The Morning Stream - TMS 2506: Corial Anus

Episode Date: August 14, 2023

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Why, just last week, I had my entire car millionized, and it smells great. Hey, everybody, welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Monday, August 14th, 2023. Johnson and that is Brian Abbott. Hi, Brian. Hey, and. Hello, Scott. Wasn't that Saul Goodman thing great? It's pretty great. That was fantastic. I love when people do that. When they put music to things that don't, don't originally have music, but they totally works. Yeah, somehow it works. You get, like,

I think it's like a, it's almost like a scientific study on how humans, like almost everything's a little sing-songy if you break it down that way. Like if you, because that was just a raw scene where he's talking and they didn't edit it. It's just him talking. And then this piano guy made an arrangement from it. And it's crazy. That's crazy to me. It turns it into a vaudeville act, basically. It's just crazy to me. I love that stuff. Anyway, it's good to see you all this morning. We hope you're all doing well. Brand new week means brand new content right here on TMS. Thank you for being here live. Those who are and those who aren't, we're happy to have you however we get you. That's totally fine. Last Thursday, there was no show because I had jury duty selection.

and I have good news, Brian. Great news. Yeah. Yes, great news, everyone. Let me play. Do I have a theme for that? That's dumb, but I'll say it. Good news.

I was relieved of jury duty. You were, you accepted and welcomed your duty, and you were not needed. So you basically got the best eventuality for your duty. I think so. I'm giving my schedule and stuff. I think it worked out for the best for me. But part of me, I'll admit. Part of me was like, it would have been fun to see the process and just kind of be there.

And maybe one day I'll get to do it again, right? Because they always need some old fart who's, you know, at the end of the... Exactly. We've got our millennial quota. Yeah. Because they're all unemployed and available, strangely enough. But what about our old dude? Yeah, what about old dude who likes how things used to be?

You got to have that guy. Anyway, so here's... I'll just tell people how it went. It was very odd. we get into this thing it's all done via WebEx all right which isn't my

it's not my favorite conference software it's fine it'll get you through I'm sure they'm sure they've got some contract with the state as opposed to something like Zoom which is a little more

open and out there WebEx they can control stuff more maybe I don't know but WebEx does support backgrounds and I swear the first thing they said to us was welcome everybody to this giant grid of 100 million faces please do not turn on backgrounds of any kind

because people you know they'll put like a beach back there like a freaking whatever wallpaper I would have said what about monkey faces can I make my face look like a monkey can I look like it's a that I'm wearing a hat about if my eyes are Googling now if I can find this let's see I took a picture of it.

I'm going to show Brian, but I'm not going to show the chat because I don't know if this is okay to do that or not. Oh, sure. I mean, maybe it is. I don't know. I mean, maybe they don't care. Maybe it's, I didn't. Maybe not. Why risk it?

I didn't ask. Here it is. Here are all the grumpy faces. Hold on. Oh, yeah. I think you texted me this. Did I send you this? All right.

So what Brian's looking at and what I just sent him is a grid of faces. This wasn't everyone. It was just a cross-section. to show, A, how utterly grumpy everyone looked. Yeah. Except me. I looked like I was kind of into it. I was like, oh, right, here we go.

Oh, totally. Stuff going on. And then there were a lot of them, like a jury 26, 11, 15, and 66 here who had no video. No, no camera or something, yeah. They were struggling. And then you've got, you've got Sybil Shepard there in the middle who's rubbed Vaseline all over the lens to make himself look younger, I guess. There's a couple of these.

This is a different shot, but I have another one where it is so gross. Something's on the lens. Get it off. There's like a booger on there. It's so disgusting. You get super angry chin strap down there on the left with the headphones. Yeah. Column 2, 4 down.

Yeah. They're not loving. That guy's not happy at all. And they've basically got a bunch of people who don't understand where their camera is and where it's positioned with regard to their faces. There's lots of this right here. A lot of that.

Yes, exactly. It's like, oh, I like your ceiling. Yeah, jury 15, could you please show your whole face? It's like that. And then a woman from Avatar, I think. Yep.

And none of them really knew what they were doing. There was a lot of tech issues and all that. That's fine to be expected. People don't, you know, whatever. But this is where things got interesting. So the first thing to do, the county clerk lady, the court clerk lady gets on and goes all right first of all thank you all for being here

please mute your microphones i'm looking at you number 12 because somebody would like have it on yeah of course of course they would yeah and uh i thought to myself well on zoom i can mute everybody so i don't know why she can't do that but anyway uh she goes if you do have a problem or an emergency please just hit the raise hand button and i'll i'll get you know all this so she's going through all this then she says i need you to watch this video and then we watched a video made pre-COVID when they were all huddled in a room doing this same process sure sure and you did this too right they had some kind of video training yes yes here's what to expect if you are called upon for jury duty yeah first off yep yep that's exactly right

you are basically narrating the thing i saw yeah this is the most you know here's how to make a wendy's hamburger kind of video thing yep yep yep and then the video showed this judge lady who for a hot second i thought was maybe living that van life uh and was uh in lots of cohen brothers movies she looks just like uh what's her name um yeah uh nomad land francis mcdorms mcdormand i can show people that i guess here's her she just had a real francis mcdorman kind of vibe to her and she talked to the camera a lot and talked about what judges expect and all this stuff so that was going on that was fine. And then she says, this is, okay, that probably took just the assembling of everybody and then watching the video and then having a bit of this sort of like rules talk and how the

process works. We're probably an hour in at this point or something. Maybe maybe a little shy of that. And I'm in for the long haul because they told me anywhere between 815, which is when we had to show up. And it could go as long as 5 p.m., they said. And they did say in a little, they said, jury selection just selection this isn't even a case this is exactly sitting on this webex call for eight hours which felt so padded to me there was no way it was going to take till then i don't think unless it was crazy you know it did once and because of that and somebody complaining they have to disclaimer they have to have that disclaimer that's a good point they probably this is probably

just a safety precaution for them so they can you know make sure they get everybody but anyway uh so i'm in to thinking okay well whatever i'm here they did send a little note that said by the way you are when you're not being spoken to or you're often a separated room for whatever reason uh you can work watch a movie uh eat you know they named all these things you could you could do but i'm like that's weird i don't want to be eating with a bunch of these people you know i just felt weird yeah i don't know i think if i know if i knew that going in i pick the weirdest damn thing to eat like um what would you do what would it be what would be like the Fruit, like one of those, one of those gift bouquets of fruit that you get somebody that's got

like a bunch of fruit on sticks, like a... Oh, no, like, you could do like a Hickory Farms, a bundle, you know? Something like that. That's a great idea, dude. I love that. But I was like, I'm just not going to eat. Or if I do, Kim will bring you something, no big deal. Drink out of those giant, uh, Vegas, uh, yard long legs.

Yeah. Yes. And just keep filling it up and keep going. Oh, man. What's to stop you, you know? So anyway, this is all going on. And I'm thinking, all right, well, I guess this is the process and whatever. And then this girl leaves for a second. And we're all just muted looking at each other. A lot of people turn their cameras off during this because they couldn't stand the staring. And she comes back on and says, uh, juror number, whatever I was. Uh-huh. Mr. Johnson, she says? And I went, oh, shit. She's talking to me?

I'm mute. I'm muted. I go, yes, I'm here. she says, did you get that, did you get your microphone and all and you're in this camera and everything just for this? Yeah, you should have said yes. And I said, oh, no, no, no, actually. Yes, who do I bill? Can you tell me who I sent me in voice to? Yeah, does this, is this part of my stipe, my daily stipend to be here?

So I says, so then I says, I says, I said, um, I said, no, this is part of, I'm in a studio. I record every day. This is part of my job. so this is what I do for a living so yes this microphone and this whole setup the lighting and everything is you know for that she goes she goes interesting

okay I'll be back and then she takes off and all these other people in the room are going like why is he talking to him what's the day and they all look like I don't look like I apparently I looked way better than all of them and you can see just looking at your you know just looking at your

square your uh your Robert Reed's square in the WebEx Robert Reed. Oh my gosh. I guess you're more in the Barry Williams location. No, these are all good, but just go ask your grandparents who these people are, everybody. Brian was a big Hollywood Squares fan, so you can't get around it. No, that was I talking Brady Bunch. Oh, duh, Brady Bunch. Yeah, of course. You'd be in the Charles Nelson Riley Square on Hollywood Squares.

