The Morning Stream - TMS 2484: Embrace the Butter

Episode Date: June 26, 2023

LaPorte Protrusion. I'm Knackered. Giving birth to a marshmallow. I'll Soon Be Naked. Beating Aunt Barb. Laughing Clown level of Pain. How Tall is Mile High Stadium Because I Like Really Wanted to Know. There Will be No Marvel, No Netflix, and No Lieutenant Yar! There were two hills! Charles the Cyst. Bib Convert. Werewolf Of Ohio. Puff Granddaddy Pink-Eye. I'm Cycling up that hill. Beast Nation 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, Laporte protrusion. I'm neckered. Giving birth to a marshmallow. I'll soon be naked. Beating Aunt Barb. Laughing clown level of pain. How tall is Mile High Stadium because I really like wanted to know? There will be no Marvel, no Netflix, and no Lieutenant Yard.

There were two hills. Charles the cyst. Bibcombert. We'rewolf of Ohio. Puff Grandaddy Pink Eye. I'm cycling up that hill. Nation with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. We have the most amazing, which will blow you away at the end of the show.

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Lunch is over. Now back to work. The morning stream. The morning stream. What do you say? Nipple to Nipple Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS.

It's Monday, June 26, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson, and that is Brian Abbott. Hello, Brian. Hello, Scott. Recovered from your ride of 30 miles for charity. Pretty much. Pretty much. 32, Scott, 32 miles.

Holy shit. Clarify. Yeah, let's not short you a couple of miles, man. That's right, exactly. Every mile counts. Let's actually talk about this. You sent me a route link. Let's take a look at this.

I did. This is one we showed on the stream before, which up there has Laporte as like a little, looking like a little exposed wean and balls up there at the top left. Oh, yeah, look at that. Hmm. Yeah. Leport.

Is that a town? Is that a little city? A little town outside of Fort Collins called Leport. Uh-huh. Yeah. Uh, right next to Belland or whatever that's called, Bellevue. I want to know more about this. Vern's place up here on top of the

protrusion. I want to go there. Let's see, Burns Place. I'm probably zoomed in. Oh, up there. Yeah. It's like a Eat at Joe's kind of thing, right? Like a little diner. I like places like that. But this is your actual route. It looks like a big old elephant doing its thing, you know?

It kind of does, yeah. It's a, so this is the route. This is you see the route there along the top. And then on the bottom, as we talked about last week, you have the elevation as you go. And we talked about the hills and said, oh, wow, these are some pretty serious hills.

Brown, wow, these are crazy hills. I kind of forgot that mile 10 or mile 9 and a half or whatever it is 9, I guess, was a double hill. And so, like, all right, I'm all set for this hill on 10. I'm really going to push. I'm going to do it. And I'm zipping up the hill. I'm passing people. I'm passing other riders.

Power and strong. And I'm just like making up the hill. Top of the hill comes. and there's some people staying there, stand at the top of the hill right in front of this big curve, and I'm like, oh, no, you know, I figure, I'll rest on this nice downhill for the rest of this, for the rest of this, you know, the ride here coming down off of this thing.

A nice little downhill, I'll rest there. And then you go around the curve, and it's like, oh, crap, it was a double hill. And I poured out everything out of my tank for the first hill in that double. Completely forgot that it was. a second hill. So I made it about two-thirds of the way up that hill. And I'm like, along with about a dozen other people are going to walk the rest of the way up this second hill. Nothing wrong with that, man. Nothing wrong with that. If anything, if anything, it makes the

charity even the sweeter because you're just like, it's hard, you know, it's not easy for you. It's not simple. It's not easy. By the way, here we go. Here's the hardware right here. Here's the metal. There's the metal. Oh, that's cool. Is that made of metal? It is made of metal. Nice. Look at that. A nice little, nice little, it's heavy to get some weight to it. Like a little bike gear.

It's cool. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. I love that. A worthy metal. What's that? That's a worthy metal.

It is a worthy metal. It'll go on my wall with the other ones that I've gotten every year. But the thing I was going to bring up was the use of taint butter, which, oh. Right. We didn't discuss this. You're not discussing it at all. Normally part of the discussion, right? We usually have this as a topic.

Yeah, it always comes up as a little discussion because it is, it delights and fascinates, Scott. Absolutely. Did you load up this year, get your Amazon on? So I already had a tube of it from last year. Fortunately, that stuff, as far as I know, doesn't expire. It doesn't, it doesn't. It probably has some upper limit, right? Like years, but you can use it, you know.

Yeah, I think, and I think, you know, you'll know when it's conditional. yield into a solid that that's probably it'd be you to replace it but so I we drove up there because basically we drove up the morning of the ride as opposed to staying the night and being

up there. Drove up there the morning of the ride I already had my bib shorts on. I love I'm a bib short convert big things to Chuck Robinson for for convincing me to get my first pair and now I have two pairs because like I can't I can't go back to regular

bike shorts. I need bib shorts. Tell me about the bib, yeah, to describe that. Built-in suspenders. Oh. So basically, they're bike shorts that kind of have a built-in suspender. You look like Andre the Giant wearing, because it looks like one of those onesies that where you have your whole bare chest exposed.

Yeah. Oh, those are what's the word for that? Not not, um, ow. It's like a onesie, isn't it? They're a wrestling, there is a better term, yeah. I've heard the term and I can't think of it. But anyway, yeah, I know what you mean. So you got like So you wear, but you wear that, that's like an underneath thing and then you got something

on top of that. I wear it underneath, so I have a jersey over top of that. Right, right, right, right. So, uh, Unitard, is that it? Is it Unitard? I mean, I think of a unitared is like a full legs covered. A lietard. It might be a singlet. Singlet.

I think singlet is correct, yes. Okay. That's correct. Well, that's good. That's a fancy name for a thing like that. So, but I put all. that stuff on and then did the drive up because it's a lot of easier actually i didn't have i had i had a t-shirt on over my bib shorts for the drive and then changed into my um uh jersey bike

jersey once i was up there and um like the where we parked was far away from the port of potty's and tina had to go from the long drive up so i had to wait for her to come back because i didn't want to leave the bike just sitting there unattended sure had to wait for her to come back finally when she came back, I went over there and used the bathroom, didn't think about the fact that I probably should have taken the taint butter, the taint paint with me, the chode butter, the saddle grease, and applied it there. So I'm like, oh, crap, got back to the car. I'm like, oh, shoot, I need to apply the taint butter.

I'm not going to, like, go all the way back to the port of potty. I'll just do it here. So I opened the back door of the car and open the front. door, both on the driver's side, and I stand in the middle of it so that I can't be seen, except by people behind me, and I lift up my jersey, and I take the tube of goo, and I pull out my shorts, and I go, and it's really supposed to go further back than I put it. Basically, without getting graphic, it was a lot more in front than it should have been. Sure.

Stuff made its way to the back. Yeah. And I put in enough that a lot of it made its way to the back. But the problem is that bike shorts and these bib shorts have this thick fabric area around your crotch area. But then to allow airflow, it's kind of like a meshy, lighter fabric around the sides by your legs. Sure. That makes sense. Yeah.

And when I, when I finished applying the, putting in the, squeezing of the tube of tank butter into that area, and then lowered my shirt and closed the doors, I realized that a lot of this white stuff was kind of coming out the sides of my legs on either side of my crotch. It looked like I was giving birth to a marshmallow, like a s'mores marshmallow. up. So I'm like, well, I guess I've got enough there. It's going to be enough for the ride. And you have like slosh and it's like, all right, this is comfortable and cold. Sure, sure.

But it worked, right? Did the jog. It totally worked. Like, that was never a problem. You think about the fact that I'm peddling a little more like with both legs about once every half second, right? Like if I'm pedaling, shoot, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo. And I wrote.

for two and a half hours, I think, is what my... Let me look at Strava here and see what my total ride time was. It's not bad. For 32 miles? It's not bad at all. Yeah, let's see. I'm impressed by that time. Oh, thank you.

