The Morning Stream - TMS 2691: Cröonchy Stars

Episode Date: August 19, 2024

Lactive Shooter. Let's a Show Do. Active Milker at the Target. Just Another Panic Monday. Slam these jugs on the ground. The ladies like Romulus. Dunaway, living the retro life. Hind, a Deer, a Red-Tailed Deer. Riblettes Were Thrown. Herbal Verb Use. She kept on serving me. I Like Big Ash and I Cannot Lie. Store Credit, The Worse Kind of Credit. Beware 1970s Oil. Punching joker in the face with Stephen. and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Slam these jugs on the ground. The ladies like Romulus. Dunaway, living the retro life. Hind, a deer, a red-tailed deer. Riblets were thrown. Herbal Verbuse. You kept on. serving me. I like big ash and I cannot lie. Store credit, the worst kind of credit. Beware

1970s oil. Punching Joker in the face with Stephen and more on this episode of the morning stream. This is David Kaye, the voice of Megatron Beast Wars. Yes, excellent. And you're listening to the morning stream. Get up and terrorize. Maybe I ought to tie that long hair on your head to the short hair on your ass and kick you down the street. I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. This is the morning stream. Hello everybody. Welcome to TMS.

It's the morning stream for Monday, August 19th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson, and that is Brian Abbott. Hello, low, low, low. Yes, look at us doing the, doing Monday. morning TMS. I know. It's so good to be back on Mondays. Boy, it's been a while. Been a minute. Yeah. Since we had a proper Monday. I guess we only missed

one, but it felt like an eternity. It feels like a long time. And for those wondering how Monday the whatever Labor Day is. 12th. Oh, oh, Monday the second, September 2nd. Yeah, if you're wondering if we're here that day, we're not. We're taking it off. We're not. Just like last year. All right. Yep. We like

to celebrate the holidays. Typically take, we take off the barbecue. holidays. Labor Day Memorial Day. That's right. We got to spend some time with our grills. Yeah, that burger's not going to cook itself. That propane isn't going to go down to the station and fill itself. So unless you guys plan on doing it for us,

no show that Monday. But we got a ways off for that, so don't worry too much about it. Brian, I've been sitting on this all weekend. You told us you at least hinted on Saturday, or sorry, Sunday, that you had some big story to tell on TMS. And so I give you wide open freeway

access now. I appreciate that. Yeah. So, Saturday, Tina and I decided we were going to go out to this place here in town called Second and Charles. So you guys have your gray whale. We used to have a place called Media Play.

I think there was Media Plays all around the country. But Second and Charles is this store that has, I should see if they have locations across the country because they are fantastic. It's a giant book, vinyl record, CD, comic book, video game store. It's massive. And it's in the malls. We have one that's just north of us at Flatiron. We have one that's just south of us at Colorado Mills.

And they were having a special on, yeah, Hobbsdog gets at Best Store Ever. He agrees. I agree. They had a special thing going on on Saturday called Penny Page. So you go there and use books. We're only a penny a page. So I wanted to pick up, see if there were any Chuck Polonic books I haven't picked up and read yet. See about graphic novels, whatever I could find, right?

And Tina's going to look for some of her books. So we get in there. And it's in the mall. And it's one of these places that is kind of frequently used as an entrance and exit to the mall because it goes out to a very convenient part of the parking lot. and it's a big store. See, there's like a wide lane that goes right through the middle of the store into the mall and then out to the parking lot.

Okay. And I'm in there. I find a really cool X-Men graphic novel that I haven't read yet and this really cool coffee table book about Disneyland that's normally 40 bucks, but it had 300 pages in it, so I got it for $3. But it's like photos from like the first several years of Disneyland with Walt Disney walking around the Native American ride and the, you know, the cowboy ride and all that stuff before they, you know, got all glammed up.

And T and I split up and then we came back, you know, I'm kind of looking through the store and I see her and she's coming towards me and she's like, did you hear any of that? I'm like, no, what's going on? She's a bunch of people. She was really close to the window, the mall side of the store. And she said, yeah, a whole bunch of people came screaming. down the mall into the store, into Second and Charles, and then through the store and then out the door and they were yelling about a gun. Like, oh my God, really.

And I look over and the employees are already pulling down the metal grate to the mall to cut off access and like, you know, like immediately lock the store down. Like, oh, geez, okay. But I'm, you're carrying these books and I'm checking out. Like, I'm getting ready to check out, ladies like, yeah, I don't know what's going on. And she, boop, this is going to give me three bucks. You saved a lot of money on this. And, like, meanwhile, there's somebody over on this side going, hey, we're going, we're going to bring everybody into our back room.

If you are done in the store, go ahead and get out through the entrance. But if you're shopping, just please come into this thing. So I'm like, you know, hurry up and get the stuff checked out. And so I could go in the back room there and go. Yeah. Yes, Claire, she carried on serving me. She already had the, she was going, the register was already going and stuff before they started doing the announcements. Right.

Sounds like you were, I mean, you were right in the middle of it. It's not like, it was right in the middle of it. The gate was closed. Nothing was really going to happen. It's a metal gate. They could totally shoot through the gate, but whatever. But she carried on serving me and checking me out. Then we go in the back room and I'm kind of, that's where I'm back here texting the film set guys and saying, well, hey, this is something interesting happening to me today.

But check out these graphic novels I got. And I was, for whatever, he's just relatively calm about the whole thing. It's like, well, they had the gate closed down. I don't feel in any danger whatsoever in here. Whatever was going on was going on down the mall and that sort of thing. Right. And they're, you know, they're talking, you know, the people are like, oh, I think it might be an active shooter or something. I don't know what's going on.

And so I'm like trying to find any news on it on threads. none of us, sadly, none of our local police station, uh, police departments have threads accounts yet. They all have Twitter accounts or X accounts, but they don't have threads accounts. So I'm like, all right, hopping on Twitter and doing any search for information, can't find anything. And, uh, she says, okay, we're, we're, uh, we can't let people back into the store, but we have this back exit. If you don't need to do any more shopping with us, or if you don't want to wait it out or anything like that, you can, you can go and hop out through this back door, which will take you right out

by the side of the building to the parking lot. Just don't walk towards the target, because apparently whatever was happening was coming from the Target store. It feels like they'd have you... We're in the area. It feels like they'd have you shelter in place for longer. You know what I mean? Yeah.

If they thought there was an active shooter, it's like, well, just go out in the back in the parking lot where it's possibly you could get shot. Where the active shooter might have moved to? Yeah. Who knows? It's weird. So, well, and this may be, because At that point, they'd gotten the all clear. Who knows?

But we get out, we go across, we get in the car, we drive across the street to where we're going to grab dinner and we start looking for information. And then it starts coming out that it was a few kids in masks and robes who went into the food court and started throwing milk jugs at the ground, which caused these loud noises. People already freaked out and probably starting to take off because they're going to. there were these kids yelling with masks and robes and who knows what they've got going on. And they're not facing the action in the food court. So they hear these loud noises, which turns out just to be these kids throwing milk jugs on the ground and causing a hullabaloo.

And causing the entire mall to shut down for quite a while while they investigate this whole thing. Sounds like mission accomplished for the stupid kids. They probably got to go through what they wanted. We wanted mayhem. We caused some mayhem. but man freaking crazy as hell so hold on with these jugs

were they full length like gallon jugs of milk I have no idea I assume so I mean milk jugs they would have to be right or maybe those those court ones who knows I'm just trying to think how you like if you slam those hard enough on the ground I'm just trying to figure out how you'd make a sound that sounded like a gun right just I'm just making a loud pop or something

when they pop open but who knows yeah I wonder I wonder if there is like a YouTube channel associated with it. Some kids doing some stupid prank shit trying to get online, get some hits for it or something. I don't know. Did you ever hear any of the results? Like, do you arrest these kids or do anything like that?

They did. Yeah, they were able to get the kids. And this article, let me see what they closed by saying something like, two of the three juveniles were detained and have been cited for causing a public disturbance. Wow. So I wonder what that carries probably just a slap on the wrist and who knows off you go. Yeah. I had friends that would do shit like this.

So I'm not that, you know, kids are kids. Kids are stupid. But to do this at a time where, you know, mass shootings are real and the sound of what people think is gunfire in a public place. I mean, that's a lot of panic. It's a lot of freak out. Yeah. Claire, Claire says, they arrested the kids for throwing milk. No, Claire. They arrested the kids for walking into a.

crowded food court with masks and robes shouting and scaring people that way, I think, is probably more what it is, Claire, than just throwing milk. Well, yeah, a public, a public nuisance is, is a, you can arrest people for that. Absolutely. I don't know what, what, when you're causing, especially when you're, you're doing something that, that is usually the start to something far worse, Columbine or the, the movie theater shooting or things like that, all of these things that, that, that, You know, started with somebody with either a trench coat or a mask or both or tactical gear or something like that.

