The Morning Stream - TMS 2578: What Kind of a Skeletal Deal?

Episode Date: January 8, 2024

Not the Quirk I'm Looking For. It was a Cloche call. He Made the Donuts, It Was Time. Are Your Teeth part of Your Skeleton cos I like really wanted to know. It's Jack Skellington Not Jack Teethington. Drank From The Paul Rudd Fountain. Tuk Tuk Goose. I Ate A Fish That Had A Bomb In It. A Little Better, A Little Worse. Attack of the Pixie Cut Brunettes. Make Your 90s Business Again Before Everyone Dies. Mighty Peppy In My Kepi. Don't Put It On Your Tomato Soup If You Know What I Mean. Six More Weeks of Amazon Prime. Pulling a Half Johnson with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Coming up on this episode of TMS, not the quirk I'm looking for. It was a close call. He made the donuts. It was time. Are your teeth part of your skeleton? Because I, like, really wanted to know? It's Jack Skellington, not Jack Teethington. Drank from the Paul Rudd Felton.

Tuck, tuck, duck goose. I eat a fish that had a bomb in it. A little better, a little worse. Attack of the Pixie. cut brunettes. Make your 90s business again before everybody dies. Mighty peppy and my keppy. Don't put it into your tomato soup if you know what I mean. Six more weeks of Amazon Prime. Pulling a half Johnson with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. In the home, the farmer's wife will be cooking with sound waves. The roast that takes three hours now

will take three minutes tomorrow. They must be working on it. Are they? Do the bees know they make honey for you? This is the morning stream. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Monday, January 8th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian. Hi, Brian.

Well, hello, Scott. How are you? I'm fine. You sound much better. A little better, but a little worse. Both better and worse. Better and worse. Yeah, let that cough persist, I guess.

Embrace it. Little, like, congestion. It's like this coldest saying, oh, you thought you were done with me. Good luck. Good luck with that. Do you ever feel like that husband in those old 80s commercials

that would sit up out of bed and go, and the wife would go, what's the matter, Larry? I shouldn't have eaten the last meatball. I used to love those. I used to think they were so funny. You ate it, Ralph. Yeah, that's the late.

lady, it was Ralph. Ralph. Name was Ralph. Oh, my Lord. It was like a peplo bismol or something. I can't remember. It was like some sort of indigestion. But there was always these.

I can't believe I ate the whole thing. Oh, you ate it, Ralph. You ate it. Yeah, no, there was a thing back then where the husbands were the stupidest ever, and they were the ones getting sick all the time. Yeah. The wives are just exacerbated. Except for the one who had to make the donuts.

He got up and he made those donuts, that guy. Yeah, he was stoked. He was ready to rock that morning. yeah yeah uh so real quick here before i forget i i realized right before the show that my dentist um taught me something when i visited him what a week ago week ago tomorrow whenever it was and uh it was this so we had brought up on the show that there's this there's this phrase going around or there i'd heard it anyway where people said the only part of your skeleton that you'll ever wash or your teeth and i thought oh that's cool and you mean like it's the only exposed part or whatever

but then I always had these questions about well your teeth they can come out there's nerves between it and the other bone they're not going bone to bone right it's not like an extension of your your jaw bone there's right and it's true and it's true of all bones that they you know tendons and cartilage and other things make up the joiners that then continue on to your arm or your hand or whatever and so so technically those act that way but I said to him, I said, is this a realistic thing to say that the only part of our skeleton that we ever clean is our teeth? And he said, no, because they're not part of your skeleton. Now, when you die and you see a skull, it has its teeth in it. Sometimes, yeah. Sometimes, not always, but sometimes. Depends on what you're doing when you died. Right, exactly. I mean, you're, you're freaking, it's funny that you'd ask him this. Oh, I love questions like this. You kidding? I love stuff like to get philosophical so he and he was down he was down to answer he goes well we don't we

wouldn't really consider it that because they do they do come out now that being said you'll find a lot of skeletal remains and have the teeth still in and you gave me this whole this whole rigmarole but it was a it was a fun it was a fun way to explore it so so technically according to my dentist your teeth are not part of your skeleton however i i put it to dr jerry tollbert who listens to ride in and give us a more overall doctor perspective, less of just a dental perspective on the deal? Your point about, your point about, you know, when you see a skull, a lot of times, at least the skull that we visualize has its teeth.

Yeah, you know, almost always, right? Yeah, yeah. And so there must be something besides just simple cartilage that would otherwise rot away. Something in there's holding them. So I don't know. So maybe it's true and he's just wrong. Look, I've had Dennis before that tell me stuff that I don't believe and this might be one of those. So Jerry?

Jerry, pipe in. Do no harm, Jerry. It just feels like a more, it doesn't feel like a, like a, you know, the largest organ in the human body is your skin kind of thing. It doesn't feel like an exact thing. It's like, you know, skeleton, there's a asterisk next to the word skeleton. There you go. I agree.

And it should be, it should be as such. Anyway, hey, something great happened. A miraculous thing happened. Yes, tell me. All right. It's a new year. Time for new miracles, everyone. Don't get bogged down on the negative things in life. Forget about there being an election year this year. All this stuff. Forget about it. Here's what I want you to know. Finally, finally, somebody, apparently with money over at Amazon Prime video, bellied up the money it took to deal with the music rights that was holding back the streaming rights for Northern Exposure, the 1990s classic dromedy, from being streamed properly in this era that we're in of streaming and something finally broke the dam that was holding that back. I don't know who did it. I don't know why. I don't know if Jeff Bezos himself popped his head out of his penis rocket and said, make it happen. I don't know.

You did see his shadow, which did help. Oh, that always helped, Jim. We got six more weeks of Amazon Prime. Free shipping. Six more weeks of free shipping. Six more weeks of Cyber Monday. Enjoy everybody. anyway nor do exposure is now on Amazon Prime video and in its entirety and for the most part there are a couple of

example that I haven't run into yet apparently but somewhere in the series there's like two songs that couldn't be resolved but the rest of the series is as it was and I'm here to report that I ended up binge in like eight episodes as soon as we heard about it Kim and I we have very fond this is comfort food for Kim and I

When we were dating, we watched the show. When we got married, we made sure Mondays were all squared off right up through 95 or whatever to make sure that we always saw it. We were recording it on our VHS, DVR, whatever. Must see Monday Night TV. Yep, on CBS. And that music, the setting, the characters, in particular, Maurice, all I have to hear is that dude say stuff. And I'm brought back to a very happy time. And so for me, it's major comfort.

food. So if you were like me, a giant fan of that show, who, honestly, it is the progenitor of, I don't think you have things like, well, maybe you still do it in a different way, but you don't have things like Schitt's Creek and things like Parks and Recreation and things like, I don't know, think of a quirky town. Veronica Mars, Erie Indiana. Exactly. Think of a, think of a quirky town with quirky people in it, right? Yeah. I think, so this came out, it was a couple years after Twin Peaks, Which was my introduction to, here's a, you know, forget Mayberry, here is a quirky effin town. Yeah, that's true.

And so I watched Twin Peaks. I was smothered and engrossed in it, fascinated with the whole, like, the mystery, Bob and Laura Palmer and ramped and plastic and all that. And then Northern Exposure came out and they said, hey, we got a quirky town too. And I started watching and I said, yeah, but you're not the same. kind of quirk that I'm looking for. So I think I watched a couple episodes and never got into it. So,

I'm going to look at it as this is my chance to revisit Northern Exposure and Joel. Sure. Dana Delaney? No, Dana Delaney was China Beach. Oh, yeah, that was China Beach. Who was the brunette, pixie-haired brunette on Northern Exposure? We had that all over the 90s. Trap.

Pixie cut brunettes. I liked her, and I don't remember her. name yeah anyway uh she was great though yeah uh same same year by the way they both premiered in 1990 i don't know if they premiered the same time oh really okay they were both 90 and they went to well northern exposure went to 95 you got two seasons out of the original twin peaks right i think yeah yeah just two and then back in 2017 but anyway i have it turner thank you genie yeah jean well jean turner oh yeah she's the one well she's the one in um northern exposure yeah That's what you were saying.

