The Morning Stream - TMS 2702: Friendsville

Episode Date: September 9, 2024

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If God loved you, he'd have opened your sissy shoot. The morning stream. I am your father's, brothers, nephews, cousins, former roommate. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for September 9th, 2024. Scott Johnson here. Brian, a bit there. Good morning. Hello. Happy new, brand new week to you.

Yeah. And for those who celebrate, happy Apple announcement day. For those who don't, it's fine. It's all right. You got your folds and your pixel nines. You're fine. Yeah, yeah, your cool folding phones. I'm jealous of folding phones. But don't worry, Apple will invent it soon. Yeah, they will claim. Apple will invent the folding iPhone soon. That's right. That'll be a brand new product and they'll get up there and they'll push it and then they'll act like they invented it. All right. Chances are, though, they probably will make it pretty good when they do it.

I'll say that. Sure. Sure. I don't think, you know, they always like to pretend like they were first. But oftentimes they do perfect the thing that they're stealing. They often do. Yeah. Yeah.

Nobody says, oh, my, what am I listening to? I'm listening to a creative nomad cast. Oh, I love my creative nomad casts. Oh, they're the best. People you love. Zooncast. Actually, Zooncast might have worked had it stuck. Zuncast might have.

You just squirt a Zooncast to somebody else. Hey, let me pull out my brown Zune and I'll score it a Zooncast over to you. That's right. Or just go straight squirtcast. Let's do that. That may not be a show I'd listen to. Anyway, we're all here. You're all here.

We're all here. We're going to get right to it. In fact, we're going to start today with a guest because a friend of the program is here. We're going to talk about a really rad project that she has been working. on with her good pal and I'm going to pull her up here real quick hold on one second here we go uh there we go we are bringing in the one and the only amy frost uh we have the rings of ringage i think that's a good sign and uh there she is hello amy how are you good good good fantastic to hear your voice it's been a while for me uh how's how are things how you doing up there things are

great um you know i continue to have major dental work during important podcasting so that's always fun that's fun you're not having you're not having you're not in the chair right now having no no no no no no took the morning off you know um no things are good things are uh i mean because the last time i was on was probably almost exactly five years ago oh my gosh dude has it really been that long that's crazy yeah yeah well we had top podcaster in between all that and uh you had a hell of a showing on there. That was fantastic. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. That was a good time.

Yeah. Super good time. Well, it's good to have you here. The reason we have you on is because you've got a big project going on with Ake Willow. Not H. Willow. No. I don't know why I've done that, but gosh, you know, people need to remember, I'm the same guy that back in the early World Warcraft Day is called Oger's Orgs. So it is Orgrimar, right? It's not Ogurrimar. Yeah.

Well, that part I got, but like when I would see an ogre, spelled O-R-G-E, I would say org. And I'd say, oh, look at all the orgs up here in this zone. And people would make fun of me incessantly. And I finally broke out of it. So H is the new org is the way I'm looking at this. There you go. People are saying that your audio is cutting in and out, Scott. Do you know?

I don't know. My audio is? Really? I don't know. It seems fine on this side. You're hearing me fine, right, Brian? I'm hearing you totally fine. If I'm cutting, is Brian cutting out also?

Because it should only be, it's just choppy in general. It should only be Brian. It's what you're about to say. Well, no, no, no. I'm saying it should be both of us if it's us at all. Right. Sounds fine to me. Some people are saying sounds fine to me.

Oh, so fine now. For a while, people were saying audio is cutting in and out. All right. So it's just somebody with, it's like two people. Anyway, hey, Amy, let's get to it and talk about Ake Willow. There's a big project going on. Tell us what this thing is about. What you guys are doing.

So five years ago, I was here talking about the launch of AQUALO, which our five-year anniversary will be on Halloween. And now, we are trying to get season one of AQUALO published as a real live, hold it in your hands, Flip the Pages book. That's amazing. So we're doing this through ink shares. Tom Merritt has a couple of books published through InkShares, a good friend of the show, J.F. Dubot, who is also my best friend and my collaborator on this project.

he publishes all his books through there and now we're trying to get this one off the ground that's awesome achwillow.com slash book is where you can go right now to get it and pulling that up so the chat can see it uh yeah there we go uh and so for those who are unaware who are not initiated tell them sort of the genesis of this what the show was about in the first place and how how this book idea came about because i think that's kind of fascinating and sort of new i don't know anyone else was doing this. So the show itself came about after my America's next top top podcaster run because J.F. listened to me on the show and he said, oh, we are wasting our time with our

Overwatch podcast that is like every other video game podcast. He's like, why are we doing this? We can be doing something different. So he also wanted something that was his work that could come out in between books because publishing a book takes a very long time. And so we came up with this idea. The other thing is he is a, he's a horror writer and I'm a big ninnie about horror. So this was him writing something for me. Oh. That was still his genre, but that I could handle.

Oh, cool. That's cool. That's amazing. Man, your video's so nice for your intro on this thing. Thank you. She's Louise. This is too fancy. Too fancy for TMS.

My gosh. It took a long time. So, Aiguel, it was the story of Miriam Dufour, who is a young woman from Montreal, and she inherits a cafe, right as her life is falling apart, she inherits a cafe from a relative she didn't even know existed, a great grandaunt named Doris. And since she has nothing to lose, she goes to this tiny town called Aquila, which straddles the border between Quebec and Vermont, to ostensibly sell the cafe and use this money to restart her life. But once She gets there, she finds out that things are kind of weird.

And she winds up getting sucked into all of the strange goings on in this tiny little town. Oh, my gosh. This is very intriguing. I haven't had a chance to listen to the show yet, which is a mark of shame for me because I feel like I have, I've had plenty of opportunities. People are like, oh, you need to check it out, Scott. Why aren't you listen to it? I'm like, well, I've got it subscribed. It's sitting there.

It's full of episodes just waiting for me to hear. Now I feel like, you know. It's like 65 hours now. Oh, is that all? It's a commitment. Yeah. It is a commitment. I mean, it's 15 episodes a season.

So that's only like seven and a half, eight hours. What's the biggest challenge of doing this going from, you know, something that is ostensibly a multimedia project and then converting it into the written word? It sounds like that might be a little tricky at times. Yeah. So, I mean, because that's a big part of it, right? Is that Aquilo is written to be read out loud. So a lot of the, I do a lot of editing on the fly.

because as it comes out of, you know, I read each episode to give it a quick edit. But then as I'm recording, sometimes I'm like, no one in the entire world would ever put these words together out loud. And so I have to do these little edits on the fly. And they, you know, and so getting to go back, because I mean, this is five years ago now, there have been some, we'll call them continuity changes. Ah, okay. Okay. Betcon going on here and there? Yeah, over the five years.

So it'll be nice to go ahead and fix some of those things. Obviously, we know all the characters better now. Like, there are characters that were offhand mentions in season one that people latch on to and then decided we're important, like Helen Edna Notary Public. We don't know why. We don't know why people fell in love with Helen Edna Notary Public. But they did.

And so she has become, you know, more of a character as we went so we can kind of go back and fill in some of these holes. And then another thing that people have been asking for for a very long time is a cookbook. Because this is ostensibly a story about food. And there are quite a few recipes in each season. And so for this book, we're going to be able to put those recipes out into the world. Nice. That's awesome. That's cool.

