The Morning Stream - TMS 2473: The Hole Healed

Episode Date: June 5, 2023

I Underestimate the Tadpool. Birds are Drones, Prove It You Can't! Is Oxygen a gas cuz like I really wanted to know? You get NO Scatcat, No Sledgehammer, & No Lieutenant Yaaaar! It didn't feel long, it felt right. 98 year old man dies... HARD CORE!!! Did You Know Diablo Came Out? A tentacle for every finger. Don't google it. Or count the bumps. Turns out Canadian robbers are still Canadian. Bold-Faced Typographical Lies. Barbie name is what? Showering with the guys. A Good Hippie Moment. Into, Across, and Beyond the Spiderverse with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, I underestimate the Tadpool. Birds or drones. Prove it. You can't. Is oxygen a gas because I'd like really wanted to know? You'll get no scat-cat, no sledgehammer, and no Lieutenant D.R. I didn't feel long. It felt right. 98-year-old man dies. Hardcore. Did you know Diablo came out?

A tentacle for every finger. Don't Google it or count the bumps. Turns out Canadian robbers are still Canadian. Bold-faced typographical lies. Barbie name is what? Showering with the guys. a good hippie moment into across and beyond the spider verse with stephen and more on this episode of the morning stream this time next week i'll be sucking down pinacoladas in a hot tub with six girls named

damon tiffany more like taking a shower with two guys named jamaul and hasus if you know what i mean our pleasure rudy to toot The Morning Stream. Well, of course, I am the supreme being. I'm not entirely dim. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to TMS. It's the morning stream for June 5th, 2023.

I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Nibbitt. Hi, Brian. Oh, hello. And happy Monday to you. Yeah. And it's a, let's see, did we end on a new month last week or not? I don't remember.

we yeah our last episode last week was the first day of the month it was the first oh right because it was it was um diablo release uh early release day that's how i remember june first from here on out you know for the rest of my life was is it going to be diablo day kind of yeah i mean i played i've been playing a lot here's the devious truth uh diablo four on its own is a really really good game a accomplishment uh on every level and very addicting when you add in the fact that I now, after about two minutes of having to make it work, now have it on a steam deck and can play it anytime I want, anywhere I want. That's devious, dude. That is freaking devious.

Like I am in bed last night, staying up way freaking too late. It's like 1, 2.30 in the morning, and I'm still playing. I can't stop playing. It's so good. I did get in and play some myself. Enjoyed it greatly. Oh, that's good.

How many levels have you achieved? Three. I'm like to level three. Oh, that's very early. Okay. It's very early. I hit level 32 or something. Bow on core is doing a hardcore run so he can be the thousandth player.

So they have this thing going where if you're one of the first thousand people to play on hardcore, which is the mode that if you die, you're dead. Right. done. Okay. Yeah. The goal is to get to 100. Level 100 is the cap currently in the game.

And if you get, if you get to 100 and you do it within the first thousand people to do it, they'll put your name permanently on the Lilith statue that's in the middle of the big town. Oh, right, right, right. I remember, yes, okay. And so he's going for it. I think he's close. I don't know how close he is. somebody the first guy to do it did it yesterday

but there's still a lot of room for you know a thousand people to do it yeah um and i watched one video of a guy who was 98 and he got all the way to 98 was doing great yeah two levels left yeah died oh no yeah oh geez it was a little rough a little bit rough brian a little bit rough wow wow anyway that game's great uh it was a lot of fun yeah it's uh it's dark man it's uh yeah that's what you want out of a diablo again that's what i's what i loved about two and three three is a little more jolly a little more colorful you know it's fine though uh before man they're back to the the business i got i just did a quest or a uh cut's in-game cut

scene where i don't want to give anything away but somebody took a real uh let's let's just say they took a a big sharp heavy object to the head i wasn't expecting it was a oh really oh wow that was something anyway they're getting their m a whatever rating uh out of there so they're enjoying it uh welcome back for the show everybody lots going on um let's get things out of the way that we need too quick here this thing yeah stand back and check your personal belongings it's time for the morning form we have a winner from last week's morning form yeah i would like to celebrate that person before i do that though uh this was a question about how many hours people game per week and um i i underestimated the high end uh quite a bit

Yeah, I'm guessing. The vast majority of this of this vote went to 40.3% who said 10 hours or more per week. Vast majority. Other people did, oh, somebody, somebody did a bunch of asky stuff and it messed up the list. Hold on. A little asky dick in there, how many hours a week? Exactly. Some of the low ones were like, let's see, the one guy says 40.

hours uh 40 hours a week i'm single and i have no kids he was one he was point five percent uh this other guy says time is relative one hour here is seven years back on earth he says turd ferguson somebody's answer was just straight up turd ferguson so that's pretty good but anyway you know a lot of you are like six hours is about four percent of you eight hours six point five percent but the vast majority more than ten geez anyway i'm not saying you're a bunch of people with too much time on your hands. I'm just saying it's, uh, it's, you surprised me, everyone. Yeah. You surprised me with your answers. But we have a winner. It is Shima, I think, or, Exhima, Xshima. Zashima. I'm not quite sure how you say it. But Shashima, or however you say

your name, you're our winner, and that means a free Frog Pants Fun Pack coming in the mail. There's often stickers, magnets, prints, that kind of stuff in there. So, uh, look forward to that. And we have a brand new form this week. And funny enough, it's about Diablo. Funny enough. Funny enough. The question is, what class did you start with in Diablo four? So did you begin with the barbarian, the sorcerer, the necromancer, the rogue, the druid? I even have an other because people like to type dumb things. Well, you know the other is going to be, I have never played a Diablo four game in my life. Yep. Can't wait for, can't wait for those responses. Yeah. Those are always my favorites.

But if you head over there now and take the quiz, you could be in the running as well. All it does is ask for your answer on the classes and an email so we can tell who you are when you win. And that's it. Simple as that. My prediction is that other will make up more than 50%. I think of the TMS listeners, now if you were to ask this question on core, it would probably be like, you know, 10% people responding have not played. a Diablo again. But I feel like 50% are going to have

another response. Whether it's a joke or whether it's, yeah. Yeah, it's just the kind of crowd we have. That's how they work. So if you want to take part, frogpants.com slash the morning form, and off you go. You do it on mobile desktop, whatever.

You're in. All right, that's it for that. Oh, a shout out to the Utah Tad people, folks. We got together for Spiderverse 2, which we'll talk more about when Stephen gets here. yeah yeah but let me just say to you something Brian let me say this yeah okay you know Fury Road sits way up here right sitting up there sure yeah chilling pretty safely where it is it sits safely in my mind where it where the position it holds in an untouchable I feel an untouchable position it's

very hard for it to be moved from its chair yeah uh it let's just say that movie got a little nervous this weekend wow really okay it didn't quite, didn't quite have to do it, but it is a neighbor now to Spider-Verse 2 or into the Spider-Verse, which, or across, sorry, so it's into, across, and I won't talk about the other. But that is one of the coolest things I've seen in a very, very long time. And I love the first one. I didn't think you could top the first one, to be honest. My gosh, this thing is unfreaking believable. So you feel like it topped it. I feel like it, I still, maybe I need to watch the first one again, but I hold that one in such high regard. This one I found enjoyable, but

I don't know if I liked it. I liked it more. It certainly is so much I can't, like so many little hidden Easter egg-y kind of things. Yeah. I just thought this was a better, I like, I mean, it's like, they belong together. So these aren't really like one's better ones, one's worst kind of a thing at all. They're all going to, when this is all said and done, however many movies this is, they will be in really high esteem in my opinion as a whole thing. But I thought the story in this was just like a titch more mature and it had, I don't know, it felt like the stakes were higher.