That's right. Who's the middle one? It was always... That was Paul Lynn, and then it became what Whoopi was for a while, and then the writer. Oh, the writer of the Oscars. The Oscars writer, yeah. Bodunk Pitoto. I don't know his name. Yes, right. Yeah, Bodunk Pototo.

Bowdox Pototo. Anyway, so I'm sitting there now, and now it's gone, we've gone on a while where we're not hearing anything. Yeah. And the clerk clerk goes, all right, I'm breaking out. She comes in suddenly, says, I'm breaking everyone out into breakout groups. for all the questioning and I went oh shit she goes there'll be about six of you or no she didn't say numbers that's what it was because because we thought it would be like even groups but I get thrown into a group of six that's all the I'm seeing in the grid and it's something I notice

immediately the five other people all look pretty good too decent lighting oh really you said that's how they grouped you like yeah which is where this is where all my theory is leading to because then she comes in. After we're, but now we've been set off there for a while. She pops in and she goes, hello, thank you for your patience. I really appreciate it. I'm just here to let you know. The judge has released all of you from jury duty. You may now exit the call.

It was like an hour and a half into this whole process. Okay. And I went, I unmuted and said, okay, thank you. And someone else said thanks and whatever. But I could not get over the fact. And I didn't have enough time to snap a screenshot of this. They were the opposite of what you see here in this grid. We all

looked like we were maybe doing a podcast or streamers making video games or something. And I think... Who might talk about things. I think what happened. Well, maybe. That's another theory I have also thought of is maybe they thought we had... Maybe, you know, I don't know if they made that leap.

But what I think happened was we never knew the details of the case. They never said to us. But I think this case may have been technical in nature or some kind of something to do with technology, something to do it. They don't want really, they don't want savvy people. Gotcha. in the pool. They're looking for the,

where's the any key? Yeah, they're looking for those people. They're looking for them. And boy, howdy, did they find him with Vaseline Boy in the center of this grid? You know what I'm saying? These people don't know.

They don't know. Some are using their phones. They don't know nothing. Sure. And me, and, you know, like I said, like a third of them, we're struggling just to get anything working. And I think we looked like we knew

what we were doing. And I think that was bad, at least for one of the lawyers or one of the sides, or maybe even the judge's decision. I don't know. She says the judge released us. I don't know if that means lawyers had a moment to look us over.

I don't know how it worked because we weren't there, you know, physically. Sure. But they said you can go. And that's the only theory I have. The good news is I don't have to take a bunch of time off for jury duty. And I have two years before I'm even in the random pool again. And I made $18.50 for being there that day. Oh, nice.

I know. I'm not going to spend it all in one place. Brian. No, please don't. Yeah, be careful. That's some crazy going crazy money. You don't want to go too nuts. Anyway, it was an interesting experience, but I, I, you know what else is interesting?

So, you know, in a post-COVID world, back in the, you know, before COVID, they would, all this was in person. You'd be down at the Salt Lake Courthouse and you'd be doing this in person. Doing it this way, they still do the court part in person now. Like they've lifted that restriction, but they've kept. across the board the standard procedure at the state based on what I've been reading is that this selection process will be digital going forward this is how they want to do it oh really so this is not just like well we're doing this because we kind of have to right now this is a this is

a we're doing this forever yeah and it may very it may vary county to county but Salt Lake County I think is like this is faster better or efficient we don't have to bring people in here they're less grumpy like although from those photos you can't tell how less grumpy they might be, but yeah, it was a fascinating process that I barely got a view of, but it was enough for me to, you know, have some story for the show today, I guess. That's great. Good. Yeah, it was just enough, like, just enough to provide some, some good show content. Yeah, and congrats to me, your days were taken up by this.

Exactly. And congrats to the other five people who had decent mics and good. Let that be a listen to you. Go invest in a good camera, good microphone. and maybe you too could be excused from jury duty exactly some a couple of them had the headsets but it looked like good headsets and they didn't have horrible lighting and they were centered in their screens i mean it was impossible not to notice the pattern for the six of us they were they were definitely interesting okay yeah so had i come so here's the here's the question had i come to this thing you know using some chrome book in the basement in the dark with a room mic would i have would i still be in the would i have been selected i don't know i could have played dumb and said I think, is this working? I don't know if this is working, these damn machines. Like if I'd have done all that when I've been...

Right, but you also, you know, it could be a double-edged sword, right? They could be looking for people who are, who at least know how to turn on a computer so that their side of the case, as they're picking it, has a benefit, right? Oh, these people know technology. That'll help get our guy off. Yeah. And it could have been a deal between the lawyers who go, look, and I've only really seen it of this on TV. So I have no, you know, I just finished your honor. You just got finished watching

your honor. Yeah. It's great timing for that. Yeah. So that's about as much as I know. But I, I wonder if maybe they said, all right, if they're too technical, you can take those off. If they're middle of the road, let's take them. If they're too far gone the other way, let's get rid of them too. Right. We want, we want that middle, uh, the swath in the middle of people who kind of understand technology, but maybe aren't savvy or Luddites. Because it did sound like it was probably a lawsuit with something with companies. This wasn't like a murder trial. So, I don't know.

It was an interesting experience. Some programmer figured out a way to take those minute decimal points of money that happened in bank transfers and send them over to an offshore account where he's going to give it to a guy with a red stapler. Was that the case? Yeah, who knows, man? I don't know. But I recommend, you know, at least experiencing as much of it as you can, I guess. I don't know. But already, just the fact that it's a doing it with technology like this and doing it via WebEx or Zoom or whatever they end up using.

I'm curious, because I know I'll get another summons at some point. I'm curious if that's how they'll do mine. Yeah, I didn't realize they did it. So they do it randomly every, or when they do it, you get a two-year reprieve. But then when they do it, it's random and it's pulled from your tax records. what was the other thing voting records I guess probably voting records

yeah yeah and then they put that in there to you know they just mix it up but what's funny is if that's the case I have gone a very long time without one

and the one I did have I lost and never went in and they were talking and this form is like you could be subject to a fine of over $1,000 and 30 years

or 30 days in jail not 30 years 30 years over good It's a little overboard. Oh, it's time for me to post a be real. I'm going to post a be real of Scott. Do it.

A funny face, Scott. All right, it's good. Is it good? What'd you do? I guess I'll see. I did a funny face also. I'll see when I go check it out. There you go.

Okay, we got one quick call I want to play before we pulled down away in. Scott being real. Yeah, look at us being real. You like that, everybody? It's as real as you get. We got a phone call about, you know, we were talking about how to get ticks out. And you use the hot spoon. some people said, I think you said that.

I did the hot spoon. Yeah, the hot spoon. Yeah, that's how I did as a spoon. Because, you know, the tick likes. Yeah, like spoons. I never even made that connection when I was talking about. Like when we did it, I never thought about, oh, yeah, the tick always says spoon. I didn't until you just said it.

It was rallying cry. Yeah, no kidding. So we got a call that kind of clears some of this up. And he seems to know because he comes from, well, he'll explain. Here he is. Okay. Let him explain. I'll let him explain.

Hello, Bosom Sags. My name is Brandon. I do vector control for a living. Mosquito control, ticks, all that stuff. Don't stick a match or a hot spoon or anything on tick. They will vomit into you on their way out. It's big screw you. You've got to use some tweezers, grab them by the head,

and just yank them straight out. That's the best way. So, yeah, don't give yourself Lyme disease on accident. Okay, so if you burn them the yak into your veins, and then you get the thing, whatever the thing was. and yeah right oh god you don't want that no kidding i love that i love that uh that it's it's perceived as a big f you to you pulling them out like ow my butt all right i'll show you brul blah blah blah la yep good luck with the lime disease a whole exactly that'll teach you to stick a hot spoon up my butt

yeah for me it was always the match for you this hot spoons i have heard i've heard both these remedies my whole life now i now i question everything I didn't know they'd puke anyway. But I thought if you pulled them out with tweezers, you run the danger of leaving their head under your skin. Right. And having the same problem, right? The same issue would happen.

If the head stayed, then it meant the Lyme disease risk was still there. And maybe there's vomit still in the head. Yeah. I guess you just, the goal is what? You get them early. You grab them.

Yeah. You hope the head doesn't stay. If the head stays, then what do you do then? Go to the doctor and say. I don't know. I'm going to start. Well, Jeannie says, yeah, pull it out by the head. But the head is the buried part.

