The Morning Stream - TMS 2513: Ear Regardless

Episode Date: August 28, 2023

You'll have no Brian....wait....no Bobby, and no Lt. Yar. Wall Of Donuts. My People Call Them Suck Balls. Spay or Neuter your Crypto Bros. Leanne Rhymes With What? Yogi and Boo Boo strike in Asheville. The Nintendo Crescendo. Schroedinger's Obituary. Can't Fix The Peeeeeeeeee. Spilly McSpill Cup Mcgee. We pick up the poops, what more do you want? The Quicker-taker-outer. Dunaway Brought The Retro-Everything. Life happens $6k at a time. Star Wars ass Star Wars 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.

TMS is brought to you daily by the support of our patrons at patreon.com slash TMS, like Gary Anthony, Sean O'Connor, and Wizuma. Coming up on TMS. You'll have no Brian, wait, no Bobby, and no Lieutenant Yarr! Wall of donuts. My people call them suck balls. Spay or neuter your crypto bros. Leanne rhymes with what? Yogi and boo-boo strike in Asheville.

The Nintendo Crescendo. Schrodinger's obituary. Can't fix the... Spilly McSpill Cup McGee. We pick up the poops. What more do you want? The Quicker-Taker Outer. Brian Dunaway brought the retro everything. Life happens $6,000 at a time.

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This is the morning stream. Ah, that's the level of stupid we're looking for. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Monday, August 28th, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian. Nibit. Hello, Brian. Hello. Boy, this was a close one today, wasn't it?

Yeah, it's close. Near Miss, everybody. Brian had internet problems, and we were just about going to have to last second Bobby in again, and he was very nice to be available for that. Yes. But then the table's turned once again, and your internet came back, and here we are. Yish. Yish, what a pain in the butt.

It really is. It's just like, yeah, without going into all the details, my ISP told me it was. was up everything's working fine i reset my modem lost all my settings and then my isp said oh wait our mistake it's down oh sorry sorry that sucks that's a whole like cut the blue wire but first cut the green wire it's like no no wait a minute exactly oh man oh crap we've already all blown up oh no plus you got home at like midnight or one or something got home at midnight uh it was yeah we had a late flight We left Atlanta at 9-something, and basically we did that because we wanted to spend as much time with the Tadpool folks, specifically Chuck and Amy, who were absolutely the nicest to, well, for a multitude of reasons, but the most, the latest of which, the last of which was driving us from Asheville back home with them to Atlanta and then taking us to the airport. And if we had to fly out, like if we were going to fly out at what we would consider to be a normal time,

we would have had to leave Asheville super early in the morning. And we would have paid for a car that we would have only used once, one day, and that sort of thing. Yeah, yeah. That was nice, though. So really nice. Extremely nice. I mean, you know, this whole weekend was just fantastic. And even before we even saw all the wonderful Tad people.

poo. Didn't I get to spend a day or an evening in Savannah, Georgia. And I will say, this is, it was absolutely a wonderful, it's a wonderful little town. We met up with listener Jonathan and their girlfriend, Amanda. And, um, Wabit Magic says, Brian, you only need to reset your modem defaults as a last resort. Well, thank you. That's what we thought. And he thought he had a last resort situation.

That's the idea. Yeah, I thought it was in a last resort situation because nothing was working. Nothing was connecting. Anyway. Thank you for that. But Savannah was beautiful. We didn't do any structured graveyard, or not graveyard, but like haunted tour. But Savannah is the most haunted city in America.

Oh, I didn't know that. I looked online, found some stuff. You had the Mercer house. The old city hotel where there were murders, that's now a brewery, that's where we met Jonathan and Amanda. It's, uh, uh, and then, of course, we had to go through a graveyard. And we went, we found a graveyard. We found the, um, what is it the, I'll never remember the name because my mind is, is all frazzled this morning. Yeah.

But, uh, found a graveyard walking distance from our hotel. And boy, lots of really old, worn graves and ones that are sold, they have little metal braces propping them up and that sort of thing. And so lots of cool pictures. Are those big stones, like big old gravestones? Big old gravestones, but then some really small ones. And lots of people who died from dueling and lots of people who died from yellow fever. Oh, man, one's a quicker way to go.

Yes, exactly. And neither one's fun. No, no. It would be great, though, somebody shot a guy from across the courtyard and then immediately died himself. from yellow fever. You got the yellow fever on the bullet. Yeah, that'd be awesome. We then met up the next morning with Chuck and Amy,

who drove us up to these gorgeous cabins just outside of Asheville and Lake Wolf. Again, a combination of lack of sleep, getting in late, getting up early, still not sleeping very well, and then having to deal with modem stuff. stuff. It was Wolf something. Wolf Creek. Is that it? Wolf Creek. That's cool. We have one of those. So this was the Airbnb place you guys stayed? Yeah. And different from the one that they stayed in last year that had that weird teepee in the upstairs room.

This one was just fantastic for us. Like two cabins, separated by a third cabin that was being renovated. So we had a little bit of walking to do to get back and forth between the two cabins. But plenty of room for all of us, like tons of room for all of us, lots of room for board games and and um and brian brought uh his uh like he brought his entire retro setup you you think that all right well you know brain's got vhs tapes you think he'd bring a vCR and then some way to connect the vCR like some little converter thing that would convert it to hdm i because chances are you're not going to find component cables in the back of a brand new tv and an Airbnb right um no He brought a 27-inch, fat, heavy, dumb, CRT television, a VCR, a turntable, a tape deck, cassette tape deck, and a VHS rewinder.

Whoa, what? So, like, you know, well, not only could we watch a VHS tape, but then we could rewind it separately, and it's because he's Brian Dunway is the deal. He didn't bring any of his old N.S or Genesis stuff or any of that. Oh, no, he also, that's right. also brought a PlayStation 2 and two dance dance dance revolution pads and a bunch of

a bunch of games like that what a nerd what a nerd I love that I know it was it was hilarious it was really really funny and so we actually did we ended up watching a movie called Star Night

oh sad how I can remember that but I can't remember the damn town we were in this movie called Star Night which had Harvey Keitel really early Harvey Keitel roll post taxi driver but pre everything else that harvey kaitel did that was good and uh and then we watch like the first well we watched the first five 10 minutes of space here's in the forbidden zone with um all ringwalled and but apparently everybody else stayed up and watched the rest of it

you were like you know i'm not this young anymore i got to go to bed at three exactly yeah and then the next night they watched uh 1993 merlin we watched we watched some of it and september says you missed 1993, Merlin, I'd say, well, I wouldn't say I missed it, September. Define the word missed. Yeah, I'd say it left 10 minutes in, Tina left 10 minutes in, but I wouldn't say we missed it. Because you could say you missed a bullet or you dodged a bullet. It's the same thing, really. You missed the bullet.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I get it. But so many, I'm going to forget somebody, but I'm sure I remember all the people there are there that were so awesome and friendly. We had Adi Norman, Paul. Masseus. Oh, Audie made it.

I didn't know he was going. He made it, yeah. Dude looks great, too. Slim down. Yeah, he's doing real good. That's great. Brian, Shane, Natalie,

Brian Pankey. We had three brines. We had three brines, so we had to stage the three Spider-Man pose. Oh, the pointing thing, yeah. That's good.

Yep. Where is this? This is probably the Discord that photo, I guess. Maybe. yes it's definitely in discord absolutely in the in the southeast meetup discord you'll find it um leanne um rhymes rhymes lyne rhymes yeah learn rhymes was there of course brian done away yeah uh perform live who am i forgetting folks tell me who i'm forgetting oh jana of course uh jana uh pride from our our chat um

oh yeah jana uh well yes tina i guess i never named i guess i never named I shouldn't forget the woman that I'm married that also is like the biggest volunteer to do anything to help out with everybody. No, I said you first September. I guess I didn't say, I didn't mention Rob, but of course, yeah, you heard me mention September as well. But yeah, no, I think that might be. I got Shane. I think I got everybody. The only reason I know Shane was there for sure is he posted a video of him turning slowly in a room.

