The Morning Stream - TMS 2624: Diddy Diddler Dollar Tree

Episode Date: April 1, 2024

Diddy Diddler Dollar Tree. Watery Willy. Spice Girl Spice Weasel. Kids with Sledgehammers. Futurama Fauna. Poplar's Not Popular. It's April Fools, unfortunately. Godzilla Math Problem. Prudish Pyramid. I Mixed The Sausage In With The Biscuits... If You Know What I Mean. Baku Baku. TMS: Not Biblically Accurate. Those Saucy Koreans. The Square Root Of Kong. They Might Be Cunning Linguists. The Fairly Interesting X-Men with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our patrons get a little lonely sometimes, but you can change that. Sign up today at patreon.com slash TMS and be cool like clever pun, Matuba, and Cian Rowlands. Coming up on the morning stream, Diddy, Didler, Dollar Tree. Watery Willie. Spice Girl's Spice Weasel. Kids with sledgehammers. Futurama fauna. Poplar's not popular.

It's April Fool's, unfortunately. Godzilla math problem. Prudish Pyramid. I mix the sausage in with the biscuits. If you know what I mean. Baku Baku. GMS, not biblically accurate. Those saucy Koreans.

The square root of Kong. They might be cunning linguists. The fairly interesting X-Men with Stephen. And more on this episode of The Morning Stream. No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Do the bees know they make honey for you? This is the morning stream. Good morning, everybody.

Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for April 1st, 2024, unfortunately. I'm Scott Johnson, and that's Brian of it. Hi, Brian. Yes, welcome to the day. Well, one of the days we just stay off the internet. Yeah, I hate it. But the main reason I hate it is it's kind of pointless now.

Every day is April Fool's Day on the social internet. So what's today even do? It's just like makes it just slightly worse. But every day is full of lies and AI images and bullshit. I guess today people smirk about it a little bit more. I guess so. They do it willingly and knowingly. Actually, by the way, maybe re, oh, it keeps, hey,

Al-Kabab, if you're still listening, it keeps bumping both players now out of half-asses. Yeah, I keep getting kicked out. It's weird. I don't know why. If I refresh that link, it just goes, hey, you're not allowed in here. Oh, now let me back in, but. Yeah, it's strange. I don't know why it's kicking me. We've had some technical issues this morning. It's a real April Fool's kind of morning. It really is. But, you know, I really miss, I miss Think Geek.

think geek used to be one of those and blizzard those used to be the two sites they used to really like going to on april fulls day because they got it they knew how to make things that a were obviously jokes and they they kept it to that and that was it yeah yeah i like that too and also it was a good contrast because the rest of the internet uh wasn't so freaking weird and so they could do it and they would stand out and you would you would want to see them now for all i know blizzard's still does it, but I just avoid it all. I just don't even, I can't do it. I know. I can't even look at it. So, uh, there you have it. Cickey's coffee, you know, send me the email. We're now introducing Dill pickle flavors.

I was like, all right. Hats on hats. You're kind of going, you know, make it, make it so that you're going for a second, you're like, oh, really? But no, they're, they're doing, they're doing hats on hats, as Jenny Josephson would say. Yeah. And they're not funny. They're just knowing.

It's not funny. It's not funny. I mean, there are two things on April Fool's Day that are annoying. April Fool's Day jokes. And then people like us complaining about it, which I do. I'll do it all day. I'll do it all day. I'm here all day.

So. We've been burned, man. We've been doing this a long time. We've seen everything. It's time for us to enter a new phase and never have this stupid holiday. It's not even a holiday. It's just stupid. It's just dumb. Yeah. I recommend having little kids around because then you do the eggs and all that. Yeah. So we did that.

So we hit eggs everywhere. What if you don't? If you don't have them, is there a place you can buy them? No. Unfortunately, no. They pick them up out in front of the Home Depot or the Kinder care or something like that. Unfortunately, all those methods are a little bit frowned on, so they don't like that. It involves a little bit of clandestine work.

But if you've got some within your, you know, purview, bring them, bring them in, have them, do the egg hunt, a little chocolate business, you know, they're great. And then food's good. Kim made ham. She made these, hey, what do you call it? You know the hot pot when you get the slabs of very thinly, thinly sliced meat? What's that called? It's like Baku Baku or Shabu Shabu?

Shabu. Shabu. Yeah. Oh, so she did like a hot pot where people were cooking their own little deal? No. So she bought a bunch of the Shabu Shabu meat. Oh, gotcha. Okay.

But then hooked it all up like regular and then made this like, oh, it was great. She had this big, huge, crazy layered salad and all this other stuff. So everybody came over. We all hung out. It was great. We had a very fine time. But it was, you know, mostly because, you know, there's a five-year-old running around going, I found another rag. Nice.

That's good. And that's what that holiday is for. We just had, we had Tina's mom and my mom over. And then Tristan's girlfriend, Kay, and her. other two roommates. Tristan had to work, had to be at the Meow Wolf yesterday for Easter, helping people who had friends and family in town for the holiday, you know, have one thing to occupy and fill their time. So unfortunately, Tristan, we have the rest of the family. None of them, none of them young enough that they'd appreciate a good Easter egg hunt. No. Yeah, you grow out of it,

and then what do you do? You just eat the chocolate and you forget about the eggs. Yeah, it's fine. But, yeah, we have the same similar thing. The ham, deviled eggs, the scalloped potatoes. My mom made some, like, mixed the sausage in with the biscuits. Made these little sausagey biscuit rounds and then some zucchini bread to go with them. It was really, really good. Did you remember to leave fig newtons out for Jesus to come in the morning? Is that the deal?

Is that you leave a glass of Manashevitz and some fig nons? I don't know. I want to do that stuff work. Like, when do you leave out? What are you supposed to leave out? I don't know. Under the Easter tree, yeah. Be like a little bit of wine, a little bit of bread.

Yeah. Now he walks in, makes 5,000. No, you leave a little fish. And then he'll feed 5,000 fish with the one fish. Oh, yeah. Or you leave some water around. He'll turn it into wine for you. Yeah.

So you do, oh, that's right. Water to wine, not the other way around. That's right. That's right. For my next trick. Yeah. You want to impress me, take a little wine and make a ton of water out of it. that's what I want to see.

That's, well, I do that every time I open a bottle. Hell! I course says, that's not how the fish thing works. No, you're right. It's not. We're not biblically accurate here, but there you have it. You mentioned the shaboo shaboo hot pot stuff. We went to Mrs. Crazy Neighbors currently out of town.

So we took Mr. Crazy Neighbor to Day G, which is, I think, a chain of Korean barbecue places where you've got the barbecue. cute the grill right in the middle of the table and you cook your own stuff sure and it was an all you can eat and boy you know we we basically got the first full plate of meat and sides and vegetables and Tina are like oh my god all right we're getting full and then crazy neighbor says can we get another plate and the lady says yeah you know I charge you if there's stuff left over he's like that won't be a problem you know if I I've ever heard of my head, Dave say a thing out loud after you said it. It was then.

I can absolutely hear him saying that. Yes, and we're pounding down the, we each got a bottle of soju. Well, Tina didn't, but Dave and I each got a bottle of soju, and we're, uh, we're each, uh, enjoying that. Oh, my gosh. Is soju, uh, uh, uh, it's alcoholic, obviously. It is a Korean, Korean alcohol. It is a 13% by volume alcohol, um, but it's a bottle about, um, but it's a bottle about, yay big

like about the size of a Mexican Coke and you get your own you get your own 24 hours you can you know you're supposed to drink it like sake out of a little tiny little tiny glass

yeah well those Koreans man they like to get sauced yeah they do sussed everybody I think al Kabab is restarting the server so Travis and Scott you'll need to

uh Travis Scott you guys will need to reload here I'll second I'll definitely have to get in again because it says I'm out. It bumped you out again. Let's see.

