The Morning Stream - TMS 2675: 4 Alarm Diaper

Episode Date: July 15, 2024

Is it too early for a piss sandwich? Duodenum, Denim, and Dunaway. Porch Pirate Pooch. Korean Soup. Infinite Leash. Wordle distracted dog walker. Rub the Buttons with Both Hands. Timberlake oven mitts. Nepo not Pedo. Laser Lemon. Who are the a**holes in your neighborhood. Le Party. This one's for you, row 283! Full of Food that John Hates. You Have To Paint Them With Stephen Schleicher and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Porch, pirate, pooch. Korean soup. Infinite leash. Wirtle, distracted dog walker. Rub the buttons with both hands. Timberlake oven mitts. Nepo, not pito. Laser.

Blammon. Who are the y'aholes in your neighborhood? Blip party. This one's for you, row 283. Full of food that John hates. You have to paint them with Steven Schleiker and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. They claim to be guards, but I can see through to the truth. Unfortunate.

Hold on. Come take a look at this. The morning stream. Conan the Barbarian. Good morning, everybody. Hey, what's going on? It's the morning stream. It's July 15th, 2024.

Happy two days ago birthday to my mother. Oh. We will be celebrating. Great day, Mama Johnson. Tonight we're going to dinner at a place of her choosing and it'll probably be full of the food that John hates. And I can't wait. Good. Yeah. She should get to eat what she wants on her birthday, you know? For sure. Absolutely. I mean, even more than for her birthday, she should get to you what she wants most of the time.

When I'm in my 80s, I better be able to do whatever the F I want anytime I want to do it. I think that's the goal. As long as you're not, you know, killing people or eating their flesh or something. You should be fun. I'm Scott. That's Brian. And we're here to do another, the morning stream show. And it's a, you know, good time to do it. Oh, two days shy of my birthday. Let's not think about it. Let's not think about it. Right.

Yeah. Scott just gets older and older. Yeah. I definitely don't stay the same age. Years from now, people watch this show and say, I think both of these guys are dead now. Yeah. I made the mistake, by the way, watching my 2018 stage thing, Blizzard thing. Because somebody had said, somebody said, hey, what's that shirt you're wearing under that?

so I thought well let me go look and I started watching it and the shirt was just some blizzard shirt but yeah I was like man even in 2018 you just start to see the differences you know age yes age is just a number yes we all do it but it's impossible not to look at an older thing even only that's only what seven years ago or whatever not even that yeah yeah and then right is that right seven yeah I see that and I just go yeah there are parts of to my head that weren't gray and uh that was great so a lot has changed oh you do what you can do yeah exactly it's all you can do it's all you can do i got a new neighbor i'd like to call out here on the show because she did something weird or she is doing something weird it's been consistently

happening for a couple of weeks now and i needed advice so uh here it is okay yep this is not shaming a neighbor this is not me uh unwilling to talk to that neighbor we're totally going to talk to them but i just want to get everybody's opinion on this okay all right so here's how they walk their dogs. They have two dogs. One is always on leash, the other one they let run free. And sometimes they let it run free without people. And that's only a problem because I'm afraid it's going to get hit. There's a busy street on the other side. Wait, wait, wait. You say without people. Like nobody, like they're not outside and it's just kind of. Correct. Walking the front yard, it is like they're just letting it go. They're just letting it run all around the neighborhood without any kind of supervision. Now, when they're out there, when they're with it, it's still off leash, but they have this other dog that is on. leash for some reason. I don't know why they don't just have both dogs off leash, or both dogs on leash, for that matter. But here's what they do, and this is why it's weird. And I can't speak to other neighbor people. I assume they're all having a similar issue because it's just the way this would work. But every day, at least twice a day, my doorbell camera catches what it reports

as to it's smart enough to know there are animals on the porch, right? Oh, that's cool. So I check the thing and I go, well, let's see what's going on. and it's always video of two things. One, the dog that's on a leash is still on leash, but is all the way up over my bushes and onto my front porch, sniffing around. Okay. And the other dog that is loose,

he's like a white or a vanilla looking lab kind of dog. I'm not even sure what breed it is. He is up there also, and he's running around kind of free, and there's this cat that Carter sort of feeds. It's a stray. It's not a house cat, but it's outside. She puts a little bowl out there for it.

Adopted feral cat kind of thing. Yeah. So this dog comes up on the porch and immediately leaps on whatever's left of that food and eats it, right? Sure. Of course. And then sniffs around for a bunch of time and then off they go. Now, about twice a day, this happens. They're both on our porch all the way up to the door, running around doing stuff, and then off the porch.

And now a loose dog, I kind of understand, because it's a loose dog. They don't play by our rules. It's going to. Right. He's literally off the chain. Yeah. Yeah, this dog is off leash, and when you're off leash, the world is your oyster, and it goes and does whatever it wants. And part of me is, like, cool with that because I'm like, yeah, it's a dog without a tether.

I get it. But the dog that's on leash, that means there's a person on the other end of this long-ass leash way out in the street somewhere. Because we don't see her on the camera, by the way. Just the dog. It's that long a leash that you see the dog and not the leash holder. Wow. And it's one of those, like, retractable jobs, you know? Yeah, yeah.

like long ribbony one and um and and every day twice a day at least sometimes more that dog just hunting around the front of the thing it starts and then it hops over the fair over the bush and leaves and i'm not actually it's not really hurting anything like it's not a problem really but but it's a little weird isn't it's a little weird and and your your first thought was my first thought it's like okay well that's fine if the dog is smart enough to say okay i'm gonna go down and if this house, hey, they always leave out food for the cat. I'm totally fine. But I'm worried that some teenagers going to come, sorry teenagers,

going to come flying through the circle here that we have and not be paying attention or looking at their phone and hit the dog. You know, I'd be so worried about that. Oh, yeah. And there have been other neighbors who have their dogs got loose for other, you know, non-intentional reasons and were hit and some were killed. One was injured real bad. One was killed.

Like, I know it could happen, especially with the busy street over there. So that part bugs me. But also, I'm just trying to figure out, like, if I'm ever walking a dog, it doesn't matter how long my leash is. I'm never letting one go all the way up to somebody's door. Why would you do that? Yeah, no, exactly. That is a little, that's a little, yeah, they're not paying attention. They've got the long leash and they're like, do-do-do-do-do, do.

Let me see if I can figure out today's word. A do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. And the do I say that. They're like that. Yeah, because I say that because I'm pretty sure that there's a person, the person actually that has their dog Masey that they let run around the neighborhood, when I do see them walking, they're basically like this with the, you know, the leash, I think on their wrist and they're holding their phone in the hand that's got the leash. And then there are other fingers tapping away and they're just walking. And that dog could be barfing up a squirrel and they would have zero idea of what's going on. Yeah. Yeah, you're oblivious to it. And I think that's what's going on. She has a kid who I see on the bike all the time. And that kid is super conscientious bike rider looking both ways, always checking traffic. He doesn't just rip out into the street. He's always, like he seems like a really conscientious kid. And I feel like pulling him aside and going, junior, come here for a minute. I'm not a freaky adult. I'm not here for, you know, I'm not pervy. I just have a question for you.

Can you tell your mom or whoever it is walking that dog? Can you just have, you know, and it's never going to happen. I'm never going to do that. But I feel like he wouldn't do this, you know. Yeah, so now you need many signs in your yard. Don't climb on this tree. Don't cut across my lawn. Don't let your dog run, come all the way up to my porch.

I mean, let's just, it's going to start looking like that, how far are all the cities in the mash unit? Like, you're going to have the signs. Yeah. And I don't want to be that. I don't want to end up being that neighbor. Well, like I said, but the dog thing, I'm more concerned about the one dog being loose

and it's welfare. I'm not worried about it at my porch. Right, of course. And they're not taking a dump up there. No dogs are leaving poops behind. No. Like the free roamer or the lung leasher. That I know of.

As far as I know, there have been no poops. That's a good question. I should check all the little corners and nooks and cranes up there. Check for poops. Because if they're using as a toilet space, well, then we got an issue. but if they're just running up and going and leaving, I don't care.

And oh, the other problem is every time this happens, our dogs lose it because they can hear it. Oh, of course, yeah. Well, yeah. And that can be obnoxious, especially if you're doing a show and you hear that, even if it doesn't get picked up on camera or on microphone. Yeah, sirens are enough of a problem.

