The Morning Stream - TMS 2638: Death by Pancakes

Episode Date: May 6, 2024

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Coming up on the morning stream, delineated Ibbets. Stop killing the villain. Diplomatic technicality. Pot's not free, so go home. Large hands. and girthy cans. What happened in TMS Vegas is talked about all week on TMS. Not just clean, Vegas clean.

Really clean. I did say gibbet. Skeevy Jillon Hall. Penthouse show at the plaza. Eating each other's air. Spirical flying pig dreams. Even the chairs are sticky. The topless none is alive and well.

To me, my major spoilers and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. This interloper is about as welcome as a band. Monday ate in a hot tub. Roll that beautiful bean footage. The morning stream. They wouldn't give us any more fish. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS.

It is the morning stream. And we're back. This is episode 2638 for the date of Monday. May 6th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Ibit. Hello. Yes.

You know how sometimes I call you Brian to Hibbit like that? Yes, I do know that, yes. I would like to just congratulate both Apple and Spotify's real-time transcoding, or not transcoding, what do you call it? They're transcription. Transcription. They both spelled it Hibbitt with an H. Oh, did they really?

Oh, nice. Good. Had multiple people send this to me and say, I think this service is bad because it thinks you said Hibbitt. And I said, no, that's actually good. Give it to listen. Yeah, I did say Hibbitt. It's impressive.

What they don't know is that there are two of us, Brian Hibbitt. Sometimes it does the show in my absence when I can't make it. And you'll know him because his beard's a little bit darker than mine and he wears wine shirts. Nice. Nice. I mean, I don't know how I could confuse the two of you now. Exactly. Very clearly.

I know. I know. Delineated Ibitts. By the way, this is a lovely shirt from Rainbow Bright. Oh, very nice. I'm wearing to the... I should have worn mine. I was so cold I had to do long sleeves. It was freaking freezing here right now, so I didn't wear this t-shirt.

But she was so nice. She was so, so nice. Oh, my gosh. I was so delighted to meet her. She was every bit as delightful as she comes across in the chat. Yeah, maybe even more so. She's just the sweetest person. So, Rainbow Bride, if you're listening,

I don't know if she's in the chat. She might not be. She's not yet, but I managed to listen to this when she gets a chance. She was great and brought New York with her. She was just a little slice in New York. Yeah, another person we finally got to meet Wabbit Magic. Yeah. Who's in the chat.

We finally got to meet J.K. Grammer and Sarah, finally, after all these years. Oh, my God. Yeah. You know what? This is my impression. I got an impression of J.K. Grammer after this. Okay. My impression of him prior to meeting him was that he is always just,

woo, woo, yeah, all right, yeah, man, yeah, yeah, just kind of always up and freaking out. Yeah, yeah. And in person, he's so much more subdued and chill. He's very, oh, he's very mellow, yeah. You, uh, I don't know how many of the Saturday Tad Pulligan or Catterday Tad Pulligan things you've been to, but it surprised me the first time he was on there talking. He was like, oh, hey, Brian, uh, wanted to tell you, I did it as like, JK, are you all right? Yeah, you okay. Is your Discord slowed down?

because this is not the jk that i you know get from the emails and texts and things like that yeah it's very different um and there's you know it's always going to be a little different when you meet people but yeah it was nice meeting a bunch of faces we've never met before yeah there's a lot we could there's so many people uh to name we couldn't name everybody that uh that we got to meet for the first time but i will say uh enjoying both my uh canadian gin had some last night I was like, I told we went to the next door neighbor's house to return some stuff

we're working on a fence and they say hey, you got time for a drink and I'm like I would but I spent the entire last week drinking and so I think I got to kind of go dry this weekend. Sure. And they kind of they said well we've got ciders like

I can have a cider and then a cider turned into oh let me go grab this amazing gin that Michael and Amanda brought from Canada for us and so I went and got that

but yeah I fell off that wagon real quick but he also in addition to some RAD gin he also brought me the Theory 11

Spider-Man playing cards which are so cool those are beautiful what's the actual is that the card back I'm looking at that's the box obviously

the card back is let's pull that up it's similar yeah it's the yeah very similar to what you're seeing there I like it

and then the you know your aces like your joker's jona jameson and it looks like um i can't tell who this other joker is i think it let's see if you can tell who this is oh um kind of washed out but i'm going to say that's i don't know who is it yeah i'm trying to tell from the hairstyle kind of peter parkery but obviously it might be it might be peter parker um because he's Spider-Man's all over these cards but not that not his chief photographer Peter Parker

I don't know if there's any oh is that Flash that might be Flash oh the Flash No that's DC Flash Thompson yeah Flash Thompson I did I did just get finished watching all three of the the newer

the Tom Holland Spider-Man movies back to back Oh how is that as a back-to-back experience You know what back to back I think they're great but back to back to back they're, I think, even more fun, especially since far from home and no way home, one really just dovetails right into the next one.

Like the Stinger at the end of two is the first scene of three, so. Oh, that's right. I've forgotten they just, they went right straight to it. I wouldn't mind doing that. How does the whole, like, Mysterio stuff hold up? The mysterious thing I was worried about because, you know, I was, Mysterio is one of my favorite Marvel villains and they did have to kind of change them to kind of multiverse

multiverse them a little bit if you get past the that's a lot of freaking work and I don't even know if some of that's even technologically possible Quentin Beck

to do all the things that you claim to be able to do and show with these little projectors and cameras and stuff if you kind of put that aside and say all right, Marvelverse. That's how that stuff works. There's a way to do that.

Then I think it works really well. I think, I think, Quentin Beck, you know, that, that, Jay Gie Linn Hall does a great job of playing a really, believably nice guy in the beginning, who turns into a very skeevy guy about the middle of the movie. And it's like, oh, wow, okay, yeah, he's, he's, uh, really, I think he's really good for the movie. that role. I just wish Marvel would quit

killing their villains so that we could get them in future movies. I'm killing the villains. I know this is a temptation across the board. Everyone thinks a death is what you need for a villain at the end of things. But just, you don't always have to do that. And this is, it goes for all of them. DC Marvel and even independent stuff.

It's like, freaking let your villains breathe a little bit, you know? Exactly. But don't, but then don't, you know, green goblinize them and put them in every single movie. That's true. There's a balance. They don't need to be. We don't need a green goblin every movie. We don't need a Joker in every Batman movie. We can have a Batman movie that doesn't feature a Joker, which we got with the Nolan ones, obviously, but still.

Sure. Yeah, there's a balance, and none of them seem to get it exactly right. Yeah. Now, Thanos level stuff, I get it. You do it, you have an arc. It takes a while to get there. If you're going to end Thanos, that makes sense to me. Sorry, spoilers for 2018 or whenever the hell that was. Yes and no. I mean, I think, again, And Thanos would make, you know, he was the big bad for the first saga, but having him as, you know, someone who's kind of running away with tailtuck between his legs, no more infinity gauntlet kind of thing, wouldn't be bad, you know, because he's, he's, he's taken away his biggest powers and stuff and let him kill off the black order, but keep, keep Thanos around, I think. They should bring that silver surfer version of him back and have. and be all like,

oh, hello. Yes. Oh, my God. The Silver Surfer version of Thanos is great. It's everything but the Thanos copter, basically, in that thing. That's pretty bad. We should talk about Vegas. We've got a lot of Vegas stuff.

Oh, there's so much Vegas stuff, you guys. So much stuff happened. So many things to mention. We're not going to remember it all, obviously. But I will say if you missed the live show, which I wouldn't have blamed you because we had some Discord issues, the stream was kind of bad. It's more of a discord problem and a last-minute problem.

Yeah, no, it was a great Tanner came up with a great idea how to stream. Discord just could not handle the way to do it, which is unfortunate. Yeah, I think it's the mobile apps like tablet and phone apps don't have a good setting for where it clips or not. So it's just not much we could do. But anyway, the long and the short of it is that is all up now in a very nice format, like a very listenable and watchable format thanks to KT Data for his edit the other day. He sent us about a 12-kigabyte video file. That's now up and will be public to everyone right after the show right now it's private to the patrons patrons have it okay cool they've had it for a couple days just as a little bonus and then uh audio

of the entire thing is up everywhere and the audio uh is really good like good yeah super high quality yeah yeah sounded amazing so uh there's that the only part we didn't include is uh concert stuff uh because that's always hard to you know match up and do whatever. But it's all up there. It's all up there for you to watch right now. But Brian, let's talk about highlights. Is there anything about this event where you went, oh, I got to mention this, because holy shit, that was a thing. Do you have one of them? For sure. Yeah. I mean, the sphere was amazing. Watched the postcard from Earth, Aronovsky film in the sphere, and I just, I can't tell you

how much I want to watch a concert. Go see a concert in there. I don't really, you know, I'm not big into fish or dead in company, but I'm hoping that they land a big. band in there that's like okay there's a band i want to see even you know even bands that are kind of on my lower level um just somewhere up above dead in company and fish i don't know about a jam band and i don't want to be trapped in a ball with a jam band that is uh uh that is playing eight minutes song so yeah no dream theory if they if they announced crowded house was going there oh good lord yeah you'd be there tomorrow you'd be there tomorrow like you know you talked about my favorite band, squeeze, crowded house,

the, the, divine comedy, swayed, manic street preachers, any of these guys, I'm there in a heartbeat, without any question whatsoever. Even, you know, I would see freaking Kylie Minogue

was doing, had a residency out there for a while. I would kill to see a Kylie Minogue show. Like, anybody who could put on a bombastic, let's explore the space kind of show. Divine Comedy probably wouldn't do that. Yeah, probably not.

