The Morning Stream - TMS 2477: Heaving Dragon

Episode Date: June 12, 2023

Moist from the juice. One Tall Bald Man. Nuts to Butts! Generative Barb Fill. Woke Texan Yoga Elephants! Poisonous Frog Pants. Big Dick's M'Nards. Excalibur. Cos I don't care. You get NO Projects, NO Kickstarters, and NO LIEUTENANT YAR! Extra Nobody. I think she hates the French. Just Like a Saturday Night Dinner at Ibbott's Air BnB. Downward Facing Pachyderm. Splitting the Donut. My Little Transformah 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.

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Coming up on TMS, Moist from the Juice. One tall bald man. Nuts to butts. Generative barb fill. Woke Texan yoga elephants. Poisonous frog pants. Big Dix Menards. Excalibur, because I don't care.

You get no projects, no kickstaters, and no lieutenant y'ar. Extra nobody. I think she hates the French. Just like a Saturday night dinner at Ibbets Airbnb. Downward facing pachyderm. Splitting the donut. My Little Transforma with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Let's face it, there was a bishop in the middle ages there, 1800 something.

How essential is the roach's testimony to your case? The Morning Stream. Yes. I'm not easy. to get along with, am I? Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for June 12th, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson, and that's Brian Nibit over there. Hello, Brian. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hey, man. I'm back for a couple days, and then I'm back, and then I'm gone. Then you're gone again. Do you leave Thursday? No, Friday. Thursday. Leave for Vegas Thursday. But Chris Brown likes to go places

stupid late so it won't affect TMS it won't affect Coverville we're leaving the airport at like we're flying out to Vegas at 9 p.m. or something oh gosh so you'll get there at about 9 their time about 10.30 their time oh okay so you'll lose but you gain an hour but you lose

but you're still getting late it's about a two hour flight and the taxing and pooping around and stuff It's a lot, yeah. It's a lot. But I don't like getting, I don't like getting anywhere that late. It's like, I want there to be, you know, plenty of time to get my hotel room, to play the $20 trick, and hopefully get an upgrade, all that stuff. Yeah, you have a, you have a routine.

I have a routine. The real Chris Brown is messing with your routine there, you know? That's right. Exactly. And here's my thinking, though. I'm staying in Excalibur because, as I mentioned before, I don't care. Yeah. That's the rule if you're staying there.

You have to not care if you're staying. You have to not care. And I'm guessing the $20 trick, the $20 upgrade, it's like, hey, here's 20 bucks. Do you have any upgrades you can give me? Oh, sir, yes, we can actually upgrade you to a room that doesn't smell like vomit. Oh, thank you. Good, good, good. They get upgraded.

Wow. I wonder if that works at Circus Circus. They'll upgrade you from like the room that has a corpse in it. Do you want a corpse or no corpse? Your $20 upgrade is, here's a room in Excalibur. Yeah, yeah. You've got to move up the strip a little bit, but it's much better up there. It only smells like vomit, not dead people.

Exactly. I'd stay at the plaza, but Chris Brown and his buddy are staying at Harris, and I don't have free rooms at Harris, so that's why I picked Excalibur. It's like, you know what, free room. I don't care. Let's stay there. But otherwise, I would stay at Plaza and take advantage of their new carousel bar, their ginormous donut place.

Did you see the size of the donuts at the freaking box? It's monstrous. You have five people should order one donut, for real. Exactly. It's like it's a donut that you cut into slices and give and share with your friends, basically. It's like pizza, pizza donut kind of. Yeah. I really wouldn't eat one of those on your own, for real.

Like, it looks, it's too much. That's crazy to do that. I know. I know some people will and, hey, buy gum, do what you want to do. But I would split that thing if I were anyone going there. But, uh, but yeah, like Vegas, man, it's like you never left. You're just right back, you know? Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. It's like... Nothing wrong with that. Whatever. Nothing wrong with that. Only from home. And I'll probably have another trip there later in the fall with Barry, Tanner, Tristan, Alex, Alex, of course, Tanner and Alex. We decided we...

The D&D team, because Tanner didn't get to go to TMS Vegas. He was still Jones in for a Vegas trip. So we're like, yeah, we'll go in the fall. And it'll be, you know, all of the D&D group, basically who goes. He's been in Japan so long. I think he's going to come home in a kimono is my thing. I think so, yeah. I think he's going to refuse.

He's going to, he'll only watch anime for now on. That's right. Exactly. What else? I know three weeks in Japan. I'm envious and I don't know, man, I don't know how I would do it. I would have to just keep doing the shows from Japan and it would be whatever ridiculous time it is. I just literally couldn't do it.

Unless I was moving there and staying there forever, I just don't know how, I don't know how this is possible. But I guess most people, they get vacation time at work and they go. And that's what they do. Exactly. Yeah. You just can, you know, kickstaters, no projects. I'm not committing to any daily YouTube shows. No, no.

Just can't get out there and get that done. Unless that daily YouTube show is, here's five minutes of me wherever I am in Japan, basically. Yeah, that's true. I suppose you could, if you really wanted to, you could make something of it. But then it kind of negates the whole point of getting it. away and having a vacation? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. No, I would, I would, I'm envious. I would absolutely love to do three weeks in Japan, especially they're doing it right, because they're going to all sorts of different places, Osaka, and I think they went to Hiroshima, and, you know, they bounced

all around the country, and I think that's the way to do it. Yeah. It's different. All up and down that island, you know, all up and down that big old peninsula, straight, whatever you call it, thing. The whole island is correct. Yeah, it's kind of a big old lengthy one. Out of islands, actually, yeah. Yeah, it's like Hawaii, but bigger and cooler with more video games and anime. Exactly. Awesome.

Well, I see Tanner, oh, is Tanner actually trying to be in today's game? Let me just double-check something here. Oh, that'd be funny if he is. Oh, he's stained out over Shibuya Crossing. What? What? I don't know what that is, but it should be a crossing. That's the giant zebra crossing where, um,

crosswalks. I'm sorry, I have to call it different things because I am a robot. I cannot identify crosswalks. Oh, the big one they always see with the tons of people. That you always see with thousands of people all like intersecting to go different directions in this crosswalk. So hold on. He's in a hotel overlooking that? Yes, sounds like it.

Oh, that's cool. I mean, it's midnight. He better be in a hotel room. I hope he's not just sitting on the edge of a building. Well, I hear tale of a drunken train exploit. So maybe he's recovering from that. I don't know. Anyway, well, good luck.

Oh, look at kitty. Kitty appearance, everyone. Are you at home listening on audio? You're missing out on this cat. She's the one that likes Brian. Fuzziest cat ever. Yeah. She likes Brian.

Fuzziest cat in the world. Doesn't like Tina. Doesn't like anybody else. Warm video pinball table, all these things. Do you want to get on the pinball table? You want on the pinball table? You want on the pinball table? Yeah.

Get the warmth in there. as I tangle my headphone cord around her leg why not why not indeed uh hey good news about the morning form we usually do on Mondays we're extending it a week oh really yeah we're extending this week's contest one week because I was at no time to repair the new one you really got slammed this uh these last few days yeah the last few days have been

very very busy I have a I have a niece living with us for another four days she's been here since Wednesday oh wow So there's that. Just a lot going on. Carter's been sick. She's finally feeling better. But now she's running around like crazy. Kim's got a million things going on.

It's just a lot. We did family pictures yesterday. Oh, quick shout out to the weasels that were waiting for their chance to do photos. I got to tell this real fast. I wasn't going to put it in the notes. I didn't put it in the notes. But I'm annoyed by this group. So there's this group of skaters.

Yeah. Well, okay. Here's the way the story goes. Cart Taylor says, we're wearing these. colors and we're going to this place. Be there at six. Like, sweet. Great. We'll be there. Taylor's always in charge of family photos every year. So we're all wearing

the color she told us to wear. We drive downtown. It's right in the center of town and it's up on top of a building. It's like a parking building that's in the middle of the financial district. But what's cool about it is up on top, it has this like cool 360 panoramic view of all these

other buildings and the mountains behind those. It's like a perfect shot or place to do like, we're getting married photo. or, you know, whatever. People do photos up there all the time. It's kind of a known place by photographers locally. Cost you $10 to park, fine, whatever, and then nobody's up there.

