The Morning Stream - TMS 2489: Aquafert

Episode Date: July 10, 2023

I've known this kid since she came out the chute. Johnson Mind Meld. What's an Aquafier, cause I really need to know? Diarrhea Mind Meld. Through the ground and the gravity and the stuff. Big Adult Feet Running Down the Hallway. Carter Caught the Double Dragon. Larry Waterman. They didn't have science and math back in the 90s. A little Brian Divot. We named the other lung Indiana. Congratulations On Using 65,000 Gallons Of Water. Milkshake: a Neat Idea. All stuff are pointing north. The Ditch Snakes can have the Light with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, I've known this kid since she came out the chute. Johnson Mindmeld. What's in aquifer? Because I'd like really wanted to know. Diarrhea mind meld. Through the ground and gravity and stuff. Big adult feet running down the hallway. Carter caught the double dragon.

Larry Waterman. They didn't have science and math back in the 90s. A little Brian divot. We named the other lung Indiana. Congratulations on using 65,000 gallons of water. Oh, thanks. milkshake it's a neat idea all stuff are pointing north the ditch snakes can have the light with stephen and more on this episode of the morning stream mommy will you read to me not now junior can't you see don't have time i'm teeming floors won't you please go play outdoors

quite a dish to come out of any cassero The MorningStream. We're not toys. We're action figures. Hello, everyone. Good morning and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Monday, July 10th, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson. That's, I almost said Brian Ibit. That is Bobby Frankenberger sitting in for Brian Ibitt, who is not here today. I'll explain in a moment. But Bobby, welcome to the show. How the heck are you? I'm doing great. I'm doing It's always a blast To be sitting in Brian's seat

It's being on the show With you is always fun I love it every time He leaves a little divot for you A little bum divot Yeah, yep It's just the right size Yep, that's good

Temperature Big I wasn't going to ask about that part I'm glad you brought it up Hey so if you're at home going Wait where's Brian Man what a weird week So I'll kind of do it

reverse order, but just when you thought everything was getting normal again, which would have been Saturday, Friday night, Saturday morning, very last second before FilmSack was to be recorded. Brian informed the rest of the hosts that Tina had to go to the ER and we're like, oh no, what? You know, kind of freaking out. Or urgent care. The first night I think was just urgent care, but she was worried she had pneumonia, you know, a cold or something had gotten worse and had gotten it under her lungs and anyway took her down there sure enough diagnosis was yep pneumonia here here your meds here's your your inhaler you know the things you do when you have that i've had it before it sucks it's the worst uh but with quick proper care usually

you know you get in get out and that's kind of where he thought he was at so friday he's like um or saturday is like yeah so we'll have to bump the show but i think i'm fine for sunday i'm like okay cool no problem we bump it a day no big deal yeah uh we get an early morning like 4 a m text from brian in our discord group that says uh it went to the other lung uh we're in the er right now and uh you know it's it sounded like things that escalated so we were all freaking out like oh my gosh dude i hope she's okay anything you need can we do it you know the whole the whole rigamarole and um you know they were getting her taking care of getting her comfortable of getting her room and all that and she has been in the hospital since then

and should be coming home today uh discharged today is what brian's expecting. But as a result, completely, you know, ft his weekend and hers. And, of course, Family First rules here. So we just said, I guess we're bumping film sack a week. And that's fine. We don't mind doing that. We always make room for family stuff. Now, that would be a big deal on its own. All right. That would be enough. And that's why Brian's not here today. He's, you know, going to be helping and get her discharged. That's why I put some food on the floor for my daughter and said you're on your own for two hours that's right you're first uh eat it that's it that's the whole definition of family first eat your food i put on the floor so then so that's the reason he's

not here he should be here tomorrow all things going well and it sounds like she's doing much better so that's so we're good it's very good uh but pneumonia can eat a turd it's stupid especially in the summer what a dumb time to feel anything bad you want to feel good in the summer it's so stupid so that is all on top of me coming off the worst week of my life. Now, I've told the story, a few places now, Skim and some other streams and stuff, you're all sick of it. I understand. The diarrhea put up, I talked about it.

But I'm going to just give you the short of it so you can just feel what I feel and know what I know. Like Spock. You know, Spock says that when he touches your face. No, it's feel what I feel. Know what I know, whatever. What's that called? Oh, the mind melt. Anyway.

So, Bob, you're getting your own personal mind meld here on the... Okay, I'm ready. On the morning stream. Diarrhea mind meld. Oh, my gosh, dude. You have no idea. So last week, I'm not going to tell it step by step, but basically this is the short of it. Last Monday, and I talked about it on the show Wednesday, because we did have a show Wednesday morning.

But we didn't have a show Monday or Tuesday for the holiday, which now I regret. I wish I would have done a show both those days. If I knew what was coming, I would have said, screw. the holiday, we'll do shows those days. I didn't know what was coming. And what was coming was this. The water main thing between the street where the city owns it and has responsibility and me, where I own it and have responsibility, broke.

Big old PVC pipe split. And with Gushin, we found out the total, the actual total, 65,000 gallons of wasted water in June. And they never told us until the bill came. So we get the bill on Monday. And the bill says, congratulations you've new record you new record you have poured 65,000 gallons of water into the earth well done um maybe check your check your business you know so we're like all right fine we have

our favorite plumber come out we really like these guys they do nice work they don't screw you they're good credited insured all the things right yeah so they come out and they go well it's not your meter like damn I was hoping it was the meter, you know, something simple. And the meter was just wrong, because we couldn't find all this standing water. We couldn't find this Olympic freaking swimming pool that we supposedly created in the underground. We couldn't find it. And the guy goes, well, that's not unusual.

You guys are up here and you're up high. So what happens is it goes down the aquifers, you see. So, Bobby, this is good to have you here with your science brain. Because he kept going, yeah, it just goes through the aquifers. And I said, sure. I don't know what the hell those even are. I've heard of them, but I don't, I've really ever paid attention to what an aquifer is. I assume it means, like, natural waterways, like, you know, through, through the gravel and the dirt and the stuff and the gravity and it goes down to that river, and then that river goes that way.

And I think that's what he means. I don't know. Yeah, an aquifer is, yeah, it's just a, it's sort of like an underwater flow of water. Yeah, that's that, right? area where it's non-confined like it's not it's not being held firmly in the soil and it can move more right which makes sense i kind of picture it as like a big ant farm kind of you know it's i think it's kind of like that yeah you got like twisty turns and everything and we're not at a bottom of any kind of basin or low points so it wasn't collecting here which is good okay this is

actually a good thing and it didn't affect anyone else which is also good but it's bad because i just cannot I cannot fathom the idea. We try to be a relatively conscious home where we're paying attention to waste. We don't want to waste stuff, right? I don't want to just throw crap away or add plastic the environment or any of those things. We try to be good citizens that way. It feels like it's important. And, you know, even though it can feel sometimes like you don't make much of a dent as a single household, you know, it's important to us.

So being told that we just flushed without knowing it, 65,000 gallons into the frickin' earth, just really rub me wrong. I was so pissed. Yeah. Anyway, once we got a hold of that, and by the way, the leak apparently, the crack started in March,

has slowly become a bigger and bigger leak. It wasn't enough to be really moving the needle until suddenly right around the 1st of June, through the rest of June, that thing just opened up like, Like your mama's apple pie on a Monday morning. I don't know. That's not even a phrase.

I made all that up. That's how much water it was. All right? Wow. You needed a new phrase. I still do. I still need a new one. That was not good.

But then something else opened up. Yeah. And then something else opened up. So this stuff just gushing and doing its thing. And we have to pay that, of course. We have to pay for this water we didn't use. That's crazy. I know.

