The Morning Stream - TMS 2657: Newman Gnome

Episode Date: June 10, 2024

Kim's Chi. Chadpool. If He Dies, It's Not Us. Cranking the Nipple. The Heat of the Cool. The Frollo is also cursed. Hey there scooter boy, get off the lawn. Buckle in your Tentacles. No curb too high. Reeth Witherthpoon. Peanut Pickin' Bastard! HMart, Korean for KMart. Remember 2015? Did They Wipe? Compact comics with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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No! That's why we need you at patreon.com slash TMS today. Coming up on the morning stream, Kim's Chi. Chadpool. If he dies, it's not us. Cranking the nipple. The heat of the cool. The Frollo is also cursed.

Hey there, Scooter boy. Get off my lawn. Buckle in your tentacles. No curb too high. Reith with a spoon. Peanut pickin bastard. H-Mart, Korean for K-Bart. Do you remember 2015?

Did they wipe? Sorry. Compact Comics with Stephen and Moore on this episode of The Morning Stream. Adam saw a dog, and it looked like a dog, and he called it a dog. She looked like a bird stuffer,

so she is a bird stuffer. Adjust a pitch angle, negative to three degrees. The morning stream, the beast with a millionized. By just last week, I had my entire car millionized. And it smells great. Hey, everybody, welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for June 10th.

That's a Monday. 2024 is the year. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian. Hi, Brian. Well, hello, Scott. How are you? I'm all right. I'm pretty good, actually.

I slept like garbage last night because we decided not to run the AC because we thought, well, even though it's 100 degrees in the day, at night, it will cool off. So we'll set the thing to, you know, not be doing AC at night. And we'll just crack the windows from like, I don't know, 7 p.m. until this morning. It's a sweaty mess all night. It's freaking awful. So no more of that. Sorry, I live in the, I'm not a young person who can now just lay in the heat. Okay?

No, no. forget it got to keep it cool right and how do we i mean a week ago it was like 62 maximum here suddenly it's 100 and my gosh it was hot yeah it's getting hot here too which is great which means that i can you know i can uh jump on the bike earlier and earlier i'll jump on right after the show because it'll already be got it's already 66 right now is the time that i'm usually getting on the bike is when i see it turn um 66 mid 60s is like my my go time my perfect balance of heat and cool. That's right.

You're like, I don't know, a really good bun. Just cooked just right. I'm like George Costanza and his hotel sheets. Perfect balance. You know,

Lai-stick my light down. Tucker, no tuck. Give me a tuck. On second thought, no tuck. Look, that's great. You should do that. And also, I hope everyone's enjoying

finally having a little bit of summer. It's crazy our mountains because it took so long to warm up, our mountains are still snow capped on our side. And then up from the valley, up most of the mountains are all really hyper green. And it looks like, it almost looks like Hawaii there,

except for the ice, obviously, at the top. It's amazing. And I hate that in August, it's all going to look like a brown turd up there. But right now, beautiful. It is not.

This is the time. Same for Colorado. Like before everything starts drying out, and everything starts turning brown. It's like this is that nice green time. And we had, boy, we had the rainiest of rainy seasons last year and stuff stayed green well into July and August. But so far, not so much rain, not enough.

Not enough to make it work. That's right. Kim came home and she was mad immediately because the front sprinklers didn't work while she was gone. I didn't notice. Oh, no. I don't pay attention to these things. Do you have on a timer or anything?

We do. They're all hooked up on a timer. They work great. normally and when she left they were working so something some wires falling out or i'll go in there and try to figure it out today but that was annoying but she's home she's happy everything's good this this temperature feels like nothing to her because she's she's been in mississippi all week yeah it's got to feel great she was in a new orleans zoo on once she come home saturday yeah she was in a new orleans zoo on saturday 100 plus degrees major humidity

As humid as hell, of course. Stinky Zoo. Like, how do you even do it? So this to her feels like wintertime after two weeks of that. Anyway, so I'm all as well. I'm going to eat. I'm going to eat good tonight. I can tell you that.

No more hot dogs and cereal. It's great. Yeah, the combination was not working out in the end. Here's the good news, though. Yeah. Yesterday, her and I went and checked out the hot new location of H-Mart. And you might say, what the hell is that? Well, if you live in a major city, I think,

they started in California. I'm not actually sure about that. You probably already know what an H-Mart is. It's a Korean-owned massive store just full of mostly Korean stuff, but all sorts of Asian fare. And even if little American stuff thrown in here just to make it a regular grocery store if you want it to be. But it's just chock full of the weirdest like roots and all that stuff. And I got there and it's over where I used to live. It's literally like I could have walked to it if I still lived in this old house and uh it's massive the grand opening was on saturday and so the place is just packed we we thought oh we'll go there on sunday it'll be way less people it was it was insane it was bad no matter what yeah yeah um and kt data had been there prior went there

on opening day my brother matt went on opening day did a video and stuff so they're super stoked obviously given their heritage and um i guess this is renowned in the korean community around here that we would get an hmart they were all losing their shit over this so um I go in there and it's awesome beautiful smells crazy but in a good way you're just like oh I just can't wait to eat all this rotten cabbage and seafoody smell and uh yeah oh yeah cabbage and kimchi and seafood like you said and just like every everything but weird root smells like you get into the produce section you're just like what even is that thing it's like as big as a tree anyway so we're enjoying that and I'm buying kimchi and they had this crazy deal on kimchi for

the grand opening. So I grabbed a bunch of that. And they're going to have restaurants built in. They're not done yet, but those are all started and stuff. So it's all very good experience. We leave and it hits me. This is called H-Mart. I don't know why.

Probably somebody's name. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know what the H stands for. Yeah. But my brain kept going, well, this should be called K-Mart because it's Korean market. K-mart. And then my brain-

Like K-pop? Like K-pop. Yeah, like K-pop. K-whatever, K-dramas. But my brain would go, no, Scott. In fact, literally, this used to be a K-Mart. They tore down and built this here. Oh, really?

Oh, funny. A K-mart. So they can't take K-mart because K-mart already existed. You know, red-light shoppers and all that crap. Yeah. And so I'm just... Blue-light, by the way. Blue-light.

Was it not red light? I don't know what it was. It was not red light. Blue light special. Come on now. Yeah. The red light was just too scary. They couldn't do it.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Anyway, I cannot recommend going to these places enough. It is awesome and the food is amazing and the prices are great. I bought a bunch of really normally very expensive ramen if you buy the same brand somewhere else. I bought it there for way cheap, just like packages of this stuff for what used to cost me for like a single four pack. You just got tons of it. So, yeah, Hmart. We're now with the cool kids come to Salt Lake and stay for the H-Mart.

Wow. Holy cow. Yeah, we've got a place here called. I've got an H-Mart, and it's closer to us than the place that's the Pacific Ocean marketplace, which is massive. It feels like two grocery stores jammed together and filled with all the stuff that's in H-Mart. Our H-Mart is a former Albertsons, which is, you know, another grocery store chain. I don't know if it was national, but we got it up here. I think, yeah, they used, I think our Harmans bought all those out.

So now Harman's is where all the Albertsons were, but we used to be a big Albertsons town back in the day. Yeah. We never had, or maybe we did for a hot minute when I was a kid, but Safeway really never a thing here. Okay. Yeah. Safeway, not becoming so much of a thing out here. A lot of the Safeways are being turned in other things.

