The Morning Stream - TMS 2631: Scaredy Tax

Episode Date: April 15, 2024

Foaling for Boof. Have I Done My Taxes Because I Like Really Wanted To Know... Sell The Cats, Lease The Basement. This episode is a business expense. Ol One Sock Johnson. No Carol Channing, NO ERNEST BORGNINE, and NO LT. YAR! Salami Jeans. Grandma got run over by the slip-n-slide. Dirty Dirt Sand Pile. Boot-Cut Salami. Turns out the key to success is plagiarism. No Prom Dunaway. I'm into chonky veggies. Don't Mainline Apple Pie. Tyrannosaurous President. What Color Are Robin's Thight Because I Like Really Wanted To Know... w Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This episode is a business expense. Old one sock Johnson. You know, Carol Channing, no earnest Borgline, got 50 bucks, and no Lieutenant Yard. Salami jeans. Grandma got run over by the sleep and slide. Dirty dirt sand pile. Boot cut salami. Turns out the key to success is plagiarism.

Turns out the key... Oh, I'm sorry. No prom done away. I'm into chunky veggies. Don't mainline apple pie. Tyrannosaurus president. What color are Robin's thighs? Because again, I like really wanted to know with Stephen and more on this episode of the morning stream.

It's obviously because somebody leaked the news. I'd wager Degwin's second. son Sosro had a hand in it. Degwood has been trying to get Dikun out of the way for ages. And so that's why he poisoned him. Mr. Raw, don't say these things in front of the children. Pinch me, Mr. Ho. This is the morning stream with Scott Johnson and Brian Ibbett.

Big old freaking dirt blanket. Hello everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for what is today? Monday, April 15th. It's the literal middle of the month. Yeah, and it's literal tax day. Oh, shit. It is tax day. Oh, man. Have I done my taxes? I hope so. No, I've done my taxes. Yeah, you know you've done your taxes. I know I've done my taxes. And boy, we have a scare last. week. Did I ever... You never gave us a follow-up. How'd it go? Oh, yeah. So a couple of people in chat. I want to say, Racer, 9 to 5.1Y was the name that sticks out to me as bringing up

to check and make sure that the stupid things that lift charges can be used as tax, are tax deductible. They absolutely are. And, you know, I'll just do a really quick description of how stupid this whole lift thing is. So, all right, from my house I drive somebody to Boulder I'm going to get paid 15 bucks right so I've opened up the app I say oh I would like to drive and then I get and then it says oh Bill would like to go to Boulder great 15 bucks and it says you'll get 15 bucks for this ride now Bill is paying about 30

bucks right they get half is making a killing for doing nothing for running an app and keeping it updated exactly for maintaining app updates I mean I know that there's you know they've got to pay for they're mapping stuff and there's all sorts of insurance stuff they've got to pay, but whatever. So let's say I do that a thousand times over the course of a year, right? I make $15,000. Right. Lyft reports my income as $30,000.

And then they say, yep, you made $30,000 this year and you paid us $15,000 for the use of our app and platform fees and service fees and blah, blah, blah. Like it was primarily a $6,000 thing and then a $7,000 thing. It's almost like they switch it as if they're contracting for you and not the other way around kind of. Correct, yes. And it's so that they can do non-employee compensation and have a whole different, like, you know. It's a smart way for them to do it because they make a lot of money doing it. And if a driver doesn't pay attention to this, they can really end up owing a lot of money. Like at one point last week, our tax account and our CPA.

said, yeah, it looks like you guys would probably be owned about $5,500 to federal. Jeez. And they're both like, okay, well, we can sell one of the cats. We can lease the basement to some people from Guatemala that are coming into Colorado. We could do this.

We're figuring out, like, what we can cut. And that's when I thought of the tax thing and said, well, can we text? And then somebody confirmed it race or 951. A few people in chat confirmed it, which helped a lot. So thank you. I owe somebody a drink in Vegas. And

yeah, and basically those two things, actually any fees that we pay to lift are considered a business expense, and therefore we can write them off. So when you buy a little cable kit or you buy water or any of that stuff. When I buy gas, when I

did that $6,000 repair on my car last year, that I'm still paying my mom back for. That was, that's deductible. That is a business expense too. That's good. So, yeah, it turns out, I always felt like I was cheating a little bit.

But my accountant's like, no, count every drink you buy. Count every case of Coke. We do shows that feature movies on streaming services. So, of course, streaming services that we pay for are a business expense for us. Yep. Every video game I buy. Game pass every month. PSN Plus, all that stuff.

All of that. That's a core business expense. This is a film sec business expense. This is a recommendals. Oh, I talked about the movies that I saw at Alamo Draft House, which makes, you know, Alamo Draft House movies a business expense. That's right. Driving a car to Vegas, I get to count it.

You do, absolutely get to count it. You bought the car specifically so you could drive to Vegas as a business expense. Yeah, exactly. But that's how it looks on the page. paperwork anyway so yeah it's uh that's i freaking hate tax stuff but i'm glad to hear that uh you are alleviated a bit from that yes yeah we still owe money but um not nearly what it was that we were going to be paying well there you go so yeah so uh for this week only if you're going to be donating to the ms 150 uh my bike ride my charity ride for ms um make those payments out to coverville at gmail

dot com and i'll make sure that ms gets the money 100% totally on all above board yeah no nothing weird about that at all yeah yeah just give it to me and i'll make the yeah yeah no one will investigate that it'll be yeah no no not at all honor system the entire thing well uh so here we are day five four i guess now well let's see kim left thursday so i guess four days uh day four of kim not being here and um here's the good news about all that Are you walking around with tissue boxes for shoes yet? No, but I am literally wearing one sock right now, Brian. Paper towel under it.

Are you really? You're just wearing one sock? Yeah, the other one fell off a minute ago. Here it is. This is the sock. I'll put it back on. It fell off. Yeah, I had it kind of hanging here a little bit because I went down to scratch my ankle

and then I just let it dangle and then it fell. And then I was like, okay, and then I pinched it with my other foot, picked it up, held it up. And it's just all bad behavior. This is all bullshit that I'm doing. Yeah, yeah. So I got to get it together before she gets home. But while she was gone, or before she left, she said, hey, I'm going to make you a giant batch of Jambalaya,

so you guys have this batch just to kind of feed on all week. And I said, that's great. And then she spaced it. She forgot. She bought all the ingredients. We had everything to make it, but it got to the time where she's like, oh, shoot, I'm not going to have time to make it. And so Carter and I said, no worries.

We'll make it. We got this. We'll put it together. How hard can it be, we say, to ourselves? So we did that yesterday and, uh, was that yesterday? No, it's Saturday. I've seen to make that, uh, egg done that, uh, oh yeah, she's good. She gives you every once in a while.

She's actually good. I felt like I was in good hands because I don't make, I don't cook. I'm terrible. So she and I did it. And, uh, here's the best part. We're going to put up a video of the, of it. Uh, you're going to see how poorly I cut things like onions and, um, what do you call them? Peppers.

I'm not great at it. My knuckles are too close to the blade. I get impatient and I chop like this. Oh, gosh, no. Your knuckles are what you want against the blade. Like, you know, you want to basically hold the thing you're cutting so that the thing that's closest to the blade are your knuckles and the blade just kind of moves up and down. Yeah, and you want to keep these tips away. Well, let's just say I was mostly okay at doing that.

But there were a couple of moments. So there might be a little bit of finger in the jambalaya. No, thankfully, I didn't cut anything, but it did look, it looked precarious. And also, I like the vegetables inside of a good jambalai to be super chunky. I'm into that. Yeah, good news. Super fine. You want a rough cut.

Yeah, and the good news is I'm very impatient when it comes to cutting, and so it all worked out. So they are very big chunks in this thing. Yeah, basically, like a two-bite piece of pepper, basically. And at one point, I got into a sneezing fit because I, I got Caj and Pepper in my nose. And anyway, it'll be a very, it'll be an entertaining. Oh, I did not wait for the video. My gosh.

We'll put that up a little bit later. In fact, I just got it downloaded. Let's see if it worked. Hold on. Hi, everybody. Scott Johnson. Oh, yeah, there it is. We're in the kitchen echoing.

Excellent. Also, we got a, oh, and also, so while she's been gone, this Fallout show has really got under my skin. Apparently, I'm not alone, though, because all the concurrent player bases have jumped on all the platforms. But all the Fallout games are on sale. they're all either selling to people for the first time. I think even Amazon Prime was giving away 76 for free for Steam, just like Steam codes.