I mean, once it gets past their mood, meter. This is where it sucks. Like I understand at some point it's your responsibility. Like where where's the dividing line? And I found out it's the dividing line is literally right after where their meter is placed. So there's the meter. There's the line in the street that everybody pulls out of that's underground like six feet under. Then there's this meter that everybody has that that that's how the city knows how much water you're using and how much you can also read the reader or the meter and find out if you want to go in there. That's what they're. little like mini manholes are and people's like strip of grass between the sidewalk and the

streets are. Um, but from that meter to the house is specifically designated as the homeowners and nobody else's. Right. Okay. And even though it's like away from us, it's part of us somehow. So, so this thing splits open like a big old sieve and just dumping water into the thing. Um, the guy goes, yeah, we're going to have to do this in this. in this and that meant digging three separate five and a half foot holes oh my god five and a half foot deep and about five feet wide mind you wow you could bury a body in there we absolutely could have fact i was worried they might find one when they were digging in there they didn't but they you know i expected bones or something like a dog they didn't find the body you have down there

i know right i shouldn't even probably be saying it loud loud on the show but when i buried that body in 62 yeah maybe the remains of all even the bones have gone i don't know but anyway Well, was that behind the meter? Maybe that's the city's responsibility now. Oh, good point. The body, see, those rules are more ambiguous about where the body is and who's responsible. Well, anyway, this is not by no means admission of guilt, and that's a cold case and nobody cares about it anymore. Right. Statute of limitation.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm all good. Although I guess murder is the one that doesn't have any statute of limitations. That's true. Maybe it wasn't murder, though. People don't know. People don't know. I may have buried my grandma there. The jury's literally out on that.

That's what we're saying. Also, I wasn't alive in 62. So, you know, what am I even saying? Note to self. Never represent yourself in court. Bad idea, Scott. So anyway, this is all going on and they're digging these holes and they bring out these tractor things and they're just ripping my grass apart and it's just awful, right?

I'm just like, oh my gosh. And I'm trying to think to myself, this isn't that bad. This is okay. Go ahead and dig. You know, there are people out there with way worse problems today than this. Sure. let's just we'll deal with it oh and they had to turn the water off that's that's this is an important point of this so they shut the water off in the house that means no running water of any kind

uh no toilets although the toilets have whatever water they had in them at the time of the shut off but one flush and you're done right right and uh we're thinking it's like camping this'll be fine we've done this we've gone camping we camped all the time in the day we know what to do uh before we shut all this off let's take the hose and we'll fill up a couple of big buckets and we'll fill up this um this cooler thing that's like uh you take camping with you we'll fill that up with water we'll use that for like hand washing and teeth brushing that sort of thing then we'll have kind of gray water buckets for other needs if you need to pee fine we'll use that just pour it in the toilet that creates the suction needs to that sends the thing down no big deal we can deal with this we'll even go if

somebody needs to drop a you know uh drop a ho-ho if you know what i'm saying we'll just go over to the grocery store, which we did a couple of times that day. It's fine. You also have some big five and a half foot holes in the ground. Yeah, if we need those, they're all, they're there. So, so they're just getting this initial part done and the water's off, and we know we're hunkering down because they can't do the work on Tuesday to finish it. So we know that the fourth is going to be no water. And so we're planning ahead, trying to be smart about it, whatever you can do. We're doing it. Here's where things go south. some people are so sick at the story but i just have to it's helping me it's therapy to get it out

i understand i totally yeah because bobby this was like i don't even know the word this was traumatic all right all i i i i i you're telling me the story i haven't heard the story i've only seen a handful of tweets about it and that was you're telling so tell you're telling so tell oh good you've seen the trailer now catch it in theaters so here you go so Tuesday we're going well all right what are we doing for the fourth like let's try to make a holiday happen somehow even though I was kind of mad like the U.S. was like a girlfriend that really pissed me off the weekend before and she's still expecting me that's how we that's how we all feel about she was still expecting me to party with her on Tuesday which is like what do you what are you talking

about um and so we were already kind of begrudging I don't know I was irritated but the days going on and we hear from Taylor and Dylan hey can we We're going to bring Van by tonight. They were at some other barbecue on his side of the family. We're going to bring him by tonight. And then when it gets dark, we'll go watch fireworks on the ridge with you guys. We have this place where you can just sit up top and just see it forever.

It's awesome. It's really cool. So we're like, yeah, it sounds great. Bring the kids over. So they come over. They got the baby. They got Phoebe and they got Van. And Van is,

he just looks a little pale. He comes into the backyard and he's like, hey, he calls me pops. Hey, pops. and he comes over and hugs me and he just seems kind of, you know, tired. And I'm like, yeah, okay, buddy. He goes, yeah, I'm okay. You just figured it was emotional exhaustion from grappling with the state of our union on this day when we're supposed to be celebrating it.

Correct. You know, he just really is like, how do I, how do I put into perspective, uh, recent Supreme Court decision with my love of this fine land, you know, like, like us, that you feel like us, right? That's what I thought. Yeah. But I was wrong. he at one point goes my stomach hurts and Kim says oh okay let's go inside so he thought he had to

just poop so they go in there put him on the on the can remember all we got in there is whatever water's left and no way to flush whatever happens this is the one poop yeah this is it is all you're going to get and he goes and then while sitting there he looks at Kim and Kim recognizes the face because we've been doing this parenting thing for a long time we know the oh this i know i know the face you're talking yeah he makes this face and she goes oh no she grabs him the nearest bucket picks him up turk because there's nothing else in there turns him around and now it's you know it's the double dragon we call it here at the house right and uh he gets it everywhere just ralphs all over the bathroom and uh poor kid just sad and hates it and he's

crying while he's doing it's awful we don't know this we're all on the backyard enjoying the sun and chilling out and talking and stuff we don't know this is happening in the house kim comes out and goes yeah he threw up and you know remember and uh we're like oh no oh i'm so sorry buddy and he comes out and he's just looking all pale and he hugs his mom and she's like trying to you know console him or whatever and then he goes ugh they pick him up hang him over the the side of the house over there where there's like mulch and he just let's rip again i mean he's seriously throwing up and we're thinking oh no this isn't just i had too much watermelon and gone

on a trampoline this is something else so they're like you know what i think we should take him home and i said yeah it seems like you'd do better than here i mean we have no water she's like i know so so they leave they're barely there carter doesn't even make physical contact with the boy i hugged him once kim dealt with him in the house but for the most part we were outside we didn't really have to deal with much, uh, sort of, you know, none of us thought, oh, this will just now tear through everyone. Nobody had that in their head. They go away. Tuesday ends. Wednesday. Uh, 6.30 in the morning, or I'm sorry, 3.30 in the morning. Uh, we hear feet running down the hallway. Big, big adult feet. And Kim wakes up.

up and I hear her go, uh-oh. And I go, what? She goes, I think something's wrong. And she gets up and checks down the hall. And Carter is got the double dragon. Oh, God. Like horrible. Worst is the sick as she's ever been.

I've known this kid. I've known her since she was, you know, came out the shoot. She's never been this sick, ever. Just ridiculous. Every five minutes, just awful. Just like the worst thing ever. And we were just flabbergasted. I'm like, she didn't even touch the.

boy. How did she come in contact with this thing? Because he's clearly patient zero. We think anyway. We don't really know. Um, and he probably got it from a park, touch some like, you know, hobby horse or some, something and gave it to everybody. Anyway, so she's sick as crap. And about half an hour into that, I start feeling it. I'm like, oh, gosh. I'm going to die. And then Kim starts feeling it. We're like, are you kidding me? We have two working bathrooms in this house. And they're not working. Like, there's no water. So it's, three o'clock in the morning. Literally, we have three sick people going outside like a bucket brigade bringing buckets in to kind of manage this, right? Total nightmare. And we're running out

of water fast. Like we thought we had enough. We're just like, no, not with this. This is never going to be enough. Now, you've got your own personal version of the postman, right? Yeah. And I know, look, I know it annoys Brian when I bring this up. I don't actually want to have a barf streak. Okay. For those that I always bring it up and go, yep, 2005. I'm not, it's not actually a thing I'm proud of. I have to explain this a lot to people. I wish my body would just say, yeah, no, this is the right time. It's a natural occurrence. You should throw up now. I can't do it. So you're feeling super nauseous is what you were saying. Oh, yeah. And I just would not, I wanted to. I tried. Yeah. In those moments, you, you, as much as you don't like throwing up,

in those moments, you're, you're ready. You're just like, what can I do right now to make myself Yeah, like I needed to, I needed to, but I still couldn't. So yes, the, the, what do you call it? The streak is still intact, but not because I want it to be, all right? I really wanted to, but black and white cookie Seinfeld this thing and be done, but it didn't happen. And so as a result, the single dragon was my problem all, and I probably felt sicker for longer than the rest of them because of this reason. I just can't do it. I try.

