The Morning Stream - TMS 2672: OnlyFusedFans

Episode Date: July 9, 2024

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Were you able to make enough splat cakes for everyone? The morning stream, the morning stream. Am I still here? Hello? Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream, as previously stated for Tuesday, July 9th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian Nivet. Hello. Nice to see you. How's, how's your morning? You're doing all right? You know, so far, so good. Tuesdays are great because I get up and I've already usually prepped the music, I usually prep the music for the whole week on Monday mornings as I do like the half-asses and all that stuff. So Tuesday mornings, I come down here. And it is purely just kind of

catch up with email and get stuff done. I did play a little game of, what is it, Overlanders 2? Is that what it's called? Outlanders 2? Outlanders 2? Outlanders 2, outlanders. Yeah. I mean talking about this last week. It's the resource building

game. Oh, right. Apple Arcade deal. Yeah. Apple Arcade deal. I am loving this game. And I unabashedly just adore the animation style and the game style, the campaign is a lot of fun. I'm going to have to grab it.

I haven't tried it yet, but I am a sucker for these kind of games, and I like the first one. Yeah. It's like, oh, I got to build a forager's hut to get all these apples, but then I need to cut down these trees because I need logs. What do I do? Yeah, yeah. And this is still, yeah, Apple Arcade only.

It's not on Steam or anything. Yeah. No, no ads, no. no micro transactions. I mean, you get, the game is the game. Yeah, I like the game when it's just the game. Yeah. My favorite kind of game.

Well, that's great. Yeah, I have similar things on Tuesdays are great because, although today's weird. I have DT&S today. They've swapped me, swipped me. Okay. I've been swift and swapped. You've been swift and swapped. Normally it's Wednesdays, but they got some kind of big Samsung thing tomorrow,

and they've got Samsung experts on tomorrow, and I don't give a poop about the Samsung thing. so they moved me to today so that's a thing and then tonight i got Travis's show and then i got a bunch of shit in between so usually Tuesdays are kind of my catch-up days not today today's a little packed but it's all good because tomorrow because i have no d tns me and hooty 42 are going to go to lunch finally after two years of two years of committing to go to lunch we're going to lunch so that's very good yeah so that'll be fun probably have a i might do a little diary interview with them or something just kind of hang out and talk oh fun yeah something right that'd be cool

why not he's a cool guy anyway uh so we hope you're all well and having a decent tuesday we get a lot of people on this show who say they either listen to the show at higher speeds to keep up with it or because they're commute shorter they have to do the double speed or else they won't get the show in or whatever their reasons are for hearing us at higher speeds and uh so once in all it comes up in the emails and the text and we got one from andrew in colorado I don't know if you know who this is, but he's there. I don't know by just the name Andrew, but hopefully, Andrew, if you're listening, jump on to Facebook or in the Discord and find out the Denver Tadpool.

We'll meet you in a week. Yeah, Friday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's awesome. You guys are, you're going to the, what was it again? Oh, the pinball pub. Oh, that's right. So it's like pinball machines and ciders and beers and all that stuff.

Nice. Yeah. We're going to go, we were talking pre-show, but we're going to do a, meet up at the, I forgot the name of the theater. But anyway, we're going to go see Deadpool with a few, with a handful of tadpoolers on the 27th, I guess. Is that how long? Is that how long it is?

It is the 27th, right? The 27th, yeah, because it comes out, that's the weekend, that's opening weekend. Okay. So we suspect we'll have a great... Of course, I'm seeing it on the Thursday night, that it, you know, the absolute earliest night that I can see it. But that's because I'm a big Marvel fanboy, and I don't care.

Yeah, you're a huge nerd. It's fine. a huge nerd. Yeah, you may as well, while we're there on the 27th, you should paint minis to fill the time. I should. I have a bunch of

Deadpool minis that need to be. And Gwen Pool and I've like every, I have a Jeff the Baby Landshark mini to paint. Yeah. Are these all, are these, did you add any to that pile from this shipment you got?

Yeah, this new shipment added a Jeff the Baby Landshark. Oh, just realizing it. didn't put these in alphabetical order. Damn it. Oh, no. Well, that's a bummer.

It's got them all in their little grouping order here. Sure. No, but the last one actually had one entire box that was all Deadpool. So there was a Bob agent of Hydra. There's a hero version of Deadpool, a villain version of Deadpool, an anti-hero version of Deadpool, lady Deadpool. Like there's, you know, plenty. There's all the Deadpool someone could possibly need.

It's a lot of Deadpool. It's a lot of Deadpool. Good job. And Gwen Pool. And Gwen Pool. And, remind me, Gwen Pool, I don't, I'm not familiar. Gwen Stacy, what if Gwen Stacy was Deadpool from an ultimate? She sure gets a lot of what if treatment, doesn't sure.

For a woman that died and caused such a, you know, such a powerful moment. And I think even it was our own... Jerry Conway. Jerry Conway that killed her, yeah. Yeah, he killed her. Do you think this is like backlash from that? Like the writers were like, well, you killed her, but we're going to go ahead and have a heyday with her alternate versions of herself, you know?

No, no, I don't think so. I think it was like a... Because they brought her back a few times over the years in alternate Spider-Verse stories. And you can't, you know, you look back at... the greatest moments in Spider-Man's history. And it's, you know, the death of Uncle Ben, the, the, you know, not stopping the burglar that ran past him, that sort of thing. And then the death of Gwen Stacy, especially how before they retconned it for the Andrew

Garfield movie, you know, it was actually Spider-Man's webs catching her that jolted her back and snapped her neck when he was trying to save her. Right. It was extra tragic because of that. Yes, exactly. It wouldn't have been any. I mean, it's one thing for him to barely get there enough time to save her. It's another that you're part of the problem, you know?

Exactly, yeah. Poor Peter. So that was, you know, that's a, what they call those lore moments? No, canon moments. Canon. Across the Spiderverse, they have as one of those. Canon, wait. Yeah.

Oh, what were they called? Canon moment? Canon events. Canon event. Is that it? That sounds right. Yeah, like Rainbow Bright confirms it confirms it. Canon events.

Canon event. Yeah. So the death of Gwen Stacy. So they've always considered like this character. And I think, you know, like they did with Gene Gray, they waited a good amount of time before figuring out a way to bring her back. Yeah. Yeah. No kidding.

You know, we had the impactful moment when, you know, Gene Gray sacrifices herself to save the X-Men from the whole Laundra and the Starjammers. But then we wait a little while. No, look, she's in the, she's in an egg in the bottom of the San Francisco Bay or something. I remember where they found her. Yeah, that was weird, wasn't it? Yeah, that was how they started the X-Factor comic series was... Yeah, that's weird. All of a sudden, she wasn't Phoenix.

There was a separate entity called Phoenix, and it just took on the likeness of Gene Gray, but really, Gene Gray is in an egg in the bottom of the San Francisco back. It's stuff like this that makes you realize the Modoc thing's probably okay. Right, exactly. They can kind of do anything. yeah this is comics okay that tracks yeah it's comic stuff it's fine well anyway uh this is back to speeds of podcasts oh yeah no kidding boy was that a right Andrew from Colorado that's where we that's where we veered off course Andrew thank you for that we appreciate the side stepping

that we created out of nothing it's rabbit hole brought to you by Andrew from Colorado that's right he says uh he quoted our question which is how do you listen to fast speeds on podcasts unquote well he says this I started well over a decade ago when I realized I couldn't keep up with the shows. I liked in the, or sorry, the shows I liked in the limited amount of time that I had to listen. Rather than cut things, I bumped up gradually. 1.1 to 1.25 to 1.5, finally to 2. Took me about a year, everything above 2, and I have drastically reduced comprehension.

