the zombie one on playstation that wasn't last of us the other one left for dead left no um uh time's gone time passes that's strand no uh gone or gone stays gone that's days gone okay he can yeah no look at him freaking out uh he he he is about that game the way you hear me talk about Fury Road, that's how he is about that game.

So one of these days, we're just going to bring him in. We're going to say, I want to hear all this stuff. Just get to check in with Zoe, or Zoe, with Joey, Joey, Zoe, and see how it is. Anyway, watch that. Joey brings wrestling. Yeah, Joey brings wrestling. There you go. Change your name right now.

All right. That's going to do it. Let's get out of here. Brian, play a song. I don't know what you got, but I'm excited. Yeah. So we got a request going out to Keaton. By the way, need some requests for the first half of the month.

Got a lot for the second half of May, but I, but I, need some for the first half. This one for today goes out to Keaton, says, well, hello there, skull and bone. It's finally here, my 30th birthday. I think I started listening to TMS and the Frog Pan's shows around my 18th birthday, and boy, time has flown. I can't think of a better way of kicking off this new decade of mine than getting a song from the covermaster himself. Please continue all the amazing work you guys do. My weeks would be so much longer without TMS, film sack, skim, and all the other content you folks do. One last thing, a request for both of you. Any tips for someone entering their 30s if you both woke up tomorrow at age 30 what would you do or do

differently do over or do again oh my gosh love the show though keaton well my 30s were mostly spent kid raising but i but also a bunch of this right here's what i would do i would number one thing when i answered my 30s is i would get out of my head that 30 really meant anything because in my head it meant oh you're 30 and you aren't like a millionaire right now or you're not perfect in every way. Like there is this expectation that's placed on 20-year-olds that when 30 happens, that's it. It's the over-the-hill moment or whatever.

Complete and utter total, 100% bullshit. Don't buy into it. Enter your 30s knowing. No, it's nothing. You're still, I mean, all of it, honestly, all of it is nothing. We apply too many societal constraints on stupid numbers, age numbers.

And I unfortunately fall for those. Especially half of the hosts of this show. Yeah, I know I do it all the time. And I hate that I do it. And so my recommendations, don't do like me. Who cares if it's 30? Just go. Exactly. Just go and be you.

That's it. Exactly. Also, yeah, Scott, can I get any random three second sound clip? So one random three second sound clip, I figured a 30 second sound clip is probably too long of request. Oh, that's hard. But one three second sound clip is good. All right. Let me see if I can find one that's a random one.

This should be around three seconds. Here you go. Portfolio. Hoodwank. Anus. Tackle. Morph. Sorry.

That was technically 3.8 seconds, but close. That'll work. That totally works. All right. So, Keaton wants to hear any cover of a song from 1993. Ah, yes, 30 years ago, it was 1993. Some suggestions, I will always love you. Womp, there it is.

Rump Shaker, Beck's loser, maybe, but I'm sure the covermaster has something. Oh, I've got something. How about this one? A song I didn't care for in 1993, but for whatever reason I like this. version. Casabian recorded this a few years ago for the Triple J. Lyca version 13 in 2017. It's a cover of Cypress Hill, insane in the brain. All right, here it is. We'll be back tomorrow. Oh, we didn't play this for him. Let's party. It's freaking birthday, man. I'm going to play that. Anyway, we'll be back tomorrow. We've got a whole week of shows. So welcome back and enjoy it.

That's going to do it for us. We'll see you then. Who you're trying to get crazy with that's sad? Don't you know I'm local? To the one on the flam, boy it's tough I just tossed that ham in the frying pan, like span. It's done when I come in slam. Damn, I feel like the son of Sam. Don't let me wreck you, hectic, automatic, got me going like general electric. General electric and the lights are blinking I'm thinking it's all long when I go out drinking

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I won't let you hide, won't let you hide. I, ran from the time, won't let you hide, won't let you hide. Thank you very much. Love you lots. If you like what you just heard, there's a very good chance you will like all the shows on the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. Try my product. I earned my degree online at Arizona State University.

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