The Morning Stream - TMS 2520: Gopherfest

Episode Date: September 11, 2023

Neuters with Wolves. Avert Your Eyes in Theater 3! Poking the bra. Ol French Guy Grump. See you in the Double-Stuff Filling, baby! Philly Phart Nuggets. What Ruins The Theater Experience? Other People! It Watches the Chubby Kitten fall over or it gets the hose again. Hammering shit while getting shit hammered. Professor Shithead. Righty Fighty...Lefty Snappy. Nichole Kidman is 3/4 machine now. The Yachtest of Rock. The Space we do in the Shadows. Major Spoilers with Mr. Schleicher 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 Dave Spangler, Chris Schultz, and Craig Carlson. Coming up on TMS, neuters with wolves. Avert your eyes in Theater 3. Poking the bra. Oh, French guy grump. See you in the double stuff filling, baby. Philly fart nuggets. What ruins the theater experience?

Other people! It watches the chubby kitten fall over, or it gets the hose again. Hammering shit while getting shit hammered. The professor shithead. Wow, it's a lot of shit. That's a lot. Righty, fighty, lefty snappy. Nicole Kidman is three-fourths machine now.

The yachtest of rock. The space we do in the shadows. Major spoilers with Mr. Schleiker and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. We don't say, I don't care. We say, this is shit irrelevant for me. That is me a she's egal. And I think it's beautiful. Don't push me too far, Barbara.

The morning stream. They wouldn't give us any more fish. Good morning. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Monday, September 11th, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Ibbett. Hi, Brian Nibbitt. Hello, Scott. Hi. And welcome to a brand new week. Yeah. Yeah. Nothing funner. It begins with a solemn.

Yeah. Nothing more fun than starting the week of TMS with 9-11. Good times. 9-11. Yeah. I tried to kind of avoid thinking too much about it this year because I get real down about it. Yeah. That was a bummer date for everybody involved. It was.

Yeah, for sure. An understatement to say it that way. Man, 9-11. What a bummer date. Yeah, that sucked, man. Yeah, and it helps that this isn't one of like the big anniversary days. It's like the 25th anniversary is going to be coming up in a few years. And then it'll be like, oh, yeah, remember that?

Yeah, dude, Tony, how are we this far? That feels like yesterday. Yeah, I know. Is that crazy? Yesterday, me. But, you know, it was obviously a very long time ago. I was thinking earlier today or this morning as I was showering, in fact, about how we're celebrating some interesting, a thing that happened can drink legally now moments. It's a weird thing to be thinking in the shower, right?

Yeah, yeah. For example, excuse me, for example. Richard Reed's bombshoes can now drink legally. Kind of, yeah. In fact, related to that, George Bush, in his state of the union address. Yeah, he can drink whenever, he won't. This was when he said there, he coined the phrase Axis of Evil, the whole Iraq, Iran, North Korea thing. Oh, right, yeah.

And so now that can drink. What else? Here in TV and film, we got Janet Jackson, Lenny Kravitz, and Michael Jackson all received the Artist of the Century Award. Yeah. Why did Lenny Kravitz and Janet Jackson win that? I get Michael. But the other two? You know, well, and even Janet, I guess, yeah, I guess. I mean, it's never too early to announce somebody's the artist of the century. Were they talking about the previous century or the coming century? Because, I mean, Lenny Kravitz, 1993, no, earlier than that. I was working for the phone company, the art department for the phone company. So that would have been 88, 89. Oh, late 80s.

Somewhere around there was when I first saw. I first saw Let Love Rule, and I said, oh, wow, they brought back Jimmy Hendrix. So, yeah, I guess 20th then was the century they were referring to. Yeah. But Jana Jackson, Melanie Kravitz of the century? I don't know. Yeah. That seems off.

Michael Jackson, I could see it. I could see that. Michael Jackson, sure, but I mean, I don't know what about folks like, if we're talking the 20th century, what about folks like Sinatra or... The Beatles? The Beatles or Elvis Presley or, I don't know, someplace like somebody like that, maybe? Or any of them, really. Yeah. Like, if you're going to give it to these three, you give it to hundreds more.

Prince, yeah, exactly. There's so many, I feel like so many. better options. You know who else can drink now? The premiere of the Osbournes, the Ozzy Osbourne Family Reality Show. Oh, really? That can drink now, as of this year. Nice.

Yeah. Bowling for Columbine, the controversial documentary, that can drink this year. Finally, it can drink. Finally. The Wire can drink this year. Shame on you, Mr. President. Shame on you. Shame on you. Now I'm going to go eat 14 donuts and break in the green room.

Yeah, the Wire. Let's see, American Idol. 21 years now. Wow. The born identity, the first movie. Wow. Yeah. Remember that, Nicholas?

We're going to be enjoying the third one on FilmSec this week. Oh, Brian, I've got a music one. Eminem releases the single, Lose Yourself from the soundtrack of 8 Mile. First rap song to ever win an Academy Award Best Original song. That song can drink now. Wow. That's too busy eating.

Mom's spaghetti is the problem. That's right. drink but uh that's right that's right but it's eating it's eating spaghetti and then there's sports stuff but i'm not reading that i don't read sports stuff nobody got time for that no i get time for sports stuff what someone in the chat says the olson twins what does that mean they can oh they can drink i guess i mean they've been able to drink for a while they're in their thirties now or four yes right hold on yeah what was their what was their milestone in 2001 or 2002 that that that now makes that milestone able to drink.

That's what we're talking about. Oh, yeah. You know, those girls are pushing 40. They're 37. Really? Wow. Yeah, I remember how gross everybody was about like, um, oh, the countdown clocks and stuff.

Yeah, that was gross. But now they're almost 40. I'll bet those same guys, well, those same guys are in their 60s now or 70s or something. Yeah. We're talking about you, Leonardo DiCaprio. I saw a video of him at the, at the, at Wimbledon. Is it Wimbledon that's going on right now?

I think one of the big tennis things is happening. French Open, I don't know what. It's going on. US Open, whatever, sure. And he had the worst seats. So he was in this way back up high, and it looked like a nice little, like, all to yourself sort of zone. But he's watching the game like, or the thing like this? Like he's trying to look around somebody else?

Always the whole time. Like, he's looking back and forth like you would at a tennis match. But he's like craning to look over people. And then when the lady in front of him just straight up stands up and, you know, claps or whatever. He just kind of slumped back. Like, I guess I'm going to miss this part. Yeah. Good thing I got my no, uh, the younger than 24 year old, uh, date with me. Everything will be fun. Once upon a time in Wimbledon. Anyway, that's just a thing I noticed. Uh, all right, Brian, you did a mystery date and sent me a

hint. And I have no idea what the frick you did. So, yeah. So this is one that, uh, Tina set up. And, uh, like, she, she was able to keep this thing secret for almost right up until the house lights went down and I'll explain. But basically, it was Tina's turn to pick. And so we went to the art theater. So we have a, you know, everybody's got one or two in their town, those theaters that are specifically geared towards like showing older films, criterion films, or documentaries. This one also does. Every time there's an Oscar deal, they show all of the short films, the animated shorts and the live action shorts and documentary shorts. We've gone there for those before. And it's, you know, it's a really cool little little theater. For some reason,

it's not owned by AMC, but for some reason, I really should have asked somebody. They've got a banner in the lobby, no words on it, but it's Nicole Kidman's head from the AMC theater's commercial where she is all in awe of the theater. Oh, yeah. She's like, going to the theater is a great experience, and I barely have an Australian accent, and my face is three-fourths machine now, and blah, blah, blah. And, boy, isn't it awesome coming to the theater?

Yeah, of course it is for you in this video, because there's no other people there. That is what ruins the theater experience at AMC, is other people. Yeah, it's when the people show up that we have trouble. But it's this weird banner of Nicole Kidman kind of looking, up in all like like looking up with her mouth slightly gap but this isn't an AMC joint why do they have this not even an AMC joint so i don't know it just feels like something that they they made and then hung up kind of tongue-in-cheek kind of thing maybe they did maybe they were like hey you know it'd be

funny what if we took a that idea that seems like you're advertising for AMC that's weird well there's maybe but there's no money i mean there's no logo or anything on there so there's no there's nothing that would get that would generate other than people saying oh that's the am c thing so that's true good point so uh so we get our popcorn and our soda and she says all right it's going to be in theater three is it i'm going to go to the bathroom i'll go to theater three and so that would have been the point like i could have averted my eyes as i was walking into the doorway of theater three but instead i made the mistake of looking up and right under the glowing neon number three there's a little a little video screen that says

what you're about to see and i look up and it says cat video fest 2023 i'll share this with the chat here look at this everyone uh this is what brian sent his he put this in the film set group that we have yeah and he said uh basically i don't know what or no he said i'm not sure i'm in store for dot dot dot And I'm like, what the frick is this? This was like walking into like a YouTube channel with a door or something. Kind of, you know, so that was my first thought is, is this just going to be like, just basically, we're going to be watching giant screen Instagram and a room full of people. And I'm happy to tell you that, yeah, that's exactly what it was. It was basically like, it was basically like a whole room full of people.

