The Morning Stream - TMS 2650: Serial Senior Slingshot Shooter

Episode Date: May 28, 2024

I Don't Like Beeeeeeeeves. Don't pee so close to me. Scott has not scene ALL of Furiosa yet. Bars In The Basement. Pounding Patrons Down Your Throat. Not Annoying In 2 Places. Public Peeing Protocol. Where's Harvey Chip? Let there be traffic light. Happy Day Of Hamburgling. Whipped out Larry the Scarry. Garden Hose Cooldown. Isn't there a lift that goes on stairs called a Stair something. Thou shall erect a stoplight! Can I Pet That Dawwwwwg with Dan and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Imagine a world where people support creators directly. You don't have to imagine because it's possible and already happening or happen-d-ding. Join us at patreon.com slash TMS today. Coming up on the morning stream, I don't like beaves. Don't pee so close to me. Scott has not seen all of Furiosa yet. Bars in the basement. Pounding patrons down your throat.

Not annoying in two places. Public peeing protocol. Where's Harvey Chip? Let there be traffic light. Happy day of hamburgling. Wipped out Larry the Scary. Garden hose cool down. Isn't there a lift that goes on stairs called a stair something?

Thou shalt erect a stoplight. Can I pit that down? With Dan and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. This maneuver brings to mind that old Chinese proverb. I have it in you to make it epic. The Morning Stream. Don't eat that. It's Pluto. Hello everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Tuesday, May 28, 2024 on Scott Johnson. And Brian, it is. here as well.

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So now we're pounding it down your throat. Anyway, hey, whatever. Brian, I've got to tell you a story. Been holding on to this since I saw Furios over the weekend. Excellent. I can't wait. And you, and I listened to your diary episode,

you enjoyed it. You enjoyed it tremendously, and you, I like your way of kind of putting, creating it like a Infinity War end game thing. It is one movie. It really is. And you don't think of it that way until you see this and see the way they structure the Furiosa story

in this kind of Homer-esque sort of Odyssey kind of way. Dovetail it, yeah. And then they have this bit where you're like, oh, Fury Road is the final act of this thing. And it's beautiful. I freaking loved every second of it. Now, here's the thing. I said this on the Monday show last night as well.

I'm going to try really hard not to be that guy and be annoying. all right because i really i would you also said this on a diary too so uh yeah so you've had two places you've promised this yeah now i'm promising it a third time i'm gonna try not to be that guy where last time when when fury road happened i wouldn't shut up and it became a meme and to the point that everybody here knows that every time it comes up it's like reset the camera all that stuff i'm gonna try not to be that guy with furiosa uh it'll come up here and there but i'm not going to annoy you people all right i'm going to keep a lot of my

joy to myself. It's fine. I, see, I don't want you to restrict your joy. I mean, if you love something, you know, set it free. No, that's a different thing. If you love something, you know, talk about it. I just don't want to annoy anyone. I don't want people to be like, oh, there's Scott again. As one of those people who kind of rolls their eyes, rolled their eyes every time Fury Road came up. While I applaud that, I also don't, I feel like it's you. Yeah, you want my, you want the, you don't want to restrict freedoms, right? That's not you. That's not Brian.

Talk about Furiosa. I'll do my Trump impersonation. We'll just piss them off together. Yeah, let's make everybody mad all at the same time. I like that. I love the Furiosa. Anyway, so I go to this thing, and I had a great time, and I loved it. And if you want to hear more, I did, like Brian said, I did a whole diary thing where I kind of broke it down.

That was still in the afterglow of it. So I don't know if I made a lot of sense, but I really, really, really, really liked it. um here's the thing though the thing ends and i drank a lot of soda a lot of coke zero okay during this movie and by the time it ended and i was very focused i had forgotten all time and space and when it ended two things hit me one oh shoot i was supposed to do core at six and it's now six 15 we should get home was that was that two and a half hours it's like two and a half hours but the with with credits and everything i underestimated or not credits um previews and stuff.

Previews, yeah. And you stuck around for the after credits. There's no after credits. Is there? There is. Oh, my God. Are you kidding me? You're kidding me.

I'm not kidding you. I mean, I stuck around for the credits. The credit credits. There is a stinger. There is a stinger. Shit. Is that true? It is.

Yeah, I'll tell you offline what it is because it's, it's only a couple seconds on, but it's, okay, because I saw the credits were great because the credits were like, hey, yo, Fury Road, yo. And you're dispersing Fury Road, yeah. Yeah, and I love that, but I thought that is it, because when they started rolling properly, and Carter even looked at me and says, do you think there's like an MCU postcard? I'm like, no, they wouldn't do that. And we left.

Yeah. Damn it. Well, you're seeing it again this week with a friend, right? We are. We are trying to. So if that works out, it might even be tonight, I will make sure I don't leave, if that's the case. It's so brief, but it's great, but it's, you know, but it's a, yeah. All right.

I don't know how I missed that crap. All right, I should have checked. I could have looked it up online before I left, you know? Media Stinger is the app. Just look it up. We pull up Media Stinger before the movie starts and say, okay, yes, we're staying to the end of this. Is that also a website or is it just an app here? Let's see.

I think it's a website as well, and then they turned it into an app. Oh, there it is. Okay, so this has got, yeah, extra scenes during and after the credits. Well, shit. Well, tonight then. But anyways, or whenever I see it. Yeah, sorry. Go ahead.

So we're done, and two things happen. One, I'm like, oh, no, I got to get home for core. And two, I have to pee so bad. Because I had been drinking a ton of soda. And during the movie, I never felt the urge, not even once. But the minute those credits started rolling, my bladder went, okay, that's enough. And I went, oh, I got a pee. So we left with my urgent pee.

And we go out into the hall and I go to this bathroom. Brand new place, beautiful place. nice, what do they call the fake IMAX where I'm at? It's like X-D or some fake name. And brand new bathroom, super clean, really nice. We go in there and I go to a stall. And while I'm at the stall, a guy comes up behind me to use the stall next to me. Now, he's already not following those rules we talked about where...

Yeah, yeah, you go, either you take the far left one or the far right one. The second person takes the other. Yep. And then you space out. either every other one yeah absolutely you're and you're and I I hold to that wholeheartedly without any reservation that should be the rule he did not follow this rule it was just the two of us in this bathroom maybe a guy in the stall I don't know but at the moment there were just two of us I was on this stall and he decides to use one right next to how many how many urinals

there are probably eight on the wall oh wow that's what I mean it's so but it's so stupid it did. Whoa, dude. Like, I, I'd rather pee in the sink than stand next to a guy. If it were three, I might say, well, okay, especially if the third one is the little child urinal that is four inches off the ground. But if they were like eight, you know, and he's not doing the far opposite end of where you're at? Yeah, no, I didn't.

It was just wrong. So I sat there going, well, I'm getting out of here as quick as I can. But then he proceeded to do something I didn't expect. and I still don't quite know what to make of this. Okay. He stops, and if I, you know, I didn't stop to measure it, but it felt around two and a half feet away from the urinal. So behind me.

Oh, okay. Not right behind me, but, you know, to my left and behind me. Like, basically further back from the stall, further back from the urinal than you're standing. Correct, I'm standing. He's two and a half feet away from the urinal itself. Correct. And the, so he's actually out, you know, there's the wall,

dividers. This one has those. He's beyond the wall divider. And he whips out Larry the scary there and starts to pee from about two and a half feet away from this urinal. And I kind of glanced

at him like peripheral vision to see like what is this? Am I about to go down in here or something? And I look over him. He's just just stoically just like standing there. Just peeing and he's peeing and he's peeing past the breakers to the toilet. And he's hitting it.

He's not missing or anything. Sure. But this dude is peeing two and a half feet away from the urinal. What is that? Is he wearing light clothing? No. He was just like in jeans and like a button down. He looked like a normal dude.

Jim Johns in the chat says he's a professional. I mean, maybe he thought he was. He seemed very. I mean, that is, yeah, that is. Isn't that weird? That is weird. And that's, that is unnecessary. And that's why they have those, those little plastic mesh things in the urinals that, you know, like, deflect and prevent splashback.

Yeah. Oh, that's the whole, yeah, see, that's the big takeaway here. It's not so much that, ooh, I'm impressed. You have a good aim and you can be two and a half feet away. It's that physics kick in and you're going to splash all over the place. Yeah. It may not be on me because you're, you know, there's a wall protecting me or whatever. But still, it's like, you know, he's causing some splashback.

He's causing the splashback that he's trying to avoid that if he just got close, there would be no pretty. This is a guy who takes four minutes to back his, his Dodge Ram truck, back it into a parking space and hold up people who want to pass him because he's got to back his truck. Now that you say that, that 100% tracks. That feels like that is true. Yeah, that is who he is for sure. Yeah. And I wanted to, I kind of wanted to say something like. We might have just lost a small sliver of a portion of our audience who drives Dodge Rams

and takes four minutes to back their trucks up into a box. I hope you guys are all much. Listen, all our Dodge truck ram owners, F-150s, 250s, all you people. Just park like normal and also. Just go into a spot. Are you robbing a bank? No, yeah, exactly. You don't need to back into a spot.