I try. I just can't do it. I'm an anti-barfer. You were the frustrated double dragon. You're not wrong. So I spent a lot of time dealing with the South Pole, if you take my drift. Yep, yep, yeah. Actually, where's that?

I have that guy here. Diarear. That guy. So, but everybody, Carter's sick all night. It's like 24 hours hardcore, and then after that you just feel like crap. We still don't have water. Thursday comes around. They thought they're going to have water Wednesday.

Thursday comes around, they're like, well, we think we're good today for sure because there were some unforetold circumstances. Something cropped up with another pipe. They had to replace something. It's like, you know how this stuff goes. It gets complicated. And so they're letting us know every time. By the way, this guy had the worst B.O. ever smelled on a human being. This is just a side note. When you're already nauseous and feel gross and your plumbers like, hey, I've got to come in and look at the valve in the house. Is that okay? I'm like, oh, yeah, sure. Come on in. And he walks by and you went, oh, like, I don't know. I don't know even what to compare it to. It was so

overwhelming. Plus all of our senses are on high alert, and it's just like knocked me over. It was so strong. And I thought, this is going to speak in a Seinfeld, it's going to be like that where the house never gets rid of it. It's just going to smell like this forever. Turned out to be fine. Anyway,

and I kept worrying about them. I'm like, they're going to get it. Like, if we got it this easy from just the kid visiting for 10 minutes, these plumbers are getting it. Like, we're all getting it. Everybody's going to get it. We're all getting the plague. All right. So to sum it up or to shorten it all, we finally get water late Thursday afternoon, about 3.30. I'll never have a better shower than I did at 3.45 p.m.

Oh, my gosh. It was amazing. For real. Everybody, do me this favor. Sit down with your loved ones and discuss the miracle that modern plumbing is that running hot and cold water should never be taken for granted again. or that it's clean. It's amazing what it is. What we have done, what we hath wrought is an incredible human advancement.

And you should never, ever take it for granted. Because when it's not there and you need it the most, you're a caveman and it's the worst. But the minute it kicks on... I'm going to tell... I'm going to recount this story

to my children any time that they're complaining about like the state of, you know, whatever is going on in their life It's going to be a cautionary tale and a tale about how they should appreciate the current situation. And we'd be like, just let me tell you the story about the Johnson's. Yeah, it's the 2020s version of their starving kids in China, eat your food. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

You have working water. It could be worse. Let me tell you. Yeah. Now, the only, okay, so when the water came back, the world got better. Everything got better. And also, we were all starting. to feel better but still pretty crappy like just weak and I couldn't eat for like two days I

didn't eat just couldn't eat so it was a lot of fluids and just trying to stay hydrated you're just it was it was probably terrifying you were looking at the food thinking am I going to see this again in 30 minutes yeah right I don't want to see this again ever is what I want I would say to it well I don't I guess what I want to say is I want to see it again I just don't want to see it in 20 minutes I just don't yeah I want to see it tomorrow. It's horrible. But anyway, so, so everything's, you know, everything's, you know, everything's on the up at this, at this stage until we get the bill for what this is going to cost.

Yikes. $5,800. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. And we have some insurance on this sort of thing, but there's a deductible. So we're still out of pocket a huge amount. It's not going to cover all of it. Yeah.

I think it may only cover like two grand of it. it's i don't really have it right now it's a big mess on that front forget about that though at this point i am willing to uh i'm willing to do whatever it takes a little dead if i have to whatever so that this never happens again i never want this to happen again because what is this timing what exactly are we doing here like how can this timing be any worse than it was by having this happen on a week where we had no water, like of any week of any time ever, or even a holiday happening right at the moment. Like, it couldn't have been stupider. So at the end of it all, it just feels stupid and I hate it all. And now I have three really ugly wounds in my yard.

They've refilled the holes, obviously, but they look like death out there. But it's fine. Oh, and these chuckleheads, as much as I like them, they forget things when they do work here. so there's these two signs that say sidewalk closed that way they blocked off the sidewalk for about a block to say hey don't come through here because there's construction and holes and everything they just left those and I don't know what to do with them what do you do with those they're like the foldables you know what I mean like they look like a little teepee and on both sides that says sidewalk clothes are like big city industrial like thick rubber sign things and I don't want those what am I supposed to do with that stuff? They're yours now and you get to use them for, I don't know, movie props next time. I guess so. Yeah. Put them in the background of your stream. So we're going to call them today and just say, hey, what the hell?

Come get these stupid things. I don't want these. Sell them. Sell them to reimburse yourself. Yeah, exactly. So it was all a very big, dumb, ugly time. Thank you all for indulging the story. I'm done telling it now.

I'm never going to talk about it again. It is in my rearview mirror. I guess I'm glad this happened now and not on my family reunion at the end of the month. Oh, no kidding. With everyone there, that would be really bad. Oh, man, can you imagine?

Yeah, no, dude. I mean, it's holy shiz. You know what really bugs me, though, is knowing that I was in Vegas in April with you and this water leak was happening then even and we didn't know it. Like, we're not even at home and this thing is just going right into the thing,

just dumping water into the world, as if it's free, as if everyone has, if everyone had so much water, we don't care, you know? Yeah, well, you were replenishing the aquifer. And by the way, I did look up just to be certain. An aquifer is not like an ant farm. An aquifer is just what you call the water,

the water that is collected in the, either the rock bed or the soil or anything underneath ground. You dig, when you dig a well, you dig into the aquifer, for example. Oh, so there's water, it's water in there, no, groundwater, basically. Yeah, it's like groundwater. Okay, so we were putting water in the groundwater. And he said if we'd live downstream or down hill from where we lived, we would have had massive flooding.

Well, yeah, because hills, so though, I know this about groundwater is that it stays at a pretty, it's a pretty level kind of a business, you know, underground. If you want to cut a profile into the earth, you would see that the groundwater is level and then the hills rise up around it you know in fact like a river or a lake like natural ones are when the ground

dips below the water table so I forgot to mention this whole time we're also babysitting a third dog someone else's dog who's not isn't behaved very well

and the other dogs don't like her so that's going on and then add this to it during this entire time they're doing the construction even when they weren't there, the back gate had to be open because one of the holes was directly below it, which means we couldn't just let the dogs go outside and pee and bring them back in. We had to, they had to be leashed and walked. And if I do, if I leash Rainer,

she won't pee in the backyard where I need her to. She thinks a leash means it's time to go walk for three miles. And I only, and I'll mark my territory when I do that. So I had to take her every time. Sun's beaten down. I haven't eaten anything. I lost 10 pounds, by the way. 10 effing pounds, that doesn't even seem healthy. That seems bad. Yeah, that's, that's too, too fast. Too fast over a few days, right? But I'm going to, I'm going to use it to my advantage here, though. I'm going to like, this kickstarts a diet like no other. And I'm going to... You need to enter into a hot dog eating competition. Oh, my gosh, dude. Win the prize money. Can you freaking imagine? Like, I don't even want... You know what sounds disgusting right now?