Please, Crouted House, probably a little bit more demure. But, um, Dr. Calhoun, come on. Spice Girls in the sphere. Don't, don't even joke about, don't even freaking joke about something like that until, until there's like, you know, do you know. I don't even want to read those six words, uh,

looking away because the, the thought of that being real, uh, would just blow my mind. But pink Floyd. Oh, shit. I mean, in their day. Roger, Roger Waters would be. would kill him. Yeah. Oh my god, could you imagine his big flying pig in there? Holy poop! You do like a, just even just like a wall retrospective or something in there. Yeah, yeah. You would not be able to get Gilmore and, even on a stage that big, I don't think you could get Gilmore and Waters on the same stage together.

Those guys are like Gallagher brothers. They're like a magnet when you push it in the wrong polarity and they just go the opposite really. They're not. They're done. They're done, man. Yeah. Yeah, I agree with you. That place was really cool, and I thought the video or the film was really cool. Yeah. We talked some about it. A little preachy, but, you know, had the right message, but it may be, maybe in the wrong city on Earth to give that message. Yeah, that's the part.

I came away with just a feeling of like, this is a giant technological marvel, but also it takes a trillion watts to run the thing. Yeah. And you're talking about preserving the earth and cutting back on emissions and all this, and it just doesn't. It doesn't quite match up, but then part of me thinks, I think I told you this at the, it may be while we were still there, but part of me thinks, Aaronovsky's a little bit, um, multi-layered film director, right? He does a lot of really interesting, weird, and kind of complex stuff. So part of me thinks, he's like, yeah, I'll take your gig to make a movie. And I'm going to make it about treating the earth better, which is ironic, because we're playing, like he knows how ironic it is, is what I'm trying to say. He does. He absolutely does. And, We need to conserve the ocean's water By pudding in the Bellagio Fountain That's right There's a real weird thing with that

But the aesthetic of all of it It's just unbelievable It's just the craziest thing I've ever seen And what I would really I want TED talks to happen there That's what I want I want somebody walking around going The Science of the Moon

And then the huge video presentation Happening while the guy talks I would go see that That would be as cool as anything I want to see them do, take advantage of some of that technological stuff, too, that they showed outside the, outside the, the auditorium, but out in that space, like, so many cool ways they could use that directed audio thing. So, I mean, they have this, they have this bit really quickly because I know we'll have to cover, but for those who weren't there, they have this bit where you can walk across, they've got these lights on the floor, lights shining down. And when you step in this light, you're hearing the robot talk in English. you move forward two feet maybe five feet you're in a new light and now you're hearing it in

spanish five feet further you're hearing Mandarin Chinese etc doing that and a having obviously having um you know movies with different languages and stuff oh I want to sit in the French section or I want to sit in the original audio section with subtitles we probably can't do that I bet they could but there's you know let's not go there sure sure but um but think about like oh all right music wise I want a you know I want a easier on the drums heavier on the vocals section where's that section can I sit there or I want the the drums and the bass are really right cracked up over here yeah they could do more there really could there's some incredible because it's impressive it for you you

land there and you go whoa and then you learn that they can actually do this inside the dome we didn't experience this with this film but if they wanted to you could have a whole, let's say 10 seats that are Japanese speakers. Everyone else in the whole place is English speaking. And the thing you're showing them can beam Japanese dialogue only to the 10 seats they want to. That's how directional it is. That is so freaking cool, man. That stuff was really awesome. And I'd love to play Mario Kart in there, but anyway. Oh, my gosh, Mario Cart. I want to play, I mean, I came out of this. I don't know if you were there. I think I said it to Bobby, but I said, after we walked out of a postcard from Earth, I said, man, that was the

best game of, oh no, and I'm forgetting the damn name. Not flight simulator, not, no, what's the, geez Louise, this joke would be so much funny. If I could remember the name of the damn game, you play, that they've come out with several updates when originally came out, not so great, but all the updates have made it so much better. Oh, no man's sky. No man sky. I came out of that and I said, Bobby, that was the great.

greatest game of no man sky i've ever played that's a good comparison it was very otherworldly and part of the reason was there was a ton of like arizona and utah footage that really is like another planet like yeah i forget sometimes the weird shit that's in our backyard we got some crazy stuff anyway for sure yeah what else we got uh we did the play playground that was fun yeah that thing over at the luxur

a lot more fun than i was expect i mean i was expecting to be fun but it was it was more fun just like like grouping up with folks. Like I did a human-sized room-sized Bop-it with Chuck and Amy and a couple other people where we each took a different section of Bopit things to do. But we watched TV's Travis Solo, solo raid Boppet and have one of the best scores of the week, which was great. I never want to run through poker chips again until maybe I lose about 10 pounds,

and I'm not a huge target for those damn things. I feel like such an idiot because I kind of aced the one direction. You ace the first direction, yeah. And then I got, there's a weird thing when you get to the end. You're supposed to come back and do the exact same thing. There's a feeling of rushing that you feel like you need to rush, and that's where you screw up every time. And I effed that whole thing up.

Gosh, dang it. That was cool, though. Like they had a lot of really neat stuff. It did feel a little bit like a Japanese game show that you get to play at your leisure. Yeah, basically wipe out or most extreme elimination or whatever it was back in the back in the day. Yeah, and I thought that was pretty good. I think I probably, when people ask, should I do it,

I'd say, do the $30, I'd probably do the $30. Do the $30 one. There's a few games in there. Like the, you know, the rolling, the bowling ball thing was good, but I wouldn't have done that had I not had like a bunch of stuff to burn off, some extra tickets to burn off. I love the one where you take the wand and walk down the hallway and make sure you don't touch the edges.

I want that in my house. That was cool. Yeah, I want a hallway that I have to do that every day just to get down that hallway. Just to get down the hallway. Your office door does not open up until you've done that. But get the $30 one and then go with at least four or five friends because I think that's not a thing you're like, I'm in Vegas alone for a conference. I'm going to go check out Play Playground because you know, you're going to want friends around you. And it's definitely a group community thing.

Yeah. Take friends. I dragged you to an escape room. Didn't really drag you, but you and Kim and Carter and Tanner and Alex and me and Tina and Uncle George and Bobby went to a Pennywise escape room. Yeah. I was thinking about this. This is so typical escape room is you've got maybe one or two rooms. You've got multiple puzzles in those two rooms that you keep going back and forth to and then the final puzzle gets you out of the room altogether.

Right. but this one is incredibly detailed and amazingly put together rooms that make you feel like you're in a crappy-ass kitchen or a garage with pipes going all over the place or a carnival fun house or a carnival area or a hall of mirrors. I mean, there was so many incredible sets, but one puzzle in each set that just gets you in the next room, and if you delay one bit, there's an actor in there who's going to be like, oh, I wonder why this sign is spinning like this and, you know, flicking and spinning a sign because it's like they're getting people through those things every 10 minutes.

So it's like, if you don't get out of this room in whatever five minutes plus however long it takes them to reset everything, then he's going to like push you out the door to the next room. Yeah, it's a weird thing because because it makes it more fun house than escape room. because if you'd like you say if you don't get your shit together you're you're out of there whether you were whether you were close to a solution or not but it still worked like it was still it almost it almost added to the tension because you were like okay hurry and figure this room out and when in the rooms we figured out and got through without being forced by the appearance of something or or the kid opening the door early or whatever were really satisfying it was like sweet

we did it before they had to kick us through here i really i really enjoyed it was great it was an incredible experience you know not your typical escape room and that was just fine i would say it's like um some of the best production value you've seen in any of this sort of thing like yeah it's with this one room they had a room that was like a kitchen in an old shack with like gross food on the table it was straight out of that resident evil seven family room thing just disgusting oh hair out of the sink like the uh big strands like a hair monster coming out of the sink it was horrendous really something and i obviously You got Warner Brothers fit in the bill and being a part of this, and that makes a difference.

But absolutely cool. I would recommend this to anybody. It would be my job if I weren't doing podcasting and freelance and 3D designing and stuff. I would love to just own an escape room and change the rooms over all the time. Here's all you need. You need somebody in Denver who's like, we have this space. We don't use it. It's downtown.

It's in this building. And then, Brian, do you want to come and... Yeah, I'll partner up with anybody who wants to do that. And let me, you know, let's set up a little podcasting studio in there. and I'll do my podcast from there. I'll show up there in the morning. I'll podcast, and then I'll be like, room four, do you need a little bit of help?

Look under the roulette wheel. I love it. No, I would go to your, sign me up for your escape room, Brian. I'd do it. Yeah. As long as you're not a serial killer in an actual room. No, that would be great, right? Yeah, that'd be something.

Anyway, that was really cool. And you probably should give some big thanks to a few folks. Yeah, KT, Data, Ducey, Hens. Hammond, like that whole Taskville, the video that you're all going to be watching today of the event, all the Taskville stuff on there would not have happened without KT Data, Ducey and Hammond and all the work that they put in. Last minute, a lot of last minute stuff is like, we got to the show, and KT Data was furiously trying to edit the last few Taskville segments because there's a lot of stuff we're all doing in Vegas. We're all running around. And so I'm like, hey, Hammond, can you please help them out?

Can you take the second task stuff and edit that down? He's like, I can. I've never used Final Cut or I haven't used whatever tool he's using. And then Ducey's like, oh, I've used it. Here, let me show you. And so the two of them worked on one, KT data worked on the other one. You'd never, if I hadn't even brought it up, you guys never would have known, except for them running up and handing me thumb drives during the live show.

You never would have known that I was getting that stuff last minute. They had some real just-in-time moments there. They really did. They deserve a ton of credit for it. That was really great. Yeah, well done, you guys. You guys kicked ass. I will say this.

