The Morning Stream - TMS 2646: Flavored Water Polo

Episode Date: May 20, 2024

That Phone has Call Screaming. Is Time Real Because I Like Really Wanted To Know. I Don't Like Buckeeeeeeeeeeeeeys! Ol' Gamy Johnson. Knobby Brown Things. Arizona Jimmy. Soupa Twopa. Go Find the Clues and Do the Thing. Temu IMAX. John De Mulaney. Beware the Ides of Beanfork. Half-Round. Furiosa, where the cars come sweepin' down the plain. Kinda Hosed---On A Bunch Of Fronts. Schleicher coming in hot with Major Spoilers and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Arizona Jimmy. Super twupa. Go find the clues. Do the thing. Timu IMAX. John D. Mullaney. Beware, the aides of bean fork. Half round.

Furiosa, where the cars come, sweeping down the plane. Kind of hosed on a bunch of fronts. Schleiker coming in hot with major spoilers and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. I love the music. The morning stream. The morning stream. Am I still here? Hello.

Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for 20th of May, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian. Hi, Brian. Hello, Scott. It's almost a month ago that we were in Vegas. Almost, yeah.

It's, isn't it funny how it feels like, it feels like it was like just a couple weeks ago. Yep. You know, like we just feel like you just got back from it. But in, you know, in a month it'll be like, oh, my God, it was just a couple months ago? Holy cow. It's so weird to me, how fast it just drifts past, where, you know, when you're leading up to it and you're prepping for it and it's like all encompassing and it's just not here yet, but now it's here and done. And I don't know. It feels weird.

I don't like it. Sometimes, there's so often time doesn't. feel like the same just minute by minute linear path it feels like yeah and i can't decide which form or which side of that i like you know yeah like there times slow i think yeah because as a kid i wanted it fast and now as an adult i want it slow yeah and when you were a kid remember when when when like summer vacations seemed a thousand years long and you're so excited because it meant it both felt long but you wanted it to be long because you don't want to go back to school now three months is nothing it just passes in the blink of it's nothing it's just

absolutely nothing i kind of i kind of hate that so kids enjoy it while you're there none of you who are listening to this show they're watching they're watching kaisenat and other weird streamers beat video games that's what they do now great that's great podcasting uh well anyway hey everybody it's nice to see you all um we've uh i did a thing that i wanted to do for a while now i'll actually share this image with you okay and uh and with the chat here hold on one second chat so up on screen during the fallout show oh yeah yeah they put a number this uh 213 25 vault and i had a bunch of people ride in going if you guys try this you guys try this you try it on the show you should try it br br brer like just freaking out so i thought it would be like a much more like um i remember

and Lost did that. Lost had some numbers you could call. Yeah, there have been a few things like that. Right. Lost had the, like, the Darmine issue. They do it a lot with websites or what was the, there was a show, it was one of the MCU shows, had QR codes.

Oh, wow. I don't remember that. Every once in a while, you would see a QR code on the screen, and if you paused and then scan a QR code, it would take you to a website. It's like Loki or something? Loki maybe, yeah. It feels like something Loki would do. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, anyway, it's a thing that I assumed I was going to call it. Maybe Walton Goggins would talk to me because that's who's on the screen. Sure, right. Like a little recording, hey, thank you for calling about our vault. And if you want to join but to do. Yeah, all that I expected. Here's what I got instead.

Here's the call. Right here. Ah! Ah! Ha! Ha! Oh! Ha!

That's it. That's it. That's it. It hangs up on you at the end and everything. It's just that's fantastic. I love it. It actually creates a whole bunch of extra world building, right? I guess so. It tells me that when you call the main vault office,

it's just it's all gone to shit, you know? Yeah. And I guess that adds to the mystique a little bit. But it does feel like they had an opportunity there to like, I don't know. They could have done something in like old-timey voice here at Voltaic. And then have maybe a ghoul invasion in the middle of the call or something like that. I expected more of that. I think I think I'm kind of like this.

Oh, by the way, it was Moon Night was the TV show, the MCU TV show that had QR codes. And they would take you to, like, first issue of Moon Night and important issues with, like, Kanshu and stuff like that. So, anyway. That's fun. Yeah. But, sorry, so back to the, uh, the screaming. I, I kind of love it. I think it's, I love that it doesn't answer any questions.

It doesn't add necessarily anything to the show, but it kind of creates its own, like, uh, kind of its own little mini story that you have to figure out. Yeah. I like, I just like it in general when people do stuff like this. Like, I think it's just cool to have your connection. connective what do you call that there's a word for it um you're outside your iRL experience but your yeah expanded experience expanded or they call it some kind of game it's got a word it's got a name ah oh really yeah it's like out in the real like meat space uh there's a word for this i can't think of it cool is that uh this company really can use that for a lot of tv shows like

at the time, they probably, it could have been just fine for Breaking Bad season three or something. You could use it for, uh, you could use for anything. Severance, right? You could use it for anything, exactly. Oh, alternate reality game. A.A.R.G, that's it. Okay. That's what I've heard of. Yeah. So this isn't so much of a game. It's just a phone call, right? But, um, some of them are like, uh, let's see, what's a good example of this? Like, um, uh, see, early examples. Uh, oh, like Portal did this. Um, Portal the video game, included

a promotional ARG for its then upcoming SQL Portal 2 is created by the Portal 2 development team. Let's see, change, it had some kind of, oh, there's a bunch of stuff you could do on your own radio, there was a Morris Code thing. So there's like a, this is a right

up your alley, you know, it's like a game you would make kind of, kind of taskily. Yeah, I would love that kind of thing. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, the lost experience. Um, Azimandias in the chat rooms had lost a lot of this and I looked it up as like, yeah, there was a thing called the lost experience and you, I think you, you gather data about one of the, you know,

a different person on the island, one of the other people who was stuck on there or something. Oh, right. Yeah. Oh, okay. Was this on TV? Is this on TV? It wasn't on TV. It was just about the show, right? It was about the show, but I don't know where, how you experience. The Lost Experience. Oh, here it is. Began May 2006, used websites, voicemail, television, and newspaper ads, and a novel to give people clues. Oh, really a novel, too. Oh, that sounds like fun.

Fad Twin released in May 2006, and the fictitious author, Gary Troop, who was aboard Oceanic Flight 815, whose manuscript was discovered by Hurley. That's great. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the, that's really funny. Yeah. I don't have to check that out. I don't, yeah. I kind of remember it, but I don't have any.

memory of I don't have these specific memories like I don't remember a book and an actual book I don't remember a book either yeah that's interesting now here's an idea for a game what you do is you find doesn't have to be a famous author you just find a book in a library

and then you go to some page and you find a unique phrase you think helps your game and then now you've got a hint inside of a book that you can use you don't have to write it for this you just use somebody's book for this like Brian your next game could be I mean

this is basically what's the what's the game you played as kids this is um oh my brain today it has a name it's like some kind of go find the clues and do the thing oh where's Waldo or uh no it's like uh you go down

the street scavenger hunt is the word I was looking for it reminds me of adult scavenger hunt that's it yeah yeah totally is absolutely it's like that's going to take you to this place and oh you have a little thing to figure out there and then a little riddle and that takes you to the next place and yeah why i can't remember the words freaking uh scavenger no i love stuff like that and we there's live versions that we've done here in in uh in denver that uh you know

basically take you from place to place you solve the puzzle and it tells you the next place to go kind of like kind of amazing race style kind of stuff sure yeah we like that a lot it is it's a little like geocaching or whatnot but not quite the same but that's good that's a good comparison i haven't done that in so long is that's still a thing people still geocash yeah i'm sure it is yeah i'm sure it's still and it's probably a lot easier now that we have gpses on our phones i remember when i had to have a a separate little GPS device i still have it somewhere and it's like you god you sit there and wait for it acquiring satellites acquiring satellites it's like good lord i just want to find a a little metal box locked to a tree that's got an arm

army man in it so i could put this matchbox car in its place we used to love doing this with the kids we did it all the time when they were a little bit not so much lately um all right everybody check this out we got a guy who does not like buckies all this buckies talk beaver nuggets and all that you know right right well he ain't having any hey's got grind uh screw I have to go to the temple of that two-toothed terror more often than I'd like. My wife demands we stop there every time we go to Dallas. But that place is always as busy as Black Friday. It's insane.

The one thing you guys do talk about yet is it's real planned to fame on here is the clean bathrooms, which apparently all the way they look. Anyway, love the show, though. I missed that last part. I wasn't quite sure what he said. Yeah, something about the cleanest bathrooms, but I couldn't tell what he said after that.