You can't get to the head unless you, like, do some exacto-knife surgery to, like, open it up to be able to grab the head. Gosh, dang, dude. Is that what we're saying? You got to go in deeper with the things to get all the way to the head and then pull the... That's what she's said. Yeah, that's what... Geney's saying, that's what he said. I mean, he said, you got to pull it out by the head, which is like...

How do you go deep enough to pull all? Everything about that sounds bad. Oh, my gosh. Just don't get tick. everybody just stay away from them okay i think that's that's the lesson to be learned is uh don't get ticks ticks ticks or dicks okay that's what i'm saying all right uh done away time you know you know you know the guy he's a cool dude i know i'm gonna love him yeah he's great you guys are gonna get to hang out or yeah week and a half whatever it is he's bringing a movie i guess that we're gonna live sack and watch

i guess oh no way like vhs because i know he's into that right i think he's bringing a vhs thing yeah at least that's there's a rudimentary schedule in the in the discord about what we're doing that's fantastic it's it feels good to not be on the other side of things like for tms vakes like i can sit back and say and i can and i can bitch about the schedule and say well this doesn't leave any time for that for that why aren't we going to have any yeah i love that yeah so i dude any anytime you can let somebody else run shit it's great uh all right here we go Good news, everybody. Brian Dunaway's here to play a little half-asses in the Monday mornings. And he's with us via Discord all the way from South Carolina. Hello, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hey, man.

How's it going? We're going to do some half-assin today? Yeah, why not? We're going to do some half-asseting. Yeah, what do you think of that? You down for such a thing? I am down with OPP. Oh, good.

Well, OPP is down with you as well. Other people's podcast. Right. other people oh that's good I'm down with OPP other people's podcast yeah never heard of that I'm a little upset about that you guys see that who's that it's a rapper Timlin

Timlin McGoo remember those guys no Missy Elliott yeah I remember Missy Elliott get your freak on Get your freak on 50 He was only 50 he was passed away Oh oh oh oh McGoo this McGoo Yeah McGoo

Yes McGoo this is a Not the old cartoon character Not the old cartoon character You're gonna walk across this tree because I don't see any traffic. I don't know what is sadder. My old man's story or you're even older man story.

I'll admit it. What happened? Do we know what happened? Oh no, no, no. Not yet. Not disclosed. He's fine. He's 50s. Probably had something going on. You never find out till late, like the what's her name that died a couple weeks ago.

Nate O'Connor probably. Yeah. But we'd watch her have some problems for a while. By the way, who I made the mistake of going to TMZ because I wanted no more information. And geez, at what point do we get to claim that we're not breaking Britney anymore? She's doing, she's not doing good. How about that? No, no.

Yeah, they're all over her. We broke her. We admit it. We did it. We, we as a society, broke Britney Spears. And we, you know, that it's bad. It's bad. Apparently Oprah Winfrey was, uh, oh.

Yeah. Why'd she get turned away? What happened? Just from what I, this is funny, because it's also TMZ. I was reading, from what I understand, is this good, just give me the TNZ. Let's do the TNZ second. Yeah. So, Oprah, you know, there was the recent, it was a recent, recent, uh, tragedy going on in Hawaii, right?

Yeah, that was going on, which when you're talking to, that's right. So the fire going on there. So she, uh, from what I ran on TMZ, this briefly, uh, she, she went there to, you know, do some, you know, investigating or talking or whatever. And they said, no, you can't come in because you got a camera crew. They can't come in us against our regulations for safety. and so on and so forth. And of course, people are going,

you got to live them in there. And I'm like, you know what? If I'm dealing with, if I'm like at a shelter somewhere and there's been a bad fire, please keep the cameras in the bullshit outside. If Oprah went for going to want to come in and talk to us,

cool. But I'm with those people. I'm like, keep all that camera shit out there. Exactly. Don't, yeah, let's not capture all of us at our lowest moment ever.

Right. Right. Was she already in Maui or did she fly to Maui just for it? I didn't read that far. Like I said, I read the first two lines and I was like, I read that. I was like,

showed up at the war memorial gymnasium yeah she showed it with a camera crew yeah she apparently is a maui resident part-time maui resident so she has a yeah she has a house on maui i think the rock the rock and uh jason moa should go over there and do stuff yeah they're fun there moa's already doing a big charity like he's already his well his big charity thing right now is is all going towards the uh the people the displaced people in maui right but the part is the part that you can't deny Oprah Winfrey has a huge celebrity level appearance so either go in there all disguised there's or don't go right like look there's there's there's nothing to be mad about here is what I'm saying if you read what happened there's nothing to be mad about on either side

yeah but it's TMZ over wasn't being a jerk yeah and the people that asked her not to bring in the film crews also not being a jerk is yeah nobody's being a jerk here is just being a jerk no it just happened but here's what here's what I'm saying tell me how I want to know the cause of death for Shnade O'Connor. I don't know why I want to know that. I just want to know. Yeah, well, you could probably go back. I mean, if you follow her career lately.

No, I know she's had issues, but nobody's giving me like the actual toxicology reports. Like I won't like, she had disappeared a lot. She was in a lot of different medications. So she just, you know, and she wasn't living a very healthy life. She was disappearing and, you know, practically living on the streets occasionally. So, you know, she's just, I think just bad health and just, I don't think anything. I don't think there's anything conspiratorial or anything. Well, not conspiratorial, but there's a lot of talk that may have been an overdose.

I just like to hear one way to the other. She was already on mental medications, but you can't drink with. And I don't know if she was drinking or not, but we know all that stuff can be contributing factors. Did you call those mental medications? Is that what you just prefer? Mental medications. Yeah, anything that's a medication for your mind, mental medications, yeah. Yeah, I like it.

No, no, no. Next time I go to the pharmacy, I'm going to say, I'm here to see about some mental medications, see how they're how they respond. What is wrong with that? You got a problem in my... Nothing wrong with that at all. Nothing wrong with that at all. It seems very official. We'll hear from Dr. Tolward, I'm sure, about this.

I'm sure. All right, let's get to it. We got to play a half-asses. Brian's prepared the whole damn thing, so he'll explain it, who we're playing for, and all that fun stuff. Sure. Welcome to the morning. Half-asses, a trivia game

where I'm actually going to be giving Scott and Brian the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers. Three of those are correct, and three of those are like that, promise not to back Dorian, Big Brother. A total and complete lie. Depending on how confident they feel

with a category. They can provide one, two, or three guesses, but if any of those guesses are wrong, you get zero points for that round. If you guess one, you get a point. Get two right, and you get three points. And if you get all three correct, five whopping points are yours. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant

and contestants will be pulled from members of the tadpole that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're going to be playing for Keith in Clifton Park, York. Sweet. Love it. And Brian, you're going to be playing for Chris Renshaw. We know him. In Maryland.

Yes. Words and swords. Chris Renshaw. I interviewed both Scott and I at TMSV. Well, tried to interview me at TMS Vegas, but we ended up. But you were too dodgy. Too dodgy. I was like, uh, uh, oh, he's coming. I'm going to duck him to this coat room. Yep. He was great, though. Really fun to chat with him. I had

a great time there. That was awesome. He's a good guy. Yeah. All right. Cool. All right. Let's get to it. And then I'll tell you prizes afterwards. Let's start things off with question number one, chains that were originally founded in California. So these are all restaurant chains, three of which were originally founded in California. Your choices are Carl's Jr., Burger King, Taco Bell, Wendy's, Arby's, and Jack in the Box. Oh my. Three of these got their start in, uh, right there in that West Coast State, California?

I'm doing two because I was sure you were going to put a couple on here that I would know. Sure, of course. Obviously, it's not going to be good to do, so you didn't. You're expecting In-N-Out Burger, Scott? I was.

Right, something easy, right? An easy low lob, but no. Okay, I'm just going to get it. No fruit hanging low here, folks. All right. You guys both settled on Jack in the Box. Jack in the Box, indeed, was found in California.

Good job. The other two you guys picked, Burger King and Carl's Jr. Only one of those was found in California. It's Carl's Jr. The other one was Taco Bell. Taco Bell started in California as well. I thought Carl's Jr. started in the South, but I think I'm thinking of Hardee's.

Hardee's over here, my friend. But then he bought them, or they bought them. Carl Jr. bought Hardies, right? Or vice versa. I don't know. They all became Carl's Jr. here after the buyout. So all the Hardys went away where I live. We used to have a ton of them.