You don't need to make a quick getaway from Hobby Lobby, okay? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And I agree that you've got a big, cool truck that can carry a bunch of cement or whatever it is you need to be doing. That's great. I have no problem with your working man's plan. But just please, I just need to get into the Walmart, you know? I don't need to. Email us and let me know. And I'll take all the heat on this one. But email us and let me know why you do that. If you, if you're a listener who's like, oh, no, I always backed my truck up into the space or my vehicle. Let me know why you do that. Do you think you, is it saving, I know it saves you, I know it saves you, time on getting out, but is the time you save on getting out more than the time you spend getting in? Yeah. Is it worth it in the end? Is it? I would really, I would also like the answer this question. So send us a message and let us know. Also, look, if you're going to stand that far back and pee, I'd actually like you to say something. Like, I'd like that guy to go, don't mind me. I have a condition where I, you know, something. Just tell me what you're doing. Otherwise, I am

paralyzed with fear to say anything. My brain went, I wanted to go, whoa, like that. I didn't, but I wanted to verbalize it and say, whoa. I would have, I don't know, God, I feel like I might have said something. Yeah. It's tempting, right? You want to say something. Is this a training for a new Olympic event there, buddy?

Is this, you know. Yeah, what am I unaware? Is this a new, like, what's the hot, is this the hot new thing? I'm failing right now? Like, I would just want to, I want to know. I want to know. Here's the question, and I'm sorry, I'll describe this as non-graphically as I can. But when you shut off the garden hose, it doesn't stop immediately the spring into the garden.

No, you got to shake the... There's a little bit of... Well, also, there's like a, you know, there's a cool-down period, or not a cool-down period, but a part where the water from the garden hose is coming out a lot slower. and doesn't make it all the way to the lawn. Yeah. Yeah, there's no way that he was like, and stopped.

Exactly, exactly. Right? So, yeah, I agree with you. That's all a problem, and I'm sure something's got on the floor or whatever. Maybe he had a special way. It didn't feel like it. Now, I'm not looking down or over because I don't want to be that guy either, right?

So I'm just sort of like sitting there going, this is weird, this is weird, this is weird, this is weird. And then I stayed longer than I needed to because I, I wanted him to leave first. And he did. He finished, suited up. You know, I don't even know if he did the, let's call it the Taylor Swift, the shake it off. I don't know if he did.

Oh, okay. All right. But if he didn't, if he did, I didn't notice. But he went, he washed his hand. So, you know, props there. And then he got out of there. And I was like, all right, I'm getting out of here before I step in something I don't want to or whatever. It was weird.

I don't like it. Maybe, you know, he's watching this Wastlander movie. and he's thinking he's thinking ah they got maggot pits what's wrong with me peeing two two and a half three feet away right right yeah who knows oh the maggot pits um anyway uh what else is going on oh i had a uh brian you have you had a dream about i had a dream i had a scott level like this was so my back has been giving me a little bit of a problem so i took a muscle relaxant last night before bed and that's what i'm blaming this thing on but so the part of the dream i remember I was in a cost plus world market

It's like a discount pure one And I was looking at the I guess peer ones aren't around anymore And I was in the food section I was looking at weird bottles of soda From different countries Because that's what they sell it at world market Sure

Weird candies and cookies and chips and chocolates and stuff And a guy comes up and makes Some comment about yeah They really come up with some weird stuff in here And I look and I look and I say, oh, my God, you're Daniel Kaluya. And I don't know, I have not thought about Daniel Kaluya in a long time. I, or the David, the Daniel Kaluya, right?

Hold on. Yes, Daniel Klui. Yeah, the actor from your get out and all that. Right, exactly. And, nope, and yeah, exactly. So I say, oh, yeah, your Danny Kluy is like, yeah. And I said, oh, man, you know, in my dream, I rattled off a bunch of movies that I know. know in real life he wasn't in but he's like yeah thanks you know it works in the dream in dream

level yeah and i guess i was in i must have been in hollywood or something because then um a character actress again not like i've seen her in anything recently and i don't even know her name but apparently in the dream i did but i coming out of it i don't know her name she's a she was like oh i love your stuff you're you're great and such and such so help me figure out this woman's name because I could not do it. She's a, I would say, 40-year-old brunette actress, long

hair. Okay. She has very, like her eyes are very striking. I think maybe she even does like the smoky eye thing. She has more of a nasal voice. She, I think she played somebody's talent agent,

like somebody's booking agent, some, some, some, some, some, uh, some, some, sitcom characters booking agent very cluelessly though like not not old like uh older like um uh joey's agent and friends but uh not fraser's not fraser's agent that lady not her oh hold on a second let me see here she's pretty great as an agent yeah um oh no no no not uh baby baby glazer or whatever Not her. Not her.

Not her. S. No. But kind of in that same vein, who was Jerry's agent? Because it might have been Jerry Seinfeld's agent. Oh, well, she's, that's Diane, not Diane Weiss. The mom, the mom from that 70 shows who Jerry. Oh, yeah, no.

Bunny, whatever her name was. Yeah, she's great. Yeah, okay. Not, nope. Yeah, no. I've had dreams like this. I hate these. Debra Joe Rupp.

So this is a, I know, this is a bad description. If I had to describe another actor, she kind of looks like Wendy Malick, but she has like more pronounced, like darker eyes and she, yeah, yeah, like that kind of like nasally voice. It drove me nuts, an older, older than Jenny Slate, not quite as nasal as Fran Dresher. Oh, Wendy Malick, okay. so that type that vibe with dark hair

long hair not Joan Cusack she's like character actress that you've seen in a bunch of a bunch of things but I cannot that's wild

that's wild though because I've had dreams like this before too where I'm sure it's a person I know and then I just go forever without figuring it out the chat's going crazy Owen Wilson come on Tom's Norm I don't like that

but Linda Furentina is a great guest. Maggie Wheeler is a great guest. No, not Janus. Not that. Again, not quite that nasal. Anyway, it's going to come to me at some point, and I know, not Jessica Walter, not Alison Janney. Anyway, so this is now the rest of this show. It's not. It's not. But anyway, like, started talking with her, and then I woke up, and I'm like, wow, that, why on earth have not thought about Daniel Kaluah, this other actress who I haven't seen in other things, Yeah, why what is it? Plus world market, any of those things.

Yeah, why them? Why that combo? Why that combo? Yeah. That's funky, dude. Yeah, I have dreams like that all the time. It takes muscle relaxers, apparently, for you to have those. So get Brian the drugs.

I know. I might have to take him again tonight, and maybe I can, you know, maybe I can get further in the dream. And that's Carla Johansson, not Amy Pietz. Juliet Lewis. Busy Phillips. Juliet Lewis, yeah. People are getting the right vibe, though. The ones that aren't completely goofing off,

but the ones that are trying to find, local nail it down, they're kind of in that vein of actor, like the kind of vibe that Busy Phillips puts off. Yeah, yeah. I don't know who Leah Remedy. Oh, no, I do. Yeah, Leah Remedy from King and Queens.

Not her, not Mindy Sterling from, isn't it, Spurling from Austin Powers? Somebody said Alan Tudick's agent. con man was let's see not Mary Lynn Raskub from 24 I'd remember who's Zoe de Chanel who has a new

a new TV show called What Are We Eating or What Am I Eating or so like that? Really? Like a reality thing or a Like a food Yeah like a Like a food What

Where does this food come from kind of thing? Jennifer Esposito Let's see Jennifer Esposito Let's see here Let's see if that's it missing pile no but definitely that vibe jeez yeah i like claire's post of missing pile

instead of missy pile that's fantastic missing pile yeah not Lisa stemple anyway so all right well welcome welcome to the weird dream team you know driving me nuts it's gonna drive me nuts it's gonna drive me nuts layla kensi our brains are pretty powerful you may have created an actor you know it's possible but i mean i

can visualize her right now like i imagine i know i've seen her and stuff it's it's uh not judy greer yeah so so tonight what you do i don't know if this is possible i've always heard about this like lucid dreamers they can decide what they want to dream about before they go to sleep so tonight your goal is to try to do that you know go to go i think i can do that okay i used to be able to do that like in in high school uh i had a girlfriend named uh kim butler and she she was all about the lucid dreaming like she you know She basically said, oh, yeah, well, here's how you do it. And she's like, yeah, you think of some song.

And then you, when you're in your dream, you hear that song and that'll say, oh, I must be dreaming. It's kind of like the spinning top and inception kind of thing. Yeah, yeah. And, uh, uh, anyway, um, well, I can't, I can't wait to find out the sequel to this film that we just turned up. Yes, me neither. Exactly. Yeah, we'll find out tomorrow, everybody. Uh, Brian, more things for you.

We got something from Sippy in Virginia. Sippy, excellent. Sippy says this. What if he has a cup? Another Lyft slash Uber input, where Brian was talking about Everlance. Oh, yeah. Sounds like a good program, but also wanted to suggest QuickBooks self-employed mileage tracking and grid-wise.