I feel like that would take me longer. While you're looking at that, the Fort Collins is where you start, you go out, and then you come back in that same... Yes. Okay, all right. I'm just looking at that. And I didn't understand how there could be

an uphill on the way out of the starting area and an uphill on the way back in. Did you take M.C. Escher Boulevard or what happened there? Yeah, exactly. It's, I don't understand how... There we go. Two hours, 27 minutes

for the full ride. It's pretty good. So I, yeah, I'm happy with... I'm totally happy with that. Average speed, 13 miles an hour. So if you think about, you know, doing that every two two movements of your legs, two pumps of your legs every second for two hours and 27 minutes,

you want a lot of butter down there. You're going to chafe, it's going to hurt if you don't put something down there to kind of smooth the... You embrace the butter at that point. You want the butter. I embraced the butter. I became one with the butter. Apparently so did my shorts. Yeah. You probably absorbed some of the butter, I'm thinking. I'm sure. Oh, it was in my, it was in my skin for sure. You've got some of that butter in his veins this morning? Muchly, yes. Weston Wright asks a very good question.

What is your ride music playlist? Oh, yeah, I always like this. I always like this. I always like this, because you always end up, it always, I feel like it varies year to year. Like, it's not always the same. So what do you do this? It does, but then part of it doesn't. And what I decided is that since there were three legs of the ride, there was a, you know,

there's two stops, two rest stops. And that's when I decided I would change my music. And instead of putting on, you know, I go into Apple Music, and you go under Listen Now and you've got your stations. There's the Brian Abbott Station, which basically it creates a station based on the things you like. That's great, but I'm going to end up with like Joe Jackson's breaking us into a really slow song that will not drive me up the 10 mile double hill. Songs you like, it's just they're not, they're not appropriate for the moment sort of thing. Exactly.

So I need bands that are that relative. for the most part, have good driving songs, good heavier songs that are good for that. So I decided I would just do Apple Music Artist Essentials for all three legs. Foo Fighters Essentials for Leg One. There goes my hero. Which was great. Exactly got me started. All that stuff.

Everlong, My Hero, Big Me, Learn to Fly, all that stuff. All the heads. Second leg was Green Day, got me going with the Longview and the basket case and the American Idiot and all that stuff. Good. But it was also good, like, you know, that's some mellower stuff in there that I thought would be better for the middle leg, holiday. Well, holidays still have your song, Wake Me when September ends, things like that. Sure. And then for the third leg, and this will kind of always be my final leg playlist, is Muse Essential.

because not only are their songs heavy and driving and powerful and that sort of thing. But their lyrics kind of fit it too. Like they've got a song called Dig Down. They've got a song, you know, We won't be silence, you know, that sort of thing. Like they're very theatrical in their whole like anthem kind of stuff. Sure, sure.

And so that worked out perfectly. Like getting me through that last leg and I zip through for quite a while, I couldn't see anybody in front of me and there was a whole crowd like a whole throng a peloton no peloton's always the first cluster oh right right right but there was a throng of bikes way behind me

and I did not see anybody in front of me so far in front of me were the diehards of like the oh yeah I could do this 30 mile loop without even stop and blah kind of thing but then behind me I had like all the people that I was

kind of using as a as a how am I doing looking at my little helmet side view mirror thing how am I doing oh I'm still way ahead of that group all right I'm doing all right so that's so where'd you place in the end did you do you know your placement there's no there's no placement oh okay they don't worry about that I placed two hours and 27 minutes is where I placed I was ahead of there were only three uh members of my team who did the 32 and I was in front of both of them oh you beat aunt barb did you I beat and barb actually started to feel a little woozy after the after the first rest stop

way past the double hill and had to have Tina come and grab her and get her. Well, Barb literally has MS, and I don't know how she does this every year. I don't know how she does it either, and I don't know how she did that double hill. I mean, she's fantastic. She's incredible. She's great. Always a huge inspiration.

I posted a video in the TMS Discord chatter area. the discussions with me talking to Aunt Barb. So that's awesome. You all got a little taste of Aunt Barb in that little video right there. A little bit of Barb. All you've had up to now is stories and multiple photos on different people's faces. That's all you've got. That's right.

That's right. A bunch of barb heads on everybody else's faces. Well, that's great. So she's recovered too. She's feeling fine. And yeah, it was. Congratulations. He made it through the ups, the downs, the Laporte protrusion, all of it.

with port protrusion and looking forward to getting my back all healed up so that next year I can go back to doing the full 150 miles. Nice. Well, good. And you're standing today, which is a good sign. I like that. He's still standing. Better than he ever did. As opposed to sitting. Yep. All right. Excellent. Well, real quick here, let's knock out one of these because we got some stuff to give away. And it sounds a little bit like this. Where is it? Why? did I Oh What happened

Well that's weird My stuff moved All right Let's play that Stand back and check your personal belongings It's time for the morning forum I don't know why my stuff moved But it did

I must have drug it and didn't notice Anyway we want to give away Some stuff for last week's morning form submission Which was all about your favorite go-to Guilty Food Pleasures And there were quite a few on here I'll give you some examples. Lots of pizza and lots of Taco Bell, donuts, cheeseburger, poutine.

We got the Canadians or Canadian lovers in there. I love the Poutine. Yeah, cheese it's. I'll admit to downing too many cheeses here and there. What was your, you know, let's say, Shug, not a factor, right? Let's say, you know, trying to lose weight, not doesn't figure into the picture. Sugar doesn't isn't a big issue. What is your go-to?

to what is the thing you get and consume. So we'll do this as 25-year-old Scott. I would go for... Oh, no, do this as 53-year-old Scott. Oh, all right. If I didn't have to worry about those things, it'd be the same as if I was 25. Okay, good, all right.

Just a big triple death chocolate shake thing. Oh, really? You know, where they put like chocolate ice cream, chocolate chips, chocolate, something else. Chilts and stuff in there. A little syrup on top with a little whipped cream. Every day all day. Oh, my gosh.

I love that so much. I would, I would do that right now if I was able. I'm a, yeah, what would you do? I'm a donut guy. Like, just give me a, just give me a big. A good donut, though, right? You don't want some garbage dough. I don't want no, sorry, Winchels, your donuts used to be good, not good anymore.

Duncan, you're kind of falling fast. Lamar's, now we're talking. Give me Lamar's. And soon, Scott, I'll be able to tell you about Pink Box in September. Tanner and Alex and me and Tristan and Barry Folk and I don't know who else. I don't know if Bobby Ann's going that trip or who else is going, but we're all going to meet out there and basically starting as the D&D group. That's great.

Hope you guys roll 20s all week when you go. I hope so too. Is there a craps location for 20? Because we want to roll. We want to roll that, please. But yeah, it should be a blast. And the pink box is now open at plaza and their donuts are massive. They're like giant head-sized donuts.

I've heard they're huge. And our booking includes two free donuts from Pink Box. Oh, my lord. Really? Wow. Yes. So I'll get both of them. I'll use one as a pillow in the bed.

And it's not the other one over the course of the weekend. Somebody in here put chocolate covered coffee beans. Never had that. Oh, yeah. Have you never had those? No, is it good? No. They are good. If you don't like coffee, you probably wouldn't like them, though, because you get the bitterness of the espresso.

I don't like coffee flavor. I wish I did. Everyone loves it but me. I don't know what my deal is. I try. I just can't do it. Cola slurpee's on here. Someone else did frozen pizza. That's a good. I like a good frozen pizza here and there. If you have a choice, though, of any? Oh, well, no, if you have a choice, I'm not getting it. I'm not getting it. Yeah. Who's picking a frozen pizza over some other. Yeah. It seems like a poor choice to me a little bit. Let's see.

I'll find one more here. I like fudge stripes, too. That's my go-to cookie. If you say, Brian, what's your favorite cookie? I'd say fudge stripes. Oh, yeah. I used to be able to kill a bag of those. Or a tray.

I guess they were like a little plastic tray. General So's chicken burrito is on here. I don't know what that is, but I would eat that. I have an idea. Yeah. Interesting. I'd eat that now. That might come up later, as a matter of fact, general.

If you have one of those, that might come up later. Whoever said bowl full of mayo, you're no longer allowed to win anything, okay? You can't. We have your email address, and you're now on a list. You're on a list. Yeah, you don't want to beat this person, but I'll tell you who won this week. We got a winner, and it is D.W. Jensen, you have won the contest. You were chosen at random.