Same here. Now they're all Carls here, too. By the way, Wendy's and Arby start in Ohio. Burger King, oh, way down in America's Wang, Florida. Wow, such a typical Florida-Florian. That is so Burger King, isn't it? So Burger King. I've seen the sneaky King.

I'm not surprised. You mean Sneak King. Sneak King, I'm sorry. You see what you see. I see what I see. Yeah, you see what you see. I see what you say. All right, question number two, this is fabrics.

Just plainly simple, fabrics. which of these six are fabrics which are not Shanil Coquina or Coquina Gazar Gingham Tough and gossip

All sound wrong and right Open Gingham style At the same time Wampongingom style Let's see I don't know These all feel wrong

I don't know any of this Yeah I'm just picking Yeah I'm gonna pick a few too Just there we go I'm just gonna pick Sure There you go

Dree I don't know Freaking Chanel Shamazel. What is that? Well, so Chanel, totally. It's like a very thin see-through kind of fabric. Neither of you picked that.

Now I should, now that's making sense. You both picked Gingham. Gingham is that kind of table like picnic blanket kind of looking checked pattern. And Gosson Oh, that's not. You both picked Gossin Gassar, Sheneal, and

Gingham are the... Dang it. I was one off. Frick! You were one off. your one off. Brian almost picked Kekina, which again would have been all three incorrect if he had stuck with Tuff and Kikina. I was picking two for sure. And then when Scott said

Ganglem, I was like, oh, is that a play? Gingham, I'm pretty sure that is. And I was like confused for a second. It's like, no, I'm going, I'm going back. I'm going back my first choice. Oh, Jeannie corrects me. Sheeniel is not see-through, but it's soft. I knew there was something about Sheneal. By the way, those other three are geological terms. Kokina, tough, and Gosson. Oh, really?

I thought they were, yeah. I thought they were knock off of mechanical brands. It's like a stone or something, tough? I don't know what tough is. It just says geological term. Oh, weird. It's tough enough for you.

There you go. All right. Learn something new. There you go. Well, sort of. You learn that it is. You don't learn, learn, learn what it is. All right, let's get your last one here.

Question number three. Let's visit the bard. Shakespeare plays. Which of these six? Shoot. Are Shakespeare plays. Your choices are King John, King Henry the third. all's well that ends well the merry mistress orpheus and coriolanus that's right i said coriolanus

coriolanus coriolanus coriolanus okay so gets serious it's shakes first place okay me now whoa mine mine went select and then disselected and then selected again oh really weird i didn't do anything um let's see now it'll like i feel like i know i feel like i know I know. One of these is like Romeo and Julia. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Why could you pick some of those, you butthole? I think one of these is one of these plays is a phrase famous from one of his plays, but it's not a play. Crap.

So you think he's tricking you? I mean, I think one of these is that. I don't know about the others, but I'm locked in. I'm going all out because I can't, I got to at least tie here. Yep. All right.

well, the actual plays are King John All's well that ends well Oh my God, did we totally miss all of the aforementioned Coriolanus The Mary Mistress is probably there to like make you think of the Mary Wives of Windsor Which was a play of his Orpheus just sounds like a Shakespearean play And there were there were some King Henry's but not King Henry the third

No third That's where I felt, yeah. So I thought Allswell that ends well was like a phrase from like midsummer night stream or whatever the hell that one is. I figured it was one of those

because he is famous for famous idioms and sayings, right? He totally is, yeah, but Aliswold at Enswell was indeed a play. Did he coin that? The title, meaning we didn't use it. Because that's cool. That's cool as shit if that's true. I love that.

I'll tell you right now. He coined a lot of phrases. He's like, some kind of Shakespeare or something. 1623. He's a coin phrase. All that ends well. I cannot find

what where the origination of that phrase is if it if it was you know, if basically the phrase came from that, the title of that play. Gotcha. By the way, real quick here on the Hardy's front.

Yes. It was was North Carolina. Rocky Mountain, North Carolina was the first place for Hardee's. Founded by Wilbur Hardy. Wilbur Hardy. Wilbur Hardy. Which he lived, he lived a long time. Anyway, they are now owned by Carl's Jr. They're the parent company, which is owned by Restaurants Holding Incorporated, C-K-E. So did they drop the possessive on Hardees because Carl's Jr. has that possessive? Yeah, they kept it in there.

It's still the... Is it Hardee's with a possessivist? Yeah, with apostrophe. It's like it's Hardee's restaurant. Yeah. I guess you're right. Yeah, it is. They paid $327 million in 2000...

I'm sorry, 1997 money. That's pretty good. Totally not worth it. I don't know. I like the big twin. Remember that? Yeah, you used to remember that. I don't know if that's still what it's called, but...

I thought Hardee's is cool, man. We used to go there in high school all the time. Is that what you think? So I'll pick up all the girls. We like parties. Anyway, so congratulations going out too. Yep. Chris Wrenshaw, Maryland.

Chris, you're getting a copy of Amnesia Rebirth and all of the available DLCs, courtesy of Dwayne Coil. But don't worry, Keith and Clifton Park, you're getting something too. You're getting hexologic. Hexologic. Yeah. So congrats and enjoy your games. Yeah. A job well done.

Also, real quick, tough as a type of rock made of volcanic ash, ejected from venting during a volcanic eruption. So that's what tough is. I love that they just, I love they just was like, what should call this? It's pretty tough. And then they just like, yeah, but we can't spell it T OUGH. Right, right. Let's spell it T-U-F-F. Yeah.

And it looks, it's the, you've seen this before. Let me put some in the chat or in the, um, Discord. That kind of weird spongy rock, you know what I'm saying? Like it almost, oh, yeah, yeah, it looks like volcanic, uh, it looks like volcanic, uh, Like, yeah, you can need us lots of pores. Yeah, lots of, like a sponge. And y'all make fun of my mental medication? Whatever.

Yeah. Whatever. Mental medication. Yeah, whatever. Whatever, Mr. Ment. I hope you're never my doctor. Hey, we're going to have to get you some of that mental medication there, boy. I have an excellent bedside manner.

I was trying to talk in a language you could understand. No, I get it. I like it. You applied yourself to us in a way that we would feel good. And I appreciate that. Here's what else I appreciate. You're here every Monday and Wednesday. to do a little fun like this.

And so we'll look forward to doing more of that on Wednesday. The same day we'd play retro. We'll talk more about that then. Hey, Dunaway, kiss our butts. Dissentary. Dysentary. Oh, I know why. He's playing, we're doing Oregon Trail.

Yeah. Okay, that one makes that totally makes sense that, yeah. That new Oregon Trail that's on Apple Arcade and also on Steam now is really good. It's like excellent. Is it really? Yeah. Oh, interesting. Okay.

Legitimately a good game. It reminds me how much. a lot of people that look back at the original Oregon Trail and they think it was almost like an educational software and a weird way. I totally saw it as that

because you were learning about what settlers had to go through. Yeah, but it became, it kind of invented a part of gaming that still exists today where a lot of random elements kick in

and decide how you're going to deal with those elements. So it's like, oh shit, you guys, the wheel ran into a rock and broke. What are you going to do? do like it's a lot of almost d and d kind of content it's really interesting yeah anyway we're talking about that on wednesday i'm excited awesome oh i love that stuff i man the infocomcom

games like that were fantastic oh yeah all that text-based stuff back then zork and uh yeah dude i love that it was a great time you can still there's still a lot of games like that out there people don't play them very often but there are lots of text-based stuff that's still really good it's just a bygone era you know we all want graphics now your brain was a Somebody will figure out a way to combine chat GPT and a text-based game that basically, you know, just evolves as you play it. I think it already exists. That AI1 called, oh, I forgot the name. We talked about it ages ago.

It was actually early on in the GPT stuff, but it was, you basically could just say, I can't remember how it worked exactly. But it went on forever. There was no, like, the goals were kind of nebulous. you never really had an end game, you just kind of could say, well, I turn left. You turn left and you see a bunch of blah, blah, blah, and it's never the same. And you could say, well, I turn into the Hulk and I destroy everything in front of me. And it literally lets you do that. But then there's new problems to deal with.

It was interesting. Very interesting. If you don't have an end game, like there's no win state, then you're kind of, what's the point, right? Yeah. All of a sudden chat GPT says, all right, well, you won. Good job. Good job. Bye now.