I use both of those to track personal and business miles to get a good idea when doing taxes as to what my mileage should be for taxes at the end of every year. also for Brian, is there a good way to clarify a previously requested song on the after, see, on the after submitting on the website form? Oh, on the after submitting. That's the way he wrote it. I know what he means. Yeah. Yeah, so basically he wants, so let's talk about, well, I don't know if SIPP is he or she, but so I'll have to check out QuickBooks self-employed and or gridwise, but what self, but whatever Lance does is it just basically records all of your, your, your,

movements away from your house. Whenever you have a movement away from your house, it records it. But it basically says, oh, you're going on this trip on this time, and this trip on this time, and so I was able to download that into a spreadsheet, isolate out anything that occurred while I was doing the show,

or any time that I know that I, you know, I lifted a certain time of day and just isolate out all those things. So I don't know if gridwise does that, that's, I'll have to check that as well. So to clarify, I previously requested song on the if you submit a song on the website form and then you say oh i want to amend that just

enter it with the same date again because basically i get a spreadsheet that i look at at the beginning of every week um or i have a spreadsheet that collects all these i look at at the beginning of every week and i pick out all the songs for the week i'm usually on mondays or sundays and i sort them so i will see if there are two may 28 things from the same person i'll say oh okay so this just amends it And this is a correction or a clarification. Gotcha. So that's how you do it. Just submit another one, but make sure it's got the same date for the date of request.

And remember, the date of request is the date you want the song played. Not the, if it's somebody's birthday, don't put May 28, 1969, because I won't ever see that. It only looks at current weeks. Like, it's sorted by, it's sorted by a year there. Sure. And a reminder, though, to those at home, if you're trying to submit a song or request a song. Not submit it one, but request one. If you go to the frogpans.com slash TMS, there's a link directly to it, and you just go fill it out.

Pretty easy, pretty simple. Short form, too. I love a short form, man. It's a super short form. All we need is, what's the song you want to hear? What date would you like to hear it? Leave it blank if it doesn't matter. And tell me a little bit to read on the air.

Boom, done, get out. 100% in on that. I love it. Listen to what we're saying, corporations of America. Quit giving us 400-mile forms where you're collecting all our data. Give us something short and sweet and easy. I might be more loyal to you and your products. Brian, one more thing.

This is about them ground bees, all those bees out there. Ground bees! This is Allen and Cottonwood Heights. I believe that is the Cottonwood Heights right here in Salt Lake City. I could be wrong, but I think so. Alan says, Dear Buzz and Sting, my wife and I had a problem with wasps around the shed and in a cracked cinder block wall. We tried all sorts of chemical repellents,

but all of them either didn't work or wore off quickly, and the buggers kept coming back. Now, and buggers in other parts of the world means something nasty, so. Getting buggered. Whole different thing. Whole different thing. Anyway, it says this year, I read an article saying

Rosemary is a natural repellent, so we bought two little plants and stuck them in pots, almost read them pots, next to the offending areas. So far, knock on wood, no wasps. So again, this is rosemary. I'd never heard of that. I don't know if it will help with hornets

And I don't know the effect on bees We don't have any flowers So we weren't really worried about that But I figured it might help If it doesn't work, maybe try the ship's phasers With affection for all the program That is it that as it may Be as that it

I'm going to do that again With affection with a program Be that as it may Allen and Cottonwood Heights I'm going to try this Because we're already the Citronella fans here With the mosquitoes And it works really well

and rosemary has a terrific side effect that uh you uh you're cooking a steak rub that rosemary on there or put it in the bag if you're suveeding it whatever that rosemary is awesome for for that sort of thing i agree plus less less bees although i'll bet if this if this does work on um on wasp it probably does work and we kind of want the bees the bees are out there doing work you know yeah you want the bees but uh and they never seem to make a hive why is it always hornets that make the hives the house I mean like beehives I never see beehives I only see hornets in the ground or hornets in the wall or hornets or yellow jackets doing some dark shady shit somewhere yeah it's never bees I'm trying to think I mean yeah I don't even know where there is a beehive but I know that

those mud wasps those you like there are specific places I know around the house where I'm like all right let's check there for a mud wasp nest let's check over here like these these woody eaves and things like that that are the typical places that those guys collect. I haven't seen them yet this spring, so maybe they found a new place to move. Yeah, maybe they got wind of the cicada outbreak and they're down south, Eaton Bell. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I don't know.

I don't think, yeah, I don't know. It'd be interesting. I think you're just supposed to grow the rosemary near where the ground wasps are hanging out. And it's not going to stop the bees from coming to your flowers and Paul. Like that's good You should be fine As long as that doesn't matter That's fine

Almost all bees don't make hives Just one or two do says Turn Really? Yeah, that's interesting That is interesting So where do bees Where do most of the bees live If not in a hive?

I mean those hives that beekeepers keep Those are hives And that's just an artificial place To put them but they like them there That's right And they build their own hexagons Inside those manmade hives Yeah, all right.

Bobby, here's another thing, maybe for a future science. Yeah, next week. Bees and hives. Not all beaves are, bees are, not all beaves are hives makers. Beaves! I don't like Beaves. Somebody do it, I don't like Beaves title. That's coming up.

All right, time for the news. You know, you've had a holiday weekend. You're all eating burgers yesterday. We had the day off. We all hope you had a really nice time, but now it's time to be informed. All right. So let's get that going right now, right here. It's the news, and it's brought to you by the maggot pit just outside the Citadel.

We can heal all your severed body part needs. Again, I don't want to spoil things, but let's just say there's some stuff. Let's just say that. Also, you know what? A lot of people are saying to me that they were worried. there would be things in this new movie that would give me too many answers. Like the theater of the mind would be broken a little.

Right, exactly. Doing what the first two minutes of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade did. Yes. Let's answer every question about Indiana Jones in the space of one train ride. Yeah, I hate that. And, you know, it is what it is,

but people are like, well, are you worried that Furioso will do this? And there are some, not explanations, but there's just some deeper knowledge about certain characters and, you know, of course, where they came from and what they were doing and all this sort of thing. However, the, what's I going to say? I like seeing locations that have been mentioned. Oh, yeah, right.

Like getting you see the Bullet Farm and the Gastown up close. I mean, I'd seen those. Well, I didn't want to say anything specific, but yes. I mean, that stuff's in the trailer. I don't think it's too crazy. But they, they, those things, yes. So you get a little bit more of that, and that's all great. But one thing that it did do also was introduce some new things where my brain went crazy,

and they gave me very little information. So I'm just going to say the name Octobos, and that's not a trailer about anything. It's just the name of a guy who I want to know all kinds of information about. And they don't give you a ton, and that's fine, because that's what these movies do best. So anyway. I really wasn't expecting a Wolverine cameo, though, but it was really cool. It's just so cool. It's very, very good.

What Not Says, How Did Everyone Feel About the CGI? well what do you mean like every movie has a little cg i in it there's there was a little bit in fury road is that what you mean i mean there's a ton of practical shit and there's a few cg i don't know what he means i'm not saying he means he's being negative but i didn't notice that much cg was like the first i i did not notice it other than the than just the stuff that uh that george employees to to make the cars, like zooming in on cars and grills and things like that.

Oh, they're talking about the face of a dead actor. I get it. Oh, okay. Yeah, there's one guy who has passed away and they did some CG to keep them in there. It worked for me. It was fine. The only reason you notice is because you know the guy's dead and you go,

oh, wait a minute. They had to fake that. Anyway, I loved it. Go see it. Let's go on to this. news. Yeah. Around $500,000 worth of baby eels were seized at the Toronto Pearson Airport.

We talked about this because we talked about Elvers. Sorry, I just now saw this. Oh, we did, didn't we? Oh, shoot. I think we talked about the next one too. We did. Did we do the garbage truck guy? We did the garbage truck guy, yeah.

See, this is what happens. I go an extra day away from TMS and I forget what stories we've done. That's all right. We can jump straight to the slingshot. guy then. Yeah, let's jump to the slingshot guy. We got, yeah, we got plenty of stuff here. Serial slingshot shooter. That's a fun name, isn't it?

Yeah, it is. Absolutely, yes. From the Marvel Silver Age, the serial. The serial, and really, he should be a serial senior slingshot shooter. Yeah. If we're giving him a name. Yeah, they screwed up here. This is a bad headline. He's 81 years old.

He was arrested in California, according to police. 81-year-old slings shot shooter was arrested during a search warrant serving Thursday served Thursday after authorities determined he had been striking residence windows, denting car windshields, and making close calls with several people in his Azusa neighborhood for close for a decade. Almost a decade long he's been shooting this thing at people. Wow. Now, wait a minute.

Denting car windshields? Well, I think what they mean is like, yeah, that's a weird thing to say, isn't it? You don't dent them. Denting is a weird choice of words because it's not like you can bend a car windshield without breaking it. Yeah, what is that about? That's weird. Yeah. I think what they mean is.

Yeah, chipping. Chipping would be a better word there, bio cow. Sure. Chipping, cracking, anything but denting. That doesn't make sense. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, the police department...

