The Morning Stream - TMS 2587: Lyft With Your Legs

Episode Date: January 22, 2024

When you're here, you're nosey. Hello, You Precious Driver. The Fake Baby and the Little Person. Ikea Sherpa. Pimple Butt Pope. Prescribe Bacon to All Zoes. Hobbit Dinner. Brian Had a Redacted Incident. The Walking Boot of Wall Street. Flying Donut. John doesn't save the world. The Requirement Dance. Bacon Wrapped Wounds. Is your blood type Marinara or Alfredo? Good Violence 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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The good guys will come and get you. Okay. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's Monday, January 20. 22nd. 2024. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian David.

Hi, Brian. Scott, I was waiting. I was hoping that maybe the fact that he's doing a 22nd might mess up and make him do a 23rd. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow I'll be a 23rd and then I'll accidentally get that three. The three will stay and all. The 23 23. Yeah.

Yes, exactly. Never know until you get here and watch us. It's good to have you all here. Brian and I are going to do a show because it's a Monday. It's TMS. That's what we do. and I wanted to start things off with a little bit of a shout out

to a listener and his daughter, specifically his daughter. He's real nice because he alerted me to this, but it's really the daughter that matters here. So Zoe had, let's just say, a procedure. She's recovering. Seems like a sweet kid. And her pit bull,

Sina, is comforting her in her time of need. And I saw a really cute picture to confirm all this. Anyway, I don't like it when kids are hurt or sick. and so wait so Zoe didn't have the procedure Zoe did Zoe's the person Zoe's the kid

The pit bull is Sina Oh oh oh oh oh and it's not okay You know what I was assuming it was our Our baking A bacon friend Zoe But a whole different Zoe Yeah yeah so young Zoe I guess there could be multiple Zoys right

There are more Zoys than Sure There are many Zoys but she is ours This is ours There are many like it That's right This particular, Zoe, is a young adolescent daughter of a listener who is recovering and recovering well. Been through some stuff.

Her dad's awesome for letting us know. So I just wanted to give a little quick shout out to Zoe and her sweet pit bull who's given her comfort now. Oh, yeah. Hope you're recovering. Hope you're doing well. And regardless of being the different, Zoe, I still prescribe bacon. Bacon will help you get through it. No matter what it is.

We don't even know what it is. And we're saying take bacon. That's what we're saying. Because it's the cure-all. Yeah. Take-Callel. Do not apply it directly ingested internally. Wait, if it's an open-seeping wound, you don't want to wrap it in bacon.

Do not apply bacon is not an acceptable gauze. That makes a lot of sense. That makes a lot of sense. There are bandages that look like bacon. Those are okay. Don't eat those. No, don't eat those. Let me tell you from experience, those are not bacon.

They're like gum. It's like chewing gum. You don't want that. So, speaking of food, we went to an olive garden over the weekend. And so a quick thing about Olive Garden. Super easy to just laugh at it and go, her, her, olive garden, what a crappy chain restaurant. It's not that bad.

It's fine. No, it's really not that bad. And I'll be honest, Tina and I, every once in a while, we'll just look at each other and say, what do you think about unlimited soup selling breadsticks? Yeah. That is a dinner right. Yeah, and it's $10.10. We walk in, we are happy to just say, soup's all and breadsticks, hand them back the menu and a nice tea.

And they let you swap whichever soup you get next, and it doesn't have to be the same one over and over. Yeah, although we never do. We always skip the Zupatiscona. I do too. Although their minestronia we had was pretty good. So I swapped around a little bit. But anyway, that's what we did because we, my family extended family life in the last couple of weeks has been insane. And yesterday, Saturday, we had two. separate dinners planned. One at five with my mom, my sister, her husband. Oh, God, for the same day. Oh, geez. Yeah. And then

later with Kim's family, so we could spend some time with Julie before her treatment started today. And so it was a little back to back. Thankfully, we were all kind of in the same area, so it wasn't like big drives or anything. Anyway, the first one was at Olive Garden. Why? Because

John will eat nothing in his life except Italian food. It's all he'll eat. Oh, no, really? Oh, yeah. His name's John De Palma. The dude has got freaking Italian. blood coursing through his veins. He thinks that the world... He doesn't have blood. He has marinero sauce. Exactly. Yeah. Just a little bit of white sauce maybe going through his veins. But he, you know, he wants pasta. He wants Italian. That's just his deal. And we're... So it's either that or somewhere super expensive and nobody really wanted to do that, including him. So we just said, fine, let's go to

Olive Garden. So we do. This was a weird thing because we get there. Everything's great. Our server's awesome. We get the food we asked for. Things are going wonderful. And we're we noticed the place is filling up with kids from the high school dance. Fine, no problem. Some kind of formal. It's fine. No big deal. I was going to say, yeah, it's not homecoming time.

It's not prom time. So I asked this kid. There was a tall kid not far from us. I said, hey, dude, I'm just curious. I called him dude. Because I wanted to seem like a hip young kid, you know. Like I knew what the teens were living like. That's what I was aiming for.

How's the younger half lived? Yeah. So I said, hey, dude. Um, what dances is this? He's a Pito! I go, what dances is this? Just curious. And he says, it's preference.

And I went, oh, right. It's a thing I forgot about. So back in the day, and when I was in high school, we could choose light mode or dark mode. You can choose whether or not, you know, what font it uses for, uh, yeah, you go to preferences. Some people call it settings. Uh, you do settings dance. Sure. Um, but no, I remember when I was in high school, it was basically.

The girl's choice is really what it came down to. It was one of the girls' choice. So there's like the Sadie Hawkins. There's other stuff. Yeah. But that was one of them. We were more in the pop music world, so we actually had the Sophie B. Hawkins dance instead of the Sadie Hawkins dance.

That's the right way to do it. Instead of asking a girl to, or instead of a girl asking the guy to the dance, she would just say, damn, I wish I was your lover and then walk away. Yeah, no, it's a good tradition. I wish we would have adopted countrywide, but no. Deep cut for everybody over 40. let us know if you got that joke everybody anyway anyway okay so yeah so it's so it's a girls invite

the girls invite the guys so it's basically equivalent of the say d hawkins yeah and it's very they're all very nice everyone's dressed out these kids are actually really nice kids they were like they didn't get weird when I asked them they're like oh yeah it's preference we're uh we're doing this and that and then later we're gonna go beeper burp the thing and they were just really really nice really nice community kiv, not quiet, grumpy kids. It was just nice to see. The kids are all right, I guess, is what I'm trying to say. Anyway, so talk to them for a minute and like, oh, that's interesting.

And then I noticed something that is one of the weirdest things I've ever witnessed at a restaurant. Okay. A little ways away from them, there's a booth. And upcoming to that booth is a woman who seemed young, but didn't seem high school age. But youngish. I would have said mid-20s or something. Okay, yeah, sure. 25, 26.

And she walks over with a baby car seat carriage and a little girl who's probably five. Okay. And they sit down and they're just doing stuff. And then mom kept getting up and standing up with standing by the table with the baby's thing on the table, kind of, you know, like you would with your baby, making sure the binkies there. And you're doing okay and, you know, check. But then we start to notice something. hand of the baby that's sticking out of this carriage thing isn't moving and it's in this position like a like a stiff like claw position like the monkey's paw yeah kind of yeah and it's not budging

it's not twitching it's not doing anything okay and i'm like that doesn't look right some kind of and while by the way while she's doing this she keeps glancing over at these other kids the high school kids she keeps looking at them and then looking back and then looking at them and looking back and kind of a very regular way, like more than you would normally do. And she's still fiddling in that thing. Well, she steps away a little bit, and I'm like, all right, here's my chance. So I kind of get an angle like this. It is a full-on, not real baby.

It's a doll. It's not alive. It's just a doll baby. And so my thinking was, all right, I think I kind of had a theory. Me and Ken were sent next to a series. We kind of had this joint theory. And Ken's probably listening to this. So if I get this wrong, correct me.

but the theory is at least at that point was oh maybe this is a student not connected to the dance at all but this is a student who's doing that whole take care of a doll for a week right exactly school thing used to be a bag of flower or at least in sitcoms it was a bag of flour yeah sometimes an egg you have to keep an egg safe for a week or whatever right exactly by the way Scott you know baby fake baby it doesn't matter at all of garden it's family yeah it's always family everything's family yeah i found there was a plastic family A little dog turd in the corner, and I called it, I called it Cousin Larry. Uncle, Uncle Jeff.

Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, this thing is just sitting there and she's looking at it and I'm like, okay, interesting. But that doesn't account for, that theory doesn't account for this six-year-old girl who's there who looks like she's related. Yeah, at first I was thinking it was, like, it was, oh, it must be the little girl's, you know, baby doll or something. But then why is the mom devoting so much time and attention to it? Yeah, and very, very realistic devoted time. attention like really in there going oh it's okay and talking to it and all this and the little girl is

just kind of off in the corner drawing has a crayon just drawing out a piece of paper she's not at all bothered by any of this doesn't even seem to notice the baby's there so then I'm like fine I don't know I'm never going to know I'm not going over there to ask so let's just let this pass and I'll eat my soup and eat my breadsticks right sure and then and then another weird thing happens and it actually concerned us for a bit especially Ken and I because we could see with she was right in the eyesight of us and uh this this girl leaves and now there's just the little girl drawing and the fake baby in the thing and she doesn't come back for a she well she doesn't come back and we're like 20 minutes later she's still not back oh my god okay yeah just left the

left the five year old alone yeah for 20 minutes yeah and ken goes this isn't good i don't like what this is this feels like an abandonment or something i'm like yeah it's funky yeah it's weird So we've asked, the server comes by and says, hey, can you just check on them? We explained what we saw and we were just concerned about the kid and stuff. And so the server goes over there and kind of gets as like a jump scare because she thought it was a baby. And she got over and she looked inside of it and went like that. And then she came back. She goes, you guys know that that's not a real baby over there?