He did. I asked him. I asked him if he asked him if he asked him. you did that yeah nice well i'm glad you guys yeah might have forgotten rob but i'm sorry rob glad you you has had a good time we were uh we were a little bummed about our cross scheduling because it would have been really fun to go down there and wendy was here yesterday and she she was like hey we should do that next year where they go down south i like the south i said all right we'll we'll make it work next time she says okay and then she left yeah uh okay a couple a couple other things though

Paul brought a return to Dark Tower. Oh, how I saw the video or video, a photo of you guys playing that and I was very curious. How was that? Oh, my God. It was so much fun. This thing, it was a four and a half hour game, but it was, I mean, this was the place to do it. Where else are you going to, you know, have an opportunity to get in there and do it? Oh, there's Paul in the chat room right now.

Yeah, and after playing it, so obviously Paul brought his copy. Amy has her copy The four of us is Paul, me Amy and Brian Dunaway And now Brian Dunaway are like Hmm where can we buy copies of this So if nothing else I mean Paul should get

Should get commission because Did that thing ever go retail? Can you get it anywhere? It Not yet At least I'm able to find a retail yet But there are people selling their Kickstarter copies and there's like

A game company that I think probably bought 10 or a game store that bought 10 of the full pledges that are selling those and I'm going to try and get one of those although cheese Louise it's uh it ain't cheap it ain't cheap Scott no they don't does that they didn't give that shit away you're gonna have to pay for that's going to be 450 bucks if I want if I want everything including all the miniatures and all that sort of thing that's a load that's a game that like you know you you basically use an iPad or a tablet our Android tablet or something pixel to um drive the game it can

connects via Bluetooth to the tower, and makes the game so much easier to, like, go through. You basically just go, oh, all right, it's Brian Donnelly's turn. Bloop, bloop, bloop, I'm going to fight this guy. And then bloop, bloop, bloop, then drop some skulls. And it's like, it basically walks you through everything you need to do. And it's so. Can you play it without that if you had, like, no, no, I don't know, somebody didn't have a tablet. You could.

Oh, yeah, you absolutely could. I think you're going to be just using cards to simulate the randomness of things like boss fights and things like that, but I mean, you wouldn't want to. There's no, like, if you, after playing it with the tablet, if for whatever reason, a tablet,

a phone, an iPad was not available, I wouldn't play it that day. I would play something else. Yeah, something else with your four hours. Exactly. Because it'll be six hours without the tablet. It's the way that'll work. Well, that's great.

That sounds like a blast. I experienced a fair amount of FOMO, which I don't usually have. I'm not a FOMO kind of guy. I was thinking about all my friends and all my pals all together. And I didn't know Brian brought the 80s with him. Geez, Louise. He pretty much did.

Yeah, brought all the 80s. Hell yeah. And a little 2000s, I guess, with that PlayStation. Well, that's awesome. I had something happened that was funny as shit and I have to share it. All right? Oh, tell me. So Kim and I got away for the weekend.

The original plan was Moab, our $6,000 water bill, repair bill, changed those plans a little bit. Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure it's going to be something more. more fun although moab's great yeah moab's awesome so uh you know whatever but we ended up we ended up mostly downtown and um here's here's what's funny so we're in this brand new marriot very nice place right and they have this wall of donuts you ever see this where the we're a you see this you ever see this where a wall wall of donuts are like complimentary donuts and they're hanging on hooks and you're supposed to just take one you ever see that no i have not that doesn't seem like you're going to get a good

fresh a donut if it's been sitting there hanging on a wall waiting for somebody to take one but well the lady there seemed to indicate that this was a thing they only did during this one hour during the day and we just happen to be there for that time so that they're sort of fresh i guess but it still seems weird you just pulling donuts off a wall it's weird it does yeah because yeah anyone can touch those donuts at least when they're behind glass at the winchels only the person with the flimsy clear plastic gloves is touching them but somebody might say oh a pink sprinkle one oh wait and after they've touched the pink sprinkle and now their hand is moving over to the boston cream you're 100% where my brain was at on this that's all i'm sure i'm sure yeah

exactly i've worked with you long enough to know exactly where it's like who has touched these freaking things and where are they now and that kind of thing but yeah the main thing is we were hot and we wanted water and they also had strawberry water and lemon water just basically there's fruit in the water so it has yeah infused sure uh always like that it's always good right yeah so i load up i'm i'm there and there's a guy behind me while i'm there loading up on i think it was lemon water and he's right behind me and i'm tired and being a little sloppy and i accidentally put the cup in a weird way

and launched a bunch of water against the donuts the wall and the floor didn't mean to but i just went bleh right just totally had a good now not a big deal kim grabbed a bunch napkins i swapped it up threw it away told the lady hey we you know i don't know if it's a slipping hazard but we just had a little spill over there. She's, oh, no, no, worry about it. Whatever. This guy behind me watches, he witnesses this whole thing.

Goes in to get his water. We then are mopping up while he's getting his water. So we're timing this all around the same time. We throw in the trash. I start to leave and head toward the elevator. He comes after us toward the elevators. Elevator opens up, bing, opens up. Nobody's in it.

We're going up to the seventh floor. He's standing out front. And it's just Kim and I. So it's not like, It's a big elevator. We got room for whatever you need. Room for the three of you. Yeah, no problem.

He doesn't have luggage. We don't have luggage. Everyone's just a free wheeler in here. I opened the elevator and I get in and he stands out there staring at us. And I went and I put my hand out to hold the thing shut. They're open. And I go, are you kind of, you need to get in? He goes, oh, I'll wait for the next one.

And the only thing I can think of was because I was stay. I still, you know, I had my water, which I, eventually got a full cup of because after the spill I got I filled it again you refilled it sure the only thing I think of is he's looking at me going I watched him spill that all over the place I can't have this happening the elevator he's going to spill it all over the inside of the elevator yeah I really think that's what he thought I was going to do did you check to make sure that when you had your your spill splash that you didn't like have a big wet spot on your crotch that might have still been visible now that you say that I don't actually know I don't have proof one direction or the other on that

but maybe I did. Yeah. Maybe that had a big splatter down there. Actually, I might have. I didn't even think about that. Oh, really? Like, it might have looked like you wet your fans. Yeah, it looked like some kind of weirdo.

Getting drug around by my, you know, my caretaker. I don't, you know, for all he know, he didn't know. But he wouldn't get in that elevator. And, man, I thought about that guy all day. It's like, why wouldn't he get in here? It easily could have just been something like, you know, there's the new variant of COVID going around. I can wait for the next elevator, no big deal. A lot of people are, a lot of people are doing that.

That's true. Could have been him just, maybe he just would rather not go up an elevator with strangers. That's fine. I understand. People have that thing. You know, our own Tom Merritt hates elevators. He can't stand him. Really?

Can't wait to get out of him. He's got an irrational lifelong fear of elevators. And he's talking about it, maybe not this show, but we've talked about on some show before. But he's, he's, you know, so everybody's got reasons. But it just cracked me up that this guy just witnessed this water catastrophe and then was like i'm not going near that guy you know it easily even could have been that maybe he was a little sniffly maybe he's thinking well could be uh could be allergies but i'm gonna hang back and let this these this uh attractive couple take the elevator ahead of me i'm sure look your your version

is the new version that's what i'm going with you like that yeah yeah i like it a lot yeah um you know something i forgot about by the way we woke up uh um saturday morning so yeah it was it was the next day after we'd all gotten there and we'd had a full day there because we were waiting for Brian Dunnway to show up. And or was it Friday morning?

Was it Friday morning or Saturday morning? Anyway, we woke up one of the two mornings and looked out out the front window and saw that the car doors were open. A lot of the cars, the Tadpool members' cars in front of the Airbnb.

And we're like, crap does some like are there some kids who basically just come up here some people who come up here and think all right we're going to rob the cars we know people are asleep we know they come up to to uh um to uh the the Airbnb's um let's just break into their cars in the middle of the night because I'm sure they've got stuff um and as we looked we noticed that inside the cars it wasn't like glove compartments were open and stuff was rifled through or um consoles middle you know between seat consoles was open up and stuff was gone through. But the things that were scattered all over the place

were any bits of road food that you picked up on your way to the Airbnb and left in your car for the night. So we had picked up some lemon drop, as we call them suck balls. Little lemon drops that you suck on while you're driving. Brian Dunaway had some. cliff bars or some some sort of energy bar kind of thing and a thing of mentos oh yeah this was this would have been it would have been Saturday because during the day Saturday we went into Asheville

went to some galleries and that's when we met up with Dunaway and then he came back to the thing with us so yeah it was waking up Saturday morning so it was Friday geez Louise Friday we met up with Dunaway. Saturday morning woke up to find the bear mess. Okay, there we are you. So it was a bear. It was a bear. It was a bear. We were pretty much figured out that a bear had opened car doors, couldn't get into the Teslas because they had a flat, the handle

goes flat into the side. And we looked and we could even see like scratch marks, like claw marks in the little divot where your hand goes to pull open the door. Yeah. It's all I could think of was, oh, clever girl. Whatever girl, yeah.