So I stopped trying to increase Andrew in Colorado. So he stopped at 2. 2 seems to be kind of the high standard or the highest end of the thing. I don't know how you do faster than that, nor did I know some players. would let you go higher than that. I assumed that two is kind of the upper limit, but maybe you can, maybe pocket cast goes higher, I don't know.

Maybe it does. Yeah, I visualize the little bar, a little slider bar that you do to increase the speed. I've, I like the take out long pauses and stuff. I mean, I know,

you know, for dramatic podcasts, I don't take them out, but for news podcasts, a few Las Vegas things I listen to, I like taking out those long spaces. But, um,

Uh, bitterest pill, Dan class, I can't do it. His, his lung pauses are so a part of his storytelling that I just can't take out spaces on his. Even, even though I've been driving and listening to his show and there's a long pause and I think, oh, did something happen to my phone? Is it over? Is that the, is that episode over? And then he's like, anyway, can you tell you more about what happened in Los Angeles? Oh man, that guy's an all-timer. He's great. He really is. Okay, so here is us at one speed You know, and I'm wearing my hat Because I don't like to get sunburned

This is yesterday, right? Now, let's increase it to one point, whatever You know, and I don't know that So I'm flying around in this thing, it was awesome So we're having all kinds of fun like that That's one point one, it's pretty speedy Oh, one point in one, yeah, I can't really tell much of the difference Okay, here's

Backflip Let me get to one five This is very incremental Everyone's having a good time So we're thinking all right, this is really what the fourth is about Nice and hot, breezy, beautiful day Great food So that's not even a full double

I can still, yeah and I can still track all that stuff. The one five I'm still good with. Now here's your two. It looks over the entire valley and we'll just see the whole valley pop it off. That's how we'll do it. I can't, dude.

I can't do that. Oh, this does go a lot higher. Okay, so hold on. Oh, really? Okay, it caps out at three on Pocket Cast. There you go. We're waiting for the deal again and starting to get dark and things

are just starting to light up. Who are you that does that? I can't even make out words. Yeah, that's three? Yeah, that's three times. Wow. I couldn't do it. Oh, my.

gosh what do we just do to the people who listen to this podcast at higher speeds by speeding up the podcast within the podcast at a higher speed did we just run silver just touch ron silver from the future oh my gosh i'm gonna you know what i might do a little experiment go back find it do it do it again see what i can do yeah that's amazing well anyway so i don't know how you people do it but i am not going to judge you you got you all do what you want to do it's fine yeah oh my gosh i realized we put out a lot of content I could do. You know, two speed I could do. If I were a more vervarious podcast listener or even if I did more audiobooks, maybe that would be the thing that would make me not lose focus with audiobooks is listening to them at two speed. Oh, I feel like that might at first, it probably would tune you in better.

I wonder, though, in the long term, it just got used to it to be the same problem. I have the same problem as you do. It would be worth an experiment. Same problem as you. I don't, audio books and I don't get along. I got to read. Something about the act of my eyes reading and then my brain has to

engage more. When I'm just hearing it, I just sort of do-to-do, which is weird because I don't get that way with podcasts or storytelling stuff or other things other than audiobooks. I don't know why. It's a weird effing thing, but maybe you're right. No, it's like the audiobook thing, it's like, oh, the character enters a cafe.

Oh, cafes. Oh, you know, I like coffee. I could really go for a coffee right now. I wonder what I would get in. Probably mocha. Oh, damn it, what's happened in the last two minutes of this book. Right. Geniosaurus in the chat says there's a couple of interstitial music bits that we use here on the show that sound better at 1.5.

What could those be? Oh, really? I mean, you're talking like our mid-show. That thing, does that sound better at, uh, oh, under point five? That's a weird thing. Well, anyway, we'd only have a couple of interstitial music things, so. I mean, I did hear like a faster, more EDM version of that. Let's get down, let's get down to business.

You know that song? I don't know if you've heard that. Anyway, that one. It's already kind of an EDM song, but I heard a sped-up one, and it did sound better. So maybe there's a cadence thing there. I don't know, man. Claire says skim sounds great sped-up. Oh, the intro.

The skim intro. We call that the skin-trow. This is the skin-trow. Yeah. We have a lot of skin on our show. It's all in the skin-trow. This is that. That sounds better at 1.2?

That sounds better at 1.2. All right. Or 1.5, whatever. Brian, there's that. Now we move on to this. yesterday we were trying or a couple days ago we were trying to figure out what Arizona's uh Comic-Con is now called and I was screwing it all up I didn't know what to call it and I think I I think I even said it was fan expo but it's not it's a Phoenix comic convention

uh no or sorry is now called Phoenix fan fusion fan fusion fan fusion so they take two fans they bring fans in two at a time and fuse them together yep I mean why wouldn't you yeah if you could if you had that kind of power wouldn't you fuse people together i would oh yeah you know what how would you choose would you try and pair people that have like that that um compliment each other like would you say oh you know you're um you're not a good driver but uh he is so i'm going to fuse the two of you together so that you make a good driver who can also cook yeah there you go that's not bad what a yeah basically like this is like the new 10

or something right like it's like oh all right hold on i'd like this one and this one right here fuse those together done yeah it's a little like um knowing what what uh filaments will you know stay together in your 3d printing process versus right right exactly which one's like oh i can't adhere a sunloo to a hatch box no those won't stick together if i change filament midway but oh but if i use a elegoo in a hatch box those stay together great oh now that we're on this subject i have a i need advice. Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah. So, um, what was the question? Hold on. 3D printing, filaments sticking together. Hedgebox. Elego. Oh, I know what's going to ask. So when you, back in the day, I used to do a lot of 3D mock up stuff with SketchUp. I think it was

called, still out there, I think. It's not owned by whoever owned it before or Google owned it for a while or something. Anyway, I can remember. Yeah. Sketchup was rad because even though it was kind of basic geometry, it was a great way for me. When I did, um, when I was still, working for that company that owes me $89,000 still. I was making 3D sort of mockups of these store displays. And it was great because I just needed to make a bunch of boxes and they were certain sizes. Easy. Yeah, simple geometry. Yeah, for sure. And then I would Photoshop stuff on top to make it look like, you know, it was almost photorealistic at one point. And then I could match it up with a photo of a place that had like an N-cap and then I could replace this N-cap or put

this N-cap in place of the one that was in the photo. It was really great. And I really used that a ton. So here's my question. I have a potential commission client thing that's going to require similar stuff. What is the free low investment 3D thing that people are using now? I assume tied to 3D printing. Yeah. Fusion 360 is probably, well, I'd say Fusion 360 is probably your best bet. Is this, this isn't going to be, is this going to be something to get 3D printed or is this something that is going to be used for the background of mock-ups. It's just mock-ups and stuff, so I won't actually need to three, I don't need to print any of it. I mean, obviously you could because you can export it to STLs or whatever, but

I just need it to, I just want to be able to get into a, you know, I don't want to get, I don't want to get all wrapped up into something that's like complicated. You know what, then, you know, the Chadpool is also saying, or the Chadpool. The Chad pool. Good old Chadpool. I remember him about his plaid outfit. Tinker Cat, actually, people are bio-Cal. and a couple of the people, Jason Norris, Tinker Cat. That's going to be more of your easy entry level,

and I think that's going to have what you need. Tinker Cat? Oh, CAD. Tinker Cat. Yeah. Tinker Cat. Okay, that's interesting. It's made by any cubic?