Like, if you said, Scott, because I do have an appetite back, I can eat now. But if you said, hey sky how would you like some even if they're the freshest best hand cut perfectly made french fries of any kind f off no no i don't want them i'd rather die than have french fries right now and i mean that that sounds disgusting so i'm going to use that as a sign that i can take advantage of this kick off some diet goals and uh not only keep that 10 off but you know keep this ball rolling as the kids are fond of saying in the year 2023. Turn that poop lemon into

lemonade? I don't know. I don't know. That's a bad idea too. And also a quick note of like actually something that was really good and it surprised me. Dan Dan Dan, Dan the tabletop man. So you hear that sound? I got to find this wire today. Do you hear that? It went away. I think I know where it is. Anyway, Dan, Dan, the tabletop, man, his advice was, hey, go out and get like a, when you're feeling well enough, go get a milkshake. And I thought, what? That sounds like a bad idea.

That does sound like a bad idea. And he says, the reason is you, there's a ton, as long as you're not like lactose intolerant or something, there's a ton of, like, fat in there. And your body needs it. You need that fat. You need that little bit of that sugar bump. You need just some stuff that you haven't been getting and you'll get it if you just go get yourself a shake. So I did that. That's a good point.

And he was right. That's the best I felt all week after I had that. Yeah, quick replenishing. Give yourself some carbs, but I'll probably give you some quick energy and then the fats. That's a neat idea. Yeah, it was all right. So, Dan, you're definitely going to use that as my excuse to eat a milkshake next time I'm sick. Look, a pharmacist told me to do it.

Yeah, a pharmacist I know secondhand via a show I sometimes co-host on told me. Anyway, so that was that. And a quick note here that I don't know if the rest of the world is like this, but usually video games are comfort for me when I don't feel well. Zero desire to play video games during all this. None. Well, that's when you know it's bad. That's when you know it's bad, for me especially,

because that's usually just the perfect distraction. What I did instead is I went down a Wes Anderson obsession road. I watched a bunch of Wes Anderson. For some reason, I had never seen, I'm getting ready to see Asteroid City, which is in theaters now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I, and I love his movies, but I had never seen for, I don't know, some reason, one of his greatest movies by pretty much everyone's account, which was Grand Budapest Hotel. So I watched that. That movie's great.

Can't recommend it enough. Loved it. 2014's Grand Budapest Hotel. Then I watched the French Dispatch. I still haven't seen Moonrise Kingdom, which for a lot of people's like their favorite. I still got to watch that, so I'm going to, but I'm on a tear right now. I'm inspired to watch like all things Wes Anderson. So for whatever reason, that was comforting during our hell week, week in hell that we had.

Well, I'm glad you found some comfort somewhere. Thanks, man. I appreciate it. Hey, are you on threads? Are you doing this threads thing at all? I looked at the notes this morning for TMS and I saw that and I've heard people talking about it and I was like, okay, I guess I should check this out. And so I did, is it just a, is it just a? Just Instagram, Twitter?

It's Instagram Twitter. Well, Instagram is technically, it's meta, so it's Facebook, it's Instagram, it's whatever. Right, but I know it's, they, I think they, on the app called themselves like something, like it's connected to Instagram. Yeah, it's Instagram. And I imported my Instagram account. Yeah, exactly. And your followers and all that. It's exactly that.

And it came at a time, I mean, the two billionaires are now verbally fighting, which, just kind of funny to watch. But I think they were seizing on the grump over at Twitter, and they were like, all right, well, now's our time. Also, there's a bunch of Twitter's piss because these are a bunch of ex-top developers at Twitter that he fired without cause. So it broke all their contracts, their non-competes, all that stuff. He just summarily fired a bunch of people.

And these people left, went to work on this project over at Meta, and now Musk is mad. says that's cheating. I don't think that's cheating. But anyway, they are, they're up to 100 million users as of today. And this thing's only four, what, four and a half days old or something? Anyway, I'm just letting people know if you're using it. I'm over there. It's actual Scott, okay, because someone else has Scott Johnson because they're buttholes and have had it forever and I never was able to get it. So I had to do one that was, you know, whatever. So I did. It's actual Scott, ACT, you know, how you spell actual? I don't have to tell you.

But you can search that. Threads.net is how you get on there. Brian's posting like crazy over there as well. In fact, that's where a lot of people first heard about Tina's hospitalization. That's over at Coverville, of course.

He got that because he always gets his name. And then Bobby, did you sign up? Did you get in there then? Yeah, I tried to change my Instagram handle so it'd be something closer to what I like now. So I tried Bobby, Bobby Franks,

Bobby underscore, and none of it worked. It's all taken. So I had to go with my, just keep my current Instagram handle on threads, which is GM Funky Town. Ah, GM Funky Town. Like General Manager or

Game Master, which is really what the GMs was supposed to stand for. Funky Town. I think you might even be able to just search for my name, and to prove it, I'll take a picture right now and post it of the stream. Nice.

Wait, can you not even do that? You can do pictures, yeah. Well, I'll take a picture and figure out how to... It's there's some... It's a little thread bear on the features front. There's stuff they need to add. They claim they've got a followers-only tab coming. They've got, you know, integrated gift support, all that stuff.

You can do gifts now, but you have to paste them in from other apps. In some ways, it's, you know, it's not, certainly not as feature-rich as Twitter. But it also doesn't seem to be so buttholey right now. Like, algorithmically, it seems to favor, you know, some people on Twitter would call this bad but it's a nice change for me is that it it tends to favor positivity in my feed um which i think is good uh and i'm getting a lot more engagement over there twitter's just turned into a sour mess so so anyway i like it uh for now and you know people are like what and suddenly you're a facebook fan no no what this means is you know how someone shitty runs for office

but then somebody shittier runs for office at the same time what's that that cut you know of the South Park butthole or no a turd sandwich and a in a something well I can't remember the the choice between a turd sandwich and a something I can't remember what the other thing is but that's what this is I'm not rooting for Mark Zuckerberg but I'm definitely rooting against Elon Musk right right like it's not even about that for me to me it's like where's the best place to communicate with the community and this so far seems pretty good so can i also say that uh social media networks and popping up and doing it's the one thing that really does make me feel old so as i can't keep up and nothing else makes you feel old that's

interesting it's it's well i mean um also waking up in the morning with uh having realized i pulled a muscle while i was sleeping also makes me feel old but you know you know what i wonder here's a good question for you speaking of that exactly exact thing. I feel really good physically today more than I did before I got sick. So my question is, it's entirely possible that physical ailments and I, in particular, I can speak for anybody else, including you, but my physical ailments that I may ever experience are probably more tied to diet than I think. You know what I mean? Yeah, I think when I'm when I'm eating badly, I feel bad, you know? I'm not the one who's going to say that that means you should

go on you know like every four months you should go on a seven day fast or anything i think that there's probably that's probably a lot of BS but um yeah but uh but i do think that i do feel i can I feel noticeably worse when I'm when I've been eating poorly so I think there's something to I think there's definitely some there's definitely a connection here so I got to ride this train man I got to take what I think what you said it's right you need to use this as an opportunity to be like you like hit the reset button sort of just be like let's let's let's let's Just let's just try to, you know, you did some spring cleaning. Mm-hmm.

I did. Yeah. I took out the, I took out the garbage, left it at the curb, almost literally. And, yeah, I'm ready for a new, I'm ready for a new day, guys. Let's turn this, let's turn sour apples into tasty gas station hot pockets. All right? That's what we're going to do. Okay.

Oh, Bobby, do you have anything else? going on. I kind of took over the top of the show today with my terrible story. Did you have anything going on? You know, not a lot. This week for me has been a little weird too. Nothing compared to yours, but my daughter is away. My older daughter, Zoe, she's 10, is away at her first like overnight sleep away camp for most of a week. That's intense for a 10 year old, you know. Oh, yeah. And she's an anxious kid too. So she's, It's been tough on her, and she's got like an Apple Watch and an iPod touch that she can get in touch with us on, and she will video call us every once in a while. Sure.

