The Morning Stream - TMS 2594: The Phlebotomist Vibe

Episode Date: February 5, 2024

Una Lipa. Lawnmower Cat. Heroin Tight. Knot an Eagle Scout. When the Rubber is Tight. Brain Parking. Southpark Connection! Godzilla vs Fakeroni. Full Frontal Phlebotomy. Seeing Red, Then Grey, Then Black. Squib Game. Scubba and J-feg. Do dogs have names, because I like seriously wanted to know. $50 Cafeteria. Mainlining Conan with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TMS is brought to you daily. By the support of our patrons at patreon.com slash TMS, like Just Another Nick, Jason West, and Saznack. Coming up on TMS. Una Lepa. Lawnower cat. Heroin tight. Not an Eagle Scout.

When the rubber is tight. Brain parking. South Park Connection. Godzilla versus fakironi. Full frontal flobotomy. Seeing red, then gray, then black. Squib game. Scuba N.J. Fagg.

Do dogs have names because. I like seriously wanted to know $50 cafeteria mainlining Conan with Stephen and more on this episode of the morning stream. Do you think dogs have names for us? Whoa.

Is that what they're saying? Our names? Our real names? No, I'm good. No, no, I mean it. This is the morning stream with Scott Johnson and Brian Ibbett, big old freaking dirt blanket. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for February 5th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian Nibbitt. Hi, Brian. Hello. How are you, Scott? I'm good, Brian. I'm all right. I got energy today. I don't know why, because I slept like

garbage, but that's because I ate too late. And when I eat too late, I get heartburn. I'm going to get heartburn. It's a big mistake. Yeah. Can't do that anymore. You know, when you were 22, you could just sit down and eat a whole pizza at midnight and then sleep until, you know, 9 or 10 in the morning and not feel a thing.

Yeah. There's something to be said for getting old and eating dinner around 5.30, 6 p.m. every night. Yeah, yeah. There is. And I don't like what it says. it says we're old now and this is the way our lives are whatever we do what we have to do embrace what we have I suppose plus I get hungry about 5 o'clock 530 so I'm ready ready to start eating 530 or 6 I am too I used to laugh at people it's like you're eating at 5 what is this the

what's it what they call that down in Florida the whatever special the early bird the blue plate blue plate special oh early bird special right early bird special yeah yeah and they you know I used to think that was funny it's like ah you guys he What are you going to go to bed at 930? You have to watch Metlock and call it a night? Yeah. And now I'm like, what time is it? It's 9.30.

I'm going to bed. Honey, where's Metlock streaming? Yeah, I know. Yeah, it's pretty lame. But anyway, whatever. This is who we are and it's how we do. All right. We missed Thursday, obviously.

We told you about it in both pre-show and post-show, but never in the main show. Well, we put it in the title. So the title is doing it. We put it in the title, exactly, yeah. Hopefully people got the message. But I did it because I had a doctor's appointment. It was the only time I could get in. My doctor's very in demand and trying to get in to see her is hard unless you lock into whatever dates they have.

So that's why I did it. Now, here's the funny thing. Everything went great. By the way, perfect visit for a doctor visit. This whole visit was top notch from top to bottom until the very end because all the numbers that we've been watching to keep in check were better, some way better. blood sugar is great my um blood pressure which is high every time i go in there was not it was like well into the normal range very good i got labs back labs showed everything was great uh just just a peachy visit felt real good about all of it uh went in a little nervous thinking oh i was kind of

shitty during the holidays maybe this you know it's it's been six months this is going to be bad and it wasn't it wasn't bad at all apparently what i've been doing has been good so all of that worked out great so at the end she says all right, we're going to do a quick blood draw for these additional tests we want to do, and we'll get your results. I've already got those. Those were all awesome, too. They were just like cholesterol and all that. And to get it, we had to have somebody to take the blood. No problem. I've done this 50 times there. It's not a big deal. They take me in this room. They send me in there with this nice young girl who, I can only assume she's done a few of these. I don't know.

She's got the phlebotomist, you know, vibe or whatever. And, uh, she's not. She's got a phlebotomist, you know vibe or whatever and uh she gives off those full bottomist vibes yeah and i don't ask for credentials you know i'm not like of course not no you just assume that who you're walking into that the blood draw room with the the the uh the seat that's a little bit higher and has a little arm thing little uh armrests that you that you got to use i'm glad you brought the armrest up because that actually plays into this oh really yeah because it was weird anyway so we go in there And she says, all right, so we're going to take blood. Do you have an arm preference?

I said, usually left because, you know, I don't want to, I use my right for drawing and all this other stuff. I don't want to mess that up. Sure. She says, great, no problem. And like it's never a problem anyway, it's a little prick, big deal. We're done. Little prick. That's what I used to call me.

Yep, that'll be a show title. So then, so then she gets me all situated, ties off the arm. A little loosely, I have to say. It wasn't super tight. I'm used to like a good, you know, er, tighten that off. A good heroin tight pull with the teeth on the surgical tubing, right? Yep, and they also, and she does the usual, like, do you have anything fun plan for the rest of the day?

And, you know, all these kind of small talk. The little distraction talk, yep. Yeah, and I went, I wanted to say, that doesn't feel very tight. You sure? You know, I didn't, though. I was like, well, she knows what she's doing. So she does it, pulls out the tray, gets all her stuff ready, goes in for the kill. And she spends a long time tapping, you know.

Okay. Find the vein, whatever. And I'm like, usually they find it right away. I don't really have hidden veins. It's pretty simple. She goes, okay, cool. And she's poking around. And then she has more small talk while she's doing it.

And then she says, I think we got a good one. I said, okay, that sounds great. And I drink water in the morning, which is good. They want you to do that so your veins are, I guess that makes it. If you're dehydrated, your veins go away or something. Yeah, or something. Right. Right.

Yeah, you don't want to have a little shriveled up. You want to be hydrated. Yeah. As Stephen would say, it turns out, you know, what, Stephen was right. He'll probably tell us again today. So two reminders on one Monday. So anyway, I'm sitting there and she finds it, pulls out the needle. I don't really have a problem with needles. And I know you've kind of heard this story in film sack. So pretend you haven't heard this, Brian. I'll pretend, oh, really? Yeah, no, that's good, Scott. Yeah, I've never heard

this before. So she pulls, she takes the needle, she sticks it in, and it kind of hurt, but more than I'm used to from these things, but it's fine, not that bad. And I'm just looking at it. And now she's kind of fishing with it. And nothing's coming out. In fact, it's like maybe a dribble, just like a little fell out into the little tube. And she goes, oh, weird. And I go, what's a matter? She goes, I don't know. I just, this should be, I don't know. She couldn't figure out what's going on. And so she says, well, let's try something else. So she pulls it out. And she says, let's try your right arm. And she says, and also, and this is why I'm glad you reminded me, let's try this. And she pulls out this big blue foam arm thing that makes you go like this like you got oh god all right like

it brings your arm way up and uh i don't know why that was supposed to help i don't get it but anyway whatever i put my arm on that she ties it off and i said i said that's actually not very tight either the left wasn't very tight either will that help she goes oh yeah let me redo it and she undoes the thing and she reddoes it and tightens it but then it was exactly the same tightness. It wasn't any different. She just can't pull it tight. Where her shoelaces untied?

She just sucks at knots, basically. She's very bad at knots. And I said, I said, not an Eagle Scout, are you? And no, I didn't say that. Where's your Nuts badge? Yeah, knew it. You didn't have one.

So I didn't say anything because I didn't want her feel bad. She was very sweet. And it didn't matter to me. It's like, whatever, just get my blood. So then she goes in, same problem. Didn't hurt this time. But she's just fishing around. She's like, how weird.

It's just not. I don't know. And it's just barely dribbling this blood. And I said, am I just like the worst bleeder? And she goes, no, no. And I said, would I be a bad heroin user? Ha, ha, ha. You know, I'm trying to make jokes and stuff.

And what you're basically doing is you're saying, let's joke around. We know it's not me. It's you. Yeah. Am I a bad bleeder? Nope. Then it must be you. Yeah.

Kind of, yeah. That's the subtext of my joke. You're absolutely right. It's like I wasn't even trying to do it. but it was happening. Which one of us is the problem here? Guess what? I've got blood in my body.

I know I do. Yeah, I even said that. I said, you know what? I said to her, I said, you know what? I'm 100% sure there's blood coursing through my veins. I go, my understanding is I can't even talk to you if I don't have that going on. And she's like, oh, okay. And then she says, well, here's the problem.

We only, we have a policy. If I can't get it out twice, then a third, the second person has to come try. That's just a policy. And I said, that's fine. That's cool. Or she goes, the other option is she just come in a different time. And, you know, we don't want to sit here and poke you all night or all day. And I said, no, it's fine.

Let's get it over with. It's totally cool. And I was trying to be, I didn't want her to feel bad. So she left. And I'm sitting there now. I got a Band-Aid over here. I got a Band-Aid here now. I'm starting to look like, you know, a pocked-up junkie with all these holes in me.

