The Morning Stream - TMS 2527: Squatty Scrubby Dude

Episode Date: September 25, 2023

The Parasite Streak Continues. This is Kim's husband. He's a PODCASTER! I don't like Jalapeno and Oyster beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer! Wreakin' the CVS Bathroom. PAN AM: Pansexual Amateursexual. Put That In Your Chicken And Roast It! There's Nothing West of Seattle. Back End. No Barf. Dog Bit My Crotch and I Liked it. Beer Makes People Happy. A Big Gulp Of Beer. Bombdiggity. A complete backend operation. We invented podcasting, dammit! Copyright law is messed up with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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I don't like jalapino and oyster. Beer. Reckin the CVS bathroom. It was reekin' too. Pan Am, pansexual, amateur sexual. Put that in your chicken and roast it. There's nothing west of Seattle. Back end. No barf. Dog bit my crotch, and I liked it. Beer makes people happy. A big gulp of beer.

Oh, I'm diggedy. It's a lot of beer. A complete back-end operation. We invented podcasting, damn it. Copyright laws messed up with Stephen and Moore on this episode of The Morning Stream. Jesus exists, go and get him right now. Tell him I'm buying. Hey, Bobby, another fish sandwich and soda for Jesus. Rye, dog, that was the bomb-diggity, my friend.

The morning stream. Would you like a closer look? Good morning, and welcome to TMS. It's Monday, September 25th is the date of the 2023 year. And I'm Scott, and that's Brian, all right? Hello, hello. Put that in your chicken and roast it, all right? Good morning, Brian.

I'm assured you had a decent weekend. I did. I had a very nice weekend. Had a good time at Beer Fest. We'll talk about that in a minute. Big thanks, of course, to Linda and Dennis from Deep Trafftraf Brewing in Bremerton, Washington. Yeah.

Not only gave us tickets, but gave us beer. That's great. So this is the kind of connection that'll just every year you'll get to come back? I hope so. Yeah. You know what? I'd be delighted if we got to see Linda every year, Linda and Dennis every year. Whether or not we get tickets to the show, just getting to see them would be a delight. And they're good people.

And if you live anywhere near Seattle, please, please, please go check out Deep Draft Brewing. They're in Bremerton. They're just a ferry ride, just right across the sound. Oh, yeah, some dude came up and said, Deep Draft Brewing. Bremerton, where's Bremerton? I said, well, it's west of Seattle. He says, west of Seattle, there's nothing west of Seattle. Yeah, they're not on the ocean.

They're on the sound, and you can take a ferry across the sound and get to Bremerton. Some more geographical education knowledge, kicking ass out there. exactly guy didn't pay attention in that class and it shows it did not well that's great we'll get to more of that in a second I just wanted to put a big thanks out to everybody we we ended up having to pull the show pretty last minute Thursday I guess it was I guess Wednesday night is when I told yeah for those who weren't aware my sisters or my excuse me my wife sister Angel she was diagnosed in 2020 with stage 4 cancer and was doing pretty good in fact

up to like 10 days ago, we were surprised how well things were going. She was about to start a new trial of a new drug that was supposed to be some hot new business and she was going to be a part of that trial. So while the cancer was still there, she seemed to be holding it at bay and her, her chemo was going well and all this stuff. And she looked great. You know, we just really, we're 10, 12 days ago, really hopeful. Everything was, you know, like, oh, we're looking at years here.

At the very least, maybe longer if this goes well. nope her her liver started to fail when they pulled her and this is how we found out she went in for her uh you know paperwork and all that sort of preliminary meeting stuff you do for this trial which is kind of a big deal you have to go through a bunch of hoops to be in a trial yeah to be able to find out if you're compatible and stuff and the only garbage part about these trials I understand there is absolute scientific need for why this is but you may you may or may not be getting the drug you may be getting able to seebo that's part of the that's part of testing it's the way it it's how they do it so I hate that so if it really is this life-saving drug and there are a few of

those coming down the pipe I just hate that those getting tested may or may not be on it it just bugs me but anyway I understand why though right I get it yeah exactly I mean it's you know you're you're taking the chance to help save hundreds of thousands millions of more people right you know and you may be one of them if you get the pill but if you don't You're part of the double-blind sort of, what do you call it? There's a word for this when you do testing, when you do scientific stuff. Not double-blind. What is it?

It's part of the double-blind thing, but whatever it is, there's a word. Anyway, she goes into this meeting and they say, all right, well, let's get you, let's do some of these tests. And it was there that they found out that her liver as of like very, maybe even that day or day before had in earnest began. to fail and the cancer had spread there and they knew that but they didn't know the the liver was in you know full failure mode and so what a difference 10 days can make because we went there Thursday which is why we didn't have the show to go visit her and my gosh she's so thin and so just johndest and in really good spirits though um they're they're giving her all the good drugs you know you always hear about ah fentanyl in the streets let me tell you where fentanyl's awesome in hospice care

that stuff's great because she is a ton of pain management yeah a ton of pain without it like her yeah she's got stuff growing in places that very very painful if it wasn't for this stuff like in her case a miracle drug and some people's case is a horrible you know chance to get addicted to something but in her case she needs it anyway uh tons of family around her and and neighbors and friends and everything she wanted me to tell everyone listening that she's very grateful for all the kind words. People said all sorts of nice stuff on Facebook and formerly Twitter and everywhere else. And it was a nice, it was really great to be over there. She's still with us. She's got all of her sisters are in town. They're all staying here kind of in perpetuity to see how

things go. Basically, our whole family's here now and all of her friends and family. People from Texas where they used to live have come up and they're staying here for the duration. And we don't know what that duration is it could be days it could be another month it could be an hour like it's really hard to tell she had an amazing day yesterday a horrible day before that like it just sort of depends on the day so anyway uh f cancer and also uh it's just been rough around here and here's what made it a little rougher kim came home from mississippi with some kind of weird stomach bug we played it off

like oh you've been traveling and it's been stressful and you're trying to get home for her sister and we just thought no big deal no I ended up catching it and uh oh no yesterday right after film sack it kicks in

and I spent no barfing nope it wasn't that kind of thing I was still hungry all day it was a complete back end operation gotcha and one of the most horrific of the type

I've ever had than July when we all got. Oh, really? When you have the water issues. Yeah, that was worse. Although, I guess inherently better because we didn't have water issues yesterday. Obviously, yes. Anyway, that was a rough day. And I just felt like garbage the whole day. And at four o'clock, we had scheduled to get our five or our boosters and our flu shots. So I was like, I still feel like crap, but I'm doing this. I don't want to put it off. Let's just go. Yeah. So we go in there. This is great, though. We go into CVS. I don't usually do this in a CVS. It's usually this other pharmacy but these guys got them first so we scheduled it uh they don't have any Pfizer yet

they had to moderna it's fine whatever um and they had the flu shots we're like all right we're going in there and we get in there and i immediately go oh i'm gonna need a bathroom here somewhere in the oh no it's CVS i know right and the CVS is it not obvious about where these are it's not marked sure it's in an employee it's through an employee's only door around a corner and then there's customer bathroom so it's weird yeah yeah and i go back there and it says it's got a little sign on it says please ask an employee for access to the bathroom like some kind of gas station in the middle of nevada or whatever sure it's like are you kidding me so i go around the front and i understand this there are people that'll like grab their prescription at the front desk and immediately go and like

shoot themselves up and i understand there's reasons why you do this right yeah i mean it's it's even it's in all parts of town now it's not just in the the bad part it sadly. Yeah, it's just a thing. So I go around the front. Hey, can I get in the bathroom there? Yeah, I can do it. It says this guy. And he comes around the corner. He's a little squat dude, little squatty dude and like scrubs. And he's like, okay, follow me. So I follow him. Opens it up. I go in there. I wreck the CVS bathroom. And then. No toilet paper. Damn it. But I come out and I get the shots. And I just have an, I have an observation about CVS. Okay.

It doesn't seem like anybody there is having a good time. And, you know, you can go a lot of places. You can see people enjoying their job, enjoying their work. Whatever it is, it seems like it's fine. But in CVS, nobody looks like they're having a good day. And this was a very slow Sunday afternoon. Nobody there. It's like 4.30 in the afternoon.

Just like an empty CVS. And even the people that are there are just so grouchy. The girl giving me my shots didn't want to have any kind of. kind of like light conversation or anything at all. They're just like, and where I'm joking where they're going, well, we're doing the two and one arm today. We're going to see if we can just wreck one arm. Ah, ha, ha, ha. And she's just like, okay, sit down.

Here we go. Right. Anyway, just a thought, just something I noticed. But anyway, it made for a real stupid weekend for the most part. And then while we were at Kim's sisters, her dog bit my crotch. So that was fun. Oh, nice. Not bad, but enough to kind of, you know, go, ooh.