Yes. Yeah, you're a pixie short hair ladies. Yeah, she's great. And she's still great. I'm watching this and going, oh, yeah, you're awesome.

And I guess she has a really popular podcast, but doesn't everyone now? Yeah, right. Exactly. Who doesn't? Anyway, the point is, I have a theory. Here's my theory.

So now that we have it, I, there's been rumors rumbling around that they're going to reunite everybody and do like an eight episode follow-up. really okay all right so back in sicily alaska all these actors are still around doing stuff put them in there hurry up before john corbett die or not john corbett um barry corbin dies who is getting real old and the guy who played pauling the the guy that ran the bar his he's like in his late 90s so you got to hurry up is that uh michael ian black he was on that right no that was where we first know no it's uh rob morrow is the main rob morrow okay he's your city oh you know i'm thinking of ed another Ed was another quirky town. Oh, I liked Ed.

I liked Ed a lot, too, yeah. Yeah, he's also great. By the way, Rob Morrow, he looks great now. That guy really, really hates raging well. Yeah, he looked like he made a drink from the Paul Rudd fountain. A little bit, yeah. They are very interchangeable, those two faces. Yeah.

Anyway, I have his theory that if they are going to do an actual reunion and do like an eight episode one off or something, that this is a predecessor to that because it's been seriously, you couldn't stream it or get it really in great formats for 30-something years. Right, right. So now that it's back,

I think that means they are working on it. So that's my hot take. And then there also is a thing where Seinfeld just did a live show somewhere. He's up on stage. He does Q&A after. I didn't know this. They're probably filming a special.

And somebody said, What did you think of your finale? And they expected him just to talk about the finale of the show. And he said, well, let me just say that we might be working on something connected to that final episode. And that's all I can say for now. Really? So I don't know what that means, but I think we might be getting a Seinfeld little one-off six, eight-episode deal. I don't know.

Not like a new series or something. But this is the rage right now. Take your 90s business and make it again. Before everyone dies. It's like basically exactly, right? Yeah. Yeah. It's a, for those people who felt like,

I just didn't get enough closure from Melrose's place. I need to know what happened to Billy and Amanda. Oh my gosh. Please don't bring that one back though. I guess they did, right? If these other ones make money, that will too. Didn't they kind of did that? Or did, or did, or am I remember in this one?

They kind of did. Didn't they kind of do a thing with all the Beverly Hills 902-1-0 actors where they put them all on Riverdale? Maybe that was it. Yeah. Yeah, it's like how they did all the friends, people on um on oh uh cougartown yeah yeah right which i i thought was kind of fun and creative that's a clever way of doing it i still say the best episode of cougar town is the

crossover with a community where uh abed is in the background while uh busy phillips is chatting and uh he he gets a stomach thing that he talks about in community has to run out knocking over a chair or something on the way i don't remember that That's great. It's the most brilliant crossover. Because then he talks about it on the special birthday diehard episode where he and the My Din With Andre episode of Community, where he's saying, so Joel, I finally got my chance. And Cougar Town reached out and they said, oh, you're like a super fan.

We really want to be on. So I thought, oh, I get to be on Cougar Town. That was an extra. And then I thought, wait a minute, if I'm in Cougar Town, can I still be a fan of Cougar Town? or does that break the lore of the show? And it was just such a hilarious Abed moment. I don't, I gotta watch that again in that show.

Yeah. I got to binge a show. I may as well be community, right? That's a great one to binge because it is, it is just so brilliant for most of its, most of its seasons. Most of its run. Yeah.

Like even my love of Northern Exposure ends with the last season when they brought in, Rob Morrow left and did his, he thought he was off to Hollywood stardom. So he leaves kind of like the dude from NYPD Blue does. Oh, yeah. And unlike NYPD Blue, they couldn't make it work.

So he leaves and this new guy comes into town and basically has to play another city Jewish doctor who's got to somehow melt in with these people. And it's like, no, you got to change it up or something. You can't just repeat the last thing. And that thing didn't last. I don't think he even made it through that whole season. Maybe it did. But uptell Rob Morrow leaves. classic TV. It's great.

I'm curious. Speaking of which, here we go. Community movie is filming happening in summer 2024 for holiday 2024 release. Oh, good. That got all delayed up from the strikes. That was pretty good.

From the writers and actor strikes, yeah. Yeah, that one got hit hard, if I remember right? Well, good for them and may Dan Harmon have another chance. I don't know what that means. Yes. I don't know what that means. I don't either. He's got, he's making a cartoon now that seems to be and find the one Randy recommended, that Crappopoulos thing. It's fine.

Oh, yeah, yeah. That's a Dan Harmon joint. That is a Dan Harmon joint. Also, we got a follow-up about loud Asian cities. Okay. I don't remember the conversation we had exactly about this, but Rishi B explains. Here you go. Hey, there's Singapore and Burma.

This is Rishi B calling from Ann Arbor, Michigan. On Tuesday's episode, you're talking about Asian cities and how they have. all their very loud cars, and Brian mentioned that the Tuk-Took in India, he was talking about the Tuk-Took in India. Listen, you hand-waving Americans, putting all things in one country in another. It's not the T-Took in India. It's called the Auto Rikshah in India. It's a Tuk-Took in Thailand. You hand-waving Americans, I can't believe you. But anyway, all Asian cities are really loud. You are right about that. Oh, wait. Am I a hand-waving American, too?

No. I love the end of it with, no. I love it. I love Rishi B is great. Yeah, he's totally right. And why didn't I think of that? Because the Thai restaurant, one of the Thai restaurants that Tia and I like is called Tuck Tuck.

Oh, that makes sense. I should have made that connection that it wasn't an Indian restaurant. It's a Thai restaurant. Right. Rishi B's got some background and Asian stuff, family in that, I think. It does. Oh, yeah. So he'd know.

He'd know what's up. He brings culture to Ann Arbor, Michigan. I can tell you that much right now. Yeah. Thank you, Rishi B, for that. If you guys would like to send in your own phone calls to correct us or inform us, yell at us, tell us you love it. Whatever you need to do.

We don't care. We don't care what it is. 801-471-0-4-6-2. Quick update on TMS Vegas for folks. Should have contract in hand today or tomorrow after working on the this and really trying to get it back from her since before Thanksgiving. Thank you very much. The one change I'm happy to announce is that we'll have six hours in the board game room as opposed to four and no extra cost because I know we always felt like, God, four hours

goes so fast in there. It seems like enough. It's not, it's never enough, you know? It's never enough. It's because we all want to talk and hang and games are long. Exactly. You know, If you think about four hours and you got a game that takes four, or takes an hour, you're going to play four rounds? That's nothing. Right. Exactly. So that's great.

I love hearing that. Yeah. So that's going to be nice. And we've got rough pricing, which is pretty much on par with what we saw for Cyber Monday. But they are reducing the resort fee for our room blocks. So resort fee is cheaper. Room prices are about the same as Cyber Monday. Oh, very nice. I like the sound of that entirely.

A few people bought early, and I think, you know, she said, yeah, just make a list of everybody who bought early and we'll get them added to the room block afterwards. Let me ask you a question. So I was trying to get into half-asses here. Yes. And I'm getting booted out. Oh, let me reload. Has Dunaway in there? Let's see. Yes, he is in there.

Okay, so what's mine? Try reloading now. all right let me try it now uh there we go did it work says my password's incorrect something changed hold on let's just try this again let's try this again feud login okay sign in can't seem to find your account it says okay well let's try this one oh okay it looks like it was just flipping out for a minute I'm in now

Okay, I'm in. Yay. All right. Good. Emergency averted. We got a quick text here about this. He's anonymous. He says, I'm enjoying listening through my TMS backlog and in the 2556 episode Half Asces game. This is last week, I think. The last question was either stated wrong or it was a trick question. Kilimanjaro is located in Tanzania, not Kenya. You can see Kilimanjaro from Kenya, but only the foothills are located across the border.