Typically, like the closest one to us has been turned into a prestige fitness or 24, I think a 24-hour fitness. And then another one is like, it's where the Spirit Halloween always nestles in every time season comes around. Sure. But no, love H-Mart and love Pacific Ocean Marketplace. Love going to those places. Yeah.

It's amazing, right? It's like a wonderland of senses and you're just like, man, I could stay here and here all day. And I don't know, I don't know what it is. We're going to go back. And my brother, Matt, could not be more excited. He's losing his freaking mind. Nice. To him, this is really like, what's it like?

It's like if crowded house said, hey, Brian, you want to do a concert in your backyard. Yeah. That's how excited he is. Yeah. He's excited like that level. That's pretty damn, that's a pretty damn high level. I agree. And he just lives up the street so you can just, you know, he lives really close to where we used to live. So he's got, he's got all he ever wanted without having to go back to the homeland, which he's doing anyway for three months in like August or something. Wow, three months. That's a long time to go back out there. He builds up some serious PTO at UPS.

So when he takes off, he takes off from like hard. I think that's too long because his in-laws are kind of weird. And so I feel like he's, you know, he probably wants to get home pretty quick. But anyway. Also, we'll be wanting to come home in a week. Yeah, no doubt. So I got a Tesla family issue, you know, Tesla over here next door, we talked about him over the years. They've been mostly fine because, you know, we had a little makeup and, you know, we helped him out of the snow that one day.

And ever since then, they've been very nice and they wave and everything's good. um we have this one problem though the kid who would have been a baby in 2015 when they drove past the house and yelled f you or whatever at the top of their lines oh yeah right yeah uh he's now a kid of some age i think he's probably eight or something yeah that would be right and uh he has a bike now and it's a little uh electric assisted bike of course oh okay all they have is teslas over there of course yes right well i mean you know sure electric car is one thing, but the ultimate no-carbon footprint vehicle is a bike that doesn't need to be charged. That's true. That's true. That doesn't take any power from any source to get going.

Exactly. Just your body. Just your eating your good vegetables and stuff. Yeah. And it's a cool little scootery bikey thing and it's fine. And you can use it for hills and stuff like that or you can just pedal or whatever. And it's made for a little guy like him, you know, an eight-year-old. It's interesting. I didn't know they made e-bikes for kids. That's wild. Yeah, it surprised me a little bit. Anyway, he's out there, and it's fine. Our little back alley area is like a street that pulls up to our garage and other people's garages. It's kind of every other house has a garage in back versus in front. It's just kind of a weird layout, kind of very Midwest layout.

And our yard, as we know from previous run-ins, is a great place for lazy people to let their dog poo or, you know, whatever. Climb the tree and injure themselves. and yeah oh yeah we did talk about the tree didn't we so this is a very this is a companion piece to the tree i guess okay he is now deciding that that one hump of a turn that our yard provides is just too much he just cannot he cannot be bothered to go around the grass around yeah he has to go right through it past our tree and out to the other side so now if you go out to our lawn lush green out there beautifully manicured i mowed it last week kim's mowing it today she's out there right now and but right down the middle of it is this flattened undergrown path created by eight year

old freaking scooter boy right down the swath right down the middle of this yard thing now his mom watches him do it so she sees him do this and doesn't have a reaction or doesn't have anything to say what's he doing going on grass anyway stay on the side of the road kid or on a sidewalk or something i feel like these are all things he should know by eight years old these are things you should know and then better yet when your mom is watching you ride yeah yeah my mom would have piped up and get stay out of their yard exactly yeah so now i don't know what to do again we have an option we go over there and say hey guys remember 2015 we don't want to do that again i wouldn't even bring up 2015 just you know and do it in the most friendly joke you have

have kim take over a casserole and then have um like bike marks going over one corner of the casserole or a cake that has like it's all like a green topped happy spring cake with a with bike tire marks going across one corner and just say i love it i'll just get like a little little miniature kid on a bike put them on the end of the cake right exactly yeah yeah no you know what that's one way the other way we thought about putting the sign or is it is it wearing like is there now like a dead path kind of thing it's not dead yet but if he keeps it up it will be it's that kind of thing where i can tell it's drier you can tell it's lower It is flattened, but it's also so the grass isn't growing quite the way the rest of the thing does.

Part of me wants to do like motion sensor water blast. Can you go by, can you just head over to the Home Depot and buy a gnome and put it right in the middle of the path that just have the gnomes sitting there? Going, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, right, right, a little nedgerie, uh, gnome, sure. That would be amazing. A chana barbosol. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know, I don't know what my options are. I just got to think about it. So everyone at home, you know, ride. in with your ideas um i don't want to i'm not looking for world war two here no right exactly is it not like people with their spike strips or a thin piece of fishing line you know between the two trees on

either side no i don't think that's what what we're going for i'm not doing that i want and these he's a cute nice kid he's just a nice kid it's just he's not being told yeah he's not being he's not been given the basic understanding of how neighbor etiquette goes he just isn't Yeah. Yeah. And I don't want to, I'm actually pro. Let your kid get out there and have some fun and don't be so helicoptery. Like, I think that's good. And they're definitely doing that. But there's a point where you got to, like, have some awareness of your surroundings and of other people and then make, you know, better decisions. We could up a little, we could put a little sign that says, keep bikes off grass, let's say. The problem with that is it's going to be taken as super like. Yeah, very passive-aggressive, like, this means you, Tesla neighbor. Yeah. If only in a fan of electric cars would pay attention to this sign. Anyway, so that's that.

Brian, you got a question for the Chad? The Chad poll, not the Chad pool. I don't know why I said Chadpool. The Chad pool. So in a little under two weeks, I've got a quick trip out to Vegas. I say quick trip, but it's going to. feel like a long trip because I'm there for five days, really three full days and then two little half travel days.

But I'm seeing Elvis Costello and Daryl Hall performed together. Hall and Costello, they should call themselves and heck with oats. Screw you oats. Yeah, screw you oats. No outs. But because it's so close, I hate the fact that it's so close to the MS-150. I'm doing all this work to get prepped for the ride. And I don't want to have five days where I don't do a, um, and I don't do a, um,

actual bike ride and actually get out there. And I've been thinking, I don't want to haul all my gear out there, my shoes, my helmet, stuff like that so that I can rent a bike and pay ridiculous amounts of money. So I'm going to be hitting the gym at the two hotels I'm staying. I'm going to be at Harris for a couple days. And then I'm moving to Luxor for a couple days because I got free rooms there. Oh, cool. Yeah.

So I like the Luxor. I don't care people say. Luxor's fine. It's been redone and, and, uh, there's something about being in a big damn pyramid. I'm, I just will always think that's cool. Exactly. And I think I might even still have credits on my play playground card. Who knows if I'm like, I'll go down there and jump around in the balloons again or, or do whatever. Sure. But, um, but more importantly, it's that, it's that writing time during the day. And I want to ride for a good hour, hour and a half every morning, maybe even, you know, go up to two hours. I feel froggy. Yeah.