Anyway, everybody fired up some form of Fallout this weekend because of the show, and I did the same thing, and I ended up playing a chunk of Fallout 4, a little bit of Fallout, New Vegas, which I beat like three times before and no need to play it again. But I just kind of wanted to get in there and remind myself, I listened to a playlist of all that old-timey music they always play. in the fallout games. Oh, yeah, yeah. Which the show is excellent at doing, by the way.

The show has definitely understood the assignment, and they play, you know, I don't want to watch the world burn. What's that song? I don't want to set the world on fire. I don't want to set the world on fire. Yeah, all that kind of stuff. They're into it. And, boy, it's a real vibe right now.

Oh, that's cool. You're going to like that show, dude. I'm looking forward to starting it. I'm worried that Tina's going to want to watch it, and that's going to slow things down. because right now I'm just about wrapped up on the thing that I'm currently watching, which, God, again, it's a tough decision. Like, do I want to talk about this one for recommendals? I might talk about this one when Stephen's on here later, because it fits.

It's a nerdy comic-booky-ish. It's a nerdy comic-booky thing that may surprise people and may not surprise people that I'm watching. Oh, really? Now I really need to know. So today, maybe we'll find out today when Stephen comes on. Maybe you'll find out today. I think I will talk about today because I have another thing. another comic book you think

that I'll talk about on Wednesday for recommendals so yeah someone in our chat says oh great Holocaust show I don't think you understand that it's between Holocaust and

like a wasteland apocalyptic show that's a different that's a very different genre Holocaust is not the same as that it's really good though and it'll be my

recommendal this week and I'll get more into it then but if you're on the fence at all you probably shouldn't be even people who don't have any familiarity with the game, this is just a really good, this is a really good story being told, and it's fun and twisted,

and Walton Goggins is so freaking good. Cool. You're going to love it, dude. It's funny because with that and Borderlands both coming up, there's been a little bit of confusion in my head. You know, video game property based on post-apocalyptic landscape world thing. So it's like, is this the one with Kate Blanchett and Jack Black? I hope that one's good.

I have concerns because I don't like Eli Roth. He's yet to make a movie I liked. But I also am of the mind that I need to see this stuff before I'll judge it. But maybe he can make it good. He did hostile. Did he do dissent? No, that was British or maybe a French. I can't remember somebody overseas.

I wish, dude, the dissent is so good. I would like Eli Roth movies if he made it. If he made that, yeah. He always looks like the guy who. won't stop talking about how he does CrossFit. Kind of, yeah. He was good in glorious bastards as an actor. I'd like to mind.

Oh, right, yeah. Outside of that. I didn't know. Did you know that was supposed to be Adam Sandler? Getting that role and it changed hands last second because Sandler was busy. Really? Yeah. Yeah.

No. No, thanks, TV's Travis. Tees Travis says that was Neil Marshall that did dissent. Oh, okay. British guy, right, I think. Yep. Yep. That's right.

Yeah, his Roth known for, for like gory, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever. I just, none of them never did anything for me. Green Inferno, endangered species, hostile. Hostile's just bad. I hated hostile. I like horror movies. None of those, just none of them did it for me. You're mildly to have, it needs to have more to it than just the gore.

I think that that is looking at his list. That is the only thing of his that I've seen. Yeah. So now, so now he's going to do this thing that's not going to be rated R. There'll be, you know, a more mainstreamy thing. maybe he'll nail it i'll wait and see i'm not going to say i won't see it i just i don't know i'm just nervous about it uh we got an emt perspective why do we need that because we love when you guys bring your professional lives into our lives okay we like it yeah and j funktastic always good for a good time sent the following phone call brian i'm going to play it here you go hey scott and brian this is for tms and this is j funktastic just want to let you guys know

that I used to work with an EMT for a couple of years, and July 4th is actually a notoriously slow day for EMS, and the first year I worked there, I thought it was just going to be blown off fingers and horrible drunk driving accidents all day, but we didn't get a single call all day until the end of the day when it was a 92-year-old grandmother who decided to get on the slip and slide and hit her head. Which wouldn't have been so bad, but the people that put the slip and slide down forgot to clean any rocks out of the yard. So be careful of the slip and slide out there, kid. Love you're 92-year-old lady hitting the rock. I felt that call. Yeah. See, that's why you don't give Grandma Mad Dog 2020. No, you don't.

That's interesting, though, because we were talking about how we always felt like emergency workers, you know, what holidays were the worst ones, and like, how sucky it would be to work on a New Year's night when all the wrecks are happening and stuff. And I would have guessed July 4th in the States, especially in the South where it's the biggest fireworks are not illegal down there. You can get whatever you want. No, and exactly. And, you know, every, every EMT call I would have assumed was preceded by the phrase, hey, watch this. Yeah, yeah. Somebody's got three fingers where there used to be five.

And, you know, your experience is helpful. So thank you, Jay, I guess, but I had that whole assumption wrong. I did too. Also, what got you out of EMT? Because Dylan was going to do that for a hot minute. He was in school for it. He was training for it. He liked it.

This is my daughter's husband. And then he got to do some actual rides. I think that's what did it. He went on some ride-alongs or something. And he got to see actual traumatic awfulness. Yeah. And I think he was like, oh, yeah, maybe not. That would be the tough thing for me.

Yeah, I don't think I could do it. One thing to have to, you know, pull rubber guts out of a plastic dummy, but then if I'm, you know, having to put them back in on a real person the first day on the job, I'm probably not going to do well with that. Be hard being a vet because then you've got dogs down and stuff. That was, yeah, I read all the All Creatures Great and Small Books as a kid, and I was all set to become a vet. And that's where Tristan's name came from, right, from The All Creatures Great and Small Books. That was the James Harriet's brother. Oh. Tristan and I always really like that name and then it was like oh he's also in the roundtable

cool all right he's named Tristan and then Legends of the Fall came out oh did you name him after Brad Pitt's character and Legends of the Fall dude you're not kidding dude but uh everybody named their kid Tristan after that you guys must have to explain yourself a lot we all the time but we had uh you know I was all all set to do the vet thing and uh then it was like oh my god one of my friends had to have their animal put down and I think that was it for me was like Oh, maybe, maybe this is not me. Maybe not, yeah. Like Carter, she thought she wanted to be a vet.

And then she realized, oh, wait, someone has to make these hard calls or watch these animals suffer or whatever. She didn't want to do it anymore. She's like, forget it. I'm making video games. Good, good pick. Good choice. So you saw a movie I can't wait to see because I'm a big Alex Garland fan. And this one's a controversial one, but I'm excited about it.

So give us a mini review of Civil War. It's controversial, but not. but it's going to be controversial of people who haven't seen it because once you see it you realize that all right so the movie's Civil War and this is you know the the United States

is kind of split in divisions you've got the new new soldiers alliance or the new people's alliance and the Northwest and you've got the California seceded from the country

and Texas seceded from the country but they're joining forces for the Western forces and then you've got the Florida project I can remember what they're Florida something Florida men. Willem Defoe is the general of the Florida Project.

I like that. Yes, exactly. And you would think that, oh, okay, so the movie's really going to be about, you know, this horrible president played by Nick Offerman and how he splits the country and it's very much like Trump and blah blah and all that. No, the movie comes into it with all that already established and no real background as far as what caused it. All you know is that Offerman's president is this kind of tyrannical instigator, who's basically, you know, basically has some of the country still on board with them,

and then a bunch of people who are like super on board with them, who are ready to take people out if they disagree with them. And a team that basically is there to extract him from the White House. And it's mostly about these journalists. And the journalist, Wagner Mora, we talked about him a little bit, I think, before film sec, but he was in Narcos as your Escobar, Pablo Escobar, dude. He is so freaking good. The range of emotions and his ability in this movie to have, to both show you his outward feel,

like the feeling he's putting out there as well as. his character's actual true feelings behind that is amazing. He does an incredible job of multi-layering this character. Kirsten Duntz, I'm hearing Oscar, I'm hearing Oscar buzz about both those two. I'm hearing like, yeah, I would not surprise me. Kirsten Dunst also really good, and I'm trying to think if there's anything that I've seen her in, maybe since an including interview with a vampire that I thought was as good as her performance in this.