Mount Kenya is the largest, or excuse me, the highest mountain in Kenya, but Kilimanjaro is about 5,000 feet taller than Kenya. I've hiked both. Both are spectacular. Adore the performance. Nevertheless, an anonymous listener. Now, that's fine. Corrections are good. Whatever makes some, that's all good. But the fact that we have a listener who has hiked, both. Yeah. No kidding. Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro, I don't feel worthy of his listenership. No kidding. No kidding. By the way, clarify, not a correction. It was a trick question. They wanted you. see that was one of the ones that was wrong it was i have the card right here the card says moops yeah no card is um they wanted you to think oh kilimanjaro that's the it's got to be the highest

because it was the highest points in their countries right and it said mount kilimanjaro kenya with the intention of make you think oh has to be mount kilimanjara because that's the tallest point in africa and uh but it's not in kenya it's in tanzania and and that even puts mount Kenya is the highest point in Kenya. See? So Anonymous, you're right that it was a trick question, but it was not incorrect. That's right. Also, will you be our Sherpa when we go hiking up those minutes?

Please, please do. Be our Sherpa. All right, now we do this. Yeah, the familiar refrain that happens on Mondays for the morning half-asses. Joining us is Mr. Brian Dunaway all the way from South Carolina, Brian High. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hi. Hello.

How are you? How is your Monday? Well, you know, it's still starting. So far snowy. Oh, yeah, ours too. Oh, really? We got fresh inch of snow on the ground. It's lovely outside.

Only an inch. We got like a, I got an eight or nine or some silly number. Wow. I don't know what's going on here. Have some of it. It's too much. I don't like driving. No, we don't need it.

We don't want it, sir. I've got no snow. Yeah, of course you don't. We've got it in our, uh, our, uh, our, um, our, our, mountains, which is good because then we get the water and the rent-off and all that. Is that how water works? Yeah. Have you heard? What is the significance?

What does it mean, though? What does the water mean? Tell us what you think the water means, Brian? It means it Brian Ibb. It's a smart ass. Darn right. Just ask anonymous. That's right. Well, that smart ass is going to help us win some prizes for some lucky

listeners. Hey, Brian, explain this show and how it works. Yeah, yeah. Welcome to the morning. Half-Ass is 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 which are correct and three that are

like Anonymous's correction, incorrect. Depending on how confident... I'm kidding. He basically he or she just called it and said, I think it might have been a trick question or wrong. I was like yeah, it was a trick question. Depending on how confident you feel with each category can provide one, two, or three

guesses. But if you get any of those guesses wrong, you get zero points for that round. Guess one, you get it right. You get point. Get two right. You get three points. Get all three correct. You get five points. Play with the most points. After three rounds, wins the prize for their contestant. And we've pulled contestants

from members of the tad pool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you are playing for Will in Oxford, UK. Oh, my gosh. I think that's Will. I think that's Will. That's our friend Will. That's Will. My brain. Is the Will. Well, his name is in the, right

there. Is this full name in there? Yeah. But what is his handle? Hold on, me looking, I'm looking, I'm looking. I thought it was a different will. Different will. Not Will Harris. Nope, not Will Harris. Will with a D.

There you go. Brian, you're playing for Jeff Beverly in West Jordan, Utah. Yeah. Scott, do you know Jeff Beverly? I don't. That's Westside. He don't know anybody on the West Side. I live on the West Side.

I don't know him personally. Maybe I do and I've seen him at a thing and he's using like a nickname usually or something. Right. It might be a handle that we don't know. sure sure well um those are two contestants we get some games we'll tell you about those at the end the prizes at the end of the competition but let's get into the competition uh all right first category is people who died people who died name these people who died of 27 oh which of these people who died they died it's the 27 club thing or something 27 club which of these people are members of the 27 club you've got Got Mozart, Tupac Shakur, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Jimmy Hendricks, and Janis Joplin. I believe I know these. I believe I do not, but I am going to guess.

I will guess your question. Beepo, beep. I am guessing questions. All right. I locked in with three. Did you lock in with three done? I locked in with three as well. Both of you locked in with three, I guess this was too easy because.

Because you both got them right. Yeah, Kurt Cobain, Jimmy Hendricks, and Janice Joplin. Lennon was 40. Tupac Shakur was 25. Mozart was the ripe old age of 35. And aren't there? And there's some others, right? There's some others in here.

Oh, lots. Yeah. There's some actors. That's the reason why there's a thing. Yeah. Borer, not Boris. Anton Yelchen died that same age. Oh, really?

Yeah. Not music. I almost died at 27. Does that count? You almost died at, really? Shut up. What'd you do at 27? They almost killed you.

Oh my God, just trying to live through 27. Come on, Scott, your number 27? I was hoping for a story like, oh, I ate a fish that had a bomb in it or something. I was hoping for more, but we didn't get it. Well, good job for both of you on that first one. Thanks, man. Let's go to number two. Sports, because you guys both are just no sports inside and out.

Oh, yeah. Which of these are a punch? They call me sports head. Yeah. Do they? Sports. I don't know who does, but I'm, yeah. Which of these are controversial plays from NFL history?

You've got the Bush Push, the Music City Miracle, the Immaculate Reception, the Holy Roller, the fifth down, and the hand of God. Oh, my God. The hand of God. Which of these controversial plays from NFL history. I think I know two, so I'm choosing two. Okay. Although I'm very nervous that I know nothing. Do do do do do

What'd you choose Denaway? Oh, there we go Now he's locked in All right I chose it like three seconds before Well you didn't I didn't see the lock thing

Come on until just now All right You guys both selected The Immaculate Reception Yeah that is an NFL play That's got a lot of controversy to it Scott you also chose The fifth down

Damn it! College Oh no The Bush Push The fifth down And the hand of God were all controversial college football players. The other three were NFL.

Shoot. It was a trick question. It was a trick question, anonymous. I should have gone with one. Then I would have tied at least. Damn it. It's all right. All right.

Let's get to number three. Your chance to catch up and surpass happen right now. Which of these are types of headware? You've got the Kloche, the matrioshka, matrioshka, whatever that. Which of these words can't Ibit say? Exactly. The Pennywood, the Kachina, the Kepi, and the Budenovka. Oh my gosh, dude.

These are, these all sound like words that are not real. Well, I have to go at least two here. The question is. You do. If you want to win, you have to go with two. When we talk about a close? We had a close conversation about something. have a close conversation.

I don't remember what it was, though. I don't remember the context. I don't know. Close. I'm just going to, there, there's a guess. I'm locked in. I'm doing it. I'm going.

All right. Okay. Scott's locked in as well. The Budenovka. I'm going to find a picture of it. Is that a Russian thing? Is that a Russian hat? Yeah.

Is that big old Russian hat? It absolutely is. The George wears it falls apart. in a rat hair or whatever? Is it like that? You already know way more about it than I did. No, it is, it's like the revolution hat. It's like the, like, what you always picture,

Che Guevara wearing. It's that like red star on the front cloth kind of cap. Yeah, that Schwarzenegger wears in red heat. Is that, which one is it? Yeah, I feel like that. I'll put a picture in our chat. You can show this with the chat room. But that is a, that is correct.

I mean, that is a form of headwear. So you got that one. Good job, Scott. Thank you. The Kloche is a thing that covers food, but it's also a thing that covers your head. So Kloch is correct. What if you have food on your head, then what happens? That it's even better.

And the Pennywood, much like the Matrioshka and the Kachina, is a type of doll. Shit. Oh, no. Headwear. Shit. Damn it! Yeah, yeah. We both chose Pennywood, Clotion, and, oh, no, you both chose Pennywood.

There was an awful, you chose. Yeah, only I did. But this is hilarious how he and I have, for the most part, here, stayed in the same zones. Like, we've got the right stuff. Yeah. Yeah, we usually don't do that. It's usually a lot more opposite. Yeah, because you both locked in, was question number two again.