I'm going to go ahead and hit play. All right. I'm in. Hopefully it works. Keeping an eye on this, everybody. It's like a new, we're doing a regular newscast, but we have to keep our eye on this story,

which is Will Al-Kabab fix the thing before we play? Al-Qabab restart the server, so I think, let's hope that works. We'll see if, oh, now it's saying, attempting to reconnect to the server. So I think Al-Kabob is currently resetting. All right. Well, let's talk about the next thing.

and we'll come back to this. Yeah, let's do this. Let's talk about Diddy, Didler Dollar Tree. And you might say to yourself, what is that, Scott? Well, let me tell you. On Twitter, I noticed one day,

a couple days ago, there was a trending, you know, there's trending topics on Twitter. Yeah. Never once in a glance over there. I don't like to go there. But I like the order.

I like to see if there's like a pattern. Yeah. And everyone's trying to, there's this whole thing with Diddy, Sean Combs and his whole thing and whatever. Don't want to get into that. Yeah. But they have.

three in a row trending topics. Diddy? Diddler, which is what they're calling him now. Oh, really? I didn't know what that. Okay. That's, that's actually hilarious. P. Didler. Yeah, P. Didler. So you got Diddy, you got Didler, and then Dollar Tree. All three of these D words right in a row. And I just thought it was fun to say. So I posted something like this is actually really fun to say. And I posted a screenshot of it. Diddy, didler, dollar tree. Posted it. Walked away. Never thought about it again. then lucario the rogue one of our listeners wrote or sent me a message and said hey I couldn't help it I made a song about your thing

and I said I thought oh he made a song and it no it turns out there's a website called Sono or something that is AI music generation thing oh okay so you go in there and you say I want upbeat pop with a female vocalist and it's about this subject and you put in whatever and it will make a song for you

yeah well this is too good not to play so we're going to play it here all right let's hear and what's great about this is there's no copyright infringement because AI made it so nobody has original original tune yeah although I'm sure it's stole from people to make the thing but whatever here it is every penny counts got to make it last tighten in my belt got to make it fast did he the dealer dollar tree my saving grace finding bargains I'm on a winning race D-D-D-D-Di-Din-A-Tree, I'm catching that deal. Saving my cash-beat, then it real.

Dollar-Trio, oh, height, set me free. Saving money is my shop is free. Okay, now, you'll notice, this song is very dollar-tree-centric. It is. I'm almost bummed that it didn't, that AI didn't lean into the didler. No. Yeah, I'm really glad it chose. I'm glad it chose what it chose just because it could have gotten real dark.

But, yeah, the, okay, two takeaways, though, from this. Yeah. This is actually kind of catchy and pretty good. It is. And I don't know if that tells me what that says about the current pop market. I think somebody just put Demi Lovato out of business. Yeah. Yeah, that's true.

Also, she's got, the girl's got kind of a, when you tell me it's AI, I can kind of hear it. Yeah, you hear a little bit of the little auto-tuny weirdness. Yeah, but it's interesting at the very least. It is. I don't know. I thought I'd play it. But thank you for that, Lucario, for making my entire day with the hot new single. Check it out.

Wherever you get your music, look for Diddy, Didler Dollar Tree coming at you, the hot single of 2024. This will be our India in the middle today. We're going to hear the entire song. And then later on in the show, you're going to hear the Green Day cover of Diddy Didler Dollar dollar church oh man i've been waiting for that for a long time almost the last 30 seconds or so i've been waiting for those guys anyway uh that was great and it made my made my day brian you're gonna see a movie after we're done here today tell us all right after the show like basically once we once we put this show to bed i'm hopping in the car and seeing a uh a noon time showing of

godzilla times kong following the the great last uh godzilla math problem godzilla minus one now we Now we're working our way through. I can't wait for Godzilla divides Japan. I love it. More math, please. Godzilla, please. That's right. The Godzilla squared plus Kong squared equals Rodan squared or something like that.

Mothma. The square root of Kong is equal to the three sides of Mothra. So this is the one with the little baby Kong in it. And the big evil, there's like an evil Kong deal going on and down into the earth or whatever. Look, I'm all for these. I have no problem with these. Bring them out. Make them dumb as possible. Have lots of great effects and incredible fights. Like you got your, you can have your Godzilla minus ones that are a little more of a serious like here we go. Hiro. Yep. Yeah. You can do that. Keep doing those. But then keep putting out this shit too because I like this stuff. Totally. Totally. And I, I had

watch the recap video because I loved the Monarch TV show on Apple TV Plus that gave us a lot of the background lore like it basically was the connective tissue between Goodman's character in what do we talk about Monster Island

or Skull Island or whatever it was with yeah and and like you know you've got the one with Billy Bobby Brown you've got like all of these all of these movies is like oh I forgot that these the couple of these were even part of this connection,

um, connective things. So I'm, I'm, I'm, both feet in the, in the Godzillaverse. Yeah.

It's the GCU. It's the Godzilla cinematic universe. That's what it is. Yeah, exactly. Don't forget, uh, Brian Cranston is in that,

uh, universe. That's right. That's right. The one with Billy Bobby Brown or Millie Bobby Brown. Millie Bobby Brown. Or Dr. Calhoun says it has very little to do with the Monarch TV show and none of the

characters from the TV show are in it. I'd argue that I think God, I think Godzilla is in it, based on the title. There's one very important character. One very probably character that I believe is in both, and his name is Godzilla. Yeah, or Zira, depending on where you're from. Go Zira, sure. Yeah.

Go Zira, go Zira. That's great. You'll have to go to review tomorrow and tell us how it was. Yeah, I'm expecting dumb, silly popcorn fun. That might be my lunch. I might just have popcorn for lunch. We'll see. Just you going or Tina or what?

Just you? No, me and Uncle Jee. George and my niece, Rainey. Nice. We call it Rainey for short. It is a bank holiday, I understand, right? Isn't that what happens on the Monday after? It is a bank holiday.

Yeah, I guess that's why I think she sets her own hours, so she's off anyway. And I don't know the deal. I guess George is off because it is a bank holiday. I'm not sure. I don't think his job, yeah, I don't know. We forget as content creators what holidays or what because we don't take any of them off. We really do, exactly. Christmas?

Okay, sure, we'll take that off. What else? We'll take Thanksgiving off. We'll take it, exactly. Just don't tell any of my freelance clients that I'm going and seeing the movie in the middle of the day. Don't tell them. No, well, the good news is this isn't public at all. We don't, this isn't out on the Internet or anything.

So they'll never know. Exactly. Yeah, it should be fine. Everything will be great. Well, that's great. We look forward to your review tomorrow. In the meantime, Brian Dunaway, speaking of bank holidays, is off today and off doing some fun stuff with the family. He will not be here. So instead, we're going to play half-asses with a familiar

voice. TV's Travis will be joining us shortly. Yay! See if I can add him to the call. Looks like everything's worked out on the play. It is. Yeah. Thanks, Al-Kalbub, reset everything, so we are good to go. Good news. Let's play some half-asses, give away some prizes, and welcome our good friend, TV's Travis to the program. Hi, Travis Crawford. How are you? Hello, how are you? I'm fine. Hi, TVs. How are you? Hi, TVs. Your first name is TVs, is my understanding. TVs, they're crazy. That's good to have you, man. Thanks for stepping in. How was your holiday, your little Easter business? Oh, it was fine. It was a pretty quiet holiday overall. I just got back last week from Adepticon in Chicago, which is like tabletop war games,

Warhammer and stuff like that. So it was nice to have a quiet weekend coming back from that. Yeah, I'll be sure. I saw that photo of you right in front of the giant Warhammer statue. That was pretty cool. Oh, I missed that. Yeah, that thing was, that thing was awesome. I missed it.