I don't need freaking neighbor dogs up there. So anyway, I don't know. We'll see what happens. Brian, you went and saw Billy Joel. tell us about it tell you everything you feel I said so friends of ours bought tickets to see Billy Joel and then friends of theirs said other friends of theirs said

hey we're getting tickets to see Billy Joel we'd love for you guys to join us and then worked with them to buy four tickets together and they said well we have two extra tickets I guess we'll see if any of our friends want them but then we'll put them on stub hub and he gave me a killer deal on him, killer discount on him, and they were only 11 rows further back from where they ended up sitting with their friends.

So same section, just 11 rows back. Wow, that's pretty good. It's pretty good. Not 11 rows back from the stage, Scott. Oh, no, from them. From their new tickets. Got it. I had it in my head.

They were much closer. Like their front row and you're like 11th row or something. No, no, no. We were in, we were in row 25. of the upper most level of cruise. So seats that are never in any danger ever of having a pop fly hit them. We were basically, it was literally the last row. We could lean our heads back and just basically rest our heads against the grate

that keeps people from falling backwards into the city of Denver, the streets of Denver. Oh, gosh. Yeah, you don't want that. Wait, tell me about Stubb is a, That's just like secondhand, like... Yeah, secondhand clearinghouse for tickets, concert or plays or whatever. Makes sense.

But you know what? The price I paid, totally fine. Sound was great. And you're looking at a dude sitting in a piano. Do you need to be up close? Probably not. You can see what, you can see what Billy Joel looks like. And they had the big screens.

And so for songs like, we didn't start the fire, they had this kind of cool video going behind him where where it was a hand swiping back and forth photos of all the things that he was talking about so da da da da doris day bit better get away and it would be a finger swiping back and forth on the center screens and then every time it would swipe right it would toss that photo to the right screen and toss the other photo to the left screen so it was like you'd get these at the end of each verse both side screens would be filled with all of the things that were mentioned in the lyrics for that verse and then the whole thing would go up in flames we didn't start the fire that's actually pretty kind of cool i wouldn't have uh it was a cool visual yeah yeah i like that

um and so you because of those cameras you were sure you were looking at billy joel wasn't some just you know i mean you know billy joel kind of looks a little bit like um jonathan banks these days like mike ermintrout so uh who's to say right yeah who knows f you after you walter he'd say and then that's right yeah walter no half measures so sound was great Billy Joel sounds amazing

and he did like we were looking at set lists beforehand and Tina's like yeah the set list looks okay but he isn't doing pressure which is Tina's favorite song

and he was doing scenes from a Italian restaurant which is mine we go out there and the second song he did like he comes out and does maybe Vienna or something

I can remember what the what the first thing was and then second song was pressure and he hadn't done that on any other stage of the tour and Tina's like oh my god he's doing my favorite song and he got word that she was coming yeah he got word that Tina was coming like I'm gonna do this one for that that woman in the very very back row that I can't even see but I know she's up there somewhere she looks like an uptown girl to me let's do this yes and uh all right and he did uptown girl as part of the encore set the encore set was um

yeah I mean he the dude played for two hours and 45 minutes And there were still so many tracks kind of left on the table that he could have pulled from. She's always a woman he didn't do, which is another favorite of ours. And, you know, there's tons that he could have pulled from, the actual title track from the stranger. But there were, you know, it was like 90% hits, 10% deep cuts and freaking awesome sets. But they did Uptown Girl. And I'm going to say, I liked it okay live.

And I'm realizing it's Billy Joel's love letter to Frankie Valley in the Four Seasons. It's absolutely, you know, when you hear it, it's like, yeah, okay, it is, you know, her time, you know, just like Frankie Valley used to do and the backing vocals. It's, you know, it's his homage. That's that whole era, yeah. Yeah, just like tell her about it as, you know, the tribute to the duop groups or, um, I'm trying to think. A River of Dreams is his tribute to Elton John's Lion King theme, I guess. I don't know. Sure.

Did he do, that reminds me, do you do anything that was new? Does he got new material these days? He has one new song called Turn the Lights Back on. And he's been doing it on every stop until this one. He didn't do it. He replaced pressure. He replaced his brand new song, which is really good. And I really, I was looking forward to hearing him do it live.

but he replaced that he must have replaced that with pressure or something but uh weird yeah it was uh it was not working because usually it's like well we have to do the new song to help sell the new single or stream the new single sure but in his case it's Billy Joel

he'll be fine it's Billy Joel you can do what he wants but um he did a lot of tracks from The Stranger he did a which is hands down the best uh Billy Joe album fight me on that if you want but you'll lose um and piano man of course Vienna New York State of Mind

I mean it was just such a such a great such a great show that's great and he even did some covers he did start me up by the stones he did he gave a lot of his bandmates a chance to step forward and sing so like his guitarist came out and did

Rocky Mountain Way for Denver of course yeah Joe Walsh and sounded great River Deep Mountain High, his backup vocalist came out and did that one. It was great. It was like a good mix of shows. And it's one of the few stops on the tour where he doesn't have an opening act of some massive caliber. I was just going to ask you that is if he had anybody open for him, it sounds like, no. That's, well, I mean, the guy can command the entire time, I'm sure.

He really doesn't need it. But, yeah. Exactly. And two hours and 45 minutes, who has time for an opening act? and I guess he doesn't do the he doesn't play that long when he does have an opening act so he's had Stevie Nicks he's going to have Rod Stewart is going to be his opening act

on later part of this tour he had Sting for a few a few dates but nobody nobody came to Denver but yeah it was I mean boy incredible incredible show zero complaints zero notes that's great and your price was good you can't

good I would hope that guy would. Is it a big tour? Is he almost done? Is he still got, you know, half the country to do? Or what's his deal? I think he still has half the country to do. I feel like he's, this is, um, he's got Madison Square Garden on the 25th.

Uh, oh, and then he goes to Wales in August, Cleveland Brown Stadium. So it's like a big, it's all, uh, a lot of, uh, arenas and stadiums on this tour. Of course. Yeah. You know, as it should be. He can demand that sort of thing. Sure. yeah um but what incredible here's i'll put a i'll put a link to the setlist dot fm setlist wiki if anyone wants

to see it but let me see 26 songs he played oh jeez um he ended with you may be right is that correct that is correct ended with you may be right but but um that whole you may be wrong but you may be right he kind of faded that into uh led zeppelin's been a long time been a long time I've been alone, lonely, lonely, lonely. That's cool. I did a whole Zeppelin rock and roll. He did do The River of Dreams, only the good die young. Oh, sometimes a fantasy.

There's a deep cut, or not deep cut, but there's like a song you probably haven't thought of since the 80s. The one that goes, so it's just a fantasy. Oh, it's not the real thing. I remember that. Sir, he did his cover of Surfing USA. Weird. Yeah, yeah. A little short one where, because somebody, they had beach balls, people tossing beach balls bouncing around. I don't know how I feel about that. I guess if you're at a concert and you've got ADD and you just can't focus on the music and enjoy it, you need something to play with. The beach ball passing around the stadium is just fine. But it landed on the stage and so he picked it up and he's going, all right, if everybody had a notion. Oh, gosh.

And then the band started jumping in on it. That's great. That's very good. I'm glad he's still got it, man. That's cool. He's not with what's her name anymore. That ended a long time ago. Christy Brinkley, yeah, no.

She's no longer his uptown girl is a different girl. No, she's far from being his uptown girl. No, he's with a new woman that is, I think her name is Alexis. And his daughter is named Alexa Ray. And so I'm sure he doesn't have any Amazon products in his house. No, he's fine. I'm sure nothing goes off when he says their names by accident. No, nothing at all.

And I'm amazed that I didn't trigger my own here when I said that. Yeah. It definitely works at my house if I say anything close to the damn term. Yeah. Except for the times I actually wanted to go off and sometimes it doesn't freak enough that. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

Sure enough. I was going to say, oh, one other quick thing here. So we got a listener who had a question about the Hulu Disney thing. I'd mention how I finally merged my accounts and made the one. Yeah. And I did that as well. Yeah, a while back. Had to do it from the Hulu side.