And it was packed. And the guy even said, like there was an intro video of the guy who assembles these. Because there's a curator for cat videos. He says, welcome to, you know, our eighth annual cat video fest. This is easily the most popular thing we show here at the C movie theater complex. And it's like, really? Like, you guys show documentaries. You have people like Jacques Cousteau's son get up and talk about things and then show footage of

you know diving down the Titanic or something yeah and um uh and this is the most popular thing they have there so wild that's wild to me pretty much like that says something more about people than them right it kind of does oh for sure it definitely says more about about people and what they want to see and the fact that it's like uh this is stuff that

i mean all right i will i will say again the experience of seeing this in a theater on a screen with a roomful of people who are kind of, we're all kind of laughing at the same things, does elevate the material quite a bit. Because otherwise, if I were scrolling through on Instagram and these came up, I'd be like, oh, that's cute, that's cute. Oh, I show Tina that one. Look at that one right there. But there's something that is kind of funny about the shared experience with a large group.

Yeah, you get a bunch, you get a room full of people laughing hard. It's different. It's a different thing. Totally is. Than you sitting on the toilet on TikTok or something. Yeah. And yeah, this was 90 minutes of those videos. And it's like, you know, the little kitten that's so chubby and disoriented that it sees a fly.

And its first instinct is to raise its arms like it's going to pounce. And then it falls backwards on its back and weat, weat, weir, and stuff like that. Is any of this narrated? Is it just a role of these videos? It is a role of these videos. The only narrated ones are the ones where people provide the narration like, this is my cat. And this is the dumb thing. that my cat does. Look, it zoomies around

the house and da-da-da-da. But I would 100% go to this. I would go to this. No problem. And you know what? It absolutely J-Fung-Tastik nails it. Because cat videos are great and help people forget how goddamn awful life is. Yeah. Yeah. Plus this will

during the writer's strike where nobody can write you. It kind of will. Yeah, no writers were harmed in the making of the cat video fest 2023. No, no scab cats crossed the line or anything like that. There was no writing whatsoever. But Um, yeah, it's pretty wild. That's a thing. I mean, that's the funnier mystery dates, I guess, is who knew this was even a thing. Now you know it's a thing. Exactly. Do you ever where you guys are going to run out? Like you're out, you're going to out, you're going to out date each other and like, you're going to find out, well, shit, we're all out of cool stuff. We've got to go France or something. No. No, not even a little bit. Like there, I feel like I've got ideas for miles. And, um, yeah, no, there's, there's always going to be something. And we're, we're fine with the repeats as long as there's a new element added to the repeat. Like, there's this place called the, the, upstairs circus and you go in there and they've got craft table set up and a bar and you basically

choose from a half dozen of their they're included you know the crafts that they will give you all the supplies for oh craft like not i'm thinking craft for some reason crafts okay like the stuff you make you're going to make a craft right okay exactly um here i'll put a link for i'll just put a link in the chat and then you can grab that link. But yeah, you basically get everything that you need to make stuff like a leather flask or a print that looks like it's made from pieces of cut newspaper and magazine or a little wooden tool carrier unit thing. I mean, like all these different things.

And then you drink while you do it. And you chat with new people that are saying. sitting at this, you know, eight-person table across from you and, you know, you're hammering shit to a, to a bottle opener and you're having a great drink and you're talking to cool people. I would totally do this. This looks like fun. It's really fun. Like, it is such a great little social thing. And so as long as, you know, we've done that before for a mystery date, but there's always new things you can do there. like they're always introducing new projects and um uh so it's not like even if you go there

two months you know uh two months in a row you'll still be able to do different things you'll have a different experience because you're you're doing different things that's cool are you looking at the page that has all of the um yeah all these crafts these are amazing yeah i'm absolutely the steel marquee letter with the lights in it is so cool the uh i want this to be a butcher board distressed wood art i mean there's so many there's things i look at this list like oh yeah you know i hope uh Tina picks this for a mystery date sometime soon because i wouldn't mind going and making one of these and they've got multiple locations but nothing too near me you're the closest one to me oh really yeah but i would do this in a heartbeat there might be some equivalent here i'd have to

look because people are into crafts here man this like craft town city so there's got to be some equivalent but that's awesome love it so yeah no no no shortage of um of mystery dates uh on the horizon We also went to a concert. We saw a band called Yacht Rock Review. This was a band that I interviewed for Coverville in early 2020 or late 2019 right before COVID and interviewed the lead singer. We talked all about cover songs and Yacht Rock and all that sort of thing. And he says, hey, I'm going to set you up with tickets at Will Call for our show, which is in February, you know, February 2020 at the Mission Ballroom. I'm like, great, awesome.

So we go there, I get over to Will Call, I say, hey, I'm Brian Nibit here to pick up some tickets. They say, nope, would it be under any other name? I'm like, Coverville? Nope, not finding it there. Maybe under just Brian? Nope, not finding it. And so I try reaching out to the guy to see if, you know, what's going on. And they couldn't, they never found the tickets.

And apparently they forgot to put them in for us. So they said, that's all right. we're coming back in uh in august we'll do it again and of course covid hit no no august concert so this was their first time back to denver since covid so they made sure i had tickets for this one that's great everybody there wearing captain's hats and and uh um and you got a lot of people fully dressed up like freaking gopher really a lot of gopher in there white shorts i mean basically it was like a lot of white shorts and white button ups with captain's uh uh bars on on them or captain or uh what do they call those uh appellates oh the little um yeah whatever those

are yeah i don't know yeah and then captain's hats and stuff like that so that's great that's great and you on film sack you'd mention some of the music but we're talking like you know christopher cross tato kenny loggins michael mcdonald christopher cross uh yeah exactly that's the one That is like what I think, what I kind of consider the, the number one yacht rock song is that, what is it, Stubi brothers? He came from somewhere back in a long ago. What a fool believes? Yeah, that's what I consider to be like the ultimate yacht rock song. And no, they didn't do that.

They didn't do sailing, but they did do ride like the wind. That's cool. That's another Christopher Cross one. Yeah, Christopher Cross, I think, is a staple of Yacht Rock, but. Only one song that surprises me. It surprised me when you told us that. I thought there'd be more. Yeah.

Two Toto songs, you could probably guess which two Toto songs they did because you have a hard time naming a third Toto song. Yeah, I can barely name the second one after Africa. I mean, Africa just jumps out in my head, but what's the other one? I can't even think of it. Rosanna? Oh, Rosanna. Yeah. The guy behind us insisted that it was called Roxanne.

And so he kept yelling, Roxanne! Hey, Roxanne! Like you think he's in a sting constant Yeah Not a yacht rock song This is not the police cover band You weirdo Who knew

That's great What a fun You had a fun weekend Hold the line is a good one Rebel Scum And that if you are going to name A third TOTA song That is the one you name is

Hold the line Love isn't always on time I always think there's someone else Doing that song I don't know why It just doesn't feel like a toto song Toa song to me but whatever I see you they did do it again

By Steely Dan I'd say that's a that's an okay yacht rock song but I feel like Hey 19 and Peg are much more yacht rocky

than then do it again that's cool to just balance things out Rebel scum saw 50 cent last night there you go good now I feel like the world is

the world is in order that guy's recent appearance on various talk shows in particular Stephen Colbert show has changed my entire my entire world around what I thought of

50 cent before now yeah that guy is funny as hell super he's super chill and self-effacing and is not what i thought i was going to get from i mean maybe it's just you know like snoops of the softer dude than he was in the late 80s maybe that just happens to rappers but 50 cents seems like the nicest guy they mellow like a fine line with age yeah something about him right now i just really like well anyway you had a good you had a good weekend that was a banner weekend we had a really good It was a great, great everything, great show. Yeah, it was a blast. My wife, the whole time this weekend, has been 45 minutes away watching my sister-in-law's kids while there in Croatia on some yacht.