Where did you, the Discord or something? I missed it entirely. I posted on all of my socials. So I don't think I put it in Discord, but it's out there. I'm going to go find it. I have a bunch more, I have a bunch more photos to put up because I was hanging out with Amy Frost and J.F. Dubbo. And they bring their army every year and do the team tournament.

And they were actually featured on the Warhammer Twitch stream this year. Oh, wow. Nice, nice, nice. There's this place over by us called, it's just Warhammer. I don't think it's affiliated though with Games Workshop. Maybe it is. But it's a store where, like you would think, you go in there and you can paint your minis and they have regular tournaments and all that kind of stuff. It's just like this nerdy little, you know, tabletop place, but it's focused mostly on Warhammer 40K and Warhammer Fantasy.

And they, the place opened right before the pandemic. And I went, I went, oh, man, that's not good. They're not going to last. And what's crazy is they are still kicking ass. Oh, good. Didn't go anywhere. And there are two or three stores around them that have all come and gone like twice that do different, you know, other things. They've all just come, shut down, opened up somebody new.

And yet they're still there. win their Warhammer. I think that's great. So, congratulations, nerds. We did it. That's right. There was an actual Games Workshop store in the mall that opened up near us. When it first opened back in, geez, 2010, 2012, somewhere on there. And that thing was one of the first places to go, unfortunately.

One of the first shops. That's a bummer, and that's what I thought, because I was like, well, that's, you know, everyone's in there physically. You're all breathing on each other. There's no way this is going to last. Yeah. Somehow they pulled it out. I don't know how. It's too bad.

There is a place that just opened up that I need to go to called Thane's Table, and it's maybe at 10 minutes away from me. And it's one of these places that it looks like the interior has done up like a pub, like a tavern in an MMO. And you bring your own games or they have games, but they also have a bar and they have like flatbread pizzas and stuff like that. I need to definitely go check it out. That sounds magical.

I love a place like that. Yeah. If you do, you'll report back here on TMS. Pictures all over the place. And maybe we'll make it a Denver Tadpool meetup. We haven't done one of those in forever. We need to do into one of those. It's time.

All right. Well, it's also time for us to play a game. Brian, explain these rules and what Travis and I are playing for it. Okay. Welcome to the morning. Half-Ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you guys the answers. I'll give Scott and Travis a category and six possible answers. Three of which are correct and three of which, like Discord today.

Yep, yep, yep, are incorrect. Depending on how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses. But if you get any of those guesses wrong, you get zero points for that round. One right gets you a point, two right, gets you three points, and three points, and three of them right, gets you five points total.

The player with most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. And I've pulled contestants for members of the Tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're going to be playing for Becky Grieve in Dutton, Ontario. Knaudadok. Up in the Great White North. Travis, you're playing for a familiar voice around here

that we know she's not able to be here live very often, but we miss her tremendously. Cleo in Kansas City, you're going to be playing for Cleo to win some prizes. Nice. She deserves prizes. That's great. She does deserve prizes. She deserves points is what she deserves,

because that's what she used to give everybody here. We'll talk about what those games are in a minute. Let's get to the game while things are working. Big thanks this week to Nicky-Ate's. Nick actually wrote all three of these questions that we're using today and provided me the questions and the answers. You kind of have to do that with me. So if you hate these questions, then you can tell him. Let's start with words used in they might be giant songs.

So words that they might be giant. So very, you know, they are very well-read, well-spoken fellows, the two Johns. these are words that you might find in a they might be giant song obsequious antediluvian Canuculosus Craniosophic, Sophic, Spaghetti

I can pronounce that one, and phorologist Good Lord. Which of these Which three of these were used And they might be giant songs Um These are all actual words or can you say? They are all actual words And I can, you know

I can probably tell you what any of them mean, if you want me to, without giving anything away. I don't need any definitions. I hope one day to be used anteluvian. That's fun. Antediluvian? I'll tell you what that means once we're done here. All right, you guys are both locked in, and you both set on obsequious, which actually is.

Yeah, it's from Turnaround. He had the same obsequious manner. That was the reason that I had him killed. That felt like one. Yep. Antidiluvian means before the flood, but you won't find it on their album, The Flood, or Flood or after it. So I'm trying to think, wait, hold on. What's the use case for Anteluvian then? Are you like... Before the flood? Like, like, oh, yeah, that biblical character was Antidiluvian. Oh, that's not bad. Okay. Oh, I see. So it's not like it's raining really hard today, which it is. I don't go outside and yell,

antedaluvian as if it's like right now we're in the antediluvian times oh wow all right I won't do that then I mean you should

you should you absolutely should yes is that what AD no AD no domine that's Latin yeah

let's see Caniculosis means it's Latin for full of rabbits they did not use that in a song craniosophic or sophic

is someone who is craniosophic the brain went the opposite way I don't have to explain spaghetti and pharologist is one who studies or is interested in lighthouses yeah shit so you'd think but it's not

your answers were obsequious craniosophic and spaghetti damn it I know if I would have just not done the one I would have felt it would have been it is the way you know you always think about like oh if I just would have chosen this one maybe you'll do better with

Futurama you guys are both familiar familiar with the Futurama. Yeah. Which of these are fauna found in Futurama? Uh, your choices are. The albino shouting gorilla, the complicated chicken,

spice weasel, Republican bees, quantum weather butterfly and windy shrimp. Which of these, which three of these are actual fauna found in actual Futurama? Futurama fauna. I have, I know 100%. Beyond that,

I am, I'm very, not sure. So not, do I go, it's kind of a no guts, no glory situation. Kind of is, yeah. Shit. Clio wants you to go for it, Travis, is the question. Would she want you?

You're playing for her, really? Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true. I think so. I'm going to, you know what? Here we go. I'm going to hedge my bets a little. I'll lock on there.

I'm only doing one because I only know one. All right. Yeah, the one you both knew 100% was Spice Weasel, which was used by Chef Elzar to knock food up a notch. That's right. Bam! Bam! Bam! you'd always say it's right.

The albino shouting gorilla was created by Professor Farnsworth to declare his love for mom. And the windy shrimp was a tiny animal with a powerful breath, save from extinction until Nibbler ate at. Those three are your real answers. Scott does get a point for Spice Weasel. The other three, by the way, are all found in Discworld. so red fraggle out there shouting those other three were from disc world but republican bees are in but that's an amazing one republican bees yeah well now i need to stop putting off reading that series good lord that's great does explain why they all sounded so familiar too oh you've read them are you've read those books yeah yeah yeah okay i love those books uh i need to get in i need to i need to do it i know i need to uh still got two books i'm i've started to to finish. Let's get to question number three, and maybe

toys are going to be more up your alley. According to the Strong National Museum of Play, which has been around since 1998, which of these are inductees in the National Toy Hall of Fame? Lawn sprinkler, cardboard box, rock,

blanket, couch, and stick. Oh, boy. Three of these have been inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. I think, I mean, literally have used all of these as a kid as a toy. As a toy, for sure. Absolutely.

So that's kind of great. Some in combination. Blanket, cardboard, box, couch to create a fort. Yeah. Right. Yep. Yeah. We make fort.

All right. I did two. All right. Oh my gosh. You got to go for it, man. You got to go at least two, right? Or no. I got it.

Here we go. Locked in three. Stick! You guys both got sticks. Stick is correct. It was inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame in 2008. Cardboard Box in 2005 was inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame. That took a while. And then I watched as TV's Travis added lawn sprinkler, which is not in the Toy Hall of Fame. It's like, oh man, if he just sticks with those two, he's got this. But it's all right. The other one is a blanket, not just Michael Jackson's child, but also inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame in 2011. 2011.

Oh, wow. The most recent inductee of all of these that we're looking at. Oh, it's been a while then. Geez, what's the holdup? There's got to be some other kind of toy since then that everybody loves. Still no rock, scissors, or paper in the Toy Hall of Fame. Oh, unless you put them all in at once, big fight break out. Let's be real, though.