Couldn't do it from the Disney thing. side for who knows why reason but anyway Rodin said this has got no name on it he says hello this is for the morning stream oh he says his name this is Thomas from New Hampshire I missed it wondering when you sorry when you combine your Disney in Hulu account how that work

or how does that work right now I pay monthly for Hulu and yearly for Disney will they stop one of them is it a monthly charge now tell me more please and thank you and love the show so I think you're in a weird position because mine was month to month and that's just easy to roll into. So I don't know how you do it. Did you do that? And you and I, I think,

maybe it was me and Nicole, we did that thing where when Disney Plus, before they launched, they did a three year, like if you prepay for three years, you get it at a locked in, like you pay once and you get it like at a 50% or some huge discount. I don't know if you, do you remember that? Yeah, it was like when they launched it was like six bucks and it was amazingly cheap. And then I think they had a deal where you could buy, a few years at a time before the price hike and then you could keep it where it was basically it's your grandfather option yeah so that that's that sucks because then you're well it doesn't suck you can't do a merge thing because you've prepaid for it now that uh ended before i did the obviously merged

everything and did the hulu thing right but i timed it because i was paying i think we were paying annually for disney as well from that after that point and so it must have been at the four year anniversary that's when we're like all right hulu's coming up at this time just just monthly renewal. Disney Plus was coming up for its annual renewal at this time. Let's cancel Disney Plus and then do the big Hulu live TV bundle with the SPN and no commercials and all that sort of thing. Right. Then it still obviously came out to be a much better deal. So I don't know what you do. I mean, if you're paying annually for Disney, you might just have to wait Thomas from New Hampshire and time it so that when you renew Disney, that's when you do the switch off and just

don't renew Disney. Yeah, and I assume he's got less than a year until it renews. So, you should be, you know, unless today is your year, you know, unless you just re-up. And you know what? You might even be able to call them and say, or contact somebody or get in touch with their customer service and say, any way I can get a prorated refund on the remaining months. I'm going to be, I'm merging you guys with the Hulu. You're going to get my money a different way, but can I get prorated back for the. Yeah.

So I got onto their service thing and they do have an actual human talk to you on their little chat. Oh, that's good. Wow. He couldn't do anything for me because of my predicament. But maybe your deal is different. Maybe they can solve your problem. Because your problem is definitely, Thomas, your issue is more Disney-sided of an issue,

whereas mine was more of a Hulu problem. So you might be okay. And it's definitely going to, I mean, whatever, these are all going up too high, but that combo is probably the best value right now in streaming. We love it. Yeah. The price really good. good for us and they do offer a deal where i could again prepay for the full year and then lock

in that price but i know right because you don't want to then you'll be like thomas it's a big outlay at once yeah you'll be like thomas if something changes you want to have some flexibility exactly i want to be able to say you know what we we don't we don't like disney plus anymore you're done i can't believe you killed stitch in a in a tv show the death of stitch wait they did that stitch is dead oh no oh shit i was about to lose my mind yeah they did that And Leroy and Stitch. The film that you and I discovered yesterday actually exists. Yeah, the evil red stitch or whatever it was.

Evil Red Stitch. How did I not know about this? That's crazy. Brian's got some watching to do. I'll tell you that. First I'm going to watch Cinderella 3, the time travel Cinderella sequel. I'm going to call out somebody who's no longer in the channel, so I'm not actually feeding the troll. The troll's not here to eat because I kicked him.

But I wanted to just mention this because I think it's weird. I'm just trying to understand. I'm trying to imagine a place in my life where I would have the time or energy or inclination to go into some random YouTube, live YouTube thing like ours. Sure. A place I don't know with people I don't know full of the chat room that I don't know. And I go in and the only thing I say in that chat is, are you guys woke? Question mark. And that's all you say?

Like, I don't understand where, if that's where your head is and this is what you do for just a random thing to do, I, I urge you, I encourage you, I urge you, I implore you to find more meaning in your life. Right, exactly. Find something to care about. Something productive, something that's good for your soul. I don't know, something creative and outlet, anything. You might get a level three dopamine from trolling live YouTube. That's great, great. You probably could do something even better that gives you like a level six or a level seven dopamine rush by doing it.

Yeah, you know, volunteering at your local animal shelter to walk all the dogs a couple times a week. Yeah, even simple stuff. Go play like a video game or something. Right. Or go rub one out. I don't know. Whatever you do. Or both.

Do both at the same time. Work at the same time. While you're talking to your Xbox buddies. All right. Moving up. Let's get done away all up in it. We're going to do some half-asses today. I've been looking forward to this one.

Cool, yeah. I don't know why I'm just in the mood for a little trivial competition, you know? He's been winning lately. I don't like that. I know. I know. You need to fix that situation. We need to change the paradigm.

Please help me welcome to the program One Brian Dunnaway. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi Scott and Brian. Happy Monday, Brian. Happy Monday, Brian. Do you, too, sir. Yeah, how was your weekend, man?

I saw you for a lot of it, but how was it? I know, right? Well, you mean since just like 12 hours ago? I didn't do much except sleep. No, I don't know. That's a good question. What did we do since then? Oh, I went back and I watched, I rewatched our watching of X-Men from last Friday because that was fun.

Oh, that was fun. I was curious about that. Yeah. You guys are doing the original stuff, not the new X-Men 97 watched. We'll probably pick that up again. You know how we watched the first two with you? And so that's what got us in the mood.

We're like, you know what we ought to do? Let's go back and just rip through the old shit. So we're going to do that. And then we'll get back to Current and then re-watch the new season as well. But it's been fun just because some of that old stuff is really. Me and Scott discovered some writers that made their way in there that should have been fired. Magneto was doing some. Yeah, Magnetia was doing some weird stuff.

Yeah, episode four. I did the final season of the original X-Men right before 9070 came out, but that's it. That's as much as I could do. It's just... Well, season one, episode four is a real bummer, man. I don't know what happened there. It's so bad. It's just horribly made.

But, you know, sometimes from garbage comes great things, and the new season is nothing but amazing. So anyway, we're really enjoying doing that. Well, it's good to have you here. Let's enjoy trying to beat each other at a game that Brian. made up and he'll explain the rules and who's on who's on tap to win stuff today brian absolutely 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 in category and six possible answers three of which are correct and three like that song teller about it by uh billy joel are are wildly incorrect depending on how confident

they feel with the category they can provide one two or three guesses but if they get any wrong they get zero points for that round get one right gets you a point two right gets you three points and three right gets you five points for that round. We'll add up all the points for both of you guys at the end and the player with the most points wins the prize for their contestant. Who are you playing for? Who am I playing for? Who am I playing for, Brian?

That's it right there. Scott, you're playing for Benjamin Colson in Chico, California. Chico. I like it. And, Brian, you're playing for Tim Lee in Sonora. No, I think that's supposed to be Sonora, California. But it looks like Sornora. But Tim Lee is who we're fighting for, right?

Tim Lee. You're playing for Tim Lee, Brian. That is great. That is a great. You know what? What if that's Tim? That might be Tim Bernersley creator of the World Wide Web. You don't know.

Could be right there. Does he live in? Would he not know how to spell Sornora? No, but that sounds like a weird European place he might have been living. Oh, maybe it's Sornora Canada. Oh, shit. Oh, Sonora. That's awesome.

All right. All right. We'll talk about what the prices are after. this, let's go ahead and get to your questions. Let's start off with, oh, let's do medicine, human body, anatomy. Oh, I just did

medicine this morning, cool, let's do some more. And you guys both have anatomy, so this should be right up your alley. Which of these are parts of the small intestine? You've got the Ilium, the omissum, the reticulum, the duodenum,

the rumen and the jejunum. Oh, my lord. Well, there's small intestines, you'll say. The small intestine. Yeah, don't, don't, don't, don't, uh, give me any of that large intestine, BS. No. Hmm. I call, I call my anatomy.

No, I'm not going to say that. Uh, let me see what I'm going to do. I'm going to keep it, I'm going to keep it straight this time. Rumen sounds like Raymond and I don't know if I want to do that. Raymond? That sounds like Raman. Raman? Raman.

That great game with the person who can draw bodies? You eat what you eat, I eat what I eat. Hey, don't feel bad. When I was growing up, we called it Korean soup because we were weird. Korean soup? Yeah. Because we had so many Koreans in the house and that's all they wanted was, well, my brother. He wanted ramen.

And so we just called it Korean soup. Anyways. All right. You guys both settled on the reticulum. You guys pick some other ones in addition. But reticulum, oh, no, that's one of the three cow stomachs. As are Omasum and Rumen, those three are cow stomachs. The real parts are the Ilium, the duodenum, which Brian picked, and Rumen, which is, the

Jujunum is the other one. What's a duodenum? What's the actual part of, is it where it like splits off? Part of the small intestine? I don't know. I'm just curious. Because it sounds like two, you know, so it's like a split. Right, a double denim.