And this other lady comes in. And she's about two feet taller, I swear, than this girl. she's much bigger like a big kind of stock yeah kind of stock stock woman like I'm gonna I'm gonna move this whole truck by myself kind of lady and she doesn't really smile but the first thing out of her mouth is like I almost expected German or something or like you're well put your arm out now I expect to go what is problem you have bad vein like something like that and instead she goes say do you have anything fun playing for related as happening like it's the same playbook yeah same exact playbook i'm sure they they talk about this right yeah anyway she plops down and decides to go for the left arm again where we started and she hardly said anything not talkative at all fine whatever sits me down ties it off good and tight so i was like now that's what i'm used to right there that's a that's a knot right there that's a

knot on my arm i like it this rubber is making the hairs pull that's when i know they're doing it right and then needle in it didn't even feel that needle go in me takes out the thing pops it on you know you have the two tubes because there's two different tests

pops it on fills up with blood does the second one and I said to her and she pulls it out she goes all right that's it you can go

and I said that's I wanted to say that was really great because the last girl couldn't do shit you know I wanted to say this you want to not

right you don't want to throw shade on the first woman but uh yeah but then i came home looking like you know documentary about documentary subject like one of the extras from sit and nancy or something yeah it looked pretty bad like even now i've got one two i don't know why i have four because i only got three shots but i have four pockholes yeah four little dots yeah maybe they did four and i didn't notice or i forgot maybe ronda rousey put an extra one in there when you weren't looking or something she's always hanging around dude that girl oh no i was talking about you the second full bottom is

She didn't look like she could pin me and have a 10 count. It really did. Like just kick my ass if you wanted to. And the other girl, the other girl looked like she could ride on my shoulders and go wee! Like she was tiny. That's funny. Yeah, the only time I've ever blacked out or had a problem during a blood draw

was when they were fishing around. And they didn't have the slaughter rule like they do in company softball where if, you know, If somebody tries it, they only get it twice, they have to bring in another batter. But, no, because this person poked, I think did like four times trying to find a freaking vein. And it was getting painful. It was getting unpleasant. You had a little bit of anxiety anyway, even though I don't care about needles. Typically, it doesn't really bother me.

But just the facts like, oh, my God, they're going to have to poke me again. And this stings. It hurts. Yeah, it's a repetition thing. Imagine if you're somebody who can't do needles, period. And then this happens to that. Exactly. A lot of nightmare. So, fourth time I look over, and that's when the thing fills with blood.

I'm like, all right, great. And it was probably like the pain, the anxiety, and then the quick loss of blood or something that just made me go, huh, yeah, I'm fully aware. It was like my throwing up thing. Like, oh, wow, interesting. The whole, like, all my sight right now is going gray. I can only see gray right now. This is weird. Is this, how often does this happen?

Weird. And then my sight comes back and I was like, all right, well, that was weird. Did I, was I out for any period of time? Like, did I stop talking at some point about everything turning gray? And then like two minutes, well, see, it's still gray, still gray, wow. So the closest, that's, that's closest you've gotten to a blackout. I'm trying to think if I've ever blacked out. The closest I've ever getting is just getting up too fast from being on the couch too long.

Something like that. But I don't think I've ever fainted. Yeah. As far as I know, my parents could say, oh, no, you did when you were four and you don't remember. I fainted once during a rehearsal of a Christmas. what do you call those things when you know you've got grade school um christmas musical kind of thing like on stage christmas musical like a yeah exactly right where you're singing like i had to do the intro to rudolph the red nose reindeer and then i had to do the um backing vocals and sign language

for oh holy night and then a couple other songs and um during rehearsal i completely locked my knees like backwards and blacked out like apparently like cut off my circulation or something and oh man yeah fine for the whole you know the presentation but or the actual performance kids worst nightmare though you don't want to

freeze up on stage and faint that would suck no no definitely not that'd be a nightmare well the other I don't remember why maybe this was on core because we talked about it a little bit on core pre-show not long but Tolbert was there saying that you want to make sure somehow I brought up the fact that the blood came out like super dark and that's good right

and he says oh that's very good if it's bright red you're in huge trouble and I went why would that be and why would it be bright red is that people with thin blood is that people with too much sugar in their blood like what is that too much glucose or whatever and his point was no that means you've hit an artery not a vein you want a vein you want the blood coming from your heart, not the blood going back to your heart because it's all, you know, it's been, it's been used. It's all used up from the last pass, right? Right, exactly, yeah.

Yeah. So if you're bleeding like bright red, that's usually trouble. And if it's a main artery, obviously you're, you know, bleed out. You always hear that in the movies. Oh, I hit his main thing, his carotid artery. Oh, no. He will bleed to death now. Anyway, that was something.

Also, real quick, just speaking of blood, not to freak any blood people out. I'm not trying to make people who are freaked out by blood freak out. The squeamish. The squeamish out there. We know you exist. This is not that. But I am watching, and I'm almost done with, Squid Game. Oh, good.

Yeah. What do you like it so far, by the way? Yeah, I really like it a lot. Yeah. I think it's, it lives up to that hype that everybody had for it. It's really something else. And what I'm excited about. seriously recommend um oops i would seriously recommend you check out um the game show thing

the game challenge thing because it is it is i found the games fascinating they use some of the ones from the show but then they also created a few um i found those fascinating the interpersonal stuff you know you got to always take with a grain of salt like it's you know they're editing this person to look like they're the villain although there were a few people they didn't it didn't feel like they had to do much editing to make a couple of them look like the villain. Yeah, they, they, they, I think I will. I think I'll probably roll right into it because I'm, I'm enjoying it that much. And the, I'll, I'll prepare you for the silliest part of it.

Okay. And maybe it's the most fun, maybe it's a fun part of it. But they had squibs on every player, and that was how they let you know that you were dead, is that your squib would go off and you'd all of a sudden start bleeding. And they, they told the player. is like when that squib goes off, act like you're dead and just like collapse or fall down or fall slump to the side or things like that, which if you're playing this reality show game actually kind of sounds like fun. Like basically, all right, pretend you're dead, but we're not

going to tell you, you just got to do it when the squib goes off. It makes it very unique too because no other game shows do that, competition shows. Yeah, that's right. I'd like to see them do it on Jeopardy when you miss a, you miss a question. I feel like I would be mad. If I got far enough and then a squib went on. off. Yeah. I'd look at it and go, ah, and then go and then lay back. Yeah. But anyway, it's a, it's, it's, it's really good and, uh, innovative in a bunch of ways. And I've done some of it with dub and some of it with subs. I wanted to see the difference. Sure. And I don't think the dub is nearly as bad as everyone says. I think that the subs are preferable though, because the performance,

the performances that the actors are giving are really, really good. And, and, and, And I think that those are worth seeing. I was going to say one other thing, what was it? Oh, the episode with the Marbles? Yes. That thing gutted me, dude. Heartbreaking, right? On like three different levels of heartbreak.

Yeah. And none of that I expected. Like, I knew this game was going to have to whittle down and people who were allies were going to have to, you know, screw each other. I knew that was going to have to happen. But that Marvel episode, which on its first, face sounds almost boring. It's like marbles. But it's very interestingly done. Like, here's a set of marbles. Figure out a game.

You know, play whatever game you want. Yeah, that really rocked me. That was a rough one. But I'm almost done. I'll just say I'm down to we're down to two people. That's where I'm at. So we'll finish it out and see how it goes. Now here's what I'm excited about because they've got a second season coming from a Korean cast again. Yes. Which is very exciting. But they also have an American version coming, and that version's not a remake. This is all in universe, like other parts of the world have their contests. Oh, interesting. Okay. Which makes sense because the frontman guy, this is not a spoiler, but you can tell very early in the show, it's clear that he's answering to some higher power. He's talking to somebody higher up the

chain, and the people up the chain are like, this is my world building in my own head, but the way I can see this is like okay well the north american contest just ended so over here in africa we're going to start another one you know what i mean like it feels like it's this worldwide cabal kind of thing i am all about that that is an amazing idea and you know what make a make a german one i'll watch that too yeah right exactly make it all in the same world and advance the story don't just make it like well here's another four characters you're going to focus on but we're not really going to evolve the you know the cigarette smoking man level of of who's pulling the strings kind of thing That's right. So welcome to Scott's new podcast outside the hype bubble where I watched something everyone else was really into it one time and now I finally see it.

Yes. And it was great. First there was parasite and it's very Korean heavy right now. But first there was parasites. Apparently so. Yes, exactly. Yeah. And yesterday I spent a bunch of time with my Korean family and it's just Koreans for miles. All right. My Korean brother's coming over on Wednesdays bringing homemade kimchi. I can't get enough of the Koreans. They're the best.

The best. All right, we got a quick text we got to get through here. Oh, yeah, yeah. This is from the Flying Blender sent this in. All right, okay. He says, hello, just a quick correction for you after hearing Wednesday's show. After hearing you and Nicole pronounce laser, okay, I would say laser, wouldn't you? What would you say?

