The Morning Stream - TMS 2549: Fargo Chipmunks

Episode Date: November 6, 2023

Stay Hebrew National. You Can Do It In A Henley. Don't Trust The Tea in 1773. I Only Get it For the Naked Cats. We can do Zip Shit. Mom's 127 Rib Story. No teeny little beef sticks. Drinking the Metzen Juice. Your flag is armed and dangerous! Bismuth Adjacent. Steakon Bacon. Hanky-Pank Yourself. Ad Block for Life. 85 Year Olds should neither scoot nor climb furniture! Set your Air Fryer to Nuggets. Crisis at Major Spoilers and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TMS is brought to you daily by the support of our patrons at patreon.com slash TMS like Tony Cashen, Sophie McNally, and Julie Nakko. Coming up on TMS, stay Hebrew national. You can do it in a Henley. Don't trust the tea in 1773. I only get it for the naked cats. We can do zip shit. Mom's 127 ribs story. No teeny little beef sticks.

Drink in the Metson juice. Your flag is armed and dangerous. Bismuth adjacent. Steak on bacon. anky pank yourself ad block for life 85 year olds should neither scoot nor climb furniture set your air fryer to nuggets crisis on infinite major spoilers and more on this episode of the morning stream if someone asks you to make them a cup of coffee or tea make them a terrible one that way they'll never ask you again but the chick has still not eaten The morning stream. What do you say? We get nipple to nipple.

Good morning and welcome to TMS. Hello, everybody. It is Monday, November 6, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian Abbott. Hi, Brian Abbott. Hello, Scott. Election Day tomorrow. Oh, yeah.

It is. It's all smaller stuff, right? Like no big national hingey stuff. No. That's good, right? We don't want hingy stuff right now. We don't want hingy stuff. We don't want stuff that is like, oh, my God, this is going to totally F up the country.

No, this is the stuff that just totally Fs up your little district. Yeah, your local community in your town, exactly. But we'll look forward to next year's insane. No, we don't. I don't look forward to it at all. I don't want it to happen. I want to ignore the whole thing. Next year's whole thing.

The entire lead up, I'm going to turn it off. I have to. I have to turn it off. I know. It's like I almost want to. just give me my ballot, let me fill it out, but for everything else, give me an ostrich hole, I can just bury my head in. Yeah, I'm going to try to do it. I'm going to try to be as ignorant as possible. The problem is I'm a functioning person in society that intakes

information, and it's going to be impossible not to hear something, but I really, really do. I made the mistake last time of being very focused on it. I don't want to do that this time. all right it's too much it's just too stressful it's too it just hurts your psyche right to like well what's worse is like

you and I can do zip shit about anything you know what I mean there's nothing we can do to affect any of it so all of the all the outrage farming and stuff that's going to happen

it needs to fall on my deaf ears because what can I do I can't do anything I can put a bumper sticker on my car, that'll at least change like 50 people's minds, because they'll see that bumper sticker and say, oh yeah, that's a really good point. I think I'll vote for the other one. Oh, yeah. Lots of minds

are turned by bumper stickers. That's true. We'll see how it goes. Oh, that's good use of the colors, red and blue. I like that. Okay, I'm going to vote for that person. Yeah, I've completely flipped my opinion. That's the other thing, is I feel like all those things do is just, you know, people just dig in.

Yes. Oh, yeah. I'll vote, and then I'm done. you guys that's my part i've done my part my other part is i pay taxes i try to you know live a lawful life you know i take care of my shit what else can i do that's all we can do you got to act locally and hope it spreads to globally there you go that's what you want or at least nationally globally it'd be hard globally is pretty tough all right national let's stay national we'll stay national all right let's let's achieve that that first impossible milestone before go to the next uh you've convinced me i'm going to get a hebrew national hot dog today

there you go good excellent my nationalism will show up big time as i eat that hot dog wrap a tortilla around that business stick it in the air fryer a little with some pan dude i might do it crispy fried doggerido i might do it i'm not saying i won't uh all right i got a i got a thing i must share i was so excited about this i don't know why i was so excited okay so my mom fell kind of a gnarly fall the other day and uh right yeah and john was like yeah shake it off yeah i didn't i didn't sign up for this right you know this kind of stuff yeah he's such a crank but uh she she fell on some furniture uh like a little table like a little uh coffee table type thing in this area where they have a tv and couches and stuff and she was getting up to go to bed

john had already gone to bed he's on some pain medications for a carpal tunnel surgery he had because this is their entire life now is to have old people stuff done to them right and uh those are making him real sleepy so he's out my mom's not tired yet so she's up and she's like watching her shows you know or whatever she's doing and it's um it's like 10 o'clock so she's like all right it's time for bed she gets up from the couch very slowly because again she's 85 takes her remote turns off the tv starts to walk out of there trips on something and then fell and hit her ribs on the side of this table they're just cracked There's a small crack, and there's really nothing they can do except try to heal and all that.

And she's fine. She's doing great. But we thought, you know what, Kim, let's go see her on Sunday. We'll just hang out for a few hours and, you know, take her some tacos. She loves tacos. So we did that. And as you do, you're sitting around, you're telling stories or whatever. And she starts to tell this story about how she fell.

But then it started to have some weird twist to it. So I very quickly, but also nonchalantly, pulled my phone out. and here and I hit record okay because I had to record this and so just to give you a little bit of setup she was telling the story about how she hurt her rib

okay and so we we jump in a little bit story in progress sure sure took you a second to get the uh the exactly oh now yeah and so the stuff she said prior to me pulling it out she'll she gets to in this in this chat with her so I'll just play it and then I'll explain. This is kind of amazing. I hope everyone enjoys it. Here you go.

And I tried to climb up that table. So I scooted myself, you know. Then the remote was laying here on the couch. Yeah. And I thought, if I can just get to that and then turn it up. Oh, you were going to turn it up so to wake him up. I thought you meant like, well, if I'm going to be here, may as well get my shows in.

No, I tell you, I wasn't thinking of shows. That's why I thought about the guy with the... The guy who cut his arm off. 27 hours? 27 hours? No, it's 24, 27 days? I don't know how many hours. It was a long time.

Maybe it was his hours? But you could make it through that many hours. I don't think it was 24 days. No. All right, now it's important to note here. I'll resume a second. You can see where you get it. So there's a two-pronged lesson here.

I totally get that stuff. from my family. Wendy does it. My mom does it. We all do it. But she started to tell the story that when she fell, and that's why she's bringing up the 20, 127 hours, whatever the hell that was called. What was that called? Yeah, it's 127 hours. Okay. So we thought it was 27 and we couldn't get it in their head straight. 27 days would be dead from dehydration. John's over there going, 28 weeks. It's 28 weeks is the movie. 28 weeks. I'm like, no, no, No, no, no, no. You're thinking of a whole wrong thing. Plus, there's no way you've ever seen 28 weeks later.

But anyway, so we're sitting there. And her whole point was she thought of him because she thought, well, if he can do it, if he can do that. For 127 hours, she can certainly do it for however one who takes up. Certainly, she can climb over to the thing and get the remote, turn up the TV and wake John up. That was her thinking. So I'll let her finish. They made a movie. Yeah, why did you think of him? Just because he was. stranded? Because I thought, what can I do to help myself out of this predicament? I'm not going to lay, I didn't want to lay here until you got up until, who knows. But you weren't going to have to cut off your own arm ever. No, I wasn't, but I thought of that guy and I thought, okay, if he was brave enough to do that, I've got to be brave enough to get on my knees.

anyway it's kind of cute yeah it's a funny thing to think of but it also makes sense because it happened here it was in moab so halfway to you basically right where that original incident took place and uh for whatever reason she found strength in that crawled over to the couch figured out a way to get the remote turn the tv way up he woke up came and got her so that worked wow that's great got the job done but uh anyway she's always tell she's so funny she's always telling me how, oh, I don't remember anything anymore. I'm this and I'm that. She's always talking about how she can't remember anything.

Dude, she's sharp as a tack. She remembers everything. Yeah, yeah. She's full of crap. She remembers a movie of freaking James Franco movie? James Franco, yeah. Yeah, like she's way more on top than she thinks. So is John, for that matter.

But he's also very cranky. And at one point, she tells the story. I didn't record this part, but he goes, Scott, when I married her, you guys didn't tell me. I was going to have to take care of her so much. And I went. John, I know you're kidding, but come on, dude, you freaking... You don't have to be like that.