Yeah, double denim. Two pairs of pants. All I know is that they talked about it. whenever I was getting my gobladder removed or something. I don't remember. They said a lot of things, but I do remember that. And they said, duodenum. I said, and how?

Yeah. And I thought, you know, that's okay. Nice. Kelly, both Kelly and Bobby confirmed that the duodenum is the first part of the small intestine after the stomach. Oh, okay. All right. And that's a good place.

You want to take care of that little place there. Yeah, yeah, take care of that place. That's an important part of your intestine. All right. Well, you guys did really well with that. Let's move on to question, too, see how much you paid attention to MTV. All right. Which of these music videos were set in Paris?

Beautiful Day by you two. Heart of Glass by Blondie. Nothing compares to you by Shnade O'Connor. Started from the bottom by Drake, someone like you by Adele, and Rhythm Nation by Janet Jackson. Three of those videos were shot in Paris, and three of them were not. I only know one for sure. Okay. I guess I shouldn't say that because Donaway could strategize around me saying one.

I picked all. There's one I'm thinking of. I chose all three, Brian. All three. I don't remember anything about this one video except someone's bald head. And I don't remember anything in the background. She could have, I guess she could have been in Paris. I mean, you know, that could have been you're looking at Brian right now as far as you know.

That's right. Exactly. He just tore up a picture of the Pope. I did. Fight the real enemy. Yeah. It's controversial as hell. Everyone's going to talk about her for 30 years.

Isn't the current Pope kind of a nice guy, though? Yeah, he's all right. All right, right, right. The one that she tore up was a real jerk, right? He was a real duet in him. He may make some slurs, yes. Yeah, I don't know. Plus, there's an Irish person in the chat that will lose her mind in a second.

So we got to. Right, right, right. Set in Paris. The music videos were set in Paris. Because there's some people questioning my use of shot in Paris. Oh. Oh. Set in Paris is the, is the.

Is what the card says? Yeah, that's what I thought you meant was set in Paris. Le Moupes, it says. Even if they were in front of the Vegas Eiffel Tower. That's right, yes. Yeah, you could fake it there. If you can fake it there, you can fake it anywhere. Yeah, exactly.

Yes. I'd like to know which things people would choose. So, Amy, which would you choose differently after we give the answers? Which would you choose differently based on that clarification? Calling Amy out specifically nice. Well, she's what has said, set in Paris or shot in Paris? I'm like, all right, I'm curious, actually. If there's one that looks like,

no, I'm curious. Actually, no, I'm curious if there is one. Nobody's complaining about my started form of the bottom by Drake, by the way. No one has called me out on that typo. All right, Brian, did you. All right, started on the bottom, and I'm working my way up. Started form of the bottom. All right, let's see. Scott, the one you knew for sure was indeed that bald head,

Sheenaed O'Connor. Yeah, nothing compares to you was set. And I think even shot in Paris, she walked through. Oh, does she walk through? I think she, yeah, you see her walking through. The only thing I remember is her wearing that black turtleneck and her head. And that's the only thing I remember. Right.

It alternated between just a close-up shot of her looking right at the camera and singing. It was full black and white, if I remember right, right? Full black and white. Yeah. Good job. Beautiful Day by You, too, also set in Paris. And the third one is. Adele is someone like you.

A point for Scott. Scott. Scott. My carefulness was a strategy and I paid off only because I figured Brian might overchuse. And so it worked out. And he did over choose. Yeah.

I think you had beautiful day locked in first Brian and then you added Rhythm Nation and well it got me. My wife did I tell you guys my wife just saw Janet Jackson concert? I forgot to talk about this on the show. I remember you mentioning. I'm like, oh my God. be such a great show she enjoyed it it was a great it was an outdoor place and she had a blast i think

uh i think post malone is performing there in a week or so it's a really nice place called the usana usana something anyway it's a really nice venue it's nowhere near i wish it was like red rocks every every city needs a red rocks dude every city needs a red rocks but you know then then i wouldn't have anything to talk with people about who uh i pick up at the airport and they're like well we've got a couple extra days what do you what kinds of things should we do i'm like go to red rocks Even if you don't see a show there, go during the first half of the day when it's just open to the public, or if there's a band you even remotely find interesting, go see them at Red Rocks, and it'll still be one of the most amazing shows you've ever seen. I got a question while we're on this subject. I haven't been on social media in a while, so I was on TikTok, and I noticed like three or four of the videos where, like, J-Lo concert, having 12,000 missing seats, nobody there.

Is that some people just throwing some shade at J-Lo? No, she canceled her, she canceled her whole tour as a result. She's done. Due to lack of interest. Yeah. Okay. Although I think she's using the, I mean, she's going through some turmoil right now in her relationship. So it was a good reason to kind of take a break.

Yeah, take a break. But this Janet Jackson thing, here's the funniest part. Kim comes home. And she didn't say a word. She walked in and I said, did she show her boob? That's all I said. Of course. She said no.

No one was there to rip it off. didn't even say no she just came up and punched me in the arm and then walked past me yeah so that's uh that'll tell you what all you need to know about kim's reaction to my boob come she had a pasty on come on well look it all 2004 20 years ago that happened by the way yeah is that crazy shocking yeah yeah and guess and guess who they invited back to the super bowl justin dimberlake yeah yeah well done but he had to have us hands in his pockets the whole time right yeah yeah no uh female dances were allowed to get within 10 feet of them. He had to wear big mittens, just the thumb and the big round mittens.

Right, exactly. Yeah, good. Oven mitts. That would be amazing. Wraby hands. All right. Cool. All right, let's get to the last question here. And you guys both have used this, both being artists.

You have used these tools. Let's see how well you do with them. Which of these are Crayola colors that got renamed? Torch red, Prussian blue, Puse. shadow, nut brown, and chartreuse, which three of those got renamed into other colors. I've chosen mine because I'm confident in these two choices. Wow. I don't even know at all. And I'm like, I could be wrong. It's purely, it's purely just sounds right to me. I really don't know. So the thing that was confusing me was it got renamed. But it was a color, right? All these colors have existed or still exist. There's no gotchas, right?

I'm not saying that. Oh, he is not saying that. That's what I figured. That's the reason why I was holding off. I was like, there's one on here that I'm not confident it ever was. But, okay. If it was, it probably got renamed. I'm going to go with those two.

Okay, all right. Two to two. Here we go. Both locked in. And you both locked in on Torch Red. Torch Red, very good choice. Fire, fire. That got renamed Scarlet in 1998.

Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah, because it sounds like it ends. cites a little bit of violence or something, right? It does, yes. Go torch red. Prussian blue, another one that got renamed. That one actually got renamed to Midnight Blue in 1958. Well, we hate the Russians.

Think about that. Prussians are dicks, so don't worry about it. That is right, exactly. Puse, never been a Crayola color. Oh, shit. Shadow, is currently a color, and it did not get renamed. Nice. Uh-oh, you know what that means, don't you know what that means?

One of you picked nut brown. The other one of you picked Chartreys, one of them is right. One of them is wrong. Nut Brown has never been a creola color. Chartreuse. Across the finish line at the last second. Chartreuse got renamed to Laser Lemon in 1990. Laser lemon is what used to be called Chartreuse.

Congratulations, Brian. At last minute rally there. I thought Nut Brown might have been. like it sounded like bait. Yeah. It felt it never a color. Thank goodness. It is totally a bait one. I shouldn't have done it. I would have thought, my guess

was Chartreuse was still in there, that that was a thing. I would. Are you kidding me? Trying to get kids to, chew. What does this say, mom? I absolutely remember seeing Chartreuse in the crayon box and I guess up until 1990. We did. And I don't even know. Laser Lemon. What, uh...

It's no better. What do you talk about laser lemon? I was going to say I can only hear him saying that. That's funny, our brain's in the same place. That's great. So, congratulations, Brian, and by proxy, congratulations Tim Berners-Lee, a creator of the internet in Southern California. Finally, he's getting his due here on the show.

Finally, yes. Oh, actually, he does have his middle name in his Gmail account. I won't see what it is. But congratulations. Tim, you're getting a copy of the excavation of Hobbs Barrow. Oh. And Eastside Hockey Manager. Yes, we've tried to give away two times before.