I would say laser, yeah. Okay. This person says, it's actually pronounced Lasser, L-A-H. L-H, Lazar? L-A-H? L-A-H, like La. L-A-H, La. uh you see the a in laser stands for amplification and because a has an open a sound it should be

the a or the a in the in the laser so lazer uh sorry laser same goes for he says the same thing goes for scuba the u in scuba stands for underwater so it should be scuba now look i'm going to just go ahead and say right now uh-huh or shit like yes it is what it means But that doesn't mean that's how we pronounce these shortening, right? No, he is totally making fun of us for the whole GIF, GIF thing, because I insist that it should be GIF because it's graphic interchange format. So this person is basically saying, oh, well, if it's dependent on the pronunciation of the first letter that you make the acronym from, then it's Scuba and Lazar and J-Fag because it's photographic for J-Pag, et cetera.

That's why his lessons is nothing to get animated about it. Oh, now I get the reference. I sit here and sip gin. I didn't get the joke about the gin or the gin and the animated part. Now it all makes sense. He finishes by saying admittedly I adore the amazing audio. That's a great way of saying. Love the show, though.

Well, thanks to Flying Blender. I thought, you know what? For a hot minute, I thought you were serious. Thanks to Brian, we've decoded this. And now I understand the joke. I saw this in there. I thought, oh, this, I can't wait to rip on this person for their sarcasm and snottiness, but 100% correct. My neighbor says, so I had a neighbor yesterday tell me that the worst movie he has seen in two years is Argyle.

Brian, please tell me there's hope for Argyll, because you saw Argyll. I saw Argyll. Yeah, and, okay, I wouldn't say it's the worst movie I've seen in two years. It's by, you know, Matthew Vaughn, the whole Kingsman and Kingsman and all that stuff, comic book writer as well, Matthew Vaughn. Sure. Big cast of stars. Go in just expecting

fun, goofiness. Almost like spoofing the spy genre. But don't go in expecting it's going to be the next, you know, don't go in expecting it's going to be the next Kingsman, which I always, even Kingsman

I feel like is always a style over substance. they're they're really good they're very entertaining but there's like uh you know you've got a lot of brain parking to do sure you to park your brain at the door basically right with argyle you have to it's a whole parking lot full of brains is what you gotta put out there yeah um incredible cast and sam rock so sam rockwell is fantastic and as always elevates the material whatever material he's in um he's fantastic they make it seem like duelipa is very prominent in this film.

She's not, I'll say she's not very prominent. There was a kid who was, like, while I was in the hallway, I was heading to the bathroom and there's this kid like, man, I'm so excited. Oh my God, Duolipa in this film. It's a, you know, 13, 14 year old boy, I'm like, okay, I know what? You like Duolipa. Yeah. But the same reason I like dual lepa.

Yeah. But I'm sure that kid at the end was like, there sure wasn't a lot of dual lepa in this movie. There's only almost Uno Leipa in this movie. Exactly. There's barely. Barely Unolipa. Yeah, very good.

She was, they did that a little bit with, uh, with Barbie. Everybody heard she was in it and thought she had a bigger role and she was barely in it. She's barely in it. Yeah. Exactly. Um, but it's, it's, it's fun. Um, boy, if you're a cat lover. Uh-oh.

I feel like, uh, all right. So there's a lot of CGI cat in here. Oh. Um, there's a real cat. And it's, and it's in this adorable. argyle printed backpack with this great little these little cat backpacks you can

take with a little bubble window astronaut window so the cat can look out as you walk around but anytime the cat is doing something or they're doing something to the cat that's kind of dangerous they use a very bad CGI cat lawnmower cat basically is what it is

yeah a lawnmower cat lawnmower cat and it's just very it's distracting and it's Is Argyle the cat? That's the name of the cat? Or is that a spoiler?

It's not really a spoiler. Argyll is a spy. Okay. All right. Okay. That's fair. That's all I need to know, I think. Yeah.

But there's, you know, there's a fun little, little trope of why a Superman dude is in there. Henry Cavill. Yeah, exactly. How come his hair so high? Because that's a little distracting. got some high hair. That'll be explained. That's actually explained in the film. Okay. It's got some Jim Carrey. A little bit of a spincher hair going on.

Yeah. Same with John Cena, a little bit more of a caricature than a real character. Sure. I wonder if this is because this is Matthew Vaughn, or not Matthew, yeah, Matthew Vaughn directing but not writing, whereas all his stuff he's known for, he wrote also. Oh, really? So that might be it then. Yeah, because all the Kingsmen, Star Dess, Kickass. X-Men First Class, all that stuff he wrote, those screenplays. He wrote. Okay. And this one, he didn't. So maybe that's the deal. That would make a huge difference then.

Yeah. Interesting. Well, I was kind of curious about it. So you're saying, you know, it's all right. What would you? Okay. Let's give it a five, out of five stars. Definitely wait for streaming. I'd say, I'd say a solid three. Okay. Yeah, I'd say it's solid three. Like, it's, it's, it's better than two. I'm struggling with a three, maybe two and a half. Okay. Two and a half. Put us right in the middle. That's fine. That's okay.

Yeah. Yeah. I'll say two and a half. I mean, it's, uh, and, and one full star right there is for Sam Brockwell. Like, you know, Sam Brockwell, that's a one and a half star movie for sure. Yeah, that guy, dude. He's the best. Didn't he, but what did I just see where he walked out on a cane and then started dancing with a cane? What was that? Oh, I don't know. Talk show maybe. That guy's got moves. Holy shit. Really? Really. Yeah. Someone in the chat, someone in the chat find this. so Brian can see what I'm talking about. He came out like he looked like he was injured.

Yeah. So basically he pulled a Willy Wonka, right? Yeah, exactly what he did. Yeah. And so he came out kind of like hobbling and whatever. And then he kicks off into this bunch of dance moves. And it was like, are you kidding me? That's Sam Rockwell dancing?

That was crazy. Oh, that's awesome. That's great. That guy's great. You also went to Casa Benita, and I cannot wait to hear about this. Yeah, so Thursday night, Tristan's birthday night, we took him to Casa Benita. Again, the way to get this, these are like, it is the Willie Wonka. of tickets, right, where you basically have to get on

a mailing list. You get on the Casa Benita mailing list. They randomly draw names. And when we got there, I mean, the place was full. So we're thinking ourselves, man, this is like, how are they going

through this list that there's still a completely full restaurant eight months, nine months into their whole mailing list method of pulling people out for this thing. So the experience is still very Disneyland attraction. Sure.

You walk in, you basically now have to go through a metal detector. Thanks, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. You go through a metal detector and then you go into a sort of holding area where you tell how many people in your party, you place your food orders, which you've already prepaid for your food when you make a reservation. So you make you a reservation. It's like, oh, there are six of us. Great, that'll be $310. And that was always the way before?

No, it used to be the way that you'd go there. You'd have to buy a meal, but the meals were all different prices. And you wouldn't have to, well, you couldn't make a reservation for Casa Medina before. So like when you get your, hey, you're on the list, you make a reservation. You prepay for everybody. And 50 bucks a person. jeez yes and uh i mean also that's not terrible if the food's good it's not terrible if the food's good we'll wait to hear on this part we're getting there exactly so um so you get in there

and they first take you into this this this room where you're basically like yep uh we have a party of six um she's going to have the chicken mole i'm going to have the beef swadero uh this person's You're going to have the carnitas tacos, blah, blah, blah. So you, you know, you basically go through and you place your order. And then they give you two receipts, and you take these receipts over to another line. And this is a line like your Chipotle, your kudoba, where basically you're walking along a glass, you know, a sneeze guard glass thing with people on the other side who have plates. and this person's doing a scoop of beans and this person's doing a scoop of rice

and then they get to like the entrees and it's just basically a scoop of chicken with molay sauce and then a scoop of this but then they get to the end and that's when they have the you know the person with the transparent mustard container

of some sort of white sauce and they go like a little like make it look all pretty and little cohita cheese sprinkled on top and et cetera, et cetera. Sure. So you're not, you're not, you know, you're getting a plate assembled. And I know there's some kitchens.

I'm not fooled into thinking that if I get, if I place an order at a restaurant, that there's not a vat of something that they're saying, oh, yeah, that one comes with beans on the side. That one comes with this, that they're not just ladling out of a big pot anyway and putting it on my plate. I kind of get that. Right. So you go through the end of this.

and then you give them one of your tickets and they take you to a table and it used to be that you'd have to carry your own tray with your own food so like your little train of six people all carrying your little trays as somebody walks you to a table now they carry your food for you but they're still carrying it for you as you get to the oh as you go oh weird as you go there was uh and also they didn't have a runner so i ended up carrying mine tristons and Tina's needles. So like, do you mind carrying this other tray? And I was like, yeah, that's fine because we had six of us.

So she carried one tray. I carried the other one. So we went to this area that used to be just tables inside a mine looking room. But now they've added like random explosions like you're actually in a mine and rumbling and stuff like that. Like you're underground. And there's a Zoltar machine that has an assayer dude in there. you put a quarter in or put a token in and he gives you some prize or something wow and um and then you've got like this other area that is uh uh well i'll get to that so

so you know this is the experience of getting to your table okay um the food is like all right the way i equated it last time uh equated to my my dad was the previous casabinita meal i would expect to pay $5 somewhere else to get something like this. It was Taco Bell Minus. It was Taco Bell minus 1. Oh, shit. Really?