Just pop that thing right out. It'll just pop right out. That's right. The Azusa Police Department launched an investigation after learning of the quality of life issue affecting affecting residents in the 900th block of North Enid Avenue. This is in San Francisco suburb stuff, or L.A., I guess, which is about 23

miles east of Los Angeles. During the course of 9 to 10 years, dozens of citizens have been victimized, police said in a recent interview. Authorities served the warrant to the residents of Prince King and found ball bearings and a slings shot in the property. Oh, man,

this guy's serious. Ball bearings, dude. Those are hardcore. Those will definitely leave you a chip in your car. and you probably just drive on going ah damn it we got another chip of rock flipped up or whatever you know yeah and i understand like windshield glass has that stuff that the whatever it is the tempering on it so that it'll it'll crack severely before it actually shatters and separates but then say crack yeah don't say dent it's not dent because you can't pull you can't pop out a dent you can't dent is metal metal is dent is dent is something that can be fixed right like it's a temper like

can temporarily dent something, but you can't un-chip a windshield. Well, I guess you can fill it and melt it and all that stuff they do. I'll tell you what. Calling this a dent in a windshield is like the joker saying, where's Harvey Chip? It'd be like that. We would be just as annoyed that he said, where's Harvey Chip? Because that's incorrect.

Harvey Chip. Moving on here. Let's see. No injuries have ever been reported, but they said he's just been bugging people for all this time. So that means he's been doing it since he was seven. years old. Wow. Let's see.

They discovered most of the ball bearings were launched in his backyard while others were hurled from a nearby neighborhood. Hurled. Hurled. So basically he's like, oh, where's my sling shot? Doesn't matter. I'm just going to throw these ball bearings. I'm going to hurl them. It says this has been an ongoing for many years, but we just didn't identify who the suspect was. Noting the reason for the vandalism or why certain people or properties were targeted remains unknown. It's just a big mystery.

We're not aware of any kind of motive other than just malicious mischief, unquote. Oh, shit. Not good, man. Don't be doing that. I don't care how old you are. Also, how grumpy do you have to be to be 80s shooting ball bearings of cars? Yeah, I mean, what is he? So he's just angry at everything.

Yeah, there are no things he's not angry at. Yeah, it's not like he's targeting the specific thing. He's just like, bah, cars. Yeah, I hate these guys. House windows. I hate blast. Oh my gosh, there's like eight. I just did a quick news search on this guy.

There are so many references to this news story. This took a lot of traction. Oh, really? Yeah. I think you wouldn't if it wasn't for the age, right? I mean, the fact that he's 81 in doing this is probably what. Yeah, you want to make the news. What makes it a popular story is the fact that he's a senior slingshot serial shooter.

Yeah, when you're really old and you do shit like this, you are an anomaly, for sure. They expect you just to be sitting in a chair and not do nothing. Let's see here. Here's another story about a Texas megachurch. Okay. They were caught manipulating traffic data to get a new stoplight near the church. Instead of just using the old standby, Jesus wants a traffic. light here.

Yeah, that's what you should have said. Jesus came to me in the night last night and said, thou shalt erect a new light out front to slow traffic. It says Texas megachurch did this. They were caught doing this. Given the kind of church scandals we've seen over the years, it's always nice to see one so ridiculous,

so absolutely unnecessary, that you start to think the leaders just can't help themselves. That's what happened at Lake Point Church last week in Texas. Anybody knows what that is, let us know. The megast church really wants the city to put up a traffic light near the south entrance to its Rockwell campus, rock wall campus. Since it's clear for the benefit of the church, not the city, the church was planning to pay for the entire thing. This is not a church-slash-state separation issue. There's also a selfish reason for the church to get that stoplight.

Right now before people, or before, sorry, giving service, they have to pay officers to direct traffic. Getting a stoplight at a busy entrance would be cheaper for them over the. a long term since they wouldn't need to rely on outside help. In either case though, city leaders need to approve the request. And they would only do that if there was a steady stream of cars in the area. After all, why put up a traffic

light and stop if it does, you know, if it's not going to do the trick? Anyway, back and forth, left and right, everything was by the book. Here's where it gets weird. This church wants a particular outcome. They're not going to rely on the truth when it comes to manipulating the truth in order to deceive people. It's what they do best, this guy

says. This guy's clearly got an extra brain. let's see the church sent out an email to a small group of leaders asking them to have their membership sign up for time slots to drive in that area so basically paid people to drive around in there to make the oh wow so this wasn't even like we got a hold of the date and we fudged it we've created our own date we've meet puppeted traffic yeah here's what they here's their actual email this is great each shift is a commitment to drive the prescribed route 10 times within that hour shift it's great if you can make more than 10 laps within the hour but laps are only counted toward that specific shift says this email uh they'd link to a signup dot signup genius dot com is how they got people involved anyway look man if you're gonna if you're gonna pretend to be like a church don't this is like you ask yourself what you think jesus would do and i'm pretty sure he wouldn't give a shit about the freaking traffic thing just you know what i mean like that is yeah that's it's funny i know so of a place down south on Hampton. There is a megachurch down there, and I know that if I'm outlifting,

sometimes I'll lift on a Sunday and I'll be in that area in the afternoon or in the early afternoon, late morning, and there'll be cops directing traffic really, like you said, just to let all the cars out of their parking lot because it's such a busy road that people will get stuck there for a long time waiting for. there's not a traffic light nearby on either side so it's a fairly constant stream of traffic that's being filled in here

so I kind of get it but I feel like a city planner should be able to look at this and say oh yeah you know we're there on Sundays this is definitely a traffic need out here needs something yeah so put it in do it the jet way but if you're going to cheat it

go drive for an hour and make sure you go through this path, you know, 10 times in your hour shift. I love it. I think this is hilarious. Yeah, that's pretty funny. Yeah. Jesus, what does it say?

Trey 9,008 says Jesus wouldn't have guided terrific? Oh, traffic he means? Yeah. Yeah, no. Look, he wouldn't. The love of the commandment, thou shalt fudge numbers. There you go. That's really good.

Just to get Moses out there to part the traffic. That's his job. One final note here. there's a story about an old couple. We sold everything as the quote. Meeting the retired couple who set sail on a 3.5 year cruise around the world. They sold everything to do this.

This is their whole thing. It says they, let's see, they were from Sicily, they had a house and some property there. They sold their houses in the States, all their shit in Sicily, and now all they do is right around on a cruise ship all the time. It should last in three and a half years. Brian, would you do that?

Would you sell everything just so you could cruise around on a cruise for 3.5 years? No, because what then do you do when the 3.5 years is over? All you're left with is your suitcase and the lay around your neck and some lovely photos on your phone. But then it's like, where do you go home to after that? Or what do you come home to? You know, it's like they knew that they were going to die in three and a half years. I think it's a great way to go out. Yeah, I mean, sure.

If you knew that, then why not? Yeah, actually, at three people, Tanner, the Boy Who Cryed Wolf Trade, 2008, all said, just jump off the boat at the end of the cruise and you're done. Like, basically, this is the way you go out. You sell it all, you live up those last three and a half years on that cruise, and then right before it pulls back into Port Lauderdale, you just hightail it off the... Sausalito deck and you're done.

What's crazy is this, so there's a, there's some boats that. It's just the Lido deck, not the salsa Lido. Right, right, right. Salsa on the Lido deck, but it's not called the Salsa Lido. No, and we don't mean spill it because Isaac is busy enough these days. Yeah, don't spill the salsa on the Lido deck. No, don't do it.

Anyway, this place, you can, so basically you can live there like at your apartment. They'll let you do this. Well, if you're there for three and a half years, yeah, it's what it is. Some of these boats do. It looks like it's around 72, 635 bucks a year. That works out to about six, grand a month. Affordable if you're used to paying that for your house, I suppose. Does the little apartment have a kitchen in it, or are you still, you're still basically

eating at the restaurants provided on the cruise, which is, I'm sure if it's like other cruises, it's, you know, go to any restaurant and or almost any restaurant on the cruise ship and it's free or pay a little bit of an additional cost if it's one of the expensive of restaurants. So the room I'm looking at, let me send you this link. The room I'm looking at looks like a typical room, but it does have

a nice little deck. I think it's pretty small, though. I mean, it doesn't look like that big. So I don't think there's a kitchen in this. They're kind of a young-looking, retired couple. I mean, I understand that 55 looks like different

things for different people, but they don't look like, well, let's just give it all up and go on a cruise for three and a half years. This is like, all right, we're going to take three and a half years off of my dental, my thriving.