See, with the right family member, though, you'd instantly know that was like a joke, you'd laugh it off, but he's... Not with John. Yeah. Not with John. He's like, he's ingrained, like, so much between the two of you that's like, eh, part of me's joking, but there might be a small part of me that's telling the truth.

Yeah, he's got grievances, is what that guy's got. and he likes to share them with everybody. I just noticed you and I are wearing the same shirt they almost. I know, it's like we're rooting for the, oh, even the same, look at that. It's even a Henley. Henley, yeah, I got a Henley over at the Costco for like $10. Did you? Yeah, down to the Costco.

I've turned you on to Henleys. Yeah, suddenly Henleys are everywhere and they're on sales. So I don't know what's going on, but it's a year for the Henley at the moment. It is. My favorite kind of shirt. Pretty wild. I like the, I like the button. I like the lack of color.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. And it's just kind of hangs there, you know, and you can roll your sleeves up or not, you know? Yeah. Whatever you need to have done, you can do it in a Henley. Wow. It's almost like that should be the slogan.

Whatever you need to do, do it in a Henley. That's right. Also, hey, look at this. So Brian wasn't supposed to get these. And by the way, I found out the entire core crew got them. Oh, really? Everybody but, Brian. Everybody but done away.

We'll talk to him when he comes in. But everybody but done away got boxes of these things called chomps. Beef sticks. I guess we'll check in with him, make sure he still didn't get them. But they're like these no sugar beef stick things. And they're pretty good. They're, you know, slim gyms with better stuff in them.

Anyway. They're decent size, too. They are no teeny little beef stick. Yeah. And I'm glad that somehow they accidentally just used the entire mailing list that I provided over the, the years because this is just for play retro but everybody's getting them so enjoy your beef sticks everyone that's great oh totally loving them yeah i ate two of them yesterday and shouldn't have probably all right uh speaking of things let's oh i played five hours of wow on sunday i

resubbed and played five hours i don't know why i don't know what happened yeah i don't know what could have inspired you to do that huh interesting really weird yeah what's funny is i can't say that what's funny is uh i'll say it this way i knew some things leave up to this and even and even i was like oh damn it game you're making me want to play you right now what are you doing so i got in and i played a ton and it turns out when i uh so when i unsubed last year i i had burned through all of the available uh sort of story content and quest content and leveling content for uh dragon flight or dragon flight uh dragon flight why does that sound wrong yeah i think it's dragon flight isn't it

Hold on. Dragon. Oh, my gosh. What is wrong with my brain? Anyway, I did that. Yeah. And then I unsubbed. And I thought, well, it's all endgame stuff. I'm not going to raid. I don't care that much.

I'll just not, it's no big deal. But in the meantime, they've had these huge single player content drops. Not single player, but like stuff you can do solo if you want. Right. It's a ton of new stuff. There's like a whole underground zone with a cave and. Really? Oh, wow.

These weird little mole creatures that sound like Fargo characters. There's, I can't even explain it. Oh, yeah, that's the new allied race, right? Yeah, the little chipmunk looking things. And anyway, I got really into it. Stupid wow, freaking, gosh, dang it. Way to go, Chris Metzen. You did it.

You got on stage. I'll bet you money. There's a chart at that company today that shows like a re-sub number. Yeah. Yeah. That would be interesting to see. Like, at what time, what was going on on stage when people said, all right, they got me. I'm back in.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what the moment was. for me it was probably I don't know Chris for all his humbleness because he kind of hates

this part of the job he's so good at this he gets on that stage and immediately commands everybody's attention there's also the history of it he was already kind of a rock star there his triumphant return

that story in a lot of ways is a story of Blizzard at some point Anduin says to the in that awesome cinematic he says I have no light left in me after the things I've seen after the things I've done

he's all upset sounds like Blizzard to me kind of a little bit yeah Mike we're trying to get a little redemption going yeah maybe anyway I don't even know if he does that on purpose or not but that stuff always comes through in his work and I love that

but it was just so we are lucky that he's not in charge of some cult because you'd all be drinking the Kool-Aid We'd all be drinking the Metson juice. Yeah. It's like, yeah. We'd be laying dead on top of each other with the promise we'd all be going to the rapture or whatever, but it'd be a big lie because he's that charismatic.

Matching Adidas or whatever. Yeah. His charisma score is off the damn charts. And it's embarrassing. But anyway, I ended up in there and played a lot. That's cool. Yeah, I'm on the fence. I mean, I'd like to.

It's easy for me to look over at Spider-Man and say, yep, I'm only 15% into this game. I'm going to keep going. And then after that, I'll look at jumping back into wow. The thing that makes me want to do it is getting back into the raid team with Bobby and Alex and a few other folks. Sure. Yeah. Or the raid team with, oh, my God, Tatsemi and why am I forgetting everybody's names? It was a lot of people, and it was a while ago.

It was a lot of people, and it was a while ago. But they were, as far as I know, none of them are, well, not none of them. A bunch of them aren't playing anymore, but maybe a bunch will get back in, you know? I don't know. We'll see. The big social experience continues. See what happens. I know what will happen next.

Dunaway will join us. That's what'll happen. Ooh, I like that. That's a good thing that's happening. I agree. This will get me, this will get some energy, some game show host energy up in me here.

That's what you need. I feel like I'm 4.30 a.m. groggy is what I'm. You know what we should do for Brian? Someone who already is a little tired of them. morning or gets up too early as it is let's go ahead and put the clocks back an hour so he has to do another hour totally totally and just in case you think you're even get some sleep how about a cat that whose stomach says it's six o'clock i need to be fed when it's really it's

just five what does she do like like pawn at the door kind of stuff oh yeah just meowing she's in the room she's on the bed yeah yeah she's a chatty one cats are dicks but they're great too we love them yes uh speaking of dicks and then and we love them too. We got Brian Dunaway joining us. Here's this music. Hey, you guys. Let's play a little bit of the old half-asses on the Monday. Hello, Brian. How are you? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian.

Hi. It feels like I just talked to you guys yesterday. Oh, she does. Yeah, we did do Philipsack yesterday. That was a fun little round table. Yeah, it was amazing. We did a little, we did one of our special episodes where we talked about directors, hits and misses. Hits and misses, baby. And, of course, Brian talked about Spilbert. That's how you go to jail if you talk about your hits and misses.

That's right. Your misses. Never hit your misses. But listen to this, though. You, unless it's consensual and it's some kind of sex thing. Do whatever you want. But I was going to say this. I forgot now.

Oh, you were going after Spilberg a little bit. So that made you the only person on the panel who was objectively wrong about the movie you thought was bad. You were the only. only one. So how does it? The only person who was wrong. Yeah. I don't know how that feels, but I can imagine how it might feel to be that wrong about a thing. It feels good to be so right that you can even recognize it. That's how it feels. That's amazing feeling. Wow. All right. Well, I'm glad to hear it. Hey, what do you think about some half-asses today? What do you, what do you think of that? You want to do that? I'm kind of into it. Yeah, you're into it. You better get into it

because I've got all this stuff ready to go. Oh, shit. Well, we can't leave Brian in. Let's do it. case i'm all in yeah what do you got brine let's do it all right welcome to the morning half asses a trivia game where i'm actually going to be giving the two of you the answers i'm going to give scott and brian in category and six possible answers three of those answers are correct and three of them are like minority reports uh or brian's opinion on minority report completely wrong uh depending on how confident you feel with the category you can provide one two or three guesses but if any of those guesses wrong you get zero points for that round get one right get a point get two right get to three points get all three correct you get five points but

you need a bunch of points to win them player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant and i've pulled a couple of contestants from members of the tad pool that aren't able to be here live scott you're playing for louis loyo or louis loo in seattle nice brian you're playing for kelly in atlanta oh hi kelly just right across the border there Very much. You can wave to her. Are you waving? I hope you're waving.

Hey, Kelly. Is it Kelly for sure boy or girl, Kelly? Is it a way name? Oh, hi, Kelly. Hi, Kelly. I hope you are okay. See, you can say that. Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly.

What was that? Was that the one from Cheers? Woody Heraldson. Yes, exactly. Oh, my God. K-E-L-L-Y. Why? Because you're Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly.

I forgot. I forgot all about that. That was a great moment. Cheers history. I don't want to take away his butterheaded toeball. All right, let's get to the game here. Speaking of weird things that you find on national flags, here are some weird things you find on national flags.

Which of these three are really something weird you'll find on that country's national flag? Wait, wait. If you ask it a third time, maybe we'll know what you're talking about. Maybe. Bees have come out. All right. Belize, does it have a cricket bat? Moldova.