I want to give Brian some credit for something that I'm not saying I was skeptical. I just thought, how can- I do talk it up. I talk it up a lot, especially on this show. Yeah, I was worried that the hype was going to just supersede any experience I had. But Brian finally got me out to Dupar's, the pancake, famous pancake place. And this is now off-strip, no longer just in front of the hotel we're in this way, It used to be, you fall out of the plaza and you could land in DuPars, basically, how close it used to be in the Golden Gate, which is right across the street from the plaza.

Yeah, now it's out in, what's, is it Somerville? I think it's Somerville. Yeah, it's Somerville, but it's the Suncoast casino where you used to previously rent videos, I think. Yeah, used to be in a mall now to a casino. Right, exactly. Beautiful, beautiful area, though. Holy crap. Oh, my gosh, yeah.

So nice out there. If it weren't so far from the strip, that would be a great place. place to do TMS Vegas because they've got they've got movie theater bowling alley it's nice and self-contained kind of giving you that little snowbird clip-clop feel yeah cross the way there's a huge shopping zone that's like full of really cool stores and stuff yeah it was neat it was a really cool area I didn't been out there before but anyway I get there we got there late because we we were picking Tom up at the airport Brian had a kind of a tight schedule so we were trying to all eat at the same time we couldn't Brian wasn't so Brian wasn't there for my

We passed each other like ships in the night. Yeah, that was weird. So I get there, bring Tom with us, sit down, and I think, well, it smells like pancakes. Even the chairs are a little sticky. We'll see how this goes. Clearly the pancakes are the big deal, right? I can tell just by being there. And I have never, and I say this with all heartfeltness that I can muster.

I've never had a pancake like that in my life. unbelievable the things are as big as 17 inch wheels from a freaking tire they're massive uh you may not even eat at all if you go i did somehow and i didn't even get the triple stack i got the two stack or whatever brian i've never had pancakes like that in my life ever they're so good it feels like they're just soaked in butter but they're so damn good yeah just the best there's just no way that that thing wasn't like killing me as i ate it but i didn't care i didn't care i was there to die. Anyway, that was really good.

Anything else you want to... Oh, you know, the other thing I noticed is this place, Vegas, do yourselves a favor of cities that are dirty around America. Host Super Bowl or the F1 racing organization. Right, yeah. Because that'll get your city to really hose everything down. And, man, I have never seen, especially downtown and off-street Vegas look so clean. It was amazing to me, actually.

I felt like just in a year. years time where these two things took place obviously they cleaned up so much stuff absolutely crazy to me how clean it was so right now is the time to go to Vegas hopefully they keep it clean I don't know let's hope yeah anyway anything else you want to mention before we uh I'll talk about this really quick because it's Vegas related and then we got I know we got a question and then done away but um getting out of Vegas uh you know at Harry Reid airport it's it's hard for me not to say McCarran but Harry Reid Airport and uh Southwest Flying Southwest, big thanks to Jay Oloffan for,

he attempted to get us some better seats. Didn't quite work out. We didn't have a little thing on our ticket, but that's totally fine. The way Southwest does their boarding, you've got an A group, a B group, and a C group, and then within that you've got the numbers 1 through 60. And so they've got these silver monoliths by each of their gates

that have 1 through 5, 6 through 10, 11 through 15, all the way down the line, and there's space for about 5 people between each one. And so when it's your letter, you go up and you stand in the approximate area. And then if, oh, you're 14, oh, you're in front of me. Oh, you're 19. Oh, you're behind me. Right.

You basically line up so that everybody gets on in that exact order. So they call the A group. A group goes in. We're B15 and 16. As soon as the A group first half goes in, we go up and start getting in our spot. And there's a guy there. We go up along about the same time as this woman. And there's a guy standing there right.

out the 15. And I'm 15. Tina's 16. I said, oh, are you 14? Or where are you at? He's like, oh, I'm 20. And so he's, but he's standing right at the front, basically right at the end of 11 through 15. Okay. And

he says, oh, I'm 20. And then the woman next to us, before I can even say anything, says, oh, then you actually should be back there. And he kind of, he says, well, and he looks up at the numbers and he goes technicality what he kind of just

waved out he did he did go back but right before he did he goes technicality you know what so I think you meant I think he meant the word technically is oh either way you know what this story's doing to me it's making me want to throw somebody's luggage out the plane and kick

somebody in the mud hole totally oh my gosh totally just like yeah technicality yeah I don't think you'd be using the word than the right of the way that you think you're using. It's very much, Wes, very much like the occupied guy. Like I even texted Scott with this guy behind me in line.

I said, oh man, can't we tell you this story. You had occupied guy. I had technicality guy. Yeah. But just like his implication that, well, I'm kind of between the 16 through 20 monoliths. So technically I'm in the right space. He's thinking that it's a range. And if you're between these two numbers, you can stand anywhere.

And if you're the first one, you can stand in the front of it. Yeah, he's the one contributing to the stereotype that air flight these days is nothing but just hurting cattle, you know? It really is. Just like, oh, it's good enough. Yeah, exactly. A technicality. You have me on a technicality. That's ridiculous.

And the story I was going to tell on Saturday, but I decided to wait. I don't think I've even, I might have told you this story, Scott. But I won't go into the details of how we ended up. penthouse but suffice to say there was a snafu with the reservation system and tina got free upgraded up to a penthouse for from our free from our free patio room right we ended up with a free penthouse room sure and um our bathroom had a big old hot tub with jets and all that stuff in it like a big old you know fill it up for an hour hot tub right and i woke up in the morning could not get back to sleep the last morning so um after tms vgas all the excitement went down

just passed out, fell asleep after the concerts and everything, no problem. Woke up at my typical, like, 4.35 a.m. and decided, you know what, I still haven't used this hot tub. I'm going to use the hot tub. So I closed the door, make sure. I actually turned on the water, then opened the door, went out of the bathroom, closed the door, listened to make sure that I wasn't going to wake teen up with the water. It's like, nope, it's really a nice, really quiet bathroom. Perfect. Went back in there. And the way the hot tub sits, it's basically perfectly pointing towards the direction of the other plaza tower and the Circa and Stadium Swim and the mountains behind it.

So it's like, oh, great. I open up the blinds all the way. You know, it's totally dark. I don't turn any of the lights on in the bathroom. Strip down, get in the hot tub, and I just soak. And I turn on the jets a little bit. It's like, oh, that might be too noisy. I'll turn the jets off.

But I'm just sitting there soaking in this thing. That sounds really nice, by the way. That sounds fantastic. It was really, really nice. And just like watching, I sat there, I sat in that tub for the hour that it took the sun to rise. And it was like, just watching the sunrise over the mountains is perfect. And then I realized, oh, the sun's out. I can't reach the blinds from the tub.

To close the blinds, I have to get out of the tub completely buck naked. And like, how reflective tinted are these windows? I guess we're going to find out. and so I I get out of the tub full, you know, full birthday suit business. Sure. Walk over and decide, well, I'm already out.

I'm just going to towel off and just get out of the way of the window and then I can use the light from outside to towel off and brush my teeth and all that stuff. But what the hell? You know, it's like that. You know, people have seen worse in Vegas. You can see worse on Fremont Street. Oh, hell, yeah, you can. Also, I think it's you that told me the topless Nunn was alive and well down there.

She was. We saw her with a little crosses on her, on her nipples, or X's on her nipples. And I think, did I mention it around Carter? Carter was like, they should have been crosses. And I'm like, you're darn right. They should have been crosses. They should have been, yeah, like, go with the theme. Yeah, why aren't you, yeah, maybe the, maybe the she even has standards where the nuns like,

oh, I can't quite, I used to be a real nun. I can't quite go that far, I guess. Exactly. But they're, they look real and they're spectacular. I'll say that. Yeah. Well, I'm glad she's still down there getting it done. That's fantastic. She's still down there getting it done. The woman who spins around in a circle for most of the mornings still there, walked by her and when we went out to get breakfast in the morning, she just has her headphones on. She just spins in a circle for hours and hours and hours. I don't know how you live like that, but I'm glad you exist. Yep, exactly. I hope people give you money for cigarettes and whiskey, like your sign suggests. That's what we want for you.

in your life. All right. Well, obviously throughout the week, more things will come up because we'll remember stuff and always happens. But a huge thanks to everybody who made it possible, who came out there at all, who showed up for the first time. Brian, of course, for all his amazing work, especially with Tassville, that thing was great this year, just succinct. And the editing team did an amazing job. So much tired of when we have full control over the area and I don't try to get Hammond arrested. But always working on a way, always working on a way to get Hammond arrested. But still, him's sitting in the corner of all the videos. accidentally sort of

was the creepiest creepiest edition I loved it and Stacy was in the background of a couple of it like just working on her phone like oh when is this going to be done

yeah yeah we're still very strange creatures to her I think we really are yeah she doesn't quite get us I don't think doesn't know what to make of us

well anyway let's get into this right here because we do have this we we're we're I feel like I haven't heard that forever

it's uh the morning half ass is here on a monday and we join or we join we have him join us it's brian done away hi now you can join me oh hi scott and brian hi hi hello good to have you back brian how are you good to monday morning yeah dreary one but i'll take it dreary what do you get some rain you got some uh got some rain it's humid outside i'm like ugh we got a bit of that too i don't know what's going on there's some weird weather patterns strange strange spring so far here in the western states as well. But we're glad to... This is not a twister.

That's true, no twisters. Although we did have a couple of rare Utah ones, but they were kind of small, but we still had them. Those are rare. And that's what they usually say about Utah. Yeah, very rare. Look, I like it. I like it when people think we're weird. I love when people think our state is weird because then our housing prices stay.