Yeah, he looks like he could still be working. You're absolutely right. They're in their 70s. They look like young 70s, I think. And they're in good shape. I think they just are like,

we like cruises, so we're going to do this for four years. See ya. I don't know. I think I get tired of it. There's the room. God, that's a, yeah,

there's no kitchen in there. That is. I couldn't do it for three and a half. I couldn't live in that. room. I couldn't have that room for three and a half years. I guess people are taking care of it. The whole cruise ship

is basically your house. Like you just... Yeah, that's true. And really, you know, you leave that room and you come back and it looks like this again. Like it's all cleaned up and bed made and stuff. But... I don't know. After

after a week, I've run out of the things to do on the cruise, right? It's like, oh, cool. We're going. go do the water slide or get in the pool or uh plus they've notoriously bad internet on these ships like oh yeah i feel like i my the things i want to do i can't do here you know yeah so they if they if all they want to do is dance and have weird steak dinners and buffets and all that shit then they've got this is for you good job yeah exactly and if you're okay doing every tuesday's pinnacle on the on this in this room and every thursday is uh karaoke in the lounge yeah i guess

that's okay but i am surprised that you could do this for six grand a month that seems relatively cheap for a month for sure yeah yeah that doesn't seem crazy and if you had 75 grand just laying around maybe you could just do it for fun but i'd need better internet something better you are stuck for three and a half years with the same 800 people oh well they be so this ship has some residence and then and then just the regular riffraff that come and does cruises. The way it says it, this is the American

Italian couple who in their 70s are soon going to be two of the roughly 800 passengers on a three and a half year cruise. Oh, they're all on the same cruise? Oh, shit. Yeah. Okay, I don't know about that. That would be weird because you're going to end up having weird neighbors, people you meet,

you think they're fine at first, and then later they're kind of psychopaths, and now you're on that boat 24-7 with these people. so here's i'd also like to you know here's here's what would make it kind of work better for me um i'd like to see the itinerary three and a half years you should be able to hit like every continent every most countries most coastlines that would be kind of cool to like spend a couple days in each place like all right i kind of in you know kind of wouldn't mind that getting off the boat every every day to do something like that i kind of would lean towards

that that would be good yeah and you could go if you could do that in shorter than three and a half years right you could probably do that in a year i don't know i don't know where this thing goes maybe it's only one oh it says right here uh begins on may 30th we'll visit 425 ports in 147 countries all seven comments so so there you go okay all right i'm convinced here's my 75 grand i don't have um i'm liking a little bit more it's snow it's cruise piercer yeah cruise piercer it's a sequel we never got that we all I'd consider it I'd much I think it's still for the money

much rather get that my own little private island off of the coast of Ireland and live there and you know just get some decent satellite Wi-Fi there and yeah I bet we yeah that sounds more appealing to me and I can go visit Dublin and stuff like that

whenever I want right you're going to say visit Dumbledore Dumbledore I'm going to visit Dumbledore there he lives in what's it called? Colt, what's the little town? I always hear about it. It's not little, but the Irish town called Bunk.

Cork. Cork, that's it. Bunk. Bolt, Colk. Bunk. Yep, that was absolutely on the right track there. All right, we're going to take a break. When we get back, Dan, Dan, the tabletop man will be here.

So for all you people who hate tabletop games, I guess get the F out. All right? But for those who love this stuff, stick around. I also want to hear more about Brian's time with that Marvel, or that Disney. Yeah, Lorcauna. I was hoping to talk to Dan about Lorcana

because I'm fully in. I want to talk about that stuff. So anyway, that's coming up after this break before that, Brian's got a song. What do you got? Yeah, we're going to Dallas, Texas for this. This is a band called Moonstone, M-O-O-N-S-T-O-N-E, period. That's how they spell their name,

Moonstone with a period at the end. Don't get it. Don't get it wrong. Don't confuse it with the other moonstone that doesn't have a period. I don't know if there is one. This is the first time I've heard a band genre described as energetic, dancing, sad pop. Oh, my gosh, that's really their, that's their description on the thing. That's crazy.

It's their description, like energetic, dancing, sad pop. It feels like a contradiction in terms there. Anyway, but I really like it. I actually, I don't feel like it's sad at all. I think it's really cool. like churches if they used more acoustic instruments. Oh, all right. Well, now you've got me...

Now I've got you interested. I'm peaked, yeah. They're going to be part of this thing called the So What Music Festival on June 1st, so you can go check them out there if you want to go check out that music festival. Five-piece Band from Dallas. This is the new single from the band. It's called Figured Out. Here is Moonstone.

And I was left outside Left in the driver's seat And I don't know how to drive Somehow I guess I got to figure out And now What is for nothing I don't need your help

And even if I did a blow tell you I don't need you now and even if I did I couldn't sell you somehow I guess I gotta figure out and now it's been nothing pain is coming down there in me and what my own not so that I can finally

see no hands to help me when I'm on the ground so now I guess I got to figure it out. Hyper independence got me spinning Won't seek the help Let's get back I don't need your help And even if I did I couldn't sell you I don't need you now And even if I do I couldn't sell you

Somehow I guess I gotta figure out And now Won't ask for nothing I don't need your help And even if I did I wouldn't sell you I don't need you now And even if I did I couldn't sell you Somehow I guess I got it figured out

And now Oh, that's for nothing Hyper independence got me spinning Won't take the help When it's given Low income 12 ahead Mid-income, 14 ahead Blue collar 17 ahead

White collar 10 points ahead Oh, very nice And we've returned. Who was that again? That band is called Moonstone, period, with a brand new single called Figured Out from Dallas, Texas. Very nice, Texas. Yeah, they're good.

They're really good. My wife is driving right now. They're leaving Green River, Wyoming. Oh, yes, the other Green River. Yep, the other Green River. And they're heading toward, I guess, past the kind of flaming gorge area. And they're heading toward the Kansas northern route to Mississippi. I thought they were going to go down through New Mexico and all that.

But they've decided to do the, I think, a little piece of Colorado into Texas or into Kansas and then Nashville maybe and then down. I think that's how they're doing it. Yeah. And it's, I was going to say something about all that and I forgot. Oh, I asked her if there was sushi there for you. I asked about that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it turns out she couldn't.

find one so we're still have we have to do our green river in between us well green river utah yep exactly there is a there's a really good burger place like a diner burger place in uh green river wyoming but i stopped at on the way back from a uh um undertacular once it was great oh that's good good we're doing a we're doing a caravan like you know five cars all driving together i think the may us were part of it and a couple other people and we stopped at uh in green river wyoming at a diner and got burgers and they were great i think that was the 2010 run, I think. Might have been. Might have been. Good Lord, that was a while

ago. All right, let's welcome this dude to the thing. Where's his deal? Here's a tangent for him. Be careful. May he cause drowsiness. Dan, Dan, the tabletop man joins us as he does once a month to talk about the latest in tabletop gaming and sometimes, you know, pharmaceutical bullshit.

You know. Greetings program. Hey, man. What's up? How are you? People just don't like board games or board game chat that they just really Do they email you and be like, I don't, you know, whatever you do. I don't know if there's anybody who doesn't like the board game chat. I think, there are people who claim they don't, but I don't believe them.

Really? Yeah. I know we have somebody who doesn't like apps. Yeah, some people don't like apps. Some people are like, oh, board games are boring. I've had people say, but they do this with everything. It's like, yeah. I always say about board games, people that say that they just don't like playing games.

I just feel like they just haven't played the right game or haven't been introduced to board games in a right way. Yeah, I agree. People just look at board games are like, I don't want to sit around playing sorry well neither do I right find the game for you and it's probably not pop-a-matic trouble

right right right so I have the I have the ultimate I don't remember I think it's either on Twitter or maybe it was on Reddit or something there was this always this thing where it's the am I the asshole like threat oh yeah yeah yeah

so I have one for you guys and you have to tell me am I the asshole here so please all right so this past weekend we went to this place so there's a town nearby it's called carry i live in apex it's carry uh and it's c a r why and they say it's the containment area of relocated yankees and it really is true and it's kind of like my hometown over there almost and you don't mean you don't mean former baseball MLB stars you mean like uh norther's is what you're saying no yeah exactly northerners because that down here everybody that's not from the south is just the yankee and

if you're like me and you've been down here for whatever 20-something years i'm a damn yankee is what they call oh got it okay you've been here longer than anything else. All right. All right. So there's this place in Carrie. It's a nice little brewery area. It's called the West End.

So there's two breweries. There's vicious fishes. And I think the other one is South End, but there's two breweries right next to each other. They have this covered area, nice little public area where people bring their dogs, kids hang out. It's just a nice little seating area. And you just go to both breweries. They're kind of like a really cool little area.

So I'm sitting there. We're with another couple. My daughter's in town, you know, for the summer. And so me, Janice, I got another couple. I was sitting here and there's dogs everywhere, kids everywhere. And I see this guy and he's four people. It's three dudes and a woman. And they've got this golden retriever.

It looks like my old dog Meadow that passed away in 2018. And they've got like this husky mix. So I'm sitting here. I'm like, all right. You know, you love animals. So I walk up to them. And I'm like, hey, can I, can I pet your dog? Yeah.

And the guy looks at me and says, no. Whoa. That just says no. And then he says, thank you and and that's it really and i'm like i i walk back with to my group like i just chapped my pants like i was just like okay like not not not a explanation there's nothing on a dog it's this is not like a police dog right about a service animal in training or something normally somebody would be like no i'm sorry you know they're a little jumpy or he's been

known to bite people or something you're in a public area with kids wrong and he actually i saw of them say no to a couple of moms. So it wasn't like the ugly Italian guy who might may or may not be drunk, you know, because I wasn't like specifically, I don't want you to pet my dog. Right. I wasn't stumbling over to them or anything else. They just, and just the way he just looked up and me and just said, nope. I was like, oh my God. Yeah. What? What was the most bizarre thing? I'm like, I'm like, I'm scarred. So obviously, it's his prerogative to say, you know, don't pet my dog. But still, I'd be like, I'd love to know why. Yeah, why. Usually somebody would have a reason. they go, well, he's a little nippy with strangers, or he doesn't like this, or he's got

a problem with, you know, I don't know, something like that. He's got a skin condition or something. It's like, maybe, did he, yeah, yeah. Usually there's the explanation after the no, like, I have no problem with the no. Just a flat out no, like, yes. And just looking at me, like, I'm like, whoa, what does happen here? I mean, I wouldn't feel good. I would be like you.