And you're in Colorado where those things happened, right? So if it's on people's minds, it's like a permanent fixture in people's minds if they hear shit like that. But also, if I walked into an Irish pub and threw milk on the ground, I'm guessing I'd get arrested there too. Yeah, I think so. You know, they don't, they're not like, oh, it's okay, it's just wasting milk, it's fine. What a funny plane kid just pulled. There's kids who won't have their cereal today No bluffing my shalini's off

Also, for the record, your second in Charles Apparently is everywhere, but not too far west It's lots of southern locations Yeah, we don't have anything out toward California Or us or Nevada or any of that But I think you guys are kind of the edge of it But there's like Columbus, Ohio, Chattanooga, Tennessee,

Bojure City, Louisiana. I've been there before. It's a great town. Augusta, Georgia, Auburn Hills, Georgia. Like you said, Aurora, Colorado, Columbine, not Columbine, Fort Collins. Yeah, they're all over. I want one. We don't have one. I like their orange logo. I know. You need them. They're great. And that's probably we're going to take my, I've got an Xbox 360 and a PlayStation 3 that I need to unload. Yeah. So I'm going to get rid of, get rid of a couple of those.

there you should poke done away and see if he needs a PS3 he might I'm sure I have no doubt that he's already got several probably still has the one I want to get rid of which is the original the PS3 fat oh the big fatty that one that one will do that one does PS2 and PS1 discs the old original

yeah and those are kind of rare you should get good money for that yeah it's just taking up space here yeah you definitely don't need it it would be nice to yeah But no, that's cool. That's good that it's better that it'll fetch a little bit more coin than the slim

that can't handle the backwards compatibility. Didn't realize that they all did. Just that one. They quickly replaced it with whatever the 2.0 model was. And it wasn't, they didn't change that. Like, physically it looked the same. It's just that didn't have the chip in there to do the previous games.

And people were mad. It was like a big whoop at the time. Yeah. People are ticked. They can get the original one. So I'll bet you'll get an extra couple hundred bucks for it for that. Oh, nice. Wow, cool.

So when you list it. This is, this was, this was day one PlayStation 3. This was, you know, me pre-ordering, getting it then with the memory card slots, with the backwards compatibility, et cetera. So I also put a new hard drive in there, but I should probably put the stock one back in just. Wait, your PS3 has memory card slots? They can't have memory card slots, can it? Doesn't it? No, PS3 had a hard drive in it.

It definitely has a hard drive. Did it not have... I don't think so. I could be wrong, though. That original one, maybe it had stuff I'm not aware of. But I'm pretty sure the... It's so far over there. I can't see it, but I'll look after the show and see.

Yeah, PS2 definitely had slots. Yeah, not a PS2, Claire. I could tell by the chat who's half listening to the show. Hey, somebody got arrested for throwing milk? That's redonculus. How does that happen? How does that end? Your country's crazy.

we got this email or this text i can't remember how we got it from paul savilia oh i like this yeah this is cool this is cool so we so brian and i both and done away and a lot of people i know went and saw the new alien movie over the weekend we're not going to talk about it or anything in particular i think people should go see it it's awesome but um this person said hi seeing the latest alien movie inspired me to ask what is the most wicked corporation and fiction how would you rank these evil corporations then he gave us a list so you got your wailing utani which which is your alien one, which is pretty, since it's fresh in my mind, I feel like it's top of the list, but it's pretty, I mean, yeah, it's, in almost every movie, the goal is to

bring back a xenomorph or bring back, uh, facehuggers back to Earth so that we can use them as a weapon. Exactly. They're, they're kind of the worst. Uh, but here are the rest. We've got umbrella corporation from Resident Evil. That's a good one. Got a lot of, that one got a lot of people killed and continues to get people killed. Vault Tech Corporation from the Fallout Universe. Tyrell Corporation from Blade Runner. Blade Runner, yeah. I mean, you know, they just wanted to make some...

It wasn't necessarily Tyrell that was the issue. Greed was the issue with Terrell, but it was more that the replicants became so self-aware they overthrew, right? Yeah. Yeah, and then... And then... And decided we don't want to... to be slaves anymore and like tears and rain yeah i feel like if you're going to love me anything against tyrell corporation it is that they played god basically yeah and went too far

well i mean look at this list yeah uh we got injun from Jurassic Park that's a pretty good one although the Jurassic Park one had noble beginnings the problem was is that they uh before they stopped to think of if they could. No, no. They knew they could, but they didn't stop to think if they should. Yeah, that's right. Let's see. OzCorp from Spider-Man. That's just one dude

is evil. Yeah, that's really just one guy. But I guess, you know, I guess it spreads from there. If your leader is a complete evil jackass, does that make the whole company evil? Well, does it, Tesla? Very good. Also, the

chat says Firefly and the alliance. The alliance is a government. I wouldn't count that. I mean, it's got corporate ties, but the alliance is not a specifically a out of control corporation. It's a, it's the ruling government. It's the tyrannical government, which is a different category. Let's see, by and large from Wally, it's a pretty good one. It's a little more lighthearted, but I like it. Cyberdine systems, that's a good one. Terminator, yeah. Sure. Although with all the time travel and shit, kind of messes it. Yeah, I know.

It's like, what, what, again, it was, it was just creating, um, robots that became sentient and took over that, that they weren't necessarily evil. They just were dumb. Yeah. I agree.

Soreland Corporation from Soylent Green. That's a good one. Nice old, old school one. And someone in the chat said the company from devs, and I don't remember the name. But, uh, that's a great one.

Dude, those people were psychos. What a cool show that was. That was really good. I'm going to rewatch that, I think, soon. never saw it she'd love it and guess who loved romulus my wife she freaking loved it and she's not

you know one for typical horror movies like if your movie's about some kind of psychotic like long legs she's not going to see that yeah no Tina's not either no Tina liked uh Tina like Romulus as well had the same like again loved 95 percent of i thought was fan freaking tastic and these last five percent is not going to spoil my enjoyment of the film there was just a an execution issue. Not that somebody gets executed, something different, but an execution issue on an idea I really liked and then another thing that I didn't like. Yeah.

I talked with TV's Travis over the weekend. He had the same two issues. Yeah, my issues were less about the second one. In fact, I felt like that was just done. Finally, it was done right. And that's what I liked about it. I'm trying to find, I have actually a photo of the guy. I want to show you this, not tell anyone else because I don't want to give.

this away. Spoiler. But I can't find it. Where the hell did it go? Shit. Well, I'll track it down. I could have sworn I put it in Discord. Anyway, so which one of these?

Oh, yeah. And somebody, the Rafe says, will the next alien movie be called Vulcan or Remus? Well, Scott pointed out that the video game, Alien Isolation, takes place on Remus. So there's some, correct. But there has been some correction thrown at me saying, well, we don't know for sure, but we think it's Remus.

And the reason that we think it is because in the movie, there are these telephone devices that are screens also. It's like video, you know what I'm talking about. There are times where they have to like communicate or whatever. They are, and the director has, you know, said this. He says those are pulled directly out of that movie. And so people are making these assumptions about, well, I think they were on the Remus half of that thing.

but some of the Wikipedia stuff about the game puts it in a different place or different system. So there's some confusion about all that, and I've tried to get my head around it since. But he was definitely inspired by Fetti Alarez, the director said that his whole inspiration for seeking the directorial position on this was him playing isolation years ago when he was working on don't speak or don't yell or don't talk or don't speak. What's it called? the one with the crazy guy in the house who's blind if he's talk he'll kill you yes i can't remember uh it's a great movie yeah i can't remember it anyway don't yell something like that don't breathe don't breathe don't breathe okay um anyway when he was directing that he was playing that and he was like i'm going to make an alien movie and sure enough he's he did

it and i think he did a killer job he did a great job i feel like it it um i haven't seen that but i feel like it borrows as much from that as it does from dead dead rising dead rising dead dead dead evil dead no no the the video game that um uh dead rising is a zombie one you're thinking yeah that's not dead rising what's the one where you're dead space thank you free rangers oh oh yeah it's a very dead space feel to to the stuff in the movie yeah i mean i would argue dead space you know well probably inspired by the original alien. Yeah, I think a lot of alien stuff. But my favorite thing about the movie,

again, just not a spoiler, but this adherence to the lo-fi tech of the original, love that shit. I had it too. It felt it. Blinky lights, everything's a switch. Video looks like shit. It's great. So happy when a prequel knows where it's time place is and that, you know, you don't all of a sudden start getting better tech than the, than the, the, the, the scene than the original movie. Yeah, it's really, really good. So do check it out. So I'd say out of all those, the most evil, man, whaling Dutani feels pretty high on the list.

