The Morning Stream - TMS 2541: Southern Lag

Episode Date: October 23, 2023

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Konami Code for Luck. Fingering nerdy pies with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. All over America, a quiet revolution has been taking place. More and more, both parents are working and raising families. Life seems to be moving faster than ever. And Americans have rediscovered. are redefining what's really important in their lives. They want quality.

The morning stream. We're not toys. We're action figures. Good morning, everyone. It's the morning stream for Monday, October 23, 2023. We got a 23, 23. Yeah, I was wondering. I saw that this morning.

I thought, oh, boy, I wonder if Scott's going to notice that. And he noticed it. Yeah. You know, these patterns in life, you just, you can't help it. You just see it and you go, there it is right there. Human, human nature. That's right. It's me and it's Brian.

It's a show. We're doing TMS, everybody. We welcome you with open arms. Open legs. Nope. Take that one back. Open hands. Open hearts.

Open hearts. Open hearts. There you go. Open hearts. Open eyes, open arms, and open hearts. Yep. Can't lose. Can't lose. Nicely done. All right. Hey, welcome back everybody. Hope you got a nice weekend. We got a bunch of stuff to talk about today. Everybody in my house is sick except for me.

Wow. Yeah, that Carter's voice loss we heard while she was in Korea still. We all thought, all that's from the karaoke. Yeah. She's got like the worst chest cold thing. It's just terrible. So she's back home is what you're saying. Yeah, she's back home. No COVID, but clearly a, just a cough keeping her up all night, awful chest thing. She still can't talk. So that sucks. And then Kim, just prior to Carter, getting sick, was just like, my throat's a little weird. It's a little itchy. I don't know. I don't know about this. I don't know about that. She's a coughing nightmare mess now as well. Oh, no. Totally separate viruses from different continents, you know. Carter came home sick. Kim was already sick. And somehow I'm here fine. So I'm terrified, Brian. I'm going to get.

Yeah, it's really just a matter of time. I mean, I know you take pride in being the healthy one in the house, but really, I think it's just a matter of time, Scott. I'm afraid you're right, and I'm terrified, and I don't want it. It's the thing you got to be careful of when you like, when you, you know, I'm the one unhealthy. Well, I'm not sick. Do, do, do.

And then all of a sudden, you know, oh, yeah, no show Wednesday. Yeah, no. I'm not going to brag. I am going to, where some wood, here's some wood. That's actual what I knocked on. Is that excellent. Yeah, I need like a, what else do you do for luck these days? Lucky rabbit's foot?

Do you have a rabbit's foot? I don't, but I can do the Konami code. Rub your lucky Xbox controller. There we go. I did the Konami code. That's safe for another day, so we're good there. You can only one time use that, so we're screwed. Are they wearing masks just out of curiosity?

They are. They are, okay. It helps you a lot. Yeah, close proximity, that sort of thing. They're very nice that way. Although Kim was well into it without us knowing what that she, I thought it was allergies because we're getting fall allergy time and all that. And so I thought, well, all these leaves were grinding up with the mower.

Maybe that's getting to you. And then it just got worse and worse. And I went, oh, you're probably sick. So now, so yesterday we were hanging out with the babies. And so they, of course, masked up and, you know, hung around the kids and stuff. And everything was fine. They feel otherwise, like other than this cough keeping them up and a little run down, They're not like ill, ill, like awful, but you know how coughing is for a podcast career.

Oh, God, yeah. You've got a cough button, but that's a lot of pressing that button if you've got a really, really irritating cough. Yeah. Am I, you know, this left hand isn't going to heal itself. How am I supposed to? I don't know what that even means. I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know what that means either.

But, yeah, I don't want. Is it exhausted? Yeah, no, after the show Thursday, because I had my COVID-flu shot Wednesday night. the Pfizer, which last time did nothing to me. After that, after the show Thursday, I basically said, you know what, I'm just going to go, just hanging out on the couch for a little bit. And the fever started rising. I was starting to get more and more tired.

I was like, okay, yeah. So much for my switching permanently to Pfizer and avoiding the booster crud. It lasted about eight hours. I watched Megan. I watched Child's Play. I watched a couple episodes of Moonlighting caught up on... No way, dude. You watched those two horror movies, two doll-based horror movies.

Two doll-based horror movies. While in a fever state. That's fantastic. Yeah, exactly. Here's the funny part. Started watching Megan and didn't even think about the fact that, oh, yeah, I guess this is kind of like child's play. This is kind of like, you know, a similar situation. Sure.

But until I was about halfway through, I'm like, oh, well, I guess I guess, I guess I'll just have to keep in my head which things I talk about on Film Sack for Child's Play and which things I don't talk about that were Megan. I've done that where you watch something right after or before. It's kind of dangerous because then you're like It is. It totally is. I thought Danny Glover

was in Star Wars. What's going on here? Exactly. Exactly. Yes. You get it. If you watch something completely different, no problem. Yeah. But, uh... Yeah. Well, so let me ask you about Megan real quick. So, um, the difference is between, the big difference between Childs Play and Megan is that Megan's very good and child's plays poop, right?

Like, that's my main takeaway, but. Yeah, and I would say Megan's good. I wouldn't call it very good. I'd say it's good. Yeah, it's a good time, right? It's a better, it's a better, it's a better, it's a better, it's a better, it's a better this object is sort of possessed sort of takes, I thought. Right, exactly, yeah. Than most.

It's, man, the girl who who plays Megan with the thing on her face and all that does, I mean, looks really she her movements are really good and very believable especially like the twitchy like her yeah and that dance she does in that hallway man yeah yeah i'm waiting to see i mean we're you know a week away from uh halloween here um how many megan's are going to come trick or treating at the door i don't know i wonder about that is that this so that was a last year movie but that's enough time for people to like get stoked and do this right i don't think Yeah, I think this would be peak Megan time. Or is it, I hear the two big costumes this year are going to be Barbie and Spider-Man.

Oh, wow. So those are going to be the, we're going to see a lot of Barbies and a lot of Spider-Men. That makes sense, right? You want to have, sorry, my wife's creeping around. Are you still back here? Oh, no, she left. Sorry. Creeping.

Weirding me out. I don't know what. He's going to touch me funny. Okay, we'll see you. Love you. But anyway, yeah, no, I bet you see a lot of Barbies and stuff. I'll bet, yeah, Barbies are going to be big. Yeah.

Do you think, oh, go ahead. You know, we've had mash-up costumes being popular before. Could we get a mash-up Barbie and Megan since they're both dolls, living dolls, who realize that they're dolls about halfway through the film. Spoiler alert. Yeah. I feel like you're safe with that one for some reason. I don't know why.

I think so. Although I guess Megan knows she's a doll from jump. She knows she's a... Oh, that's true. But the AI is not totally self-aware yet, right? When she's born... Now I don't remember. I just remember, I just really like what's her name, Williams.

Oh, Alison Williams. Allison Williams. I like her and everything. She's really good, yeah. Yeah, she's the only person I found tolerable in the girls, the few episodes of the girls I watched. She was like, great. Everybody else drove me nuts, including...

Look, I like... Adam Driver a lot, like a whole lot in his movie career, in television sense, like, I find him very compelling, super interesting dude. But I cannot watch him on girls. That character drove me up a tree. Really? Yeah. And I didn't want to come down from said tree.