God, I'm already drooling over this pie that you're using. using as the trailer for the book. It looks absolutely amazing. I love how the lattice top turns into the logo. There was a brief time where I was not sure it was going to work out. But that pie is currently in my freezer. Oh, really? Yeah, I made that video right before going on a family vacation.

And I'm looking at it and I'm like, what am I going to do with this? And then the Internet's like, you can freeze a pie. I said, great. Yeah. I will do that. You can freeze a pie. And it's awful, I don't know why it's so good later, but frozen pies are fine. I don't know what that's about.

Because a lot of things, you freeze it and it's like, I don't know, taste frozen now. But a pie, it's weird how it works. I guess certain pies may not work as well. But working with JF Dubot, obviously you guys are close friends and I've been working together for a long time. This must be, I'll say this. It's hard out there with creative projects where two people can jive so well on a project. That must be amazing for you, too, to have that, you know, work out between you. It's really nice.

Perfect collaboration. We met on a collaboration. We met in the Tadpool Facebook group because I had an idea for a design, which is the old Cheers Tadpool design, but I don't know Illustrator so I couldn't make it. So I posted in the Tadpool Facebook group looking for

someone who knew Illustrator to help me with this. And that's how J.F. and I met. That's awesome. I loved his God in the Shed book. I'm a huge fan of that book. So good. Yeah. So good. The third one should be coming out next. year. Oh, no way. The final book in the trilogy, yep. I got to catch up because

I haven't read two yet, but I love that first book. He sent me a copy ages ago, and it was so good. So you're working with, like, a pro here, and he's working with the pro, and together Ake Willow, not Aitch Willow, is going to take the world by storm. And I love this concept. So if people haven't checked it out, tell them all the

places you want them to go to get it. Okay, so first of all, if you want to buy a copy of the book or copies of the book, and I should mention that they all come with pre-order bonuses. If you get one copy of the book, you get a bookmark, you get a special episode that's actually coming out in a couple of weeks that no one else is going to get, but people who have backed the project. And then probably stickers, because who doesn't love stickers? I wouldn't love stickers. At the citizens of Equalo level, which is if you purchase three copies, you get your name in the back of the book as a citizen of Aquilo.

you get a personalized Equalos citizen ID card with your address there. It's going to be quite good. And a short audio message from me. Oh, very nice. Apparently, this was news to me when we launched the campaign. So I was on board, but okay. Sure, why not? You've always had an amazing voice on the, honestly, I think your long run on there had a lot to do with just your incredible voice, but also the person behind the voice.

but I think that's a valuable thing. I'd let you read. You can do my phone greeting anytime. This is what I'll say. Always good when you get surprised with one of those things though, yeah. By the way, yeah. Yeah, I like that. Oh, are we cool?

Okay. Sure. Why not? Yeah, it's usually, uh, I have to draw something crazy and I'm usually, I'm like, okay, that's fine. Maybe I could just read something. That'd be nice. Uh, well, that's fantastic. Please go check it out. Everybody, achewillow.com.

You can find links to everything. And, of course, the book can be found at achewillow.com. It'll take you straight to the ink shares listing. And if you want the podcast, pretty much everywhere you get them. Yeah. And if for any reason it's not somewhere that you get a podcast, please let us know because we will fix it. Yeah. We'll submit.

I run into this all the time. There's always some weird like, did you hear about show splitter? It's a new service from somebody. Great. Let me go make an account, I guess. Yeah. Of course. Yeah.

Just at least let me lock down that username so I can keep them. It's annoying. as hell. Anyway, well, this is fantastic. Amy, we wish you nothing but the best of luck and can't wait to see the final product. Sounds awesome. For sure. Awesome. See you next time. Thanks, guys. Bye now. Bye. She's great. She is. Yeah. She really does. I mean this. She has a voice I would want to hear. Like, I don't know what this, why I haven't listened to this podcast because she got the kind of voice where you just like, oh, could you read everything for me? I've got this like document

I have to sign. Could you read that in your voice? And then I'll feel better about signing it when I'm done kind of thing. She's just great. Right. No, for me, it was, you know, I listened to the first few episodes of Aquillo, and I found myself having to go back. It's kind of like the whole, you know, audio book versus reading a book where I just got distracted by her voice. And, like, you know, the way she pronounces certain words or not really pronounces, but she has a very distinctive vocal style that I really like. Yeah. She has a real, she has a very distinct cadence. We'll put it that way. She does. Yes. Is that the right word?

The word cadence, right? Cadence is the word? That's like the tempo, I believe, of the speech. I think so. Unless you're saying, like, a release schedule can also have a cadence, and that's like a timing thing. But when you're talking about somebody's voice, it's also a tempo. It's also a tempo. That's true. It's all connected.

The whole world is connected. The whole world is connected. Next, we'll talk about string theory. All right, moving on. Got a few things to talk about today. You and I both saw it Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. We won't say it three times because, you know, it has. happens with three times

uh yeah boy bees come out of their mouth yes um anyway I thought I just wanted to just give the a broad reaction to it if you were a fan of Tim Burton in the 80s and you liked what he was doing there so specifically if you really liked beetle juice the first film I think you're going to after these 30 plus years later really like this one because it is right in that wheelhouse and uh creepy but in a Halloween fun way uh maybe don't take five year olds but

Well, yeah, maybe not. Did you, oh, yeah, you didn't have them with you. No, it's just, we just went on a couple's date, but it was like, I kept thinking during that, all right, who could see this? I think if you're like tan and up, you'd be fine. But younger than that, depends on the kid, I guess. Nothing too offensive or anything. It was just like, you know, there are moments, a lot of practical effects,

a lot of stuff that would make you kind of go, oh, if I was five, this would really maybe scar me for a while. A little bit, but I'm so glad, I mean, that's the thing with Tim Burton, seeing that he's not saying, yeah, no, it's a new dawn. It's a new age. I'm going to do CGI instead of practical effects. No, he fully embraces the practical effects, and there are a ton of them in there. Yeah, it's very much one of those. So, you know, you get all the ingredients if you'd like him,

and I think it's actually a really nice return to form. I keep saying if you like him, because I think it's important to distinction, if you don't like that stuff, like you didn't like Beetlejuice, like maybe you're a huge fan of Ed Wood and that other one I love, Big Fish, and, you know, his more, I don't know, his deeper things. If you're a fan of those, but you don't love the goofy manic stuff,

then maybe this isn't for you, but I thought it was a good time. Yeah. Very much continues the feel of the original. And I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought Jeffrey Jones had passed away because my Echo thought he did in March. Oh, geez.

Yeah, that's that photo I sent you as me asking the Amazon Echo if... Oh, now I understand it. I was curious about that screen I was looking at and why I had a shroud on it. I have all kinds of questions about that. It was Jeffrey Jones as a ghost. But there are people on Reddit who like, you know,

there's a whole Reddit thing on the Mandela effect of people who thought that Jeffrey Jones passed away. You know, he might as well have for the crap that he did. But see, yeah, Stephanie and a pet's thought he did as well. Yeah, it seems like you could have told me that and I would have said, oh, yeah, of course, he's probably dead. First of all, he's really old, but also. I don't know, kind of moved into obscurity. Although he did all his bullshit and then was in Deadwood. And then did Deadwood. Yeah, exactly.

This is crazy. So if you're wondering why we're talking about him, he played the dad in the first film. Let's just say he plays that dad again. Yeah, yeah. But maybe it's not Jeffrey himself. Yeah, I was going to say, I don't think he had any involvement. Let's just say the character's likeness shows up. That's all.