And not in black and white. That's good, I guess. Not what? Not in black and white, exactly. It wasn't Taco Bell minus 1 minus color, just Taco Bell minus one. And it was not good. It was like canned nacho cheese sauce all over things and

dry meat or this or that it was just not you know so you're just paying for you're paying for the south park connection is what you're doing let me get there scott all right all right all right um now i would say that the food is elevated to like $15 level if i were at a restaurant that didn't have all of the other pizzazz entertainment whatever um i would say i would expect to pay $15 at another restaurant for this food. Okay. Like, all right, much better. Fifteen bucks is what I'd expect to pay for a good Mexican meal.

Not a great Mexican meal, but certainly not a, ugh. How much of this do I have to eat before I could feel like we could just leave? Sure. But you're paying 50 bucks. So where is that other 35 bucks go? Yeah, that's all the entertainment. So, you know, you've got cliff divers still. They're a little bit more.

The cliff diving thing used to be on the. half hour. Now it's every 20 minutes. They do a shorter show, but they do it more frequently. So you can, you can more easily go to, you know, say, oh, hey, they're doing a cliff diving show in like five minutes. Let's go over there and you go and you watch cliff diving. And then, oh, here's Black Bart's Cave and you walk through this Black Bart's Cave, which has not been, it's barely been updated. And what they updated is that some of the ghosts and monsters inside the cave now sound like um like south park characters no really intentionally not like you know that's clearly kenny or they're clearly uh uh stan or something but it's like ah i'm evil such and such i'm

to get you and take away your tacos or something like that right like it's it's this cheeseball cheeseball thing but it's clearly either matt stone or trey parker doing a voice right um they now have uh regular puppet shows and we watch a little bit of that and i was like yeah this is This is definitely not for us. And then they have a magician that does your basic stock, like ring tricks, but with a lot more comedy and was actually pretty damn funny. Pretty clever. Something called Sorcero. And it's done in kind of this 70s cruise ship disco kind of feel to it.

Just knowingly, knowing tongue and cheek. They've got a Cartman table, which by the time we got there, like our reservation was 8.30 p.m. talking about eating late. late. Yeah, no kidding. That is late. Well, late for old people, I guess. I'll put up this Cartman table so people can see it while you're talking about it. There it is. Yeah. Yeah. And it's modeled completely after the episode of South Park where Cartman goes to Casa Benita and is basically at that table yelling for more food. There's also, oh, lots of music. Way more music than there used to be at Casa Benita, live music. There's the Mario.

band. There was a lot better than the old mariachi band used to be, or maybe it's the same one, and they just took the pandemic time to hone their craft. Sure. But then you've got like in this other, you've got this little guitar player up on, up on like a balcony kind of playing down to folks. That was

really good. The drinks are, hey, they had nice, good alcohol. I had a margarita. Oh crap. What's the smokier? tequila. I know I'm not asking

you, Scott. I've got no idea. Zero idea. Yeah, but there's like a shoot, and it's not really tequila. It's a whole other alcohol, but it's a tequila family and it's smokier. Mezcal, thank you, Nanomaton. I don't know why I couldn't come with mescal or come up with that. But

I had a mescal margarita, and it was great, and it was definitely full of alcohol. It was good. And the other margaritas, other drinks, that people had, they said were really good. So those got wildly improved, but those were extra. You know, if you want a soft drink, good, include it with your meal.

Dessert, include it with your meal, unless you wanted a special dessert. Otherwise, you're getting soap-a-peas. So, all right, so bottom line, worth the 50 bucks, barely. The food's a tremendous improvement. And then the experience is enough to kind of carry it the rest of the way up to that 50 bucks. because it's cheesy, but I think once you've seen it, once you've done it, you don't need to kind of do it

for maybe another year when somebody comes to town that's like, oh yeah, let's go, let's take you to Kassimini so you can experience this this weirdness. You're not going to go every weekend or anything like that. Hell no. Not even going to go more than once a year. I don't see us go on more than once a year.

Do you, were you surprised it was less less South Park themed than it was? Did you expect more of that? Like inside? Um, just more... No, I think it was about as much, because it used to be, like, before Matt and Trey bought it, they had a little cartman plushy that they always had hidden either up by the cliff divers or over by the exit. And I wasn't thinking they were going to let, like, really integrate the Salapark stuff in there.

I didn't go in the gift shop, and I don't know if there was, like, you know, a little, little cartman eating a soap apia. kind of things in there. I should have gone in there. So next year, I'll tell you if they have those in there. Oh, yeah, they have a walking around. They have man bear pig. That's right. There's a man bear pig that walks around. Like a mascot style? Yes. Oh, shit.

Yeah, we're going. We're going when I come to Denver. We're going. Yeah, that's a, I forgot. That's one of the better perks. Oh, yeah, they took out all these old video games, half of which worked, half of which didn't. And actually put in one of those shooting galleries with the lasers, which is pretty cool. No, those are cool. They add to the thing for the kids called a root beer canteena where you buy a little root beer mug and then you just keep taking it back there and they'll keep refilling the root beer, which is pretty cool. Sugar and up those kids, man. That's what you do.

Exactly. Get them lit at 830 at night. There weren't a lot of kids actually around when we went there. It was definitely later, you know, it was a Thursday night. Oh, sure, yeah. Now that makes sense. I found a fly-through with a drone. Somebody did here recently.

Oh, really? Yeah. It looks like there's a ton of balls. machine or a claw machines. Yeah, yeah, that arcade area, they replaced a lot of the video games with claw machines, too. And those, like, you know, hit the button at the right time with the light for tickets kind of thing. Yeah, that surprised me how many, though. It's like, it's a five-minute fly-through, and I think I counted five of those or something.

Oh, really? That sounds right, actually, because there was something like that. in the, I mean, the thing that we were in, the, the, the Zoltar, uh, uh, uh, sayer, uh, was like a, uh, um, looked like a claw machine, even though it was just like kind of giving you a little, a little, uh, a little, uh, a little place. Well, there you go, everybody. A, uh, a review from Brian. That's right. Colinary, culinary review from Brian. Pollenary review. So if you come to town, uh, if you're coming to Denver and it works out, you might, I might take you to Casamita, but I'm not paying for you. No, hell no. Not that 50 bucks.

Real quick, we got an emergency notice from somebody in the TMS Discord. Oh, gosh, okay. We have to report on this. This is a big deal. So we played a sound not long ago that was real weird, and we couldn't decide where it came from. Oh, that gargly. Yeah, weird, yeah. Somebody named Nikki M posted at 7.50 a.m. this morning in the TMS patron, or excuse me, a Discord, saying, hey, y'all, this is Nikki from West Virginia.

I'm the one who sent the attachment to the text that was played. I recorded the audio on my phone and sent it as an attachment. I'm a little embarrassed to say that I recorded it lying in bed with my fan blowing. Sorry for any confusion. It was fun listening to the guesses. So for those who don't remember, this is what it sounded like. Oops, no audio. I still don't know how that sounds like any of that.

Okay. Yeah. Was your phone actually in the fan when you recorded it? Or in another room swirling in a toilet when you recorded it? Right, exactly, yeah. Or what? But we have an answer. So, Nikki, welcome to the Discord and also thank you for owning that.

So we don't have to think about it anymore. And feel free to re-record it and send it to us again and maybe just call the audio line and record a voice. Yeah, because we'd be happy to, you know, talk to you. Yeah, we want to hear what you had to say. Yeah, unless it was just grub and if it was just that. Yeah, maybe that's really just what you were trying to tell us. Yeah, it's the language of your people. We understand.

The song of my people. Dunaway in and get this thing on the road here. Yeah. Look who it is. It's our old pal Brian Dunaway from South Carolina. He joins us every Monday and Wednesday for a little game to play. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian.

How is your Monday? Good. Who's good? It's okay so far. You know, it's early. That says not sound encouraging it all. Wow. It's early, dude.

You don't know what's going to happen yet. It's early. It's almost lunchtime. Oh, that's right time zone. It's a moon day. Yeah. Welcome to your moon days. Got a bad case of the moon days. Look here, Garfield.

Just go get some lasagna and get over it, all right? Sure. Sounds good to me. Odie or whatever your name would be. Anyway, it's good to be here. We're going to play this game. It's called the half-asses, the morning half-asses. Brian's going to explain the whole damn thing so we can win some prizes for people.

Brian, take it away. That's right. Welcome on the morning. Half-asses, a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving the two of you the answers. I'll give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct, and three of which are, like that guy's pronunciation of Scuba, totally incorrect. Depending on how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two, or three

guesses, but if they get any of those guesses wrong, they get zero points for that round. If they get one, right, they get a point. If they get two right, you get three points. Three right, gets you five points total, and the player with the most points after three rounds, wins of the prize for their contestant. Our contestants today pulled from members of the Tadpool that aren't able to be here live. Scott, you are playing for Candice. in Maple Valley, Washington.