She was good in that tail, was it tailed the dog, or what was it? a wag the dog no the one the west the kind of western turn of the century thing with um plemens was also in it it was uh cumberbatch was the main your main guy power of the dog oh yeah yeah power of the dog that was really good okay forgot about that she was awesome in that man she was really good in that and she was good in that in that season of fargo uh with plemens who yeah plemmins at one point in this film not uh not a spoiler because it's in the trailer um you know has got a point a gun at her and i'm sure that made for some awkward dinner time conversation the night after filming

that scene. Yeah, they seem they're so, they're so adorable. They got, they met on the set of Fargo and they've, and they've got the most amazing little towheaded kids. They're my favorite couple in Hollywood. I hope they last forever and it never goes away. That's what I hope. Same, yes, for sure. Stephen

McKinley Henderson, also in there. He's, uh, he was in your, uh, he was in that sand movie, uh, that had a sequel come out this year, whatever it was called, uh, sand pile, sand pile, I think is what it's called, right? Dirty Dirt Sampile, that was the name of it.

Dirty Dirt Sandpile, that is your, your, your dude who is in part one of that, but not in part two, unfortunately. Yeah, for reasons that you could probably tell if you watch Dirty Dirt Sandpile 1. Yeah. But he's excellent. Oh, my God. I love that. There's never been a thing that he's been in that I haven't loved.

He's just such a great, and he just seems like he'd be a cool guy to have a beer with as well. Sure. Yeah. no, this is, uh, this, this was, this was really good. And, and again, you know, free from controversy because it doesn't talk about what caused the division. And it doesn't say this, what this is loosely, if this is loosely based on, oh, well, kind of a January 6th inspired thing. I mean, Alex Garland says that he wrote this just basically because he sees more of a populism, uh, you know, meaning, not meaning, but more populism taking hold. in the U.S. and that this is a potential fallout from that. Yeah, one of the signs that this is not super accurate to the day is things like California and Texas seceded and are joining forces.

That is so like the opposite of what would happen today. What had to have happened to cause California, Texas, to get along? Yeah, there's just no way. Like what is that alliance even about? So let me ask you this. So when the president of Offerman up there in the corner there, I assume it's still Washington, right? It's still Washington, D.C., yep.

Is it, so like the eastern seaboard is hit? Like what chunk of land? A lot of the eastern, yeah, a lot of the East Coast is his. Everything, like, Virginia South, I think, is part of the Florida Alliance or Florida. We actually, Tina and I, after watching the movie, you're like, I want to see, because you very briefly see a map of the U.S. on a news program on a TV in the background and you for a split second

see a map of how the U.S. has been divided into these little four four quote-unquote territories. Let's see. I think there's a, I think I have one here. Probably, yeah. Civil War maps shown states a city. It's funny, when you look up Civil War, you find out about this whole other thing that happened a bunch of years ago.

So you got to be really, yeah, yeah, that's true. See, I'm a big, I like things like a man in the high castle alternate history stuff that's a very similar thing like the the west side of the country is run by the japanese in that story the middle is nuked out in a mess it's no man's land and then everything on the east coast and east side of the country is all run by the germans and then there's this conflict between japan and germany and blah blah i love that like these what if kind of scenarios this sounds like one of those yeah and and also I just know I understand that it's easy for us in the brain set that we've all have for the last five, six years to immediately just go to bristle

hear about this and go totally is this just to rile everybody up that I did it too like you know when I saw the first trailer for this I'm like God this feels like it's going to be too to viscerally current

to you know to what will probably happen as opposed to what could happen yeah yeah but also you know that's what art does art talks about stuff that's hard or that we don't want to talk about or discuss and i'm i'm down for this i want to see it yeah it's really good plus garland's never made a piece of shit he doesn't make no he really hasn't he's a good he's a good dude they uh before the the thing the alma draft house showed him talking about some of

his favorite movies and he's you know like a big fan of things like uh uh the thin man and all that jazz and stuff like that. It's like, you wonder what inspires Alex Garland in its older movies like that. It's really cool. Did he mention Dirty Dirt Sand as one of his favorites? He didn't mention Dirty Dirt Sand, but he did say, what was it, there was a movie, oh, he says, you know,

basically for 28, 28 days later I ripped off a whole bunch of this stuff from this other movie about this kid. Oh, wow. No one is ever going to accuse him of not being original because this stuff is so good. So it's funny to hear him saying, oh, yeah, I ripped off a bunch of this stuff for this movie. It's funny that a lot of people don't give him the credit he deserves for his early video game work because he did a bunch of that. He did this, did an amazing story in a 360 game called Enslaved Odyssey to the West.

Such a good bit of writing. Like the game's fine too, but, you know, mechanically it's a decent game or whatever. Devil May Cry, the DMC remake in 2013. He wrote, like, he did really good video game work before things kicked off with Ex Machina and all that. Anyway, I'm going to say it. I'm going to go watch Civil War. So Captain America, oh, go ahead.

I was going to say, Captain America and Iron Man and all them are all fighting in there, right? Yeah, it would be great, right? Yeah, because they're, you know, because of the Socovia Accords, And so half of them, they're, like, meeting up at an airport in Germany to hash it out. Great. That's good to know. It fits nice.

Sorry, I interrupted your Dr. Calhoun. Hey, on the ruse. So, Dr. Calhoun says, one of the photographer's choice of camera irritated me. I'm curious, is it Kirstens or is it, it's probably the young girls, right? The young girl's choice of camera. Oh, interesting. Photographer, insider-y stuff, like something about their camera. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Yeah. I can see why because that that seems like I mean there's she you saw the movie so I mean you know you know why she uh why she has that camera um but uh yeah some hipster bullshit that's really funny all right anyway all right similar i'm not going to say anymore because I don't want to spoil anything thumbs up from Brian thumbs up all right straight Straight up.

All right, let's get Brian Dunaway in here. Let's have some gamage. Yes. Let's play a little game. If he logged in, he is. He got in. He is logged into the game. We are ready to play.

Excellent. Hey, look who it is. It's Brian Dunaway joining us for the morning half-hasses on a Monday. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi. Oh, hi. What are you doing? What are you guys doing on this fine, fine Monday morning?

Well, I was just thinking, I listened to Film Sack again from Friday. Saturday. I don't always do that, or Sunday, I guess. I don't always do that, but once in a while, like, you know, listen to our show again after we did it. And your intro, your intro was one of the best ones ever, even if we didn't say so that day. It really was, yeah. It was so good. Oh, well, thank you. I mean, it's, I mean, it's no parodyville, but it's, it doesn't matter. Yeah. We've each got our things, and you are, you're, like, yours is excellent. And it feels so effortless is the thing about yours you own it it is it it is years of hammering that bad boy process down to everything that annoyed me to only leave what i liked and i still do

something that i'm not particularly proud of which is sometimes i hide the the funny a little too far deep and like us a little no because no no those are great because then it's it's like those things there's some jokes that i try and skate past scott and he catches my most of them. Right. Right. But it's like those things like that that it's like that, that, that I want two people in the audience to go, oh my God, I got that reference. Or I get that joke. There's a power. There's power in a deep cut, man. I like a deep cut. Yeah, for sure. And you do them all the time. Yeah. You've got your thing. Brian's got his song parodies. Randy's got his three rules for everything. You guys got it all. God has all his amazing ear for capturing the fun of shit. Yeah. And knowing which which things need a fart sound secretly embedded in. And which ones, Finn's happened on my prom night. Right. I haven't had a prom night, which in the last couple weeks, I'm okay with that.

All right with that. You have the most eventful prom nights of anyone I've ever been. It really did. We're almost running out of, like, if you stitched all those prom night sounds together, it actually would be longer than the three proms I went to. Oh, wow. Nice. I only went to two.

I wish I'd have gone to three. I enjoyed my proms. I only went to two. I didn't go. I went to no proms. You went to no prom? Why no proms? What happened there?

just not a prom guy just not a prom guy I mean I know you like the ladies it's just the you weren't I gotta get dressed up and what's the and spend big money and dance

yeah yeah and go down to the you gotta go down to the cracker barrel and spend 40 bucks right dinner what am I what am I what am I

what am I teen wolf I like my teen wolf I like that what am i marty mcflying his mom i was going to say i was going to say scy i was going to say team wolf's real name and i was like nobody's going to get that this guy's got through talking about hiding stuff too deep yeah team wolf yeah team wolf scott somebody knows what that is yeah i get it uh well all right it's good to have you here dude we're going to play a game and we're going to try to win some people some prizes brian will explain the whole damn thing

brian take it away darn toton welcome the morning half ass is a trivia game where i'm actually going to be giving you the answers i'll give scott and brine category and six possible answers, three of which are correct, and three of them, like Jesse Plymins, pulling a gun out on Kristen Dunst, are incorrect and wrong. Depending on how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses, but if they know those guesses are wrong, you get zilch for that round. Nil, nada, Nunca, yet.