But, you know, let's bring back facehuggers. And to me, it's more than that. They have really shitty conditions at all their minds, all of their business interests. Everything they run is bad for humanity. And they're bad at making synthetics and giving mortars. They're just bad. That's right. that's right

some of them have directives they're really bad at directives yeah they got an ash problem I'll put it that way got a big ash problem all right

let's get done away in here we're going to play a game where the hell I'm in the wrong okay because I was looking for that image here it is okay Donaway is coming

he's coming in hot I just know it I can feel it I just can feel it and as soon as he picks up we're going to play a game Hey, you guys, this means it's time to play a little half-asses with Brian Dunaway, who joins us now. Hi.

Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. What's going on, man? Hello. How are you? It's Monday. Yeah? It is Monday. Hey, do you ever go to Second and Charles?

There's one in your, in Greenville, it says here. Do you ever go to that story? No, no, I didn't, I know. I didn't know that. It's in Greenville? That's nice. Yeah. Second in Charles.

What the crap does that mean again? There's also one in Charlotte, North Carolina, but also, let me make sure that's right. That's too far. No, I know. Here it is. Columbia, South Carolina, and. That's close. It's about an hour either way.

Both of those are pretty good. So I've got to go here and experience a shooting as well as an active shooter situation. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. It was really, it's a lactic shooter is what it was. I'm curious because this looks like it was kind of. Drive by Milkening. Right.

This kind of looks like. It was like books a million or something. I used to go to this. It used to be another place or something. Yeah. They all kind of Spirit Halloween their way into things that were formally similar kinds of stores like media play or. And we never had Grey Whale out here, but stuff like that. You're just making up words.

Dude, Greywell's awesome. We have Greywell out here. They're great. Yeah, Graywell. I think great. As far as I know, Graywell is just a Utah thing, but went out there for a, on record store day. I was out there for record store day. I think when we were checking out

Snowbird the first time to decide if we were going to go there. Oh, yeah, right, because it was the morning that that I got driven to all of the different gray whales to find the albums I needed. So nice. Yeah. I can already tell this place is a bad place for me to go anyway.

You would freaking love it. It's all retro. It's like it's play retro as a story. Exactly. Do you know where Lauren's Road is in Greenville? Yes, Scott. I know where where I know where this place is actually once I looked it up. I'm like, okay, I know where that's Yeah, you should go and tell us what it's like. I want one of these stores. But I just, but I just sent you in the Discord server why I don't need to go. It's a mystery box and

a lady. She looks very nice and she's holding a mystery box and says 50 DVDs and Blu-rays. It's a mystery. What's in it, though? Yeah. I'll tell you what's in it. Junk. It's junk, right. It's going to be, you know, 14 copies of the Christina Aguilera single or something like that. No, it's crazy. That is a wild thing. They have these big boxes through the store in books, in CDs, and video games. And they're just blind. They're massive blind boxes.

And you pay X amount and you take all those home and you open it up. And maybe there's a few gems in there that make it worth it. Who knows? Look at the judgment on that face. That's like a drug dealer. Look at that. No, go ahead. Yeah, she looks like.

Yeah. She's somebody who wants you to take that thing home and be shocked how many copies of something shitty is in there. Maybe I'll pick one of those up and use it for prizes. That would be kind of fun, actually. It's pretty smart, actually. I like that idea, yeah. What if it's all, what if it's just 50 copies of six-pack?

What are you going to do then? There we go. Then I'll, then I will give away 49 copies of six-pack to TMS listeners. Nice. Every prize, it'll be, and a copy of six-pack. Yeah, yeah. I guess that's a good way to get rid of your inventory at a place like that. That's sort of good.

Yeah, really is. Yeah. Like, I've been thinking, if I had the time, and maybe I just need to hire somebody to do it. Maybe Tristan should do it, is go through my CD library and see what is available on Apple Music and put those CDs off to the side

because there's no reason they need to keep all these albums. I'm going to keep all my squeeze, all my Elvis Costello, all my crowded house. Stuff you love, yeah. Stuff I love, regardless of if they're available on Apple Music, but maybe I don't need to keep, you know, pocketful of krypton Night by the Spin Doctors. Maybe that one, maybe that one could.

And that'll be the only one. Because that's the only one you can think of, and that's it. There's no more. You're going to keep everything else. Don't take Don't away's advice. He keeps everything. It's all retro. His life is retro.

That's his life. And I'm surprised that you're not, I'm surprised you're not wearing clothes from the 90s right now, dude. Like, what do you have on right now? Just regular. I got pajamas. So, yeah, my footy pajamas with my underreuse, I'm not retro. You're retro. take that i did no scott does say like i live retro but i i think we've talked about it before i just

want to live any time that's not right i have a problem being now so i like i like i like being in the past i like being in the future it's just the now it's the now is some counseling yeah the now is hard i get it the now is hard no matter when you're in it the now it's hard you're there's a reason why my whole life people have said you need to learn to live in the now it's like yeah but i don't want to i want to live in 94 or the year 3 000 come on now yeah yeah yeah Either one. Well, it's good to have you here, ma'am. By the way, Brian, real quick, do you need an original PS3 fat that backwards compatible?

Do I need? No, do I won't? Sure. Well, what's it worth to you as the question? Because Brian's going to talk. We'll talk after the show. We'll talk, we'll talk. Will you give me more than Second and Charles would give you as the question.

Oh, my. I don't know, but I bet I can. I don't know what to see Second Charles. I bet they give you $5. Are they going to game stop you? Probably. Oh, God, I hope not. Yeah, probably.

And it's all store credit. Oh, yeah. The worst kind of credit. I'll get it for a big box of six-pack CD or DVDs. All right, anyway. Let's get into it. What do you have for us today? Brian.

I have. Why don't I read the, well, usually you do like Brian's going to explain it. Yeah. Welcome to the morning. Half-Ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct. and three, like Scott's cues, are incorrect. Depending on how confident they feel with the category,

they can provide one, two, or three guesses. But if they get any wrong, 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. We're going to add up all those points at the end. And the player with the most wins the prize for their contested. You're saying to yourself, who are these contestants, Brian?

Well, I'm going to tell you, you. Well, it is you. If your name is Jeremy and you live in Madison, Wisconsin, Scott's going to be playing for you. I can't wait. And I'll play for the whole city of Madison. That's fine. There you go.

And if your name is Richard and you live in Pleasant Grove, Utah, well, Brian Dunaways can be playing for you. Utah connection. This feels inefficient. It's not. I'm fine with it, though. It's good. You're going to be rooting against the guy from Utah.

Crazy. We'll talk about what those prizes are in just a second, but let's go ahead and get to the game. We've got three rounds. We're going to start with this first one right here. Types of sword. Which of these. Six things are a type of sword.

Your choices are Spatha, reaverter, Reaverter, Yeah, Reaverter, Cashata, Flamberge, Claymore, and Vorp. Okay, I got a question. This is Spatha. What? Oh, shit. Well, if your question is, are these types of sword, then I will say three of them are. Can they be fictional swords? Does it matter to you, Scott?

well it does because one of these is I'm going to say no because then it would be labeled the question would be labeled names of fictional swords okay okay so that actually informs something wow it's got impressed you there's a fictional sword on here

well there's one close to fictional sword and that's why I ask because it's a little confusing we'll get to that in a sec all right I'm no idea on the rest of these so I'm going to choose these two all right okay both locked in well you guys you didn't

Neither of you picked the same thing, right? You each pick two, and there are four things picked. The ones you didn't pick, by the way, reaverter is not a type of sword. Spatha, S-P-A-T-H-A, that is a type of sword. Spatha! Yes, this is Spatha, and it is a Roman sword, oddly enough. Your mom's name is Spatha? Mine, too.

That's right. Brian, you picked the flamberge. That is a sword with an undulating blade, undulates. I had to look up, by the way, I looked at three YouTube videos about how to pronounce it. Each one told me a different way to pronounce flamberge. That is a real sword. Claymore, also a real sword. Of course, that is a Scottish great sword, which means that Vorp is not a sword, even though it sounds like a Verpal blade.

That's the one. Yeah, that's what I kind of knew. That's why you were asking, but I don't want to give anything away. So you guys each picked one right and one rung, but it doesn't matter. If you pick one wrong, you get zero points. Claymore is the only one I knew for sure. There was a couple of these others. Like the Spath at once sounded like fake bullshit to me, but I don't know why.

It did. Totally did. Yeah. All right. When Megas says, and he nailed it, and he says, thank you, Diablo, too. I guess that's all in those three are in Diablo two, he says. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, they have a lot of, they go nuts on the, like, variety in there.

