The Morning Stream - TMS 2466: Pizza is Public Food

Episode Date: May 22, 2023

Flame Canada. I Don't Like Beeeeeeeer (in Tina Voice). The Right Way To Go To High School. Extra Virgin Coffee. AI AI O. Lady Mix Tapes, For Ladies. I Neither Left with Pepsi but took with Pizza. Netless and Nutless. IT'S TOO EARLY FOR A FISH SANDWICH EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE!! Concertville. Ready for the White Man's Overbite. You say Playlist, I say Mix Tape. The Hamburgler Has Moved Onto Pizza. Butt Spooning. The Furs are still Psychadelic. AppSlappy 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, Flame Canada. I don't like beer. The right way to go to high school. Extra virgin coffee. AIAIO. Lady mixtapes for ladies. I neither left with Pepsi, but took with pizza. Netless and nutless.

Hey, is it too early to get a fish sandwich, exterminate, exterminate? Concertville. Ready for the white man's overbite. You say playlist, I say mixtape. The hamburger has moved on to pizza. But spooning. The furs are still psychedelic. App Slapy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.

Hi, I'm Steve Canton, producer of the Beanie Lover Video, and your host of this important video, How to Spot Counterfeit Beanie Babies. Pajama time. This is the M-S-S-D. This is the first. morning stream you're a freak and a cannibal and you've come to the wrong town hello everybody welcome back to tms or here for the first time i don't want to assume things it's monday 22nd

23 i'm scott johnson and i am here with brian a bit hi brian hello it feels like to welcome back even though we had a show last week it was mostly uh no show because of vacation time yeah just Thursday, really. That was it. Yeah. I guess we had a couch party and stuff, but yeah, for proper TMS listeners, you only got one dose of our magic. And now you've got to just sit here grooving on it all week, you know? You got to take it in.

This guy gets three days for vacation. I get the entire month of June. Yeah. Brian's got a lot. You've got a big June, man. It's just a lot of weekends. A lot of weekend stuff. Family reunion, a Vegas trip, Elvis Castello, and Nick Lowe performing in Vegas. And now I just found out that that squeeze is coming

oh to uh denver so all my favorite band favorite bands right like uh uh seeing duran duran this summer saw crowded house earlier this month squeeze coming late september to um uh belco theater with the psychedelic furs oh what

they still do stuff that's great apparently so yeah mottler mike butler what's the little lead guy's name's anyway that guy that guy's still doing it still rocking it that's cool um they were they felt very they felt like a very rebellious band to be into when we were younger i don't know why they did yeah no it was them and echo and the bunny men it's like you know you had your uh your pop new wave like your um durand duran certainly fitting into that category and and uh uh things like that but then you had your on the outskirts new wave bands that you

were cooler if you were into like the dbs and the uh uh echo and the bunny men the psychedelic furze. The cure was probably closer to mainstream. Like, oh, everybody loves the cure. Yeah, nobody doesn't like the cure. They're great. Nobody doesn't like the cure. Oh, yeah, and then seeing Delamitri, Semi-Sonic, and Bare Naked Ladies at Red Rocks, too, this summer.

It is a concert, it's Concertville this year for me. It's white, hot action concert summer for Brian. White hot action concert summer. They're all white bands. With a bunch of white bands. Yeah, they're all white. Brian's white. That's all right.

That's all right. I'll be sitting there in my seat, dancing with biting my with my front teeth you doing the white man over bite dance hell yeah oh look at you you're ready now you don't need any practice oh yeah i got no yeah i need any practice holy shit you're ready um hey speaking of bands quick question for you i got this uh this tweet that was going around that i answered um this guy says what were the most five most listened to bands or artists for you in high school and it even goes on to say don't try to be cool and say some hardcore band uh or whatever just tell us the truth so i replied said, Information Society, Metallica, Pink Floyd, New Order, and Van Halen.

That's pretty much my top five. Or those are the five I listen to the most. Which isn't necessarily mean they were my favorite bands. They were just the ones I heard the most. Erasure would probably be sixth place. There's a few other things. If you had to answer that, your five most listened to in high school? In high school.

So squeeze, sparks, lead zeppelin, Um, God, what was always going on in my, because I, I walked around high school for, for three years with a pair of, uh, with a walkman with a pair of headphones on, like constantly. I took it off when I got into class, put it on when I got out of class, walk to my next class. This is the right way to do it. Everything you're saying is correct. This is the right way to go to high school. It's even better now. Think of these kids with their earbuds, man.

They can just wirelessly do all this shit. No batteries. Yeah, dren, dren, squeeze, sparks, lead zepplin. and who'd be the fifth? I'm sure there was a band that I was like because Crown and House had just come out in the mid to late 80s

that first album, 86, 87. So I can't really give that a Oh, I listen to a lot of yellow. Would that count as like the band that too cool? Yeah. I don't know at the time they were awesome

because they had that beer bump thing. And then. Well, that and everybody do that song, but man, great albums. I agree. Yeah. Love those guys. They were awesome. I would put R.E.M. in this if the list were longer. I listened to a lot of R.M. Sure.

Yeah. So there you go. That dates us. That tells you what era we were in high school right there. Yeah. Yeah. But boy, squeeze and sparks. I had all the albums on recorded to cassette so you could have one side that was a full album, the other side, another full album. So in my, in that top shelf of my locker was stacks of tapes. That's what I kept in that top shelf of the locker. It was all stacks of tapes tapes. It was like, all right, what am I listening to today? Oh, let's listen to Seven of the Ragged Tiger, boom. Or let's listen to Argy Bargy. Boom. Let's listen to pulling rabbits out of the hat. Boom. Oh, Sting. The police. Yeah, the police and sting were

huge for me. Yeah, the police were big for us. Did you, so, so do you still have those tapes or did you get rid of them all in some time? I got rid of them all. I do still have some cassettes from that period of time for whatever reason here's fun confession time so had all these mixtapes that I created but I also had

the mixtapes you put on when you had a lady over like the the the mixtape of the music right and for whatever reason I still have all those I don't know why because

It's not, I mean, I do have cassette players to play them on. But it's, so, A, I can create a playlist. B, there's rarely any music going on. It's too much work to say, hold on, honey. Let me put on a playlist. Yeah, we've been married too long. It doesn't work that way for us anyway. We've been married too long.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yelling at the cats to get off the bed as the playlist. Give me a title, though. Give me a song. Give me a band. Oh, sure. All right. Scriti Palliti, another...

Scretty Palletti. Scriti Palletti. Another band I listened to, like, crazy in high school. Their song, A Little Knowledge was on there. If You Leave by OMD. Oh, yeah. I love that. I loved OMD.

Oh, man. Every time you go away by Paul Young, cover of the song by Daryl Hall and John Oates. Thank you very much. Every time you know. That's the one. How about Red? Red bread, wine, the cover, the cover version by UB40. You B 40, yeah.

That's a, that's a fun little sexy song. Yeah, it's a little too, yeah, because there's nothing like doing all of a sudden. Red, red wine, you'll make me feel so fine. You keep me rocking all of the time. That's like having Shaggy in the middle of your romantic song. It really is, exactly, yes. Oh, Lord. All right.

Well, there's a look into our teenage music lives, everybody. I hope you enjoyed it. All right, we did a morning forum last week, and it's time to award the winner and start a new one. Stand back and check your personal belongings. It's time for the morning forum. All right, check this out. Last week, we did Best TV Spinoffs,

and that was a fun one because I had just finished Better Call Saul and was feeling very strong about its placement in that. The big winner, though, Well, no. Actually, it did win. I'm sorry. It looked so close. It was actually closer than I expected it to be. But Better Call Saul with 22.8% of the vote won for best. Second in line, Frazier with 17.4%. Surprise me a little bit. I don't know. It's a great. It's a really great spinoff. The sign of a great spinoff is how well it stands on its own. And you can enjoy and love both of those shows without having to watch any Breaking Bad or any cheers. Those things stand so well on their own. Yep. Somebody put just the ten of us, which was a spinoff of growing pains. Do you remember that?