If you get one right, you get a point, two right gets you three points, three right gets you, five points. We'll add all those up after three rounds, and somebody's going to win a prize for their contestant, contestants that I've pulled very carefully and daintily. from members of the Tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Also, randomly. Scott, you're playing for Matt in California. By the way, randomly, both of your people only give me a first name and a state.

Not even the city. They give me a first name of the state. So, Scott, you're playing for Matt in California. Wow. Brian, you're playing for Danny in Mississippi. Yeah, this is some top. There's only one in each of those. Some top level doxing.

It only works in a blinkety way. Wow. Exactly. So, you know, hopefully, these people know who they are if they're listening. They're like, oh, well, my name is Dan. I live in California. Did I just put Danny in my thing?

I can't remember. Anyway, I can actually see, based on their emails, I could say their full names. I could. You could, but you won't because you're just not that kind of guy. You won't do that. They both had a last initial that begins with P. So Matt Pee and Danny Pee. How about that?

That's good. All right. Pee Pee Pee! All right, let's get to your first question here. Things? No. inventions Things that were invented

Because I found in my nose Inventions named after a place So which of these are inventions That were named after the place Presumably in which they were invented Your choices are Limerick, absinth, Zero, contact bridge, jeans, and parchment.

Which of these were named after where they were invented? This is a really interesting one. yeah they all sound right they do right yeah uh jeans wyoming i mean you know i don't know where jeans i mean levi strouse and all them that was like early 1800s i think that was all in the states but i don't actually know that maybe it was somewhere else uh all right you both have locked in and you guys are both playing it safe with uh two limerick limerick um happy to tell you yes limerick was invented in ireland in the town of

Limerick. So that one you're late. Actually, that one I actually knew. There once was an invention named Limerick. And that was as far as the rest of them goes, I have no idea. Contact high. I don't know. Parchment was invented in Pergamon, Pergamon, Greece.

That sounded like a real one. Okay. I got one. You got one. And you both. So not parchment grease? Not parchment. Pergamon, Pergamon grease.

Yeah. Which I, yes, when you say it in Greek. probably sounds like parchment. It must be, right? That's weird. It must be. Absinth, not. Damn it!

For a city. No, the other one was jeans. It's funny. It's the one that you guys were kind of joking about. Is it Jeans to Wyoming? Genoa, Italy. Oh. Like where you also get Genoa Salami is also the place where jeans were invented, and it was Genoa, Genoa.

The, where your jeans, the names came from. Is that great? That's great. I love it. Were they cut like jeans, though? I want to know if they're like, we think, when I think a jeans. Well, they're not boot cut. Yeah, not like skinny jeans, but they're probably like, they might wear boots.

They're just heavy cotton, denim. They do wear boots in Italy because their country is shaped like one. So they absolutely wouldn't. Let's see. I'm looking at a picture of old. My shoes. They're shaped like the place we live. Yeah, they're like old.

Okay, imagine like the miners and the Levi-Strauss stuff they were wearing, just big, gnarly compressed cotton no no um probably no shape to them at first just no they were meant for working they were they were for working they were for working man that was it uh oh yeah holy shit these things all right well anyway you'd never want to wear them today uh but nice so no points but that's all right we got two more rounds to go and i think you're going to do really well on this one we're a hundred days away from the uh the olympics yeah did you know that hundred days from the olympics or ish, ish, and I want to know which of these events are part of the men's decathlon. Your choices are, shot put, 100 meter dash, triple jump, 400 meter hurdles, hammer throw, and pull vaults.

Which of these are decathlon events? Oh my gosh, I had a really close friend that was a decathlete, and I should know this. Decathalite. That's what they called them. Is that what they call themselves? They're a decathlete. That makes sense, right? Literally a decathlete.

So if you're only good at one thing, you're an athlete. If you're good at 10 things. You start calling myself pod talker. Pod talk. Podathlete. Podthalite. Podthalete. Oh, that's rough.

Potthalit. Yeah, he was, he was, he named himself Deca in all of his, like when we play World Warcraft, early, early days. Really? Wow. All right. So he, he was into it. He was into it. All right.

Uh, shit. This is hard. It is hard. I'm going to go with not as hard as running a decathlon, I bet. So those decathletes would say, like, oh, poor Scott, going to choose three out of six. I'm doing two. I don't remember. Scott did two.

Brian did three. You both said pole vault. Yeah, pull vault is. Pull vault's a decathlon event. You also said shot put. Well, Brian did anyway. Yeah. Shot put is also a decathlon event.

Shit. The third one is the 100 meter dad. Scott, getting some points on this one, three points for getting 100 meter dash and pole vault. 400 meter hurdles is not. Neither is hammer throw nor triple jump. I feel good about that. That feels good to me. You should.

Yeah, yeah. Sometimes the house, I do the hammer through. Yeah, you do. Hammer throw. Yeah. I don't want to know about that. That's great. That's when I really want to put a hole in the drywall.

I'll do the hammer throw. Yep. All right. We're down to the last question. It's a comic book question, sort of. You guys are both good at comic books. Yeah, we like them. We know them coast to coast.

Coast to coast. Which of these were special guest villains on TV's Batman? Your Adam West Batman. Which of these were special guest villains? Your choices are Joan Collins as Siren. Carol Channing as Baby Doll. Milton Burl as Louis the Lilac. Ernest Borgonine as Sweet Tooth.

Anthony Perkins as Kite Man and Vincent Price as Egghead. Which three of these were actual really special guest villains on TV's Batman. Carol Chewing. Like, I have to think about who would be willing to do this back then. You know what I mean? This was a big, this show was kind of a, you know, a little bit of a... It was a big deal at the time, yeah. Do I go for one more?

I don't know. Can I undo one? Yeah, you just click it. I'm really hesitant on one of these. That's no glory. I'm doing two again, because I'm ahead. I'm going to be conservative. Brian has to kind of go all out.

I don't have to. You, yeah, got to go all out. All right. You guys are both locked in. Oh, my gosh, this is for all the marbles. All right, Vincent Price did play Egghead. Whoa. I remember that one specifically, yeah.

Milton Burrell Joan Collins Joan Collins As siren Okay That is correct Okay Good job

Oh Milton Burl though As Louis the lilac Lilock Was indeed No girl's character No sweet tooth No Ernest Borgonite

No Even though Kiteman is truly You know a Batman villain I guess No Anthony Perkins And no Carol Channing His baby doll

Sky you were hovering over Carol Channing for quite a while as baby doll because it's not like something she'd do right she seems like she would be down for us absolutely does uh which means brine gets three points and ties things yes see i only knew two and i knew i could just if i could eke it out in overtime if you if you would have done a third one you're saying should i do a third what would your third one of yeah yeah i i was kind of going towards carol channing his baby doll as well and so it would have been bad yep that would have been bad all right well that means we've got to bring out a tiebreaker

I've got a tiebreaker right here. Who won last week? Do you guys remember? I think it was... I did by tie vote. Oh, right, right. You're right. That's right.

Okay, so we had a tiebreaker last week. So, Scott, I'm going to let you pick whether you want to guess or give the over-under. Oh, I will... Last week you did the over-under, remember? That worked out, will for you. I'm going to... I usually do okay. with that, though. Last week

was the Django one, right? That was horrible. There's the Jango one, yeah. I'll do it again, though. The Django one. I'll do the over under on it. Okay. All right. So that means, Brian, you're going to be giving me an answer to this. A numerical answer is what I'm looking for. We just watched Godzilla 2014. Minus one. That's right. Yeah, what is the overender? Minus one. And Godzilla doesn't show up until an hour into the film.

it has nothing to do with anything. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. It's actually, it actually is related. It's actually related. There are 135 chapters in the novel Moby Dick. In which chapter is Moby Dick first cited? In which chapter do you first is Moby Dick first cited? Oh, this is devious. I like this one. It is. All right, Dunaway, guess. Hey, that's Ibb's job back off. No?

it's your job to guess i'm guessing it's job to tell me to hurry up that's a job to shut up that's a good point it is my job to do that i'm terrible at that job which chapter how many chapters of total 135 chapters total and when did he show up yeah not that's what i'm asking you not well i mean because it is it's like like you can mention a character

and that's kind of showing up in the book. No, no, when he's first sighted. Okay, when he's actually first sighted. I assume the book probably, there's a moment where they describe it. I imagine, I mean, Ishmael, you know, is all about that at the very beginning. Yeah, yeah, yeah, when he is, it's like, yeah, there's no looking after the whale that killed me, fat, me, pa. All right. The real time first appearance of the, the real time first appearance.