I wanted to stay in the tree and never leave the tree ever again. That's how that went. All right. I got something everybody needs to hear. Let's talk about, you know, sometimes somebody will do an impression of somebody and you're like, wow, it's almost like that person's standing here. Sure. It's like Jimmy Fox and his Trump impersonation.

That was a revelation. Unbelievable how good that was. So I found one that made me think that this is maybe the new, the crown. Don't worry, chat room. It is not a political figure at all. This is. I get here everybody hovering over there. Listen, don't want to hover over you.

Don't hover over you. That's right. I'm not going to do it. No, I mean, it's enough for, who is it? I'll tell you right now. My Trump is getting, it's really getting tainted by. the David Addison from all the moon lighting

I'm watching the Bruce Willis because there's so many overlapping parts between the two it's like hey Maddie what are you doing

what are we gonna what do we're not going to take this case and there's a lot of that in my Trump so it's like I start in the Trump yep and you end up in a lot of people

a lot of people take the case and then then I'll do one of these and I'll say all right of people and then I'll start not we're not going to take this case Maddie nope

not going to take you have a few laughs that's right so take that rainbow bright are you here even anymore after that oh she's here she's yeah she's uh she didn't bail oh she says she's not she cannot do i got so much so many emails already about how people are not prepared to watch the exorcist again oh really that movie must really have like a hold on people because man i've heard i

probably 13 to 20 emails going oh i'm excited for you guys to cover but I can't do it again. I can't watch it. Not because it's bad. They're just like, I can't revisit that. It's too scary. It started a lot of people when it first came out,

me included. But I've watched it since. I've watched it between the last time it freaked me out, two and I watched it a few years ago and we're like, oh, all right, this isn't that bad. Just a 70s horror movie with a couple of hardcore points of interest. Yeah, just a couple of like, because the one we saw,

a couple years ago had the added like the spider walk and a couple other things that were like oh wow that's amazing that's like a really cool addition I don't know why they took it out in the first place but I I don't know I'm looking forward to watching again with a critical eye for film sack

and and seeing what it does how it does this many years later 50 years, 50 years since it was originally released we figured out yeah we were like three years or four when this movie comes out and I saw it probably when I was 12 and I was completely destroyed by it. Like I was freaked the hell out and I couldn't watch it again. So this will

be my second viewing ever. Yeah. Oh, really? Okay. So you haven't seen it since you were 12. That's awesome. No. I love I love this. So you haven't even seen the Spider Walk stuff since I was added later. No, I haven't seen that. I've seen, I've heard about it, you know, seen screenshots and stuff, but I haven't seen it. And the only one of these, and I don't even think it's a sequel, or it's not even in the world, but it's that, the Exorcism of Emily

Rose movie that came out years ago. Love that movie. Jennifer, that's her name from Dexter. Oh, Carpenter. Carpenter. It's like one of the first things she ever did. She's really good. Oh, really? I think she's the main, she's Emily Rose, I think.

But anyway, that was like not connected to it at all. And that movie freaked me up in a different way. It was more like a fun horror movie way. I don't remember anything fun about the original exorcist, but again, I was like 11 or 12. I don't know what I'm doing. What do I know? Because VHS and like three of my friends and it's a night

horrible thing. No one can sleep. Like, why would I want to redo that to myself? But here we are. This weekend film sack, cracking that bug open. Yeah, I think you're going to find what team and I found. It's like, oh, okay, yeah, this is 90%. special effects maybe don't hold up or the scares or the what's supposed to be shocking in the film that was shocking in 1973 isn't shocking in you know 50 years later right um and uh but then there are going to be a couple moments of like oh wow that's a that's still a really disturbing special effect yeah because there's i mean that practicality stuff you know practical effects stuff in that movie if if if my memory serves is still probably pretty effective yeah but I'm just going to try to remember that this is, for me anyway, in my life, when I've seen something that freaked me out, and then I check it years later, it's a freeing moment. It's like, oh, you're an adult now, and this is no big deal, and you know it's all fake, and you don't have to think about it.

There's something really cathartic about doing that, so I'm excited to have the catharsis of seeing the thing, acknowledging its place in horror, filmed them, and quit pretending like it's real. You know what I mean? Right, right. Yes, exactly. Cool. Yeah, that'll be fun. All right. So anyway, back to this thing.

Oh, yeah, Simon Pegg. Simon Peg did a TikTok, just him. And he's out there on video, just talking. It was in response to Michael Kane retiring. And I thought, oh, this will be a nice tribute or something. You know, Simon Pegg probably really admires his work or whatever. Instead, what I got is the most dead on impression of Michael Kane I've heard in my entire life. So I'm going to play it for people.

It's like 40 seconds or something. Enjoy. I've just heard that Michael Cain is retired from acting at the age of 90. What a pity, an amazing actor and a fantastic man. In honour of his retirement, I would like to list 10 of my favourite Michael Cain performances. And I've written them down on a post-it note so I don't forget them. Alfie, Get Carter, the Italian job, Zulu, the Iqris file, dirty rotten scandals, educating reader, sleuth, dress to kill.

and my favorite of them all, the man who would be king. And a special mention to the Muppet Christmas Carol because he played a great Scrooge. Congratulations, Michael, on 56 years of not blinking. He's so good.

Here's what's great about that impersonation. It's excellent, and you can still hear Simon Pegg. Like, you know it's Simon Pegg doing it because you hear a little bits of Peggisms in there, but that is fantastic. Really good, right? Did he mention, I was listening to his list, I completely forgot to it.

Did he mention death trap in that list? No, Death Trap did not get mentioned where he, uh, where him and Christopher Reeves kissed on screen. Make out. Yes, on screen. That was a thing. Now, so there's another movie that I needed to see later in life so that I could not be so out about Superman kissing this British person because that's all I thought of at the time.

Yeah. And we didn't have his Alfred yet, but it was like, it was like this. I remember as a kid going. ah this is too and then it was like kind of you know it was a murder thing it was a whole thing that movie really left me with a Diane Cannon if I remember correctly Christopher Reeve Diane Cannon

Michael Kane Michael Kane is a small cast though right It was it was like a play that got adapted into movie I remember being excited about it because there was Rubik's Cube in the poster and thinking ooh Rubik's Cube yeah yeah my little 14 year old brain thought oh this was

be a movie that involves a rubic skew burr i'm going to uh address claire real quick she's like who cares of two men are kissing you're missing the point this isn't about two men kissing that isn't a big deal who cares it's superman and it's and it's michael kane making out in a movie where one of them's going to get horribly murdered like it's the whole package it's hard to explain it's true me i will say that listen we're we're old guys we're 50 years old and um when And this came out in 1982, and it's the first time a little 12-year-old Brian in a movie theater sees two guys kissing. I mean, it was a shock. Yeah, it's a little shock.

You're supposed to be a little shock the first time you see it. You're supposed to go, oh, okay. Yes, exactly. It was less about seeing Superman kiss somebody, although that was part of it. It was like seeing two guys kiss because I hadn't seen that in real life and film, on TV, anything like that before. And it was a big deal. Yeah. It was a big whip.

that's that's 40 what 41 years ago whatever the attitudes were different different time you know we've grown with the times but here's the thing if you said hey scott you're 12 you want to see uh superman kiss this old british guy i'd go what's happening i wouldn't understand back then yeah right today i don't care that's fine in fact in the comics his son john who's is it no what do you call him not jonathan yeah i named him john right named him after his dad Anyway, Superman's kid is gay as the day is long now in the comics. And that's great. Go for it. It is great.