It's enough to just kind of remind you what's there. yeah an inch to the left dog and the crutch yeah an inch to the left and we'd have been in some trouble also her neighbors who were all there gathered in this living room were all learning about podcasting because somebody said

oh this is Kim's husband he's a podcaster I don't remember who said it and immediately I went oh don't let's not yeah exactly yes right I don't want to have this conversation oh like that Zach Braff show so I

so I explained it and said what we did and I said you know if you're going to go in there oh what's the website I want to see I want to hear this and I said I said that's fine but just go in there and know you're going to get some dams some hells and some shits occasionally okay you're going to get some swears listen we

we start the day off right that's right we know how to swear so just know that and because some of them they look like they might be offended if they heard me drop the S bomb anyway it was all just weird because at the same time we're having this very quiet

somber moment with her sister and then and then suddenly it turned to oh i've heard of that now how does that work now what do you do yeah like i don't know it's it's all this this and it's not works and i gotta go when that when it comes up like if i'm driving and and uh they ask me what i do and i do some uh graphic design website stuff and and then i also do some podcasting it's like oh good for you like it's almost like a oh isn't that cute you're doing a podcast yeah i like You know, I don't want to say, well, yeah, I'm in the Hall of Fame. I've been doing it, you know. Actually, this week, it will have been, what, 19 years, 19 years of podcasting.

Yeah. I don't want to say, yeah, I've actually won some awards, you know, it's like, yeah, podcast, fine. Yeah, that's fine. Oh, that's cute. You just let it flow and let them have their moment of whatever. Did you start because of that murder buildings, Joe? The murder building? Yeah.

Yes, I did. I waited and tell Lulu how to hit series about a podcast. Not the other way around where we helped build the podcasting world to the point that a series could be made about podcasting. Yes. Yeah. You know, not the fact that I helped

pave the way for music licensing for cover songs and podcasts. You know, that they practically could have a contract named after me. But they don't because I didn't ask them to do that. But they could. No. No, it was Steve Martin,

Selena Gomez, and Martin Short. That's how that's what got it. right first was rick at your base created podcasting then uh joe rogan created podcasting then yeah yeah i'm pretty sure uh w t f thought it did for a while a lot of a lot of shows a lot of shows think they invented it none of them did brian and i did all right we did exactly you're listening to the show where we did it all right uh uh the only thing i'd say is schedule wise um my goal or hope this week is that uh no show should be affected especially in the morning show. I'll be doing some visits over there at night and stuff like that.

But unless the worst happens and when it does, I'll make sure people are aware. But if there's any, if there's going to be no shows for something, we'll let you guys know. Yeah. And don't even, you know, this should be the last thing you have to think about when family stuff happens. You know, I mean, obviously, yeah, we care and we want to know if there's a show or not. But it's like you say, oh, yeah, no show today. We totally understand and we absolutely Sure. We have a family first rule here on TMS and Frog Pants in general. Actually, all the Frog Pants shows, yes. Yeah, all of it.

I mean, that includes things, you know, sister shows and all of our friends, Brian's, all of his independent shows. They observe the same rules, okay? That's right. All my independent shows. So, you know, Coverville, no coverville, because family first. Family first, right? No Coverville, must mean family. What else did you do at the Beer Fest?

Anything fun? Do you see anything crazy? Anybody barf on you? Anything good? You know, it was, no, here's the thing. The Beer Fest, for whatever reason, for whatever it is that beer does, that hard liquor doesn't do, I was figuring out that this is my eighth year of attending the Beer Fest. Oh, wow.

And in all those eight years, and all that alcohol, and probably 90% male attendance at the Beer Fest, maybe it's 75% or 80%. I don't know. Be really curious to figure it out. But never seen a fight. never seen any sort of argument fist to cuffs nothing like it is not even like a disagreement like a vocal disagreement nothing nothing beer makes people happy wow whatever it is and no barfing don't you know you go in the bathrooms all uh once you break that seal once you go to the bathroom

the first time during that four hours you're done for you're going to be going every 30 minutes um i made i made it through three hours before i had to go the bathroom so i only had to go twice That's pretty good, dude. Look at you holding your pee. That's amazing. Hung out with Wes, Burgess Diesel, and his wife, Mal. They are awesome, awesome people and live here in Colorado. Nice.

He was pouring Thursday night for left-hand brewing as well. And we didn't realize that we were in visual range of each other Friday night, texting each other. Well, where are you at now? Where are you at now? Oh, we should say hi. where's the, where's your booth? And I couldn't figure out where the frigging pro-am booth was. I was thinking, pro-am, like, what's that?

I never, in all the years that I've heard pro-am, heard that phrase, I never figured out that it was pro-amature collaboration. Oh, you know what? And tell this very second, and you're saying that. I don't feel, then I don't feel dumb. Pro-am. Like, I was thought it's a car. I guess it makes sense, because pro, short for professional, am, short for amateur,

but I've never put those two together. Anytime I've said there's a pro-am race, I'm like, oh, cool, whatever AM means, let's go, we're going. Yeah, exactly. Weird. Never had it. Weird. So anyway, but we did hang out almost the whole time,

Wes and Mel, and she, they got to meet Crazy Neighbor and see Crazy Neighbor first hand. Nice. Crazy Neighbor, so when you see a line of breweries, and they've all got, like, oh, this one has a Pilsner and a Saison and a Bach, and this one over here has a stout and a logger and a brown ale, blah, blah, blah. Dave looks at two things. He looks at the length of the line and the percentage, the ABV, the percentage of alcohol.

And basically, high percentage short line, high percentage short line means perfect storm. Give me one of those. Sure. Did he find a lot? I mean, is that a possible? Oh, yeah. Yeah, we were looking at stuff that was 8.5%. We had a barley wine that was 12.5% that was not, I didn't find it very good.

It was a little, it was like a fortified port wine kind of flavor to it. Really, really sharp. Didn't like it. Finished it because it was just an ounce, but wasn't as much. Do you shotgun it when you don't like it? Ordius, what do you do? Yeah, shotgun it. Because it's a lot easier than going back up to them and pouring it in their

a little dump bucket that they keep next to their pitchers. Especially if I'm going to ask for something else to get the flavor out. I had a white, all right, if you're a beer, if you're ready for this, tuck in everybody. We had a beer that was made from jalapinos and oysters. Yeah. Yeah. Was it good? It was much more jalapeno flavored than oyster flavor.

No, it really wasn't. I mean, it wasn't, it wasn't very good. No. Sounds horrible. trouble, dude. Yeah, you couldn't taste any ostrich, but just knowing that it was there

is like, all right, what a combo. Yeah. I was like, hey, you want some peanut butter on that pickle? No, no, don't give me things that sound bad together. I mean, I am always impressed when someone says, hey, if you combine these two things, it's amazing.

And when it is, it's like, oh, my gosh, I never would have guessed. But that does not sound like a combo I'm interested in at all. Yeah, oh, there it is. The, from Bull Island Brewing Company. um it is a it's called the oyster jalapeno porter and uh yeah did not didn't enjoy it as much i mean uh had a maple oh my god had a maple coffee stout that was excellent i could see that one yeah that i could that was really really good and it wasn't overly sweet i was really worried

about that and it was like tristan i go up there and like ooh a maple coffee stout good this sounds great. Tristan goes, oh, wow, are you guys from Vermont? They're like, nope, Texas. We walked away. We walk away and he says, well, then they should have poured bigger. I see what they did there. That's good. Yeah, but Tristan had a blast. I mean, we all, it was a, it was a great group. We really had a good time. That's great. I had some, had some delicious beers. Delicious beers. So is your eighth or ninth? Eighth, eighth year. Eighth year. I'm going. So, nice.

nice and no sign of stopping no get in the van dave we're going to get some stuff this is my one day a year that i drink beer i mean it's not totally true i'll drink a guinness uh i do like uh and you know if we do go out to trivia and they don't have cider um then i will do basically i'll just say what's the darkest beer you have and i'll drink that yeah i like uh milk stout oh final count on my watch was uh 52 52 52 ounces of of beer, which really, I mean, when you think about it, it's, it's four, uh, or four, four, four, 12-ounce beers, plus a little bit. Yeah, it's like a slightly bigger than your, than a big gulp, you know, down at 10,

the 7-Eleven, it's not really that much. Sure, that's a good word. But keep in mind, these, none of these are three, two, like nothing there is, uh, I mean, they had three-two beers there, we weren't drinking them. Mm, Dave was. Yeah. Right. Not you, though.