Yeah, a little jumbled up on his call. But it doesn't sound like he likes going to Buckees. No, does not enjoy that two-toothed jackass or whatever he called him. I love it. To tear or whatever it was. Yeah. That was great.

Don't feel like you have to hold back, guys. If you want to ride in and call in and tell us how much you hate a thing, it's fine. This is not, and this is not like yucking somebody's yum. Tell us why you don't. don't like it yeah we'd love to give us the details to know uh it's funny but two of us in the chat tried to get i don't like buckies as a title and it didn't work for either of us so oh weird it's still open folks still open you can get that uh is our thing is our pound est uh or our bang s not

working yes uh didn't work for me uh didn't look like it worked for 1980s wiki yeah it looks like uh oh clare clear got it looks like okay so maybe it's uh mine didn't work though. Oh, it is in there? Oh, okay. It just didn't give me the showbot saying submission has been added. Yeah, I'm not getting that either. That's weird. The message isn't coming through. I'm sure by how I'll fix it. Okay, but it is going through. All right, good. Whatever's going on, you never know. Also, an update on a lot of people might wonder how my life is, trying to work my way toward Furiosa viewing. Right, because you've got that whole situation with Kim leaving town for a little bit and, uh, yeah, she leaves for two weeks and she leaves on

Saturday, something like that. And so her and her sister go to Oregon. So her sister in Mississippi flies here. They get in another plane the very next morning, go to Oregon, and then for two weeks they spend either driving or otherwise moving her sister in Oregon down to Mississippi to her new house down there.

By the way, this is the sister, if I talked about it, this is the sister whose husband was shot by cops and killed. Remember that? Oh, right. Yes. I remember telling me that story. Holy cow. It's just a cavalcade of disasters on Kim's side of the family. But anyway, she finally got a settlement with the Oregon State Police, something, something, because it was a completely wrongful death.

Like, they just, they were out looking for somebody, saw him on his porch, and shot him, basically. And just shot him, yeah. It was awful. No provocation, no, you know, he was not holding a weapon or anything. It was just, in the same. Just complete bullshit, top to bottom. And they finally gave a settlement. It was a sizable one.

I'm very happy for her. It meant that she could get out of the. there move to where she wants to move get a big house not worry about you know having to pay for for all this stuff uh get her and her dog down there see some family that kind of thing so it's all good it's just like that it's a barely a silver lining to the most hideous story you've ever heard so that's what kim's doing it's all about helping her and getting her moved out and doing all her thing so while she's gone i'm kind of hosed on a bunch of fronts right i'm going They eat like crap, you know, laundry.

Scott's dinner tonight? Corn nuts. Oh, hey, good news. I know. I heard about the box. Look at this. Oh, my God. Look at the whole box.

You were talking about, uh, look at all those. I got original, 10 originals, six ranch, four barbecue and four chili pecante. Ten original. So this is like, I wish it was less originals. And they're also the skinnier little bags. Because I'm not a, the originals are. are fine. I just don't, they're not my favorite. But these, if I had like all picante or barbecue, I'd be happy. But look at these things. They're just little thin bags. Nice little snack

size. Nice little portioned out for you. Yep. So big thanks to Kim for that. That's, by the way, Sam's Club online, sammsclub.com. Oh, nice. Nine, like nine bucks for this. That's amazing. Wow. Yeah, very happy. Cool. If you like corn nuts, that's the way to go. We'll see the state of that box in two days. Let's see if there's anything in the box before Kim leaves. Yeah, I'm going to create some really like cheese on corn nuts. It's going to be cooking with corn nuts. Cooking with corn nuts.

Oh my gosh, the video series will take off. Finally, the viral video I want. Anyway, so my ticket is to Furiosa. So here's what we ended up to do. The whole goal originally was we were going to try to do a big thing here, maybe even a big like run out the theater. And then that kind of went away because it's like, well, where? Because nobody's letting us do it for a big opener like this.

And anything where I could do it, it'd probably cost us around 10 grand. Nobody's doing that. So I was like, okay, well, how about just the Utah meet up with all the Utah folks? And so there's been a lot of back and forth on Discord about what we're going to do and how we'd do it. I just can't make the day's work for that. So here's our backup plan. I know you're going Thursday, right? Thursday night?

Yeah, I got my tickets and I'm ready to go. Go to George. Brian doesn't want to have anything to do with that movie. Totally fine. But see, now you're going to be, you're going to get a whole. day ahead of me. Oh, really? So you're not seeing a Thursday also. No. We tried. We tried

really hard to get it on Thursday. The problem also is I have shows on Thursday night and that just Fs it up. So now, Friday... Is there anybody you do a show with who would expect? Like, well, I know Furiosa comes out that night, but by golly, we better be doing a show that night.

Well, in this case, it's core. They know my love of it, but the hard part is our schedules, they're really hard to align for other nights. So we just don't know how to do it. So I'm sacrificing night one for that. And then Friday matinee, as early as I could get one, I don't know what Kim ended up getting. We get this brand new theater, the big format, EX, whatever.

Basically, it's like IMAX on Wish, kind of. Right. We have that, yeah, I mean, that's kind of like our big, our Almodraft House, the big show is their equivalent of that. It's not IMAX, but it is a massive. screen, it's Dolby Atmos and all that stuff. So that's what we're doing there. Nice.

And I'm very excited. So you are going to have a 24-hour advantage. Maybe a 12-hour advantage? 12-hour advantage. Well, or 18 hours, we'll see. So we'll see what happens, but I am so excited. The reviews are great. Totally stoked.

I'll be radio silent about it. I'll tell you, oh, I enjoyed it a lot, but I won't tell you anything more than that. That would be great. Because then, when we get back together, we can have a moment there, you know. That's right. We'll have a big, spoilery discussion one week from today on TMS. Yeah, I'm very excited about this.

Anyway, the reviews are hot. I can't wait. I cannot freaking wait. Nice. What else? Oh, Brian, you brought something here. One last thing before we get done away. All right, so this was a story that was all over, like I saw this on YouTube,

and Tina and I cracked up about it the whole time. I even talked with one of my lift rides. about it. So this line right here, the third line in my notes, can you pronounce that? I'm going to get a try. Okay. Sarah Vouranjindjibranam. Okay. Cool. All right. So now I'm going to tell you this is, what you just read is the phonetic pronunciation of a woman that got her nursing degree last week from Thomas Jefferson

University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. And this woman, oh, I guess I'll give everybody the name. Let's see here. I'll put it in chat. Okay. Here you go. So you all can see what Scott had to deal with. Yeah.

So you can watch the entire commencement online, these graduations. And what's great about it is you hear the woman pronounce the name. Yeah. And then you see the name at the bottom of the screen afterwards. So it almost becomes a little game, like, guess what that name was? So the one you just pronounce there, Scott, is this name right here. Okay. Hold on a side.

No, this is how she pronounced it. Sorry, here you go. Sayer Uvun, Jean-Ju-Brinan. Wow. Wow. That name is Sarah Virginia Brennan. Shut up, dude. That's Sarah Virginia Brennan.

Really? Why does that all left up like that? Why is it like that? Why did she say that? Because they gave her a card, and I'll give you a little, I'll put it in our Discord. You can share it with the chat. They gave her a card for each person that looked like this. And instead of just reading the top of it, she read the middle part, which is that phonetic spelling, which there are a lot of people, you know, in the graduation, who have very unusual names.

Right. Foreign names that are hard to pronounce. And so there's a lot where, you know, she had to rely. on that this reminds me that table top card game that you play with your family what's that called

where you're trying to you're trying to how does it work you show them a card and it's like this and then they are trying to say it but it's really words that are really simple

like my car is broken down but instead it's all phonetically weird right and you have to figure out what that person is saying yeah there's one like that where you have to put a big plastic device in your mouth but that's not the one you're talking about.

No, not that one. Although I hate that one because it's so gross. Everybody has to use that thing. It's really gross and it's just like drool all over it. All right, let's give you a few more names. I think it's more fun to tell you the names ahead of time so you can appreciate the mingling of them. Here is Allison Nicole Bishop. All right.

Alessuna Cole Bishop. Just look up one line, lady. Just read the name. Marissa Lynn Brabazan Kar Marisselen Brabazan car Wow Wow

And people clapped That's the best part Megan Louise Aubrey All right Michin Lu Iabri You think they're having a meeting Today about how

You know I think so Yeah, but Jessica Lynn Bauer. Okay. Here's Jessica Lynn Bauer. Jessica Lynn Bower. She got close toward the end. Oh my gosh.