Log off. Go away. Exactly. Can I please go use my resources for something else? Please let me leave. Time for the news. And it's brought to you by. We had a great film sack over the weekend and we think you might agree. Check out our coverage of Adam Driver's 65 today at FilmSack.com or all the places you get podcasts. That's right. It wasn't the worst movie we've seen.

But it really wasn't the best. It had some kind of technical weird flaws. Yeah, it's an odd little thing. Tropias I'll get out. But if you want to know more, go listen to the show for Pete's sake. I didn't do, I didn't check. Outside of the Star Wars return in 2015,

I don't think we've sacked something that quick before. I think this might be the new, the new closest to that that we've done. I think so, yeah. Yeah, which is something, I guess. an Italian man is recovering. He's 74 and having a rough time. Oh, did he die?

Yeah. Oh, shit. The headline. For some reason I had in my head, he didn't die. He's the exact opposite of recovering. He is decomposing. I've had this since last week, and I totally forgot. You're hoping for a good outcome.

Yeah, I went and they, oh, we were wrong. He lives. Well, anyway, an Italian man crushed to death after a whole bunch of cheese fell on him, cheese wheels in particular. He was 74 years old. the Italian man had been crushed under thousands of wheels of Parmesan-style cheese. Wait, Parmesan-style cheese. Parmesan-style cheese.

So, maybe a, what's the other kind? It's like that? Romano. Isn't it Romano? Oh, it's a lot like that. Oh, it's not a hard cheese that you, uh... That must be what the style is. Yeah.

That must be what the style is then, right? It's a hard cheese. Yeah. Yeah. I like a hard cheese. Unless I'm buried under a ton of it. I don't want that. Well, sure.

Yeah. I don't think there's, well, there are a few cheeses I don't like. I mean, if it stinks, I can't do it. Don't like a stinky cheese, eh? I don't like a stinky cheese. The next door neighbor, crazy neighbor loves stinky cheese. He's like, try this. And it's like, yeah, it tastes good, but I can't get past that smell.

And no. Plenty of other good cheeses that don't stink. Yeah. Don't give me another one of those because I can't and bear it. Oh, my gosh. Are we allowed to even say that? Can we lawfully make that joke without the... All the joke police being mad at us for that horrible joke.

Oh, the eye rolling, the simultaneous eye rolling that probably just occurred. It felt a great disturbance in the forces of a million people just rolled their eyes and then we're suddenly silenced. That's right. I personally liked it. Take that, world. Ah, there you go. Let's see. It took 12 hours to find the dude's body.

His name is Giacomo Chippirani. 74 years old. Let's see a shelf broken in his warehouse. Oh, man, that's a bummer. Some of the wheels reportedly fell 10 feet, 33, or I'm sorry, 10 meters 33 feet. That's a lot. And a local restaurant, or resident, a local restaurant said, sorry, a local resident told Italian media the collapse sounded like thunder.

The economic damage cause has been estimated at about 6 million euros. Sorry, 7 million euros. That's a lot of cheese. That is a lot of cheese. Seven million? Geez. Yeah. Speaking in Italian.

media, or two Italian media, a neighbor described Mr. Chaparini as a very supportive and generous man. He also said he'd lost a child decades ago. The warehouse located in Romano di Lombardia, 31 miles east of Milan, contained a total of 25,000 wheels of Granada padano, a hard cheese, which resembles Parmesan, and is very popular. Granapadano. Kind of a bummer, man. It landed on him, and there was an olive garden waiter saying, all right, say when. Yeah.

When? You know, this is terrible. You know what? It's terrible. Since you're making the joke, though, I'll add this. This is the sound we heard when it happened. That's terrible. It is terrible, yes.

Sorry, terrible. Terrible. It's closer to this. There. That's better. Let's move on to this story. Vancouver, that's the British, or sorry, that's Canada, Vancouver, Canada. An officer charged with assault after threatening a taser on a man's groin.

It's a weird headline, threatening taser on man's groin. I assume it means he just got to a man's groin, held it there, and said, I'm going to fire this. Threatening taser on man's groin. Yes, exactly. So you're just holding it to the groin there. It says, while scuffling with a suspected shoplifter in late May, Vancouver Police Department officer Andrea Mendoza. Uh-oh.

Oh. Uh-oh. Mendoza. Allegedly pulled a man's pants down. Well, that's, this is worse than we thought. It feels like that might have been the charges right there. Yeah. It says, pulled his pants down, threatened to charge a taser onto it, to charge a taser.

I guess it means discharge. Yeah. Whatever. onto his exposed penis, is how it's written here. The man had already said he was done, quote, unquote, done resisting by that point. Body camera footage shows, but she threatened him again and held the taser against his skin for 24 seconds. That's a long-ass 24 seconds. No kidding. It probably felt like 24 minutes to that guy.

Says the incident has landed Mendoza in court. No wonder I haven't seen that goose in so many months and years. On Tuesday, the Clark County Prosecutor's Office, and this is not Clark County, Nevada. This is up in Vancouver. Filed fourth degree assault charges against the officer. The charge is a gross misdemeanor, I agree. I'm placing it on the level of DUI or reckless driving charge in Washington State. Gross misdemeanors are punishable up to five grand and less than a year in prison.

But we'll waive all charges if she says, sorry. Sorry about that. Sorry. Okay. Oh, sorry. Okay. It's over. Okay.

That's? That's two. Two eye rolls, people. Three eye rolls, if we count the cheese wedge guy. It doesn't get sacked. Four! We should go for an odd five. You should get it.

Four eye rolls. Ah, ha, ha, ha. All right, that's it for today's news. We're going to take a break and come back with Stephen Schleiker. It's his Monday. Man, he owns it today. So we're going to talk to him, see what's up. And after that, who knows what will happen?

You'll have to stick around and find out. First, Brian will play a song, though, so we know when this break happens. It's kind of the demarcation part of the show. We'll take a break from visiting the policeman's ball and go to music from Sandy Bailey. A little bit more funk for you. A brand new single from Sandy Bailey called I Ain't Your Honey. The LP is coming out this Friday, August 18th via Red Parlor Records. It's called Daughter of Abraham.

Here is Sandy Bailey some funk. and I ain't your honey. Then you leave me in the morning when I wake up Do you really want to see me through the race? I sent you all my pretty pictures You seem to be my kind of man you gave me eyes i had you hold it oh i thought you would be more than just a friend oh tell me before you go what do you want i gotta know just some hips too shaking some lips to make you break and make you happy

well baby I'm sure you don't because I'm made of so much more where my

hair's messing I come home I'm stressed I hear honey you're good day

you you call me you call me you call me you

call me you call me you call me You call me a couple of weeks later You want to know how I've been due You asked me for another picture

And so I send you something of me crying I thought we had a real connection You told me all your hopes and dreams You just wanted someone here No, you never really wanted to know me Oh Tell me

Oh What do you want? I gotta know Just some hips Two shaking Some lifts To make you make And make you happy

Well, baby I shouldn't have Because I made of someone long When my head was up Messing like I'm on stress I need your honey I have your heart of your heart.

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Mega Million Scratcher skunk Bubba Cush. We smoke in Dung Beetle. Phil would rather be like Freddy than like Mr. Bungle. And we're back. Tell me who that was Sandy Bailey and a brand new single called I Ain't Your Honey. It's coming out this Friday on an album called, daughter of Abraham.

Nice. That's right. That's right it is. I like it. I like it a lot. Yeah. Or I'm sure I will when I hear it. You will when you hear it.

Yes. I always do. Speaking in the future, you will like it. I will like it in the future. Okay. We are going to Stephen it up. All right? We're just going to spray the whole place in Stephen.

Yeah. And it'll be fine because I'll play this first. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dollar, dollar bills, y'all. Oh, look, everybody, it's a higher education teacher and nerd extraordinaire. Steven Schlecker joining us from Major Spoilers.com. Talk a little pop culture, comics, and more.

Hello, Stephen. Welcome back. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hello. It's good to have you, man. How's it going? You do it all right?

Do you have a good weekend? It was pretty good. A lot of thunderstorms rolled through the area, but it was still very nice and pleasant. Yeah. It was really nice. This week's school starts up for kids, and then next week, I see. start of teaching again. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's right. They're there for a full week just waiting for you to show up and teaching. I don't know. The high school and middle school kids start this

week. And then the college. So when you, do you have any kind of orientation towards the kids before you get a new class or is it just bam, here we are day one. They're all in seats. So if you are a returning student, you should already know the procedures, right? If you are a freshman, we do a, how the university does this whole thing. I think, Wednesday or Thursday is like move-in day. And then on Friday, they do this whole orientation where it's like, oh, go and find where your classroom is. And then we do a, our department does a thing where we welcome new students and tell

them, hey, here's what you can expect. Guess what? You're going to actually have to study in your classes, that kind of stuff. No, all right. You've got a hard, hard line. Don't get drunk, that kind of stuff. Sure, sure. Good.