But hilarious. Like, they just open the doors, get all the food out. All right, this car's done. You got that one? Oh, I'll come to do this one, that one with you. Ooh, multiple bears, like more than one bear. Well, I don't know. We don't know how many bears there were.

Could have been just one. But they ate everything except for Brian Dunnoy's Mentos, which they just spread all over the passenger seat. Did this play while that happened right here? Hold on. do this where the bears are like all right we're going to get out of this mess exactly how we're going to do it and then and then the the camera froze and the bear looked at the uh the camera and went fresh maker that's awesome man having a bear encounter that's cool it's the thing you tell your kids yeah love you want and that's the kind of bear encounter you want yeah yeah yeah yeah you don't want

them sniffing around your tents or any of that but you know exactly that's great yeah then Sunday morning, no, I guess it was also Saturday morning, while folks were making, man, September and Chuck made this incredible brunch for everybody. And while they were doing that, we went up, Brian Dunaway and Tina and Leanne and I did a little bit of hiking, went up. Just this little trail that came off, off this little cul-de-sac that we were parked in, and we were thinking, all right, well, it's just going to be in the woods and stuff. We'll do a little bit of hiking and see how things go. we round this corner and there's this big open field with a bunch of these weird machines it kind of looks like in lost when they they come around this corner and they see all of the um the sound fence that uh the dharma initiative have set up i guess to keep polar bears out of that part of the island or really to keep the others out of that part of the island yeah yeah and uh we're like looking close to these things and we realize wait a minute these are snowmaking machines so this is like a this is a slope and then we go a little bit further and we find the ski the ski lift that goes up to the top of this hill really uh and so dunway and i went up to the

very top of the hill we sat in a ski lift we found where you could turn the ski lift on but we decided that would be a bad idea two brions were killed today while trying to mess with a bunch of shit exactly i think you know just shot because it's not like it's not like we can do it very stealthily everybody on the mountain would see that ski lift moving and they They'd know there's only one place you can be to turn that thing on. And it's up at the top of the lift in that in that little, little box. Yep. You would have got the, you got the local po-po on you up there.

We would have easily, yeah. There's no hiding. There was no, you know, there's no getting away because then we'd have to try and get down the hill back to our Airbnb. So it's like in the colder months or something, they put up some artificial slope. Yeah, I think they make some snow and then people ski right there. And it's, it's so hidden. There is no signage that says, this way to the Wolf Creek. ski hill.

The ski hill with only one switch to turn it on. Exactly. Yeah, I course, says there might be a way to do it from the bottom two. Probably, yeah. Well, that's amazing. What a fun thing to have happened to you. Bears. Bears and skiing.

Bears and skiing and delicious brunches, bears' brunches and Battlestar Galactics. Oh, man, what a, what a combo. That's right. Caryoki. That's also a video you can find in the Southeast Meetup Discord. channel. You can see all of us doing karaoke, so. Yeah, I saw a bunch of that and it looked awesome. Yeah. Hey, I got

a lift update for you. Okay. Ooh, hit me. Hit me with a lift update. It's a weekend without any lifting. Be courteous. It was. It was. It was. But we got some thoughts from a listener. This is from an anonymous listener who's texted us and said, you also need to tell Brian this

that at the end of 2023, his Kia Soul will be ineligible to drive for lift might not be able to do, or say, might be able to do deliveries, but not ride people. Then again, maybe Lyft allows 10 plus year old vehicles, maybe 15, but Uber is only 10 years allowed.

Is that true? Lyft is 15. So I've got basically right now, it's 2008 or newer vehicles for Lyft. I don't know. So Uber is 10 years, so that's good to know in case in case you ever dual, dual boot, but dual wheeled.

Dual wheeled your car. Dual wheeled my car. Yeah. Listen, uh, would have been, this would have been a year for me to to buy a new electric vehicle if I didn't have to pay $6,500 at the end of

2022 to replace an engine. Yeah. No, there's a lot of stuff I would do with that $6,000 I spent on water stuff. A lot of things. Look, you can't always tell what the future's going to bring, so you just take your hits. But holy shit, it's a lot of money,

okay? We're not all, you know, Jeff Bezos here. Yeah, we're just, you know, we're podcasters who do this in our basement in front of cheap sound panels we bought from Amazon for $8 for a dozen or something. That's right. Come on now. We got a deal on it.

We're not, you know, there's no Joe Rogan here. There's no Mark Marins in our midst. No. Oh, I did have one of the things. So we're on Patreon today. Yeah, on Patreon, everybody. Get over there. So we were, the only thing I would say about our trip was, it was all very relaxed and chill.

We went on a bookstore hunt, like a crawl. Oh, nice. like old books we found like stuff from the 1800s it was pretty cool um but real chill but we uh we we the first night i thought i was in Vegas again because at about nine o'clock we get back to the hotel room around nine because we're old and lame and we get up to our room and all the sudden some really loud music starts to play like like hilton lobby level like Unz, Unz. Yes, a very technical, a little bit of singing.

I couldn't quite tell what combination of genres we had going, but it was pretty loud. And the whole, and we were facing whatever this was. And at first I thought it was in the hotel. So I was like, what is this, BlizzCon, 2013? What's going on here? But we get out and look, and there is a bar outside just across the street. And it looked like a really nice place. It had like an underground, or it's part of the underground river that runs through Salt Lake.

It's part of, I forget which creek it's called. But there are a few buildings that feature this river going through their building. So it's like an indoor river. It's really cool. But they had theirs on their little outdoor thing. And they had this band or something, DJ, I don't know what, playing. And it was really loud to the point that like our room was kind of vibrating in a pretty brand new Marriott. Like it's not like this is some crappy old hotel.

Really? Okay. And it was really loud. And I thought, well, that'll go to like 10. This is fine. You know, we'll watch Showtime or whatever. We'll tough it out for an hour. We'll deal with it.

Nope, that played tell 2. 2.30? No. But by the time I was finally getting used to it, where I was going to fall asleep because I'm used to the sound, and now that's going to help lull me to sleep. They stop. And now I can't sleep because the sound is gone. Do you know what I'm?

It's like people get really into white noise or something. And then if you take it away, you can't, you're just screwed. It was like that. I know exactly what you're talking about. Oh, that sucks. It did suck. It did suck. But other than that, it was fine.

The other nights, they didn't do it. So it was good. all right well we've got time for some news i think we should get some news out uh do some news this news isn't going to tell itself so here you go everyone all right time for the news brought to you by sprinkling baking soda all over the shop oh right last night was also the donut well we had to so we had to host the dinner last night we had to get back pretty quick because windy was here so we had a dinner here all the family came over and we just did the whole thing here and um kim's insane on how she did it but she made food as soon as we got back

from a vacation and uh kinsen host on host duty yeah it was it was nuts but anyway and part of it my sister misha would normally host but they they're moving and so it's all in disarray so we did it and something like 30 people came over but we the side of my house is kind of my dog's toilet we cleaned it up every day right we go over there and pick up the poops and stuff right but that's where that's where she likes to go is on the side of the house yeah over on the side way yeah exactly And we're, and our big patio thing that we, that we sort of entertain on when we're hosting things is right there adjacent to that. Well, normally no big deal. You pick up the poo when it happens.

You throw it out. You do whatever. Usually I try to walk him anyway. But one thing I didn't count on is it's August and it's hot and the sun's out all day and it just bakes the pee. It's the pee. It's the pee. No. Yeah, that's seeped into the ground.

Yep. So every once in a while would like just kind of waft over. and I was like, we can't have this tonight. This is not good. We can't have people over. The place smells like urine. It smells like urine back here. So I went out there.