I'm like, yeah, we got that part. We're up to date on that. It was pretty funny. but anyway we waited a little bit longer now now staff is sort of looking you know paying attention to it and you know nothing bad's going to happen to these kids because we're all watching yeah but we're thinking to this woman abandon this kid she was going to come back and say um actually the the baby's fake and that's a little person this is my girl this is my partner uh her name is gladys and she's just a tiny person anyway so she gets finally about the time we're about to leave even honestly maybe even get cops involved or something because it was looking weird because enough time had gone past

she comes back and just reintegrates herself or whatever and she's just there and I'm like okay whew whatever that was I was still a little concerning yeah that's a long time and the the girl never I mean probably was getting so much attention

now from the staff and stuff that she didn't get distressed about the whole thing and the girl was fine she just chilling she drew the whole time crayon like drawing okay that was it and the plastic baby don't care just chilling there too so this mom or whatever she was comes back and we get to we start leaving it's about the time we decided to go and it looked like she just maybe been in the bathroom for a long time or something I couldn't tell where she went but as we're leaving she went to world market about a block away

yeah get some real food just so so then so as we leave John decides to last second. Okay, 94 years old. All right? Decides he's going to go figure this out. He's, I'm going to figure this out. I guess that's what's in his head. I actually talk to him about it. But he peels off from the rest of us, cuts around the other side, and then goes over there and talks to everybody involved. Talks to the girl. Talks to the little girl. Talks to the waiter over there. Maybe a little bit probably. Fake baby. And then it looked just like it was annoying.

And I went, I can't watch this. So I just kept moving. And I get outside. He never mentions it again. I didn't bring it up again. I don't know what words are exchanged. I couldn't. I don't know. I have no closure. No closure. Because I don't want to hear John. John thinks he's saving the world every time he does anything. And I don't, I didn't want to hear his, his beef. Oh my God. Like you like finally we're going to, oh my God, we're going to get an answer from this. Well, I doubt he, I doubt, I don't think his interaction with the older person, the person who seemed to have left was very brief. I doubt he gleamed much from it. But he's just this way he's got to kind of like get in there and just has to be a part of everything. And so to this very moment, I don't really know what was going on at all.

And this place was mostly, like most tables were kids from this dance. It was right near this school, the high school where the dance was. It's a huge school full of tons of these teenagers. So that place was mostly that. And then this one person with a fake baby. It's so weird. By the way, formal, informal, what is the attire for the preference? Very formal, yeah, they are all looked.

Some of these kids look like they have never worn a suit before because they were so uncomfortable in it. Doesn't sound like much of a preference. It sounds like a requirement. It sounds like a requirement. Welcome to the requirement dance. Yeah, what's the preference part? I assume it's girl gets to prefer the boy. Yeah, she gets her preference of boys, basically.

Oh, I did see this, though. You get your full choice of all of these men, none of which are equipped. to please you. Here's another funny thing we saw going in. I swear this is, it brought me back so hard to high school. But we're walking in and we see one girl is on, is piggybacking on one of the boys.

There's a little snow out, it's kind of raining. Sure. Wet, kind of not quite rain, not quite snow. It's just kind of a weird night of weather. And so they're running and laughing and she's on his back. He-he-he-he-tee-he.

And he's going, there we go, but her. And then. behind and then another couple right behind that and the one behind them also having a lot of fun they're like pushing each other and just laughing and goofing around but the one in the middle this girl's walking 12 to 15 feet in front of him just looking pissed just walking like this all by herself toward olive garden and the kid in the back just kind of head down kind of walking real slow behind her and I had all these like I had all this world building in my head about what's going on with uh you know Denise and Frank over there, and I wanted to go up and ask him and go, dude, you're okay, all right, and you're having an okay night? You're all right, dude. I didn't.

Bastard wouldn't share his tour of Italy with her. I guess not. It is wild, though. Anyway. Took the last breadstick and then didn't ask for a new plate. Yep. It was fun, though. We had, I mean, so we went light and got salad soup and whatever breadsticks.

I only ate one breadsticks. I knew I was going to be eating somewhere else. Yeah, right. You did your second dinner. Yeah, we had said, we totally had hot. at dinner, for real. So we left that place, went to a sushi place I'd never been at that wasn't too far. That's where we met everybody else on Kim's side.

And that sushi was killer. And to remember the name of this place, I don't remember it. I wish I could because it's high recommendation list out of nowhere. I never even heard of them. That sushi was amazing. I had something, although you can tell what a place is owned by, like, authentic people from the region, from Japan. You can tell. Because no one's speaking English very well, they do enough to get by, and that's fine.

I actually like it, thumbs up, because that means everything's authentic. Food's going to be better. Except their menu, you can tell they just don't quite get it. So I ordered something called the Baconator Roll. Okay. Because I had to know what this was. Yeah, sure, sure. And I was like, really, baconator?

It just popped over to Wendy's and brought you a Baconator. And that's what we were thinking, because everybody obviously first thought were like, wait, why is there a Wendy's menu item on this menu? But really, all it was, it was like an eel salmon combo thing that had these crispy almost like bacon-like stuff on top. And I asked her what it was. And she said, oh, that's, oh, shoot, what you call it?

Not eel, but another kind of thing. Anyway, you can fry it up and make it crispy in little teeny bits. Oh, interesting. But not so it wasn't even bacon. Not even bacon. So that's what I'm saying is like you could have called this anything. Instead, you guys decided, oh, the Americans, they love bacon. They love baconators.

We'll call it Baconator. It made me laugh so hard. I love that. Fantastic, though. It was a really good role. It was like amazing. I would probably get it again. And they were not super expensive.

It was a great. It was a really nice place. If I remember the place and locals want to go there, I'll get it for you. Like Hootie 42 would probably love this place. I have to let them know about. Anyway, so there's that. Olive Garden acquired an event. this week yeah there's a lot going on there uh we do have a quick email or a text i'd like to get

through here from alan alan alan alan says in 2012 i whipped out on or whipped out on a run probably wiped out i think he meant wiped right probably yeah let's say wiped out on a run don't say you ever whipped out anything on a run unless you whipped it out on a run yeah don't do that yeah don't do that the neighbors will call you on it it's bad don't do that he said i broke my coxics, three ribs, and had a concussion. He's talking about ski run, by the way. I'd like that spelling him coxics. Yeah, I do too, actually. I wish it were spelled that way. It would be a lot easier than the X, Y, bold business. Yeah, see, he put C-O-X-I-S. Yeah, that's pretty great. Anyway, so this is a ski run, not a run run, just a ski right. He says, it broke my coxas,

three ribs and had a concussion. There is a four to five-hour window. I have no memory of it yet. I was awake and asking my sister the same three questions over and over again. All I remember is leaving the ski lodge after dinner, next memory I'm in the ER hours later, yet I still love it and I go skiing this, and I'm going skiing this weekend if I had the time. Guess I'm crazy, Alan. He just keeps going. Wow. Yeah, good for you.

You know what? Maybe, you know, that, that concussion affected the part of your brain that feels like skiing is dangerous. you're set. You're good from now on. Yeah, from now on, you're set. You can do ski jumps, you can do whatever and not have to worry about it. So thank you, Alan, the two else. I want to know what the three questions he kept asking his sister over and over again. I mean, it's probably like, where are we going, what's going on, what happened to me,

but part of me really wants it to be, if you could be any kind of tree. Yeah, how much of a concussion are we talking here? Because you can have some fun. How many licks does it take to get to the center of the tizzy roll pile? And it doesn't matter how many answers she gives him. He asks it three more times. Amazing. Yeah.

Yeah. Anyway, thanks, Alan, with two L's. We appreciate it. Brian, you have a little something here. Oh, a little something. So a couple things. Number one, any future films from Yorgos Lanthamos? I'll be watching alone from now on because we watched Killing of a sacred deer.

And Tina just said, yeah, I'm done. You know, the favorite was the only standout, The only one of his films that she actually liked did not like poor things, did not like killing of a sacred deer. Did not like killing of a sacred deer at all. Like the main focus of that film, at least the second act and what has to be done. Yeah. She had a real issue. It's a weird freaking movie, that movie.

It's so weird. She's seen the lobster or no lobster either. She's probably not into that either. Did not like the lobster, although liked the lobster more than poor things and killing of a sacred deer. I love his movies because they're weird as shit. That's why I like that. But I get it. Kim won't watch him either.