But just having my iPad there, my, if I'm sitting there watching something and I'm on the bike, my mind just tends to wander and I look around or see, oh, what's that guy doing over there on the weights or that sort of thing? And then I miss a bunch of the video. And plus sometimes it's like if I'm doing the recumbent bike and I'm far away, then it's like, you know, which character's talking? That sort of thing. Sure. First world problems.

But part of me is like, what if I took my quest, MetaQuest, put on a movie and just sat there and, like, peddled and, like, was so, so focused on the movie without any distractions that I'm not even looking around at other things getting distracted, whatever, right? Like, I'm just, I am just there in the zone, not even looking at anything. Sure. do I end up on TikTok somebody coming into the into the gym seeing me with my VR headset and taking a video of me

are there people or are we finally in a place where it's like no that's not really a big deal like seeing that sort of thing I think you have a higher percentage chance than not but I wouldn't give it more

I would give it about I'd give it 60% chance you'll be on the end of it. Oh really that high so I was thinking like yeah 20% Alta or Alpha Alla says

I would put you on TikTok. Yeah, I would too. If I'm honest, I would absolutely do this. If it wasn't, I mean, if I didn't know you, I'd be like, oh my gosh, there's a guy with a headset on. And I wouldn't do it because I was like making fun. It would be more like, check this gym goer. He's got an idea. You could do everybody, check it out. Like that kind.

It might not even be a negative thing, but I'll bet you, especially if it's a busy gym in Vegas. That's the thing. This is going to be the Harris gym and the Luxor gym. People, I've found, like when we went to the plaza and I got on the bike a couple mornings there, there were hardly anybody else in there, both times, all three times that I went

in there, right? Like, it was nothing. Plus, I usually hit it right when they open the facilities because I want 6 a.m., I want to just knock it out. I'm up anyway. I might as well do it, you know, before it does get busy. Plus the machines will never be cleaner than when you. you get there early.

Well, they'll never be cleaner, right? That is the cleanest. Those, I don't have to worry about, did the, the, Jim Bob before me wipe down the sweat off of the, the handlebars of the bike that I'm right? Yeah, none of that. All they, the rest, they have to worry about your sweat. That's it.

You're in charge. I'm very good about cleaning. I'm meticulous. Yeah. I'll say this, the recumbin bike cleaner when I get off of it than when I get on it because I'm so, like, I don't want to be that guy who leaves any trace of anything on there. That's good. You are a better person for that.

That's good. So September says, I don't even know where the gym is a plaza. It's like, well, September it's right past the subway. Yeah. You take, if you go a few feet past the subway, you'll see the gym there. Yep. Yeah, so I was thinking I'd wear like my, one of my MS-150 T-shirts. Not a bike jersey.

That would be ridiculous. But like one of my M.S. 150 T-shirts. So if somebody is like, you know, look at this guy. And then I can just, you know, if the TikTok comes out, I can say, oh, looks like that guy is preparing for a really long charity bike race. Maybe you should leave him the F alone. Yeah. No, this is, that's interesting.

If you really show off what you're training for and it's such a good cause, does that diffuse people? Exactly. You've got to put a big sign on me. Leave me alone. Training for a 150 mile bike ride. Yeah. Trying to cure MS. Leave me alone.

gave it to the front of my visor, my, my, my, uh, my, uh, quest. Yeah, or put on there, yeah, put a note that just says, this is not as stupid as you think it looks. That's what you should say. That's right. Because then what, you diffuse any kind of video, right? They take a video of that and people immediately respect your game. They'll go, right. Well, yeah, he's knowing that this is kind of ridiculous and he's got a note on there that even acknowledges it.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm focused. Yeah, for those guys. I say you do it, Brian. I say you take it. All right. Partly because I want to see if you end up on the Internet.

That's mainly why I want to see you do it. I know. That's totally fine. I totally get that. Anyway, yeah. I mean, it would be a big deal in our community. Everybody would lose their minds if Brian had a viral, like. Yeah, exactly.

Like, look, there's Brian. I'll be like, I'll own it. I don't care. You know, that guy who we keep giving mileage to, who is embarrassed for me for the songs I do on film sack. Oh yeah, that guy. And I'm glad he's embarrassed for me because I'm certainly not embarrassed by him. But boy, if I end up on viral

TikTok with people making fun of me because I'm wearing a VR headset on a bike, you know, all the better for it, whatever. Yeah, whatever it takes. So I say go for it. They make so many cool VR games, too, that like you can tie

in with a Bluetooth cadence sensor or something like that that makes you feel like you're actually riding. I used one for a long time, the VR fit, or VZ Fit, that basically you can just plop your avatar onto any Google street and be riding down the street.

What you're seeing is if you were riding down Google Maps, and it's like a slideshow. It's not smooth video by any means, but it's still really cool. Ooh, that'd be cool. There was a VR thing that I absolutely loved. I don't know if they still do it, but Google made it. It was a Google Maps you know that that chunky polygon view they would have when you get down to the street that isn't street view but the one that's like and it looked kind of bad like it was yes right like the buildings looked like especially the cars the cars look like they pulled the cars out of just saved them just barely from being crushed and then put them back in parking place yeah it's very it's really gross and kind of ethereal and strange but i loved walking around in that and so i would i use that app all the time when i had my first quest and i would I would just get all down on streets that I knew.

And then I'd walk around in this place. And it was, you know, like regular-sized person, full-sized city. But everything's warped and effed up and the trees are blocky polygons. And I freaking loved that. That was so cool. Yeah. All you need is Elliot Page there to kind of fold the streets over each other as you that's right.

That's right. And I'll spin my top the entire time. Brian, let's also remind people about a very cool thing. I can't believe we got this much response. It's amazing. Tanner reached out to me this morning, said that in two days, we exceeded the $3,500 goal for the fundraiser for Wabbit. You guys all got together last night and did a game marathon, stream gameathon,

and the Discord. It's super cool. The link is still up, and it's still running, and it still wants your clicks and your contributions. Bit. Dotle slash Wabit Magic, all lowercase, Wabit Magic. The causes join PDX, which is a non-profit local to where Alan lived.

They help unhoused people find permanent housing and provide support along the way. So once again, the fundraiser is still active and the money goes directly to the charity. That's right. Go do that. And cannot believe they exceeded $35,000 or $1,000. $3,500. That would be amazing if it was $35,000. That would be amazing.

But this is still pretty amazing. So please go check it out. Bit. dotly slash wabit magic and huge thanks to uh to tanner and others for making sure that got organized and happened and all that stuff you guys are awesome yeah great way to remember that guy um okay we are going to do some half asses that means that brian dunaway must be called there is no other way to do this he has no other way to do it we have to bring him in yeah have to have to do it have to few things in life you have to do this is one of them and uh he's heading in now all

all 420 pounds of him. Just kidding. That's not true. Where's this thing? Here it is. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Brian Dunaway to the show. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi.

It's gotten, Brian. Good morning. Hey, how are you, buddy? What are you doing? I'm doing good, buddy. Yeah, buddy. I'm doing good, buddy. How are you, buddy?

And I'm not your buddy, pal. I'm not your pal, buddy. I'm not your pal, buddy. It's good to see you. How was your weekend? Hey, man, not bad. I spent way too much time going down rabbit holes

of projects. Yeah. Mostly retro gaming. Yeah. What's going to do? That's your thing. It's what you do and you should. And we're all here for it.