I do like me as gay as the day is long. Which isn't that long. I was watching Interstellar again. They were on a world that had the 63 hours in the day and 63 hours at night. And I thought, could we ever adapt to that change? Oh, God. That seems. No.

It's the one where Matt Damon's being a prick on the planet. Remember that? Yeah. interstellar. Yeah. That whole thing. That movie's great. Anyway, sorry. You were about to say something and I cut you off. Oh, I care remember what I was about to say. Sorry. Sorry. It was like talking about a fake planet and a movie. It felt really important, as I was saying it. No, was it about Death Trap? No. I mean, although Death Trap might be a good one for us to put on our list, on our film sack list. Yeah, I would actually love to see that again. Because I don't remember if it actually succeeded as a murder mystery or not. I just remember it was controversial. That's all I remember.

Yeah. And hopefully it wasn't just controversial because of the kiss. No, I think part of it was like, hey, you guys see what Christopher Reeves did? How can Superman hurt? Like, people freaked out. Exactly, yeah. So let me tell you about my weekend. Go.

I got tickets, courtesy of listener, oh my God, I'm going to say Alexander, Anthony. who, but he's also one of the big supporters of the Millennium Falcon build, which are built coming today. I'll talk about that later on the show. But he is a local Denverite, and he has season tickets to the Colorado Rapids, which is the local soccer team. And they were playing against Real Salt Lake. Yeah.

Not real Salt Lake, but Real. Yeah, everybody here has to be school on that all the time. It's Real, they say. Yeah. Which is like, okay, you know, if it was New Mexico Real, it makes sense, but Camino Real, but no, it's Salt Lake City. Come on. You're real Salt Lake. Yeah, they may as well say it that way. I mean, we, there are, the fandom for that team here is kind of over the top. People are way into that. You guys have a Diego Luna on your team.

We do. But you have A Diego Luna. We do. And he's not, he's not, there are many like him, but this one is ours. All right. This one is yours. Yeah. Um, but, uh, uh, uh, Anthony season tickets are front row really close to the, to midfield. And, um, so we're right between like, the, uh, team players bench, the, the, the, the, the, the Rapids players bench and, and, um, uh, some other, like the goal and a couple other little setups, but directly in front of me, and I wish I would have taken a picture of this, directly in front of me is, um, you know those, not quite, quite a velvet rope, but it's those things you find whenever you have to do a back and forth walk like Lord Farquod

and Shrek, where they've got the bank has them, where they basically pull out a little strap and then connect it to another stand, and that creates part of your... Oh, right, right, right. Yeah, you see it at movie theaters and stuff sometimes. See it in movie theaters, exactly. Retractable

divider velvet rope. So there were two of those the place where the rope originates and the place where it clips into two of those stands directly in front of us a concrete walkway so this is we have the wall in front of us so that we can't just run onto the field although it wouldn't be able to stop us this little wall right in front of us and then a concrete walkway and then the field and there's even like a patch of green between the edge of the concrete in the field so there's a lot of there's a lot of places for people to walk if they're not on the field playing soccer at the time.

Okay. But directly in front of us is this velvet rope, and it looks like it's meant to stop people from just walking directly across the concrete path that goes in front of us, in front of our wall. And there's a guy there who any time somebody walks by gets up, unhooks the strap, lets it compress in. the person walks through and then he closes it back up. Okay. And he does this about a thousand times during the game. Now, the place where the strap connects, the other stand,

beyond the strap, there's about a foot of concrete walkway and then all of the grass. So somebody could easily just walk around the whole thing. And in some cases, we saw people do that. And he never stopped anyone. He never, like, said, oh, no, I can't let you through. So I have no idea what the point of this whole thing was. This guy's job is to open the thing so people can walk through. Which everybody walks through.

And if he wasn't there, they would just walk through and not have any sort of impedance. And even if he didn't get up and let them through, they could just walk around the street. Dude, how hard do you want to just point blank ask them? I really wanted to ask him. I wanted to just say, so who do you not let through, who do you stop from, like, opening up? And then, so Kel-Dog 7 says, was it the blue guy? It wasn't the blue guy, although it was a guy dressed in blue. No, the blue guy is the mascot, Rapid Man, which that's a whole different discussion for another day.

Oh, that guy. We have to talk about him tomorrow if you're not doing it today. We'll talk about him tomorrow, yeah. But at one point, the guy who was doing the rope went on. break and another guy came in and um this guy did not get up when the supervisor came and did not get up and open up the rope and the supervisor gave him a talking to right in front of Tina and I like you need to get up and you need to open this rope he's bad at his job or something that's something dumb going on it's just really goofy like what is the whole point of

this weird thing so yeah I wish I should have just recorded some videos. video of it just to say, what's this? What's going on here? Midron says he's the boss, or the boss's nephew. That might be true. Yeah, who knows? It just needed a job and like, what can we do? I don't know.

We'll make him the velvet rope. But I know, obviously, Anthony listens to this show. So maybe, because this, obviously, this is right in front of Anthony's seat. So he sees it all the time while he's watching the game. So I'm curious if he knows any details about this setup. That said, you know, I watched EPL a lot during. English Premier League a lot during COVID and was even betting

on games and I still have my favorite team West Ham United Go Hammers. But I had stopped watching a lot of soccer slash football, depending on which side of the pond you watch it on. In 2021 and I'd forgotten how much I really

enjoyed watching the game. Like how there's no there's no we have to stop the clock because somebody fell down or we had to stop the clock and watch because this a penalty. No, they just keep pressing on. It's like penalty, yellow card, red card, you're out. Clock's, clock's still going. Goal scored? Don't worry. Clock's still going. Yep. Yeah. Paul goes out of bounds. Clock's still going. Yep. I like that. I like that because

otherwise it's interminable. You're just there forever. It is. Exactly. And they'll, you know, as you get to the end of the half, they'll say the line judge has decided to add one extra minute on to the to the time. So they'll like do 46 minutes instead of 45 minutes. nice nice we have some fans in the chat we got glory glory man united

from taxi cab and the Twitch channel over there on YouTube Claire Gack is all about Liverpool she likes the Liverpool

yeah that's pretty good I've tried to like rugby or watch rugby I don't find rugby all that entertaining it's okay yeah yeah

it's football like I need to maybe give it another shot I haven't watched in in years Wes asks is uh is it relatively family friendly oh my god it's totally family friendly like it's you know it's it's guys kicking balls around and running after them and kick him in the goal and stuff

and no there's there was one pushing match for like a second and then that's it exactly so uh wow wow all right well i'm glad you went and uh salt lake cleaned your clock we never got to that point um but cleaned our clock no you guys won one to nothing it was barely uh it was a It certainly wasn't a thrashing, but there was the Salt Lake contingency of one entire section full of the Salt Lake fans, waving the Salt Lake flags. They had drums, and they beat those drums the entire 90 minutes of the game. Oh, apologies. And it was constantly, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. It was constant, and it was like, I told you, I'm like, I'm going to hear that in my sleep.