It was the, right, you both chose the Immacular Reception. Yeah. And you both chose Pennywood. Crazy. Holyrola. Yeah. I would wear, let's see. I think I would wear

So the KEPI Can you tell me about that or Kepi? What is this? Yeah, the Kepi is, it's like that cylindrical hat like an engineer kind of wears you see a French I think French soldiers were but it's like a

It looks like a cylinder Oh Fringe in their durn head wear A brim I know what it is The one that Tom Hanks wears in that Yes, in the Polar Express Yeah, there it is

Here you go, Chad And the Polar Express Yeah, I hate that hat I think that's a terrible hat. That's a great hat. I would never wear that. It's a great head if you're trying to balance something on the top of your head and you need a nice flat surface for it.

Yeah, this feels like a hat that would fit me very ill. Like hot chocolate? Yeah, like that. Why not? Why not some hot chocolate? Oh, they also, you know what? They give the Kepi to the Civil War hats. They call that a Kepi also, it says here.

Do they? Okay. And it's very similar. Not as flat on top. Is that where we get the word cap from? I don't know, is it? Oh, I don't know. Maybe.

Geez, look at all the brains on you, Brad, today. It's possible. All right. Well, that means that I lost for my city and my local friend. Oh, did I never send that? There's the, there's the Budenganova, whatever the hell it was called. Oh, there we go. And Bindover.

I don't think that's right. Buden Bindovka. No, not the Boudan Bindover. That's not right. Buda Bindover. Send Dunaway right over. Dunaway, you won for your dude. Yeah, you talk.

Go Utah. Congratulations, Jeff Beverly. Yeah, you're getting a copy of Chivalry 2 and Road 96. One's an immediate sequel. Another one took 95 iterations to get a sequel. Shivalry 2 Road 96. But don't worry, Will DeMott in Oxford, UK. You're getting Trek to Yomi or Yami.

They're both. All of these are considered good. I've only played Shivalry 2. Shiverley. I can't speak to the rest of it personally, but I hear they're great. And also, I was confused this entire time. for some reason I thought I was playing for the local guy and I'm not, I didn't

and so I still feel good about what happened here today. Maybe a little subconscious sabotage. Maybe, no offense to Will in the UK, I'm just saying. You just don't make me assume that if I'm picking somebody from Utah that you're going to play for them. Yeah, my, or just this feeling of automatic loyalty. I just felt like I had to do it. So I did in my heart and mine.

You got a pull for the home team. That's right. congratulations to the both of you. According to Scott Fletcher, he would say this. Congratulations. You're a winner. You've done it. Congratulations.

Done away, you did it. You won something for somebody. How does that make you feel? Well, honestly, Scott, it makes me feel pretty good. Yeah, I was kind of down, but now I'm up. Oh, you're up now. Well, that's good. That's good.

Don't be down. I'm glad you're not down anymore. I'm sorry you were down earlier. Yeah. I'm sorry, you're sick. It's weird seeing I bit sit in his chair. I know. Weird, right?

The image of the future. Oh, gosh. Hey, what are we doing? I can't stand up. Who's our guest today? That's funny. You see anybody in a chair and you think, oh, that'll be them when they're 80 for always. They'll only ever be in a chair.

They'll only ever be standing. Real quick, we did a really fun film sack over the weekend and people should check it out. Yeah, but we ain't got no friends. Throw mama from the train. Throw mama from the train. A movie we talked about a reference a billion times. on the show, and we finally got to see it. And I'm happy to say, I think that movie held up and maybe held up more than any of us expected.

I don't know. For sure. Piece of poop. I think so. Yeah, you piece of poop. What was the whole line, Dono way? The piece of poop line? Do you remember?

Oh, I can't remember now. What does she call him? I've got to go back and watch it again. You clumsy poop. Clumsy poop. Yeah, it was good. In fact, you know what? I have it here.

I may as well just play it. Let's just play that as a way to get people in and seeing that movie. Hold on, here we go. You clumsy poop. You clumsy poop. Yeah. She says slumsy Slumsy poop

That's okay When she first started To call in Owen in the movie She called him like It's not like she said Irwin And I was like oh no Have I heard that wrong my entire life? Yeah I know

Get me a son of some ice in it Yeah You like to poop She's amazing No Never forget Anne Ramsey One of the great actresses of all time

Mostly because of that And the Goonies Anyway Brian We hope you have a great day Kiss our butts by oh he had no time to reply that's a shame oh that's a real shame all right we're going to do some uh some informing we got uh journalism to do you know sure and uh it starts with this time for the news brought to you by a shout out to h for being a cool dude everybody

should be more like h i agree a c h guys awesome just a cool dude another another cool uh dude and do that in our lives. Chaco Mama and her husband who sent me something very cool over the weekend. I also got something cool. Where did it go? What did you get? Oh, it's upstairs. Crap.

It's a He-Man. Not Lego. What's the other? Megablocks. Megablocks, yeah. Megablocks He-Man set that has got little tiny Prince Adam and then a version of him. Actually, it looks like,

like He-Man and then Dark He-Man or something. Oh, really? Okay. I'm not exactly sure, but anyway, it's this whole Castle Grey Skull set and everything. It's just a very cool thing to get in the mail. Yeah, yeah. They are great. We love them. I got a Magic Carp, a moving Pokemon Magic Carp.

Nice. Nice. Oh, both Megablocks. I didn't know that. It's huge, too. It's like, yeah. Well, to them, we say, thank you. They are cool and shout-outs. Yeah, and I ate some of her chocolate last night as well. To celebrate. very good uh moving on to the story we got a story about a mountain of used clothes normally you'd think that would want to go to charity or something you know yeah yeah well for some reason a mountain

of used clothes appeared in the chili desert like i don't mean chili like cold like chilean desert and then went up in flames almost immediately oh wow spontaneously like well i'll give you some details because that part okay please do because that's confusing that part is less than clear Story is originally published by Grist. I don't know what Grist is, some newsletter. Anyway, it says on the morning of June 12th, 2022, Angela Astadillo, Astido, Astido. Then a law student in her mid-20s grabbed her water bottle and hopped onto her red Nissan juk.

Speaking of cars and other places with names that aren't the same here. The Nissan Juk. Nissan Juk. I think that actually did come up in that. that half asses with, is it a real car or a fake car? Did it? The juke did? I think the juke was in there, yeah.

I would drive a juke. I'm telling you right now. It's not a problem. The founder or co-founder of Dressed Desert, textile recycling advocacy nonprofit, sounds right, if you're trying to get old clothes to people. And the daughter of tree farmers, she lives in a gated apartment complex.

None of this matters to the story. Anyway, as she exited the compound, she pulled over her car next to her car next to a road and greeted a fashion professor there and three of her students who are also waiting inside. I'll get to the bottom line here. They get up there. They see this huge mountain of clothes.

They don't know why they're there. But they just looks like it's all been dumped by dump trucks. Just like, there's a photo here. Let me pull this up. This is on Gizmodo. I'll pull it up for myself as well. You don't need to. Oh, wow.

Huge. That's a massive pile. That is a way bigger pile of clothes than I was. expecting it's a lot and you see the little car like next to all of them is like oh that is massive yeah that's a ton of clothes it almost looks like people um from the shot but but anyway uh and then they set it on fire and nobody nobody's exactly sure why except this lady's of course mad because she is part of this group that would want to redistribute these clothes to people yeah no kidding but it's like discarded clothes from brands like adidas h and m ralph lauren really

Yeah, bummer, right? That is a bummer. Yeah, they could go to people who need it, for sure. What's going on, Chile? What's going on? Chile, sorry? Chili-Chile. I don't know.

Am I saying it right? I have no idea. Chile. Chile? Is that the way? That's the way. Just ask Randy. He'll get his machete out.

Oh, chili. Let's see. Here's a story about don't lick your car. Well, don't let the moose lick your car. Oh, well, that too. Which is perfect. for my viewing of northern exposure. There's a prominent moose.

There is a moose, right, the wanders around the town. You see them all over the opening credits, if I remember correctly. You do indeed. And he also kind of just shows up in stalks Rob Marrow's character a lot. Oh, really? It's like a kind of a running gag that the moose shows up at inopportune times. Is the moose real, or is it all in Joel's imagination? Is it as Tyler Dernan?