I'd love it that you do that. We just tune in Friday as I bore you to tears with all my retro shenanigan. Yes. It's exciting. It is exciting. And you're killing it with that stuff. I'm playing open streets of rage right now as we're talking. There's an, oh, I'm sorry.

You haven't talked to me about this. There's an open project for Streets of Rage. Yeah, yeah, Streets of Rage, 2X, I believe is what it's called. And it allows you to play both two and three in a modern format with widescreen formatting and all that good stuff. Yeah, I got the same characters. Are you kidding me? Jeez, Louise, that's great. There it is. Chrono Crash, new project.

That's awesome. They're also making a new one. And yeah, but this weekend we're going to talk about that game and it's impact on the game. gaming world. But for now, we're going to play a game of our own choosing, and Brian's going to explain the rules and who at home might win some prizes. Brian, take it away. So going to do that. Welcome to the morning. Half ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct. And three, like taking some VR porn onto your

stationary bike at a Las Vegas hotel, would be incorrect. Depending on how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses. But if any of those guesses are wrong. They get zero points for that round. Get one right, gets a point. Two right gets you three points. And three right gets you five points total. That's a lot of points. It's a lot of points. You should get those. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the

prize for their contestant. Contestants have been pulled from members of the tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're playing for Andrea in Blackwood, New Jersey. Andrea. I got your back, Andrea. Andrea, either one. Andrea. Now, Brian, you're playing for Corey C in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Corey, we're about to take this home. Let's do it. Yep. Just like the Panthers. You're co-fans of each other, just because you've got one thing that makes you common. Today, it's this. Right, darn right. And I'll tell you what the prizes are later after we play the game, but let's start with question number one.

Things named, we did presidents a while ago, let's do this one, things named for a U.S. vice president, which of these six things, which three of these six things were named for a U.S. vice president. You've got Dulles Airport, gerrymandering, Minneapolis's Metro Dome, the Marshall Plan, Fairbanks, Alaska, and the Sherman Antitrust Act. My lord.

I don't know, dude. Me either. I just picked two. I'm picking, too. I remember Vice President Jerry, though. He was pretty cool. Mr. Ford. Gerald Ford.

Oh, you're talking about gerrymandering? Yeah, yeah. I got it. You guys have both locked in. You both locked in with two. and you did not overlap at all. Oh, there's going to be an interesting result. So, Brian, you weren't just playing.

You did pick gerrymandering. Do you know what's name for? No, I can't remember because it's such a weird connection. Dr. Jerry Tolbert. I remember that being right. Is it? No, get out of here. No.

Oh, I know it's right, but I mean, I don't remember why. Who is it? Madison's VP, Eldridge Jerry. Or Elbridge, Elbridge Jerry, which I don't think that's a real name. That's a crazy name. backwards. It should be Jerry Oldbridge. That's what it should be. Yes, right. Scott, you locked in on Fairbanks, Alaska. Yeah, the

Theodore Roosevelt's VP was a guy named Charles Fairbanks. Dulles Airport Uh-oh. It was named after Secretary of State, John Foster Dallas, and the Marshall Plan, yes, it's not a VP. And the Marshall Plan was named after Secretary of State

George Marshall. The other real one was the Minneapolis Metro Dome, believe it or not, which was named after the Hubert Humphrey, Hubert Humphrey Metro Dome for Lyndon Johnson's VP, but they... But it's not actually named then, right? It's technically named the Hubert H. Humphrey Metro Dome. Oh, all right.

But they call it... Exactly, Scott. Okay, I'll take it. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was named for Secretary of State John Sherman. Sherman. All right, let's get to question number two. Grammys. We love her.

I love my Grammy. He's great. Sorry, this is like the award. Sorry. Who are, which of these are unlikely Grammy winners? Which of these people have won a Grammy, but are unlikely to have done so? Your choices are wreath with a spoon. Reith with a spoon.

Why would you say, she's unlike, okay, go ahead. Zach Braff, Martin Scorsese, Jimmy Carter, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, and Mikhail Gorbachev. Three of these people have won Grammys, but they've. are unlikely to have done so. Well, they all seem very unlikely. So the question is they have but are still unlikely. It doesn't really narrow it down, does it? It does not.

I'm going very conservative on this one. Okay. I'm going to go conservative too. Click. Single-click conservatism. You guys both very conservative with Zach Braff. You know, Zach Braff actually did get the grand new war for the Garden State soundtrack. That's exactly why, yes.

And Jimmy Carter. Peanut picking, bastard. Martin Scorsese, he got one for No Direction Home, the Bob Dylan thing in 2006. And Mikhail Gorbachev got one for Wolf Treks and Peter and the Wolf in 2004. McHale Gorbachev. Mikhail Gorbachev. Michaelgobotraff. That one, I almost chose it because I kept thinking about the, remember the tap dancer?

who was that guy or ballet guy that was a big deal and he was in that white night's movie mikhail berishnikov yeah that's why i keep going well he could have because that was kind of music adjacent then i'm like no scott this is the leader with the the big red thing on his head the wine stain on his forehead yeah yeah i really wanted jimmy and car have like a country song i wasn't aware of that's what i was really just hoping just like uh scott going into round three with one point brian dunway with zero points yeah take that jerk how you finally do with this one. Disney Villains. Oh, easy, right? Disney

villains. We all know our Disney villains. Which three of these are actual Disney villains? Your choices are. Mr. McMahon, Freddie Blassie, Lady Tremaine, Sherry Martel, Claude Frawlowe, and Edgar Balthazar. Which three of these

are Disney Villains. I only know one. You know one? Yeah. Which one is it? I think I know, but I'm not going to tell you. I know one that I think, I think I know which one it is, but I'm not sure about the other. And since you've already got one point, I better go, I better go all in, but let me see how. Good luck. Good luck, sir. Locked in. Strawberry Festival. All right,

you both have locked in. Oh, boy, here we go. Yeah, you both selected Claude Frollo. Frollo. Froyo? Froyo comes with that. Froyo. The cursed Kremlin. Free yogurt. Do you remember what movie? I'm going to say hunchback of Notre Dame, yeah.

Is that it? Exactly what you should say, because that is where it comes from. Brian decided to go one more. Yeah, you know what? 101 Dalmatians, right? He's Edgar, right? Edgar Malthazar? No.

I wasn't sure. No. No, come on 101 Dalmatians is Cruella DeVille as the villain. No, no. No, but Edgar, the two chumps, he's either the skinny, with the big nose or the fat, goofy one. I'll tell you who he is. He's a Disney villain from the Aristocrats.

Oh! The Aristocrats, sorry, the aristocrats are totally different thing. Lady Tremaine from Cinderella. By the way, your other three, Freddie Blassie, Mr. McMahon, and Sherry Martel, all pro wrestlers. Mr. McMahon. Head guy. Is that a great little, uh, yeah?

That's a good twist. Dude, I love it. He was Lassie who had his thing. So I still wait. Brian, you won because you did go for two. It's like a down-to-the-wire kind of thing. Oh my gosh, you guys. Hey, and by the way, of Jimmy Carter, who has been on the edge of death for months now, if he dies, it is not our fault.

All right? It is not on us. Yeah, you're kidding. It's not us. So, congratulations to Brian Dunwin. By proxy, congratulations to Corey C in Charlotte, North Carolina. You are getting the prize, the main prize, the big prize, a copy of King of the Castle and Bravery and Greed to Steam Games.