Oh, I loved it. Gosh, dang it. I loved it so much. It was so good. hung out. We had a great time. Hobbs Dog was there. KKatsumi. Houdi 42. Ryu at Timi, I never say his name right, but he was there. In fact, his sons both work at the

theater we went to. That was pretty cool. That's cool. Drove a little ways for this one, but it was fine. It was totally worth it. And loved it. And it's funny because we remember yesterday. The only two movies we've seen in theater since COVID are Spider-Man movies. We saw. Oh, really? So the first, or the

it was No Way Home. No Way Home. Yeah. No Way Home in 2021, and then this, that's it. This was a new theater you've been wanting to try out, right? Yeah, pretty new. I'd say it's maybe six months old or something, but it's really nice and clean and, you know, modern stuff and all that.

We didn't get food there. We ate at a bar across the street that was very good and way too filling and I way over did it. But it was good. I forgot the name of the bar. Anyway, people should try it. They have this thing on there called the Chubby.

Oh, man. it was so good so good it was like that feels a burger place or what was the chubby it was like two so it was it was a burger in the middle and the top was a fully formed grilled cheese on texas toast and the bottom bun was another grilled cheese on texas toast oh my god and then all this smear in between they also have endless fries although only did one uh because that's insane who would do that. And it was really good.

Kim got a similar thing that was really good. Somebody got a Monte Cristo. They had one there. Oh, about time. So it's... About time. That's it. We've got those in Colorado here.

I haven't been to one, but like a sports bar, right? Yeah, it's like a sports bar. It's very good. It was really good food. Yeah. Had a great time there. I would go there again. A lot of the stuff around there was one of the few food places that was open.

Most of them were closed, partly because it was a Sunday, but also mainly because this is all brand new out there, like the whole. development is new and it all is kind of empty in a good way it's hard to explain it's just not overrun yet because people are you know all the houses aren't up and stuff and so it felt like i don't know we feel like we're it's like going to a Costco that's brand new in a remote area and it's like so nice inside and no one's there it's not packed with people that's great good good feeling so anyway it was really good that movie rocks uh highly highly highly highly highly highly highly highly recommend oh so good yeah it was really good.

We also saw the Victorines for a hot minute, and then they went to see you for a hot couple of extra minutes. That's right, yeah. Yeah, how to go out there. You guys have fun. It was great. It was such a good time seeing them. They are, I mean, they're good people.

What else can you say about it? We decided to take them up to Boulder so they could see all the hippies up there. They'd never been to Boulder, and just the location up against the mountains is so beautiful. the fog we had rainy weather so the clouds were really low and you saw the tops of the flat iron mountains above the clouds which is a really cool view kind of looked like Asgard took him to a chicken place in town here called The Post and then took him to a fun you know it started as a kite store and but it's evolved into like one of these places This is where you get every glow-in-the-dark, desk toy, practical joke.

Like, it's books, like books about, like, weird, you know the kind of book, like coffee book table books that are like, here's all the weird Lego things or whatever, like collectible books and that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah, like all that kind of thing. We have a place. Everything that Archie McPhee sells, I think you can get there. the put tentacles on every finger kind of thing yeah um anyway place called into the wind this this uh if you come to boulder if you come to denver um and we take you to boulder it's basically where we take everybody who comes to see us especially if they've got kids because kids their

eyes just turn into saucers when they walk into this place yeah full of uh twice uh had a blast took them there and then we decided on the way back to the car oh let's get some ice cream so we popped into a place called Little Man Ice Cream or a store that sells a local favorite called Little Man Ice Cream. And we're sitting there eating and Leslie overhears a mom who's got like four kids that she's juggling. And one of them, she says, honey, this place is called Boulder. A lot of people don't eat dairy. I'm sure they'll have something for you. Well, that's a good hippie moment.

I like that. It's such a super duper hippie moment. but yeah definitely had an absolutely great time you ever see any birds anywhere because when they were here they were only here shortly we had lunch with them oh my god

Logan is so into birds yeah loves birds nobody tell them that birds are birds are just drones they're not real nobody tell me they're all spying it's government spy technology yeah yeah no we

made an effort to see these like they saw a big full-on red Robin um on their way out of the neighborhood and uh he was checking out we had a sparrow flying through our or hopping through our tree up front and yeah he was every everything that fluttered by anywhere he would stop like we would we were talking about you know I don't know drawing or I can't remember what I was talking to him about and he saw a bird fly by and he immediately lost any interest in what I was saying yeah yeah and we got to find out what that bird is yeah yeah He was really into it.

That's about right. Yeah. Find a kid who loves birds as much as Logan. Good luck. Good luck. Yeah. Anyway, well, good. I'm glad you guys got to hang out.

They've been... She got to... They get to see the studio. They get to see the 3-D room. Leslie got to sit in the chair here and see what I see when I'm producing the show. Every little tiny figure on top of my monitors, every distracting piece of desk fidgety toy that I've got. Sure. I saw a picture.

I have proof she was there. Yeah. You have proof, proof. Proof positive. Well, that's fantastic. Yeah. Well, good luck to then. The rest of the road trip,

they're having like a big family road trip. Sounds like a lot of fun. Yeah, lots of driving ahead of them. Chris is a good dude. Like that guy a lot. They're just good people. All right. Let's get to Battle Royale slash half-asses this morning, you know?

Yeah. Let's get that in. I think it's a great idea. Yeah. Let's get that in there. Let's roll that around. Let's see what comes out of it Because it's a lot of fun

And it means we pull our old pal Brian Dunaway in Who will answer the phone shortly And partake in today's jolly good time Yes There he is That jaunty sort of game show adjacent music means one thing And it's time for us to play the half asses Joining us as Brian

Dunaway who does this every Monday and Wednesday Hi Brian Oh hi Scott and Brian Hey hello How are you guys doing Good, man. Hey, that mail from your freaking weird post office

finally going to get to me today. I know it's finally coming through. Thank God. Can you believe it? My gosh. Anyway, it took long enough. I don't know.

What are you talking about? I'm just, I'm going to sit here and play my, my RG35 XX with my 3D printed controls and every single possible game known to man. Yeah. Let me see your controls. You did you hide what colors you print that in.

It looks like a pinkish color. That red. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's kind of pink. Yeah. You got, did you get the translucent purple. RG so it was a handheld.

You don't know what it is. Yeah, look at that. Oh, yeah. It's a Game Boy style handheld. We all been talking about, all been hanging out with.

I ordered, I ordered something from Carl, called printed solid, and I got a Comedore 64 brown and an Amiga 500 beige. I'm going to try to turn a controller out to be all matching with my, my way. I love it. I love that your,

your 3D printer stuff is all like, like, like, you know, 80s computer parts. That's the whole reason why I ordered it. That was the, that was the whole qualification. to get a 3D printer.

I was ordering stands and things for my retro gaming stuff and I eventually was like, okay, I'm spending like 30 bucks a week or more on Etsy ordering stands and stuff.

I'm like, how much 3D printer cost? I'm like, okay, this makes sense. Yeah, so I did. Nothing wrong with any of that.

I did it. I think it's great that you're doing all that stuff. Plus, we all benefit from it because occasionally he'll send me something cool. I don't like it.

You should get your little controller, a hand-hill controller thing when you get your scott. You'll have yours. It'll be a dark, a dark brown to match your controllers. Yeah, yeah. That's right, baby.

Blacker, yeah, whatever it is. Blackish. Blackish. Blackish. Blackish. It'll be here today. I'm very excited. By two, they say, which, you know, whatever. Last time they said by two last week, so maybe, who knows. Yeah, I'm glad I sent a priority mail. I'm glad I spent the extra seven bucks. Yep. Well, well, well done. I owe you for that. Hey, we're going to play a game, y'all. We're going to get the half-asses going. Brian's going to explain these rules and who are playing and all that fun stuff Brian take it away heck yeah welcome to the morning half asses a trivia game

where i'm actually going to be giving you to the answers i'm going to give scott and brian a category and six possible answers three of the answers are correct three of them are bold face lies depending on how confident they feel with each category they can provide one two or three guesses but if any of those guesses are wrong they get zero points for that round get one right you get a point get two right gets you three points and get all three correct you'll get five freaking points the player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant and I've pulled some contestants from around

the globe because they're not able to listen live. Scott, you're going to be playing for Jim Keene in London, Ontario. It's in Canada. Oh. Brian, you're going to be playing for Daniel. He goes by a glitched pixel in Leicester in the United Kingdom.