Nice. Never been. That sounds delicious. It sounds delicious. Maple Valley, I know, right? Brian, you're playing for Jamie in Floral City, Floralda. Whoa. Smells good.

Yeah. Like floral and maple. Look at this. Yeah. Very. Attacking all the senses today. Exactly. Yes.

All right. So let's get it going here. And we'll tell you about your prizes here at the end. get ready here we go your first category are is our is our is

Las Vegas casinos that were built before 1970s so which of these Las Vegas casinos How excited did you get when you saw this Top are older, very excited are older than me All right your choices are

Circus Circus Flamingo MGM Grand Gold Spike Caesar's Palace and Barbary Coast which of these were built before 1970. Before 70. Bam! I think those are it.

I'm not sure. See, I've never even been to Vegas. We have in the TMS Vegas meetup soon, and I'm sure Scott at least has some kind of, well, that building looks old. He's been in most of these at some point or another problem. Yeah, yeah. I've been going to Vegas since I was a kid, but I don't know. I'm still a little, I just named the ones that have heard before. That's the ones I did.

Sure. Sure. Well done. You guys locked in all over the place. You both settled in on the Flamingo, and that's obviously one of the oldest ones there. 1946 is when the Flamingo opened, Bugsy Siegel, I believe. I'm going to be involved in that one. Circus, Circus, was actually built in 1968, and it shows.

It does show. Caesar's Palace in 1966. And those are your three. Flamingo Circus and Caesar's Palace. Yeah. MGM Grand, 1973. And that's, the MGM Grand is where the Bally's is now. It was originally the Earnup Bally's, whatever it is, horseshoe is now.

Barbary Coast, 1979, that one is currently, not Drey's. Dres is the lounge on top. It's the Cromwell. Oh. The Bermary Coast turned down the Cromwell. Yeah. Gold Spike, 1975. I don't even think the cold spike is around.

On a scale of one to ten, a bit, how disappointed are you that we didn't get that. Oh, no, not disappointed at all. Like, no, zero. No, no surprise. I'm never disappointing you guys. Let's give it a one, since that's the lowest the scale goes. All right, I'll give you one. You did say one to 10, not zero to 10. So I'll give you a one. It's a slight disappointment. Yeah. But no more, no more so than I experience on a daily basis. Let's go to question number two here. This is places with a chemical element named for them. So we talked a little bit about the periodic table and Breaking Bad and the weird, uh, the letters and stuff that get highlighted

in different countries on film sack yesterday. Let's talk a little bit about places with a chemical element named after them. Your places are Poland, Moscow, Stockholm, California, Switzerland, and Wales. Which of these have a periodic table element named after them? I have no idea, dude.

I feel like I'm picking two I just made my power move Oh yes you did Brian Okay wow All right Really really went sparing on this one Brian only put one

Actually you both settled on Stockholm And yes homium Is named after Stockholm I only went with what I knew Now you've heard of polonium right Oh that's Poland shit That's Poland I didn't know that

And yes there is a California California. Oh, damn it. After California. No Moscow, no Switzerland, no whales. Brian, that was a power move. You got a point. That was a power move.

Like, you know, if you're sure about one and there's zero points on the board, nothing wrong with going to know one. Yep, that forces Scott to go for points next round. All right. All right. Let's get to question number three. And perfect for film sackers. I just realized that Scott might have an advantage.

beat recently because of Adventure Club, but let's see how you do. Which of these are actual Godzilla movies? Your choices are. Godzilla versus Space Godzilla. Godzilla Final Wars. Godzilla versus Ultramagnus. Godzilla takes Tokyo, Godzilla versus Wari,

and Son of Godzilla. Three of those are real Godzilla movies. Son of a Godzilla. Three of them are fake. Fakeerone. I'm picking the two that seem right. I don't feel like I have no manager, because none of these are the ones I've watched, so I'm not sure.

Okay. I'll look at you. You both picked two. And nobody picked Godzilla versus Space Godzilla? Yeah, that absolutely is one. It came out in 1984. I was trying to remember, but it sounded fake. Because you're thinking, oh, no, it's Mechagodzilla is what you're thinking of. But 1994, Space Godzilla. Final Wars came out in 2004.

Damn it. Final Wars. And Son of Godzilla, you both got that one, of course. That's the one. He blows smoke rings because he's a dumb Godzilla. See, Scott does not advantage here. because Brian is the Godzilla freak. Yeah.

I didn't know that, but you still said... Godzuki. That's right. And then Godzilla versus Ultra Magnus. Not really. Ultra back guys. It sounded good. That's why I chose it.

All right. I was an ultra, but Magnus was not it. Go ahead. No. Yeah. Yeah, Ultraman, right? Godzilla's Ultraman. Yeah.

I made my... Did I tell you guys the time I made my mom take me to see Ultraman when I was like six? No. At the theater? Oh, she still won't show up about how terrible. terrible it was. Really? It was that. How many years old? You probably loved it though. You probably I can't believe you made me go watch that stupid thing. You probably loved it though

right? I could see it. Oh, I still love it. I love the rebe. I love everything. Ultraman and Godzilla. I'm all down with it. It's just pretty great. Especially dubbed. All the terrible dubs, they're so good. Well, good job, Donneway. You want it for your guy, your lady. Yeah. Flower Florida. Florida. Candice and Maple Valley. I'm sorry. No, yes. Jamie in Floral City, Florida. You're getting the two games, and here's what you're getting, Jamie. You're getting friends

versus friends. Oh, it's like what we play today. And Proteus. Oh, Proteus is so good. Proteus Maximus. That's the winning game tonight or today. Proteus is like a kind of retro but modern take on like a shooter like Doom or

something, but it's new obviously. But they use this combination of like pixel stuff and 3D stuff. It is absolutely awesome. Very cool. God. I need a good, I miss, I need a good, uh, first person shooter in my life right now. I know, you should play like some kind of unreal tournament or something. Yeah, only is somebody I knew was doing a server and, uh, when are you guys playing that? I think we're playing.

Jesus. Did we say tonight? 6.30 p.m. Eastern time or, uh, what is that? 4.30 p.m. Eastern. Yeah, yeah. Really? Oh, I might, uh, I might join you. What do I need the Steam version or, uh, um, if you've already purchased Steam version, absolutely go ahead and install it then you'll install the patch is pretty small

not a problem there you get all the information at retrogib.com yeah and if you don't have the steam version you can't buy it there anymore but oh okay I don't already have it so where if I don't have the steam version then what do I do? You go to Mary Steenbergen and you say

it's on retrogib dot com all the information how to grab it. Retrogib.com has links to all the stuff you need how to apply it it was super simple I did it that way too And it was nothing. It was easy. And somebody might have purchased a legit copy of the Game of the Year edition off of eBay and got it in over the weekend and made an archive page for it and called it the alternate link on that site.

Someone might have, eh? Someone. Just saying. Someone may have done that. Very interesting. Man. How old is this website? Geez, this thing is, I'm just kidding.

It's retro. It's retro, baby. Well, anyway. Speaking of retro. The one posted here is from somebody, oh, hi. Gosh, I can't tell. who may have created this. So you know where you're at.

Yeah. What are you going to say, Donaway? You're going to say something? Oh, oh, speaking to retro, for some reason,

I've never seen Lois and Clark that 90s TV series about Superman. And I started watching it with Dean Kane. I started watching it last night. I kind of like it.

No, I don't know. I have to do a whole thing. Oh, geez. Go ahead. I've heard people hate it after the first season,

but I don't know. We'll see. It started strong. It got bad after that. It's not great. Just came out. in Brook Shields' autobiography, Dean Cain was the one to

take Brook Shield's virginity. Oh, goodness. Get out of here. Really? Wow. I didn't know that. I thought he was, I thought he was a lot younger than her. No, he's a douche. I've heard. I've heard. She even says, she even says, yeah, boy, he's, he's horrible now.

Look. At the time, he was really sweet. Future sport. I can't not watch things because people are dicks and duches. I wouldn't have anything to watch. You'd have nothing left to watch. Yeah, but trust me, there's not a lot of Dean Cain stuff to watch. You're fine. Yeah, I'm good.

He played that. Lois and Clark. Lois and Clark. He didn't have to struggle too hard to avoid Dean Cain and things. Yeah, it's like six or seven things. None of them are worth watching. Well, well done. Done away.

You've won. So good job. And also kiss our butts. No you. All right. He's out of here. He's out of here. All right.

We're going to take a quick break. Something I wanted to mention real quick. Later today on the Frog Pants store, I'm putting up a four-piece zombie bundle. It will be limited quantity and time on this thing. Here, let me put it up so people can see it. It will actually be, oh, you know what? One of the items is different, but I'll explain. Anyway, this is going to be a limited edition, 5-inch signed by hand for these prints.