I'd be like, well, shit, did I, what, is it me? You know, like, I would wonder, I would wonder what's going on. But I don't think you're the A-Hole. in this scenario. I'm not even saying, I'm not even sure he's the a-hole in this scenario. I think maybe the dog's the a-hole, you know? Maybe we don't know.

You really? I'm not saying he's the a-hole. It's the lack of explanation here is the social, there's a social contract when you're a place that's just open to the public and, you know, you're meeting new people. Dogs are playing with each other. Kids are playing with dogs. Yeah. Mass hysteria. All sorts of mayhem.

You need to, you should have followed up and kept at it and just said, can I pet that dog? Yeah, go full TikTok meme. I want to pet that dog. Can I pet that dog? No. Can I pet that dog? Just keep going, get louder.

Just keep going louder and louder. Yeah, I love that. I want to pet that dog. So the whole rest of the night, I kept saying, like, I kept looking at my wife. And like, anytime we see a dog, I'm like, I would just go, can I pet that dog? And she'd go, nope. Nope. You know why I'd say it?

I'd say you can, but you may not. That's what I would say to people. Oh, there you go. Yeah, because you can, technically you can. You're capable of petting the dog, but you may not. It's like a teacher correcting you, you know, that's what you should do. This is McGillicuddy. Yeah, that's what I'm doing next time.

Mrs. Phipps for me, she would say that. She would go, now, it's just like the movie, or what movie was it? You can, but you may not. Was it Forrest Gump? Somebody had to pee, and she kept saying, you can, but you, oh, it's the movie Avalon. Watch Avalon. It's amazing. Oh, okay.

But anyway, I had a teacher did the exact same thing. she was obsessed with making sure I knew the difference between May and Can. Obsessed with it. And I'm like, Mrs. Phipps, I know the difference. I just say this because that's how people talk. I felt like she was making me sound like I was an illiterate fool. Like, no, it's just May or Can, switching around who gives a giant shit. Well, I hope you can.

Yeah, no kidding. You physically can, but you may not. You may not. Dan, let's get into board games because for those who love them, I see you have one here. Something but the weirdest name I've seen in years. Daba Walla? What the hell is this?

Yep. So this is called Daba Walla. This is going to be put out by Queen U.S. And actually, I think it's already out in Germany. So for those listeners that are out overseas, you're actually getting this before we are over here. But Queen Games is putting out a game called Daba Walla. Now, so the history of this is it's a Mumbai Food Express.

Now, I don't know if I'd love to hear if there's anybody in the Tat Bull that's from Mumbai and knows about. So apparently, these are basically a big food service thing, where people every morning will go out like on bikes and different things like that and put out these, I think it's the wallas or one of them, either the dabba or the wala. I think the daba is the thing and the walla is. Yeah, the wala is the person because chaiwala,

as we all learn from slumdog millionaire, the chai walla is a kid on a bike who delivers chai. Oh, okay. Really? Runs around, yeah. I know. You kept calling him chaiwala. I didn't know that.

And actually, it's funny, in the game, you can actually get chai. And I can get it to that in a second, too. So basically in the game, it's a very, very, very light playing game. Very easy to learn. There's two phases to the game. Now, you're delivering these dabbas, which are basically

these cans of food. So basically like lunches to people out there. Yeah, it looked like circular bento boxes kind of thing. Exactly. Yeah. So in the first part of the game, you're going throughout the city and you're getting these cards. Now, you're going to have a little tableau in front of you, and they come with different ones.

Basically, you just think of like a three by three grid. You're putting polyominoes, which are basically at a Tetris pieces. So as you're going out through the city, you're getting cards. On the top of them, they're going to have what piece you can put into your little, you know, your little bike or your little tableau, and then the bottom is going to be just some numbers, and we'll get into that in the second half of the game. So as you're kind of going throughout, taking your turn, you're placing these, basically, these Tetris pieces in certain spots, and then you're stacking them up. So you're trying to make, you know, get as best or more efficient amount of as many of these different dabbas on your, on your little tableau, so you can sell them in a second part. So as you go, I think you get like 13 rounds in a first part and you get 13 different chits and you're putting them out there. And then the second part, you flip the board over. It's really innovative kind of the way the board is, the way the whole box is set up because the board is double-sided. One side's for the first half, the other side's for

the second half. Then after the first 13 rounds, you now have like 13 cards in front of you, and then one round at a time, depending on who has the highest level of their, on their kind of their tablo, then everybody's putting a card. That's how many rounds that you'll go. So you're playing the cards that'll have numbers in the bottom. And then as you're placing the cards down, that's going to be the price that you're selling each round you're going to be selling a certain you're going to be selling your level so then as people place their cards out the the different dollars are going to be worth different amounts of money and that's basically your victory points is your money now as you're placing your chits in there you're going to get different halves of a chai you

i see that the half yeah oh god that would make that would make tetras such a bit uh like a much more challenging games you have those to to connect inside your tetra one of you're getting different power-ups from those different halves of them too so because the chai's It tries either give you other ways to cheat or maybe manipulate the score either up or down and things like that. So really cool. And by the time you're done with the second half of the game, basically, you just add up all the score, and it's it. So it's just one of these perfect games. I don't want to necessarily, but I'm going to call it a Johnson game because you can learn it in 10 seconds.

And you just want to play again. Yeah, it looks pretty straightforward. It's so easy to play. Yeah, because, you know, I hate them rules. So give me an easy game, you know? That's what I want. Well, you don't want to be sitting there for hours and hours on end. You're kind of a guy who wants to get it.

in and get out. Yeah, just want to play. It's like John put this really well on core one night. He says I play games, video games and board games the way I play, the way I go to an arcade. And it's true. I go to an arcade. I survey the place and I go, I'm in the mood for that for a minute. And now I'm in the mood for that. So I may have 2,000 games on Steam. Guess how many of those are finished? Very low amount. Very small. You probably counted on two hands total over the last 20 years or however long we've had Steam. So, yeah, like I do approach things like that. And that's of what's fun about like our TMS Vegas board game stuff is really fun because you can kind of dip in and dip out and find something that's just sort of fun real quick and then one of this all that looks

like fun let me jump and play that and then get out yeah yeah I like that stuff in uh and board game publishers so some different queen is kind of noted for having bad inserts uh in the past and what they've done with this game is they've taken this weird kind of i don't know i guess it's papercrafted away but it's like cardboard craft so you're kind of putting together and you probably see it in pictures where you're you actually put together these little storage things and then the gameboard itself actually slides on top of the storage solution so that it keeps all the chits in place so you don't even need plastic baggies you just have all the cardboard things in there and even the cards come in its own little thing and it fits in the box perfectly I'm just I was just absolutely

amazed it's a little bit of a pain in the ass to put together I'll be honest like when you're putting it together like you're you know like when you're trying to force two pieces of cardboard yeah yeah But then once you get it together, you're like, oh, that's great. Because it's just really amazing how it fits together. Nice. That looks great. These German games, man, they know what's up. They know how to make games.

And this one should be out over here in the next month or two. I think it's only like $40 or $50. Should be out by July in the U.S. But if you're overseas, you can pick it up now. So I was really pleasantly surprised at it. They had sent me a German version, so I actually had to print out my own rules for it. So you could get a preview of it. But it actually is well.

I didn't want to hold deer. your Google Translate camera up to it the whole time and figure out what it's what it's saying. That's good point. Real quick here, if we have any German listeners, I've always been curious about this. Why is it, do you think your home country has such a reputation for strong board game presence?

Like, why are you the mecca of board gaming? What do you think that is? Is it a cultural thing? Yeah. That's crazy. I think it's a lot of designers, too. So, I mean, like, so what do you guys think of? I mean, Brian, you'll probably get this.

What created the modern explosion of board games? What game created that in modern? Settlers of Catan, probably. Absolutely. And Klaus Toyberg, who I believe is German, that's where a lot of the main Euro designers are. And I think that's a good guess. It's not a real. Klaus Toyberg is the like inventor of that games.

Well, it's Toyber. It's spelled T-E-U-B-E-R, but it sounds like Toy. Yeah, but I'm pretty sure that's the Catan's, yeah. When do he make this? made up for the he made Catan back in oh my gosh that guy was originally a dental technician that's amazing oh that's cool

yeah when he went on to make some amazing games Reiner Kinizia is the other main you know the man who's probably the good doctor Kinizia who I don't know if he was a medical doctor but he might have been a medical doctor and he's probably made more board games than anybody alive right now he's made that many titles and so many games that you've played you know you don't realize

they're a Kinetia but it's just an amazing designer as well tuber tuber Tiber how do you say it um toy bear toy bear he died last uh just last year that's sad yep yeah probably had more in him you know hopefully he was buried in a uh little hexagon with uh sheep sheep tokens yep and his uh his his big uh cement headstone is like a meeple like a little meeple right well so um i'm trying to remember who made carcassone because that's where you first get the meeple so toyber is probably married in a and a big thing with a lot of wood and sheep you know

Oh, yeah, good point. Oh, those sheeple? Those are sheeple. Yeah, probably a sheeple. Carcassone was, who was, who made, that's German also, right? French. French. The name is French, isn't it?