Oh, wow. Because his boss, they're having their own yacht rocking. Yes. And his boss is some hoity-toit who's got this yacht out there, and so that's where they went for this trip. So she's over there watching their six children. Sorry, five. One is in college. Wow.

um five kids at home and so kim is over there playing anti kim so it's been just me and carter at home here's what we did this weekend we binged two straight seasons of what we do in the shadows and played starfield that's what we did nice and let me just make a recommendation to you people at home both those things sound great and they are i loved uh in particular season so we have one seat we have to do five so we were behind we did three and four is what we bench uh i loved season four started weird yeah a bangor season

it's the one where Colin Robinson let's just say is in a different oh yes okay yeah which happens at the very end of season three right

it's like the cliffhanger season three have not seen season four or five yet oh you'd love four dude you gotta watch four anyway four four was incredible

and when do you get to the HG TV the home and garden TV ripoff thing they do really oh I thought I was gonna I thought it was going to die. But anyway, we've been binging that, and then when I'm not binging that, I stayed offline. I stayed off social media for the most part.

Other than FilmSack, I really kind of stayed away from my computer, and I just played a ton of Starfield, which I completely hooked on. But I don't recommend doing these two things in large volume, because then you'll have some of the weirdest dreams you've ever had. My dreams were a mix of vampire stuff and space travel. and it was just a wrong combo and it all felt funky and I couldn't even describe to you now after the dreams are over what happened I just know none of it felt good so like that uncomfortable feeling like you wake up and it's like oh that wasn't a very satisfying sleep totally it's like and I probably did sleep probably fine I don't know yeah but it didn't feel like I did and it was weird but anyway that's what happens when you like do nothing but two really focused things

for a three-day weekend basically and that's kind of what we did um but anyway it was fun carter and i hanging out little dad daughter time and then kim will get here's the worst part kim gets back tonight that's the worst part no that's not the worst part sorry i should have preface this she gets back tonight and then she leaves tomorrow at 11 i'll be on the show probably still when she leaves uh she's going to mississippi for a week for to help her other sister with some stuff. I don't know why my wife helps everyone else. No one helps her, but she helps everybody.

So she's going to go. She's going to go down there. Oh, no, no, it's not they're helping. It's Sarah's birthday. What am I saying again? So she's going down there for Sarah's birthday. And then she comes back. Then she's here for a little bit.

And then she almost immediately goes to Nashville for, or no, St. George for a sibling getaway. And there's a whole sad reason why that's happening immediately. I don't want to get into it on the show. But then after that's done, she gets back and then for a very short amount of time she's here. And then she's off to Nashville for a whole other thing, which I don't even know the deal behind. It's just the whole thing. And then after that, there was something else.

Maybe that's it. I might get to see my wife once this month or something. That's crazy. Wow. I know. I don't love it. It's kind of bumming me. I mean, basically we've got a little situation similar.

I mean, very, you know, much less. I'm going to Vegas Sunday for three days, and then I come back. We've got about four days, and then she goes off to Estes Park for three days. So for about a week and a half, we'll only see each other in the double stuff filling of that week. But the opposite sides of that, she'll be gone and I'll be gone. I like Oreo as a reference for time. As a reference as a metaphor. We all know what it means, right?

We know what it means. Yeah, I miss those. I don't eat those anymore. And between those, like right in the middle of that, I've got the Great American Beer Fest. Oh, my gosh. She and I are going to be volunteering together on the Friday, pouring beer for chumps. And then Saturday, I'll be volunteering as a drinker and drinking beer. Oh, that's right.

You're going to be drinking as a drinker. And then serving as a server. So I don't care what happens. We are not doing film sack on the Sunday after I get back from Vegas. that will not be good. We don't care what pinch we're in. Brian will not be there, all right? Yeah, I won't be there.

Don't even, don't even, I'm not even, don't even count on me. I feel like every year we, we try to make sure that you don't record that day because you shouldn't have to record that day. Oh, well, I mean, there's, I would be useless. Like, it would be, it would be the worst thing ever. People would not find it enjoyable. You got to recoup, you know, from the fun. One final thing before I get to Babo Royale or rather half-assist. today. And that is this.

A dude in our community, Woogeman, a super cool guy and really smart guy, uh, modified a ROM. You know TechMobile for the for the NES? Do you remember that game? Yeah. Yeah. So he took Tecmo Bowl

and he not hacked it. It's not the right word. But he he modified the ROM so that it's loaded up with frog pants themed teams and players so like that's cool you can have Scott Johnson be your quarterback for the you know Philadelphia fart nuggets or whatever the names are

and he's changed all this stuff in there so that they're all it's all like super frog pants referential stuff and put a bunch of patrons from core and play retro in there and that kind of thing yeah anyway I've been horribly slow about doing this part of my weekend was forgetting to do this but I'm going to later today park this rom up in a place where

everybody can get it. And we're just going to spread around let everybody have at it, you know? Play it. Download it, play it on an NES ROM emulator of your choice. Burn it to your own cartridge if you want. We don't care. But he's awesome.

Did an incredible thing there. And he also gave me, if anybody wants to throw this dude a bone, where is it? I'm trying to find it. Oh, here it is. Tiny.cc. slash frogpants football is a little donation thing he set up.

So if anyone's just feeling generous, you want to throw him a couple bucks, please do. But anyway, I will make sure that's up today. I've been trying to do it since Thursday, and I completely spaced it. So that's going up. Watch for that. And Wooge Man is awesome. He's a cool dude. That's super cool. Nice.

So watch. I'll post links and stuff and put in the Discord and all that, so you guys will see it soon. All right, Brian, let's move on to the thing. Oh, you know what? Dunaway's involved, so I probably should add him to this. We should probably bring in Dunaway for this. Did he log in? Do you know?

Did we see? Oh, did I log in is a big question. Oh, it says... Oh, I haven't... Both are logged in. We're both in, okay. Didn't get a little goofy there? Yeah, but that was...

Yeah, you're both in. I don't know what that was. All right, opening... Okay, did it work? It did. Yay! All right. We'll add done away to the call, and then we'll play this thing, because why not?

We're going to try to win some prizes from some of you weirdos. Welcome Brian Dunaway to the show. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hi. Hello. How are you guys? Real good, real good. That was fun Saturday. We had a good show. It was on Sunday. We did Sunday. I mean, Sunday. That were kind enough. Oh, that's right. We did that for you, didn't we? You did that for me. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And never again. Never again until next week. We've learned our lesson. No, that was a really good discussion about a movie that had. Turns out we had some division in the, Yeah, you guys had some really good opinions. Mine were weak.

I didn't realize how weak they were until we started. I was like, oh, I should have formed stronger opinions. Geez. I didn't know. We watched the flash from 2023, by the way, people listening. I didn't realize. Yeah, and I don't want to, you know, ruin anything or spoil anything. But let's just say Randy found a new Oscar contender for 2023.

Let's just say that. Yeah, the words, hearing him say Oscar, uh, really, through me. But hey, you know, we all like what we like and he apparently really liked it. Yeah, that one surprised me, in terms of division within the crew, it surprised me most since what like minority report probably. Oh my gosh, that much? I don't know if it was. It may not that much.

Maybe not that much. You and I are about ready to go to blows on that episode. Yeah. It was so weird. Anyway, it's good to have you here. We're going to play a little game. We got people to play four, so we're going to do a little proxy play, and Brian here will explain the rules. How's it work, Brian?

Proxy. Welcome to the morning. Half ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you to the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers. Three of those answers are correct, and three of them are like Randy's opinion about the flash, totally bullshit. No, no, no. I'm kidding. Depending on how confident they feel with a category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses.

But if they get any of those guesses wrong, they get zero points for that round. Get one right, gets you a point. Get two right, gets you three points. And if you get all three, correct, you get five points for that round. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. And we're pulling contestants for members of the tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're playing for Chris in Chicago land, Chris Hesselink in Chicago land. Brian, you're playing for Joe in Irvine, California.

Speaking of Randy, perfect. The home team. look at this all right fun stuff here and I feel like each of you have an advantage in one of these oh okay you say this all the time and every time it's like he's so full of bullshit well let's start with the one Scott might have an advantage with I don't know I mean it's you know well we'll see we'll make yourself clear all right your first category states larger in area than Utah so which of these states is larger in I love that you think

because Scott lives in Utah. He knows more about the area of other state. I do like my state, I admit. You do like your state. And I think your choices are, Washington, Arizona, Florida, Nevada, Oregon, I read these out of order. Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Florida, Georgia.

Okay. I was hoping Texas would be on here. That's an easy. Three of those that kind of would be an obvious one, wouldn't it? Yeah. If I put Texas in there. Well, I'm pretty sure that one and that one. Let me make sure in my head that that's correct. There's one that's oddly shaped and makes me wonder, is it deceptively in, is it deceptive in size?

You live in that. It's oddly shaped. You know, we live in the normal shape. How is that? How is that an odd shape? Perfect, perfect shape for a state, rectangle. No, I agree. We should have done more of those.

Boy, you know what sucks is finding out why Oklahoma has that weird topper thing? I found that out this weekend. That's a bummer reason. That panhandle, yeah. Yeah, everyone thinks, oh, the panhandle, that's cool. What goes there? What's the point of that?