Yeah. So that would make sense. Your delicious shake has arrived. Yeah, I got some kind of protein deal going here. Thank you, dear. Fantastic. No point. Let's get to question number two.

Which of these are discontinued breakfast cereals? Oh. Your choices are. Dwarfies, crazy cow, cocoa chums, Agatha Crispies, flaky critters, and cronchy stars. Three of these are real discontinued breakfast cereals. Three of them are made up bullshit. Crunchy. Kroonchy stars.

Not only that. With an oomlot. Yeah, I was going to say there's an umlet on there. Sounds like a German. It's like a heavy metal band, really, not a discontinued cereal. The fact that it has an oomelow. All right. I don't know.

Boy, I want Agatha Crispy's to be correct. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right? Yeah. Oh, my gosh, I don't freaking know. These are all ridiculous. I'm going to choose, too, and just hope I got it. Okay. All right.

Neither of you chose Dwarfies. Dwarfies were a real cereal made by the Dwarfies Corporation from the 1920s to the 1960s. Oh, of course. You both went with Crazy Cow. Crazy Cow. Crazy Cow. Yeah, Crazy Cow was made by General Mills in the 1970s. If my memory serves me correctly, it would turn your milk weird colors and stuff was the whole thing about that.

I think that was a giving me. For your remaining choices, one of you chose flaky critters and the other one chose croonchy stars croonchy stars is the real one who was made by post in the 1980s Scott taking three points for that round. Look at Scott. Oh my god I didn't think croonchy stars

it's the umlaut that gave it away because I'm like why would Brian put an umlout in a fake one? It just didn't seem right to me. So that's why I chose it. I had no idea though. I'd eat a bowl of those. I'd try those. Some crunchy stars? I would. Why not? Sure. Why can't they just say crunchy though? Weirdos. What are you trying to

appease the Germans? What's going on here? Weird. Zajamans? Yeah. All right. Oh, by the way, those other ones did come from real sources. Agatha Crispy's comes from the Rob Zombie movie, House of a Thousand Corpus.

Coco Chums is a Berenstain Bears book and, or is in a Berenstein Bears book. And Flaky Critters comes from the movie The Groove Tube, which was kind of like the Kentucky Fried movie as far as far as being like a really

racy and R-rated anthology film made up of a bunch of parodies and things like that. Oh, wow. Don't forget so. Let's get to question three. Scott, taking the lead here, going into question three with three points to Brian Donnellys. Oh, they're strong. Zero. So you better, you better get some right here.

I'm going to pick one just to piss you off. Go ahead. That'll piss me off because it's like, you're not even trying. You're not even trying. What are you going to show up? Which of these are creatures hunted by Hercules? during his 12 labors. You can talk during the question, Brian?

All right. Remember I hear of Hercules, I get to say it. I know, I know. Creatures hunted by Hercules during his 12 labors. You know, that guy, he did 12 labors. Which three of these creatures were hunted during those 12 labors? Your choices are the serenian hind, the Caledonian boar, the Tumessian fox. Sure I'm pronouncing that wrong.

The Stimphalian birds, the Nemean lions. and the Colchian dragon. These all sound like horseshit to me. They all sound like the George R. Martin Fertz is what they are. What does the TC and Fox say? Do do, do, do, do,

but do, do, do, do, but do it be like, Dunaway, it'd be down like that. That's right. I'm going to go ahead and do one. I don't know. I'm locked in. now on one. That's it. Okay.

For all the marbles, Brian locked in with three, one of which was the Caledonian boar, which also happens to be one that Scott locked in with. That is... Not the father. Not the father. The Caledonian boar. Yeah, no, the three were the serenian hind,

the Stimphalian birds, and the Neemian lion. The Neemian lion was the first one I remember hearing about. So I was surprised at neither of you picked that up. I even want to say that he... He wore, like, that might have been the first labor, and he wore the, the, um, pelt from that lion over his, uh, shoulder for the other labors. And a hind is like a deer, right? Like a, I think it's a hound.

It's another way of saying hound, I think. Maybe not. Is that, let's say, a hind animal. Oh, uh, red deer, it says. Red deer, nice job. Female deer, usually, right? A female, a female. Oh, I thought a doe was a deer, a female deer.

That's what I thought. Yeah. This is all very confusing. Adult female deer called a hind. I guess a hoon, H-U-N-D is what I'm thinking of as the alternate hound. Well, if it didn't happen in Hercules in New York, I don't know anything about it. Right. That's the educational one.

That's the one we should all watch. Yeah. Well, well done to me, I guess. Very good. Yeah, well done to Scott. Congratulations. And that means that our friend from Utah, who's not Scott Johnson. Well, he's also losing.

Jeremy and Madison, Wisconsin, you are getting these prizes. shiny and eternity, the last unicorn on steam. But don't worry, Richard in Pleasant Grove, Utah. You're not going away empty-handed. You're getting through the woods. All three of those, courtesy of our friend, Lewis Loyo. Thank you, Lewis, for your contributions. You know what's weird about Pleasant Grove?

There's no grove that's, like, pleasant out there. Oh, really? I mean, it's nice. It's full of unpleasant groves or just, no, no groves at all. It's a nice area and everything. It's just, in fact, that place, you know, the VR place that became very popular and they did the Star Wars one

in Vegas. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The one at Venetian, yeah. Yeah, they're based in Pleasant Grove. And they have a really cool, I forgot the name of it, but they have a really cool installation there with all that VR stuff. Oh, the void, that's it. Oh, yeah. That's all in Pleasant Grove. And it's a very cool area, but I don't know of a single grove, let alone a pleasant one that's there. It was a weird name for a town. Anyway,

Dunaway, don't feel bad, but also do. that's for you this is for me and the Madison guy congratulations and Brian will be sending out the prizes Fort Tootley remind us what those did you already say what they were you did I did yeah shiny eternity the last unicorn

and through the woods nice through the woods is good actually that's a very good game nice well done everybody nice work Brian it's always good to have you here you'll be back Wednesday for a little bit more you know yeah yeah we'll be doing some guess what the tadpole said that we'll be doing yeah the hardest we'll say the hardest game of all time

will be on wednesday and uh you might you might have a chance i don't know but until then i'd like you to kiss our butts no no you all right bye well just for that he's not getting this PS3 just for that yeah just for that one just for that one right there um all right everybody it is 10 minutes till schliker gets here and that means we've got time to do the news It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. Scott, I hear the blue prosophy, uh, prosophy, right? I hear the blue prophecy game mats are on their way. Do you have a, do you have a sample you can show us by chance?

I do. Look at this, you guys. Look at this thing. Big 20 or whatever the size. I forgot the size. It's 24 by 14 inch. Beautiful, thick, rich, vibrant. Look how vibrant colors are.

Super vibrant. Yeah. The last shall be first. first shall be last. My daughter, who's now running my store, told me that we have exactly four left. Oh, wow. And that's after we doubled our order. So apparently these are quickly becoming a thing people want. So if you want one of those final four, go to frogpants. Frogpants.com. That's right. Frogpants. S-H-O-P. And you're in. Get them while they last. Four left. That's all there is. And they're on their way. So everybody who ordered one, too,

you'll be able to get yours pretty quick here. Very cool. Okay. Let's get to this story here in Berlin. I thought it was about the band Berlin. Oh, no, I'm bummed. I know. It's kind of a shame.

I know, right? She's the best. Berlin's rave the planet parade. You know, they're big on like raves and techno and all that over there. Yeah, yeah. Their raved the planet parade drew over 200,000 people, which the news is calling largely peaceful, so that's good. Oh, good.

Berlin's rave... No milk being thrown in Germany. Berlin's rave the planet at techno parade was largely peaceful, according to police. They said on Sunday, a day after hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in German in the German capital to celebrate electronic music and its culture. A police spokeswoman said 56 criminal charges were filed for offenses for sexual assaults and violence. However, 56 out of... of 200,000? That's not a bad, I'm not saying it's ever good, but you have a scale issue here that

that's a decent percentage, you know what I mean? Right. Yes, right. That's really low. Like, everybody would love that crime rate in their cities of 200,000 people. That would be amazing. Largely, that is, that does qualify as largely peaceful. Yeah, I would agree.

Article, you are accurate. Yeah, I don't know what the actual percentage is. I could have figured that out. But anyway, a total of 21 police officers suffered injury. during the parade, which moved through the Tiergarten Park. Tiergarten? Park in central Berlin between the Brandenburg

Gate and Victory Monument. Mid-high temperatures, medical services treated around 600 people for issues ranging from minor cuts to alcohol and drug-related problems, including seizures. So, yeah, you had a few of those. Still low percentage. Still better than Woodstock 99.