Here's my favorite. Finally, Stephanie Battista Santos. Okay. Stephanie is the first name. I remember that. All right. Afuni Battista Santos. also i get the feeling who did the whoever did the phonetics on this might be having a little

fun like maybe well and so i picked up a woman in the lift this week or this weekend named jessica and i said oh hi you you know she got in confirmed with her where she was going i said you haven't by chance seen the uh the video of the woman uh mangling names on the graduation she's like no tell me about it so i told her about it and i had it already on my phone from team and i watching it and played Jaciku Lin Bauer and she's like

God that's right I wonder if she was if she was dyslexic or having a stroke and I said no it's like apparently she was confused by the phonetic spelling so she pulled up like if you search for Jessica phonetically

you get Jess and then letter I and then KUH for the kuh right Jessica but if you come from a Latin language background Mexico or Portuguese or something like that.

The letter I is pronounced E in those languages. And K-U-H, the letter U is U instead of U. So your vowels in Spanish are A-E-O-U. And so you would like automatically go, oh, okay, J-S-I-Ku, J-Siku. I mean, that would throw me the hell off. I would not be able to do it. But I get it. I'm looking at some website right now, and you're right.

The way they break these out, it's all like this. Yeah. I guess I'm a little surprised that I thought it would be the whole idea is to make it simpler. The whole idea is to make it simpler, but why she didn't just look up and say, oh, Sarah Virginia Brennan. Yeah, yeah, these aren't her names. I get if it's like some girl from, you know, Dubai and you're trying to pronounce their name or whatever, but Jessica, I just, I would glance up one inch. That's what I would do. Yeah, exactly.

Well, that's fantastic. Nice catch on those. No problem. I'll send you a few of those if you want to capture them out for audio. Good news is that Adel Dezim did get her diploma. Oh, good. Adelda Zeme now is a practicing nurse in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Oh, congratulations to her.

She's finally done it. Well, all right, then. How about a game? Yeah. A game of our own making, you know, one that we did. And when I say we, I mean you, Brian did. He doesn't. Well, I mean, you know, I'm here to help present,

but Brian does the hard work on these games. I'm not very game-minded, even though I play a lot of games. Don't sell yourself short. You're very game. That's true. And I am proud of my card games. Other than that, I don't know if I'm very good at this sort of thing. But I do know this. I'm killing time while I try to add Dunaway, because his name... It's a very good stall. I try to help me out with that. Yeah. There it is. Okay. For some reason, that was coming through weird. All right. Anyway, here it is. Now this. Weir, Brian Dunaway, joining us all the way from South Carolina. Hello, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian.

Oh, hey, my neighbors right next door, awesome people, love them. They just moved out and are headed your direction. They're going to live in South Carolina for a year and fix up a house out there for their parents and then they're coming back here. But while they're there, I told them that you existed and that you would take good care of them, okay? Yeah, totally. We should totally need up. And while they're away from their home, I'll be heading your way.

Excellent. Squatters rights. That's right. They got a pool. Yeah, no, they have a hot tub, though. Hot Tickety-Doh. It looks like Brian Dunaway got a new hot tub. That's right.

Priyan do no no way. No, no, no. Well, anyway, it's good to have you here, man. We're going to play a game, as you know. It's the Monday half-asses. And Brian here will explain all the details. Yeah. Welcome in the morning.

Half-Ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers. I'll give Scott and a Brian a category and a Scott and a Brian and a category. And six possible answers, three of which are. correct and three that are like the woman's pronunciation of the name Thomas when it's in the name of the university was completely wrong if you get any of those wrong you get

zero points for that round get one right gets you a point two right gets you three points and three right gets you five points total play with the most points after three rounds wins a prize for their contestant and contestants will be pulled from members of the tadpool that aren't able to listen live Scott you're going to be playing for Jimmy in Arizona

Arizona Arizona fantastic Arizona Brian you're going to be playing for Chris Warren in Wisconsin. Nice. Yes. W-I, baby. Woo!

That's right. All right. Let's get to your questions. I'm not going to be, I'm not going to sugarcoat this. These are maybe a little bit on the tougher side, but play to your strengths. All right. Play it safe. I don't know.

Do what you can do. The first one, while we just talked about pronunciations and English and all that sort of thing. The first one are English words that originated. in Amerindian languages, Amerindian, Amerindian, Amerindian, Amerindian, Native American. Thank you. Thank you for translating that for me, because I was like, I don't know what you're saying. Indigenous people, people's language. Amerindian. Okay, so you're saying like American Indian. Yeah, but there's like a word you use when you're talking about. You know what I love, the fact that you, that you spent 10 minutes making fun of that lady and you can't even say this. Carmas a bitch.

I should have put it phonetically on here. Absolutely, yes. I love it. You know, the ones that we're here before we got here and we took all their shit, those guys. That's who we're talking about. Those are the ones right there. Yes, exactly. Sure.

We found it. Oh, yeah. Exactly. All right, your words are. Asparagus, potato, tundra, avocado, cedar, and hurricane. Oh, my gosh. Uh, oh, these are hard. Yeah.

asparagus asparagus like I used it asparagus I'm doing too what is that even I don't know I feel very un

my theory was this if it was available for the Native Americans to have seen it's probably a word they already had whereas you know

potato we knew what a potato was anyway continue exactly all right you guys are both locked in do it um all right you guys both settled on cedar um cedar actually comes from greek

damn it but you guys other choices avocado and hurricane both come from uh amurindian languages up let's see here avocado comes from uh nahuatee and hurricane comes from carib carib not reveal did it not reveal the answers no did not do it did you reveal answers please there it is there we go It was potato. Interesting. Potato is the other one. Potato. What did we call it before?

Potato? Is that what we called it? No, I think we, what did we call it? I don't know if we had a word. Well, obviously we didn't know. Because it came from this. It's weird that the English language did not have a potato. I just find that incredibly.

It may have had something. It probably had like, I don't know, knobby brown thing or something. I wonder what the old word was. That's what I mean. Like, I don't know. I'd like to find out as well. That's crazy to me. A hurricane.

So hurricane. I started seeing a pattern here, and so I thought, ooh, Hurricane is a city here, and I knew that was named after Native Americans. Cedar, so then I thought, well, maybe Cedar City is because it's just up the road by an hour and a half, and I was wrong. We love cedar here in the U.S., so I thought it made sense. Oh, we're big fans of cedar, sure. Cedar would, smell it.

All right, fair enough. All right, very good. Let's get to questions. number two moving on to Nabisco products which of these are products you get from Nabisco

Lorna Dune Goldfish Barnum's Animal Crackers Teddy Grams chips deluxe and Cheez-its They all sound right Gosh dang it There's no way I'm getting this right Keebler you say

Keebler No I'm sorry Nabisco Nabisco Not to the You can so easily fool it apparently you barely can yes exactly yeah yeah kebler right yeah yeah what's weird what's weird what's bradley these names are all like gloob is it galube anyway um let's see what we got here this is look this is hard

this one's hard so lorna dune goldfish barnum's animal crackers teddy grams chips deluxe and cheese it's all right three of those are made by mibisco makes his own animal crackers so it's no it's not that i don't think it's goldfish I don't even know about this other one, and I want to be conservative yet bold here. So I'm just going to go these two. Oh, okay. All right.

Well, you should have just stayed with your first one, Scott. You got greedy and one for two. Lorna Dune is correct. Lorna Dune does come from Nabisco. The other two that come from Nabisco, goldfish come from Pepperidge Farms. You guys, neither do you fell for that one. Because, well, they comes that little bag that the Milano cookies in.

Exactly. It's the same shape. Yeah, exactly. Chips Deluxe comes from the aforementioned Keebler. And Cheez-Sitz comes from Sunshine Biscuits. Oh, come on. Lorna Dune, Teddy Grams, and Barnum's Animal Crackers come from, yeah, come from the Biscuit. Now that you confirm Barnum, I can see it.

I can see the triangle logo in the corner. Yeah. Damn it. I only eat the animal crackers that are frost. I like the ones that are like, you know, all laid out with the frost on it. Yeah. Yeah. Petrich Farm remembers goldfish.

You know what? That's kind of funny that Petridge Farm does goldfish, right? And they remember, but the joke is that goldfish remember nothing. Right. They have a 10 second memory. Yeah. Pepperidge Farm. But they remember.

That's amazing. We remember for our goldfish because our goldfish can't remember. I just, I think goldfish are. stubborn. I think they remember. I like that you did the whole thing in the voice. Our goldfish don't remember. That's amazing. J.R.P.W. says, apparently people in the U.S. don't know that

Lorna D. Dunn is a classic 19th century novel by R.D. Blackmore. No, you know, for me, it's always been the real name of the Marvel character, the Marvel mutant Polaris. Oh, is that true? Lorna Dune. Is that true? Lorna Dane. Oh, I thought it was Lorna Doodle. Yeah. Lorna Doodle. All right. Let's get to, let's get to the last one here.