Yeah, exactly. I wish more people think Colorado's weird because it is... You people coming here for what you think might be free pot. No, it ain't free, and you're driving up the housing prices, and you're clogging up the highways. Yeah. Go home. Go home. Yeah. Please think we're weird. Not U.S. Old man. Yeah. Not U.S. Not U.S.

Never west. You and your adorable kids stay here, but everybody else can. Everyone else F the F off. Oh, Brian, you're here. We're going to play a game. Let's do a little half-asses. We're running late, but we're okay. I talk to Stephen. He's good, too. Yeah, exactly. So you called Stephen to let him know you were going to be late, but I just get a phone call. Okay, that's fine.

No, I understand. No, my time is worth. We would have made more of an effort to be on time if Stephen had come to our event in Vegas. But whatever. Yeah, whatever. It's fine. He'll remember this next year, Stephen. Hey, Brian, why don't you explain these rules?

Who's up for winning and all that stuff? Okay. Welcome to the morning. Halfass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers. I'll give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct, and three of them, like standing naked. in front of the penthouse suite of the plaza are incorrect. Depending on

how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses, but if any of those guesses are wrong, you get zero points for that round. Get one right, gets you a point, two right, gets you three point. Three right gets you five points total. Player with the most points after three rounds wins the price of their contestant. Contestants have been pulled from members of the Tadpool

that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're playing for Chad Bergen in Mantica, California. Ooh, nice. You know what? Never been to Mantica, but this will be my way. of living vicariously through Manteca resident guy that I'm playing for. That's fantastic. And Brian,

you're playing for David Sallie in Le MED, Kansas? Larned Kansas. Is that an M or an RN? It's an RN. Okay, Larned, Kansas. A registered nurse Kansas. Hey, whatever. Kansas. There's an RN. There's an RN

right there in Larned, Kansas. Sure. We'll have to ask you to see about Lerned. That's right. All right, let's There's Kentucky, too, isn't there? Sorry about that, Kentucky. Who else is there? Is there anybody else? Is there anybody else?

One of my favorite states that starts with the K. Oh, Dakota. Yeah, but I guess none of them start with it. Brian's right. Dakota's have him in the name. Yeah. Oh, well, what are you going to do? All right, let's get to states with K in them.

No, we're going to start off really easy, I think, for you guys. We just had Star Wars Day. You know, like it or not. We had Star Wars. May the 5th be with you. Yeah, I was there. Exactly. That's the one, yes.

Which of these are Star Wars characters from the movie, who say in the movies that they have a bad feeling about this? The movies. Which of these say, I have a bad feeling about this. Obi-1, Kenobi, Han Solo, Ray Skywalker, C-3PO, Quigon, Jin, and Yoda. Oh, man. What do these say, I have a bad feeling about this? None of these, none of the obvious ones.

So this is a tricky one. Well, yeah. I feel like I know a couple of these, though. Oh, shit. Do I, though? Is this anywhere? Like, is this only in... Only in the movies.

Not in TV shows, animated Lego stuff, books. Anything like that. I'm going with two, and I hope I'm even close. I'm going balls in, baby. All right. Whoa. Okay. All right.

All right. All right. All right. settled in on C-3PO? Yeah, absolutely. He definitely says it. Han Solo, I have a bad feeling about it. It says that in the trash compactor.

I thought that was Luke in there. Duh. All right. And then you guys both settled on Ray Skywalker. No, Ray doesn't say it, surprisingly. I had to double check that. I actually had to add that. It was Obi-Wan.

It was Obi-Wan. It's the first thing, one of the first thing he says in the U.N. McGregor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, one of the first things he says, I've got a bad feeling about this. I had to change this because the card had Lando Calarizian on it. Oh. And instead of Ray Skywalker, Lando, this

card was made before the newest three movies, and Lando says it in the third movie before the final battle and stuff. So I had to change it for Ray. So it was moops. It was moops. The card says moops. I forgot he was in that third movie. That's so funny. Right? I know, yeah.

That third movie is such a, it's a remnant of a memory at this point. I do not remember what the frick happened. I'm going to give those three another watch because after watching my recommendal, after watching the Spider-Man movies and having complaints about them, I'm going to see if I'm going to see if I like them better. It'll be the first time I've watched any of them since the original theater viewing those last three movies. And maybe I'll like him better. Yeah, do it outside the big hype window.

I think that's a good idea. Exactly. Exactly. I like it. Um, all right. Well, uh, that means another view going into the second round of points. We're about to change that. I do, I do appreciate you giving us one that was actually something that we probably could have guessed at. Yeah. Lots of times you say, it should be easy. What's the three quantum states of, you know, of, yeah, something crazy. Which of these three are quarts. Uh, no, I'm going to give you another one that I think is pretty damn easy. And if you guys fail at this one, I'm really disappointed in both of you. Uh, Canadians.

Which of these six are Canadians? Mike Myers, Alan Rickman, George Carlin, Dan Aykroyd, William Shatner, and Bruce Springsteen. Three of those are Canadians. Three of them are not. I know two immediately, so I'm going to be safe and choose those. Well, he has both locked in. And Mike Myers, of course, Mike Myers is Canadian because he's, you know, he's always wearing a hockey shirt and all that stuff. Look at you guys splitting, though, on your other two choices.

Brian said Dan Aykroyd. Scott said William Shatner, guess what? You're both right. Oh, Mike Myers, Dan Aykroyd, and William Shatner, all of your Canadians. I thought Shatner was, but I wasn't, I chickened out. Shatner was the one I was positive about. Mike Myers, I was reasonably positive. And then Dan Aykroyd.

I'm amazed that Ackroyd wasn't, that you didn't pick. I know. And I love him, but I didn't know he was from Canada until today. That's crazy. Oh, really? Yeah. I thought he was from, I don't know. I thought he was from the States.

I don't know why I thought. Just one more thing to like about Dan Aykroyd. Yeah. I even like his conspiracy alien shit. I like everything about that guy. And what's funny. Bruce Springsteen was on there. Yeah.

Or Alan Rickman, who clearly has a British accent. Definitely not. Yeah. For some reason, I was thinking Carlin could have possibly been, but I wasn't sure. Carlin was kind of a dark horse. Like, there could have been a vote for Carlin. But Bruce Springsteen, who is so intertwined with New Jersey. Bon Jovi says, oh, yeah, Bruce Springsteen's from New Jersey.

That's how. That's how. New Jersey, what's his faces? All right, let's get to the last one here. I thought I could get you on that. Speaking of geography, which of these are cities that are less than 500 miles from New York City? New York City. You go to New York City, you go as the crow flies, 500 miles.

Which of these six locations can you get to? Washington, D.C., Chicago, Miami, Detroit, Montreal, or Louisville. Damn. Louisville, Kentucky? Might have to do a little risky, risky on this one. You've got a risk it for the biscuit. Yeah. If I want the biscuit, surely I must risk it.

Somebody's getting the biscuit. Taste the biscuit. I'm going on. Scott. Oh, gosh. I'm probably totally wrong. Geography is one of my least, the thing I'm the worst at. Yeah.

I feel like I'm going to do, hmm. I'm doing two because I just, I'm not comfortable with it. We'll see what happens. Let's get to this. You guys both settled in on Washington, D.C. Yeah, Washington, D.C. Oh, I have the numbers, darn it? Why did I put that card away?

Oh, you have distance numbers? That's cool. I have the distance numbers. I can tell you on every single one of these. I've actually made that trip. D.C. is a no-brainer. The D.C. is 309 miles. Is it right?

I'm sorry, 204 miles from New York City. The closest, the closest of all of these. I can tell you right now, the furthest from all of these, you probably can guess it, is Miami. Miami. At 1,082 miles away from New York City, more than double 500 miles. Let's go, Detroit, just under 500 miles away, 481 miles away. And Louisville, Kentucky, just too much, 736 miles, meaning Montreal is our third answer.

Washington, D.C., Detroit, Montreal. Brian goes all in and gets five points for that last. Holy shit. All right, I got to say, I'm completely surprised by Montreal and Detroit. I thought Montreal would be too central. I thought Detroit would be too west. I'm shocked by that. But just under. Wow, Brian. Well done, dude. You're like a, you say what you want about the South Carolinian public school system. You came out okay. Yeah, you did real well. I kid, I joke. Mississippi, you know, I'm looking at you. Well, anyway, that's fantastic. So who won what? One more time here. So David Sallie in Larned, Kansas, you are going to be getting a copy of Re-Legion and Shift Happens.

Oh, those are just so fun, those little puns right there from Steam, courtesy of our friend King Quimazabi, who provided those. But Chad Bergen, you're getting a copy of Drink More Glurp from Steam. I know nothing about any of those games, but my gosh, all three of them sound fun. Yeah, they sure do. I don't think I've played any of these either, which is rare. I usually have tried at least one of these, but not these. Shift happens I've heard of. Out of all of these, that's the only one of these that I've heard of.

I haven't even heard of that. See, Reed Legion, if I had to guess, it's like, I don't know what that would be. I know. I don't know. No idea. Shift happens. Sounds like you've got to work a shift and maybe. Oh, I was thinking it was like a driving game.

Oh, that actually could be too. Who knows? Could be, but I don't know. I don't know. You guys are going to have fun. That's the important part. You get one of these. Congratulations.

You're a winner. And then the best part is we send Brian Dunaway packing, you know? No, but wait, what about this shift happens thing? It's pretty cool. It's a cooperative gameplay. So, yeah, somebody sits in the back seat. Is that how, maybe? Oh, no.

That's not. What person works the pedals? A little kid works the pedals and then somebody else works the steering wheel on the ship. Looks like some monsters walking around and doing some stuff. No, you. Hold on. Don't go away yet. Shift.