No, it turns out it's got some serious racist history. It's really bad. It totally does. Yeah, anyway. Brian, are you done Googling? Are you going to lock in? There we go. I can't just look at the words

without being accused of Googling. Like, I got time to Google. You cannot. All right. States larger in area than Utah. You both went with Arizona. Arizona. Arizona is correct. Arizona is the sixth largest of our states. You chose, let's see, Scott, you chose Nevada as well. Nevada is larger than Utah.

However, your other two choices, Washington and Florida. We're wrong. Oregon, believe it or not, is larger in area than Utah. Utah is number 10, Arizona, Nevada, 6 and 7, and Oregon is number 9. crap i knew oh i thought florida maybe was deceptive because it's a weaner you know it's all weirdly shake that's what i was curious too that's what i think same thing i was thinking is it odd shape believe it or not is the 22nd largest state washington's even bigger than florida at eight number 18 on the list and georgia all the way down at number 24 again another one that i thought is um uh was was uh was bigger but no you know what's bigger than you think is um the one I always don't give enough credit to is Montana.

That thing's a beast. It is a beast. I think that is number three. What is it? Texas, Alaska, Montana? Then Montana? Then maybe California. Or is California?

They might... Oh, California might be bigger than Montana. And that one's also deceptive because it's long, like Florida, and I don't know. The ones I screw up on are all the East Coast shit. If you said, what are the smallest? I would lose this tomorrow. Right, right now.

I'd lose it. Right. Oh, yeah. All right. Well, that's all right. Let's get that one out of the way. How about, you know, you both love your basketball. What were some of the original names originally considered for the Boston Celtics?

Your choices are. Where do you get these questions? The blasts. The unicorns, the Olympians, the Beans, the Whirlwinds, and the Picts. Oh, my gosh. Which of these were originally considered for the Boston Celtics? See, this is bullshit because every one of these was considered for some dumb reason, whether or not they're chronicled or not.

It's like, and I can't Google it. By the way, I'm not. Schwarzenegger was originally considered for this role kind of considered sure sure oh my gosh dude I don't know this I don't know either but don't don't look don't wait for two seconds are you looking at Google I can't bring up Google

the Olympians the beans the world win world wins and the Picts so these were there's three of these for sure right three of these for sure yeah all right that one seems like it might be That one sounds dumb. I'm going to lose anyway, so I'm just going to go. That's dumb. I'm going for it. I don't know.

That one's so dumb. It's got to be right. Right. It's got to be. Yeah, I'm just doing it too. I'm a chicken. All the rest of those are too weird. All right.

Well, Brian, you actually ended up selecting both of the incorrect answers. Two of the three wrong ones. And so did Scott, unfortunately. was never considered for the original name of it wasn't I had to choose it but the world wins and the Olympians both were gonna do the you the Olympians the unicorns the Boston unicorns what that's insane I thought that was a thought that was I only I barely chose beans the last second I shouldn't have done it why was that I mean I chose beans right away yeah frick yeah you get to I don't even know what a pick is

I was like sure yeah what is a picture I know it's a it's a image form Isn't there a little rodent called a picked? Oh, I don't know. No, but I almost picked Blast. So I almost picked all the wrong ones. That's when I was debating on the movie. Yeah, these are, I didn't know any of this stuff. I don't even know if, like, if you're a hardcore Celtics fan, do you even know this?

I don't know. What's hard? Yeah, what is a picked? Anyway, all right, well, let's get to question number three. Maybe one of you guys can get some points on this one. Rappers, this is the one I thought maybe Brian will have an advantage of. rappers whose real first name is Robert. So which of these rappers has the real first name Robert?

Is it Rizza or RZA, Flo Rida, Meek Mill, Gucci, Mane, Rev Run, and Vanilla Eyes? Which three of these have the real first name, Robert? Oh, my gosh. Um, I don't know. There, I clicked in really quick so that, Ibbett would not have any question about my... Oh, I know you totally locked in quick. Right, my...

I only know one. Both of you. Did we? I'll leave one, and I do it right away. Robert Van Winklow up, of course, yeah. Brick. Gosh, damn. The other choice is Rizza and Meekmill both have the real first name.

I almost went Meekmill, but what good is that? I never even heard of me. I'm saying I almost won, but I didn't. It's dead. is, uh, yeah, uh, flow writer's first name is Tramar, uh, Gucci. So it's his last name flow, flow, is that right? Robert. Tramar, middle name flow. Yeah.

Uh, Gucci main is Radrick and Reverend Run. Reverend Run, his name is Joseph. Oh, yeah. So we got to bring out, ah, the tiebreaker cards. Reverend Run had Joseph was, that's another J. Because they had a Jammaster J. Or no, they had a, was DJ, Jazzy? No, shit. Yeah, was DJ Jazzy? Jeff. Now, I see why it gave me the advantage on that one. Yeah, I don't know.

I see why now. I don't even know who Meek Mill is. I've never even heard of him. That's news. Yeah, that's what I used to grind up my meek to put it on my steaks before I put them on the grill. The Meek Mill. The Meek Mill. All right.

Let's give you guys a tiebreaker here. Let's call it in the air, Brian. Let's see. Call what in the air? I'm going to give you a head or tails. This is heads And then this is tails I believe you

That will hurt my hand Hold a minute Hold a minute I got to Google What's the odds? Hold on a second Call it what's the odds Call it

Tails Tails heads it is Scott We'll get to give the answer on this All right Let's do it And Brian you'll do higher or lower Listen if you've been paying attention

You know that Bob Barker died Well how many years Did Bob Barker host The Price is right Oh this is fun because it's such a price of the right thing to do right it really is yes so but i will let you go over so if you do get it wrong but you go over it's totally fine uh scott how many years did bob barker host the price is right okay we just heard this in that letterman clip but did i remember yeah

that's right yeah we was talking about his retirement um i'm gonna say my my brain wants me to say 40 dead like average 40 so i'm gonna say 40 40 40 all right 40 is incorrect. Brian, is the correct answer, higher or lower than 40? Well, I mean, for God's sake, he was already older, right? He was like 30-something. So I'm going to say it was less, but only by like two. Guys, if I guess it right, like completely, oh, it doesn't matter. 38, okay, go ahead. Yeah, you are, it is lower. You're really close.

Five years lower than Scott's guess. It was 35 years. By the way, Bob Barker was a member of the Sioux tribe. he was raised on a South Dakota reservation. What? Sue, take that. Bob Barker. Bob Barker.

Wait a minute. That white guy on the show. Is he like the dances with Bulls lady? The Buffalo Spade and neuter. The John Dunbar lady? What was her name? John Dunbar. The white lady raised on it.

Is that what that is? Dunbar. Yeah. Why though? Why is a white guy? Why is a pasty white guy getting raised on a reservation? What's funny is, I don't remember any of this, like, and hearing any of it, you know, when he passed away. Right.

I think this story goes, his mom lost him at the grocery store and that's. And now he lives there. I need to know. Born and Darren Washington, Darrington, Washington spent most of his youth on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Mission, South Dakota, the U.S. Indian Census rules. Sanctuary. 85 to 95 to 9040, Lus Barker as a citizen of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. is he is but is he like that's is he related to let's see um his father was one quarter sue and his mother non-native barker was one-eighth sue okay okay his mother was a school teacher

on the reservation i did you know that's the read there you go his mother was a school teacher on the reservation that's had you had you done a question brian where it was like three correct answers about where he was raised i would have got this so wrong so wrong right yeah that's wild to me all right that that's that's All right, well, so congratulations going to Joe in Irvine, California. Long, long hard battle, but Brian and finally pulled it out the end there. Yeah, nicely done, dude. Robert Van Winkle.

You rocked it. I also looked up the, so the picked format. I remember this. It was an early Mac image format. And, let's see, applications such as Quick Draw and that kind of stuff, you'd create picked files. I remember that. Yeah, what was, but picked?

That can't be the reason. How did you do with basketball, right? Is there a rodent or some sort of animal that's a picked? Let's see. Disambiguation. We got programming language. There's the image format, obviously. Let's see what else.

Classical theater. Oh, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theater or is Pitt for short, although that doesn't make unpicked for short. Let's see. Pakistan International Container Terminal. I don't see anything on here. There's nothing about. It just feels right. I can't find an animal or a bug.

All right. There you go. Dunaway. TV's Traggis as natives of Scotland. I think you guys actually did say that, but I don't know. Sorry, I was in the middle of doing a show. Yeah. We couldn't.

A podcast that requires our focus. Well, well done. Oh, let's see. He has a link. Let's look at the link. Okay, yeah. So it looks like it's a group of people who lived in Britain, North. Okay.