And in both cases, they already had it. Eastside Hockey Manager and the excavation of Hobbs Barrow going out to Tim. But don't worry, Benjamin Colson and Chico, California. You're getting a copy of another game we tried to give away before. Observer, again, one that the winners had before. So you're getting Observer. You're not going away empty-handed. You're just going away.

I'm looking at the Hobbs Barrow thing just has me interested. What is this? This is a folk. Oh, interesting. Folk horror point-and-click adventure game. I like games like that. That's cool. Ooh.

Okay. Set in the Victorian, folk horror, yeah, this is the category. Folk horror, okay. Yeah. Horrah. Horah. Folk. Horra.

Set in the Victorian era? That's interesting. Yeah, see, you would say horror then, for sure. Reviewed quite well. You know what? IGN gave it a 90. That's pretty high. Oh, that's very good.

I think our winner really did get a winner. Nice job. Yeah. Well, well done, everybody. It means you get this. congratulations. I get this. Where is it? Where's my thing where I lose? That's okay, though. I'll give it another try on Wednesday, and I feel a little better about my chances because one of you will be calling in that day and you can be a part of my win. Okay? That'll be the call. Hey, Dunaway, is there anything you'd like to say before you get the F out?

Yes, let's see. We're going to do Wednesday, but then the following Monday, there's no TMS. Is that right? That is correct. So, so this is your, you're a half-asses champion for two weeks. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. It feels good. I think I'll have. Raise that belt high. Yeah. Do a couple parades, you know. Have your fans go crazy downtown, pull down light poles, stuff like that. That's what we do.

I'm excited. Well, I can't wait to see on Wednesday where we can do this all over again. Have a fantastic couple of days. Oh, no, you. Bye now. He thought I was going to hang up fast. I didn't. I know.

You didn't, yeah. All right. We have a little bit of time for at least a new story, if not more. And we're going to give it a shot. right now. It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. One of our Tadpoolers streams all the time at Nerd Steve on Twitch. That's Nerd with a 3.

So we think you should check him out. That is Twitch.tv.tv slash nerd steve N3R-D-S-T-E-E-E-N-S-E-E-E-E-N-S-E-E-E-E-N-T-E-E-E-N-T-E-E-E-E-N-T-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E, yeah. You can use it for an E, everybody. It also sounds like one. All right, check it out, everybody. We got a weird one here. A man urinates on deli sandwich. is in Bordman. I don't know where Bordman is. Let's see. I forgot to look that up. Bordman.

Somewhere, is this in the States it is? I don't know where the city is. Well, anyway, police, yeah, see if you can figure that out. Police were called to the 1,300th block of Doral Drive around 7 p.m. 7.30 p.m. Report said a store manager was notified around 5.30 p.m. that an unidentified customer reportedly urinated into a deli cooler full of sandwiches that were displayed for sale. Ohio, by the way.

Ohio. Ohio isn't always isn't Ohio becoming the new Florida They're given The Gen Zs really give shit to Ohio It does feel like we've You know When we look up a place

That we don't recognize the name of In our news stories It seems like Ohio Comes up a lot lately Yeah and the kids use it as a derogatory So if you have it's like Oh my car broke down It's so Ohio

They'll say that now Oh no really? I think that's lame Hey kids say less Yeah say less things You know it just live Live with the ones that stick like cool, dude.

Yeah, the tried and true, established terms. Gross. The word gross has been around forever. No one ever changes it. It's fine. Stick with those. Stick with the standards. Those were fine.

We sound like such old guys, telling these guys out of thought. Hey, you kids, why can't you use the words we invented? I'll make them a deal. I will not criticize what they say if they don't go into people's chat rooms and say, are you guys woke and then leave? Fair enough. You know what?

I like that trade. It's a good trade. It is a good trade. I feel good about it as well. Anyway, reports said the sandwiches were disposed of and the cooler was cleaned. Well, I hope that that's the case. They haven't been able to find the guy. This sounds like, what is the movie where they pee on sandwiches?

Oh. Oh, the first vacation. It's a dog, though. Yes, vacation. The dog does. Yeah, and Claris, or not Clarice Leachman, who's the mom. What's just keeps on, like, once she hears that, she's like, shrug, keeps on eating them. Yeah.

Oh, my gosh. So it wasn't, Randy Quaid didn't pee on him. That wasn't the story. It was dogs. It was, yeah, it was the dog. For whatever reason, I want Randy Quaid to be. Why have the sandwiches all wet, kids? Oh, my God, the dog peed on the sandwiches.

And grandma just goes. By the way, if there wasn't another reason to like Jack Quaid, because I already liked Jack Quaid. The other day, somebody did an interview, and he's always getting accused to be in a pito baby, I'm not a pito. It's not pito. What is it? What's it called?

Nepo. Nepo baby. Nepotism baby. He's a real pito baby. Because, you know, his parents are famous and, you know, loaded and they were actors and stuff and his uncle and all that. And I loved his answer in the interview. He said, yeah, I came from an extremely privileged position to do this. Like, it's still hard.

Nobody just gets into acting if they can't do anything. But, yeah, I got to start at a higher point than most people do. I realize it. I mean, he fully accepted it. I just, I don't know, I really like that guy. I like him, I like him more than his parents and his uncle, for sure. Yeah, I don't like seeing his naked butt sitting on a cake in the latest episode of the boys or recent episode of the boys. But other than that, other than that, it's fine.

Sure. We did yesterday, Phoebe was here. And she, we didn't know, she had a full diaper. And this was like a real four-alarmor, man. It was like a-oh, no, really like she ate a bowl of lentil soup. Yeah. Worse, it was like all like, she's, she's currently hooked on blueberries, and she had a ton of blueberries. Oh, yeah. That's. And they just tore through her. Poop pills. So we didn't know this. And Carter is doing this thing where she's laying on the ground flat in the living room.

Phoebe's standing on top of her. And then Phoebe will suddenly just kick her legs out and land really hard on Carter. And doing this over and over and over. And as she's doing, I look down, I go, oh, shit, something's coming out of her pants. and the baby's not going to say anything she's only 18 months she's not going to go you know careful i'm going to poo on my aunt carter but she uh we stopped it before real catastrophe it was bad oh really okay so none got on carter uh no but she panicked she was worried yeah yeah can't blame her right wow yeah anyway these uh this is 51111 this is more than you won at your trivia last night wow yeah worth of sandwiches you know right sandwiches yeah uh 65

Deli Sandwiches had to be thrown away. They say the suspect is a white male who stands at six feet tall, weighs 200 pounds. Police said he has white hair and was wearing a red Make America Great Again hat. Wonderful. Reports say he was wearing transitional style glasses. I guess that's the ones you go out in the sun and they turn dark. Yeah, they turn great, yep. Peach colored horizontal striped shirt, black shorts, tan flip-flop sandals.

Reports say he was wearing a lanyard around his neck with a plastic placard attached. Really wandered far from the convention, didn't he? Yeah, no kidding. Geez. Well, anyway, good luck on finding that guy. Oh, geez. And that's all the news they wrote today. We're going to take a break.

When we come back from this break, Stephen Schleiker will join us as he ramps up for the new school year. I know he's excited about this. But anyway, we're going to talk to him about some comic stuff. So stick around. It'll be right after this song Brian Brought. Yeah. All right. So I'm going to say a word that might scare people.

And I want to get it out. I'm just going to rip the Band-Aid off and get this one. word out so people aren't like, oh, I'm skipping this song for sure. The word is experimental. Exactly. See? That's how the reaction a lot of people had. But guess what?

It's good. Experimental rock trio, Nova Charisma, have a brand new single. It's called Stolen from each other. Their forthcoming studio album is called Metropolitan. And, man, these guys are great. Love this track. And forget the word experimental. It's just damn good.

This is a follow-up to the release of Smoking Gunn with Metropolitan Iraqi Tegu War between two different beings. This is more pensive. Stolen from each other is a contemplative reflection on life on the road, on the road, and the extreme ups and downs it brings. Oh, whatever. It's a good song. Here's the song Stolen from each other by Nova Charisma. Whenever I drive through your hometown, I close my eyes and hope to craft. But it's in vain

My mind knows these roads So I'll commit to loneliness Sitting in the green room This time though you're gone Saunted by the brick that we carved our initials On How can these surroundings Still contain your scent

Every corner of this state brings it all back again I have lost you But you're still a part of me You're still a part of me You can't get rid of you Because you're still a part of me We stole it from each other

Old friend Later that night, you entered my dream. I swollen shot. I can't hear what you said. I try to embrace, but you'd fade away. So I committed to loneliness. How can these surroundings still contain your sins? Every corner of this state brings it all back.