Nicely done. Wesley. But don't worry, Andrea in Blackwood, New Jersey. No, Jersey. You're getting a copy of Mediterranean Inferno. Nice. Don't know what that one is, but you're all winners. Congratulations.

You're a winner. Good job, guys. You deserve it. And sorry, I didn't give you two games today, Andrea. but one will do. You came off of close. We sure did. That was an exciting game.

Well, there you go. Donaway, how do you feel about your win? I feel pretty good about it. Now, I want to go watch some Disney movies, specifically 101 Dalmatians than Aristocats, which I just ordered on Laserdisc, because I used to have in my collection. And I guess I was confusing a couple of things.

Hold on a second. Laser Disc, will that be, is that a big enough movie to have to swap sides? Were they all like that? Did you always have to flip them over? Most of Disney movies were not swap sides. unless you got the work in progress prints, which I have

Aladdin and well I definitely have the Beauty and the Beast one. But typically, since I have a Sony Laserdist player, it auto flips. So as long as it's on like two sides, is it a C-A-V or C-L-V, I forget. One of them typically is only the hour and a half movies

for animation. Now, remind me when that thing flips things, the Sony player. Yeah. How does it do it? Does the breeder flip? It comes out and it says, I'm flipping. me, it just flips the sides. It just moves the, it just moves the reader to the other side. Okay, so the thing doesn't, the actual disc doesn't flip, but the thing inside

it goes under. It's not in box. Okay. We need to be huge to do that with the size of the... It's already huge. That's why I was wondering, because I never, the one I had was like pure flip it yourself. You had to get in there and do it. Same here.

Mine is exactly bad. Yeah, that thing sucked. Yes. And for the special edition Star Wars movies, that means flipping and changing this six times. Oh, great. Yeah, six sides. That's too many. So you're flipping it five times.

That's too many. In the movie's like what? Close to an hour, 45. How many minutes is you going to watch? Like 20-something minutes before you have to flip? Is that something like that? Is that right? Sounds right.

But it's been, dude, it's been so long. You can't even hardly get into a scene in 20 minutes. It's been so long. I don't remember any of this stuff, honestly. Well, done away, it's been a pleasure talking to you, and I hope your week is a grand one. And we'll see you again Wednesday for more goofiness. All right?

All right. Indeed. Soon soon. all right soon bye now so this is interesting according to

Captain Kipper and Domo Jimmy Carter has won Grammys one look you want to see the dates of his wins because I'm curious if this question was written before he won Grammys

I don't know so which is you know it doesn't change anything because Brian Brian did pick Jimmy Carter as well so he would have had six points at the end of of the game there. I mean, I guess

it might have changed things depending on how you would have played your last answer. Yeah, I don't know. Like, wait, but what did it say one for? Did it say?

I'm trying to find it here. It shows, let's see, all of his nominations. Oh, here we go. 61st Awards, best spoken word album, Faith, A Journey for All. And what year was that?

2018. So yeah, this question was written after, at least after that win for Jimmy Carter. Interesting. Yeah. All right. Oh, here we go. What of the years?

2007, 2016, 2018. I think this game was written. I thought this, oh, this game was written after 2007. Oh, that's, is that why? Ken Jennings. You failed me, Ken Jennings. Yeah, what's up, Ken Kenneth P. Jennings? You're the host now.

You should know this shit. Exactly. I will now, you know, remind people that I beat Ken Jennings. Jennings for a little while in a live Jeopardy match in Vegas as part of the Trivia Championships of North America. There you go. There you go. Okay.

All right, then. Let's get to some news. It's time for some news, people. Let's do it right now. Where the hell's the thing? Here it is. It's time for a brief look at today's news, and it's brought to you by. It begins with a trivia question for me.

which country has the most fresh water. So I saw this earlier and I've been thinking about it and I'm feeling it has to be a place that's got a lot of like snow runoff, a lot of mountains. And my thinking is Canada. Oh, you think it's Canada, do you? Let me find out if that's correct. The incorrect answer is Canada.

The actual answer is Brazil of all places. Brazil. Really? Oh, rainforests, of course. It surprised me as well. To be honest, I thought, it'd be a snow melt thing as well. I thought so too, but that totally makes sense.

Yeah. Interesting. All right. Let's talk about, hey, Jeff, Jeff Seyer, I promise this isn't about, this isn't an MBE, okay? Speaking of Canada, he doesn't like it when we rip on Tesla on the show. We don't really rip on Tesla. We just sometimes have opinions, all right?

But he's not going to like this next story, and I promise it's not reaction to anything you said, and I swear it's not some kind of bias thing. This is just an actual story. So many unsold Teslas are piling up that you can see them from space, according to this article. Really? Yeah. I don't. Like, so it would have to, I mean, you can see anything from space if you have a, you know, a focused enough lens, right?

I think the see it from space thing is so overused when it's like, well, you know, with a, from the International Space Station and a really high-powered telescope, you could probably see a lot more than you think. Probably. Like, see it with the naked eye. Yeah. That's impressive, right? Yeah. Well, it says there are so many unsold Teslas. Gone are the times when Tesla sold every car it could build fresh out of the factory.

We're now at the point where the company has actually made two vehicles or too many vehicles. The automaker is obviously aware of this, slashing prices on popular models like the model Y as inventory piles up. Buyers are biting, though, aren't biting, though. They're not biting now. And now the automaker has so much unsold inventory that the Sherwood, news reports they're being stored in lots that can be seen from space. In quarter one of 2024, Tesla reported it made 400,000, 333,371 vehicles of those 386,810 were actually sold. This means the automaker had an extra 46,561 cars that it did not sell. This can be blamed on the

overall EV sales slowdown, which actually isn't true, by the way. I don't know why this says that. Yeah, I feel like they're all, they're all actually, Tom Merrick, keeps pounding this end to everybody and no one listens. But overall EV sales are up, Tesla sales are down. That's it. That's the story. Like it may not be equal to the, there's no skyrocket in sales, but they're up overall, just down for Tesla.

I mean, more competition means you're going to buy EVs from other places. Of course it's going to change. I mean, this is just normal business. Anyway, so I don't know why it says that, but Tesla played a part in this as well, as Sherwood pointed out. Quote, the primary driver of this was, uh, driver. Don't use driver in this story. Was an increase.

The primary driver for this is a dude who looks like Ed Begley Jr. Uh, it says an increase in inventory from the mismatch between builds, uh, says Tesla chief financial officer, about, sorry, Vibhav Tengea. That's a name. Yeah. Well, sure. Yeah. Vibe have.

Vibhav Tenehia. Sure. He said the company is, uh, negative 2. $1.5 billion in free cash flow, depending on the AI computers that also are to blame. He says, I think that's the article taking a jab. We expect the inventory to build to reverse in the second quarter and free cash flow to return to positive again. Anyway, the idea is that you can be from a satellite's point of view, you can see these parking lots full of Tesla's. That's a lot.

It's almost a half a million Tesla is just laying there, sitting there. That is crazy. It, um, I don't, I feel like I've 80% settled on my next car being a Hyundai, Hyundai, Ionic 5, uh, EV, because I like the size of it. I like the, the SUV size as opposed to doing the model Y, which I was also considering for a while. But man, it sure feels like there are probably some great deals to be had on, uh, on model wise right now.

