The Morning Stream - TMS 2570: Holiday Nog

Episode Date: December 18, 2023

Blue Crotch! Brought to you by Vicks. So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen ex-wife. moisten your reed. Getting drilled with an eggplant. Oopma Loompas... Why'd it have to be Oopma Loompas? Parental Discretion Face. Timothy Shalladunaway. Beaver Ruin. Crotchaseptic. Hat-a-dashery. Sorry for the Maggots. Buy Milk & Have Fun Doing It. Prison sentences now 20% off! Crime doesn't pay when it's on Sale. Series S Socks With Stephen 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 Gettie Brigham, Robert Graham, and Scott Perino. Coming up on TMS, Blue Crotch, brought to you by Vix. So long, farewell, off-leader Zanex Wife. Moisten your reed. Getting drilled with an eggplant. Oompa-Lumpas. Why did it have to be oompa-lumpas? Parental Discretion Face. Timothy Shaladunaway.

Beaver Ruin. Crotch a septic. Had a dashery. Sorry for the maggots. Buy milk and have fun doing it. Prison sentences are now 20% off. Crime doesn't pay when it's on sale. Series S Sox with Stephen and more on this episode of the Morning Stream.

The following feature has been rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. It is intended for mature audiences and parental discretion is advised. I am sick of her face, but I love her voice. The morning stream. He's taking a dump in a can. You know what, before I forget, congratulations to Scott Fletcher's daughter, Kara, who just graduated college. Oh, yeah, I saw the photos this weekend on Facebook. Yeah, so cool.

It's pretty awesome. She's going into special ed education, and she got a Bachelor of Science in that. And I just think that's awesome. She's all grown up. Congratulations to all the Fletchers for all their great accomplishments in their lives. And welcome to the morning stream. Sorry, go ahead. Is she the one who blew, not a trumpet, but a trombone in your ear during one of the blindfolded.

No, that was the youngest one, I think. That's right. That's right. Yeah, I didn't hear that or expect that to happen, and that hurt. I remember that hurt my ears. This was an old, for those of you who don't remember, this was an old, Nurtacular during one of the

game show things that I was doing we had Scott blindfolded to identify a funco pop or something and or

it might have been the the taboo movie poster taboo or something but anyway we had the youngest

Fletcher daughter show up with her trombone and just go and scout the air yeah right in my freaking ear you guys

I have to admit it really caught me off guard because I was like, what is that? Where is that even coming from? A little bit of spit comes out. A little bit of spit every time. Yeah, that's the way it works.

Right through the brass. Oh, man. Freaking brass instrument reeds, like the reeds. Oh, I know. Got to suck on my reed to make it a little softer before I perform today. That's so foul. I just feel like as a modern society, we should have a better way of getting that work done, you know? I don't know.

Yeah. Gross. Moist read. Anyway, we're here to do a show. We're glad to be back, everybody. Hope you're all doing well. We got a follow-up from Jay. You know Jay Funk-Tastick in our crowd.

I do know Jay Funk-Tastik. Had the pleasure of meeting him and his girlfriend in New Orleans. We had a muffalada sandwich together. I don't know if it was a muffalada, but we did have a sandwich at a place that made muffaladas right down the street from the freaking bignet plays. It was fantastic. Yeah, I can't.

Oh, man. On the coldest weekend of the year in New Orleans. Oh, what was it? What was it cold? I don't remember. It was cold and windy. It was like 40-something degrees. And the week before and the week after, it was like in the 60s and 70s.

Nothing colder than when the South gets a cold snap and it's still humid and everything just goes right through you, just tears right through. Exactly. Yes. Yeah. You're wearing it. You walk outside and you are the snowman. To the bone. Yeah.

It's not good. Anyway Tip of the hat To our southern Yeah Jay Rodin Or he actually called in Is what he did Oh called it

Okay Because we had said something To him via the chat When the sound of music came up And Brian had finally seen this film So this was a whole We had a whole conversation Anyway this is his follow up

To give us a little bit of context So enjoy Hi Scott and Brian This is for TMS This is Jay Funkastic Yesterday during the pre-show I threatened to leave the chat If Brian kept singing the song

from the sound of music. I didn't mean I was leaving because of Brian's singing. Brian, you have a lovely singing voice. No, I threatened to leave because that was my ex-wife's favorite movie. And for eight long years, I had to suffer the extended edition Blu-ray of that movie at least once a month, along with her singing those songs all the time around the house.

So now whenever I hear those songs, all I have is her shrill attitude, meat grinder, grinder of a voice banging around my head for the rest of the day. So that's why I threaten to leave. Love you, boys. Keep up the good work. Love the show, though. Oh, man. That's awesome.

I hope at the divorce hearing when the judge said, all right, that settles that. I guess he doesn't do that. They usually do a conference room or something. But on her way out, you went, goodbye, farewell, off Leeder sing good night. And bobbing up and down like that, like Brian, you guys are the people listening

at home you missed Brian's dance it was pretty good that was pretty good I'm sorry to hear that she was such a shrill singer that's a bummer you know it is a bummer did that contribute to I want to ask further questions was that part of the reason you divorced her is because

I'm sure that wasn't you know there was probably much bigger reasons probably but one would assume but it's the little stuff that gets under your fingernails right that was kind of like I never have to hear that again thank goodness oh wait Brian is singing it crap crap what are we going to do uh all right well anyway thank you for that jay we appreciate

the follow through um okay you know the ferrigo soundboard that i use yeah i like it a lot it's great it's like hey scott can you uh play the let's see let's let's do part of the film sack intro oh look at that i can play um i don't know a diablo thing oh sure i can play a diablo thing really easy when you're looking at it but hey scott quickly play uh slurp my butt Hold on a second. I'm going to find it. Oh, no, that's not it. No, that's not it.

See, it's not in there. No, that's not it. It actually has to be in here. It has to be in here for me to get it, and that one's not in there. But anyway, so that actually is part of the story here. They have a search now, which is great. So if you have multiple boards, I think I have 12 in here that are all set up for different shows, I can search across them and find something very quickly if it's in here.

So if I was looking for, I don't know, let's just look for anything with Brian on it. So here's one. Hey, is it too early to get a fish sandwich? That's the first result, okay? But what happens with this search is it now populates it with not only stuff that's locally in your version, but also results from freessound.com, which seems like a cool way to find something maybe you might need. Sure, right, all of a sudden, yeah. So I've got like, here's one called Brian 5W. I don't even know what it is, but I'll just play it.

Let's see what happens here. sometimes it loads there we go I don't know what that is so it's somebody doing something here's one called Brian Eno type beat okay this is kind of like a

Brian Eno style music yeah so it's all these like free things with no beat whatsoever yeah yeah yeah yeah which might actually make this might actually make what I'm about to play make sense the fact that these results are kind of bad. Yeah.

The other day I searched for, where is it? I think I just searched for film sack or something. And it gave me a bunch of results. And one of them was this. And I'll just play it for you. And by the way, the file was called CV. That's all I knew. All right?

I'm like, what's CV? That's weird. I'll play that. So I hit play and this is what I got. My favorite candy is called the vagina. What's that about? Do you guys over at Rogamiba really want this is these mice, these search results, they're nonsense. Is this what you want to have happen when somebody uses your search?

Yes, it's just nonsense. This is just total nonsense. And you can disable it. It's not a thing you have to use. But, you know, if I search, so let's get a little weird here. And let's say I search for. You do have that permanently now, though, right? That is like, oh, hell yeah.

We're keeping that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, this is a great find. But let's give me, give me a keyword. Let's just, let's just try one. Sunflower. Sunflower.

something that's really often connected with audio with sound so now it's doing it's doing the results okay so here we have here's one i'll hit play it's like a little audio soundscape crickets yeah you can visualize some sunflowers blowing in the breeze here's another one uh this is eating a sunflower seed oh you'll love that then god please yeah yeah let's turn that off miso They can't stop. There's one called Food Fight. Let's see what that is. It's a little while to load.

Oh, it's a nine-minute thing. It's a very, it's going to be a very quiet track if it's a sunflower seed food fight. What is this? Oh, it's birds fighting over their feet. Oh, birds fighting over sunflower seeds, sure. There's another one, hot sunflower oil in a stockpot,

hot sunflower oil in a stockpot with several something in it. I can't read the rest of that. Let's see kitchen atmosphere with clicky sunflower sounds. Like, it's doing what it's supposed to do, but if you search for anything that's even remotely risque, I don't know, like, not that this is an app kid you use, but like, you know, like if I went, um, how about, uh, let's do, uh, something that, like, you know, normally you wouldn't think of risque, but you, you put in the right context. Eggplant. Eggplant. I like that. That's actually a good one.