Well, good. That's good. Can't get it. Can't have them getting drunk while they're trying to make cool stuff for video production. You know what I'm saying? No. No, they need to get high for that. Well, you're here first.

Let's get into what we're talking about today with Stephen. There's a few things going on. We're almost, I mean, we say almost. I guess we're a lot closer. Spirit Halloweens are opening up all over. That's true. By one yesterday. That is the sign, right?

How many of those open now? But Halloween's on its way. Spooky time of the year. And that means all the comic publishers have Halloween, you know, or horror-based comics for readers. ready to go i would love i would love to hear your recommendation because i am a huge fan there are a whole bunch and i had to call this list way down yeah of comics for people so let's start off with dc comics right now even though it's not even uh october yet and they probably should have waited another month but whatever uh we're in the middle of night terrors this is where uh all the

heroes and villains of the dc universe are taken into uh their dream world where they have to confront every their deep as darkest twisted nightmares introduces a new character called insomnia and the only hero that can save the day as a character called Dead Man, who's been around for a forever. Dead man's good. Hold on a second.

Did they spell it night with an N or KN? Yes, K-N-I-G-H-T. Of course it is, because everything D.C has to be Knight K-N-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-T. I hate that. All right, it's fine. It's fine. We'll let it go. We'll let that one go. It's okay. I mean, there's some, the nice thing about this is for the whole for the most part of the entire uh big giant arc that's going on for an entire month and and some change uh you've got a single writer on this so that allows some

continuity as you jump from a wonder woman comic to a batman comic to a you know a robin comic or something like that so that makes the series a little bit more uh self-contained and it makes a lot more logical sense when you go from book to book as opposed to sometimes you just go into to a big crossover event and you're just like I have no idea what's going on sure and so that's a good thing I remember dead man from something I read not even that long ago what was it it was like it was a pretty big deal in the 70s I mean he's kind of one of the horror characters that and um the phantom stranger uh the um now the specter uh those are all kind of their horror title superheroes that float around yeah it's something was it part maybe I read the

And then the new 52, he got some, something. That's maybe what I think of that. He's always around. That feels like yesterday. He jumps into the body and takes over. This is like 2012, though, I guess. I always think, I always think DC's new 52 was like yesterday, but it was like a while. It's a long time ago now. Oh, my God.

That's weird. All right. Well, there's one. Here's another crazy crossover that comes out in October. I don't know what is going to happen with this, but the Justice League takes on Godzilla and King Kong. Oh, my gosh. Okay. What's it called? What are they calling it? It's called Justice League versus Godzilla and Carl.

Oh, that's, uh, wow, he struggled hard on that one. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Speaking of some, some movie monsters, Dark Horse Comics, we'll just move right along. I have no idea what's going on with that book, but it looks bonkers crazy. If you are into horror comics, then Colin Bunn writes a lot of really great horror comics. If you've never read The Sixth Gun by Bun and Brian Hurt, you're really missing out. but in October, Dark Horse Comics has a comic from the duo called

The Midnight Show, in which a mythical movie, God of Monsters, was never completed, but at a film festival, they show footage from the movie and all these classic horror monsters manifest and start attacking everybody at the festival, so a rag-tag group

of misfits have to team up and send the monsters back to the land of the celluloid. Nice. That could be kind of fun. It sounds like what was that 80s movie? where Wolfman's Got Nards? Yeah, Monster Squad. Monster Squad.

It kind of sounds like that, but I'm sure it's scarier than that. Yeah. Oh, man. That's kind of actually kind of got me. A little cool premise. That's the only, that's the only reference I know from that 80s thing is the Bullfans Got Nards. That's it.

That's all I remember. It's not a horrible movie. And if you want to watch that, it's actually pretty fun. Well, I can say this, that writing an art duo is so, this is perfect for them. Because Sixth Gun, even though it's kind of a Western, the way they kind of pulpit up is very, it's perfect for this. So I'll read this. I will read the hell out of that. And that's Dark Horse, you said, doing that?

Yeah, that's over at Dark Horse. That comes out October 4th. So right at the beginning of the month. So be on the lookout for that. That sounds good. Let's go over to Marvel Comics really quick because I know Brian is chomping at the bit. Yeah, please. It's a moral balance, can we?

Can we please? Crypt of Shadows returns. Okay. So this is an old Marvel horror gym. Victor Strange, the younger brother of Dr. Strange. He frames multiple stories that take place in this anthology where we see Scarlet Witch, Deadpool, Werewolf by Night, and the Hulk teaming up, and Daredevil and Man Thing teaming up to take on horrors from beyond. That comes out on October 18th.

And then if you're older, what was the name of that? Sorry, what was the name in that last one? It's called Crypt of Shadows. Crypt of Shadows. Okay, I got it right. Crypt of shadows. All right. And then if that's not enough for you and you remember back, 30 years ago where Captain America turned into a werewolf?

No. Cap Wolf and the Howling Commandos comes back after 30 years. Oh, thank you for a special one shot in October. I can tell you're so excited, Brian. Well, actually, Crypto Shadows, that lineup, the team-up lineup actually sounds pretty good. I think the War Wolf and the Hulk one will be very interesting. Yes, and Daredevil and Man thing, that kind of interests me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There's also a spine-tingling Spider-Man, but I don't have any information on that. here at the moment. If you are at Image Comics, Image Comics has, actually I should say, it's Skybound Entertainment, the Robert Kirkman imprint. They have a creep show,

and that's an ongoing series. If you are a fan of the television show, this is kind of based on that. So you get a bunch of creepy anthology tales done by a lot of up-and-coming artists and writers, including Eisner, nominated Zoe Thorogood, who is doing the issue number three

that's coming up right at the end of October. So be on the lookout for that. Vault Comics, which is a smaller publisher, they have something that's probably not along the lines of like horror stuff that you'd find in a creep show or Crypt of Shadows or something like that. They have a book called Something Crawled Out, which tells the story of Edith Miller looking for her missing sister and discovering a web of missing girls and rotting bodies

and the person behind it just might be the devil. Whoa, the devil, the devil! Yeah, something crawled out. If you see the cover for this one, it's pretty creepy, where someone's like ripping open their chest and something is coming out. I'm in. Yes. Let's see. Archie Comics.

Let's not forget the kid. Oh, yeah. They always do something weird for Halloween. Archie Comics has been doing a really great job with their horror line. And they kind of run these throughout the entire year, especially their chilling adventures of Sabrina is a big hit. They've got a chilling adventures presents strange science, which is more sci-fi horror this week from Archie Comics. but in October, Archie is releasing a bunch of other books, including, let's see, it's Fear the Fun House, Toys of Terror, which will be their anthology series.

This one, though, is aimed at middle grade kids, and I think they're trying to do their take on some R.L. Stein stuff, you know, the goosebumps type stuff. Speaking of which, Boom Studios, if you're looking for R.L. Stein, if he's missing from your life, Boom Studios has been doing a bunch of R.L. Stein specific comic books. Some of them are based on books that he's written before. Some of them are new original horror tales. So you can go check that out at Boom Studios. Or you can go check out Fear of the Fun House, Toys of Terror at Archie Comics. And then finally, for the really little kids. Fuzzy Baseball Halloween.

This is the most horrifying title on this list. This is the Fernwood Valley Fuzzies. These are like bears and squirrels and, you know, the fuzzy, cuddly animals of the woods. Each year they play a baseball game that only happens on Halloween and they take on the graveyard gaslays. You're werewolves, your vampire bats. So if you like a baseball and you like a little horror and you've got a kid, that's probably, I think these are aimed at not even middle grade.

I think it's maybe a little bit before middle grade. Go check out fuzzy baseball Halloween. That's from Paper Cuts and Mad Cave Studios. That's going to have paper cuts and. Mad, I'm writing these down so I can have Yeah, that might, I mean, you might want to check that out for your grandkids there. Yeah, they may be old enough for something like that.