That was a thing? No, I don't remember that. Really? Yeah, that was a spinoff. It was bad. I think they're playing with us there a little bit. But the Simpsons... Just the ten of us feels like somebody saying,

oh, you know, I really like too many cooks. That show was great. I love too many cooks. Too many cooks. The Simpsons took third with 16.8%. And that one's kind of a hard one because, Yes, it's a spinoff. It's tough to call it a spin-off because it's, you know,

they were the shorts on the Tracy Olman show, but not really like a, they had nothing else to do with the Tracy Olman show. It wasn't like, it's like saying, and people argue this, and I'd probably be one of them, that Office Space is one of those movies that came out of skits-ons starting out live,

like Stuart Smalley and, Oh, right. Because those Milton animated cartoons, the Judge Milton cartoons started out on SNL. I guess you could argue they spun the systems or the Simpsons out of the Tracy Olman show. You should say that. Sure.

But that's not quite the same, is it? So it's a little weird. That one's fishy. It's weird. It almost needs its own separate category. After that, we got Mork and Mindy with 4.4%. This is now way down the list. And things like Angel, Daria, Law and Order, Special Victims Unit, this sort of stuff,

Boston Legal. And then a bunch of dumb stuff that people put in like DT. N.S from TNT. Hey, when you think about, all right, so happy days took place, and Happy Days itself being a spin-off from a Love American style, but Happy Days taking place in the 50s, right? Yeah. Cunningham's and all that stuff.

The Morck and Mindy squarely taking place in the 80s, even though it spun off from the 50s, from the Happy Days. Right. Which means Mork didn't age, right? Robin Williams' character didn't age the 30 years between the two. And that means when he came back to Earth and lived in Boulder with Pam Dauber, the Cunningham's were all 30 years older than they were. You know, like, Richie was like a new, you know, pushing 50.

Richie Cunningham pushing 50. Yeah. The way they did that was weird. Like at least Better Call Saul, even though everyone's older, the actors are older, they're setting it in the time zone, right? They're putting it in the right time zone. But back in the day, they didn't care. It was like, whatever.

Yeah, exactly. Here we are. We're in the 70s. Joni and Chachi are old and married. Oh, my gosh. Joni loves Chachi. Remember that spinoff? I forgot about that.

I do remember that one, yeah. What a piece of should. Ryan LaFave says, is Kirby Enthusiasm a spinoff of Seinfeld? No. No, not at all. Yeah, because Larry David wasn't a character or was, you know, Larry wasn't a character on Seinfeld. He was co-writer and he was the voice. voice of uh Steinbrenner uh Steinbrenner yeah and a few others but he was just yeah he was

creator co-creator and did some voice stuff but mostly wrote and directed or helped direct so that whole thing with him going off I mean yes you see the you see the blueprints of his humor yeah from Seinfeld but I don't think you can count that as a spin-off but there's no crossover characters right there's no no even even the Seinfeld reunion thing is just the actors coming together to make a Seinfeld reunion. It's not. Right. Exactly. It's not George. It's freaking Jason Alexander. There you go. There's, and there's your, that's exactly how you, how you differentiate the two. You know, Jerry Seinfeld appeared in Kirby enthusiasm as Jerry Seinfeld, not the Jerry Seinfeld from, from Seinfeld. Yeah, which is nothing like that real Jerry Seinfeld. So then he got in a car and drank coffee with comedians. So there you go.

That's right. Exactly. Well, here's our winner. Our big winner this week is Miss Pengey. damn it congratulations you're a winner uh it is miss penge and miss penge if you hear this send me a message otherwise i'll send you one uh whoever gets to each other first and you will get your frog pants fun pack in the mail congratulations on the big win today who made the best batman this will be this week's contest and uh we have such uh choices as if i had this open that'd be easier here we go uh tim burton christopher nolan matt reeves joel schumacher zack snider l Leslie H. Martinson. Yeah, that's right. The 66 movie. Okay. The 66? Great. Matt Rappellant? Matt shark repellent. Exactly. Chris Mackie, or McKay, rather, who made, what do he make? Well, he made one of them. You'll have to go look it up yourselves, everybody.

He didn't do the Batman, right? That was somebody who did that one? That was Matt Reeves. So he's... Matt Reeves. Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah, and he's on here. So if you go and vote here at the... What is the damn website? It's frogpants.com slash the morning form, all right? Frogpants.com slash the morning form and vote. The vote doesn't matter so much as it's just fun to see the data, but what really matters is you'll be entered to win a frogpants fun pack of your own. And we'll award it next Monday, all right? And if you, and if, uh, and if you click

Joel Schumacher, you might as well just stop listening to this and go listen to Joe Rogan. Yeah, why even here? What do you even do? Why are you here? Yeah, exactly. I'm tempted. I mean, Brian, if you had to vote, where do you, where do you land here? Chris Nolan, quite, very squarely Chris Nolan. The Dark Night trilogy, even with its flaws and with, you know, with that voice, I just can't get past Bill's, Bill's voice. Yeah. Hey, you guys. I freaking hate it so much.

Yeah. Yeah, it's maybe, you know, I kind of, it might be the only thing that I don't like in the Guardians of the Galaxy series is them giving Karen Gill in the direction to sound like a mix between, Clint Eastwood and Marilyn Monroe for Nebula. Yeah. I don't know why they felt they need to do that. That was weird. She's so great otherwise, though. She's great otherwise, yeah, exactly.

I don't blame her. Someone told her to talk like that. But anyway. But anyway, yes, Chris Nolan would be easy choice for me. I think I'm in agreement. I don't know why you would vote. I mean, I really like Matt Reeves as a director. I really liked The Batman, and I thought his planet the apes are incredible.

Like, all that stuff's true. But I don't know how you not pick Christopher Nolan. I just don't know how you. do it. But other people, you know, whatever, some Tim Burton lovers out there, you do what you do. Go vote. Oh, yeah. No, that was a very cool, quirky style, that first Batman movie. And if there wasn't that first Batman movie that kind of said, all right, maybe superhero movies can work. Would we have all of the superhero movies we've had since then? Yeah, I agree. It's set the tone and the template, even though it's a little weird. I think it, I think you're right.

Anyway, thank you for voting and I hope some of you win. Well, one of you will. Frogpants.com, the morning form. Brian, you had something happened to you you told me to remember to remind you about so I'm reminding you. What was it?

I'm glad you did because I did show to the show today and forget so I'm glad you had this in there. So Thursday night they had a meet-up event for the MS-150 for people who are in the top donor

group of the MS-150. And thanks to all of you guys listening who contribute to my MS-150 ride I end up in these top donor things. This, I think, was the first year I ended up in the top 150 donors for the MS-150. So let's keep it up, by the way, you know, Tiny.cc slash Bike Coverville, 2023. Nice. Five, ten bucks, whatever, whatever you can afford.

But, yeah, we found out, and I'll just throw this out there, found out that the 30 people that we had in that room comprised 80% of the money raised. for and from the Colorado chapter of MS which is amazing that is amazing a huge huge number and the leader of our team we found out I found out for the first time that

that he has been involved in a lot of MS tests like cure testing and he's you know when they show these things these reactions of like how people are reacting to the treatments He's one of those dots, one of those few dots on the scale that they base the median line around.

It's really cool. Oh, wow. That is cool. Anyway, so it's being held in this place called the left. It was held in this place called a left-hand brewery. Really cool microbrewery. They have a few locations here in Denver, left-hand brewery. Great stuff.

I assume the owner's left-handed or something. Is that the deal? Probably. Yeah, I don't know. Their logo is big red left-hand. That's cool. So we get in there and they're talking and a server comes over and says, hey, can I get you anything?

And I'm like, oh, yeah, I'll do a pretzel assassin Nitro Stout. And Tina's like, oh, I'll just have a Pepsi. And she said, all right, can I take your card? I'm like, I give her my card. She runs it through and charges for it and then brings us our drinks. Then she comes back a little bit later and says, hey, can I get you a food order? I'm like, oh, you know, let's do, yeah, we'll get a flat bread pizza. So they have, like, this really cool pepper, really spicy jalapeno and Serrano with goat cheese and blah, blah, blah.