Okay. eggplant one word oh no results i'm surprised oh really all right all right maybe not eggplant i'll try it's two words see if it changes i doubt it though oh it did somehow okay so here's eggplant uh let's see what happens i'll just play it uh okay here you go how about fixing the cable like what is that that's yeah that's so not eggplanting no it's not at all fixing the cable someone's getting drilled with an eggplant apparently

all right let me try fixing the cable here's what you get that sounds like maybe somebody's trying to fix a cable I guess I don't know yeah with their tongue perhaps

yeah if I do let's see try try chief or ot you

I don't know I don't know what any of that is that's my point though these results are terrible. Why even tie your service to this? It seems stupid to me. And if I'd search for the word vagina like our last clip had, which is not what I searched for

the first time, there's a ton of this, and I don't want to play these because I don't, I'm nervous. Like here, listen to this one. I don't want to play these, but here's one right now. I mean, let me read you one. I'm going to play it. Many vaginal, or sorry, many vaginal

vocal variations. I don't want to find out what that means. you totally do though that cloud you totally do though right let's try this one hopefully this isn't bad let's see this one says that cloud looks like a vagina that cloud looks like a vagina oh it's that guy so it's our guy it's the same guy it's his favorite candy

and it's also his favorite cloud how about this one vagina much vagina much wow so he really that's all he just sat in a room for a weekend and recorded the 5,000 variations on the word vagina I thought this one.

For China. For China. For China. I give up. It's too weird. It's too weird. So I'm not using that feature anymore is what I'm saying. We're done with that.

I held on to something from, I teased it last week that I had something from Joey Image, our wrestling fan. Oh, right. Yeah. Or a previous wrestler. Wrestling, fan, wrestling, yeah. Wrestling. I'm a fan of him. Yeah, Luminary.

Wrestling, Luminary. Joey Emersoning, celebrity. And, uh, celebrity. I'm just saying we should probably, somebody needs to just go knock on his door, make sure everything's all right because this is, oh no, okay. This is what he put up on some, some social thing, and I had to capture it. It's so weird. Here you go.

That's time to go buy some milk. Please have a great time buying milk. What do you do with that? Isn't that weird? Yeah. Maybe it's, you know, he basically just, this is how he does his reminders. Basically, he says, all right, at 1 o'clock, remind me to buy milk. And instead of just your phone, your series saying, please, buy milk.

He has to play this audio, which also not only reminds me to buy milk, but also wishes him a good time buying it. Oh, that's true. Don't just buy milk. Buy milk and have fun while you're buying it. Buy milk and have fun doing it. Exactly. All right. Well, then, look, those are the kind of results I want out of my sound searches.

I don't want no more. Right. Can you upload that to the whatever that, that, uh, free sound.com. Yeah, we could do it. I don't know. They don't even, I mean, that's just some kind of site with a API, I think. I think anybody can, you know. Yeah, it's just finding things that other people have posted and tagged carefully online.

Yeah. And you would be shocked how many of them, like most of the internet, are sex related. Yes. Oh, really? Shockerone. Yeah, real shock. And how many of the sex related ones about, uh, 84% are just that guy who's like, You know, doing slogans, the best part of waking up is vagina.

The vagina. With a name like vagina, it has to be good. He's the kind of guy either want to meet and hang out with or totally avoid. Every kiss begins with vagina. Vigina. Every kiss. It's candy. Candy.

Anyway, Joey, thanks for that weirdness, and I hope you're all right. Okay. And you should be happy while getting your milk. Have a good time. That's right. Please do it. Yes. Yeah. We don't do milk anymore. We do the, we do the oat milk. The sway. Oh, the oat. Yeah, right. We do the oat as well. Boy, if I found, thanks to, oh, shoot, I can't remember who it was, but somebody in our tadpoole suggested Calafia Farms for coffee creamer.

Boom. Love it. There's like a breista blend oat milk coffee creamer that they make that is, it's fantastic. Why is that they recommend of the Coke? one. I'm not a huge coconut fan, so I got some of them like, eh, not so much of that. But the oat milk that's just straight up unsweetened, unflavored, oatmeal

creamer is great. They're the ones of the blue, kind of bluish. Yeah, bluish and their boxes shaped like part of a German industrial factory. Oh, yeah, there it is. Look at that. Those are cool. I like that packaging. Okay, we have a

bottle of this. I've never tried it for anything because I don't do, I'm not a coffee drinker, but Kim uses it for something and I'll find out. This looks great. It's super good. Adds a little bit of, uh, softening of the coffee flavor without adding any, any flavor to distract you from it. So it's, it's very, very good. Oh, and they got the, they got peppermint mocha. They get holiday gna. They do have, they do have good flavors. And I did try their, um, Tina wanted me to try their vanilla because she likes, you know, vanilla flavor in her coffee. And it's like, oh, this is good too. Yeah. I'm going to go back to the original, but nice every once in a while to get a little flavored thing.

and as, you know, as the two Mels, the Emma, the Jerry, and the, I can't remember who else, who am I forgetting, the Beckham said, spice up your life. Yeah, there you go. They have a macha that is pour on ice. Ooh. Ooh. I like macha. Yeah.

All right. I decided, by the way, I signed up for the, so Magic Mind, they figured it out. Oh, we're going to suggest a sponsor. for soundography and we're going to send them samples and have them try it for five days and see what they think so they can do their sponsorship got it i loved it man i totally signed up for a subscription those are good right they're really good and i totally noticed a difference in the days that i took it yeah no we could tell on the show i totally could tell yeah yeah you could tell here because i was yeah i mean you weren't it wasn't that i wasn't like that it was a hyper but i was

tell you had like new energy i had new energy for sure sure you know what i could go for today i could go for some new energy that's what i could yeah yeah i got one up in the fridge a 80s band new energy i have a whole box of them in the fridge i should do you yeah you know you should totally yeah i didn't think about it this morning i should have grabbed uh magic mind dot com slash brian ibett all caps two bs two t's in ibett nice magicmind dot com slash brian ibett yep get that last which we could do i don't know why they didn't do soundography but now hammond has to tell people it's, you know, slash brain of it.

Yeah. Yeah, that's weird. Soundography is easier to spell if you don't know your last name. It is. It totally is, right? You can sound out soundography. Yeah. It is a bit of a shot in the dark. You're like, is it IBBT or IBB-O-T? Exactly. Exactly, yes.

Tell me all about the Willy Wonka movie, because I heard it was good. Yeah, saw that Saturday night, and went in very hopeful because I'm a fan of Neil Hannon, who did the songwriting, the composing, and he's a lead singer and singer-songwriter for a band called A Divine Comedy, one of my favorite bands. So when I found out he was involved, like, oh, great. Well, he apparently, I mean, I don't know this, but

based on how good it was for the soundtrack, I'm sure he listened a ton to the Anthony newly original for the Gene Wilder Willy Wonka movie, and and really captured that sound, that musical sound. And this is a musical. One of my friends that works at a movie theater says, yeah, we get a lot of old people coming up to the complaint or the customer service desk

complaining about wonkissing. I didn't think it was going to be a musical. Oh, geez. It's like, what, have you not seen any of the, even the Johnny Depp one was a musical? Yeah, even that had music in it. I mean, the one that everyone loves and thinks of from their childhood, that thing was chock full of it. Absolutely. It was totally full of music. Yeah. But the rest of it, like the movie itself, freaking has so much damn heart in it.

Tina came out of that thing. Like, this was opening weekend, but we saw it Saturday and it opened Thursday. The movie ended and people are, you know, usually on a Thursday night you see a movie very opening night. People applaud when it's over if they enjoyed it. But usually not all the way through the weekend. Saturday night, people seeing this. it was like the audience applauded like at the end of the the film that's great nobody to hear it they loved it sure um it was it's uh it's beautifully done the um the story

the story is heartwarming and sweet they don't try to make you know they don't try to explain every willie wonka thing um uh in the in the in the prequel like uh you know like the indiana Jones one that we keep bringing up um you know they they basically say here's who he is here's why he is some of the way he is and uh but we're not going to explain every single darn thing about it and again it is a direct prequel to the jean wilder movie it's a direct prequel to the jean wilder movie yeah they you know the umpalumpa song uh it's it's you know you hear you hear it in this um how's Hugh grant is the umpalupa guy he's great he's uh he's actually uh the the special effects for that are great, but he

pulls it off, and it's just funny because he kind of pronounces it umpalumpa. Oh, it's supposed to umpalumpa. Really? So when he's singing, umpah lumpa dupa, dupe d,

uh, but that aspect was great. Timothy Shalame did kind of the thing you wanted Timothy Shalame to do, to be prominent, but not to overdo it.

Um, June Wilder was a, was a good singer, but he wasn't like, you know, he's not, um, Frank Sinatra level or, or Michael Blubley or something like that. Right.