The name is French, but I think it's a, let's see. Yeah, might be a German game, yeah. Let's see, Carcasson, where's the, I can't find it. But the Germans, man, look at them. Yeah. You know, they had kind of, they had a rough late 18, early 19th century, and then they were like you know what we're going to be really good at two things

board games and disturbing pornography those are their two claims to fame and then what's their name the band Duhast Mesh them they're really into that good job So Carcasson I think is it takes place in southern

France all the southern France landscape and it was Klaus Juergen Red is who it says made Carcasson from BG and but they but that's pretty much the game that was the first one that had meeples in it. That's crazy.

I didn't know you could trace it back to that. That's nuts. I mean, the stuff that we, when we were playing like Stratigo in the 80s, I guess those weren't meeples. Those were like little. No, but it feels like,

like it's just, is it just that shape? Because I figure, I feel like I had games in the 70s I played that had little, little representations of people without any sort of distinguishing marks other than the pedestrian shape.

Yeah. You know, I'm trying to, I'd have to do a D. maybe before the next one I'll do a deep dive on a meeple and give you everything or maybe they're the first ones to call it a meeple and that's why like everything that's in full you know yeah yeah I don't know technically a chess bond is a meeple yeah maybe me exactly pieces are meeple maybe meeple maybe meeple means something in German is meepal it's not a German word is it this is meant to be like people yeah I think it was

meant my people like uh yeah mini people oh my people many people micro people I like all these All these are good. Okay, it says right here. I just found something. Usually within a stylized human form, they are made from wood. Bup, but, but, okay. Let's see.

The word is contraction of my people. So you're right. Meples are more anthropomorphized than Pons. Pons is what they used to call. Okay, so the stuff in Stratigo, they called Ponds. Let's see. They're believed to be introduced in the 1984 game, top secret spies.

And then Carcassone, published by Hans and Gluck, has been credited with popular. popularizing them, but they technically showed up in something called Top Secret Spies. Oh, yeah, look at this old game. That's cool. It's also German, though. So, take that. I know in the newer versions

of the Bible, Moses says, let me people go. Yeah, let me, let me let me, he meant to say let me people go. Let me people, let my people go. But he said, let me people go. Yeah. Anyway. So, Brian, you're all in on, you're all in on Larkana? I am

all in on Larkana. I picked up so Raven C.T. in the chat. I didn't know she actually owned or worked at, owned. She has a gaming store. That's cool. Awesome. Yeah.

And she and her husband, Josh, sent me a ton of their extra Lorcana cards, including a couple, like, the two of the three pre-made starter deck. So Tina, I've been playing that. And I decided to go out this last week and pick up the Ursula's, whatever, the Illumaneers quest thing. That's a brand new one, too. That's a really good one. And I got the last one that they had at my comic store that I go to.

So, um, uh, totally, totally digging this thing. And what's great about that, that Ursula's deal is that you can play it. Like if Tina doesn't want to play some, sometime or I want to play it on my own, that's a, you can do it as a one man, uh, against Ursula. Yeah, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's the first one I put out. It's like either co-op or solo as well. Yeah. Boy, is that game so good.

I have to, I want to pick that one up because I want to be able to play it solo because I play a lot. I played this one with my daughter, Lauren, and we play a bunch of the Lorcanna sets. We've played some of the first set, or the first set, which was really hard to get at the time. And then some of the new set, the second set that came out right before the Ursula won. The first set's pretty good. It has a little bit of a draw problem. Now, I don't know if you may not have noticed this when you were playing, that the first set, now the biggest thing is like you, as you're playing, you can put things out for resources and then you're playing cards.

And then basically, you just get one card a turn. So the biggest problem with the first set is that you just get into this point where you're just, top decking everything and it's not really as much fun um and then the second set has a lot more things that uh a lot more things that basically you have a lot more draw to it so it's like cards and yeah yes a lot of one of the uh interactions or a lot of the people that you play out there it'd be like when you play this draw card or when this is defeated draw card so there's a lot more way to get draw so that it really helps to it's not quite as bad as the top decking which it feels bad yeah yeah by the way quick correction i'm sorry uh raven works at the board

game publisher chip theory games not at a game store so oh gotcha and chip theory games uh is they make too many bones and they've got the um elder scrolls game coming out uh i met raven last year not last i met me even a long time ago and i really apologize i'm so bad with names and faces uh but i do remember uh you know we spoke so uh i'm really look forward to you know i love meeting people from the community you know over there you don't get to see all the time so that's always a ton of fun as well but chip theory games is an amazing company they do their stuff uh like if you ever uh scott you would never you would never last half a game of this of too many bones but it's it's too many rules too many bones too many rules no it's it is a great game it's one of my favorite

games the production value they have and again it's called chip theory games for reason they have all these amazing chips and uh they're i don't want to call the everything they do like the word overproduced sounds bad but it's in a good way like they're the i have the like the collector addition to too many bones and it's got these play mats like these neoprene mats and you have a ton of dice a ton of chips like people's uh life as chips i just i know you can tell that i'm like sound like i'm like it's like i'm like it's such a fun game too many bones and it really like they had hippolomachus was i think their first game uh and it used these chips and then they put out too many bones and it the company just exploded so they've got a lot of really cool things that they've been putting out

uh and i'm really looking forward to uh when they do have that elder scrolls game yeah coming out and if you have a really cool solo game i think it's called 20 strong i think it has to do with what uh raven is talking about yeah 20 strong yep oh man it's uh it's it's it's really fun uh it's a real fun solo game so like guys like us brian you got to love the solo games and that's a really fun and i love dice and stuff like that so uh i found a i found a new dice i found a new dice game on uh steam that i'm probably going to recommend to you dan if i got to play a little bit more it's it's a definitely a more complicated take on like dicey dungeons do you play that

probably you did? No I have not played that one yet they're both good dicey dungeon is amazing but it's very simple sort of to get into this one is a little bit more complicated as a site like a cyberpunky thing and I forgot the name of the damn thing but I'll play a little bit more and then we'll see if it's up your alley or not and this

is a quick one I won't spend any time on this but I want you to check this out so write to stay on Johnson it's it's 599 and it's way better than it has any right to be it's called circadian dice oh I have that I haven't played it though is it good yeah it's awesome like it's just it's just simple addictive fun where you're basically the whole idea about it is you're just going on these different they have all sorts

these different adventures they're basically like eight wave adventures and you're changing the faces of your dice yeah uh and that's how you're upgrading as you're leveling up you're getting more dice but you're also constantly changing the faces of your dice to basically advance your how you're playing it's it's so much similar to it's like the dice version of belatoro or balatro or whatever exactly a little bit yeah yeah no i I own this and just have not cracked it. I don't know why. I probably bought it because I went,

oh, that's cheap and it has dice, because I love the combo of cheap and dice. So I need to grab it. I'm gonna, right now. In fact, I'm adding it to my thing. Quite addictive to it, because it's like you start off with just the one character, and as you're going, you're advancing,

you know, you're unlocking other characters, unlocking cool other things for your dice to use. And you just keep, you get in this really cool gameplay loop. It's just, and it's quick. quick and easy to play. It doesn't take a whole lot. Also, reviewed really well, 94% on Steam. Windows only, unfortunately, even though it looks like it. You know, should be, should be macable.

Yeah, they ought to do that. Actually, the app would be perfect, yeah. Be good on the iPad, the iPood. So here's the funny thing about Dan. He never remembers names, but he remembers words like this. Alcane style. You know what I'm saying? Like all your weird medical names? You remember all that shit?

Oh, yeah. What's up with that? What is that? I didn't mean play it again. Alcane style. Do you know what that is? No. It may not be medicine.

Let's see what it is. Oh, it's a various form of, it's a variation of a hydrocarbon polymer containing sulfur. So that's not something you want to put in your veins. No, don't do that. No. No. It's funny because get all these different wacky names that you see all day long

when you're at work, especially in pharmacy, between all these new injectables and everything else and all the old, you know, these diabetes names and all, and knowing what goes together, what the generic name is of a brand. And it's just, you know, after 20-something year, 25 years, you kind of, it's second nature. But when you talk to somebody that doesn't see it every day, like my buddy will ask me, or you guys will ask me about, you know, should I use this or that? And then you start rattling off 15 things that are like, well, how could you remember that?

I'm like, well, you're an engineer. How do you remember any of your stuff? Yeah, exactly. Are you going to watch that South Park, Ozempic thing they're doing? They're doing a whole. Yes, somebody was just telling me about it. And I saw the memes. I thought they were basically referring to something they talked about years ago

because, you know, bitching about health care has been something we've been doing for 20 years. So, I mean, we're even longer than that. So I figured it was something that was old. But I definitely want to see it because, yeah, those Zepik is in between Wagovi, O Zempic and all these other GLP ones and SGLT2s and DPP4s. And like you see all that stuff all day long with this. Yeah, they're going to give it to Carmen, I guess, is the story. I don't know.

I haven't seen much else other than the teaser. Brian, you were about to say something like. Oh, yeah. I just wanted to show down the, and you, this box, this Lorcana 3D printed box I made. So no paint or anything. That is done with levels of filament. Oh, wow, that's awesome. Yeah, so like you can't really tell.