I was told that if you did this, it would work. And sure enough, it actually did. And I'm not sure how it worked. But I went out there with a big bag of Arm and Hammer baking soda because what other brand even is there. And I'm holding it. And I'm just going, blah, just throwing out a bunch of this stuff where the dogs pee. And then you water it down.

Yeah. And it's supposed to. suppress, you know, the dog, any kind of dog stink from back there. And it worked. Okay. It went great. Really? Yeah. Smelled great. All right, good. Yeah, you're supposed to, that stuff works with litter boxes as well.

And, yeah. It worked. I was surprised. It's a good technique. Yeah, I was a little shocked that it actually, I don't believe anything works until I see it anymore. That's how skeptical I am. And it worked. Fair enough. So that felt good.

Brian, in a not surprising story. buyers of the board ape NFTs are suing because the digital apes turned out to be a bad investment. You don't say those darn those NFTs strike again with those. Imagine spending 800 grand on a stupid ape and having it be worth four bucks now or something. Oh, how much were those things? Oh, they were really expensive. Were they?

Some of them, the rarest ones were, I think people paid millions for those. Oh, no. It's ridiculous. Oh, I feel bad. I feel bad for the people who did that, thinking, all right, well, this will be the next Bitcoin. Because I think Bitcoin had that, like, moment where it rocketed up. And people are looking for that next kind of payday.

Everybody wants a quick turnover. I get it. Yeah. I think you're better off sticking to try it in true investment methods. That's right. It's slow and steady wins the race, everybody. that's our financial advice. Yeah.

Buyers of the NFTs are very sad. The Sotheby's Auction House has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by investors who regret buying Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs that sold for highly inflated prices during the NFT craze in 2021. That feels like millions of years ago now. It really does. The Sotheby's auction duped investors by giving, this is their claim, by giving BoredApe NFTs an air of legitimacy to generate investors because it's Sotheby's, right?

Was it the drung of the ape that gave you the false sense of legitimacy? I think it's just like, I think it's just Sutherby's known for like, oh, this is King Charles's golf bag. Yeah, right. The actual true, real good auction stuff. Yeah, I think that's what they think anyway. The boost to board ape NFT prices provided by the auction was rooted in deception, says the lawsuit. Filed in U.S. District Court in California. It was revealed at the time of the auction.

auction that the buyer's, uh, or the buyer was now disgraced FTX, uh, which is that dude that, all the hair. Yeah. That guy. Yeah. He looks like that whole FTX mess. He's like a rejected, uh, welcome back cotter student that we just never got to know. He's, he's, he's, uh, he's, uh, horse shack is kind of what he is. Yeah. He's, you all raising his hands and going, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, just to buy something. Mr. Katta. Yeah. Oh, no, not horse shack. Uh, the other guy. Oh, that's the Epstein. Epstein, thank you, yes. Don't go to his island, I'm just saying.

No, no, avoid that too. Yeah, I'm sure he just, I'm sure it turned into an unfortunate name all around. Yeah, I'm sure it was just a regular old prison suicide. I'm sure it had nothing to do with anything else. I'm sure it was just, uh, look, I'm not a conspiracy theorist. Does anyone who listens to the show knows? There's no way that one of the most prominent jails in America suddenly in the same night had the cameras go bad

the guards walk away and nobody around there's no way not a chance well whatever it's the only conspiracy I believe in yeah I don't even think that's a conspiracy because it's not like

well I guess somebody tried to tell everybody that nope nope it was just he hung himself I mean that's the official story guards weren't watching yeah so I guess it would be a conspiracy if it's we're going against what the official story is yeah And by the way, It just feels like, yeah.

Don't take it as me feeling bad for Epstein because that guy sucked. Oh, yeah. No, no. Yeah, he's bad. He's bad man. Definitely no, no defending that guy there. Yeah. And anybody who engaged in any of that BS should find them.

String a bump up by their testes. All right? Anyway, it says here they sold 101 of these apes. Oh, wow. That's two years more than Bob Barker. bid for his thing. Boom, bum, boom.

I was saying pre-show when Bobby was here briefly that it's hard for me. $19.99 is an incredible run. It's a hell of an achievement. Yes, exactly. But how can you not make the don't bid over a 100 joke? You have to. I know, I know. Try to be as close to the price

without going over and he did it. Same, you know, similar thing happened with Betty White. and we they're just kind of shows you that because nobody really made jokes right away after Betty White. We all kind of held a little bit of a higher regard. She's America's grandma.

She is America's grandma. Yeah. I miss her to this day. But then Bob Barker is kind of like, okay, let the jokes fly. But it wasn't, none of the jokes were mean. They were just like, you know, that's not a mean joke saying that you know he went 100 without going over

he got as close as he could to the actual retail price of 100 without going over yeah in a way it's almost a tribute because it's like that guy went out the way he worked for 50 years he was he was a host for 50 freaking years he was exactly and Bob would laugh

Bob himself would laugh at something like that that's right and then he'd tell me immediately to spay or neuter my cat or dog right as soon as I was going to talk about the price is wrong bitch is what he would You would. One of the greatest cameo moments in all of film history. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, these guys are getting screwed.

So check this out. They sold a lot of 101 of these things for $24.4 million for its ape-in auction in September of that year. Yeah. That means pre-auction estimate of $12 million to $18 million. The average price, it was over $241 million for each of those. 241,000. Yeah. They now sell for a floor price.

price of about 50,000 worth of either cryptocurrency of ether. Oh, ether. Did they say ether? I was worried they misspelled either. No, I guess it, the Ethereum or is it just it's a generic for? It's got to be Ethereum because why would they write this is the only thing it could be because ether is not a separate currency. That's weird. Right, right. They just write ether and didn't like it's not even capitalized. So I'm guessing they mean Ethereum or or just the fact that cryptocurrency is out in the ether. Yeah, basically it is. Yeah. Anyway, good luck

to them. We hope this all works out. Yeah, hope so. Biocow sent us a little story. I'm going to read it. Okay. Thanks BioCow. He put it in her Discord. You're welcome to do that, people, if you want to hear a story on the show. We will often do it. Florida woman reportedly poured Mountain Dew on herself to remove her DNA.

Oh, no. Or I should say, remove somebody else's DNA. It's actually closer to that. A Florida woman connected to her roommate's murder, allegedly poured Mountain Dew on herself to remove DNA evidence. Oh, gotcha. Okay, so it really was like... The blood of another.

I was going with a whole different direction for me. That's what I was doing. Well, get your black light and put that away there, many boy. Let's see. Nicole Max is facing charges for first degree murder, tampering with evidence and resisting arrest. On July 1st, Daytona Beach, Florida, of a flag down by a concerned individual over a fire at a home.

Bottom line is her idea was, hey, I got blood on me. I'm freaking out here. They're going to catch me. What do I do? A nice cold can of Mountain Dew. Which actually, you know what? I mean, she probably had in her head, like, Coke will take off your battery acid stuff. Right.

Oh, yes. So they're thinking, she was probably thinking this would be the, uh, the, uh, the, the, the, the, the, the, solution. Yeah. Like it'll cleanse. In a panic, I'm trying to think what I would do. If I had just killed someone, I've never done everybody. Okay, calm down.

Scotty just killed a man. There are no cold cases with my name on it, all right? I'm just saying. But if I did, and I was like, well, what do I do? And I go to the fridge, because where else would you go? Like, that's where you would go. Yeah. And I'd look in there.

And if I had soda, I would probably think soda was the best answer, because what else is there? You know, you're going to put ketchup all over yourself and have them think, oh, it's part of the cats. Yeah, one of the things that you'd use to clean yourself, uh, seltzer. Yeah. Like, was I going to put like, um, I don't know, that's, I guess I would still think that something carbonated would probably have more of a effect than not. So yeah, I guess, I guess I want to call this lady crazy. I mean, she's crazy for killing somebody, but I kind of want to call her crazy for the, for the mountain dew.

But I think maybe that's what anybody would do if they were, they were, they were freaking. out trying to hide evidence i don't know unless she had like if she doesn't have any rubbing alcohol in the house like everyone does maybe that would have been better you know i don't know if i could find rubbing i mean i'm sure we've got i know we've got some rubbing alcohol in the house i don't know uh where i'd look for it to find it is the problem i had a friend in high school name justin pinkler or spinkler spankler spankler anyway i don't remember his last name pinkler pinkler Pinkler. That guy sipped

rubbing alcohol. Oh, geez. For fun. Yeah. And it had the effect of doing what you think it would do. It would make him buzzy. He would get a buzz from it.