That sounds so good right now. Oh, it's like the best. So, oh, my gosh, I want it right now. Okay. So, well, Tina hates beer, vinyl revivalist. That's why she had a Pepsi. So while we're sitting there talking, there's this guy standing in front of us, this older guy. And he is one of the top money raisers of the group.

but he he might be a little bit socially unaware. So he's looking for the server himself. And so Tina are standing right, you know, together. And then he's a couple feet in front of us facing away from us. But then every time he turns around, he's looking for the server. Every time he turns around, his face ends up like a foot away from my face. And he kind of looks at me and then he's looking at the server and stuff. And it's like, you know, maybe kind of back up and look.

around, but it's like he turns around, it's like instantly in my face. Oh, that would drive me crazy. So, so little, you know, some social cues awareness and some personal space breakage, whatever, but you know, whatever. I mean, this guy raises so much money,

I can't really complain. So he finally gets to serve his attention. She comes over. Apparently, he doesn't drink, so he ordered a Pepsi. also yeah and so uh she comes over with my with our drinks and she then she gives him his Pepsi he sets drinks on sets it down on table by him and we set ours on another table a little bit further away yeah uh our pizza comes and by this point everybody's done talking and everybody's kind of gone into these little clusters of groups to chat and we're chatting with somebody

our pizza arrives and they set it right on the table that we're sitting next to and uh she takes my card again charges me for the pizza etc so the guy comes around again this socially unaware guy and he comes up to Tina and says is that my Pepsi? And she's like, no, no, I think yours is over there on that table. He's like, oh, thanks. And then he like looks at her pizza and just helps himself to a slice

and then referring to the Pepsi says, good, I'm glad I asked you and didn't just help myself to your Pepsi. And then walks over and gets his Pepsi. wait a minute what really i'm trying to like in the same breath that he's just helping himself to our pizza he's patting himself on the back for asking before he just took tina's Pepsi i don't know how i feel about this this is really really weirdly thought that it was all paid for by the the event folks and didn't even but didn't even ask like didn't you say did you guys buy this or is this was this provided by the thing he just looked our pizza grabbed a slice walked away and got his

Pepsi. Weird. I get it now if he thought it was like everybody was just getting fed by the place or something. Yeah, because apparently the server just brought him a Pepsi. He didn't even charge him for it. Right? So I'm thinking that that's why he thought that.

I would be so annoyed. So annoyed. Just the fact that he said. Well, good thing I asked before I just took it. Wow. Is this my Pepsi? She's probably lucky. You didn't try to get a big slurp off of her Pepsi or something.

Oh, I know. Oh, yeah. Wow. It could easily, would have easily seen him try to do it. I'm actually glad you remember to tell that story, or that we wrote it down, because that's great. What a weird dude. That's very weird. Weird, dude.

Don't love it. Don't love it. Okay, one last story. Oh, go ahead. And just really quickly, I spent a lot of time talking to the organizer, the Swimming in America, who's really cool, and said, look, here's the deal. I'm doing training rides as much as I can, but the back pain, like, pain and I explained what I've been going through in physical therapy and stuff. And she's like, don't worry.

You know, if you don't, you're raising money. You're contributing. If you can ride, great. But if you can't, number one, we need volunteers. Number two, we've got short rides that you can do. And so she's super cool. So I might be doing a, instead of the 75 mile ride, I might be doing a shorter 40 mile ride. Okay.

Which is still, hey, believe me, 40-mile ride is still nothing to sneeze. I was going to say, that's still, that's no chicken feathers. What's the phrase? That's the phrase. That's not chicken feed. That's not chopped liver. That's not chopped liver. That's, yeah, I couldn't think of a good one. It's not chicken feathers? What the hell's wrong with me?

That's not small potatoes. There you go. Yeah, 40 is still, that's still way more than I'm prepared to ride. So, hell yeah. I've got about a month to get up to the stamina level where I can do it. But my goal is to do it because I still want to ride. I still have such a good time riding in this thing. And it just would be nice if we had some air outside that I could breathe as I rode my bike.

Tell me about it. What's up, Canada, both Colorado, us, and whoever's above us, I guess Wyoming and whoever else. We're all getting hosed by your freaking, well, you have to groove on your freaking bad smoke. What's going on? That's right. We know it's caused by the Calgary Flames, right? Yeah, that's, I mean, that's my understanding. Yeah.

Anyway, it's gross, and I don't like it. We did have a lot of wind today, which means a bunch of it went out of the Valley, so that's good, but it'll probably still settle in later, and I hate it. So, thanks a lot, Canada. Thanks. Blame Canada. All right. Thank you, time for this. Yes, that's right.

Brian Dunaway joining us for a game. He does this every Monday and Wednesday. We love having him here. Brian, welcome back. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. How's the going this morning? Oh, it's going great, Dan. How are you there?

I was enjoying Ibit's story. I don't always get, I usually tune in a couple of minutes before you guys call me, and so I enjoyed hearing a little story. Yeah, it's always fun here, a little story from Brian, don't you think? Glad you enjoyed it. Yeah. Well, we're here to enjoy you and your company. Take a big old gulp of me.

Also, by the way, I just want to defend this social awkward person. Pizza is public food. is not so it's fine it's fine pizza is public food is that the deal it's public food you don't get a pizza and go

ask my pie don't touch it pizza is public food it's meant to be shared you big bunch of well all right I you know but our pizza was

super super spicy too like it was a Chipotle sauce on top of like all these other peppers for not letting know ahead of no I figure this is like oh yeah let's see how well he doesn't drink let's see how well he reacts

Yeah, you were, you were all wanting a little revenge. I hear you. I hear you. I'm just glad you didn't, like, take a bite and say, oh, this is terrible. And then just, like, plop it back on the tray. Yeah, that would have been funny. Oh, this is bad. And never insult my food.

I always hate people do that, by the way. Yeah, you're not a fan. You know, don't ever insult my food. If you want to complain about your food, yeah, bitch away. Don't bitch about my food. That's right. Yeah, Mr. McRibb.

That's right. Don't complain about my food. It's not your business. Your food is gross. All right, let's move on to the game. Hey, Brian, will you explain these rules? Because I feel like we forget them every week. So what's going on?

Oh, this game is so complicated. I understand your confusion. Welcome to the morning. Half-hasses, a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you guys the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category in six possible answers. Three of those answers are correct. Three of those answers are like that pie, just full of peppers and taken without request. Without asking.

Depending on how confident you guys feel with the category, you can provide one, two, or three, guesses but if you get any of those guesses wrong you get zero points for that round get one right gets you a point get two rights gets you three points and get all three correct you get five points the player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant

and I've pulled a couple contestants from members of the tadpool that aren't able to listen live one of them oh my gosh Scott you're playing for rogue tests a. Okay Teresa from Orange County California awesome I love her to death love her yeah she's the best got to see her in Vegas very

briefly this last trip. Brian, you're going to be playing Fro for Fro. You're going to be playing Frozen Falcon in Portugal. Oh, nice. Portugal. Holy shite. Wow. Good thing these codes are non-region locked. That's a good thing. I sure hope so. Winner is going to get

a copy of Still Life and Still Life 2 on Steam, but the runner-up is going to get the Life and Suffering of Sir Bronte. I do not know that last one. I have no idea. I don't either, but they sound great. Both of those from the Dread, from Wesley. Nice. Thank you,

Wesley. All right. You guys are both ready. Yeah. Don't put your hands on your buzzers because there aren't buzzers in this game. Your first question, first question is former official Olympic sports. So which of these six at one time were actually official Olympic events?

Your choices are, corf ball, squash, water motorsports, bowling, croquet, and tug of war. Corf ball? Corffball. That sounds like some Star Trek bullshit. I know, right? It is definitely baits. But it might be real. It might be real.

That's how baity it is. Oh, I hate you so much. Water motorsports. I know, right? I kind of want water motorsports to be a thing. I'm going to go for it and do three. Oh, you're doing three? I'm going for it.

I'm going to see if my instincts are correct. Well, I'm going to do three, too, then. Boom. Okay. All right. Wow. You guys. both locked in on corf ball you both locked in on croquet and you both locked in on tug of war really wow

tug of war was um in the olympics from 1900 to 1920 so 20 years that seems like such an early uh 1900s shit to do right it really does to do it tug of war yeah uh so was croquet by the way croquet also in the 1900s uh was an official olympic sport uh no corfball uh no Not an Olympic event. It's kind of like basketball. So that's a real sport? It's a real sport. It's a real sport.