Because it was, it was like, 10 of them with tambourines. and drums and big bass drums and then a little snare drum and of course they did it for about you know 10 minutes before the game they did it the entirety of halftime oh my gosh that's funny apologies for our drum pounding

idiot people to come yeah exactly exactly anyone who travels around the country with their team and I'm not saying everyone but a lot of people are a little bit on the weird side it's a little bit like the same groupies go doing they have no job they do nothing else they just travel

wherever Metallica goes, right? Yeah, right, all they do. Grateful Dad, whatever. Those people weird me out. Sorry, they just do. So all you drum playing Salt Lake Real fans, freaking... I did win $10, though,

because I bet on Salt Lake to win because of their record versus the Rapids record. So while I was rooting externally, outwardly for the home team, internally, I was like, well, I won't be disappointed if they lose. some real Pete Rose energy we got going there.

Just kidding, everybody. Oh, no, it's not. Because I wasn't playing the game. If I was on the field and betting, Scott. I know. That would be some dark business. But no, you are a fan with efficacious. It's James Holshower energy because James Holzhauer don't care for the teams he likes or don't like.

He bets on the teams that are going to win. That's right. That's right. I love that. All right. There's that. Hey, let's call Dunaway. I mean, I don't know why not.

My gosh, you think he's still awake? Like, you think he's fallen asleep, waiting for us to call and do the door thing? For some reason, the thing says that, uh, it says waiting for, oh, that's you. Okay, we're good. It's me. Never mind. Yeah, I'm getting in there. I'm getting in there now.

I restart, I rebooted my computer before the show just to. No problem, oh. I do that about twice a week just out of, out of paranoia. I don't actually need to. It's really, exactly. It's not like I feel like I had to. It's just to feel like, uh, yeah, I think I'll do that just to, uh, Well, all right, the other reason I do is because I get occasional message send failures in iMessage

when I try and send a text message to somebody on an Android phone. Oh, that's not figured out how to fix that stupid thing. I haven't had that happen, but I've heard of that happening in Sonoma in particular. So I don't know if that's a bug they'll fix or what they'll do. Oh, it's been a problem for many. Oh, for a long time, not just this. Yeah. Gosh, no.

No, I was hoping Sonoma would fix it, to be honest. Bastards. And it's now time to bring Brian Dunaway in from the corral and show him off here at the state fair. Hello, Brian. How are you? Mooh. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Moo is correct. That was the correct answer.

Nicely done. How are you? Well, thank you. Look at them hind corners. I know, right. Hubba, hubba. Yeah. Hey, have you ever been around a real cow, like a milk cow?

You ever done that? you've ever been around a cow dude have we have we never talked about the fact that I grew up on a farm I didn't know that seriously have I been around a cow

dude was that it was a farm upstate yeah what kind of farm no it was not a farm upstate it was just a good old boy southern a farm you know a family farm

essentially just a good old boy farm we had probably had like a probably a dozen cows a bowl yeah I watched I've watched them castrate the the young bulls

That's the most terrific thing ever. But yeah, they used to, they would, they would wander around our fairly large area, and they would make paths. And so that was my playground. I would run where the cows were. Let me ask you this. Did you ever, did you, what did you yield at this farm? What was the thing you would go into town and sell after you grew it?

Oh, well, like I said, it was a family farm. we mostly grew stuff we would eat like corn green beans uh we would we would occasionally uh you know make use of a cow as far as meat goes we didn't really milk the cows but yeah we did that kind of stuff so but also we had muskidine wine we would make our own wines out of muskidines yeah it's muskidine is that a berry or a grape or something what is it's kind it's kind of like a grape but it's got like a really hard outer shell weird uh it's it can be sour it's according i i prefer there's golden muscadines versus like a more purple kind of reddish muskinine. And this is a dumb question, but is muscat made from muskinines?

That might be a good question. I don't think so. I think, I don't think so. I'm not sure about that. We used to make jellies and wine out of it. That was about it. Nice. I like a good jelly.

Yeah. I don't like wine, though. Yeah. Screw your wine. Give me some jelly. I like some wine, baby. Yeah, you're a big whiner. All right.

Let's get to this game that we have been, been working toward here. Brian's got some rules and some other stuff he's got to mention. So Brian take it away. Yeah. Welcome to the morning. Half ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you guys the answers. I'll give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers.

Three of those are correct and three of them like Muscat and Muscat and Muscanines grapes are totally unrelated. If you get any wrong, you get zero points for that round. If you guess one, you get it right, get a point, get two right, gets you three points and you get three right. All three right gets you five.

points total. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. Our contestants today are Cindy Parkhouse. Scott, you're going to be playing for Cindy Parkhouse. She's local to you and she's in Utah right there. She also is, she works at my eye doctor and so when I go to the eye doctor, I get to see her. I see you. I see you. Yeah. Brian, you're going to be playing

for Nate Johnson No Relation in Greater Chicago Land. Oh, greater Chicago land. Greater Chicago land. I wonder if he's, I wonder if they're, I wonder if they're, I wonder if they're familiar with a big city voodoo out that way. Oh, maybe. Might be.

Maybe, maybe. Don't pick up my voodoo doll sitting there on the cabinet. Dang it. No. No, you've found a secret voodoo doll. That's right. All right. Let's get to, uh, let's get to the game here.

Here's your first category. I feel like you guys can do pretty well today. I think we're going to have some. Oh, Jesus. Oh, God. That means it's definitely going to be something I'm not going to know. Oh, relax. All right.

Types of bodies of water. Which of these are actual types of... Excuse me, bodies of water. A little coffee repeat out here. A little morning burp, sure. Little morning, the morning burp. All right. Your choices are, Tarn, Firth, Tuya, Bilibong, Portrero, and Kalm.

Good Lord. None of these are. These are insane. None of those are. bodies of water. You do not say lake, sea, or stream. All this other stuff? No. This is bull. Patero? And I hope I got the Welsh pronunciation of calm right.

Well, I have no idea, man. I'm going with those three, but I have no idea. Me, I'm going with those two. All right. Well, you guys both settled in on Firth, as in Colin Firth. Yeah, Firth is a Scottish inlet, believe it or not. So good job with that one. That one sounded familiar. Okay. Not calling. Bilabong, by the way, Scott.

Did you know that one? Was that a guess? No, total guess. Okay, yeah. It makes sense. Bong. That makes sense. Waterbong.

It's an Oxbow Lake. Okay. Brian gets three points. Shit. Potrero is a type of mesa. Tuya is a type of volcano and a town is a type of valley. And that is definitely Welsh. That is definitely Welsh

What are they doing over there, man? I know. It's like, oh, every word needs a val. Watch this. For all our Welsh listeners, which I'm sure there are a few, a few. We apologize for any malcontent. Hold my whiskey. All right.

That's all right. That's all right. Let's get to question number two. A little easier, I think, for you guys. Which of these are actual real life, real Canadian? your choices are Keanu Reeves, Helen Keller I hate this. Drake

Kate Moss and Cher I hate this because it's probably going to be obvious and I'm not going to get it. I only know one 100% I know one but that's... I know I only know one at 100% and I've already checked that one. You guys have both settled in on that one.

Yeah, yeah. I have a feeling I'm going with that. I should do three but I don't I can't. I can't. I'm doing two. Okay.

Oh, Brian, just locked in on one, Scott on two. Well, the one you locked in on, obviously, is Drake. Yeah, Drake is totally Canadian. Keanu Reeves, even though his name is Hawaiian. He acts like a Canadian. He acts like a Canadian. He moaps around on park benches like a Canadian. And that's because he is Canadian.

Yeah, Keanu Reeves, Drake, and Kiefer Sutherland are Canadians in this list. Damn it. Helen Keller, Kate Moss, and Cher. are not Canadians. Brian, you are clobbering me. Well, what do you mean? How do you know? Because she's from, she'd be from a thing.