Yeah. You know, you go and bring this article and say, what kind of deal? I'll help take one of those Model Y's off your hands. What kind of deal can you give me? Yeah, I wonder if you can get a deal. Go to your local Tesla dealership and see what... I assume that whenever you have an inventory glit, that means deals for people, so... Yeah, exactly.

Why not? But, yeah, I'm... I don't know. There are three... I've been telling people that the three that I was looking at were the Kia EV6. And Randy kind of swayed me against that one when he was talking about how they were doing test drives with that and the Kia Nero EV. the Volkswagen ID4 and then the Hyundai I keep saying Hyundai Hyundai Ionic 5

and it's it was getting to test drive a Hyundai Ionic 5 was like oh I really really like that and the fact that Tanner really likes his yeah that's and I think I can get that cheaper than a Volkswagen ID 4 according to my brother Matt he says Hendie I can't get used to it's a little close to hentai it's very it's very close to hentai yeah it's like if i could be writing in this thing

and then some tentacles are going to be going up around me and are there are there seatbelts or is it tentacles yeah you just two two purple tentacles come around and hold you in place and you don't want to know where they're holding you Brian you don't want to yeah right but he he says that I say it wrong I said on this interview I did with him I said

Hyundai and he says that's what everyone says but it's hendai and I said really really and he said So, I mean, I guess he would know, right? Yeah, I mean, he's as knowledgeable as anybody. And then I said, well, what about Kia? And he says, no, it's just Kia. There's nothing weird there.

So everyone who thinks they're saying Kia right, you are saying it right. You're fine. Interesting. Pride Wolf says a Hertz Tesla may or may not be a greater deal, too. It doesn't help me at all, whether it may or may not be a greater deal. But a Hertz Tesla sounds like, but you get punched in the arm. Yeah. You want me to give you the Hertz Tesla?

Sounds like a totally move. A fight move. It totally does, yeah. But hold on, though. So that's just like a rental that they put up for sales. That what he means? Must be what he means. Yeah, which I know how I've treated rental cars.

So the thought of getting a rental, getting a formerly rented car feels like, ooh, I don't know. Yeah. Oh, I guess, yeah, he says either abused or well-kept depends, yeah. Yeah, we used to have a slogan at my old company, the newspaper software company. No curb too high for a rental car. that's good yeah and that's why i'd be very hesitant about buying a formerly rented car you'd have to you'd have to give me how would i have to how would this have to it would have to be a screaming deal for me to do a yeah yeah and the one i'm looking the oh god yeah i'm kidding but and i'm looking at

i'm not looking at getting brand new model year um ionic five i'd be looking at getting a 2023 uh with you know, with hopefully lower miles on it, but then I could hopefully get a screaming deal on it. Yeah, sometimes you can get, that's the deal we got on our car. It's not an electric, but it was one of those loaners that a dealership keeps around, and they never used it. They only had like 20 miles on it or something. Wow.

And so you can sometimes get lucky with that. With EVs, I don't know if you will, but that would be cool. Yeah, and I don't know if you get the tax breaks and the government subsidization, if you do a used EV versus buying new. That's the only other thing because that there was such a nice sweet deal and I think still is

because Tesla is 100% or claims to be 100% made in the US probably is I don't know or whatever percentage it needs to be. It's assembled here I think is the rule, right? Assembled here is that rare that's the more important thing, right?

You qualify for enough stuff to take it from like a $50,000 or $45,000 car down to a $30,000 car from a brand new one. Yeah, that makes sense. I don't know. Well, we'll see.

You know, I'm in the same search boat for, I want to go EV, but I don't know what the frick I want. Yeah. Oh, Boy, Craig Woof says you get a 4K tax break on used EVs over $25,000. Okay, all right, I like that.

That's a sizable amount of cash. I like that. Yeah. Okay, cool. I would happily save that. One of the people that I'm going to be, hopefully meeting for food, meeting for like a meal, lunch or dinner in Vegas, is the owner of a Hyundai dealership in Henderson, Henderson Hyundai.

Nice. Planning on, like, hitting him up and saying so. What kind of deal can you give me? And if it's a good one, I won't be flying back from Vegas. I'll be driving back. Yeah, I was going to ask you, probably drive. That would be cool. Yeah, I would probably do it.

If he gives me a good enough deal, like right on the spot, sure. But it'll more likely be, if I do buy from him, it would be more likely be a deal. where I one-way fly to Vegas, have a couple fun days, and then drive home in a used Ionic 5. That would be cool. I think it would be great. Just you, though, right? Because then you can hot fart the whole way home.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want. You know, I don't know. I could see Tristan saying, I'll come with you, Dad. Oh, yeah, I can see that. Sure.

We could family hot fart. Yeah. Yeah, you can fart around your kids. It's fine. You never smells bad when it's your own brand. That's right. That's your own DNA in the. in the air. That's right. Exactly.

Okay, we're going to take a break. When we come back, Stephen Schlecker will be joining us. We haven't had him in a couple of weeks. We've missed him terribly, so it's time to get back on the Stephen train, and that'll be after this break. Brian's got a song. Let's play that song. Yeah, this is from the alt rock lock, lock, or old rock veterans. We're lockers. Maybe there are lockers, too. Jeez, leaves. Smile, Empty Soul. They've got a brand new single called Savior, which is some heavier stuff for those who are like, give us something a little bit heavier, Brian, well, I'm talking to you, and this is what is what is for you. This track is a preview of their upcoming EP called Swan Song,

that doesn't sound very promising, which is scheduled to release at the end of the year through TLG and Zoid Records and Virgin Music Group overseas. Here is the song, Savior by the band Smile Empty Soul. You know, Gray golds are everything And only in this wasted town We see claws and crowns

Who am I if not a king And only if I drown you out Will I get higher now I heard you call my name Oh Everybody looks the same I'm not your savior Not your saving grace

Hold the light of can you see yourself now Just a stranger Not a empty face Turn my back after I push you to the ground Oh Is it coales in me? Coercise in broken dreams Knowing if I tear you down

Will I have what I need Search it all with rescue teams But only if I drown you out Will I get off my knees my knees I heard you call my name Oh You tell me everybody

Looks on me I'm not your savior I'm not your saving grace Hold the light Can you see yourself now Just a stranger Not a reddy face Turn the back after I push you to the ground

Oh There's a coldness in me There's a coldness in me I'm not just a I'm not just a savior, I'm not just saving grace I'm just a stranger another empty face

I'm not just savior I'm not just saving grace hold in light of can you see yourself now Not just a stranger Not a empty face Turn your back, left to push you to the ground Oh, there's a coldness in me Why choose a sleep number smart bed?

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They've got an EP coming out the end of the year. But you don't have to wait that long. You can listen to this right now. That's the single. It's called Savior. Once again, the band is Smile, Empty Soul. Excellent. Which would be what I would have if I end up buying an EV.

My soul would be empty. Well, it would just be Brian. Yeah, it wouldn't be empty. It just wouldn't have you in there anymore. Somebody else would be in there, probably. Larry Foll. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd.

He is a huge freaking nerd. And he's here. And his name is Stephen. Hi, Stephen. Welcome back to the show. How are you? Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian.