Yeah, you basically throw a ball into a netless basket that is mounted on a netless basket. What was it? A netless. There's no nuts on this basket either. 11.5 foot high pole. So it's basically basketball without a court. Oh, this is wild.

I've never heard or seen anything about this before. I haven't here, but I still can't stop thinking about early 1900s of black and white photos of guys in shorts and handlebar mustache is doing tug of war is all I can see. Yeah, I could picture that all in their little like Water Motorsports by the way was the other

was the other one. Corfball was demonstrated in 1920, 1928 but never added as an official sport. All right, we're going to show you some coughball. Everybody sit down. Cofball. What you do with? And bowling was demonstrated in 1988. And the Olympic committee said,

No, that's all right. I feel like Corfball would make my neck hurt. You'd have to crane all the time. You can't have curling. You can't have curling and not have bowling. I don't see how you can make that argument. Right? Yeah, that's a good point.

If you're going to curl, you're going to bowl. I agree. Oh, they need to combine and have people running down the lane with brooms going, and then that pins at the end as opposed to just a ring that they have to get it into. I like that. Sign me up. Sign me up. All right.

God, you guys both did. You almost did really well on that one with the other two, Croquet and Tugawar. Yeah. Let's see how well you do on this one. Excellent. We like our Tolkien, right? We like our Hobbit.

Well, which of these are chapters in the book, The Hobbit? Your choices are, roast mutton, smog, barrels out of bond, a pinch of pipeweed, the window on the west, and fire and water. All three of those are actual chapters in the Hobbit. Three of them are not. um i'm going all three i'm going to lock it in i'm locking in a two because i'm i'm i'm i'm limping from the last one chicken all right between the two of you and five answers five choices only brian chose one correctly one shit or one correct which was barrels out of bond uh roast mutton fire and water and barrels out

of bond were actual uh chapters in the hobbit i knew the smog one i knew that was probably a, I felt like it was bait, but it felt like your cake. Yeah. Yeah. I just, I was sure a pinch of pipeweed was right. I don't know why. That had to be. I mean, how do you not have that? Yeah. But what is they ever call it pipeweed, though?

Did they call it? I don't remember what they called it. It's been too long. And fire and water just didn't you feel like you were trying to punk me with some, you know. It felt like the most, the most boring chapter title. Or, you know, it's like, fire and ice. It's like, yeah. It's just fire and ice in the summer. Things are warming up.

Yep. That's all that is. All right. That's all right. So strategy-wise, zero points going into the third round, which means that you guys have, you know, you could do one and still win it if you feel really confident. All right.

Question number three, famous people that were married exactly once. So not zero times, not two times, three times, whatever. Which of these people are married? Just like the question I just said. Famous people, well, I could go through other numbers. four times, not five times, not six times. Explain it in a different way, not 50, but using the alphabet.

That's fantastic. All right, let's get to your people. Lucille Ball, Charlton Heston, Alfred Hitchcock, Pamela Anderson, Catherine Hepburn, and Tom Hanks. Which of these people were married exactly once? Well, I know a couple of these are absolutely not true. Good. But one of them.

One of these people is. Let's only get married once. I'm doing two again. Are you going to do? Then I will lock in with, uh, this just feels wrong. Okay. I'm going this. Going two as well.

Okay. I feel like Alfred Hitchcock never got married. That's just I, I think he got married. If he got married, it was once, right? Yeah, that's what I think. You're both locked in. Let's see. We do have a winner.

Uh, Lucille Ball and Tom Hanks. both got married two times meaning Catherine Hepburn Alfred Hitchcock Two girls both of them got married once Pamela Anderson's been married three times I did not know three times I just saw her I just saw her documentary and

Boy howdy did she get remarried a lot There was a lot going on We're going to marry let's get married Let's get married But yeah Chet Chet the off-brand Hanks Definitely came from Tom Hanks's first marriage not to Rita Wilson

That is correct Not to Rita on my coattails Wilson That's right Charlton Heston was It was almost chosen by me But it just I wasn't sure Because he seems like he'd be hard to live with Very conservative

Not just that Just seems hard to live with You know I figured if you got married He would never see you're thinking the other way I'm thinking if he got married He's like nope no divorces I'm married to my rifle

Yeah that's right Lady you can't leave me Or I'll kill you with this gun Exactly. So, congratulations, both to Scott Johnson and to Rogue Tess, who's getting StillLife and Still Life 2, courtesy of Wesley. Nice. A game so nice, they made a sequel. But that's all right, Frozen Falcon in Portugal. You're getting the life and suffering of Sir Bronte, which I wish I knew more about.

It's arguably a better game. Yeah, I don't know anything about Still Life. I've never heard of that either. A narrative, let's see here, a narrative-driven, hardcore RPG set in a gritty world rule by real but unrelenting gods set out on a challenging lifetime journey where every choice has a price and entails consequences.

Okay. The artwork on this thing looks really cool. It does look cool. It's an older, this Still Life 2 thing is older. 2009 looks like. I don't remember this at all. Well, anyway, broke test, I couldn't have, I couldn't feel any better about who I won for it.

So, congratulations and well done. yeah uh brian uh what else is that all we do for this that's it we just give the awards and we hook him up this works we done is that it what i think that i think i was trying to think is there something else we do i don't think we do i think that's it uh except we tell brian dunaway here that he was uh great today and was lovely having him on oh i know what we do congratulations yes i forgot about you're a winner uh done away and i will be doing a wednesday we just did saturday play retro and we're about to do one right away again on wednesday and we're all very excited about it. We'll talk more

about it on Wednesday when you're here. But check that show out if you haven't because we just did one and it was a really good time. We did Frogger. We did Frogger right before that, Twisted Metal. We had a real run of a couple of great episodes, I think, and people need to be checking that out. So find Play Retro. I even sent Scott

a bonus episode for patron supporters that he's never Oh, really? No, it's going up today. It's going up today. Wow, for Play Retro, that's cool. Yeah, we're putting that up today. A little public shaming there. Well, we're putting it up. I just didn't want to put it up same. I even sent Scott one. I didn't want to put it up same day because it's a lot. Yeah, but I'll put it up today.

So watch for that. Yeah, that's a good point. You'll have that today. You had that Saturday. And then on Wednesday, you'll have something new. All right? Yeah, so much playing retro stuff. It sure is. Hey, Donaway, suck our butts. We'll see you later. Okay. Didn't even get them a chance to say anything. That retro must be played. I like retro games. That's all I played in Vegas when I had game times. I pulled out the Steam deck and played old Nintendo games. Oh, nice. Perfectly legally.

God, I love, I am loving this new Zelda game. So good. Well, it turns out its new status as the highest reviewed game of all time is hold water. It holds water.

That's amazing, yeah. It's good stuff. All right, let us, what time is it? We got time for a little news. Sure. Let's get little news in. Hold on a second here.

Let's see. Yeah, here we go. Here's some news. It's time for today's news, and it's brought to you by. Did you miss Film Sack Saturday? We had a blast covering the very weird and very uncomfortable 2000 film, Hollow Man, boy, is it? Come listen and see why we still make the best movie podcast on the internet,

verified by nine out of ten judges. Film Sack, wherever you get your shows. That's right. Go check it out. Had a lot of fun with that one, despite its uncomfortableness. Yes. It's a little bit weird. Verhoven movies, man.

Little rapy. A little rapy. Yeah. A little more than I thought it would be. Almost immediately. It's like, yeah. Like, let's ease into this film a little bit, folks, before, you know, before the dancer from Footloose goes a little crazy. All right. Starbucks has a new olive oil coffee. Have you tried it? Sure. I have not. But I've had butter like coffee with butter and coconut oil. And at the cannonball coffee or whatever it's called. Yeah, what do they call that?

has that sometimes it's called but not butterball is it cannonball bullet bullet coffee I think it's bullet yeah which is a weird thing to call it because it's just butter and oil because your poops shoot out of you like bullets

once you process that coffee oh well good news that's what's happening over at Starbucks oh good yeah their new olive oil coffee is allegedly making people poop a whole lot sure is look at that yeah funny lots of us depend on the coffee in the morning as a pick-me-up, some folks on social media reporting that Starbucks new product line

is waking up their bodies a little too much on water. In February, Starbucks launched a range of drinks in Italy called Olito, which I think is how it said. Oliato. Oliato. Oliato.