Oh, very nice. Nice. I believe we know who that is. Hey, you said a bold-faced lie. I always thought it was bald-faced lie. that not the same thing? Is that two different things? I might be bald-faced. You know, I might have been saying it wrong my entire life. I thought it was bold-faced.

You're probably right. I'm probably wrong. And I want my lies to be in bold-faced so I can easily identify. That makes more sense. It's like in the news. That's a bold-faced lie. It's a bold-type lie. It is bald-face. So it is bald-face, according to... But that doesn't make any sense. What's a bald-faced lie? According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

that says, let's see, the fancy I'll call it, get to the point. Here it is. Yeah, it is bald-faced, bald. And what's the etymology? Why bald-haired? Let's see. Lies come in a variety of types.

White lies, big, I don't know why they're going through all this. But mostly from people with no facial hair. There's also bare-faced lie, which was a thing for a long time. So bare-faced, but anyway, the term bald-faced, less commonly bold-faced, so he began to describe lies and liars. This started in 1948 was the first known thing where it says here, the fanciful leaflet says that the insurance is comprehensive and pays literal benefits. But that is a bald-faced lie, experts say.

The actual policy is the longest phrase to explain. Yeah, we get the use of a sentence. I know what it means, but what does it mean? It does say you can use it. Because it's smooth and convincing. I think we should rename. this segment, the bald face lies. There we go. I like that. The morning bald face lies.

Bald face lies. Yep. I'm in. Sign me up. All right. Anyway, now that that's cleared up. Cool. All right. Well, on my card, the lies are actually, actually bold-faced. So. Good, good, good. I like yours, though. That's smart. It's like the news is lying to you. You're using that bold font. Exactly. So excited. Yes. The birds are really drones. All right. Let's get to question number one.

Let's start with some science. Which of these are gases that make up more than 1% of the air that you breathe? So you're breathing some air right now, I hope. Which of these are gases that you're breathing in, that they make up more than 1%? Before after I farted. Well, if you ask. Let's get to the answers. Water vapor, argon gas, methane gas, might answer.

question carbon dioxide nitrogen gas and oxygen gas oh my gosh this is all bullshit make up more than one percent of the air we breathe make up more than one percent more than one percent okay see i know some of these i know some of these displaced oxygen that we require and i know what we breathe is not a hundred percent oxygen um you know what i'm worried about though this says oxygen gas is one of the options. Yeah. And I don't, is oxygen a gas? That's what I'm worried about, too.

I'm worried of some bullshit in here, too. Is it a solid? It's not a solid or a liquid. Is it a liquid? Yeah, I know what you could say. But is it a gas? You could say something weird like gas, and we'd be like, is that a real gas?

Can you say gas gas? Well, I hope it isn't argon gas. I'll kill you. All right. I'm making my, I'm making my way in the world today. That's what makes me wonder about the argon gas. I'm like, how much of it is probably in there and how much displaces enough oxygen.

Gentile to you suffocate. I don't know. Well, I've chosen mine, you slacker. I, how many did you choose? Three. It's locked in with 11. Three? Damn it. I chose all six.

Fine. I'm going with two. Hedge my bets. Yeah. Going for everything. All right. We'll see how you did. There you go. All right. He's locked in.

Let's get to it here. Here are the answers. You guys both settled in on Carlin'clock. carbon dioxide and oxygen gas. Carbon dioxide actually makes up about 0.04%. So nitrogen gas and either of you settled on and oxygen gas and water vapor. Water vapor making up up to 4% of what you breathe. 78% of what you breathe is nitrogen gas.

Oxygen only 21% of the air that we breathe. Lots of nitrogen. Tons of nitrogen. I figured there was at least a percent of carbon dioxide. I thought we were like feeding the trees. Sounds like we're a bunch of jerks. Yeah, we are a bunch of carbon, less than 100% carbon dioxide.

Why did the trees even need us? No one do they. They don't need us. Right, exactly. They don't need us at all happening. Yeah. Is argon gas and methane, unless you're in Scott's basement, is 0.00017%. See, I think that's bullshit because they probably did this in a lab.

Yeah. A clean lab. There's no farts. Everybody's wearing a suit. Because didn't get cow farts opened up the ozone layer back. in the day or something. Or no, that was a hairspray or something. No, that was our high hairspray. That's right.

That was a sad decade when everybody found out their hairspray was killing us all. Yeah, but then that stuff sort of went away or the kind of aerosols that were used and it fixed the hole. Yeah, the whole healed. Yeah, the whole nature healed itself. No more aquanette. It's a real shame.

All right, let's get to question number two. We're all excited about a movie coming out this, summer called Barbie. Maybe we're not. I am. But my aunt is. She's very excited. I'm excited. I think it looks weird. I like Greta Gerwig a lot, so I'm actually kind of excited about it. Yeah, this should be really fun. Parts of Barbie's full name. So which of these are parts of Barbie's full freaking name? Marie, Fairchild, Barbara, Barberlla, Millicent, and Roberts. Parts of her full name. Three of these are parts of Barbie's full name.

three of these are right three of these are right yes oh my god she's got one of those long names maria barborella fairchild melissa barbara roberts right exactly like uh weird all right i chose mine oh jesus you slow down i'm reading and trying to like rationalize these things i'm trying to rationalize them it's fine uh all right barborella obviously not right because i mean that's i mean obviously not obviously maybe not obviously all right you guys both figured out that yeah

her first name Barbie is short for Barbara very good you guys probably both thought her last name was Fairchild Barbara Fairchild but it's not her middle name is Millicent her last name is Roberts her name is Barbara Millicent Roberts Oh it's so close

I'm yours yes I was if I just had chosen The Fairchild sounded like a 50s ass thing to say It did, it did. Yeah, but so was Millicent, really. Yeah, good point. I was thinking, I was trying to see if you were doing Maleficent.

I was trying to figure that out. I was like, no, maybe. Barbarilla Maleficent Roberts. Yeah. All comes back to Disney. That would be great. All right. Let's get to the final question here.

You guys walking into this one with zero points. So, bet accordingly, oh, this is a strategy time, strategy, coming into effect right now. music videos that use animation. So, you know, you're watching your MTV and a little animated music video comes on. I want my MTV. Which of these are that. In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel, nice and slow by Usher, Heartless by Kanye West,

one week by Bare Naked Ladies, Crazy by Narls Barkley, and Money for Nothing by Dyer Straits. I'm locking in. I'm locking in, too. I'm locking in as well. I only know one of these for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of them. You guys both did exactly the same thing.

One of them is a total misdirect. That first one pisses me off a little bit. Yes, exactly, because they want you to think, yeah, of course. You guys both settled on money for nothing. You guys both got that right. I don't remember the Kanye West video at all. I knew that so I didn't know. Yeah, Heartless, like Kanye West and Crazy by Narls Barkley.