And Timothy Shalme, kind of the same kind of thing, you know, really good at, at enunciating while he sings and hitting the notes so you can understand the lyrics and all that sort of thing, but, um, but he didn't need to be any more than that and he was, uh, and he wasn't and, uh, um, was there ever a scene where he yelled at the top of his lungs freedom for aracas or anything like that he never did no okay no he never that's the only thing

you will ever connect with timothy shallame apparently is doing yeah you got to put you know don't don't watch his uh what he does with an apricot you got to put a hand you got to put a hand in a box that wants to kill you while lady holds a little stinger thing next to your necks all those things i expect that in all timothy shallamee film moving forward that's just the deal yeah uh well good there was half a dozen people at our our family get together last night that also saw it in loved it. Everybody was writing about it. Little kids liked it. Adults liked it. I got a big old tough gun-owned and, you know, traditionalist dude in our extended family who was like, I loved Wonka. And he liked it. Oh, my God. That's fantastic. He loved it. He also liked Barbie. So that guy's a mystery.

That guy's a mystery. I can't figure him out. That's great, though. We want to see, we want to see it. I'm glad to hear it's not. I mean, I don't know why. I don't know why I was like, you know, we got this Timothy Shalames in danger of over exposure these days? Sure, sure. And I understand when people get a little weird about that or they get down on somebody simply because... Look, what happened? There was such a backlash about Chris Pratt, right? Because, oh, he's doing the voice of this, and now he's doing the voice of that, and now he's in this movie, and he's in this other thing.

Yeah. It can be too much, or at least feel like it's too much sometimes. Yeah. But I'm fine with him. He's fine. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he's a weird-looking, skinny-looking little dude. He's a talented kid.

And, you know, he deserves the praise he's getting. He was funny on SNL. He's funny when he's being parodied by Chloe Feynman on SNL. Yeah. I liked it when he was, it was the SNL one, a previous guest starring of his, where him and Pete Davidson are doing that rap thing. Yeat! Yeat!

Oh, yes. Yeah. That put me in stitches. That made me laugh so hard. Yeah, he's good at kind of a little self-deprecation like that. Yeah. Spice must flow, all that. He's great.

Right. Anyway, that's cool. It'll be nice for you to see in other movies and so that, you know, Dune isn't the only thing you can think of. It's all I can think of right now. I will admit it. That and the king, he was really good. Dune and Yeat.

Yeah, Dune, Yeat. Apparently being very inappropriate with a peach or something, according to you and others. What's that from? What's that movie? Apricot. Call me by your name. Call me by your name.

All right. Yes. I think I'll avoid it. It sounds awful. I don't want to... You know, everything else about that movie is really sweet and really nice. And, uh, um, yeah. Just the peach part.

Just the peach. Apricots got. Apricot. Apricod, sorry. Uh, all right. Let's have some fun with Dunaway. All right. Our very, our very own Timothy Shalomey like character here on the show, uh, he comes on.

He has the same hair as, uh, Timothy Shalamey for sure. Yeah, he's an entertainer. He's the ladies like him. They do. He's all those things and more. Here we go. That music designates that it's time for the morning half-asses. And joining us on the phone, as always, for this, is Mr. Brian Dunaway.

Hello, Brian. No, hi, Scott and Brian. How is your cleaning up to Christmas week? How's it going? You know, getting it done. We're getting there. Yeah, still have a few more things I need to order. I'm not liking the lack of enthusiasm here.

It's got me worried. You know, as soon as I feel like I'm on top of all the things that I need to do before Christmas, I will be able to sit back and enjoy the weekly after Christmas. Yeah, that's absolutely true. How about you, though? How are you doing with all your Christmas preparation and fun? I'm ready, man. I've already got my feet kicked up going, bring it on.

Where are my gifts? come in get to know me better man yeah get to know me better man are you are you uh but you're like us you're like me and brian where we're like we don't need anything yeah no no no no no i don't need anything i want though give me give me give me give me give me give me give me like the garfield thing it's just like uh jd mcpherson by the way great album if you haven't listened to it yet now is the time of year to listen to socks by jd mcpherson it is a great christmas album that is no covers at all all originals and uh and you're getting socks for christmas just like socks for christmas there's a whole song about getting socks for christmas why why waste wrapping paper on a stupid pair of socks

i agree but one of his one of his songs wait you get pairs of socks always get multiple pairs i get like six pairs of socks really yeah every year i could actually use a few pairs of socks i hope i get some this year yeah i'm right on the cusp with my feet being too big so it's like all the socks are like eight to twelve s u s u.s sizes and i would are 13s. So to get, if you go, if you go 13 or above, they always go, you know what they say. That's going to be a special. That's going to be a special order. Yeah, they say it's expensive socks is what they say. Big feet. Expensive socks. That's right. How come you, so you're, how tall are you? Done away. I'm like 5.11. Okay. So you're 5.11. I'm 6.3 and a half, almost 6.4. Why do you have these gigantic boat feet? And I have. For balance. I can wear, I can get away with nine and a half. You ever seen, you ever seen Rayman? You know how everything is like he's got giant hands and feet?

That's me. I'm like, average size giant hands and feet and my arms don't exist. It's just weird. See, because mine's all giant head, tiny feet. Don't know why. Yeah, way apparently is built like one of those L-shaped rulers we had in drawing the school. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm well-balanced.

I'm well-balanced. Those had a name. They had a name. I care of what they are. It wasn't a triangle. It wasn't a T-square. it was like with those weird it was just a right

Proctor? Right, right? Not proctor. No, it's like the big Brian's talking about is exactly the right thing. It's like a big L. L shaped.

Sometimes they were large. You're talking about an L. Yeah, they were sometimes very big. You could use them on a drafting table or something. And they had a name. You mean,

the thing that we all called L's because it's what it looked like. They didn't have a name. It was L. Give me the L. Yeah, give me the Lose, the loss or whatever the kids say today.

Anyway, let's play this game. It's the half-asses, and Brian will explain how it works, and who will win what. That's correct. Yes, you're 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 a category and six possible answers. Three of those answers are correct, and three of those, like Timothy Shalamee and anything but Dune are incorrect. Depending on how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses.

But if they get anything wrong, they get zero points for that round. Get one right, gets a point, get two right, gets two, I'm sorry, three points. I don't even understand my own game. I get two, right, gets you three points. Get all three correct. You get five points total. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant.

And who are our contestants? Well, let me tell you right now. Scott, you're going to be playing for Jonathan in Houston. Brian, you're going to be playing for Jason in Goose Creek, South Carolina. Somebody close by. Baby, I know where Goose Creek is. Yeah, I'll go hand deliver it. No, I won't.

All right. you go just dump it on the side of the road like those TVs you always pick up do it that way right there you go yeah or a couch don't pick him up off the side of the road anymore anymore but you did for a while there look done away I'll take your CRT no matter how you give it to him he doesn't he will totally yes exactly look it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like I went I go ahead and deliver it I'll take it I have I'm got I've got a truck and anytime I pick up a CRT I don't even look at it until I get home and I get it okay cool and if it's something I want to keep I keep it if not I went I go ahead and deliver to the dump. Whenever. The way you described it, whenever I'm picking up a CRT, that means it's a regular thing. That means it happens more than once.

The whenever, as opposed to when I picked up a CRT, oh, that happened once. Whenever I pick up a CRT is all the time. Oh, you think I was denying that I get CRTs? No, no, no. Not even close. No, you get it like I, this cold won't leave. That's how you get CRTs.

Nice work. By the way, Claire says, No, but I want the CRTs. The L thing that we're talking about is, a set square. Oh, is that the name? Set square. I think that's right. That sounds right. And Bobby Frankenberger grew up in Goose Creek where one of our players is from. You grew up in Goose Creek. I've tried to go to Goose Creek all the time. I assume there's a creek. I assume there are geese. I'd like to know more. And every time I pass by the sign,

I always go, oh, Goose Creek. I don't know why. Some places you have to say out loud every time you see the sign. Goose Creek. It's one of those places. That in Beaver ruin. I always say that two. Beaver Ruin. Beaver Ruin. Don't do a search for that in your audio thing, Scott. It sounds like the new Nicki Minaj song. Your new album is Beaver Ruin, and you don't want to know what the tracks are like. Oh, I found one. Here's a beaver. Here we go. Hold on. Here's a beaver chomping on a log.

That's not so bad, right? There you go. It shouldn't be. But does he have like that, like the Lay in the Tramp whistle thing where he goes, 66%? Does he do that? I mean, I wish. Oh, and there's one in here that is probably dirty. I'm not playing that. All right.

Anyway. What's the, what's the term on the one that's probably dirty? It's a, I can't tell you. Wow, it's that bad. It's not bad. It's very, very crass. If I say it, I'll regret it. I can't say it.

I'll put it in Discord while you're doing it. the road I'm talking about. That's right. All right. Let's get to your first question. Your first question, six answers. Your category is fallen angels in Milton's Paradise Lost. So Milton's story, Paradise Lost, features some angels, some fallen, oh, geez, yeah, no kidding.