But no bugs. No bugs. No bugs. No, what's surprising. I don't know, that sounds right. I mean, I guess other than just a lot of Scots and Irish people living in Boston, that's the only connection. You can almost hear Rattonboro going, and the male-picked dances for the females, blah, like I can hear the old man talking about picks. Yeah.

All right. Dunaway, you did it. You won. How do you feel about your win? I feel pretty good. I was having a, you know, a questionable slump. Yeah, a little slump, a little slumpy morning. And I was like, yeah, this is what I needed.

It makes me feel good. Thank you for taking one for the team. That's great. Always take one for the team. I say, the frog pant picks. Yeah, frog pant picks. Get yours today. Dot X,X, X, X, X, X.

All right, don't know why I kiss our butts. Bye. All right, he's gone. Oh, my gosh. Someone there of, not Julianna Margulies. What was her name, Margolas? Cindy Margollis. You might be able to download a picked of Cindy Margollis.

Yeah, she's, she's OG, man. O.G. She's still around? She's still... I'm sure she is. Let's take a look here. Cindy. It'll be about...

I'll have a photo of her download in about 18 minutes. I was going to tell you she's doing our... Yeah, it'll be a 256 color gif. Let's see. American Glamors, but she's still around, still doing stuff. Yeah.

She's only born in 65. She's not even that old. No. No. But when we were... Oh, she was on Baywatch? I really did not know that she was on Baywatch, and that's where...

Is that how she got her big fame? I guess that must be how she got her, how she got her fame. Her and Yasmin Bleeth. Oh, that's right. Baywatch Knights. She was in that. Oh, was that it? Okay, so maybe that was Baywatch Nights was her jam.

Austin Powers International Man of Mystery. Oh, yeah. She was one of the, uh, she was the head, uh, robot, femme, fembot. Yep, yep, the head robot fembot. Yeah, robot femm. Weren't there some feminine robots in? Austin Powers called Fem Something? Fem Sumphings.

Shark Nato 3, oh, hell no. She was in that. That's the subtitle for Shark Nato 3 was Oh, Hell No. Which is what I say. I'm sure. That's what I say about watching it. I will not be watching Shark Nato 3. Oh, hell no, I would say.

All right, let's get to some quick news items. If I can find the thing. It's your daily dose of news brought to you A bra in the gutter. Yeah, I found a bra in the gutter. I didn't touch it. I just picked it up with a stick and looked at it. It was a black, medium-sized bra, probably a bee cup.

But you still poked that with a stick? You just didn't leave it? Yeah, I just left it. I know, I left it there because I was like, what is that thing? And I was like, it's kind of near the drain. What is this? I poke it. I lift it up.

Like, oh, my gosh, it's a freaking bra. I'm going to go see if it's still there today. If it is, I'll throw it away. I'm going to tell the, the Homeowners Association about this. You're going to see me in all the local papers. Local man finds Bray and gutter. Yep.

More of 11. Check this story out. A human skull was found at a goodwill. But they don't think there was any foul play at all. They just think it was like in a science class or something like that. Somehow it made its way to a Goodwill donation box in Arizona. Oh, donation box. So somebody just shoved it in there with their dungarees in their

animals and stuff. They probably didn't even know it was real. I don't know. If you did know if I had a real human skull, I would hold on to that. I think that's cool. Like, it didn't need to be illegal. I don't want to, like, have a clandestine murder victim head skull. I don't want that. But if it's somebody who donated it to science and somehow got in my hands, I would keep that skull is what I would do. Oh, for sure. It's too cool. When I was a kid, I wanted a skeleton so bad, like a full-size one. Yeah. So bad. I have one, but still do. I mean, still, oh, you do, That's right. You do have one. Yeah, he's over there looking at me.

It's got a skull. So there you go. You just want a real skull as your desire. No plastic, no crystal, real. You know? Nice. He's wearing Patrick's scarf that Patrick gave me in 2015. Oh, that's cool.

Yeah. So he looks really, really warm. Before Patrick had kids and got really, really grumpy. Did he? He's so grumpy now. He's the grumpiest person I know. He's so grumpy. And it's not just kids.

I think he's just, he's just. old french guy grump yeah yeah that's what's going on uh anyway this human skulls found there uh cops aren't worried about it's probably not the strangest item ever donated either but employees at a thrift store in phoenix uh didn't know what they had when they looked at this human skull in their donation box they called police because they thought it was real officers responded to the store in good year that must be a place good year indiana no good year Arizona. Arizona.

Yeah. It's a good year. Well, this is the star. Isn't this the end and up? Oh, it's the, it's the Phoenix one. Okay. Phoenix star. Good year, Arizona, huh?

Yeah, never heard of it. Okay. No, the Phoenix sun I've been to. I didn't know there was also a star. Yeah. I've heard of the paper or something. Yeah. Maybe one of those ones you go to where they're both print.

Oh, this is the Toronto star. Oh, they're just reporting. They're still, they're just reporting on Arizona. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was covered in spots and had its upper teeth. front teeth attached. What does that mean? Aren't they always attached?

Or do they fall out? Sometimes those can be broken out. Okay. I believe it's damaged. It also has a false eye in the left socket. That'd be weird. Oh, really? So they actually had an eyeball in there?

Fake one, but still. Yeah, but still. Yeah, I wouldn't like that. Even creepier, I think. Yeah, I don't like it. Let's see, the skull is transported to the Maricopa County Medical Examiner Office where authorities confirmed. that this is in fact a real human skull.

It appears this human skull is historic and has no forensic significance, meaning that there appears to be no associated crime. They said remains unclear who donated it or why they had it in the first place. At least they can do dental records since they have the top half of the teens. So they at least do half dental records because it doesn't sound like the jaw was included. Yeah, and if it's really old, that would be a sign that they don't, that it's definitely just a historic. you know it's a relic because if it comes back negative or you know they have no match you'd be like oh well

you know this is somebody who died a hundred years ago or something yeah um here's a fun one a three legged spots yeah yeah the three-legged bear breaks into a florida home not the a three-legged bear maybe there's more than one i don't know i don't know i'm sure there's more than one definitely i know there's some three-legged bears up in idaho if you know what i'm saying you know what I don't know that's the only place you think there are bears. There are bears in Utah, Scott. Just letting you know those kind of bears. Yeah, but are they three-legged, if you know what I mean?

You know what I mean? Oh, I'm sure there are. Yes. At least two of the big stand. The other part of this is it broke into the home and then drank white claws. So that's cool. Wait a minute. Are we still talking about a wild bear?

Yes, still a wild, three-legged bear. It's still the animal on all fours, but in this case on all threes. three-legged bear known as tripod oh my gosh this writes itself this is amazing uh broke into a home and decided to have a party uh let's see oh they got security hammer notification my claw doesn't sound like a party no it doesn't me either i don't drink so i don't know what it even tastes like but everyone i talked to is like white claw's not great am i wrong is my is my assumption wrong or do people really like it and i'm wrong it's like the cores of hard sultzers is that true

So it's like a, um, what's that one? No, you like Zima though. You're a Zima fan, right? Well, yeah, when it was around. Yeah. But you know, but you don't, you don't take any crap when people, let's say. And I like, and I like Zima as a mixer. Well, I guess you could probably still use White Claws and Mixer, like a gin and white Claw.

Yeah. How if I can order a gin and white claw in a bar? I know white claws are more, there's more alcoholic per, more alcohol per volume, but I don't know how much more. More than, than a Zima? Yeah. Oh, really? I think so. I think that.

the whole thing is people are like it's like having zima back except it'll get you drunk or something i don't know see again i'm so far from that the world of white clock consumption that i don't actually know any of this for sure so 4.7 to 5.4% alcohol by volume in a zima is that is that considered low or high i don't know what that is that's i mean it's it's it's medium it's um middle for a um for a non like craft beer kind of thing that's you know 3.2 is is your beer kind of thing um uh let's see alcohol by volume international markets 4.5 um and then either 8% or 5% U.S. and Canada so yeah a little bit more a little bit higher percentage that seemed like a lot though seems like not a lot not a lot more yeah it sounds

like just a college kid talking point that there's so much more in this you know or that dumb laugh. It's like you know in terms of your of your hard liquors it's it's as high as 16 proof so that's how low it is.

Whoa. Yeah. I think I have cooking wine here that might have more in it. You definitely do yes. Don't drink that stuff. No I don't. Kim just cooks meat with it. Yeah. It's very salty. Is it a salt? You tried to swig once, right?

You talked about on the show. I did, but I don't remember it being salty. It was more like earthy, like, felt like dirt. I felt like I was eating dirt. Yeah. I didn't like it. Yeah, don't, don't, yeah, that's cooking wine is not meant for, not meant for drinking. Is wine in general kind of tastes like you're eating soil a little bit?