And it was raining that day, so we figured there would be extra nobody up there, all right? Okay. So we come pulling around this thing. It's the very top. So it's about eight loops to get to the top of the parking garage. Okay. And Kim's driving and doing this loop,

and we get up to the final loop. And as we're about to make the turn, some skater kid comes flying out in front of us in this otherwise abandoned space. Nobody's up here. And it almost gets hit. Kim's, now she's pissed. She's like, what the frick?

What the hell? Anyway, we get out of the car and they're off on their own doing their own little skater pictures. Somebody's taking pictures of them doing like all these and, you know, just stupid skater stuff. It's fine, whatever. It's, maybe it's an album. I don't know what they're doing.

And we go do our thing. We got all the kids and the babies are there and Ripley's with us. So we've got dog pictures and all the stuff. We signed up for the whole thing. Taylor's got a photographer there that she does trade with, so she'll do her family ones next. And anyway, so we're all doing this thing. About halfway through the process,

I noticed those kids and one tall, bald man, not of no offense, but he just looked out of place. He looked like he was like, wait, who's this guy? I'm wising with these kids. That's fine. It's totally fine. He was like, yeah, he was like their manager. I don't know what he was.

But they're all over there now looking at us with, like daggers in their eyes. Oh, no. And we're like, what's the problem? We don't know. Well, just keep doing it, do the photos, do this. And they kept going like this. I'm like, really?

What is this? I mean, we almost got one of you killed. What's the problem now? Yeah. And then when we finally finished up, they were like looking really pissed. And it turns out they were just waiting for the little, the little space we were in, they wanted

for the graffiti that was back there. Gotcha. Oh, gotcha. Which is fine. It's fine. It's just fine. But we got there first and we had photos. take and what you who reserved who's in charge of reserving the part of the parking garage well here's

the funny bit if you're going to get there before us and almost get yourself killed by jumping in front of the car you'd think you'd have your spots all mapped out before we got there so maybe go take the spot you're looking for before we arrived because we just it was easy they were over they were down doing other shit so we just went up there to do our thing so by the time we left I was like uh I thought, well, I'm not going to leave this like pissy. So as I'm passing bald guy, I go, hey, sorry, that took so long to them, right? Just kind of to smooth things over. And I was hoping he would do like a George Costanza where George is all pissed the ladies on the pay phone.

And then when she says, sorry, that took so long. And he goes, oh, that's fine. It's okay. After he's been freaking out for him. Right. He's been fuming. Yes, exactly. I thought maybe I'd get one of those.

Nope. Nope. He was pissed and steely. He looked at me with his. eyes all squinted and kept walking. It's like, oh, whatever. Yeah, he was mad.

So anyway, it was dumb. I hated it. That's all right. Now, whenever you look at that photo, the photos you're talking, you're going to be remembering, like, remember we pissed off those skaters? Yeah.

Remember those skater kids? Losers. Yeah. And I like skater kids. Skating's cool, man. Yeah. It's radical. Go skate.

Vital revivalist nails it. I'm surprised Kim didn't rope them into the frame. Don't get it. I'm surprised Kim didn't say, come on, get in the photo with us, guys. I think she was still mad for almost running one of them over, I think. Oh, yeah.

It was half in there. But anyway, it was dumb, and it was all crazy, and there was a million things going on. It was just hard to manage it all. And then they were just pissy anyway. It's like, all right, you're fine. We're all lucky the rain stopped long enough to do any of this. Can't we all get along? Exactly.

We live in a society. Plenty of daylight. Plenty of daylight for your photos. Anyway, and then another weird thing this weekend that I didn't expect, speaking of in-laws and your time at the little trip there, I had to see my mother-in-law on Sunday we did Father's Day early because some people are going to be out of town next week. So we decided to get on her side of the family

when everybody was hanging out over there. And her mom greeted me with a big wet kiss on the cheek. Oh my God, wet? Like she had just furiously licked her lips to get them extra. They were pretty wet. Saucy. Or she just drank something maybe. She was moist from the juice she was drinking.

I don't know or what, but anyway, big mother-in-law lips on the side of my face. And she's never done that before. Interesting. Did she leave a lipstick mark? No, she didn't have any lipstick on. Okay. But the whole night, it's all I could think about. It's like, why did she do that?

I said, Kim, did you, did your mom, like, kiss you when you walked in? No. I'm like, she kissed me on the cheek. She'd never done that before. on my big stubbly cheek just like mehre and I was like okay new level here

new gender new relationship deal I got to manage I don't know right oh great great great yeah I didn't like it I was what I'm saying I didn't like it at all

and I like my mother and that's fine I make a teaser and stuff and she's uppity and silently racist and lots of other problems but I get along with her you know I'm nice to her she's nice to me

we're fine we know what our boundaries are but what was that and then oh and then another little not as gross, but a little bit of a peck on the cheek on the way out. Aw. I don't know, dude. That is gross. Aw, I mean, come on.

She's, you know, this is, this is her saying, hey, I love that you married my daughter. I appreciate you. And, moi. I wish she just said, I love you and I'm glad you married my daughter and then didn't kiss me on this. Yeah. About a fist bump. Yeah, just a little fist bump or something. I mean, it's fine.

I'm just not used to it. If this is how she always had been, whatever, I wouldn't even think twice about it. It's not like it's gross. She's been watching a lot of European TV. She's starting to adopt the French way of saying hello, and we're all going to have to start getting used to it. Oh, maybe. But I think she hates the French, so I don't think of that's it.

Because they're durn furners. Yeah. Yeah, she holds a lot of old grudges, I think. And the French are in that somehow. Somehow are there. Anyway, how'd your trip go? You had a little get-away. It's fun?

Yeah, we're calling it. We reframed it because out of the 12 or out of the 11 of us. 10 of us live in Colorado and see each other on a fairly regular basis. So we can't really call it a family reunion. One of us, one of the group lives in Texas, and she came up for the trip. But everybody else, right here in Denver. So we're calling it a family retreat, which many of us wanted to do once the food started flying. No, it was, you know, I was really hoping for some wacky stories, but it was a really good, fun weekend.

We've got a great family. It's George and Barb, his four daughters, one of whom couldn't make it. She had a music festival. She was going to in New York. And then two granddaughters, one of which also couldn't make it because she was going to a camp thing. But the other 11 of us had a great time. We took turns cooking. I had breakfast.

I cooked breakfast yesterday morning and then cooked dinner on Saturday night. I'm in charge of doing pizzas every time we do this. because they love the pizzas that I make. They love the dough. I make it from scratch. And they're like, you know, saying this dough, you don't have to leave the crusts on your plate. You eat the dough. You eat the crusts.

I am definitely one of those that would eat any leftover crust, even if someone gross left theirs on their plate. I would still eat crust. But I, yeah, made five pizzas and took over that kitchen and just was like, a pizza making machine. Like one was in the oven. All right, I've got dough making over here. I've got another pizza I'm assembling with toppings. And they're like, Brian, if this podcasting thing ever, you know, doesn't work out, you need to open a pizza place.

Yeah. They get, uh, you get, uh, Guy Fierry out there helping you out. That's right. Oh, yeah, Flavor Town. Brian and, Brian and Guy, Bibbing Guy. Uh, pizza town. That's right. He would tell you.

He would say that he would say that, he would say, flavorville, exactly. And he would say it's, uh, your food is gangster, he would say. Oh, this is off the hook. Off the hook. Off the chain. Yeah, the cheese just mixes just right. This is so good, I almost drop the sunglasses that I have, for some reason, attached to a rope around my neck on my forehead.

Yeah, those things are always precariously perched, I've found. Exactly. Fun though, I would eat one of your pizzas. We should make you in Vegas one year, just make a pizza. That's the problem is there's not really, you know, I guess we could do an Airbnb off-strip and I could cook pizzas out there, but... It would be hard to do in the hotel. It would be hard to do in the hotel room.

I guess middle of summer, I just hold the uncooked pizza outside for a minute and it's done. Yeah, just lay it on the sidewalk in August. It'll be fine. We never got to ticket to ride or clank. I was really hoping to play some clank with at least Tristan and a couple other people. But we were busy nonstop. But we did get, we played a bunch of code names. Great game if you've got a large group of people because you just.

just have to divide up into two teams, laughing our heads off at some of the clues people are giving. And then we played this game called Telestrations, which is, I don't know if I described it, but you can have up to 12 people, and it's basically the game of telephone with drawing. So you get a word, you draw it, you pass that to the next person. They look at your drawing, flip over the page, and write down what they think it is. They pass it to the next person. They pass it the next person who looks at what the person wrote down, flips it, and then draws it, and you basically go around the entire table, and then at the end you kind of flip through and look and see what everyone did. It's less of like a, how do you score points kind of thing?