But like when you're 3D printing, you pause the print, change out the filament. And if you've designed things with layers, then you can do multiple colors with 3D printing. Just pause the print, change out the filament, and then it does the next thing. Oh, I wondered about that. So it knows when it hits the layer, the finish of the previous layer and when you got to start. It knows that. Yeah, exactly. It knows that some 3D print slicers will actually do it for you and let you enter a G code that pauses the print,

lets you change out the film, and then you just hit play again. But the one I use for the any cubic mega doesn't know it. So I have to just keep an eye on when it gets to layer 12. It's like, cool, layer 12 pause. Then I go on, I change the filament. That's awesome. And then put the new colors. And you even get space for, you know, the space for the cards and space for the token.

Oh, that's great. That's great. Man. Like, even the, the logo is even separated. So, like, it, you know, separates on that little point. Do you think the, like, if Disney saw these things that people make, and do you think they're like, oh, shit, we should, we should sell that. We should make one of those. Like, you know what I mean?

Like, I feel like, possibly. Yeah. Three-D printers are going to get the scoop on cool stuff. I know that they've come out with their own Khyber crystal holders. that aren't nearly as good as the ones I design. So I feel like Disney, you know, Disney, let's talk. If you want a Khyber Crystal holder that looks good, let's talk. And I'll sell you my designs.

Yeah, I'm sure Disney will jump on that. Sure, totally, totally. Well, Dan, this has been a pleasure, as my dad would have always said, having you on here. And may all your meatballs look like cookies, you know? That's what I like about meatballs. They look at them. all the pieces in these games look like medicine you got to keep them away from

that's right keep them away from kids uh tell us uh where we can find more of you what your shows about all that stuff so you can find me at geek jock dan on twitter uh or because i refuse to call it the other name just it's always twitter to me so you find me a geek jock dan you can find me on the geek all stars podcast we just did a really good uh i know we discussed this probably in discord about we did a really cool draft about perfect albums which have zero skippable tracks and it. So check that out. And we obviously talk about board games, car games, TV movies, a little bit, everything else. And I just put out a munchkin lands. Did a munchkin minute over on a major spoilers for this week for the beginning of the month. So go check that out over on a major spoilers network. And of course, thanks for having me on. And I look forward to talking to you guys again soon.

Yeah, may all your ozempics be good. I don't know what I'm trying to say. I'll see you later. Real quick, Brian, I had a weird glitch happen last night. I thought I'd share. with you. Oh, cool, yeah. Check this business out. I was on the show, thanks to 9 of 12 and a few others for sending me some clips. A Monday show? Yeah, we were trying to do, uh, pick a title for the show. And this happened. Fun violence, unviolence, unviolence, unviolence, unviolence, unviolence, unviolence, unviolence. And that went on for a really long time. So that's what the audience, that's what the audience heard of me. Yeah, and we didn't hear it. Didn't come through monitored, didn't come through Carter's headphones. We couldn't hear it.

but everybody else is going, dude, you guys are on fire. And I noticed my waveform is going, right, right, right, right. Weird. It was very weird. So I found a solution. I fixed it in real time, didn't have to stop the stream. Everything went fine.

So all I'm saying is this, people, if this comes up again, just say it once or twice in the chat. I have a way to fix it. I take it. Yeah, you had a wall of people telling you. There was a lot. There was a lot. And also just, I mean, I don't know what caused.

I think it was a recent patch for something. I think it's on, I think it's loopback, but I don't know. Oh, okay. Anyway, that's not the kind of loopback I paid for right there. No, no, that's, come on, rogue amoeba. We have a quick, uh, the voicemail to play. Okay, all right. Before we get out of here, this is, uh, somebody calling about, uh, what we make them do.

Okay. Okay. I'll leave it at that. Here we go. Hey, beep and scream. This is David from Philly, aka a really hoopy fruit in the chat. Um, my fiance and I just realized that you've classically trained us like Pavlov's dog to respond

to a beep with a scream. Anyway, love the show though. Yeah. He did one at the end. Yeah, like this. Or like, or whatever. Apparently, some people, they walk away with our memes and they become

part of their life, you know, in a meme, a memingful way. By the way, I had my key fob in my pocket, and It was in the garage. I was working on the Galactus painting and bumped up against the edge of my work desk

and it hit the lock or the emergency button on my key fob. Oh no. And all of a sudden my car goes out and starts honking and I swear to God it went beep and I went and I went and it wasn't because of the meme it was because it scared the shit out of me. But you thought about it, you thought about it immediately right? Like you heard it.

I immediately thought about, oh, it was just like the meme. Too bad I wasn't recording that. That's amazing. Well, we'd love to hear how our stupid shit here makes your life different, everybody. So send us those voicemails. That's right. If you want to leave us a voicemail, you can. 801-471062.

That also doubles as a text line, so feel free to use that any time you like. And if you like to e-mell us. Wike. It came up with Wike. This bodes well for reading the titles today. We'll see it. It should be great. It should be no problem whatsoever.

But if you like that, And, or you like emails, what I'm trying to say. You can send us an email. The morning stream at gmail.com. That's going to do it for us. Brian, let's play a song and get out of here. What do you got? Sure.

Hey, we got a birthday, and I didn't see him in the chat room, but maybe he's here. Jay Funktastic wrote in, said, hey, Cyclops and Beast, I'll be turning the ripe, or he says the rope age of 47 on May 28th, I guess the site's the first thing to go. And would love nothing, but turning 47, that's the important part. Would love nothing more than to hear a cover of something from the 80. and I leave the choice up to the covermaster himself. You both have kept me inspired and laughing since episode one. I think he means of this show and not Star Wars.

And I hope you know how much I love and respect you both in this entire community of wonderful human beings. I'm sorry, couldn't be a TMS Vegas this year, but I will be there next year if I have to crawl on my knees to make it. Brian, next time you come to Norlands, I will show you and Tina how to properly eat crawfish like pros. There's a science to it. Fantastic.

He's right. I feel like I don't get when I, after I tear off the tail and I suck the head, I feel like I'm just getting vapors from sucked in the head. So yeah, yeah, definitely need, definitely need to know how to do it better. Cheers, guys, love the snow globe.

J-Fung-Tastik. P.S. Can I get a honk, ah, and Scott scream for my birthday, thanks. Yes, and you can also get one of these. Happy birthday. Because you're 47, dude. All right? Secondly, one of these. And then just like we just play, Where'd it go?

Here it is. No, wrong one. There it is. PPS or PSS. All of you are wrong. No self-respecting Southerner likes Tabasco. It's the nickel back of hot sauces. Cajun chef brand for the win.

Agreed. Tabasco is 90% heat and 10% flavor, and I like a good balance of both. It's just hot water, really. It is just hot water, exactly. You can shake that bottle for hours and it's still just thinned out. It's just, it's not, it's not, it's not, great no there's so many alternatives don't you know if you get started they're fine but move on

to something better pretty quick you know oh i got some of that crunchy uh chili oil that you recommended oh yeah not the i didn't get that brand i got whatever carter got at a asian market anyway it's the crunch crunchy crunchy whatever crunchy got that on a hot dog yesterday dude dude it was so good it is so good i like somebody like tanda goss just said in chat i put that on everything like it is i made eggs this morning and i basically just put a wad of it in the bottom of the pan and spread it around it's chili oil so you don't need to use any other oil to cook the eggs and um made the whole house smell amazing it was so so good no it's so good i came remember where carter got it's so good and i'm i can't wait to eat something else with it on it

so i'm converting make some weird eggs with it all right maybe weird eggs we have to film some cooking this week maybe i'll do weird eggs we'll see there you go yeah do weird eggs All right, cool. So he wanted a request of something, 80s, a cover of a song from the 80s. So last week, oh, I'm so excited about this. Last week an album came out called Everyone's Getting Involved. It's a tribute to the Talking Head Stop Making Sense movie, the one that was directed by Jonathan Demi. One of I consider to be, I'm just going to say it, it's the greatest concert film ever made.

I would put the band's last waltz second, but I would put Stop Making Sense number. one because it's so good. Damn. All right. If you have not seen it, put it on while you're working or while you're doing something or just sit and watch it because it is a feast for the eyes and the ears. Anyway, so the second ever Talking Heads tribute came out, first one being the one that I released several years ago, and it included this cover by band called Bad Bad Bad Not Good. It's a cover of This Must Be the Place, Naive Melody, and it is the Talking Heads. Here's Bad Bad, Not Good. tomorrow. Home is where I want to be, pick me up and turn me round.

I feel numb, born with a week haul, guess I must we having fun. Unless we say about it the better Make it up as we go along Feet on the ground Head in the sky It's okay I know nothing's wrong Nothing

Higher I got plenty of time Higher You got light in your eyes. And you're standing here beside me. I love the passing of time. Never for money. Always for love.

Come up and say good night. Say good night. Home is where I'm to be, but I'd guess I'm already there. I come home. She lifted up away. Guess that this must be a place. I can't tell one from another,

did I find you, you find me? There was a time before we were born. If someone asks, this is where I'll be. Where I'll be Higher We drift in and out Higher singing to my mouth

Out of all those kinds of people You got a face with a view I'm just an animal Looking for a home and share the same space for a minute of two. And you love me till my heart stops. Love me till they. Eyes light up, eyes look through you. Cover up the blank spots.

Hit me on the head out. Ahoo, oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes, get more at frogpant.com. Basically the worst parts of the Bible.