Exactly. Yeah, he doesn't just have Gummy, warm gummy bears in his pants. He's a bit of a known pervy, pervy purve. Exactly, yes. All right, moving on. Let's see, what else? Oh, I didn't bring it.

Shoot, I was going to bring it down here. I bought a popcorn. You know how, since Dune, everybody wants to make a wacky popcorn bucket for their movie? While we were there, they had a bunch of Harry Potter buckets. They had a bunch of, like, stuff for, I can't remember what all, all these different kind of buckets. And one of them they have at this, at the cinema market at our thing, was these two

transformers heads. One is Optimus Prime. The other one's Bumblebee. And at first, they just look like standard Gen 1 bumblebee and Optimus. And I was like, well, why would they even have those here? And then it hit me. Oh, they got this new movie coming out. The eyes are different.

Okay. Transformer one. Yeah, that's what it is. But that head is so cool. And it was seven bucks is all. nice oh wow i mean it's cheap chinese plastic it's not that big a deal but i was like i'm getting that i didn't even put popcorn in it i mean they give you free popcorn in it but i was like it's not why i'm buying this i bought it for van because he loves options prime but i'm walking around the rest of that date night

with this freaking optimist prime head under my arm everywhere we went so we went and we went got burgers at shake shack and i'm in there this optimus prime head sitting on the table looking at people as they went by can you please fill this with french fries thank you yeah no right it has a little it has a latch in the back you can open it but it seemed really unless you're you're a little kid hand that's a bad that's bad popcorn head yeah oh gosh yeah for sure not great no i was so bummed we went to beetle juice beetle juice on opening freaking night there had been one other showing before that an afternoon showing and then we went Thursday the the um yeah that night and they had already sold out of the really cool sandworm bucket it's like um a coiled up sandworm

with the mouth and then the other mouth coming out of it. They didn't have that. That's cool. They did not have it. And I was so bummed. She's like, oh, yeah, no. I like, you know, she came right to us, sat down. Hey, you guys have any of the Sandword buckets left?

Oh, yeah, hold on. Oh, nope, they're telling me that we're sold out. And I didn't see anybody in the audience that had one. So it had to be like somebody just came in and scoffed them all. Yeah. Somebody binge them. Probably a ton of them on Facebook Marketplace. bay and that sort of thing.

Yeah, that's a bummer. I would have probably grabbed one of those. That's cool. I like that stuff in the movie. I thought that was all right. I was thinking, oh, this is a bucket I can see myself using for handing out candy on Halloween, for eating popcorn while we're watching a movie, whatever. And, like, it really bummed me out.

We even went, we saw the Casa Benita Mia Moore documentary two days later at a different Alamo draft house and I asked them they said oh we sold out of those yesterday so it's like oh my god so if I would have seen Beetlejuice on Friday at the other Alamo draft house I could have gotten one that documentary real quick give me a rundown of that because it sounded interesting it is fan freaking tastic it is the story of Matt Stone and Trey Parker buying Casa Benita actually even goes back to them as kids going to Casa Benita and you know someday saying oh would it be great if we own this place and kind of laughing about that and uh and then of course doing the episode this is the famous south park episode where cartman experiences all like

basically kidnaps butter so he can experience all of casabinita and while the cops are chasing him and uh it uh but it it kind of chronicles here's the money they spent to buy casa benita and then here's the ever-growing amount of money that it costs to actually not even, not even improve Casa Mineta, but bring it up to freaking code. So it's like, it's like Money Pit basically is the idea. Exactly. Like it reminded me, I was telling Tina, like kind of reminded me a little bit of the Coverville 500 concert in Vegas. It's like, all right, we got this cool venue.

Oh, they closed down? All right, we're going to do it at the ballets instead. Cool. Same price? Fantastic. Oh, wait. We need now to pay for a stage. Oh, we need to pay the union workers because we can't move a chair without paying somebody. Oh, we need to buy, they won't let us do just open bar. We have to buy all the pre-buy all the tickets for drinks. It just turned into like the stupid, stupid expense. But it kind of remind me a little bit of that. But it is so laugh out loud funny. The audience was, there's just a time just laughing their heads off. And it should be streaming. I'm imagining it's going to be streaming on Paramount Plus in about a month and a half. And Randy said it was the same director as the six days to air. Seven days to air, six days to air, whatever it's called. Yeah.

Yeah. Which is great. I love that thing. Yeah. That's one of my favorite docs of all time. So I'm all in on this. I hope it's stream soon. Probably what.

Yeah, you said Paramount probably because that's where South Park is and all that. Exactly. That's why I'm thinking that's where it's going to end up. So, yeah, keep an eye out for it. It'll be as soon as it's available to stream. I'm going to use it as a recommendal, don't you worry. That's great. I'll talk more about it.

I'll probably watch it again because it was just hilarious. That's great. Unfortunately, they didn't have a scene where, you know, they talk about going to this, having their Christmas party and walking up to a couple sitting there getting ready to do a puzzle pint and bringing us cookies and nobody recognized Matt Stone. Listen, he showed up in a suit. Never.

Who's seen Matt Stone in a suit? Ever. is what he looks like in a suit. Ever. Or Trey Parker. T-Parker in a suit. Either one. I never see either one.

They're always in jeans shorts, freaking baggy T-shirts. Like, they don't dress up. T-shirts, whatever, and clean-shaven and all that stuff. It's like, no, you know, there's no way I'd recognize this guy otherwise. So, yeah. That's awesome. So now you go there and happily spend $30 for whatever it is you're eating. I will.

I told you and I said, I don't care how much the food there costs. I'm happy to pay it to recoup some of the cost. thing lost in just the stuff you don't see. It's all of this money just for things that you have no idea existed and so worth it. So Casa Benita, Miamore. It's in theaters now or some theaters. I don't know. I don't know if it's in theaters outside of Colorado, to be honest.

Oh, it might be a limited deal. It might be, but. Yeah, I don't see it here. I'm checking my Fandango local listings. It's not on this. Not there. Yeah, so it might just be local. Maybe it'll broaden out.

You never know. That'd be cool. All right, there's that. We got a quick email from our mailman, Bob, who always calls in. Yay! Yeah, love this because we have a definitive answer on exactly what they're willing to go through to get your mail to you, Brian. So it's the whole sleet, snow, whatever thing.

Turns out there's something to that. Here you go. Hey, Scott and Brian. Obviously, this is for TMS. It's Bob the mailman calling back about rain sleet or dark of night. well, one year we had two feet of snow overnight, and it took us over two months to get all the mail delivered. We are a little soft here in the Northeast, but there are extremes that we will not deliver in, or they'll call us off the road if it's in the middle of a snowstorm.

But as far as rain goes, yeah, we have to trunch through that. Love the show, though. Yeah, but what about sleet, you know? Right. I hear a lot about this sleet sometimes. They promise sleet. And dead of night, or dark of night, neither sleep nor snow nor hail nor dark of night,

shall stay these couriers from their appointed rounds. So the snow, to a point. Sure, to a point. A little asterisk next to the word snow in that credo. Also, the key there seems to be, they spent a couple of months finally getting mail where it needed to be. The key is ultimately getting it there, whether it's delayed or not, that's all I need from these people, you know?

Yeah, yeah. These people. these people like bob great civic servants like bob doing his doing his best you know just glad you're out there for sure keep getting chased by dogs uh keep you know delivering my mail to the guy next door by accident it's all good we love it keep it coming yeah uh all right real real quick story before we bring uh done away in here go ahead so so people know that i drive for lift obviously i've talked about on the show before i don't know how much i've mentioned but tina started doing it shortly after I did so that she could get that sweet bonus, that first month bonus.