Because you can't, really. But it's hilarious, and you start laughing your heads off looking at the directions that things went awry for your drawings. Everybody timed each time? yes yeah you basically you time the drawing parts you don't time the the the writing down guesses part but everyone you know just got to look at it and but if you're drawing you got you got like a what is it like one of those sand things two minutes i think you have two minutes to do your drawing okay yeah that makes sense i got to play this it sounds awesome it's it's fantastic it's such a great party game and again one of these where if you've got a big group of people it's a super easy um to explain the rules i just explained it in 30 seconds

which I don't even think half-asses takes that little amount of time to explain. You don't have to have drawing skill to be really good at it. Everybody gets to draw and guess, and just had such a great time. That's great. I want to play that game. I'm going to get it. Illustrations, right? That's the name.

Illustrations. So yesterday we've packed up, we've cleaned up as best we could in the Airbnb. We're ready to go. We decide, hey, let's take it. a quick group photo out on the balcony with the trees behind us. He's really tall, this forest right behind us. And so we get out there. I lean my camera. I basically said, okay, so right where Tristan's standing is the right edge, where Jackie is standing is the left edge. Everybody kind of arrange yourself in there. And then I'm going to set the timer for 10 seconds. I'm going to

come over and join you guys, and then we're going to have the picture. Right. So I set everything up, lead it up against a drinking cup and kind of looking at the frame and like all right this is this everybody's in here good perfect hit the button go around getting get in the picture standing there picture comes out we glance at it it looks fine to all of us we hop in our cars and we start driving home oh no and then i get a text yesterday afternoon from barb hey brian can you photoshop me into the photo it's your aunt barb and we look at the photo yeah and she is directly behind one of the other people, and all you see is her hat. Wow.

And it's basically like, if you can't see the camera, you should know, the camera can't see you. Yeah. So you're going to do that? You're going to Photoshop her. I have to figure out how to Photoshop Barb's head into the photo somehow without making your look, because we're all kind of clustered together, and it's not like I can separate two people and put Barb in the middle. Exactly.

I actually have to make her appear above, and she's going to look like a giant. Yeah, she either has to be way above or you've got to put her out in front somehow. Like, none of it's going to look right. Yeah, yeah, exactly. My thinking is I'm actually going to do a version where I replace everybody's head with Barb. I have a bunch of photos of Barb. I'm just going to like... That's a great idea.

A bunch of Barb's all looking around. Yeah, you 100% should do that as a joke. Yeah, why not? You got the new beta. Do some generative barb fill. Some generative barb fill. Oh, we had so much fun. with that, like playing

around with photos, I pulled out the laptop and said, hey, let's play around with AI for a few minutes. Yeah. And just, you know, selecting a big chunk of empty area in a bicycle photo and saying put in a space window and it creates this window to space and it looks,

there's a shadow and you can see through it and all that stuff. It's pretty crazy what they're doing with that. Really is. Yeah, it's intense. I know they're, how far are they, I don't know when the real release is, but the beta is probably going to go for a while. I have no idea. But, yeah, but the beta sure is working well, so. There you have it then.

Go generate your fills, everybody. There you go. Somebody generate Phil. This is the hot new Netflix show. All right. Well, there you go. That's our weekend. You know, we all had a good time.

Everything was fine. You all had a good time. Yeah. I promise next weekend, next Monday, coming back from Vegas, there's going to be some wacky stories. I promise you. Well, it's because you're going to Vegas. That's how it works. Go to Vegas.

Yeah. It's included in the price. Nice. Well, skater kids be damned. Sloppy mother kisses be damned. We're going to do the rest of our show today. And the fun part is we're going to bring somebody in for this. This here deal.

And because he's in Japan, I'm going to cheat a little. Also, he was third, so I'm actually not cheating. I'm going to see if I can get Tanner in here. And we'll make him today's thing because he was third caller anyway. And, you know, he's in Japan. I don't know if he's going to answer now, though. He's showing offline. That could be trouble.

Tanner, if you can... It is the right thing. Oh, Brian went crusty. I don't know why. Oh, probably because he's in Japan. It's weird. Here, let me put us right here. Hey, hey, Tanner, what's going on?

Are you in Japan? What's going on? We are in Japan. Oh, my gosh. Are you, so are you okay with the locals, the authorities? You haven't done anything like, oh, that American up the road. He's really fouled up this time. We're deporting him or any of that?

You're all good? And no run-ins with the police, although we did have one incident. We were coming back from Nagoya, heading back to Osaka, and we got on the women's-only train, and it took only three stops to realize that we were the only males on this car. They have a women's-only train? Yeah, like... That's so sexist. Sexual harassment is like a huge thing here.

Like, you can't turn. off your camera shutter sound while you're here because people are like trying to sneak pictures of girls so there's like train cars that only women can get on well me and Alex being the dumb foreigners like jump on the closest train car and looked around and we're like we're the only guys on here yeah did anybody say they probably know you're just American tourists and you don't know they kind of looked at us and I mean no one ever says anything like even if you do something wrong they just kind of look at you but everyone's so polite and really nice

and when you look lost they'll like come and help you like it's been awesome it's the most polite culture that Tina I've ever experienced except for that thing where it requires a separate train for the women because the men don't stop harassing the men or the women well yeah there's the impolite men

that necessitated a female a women only train yes that's just wild to me I never even heard of that but I guess I don't know every culture's got their problem all right everyone's got it pink like is the car pink? There's like a

it is there's like a pink sticker on the floor and then on the windows but like the train was about to pull away so we just like ran and jumped on because if you miss it you have to wait like 10 minutes for the next one. You know what you should have done

here's what you should have done when you realized what had happened when everyone's looking and you and you realize you're the only men on the train you should have gone you should have done that does that train car always have to stop for directions by the way yes they ask frequently it asks frequently the men's train just goes on and gets lost all night

right doesn't want to stop that's fantastic what a weird thing thank you for teaching me something new about the japanese culture today nicely done someone in the chat says it's true in mexico city as well so that's interesting send your emails to me i'll take your emails it's a joke it's a joke You know, as in like I get done making the joke. Oh, that's so sexist, then I make the, you know, sexist joke. Sure. So anyway, hey, look, we're going to bring you into the game today. We're going to have some fun with you.

Oh, I've got to play this. Yes. We've got music and everything. Hey, it's time for the, normally we do half-asses, but instead we're going to do a little over-under and you're going to be a part of it. Brian's going to explain the rules and what Tanner could get out of all this. Well, yeah, I will. It's time to play Tadpool Highlo.

I'll ask Scott a question that has a number for the answer after he gives his guess. Tanner will determine or guess if the actual answer is higher or lower than the answer that Scott gave us. If Tanner gets three out of the five questions right, he gets a prize package that includes XMorph, Defense Complete Pack, and Monaco. Ooh, Monaco's good. I don't know what that other one is, though. I don't heard of it, Monaco's great. I don't either, XMorph. XMORF. Defense Complete Pack. Yeah, Monaco's good.

Cool. I think there's a sequel or one coming. It's a rad little game. And Tanner, you like games. You'll be happy to win these things. Yes. Yes. All right. If you're ready, then Scott, I'm going to give you your first question. On average, hey, it's another, it's another equality question. On average, what percent of land in ancient Sparta was owned by women? What percent of land in ancient Sparta was owned by women? I'm going to guess it's higher than I would think, because I think Spartan women, were kind of propped up as awesome because they probably were.

Yeah. It wasn't madness. This was madness. Let's do, uh, I'm going to say, I'm going to say 50%. 50%.

50% is incorrect. Tanner is the actual number higher or lower than 50%. Uh, I'm going to go with higher. Higher. Tender says higher. the actual answer is just a tiny bit lower 40%.

Oh. Yeah, Spartan women could run businesses, drive chariots, and exercise in the nude in Sparta. Wow. Exercise in the nude. In the nude. That wasn't a place called The Nude, like a club or something. Oh, yeah, no, it was the nude. Yeah, exactly.

Where are you going to, I think I'm going to go to the nude. I'm going to the nude tonight. Do some cardio. It's leg day at the nude. They're giving two for one. monthly subscriptions at the nude. That's right. Bring a friend at the nude.

Yep. All right. Well, that's all right. That's all right. You still have four chances to get three right. I think you can do it. I know you can do it. Question number two.