We're just calling it the zombie print set. Five-by-five, full color, of course. these are only going to be $10 free shipping anywhere. Wow. Wow. And we're going to be handling all that here ourselves. There'll be some special extra stuff in there as well. But they'll all be hand-signed. This arcade machine will be swapped out for this SpongeBob one,

and I just didn't have time to do it. But that happened late last night, so it's kind of late breaking. But anyway, you got the Zambi, which is Bambi, but as a zombie. Oh, yeah. That's a great one. George Decay instead of George Takai. It's George Decay. uh you also got a blocking dead but uh undead uh lego figurine anyway uh this will be up on the store so watch for it it's over at frogpance.com slash store and like i said it will be very limited

uh who can get them very inexpensive and we'll ship anywhere free shipping so watch for that's very cool nice very excited um okay we are going to take a break when we come back from this break stephen schliker will join us he'll tell us to drink water and also uh we'll have some stuff to talk about, okay? So that's all coming up after this break. Brian's got to do music for it, though. Yeah. Speaking of Henry Cavill and a character, a certain character he portrayed, could not come up with that word. Cal L in our group said, hey, Brian and Scott, my brother and I released a record together this week, and maybe it would be a fun fit for Indy in the Middle. We wrote and produced all the songs together, and we've been calling it our musical antics, the Maltese Falcons,

for years. I hope you enjoy the album and consider it. I'd recommend trying the song Lake Effect. Maybe my guitar parts will catch your ear. I've been a long-time listener, but love the show, though, signed Cal. So it's great. I love it when we can do an indie in the middle. It features someone in our little family here.

This is, the band is the Maltese Falcons, from their brand new album, Leaving Hazie Hill, just came out. Here's the song, Lake Effect. It's a little bit confusing, have to ask myself if I'm okay with what we're doing. I think so. It's a little bit confusing. Have to ask myself if I'm okay with what we're doing. Maybe.

It's a little bit confusing. Have to ask myself if I'm okay with what we're doing. Pretty sure. It's a little bit confusing. Have to ask myself if I'm okay. Okay. My thoughts wander and explore This unknown territory is scary

It's not the norm I thought I had the proper coat To weather any storm Now I'm sitting soaked knocking on the locked a bedroom door The lights are on and the fires maintain Having trouble getting comfortable When everything's the same My muscle's strained from holding on the change

The post that's on the fridge Explain the story and the shame Uh, tiptoe around the stories Keep them stored on the shelf From when you're boredom say you're bored Please extra effort to smile creating sore cheeks clutching my jaw start to feel bad for my poor teeth the feng shui is never just mundane new energy's the remedy for breaking up the chain a thought that caught me off guard got me constrained no more bed in the corner we're moving toward a new aim it's a little bit confusing have to ask myself if i'm okay with what we're doing i think so it's a little bit confusing have to ask myself if i'm okay with what we're doing maybe it's a little bit confusing have to ask myself if i'm okay with what we're doing maybe it's a little bit confusing have to ask myself if i'm okay with what we're doing maybe it's a little bit confusing have to ask myself if i'm

I'm okay with what we're doing pretty sure it's a little bit confusing have to ask myself if I'm okay oh snap I'm back to asking questions wonder if I'll get any return on my investment thought I understood the basic rules and the metrics message was mumbled and jumbled lost in the congestion thoughts in my head don't make it into conversations autocorrecting effect taking over statements it's a disservice to have I'm hoarded in the basement but is leaving them said a bread a replacement. I think I'm good reading between the lines. But halfway through the sentence I get lost in my own mind. Simultaneously broken and completely fine. Unsustainable to try to rationale the reason or the why. My monkey brain always taking me outside. The moment

got me contemplated what's evaded me. I need to own it. No mistake in that I need to grease my wheels and components. Big proponent for embracing where we're going. It's a little bit confusing. Have to ask myself if I'm okay with what we're doing I think so It's a little bit confusing Have to ask myself if I'm okay with what we're doing Maybe It's a little bit confusing

Have to ask myself if I'm okay with what we're doing Pretty sure It's a little bit confusing Have to ask myself if I'm okay Behind this curtain is something awful Something ugly Something that may be in your home right now Creepy black mildew stains right there in your shower.

Where is it? And we returned. Who was that cool band from a listener again? That cool band is the Maltese Falcons. And a brand new album is called Leaving Hazy Hill. That's the song, Lake Effect. Nice. We had Lake Effect here.

We get crazy snow off the Great Salt Lake all the time. And it's called Lake effect snow, yeah. I wonder if that's what they're doing. Because I know up in, like, Minnesota, the Dakotas and stuff, they get some lake effect. If you live by a big lake and you get just the right weather pattern, basically it sucks moisture up from the lake and then turns it into snow immediately and then you just get hosed by it. It's pretty great. Yeah, no kidding. That's interesting.

So, yeah, we don't have that. We just have the mountains. you do, and that just kind of let stuff settle in and sit in one place and dump stuff on us. That's true. You get in your bowl there. You had like 12 inches of snow over the weekend. It was crazy. Oh my gosh, that's a lot.

Heavy wet snow. Yeah. We got almost entirely rain. We didn't get any snow, really. Got cold, but it didn't snow. All right. Stephen incoming. Look out. Yay. Look out everyone. Duck. Here he comes. Where's his name?

Hold on. There he is. All right. Add him to the call. Get him in here. See what happens when we do that. And we play his thing here. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dollar, dollar bills, y'all. Hey, it's Stephen Schlecker with all the dollar bills. What's going on, man? Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. I always love it when you talk Casabinita back to the 1980s when we used to go at least once a year for family reunion type stuff. yeah yeah you guys would go there you'd make it a place you would go for the family yeah because my um my dad's family we would always go they always lived in Cheyenne so we'd go up there for Cheyenne days and then one night out of the whole week that we would do a big family reunion it was like let's drive down to Denver and go to Pasquanita and of course when you have like

all my cousins and everything we're all between the ages of like six and 14 then that's the perfect age for that place yeah that is yeah wow well I think they'd I look forward to seeing you there again, Mr. Schleger. They'll welcome you back with open arms and a handout for your 50 bucks. Yeah, and less. I'm sure they'll go, oh, it's been like 40 years. We haven't seen you. Yeah.

Less soap of pias than you're used to, though. Get ready for that. Right. Yeah. That's kind of a bummer. Hey, it's good to have you here. Major Spoilers.com, of course, is where you hail from. And we've got a few things to discuss today.

For example, you heard that I finally watched Paraside, and we had a little chat, you and I was so excited. Yeah, you were pretty stoked. there's a graphic novel in storyboards by Bong Joon Ho that you can buy for this. So if you really are into Parasite, good news. I thought you might enjoy this, Scott. And maybe also film aficionados would probably enjoy this, Brian, because they have this. It's called Parasite, a graphic novel on storyboards.

What it actually is is all of the storyboards that Bong Joon Ho did for the movie, along with his notes from the movie, as well as the dialogue for each. scene. So if you're really wanting to see how does the director craft a story and how are our storyboards, why do they play an important role in this, you can go pick it up. The hardcover, it's only like 18 bucks. That's not a bad deal. No, it's not bad.

No. Not at all. That's pretty good. So this is, I didn't know the director, the director could draw. I mean, it's, it's not like it's like jaw dropping art or anything, but it's this really cool, I don't know, look at it. Maybe

He knows perspective and placements and stuff like that that I think. Yeah, that's cool. I would like this. Carter wants this. It's 18 bucks. Yeah. And so that's it's cheap. What else you're going to get for 18 bucks

in this life? It's not going to Casa Benita. Nope. Nope. You pay a lot more there. Yeah, exactly. But it's interesting. It's also interesting the stuff he laid over photos of places he wanted to use his backdrops. I think that's kind of interesting.

And then Drew on the photos, like to show, okay, the character is going to walk from here over to here. Yeah. That's really cool. Man, that bother and sister. What a combo. Yeah, this is very cool. Available now. Let's see. You can get on Kindle as well. You may as well go hardcover for the art reasons. Yeah, that's a good

coffee table book kind of thing. Yeah, it's only four bucks more, three bucks more. So why would you? Yeah. Very nice. You guys earlier were talking about the Netflix show, the Squid game. Squid game. Squid game. Have you guys watched Allison in Borderland? No.

Tell me more. So many people talked about that in chat while we were talking about Squid Game. Because I had brought it up and it's like one day these three friends are skipping school and just doing whatever they do. They go into a restroom and then something happens and when they come out the entire city of

Tokyo is cleared out. And then all of a sudden they start finding out that they're part of some giant game that people who don't win the game die. And so the reward is you collect these cards. And if you can complete a full deck of cards, that means you get out of whatever reality that has been created here. It is pretty intense.

Okay. We got some. Yeah, there's a second season is out now. And it's all on Netflix. Netflix, okay. Yeah. I didn't even know about this. It's also based on a graphic novel.

Oh, interesting, they can, Compare it to Battle Royale, which I watched, that Japanese film, so bizarre. And Cube. So it's like, oh, these are both things that I like. Yeah, I think I'm definitely putting this on a list. At the end of the day, Squid Games basically Battle Royale, right? Yeah, it's like start with hundreds, get down to one. It's basically, or Hunger Games.

They just don't give you the weapons. They just, they give you marbles. Yeah, they give you marbles and cookies. And good luck to you. What gross got out the most Spit on the cookies! Oh my gosh, those guys Licking cookies about killed me.