No, huh? No, wine is, I mean, a good wine should taste like, I don't know, like, depending on the barrels that they fermented in like. like oaky or a little bit sweet, sometimes dry. Never earth. What about when they say earthy? Because sometimes they say earthy. What is that? I mean, they can.

It can taste like, by earthy, it shouldn't taste like dirt. Maybe, uh, I would hope not. I don't want it to taste like dirt. I'm just curious. Because when I did the cooking. Like a really full body deep wine can have an earthy flavor to it, but not taste like dirt. Okay. Does that make sense?

Yeah. Like a, but none of it tastes like, none of it tastes like straight. It's not grape, it doesn't taste like grape juice, right? It's just a. No, no, no, no, it doesn't taste like grape juice. Okay. Well, no, no shade to anyone who loves their wine. Barry's probably listening.

Look, Barry, you do you. Drink that wine. Carry that weird box around with you everywhere you go, you know. That's right. I hope he brings it. I wonder if he's going to bring it. Since it's only a three-day trip, he's probably not bringing it to Vegas. Oh, that's true.

You can be able to get so much, yeah. Yeah, you won't need it. Oh. Man, I'm looking for it. Here's my plan on Sunday. Tanner and Alex and Tristan and I all arrive around the same time. Barry arrives a little bit later. We're going to meet in the airport, take a lift to the plaza,

hopefully give them our bags to check in. We're going to get there kind of early, and then we're going to go to that brand new carousel bar in front and just sit back with a nice frosty beverage and watch the world go by. That is cool. I'm stoked for you. That's awesome.

Maybe a ginormous donut from Pinkbox. We'll see. Why not? Fill yourselves up. Also, you know what you ought to do? You ought to go over to that, what's it called? Shoot. The huge Hilton thing that went in.

Resorts World. You need to go over there and just spend some time there because apparently that place is a ghost town. There's all this talk that they're losing like a 50 million a day because no one's going there. And it's this beautiful, new, amazing place. It is. It's gorgeous. And that Chinese, like, or the Asian food hall is fantastic. Like, they're, I want something from every single one of those restaurants in the food hall.

And they're closing half of those down is the word, I heard. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, it's just too inconvenient to get there is the problem. It's, uh, you know, you've got to walk past, uh, the deserted landscape of, of the, uh, the South Strip. Yeah, that's the place that it's in. I'm sorry, of the North, of the North Strip. What am I talking about?

Yeah, it's a location problem. And if they could fill all that other space, like, when's that Durango done? That's getting close. The Durango. I don't know about the Durango, but I'm curious about when the, um, Fonton, Fountain Blue. Let's see. Fountain Blue. And that other, I forgot about that one.

I'm sure. There it is. Fonton Blue Las Vegas coming 2023. Oh, might be done when you go. Uh, might, that, uh, maybe. Delayed. Yeah, maybe. Maybe there's like a soft opening or something.

We can go in there. They tore all those, I don't know if you saw this. I was talking to Medzulu about it. They tore all the palm trees down that are out in front of the Bellagio. And they did it for two reasons. One, porn card flickers hide under there during the heat. That's the word anyway. I don't know if this is the real reason.

But the other reason is for the F1 thing, because they've got to make room to do stuff. Yeah. Yeah, because that's a prime location for, for spectators, for sure. Like 30-year-old palm trees. They just tore them out? That sucks. In the middle of the night.

Just pull them out. Now there's no shade there. It all looks weird. It looks weird. It's like, there are no strikers there. No sag strikers that they need to put out in the heat. Yeah, no kidding. Well, anyway.

It's a bummer. It does not look like we have a grand opening date yet for Fountain Blue. But I also want to find a good place to, to just park our butts again with a drink and watch the MSG sphere go for a little while. Oh, yeah, I want to hear about that. Because that just opened after we left in April. It's like June or something. Right, exactly.

They start putting stuff all over the outside of it. Yeah. It's not open yet, but it's, um, but they're doing all the video testing on the outside. Oh, I didn't realize that. I thought, I thought it was functional as an event center already. No, not yet. That's, uh, they're, they're, when they open, it's going to be a big deal because you two will have a residency there. Oh, wow.

Wow. Two billion dollars, that thing. Yeah. Gosh, dang. Money. I'll have to ask, I bet Mitsula, if I ask Mitsula, say, hey, what's a good vantage point to get a drink and just sit there and watch the MSG sphere? He'll probably say, oh, yeah, what you want to do is go to the bar, the cigar bar on the back side of the link, and it's got a great, a great view of it. He'll know. He'll know. Yeah.

He knows the best view on balls. That's what he does. Anyway, we're going to do a quick break here. back. Steven Schleika will be joining us. It's a Stephen week and we're going to check in on a few nerdy topics so stick around for that and we'll do that right after this song break. Brian, what did you bring? Yeah,

we're going to go to North Park. Specifically we're going to go to Toronto for a pop punk group called North Park. Their debut album which is called Wasteland just came out. These guys, they rock man. These guys are really good. Just signed with Wiretap records. A friend of Coverville

wiretap is awesome. Here is. There is Their brand new single, it's called Uno. Taste the bitterness As the chapter ends I'm not feeling like myself these days Guess it's time for bed again Tape the cracks on this road So maybe I'll make it home

Walking on this broken glass Always feels like I come last Because you're the only one that's moving on now I see you in my rear view Not coming back Should I turn around now Oh oh Oh

Because I'm the only one that's hurting bad now I feel it in my bones, watch it all the light, feel my stomach turned out Oh, oh, oh oh oh Like a splinter in my side Can't reach to pull it out I'm not sure I'll heal from this Can I just go back in time Everyone gets anxiety

But not like my anxiety I know you can't relate Because you're never in it Because you're the only one that's moving on now I see you in my rear view not coming back Should I turn around now? Oh, oh, oh, oh. Because I'm the only one that's hurting back now.

I feel it in my bones. Was it all in white, feel my stomach turned out? Oh, oh, oh, oh. Remember to always. treat everyone in our motels with pineapple hospitality. I told you, young people, that crack is some bad shit. And we've returned. Tell me all about that song again. Sure. The band is North Park. The song is called Uno and their brand new album. Big

thanks to Wiretap Records for this one. Their brand new album is called Wasteland. Do you think it's a reference to the card game or a reference to just the Spanish word uno? What do you think that? I think it's just the Spanish word uno. I think it's just them saying number one. Number one. Well, let's talk to Mr. Number one right now.

And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dollar dollars, y'all. It's Steven Schleiker joining us as he does on this Monday and two Mondays a month now where we get to talk about nerd stuff. And some of it piles up, man. some, we get some things that happen over at major spoilers.com. Stephen, welcome back to the show. How are you? Oh, I'm good. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hey. Hello. How's the, how's the school year so

far? Things going all right? I think so. Yeah? I haven't had anybody freak out or yell at me yet, so. Any kids where you're like, oh, now that kid's the future. He's the future. You know, he's going to go on and he's going to change the world, and I'm going to be his teacher, and I'm going to point him in the right, any of those yet? No. great great well then i have high confidence in the in the gen z and there's some really good kids there are really good kids here well that's good and they've got a great professor what do they call you professor what do they call you what do you get what do you get what do you get shithead who

has homework at the last minute what do they call it to your face yeah i just go by my first name yeah oh that's cool so they can just call you stephen and not they don't go mr schlacher we're we're all adults i don't i'm not uh i'm not uh i'm not hung up on my um your your my role your title yeah that's good that's a healthy that's a healthy place to be but i'll say this mr schliker sounds like an evil teacher in the john hughes film or something i do carry my cat around and and and pet my cat you have like gloved hand leather gloved hands and you yes i'm bald now too so you know it's oh yeah they attracts yeah i like it no mr bond i expect you to turn in your homework on time

I just need a kid named Bond. All right. We're glad to have you back. We're going to talk about a few things. Okay. The Soca, Tano, you know her character from the Asoka show. The Asoka show where Asoka has way less the main star than I expected her to be, but whatever. I like it a lot. It's been good. But her lightsabers are on sale and they're not cheap. Tell us what this means. And are these are the actual like prop ones. No, no. These aren't the actual ones that have been used. But these are prop replicas from a company called the EFX collectibles. And they do these. very high end made of metal like you know if this was a prop to use in the in the tv show or a movie or something they would have something that is screen accurate and so they have a pair of

osocatano lightsabers uh that you can get they have a great display they look good uh they're very neat uh but they're 900 bucks for no yeah but it's a pair though that's a one it's a pair right because she's got she's a dual wields so you know you do get that but i'm curious brian if you were to i mean you've seen you've seen the pictures of these I have with you probably I bet there's an STL out there right now Easily yes You could probably print these for like

100 bucks right I could print them for a hundred bucks Well here's the problem is If I could I could sell them for 100 bucks If I created if I modeled me And there's enough Enough shown of these things front and back That I could model them

Oh I can send you some more Because I've got them from all sides Do you? Okay So hold on if you printed these though How much is the actual print Going to run you Brian? Like how much resin or SEP?