I don't know what food thing you said, because it doesn't say it next to your name, but you chose wisely by entering your name, and D.W. Jensen, you get a frog pants fun pack if you don't hear from me before i hear from you expect an email shortly and we'll let you know what to do all right one final thing and then we called you didn't know what to dunaway all right one tiny little tiny tiny thing this is one of the weirdest experiences i've ever had kim's home from minneapolis you got home yesterday i got pink eye yesterday i think it's from holding the baby um she hit me in the face holding the baby with your face by her butt no she's up close

close to my face and she's into reaching out for faces now. Sure, sure. And I'm pretty sure she gave me pink eye. But anyway, it's not so bad. It's just a little pink. I'll deal with it. But anyway, so all's back to normal, but also a little crazy yesterday. It was kind of nuts around here. The day prior, though, I had an experience I've never had before.

It's just me and Carter holding down the fort, dogs, cat, all that. And her dog, Ripley, the Weimariner, you know? Big one. She has gigantic, like, undistroiable dog bone treats, you know, big, not treats, but toys. And she's got multiples of those, right? These big, huge fake bones that supposedly will never get torn up is the idea. Somehow she manages to do it over time, though.

She does manage to destroy these bones. And one of them is so chewed up on one end, it's made out of like some kind of super dense resin or something. I don't know what this material is. but I'm one end of this bone it's got all it's all choppy from her teeth marks and stuff yeah like all rough yeah I walked into the living room it's a little bit dark

I'm not wearing shoes and I kick with my big toe the end of that freaking bone now okay that sounds painful just hearing it right it does yeah I've done this before you trip on a bone you kick a step on a

lego whatever it is you have foot pains some of the worst pain but this was so exquisite. And I'm not kidding you when I describe this to you. It was so painful that in the moment of the pain and it maybe lasted 20 to 30 seconds, I clenched my eyes, fell backwards on the couch, held my foot, made some sort of noise. Carter heard me do it. And in my head, I literally, not just thought, I literally saw a laughing clown face inches from me. laughing in my face.

How weird is that? It was tangible. It was almost like if I'd have had the wearerous off. Did it look like this? Oh, shit. Oh, no. A little bit, actually. It was kind of that kind of clown. It wasn't like bald.

It had hair, crazy hair. Anyway, this thing was just right here going, just laughing right in my face while the pain was at its worst. And then it subsided and the face went away. But I've never experienced that kind of. thing in my life before yeah no kidding oh my god why a clown why laughing at me i don't know because you you're you're probably like like what what can what has to be something severe to distract me from the pain that i'm experiencing maybe that was there was it was like a mental like a like a

like a help like it was trying to help me or something but i hate clowns so that didn't help much anyway now i've got this like oh oh shit there it is again um this is a killer clowns from outer space like one of those dolls at the at the carnival that you throw a ball to knock over Oh, right. Where did you get that? This came as a as a loot crate thing.

Usually I give away all the stuff that comes in loot crate because they're perfect for It's like you spend 25 bucks and I get a box of like six or seven prizes to give away for guess the connection or whatever. Sure. But this one I'm keeping, sorry, I'm keeping the killer clown from outer space. You got to keep that. It's got

like film sack, you know, sensibilities He's not super stable though Well our clowns ever super stable That's the real question No that's an unstable clown Speaking of unstable clowns That's a perfect transition

We're going to bring Dunaway in Who is actually kind of a stable clown He's fine But he wants to play He wants to play with us We want to play with him Is a stable genius That Brian Dunaway

He is He is he is He is Jeannie take that Hey look who it is Brian Dunaway here, joining us for a little bit of the old half-asses this morning. Hi, Brian. How are you? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hey. Hello. How are you guys doing a day on this fine Monday? Yeah, pretty good. Great. Yeah, pretty good. How are you doing? That sounds like a bunch of liars. What do you really got going on?

You were, I know you had kind of a crazy week last week. You do them better. Oh, I had a terrible week. You know, I had that the system on back. I had it removed and then taken antibiotics all week. And then I just, you ever just feel like you're just like moving in slow motion and you can't feel nothing, nothing, you can't, you're, you're holding stuff in your hands and this goes, oh, flooom. Yeah. Like that. Yeah. It's been like that for a week. I just can't seem to focus on anything. And this is my last day of antibiotics.

So. I think that's probably it. Yeah. For as good as they are for, you know, getting rid of your infections. Some of the newer ones, they got a lot of other, like, weird effects, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm like, uh, this sucks. I'm like, uh, how bad is, uh, you know, know some kind of big giant infection on your back can't be that bad can't be any worse in these antibiotics right yeah do they let you keep it did you get to hang on with that thing put it in the bottle your cyst did you get to keep it oh hell no gross you're a jar like a nice little jar of cyst yeah what i give it a name or something too you name it no no you go hey everybody check it out it's charles my my cyst no i have that i have that whatever that fear is where

you're like get it out of my body thing what is that called the get it get this shut out my body i don't like it i don't know what that is is that an actual there's a real fear for that it's like uh i forget what it's called it's like the xenomorph in your body get it out oh oh yeah yeah yeah you're like the guy in alien with the the john hurt moment yeah yeah like whenever they show like uh like that that earwig thing or whatever it was and star trek when they put it and check off zir and he goes that freaks me the yeah i don't like that stuff either i don't like that either okay so we're gonna call it john her John Herdophobia. There we go, John. Herdophobia. Herdophobia. I think we just

help science one step forward. Hey, speaking of helping science, we're going to do something that has nothing to do with it. We're going to play a game. And it's called the half-asses. And Brian here's going to explain the rules so that you and I can figure out how the hell's going to go. It's going to go. Welcome to the both half-asses, a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving the two of you the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers. Three of those answers are correct. Three are incorrect. And depending on how confident you feel with a category, you can provide one, two, or three guesses. Can't do zero.

Just can't do zero guesses because that'll be lame. Unless they get to lock in your answers, right? You can't just not. Oh, you won't even give you a lock button unless you put an answer in. Oh, see? That's true. If you get any of those answers wrong, by the way, you get zero points for the round. Get one right, you get a point, get two right, and you get two points, and you get all three

correct, you will get five points total. Player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. And these two contestants I'm going to tell you about are pulled from members of the tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're going to be playing for Elliott in Bolton, England. Oh, nice. England. Nice and far away. Yeah, I like it there.

Brian, you're going to be playing for somebody here in my neck of the woods, Nate in Denver, Colorado. Nate, what's going on, Big Nate? Big Nate. That was a web comic or a comic strip. Big Nate? Remember Big Nate? No, I don't remember that at all. Was it good?

Yeah, I thought it was. It's kind of hilarious. I talked to, yeah, I liked it. Yeah, sure. Yeah, Lincoln Pierce. You guys remember a big Nate? No, Lincoln Pierce. No, I'll look it up later, though. I'm interested. I don't know what you're talking. I think once you, if you Google it, I think once you Google it, you'll be like, oh, I remember this comment. Oh, I totally do. I'm looking at that. Is he wearing a big cowboy hat? Is that it? No, no. It's a kid on a cover. He made books and stuff. I totally know this now. All right. Never mind. I don't think I've ever read it, but absolutely recognize it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's got, uh, he's got seven. dreadlocks on his head.

Correct. Six, seven, something like that. Seven. Brian's right. Six large dreadlocks and one teeny tiny dreadlock of the middle. Well, he's receding. There's less dread in that middle lock. I'm pulling for a big Nate dreadlock.

You can do it, Bray. You can do it. Excellent. All right. All right. Well, you can only do it if I start the game. And let's start the game with your question number one. Cities once home to the world's tallest building.

So I'm going to give you six cities. At one point, three of these had the world's tallest building. But they no longer do? I'm not saying. Okay, okay. Once home to the world's tallest building. Like, maybe they still have the world's tallest building. I don't know.

Can you define building? I'm sorry. A structure. Once implies that it doesn't anymore. Right, right, right. See, he hasn't even got the question. This is why I would get the half asses. This is the half ass part of the morning half asses.

This is the half of the ass that we don't. The asses part. All right, let's give you your damn answers. Here's your damn answers. Hamburg, Germany, Shanghai, China, Taipei, Taiwan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Shart, France. Did you say Shartre? I think you pronounce. Do you pronounce the, you pronounce the R-S?

Well, I do. I'm not French. It could be Shartreys. Okay. Sharders. I wanted to be Sharders, France. Milwaukee, USA. Okay.