Right, exactly. Right. Right. All right. Because they talk about the shark and jaws, but eventually you see the shark and jaws. It's like that. Right. Yes. Then it's got to be showed the chapter.

Give me chapter 52. 52. Yeah, I had long enough to Google it. So, yeah. Oh, well, done. All right. 52 is incorrect. Your Googling was terrible.

I didn't want to guess it because they know like I was cheating. Oh, yeah. Good point. Good point. Scott is the actual answer higher or lower than 52. But then I said, no, Scott's an idiot. wow your motivations here wow

I'm gonna do under that I think he shows up sooner a little bit sooner a little bit sooner than Godzilla in Godzilla 2014 it feels like it the actual answer out of 135 chapters the first chapter in which Moby Dick is cited is

133 two chapters before the end of the book damn it you are good at this was it famous for it must have been famous for this I don't know it was because this is the first I'd heard of it which surprises the hell out of me I've never read Moby Dick and

spoiler alert whale doesn't show up until the end of the book damn it dude that's a horrible loss on my part that's awful I was sure I don't know I'm not going to read Moby Dick there take that everybody I'm not going to read your stupid book

Moby's grandfather or uncle or whoever yeah whoever owns the rights now you jerks There's an amazing episode of Futurama that features Moby Dick as a backdrop. It is utterly fantastic, if you've never seen it. Oh, really? It's the one where the giant brains are trying to take over the world. And because Fry's stupid, he's the only one that isn't made stupider.

He's too stupid. It's so good. It's such a great episode. Anyway, you know what? By the way, Herman Melville is Moby's grandfather or uncle or something. There's some relation to Moby, the DJ. The artist? The musician.

That's why he's named Moby is because Herman Melville is his, I want to say grandfather. Is that real? That's crazy. Yeah, yeah, that's real. Yeah. Oh, wow. That's not like his story where he said he was dating, what's her name? And it turns out she's like, I never dated him.

Who was he was good with that? Somebody big. It was like a big deal. And she was like, no. And Moby's like, oh, Natalie Portman, that's what it was. Oh, really? Oh, no. My gosh.

What a horrible. He claims. It would have been embarrassing in situation. Yeah, it's like, oh, no one will ever figure out that this is, uh... Yeah, it's not high profile. No one will ask any questions about this, I'm sure. Dunaway, you earned that, though, dude. You earned it.

Yeah. Nicely done. I'm impressed. Yeah. I'm looking to see... That was tough. That was all the way to the end, Scott. I know.

It felt challenging. It felt like... He's related to David Melville, the inventor of the first United States patented gaslight system. There's the rumor is that he... He was actually related to Herman Melville, but he's, he is a Melville, but not related to that Melville. But that's amazing because that's gaslighting, which means he's been gas, we have all been gaslit into thinking it was the author he was related to.

Yes. That's amazing. He was related to, right, a gas, an actual gaslight. Yeah. And he gaslighted Natalie Portman. That's incredible. Yeah. All right.

I follow him on TikTok because he does, he'll do weird music loops on there for fun. The guy's really talented with that stuff It's like really good Well bad, he was born on 9-11 So that's a kind of a crummy birthday to have these days Wait, oh, because his birthday I was going to say, wait a minute, he's older than I was thinking he wasn't born on that 9-11

His birthday is He was born on a September 11th Just not that September 11th In a 7-11 as well That was a real rough time All right, well, well done, don't away Congratulations Oh, I was just going to say

Let's tell our winners who they are and what they've won. Yeah, Danny in Mississippi, congratulations. You win, and you're getting a copy of Toki, T-O-K-I, and The Whispered World Special Edition. I don't know that one. I know Tokyo.

I don't know the other one. Toki's very good. Yeah. Cool. But our Matt in California, he's not going to way empty-handed. He's going to get a copy of Streamer Life Simulator. Please tell me, this is a game where you pretend you're a video game streamer and you simulate what it's like.

Yeah. totally it's like a tycoon game where you are trying to be like you know a popular streamer that's the whole idea love it oh my god that's fantastic okay i have not played it i've seen it uh i my understanding is that it's okay it's good yeah yeah if you can if it's a sort of thing you want to do yeah yeah so uh enjoy that uh runner up you've won awesome good good job mann californ you're gonna get a copy of that i'd love to hear how it is actually let us know give us some follow up uh done away what are you doing anything cool right I want to play that Toki remake.

I'm assuming that's the one he's getting. Yeah, I'd play that. Toki is good. You know what else is good? You're a hairy, smelly, southern butt. Goodbye. Oh, no. Oh, no.

We are going to take a song break, because on the other side of that, Steven Schlecker waiting patiently to come on and talk about nerdy shit going on. I'm very excited about this. So stick around. Brian, play us a song before we can do that, please. Yeah, a little bit of,

this is some metal stuff, I think, if I remember correctly. I mean, this is definitely a heavier there, you know, there might be a different that's not metal, this is br br br br br br br br br, br, br, bra. But this is a band called Mest and it's spelled M-E-S-T. They are I like that. I guess they

describe themselves as a pop-punk band. So pop-punk band, not metal. Okay. All right. I did get this from spam records, S-B-A-M records, and they usually do send me metal. This is the band called Mest. This song features Jarrett Reddick of Bowling for Soup on it as well. Their brand new album is called Youth

comes out May 31st. Here's the band Mest and When We Were Young. When We Were Young, my dream turned into My Hope Chers Passion and Love become our past and what was be lost inside my head

now all I see is red filthy thoughts all regret wishing I could reset this game we call life because every day I can't stop listening through the voice in my head always telling me that I'm better up dead The look inside your eyes reminds me of the better sound

Why can't we go back to when we were young? When we were young Swallowed down to drum these feelings and these voices Secret screaming inside All the pain that I have No one needs to know How can I look at Hide behind a smile

While my world's on fire Can't stop listening Through the voice in my head Always telling me That I'm better lucked The look inside Your eyes reminds me of the better time Why can't we go back to

When we When we were young, when we were young, forever young, hopeless and now, forever young. Can't stop listening to the voice in my head, always telling me that I'm better I'm better. Can't stop listening through the voice in my head. Always telling me that I'm better off dead. The look inside your eyes reminds me of the better times. Why can't we go back to when we were young?

We're young, hopeless, when we're young, where we're young. I mean, we're young. I can't do that. I don't have a stapler. I mean, the, the thing you use, takes off the hair. Coco Nutty. Do say again who that was, due to say again who that was. Dutte. Yes, May 31st, the album Youth comes out from the band Mest.

That is the first single. It's called When We Were Young and features dude from what I say. I said bowling for soup. Bolling for soup or Folling for Booth. Folling for Booth Folling for Booth Bowling for Soup Jared Reddick

With the band Playing there with the band Mest Man you guys have the easiest job Picking titles today Because we've been saying Some really dumb shit Right

Yeah You know It's not hard I'm sure Folling for Boof is Get in there Look at everybody Submitting Folling for Booth

It's a mad dash It's a gold rush out there For that one Now it's only a matter Of who actually gets voted for So get in there and vote Right Frogpants. Showbought.tv or showbought.

No, frogpance.combot. That's right. The first time. All right. We are going to, let's see here. Where is it? Major spoilers is the name. Yeah, yeah. Let's get him in here. I always like talking to Stephen. I feel like I've missed him, you know?

I don't know why. It just feels like we have. Like hearing about comic books. Yeah, they're a thing and he's here to bring it. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dalla, Dala bills, y'all. Stephen K. Schleiker joining us right now. Close. F.

Is it F? Stephen F. Schleiker. We've never talked about this. Can I guess what the middle name is? You cool at that? Sure, go ahead. Frederick. Nope. Fatima.

Nope. You only get one chance. Oh. No, well, he got a chance and I get a chance. Yeah, Brian gets a chance. That was my chance. I said Fatima. Fatima. Okay. Play again next time.