I tried to get her to watch that movie, Killing of the Sacred Deer. And she's like, oh, this is the guy that did The Lobster. No, thanks. I don't want to. I said, okay. Yeah. You know, Colin Farrell, great. Nicole Kidman, great.

Ooh, a lot of nudity. I think Barry Keoggin, great, as we know. but the decision in that film or the lack of decision and how that decision gets made my God it's so it's so weird his movies are weird and I appreciate him for it and they're weird in a way that I can like I'm one of the few people I've talked to that like

Beau is afraid Beau is afraid rather not was but I like these kinds of things because they are showing me stuff that no one else is doing like no one else is making movies like your ghost Marathomas or whatever his name is. Lanthromos, yeah. Yeah, no one's making those.

Give me, give me, uh, give me Michael Gondry a hundred times out of a hundred. I will totally take, uh, and Charlie Kaufman,

give me the, for my weird movie fix, I'll take those two guys any day of the week. Uh, somebody's going to edit that out and just have a little clip of me going, I'll take those two guys any day of the week. Yeah. It'll be a perfect little standalone,

no context. yeah exactly yeah but make i'd like to uh retract that please yeah we're doing a little bit of a what do you call that when the when the government does it it's called a um a retraction no it's uh it's a different thing where they where they cross it out black it out it's called oh a redaction redaction we would like to redact brine i'd like to redact that from the record please thank you i love the term redact um i also uh had a lift fun lift story i'll do this quick because we want to get to done away yeah but uh um ever since i got the new 3D printer and had to buy

the new IKEA tabletop that's much bigger to support it. I took the legs off this old IKEA table and put that on, but then I've, ever since then I've had this other like tabletop, this other IKEA tabletop that didn't have any legs.

And so I said, well, all right, next time I'm in the area of IKEA, like probably while I'm lifting, I'm going to a ride share driving. Lifting screws people up. Ubering. We'll just call it Ubering. I'll pop into IKEA and pick up some legs. So I'm Ubering on Saturday afternoon.

And I get a ride that their destination is IKEA. I am taking them to IKEA. So I'm like, oh, perfect. All right, this is great. That is a perfect day to have leg day, by the way, is to go to IKEA. It's perfect leg day, exactly. So I'm like, awesome. I'll just make this my last ride of, you know, I'll turn the app off so I don't get any more

rides. Pop and Ikea. Drop this guy off. Popping to IKEA. Get legs. And then turn on the app and see if I make my way home. He gets in and he says, hey, so we're doing a, we're doing a pickup at IKEA and then a pickup at Best Buy. Basically, I'm getting a big TV at Best Buy and then a big TV stand at IKEA and then a round trip. You're bringing me back home. And I'm like, oh, the app right now the thing is only showing me ikea so you need to add those stops he's like okay so i'm like oh crud this is not going to give me any time that ikea to go get legs no also i didn't know you could do that and put stuff like a tv in the car you can do stop what's that i didn't know they could put like a tv in the car or other big stuff i guess you can do luggage oh yeah yeah

you can do luggage and you know if you make a stop i pick people up at uh walmart or from the grocery store and i help them load all their bags into the car and what if it's something huge like what if it's like a bed frame or I don't know well this this uh this thing that he bought I'll get to it actually this TV stand that he bought was not small so um I'm like oh cred all right well I say you know uh well I actually need to get something for my key as well if we're doing curbside pickup I'm just going to place my order now for the legs I want because I already know what I want and it'll take me five minutes and uh and then I'll just do curbside pick up with you they'll put your stuff in they'll put my stuff in we'll go he's like cool

and then he says oh and it's actually the app is telling me that it's faster for us to do the best by stop first and then do ikea and he's not able to get the thing to to go home like it's only letting him add one stop and it's keeping ikea as the final destination but it's supposed to let you do more right or is well i've never had anyone do two stops in a ride and so i'm thinking that it only lets you do one stop, that you can do a, you know, basically you can do a stop and then a destination, but not two stops and a destination. Got it. But I said, you know, once we leave Best Buy and I mark that we've left that stop, see if it

lets you add another stop, make IKEA the stop, and then make home the final destination. Got it. So in the meantime, like, any time we're at a stoplight, I'm like pulling up the IKEA app. Okay, there's the legs I want. Boop, boop, boop, boop. All right. Add Dakar, boop, boop, boop. Curbyside pickup.

Boop, boop, boop, up, you know, double tap on the side button, smile in the little camera so it pays for it. Excellent. All right. Got my curbside pickup order. Nice. So we get to Best Buy. Best Buy takes forever to do their curbside pickup. They send them a text and say, oh, you are next in line.

Let us know what parking spot you end up in. There's like numbered parking spots for the curbside pickup. He says, well, we're in spot number one because there's no other people here. And then we wait. and we wait and like 10 minutes goes by and nobody comes to bring his stuff out five minutes is what the app allows for a stop but because at that point it says if uh if they haven't come out you can leave them is what the lift app says really you can just take off the five minute wait of the stop oh my gosh you'll still get paid feel free to end the ride i did not know that

i never do that i can't of course you wouldn't right exactly if it's an extra five it's 10 you're staying you're not leaving i'll give them 10 minutes And, you know, at some point I'll give up, especially if they leave a baby in the car. I probably stuck there for a little bit longer. But so finally, he goes in. And mind you, he's in a walking boot. He had foot surgery the week before. He's in a walking boot.

So he hobbles his way into the Best Buy and then comes back a few minutes later with his giant TV and a coffee maker, a curing coffee maker on a little shopping cart. So I hop back there. I help him load stuff into the back of the. back of the thing. And then I marked the stop closed and we make our way to IKEA. Keep in mind, this is like 45 minutes just, if we were to drive from his place to IKEA alone without the Best Buy stop and without 10 minutes of Best Buy, this would be a 45 minute ride.

So it's already, we're like into an hour. Dang, dude. This guy, he was your buddy that day. He was my buddy. We chatted about everything. I found out about, you know, it works for Wall Street in New York, coming. out here to visit his girlfriend who lives out here. They both love their jobs, although he's thinking about leaving Wall Street and changing jobs and coming to live in Colorado because he likes

the weather out here better, blah, blah, blah. So we get to IKEA, and the whole time he's trying to add IKEA as a stop and make the destination home not working. I said, all right, well, here's what we'll do. We'll mark IKEA as the, keep IKEA's the end point. At that point, I will just turn off the IKEA app, or I'm sorry, turn off the Lyft app. yeah um whatever you were going to pay for the ride uh take off a third and then mo then mo me at coverville and and we'll just call it good he's like oh my god that'd be great i'm like yeah no problem yeah we're all humans here we're not a bunch of robots we can get this done exactly exactly people people gave rides to other people before a little lift came around that's right we could do

this that's right so we get to uh ikea we park at the curbside pickup we go in he goes up and shows and the little code that they sent, oh, yeah, we'll get your TV stand. How about you, sir, can I help you? I'm like, well, I haven't gotten the code yet, but I ordered some legs, just, you know, four table legs. Like, oh, yeah, that's, uh, what time did it tell you you could pick those up? And I said, well, it told me six o'clock, and it's only four.

It told me six o'clock, but I figured they're legs. I mean, how long, yeah, no, we've got a, we've got a big backlog. I'm like, oh, really, all right, can I just go around, go into the store, can I cancel my order, then go around, then go around, go into the store, get the legs and bring them down to you and show you that I've got them. No,

you'll actually have to go through the line and pay for it. I'm like, all right, fine. Boo. So, you know, he's like, Brian, totally, don't worry about it. You know, you did me a solid weight in a Best Buy. They've got a nice couch in the lounge here,

TV show in the football game. I'm going to hang here, watch the game. You go get the legs and then, and then come back and get me, and we'll go. This guy's real nice. Really cool. Yeah.

And so I hop up and I'm starting to go up the escalator to the actual entrance of IKEA. And thank goodness, I know Tina and I learned the trick with IKEA. You know where the shortcut little swingy doors are. You can bypass huge swaths of that landscape. You know, oh, you cut through here and you go right into rugs. And then you go here and you get to plant it. No, it seems crazy when you're doing it, but you absolutely, there is a path. And once you know it, you'll never do anything else.

exactly you can get in and out of ikea in a much shorter amount of time yeah so the guy was nice enough to tell me the aisle and bin number for the legs i go there boop bloop bloop grab all four go in the line somebody's in front of me doing the self-checkout and they're looking at every item and then scanning and then looking back to the item and then looking at the screen to make sure that the screen says the item that they're looking at then they put the item in their bag and like oh my god i feel like i'm in a john hugh's film or something Oh, I love it. Meanwhile, I'm sitting thinking myself, he's over in customer, like, click pickup, right,

a curbside pickup. My car is over here with a TV and a coffee maker in it. He has no, all he knows is my first name. Yeah. He could hop in the car with four table legs, a TV, and a coffee maker. If you were that kind of person. If I were that kind of person. The problem is he would report it.

He could report you as a driver. the report me to lift and there would be problems. It would not be worth the deal. So I get the legs and pop back down there. Sure enough, he's waiting there. And we load, I help him load his TV standing there. Probably, I was in IKEA for probably 10, maybe even 15 minutes just because 12 minutes of that was that stupid line. Oh, wow.