Does it have an asteroid? Palau. Does it have a dead butterfly? Fiji, does it have a lion holding a coconut, granada or grenada? Is it have a clove of nutmeg? And Mozambique, does it have a machine gun? Three of those are something you will actually find on those flags. Three of those are not.

Three of these things are total lies now. Yep. I hope that last one's not right. I don't want that gun one to be right. I'm the worst with flags. So I'm going to just be stabbing at the screen here. Sure. I can't believe any of these are correct.

They're all insane. They're all insane, aren't they? I'll do one because I don't know. Okay. I don't know. Oh, you're doing one? Yeah. You've showed your hand.

I'm also going to do one. It sounds so insane. I'm going to go with Mozambique. Why not? Oh, okay. Why don't you just tell me the answer you're going with? Well, I'm happy to tell you that Fiji does actually have on their flag a picture of a lion holding a coconut. Good job, Scott.

You're getting this one. Granada does have a clove of nutmeg. And Mozambique does have a machine gun. You guys picked it. Two of the correct ones. Yeah, no dead butter flag. Wow. No asteroid on the Moldava flag.

And no cricket bat on Belize. What is going on with the machine gun on your flag? That just seems like you've locked yourself into a real problem, you know? I think there are like six countries that have weapons of some sort on their flags, whether they're guns, knives or... It's their equivalent of don't tread on me. Kind of, yeah, exactly. I don't like it.

It's bugs, man. Okay. All right. Going into round two, you guys each have a point. I like it. No shut out this time. Question number two. Elements that are liquids around room temperature.

So these are things you'll find on the periodic table. And when they're at room temperature, there are a liquid. Your choices are. Francium, bromine, indium, mercury, iodine, and. Bismuth. Oh. I'm trying to remember if it's bromine or bromine. Bromine.

Bromine. Bromine. Bromine. Brobeen. Robene Bobo. All right. Let's see. Elements that are liquids.

So, I mean, technically some of these are metals. There's a couple of them that are kind of tricky because there's actually a, okay. There's some metals in here. Well, not all of them, but some of them are metals. Well, I'm not sure if like, like, it's like, still liquid. I've used some stuff. And I'm like, is it pure this? Mm-hmm.

So otherwise, Mm-hmm. I'm going to go with two. Okay. Because I don't know. Since Scott went with two, I'm going to fluously go with two as well. Okay.

Well, the two you went with, you both did pick mercury, which absolutely is correct. Yeah. Mercury at room temperature is a liquid. We all know that because we all played with it. As a kid, we broke open a thermometer. That's a bad idea.

And messed with it. And then we found out we're not supposed to touch mercury. That's a bad man. Iodine in its pure form is not a liquid. Liquid iodine melts at 237 degrees Fahrenheit. Indium melts at 314 degrees Fahrenheit. Francium and bromine or bromine are your other two elements that are liquids on that. What's that a bromine?

I thought Bismuth was. I think I conflated it with Pepto-Bismol, which also is a liquidate. Oh, well, Pepto-Bismol, it is made from Bismuth. Yeah, it's got Bismuth in it, but it doesn't. We're talking, it's the purity problem, right? It's in pure Bismuth form. Exactly. How hot for Bismuth?

How hot to melt Bismuth? What's the? Bismuth is... That's none of your bismuth is got. 521 degrees Fahrenheit. You have to really crank up the heat to turn Bismuth. You have to really want that stuff to be liquid. You have to really want it.

Exactly. All right, let's get to the last question. Let's look at celebrities, Hollywood celebrities, and marriages. Which of the following people have been married four or more times? Your choices are Martin Scorsese. Four more, more, more. Julia Roberts, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Richard Burton, and Marilyn Monroe. Mr. President.

Mr. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Just kidding. Let's see. Three of these people have been married four or more times. Three of these people have been married lots of times. I think they've all been married a couple times at least, but some of these are more than others, I think. I'm locked in.

I'm not telling you how many I chose. Are you going to lock in? Because you keep waiting to hear how many I did and then you're smart. I'm smart. Yeah, you're smart. I am also. I feel like I'm doing something foolish. I'm going with two Martins.

Okay. I'll look at you. Martin Monroe and Frank Samantra. Samantra. Some mantra. Some mantra. Well, here we go. Martin Scorsese.

Dude's been married five times. Five times. Yeah, like a million times. I knew that one. I did not know that. Nobody chose Julia Roberts. She's been married two times. Nobody chose Marilyn Monroe. She's been married three times. The ones you chose, though. Round long enough. Yeah. Yeah, she wasn't long long enough to marry.

Frank Sinatra, Richard Burton, and Martin Scorsese are your answers. Scott. Look at that same. I took it. Tor it from your hands. I tore the wind straight from your hands. I feel pretty good about that. Yeah, Richard Burton four times. Frank Sinatra four times. Yeah, I knew Sinatra. He was the only one I was pot. positive about how many times is dean martin married uh three three okay i knew one i knew one of these crooners had been done it up a couple of times yeah only only the last one was amore yeah that's right yeah it's a pete like a pizza pie in your eye or whatever yes that's right exactly

so a piece of eye in your eye to louise loyo in seattle you are getting a copy of cats in time and Arietta of Spirits, courtesy of our friend Norm. Thank you, Norm, for the Steam games. But, hey, don't worry, Kelly and Atlanta, you're not going away empty-handed. You didn't show up, so you're not even really going away, technically. But you're getting a copy of Rebel Galaxy, also.

I'd argue that's a better game. You're a winner. Sorry, Scott. Rebel Galaxy, I just don't know the other two. I'm sure they're fine, but Rebel Galaxy is a pretty rad game. Rebel Galaxy, too, pretty good as well. but you'll find lots of fun space time in your future. Congratulations.

Fun space time. Brian, you get this. I get this. Congratulations. You're a winner. Congratulations everybody involved. Dunaway, we're going to do this again, but in a slightly different way. On Wednesday, will you be prepared then to face me, your challenger, and try to win yet again?

Oh, am I supposed to be? Uh, worried. intimidated perhaps the worst heckling taunting I think I've ever said it isn't working very well I'm not going to do any more kiss our butts all right he's gone he can't even reply to my kiss my butts now all right congratulations everybody involved that was super fun as always getting these emails together so

if you have not received it by the time you hear this episode by golly but let me know yeah let Brian know now the news It's time for the news brought to you by. Air fried kimchi nuggets. Now, before you judge me, let me explain. There's no judging, but please continue. Okay, you might actually like this then. So what I did, I got some air fried nuggets or just a bag of the ones you get at Costco, right?

Oh, the chicken. Okay, got you. Chicken nuggets. And then each one, you put them all out on that little tray. And then each one, you put just a little bit of kimchi on top. Now, normally you might say, well, cook them first, then the kimchi, because it's like a, kind of a good contrast to have it be cold versus the heat of the hot food with the cool

kimchi on top of sure and I understand that and that totally does work great and I'm not saying you shouldn't do that too but I put these on just a little dollop on there of a little bit of kimchi on top of each one of these put it in there on whatever the nugget setting was they were so freaking

good they even crisped up the edges of the kimchi I thought I was in heaven dude for real that sounds amazing that sounds really good you don't do you have a first watch diners or restaurants in Utah? I don't know, maybe, let's see. I feel like we've talked about this

place before, but they they are a, like a breakfast place that's a little bit more upscale than your Denny's village and kind of thing. And they have seasonal menus, so four times a year, they have

like five new breakfast entrees that they introduce. And this last weekend, Friday, was the launch of their their winter menu and they introduced something called the sunny soul hash soul is in soul korea i'm looking at it it looks so good potatoes and onions and then a couple fried eggs on top and kimchi all over holy moses dude look at this thing i got on their website it's so damn good beautiful oh they're in st george next time i'm in st george i'm going there you go there you go

five hours doesn't go there but why won't this get down at least uh at least you have an option And unlike some of the places that we talk about that don't have locations outside the outside Colorado or for me outside of Utah. At least you've got some, you've got some options now. We've got something. Yeah, this looks amazing. Wow. It's really, really good. They've also got a cinnamon chip pancake.

Tina had the steak and bacon breakfast burrito. Steak and bacon. It's hard to say steak and bacon. Steak and bacon. It's fun to say, though, isn't it? It was also really good. What a great URL too. first watch.

First watch. It does want to force you to put in your zip first. I hate that. I hate that too. It's like let me browse first. And all I can think of

oh yeah, they're in Alfreda, Georgia, Smyrna, Snellville. It's all over Georgia. Weird. Maybe they started there. Maybe.