Is he here? Is he here? A cooperative platformer for two, you and a friend. Oh, this looks like fun. Shift your... Oh, you shift your mass. Because one's a big alien fat guy and the other one's a little skinny guy,

so you have to use the big one for strength, a little guy for getting in a weird place and being light. This looks like where this is going. Yeah. I'd play this with Carter. This seems like a good time. All right. Well, may we all now kick Brian out of that thing?

Oh, shit. I'm not in the right damn tab. This is no good. This is no good. I'm not winning this fight. All right, there we go. Oh, Rainbow Bright just showed up and compliment my shirt. Hey, you got to make sure go back and listen to the beginning of the show, Desry,

because we said some very nice things about you. Yeah, we said some nice things, and then there's a few secrets we revealed about you. That's right. Let the world know that we know, that you know that we know. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back from the break, Stephen Schlecker will join us, someone who we didn't see in Vegas, but we missed terribly. He'll be here.

And looking forward to that. Brian, want you play a little song on our first episode back from Vegas. Vegas. What do you got? Oh, my gosh. It's so great when I can do an Indian in the middle that's also a cover. This is a band called Atrium. They only perform in the fronts of buildings, big open areas in the fronts of buildings. They're going to be on the road supporting 10 years in Texas Hippie Coalition in May. Other concert events, you can visit Atrium band for their schedule. I think you're going to want to check these guys out because they rock. This is the fourth single that they've released, and they also have an official

music video for this one. It is called, well, it's a cover of the Queenswright song, Queenswright. It is Silent Lucidity. Here is the band Atrium. Hush now don't you cry. Wipe away the tears. drop from your eye you're lying safe in bed it was all

a bad dream spinning in your head your mind tricked you to feel the pain of someone close to you leaving the game life So here it is Another chance

Wide awake you face the day The dream is over Or has it just begun There's a place I like to hide, a doorway that I run through in the night but only didn't realize and you were scared it's a place where you will learn to face your fears, retrace the ears and ride the whims in your mind

commanding in another world Suddenly you hear and see this magic new dimension We'll be watching over you Gonna help you see you through smiling next to you in silent lucidity in silent lucidity It's not I'm looking to

I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to touch and I'm going to and you're going to I'm going to be I.

Oh, you know, I'm going to see the it's If you open your mind from me, you won't rely on open eyes to see. The walls you built within, come tumbling down. begin Living twice

That once you learn You see from the pain in the dream domain A soul set free to fly A round trip journey in your head Master of illusion Can you realize Your dream's alive You can be the guide

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Console sold separately and hooked up by an adult. Welcome back to the program. Hey, Brian, what was that song? That song is called Silent Lucidity, and yeah, it is a cover of the song by Queens-Rike. That's a band called Atrium. Go check him out and catch them on tour. They'll be traveling all through May,

performing their lovely songs for all who come. Man, there was a time in our young lives where being a Queens-Rike fan make you were the hardest core metalhead in school. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Remember that? I do. All right. Major spoilers in coming.

He remembers Queens Reich. Maybe he'll remember. He'll remember. Stephen Schlecker remembers. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dalla, dollar bills, y'all. That's the truth. It's Steven Schlecker joining us here on the program. Steven, it's been a bit. How are you, sir? I am doing good. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. And it is pronounced Larned, Kansas. It is Larned. Okay, so not learned. Larned.

All right. So you are, you don't. don't say, if someone says I've read a lot of books, oh, you're very learned, learned, not learned. So it's like that. You remember it that way. Larned, instead of larned. Okay. It was actually just reading up on it. It was founded by a guy named, like two guys, brothers named Larry and Ned, and they just took their first, the first three letters of their names and said, hey, let's make a town. Is that true? That's crazy. No. Oh. I wanted that to be real. Yeah. You know what? It might be true. I just made it up. We're on the internet. It can be true. We'll make it true. It's fine.

Stephen, it's good to have you back, man. We missed you in Vegas, but, you know, you're a busy fellow. You get things going on. It was fine. It's last week of lectures last week. This is finals week. So we had presentations and all sorts of other things going on last week. So would not have been possible to go. I'll tell you what, while you're here, so I forgot to mention this earlier, Alicia, her last name happens to be Johnson, we're not related, but a Carter's friend who's living with us for a while, she was gone for two weeks in news, or, what's a call over there? The Netherlands to visit her family who lives there because he's got a job over there. They're coming home soon. But anyway, she was there for two weeks.

Came home with something called Jumbo Brand Special Edition, Zero Sugar, Pina Colada Cola. What? Pena Colada Cola. Yep. Some Netherlands thing. The can is smaller than a U.S. can. You see how it's a little shorter? But it's bigger than those little dinky cans you can get of Coke products. I just thought your hands were super large, Scott. I know. You shouldn't destroy the myth by saying, no, this is a really funny game. I have a huge hands. The Scots got very tiny hands. The biggest hands. But it's the same width or girth as an American can, but shorter.

So anyway, I just want to. to just quickly open this and give it a shot here. Is it fuzzy? Is it fuzzy? That's what I'm curious about. Oh, it is fuzzy or fizzy? Fizzy. It is Fizzy.

There's no fuzz. You know what it tastes like? Are you talking about the can, Stephen? Is the can fuzzy? It tastes like coconut Coke. That's what it tastes like. Oh, interesting. Interesting.

Okay. I'd be down to that. Yeah, it's good. It's zero sugar as well, which is nice. That's nice. And she just brought you one? Yeah, two. I have two cans.

One's up in the fridge. one of those was supposed to be for me, but whatever, whatever. It's fine, yeah. Yeah, I'll tell her that. I'll say, hey, was this for Brian? She'll go, who? Tell her, yeah, she's a TMS fan. The rule is, no, just kidding.

She's a sweetheart, though. I'm dying to know, Brian. Have you been out to Meow Wolf Vegas? Yes. But you didn't go this time, though, right? Didn't go this time, no time. But I've been a couple times. And I've been to the first three.

I know that there's one now in Texas. They're putting one up in Los Angeles. But Santa Fe, I was the first one we went to, and it was actually, that was open before, I mean, we went to that one before there was even talk of a Denver or Las Vegas one, and Tina was doing detail out there back with her previous job, and I was like, oh, let's go to this thing. Sounds cool. And it's like, oh, this is like amazing. A house built in a bowling alley, and you climb around through this thing. It was amazing. Yeah, it's really cool.

I didn't know that the Santa Fe location, is something I just learned because I was. I just looked at it. Or Santa Fe, what's NM, North? New Mexico. Oh, New Mexico, duh. Santa Fe, duh. What am I thinking?

Anyway, the Santa Fe one has a stand-up version of that robot that's like laying down in Vegas. Theirs is like standing up. Oh, in the parking lot. Yeah. That's cool. That's great, yeah. That's super cool. And you went to this one when you were.

The one in Santa Fe is near mint. That's actually what the NM stands for. They're hoping for a mint and plastic version, but all they could settle for was near meant. Oh, that's a shame. Yeah. You got to buy the right boards early on and all that's right. Acid-free backing boards. Yeah. But no, it's, it is absolutely worth the drive to go to the one. Well, it depends on where in the country you are, but go to Santa Fe. Get some incredible Mexican food. Oh, my God. The smothered Christmas green and red chili together. Go check out the amazing art. The fake blue meth you picked up. Remember you brought me a bag of that? I have a, oh, I don't have the baggie near me anymore.

I used to have that on my wall right here. Yes, the bag of you have blue meth and then go see Meow Wolf. I may have eaten all the, all the blue meth. Yeah, back then when you... He sent it to me and I think I ate it all. And then when I was done, I went, why did I do that? Because this is like a cool thing to display. Yeah, I wish I could have just kept it.

Right. You could, you know, if you really wanted the flavor of that, just mainline a tablespoon of sugar. And that would be exactly the same thing. snort it no wonder i have to lay off the shug now well anyway steven let's get to it we got some stuff um this this is a good time for me to mention that free comic book day happened on the weekend and carter and i are doing free prints again this year if you were like oh man i missed it uh on free comic book day i think it hasn't been changed and you might still be able to sneak

it in the deals are still active either way so we're cutting like we're doing like a massive slashing of a bunch of stuff in the store along with it but the prints themselves are free you don't have to do anything else. And if you head over there to frogpans.com slash store, you'll be greeted with whatever's going on. I haven't checked in with Dave this morning, so it may have been pulled down now, but this year's Prince,

I did a Venom Spider-Man thing. Carter did a Joker and Batman thing. Very happy with them. And we'd love you to be a part of the tradition since 2013 of getting free Comic Day signed prints from me and me and Carter. Next year, you're going to have to do double-size because it'll be your 10th anniversary. Oh, that's a good idea.

Like, we'll do, you know, we'll do coffee table versions of The Prince. How about that? There you go. Oh, there you go. That's a really good idea. Speaking of comics and things that are cool. Yeah, let's talk about comic books. Yeah, you can stay in the X-Men mansion.

Is that a thing? Is that real? Yeah, this is a really cool thing. So, Airbnb, which previously did the Barbie Mansion, you know, they had a place that was all decked up like the Barbie Mansion that you could go and stay at. They have announced that they have done an X-Men mansion based on the, you know, X-Men Mansion in from the animated series it is located in in Westchester New York and it is done up in such a way that all of the art that they've put in the place is kind of flat and so it looks like a 2D animation cell or you know like the art on the wall is 2D the paint scheme looks kind of 2D there's a giant Sentinel head in the driveway as you pull up it is really cool danger room and everything danger room which I think is an exercise room if you want to work out there. They've got Jubilee's room, Wolverine's room, and I forget, I think I want to say Gambit's room is also in there as well. Well, they have a locker room that's got Gambit's outfit and Storm's

outfit hanging up on the wall. Oh, right, right, right. I don't know if they actually have Gambit's room. The best part of Wolverine's room is the photo of Scott and Gene. Yeah, that you can lay in your bed and just shed a tear from. Oh, my gosh, I didn't see that at first. That's really true. Ryan, I know you're dying to go and stay at this place. How much do you think? Just a guess. You probably already read the story. But do you want to take a guess on how much?

