The Morning Stream - TMS 2719: Sirius Blech

Episode Date: October 15, 2024

Mothers in Law - May Contain Nuts. The Sitting Brian Ibbott. Orange Envy. TMS Friday - Don't Not Be There! Indigenous Spice. Aquamanphobia. Comet Jones. Green Tambourine. Is it anywhere? Abacaii. They are ALL Ashleys. Abacus Joke Failure. News Underscore Dingle Dee. Bad use of fur. Just A Shunk With A Handle. I just hate everybody with Dan and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Don't not be there. Indigenous spice. Aquamanophobia. Comet Joan. Green tambourine. Is it anywhere, Abakai? They are all Ashley's. Abacus joke failure.

News underscore Dingledy. Bad use of fur. Just a shunk with a handle. I just hate everybody with Dan and more on this episode of the morning stream. I got a question for you all. You women on here is always hitting me up and all this. Nobody wants to meet, but you want to send money this or that, or you want a hookup.

But nobody will prove the real. And if you're not going to prove your real, I ain't doing shit. Big deal. I was overrun by a batch of bimbo. The morning stream. I think that'll do. Hello, everyone, and welcome to TMS. This is the morning stream for Tuesday, October 15th, 2024.

I'm Scott Johnson, and that's the sitting, Brian Ibit. That's right. The sitting, you know, just until we elect a new Brian Abbott, I'm the sitting, Brian Abbott. Yeah, he's the sitting. He's the incumbent, Brian Abbott. And he's the recumbent. Recumbent.

We were talking pre-show about this, but I think you had quite a workout this morning. I did. I overdid it. And it's, there's a little bit, and they know this. There's a little bit of competitive nature that I have with. the orange theory and uh uh i shouldn't i'm a month into this thing or a month and a half into this thing and i know i'm not the level of the the 35 year old soccer moms around me but um uh i want to pick up bigger weights than they do and i want to you know do up another

uh percent on the treadmill than they're doing and and even the dudes there's dudes there too and I want to, like, be up with them and I really shouldn't. I really shouldn't. No, like they always say for our age range, it's repetitions that matter more than the amounts, right? Correct, yeah. So, instead of doing 50s and 10 reps,

you do 25-pound weights and do 30 or whatever. Oh, and do more reps, yeah. Yeah, yeah, more reps, more reps, less weight. More reps, yeah. I just like the same number of reps and less weight. Yeah, how about that? It's not increase anything. let's just take one down. I like it. Yeah, let's just take the, the weights down. And they don't tell

me, like, they don't say, all right, everybody, pick up your 25 pound weights and do, da, da, it's like, all right, pick up the weights you're comfortable with. And so I could pick up the weights that I'm comfortable with. And I really should and not pick up the weights that are, you know, more than, than Ellen next to me or or Sharon. Now, come on, they're all named Ashley. Yeah, they're all Ashley. I can look up to the screen and see that they're all Ashley's. A couple of, a couple of Tiffany's, Maybe a, I don't know, there might be a tailor in there, you know. That's probably a tailor.

Some swiftly person. You never know. Well, anyway, it's good to have you here. And whether you're standing or on your butt, it doesn't matter. Your host are here. We're prepared to give you a show. And we're going to start with my mother-in-law. All right.

Oh, good. Start with the mother-in-law. We went to dinner at Kim's brother's house. And it's always a good time over there. And it was just me and Kim. All the kids had previous plans. So it's just her and I. And then, you know, a few other relatives, including Kim's parents showed up.

And while we were there, we got to see the comet. I'll talk about that in a second. The one that's showing up every day for like seven more days. Yeah, yeah. Pretty cool. In some places in this state, I'm sure other states too, but in like St. George, you can see in the middle of the day. It's just like out there. Oh, really?

Oh, cool. Wow. I forgot what it's called, though. Do you have the name there? Suchen Shen? Yeah, it's a weird one. It's discovered by somebody with a name that's hard to say. But anyway.