He wasn't drinking three-two. Oh, really not. No, three-two is nothing. really that's that's too low oh that's not high that's low see i don't know i don't know shit about alcohol i don't know how it works uh more higher the number scott the more the alcohol so if it's three to that so i thought that meant three parts alcohol two parts everything else it's percent it means that of that 12 ounce can that you're holding in your hand 3.2 percent of it is alcohol okay yeah 3 percent's nothing let's now all 3.2 got it all right so when you see

say 3.2. That's just that's really 3.2%. Okay. I just don't, I'm not in this world. I don't know how it works. Real quick to answer a question from ICOR earlier, he says, what does all this mean for Pan Am, when we were talking about pro-amateur? It means pansexual, amateur sexual. Amateur sexual. Yeah, that's how

works. Hey, Brian, tell me about Lyft. What happened? Oh, you know what? We've got a thing for that. Let's play it. Yeah, play there. Where is it? I can't find it. Make so I get a five-star rating, Jr. Yeah. What do you got? You need to watch that. That's Equalizer 2, ladies and gentlemen.

Yeah. Three, right? Two? No, two. Two had that. Dude is a, the equalizer is a lift driver for part of Equalizer 2. Wow. All right.

Yeah, so Friday, I go out driving after we do our couch party and everything. And my first ride is to a hotel, local hotel right off the highway. It's La Kinta. Fairly nice. Le Kinta, by the way, is special. Spanish for next to shonies. Which is Scott, which is Scott for bacon. I think of shonies, I think of tons of bacon.

That's all I think. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, so, but I noticed that, you know, usually when you get the ride, it shows you on a map, here's the pickup spot, and then here's where you're taking them, and you know, you figure out like, oh, I'm taking them over to the airport. I'm taking them down here. I'm taking them over there. But there was no drop-off.

I look at the, I swipe up and look at the actual addresses, and they've got the starting address and the ending address at the same place. And no, you know, sometimes when you get that, it's because they've added a stop. So it's like, take me to the dispensary and then take me back to my, my smoke-filled bungalow. But in this case, no, it was like, no stops. It was, pick me up with the Lakinta, drop me off of the Lakinta. Weird. Just a quick ride around the block kind of thing or something. Exactly. So at a red light, I'm able to, when the car's not moving, I'm able to use the Lyft communication app or the communication feature. And so I go in there and I text.

It requires you, by the way, to use one of their boilerplate messages first to initiate the conversation. So it's either, hi, I'm Brian, your Lyft driver, or I'll be there in seven minutes or whatever. So I click, hi, I'm Brian, your Lyft driver. And then I can type whatever I want. And I say, hey, I notice you've got the starting and ending locations at the same place. Could you, you may want to edit that before I get there. just so I know where we're going once I pick you up.

Sure. And I send. I keep driving towards La Quinta. And, uh, uh, it sounds like, it sounds like Trump.

La Quinta, Kinta. I like it. You know there was dang with La Quinta. Anyway, so I, so as I'm driving, I'm like,

well, they still haven't responded to my text. So I, I call. I hit the little phone call button. And, uh, I say,

Hey, it's Brian. I get the other voicemail. Hey, it's Brian. I'm your lifter. I'm on my way to pick you up. But I sent you a text about this too, and blah, blah, blah. I tell them what's going on. Yeah.

And I keep driving. Get all the way to Lakeinta. No, no answer. I'm like, well, what the heck? All right, fine. And part of me is one, like, little nervous, little gun shy that it's some sort of scam thing again, right? I'm always thinking about, like, all right, how is this going to be a scam? They're going to, like, get in the car.

It's going to be this cheap ride because. they've got the start and ending location so they're going to pay whatever the lift minimum is and then they're going to tell me to take them to the airport or something sure um i pull up and i see uh i see the person who's going to doing this look at their phone looking around it's like a very you know it's a very obvious thing that this is the person looking for a lift sure down the phone looking up down the phone looking up and uh and then they see the car and they're like oh they they wave and i pull up and i roll down the window and say hi are you are you ashley and she nods her head

and then another guy comes up to the car and says we're deaf but he you know he says it in the way that you know okay this is a person who's communicating their deaf I'm not gonna impersonate him because of course not of course not yeah like oh okay and there's four of them

and they've got a ton of luggage more than your car is typically had or about the maximum my car can hold like four people and this amount of luggage is about it so I hop out of the car and I open the backup for them and while I'm doing that I'm like how am I going to communicate to them the problem that the starting and end

I can't just go with my hand like pointing to my palm like this is where we start and this is where we end oh my gosh so I like I grab my phone pull it out of the charger bring it over to them and I'm like showing them the starting and ending places but all Ashley is seeing is that I'm pointing she only thinks I'm pointing to her name And she's like, yeah, she's pointing to herself saying, yes, that's me.

Oh, gosh. Oh, no, no, no, no. And I waggle my finger, for those of you listening to the podcast. And I slowly point towards the address and slowly point towards the second address. Well, she didn't see my text, Rainbow Bright. Like, I texted her earlier on. She totally missed it. I could have pulled up notepad and said, did something like that.

Sure. And I, Corey, don't have any paper. So finally, one of the other. women that's with her, figures it out. And she goes, oh, and she puts her hands over and I'm like, oh, gotcha. And then she signs to Ashley the problem and changes things up. And so, uh, did they have a destination in the end or, or? They did.

So they changed it. And it goes, b, b, b, b, and it says, okay, new destination. And it's like south part of town. Like, great. All right, cool. Plug the phone back in. They all hop in the car, close the trunk, push really hard to get the, the trunk down all over, over all of their stuff.

Not the airport. I actually was going to... This is where my charades. All those years of charades finally pays off. I was going to say, point to them, you going to the airport and, like, do an airplane coming in for a landing. But I didn't have to, because the thing they addressed came in. But I figured out with all that luggage, they're going to the airport, but apparently they weren't. So...

Oh, my gosh. So I hop back in the car, start driving there, and I'm like, God, I, you know, I would want to put my music up at regular, like the volume I listen to it when I'm alone, but I feel like that would be disrespectful. I don't know. But they're, you know, they're all having a conversation in the back, signing back and forth and stuff like that. I need to learn, I do want to learn some basic, like, I think this is thank you, the hand, vertical hand to the chin kind of thing. Carter's fluent in it, she can tell me, but I don't know for sure. Yeah. But I want to learn like yes and no and, you know, hello and is hello just waving?

I don't know, it should be if it isn't, right? It seems simple. Oh, Stephanie says no, this is not, thank you? Oh, gosh, what have I been saying? What have I been saying to my deaf passengers? It means F you. No, it doesn't. It doesn't mean that.

Carter, Carter's fluent in ACL, but I, ACL? Not ACL, that's your knee. What's it called? A-A-L-S, no, that's a disease. Yeah, no, American, oh, ASL. ASL, I was getting all my letters mixed up. she's really fluent in it she could absolutely tell us she's learning she could tell me what that meant but um uh yeah apparently it's uh thank you is like blowing a kiss

but lower at the chin so oh like that okay so it's flat-handed against the chin like that okay brian and i are like that guy that got busted at that press conference for not knowing it at all and was just making symbols do you remember that oh yes right does the was it during nelson vandal's speech or something like that it was like some kind of big highfalutin thing and he was just nonsense up there? Yeah, so it was just like, he was doing the three stooges thing and telling the third basement

to come run to home. Yeah, I love that. It's too good. Anyway, so we get to the location and like it's one of these things where this is where the address would be, but there is no house there with that address, right? Like this is the 5,900 block

of a coma street and this is where 5923 would be but there's a you know there's two houses of 5920 and a 5930 and so I'm like I look and basically the the guy in the passenger seat the one who told me that they were all deaf has kind of been

my communicator and he you know pointed stitch and said you know thumbs up like I like your stitch I have a stitch bobblehead in the car and he's like commented on that so I kind of look at him and I say, this is where it's telling me to drop you off. And I do the shrug, the shrug thing like, is this what you want?

And he's like, yes, he's saying, this is good, pointing down his palm, thumbs up, this is good, pointing down, this is good. So they hop out, they grab their luggage, and immediately I get another ride. I'm like, all right, oh, God, I feel weird, leave him in this neighborhood. At least it's a good neighborhood. Sure. I feel weird leaving this neighborhood. And so I start driving off, and I'm heading towards the other ride. And the way this ride is taking me, basically, I have to go into this cul-de-sac, do a U-turn, and then come back.

So I'm going to drive right by them again. And I drive by them again, and they're all on their phones. And they're all, I'm sure, where they are. I'm like, crap. Well, I know they'll be able to get another ride because there are other drivers out right now. if this is not where they need to be, or maybe they're calling the person and saying, hey, this is where the address you gave us

and it's wrong or whatever. But I'm like, oh, crap, I feel like, it was another one of those tennis ball dog situations where it's like, do I cancel the other ride and see if I can help them, or they're good, they probably have it all squared away. They're probably all set. Yeah, that's hard though.

I would have been like, oh, crap. Because you could tell they were like, this isn't here. Maybe they're waiting for you to leave so there would be like a Harry Potter-style door would open up. They're going to turn it and run into the fence and just disappear into a 59, 23 and a half platform. Oh, that's funny. Wow, what a, that's a, that's a journey you guys took. Yeah.