Lawn sprinkler is much more. deserving than a blanket. Oh, for sure. Because you could run through it and you give your kid a shower. You know, your kid who hates taking a bath right there. Yeah, I loved it. Remember the water weasel? Do you guys have one of them?

Oh, we didn't have a water weasel. We had the, was it Willie? Watery Willie or so, Wet Willie. It was a Wet Willie. Watery Willie. I like Watery Willie. Watery Willie. If that's not a show title, we're doing something wrong.

Yeah. But it was, yeah, you basically looked like one of those current inflatable things in front of used car shops, but it was full of water. I was thinking this thing was called. Willie waterbug? Was that it, Tom Norm? Yeah, Willie water bug. Okay. Oh, okay.

Boy, there's a lot of these. I just did a search and there's a, they were a ton of these. Knockoffs. Yeah. The weasel ball. That wasn't water, though. That was just a weasel on a ball. and yeah to being a kid did they and no lawn darts on there they're not on the they're not on

no jarts I was just about to ask about jarts and lawn darts yeah as far as they know no jarts uh or lawn darts on the on the list I had lawn darts before they banned them and I should have kept them that would be a cool thing to have today do you think eBay and I'm gonna go see if if eBay has lawn darts yeah sure they're there and I'd a I'd a fairly good sized backyard in my house so those got a lot of use nice thankfully never put them into the house yeah close a couple times but oh they redid them with a Nerf at one point the jerks yeah the vintage 90 like a Velcro target with like a you know Velcro on the bottom that's basically it they did they redid the whole thing but now

they're just Velcro stuck or whatever or they have the ones that have the spread out base so it's not pokey yeah um but the original oh the originals aren't even that expensive you can buy these for like 10 bucks or whatever. Oh, it's not bad at all. Yeah. Wipe the blood off and they're totally reusable. Yeah. Just don't impale your best friend with those things. Anyway, well, that's fantastic. That means people won prizes today.

That's right. Becky Greve, congratulations. You've got a copy of Citizen Sleeper and Black Skylands that are going to be coming to you. But, Cleo, you're also getting something yourself. You're not going away empty-handed. You're getting a copy of Saints Row, which of the three games, that's the only one that's actually heard. of so the fact that that one's a solo prize might make it the best game i don't know actually of all these citizen sleeper is probably your killer app that one's an awesome really yeah very very good

game that's weird and none of these are shake a stick at they're all shake a non toy hall of fame stick out yeah they're all that one is in the toy hall of fame but anyway i just bought black skylands on sale for like eight bucks very good game also oh cool yeah you'll be happy no matter where you end up today in our prizes but also a huge thanks to tvs Travis for for hanging with us man yeah thanks for having me probably see you and uh let's see when do we have you next couple a couple weeks right uh pretty soon soonish oh next not tomorrow but the following tuesday we'll have Travis on for his segment uh so watch for that everybody uh Travis have a good one we'll talk to you soon by now

do Travis all right that went well congratulations for our winners Good. Thank you, Alcobab for your quick tech support on the server there. I'm going to, it's going to be hard for me to picture. I don't know why. I just can't picture Cleo playing the original Saints Row. Is this the new Saints Row? Do we know or the old original? Maybe Steve will play it. I don't know. Oh, I have no idea which Saints Row it is. Well, that'll be fun because you can put that in and then it'll be a big guess, whether you get it or not. Because there's a brand, well, not brand new. It came out in 2021 or something. And they didn't call it something different like Saints Row deluxe edition or something like that.

No, they rebooted it. They basically rebooted the whole series and then the parent company shut them down. So it doesn't, that'll be the end of that. You'll never get another Saints Row game, at least not in the near future. Well, anyway, there's that. That's all good and fun. Let us get some news out of the way because it's our job to entertain and inform. Here's this.

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like micronauts or action figures like just a basic toy yeah i mean uh the um i mean i was big into legos as a kid because i could build just about everything you know that i needed for like if if if my star wars figures need to have a battle with the micronaut somehow they crossed the the the multiverses to battle each other then um legos were uh great way to build bunkers and ways to things for them to fight on

or over or under. So, I mean, I hate to say, in Legos feels like, I want to say something like, what else? What else was really big?

Oh, Wildfire, that little pinball, portable pinball game that just had about 14 places for the little LED

ball light to show up. Oh, yeah. And the flippers had two two animated locations. It's like the Calico football thing. It was all just a little LED that would pop. Little LEDs, but man, I love that

that little thing. And Merlin I loved. Yeah, Merlin was cool. I liked Merlin. What was the... No, Merlin's not what, uh, who used, or what did ET have that talked back? The speaking spell. Speaking spell. I thought that was cool even though. I never had a speaking spell.

I had one that's, it didn't work, obviously, because my spelling's atrocious these days. Right. I'm good at speaking. not so much the spelling great speaking not so good at the spelling that's right um all right let's get to this story there's a pyramid in utah this is a local story just pyramid okay all right and it's keeping a salt lake city bakery from obtaining its liquor license now i had a question about why does a bakery have a liquor license in the first place but i guess that's not that uncommon right uh if it's just a bakery

then i feel like it is uncommon is it weird think of like yeah I feel like bakeries close it in the early afternoon. You know, after you've gotten either your donuts or your cinnamon rolls in the morning or gone there for lunch for a nice sandwich or something, I don't feel like, oh, what are you doing for dinner? Oh, going to the bakery, you know. Yeah, it's weird. It's not like you have like a loaded declare that's all, you know,

loaded with alcohol or something. That would be also weird. Yeah, so I do have questions about that. Well, according to the owner of the West Side Salt Lake Bakery, he says that he's struggling to stay in business. It's just about a pyramid in Salt Lake City, too. Yeah, yeah, there's this whole pyramid thing. He believes getting a liquor license would help him stay in business, which I could

understand. You know, if your clientele wants to drink, I get it. But the problem according to the... Yeah, go ahead. You know, this is actually smart business then, because there's like a coffee place near us that after a certain time of day turns into a brew pub, a beer garden brew pub kind of thing. so if it's like yeah we're a bakery during the day but then we turn into like a bar at night because nobody wants baked goods at night nobody wants beer in the morning so we use the space

for two different things that makes sense yeah like container park does at night they turn themselves into uh you know an adult playground whereas in the day you take your kids there right i could see that uh here's the problem though according to the state department's department of alcoholic beverages and services or dabs dabs dabs dabs yeah of a dab and Utah law it's that his business is too close to a church a pastry chef Andrew Corral Corro Corro Carrow sure it sounds like something I'd order on his menu Who opened the 43 bakery in Popular Grove last fall said he or Poplar rather it's not popular Poplar Grove said his business is a very popular grove yeah he says his business is not

financially in a great spot. It's been a slow winter for the bakery, which is located in a renovated warehouse that requires an extensive build-out to open. He says he's still trying to pay off construction debts and just had to finance the installation of a $25,000 drop-down ceiling over his kitchen. He also got a new insurance thing in anticipation of starting to sell alcohol, which raised his yearly rate from $1,200, about $12,000. That's unusual. That's what happens when you do it. Anyway, they try to do it. The problem is, there's this church. Let's see if I can find the denomination. I don't know if it's even a, let's see, here it is. Nevelet Pyramid. Church of the, Church of the Summum, S-U-M-M-U-M. Never heard of it.

I'd live here and I've never heard of this. It was established in 1975. It has been in this location for almost 50 years. The Faith said in an emailed statement, our pyramid is our sanctuary. in place of worship. And we expect the same protections as any other religion. Because this pyramid is there and because they are a, you know, registered religious entity, you can't have a place that serves alcohol within certain distances of said religious entity. And because this coffee shop is close to this pyramid, government's like, sorry. Oh, man.

You can't have it. It does stink. here, chat, look at this pyramid. Whoops, I can't get into it. What is, what is the A-V-I-F image format? Freaking internet. V-I-F, geez. I understand, you know, WebP is just getting used to.