Yeah. Well, their website's being funky. Oh, well. I was going to show people these amazing dishes, but then it got weird. I wonder if it's called First Watch is like, all right, eat your breakfast because you're on first watch.

You've got to keep an eye out for the enemy and wake me up if you see him coming over the hill. What was the show that was on? Oh, that's Third Watch. That was different. Yeah, they had the Pink Ranger from. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I used to have a big crush on her. All right, Pink Rangers aside, let's move on to this story.

Sure, please. Bay Area Ritz-Callel, Carlton, in the... the news. You ever been to a Ritz Carlton, by the way? You ever been? I've stayed at one or two, yeah. I don't think I've been more. I've stayed at the one in Vegas because it was, for a while, it was attached to the, oh no, it was the four seasons is what was attached to the Mandalay Bay. And then that one got switched to the Delano or to one of the two hotels there. No, Ritz Carlton, I haven't stayed in, I don't think I've actually ever stayed in a Ritz Carlton. Now, the fact that I got a question about the Delano, that things thematically

matches the other... Yeah, it's part of the same. It's basically they have three three hotels there at Mandalay Bay. So that's all tied together. If you say I'm going to go to Mandalay and let's say all the rooms are filled up in the main two,

they'll let you stay in the Delano. Like you can just do that. Yeah, I think when you pick your room, you'll choose which of the three hotels. And all three have access to the same big ass pool and all that stuff. Yeah. I've never stayed there but would like to. I've eaten there. I've hung out there. I went to a convention there, but I've never stayed there. Oh, it's really nice. It's one of the places second to MGM Grand.

It's probably the second place I've stayed the most in Vegas is Mandalay. Is Cosmo your favorite? I can't remember. Cosmo's still my favorite, and I've only stayed there three times or two times and loved it both times. It's just expensive. And now that they're fully part of MGM, I might start getting better deals for Cosmopolitan. Well, yeah, that's a good point. Just don't go during that F1, shiz. No, no, not even considering Vegas in November.

Y'all want to empty your bank accounts? I got an idea for you. Head to Vegas. And I'm not even talking about the gambling part. Just go spend money on hotels. Just getting a room on the strip, especially a room that faces the, the strip, you're going to pay $500, $600, $700 a night

just for the privilege of watching from a far distance watching cars drive. That's going to all be photos of celebrities and stuff. That's what that'll be. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Probably not photos of celebrities he care about either. It's going to be like

11 real housewives and Jeff Lewis and stuff like that. Maybe a Bieber type will be there. Maybe a Bieber or two, yeah. The beber adjacent, beber, beber-ish. Some rapper. Yeah, some rapper type, man.

Rapper man. She or her or... They, doesn't matter. Maybe stallion or... Sure. Some kind of a Lil thing, you know? L-I-L-L-L-O-S-Hall. One of the Lills will be there.

Either a Lil-Bowow or a Lil-John or a... How come there's never been a rapper named Terminal Gangster or Gangsta? Why doesn't that exist? Terminal Gangsta? Yeah, I would... If my rap... Look, if I had a rap career, Terminal Gangsta, that's what I'm doing. That's what I'm doing.

And all that means, I just means I'll perform at airports in the terminals. Yeah. I don't mean that I'm forever. I'm sorry, sir, I need to tell you this, but you've got Terminal Gangsta. You've only got six weeks to run. You got, there's something there. There's something there. Yes.

There's a whole skit there. I don't know what it is yet. Anyway, at Bay Area Ritz Carlton, this is in San Francisco, Bay Area, was sued after a woman was allegedly served, quote unquote, semen contaminated water. Yeah. Okay.

I didn't make that term up. It's in the article. Yeah, it's in the headline right there. Jane and John Doe of Washington State arrived at the Oceanfront Luxury Half Moon Bay Resort for the weekend of November 18th, 2022. This is a year ago. These court documents are just becoming available.

to visit the daughter attending a nearby university for the Thanksgiving holiday and to celebrate Jane's birthday. However, plans were significantly derailed after Jane had a sip of the Ritz-Carlton branded water bottle that was contaminated with semen. Oh, my God, Ritz-Colton branded water bottle. See, that's why you got to stick with your Desani or your Aquafina. Yeah, don't do branded hotel water bottles if you can help it. Like, I don't know how often they do that when we were at the... Usually they're, you know, working with some other water company and they provide the bottles at a discount and they, ugh. Yeah.

And the reason they're Jane and John Doe is they don't want to identify themselves in the lawsuit. They claim they want to avoid harassment, injury, ridicule, and personal embarrassment. I get that. I get that. I think it's totally fine. You don't need to be, you don't have to have your face out there. Anyway, it's not only the plaintiffs that are unknown. Unknown or according to the lawsuit, at least 10 defendants are unidentified,

because the hotel company allegedly refuses to identify employees present that weekend to help the couple in local law enforcement. So it sounds like they may have been sabotaged. Like they didn't come from the water plant, the bottling plant this way. Oh, really? So it was sabotage at the hotel. That's the thinking.

That's the thinking. The couple realized they were out of water, called the front desk to get more. Moments later, a male employee arrived with at least five bottles and had no reason to believe the bottles were tampered with Or defiled. Oh, they're defiled all right. Yeah, they're defiled.

Yeah, they're defiled that under disgusting. Yeah, right? What are these people thinking, man? Why would you do that to anybody? Like, what's going through your head where you're like, this would be funny? Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, it's the same people are just pissed off at the job. And they're just pissed off, you know, oh, these people come in here and they're so rich and they treat me like crap and blah. I'm going to show them kind of thing.

as they have no you know they don't know jane and john doe they are they just want to they just basically want to stick it to whoever uh they see as the as quote unquote the enemy it's so extreme though like you could spit in there you could i mean these are all awful options but you're really going to go you know hanky-pank yourself into a little bit of a frenzy just to get a little bit of hurt into your water and then take it upstairs to jane and john like it just seems like a lot of a lot of work really just got to make sure it you know when you when you unscrew that cap just make sure it clicks like it's separating from the little plastic tamper tamper proof deal yeah there's a reason those those little latches are there it's for semen it's really it's for no other reason than

semen it's for to protect you from all those seamen that are out there fighting a war that's right exactly anyway it's a navy port at the the bay half moon bay ritz carlton uh looks like they're gonna win this and they'll probably get a big chunk of money so

sure sure boy I bet they're pissed of that employee are they gonna I wonder if they're gonna have to do some DNA testing oh to find out who it was yeah like have all the employees line up fill this cup yep take this

we put we put some materials in there for you that's right exactly like the old stereotype says all right that's a fun story let's move on to this one Brian has a couple of cats still have two cats I do still have two cats

and are sleeping right there and Salem hanging out upstairs with Tina she always does got a thing for Tina got a thing for Tina cats make nearly 300 different facial expressions really

interesting this is a brand new thing by the way the worst one of those is the one when they smell something funny and they sit there with their eyes white and their mouth open. Yeah, or they just kind of... Exactly. That's the worst of their 300 facial expressions. I don't like the gag one either when they like... Oh, where they're about to throw up?

Yeah, I don't like that one. Anyway, cats make some, or sometimes get a bagged rap for being aloof or not emotive. Compared to dogs, felines tend to be more subtle with how they express themselves. Perhaps a mere flick of an ear or curl of their whiskers. Only sparse studies have tried to decode the mysterious emotional eyes of these creatures. But now. It's very dramatic here.

But now. That's all changed. Researchers have discovered that cats use nearly 300 distinct facial expressions to communicate with one another, according to a study published in October in the journal Behavioral Processes. That must be an exciting page Turner. Right? What did you read about in the Journal of Behavioral Processes?

Well, I took my... I took a week off work, and that's all I did was read that book. I only get it for the comics. Yeah. I get it for the articles, not the naked cats. Let's see. It says here people still consider cats erroneously to be largely non-social animals, but they say that is absolutely not true.

There is clearly a lot going on there that we are not aware of. To collect the data from these furry subjects, researcher Lauren Scott and the University of Kansas Medical Center. I feel like Kansas has come up on the show a lot lately. What's going on with Kansas. Kansas. Oh. They're just... That reminds me we missed...

Well, I don't know if we missed it, but Chloe had a birthday over the weekend. Oh, yeah, yesterday. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry, wasn't on a regular day. We would have said something. But we'll say it today. For sure.