It's just because she's blind doesn't mean we don't see where she's from. Oh, she's more than, she's more than just, she's more than just blind. You know, she's like deaf as well, right? Yes. And she was also, we still use the term dumb that feels like we don't, don't, no, just say mute. Don't say dumb. I don't think mute's nice either, is it? Is mute nice?

Mute is kind of rude. We have to change the lyrics to pinball wizard now. Yes. It's not technically correct either. They should the pinball wizard people should get with the money for nothing people and then just make their changes into their song. Well, shit for free. Mute.

Yeah, shit for free is not the part. Shit for free is fine. That's not the issue. It's a little fella has a brand new airplane or whatever it is. How's it going? The little fella is a millionaire. There you go. The plane?

Yeah, just say phila. Fela. Fella is what you say instead of the other F word. Anyway, Brian, go ahead. Continue on. Okay, all right. Well, Brian, going into our last round with four points, Scott was zero. But if you get all three of these rights, Scott, you can still win this if Brian does not get any right.

So let's get to question number three. And it's right up both of your alleys. Comic characters. Okay, there we go. Not lied. You told the truth for once. Yes. comic characters who ran for president which of these six comic characters actually ran for president

was at opus the penguin hello kitty pogo lex luther the silver surfer and scrooge mcduck three of them ran for the number one office in the u.s three of them did not i'm going with those three because if i don't do three i'm i'm a yeah and i'm almost i know that that happened i for some reason if like it wasn't him it was somebody uh okay i'll explain my answer later there we go i'm not i'm not i'm not i'm not sure on that one did you guys lock in i wonder if you locked in yeah okay we did all right uh yeah lex luther totally ran for president absolutely yeah and one i think opus was just just helped build the cat with the president but didn't he that's absolutely correct yeah bill the cat ran for president opus uh assisted uh hello kitty

and Pogo the other two political candidates. I can't believe we didn't have Loki on there. Yeah, Loki would have been too obvious. Yeah, that would have been too obvious. Hello Kitty. So wait a minute, I need to understand that. That's a Japanese citizen. All right.

Hello, Kitty. How can they run for the president? I understand how that way. U.S. Didn't say ran for U.S. Oh, good point. Is there a president? Is there a Japanese president?

There's a premier, right? Premier? Whatever he is. I don't know what he is. There's other presidents. It's not a prime minister. No, they used to... But the question is, does Hello Kitty live in the...

In Japan? I know... Well, I think so. Is that... Unless we've appropriated it. I'm not sure. 2016, Hello Kitty ran for president. I mean, like, you know, the care bears, they don't live in America, right? They live in care bear land.

Yeah. So I mean... Oh, okay. Correction on how things work in Japan. Prime Minister is correct, Brian. Your instinct was correct. It is prime minister. Oh, actually, I said, I did.

didn't think it was prime minister so my i was very oh you were wrong oh okay i was i was as incorrect as you could be because i thought not at all yeah um hello kitty ran for u.s president this she uh campaigned in queens new york at skyview flushing sunrise florid at sawgrass mills arcadia california at the westfield santa anita i mean basically she had a uh she had quite the uh and then someone informed her that she wasn't a u.s citizen okay gotcha well i mean show me the birth certificate let me see the birth certificate right uh So what's funny is it says here that the big controversy is that she's actually from London and not Japan. So they don't even have U.S. listed as part of her origin.

It's like, well, is she British or is she? That's what I said. Just because the character was created in that country doesn't mean it lives in that country. Yeah, but I can't. They could be care bears who live in Carol. My point is they'd have to change the Constitution to let her run here is my whole point, which is a dumb thing. So you're saying you're bothered by a hello kitty. Okay. I'm going to let it go.

Yes. I'm bothered by it. It's like saying Sonic the Hedgehog ran for president here. You can't do that. You're not a citizen. And even if you're a dual citizen like Schwarzenegger, you can do up to governor or even I think, no, you can't be senator, can you? Can you be a congressman and be from some other place? I don't know. That I don't know. All I know is the reason, the only reason Arnold Schwarzenegger has never run for president is, because he can't, because he would have. I would totally vote for, I would totally vote for president. I'd vote for, I would vote for him in a heartbeat.

He is right where I am politically. He's a big old centrist. He's even said as much. And I'm telling you, he would be dynamic and interesting. He's really smarter than people think. Go watch that documentary. It just came out. It's so good.

I want to change the Constitution for Arnold. Just kidding. I don't. Hello, kidding. Hello, kidding. I can't come up with a nickname for Hello Kitty. Hello shitty. That's how you do.

Yeah, that's what I was going with that. So, congratulations to Nate Johnson. You are taking home some prizes. You're getting a copy of the Wild Eighth and Size Matters on Steam. But don't worry, Cindy. You're also getting the game Strange Brigade. Ooh, all these are good. Oh, that's a good one.

I love Strange Brigade. I'm happy at Johnson. That's appropriate for Halloween time. Yeah, when Johnson wins, I win. So we win. Congratulations. All right. You're a winner, but then I lose.

And then Donaway, you win in a special way. Hold on. Here you go. Oh, no, that's not it. This one. Congratulations. Ooh, I like that one a lot. Yeah, you've won.

Fancy. Oh, look at me. Well, you know what else is fancy? We're now recording Play Retro on Friday, so I just want to put out an early week reminder here on this that at, I think we're still working on specific time. Might be early, might be later. But I think right now it's two-thirds. We'll let you know if it changes, but...

Yeah, 2.30, Mountain Time, 4.30 p.m. Eastern Time. Yep, on Fridays. It's a new way to deal with some changes in Brian's schedule, but also gives us a little more time during the week to put this thing together. Yeah, because we've got to go through the entire Adams family this week, collection of video games. Oh, wow. Yep, NES, Fester's Quest. Festers, Festers.

Yeah, all the way up through family values is the last one. Right. I think that's the last one we're going to look at. Yeah. The pinball machine, because the Adams family family pinball machine is one of my favorite pinball machine. Oh, I have to talk about that. Yeah, we'll

have to. It's like top five for most people, I think, right? That thing's awesome. Yeah. That thing's fantastic. I might even put it, oh, it's like wrestling. That and the Terminator games are my two favorites, I think. Oh, Terminator game is good, yeah. Yeah. Elvira. Get some love up in there, get some Elvira love. Oh, virus is okay. The Guardians of

the Galaxy pinball machine that I played, I can't remember where I played. It was it, oh, was it the Pinball Hall of Fame in Vegas. That is still my favorite, and if I could get the money, I would buy myself at Guardians of the Galaxy pinball machine. I've yet to play it, but I heard nothing but amazing things about it. It's like, it has quests. Like, talk about making a, giving something such a great amount of replay value is,

is giving you quests in your pinball game. Like different, so many different quests. I know there's sometimes like, you know, hit the, the, this target or get all three of these down, but this one gives you, like, completely different things. I love that. That reminds me of the best video game pinball games, and I love how they do that. So make it, make more real, you know, physical pinball machines, give them deeper RPG gameplay, and I will play more pinball. How about that? And it sounds like Brian's got one, and I just need to try it. So maybe when I'm in Vegas and April, I'll put some quarters in that thing.