Somebody in the town, please tell me how to pronounce. C-H-A-R-T-R-E-S. Shart. Shalt-L-L-L-E-S-H-T-L-E-R-E-R-T. Does it sound right, though? Is it shart? I hope it's not shart. It might be shart.

It's a baby shart. Baby shart. Fart, Fart, F-F-F-R-R-T-D-D-D. Yeah, you're still doing it wrong, but I love it. Don't know. Don't know. I'm doing it right. They're doing it ronk.

Oh, it's then. All right. They're doing it wrong. Let's see. Runk. Yeah. By the way, just a reminder, just a reminder, how Dunaway does it. Here, enjoy.

Baby shark. You know how hard it is to get it wrong every time? I know. That shit's burning your brain. I know. It's like peddling backwards. Yeah. Eventually you're going to get it right by accident.

Maybe is the first one I think to actually give a, like a real answer to how to pronounce that city in France. And it's Chartra. Oh, it's Sharter. Or with a French, Chartra. Shartre. Okay. Yeah, I got to roll that art.

Good for them because Shaltes is bad. Shaltow. I thought that was a farta, but this is a shalter. I'm trying to think of what might have been in Milwaukee that was ever even a hint

of this world's tallest building. For some reason, I think Milwaukee has a very flat place but you're going to correct me of sure. Arnold's had a, it was the tallest building. Yeah, yeah. With Arnold on top of it or just in general?

Well, I think Al, actually, this was once Al was on top of. You know, this is a bullshit answer because all of these are true? No, at one point in time, I don't know. How could they all be true? No. He wouldn't do that to us, would he?

You might. No, there's only three that are true. Yeah, that's right. It has to be three, yeah. Yes. What has a sliding scale, too? I mean, like, somebody's always got the role of tall of the billion, right? Somebody's always got to.

Someone's always, yeah, someone always gets the new, the new titles. All right. Just give me the answers. All right, I'll do that. You guys both settled on Shanghai, China. At no point. Did Shanghai China? ever have the tallest building

Hamburg Hamburg who said Milwaukee no not it felt like a trick question I was sure I was going to get screwed if I didn't choose it Hamburg actually had the tallest

building for about 200 years from 1647 to 1874 the tallest building in the world was in Hamburg Taipei Taiwan went from 2004 to 2010 and Kuala Lumpur had

Sean Connery falling off that building sometime between 1998 and 2004. So I, the, sorry, the UAE or somebody's got it now, right? It's none of these. It's the tallest.

So, I don't know what the current. What's the name of the place over there? The really rich oil? What's wrong with my brain? You know, the rich people. They do the oil thing. They got the, uh, Dubai.

Dubai. Thank you, I, Corps. Dubai. I think they currently have the record if I'm they're not going to. They probably do. A lot of money over there. It is. It is. Virch Khalifa is the current That's the one. The Wiz Khalifa. I don't think that's right.

He's the tallest rapper in the history of rap. Let's see. Before that let's see, there's the Petronius Oil Platform. No, that's the thing I want. Is this Chicago one? This all just does did the Chicago

from huh did the Chicago one ever have the have the title what's that the Sears Tower which is now yeah yes the Willis Tower in 1996 okay fascinating yeah the Petronus Tower is in Taipei was

yeah this is just called Taipei 101 Taipei 101 I can't believe you just I can't believe you just Leonard Nimoyd if it like that I really is fascinating I find it fascinating I don't know

this stuff changes hands so quick it's like we're the coolest city we have the tallest building nope how sarcastic you think Mr. Spock was when he was saying

that what when you say fascinating oh I think he was always always sarcastic because that's how we would perceive it right

even though they're not yeah they're not emotional list why is that a word emotional they're not without emotion emotionless is what you I love the fact, by the way, that Chicagoans still call it the Sears Tower.

It will always be the Sears Tower. It's not going to be ever called the Willis Tower. It is the Sears Tower. Yeah, why would you call it? You know what? That's like us here locally. We never, it was the Delta Center. You changed it to Vivint Home Arena.

F off. We call it the Delta Center. F off. We are, it's, for us, it's Mile High Stadium. We'll always be Mile High Stadium. Quit giving us this, this garbage about Empower Field. It's Mile High Stadium. All those changes.

It's so stupid. Settle on one. care who pays for it. It's coming back to Delta now, so we're actually... It's too bad. If we tie today, I'd like you to give us a higher or lower on the mile-high stadium and whether or not, and how much higher or lower it isn't feet than really it isn't a mile. Oh, weird. I find it hard to believe it's actually a mile. Exactly a mile, you mean. All right. Well, I hope there is a tie. We'll see. Okay. Maybe that'll be like zero to zero. I'll be able to tell you that. You're talking about

like the highest point on mile high stadium. Right. Okay. Yeah. All right. I'd be Curious. Like, there's no way. Well, let's get to question number two. Shall we? Yeah. Question number two, ethnic foods, I put in quotes, that were actually invented for Americans. Which of these are ethnic foods that actually were just invented for Americans?

Bagels, General So's chicken, fajitas, chicken tika masala, pasta primavera, and fortune cookies. Which of these were created just for us, double Americans, so we could think we're eating something ethnic? Well, one I know for positive. good. I know all these. I like everything on here. No. Who on this? Check and Tiki Masala, dude. I just had that.

Damn it. I'm gonna go too. These all feel like the lies. I know one for sure. Like I'm positive on one because I read a whole thing on it. But the other, the rest of this, I'm I don't know. So I've locked in, Brian. Take you time. I've locked in too. Okay. You are both lucked in. You weren't locked in

until just now, Brian. I was waiting. Waitin, waiting. Okay. You guys both sold on fortune cookies. Fascinating. Yeah. Fortune cookies are not,

we're not creative for Americans. They were created in Japan, found in Japan, as early as the 1700s with a different name that had a fortune inside. I know. I did in San Francisco or something.

Yep, look, Google it, Scott. Google it. Confucius says. No, I believe you. I just am shocked by it. I know. I read the question wrong. I had to Google it myself because I could have sworn that it was wrong. But fortune cookies, as far back as, I'm sorry, the 19th century,

a cookie very similar in appearance to the modern fortune cookie was made in Kyoto, Japan, and there's a Japanese temple tradition of random fortunes called Omikuchi. The Japanese version of the cookie differs in several ways. They're a little bit larger, they're made of darker dough, and their batter contains sesame and miso rather than vanilla and butter. They do contain a fortune, however, the small, slip. of papers wedged into the bottom of the cookie. You know what?

Okay, good, good. Here's where I screwed it up. Here's where I screwed it up, I think. I think I knew about the Japanese. I just thought it was the Japanese in America, did it? And then China, or Chinese food, became the place where you expect it. Right. You don't know.

Exactly. Yeah. You don't get them in Chinese restaurants in China. You only get them in Chinese restaurants in America, but they were first created in Japan. Damn. Do you suppose that the first fortune cookies weren't like open, hollowing? inside is just like somebody's sticking a piece of paper and a cookie just like a chips a hoi like they just like it into the dough just like yeah yeah with chips a hoi going no i don't think

that at all hey is it regional horrible because people would choke on it i was watching seinfeld and uh there's an episode where jerry's dad kept talking about if i want to have a chip a hoy i'll have a chip a hoi and i thought chip a hoi it's chips a hoi it's chips a hoi exactly so what it must be regional like back east they call them chip ahoys or something i don't know i've never heard that term or maybe that makes more sense because don't you say don't you say ship ahoy you don't say ships a hoi right is and then that's the oh that is the play on word you're right yeah you just say ships a hoi or ship ahoy unless there are multiple ships and then you do say ships a hoar by the way aren't you glad guy come on fascinating really great uh eggles invented for poland and chicken

tichu masala invented in scotland I like the fact that you said it was invented for Poland. Bagels were invented for Poland. They were invented for Polish people. Right. To feel like they're... I do find food. Like, food trivia is really fascinating because it's always like,

there's usually a reason why foods made a certain way and what it is. And it's not like because of the palate. It's usually because of something else. So the Scottish were like, hey, we need some cool Indian thing. And they made them... I said, ah, chicken, tiki masala, just for you guys. And it's wild. Tina's favorite Indian food is chicken chicken masala.