She even got a paper hat. Oh, I saw that. It was cute. Yeah. I re-centered our old photo of me and you licking her chip, or her, for us licking her bag. Chipotle chips on the back of her, on the top of her head, yes. Yeah. I probably shouldn't say the phrase that,

time we licked her bag we probably shouldn't say that probably not probably should rephrase that yeah we're gonna we're gonna workshop that a bit and bring it back yeah it's a little bit uh so do they have like I want to see a a breakdown like a list yes like I want to see a bunch of squares basically like a proof sheet with uh this expression this expression this expression this expression and see these you know I would do 200 because this article this article only shows a couple um There's one here where it looks all mad, like get out of my shit. This one looks like he's just like, help me, I'm going to fall.

Right. I don't see, I want a chart. You're right. I want a visual chart and a description. This one means, clean my box. This one means I barfed or whatever. Lick my bag, yeah. Lick my bag.

I don't even think humans have that expression. Maybe we do. No, no, maybe not. I guess we need to subscribe to the journal of behavioral, processes to get we used to I don't know if you did

this in art school or not but we used to have a professor and in high school for that matter we had a teacher who had us

do this very thing they would be they would give us a big grid and they would say draw you know regular as much details

you want but oval regular faces but you had to you have to do 20 different expressions expressions sure and then we'd

get graded on how well we made fear and anger happiness, laughter, satisfaction. Yeah, we had to do the same thing. And it's a really good, I mean, for, boy, for animation, for cartooning,

that sort of thing, it is such a great practice. Yeah, you need expressions, everything in those mediums. And we're so into it. Humans, freaking, we love an expression, you know? Like, we need to know if someone's going to puke, we need to see it in their face.

I need to know how frustrated really is Dunesbury. yeah at this point yes you can be able look at his face and go oh he's so frustrated is uh does does garfield really hate mondays oh look i could tell from his expression that he really does exactly we're built we're wired this way it's how we survive damn it yes uh there's that story and that's a fun one uh i don't know if anyone out there can find a link to all these cat faces i would love to see them that'd be great Brian we got a bit of a lift adjacent story for you here sure um here let's just play that make so i get a five-star rating junior all right so we got a grubhub

story a little bit different driving food around but anyway yeah yeah a grubhub driver driving people around some people that's some people do say that that's true we heard a lot of uh talk this last week yeah we've got quite a few uh door dash slash grubhubhub slash uber eats uh drivers in our audience and and this whole pre-tipping thing we all agree that it's stupid to have to bribe your driver, and we wouldn't have to if they were paid better by each of those groups. Yeah, and I think that seemed to be universally

true across every piece of response we got. And I'm going to actually jump ahead to a thing that Tom A sent in because it's about this. Oh, good. He says about that pre-tipping DoorDash thing. Last week you were talking about pre-tipping and DoorDash and other delivery apps. I remember back when they first came out,

at least one app did do post-tipping, but they charged two, sorry, changed to pre-tipping. This was either Postmates or Grubhub. I think the reason for this is when you go to the restaurant, you get what you, uh, you get and pay the bill. And at the end of the meal, before you leave, you then know to tip. With the delivery apps, you pay first and then you get and eat your meal. Most people forget about the tip then. Um, I don't, or see, I know I did, sorry, I did until I opened the app again. This is probably why they changed it to pre-tip.

Sure. Uh, drivers were probably not getting many tips that way, says Tom. Yeah, I agree. that there is something to that because I'll get a tip just out of nowhere on Lyft. And I know it's because, oh, yeah, they just reopened their app and figured out that they forgot to tip me right when I dropped them off. Right. And that makes sense. Which is not a big deal, obviously. Yeah, it's not a big deal. But I guess it makes sense that once it's done and dusted, you don't think about it anymore.

And because they come to the door and leave it and just go, there's no other interaction. Like, you're kind of done. I don't know. I mean, I feel like, I'd like to say that I would go out of my way to remember to post tip, but I,

if I'm honest, I think I'd forget sometimes. I would just forget. So maybe that's the whole reason. I think, yeah, it's still weird. The only think it's still weird

to those say, oh, your shit may be cold though if you don't, that part's the worst part. Is the whole bribery or the whole threat aspect of this is the, is the absolute worst part of it.

Yeah, I hate that. Not good. Not good. No. All right. Anyway, to this story. Grubhub driver claims delivering cup of urine instead of milkshake was an accident. Yeah, see, that's all, that's just as bad, by the way.

This is the old pre-tip thing, delivering a cup of urine. Yeah. What's worse is you pre-tipped him and still got the cup of urine. That's what sucks. Right. Oh, my God. Why do we have this and that Ritz-Carlton article today, Scott? I don't know. It wasn't on purpose. The Ritz-Carlton article carried over for a couple of days, and this one was new. But boy, aren't we happy they happen in the same day. This is a Utah story, by the way, this guy with the Peacup. Oh, really? Okay. Utah man has been left rightfully scarred after he received and sipped from a warm cup of urine at Grubhub delivered in place of a chick-fil-a milkshake. They worked the word shutters here in asterisk.

Accurate. Yeah. Caleb Woods, total local news outlet, he ordered fries and a shake from the fast food place via Grubhub. Quote, when I started eating my meal upon delivery, I put a straw to my cup and was delivered, sorry, that was delivered and I took a sip, Wood said, I soon discovered that the cup delivered to me from the Grubhub Driver was a warm cup of urine. That's so, it's so horrible. Oh, my God. He said, here's the fun part. He confronted the delivery driver.

Yeah, there's a fun part. If you can believe it, if you can believe that the fun part wasn't drinking the pee, boy, I've got good news for you. Okay, all right. He confronted the delivery driver who had not yet left. The entire conversation was. captured on Wood's home security system, so they have this on video. Good. Did you confuse the cups? Because like, dude, it's a half full of pee, says him to the driver while holding a styrofoam cup in

question. Do you realize this is pee? He says. The Grubhub worker admitted to accidentally switching the cups. He said that he relieves himself into a cup in the car because of the long hours he works. Wood says that some of his money was refunded, but he wasn't compensated in full despite the disturbing experience. Now, that seems wrong. I can tell you this. If I ever got something that was just wrong, like they forgot the fries in a...

Sure, sure. An order from DoorDash, they would cover the whole thing. They would say, sorry, here's the money back. And then I just... It was credit. It was credit, not... You know, I wasn't getting money back,

but I was getting credit toward my next thing. Like, yeah, sorry about that. Sorry that happened to you. Here's a deal on your next order. Yeah, so there's no way. that should have been all he got is partial compensation. No, for sure. That's, like, that's enough

to make me stop ordering. You better give me something that makes me feel like, okay, you really do care or not. We're going to credit you for the milkshake. Yeah. Yeah, it's insane to me. Also, there's, I think this is the video. Hold on. Let's see.

I kind of want to hear him yelling. I can't see if this is like a news article or something. Yeah. Let's see. And who claims he ordered a milkshake on Grubhubb, but got a cup full of urine instead. Caleb Wood saying that he ordered a Chick-fil-A sandwich, fries, and a milkshake through Grubhup.

Well, when he started eating his meal, he put the straw in his cup and says he took a sip and immediately realized he had gotten a cup of warm urine. Did you confuse the cups? Because, like, dude, this is, it's half full of pee. Wood going on to say the driver is. Oh, it's optimistic. It's half full of pee. Don't look at it.

It's half empty of milkshake, and it's half full of pee. Uh, yeah. Yeah. So many questions. Was it in a chick-fellee cup? Like, uh... Oh, good question. Yeah, they don't think the video shows.

The container has to look like a chick-fil-a milkshake container. And this guy, this guy. This guy. this guy having to he's working so many hours he has to pee in a cup come on now you're going into restaurants and picking up food

you can use their bathrooms that's like the best part of Grubhub that you know I can't drop somebody off at their house and say by the way I'm going to come in and use your bathroom real quick yeah yeah I mean I part of me as someone who has peed in a cup

and not at a doctor's office but like because I had to go in a car because you were trapped in traffic down to Vegas yeah it was bad so we had to came in i did and i did it once for um this i did it for core one night peed in a thing and for i didn't want to leave i didn't want to pause the show so i peed here right here on the on the show so someone who's done this i understand that part of it by the way i confirmed the cup is is just a plain white sterile foam cup yeah and the guy walking up clearly

has a chick-fil-a logo on the cup he's bringing so he's he actually realizes what's going on and he's bringing the cup to swap them as if that will solve this problem him. It's like, oh, sorry for the pee. Gotcha. So it's second, a follow-up. It wasn't like he, he was like, uh, it's one of these, I can't tell. I'm going to leave the unmarked urine cup. I think he might be dumb, is all I'm saying.