Well, you heard, you know, obviously your heart was in the right place and that's more important than anything. It was. Yeah, I feel like, um, uh, and it's, and, and. And it's funny because after I had them, I had another deaf passenger in the car yesterday. And she was able to kind of communicate on the same level as Marley Matlin where, like, oh, okay, I can understand what she's saying. It's not, it's not, it's apparent that she's deaf, but I can understand what she's telling. She's like, yeah, I talk into my phone. I'm not talking to you right now unless you want me to.

And I'm like, oh, no, you're fine. Just let me know if you need anything. but she's like using her phone to communicate, and so she's yelling into her phone. Wow. Wow. Quite the trip. But they're probably good now.

They found their way. Everything's fine. Yeah. Definitely. Yeah. And if you guys have a recommendation, I see September says there's a translation app for ASL. Definitely want to get that.

I would love to, you know, at the very least, um, I took you a nice Argentinian lady yesterday. And it was, and she didn't speak any English. her son texted for the ride and said, you're picking up my mother. She doesn't speak any English.

And I said, oh, no problem at all. But he didn't say what language she did speak. So as we're driving, I've got the AC on. And, you know, she's an older lady, so I care about this sort of thing. I turn to her and I go, cold, warm, warm, more AC, cold. And she's like, she's like, I'm good. and I look like I think she saw my reaction to that I said oh and she says no English no English I said oh okay

Spanish, Spanish she's like see like oh she's like Argentina I'm like oh bien okay bien yeah that's all I know I know I know some Spanish but I know it's not a one for one thing I know Argentina is not just straight up Spanish 101 from high school there's there's uh it's a very it's a different language but it's all latin base so the thing that just happened to you that sounds like things i've only seen in movies where somebody is sure they're like walking up people trying to do all the me no understand and then they answer in english that's funny that's great that's amazing why do you ask you like oh you're your effing sun your son let me down a path all right your son told me your son said no english yeah no english all right fine that's funny well

Well, good, good banner weekend for lifting. So, so bottom line, what I was saying is I'd like to be able to know, you know, in the most common 10 languages, things like, hello, goodbye, yes, no, thank you, too cold, too hot. Maybe that would be a good one. Do you want water? Are you, are you sure this is where you want me to let you out? Yeah, you want a new radio, different songs, you know, that kind of stuff? Right, right. Exactly. Yeah. We're not that far from you just saying that out loud and your phone immediately saying it after. Oh, I know.

So it's probably coming sooner than later. Exactly. All right then. What a what a what a lift. It's a lifting weekend, everyone. We had a lift and it was a good story. Let's find out now what Dunaway is doing with his life. Hey Brian Dunaway. Welcome to Half Asces. What are you doing with your life? Oh, hi Scott and Brian. Well, I hadn't. thought about it, but I guess nothing. Thanks for a reminder. You got that Brian has allergies

voice today. How are your allergies doing? Fall allergies, man. It's fine. Actually, I took a mucinex earlier, so now everything is getting loosened up and I can't. I got to get it out of my throat. Yeah, I understand. Feel free to hork it up on the air. We don't care.

We have no standard here. Oh, no problem. I definitely will. If it comes up, I'll bring it up. Good. Bring up that slug out the most. The TMS edition. so it wasn't it wasn't uh no okay that's never mind yeah never mind uh done away welcome we're gonna play a game as you know and uh brian here's got these here rules and what we're supposed to do and all that so tell them all right so yeah take notes everybody welcome to the morning half houses a trivia game where i'm actually gonna be giving you the answers i'm gonna give scott

and brian a category and six possible answers three of those answers are correct three of them are much like my american sign language experience total bullshit depending on how Confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses. But if they get any rung, they get zero points for that round. Get one right, gets a point, gets two right, and get them both gets three points. And all three correct gets you five points. Player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. And we've pulled contestants for members of the tadpool that aren't able to listen live.

Scott, you are playing for Corey in Savannah, Georgia. Oh, that's a nice place. Got me to say you were just there, weren't you? I did not meet Corey. Corey, what's the deal? You knew I was going to Savannah. Why didn't you say, come on, come on.

Let's meet for a drink. Brian, you're going to be playing for Chris in Florida. Oh, Florida man. Chris Crandall sounds like what Floridans refer to as Santa Claus. Oh, you get it your presents from Chris Crandall this year. Chris Crandall. He wears Bermuda shorts and not much else. Go to sleep, please.

I don't know why this is the Florida voice. That's the Florida voice. Yeah, I don't know why you guys are doing. Jersey voices for Florida. I don't know, but we'd deal with a lot of gaitas. A lot of gaiters. All right, let's get to it here.

Miami did great yesterday. Breaking some records. Go Florida. They could have, if they, if they would have taken that last field goal, they were in field goal range and they just basically graced, graced Denver the ball. But they could have actually broken the record instead of just tying the record.

That's not good sportsmanship. You don't rub that in. You don't want that on the morning news the next day. Don't you want to. be the player that's on the absolutely you want to be the player but you're thinking about the opponents here you know they're like around what

like 20 something and you're like it up 70 that's rubbing it in that's unsportsman like I don't know I think you just if they were at 60 and you were at 70 I'd say go for it sure sure you're there to win just win you know take them they're all they're all million dollar I don't feel bad for it now if you're talking about

a bunch of little kids eight year olds playing junior league football or something fine because now you're dealing with developing young human beings and there's no real money on the table these are people with 30 million dollar yearly contracts eff them go ahead and get yeah they don't have any feelings they haven't they haven't done this their whole life eff them yeah yeah i see i feel like if it's kids the last thing you want to do is have a 70 to 20 game uh oh you would have stopped that you would have stopped that game way before i got to save some kids self-esteem for sure that's i'm saying like do that that makes sense these guys are adults

So they're fine. Yeah, let them, let them, let them get that record. I'm just glad that, uh, that our team could help Miami achieve that goal. So good, good, good, good, nice, good job. Way to go, Denver. Yeah, all righty. Let's give you your, uh, your questions. First question is, oh, if only you could phone a friend and ask Patrick about this, uh, French soft drinks.

Uh, three of these are actual French soft drinks. Three of these are fake. Mecacola. Coye sabon. Sabon, Jeanne, Mademoiselle Pop, pshit, and bosson, bozzan, bozzan, these all sound like bullshit. That shit, for those of you listening, is spelled P-S-C-H-I-T-T-Xlamation point. Yep, silent pee, baby. Shit.

Like psychology or anything else. Let me go. shit shit shit like that that's the best clip ever

best clip of shit we ever did all right you guys are both locked in let's see well you guys you guys all selected

five different things oh good and and the funny thing is they're all selected one of the real ones which is

pshit really I was convinced you just said it's gonna be it just made, yeah. Your real ones are Mechacola,

Jeannie, and shit. The other ones were all made up, and those happened to be the three of the ones, three of the five you chose. Wow. I felt like the Colise, that felt wrong. Interesting, okay. By the way, those other ones, let's see.

Poisson, Boissant, by the way, means fish drink. Coye Sabot, I'm sure I pronounced that wrong, is glue hoof. Gloof. Sounds like one of the beers you didn't like this weekend. Glu-hoof. Yes, oh, this tastes like glue-hoof.

That's all right. We're going into round two with zero points. Let's get some points this round. This time it's animals whose pregnancies last longer than one year. So when you get pregnant, this is lasting longer than a year. I'm working on it. If you're three of these six animals, your choices are sea lion, sloth, hippopotamus, orca, rhinoceros and camel three of those have a gestation period that is longer than a year

that just feels right um what feels right you pick you picked that one that none of these feel right i don't know what feels right well only one feels right all the rest of them are questionable um oops let's see i'm going to these i don't know okay all right you both locked in uh you both locked in with Orca. Orca's The killer whale. Yeah, 495 days, definitely longer than a year. You also both locked in on hippopotamus. Hippopotamus

gestation is only 237 days less than a year. Your choice your answers were Orca, rhinoceros, and camel. It was all right answers. Come on, Sloth. Come on, Scott. That seemed like the right answer. I know, but that's why that felt like a trick, because everyone

knows sloths are slow, so I was like, that's not going to be it. No way. Yeah, B. Hunter, it was that. Actually, of all six of these, slots actually have the shortest gestation period, which is a hundred. And now I can't stop imagining how sloths do it. Go ahead. No, nice and slow. 183 days, so like about six months.

Why the rush? 495 rhinoceros 450 and camel, 390 days. Camel would have been. I did check on hippopotamus, but I was thinking rhinoceros. Go ahead, Scott. Yeah, I'm surprised by the camel just because it's not a giant animal. The ones that are big animals. Those make sense to me.

Hippo. It takes longer to make, right? Yeah. It takes longer to make, right? Yeah. How long was rhinoceros did you say, the rhino? Rhinoceros was 450 days. Jeez.

And that, end of that, Ace Ventura falls out, right? Isn't that how that works? Exactly right. He crawls his way out and says, all righty there. Yep, and they're horny the whole time. Get it horny? Because they got a horn? Does they have a horn?