If I remember right, he questions. it. I don't know that I've gotten to that episode yet, but I did get to the episode in season one where there's a myth about a beast that lives in the woods called Adam. Man pig bear. No, but it's very similar

kind of vibe. Oh, really? Yeah, nobody can explain it. Yeah, man bear pig. But nobody can describe what it is. It creates all kind of havoc and problems and kills things and all this. But it turns out it's just

Adam Arkin. who, and I don't mean, he's not playing Adam Arkin. It is Adam Arkin playing this character named Adam. It's just, right. They just didn't change his name. Adam Arkin lost in the woods of South Alaska. Exactly. And he's running around in the woods.

He's just kind of, not homeless, but like on purpose, just trying to avoid society. And it's a great storyline. It's so good. What, I don't know if we said, what, what service is Northern Exposure? Oh, Prime, because I was trying to do in the, um, Jeff Bezos joke about him. That's right. The Jeff Bezos sticking his head out.

Yeah, Prime. I even made the joke about six more weeks of free shipping. Oh, right. But yeah, he... That's how long my memory lasts. Thank you very much. That's all right. You got cold brain or something.

Something. What was my point? My point was that Adam Arkin's great, I guess. But let's get back to this story. Not as great as Alan Arkin. No. Alan's the bomb. The King Arkin.

Yeah, I would agree. Although Alan Arkin's a very small but wonderful role in season two of Fargo was really good. I remember him being in that. Everybody's been in Fargo now. And if they're not in it, they're trying to be. Brief appearance in the movie Little Miss Sunshine netted him a Academy Award nomination too. That's true. For like seven minutes of screen time or something.

Less than Ann Ramsey. That was a good movie. I should watch that again. I like that movie a lot. Yeah. First time I ever saw that, Paul Dano fella. Freaking weirdo. Right. Yeah. Uh, all right. Moose, moose and squirrel. Moose and squirrel.

Try not to let moose lick your car, warns the Parks Canada as more moose flocks to highway. So what happens is this time of year, the moose, not migrate, but they move down lower where it's warmer, right? Uh, parks Canada, which is what we would, we would say U.S. National Park Service. They just say Parks Canada. Parks Canada. Is warning drivers not? It's a PC way to say it. PC way to say. Exactly. It's the exact PC way to say it. Did not stop on a while on highways to let the moose lick their cars in the winter. I guess this is a thing that happens. A peculiar message to many people. Do not let them do this because the salt on the roads to control snow removal and such gets on your car. The moose are attracted to the salt on your car. And if they lick it, it's actually bad for them.

Anyway, say, don't do it. Unfortunately, this kind of puts the moose at risk of being injured or killed if they get hit by vehicles. and so on. Parks Canada understands that seeing this in the wildlife is a real highlight for a lot of people, but we ask people not to stop so that the moose can't get used to licking salt off of the cars. Just stop on the highway, pull over. Come look my car. Come on. Come on. Come like my car.

Throw the fork. Come look my car. It says, part of the problem, Ria says, this is the person there, says the large creatures search for salt in the winter because they need a lot of sodium to maintain their bodily functions. So it's the thing they need. But that's stuff that's on cars is not like pure salt.

There's other... Magnesium chloride or something. Yeah, there's other shit in there. Nobody's sprinkling that on their tomato soup, if you know what I mean. I know what you mean? They're not sprinkling on their tomato soup. You know what I mean? If you know what you mean, because that's quite literal.

Yeah, there's no like subtext there at all. It's literally just don't put it on your soup. I don't know why I said it that way. That made me laugh, though. If you know what I mean. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, you're literally saying don't put it on your soup.

You literally say don't put it. It's not what you put on your tomato soup. Here's another little, we got a lot of wildlife today. That's just the way it is. Sorry, everyone. Yeah, it's fine. Monday is Animal Day on TMS today. Welcome to Animal Day.

Farrell, aggressive peacocks are wreaking havoc in a Houston neighborhood, according to residents. You can never trust those peacocks, man. They're there to. to be the worst player on your Apple TV device. It's not good. I don't know why that thing's so janky on mine, but it's terrible. I had to reinstall it twice.

Yeah. Peacock's been kind of bad for me. Well, it's a crummy, it is a crummy interface. Like sometimes you say, oh, yeah, resume, and it starts the show over at the beginning, or it freezes when it's doing commercials. It almost always has to do with the stupid commercials on there. I almost, this reminds me, if it hadn't been for Northern Exposure,

guess what I had queued up and ready to watch? And I'm still going to. Parasite. No. Oh, okay. No. Jury duty. I was ready to do jury duty.

I'm like, I'm in the mood for this. I'm finally going to cave and do it. I have aversions to reality shows, but you have sold me on it, Brian. And so is everybody else. This is, yeah. Put those, put those aversions to rest. This is not your real housewives, pawn stars bullshit. This is, uh, this will make you feel good about life.

Good. As, uh, has Kim watched it? No. She's, we're going to do it together. We're going to watch it. Yeah, you got to watch that with her. She'll love it. Yeah.

Wasn't, uh, what's his name up for something yesterday? James Marston was up for his role in jury duty. His role as James Marsden. His role is James Marsden and his giant duke in jury duty. That's amazing. Um, well, anyway, these peacocks, they're feral and aggressive, according to authorities. Kelly Donahue proceeds with trepidation when she takes her four dogs to work because of these damn things. She's checking the roads, treat,

tops and bushes for peacocks. Didn't know they could be that aggressive. That's really funny. They're more accurately, by the way, called pea fowl, which I didn't know until I read this. Right, because isn't it, peahens and, like, peahens are the females and peacocks are the males? And so, Pfowl is the general term for them? Is the group of them? That sounds right to me. Which ones are the most, is it the males or the females?

The males are the big, yeah. Because I know that swaps around. Birds often, it's the males who are all flourished. Right. Right. But in other... The more brightly colored of the... Yeah.

But in a couple of cases, there's like really nasty ugly ladybirds and then the... Or no, it's the other way around. Ugly males who have to fight over... I can't remember where I saw this. It was one of those... Here we see the female. One of those. At the borough business.

Yeah. I could have used his name, I guess. Yeah, usually it's the male that's brightly colored or poison or... brightly colored makes you think they're poisonous or is poisonous. You know, like it's a thing that's evolved over time that, like, the poisoned dart frog has made other frogs decide to turn fuchsia as well to make everybody think that they're poisonous. Right, but they're harmless in the end, some of those.

Something like that. I like that shit. I like when animals look scary, but are real, there's nothing to it, you know? Yeah. Like certain fish will get all puffy and weird. Coral snakes, get back in the house, coral snake. Coral snakes are bad, but then there's like a, if red is next to yellow, that's a harmless fellow, or something like that. Like there's another snake that has the colors of a coral snake, but depending on how the colors are arranged, it's the non-poisonous versus the poisonous variety.

So if the red, okay, let's say it's red and yellow. Yeah. But that implies it has to start with one color of the other. other, right? So at the beak, at the beak, at the beak, the head, the beak of the snake, listen to me over here, the beak of the snake. It's not like, so it's like, the way it's, the way it's colored is, it's black, red and yellow. Okay. Black, red, yellow, right? But there's usually a color that's surrounded by another color. Oh, I see. So yellow is surrounded by red. Okay. And that's bad. Yellow with red in the middle, so it goes yellow, red, yellow, is fine. Okay. Okay, that makes

sense because that's a pattern you can see if it was just two colors it would be like it would have to always start at the nose or not start you know or right and then alternate here it is red touch yellow kill a fellow is the is how you I love folkloric kind of ways of explaining nature it's my favorite red touch black safe for jack safe for jack really I was hoping it was send it back but that's fine flush it down if it's around. Let it down. If it's brown, downtown.

Something about yellow, let it mellow. Here's the poem right here with pictures. Oh, but pictures. Let's see it. Oh, look at this. All right. This is great. Let me pull this over into the thing so chat can see it.