I love it. This one I want the most. I didn't realize I was eating Scottish food every time I did it. Right. All right. Well, you guys are still at zero zero. Let's see if this one can maybe get some points on the board for one of you or maybe both of you. Question number three, American versions of foreign TV shows.

Which of these were originally a foreign TV show that was created for an American or re-created for an American audience? Baywatch, House of Cards, Breaking Bad, American Idol, Ugly Betty, and Friends. Okay, I got a question, a technical question. All right, ask your technical question. One of these, I know, originated as something else, but the name... In a different country? Yeah, but the name changed. That that counts.

There's no trick. There's no trick. So that, so that's, I guess that's what I'm saying is like they didn't, they wouldn't have called it that name over there. No. Okay. Right. Scott has such trust this year now. You must have really messed with it. No, no, no. I just don't want the best chance of kicking your ass, really, is what it comes down to. Oh, okay.

All right. Brian's locked. I'm locked in. Then I'm going to do two. Okay. Okay. All right. And Scott's locked in. All right. You guys both locked in on American Idol. Yeah, American Idol was originally called Pop Idol in the UK, but it started there.

House of Cards Also originated In the UK Scott Yeah Wait a minute Friends was based on coupling No

Is not based on coupling No coupling is based on coupling Coupling is Because they did a show called Coupling over here And it was based on coupling in the UK Yeah yeah they came back around Yeah

Yeah but there was no friends And Ugly Betty is the other one That came from So you think friends is an original idea What was it What was the name of the girl in Columbia. It was called Eso, let's see. Yoso

and Betty La Fea. So she's fair? No. Fea, F-A-A. Fia, I think that means you're ugly as hell, Betty. I think ugly. Yeah. You're freaking ugly. Is what it means? Wow. I can't believe it. I pulled it out of the end here. You pulled it out. Well done.

Yeah, I feel really good about that. Well done to me, but mostly well done to this guy. Congratulations. You're a winner. Brian, who won and how's, what's he going to do to get his codes? That's funny. Katrina's carousel, Katie, corrects me and says, Yo-soi. I would say you're absolutely right.

They put a space on the answer card here between the Yoso E. Betty, but I think that is. Yo-so-e-beddie. Yeah, there's not supposed to be a space between the S-O and the Y for the Betty. Oh, I like your little screen. They put Carl in charge of that. whoever the Carl and charge. By the way, I didn't even say this.

Lens Island and Overgrowth are really good games. Lens Island in particular, still in early access. Oh, yeah, I didn't mention the games that, yes, I am Betty Lafayette, which is I am Betty, the ugly one, by the way. It rolls off the tongue a little less elegantly. I'm Betty, the ugly one. Anyway, Lens Island will keep you busy for hours. Yeah, Lens Island and Overgrowth going to Elliot Frazier and Bolton.

congratulations Elliot you're getting those two games but Nate here in Denver don't worry you're getting waking Mars which I think is also a really good game not terraforming Mars you have to wake it before you can terraform it yeah wake it up before you go go and then you do it that's correct exactly uh yeah over lens island it's shaping up to be awesome so I'm jealous of that one all these games are good though so we're glad you all won in a sense except in a way who lost horribly is terrible terrible it's terrible just terrible you have to go to a tiebreaker about mile high stadium unfortunately we'll do this again with one of you live on the air next

wednesday when we do a little bit of the tad pulley feud done away is there anything you'd like to add before i kick you out of here um yeah uh no you kick me out all right i don't mind i'll done i'm what i'm done yeah you're out of here buddy all right uh let's do we got to do this one story okay we're doing one story we're doing one story everybody. Stephen, hang in there, everybody. I know you're in the chat. Hang in there. We'll get to you in a second. A little quick one-off news brought to you by. Brought you by a week-old pork chop covered in mustard and pickles with funions on the side. Why, that sounds like how I ate while Kim was out of town. Oh, well done. Week old?

Yeah, it was already, we barbecued a week prior and we had extra pork chops from that. And so it's still fine. It tastes good. I guess a week. I mean, it's been refrigerated. A week isn't so bad. It's not so bad. I probably wouldn't go much longer than that, but, um, but yeah, the mustard and pickles are all I could find.

Yeah, that's actually, that probably should be what I focused on is the mustard and pickles. I know. I even I look at that and grosses me out. But for some reason at the time, it was like a pregnant woman. I was like, give me that. That sounds great. Eat something to eat while on break from Diablo four. That's right.

Consume food. And give me funions, please. Funions are not even food. Uh, all right. right here's this this quick story a woman won't take down a nine foot werewolf and i don't mean there's a werewolf on the run and she's the one that's supposed to go attack it and take it down i mean literally she has a nine foot tall warwolf statue in ohio and she refuses to take it down mary simmons said phil the

werewolf is his name has kind of become my house mascot she says she bought the hallowing decoration in october but chose to leave it up all year round i kind of like or i kind of look at it as a security thing she says sure i think that might be a little weird uh who wants to break into a house with the nine foot uh tall werewolf sitting outside of it i mean i know i wouldn't she says i see the photo and she's now got it wearing a um like a a t-shirt a USA t-shirt and holding flag so i'm guessing she's just going to decorate it year round for whatever holiday is coming up that seems like the plan you just put on whatever clothes match the yeah like

Boney stuff, probably like a little pink thing. Right now. Sometimes days, get a little heart. Yeah. I think she wrecked American flag to make that shirt. Uh, I think so. I think that's illegal. I don't think you're allowed to.

That looks, that looks like it's fabric. Like it's fabric you would, uh, you would make, you would buy it learners or something to, uh. Good point. Good point. Either way, it's kind of a flag code violation, I think, but whatever. Uh, she says, I'm a big horror fan, so I don't really mind it. Oh, this is her neighbor. Haley Barker. I've watched them dress it up in different colors and whatnot, and I think that's

really pretty cool, she says. The city is the one saying she has to take it down. One anonymous complaint. Yep. She says she will not take it down unless it's a safety hazard. I don't want somebody walking by his head or walking by and his head fall off and hits them, you know, don't you know. I try to treat people like I want to be treated and I don't, I wouldn't want that to happen to me, she said but right now it's just not it's just a decoration she's not worried about it i say leave it up dude leave it up for sure if i don't know if she's got an h-o-a or but after everybody screw them all who cares yeah h-o-a certainly would have an issue with that but i think she would have gotten something from the h-o-a like november first if she left it up for at least mid-november

so i think that's uh i think she's she's fine with that it's also probably they don't get into it it's probably expensive you don't just buy that for free you don't just get that for 10 And where do you buy it? I mean, are there any sort of Halloween stores that open up anywhere that anybody's heard of that might have something like this? Like, I don't know, in an old circuit city or a... Well, Brian, depends on how much of the spirit of Halloween you'd like to get into. I think you might be lucky this one time. You might be lucky, yes. We're going to take a break. When we come back, Stephen Schleiker will join us. Do a little major spoilers talk. That'll be fun. A few other things. So stick around for that. Brian, we got to play a mid-break break. show thing song deal do you got that yes i am so happy to play this one i've been talking with svet in las vegas from same six mary she also works for bad moon booking that's her company her company is bad moon booking booking she books bands bad moon booking books bands uh that's the new slogan beautifully bad moon booking books bands beautifully um and one of the bands that she's working with

right now is a band called pearl earl they are uh neo psychedelic rock uh the project of multi instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, Ariel Hartley, formed in Denton, Texas back in 2014. And they've got a rotating cast of original and touring members. They've been part of the band. But this is almost like, for me, kind of dream pop, very, very light, airy, fun stuff, very psychedelic. Once described as Pink Floyd in the sunlight, the band's live performances are captivating and euphoric with an ominous grin. This is a song from their brand new album. This is entitled, I'm sorry, it's their first,

their new single, I should say. It is called Damage Control. Here is Pearl Earl. Deadless country The devil's kind of training Devil's cut Terror control Devils control

Devils cut control Devils cut Chow Devil's cut To roll All of this town you're going to snow. Town of the 10 years of the show.

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time time he will take it cross We're going to be able to be. We've got a good imagination. Guess what we're climbing if you can. It's a great big, great big, great big, great big jar, a great big jar of Peter Pan.

If you want a picture of the future, Imagine a boot forever. And we return. Tell me who that was. They sound great. Sure. From the brand new album, I did find the album title.