Which combines coffee with olive oil. The Oliito line includes three flavors. They've got golden foam cold brew. They got the coffee latte and they got the iced shaken espresso. All of the beverages arrive in the U.S. on March 23rd in Chicago, Seattle, and New York. Each beverage is doused with partana extra virgin olive oil. All right. As they describe it, this gives your drink a sweet and lush flavor and makes it velvety smooth. Maybe a little too

smooth. It says after drinking or after the drink was launched, some people tried to look at social media to describe the unintended side effect. Prompt races to the Turlet. Some Reddit users reporting bowel problems, stomach aches, diarrhea, and in some cases, vomiting. Oh, God, okay. That's no good. Nobody wants to vomit. Where is my diarrhea clip? Diarrhea.

There it is. Anyway, the fat content is what it is, and there's a lot of fat content in oil of a lot of types, but olive oil's got a fat. It's a good, healthy fat, but if you drink a bunch of it, you're going to, you know, You're going to have a moment. And it's, yeah, literally as fats like olive oil can stimulate motility in the colon, end quote, help smooth the insides of the bowel, making it easier for stools to pass through. That's right. Explains that.

They use the same thing at IKEA on that conveyor belt at the end there. It makes the stools a lot easier to pass through. Yeah, they just coat everything in that olive oil. It's a good idea. Exactly. It's lubrication for your life, you know? Exactly. Yeah.

So there's a thing. Here's a thing. Here's another one. I'll try it. Yeah. I mean, why not? Why not? I just, but I would do it on the day that I'm staying home,

that I'm not lifting because that would be bad. Yeah, make a plan. Yeah, don't, don't go. Oh, I'm between rides. I'm going to go over to this coffee real quick, get it, and then pick up another guy. Don't do that. Let's pound down an olive oil coffee and br-oh, gosh.

Here's another story about drivers. Funny enough, you just brought up driving. A driver was stopped after 50 years with no license. Finally, they got him. They got him. he got him yeah finally officers in derbyshire

derbyshire i don't know what you do over there believe it or not pronounced derbyshire darbyshire it looks like it should be derbyshire it's derbyshire well i don't feel bad about toilla and hurricane anymore let's see they said uh see officers there

said a 69 year old had managed to fool insurance companies to cover uh to cover his car but they added the flaw in his dastardly plan was bragging. They caught up with this dude after 50 years of the ruse and he's busted now. It says they, let's see, police

tweeted on Saturday, the driver of this vehicle has never passed a test despite being 69 years old and having been driving for 50 years. He has systematically provided details to insurance companies indicating that he has a license, but the flaws in his dastardly plan was bragging. His long reign came to an abrupt end

once we found out. Vehicle seized and driver reported for numerous offenses. now I would like to say this about these police they're sounding awful cocky for a group that could not catch this dude for 50 fn years right right exactly I mean give me a break

as long as he doesn't you know doesn't break the law there's no reason there's no way they would have caught him it's not like they have a list of people who don't have driver's licenses yeah it's weird to me that they that they're being so like if he hadn't bragged oh yes we finally got him

it only took his 50 years yeah whatever derby shower quiet little place i'm sure they don't get a lot of news an uncle reg or a great a grand uncle reg who lived there my grandmother's a brother reggie lived in uh derby great british name regs yes yes love it yeah pretty sure should it had to be short for reginald i'm sure yeah but we all call them we always called him reg oh yeah regs do you have anybody who still has the accent that you communicate with you know like any Um, family? Not really.

My dad is, uh, is it for that side of the family that, uh, that as far as I communicate regularly. And his goes in and out. It really depends on, kind of watered down, yeah. Yeah. But, uh, he still, still talks with a, I'd probably say like a 30% British accent because, you know, I like my percentages. Yeah. Maybe a little bit more than that. Um, we have to get him on the show at some point or get some audio of him on the show at some point.

I'd love that. Yeah, I'd love to hear it. That'd be cool. I wish Kim still had her southern accent. I miss it. Only comes out when she's mad. I don't like making her mad. Yeah, that's not, yeah, exactly.

That's hardly the way you want to get to hear that accent. Yeah, I wish it came out when I brought home flowers or something. Right, exactly. Oh, honey, happy, happy no reason. Here's just this because I love you. Well, that's just the kindest damn thing anybody ever could do, you know? She'd be more surprised that you left the house without her to go get her. flowers yeah hey it happens could you drive me to the florist so i can buy you some she doesn't

she just doesn't if we have to go somewhere together she doesn't she just doesn't want me to drive before she doesn't want you to drive yeah because you'll yeah she's fine with me driving if i'm on my if i'm alone goodbye out of sight out of mine but if she has to sit there while i drive i don't even know why i'm not that bad a driver i'm fine yeah she does she can't do it so if she's if if the car has both of us in it, she will drive. That's just the deal. But I'm going to lunch on Thursday with, I forgot his first name.

Anyway, listener came to Vegas. I forgot his first name. Oh, cool. Sorry, dude. I forget names. But we're going to go to lunch. So he can remind you of his name. Yeah.

I'll say, hey, what's your name again? Nice. I know his name on Discord, but I cannot think it was real name. Anyway, let's move on to this one. Wendy's, next time you're at a Wendy's. Uh-huh, sure. Maybe they'll have this in yours by now, I don't know,

but they're testing out an AI chatbot that takes your drive-through order, so not a person, but an AI chatbot. AI will be taking my order. Great. Yep. So don't order chicken fingers, or you'll get 35 of them. Yeah, you'll get 35 chicken fingers that don't actually look like fingers anymore. It's a nightmare. Oh, six chicken fingers, got it, 42 chicken fingers.

Yeah, next. Yep. Or they'll say, you'll say, something happened weird the other day. What was it? I said to it, oh, I tried this out because somebody else did it. If you say to chat GPT, so the text chatbot, if you say to it, what, let's see, what does it say?

Like, what day is it today? It'll come back and go, why today is Monday, May 22nd, 2023. And then you say, I thought you only had knowledge up and up through 2021, which is what always says. Oh, really? Oh, really. And it came back to me and said, Oh, you are correct.

I don't know what day it is. No way, really. So it backtracks on... Yeah. How effed up is that? That's really effed up. I don't like it. I don't like it.

It made me feel weird. Yeah. Anyway, they're testing this thing. They're working with Google on it. They want to be able to take orders this way. It's according to Wall Street Journal. The fast food chain has plans to bring its Wendy's Fresh AI, is what they're calling it. Enabled drive-through to Columbus, Ohio, to start.

That'll be in June. It's just abuse. of the word fresh. There's nothing fresh about the ordering process. Fresh AI. Yeah, there's barely anything fresh about the food they're giving me. Yeah, exactly. It says it will be able to take verbal orders

from customers who line up at Wendy's Drive-Thru kiosk, all with the hope that it will reduce long wait times. Wendy's working with Google to build a tailored chatbot on top of the company's existing large language model, which is bound to reveal updates. This is before Google I.O., and we did get a bunch of updates. In fact, Brian, would you like to hear a montage of the updates we got at

the Google Io conference because I brought I have oh you have a montage oh excellent yes I do it's uh right here here enjoy oh I'm not hearing it if you're oh do you not hear that shit I don't hear it no sorry I know why you don't you'll now hear it hold on sorry my bad I did this sorry folks if I'm making you hear it a second no you they don't hear it either that's good that you said something oh good okay me all right here we go AI AI a AI Generative AI Generative AI, AI is AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI. It uses AI, whatever the sentence, AI, AI, AI, AI, it uses AI, whatever the sense, it feels like a real, like a real sentence. Yeah, it didn't feel edited there, didn't it? Isn't that great though? What's his name? What's his name's not Pachai? That's, or no, that is Pichai.

Who, Sunday Pichai is that his name? Anyway, the Google CEO talked a lot about AI the other day. I'm sure. Yeah, it's the new big thing. It's the new hot thing. The gold rush is on. They're all fighting to get who's first. It's crazy.