And it has been tough on her. But I think this is really going to be good for her because it's going to kind of help her grow a bit. Yeah. The homesickness is good to go through and then overcome if they can. Yeah, and come out clean on the other side. That's right. but uh but what i didn't realize was i always thought that i was the the parent the parent who's like you know you'll be okay you deal with it um because i kind of always have been that way

but i real this this i'm learning a lot about myself as a parent as week because i cannot get anything done i am constantly worried about her um oh i'm like i'm like uh i'm i've turned into that like nervous like oh my god is she okay is everything all right she hasn't text me in like four hours is she having fun or is she kidnapped yeah no and you know what here's the fun part i thought when my you know when i had 10 year olds which wasn't that long ago that would just be it you know they get they've hit 18 and i go okay i don't have to worry anymore no it's just it's almost worse it's like well that's what i told my wife is that is that so so at the same time that Zoe is kind of

getting out on her own for the first time and being by yourself, that's part of what this camp, it's a STEM camp, so science, technology, engineering, and math, so it's all part of that stuff that she's interested. That's great. Yeah, exactly. Stuff that she's interested in, she's going to have fun, but it's also, they build themselves as sort of like leadership and character

building because the whole point is for them to be out on their own, right? Right. And they're on a college campus and stuff like that. And it's two hours away from us. But anyway, I told her, yeah, this is going to be great for her. She's going to learn some independence that she really, really needs to prove to herself

that she can, you know, survive without us on her own and everything, because like I said, she's a pretty anxious kid. And, um, but it's also, it felt very much like we were dropping her off at college and it's just like practice for us to. Yeah, dude. It's not, it doesn't get anything easier either. So I feel

your, uh, I feel your, whatever that is. I don't know if it's a pain, but I feel your your, uh, it's, I definitely feel a feeling in my stomach, um, every, every moment. far and haven't been getting a lot of sleep. Good luck to her and I hope she makes a ton of friends and has a great time. That's the main thing. Yeah, yeah. All right, we are going to take a break. When we come back, Steven Schleiker is going to join us. We're going to talk about some insane news that I heard

over the weekend. I cannot believe it's true. I thought I was sick and delirious when I heard it, but it's happening. We'll get to that and a bunch of other stuff coming up. Love having Stephen on. That'll be after this break where we have a song. And Brian gave me the info for this. So This is an indie band, so we're doing an indie in the middle. And they are rock funk group from St. Louis, Missouri. You might be familiar with St. Louis, Missouri, or St. Louis, Missouri. I love funk music, so I'm going to have to listen. Brian described to him as, like, got a little bit of chili peppers in there.

Kind of like, maybe even like they sound a little bit like live in their vocals, the band live. Which I was a huge fan of those guys. Anyway, this is one of the first singles of their planned six set EP to come in later later this year. This is a brand new track called Hold on. The song is called Comes Back On. And again, the band is Cabo, C-A-V-O, I believe. Let me make sure that's right. I don't want to screw this up. Yeah, Cav-O, there it is. C-A-V-O, all in caps. So check out this song.

We'll be back in a moment with Stephen. Stay tuned. night's no time to feel this bold and no matter what I say we feel the same flame from the fire and it feels like we're owned and it feels like we're almost home last year gone All the light burned out comes back on I feel nothing, no words to see my soul. Long days, blind nights, no time to make me be. Make me home

And no matter what I say We feel the same Flames from the fire And it feels like we're own And it feels like we're almost home Last year gone Oh the lights burned out Comes back on

And no matter what I say, and no matter what I say, And no matter what I say We feel the same flame from the fire And it feels like we're home And it feels like we're home And it feels like we're almost home Last year gone All the lights burned out

Comes back on, comes back on. Comes back on. Comes back on. Woman's work, as she never tires of pointing out, is never done. But modern automatic cookers do make it easier, as demonstrated at the Amsterdam Household Fair. husbands like to know what's cooking Hey kids Spaghetti for lunch

And we're back And we're back once And their hot new single Comes back on And watch for more of them later this year Thank you Brian for setting that up for me All right We're going to get Stephen all up in it

inside of it, part of it. Symbiotic relationship with Stephen, you know. I like it. Yeah, he's great. We love him. I think he's in the chat. I don't actually know. I didn't see. I've not been able to look at the chat because I've been too nervous. I'm going to screw something up today. It's been a while since I've done a proper TMS. But anyway, here we go. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd.

Dollar, dollar bills, y'all. Yeah, he is. It's Steven Schlecker joining us from Major Spoilers.com, headquartered in beautiful Kansas. the state of Kansas. Good morning, Scott. Welcome back. How are you? Good. Good morning, Bobby.

Hey, good morning. It's fantastic to have you. What's going on? How are you feeling? Well, I was going to come on and talk about what a wonderful time I had in Denver last year. Yeah. But considering that Brian's gone through some stuff and you've gone through some stuff and Bobby's going through some stuff, I'll talk about all the bad things that happened when I went on my

wonderful trip. Oh, good, good. Fantastic, because I only want to hear negative things today if we can. That'd be wonderful. So we ended up, you know, we knew Fan Expo was going on, but, you know, three-fourths of the family has zero interest in going to a comic book convention. And so we ended up staying at a hotel literally across the street from the convention. Oh, my. And then Brian messes me, and he says, oh, I didn't, I was too busy with, to respond to your email.

I'm so sorry. I said, we're staying at this hotel called the Slate, which is an old grade school that they've converted into a hotel. That's cool. how that looks for real quick. Hold on. Well, first of all, I had to drop the family off because there was no parking at the slate. So I dropped them off and then my wife was like, oh, we're up in this room. And the minute you step

into the stairwell, I'm like, this is an old school. Because it's got the tile and the stairs that you remember from grade school if you went to a multi-story grade school back in the day. I did, yeah. And so it was really cool. The hallways were nice and wide. So that was cool. That is cool. So did it.

It's like classrooms are like cordoned off and to be to be hotel rooms and that kind of thing? Yeah. And I don't know if the way that everything is structured, I don't know if they found some antique lighting or anything, but it felt like every room could have been a classroom. Oh, interesting. That's crazy. Yeah.

I love that. I'd never even heard of that. That sounds like a rad place to stay. All right. So far you're having a-it's really cool. Yeah, having a better time than we did. All right. Yeah, so I'm messaging back and forth with Brian.

And it's like, oh, we're staying at the Slate. He's like, oh, I was at Fan Expo today. And I think he meant that he was at Fan Expo. so he went and we didn't we weren't able to see brian and then it turns out the spagnolos are also taking a trip to denver and guess who decided to go to the fan expo they did spagnolos so all three of us were within less than probably a quarter of a mile of each other but never saw each other and never saw each other oh well so that's a bad that's a bummer yeah I know they were trying to all hook up and it just I don't know sometimes this stuff doesn't work I get it and and people from Colorado I love the state of Colorado it's a beautiful state, but man, your roads suck. They are just in such poor conditions. More on that in a moment. Yeah. So we parked it. I had to stay in long-term parking.

By the way, I bet you money, they would say that that's due to all the snow and snow removal. Oh, I'm sure it is. Yeah. But anyway. I'm sure it is. But there are some massive potholes right on the middle of I-70 that you cannot avoid. Oh, my Lord. So I had to park a couple blocks away at a long-term stay. And the next day, we're getting out because we're going to go to.

to a Meow Wolf, which I'll talk more about that when Brian's back, because I think you'll be very interested to hear my reactions to that. Yeah, yeah, probably. Oh, yeah, I love to hear. I'm excited about that. I forgot. We get on the car and there's a sheet of paper on the windshield. It's like, what does this be us?

And so I grab it and it's like, oh, I'm sorry. I hit your, your truck. Here's my phone number. And I was like, oh, great. Go out and there's like, they kind of scraped up the paint just a little bit. but they cracked the whole passenger side light, you know, the backup light, rear backup light. Yeah.

And I was like, okay, this is going to be a pain in the butt, but okay, at least they didn't do any serious, serious damage to the car. So we'll skip ahead to the end of the trip. We're coming back on these horrible roads of Colorado. And the engine catches on fire. Oh, no. No. But we hit a pothole, and I look in my rearview mirror, and I was like, I think we just lost that light that the person hit.