What the hell is this bullshit? Drink like an Egyptian. All right, here it is. Look at this chat. Look at this cool church. It's not that cool, but in the warehouse you can see right behind it. I kind of want to go in there and see who they're sacrificing to who. Yeah, no kidding.

Hobbsduck says the original vision for 43 bakery was, to develop a dinner and evening dessert menu and pair that with wine and local beer. So, yeah, that was the, oh, look at that. Yeah. It's almost like, is it a pyramid or is it just, you know, a roof? It looks like a, yeah, it looks like a buried house is what that is. Do they actually do things inside the pyramid part,

or is it just the top part and they go down below that? It's really just a roof. It's a great question. Let's see. They took a, oh, they, okay, so the department took a straight line measurement from the bakery to the pyramid using a laser pointer and then measured that straight line measurement using the laser point of the thing was 173 feet at both doors okay but hold on a straight line like as the crow flies measurement doesn't seem fair it doesn't right because like if you if you have to

walk further if you were going to go because it's not about birds drinking yeah it's about people and how long it takes them to get from one to the other yep bakery's 21 feet too close to the pyramid as the crow flies and 116 feet too close if pedestrians were to walk on the sidewalk from the bakery to the pyramid. Oh, okay. So still pedestrian. Still a problem. Can I bring your attention to the bakery website?

Yeah, let's do it. 43 bakery. I just gave you the link and it's 43bacery.com for you folks at home who want to look. Your first thing you want people is to see either your excellent baked goods, pastries, and how delicious they look, right? Yeah. So why is your hero image, the above-the-fold photo that shows up on your website,

a blurry photo of your pastries, but a clear photo of the prices that you charge? Yeah, that seems bad. This one down here with the lady arm is better, although she's got like a claw finger there. What the hell's that about? Oh, gosh, yeah, she does. Look at that thing.

here's your here's your croissant what oh sorry that i drew blood when i handed it to you oh they do the blurry thing later this one thing is always blurry with the strawberries on it oh yeah no kidding they got a half eaten they got a bitten in donut that's nice and clear but it's like a member of the illuminati you just can't focus on that uh on that thing oh the pyramid illuminati there there's the oh no now we know what's going on yeah seems like a i mean i would go i'd go here i'd try this. Yeah. I'm sure they have a nice

Queen of Mon. Now I'm worried about them, though. Are you? I think they'll be fine without the with the booze. I hope so.

Let's see what their hours are. Like, are they, I mean, obviously, yeah, oh, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. So they're open dinner time. They just, you know,

they can do dinner. They just can't do a nice paired alcohol. Yeah. With that. Yeah. Oh, man. You're hoping to get your,

drink on you're screwed forget it that's right wow look at these uh their their dessert bar they're uh raspberry vanilla bean danish spinach artichoke danish yeah dude blueberry earl gray danish you'd eat all of this wouldn't you i would i would eat all we'd eat all of it absolutely i have no problem with any of it well i hope it all works out for them may they never close due to uh beer problems just it's a bummer that that they can't, they can't serve the beer. Can't serve the wine,

can't serve the beer. Our next story is about a kid who basically lived a dream, not a dream I had, but like a thing I really wanted to do when I was a kid and that was to hide. He lived to John Hughes movie, although the dream I had would be

that I would be stuck in there with Jennifer Connolly, but I digress. Yeah, I wouldn't mind that either. However, even today, she's still just awesome. She's beautiful, yeah. It was at least on Snowpiercer,

which got canceled years ago, but did it has it been years already I need to finish that maybe it's been a couple of years yeah I think we watched the most recent season of that during pandemic maybe not maybe I liked what I saw

I saw the first season I liked it yeah I like the movie a lot I really like Deveed Diggs I really like Deveed Diggs yeah he's good he's uh he's your uh who did he play Jefferson in the uh the Hamilton in uh

Hamilton yeah I think he was Jefferson anyway uh child did a thing I always wanted to do got locked into a target or got locked inside the target overnight and got found in the morning but got to stay in a target all night long. I don't know why, but as a kid, I always wanted to do this. Walmart, Kmark, Target, don't care. Lock me in there. Parents forget about you. Maybe it was a home alone fantasy or something. Yeah, maybe. But then it's just me and aisles of whatever I want all night long. No one's the wiser. That sounds like a blast. They've got toys. They've got

video games you've got you know what else do you need it's an older kid though 12 year old uh yeah doesn't feel right for some reason uh child spent the night locked into a target store in columbus ohio police say the employee found the 12 year old boy when opening the store early monday morning it's unknown how long the child was inside the store um although they do say overnight so i guess it's sort of known how long he was there police didn't say where he was high like i'm sure he was hiding somewhere when they closed the store and then because then they do the cleaning right they like there's still people in there for an hour after or a couple hours after the store closes so they can clean the place yeah probably hid like that's the best part is if you're a kid and you're just like yeah dude i'm gonna i don't know these blank the housewares i'll go hide under all these towels or something yeah yeah what a blast i mean i realize this is just like a movie 80s movie fantasy but there's something about it i always wanted to do so uh snowpiercer three seasons and um they have a third a fourth season that has been finished and Warner decided not to air it, whatever it was. TNT, I think,

had it. But IFC is going to air it. So we will see that fourth and final season. Oh, good. Some closure is what we'll get there. Some closure, hopefully. Yeah. Ironheart in the chat says they spent a night in a blockbuster with permission when I was a kid. So what do you do? Permission from your parents or permission from Blockbuster? Yeah, I'd like to know who let you do it. But what did you do? Let's see, my friend was a supervisor and he had to be there while people carpeted. the store. Oh, gotcha. Okay.

But, I mean, did you guys get to, like, sit and watch movies or did you, like, what did you do in a block? What else would you do in a blockbuster? What else would you do? Yeah. Eat red vines. Maybe play video games because they rent video games. Eat some Orville Redenbucker microwave popcorn. Yeah.

That sounds great. Ironheart. See, you did one of the things I want to do. I had one other childhood desire that I did get to do. When I was 12, this kid's same age, my dad owned a duplex downtown in the, kind of sketchy part of town. Uh-huh. And it was, um, you know, duplex, which is like two smaller homes crushed,

mushed into one with a wall dividing it for those who don't know. And, uh, we, we got to take big sledgehammers, my brother, Matt and I, and demolished the place. Oh, do some demo work. Yeah. And there's no way that was like child legal to do. There's no way. Did you wear eye protection or anything?

No. I'd be sure you had eye protection. We have any of that shit. No. no respirator stuff for any kind of like you know who knows how old this thing was could have been like you know asbestos or whatever we didn't know any of that we just see he says here take these two giant rubber mallets knocked down all the walls um and it was to prepare oh and then pull out any stuff that was left because whoever was there before got kicked out real quick so prine you'd

love this there were like old lead zeppelin uh night black light posters yeah yeah that would only light up if they were black light one was a big tiger face and it would It would light up all cool if you had a black light on it. So these like total... These were clothed. Oh, yeah. And there was like weed paraphernalia and like all this stuff that is a 12 year. I didn't even know what half of it was.

But I pocketed a couple little trinkety things. Like somebody left a ring that I thought was cool. This cool metal pipe I took. And then my brother and I got to just run around that place and just destroy stuff. And it was so cathartic. I'm sure it was. That would be great. That's why those places, those rage rooms, make so much money.

It's like people want to have that experience of doing demo work or taking out their office space style anger on a fax machine. Yeah, yeah. It was great. It was really great. I recommend it if you're a kid and your parents would let you do that for any reason. For us, it was, you know, my dad was just looking for cheap labor and it worked out. Yeah.