And, you know, look, I'm not here to be smarch anyone. I don't care. I, listen, I don't even want, I don't want this guy taking handling my food because there is no way that you are going to pee in a cup in your car and not have some cleanliness issues. You don't have a sink and soap and all that stuff. You've probably, maybe have some hand sanitizer. That ain't enough for me, man. Yeah, it's not enough.

Yeah, I don't want this guy. Sorry, I've been driving all day. I was able to tell which one is your Freddy's custard and my pee. Yeah, but you touched my. custard cup with your holding your wiener and pointing it into your styrofoam cup hands no thank you

dang it dude it's so foul it's so foul oh just something I noticed he's going out there with the cup he's got some in there he's swashing it around and saying look this is how full of pee it's a very dark

pee that guy needs to get looked at oh geez very dark at least at least he can take that right to the doctor to get it checked out. He doesn't need to go in the separate room and pee in a cup. He's got it. Well, here you go.

Yeah. This is all day. Yeah, this is all day. I don't drink a lot of water, as you can tell. Yeah. It's just acidic red water. But here's the thing. He doesn't actually use, that video is not his home security system.

That's a camera. It's his phone. He's walking out there with his phone. Oh, so he like, he saw this and he immediately got his phone, went out to talk to the guy. Yeah, which I would have done. bringing in yeah i would have done that too i would have been like dude oh god yeah yeah i need this on camera you're gonna be in trouble absolutely yeah it's far better than the ring camera because sometimes they just drop it off at the door you can you can say just drop it off of the door and

leave so good thing you have the uh yeah the wherewithal to catch it before the guy left makes me never ever want to use one of these again like i know that it's not going to be this every time this is an outlier i know that my heart of hearts knows this but i still i kind of don't ever want to do it again. I rarely get anything to drink. If I'm going to do DoorDash or Grubh Harbor one of those, I get it. And it's usually in the, with the sticker closed bag that is tamper shows if it's been tampered with, right? Like, they actually have to tear the bag or tear that sticker to get in there if they want like one of my French fries or something. But to be honest, it's like, I'll just drive. I don't want cold food anyway. And whether I tip

heavily or not, chances are my fries are not going to be the temperature that I want my fries, which is almost blazing hot. I want hot fries. Right. Plus you're paying, I don't know, in some cases, three, four bucks more for the same meal. Exactly. Exactly. Without tip, then you would if you just drove a block away and got it.

Exactly. I'll drive. I'll drive. We've got plenty of options close by. Boom. I'll go. Yep. You know what?

Here's what they should do. Instead of, well, this wouldn't really work. But combine the ideas of lifting. Uber with Uber Eats and DoorDash and what you do instead is let's say Brian in his lift car you come to my house and I say hey I'm I'm going over to the Taco Bell and then we go to the Taco Bell and we buy the food and you're just driving and then I take it and I go home and all I'm paying for is the is what's it's expensive lift isn't it to do that it is yeah because it's an out and back basically it's like pick up one stop drop off it's probably the minimum is

probably going to be 20 bucks. Yeah, I would think. Because I'd get, I'd get two minimums on that, which would be like five something. So you'd probably be paying 20 bucks plus whatever it costs to get the Taco Bell. But I have driven through drive-thrus for passengers before, but it's usually like leaving work late, taking them home. Oh, man, can we go through a such-and-such drive-through and like, yeah, put in the stop in there and they put in the stop and we go through the drive-thru and it's totally fine.

And they always, boy, liquor stores, convenience stores, if I take somebody to go get a packet of smokes or a bottle of whiskey or something, they always ask, can I get you anything? I always want to say, yeah, get me a handle of Great Goose, please. Let's make this a $45 offer of yours. Yeah, because what else are they going to get in there? Like, I guess they get some peanut. That's true. That's what they're really offering is like, need a bottle of water, a bottle of soda or something. They're not offering to get me like a hand.

handle of fireball or something. Give me the most expensive wine they have, sir. Yeah. Just to see what he does. Exactly. All right, we're going to take a break when we come back. Stephen Schlecker joining us. It's his week.

And boy, how do that mean? Some nerdy stuff on the way. So get ready for that. We need some music, though. Brian, did you bring some? I brought some. How about Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for this one. Big thanks to Wicked Cool Records for letting me know about it.

A brand new single and music video from the band. The Jelly Bricks. This is a song called Mondays Never, and if that name sounds really weird, well, listen to the lyrics and it'll make more sense. These guys have made it on to the new music daily list on Apple Music and the new rock playlists. They're also going to be playing the International Pop Overth

Music Festival on November 11th. This is a music festival that's basically Power Pop. It's made for people like me who love this kind of music. Let's get to it. From Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Here are the Jelly Bricks and Mondays Never. Monday's never good for May. Tuesday needs to go away.

Wednesday starts to feel okay. Monday's never good for me. Woke up in the gutter with a freight train in my head. Taxi'd four and out. just to land Broke up all the cobwebs with the ray of golden sun Coffee and a cigarette in hand Monday's never good for May

Tuesday needs to go away Wednesday starts to feel okay Monday's never good for me Found an empty bottle with a glimpse of last night's plan Rallied for a chaser near the end Friday turns to Sunday in the blink of bloodshot eyes Frankly it's a blur around the bend Monday's never good for May

Tuesday needs to go away Wednesday starts to feel okay Monday's never good for me Monday's never good for me Tuesday needs to go away Wednesday starts to feel okay Monday's never good for me Take this badge away

Let the good one stay Wake up in the garden Wake up in the gardener with a freight train my head. Taxi for an hour just to land. Monday's never good for me. Tuesday needs to go away. Wednesday starts to feel okay. Monday's never good for me. Monday's never good for me. Tuesday needs to go away. Wednesday starts to be Mondays never Gone's never No, Monday's never Never

Two weeks, Two weeks detention for thinking you could ever date a goddess like Sigourney Weaver. She won a spoken word Grammy, you piece of shit. Football time and fantasy. It's a little audio from, I'm catching up on polar, or solar opposites, finally. Oh, it's so good. So are you in the season with the new voice yet? No, I'm still finishing season two.

I guess season three is the new voice, right? Or is it four? Yes, I think that's right. It might be four. Might be into four already? I'm not sure. I think so, yeah. That show's so well written.

It's great. It really is. And I love the people in the wall story. lines. Oh, it's amazing. They're so good. They really are good. And freaking, freaking Christina Hendrix. Madman's Christina Hendrix. This is like her jam. She has found her calling

and it's playing these characters. She really has. It's so good. Anyway, hey, Brian, tell us who that was again, that song there. Yeah, that was the jelly bricks from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with a song brand new single they just released called Mondays Never. It's where the American vampires are, Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania, right? And the Dutch.

And the Dutch. Never, never mentioned the Dutch. Just kidding. And Allentown. Where they're tearing all the factory is down. I used to love that song. I still kind of do it. It's still good.

I like it. It's great. It's really good. It's a good historical song. Major spoilers bringing in some historical nerdiness here to the show. Yeah. Historical levels of nerd on its way. He will, that Stephen Schlecker will go down in history.

Did you watch the trailer, by the way, for the new Marvel thing, Echo? Yes, it looks interesting. And maybe their first M-17, or no, M-rated Disney. M.A. Yes, rated M-A. And the weirdest thing to me, Stephen, are you on, by the way? Yes, and thank you for saying us. Continuing with going down in history.

Sorry, I should have played this first. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a real freaking nerd. He's a real freaking nerd. Dollar bills, y'all. Anyway, sorry. So, Brian, continue. The surprising thing to me was,

you see at the very end of it, all episodes streaming in January. So in other words, they're going to release either all of them at the same time or maybe in two parts or something, but come January 2024, we're getting all the episodes of Echo all at once. Wow. That's good. That's a Netflix thing to do, isn't it? Yes.

And do we know, Stephen, is Barrenthal in this? I have no idea. Okay. Because the trailer says, you know, no good deed. or no bad deed, and then it pauses, you get some more action shots, and then goes unpunished. And it makes me feel like, oh, they're giving a little nuts. And we know we got kingpin in here. I think we're going to get the punisher.

That'd be cool. I mean, it takes a while to arrange the trailer stuff they need for his ears, though, for Berenthal's ears. That's right. Exactly. Yeah. They have very specific M&M requirements. His lobes. I don't see him listed anywhere.

Okay. So I don't think he is. It could have just been one of those. They could be key positives. That's a secret though, right? Yes, yes, they definitely could. Yeah, they did this with, who is it? They totally fooled us with and then surprised us when it came out.