There you go. Yeah. Do it. Whatever. I'll play right next to you, man. Are they still, how do they, what do they do now? Is it cover try? charge and you just play or what is it no it's you still you still pay per game you get you get quarters are you pumped you pump the quarters yeah i think i'm trying to remember if they like they don't have any 50 cent games i think everything is a quarter but maybe not i think some of the newer things are 50 cent but you but you pay you still pay a cover right to get in or no no not not the pinball of fame you can go on there for free something like that you have to down there and i'm not do you do they let you rumble about you play you play you play a cover charge and you

play everything you want oh i think i am mixing that up that's what i'm doing nice job scott i won't i want the coins because i want to complain every time i have to use 50 cents that's that's the true arcade experience yeah that's right i don't know three balls why can't have five balls for 50 cents that's right that's why i can't listen to 50 cent because when i play his music it's it just sounds like the soundtrack to like dragons layer or something yeah i can't do that uh well uh brian we'll We'll be doing that. We'll also have you back on Wednesday for a little more fun here at the feud. Stay out of trouble.

Kiss our butts. Okay. No time to respond there, buddy. Nope. It's your southern lag. All right. There's that. We are going to take a break.

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ignoring a robbery to catch togetic. Is that you say it? Togetic. Togetic in Pokemon Go. Or maybe it evolves from Togetic into Togapie? I don't know. Forget. It's been too long for me.

But they're playing Pokemon Go and they ignored a robbery. And to catch Pokemon. Not even really good. I mean, I guess it's a fairy type. It's a powerful fairy type, but still. So not really a rare one then? That's not a, no, no, no. It's not like, you know, ooh, an unknown question mark.

Let's go get that one or something like that. No, it's a friggin, you know, it's a common, it's a relatively common Pokemon. Well, if this thing was super rare, imagine what they would avoid then. A family of four slaughtered in their home. I'm too busy getting this whatever, rare Pokemon. Hurge happens because shiny snorlax discovered in a thousand oaks. That's crazy. It says two Los Angeles Police Department officers who ignored a robbery in progress in order to catch a snorlax and a togetic in Pokemon Go.

They buried the lead. They were going after a snorlax as well. Snorlax in there, too. Oh, wow. Now we're talking. Let's see. Also rolled through a stop sign, sped through a residential neighborhood, and zoomed over speed bump. tailgating various cars and drove the wrong way down one-way roads

in order to catch them all. They got a video of the whole thing. Wow. I mean, this is better than a bunch of LAPD officers broke into a building and ate a baby or something, but it's still pretty gnarly. Well, okay, if you're going to put it into the grand scheme of things comparing it to police officers eating a baby. Yes, I would agree.

That's better. I don't know why it's so extreme. Of course, it's better. Of course it's better. Police, thwart, thwart magic the gathering robbery, but still take all the cards

and search for one ring card. Oh man. Anyway, they don't say, they're in trouble, but I don't know if it means they'll get fired. They'll probably just get... I'd be really surprised. I mean, that's a lot of...

If the video, if there's nothing good that will come from this, right? Because they would have said, well, they were doing this other thing, You know, and that's why they sped down the alley. They were after another, you know, speed or something, and that's why they were going through residential neighborhoods. The fact is, if they've got audio of them on their, you know, chest cams

or in-car, car audio things or whatever, and they say, oh, we got to this togetic, it's going to go. It's going to disappear in 30 minutes. We've got to go. Yeah. Go over those speed bumps. Just zip through this residential area. Yeah. And ignore the radio who's telling you there's a robbery in progress or whatever.

Right. Exactly. Yeah, they should be fired. I just am trying to think. Like, it always feels like they get, they get in less trouble for more. So I don't know. It'd be interesting. Hell, we end up putting some of these people on leave and then pay them while they investigate. I don't know how much that would happen here.

But anyway, we have a few police in our community. Write in and tell us how this should be handled. Okay. Yes, exactly. And have you? Help us help you. Yeah, tell us, have you been playing Pokemon in your, patrol car like these guys you can tell us we won't say your names all right we're going to take a

break when we come back stephen schlecker will be here from major spoilers dot com and i can't wait for that but i have to wait for that and good news there's a song for me to wait with brian tell me what it is so we can play it yeah so we we teased this one a couple weeks ago brand new album from the band prodig's band um it's finally out it's called some sudden weather and uh because of that uh and because of the fact that I didn't notice and I didn't get an alert when I tried to add it to my song list that I had already have played this one on the show. We're going to hear it again. Here is the band, products band, from the brand new album called Some Sudden Weather.

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You've even heard that song before. Fifteen days ago, apparently, I didn't realize that I had picked this one up. But Products Band, yeah, the album just got released. And so I got another notification from the Us Them promotional group. And I heard it and I loved it. And I guess I heard it two weeks ago and loved it then too. But the band is called Products Band. The brand new album is called Some Sudden Weather.

And that is the first single called The Matter. These guys are awesome. Well, you do get a lot of music. I'm surprised this doesn't happen to us more. I'm, I kind of am as well. Yes, it's a lot. Plus, it's really good, and when it's that good, twice is fine, you know? Exactly.

Like, you know, I heard it and I was like, oh, I really dig this. I didn't realize part of that was just kind of, because it was a familiarity. Sure. Nothing wrong with some familiar. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dollar, dollar bills, y'all. Also very familiar in his own right.

Hello, Stephen. Welcome back. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hey. Hello. How's it going there, man? I heard you're having some cold weather this week.

Is that true? Or am I? No, I think it's hot weather. Today is supposed to be like 90 plus. Oh, shit. I might be thinking of a different part of the country then. Somebody had told me, I thought they had said near Hayes, like near where you live, but that's clearly bad information. It might be this weekend because I know in Denver we're supposed to drop down to 50s and 40s.

Same. I think today is our last warmish day at 68 and then we start dropping. And I think we're going to be in the 40s by the weekend. So that'll be fun. More snow in the mountains anyway. Hey, Stephen, it's good to have you back. Major Spoilers.com's own Steven Schleiker. He is a huge nerd, as we've already said, because he has all kinds of cool stuff.

His fingers are in, mostly pies of the nerdy type. I don't know why I'm talking like this. Let's move on to this question. Hey, because we didn't have you for a bit, we kind of missed the whole New York City Comic-Con thing. Yep. And there were things talked about there. for example elseworlds is back are you have to be kidding me i can't believe that's that's a thing

wow yeah so many people may remember the else world series way back in the 80s and 90s this was a pretty big deal because you got to tell imaginary stories tales not said in the primary DCU and those are really popular you know we got holy terror we got them by gaslight and so many others and then those went away and now they're back and they've got a bunch of series coming up over 24. Some of them, the original elseworlds series used to be like maybe one shots or maybe three issues. A lot of the ones that are coming up that they've announced are going to be like 12 issues, six issues, things that are going to span an entire year. So plenty of that coming down the pipe. And if you are a fan of Gotham by Gaslight, they've got Gotham by Gaslight, the

Kryptonian Age, which will be 12 issues. And it talks about basically steampunk Justice League. So if you're into that, then DC's got you covered. There's also Batman the Barbarian and a whole bunch of more. Yeah, Gotham by Gaslight was amazing. The original stuff. I loved that so much. And they were even working on a, remember they were making a Moba?

They were making like a leak of legend style of easy game. And I played the beta for that. And my favorite part of it was like the Batman, Gotham by Gaslight skins. They had elements to the way he played that were totally steampunk elements and stuff. It was so cool. Then they canceled that thing. before it even came out.