Yeah, that, well, there's no way of knowing, Scott, until I actually, uh, until I actually, yeah, no way of knowing how much resin it would take until I create the STL, because it, because basically I have to plug the STL into a slicer, set the, the hollowing, you know, figure out how hollow I want to make them, uh, so they're a little bit lighter and easier to ship, cheaper. And then I could, then I could figure out how much resin and how much time it would take. I like these, I like the curves on these things. They're cool.

Yeah, I like because they look like, uh, Katanas. Yeah. So I'm, I'm curious. You have an FDM, you only have the resin printing. I have two filament printers and two resin printers. Have you ever done anything with like metal filament? And I'm guessing there's not a metal resin or anything like that, right? Not that I know of, and I haven't done, there's apparently a fairly easy way to do steel plating of stuff.

You've got to kind of, you basically like rub this powder all over. And then, yeah, you put them in a vat with two electric. or two terminals on either side. Exactly. That seems like so much hassle. I'd rather just paint them with metallic paint and be done.

Get some rub and buff, you know, sand those things down smooth. Put some rubbing buff on there, get a little texture on it. Yeah. Go to town. Yeah, send me some photos. I actually might be able to replicate these replicas. I mean, it wouldn't be hard. I mean, what do you use for your modeling?

The, um, I used a shaper three. Oh, okay. Which is a paid-for application, which I find a lot more intuitive than Fusion 360. That's what I was thinking of, you. Yeah. I mean, it's a couple of shapes and extrude, and you're done. It kind of is, yeah. I mean, the curve on them makes it a little bit, not really tougher.

It just makes it like you've got to, I wouldn't build these as a circle extruded. I would build them as a flat curved object and then round the edges because they're, They look like they're flatter than a full. Oh, yeah, they definitely are. Cylinder, yeah, yeah. Until you get to the end and then you've got the full cylinder ball. Would you add other accoutrements? Like, would you put in a little, like the belt loop?

Would you make that out of actual meddler? Would you 3D print that or? That's a really good question. Could you put a little piece of glass on the end where the light's supposed to shoot out? I would actually probably find a little LED and put that in the end. So that at least it kind of glows there, even if it doesn't. Yeah, with some batteries and everything in there. That adds some heft to it, so that would look pretty cool?

Would you walk around the house in your underwear wearing this on your side at 3 a.m.? Underwear. Oh, man, you know. You've seen me playing with my Quest 2 in my big plate glass window. Yeah, yeah, what was I thinking? Savor with the, yeah. What was I thinking? Well, these are pretty cool.

these are um i mean 900 bucks but they're all hand painted they're numbered you get a whole really as an effx have done they've currently been doing a whole line of star war stuff they've got luke luke skywalkers light sabers up uh in the past they have done like thor's helmet and captain america shield in super high quality uh metals that look really cool but also very expensive so yeah they've got ooh what's this blade runner business hold on i didn't know they do they have the pistol $3,000. It's only $3,000. Oh, my gosh. Only. It's only, it's only 3,000. It's also out of stock. Oh, well. Yeah, that's the bad thing about limited edition things is that they run out quick. Yeah. Well, it's a nice one. It seems good. I'm not as, like, if I was ever going to spend big money on a replica saber, it would probably be a more iconic one. Not that Assocas is an iconic for a lot of people, I know it is, but I would probably do Luke's saber or. I would probably do Vaders or something like that where it's just an enormous over-arcing Star Wars original

to spend that kind of money. I just don't want to spend $900 for a character that's fine. I like her. Force effects, I think. They're the ones that do those lightsabers that light up and as you twirl it around, it makes a zoom-zoom sounds. Yeah, force effects. Yeah.

I have one over there, and it's good. Like, there have been times where I've been tempted to tear off the plastic. I don't want to. you could do that. You could saw it off, and you're left with a really good replica, like a mountable replica. Oh, saw the hilt, basically. Where is it?

I mean, yeah, saw the blade off. It's surprising. Actually, I thought the Force VFX or Force FX ones could actually... I think the newer ones, I think the newer ones do, the ones that I have, the original run of them, you couldn't do that. Yeah, here's the... So this one is the... This is the Luke one.

And I think it's still battery good. Yeah. good. And it's got the kind where, you know, the thing sucks in and goes out. Yeah, I like it. Lights up. And it makes sounds when you that kind of thing. But I don't, I don't, you know, if I had to, I guess is what I'm saying. If this got damaged, you could

yank this whole bit out, mount this thing, and you've got a replica pilt, you know. Yeah. It'd be one way to go. And that's only, I think, I don't know what they cost now, but originally they were like $100, 120 bucks in those. Yeah, about $100. Yep. About a third the price. Yeah. And there's, they're

like heavy in their metal and stuff. That's like, Yeah, it's got that warning sticker on it. Yeah, a big old warning? Yes. There's a big yellow sticker that says. You probably fill that off, right? Yeah, I think it comes off. It says, unscrew here to insert batteries.

Okay. Yeah, yeah. I feel like my Jedi training is now complete. Well, anyway, there's that. Let's talk about Spider-Man, the comic book. Well, more specifically, Spider-Man India, because people were a really big fan of Spider-Man India when he debuted on the Spider-Man across the Spider-Ver movie

a few months ago. And now it's a comic book mini-series. Fifth issue comes out in October. That's the final issue of the miniseries. And if people, that means probably November, December or the trade paperback should be out. But I'm going to guess that we're going to see more Spider-Man India in the future. He's getting a new costume in the fifth issue. And so I'm going to bet that he's going to be making a lot more appearances in the near future. Yeah, I didn't know his, I don't know why I didn't know this. I thought his debut was comics first and then it was just an obscure. He probably was in one of the massive

Spider versus stuff in the comic books, but it's not like you know, not like a big deal kind of thing but certainly once he pops up and has a whole segment of the movie, a lot more people are paying attention to him. I absolutely love his costume. It's so cool. It looks really cool. This whole like

baggy, you know, Indian style triple R pants he's got on and the way those sneakers fit. I don't know. There's something about it. It's like homemade mixed with real Spider-Man. I don't know. I just absolutely think it's awesome.

I'll check this out. It's not going to be, I mean, it's in English, right? They're not, or they... Oh, yeah, yeah. No, no, no. As far as I know, now, there are some comics like DC with Blue Beetle. They will release two versions of the comic. One that's just all Spanish language and the other one that is in English.

Oh, I didn't know that. But no, this one is just straight up English. yeah oh chat says uh premiered in 2004 but never really got his own thing yeah yeah so now he's got his own thing look at that yep got his own thing so go get it deserves it over at the marvel also saturn saturn saturday is batman day how are you going to celebrate over there what's going on are there's some events or the things we're having community flu shots that day so oh okay hey that's when we're getting our uh our fifth gen booster and our flu shot as well yeah i'm going to do both on the same day yeah oh really doubling it up yeah yeah might as well might as well i did last two it was fun

those two you could do i wouldn't throw the shingles one in there no i learned that the hard way i did do shingles and booster same day that messed me the app on the same day that sucked oh my gosh shingles can i just say shingles they suck i've had them before i've had them before it's a load man don't like it anyway uh batman day i'm going to draw a bunch of batman with carter uh that's our plan for Batman Day. Okay, you should live stream that. So there's a lot of things. So technically Batman Day is September 16th, but really Batman Day events already started

last Monday, and they will go through the end of the year, depending on which country you're in. So there are events taking place in Korea and Great Britain and Japan and China. So you can go find stuff all over the world. Specifically, this weekend, though, your local comic shop should have a couple exclusives, including some clothing, hats, whatnot. They also have a set of pins that celebrate the Batmobile over the years that you can probably pick up if your store orders them.

You need probably out of call ahead on that. They've got some new Batman comics that are coming out this week, obviously, because that's what Batman does. And if you are a moviegoer, the Batman trilogy, the Batman Begins Dark Night and Dark Night Rises, are all getting theatrical re-releases this weekend so you can go and see with your specific theater back on the big screen.