Again Again Again I have lost you But you're still a part of me You're still a part of me You can't confront you Because you're still a part of me

We stole it from each other An old friend Every time that I visited here Wish those moments would soon disappear For every place where we left part of us Leave it there Leave it there Leave it there

I have lost you But you're still a part of me You're still a part of me Yeah, that's right Yeah Because you're still a part of me We're still in from each other I have lost you

But you're still a part of me You're still about me You can't confront you Because you're still a part of me We're stolen from each other I want to kill everyone. Satan is good. Satan is our pal. But this is just a guess. We'll have to verify it ourselves. Ah, the further work of the fantastic Eric Van Skyhawk there. A little bit of a transitional music.

Brian, hey, that song seemed great and experimental. What was it? It was. Boy, this is an experiment that succeeded in creating great rock and roll. That's Nova Charisma from their upcoming album, Metropolitan. And that's the single from it called Stolen from Each Other. Nice. I have to check that out.

All right. We are, what are we doing? Oh, yeah. Bringing in Stephen. Yeah, I couldn't remember for a second. What day is it? I don't even know. I don't know.

weekend was crazy for me. So I honestly, it does not feel like a Monday. But I'm happy to be here on a Monday and welcoming this guy. Let's play his little intro. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dalla, doll of bills, y'all. He certainly is, but we love him anyway. It's Stephen Schleiker joining us from major spoilers.com. Hello, Stephen. Hello, Scott. Good morning. Brian. Good morning. It's nice to have you here. I feel like we haven't seen you for a bit. We've had some swap aroundage and stuff going on. So it's good to have you back. Yeah, kids are the worst, man. Yeah. They really are.

They really just cut into a doctor's appointment. They've got to go to this thing. They've got to go, you know, get braces put on. What a pain. What a pain. Who should let the state handle it, you know? Let them deal with it. Let them into one of them kids' homes that the states have.

Yeah. Well, it's good to have you here. I know you're ramping up for the new year. Are you excited about this year? Is there anything cool happening? You've got any, I don't know, big changes at the college? Well, not this year, but next year we are supposed to have like, Like, our department's about 200 kids.

You know, that's pretty good size. Yeah. But we're going to add like maybe up to 100 more kids next year because of this agreement we have with this school in China. So, yeah, it's going to be, we're not prepared for it. No. So wait a minute. It'll be like, what do you call that when the exchange student type stuff? Yeah, it's a three plus one program where the students do three years in China and then their final year they come to the United States and they complete their.

program here and they get a dual degree, one from their China Institute, one from here. A lot of schools will do two plus two, but this one wants to do a three plus one. Maybe because they don't want their kids staying in the United States that long and getting weird ideas and stuff. Is that it? I mean, they got a little, uh, I'm not going to get, I'm not going to get you in trouble with the Chinese government, Scott. I mean, look, there's a, there's a little bit of xenophobia on all sides, really.

Oh, well, I mean, yeah, there's also that question, right? because that's the thing that we're very concerned about is what happens in November, and will that radically change who can come to the United States from international places? Yeah, or how long will you, or will you, well, yeah, we could get into what would happen. We don't want to get into that. I'm trying to ignore the next four months. It's going to be hard. Yes.

It's going to be really hard. We could focus on, Brian, the next 21 days. Yes. Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry, 16 days. I was going to say 16 days, right? I'm so excited. So for people who haven't ever heard Brian talk about Marvel United,

the game from Cool Mini or Not or Come On or whatever, they're calling themselves these days. I'm a huge fan of that too, but people for years. Yeah. Yeah, have been asking for, hey, can you guys do a DC edition? And so last week, Cimon, Come on, released DC Superheroes United on GameFound. They met their goal of $200,000 in less than 30 minutes.

Of course they did. Of course they did. Their stuff just prints money. Their games just print money. Yeah, they do. The delivery part is the tough time because you are lucky because I'm so jealous of you, Brian. But you got your Marvel United Multiverse edition. And I'm less than five hours away from you.

And they're saying, maybe in August, maybe September. Oh, no, really? You still haven't received yours? That's crazy. Yeah. And I'm a low backer, too. I'm a super low backer of that. And I have not received mine yet.

So I'm super jealous of you. But, yeah, now D.C. Comics. Yeah. So. You too. I said she'd over there to stand next to the pile of boxes to make them look a lot smaller than they really are. I was going to say. She's like 4.11, so that would make it.

I was going to say, your wife is shorter than all of our wives. She should stand next to it and really impress everybody without bigger stag. Well, that's great. So now we got D.C. That's the question. Well, did you back it, Brian? I don't know if you did. I did not back it.

I, um, listen, I love D.C. And I feel like if I'm going to back any D.C. Heroes United Project, it's going to be this first one, right? Because it's going to be all of the characters you want, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, et cetera, et cetera. Instead of having to get like alternate World 14 Superman with a mustache or whatever that will come out in the future boxes. But I have, what did I come up with? I have so many damn figures to paint. Yeah, there's just not going to happen. I think I actually did come up with a number,

just of the minis I've got that need to be painted. 120 still left to paint in the first set. No, I take that back. 44 still left to paint in the first set. 140, 120 in the second set. And then brand new 139 from the set I just received. So, like 300 or something. thing, minis that I have to paint.

It's a lot. What's great is, now that I've got all three sets, I can start kind of grouping and saying, oh, well, all right, if I'm doing Killmonger, then I can also do Wolverine's Fang costume, because that's the same colors. And this other one that's got yellows and browns, a yellow jacket or something, and kind of group those into ones where if I'm airbrushing, I can airbrush the same color onto all of them at the same time. That's cool.

How are you painting your X-Men? Are you doing blue and gold? Are you doing Wolverine brown and yellow? Well, there's a set. So Wolverine, the Wolverine that I've done is yellow and blue, original costume Wolverine. Okay. But the second series, Marvel United X-Men, came with a blue and gold team in which you've got the Wolverine in their blue and gold costumes.

So it'll be the, I think that one came with. Let me see. Old Man, Logan. Did it just come with? I think it just came with Old Man Logan as the kick-starter. Yeah, so Wolverine, Weapon, X, Old Man Logan. So maybe it's the new one has another Wolverine. There's something that's got, I could have sworn I had another Wolverine that was going to be yellow and blue.

Maybe not. Or the yellow and black X-Men student costume. So I guess I've already done it. I've got the yellow and blue Wolverine. I'm curious about this DC United one because it's been going on for on Wednesday. It'll be a full week. They haven't crested a million dollars yet. It's only 800,000.

I personally think some of their stretch goal figures are maybe not figures I would have included. Like, you know, their very first villain in the stretch goals was Black Mask, which is a Batman villain. I was like, well, that's an odd choice to do. That is a nice choice, yeah. Yeah, but I mean, they've got Black Manta and Parasite and Gurley Grod and Despero and Steppenwolf and Rasha Gour. And the new one is Ocean Master. The last, I think, I don't know who that is. Marvel United one only did about $2.5 million.

So I'm curious if this one will get up to that height. I mean, it's DC Comics. They did release a Metropolis expansion set last Friday. So I would imagine that they're going to do a Gotham one. which will include more of the Batman family. They haven't done a green lantern core one, and that one will be interesting because there's no green lanterns anywhere in these sets. Oh, then for sure, that's a plan, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, and they haven't done so Teen Titans, they released. So I'm wondering how many. That was part of the original kickoff, yeah. Gotcha. I'm wondering how many Robbins we're going to end up with, right? Because we'll get Robin. We'll get Nightwing.

Yeah, so that's interesting because in the Teen Titans one, they do have Robin, and in parentheses next to his name, it says Dick Grayson. Sure. And so the question on Friday when they did their live stream was, oh, does that mean there's going to be a Tim Drake? Is that going to mean there's going to be the horrible Robin that nobody likes? Is that mean there's going to be, you know, like a Stephanie Brown version?

Right. I mean, yes, people like, people like Batman's Son. I don't particularly like that character, but there you know. Oh, right. Yeah. And Zan and Jaina and Gleez is the, yeah. The Kickstarter exclusives. I like to kind of like that, actually.