Don't play that clip. We just got a notice in the Discord people. Yeah, we just found out the audio clip that Scott's talking about. And I think my misophonia would be through the roof on that one. Yeah. Also, it's good. It's good to know they're keeping it within their little matrimony, though, right there. Yeah. Oh, yes. That's true. Yes, exactly. All right. Anyway, which of these, oh, it's a poem? Thank you, Jeannie. Which of these six names are fallen angels in Milton's poem, Paradise Lost? Your choices are. Ball, Mamun, Molok, Asriel, Belial, and Gabriel. Belial. These are all great decor-

These are great Deccard cane things for Diablo Belial is one of my favorites actually All right So we got Asriel Bale

Is Bail Bail or Ball I've always says Bail But maybe it is Bail I don't know I just said Well I think it's ball To the ball to bang to bang

Diggy Diggy Yeah yeah All I learned about Demon names Was from Diablo One and two and three And four So I don't know

I think I know at least two of these, so I'm choosing. Okay. All right. And then, Brian, you choose what you choose. You guys are both locked in with two. You guys each locked in on different ones. The two you didn't lock in on were Mammon and Moloch,

both of which are fallen angels in Milton's Paradise Lost meeting. There's no way you guys could do better. Asriel and Gabriel, no, not in the poem. Ball, not the poem, but Belial or Belial is... Wow, we guessed exactly the wrong. one that is a no just about I got one I should have stayed with one shoot you went with the bees

sometimes there's a reason I put some of these first it's like yeah let's get that one out of the way it's a fun category let's see how they do with it but we don't want to we don't want to make it that they're having to rely on it for points rely on this one for points which of these are things that have a perfect score that's over 1,000

so when you get a perfect score in one of these things over 1,000 dude 1000. Your FICO credit reports, Yatsi, Microsoft Spider Solitaire, Bowling, the SAT, and the GMAT. Which of these? When you get a perfect score, it's over 1,000. My gosh, dude. Okay, so that's confusing. All right. Oh, really? All right. I got you. I think, well, yeah, because I'm like, because I'm reading it backwards, I think. I'm thinking if it's over a thousand, then it has to be perfect.

But you're saying things that have a perfect score over 1,000. So some of these things can't go over 1,000. But if they could, they would then be perfect is what I'm asking. Oh, I see what you're saying. If it's not possible for something to be over 1,000, then they would not be part of this category. Right. Right. It has to get a perfect score.

Well, I don't know. It's a half-asses. It has to be a thousand or over. Right. A thousand or over, exactly. Yeah, that's easy. It's so confusing. Like I said, okay, so it's got to be over 1,000 for it to be perfect.

Well, it's like, no, it's saying you're focused too much on perfect because perfect score for can vary, right? So one thing might be a thousand. Getting the best score possible in any of these things is over 1,000 is what I'm saying. Let's take the word perfect out of this thing. Yeah, forget it. But getting the highest score possible with any of these things is over 1,000. Okay, I got you. So the highest score for any of these is over 1,000.

I got you. Okay, the perfect was doing me. Yeah. I'm locking in. I don't know if this is right. the only one that sounds right there's only one that sounds right to me the rest of these but i'm freaking i have no idea uh all right now you're both locked in okay you guys both settled on fico credit reports fico credit reports and i'm sorry to say that uh no a perfect

score perfect fico credit report is only 850 uh bole that's what i asked is only 300 is that what you asked you said it couldn't you said it you said it if it was over that it couldn't even be on the list. I'm like, okay, so I guess it can't, I guess it has to be here because it's got to be a possibility of it. No, they all said if it's, yeah, you said that. Check the tape. Check the tape. In this category, in the

category of things that have a perfect score. It won't even be on the board if they couldn't you could only get 300 in bowling. What are you talking about? Yeah, bowling 300. The highest score you can get is 1480 or more. You can, you know, they say you have a plus on there. I don't know what that means.

Right. Microsoft Spider Solitaire, you could get 1,254 with a perfect score on that. The SAT, 1600, the GMAT, only 800, which means, yeah. Is that the, what is GMAT? What is, I don't even know what that is. I don't know if that is either. The aptitude test. General math aptitude, general math aptitude, general math aptitude.

Let's see, it is the geography. Graduate management admission test. Okay. So this is like a, when you go to graduate school or something. something yeah okay oh oh it's too smart for me i got you the g mat you know you know i i pick fica because i couldn't even understand the question so obviously i would never know anything about the g mat you know what this just this just this showed very plainly that none of the three of us are wherever graduate students of any kind pretty much yeah exactly we did

SATs but this g mat what the hell is that yeah exactly never had to do that one all right well it all comes down to this let's see how well you know your cars for points you got to do this you You got to, but you can be strategic. We'll see. We'll see how you do. I feel like this is going to be the week that Ibit finally gets sick of our crap and starts giving us easy questions. I think this is going to be finally it.

Which of these are the names of Star Wars movies? Yeah. Yeah. No kidding. We're going to have a real drop next time. Look forward to it. Exactly. Okay.

Let's get to it. Which of these are actual models of Honda? Honda. The splur, I'm not going to say Honda before he cheat this. The splurge, the dinah, the jazz, the echo, the insight, and the hobio. If you don't say the Honda in front of it, I'll have to do it in my head. Thank you will. Be my guest.

I think I know, because I know, so the problem we're having here is most of this is in Korea or other, other territories. Or outside of the U.S. Yeah, yeah. so it's a bit of a guess. It was sound right. I've heard those before. I looked at Honda for a little while, so this is, some of them sound familiar.

I'm taking two just because it feels like that only took two, so I'm doing two. I did take two as a matter of fact. I said I took two. I think that's what I, yeah. All right. You guys both settled on the Honda Insight. Yeah, it's probably the easiest one on the board.

It's been around since 2000. and absolutely the Honda Insight. Nobody selected the Honda Hobio, which is the rebranded Honda Vamos, which is, I think, the Spanish or Latin American. Not exactly sure. What makes it echo or something like that? No, no echo.

No splurge. The Honda Jazz is the other Honda model. Oh, shit. Damn it, done away. You see, I told you, you had to go through your head and go, I did Honda splurge, Honda Echo, Honda Dinah, and I was like, Oh, Honda Jazz, Honda Jazz actually felt right to you. That sounds great.

Even reading the answers that didn't look right. No, but Utah's doesn't look right either. But I recently looked at Honda's when I was looking at a car for almost a year. So I looked, the Honda was a serious contender, so I saw a lot of cars. So this is mostly in what territory? Well, I guess you said Spanish for the hobo. Yeah, I think Latin America for the, like I said, I don't know why somebody is saying it's a language. I didn't say it was a language.

I said it's a part of the country where the Honda Boboos, Hobio would be. This may be the last week. The I did it, but I acknowledge a certain person in the contrarian in the chat. I don't know where the Honda Jazz comes from or the, but obviously Honda Insight is here in the U.S. I know where they got it. They bought the jazz name. Plus every week. From New Orleans.

Every week I race with our good friends. Every week I race our good friends on the frog pants in Mission Deep race group. And we play Forza Horizon 5. So I see all this car crap every week. Oh, really? Do you see these models like the Honda Jazz? I'm not sure. I don't know if the Jazz is in there.

Like I said, we see a lot of cars. Yeah, that game's got all that. That helps you a lot, bro. That one's set in Mexico, and you see a lot of Mexican builds that you've never seen. So what I'm saying is more car names for me, please. Yeah. Sure. Okay.

Yeah, I'll make sure to put a category in here every week for you. Jesus. I'll never get another car question again. Damn it. So congratulations going to Jason Terry and Goose Creek, South Carolina. You're getting a copy of Roadwarden and Merchant of the Skies, courtesy of Wesley. Wesley. Both good games.

And, but, you know, Jonathan, Houston, you get to have some fun over your. Christmas break as well with a game called Azamandius Bronze Age Empire Sim. That sounds fun too. I haven't played that one, but yeah, the first one really, really won this week. Those two games are great, so we're going to really enjoy those. And big thanks to everybody.

He sends us in codes for us to give away. If anyone's sitting around on a big, fat pile of, like, you know, stuff you got over at the Humble Bundle, and you're never going to go through. Oh, Bill Bundle. Send it over. We'll take them. We'll put them up here. I like, I like I like Six Scott because he has to

swallow from time to time he has to stop in between words and so he's like if anybody's sitting on big piles i can't help him man my upper respiratory tract is a nightmare right now uh well done away you help somebody win shit and that's what matters most uh congratulations and you serve somebody in your own state your own home state of south carolina i know keep keep it local people keep it local keep it local farm fresh two table see you all right he's gone before the holidays, before Christmas. Oh my gosh, that's how we should count it all down. One more done away to Christmas.

Just one more done away. Yeah, looking forward to that. Because it was the done away before Christmas. I'm back Wednesday and he'll be here once again. That's right. All right. Well, well done, everybody. We're going to get into some news, and we're going to do that right now.

It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. Blue Crotch. So here's a story of this. Quick story. Where is it? Here it is. This stuff right here, Vix, vapo cool. Yeah.

Sore throat medicine stuff. You spray in the back of your throat, right? Whoops. Back your throat, yes. So you're supposed to, you know, ah, and then get it way back there. It's like a chloroceptic, right? It's basically like, yeah. Yeah, cooling, numbing.