You see. You see what we did that? All right. We're going into last question with zero points. So the final question, strategies are in play. And speaking of the NFL, name three of these cities

that never had an NFL team. Six cities, three of them never had an NFL team. Your choices are Allentown, Pennsylvania, Columbus, Ohio, Akron, Ohio, Canton, Ohio, San Antonio, Texas, and Fresno, California.

I feel like I should know this, but I'm pretty sure I don't. These cities, cities, and Denver, uh, feels like it still doesn't have a, uh, football. Right. Right. Wra-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W.

I'm choosing to. I don't know. Scott's locked in very. Okay, wait, let me, let me, uh, uh, there we go. I'm all locked in now. Ready to lose. Ready to lose. Um, awesome.

All right. You guys together have chosen Canton, Columbus, and Akron. Uh, Canton had the Bulldogs from 1920 to 1926. Wow. You didn't know that, Scott? Geez. Come on. You didn't know about the 20s bulldogs?

Chief. Chavez had the panhandles and the tigers from 1920, 1926. And Akron had a team called the pros from 1920 and 1926. The three you did not choose Allentown, San Antonio, Fresno. How old is Alentown? Damn it. Fresno, I thought, had something. I don't know why I thought that.

I didn't choose it. I can't believe you don't know your 1920s NFL team Scott. Yeah, what's wrong with me in my horrible knowledge of 20s football? So, let's see, since the last one of you did, oh, you both chose Orca, let's see, you each chose one correctly in the French soft. We sucked equally. We get it. We get it. You really have sucked equally. So Scott, I will let Scott give the, the home team. He's the home team. Yeah, why not? Sure. Yeah. At their most distant, is your tiebreaker, obviously. Right. At their most distant, how many minutes does it take a radio signal?

to go from Earth to Mars. So you're doing a podcast, you're sending it via radio to Mark Watney up there making his shit potatoes on Mars. How long after you hit Submit does Mark Watney get to hear the sultry sounds of core? Okay. Well, and is it a multiple? What was the measure of unit again? What was it again?

Minutes. Okay, minutes. All right. And how, and you don't give me multiple selection here. I just have to... No, you have to... You guess a number of... And then I go high lower.

Okay, we're doing high low. Here we go. It's a lot slower than light. So I'm going to say... I'll say 20 days. That's too many. How many minutes, though? Yes, minutes.

How many minutes? 90 minutes. I'm just... That's too many. I have no idea. I'll just say 90. 90 minutes That is incorrect

Brian is the actual answer Higher or lower than 90 minutes I'm going lower than that It is lower It is 24 minutes Yeah it takes 1.3 seconds To radio the moon But 24 minutes to radio Mars

Which means congratulations Going out to Chris Crandall in Florida Chris you're going to be getting a copy of Detached The non-VR edition And Little Orpheus On Steam Both of those games on Steam, courtesy of Racer 951Y.

But don't worry, Kori, in Savannah, Georgia, you're getting X-E-L, also on Steam. Nice. And so not S-E-X, S-E-L. Don't get excited. X-E-L. Oh, X-E-L. Maybe it's pronounced Excel. I don't know.

That's probably what's going on is it's pronounced Excel. So it takes radio exactly one 90s average sitcom. Pretty much exactly, yes. That's wild. With commercials, of course. Or else, you know, just a small delay. Small delay, no big deal. No big deal.

Time shifting. Yeah, you got it. No problem. I wish we could move at the speed of radio waves. That'd be cool. Well, you know, we're always talking about light speed and conquering that. Let's start with radio speed. Let's see if we can get that fast.

We kind of do that, right? I want to get to Mars in 24 minutes. That'd be awesome. Oh, it'd be terrific. So would Elon Musk. All right, Brian, you get one of these. I get one of these. And our listeners both win games, which is the important thing.

Dunaway, you know, having you here, it's like a, it's like having, I don't know, a little extra chick. next to your heart you know what i'm saying do you know what i mean i know i don't know what you mean that's disturbing why would you have chicken next to your heart fresh chicken or right you mean like i mean like on the outside of your body you're talking about like on like right next to it like maybe so the reason i'm thinking of it is Nate bargetsey was doing a stand-up thing his prime stand-up special by the way is incredible it's so good good but he talks about how he can he he he worries about silly stuff and he talks about how he thinks about when food is behind his heart and he can tell that's there yeah

So he's like, if he eats a bite of something, he can tell when it's in its journey. When it's going by his heart. Yeah, which is a weird thing to get fixated on. It's a very funny bit, though. You guys should check it out. He's great. He's a lot of fun. He's a lot of fun.

Yeah, I can see that. But I was worried, like, maybe you swallowed a whole egg and you thought it was going to like hatching your heart or something I didn't. Oh, that's weird. I don't like that. You don't want to do that. No. Watermelon in your belly.

No, no, Brian, it's an egg. Treat it like an egg. Treat it like an egg, Brian. Yeah, like a baseball. Bye now. all right he's gone he didn't even get a chance to say no you didn't you didn't get to do no you which i am perfectly fine with now people oh you know what it's time for a break i didn't realize we're that close to the hour oh are we really oh i should probably get our song together

uh let's see you do that real quick and i'll you know what we'll do one story we we can do one we'll do one news story here you go okay it's time for a quick bit of news brought to you by Amy Robinson and her awesome YouTube channel watch and learn how to throw clay and put cool stuff in the kiln and make it hot stuff. Get it at Red Fraggle 3 on YouTube today. Highly recommend doing that. She's great. We'll hear from her in a week or so. Brain-altering parasite turns ants into zombies at dawn and dusk.

Oh no. Don and dusk. I see what they did there. Yeah. I see what they did as well. Although during the rest of the day should be mentioned, They're just fine. Oh, it really is Don and Dust.

Like, it's Don of the Ant Zombies and Dusk of the Enzombies, but all the rest of the time they're fine zombies. Just regular old ants doing ant things. Imagine coming to Jaws gripping the top of a swaying blade of grass, unaware of how you got there. That's how it works for a lot of ants. The reality for ants infected with the Lancet Liver Fluke. All right.

Lancet Liver Fluke was my finishing move for most of my wrestling career. A tiny parasitic flat worm, liver flukes have a complicated, almost insanely conceived life cycle, which begins with the hijacking of the ant's brain. The unsuspecting ant climbs up and clamps into powerful jaws into the top blades of grass, making it more likely to be eaten by grazers such as cattle or deer. Researchers from the University of Copacan's Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences have discovered that the parasite's ability to control the ant is even more cunning than previously believed. Impressively, the parasite can even get the end.

ant to crawl back down the blade of grass when it gets too hot. Isn't there a cat thing like this? There's a thing where you, where a cat, there's something in a cat's leavings or something that have a certain, like, mice get into it. Now the mice is a, is a controllable thing by the parasite it got from the, from the cat litter or something.

Did you just watch Ratatooie? I swear this is real. No, the Ratatooie. Maybe. Maybe. This I've never heard of like a little parasite that can control mice who eat cat poop. Yeah, something like that, or maybe it's their urine or something. There's something like that, too. Anyway, don't get brain-controlling amoebas.

Yeah, please avoid those. Avoid those if you can, all right? That's really the story. That's it. That's the news. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, Stephen Schlecker will be here. He is going to regale us with some nerdy news, and it's been a bit, so we're excited to talk to him. Before that, a song from Brian. Brian, take it away. This is what the movie Paraside is about. You should watch it. Hey, big thanks to the syndicate for sending me this one. A band called Illiterate Light. I tried illiterate.

It was just too heavy for me. I needed, so I switched over to illiterate light. They have a brand new EP that just came out this last Friday. They're a Virginia-based duo. They're going to be touring all through 2023, so make sure you check it out. And this EP is listed on Spin's best albums of 2023 so far. Rave Review is also from Consequence of Sound, NPR, Washington Post. so check these guys out

you're about to check these guys out the band is made up of Jeff Gorman and Jake Cochran this brand new EP is called Allo A-L-O-E Here is the first single from the album It's called Always Always The band is Illiterate Light

Come on I got a picture in my head Always, always I steal a kiss and you turn red Always, always So sweet You were like no one I'd ever met That genuine deep Louisiana catch

Short skirts everywhere looking at me, I don't care Black jeans in my head, in my head, in my head Catch me looking, catch me looking Smile bad, now we're cooking I got a picture in my head, always, always, I steal a kiss and you turn red, always, always, I get a picture in my head, always, I think about you all the time, I got a picture in my head, Always, always Let's get a house, maybe a couple kids A four-door Tacoma keeps a classic

You should keep your job I love the way you provide I want to be a stay-at-home dad full-time Friday night And you're stuck in your head You had a day at work I put the kids to bed I get the scissors

Let's both cut bangs You go go the I'll go Barbie And we'll shave my lips Oh my God I think I'm living in a dream This girl's insane But she's exactly what I needed I catch you looking

I catch you looking Smile back Now we're cooking I got a picture in my always always I still kiss and you dirt red always always I can't lie about you all the time I got a picture in my head always always always always always Always, oh, hey, oh, hey. Oh, we, oh, we. Oh, we.