Yeah. Tiergarten is a zoo, says Italia. Is that true? That's cool. Like literally? or is just describing this event? Or is that word mean zoo? Maybe. I don't know.

Oh, I don't know. We are going to Zatirgarten to see the monkeys? Yeah. The figure was higher than last year's 500 interventions. So, you know, it's growing. They expected 300,000 people to attend in procession with 30 parade floats and around 300 musicians taking part in the event. But they ended up with about 200,000. That's still a lot.

That's a big old group. And I, look, I like my electronic music, Brian, but I don't know if I'm going to a big sweaty 200,000 person thing for my music, you know? No, no. I feel like, no, the smells, you know, is COVID a situation out there, probably, right? Yeah, I would assume like this could have probably a super spreader event of some sort. I found out, oh, this was a, so people know I went to Blizzard. I went to Blizzard and while I was there, I wanted to see certain people.

that I haven't seen in a long time. Sure. And one guy in particular, Wyatt Chang, who works on the Diablo team, one of my favorite people. He listened to the show for years, nicest guy. He's the one that took all that shit for announcing Diablo Immortal on stage. Everybody gave him crap for it. It's not his fault. It's a freaking messenger.

Yeah, exactly. He didn't completely create and publish that game. No. And he just got piled on unfairly. It was not nice. um yes hobbs dog the phone guy he's so much more than that he's been one of the nicest human beings and people couldn't have been more rude to the nicest guy he's so nice yeah yeah anyway so i was like sweet i get to see i get to see wyatt let's i get to meet him you know i've seen hobbs dog

you can also call brod the phone guy because uh you know uh heartstone can be played on mobile so yeah yeah he just it was on it was absolutely unfair i mean i wasn't happy about immortal either, but I wasn't about to lay it all on Wyatt. That's stupid. Right, exactly. So he's super nice and I thought, great chance to see him. I haven't seen him since like BlizzCon 2018. In fact,

I think that was the year that he announced the Diablo Immortal got announced. So we're trying to track him down. Randy's helping me try to track him down. And he was home, not with COVID, but somebody on their team had gotten COVID. So everybody

that's the rule there. If you somebody on your team gets COVID. Anyone with interaction with that team quarantine for however long. So I really like that. It's a good policy to have at your company and they're all working from home. But I was sad

because I wanted to see him and I couldn't. That was a bummer. So that means I had to see people I didn't really care about seeing. It's not true. The fruition of that thing should be in the next couple of days, so keep your eye out for that.

Very cool. I can't wait. Yeah, it's going to be good. Uh, let's see here, a woman arrested in Indiana's Applebee's, or in Indiana Applebee's, I'm sure there's multiple, after an argument over, quote, all you can eat deal. Yeah. You could just see where it's going, can't you? I'm assuming, I haven't not read the article, but I'm assuming I can see where it's going. Says here, the woman, aka wife, to previous vice president, uh, Mike Pence. Just kidding, it's not true. When I think of Indiana, I think of Mike Pence for something.

Yeah, you think of Mike Pence. Yeah, sure. Sorry, everyone. I used to think of David Letterman. Then I used to think of the Indy 500. And then I thought of the Pacers, but now I think of Pence. Anyway, a woman is arrested in an Applebee's restaurant in Portage. This is in Indiana, a little town there. Earlier this month after an argument occurred about the All You Can Eat deal that the company does.

The 28-year-old woman was arrested on August 2nd in charge with disorderly conduct, kind of like our milk people from the pre-show. That's right. Or early show, rather, not pre-show. according to an arrest report obtained by USA today. The milk was thrown here, too, at the Applebee's. Oh, they probably, yeah, I mean, you might have. Ribblets were thrown, Brian, riblets.

Riblets were thrown. The Oriental chicken salad was thrown, and that's really the best thing you can get at Applebee's. The rib basket and that salad are the two, they're two amazing things. Yeah, yeah. Everything else there? Yeah, the riblets I have a problem with,

because sometimes they're cutting process of chopping up those riblets, gives you little tiny pieces of bone and cartilage that you think are food, but they're not food. Don't eat those. No, you're right. That's a good point. I'm always very careful about that,

but I also kind of like fat. And so when a little piece of cartilage is part of the fat, I'll allow it. But my wife thinks that's really gross. We're literally that couple in the song. Jack Spratt. Yeah, except it's flipped. So Jack Spratt would eat all the fat and his wife would only eat lean.

Yeah, when I have wings, it looks, you know, you do not see anything but a pile of bones left on the plate. They're, you know, if it, if it can be chewed, I've probably eaten it. Same. I love it. To me, that's like a corn cob. You best eat all the corn. Don't be given, don't put the bone down with a bunch of stuff. Don't leave those little tiny, malformed kernels on the corners on the edges, the two ends.

No. Yeah, what are you an animal? I don't know who we're talking to out there, but you know who you are. I don't know either. Yeah, I didn't know who they are. Yeah. Anyway, says here that she was reported or arrested for verbal abuse. Dispatchers advised responding to officer, or sorry, sorry, the responding officers,

they had heard multiple females screaming and threatening people. One of the officers wrote in his report when officers arrived on the scene, they were met outside by multiple adults, including a woman who said they had been involved in a verbal altercation with the Applebee's manager. I'm trying to get to the point where they tell me what she was mad about. here we go it says the all you eat deal in question

all you can eat deal in question offers endless boneless wings riblets and double crunch shrimp served with endless fries for 1599 a person damn it that sounds like a good deal right now it kind of does yeah oh Brian I kind of want to go to

I can't believe I'm saying this I want to go to Apple please no Tom Norm in the chat says he hasn't been to one a very long time but they went really they went downhill really fast quality-wise. So, yeah, so maybe it's not so good. But, geez, that is kind of a crazy deal.

It's a really good deal, and she just kept, you know, going. It says here, when the manager in front of the table it was not the case, because she thought it was $15.99. For everybody. Everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Hello.

It's kind of ridiculous. What place would say, however many people you can fit around the table, it's $15.99 total for everyone. I think that she couldn't be more in the wrong in the history of her life. For sure. Yeah. Why on earth? Who would think that? Nobody's smart. I know a lot of places, they do require. There's a great crab boil place that has an all-you-can-eat deal that is insane. Because I just go there and I'm like, all right, let me start off with two dungeonous clusters.

Thank you very much. And then we're going to go from there. But their requirement is that everybody at the table must have all you can eat. Like you can't, you can't have, well, Tina's just going to have a salad. And then I'm going to get all you can eat and just kind of like flick a muscle over it every once in a while. This is like the place in the hotel in Vegas that make, they don't do it now, but they used to make you pay if you were going to split with somebody, you had to pay extra or whatever. Oh, Hash House of Gogh. Yes, the plate charge, which nobody, nobody who goes to Hash House a Go-go, well, maybe somebody, is finishing their entire plate of food because it is, it is more than a meat. It is more than anybody should be having for a single meal.

It's ridiculous. And it's perfect size for two people to share a plate of food. Yeah, and I did notice last time they stopped doing it. I mean, they didn't charge us last time we were. When I was with you, in fact, came and I split it. They didn't charge Tina and I either. It was perfect. It was great.

Because then it's like, perfect. We'll split this. And if we want a little sweet thing, we can get, oh, let's do a side of a muffin or pancake or something. And we can split that too. I'll bet they ran into so much just irritated customer resistance that they I'm sure. Drop the policy.

And it doesn't help that the plaza has fridges in some of their rooms. So you might be tempted to take that half plate home or back up to your room and shove it in the fridge. I bet 99% of those people never eat that styrofoam container full of hash house a go-go. And the plaza staff had to throw out yet another, yet another styrofoam container full of food, forgotten food. Yep. There's probably, yeah, a lot of that going on. But I, man, all this food talks are killing me. I'm so hungry today.

I'm so hungry. I see you really, really hitting the protein shake hard. I mean, I'm halfway done, but it's not going to be enough. I know that. You're really putting the fast and slim fast. Yeah, no kidding. All right, we are going to take a break when we come back. Major spoilers time.

We've missed Stephen terribly, so he's here again today. I know. What a day to take off right after the, right after the Comic-Con announcement. and stuff true enough so we'll do that comic con d23 the 23 yeah and i think there has been a comic con new york or something right or something else is there since then i think yeah gamescom i think is uh right now right now yeah yeah i didn't i haven't seen any of those announcements you i don't need to get on that so we'll be getting dan on here pretty soon talk about all that business oh well anyway uh all that coming up after this break brian's gonna now tell us about a song he's gonna

play yeah i'm gonna play this song with my bare hands and i don't mean my b a r are E hands. I mean my RAR! Bear hands. That's the name of the band, by the way. Bear hands. They have a brand new single called Adderall slash Ambien. You don't spell out the slash. It's just the typographical mark.