That's the best part is that it was a very Huckleberry Finn, kind of thing. It's like, how do I convince these kids to do this thing that's actually a lot of work? Yeah. And OSHA could make a whole book about it. Like, we were violating every possible child safety rule you could have. For sure. But it was, you know, it's like what, 82 or something? Kids with sledgehammers. Yeah, right. Nobody gave a shit back then. Yeah. Let's see. That's going to do it for our news today. We're going to take a break when we come back. Stephen Schlecker joining us after a bit of a hiatus. It's been about a month.

Yeah. It'll be great to hear him from him again. Yeah, be glad to have him on. We'll be doing that after the song you brought. What'd you bring? Yeah, a little electronic stuff. These guys are going to be traveling. They're touring.

New York City headlining show, April 19th and elsewhere. The band is called Bad Tuna. Bad Tuna. Not Bad Tuna. That's a whole different thing. That's what you get at Subway on a Monday afternoon. Sure. This is a Brooklyn-based DJ and producer,

who, quote, like deft punk before him, takes a simple phrase and builds a world around its incontory properties, says NPR music. NPR, you know, we trust them because they have the tiny desk concerts and stuff. Sure. They make music. This sounds like a shot of pure asphalt-scented adrenaline, says KCRW, another trusted source. See what you say about it and put in quotes and put it in a marketing email.

This is Bad Tuner and the song, Repeat to Fade. Listen to my voice because it knows that there's only one way to get into the flow It's not glow You just need to take your fear and put it into the vaccine Won't you come turn to the light again? When you're done, feel it will be a friend. Put your hands to the ceiling, watch and floating, because it's easy when you're going to give you a friend.

Your hands to the ceiling Was it floating Feels this easy way Everybody says That creativity comes from vulnerability If everybody says It's a sigh about creativity

Won't you get naked Come dance dance dance dance For me Won't you come Turn to the life again When you're done, yeah, be a friend. Won't you come in the arena with me?

Won't you come in the arena with me? Won't you come in the arena? The sun in the arena. Won't you come in the arena with me? Put your hands in the ceiling, watch the floating. There's an easy way If twitch your hands to the feeling

Wasn't loaded There's an easy way If you put your hands to the feeling Move into the feeling Of you're glowing Twitching has to the ceiling Move into the feeling Now you're glowing

She's my hoe, and I better have my hoe in my car, ready to go back to my hood in one hour, or you're going to be my ho. You dig? a computer. And we're back. Who was that again? Yeah, that's a band called Bad Tuna, really a DJ called Bad Tuna, and a song called Repeat to Fade, featuring Palena on vocals.

She's got a great voice. This is from their brand new EP, Look at Me, but Threw Me. Wow. Yeah, don't look at me. Look through me. Look at me, but through me. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't know very many translucent people, but I'll take your advice. You know, as long as you know one, you're able to do that. That's right. Yeah. I don't know many, but the few I do know. The few you do. Perfect.

They're all from, uh, they're all from, uh, Helsinki. All right. Uh, moving on to this, because it's been a while. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dalla, dollar bills, y'all. Stephen Schleiker, where have you been all our month lives? Oh, we missed you.

Yeah. It's been a while, hasn't it? Yeah. Did it go all right? I know you had a lot of teaching stuff to do college business. Yeah, we were supposed to have like 160 high schoolers here to, you know, talk to them about different things. I was talking about podcasting and how to shoot video better and those kinds of things. Yeah.

We only had about half of them show up because we ended up with that winter storm blew in. Oh, right, right. So, yeah, that's why I wasn't here last week and the week before. I think it was a blood test. I got an A-plus. Yay! Nicely done. So hold on a second.

When you are in front of all these kids, oh, Hobbsdog says your audio is really low. Yeah, you are a little low. I don't know why. I have you max, so I can't actually. There we go. I had to max them too. I can turn it up even louder.

No, that's perfect. Right there is good. Bipperson. Yeah, Clipper. Clippie McClipperson. You're fine. Anyway, you're probably a very authoritative vision up there at the podium, right? You're like an intimidating guy.

Your children will sit down and you will listen to me as I tell you about the podcasting. Wow, that's a perfect thing to do when you're in front of the students at school. It goes very well, I'm sure. Well, it's good to have you back and I know, you know, this is a place for you to express your nerd adity. You have a lot of nerd stuff happening in general over at major spoilers, but let's dig into what we've got today. For example, Ultimate Comics is back at Marvel Comics. Tell me more what that means. I think we've talked about this before, but back in the late, early 2000s, Marvel decided, hey, let's retell all of our old stories, but tell it on a different universe with younger

characters and telling it in a way that allows new readers to jump on board. And that was super popular until they destroyed the universe. At the end of 2023, they kicked off this thing called Ultimate Invasion, where a different Ultimate Universe, but kind of the same Ultimate Universe, was rediscovered. And in this universe, through time travel shenanigans, they prevented all of the superheroes from being created. And so now that we are into our main stories, we've got Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate Black Panther. The Ultimates is coming in May, I want to say. And they're just telling these stories of how are we getting these characters back together. The ultimate Spider-Man is ready for issue three this week, I believe, and it is super

popular. It's gone through multiple reprintings as people are discovering. Here's Peter Parker, happily married to Mary Jane, two kids, and then somebody is coming up to him and saying, hey, you were supposed to be a superhero. You want to get bit by this spider and become the superhero. And so it's an adult Peter Parker going through things of, you know, I had a happy life and what's going to happen now? And people are really digging it. So if you were, into the Ultimate Universe and you want to experience it again differently for the first time,

then you might want to check out the new Ultimate Universe that Marvel is doing. That was really popular, right? Ultimate Spider-Man was a big whoop. Yeah. It was super popular. It was what introduced Miles Morales. Yeah. I picked up I followed both of the, I did the Ultimate X-Men and Ultimate Spider-Man and collected

both of those series, almost from the get-go. Yeah, there is an Ultimate X-Men coming out. And if you guys, if you guys don't know who Peach Momoko is, She is a Japanese artist, and she does so much stuff with Japanese folklore and stuff. She is doing Ultimate X-Men. Oh, really? Doing it all in her fantastic art illustrations. Love her style.

Armor is the main character of that, and it will be filled with folklore and magic as well. So you've got that looking forward to. I don't know her art because of Marvel Snap. There are lots of peach and mope. They're all gorgeous. They're like so, so cool. Her art is fantastic, so people definitely want to check that out. She did that king.

It's very water colory. Oh, yeah. Her style is very, I don't even know who to compare it to. I mean, it's very Japanese-oriented, if you are familiar with that kind of style that you might see. Not manga. It's not like anime now. It's almost like. Yeah, if Julie Bell watched a lot of ghost in the shell, this is what you'd end up with.

Yeah, that's a fair way. putting it. She did this king and black alt cover back when that was hitting the stands. I absolutely loved that whole run. Oh my gosh. It was so good. Well, there you go. Brian Michael Bendis

back working on it or no? No, he is not. He is over at Dark Horse right now. He took all of his stuff, took all of his toys, packed him up and moved over with Dark Horse. And so he's got all of his stuff. If you were into the Jinks World stuff, he's got all of that being reprinted at Dark Horse. And

I think Powers is coming back over there and he's got a bunch of other projects but he is not involved with the new Ultimate Universe. All right. I like that guy. His work is great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, cool. There's that. Also, what else we got? Oh, it's been 40 years since Spider-Man's

black costume appeared. That's crazy to hear that. I know, right? I mean, we're thinking 1984. It's like, ah, 1984 wasn't that long ago. It was 40 years ago. 40 years. Yeah, I have that Secret Wars issue 9 with that first appearance of it.

That's not the first appearance of it. It wasn't the way things were released. That's true. Yes. Issue 252 of the Amazing Spider-Man was the, you know, Spider-Man's running around in a black suit. And people are like, why is he running around in a black suit? Oh, have you read Secret Wars? No, not yet.