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new EP called Allo that's the song Always always always they should do a collaboration album with Vera you know Allo they should hello Vera uh yeah yeah uh let's uh let's dive into some uh Stephen time you know okay yeah some quality stephen time that's uh i like that idea a lot it's always quality so i don't i don't even have to say it's like ATM machine just leave off the machine uh here we go let's play this and now welcome stephen to the show he's a huge freaking nerd dollar dollar bills y'all hey look who it is stephen schliker joining us as he does here every other monday to talk about all things major spoilers and nerdy topics in movies comics and more stephen welcome back to the show hello scott hello brian hey man how goes the uh the fall

quarter the fall semester how you doing okay this week is homecoming week so i'm being nice to the students and not making them do very much are there uh you guys have a big uh i mean what's the sports world like and is there like a pro yeah not prom or what am i trying to say is there like a big homecoming events and all that kind of stuff on the college yeah so this is also in for many people october fest so we have october fest activities coinciding with homecoming and it's both the high school homecoming and the university homecoming. So a lot of activities going on this week. All right.

And you don't have to chaperone anything, right? You're good. God, I hope not. I asked my oldest. I was like, so are you going to the homecoming dance? Are you, you know, are you taking anyone?

Do we need to get anything? Because, you know, we're in the middle of nowhere. And last year, my wife had to scramble to try to find a corsage for him to give to his date. And he's just like, he's just like, I don't know. Wow. Not a lot has changed. It turns out since my high school day.

days. That's a lot of the answers I gave. Wow. Well, we're glad to have you here. One of my favorite things in comic books, which is a huge part of what major spoilers is all about, has been the fables series. I have some friends who did art in there. Our pal, Steve Hamaker, did some stuff in there. And always a good read, always wonderful stuff. Well, there's now news that this stuff is going public domain. What does that actually mean? Can I remix it and use it? And this is so, okay, so, first of all, for those of you that don't know, Fables is a story about, you know, your grim fairy tales type characters, your snow whites, your big bad wolves, your Cinderella's. They have all migrated from the realm of fairy tales to New York City as refugees, and they have created an enclave in New York City. and they are trying to protect themselves from the big bad of the story arc, and they're trying to keep their group secluded in a way from the normies that we know. So this has been going on for, ooh, 20 years, something like that, close to it, I want to say. Yeah. And it's been written by Bill Willingham. And so some people will say, ooh, Bill Willingham, he does have some politics that are extreme.

And so some people are just like, well, I don't care what happens about this. But I think the more interesting thing is, is how this works with copyright. So, first of all, a lot of the characters that he uses are already in public domain. In fact, I think all of them are in public domain. Right. When he created Fables, he had a, he retained control of all of the rights to everything with Fables. And he shares it with D.C. Comics back when it was under the Vertigo imprint. Well, since the Fables started, there have been.

changes in management, changes in ownership, changes in, in fact, Vertigo Comics doesn't even exist anymore, right? Right. And for years, apparently, Willingham has had a lot of trouble with the lawyers, with trying to say, hey, you guys, you didn't contact me when Tell Tell Games did the Big Bee, the Big Bad Wolf video game, and I was supposed to be a part of that, and you owe me a lot of money, and they're like, oh, we didn't know that you didn't have, that you own the copyright on all this stuff, blah, blah, blah, well, here's some money.

Yeah. That was the Wolf Amongus game from Telltale, right? That was the game. Right, right, right. Yeah, I love that game. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, a lot of people did. And maybe one of the reasons why there was never a sequel to that game because of this

particular fiasco. There have been times where many people might remember the ABC series, what was it called? Once Upon a Time that when that series came out, everyone was like, wait a minute, isn't this just like Fables and how come Bill Willingham and everyone else involved in Fables isn't getting paid anything. And it's because Disney's like skirting the line very closely to try to make it as close to fables, but not fables. And so this has been going on since the beginning. And because Willingham has refused to sign a, um, um, essentially you're a contract writer for this series. When you're a contracted writer, uh, work for hire, then, you know, uh, DC would own all

of the rights to, to that series, uh, as opposed to William. And so he's gone back and forth over this for years. For the last, I want to say, six months, fables has been delayed, delayed, delayed. In fact, the most recent issue was supposed to come out in April of this year. It has now been pushed until way late October and more than likely it will be pushed again. And a lot of this has to do with who controls this title. And so finally, Bill William just threw up his hands. And on September 15th of this year, 10 days ago, said, hey, fables, all the fables spinoffs, all the characters, I declare them to be in public domain, which once was owned wholly by me is now owned by everyone for all time.

That's how copyright works. And he goes into his examples about how he can't afford to sue D.C. and all of their lawyers, how he's been screwed around by D.C. for a long time. He even goes into some very interesting thoughts about the nature of copyright, which I'm not a lawyer, but copyright is really messed up. You know, one of the interesting things that I thought was going to happen before this year was that Disney was going to try to extend the Sunny Bono Copyright Act, aka the Mickey Mouse Copyright Act indefinitely, but they haven't probably because Disney has become so politicized and because of certain political parties trying to vilify Disney that they haven't gone back to Congress to try to change copyright laws, which means Steamboat Willie actually goes into public domain January 1st, 2024. Yeah, it's coming up. I can't wait to make my whole, I'm going to do a whole series on Steamboat Willie.

Can't wait. I'm so excited. I mean, and you certainly can, although Disney has come out and said, hey, wait, we still own the trademark to all of that stuff. Yeah. So be careful what you do. But if you want to, Scott, if you want to go and put Steamboat Willie up on your YouTube channel, Disney isn't going to say anything. You know what I'm going to do? I'm doing tugboat Billy is what I'm going to. There you go.

Perfect. Tuggoble, Billy. Watch for it. Coming soon. Real quick here, I noticed there is a second Wolf Among Us game in production. It is supposed to release in 2024. However, all of that seems to have a ton of caveat around it because of this situation. Yeah, and I'm sure it's probably using the, what is it, the Unity engine or something, too. In this case, it's using Telltale's proprietary thing. But now that Telltales back, the reason that it's been this long is that first game came out in like 20, 2013 or something. The reason it's been this long is because Teltel went defunct

for a while there. They were gone. Then they were absorbed by, is it? Embracer Group, I think, owns them. They're in trouble these days anyway. But anyway, brought them back to life. They did an amazing run here recently

for that expanse game. It's very good. I played it. So I have really high hopes for this. And I love its source material. I love what they did with the Big Bad Wolf and how the whole thing just subverts all of our knowledge of what fairy tales are.

It's really, really good stuff. But boy, you sure hate to see it all, you know, tangled up like this. Well, so this could actually be a big thing because the way Bill Willingham is releasing this into the public domain, it means that Scott Johnson, if you want to create a comic book series using the Big Bad Wolf, who is a detective in New York City, you know, and does these things, you can do it. And you don't have to, I put this in quotes, you don't have to worry about D.C. comics coming after you because it's now in public domain. Interesting. And again, keep in mind that the Big Bad Wolf has been in public domain for forever, right? Right. So if you want to write a Big Bad Wolf story, go right ahead.

But if you want to use specifically the characters as depicted in the Fables comic, now you have the ability to do that. Yeah. So that means that if you want to make a movie, if you want to make a cartoon, a comic book, strip. Whatever you want to do, go for it. There are some caveats, though. What are those? Well, the first one is, you know, Mark Buckingham

created all the art for that. And all of that stuff is all still owned by DC. So really, you could take the text from all of the Fables comics and create your own art for that and then release your own Fables comic. But as long as it does look anything like

right right well providing that DC has done trademark on any of those characters which I'm guessing they have not but what you cannot do is just take the comic and just you know redistribute it recopy it like you can with a Mark Twain book and not have to worry about any kind of a lawsuit DC has responded and they say that the comic books and graphic novels published by DC and the storylines and the characters and the elements are all owned by DC and protected under copyright law Which, you know, if you open up the front cover of any of the fable's books, it says the copyright is co-owned by Bill Willingham and D.C. comics. DC reserves the right to take such action as it sees fit to protect its intellectual property rights. So I, here's the thing.