If you're having really bad sore throat, this is what you're supposed to use. And I had the worst sore throat of my entire life over the last four days. You had a rough, rough business. Now, I did notice before. I used it. This brand new bottle we got. This top part here moves, and I don't know why. It's not like this. It doesn't have a, it doesn't screw down or up or off. It's just a, it's just a, right, a constantly pivoting deal. Whereas the top's fine. All seemed fine. Now here's the problem. As you

can see, I barely used any of it, and here's why. I went, three little sprays. And I went, ah, that's actually very nice. I feel the soothing action happened, you know. It's like a commercial almost. I see the blue coating the side view of the thing. And then I look down, and my entire crotch, I'm wearing gray sweatpants. My entire crotch is bright blue all of a sudden. Oh, no. So what happens?

Something with this loose thing up here, some gasket thing, when you spray out the back of this goes, bleh, bleh, blah, every time you do it, and it all drip down into my crotch. So this is a defective bottle. No kidding. And Vicks will hear from my lawyer. Now I have blue pants. Yep. I got Dr. Manhattan pants.

Nice job. Right, right, nice. All right, let's get to some of these stories real quick. Did we already do the... No, we talked about... We talked about... Oh, wait. We talked about doing this one, I think.

Yeah, I don't think we ever got to it. We never got to the story, but we said, make sure to tune in Monday so you can hear about this. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah. Because this is a good one. And because I made a deal out of it, now I felt like I've talked about it, but we totally haven't.

Right, right, yeah. Woolworths, you know, Woolworths? Sure, I'm very familiar with Woolworths. Sure. It's a five and a... dime. It's both of those things. Five and dime. And it's in Australia. So we've got another Australian story here. All right. Mates. I'll make you feel happy. That's right. He'll love that. Woolworth says, sorry, after a customer finds maggots crawling in his roast chicken. What do you

guys doing now? Jeez. Customers issued a warning, sorry, a customer has issued a warning to other shoppers after she went to eat a hot roasted chicken purchased from the Tasmanian supermarket that reportedly contained maggots. A chicken was bought. supermarket, Woolworths. Yeah, Woolworths, I think of that as like house goods and stuff. Right, like a CVS Walgreens kind of thing. It's like it's, you know, you get that when you need band-aids really quick or distilled

water or something like that. Yeah, habadashry is what we think of. Right, right. Well, in Britain, I guess you do. That's a hat place. Isn't it a haberdas? Oh, it's haberdasary hats, I don't know. I've never known.

The only time, here's my exposure to habadashry as a word. I used to watch that British comedy called Are You Being Serious? Are you being served? Yes, right. And they would do that intro song and say, something, something, da-da, suits and things. Rapa-da-da-da, third floor, zabba, zuba. And then they always say habadashery, and I'd go, what a weird word.

And that's the only exposure I've ever had to habadashry. I don't know what it is. That's funny. I get a look here. No, men's clothing and accessories. What is a hat store then? A haberdasherry. Had-a-had-dash-ry.

Actually, Lucky Hill says, a haber-dashry is just a grocery store, supermarket. Just stuff? Yeah. But British English, a Haberdasher, is a business for person who sells small articles for sewing, dressmaking, and knitting, such as buttons, ribbons, and zippers in the U.S. and Canada. It's a retailer who sells men's clothing, suits, shirts, and neckties. Oh. What am I thinking of? What's a hatmaker?

There's a term for a hatmaker. Yeah, there's something more than just hatmaker. It's like, you know, a shoe guy is a cobbler. millinery that's not what I was thinking huh yeah I can't remember

my word for it's too long my word is place that never gets my head size right that's what I call them that's right hattery yeah that's it Chris

it's not a hattery come on yeah you know as a hat maker now this will blow your mind you remember the band the fix

yeah you know less than they are saved by zero or ritz guys at night oh oh oh psych her and lead singer of the fix is a hat maker so oh now so what does his Wikipedia page say about what his profession is called oh you know what

thank you for that's a great way to find out yeah we're going to find it the back doorway here let's see hack customizer That's not it. Hold on. His Wikipedia page doesn't mention it. It doesn't mention it?

No. That seems like burying the headline. But when they did the, the, where are they now? It was bands getting back together on VH1. One of the last things I ever saw in VH1 that was good. They were getting the fix back together and they said,

now he's a British hatmaker. Oh, you were right the first time. It's a Milnery. Milnery. No, there was, uh, or mill, I looked that up. Milnery and I saw Milnery and is like, yeah, that, that's right, but it's not what I was trying to think of. There's some, okay. Some hat thing. Hey, we got, we got Hatter is one of them. Hatmaker, Milner. Uh, that's all they say here. All right. Well, all, well. Someone make a hat that fits me. That's all we're. And then, and then go and fix, uh, Psycernan's, uh, um,

his Wikipedia page because it doesn't talk about his hat making at all. Yeah, exactly. It says, let's see, oh, so back to this thing. This person who went to the store, she says, it's sat completely sealed until 7 p.m. when we opened it, the chicken, that is. Started eating and found maggots all throughout the chicken. It's the second time they've alleged to have been in a cooked chicken purchased from different stores in the area this year.

Wolver's has apologized to the customer, although they've done it in the British-Australian spelling of the word apologized. Apologized. We apologize for the maggots. They say they take food quality and safety seriously. I don't know. I'm not sure you do. Maybe you should check inside your chicken.

Yeah. How seriously, really, do you take it? Yeah. Supermarket claims they are not aware of any previous reports or anything of a similar nature. People are encouraged to report poor food, hygiene, or complaints to their local councils. All right. So lucky Phil, maybe, you know, don't go there. You have to change your name to unlucky Phil.

That would be, I think that might be enough to push me into vegetarianism for a little while. If I cut into a piece of roast chicken and found maggots. Found stuff moving in it. Yeah. I think I'd be like, you know what? I'll be going to have some broccoli. Yeah. Just for broccoli for me, please.

That probably would drive me to do that. But it's the same thing that would happen. If you gave me broccoli with worms in it, it would drive me to eat. Yeah, right, and push you to meat. Yeah. So nobody's safe is really what we're saying. All right, how about this one?

A convicted Parker's Coles thieves. So let's go to another retail store while we're here. From World War's two Coles. Coles. Argued for a lesser charge because the items were on sale. So these two men were convicted of a felony theft for stealing stuff at the Coles. $2,000 worth of merchandise with Coles. Yeah.

They argued in court. But they wanted a smaller sentence. Yeah, they want a smaller, they want to get hit. less because the items were on sale and they say they had coupons which is so stupid. Yeah, but you didn't use the coupons? No. What the what else? You didn't? Also listen to this

breaking bad ass sounding pair. Michael Green age 50 and Byron Bold in age 37. That's some Walter. Oh yeah, that's totally some Walter White. Jesse Pinkman business right there. Yeah. Grab the merchandise, bitch. That's one of them said. That's right. Exactly. Yeah.

Coles, bitch. The two men were dubbed KitchenAid mixer crew because of a high-end kitchen aid appliances they stole. You know, good for them. Those are really expensive. They're expensive as hell, those things. Yeah. I bought one for Kim one year, and it was a lot. God, I could have been, if something would have happened with me and that giant Casio keyboard

I stole from Montgomery Awards and the Nintendo, what would my, what would my, what would my pithy burglar nickname would have been, like the Montgomery Award sticker bandit or something Yeah, what would that be? You need a creative one like they did. The Super Bandit Brothers or something. I love it. Oh, Brian will never get it. He'll never have to answer for that crime.

No, thank goodness. My crime rewards isn't even around anymore. No. They've forgotten about it. Plus your statute of limitations, I think, kicks in. Wait, that doesn't matter for theft. I don't know how that works. Is Brian confessing to a crime he can still be persecuted for or prosecuted for?

No, no. Well, let's not dwell on it. That's not. Let's pretend we never even mentioned it. We'll just keep going. This happened in Colorado, by the way. I should have mentioned that. It's Colorado story. Oh, so it's Parker, Colorado.

I know Parker. Yeah, you've probably been there. Let's see, in Colorado, theft under two grand is a misdemeanor offense, but the documented value of the item stolen was $2,094.98, making it a felony. So that's why they're doing this. They're trying to shave that 94 or 98 off of there. Yes. Well, if it was, all right, well, that's the question.

question. If these items were on sale, do you charge them by the, like, you know, the crime committed charge, is it the sale price or the actual retail price? There's a valid, you know, valid point, although does that mean that they went specifically went through the store saying, oh, that's a really good price on this KitchenAid mixer bowl? All right, I'm taking it. Put it under my jacket or something. Also, where does tax come in on this? Do you have to pay, if you stole something and the tax value put it over the amount, does that also make it a felony?

Right, exactly. Right. If you steal $1,99 worth of stuff, the tax will put it over the top. Yeah, for sure. Well, anyway, these guys are screwed. The KitchenAid mixer crew, they're going to probably just have to cop to a felony. I don't think the judge is going to go for it. Well, when they get put in jail, hopefully they blend.