Like if you do X number of, if somebody recommends you and then you do X number of rides in the first month, you get this nice, big paycheck bonus, and then you get, and then the person recommends you get some as well. And so she does it on the occasion. Like I'm maybe a total of six to eight hours a week. She maybe does four. Very, very rare. But on Saturday, we both happened to go out. She went in the morning, and then I went the afternoon. And she always tells me about every ride she gets. Like, she's so funny.

She's like, oh, yeah, I picked up a couple and took him to the airport. They were going to Tennessee and blah, blah, blah. And so she's telling me, oh, yeah, you know those horrible apartments on 64th Avenue? There's some apartments, like this area around us, a lot of nice houses and a lot of nice apartments and condos and townhomes and stuff. But there's one little tiny stretch right by the high. school that has these these really scungy looking apartments and so she's saying yeah you know those apartments i i uh picked up some people there and i was taking them down to um the belmar area which is like 20 miles away so that they could look at a new new apartment it was a mom and her daughter

and i'm like oh funny i actually dropped somebody off at those apartments on 64th and she says yeah I was mom and her daughter, and they were talking about, you know, she works at 7-Eleven. I said, wait a minute. Yeah. Yeah, mine was talking about working at 7-Eleven as well. And then I said, lowercase Stephanie, she's like, yes, that was her. So, you know, hundreds of lift drivers in Denver, right, all over the damn place. Sure, sure.

And two hours apart, she picked somebody up from the skungy apartment. on 64th and took him down to Belmar and then a couple hours later I picked that very same couple up and brought them back to their scungy apartments on 164. What are the percentage chances low? I don't even know. I don't even know how that's even

possible but we both like we both screenshot of the trip so that we could say yeah look at that like mirror images of each other. That's wild man those people had no idea you know. They had no idea. It's like oh you by the way did you know my wife was the one who brought you to this apartment

two hours ago. That's funny, dude. Yeah. Little did they know. They had a very Ibit travel day that day. They did. And, you know, how do they, how would even this sort of thing get talked about? Like, Tina could have just brought them up.

I would have not remembered and whatever, you know. But the fact that she brought up and I'm like, oh, yeah, those apartments actually picked somebody up for a mother and daughter. Yeah, what the fuck. That's wild. Well, well, well, done. Tiny FM right there, by the way, for people. Well, once in a while, you know, Brian's got to let one.

pop out and show it's right it's right world it's not a problem heck yeah all right we're gonna play a game and uh done away is involved that's all i can say yeah all right he's just involved that's oh i'm in the wrong group that would have been funny i almost started the film sack group let's not do that uh done away don't start the film side group i haven't watched the movie yet no dark man this weekend i'm excited i like that movie or i did we'll see yeah we'll see how how much of it holds up I mean, Sam or Amy usually holds up for me pretty much across the board, but this is a weird one. So we'll see.

It's been a while. I can't really speak to it. We'll find out soon. But now, here's this. Hey, look who it is. Our old pal Brian Dunaway calling in from very beautiful this time of year, South Carolina. Hello, Brian. How are you?

Hi, Scott and Brian. How are you is the better question. Pretty good. Good. We had a full day with you yesterday. we did film sack went right into play retro that was just like a Sunday to remember you know it was we took a nap on the couch together it was great oh it was so good can you believe he's such a heater couch buddies am i a heater do i sleep hot oh he's such a heater yeah kick the blankets off

i did apparently i kicked my pillow halfway across the room last night i don't remember doing it jeez how long before kim just puts you in your own bed i know right yeah i'm starting to think that lucy ricky thing is like there's other reasons for it it isn't just We must be traveling similar paths last night. Audra had to punch me because I was screaming. I was having a dream. Yeah, I actually had two dreams. I had a dream that I was in the kitchen,

and the refrigerator door was open, and I went back to bed. I was like, okay. While I was in bed, though, a deer walked into the bedroom, and I was like, get out of here, dear, I'm trying to sleep. And he wouldn't leave, so I started yelling at him. And that's when she punched me.

Yeah, because she thought you had D.E. A-R, not D-E-E-R. Get out of here, dear. Yeah, get out of here, dear. Get out of here, dear. Get out of here, darling. I'm trying to sleep. Darling.

Man, does anyone, we were talking to my kids about this last night. Does anybody say, was it darling? It was something like that. Nobody says, Sweetie. No one says darling anymore. No. You know, it's a lost art.

Because the whole thing came up, because Nick, Nick tells me, and his wife agreed and a bunch of his friends agree with this. The thumbs up emoji to them is. purely sarcastic. It means it doesn't mean great, talk to you later or cool, I got your note. Like if I send that to Brian, it's like, yeah, acknowledge, we're doing something. Totally. But for him

it's like that gif of Jennifer Lawrence going one of my favorite gifts all time. I want to use that. That's the one I just want to reply to just about everybody with like, okay. Yeah. And it was, and he goes, and I know that older people aren't going to understand

but he says, dad, it's like you saying, uh, bub or not bub what was the i can't remember but like an old timey like 1950s version of of something and i'm like well yeah i guess i understand that we're all saying dude and cool still but generations man what are you going to do that's it man just look at that emojis have already found a way yep to be uh dated to divide us fantastic well let's get into a game that will not divide us it will only unite us it's called the daily or the morning half asses and uh brian here will explain the rules and who we're playing for.

Yeah, welcome to the previously mentioned the morning half-ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you to the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct. And three, like my attempt to buy a sandworm popcorn bucket was a tremendous failure. Depending on how confident you feel with each category, you can provide one, two or three guesses. But if you get any wrong, you get zero points for that round.

Guess one and get it right. You get a point. Two right gets you three points, and three right gets you five points for the that round. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant and contestants. I have pulled from members of the Tad Poor that aren't able to be here alive. Scott player playing for

Will L. in Streetsboro, Ohio. Ooh, Streetsboro. That's nothing but streets. That's all they got there. All streets. No houses, just streets. Brian, you're playing for Jesse in Friendsville. We're nothing but Friends. Tennessee. Nothing but Friends. Streets and Friends.

I feel like we've heard of that name before. Somebody calls in from Friendsville. maybe something like that. Too much pressure to live in Franceville. Jeez. Maybe it's this person. All right, cool. I like both these people.

What games are we on the chopping block this week? All right. Your games that people could possibly win. A guidebook of babble and sticky business. Ooh, I have sticky business. Very cool game. Yeah, you do. Yeah.

You run a little sticker business and it's this cute, cute, fun little chore core game. I like it a lot. It's really good. That's some fun. chore core stick to business Keep your sticky business to yourself Bub

And our runner up is going to win a copy of Figment 2 Creed Valley With arms white open Also very good That's a little Third person platformer thing Quite good Yeah

Nice Nothing but good Nothing but good games today I don't know what Guidebook to Babel or of Babel is But the rest of it looks great I don't know But yeah

It's got to be good Right If it's in the company Of all this stuff All right I'm just going to tell you Right now You know I try

to find like one easy round to put amongst these three and I found the easiest one I could to put with these three but you know be uh I don't know be conservative maybe in your yeah let's see how you do um the first one let's go into uh language or punctuation let's say punctuation and big big thanks for uh to alcobab for making this question work sadly it's visual so you podcast listeners I'll have to describe things uh question number one unusual punctuation marks. We've got the diuresis, the ampule, the pilakrow, the asterism, the interrobang, and the scintilla. The interrobang.