But there's no way he wasn't doing irreparable harm to his liver or his stomach or the esophagus. We used to say, Justin, why are you doing that? Man, this is great. You guys don't know unless you try it, man. Just don't light any matches, man. He'd say.

Yeah, he's weird. I'm trying to find something here to. I'm trying to make it like do a set up for a joke It's taking a long time All right I'm not gonna do it I'm looking desperately To find the segment of the

Who's won't get fooled again Where Daltry goes Yeah Because I was gonna do a David Caruso Oh sunglasses on This murder is a Code red Yeah

Couldn't pull it up in time I struggle I have it I have it up there Pulled it up in in sound studio to see if I could find the moment and the whole audio file is showing up this one big, one big loud blah la la la. Yeah, that's what'll happen.

One final story from Hootie 42. Oh, from Hootie, the Hootie 40. Hootie 42, which was Level 42 and Hootie and the Blowfish combo concert that happened that year. It was such a great, yeah, it was a, love their song, something about holding my hand. Yeah, and there's something about,

holding my hair. I can't do it. Let her cry. Let her cry. Let her on me. Kind of miss them. I mean, I know they were just top 40, but I kind of like it. Charles Martinette, long-time voice actor for Mario and Luigi, has retired.

Yeah. He lets it go for one last time. Oh. It created a bunch of funny memes or a bunch of hardcore deep. voice actors went to various social media networks and recorded versions of them auditioning to be the new Mario and it's all very funny. In fact, I think I have one prep for later. I'll play it now. It's me, Mario. It's the guy who played Clive in the new Final Fantasy 16 game. It's like very serious character. But anyway, Martinette, who's been doing this since 1991, is retiring. He'll

be stepping into a new role as Mario ambassador, which to me sounds like they moved him out and said, hey, here's a consolation prize, but whatever. This is according to Nintendo. They told I-O-9 via email that Martinette is not involved in Super Mario Brothers Wonder. This will be the first game without his voice.

There will be someone who sounds just like him now, I'm sure. It's a guy who sounds like this. Let's go, Mega Man. Mega Man. I mean, Mario. Mario, let's go to the Wade, the Wade. Oh, man. Hey, Luigi. A step of, really a step forward for the character. Let's see, the company is excited to honor his legacy and contributions in the future.

His new position as Mario Ambassador, who knows if it's a paid one, Martinettes. Oh, can I say something nice about Doug Bowser real quick? Sure, of Doug Bowser. He's the head of Nintendo, or not head of Nintendo, but. President of Nintendo of America. Nintendo America, yes. Right. He's a big deal.

He took over for Reggie Fisomey back in the, whenever. Yeah, yeah. and he's having it's a good ride for him like nintendo's at a crescendo they're doing great and uh he he's a alumni of the university of utah and is a huge has been in the past carter works up there is the only reason i know this big supporter of the games program up there comes out there all the time does speeches for him all the time uh loves the place huge fan of his former college so he likes to come out and do stuff and the other day they had a big because they're starting up the new semester, right? So they had a big intro thing and showed off a bunch of stuff.

And Carter's been out there working her butt off. And Doug Bowser comes out. And that night, they had a big party as well. And he was supposed, his flight was scheduled to leave before the party. And he decided, all on his own, nobody asked him. He just changed his flight. You can do that when you're the president of Nintendo. I'm not really pretty much. Yeah, you could basically say, yeah, probably no charge. Yeah, no charge. And hung around for the party and like, you know, hobnobbed everybody hanging out Carter talked to him for a bit. He's the coolest.

He is a legitimately cool dude. That's awesome. And his last name is Bowser, and that's amazing. And it seems like the most appropriate title. I mean, the appropriate job for somebody who's last name is Bowser. Or maybe the most inappropriate job for someone of the last name Bowser. It depends on your point of you, I suppose. Yeah.

Well, there you go. That is our news for today. Take that with you and take it as you will. We're now going to take a break when we come back. Major spoilers time. We'll talk to Stephen and hang out. Because I had to do some music picking before Brian got here, I'm going to tell you guys about a song from my nephew's band Brother.

Every time there's a chance for me to pick music, I almost always default to playing something from them because I'm proud of that kid and I really like his music. I think their band name should be something else because it's really hard to SEO. It's like you're almost as bad as calling your band live or the band. Yeah, the other sorts of things are a problem.

But brother made a song called Goodman. Night Girl. I have it on Good Authority. It's actually inspired by my niece who married, Chuck. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, it's really sweet. A little song, and one of their better tracks, I think. And I want you guys to hear it now. So go check out all their work. They're really good.

They were also featured in a track on the latest Dead Mouse album. A really, really cool version of that song as well. I don't have permission to play that one, but this one I do. So here it is. It's Good Night Girl by Brother. We'll be back shortly. Stay tuned.

You've always loved. dude, I love myself nail it through the smallest hands We're taking off, I'm taking off with you right by my side From California to Japan

Let's go and take a ride And overdrive In every life You make me lose My moon You are my good night Now

You are my ride or die And it always sweet Never said it's going to go It's always said that what goes round We'll surely come around We'll live until we're skin and blown and even though before I met you I was by myself we're lucky that we're not alone

let's go and take a ride of a drive in every life you made me lose my mind you are my good night you are my right of time gave it always me never say you good-bye So, I'm going to be able to be.

You are my good night girl You are my ride or die You are my ride or die Hey on grace me Never say a good thing No, your server is not the waiter or waitress at your favorite coffee shop. The server is the company that is providing your access to the internet. It's me, Mario.

And we've returned, that was... God, tell us again who we just heard that. Oh, that felt weird. That felt really weird. I know. It just dawned on me. It was like, oh, I'm going to do that real quick. Oh, I love it.

That's a brother. And it's with a period if you're trying to search them. Brother dot. That's how you know you have the right brother, as if you see a dot. Yeah, if you see the dot. Again, the song is called Good Night Girl. It's on YouTube. It's on all the music services.

and of course something you can buy a band camp like all the usual things so check out brother for more i saw chuck last night speaking to mario it's hilarious he was dressed he was dressed in a overalls a cap and a button down that had the sleeves pulled up he was basically dressed as mario but it was black oh wow white shirt underneath but this top thing and the overalls were all black and they shows up and i go uh i think they filled the role i think they have the new voice actually already. They're not taking auditions, Chuck, and he looked at me now. Like, I was going crazy. I had no idea what I was talking about. He's a good guy. But I want, but I want the job. Somebody, I think Shane Maddoch said, what about, do you think they're paving the way for Chris Pratt

to basically take the audio stuff as well now? Or do you think that's, no, no, no, no. There's no way. First of all, I think he's too expensive. Probably definitely, yeah, for sure. So they're not going to do that but also what wonder's basically done so whoever's in it is in it and it's definitely not him oh so they actually do have the replacement yeah they've got they haven't talked about who yet but they've definitely got somebody okay you know it really pissed people off if it was AI or something that would be bad oh god that would yes yeah I can see them doing it but I hope they don't oh yeah not with what's going on not in this climate with the sag after

a strike holy cow now if they did a movie crossover thing. Sure, you could see Chris Pratt doing a one-off or whatever, but for the games moving forward, I mean, there's like three Mario games a year of various kinds. Yeah. But Shane, I like your idea, okay? Now go in a room,

take your camera out, face it at you, and turn slowly in that room. Slowly spin around. Let's call Stephen Schleiker, who is on today. Some sad news from the world of comics that we're going to talk about. Well, not just the ones in our in our notes here, but

a couple of them, a couple of narlies. Yeah, I don't like that when comics are hit by sad things. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dalla, dollar bills, y'all. Hey, it's Stephen Schlecker joining us from Hayes, Kansas. The home of all things, major spoilers. Hi, Stephen. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian.

Hello, I flew over your state last night. Oh, man, it is why. It's called a flyover state, right? Did you wave at us as we flew over? I did, actually, yeah. You're the one that screwed up my astrophotography, a big old plane, right through the middle of one. my shots. There's the perfect shot of Jupiter. Click.

Oh, it's a Delta flight. Damn it. How was Hayes these days? You doing anything fun there? Any kind of big festivals and late summer? We'll just start it back up. So there's a lot of activities.