Anyway, I will use one of these and I look forward to doing so at some point. Oh, for sure. Yeah, I want to go through a drive-through and I want to order through an AI and I want to see how it does. Watch it freak out, though, if you ask if the milkshake machine is working. Oh, I know, right? Hey, is your milkshake machine working? We don't please help. Frosties, not milk shakes, not, not.

Does not compute. Exterminate. When this happens, we will get some content for the show when they get around to it. Oh, for sure. Maybe it'll work great. I don't know. See, these are some of the... Too early for a fish sandwich.

No, you cannot order a fish sandwich. If these things work well, this is actually the stuff I'm excited about because it will make things easier. Now, will it cause a bunch of 16-year-olds to lose their... minimum wage jobs? I don't know. I don't want that. I don't know. I haven't thought that far ahead. But from a convenience standpoint, if they work and they work well and reliably and have language, you know, like that's the whole point of a large language AI model is that they can understand just about anything you throw at it, no matter what language you throw at it, no matter how weird your accent is or how, you know, that's supposed to be the point. Right. So I'm excited to see if they can pull it off. We'll see. I'll get emails about this, and someone's going to be mad.

It's fine. Here's one final. They can force these 16-year-olds to learn engineering and work on the other side of the AI equation. That's right. Maybe that'll be what happens. It'll improve their lives, not make them worse. Exactly. Here's the world's most expensive ice cream story of the day.

Okay. The world's most expensive ice cream costs $6,696 per serving. Wow. This is Japanese ice cream. I told Tanner, since he's going there, he ought to try to get some of this. He used to try this, yeah, exactly. See what he can get on, get going there. A Japanese ice cream company assembling some of the world's rarest ingredients to create an ice cream flavor that cost that much money per serving. Guinness World Records announced Japanese brand Salato, not gelato. Salato. I'm not surprised as Japan. They always do this. Or it could be pronounced cellato. Yeah. Because it's the first four letters of cello, which is pronounced that way. Isn't it weird though? It's like, where do you get the most expensive cut of beef, Japan. Where do you go to get a fish that would kill you if you don't prepare it right? Japan. Yeah, scotch probably, right? Their most expensive bottle of scotch. Yeah, and obviously these things only do it because, A, somebody wants to brag about having the

world's most expensive ice cream, and B, it gets them into the Guinness Book World Records, so you get some cheap and easy promotion out of it. Oh, good point. Yeah. That is cheap and easy. And significant when people say you hold a record, it's like a big deal. Exactly. The price he treats ingredient include a rare white truffle grown in Alba, Italy, and cost that much money. I keep repeating the number, $6,905 per pound. It also includes Parmigiano Regano. Reggiano and Sakelis, whatever the hell those are.

I don't know. Sake. That's not sake. Yeah, it's not sake. I'll have a glass of your finest sake, please. I knew it was Japan, and I didn't even look at it right. Damn it. Salado developed the flavor with Todd Yoshi Yamada,

the head of chef at the Osaka restaurant. The company said it sought to combine European and Japanese flavors into something unique. It took us over 1.5 years to develop with a lot of trials and errors to get the taste right. Achieving the Guinness World Record, title made the effort all worth it. See, there they are getting their free bump.

their free promotion or free I would eat it I would try it but I ain't paying for it forget it right you know what I can buy for $7,000 a lot of things a lot of other things that I won't poop out in two minutes yep things I need you know

but there is a place the flavor so truffle and parmesan cheese and sake I don't know what Lee L-E-S sake lees sake I know what sake is but I don't know sake lies would be just a sake flavor added as a base or something.

Never heard of it. But there's a place in Disney, was it downtown Disney called Salt and Straw. I don't know if they have them other places, but I know that they're in the two American Disney properties in their little, don't have to go into the amusement park locations. And they make the coolest ice cream flavors. And the last time I went there, I had one that was goat cheese and bacon or something. And it was so good. That sounds crazy. It's crazy, but it's amazing.

It's absolutely amazing. You wouldn't think it would be that good. Oh, Portland is, Red Link says they start in Portland, or Jacob says they start in Portland. Yeah, there's a bunch in Oregon. They got L.A. Orange County, Disney, San Diego, North California, Seattle, Miami. Oh, tons of places. Las Vegas. I didn't know they had one there.

What? They have one in Las Vegas? Let me tell you when. Oh, it's a coming soon. Hold on. Oh, no, no. It's there. They don't have any pictures.

Well, anyway, it says 6815 Tom Rodriguez Street, Sweet 120. I don't know where that is. Oh, yeah, and Tom Rodriguez Street. Yeah, you know, the famous Tom Rodriguez Street in Vegas. Yeah. I believe it's pronounced Roger Guise. I want to know where I would go there. I'm not even supposed to eat that stuff and I would go there.

Yeah, this still, their site still says coming soon for that one, but where are their flavors right now? They're pistachio with saffron and rose water. Jasmine, milk, tea, almond, strachia tella, or strachiaetella. Where is it? Honey lavender, cinnamon, snickerdoodle. Oh, they do have the Arbicina olive oil, so they have their own olive oil.

deal. Oh, there it is. Pair and blue cheese. That's what it is. Pair and blue cheese. Pair and blue cheese. I will go there and I will sample any other flavor that you want to put in front of me, but I will order the freaking pear and blue cheese ice cream. It is so freaking good. Wow, I don't even know what to say about that. I'd have to try it. I'd have to try it.

Nationwide delivery. I could order a pint and have it sent to me. How much would this cost? five for 75 dollars so five pints for 75 dollars you know what that's not terrible that is not terrible at all so what is that i mean it's a premium but you know what you're getting right 15 bucks a pint that's pretty expensive i mean it's expensive for ice cream yes but when you're talking about like specialized can't get it anywhere else sort of thing it's not bad it could be a lot worse that could be a seven thousand dollar ice cream in china or japan well it's true Rubarb crumble with toasted anise.

I realize that I'm just handing you. No, I didn't think of anything. No, toasted nothing. I'm all good. Nothing. Nothing came to mind. I don't even know what an anus is. Salty donut guava cheese.

Sure. That sounds terrible. My stripper name was the salty donut. Wow. You should have never quit working that pole. You got to keep that. Well, exactly. That's why they get missed where they fired me. Anyway.

Well, watch for that. We don't know the dates in Vegas. I guess it is still. I saw a picture where it still says coming soon. You saw that. You read that as well. That's a bummer. If it's open before June 15th, I'm going.

I'm going. You should go. Why wouldn't it be? It should be open by now. Come on now, guys. I would think, yeah. Hurry up before it gets too hot. All right.

We're going to take a break. When we come back from this break, we're going to do some app sloppy. Steven's out. It's got some flooding in the old basement. It's not a euphemism. He's actually got a basement flooding in it. So he had the last minute back out today. But we are going to do an app sloppy today, and I can't wait to tell you what I played.

Yeah. That's all coming up. Brian, you want you to play a song, though, because we need that. Okay, I'll do that. This is a band called The Ironsides. They're a Sykesol band from. Where are they from? It doesn't say, but here's what's cool.

Number one, it's instrumental. And it's this very cool. like, oh, I could hear this at the beginning of a Tarantino film kind of thing. Really, really cool kind of retro-sounding instrumental stuff. They have a brand new album just came out last

Friday called Changing Light via Coal Mine Records. This is the first single from the album. It's called Violet Vanished. Here are The Ironsides. I'm going to be able to be able to be. I mean, you know, I'm going to be able to. I'm going to be able to be.

I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to be.

You know, Oh! You know, I'm going to be. Oh, Yeah. You know, Oh.

Can anybody here? Can anybody here notice some things that might make them more likely to be picked on than other people? Did he just say that Rick is his boo? This is the morning stream. This house. It knows we're here. All right. We're back, everybody.

Welcome back to the program. Who is that again? That sounds great. Yeah. I was a band called The Iron Sides from their brand new album called Changing Light. That is a song called Violet Vanished. Fantastic. Sounds really good. Okay.