How much per night do you think you would spend to stay at this X-Men mansion? Well, okay, there's how much I would spend and then there's probably how much they're asking. I would, I would, because how many people, it holds like eight or 12 people or something, right? Yeah. I would, if I got enough people together, I would expect that the total for all of us, us per night would be $750 a night.

I don't. So here's the thing. From the stuff that we have up on major spoilers, Ashley Victoria Robinson wrote this up. $97 a night. What? What? Shut up.

X-Men 97. Get it? Oh, really? Well, okay, where is this? This is in Westchester, New York. Now, here's the problem. Oh, perfect. Yeah.

You have to use the Airbnb app to request it. Fine. And you can only request it. You cannot book it. right okay you just have to hope the days that you want yeah okay so if you request it then you'll be notified hey we have some dates

and then you just decide whether you want those dates or not right you're not going to be able to pick your dates they're going to tell you dates probably lord that's really cool i can't believe that's only 97 bucks a night that blows my mind yeah you know what that tells me though you're never oh let's sorry says the cleaning fee is 500 bucks a night is that true no that might be true actually he might be kidding i don't have Airbus charges for cleaning yeah probably um but for real though like we there's no way you're never this is an eternal line at that price you're never going to get it's a gimmick yeah yeah it's a gimmick yeah

it's a gimmick yeah it's a gimmick to promote x-men 97 and uh you know i'm sure they're getting all the free publicity they want out of this they you know Airbnb is Disney's getting some probably kick back out of all of this and whoever's house this is is making bank totally oh absolutely like you whoever bought that property and the building looks like The gifted the school for gifted youngsters. It's incredible. And the Professor X's room with the Magneto helmet on the desk. I mean, it is basically, it is episode one of X-Men 97 right there.

Yeah. The danger room, the way it's drawn, because you mentioned how everything's kind of got like cell-shaded. That is incredible in there. Look at that. It's great. You know what else is cool? I just noticed Jubilee's room, she has a stand-up full four-player version of the X-Men arcade game.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's great. You wonder how much of this stuff is bolted down or how much stuff you can pick up? It's got to be. Did I mention it live, did I mention the live TMS that I, that Kim and me and Carter beat that game because it was unlimited quarters?

I saw the pictures. Yeah, I'd never beaten it before because it's just that's a quarter suck, right? But we beat it. We got all the way to the end. And just for anyone who's, that's not really a spoiler, but if you get to the end of the X-Men arcade game from 97, and you win, there's a really cheesy cutscene with Magneto, and then it immediately just starts over, but harder.

Oh, nice. And it's not like new game plus for you. You get no benefit from starting over. The game's just freaking harder. So, I mean, you know, it's an arcade machine. They're designed to set quarters out of your wallet. That's how it works. But it was fun to finally beat it after these many decades.

And I think Kim, Kim has found her video games. genre. Her new, Kim's video game genre apparently is walking left to right and punching things. Just like in the house. Left right punch mutant power. Whatever that whatever their version of the mutant power

may be like, uh, night crawler zooming around the screen like the flash. I don't know, but, uh, because I caught her I think I said it on Corbett. I caught her also playing uh, Battle Toads with Bobby Ann on a, on a Genesis while we were at that bar. Like she is clearly drawn to these beatem

So I think I'm going to, like, introduce her to final fight. I'm going to show her how to play double dragon. Is the, uh, Kung Fu Master? Is that the one where you have the, you're going through the, uh, the different, um, you're like in a dojo and there's duck and jump and you have to kind of get away from all that. Oh, I'm thinking of, uh, it sounds like Karataka almost or Karateka. We found out as it actually said. Yeah, but remember, remember Karataka or Karataka?

I do. That was a thing. But the arcade one was, I think it was, Kung Fu Master. I think you're right. Yeah, yeah. It might be the same thing and just be... It's a Konami joint, I think.

Spartan X was what it was called in Japan, the Kung Fu Master. Spartan X. Yeah. That's stupid name. Well, anyway, I'd stay here. This sounds like fun. Let's go. Heck yeah.

I'd even stay in this... Especially for 97 a night. That is unbelievable. I'd even stay in that dumb Jubilee room. I would totally do it. It's too pink for me, but whatever, I'd do it. It's really pink. Speaking of which,

If you liked the Midnight Suns video game, which I quite liked, you will like Blood Hunt, Marvel's big comic event. Tell me about this, because are they directly connected or is this like a separate? No, no, no, no. But, you know, I just recently said, oh, okay, I'm going to pick back up Midnight Suns again on the Steam Deck because every time I sit down to play it, I get like 30 minutes in and you're out of battery power. So I decided to just sit down and play through the game connected to a TV in power. And I was like, oh, yeah, vampires. And you're doing the whole Lilith thing. And then I remembered, oh, last week, Marvel released Blood Hunt, which is their big summer event where the sun gets blotted out and all the vampires come streaming out of Chernobyl and they are attacking every comic book in the Marvel library.

They come out of Chernobyl, really? Yeah, they're headquartered in Chernobyl and Dracula is, of course, their leader. And so now they, with eternal darkness, they have decided to go and take on the entire world. And so, yeah, so for the next month or so, you will be able to see vampires fighting all of your favorite characters throughout every, pretty much every comic book. Maybe not the space ones, but I'm sure they'll somehow get the cosmic comics involved in this as well. But if you are into vampires and your Avengers and Marvel heroes taking them on, this summer is for you. Do you get some blade in here? We get a little blade action?

Yeah, there's a blade. There's a blade issue. I was just trying to look really quick to see what was coming out this week. I know Dracula Blood Hunt is out this week. We also have, what else do we have here? We have not Star Wars. Oh, Strange Academy, the high school or the boarding school version of the Magic Universe gets a book this week. Let's see, Dracula does and Blood Hunters, which is a, all of these are like four issue miniseries.

kind of bits. And then Amazing Spider-Man 49 is a tie-in to Blood Hunt as well. I want. Oh, really? This looks great. This was one of the comics I picked up at Free Comic Book Day.

Hold that up again, Brian. We'll see it again. I'll try and see it again. Is that the actual, that's actual issue one then of the series? It's funny. It's the first, like the first half of the book is a setup for the first issue.

And even though on the front of the top of this thing, it clearly says Blood Hunt 1. The bottom says, to be continued in blood hunt number one. They're horrible. They are horrible in their numberings. Yeah. So here's the thing.

This is a pretty graphic comic. So if you don't like seeing lots of blood and guts in your comics, then you may want to shy away from this. But I have a feeling if you're into vampires, you know, a little blood flying around is going to hurt you. Here's what's great about free comic book day. Yesterday, Friday. It was Saturday, but on Friday I was like, oh yeah, I want to make sure I find one this year because the one that I usually go to, I don't think, is around anymore.

And so I'm like, all right, well, plug in my zip code and say, all right, show me the nearest comic book store. And I didn't never realize that there is one that is really close to me in a shopping mall, a big-ass shopping mall that I didn't know where the comic book store was in there inside it. But I found it, and now I'm like, oh, my God, I want to keep going there. They've got the Scotty Young figures that I collect. Oh, nice.

I picked up a Scottie Young graphic novel of like, what's it called, Happily Ever After or something? Oh, yeah, yeah. No, it's not, I hate fairyland, is it? I hate Fairyland, that's it right there. Yeah. I was like, oh, my gosh, there's a Scott Young thing I don't have. So I picked that up as well. Nice.

So it's like, all right, some new Scottie Young stuff to read. And then while I'm there, I run into old man and old lady Franks from, you know, from back in the day of the Firt Raid team and, you know, early TMS days and stuff like that. So it was great to find a new comic book store that's close to me and they've got all the stuff I want and I can't wait to go back. That's great. Yeah. Do support.

I mean, part of free comic book day is to get some free comics, right? But the main thing is to get people into comic book stores. To discover comic stores. Yeah, to discover comic books. So here's the great thing, Brian, you have found a comic book store. Suddenly do, do, do, do. And now your next task, is come back each week and the store owner will be there with an exclamation point above

his head. And I'm sure if you look in the mall, knowing malls today, there's probably some cats wandering around with some missions for you as well. There's, yeah, we talked about a hold slot for me and then I get 10% off anything else. It'll make that Deadpool Scottie Young figure a lot more palatable to do that. Yeah, I'm going to probably start up another hold slot. I haven't had a hold slot since the place that I used to go. too closed down. So I'm excited about that. Yeah, same way with me. Salina was the closest real

comic book store that we had. And I haven't, I bet I haven't done anything with them because the guy who ran it died and his wife was trying to keep it on. But I think it's been almost 10 years since I've been into a comic book store to buy comics. So yeah. Are the, I got a quick question about Blood Hunt and its availability digitally. It looks like, I mean, obviously you can buy him, but they're not, these things don't show up on unlimited for like a six months or something. No, not for a little bit, not for a little bit, so. Okay. I wish they'd do it sooner.

You might check and see if the free comic book day edition is out. That one may be out because I know a lot of the publishers were like, oh, yeah, you can get this digital version of free comic book day, but I think those are available now. Okay. And I think you could probably go to your local comic book store, Scott, maybe even see if there's leftover FCBD merch. Yeah, that's true.