I didn't know these either. I don't know anything about it. But they wanted you to think Sledgehammer, of course, for that first. one and I've never seen No Paula Abdul No DJ Crazy or DJ Scat Cat Yeah or B.S. Yeah. Or any tool

So was it? Sledgehammer was the Peter Gabriel one was all Sledgehammer was sledge. Nothing was going around of his head and stuff. That was wild. Did you know? I don't know if you guys knew this. That was Ray Park Nick Park. We're over there at oh gosh dang it The studio

Wallet's and Gromit Get it out Those guys Yeah but what's the name of the studio Ardman That's it is Ardman Yeah Artman yeah

Yeah Cool Fun fun side note That is cool Yeah It doesn't mean that we have a It does mean that we have a tie And we need to break that tie

Let's do it Do we really? Yes we do We absolutely do We have to We're going to do it With this question here How many ridges

Are on the edge of a U.S. quarter. I'm going to let Brian answer and Scott you will do higher or lower. So, how many ridges? Just one. How many ridges on the edge of a U.S. quarter? And I'm not giving you any time to

count. Okay. Well, give me a second to count. Mother. Okay. Uh, uh, uh, $198. All right. $198 is incorrect. Scott is the actual answer higher or lower than $198. I was hoping you go low because that's

easier to say. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I tried to make it hard. I don't even know what those are for. Is it to grip it? Is that why we do it? So it doesn't roll away? Is it decorative?

I don't know. They can still roll away. Probably grippy. Yeah, keep it from slipping out of your fingers like those stupid nickels. So, um, all right. Uh, seems too many. I'm going to say less, less than. You're a moron.

Oh, I'm kidding. Uh, it is lower. Correct. Yeah, very good, Scott. There are 180, I'm sorry, 119 on a quarter. There's one list on a dime and 150 on a half dollar. Wow. I love that you thought that I had a quarter out count in the races or something. Yes, exactly.

No time to count. When was the last time you actually had a change, a quarter, like physical change in your pocket? Well done, Scott. That means you won the prizes for your contestant. Jim Keene. You're going to be getting a copy of the Invisible. hand and behind the frame the finest scenery on

Steam, but Daniel glitched pixel, you're going to be getting a copy of Windjammer's 2 sent directly to you in Lester. Oh, very nice. Winjammer's awesome. A sequel to an old ass game from the NeoGeo

era of games. Well done. Congratulations. You're a winner. That's good news for everybody. Good job, Scott. You did a great job. Thanks, dude. Thanks. I feel pretty good about it. Also, I don't think people appreciate enough the idea of how original coins.

Like these days, computers make it easy. But original coins to have equidistant total number of ridges around that coin, that's a huge machining pain in the ass to get it right, I mean. So, like, I don't know much about coin making. But I know today, you'd do like,

you'd do like a 3D model and then you'd go, you know. You'd just say, you'd use math and have it automatically place ridges around each of those. spots. Right, but back in the day, you got some old guy with a powdered wig going, well, shit. I got to somehow do this. I love your business history. Everybody in the olden days is wearing a powdered wig. That's right. Powdered wig and he had to sit there with a file and go, one, one, two, oh no, this one's too close. These are touching. I have to start over. A corn starch, as we learned,

a cornstarch powdered wig. Yeah. There you go. That's how those guys, that's how they kept their pits dry because they had to, they didn't take baths for like four days. apart or whatever it was. That's right. Why four days? I don't know. I just made that up. I just threw it out. Not seven days? No. Is it Tuesday? I don't know. How many days have it been since the shower? You would think it'd be easier to pick a day like a Saturday. Right. Like a week. Yeah. Before days. That sounds right. Well, the good news is we got winners all around except Dunaway who lost horribly. It was a horrible loss for him. I do feel bad today. Yeah. It should feel bad. But the person you played for still did all right. They came out clean on the other side. So, congratulations on that. And I look forward to doing this again with you Wednesday, Brian.

So getting that thing in the mail today. And thirdly, go eat a chicken. All right? Now you. Bye. Bye. It's not that much of a rude thing to say, go eat a chicken. It isn't.

No, no, no. Go eat a half chicken deep fried with a delicious barbecue sauce. Yeah. Oh, in this place, this bar thing. They have Hobbs dog order it. He ordered a, what were they called? They were Monte Cristo. egg rolls

but they were basically just like just imagine the stuff that's in a Monte Cristo it's in there and then you get the hard turkey and ham and cheese but their little self-contained little units they were great what kind of dipping sauce was it a jelly

or was it a sweet or a savory dipping sauce it was a jelly some sort of strawberry ish thing deal yeah it was very good and he bought those for the table it was really nice at him that was the best thing at Benegans man that was the The thing that could have saved Benegans is somehow harvesting the organs of Monte Cristo's for all. And they are truly dead, right?

No Benegans are left. Or did any of them stand? You know, there could be, it could be like Blockbuster where there's one Benegans hanging out in Reston, Virginia or something. Yeah. See, that would be cool to go. Oh, they still have a website. Hold on. Yeah, they do.

American Fair, Irish hospitality. As I'm saying, I mean, ooh, totally. totally different logo. Yeah, very different. Notice their homepage. What does it showcase? The freaking Monte Cristo. Of course.

Of course. Oh, they're all over the place still. Look at that. Locations all over, Texas. Michigan. This isn't as much as it used to be, though. Funny, like only looks like 12 locations in the U.S., but it looks like 20 locations. Yeah.

Comey soon, 25 locations around the country. Dubai, Doha, Mexico, all around. the world. Bahrain. A couple of Mexico locations. Cyprus. Look how many Cyprus locations. It's for four of them.

It's like super popular in Cyprus. All right. Well, the Monty Christo. The Irish are. Random shit, nail to the wall there. The Irish always figure it out. Okay. Let's do a couple of quick news stories before we take our break today.

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A Vancouver Bakery, thanks to Brian Ibitt who submitted this story. Sure. A Vancouver bakery owner says she caught a thief breaking in on video. He swept the floor, took some selfies, and left with six cupcakes. Oh, nice. Yeah, of course. Canada thieves, they leave. things better than they found

them. Yeah, I like this. This is actually not bad. A Canadian business owner woke up Friday to learn her bakery had been broken into and the security footage confirmed it, but it incited more laughter than fear. Irma Irvine, owner of the Sweet Something in Vancouver. I don't know

if any of you Canadians have been there. But maybe you have. I don't know. Shareed a video on TikTok, showed a man breaking into her bakery in the early hours Friday morning and is seen in the video, The suspect shatters the glass door, but seems to realize this mess he has made

and attempts to sweep it up before continuing his pastry heist. And we have some video of this. So nice. Like he sweeps up. Yeah, this was sent to me by Don and Tyler Kwan. And they thought, oh, this is perfect for TMS. And I agree. It's such a funny.

It's a good story. It's like almost heartwarming, even though, yeah, he broke glass. He stole some cupcakes. But it's still like, oh, what a nice thief. Yeah, look at him. He's like, oh, shoot, I guess I'll take care of that. And all he takes is cupcakes. Yeah. You know, he didn't break into some safe.

No money. Didn't rip up in the register or anything like that. No, that's just somebody got a sweet tooth going on on a Friday morning. I mean, their cupcakes must be really good, right? I would assume. She says that her mindset quickly changed. It was hilarious. I was in stitches watching the footage, she says. The culprit even left behind a couple of selfies in the store's iPhone, supporting orange glasses.

Now is an inspiration for cookies and cupcakes at this one. eat something you can buy cookies it looks like his sunglasses so that the store has an iPhone i'm guessing it's part of the the register like a stripe or something stripe payment thing but apparently took took selfies on the store's iPhone as opposed to on his own yeah getting caught on camera which by the way is a great way to tell people who you are and what you look like i would think so yes exactly it doesn't the story doesn't say much about did they did they catch the guy hold on He left with only six chocolate champagne cupcakes, provided the baker with the opportunity to produce a viral video.

Yeah, they don't, they never arrested him. They don't know anything else. There's nothing else about that. So as much as it's kind of like funny that he swept up, that he took a selfie, all this stuff, it still seems like, you know, the law probably demands you got to at least go find the guy and slap him on the wrist or something.