No, who makes it? It's made by... It's made by one of the... Autodesk. That's it. Yep. Oh, wow. I thought Fusion 360 is not Autodesk?

Who's that? Fusion 360 is also Autodesk, but think of it like... Like using, God, there's not really a good Adobe parallel. It's like using the complicatedness of Photoshop when really all you need is McDraw or MacPaint. Yeah, that's why I like SketchUp so much because it was sort of just that. It was like, quick, get in here, make some very simple 3D stuff and get the F out.

And sounds like this is it. If you do Fusion, then you're going to be spending a couple hours learning how to use Fusion before you can start using Fusion. With Tinker Tad, you can probably figure it out in about 30 minutes and be and have everything else you need. This is fantastic. I'm going to do it. It says, oh, it wants to know if I'm an educator or a student.

Is that the only way to get this thing? Yes, but I think you can, but I think it won't look for an EDU suffix on your email address. I don't think it does. Okay. I'm going to give that a shot. I'll sign them with Google because why not? Yeah. I thought there should be like hobbyist version or something like that, but maybe not.

I think obviously the student one's not going to, you know, they're not going to, that's not, that'll be free. That'll be free. And there's limitations, but they're, you know, 10, 10 projects or something. Same with Fusion 360, 10 projects and stuff. You know what annoys me a little bit is when you go to do, when someone says, hey, put in your year, your month and your date of birth. and there's always three pull-downs, right? There's, you know, one for the month, one for the day and one for the year. I hate that every time I go to the year one, it's just a little more scrolling than you used to do. It's a lot of scrolling.

Because back in the day, I remember like in the 90s when these things first started popping up on the internet, it would be like, well, it's not very far. It's like 12 down. It's like actually within the first part of the drop-down that you see. Yeah. Not anymore. Not anymore, boy. Yeah. And sometimes I'm like, and sometimes they're just like where I need.

You're using technology, by the way, is because of all the scrolling to get to the year of their bird. And there are even times where I'm like, like, I just need to hurry up and put a fake date because it's just one of these age verification things. And I'll just choose the quickest one. It's like 2006. And I'm like, oh, shit, is that going to work? And then I realize, oh, it totally does work. It not only works, but those guys are, you know, they're 20 something or whatever they are. Yeah.

No, it's bad when you get to the point where it actually, um, it actually, um, You get a little progress bar that says loading more years. Mm-hmm. Yeah. This is amazing. All right. I'm going to grab this after the show. I actually meant to write this down because I need something like that pretty quick here that I can just wrap my head around and go for it.

Yeah. But I'll check out. I mean, Fusion 360 obviously is maybe a step up from that, but is also highly used, right? Like a lot of people. Yeah. Yeah. And what's great about this is that you can learn TinkerCad and then you're kind of, a quarter of the way to learning Fusion 360.

Because, you know, in Tinkerkad, you can't do, like, champered edges or fillets or sweeps or things like that. But, you know, but you basically just say, okay, well, I take what I've learned from TinkerCad. Now I know. I like this. Now I'm on the way to learning. What is a filet, like slicing, like it sounds?

Like a filet. I'm sorry, filet. Filleted edges. Sorry, that's filleted edges. So one's rounded, one's, one's, chopped, beveled at the edge. Oh, okay, beveling I can deal with. All right, well, I'm going to, I'm going to

dick around with it, and then I'll let everyone know how bad I am with it, and it'll be great. Okay? This is, like, in my head, I look at it and I say, that's filleted, but I read it because I have a lot more food than I have 3D, as I say filet. Yeah, it's fine. It's all good.

All right, there's that. And then, we got this lift question for Brian. I'm going to read from Craig in the UK, Craig T. Craig T. Nelson. He's in, uh... Craig Tee! Yeah, he's up there. Coach is up there in the UK right now. Uh, coach asked this question. Hi, guys. I have a question for Brian. I've seen this viral video or viral videos of people canceling rides to try to get out of paying for their Uber or their lift. Has this happened to you? And what's the recourse for yourself if it happens? Thanks, Craig, in the UK. That's really interesting. Is that ever happened to me? And I'm trying to figure out how they would do it. Like, basically, if you request a ride, And then if you cancel it immediately, no charge, no problem, right?

But if you wait 60 seconds or two minutes or there's some limit for the rider that if you request a ride, two minutes goes by, the driver's on his way, and then you cancel it, you pay a charge and the driver. And I get a like a $2, $3 little thing saying, sorry, we made you drive out of your way to head towards someone that canceled a big deal. right um but i don't know how you could do it because even if they like if they if i show up and the longer they wait to cancel the ride the more i get paid for just showing up or and the more they get charged for it and if they get in the car yeah there's some little calculation it'll do if they cancel a ride halfway through and it still does let let's say they say you know what um actually I've decided I'm going to go to this 7-Eleven here

instead of going to the one next to the cannabis shop because now I don't need pot I drive it. Here's my, here's one I drive for lift, Scott. I need to get to work or I need pot or I need to go have sex or I'm coming back from having sex. Sure, sure.

Yeah. Sometimes it's all three. And then you're like, you know, that's a fun ride. Yeah. That's one with memorable conversation that makes TMS stories. It really is. But those are the three kinds of rides I give.

I should actually just have a checklist in the back. Are you going to work? Do you need pot? Or are you coming back from having sex? Sure. That's amazing. Or are you on your way to have sex? Yeah.

I bet, you know what I bet too? A lot of this is videos of people where this happened. And everyone thinks that if there are videos of these floating around, it must be common. And I'll bet it's just outliers. I don't know how you, but that's a thing. I don't know how you would do it. Because even if you cancel pre-ride, you're still paying something.

If you cancel mid-ride, you're paying for that much of the... You're paying for a percentage of the ride that you took. And if you cancel at the end of the ride, you've still paid for the whole thing. There's no way to get out of paying for it. So... Right. Yeah, I don't know. Craig, if you have any more information about that, I'd love to know more.

And that would be good to know just so I could figure out... I mean, my recourse would be cool. I got a camera in my car that shows that you were in my car this whole time. time. And I could even show, you know, how the time you got in, the time you got out, send it to lift, they should pay. That's why I bet it's rare. I just don't, yeah, social media has a way of making us all things something's happening a lot when it really is just that you're being fed a thing from Instagram, or from the algorithm. And sometimes it's three or four of these and you're like, well, if I've seen three or four of these, it must be happening a ton.

Well, no, it's because TikTok, meta, whoever is feeding you things that you hung around and watched. So now you're going to get more of them. That's just the way it works. Speaking of which, there's this thing happening around here. We saw it on Next Door. I don't read Next Door, but Kim, once in a while, we'll check in. Just see if something weird's happening in the neighborhood. Sure.