I don't know if it's, I don't know if it's, I don't know it's anything or not, but I love it. And then we've got the graphical images of all of those unusual punctuation marks along with each of them. Yeah, one of them, so. None of these are real. They all seem like bull crap, but I'm going to go for it. The intero, the intero, what's it? Interbang? Terra bang.

Interabang. That sounds like a horrible interrogation technique. I don't know. That's how you really get the information out of people. Dang it, dude. This is hard. Yeah. These all look like crap.

No, it's not. It's super easy. I have no clue. There's no, like, there's no logic in it out. I just randomly pick some stuff. I pick two. I'm going with two. All right.

Cool. Okay. Let's go with, uh, let's see what you guys guess. You guys kind of both. on two of them, the Pilcro, which is that kind of reverse, or it's the paragraph marker, right? It's like the P, reversed P thing.

That is absolutely correct. That is the pill crow right there. You also both selected the scintilla as that S with a little hole, a little donut. It's like an S donut. Yeah. That is not the scintilla. That is

the section symbol. The interrobang, which if you break it down, interrogation and bang bang for exclamation point it is correct it's like the the question mark oh okay I see it now yeah I see it now yeah that makes sense

the asterism was the other real one which are three little asterisk I don't know when you'd ever use that one when do any of these I'm trying to think we just don't have use cases now very much right? I use one of these to replace my thumbs up emoji

yeah Gen Zia The Terebeg is a good one to replace your thumbs-up emoji. The diresis, the one that looks like two crosses, are just the daggers. Those are called daggers. And the ampule, which is a little diamond in this one, is wrong. That is called the lozange. That little symbol is called the lozange.

Wow. I would swallow that one, I suppose, for a couple. Let's see people use this for things like bibliographies and things like that. Yeah, you do see this stuff in footnotes a lot. you do yeah right exactly like i don't know about the asterism i don't know when you'd use the asterism yeah that one's a very weird one but the two the two daggers which i always thought was crosses so that's interesting i see that all the time at a in a book yeah so that's what i thought too that's that's why i said it's a good one yeah like yeah wrong name i guess uh it also looks

now that i know it's daggers it's like a dual wielding little rogue man with his two daggers right it totally does yeah but the rogue man is missing yeah no rogue man what happened to the rogue man the Terabang, I want to know. Yeah, your footnotes, so footnotes, like you'll do the asterisk for the first footnote, then you'll do a single dagger for the second footnote, and then double daggers for the third

footnote. And for any stupid questions from your husband. Or you could use them to indicate death if you place it right before or after a person's name, so you'll do King Henry V. 8th and put a little dagger before his name. Or before the year that he died. It's almost like there's no rules at all.

I thought it was always a cross, like some Christian symbol. I don't know why I thought that. Yeah. Which makes sense because it does look like that. Yeah. If it was like diagonal, I'd say, oh, it's a sword, you know? It's a dagger. Or if it was shaped differently or something. Sure. Yeah. All right. Well, that's all right. Well, that's all right. Well, that's all right. Well, that's all right. Well, that's all right. But it almost looks like a misprint is the problem. It does. It does. Which is why people do question mark. exclamation part mark to do this same thing they just put which which goes first is it the question mark then the exclamation i've seen the people do it the other way i always do question mark first because i want to yell the question right yeah i wonder about actually if amy still in the chat she probably knows this she's more literary than us but uh i think i'll bet you that you i think you're supposed to ask the question and then show the anger that's what i think too yeah that's how i do it yeah that's a question yeah that's a question yeah

But whenever it makes logical sense, it's always wrong. That's right. All right. Well, let's do number two here. Zero points going into question number two. Let's talk about games. You guys are both into games. Oh, but this is about Hunger Games.

Hunger Games districts and their industries. So which of these match up the Hunger Games district to the correct industry? District 1, luxury items. District 4. Hydroponics, District 9, or District 3, Electronics. District 7, Lumber, and District 13, Fishing. Which three of these are the correct... Well, I am making up crap in three of these.

Which three of these are the correct districts and their industry? Now, if I remember right, and I'm very vague on this, because I don't remember those movies or the books very well. But the U.S. has broken up into these districts now. Is that the idea? Correct. Correct. Well, Pan America.

Pan... Pan... Pan... Pan... Panem. Panam. Panam. Panam. Panamanam. Panamanam. Sounds right. It's Panera bread. It's Panera bread. Exactly. Obviously. Duh. All right. Well, this is going to be fun. Let's see. What do we have there? That sounds like something they'd have for the fancy people. Electronics. Do they even do that? That's where the radio checks. Was District 3 a Best Buy?

Or a circuit city. Yeah. Yeah. Panem. Okay, Dr. Calhoun confirms it is Panem. I'm going with one because I don't know. Pan in. You both have locked in.

You both locked in with District 1 luxury items. That is correct. Yeah, the District 1. They basically got worse and worse as you went through all the districts. Like it started out great. So, of course, number one is going to be your luxury items. And, Scott, you settled on that one. So you locked up.

in a point, for sure. Brian picked two. He also picked District 7 being Lumber, just out of the blue like that. You gotta have wood. He's been so long since I've read the books. It's been at least five years since I've seen the end of the movies. So yeah, just fine.

I was just like, guess so guess away. Well, it was a good guess. Lumber was District 7, so very good. There was no, District 11 was the Catanus one. So there's no District 12 or 13, so that's. It's a total red herring for fishing. Electronics. Yeah, best buy. District 3. That is hilarious.

Really? They have electronics. Okay. I didn't know that. I don't remember that at all. No. I thought the world would kind of turn back the dial a bit. I don't remember those very well at all. No. I think while I was reading the books, I read the... Oh, Catanus was 12? Okay. I thought Catanus was 11. It's been that long since I've read the books as well. I do remember the Capitol being kind of Utah.

on Colorado-ish, right? The West somewhere. Wasn't that the deal? That's right. I think so, yes. Yeah, because that was popped out, obviously, because we live here, but, yeah, that's, I need to watch, maybe go back, maybe film sack one of those. I don't know. There we go. That's not a bad idea. Yeah. You just film psych the first one and then, yeah.

I'd be all right with it. That'd be cool. Totally fun. All right. So, well done, done away, you jerk. Well, so we got three points for Brian, one point for Scott going into question number Three, anywhere, anything can happen, where everything can happen, too. Which of these are countries where people drive on the left? Jesus. Yeah, a little left driving weirdos. Norway, Japan, Bahamas, South Africa, Brazil, and Egypt.

Which three of these are countries where people drive on the left side of the left. Man. I've been to two of these, and I don't remember. shit I really want to win one of these let's see I want to win I kind of remember that

so I'm going to say that I think they changed wrong I might be thinking of Sweden I'm always thinking of Sweden hey Sweden hey Sweden hey Sweden

can come over hey darling hey darling hey darling hey honey all right locking in two I don't feel confident at all I should have gone

all right whatever. Well, you both locked in on the Bahamas. Yeah, they totally drive on the road at the Bahamas. Colonist. Colonist bastards. That's exactly right. And Scott, you chose Japan and Brian, you chose South Africa.

Uh-oh. And they're both right. That's another three. And Scott adds another three. Yeah, those are your three. Bahamas, Japan, South Africa. I'll drive on the left side of the road. Unfortunately, not enough points for Scott.