How many weeks did Macarena spend at number one on the Billboard Hot 100? That's the one. Um, how many weeks? How many weeks? It was on the top of the billboard charts for more than one week. How many weeks? Was it at the top of the charts? I'm going to say 28 weeks at the top.

28 weeks is incorrect. Tanner is the actual answer higher or lower than 28. I'm going to go with lower. That's a good answer. Yeah, lower is correct. 14 weeks on the charts. Some radio stations played it on a 24-hour loop four weeks. Hey, macarena.

Chatroom has the actual answer, which is too many weeks. Too many weeks is the actual. Yes, I would have also accepted two. many weeks. Yeah, that sounds about right to me. All right, you got one and one. Just need two more. Let's give you one more here.

As of 2018, boy, this is appropriate. As of 2018, what percent of the U.S. population has listened to a podcast? Whether it's ours, whether it's Joe Rogan, whether it's This American Life, what percentage of the U.S. population has listened to a podcast? I'm going to say, as of 2018, that's an interesting year. As of 2018, yes. I'll say, uh, 30 percent, 30. 30 percent.

Uh, that is incorrect. Tanner is the actual number higher or lower than 30 percent? Based on my coworkers, I'm going to go slightly higher. Slightly higher is very good. It's a very good way to go. 44% just number half. The average podcast listener tunes in to about seven shows per week. And for us, that's just ours.

Yeah, that's just us. Yes. So that's interesting. I was trying to think if there would have been any other, anything that would have made it beefy or post-2018, but it's probably the same numbers now or roughly. I'll bet it's the same, yeah. I'll bet, you know, there's probably a slow increase just as people tune away from radio and tune into their own media. I could see that. Maybe, maybe, I don't know, pandemic may have boosted that. I don't know. I'd be curious. Oh, I'll bet. Yeah. Well, I think 80% of white men have created a podcast. And they're all true crime podcasts. yet. That's right. Exactly. All right. Tanner, you're doing well. All you need is one more, and you've got two questions to do it.

Here's your first one. On average, how many tail feathers does a peacock have? How many tail feathers? And I know you're thinking yourself, well, let's see. There's red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. Yeah, must see TV right there. That's right. Exactly. Um, I'm going to say, oh, uh, 78 feathers. 78, 78 is incorrect. Tanner is the actual number higher or lower. Peacock tail feathers, higher or lower than 78. This would be the female, I believe, right?

Because the males are boring. The female has all the females. No, the males are the colorful. Oh, is it the other way? The males have to attract the females. It's almost always the opposite with Bert. No, it's not, because some male birds have to do all the dancing and shit. Yeah, male birds are usually the more brightly colored ones than the females.

They just don't ask for directions. They just don't ask for directions and they get lost. That's why you see a bunch of geese going, eh, eh, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Dicks. No, I'm driving now. Let me take the lead. All right.

You're saying the actual number is higher. It is higher. It's almost double, what Scott said, 160. Damn. Without their trademark, I spot feathers. the boys have no luck with the girls. Oh, that's a shame. And that is a win for Tanner.

We still have one question left. Let's ask it anyway. Yeah, let's do it. In miles, what's the record distance run by a human in 24 hours? So you've got 24 hours. You're just running. And how far do you get in 24 hours? I will say that this is as of, where am I glass?

I can't find my glasses. oh my gosh how will you see how will you see there's a very tiny writing that says as of when this thing was oh yeah you need those for that stuff I know I do it's like hell even with my my surgery things I need those for that stuff there we go

there we go found him I took him on the trip you see yeah so they were in my bag sure sure gotta read them rules this is as of 2018 okay

24 hours, how far did someone run? I'm going to go. I'm trying to think of the human body's capable of doing. I assume stops for quick water grabs and junk. Probably. But probably not stopping for a meal and a sleepover. But it doesn't matter. Maybe a meal, but not a sleepover.

Yeah, it doesn't matter, I guess, because it's still about how many miles in a short amount of time. So I'm going to say 248 miles. in that time 248 is incorrect Tanner is the actual answer higher or lower than 248 I'm going to go with the lower

that seems like a lot it is a lot it is lower it's 189 miles which is still an average of about 8 minutes per mile for 24 hours straight oh my gosh that is crazy though yeah can you imagine 189 miles but that

you got that one you didn't need it but you got it anyway and you've won our prize is congratulations. Tanner, you're getting a copy of X-Morph, Defense Complete Pack, and Monaco. I'm just going to actually put these right in your message them to you right now. Yeah, stick them in the Discord there. That's perfect.

Oh, Tanner, I'm so glad you won. Let's let Fletcher congratulate you. Congratulations. You're a winner. Have you heard anyone there go? Kone da! While you were there, has that happened? No, nothing?

No, Tetsuo, yelling at the top of his lungs or any of that? No. really nobody yells everyone's very quiet and reserved yeah uh yeah i haven't heard any screaming you have you heard any um okay i got one more for you have you heard oh i lost it i used to have this here can't find it never mind i had a i had zelda making a scream noise and clearly they don't do there are special places you can go in japan just to scream or get screamed at i believe oh you just pay yeah you just pay and you can get screamed at by something you get on the the ladies only train and uh that's right

It just takes one lady who's not having it to scream at you. So my presumption is that there's a lady's only train and that means there's a men's only train, but that also implies there's probably still a mixed train. There's mixed trains. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Why does that imply that there's a men's only train? There's not. I think it's just a only train.

There's not. So if you choose as, I guess, it still gets to my point. If the woman chooses to go on the mixed train, she can do that. Yeah, yeah. But this other thing's there as a way to avoid all the perves, right? Exactly. Exactly, like, yeah. Yeah, they're weird.

I watched a documentary once where on the train, you know, it's all packed in there. It's like sardines. Yeah, yeah. And there was a dude who was an executive, high up executive at like Nissan or something. And he just sat there the whole time wedged in there reading a comic book called Rape Man. Oh, God. Yeah, which was just this whole story about a guy that ran around raping everybody. And it was just like normal, you know?

I was like, oh, yeah. We've seen so many people, we were actually crammed in a train today, and you're like, you know, nuts to butts up with people, like crammed in their like sardines. And so many people are reading like really weird manga and completely normal. Yeah. Yeah. You know, Tristan, I noticed that too. Like, we'd look over at somebody's manga that they're reading.

It's like, oh, well, there's nudity right there. Okay. Well, just right there on the train. Yeah. Also, I've never heard the term nuts to butts. Thank you for that. I appreciate that. That's about up with people is my favorite traveling American side show.

Yeah, it's pretty good. Well, well done. It's always good to also hear from me, and I'm glad you're having a great time. What a whirlwind three weeks. I guess you leave in like 24 hours or something, right? Yeah, I actually just checked into our flight. We leave in 24 hours, and as soon as we get back, I will send you your pocket papers. Oh, that's right.

He got some stuff that we're little nerves about. I looked it up. It fortunately does not have to do with cockroaches, but I'm still nervous about it. Yeah, I'd be nervous. But I don't know anything about it. So I'm just going to, you know, I'm going to wait until I get it. Yeah. Don't do it on the show.

Don't spoil it. And even when I looked up, won't spoil it because it's, oh. Yeah. Did you see, sorry, this is a weird question. Did you see Spider-Verse while you were there or no? No. I really wanted to. I guess a lot of, like, American movies are in English.

Yeah. I guess we couldn't, but we just hadn't had any time. Yeah, that's the reason I ask is Carter and her whole Fubar in the Netherlands. They thought they were English with subtitles, and instead it was all in Dutch, and she didn't speak that, obviously, so she had to leave. But I was curious if it was like that in Japan or if they were all subs or what the deal was. But anyway, when you get home, dude, you got to see that as soon as you can. It's so good.

Oh, I know. I've heard a really good thing. So good. Tanner Goodman, everybody. He's awesome, and you should know him. And you can do that by joining our Discord and just talking to. him he's a cool dude helps us run things over there uh so uh do that and join us over at frogvance dot com slash discord have a safe trip home and uh don't take any uh naked manga about raping people

don't be doing that don't you tell me what to do that's the old phrase stay out of the naked manga yeah all right good idea always a good idea well done that was fun uh let's get into this right here It's time for today's news, and it's brought to you by. Hey, Scott, I sure wish there was a way to get you and John's core commentary on the Xbox and Starfield event. Is there a way? Oh, my gosh. That voice choice, I didn't expect it.