It just about killed me. I knew that episode would be tough for you. Especially the old guy, just licking on that thing like he was like a deer and a salt block or something. It was gross.

All right. You know what? I've just now adding that to my cue. That looks fun. I'd be into that. I like this apocalyptic freaking contest stuff. It's fun to watch.

It's cool. It's interesting. And some good character developments and use a little bit of Lord of the Flies type stuff going on to. Now, tell me. Eight episode seasons. How are they probably hour long, I'm guessing?

Yeah, I don't like an hour long. It's been a while since I've seen them, but yeah, about an hour long. I'm just about done with peep show. My God, that show still continues to be difficult to watch. But holy cow, there is a character named Dobby in there. Her real name is Debbie, but people call her Dobby. It's like, I don't know how they found. how they did the casting for Dobby

but oh my god perfect perfect casting she's like a human version of Dobby remind me where that was too where's that stream that's on Prime Prime okay that thing's up that's up soon for me I gotta watch that

yeah I need some uncomfortable they should turn a drinking game into every time Jeremy says oh you'd like that wouldn't you because he says that he seems to say that like every other episode nice let's talk about Philadelphia, the Tom Hanks film that really put him on the actor, man.

Oh, I'm sorry, that's a comic book. Oh, it's a different thing, yeah. Something's going, something happening over at Image Comics. Tell me more. Yeah, this is a crazy thing. So, Kiladelphia is a series that's been out for several years now. It is about a small town cop. He comes home to Philadelphia, because his father's been murdered,

and he starts doing some investigating, and he finds out that Philadelphia is infested with vampires. Right? Okay. Now, it's so interesting and that's been going on for so long, but starting was it like two issues ago, I want to say, they have started saying, well, how about we just cross this series over with like other image characters? So last month with Spawn shows up in Kiladelphia. This month, it is a savage dragon. Oh, yeah, there is.

Dracula is going to show up. Dracula is showing up. It is like the weirdest crossover because even. though there is supposedly a quote unquote shared universe with all of these image comics, rarely do you get to see them actually do a proper crossover. Yeah, I was going to say, unlike

Marvel and unlike DC and even sometimes Marvel and DC doing this with each other on the rare occasion that they do it, you never see that much, at least now. Back in the day, it feels like early image, like early 90s when they first launched. You'd see things like Wildcats crossover with spawn or something.

You'd have things like that, but it feels like they really got away from it as they were just more and more sort of independent comics with their own worlds and their own stories. Yeah, because it's so much more of indie creator-owned type stuff. So the minute you start crossing over, that brings up all sorts of rights issues and who's getting what money or whatever. But in this case, they're just like, yeah, let's go for it. And it's interesting. If you like vampire horror type stuff, this will probably be a series for you. but just the, I don't know, the gimmicky crossover bit that they have going on is just fascinating. That's interesting. I like vampires, and I also like a lot of image stuff. I bet I would like this stuff.

Yeah. I'm not even a Savage Dragon fan, but I'm curious about how that crossover goes. Oh, man. Yeah. Savage Dragon, probably not a comic for you right now, Scott, because it's, last couple of years, it has definitely been an X-rated type type. Yeah, Eric Larson's still on that soapbox? Yeah, still doing it.

Still doing it. It's like, if people, you know, it's my comic, I'll do what I want. And if I want to have people engaging in sex, deviant sex, other types of sex, whatever kind of sex, he'll put it in the page. Yeah, he's into it. I know, I remember, but wasn't there was some kind of, he was doing it out of some kind of protest in the beginning, though, right? Yes, because he had done something that was relatively tame and they wanted to, I believe they wanted to censor. a cover and he's like okay screw it i'm just going full on on this yeah and he went he literally went full on the most recent issue is just like what the heck yeah yeah i can't

believe he i mean i guess i can it's an independent comic the whole point is let the let the creators do what they want to do but it but i always felt like if you were a long time savage dragon fan and that that kind of er moment happened the the the dragging of the needle off the record moment And then it's been like that since. Would you as an old-time fan be like, well, dude, dial it back a little. I wasn't here for the porn. I was here for the stories and the what-nots. I don't know.

It just kind of seemed weird to me that you'd do that to your fan days. And I don't want to lump all Savage Dragon fans into the same pool, but the couple of Savage Dragon fans that I know have no problem with it. And they were already in, would have been happy if that had been how the Savage Dragon started. Okay. Well. So the, the porn. stuff doesn't bother them. Yeah. I just

it just feels like such a sudden change to me. It does. It really does. Yeah. But what are you going to do? Okay. There's that. But now let's talk about an old timey thing that people used to love and then they made a movies in the night or the 80s about it so that

people could relive it again and guess what? Everyone's favorite dick is back. Dick Tracy. What's he doing Dick Tracy these days? Yeah. So Dick Tracy, I don't know why this character still continues to survive. You're right, Scott, for the longest time, just a staple in the newspaper, the adventures of the cop taking down, you know, mobsters and bad guys through the Depression and after that. And then

it kind of faded away. But over the last couple of years, people have been trying to syndicate the comic from King Features. So IDW publishing had a license for it a few years ago and did some stuff back in 2018. Dick Tracy was going to be at Archie Comics, but that deal fell through. and now they're bringing Dick Tracy to Mad Cave Studios and so if you wanted to see what a I think this is a modern take on Dick Tracy then

So he's an Apple Watch now who talks to people on an Apple Watch? I will say one of the writers of the series Alex Segura is a fantastic mystery writer so the fact that he's on board with this should be like hey we should probably check this out he's written a lot of mystery

He worked at Archie for years. He's got prose books out. So I'm kind of behind this just because his name is attached to it. Hey, did you? Sorry, this is completely gear shift, but it reminded me to ask you a question. Not that surprising. Did you tell us what your favorite comic was last year? I did.

It was the first episode back. Yeah, did his top, yeah. I don't remember what it was. What did you pick? What did you pick as your favorite, the top one? You would have me going back and looking to see what that. Yeah, what was it? It was. Hold on. Hold on. It's coming up.

It was Spider-Man. Or, no, that was in movies. Comics. Conan the Barbarian. Oh, right. Right. Okay. No, that's for my own benefit because I'd forgotten to write it down and I really wanted to read whatever it was you said. And then I forgot what that was. Here's the thing. Not only is the Jim Zub, Conan the Barbarian really good, if you guys remember, and you and I are old enough to remember this, maybe. some of our listeners, too. Marvel back in the day, when they were trying to avoid the comic code authority, they had those magazine-sized Savage Sword of Conan books that were black and white, really violent, lots of sexy times going on in that. Titan Comics is bringing that back in black and white in magazine-sized format,

and it's coming later this year, I want to say April. And so people who are big fans of the Savage Sword of Conan stuff and want to kind of relive of that oldie timey experience. They are bringing that series back with all new stuff coming up in Savage Sword or Conan. Let me see if I can find a date on that. It looks like later this month

at the end of February, it's 80 pages. So yeah, people might want to check that out too. Yeah, that seems all right. I'd be down with that. I just, yeah, the Jim's up one. I really want to get my hands on, but it's just kind of got me in the mood for some pure Conan. Like, not watered down.

Try to get a fresh audience Conan. I mean like brutal ass freaking barbarian, barbaric Conan. Just a few weeks ago on the major spoilers podcast, we took a look at two Conan stories that were done, one in Savage

Sword of Conan and one over at Dark Horse Comics. And it was interesting to just see how a story that separated like 30, 40 years apart from one another, how different they can be. So yeah, yeah, yeah. So Conan's good.

There's good Conan stuff out there. Be aware, ladies and gentlemen, that, you know, Conan the Barbarian was created in the 1920s and the 1930s by someone who is maybe not as, what's the word I'm looking for? He's not sensitive to the issues of the day. Yeah. Yeah. So just be aware that when you're reading that, there's a lot of like yellow peril and. Oh, right. Yeah.

Yeah, type stuff in there. There's some stuff that leans kind of into the racist territory for the time. So you do have to kind of separate the art from the artist and realize what time period it's coming from. That makes sense. Do yourselves a favor, folks, and do your research. Well, there you go. I'm not just by going to Facebook. No.

No. No, no. Know what you're in for before you get it. Yeah, just no. Okay. Well, that's great. Steven. As always, it's wonderful to talk to you.

And we look forward to more next week. Is there any other advice you didn't have for us today? I would, and I can't remember the exact reason why, but my wife has always said, because she's a nurse, before I go in to have my blood sticks done for my blood tests, you should be drinking water and staying hydrated, not to just stay hydrated, but because it does affect one of your blood tests, depending on what they're doing, it may show that you've got, like, I think it's low salt levels or something. So drinking a big glass of water before you go get your blood taken is a good idea. plus you get to stay hydrated by now i knew it was coming i just had to wait for it there just knew we just knew it yep that's awesome thank you so much for that let's get a couple other things out of the way we got one final text here to read a thing that made a dude laugh oh good uh hey there in the early days of tms there was a short segment in which you guys talked about things that

bothered you words smells noises phrases etc i think i called it thing of the day or something whatever it was thing of the day yeah uh-huh says i'm 95% sure that Scott said you're not wrong is a phrase that bothered him makes me chuckle every time I hear it love the show though yeah it's very possible that I adopted a phrase that I don't like because I don't like yeah I don't like yeah I find that I'm using I remember I used to complain about right right and I'm finding that I'm that I'm actually using it yeah right now that one's kind of useful I use it too yeah it does it it comes in handy for things yes at the end of Today, it's all language.