I don't know if we can go on after that one. That was like a show-ending joke. You want the show-ending one? It just goes to show you the crime is very whiskey. Oh, gosh. Oh. I like that one I hate because it reminds me of the may the fourth be with you. It's like the...

Because it plays upon a sound of a speech impediment. Yeah, it's a speech impediment. Exactly. hate that. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back from this break, Steven Schleiker will be with us. He is from Major Spoilers.com. Has a bunch of stuff to talk about, including a very cool project they're working on right now that you guys can check out for yourselves. I played a little teaser of that last week, but he'll have more to say. So stick around for that. In the meantime, Brian, let's do a song.

You know, and I don't know if Stephen listened to A&P, but man, that was A&TP finals level tease. Yeah, that was good. You would have won the year. man. He would have won the air. Hey, let's introduce you to a new band called Radio Bot. This is made up of the guys Brett Scalions.

That's his name, Billy Harvey and Eddie Wall. This is the band's one of the first singles. They're getting ready to release their debut album this coming spring. And they've also released

a cover that has made it into the top 40 of the cover of the countdown, which starts this week. So listen for that. Anyway, the band is Radio and trying to see

where they came from Nashville no they actually when they were in lockdown in 2020 with the pandemic Billy was in Nashville and Eddie and Brett were both in California

but they created this the start of this album via Zoom and FaceTime good for them man it's awesome that's great the album is going to be called Concrete and Desert next year here is the initial song here's the first single it is called This World's on Fire

Everything in front of me Just ain't what it used to be Yeah, it's over now Children with technology Losing on reality And it's all gone now sure as can be just like you and me

everyone around can see this world's on fire yeah this world's on fire people fighting in the streets we're home and search for something they could eat let's all help them now Watch the news that you believe Shame the ones you never want to see

With your blinders on Plain as can be It's like a disease Everyone around can see This world's on fire Yeah this world's on fire on fire Billionaires in a race riding dicks to out of space, and it's all dumb now, preaching who we're supposed to be, looking to the mirror you will see.

that you don't know how plain as can be, just like you and me and everyone around can see this world's on fire. Yeah, this world's on fire. This world's on fire This world's on fire Yeah, this world's on fire Everyone around can see this world's on fire

Everyone can see this world's on fire Every water out can see this world's on fire Every water in can see this world's on fire Chips keep chippier, dips keep dippier. Topper wet crushness, that's our promise. Look at all the ways we keep it. Straight Shooter. And we're back.

Please tell me who that was again. Yeah, that's the band Radio Bot with their brand new song, The World's on Fire. And Max Trolbot, good point. is the original lead singer of the band Fuel. So if you like Fuel, you probably like that. He also tours with the living members of the Doors to do as the doors, when the doors go out on tour, Manzarek and Krieger, they tour with Brett Scalions from Fuel.

I like Fuel. Yeah. I did not. Did you like this? I fully expect to. All right, everybody, hold on to your butts. It's this. And now welcome Stephen to the show.

He's a huge freaking nerd. Dalla Dala bills, y'all. Oh, we hurtle toward the Holland. Or the final bits of the holidays, we have to spend more time with Mr. Steven Schlecker and talk about nerd shit. Stephen, welcome back to the show. Hello, Scott. Good morning, Brian. Hello.

It's good to have you here. How things shaping up for you nicely for the holiday? You're doing all right? Oh, yeah. We are cruising into the upcoming holiday season with all the packages purchased except for one, which was suddenly brought to our attention yesterday from the youngest. Oh, no. And you guys can argue for or against this and why. He already has like the previous generation, the Xbox, right?

Whatever that was. Xbox One. He's like his older brother has the new Xbox. All right. There's horrible names with those things. I cannot keep track of what the newest one is or the second oldest or whatever. Dad, I want an Xbox S. He wants a series S.

What does his brother? What does his brother have? The highest end one. The X. Okay. So he has a series X. The other kid wants the series S. All right.

Yep. And you're going to have to go for it. You're going to have to get it. I mean, we already spent so much money on this kid with all these other things that he got. And he's like, uh, I really want to, he's, I want an ass debt. Yeah. Well, way to go, you know, a week before Christmas after we all your other gift. You know, I spent literally from the first of October until November, you know, into November.

I'm like, hey, have you got any thoughts on what you might want for Christmas? No, I don't know what I want. No, I don't know what it. He does this every year. So give me the argument from your side, Scott, on why he should get an Xbox S. Oh, nice. This is whether or not he gets an S depends right now on Scott's level of convincing. Well, all right.

So here's what I would say. The value of the current Xbox lineup is twofold. One that's decent hardware, but the main reason I like them is I think Game Pass is a really good value. It's like an incredible value for people who don't want to just buy a ton of games and them to their kid and hope they play them. Instead, you can give them a ton of games with very little money per month and they can play whatever they want. So that part's kind of a no-brainer and it's the one, it's the selling point I tell people, like if you're going to get a console this year, I would go Xbox for that reason. There are offerings on the PlayStation side that

are okay, but they're not nearly the value. So there's some, there's questions about that. Now, he's not even saying to you, well, I want a PlayStation or I want to, you know, you're not trying to make that determination. No, no, no. He knows he wants an Xbox series S. Yeah, if he wants an S, he's asking for the less expensive one. So that's good. That's a pro, yeah. They will, for the most part, run everything the same as an X at a lower resolution. So instead of running at 4K, like the X does, the series S runs at 1440P, which is plenty for most everybody. And even TVs that do 4K look great in 1440P. So I wouldn't worry too much about that. The only other consideration is the hard drives much smaller in the S. Also, it has no optical drive. So if he wants to buy

discs or wants to play Blu-Rays or anything in there, he's screwed on that end. Only the X has the optical drive. All right, Brian, you tell me, you be the Grinch and say, no, kid, you ain't getting a series S. All right, here you go. Here's, here's, here's, I'll take the counterpoint, Brian. You waited too long. You're getting socks. Yeah, you're getting socks. Nice socks. Good socks, but You'll get some nice socks. Series S socks. Yeah. Yes, stands for socks. There you go. Oh, I like that.

All right. Thank you. Thank you for that. I'm not going to have his older, I'm going to have his older brother now advocate for him. Yeah, I was going to, when you first came on, I was going to ask you, what do kids your age ask for this time you, or, you know, this time around? Your kid's age? Yeah. It sounds like they're just asking for the same old stuff.

Kids always ask for games and, you know, something cool. Yeah. Well, that's fun. Good luck with it with your decision making. They're not bad. You go to Costco, you can get like a bundle for cheap cheap on those things. Costco's like 300 miles away from here. Oh, I forget. By the time I spend the gas money to go to Costco and come back, it'll be more than just buying him the Xbox Series X. I heard Bill Burr the other day talking smack about Hayes.

He was driving through there. Oh, really? Yeah. He was driving through for some tour, something he was doing in Kansas. I don't know what it was. and just brought up Hayes. He goes, man, if you guys ever had to drive through Hayes, Kansas? That was a bram-bra, right?

He's just, like, ripping on it. I'm like, oh. Well, from the, everybody who's passed through Hayes on I-70, you look at it, and you're like, what the? This is the place? Yeah, but you go down, you go downtown and it's fine. You go further past, you go further south past the highway. It's just fine. And trust me, I'm not saying it's great, I live in, I live in a city that for a long time,

people were worried about for fake reasons, but yet they still worried. They were like, there are too many Mormons there. I don't know what I would, but what I'd do. Like, that whole thing was great for us because it kept prices down, housing prices, cost of living stayed nice and, you know, reasonable. And then something changed after pandemic or everybody heard how awesome it is here. And now they're all coming here and ignoring the old fears. Get back to the old fears. All the prices are going up.

This is what happens when you host Nerdtacular for like a decade in Utah. Yeah, I finally. All these people from out of town come in. and then they spread the word and this is your fault. Yeah, it's all my fault. Commerce needs to be knocking on your door. Yeah, those jerks. Well, anyway, hey, let's talk about this stuff.

Okay. Rebel Moon's coming out this weekend. Now, I will tell you that leading up to this, I was excited because to me, this was Zach Snyder, free of all of his D.C. commitments. He no longer has to try to polish that turd. He can go work on stuff. Maybe he's better at.

You know, I like 300. I really like 300 a lot. I liked his watchman take. I thought that was a great movie. I have a lot of nice things to say about quite a bit of Zach Snyder's work. Not all of it, but some of it. So this, I was like, oh, big science fiction epic. It's a part one of two thing.

It's Netflix, so it's going to be home right away. I can watch it right away. All these things are getting all excited about Rebel Moon. And I also really like that actress in it. I always forget her name, but she's great. She was the mummy in that horrible mummy movie, but she's in other stuff. Oh, yeah, right. Can they give her name?