Like maybe you don't press charges super, oh my God, he's totally drunk, like watching this TikTok. he's like trying to break through the glass door just using his elbow finally uses his foot and gets through it I think she's probably or he is probably I mean weeds legal up there puts his hand on the glass he's totally drunk he's got the he's got I think he's got the weed munchies that's what this looks like to me maybe yeah yeah because Canada you can just go

this is an unplanted he just sits there sitting on the chair in the place the way he's banging into that door yeah looking at me he looks hammered he totally does yeah this guy's five sheets to the wind yeah oh and he's sweeping it that's adorable that's actually a cute little shop though i like it it is yeah i'd go there it's like it's like your prototypical you know checkered floor uh i want to see the selfies though how how recognizable is he in the selfie it's very does a front and side shot they're almost like mug shots it's in later of the lower oh it's in the lower part look at that yeah hilarious yeah those two shots are almost

without the sunglasses. He'd be pretty easy to pick out. Yeah, unless the Clark Kent story is real, and nobody can tell the difference. I think that dude is easy to find. But anyway, good luck to all of them in their pursuit of happiness. One final story.

Apparently, the cupcake thief apologized offers to pay for damages from bizarre bakery break-in. So apparently he has reached out to apologize. Even better. I don't know if he's still like, Does that still mean you have to, like, get a cop involved or anything? Probably, yeah, yeah.

I mean, if they choose not, they probably won't choose to press charges if he pays for everything. And it'll just be like, all right, well, don't do it again, dummy. Yeah. Please don't drink, drink weed drink, or I don't know, whatever he did. Let's move on to this one. Please wear clothes in your digital driver's license photo, says Georgia officials. Yeah, I agree, too. I feel like this is a smart thing.

to do, and most people should do it just by natural. I mean, how do you not at the DMV, right? I guess we'll find out in this article. We sure will. The driver's license is not the right place for a spicy selfie, according to Georgia officials. The Georgia Department of Drivers Services took to Facebook Tuesday to remind drivers to keep their clothes on

while taking photos for a digital driver's license or ID. Why are they taking their own photos? Yeah, I guess is this like during COVID, take your own photos, send it in? and we'll approve it and put it on your driver's license. I mean, they're doing it now. They must have some kind of digital. Oh, so.

Weird. So there's a digital driver's license, an ID, which is different than... Yeah, we've got that here in Colorado, but it... I don't know if it... Oh, it did let me take my own selfie. That's right. For my digital ID here, it didn't use the one that I have on the... On my license.

But your license, you still have that one is a separate thing. I still have that one, but you can now, at some places, and I think the airport's going to soon be one of them, you can use your... your phone ID as your driver's license at the airport to check in instead of having to take your physical driver's license in with you. Yeah, it says here they are intended to speed up the process at select TSA checkpoints. The digital document does not serve as a replacement for your physical idea according to the website, but they do want people to put on some damned clothes. Please do, yes, exactly. What is your problem, naked humans? Quit doing that.

Yeah, there was something this last time we flew, maybe it was to Vegas. where we just had to scan, like basically it scanned our ticket. Is that right? Yeah, scanned our ticket, and he didn't need to see our ID because the ticket was tied to it. On our digital ticket was enough. Oh, interesting. Yeah, it would have been probably your trip to Vegas, right? I think so.

I think that was the last time I flew anywhere. Which we'll be doing again soon. Yep. About a week and a half. Is that all it is? Yeah. Yeah. This month's already going on.

I'm going to tell you right now. I'm going to have to figure something out for film sec. Because, I mean, come on. We're going to be doing it a Saturday morning after a Friday night in Vegas. And it's an hour earlier for me in Vegas to do it. Yeah. We've got to figure something out. I agree.

I'm going to pre-record all of my stuff for TMS. And I'm just going to have it on a soundboard. And I'm going to go, oh, yeah. Oh, well, you know, this, Kate Beckinsale. Yeah. What about, yeah, that's really great. Yeah. I'll just hit a little, I'll hit buttons as you go.

You can give them all to me. give me all those files. I'll just make a little like this. You'll just enter it. A little AI can control my. Yeah. Why not? Well, let's embrace the future and make film sock. Exactly. I can already know that I have to do. If I'm going to do a song intro, I have to do it before Vegas, because I'm not going to have all the stuff with me that I need to be able to do that. Yeah, you should pre-record it. That's what you should do. I will pre-record it before I go out there. Love it. All right. We're going to take a break. When we come back, we're going to spend some time with major spoilers on, Stephen Schlecker. A little more Spider-Man. talk. No spoilers anyone. We won't do story spoilers. But

we will talk about it, its impact, its performance at the box office, and so on. And after that, maybe a little talk about the Eisner's this year. It's the comic book industry's big show. So we'll see how that all goes. We've got some more stuff on the back end as well, but we've got to play this song, so let's play

it. What do you got? Sure. So last week, on Friday, an album that we played an early song from called The Perfume of Decay by a band called Tiger Cup. Finally, came out, came out Friday. We played the song called Swoon from that before.

There's so much up from this album that we totally love. This is a UK band, UK-based rock and roll trio from Brighton in the UK. Home of Brighton Rock and one of the Helter Skelters. That is, the new song is, play my favorite song. This is from the brand new album, The Perfume of Decay.

Here is Tiger Cub. Black tides arise above me White lies define the ugly Black skies divide the red sea Just sit tight, it won't dethrone me Just play my favorite song Play my favorite song. Play my favorite song.

Goodbye. Come on. Play my favorite song because suddenly treats me feel low. Love. Love. Love. Love.

Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love Black ties

And dirty pictures Baptise There's so beneath me Nightmare Flow me reaching In my bed They come to me Yeah

Just play my favorite song Play my favorite song Play my favorite song Good boy and good on Played my favorite song This sounds with me Love Love

Love Love Love Love Love Love Love Love

Love Love Play my favorite song Play my favorite song Play my favorite song Play my favorite song Play my favorite song Do you own a tuxedo?

Yes, really. Well, if that's a fib, build me for the rental. So what's that supposed to do? Make me love you? And we've returned. Tell me what that was again, please. Sure. That is, uh, play my favorite song by Tiger Cub from their brand new album, The Perfume of Decay. Ew. Gross.

It's gross. It stinks. I mean, you know, some people's decay is another person's, uh, I don't know, lovely fragrance. I don't know. I don't want to yuck anyone's yum, you know? No, no. For all I know, there are people that love the smell of decaying dead flesh. And maybe that guy is Stephen Schlecker.

And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dollar, doll of bills, y'all. Hey, speaking of a guy who loves a good stinky corpse, it's Stephen Schleiker joining us today. Hi, Stephen. Stinky corpses. Stinker, the better. That's right.

Hey, how's your... More rotten. More rotten. Hey, how's your flooding deal? You all good now? The carpet is back down. And now I just need to go and replace some bookshelts. Okay.

Oh, how about, did you lose any books or comics or comics or? I didn't know. I don't keep comics. Well, the comics that I have are in a spinner rack. So nothing happened there. But I did have some nice art books that also sucked up the water, but they have dried out and are fine. Oh, good. Okay.

I mean, they're a little, you know, warped here and there, but they're still okay. Anybody who's had a little bit of a, not money pit, but a house with stuff, you know. Just a house. Yeah. The thing, you just have a, does anyone out there have a house? Let me tell you. Houses are a pain in the ass, okay? I'm probably, people think homeownership is great.

It's not. It's not. I mean, you've got to take care of the, you've got to take care of your maintenance around the house. If your, if your roof goes bad, you've got to replace that. If you got termites, you got to replace that. You got to take care of bugs if you got that. You got utilities you have to take care of. Your lawn, if you have a lawn, all that stuff.

Your landlord, let them take care of it. Just be happy that you're living in a, in a, in a, in a rented. rented apartment somewhere that you don't have to deal with this. Yeah, I might be. And then let's not, let's not get started on how much your taxes go up each year because some guy just drives back and goes, yeah, let's just up their property value 30% and tax them on that. Yeah, I can tell this is not bothered you at all.