And if you were, if you were a fan of the Gargoyles animated series, uh, from back in the day, Dynamite Entertainment and Disney have been collaborating on a series of Gargoyle comic books and they've even got the original producer and writer Greg Wiseman into write the Gargoyles, uh, comics. They have a Halloween special that's coming out where the youngest members of the Manhattan clan of Gargoyle. discovers Halloween for the very first time.

Wow. Well, you always have your first time. You know, you have to make a big deal out of it. I got a side note that has nothing to do with any of this, but that fuzzy baseball Halloween, you think furries would ever rebrand to fuzzies? Because I'd like it if they've all be cut. Yeah, I don't, no shade toward furies, live your life, do what you want to do.

But why furry? Why not fuzzy? Fuzzy's fun. Because animals have fur and they don't have fur. fuzz. Oh, is fuzz a Unless you're talking about Fuzzy Wuzzy, and he was a...

He was a bear. But he had no hair. Yeah. That's right. Oh, shit, he had no hair. He wasn't fuzzy, was he? Okay, so, but let's say you want to be... Is there anyone in the furry community

that plays out or represents as a sphinx cat, a hairless cat? Oh, man. Let's see. Do they kick that guy out of the convention? They're like, dude, you're just naked. You can't be here. Get out of your. I imagine there's probably.

you know, there's armadillo, furies who like maybe cosplay as armadillos or something, something cute that maybe isn't furry. Oh, I found one. Hairless cat, cat furry fur suit. Oh, no way. Let me paste it in here

into our chat. Yeah, put it in here. Let's see this. I'm dying. It's on Pinterest, so if you don't like a Pinterest link. Oh, I don't mind. No, no, I'm going to get nothing in the chat.

careless cat furries in my Pinterest. Okay, so this isn't, this is not bad. I thought it would be like a, you know, full flesh suit or something. Oh, there's a bunch of these, and there's some actual real ones here. Okay. So can I be, I guess, you know, we need to have a furry answer these things, but can I be any old animal I want to be? Can I, if I was a, okay. So I could go in there and be like, um, hey, everybody, it's me, the sloth.

Look out. I got claws. You're talking too fast. Hey. It's me. It's me the slot. Too late, we left. The convention's over again.

Well, anyway, I'm going to, so I put all these in here, listed it. I'll put it in the show notes today as part of our regular read so that people can have it. Brian, I don't know if you want to put these in quick TMS or not. Oh, yeah. You know, I usually don't, but I will for Stephen, I will. Yeah. If you're leaving us send you, I'll just send you a document. Yeah, that'd be great.

Yeah, if you have that, it'd be awesome. Yeah, especially if you've got links. I don't have links But I may have a Make it to your article I know it's not even an article Okay gotcha I just went out and just quickly

Just wrote a bunch of stuff down so Yeah I just pasted it in the chat for you guys Okay cool I'll use that All right I've made them Also Scott I know you're super thrilled About all these titles

So I got something specific Just for you that's not Halloween Okay where you got But it's a series called That Texas Blood By Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips Okay. I love the name already.

It takes place in this county called Ambrose County, Texas, where stuff goes on. The first volume takes place kind of in modern day, and it's kind of like this country for old men meets maybe Blood Simple, I think is the only way I can describe it. Where you've got a really aging sheriff in this county, and he's trying to solve a murder-type stuff, and the people that get involved with that. I think you'd really enjoy that. Okay. I'm in. Who's publisher on this? This is Image Comics.

Image? Okay. That does this. I'll check that out. There's a brand new series. So there's three volumes of that series, and I think it ended after the third volume. But this week, the duo came back and they're like, well, what if we told you a story that took place 150 years before that Texas Blood series happens? It's called the Infield Gang Massacre. Ooh.

And it supposedly tells you the quote unquote true story of the infield gang and how this gang was brought at justice. The first issue came out last week is really, really good. I'm in. I'm all in on this. It's funny. You bring this to me at a perfect time where I'm having a Western moment. I've been watching a lot of Western stuff. I even wrote a short, a very short Western story last night.

That's going to sound strange to people, but I did. I wrote it. Really? Yeah, I'm in the mood right now. What's the first line? What's the first line? I'll tell you right now. I'll tell you right now. I'll tell you right now. I'll bring it up. It is, hold on. A dog walked into a bar and he only had three legs. I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

Here's my name. My name's lucky. All right, here, I'll read it to you. Guys, ready for this? Yes. Yes. It says, it was the smell of spent shells that pulled him from sleep, not the sound of gunfire. There was no kind of sound that would wake him because he didn't hear anything. Sometimes he could, sorry, sometimes he could feel the vibrations of it all, but Russell Boyd was born deaf as a stone and would never know the utility of proper hearing.

But he was, but he sure wasn't blind. He was as far from blind as any person could be. could shoot a fly off your shoulder from over 200 paces before you'd put it all together much of what he lacked from hearing he made up well or made up well with from smelling seen and feeling his father told him it was a weakness that would get him killed sooner than later his mama was too kind and said to say that sort of thing but he thought she probably also and then that was the last word I wrote so it's about a blind gun or excuse me a deaf gunslinger he can't hear anything but he's so good at everything else that he's like, you know,

like I said, shooting flies off shoulders, 200 paces. I get this whole idea in my head so I was like, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. And then I fell asleep and I don't know what I'm meant. I probably do nothing with it. Anyway, nice. Very good. But that's the mood I'm in right now. So you brought the comic at the perfect time.

Yeah, I think, I think then definitely read the first volume of that Texas blood and then read the infield gang massacre. I think that might set you up perfectly. Yeah. Oh, yeah. that's what I'm doing as I'm surrounding myself

with the inspiration see that's the whole idea yeah speaking of guns really quick if you would let me promo something yes do this is great a lot of times people are like well Batman should never use a gun which you know whichever way you stand on it

that's fine but a lot of people will go out and say well Batman's used a gun since the very beginning so I don't see why it's wrong for Batman to use a gun today and I went in and did a deep dive to find out exactly when Batman used a gun and how many times Batman has used a gun in his entire golden age through the silver age run.

Okay. And the answer might surprise you. Really? You're not going to tell us, though, are you? Oh, no, I'm not going to tell you, but I am going to point you to the major spoilers podcast, episode 1037 called Batman's Got a Gun, where I break it down and I share the whole story. I don't know if I sent you guys the link.

I don't know if either of you had a chance. I listened to it, and your production value is spectacular. Like, it is, like, the kind of thing that we used to teach on America's Next Top podcast, like, you know, the... Ah, high praise, high praise from the Kings. Yeah, that's awesome. That's very cool. I got to listen to it. I haven't yet, but...

Yeah, it's really short. It's like 15 minutes. I love this kind of thing. So, you're speaking in the language. It talks about where the inspirations come from, why he stopped using a gun, you know, why, you know, and just, you know, ask some questions at the end to get people thinking, so. Sure. And the guns didn't, didn't... I'll go listen first, but...

Go listen. I'm guessing some had like, you know, they weren't all bullets and things like that. So it still counts, though, right? If you have a gun that shoots a... Yeah, if there's a gun that shoots something, I talk about it. But in the golden age, it's literally bullets in the guns.

Right, right. But if it shoots a projectile some sort, it probably counts. Rubber bullets, I swear, we bring that up in the... You totally do. All right, I'm going to check it out. Everyone else should, too. Go to Major Spoilers.com.

And you'll find all the shows. You'll find everything else of worthy content. on that website. And Stephen, it's always good to have you here. Is there anything else you'd like to share with this before you go? This morning was a beautiful walk. It was 60 degrees and like 50% humidity. But when I came home, I drank a big glass of water because the main thing people need to remember is to always stay hydrated. It's a truth. So true. So true. I mean, I feel it in my soul when he says that. I do. Stay hydrated, you guys. All right, that's going to do it for Stephen. Here is a thing real quick here. A couple things.

all right so episode two of the expanse telltale video game came out and i played it last night on stream that's two episodes i've now played that's all there is that's out the third is on its way i think this week oh that's cool it's kind of like the like the guardians of the galaxy like that uh yeah that style story based oh i love that yeah they're really it's really good so far and um it's it's got the all the act well at least the main actor who plays drummer uh the what's her name the belter check who's so awesome uh kara gee i think is her name she's she's there, so it's her voice and stuff. And it's, it's legit.