All right, look at this, guys. Red touch yellow kills a fellow. Red touch black. Friend of Jack. Friend of Jack. But the idea here is in nature, stuff that knows that the, you know, animals that know that the top one is bad. This other one is like bad enough.

They're like, well, I don't know. That looks like the same thing. There's a lot of animals. Yeah. Don't, don't understand rhymes.

So this is an easy way for like us to be safe. Yeah. But other animals in nature who don't get rhyming. Which turns out a lot. A lot of animals don't get rhyming. They really don't understand it. No. I mean,

maybe they do, but we can't hear us. When you hissed, take a piss. They know that one. Yeah, they know that one. Yeah. Everyone knows that one. Come on. That's amazing. Anyway, these peacocks, or this pea fowl, they're prone to attacking humans, cars, animals. They're doing property damage to houses, like this kind of stuff. Jeez.

They walk into traffic without any hesitation. It doesn't matter how many cars are coming. They see them. It doesn't matter. They're just walking out. I guess when they're feral, it's different than if they're zoo type ones that are all kind of calm and chill. um anyway compounding the issue says heathwood resident of linda abber oh resident i'm sorry said heathwood resident linda abber okay i was going to say there's a lot of words right there that that uh yeah heathwood is the place linda is the person i want to name something heathwood that's a great name heathwood and welcome to heathwood hello houston uh let's see she says i lost it uh what happened there scrolled down there it is uh she says

that I saw seven of them smashing into a car the other day. They tore up roofs and broke windows. Wow! Once they even chased a group of kids. Oh, man. Jeez. And I don't mean goats. I mean like children. Okay. Dangerous

peacock gang roaming the streets of Houston. Yeah. Feels like, I don't know, just feels like they should be pretty easy to take out. They're kind of slow moving and I agree. Big old trains that they have to pull basically. Yeah. They don't run. They're not fast. They don't fly, right?

I don't think. Do they? No, and when you hit it with your car, it's like a boom, big splash of color. And it always makes the same sound, which is, do, do, do, do, do. We were both thinking of the same dumb idea. I love it. All right. Speaking of dumb ideas, we're going to

have Stephen on here in a minute. Yeah, it's a great idea. No, it's a great idea. I take it back. It's a great idea. But that'll be after this break. We have to do a break, and the break involves music, and Brian brought the music. So tell us about the music. Yeah, so this one comes to us from a PR firm Made by Robots, a new electronic music label that has offices in Berlin and London. This is a group called GPU. Make sense, right? Made by robots, GPU. Why not? And a song called Cigarette After. Cigarette After what? Well,

we're going to let the song explain it because it does. Here is the band GPU and Cigarette After. I'm going to be able to be. Thank you. Cigarette afterwards has a way to relax and unwinded. Cigarette afterwards refers to the act of smoking a cigarette after a meal, after a stressful event, or after completing a task has a way to relax and unwind. While many people find smoking a cigarette to be a pleasurable experience, it is important to know that smoking is a highly addictive and harmful habit that can lead to a wide range of health problems. Sycorette. Sycoretic.

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Hey, who is that one more time? Sure, that is a GPU and a brand new single called Cigarette After. there's a few different versions out there that's the long version, the four minute version of the song. Nice. It's not really that long. Four minutes is a good song like. I think so. I think that's about as

hmm. What do I like? I don't like one of the songs too short. I don't like a two minute, you know, Green Day's got one of these new tracks is amazing and it's like two minutes and 30 seconds. Freaking F that. What are you doing? Give me more like The clash. The clash said the perfect pop song was two minutes 59

was there. So three minutes roughly for a good rock. I like a good, yeah, three to four is my range. Unless you're doing something rad and then I'm okay with like eight to ten if it's something interesting and cool, you know? Yeah, yeah, right. The 70s type stuff. All right, we got one Stephen Schleiker coming in and we'll introduce him with this.

And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Oh, I can confirm he's a giant nerd. Hello, Stephen. Welcome back to the program. Hello, Scott. Happy New Year, Brian. Oh.

Thank you. Happy New Year, too. Yeah. How's your year so far? What's going on over there? Well, this morning, I pulled a Johnson. Uh-oh. Oh.

Oh. Yeah. Tell us more. I was a little, I was a little peckish. Uh-huh. And there was a leftover hot dog. Oh, no. Okay.

And a tortilla. Yeah. Yeah. And so I threw a little shredded cheese, some mustard ketchup, heated that stuff up, ate a dogarito. Whizely done. Now, it'll have been a little. full Johnson if that if that hot dog was uh about a week and a half old it's probably it was probably

only maybe four days old okay okay not that at all you're still in a safe safe space when you eat a hot dog down we'll see in about an hour yeah let us know um no that's great uh did you do the ketchup and mustard before the microwave no no after after the microwave all right just making sure that because that sounds terrible how else do you get hot mustard yeah that's what they mean temperature that's definitely what they're talking about oh yeah that's that sure Uh, major spoilers, of course, is where you hail from, the fantastic website and podcast and network and all these amazing things you do over there. And we'd love having you on to talk about nerdy stuff. And you've got a little bit of a list of your favorite bits of media in 2020. Yeah, I love this. Yeah, not a best of, but just favorites because I, unlike Brian, don't go to movie theater. So, uh, rarely. Yeah. And so, uh, you know, I can't say if I talk about my, my favorite movie of 2020. I can't talk about Barbie or Oppenheimer because I didn't go see those. No. Right. Uh, right. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Although Barbie, I think, just dropped on streaming. Both of them did, yeah.

Barby and Oppenheimer both available for a streamer. I think Barbie was available earlier, but maybe not. Well, I mean, on one of the... He was teasing rental or something, but I could have sworn it was free streaming earlier, but maybe not. When did it, when did Oppenheimer drop? Is it Apple? Oppenheimer Prime, I think.

Or is it Apple? Maybe it's Apple. Crap. Oh. Oh, it's rentable. It's not streaming like a service. Really? Not yet. Not yet. I thought it was already. Oh, yeah, you're right. Yep. So, but that's good. I mean, for $5.99, I could watch it. And that'll be, and that'll be Peacock is Oppenheimer. Oh, okay. That's a universal deal. Or universal.

So I've got, I've got five categories here. Movies, TV, comic books, gaming, and music. Oh, very nice. Okay. These are all things I enjoy greatly, these categories. Yes, good choices, all of them. All right. So, Brian, why don't you pick a category first? Stephen Tell me about comics Because that's your Yeah, start comics Listen, there were a lot of great comics that came out in 2023

I spent the holidays catching up on the Spider-Man run There's the new Ultimate Spider-Man that drops today So this might be a favorite comic of 2024 But my favorite comic book series of 2023 Is Conan the Barbarian over at Titan Comics You know, Roy Thomas did a fantastic job when he was doing stuff at Dark Horse and Marvel back in the day. But Jim Zubb, who has been doing Pathfinder Comics, Dungeons and Dragons comics, he really gets this high fantasy kind of stuff. And he's a huge fan of Robert E. Howard.

And so it just seems like this natural pairing of Jim Zub and Conan the Barbarian, which is like a breath of fresh air considering what Marvel was just doing with Conan in their recent run. So if you get a chance to go read Conan the Barbarian. I think the first six issues are out now. Another one I think either drops this week or next week. It's from Titan Comics, but definitely my favorite comic series of 2023. We're not alone. I heard nothing but raves about this this year. So I got to get in there.

We had Zub on comic dorks once. Remember that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was fun. In fact, I think you arranged it. I think you're the one that got the interview. Yeah, he was great. He was great.

Yeah. Yeah, most definitely. All right. So we got movies, TV, gaming, and music, Scott. Let's go with gaming. Curious where you landed there. By the way, this was an insane year for gaming. So no pressure on you at all here, all right?