I think Bill Willingham, because he doesn't want to hire a bunch of lawyers and deal with this headache himself, he has just turned it around and put it all on D.C. And is creating a headache for them because now if D.C. really wants to maintain the copyright. maintain their trademark because you can't copyright a title. You can trademark a title so I could go and create a book called Fables and D.C. couldn't come after me for that. But if they really are serious about what they say, that means if you and Brian and me and Drenched Wildfire and Chris and Graham Ellis and all these other people that are in the chat,

if we all went out and did our own version of Fables and D.C. wanted to sue us, that's a lot of time hassle effort and energy that has to be put in suing 20 people, 100 people, a million people around the world. Yeah, you got to overwhelm them like ants versus the grasshoppers and bug's life. Same idea, right? Exactly, right, exactly. So I think more than anything, he's created the headache for DC to try to defend this. Now, granted, all this stuff is going to eventually end up into copyright or into public domain anyway. Willingham has just pushed that, that nuclear option and done it already. so hey congratulations listeners go out and create your own fables stories and DC can't do anything about you asteris yeah good news is that means the game can go forward so uh because I think this that lifts

that cloud they don't have to worry about it it's their own artwork providing that DC doesn't want to try and sue them although I'm sure DC has already worked it out with them to yeah to do this but now maybe they can say well we don't owe you any money DC Comics because this is in public domain yeah you're right though that they they become a a big red target um because they're because it's a big huge version of this that stands to make millions of dollars and so if they are going to go after anyone they may not care about what you me and brian and half the chat room make but they well it's that's the problem if you want to if you want to maintain it you have to keep going after people on this whether it's a trademark whether it's a copyright or anything because if people start

essentially referring to it in a vernacular like we do aspirin or Kleenex or as making a Xerox copy of something, you can lose that trademark or that copyright on those ideas and comments if you don't defend them. This is why even if you try to do something with parody, Coca-Cola will come after you with a cease and desist, if you want to use the Coca-Cola type font or type colors, or if you try to create a fat Batman or a fat Wolverine, more than likely you're going to hear from DC or Marvel. And they're going to say, hey, wait a minute, we realize that this is parody, but we can also

sue you in oblivion. Yeah, they've, thankfully, like around 05, 06, 07 in that range is when I did those fat things and got, got the takedown notices. I feel like in 2023 and a lot of time since those days, you could do it. Like they benefit from people doing fan art now. And fan art, they would, I would not, today I would never get that cease and desist. There's just no way. Like, it's like they've never been to a con, a con before or whatever.

They go after the bigger fish. And if they go after enough bigger fish, then, yeah, they get to fight their fight and maintain their copyright and all that. But they wouldn't do that. So, depends. Is Scott Johnson a big fish? Some people might say, yeah, Scott Johnson is a big fish. And so there might be something to go after you about. Technically, when you go to a comic book convention, if you are selling sketches or art that you're drawing of these copyrighted characters, you're supposed to let the publishers know and you're supposed to pay a fee.

In fact, if you go to like the Star Wars events, the D20 events, Brian, and you see somebody who's an artist there who's doing sketches, they have to keep track of how many sketches they create who they are. And then at the end of the day, they're supposed to report that and pay a fee to Disney slash Lucas film to be able to stay there at the show. So technically you're supposed to do it. Similar to cover songs where you, you know, you keep track of how many times you play a certain song or how many downloads of that episode you have and then you report so that they know, Okay, the episode with this Prince cover was downloaded 15,000 times, UOS 42 cents or something like that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's going to be interesting.

And I love seeing it. I mean, the only, so here's the only company that I've really ever seen fully embrace what fans are doing is George Lucas with Star Wars. You know, years before he sold Lucas film to Disney, he was like, I love fan films. Keep making fan films. In fact, here's assets so you can incorporate this stuff into your fan films. Please make fan films. In fact, Lucasfilm for years used to have a fan film festival. But how did Disney bought it?

They kind of stopped doing that. Weird. Weird. It's almost like the most litigious entertainment company in the world got a hold of the rights. That's weird. And that's why I'm so surprised for like five years now. I've been said, oh, yeah, watch out for 2022, 2023. Disney's going to try to extend copyright.

And they haven't done anything about it. And Steamboat really drops in public domain on January 1. So it'll be interesting. And then, of course, that means that in a few more years, we're going to see Snow White in her public domain, Alice in Wonderland, interpublic domain. All of that stuff will start rolling out over the next 20 years into public domain. And I really want to see how Disney responds to that.

Because maybe they don't care about Steamboat really, even though they do use him in as the lead into every single movie that they release. Right, that whole little black and white. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I can't wait then. Just a few years, I'll be able to have my own broom that can carry buckets of water up and down the stairs for me. It'll be nice.

Be careful, though, Brian. Be careful. Yeah, never. That stuff never goes out of control. No. No. Look, if Fantasia one or two taught us anything. Nothing bad happens when you start messing around with the dark magic.

Real quick here, I saw this a little bit of a gear shift, but Van and I were watching. He had him most of the weekend. My daughter's anniversary, a lot going on around here. And he hung around and the baby as well. But he was like, I want to watch Spidey. And I'm like, is he just talking Spider-Man? Like, what does he mean? Oh, no, he's probably talking about the young kids Spider-Man.

I don't think it's called Spider-Man and his amazing friends, but it's essentially that. Yeah, it's Spitey and his amazing friends. Right. It's the one with little Gwen Stacy, Spider-Gwen, and Little Miles. Yeah, everybody's super young kids. Even like the villains, like Green Goblin is kind of a, you know, 10 year old. Cheeby. Yeah.

Yeah, just running around doing stuff. And most of it is, the villains are mostly stealing things and not being nice. Like it's not Right. You know, they're not doing big crimes. They don't want to unleash a toxic gas over Manhattan. Yeah. And I started watching it and I went, oh, this, I don't think this is great. I think it kind of panders the kids, but I'll tell you, after watching

about 10 episodes of this thing with him, Actually kind of got hooked on it. It's pretty good. It's much better than cats. I'm going to keep watching it again. It keeps happening. Like the Hulk will show up, Brian, once in a while. Or the latest season had Iron Man show up and Ms. Marvel shows up a lot.

And they all use their, like, key powers that they have, right? But they do it in this very aimed at, like, three-year-olds kind of. Yeah, it's really aimed for a little-old. But it's not Spider-Man as amazing friends. That's the one from the 80s with Fire. No, it's Spidey. It's Spidey and his amazing friends. Spidey and his amazing friends.

Okay. Well, that's not at all confusing. No, not at all. I think if your kids are fan of Paw Patrol or Bluey and you want to kind of get them into the comic book stuff, Spidey and his amazing friends kind of falls right into that, into that area.

I can't get my kids to watch it because they're all too old. They're all too old. And there's no way this would appeal to their age group. But I can tell you, after seeing it enough, I think they got a little something going on here. It's actually pretty great. I enjoy it.

And they're really, They're really like, you know the doc-Ock lady that's the daughter of Octavius? She's the doc-Ock in this. Like, they do a lot of under-the-radar stuff that only hardcore Marvel fans might recognize, but it's just there. They just do it that way. Like, it's not Captain Marvel. It's Ms. Marvel in her huge hands and feet.

And, you know, they just, they go for stuff that's like a little more, like, knowing. You know, if you know the Marvel universe right now, then you would know who these characters are. your average four-year-old is going to watch it and go, I don't know, that guy's green. Now I can't remember of the name of the series. This would have been like 10 or 12 years ago when my youngest was three or four. There was a Marvel animated series that was kind of like this, maybe geared just a little bit older, but they love the heck out of that.

That was the Avengers one, right? That was the Avengers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That one was really good. That was actually really good, yeah. You might want to see if you can track that down. Was it Cheeby? I mean, there's a, what?

It was kind of in that style. Yeah. Yeah, and these are like, it's also interesting because Aunt May is still Aunt May. And she looks like the Marissa Tomey Aunt May. And she's young and whatever, like you might imagine. But the show assumes that all the Uncle Ben shit happened. But at what point in Peter's life where he's like, he's literally like five years old this thing like they really they really skip over a lot of stuff to make it work for for kids but

i don't know it's nice we had a fun and he is he is freaking hooked on he loves it anyway side note uh well there you go stephen tell us anything else happening over the major spoilers network so people can find it and get it and have it well here's the thing i'm going to promote a comic book really quick if you are a fan of conan the barbarian jim zub is doing a new conan series for titan comics such as a european comic company it is a european company it is fantastic. If you love the 70s Conan that Marvel was doing, this is straight up tapping

into that, into that whole vibe, and it is fantastic. Issue number three comes out this week, and I would suggest everybody go and track that down. I love Jim Zub. I love old Conan. I want old Conan to be all Conan. And I don't

mean like the Schwarzenegger stuff. I mean like the old comics, the old books, really, are so brutal and like, I don't know. They really are their own thing. They're so good. Yeah, this is a good series. People need to go check it out. The artist on this series is Roberto De La Tora, I believe his last name is pronounced, but it's a great series and people need to go check that out. All right. You're talking about the old Conan with the

Frank Frisetta covers and stuff. Yeah, yeah. That kind of just brutal, like, freaking bloody, awesome skeletons hanging down on everything. Oh, so excited. All right, I didn't even know that was a thing. Stephen, you've done it again. Thank you for that. There you go. All right, man, stay hydrated. Oh, yeah, do that. Stay hydrated, everyone. We'll see you later. Have those brooms carry some water up to you and stay hydrated.