And it wasn't until like two or three issues into the Spider-Man run that they got to the point where Spider-Man discovers in the Secret Wars is black costume. So you kind of got a backstory on how he got his black costume. Turns out, ladies and gentlemen, spoiler alert, it was Venom. all along there's always been weird so hold on so that's so that was in uh that was still macfarlane's run then when that showed up right do i have that right uh it was before no that was midfarlane so i'm trying to look real quick uh tom de falco and ron friends oh interesting are the ones who who got to design that so when he so macfarlane is credited with at least co-creating venom

right so the spider man ran around in his black suit for like four years before somebody said, hey, what if this was an alien symbiote? And then that's when they spun that off and made it its own thing. And that's where we get venom showing up. Okay. That's interesting. That makes more sense, actually. Of course, it's kind of an iterative thing.

If I get that word out. Yeah. But still, having that secret wars issue and still having it is a big deal. Yeah. It's still in an acid-free bag somewhere over there in one of my lung boxes. and I might even have the Spider-Man issue as well, because I was collecting that at the time, too. Do you have them in good condition?

Oh, yeah, yeah, mint, for sure. Oh, you should go get those grading. Send them to the CDC and get them slabbed, and then that way nothing, I mean, even if you have a basement leak, then you wouldn't have to worry about comics getting rid of the way. Oh, no kidding. That scares the crap out of me, yeah,

because I've got, you know, the Wolverine Limited series signed by Chris Claremont. That's the thing. this was before you got the certificate of authentication yeah yeah so they should be able to certify that really is chris clamor on where you do it but i think cgc is kind of the the comic grader uh kind of grading company they're the they're kind of the de facto ones they do you next time the denver comic con comes to denver they usually have somebody there that will register your comics and i don't think they slab them at the show but that's where you can

drop them off and that'll save you all save you all this the shipping. Yeah. Save me a ton on shipping and insurance and that sort of thing. Yeah. I'm totally going to do that this time around. Nice. Very cool.

Secret War still, I was talking to Metzen about this. It's his favorite comic series of all time. That thing's still influential, man. That thing hits all the buttons. They wanted it to be a toy line. They saw what DC Superpowers did and they wanted it. And they've done Secret Wars two and I want to say three. They did another Secret Wars recently.

And, of course, we had the not related to anything going on in the comic book Secret Wars. We had the television show on Disney. And two was garbage, right? If I remember right? Two was garbage because the beyond all of a sudden was in a white disco suit with a Jerry Curl perm haircut. And, yeah, so don't read Secret Wars too. But Secret War, which is the newer one, which is the whole battle world thing, was really good. Was it good?

Yeah. And that was, like, the last couple years or something. Huge crossover. Yeah, but it was really. Well, the ones I read, I read maybe three different series and then the Battle World or the Secret War series itself was all really good. Sure, sure. Hey, Deweet, speaking of which, sorry, this is not exactly connected, but a little tangent. They're working on a Marvel's, or sorry, Marvel Zombies, its own animated series, not part of the multiverse, what-if stuff, but on its own.

Do you know anything about it, Stephen? I don't know anything about that. I know that people are still really hot on Marvel Zombies. There is a, if anybody loves to play the board game, Zambaside, there is a Marvel Zombies themed, a version of it, where you are the

zombies, and you are trying to take down the humans and the shield agents and everything. So there is that. Here it is. Marvel Zombies upcoming upcoming American animated television series created by Zeb Wells for the streaming service Disney Plus.

Nice. Zeb Wells is a good writer. I don't think we have a, oh, okay. So they mentioned the what-if thing in 2021, but that this was its own thing. It'll be in a similar style, though. Let's see. Do not expect it to debut until at least 2023 was the last word we heard. Then it's on the shelf for a while. Sounds like maybe one of those things that's getting evaluated.

Especially with what's going on at Disney right now. Yeah. You know, there may be a lot of things that are announced, and then next week there may be a lot of things can't come. That's right. Yeah. I'm okay. You know what? initially I was like, oh my God, that means there's going to be such a drought of new Marvel stuff.

But after seeing the quality of X-Men 97, I'm kind of okay for, you know, for Disney plus to like ease up on the Marvel stuff or pair it down. So it's not, so the biggest problem, and this is me being editorializing. And so this is my personal, personal views, and you guys can feel however you want. Sure. So when Marvel went through their huge issue in the 90s, they were purchased by Eich Perlmutter. And I don't have anything against him personally, but I know that he is super pinny pinching and really wants to take the low route for so many things that Marvel was doing. And so when they started to have success,

he was the one that was blocking a lot of the things that were going on with Marvel television to the point because he was in charge of that. And Kevin Feiky was in charge of Marvel Studios to the point where Disney had to step in and say, okay, Ike, you are no longer, you know, we're folding. the television side into the studio side. And that means you don't have a board seat. And so they ousted him and suddenly we get this big rush of announced projects and more movies and all of these things going on. And Ike is pretty bitter about that. So a lot of this is what's going on with

the board right now. There's a big board fight going on. A lot of it has to do with getting Ike and this other guy back on the board, board seats. And that could mean a very different direction for a lot of things that Disney does. Now, certainly there are people who are all who make their their life and they're living off of complaining about woke politics and everything. Those people should be happy for this. But on the other hand, this could be kind of a big mess for Disney to deal with for the next however long these people are around alive, et cetera. Yeah. Oh, wow. Just typical bubble, man. It's just another bubble, you know. So also just to be transparent, I do own some stock in Disney. Not a lot. And so I do get to vote. And I did not vote for Ike and this other guy

to be put back on the board. You like the lady in the Futurama episode that says, I own one Kerjegger of Planet Express. You like that person where you just got a little bit. I am that person. I have like one or two shares of Disney stock. And they're like, well, you own shares. So you get a vote. I'm like, okay. Yeah. I get a vote. I love that episode. Nice. All right. Well, there's that. Also, if you want more X-Men 97, there's also a comic book happening. Is that out now? Yeah, debuted last week, and it's pretty good. One of our reviewers gave it a B and 80% and said that it's fairly interesting.

If you are wondering what happened between the original X-Men series and the new X-Men 97 reboot, that is what this mini-series is doing, is telling some of the tales in between there, so you don't have to worry about this retelling what's on the Disney Plus. or anything like that. So if people are into it, it sounds like Brian is not, then you can go check this out. It's been 97 number one that came out last week.

I mean, the art looks good. It's great. It totally is the, you know, the art, the TV show art. Yeah.

I mean, there are costumes and stuff. I would say that, I mean, it looks like, well, that's just the cover, so I guess I can't say.

But it looks, it looks all right. How's, I mean, what's the story like? I don't know. I didn't read it. Yeah.

I felt like things went pretty, well, no, some time, right? Because it was enough time for Gene Gray to get pregnant and them to start dealing with the loss of Xavier and all that stuff. Yeah, all right. Yeah, I've been loving the new series,

the cartoon series. Oh, yeah, the show is awesome, dude, freaking way into that. And I loved it back then. I like it even more now. Oh, was I not clear about that earlier? Oh, yeah, the comment that you made earlier, I was just like, well, it sounds like Brian's maybe not a fan. Oh, no, no, no. That's, I was yeah I was saying with the quality of

if Disney is paring down on Marvel and we get something of the high quality that we get with X-Men 97 I'm okay to have the drought I guess is okay okay all right I see what you're saying yeah yeah take time it's okay to take time and make better stuff right yeah exactly yeah do more of that I sent you a tweet last night and I think after the show because I know Brian has to run to his movie I want you to go track down the trailer yeah for this movie called Space Hunter what is it called space hunter adventures in the forbidden zone

just watch the trailer because this is a 1980s version of Mad Max Fury Road oh yeah no we we saw this for film sack I saw this in theaters in 3D with Molly Ringwald yeah oh that movie yeah we did do this okay I didn't see your tweet but I'm now seeing it and yes this is a thing we have indulged in and it is terrible I was watching a bunch of old 80s

stuff on YouTube. And this trailer came up and I was like, holy crap, that's the plot to Mad Max Fury Road. Kind of yeah. Including three attractive women who are being held captive by a guy with a weird thing on his crotch. The the underlord, no, underdog, overdog, overdog. Michael Iron

signs, yeah. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, we, I remember thinking of all the bad stuff that we intentionally knew it was going to be bad as we watched it. I remember kind of getting a kick out of that movie. It was all right. All right. That was years ago. I've got a question for you. Have you had a chance to listen to Cowboy Carter yet?