It's Dread. Just came out this last Friday via Greenwich Recordings in New York City. The album is called It's Dread. That was the first single from the album. It's called Damage. control. The band is Pearl Earl. It's Dread is also the answer when someone says, what is the best Carl Urban movie? And I say it's

Dread. I love that movie. It's also a confusing answer when you say, who is the best member of our Tadpool? Oh, it's dread. Oh, it's two of them. Oh, that's right. Is it next? Or is it the Lord? Is it the Lord? Is it the Lord? Is it the Lord? Who could it be? Which dread is it? Okay. So, Stephen is not. coming up. Oh, there he is. That's weird. The M's popped late in my list. Oh, sure. I don't know what that's about. But excited to have them on, so let's just get to this. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dollar, dollar bills, y'all. That's right. He's making those dollar bills out there in Kansas, while the rest of us are wondering how the hell he does it.

It's Steven Schleiker from Major Spoilers.com joining us on a Monday. Hello, Stephen. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hey, man. Hello. What's going on? What's going on in Kansas right now? What's the big state hubbub what's going on out there anything cool i i don't know i i'll be honest here people and this is the best thing that you can do for your entire life uh just get off twitter don't don't don't doom scroll i've reduced my time on twitter to like 15 minutes in the morning at most yeah and then sometime around lunchtime i'll i'll pop back in just to see what's going on and then maybe once at night and so uh yeah so it my life is much happier and i have a lot less

stress since I've stayed off Twitter. Don't you want to check in on those those virologists who also pivoted to being experts on submarine. Wait, what? And then they pivoted to like how things work in Russia with like attempted coups and stuff. These people are geniuses.

They're geniuses. I'm so lucky to have so many experts at my fingertips. I know, right? And you know who they are, Brian, just by looking to see the little blue check they paid for. And that's how you know. And you can see their little avatar that that they took in the driver's seat of their car with their sunglasses and their baseball cap on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and sometimes turned around that hat.

Sometimes, sometimes, yeah. Yeah, it's a real, it's a, oh, it's a, it's a treasure trove, Stephen. What are you doing? Why are you not in there all the time? You know, hey, listen, I'm seriously, I have a lot less stress when I don't have to worry about is some Russian oligarch going to try to squash a Russian overlord with a push of a nuke code. so yeah well my my follow my lead there scott my big uh my big takeaway from that was i heard the name is called the vogner group is the name of that mercenary thing and i it sounds like someone i'd want to watch my 401k for me that's right yes exactly yeah i wonder if it's called

the the vogner group right of right of the valky oh it probably is that right oh they're trying to be dramatic with the wagner yeah i mean that's just my guess i don't know i didn't spend any time on twitter looking for experts to tell me why. Well, I'm glad to have you here informing us on other important things, and one of those is that there are studios pulling out of San Diego Comic-Con. That feels like a last-minute thing to me. Well, so we kind of talked about this, oh, a month or so ago when the writer's strike first kicked off because one of the things that nobody wants to do is offend any kind of a union. And so when the writer strike went, kicked off, Sag Aftera basically said, hey, we want to support our writer brothers.

And if we have to go on strike, which it looks like they will be soon, they don't want to participate in anything having to do. And it can be considered that making an appearance at a convention to promote a movie or TV show is acting and doing their job. And so that could be a violation of strikes. And we've already seen a couple of up fronts get canceled or changed to. just very simple announcements because actors don't want to show up to these things. So it kind of a hedge to what will happen. I think

it's the end of this month. This week, I think. Sag After will probably go on strike, meaning that by the time we hit San Diego Comic-Con, these studios will have no one to bring out on stage and say, look at our famous celebrities telling us, telling you how great our stuff is. And so they're just like, well, we're not going to deal with it. So we're gone.

So no Marvel, no Netflix, no Sony, HBO, or universal. Interestingly, Paramount has not made an announcement, but yeah, so I don't know if they're doing something with any Star Trek stuff, but that's kind of where we sit right now. So Screen Actors Guild,

the SAG part, I thought all actors negotiated individual contracts. Is this just a solidarity strike that may or may not happen? No, no, no. So, yes, actors are going to negotiate their payments, just like writers negotiate their payments. There are things, though, called minimums.

So if you are working in a writer's room or you're working on a movie, there are set minimums for anyone who is in a guild or a union, regardless of what your individual pay is. Right. So, yeah, right now, I don't know what specifically Ashley Victoria Robbins would be a better person to bring on board for this. But I don't know what the specific points are. With the SAG after negotiations with the producers, more than likely, it's minimums.

It's also residuals. Residuals over the last couple of years have been really hacked away. And then I'm sure some AI stuff as well will be popped up in there as well or using digital data of actors. But let's say you're like Tom Hanks or Tom, let's say Tom Cruise. Let's go with a different Tom. Tom Cruise. Yeah. He's getting his $20 to $30 to $50 million per movie every time. Right, but he has a minimum. I mean, even if he were like, listen, and this happens sometimes. Sometimes Tom Cruise or Robert Downey Jr.

Or any of the other big actors that are out there, sometimes they will appear in small independent movies for minimum, which may be just a couple of thousand dollars a day. Yeah, they just want to work with the actor, the director, or whatever, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so that makes sense. So if they are on strike and people like, say, Tom Cruise support the strike, and he wouldn't probably need to because he's part of the guild. right um it's not so much that i need 60 to 100 million per movie that's not what we're saying he's saying we want the minimums to be fair or we want the you know whatever the residuals or whatever to be fair yeah okay that makes sense to me um boy are we okay here's the big question and maybe brian

ibett will benefit the most from sure are we looking at like a decade of reality television ahead of oh and don't say i'm gonna benefit because that's gonna be a lot of the shitty reality stuff that i don't like yeah it's not fair it's It's not fair to actually say it. You blanket that you hate all reality and I blank and then you assume that I blanket love all reality. I like reality competition shows like Amazing Race and Survivor. Yeah, maybe we'll get some good ones of that, right?

Maybe that'll pop up. I mean, we get those anyway. I don't think where you get, that's not going to be any different. Some of those are already kicking off. Some of those are already coming in the next month. Yeah. Yeah. It's a real chance for, this feels like the one strike where YouTube is a factor.

It wasn't so much. yeah prior like what oh six was the last one youtube that was the last major strike yes that caused all sorts of problems especially for dc movies back then but yeah and that in that stage of the thing youtube wasn't even a year old in 2006 uh i think google had just bought them that year so it was like a very different thing and what i mean by that i guess is now there is a huge swath of content slash entertainment on the service that probably is not tied to any guild members Right? Right. So, well, maybe yes, maybe no. And again, I'm not a spokesman for either of the unions, but my suggestion would be that if you have a question whether or not you appearing on a streaming show or you appearing on something your best bet is to go and talk to your union rep and they will tell you what things are struck and which ones aren't. Because some of them, it's like, hey, you know, Tom Cruise, if you want to appear on the morning stream and come on as an appearance and do some stuff. for a week with Scott and Brian. Yeah, that's probably not going to be a deal because you guys are not part of the Producers Guild and you're not generating content that would be generating those kind of residuals. However, if there is a very popular streaming RPG show that was previously owned by legendary

pictures, anybody who is an actor who would be appearing on that RPG show that's owned by legendary pictures, which is, I think, one of the struck studios. You would be forbidden from appearing on that. Yeah. I know what you're talking about. I wondered about that. Yeah. So those are where some of those things fall in. The best thing

is to check with your union rep to see where those kinds of things fall. But if you've got your own YouTube channel, movies with Mikey, for example, I think he's written some stuff or worked on some studio-related stuff. He can continue to do his show without

having to worry about being ejected from the writer's guild because it's his own deal right right there's nobody else involved in it it's just him that i'd know of yeah yeah okay well that makes sense and if tom cruise you want to come on this show for a week uh you can do your own stunts movie coming up that you may want to promote but again he may he may decline to promote stuff simply because it's doing work for the studios yeah and by the way so for all of tom cruises uh there's there's a lot to say about tom cruise and yeah in lots of conversations but he may or may not want to come on. He may not want to come on. Yeah. But he, but he seems like someone who is genuinely interested in the crew getting their due everybody that you hear these stories about him

all the time. He's like, we'll go to bat for you. Um, which is, I think is a good thing, you know, Scientology aside and all the other issues, I think, you know, having somebody that high profile willing to tell it, you know, tell off the producers and go, look, you're not paying this crew enough or they didn't get what you said they'd get or whatever. I think is kind of a cool thing. So now you should come on on my show because I said such. a nice thing about you, Tom Cruise. And we promise that I won't play that one Jonathan Colton song when you're on the show. It won't be the song during the middle of the...