I know. I know. I didn't think you were, yeah. It's really nice. Yeah, we, John and I yesterday at 11 a.m. Mountain Time, they did the full Xbox event. We've had the PlayStation event a couple of weeks ago. This is kind of E3 time. There is no E3 time.

So this is when all the companies do their stuff today. Ubisoft does their forward event. I think tonight is something with Capcom. Anyway, there's a lot of stuff going on. But the Microsoft one was a big one. The Xbox and the Starfield extended thing. And we watched that whole thing. I did a full commentary track on it, both video and audio.

It's all up there and available. So if you listen to Core, you already know it. If you don't, check it out. FrogPants.com slash Core. I really like doing those commentary tracks with John because we crack each other up. and it's way more fun than those things are normally. They're kind of boring normally. So tune in and check it out.

It's like, you know, it's like the film set commentary. You take something that normally would be just horrible to do on your own and. Yeah. Have some fun. Exactly. So go check it out. That's frogpans.com slash core for details. Let's get into it.

A couple stories here. I think we have time for him. A Houston Zoo Elephants or the Houston Zoo Elephants. You've ever been to the Houston Zoo? My favorite team. Oh, you like the elephants? I don't think they had a... I like the Houston Zoo Elephants, yeah.

They're in a rebuilding year, but... Yeah, not a great year for them, but... You ever been, though, to that zoo? It's supposed to be a good. I don't think we have. We've been to Houston. We went there a lot when my dad and stepmom were living there, but I don't think we ever went to the zoo.

Yeah, this is supposed to be one of the better zoos. I've never been either, but I've heard good things about it. Anyway, the Houston Zoo Elephants take daily yoga classes to stay limber and healthy. Do we just lose a bunch of Texas things? Downward-facing Pachyderm. Yeah, they're going to start calling this place, woke, I guess, or something. Is that what we do?

It's what we do now, right? It's whatever there's something that somebody does that's weird to us. It's new and different. They're just woke. Oh, they're woke. Elephants are woke, man. Well, that person's reading manga on the subway. He's woke.

All women trained? Oh, woke. I don't look at dirty manga unless it's 3 a.m. on my computer. exactly anything else is woke anything out of the norm to me woke that's right uh let's see houston zoo elephants uh like have you ever seen him do a handstand or anything like that you ever seen at it like probably like a uh circus i've seen i've seen elephants get up on their hind legs yeah you know and and do that for a second but uh no no not so uh well this elephant name this elephant

name test does this every day uh for 40 years she can lift her own 6,500 pounds body weight on her front two legs. That's all part of her daily workout routine. She's definitely our most flexible, says Kristen Wendell, the Houston Zoo's elephant manager. I want to be an elephant manager. So bad. No kidding. I used to be

an elephant middle manager and there was just no growth. I hit the glass ceiling and I just couldn't go anywhere. And then they want you to be elephant regional manager. And then you deal with too many people in that job. I don't want to do that. That's right. Yes, exactly. All 12 members of the elephant heard do multiple training sets, though Tess is the only one that can do the handstand.

She's currently the toughest one. I'm amazed that an elephant can do a handstand. That is crazy. They do elephant yoga sessions every day as routine health checks, it says, quote, so this is the time where we see everything about them. Wendell says, we get a good look at their skin. We check their feet. We check their mouth. But we also get a good look at the range of motion they have and how they're moving so we can know exactly how they're feeling by these training sets. So anyway, kind of a fun, feel-good story there. The photo, the photo of Tess doing the headstand is just

amazing. And also if you kind of pretend you don't know what you're looking at and you just imagine it's an alien creature you have to fight in a video game, it's really kind of cool. Yeah, it works, right? It's like a weird Final Fantasy gun. I'm going to get you.

But I don't see your eyes. It's my butthole. That's pretty cool. That is really cool. cool, actually. How did it? 6,500 pounds. Good Lord. Oh, look at them all. That's cute. Hey, do you know that, I don't know what this reminded me of this. I think it's because it's a big, a big animal with prehistoric origins, but Jurassic Park is 36 years old today. 36? No, no, no, wait. No, no, 30 years old. No, it was 93. So, so 30 years

is all. Wow. So that's a bit. It's a big number. It's still a lot. It's quite a a lot, yeah. It's a whole hell of a lot. Yeah. A man got fired from his job for taking toilet breaks for six hours a day, every day. If he's working an eight hour day, that is

not good. That's hilarious. Wow. I feel like I would I think he maybe deserved to be fired. I think he deserves both getting fired and the hemorrhoid problem that I'm sure he has from just going and sitting down on the toilet playing Candy Crush for

six hours. That's right. It's a man in China, according to the Laudong Daily. Do you ever go there? No, never went to the Laudong Daily. That's a great, fun name to say. It did the Laudong Gazette, but no, it was... Not the daily, yeah. It was a competing paper. They printed in the same place, but they were competing. Yes, yeah, it was a J-O-A joint operating agreement. Yep. The Chinese court recently ruled that the daily toilet breaks of the man surnamed Wang. We're not within reasonable and normal psychological needs. He says, That's a weird way right in that sentence. Yes.

Even though he cited health concerns as the reason for them. He had six hours is too much. We're not reasonable and normal psychological needs, physiological needs. I think they have rules there. Like, if you were spending an hour in there a day, that'd probably be grounds for firing here. But I think over there it's like, I think it'd be really hard to lose a job.

You'd have to do stuff like stay in their six hours. Yeah, right? I mean, I think... Or kill somebody or something. If you do this anywhere, you do six hours of toilet breaks, I think you're going to get fired anywhere. That's true. I just think you'd get away with less here, you know?

Or more, sorry. If I, okay. You get away with more. I think you could probably get away, like you could add up and maybe get away with two and a half hours at an eight-hour job with toilet breaks. Oh, man. You'd have to really time it right, you know. Yeah, exactly.

You'd have to do it so that the same person who sees you take a toilet break doesn't see you take four toilet breaks right like you just basically want to like oh all right they're out of the room this other person's in you know what i haven't got the bathroom in well i'm really quickly go to the bathroom and then you're going for like 20 minutes yeah 20 minute that's how you do it do it for lockout times that are weird times like 3 o'clock in the afternoon no that's when people are pooping from lunch don't do that yeah yeah maybe like 1130 get in there until about 10 to noon everybody goes to lunch they come back about an hour later they're all feeling a little you know for yeah right you can that one you can kind of expect it's like oh well he just came back from lunch he definitely has to go to the bathroom blah blah blah and then you just yeah you just keep basically doing that's funny trying to be the math for this you got to take your first one though if you have a nine to five job you got to take your first one at 10 or else you're going to miss your like you really got to get into the oh yeah yeah yeah i agree yeah i agree it just depends on where you're at too some some bathrooms or some places your work will have multiple stalls and multiple bathrooms even and that sort of thing but if you're working in some small company

with like a men's and women's and it's you know single little closet for each or you're not going to last long there i don't think no we had that at uh media marking it was it was basically like a um uh we had one men's room one women's room on each floor and it was just a a bathroom like you know it was just uh two two bathrooms on each floor one toilet in each bathroom no stalls or anything it was just basically very noticeable if you had that thing locked up for 20 minutes oh this reminds me of something i'm glad you brought it up yesterday with the kids. After we were done with photos, we decided to go to dinner. We went to a Mexican place we like called La Fountain. La Fountain? Something like that. Or LaFountain? Oh, you've

told us about La Fountain before. Yeah, it's good. It's really good. They make great smothered burritos, family-owned, all this stuff. But something happened, well, two things happened. One, had to go pee, and I don't like any public bathrooms because they're almost always gross. Sure. Unless you're in some fancy place or whatever. Yeah. But this was the cleanest, nicest, most well-kept bathroom I've been in in ages. It was so nice in there. Oh, that's good.

And that's one thing. That's nice enough, whatever, I get out, and I don't think much about it. But then my daughter points out that at this location and two or three others that these families own, uh-huh. Basically, it comes out of this. My daughter, Carter, Taylor, thinks that these are fronts for drug businesses. Really? And the reason she thinks this, the reason she thinks this is because she'll see, like, you watch two guys come in who are just kind of itching and scratching on themselves, they look really gaunt and like they are needing a fix. This is how they looked. A couple of white guys. They come in just scratching an inch and looking at us kind of squirly and just twitching all over the place. They take him in through the back and around some corner. They're there for like 10 minutes. And then they all, then they both come out looking all happy and excited and like itching each other again and walking out of there.