It's all a matter of just, I don't know. Exactly. Knowing when too much is too much. I don't know. I just said exactly. Yeah, it's fine. And you're not wrong. Exactly.

See? We did it again. It's an unending thing. Okay, so tonight, we were going to do this at six, but I forgot about the done away server thing. So I'm not sure when this is happening now, maybe after, maybe before. But tonight's sometime, when Carter gets home from work, we are going to stream her and And we're going to start doing this every Monday. We're going to just call it Mondays.

And me and Carter, do a little dad-daughter stream. Sometimes it might be gaming. Sometimes it's just us chatting, hanging out, talking about the challenges of her generation, talking about her work in the video game world and why that's such a hard business to be in right now. Just kind of her and I hanging out doing stuff. That's cool. Yeah. So check it out.

That'll be on all the streaming channels, which you can find at frogpans. dot TV. Like I said, we were aiming for six. So he said six Eastern. That's four here. Four 30. Yeah. So six 30 Eastern, four 30 here for the. Oh, I can still do this at six then. So you know what? I'm still planning on it then. Six o'clock tonight is our time. And Carter and I will do that for about an hour. And if you want to come hang out with us, please do it. It'll be great. And also keep your eye on the store because that four pack print deal will be hitting later today. And we'll be like I'm telling you, very limited. All hand signs. I'm not probably not going to do it again

although if they go really quick we'll do a second run but it's we have to commit to a run and if we do a second run it'll be because of the demand but right now we're planning on just the one run it's the four pack zombie prints five by five hand signed at frogpants.com slash store so watch for that's cool

Brian you have an update on Vegas what's going on I do before I get to Vegas though you got to show this off I promise NOMIC that I wouldn't ship this until today but had a commission 3D print and how awesome as it comes apart it's two pieces this is it just needs to be glued

but I'm gonna let him glue it so I can package or wrap each of these separately but it is face palm Picard 3D printed bust of face palm Picard oh had it turned around that's why I probably wasn't sitting too oh there you go nice and solid there

plus you got the logo out front the logo is in the front do you think he's face palming because his right arm is missing is that why he's doing it? It's funny that both you and I think was it ten or somebody during d and d i showed that everybody during d and d and they're like where's his other arm

like well do you see that when you see the venus de milo or or not venus de milo would you see uh david michelangelo like oh no he's got both his arms it is the venus de milo yeah that has no yeah she has no arms somebody broke him right wasn't that the story is somebody no i thought oh really i thought he just never did it uh i don't remember we had a whole thing in art history about this and i don't remember how it Part of me thinks there was some vandalism And the other And the other one Confirms, they broke

That's interesting I always thought that it was just like You know, she She just never was sculpted with arms And it's weird because it made it the art that it is Yeah The arms missing are what matters about that thing And had someone not broken them

Or they just broke any I don't know how they broke I thought there was some vandalism But that's what makes it the piece that it is That's crazy That is crazy All right so let's make this TMS Vegas announcement. A couple people already know about this.

But our Tuesday night event, I've been waiting to see if we can get a really good deal on like a group rate. And I'm still going to try and do that. So obviously, don't pre-buy any tickets just in case. But our Tuesday night event is going to be a brand new thing that just opened up in the Luxor called Play Playground. And the video that I saw Norma Gelly, or is it Jelly, Norma Jelly, on YouTube does these Las Vegas. biggest things. She's, she's, she's interesting. She, every, uh, it's, it's like her, her way of speaking is very presentery. So it's like, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. So she's very, she's very funny. But this is like, basically, the, the best way to describe this

is for everybody who's ever been like, I really want to be part of Taskmaster or Taskville, Brian, this is kind of it like it's it's giant like um they took kind of the idea of giant jenga and made all these other games and other challenges and contests like kind of uh uh uh giant jenga style so you've got you know that game um where everything pops out perfection you've got all the little yellow pieces and you got to put the star in the star shape and the circle in there um they have a giant one of those that's on a wall and you got to put all the things in the right places before time runs out they've got a hallway with neon lights all over the place and you've got a ring that you have to walk it down

and not touch the metal bar that it sits around the entire way down to the other end. Oh, I love it. This place is kind of perfect for our group and there's a bar in there. There's some tables up top. If you know the noise gets to you for a while, heck, just go up top with a few people

and have a drink and kind of get away from a place. But it is, this place looks great. It's going to be perfect for our Tuesday night group event. And it's called Play Playground. And I think it's $37 for all you can play for the night we go there. But there's also like a VIP package. There's a couple other things that get you drinks and shirts and stuff like that. Yeah, during the day it says the infromime reading says playground will be open daily for all ages, including children, but the nighttime is reserved for over 21.

So it's kind of like the container park area where there's a certain time where it becomes for. for adults. We're cuts it off. Exactly. That's cool. And a lot of you might remember the very first TMS Vegas, which was barely even a TMS Vegas, but it was an overnight thing that I had a challenge that I took on to go from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. the next day without getting a hotel room and just be up all night

doing stuff in Vegas. And only a few people managed to make it. Tony and James and Ambassador Domo, I think, was it. Ambassador Domo? I think it was Ambassador Doma, Robert. I know I didn't. You didn't make it. I was there, but I didn't do the crawl. I didn't. Yeah, we started out at the MGM arcade area that had a few of things like this. And I think you and I even did a little dance, dance revolution next to each other. Yeah, we did. That was pathetic, but we did it. It was horrible,

but it was fun. Anyway, this is going to be a whole night of doing stuff like that. And this place, I watched the video, and it's like, perfect. Shojo's going to do a little recon in a couple weeks after the Super Bowl and check it out. Nice. And it's great. It'll be a blast. But like Brian says, don't pre-order anything, you know, to get in there yet because we want to see if we can get a group rate still.

And it's not like you can do much, you know, by getting at that early anyway. Which reminds me, tickets are on their way too. So tickets for the event, period, which include your swag bag and your access to everything we're doing, those will go up sooner than later. I'm trying to hurry up on this. The problem is you've got to get all the swag worked out. And I can show what that is and then figure out the total and blah, blah, blah. And then you guys will have tickets.

If I get, if I do this right, you'll all be able to have a ticket buying link before the end of February. So you can lock in your tickets. So even if you've already registered your hotel and all that stuff, that's all great. But, well, I will make sure that that's soon. You're not going to have to be sometime in March. I'll make sure you have it sometime this month. Okay. That's the plan.

All right. That's going to do it for the show. Go check out frogpants. slash TMS for all your needs, your links, your clicks, your Patreon, your everything. It's all there for the taking. It's just up to you to navigate on your device and go there. That's it for us. Brian, take a moment and tell us about a song you want to play here at the end of the show.

Take us away, Brian, with a song. Okay. This is a sad one. Going out to Kevin Chu, you know I'm best as I-Corps. He says, hey, sail and boat. On January 2nd, I lost my father to cancer. It was all very sudden and unexpected. Since 18 months prior, he had a clean bill of health.

Somehow in that time, he developed at least three different types of cancer, and a fourth area was never officially diagnosed. We're able to have a last Thanksgiving and Christmas together, which I will always cherish. My father was an immigrant from Hong Kong and moved to California for school, where he met my mom. Could you play going to California for him since that was the decision which led to me existing? Also, any clips of Brian Dunaway since he makes me laugh. Your broadcast is otherwise entertaining, signed Kevin, aka ICorp. Well, I am more than happy to share a done-away clip or two. For sure.

Let's see if we can find a good one here. Give us some Flash Gordon. Oh, those are always good, right? Mingo phone. Mingo phone and all that. Hold on here. Mingo phone. Here it is.

Let's play it. Boobie Slave. Retrieve me my mingo phone. I need to contact Flash Gordon. There you go. He's such a dork. He is, the best, the best dork. Anyway, going to California, this is a cover done by Amy Lee, formerly of Evanescence.

She's a solo artist who left a successful band. I wonder if that could fit in anybody's music league. The original song done by Led Zeppelin here is Going to California. Spent by days with a woman unkind, Spoked with stuff and drink Hope and why Made up your mind and make a new start Go on to California with an aching in my heart

Someone told me there's a girl out there With love in her eyes and flowers in the earth. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. But my chances on a big jet plane But never let them tell you that they're all the same You see was red and the sky was gray I wonder how tomorrow could ever fall out today The mountains and the canyon start to tremble and shake

Because the children of the sun began to wane. Seems that the wrath of the gods got a punch on the nose and it started to flow. I think I might be sinking. Throw me a line if I reach it in time. I'll meet you up there where the path runs straight at line. I To find a

I To find a queen without a king So she plays guitar and cries When she sings Right white hair And the footsteps are dumb And try to find a woman

I've never been born Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams Trying to tell myself it's not as hard as it seems Ah Oh. Oh.