Folks, sit back, relax. Time for this. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. App slappy. Stephanie, if you haven't already loved it, the room this would be the time to go we're going to talk about apps and specifically some games on mobile devices we like to do this once in a while when we got a little slot to put it in so that's what we're doing and i'm going to start today with my pick uh for the week now uh this is

a game that is not part of a service it is not free to play it is just buy it and play it kind of game got you not freemium not microtransaction but you do pay for it initially you just pay for the game and it's eight bucks and some of you may say well i ain't paying that for no mobile game i understand why you would say that that's a high price to pay i get it right most mobile games aren't going to be eight bucks but the reason this is eight dollars is because it is a great highly premium game to play um it is very much worth and it's also cheaper than any other version of it which you can also get on PCs and consoles um i think it's even on game pass right now so if you have game pass on your on your xbox you're you're already kind of set

You can just play this there. But if you want to play it on the road, which is definitely what I wanted to do, I picked up a game called Monster Train. And some of you PC gamers are going to go, oh, yeah, of course, Monster Train. I know that game. It's very popular on Steam.

But it came to iOS and Android in really great shape. It plays extremely well on that device. So for those unfamiliar with the series or with the game itself, Monster Train is a very successful kind of game that's a lot like Slay the Spire, another very successful game in this genre, but it's, you know, these deck builders, rogue likes where you're sort of, you know, working your way through battles and random encounters and that sort of thing, getting new cards, upgrading those cards as you go,

and trying to strategize your way to victory. What makes Monster Train different, though, is you are on a train. And in the train, there are levels to the train. and they so you have this strategic element of like all right well some of these cards are actual like dudes with hit points and damage points and I can place the card and that will put them where I want them inside of these levels and then I can stack them I can have like up to four dudes in that stack and they can defend against the stuff that's coming from the other side which are the monsters and they do that in waves until there's a boss and then you fight the boss and then if you win

you move on and you keep going. If you lose, you go out and spend some points on cool stuff and some unlocks and then you go back and try it again. You're a little more powerful this time, that sort of thing. And there is something about this game that just hooks me forever when I start playing it. It's hard for me to put this down. Would recommend it to anyone who's played a deck builder card game and enjoyed them even remotely.

This is 100% up your alley. I personally think it's the best of its class. I would take it over Slay the Spire which I know is a sacrosanct thing to say for a lot of people but I really think it's a better game and they the interface on iPad or phone is just super simple

not you don't need to you know it's dragging cards not crazy but it's really great on console with controller and stuff even they just really thought out how people might be playing their game on different platforms and it shows I find it extremely

fun and Boy did they like really like the style of Harthstone's art. There's a bit. Yeah, there's some of it's like that. The cards themselves, less so, but some of the interface elements for sure.

You're not wrong. You're not wrong about that. It plays nothing like Harthstone, though, like in terms of gameplay. Sure, since it's, yeah, you've got a train that you're ascending and stuff. Yeah, all that.

Plus, the cards themselves, you're not really collecting a deck so much as you are. I don't know how to explain it. It's like Slay the Spire the same way. Each game you're kind of starting from scratch kind of. And then you build out from there.

I think it's just a really fun loop and I think it's just really creative and it's just a great game. They have a new game coming out this year that I'm really looking forward to. It's got nothing to do with cards, but they're just a cool company to keep an eye on. Anyway, it's eight bucks.

It's on mobile platforms. It's the perfect time killer in a car. or something while you're someone else is driving because Kim won't let me drive so that's me I did that like for five hours coming home just playing this thing oh god I bet she was thrilled she didn't care she's just she's just for the conversation Scott she's just cranking her techno and rocking and rolling and we had van for a lot of it so he was keeping her oh sure but but anyway uh it's good and the um I want to thank oh and I forgot her name someone in Vegas reminded me that they had it and they said oh yeah it's on

I said, what? No way. And I didn't know. Greg for Walkman, maybe, because I know he mentioned in chat that he's been playing it and loves it. I don't think it was Greg. It was a, no, it was a she. Unless Greg's got something to tell me he didn't know that I'm not aware about. I mean, I'm not judging. Yeah, I can't find her name.

Anyway, I meant to give her credit. She knows, she'll be listening. She'll hear this and then she'll write me and I'll be embarrassed. It's really good, though. So check it out. Monster Train. And if you don't have, you don't care for mobile games at all and you don't want to play it there, it is great on all platforms. You'll pay a little more.

I think it's $20, $19.99 or something on Steam, but well worth it. Yeah, $8 is a bargain on. It's cheap, right? For sure. Cheap, cheap. Tell me what you brought, Brian. What do you got over there? Sure.

So mine is a game that I discovered. I think it got recommended to me. And I'm like, oh, sure, I don't have one of these already and that I like. So why not? It's Solitaire, but it's Solitaire Stories. This is a game by Red Games LLC, Red Games Co, LLC. And for whatever reason, this new version of Solitaire, even though it's pretty much regular Solitaire, has me hooked.

And what's got me is the different story modes. It's actually a Solitaire game with a story mode, with a campaign that you go through. And it's, you know, they've got some celebrity involvement. They've got Joel McAil and Jane Lynch and people like that that are involved in this. And so you get, you get Dexon stories that are based on them. Do they voice it or something? They, like, do voiceover?

I wouldn't know because I have stuff muted. Okay. Fair enough. But, yeah, but the. They definitely have little cartoon versions of them. Who's the other guy who's Ralphio or

Jean-Ralphio and Parks and Recreation? Oh, yeah, John Ralphio. Schwartzman, no. He's the voice of some animated thing I like. God's dang it, dude. It's not Jason Schwartzman. No, exactly.

but it's Schwartz Ben Schwartz Thank you McSherick I added a little bit of extra I had an extra

syllable to Schwartz yeah feel the shorts yeah Ben Schwartz thank you anyway here's what I

like about it number one beautiful interface this thing's gorgeous great interface there are weekly challenges

that come in you can kind of play against other people with most card games like this you get your

choice of cardbacks and card faces they've got some really weird ones like I'm playing with a what kind of looks like a Tim Burton hand-drawn monster style which is really cool

but then there are other ones that are like based on birds or flowers or whatever it is a free like if you got Apple Arcade it's a it's a free download I don't know I don't know why I'm so hooked with this but it's just a really fun like I need a break from Marvel Snap I'm going to play

couple games of Solitaire. A little quicker get in, play, get out kind of thing. Oh yeah, look at all the dirt. I'm looking at the video promo. There's a ton of art styles in here. This is cool. A ton of different decks and art styles and backgrounds. And it's just a clean, nice,

kind of fresh take on Solitaire. Nothing wrong with occasional Solitaire in your life. Nothing. No, there really isn't. There's a reason that it's so popular. Yeah. It's not, it's not one of the most played games in the history of the planet for no reason.

Exactly, exactly. That's great. Next time, I'll tell you out about my new fascination with the game, Snake. Snake! Fantastic! Tell me about Pong? I'd like to hear about Pong. Pong, great game.

Anyway, it's called Solitaire Stories. I was only able to find it on iOS. I couldn't find it on Steam or Windows games or Google Picks or anything like that. Google, whatever, Google Plays. Play. Google Play. Yeah, I think it's Apple Arcade exclusive at the moment. It looks like it.

Yeah. But sometimes those are just timed exclusive, so I might get that later somewhere else. And it automatically, I know, again, small thing. But if I, like, it works in both portrait and horizontal. It works on the iPad. The graphics even more gorgeous on the iPad. Again, either orientation. It's a simple thing being able to have kind of that whichever orientation your iPad is in.

But it's just a nice touch to not require you have to play it vertically. or horizontally or whatever. I agree. I like when they go through the extra work to make that stuff work. That's cool. Me too. Well, get your Schwartz on. It's out now on Apple Arcade.

And those are our games. Monster Train and Solitaire Stories. A quick shout out to our old pal, Amy, aka Red Fraggle. She wanted us to let everybody know that the Tadpool Southeast 2020 meetup is not only happening, but they have signups going on.

Please go check this out at Signup, genius.com. Oh, this is a huge weird URL. This isn't going to work. I'll put it in the chat. It's a big long one. But anyway. Oh, no, she does. She has a tiny URL. Tiny URL.com slash S.E. Tadpool. So it's capital S,

capital E, and then capital T and Tadpool, because I think tiny URL is I don't remember. Which one? Is case sensitive? I know CC is. I don't know if this may not be, but maybe tiny URL is the one that's not. Yeah, but do it to be safe. Why not?

tiny URL.com slash S-E-T. That's all in caps and then A-D-P-O-O-L. So that's set a tadpool, basically. Anyway, that's happening now. Go sign up if you're able to go. If you live in that part of the quadrant of the country and check it out. The plan right now is August 25th through the 27th. Just so happens I'll be in Moab for my anniversary.