Question number three, secret service code names. Secret service code names. Don't know why it says services. I mean, I know why I put a typo in there, but I don't know why I put that typo in there. Your choices are, Angel for Air Force One, Crockpot for the White House Situation Room, Cobweb for the Vice President's Office, bamboo for the presidential motorcade, time bomb for the Pentagon, and Camelot for the White House. Which three of these are the actual secret service code names for those? for those places.

Now, are these, I have a question for the judge here. Are these permanent names for the things that are correct, meaning it's... Yes, because remember, like, different presidents have different code names, but the names in here are the ones that they continue to use across all presidencies. Okay. That's good to know. Is it? Yeah. Is it good to know? Also, I'm trying not to let Hollywood get in my way a little bit. It's a very specific one.

Anything I click here is going to be an absolute guess. Yeah. And not in a good way. Not in a like, I figured it out and it's a good answer. It's a, I'm going to click this one. I wish the situation room was hot farts. That's what I know. I like that.

Just sitting there doing hot farts. Oh, man. All right. They sound like bullshit. Well, that's because you're, you're discerning critical mind. Yeah, well, there's no critical thought on this one, so I'm just clicking. All right. Give me it.

Okay. All right, you guys both locked in. Let's go for this. All right. You guys both settled in on Angel for Air Force One. That is correct. Oh, thank God. Angel is Air Force One.

Camelot is not the White House. Shit! No, because... Well, Olympus is the movie. The Olympus's Fallen thing, and I didn't want to fall for that, and I guess I did. Damn it. Let's see if they... If I have a list here, government officials, is there locations?

There we go locations. So the presidential motorcade, yeah, as you see, is really bamboo. Angel is Air Force One. Cobweb is the vice president's office. That's rude. The Pentagon is actually Calico. Yeah. Okay.

The White House Situation Room is cement mixer. Wow. Yep. We need some updates. Let's see. What else was another fake one? of the... Motorcade?

Oh, no, that's correct. Citadel is the White House. Oh, Citadel. Because Olympus, they made up for that movie. Right, right. Right. Oh, and then Angel is fallen as the... Now, I don't remember.

Angel was falling with something else. I guess it was the plane. I don't know. Yeah. Was there one for Angel? I remember Olympus. Olympus Angel. I wouldn't know why Cobweb is the vice president's office.

Yeah, that's a really weird. It does, right? It was Olympic. then it was London. White House down, then Olympus is falling? Then it was Furby. White House down is a different series. Yeah, that was the deep impact

of their Armageddon. That's right, that's right. That might be where I'm getting confused is that I was... And I think we watched Angel has fallen on film sack or if we didn't, we watched it somewhere. And I thought that was pretty good. That is actually all right.

I was surprised because the second one, the London one, abysmal, terrible, not good. I thought they were all good. Yeah, of course you did. I enjoyed all of them. You did. Yeah. You have the VHS gold release or whatever?

No, don't be stupid. That's a DVD era. Come on. Yeah, you're right. It's a Blu-ray era. The Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Secret Service name is Roadhouse. Oh, nice.

I love it. Cal Puncher, another acceptable name for Air Force One. Cal Puncher, how is that? U.S. presidential state car, also known as stage coach, but the follow-up car is half-back. Wow. Wow. Yeah. What are they, what do they call the president's penis? What is that?

Well, it depends on the president. Hot, hot farts. Oh, man. Top bar. Come on, man. Angel hair. That's right. Maybe.

Mushroom kingdom. Yes, the mushroom kingdom. Mushroom kingdom. You know what I realized yesterday? I realized this yesterday. We really have the worst choice this year. George W. Bush is young. than either of our current candidates.

Oh, wow. Think of that. Think of that. The president from who got out. They don't care who sides you're on. These guys are far too old for anything. Get them out of here. Let them retire.

Both of them. Just go to sit around, man. What are you doing? Give some young folks up in here. Well, there you go. Well done. Brian Dunaway on your win. That's right.

So that means Chris Warren is going to be getting the prize. Chris Warren from Wisconsin. You're going to be getting a copy of Impherson. impulsion, and we brought this up last week, Escape Game Fort Boyard, Fort Boiard. You're going to be getting a copy of those. But Jimmy in Arizona, you're getting a copy of Ferraronic, Faroanic, like it's spelled like Pharaohs,

but with an NIC at the end, and no H-so-Ferronic, I guess. His nickname should be... M-O-U-S-E. That should have been given me phonetically. His nickname should be Arizona Jimmy. That's a cool name. Well, congratulations. to you. Congratulations. You're a winner. And I get a big old fat. Where is it? I lost it.

No, I don't know where I went. I'll take Brian's fart noise. That works just fine. Yeah. There you go. If you want to participate in this stuff, you can sign up on the, there's always a, what do we call that? The thing that you put up on the site that lets people suggest topics. A poll? Oh, the survey. The survey. It's over right now. But just know that in future. We have these moments where we do surveys. No, no, no. The surveys for the tadpully feud, and that's still up. People can still contribute to the survey. We never do that here, then. What do we do?

There's an, yeah, there's an I want to play link or something like that on frogpants.com slash TMS where people can enter in their wish to be considered for an absentia prize on this game. So somebody has a really amazing idea, though, for the questions. Do they just contact you or her? Yeah, email those to me because I won't see those in the survey for Tadpool. I prefer when people just post it on Twitter and then tag me you and Scott. Yeah, there you go. You prefer that.

Yeah, that's a great organized way to handle it. Done away, good job. And also, kick our butts. No, you? Kiss our butts. That's what I mean. Kick our butts. Please kick our butts.

Nicely done. All right, everybody. How about a little bit of news in your life? It's time for the news, brought to you by. During TMS Vegas, a wonderful woman and I were talking, and they were wondering how to share the information to raise funds for their upcoming event. Their nephew had recently surpassed them

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Yeah, try a couple ways. It's Tiny.cc. It's Tiny.c. slash Ant-Barb MS-150 and the A, the B, the M and the S are all capitalized. if that's important. Thanks for the supports brought to you by Lowy D. aka Mrs. Taffy Guy. So did you not know that was a thing? Thanks a lot, Lowy.

No, I had no idea. I did not even read ahead on this one. I just started reading it. So that is hilarious. Oh, good. I was really hoping that's how that was going to happen as you were just going to read it and find out. Well, she and Uncle George need the love.

They don't have a tadpole behind them to help get their funding going for the MS-150s. So go check it out. And I confirmed it is case sensitive. So Ant, Barb, and MS. So A, B, and M.S are all capitalized. The A and Ant, the B and Barb, the MS are all capitalized. Makes it slightly more complicated, but you guys will figure it out. You're smart internet people, all right?

Cool, cool. Oh, by the way, Genie says the link to I want to play is pinned in the Facebook group. So if you go to the Facebook group, that's where you'll find the link pinned for playing the half-asses game if you're not able to be here live. and Serenic says, is there a cool-down period for signing up for half-asses? I think I was one like two years ago. Oh, so if we've used your name, yeah, maybe wait six months, but you can enter again. And if you've already entered, I don't delete those names until I use you. So feel free to only enter once, because if I see duplicates in there, I will delete them.

You've been warned. That's right. Let's get to this story about Metallica's James Hetfield. uh we like him he's cool napster yeah yeah well he has used lemmy kilminster you know lemmy from motorhead

from right yep uh they used he used his ashes in a motorhead tattoo he had put on himself that's appropriate if you can get a hold of them that's a that's a very good use for those ashes yeah you can find lemmy's ashes good lord the thing you could do uh metallic a frontman james james headfield has a new tattoo which includes some of

Lemmies, ashes, and a suitably rock and roll tribute to the Motorhead Star. And an Instagram post on Wednesday had filled showed off the Ace of Spade's design, etched on his middle finger. Ace of Spade! Perfect, yeah. Right on his bird. What is it? It's on his middle finger? Yeah.

There it is. Yeah, you said that etched on his middle finger. Is there a photo? I didn't even look. Let's see. I mean, I'm sure there is on Instagram, but see here. Chat, you guys want to see where he put it? Oh, I don't have a link.

It's okay. Well, anyway, he got an urn. Let's see. Last March, last year was last, and an urn containing some of them would be housed at a heavy metal festival called Bloodstock in Canton Park and Derbyshire, and he got a hold of it there.