So they must get a lot of curbside requests then, that place. They do. They apparently do. And it's a smart way to do it. Like if you save so much. money because my problem with with ikea even happened while i was just going and to get the legs and passing through the the tenth of ikea that i went through um you pick up stuff if you go through ikea you pick up more stuff than you went into ikea for if you do curbside pickup

you just get the thing you want and you are out of there yeah but you can't you can't place the order on the way to ikea you got to place the order the morning that you're planning on going to ikea yeah and now you guys are going to lunch no not not that's right you know we probably went oh yeah so we get back um we get back to his apartment i'm thinking you know there was no place for me to park the car and you've got a car full of stuff like a big heavy tv stand that you can't carry on your own a coffee maker and a big tv um and you're in a walking boot and your your your girlfriend is also recovering from chemo as matter of fact yeah and uh i don't know how we're going to do all this we get there luckily there's a parking space right in front

his girlfriend is out there waiting he'd been texting with her the whole time and letting her know the story and she goes she walks up and says oh my god hello you precious driver this is good instead of taking off with that TV and losing all your karma hit points

you got a buff you got buffed man karma points in the bank let me know when I can spend those you got like a plus 50 ruin installed now on your karma points you're all good yes exactly so that's great anyway he did he did tip me very well yes oh of course he did he tipped me in the app and he gave me the third that he took off of the ride he put back on on venmo so like basically

he gave me the full price of what he paid for the ride down to ikea gave me that same amount for the ride back even though i told him to take a third off he that's that's great that's great that's my favorite lift story you've told i like that it's very heartwarming very it's so much better than the guy who had his, who made out with a FaceTime call in the backseat of my car. Yeah, those guys, they get less of our time. Sorry, everyone. Less of our time, exactly. All right, I'm going to call Donaway.

We're going to have a game. And people are all worried it will take too long. No, these isn't a quick one. It doesn't take as long as feud. We don't have an extra person in here. It's always a little bit easier. You just have six things you've got to say in an answer, right? Yeah, it ain't that big a deal.

Plus, I'll probably cream him today because I feel very motivated to win. Ooh, good. Excellent. I don't even know why I feel that way, but I do. Hey, Brian Dunaway, you've been very patient. Thanks for hanging in there. How you doing? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian.

I am very patient. That is a virtue. Yeah. It is. Patience, I hear, is a virtue. Yeah, yeah. You live here in the States. That makes you an English patient.

Oh, the English patient. I watched that Seinfeld episode, and it was on my mind. Anyway. I've seen that episode of Sinfell. Seinfeld still have not seen the English patient. That's the last Oscar-nominated film that I haven't seen. Like everything English-patient forward that's been nominated for an Oscar for Bres. Oh, weird.

That's the dividerer. That's crazy. That is the dividing line, yeah. Oh, I didn't know. I've not seen it either, so maybe we should do a watch-along or something with the community. I watched the holdovers last night. That was excellent. Oh, isn't that great?

Yes, yes. And Oscar Bate, right? I feel they're going to be there. Yep, yep, yep. Yeah, very Oscar baby. I liked that movie better the first time I saw it when it was called Dead Poet Society. Dead poet. I liked it better when it was called Dutch.

I don't know. Dutch. Oh, my gosh. I used to love Dutch. I don't think it's as good as I thought it was. Anyway, well, it's good to have you here. We're going to play some half-asses. Oh, Dutch is real good.

I know. You know what? I'll go back to it. There's two Thanksgiving movies I watch. Plains Trains on Milk Bills and Dutch. I didn't know Dutch. was a Thanksgiving film, is it? Set around Thanksgiving?

Oh, I didn't know that. Well, they're both... They're watched it for a film site, didn't we? Dutch, no, I don't think so. But that's, they're both... Unless it was before episode 200. Y'all know my limit. Yeah, that's your brain limit.

You can remember anything... Everything is gone. How would I watch it then? I have no idea why I would have watched Dutch, because I definitely did watch Dutch. I don't know. But I don't know why I would have watched Dutch. It's a... If it wasn't for...

John Hughes, right? Again, so both those are John Hughes joins. Yeah. He likes the Thanksgiving. All right, well, let's get to it. Brian, explain these rules and the game and who's winning and all this stuff. Okay, okay. This is a welcome to morning half asses, a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers. I'll give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct, and three that are incorrect.

I didn't come up with a thing. Depending on how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two or three guesses. But if any of those are wrong, they get zero points for the round. Get one right, gets you a point. Two right, gets you three points. And three right gets you five points. Play with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. Hey, who are our contestants?

Well, Scott, you're playing for Wayne Dixon in Aurora, Illinois. Woo! Party on, excellent. No kidding. It's a Wayne in Aurora, Illinois. Oh, my gosh. It truly is Wayne's world. It's also up, uh, that's Fletcher zone, isn't it?

That's where Fletcher lives. Yeah, he's in, he's in that area of the state as well. Brian, you're playing for Brian. Oh. Chattanooga, Tennessee. Uh, so hopefully you don't get confused as to which Brian you are. player or the winner if you win so make sure you keep track of that i win either way yeah yes that's one way to look at it right and we'll talk about the prizes here in just a second let's get

to the game we're going to start off with an easy one easy shut up you always say that and then it's like name the three pimples on the pope's butt i'm like i don't know uh do they have names that'd be Great. All right. Your first one is, which of these are among the original five Planet of the Apes movies? So, you know, we've had a bunch of newer Planet of the Apes movies. But there was a whole bunch of planets, Planet of the Apes movies in the 70s, late 60s,

early 70s, or mid-70s, or early 70s. How many of them can you name, recognize from this list? Your choices are, ruins of the planet of the apes, beneath the planet of the apes, escape from the planet of the Apes, Law of the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, and Planet of the Apes Five, the revenge of Dr. Zahs. I believe I know these answers, and I have locked them in the only. No. I can't remember. These all sound right and wrong at the same time. Yeah. Because I know one of them is like... All of them are kind of bad, by the way. And I'm going to uncheck that. Then this feels like bait. They're fun to see. We should,

we should absolutely film sack every one of these, but they're really bad. Like, They're not. That first movie's, you know, great in ways. But you went with three, Scott? Oh, yeah. Hell yeah. Damn it. All right.

I'll go with three to me. I'm going to full steam ahead here today. I'm going to rock you today. Okay. All right. The answers are beneath the planet of the apes, escape from the planet of the apes, and conquest of the planet of the apes. You both got all three correct. Dang it.

I was hoping you'd screw up, damn it. I was too. Well, the law of the planet of the apes is like, one, this like, it's all about a court hearing. And I was thinking, that can't be right, though. Yeah. Conquest, I think. Yeah, Conquest is the conquest. One of them has it. Beneath is the one where they've actually got the underground cavern that they're all living in. Yeah.

That is a weird. I knew there was escape and beneath was definitely conquest. I couldn't remember. Beneath is really weird. And I think Charlton's back for that, that one. Is he? Okay. Yeah. We should really film sack that.

I'm back to a damn dirty movie. Believe it or not, I actually have all those on Blu-ray. I have the entire original set of Planet of the Angels. movies. When you're coming over? It might even be a box set with the newer ones up until, yeah, I'll have to see. I think it's got everything that's been, that was released as of like three years ago. Oh, even the newer, like the Matt, Matt Reeves stuff.

Yeah, the newer, yes, exactly, rise and dawn of the planet of the age, but not the newest one that comes out this year, obviously. Right. The one that doesn't come out yet. The one that hasn't come out yet is not in my Blu-ray collection, believe it or not. Crazy. Wild. Yeah. Who would have figured.

All right. Boy, another easy one. Now you believe me when I say they're easy? I don't think you meant for it to be easy. I did. I just think we got lucky. I think you both had a chance on this one. Star Trek characters who guest appeared on Star Trek the next generation. So who from the original Star Trek cast made a guest appearance on Star Trek the next generation. I'm locked in!

You locked in? I'm not telling you how many. not doing that you're going to have to find out for yourself that's kind of fun watching you guys put your little dots in and take it back

like no yes no yeah I'm very confident in this one I'm going in I'm not as confident I do know I watched one of these recently and I was like oh there's so and so he looks so skinny what happened I think they must have aged him

but anyway go ahead okay all right um yes correct uh tv show not movie absolutely uh all right you guys both locked in on dr mccoy and scotty however oh one of you chose i probably went the wrong way the other one chose spock of course spock he's like uh there was a search they had to find spock again in in next generation sorry he dressed up like a remember he had romulan face work done to be a romulan you can keep you can keep trying to convince me i don't remember it was at least a two part or maybe more i can't remember

he was a two parter yeah for sure and of course in generations you got your captain kirk but that's not uh that was not in the tv show that was that was not on star trek the next generation that was star trek generations that's true yeah yeah and mccoy was just old you don't remember your check yeah he was god he was first episode right no no other way around mccoy was really old and walking down the hall in that first episode. He was so, he was so, he was so skinny. It was a hundred and something years old. And then Scotty, Scotty was the one where they pulled him out of the transporter signal. I pulled his pattern out of the buffer. Yeah. And then, I still don't remember Spock being on the next general. I'll have to go back and watch it. You can explain it to me again, Scott, but it doesn't matter. I remember the first, the first, the first, it was a two-parter and the first episode ends with the hood coming off and it's Spock and it's Leonard Nimoy.