And they really up their, like, I mean, it's Unreal Engine, so that probably helps, but they really up their quality of, like, the graphics, the animation, the, like, mouth animation for dialogue is incredibly good. But yet it's still a little stylized, which I think works in its favor. It's very, very cool. I'm only two episodes in, but I'm already giving this thing high praise. It's very, very good. So, anyway, if you want to see that, it's up on the YouTube channel now,

go to you two or go to frogpants.tv that'll take you straight there and you can check that out in the live archives uh and a giant core episode posted on thursday and i just wanted to point this out because not only was a gigantic but it was probably 90% us talking about balder's gate three which is an incredible video game uh will probably be on i i don't know whose list at the end of this year won't have it at least at number one or number two for best game of the year. For some people, this would be game of the decade. It is incredibly well made

this game. If you don't like D&D, though, if you don't like the old Baldersgate games, that stuff just never really did it for you. Probably not going to be for you, but holy shit, that game's great. It's so good. It's so good. Very cool. Very cool. Let's get this quick follow-up on an email from

Natalie, Allen, and the cats. I was going to say, don't read the names. based on their first sentence. Oh, shit. Did they say, I didn't want to dox myself. Yeah, well, it's just their first names. They'll be fine.

Says, hi, I was going to leave a page or a message on YouTube, but I didn't want to completely docks myself. We live in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and are very familiar with Lebanon, bologna and seltzers. We talked about all that. I know what you said, or sorry, I know what to send you this year for the holidays. I'll check prior to sending in case anyone has,

sorry, in case anyone else has sent something in. It's a very popular regional meat here. the Lebanon bologna and is often served fried and on a pretzel roll or something just sliced with a pickle light smear or smear of cream cheese smear probably and then rolled for easy snacking yes i use the word smear just for scott smoked or sweet um are the two popular types this has too much cream cheese for me but to each their own i couldn't find a photo of the sandwich but i will send prep instructions when i compile your christmas packages.

Yeah, the photo she sent was of a, one of these Lebanon bologna wrapped around some cream cheese and I think some pickles or something inside. They looked great. Yeah, with a pickle, a light smear of cream cheese, shmere of cream cheese and then rolled. Oh, it looks so good. My first glance at that looked like sushi for some reason. I don't know why, but that's what I thought. It does look like a hand roll, yeah.

A little roll. I'm sorry, not a hand roll, the other kind of roll. The other one, whatever they're called. whatever they're going. A non-hand roll. Additionally, not sure if this is why you eat microwave bologna and black pepper and soy sauce, but I grew up with a Vietnamese friend who taught me to eat ham sandwiches with soy sauce, cilantro, and black pepper. It may have been a Korean influence in your childhood, just a thought. Hope you are well, and thanks for the laughs.

Love the show, though, Natalie Allen, and the cats. How do you do a ham sandwich with soy sauce without the bread just getting super soggy? It seems weird. I like the cilantro and black pepper on that. it sounds great but uh maybe you cook it in there you you like my yeah maybe you fry it up in uh some soy sauce yeah that would work that would work i spent the weekend a good portion of it driving myself insane because i am still sure that there is a meat with infused carbonate a seltzer a seltzer carbonated meat i'm so sure of it it is if if i'm wrong it's my it is scott

johnson's ultimate mandela effect because i am so sure i've eaten this and had it and talked about it and it was normal with somebody. How would the seltzer, how would that represent itself? Well, it was processed. My memory is this. It's processed meat like a bologna slice would look. And it had like craters in it from the process. It would, it created a little bubble almost like Swiss cheese, but not full holes.

It was more like just little craters in the meat. and when you ate it it was like pop rock style sensation not quite as intense but that was the feeling of the infused carbonation this is this is as real to me as anything I've ever done it's real to you maybe it does exist maybe it's something you had I've never I've never heard of such a thing but that I mean obviously it doesn't mean that doesn't exist yeah but usually when I bring something like this up on the show

someone somewhere finds something and nobody's finding anything I'm starting to question my sanity on it, to be honest. Or maybe somebody lied to me or fooled me. Like spoiled meat and it's like tingling and popping in my mouth. This is so good. It's entirely possible. And then whoever gave me the meat said, oh, no, that's infused with carbonation is what that is. You're fine.

It's no problem. Go home before you need a toilet, you know, I don't know. It's some Bronschweiger that somebody used a cocktail straw to poke holes in. It's delicious. Enjoy it. I would really like to know, though, if anyone anywhere can give me a a rope here, because I just, I cannot find anything. I've looked and looked and looked. Anyway, thank you, you guys, for your email. If you want to send an email into the show,

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All the other shows got it, and I just didn't do it right on TMS. I have now, so it's there and good now. So you can actually search for it on Spotify. You'll get a lock that says you can't listen to it unless you tie in your Patreon account. When you do that, it says, oh, you're eligible to listen to this feed.

It's cool. I kind of just wish Spotify would just let you paste the feed like everyone else does, but they don't have the option to paste custom feeds. They never have, and they probably never will. So this is their solution. It seems to work fine. If you're a Spotify user, you'll be the one that cares about this. So if you have any questions, just find me online and I'll tell you what's going on.

Cool. That's it for the show. We're done, I think. But we need music. I can't go without music. Yeah, you know, you say we're done. We're not done until the, the, the, The music says we're done, and this is music going out to Amanda.

It goes by Amanda Catherine in the chat. Hello, staccato and bass. I'm turning 30 years old this last Friday. Oh, my God. Let's party. 30, big one. I like it. And I'd love it if you play 3090 from the movie version of Tick,

Tick, Boom, which is technically a cover of the original cast recording of the show. Okay, Amanda. I'll give it to you. Because it's such a damn good song. I love this song. And anybody, any rent heads out there who have not yet watched Tick-T-T-Bomb. Have you watched Tick-T-T-T-T-T-C-Bum? Dude, got to watch it.

It is so, so, so, so-old. This is the Andrew Garfield deal. Andrew Garfield, it's the semi-autobiographical deal about Jonathan Larson, the guy who wrote Rent. Oh, right. Okay. This will make you love. If you don't already love Andrew Garfield, this will just make you love him more because it's so good. Nice.

Let's see. I know Scott says the 30 is nothing to be afraid of, but I can't help it. It's tough to be at this stage of life and not be where I always thought I'd be in terms of my career. Thank you guys so much for all your amazing podcasting over the years. I'm very grateful. You'll think the same thing at 40. You'll think the same thing at 50. Yeah, exactly.

Amanda said, could you email me and let me know you receive this? Guess what, Amanda? You're hearing the song. I received it. Okay? That's a, you know, just, just feel like it got through. Okay. Boom.

All right. Yeah, this is from the soundtrack of Tick, Tick, Boom. This one's performed by Andrew Garfield featuring Vanessa Hudgens and Joshua Henry. It's called 3090, and it's playing right now. All right, that's it. We'll see you guys tomorrow for a brand new TMS on a Tuesday. We'll see you then. Stop the clout, take time out.

Time to regroup before you lose the bout. Freeze the parade. Back it up Time to refocus before they wrap it up The gears are getting shorter Lines on your face aren't getting longer Feel like you're treading water About the riptides getting stronger

Don't panic, don't jump shit, can't fight it, Like taxes, at least it happens only once in your life They're singing happy birthday You just want to lay down and cry Not just another birthday It's 39, why can't you stay 29th? Hell, you still feel like you're 22 The 3099 Day bang you dead, what can you do?

What can you do? What can you do? What can you do? Clear the wrong way, make another pass. Try one more approach before you're out of gas. Friends are getting fatter. Hairs on your head are getting thinner. Feel like Kempelina batter.

On a team that ain't a win-natter Don't freak out, don't strike out Can't fight it like City Hall At least you're not alone Your friends are there too They're singing happy birthday Just wish you could run away Who cares about a birthday

But 3090 Hey Can you be optimistic new to 30, 19, 9-A, boom, you passy. What can you do? What can you do? What can you do? Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, which way to never, never land?

Emerald City's gone to hell since the wizard blew. His command On the streets you hear the voices Lost children, crocodiles You're not into Making choices, wicked witches Poppy Fields or men behind the curtain Tiger lilies ruby slippers

Clark is taking mass for certain And they're singing happy birthday I just wish it all were a dream It feels much more like doomsday Fark 3090 Seems like I'm in for a twister, I don't see a rainbow, do you turn 30 in the 90s? Come to my hands now, the ball is past, I want the spoils but not too fast. The world is calling, it's now I'll never land.

Why can I stay a shot forever? And 39A, 39A, 39A, 39A, 39A, 39A, 3039A, 39A What can I do? What can I do? What can I do?