Let's see. Also speaking in 2016, Hepfield told a local newspaper that Lemmy's death left him distraught. My vision of him was as a statue of a man that was immortal. When he passed, it scared me. Like, where's our captain now? he'd been a godfather to us

there's no doubt that without him there would be no Metallica when he was around I just felt like things are going to be okay he says so this means a lot to him that's cool Lemmy was cool man he was a different dude

I liked him a lot he was kick ass mustache like the whole the whole porn stash thing all the way down his face that thing was the best it probably well I don't know if it took years off his life

but it took years off his face let's move on this story about let's stay in music for a minute. All right. Okay. All right. Flav or Flav is the new official hype man

for the U.S. women's water polo team. Oh, yeah, it totally makes sense. Yeah. You don't even need to explain why because that is, that track so perfect. Right off the bat, you're like, I was waiting for when we would get news of this, right? I heard this news and I went, oh, yeah, boy.

You are a clocked around your neck and everything. Uh-huh, yeah. The U.S. didn't he poop on stairs or something in a, TV show. What was the deal? It was one of the women that he was wooing who pooped on the stairs. It was that flavor of love. And the only reason

I know this is because they played that clip incessantly on the soup. That's right. One of the women actually was like running upstairs and sharded. What's her name that was married to Stallone for a while? Bridgett Nielsen. Bridgett Nielsen. Yeah, or on a follow-up

reality show with him. That's what type of reality show that I don't care too much for. I don't either. It's fun to watch them cheese it on the soup, but other than that, yeah. For sure. That's the only way I'll watch that stuff is, uh, I miss the soup. There needs to be a new, a new version of the soup.

Yeah, can we get a soup 2.0? Who can come, who would you have back? If you can't get Joel or anyone else who's done it. Who would you, who would you get today? Because this would really be 3.0, right? Because originally it was talk soup with, um, that guy who was, or not Craig Kilbourne. No, uh, actor who went on to, like, movies like, Sabrina and

Dear God Why can I think of his name? Greg Caneer Greg Caneer Thank you again from Chicago Geez louises Yeah you had Caneer then you had not

McHale was Not John Not John Stewart But it was John He was one of the guys who did wipe out And he had a little skunk boy He had a little white spot in his hair He was a personal favorite

I liked him Was he yeah House Sparks right It was a thing It was one for a while Joel McHale. So who would who'd you get now? Yeah. We had the one lady

Oh, Aisha Tyler was for a while. She was good. Love her. She's great. I'm enjoying Archer a lot more. Did I even say that I skipped, I paused Archer for a little while and watched all of the Stitch movies I haven't seen. The sequel. Oh, you did? How'd that go? It was good. You know what? I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought it would. And the second one, actually, they all bring back Kevin McDonald from Kids

It's in the hall as one of the two aliens. Tia Carrere as Lilo's older sister. Yeah. Dakota Fanning came back, I think, for one of them as Lilo. So they're worthy of a watch, you think? They're worthy of a watch, yeah, exactly. John Henson, that's it. Thank you, TV's Travis.

John Henson, that's the guy. John Henson, the skunk boy. So who would you get now? You know, I hate to say it, it would have to be somebody, like, maybe like a podcasting or YouTube, personality. I mean, Mark Maron probably would be pretty funny, but there's no way he'd feel like that was probably a step down from what he's doing now. Yeah. I mean, I don't

I feel like it'd have to be somebody who's just really dry. Yes, very sarcastic, very... It's probably some... I mean, I can tell you who I'd want, but there's no way they'd ever get him, and that would be Dave Atel, the comedian Dave Atel. Oh, that's not bad, yeah.

And Dave is old as shit now. Oh, shit. You know who'd be great is Delancey, John DeLanth, John Delanis? DeLanis. John Mulaney. John Delancy. Hugh.

You get a crusty space hands. John Malaney. Jeez, Louise. Get crusty space hands to do it. Yeah, he'll do it. He's got nothing else going on. Malaney, John, yeah, Sean just said that too. But John Malaney would be hilarious because he's got that level, that sense of humor that

would be perfect for that sort of thing. It does seem like it's a little too small of a gig, though, and I wonder if that's, the beauty of the soup was you knew you were going to get somebody who was like a bright shot for the future of comedy. like somebody who was like, oh, they're really going to go on to something. On the way up. Yeah, on the way up instead of going back. So I think it'd have to be somebody like that.

But I don't know. I miss it, though. I like that show a lot. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Well, anyway. Teren Kill him. Let Taryn Kill him have a job because he was great on S&L. He was great on that TV show he was on for a while, and he could totally pull this off.

Yeah, get in there. Get that done. Anyway, the water polo team, when they go to Paris this summer, they have, they got Flavor Flav there. He's the hype man. That's the whole story. It's literally it. We spent more time talking about the headline than there really is as far as meat of the story.

Yeah, I mean the idea, well, I'll tell you, okay, so here's a quote from, let's see, Maggie Stephens is the team's captain. She made a plea on social media to her followers to build up support for the team. Quote, there's no greater honor than representing Team USA on the Olympic stage side by side with strong, talented, driven women

who empower you every day, she says, on her post on May 4th. She added water polo, women's water polar specifically may not be the most popular sport or on everyone's radar. But with women's sports even more on the rise, I encourage everyone to give these women a try, she says. And by the way, I think water polo is hardcore. You get strong as hell. I do not know how you people do it. Any game, anything where you compete in the water is a lot harder than, you know, doing it online because of that extra drag and

extra slowdown of being in the water to do that. It's so so tough. It still doesn't explain why Flavel Flav is involved. None of this article explains what he's doing. So here's what he did. He replies, so it says here, the 65-year-old rapper stepped forward to help the U.S. team to get its unprecedented fourth consecutive gold medal at the Paris Olympics this summer. Here's what he said is a comment. Quote, as a girl dad and supporter of all women's sports, I'm a personally sponsor you, my girl. Whatever you need, he commented. it on her post, quote, and I'm a sponsor the whole team.

And then he added, that's a flavor, flave promise, he says. Oh, wow. So then she said, yeah, and now they're doing it. So there you go. Nice. That's how it happens. Sometimes the internet is a magical place where truly magical things can happen. Where combinations you'd never expect to work still don't.

Yep, somehow still don't. All right, that's going to do it for today's news. We come back from this break. We're going to spend some time with Stephen Schen. Schleiker. Got a couple things boiling over there in his pot, as it were. And we'll do that here in a second. But first, we must hear a song. Brian, play a song. There is a magical moment in life, Scott, when a band that has long time been one of your favorite bands, and one of my favorite bands, gets to the point, or let me phrase that, where you grow up with one of your

favorite bands, and then you get a podcast where you can promote and play music, and the PR group for one of your favorite bands sends you a PR thing to promote a song. That's happening right now for me. A favorite band of mine is The The. Matt Johnson, we've talked about how much I love this band before. I've done a couple covervilles all about him, and I love, God, the Mind Bomb album is fantastic, infected is fantastic. He's just put out nothing but great albums. They are announcing their first new studio album in a quarter century. The The Is Back. A brand new album is called Insolment, and it comes out September 6th on Cineola Ear Music.

Big thanks to Lisa Gothel at Grandstand Media for letting me know about this one. The first single is out, and it's called Cognitive Dissident. This is the brand new single from The The, enjoy. Subar, Cerville, dumbed, dumbed, cut out, screen grabbed, down, ranked, untagued, untagued, untagued, untagued, deep, Nothing to hide, nothing to fear, no one to censor, no one to smear. The revolution's been authorized, the future privatized, the consensus created, reality, created, every place you thought you belonged, everything you thought you knew is wrong. Left is bright, black is white, inside out, hope is down, Right to front

The riches out Truth stands on the gallows In the shadows, communicates by code. The unthinkable is now thinkable. The poison, it's drinkable. So get with the program, get in sync. You better self-scent of a wrong think. Black is white

Inside out Hope is down Below above Pain is Love upside down Square is round War is peace West is east

That to front The witch is Hound Send in me, e-mails-in'-for-my-em-mail-in' for my bum-hole! And we're back. Who the heck was that again? Oh, Scott, that was the, the great band, bad SEO, bad search engine optimization. They got a brand new album coming out in September called Insolment.

That is the first single from it. It's called Cognitive Dissident. And if you ask me, Matt Johnson has never sounded better. I agree. Even more than my brother, Matt Johnson. Johnson. Sounds way better than him. That's right. He's easily your second favorite, Matt Johnson. That's right.

Yeah. Saw him this weekend. He said hi to everybody. He likes that you're all watching his goofy videos, so keep that up. He appreciates it. Okay. Well, let's get Stephen in here. Yeah. He's around. I just know it. Here we go. I saw him chatting

in there, so I know he's here. And I'm going to play his thing. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dollar, dollar bills, y'all. Oh, dollar Bills is all we need, and Stephen is here to bring them. Hello, Stephen Schlecker. Welcome back. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hey, man.