And sure enough, that whole light, just the pothole, knocked it loose. And it went sailing out to the ditch somewhere. Oh, my gosh, dude. Did you have to go get it or you just kept driving? No, I'm not just like, I'm not stopping and trying to dig around in a ditch with snakes for an hour, trying to find a light. To recover an already broken life. Yeah. Oh, see, it wasn't a perfect week at all, but you had a lot of fun in the middle of all that.

It was a lot of fun. Really, if people give a chance to go to Meow Wolf, it was a lot of fun. And the Denver Aquarium, I think that's what it's called Denver Aquarium. is really a lot of fun as well. So a couple of destination places. Her good things from Brian in particular about that. But, um, yeah,

I would avoid, I would avoid the Denver Zoo. We went and half the animals weren't there. Didn't get us any lions. No tigers, no bears. Oh, well,

what's the point of that then? I know, right? That's the stable. Denver Zoo is kind of expensive for what you get. Yeah, I, uh,

we have a similar situation here at our zoo, although it's been better in recent years, but there was a time there where, you know, I'm like, if I'm going to spend 50 bucks or whatever, the pat, day passes on a Sunday, you better have some damn animals for me to look at or else, what are we

doing here? Like, what is the point at this place? Yeah. Whenever there's like, oh, the lions are being, they're having their knits done or some bullshit. And you're like, no, get him out here. And we're just close the zoo then, you butt holes. Yeah. Anyway, yeah. The Denver's zoo is like 84 bucks a person. Oh my gosh. Yeah. And we only, by the time we were halfway through, we're like, there's no animals here. So we laughed after about two hours. That's like 90s era Disneyland tickets. That's like expensive. All right.

Well, I do have a bit of good news for you, Scott. Oh, what's the good news? You are our prime to go see Astrid City? I am. I'm getting there. I'm going to try to,

it looks like it's not streaming anywhere, so I'm going to have to watch Moonrise Kingdom rented. Oh, wait, wait until tomorrow. Why? Why? When it drops on digital early, Amazon Prime, iTunes, Voodoo, Google Play, all of them are like Asteroid City tomorrow morning.

Really? Yeah. Is it a buyable, a rentable, or what? Well, I think it is, you can buy or rent it. I can rent that tomorrow? Yep. Yep, I got the press release this morning. I'm doing that.

Okay, here's what I'm doing then. Check this out. Tonight, I'm watching Moonrise Kingdom. Shut up all these Parasite people for a minute, okay? Just forget about Parasite. That's a good one. I'm going to watch Moonrise Kingdom tonight. That means I'm caught up.

I've seen every Wes Anderson film. I'd already seen most of them, but I've caught up now on the ones I've missed. That means I'll be caught up. and then tomorrow I rent that. That's what's happening. I'm doing it. All right.

Do it. Why are they doing that? It feels like it was doing okay in theaters. I don't know. I'm sure it's not doing great in the theaters, but there have been a couple of like 824 did this with everything everywhere all at once. That was, that dropped like very soon after it was in theaters.

There have been a couple of other movies recently where like within a week or two of release, it's up on a streaming service. Real quick, a micro review of the French dispatch. I liked it. I liked it, too. I think that the middle's bloated.

It's my only complaint. Which story is that one? That's the kidnapping one? The Dune Kid. Yeah, I know Chevalier or whatever is that name is. Yeah, that whole thing. It's just, that one gets a little long in the tooth. It's not terrible or anything.

But I thought the first one, the artist in prison deal. Because it's basically an anthology is what they're doing here. which is unusual for him. He doesn't usually do this. But it is really good. That whole first thing is so good. Oh, my gosh. But it's crazy going, when you watch his movies back to back, it's crazy because

you're like, oh, there's all his usuals. Like all these people that love being in his movies, they're all in them. And then the next movie rolls, right? Like, oh, here's all those same people, but also three or four other people thrown in that are new that have all been begging and we'll say, I'll work for free if you just put me in your movie. Was it? Edward Norton says,

he makes a he made four thousand dollars on moonrise kingdom and people are like are you kidding because you made like 22 million for the Hulk uh that bad Hulk movie and he's like this is what we do to work with west anderson we don't these movies don't make tons of money but we're dying to work on them and so all of these actors like this a list of asteroid city people people think oh how are they paying these people it's because they are all working for nothing to be just a part of it and i'm just in this mood right now. I just can't get enough of it. It's so good. Anyway, I really like the color scheme of Grand Budapest Hotel, but there's something about the color scheme, black color scheme in Astrid City that hurts my eyes.

Oh, really? I mean, it looks like the most Anderson-ass thing I've ever seen in the trailers. Oh, yeah, yeah, most definitely. Yeah. But the one, well, what caught me off guard, Grand Budapest Hotel is, I mean, that's the one that won an Oscar, right? That won Best Picture, I think. Yeah. I didn't expect it to make me laugh so hard. There were moments in that where I was like rolling. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. And also, I didn't, I didn't, I can't think of the actor now. Who's the guy? He's from, uh, oh, yeah, yeah, it's a, uh, uh, he's the cleaner. Um, in, in Tarantino movie. Oh, you're talking about the wolf. Yeah. Yeah, the wolf.

Murphy, no, uh, not Harvey Brown. No, that's not it. Harvey Kytel is what I'm trying to think of it. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, yeah. I didn't recognize that dude. And he shows up and I just went, what the frick is he even doing in this? And he owned it.

Oh, my gosh, such a great movie. Can't say enough about Grand Budapest, which is on Max or Hulu. I don't remember where I watched it. Anyway, Stephen, let's get to this breaking news. Well, before we do that, I have a phone call. Do you want to hear this? This is for you. It's kind of about you.

This is a sag after a thing about the strike and all that. somebody said that tell me more than I don't think they're calling you out so much as just complimenting your conversation or something. Here it is. Let's see what they said. It actually has been a while too, so I don't remember what they said. This is from last week.

So here we go. Hey, Scott and Brian. This is Blake from New York City and calling about TMS. You guys were talking with Stephen about the writer strike and the upcoming potential SAG Astra strike as well. I am a member of SAGAFRA and actors. Equity Association. And the strike, while, yeah, someone like Tom Cruise, for your example, will support the

strike, and it's really not affecting him because you're right, he's going to be making, you know, millions of dollars for whatever movie he does. He's supporting the little guy like me or, you know, other actors who might just be a day player or have a reoccurring role on a TV show, and we are making. minimum, the minimum scale is what they call it. So that hasn't come up in a long time, so it's not really in congruence with the cost of living. And then the other major thing that the writers are working on

and that's affecting us as actors as well is residuals and specifically for streaming services. Um, so, uh, you're giving them the studios, your intellectual property or as an actor, something that you, a character that you created and they're making thousands or millions of dollars off it after the fact. And, um, you get a check in the mail for two bucks. And that's just not right. So just wanted to fill you guys in. All right.

Love the show. Bye. Uh, some good insight. Yeah. Yeah, no, I don't think we, I hope. Hopefully we didn't try to paint the picture that it was not and it was a waste of time and everything because I totally support everybody going on strike for these things. And yes, the minimum, which is probably what the $4,000 that the actor was paid for a Wes Anderson movie, that's probably your day scale, right? Or maybe even a little bit more.

But, yeah, everybody deserves a lot more when a studio is making millions of dollars off of people's work. Yeah, especially. And certainly the residuals are a big thing, too. Yeah, residuals are messed up. The more you learn about it, the more it kind of blows my mind. I know a couple of writers who are worked on giant projects like Rogue One and, you know, big Star Wars things. And they get piddly squat in the long run. They just don't get, but in the long run, Disney's making so much money.

So it just feels like it's uneven. Yeah, if you really want to dive deep into that area, you need to look at the subject called Hollywood Accounting. and how a movie like Empire Strikes Back, released 30 years ago, still has not made any money. Oh, yeah. That's a weird one, right? I remember reading about that. Yeah, I mean, and this has happened multiple times where there are a few movies. I think Thor, too, was one of the more recent ones. And I know one of the amazing Spider-Man movies was this way, too, where people had to take the studios to court to show, you know, where is your accounting on this? why are we not getting paid the money that we deserve?