Thank you for putting. Okay. You know what? We'll keep this up over the months until we get it. Yeah. How about that? I like that. There's a new fun mini game.

Somebody in the chat's already got it. Yeah, I'm sure. That would have been, that actually would have been. I think it's the first try too for somebody. Is it Francis? It's Francis? Oh, my mother-in-law's name is Francis. Yeah, I know.

No offense. I apologize. I'm so offended. She's got your name and unfortunately. She has an E. I bet she has an E for hers. Oh, she does. Oh, probably.

Yeah. But do you want to ever call you Franny or? Frank or any of that? My uncle's name is Francis, so I'm named after him. Oh, okay. So Frank, Frank is what we call him. Uncle Frank, okay. Yeah, Uncle Frank. I'd love an Uncle Frank. That's a great name for an uncle. I like that. Never had one. I had an Uncle Joel and all he did was tell me dirty jokes. That guy. Did you call him the piano man? No. Dirty joke, Joel. He was, uh, I think I've mentioned it before, every family thing we'd get to. You'd walk in. For some reason, there was always a bucket of

KFC at these parties. I don't know why. But I walk into these like get-togethers and he go, hey, Scott, come here. Come here. Come here, come here, come here, come here, come here, come here. I'm going to tell you this. I got to tell you this. What do you call three hookers and a phone book? It's like that. It's just like that. And he would tell me the joke and I would have to go, huh, that's great, Uncle Joel. And then I'd have to get away from him. He just weirded me out.

Anyway, Joel, if you're listening, you're awesome. He had hair, he had a ponytail down to his butt. He kept from the 60s. Oh, really? Okay. Wow. Did he have a lot of sleeveless jean jackets oh yeah hell yeah and he's never changed he's still he's in his like late 70s now yeah and has still has this hair still has the look he's just he is who he is i guess probably still telling jokes just a quick reminder by the way that my uncle my uncle george and aunt barb are coming to tms Vegas they're plant there they've got their tickets they've got their room book they are going to be there so that's great be ready to experience that fun while they're

while they're out there it's too bad we don't have dave and the real chris brown those two those two would finish the trifective. I know. I know. So with the fallout show, how many people are going to be dressed up in their blue overalls with what number 11 on the back? Somebody wants, or who is it?

TV Travis wants us in kilts. That's what he wants. Oh, nice. I don't think that's happening. Not a chance is what I would say to that. Anyway, Stephen, there's a few things going on. Okay. Three new X-Men titles arriving in July.

Now, if you're an X-Men fan... So many X-Men books coming. Do you think that's... This is all just like preparatory for the big, you know, whatever they're going to do next to the X-Men. The Dead Bull deal? Yeah. I think it's probably, yeah.

So the Krakawa era just wrapped up. That was a big, long, multi-year thing. And so that's done. And so they're relaunching all the X-Men titles with new number one. So we have X-Men number one from Jed McKay and Ryan Steigman. That is coming out in, I want to say, July. Then we also have Gail Simone and David Marquez doing uncanny X-Men, e-viewing. Carmen Caneros doing exceptional X-Men, and then we've got the three new titles that were

announced last week, Phoenix, which has Gene Gray as Phoenix. Oh, surprise. Weird. What? Her? Yeah. Yeah. Then we have NYX, which is the, I don't know how to group this one. So it's got Kamala Khan, it's got a bunch of teenage X-Men going and protecting New York City. And then there is X-Force, and that does feature Deadpool as the lead on that one. So that one probably is maybe tied in a little bit for the movie. That one comes out July

31st. So July will be the big X-Men. And then there's one more. Cyclops. No, there's one more that I'm skipping off the top of my head. Phoenix, NYX, X-Force, X-Men, uncanny X-Men, exceptional X-Men. Nope,

those are the six books. That's going to keep you busy for all of July. That is a lot. It's a lot of X-Men. I don't know if you saw this, but X-Men 97 now, the highest rated Marvel series on all the, I don't know if it was just rotten tomatoes, but it's the highest rated show that Disney Marvel has made. It does not surprise me.

The most recent episode, everyone's still talking about. Yes, remember that episode. Remember it. Isn't that crazy? There's a little thing, is it a post-credits thing, or as you're going into the credits, there's something that appears in the skies that has everyone freaked out?

It's in the middle. It's more in the middle of the thing. Oh, okay. All right. Yeah. But... Does it look hungry for worlds, perhaps? No, but it does make you question, what if they somehow brought all of this together and made it work? Yeah. Okay. Was he a surfboard wearing silver man? No. No. Stephen's already giving you a clue. I do know that my friend Jeffrey was right about what he saw in the sky. Oh, interesting. Okay, well, now you're screaming in the chat about spoilers, spoilers, spoilers, whatever.

You are major spoilers, so why the hell not? That's right. That's right. They're in the day. Well, I look forward to this because I haven't read a good, well, I shouldn't say good. I just haven't rigged X-Men in a long time. It should be, you know, it's not like, hey, here's the origin of the X-Men. This is like, hey, how do we pick up after our society has crumbled?

So I think you're going to get maybe some 70. version of the X-Men, and not saying that that's the tales are going to tell, but, you know, it's not like we're reforming groups or anything like that. There are mutants that are established and they're coming together for their own means and ends. So I think it'll be, it'll be good. And if you are an X-Men fan, then, yeah, July is going to be packed. Make sure you know where your local comic book store is. Or if you're on the Marvel United, are you still on that, Brian? I'm still on that. Yep. Marvel only did, yes. Oh, yeah, you'll get yours around December or something. Yeah, which is fine. I have so much to read before.

then. I'm really good at adding comics to my cue that I want to read because I was like, oh, you know, Angela, I've never, I really, the characters of the, yeah, Todd McFarlane, right? Yeah, they got her from image to Marvel and

I don't remember the story behind that. Do you remember that, Stephen, how did they end up with her? I don't, I don't remember there was, it's some weird nebulous thing where she's not technically in the spawn universe, even though that's where she was at. And so McFarland was just like, yeah, if you guys want to license or go right ahead. And so they brought her in for like two years and then the licensing deal

has expired and they don't have her in the universe anymore. So it's kind of like, it's really weird when companies do this because like Marvel just did this with Conan, right? So it's like, let's bring Conan in and make him part of the Avengers or the defenders or whatever Revengers group that he's in. And then the license is expired and technically they're not allowed to reprint those things in trade and so now we've got Titan Comics is doing the Conan series so now they have the rights to re-release the original Marvel Conan books from the 1970s right so there's that's the Zub run right the new Zub yeah yeah Jim's up mm-hmm really good by the way by the way quick correction uh co-created according to Wikipedia by Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane

um the way I am sci-fi describes that Neil Gaiman needed money to help fund his lawsuit against Todd McFarlane and Marvel gave him that money and in return he was required to write two series and he gave the rights to Marvel. I did not know those guys were all up in the litigious. I know. Yeah. I don't like that. I like those two people. All right.

So I was going to say something. I forgot what it was. And so that's great. Oh, Conan. Can you explain to me how Conan the Barbarian was brought into the Avengers or some shit like that? Did they time travel that? Well, like, what happened there? It wasn't time travel. It was a dimensional something

portal something. Jeez. I think that's kind of stupid. So Spider-Man has been, Spider-Man has been into the Red Sonia universe before, so it's not it's not, it's not, it's not like these characters haven't crossed over and in the past. I know, they just are so

fan-fiction-y when they do this. Like when they put, when they put the next generation cast, I think it's IDW or whoever did it, next generation meets Doctor Who. Yes. Just weird, man. Come on. Yeah, Star Trek is IDW a has met with their Star Trek stuff.

They've met everyone. Legion of Superheroes, Green Lantern Corps, X-Men, Doctor Who. That's another one that they. Planet of the Apes was an interesting one. Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. That's freaking weird.

Dracula is even a character, you know, Marvel Universe character as well. So, yeah, that's true. All right, well, that's all stuff to look forward to. Also, nostalgic comics are here to stay, baby. Thundercat Space Ghost, Gotcha Man. I mean, Thundercats, alone. You had me at Thundercats.

Thundercats is up to issue number five. That one comes out this week or next week. Space Ghost comes out next month. Everybody's excited about the new Space Ghost series over at Dynamite Entertainment. Can you tell me more about that one? Like, is it going to be the tongue-in-cheek, Space Ghost talk show host, or more like the old comic or the old cartoon was? The old cartoon series. So this will include parts of the origin story about how he was, you know, essentially Space Ghost is the Lone Ranger.