This comes from their brand new album, which comes out October 18th via Cantora Records. That album is called The Key to What? These guys are great. They're going to be touring all the way from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. So, go see them if they come through to your town.

The song is called Adderall Ambien. Here are Bear Hands. be enough. Stolen from the suit and clothes. Flindstone tab, it's chewable. Kids were the future ones. Now I'm feeling futures. You're rolling in, ticket from your parents' grill. And you're rolling in be in for every young American. Strip, man, what I need of all I want, Ambien and I want. Have you all an ambient?

Take you from your parents' crib. I'll be all an ambient for every I'm American. Headman, head strip. Her office at the strip, ma'am, what I need and what I want, Ambient and that you are. No hole in your face, won't you get there? Sadrash My phones did

Sire My phone's died Just like I are Every roll and ambient Take you from your parents' crib Every wall and ambient For every young American Head down head should

Office up a strip Mom What I need and what I want Ambien and I do all Cairns in turn all Turn all Tuckins Park Golden Plain on Texas A lot tomorrow I think you turn make it down fall up on it

The drug won't betcha with a purple heart Had it all an ambient D-K from your parents' crib Add it all an ambient Fool every young American headman Headshanko off reset the strip ball What I need and what I want Ambien and add a roll

Have it all an ambient Taking from your balance I'm going to end up To be able to end now flexion Go office of the strut know What I need I'm on motorway Ambiena than I want

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And we returned. Brian, who was that again? That was Bear Hands. Their brand new single is called Adderall Ambien comes from their new album. It comes out October 18th. It's called The Key to What? That's a pretty bad combo. Adderall and Ambien at the same time is like fire and water.

It's like one's an upper stimulant. The other one is a major downer. They're going to cancel each other out. Yeah, you'll just be neutral again. What do you want to do that for? But I like it as a name. All right. What are we doing here?

We're going to add Stephen Schleika. Yeah. Schleika. To the program. Here we go. Schleika. Stephen Schleika. Let's hope is...

Who pointed out, by the way, that AIM is a far more devious and devilish company than OzCorp. Oh. Oh, I agree. Yeah. Because Oscorp really was just about the downfall of a dude. Right. It was really just, you know, it's just Norman. Norman.

Norman? And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge. freaking nerd dollar dollar bills y'all yeah man it's stephen schliker joining us uh as he does often on mondays to talk about the world of geek uh culture comics movies and more hello stephen welcome back hello scott hello brian hey your thing's working there's no delay or cut out you're awesome this this computer is on its last leg there were there are so many problems with this thing so you can bet i've been like is this this working is this i'm sure you have yeah well you sound great

Yeah, Brian, I'm really sorry about what happened to you over the weekend and in these dumb kids. And I sit at the dinner table and I read these stories and I look across to my 17-year-old son and I'm like, man, I hope you don't do dumbass stuff like this. Right, exactly. And the last time I said that to him, there was a pause. And he said, um, okay, dad. And I had to then say, okay, what did you do? Right, what are you now not going to tell me that you did that it sounds like is on the level of...

He said, I think it's been long enough that you won't get too mad. Oh. Apparently, a few years ago, one of his friends' parents was out of town and the kid was home by himself. And so a bunch of his friends, my sons and his friends, decided that they would dress up in, what's the game where you you play the Suss character and... Oh, Among Us. Among Us. Among us.

So they decided to dress up in Among Us costumes and scary clown costumes and go wander around this kid's house at night. Oh, geez. Outside? Outside the house or inside the house? No, outside the house. Yeah, there's nothing that could possibly go wrong in a neighborhood with seeing a bunch of scary clowns wandering around a house outside.

No, but the kid got freaked out enough that the cops got called. And the cops, uh, the cops. had a stern talking to to the boy and his friends. Good. Like, you got to scare him a little bit, you know? I guess. He showed me a video of him trying to run away, and he was wearing one of the big costumes.

It's really hard to run in those giant shoes. It was quite funny. Well, that's the thing about the today. The revolution is literally being filmed. Like, you're out there with phones and stuff. So the kids today are all getting their stuff on camera. When we were kids, we didn't film any of that shit we were just like we're going to toothpaste this guy's windows giant VHS camera that we couldn't carry around yeah yeah over the shoulder one oh man that thing sucked yeah but um so my brother and his friends burned down a 7-11 and um oh gosh yeah his confession day yeah I think I've talked about this before a bit he last second had to bail for some reason my brother did but all of his friends followed through on it what happened they weren't trying to burn down the 7-11 they were trying to just cause a ruckus

and by doing that, they put a cherry bomb firework type thing inside of a bag of lays potato chips. And the idea was that it would just go, bam, and everybody would have a good laugh. Not a big deal. Chips would go everywhere. Well, that happened, but the chips were on fire

because the oil and the... Grease and the 70s is not the same as it is today. It's very flammable. And it spread flaming chips all over the 7-Eleven. The employee just ran out of there, didn't do anything. And the thing burned to the ground.

So all of those guys... all those guys, some them are 18, so some of them got like charged as an adult, all this stuff and they weren't charged with arson because it wasn't intentional arson, but anyway, a bunch of stuff that's on their record now. And my brother was like, whew,

missed that bullet by a second. And here's the best part. That 7-Eleven location, what got rebuilt and is still there. Is it the mouth of... Back to being the 7-Eleven? Oh. Yeah, and it's at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon, which is kind of the way you go up to all the, like, Snowbird and everything. Yeah, snowbird and all

and stuff, yeah. And that is the, still to this day, the highest traffic location for all 7-Elevens in the country. And it was then, too, because people just going up there and grabbing shit on their way out there, get snacks, get drinks, you know, it's just constantly full of people, which is why they targeted it in the first place, because it was going to be full of people, idiots. Anyway, it's back now and everything's fine. But my brother missed that bite this much. He would have had an adult record because he was 18.

He would have been screwed this whole life. Yeah, no kidding. Oh, my God. So don't do that. Yeah, me and my friend Don Mosby got stuck in Longmont overnight one night, uh, catching a bus early the next morning and he had a big bag of fireworks and we decided, hey, how fun would it be to fire these into the Twin Peaks Mall because there were little cracks in the, in the doors. There were doors were locked, but they had a little space in between and we decided,

let's fire some bottle rockets into the mall through these doors and something bad could have happened. Fortunately, nothing did happen, but we did get chased by the police that night. Oh man. Did he have a all over a lung month? Do you guys call him Moes or have a cool nickname from No we called him I mean he just he went by Donnie and we just called him Donnie.

Do you ever say damn it Donnie shut up Don't like do like Big Labasker Donnie you're at your element Donnie you don't know what you're talking about I want a friend named Donnie so I can do that All right well Stephen it's good to have you here and I'm glad your son isn't up to too much trouble That's the key here

Let's talk about DC's Absolute Power and the new series coming. I think this sounds great. Yeah. So if you, and this may be coming up probably in the month or two for those of you that are on the DC Unlimited series. So there's this storyline going on right now Mark Wade

is writing it called Absolute Power in which Amanda Waller decides that she's had enough of all these superheroes and she is basically declaring martial law with her in charge and trying to take out all of the, all of the heroes that she can. But once this event is over it's it's rather interesting i think a lot of people don't care for it but once

this is over they are going to launch another dc comics line called uh absolute dc the regular comics that you're reading if you're reading batman superman all that stuff those will continue but this absolute line which is kind of led by uh scott snider is going to take what are the core component that make up a Batman, a Superman, a Wonder Woman. And what happens if those characters never had access to those things? So if I were to ask you... Almost like a what-if kind of thing? Like, are these...

Kind of. Yeah, you also want to think of it as maybe an ultimate line, but they don't want to call it ultimate, so they're going to call it absolute. So, for example, if I were to say, what are three things that when you think of Batman, that kind of get to the core of what is Batman? dead parents access to a lot of money to build weapons and and cave yeah pretty close so you need those three things to be Batman yeah so here's here's the here's the tag for absolute Batman number one written by Scott Snyder with art by Nick Dragata it's without a mansion without the money without the batman or without the butler what's left is the absolute dark night oh interesting okay so was he just sitting it's sitting around on

on his couch eating potato chips or what was he do? Maybe, I mean, it's, it is a poor guy, you know, not a man of means, who has to go out and become the Batman. So maybe what is, what is the average Joe Batman? Yeah. Yeah. That's interesting.