Yeah. And then, and then the second episode is the full on. It was a big deal at the time. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, Scott, leading with 10 points, Brian. You need to get all of these just to tie, Scott. Fortunately, it's something up right up both of your alleys.

Let's see how well you remember convoy. Which of these are accurate CB radio slang? Your choices are, flying donut for a police chopper, chicken coop for a way station, rock city for Detroit, snail trail for a speed zone, Buster Brown for a UPS truck, and go-go juice for coffee, which three of those are accurate terms. These all feel right and wrong at the same time. This is a great one.

I don't know for sure, but I'm going with a couple of them here. Yeah. They're all awesome. I love it. I know. I need some go-go juice. Come on. Exactly.

I'm passing through Rock City. You've got to get some go-go juice and chicken coop. All right. I'm going to do that. all right even though i know they're not right but i'm going all left side just to just to see if you're going to tell scott you're going all left side all right fine with me i'm good well i'll tell you a flying donut is a police chopper yeah a chicken coop is a way station dang it no i'm getting worried now and rock city is their slang term for little rock arkansas so no the other one scott got right was

Buster Brown for a UPS truck. Go-Go Juice is actually their term for gas or diesel. That's Go-Go-Go-Jews. Stopping on G-Go-Go-Juse. And Snail Trail is not their term. A turtle race is their term for a speed zone. My dad had a CB in our motorhome. So every time we'd go to Lake Powell or something,

he was always on there talking to truckers. And I used to be, it used to make me so nervous because of the way they talked. And he would try to do it. He'd be like, yeah, I'm heading down to bird of there, come on. blah but over or whatever and they'd come back and I used to sit there going this doesn't sound right none of this is right what is this language yeah I didn't like it when I was a kid but I wish I would have paid more attention because it was actually pretty fun for him yeah anyway to start using buster

brown for UPS truck on the regular I really like that term oh we got hold on Tina got away for the Buster Brown to deliver my uh yeah my my my printer resin I wonder uh that means congratulations is going to Wayne Dixon Wayne's World! Rains World! Party on! Excellent! Sorry, Brian. Yeah, you're getting Autonauts versus Pirate Bots and The Quarry Deluxe Edition on Steam. But Brian and Chattanooga, you're getting some pretty cool, too. The Dark Pictures Anthology House of Ashes.

Sounds like a fun little sweet game. The Dark Pictures Anthology House of Ashes. Yeah, no, so that one I know. The other two I don't know. Oh, no, I know the Quarry. The Quarry is also a horror game, and it's made by the same people. these dark pictures anthology people so house of ashes it may even be in the same series i can't remember but they're both really good highly regarded horror games so if you're into those you're

going to love those astronauts versus pirate bots no idea i don't know what that is i'm sure it's great though because pirate who doesn't like astronauts and who doesn't like pirate pirate exactly well it's not it's autonauts scots oh i keep reading i keep reading pirate oh yeah there you are autonauts versus pirate bots but who doesn't like Autonauts. I don't know. I mean, even Brian likes, he likes GoBots, so what's wrong with him? GoBots. Scooter! Oh, they suck.

Anyway, hey. What's your take? A bit, what do you think about Scooter from GoBots? I couldn't tell you, thing one, about go bots. Listen, I wasn't even Transformers. I was Micronauts, right? There was no, there was no Transformers, so definitely no Gobots in my life. There are days, I wish the

Micronauts would have gone on to be as huge. Is that way you got micronauts because they were small and cheap Micronauts weren't cheap they were you had to buy the tubes they were expensive they're not cheap now no they were in cheap at the time man those I had to do so many chores to earn a freaking biotron

and or hope that I would get something for Christmas yep but yeah and you and I both had the whole tube tubed up set up right yeah the rocket tubes that was so awesome it was great tube up like you would just

you'll fan on one end and blow it around so like the the The transportation method on Futurama is what we're talking about. Tunes of micronauts. And it was so cool. You could just, depending on how much money you had, you could buy tons of it and just have it all over your house. Yeah.

I didn't have that much, but anyway, micronauts rocked, go-bots sucked, okay? That's the player and Perrin cars and all the little magnet connections and stuff. So great. Yeah. So go suck a go-bot. Bye. All right. He's gone.

Go-bye. That is it for that. Let's take a break. When we come back from this break. we're going to spend some time with our good pal Stephen Schleiker. It's his time of the month. And we'll see what he's got going on. A few interesting things.

Been dropping over the weekend. All that coming up in a moment after Brian plays a song. What do you got? Yeah, boy, those of you who are like, Brad, you'd play more hard stuff on the show. Well, boy, have I got something for you. Got a band called The Intemperate Sons. They have a brand new album called Once Again.

And they are, I'm sorry, take that back. This is their new single. The album is going to be called Dark Day's Night, which is coming out early 2024. And I'm sleeping like a dog. Like that? It's produced by Amir Darak and the Intemperate Sons recorded the kitchen recording studios in Dallas, Texas.

These guys are great, and they are some heavy stuff. Originally from Dallas is where they came from. Amazing name, by the way. Intemperate Sons. That's amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Love that.

I think people are really like this. From the brand new album called A Dark Day's Night, here is once again. here again but tell me why you thought it'd be any different burning bridges all around you lost your money flushed it all right down the train so don't go tell everybody that I'm the one to blame Watch your world Fall before you Drowding in your own Creation

Drag it down All my elation There you go Spin your venom What you won't I got Here we are in in the same situation, what you won't ain't enough once again.

When all is sitting done, I don't know you a thing. with all your fumbling You've done it once again You done it once again Downing in your own creation dragging down on my elation There you go, spin your venom What you want

I got here we are in the same situation What you won't ain't enough Once again Once again There you go, spin your men up What you won't Are you got Here we are in the same situation

What you won't Ain't enough Once again Once again Man, freeze A tiger So the tiger Can finish her fight

You're vashed And we're back Tell me who that was again There's no way that Ali Munk does not spray a lot of saliva when he talks. When you listen to that, there's like, okay, thanks. Someone please get Juno Temple a towel, please?

Yeah, no kidding. That guy's a spit monster, guaranteed. Oh, I loved him so much. Gosh, dang it. That season is so good. Oh, what is, I just heard Juno Temple is going to be in the new, uh, put her in everything from now on.

New film that it's like the, um, or new season of something that I've been trying to get you to watch. oh really finally push you over the edge i think it absolutely will i love her in this loved her and she's just been announced for oh what is it dang i'm looking upcoming here we go uh untitled venom sequel that's right she's going to be in the oh the next venom movie so okay well then i get you to watch i'll watch venom now i'll get caught up i'll watch those first two i'll be all set for us get cut up on the first two venoms and if we have to we can watch them on on couch party give her all

the Emmys and the Golden Globes and the what-nots. She was fantastic this season. So good. Everybody was. Nobody phoned it in. They stuck that landing like never before. Freaking Fargo, man. Gosh, dang it. My fandom went up 10 feet. Anyway, go ahead.

That band you just heard, by the way, were the interpret sons from their brand new album Dark Day's Night. That is their song once again. Excellent. Dr. Calhoun says, I don't get Juno Temple. Watch Fargo. You'll get Juno Temple. okay yeah you'll get her if you think all she is just a kind of a brady british girl from uh ted lasso

you're wrong you're wrong you're wrong she was great at that but you were so wrong about that i am sci-fi suggests that we sack venom and i agree i think i think uh venom um oh let's do venom one yeah let's do it uh yeah i think that would be a really good one let's maybe even sneak it in sooner than later i got a complaint yesterday i got a guy says and he was very he was super nice about He was saying, I hope you guys take this in the way it's meant. It's just a, you know, what's the word I'm trying to say? Constructive piece of criticism. Oh, sure.

But he says, man, I love TMS. I listen to it every day. It just gets better and better. But lately on FilmSack, the movies you guys are watching just don't interest me at all. And it made me think, not that we're, you know, we needed to change anything major. But I do think we ought to like get some stuff in there where it's like, oh, yeah, of course you should do Venom. Oh, yeah, you should do that weird old thing from the 60s that everyone

talks about it forever. And then you guys finally watch it on film set. Lately, we've been doing, like, movies, like, I don't know, Black Hat's fine, but it's not like, you know, there's nothing significant about Black Hat. It's just kind of there. So, I don't know. I kind of get his point.

Yeah, a little bit. I mean, three days of the Condor, widely respected film, does it hold up? I mean, I feel like for every, you know, for every black hat, for every, we've never heard of this, there's a desperado. There's the arrival. I mean, it's like, those are. that's true that's a really good point maybe you know i don't want to i try not to give coming off of a week coming off of black hat it'd be like uh yeah it's kind of a little bit of a

meh movie good for michaelman film okay yeah it's all right for us talking and having a good time always good see that's the part i would say is that even if you don't like the movie come for the fun just come for the listening you don't have to watch the movies before you tune in exactly yeah and i probably shouldn't get one email i don't want to i i try not to do this you get one email and then try to apply it to everybody. Obviously, you can't do that. But yeah, I do look forward to payback, though. We're doing payback this weekend. I love payback so much. Can't wait for that. Yeah, exactly. Almost my favorite, uh, actually it might be my favorite Mel Gibson movie. I'm trying to think if I like something more. Oh, really?