Back on the big screen. So I think Alamo, somebody can correct me on this, I think Alamo Draft House is one of the theaters chains that are running the Dark Night trilogy, so you can go check that out. Otherwise, up on the, HBO Max,

you can watch a bunch of Batman movies and animated series and a bunch of stuff being launched all over that this weekend as well that's cool a lot going on yeah there really is i mean i was like okay here they're going to just say hey go and buy these comics in this merch or whatever at your comic book shop and then you read the press release and it just goes on and on and on and on and you get

down to hey if you're in brazil uh here are all the events that are going in for batman day in brazil and thailand and malaysia and and it just goes on and on it wow did you did you already say why what the significance is of the I don't remember. I want to say that's probably the first appearance of Batman, you know, the historical canonical release date of the comic, but I have never checked that out. It seems sometimes to be an arbitrary thing. But, yeah, that's what I'm going to guess.

It's like Christmas, man. Jesus is born in April or something. Right, right. We didn't have enough going on in December. Let's put it then. Yeah, let's stick it then. This is when his mother and father were killed in that alley behind the theater. Harder just sent me a text and says we totally should do an art stream for Batman Day.

So maybe we will stream that, yeah. Yeah, I don't know why September 16th because it's May is when detective comics drop. Right. That's also May, well, May is free comic book day. Maybe they don't want to bump up against that. They could be stumbling over that, could be, sure. Tripping over it in a way. All right, well, these are good stuff.

Go check out this whole listing over there at Major Spoilers.com, along with many, many other hunks of content. that you're going to want to put into your life if you're into this stuff like we are. That's major spoilers.com. Steven, is there anything else going on you'd like to tell folks about? Hey, listen, it is, we are fully into autumn now, and that is great. It's raining all day today, but there's still going to be some hot days in the coming week, so I just want everybody to stay hydrated. Oh, that's good advice.

Thanks so much for that. All righty. Very cool. Always good having Stephen on. Tomorrow we'll have, who's a... Who's on tomorrow? Travis. Travis doing his monthly quiz.

Good. Names that thing. Yep. And next week, Travis will be hosting with me on Monday while Brian's in Vegas. And then Tuesday, Bobby. And then Wednesday, Brian's back. Yes. Woo!

I've put my lightsaber back. You'll probably have stories to tell. Oh, my, that better have stories. If I don't have stories, then what the hell am I doing to Vegas? some kind of debauchery will go on, you know? Because remember, you know, Tanner and his and Alex. Miss Vegas this year. So this is their catchup.

So this is, they have some catching up, do-do. Yep. And don't flick him in the eyes. Lucy. Yeah. Just make sure. Don't flick him in the eyes. Got a weird eye.

You don't want to flick him in the eyes. Oh, I know. Yeah. Poor Tanner. I know it sucks. It's the kind of thing. Oh, dude. Eyes.

Eyes are freaky. All right. Yeah. Nobody wants problems with their eyes. Nobody wants that. problems they suck they do suck let's get to a text here before we get out of here jean from brooklyn wrote in and said scott and brian poker face is nothing more than a re-skinned modern-day version of the incredible hope tv show from the 80s jean from brooklyn okay do you

agree also say it's like night writer or uh magiver basically you know it's like a here's a problem uh i guess the the deal is that uh um natasha leone is getting chased across the country and these are places as she's drifting she gets she stops in them but that's that's only a small one-off comparison though right like if she was turning green or something then i would i would see this comparison no but i mean yeah exactly it's you know basically instead of turning to the hulk she has powers to be able to tell when people are lying but she does you know like like david banner she was traveling across the country trying to get away from the report of those chasing her and

or he was and stopping in different locations and helping out a person every week yeah kind of sure some similarity there some similarity that's about it though

there's a lot of show there that isn't anything to do with the whole yeah and there's and you know if you were if you were alive in the 70s and 80s there were a thousand shows that were the problem of the week getting solved by somebody

who maybe was on the run or that's all they had we had four story types in the 80s and they were all getting regurgitated by every show constantly. Exactly. It's just a different time. They pretty much just people don't have time to pay. If they want a long continuing story, they can watch a soap opera.

But we only have time really to tell a one-hour story that has to start and finish in that hour. That's right. Oh, this reminds me. Carter and I were watching those same, we're watching what we do in the shadows catching up. And you know the theme song, which is so great for that and the movie. The movie used the same theme song. I didn't know that song was made in the early 60s. I had no idea.

It was made in like 63. Yeah. It blew my freaking mind. Don't you think it sounds like it's from there? I mean, it does. I just thought it was artificially made to be. I don't know. I don't know what I thought.

I thought it was original to the show, but it's like already existed. That blew my mind. Yeah, I'm trying to pull up the song here to say who the original is. Yeah, we should give credit to the whoever made it. It's called you're dead, right, or no. You're dead. You're dead. Yeah.

Well, I mean, I know they sing that a lot, but. Um, let's find it here. It is your dead. What we do in the shadows? Where's, oh, sunrise sunset theme. Is that what it's called? No, that's from an episode I just saw. Never mind.

Um, I found the song. I can't find the artist. I don't have it in my, uh, library. At least down under that. Oh, written and performed by Norma tang, tangia, tangia, tangia. T-A-N-G-I-A Yeah

Norma Cecilia Tangia was an American Folken Pop Singer Painter and Experimental Musician and the 60s had a hit with

Walking My Cat Name Dog Worked for Dusty Springfield A bunch of other musicians Oh really? Okay I didn't know this I didn't know

I knew nothing about the song But now This is one of those shows You know I have shows Where you never skip the intro Yeah I never skipped the intro of this show And it's purely because I just love that song so much.

But I also really like, you know, I do this with Futurama. I do it with, it's almost always music reasons now that I think about it. Yeah. If you have a bad theme for your intro, I'm not watching it. Or if you've got something that changes in the opening credits of a show. Right. And there's another good reason to not skip the opening intro. Yeah.

Season 4 does that a lot, which I really enjoyed. Oh, do they really? Oh, cool. Like they change things in the opening? Yeah. And I think it might be the first season where they actually do that. You're going to love it, dude. When you guys catch it.

I can't wait. Yeah, it might be after the thing we're currently, like we're currently doing Asoka, just catching up to what's been released with Asoka. We just finished a thing that I'm totally going to be talking about on Wednesday that that we kind of forgot about. We're all excited. And I don't think, I think we would have been talking about it more if we had watched it before now. So that'll be Wednesday.

Okay. Looking forward to that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, in the meantime, you can keep these texts coming like Gene in Brooklyn. You can send it to 801-47-10462. Better yet, you can go to our Patreon and support the show and get a commercial-free version of this podcast, plus cool stuff in the mail and a whole bunch of other reasons to join up. Get in there at patreon.com slash TMS. You hear us say it every day.

That's because it is the steam which makes this train run. Okay. Yeah. That's going to do it for today's show. we should play a song speaking of music let's play a little music what do we got? Just something I don't know just something to go out on sure by the way

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Dr. Calhoun, a.k.a. Brian Young, said, I turned the big 50 on September 9th. But that's a Saturday. So unless you want to do a special show on my own or you can do this sometime around that date. Birthday. Oh, shit. Hold on. Finding. Clicking.

pushing. Button. Let's party. Nice. Yeah, very nice. By the way, we also have a brand new Tadpool survey, so make sure you get your answers in for that one. There's some real head scratches in there. We talked about that.

Oh, during the Saturday Cat Pulligans, I popped in, and we were talking about the Tadpool survey. Listen, folks, we're getting out of, ooh, which is your favorite Star Trek captain? We have to go into, what's your favorite theoretical constant? Stuff like that. So get in there and put your thinking caps on and give the answers. And by the way, pass is not an answer, all right?

No, it's not. But they'll do it now. Now they'll do it because they always do it. If we say not to do a thing, they're going to freak to do it. Yes, they will say, oh, pass. How many different ways can I write the word pass? All right. Anyway, Dr. Calhoun said, how about a grunge cover?

How about a grunge cover? Oh, man. I've got a cover of Alive by Pearl Jam. This one was performed by Andy Stone and Cat Zero and adds a very cool electronic twist to the song that the original, of course, doesn't have. Here are Andy Stone and Cat Zero and Alive. I like Cat Zero. Better than Regular Zero. It tastes... Well, it's low sugar.

It's low sugar. But the flavor's good. They've gotten better at that. It tastes just like regular cat. Yeah, it does. I can't tell the difference now. but I know that pounds are coming off. All right, here it is.

Let's play that. Let's be back tomorrow with a brand new show. Thank you all for listening. We'll see you then. So, she said, have I got a little story for you? What you thought was your daddy was nothing. Why are you sitting home alone at age 13? Your real daddy was dying.

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Yeah Oh You walk slowly Across a young man's room She says I'm ready For you I can't remember anything to despairing me

Except blue, Lou, oh, you know where I'm Oh, I'm still alive. Oh, I'm still alive. I'm still alive. Yeah. Oh, I'm still alive. Yeah.