Feels like it's been a while. How are you? I'm good. School is over. I have turned on all grades, and we're all done, and now we're into summer vacation, and I have to yell at my kids to get out of the basement and stop playing video games and go get some sunshine. I literally had that conversation with the youngest today. I was like, listen, I don't want you down in the basement all day. I need you upstairs.

What are your kids into right now? What are they playing? that they're I don't know something where the oldest at one o'clock in the morning is screaming at the top of his lungs throughout the house

at somebody else on the other end of the game and he's not using good words Oh, goodness. Oh, great. And then the youngest is, I don't know, playing something that also has him

screaming at the top of his lungs bad words at inappropriate times. I'm curious. Now I'm very curious. I'm sure it's one of those, you know, first person team shooter things. Fortnight-y kind of thing. Could be Fortnite?

Fortnite. Probably like Rainbow Seed Six or whatever that stuff is. Oh, yeah. My brother, my son-in-law is really into Rainbow Siege. And he plays out all the time. Or no, Rainbow Seed. I think that's, I don't know what the games are. It's one of those first person shooters where you shoot at each other and try to kill and then your team doesn't win

and so you yell curse words at 1.30 in the morning and I have to come banging on your door saying, knock it off. Rainbow Six. Yeah, it's Rainbow Six Siege and that game is so, so co-op dependent that if somebody in your team screws up, especially a rando, you do get pretty pissed. I get it. Oh, I'm sure. I don't know if the oldest is playing hell divers or not. That would be another one that would probably have him screaming at the top of his lungs. Yeah, could do it. Hell diver would make you yell. Although hell diver mostly makes me laugh, but whatever. I mean, it's silly, but, you know, some people get a little bit too into it.

That's always like, I have to go to the kids and I have to say, listen, I know it's just a game. I know you're getting emotionally attached to it. But take a break, take a deep breath. And remember, it's just a game. You've got so many other things going on in your life That this one video game screw up is not going to be the end You're like a human I want to be a podcaster like you And I want to have something cool to podcast about As soon as they say that I pull out my checkbook and you say

You see the balance of this checkbook You see how much money is in there You're going to go get a real job You're going to be a teacher at a college That's right Well you know whatever Keep it up dad You're doing a good job

Let's get to some stuff today The Eisner nominees were announced announced. This is exciting. Oh, yeah. This is the big deal for all the comic industry. The Ice Awards announced will be revealed in July at the San Diego Comic Con. There are some really great people nominated, so many great titles nominated this year. I think under Best Limited Series, though, this is the one that if it wins, I think will be the funniest to announce. Under the Best Limited Series by Carolyn Cash, it's Pee Pee Poo-Poo!

Nice. This is the story of the The creation and upbringing of Patrick Bejohn, France. Is that what this is? No, but it is Carolyn Cash's take on 60s underground indie comics, and it's definitely got a gay bent on that. But people are just like, this came out of nowhere a couple of months ago, and people are just loving it top to bottom. I see my two Tom's or multiple times in this list,

Tom Taylor, my favorite two Tom Taylor and Tom King. Yeah, definitely. Don't let Merritt here. I know, right? He's number three. He's my third favorite, Tom. It's fine. Tom Taylor in his Nightwing and Titan series over at DC Comics got a nomination.

And I don't remember what the other Tom got nominated for off the top of my head there. Oh, see, Tom Kean, World's Finest. I think World's Finest, I think World's Finest part one. Yeah, yeah. Well, actually, World's Finest, Superman, Batman World's Finest, is Mark Wade. And that is something people, if you're not checking it off, if somebody is like, oh, comics are too dark and brooding, they've been that way number one since the 1980s. Number two, Mark Wade is basically taking Batman and Superman and his argument years ago when people were arguing about the darkness of the Scott Snyder or the Zach Snyder films was I bet I could tell a story that keeps everything kind of in that silver agey lightness and the Batman World's Finest series does that. It does have sometimes some darker tones, but it's been very good.

One of the more recent arcs, he, Mark Wade is the writer for Kingdom Come, one of the greatest. um future looks at dc comics or dc characters that was out there uh he even went and revisited that recently in his run so there's that for people to check out dude freaking kingdom come still like in my top three comics ever it's so good such a amazing run it is really really good yeah totally worth checking out if you never read it yeah under the art category um you've got dan mora who does the superman uh batman world's finest series as well as the chazam series at dc but one of my favorites on this list is Chris Samney. Chris Samney does this really cool, kind of like, it's hard to describe his art. It at times feels like the Johnny Quest art from the 1960s in that kind of

style. But he did a series with what's his name, The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman called Firepower. And it wrapped up this year. And it is about a guy who finds out that his family comes from a long line of martial artists that are destined to preserve the world. And then they have the ability to shoot fire out of their hands and all these cool things. It is a really cool series to go check out and Chris Samney's art is really, really good on that. So definitely some good stuff to go check out.

We've got the complete list of the Eisner nominees over at Major Spoilers.com. Also, they're on the San Diego Comic-Con website, but I mean, you could go to MajorSpoilers. Go to MajorSpoilers.com, come on. Yeah. But you can go and check those out and there are just some fantastic, fantastic comics

that people can pick up and read. And some of these, you may not have ever heard before because DC and Marvel did not have as many nominations as I thought they would this year. There's a brand new company called Distillery. We've talked about them before. They launched, I want to say, last year, and they've already got nominations on the list. So there's some good stuff for people to go pick up. That was quick of them getting on there right away. Kind of like with the Academy Awards, this is a great way to discover new stuff. You know, go down the list of best limited series or best single-ing. issue or whatever and new series and just check him out. So it's a like, you know, you could go, you could do much worse than picking from this

list as something new to neuter. Yeah. I saw one of the first things popped up there, Scott, best new series. Beneath the trees where nobody sees. Features a bear that, anthropomorphic bear that may have some killing to do. Oh. Oh, wow. Beneath the trees or nobody sees.

IDW. Yeah. Yeah. Watch out for them, them, they're bears, I'll tell you. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. Congratulations to all the noms.

And when does that happen? That's soon, right? Comic-Con is the same week that I have to go out of town for a wedding. So it was July 26th, I believe. Out of town weddings, man. What are we even doing? It's so dumb. Yeah, it's a family thing.

The ones that make you travel. My brother just did, or sister just did that to my whole family so I can kind of tease her. But it just seems like a pain in the ass. Just get, you know what? Go to a, take the money and run. Young couples, you don't need to do all this circumstance, pomp, in business. Just go. Just get.

Technically, my niece is getting married in her hometown. She just happens to be in another state. Gotcha. All right. Well, be safe. All right. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Let's talk about EC Comics being back from the dead. I thought these guys were long gone. What happened here? Yeah. So if you're not familiar with the sordid history of EC Comics back in the Golden Age, Silver Age, E.C. Comics was the horror comic that was out there. I mean, there was lots of horror comics that were out there. But E.C. Comics is the one that had the deepest, darkest, you know, Tales from the Crypt, all of that kind of stuff that they were doing. Well, unfortunately, when the government decided to start looking at what was wrong with the kids these days and should we be looking at and controlling things like comic books and movies and TV, they brought William Gaines. to the hearing and he was very flippant to all of the senators and everything and if you get a chance to go check it out he's very direct saying why would i want to censor my comics or allow other people to censor my comics the bad thing was that at the time all the comic creators had kind of already agreed that they were going to kind of ride out what the government hearings were doing and um and unfortunately gays rock the boat a little bit too much so when they created the comic code authority they specifically wrote it to appease the government, but also to punish gains.

And so they were not like, you can't show horror, you can't show murder, you can't show monsters, you can't show ghouls, you can't do all of these things. And essentially, they made gains go out of business. Oh, good Lord. Because of this. There was only one, there was only one book that passed the Comic Code. And he eventually sold it to a little company called DC Comics, the book that he really loved. it was a humor comic called Mad Magazine. Oh, really? Wow.

Yeah, and so EC Comics have been, floating around Dark Horse has been doing, republishing classic tales that you can go check out and buy. But now Oni Press has decided to resurrect the titles and bring them back in their own ghoulish way with a bunch of new creators. And so if you are fans of a horror comic, and really there are a lot of horror comics out there today,

but if you kind of want to get back to the days of, you know, 50s horror comics then EC Comics is back and Oni Press is doing that. Starting in August is when we will start seeing a lot of those start to hit the shelves. Well, that sounds great. I

love that old stuff and I love new takes on it. I'm all about bringing that back. And I love the design of EC Comics covers. Just the you know, the big logo that's blocked out half of the page and the way they do the header is very much a vibe.

right that's a really yeah yeah and of course we have creepkeeper and all of those that we can thank uh gains and and ec comics are bringing to light as well as as dealing with controversial topics that um that other publishers didn't want to deal with uh you can go look at jack kirby and his desire to want to do a black hero in a story and comic code authority was like no you can't do that and so easy comics is really yeah well not certainly not as the hero And so it was, you know, they did some really groundbreaking stuff at the time. Which is ironic because the start of EC Comics, his father, EC Gaines, really wanted to do Bible comics. Oh.