And it's pretty chill. It's a lot of sort of, I made too many brownies who wants them. Oh, that's a great. Well, you've got a great next door. Ours is, hey, somebody left their bicycle in front of my house. Does this belong to anybody? Fascist! Yeah, they got short fuses in some next door.

Short fuse, yeah, exactly. Ours is usually pretty good, but this one, and this one was fine too, except it was just warning everybody. They had some ring video to show it so that people knew what was going on. But there's this mother and her kid going around homes in our neighborhood. Bing bong, they ring the door. You come to the door. Or if you don't come to the door, they try to break in.

They try to weasel their way into the house. Or they check the door. They check the doors and try a couple of windows and do a bunch of shit. And if they can't get in, they haven't been breaking in as far as I know. But they try to, you know, see if somebody forgot a door or whatever. And then the ones that they have found that are open, they go in and they take stuff. Now, if you answer the door, they go, hey, we're just going around the neighborhood, seeing if there's anything we could pray for for you.

Is there any? Oh, my God. We're doing a prayer and we just want to include all or any neighbors that are, you know, maybe you're going through some. trouble or hard times. Can we do it? Can we have, can we pray for you? It's like, you dicks. You're the worst. Wow. To come up with like, all right, we're going to either steal your stuff or I'm sorry, you caught us, we're religious. Yeah. I hate. I hate it so bad. I freaking hate it. So now I kind of want one to show up, you know? Yeah. Because I want to go up there and

answer the door and have them go, well, we're just here to see if we can pray for and I'll say come inside we'll pray to get you know i want to do something weird could you i wonder if you could like uh uh quiz them on things that people who pray would know to see you could catch them in a lie really what church do you go to oh really what street is that on yeah just really drill them you know and do it with a smile do with a smile the whole time yeah yeah i don't know how that it's going to go but anyway uh there's that uh and good i'm glad your lifts have never no one's ever stiffed yeah no one's ever no one's ever stiff me. I had that one person who

got my number, like, created a fake ride, and then called me, and then had me call them back on a, you know, convinced me that they were actually from Lyft by telling me some things that at the time I thought, well, okay, how would a passenger know that? All right, cool.

Yeah. But really, and didn't give them, ended up not giving them anything that they wanted, but, um, and reported them, found their website that they wanted me to go to, and reported that to their host, their web host, with screenshots. I like, you know, they have with the rung, the rung dude. Yeah, don't, yeah, don't know your, know your audience or something is what I'm trying to say.

Exactly, exactly. Talley says I should show up at the door in Kim's underwear. Who says I'm not wearing it now? Who says I'm not sitting here right now on some frilly, cute little panty deals? How do you guys know? You don't know. You don't know. Exactly.

All right. Run final thing here from, let's see, this is from Lisa G. Lisa G. At least a cheat. That's right. This is a wrap name. She says, here's another stab at the whole what woman is Brian dreaming about.

Yep, yep. Desperately squeaking Brian's dream woman. That's right. Desperately squeaking her. Brian's dream woman's colon, Laura Knightlinger. She plays... Laura Kightlinger. Is it Kightlinger?

Oh, I figure out. I always assume K's are silent in almost every word. I don't know why. I guess there's no end there. Anyway, she played nurse. Sheila on Will and Grace, also a writer on the show, very dry humor, tall, thin, brunette. Is this the woman,

Brian? I was ready to discount this one, and then I did a little search, I'm like, she might be it. And I'm thinking, I need to re-look at her character because haven't found her yet in Silicon Valley, and I don't think

she's in it. But we did watch Goldbergs, and that also fits as the, you know, no laughter, no laugh track sitcom that would have a character like this, you have kind of a wackier character, and she was on that as like an agent, and I need to go and look,

because there is the distinct possibility. It was Laura Kintlinger. And what's funny is, you know, I discounted saying, oh, yeah, Laura Kightlinger, no, I remember from, she was on SNL for a season. That's why I'm seeing all these SNL news weekend pictures of her.

I didn't know she was on SNL. Yeah, weekend update, yeah. Yeah. And so I was thinking, oh, maybe it was, you know, people said, maybe it was a character from somebody on SNL. I'm like, oh, no, I'd remember anybody from SNL. She was on so briefly that I probably wouldn't remember Laura Kightlinger. So there is the distinct possibility that this is her.

She was also on Penn 15 as the hat. Yeah, the, like, what causes more people to notice you than a hat? and she convinces the two girls to buy a lot of hats or something. Oh, that's her? Yeah. So there is the distinct possibility that she is the one I was thinking of. And I need to go find that, the video, the clip of her on Goldberg's, because that might be the character. It was really the character that I was thinking of more than the actress.

She's in all these pictures with Jack Black, and I can't, it was just because they were in them. She barely was in Tenacious D as the. fan is what matuba says oh so there's some connection there yeah they're like licking each other's tongues in this shot are they are they together i've watched the way who cried wolf says i'm not sure is an underwhelming response coverville we need confetti i'll give you confetti if she's the one really i mean and uh we just need confirmation we can't just assume i need confirmation she might be the one syrinix is at this point just say it's her so we can't have closure i i i can't do that i i i can't I can't lie to you and tell you that she's the one if I don't know for sure.

Yeah, you can't do that. She might be the one. I saw the, you know, a shot of her. And she's got that, that, oh my God, who's the woman from Just Shoot Me that I've been comparing her to? Jeez. Oh. And hot in Philadelphia.

Right. Shit. Yeah. That one. That one. It's right at the, not Kate Wall. Not Kay Wall. Wendy Malick, thank you, Wendy Malick.

She has a very much has a Wendy Malick vibe. And the brunette, the dark eyes, I mean, it could 100% to be her. Wendy Malick is the new choplifter that I get all the time on the game shows where when I can't remember a game name, everyone says choplifter. Choplifter. Yeah, that's amazing. Tonda ghost is in here, too. That's great.

I know we haven't talked about Agatha all along at all yet. I haven't watched the trailer yet. I heard people are excited about the trailer, though, look good or something. I'm excited, and there's a little part of me that's like, oh, well, okay, so I guess seeing that actress in here means that, you know, it doesn't mean a thing. We've had people who've been in one Marvel thing and then appear as a different character and another Marvel thing, and there are no connections whatsoever. But there's part of me that hopes that the appearance of Aubrey Plaza means, that she's back as the Shadow King and is going to wreck Agatha's world. Well, Legion was not MCU, but that doesn't matter either because neither was Charlie Cox and Daredevil while it was over at Netflix, but now he is.

Exactly. And there was never anything that tied that showed actors or actresses from the Fox X-Men series in Legion, even though you know that's Charles Xavier's son and all that stuff and he didn't mention Charles Xavier we didn't get a you know never a came or anything from Jean-Luc but that would be great if there was a way to connect the two I would love that she was really good in there so I mean she'll be great in this whatever she does but that would be awesome I'm with you that'd be great absolutely the wraith will the blade ever happen we talked about this couple of weeks ago the answer is at this stage it feels like I won't but I feel like at some point it will to me it would be a better, if I were

them, now that they have Hulu and they can do their, like, slightly more R-rated business over there, they should just make a Hulu series and make a Blade series. Don't even worry about the movie. I like that a lot. Yeah, I would watch the series and feel pretty good about that. Okay, where the hell were we?