I know, right. You kind of want to get in on this, don't you, I kind of, there's a little part of me that does, but it's like I look at just how much I've got left to paint, and I'm okay. You don't have to paint them. I have to paint them, Stephen. I mean, you know, you also need something to do in your,

in your twilight years. If I start painting them now, I'll still be painting into my twilight years, Stephen. Instead of making fishing lures, you can paint minis for you. Right, exactly. Yeah. Well, I, so... Again, painting his minis. So do you think, you think that the lower...

What do you think it represents when they've got a lower, um, at this stage of the Kickstarter dollar amount? I think there's two, well, so here's the problem. I think they, they've got a twofold thing. Um, they have yet to completely fulfill the multiverse, uh, Marvel United set. So that has some people I know sitting on the fence because they're like, you guys are a year and a half behind on delivery of everything, including, uh, there was another thing that they really.

Oh, they're Darkness Rising, their Kathulu Darkness Rising set, still hasn't delivered yet either. So a lot of people are upset that they haven't delivered stuff and they're kind of cagey and they're always saying, oh, you know, shipments from China are being delayed. And that's across everything. The other thing is, I think this is their second project that they haven't done on Kickstarter. They've moved over to GameFound. And so I think that there's a lot of people who would have been over on Kickstarter that would have seen this and said, oh, yes, I want to back this. And they did send stuff out on their Kickstarter people saying, hey, we've got this other thing coming up.

But I think there's a lot of people, because that's what I did day of launch. I was like, I know it's coming up on July 10th, went to Kickstarter. I'm like, where is it on Kickstarter? And I had to go and look and find, found it on GameFound. So I think there's a portion of their audience that didn't realize this. And then I think the third thing is there may be burnout. I mean, here you've got Brian Ibit that's just like, I've got too many action figures to pay. Yes.

I can't do it more, even though Superman is much better than Captain America. I mean, it is a, but it is like, when you've got that many and you weren't even sure if you had all the Wolverines you thought you had, like you've got a lot, right? Got a lot, yeah. 300, 300 unpainted minis at this point. I'm not adding another. There's one more pitch for you, Brian. Yeah. The United System is a universal system.

Sure. So that means you can do a Superman Spider-Man team up against Lex Luthor and Doc Ock from the very first DC Marvel. crossover comic. You can do that. Super size, yeah. Yeah. I could. I could get creative

with the Execto knife and make the Amalgam universe even if I wanted to. You could do that? Yeah. Right now I was looking this morning, I was like, I need to make sure

that I do have all of the Marvel United stuff because they have released some direct-to-market stuff. They did an, like, enter the Spider-Verse set up to long. Yeah, Spider-Getting. And so I was making sure

that I had all those things. The good thing is, if you've got $300 to spend, in about a year from now, more than likely you're going to be able to find the complete Kickstarter set up on Amazon or eBay or Etsy or somebody like that. So, yeah, you can still go to the Reddit, the Marvel United thread on Reddit, you can actually pick up the existing Marvel United campaigns for pennies on the dollar. So, yeah, I'll admire these from afar.

Okay. Well, if and when I ever get mine, I will put them up online for you to look at. be jealous of. I will. I totally will. Yeah. I'm the same as you. I've got no more room for games.

This is only the second Kickstarter that I've backed, or the second crowdfunded game that I've backed this year. I haven't crowdfunded anything this year besides this and one other. So Tina used to say, no more t-shirts, Brian. You can't go out and get any more t-shirts because I'd get T-shirts with, you know, weird, weird shit on them. Baseball caps, she put the kibosh on those. She put the kibosh on pint glasses because we'd win those. the time from trivia and it would be like a really cool pint glass still have my botched pint glass though because i'm not getting rid of that one um she is now as of uh as of the as of the right after the photo

i took with her standing next to the marvel united boxes she's like no more board games so kibosh on board games for a little while until we finally play returned at our tower until we finally play some more marvel united we've got um uh we're working on mecks versus minions with uh the moors we're trying to get through that thing. Next Mick versus Minions is great. I think if it's the game I'm thinking of, this is the League of Legends one, right? Yes, yes.

It is great. It is great. I think especially, Scott, if you've got kids that are, they're still a little bit younger, your grandkids are, but I would say anybody who wants their kids to develop some critical thinking

and logic skills, mex versus minions is great because you are really thinking in a programming way, because you're programming your mecs to go and fight all these little things, and depending on how you lay your cards out, that will change the programming of the bot

as it's running around the board. So for people that want to get into STEM stuff, I know it sounds weird, but that's the kind of thing that I latched on to when we got our set and started playing it was that's a great game for maybe people who want to program stuff or just develop some logical thinking.

For sure. Oh, it's so great. Such a clever concept. And I think, you know, once we finish the game, I think I might sell it. So if there's a taboo out there was like, Ooh, I missed out on the Kickstarter for that.

Because once you play it, once you go through all levels, sure, you can go through them again, but it'll really help my case with Tina to get rid of a game that we've finished. I still have to get rid of Gloomhaven, too. Oh, yeah, me too. And Frost Haven. Do you have Frost Haven? I don't have Frost Haven. Tina, you know, we, Tina started hating Gloomhaven well before Frost Haven was announced.

So I tried playing that with my youngest a few years ago when he was maybe still too young to appreciate complex board games and we won the first one he was super excited we lost the second one he's like no I'm not playing this game ever again yeah that's kind of Tina was like because we beat our heads against like the third or fourth campaign in there and

tried it two or three times to get it and she's like Brian I never want to play this game again so I basically have a gloomhaven that just has the first couple stickers put into the book so hit me up on Discord if you if somebody out there is interested in buying

a slightly used gloomhaven. There's a market for that? I'll bet you could sell. There is. There is. And I'd rather go to a tadpuller than put it up on Facebook marketplace. Now they ship all those gloomhamehaving games with removable stickers. So you can play the game again or resell it.

Yeah. Yeah. And those stickers, they don't at all prevent you from playing the early levels. It's just like basically you discover a new location with those stickers. That's all it is. Yeah. It's going to like a track, like in a roguelike game. Can I, is Clayface in this?

I meant to ask that earlier. Not, not yet. Not yet. So my guess is, and I don't know what they're going to do with the Batman Pledge because there are so many villains in the Batman pledge or the Batman universe that they could do a megabox just of that. My guess is because they have Ray Shoghul and Black Mask as to stand-alone growth ones, that they're probably going to go with something like Return of the Sinicitor 6 that they did

on Marvel United where they're going to get a Rogue's Gallery box. Yeah, Roads Gallery box. Yeah, and they haven't even done a Flash one yet either. So we haven't seen well, Gorilla Gras, I guess, is the closest that you get to Flash right now. But yeah, yeah, they could do that. So no Clayface yet. That one would be interesting to see how they do that. Well, good luck to them on that deal. Yeah. Comic-Con around the corner. We've got some schedules and stuff. Do we know anything cool happening? How Hollywood is this year?

Is it going to be like a lot of... It doesn't, I haven't seen any Hall H stuff. They're probably going to announce that probably later this week if they haven't done it already. I haven't looked on the official Comic-Con site, but the publishers are certainly announcing a lot of stuff. For people who are fans of the Power Rangers, Mighty Morphan Power Rangers comes to an end at Boom Studios. I don't know if it's because their licensing agreement is up or what's going on with that. But the big run that they've been doing for the last eight years wraps up this year, this summer. And so they're going to be a big panel for that. If fans are big fans of Chuck Tingle, if you know who Chuck Tingle is.

He is an erotic fiction writer of some weird stuff, Scott, like dinosaurs, getting it on with people and that kind of stuff. Oh, that seems like a brand. I know, right? Wow. Chuck Tingle is going to, I don't know if he's going to be at the show, but he is writing a chapter in one of the boom studios of coming on anthology books. So some people might want to check that out when it gets there.

Of course, DC is going to be. there. Marvel is going to be there. Skybound entertainment for those people who don't know about Skybound. Skybound is the company created by Robert Kirkman, spinning out of image comics. So technically it's still an imprint of image. But that's where you have all your Invincibles and your walking deads and all of that stuff. They're going to, they're doing some pretty cool things with Invincible, not only with the animated show and other places, but they have a big art book coming out that people, I think, are going to be able to pick up at the show. I don't know that for 100%. But of course, you're going to have lots of exclusives and signings. And again, the main

reason to go to a big comic book convention, or really even a local comic convention, is go and meet creators and meet fellow fans. So if you're somebody who wants to go and you've always wanted to go shake hands with, I don't know, you know, the artist who does Uncle Scrooge comics, he's there and will happily sign autographs and draw pictures and that kind of stuff. You know, if you're a fan of Cullen Bun, he'll be at a convention. And so, Getting to meet those creators is always a good time. And I would always say that if you're going to go and meet a creator, whether it's a comic book creator or an artist or a, you know, a celebrity, don't be a dick, right? Because it's like, why are you going up and harassing these people?