That's true. A lot of that stuff gets, you know, it gets left. Or, you know, if you want, you could also get comicsology as another place to go. There you go. That's true. Yeah, I'm guessing, because I get one that's called I.M. Stan, and it's like a Stan Lee biography comic. And I think September was saying that came out last year and that it might have been just extra stock that they had of that. It's called I am Stan. Interesting.

I am Stan. Yeah. Is it like a drawn biography? It's not an M&M song. Sorry. Is it. I'll show you. It's what it looks like, folks. Let's see what we got here. Oh, yeah, there was also a free Ultraman rising card game. Here it is right here. The graphic biography of the legendary Stanley by Tom Skeogel.

That's like a magic bag of holding, Brian. You just keep reaching in and pulling out stuff. Yeah. Let me pull this out because I'm getting glare from the... This is Brian's version of Tom Merritt's shelf. You know, just pull out whatever. Interesting. And so the whole thing...

Everything's illustrated. He looks like... the Pringles man there for some reason. He kind of does. Yeah, it's funny. It reminds me like it's all kind of muted colors and stuff. It's kind of like that. Sorry about how bright my little camera thing is.

I can turn this guy off and see if that helps. Stanley, clone star. That's right. It's all right. Excelsior. Oh, yeah. It's definitely was a 2023 because it says, the saga continues and I am Stan on sale September 12, 2023. So, yeah, this is from last year, but cool.

So that goes to show you. They may have old stock there that they can, you'll be like, hey, I missed it. Do you have any blood hunt one issues you can give me? Yeah, that'd be great. I want to read it. Um, all right, there's that. Also, uh, Dead Boy Detectives, isn't that bad, says you. Do you like it? Yeah, so a lot of the reviews are really bagging on this, uh, a Sandman spin-off series called Dead Boy Detectives based on a DC comic and, of course, based on the Sandman, created by Neil Gaiman, who's the executive producer on this, but I've watched like the first three or four episodes of it, and it really feels like, and some people may say, oh, that's a sure sign of crap right there. It feels like

a C.W. series. It feels like a supernatural, or it feels like when Archie went dark on the show. So I don't think that this is as bad as everyone says it is. But it's, it's entertaining if you're looking to get some more comic book, especially DC Comics adaptations into your list. It's on, it's on Netflix right now. Yeah, Nicole's going, so apparently Nicole's going to recommend it this week on recommendals. Oh, okay. So, I spoiled it. No, no, not at all.

Somewhere out there, Nicole just went, Stephen! Yeah. Sorry, Nicole. Not at all. I don't think it's a spoiler at all, because she seems to be, like, out of her mind, loving it, yeah. Yeah, it's enjoyable. It really is enjoyable.

And I don't know why people, it goes, so every episode goes places that you don't think it's going to go. Like, there's usually a third act twist that is like, oh, I wasn't expecting that monster to show up. Yeah. And it does. And so it's like, oh, I wasn't expecting. that bit to show up and then continue

through the rest of the season. So it's enjoyable. I've enjoyed the first four episodes that I've liked. I don't know, I don't want to spoil anyone else's recommendal, but I did watch a certain Jerry Seinfeld movie. Oh, how was that? The Frost is all

nobody's going to be recommending. No, probably not. Here's what I will say. It starts off with a Norman Rockwell painting and ends with January 6th. Oh, geez. Oh, gosh. Are you kidding? I'm not kidding It literally opens with a Norman Rockwell painting

Of Jerry Seinfeld sitting at a counter And a little runaway boy coming in and sitting down And Jerry Seinfeld's like, oh, you like them Pop-Tarts, huh? Let me tell you the true story of how the Pop-Tart came to be And by the end of the movie, it ends with the big old January 6th reference Wow I still want to watch it, but man, I'm... I didn't know what to expect in a lot of times

So there's a lot of great actors in here Yeah, Christian So. later plays a milk mob man it is it just it just goes places that I was not

expecting yeah and there are times where I was like what's what is this I like a lot of the people involved a lot of the comedians involved I'm like I

feel like I'm we're probably okay let me ask you this somebody said to me it's like one of those older uh SNL sketches that gets made into a film

it feels like that it's that structure or that kind of vibe and if that's the case I've seen worse. I could watch that. Yeah, it's, yeah, don't, don't expect, you know, there is one at least one true bit of knowledge that they drop on you at the very end of the movie. Um, that's true. But everything else is just kind of like, wow, this was going places I did not expect. So if you're looking for, you know,

some fun and there's a few yucks in there, but it's not a, it's not like an episode of Seinfeld. It's not filled with gags every five minutes. So it's, it's meant to be an apocrystal retelling of the beginnings of the Pop-Tart. I don't know if it's apocryphal, except for January 6th stuff. You won't like that as much as you do with the, whatever, the spicy or whatever it was, the Cheetos. The hot, flame, hot, chino. They took some liberties with that, but it was mostly stayed close to the pretty realistic story. I enjoyed the Tetris. If you've seen the Tetris movie, that one is really good.

That was so good. Yes, I recommend all the hell out of that because it's so good. Oh, yeah, it was Jeannie. That's who told me. Jeannie told me this on Twitter, and I completely forgot who. told me. She's right. She says it reminded her of an old S&L movie. Yeah, I'll watch it. I like people involved in it. Only after you've watched everything else on your list,

Scott. This is not a rush out in a buying frenzy to watch this. This is a oh, so this is what happens when Jerry Seinfeld directs a movie. On in the background while you play Midnight Suns. There you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's definitely yeah, it's... I heard Bill Burr makes a good... They got big stars in it. That's

the weirdest thing. I hear Bill Burmakes a good president Kennedy. Is that true? I've heard good things about that. Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah, because he does that accent, that Boston accent really well. Well, yeah, anyway, tune in to both Dead Boy Detectives, which you say isn't that bad and the other thing, which, you know, might be kind of bad. Well, I don't know. We'll see. Anyway, Stephen, it's definitely film sackable. If you guys wanted to do like a film, you know, a movie that's out now. Oh, that's not a bad idea. Yeah, I would do that. Why not? We've done that before. Um, excellent. Well, Stephen, tell people what's going on over there in

major spoilers land that we should be listening to. Listen, if you guys are not listening to the major spoilers podcast, then you are missing out on more of this comic book talk each and every week where we review new comics. We talk about trade paperbacks and whatever else is going on in pop culture. You need to check that out, major spoilers.com. Very nice. Stephen, have a fantastic week.

It's great seeing you. No, stay hydrated. Kiss my butt. Somewhere out there, Randy is going, no I just spent hours doing the film sacked plan for the rest of the year yeah I even I mean we it'll be on Netflix forever so it's not like a thing we have to rush for yeah but I'm with you I do want to I do want to that's a great reason to watch it yeah plus it's it's got a bunch of weird shit even though it's a comedy it's got a bunch

of weird like it's a weird thing to exist it's got yeah all these people involved it's Seinfeld returning to a kind of a prominent spotlight in a way you don't expect from him, not since the B movie. Have we heard anything except cars and comedians getting coffee? Like, it's just weird? This would be a good thing for us if we can figure out a way to do it, to live watch, live commentary watch maybe. That'd be all right, yeah.

I've done that in a while. For comedies, that's a much, you know, I think I feel like that's a much better thing. I agree. Did you just do it for couch party and we invite Randy and Brian to join us? Yeah, we could do that. I mean, we make the rules, Brian. We can do whatever we want. We can do what we won't.

All right. Let's be sort of done here, although I got a couple of quick things. I got a strange text that was kind of pointed. I don't know. Sure. This felt uncomfortable, but I got it. It says Utah flag question and demand. This is someone named Lucas, who says, you changed your flag, your state flag on March 9th.

Why is it so ugly? Please change it back. Cheers, Lucas. All right. I didn't know about this, first of all. Second of all, I have zero say in what we do with our state flag. Well, you have some say because apparently it was voted on by residents. Yeah.

I must have just clicked on past that one. I googled this as soon as I saw this question come up. And I was like, I think your old flag with that seal in the middle of it, with all the tiny writing and tiny little things in the flag, that was ugly. This feels like if Invincible, if the Invincible comic series introduced a, uh, a hero named Beehive Man. This would be the front of his costume, basically. Nice. Let's see if I can find it.

Is the one with the big, I don't see. Oh, it's the big beehive in the middle. It's the big beehive in the middle. The red and blue, dark navy blue with the beehive in the middle. You know what? I don't think this is that bad. It's not that bad. Yeah.

No, this is all right. It's our work ethic, you know? What's nice is that it's simple. Right. Simple, easy to read. The mountains in the back. is a nice touch you know the white kind of makes mountains um actually would take this over that seal that looks like it's a thousand years old it really does it's like industry Utah yeah

you guys want to see the old flag here chat you can see the old one and get a comparison because the old one is just ugh uh where is it it is it right here it's not that it's ugly it's just old it's like no one makes fly they would they be they they doing the the golden the spike when they made this flag? I mean, my gosh. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out, though, you know how like everything on a flag represents something? Like Colorado, obviously you've got the sea, which represents the state's name, but then you've got the gold in there, which represents the gold rush and how important it was to the city, the state's economy. And then the blue represents like the mountains and the colors and the sunset and stuff like that.

I wonder what that star underneath the beehive. Good point. I think it's, if you get close enough, tiny text says, we're weird here. Keep quit jacking up our housing prices. That's what it says there. No, I don't know what that star means. I have no idea. The star means you don't want to live here. It's just like a little focal point design-wise or if it actually has meaning. I'd have to look it up. It probably was like, we need something under there. Want a B? No, not a B. How about a pitchforks are popular? No, I don't want a pitchfork.