Any one of us, although I'd be more like the tens of, of Monies, Batman. I'm just glad they've moved away from having everything labeled Crisis, this crisis, that crisis, this other crisis, and now we've moved on to Absolute. Oh, are they going to have an absolute crisis? at the end of this uh oh they they might who knows yeah so let's do absolute superman number one it's

written by jason aaron with art by raffa sandoval what are the three things that you would think they would take away to make the absolute man of steel well kryptonian birth um okay telephane ass on his chest i mean i mean that was do the whole if he's just not born on krypton you're done that's no there's no superman if you do that it's not that so it's without a fortress so no fortress of solitude okay without the family so no mom pa kent without a home, what's left is the absolute man of steel. Okay. But he's still from crypto.

Yeah, he's still going to be an alien from another planet. What if he was raised without the morals of good Kansas farm families? I feel like the purchase of solitude. He'd still be the same guy if he didn't have the fortress of solitude. It's not like he goes there to refine himself, recentered. I mean, he does, but he also goes there because that's where he keeps all of his Kryptonian heritage stuff, and he can communicate, you know, with the crystals and all of that thing.

Right. And then the other one that's launching, all of these launch in October. So we're just a month or so away. What about Absolute Wonder Woman? This is written by Kelly Thompson with art by Hayden Sherman. All right. So let's say she's still Amazonian. So she's still Amazonian?

It's almost right there, Ryan. Is she still Amazonian then? That origin stays, right? She comes from... It says without the island paradise, without the sisterhood that shaped her. Sisterhood, okay, sure. And then there's one more.

Without her golden lasso. Without a mission of peace. Oh, okay. It's even better. I like that. The only thing that's left is absolute Amazon. Now, I will say that there is an event that is kicking off with a Justice League series that is going to kind of bring all this to the forefront. And let's just say that if you've got a Justice League, the thing that I feel is a little bit overused these days in comic books with the Justice League is the return of Darkside. And apparently Darkside is going to unleash one of his omega beams so harsh that is going to literally fracture the DC universe.

And that is where we get these absolute characters. So if you think about what are the things that Darkside could do, we kind of get a hint of that. And this all kicks off, like I said, in October of this year. And we'll continue, hopefully as an ongoing, if it is well received. But these will be two separate lines. So if you're like, man, none of that sounds good, just give me Batman punching the Joker in the face. Guess what? Batman, Detective Comics, all of that.

All Joker punching in the face all the time. Okay. But if you want, maybe something different, then you've got this absolute, absolute power, and absolute Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman will be the main kickoff titles for that line. Well, I'm, I like when DC does events. I usually am kind of into it, but you don't think this is like a, a universe-altering new 52 style reset type of event. No, because they are definitely keeping their old line.

So this is just another multiverse title. And I also hate that DC is like, we have the multiverse. No, we don't have the multiverse. Oh, we have this black labels title. Maybe we still have it. And there is a really cool, I think, Black Canary Black Label title coming up. But this will be just another kind of imprint line of DC Comics. Okay.

Well, I'm in. You said something about it being DC Unlimited, this Waller story? No, no, it's not an exclusive, but I know that Brian is not somebody that rushes out and picks up physical copies of comic books. And I know many of the listeners are probably on a DC or Marvel Unlimited line. So some of this stuff is about four to six months later. But if you are somebody that wants to get in on this stuff, like right now, go check out your local comic shop. I do this thing where I subscribe to either unlimited or ultimate about six months at a time. And then I get off for a while and just sort of had my fill for a bit.

And then I'll go back another six months later and do another six month run. Works really well. If you're not somebody who just needs to go out and get the latest thing at your shop, like the week it comes out. I think these digital services are pretty good. And also DCs is cheaper, which I like that. The Marvel ones too much money per month. Well, all right then. This is great. Also, oh, you mentioned it. The DC United wrapped up with 4.5 million. Tell me about that. What's going on with that? That was, I didn't think I was going to get up that high, but they started unleashing a bunch of really cool sets and exclusive figures that could only be gotten through the Kickstarter. I think the one that everybody that really kind of flipped it and got it over the top was its Conqueror pledge, which includes the base set, all of the expansions, all the Kickstarter exclusives.

But the Conqueror series comes with a giant Starro the Conqueror figure. I see that. Oh, my gosh. Look at that. It's kind of like their Galactus, their equivalent of Galactus from this. Yeah. Wow. That's really cool.

They have a lot of good stuff. The one that everybody was waiting for was Green Arrow. I think he came in at the very last. He was the very last character introduced. They've got a lot of great villains in this. The question now on everyone's minds will be, will we get this in the next two years or not? Because, Brian, I still have not got my Marvel United Multiverse set yet.

And they're saying, they're telling me maybe the middle to the end of September. Jeez. Oh, my gosh. Even though Mexico, New York, Denver, they're all getting their sets. And me, who is an early pledge person, yeah, maybe you're on this boat and maybe by the mids end of September. Do they know who they're messing with? They're missing with major spoilers. That's a, you know, it's fine.

It's really in how they, it's how they ship it. So apparently Denver is the cutoff for West Coast stuff, and everything else then becomes East Coast shipment. So the Denver stuff came in, or the West Coast stuff came in. The international stuff is separate, but now all the stuff the boat has arrived, or one of the boats has arrived on the East Coast. And so they're slowly starting to get out the East Coast stuff. But apparently I'm in wave three of East Coast shipment, which like I said is mid to end of September. Yeah, because he's Kansas, totally East Coast. Totally.

Yeah, maybe they did that. Maybe they looked and said, hey,'s Kansas, that sounds remote and lame. It might be easier to ship from, like, New Orleans or Dallas or something like that. But I would say your dividing line should be the Mississippi River. If you're the rest of the Mississippi, you're in the west. If you're east of the Mississippi, you're in the east. Yeah, I agree. I don't know.

I've never dealt with Kickstarter major deliveries of these kinds of things that have to come from China, so I don't know what the deal is. But I'm kind of pleased that everything we're getting in this wave one, and that does set up the possibility that, come on, we'll do a season two of D.C. United. Yeah, I really like the art style on this thing. It looks awesome. Yeah. I love their minis are great. I like that there is arm fall off boy.

That's the character that is also, like, it's called something else in the Suicide Squad movie, right? Yes, but that's the reason why it's included in this, because when I saw it as like, oh, great, we're going to get a Legion of Superheroes. And then everyone's like, nah, it's a, it's a suicide squad thing. And I was like, how? No, it's the, a Phillyan character, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Their minis, I mean, like, I'd be tempted just to get a box of their their minis because their minis are just so cool, whether they're Marvel DC, it doesn't matter to me. I have, start working on Drax from the Marvel United series, but I also grabbed the zombies and the crisis protocol. So I have all three of those versions of tracks. And so I popped them all in the airbrush thing and started painting all three of them at the same time because they can use the same colors. Might as well, you know, do these as a group. I think Jeff Sire was the one of suggested that.

That's good thinking. Yeah, wait until I get to Deadpool. I think I have between all the different versions of Deadpool that have come out in Marvel United and zombies and Crisis Protocol, I probably have 12 Deadpools to all paint at the same time. You've got enough deadpoles for the movie reenactment and all those deadpoles. I could. I can actually do, yes. Now, do you enjoy playing the Marvel United game or are you just in it for painting the miniatures? No, the game is great.

And it's one thing that I didn't have a hard time getting Tina to play because it changes up enough with the different powers. We did the Sinister Six fight a little while ago. We played it once with four people. No, twice with four people. Way more fun with four than having two people manage two characters each. Are you a fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? I am not.

Oh, okay. That's too bad because I was going to say, there is a fan-made version that you can go or game somewhere, where someone has made all the cards and the villain decks and everything for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle's theme. And then there's a person on Etsy who has, based on those designs,

made some cheeby characters. Oh, that's cool. Printed those out that you can order. So I have ordered the 3D Cheebies and I can't wait to try that. That's really cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are they based more on the, like, the OG turtles or more of the more recent, you know, it's more of the more recent stuff.

But it's all in this little cheeby design. So you know it's kind of cartoony to begin with. Right, right. That's cool. Oh, yeah. It's definitely more of a feel from the television show, the original animated series than from comic books or the more recent movies right yeah they're less frank miller looking and more yes yes um there's a new animated thing too i know the movie uh obviously

that just came out as i think streaming now but there's a is it on amazon prime that there's a new series an animated series for turtles um i don't know about that one tv show i know there's a new batman series on prime oh man that is a good show i hear it's good yeah the noir it's really really good I'm into it. I want to watch it. Here it is. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I don't see anything that's new new.

Nothing newer than 2017. Maybe it just, maybe the 2017 series. It looked like it had the feel of the movie, which is what surprised me. But maybe that's what's, oh yeah, this 20, yeah, I did see this.