Taking, taking, taking, taking the, making the Mel Gibson problems out of the, out of the mix. Yeah, the Mel Gibson equation out. It's either this or it's, uh, or it's road warrior. The lethal weapon is hard for me to top. Oh, yeah, Road Warrior. Yeah, for me, it's probably this and Road Warrior tied. And then he's great in lethal weapon. Even when the lethal weapons weren't as good, he was still really great. After that, I guess, what, like, what's the one he got on Oscar for, or one of them?

You'll never take my freedom! Yeah, by your Braveheart. Braveheart. Brave heart. Brave heart's great. It's a good time, you know. he gets a bit he gets a religious one the um passion of the crore no oh he just directed that though just directed that was okay yeah he wasn't well yeah it's but didn't he got nominated for that

oh yeah he did he got nominated for uh hacksaw ridge as well yes right another great film see when he's behind the camera oh he's a great director and that and that and that santa thing he did a few years ago i thought was great where he's like santa hiding out in the the wilderness of alaska or wherever it is he was the best part he was really good at it yeah yeah i liked i like that i like I like him in a lot of weird stuff, but I just wish he wasn't such an ass sometimes. Yeah, yeah, Fat Man, that's it. Thank you, TV Strav. Oh, yeah, fat man.

Fat man was surprisingly good. Yeah, so, I mean, I like the idea of sacking venom, and I like the idea of sacking somebody threw out one that was like, oh, that would be a great one to sack as well, shoot, and it's gone. I can't think of it either. Was it not ransom? Ransom's okay. No, but there was one that we just, oh, you know, because of the, was only in my head. A baby driver

is now on Peacock, and I think it's worth a sack. I still haven't seen it. I'd love to see it. Let's do it. Yeah. I mean, we, you know, if we can deal with the Gibson problem, we can deal with the ass hat known as Kevin. Kevin Spacey, yeah, hell yeah. Yeah, Kevin Spacey, yeah.

All right, well, what are we going to do with this ass hat right here? And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dalla, dollar bills, y'all. Just kidding. I don't think he's an ass hat. He's a cool hat. He's a cool hat, Jackson. He's a cool hat with a cool guy in it. That's right. Only cool guys underneath his hats.

Anyway, it's Steven Schlecker from Major Spoilers.com. Hello. Hi, Brian. How are you today? Hi, Stephen. It's so good to hear. Oh, man, I just love hanging out with Brian. Yeah, I know, right?

Never calls you an ass hat. That's why. I get it. Hey, I heard your hometown the other day getting talked about on, I think it was Bill Burr's podcast or somebody like that. They were talking about how. they loved performing there, but they hated driving there. They hated it.

Yeah. Because of how there's nothing. Is it really like that? Like, is it nothing? I mean, have you ever been on the east half of Colorado? Briefly. Yeah, it's like that. It's like from Denver to like Salina slash campus city.

It's the same. Okay. Yeah. All right. It's all the front range, high planes. I got all self-defense because I was like. Like, Stephen lives there. You can't talk shit about it.

No, he's not wrong. It's not wrong. All right. Well, as long as you're okay with it, then I'm fine. I mean, I've got the internet so the world can come to me. What do you need? Exactly. What do you need to leave the house for?

That was actually the question when I was interviewed back in 2002, I guess, 2002, to come back to Hayes. They were like, you're living in California. Are you sure you're going to be able to handle Hayes? And I'm like, yeah, you got the internet. and the cable television. I can have everything come to me. Everything else is fine. What else do you need?

But those two things, exactly. Oh, you know. That's my big thing. Hot and cold running water. Sewage system. Going out to the main city pipe. Let's see. It's about it.

What else do you need? What else do you need? Well, you're here, and that means we get to talk about some nerd stuff. And since so much happens over on your side about comic books, about all those connected bits of tissue, I noticed something over the weekend. For some reason, Cobra Commander was trending on social media networks, including Twitter slash X and all these other places.

And I thought, what the hell is going on here? Is Cobra Commander coming to kill us all? No, you actually know the answer to this. What is actually happening with Cobra Commander right now? Yeah. So last week, Cobra Commander number one dropped from Skybound Entertainment. This is the technically fourth or fifth book from Skybound Entertainment in their new Energon or Enron. universe, whatever you call the stuff that Transformers power supply stuff is, interjohn.

Yeah. So here's the thing. Back in 2022, IDW lost the rights to or Hasbro decided not to renew the rights to Transformers, G.I. Joe, and maybe one of their property. And no one knew where those things were going to go to. And then finally, it was announced in June of last year. that with the release of Void Saga number one, that Transformers in G.I. Joe had moved over to Skybound Entertainment,

which is Robert Kirkman's joint that is technically an imprint of image comics. But in Void Saga, or I'm sorry, not Void Saga, Void Rivals, it's revealed that these two warring factions suddenly are being played by the Transformers. You know, the Transformers are using them against their will. And so then that leads into this greater story. line of the Transformers come to Earth. And so then obviously G.I. Joe is getting involved in that. Larry Hama continues the series from IDW and Marvel.

So he's been doing that for a while. And then to really kind of dive into the backstory of how G.I. Joe and the Transformers are so intertwined with one another, they've got two miniseries, Duke, which of course follows the G.I. Joe's Duke. That launched last month, and that's a four or five issue miniseries. and then last week we get to see kind of the origin story of Cobra Commander in another four or five part miniseries. And it's great because you learned that he was this outsider that came into

Cobra Law and he kind of was dealing with technology that they weren't supposed to be dealing with. And there was an uprising and he tried to take over and, you know, gets the scarred face so we know why he has to wear the mirrored mask and everything. Oh, I was going to ask you if we've ever seen him with the mask off, have we? We don't see him with the mask off. I mean, we do see him, but we don't see his normal face. He's wearing a mask when he's in COBRA law.

And then there's an uprising and a bomb goes off and it scars his face. And Golubulus is like, I'm going to revive you so that you can, so I can watch you die. And then Cobra commander is like, no, listen, I've got this idea on how we can use this technology for us to take over the world. And so then he gets his mirrored, here's mirrored dome and he's starting to walk the earth at the beginning of the series. And we find out, and this is the big, this was probably. the biggest reveal and probably why Cobra Commander was trending, is that ever since Void Rifles

dropped, people have been, and the Transformers showed up, StarScream is the big villain in the Void rivals. And everyone's been like, okay, so where's Megatron? Oh, no. Well, for hundreds of years, I guess, Cobra Commander

has been has held Megatron captive and has been using him to advance the Cobra Technost. Oh, no. Oh, that's bad news. That was the big surprise at the end of Cobra Commander number one. But if you want to, I think it's Joshua Williamson is the writer on this.

He really is diving into some G.I. Joe lore, especially in Transformers lore, going back to the G.I. Joe movie and the Transformers movie from the 1980s. So if you're like, what the hell is a Copra law or what is it, Golubulus and what of all of this stuff, then you should pick up Cobra Commander. It's a little violent. Uh-huh. I'm down with that, down with that. Let's do it. No problem.

But I think it's good violence. Yeah. I mean, like, if you expect Cobra Commander to not hold back, right? I mean, unfortunately, this is why I was never a fan of G.I. Joe back in the day is because parachutes kept opening up every time a plane blew up. And I was like, nah, these people need to die. Yeah. And so, yeah, here, Cobra Commander,

is really exerting his power and you really get a sense for kind of not I'm not trying to make him a he's not a sympathetic character he is a bad guy that you want to boo and hiss at every time you see him on the page yeah yeah of course he is now let me ask you this though um yeah god got a text metzen later he'd love these two properties are some of his favorites he even wrote some some transformers comics once he loves jio i'll bet he's losing his shit i haven't talked to him in a couple weeks i got the whole thing i mean robert kirkman is he is smart when it comes to, let's get people excited about comics. Yeah.

Because, like, everyone was like, void rivals, void rivals. Here's these two intergalactic species fighting with one another. And people are like, okay, Robert Kirkman joint. And then everyone who picked up Void rivals, number one, gets to the last page. And you're like, holy crap, is that Starscream? And then everyone's like, holy crap, this is a Transformers book. And so that instantly becomes a huge collectible. And it's probably going to be worth, you know, $500 for the first issue, that kind of stuff.

So what he did with Cobra Commander and everyone, It's like, okay, now we've seen Duke's point of view, now let's get Cobra Commander's point of view, and then you drop Megatron, which, again, for six months, people have been like, where's Megatron? And it's brilliant. It's just brilliant. And there's no marketing that has come out ahead of this, right? Yeah, I didn't hear about it until you said something. I saw this trending. Yeah, here's Cobra Commander, number one, coming out in January, and it's Cobra Commander's point of view. No mention of it. So any, any Autobots or, you know, Optimus Prime? Yeah, yeah, there's auto. Yeah, in void rivals and in, in, the Transformer series, because there is a Transformer series going along at the same time. Yeah, Optimus Prime is there, and he's trying to save Earth and everybody.