Scott won't ask about your tooth. Yeah, and I won't say a thing about your center tooth. I won't mention South Park. Yeah, we won't talk about South Park and he won't come into the closet, all that stuff. We'll leave all that to the side. Okay? I love that episode, though. He was so pissed about that, though.

Yeah, I was the... I can't remember the movie. there was something he would not he refused to do any promo for it unless they it was one of the mission impossible is because we talked about i think on film sack it was three or four or something yeah i think so is the one we watched most recently so there'd been three three yeah that was the one he wouldn't do yeah that's right that would have been the era he would have said no to production that's pretty funny anyway they still somebody somebody asked how long do you think this strike will last i think the writers guild and especially if if uh the actors guild goes on strike it's indefinitely

it. The only thing that everyone is somewhat upset about right now is the director's guild. They folded very quickly and they were like, yeah, yeah, we'll do whatever you guys want. That's going to come back and bite them on the butt because if you got no actors and you got no writers, well, directors, that doesn't matter. They're not going to be working anyway. So they should have really kind of stood in solidarity with the writers guild on that. Yeah, I agree. It's going to get weird though, everybody. It's going to, it's right now, right now it will probably go until at least the end of the year. before anybody reaches any kind of negotiations but or agrees on anything but it could go

well into next year well uh we'll keep our eye on it i hey do you remember i remember this time you brought up that gi jo and transformers were in the same universe yeah especially if people have seen that transformers uh the beast nation or whatever it is the beast nation i love it oh that's a great fake word name for a thing that isn't that i love it yeah yeah But if you stay past the credits, there is a bit where it is revealed that the G.I. Joe universe is part of the Transformers movie universe. This is something that's been happening in the publishing world over at IDW for many, many years, except back in October of last year, the rights to the IDW publishing of the Transformer stuff went away. The deal with Hasbro folded. There's a whole backstory about that that we can't and probably shouldn't get into.

but a lot of people were like, so what happens to the G.I. Joe and Transformers comics, who's going to pick them up? Is it going to be Marvel? Marvel used to do G.I. Joe with Larry Hama years ago, and then Larry Hama came over to IDW to continue on to the G.I. Joe series. Turns out, it is skybound entertainment.

And a lot of people may be going, well, I don't know what a skybound entertainment is. It is Robert Kirkman's imprint that he has with Image Comics. So two weeks ago, basically the same week, week that the Transformers' Rise of the Beast landed in theater, there was a comic release called Void Saga No. 1, and that was this sly introduction. Robert Kirkman loves doing these kinds of things, where he will just not make big announcements on anything and then just slip things into the store unawares for people to find this magical thing. He did it with the

end of the Walking Dead, you know, the day of release that everybody found out that that last issue of Walking Dead was the last issue of the Walking Dead. And this one, the Void saga has an appearance of, I think it's Jetpack, was the Transformers that appeared in this. And that was their announcement that the G.I. Joe and Transformers licensing has been moved over to Skybound. So some of the good things, it's all over at Skybound. Robert Kirkman is a huge fan of Transformers and G.I. Joe.

Other good news is that if you were a fan of the IDW, G.I. Joe series, the numbering of that series will continue and Larry Hama will continue being the writer of that series going forward at Skybound as well. So that's that's really good news for G.I. Joe and Transformers fans. I kind of wish you could go back in time to my 12 year old self and tell him all this, you know. I know. It'd be pretty cool. Because I was really into these two fans. I was so into Transformers and G.I. Joe. And I loved the cartoons. I come home from school, watch G.I. Joe. I'd watch transformers on the weekend. If I was told then that this was a shared universe, I would have lost my shit. Although, you know, and then micronauts, maybe

micronauts could slip in there, you know, a little bit of... Micronauts, I think, is still over at, because I don't think that that's Hasbro. That is still over at Marvel. In fact, Marvel has a ROM omnibus collection that's coming out in August or September, and a micronauts omnibus collection coming out in, again, it's either August or September. Ooh, la la. I'm all over it. Yeah, ooh la la. When's that one final, a quick movie question for you.

Sure. When's that Teeny. Indiana Jones is this weekend. Oh, that is this weekend. See it Thursday night. When is a TMNT, the new cool looking turtles movie? Cool one coming out.

I don't know off the top of my head. Oh, it looks so good, dude. But yeah, it looks really good. August 2nd, 20203 is what it says. I'm beyond stoked about this, so hurry up. Yeah, it'll be a nice kids movie to close out the, to close out the summer. Yeah. well, let us all hope that it's as good as it looks.

That's the trick these days. All right. Well, Stephen, as always, it's good to have you here. You're not going to be here on the third, so we're going to miss you. But you've got some big plans. You're going to go to. You're doing it to Denver for something. What are you doing over there?

No, I think we're going to try to get out of town if we can. Denver is currently the top of the list, and I'll have to send an email to Brian to say, hey, it's been a few years since I've been to Denver. What's the cool things to do besides Casta Benita? Yeah. Yeah, good luck in Casa Benita. It's still invite only, but Meow Wolf is pretty damn rad.

I think you would, you would. Oh, yeah, yeah. Is that the, is that the geeky store? Yeah, the art installation thing. No, Meow Wolf is an interactive museum. Oh, okay. Oh, right, right, right. But it looks like a store, part of it.

The one in Vegas looks like a store. The one in Denver is completely different. Oh, I didn't know that. I think we can, we can probably do that. The kids kind of surprisingly like going to art museums and kind of stuff. So I think art installations would be pretty cool. Brian, didn't you? Oh, go ahead.

Would absolutely love this. It is not, it is, when you think art museum, you think of stuff hanging on the walls and things like that. This is something completely different. This is like walking into another world. Yeah, it's insane. Okay, cool. Very, very cool. The one I saw, I think the first time Brian ever mentioned it, you walked through a fridge or something and it went into a crazy place or something.

Yeah. It was a fridge and I came out, like I disappeared by walking into a fridge. And there's stuff just like that in this one as well. That's really cool. Yeah, you should check that out. Steven, it's always a pleasure. You have anything going on in the network that people should check out before you go out of town? Yeah, certainly everybody should be checking out our critical hit podcast.

We're currently playing Octum Cthulhu, which is an RPG game where you have some very simple rules as far as dice go. But the premise is you are a bunch of adventurers fighting Nazis and Cthulhu monsters. And it's a lot of fun. So go check that out. It's critical hit over at major spoilers.com. and because I won't see you guys next week as you're out there blowing up things and scaring dogs around the neighborhood,

please make sure that you stay hydrated. That sounds like a great idea. It's a very good idea. Hydrate your lawns so that they don't catch on fire. Hide your wife, hide your kids, hydrate your lawns. Those are the three things we want you to do. Well done, Stephen. It's always good to have him here.

We are now going to get out of here, but I'm going to read a text before we do. You guys sometimes send us these, 8014710462. And here is one from Toots, McLaren, That's a great name. It's a great name. Toots McLaren.

Scott, thinking back on your cruise ship fascination some months back. I remember I was like looking up documentaries and all that. Yeah, that great documentary about what goes on beneath the below decks. Yeah, I loved it. It was great. He says, I thought you might be interested in the article about where cruise ships go to die. It's over on demarge.com and it's a cruise ship graveyard story. Float the Boatio, Toots.

this looks crazy to me. I would have thought that they, I know they're all just like stacked in there. I honestly would have thought, oh, cruise ships, well, they, you know, when they're done with a cruise ship, they take the parts,

they basically just take everything off of it and repurpose it for a new cruise ship. But, you know, like some of these look like this just been sliced and cut like, like, uh, yeah,

like they're slowly serving a ham. Yeah, dismembering it one room by room or something. Yeah. I look at this old pool here. Yeah. I'm sure there's stuff you salvage, right? But there's a whole miniature golf course on that one in the middle, I think.