Scott, that brings him to four points. Total Brian wins with six points. And we have our winner for... A whee! Jesse in Friendsville, Tennessee. You can play games with your friends in Friendsville with the Guidebook of Babel and Sticky Business. Nice.

Courtesy, by the way, courtesy of Wesley. Rightly. Thank you again, Wesler. Resla. But don't worry, Will, in Streetsboro, you're going to get a copy of Figment 2 Creed Valley, which I hear is pretty damn good. It is good.

It's quite the fun experience. I think people will enjoy, they will enjoy those games. So congratulations and well done. Donaway, you've done it again. How do you feel about your victory today? I feel almost as good as I felt back in 1999-09-0-99 when the Dreamcast was released. That's what it was the Dreamcast, yeah. 9-9-99, baby, Big Sega Day.

I took work off that day and bought it and went out and played all day. Yeah. I think I played most with Sea Man all day long. I think it was, it wasn't out yet. I don't think it was a launch title, but I think we played. Oh, it wasn't a lunch title. Yeah, we played Soul Calibur 2. Choo Rocket.

That was later, too, I think. What was the other one? Those were the two games I remember playing the most. That one in the cell-shaded wacky racers game. Oh, that was a good one, too. Yeah. There were so many. That also was not a launch title either.

No, but they were all good. And, yeah, I enjoyed that day off. I'll say that. Well, well, done away. It's always good to have you here. kiss our butts. No, you. Bye.

Oh, I can tell it's cold or whatever it is. It's totally settling in. Dude, I can feel it. Oh, no. Oh, no, Scott. Getting like the chills a little bit. Lots of fluids. Uh. Got a little water here. Hopefully it doesn't go to my throat or my,

I don't want to choke my way through the next few weeks. I hate that. Oh, yeah, no kidding. All right, you guys. It is time for us to take a break when we come back from said to break. Our good pal, Stephen Schlecker, will join us. It's been a while. So we'll catch up with him, see what's going on there.

But Brian has a song he has to play in the meantime. So what do you got there? I do. And I'm sorry, I was just getting these last little, getting the codes together. You talk to Brian so quickly. I didn't have time to get the codes together. We're going to listen to Leif Vola Beck. He's got a brand new single.

This is great. Let me pull up my notes on Leif Volebeck. Sounds like a Scandinavian name of some sort. Yes, it does. Let's see here. From, where is he? Where is this? Where is this?

Oh, come on now. There it is right there. This is the final single before his album actually gets released. His album comes out later this month, September 27th. He is coming to America on tour. This is produced and mixed by David Barron, who worked with the Lumineers, Sean Mendez, Michael Markagi.

The new album, again, is called Revelation, comes out September 27th, and he is starting his tour in Winterthur, Switzerland. Um, there you go. I'm just looking to see where he's from. I don't know. Let's just say he's from, uh, he's from Ottawa. Now resides in Montreal, Canada. Uh, this is the song. Peace of Mind. Evening, here is Leif Volobeck. looking for action mountain rains come into view the colors they change with the sun and the rain and maybe now I'm different too

last night I prayed for direction this morning when it showed I didn't hold on now baby it's gone and you tell me now that's just how it goes Ooh You give me peace of mind Ooh

You give me peace of mind Honey You make it look easy Floating above the world When you least expect Your body electric brings you back to that little girl Running through the streets of the village

Talking to strangers don't hide 98 in the shade for this you were made But my northern blood was begging a fly Ooh, you give me a piece of mind Ooh, you give me a piece of mind Ooh, you give me a piece of mind Blood in the river Turned to die

Who will deliver The two of us I wonder if I'm crazy to want this Wondering from town to town What if my purpose is deserving the circus Honey, would you follow a crowd? I dreamed I'd attend to my funeral Children playing in the rain

A dead and light placed over my face And I'll never be the same again You give me peace of mind. You give me a piece of mind. You give me a piece of mind. Ooh, you give me peace of mind. You give me a piece of mine You give me a piece of bed

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Isn't it enough that you conquered other planets in this galaxy? I want the earth and you shall not stop me. I will stop you, Rodak. We shall see. But the country rose up and smacked them in the face. We've returned. Tell me who that was again. Sure, that is Leif Volobeck with a brand new single

peace of mind comes out on his brand new album which comes out September 27th that is Leif Volobeck Nice Nice

All right I'm going to conjure the spirit of major spoilers Oh nice Do we need to just say His name three times Shliker Shlyker

Five times Shliker Shliker Oh we did it Okay Bees are coming out of his mouth He's joining us shortly And we're going to bring him in With this cool thing

That I haven't played in too long And now welcome Stephen to the show He's a huge freak nerd dollar dollar bills y'all he is a huge freaking nerd and we love him and uh he's here to talk about some cool stuff because that's what he does hello major spoiler zone stephen schliker welcome well hello scott hello brian hey man good to have you here i hope you're uh well how how's things been you've been it's been at least a couple of weeks since we've had you on yeah we had that stupid labor day thing yeah remember that what a joke all that working yeah uh uh

you're going all right things are going all right that's good uh school you're back in and all yeah yeah yeah a lot of that a lot of that stuff keep me a little busy the kids are back of school i got one kid who's graduating from high school this year yeah and the other kid is graduating from middle school this year oh my that's a those are both huge uh seminal moments in your parenting yeah it's a big deal well grats to them i hope their grades are you know looking up and all that i don't know somebody's uh i got to notice that somebody's got a d in their advanced calculus class so sounds a lot like me back then.

Anyway, well, it's good to see you, man. We're going to get right into it and talk about the Sentinels. For those who are not aware, maybe you can give us a little breakdown on who the Sentinels are and why they're getting a glow-up. So the Sentinels, of course, are the big giant robots that hunt mutants

in the Marvel universe. They've got an iconic look. I think they're kind of a cool hunter robot, right? I think if you were to compare like Terminator, Sentinels, you know, those kinds of things certainly sentinels would be right up there with the terminator in my opinion but uh we ran we just finished up about a couple of months ago the big crocoa era where all mutants

were at peace with the world and then it all came falling down and part of that is uh uh resurrecting some new sentinels that are going to be more human than giant robot they look like cyborgs right They've got human faces, but robot bodies kind of or whatever. Yeah, they are definitely people who have been outfitted with cyborg weaponry. And there are so far five or six of them. So we've got drum fire, who whenever, every time I look at it, I think of drum fire. So if you want to get on some drum fire, you want to check that person out. Sure.

This person has absorption energy and energy manipulation, and then there's lockstep who's got technology hacking abilities and then you've got sawtooth who can fire weapons and has personal armor things and it goes on and on and on there's several of them. I think they look interesting but it feels like

what was the Jim Lee, what was it, Wetworks or whatever that series was when they first started Image Comics that's what this feels a lot like. Or was it Wildcats? Wildcats too, right? Yeah, and Wetworks very similar. I think that the fact that they're standing on a ancient sentinel head is it helps me because it tells me that we're not just losing that

thread we're we're we're adding to it you know so I feel like that's cool and also this will just come down to the writing if this is a really interesting story and they're you know if these sentinels are I assume they're bad guys we're gonna have any these guys going to turn at all they're going to become good do we know any of this stuff from the plot I don't know any of that yet because the series launches on October 3rd or sorry October 9th so we're just under a month away, or just at a month away, from the launch of this series. Yeah. It could be very good.