Hey. How's all things major spoilers? We've missed you terribly. I've got a bad laptop that needs to be badly replaced. And I'm still trying to get the money for it. Oh, all right. Things are going okay. Yeah, that's a fun time looking for new hardware and whatnot.

I mean, WWDC today, right? Yeah. Maybe they will announce some new laptops that I can not afford. They very well might. Today's all about their AI stuff. Yeah, I don't think there's going to be any hardware this time around.

I think it's going to be all soft wing. I'm going to go ahead. I think Brian's right, but I'm going to make the bet that they're going to announce some refreshes. I think they may say. There's got to be some M4 stuff. Yeah. I think they'll say.

I don't know if I'm going to wait until October to do that, but I would think that with the M4 is already in the iPads and everything else, it's time to get those into the hands of the common folk. I do not think they will say that they're in the store today, but I think they'll say that they're coming. I think that'll happen. Well, great. Good luck on that. Sounds like a lot of fun to me.

Sounds like Scott's not going to contribute to my Patreon. Look, I do that. I think I already am, though. I think I am in your Patreon. I think I'm already in there. may just have to up it. But anyway, hey, welcome, and let's talk about some things. There's, um, tell me about these D.C. Compact Comics that everyone's talking about.

Because I, you're not the first to mention it to me. What is this? Yeah, we talked about them when they were first announced months ago, but now they're finally in stores and you're right. People are going crazy for these things. And, uh, listeners who are not familiar, this DC, I forget what they're calling them, like compact readers or whatever that they are. It's not like a compact car, Brian, that you might drive around back from Vegas, but these are trade paperback collections that are five and a half by eight and a half inches in size compared to a regular size trade paperback, which is six and five eights

are basically seven by ten and three sixteenths, uh, in size. So it's about, uh, 75% of regular trade paperback. The nice thing is these smaller books fit nicely into a backpack, into a purse or a carry on or whatever that you need to do. And, you know, not to disparage comic book readers, but I know sometimes you open up your comic book and people look at you strange and I'm like, oh, you're one of those kind of guys. But you pull out a manga edition and people are like, ah, that's one of those cool guys that read the manga. And so these are basically the same size as a manga collection. And so part of me is saying, oh, it's a, it's an appearance thing. Part of me is like, oh, no, this means they can get on bookshelves a lot easier at bookstores. But, you know, for people to go out and buy these things. things and be reading them and really enjoying the experience from what I've seen, even some comic creators, uh, this weekend were like, oh, no, I picked the, I picked up the new, uh, watchman, uh, trade in this format. It's great. Although watchman in that little smaller format seems really hard just because of the way that do the nine panel grids and that stuff. It's got to got

to be pretty small. That's such a sacrifice on artwork, which for me is such a, obviously, for a lot of people is such a massive part of the the comic book experience you could ignore you could argue though that dave gibbons art looks better smaller um his kind of ink work i don't like it blown out and so if it's a little tighter it's the reason everybody shrinks their stuff usually it looks better but his his stuff his stuff may benefit from that but people who have shitty eyes i mean i don't know how you're going to read this on a bus of your eyes as i as my eyes get uh harder to see smaller print i appreciate digital comics because I can zoom in to areas that I want to examine in detail.

But here are the comics people can pick up. These have all been traded before, so there's not like there's anything brand new. You can get Batman the Court of Vowels at Scott Snyder and Greg Capulow. Watchman, Alan Moore, and Dave Gibbons, as you said, those both came out last week. Coming out in July, there's

All-Star Superman from Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly. That is what some of, or at least the inspiration for the new upcoming Superman movie is being drawn from. You also have Far Sector, which is the Green Lantern. Oh, it's so good. It's amazing.

Yeah, from M.K. Jimison and Jamal Campbell. Really good. In August, you've got Batman Hush. That's the Jeff Loeb Jim Lee collaboration. That's been turned into so many different things already. Wonder Woman, Earth 1 from Grant Morrison and Yannick Pequette. And then in September, you have Harley Quinn and the Gotham City Sirens by Paul Dini. And I don't know how to pronounce her.

Their name, Julian March. And then Joker by Brian Azarello and Lee Burmejo comes out in. September. And then there's a American vampire and a catwoman book that are coming out in October. But if people are, don't want to be seen with a regular size comic book, but are okay carrying out their manga books, then I would go check these out. 999 for, you know, a court of owls or All-Star Superman. That's a pretty good deal. It's not bad. Yeah. I have every kind of watchman ever made. I would probably pick this up just to have it in my collection. Do you have the oversized watchman? I do. I have that thing in the living

room inside of a case. It should be out on the damn coffee table. But yeah, I like them. You have a grain kid, so yeah, probably not. I just have, no, yeah. I have a, I have a, I've colored in some of the pages. I'm just a sucker for all thing watchman. Anytime something comes out, I'm like, I've got to get that.

So, probably grabbed this one. And I wouldn't mind, I wouldn't mind reading Hush again. The only version of Hush I have is the great big coffee table hardbound. Oh, really? Yeah, I've got the graphic novel one. Yeah, and Hush is awesome. I think, so good. I think for me, the court Owls, great Capulu art, is really, really fascinating. And what they do with, especially when

Batman is slip some, some drugs and has a break moment is really cool to see in print format. So court of owls definitely for me. And then I really like the Darwin Cook Catwoman Trail of the Catwoman. That's the one that's coming out in October. That one is really good. And I think maybe, yeah, Farsector is, like you said, it's got a really good story. Yeah, that's an amazing story. Even if you don't like Green Lantern in general or Green Lantern stories or whatever, this is a really cool take. It's very, very good.

Yeah, the cool thing about that is it kind of removes because the character is sent literally to the other side of the of the Alexi. You're not dealing with traditional Green Lantern type stories. It's a fish out of water, 48 hours

kind of tail. Maybe tango and cash now that I think about it. It's almost like this. Like that game is like, or game. That book, when you look at a regular one, like Hal Jordan style stuff, that's like cosmic DC universe, right? This is like if the cosmic DC universe had its own cosmic universe. It's like a whole other layer of weird and, you know, like it's almost like if you took Guardians of the Galaxy and said, hey, you think this place is weird, take him to the whole other side of the universe and now let's see how weird things get. And it's like that. It's very good.

Yeah, it's good stuff. It's really good stuff. Nice. Speaking of Greg Capulow, if everybody remembers the 1990s and the Witchblade series, Witch Blade is coming back. And I believe Capulow is doing some of the cover artwork for some of those books. So people can go check that out. I don't know if you guys were ever into Witchblade when it was a comic book series. Big time.

I could not get enough Witchblade at the time. I never got into it at all. I loved it. I would pick it up for the art just because I think. thought the art was really, really cool. Who was the artist who passed away who was famous for getting started there? It was, um, oh, you're talking about a fathom creator and, yes, yes, yes, no, I'm forgetting his name off the top of my head, someone in the chat.

I met him a couple of times and he was a great guy. Super nice, nice, dude, yeah. Yeah. Died way too young. I remember picking that stuff, uh, up back when it came out just because I really dug the art style that image was putting out with this and, um, you know, it's gone through its ups and downs, but now they're doing a whole new relaunch

for a whole new era of fans. So if you were maybe only familiar with the television show, or if you've heard the rumors that there was this book called Which Blade, but you never had a chance to pick it up. Here's a chance to get in on the ground floor. That is coming out at the,

when does this, they want to say August or September, is when that one comes out. That's cool. The TV show was based on it. Really sucks. I didn't like it. That's bad.