You're having a good time with it. It's all good. No issues. I think in California, somebody who's from California can correct me, you don't pay taxes. So when you buy your house, if you buy it for $100,000, I mean, if you want to live in a Havel, sure. But if you pay $100,000 for a house in California, that's how much you're taxed until you sell the house, at which point, whatever the difference is in the resale of your house, let's say you sell it for, you know, a million dollars.

Then you pay taxes on that a million dollars that you've sold it for. Right. That seems like a heck of a lot better than, oh, last year you paid $3,000 for your property tax. This year, you're going to pay $7,000 for a property tax. Yeah, property taxes are rackety. I hate them. I don't like them. I should pay that stuff when a sale happens,

either when I buy it or when I sell it, that should be what it is. Yeah, exactly, exactly. It's a racket. Yeah, it is. Another American racket. That's why today I'm announcing I'm running for president of the United States. That's sweet.

All right, 2024. Business will be to do away with property taxes. No, that's the time to do it. It's all ramping up. You got to get ready for the debates and all that stuff. You all set to go? What party are you going to? I'm going to run as an independent.

Okay. Because we know that they've had great success over the years. Yeah, they've done great. They always win. Yep. Yep. Always a big winner of that party that's unaffiliated. All right.

Well, it's good to have you here. And I assume that you among many of our compatriots also saw Spider-Man to or Spider-Man into the Spider-verse to cross the Spider-verse. It's into across and beyond. There you go. Before people get freaked out about the third film, this was already announced a long time ago. that these movies are parts are two-parter okay i'm glad i'm glad that was true i'm glad that's true so we can talk about it openly but i will tell you that i missed that spoiler somehow and when i

went into the movie yesterday there was a point by the way longest animated film in history i think it's like it's very yeah it feel it i don't want to say it feels long because that sounds like a negative but it it feels like you get a lot for your money you do get a lot for your money i didn't feel long to me though it felt like, I felt, I don't know, it felt right to me. And I still didn't want it to end. But there was a point in it where I went, hold on a minute. I know I've been here at least two hours and they haven't sewn this up. So I suddenly went, oh my gosh, are they going to do like an end game freaking Infinity War kind of deal here? Sure enough. And I had no idea. I had no idea how to continue or to be continued thing going on. And I will say this coming from comic books. A lot of people

have already said, well, if this is a two-parter, maybe I'll just wait for the second one. And then I'll go see them both together or watch them together. Don't do that because if you come from comic books, if you don't go and buy the first issue and you wait for the trade, there's a good chance that that trade's never going to come out. So if everybody doesn't go and see this movie now, there's a good chance that beyond the Spider-Verse won't

be arriving in theaters next March. It won't even exist. It won't even happen. Look, you're actually probably okay, everybody, but I would say this. I wouldn't put it off. I think it is the thing to see this year. It's so freaking good. If we were to rank the greatest

The greatest superhero movies of all time, all time. It would be Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man Homecoming, Spider-Man Across the Spider-verse. Not for me. In that order. Not for me. Here's how it goes. You're wrong.

It goes. We got into and across sharing the same chair for me for first place. Okay. Then in second place, oh, shit. Where do I go after that? I think I put dark night over for me dark night over homecoming I definitely would put well the main thing I came away with was you know what I wouldn't be I'd be all right and it doesn't have to be this exact same style I'd be all right if all comic book movies were as cool as this like just animate everything yeah yeah I mean the art the art in this is very very good the storytelling and I'll just let people know this is a dark movie this is a downer of a movie it is it is two superheroes movies as the Empire Strikes Back was to Star Wars. That's a good way of putting it.

If you are a parent, oh man, this movie picks up a big old omnibus edition of Dan Slot's Omnibus Spider-Man run and smacks you in the head with it hard and just says, hey, these are the difficulties of being a parent. And if you are a child, it also has themes of

coming out of acceptance of being told that you're not who you're supposed to be or telling you who you are supposed to be. There's big, big, deep thoughts on determinism, you know, whether your fate is determined by certain things. Right. And there are some smacks in this. There's one particular character that the creators have come out and said,

yes, this character is based upon every dumbass comic book person who wants to rant about how this is not how it was in the comic book. Yeah, there's a you can feel the subtext on all those levels. And I actually think the thing that makes it work, when I got out of the theater with these other tadpullers, my first thought was, I always feel this way. When a movie is that gripping as it was for me, you know, everyone's going to feel different about it. I think it's because there are very specific themes that are just really close to home for people, like family, parents, being a kid, trying to figure your way through things. Spider-Man's always been about that, right? but this even went further.

Also, nobody told me Shay Wiggin was in this. And I about lost my shit when I heard Gwen Stacy's dad talking and I went, hold on. It's freaking Shea Wiggum. And I was right. And I was stoked because I love that guy.

But all these, all of these themes are so relatable and they're packaged in one of the most wildly fantastic visual things I've ever seen in my freaking life. It is, it is a, you are overwhelmed with visual stuff. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it can be,

if you're not ready for that, you may be overwhelmed. Like I, I, I, we were going to maybe take van because Carter got Concrud from her trip to London and she couldn't use her ticket. And so for a hot second, we were almost taking van because he loves Spider-Man. I'm really glad we didn't. I don't think a four-year-old can handle the stimulation of that thing. It's too much. No, no, no, no. But I mean, yes. So it's visually beautiful. Yeah. Even, I mean, so the, I mean, so the very first, you know, into the Spider-verse was very much a visual treat and very

much used animation to tell a story. This time we use animation, the art style, and the color palette to tell you a little something about the worlds in which these characters inhabit. And it's also very, very, very amazing. Yeah, it's really something.

Spider-punk alone, I just was like... Yeah, and just, right, like you say, and this was a big thing with the first one, and they do it so much more And the second one is the not just the color palette, but the style around every character. It's almost like they had a different artist doing each. Yeah.

And I was actually going to ask you guys, and maybe Stephen, you'll know this, or maybe Brian will, but when they would do the Gwen Stacy stuff in her world, her dimension, that was a very different, very, very different art style. Yeah, very much water color.

Yeah. Yeah, and I wonder. I really like, like, you could see, like, when the colors would change, you would see them run down the wall. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's really, really good. And also very dirty and quick, like, the couch was barely rendered and, you know, things like that behind them, the background elements. But they were also kind of in a way of the most flat colors of, or the most flat imagery of the movie when she was there. And I wondered if that was an homage to whoever did a Spider-Gwen run or something that I don't know about, you know.

Jason Latour, the creator of Spider-Gwen, the only thing he has on his Twitter feed is just links to his substack, and I wasn't going to do a deep dive into a substack. Now, I didn't go and check on the artist and see what they had to say about the Gwynn's Stacey. But if you look at the covers to any Spider-Gwen comics, it is very much that color palette. Okay. That's cool. And I want to live in Mumbai Hatton or whatever they called it. Yeah. Man.

I'm kidding. So bad ass. Very cool. Except for the traffic. That sucked. So a couple of things. Movie did really, really well at the box office,

$120 million here in the United States, which I don't know, remember back when the very first Spider-Man movie, the Toby McGuire movie came out, and people lost their minds because it made like $110 million on its opening weekend. Like it had never been done before. And now here we have the animated version, you know,

doing better than doing better than that. It was, it's just kind of cool where we've come from, but also, you know, records are, I guess, meant to be broken in that sense. Yeah, for sure. The other thing, go ahead. No, go ahead. I was going to say, there is another thing that has been brought up that people have complained about.

And it is not necessarily a single movie theater issue. I don't know if it's been corrected over the weekend, but the first couple of showings, people were complaining that the first 20 minutes of the film were almost impossible to hear the dialogue because the music was being driven so hard leading people to think that maybe the mix of the movie was bad. Turns out it's just the movie theater projectionist not turning up the volume correctly.