So it would be nice if some of those practices would go away. I agree. Hopefully that stuff improves and this strike ends up in a very positive place for creators and writers we'll have to see. It just, man, it feels like a moment though, doesn't it? Where everything's just kind of screeching to a halt and we're going to have a real bummer of a content layout next year. It's going to be weird. All right. Stephen, news is, look, we're finally getting to it. Electra returning to the big screen and I don't just mean the character

I mean Jennifer Garner is coming back as Electra in the Deadpool 3 movie which seems just about perfect for something like that but I don't know who was asking for this that movie's so bad dude it's real bad I love Jennifer Garner so watch the director's cut of that movie

if you want to see a better version of the movie the director's cut makes the movie so much better and makes it a lot more sense doesn't even you know hold a candle to the Daredevil Netflix series or the Marvel studio series. Right. But yeah, definitely the director's cut as a much better version. So

Ryan Reynolds, who was in the movie, he was in the Adam Project, and so was Jennifer Garner. They were both husband and wife in that movie. You may remember seeing that. So apparently they had a lot of good working relationship with that. Sean Levy was the one who directed that, and I believe he is

the one that is directing this Deadpool 3. So it makes sense that the three of them would get together and want to do something with Elektra in this piece. So, yeah, that's going to be really interesting. I mean, yeah, this is going to be really interesting to see her come in. Now, whether she's going to be in for, you know, a big part or whether she's going to be

doing the, the Matt Damon kind of quick cameo, as in Deadpool 2, that is, that's left to be seen. Yeah. Did you see this, it's kind of breaking? I think it maybe happened early this morning or something, but Ryan Reynolds put up a Instagram story with a photo showing him. him in his Deadpool costume walking with Hugh Jackman in his yellow and black Wolverine bullshit. Have you seen this?

No, I haven't seen that yet. Oh, my gosh. Here, I'll put it in Discord. Chat can see it now because I'm showing it. But this is the greatest thing in the history of ever. Like, I don't know why I'm so in for this. Obviously, it's... I mean, they might as well have fun with it, right?

Just scroll down a bit to see it. Yeah, I see it. Yeah, I like it. Yeah, they're going... They're just going all in. It's like, hey, if we're going to have them here, let's finally get on. This will probably be the last Deadpool movie. Yeah, I think so, right?

You finish out strong in a third. I mean, certainly there's a thing about franchises where you can go on forever, right? But this is the first Deadpool movie post-Disney buying Fox. And I think Disney was kind of like, we don't know what to do with Deadpool because we don't know what to do with something that is not family friendly. And so I think they were just like, let's see what happens. but I'm pretty sure that everybody involved is like, yeah, I think three and done is enough for us. Do you think now that it's a Disney 100% Disney produced thing

means that they could say, well, whatever in the next Avengers, Deadpool shows up. You know what I mean? I mean, they totally could. I mean,

that's what everybody's waiting for with the X-Men, right? When is Disney going to put the X-Men and the Avengers together on the screen at the same time or give us even more X-Men stuff? Yeah. Not going to be for a while. It's a good reminder. I haven't even seen Deadpool 2. I don't know why I missed it.

I just didn't see it. It's pretty good. I like the first one a lot. Yeah, I don't think it is as good as the first one, but it's definitely, it's definitely up there. Also, is Deadpool 3 going to have an R rating? That's the other question, right? I mean, it depends on what banner they release it under. If they're going to release it under a Fox Pictures kind of thing or a 20th century Fox,

they could get away with a with an R rating on that. I think they have to. They have to. Yeah. And I'm pretty sure Deadpool is on Disney Plus, but you have to have the parental account. and use your pin number to unlock that so yeah yeah if they don't though like that would shock me if they didn't go for the R rating because that's just the first two movies are hard R like yeah they don't be a soft power that's what I really think that's what people want with it anyway

yeah I think that's what they expect so if you change those expectations I think you're playing with fire a little bit so I don't know well we'll we'll see it's kind of how I feel about blade I don't want them to hold back on blade I need it to be bloody and you know over the top and super violent and I don't necessarily need you know I don't need people bumping their their uglies for two hours I'm not asking for that I just want some good hardcore bloody true to the character action and and you can't I don't think you can't change uh Deadpool to do that I did see a picture though what is Ruffalo doing with these guys is this is the Hulk confirmed as part of this because I haven't heard anything about that but it

wouldn't surprise me right because they were all hanging out at some presser thing and it was Jackman him I can't remember who all who were there, some people from the previous two films and stuff. But then off to the sides, there's old Mark Ruffalo hanging out. I'm like, oh, wait a minute, it's a Hulk in this because I'm all for that. I mean, the Hulk is going to throw. At this point, Ryan Reynolds is probably, I don't want to say he's bankable and I don't want to say he is the most important person in Hollywood, because that would still go to

Steven Spielberg and, you know, some of the greats there. But if Ryan Reynolds called you up and said, hey, listen, Disney, I want to use Mark Ruffalo and the Hulk in this movie. They would have to say yes on that. I think they would. I mean, he is, but also this.

His personality and presence is just so great that to say no to Ryan Reynolds, it would be like, let's just flush money down the toilet. Oh, sorry, Scott. I don't mean to bring it bad news. Well, at least I can flush it down the toilet now. I'd be happy to do that.

But, you know, this old, this old stereotype of the Hulk chucking Wolverine, we're getting that. That's happening. Like, there's no way that's not happening. He'll be all green with his purple pants all torn up. You'll have Hugh Jackman in his freaking yellow and black 90s ass costume. And the Hulk is going to throw him at something.

I can't wait for this. I'm just so excited. The other thing was, I was going to say, oh, we watched for Film Sack. We watched Green Lantern. We haven't able to do the episode yet because of all our issues. But I have something to say that may not be popular or it may be controversial. and this is just a preview how we'll talk about the show when we get there. But I really liked the core, and by the core, I mean the actual like Lantern core,

lore and the space stuff, like the lore behind it, the way they explain the Guardian stuff. I thought that stuff was great. And I hadn't seen the film yet. So I've been putting it off because I was like, I hear this is terrible. Why would I watch this? I don't want to be disappointed. I really like Green Lantern. This deserves more.

Every time they did anything on Earth, it was. kind of lame. But the minute they got out there and started dealing with what the core is and how it works and who's what and yellow and green and all this, that shit was cool, man. Like, I was surprised about that. Yeah, it's not

a horrible movie, but it's also not a great movie. No, definitely not. Right there in a good slot right there. I think the thing, there are a couple of, I mean, there's many things. Even Ryan Reynolds will talk to you about why that movie didn't do the things that he thought it should do. But I think they should not have had Hal Jordan in the

case. You know, the first Green Lantern movie that you have and everyone who knows Green Lantern only knows John Stewart from the animated series. And so they're like, what's this white guy doing on the screen? We want to see John Stewart. Yeah. I could have gone for John Stewart. I could have gone for. And maybe we still will get to go for those things when James Gunn has his way over there. But I'm okay with a Hal Jordan story, but I felt like it should have been told in the frontiers era of like old. school like pilot 50s, 60s? Yeah, that would have been all right, you know? I mean, because that's I mean, really the, the, the, how Jordan character is this modern space cowboy guy, because when his character's introduced, we are, you know, at the

cusp of or the beginning of the space race. Yeah. And so what a perfect time to take a transition from a Western comic into a space comic and bring a, bring a cop procedural into that with, uh, with Hal Jordan. I mean, he hated that movie. He complains about it to this day, but Ryan Reynolds should

a little thankful he met his now wife on there and they have three three really pretty little kids like his whole family probably owes a debt to the green lantern and i bet he has the costume yeah he probably does that stupid throbbing costume man all right uh what else oh not everyone has pulled out of the san diego comic con tell me who hasn't because it's been a real so we talked a couple of weeks ago leading up going going back to the sag after thing that a lot of studios pulled out because they're like, we're not going to have any actors and we don't have any scriptwriters. So how can we go and promote this film? But it looks like a couple of people are going, and this may, I'm not going to add any other

commentary on there, but Max Original Animation is going to be there talking about their animated stuff. Certainly there's a lot of animosity with where animation writers and talent are in relation to the big screen regular stuff that we have. But Max Original Animations, we're going to see Adventure Time, if you know, on Cake, and some others show up. Paramount Pictures is going to go ahead and bring their teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem, which is also

an animated piece to the show floor on Hall Age. And then we've got Project K talking about, you know, sci-fi stuff out of India. And that's about it. I mean, there's some Wheel of Time stuff that Apple is coming to the, no, I'm sorry, Prime Video is doing with that.