So if you're familiar with that, story of how he became the lone ranger. Space Ghost is kind of the same thing. So we'll get that. And then, of course, Battle of the Planets fans, Gotcha Man is getting two series at, now it slipped my mind, I think also, no, Titan Comics, I think is where the Gotcha Man series is at.

Oh, that's cool. Will every issue of Gatchaman come in a blind box and you don't know which issue you're going to get? Gotcha man. I know where you're coming from there, I know exactly what you're doing. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. So yeah, no, that's cool. I mean,

Look, I like old ideas. I don't, you know, people that, somebody yesterday was yelling at me because I was raving about Fallout the show and excited for what could be Fallout 5. Because we even talked about it, I think, on Film Sack or something. Yeah, the popular of the show could drive them to finally make a new... Yeah, and they're probably... They probably are.

Yeah, they're always in the middle of something over there. And so he said, I was online saying something about that. And people are so hardcore on this line of, like, I don't want anything that's already out there. I want new things. Just nothing but new things. I'm like, well, yeah, but they just did Starfield. That was new.

Yeah, but it played like Fallout. It's Fallout in space. Like, I can't, I can't deal. I can't work with these people anymore. Yeah. No, nostalgia factor still is a big role in just about everything, pop culture right now. And so to see a lot of these classic cartoons,

whether they be from the 60s or the 70s or the 80s, showing up in comics or do TV shows, on Netflix or wherever, this thing is going to continue to happen for a long time. So if people are concerned about not getting their newest thing, just wait, just give it a five years, and it'll be there. It'll always be there. And fighting against it is just a waste of your breath, everybody.

Yes, yes, yes. Some of this we want, some of this we don't, but it's all happening. It's money. This is a business. So welcome to the business of nostalgia. You're in it. Speaking of nostalgia, you have the coolest-looking book I got to get,

featured on the site from Jose Luis Garcia Lopez covers of DC Comics. Holy crap. These are so good. If people don't know who Jose Luis Garcia Lopez is, back in 1982, he was tasked by DC Comics to come up with the quote unquote official look for all of the DC characters, for all the merchandising that they were doing. So lunch boxes, t-shirts, birthday cards, all of these things.

And so he designed these things back in 1982. And they are so iconic that even today, you can go. and find merchandise that still has his design look on it. In fact, when my kids were born, we bought these big, you know, giant wall size, life size stickers to put on the wall of Superman and bad heads. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it.

And they were the Jose Garcia Lopez designs. That's cool. And so people have, I mean, people are aware of these, whether they know it or not. Oh, 100%. Yeah. And so DC is like, hey, we are going to release a series of variant covers coming up later this year and they are all going to feature the Garcia Lopez art on the variant

cover. So this is definitely something I want to get because these things are. They're great. Yeah, it reminds me of the what was it, the Marvel universe encyclopedia of the Marvel universe or whatever it was called. Yeah, I love this because you get to really see, and it's great for kids who want to learn how to draw these characters because they

get a side view and a back view and a front view and all that. I'm surprised that the definitive Batman is I mean, this is the original, obviously. I was surprised they didn't go with art. We're going to do the black outfit. Oh, yeah, no, they're going with it. The only thing that I wish that they would have done is I wish they would have

included the color chips of the CMOK colors. You can still find those. You can find those. In fact, years ago, I think the family released the original, and you can find it. I know we have a link on it somewhere on major spoilers, where they had the original PDF that you could download. That was everything that was in there, including all the color scheme. So if you wanted to get the exact green lantern, green, or the Batman blue, gray, and yellow, they would include those in there. And if you were ever

curious what Robin's thighs were colored in the 1980s, that's in there as well. So it's really, it's really cool to go and track these things down and see just how iconic he drew these things and how long lasting they are even today. Yeah, a lot of these aspects of these characters stayed this way. I remember, so the 80s iterations of the Super Friends cartoon, 100% adhered to these color schemes to like the way Batman's cowl is mixed with the gray, mixed with the yellow, the kind of shiny pants with a little bit of blue and black. Like that stuff stayed for so long.

I mean, I even look at it now and I just go, oh, is that Jim Lee? Like, I feel like it's stuck around in a really hard way. Or Perez or whoever, yeah. Yeah, it's so iconic, yeah. Yeah, and so it is weird that you mentioned Perez, right? So even though his stuff is super iconic, too, it's weird that the Garcia-Lopez stuff is somehow even more iconic than that. Yeah, it really is. Yeah.

These, imagine going to lunch for these two? Man, that'd be great. Oh, man, no kidding. I would love, like, let's get this guy to do a full, like, one of those Alex Ross style. Here's every, here's a thousand characters in the DC universe kind of thing where, like, I'd love that. Yeah, dude. I would eat that up. Yeah, he's still alive, so.

Yeah, still kicking. He's now 76, and if he starts on it now, he might be done with it in 20 years. Sure, yeah, yeah. Well, and somewhere, you're going to have to track this one down. This one was done by a bunch of different artists, but originally the old New York City, DC offices, they had people come in and paint a giant mural, so as soon as you got off the elevator, giant mural very much like the Alex Ross thing. But this one was done with a bunch of different artists doing, lending their talent to that.

But you can still go and find pictures of that online. And it's really interesting the characters that they chose for that because like some of the characters are like, why is that character there? They're such a minor character. But somehow they made it into this giant mural. Yeah. It's awesome. Love this stuff. And that's available when?

When can I buy this? That is coming up in, I want to say, June or July. All right. Big summer. And they're going to actually run them for probably the rest of the year. So I think they're going to try to get as many of his characters on. on their books from now until the end of the year. That's great.

I love it. He's in Spain and lives in Spain now, so it'd be hard to go to lunch with him. Brian, you said earlier, you had some comic bookie movie thing that you wanted to talk about. I did. Thank you. I was going to break in. I didn't want to like derail the train of thought. So I'm glad you mentioned that.

So yeah, this is going to be a recommendal that fits more here because somebody who likes this segment will like this recommendal more than somebody who just likes the general stuff that we, maybe recommend on Wednesday's show. But based on X-Men 97 and the opening Marvel Studios, Marvel Animation Studios cinematic, which has a bunch of the old, like, it's got some new stuff

like what if and stuff like that. But it's also got the Silver Surfer cartoon from the 90s, late 90s, which I'd never seen before. And this is pre, you know, anything MCU, right? So as Silver Surfer, it feels like sometimes

the artwork was done with the thickest, a Sharpie that they could find, but you get original Android Drax, you get Nebula, you get Ego the human planner, the living planet, you get the Cree and the Scroll

War, you get Pip the Troll. You get all these characters that we've now seen in the MCU, but the original kind of comic bookie storylines, and it was actually, the cartoon is really, really good. If you can get past the

animation being kind of sometimes a little, a little rudimentary, a little basic. Galactus is always, this was, by the way, late 90s was the time period that they were really struggling to try and figure out how to make CGI in 3D

artwork in 2D style animation. So Galactus is always a 3D, the 3D image character. I kind of like the Spider-Man series that did the same thing. Yes, yes, but not nearly as good as they did it in Spider-Man. Anyway, there's 12 episodes, 13 episodes up on Disney Plus, half an hour each.

They are a lot of fun. You spend a lot of time in Silver Surfer's head, like, because he's flying through space on his surfboard, and he's thinking, oh, there is something about this planet that I am drawn to. Oh, yeah, you get Thanos, a ton of Thanos. Really? Yeah. And it's, you know, it's your, it's your big wide.

It's basically Thanos without the helicopter, but that, but that Thanos. Yeah, he's built like an extra large, Wolverine kind of. He's built like Selegrin, basically. Yeah, just like a big wide, wide load. Yeah, exactly, yes. It's really good. And that fits more as a recommendal here because it's, I'm about seven episodes through it, and I'm just loving it because it's, oh, one of the episodes was written,

by Harlan Ellison. The episode I just watched was written by Harlan Ellison. It's really good. It's worth checking out. I like the art. It just instill images. I'm not looking at the animated stuff, but the still images from the show remind me of Kirby.

Like Jack Kirby's art is all over this damn thing. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. And Jack Kirby sometimes looked like he was drawing with the fattest, fattest, thickest, sharpie marker he could find. Yeah. It's got those weird that. What do you call the effect he liked?