I think the biggest problem about this Elseworld's announcement is back when Elseworld's first came out, there was only one continuity. You didn't have multiple Earths because Crisis on Infinite Earths and Zero Hour supposedly took care of all of that stuff. And so that's why you needed this Elseworld series. But then, oh, I forget which multiverse event it was within the last 10 years. They kind of incorporated things like Vampire Batman from Red Rain. a bunch of the other elseworlds bad man superman characters into that multiverse event which kind of said hey all these else worlds are definitely multiverse and so now that the multiverse and these else world characters are in kind of the main continuity i wonder if there's really a need for elseworld's books yeah yeah that's fair point right especially deceased you know that that one stands out as a thing that just sort of runs and happens and doesn't need its own category right it's just there

And that may be kind of an indicator because you've had D.C.'s, you've already had the vampires one that just recently came out. You had a bunch of other things, was it, Dark Knight's Metal, was another one that it's like, well, it's incontinuity, but not quite continuity. This may be D.C.'s attempt to say, okay, we're going to try to streamline things so that if you pick up a Superman book, you know it's in main continuity. And if you see the Elseworld sticker on the cover, then you know it's not in continuity. Sure, sure. well anyway watch for that that's going to be great all throughout 2024 there's a whole bunch of them announced and more to come supposedly

this Batman the Barbarian sounds just stupid enough it might work like I'm into that I like the sound of that a lot yeah the cover art looks great oh it looks awesome oh my gosh that's the most like it's not Frank Frisetta or how you say his name at all but it's definitely inspired yeah totally can tell

also hey how into the mood are you guys into having another rapper write a comic book? Well, good news. Because Kid Cuddy, one of my son's old favorites back in his high school days, is making a comic book. Tell us more. What's he making? Yeah, so it's called Moon Man. It's a new series that's going to launch in 2024. Kyle, oh, Kyle Higgins is helping him co-write this. And Kyle Higgins is a great writer. And Marco Locodi is doing the art on this. This follows a guy named, Raymond Townsend, who is on a moon mission, but there's like several missing minutes of the mission that no one knows what's going on. And he comes back and he either has superpowers or something has happened to him.

And so we're needing to unravel what has happened to Ramon Townsend. Oh, that sounds interesting. Nice and cosmic. I think the more interesting thing is the comment that Kid Cuddy made in the press release. It says, moon man is a book about what's next. In the face of corporations that seek only to possess and control, the ideas that make up our best heroes have never been more relevant. This is a series that will explore not only what it means to come into great power, but also what it means to discover the truth about the world, the universe around us, what kind of change is Ramon willing to take. Now, certainly, he could be talking about the world of Moon Man, but it kind of sounds like someone's thrown down the moon suit gauntlet in the face of DC and Marvel and say, you guys don't know what it means to tell superhero stories, and I'm here to do it.

Wow. That's how I read it. Now, I think a couple of other people have also maybe read it that way, but I don't know if you guys interpret it that way or not. I wish it was a rap, whatever he said. You did have me excited when you said Kyle, because I was hoping it was Kyle Baker. Kyle Baker would be great. Yeah, pick up anything that that guy does because I love his style and his writing so much. You said this was Image, right?

Yeah, Image Comics, yeah. Okay. Awesome. I will check it out. I actually like the art a lot. It looks neat. Kind of a character I felt like I haven't seen before, and that's always nice. I don't know if Ramon is going to look like the artist or, you know, the, like Cutty or not, but I'm going to guess maybe so. Yeah, we're a little Mary Sue going on there. Why not?

Finally, Thron and Mace Windu get their own comic series at Marvel. Now that we've seen a little of the old Thrawn business in the recent Soka series, it's time to get him and Mace Windu hanging out. Tell me about it. Yeah, I think this is going to be interesting. So in January, Marvel will release Star Wars Thrawn Alliances. This is going to be co-written by Timothy Zon, who did the Thron trilogy that everyone is all excited about, which is no longer in. Shadows in the Empire, yeah. It's no longer in continuity.

And this may be why, because they're trying to push Zon on us pretty heavily. But, or Thron. They've already pushed Zon on us. Zon and Jody Houser are teaming up to tell this story about the early day. days when Thron and Darth Vader first team up and decide to do a partnership. So people can look forward to that. The art, if you, Scott's got the cover art up there right now, this is more along the lines of the slim, svelt, uh, Thron that everybody knows and not the, uh, not the Elon Musk

looking tubby guy that was in the, in the show. Did they do that? He's big mode. Did they do that on purpose making him look like Musk like that? Because to me, it was too, it was way too on the nose. Really? Oh, interesting. Yeah, I don't know why. I mean, it's the first thing I saw is his face.

I just went, wait a minute. Yeah. Are they trying to make a point here? Is this a statement of some sort? And I'm still not sure. I don't know. Maybe that guy just looks like him. I have no idea.

But anyway, yeah, comic form. That's good. I like my throne in a more literary sense than I did in this. I think his Assoco thing is not exactly right. I don't think so either. There's something that was off about that whole series, personally to me. I've questioned multiple times.

Why does the series, why did that series even need to be live action? Yeah. It could have easily been animated, but. I am kind of in your, I'm in your, uh, your team. I'm on your team. I'm team, like, yay.

Hey, let's start, let's start, let's start, let's go on tour. Take that. Fine. Fine. I'll bet, I'll bet he is as well. Uh, well, uh, well, Steve, and there you have it. Oh, uh, do you want to talk about that born again thing, uh, deal? Yeah, I want to ask you. about Daredevil Born again. We haven't had a chance to talk to you since that all went down.

But a good thing that Marvel's realizing, hey, we need a showrunner now on all of our shows to kind of give things more of a consistent through line. I think that's probably the biggest thing. I mean, it's sad that you're eight episodes in and you have to scrap all of the stuff that you've already shot and you have to release all the directors and the people that did write it at least get executive producer credits. But yeah, I think what they've learned is we need showrunners for this. And while I think what they did worked for and or, no,

no, and or, I don't think that works with what they've been doing with these Marvel television shows. And so I kind of look forward to see what they're doing. But I'm also wondering why a good showrunner couldn't come in and say, how can we utilize some of the stuff that's already been shot? Yeah, no kidding. Exactly. I think that. And keep at a showrunner, but keep the directors, keep the people who are still working on.

this thing. And they might, and again, we don't know whether they're going to bring anybody back or not, but if they wanted to, they could bring people back because now we have a new Writers Guild contract. We have a new Directors Guild contract. And even the Directors Guild contract took place after they'd already begun production of the Daredevil series. And hopefully before the end of the year, we'll have a Screen Actors Guild contract in place. So it may mean that we're going to release all of you from your previous contracts, but we're going to bring some of you in under these new contracts and new structure so that people get paid what they're worth. It also might be nice to see a couple of the characters who may have been written out of the series,

be able to come back into the series. If you've heard the rumors that the first three episodes were all about the death of Foggy Nelson and the girl, the love interest girl. Yes. What was her name? She was in True Blood, right? uh yes yep that actress uh anyway i can't think of her name uh chat room is like i don't think that comic book version looks like musk i'll put up the actual photo from us soka you can totally see it like i don't know the comic book the comic book doesn't look like musk oh i'm talking about the live action yeah yeah no no yeah exactly so just just the case there's some confusion in the in the chat this is this is the one we're talking about and that guy looks oh so the throne actor was the guy

they used from the animated series too oh it's his voice that voice actor i didn't know that yeah i mean I usually like that. That's usually cool. But sometimes it doesn't fit. Travis, yeah, Karen Page. Sometimes it just doesn't fit, you know. So will they change the name then to born again again? Born again. Born again.