And, of course, G.I. Joe is very interested in the energy cubes that drive everybody and seeing how they can exploit it in the same way with Cobra Commander. So, yeah, this is going to be a, this is a big universe that they have created through these five or six different titles. And if people haven't heard about this until now, oh, man, you've got about six months worth of reading to catch up on. All right. Well, you got me super piqued. I like both those, these things.

I watched them all as a kid, and I would be remiss if I skipped it. If you are a fan of the 80s stuff, then you should probably pick up all this stuff that's coming out of skybound right now. Okay. Well, sign me up. I'm doing it. I guess I just go buy the comics. That's how I get it. Yeah, go buy the comics.

Get them on comicsology. well, not comicsology, but Kindle services now is what it is. Whatever it is. On Amazon, yeah. If I launched that Comicsology app, does it just tell me to go to the Kindle app now? It'll say, yeah. Well, I haven't opened it up in a while.

I think it does want you to open up your Kindle app, which I don't really have a problem with because the experience is still the same. It's just that sometimes I don't want my textbooks mixed up with my comic books. Yeah, right. Yeah. And they mix them up like crazy. Then none of the default listings are very good at saying, here's your comics here's your books and i spent a lot of time in that kindle app and on a kindle

itself and i don't like how the comics get mixed into the kindle view because i'm not going to read one of those on my e-paper thing i'm not going to do that i'm going to go get that on a tablet anyway whatever amazon get your shit together uh considering most of the people who uh founded comicsology no longer work there uh yeah are they do anything else or they like happy to just Yeah, so Chip Mosier is now running a digital comic company called Distillery. And they just launched, I want to say, in November. And they've got some cool, cool titles coming out both digitally and in print format. And what they're doing is they're printing in magazine format instead of comic book format.

So your comics are actually a little bigger and harken back to those black and white comics from the 70s, your heavy metals and your vampirillas and those kinds of things. Oh, I like that. Looking forward to getting my hands on a print copy of some of that stuff. D-S-T-R, sorry, D-S-T-L-R-Y is how they spelled distillery. Of course they do. They've got some big names in here. Scott Snyder's doing stuff. Lack of vowels of the future.

I mean, they put Snyder right up top because that's probably the biggest name. They got Jock. I love Jock's work. Yeah, they've got big names. I mean, I think the Ram V is over there. Markman-Bernardin, some people may know from the, Fat Man on Batman with Kevin Smith stuff. He's a big writer

but he's been doing a lot of stuff there as well. So yeah, they're really good at bringing in some big talent for the launch of this. Is there an app? Is there already an app or we're waiting for that right now? I believe there is an app already available. Okay. I'm down, dude. Check that out.

Okay. Let's also quickly talk about the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book reboot. We also should mention that ultimate Spider-Man number one, but let's talk about the turtles for a minute. What's going on there? Yeah, so I think there was maybe a little bit of miscommunication from IDW's part. They had announced like three weeks ago, four weeks ago that, hey, we have renewed our licensing

agreement to continue to publish Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comics. And we've got a lot of great stuff coming up. And then a week later, they're like, hey, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is ending with issue 150. And then they just kind of left it at that. And everyone's like, oh, no, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is going away. And that's the total opposite. of what I think IDW publishing intended because then a few days later they announced a Jason Aaron who many people know from a lot of

he's done a lot of stuff over at Marvel he just did a Avengers series which was pretty cool but he's he's worked on like every big property at Marvel Comics also DC Image DC Comics he did scout for people who are fans of that series they announced last week

that he would be writing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with a new issue number one that debuts, I want to say, in April or May. So they are kicking that off fairly soon in a couple months. The one thing they haven't announced is who is the artist, and that is supposed to happen today. It may have already happened. I know IGN is supposed to have the exclusive on this, but I have checked a couple of times on their site, and I have yet to see anything about that. But IDW has been teasing that all last week about who's the artist joining Jason Aaron.

So this could be really interesting because Jason Aaron does have an interesting. take, I think, on superheroes, and there are times where he takes the concept of a superhero and deviates from the expected tropes. And I think that's really appreciated. So to see what he's going to do with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I'm kind of excited about that. Yeah, I'm too. I like the turtles. Bring on more.

Who doesn't? Yeah, we're keeping it all in the 80s here. Yeah, that new movie from last year is really good. Like, yeah, just keep it coming. Keep doing takes on it and make stuff for kids, make stuff for adults. like there's nothing wrong with the teenage mutant ninja turtles. No, they're awesome. Also, so this ultimate Spider-Man number one,

this will be of great interest to Brian, I assume. How's that looking? What's going on there? Okay, so they brought back the ultimate universe, and it's very kind of crazy because in the ultimate universe, Reed Richards went kind of crazy, and he destroyed the multiverse essentially. But it's back. in the in the way that form yeah uh so reed Richards prevented peter Parker from ever being bitten by the spider well now that the ultimate universe is back and there just was like a five or six issue miniseries uh a um what is i think it was just called ultimate i can't remember what the exact title was uh but that kind of reintroduced the world to the ultimate universe where everyone is like something's wrong here something's not quite right and so ultimate universe

We meet Peter Parker had he never been bitten by the spider and what his life is like. He's married. He's got kids. Uncle Ben is alive. And what if basically? Yeah, very much. Very much so. And then at the end of the issue, he gets a mysterious hologram that says, hey, you were

supposed to become a superhero. Do you want to do it? I can make it happen. And so now we're going to see what is a 35-year-old Peter Parker do when he gets his spider powers. and he still has to deal with being a parent and dealing with, well, spoiler alert, Uncle Ben is in charge of the Daily Bugle, not Jay Jonah Jameson. So how is that going to play out? And people just, I was just like, eh, do we really need to bring back the open universe? But apparently everyone jumped on this thing.

So if you're looking to get a physical copy of Ultimate Spider-Man, number one, good luck. I have seen prices go anywhere from $25 for a first issue all the way up to $700. I think on eBay there was one that I saw for the newest Ultimate Spider-Man. Because I actually have the original Ultimate Spider-Man number one. Yeah, me too. Good, gracious, $700 for a new comic. For a brand-new comic, yeah, that's okay. That being said, check with your local comic shop.

Check with your local comic shop because I'm betting, most of them have probably marked up to about 10 or 15 bucks, which is to be expected if there's demand. I also suspect that Marvel will do a second printing within the next month. So if your store doesn't have one, just say, hey, pull a copy for me. Issue number two comes out

in February, and we've got a sneak peek over at major spoilers.com today. So you can go and check that out. And so, yeah, it's very interesting. It's, it is got some really interesting art in the way that they're coloring it, I think. and it is by

Jonathan Hickman. Oh, I like Hickman. We're fans of Jonathan Hickman. Yeah. Definitely want to go pick up Ultimate Spider-Man number two. Interesting. One final note about that.

He has a goatee in this one, or no? Because in the previous run toward the end, he had a goatee. Yeah, no, he does not. He's got a full-on beard. Oh, full beard. Okay. All right.

Peter Parker. I just have to be wearing my, my, does whatever, a spider-can t-shirt. shirt. Oh, nice. Yeah. Show us your boobs. I'm going to throw you some beads now. Throw me some beads and buy me a hurricane. Oh, that's coming up.

Everybody be careful out there for Marty Grohl, right? Oh, that's right. Yeah, no kidding. My sister-in-law is about to go back to Mississippi and she's in a parade. And I said, are you the one having to show your boobs or are you the one throwing beads to have? And she goes, I'm doing it for a parade for a bunch of kids, so no one's showing anyone there is. Yeah, exactly. Come on now. She made a good point.

Stephen, talking to you is always a pleasure. Is there anything else going on and the network over there you'd like people to know about? No, I think everything's good. People, please come over to major spoilers.com. We've got a lot of really cool stuff. If you want to know more about all these comic books that we're talking about,

if you're looking for new comic book recommendations, certainly check out the Major Spoilers podcast. But until the next time I appear, stay hydrated. Do it. Do it. All right. Always good to talk to Stephen. You know, I do. You tease you a lot.

about how you boil things down. Like, you know, Angel Heart is just about Lisa Bonay in a shotgun. And this is just about that. But your Marty Gras inference is pretty spot on. It is boobs and beads. That's all it is, man. 80% boobs and beads, 20% Fat Tuesday. Yeah, and the rest of it is drinking to the point that you don't remember any of it.

That's right. I can't wait until we get the correction email from B14, Girl. I'm looking forward to it. Oh, that'll be great. And look, living around a bunch of southern people. wife included. I'm sure I'll get corrected by them as well. That's right. Throw me the beads. I'll show you the boobs. That's right.

Perfect use case. All right, we got a couple of quick things. One, so on the weekly now, the core team, myself, Bo Schwarz, and John Jagger are playing multiplayer games on Tuesdays. And tomorrow's no difference. So tomorrow at noon Mountain, we'll be

playing here on the live channels, all of it. Frogpants.tv, if you're trying to pick your poison. that includes Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, wherever you want to watch it, we're doing it. And tomorrow, I think we're going to play... Oh, yeah, the new Sea of Thieves update is supposed to be insane. So we're going to give that a shot and play that together. So do check that out.