One of the things that's kind of big, Western Kansas is kind of big for arts community. So we have a big art walk going on this Friday, I believe. And so that'll bring in a lot of people. And the art walks, a lot of fun, really good talent in and around the area. Nice. I'm going to be It's just reminded me of this

So it's nothing to do with that But if any of the Salt Lakers are around For the Greek festival In the city next week I think it's next one No I'm sorry two weeks We're going to be at that So maybe we'll try to hook up

And say hi to people We love a good Greek festival Euros for miles Oh yeah The food A little Spanicopata Oh you're not kidding dude I'm so excited

Oh my gosh Yeah weird Weird bottled fizzy drinks That they only make in the grease weird stuff like that. That worries me. I don't know. The yogurt soda thing freaked me out. I don't know if I can. I don't know if I'd do it.

But I'll do all the other stuff. You'll do all the food. Yeah, you'll do all the food. Hey, before we get to the news that you brought, Stephen, another person who passed away this last weekend was Arlene Sorkin. So I hesitated to bring that up. So she was the inspiration for Harley Quinn on Batman the animated series. But the more I started to dig into it, the more I can find no official statement

from anybody. This was as of yesterday. So she might still be alive, is what you're saying? Maybe. I don't know. So the original announcement came from a co-worker on days of our lives. And he says, I have it on good authority that Arlene Sorkin has passed away.

So it's that, blah, blah, blah. And people are like, do you have a source for this? He goes, yes, a very close anonymous source. And then, of course, TMZ, I think, reported it this morning. but James Gunn retweeted obviously but there's been like no variety Hollywood reporter none of those people have reported on this

really and so I find it very very strange and so that's why I hesitated to to bring that up because with Bob Barker I mean right away there's Bob Barker and they've got all the obituary files ready to go and and all of these things going out there was a white snake guy passed away as well so they had his thing ready to go. And then there was another person. There was actually three that passed away over the

weekend, or in the last couple of days. One more. I forget, all those ready to go. Well, as of this morning, you got people, vulture, USA Today, Hollywood Reporter, NBC News. Okay. So they're all reporting it now, but you're right. And they're all referencing the confusion, by the way. They were all like, oh, really? Okay. They were all saying, oh, early on, this looked like maybe it didn't happen, but now it's all confirmed, I guess. Yeah, okay. So there you go. So she will be missed. She was a great inspiration Paul Dini said that he watched Days of Our Lives, is that what she was on?

Saw her in a clown costume and said, okay, I'm basing everything off of this one scene with Arlene Sorkin. Toliapie Bradford. And her character on the show was married to Hugh, but she pronounced it huge, played by Krusty Spacehands himself, John DeLand. That's right.

They were my power couple on that show. They were, yeah, until he disappeared in a time travel accident. That show was so weird. Yeah, freaking days of our lives. So weird. That thing, that moment that it had for all of a certain people of a certain age, such a weird thing for daytime TV. So damn weird.

Yeah, that's sad. She was pretty iconic as that voice. And the cartoon created that character. Like, that was the first car. Yeah, yeah, that was her first appeared. She didn't appear in the comic books until a year or so after the first season of Batman, the animated series. And then kind of took off and really changed after that through a lot of different

our incarnations. I would say if people are looking for a really good Harley Quinn episode and comic to read read Mad Love and watch the Mad Love episode. A Mad Love, I believe the cartoon came first and then the comic came after. But it's about the horrible abusive relationship that Harley Quinn was in with the Joker. And it's very good. It's a very good episode. She's also just a side note. She played the same character in the Arkham. First Arkham game. I don't think she's

two or three or city or uh or night dark night or whatever it was called but batman arkham uh arkham uh asylum she is amazing her harlequin character never better and then it wasn't that so freaking yeah yeah yeah yeah anyway rest of she will be missed uh let's see what else is going on we got some bad news here some other bad news dune two got delayed uh i'm not happy about this at all because i'm are you are you like that one person who had the super bad take that was like this is all the the the sag after and WGA's fault because they're so freaking greedy. It's a F you, it's all of this. And this guy's like

a movie reviewer guy and that's like, dude. Dude. No, he just has it backwards. Like, this, I understand when things get delayed because the strike is going on, but it's not about greedy strikers. It's about greedy corporations.

So, if he's even got a point, he's got it flipped. And he's a dumb ass. So there's that. Yeah, he took down the tweet and I was like, I don't care what people say. No, I'm famous, and it's just like, shut up, dude. Oh, dude, if I get, if I, you know what I don't want to ever get trapped in an elevator with? There's a bunch of people.

Ted Cruz is one. There's, you know, I don't want to be in there with that, I can't think of his name. Oh, the prop comic. Who's the red-headed prop comic? I don't want to be stuck in an elevator. Oh, uh, carrot top. Yeah, carrot top. There's a bunch of people like that, but I really, really don't want to be trapped in an elevator with clout chasers or engagement farmers.

I don't want to be with those people. Oh, God. Yeah. Ever. The ones that just say shit to get noticed and then they think that's now they've got a moment of fame and they're somehow getting boners off that. Freaking F off. F right off. Anyway, there's a, so the main reason why Warner Brothers says that they are delaying and pushing this is because obviously with the strike going on, they can't get any of the stars to come and promote the film, which you know, Timothy Chalameh and Zendaya and all the other big names that are part of this. Isn't Josh Brolin in this one? I forget. You can't get them to come. come out and and do big big publicity thing. So why not just push that off until next year and do it? And I think people are still super hype like you, Scott, for Dune Part 2. And maybe a Dune Part 3, the director kind of teased that over the weekend that he's,

he's ready to do a Dune Part 3 if necessary. Yeah, he wants to do the God Emperor thing. Yeah. I forget what it's called Dune Messiah. I think that's it. Yeah. So I don't think the lack of, of celebrity publicity, especially when a lot of it

has already gone out in the magazines. I don't think that's a super solid reason to cancel the premiere. It could be that if you're David Zazlov, a person that I personally despise, it might be another way to just say, hey, here's more money that we lost, so therefore we are

closing that gap of our giant hole that we are in with our debt. That's me being a little conspiracy theory today, Scott, but wouldn't put it past David Zazzo. Asloff to say, hey, because we couldn't run this movie, we lost all this money and we're using that to our debt credit.

It's a, it's a massive movie. It will be massive for them whenever they do it, but it's a massive revenue push from one year to the other, no matter whose motivations or this or that or whatever. And I'm bummed just because, you know, I want to watch Dune. Yeah. Well, and so ask yourself, again, let's take a kind of a dive. I did this with my students last week, and a lot of them were, like, totally surprised about this. Who's going to suffer most by pushing this movie off four months or however long it is to March of next year?

Well, I don't think us being sad. We can't see it yet as much suffering. So I'm not going to say us. Okay. Actors, are they going to be out of anything? I don't know. Have they – what's the deal? Do they usually – I guess it depends on if they took a cut of the box office as opposed to an initial –

They probably got initially paid for the... Oh, yeah, yeah, most definitely. Not a, not a cut of the back end. And plus, once this strike is settled, they're going to get a bunch of money anyway. Yeah, studios, probably not. As I already said, this is a great way for Warner Brothers to write a bunch of stuff off. So who I wonder who could be in a big, theaters? The movies.

The movies. The movie theaters could be a big problem, especially with the largest movie company in the United States. AMC now, what is it, $5 billion in debt? And by 2026, they have to pay off 3.1. I don't know if that's interest, but they have a $3.1 payment coming up, a billion dollar payment coming up in 2026. It would be really interesting if there was somebody who was kind of poking around maybe wanting to buy AMC, but kind of forcing them into bankruptcy. And I know some people are thinking, well, Stephen, that's vertical integration. That can't be happening because of the Paramount at all decree from the Supreme Court.

He, guess what? August 7th of this year, that is all gone. Oh, really? Studios can go back to vertical integration. They can become the producers. They can become the distributors. And they can become the exhibitors. Yeah, because we had United Artists as a chain owner for quite a while here in Denver. Yeah, yeah.