This is something that is a known thing. I forget whether it was Miller or Lord had sent a bunch of instructions on what's the proper setting for you to turn the volume up in your theater to not have this problem happen. But it did happen to a lot of people. And so I was afraid that our movie theater,

at the AMC Classic, which I started thinking. Classic means that it's an older theater. It actually means the last time they updated our movie theater was when the first Avatar movie came out. Oh, geez. Oh, God. And I was worried to death that I was going to run into this audio issue. And I did not.

Yeah, I was going to say, that would track based on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So just let people know that it's not a, it's not an issue with the movie. It's an issue with the theater that you're in. If you run into that. we got to the one we were at they all a couple of them who had seen the movie in that theater already that exact theater said yeah we had that problem so i was worried i was like oh crap we're

going to have this problem again no problem they fixed it so yeah it was all good no problem with the draft house yeah the soundtrack is insane a couple of us afterwards we're talking about we got like uh tron what was that tron movie tron legacy legacy which is not the movie not the movie itself but the soundtrack to that movie which was you know amazing at the time and still is um i was getting those vibes out of this thing and maybe it was just the combination of what music they used when they did certain things visually even though and brian i think said it last week and i'll reiterate it there is no post credit stinger in this movie correct but don't leave during those first initial credits because it is the most badass painterly cool thing you've ever seen aisle and everything yeah

it's so good gosh dang it it's good i want to go see it again and i was so sad Carter couldn't go. Here's a funny story real quick. So Carter, she's over in, she's in the Netherlands, right? Hanging out with the Dutch a couple weeks ago. And the movie opened there. And she was like, cool. The rule is

over there, for the most part. Dutch movies are in English with Dutch subtitles, the ones that come from here. Oh, cool. Most of the time. It's like a rule. I'm sensing there's an exception. Turns out, there is. She goes to this movie. It's a fancy place to give you like a charcutory thing. It's like

weird thing they sit down to watch the movie it's her and her two friends from here in the states and they sit down to watch this thing and it starts and it's all it's all dubbed in dutch that they have a full dutch cast doing that so english subtitles or no subtitles no subtitles at all nothing oh no so she just had to urca borka beka the whole time well i guess they they left early because after they ate their stuff they're just like well there's no point we don't understand what's happening so that's why we're so excited this weekend because i was like you're going to get to actually see it and hear it and then she got she was so sick she couldn't go so that's too bad yeah she'll get better the good news is no no covid she just got some conch red so okay good uh one one minor tiny

little spoiler go did anybody watch did anybody pay attention to the video game that gunky was playing yes i did i noticed not only noticed that but then later on i noticed the same character from the game you're talking about was in was in the uh reveal of the place they were all going Yeah. I thought that was pretty cool. That was awesome. All of it was good. You know what? The whole canon thing, which I won't detail, because I think it's important people to see it, but they just know that the term canon and how we use it as nerds. It's awesome. And Oscar Isaac, could he have his feet in more cool shit?

No kidding. He's in this. He's in Dune. He was in Star Wars. He's Moon Knight. He was on one of the Bad X-Men movies, but I don't remember which one. Like that dude, oh, no, he was a purple guy. The X-Men character, what was his name? It came right after first class. Oh, Apocalypse. He was Apocalypse.

Yeah. But anyway, let's forget that. Let's talk about inside Lewin Davis. Yeah, there you go. And the Cohen brother movie. Yeah. That's a great movie. It is a great movie.

And he's just, the fact that that guy's just, I mean, he's just getting started. He's having a moment. Yeah. It's really great to see. Speaking of X-Men really quick. Brian had asked me in an email. Did I know anything about this? This thing that's going on at the San Diego Comic-Con,

San Diego Comic-Con comes out next month, July 21st through 28th or whatever it is. They are having an X-Men Hellfire Gala at a club there in San Diego. And this is for people that don't know the Hellfire Gala in the X-Men comics, is this big Met Gala thing where all the X-Men show up and they're different fancy clothes and everything. and it was the way for them to kick off some big issues related to X-Men comics, especially the X-Men coming together and moving to Corkoa and all of those kinds of things. Well, the Hellfire, the X-Men era with Jason Aaron is coming to an end. You know, the good times with the X-Men are about to fall apart in a big way.

But before that happens, they want people to come to this Hellfire gala. And from what I can tell, they're wanting people to come in their cosplay and fancy cosplay stuff. Go to this thing. They've got a bunch of rooms set up that are supposed to be like you are at the Hellfire Gala. Of course, they have things for you to buy and all this other stuff. Of course. It takes, it takes place on Saturday, July 22nd, beginning at 8 o'clock p.m., which, that's a great time for this. You know, the main show events have shut down.

However, Disney and Marvel. are really kicking cosplayers in the proverbial pantalunas. Right there. The printed jocks, yeah. Yes, because at the exact same time is the annual masquerade that they have at the San Diego Comic-Con, which is their big cosplay contest that they have. Yeah. And so, uh,

cosplayers are going to be kind of split, I think, in deciding who wants to go to what. Yeah. I mean, it's so talking about. if it was done unintentionally that's that's somebody's bad job of researching but if it's intentionally it's even more of like a just an a whole thing to do like oh the masquerade thing is that exact time let's do our thing at that time too and they can you know instead of going and seeing other people's cosplay we'll make them come to our thing have they said anything is anybody cop to that or is it is it no one said anything as far as i can tell but i mean it's just

more of a i don't know if they're expecting a lot of cosplayers to come but i expect a lot will just be so that they can show their take of, you know, of beast. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, their version of that. But really, it's just more like a nightclub event for people to go to. I think the people that are really into competition and really wanting to show off their work will probably still go to masquerade, but I don't know.

I'm waiting for a greater word to get out about this to see if there is any kind of any blowback on this. So it should be interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing photo. those from that thing, because I think it's going to be really cool. I just don't know how far, because Disney's backing it, I'm curious as to how far they're going to go with the whole production value of this event. And are they going to have their own people? That would be interesting.

They don't say that they're having their own people there. They do talk about the, they do have a green carpet event where people can come in. They have these different spaces. They have a dance floor, a ballroom. they have music and food and all these things and of course stuff you can buy and then it has some very strict rules on if you want to come in cosplay you have to follow

these guidelines but there's nothing nothing about you know if they're going to have their own version of of a beast show up or something like that right well maybe Morbius will show up he doesn't do anything multi beasts

many beasts yeah what's wrong with that nothing multiple beasts they're all multiverse beasts there are Yeah, there's probably a beast averse. We should do that movie next. Across the beastiverse.

Yeah, why not? A lot of blue-haired beasts. Excellent. Well, this is all good. How about the, do you have anybody in the Eisner's this year that you're like, oh, the Eisner's, look who's running this year. Yeah, so the Isners, the annual Will Eisner Comic Book Industry Awards will also be given away Saturday night at the, at the Sandy Yoga Comic Con.

There are some really good books that people might want to check out that are up for awards. One of them is from the DCB. Pride 2020 edition that came out. I want to say last month, it's Finding Batman by Kevin Conroy and Jay Bone. It talks, Kevin Conroy talks about, you know, his becoming Batman and then also coming out as a gay man. He has since passed away, but that one is up for Best Short Story. There is, for the best limited series, I've talked about this before on the morning stream, but the human target by Tom King and Greg Smallwood is brilliant. I think that that one, is something that people should also check out if they are looking for something, just a 12-issue series.

If you've ever read or ever seen the movie DOA, there's two different versions. Both are the same. Somebody has poisoned and he has to solve his own murder before. Yep, exactly. This is the same thing, except he's got a week or something to solve his case. That is very, very good. We also look at some of the best graphic novels. The Batman One Bad Day series is very good.

The Riddler issue is up for an award. I thought that was really, really good. I like that one. I read that whole thing. That was great. Yeah, it is really good. And so I think people should check that out.

Then when we look at, let's see, what we have under the Best Writer, Tom King is up for Best Router. Grace Ellis is up there. Mark Russell, who's a great satirist. He did the Flintstones series a few years ago over at DC Comics.