But anyway, she's in the third Star Trek movie, which was my favorite. Yes. She had all that makeup, alien lady. Anyway. The black and white makeup on her face, right? Yeah, she's cool. Anyway, she'll seize in it. She looks like kind of the main star or whatever.

And then the reviews landed. It's getting ripped to shreds once again. And I heard from a little bird who works in Hollywood, who I can't say their name, but somebody told me. What, Twitter? no that's X now that'd be a dirty bird now but they told me that there's an extended edition of this film already done and that they're holding it so they can call it the Zach Snyder cut

and it kind of goes with what we talked about in film stock for next week's roundtable but that that's a mistake this person's like I've seen both cuts and the extended edition is really good but Netflix is just doing this to create a weird bubble of excitement about a possible cut because they know how his fans are. That really bugs me. It feels very manipulative. Oh, God.

If that's really the case. If that's the case. Yeah, I can't. I mean, none of this I can confirm. But if that's the case, Brian, how annoying is that? Incredibly annoying. Like, that shouldn't be a thing you strive for regardless of how well it works or not. I hate it. I know all this is a business. I know that it's an industry.

But still, especially given his reputation. So, anyway, I just want to get that out of my head. I'm still going to watch it. I think it looks rad. It was originally supposed to be a Star Wars movies, isn't that the deal, Stephen? That's the rumor was that he pitched it to Lucasfilm, and they were like,

uh, no. And he's like, fine, I'll just go do my own thing. And he did. Yeah, because it's got lightsabers and all kinds of Star Wars. You watch it and you're like, yeah, this is Star Wars. This is Zach Snyder's Star Wars. But I mean, you know, special effects look cool. It looks like

it's science fiction. I'm always in for it. I'm down with it. I mean, I'm definitely going to check it out. And if they release a Snyder cut later on to include you know five extra hours of story i'm down to that too i mean but there there is a part one and a part two right so yeah we know that that there's a second movie coming out so maybe they're saving it for the one really long 25 hour zach schneider marathon yeah and i'll probably watch it too just to see just to experience to be honest i think the justice league zack snider cut worked better than the original um i too bad that they had to reuse the footage that they already

had and use effects that were not completely done for that extended cut version, but it was fine. I didn't have any problem with it. Yeah, it was all right. It was a little long, but it was all right. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Now, listen, you can't get probably all of what Zach Snyder wants to put into Rebel Moon into Rebel Moon. So we go to comic books. And so Titan Comics has announced coming out in January, Rebel Moon House of the Blood Axe number one, which is following the characters of Deborah and Darien Bloodax, who I'm guessing we're going to meet in this movie. And we get more backstory for these characters in a comic book series

coming out in January from Titan Comics. You excited? Do you think they're going to be good? These tie-ins are hit and miss, right? Sometimes they're trouble. Yeah. Yeah. People are going to accuse me of just always doing this.

And that's fine. Do what you have to do. But there was a really great, uh, slight prequel comic put out around the time of Fury Road that talked about just the lead-up to what happened with Fury Road, which is a really great filler bit for a lot of what Furiosa is supposed to be. And it's canon. So supposedly you can glean stuff from that. But that was really well written and drawn. It was a beautiful little run. Oh, yeah. So I know it can be done right with tie-ins. I just, it's so hit and miss. Yeah, I'm down with the art in this. It looks really good. And I'm sure the story's good, too.

I think the thing that would say, oh, do I really, really, really want to read this is how good is the movie that makes me want to go, I need to know more about these characters, right? You guys were talking about Dune Part 1 a little bit ago and of course, Boom Studios, they have been releasing three or four Dune's comic book series that tie into

the book, the latest one, if it looks at the final house or the final group of people from the Dune universe, that one will launch in January as well as kind of the lead up to part two. So, yeah, I have no problem if companies want to do this. I mean, if you go back all the way to Star Wars, since we're talking about Rebel Moon,

you know, Marvel had a comic book tie-in to that series, right? It retold the Star Wars movie in comic book form. And then after that, starting with what, issues seven or eight or something like that, went off on a whole new direction and did whole new things and really kind of solidified telling comic book stories in the Star Wars universe as a big thing that continues today. In fact, I think this week I was just doing the previews for comics that are coming. out this week. I think there's like four or five Star Wars comics coming out this

week. Jeez. So, yeah, you never know when a franchise is going to take off and to be in kind of on that ground floor like Titan is with Rebel Moon or Boom Studios with Dune. You never know what people are going to lock on to. Do you remember the supersized late 70s comic they did for the Star Wars tie-in and they were like bigger than normal? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They were called

Marvel Super Size or Giant Size. But there was also like a, yeah, I thought there was like a, oh, shoot, another name for him, something sized. I had that whole set, and I don't know what happened to it. Yeah. Lost it. I think it's just giant-sized Star Wars. Because that's kind of, oh, no, it's a Marvel special edition. Okay.

Special edition? Yeah. And it was bigger, yeah. I heard somebody yesterday arguing pretty heavily for Marvel to bring back, I forget what Marvel's was called, but you know, like the Vertigo line on DC, and they have black label now. and all that. It's like a more adultish fake. Pretty. Was it Marvel Knights was the one that was the R-rated one?

That's what it was, Knights. Blade and Punisher and... Do you think they'll ever... I mean, they have enough reason to... Treasury Edition. That's what I was trying to think of. Thank you, Rob Elch. Marvel Treasury Edition.

Habadashry edition. Yeah, that's right, exactly. That's where you get the hats made. Well, anyway, watch for that. That's coming January for those who are looking for that. Yeah, January 10. All right, well, what if I'm a guy who likes U.F. What's what's up for me?

Yeah, I was going to ask you guys if you are into UFOs or not. If you were into the whole lore of the UFOs from the 1940s through the... Into it is a weird. It's weird. I mean, I've always curious when there's new information leaked from the government that there might be UFOs, but I wouldn't consider myself a UFO. A believer. Right, exactly.

I want to believe. Yeah. That's where I want to believe. As someone who thinks it's all bullshit, I still enjoy stories about it, so I'm down with that. Well, during lockdown, right towards the end of lockdown, a bunch of comic creators were jumping on the substack doing original stuff. And so James Tynan IV and Michael Avon Oming,

that you guys may know from the Powers series over at Image Comics for a long time. Now it's over at Dark Horse. They teamed up to do a substack series called Blue Book, which is based on all the project Blue Book stuff. They started out with the story of Betty and Barney Hill and their abduction. and there is then they continued on with that Dark Horse comics

has since picked up those substack only comics and are releasing them in print and this week is Blue Book 1947 which takes a look at the Kenneth Arnold case where he's flying around

and he sees these shapes following him and that's where we get the term flying saucer is from him so they're going to look at that that story of Kenneth Arnold. One of the cool things is over at Major Spoilers right now, Dark Horse reached out to us and said, hey, do you ever wonder how Michael Avon Oming puts together his comic books? Would you like some behind the scenes stuff and commentary of him doing that? So we have

that over there right now. So if you want to see his sketches that he does in his notebook and you want to see, you know, how he develops and what he thinks about when he's building up a comic book page, we've got that now at Major Spoilers.com for the upcoming Blue Book 1947 number one, which arrives in February. But comic shop owners, they have a thing called final order cutoff date, which is today. So if you want to get that and make sure that you have it, you need to let your comic shop know that you want it today. This is awesome.

Look at this. Yeah, there's some cool stuff. I really dig it. I know those, all the varying covers, but also like the sketchbooks, the internal art sketchbook stuff is really cool. Yeah. I love that stuff. I love to see how rough they go in their initial concepts.

it makes me feel better about how rough mine are because I am very rough in my sketches and sometimes I think that's not good and then I see someone else's who's like really good and I'm like oh well your sketches look like shit too well and so that's one of the fascinating things if you ever get to see what's the company IDW used to put out these artist editions

where you got to see the comic in its original size that they're taking it right from the Bristol board and reprinting it in that size you can see where the whiteout was applied. You can see where they had to tape on different dialogue or change a composition and tape

that in. And sometimes you get a glimpse of what the pencils look like underneath the inks. And looking at the difference between, you know, the original pencils and then what the inker did if it's a different anchor, to clean that up is kind of amazing. Yeah. So I, this is a good

opportunity to remind people about this. When I was in Columbus, we went to the Columbus comics museum thing. they have there. It's a fully curated museum dedicated to comics, comic book art, newspaper comics, that sort of thing. The entirety of Calvin

and Hobbes's, you know, original sketches and inks and finished panels and everything are all there. They all have them under glass in these temperature controlled rooms and it's really cool. Highly recommend doing that because when you do that, you get to walk around and see not just, you know,

like an issue of Mad Magazine and something more Drucker did, which is, well, I got to see because they were doing a mad magazine exhibit at the time. And you see all the blue pencil underneath, which none of that photograph. So that's why it's not showing up in the final. Like you said, you see their fixes and tweaks. There's a piece of paper taped on there to cover up something that used to say. What did it used to say?

I don't know. Like, it's awesome. If you ever get a chance to go tour that place, it's just right there on campus at, and what's the name of the school? LSU, not LSU. What is it? Ohio State. I was State University.