So we're over there having a good time. Food's good. We had chili, you know, perfect early fall business, that kind of stuff. And hanging out having a good time and always love seeing Richard Nadra and their kids. So that's all good. Kim's mom shows up. And what she usually does pretty quickly is either scold somebody or educate them or something about the kind of food they're eating. So it's usually like, hey, you shouldn't eat, you know, you shouldn't drink that soda.

That's trouble. You should drink water. or you shouldn't do that. She's always got some, you know, remember this is establishing her dominance fairly early on, right? Yeah. And the way she does it is nutritional things that she thinks she knows. Most of it's pseudoscience she read in some book, but still she thinks she has all the answers, right? That's fine.

Of course. It's fine. We love her. It's just, you know, and she's getting old and she's stuck in her ways and that's fine. So anyway, she's like telling people what kind of, oh, that's the wrong kind of bread. You need to have this and that and the other thing. And we're all just kind of rolling our eyes. whatever. It's nice to see Amima, and we're going along with our life. And then as the night

goes on, I notice out of the corner of my little eye, I see Mother Francis over there digging through a giant plastic pumpkin head full of candy, full of it, right? This is something she's always telling us not to eat. Don't eat candy. Yeah. It's poison. And I don't really drink or eat the shug anyway, but I see this out of my corner my eye and I just kind of scooch over there. And she's like, She's like pulling stuff out and putting to the side and grabbing this. And I go, Mima, what's this about? And she jerked. She, like, I surprised her.

And she goes, well, I'm just looking for the ones that have the nuts. The nuts are good for you. Those are good for you. And I went, let me see what you have. So she's got a handful of M&M peanut, Eminem's. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Which is, I'm sorry.

You cannot make the argument that they're suddenly healthy for you because there's a nut in the middle of it. Right. Exactly. And so she's got that, and then she's got a couple of, like, Hershey's bars that have nothing in them. They're not the almond ones or whatever. They're just plain Hershey bars. Yeah.

I said, well, what are you getting out of those? It's so healthy. And she's like, and slaps me on the hand and just kind of walks away. Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's a, you caught her in a. Yeah. Oh, nicely done. Now, if I was her, if I was her, well, whatever, I can't put myself to someone else's place.

But, you know, just ease off. You don't need to tell everybody else what to do when you can't even do it yourself. just relax it's fine i don't judge you you go ahead and have your peanut m&ms it's fine exactly but i'm gonna judge you i'm gonna shame you if you if you uh rip on everybody else for what they're eating i see over there digging into the candy heck yeah yeah super annoying you've opened yourself up yeah she opened herself up wide and i had no i had no recourse other than to ridicule her slightly for my my position what kind of peanuts are in skittles exactly mama francis so have you seen have you guys had decent cloud non-cover so you can

see the thing at night? We have not yet. Um, we've had some clouds in the west for the last, uh, well, I forgot on Sunday or didn't know about it on Sunday. And last night, the clouds were in the west. So didn't get to look at it yesterday. We're going to look tonight. But the problem with, um, with where you and I are, or at least where I'm at, you're, you're in a valley. So you've got mountains all around you. We do. So when the sun sets in the west, it's setting on a, on a mountain range. Yeah. That's what we have as well. And that means that the, the optimal time to look at this thing is when the sun is kind of going to be right there in the same place. Yeah. In the western sky, you're right. You're absolutely right. So what we ended up doing was

what we used some, he, her brother just bought some really expensive fancy binoculars. He's thinking about getting like a full on microscope. A microscope. He'll probably get into all that. But anyway, we whipped that out. And even with the sun setting and creating a bunch of ambient light, which you're right, has kind of made it more difficult. It was really visible for us for a hot second because there was tons of cloud cover for us and it just moved just enough for us to see it. So I think in the next seven days or so, it's still there and we'll be higher each day or each night. Right.

And so you should get a shot at it, everybody. Go out there and look. It's pretty cool. And I think this is one of those you only see it every 80-year type comets or something. Yeah. It's neat. Yeah, I don't know how when our next Haley's, I think we've probably had our last Haley's, right?