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What are you waiting for for Pete's day? Bad news for Etsy fans and Etsy creators, I suppose. Etsy is banning the sale of most sex toys and explicit content and more, I say. Oh, yeah, yeah. What about things that hold sex toys? What about things that you store your sex toys in? Yeah, I knew this might have a slight effect on a possible project you're helping with, but the indie seller publisher, or published its adults. adult nudity and sexual content policy a couple days ago,

which states that sales of adult toys that are, quote, insertable applied to the genitalia, or quote, designed for genitals to be inserted into them. I love that. It feels like such a breaking some grammar rules there. Designed for genitals to be inserted into them. Yeah, it's a little off. Also, this poor lawyer that had to write this one. you know yeah yeah they really they really saddle this guy with a fun project yeah anyway uh we'll

be prohibited that pretty much runs the gamut uh and this is their words dildos vibrators rings plugs and the like so plugs bryan plugs we're getting close to the neighborhood here i'm not designing plugs i'm designing a plug stand plus there's no real plan for me to put it on etzy but uh oh i didn't know where those are going to end up if it was etzy or it's it's um one person's uh only fans or wherever she has her live show. Yeah, I might. So I've been talking to the person that you were talked to that made this arrangement. Yes.

About a possible, just like a little one-off interview to try to better understand that business. Like what, what they do, how it works. I think there's a lot of, not just stigma, but just misunderstanding around how some of that works, including for myself. I have no idea how only fans works. I'm fascinated to listen to that. Yeah, that's cool. So I'm going to try to arrange something. Anyway, they can't ban that, can they?

They can't ban my podcast. They cannot. Nope, just don't sell that podcast on Etsy. No. Let's see here. There's more to this. Non-insertible and non-penetrable adult toys and sexual accessories such as BDSMware will be allowed as long as the listings follow Etsy's guidelines around mature content. And updated yesterday, also updated yesterday.

These listings must be tagged as mature, can't appear in public places, or someone's account like a user's avatar or shop home. The first thumbnail must be appropriate for general audiences. That's grandma all the way down to Little Susie. That's right, yes. Got to go, got to look at the gallery photos to really see what this thing is and how you use it. Yep. And depictions of genitalia or products in use must be removed and or censored.

On that point, porn is not allowed on Etsy at all, including custom content. This is defined as media displaying a... explicit acts made by porn publishers like Playboy. That includes any vintage items and described as pornographic and titles, descriptions, whatever. This makes me think they are getting heat from somewhere, but I don't know who. I don't know who's giving them crap. I don't know. I mean, Etsy has always felt like the, the wholesome garage sale next to the, you know, a few blocks away from the sex shop.

I've always felt like Etsy, this, for me, I was. surprised to find out that Etsy allowed this before now, right? Like, I thought, oh, okay, yeah, it's, it just is, you know, needle point this and macromay that, and, uh, yeah, it's weird when somebody, like, Tumblr changes it,

because you assume Tumblr just lets anything in for the longest time. And so when they did this and they got all the backlash for it, it's because they, they were all of this. I just, I didn't know you could get these things on Etsy. I'm that naive. I don't know what they have. I thought it was all

macromay and 3D printed stuff and stickers and whatnot. Exactly, yeah. So I didn't know. The race of the Yetsi spin-off, Sexty. That's what they should do. Sexty. Sexy. Sexy.

Sexy, but spelled like... Sexy. Well, they're going to have to workshop it. They're going to have to workshop it. But it sounds like a way for them to maybe spin out. There you go. Here's one. Restaurant says men must be 35.

women must be 30 years older to come into their restaurant at all quote we're sticking to our code that's right sweet I'd go there uh yeah we and and we could which is nice turning 18 and 21 are rites of passage young people go to certain places they couldn't

before says this article but one restaurateur near St. Louis that's in Missouri they got the big arches and the whatnot there they are just one big arch yeah we're just the one big arch I always think there's like two but then I think I think, I'm thinking of McDonald's, straight up. You're thinking of McDonald's, yeah.

I told myself I was going to try one of those new $5, uh, cheapo meals, value meal, whatever they're doing to try to get people back in after they raise their prices too high. And, uh, and then talk about it on the show and I just, I haven't had the heart. I just not in the mood. I know. Yeah. It just feels like like you're giving up.

It does. It feels like I've got. It feels like I'm giving up. Yeah. And I don't want to give up. I want to give up. I want to live, all right? Yeah.

Anyway, a new upscale restaurant in Florissant, Missouri, Florissant, I'm not sure I say it, called Bliss. It's called Bliss. Yeah. We have a frozen, a Froyo place near us called Bliss. Oh, that's hard. That sounds like any age to get Froya. It sounds like a strip club, a Froyo place. It kind of does.

Yeah, right. Or a day spa. Yeah. Right? Like, you want to open a place called Bliss and just let people decide what you do there. Yeah, or a blacked-out windows. Or like a touring stage show that's in the aria for the next two weeks or something like that. Right, it's right.

It's the new Circta Soleil show. Bliss. Yeah, come check it out. Don't bring the kids. Well, anyway, women must be at least 30 to enter and men must be 35 or older. Marvin Pate, age 36, and his wife opened Bliss just two weeks ago. Quote, it represents pure happiness and pure utopia. It's a home away from home.

You can come here and feel like you're actually on a resort, says Pate. The restaurant's West African and Caribbean cuisine isn't the only hot topic simmering on social media. People can't stop talking about the age restriction. Of course. I hate how they say it, though. It's like people. Simmering on social media. Yeah, I hate that stuff.

So bad. Anyway, they just don't want young people in there. They're getting shit for it, but they just are like, hey, we make the rules. I think you can make those rules. That's fine. It's your place. I think you make those rules. It's weird.

Why 30 and 35? why can't the men like what if a 31 year old man and his 31 year old wife want to go there why is he why is he not old enough like what is what is it about that age between 30 and 35 for men here's here's the kind of restaurant i'd want to open any age right yeah come in any age sure But your phone goes into a zippard pouch and you can keep your zippard pouch with you, but you can't take it out of your zipper pouch. Just can't open it. Yeah. I think I would hate that.

You are forced to look at and talk to the person you came with and enjoy your meal and focus on the food and not take pictures of it for Instagram and all that stuff. Yeah, you know what? That's actually not a bad idea. Just have a place you can escape for that for a couple hours, you know? Yeah, exactly. we went to Hobbs dog says I'll know

I mean I need my phone I think I need my phone when I'm out doing that stuff but I don't really I don't really do I No I could go an hour or two

Just focused on my date You could absolutely And just focus on Kim And you know Like yeah This will do This will also Separate a lot of wheat

From the chaff right So if you can make it Through the couple hours You realize your relationship is strong If you feel like your pants are buzzing Because you just can't wait

To get back to your phone Maybe you two don't belong together. Yeah. Anyway, I was going to share something funny in the kitchen. Dr. Kellynne says, if you do that, then you'll have to unfriend me. What about losers like me that go out to eat alone? Do what I do. When I go out to eat alone, I go sit at the bar.

Even if I don't have anything to drink, I sit at the bar so I can talk to the bartender and have, you know, maybe see the TV up there if it's a bar that has a TV. but you know it's still still your you're I don't know I feel like I'm more focused on what I'm eating and how it tastes and how it's presented and stuff like that if I'm not if I don't have just to the right of my knife and fork a phone sitting there that's why the dining in the dark thing is such a cool idea because you can't you can't pull your phone out you just got to yeah yeah use all your senses except for your eyeballs I suppose exactly well all right good luck to them I hope it lasts Moving on to take a break. When we come back, we'll be joined with Amy, Amy Robinson.