But I guarantee you that my favorite game of 2023 is definitely not Legend of Zelda. That would have been like my boy's favorite game. Yeah. Definitely wasn't. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. It's, you know, there's so many great games that came out. But in 2022, I fell in love with games like XCOM 2 and Hard West. And so in October of this year, the Lamplighters League tower at the end of the world dropped. And I have been playing that nonstop. I'm no good at it. But for a tactical RPG type game, the Lamplighters League just occupied all of my time. Yeah. All my free time. This was a game that I got that was actually in Game Pass. so I didn't have to do much to get it. I played it on Game Pass,

and it was criticized early on for being a little buggy at launch and having some issues. But what really made up for those issues was the setting, and it's sort of its vibe, you know? And also the best soundtrack, I think, of the year. It had an amazing soundtrack in this game. Yeah, so think pre-World War II,

there are three factions that are trying to get to what is essentially the Tower at the End of the World, aka the Tower of Babel, and you and your team, the Lamplighters League, have to go and take them down and get to the tower first and save the world. It is, it's got a really cool

Cthulhu World War II vibe to it. Unfortunately, the game didn't sell very well, and they released one DLC at the end of December, and then they're like, yeah, we're shutting down our support for the game, and it's still going to be available, go have fun, but we will have no further updates after them.

Yeah, I think they're going to be moving on. So for those that are like, well, who made this? They actually have a really strong place in the tactical RPG space. They did those Shadow Run games in 2013, 2014, and then the Hong Kong follow-up in 2015. Those are amazing isometric cyberpunk shadow run games that play off the original Shadow Run series. And then they also did the Battle Tech game in 2018 that is pretty revered. everybody loves battle tech and I think

Lamp Lighters League just kind of came um didn't it drop like the same weekend like Balders Gate or something dropped it was crazy the like within the same this happened a lot this year there was so much stuff that came out that nobody was giving Balders Gate

the pre-launch respect it probably needed and the space it needed to land as big as it did because the big time games suffered because of it like Starfield got absolutely got dinged by coming out at the same time. I think lamplighters was roughly the same time

and that had the same problem. A lot of games did this year. So, yeah, I think this is kind of a good game in the rough. I haven't been back since they've done a bunch of the updates and so I'm sure that there's a better experience there. Yeah, but if you, you know... Get the last patch and the free DLC,

which introduced another character for free and you're going to have a lot of fun with it. And again, I know a lot of people are like, no, I like Legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom, or I like Boulder's Gate 3. That's great. I didn't, I played a little bit of Zelda with the boys and didn't get around to doing Baldur's Gate just because I can spend 60 bucks on Lamplighters League or 60 bucks on Boulder's Gate. So I went with Lampo. You went with what you love. And look, the, you know, if you like XCOM, if you like tactical term-based strategy games, well, I guess BG3 is that as well. But good year for that. And Lamp Lighters League was one of them. So there you go. Yep. All right. We have movies, TV and TV and. music, Brian. What do you say, Brian? Well, since now I'm picking, music. Music. All right.

So, I thought this group broke up and hadn't been doing anything in many, many years. And suddenly in October, my Apple music says, hey, Stephen, there's a new Blink 182 album out. And I was like, what? And it's called Blink 182 one more time.

It is everything that you expect from Blink 182, but this time instead of their previous albums being like, F it, we're going to live forever, who cares? This time it's like, oh, F it, we're not going to live forever. And so there's a little bit more melancholy and regret in the album, but there's still just some really great songs in that. So if you're a fan of Blink 1282, definitely if you did not see their October release of that,

you need to go and listen to it. You will get no argument for me. That is a fantastic album. It is a trend right now that these 90s punk pop bands, are coming back with a with a vengeance with new material. This combined with those new tracks from Green Day have been some of my favorite stuff this year. So you and I are in the same boat here. Even if you're not a giant blink fan, and I was never that big of a Blink 1282 fan.

I was always more Green Day, more, I don't know, I like some 41. I liked Pood to the Unta Gliben. No, not them. Who am I thinking of? Def Leopard. Yeah, I know. I get the wrong band.

Or the wrong intro. Offspring is who you're thinking. Spring is who I'm thinking of. I used to be really into them. But they're all killing it right now. And I don't know what the deal is, what's in the air, but I'm all here for it. Is Ever Clear? Has Ever Clear made its way back? I don't think Ever Clear is made it their way back.

Only at college parties. Yeah. Right. All right. I'm going to pick movies. I'm going to pick movies. Yeah, let's do movies. All right. Listen, Barbie Oppenheimer just big, big hits at the box office this year.

Somebody had the nerve. Somebody had the gall to go on to Twitter. and say, hey, this was a banger year for movies, especially when there was no big Spider-Man or Marvel or DC movie that was released. And I had to go and say, no, no, no, dude, June 2nd, 2023, the third greatest superhero movie dropped. And it was Spider-Man across the Spider-verse. I think it's. How can you not think that that was not one of the one of everyone's favorite movies? The best Marvel movie of the year, hands down, even the more of the Sony deal.

Yes, yes. Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more except to say I think it's better than third place. I think this movie is like... Well, so Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse, obviously, the number one superhero movie of all time can run up, runs up close against maybe one of the greatest animated movies of all time. Yeah. Then, of course, the number two greatest superhero movie of all time is Spider-Man Homecoming. And then Spider-Man across...

Oh, I would have put dark, and I was thinking second would have been Dark Night. Yeah, I would have put... I'd put Dark Night before I'd put... Whatever. We're not going to fight. We're not here to fight. We're not here to love. There's just something about homecoming that I just love. So yeah, if you were asking me in my top three superhero movies, yeah, I'm sorry. I love Superman 78. I love Batman 89. I love Dark Knight. But these three, if you were asking me, hey, Stephen, you want to watch a superhero, that's the order that they would be in. Wow. And across the Spider-Verst, really the own, as you said, Scott, the best Marvel movie to come out. And unfortunately, we're going to have to wait such a a long time before the third installment comes in because of the way that this movie was produced in that the writer strike and the screen actors guild strike meant that they didn't have the movie is

barely half finished when the strikes began and so that means that this thing isn't coming out I don't think until the end of 2024 or the middle part of 2025 yeah I'm guessing this was a bad year for or last year was a bad year for two parters because we have the same thing with the mission impossible debt reckoning part one it's like oh yeah no you gotta wait you know probably 20 and i'm sure dune oh yeah dune got delayed twice coming out but i mean i think it's also suffered a little bit it did it got pushed it was supposed to be out last october man i was into it i was so ready for that yeah what are you gonna do scott when furiosa and doom two have to go up again or dune two have to go up against one and the box office they got like two three months apart

so you got so you got march yeah march for dune part two and you got end of may for Furiosa. That'll work. Somebody said they didn't think Furiosa was going to make a billion dollars at the box office. They're insane. It will make a billion dollars. Who said that? Because it will make that. Some rando on Twitter. Well, he doesn't know. He's an idiot. The guy in Twitter lied, as I like to say. I cannot imagine, I cannot imagine that movie not doing a billion dollars easily.

Now, it's not going to be the first weekend, but within the first month, it could easily do that. Yeah, no, it'll do it. I mean, it's very, it's not. just here too like this is a noun thing worldwide they're going to make big money that movie's going to be just fine yeah everyone in in george miller i trust every time that's just the rule uh okay all right brian you got one last choice well you know what uh since i love this show as well let's talk tv okay all right so this is a show that's been out for a while they dropped their third season in november right around right after thanksgiving yep and if you are not watching Slow Horses with Gary Oldman on Apple TV Plus,

you were missing out on one of the great spy thriller TV shows that are out there. Now, Slow Horses based on a series of books called The Slough House Books, and these have been adapted. I think, I want to say there's six or seven books in the series. So if you get to the end of season three or the cliffhanger for season three, and you're like, oh my gosh, is this series going to be continued? Apple has already given it a green light for season five. The trailer for season four already dropped, so they've already shot.