I think that's what that is on that top center is a miniature golf course. Yeah, look at all the little greens and stuff. But like, they even still have their lifeboats. Why aren't those getting repurposed? Oh, yeah. This picture down below, they show kind of the yard, the shipyard, and I guess they just keep pulling the stuff off these ships. Oh, this one that's gutted is just a metal frame.

That's wild. Oh, look at that. No kidding. that's cool. Holy heavens. This is great. It's fascinating. I like this kind of stuff.

I wonder how often a ship gets retired. Like how long does it service and then it probably gets into that here a little bit. Well, anyway, there you go. Oh, and they use a lot of the steel and recycle all that. That makes sense. You'd want to reuse that stuff. It's a lot of it.

Oh, for sure. Yeah. Well, thank you for that, Toots. We appreciate it. My favorite news source is Toots McLaren. Yes. Also a little, finally, a full-on answer from Red Fraggle on the pronunciation of that French city. The word we are looking to pronounce is the name of a city in France that is very popular for tourists and baguettes.

And the name of this French city is pronounced, Shaltre. Shaltre. Oh, wait, did she, I just got a clip. Hold on. You probably got the same one. Shaltre. Oh, there it is. The name of this.

Chaltre. Shaltre. Well, it's definitely not shart. Okay. It's definitely not shart, which bums me out a lot. I'm a little sad about this. I've never said that, that's the city I've seen the name of, and I don't think I've ever said the name of it out loud. Also, real quick, there was a question.

So I have a question for the trans community. in our listenership that I want to ask, but I'm not going to do it today and we'll do it tomorrow. And the reason I didn't do it today is we said a bunch of stuff, full stuff. I'll do it tomorrow. But I have been nervous about asking it because I want to make sure I'm not just being dumb or ignorant about something. But it's a question that I was asked by somebody who was asking it in kind of an antagonistic way, trying to get me, trying to stump me. And I felt stumped. Like by the end of it, I was like, oh, I don't know.

how that works. I don't know the answer to that. So teaser, tomorrow, I'm going to ask the question and then we'll let people have thoughts. Brian will have his thoughts. Everybody can add their thoughts and we'll hear emails and all that. And I, and I'm just warning you now that this is this white men answer questions about. Yeah, I don't want to. And that's why I'm saying, hey, you know, let's let the community tell me because I don't know. I love it. I honestly don't know the answer to it and it threw me. So that'll be tomorrow. Look forward to that. And we're, and it's, this is not Bate. This is not trying to get anybody all up in arms. I just have a question. That's it. And I'll ask it tomorrow. All right. Brian, let's get out of here. Before we do, a reminder that this show is running on the steam of the good graces of our listeners. By that I mean they go to Patreon.com slash TMS. And they say to themselves, man, what a life this is. I don't have to have commercials or ads. That's awesome. I get pre-show content and post-show content every day. Amazing. How about couch parties? Carch? Couch parties on the weekends. We just did one.

for the Evil Leaper Part 1. We have one, we finally close out the evil leaper storyline, not this Friday, because we have a play date this Friday, but... How on our earth are these people going to wait so long for the final chapter? Oh, the suspense of the Evil Leaper,

just as Ali might be coming around to Sam's advances. That's right. Never know. Anyway, we're doing that this Friday. We haven't talked about a time. Sometimes we shift that for play date. What do we want to do this time? Same or?

let's see what works well for you we could you know what we could shift we could shift it and do it Saturday right after film sacked especially if uh uh done away or um that'd be fine with me Randy want to join us yeah they want to hang around sure let's do that well we'll plan on that it's always hard to pinpoint the time but it's usually right around 11 so yeah and i think among us i think it is time for among us we did uh what should we call it last time yeah yeah for sure even though it'll be july first it's still our end of the month play date, okay? Yeah, and if you any of you out there, and we'll give preferential treatment to

the answers from patrons, but if you have suggestions for really great, lots of people can play at games that you want to see us change things up a bit or whatever, that'd be great. The nice thing would be, if possible, it's to make it something like among us, where a lot of people have access to it, and it's very cheap or whatever, or free.

But, you know, we do a lot with Jackbox, we do among us. If there's other things that you think we're missing and should include in the mix, let us know. I, you know, at some point, I wouldn't mind doing a, uh, a Marvel Snap, you know, play against anyone who wants to play in the, uh, the tadpole. Can we do like a tournament? That's only two people playing and then, oh, we could do a turn. Ooh, a tournament's not a bad idea.

Tournament's fun because then you could make it a, you know, it's, and the stream is actually this event of tournament, you know, like. Yes. Oh. Yeah, we could do that. I'd be happy about that. We could do that. Yeah.

Anyway, do it, do they have to be far along to do that? Can they be newbies? No, you can be a newbie. Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, there you have it. That'll be good for me then because I'm sort of intermediate newbie in that game.

Anyway, that'll be why you'd want to help us out. We've got lots of other reasons to go check them out right now at patreon.com slash TMS. And for everything else, it's frogpants.com slash TMS. If you want to watch the live show daily on the live stream, it's easy. Frogpants. It's 9 a.m. mountain time each and every weekday except for Fridays when we do our fun stuff. All right. Okay.

That's going to do it. Hey, Brian, I don't want to leave unless I hear some songs. What do you got there? Well, this is a late one. This one came in at the end of last month, but it was a request date for June 1st. And we, for whatever reason, didn't get to it on June 1st. But Justin O'Brien wrote in and said, another trip around the sun. And I appreciate this community so much.

Oh, my gosh, a trip around the sun means this. Let's party. happy birthday let's get a sausage with veronica and a fish sandwich with ibit to celebrate oh my lord hold on here's i bit hey uh is it too early to get a fish sandwich all right that's number one what was the other one the other one was uh sausage sausage uh sausage uh uh it's where is hold on it's on here this show no i would like no there's different no Is it a tend to? No.

Let's turn. No, where is this thing? Do dog. No. Hold on. Bad. No. Where is she?

That's not it. Oh, here it is. No, that isn't it either. What is the deal? I found everything but hers. Then you'll get you. Everything's moved. All right.

Oh, no. All right. Sorry. We'll get it to you later. You'll get a sausage another time. Hopefully you enjoyed everything else that you got out of that. By the way, Veronica. Well, never mind.

No one are you going to say it. Let's get to this right now. This is the request that Justin had anything by Me First in the Gimmie Gimmies or covers by or of Green Day. And settled in on the second of the two because we, you know, years ago, we lost singer Eddie Money, famous for things like two tickets to Paradise, Take Me Home Tonight. It's probably the most recent big hit of his that everybody knows. take me home tonight and I had what's her name

Who was the one that popped in? Ronnie Specter. That's right. Yeah, from the Ronnettes. See him, be my little baby. Anyway, he did a cover on his 2009 album, The Cover's EP, that was of Green Days when I come around

and it was just such this cool melding of this artist that I loved in the 70s and 80s with this new artist that I love it in the 90s and 2000s and beyond and 2010s, et cetera. So here is Eddie Money covering Green Day when I come around. So he did my favorite lyric of all time, I feel a hunger.

It's a hunger. I hate that. I hate that so much. He didn't love it at the same time. It's just as good as a horse with no name by America where they sing, the heat was hot. Yeah, the heat was hot. And there you go. That'll do it. That'll do it. We'll be back tomorrow with a brand new episode. Come back then, won't you? the way across time

you've been searching for that someone and it's me out on the brow you're sitting around feeling sorry for yourself we'll don't get lonely now you can dry your white and eyes

I've been roaming for the moment sleasing my back out so don't get so uptight you're thinking about ditching me no time to search the world around because you know where I've found

when I come around when I come around when I come around when I come around Well, I heard it all before So don't come knock it down my door I'm a loser, And I'm a loser, and I'm only not a chooser

So try and slack me down because I know you were right So don't do what you like sure you do it twice but you may find out because out nothing was ever there can't go forth to something if it just ain't right

no time to search the world's around because you know where I've found when I'll come around when I'll come around Ride-a-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-round No time to search the whole world

Because she'll know her I'm about When I come around When I come around When I come around Honey When I come around When I come around Hoping you'll be home

When I come around When I come around Get more at frogpant.com Why are there so many dead things floating in the elixir of life? That's a great question, future on that episode.