Also, a quick text about football records. This came from... Did we get a name? No. Sorry, no name on this one, but it's a text. The guy who emailed us about the correct... about Mount Kenya being the highest point in the country of Kenya. Oh, same guy.

You're right. Oh, yeah, and he even mentions it. Okay, so here's what he says. Dear Sherpa boots and backpack. Your boots and backpack, I guess. Right? Yes. I think Brian Dunaway.

Brian Dunaway and I are boots and backpack. One is boots, one is backpack. Got it. Oh, that makes sense because he was part of that. Anyway, I enjoyed listening to you graciously indulge my smart alec observations about Kilimanjaro and Kenya before the 2578 half-hats. this game. Oh, I have a smart-ass correction to 2578's half-asses

sports question. I am pretty sure that the hand of God, unquote, was not a controversial college play, as Mr. Ibit said, Mr. Ibit. I love that. Mr. Ibit, sure. I'm boots or backpack at one moment and then I'm Mr. Ibit the next moment. I feel like I need to ask you for a hall pass so I can go pee during class or something.

But anyway, it says but was from the World Cup football. Strangely, this also happened while I lived in Kenya in the 1980s and had something to do with the Argentinian Maradona. Maradona. Maradona. Getting away with scoring a goal with his hand.

I have fondness for the foolishness, though, and then no name. He's absolutely correct. 100% correct. Yeah, it was, so often when I get those half-assus questions, when there's like, which three of these are this, a lot of times the other three will be also the same thing. Like, which are three words for hats, you know, for different kinds of hats, and then the other three were words from Alice in Wonderland or something. Gotcha.

The other two were college plays. The third one, basically I just was going through the thing so fast. I didn't even read it clearly. So he's 100% correct. It's World, Hand of God is from World Cup football. Thank you for the correction.

If you guys have corrections, you want to send them in. Keep it to yourself. Keep it to yourself and never bring it up again. Exactly. Or you can text us at 801-471-0-0-462 if you want to. It's up to you. I guess.

You can email us to the morning stream at gmail.com, and then real quick before we get out of here, I'm looking at your album that you have next to you today. Yeah, yeah. I need to try to guess this, because I don't know what this is. You're never going to guess this. This is not an album that you'd recognize.

This is an album that was sent to me by Discriminate Audio.com, and it's by a band called Unborn Ghost. And the album is called Eras of Contempt and Derision. They sent me digital code. too, which is why I haven't even taken the plastic off this thing. I just really like the album cover. I think it's really cool. Is she okay? Why is she so upset, our Rainbow Lady?

Well, she's the all-female reboot of Casino Royale. She's the Mads-Mickleson character. Oh, she can't help but bleed out of her eye. She can't help but cry blood. Yes, exactly. Is she going to hit me with a little bag under an empty chair with a hole in it? Is she going to do that? She is.

Exactly. Damn it. So, yeah, they send me a bunch of albums and CDs, and I've been listening to them, going through them, and it's like, oh, this one's kind of got the vibe we're looking for for TMS. Some of these are a little out there. There's a song on this album called, well, if you spell out, go F yourself. Yeah, but say it out the full way. Anyway, it's, I really like the artwork. Yeah, it's really cool.

I do need to change it out. I've had that up for a couple weeks now. It's striking. I don't know why I didn't notice it. before him, but man. Real quick here, I was just going to make a comment about, oh, we did that, we do that same reduction thing with Casino Royale. We always, we always reduce it to that scene.

It's either that or the chair with no bottom. Yeah, yeah, that whole Mads-Mickleson connection to that movie. That's all that movie just does. No, no, you know, nothing about Ava Green and, and Vesper Lin and that whole thing and how it's really a two-parter with Quantum of Salis and you need to watch the two together is one movie, but I digress. Yeah. Or that awesome intro song by Chris Cornell.

I freaking love it. Yes. One of my faves. So good. All right, that's it. We're out of here. Big thanks to everybody for listening. If you'd like any questions answered as to where to go, what to do, what to click, how to do it.

You can find it all at frogpants.com slash TMS. We'll get out of here with some music because music is what makes the heart grow fonder. It also soothes the savage soul. Oh, that's right. Actually, yours is correct. Mine is mixed up of the whole notes. here's his absence but yeah well done yeah uh brian hey why don't you play a song i don't know i don't accidents makes the hard grow softer um greetings program says tj from memphis uh today i start an exciting

new opportunity at work on the iCloud team that's awesome he's gonna get just uh synced up with the cloud oh send us upgrades free upgrades yeah free uh apple premiere plus whatever it's called the the monthly um this actually is from earlier this month i'm just now getting to it. So he's been at the ICloud team now for about two weeks. Nice. It's certainly the largest single thing I've ever worked on. I started out many years ago just asking the elderly, did you try

turning it off and back on again? I'm there. I'm nervous and excited about this opportunity. I've requested a song that I've loved ever since the first time I've heard it. It's the song I whistle while I work that cheers me up after a rough one, and it's just a jolly little tune for the whole family. Dear Martha, it is with

much affection and admiration that I write to you about this program, though. Oh, man. Here, here's a little of this. There you go. I just thought you deserved a little of the actual Dear Martha music. Well, thanks. I introed it many, many moons ago. So, yeah, TJ, first off, hope you're still loving working on the ICloud team. That's awesome. And congrats on the change, the move up. All right. This is his request. It's a cover of U.D. Lali.

from the Disney Robin Hood. This one performed by Los Lobos from their 2009 album, Los Lobos goes Disney. The whole album's great, but the fact that they went in and really deep dived into this Robin Hood song is even better. Los Lobos covering Disney and Robin Hood with Udi Lali. back and forth and what the other one has to say. Reminiscing this and that and having such a good time. Oudalali, oudalally, golly, what a day. Never ever thinking there was danger in the water they were drinking,

they just guzzled their down. Never dreaming that his king and sheriff and his posse wasn't watching them and gathering around. Robin Hood and Little John running through the forest, jumping fences, darkly trees and trying to get away. Contemplating nothing but escaping finally making it. Oudel Ali, golly, what a day. Never ever thinking there was danger in the water they were drinking they just guzzled their down. Never dreaming that a scheming sheriff and his posse was watching them and gathering around.

Robin Hood and Little John running through the forest, jumping fences, dodging trees and trying to get away. get away Conocated nothing but escaping finally making that oudolallie Oudolally, golly what a day Oudalallie, Oudalallie, gawley what a day. Good morning, my P.M.S. host's Sword and Board.

On TMS last week, there was a discussion about a chicken and egg situation, i.e. conscious ideas influencing dreams versus dreams presenting ideas to the conscious mind. This triggered something I read about many years ago that as artists you might find interesting. Thinking that I might be experiencing my own personal Mandela effect, though, I googled this and found that I wasn't, thank God. Salvador Adali believed that one of the secrets to become a great painter was what he called Slumber with the Key. Slumber with the key was an afternoon nap designed to last less than a single second. To accomplish this, he would sit in a chair with his arms resting on the armrest and his wrists dangling over them.

He held the heavy metal key between thumb and four fingers of his left hand and placed an upside-down plate directly on the floor below it. The instant he dozed off, the key would slip through his fingers, clang the plate, and awaken him. He would repeat the process observing the increasingly bizarre hallucinations before he regained consciousness. He'd then incorporate his visions into his art. It's rumored that Thomas Edison did the same, but with a fist of ball bearings and aluminum plates on the floor directly below. These are examples of hypnagogia, the transition state between weightfulness and sleep, which results in a distorted perception of space and time, fluid ideas, association, and involuntary imagined sensory stimulation.

You'll have to let us know which technique you both will be using, key or ball bearings. Love the show, though. Terry Z. Hello, Mr. Johnson. This is Hootie 42 with your Salt Lake Area commute report. For me, I drive Springville to Sandy, and it's about 35 minutes if there's no accidents on the stupid freeway. Most of the other people I work with are similar, although one insane person has a two-hour commute each way, but we only have to come in two days a week. Also, just going to mention, if you are going to the airport, you can park at the frontrunner stations. I know for sure for at least a week, possibly two.

But if you're still going to be long-term parking, go to a place called the parking spot, not the Salt Lake Airport parking. The parking spot is fantastic. They're cheaper than the airport, and they pick you up from your car, drop you back off at your car after they pick you up from when you get back,

rather than the Salt Lake Airport long-term parking shuttle that slowly meanders through the gargantuan parking lot. and might someday eventually get somewhere within spitting distance of hopefully a car that might or might not be yours. So anyway, have a great one. See you guys later. Bye. Hey, Scott and Brian. It's Michael from Evanston listening to TMS episode 2579 on Tuesday.

I'm actually driving to work on Wednesday morning. You guys are talking about commutes in the U.S. and everything. I just want to share in Eminton here, I drive 35. minutes and I'll do our wonderful conversion for you. I'm doing about 70 miles an hour for about 35 minutes. That's my morning commute and it's longer on the way home. But talking about temperature right now and I'll convert for you guys as well. About four or five days ago, it would be zero, which is like, no, sorry, that'd be 32

Fahrenheit for you guys. Well, I woke up this morning and it's converted about minus 23 Fahrenheit. And that's only been about five days. How do you like them apples, buddy? Get more at frogpants.com. What do you say we cut the chit-chat A-hole?