You just go in there, ask for a tour of the comics thing, and you'll never regret it. If you're into that stuff, because having in my, I held in my hand like Bill Waterson original stuff, and that felt really good. And a lot of artists have dedicated, or a lot of comic creators have just donated all their shit there.

Just said, here's all the stuff. They have a graduate program now on comic book. That's the degree is comic books. Oh, that's cool. What is his name? Oh, it's a guy from the Batman movies, Michael, Michael Euslin. He is the one that purchased the rights to make the Batman movies. And so that's why we have the Batman movies is because of him.

But he was the one that helped originally start a comic book program at, I believe, Ohio. Was Ohio State? Was there? Yeah. And he's got a great story of how he walked in and they're like, why would we want to do this? And he just told them the story of, you know, how Superman is essentially an allegory, especially when they're, you know,

sending them to Earth is an allegory for Moses in the river, in the basket. They're like, oh, we never thought about that. Congratulations. You have a program. And part of that place we had to be worn, we made us wear, make us, they had us wear masks,

because they, some of this stuff is old and brittle, you know, stuff from the 30s and 40s. It's so worth seeing. The extra moisture from people breathing on it. Yeah, if you're ever there, though, It's so worth seeing. It's so cool.

All right. Let's talk about, oh, Batman and Dylan Dogg are teaming up. I don't know if I'm ready for that. Are you guys familiar with Dylan Dogg? No, only because of you. So, yeah, so there may be a, so some of our listeners may be familiar with Dylan Dogg because there was a Brandon Ralph movie that failed to take off in the movie theaters in 2011 and kind of torpedo the franchise.

I don't know why, because it's actually a pretty good movie, loosely based on the comic book series an Italian comic book series, a horror series, about a paranormal investigator who lives in London and takes on all sorts of crazy cases, vampires and werewolves and demons and those kinds of things. And it's a long-running series that's been around

since 1986 or something like that. And it's relatively unknown here in the United States. Dark Horse has put out a couple of collections of this over the years. But Batman and Dylan Dogg are going to team up in a mini-series. kicking off in March of 2024. It's a three-issue

miniseries. It's 88 pages long, and we're going to see how the clown Prince of Crime, the Joker, and Dillon Dogg and Batman, and one of Dylan Dogg's arch nemeses, how they take them down. They have to team them up, which is weird because, I mean, yes, I realize that Batman is a popular character, and any time you can do a crossover with Batman,

it usually turns out pretty cool. But for whatever reason, this feels like, a, I think it's a two issue miniseries that came out either late 90s or late 2000s. It was the Batman Hellboy Starman crossover. Oh, yeah.

That was so weird, but it worked out so well just because, you know, Batman does deal with some paranormal stuff every once in a while. But to see it, see them just go all in with this Italian comic book is crazy.

So you all to look out for that in March if people are interested in Dillon Dog. is Dylan dog what's Dylan dog's powers or does he have it he's just a he's just a normal guy that it's he's your he's your molder he's a normal guy that goes and investigates all of these paranormal things and sometimes he uh encounters real paranormal stuff that is pretty scary so it just seems like if he was a DC or Marvel guy he would turn into a dog that's right exactly his power he's a dog like dog the only the only thing that if you you i don't know if you can track down the movie or not with brandon ralph but um the closest i can compare

it to is like Constantine if it was not if Constantine was just you know a normal guy instead of having powers so that's probably about the closest I could compare you know I think very fondly on the spawn Batman crossover that was like a few issue

thing that was awesome yeah yeah yeah I like when they do that you should you should do Dylan dog for film sacsac seems like yeah Dylan dog dead of night yeah write that down I'd be down with that sounds great now finally let's talk about what you got going on this Wednesday morning part two of

your look at the DC implosion people are saying very good things about this series so thank you what's going on yeah you played the teaser last week last Monday after the show and everything and I appreciate that sure that was only the tip of the iceberg because in part one which released last week we took a look at the DC explosion this planned by DC comics to release 52 new comics but at the same time kind of radically changed the price structure, the distribution model, and how stories were told, even though Marvel was kind of doing that already, but specifically the distribution model and the price structure of comics in the 1970s. And it was a huge, huge plan that never

happened. Interesting. And so in part two, which is coming out this week, we're going to look at one of the big factors that played a part in the DC implosion all of these comics not getting on the store shelves and in fact DC ended up like canceling an additional 23 comics over the next year because of of these events so wow wow did they yeah is any of that available now stuff like old like yeah so some of the they did do a run uh called cavalcade of canceled comics they have collected those in places where you can read some of those stories, and they are pretty good. Some of them never even got off the drawing table.

Okay. Interesting. That's fascinating stuff. Yeah, the series is very good. Congratulations on winning America's next top podcaster award for the fourth year. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Is there a prize money involved in this? Yeah, a little bit of prize money. No, it's a lot of fun doing the research on this, and I think it's fascinating because it was like, I'm going to say like 10 years ago,

I was interviewing comic book writer Mark Wade, and he kept mentioning this DC implosion. I was like, well, what are you talking about? And he started talking about the story, which I kind of knew, but I didn't know one of the big reasons for why it happened. Yes, there is some probably upper management issues. David Sarnoff was still in charge of Warner at the time. And he was like, no, we need to cut 40% of this stuff. Knock it off. But there's reasons why these things happen. And it's kind of, I think the thing that people want to be listening to is how much of this stuff that I am talking about has happened again and again and again

and again and is currently happening right now and I think that once you have a better understanding of the past and how we're just repeating a lot of these things in the past the next time that something happens a character is killed or a new miniseries or maxi series is released that's a giant crossover you're not outraged by stuff but you're sitting there going oh no they've done this before

and yeah yeah yeah yeah and so hopefully that'll make some sense to people do check it out you guys major spoilers.com all the links you need are over there i think you're going to enjoy it so please do uh steven i guess this is our last time we talked to stephen before last time i'm talking to you guys for the rest of this year what that's crazy and this is what you brought to us yeah yeah vampires dylan dog i am contributing to the future success of film sac right that's right i totally are and we absolutely We should watch that.

We should watch that. So since I'm not going to be able to talk to you guys until next year. And I know you're still getting over some throat issues there, Scott. I just want everybody who's listening to stay healthy and stay hydrated. Oh, I'll try to do that. 2024, the year we stay hydrated. Thanks, Stephen. All right.

That is it for Stephen today until next year, I guess. Kind of feel weird. Got a quick thing I want to read from a listener before we go. This came, I think, an email. So hello, Scoot and Boogie. Apparently, McDonald's in Korea listens to the TMS for inspiration. The McDonald's hot dog snack wrap is only available in Korea. Thanks, Raymond, baby Yoda tea and the occasional Twitch drop in.

Basically, it's a doggarito. They're making it at... It totally is, yeah. If we're McDonald's, I'm going to get one somehow. You're going to have it shipped from Korea. Yeah, I got to figure it out. I like the fact that they've got bacon and lettuce. I mean, this, you know...

Look at that. They've up... They've kind of up to your doggorito game. That's true. The lettuce part, definitely a pump up. Bacon. I can't tell if that's cheese or what the sauce is that's in there. Some kind of, I don't know what that is.

Sweet and soury thing. Yeah. Hard to say. But, yeah, McDonald's stealing my wife's out of town food menu. What the hell? Anyway, thank you for that. We love it when we get you guys' emails, and they come to us all the time at the morningstream at gmail.com.

You can also text us at 8.1.4. 710462 we got more of that stuff lined up for the rest of this week that is going to do it for us today Brian let's get out of here do you have you probably have a song you can just play I have a song that I can just play and this one I think this one if if my notes are correct somebody sent this in August 21st 2014 as a request for a TMS cover so it's almost nine years old actually almost 10 years old I should say over nine years old crazy and if if I'm reading it correctly it's phil lucky phil from sydney australia you can tell me if this is the same fill uh hey brian and scott uh you just played a cover of this song recently so understandable if uh you don't want to play it for

some time but this is a cover by an australian band which was a big hit here in the 90s to me this is the definitive version of this song hubboh hobo hobo uh phil from sydney austral i can understand why you might take some time to play it and here we are nine years later say this is why because we just played it then, and the nine-year statute of limitations on playing this song is good. Here it is from, where does come from? Really just came from the album of the same

name, covering the song by Carly Simon that we finally figured out who she wrote it about and really didn't really care. This is the song You're So Vane by Chocolate Starfish. We'll see you got, ew. Sorry, it's a booty hole. It's a booty hole.

Girl, that's a booty hole. That's a booty hole. All right. There you go, then. I got a little hung up on that. Tomorrow there's a new show. There's a new show Wednesday. Guess what?

There's a new show on Thursday. There's a show every day this damned week and a play date on Friday. What that hell? A play date on Friday. A Christmas playdate miracle. It is a miracle, really, truly. But we hope to see you guys for all of it. And we'll see you tomorrow.

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