And all I'm saying is, maybe just maybe. Yeah, yeah. You know? And these places are almost always, not empty, but there's not a lot of people there. So I don't think they're booming, but they're keeping a really nice bathroom. They've got a really nice, everything else. The food's nice. It feels like a front for something.

There's a Japanese, or I'm sorry, a Chinese restaurant around the corner from us that is, it's spelled Heaven Dragon, but we call it the Heven Dragon. Oh, Lord. and uh but it it was definitely a front like you they think they the previous owner got busted because it was a friend for a little drug oh they found out they caught them did they okay a little too much moo in the mu gugu guy pan yeah so it's you know it's like uh the poel pollo loco chicken brothers uh right yo so harmonos yeah like that oh yeah chat's talking about it's like it's remind me of that that feeling of like even though he's even though gus fring was a huge drug lord he ran the place so well

like very efficient how are the friars make sure you're using proper customer you know everything was so not just a front but like a really well run front that's how these Mexican places feel

they feel really well run I don't know I fell out and there's a lady that's always there and I'm always like how are you doing oh I'm doing great I hope you folks are doing great hope you have a great day here and we're going to take good care of you I just part of me is like are you like lady Gus Frank

or something? I want to know. Gistina. Gistina Fring. That's God Gustavarina. I don't know how I'd say it. Either way. So, I don't know if you saw on Showtime, the amazing

show, Your Honor, starring Brian Krantz. Not yet. Starring Walter White, Brian Krantz. Not yet. Now that I have Showtime, it's definitely on my list, but I have not yet. Yes. Season 2 is out, and a few episodes in, he meets up with a guy shakes his hand, says, I'm looking

forward to all the things we're going to do together. And it's the guy who was the the Tio in the wheelchair with the bell. Oh, not Tio. Salamanca. Yeah, Salamanca. The big ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Ding, ding, ding. Yes, it's that guy.

And it's like, oh, look at those two together, shaking hands. Wow, crazy. Oh, my gosh. That's weird. I love that guy. He's great. What's only sad about him is other than a few episodes of Saul and some flashback episodes of Breaking Bad, you only ever had him talking and walking

a very small handful of times and the rest of it was him just going bing bing bing bing and be on his face. Yeah, with the twisted look on his face hitting the bell. Yeah, so it's always just a little weird when he walks out and just starts talking and shaking his hands.

It's just like, oh yeah, right, right. Right. He's an actor who can do stuff that isn't trapped in a wheelchair. Got it. Yeah, he's great. Yeah, Hector. That's right.

I just forget his name. Hector. And yeah, Brian Cranston, retiring planning on retiring in 2026 from acting I thought he said he's just taking I thought you said he's taking a year off as all isn't that what I read

or am I might be mixing Tom Holland and him up because Tom Holland's doing that too the you know what maybe it is maybe it's clarification because I do see Brian Cranston clarifies his comments on retiring in 2026 so I bet you

I'll bet you it's just the headline is he's there we go he's not retiring but we'll take a pause on acting after his 70th birthday in 2026 that's what it is he just wants it he wants to decompress you know take year off yeah nothing wrong with that does that mean that this that show is done now we're no more i don't know i don't know i don't know where uh we're we're we're middle of the season so i don't know how it's gonna end oh boy oh boy holy cow that show is so you never saw the first season no i'm so envious of you getting to enjoy that show i'm excited

see it i want to uh real quick i've almost forgot to mention this, I'll mention it now. I'm going to put this in your Discord here. Okay. I don't want to freak it in my discord. I want to freak anybody out, but researchers studying frog movements with radio pants. Scientists have put tiny pants. Provenous frog pants.

Wow. Look at that. Scientists have put tiny pants on poisonous frogs to track their movements. I don't know if I should sue or be thrilled. I don't know how to film. I know. It's kind of blemishes the frog pants name, really, if you ask me. It's the whole poison.

part you know yeah yeah um anyway what have we brought what have what hath we brought um we're gonna take a break when we come back stephen schliker's going to join us to do a little catch-up with him and uh see what's going on in the world of pop culture comics movies and more that's coming up right after this break with the song that brian brought what is it yeah let's go to binaapolis for this one an indie alt-rock trio that goes by the name yam h-a-us like yam house that's how you want to say it. This is their brand new single. It's called

Sandcastle. Now listen, you're going to be here in this song, and it's going to sound like they're saying a hassle, or I mean an asshole, but they're really saying a hassle. Okay? Okay. All right. Because it rhymes of Sandcastle. It has to be hassle. Too much hassle

living in a sand castle. Except they're not Russian. Anyway, here's the band Yam House from Minneapolis, and their song Sandcastle. The whole world is made of sand I feel it's slipping through my hands It's a shame, it's an asshole

Living in a sand castle I did it right I screwed everything all right I made a wish and it made me feel all right I pray to God that I live another day keep building up this fantasy You won't believe all the energy It took

Every page I was living by the book I never thought that it all would come to this Little Bliss turning into ignorance I tried to make it stay A wave came and washed it all the way The whole world is made of sand I've been a slip in through my hands It's a shame, it's an asshole

Living in a same castle And it's a bunch of fun and games But I don't really want to play Oh it's a shame It's an asshole Living in a sand castle I don't like being stuck up late at night Deadlines never ending in my sight

I'm gonna crash, gonna burn out till the end And wake up and do it all again I can't resist because I like the way it feels I'm a proud little hamster on my wheel Gonna brag by the things I don't it today the scientists keep scribbling away but i'm not ashamed i admit we're all wasting away the whole word is made of sand i feel it's living through my hands it's a shame it's a hassle living in a sand castle and it's a bunch of funny games but i don't really want to play

Oh, it's a shame, it's our soul, living in the same kind of soul. I feel it's living through my hands, it's a shame, it's a asshole, living in a sand castle. And it's a bunch of fighting games, but I don't really want to play. Oh, it's a shame, it's an asshole, living in the same castle, oh yeah. They're holding the dog, they're holding the flashlight, they're holding their sister, they might be holding hands with their loved one, baby, doing the love walk come up. I do that every day. I used to do this in the movies in the 70s.

And the plastic in the aesthetic shield also blocks out abusive rays and assist in the regeneration of cells. I know that must have been an amazing song and I'll find out after the show today, but can you tell people what it was one more time? I can. Again, they're not singing asshole.

That is a Yam Halal. and their single Sandcastle. There's also a new acoustic version you can find on YouTube as well if you really like it and you want to hear it with fewer electronic instruments. They're from Minneapolis. The band is Yam House. Nice. Well, go check it out.

Let's do this now. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dalla Dala Dills, y'all. Hey, it's Steven Schleiker joining us from Major Spoilers.com, a wonderful website that you should all be visiting and bookmarking and using all the time for your hot takes and your great pop culture coverage. Hello, Stephen. Welcome back.

Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hello. Hey, man. It's good to have you here. I hope your weekend was all right. No flooding. No flooding. We actually went out of town. And I'm kind of like you when it comes to public bathrooms in that I despise them. And unless there is a dire emergency, I will refuse to go into a public bathroom. Yeah, same.

I happen to be in downtown Kansas City at the, what is it called, the Arabia Steamboat Museum. I guess they're uncovering a buried steamboat there. Oh. And I had an extreme emergency. And I must say, if anybody is at the Arabia Steamboat Museum, they have the cleanest, a plus rated bathroom I have ever been in. Really? Yelp, five stars. Wow.

It was five stars. I mean, the only thing that was a negative was when I went out to wash my hand. Well, the homeless guy in the stall next. But when I went out to wash my hands, somebody had ripped. off the soap dispenser by the sink, but on the wall, they had one of these little automatic soap dispensers, and it smelled like strawberries. Oh, wow. Wow. Well, lemons and a lemonade. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. You know what? We need more hopeful stories like this, Stephen. No kidding. Give us hope for public bathrooms everywhere. Yeah. I like what Free Ranger says in the chat.

Five sharts would poop here again. Yep, totally. Five sharts. That's the rating scale of shorts. Well, it's good to have you back and to be reminded that we feel the same about bathrooms, public or otherwise. Yep. Let's get into this whole. So I've been hearing, I don't know why there's so much public chatter about this right now, but I guess it's interesting. Hasbro's got a shared universe and it's been happening since 2015. I don't think any of us knew it. Almost a decade, I want to say, I think I was it maybe a few years before that.