Reborn again. Reborn again. Reborn again. Heroes reborn again. Well, we'll see, I guess. And I, you know, on the one hand, I think it's smart to be more not controlled, but just like put your shows, put your shows in the right hands, I guess. Yeah, give it a consistent through line with the, same person at the helm. Yeah.

I really like that idea. Yeah. No, I mean, that's a great idea, right, so that you have that can creative control.

But I think what happens is once you have had so much success in doing what you do with the movies and you have one person in charge overseeing kind of the overall look of the movies, you know, I'm not saying it did, but sometimes when people have a lot of success for 20 years, uh, you get the feeling that you can do no wrong.

Yeah. And so that may have been some of the guiding principle. behind the decisions that were made. Yeah. Maybe Figi just wore the wrong hat right before. It was exactly. The baseball was too tight. Yeah, it was too tight.

Maybe a little too curved up front. Maybe you hit it on backwards. I don't know. I don't know what's going on. Oh, geez. Well, anyway, we'll see what happens with that. And we'll, of course, follow it up and talk about it right here in Stephen's segment. Stephen, anything else going on in major spoilers?

People should go check out and download or whatever. I really think people should be checking out the Critical Hit podcast. We are deep into our Octum Kathulu campaign. which is basically Indiana Jones meets Cthulu Monsters. It's a lot of fun. It's sometimes a little scary or a little intense.

But really, it's a good campaign. People should check it out over at major spoilers.com. And until, I guess, a couple of weeks from now, Scott, stay hydrated. But even then I probably should, right? Like all the time. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, see you later. There goes the professor. You know, we often forget, Professor Schleger, I'm late with my term paper. He probably hears all the time. Anyway, let's get going.

Oh, I saw someone in the chat. I just wanted to do a little shout out. I haven't seen Monkey Bananas in a long time, and it's just nice to see it. Yeah. Good to see it. Over on the Twitch chat. Good to seeing him, too. Yeah, always good to see you.

All right. Let's go, before we go, today from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Mountain Time, the regular weekly Frog Pants plays will happen. I'm not even sure what I'm going to play. I may test a little further some of the jackbox stuff, but I was telling Brian, after a test of each game, there are some gems in there. We are going to love these come playday, which I think is...

Listen, one playtesting session is testing. The second one, you're just doing Playday without me. That's true. At that point, I'm just playing, right? Exactly. They were so fun, though, especially that Trivia Space one. I forgot the name now. Oh, my gosh, we're going to love it.

And when is that? That's not this weekend, but the next, or is it this weekend? It's Friday, 27th. Oh, then I'll just do it then. Yeah, we're playing then then. So I don't know what I'm playing today. I got this new shooter indie thing I might try. I don't know.

I'm not sure what I'm in the mood for. But today from 3 to 5 I will be playing. And it will be available live in both the YouTube and Twitch spaces. So Twitch.com slash frogpants or YouTube.com slash Scott Johnson. Either one, same time, same channel. Bing, bang, boo. If some of you are confused, it's because Twitch lifted their restriction on not simulcasting to other services. I am doing it.

Nice. I'll be doing another box came in, finally, from Diagistini, formerly fan home, or renamed, or co-dudes or whatever they are. Box number two of the Millennium Falcon Build is happening today. I'm going to live stream it on my YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash coverville at 1 p.m. Mountain Time. Here's what's cool. I've looked in the box. Looks like we're building the cockpit. The whole cockpit.

Nice. uh that's going to be some fun uh fun millennium falcon actions so tune in for that twitch i'm sorry youtube dot com slash coverville and i finally have the music stuff set up so uh we'll have some nice little background music while i while i build things oh very nice also the cockpit is the best part of the millennium falcon it's what makes it such a cool ship if it was all symmetrical and set in the center exactly it'd be boring it'd be boring but it's a weird thing over here the asymmetry is what makes an interesting thing plus when you go bam like that everything lights up that's right and you can go into hyperspace there you go

you know all about space i know the hyper version of an idea you can do that part cool yeah uh that's youtube dot com slash coverville all right that is going to do it i believe for us quick thanks to all our patrons a bunch of new folks i noticed there so now it's possible to sign up as a free follower of the patreon um it doesn't give you any of the patron rewards other than stuff that's posted for free, but it now just lets you have people sign up as a follower. So if you wanted to do that, and you're like, I kind of just want to poke my toe in there, see what's going on. Let's do what it's all about.

Yeah, feel free. But if you can, join up and get no commercials ever, pre-show content every day. Get your own little, your own little RSS feed that gives you all that stuff as long as you remember. Couch parties on the weekend. You do it cheap for you, people. Come on. So cheap, dude. Name another thing you can do for a dollar a month, Brian.

You can't do it. You can't do anything for a dollar. a month. I can't buy that for a dollar. It's insane. The prices of which we have dropped with our self-imposed backwards backwards inflation, deflation. It's almost embarrassing. But go check it out. That's at patreon.com slash TMS. Do it today. That's going to do it for today's show. Brian's going to tell us about another song here before we go, though. Brian, what do you got?

I am. Today, this one's going out to Paul. This is a sort of a sadder email. Hey, gents, this is a request that maybe you can help me keep my spirits up. A few months ago, I was diagnosed with throat cancer. It's a fairly common one, and they seem pretty sure they can get it all. In fact, it's the same kind of cancer Bruce Dickinson had several years ago. The downside is that the location of the radiation treatments causes a big raft of side effects. Like all food tastes like mud, losing my voice, hard time swallowing, and I might lose some teeth in addition to feeling like junk. Anyway, I bring up Bruce Dickinson because he beat the cancer.

He still tours in his 60s, and Iron Maiden just put out an album two years ago. I'd love a boost because I'm entering a phase where the side effects are getting pretty rough sign Paul I'm so sorry to yeah and I hope you get I hope you see recovery on all that stuff and that the radiation stuff is just temporary

Tina had the a lot of the stuff with the radiation caused her taste buds to just go south and everything tasted horrible and that sort of thing I know it's a different deal but still can absolutely relate to that. Let's get to this. This is an Iron Maiden cover from the Kerrang Presents Made in Heaven, a tribute to Iron Maiden that came out several years ago. How about Coheed and

Cambria covering the trooper going out to Paul? Hope you feel better, Paul. Here's Coheed and Cambria. We're going to be able to be. You'll take my life, but it'll take us too. You'll fly a musket, but I'll run you through. And when you're waiting for the next turn, you're better stand there's no turning back The feel the sounds

The charge begins In this battle feel no one wins The smell of that Spoken horse is burned It should pot you in the summer day Oh Oh Oh

Oh Oh The horses went from there we break to run The mighty roll of the Roger Guns And as we rise close to the human war As we're playing at a corner of it far We all the bodies that lay on the ground And the Russians for another round

We are so near yet so far away We won't let us so far another time Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh

Oh Oh I don't know. We get so close to near enough to fight. Rederation gives me in the sight. It falls a trigger in the field of blood. feel the flow or burst around

since my horse below And it's a lady They're gazing at the sky My body's low My throat is dry And it's a leaf There's forgotten in the flow Without it here I drop

apart and grow Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Get more at Frog Pants.com Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.