Yeah. But he's up for traveling to Mars, which is over at a blaze publishing about, you know, what happens when people decide that they want to actually go and colonize Mars, what really is going to happen. James Tinian the 4th and Chip Zadarsky are all up for some of the best writers. And Chip Zazarsky currently writing Batman, but he's also got an incredible run on Daredevil, which is very good. And then when we look at some of the best artists, we have Sean. Phillips, who does the stuff with Ed Brubaker with Follow Me Down and The Ghost in You, very, very good stuff there. And of course, Greg Smallwood, like I mentioned, with the human target. So if any of those kinds of things sound really good to you, we have a long list

over at the Major Spoilers website of the nominees. We'll have the winners when they're announced. But these are, you know, some of the best of the best. And there's always something good to find in that list of comics for people to read. I don't know how they don't just give it to Tom King in his category. That guy, I've yet to read a comic he wrote where I was a like that was great. I always feel that way after his. He's pretty controversial. I mean, some people really, really like his stuff. And then there's other people that are just like he is the worst of the worst. Really? Because I mean, his books sell like crazy.

I do. But then there's people that are like, oh, he's doing these things with characters that he shouldn't be doing. And I see where people come from. But I like him as a writer. I don't know him as a person, but I like him as a writer. But he's very controversial. Yeah. I bet it doesn't help. that in January of 23, it was announced by James Gunn that King would be one of the architects of his new DC Universe media franchise of feature films. Well, specifically because of his Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow, which won last year as one of the best books of a limited series. So, yeah, it's because they're adapting that, having him on board is a good thing. Yeah.

Well, I like that guy. So good luck to him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, there you have it. There's more coverage like this over at major spoilers.com. We tell you that every week, but we mean it. Okay? Go check it out.

We need more people to come over there and check us out. Damn straight. They got podcasts. They got everything. They got everything you need. So go get your nerd on and spend some more time over there at major spoilers. com. Stephen, anything else in particular?

You'd like people to know about? Well, not only does major spoilers have all the news and information and previews that you want about comic books. We also have important life advice such as staying hydrated. Oh, make sure you do that. That's a good idea. He's a professor, so you should listen. That's right. Try my product.

Not that kind of professional. Not that professor. Not that kind. Not a video professor. No, but you should try his product. I think that's true. Yes. All right, a couple of quick emails to get out of here today.

We're going to start with this from Patrick, not our Patrick, different Patrick. He sent this in to the morning stream at gmail.com. And this is about wine. Not to be confused with the Windows emulation software. Not that wine, but the kind you drink. And here's what he says. Howdy, Scott and Brian. Just a correction to the person that called in regarding the residue in the bottom

of a bottle of wine of wine. What do we call it? Lees, I guess, is what we call it? Lees. Yeah, they were like the sake lees was in that ice cream flavor that we were looking at. That's right. He says, lees are dead yeast cells after fermentation. They are not really bits of grape skins and grape stuff. The stuff that gets filtered out after the crush.

Vinters, vintners, is what I meant to say. Not vinters. Vintners, meaning wine people, leave the wine to age on the lees. to add mellow notes to the wine. Then this is filtered out, and then the wine is then bottled and then bottle aged. The stuff on the bottle, or sorry, the stuff at the bottom of the wine bottle are crystals called tar-trates. Tart-trates. Sounds tart, which is naturally formed from the wine.

Sorry, I'm a bit of a wine collector and a wine nerd. Best regards, Patrick. Well, don't be sorry. That's great. Awesome. Yeah. It's good to have some clarity. That's cool.

Yeah, I assume that they were, that it was. was, you know, dregs from, uh, from the grapes, from like, you know, stuff that just gets through the filters, but, uh, that totally makes sense as far as like yeast, like yeast crystals. Yep. You're eating those dead yeast cells, Brian. Mmm. Delicious. I'm not eating those.

I don't take the dregs. Like a little bit of the bottle left. Nope. Open a new damn bottle. Especially not now. Now that we know this. Um, all right. Here's a text about senior pranks.

This came to 801-4710462. And it is a anonymous person. who says, the best senior prank I ever heard of involved a bunch of 4H kids. What does that mean? Four to, is that mean four to, is that four. H kids? No, no, four H. Like, you don't have 4H?

No, we do, but I'm just making sure he doesn't mean like fourth through high school or something. That just means 4H, right? Like 4H, 4H. I'm guessing 4H, yeah, 4A, because it deals with the, their prank deals with agriculture. So I'm guessing that, you know, they deal with animals and stuff with 4H as well. one of their things. All right. Well, he says a bunch of 4-H kids

kids released pigs into the school overnight while nobody was there. The genius of the prank, however, is that before releasing the pigs into the school, the students painted a number on each one of the pigs.

They released five pigs. However, they painted the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 on the five pigs they released. Given the illusion that they were being six pigs total and causing great consternation among the staff members

trying to find pig number five. That is brilliant. I love that. We know it's got to be around here somewhere. Search every cranny for pig number five. I feel like they just, they fell for a, I don't know, you probably heard it in the clips today, but I've been, like we talked about on film sack,

I turned right around and started watching Inside Man. Yeah, okay. The Spike Lee's heist movie. And they do shit like this through that whole movie, this whole misdirection thing of like, so reading this thing about the pigs just felt like more of that. movie because that movie's all about misdirection. It's all about, oh, we did a thing that you think

we're doing, but we didn't really do that with Denzel Washington. We did another thing over here. While you weren't looking, we were doing this. Reminds me of that. Anyway, one through six, nicely done. Thank you for sharing that with us. We're done, we're out of here. It makes me that I need to watch that again too. That movie's awesome. It's on Netflix

and just good today as it ever was. It's really great. That's it for the show. Patreon.com slash TMS is how we are supported. The website you'll want to visit for all things. TMS. visit frogpants.com slash TMS. And if you have any other questions or thoughts, send them in 8014710462 or the morning stream at gmail.com. That'll do it for us.

Hey, Brian. Why don't we play a song? How about that? Let's do that. So we didn't have a show Friday or we didn't have a proper show. We actually, we didn't have a proper show either, or even improper show. But that was Joey's birthday, Joey Image's birthday. And he put in a request, so today's the first day for a real show since his birthday. He said June 2nd is my birthday

Celebrate me you beautiful bald man Like okay yeah sure happy to do it He wants a cover of Don't Fear the Reaper Originally by Blue Oyster Cult I've played a few versions here on the show One of my favorites is by The Beautiful South But since I've played that one before Let's go to this one right here

It's by Heaven 17 from a 2005 It's funny that it's called 15 soft rock anthems Because I would not call Don't Fear the Reaper A soft rock anthem From 2005 years, Heaven 17, and don't fear the Reaper. Seasons don't fear the Reaper

Nor do the wind The sun or the rain We can be like they are Come on, baby Don't feel the Reaper Baby take my hand Don't feel the Reaper We'll be able to fly

Baby I'm your man La La La La La La La Valentine is done but now they're gone Romeo and Juliet Live together in eternity 40,000 men running every day 40,000 men living every day

Another 40,000 coming every day Come on baby Take my hell. Don't be an enemy will be able to fly. Don't be able to be hurt. Baby, I'm your man. La la la la la.

La la la la. La. Yeah, la, la. Baby, I'm your man. Love Up! Here, but now they're gone In the last night of sadness And it was clear that she couldn't go on

Then the door was open and the wind appeared The candles blew and then disappeared The curtains blew and then he appeared Don't be afraid Come on, baby And she had no feet And she read to new In the fact of her

She said she's She'll become like She has taken on his name She'll have become like Say ah Come on baby Don't be Bye

La La La La La La Come on, baby, baby, baby, take my hand. We'll be able to fly. Baby, I'm your man. Come on, baby. La, la, la, la, baby. Baby, I'm your man.

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