I want to say 2013. So we may be in a decade into the Hasbro shared universe. So for people that read comic books, IDW publishing released a whole bunch of. of comic books that had Transformers crossing over with Ghostbusters. So we got introduced to the Ecto 1 transformer car. And of course, Hasbro released a car like that. We've seen Transformers cross over with My Little Pony and a bunch of other properties, including G.I. Joe. And so it's been a decade that we've seen that.

And I only bring this up for no reason. Okay. That's interesting. For no reason. I mean. Wait, for no other, you know, non-related perhaps is that there's a new transformers. Oh, right, right. Yeah, that Transformers, let's check on it today.

Last time I checked it, it was not doing so great reviews-wise. Oh, really? 53%. I mean, whatever. I'm still going to see this one. 91 from audience. Holy crap. There seems to be.

That looks like it's a pretty fun ride, but stick around to the post credits. Oh, so is there a little bit of like... I mean, I'm just not, it has nothing to do with what I just talked about. Okay. Does Hasbro own the Micronauts? Because they, I think they did. Because this was going to be, like, it was going to be Micronauts, ROM, G.I. Joe. Transformers. Oh, G.I. Joe. Yeah, which you mentioned. Yeah, G.I. Joe. And what, My Little Pony as well, right?

Yep. Yep. Really? My Little Pony is part of this. There is a great comic series that is Transformers meets My Little Pony. It is out of this world crazy, but it perfectly makes sense. And it is so funny. Friendship in disguise is what it's called. And the Mexican Cybertron. Look at that. I must know more about that terrible concept. That sounds great. But is it significant in any other sense?

Like, do we now, it's now time to speculate and say what's Hasbro doing? There's somebody in the chat that is like, Brian, wave, when Stephen has stopped spoiling things. So I'm no longer going to spoil things about Transformers and possible G.I. Joe crossover movie. And tell Steve to sit down and watch the in credits the Transformers Rise of the Beast. Yeah, I don't think you've not spoiled anything. You've said nothing spoiling. Tell me this. Like, if the micronauts appear, that's the only thing.

Oh, there's no microns. Go see this. Okay, no. There's no microns. Let's forget it. Brian's not going. Like, if you were going to tell me the end credit sequence features a line of toys that Brian is a huge fan of. Yeah.

Then I'd be like, oh, let me get my, boop, boop, boop, get my tickets today. But if you say that, if you're not saying that, then, nope. Yeah, forget it. But there is a weird thing is, for some reason, I think. thought the last major Transformers movie had the crossover happen already, but apparently I must have imagined all of that. But now the crossover is going to be official.

Okay, now Hasbro also owns D&D, and Hasbro was up front and center in the credits for the new D&D movie, which was really fun and excellent. I love that thing. Are you saying that's also part of somehow? That is one that they have not. I think it's specifically their toy line,

not their game line. And again, this was something that they announced, like, 10 years ago that they were going to do this shared universe, that all the Hasbro stuff exists in the same place. And so then they were like, we're going to launch all these toys that cross over with these other properties and comic books. And potentially, in 2015, they did say that they were going to create a shared movie universe with Transformers, G.I. Joe, and I think one other property. But none of that has come to light until 2023. The basking in the afterglow that was. was the failed attempt to do that over at Universal. Do you think that maybe gave him a little pause and they went,

that probably gave a lot of people a lot of pause. That could have been handled a lot better than the way it was. But yeah, I think that gave some people some pause. But then also, Hasbro has seen toy declines in that same time period as well, as well as comic book declines over at IDW publishing, et cetera. So there are probably multiple things that kind of factored into them slowing down, are people really ready for G.I. Joe and Transformers to cross over? I mean, no, but yes.

I mean, yes. Come on. I love stuff like that. Come on. That would give me. I'm going to say no from the critics. Yes, from me. I would like it. That would be awesome.

Yeah. Real quick here, they also own GoBots. Do you think we ever get a GoBots Transformers combo? Because that'd be cool, right? Because GoBots, they bought them to get rid of the competition, basically. But they're never going to do it. They're never going to do it. Unless you know something that you saw at the end, okay.

No, there was actually a rumor not too long ago, maybe five years ago. Well, maybe a little bit longer than five years ago. Maybe around the same time that they announced this crossover, there was a big rumor that Disney was going to buy Hasbro because they wanted the My Little Pony, G.I. Joe and Transformers toy lines to make money for them. Well, okay, let's do some combining. I've looked at all of their own IPs. we could potentially get a crossover of Mr. Potato Head

and littlest pet shop you know we could do go bots and action man we could do pound puppies and micro machines there's so much possibility here oh all the pound puppies

one of the pound puppies would have to talk really really fast yeah they would you could do Nerf oh my gosh they own Nerf so you could do Nerf and Cludo all G.I. Joe uses

Nerf guns. Yeah, it was basically like the cartoons where nobody ever dies. It's because they were using Nerf guns. Oh, that's the deal. Okay. That makes sense now. Or even like Cluto, you say, just say it was in the ballroom with the spongy darts.

That's right. They could do Magic the Gathering D&D could cross over. They own both those. Ooh, that's probably going to get some people. Oh, no, that would fire people up like nothing else. I mean, that being said, the latest Magic, the Gathering set that's going to be released is the Hobbit. is the latest one. Or Lord of the Rings, which, you know, they're the same thing.

Do you think we're, well, let's jump to it, actually. I want to talk about this. So the little animated, is this spoiled? Oh, Claire, go away. Go away, Claire. You know what? This may spoil something because it's just a, it's a set piece in the movie. And so I don't want people to freak out.

But there's a reference to Lego. There's this thing called a multiverse where anything can happen. Yeah, multiverses. You know how in some recent multiverse movies, Sometimes it's animated. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's like in everything everywhere all at once. Sometimes it's two rocks on a cliff, right?

So you do all this wacky crossover, and they did that with a little bit of Lego, which is a nice Lord and what's his name reference anyway. Lord and Miller. Lord and Miller, because they wrote and directed that movie, the original Lego movie. Anyway, what did you learn about this? What's going on here? So here's the thing. First of all, if you watched it, you were like, wow, that doesn't look like the previous

Lego animations that we've seen in those other two. Lego movies, and that's because those are 3D animated. The Lego animation that you see in Spider-Man across the Spider-Verse is hand-animated, real Lego. Actual animated Lego. Like, stop-motion animation Lego. But not just that.

Not just that. It's not like a team of experts. It's like, let's talk about who did it. Yes, the person who did this, his name is Preston Mutanga, and he is a 14-year-old boy. Awesome. Love it. So cool. He created that segment nights and weekends

after he finished his homework he had previously done a Lego stop motion animation of the Across the Spiderverse trailer when the first one dropped Lord and Miller saw it they were so impressed that they offered him a job to do this Lego segment for the Across the Spider

verse movie I love that so much that's amazing that kid is living his best freaking possible life at the moment no kidding good for him man geez maybe that'll I don't know it'll do something for a kid he'll have a career, you know? Hopefully.

I had to look at both my kids at the lunch table. I said, this kid's 14 years old and look what he's done with his life. Yeah, what are you doing? What are you doing? Yeah, that's always best. Without giving any spoilers, there sure was a familiar voice for Jay Jonah Jameson in there. There certainly was. There sure was.

Well, he does them all, right? He's in the games. He's always in these things. Yeah, I guess he's locked in. Yeah, he's probably not a spoiler. He's forever. He's the forever Jay Jonas, I think. Okay, Brian, you can wave at clear.

get it back in Claire you're fine alright also Rosebud was a sled oh you did a you did a breakthrough event I need to know how this went yeah yeah how was it have you done breakthroughs before I have never seen this I looked to see if they had one of these in Denver and I can't find if whatever it's called

you know obviously there's escape rooms but there's some other name for it and yeah it's not well I thought it was an escape room the boys thought it was escape room my wife is the one that found this and said, hey, let's go do this thing. And we're like, okay. And we thought it was an escape room. But no, you go in and you buy like two hours or four hours time. And you can have teams of two to four players.