I almost made you group owner. All right, there you go. Now you're right. I've done that before. Or I made a guest group owner, and that was a mistake. Because then trying to wrestle Discord group ownership out of somebody's hands. Not easy. Make it simple.

I mean, Stephen would have cooperated. I'm not that worried about it. Of course, yeah. He wouldn't be like, ah, it's mine now. I'm taking it forever. Yeah, he wouldn't have done that. We have a quick phone call from Gabby. I'd like to play.

I'm pretty sure Gabby texted us on FilmSack as well, so Gabby's had a busy week. This is Gabby calling about Dark Wins, a show I recommended on Recommendals on Wednesday, and she has this to say. Hi, guys, I was listening to your episode where you were recommending Dark Wins. I love that show,

and it's actually based on the Tony Hillerman series, and they're so good. I loved those books. I gobbled them all up several years ago, probably like 10 or 20 years ago and so I wonder if 80s read those as well anyway it's so great and there's a bunch of people that are in both reservation dogs and dark winds so it's a really nice crossover I just binge both of those shows and they're so good all the seasons of both of the shows love them anyway love the show though bye oh super into that I like Hillerman a lot but I don't know if I've what's the last book I read from his probably sacred clowns something in the 80s. Yeah, that was it. Sacred Clowns. That was a weird one. Anyway, yeah, that's great to hear. And I'll check that other show out, but Dark Winds,

rad, super rad. I am sad, though, because I thought they put both season one and two on Max. They just put season one. They want me to go up AMC Plus subscription. They do apparently, yeah. Those bastards. So I may have to do that because I really like that show a lot. Yeah. I think we do still have AMC Plus, and I'm trying to figure out why I didn't get rid of it. Oh, because for us it was bundled with something else and we're waiting until we finish. I can't remember. I think it was Showtime, AMC Plus and Showtime. And then we're going to get all that stuff through T-Mobile when we switch, or at least Showtime through T-Mobile. I can't remember. There's this whole whole whole convoluted thing now with that. We're

switching phone carriers and it's going to actually give us a bunch of channels that we now don't to pay for, pay streaming for, and... That's how I get Max now is through AT&T, I guess. Yeah. They're the only ones I get. So I would, I, if it's actually a pretty good incentive, if you say to me, hey, here's your monthly bill, but here are three streaming services you don't have to pay for anymore.

It's pretty good. I think T-Mobile is going to give us Netflix and Apple TV, although Apple TV, again, doesn't really matter me because I get that through that, that combo Apple. right where you get tied that I make every month

yeah yeah and they're the only one that stayed inexpensive which is hilarious because Apple's considered expensive

yeah we're getting enough yeah we're gonna get enough out of you chums with this new titanium

iPhone that's right saw a video that freaked me out a little bit somebody easily snapping one of those

phones in half the titanium oh no really yeah I always thought the idea of titanium was that it was stronger

than anything Yeah, yeah. I'm sure that's a legit, like, that's a total legit video? According to some legitimate sources who are all showing it, they seem to say, but that's, you know, you're not wrong to be skeptical because that's happened before. Some people just want to make noise on the Internet. Of course. But they just seemed a little more brittle than I would have thought.

I don't know. I'll try to find that and send it to you. Thank you, Gabby, for that. If you want to send in your own voicemails, you can do that. 801-471-0462. You can email us. at the morning stream at gmail.com or as usual you can text us

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or you can put a, put Velcro on the back of this, put it on your bag, if it has that Velcro thing, or just, you know, just adhere it to the front of a computer or a monitor or something. Yep. So, printing out the correct size, it'll be about two-thirds of the size of this, just... But it'll be, you know, it's paintable. You can have, you can paint your Scott and Brian. You can paint coffee in the mug.

You can paint the mug. Yeah, you can paint the mug. You can paint the mug. Why don't you just paint the mug? Yeah, it's awesome. And that'll go to a couple of our higher tiers. So no reason not to hop in right now. Get in there.

Hop in. All right, let's do a song. Do you have a little something? Okay, I do have a song. This is actually carryover from last week. This one is going out to Brian Hitchcock, aka Gray Malcolm 13, in the various chats. He says,

It's that time of year again to begin a new revolution around the sun. This year, I'm in a practical mood. I'm sorry, in a pyractical, pyretical mood, so I'm requesting Aylstorm's cover of hangover. I'm sure I'll be nursing one of those on Monday, so it seems appropriate. Scott is it too early to test the ship's beep? No, but here's this first. Happy birthday. All right, you get that.

Then you get, where's the beep one? Oh, did I not save it in here? I know I have it. Hold on. Is this it? No. It's the wrong guy. This one? Let's test the ships.

Where did I put the one that had the... Oh, this is it? No, that's not it either. I don't know where I put it, but it's a combination of those two things, and it's awesome, and you already know it. You can assemble them in your head. Yeah. I'll work on that later. Here is the band Ayl Storm from their 2014 album, Sunset on the Golden Age, covering Tio Cruz's Hangover.

I got a hangover. I've been drinking too much for sure I got a hangover Whoa I got an empty cup for me some more So I can go until they close up Hey And I can drink until I grow up

Hey And I don't ever ever want to grow up Hey I want to keep it going Keep keep it Going going going going Go and going Go go go go

Go go go go go go go go go I got a little bit trash last night I got a little bit wasted Yeah I got a little bit mashed last night Night I got a little shit-faced it Yeah

I'm on a ship If you don't know Well now you know I got a hang of a I've been drinking too much for sure I got a hang of a I've got an empty cut I'm only some more

So I can go Until they close on Hey, but I can drink until I grow up Hey, that I don't ever ever want to grow up Hey, I want to keep it going, keep it going Come on, come on, come on, come on Go! and a party take it right all through it.

And everyone's the floor can't remember you clueless. Officer, what the hell of you do it? Dumblet, don't want, come again. Give me row, give me chin, give me licking, give me shamed, made bubbles till the end. What happened after that? Do you inspire till a friend. What my home is growing and I'll ship again.

And again and again, and again. Remember this. When you don't white, irrelevant. A kick to the head who's telling it. I'm gonna hang over, that's my medicine. Don't need to brag or sound too intelligent. A little rogue can hurt this veteran. Show up, but I never throw us at the rooms go up.

Go on. I gotta hangover. Whoa! I've been drinking too much for sure I got a hangover I got an empty cup pour me some more So I can go until they close up

Hey And I can drink until I grow up Hey And I don't ever ever want to grow up Hey I want to keep it going Keep keep it going Want to keep it going

been going keep keeping going going going going going going going going going going i got a hang of a wall i've been drinking too much for show i've got a hang of a war i've got a hang of a war i've got an empty cup only some more so i can go until the close on me and i can drink until the flow of me But I don't ever, ever want to grow up and I want to keep it going, keep, keep it going, come on, come on, get less. Get more at frogpants.com. Now, back to today's adventure. Hey, Scott and Brian. This is Dan from the lovely Cordillane, Idaho.

I was just listening to your show Thursday this week, and you guys were talking about stepdad's and parents. and stuff like that. I come from the kind of other end of the spectrum there. I have a stepmom, but she pretty much raised me most of my life. So like you were saying, what's your dad that he wasn't in your life for very long before you were an adult, but my stepmom was. So, yeah, we end up calling, we do call her mom. and she's actually pretty sensitive about being called stepmom,

so using the step word. I kind of find that funny. I think the whole Cinderella step-parent thing kind of gave step-parents a bad name. And growing up, watching movies of stepkids, I haven't always showing them having bad relationships, with their step-parents, but I have a pretty good relationship with my stepmom growing up since, yeah, we live with her most of the time. So, yeah, that's my opinion on the topic.

Love the show, though, or love a hobo. Either one. All right. Hey, Scotch and Bonnet, long-time TMS listener. I am calling today because recently I've been listening to your show so much on my morning commute and during my exercise routine that I was actually woken up in the middle of the night with an idea for one of your morning game shows. You know that show that you have in the morning like two or three people. Anyway, so I was thinking about the great question and my dog, of course, is poking me with her paws in the night and waking me up and I'm trying to sleep. And it came to me that, hey, what would be a better question than what would be the question that you would ask your dog

if your dog could reply in English if your dog could actually reply. What is the one question that you would ask your dog? That's all. Love the show though. Hey Scott and Brian. My name is Jeremiah but probably know me

on the chat is a art nerd. But anyways, the whole thing about Nimrod. You used the word Nimrod. And that word never used to be an insult until there was a Bugs Bunny cartoon. One fact that Nimrod was supposed to be a mighty warrior.

And when Bugs Bunny was fighting Elmer Fudd, he called him Nimrod in a cartoon. And then after that, they considered it to be an insult, just like calling somebody an idiot. But he was actually making fun of him calling him a great warrior. I think you think that was kind of fun. Thanks. Bye. Well, I haven't heard that.