But I'd love the, yeah she's okay but the books the books are great if you ever get a chance to go back and read him why can i think of that guy's name not campbell he's still around michael turner's no sir michael turner yeah he was so great oh man that guy yeah what a loss uh yeah well uh very cool so you can go check those out um i do have one more thing for you guys this week maybe to think about i don't know if you guys have ever had these kinds of discussions before when you're just sitting around uh hot boxing it in your in your uh electric vehicle there brian I was thinking the other day, we are quickly catching up on to another anniversary of the portal game.

And I was wondering, has Gladys ever achieved the same pop culture status as like a Hal 9,000, The Terminator, or, you know, like Colossus, the Forbun Project, or even the AIs from Westworld that go crazy. I mean, I think for gamers, she has. Yeah, and that's really what it comes down to, right? Because there's such a subset, there's a smaller subset of the pop culture world than there is, I think, for movies and TV and stuff like that for video games. I think more than Colossus, maybe not quite as much as Terminator Hell 9,000, just because those movies are such classics. But I think if you asked, if you took a random sampling of 100 people just off the street and said, do you know who Glados is, I would guess you'd probably get 25 to 30%. Yeah, I think that sounds right. Probably about that.

Maybe 20, closer to 20%, but yeah, you'd get people who know. Yeah. I mean, certainly in gaming, she has achieved everything you've said. Oh, yeah, most definitely on that. You know, I was asking my youngest if he had had a chance to play the portal games because, you know, first one came out, what, in 2007. He wasn't born yet or something like that. And he's like, no, but I know the game. I'm familiar with it.

That's the one with the portal gun and everything. I was like, yeah, but do you know Gladdo? And he's like, no, not really. And I was like, oh, well, listen to this song by Jonathan Colton. And that's what got me thinking about, you know, you see a Terminator and people around all over the place instantly know a Terminator. And I would bet for, you know, just the casual off of, you know, I can't do that Dave or whatever for how 9,000. I was like, well, is Gladys gotten to that point yet? I mean, you're right.

I think for gamers, yes. But I was just wondering for general larger community if they are familiar with. that character. I think in gaming, she has she is the highest status of like AI driven craziness. Like I don't think anything's coming close. And why hasn't an open AI hired the voice actress to? Right. Oh my gosh. I would love

or or you know. I'd rather have Gladys more than than Scarletjoin. Give me a Siri replacement or a A-L-E-X-A replacement that is the Glados voice and I would be, I'd pay five bucks a month for that privilege. I think it exists somewhere.

Something got got her voice. What was it? There was one of the Garmin, you know, where you could go in and replace your. Yeah. Well, for a while, you could do Scott Fletcher as your Garmin voice, too. That's true. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Back then, you could get just about anything on there. Let's see. Oh, I've got, there's a whole voice generator. How's this work? Here, let's hear what she says. If I, okay, let's see how this works. It's probably AI of some kind. Baby driver.

That'd be great. All right, let's give it a shot. Here we go. this is supposed to be in glado's voice generate here we go request in queued oh geez oh man it must be popular then so yeah maybe there's your answer right there well i'd like it to cue it there must be a lot of

people who are into us oh okay oh sorry it's talking about glass up to captain sauce i don't know what this says it's a little broke up white boy busted down sexual style is he goaded with the sauce what is happening you're a terrible child i don't know what any of this is is this a that sounds like my mother is that is that is that is that a syri disc track i don't know i don't know what's going on it's not giving me mine though oh here we go oh no it still says it's all right well we'll have to let we'll let it cook i have no idea this works uh well there you go stephen great question

and great stuff this week tell me more about what's happening at major spoilers so people can go check that shit out hey so i really like to tactics games. And even though LampLiders League is end of life already, not even six months after the release of the game, I've been playing it over on the Major Spoilers video channel over on YouTube. And I'm really bad. As much as I love tactics games, I'm bad at this. So if you want to see me crash and burn, if you want to see me set my characters on fire, if you want to see me have a complete meltdown while playing this game, then go check out our LampLiders League play through over on our YouTube channel. It's Major Spoilers Video. and for all the other things, make sure you head over to major spoilers.com and because it's going to be hot, hot, hot, everybody needs to stay hydrated. I agree with that.

Oh, wait, here's one. Listen to this. Oh, I'm a critical error. Oh, okay, never mind. I thought that was us. Excellent. Have a fantastic one. We'll see you next time there, Stephen.

All right, we are toward... When you went, is hot, hot, hot. All I could hear was Ruby Rod talking about... Hot, hot, hot. Oh, they finally did it. It went through. Lost in Paradise. It went through.

Here we go. It burns when I pee. Okay. That's dumb. All right. Well, Glados is cool. That's... It is a triumph.

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Brian, I think we're done. Do you have a song we can play to get the F out? I do. For you, for you, Scott, I do. I absolutely do. Really, technically, it's for Leslie, Logan's mom, Leslie, Leslie Victorine in the chat. Hey guys, Leslie Logan's mom here, no special occasion.

Just love this cover, thanks, because we've got a lot of stuff coming up later this week that, oh, wait, did I pull the right one? I don't know. I did the right, yes, do the right song. Okay, yeah, this is the one going out to Leslie. Got stuff all the rest of the week, but this was the, anytime you can play, it would be great. This is, remember the time, the Michael Jackson song,

covered by a group that I think is a lot better than their one hit would make you think. And it's a band called Hansen. You remember Zach Taylor and Isaac? Sure. Hansen. Those kids who played hockey in the movie Slapshot? No, that's not it. Mm-bop.

Mm-bop that whole thing. Exactly. Their song is far better than, or their other songs are far better than that one song would make you believe they're really, really good. This is their cover of Michael Jackson's. Remember the time coming, came from. ep, but also released as a single. Here is Hanson. Do you remember

How we all began It just seemed like heaven So I did it And do you remember Back in the fall We'd be together All day long Do you remember

Us holding hands All in each other's eyes We'd stay Tell me Do you remember the time? When we fell in love Do you remember the time? We first met you, yeah.

Remember the time? When we fairly loved, do you remember the time? Do you remember how we used to talk? You know, we'd stay on the phone in night till don't you remember all the things we said,

Like I love you So I'll never let you go Do you remember Back in the spring When every morning birds we sing Do you remember Those special times They just come on and all

In the back of my mind Do you remember the time When we've had in love Do you remember the time We first met your girl Oh, I found in love to you remember the time Oh, I will never what I said in what I said I will never forget what we did, my baby

Do you remember? Do you remember? Do you remember? Do you remember the time? We need that's nothing. Do you remember? Do you remember? Yeah.

Do you? Do you? Do you? Do you? On the phone. You and me? Do you have to rip them down?

Do we be? What if I ask you? Do you? Do you know? Do you remember about you? All right the time. Hey. I'm afraid of life.

I'm at the time. See, what about it? I've been about the time. I'm about it. Yeah. I'm at the time. I'm bad enough. I'm in love.

I'm running. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Do you remember the time? Do you remember the time? Do you remember the time? the time don't you remember

the time this show is part of the time.