I have. Well, I've listened to the covers. I've listened to Blackbird. I've listened to Jolene. I have not listened to the rest of it. I don't know why there's this preponderance of capital eyes all over the place on this record. There's some. I'm not sure either, but I had a chance to listen to it yesterday, the full album.

And I really enjoyed it. And I'm not a country fan. No, me neither. And I'm typically, you know, I like Beyonce just fine, but I don't rush out and listen to Beyonce albums. and this so far what I've heard that blackbird cover is yeah the black one is really good and uh dolly parton pops in a couple of times in the piece willie nelson uh pops in on the album a couple of times talking about blackbird written by not the beetles but by mccartney yeah yeah i mean written by mccartney performed by the beetles no i thought it was after beetles no it was a beatles song so why is that considered country on this or is it just a country rendition of it so it's really interesting because there are some songs that are clearly country and then there are some stuff that dives into R&B and some Zytoe music and some other stuff

which is really interesting too but a majority of it I would say is his country. Yeah and I'd say and Blackbird falls more into the it's just a harmony ballad more than a country song or even an R&B song yeah I like that song there's some horny lyrics in this album too so

people are listening with young kids there's one that it's called honey something something, it's definitely a sexy song. I wonder if Beyonce current Beyonce fans know where a lot of these kind of now getting to be ancient

songs came from, you know, if they're just hearing them for the first time. I don't know. We'd have to hear from those fans, I guess. Yeah, I think that's why Dolly Parton does a lead into Jolene as well. That makes sense. Does she end it the way Brian hates on her cover album where she goes... Oh, God.

Jolene. And that's my song about Jolie. I love that so much. Oh, there's so much extra garbage in that Dully Parton cover album, it just bummed me out so much. I wanted to love it, and I didn't end up loving it. Yeah, you've got to take that bit out, and then it's better. All right.

Well, Stephen, as always, hanging with you is a treat. And people should know where your stuff is. So please tell them more about major spoilers. Yeah, it's all over at major spoilers.com, where we know that you love comics. And we do, too. And that's why we talk about comics and we do podcasts about comics and other things as well. Last week on Top Five, we did a series on our top five favorite movies from the 1950s.

So if people are trying to figure out, oh, what movies came out in the 1950s, we got a lot of them. There's also a lot of them we missed. And I was looking at that decade. And I was wondering if that may be one of the bigger decades for like epic movies that was in the 1950s. So we did that last week. And people can go find that over at major spoilers.com, starting to warm up, starting to get a little bit more. active people are going to be more active outside the sun's coming out and so i also want to remind people to uh stay hydrated i'm going to work on that i've got a little bottle of water right

here i'm going to drink out of it yeah guys see you later excellent news quick call before we leave today we got this one about uh talking animals and stuff hello calling for tms got brian uh was just in the car listening to uh tms lumber i don't know what number anyway you were discussing talking animals and it brought to mind uh someone mentioned talking dolphins which brought to mind a weird pseudo sci-fi movie i remember from the 70s with george c scott and talking dolphins uh check it out i think it's called day of the dolphin that is all love the show though hi day of the dolphin let's take a look never heard of it but i i'm in i'm totally in sounds ridiculous here it is let's see marine biologist teaches

his dolphins to communicate in English but shady characters plan to kidnap the train mammals for a more sinister purpose it's got a six out of ten that's not bad that's actually not bad that puts it into solid uh film sack territory Paul Sorvino in this as well yeah Elizabeth Wilson don't know who that is uh oh Edward Herman's in it that's cool Edward Herman

Edvard Herman calling Edward Herman oh yeah i know that guy yeah you've seen him he was in uh well gilmore girl's what my wife had known from but uh yeah he was a vampire and um oh no i'm thinking of uh did i the right guy isn't he yeah i was gonna say isn't he the guy that is the king of the vampires and lost boys that's right lost boys vampire that is correct is that him though maybe that's not him i think that's him yeah i'm looking it up there it is lost boys he played max okay all right good yeah for sure and then uh and then he died uh uh all right that is it for that day quick note tonight the monday show will be on carter will be here uh we have a bunch

to talk about please check that out we'll be here live 6 p.m mountain time uh bring yourselves and your phones because we take live texts on the show and uh would be happy to do that tonight that again is at 6 p.m uh if you want the podcast it's over at frogpans.com slash monday and of course this show you can find at frogpans.com slash tms all the links are there i noticed a few more Vegas tickets went away this weekend a bunch of people bought them so we're getting down to the dregs of that particular teacup if you want to get in you got to get in now because they're running out and i think today most of what goes inside your bags and boxes are going to arrive which means my wife might get her kitchen back so we'll see what happens uh that is it for now brian do you have a song or something you'd like to play on the way out i have a song uh patrick wrote in opus one in facebook group and in the tadpool dear saltburn and bathwater I wasn't sure I wanted to put it in a request March 12th as I'm catching up with last month folks March 12th is my 56th birthday and up until last week things were going great until I was let go for my job

but now I have more time to devote to TMS. Well, the silver lining. I'm a long time listener. I found ELR by accident and liked what I heard. A week later, Scott announced the end of ELR. But I didn't fret. I followed the instance TMS and film sacking. and I'm always yelling out names and titles of movies

when you guys are trying to remember. One suggestion, if I may, you need to sack Saturn 3, a 1980 space movie with Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel, and Farah Fawcett, and her boobs, he says. Classic film sack material. I'm all in favor of Saturn 3.

Would love to see that for Film Sack. Sure. Anyway, since you were talking about the Steve Miller band, how about playing The Joker by Puddle of Mud? Keep us all yelling out at you guys, and don't forget to test the ship's phasers, signed Patrick. Oh, I should probably

play that for him just so he has it. Just so he has. Phasers. Here we go. Let's test the ship's phasers. Yeah, classic. Always a favorite.

All right, yes, The Joker performed by Puddle of Mud. This comes from a cover album that they put out in 2011 called Rediscovered, which was actually really good. I liked it. I liked a lot of it,

including this cover. Here's The Joker by Puddle of Mud. A song, people call me a space cowboy yeah some call me the gangster love some people call me morris because i speak with the pompous of love yeah people talk about me baby that's right say i'm doing you Doing you wrong Well, don't worry, don't worry Don't worry now, Mama

Because I'm right here, right here, right here at home Because I'm a picker, I'm a grinner I'm a lover And I'm a sinner I play my music in the song I'm a joker I'm a smoker, I'm a smoker, I'm a When I took her, I get my loving on the run.

I get my love been on the run. You're the cutest thing that I ever did see. I really love your beaches, want to shake your dream. Love it, dovy, love it, dovy, love it, lovey, lovey, dovie all the time. Oohie, baby, I should show you a good time. Because I'm a picker, I'm a grinner. I'm a lover and I'm a sinner I play my music in the song

I'm a joker I'm a smoker I'm a midnight doker I should I want to hurt no one People talk about me, baby, baby, people talk about me, baby, say I'm doing you wrong, doing you wrong. Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, no, Mama, because I'm right here, right here, right here at home. Because I'm a picker, I'm a greener, I'm a lover, and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the song.

I'm a joker, I'm a smoker, I'm a midnight toker. to hurt no one I'm a joker I'm a near a night talker I get me a loving on the road I get me nothing on the road I can't be nothing out of the world