Don't do a pitchfork. I don't know what. Maybe it's a little, uh, uh, tron. bit it's just going yes no yes yes yes yes it's just currently going yes yeah it's always the best well anyway uh thank you everyone for that uh or thank you lucas not everyone no one and no one else sent me that just lucas did here's a weird question that we got on a on a phone call and i don't know quite yeah it's a little strange because i feel like on the show you and i talk all the time about things we like to do yeah in our leisure time but somehow this call came in so here it is uh um Hi, the morning stream. I just had a question for you guys.

What do you guys do in your guys in spare time? Do you guys write poetry or something like that? And are we allowed to bring you guys gifts at TMS Vegas? Okay, bye. Yes. So whoever that was probably brought us gifts, I don't know. So you're not recognizing that. Let me give you a little bit of a reminder.

Let's see if I can find it, how quickly I can find it. Is it a reference I just forgot about? It's a reference that you've forgotten about. Let's see. Here we go. Here's the AV file. I'm sending it to you in Discord right now, and you can play the beginning of this. KT.

Data says, OMG, you don't know that voice. I really don't. It is KT. Data's voice. That's KT. Data? Yeah, but he's doing a... Oh! Play that clip I just sent you in Discord. Hi, the morning screen.

I can hear you now, Kevin. All right. Let me play the one Brian Dissimmee. Here we go. Heather in San Jose on K-R-B-E. Hi, Heather. Hi. Hi, Bakira. Hello. I just want to say that I love y'all's music, and I have every one of y'all's tapes. And this question is to Robert. Surprise me. What do you do in your spare time? Like, what's your hobby?

I didn't know this existed. Oh, really? No, we've played this on the show before. Have we? I don't remember this at all. The cure is getting... Why don't I remember this? Oh, my God.

The questions... Let's keep going, because the questions get funnier and funnier from all these. We're playing this whole thing. I mean, see, like, write poets or any of that, you know? Hi, Monica. Hi. I just wanted to tell the cure that they're very talented,

and I enjoy their musical. And I was asked... I wanted to ask Robert a question. Yeah. Yeah, I was just wondering how long you guys plan to stay together? These are unanswerable questions. And forever. Okay.

I can't wait until your concert. And are we... Huh? You have to. You have to. You have to have any choice. Are we allowed to, like, take you guys, like, gifts or anything? Gifts.

Yeah, like... What kind of gifts would you give the band? I don't know, just cards or roses. or something. How do you mean are you allowed to? Okay. What do you mean? Are you allowed to?

I don't understand the question. Oh, I was just wondering if you guys, do you guys receive them? Like if we throw them up on stage. We love to have gifts thrown on stage. I've never, why is my brain blocking this? I don't think I don't know. But it's so, so fun. I don't know why.

Is this like way back, like 2011? Way back. Chris Brown, the real Chris Brown, someday I'm going to get him to go to in this Vegas recorded that um from the radio right it was like the cure was doing some call-in show and he recorded the entirety of it but then he just like give the super cut of some of the worst questions and uh and gave it to me and uh it's just it is just magic like how long do you think you guys are going to stay together it's such a weird question man such a weird question like hey what are you to do with this information if we say probably five more years okay

Josh. What are you going to do with that information? All right. Well, I did, Kevin, A, you did a great job of, you know, pulling this out, like doing a callback. B, I don't remember shit. I don't remember shit. I just don't remember it. It was a while back.

And since I did the Cure episode of Coverville before TMS Vegas, that spawned KT data talking about it. That's amazing. All right. Well, I'm glad we played it, and it's all worked itself out. I just love. Hi, the cure. And the cure's got, the cure's just got no patience, man. They're just like, I mean, you know, Robert Smith being as nice as possible, but you can tell the exasperation, these are unanswerable questions.

Yeah, they really are. How long do you think you'll stay together? I mean, how do you answer that? How long do you think we'll be still doing the TMS, Scott? So weird. Talley, Tally says in the chat, I want to send you my bathwater. Yeah, it had that vibe. A little bit of a vibe there. Well, all right, then. That is going to do it for the show today. A big thanks to everybody for listening. It's good to be back. We'll be here all week with brand new content. Wendy's gone this Thursday at a conference, so we're going to have a little horror catch up there with Monica, someone we missed in babies. Nice. Yeah. I wish she could have gone. I'm going to send her a swag bag. A swag pack.

Yeah, just for being, you know, who she is. That's nice. Anyway, all that stuff coming up this week. For now, we're getting out of here, though. Frogpants.com slash TMS is our website, and don't forget about that free comic book day. Even if the prints aren't available still, the deals are still screaming. So go to frogpants.com slash TMS, or sorry, store, and you'll find out all about it. That'll do it for us.

Brian, anything else you got before we go with a song? That's it. I'm sure we'll have a bunch of other things we talk about over the course of the week. Since it doesn't look like I'm working on the fence this afternoon, I think it's time for me to finally get back to the Millennium Falcon. So look for a live stream of that coming up later on YouTube. Nice. And stuff, more and more stuff.

I like stuff. Stuff is good. Oh, weird. I think you cut out. Oh, really? Only for a second. You're back. You're good.

Oh, okay. All right. As you see, my green rings of ringage are still ringing. Yeah, just a blip. All right. Well, let's get to this. before I lose, disappear forever. Enoch the Sleastak,

aka Derek Hunter, or I'm sorry, Heuther. Oh, I hope I pronounce that right, wrote in and said, just send an email to the main TMS Gmail. Hey guys, Eric the Sleastack, aka Eric Doug Hewler here. This last week I was in Las Vegas working at a conference

and was unable to attend TMS Vegas. But early in the week, I ran into Brian and a few others at the Venetian. Though I looked like some crazed random stranger, Brian, you and the others with you were so friendly. Yeah, we're looking, we're going to the Black Tap burger place to have after our little producers dinner. Right.

And turned out that they were full. And so they sent us away and said, sir, we ain't got the place for you. So we went, but before we went and found our another place, this guy comes running up and is like, oh my God, Brian Abbott, TMS. I'm like, yeah, how you do it? Because I figured, well, yeah, you're here for TMS Vegas. Of course, I'm here. You know about this.

That's what we do. But he was at conference. He couldn't go to any of it except for the thing. And so I said, well, yeah, you recognize here's Scott Fletcher. He's like, oh, my God, Scott Fletcher. And I said, and this is Bobby. Oh, my God, Bobby Frankenberg. Like, he basically just went down the line of getting excited over everybody.

It was so cool. He says, I was able to sneak out Wednesday night for a few hours and meet you both and others at the Sand Dollar. You were kind and generous with your time. And I'm so grateful for the last 10 years, proud patron, of listening to TMS and for the community that you've created. Is it ever too early to get a fish sandwich? Never. I'd also like to thank Bobby, sorry, for taking a picture of us together and adding a little extra something see attached in Gmail.

I've not seen it yet, so I imagine it's going to you at the morning stream. Yeah, I'll double check right now. I'm sorry, give me his first name again. Derek, Derek, uh, Hewther, H-U-E-T-H-E-R. Derek Hugh, looks, Derek, D-E-R-E-K. D-E-R-E-K, uh-huh. Here we go.

I found it. Cool. Oh, yeah. All right, I'll share these as you continue here. Oh. Yeah, awesome photos. He says, I laughed so hard when I looked at the photos on my phone. To commemorate the occasion, I like to request any cover of an Elvis Presley tune.

The only thing more Las Vegas than TMS Vegas is Elvis. Thank you both for everything you do with kind regards, Derek. All right, here, Brian, here is an image of us with him. This was a nice surprise because I'd seen him post something in Discord or something before and talking about how he wasn't sure if he's going to get to see us. It all worked out. And then this one of Bobby, I think, is the one he's chuckling at because Bobby did one of those. Hey, I'll take a picture first.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll take a, right. I did that to a couple of people. I loved TV's Travis right behind it with the hat. Yep, that's great. That's pretty great. Anyway, that's awesome, dude. We were really glad that we got to hang out and see you. Part of my shirt looks like it's still loading from the circle of dots there.

Let's see. Oh, yeah, look at that. That's awesome. Yeah. All right. So, a cover in Elvis Presley tune. I mean, come on. There's only one I really could choose for post Viva TMS Vegas, and that is Viva Las Vegas.

Vegas. This version is by a guy who, I think he was a member of a band for a while. I don't know. Vince Neal came out with an album in 2010 called Tattoos and Tequila. Hey, we all had some of those in Vegas this last week. Here is Vince Neal and his cover of Viva Las Vegas. That's going to do it for us. We'll see you guys tomorrow for a Tuesday edition of TMS. Bright Light City Gonna set my soul on fire Got a whole lot of money That's ready to burn

So get those states up higher There's a thousand pretty women Waiting out there And there are a living Devil big hair And I'm just the devil With love to spare Viva

Las Vegas Vos Vegas Oh how I wish That they were more They're 24 hours In a day Because even if they were Four and more

I wouldn't sleep a minute away Oh, there's a black jagged poker the ruling wheel A fortune won and lost on every deal All you need are strong-hearted nuts of steel Fever, Las Vegas Fever, Las Vegas Fever, Las Vegas with a real fashion And you want a bad discussion

It comes all of your dreams Viva lost failures with the fieldwoods rolling and trace We're slowing Once you taste it You'll never be the same again I'm gonna keep on a run I'm gonna have me some fun If it costs me my very last time

If I winds up broke will I'll always remember That I had a rock and chime I'm gonna kill it everything I've got Lady Lugger, please let the dice stay hot Let me shoot a salmon with a heavy shot Viva, Las Vegas Viva, Las Vegas

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