You know where's Red Fraggle. She's got a book for us to read. And so we're going to hear all about it in her read this segment, which we do once a month with her. That'll be right after this break with this song that Brian will now explain. I did. Oh, man, you know how I love me, some power pop. Not to be confused with just pop music,

this is a power pop is a very different thing. Think the kinks, the knack bands from, the 80s and 90s that just had a straightforward rock sound, no pretense, no alternative indie kind of stuff, just power pop. This is a band called Joy Buzzer, and we may have played them before. Big thanks to Wicked Cool Records, another one that always seems to send me some really good stuff. These guys are from New York City, and they have a brand new single from their upcoming album

called, Please to Meet You. Let's see, it's a play on the Please to Meet Me by the Replacements. Where is it? Oh, based on another song, that's cool. Yeah, the album is called

Pleased to Meet You. The album cover even looks like the Please to Meet Me album cover. This is their first single from the album. It's called

You'd Be Surprised, a little explicit, tiny little bit of explicit tag in here. Here's Joy buzzer and you'd be surprised. That's it. That's what it's cool.

That sounds exactly right. Here you go. follow you'll be surprised so you think that I haven't gotten you'd be surprised with my losers

and I ain't letting know I've got the situation under control from sure so give me some more come with me, baby, it's a hell of a ride Don't you think you can trust me

You'd be surprised Will you think that I never do it You'd be surprised That I can't be so done I come through with it You'd be surprised I need a few of us Because I'm flat on my ass

I'll pay you Tuesday Because I'm getting some gas my home so let me some dough come with me baby it's a hell of the ride don't you think you can trust me you'll be surprised You underestimate the mistake that I'm in. Give me the hand brigade and I'll pull the pit right now. Pop, pow, pow. Come with me, baby, it's a hell of a ride.

Don't you think you can trust me. I'll be surprised You'll be surprised You'd be surprised I think it would be surprised I think it would be better for you to remain in the bathroom, sir. And we've returned. Tell me who that was one more time.

Sure. That's a band called Joy Buzzer. There you go. Thank you, Molly Fantin. XTC, squeeze. A couple of great examples and favorites of mine that are great examples of Power Pop. That is the song you'd be surprised from their upcoming album. Please to meet you, Joy Buzzer.

great New York City power pop band. Nice. Get a rope. They're in New York City. Get a rope. All right, what are we doing? Oh, yeah, we're adding, we're adding Amy to this. She's coming in.

She's coming in hot. She's coming in hot. Oh, it didn't work. Why? What happened there? There we go. Okay. All right, Discord.

Make up your mind. There we go. Okay. In she comes. Maybe. Is it ringing? What happened? Why isn't it ringing?

I don't know. I don't know. Oh, it just went right off. Like it, uh... Yeah, I can't... And then if I write clicker to ringer, it doesn't do anything. Let me remove her. Okay, let's try that again. Red Fraggle, add.

Great group. Oh, there we go. I don't know. I don't know what's going on there. That was a very strange thing, and I would like to never have it happen again. Maybe it's something on her ink. She's not picking up either. Maybe that wasn't me at all.

I don't know. Calling Amy. Earth calling Amy. Amy, are you there? Oh, calling Amy. Are you there? Amy? Let me tell you about what happened this week with Middy in Boulder. I haven't been able to find reruns of that show.

I wonder, yeah, I wonder why. That would be a fun one to just have on something, right? That'd be a great binge, yeah. Let's see. Boy, that show, I did see an episode a few years ago on something, I can't remember where, but it did not hold up as well as I hoped it would. Yeah, probably. not. It was a weird time.

And it wasn't because of the amazing talents of Robin Williams. It was just some weird awkward you know just weird treatments of the bolder the bolder lifestyle I think that

didn't look right. Didn't seem right to you at the time. Didn't seem right, yeah. You know what's funky is that well yeah, I just confirmed. Mark and Mindy. I don't know if we ever said Mark and Mindy. Oh yeah, Morkin Mindy is what we're talking about. But it's not it's not streaming anywhere. I just checked. And that's unfortunate, but also, I'm sure

somebody could find a complex way to do it. Oh, hi, Amy. Hi. Hey, there she is. Hi. Hi. Oh, you're fine. Everything good. Okay. You're right over there? My niece just got here, so I was getting an update from her. So apologies. Oh, no worries. No worries at all. I know there's a lot going on with all that. So do not stress one bit. Oh, we have a little thing that we do for you, though. There it is. One of the things that I enjoy also is reading. Did I ever tell you, I guess I told you, I got that from a dating video from the 80s where the guys. Oh, really? Yeah.

Yeah. The guy's explaining what he likes, you know, what he likes to do in his little video thing. Remember when they had those? They were terrible. They were like all on cable and be like midnight. It's awful. Anyway, it's good to have you here. Let's get into it.

We have you on once a month. Talk about books and, you know, something to read. And you always, you never disappoint. So let's just get into it. What do you got this week? Oh, well, thanks. Yeah. So this is one that I kind of randomly found, you know, because I'm on audible all the time.

And it suggested it to me. And I thought it looked just hilarious and weird enough to work for this show. All right. Well, I'll play a little clip from it. Here you go. You're awake. I tried to respond. But what came out was something like a cross between a cough and static.

For God's sake, that sounded like a voice synthesizer having a breakdown. Please keep trying. can take a few attempts for the guppy interface to mesh. I considered what he'd said. It immediately brought up three points. Point one, I wasn't dead. Well, okay, I think therefore I am yada yada, call that one proven.

Point two, I wasn't good as new. In fact, I appeared to be speaking through a voice synthesizer, but doing so by mental control, which meant point three, that the technology had advanced significantly since I'd been hit by the car. How long had I been out? I tried again, concentrating on forming the words.

Some want to fill me in. Excellent. I am Dr. Landers, Bob. I will answer any questions you have, and I will help to prepare you for your new life. New life? What's wrong with my old one? I already don't like where this is going.

Dr. Landers pulled the tablet over so that it was directly in front of him. So, Bob, what's the last thing you remember? A car coming right at me. I was sure it was going to hit me. I'm pretty sure it did. It did indeed, Bob. You arrived at the hospital in critical condition with a very poor prognosis. Per your contract with Cryo Eterna, they were standing by with a cryocontainer when time of death was pronounced.

Good to know my money wasn't waste. it anyway. So what year is it? Dr. Landers laughed. So nice to talk to a subject so quick on the uptake. It is June 24th, 2133. Oh my lord. This sounds like some humor-based science fiction, if I had to guess. Yeah. Love that. Bumbo. Yes, you are correct. And a couple of people in the chat have indeed identified basically all aspects of this. It is indeed the Bobaverse. So the name of this specific book is We are Legion, We Are Bob by Dennis E. Taylor

and it's narrated by Ray Porter. And yeah, it's as hilarious as it sounds. A dude has suddenly come into a lot of wealth and he's a reasonably smart guy. He's a software engineer

and he decides to put his wealth to what he thinks is good use and purchase a contract with a cryogenics company that in the event of his death will come and harvest his head and cryogenically freeze it until such time as medical science has advanced to be able to cure whatever has ailed him to death. And then he goes to a science fiction convention and promptly gets hit by a car. Jesus.