This one was good. It was short run, though. But I really liked the Teenage Mutiny Ninja Turtles 2012 to 2017 run. That was great. Oh, Paramount. Nope, Paramount Plus. brand new. It is called Tales

of the Teenage Mewon Ninja Turtles. Nice. There you go. All right. Does it look like... Paramount Plus, whatever. Paramount Plus. Features, I owe a debris from the bear doing as April O'Neill. Nice. Excellent. Yeah.

Everybody else I don't write DMAS. Steven, I don't know if you heard it at the top of the show. Brian brought up Jeff Seyer. I wanted to give him some quick credit. I lost the file. Anyway, we played the voice actor from Transformers, Beast Wars, who did Megatron. That's somebody that, I can't remember the connection,

but somehow Jeff Seyre ended up having dinner with this guy. Wow. And that's how he got him to do our little intro for the show. So I think you'd like that. I mean, you're not necessarily a hardcore Transformers fan, but it's pretty cool, right? Yeah, no, that's really cool. Beast.

I mean, you get a voice actor to do something for your show is awesome. Yeah, Beast Wars was awesome. I loved it. It looks like shit now, but it was a great show back in the day. And the early 3D stuff? Yes, of course. Oh, yeah. Remember what was the one?

Reboot. Yeah, reboot. That's how I always forget the name. That reboot was so innovative and terrible now, if you look at it now. So, actually, they've gotten the rights, all of the rights necessary for this. And my understanding is they are going to re-release that in a Blu-ray or 4K form for people that want to get that original reboot series. Because it hasn't really been available easily for a long time, is my understanding. Yeah.

Yeah. So that's cool that they're getting that. I wish they'd maybe, I don't know, remaster it or something. Just give it some texture because it's, ooh, it's sparse. It's really ugly. Yeah. Well, anyway, Stephen, it's always a pleasure to have you here. And didn't we just have a, Mike crazy, or was there a Comic Con in New York or something here in the last week? No, New York Comic-Con generally, if I remember correctly, takes place in October. So there was GinCon was just recently DragonCon as a couple of weeks. And before that was Sandio Comic-Con. there's probably other regional ones that are coming up here and there but yeah those are the ones the big ones right now maybe there's a Canadian one that happened

and I just I'm sure there's a Canadian there's probably a fan con going on somewhere oh yeah there was something going on but anyway all right oh that was July that was July 4th is here in Denver yeah which is great it was a lot of fun our fan X is in September I think

yeah Carter is making the most epic Carlack outfit from Baldersgate 3. Oh, really? Oh, it's so good, dude. Why, you guys, you guys should absolutely have a table in the artist alley at... You really should. We tried. That process right now is a complete freaking upside down mess trying to get a table. Oh, really? Yeah. Everybody's pissed. I'm not, we're not the only ones trying and it's just a mess. Like how they're giving priority to whoever they get priority to and stuff, it's just kind of broken right now. So we're just... Yeah, like San Diego Comic Con is one of those, that's the only one that I know. of is that at the end of the San Diego Comic-Con, everyone who is there gets first dibs on booths for the next year. And if you don't renew your booth for the next year, then it goes up to whoever. And so there have been people that have been there for literally 20, 30 years. And they

keep doing it just because they've got a really good booth space. And if they lose it, they may never get in again. So it may be one of those things. It is one of those things. And you're Scott where it's like, you have to get a booth a year, two years in advance to get floor space. And it's also, like, like, how do I put this? It's like, it's like domain squatting a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Some people, like, there was a year we went in there and I'm like, why are these three booths just freaking empty?

There's a name on it, but nobody's here. Well, it's because they're just squatting it. They don't want to lose their position. And that's annoying. They should boot those people out and let real people, like, have a booth. So I guess they don't care because they get their money. I think if you sold, what, 1,000 of your mats now, Scott, you could probably sell 2,000 at that show easily.

Oh, yeah, we would do great. We had a booth back in 2014 when it was still called Comic-Con, and it was great. But they hadn't yet figured out how they were going to go year-to-year, so we couldn't even get one the next year, even though we'd already had one the year by. So I don't know what they're doing now. It's all kind of effed up.

We'll see how it goes. That's in September. All right, that's it for this. Stephen, tell people what's going on, a major spoiler so they can check it out. If people are looking for reviews of comic books, if you want to know what's coming up, if you want to sneak peek Tuesdays, every day, every Tuesday, we release sneak peeks of comic books that are coming out. So if you want a couple of pages of previews of those comics, head over to major spoilers.com.

We've got them ready for you. And this week looks to be a pretty big week in comics with lots of good stuff coming out. Nice. Steven Schleiker, aka Major Spoilers, have a fantastic week, and we'll see you in a couple. Be hydrated. Bye now. Stephen. Never forget. Stay hydrated. That's right. I'm out of coffee. I'm not going to be hydrated. No. That's where you get your water. It's all your water comes through that coffee. It's dirt water. It's dirt water. Mm. All right. Monday show is happening today, but not in the way that you're used to. Carter's still mandatory bed rest after her surgery. Yeah, after her surgery. So she is going to not be walking up and downstairs. Instead, we're going to record it up there and then post it. Just no live stream. But it's

still going up today. So watch for that coming up later. Brian, you get anything today you want to let anyone know about? No. No, nothing. No, I don't, Scott. No, nothing streaming.

The stuff I've been doing, I record, so that I can edit it into something that looks a lot better than, you know, live streaming me putting together in Millennium Falkin. It's, it doesn't look as exciting. There's a lot of dead time where I'm like finding the right screw and then waiting for glue to dry or something like that. So doing those recorded. But I've got a,

I have been recording all the steps while I work on this ginormous in a finigo. Hey, you want to see it? Yeah, you got to, right here. Got a progress shot. Let's take a look. Let's see what this thing's doing. It's going to bring it over.

Going to hold it up. We're all going to be like, yeah. I hope you're ready for this. Hope you're ready for the awesomeness that is the giant infinity gauntlet. Look at that. On the base and everything. On the base and everything, yes. Damn, that looks awesome.

Just to give you some reference, we're going to put Brots, Wisconsin Brots in these holes. I was going to say those are big, big holes are for. Sure, there's nothing else going in those. Those are just definitely... Nothing else is going in this thing. So this is the prime stage. I've just bandoed the two halves together, the fist and the wrist. And then I'm going to prime this.

I'm going to sand that down so you can't tell. Then prime the whole thing in black and then some gold paint. And then this thing's ready to go. They might say it's finished. Its completion is inevitable. Yes, it's right now. It's 50% done. Very nice.

Half of that's going to get burned. All right. Well, there you go. That's going to do it for us today. we're going to get out of here. Let's play a song as we do it and do a request and then go. What do you got? I like that idea. This one goes all the way back to June. It was a request I wasn't able to get to back then. Eridau

wrote in, said, hello. I missed down on my birthday back in December. You know, we're pretty close to just waiting until it comes back around again, Eridau. So I'm hoping I can snag my half birthday instead. Last year, I finally climbed to the top of the hill and overlooked 40 revolutions on this marble we call Earth. It sure doesn't feel like I'm that old, but I guess that I get the old lady sound. now. Oh, shit. Well, you do. That's the rule. Here it is right here.

Happy birthday. Congratulations. I'm hoping you can find a song from the critically acclaimed game, Final Fantasy 14. Any soundtrack would do. That game got me through some dark times during COVID. After losing my job right as the pandemic began and all the trials that go with it, if you can't find any covers of Final Fantasy 14 songs, any other video game, RPG soundtrack, would be fantastic. Thank you both for all your work and the joy you bring to me on a daily basis with your podcasts. honk ah oh man i'll give her two things honk and then this well this first then honk you've won you've won your final fantasy battle and then uh where's the honk ah hold on he was really looking for a cover for me to play that was video game RPG related but that was good too

no no no i know that i just play it because i had it uh here you go that's the one you're getting because you're older perfect yeah uh all right aridau this is interesting this uh had no idea this thing even existed, but I'm so glad it does. This comes from a single that was in parentheses inspired by Final Fantasy 14. This is Sia doing a cover of Sinatra's Fly Me to the Moon. Here is Sia. Oh my gosh, this sounds amazing. We'll see you guys tomorrow on a brand new TMS. Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars In other words, hold my hand

In other words, baby kiss me Oh, I feel my heart with song And let me sing forever more Oh You are, I long for all I worship and adore In other words, please be true In other words, I love you. I don't know, but I don't know the word, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-ha-oh, and another word, I love you.

Feel my heart with song and let me sing forever more. Oh, you are, or I long for all I worship and adore. In other words, please be true. In other words, in other words, I love you. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes, get more at frogpants.com. This is a riverbed.