And they did have Bible comics for a long time until William Gaines took over. And that's when he was like, no, horror is what the kids want these days. When all the people complained about the fish and the loafs of breads, Jesus pulled off his visor and destroyed everybody with his laser beams. That's what I remember from the Bible comics. Let me ask you this question. The answer is no. No. Okay, good. No, I wanted to know.

Outside of EC Comics, no one else is doing, well, I guess that's not true. Everybody is doing horror comics. It is amazing. Archie Comics this week has Archie Comics Judgment Day, which is a horror take on Archie. In fact, Archie's been doing horror comics for a long time. Boom Studios has some really great horror comics that are out there. Let's see. Who else is doing horror?

Dynamite. DC is doing horror comics. Marvel is doing horror comics with its red band version of Blood Hunt. So yeah, every comic publisher has a horror comic out there. And some of them you are like, oh, Dynamite Entertainment, they're doing Disney comics. And also this really graphic horror line as well. So there is a lot of good horror comics out there. And it feels kind of nice that EC is coming back, but also seeing that there's this resurgence of horror comics.

And I want to say I would have to go back. This is just off the top of my head. But I want to say that Cullen Bunn, who did the sixth gun. And if everybody hasn't read the sixth gun, go and check it out. They're doing an anniversary omnibus re-release of the entire series. Really? Cullen Bun is a good horror writer. And I would point to him as the person who is kind of responsible for this.

modern turn back into horror at the comic publishers. Yeah, the Sixth Gun always reminded me of these old things anyway. Like this kind of like, oh, what if stories of we're in the Old West, but what if there was a bunch of supernatural horror stuff going on in the Old West? And it works so well. I didn't know they were doing a big omnibus. I'm going to have to buy that again. It's so good.

It is great. I can't wait to get my hands on it as well. Fantastic. All right. Finally, there's a new movie coming out this weekend. I don't know if it's going to be that big a deal. I mean, the fall guy, from what I hear, that's all I see anyone talking about on Twitter is, how good fall guy is. So I have a feeling that it's going to continue into a third week at the box office and to dominate.

Yeah, you don't think anything will crop up to take its crown. No, so there's fall guy, there's if, which both of those I hear, I mean, if you're somebody that doesn't like to go to the movie theater like I do, then I hear both of those are going to be on digital demand here pretty quick. Yeah. But I think between those two and what's that other one that's really hot right now? The Apes movie. Oh, sure. There's a new planet of the Apes movie. Kingdom of the Plains.

Yeah, I think those are the ones that are going to, that are going to really hit the box office hard this upcoming weekend. I'm just saying there's a reason why that Proxima Caesar guy played by Kevin Duran. There's a reason in the ads. Then he gets stabbed in the back like 13 times. That's why they say beware the aides of March. It's watch out for the bean fork is what they say. But no, the reason he keeps talking about what a wonderful day it is. and I feel like that's an homage

to a certain other movie coming out this weekend. So, uh, beautiful day. What a beautiful day. All right. Listen, for just,

you know, as, as, just no, no relation to anything we're talking about right now. Um, there is a comic book

that is like completely out of print. And I, I bring this up because I was going to do a whole series of comic book, um, comic books related to properties that you and Brian like. Sure. And one of them is this one that I know you're really, a fanatic of Scott.

It's this little movie called Mad Max Fury Road. I don't know, Brian, if you've heard about this movie or not. I might have heard. Somebody, I'm sure, has mentioned it in my life maybe once or a thousand times. Yeah. If I've heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times. Exactly. So back when the, so back when Mad Max Fury Road released, D.C. Comics had a whole series of

prequel and tie-in comics to the movie. and for whatever reason I was just thinking about this the other day that now would be a great time for people to go and pick up the paperback because there is a whole Furiosa backstory that is included in the Mad Max Fury Road comic there is the history of Nux

and Morton Joe is also covered in this mini-series as well as the what's the name of the car that Mad Max drives Oh the oh geez Scott The Wiener Mobile That's it So you get

the whole history of a lot of these things in one prequel comic book. Whatever it is. Charger? No. Shit. Anyway,

yes, all of that stuff. You want to, you want to, go ahead. Like how we, how we, Interceptor.

The freaking interceptor. Shit. Okay. So, embarrassing. This would be a perfect time for people to say, oh,

I want to go read this comic book because it may have some stuff that's related to this Fury Road movie from 2015 or whatever. it was, as well as this upcoming movie that I don't know if anybody's going to go see it. But here's the thing.

And this is why I think everyone needs to cancel their max subscriptions. You cannot find the Mad Max Fury Road individual comics or the paperback trade paperback collection anywhere unless you're buying it secondhand and in which case you're going to be paying like

50, 60, 100 bucks for these things. Why in the heck would Warner Brothers not say, hey, this is a perfect time to re-release this book into the stores so people can get their hands on it. Now, it may be because hey, wait, all this prequel stuff that's in the comics written by George Miller, by the way.

Oh, yeah. Has nothing to do with the movie or contradicts the movie or whatever. But I went and tracked down the original, at least the Nux and Morton Joe single issues that I had. And yeah, I can see some of the stuff being a little contradictory to what we might see with Furiosa. But then again, It doesn't, I mean, it's George Miller, so he knows what he's doing. I doubt that it does.

So again, a perfect time to re-release this stuff, and Warner Brothers isn't doing it. Did you see, you're printing money. Yeah, I did not see the original Fury Road. It was a horrible movie for a little bit. I was going to ask, I just want to know if those books talk about Scrotis at all. He has this son that they don't mention in Fury Road, and he's in the video game, and it's supposed to be canon that he split from Immorton Joe, didn't like what his dad was doing. He's still an ass, but he went to do his.

own thing and his name is scrotus and he has a weird i don't remember seeing that in there there's a there's a whole wikipedia article on the fury road comic book that gives you a a real good summary of what what was in each of those stories i'd have to do a control f to see if scrotus was uh cliff notes or something as he of scroes mentioned wow i got to i got to learn more about scrotus i kind of want to play that game again because i loved it so much and that's another thing they're leaving on the table make another game it's selling like crazy First Grotis is hanging out somewhere. So let me ask you a quick, quick question, Scott, if you don't mind.

And maybe YouTube, Brian, you would know. Sure. The Fallout series. Yeah. Amazon released it all at once. Even though it was set up as a week-to-week release. But at the same time, Amazon also was like, hey, play all of the Fallout video games. Do you think people didn't realize that they should have had a new Fallout game ready to go?

or was the plan all along to say, hey, remember the nostalgia of playing those video games and then let's re-release all of those old games for people to play? I don't think, so I have a actually, I've been thinking about this, very thing, and I have a take on this that I think is correct. Okay. Based on what I know inside Bethesda, they do not, well, we know this from release dates.

No, they just take forever. So they're working on Fallout 5. That is a game they're making. But it is not even announced yet. It is very early progress, and it's the kind of thing that you cannot necessarily time exactly with the release of a TV show. Those schedules don't align. So what that really came down to was it'd be great if we had a Fallout 5 or some sort of spinoff or something ready for this. But there was no way to be that ready.

Like the games timeline, especially a big AAA 300 person, you know, multi-year, multi-million dollar project. Yeah, you don't just pump that out and go, we're, ready like here it is like they just so what they ended up doing i think is what you should do which is they put out an next gen patch for four and it four performs so much better on everything now and looks better plays better um they put out free versions of Vegas or new Vegas and all this other stuff and then 76 is in really good shape right now i think they did as much as they could do to take advantage of it but there was still a feeling like man if you guys had just had five ready can you imagine, you know? Yeah, if

Warner Brothers would only have Mad Max Fury Road, the prelude to the blockbuster film comic book, on stance this week. Right. Just imagine how many sales they could rack up. At least one, I know at least one. At least one. Yeah. I'd make it all worth it. Anyway,

well, Stephen, I hope that you get a chance to see it so we can talk about it more down the road. But in the meantime, tell people I kind of want to, but geez. You will. You'll see it. The movie theater experience is just not. I know. If not now, then later. But, you know, at some point

you'll see it and you'll tell me what you think. What's the, what movie or TV show is still on Scott's list that he hasn't seen, Brian? That everybody bugs him up. So many. Well, lately. Yeah. No, I saw parasite. He's been getting a lot of flak or getting a lot of nudges to see better things. Watch the TV

show that I recommend. Oh, right, right, right. Sounds so good. But that's, that hasn't been on the list a long time. I'm trying to think of what. I don't think I'm behind on much now. I think I've got it. Seen's She-Hulk, you've seen, have you watched the... Are you the person in our group that hasn't seen Goonies, Scott? Oh, yeah, I haven't seen Goonies yet.