Something recent. Darth Vader was Luke's father. No. Kingpin and Hawkeye was a big surprise. Oh, that might have been one of them. What am I thinking? Oh, I might be thinking of Star Wars. Asoka and Anakin.

I think maybe that was kept really tight to the vest or something. Peyton Christensen. Yeah. Yeah. So, Brian, in regards to all episodes will be released in January. January has five weeks this year, and there are only five episodes. Oh, there you go. Okay.

So there we go. All right. I think it was like a 10 or 12 episode show or something. Yeah. The five episodes is the shortest one they've done. Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty short. Unless you count Weirwolf by night, which is one episode.

One really good episode, though. That's right. Exactly. All right, Stephen. Let's get into it. We're going to talk today about crisis at Marvel because there's a crisis, and it's causing quite a stir. Why? Is there, though? I mean, listen, you crank out so much. So there's this article, this front page article that they had at Variety or Hollywood Reporter. I forget. They're both owned by the same company. So everybody who doesn't realize that, they are owned by the same trash company. I did not know that. That's news to me. Yeah, this was, they made that purchase like three or four years ago. and quietly didn't say that scripts or whoever is the main company owns both of them now. So just kind of keep that in mind anytime now that you're reading stuff on Variety. And it's really funny too because they were doing all this bending over backwards stuff for the studios during the Writers Guild Strike.

And now suddenly they put out this big piece. That's also something to question. But the article is going on about, oh, look at all the woes and the troubles that Marvel is in. They haven't had a hit in a long time. And they've got this problem going on with majors, who is Kang the Conqueror and the stuff. And it's like, oh, what are they going to do? And it's like, well, they, so here's the other thing. They talk about this big summit in the comic.

Oh, oh, and D.C. have an annual summit. Yeah. Oh, so I was going to say, Marvel and D.C. have annual summits every year for their comic book, um, uh, big arcs that they're going to do and kind of work together to kind of put something together. So for Marvel Studios to do something like this doesn't. seem out of place, but it's just like, all they're doing is trying to figure out how to pull up from this nose dive. And I mean, you guys were just talking about Echo. That Echo trailer dropped and everyone is going nuts for it. There's a bit in here about they paid, had to pay $25 million

for an episode of She Hulk. Gee, I wonder which one that was. Was that the one that had Mark Ruffalo and, uh, uh, the Daredevil in it and, yeah, and Tatyana Monsalani and all the special effects. That's right. I mean, it's, it seems a little obvious. It is just so, well,

Ant Man didn't perform well. Yes, but what else did perform well? It's just, it's so, it's so, so bad. So here's the thing.

Sometimes you're going to have good stuff. Sometimes you're going to have bad stuff. Yeah. It's a bummer because I really like, and this kind of goes back to the Hollywood Reporter versus Variety, variety always does feel like that's their opportunity. It's,

it's a THR's opportunity to be more, sensational. I feel like Hollywood report articles are not they're more factual and like, here's what's going on, here are the numbers, here's how all of these different MCU things are performed. But Variety goes, why is Marvel in such

a free fall and how are they ever going to recover from this? Yeah. There's a lot of hyperbole going on with that stuff. But it's also easy to look at this and realize they really are in a weird, like I wouldn't call it a rebuilding phase, but they're in a, they're in a

funky place. Well, and I think this is true for any major company right now that is in media. Fortunately, many podcasters, not all podcasters, but when we went through COVID, we also had to step up and perform it. Now look at how many people are like, oh, guys, the last couple of years just been too stressful for me. I got to take a step back. So Marvel is in the same position too. They were forced by Disney to step up with all this programming during COVID and also to promote their streaming service. And some of it was forced. Some of it was rushed. They hadn't figured out what they really wanted to do with their TV stuff. Now that they do, they're going to do a TV model instead of a movie model.

It's just some of these things that are taking a little bit of time for them to get used to. Now, does this mean that Marvel isn't in a free phone? No, this is just my opinion. And people who are like, no, Marvel sucks now. Go ahead. Just go ahead and say what you want to say. But I just, I just see this as a lot of rabble-rousing trash stuff from a trash mag. And it's just, it's just.

oddly timed is my big thing is this is an oddly timed article especially with the marvels coming out this week I think it's this week yeah this week this weekend right and people are like

the last Captain Marvel movie made a billion dollars people so it's not like that movie sucked no I'm sure this I actually am really excited about this one me too I'm not going to rush out and see it in theaters but I think I think that their pre-sales on tickets are that's what they're that's the looming threat, right? He's like, well, pre-cells

have been really in the tanker, and I would say, well, maybe that's true. It doesn't mean this is going to be a bad movie. Like, I just think people are just a little bit, maybe they're just a little fatigued. I am. I'm a little fatigued on Marvel. Certainly there is in fatigue, yes. I'm a little fatigued on Marvel movies right now. I'll admit it, and it's not that I'm hated or

going to take some weird stand or publish an article like these weirdos. I'm just, I'm just a little bit like, okay, I feel like I've seen it all. I'm all right. Their misstep, I think, was having too many, introducing too many, new properties all at once. They really should have sprinkled in

because really we got, all right, we got another Ant Man, we got another Thor, we got another Doctor Strange. But before that, it was Shang Chi, Eternals, Miss Marvel, like it was all of these all in a row new character introductions, and I feel like you need to have, hey,

we really still love the characters that we've introduced, the ones that haven't died. So we're going to bring them back for another movie while we introduced these other characters. That's another weird thing. And I just,

God, I hate, I know I run a site that, that covers a lot of this stuff, but God, I hate websites that cover this stuff because it's like, there's one paragraph that was like,

during the get-together, they wondered if they should bring back dead characters for another movie. And it's like, every website runs with this. Are they bringing back Tony Stark? Oh, Marvel must be in trouble if they got to bring back Tony Stark.

No, it's probably like one of these things where, again, in a group meeting where you're just like, hey, you think we should do the Marvel thing and we bring back dead characters, and everybody's like, no.

And then they just moved on. And now suddenly it's blown up to this big thing. Yeah, I don't like that either. I don't like that kind of hyperbole on any stuff, especially my nerd pursuits. Yeah, it pisses me off. But, okay, so, Stephen, let me ask you this. If you, this has been something, people have brought it up to me. I want to hear your take on it.

And Brian's too. I think we talked about it, but still Brian pipe in. It's a, this idea that for me to go see Marvel's, just to keep it in the, what's opening this weekend. Yeah. And really, truly be invested in it. There are, you have to watch two other shows and a movie to get, to go in there. Whereas, you know, another movie just comes out.

It's self-contained. It is what it is. You don't have to worry about it. But Ms. Marvel joining the thing, what's her name, Monica? Is it Monica? Rambo from Wanda Vision. From Wanda Vision, and then you got, you know, she was also in the first Captain Marvel movie, too.

Well, that's true, yeah. Oh, that's a good point. But not as an adult, though. Does it feel like some people have said to me, I've heard people say, or they've written in to the show and said, this feels like homework I don't necessarily have time for. Wow, how many movies did people have to see to go watch in game? Yeah, right.

Or, you know, did people say, oh, man, I really want to see the new Lord of the Rings movie, but I haven't watched the Two Towers or Fellowship of the Rings. You mean I have to read the Similarian before I go and watch The Two Towers? I mean, look, I think I could probably have not, I have seen all this stuff now leading up. But if I hadn't, I still think I could go in and have a good time. Exactly. Yeah. So, you know, I think maybe that's a little, that's also got a little hyperbole in it.

But I think it's a combination of things. I would also look at all the blue check marks that are screaming those things out. Well, some of them are direct DMs on my Discord. So I don't want to make them into Elon hugging weirdos. but anyway we'll see what happens I guess you know we just have to in a lot of this stuff we just have to kind of put her head down and wait right

we can't do anything until the stuff comes out and speaks for itself exactly yeah let it stand on its own feet yeah and Loki's been great Guardians of the Galaxy volume 3 I think was was a lot more fun than Ant Man and the Wasp and Thor 11 Thunder so for as much of a

thud as the end of phase four in the beginning of phase five was the secret invasion was also like okay um but i'm looking forward to marvels I'm looking forward to Captain America brave new world echo all this stuff

let's let's make it let's make let's make let's make MCU great again let's do it let's do it it it it still works you can still do MAGA it's just you're just MCU instead of no it's make it's MMG

it's MMGA I'll buy that hat in a heartbeat. Don't make it red, though. If you make it red, if you make it red, I'll get targeted. We can't have that. No, no, I can't have that. I'll wear it. Yeah, let's move on to this.