Wow. It's like, yeah. And this is, it's great. It's, it's as much fun as it sounds like it would be. And also, it has all the good trappings of good fun science fiction, right? Like, it's as you, as you spot it, it's, it's humor based. So this guy has a very wry wit about him.

And he's not shy about sharing it with the listener. or the reader and he's you know so it's filled with lots of fun trek references there's a couple of Simpsons references in there which is really fun and yeah but it's also got the you know the good questions that it poses to the reader like and it doesn't pose them directly just me myself when I was reading it it made me pause and think oh what? What actually makes a self? You know what I mean? Like what constitutes a person?

What, you know, what does it mean to be a being, you know? And, and, you know, all those kinds of good things. And yeah, it's a really good book. The first one gets going really quickly. In fact, I almost would have liked a little bit more laid up. in the beginning a little bit more of him kind of, you know, like the, the Iron Man, I'm figuring out how to, how to work by suit kind of things. I would have liked a little bit more of that. But he gets going almost straight away. And it's great. Like when he wakes up a century later, he is told effectively that he's now a sentient AI and is the property of a dystopian theocratic government and his purpose is to be uploaded into the hardware of an interstellar

probe searching for habitable planets all right okay so this sounds good so we're not talking like absurdist hitchhiker's guide style approach to this we're not it's not like that where it's mostly quite that out there yeah no all the humor is basically this guy's a wry sense of sarcasm and humor it's it's all you know some of it is internal some of it is also you know sort of external to the people he talks to but of course a lot of them don't get the jokes that he's making but we get them yeah so which is which is kind of fun that sounds pretty good it reminds me of a little there's a little bit of old man's war in this uh by uh that john scalzy who is scaldzy i love that book um this is going to be my next one also it's on kindle unlimited so you know

you're doing that like I am, which is a pretty really cheap way to get a lot of amazing books. It's free. So I'm going to grab it. And how many of these are there? There's book, this book one of what, three? Five. Five. There are five. Yeah. And, and yeah, as Dr. Halhoun in the chat points out, the plot is pretty hard sci-fi based. In fact, in the in the first book, in the earlier stages, there's a fair amount of techno-babble. Um, I kind of tend to gloss over some of that, you know, and just like, okay, let me, just for me, Bob. Like, tell me, tell me what you're doing without, you know, you don't have to bounce the graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish, you know, like, you can, you just, just tell me what you're doing. Well, this is good news to me because I, I kind of like techno babble, fake space stuff. I'm into it. So I, I think I'd actually enjoy that. Sounds like fun. Yeah. And it doesn't, it doesn't bog the book down with it a lot. just there's a little bit of it and you're like okay yeah but but yeah it's um it's good it's

I enjoy it and like I say it raises a lot of good questions about what it means what what does yourself mean because you know without giving too many spoilers at some point one of his main objectives is to go out and create more of himself right because you can't just have one thing searching for a habitable planet, you know, in an infinite universe. You have, you know, you got to cast a wide net, right? Sure. And so, you know, so he's, he's a little bit reticent to do that because he has Bob's conscious. He's, as far as he is concerned, he is Bob, right?

He is original Bob. And he's a little reticent to replicate himself because he's like, what if I'm a jerk? You know, what if I don't like me? Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, so, so it's really, it's really kind of interesting, and it's interesting to think of, you know, the subsequent bobs, like, they will all also feel like they are original Bob, even though they're not, you know? And it's, yeah, it's, it's fascinating. And it's a little bit scary because the dystopian, theocratic government that he wakes up to kind of. feels a little more realistic than it used to and makes me a little uncomfortable.

Yeah, sure. This sounds like so up my alley. I'm stoked. I'm going to read. This is my next book. I can tell you that. I'm going to finish this trilogy I'm on right now and when I'm done. I'm diving in.

It sounds good. Very good. Up on candle. It only shows four books. There's six. Did you say? I think there's five. So let me see.

Oh, five. Book one is called We are Legion. We are Bob. book two is for we are many I know right like so Brian you laugh like that honestly the title I was like okay I'll bite

what is this about and then I read the description and I was like okay I'm in I'll go for it yeah would you send me the the link on good reads and I'm looking at this I'm thinking oh this is so great yeah this just seems like so much fun and there's all the world and they all have really good good ratings on on good reads so you know

I feel pretty comfortable with it there's so yeah there's um let's see four we are many is book two all these worlds is book three heaven's river is book four yeah and then book five is called not till we are lost oh yeah they're not shown it on amazon i wonder why it's weird i don't know they might some of them might be audible exclusives oh yeah like four and it looks like four and five are audible exclusives for now okay um so yeah you can you can get books one through three in print one through three are they're also showing four so i don't know what's going on there's just not a five listing at all but i can get all four the first four books up to heaven's river are all available for me to read so there you go there's

plenty of content i think i'll be okay you know when you um you prefer audiobooks right amy i do i do yeah do you listen at regular speed or do you speed things up we're talking about Regular speed. Yeah, I was listening earlier and I was like, I cannot, I can't, I can't do it. I can't do the sped up thing. Like, because I can, I even, so when I send you guys the clips of the audio books for this segment, I go in and I edit it for time and I squunch it down. I cut something like, okay, this, we, you know, we can get to the point quicker if I cut this section out or whatever. And that kind of thing.

And I know what it sounds like that something has been. sped up or something is at a clip and I just find it too distracting I can't I can't do it I can't yeah yeah I think we're working I can't I can't I certainly can't do it with podcasts that I you know mostly listen to live or occasionally listen to live because then when I if I get used to it at a sped up speed and then I listen live you guys sound drunk at that I'm like people have said yeah yeah we're not but but yeah maybe we are you never know i mean i'm pretty sure scott isn't although he may have had a gawme but um you know never know all right fair enough uh yeah this is great i'm uh been looking for some sci-fi to fill

my soul after this i'm not that i mean the red rising series is definitely sci-fi but it's so much it's like it's like how dune is sci-fi yes it's sci-fi but it's like very fantasy-driven sci-fi. And so is this. And so I'm kind of looking for some like hard science fiction, but a little humor. And it's perfect. Yep. That's that's exactly. That fits right into that niche. Yep. That's cool. Great recommendation as always. And if you want to go over to quickttms. I, Brian tracks these every time we bring up a new book or new series. And you can find it there. Again, that first book is called, We Are Legion. If you're looking to start. We are Legion. We are Bob. We are Bob. That's right. Bob averse book one.

I love that it's the Bobaverse. That's how you know. You know, what's really funny is at some point, like one of the Bobbs calls that out. And like, because they call it the Bobaverse. And he's like, he looks at himself and says, Bobaverse, really? Good. I like a thing that can laugh at itself. Nothing wrong with that.