Good Burger 2. I didn't know that there was going to be a second Good Burger, but there you go. It's only 30, 30 year gap between them, right? Or something? I know, right. So we're seeing a lot of the small streamer, I shouldn't say small streamers, because Paramount and

Peacock are, you know, their big studios attached to it. But again, we're not seeing the big studio stuff that's coming, but people will be there and be able to hopefully interact with some stars. I think the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem, which is the animated movie, will be interesting to

see what they do with that. It says panel discussion and footage presentation with filmmakers. So that could just be directors and producers and no actors in that one. Wow. Oh, they're doing it. What'd be doing the shadows thing? That's cool. I'll watch that. Yeah, there's stuff.

By the way, you mentioned animation over at WB and HBO and all that. There's the show on HBO Max, or Max, sorry, that I watched last year, and now there's a new season of it, and I'm back into it. And I love it. It's called 10-year-old Tom. I've seen that one. If you guys have not passed or just past that one out, it looks dumb or whatever.

You should totally watch it. It's great. Dry humor. Makes me laugh. Tons of great guest stars. Freaking David DuCovny plays an ice cream man. It's so good. It's so good.

I absolutely love it. It's drawn like ass, but that's the point. It's supposed to look like crap. But do not sleep on 10-year-old Tom, literally or figuratively. All right. Stephen, that sounds great.

As always, you're bringing us the hot, big news of the week in pop culture and comics and more. And that's what I get out of major spoilers.com. Is there anything happening over there that you'd like to tell the fine folks about? We've been off for a couple of weeks with our critical hit type podcast. If you want to see, you know, our heroes punch Nazis in the face and prevent Lovecraftian horrors from entering our universe, then you want to go check that out. It returns this weekend. And it's a lot of fun.

And in the meantime, as it's still summertime, get out there and do some fun things, but also stay hydrated. Yeah, my main goal this whole week was to stay hydrated. I thought of you a lot the whole time. I was like, you know what, Stephen would tell me this today. Drink some damned water. Thanks, Stephen. We'll see you later.

It's always good having him on, you know? For sure. I like him. All right. That's going to do it for today's show. Real quick, Bobby. People need to know where to get their science fix. I know I do.

So where do they go? What's the show called? What did you guys just talk about? or what are you about to talk about? Well, the show, my science podcast is called All Around Science. Me and my co-host, Mora. We talk about science every week, what's going on in science news, and just the things that we're interested in.

And this last episode that just came out on Monday as a really good example of both of those things, because A, one of the biggest news stories of the year in terms of science news broke about a week ago. And we talked about that. It has to do with gravitational waves. and new ways that we can detect them. And I promise you, it's not just like, oh, there's a new thing.

Like, this is really big news, and it's really cool. We can now detect gravitational waves that have a wavelength of literal light years. Goodness. And it's really cool how they did it and why it's important. So check that out. Also, we started the episode that came out yesterday on the same episode. episode is the first in what is going to be a four-part series where we talk about the four fundamental forces like electromagnetism gravity strong and weak force so and talk about what those are

and what they mean and everything so we're getting back to fundamentals if you will and there you put the fun in fundamentals that's good we do put the fun and fundamentals let me ask you this question um yeah when uh Do you know Brian Cox, not the actor, but the scientist guy? Do you know who I'm talking about, British guy? Yep. Why is it that I could just, he could sit there and talk about stupid things and I could listen? And I would feel like I could just listen to that guy all day.

Do you have anybody like that in the science community where you're just like, just talk on, dude, just keep going? Some people, maybe this is, you know, Neil deGrasse Tyson or maybe some people, it's just listening to that weird box that, what's his name, talk through? before he died Brian Cox is really good his it's something about a British

accent talking about science too must be it yeah that's and but he's legitimately he's a great

science communicator physics he's a physicist physics are difficult yeah right and it's difficult to talk about

he does a great great job with that someone else I like a lot is that I can listen to all the time

in the astronomy world is Phil plate oh yeah he's great, yeah. The bad astronomer, that's his, that's what he goes by. If you, if you Google that, he's got a great blog that I've been reading for a long, long time. He does a, anytime something new in the space world happens, I go there first.

But he's also, I can listen, he's a really great science communicator. I even listen to him to talk about things. Oh, Dr. Kiki's real good, too. She's, she deserves a mention. She's fantastic. A little more in our orbit, too. she's uh she's from the ground up kind of kind of podcaster and she's done really amazing stuff well uh tune in all around science everybody and bobby having you here well it's been a damned

pleasure likewise it's been a damned pleasure a damned pleasure uh chat room stick around because we're going to pick titles after this and uh one of yours could be chosen uh coming up shortly uh real quick i got an update from brian it was a text he says tina is doing much better she is coming home around noon so in a couple hours Tina will be home, convalescing in her own home, which is where he really want to be these days, and not in some stuffy hospital, and sounds like things are going well. That probably just means the meds have taken hold. We live in an era where pneumonia is not nearly the threat it should be, or used to be, I should say.

As much of the threat it should be. I'm just glad to hear she's feeling better because we could use some good news around here. So there you go. And that means Brian should be here tomorrow. So that'll be the plan. and it's always always good to have him back. All right, real quick,

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Bobby, I'm going to tell you about another song here before we go. How's that? Please do. All right. Here we go. This was a request, a cover request from a listener named Perry Groover. Or Grover. I don't know.

I don't judge. I don't know nothing about your name. I'll say Grover. Dear Brian, a friend of mine published a book. Each chapter is a song title. So the book is also a playlist. There is a Spotify playlist. search for Evangeline Williams, I almost do.

This friend is no small part responsible for my wife and finding her and us finding each other in college. She dragged me to tryouts for the taming of the shrew, where I won the pivotal part of the Huntsman number two. That sounds like a fun role. I eventually won the heart of the goat herderless, goat herderess. Anyway. Herderous. Is that the character name in that? I guess I've never seen.

taming of the shrew. I just know there's a shrew and it needs to be tamed. Yeah, well, who's going to, that shrew can't just run wild, you know? Somebody's got to try to calm that damn thing down. Who better than the goat herderous to tame it? My wife and I have been married for 29 years. Could you please play? Can't help, but I can't help falling in love by Haley Reinhart or any other song from the playlist.

Thank you. Still doing Huntsman number two. I'm not sure if that means he's still playing it or if that was a reference to something else. I don't know. Maybe you got what you got. got, so he's still doing the huntsman number two. That's right. Double dragon, baby. Well, we're going to play that song for you. It is exactly what you asked for. Haley, Ryan Hart's can't help falling in love cover. I have not actually heard it yet, so I'm excited to hear it in post show

so I can agree with Brian that it was a very good choice. Thank you, Perry, for the request, and also Gratz on 29 years of marriage. That's amazing. Welcome to the club. Let's see, I'm at 31 this here? No, 30. Yeah, 31. That's nuts. Can we just say how nuts that is and how old that makes me? Good Lord. Anyway, find the one you love, everybody. That's going to do it for us. Thank you once again, Bobby, for being here. I can't wait to do this again with you sometime. Yeah, well, I'll be on doing science tomorrow. Oh, yeah, dude. That's right. Bobby will be back tomorrow for the segment. Duh. Can't get rid of me. Nope, not that easy. Anyway, that'll be tomorrow. Thanks everybody for listening. We'll see you then.

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