DC Comics announced Digest Size Trades. So we're talking like little bitty, like the old school ones, right? Is that what this is? Well, no, this is more like manga-sized, almost manga size. Slightly larger than manga size. This is a trade paperback size that are five and a half by eight and a half inches. So this is supposedly going to fit easier in your backpack and maybe we'll remove the stigma of you reading a comic book in public if that's what you're really worried about, I guess. The problem that I have is they're not actually trimmed two manga size, which is typically five by seven and a half.

So it's slightly larger to that. So if they're trying to compete for that bookshelf space, it's still going to look odd to have this one series of books just stand up a little higher and deeper than your traditional manga. But I get the idea, and I think it's a really good thing. So they're going to start off with Watchman, Batman Court of Owls, All-Star Superman, Far Sector, Wonder Woman, Earth One, American Vampire, Book 1, Batman Hush, Joker, Harley Quinn and Gotham City Sirens, and Catwoman, Trail of the Catwoman. Those are all the books that'll begin launching in June of next year. And I think that these all have enough of an interest that people might be able to pick them up, especially because they're going, with that compact size, they're definitely aiming at a younger audience for these.

Yeah, seems like. My only problem is it's going to be smaller text, and that's not getting any easier for me to read. No, exactly. I just said they're targeting young readers, not old people. Definitely not targeting us. Remember the, like, the, Marvel had them,

and it was like, Spider-Man versus Superman was this big... Oh, yeah, it was oversized. Oversized. What do they call them? Not gallery editions, but something along those times. Something like that. Yeah, and I'm sure I remember the name. But yes, those were, those were great.

Yeah, I like those. Alex Ross did a couple of DC things, Batman. Well, and DC and really all the publishers for a long time did the archive editions, which were almost double the size of a regular comic like the Silver Age series that I told you to buy a long time ago, Scott. That was in that, in that oversized edition. So, yes, comics for everybody. Comics for all sizes. Yeah.

everybody everybody find the size that fits you all right yes yeah finally futureama I hope this plays out I honestly hope that this gimmick plays out for them and that a bunch of younger readers

are willing to pick up something because it's sitting next to hunter X hunter or you know a death slayer or demon slayer or whatever the kids are reading these days yeah let's win some of these let's make them read left or right again like normal let's get back on we gotta change them is what you're saying

yeah I'm saying let's change them uh futureama renewed for two more seasons for now. There may be more after that, but people generally have enjoyed this latest thing, the Hulu revival, and I'm, I'm happy to hear it. This is great. Yeah, so they, 26 episodes, I believe, for the next two seasons. I'm questioning, though, you know, they make this announcement now, but what's going on with Hulu? Disney is exercising its option to buy out Hulu completely. After they've finished that acquisition, are they still going to honor? this agreement?

Are they going to say, we need to rethink this? Or any agreements, for that matter. I mean, it's still 20th, I mean, it's not, Futurama is not 20th century Fox owned. It's Matt Greining owned. So they could very much say,

yeah, we don't want to continue on with this. Yeah, they could turn it down, I suppose. And that wouldn't be new to Futurama. Futurama gets told this every couple of years, and then they find a new home and relaunch things. So I don't know what you guys think about that. If that is something that is a concern that if this Disney deal goes through, which it probably will,

$8.6 billion or whatever it is. If suddenly Disney is like, yeah, I know you said we were doing that, but that was under old ownership. This is new ownership. I feel like one of the strengths of Hulu is their animation lineup. And I think there would be a big mistake for them to do this to get rid of it or to not honor that once Disney does full takeover. And I really hope it hangs around. I like that service for a lot of the. They have archival stuff on it that's ancient. They got the whole adult swim. Or no, adult swims over on HBO on Max. but all the like Viacom stuff

I want to say Spongebob is there in perpetuity I mean there's the king of the hills where I get that used to get Simpsons there that moved but yeah like keep it on keep it on there Disney Bob Iger just calm down dude you got this is a Futurama here don't cancel don't be one of the many executives who decided to kibosh that show

only to see it rise again and gain in popularity don't be that guy all right well if you want stories this and more over at major spoilers.com, well, then just go there. That's just as easy as putting that in your little web browser there. You got Netscape Navigator. You got an internet explorer. Try either of those browsers. They'll get you in. Hey, Stephen, anything else going on in your little space over there you'd like people to know about? Hey, listen, it doesn't matter whether you're trying to get a warm milkshake or you're trying to get an ice cold drink. Get your fill of the hydration with nice warm water.

or cold water. Yeah. It just depends on which one you want to go for. If it smells weird, please don't drink it. But what if he comes to the door and you think it's what you think it is? Actually, you know what the lesson is? Always look in there and check. Always look.

You just don't. There's so much wrong with that story, Scott. It's like the driver was still there after he'd already taken, I mean, taking a drink of this supposed pea shake. And it's like, wait a minute, how long is someone going to park outside your house? For you to set your milkshake down, get out the straw, put the straw in, and then take a drink and then go, whoa, this is pee. First of all, you're going to spend five minutes throwing up, and then you're going to go to the door and see if the guy is still out there. Yeah, there's something, the whole thing's got weird, fishy connections on it. The whole thing about not getting a full refund, sounds fishy.

I question the whole journalistic integrity of Utah. Yeah, maybe the local news got punked by this guy. I don't know. I think they did. I think they did. They might have. I don't know. You have video, though.

Video proof. We got a video. It's always proof. Let's see him take a drink of the pee and then I'll believe it. Yeah, sip the pee, buddy. All right. You stay hydrated as well. Be hydrated.

It's a great way of saying stay hydrated. Yes, for sure. It's going to do it for today's programming. I would like to mention that our Patreon is in the throes of a new month. It's already the sixth, but it's early enough to get in here, man. Get in. Get in and be a part. of things.

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You can find everything else at frogpants.com slash TMS. If you're confused, don't know, whatever. Oh, other quick note, dungeon murders are packages are arriving. People are getting them. Had a couple of tiny rules questions that have been popping up. I'm going to be putting a complete web-based rules thing up on the website at dungeonmurder.com. It's not there yet, but it will be. And when I do, I will put in any questions.

questions I get that are like, oh, yeah, that might have been good to have it in there, we'll add to the web rules so people can have access to it. Oh, cool. Smart. You need to have one of those watch it played things. Did you send a review copy to that guy that Dan Patrice and I was talking about, today we're going to be learning how to play the game, dungeon murder. I sent it for a few to six years. I fell asleep during the emails, the problem with that guy.

Just kidding. He's fun. Yeah, no, I probably ought to do a let's-play video just so everybody can see it. But anyway, I'm just really excited that it's arriving and the people are getting it and production took forever, but we're really happy to know it's shipping. Anyway, that's it for today's show. Brian, would you like to end things with a bit of a song selection deal? So totally would.

This one's going out to our friend Redfraggle. Amy wrote in, said, good morning, Scott and Brian. November the 7th this year will mark my daughter Julia's 17th birthday. Let's party. the kids get the rock and roll man yeah they do i have no idea where all the time has gone but i continue to love being her mom and discovering the unique person she is becoming this year she's raising money to go on an educational trip to europe and i would love to support her efforts if anyone would like to throw her a few dollars to help with uh help her have that amazing experience she and i

both appreciate it so much the URL for anyone would like to donate is tiny ural dot com slash Julia Bug, J-U-L-I-A-B-U-G, all lowercase. That's again, tiny URL.com, Julia Bug. To celebrate a birthday, I'd like to hear a cover of pink's effing perfect. Can I get a honk ah and a you can eat rice? Thanks, friends. Love the show, though. Yes, so honk ah.

Hold on, not that one. That guy, there's the one. And then what was the other one? You can eat rice? You can eat rice. Okay, we got it here. Then you can eat rice! getting better at finding these.

Excellent. Now, I searched, there are versions, covers that are clean and versions that have the F-bomb and the cover songs I listened to when I was picking this out. It's like, oh, I like this one, but it's got the F-bomb. So I'm going to let you all know right now. If you're listening to this with kids, you listen to this at work and you've got it cranked up, this might be a good time for headphones. This is a cover of Effing Perfect by Pink.

And it's covered by Caitlin Hart on an album that I was really happy to discover because of this, called cover stories and she's got a lot of really good covers on this thing so I'm totally digging Caitlin Hart, digging her voice here is her cover of pinks effing perfect. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Made a wrong turn

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