The Kirby Crackle. The Kirby Crackle. Yeah, that's in there. That's cool. There's lots of Kirby Crackle in. this thing and the actor who voices silver surfer i'm not familiar with him paul is and isembre izcembre yeah i don't know him it looks like i'm looking at his i mdb page it looks like he does now him probably might be a little bit more familiar with him because it looks like he does a lot of those um hallmark

holiday movies oh my gosh really that's funny yeah that's funny you never know where people get things uh let's see what does he got here uh there's what that one's meet me under the mistletoe A Dash of Christmas, Miracle in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Oh, Lord. Nice. Wow. Wow. A brush with Christmas.

A Christmas cookie catastrophe. By the way, the episode I just watched had freaking Beta Ray Bill in it, which was fantastic. You got Gamora, who introduces herself the first time you see her as Gamra. Oh, my gosh. Like, she calls herself Gamra. I don't know if we get her again later on in the season, but this is, it's great. It's a lot of fun. it's you know it's uh this this might be good adventure club thing for you scott because it's

it doesn't require a whole lot of a lot of focus focus but it's but the the art is fun and the characters that pop up are great that's great pit the troller lock galactus the watcher of course is in it's like they're trying to scram all the the galactic marvel heroes exactly yes oh my gosh you're right there's a harlan elson reference with al ceres he got uh with two episode titles based on novels of Isaac Asmop? Boy, they're going hardcore here. They are. It's, it's, uh, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's light sci-fi from heavy sci-fi fans or, or, uh, writers or sort of thing. All right. I'm in. I'll watch this. This seems stupid and great. It's stupid and great. It's worth, it's worth watching.

I don't remember this even being on, so, um. No, I don't either. Yeah. I've watched a lot of that season on Fox Kids, so I can see. Is that, is that where it was? Yeah. Yeah, one season's, I mean, that means not a lot of people saw it, but I don't know. I like shit like that. All right. Well, there you have it, Stephen. Always fun hanging and talking. What's going on at major spoilers that we should know about?

Well, we finally have recovered from our computer disaster. So all the podcasts will return this week. Oh, my gosh. So we're excited about that. And I think until we meet again, Scott and Brian, please, both of you, stay hydrated. Oh, good, because that's important in Vegas where we're going. It's going to be. It's hot and parching, parchmenty, parching?

That's not parchment. That's a town in Italy. It's a Greek town. Or Greek or Greece. It is it. Hey, it is it Greece. You're very good. Throw back. You can be touched.

I can learn things and retain them. It's fantastic. All right. Well done, everybody. Let's move on out of here. Quick note. No Monday show tonight. It will be on a Tuesday, which is really annoying because it's the Monday show on a Tuesday.

And the reason we're doing that is Carter is getting a massive tattoo today. She's had scheduled for a long time. and it will cut way into the evening so she will not even be here. So we'll do it a Tuesday. So just letting everybody know. She's getting a full sleeve done with the Harley Davidson logo, a naked woman holding an anchor. 100%. These are all true.

And for some reason, Norman Redis. I don't know why, but a picture of Norman Redis's face. Yeah, she doesn't even like The Walking Dead and she's getting Norman Redis. So maybe she's a boon. But okay. She likes Boondock Saints. She likes um Death Stranding

Sure, all those things Anyway That'll do it for today's show Quick note about What was I going to say? Something about Vegas I can't remember We're two weeks away everybody

That's just the That's the truth of it All right It's no time really Between now and that It's no time, exactly And we're getting excited But also there's a lot to do

So you know Don't ask us for a bunch of extra shit between now and that time, that time. We just can't do it. Don't ask me for any extra shit. It's not happening. Yeah, don't say, hey, Brian, can you come guest on my three-hour show? Don't do it. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'll have to say no, but I'll do it afterwards, I promise.

Yeah, especially in Brian's case. He's got a lot of crap to do. I've got to fill a bunch of boxes. We've got to figure out how I'm getting all this down there. There is a lot going on. So just know that for the next two weeks you're going to get shows and it's going to be great, but just don't ask for extra stuff. If you ask me to sign

anything, it's going straight into the bin. I will throw it away with peace and love. Peace and love. No more signed autographs and no more I should have had this ready. It's perfect for this conversation. Hold on. Hold on. I'm going to

do it. Ringo. Here he is. He's right here. So no more fan mail. Thank you. Thank you. And no objects to be signed. Nothing. Anyway, peace of love, peace of love. one of the greatest things ever put to tape

yes exactly all right that's it we're out of here frogpants.com slash tms will get you whatever you need except for a song that i don't know about yet so we're going to play it now brian what's the song uh we're talking about this guy he has a birthday today he's in the tadpool right now his name is sean he was part of the great shonning on uh america's next top podcaster one of the three shons that got axed on the same week He says, Today I celebrate the 18th anniversary of my 21st birthday.

Pause for Scott to do the math and or play a sound bite. I know which one to play, right here. Happy birthday. You're not getting the young one. Forget it. He's under 40. It's also the second anniversary of the reboot

of my podcast, The Part Time Gammers. I want to thank Scott, Brian, and the Frogpants community for my time on 8NTP. Without it, I wouldn't have gotten back into podcasting. It's an honor to be part of the community. You good sirs have created signed Sean.

Yeah, and Hammond and I have been talking about ANTP and what it takes what do it take to bring that back because we've been talking about the new format

that Tom suggested a year ago at TMS Vegas and we're definitely making it happen. I just got to get stuff together for the website for people to be able to submit a little bit more information than we currently have on there to get our contestants

and of course I need to talk to are judges, one of which is hearing all this for the first time that, you know, if he has the time right now with his busy, busy schedule to still be a judge, but we'll talk. And of course, yeah, I haven't talked to Monica. I haven't talked to you yet, Bobby, because really, this is so,

so early preliminary. But you, Bobby, are next on the list to talk to about this, so. There you go. Because there is, there is a, you know, there, this is no small feat and we need, this is, this is a show that,

because of how much stuff there is involved with it, needs a lot of financial backing. So anyway, we'll talk about that when the time comes. Hey, Sean says, sweat drips down your forehead as you approach your nemesis in the abandoned cathedral. You're armed with a combat knife, a gun with three bullets left,

and an unshakable drive to kill this man. He's armed with a katana and the skill to kill any man with it. After a short but curt exchange of words, you pull your gun and aim as he, draws and readies his sword. In the brief moments before the battle starts, the first beats of a song start playing. What that song is, I leave to the cover master.

Jeez. It's Miley Cyrus's We Can't Stop, is what, what, I mean, you hear that. What else comes to mind, right? Everybody, that's what comes to everyone. Immediately, it's all I could think about while you were reading that. That's right, but not performed by Miley Cyrus.

This version is actually, you know, you think I'm joking? Listen to the opening strains of this song, which sound a little bit like a certain M&M song. This is the version performed by Bastille for the BBC Radio One's Live Lounge, 2014. This was the number one song on the Coverville Countdown 10 years ago. Ten years ago. This is Bastille and his cover of We Can't Stop. Red cops and sweaty bodies everywhere.

Hands in the air like we don't care Because we came to have so much fun now Bet someone here might get some now If you're not ready to go home Well, can I get a hell no Because we're gonna go all night go all night till we see the sunlight so la-de-da-de-dae we like to part-day dancing with night doing whatever we won't because this is our house these are our rules and we can't

stop and we won't stop can you see it's we who on the night can you see it's we who about the life and we can't stop and we won't stop and we won't stop We run things they don't run, we don't take nothing from nobody, yeah. So all my home girls with the big boys, shaking it like we're in a strip club. Remember only dad can judge us, forget the haters, because somebody loved your all. And everyone in line in the bathroom Cune up to get into the bathroom We also turned up here again turned up, yeah, yeah

So la la dee de da-day, we like to party, Dancing with Miley, doing whatever we won't This is our house, these are our rules And we can't stop, and we won't stop Can you see it's we who own the night, can you see it's we who are only night, We see it's we about the life and we can't stop And we won't storm We run things they don't run we don't take nothing from nobody

Yeah Yeah Yeah Oh Don't break his heart don't think he'll understand Don't break his heart is achy breaky heart I just don't think he'll understand

Oh, don't break his heart His achy, breaking heart I just don't think he'll understand Don't break his heart He's thinking break it hard I just don't think you'll understand And she can't stop And she won't storm

Can you see it she who owns the night Can you see it she who about the life But she can't stop And she won't storm She runs things they don't run She don't take nothing from nobody, yeah, yeah. Get more at frogpants.com. You guys sound kind of sparkly.