I was wondering how that worked. Okay. Because United Artists, so when the Paramount Degrees happened, they said you can be a producer, you can be a distributor, or you can be an exhibitor, but you can't be all three. Can you be two of the three? Disney does that, right? So Disney did that with the parent company Disney, and then you have Disney Studios, and then you have Buena Vista, which is the distribution arm for all of their stuff. Right.

And they had touch tone. They did other weird things. But it's a lot like on the streaming side, they do that with Hulu. It's basically the same idea, you know, and Fox now and everybody else. Oh, interesting. Oh, I heard a thing. Just a little thing that kind of crossed my mind this past weekend while I was sitting there going, oh, Dune is not making it to theaters. Oh, well, that's okay.

Is it? Have you heard anything about this? showtime, at least streaming-wise, showtime is going to be pushed, mushed in with Paramount Plus now or something. I have not heard anything about that, but as we start to look at our streamers making money or not making money, it would make sense for them to start

consolidating, especially if the Warner Brothers Discovery thing worked out, you know, in a positive way is the way whatever this amalgamation has become on this one service, that you may see a lot of consolidation among the streamers that are owned by the same parent company to kind of merge things together. Oh, I found. So I found the official word, I probably could have looked this up earlier, but it says on Paramount Plus,

they have actually a post on their blog saying, what is happening with Paramount Plus and Showtime? Paramount Plus is now streaming home of Showtime. If you signed up for Showtime streaming service or the Paramount Plus with Showtime bundle, you may be eligible just to transfer your account to Paramount Plus where you can continue watching your award-winning Showtime programming. blah blah blah blah blah so basically they are doing that they're consolidating um it's a little like what not the threat but the idea that HBO max and discovery were going to be mushed together and they kind of are but not I guess they are they are being mushed together right yeah they are much together

so that's what's happening here uh showtime will now what's weird is I have showtime through a bundle I got on prime and I canceled Paramount plus after finishing 1883 not because of it It's because I just had, I just was taking a break. So I wonder what I have now. Do I still just have HP? Do I have Paramount? Oh, no, no. I know what I have because there's an email.

They're going to just start charging me $11 and it's all still one big package. Now, is that what you were paying before or is suddenly now because you get the best of Peacock and Paramount Plus together. It's more because I think I was, I think Showtime was only $7.99 or something. So I think as a, I think as a bundle, it's cheaper than the bundle. but you know when you were doing it as a bundle but it's still not it's still more than showtime was by itself so there's a little bit of a little bit of fruit it's i mean you're already getting yet both you might as well do the bundle but not yeah yeah anyway that's a thing uh osoka is out two episodes i watched them both yeah uh you know what you think scott i liked it i can tell they're going for another slow burn here um they they they don't get to a lot of stuff right away it's a little less of heard that I expected in a movie or in a show that's got her name on it. And part of that is because they are taking a super deep dive into the last 20 years of Star Wars, not the movies, not Mandalorian, but Star Wars Rebels and Star Wars clone Wars.

Yeah. That if you're not paying attention to what happened in Clone Wars and with rebels, you're going to be completely lost going into this. Yeah, this feels like if you haven't seen, in particular, if you haven't seen rebels, you are going to be, you're going to be at a disadvantage. I won't say that it's bad TV because you haven't seen it or anything. I don't mean that. But there's going to be some stuff where, in some cases, shot for shot.

There are stuff from rebels. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, wow. Like literally there's a couple of shots in particular that are like, oh, yeah, that's straight out of the cartoon. Like, oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. And it's really cool.

It's cool to see the Lothcats go from a 3D cartoon animated version to a 3D fuzzy version that That looks pretty cool. The whole Lothal planet looks very, very cool. You get a lot of actors reprising roles. But if you're like, why does anyone care about Thron or this Ezra Miller guy? That's all the climax of the main Star Wars Rebels series, which I thought that they were immediately going to launch after that with Asoka and Sabine Ren going out and searching for him. But now it looks like we had to wait for this series before they even get to the gateway to go and search for Ezra,

who opened up a, what is it called when they go into light speed? Like a wormhole or whatever. Yeah, wormhole or whatever. And sucked him in Thrawn to a distant part of the galaxy. I will say this, though. There's a couple things really stand out. Ray Stevenson, who passed away recently, sadly. Yeah.

Finished his role here before that, though, and is amazing as Baylon's skull. He's very good so far. Rosario Dawson, great when she's on camera. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, also great as Hera. I really like Sabine. played by Natasha Lou Bordizo, I think, is how you say her name. But the real standout for me is voice work by David Tennant. That stuff's really good.

Yeah, it took me a minute because I was like, wait a minute, I didn't see David Tenet in this. And it's like, oh, yeah, he's the robot. Yeah, and he's very good as the robot. Clancy Brown is in the cartoon and in this as the governor of the planet. So that's cool. There's a lot to like so far, but it is also, let me say this. It's like, uh, Andor was this super, like to this day, I still think Andor is the best thing they've done.

Yes. But it's very unusual. It's not the same as normal Star Wars. This is a return to sabers and the mythology of the Jedi. And like if you're looking for Star Wars ass Star Wars, this is it. A little more, a little more inclined toward the Mando side of things and less so toward this like dirty underground. scoundrel business that Andor was mostly about. And so whether that may affect some people's willingness to want to see it or not, I think

it's fine so far, but it does feel more like popcorn. Even if you haven't watched Star Wars Rebels, I think you can get into it. But if you don't know who Asoka is, then you need to make, do a little research. Yeah, or at the very least, well, it's hard to say, watch the Clone Wars in its entirety because it's a ton. Watch the entirety, yes. It's a big watch. It's a good watch.

It's something you should see. But, yeah, it's good, though. It's good so far. I think if you watched everything Star Wars right now, there's like over 195 hours of Star Wars content that's out there leading up to Asoka. Right, right, right. That makes sense. By the way, a quick update on this how you're going to pay for Paramount Plus and the Showtime thing.

Paramount Plus essential is only $6 a month. I assume that is not include any Showtime content. Paramount Plus with Showtime is $11.99 a month, which is what they told me. will start paying for for my combination it's it's less than it was before at with the two things separate so oh there you go all right it's not bad it's not bad uh jeff smith bone creator famous for the bone comics a couple of the things too i loved his uh his shazel is really good if you haven't read rassel's awesome his jazam shazam run was really good um anyway uh poor dude had a suffered a heart attack, cardiac arrest over the weekend.

A couple of weekends ago, he had a major heart attack and is in recovery so much so that his wife went online and said, hey, look, he's not going to be able to go do any tours for the foreseeable future. So they've canceled it for the rest of this year. So if you're a Jeff Miller, or not Jeff Miller fan, Jeff Smith fan, you're not going to be able to see him in any shows. And I was talking about this on the major spoilers podcast last week. And I want to get your guys as input. Yes, granted, we have had indie comics for a long time. But for comics to catch into a mainstream audience, I think we owe a lot of that to Jeff Smith and Bone because once that stuff hit middle grade readers, we wouldn't have Captain Underpants.

We wouldn't have high-low. We wouldn't have, what was it, cop dog or whatever the man-cop thing is. We wouldn't have any of that. And we certainly wouldn't have a rise of independent comics into the mainstream. I don't think without Jeff Smith and no I'd even argue that web comics owe him like a ton of their legacy you know like he made it yeah that was able to cross that line between kids stuff and adult stuff and make it work for both yeah but even even beyond that it's like who was self-publishing comics back then like nobody oh yeah I mean you had you know small publishers I mean certainly you had seribus and you had you know the crazy drug hippie stuff from the from the 60s and 70s but to really become somebody that's not a Marvel or a D.C. who comes out of essentially nowhere and creates comics and gets young readers hooked on that and becomes, sells more comics to middle and grade schoolers through Scholastic Press than, you know, common traditional comics markets

could sell. That's, that's pretty amazing. Yeah. And just a shout out to our pal, Steve Hamaker, who was a member of our community. He was the colorist for all that stuff. He's pretty devastated by all this because they all live in... Sure, yeah. I think they live in Columbus now, or I think Jeff Smith does. I'm not actually sure about that. I know he's there all the time, but... The good news is he's recovering, so that's the good thing.