most of that. Wow. Wow. And so, yeah, I think Apple realizes that they have a hit. If you go and look at the top shows that are on Apple Plus right now, it's like the Godzilla Monster Island show, Monarch with Kurt Russell. Ted Lasso still is up there very high. And then Slow Horses is right there and usually in the top three or four spots. Yeah. And it is, so people who aren't familiar, I'm sure Brian's probably talked about on the show, but MI5 agents, when they screw up, If there's a reason why they can't fire you for some reason, then they demote you to the Slough House, which is the place where all the degenerates, all the dumbasses go. And supposedly, they get them to, they go there. Gary Oldman is this old Cold War spy who just hates everything in life. Oh, my God. He's so great and despicable. He is. And he makes everyone's lives so miserable there that he wants them to quit so that they don't have to deal with.

with any kind of lawsuits within my five, et cetera. And the first season was a blast. Second season I wasn't a huge fan of because it takes place in the summer and so everything is brightly lit. And to me, spy thriller should be dark and rainy. And then we get to season three. And it's all about what happened

to all the old paper trail of data and top secrets getting out and everything. It's a lot of infighting among these organizations. And it's great. I'm only, I'm still, I finish season. Season one, I have not done, gotten past it. Not that I didn't want to, just haven't yet. So I got to know that I'm in for-

Ryan, have you finished season three? Not season three yet. No, we've, we're waiting until the end of last year to get all the episodes out because that's a fun binge. Yes, it is. Sadly, Apple wants to release this week after week, and I'm just like, you, I'm like, I want the next episode now. Now, the one thing that Apple did do, and I don't know if they're doing it,

like midnight London time or something. But like the shows were supposed to drop on, I think it was Wednesday or Thursday. Thursday, I think. But they would always show up around 8 o'clock my time. Oh, really? See you guys. So I was a great way to end the in the night

is by watching a new episode of Slow Horses. My favorite TV show of 20. So good. Nice. So, so good. Well, I'm very happy to hear this list. This list is full of good things. A reminder, Lamp Ladders League in Gaming for Music, Blink 1-82, one more time,

is the new album. Comics, Conan the Barbarian at Titan Comics, which I'm absolutely going to go buying mass right now and read. Slow Horses on Apple TV Plus and the movie Spider-Man across the Spider-verse, which is my favorite movie I've seen this year, minus

whatever I get out of Oppenheimer when I finally see it. If that beats it or not, I don't know, or if Killers and Flower Moon does, or I don't know. You won't have seen that movie last year. You'll have seen it this year. That's true. Yeah, that's my 2020-3-20204 movie of the year or maybe I don't know we'll see how it goes uh Stephen it's always good to have here I wish you nothing but uh great things in the new

year is there anything happening right now you want people to know about uh well we're prepping for a potential blizzard but we'll see if that happens but in the meantime for all of 2024 let's remember you stay hydrated oh man the new year new hydration love it love it for sure yeah we're also loving the new season of uh for all mankind talk about your infighting holy cow happy valley base not such a happy valley right now that's another one where i'm a season in and and haven't caught up yet is it they're in the future now right uh no there's still the current season is um 90s 90s okay well that would make sense because or early 2000s because you're what's his name's not he would probably be dead now if it was future right and his characters

are still in there he's looking pretty darn old joel kinneman in this current season yeah yeah I need to catch up on that I need that 2002 thank you mid-coffee yeah I need to watch the new the new foundation season there's all kinds of shit on Apple I want to watch oh yeah Thomas Chambers

every episode like they're dropping Disney Plus is dropping all five episodes of Echo so oh yeah echoes when's that tomorrow tomorrow looking forward to that I like her some kingpin action some daredevil action oh my God it's gonna be so good you think probably no Clinton Barton in there

because he's all banged up since this happened right? Yeah, probably. Yeah. I don't know. Who knows? There could be some surprises. Uh, Kate Bishop maybe. Maybe she'll show up. We don't know. Oh, Margo. Yeah, Margo and the her defect, not defection. Well, defection. And, uh,

it's so good. So good, Amy. Watch for that. Uh, that is going to do it for us today. Big thanks, everybody, for watching for being here, for being a part of the, the ongoing uh, concern that is TMS and Patreon.com slash TMS is how you can support us. And you've done a great job of that last year. But this year you can do even a better job, okay?

It's all on you. Try and do better this year, people. Yeah, try and do a little better if you can. No, we've got, you know, overall last year was a growth year. And we'd love to see that continue in 2024. That means new listeners. That means new opportunities. It means more fun.

It means Vegas. It means lots of fun stuff. So please head on over to patreon.com slash TMS today and get your fill of no commercials ever pre-show content every day couch parties art in the mail and other great monthly benefits that can be yours if you support us today at patreon.com slash tms that we'll do it for today brian anything else before we do a song uh no no new soundography coming uh this week we've got a sponsor we're working out the the sponsorship stuff so we have to kind of record a sponsorship and pretend we did it during our recording i see what you mean um because we we record our episode so

far in advance that it's like oh well we've got to fix that so anyway that's coming they won't notice any difference in your voice from when you first recorded it compared to today your voice unfortunately they won't because i recorded we recorded our sponsorships before i i had this voice so oh you oh you already did the this okay i get it i thought you had to go back and make one yeah okay that makes sense thank goodness that'd be funny because i'm i have to use a chat bot to do my to do my voice. Like, anyway, Hammond, nothing has changed, and we're still in this same room talking together. I have a cold for some reason, only for this 30 seconds. What I would do is I would like, drink some water and go, oh gosh, sorry, frog in my throat. Well, let me tell you about

our sponsor. I love it. Yeah, so that it's a, well, smooth transition. Hey, Dan Andrews wrote in and said, greetings storm and breaker. I'd like to hear one of the songs from last night in Soho performed by Anya Taylor Joy. It's not fair that she's such a captivating actress beautiful and she can sing maybe she has jennifer aniston milk breath something i haven't heard scott talked about in years i don't know if she did more than one song but i'm not picky also this part can be read aloud you can just answer but what was your opinion about the identity of the killer i felt cheated since we know blah blah blah it won't say anything more there um yeah i was uh i don't know they ended the they ended the movie

the way they wanted to end it. It was a surprise to me the reveal. But I think we overall enjoyed the film. I love the style of it. But yeah, they do kind of make you think one thing. And then they go, oh, surprise, different thing. So, last night and so-ho. Yeah, I don't know what, if Anya Taylor Joy is doing anything, got anything coming out.

But for whatever reason, this is... Nothing major that I know. The whole year looks blank. Nothing major, exactly. Yeah. um she'll have a nice easy relaxing 2024 with no big projects yeah here's her cover of petula clark's downtown oh last night so-ho that's amazing i didn't know she's saying that she sounds and she sings it beautifully she's got a great voice i'm blown away by this all right oh yeah she's got that new mutants

thing that was really good that's that's kind of a big project yeah maybe the vitch too maybe she's working on that yeah we'll see how that goes ooh that guy's got a movie coming out i can't wait to see he's that Nosferatu redo. Oh, right, right. That's that filmmaker, and he's working with Willem DeFoe's and that. Right, as Max Shrek. I'm so excited. I can barely stand it.

Anyway, here it is. That's the song, Brian just mentioned, and we'll be back tomorrow. On your Taylor Joy. Yep, and we'll be here tomorrow for a Tuesday edition of the show. We'll see you then. alone and life is making you lonely you can always go downtown when you've got worries all the noise and the hurry seems to help i know downtown just listen to the music of the traffic in the city linger on the side what's where the neon signs are pretty how can you lose the lights are much brighter there

You can forget all your troubles, forget all your care, so go Downtown Things will be great when you're Downtown No finer place for sure Downtown Everything's waiting for you Downtown

Don't hang around And let your problems surround You there are movie shows Downtown Maybe you know Some little places to go To where they never close Downtown

Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle Basanova You'll be dancing with them too Before the night is over Happy again The lights are much brighter there You can forget all your troubles Forget all your cares

So go Down, down, things will be great when you're Downtown, down, down, no finer place for sure Down, down, you're going to be all right now. Down, down, down, down. downtown and you may find somebody kind to help and understood you someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to guide them along so maybe i'll see you there we can forget all our troubles forget all our cares so go

downtown things will be great when you're Downtown, don't wait a minute, boy Downtown, everything's waiting for you. Get more at Frague. Get more at FrogPants.com. Last call for 70.