You pick your team name. And then you go into these little rooms. And each room is something that has a skill, a physical, a component, a mental component, or a portion of all three. So you go in and you have a set time to do something. So like maybe in one of the mental rooms, you go in and it's trivia. And you get points based on. on whether you answer these trivia questions correctly, but depending on the difficulty level,

you can get more or less points. And so you try to answer as many as you can, try to get the highest score that you can, and you're competing with anyone else throughout the day that also brings their team in. In a physical room, there was a lot of floors lava-type stuff. There's some stuff that was a little bit too physical

where you kind of have to run up this ramp and push buttons as the colors go off. Parkour kind of thing, yeah. Art core kind of thing, which my oldest son loved. He was having all sorts of fun with that. There are puzzles that you have to figure out. Like, the one that I thought was really cool and why I thought you had done this one maybe before, Brian, was you go into a room and you're in a prison cell. And there's writing on all the walls and the number of days that people have been there.

There's a, you know, somebody has written on the wall. Don't press the button. Seriously, don't press the button. And then there's a mirror and it says, start here. And you've got like three minutes to figure out this puzzle. They give you nothing else in these rooms. they're just like a clue like the floor is lava is all that you know about this room you have to pull apart the sink which leads to a door that runs you through a tunnel over these uh pipes and everything you get to another room and in order to get out you have to answer you have to like we lost this one big time when we decided not to do it again but it was like uh Tina and Ray have been in the prison cell the longest and so you have to run back and figure out have they been there the longest then it's like uh Tim has been here the shortest amount of time.

And it's asked you all these questions. You have to find the false question. You have to run back and figure it out. And you have to do it in this time limit. Everything is with a time limit. And it was a lot of fun. It was amazing. So if anybody's in the Kansas City area, it's BRK through is the website.

And it was just an amazing two hours that we had. There's like 30 rooms, 20 or 30 rooms that you can go through. You can go back and do them again. It doesn't add to your point totally. So if you go in and you get zero on a room, You can go back in and read, yeah, you can redo it again. But only your first time through counts for points was. No, no.

So if I go in and we do 50 points the first time we do it and we're like, hey, let's go back in and see if we can get a higher score. If we go back in and get 75, then 75 is the one that they take. But they don't add it. Not 125. Not 125. And if you go back in the second time and you get 10 points, then, yeah, you're kind of scratch. That's your latest one. Oh, this is so cool.

I hope they expand out to Denver. Because even price-wise, unpar with an escape room, really. Yeah, $29 for two hours, $30 per person for two hours or you can do four hours. I would really encourage you to do teams of four instead of teams of two or three because there are some skills challenges that require four people to do it. Sure. And I think some of them, two people I don't think, would be able to score as high, but you're still going to have a lot of fun.

It was a great time. And again, not sponsoring anything. It was just an event that I went to, and I immediately thought of Brian because I was like, oh, this is something Brian would love to do. I mean, I'd seriously consider going to Kansas just to do this. Yeah, well, if you're ever in Kansas City, let's do it. Let's go do that thing. By the way, right across the street from a place called the Jerky Outlet Experience, so do that as well as well as right. We did not go to that.

It's also just down the street, so there's Dick's sporting goods. But this is like the, I don't know if it's the largest Dick's sporting goods in the, in the, in the, region, but I call it Big Dix. Oh, big Dix. And then just down the streets from that is a, is a, I think it's retail outlet. I don't know what they sell there, but it's Menards. So Dix is next to Menards. Oh, Menards.

People like Menards. There's also Shields. I like going through Shields. Shields is like right next door to the breakthrough. I like walking through there. Right off of Highway 69. Yeah. Yep.

I never buy things at Shields, but I'll walk through there anytime. Oh, yeah. It's fun to walk through. Ours has a giant, a Ferris wheel and a giant aquarium. Yeah, that's awesome. It's so stupid because it's like, well, what do you need? I need a backpack for this trip or taken. Cool.

I'll just walk through shields and not spend a dime because everything's too expensive. And find the one that you want and then order it online. And then order it online. Yeah, find a better price online. I hate that, but that's the truth. All right. Well, this is all good. Watch for breakthrough events in your area if they ever expand.

But Kansas City is where you've got to go now. So enjoy that. It's like fat cats here. We have these fat cats places. I don't know if they've expanded, but it's like an arcade bowling. It's boring compared to this. But, you know, everyone's the same thing. Everyone's got their local hoo-ha.

Yeah, we've got, we've got Fat Cats here, too, which has like, you know, the 15 different kinds of games, arcade. Does yours have a theater, a regal theater as well inside, like a movie theater or no? They might have added that. They did have laser tag, and that's probably where they would have put the theater if they did change it. Yeah. Trying to decide whether I'd, we got a brand new one with a theater built in, and I just thought, oh, that could be interesting, but then, I don't know. That place is always a little dirty and gross to me, so I don't know if I want to go. We'll see.

Anyway, well, there you have it. Stephen, anything going on on the site? You want people to know about, or the shows? No, I would still tell people if they want to have a fun experience in World War II, punches Nazis in the face, then check out Critical Hit. It's our Punch Hall Nazis campaign using the Octum Cthulhu rule set. It's a really fun system, and people can go check it out. There's still plenty of time to catch up to where we are this week.

Nice. What about the temperatures are warming up? Do you have any suggestions? Oh, yeah, man. I have had to take the boy to the swimming pool multiple times all around. ready. And even though we're in the water, you can still get super dehydrated. So just remember everyone, as the summer warms up, stay hydrated. Drink pool water. You heard it from Stephen. You heard it. You heard it. I heard it. I heard it. I heard it. I heard it. All right. Bye,

Stephen. That was great. All right. We're done with the show with a final text here from Boolander. Boolander. I like that name. This is a text that came to 801471062. It's a documentary suggestion and he says a Las Vegas connection. Independent Lens on PBS is streaming something called Storming Caesar's Palace. Might be too much for your TMS audience, but I think you and Ibit would be open to a new angle on the city. I'm curious as to why it'd be too much for the I don't know. Why it'd be too much for the audience, but, um. I'm going to look it up. Yeah, don't fight it on just watch. Yeah, it's just PBS looks like.

If you want your life to get better, you've got to fight for it, watch trailer. Oh, it's like a civil rights thing. But PBS is like one of the easiest things to stream because I think all you have to do is just prove you're in the city that has a public broadcasting. Yeah, that's my memory as well. You don't have to pay or anything, yeah. Yeah, you might have to listen to them to say, part of this is brought to you by the Gates Foundation

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and organizing a massive protest that shut down Caesar's palace. I've never even heard of this. So I'm in. It's very cool. I'll watch this. Thank you, Boo Lander. Hey, yeah. Anytime you want to tell us something that's cool, Boo Lander, I'll trust you and watch it.

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Hop over there now, patreon.com slash TMS. Sign up today and get all the many benefits that are listed therein. Brian, we're done. We need to play a song, though. Do you have one to play? I will play a song. Yes, Chris wrote in and said, turning the big 5-0 this year oh shit let's party got it so it seemed like a good time to

finally get around to requesting a song thank you signed chris uh his request was any version of cold play's viva levida although um by the way like how he says any version of cold plays viva levita then parentheses cold play though i prefer upbeat a little bit a little extra cold play in there too cold. Upbeat, I got your upbeat. I got a version of Coldplay's Viva LaVita that sounds like it's from the 80s and done by some new wave band,

which I think you'll really dig. This is version by Joy Electric from their 2009 album, Favorites at Play. Here is Viva LaVita. I used to rule the world Seas would rise when I gave the word Now every morning I sweep alone

Sweep the streets I used to own I used to roll the dice, feel the fear in my enemy's eyes, listen as the crowd would sing, now the old king is dead, only the king. When night I held the key next the walls were closed on me, and I discovered them a castle stand, Upon pillars of sand, pillars of sand I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing Roman cavalry choirs are singing Be my mirror my sword my shield A missionaries in a foreign field

For some reason I can't explain One to go, there was never Never an honest word But that was when I moved the world. It was the wicked and wild winds blew down the doors to let me in, shattered windows and the sound of drums, people couldn't believe what I'll become, Revolutionaries wait

For my hand in a silver plate Just to pop it on a lonely string Oh, who would ever want to be king I hear Jerusalem bells ringing Roman cavalry choirs the same Be my mirror, my sword, my shea A missionaries in a foreign field For some reason

I can't explain I know San Peter will call my name Never an honest word But that was when I ruled the world I hear of it. Rhinels are ringing, broken cavalry choirs the same Be my mirror, my soul, my shield,

A missionaries and a falling field For some reason I can't explain I know St. Peter will call my name Never an honest word But that was when I knew the world If you like what you just heard, there's a very good chance you will like all the shows on the FrogPants Network. Get more at FrogPants.com. The first thing you'll see when you turn on your set-top box is TV.

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