Exactly. Exactly. Excellent. Amy, this has been great. It's always good to talk to you. And I hope things continue to go well for you. how's uh you something got hurt now you should be healing what was the thing that got hurt yes so yeah my ankle i sprained my ankle and uh i actually went for my first pt appointment yesterday and she says

i can i can 86 the brace so oh that's good yeah and so and i'm on to pt she she basically almost said based on you know her examination of things she was like why are you here this seems fine um and i told her i was like well i could still tell like when i go up and down the stairs and stuff i could it still feels like i might hurt something and um and she's like as long as it's below a four on the pain scale you're fine like go ahead and do the thing so i was like sweet nice um so yeah all of that is on the mend and uh yeah all right well good luck with the rest of that and may your ankle never be twisted again you know thank you yes i i agree uh stay out of trouble say hi to chuck and we'll see you later all right brian hey you know what that means yeah what what i know i know right

it's a little shocking but what i'm about to tell you is the show is nearly over that's what i'm about to say all right i don't want to shock you but here's what's happening today two usually tuesdays are a little kind of quiet around here not today daily tech news show is when i'm on today Usually it's Wednesdays. Today I'm on because they don't want no non-S Samsung lover on tomorrow for the Samsung event. Some Samsung hater. Yeah. So why even try? So I'm on today. That'll be fun. And then tonight, just a reminder, I will be, so you haven't seen with TVs, Travis, our own TVs, Travis. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, you haven't seen.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Just one, just one way. Just one way. Don't tell me. Wait, wait, don't tell me the name of Travis's show. Tell me you haven't seen that thing. Sorry, Travis, but I'll be on there tonight. And I'm looking forward to it because we're going to talk about quantum mania, whether it was any good or not. And here's the funny thing.

I skipped right over, Ant Man and Wasp. I haven't seen that yet. Oh, really? You haven't seen number two. Well, how did you know the whole, you know, Fifer thing going on? I don't know, but wasn't there something in some post-credit thing? Something where we saw something in something else, right?

Or am I smoking the? the crack because so end of Ant Man and Wasse that one came out in the middle in between um end game and and I'm sorry in between Infinity War and game and so you do get what happened during the snap

um with the the Ant Man stuff right um with those characters and there was something in end game that had was it a post credit thing something had Pfeiffer doing something no I didn't I can't me you know we might have I

can't remember it though i don't remember fifer in in any of that stuff um yeah i need to so it's one i still need to see and we we actually waffle back and forth that could be a great couch party too yeah and we went back and forth about should i do that instead and we finally decided on quantumania just given all the the controversy around it to be like a more fun thing and it's not that hard to get like i get the idea of what happened to fifer like i get it um she's great in that by the way she's really good she is really good dr kelly And to be honest, there's nothing of value in it, Man of the Wasp, and I would totally disagree. I think the villain of Ghost is one of the better Marvel MCU villains that they've come up with in a while that doesn't feel like, we just need her for this movie and let's get rid of her kind of thing.

I feel like we need her for future projects. Isn't she going to be in, is she a Thunderbolt? No, I can't remember where we're going to see. crap. I don't remember. She is coming back, though? You've got confirmation on that? I think she's coming back.

Yeah, the actress for that. Oh, Chats says Thunderball. She's in the final battle in end game. I don't think you see Michelle Pfeiffer in the... Because that would defeat the whole purpose. Oh, no, that's right, because they do... That's right. They pull her back from the Quantumverse, and then they go back in for Quantummania.

Right? I thought quantumania was that doing it. Maybe that's why it all. Oh, rang to me. That's what you're, that's what you're seeing. Yeah, they pulled her out. Yeah, they don't have the process of pulling her out in this, in quantum mania. It's post that.

So that's why it all rang. That made sense to me. She's already, she's already out. And Scott Lang is going back into the quantum universe for some other reason at the end of Ant Man, the Wasp. Yeah. When he gets trapped in there for the set up the events of end game. Yeah, that makes sense. Very cool.

Right, right. Right. All right. So anyway, that'll be tonight. And also, we'll be back tomorrow with a regular episode of the morning stream. You may have heard of it. So be around for that. That's going to do it for us. Quick note about our website. You can go to frogpans.com slash TMS anytime. That's a place to request songs. That's a place you can do a lot of things. All the stuff we talk about linked there. So it's easy and accessible to just about everyone. That's frogpans.com slash TMS. Use it today. Brian, let's get out of here with a song. Please play one. this one goes out to Talia, Natalia. Hey, Brian, who is totally not a coward. My call of Cthulhu Group is finishing up a campaign in the next two weeks. So to honor them and thank our keeper, aka G. and Mike Wood,

I'd like to request a song we've been singing while playing this final chapter. Bad Moon Rising by CCR. Because we're about to have a showdown during a blood moon and try not to go insane. Heather, James, Cam, and Mike and I love gaming. Oh, no, I'm sorry. Heather, James, Cam, and Mike. comma. There was no comma there. I love gaming with you guys and can't wait

for more campaigns. Brian's totally not a coward, Sintalia. Oh, it's good to know that you're not a coward. You're not a coward at all, Cowardville or whatever he used to say. She accused me of being a coward because I wouldn't play a Kit Bogus song on TMS. That's where this all comes from and I stand behind it that

without the visuals and the background knowledge of what's going on with the Kit Bogus stuff, the songs just aren't as funny. I still don't know who that is. I know we've talked about, but who the hell is Kit Bogga. Kit Bogga is this person who, this dude who does Twitch streams where he gets scammers who are trying to pull the gift card scam and makes them go through so many freaking hoops to get gift cards that they inevitably still don't get. But it's like he does, Kit Bogga is able to do this voice.

Yeah, it's the guy that sunglasses most of the time. I follow this guy. I just didn't know his name. Where do I, now I'm clicking on buy card or am I clicking on more info? Do not redeem. Do not redeem. Exactly. There's always an Indian guy yelling, don't redeem as loud as he can. Okay.

Yes, that's exactly what it is. Yep. So wait, he makes music, though. He makes music, is the point. He doesn't make music. He makes the scammers that he's talking to sing spice girl songs and then he puts it to music later on. I have not heard that. gotta go check that out. And it's

really funny when you know all that, but that's a lot of set up to get to the point of playing, you know, just some overseas dudes singing wannabe. Yeah, good point. Yeah. All right. All right. Yeah. So, Bad Moon Rising by CCR.

Man, I don't, I hate the F and Eagles. Play me some creedens. This is a great version that came out, boy, 12 years ago seriously. Julie and a Hatfield, a favorite singer of mine, an album called Cleverly Covers back in 2012. And on there, she covers CCR's Bad Moon Rising.

And it's, it takes the, the CCR version, CRED's Clearwater Revival for those people who are wondering, why does it keep saying CCR, takes their version and makes it seem more melancholy and wistful. Like, boy, the first word that comes to mind when I hear this version is it's wistful. She was a former member of the Lemonheads, great. vocalist and incredible performer both solo and with her band the Julianne Hatfield 3.

This is just her solo, Bad Moon Rising, Julianna Hatfield. All right, enjoy this. Everybody, we'll see it tomorrow for a yet another TMS. I see the bad moon rising, I see trouble on the way, I see trouble on the way, I see earthquakes and lightning, I see bad times today, Don't go around tonight But it's bound to take your life

There's a bad moon on the rise I hear hurricanes blowing I know the end is coming soon I fear the river is overflowing I hear the voice of breach and ruin Don't go around tonight Because it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise

Oh. I hope you have got your things together I hope you are quite prepared to die It looks like we're in for nasty weather One eye is taken for an eye Don't go around tonight It's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise

Don't go around tonight Well it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise on the rise Don't go around tonight Because it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise

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