It could be, hey, and they're kind of just teasing stuff right now. They're not giving a whole lot of information. Yeah. But, you know, they could rise up and throw off their oppressor, you know, overlords and try to be good guys. But it starts out as they are hunting mutants. I assume this, this sentinel head. I don't think that's master mold. I think that's just a regular sentinel head.

All right. Do they always have a skull under there? Is that symbolic of something? I don't think so. I think that must be symbolic. Okay, must be. It's like, hey, the human, oh, we're part human now. Right, exactly, yeah. That looks a little Luke Skywalker in the Degabakave kind of situation. That's right. Well, hey, look, your parents warned you about rock and roll back in the day,

and they were right to do it, because now rock and roll comics are a thing. Well, and so rock and roll comics have kind of always been a thing, right, Brian? I mean, did you pick up the Kiss comics? The one that had their blood in it? Sure. Yeah. Yeah, who would want the drop of blood? and 70,000 comics. Right, yeah.

So those kind of comics have always been... I know the picture has hepatitis now, by the way. Yeah. That's why you'd have to make sure that they're individually wrapped in the mylar bag. Bagged and, yeah, IV bagged and boarded. Right. For your protection. So those kinds of things have always been around, but it's...

Lately, there have been some publishers. Z2 Comics is one of them, the letter Z in the number two, has been one of them. And Vault Comics and Titan Comics have also stepped up with kind of of taking on album type projects. That's the best way I can describe it. So like Evolt Comics just announced Def Leopard's Hysteria, which is co-written by one of the members of the band. And it basically is, what if we had the hysteria album as a comic book and what would that look like and what would that be like? The other one, there's a band called The Midnight, which is a synthwave band.

they have one that's coming out from Dark Horse Comics later this year and that one is also just based on their brand new album the Shadows album that just came out and so again

inspired stories inspired by you're supposed to be listening to the album while you're reading these you know it's kind of up in the air and kind of left it to you although I have seen like the Jimmy Hendricks experience

is a biocomic about Jimmy Hendrix by Titan publishing that one just came out two weeks ago, August 27th is when that came out, that just looks at the history of Jimi Hendricks. And it's done with, in conjunction with or with permission from the Hendricks estate. So you know you're getting some interesting things there. And of course, if you're into that psychedelic art. It's very psychedelic art. Yeah. No kidding. You know, it's interesting is the midnight and the midnight and the kiss thing makes sense to me because there's an aesthetic there.

You can build on, do kind of a cyberpunk thing with the midnight shadows one, that sort of thing. I always, but the hysteria one, that one throws me a little bit. Like, what's the thematic element there? What are we doing with hysteria? Yeah, that's what I don't know. And so they've been, there's been a couple of these that have come out. Again, Z-2 has done it mostly, and I think they've had some success with that. And that's why we're seeing Titan and Vault and Dark Horse, also wanting to jump on that bandwagon.

But don't be surprised if you see more comic books coming out in the near future based on albums by artists, not by the creators because you know you've got amory war by um the coheed and cambria guy yeah uh that is still going on um so not written by the the creators but actually inspired by or influenced by or about their albums we've seen some movies recently do that exact same thing the couple of animated movies that are based on albums in fact is the new lego movie is that also just the album come to life or is that just a bio that's a bio one of um god what is the name of of the somebody in the chat will shout it out I don't know who the artist is

but I am surprised that they're doing this with non-concept albums I mean you wouldn't want to do something like the wall because that story is very it's very established you don't need a comic book to kind of fill in any gaps I don't think there are gaps to be filled in but there are other concept albums that would be like oh this would be an interesting

one to do just trying to think of one off the top of my head but like you have a have a comic series that's based around a concept album, where the songs do all have some sort of tie connection. Yeah, 2112. Yeah, thanks, Grandma. That would be a good one. Yeah, for real, Williams

is the Lego movie that's coming up. It's about how he became an artist. It looks really cool. It's done in the Lego style, like the Lego Batman movie and everything, so. Yeah, I knew the album, or the movie was coming out. I had no idea it had that kind of connection to him. That's kind of cool. Does I have a giant, is he have to wear a big mini-fig hat

to fit on the little mini-fig Furrell one? Have you watched the trailer? Go check the trailer. I can't remember if, if there's any reference to that in the... Because that hat, man. For Rale Williams in that hat. So it's interesting here.

The description of the hysteria one says, continuing the celebration of rock, the graphic novel, Astoria follows Faz, the front woman of an indie band Darkside after she inherits her father's estate and discovers it comes with a half-remembered guitar

from her childhood. And I assume that's, you know, a guitar from the band, deaf leopard. Probably. And then hilarity ensues. I don't know what happens. But you know,

Like the Black Parade, just pulling up, like, my list of, yeah. That would be the other one that would be just really weird to make a comic book out of. Yeah. Yeah. Did the Spice Girls ever do a comic thing? They never did a, never did a comic or nor a concept album. It feels like a comic would be a thing for them. I would love to see like a Teen Titans Go-esque cartoon with the Spice trolls.

That, that would be a good. I mean, we've seen it go the other way, right? We've seen like Archie become a band or Josie and the Busycats get a movie and become a band and get an album. But it's just very interesting that we're seeing this kind of flip-flop where people are starting to mine instead of books or instead of mining movies for comic properties. We're now starting to go into the music albums and saying, well, can this be turned into the comic book somehow? Yeah, no, that's cool. I don't know. I have a soft spot for this.

Something about taking your band to like new levels. especially if it's like a little bit surrealistic like the kiss just lends itself to it like these guys oh yeah yeah yeah they're all yeah the kiss ones are really fun they uh dynamite just did one within the last five years i want to say is when they still were doing some kiss comics that people can go track down but i thought since brian is a is a big music guy that maybe he would be interested in some of these uh these music comics i kind of want to check them out yeah i'm kind of surprised maybe there has been but i did a quick uh search and it didn't see any gorillas comic books, which feels like... That's another one to be great, yeah.

It would. Yeah, I mean, Jamie Hewlett, comic book artist and, you know, feels like it just be a natural, like, progression. But, uh, Matthew Sargent in the chat. I just didn't find it right away. Yeah, Matthew Sargent in the chat says the aquabats need a comic. That would be another excellent. Excellent. Yeah, that would be great. Oh, there's a whole book, or is this the comic? Sorry, it's just, I'm trying to learn more about in the midnight because I like synthwave and I hadn't heard of them before. And they have some... I think this is the first comic that they've done. Is it? Okay. Because they have, okay, electrifying science. Oh, there it is. They just made it seem really thick like a full-on novel on this photo. It's weird. Maybe it's a thick graphic novel. Yeah, they may be just releasing it as a graphic novel. Yeah. That's cool. When I'll check them out, I'll have to listen to them today. All right. And also, what if Donald Duck became Thor? You know, it's a question we've all asked since time and memoriam. And boy, howdy, we get to find out now that Disney and Marvel own everything. So tell me more about this weird crossover.

That's what this is all about. Corporate Synergy. So this is not the first time that we have seen Donald Duck become one of the characters in the Marvel universe. He has previously, what if Donald Duck was Wolverine? That came out a couple of months ago. And now this time, he gets to wield the power of Thor. And so, you know, antics, hilarity will ensue. It is done in a Carl Barksish type style.

So if you're into that, you know, Uncle Scrooge Adventures, type artwork, you're going to get that here. Some people have said, no, Donald Duck really shouldn't be Thor because of his attitude really isn't conducive to being able to wield a Milneur. But some other people are like, man, just, it's a comic book. Let it go. It's a what-if comic book. He's not worthy.