What? Yeah. Yeah. We're going to film Sack that, I think, aren't we? Yeah, we are. We're definitely going to film Sack that. Yeah. Oh, this is going to be...

I'll say this about Goonies. This is going to be so interesting because Scott doesn't have the experience of watching this as a young child. All right. To know how awesome the movie was to then watch it now and say, oh, wait a minute, this has got so much inappropriate stuff for young children. It does. The funny, weird thing about it is I've seen so much around Goonies. I know the guy with a weird older brother thing that's a freak,

and I know the mom is throw mama from the train mom, and I know the kid when there's a meme where... Truffle, truffle, yeah. Yeah, where he's, like, jerking around with a shirt up and all that, and I know that, you know, half-short round's in it, half-round. So I know all these things. That's the other great thing. You're going to be looking at going, holy crap, all these people got

so old. Yeah. Martha Plimpton and Carrie Russell and Rowland and yeah. I don't know. It's a hundred percent of thing I should have seen. There's no reason not to have seen it. I don't know what happened there.

Just a missed a missed bullet. Same thing happened with me with, what was it? The Wizard. Never ending story? No, never in story. We saw too much when I was a kid. Oh, we had the person who's not seen never ending story.

Oh, Brian. Yeah, yeah. We should get that on. I don't have time to commit to a never-ending story. I'm sorry. I've limited time in my life. Yeah. There is a funny article.

I want the stories that end. There was a funny headline about a month ago that said, Studio, considering launching a live action remake. And I'm like, live action remake, it was live action, you weirdos. Well, I think when you look at like, there's a bunch of movies that are getting sequels or prequels or continuations that are going to the animated route. And so I think the live action thing is kind of a big deal for people.

Yeah, I guess so. It just seemed weird to call a live action movie based on another live action movie, a reboot in live action. Oh, man, I'm kind of jealous of both of you in a little ways because part of me would love to see Goonies again for the first time or to watch a never-ending story again for the first time. Sure. Okay. Sure. I mean, they are staples of our childhood, no doubt. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. And both of us have missed one of them. so we just we have to make the universe have you guys seen like what's the what's the dark crystal have you guys seen dark crystal have you guys seen dark yes yeah both said I saw in the theaters too yeah many times

over and over and over and over that movie I love that movie big fan and I also I think the new show was amazing I've learned something new about both of you today that I'm a little shook really about those two the two movies we haven't seen the two movies that you haven't seen and I guess I didn't realize Scott that you were a huge fan

Mad Max Ferry Road. I just didn't realize that. Yeah, pretty low on my list, right? A nice discovery, yeah. I'm sure there's something in your closet, Stephen, some movie. Yes, there is a movie. Here's a confession. A movie I haven't seen, but I think I'm going to watch it tonight if I can. I've never seen the Hellraiser movies.

Oh. They're a great time. First one, it's still freaky as hell, I think. Yeah. The mattress. Yeah, dude, the mattress, the portal to hell. That is the mattress. You've got to get rid of the mattress.

Got to get rid of that mattress. You're going to love it, dude. Watch those. And the new one, I like that new reboot thing they did. I know it was controversial, but I liked it. Yeah. Was it a series? I don't remember now what it was.

I thought it was a series. Was it? I thought it was just a film. But either way, more pinhead in my life is what I need. Yeah. Thanks for being our pinhead today. And we hope that we hope you have a great week. Please tell us more about major spoilers and what's going on over there.

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It's kind of our get your cat spayed or neutered message. Yeah. Isn't it? Yeah. Do it at every time. Absolutely, yes. Every time he's on. Hydrate your cat and then have it spayed or neutered. That's right. Okay. Check this out. A couple things here.

All right. Okay. Notes of interest. Today at 3 p.m. I will be guesting on the Apple Vision show over there on Tom's network with his wife, Eileen, and Sarah Lane host that. They're going to have me on as a guest. And we're going to talk about a bunch of stuff, but in particular, I'm going to bring something to bear on the flushed state of emulation apps that are now in the iOS store. Like, out of nowhere, once they lifted a couple of rules, this stuff just flooded on there. There's PSP emulation, PS2 emulation, GameCube, all that stuff.

Delta is awesome because it does all the Nintendo stuff. Anyway, a lot of people don't understand why that's happening and why previous to this you could get the stuff on Android but never iOS. Well, what changed? We're going to talk about that. today at 3 p.m. And then tonight at 5, normally we did move Monday show to 4, but we've moved this one to 5 because of the previous commitment. So tonight at 5, Monday show, me and Carter, on the air, don't miss it. Brian, do you have anything going up today, anything posting, anything going on? Do you want to mention? Yeah, I've been working on that, Brian's wheel of hobbies.

I've got, you know, I'm not, I'm not going to wait until the artwork is fully done to start doing this. I'm hopefully going to get one of them out today, just do a live thing and just see. what uh if you know if it's a mullium falcon build day if it's an airbrush magnetos helmet day if it's paint drax miniature day or uh work on a 3d project day so we'll see we'll see what it is i can't wait sounds fantastic to me follow me go to youtube uh b bitt on youtube two t's folks always spell i bit with two bees and two t's uh youtube dot com bitt nice takes you there go check it out that's it for us frogpans dot com slash tms for all the things if you would like to hear some music. I have great news. Brian's going to play a request. What do we got?

I am indeed. Keaton wrote in and said, hey, scuffed and borked, long-time listener, long-time requester, and you guys still remain part of my daily audio diet. I'm turning 31 this year, and although I know that I'm not that old, I'm starting to feel it a little, I'm getting a few too many gray hairs. I'm starting to know less and less of the new slang, and I recently injured my ankle and this piece of garbage is taking so long to heal up. This sucks. Man. A lot of caps in there. Since I know I'm feeling older, could I get a cover of any old school R&B song from the likes of the spinners, Smokey Robinson, Al Green, Marvin Gay, et cetera. Also, since I'm really just starting my 30s, any tips for the decade from two guys who've done this ride before?

Thanks for all you do. Love the show, though. Keaton. Well, you're young enough to get this. Let's party. And that's because you're just really in your 30s. You're a baby still. You don't realize it. Here's the only advice I have. Don't think you're old yet because you're not. Right, exactly. you're not even close all right you're not even close you may have a a bum ankle but listen we all get stuff like that and boy if I could impart one piece of advice from my 30s it would be when you're 50 try to remember something from your 30s and realize how difficult it is

yeah that is hard hold on I'm going to try one uh significant memory from my 30s that isn't just you know your child being born or something. No, yeah, those are obvious. But, like, part of that is because we were raising kids in our 30s, right? Yeah. And that takes so much of your time and your focus that you forget everything else you did. I guess I started, I started frog pants in my 30s there. That's true, yeah. That's as good as I got. I got nothing else. I can't remember shit.

All right. Well, let's get to your request. Keaton wanted something from old school R&B. how about this one right here comes from the man in the high castle the unofficial soundtrack to that show called resistance radio came out in 2017 had a lot of amazing covers on there from this alternate reality world and one of those covers is a cover of smoky robinson miracles who's loving you this one performed by kellis uh get it right here on your tms here's kellis doing who's loving you When I had you hear you hear, I treated you back, I'm old my dear, I'm all my dear. And since, yeah, since you've been away, don't you know I sit around with my head, hung down, and I wonder who's love of you. I, I shouldn't have it, oh I shouldn't have, oh I should have, oh, I should never, ever, ever, I've never made you cry. Oh, since, boy, since you've been done

Don't you know I sit around With my hand and down And I wonder Who's love you Life without love? It loves all around me I don't think that I'm going to make it All my life

My love The Lord runs to hear on me Come on come on come Come on to take it Because all Oh Oh I can do

I can do I can do Oh Oh Oh It's you Yes it's you Yes, you

Yeah, I wonder One of your pretty little head about what I do Don't you know how Sit around With my head hanging down And I wonder Who's having you This no wonder who's having you.

No one of us. You know. This show is part of the Frog Band Network. Yes, get more at frogpants.com. What in the hell happened to you?