They're just trying to make a buck. They are to get paid so little to make comics that you supposedly love. Why are you going up and harassing them at shows? So don't do that kind of stuff. Because people have parisocial relationships with people. and they behave poorly when they believe that about themselves. Did I hear you say something on TMS that you were doing? You were wanting to interview on OnlyFans, somebody or other?

Yeah, I'm thinking about it. There's somebody. That would be the big question to go into is the parisocial side of that because I think you're going to see maybe more of that going on in that space than maybe podcasting or comic book creators. Oh, yeah, guaranteed. You got guys who've seen you at your most intimate. and that I think in some brains to them would equal well we're we're together you know what I mean

like I can I think it's probably a real harrowing for especially for the big creators it's probably a really hard thing to manage if I had to guess oh I'm sure and then I would also besides the people that take off their clothes you might also talk to people who are just using only fans as another outlet like I think Jay Washington who's a comedian is using only fans again to promote his his stuff and I think Anna Akana no she has a Patreon page where she does her stuff but I was thinking about doing a frog pants one that was like completely normal frogpants stuff but I don't know what I would do on there like probably the same kind of stuff you do on Patreon I guess so but what do they want I mean I don't mean I mean it's just one other channel of okay now I'm creating

content over here what's a unique right what's a unique thing you could provide on a on an OnlyFans, even a G-rated OnlyFans page. Yeah. So I don't know what it would be. I can go PG-13. I'm right with that. Well, Stephen. Batman and bikinis.

That's what we want. Let's get into Boom Studios getting sold. Speaking of Boom, you mentioned them a second ago. Who bought them? Why did they buy them? What happened? Yeah, so I guess, you know, Boom Studios has been around for like 16 years at this point, 15 years at this point.

And at one point of 20th Century Fox had a small, ownership in Boom Studios. This was like before they sold the Disney, obviously. But Boom was doing some stuff in 20th Century Fox was a small part owner, which always brought up the question of, does Disney now own Boom Studios? These kinds of things. No, it was always owned by Ross Ritchie, the founder. And I think Ross Ritchie is just kind of done with comics. He's done running a business for 16 years. And he wants to step out. And so he sold the entire company to Penguin Random House, which is fine. I mean, big book publisher. They have international distribution outlets. They have a lot of good ways to promote, you know, hardcover collections, that kind of stuff. And so they announced last week that Penguin Random House bought Boom Studios completely outright. We don't know for how much or anything like that. And the other thing that's really interesting is Ross Ritchie is not sticking around. Oftentimes when you sell, you have the founder or whoever's in charge stick around for six months to a year to kind of make that transition. But he's like, no, I'm going to just retire. and go, go on vacations and whatnot.

So good for him. Yeah, I guess good for him. Like, you know, you did a hell of a thing. It's a hard market, very competitive. No, I mean, you have been around and I have been around, major spoilers has been around, longer than Boom Studios was around. Yeah. Boom Studios formed in like 2008, whatever it was, major spoilers in 2006.

So I remember seeing the early days and dealing with their PR people in the early days of, hey, here's who we are. We're a brand new company. And then just seeing them ramp up with Mark Wade coming on board, with the Irredeemable series. And then now they've got Keanu Reeves doing the Bersercerceries, which is a huge thing for them.

Carter's loves the Lumberjains. Yeah, those are in there. So they have done a lot of really awesome things over their 16 years. And of course, they're doing the Power Rangers stuff. So I hope they get to continue to do those kinds of awesome things now that they're under a new ownership. Yeah, I think so.

That's cool. You know, like get paid. You did good work. get paid. Yeah. Yeah. Well, there you go. That's all she wrote for today.

Major Spoilers.com is the place you can catch up on all this kind of stuff all the time. And Stephen, I'm sure there's something going on over there. So tell the fine folks how to get it. Oh, man. If you are not checking out our podcast, the Critical Hit podcast, we are getting into some horror times where we are punching, set in World War II. We're punching Cthulhu monsters in the face. You definitely want to check that out.

And I was just looking at my weather app a few moments ago, Scott. here in Hayes, Kansas, it is going to be 107 degrees today. Oh, my gosh, dude. So you better believe that when I go outside, I'm going to stay hydrated. Please do. Please do. Take care. Don't want you to dry up and die on us.

107, that's hot. Yeah. We have born out. It turns into a major jerky. Yeah. Major Slim Jim. Right. All right.

Well, well, well, done. That's awesome. A reminder that today the Monday show is early. it's at 3 p.m. Carter and I are doing it early because I have my mom's dinner thing and we have to leave pretty quick after the show's posted to make it on time. So an hour earlier than usual live here at frogpants.tons.tv at 3 p.m. or just catch the podcast when available. Everything else you can find about this show, you can find at frogpants.com slash TMS. And quick thanks to everybody who helped kind of clear out a bunch of stuff in the store. Currently,

the store, as mentioned last week, is shut down until we launch its new phase, which will start Wednesday. And I got something rad to launch it with on Wednesday. I'll tell you more about that when we get closer. But everybody is awesome for all your support. Thank you for that. We also made Taylor's last couple of weeks kind of a living hell because she had to ship a lot of stuff. Right. Scramble and ship it all quick now go! It was a lot of work, but she's very happy to do it and doing a great job. Anyway, that'll do it for us. Hey, Brian, let's play. song and go let's play song this one is going out to our friend from lot b and formerly well formerly lot b formerly landronics and formerly bat too uh gary says hey sword and buckler i'm turning

75 on july 12th that was just this last uh friday let's party uh 11 years since my first request of when i'm 64 if you can believe that thanks for a decade plus of good times let's have a caveman test the ship's phasers i'm highly appreciate of the audio production, however, Gary, Senior Geek Fisher. Oh, my gosh. Well, we should probably play at least one of those. Let's test the ship's phasers. There you go.

Cool. There you go. How about a birthday? You need a birthday. Oh, yeah. You know what, Gary? I'm going to change tact here, and you're going to get one of these. Let's party.

Although that cut out part of it. Hold on. Let's party. Okay, there we go. I don't know why that did that. Trimbed a little La party. La party. It's French.

Weird. All right, Gary, this is going out to you. He said cover of Neil Young's old man or Grateful Dead's Touch of Grey or anything else that I can find relating to 75. Your first one seemed like a great choice, and I love this version of it. This comes from Australia, a TV show that I wish I could see in the U.S. here called Rock Quiz. It's a game show with musicians, you know, popular musicians playing with Celerra, with, comedians and just regular folk, and it's all music questions, all music trivia questions. I wish I could see it here. I'm sure he can on YouTube and stuff, but anyway, they take the two musicians who are guests, and they have the two of them do a song together.

And in this case, it was Liam Finn, son of Neil Finn of Crowded House, and E.J. Barnes, probably daughter of Barnes. Barnes, Barnes, Barnes. What's his name? Barnes and Noble? Yeah, Barnes and Noble. Why am I not thinking his name? Anyway, incredible singer. Dude has an incredible voice and I can't remember his freaking first name to save my life. Anyway, they did Old Man by Neil Young together and it was really, really good. Here is E.J. Barnes and Liam Finn from The Beat Goes On Rock Quiz Duets. Oh man, look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.

Oh man, look at my life, I'm a lot like you were. Old man, look at my life, 24, and there's so much more. Live alone in a paradise that makes me think of true. Love lost such a cost. Give me things that won't get lost, like a coin that won't get tossed, going on to you look. Oh, now take a look at my life Oh, love like you

I need someone to love me the whole day through Oh, I look at my eyes and you can tell that's true Oh Rolabas, look at your eyes One round the same arms come Doesn't mean that much to me To mean that much to you I've been first at last

Look at how the time grows fast But I'm all alone and best Well, we're known to you Oh man, take you look at my life Like you I miss someone to love in the whole day through Oh, I look at my house and you can tell that's true Oh man, look at my life, I'm a lot like you're a lot like you.

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