That is great news to hear. And I wish he has a fast one. Well, there you go, everybody. That's all she wrote there at the major spoilers.com. Not really, because if you go there, there's tons of content, including podcasts and other stuff. Stephen, is there anything in particular you'd like to point people toward? If you were wondering what comics are coming up, we've got, solicitations from most of the publishers for

the months ahead. You can go find them out there if you're looking for toys or statues or whatever. We've got those listings all over there at major spoilers.com. And I would encourage people to go and do that. And even though this weekend was a beautiful weekend in Kansas, 78 degrees is a high.

I know other people are still super hot. Lovely. So please, please, please stay hydrated. Yeah, I'm going to do my best. So, well, Brian. We'll both drink a lot. You know? Absolutely well. Drink a little water. in the form of coffee right now. Did you guys have any cool drinky drinks while you were there?

Like any kind of southern? Oh, so glad you asked. Yeah, we had a drink that was made by Sean Wayland or Weiland from that season of A&P where we had all the Shons. Oh, that was a bartender Sean. Sean Heavy season, yeah. Remember that? It was a very Sean-heavy season. He's working on a show with September that I'm excited to hear when it finally comes out.

But he created a drink just for us for the mountains that was gin and bitters and time, the herb time. It was called Wild Mountain Time, and it was very, very good. Cool name. Did he make it up, or is that a thing he already knew? He did. No, he made it up. He came up with the recipe and everything. Oh, no, bitter.

Not bitter at all still. I know. Sorry. Sorry, Sean. Yeah. Sorry. That's cool, man. That's awesome. That made, that just reminded me. And mocktail and mocktail recipes are in the discord. And even record a really cool video talking about how he makes it. I was supposed to ask something of the tadpool that Kim wanted me to ask and put out there. And now I can't remember it. Oh. Because you just reminded me of this. Like we have so many people that are like good at something. Yeah. And this weekend, Kim's like, oh, I wonder if someone knows about this. You should ask on the show. and I completely forgot what it is. I'll remember for tomorrow.

Yeah, tomorrow's show we'll have it on there. I didn't even get a chance to talk about the tour that we went on, the comedy horror bus tour, comedy haunted bus tour that we went on in Asheville. We all got on this bus and got driven around by this dude called Mr. Bones, and he looked apart, kind of voodoo king, Mr. Bones. Oh, I saw a picture. Yeah, he's a cool looking. I can pull this up for everybody.

Show him. Yeah. But it was really, it was very, his delivery was fantastic. Some of the jokes were a little, you know, low-hanging for a little punny. But I'd say for the most part, the jokes were great. His delivery, he sold them those. Yeah, that's a specific skill set to do those bus tour type things, isn't it? For sure, yeah.

But, uh, um, they had, uh, a woman who was his co-actor, colleague, co-host for this thing, named Corinne, and her job was to play all of these haunted characters in between actual horror stories. She would play

the characterizations of these haunted ghost story characters. But she would do this as the bus was driving around and we would drive up and find her in the bus. So we're trying to figure out like, How is she getting around to all these places, electric scooter or a car, or we just don't realize that, you know, like, all the places we're kind of doing clover leaf.

And so we're always ending up really close to the center place where all she has to do is just change her outfit and hop out. Yeah. But really, really cool bus tour. That is cool. So we're looking at the guy right now. He's got makeup under his eyes to make him look haunted. Yes, yes. A little dangley leather thing.

The dude played guitar while we were on the bus. Like, did a Bon Jovi living on a prayer. Yeah. It was very impressive. Very impressive dude. Do you ever, the whole time you're there, did you ever say, I do declare? Did that ever come out of your mouth while you were in the South? No, I never did.

I had some hot flashes, but I never said, I do declare. I got a case of the vapors. Yeah. Well, all right then. Got a quick text here from Michael. He says this. Hi, TMS. This is Michael from Edmonton.

I have a gamer question for both Scott and Brian, and if anyone out there wants to, they can chime in. Has everyone, or excuse me, has anyone played Mario Golf Super Rush on the Switch? I also loved the Mario Golf Series, and this went under my radar. I'm wondering if this is worth putting time into and if there is fun in it. Thanks again.

Yes, Michael, I own that game, and it's great. If you were a fan of the Mario Golf series, this is another one of those. I don't think the campaign is as deep as previous entries, which is my only complaint. Um, GBA game, the N64 game, and even the Game Boy Color games were, had these really extensive, uh, single player modes with like story and RPG elements and all this stuff. And they were, they were awesome. This is way lighter on that front. So if that, if that's a deal breaker, then I would probably avoid it. However, just like good old fashioned golf mechanics and multiplayer and let's go do nine holes kind of a sensibility. It's as good as it was ever going to be. So Brian, do you ever play it? I haven't played it.

No, I've played, I've probably played all the other Mario golf games up to this one. I didn't realize this was a thing. So, um, super rush, sugar rush. Sugar rush. Yeah. Sugar rush. They really think called it super rush is there's a mode where you can, you race to get. Oh.

Yeah. Scratch that. I have played this. Okay. Yeah. So you race between holes. Yeah. You race between holes and try to get your hole in faster before anyone else does.

played this. Okay. Yeah. I think you two of this. This is a few years old. This is a new new. No, no, no. This is like two, three years. Or maybe more. Yeah. Right around. I totally had it. Either maybe even pre-pandemic. I can't remember. Anyway. Yeah. There's that. All right. I think it's going to do it. Hey, a reminder. Listen, we have this Patreon. Okay. Without it, Brian and I are dead in the water. We just can't do a show without it. We need you guys. You can't do it. It just won't happen. No. And every time we get a $6,000 bill for water or cars, guess what? but we're screwed for a while. All right. So we need all the support we can get because we are just a couple

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Yeah. That is going to do it for today's show. Before we go, though, let's do this song. So because I picked all the music today, I just kind of went with stuff I like. Yeah, nothing wrong with that at all. And stuff I usually, I mean, whenever Brian brings, I always like. But in this case, it's like, well, what am I in the mood for? And I got the mood for dire straits.

So I started hunting around for cool covers of dire strait songs. And Sultans of Swing came up because I feel like money for nothing has got some problematic lyrics in it. It does. Even though they're told from the perspective of a couple of ignorant furniture delivery guys. Yes. It's just kind of rough. Yeah. A little bit rough.

And there's some covers of that stuff where people swap outwards. but I didn't want to do that either because also I feel like that's a little weird when you take old songs and change them. I know, I know. It's like such a double-edged sword. It's like, ooh, maybe you don't have that word in there, even if it is, you know, the character saying it.

But then somebody comes like, oh, you changed the lyrics. You took the... Yeah, yeah. It's a definition of that two-edged sword, for sure. But anyway, I like dire straits. I like Soltons of Swing, and I really like this cover by Mary Spender and Josh Turr.

Turner. This is easy to find on YouTube and various other places. It's a really, really great cover of this old amazing song. And we're going to play it for you now. We'll be back tomorrow with a regular episode of TMS. So bring your Tuesday pants, everybody. And we'll see you then. Brian's good to have you home. Welcome back home. It's good to be back. Thank you. And thanks again to Bobby for filling in on Thursday. Yeah, he did great. And his very temporary five-minute fill-in this morning. Nice job, Bob. Yes, exactly. Very brief while I tried one more thing and whatever. The damn ISP said, oh, sorry. Yeah, now we forgot this switch. Oops, they say. All right, everybody. Thanks so much. We'll see you tomorrow.

You get a shiver in the dark. It's raining in the park. South of the river you stop and you hold everything A band is blowing Dixie double four time You feel alright when you hear that music ring But now you step inside but you don't see too many faces Coming in out of the rain To hear the jazz roll down

A competition in other places All but the horns They're blowing that sound Way on down south Way on down south London town Check out Guitar George

He knows all the chords Mind is strictly rhythm He doesn't want to make a cry or sing Lieutenant O guitar is all he can't afford when he gets up under the lights to play his thing and Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene

he's got a daytime job he's doing all right he can play the honky-talk like anything He's saving it up for Friday night With the sultans With the sultans of swing And a crowd of young drunk and dressed in their best-bound baggies and their platform

souls They don't get down about any trumpet playing band It ain't what they call rock and roll And the sultans Yeah, there's the sultans that play Creole Creole. Then the man up to the microphone

and says it last just as the time bell rings Good night Now it's time to go home It makes it fast With one more thing We are the sultans We are the sultans

We are the sultans I'll swing. You know I'm going to I'm Yeah I'm I'm

I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm You know, I'm going to be able to be.

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