So I'm not going to be there. It's kind of hoping they were going to do a different day. But anyway, that should be fun. It was great last year. Everybody had a great time. They're going to, you know, they got details on here about the Airbnb they're going to do and all that. Yeah. Anyway, we'll check it out. Yeah, I'm hoping that Tina and I can join.

So I'm going to talk to her and see if we can nail it down. But September and Amy and Chuck and some other people. All the good peeps from the southeast. All of the good peeps. Yeah, I heard rumor Nikki, Dr. Nikki might go. Yes, that she might pop in, yeah, if work allows for sure. It's down there in Alabama, doing her Bama life. All right, so there's that.

Also, one quick thing from a listener, this is a text, 8014710462. This is from, let's see, who is this from? It doesn't say, oh, it's Scott. It's from a guy named Scott. It's not me. But not you, okay. That's what threw me off. Says, Good morning side show and Bob.

Yesterday, Scott asked if Tina's cat would eat Tina if her and Brian died. When I was a kid, we had a litter of stray cats in our backyard. one of the kittens had died and the mama cat did not let it go to waste she started eating the dead kitten it was horrifying to see as a kid love the show though scott so really there's no lesson here it's just it's gross you know yeah it's gross i mean you probably had hamsters that would eat other hamsters oh 100% my gerbil my gerbil problems were far and wide yeah they they were known for that but yeah in the animal kingdom you're going to see that a lot i don't think you know obviously i guess Let's say, let's say, here you go. Brian, you are with a two-year-old toddler. Okay. For some reason, the apocalypse. Not with my restraining order, but please continue.

You and this kid, this baby, were somehow separated from everybody else, but you were in an elevator shaft, let's say, and you'll never get out of there. Sure. But you were saved from the apocalypse that killed everybody outside. okay um you're not gonna eat the baby i'm not gonna eat the baby no but the baby might eat you the two year old toddler might eat me well i mean uh you know if we're starving i'd cut off my arm and cook it on the the fires of the elevator shaft right uh which exists because we saw hollow man we know what's up in there and there's even that magic release uh button that you just push with your foot and the whole elevator will just go down that's that's something we

learn from home man as well yeah i don't know uh i honestly don't know uh maybe you don't want to know you don't want to know you don't want to know i mean if we're not you know if we're never going to get out of there like you said we're just going to starve anyway let's just starve i guess just starve or i guess what i'm wondering is why why prolong the inevitable because if you starved first would the kid would some instincts in a two-year-old kick in where they were like i got to live. I got to eat Brian's fleshy. I don't see a two-year-old.

I don't see a two-year-old saying, well, he's dead. Might as well eat him. Well, I hope you're never in that situation. That's so great, yes. All right. Finally, oh, I got a quick story that happened to Vegas that I forgot to tell you. Yeah. This is great.

We go to a Smith's grocery store. It's near the airport, end of the strip down there, as you go toward the airport. and we were just getting some stuff for the for the stay sure and kim's like i got to get grapes i said no problem uh i'm going to go run to the to the can i'm going to go use the men's she said okay cool so i went in there by the way disgusting bathroom smiths what the hell you're doing it was so gross really gross i don't know what i don't know why it was bad so bad but anyways went in there and they got two stalls two man stalls uh two sorry toilet stalls in the men's bathroom right and then two urinals

stalls. And when I go in there, when I go in there, I'm the only one. When I get in there, I'm the only person. Some guy was washing his hands and leaving. He left. I go into the stall. Or I go to the first one. And as usual, when this happens, the first stall is a nightmare. It's like a big floaty poo with pee everywhere. Like someone's had a bad time in there. I'm like, well, I'm not going in there. So I went to the one next to it. And it was relatively clean. So I went in there. And I'm sitting in there. And I hear an old. I say old man because I saw him on the way into the store. I know it was the same guy because he had the same work boots on. But this guy comes shuffling in real slow. And his feet are literally shuffling as he's walking in. And he opens up the door to the first one. It goes, oh, like that. Just makes a noise.

The first one with the noise. The first one with the mess in it. Yep. And then this is what he does. It comes over to my door. Isn't sure if it's open. So he does a little jiggle, like a little to see if it'll open. Doesn't.

Yeah. then he spends 30 seconds or so just kind of trying to look through the crack just a little crack to see if there's a dude in there and he's looking toward my feet and then up in the crack again and I think he finally spotted me and he goes god damn it just shuffled out the other direction it made me laugh really hard at the time so it was great so an old man if you hear this show I apologize let's get some okay so I did a thing We haven't shouted out some patrons in a while. So I went and found all of our May joins.

Like today's the 22nd. So from May 1st till now, these are the people who have joined us here on our Patreon. And I just wanted to thank them out loud for it. Here they are. Rolando Sanchez, Ryan Norda, Fatso Cato. Love it. Yeah. Samantha Jane.

Hey, look at that. We know her. Robert Hall, missed-placed geek. Cal L. Biff Smith. I hope that's a real name. That's amazing. Dan Shaddix, Wes, Crystal, Stephen Edsel, Jibba, Jabba, that's cool. Tony Mayez, Mazez, Mazez, I'm not sure which.

Beka or Bica, probably Bika, because there's two Cs. Sean Francis and Elvish Link. All joined us here on the program where they benefit. Yeah, thank you guys so much. You guys benefit directly by never having commercials. You get pre-show content every day, couch parties on the weekend. We're doing a play date this weekend. Yeah.

Art in the mail. Other great monthly benefits. He just got to go read about them at patreon.com slash TMS. All right, Brian, we can go now. Okay. But we can't go now until we have a go song. Oh, God, I'm glad you said something because I was almost out the door. But, oh, you kept me from leaving.

So good. Thank you. Matthew Bickert, who also goes by Mathurin B in the chat room. Matthew Bickert says, this song goes out to me. my wife, Kathy, for our 12-year wedding anniversary. My initial choice for our first song was still alive by Jonathan Colton, but that was shot

down. So instead, our song was Smile by Uncle Cracker. Brian, if you could play a cover of Smile, it would mean a lot. Love the show, though. Matt. Oh, nice. Oh, how sweet. Thanks, Matt. I was amazed to find that there are no, like if you go to secondhand songs.com, there are no covers

of Smile by Uncle Cracker, which surprised me because that was a big hit, and it was in my opinion, a better song than that follow me thing. I'm not a big fan of Uncle Cracker, but at least, you know, I can kind of like that smile song. Sure.

But it definitely surprised me that nobody's covered it. So, I'm going with your first choice, which was the still alive song by Jonathan Colton. Hopefully, Kathy will understand why I've made this choice,

and hopefully she enjoys this version of the song. This is by the over-clocked plaid muffins from their 2011 album, Works in Progress. Here's their cover of Jonathan Colton's Delicious and Moist, Still Alive. All right, that's going to do it for us. Thank you all for being here.

We'll see you tomorrow. This was a triumph. I'm making a note here. Huge success. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Aperture science. We do what we must because we can.

For the good of all of us except the ones who are dead But there's no sense crying over every mistake You just keep on trying till you run out of cake And the science gets done and you make a neat gun For the people who are still alive I'm not even angry. I'm being so sincere right now. Even though you broke my heart, it killed me,

and tore me to pieces, I drove a piece into a fire, as they burned it hurt because I was so hurt for you. Now these points of data make a beautiful wine and we're out of beta, we're releasing on time. So I'm glad I got burned of all the things that we have burned for us. We are burned for all the people who are still alive. Go ahead and leave me.

I think I prefer to stay inside To help you, you're bleeding bad, but you're still alive. You Maybe Black Mesa That was a joke That chance Anyway this cake's greatest It's delicious and moist

Look at me still talking What's the science to do When I look how dare It makes me glad I'm not you I've experiments to run Never's research to be done Of the people who are still alive I feel fantastic

And I'm still alive And while you're dying on be still alive and when you're dead I will be still alive still alive still alive if you like what you just heard

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