I don't know. It is nice scene and wear some damn pants for once, though. Oh, no kidding. Yeah. For about two years ago, and still going on, you'll still see these appear, Marvel will release a bunch of variant covers, just depending on the month, and it will feature all of the Disney characters as various Marvel characters, so mini-mouses, as the WASP, Mickey Mouse, as, you know, Captain America, those kinds of things. So if people really want to see their

favorite Disney characters, they can go to their local comic shop and dive through the, the back issue bin, looking for those variants. They've been coming out steadily over the last two years, so you'll be able to find those fairly easily. Sign me up for the incredible goofy. I got to see what this Walt Simonson alternate cover for the Donald Duck Thor I think looks like that's the one that's like I kind of just want to

see, I want the cover without the rest of the comic to go along with it. Yeah. Somebody went to Hey Walt, I know you're a veteran of the industry. You are a venerable master of your craft. We need you to come out for a quick alternate cover to Donald Duck as Thor.

I think you can do that. He probably jumped at it. You know, like he doesn't care. Sounds like fun. It sounds like a fun idea. Sure. Absolutely, yeah. Well, this is great. As always, there's plenty of things over at major spoilers.com

including links to all the stuff we talked about today. And I'll bet you there's more stuff happening behind the scenes. Stephen, anything you want to talk about? There's always stuff happening behind the scenes. I'm working on secret projects constantly. What people can do is they can check out the Major Spoilers Podcast Network. Check out all the shows that we do. If you're a TTRPG person, we've got a show for you there.

If you're someone who loves comic books, we've got a, show for you there. If you're somebody that loves the Legion of Superheroes, we've got a show for it you. We've got a show there for you. And of course, we've got a top five which is, it varies from topic to topic this week. It is the top five death scenes. Top five

scenes this week. In comment like comic history kind of thing? It could be anything. It could be comics. It could be movies. It could be TV shows. It could be anything. Okay. And so it'll be interesting. Mine are all movies. Mine are all movies. That might be a fun. It might steal that idea for a host special on

film sack. That's really good. I like it. Yeah. I'll give you credit if I do. Anyway, that's fantastic. Stay hydrated. Oh, I don't know about that. Just kidding. We will. See, I got a big thing of water right here. And if it wasn't for that. Very good. I'd be choking more than I am. Oh, I can feel it. It's settling in. I can feel it. Oh, no. Oh, no. I hate that feeling this afternoon. I'm gonna. I'm gonna chill. I'm supposed to do the Monday show later, but maybe I can. Welcome to the Monday show. What are we talking about? It's Monday. Monday, Monday stuff. I look forward to it. In the meantime, I will read an email from Kevin who wrote in.

I don't know if this is any of our usual Kevin's. It's not Kevin Chu. I know that. But anyway, hello Scott and Brian. I'm a week behind on the show, but I can't believe you haven't talked about the death of Jack Carlson, who was arrested after eating a succulent Chinese meal. That's right.

And brought us the great sound clip. Are you waiting to accept my limp penis? uh says kevin we did mention it but i can't remember if it was like a pre-show mention or something like that it was it was brief yeah boy did the boy did we get emails and tweets and stuff when uh when this guy passed away like it's the guy it's the lip limp pinum peenum guy yeah i think what happened there is uh i i don't know what happened there weekend or something it was like it happened it happened when we were about to not do two or three shows in a row two or three days with shows in a row. So it must have been like a Thursday afternoon it happened.

Yeah, something like that. And I think that for a lot of you at home, it sounds like this was your first exposure to that dude was us playing him. So we probably should have. Yeah. So we probably should have given him a little more due. But yeah, anyway, guy passed away. One of the greatest viral video sensations of the internet history. Succulent Chinese meal. Enjoying a meal. That's right. It's basically as. Yeah. He does. He's got this, like, very operatic vibe to him. Yeah.

I love that about him. Anyway, he's dead. You have the clip? You have the audio clip? I don't know if I have the meal one. Let's see. Have us. No, that's not it.

No, that's Swanson's. No, the same thing. How about this one? You can collect. No, that's not it. How about this one? As far as these. Yep, there it is right there.

Oh, let's see if I got the other one. I should have that. Come on, do I not have that? Not pimp, penis, limp penis. Look for prepared or, uh... Oh, here it is. Okay, so Brian doing it, the long... My limp, limp, penis, penis.

That's when his internet went weird. And then, this one. Are you waiting to receive my limp penis? Yeah. Yeah, that guy's great. So fair sales to him as he heads into the west and remains Galadriel. All right, moving on.

Hopefully, hopefully the pearly gates are prepared or are waiting to receive. Yeah. He'll, you'll make this story better if the guy was eating Chinese food when he died. Right, right. Choked on some musho pork or something. Yeah, it would have been perfect.

A succulent Chinese meal. All right, that's it. We're done. We're out. Frogpants.com slash TMS. Yeah, Joccanada Viagra. Like we all do. We all do that. Sure. Oh, who doesn't?

Frogmanst.com slash TMS for all your needs. So go check that out. Brian, let's play a song and get out of here. What do you have? Okay. Yeah, this one is going out to Jean Stone Gargoyle 13 in the chat. It says, well, I'm turning 50. Thank you for being here for us, weirdos.

Oh, no, I think there's not a comment there. Well, I'm turning 50. Thank you for being here for us weirdos. I've started following Scott back in the instance. There's some past tense stuff here. I started following Scott back in the instance and found Coverville almost at the same time. Over the years, I've expanded to follow so many other content providers that I found because of the two of you. Thank you for giving us the Tadpool and AIE.

I'd like to request a ska or rockabilly cover for my birthday. Thank you for all that you do. Well, thank you, Jean. Yeah. G-I-A-N. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. Unfortunately, he has to face the music, Brian. Whoops, wrong one.

Happy birthday. Yeah, take that, buddy. That's right. If you're 50, definitely get the old lady. This is a band called B. Sharps. No, they're not the Barbershop quartet from the Simpsons or the Symptoms.

But they are a great ska band. This comes from their album. Skah don't pay the bills from 2011. It is their cover of Shake Your Booty by K.C. and the Sunshine Band. Everybody get on the floor And dance

You know that you can do it Just give no self a chance Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. Shake your booty. Shake your booty. Shake, shake, shake, shake. Shake your booty. Shake your booty.

Shake your booty. Ah, you know, but the world will now see this all before. you know what you can do it just in a pump floor Shake, shake, shake, shake. Shake your booty. Shake your booty. Shake, shake, shake. Shake, shake.

Shake your booty. Shake your booty. Oh, shit. Say, shake, say, sake, say, emperor. Shake, shake, shake. Show, say, say. Say, shake, shake. Say, shake your booty.

Shake, shake, shake. Oh! Oh yeah Oh Oh Everybody Get on the floor Hand dance

You know You can do it Just give yourself a chance Shake Shake Shake shake Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. Shake, shake.

Shake, shake. Shake, shake. Shake, shake. Shake, shake. Shake your booty. Take your booty, yeah. Shake, shake, shake, shake. Shake, shake.

Shake. Let's see it. Whoa! Let's do it. You get you out of call. You're shangling. Sank it. Sank it, bitch, you're sake it.

Yeah. This show is part of the Frog Band Network. Yes. at frogpants.com. I don't even know what it means.