Or do we, is there going to be another Haley's presumably in our... It's a good question. Let's see. Let's see. Our next Haley's should be mid-261. Let's see. So, 40 years, yeah, we'll probably be around for that one. I hope so.

You know, if I don't eat those peanut M&Ms, I'll be there. Hallie, Hallie's comment. Thank you. I always get it confused. We call the Haley's growing up. We did too. So what was going on there? Who was it?

Who was supposed to be correcting us on our scientific knowledge back then? Because nobody was doing it. You know, we didn't get told. What I do know is free hotel room, Bob Peterson got two words into a tweet, into threads to us, and then we figured it out, and then he got out of it. Oh, good. Thank you, Lord. Okay, so pronunciation guide on Wikipedia says,

Comet Halley is usually pronounced Halley, rhyming with. Valley or sometimes Haley rhyming with Daly. As to the surname Hallie, Colin Rohn and one of Edmund, Halley's biographers, preferred Holly rhyming with Crawley. Oh, Crawley. Yeah. We should just call it Crawley's

comment. That's cool. Yeah. But the two, you know, if it was one L, Haley would make sense, but it is two L's. So, you know, it's Halley, which if you replace that H with a V, looks like Valley. Why couldn't ever be somebody named Jim? Like Jim's

comment you know nobody's going to go jime or gene comit jones uh comic jones is making its uh 80 year appearance let's go check out comet jones and no one will say yones or john jones i hear it's pronounce hones comet hones i would i'd stay up to get pictures of comet hones that's amazing um it hones uh also All right. When's the last time you used in Abacus, or have you ever? I've never used it to compute something, but I've used it as a decoration piece. I had one behind me for a while.

I don't think I still have it in my... Was it a large one? Like, I like a big jumbo one. Those are cool. It was about the size of two CDs, two CD cases next to each other. So not one of the little tiny ones, but one of the bigger ones. I learned, I think during the Savannah. meetup that

at Amy's Montessori school they taught them all how to use Abakai. Oh, right, yeah. I think she may have... So this came up on the show, I don't remember how long ago, and I think she may have been one of the ones talking to. That's what she mentioned it.

Yes, that's... That might be it, yeah. So we got a call about it and why... And I think both you and I were saying it was never like compulsory that we had to learn how to use the thing. Not even a little bit. Like if we had one in class,

it was used for that very, same purpose, which was a decorative piece that somebody had to dust every once in a while. Yeah, and you'd go clink, clink, clink once in a while, and you were done. That was all you did. Exactly. Exactly. It made fun noises. It was basically our Stevie Nix impression. We could play the tambourine with the abacus.

That's right. So, someone called about it, and we'll play the call now. Here you go. Hello, morning's dream. This is Thomas coming to you from New Hampshire. Just saying, hey, and you were on Monday. We're talking about the abacus. Briefly. I had one in the whole time I was in high school.

that's where I used. My teacher taught me to use it. I got to be pretty good. They called what they call secrets for adding different things and I got to be pretty good. I was not allowed to use a calculator until my senior year

and probably not until even the end of it. And even then, it was just to check my work. I got to do everything on the abigate's tail and I could use a calculator to check my work afterwards. And I don't know where that thing went to. I got out of high school, went to college.

and I probably brought my parents' house somewhere. I don't know where it is. I haven't seen him for 30-odd years now. But they were quite fine, and they're not too hard to you as if once you get the hang of it. So anyway, just thought you'd like to know. All right. You got later.

Thanks, man. Hey, here's a question for you. So you heard it very briefly in the call, but at the end of everyone, he's called before, at the end of all his calls, I usually edited it out, but his phone starts talking to him and says things like, end of line, end of line, push the thing, do the stuff. Oh, really?

Weird, like, thing. And I'm just curious, because this may be like a visually impaired feature or something. Yeah. I'm really, I want him to just fill me in on that because every time I get one, I mean to ask, and then I forget. So, uh, yeah, anyway. Yeah, I'd be, I'd be curious about that. Yeah. Uh, very interesting.

And, and the whole thing about abikai, is it abacai? I mean, I assume, right? Because you, you know, the study of the U.S. You don't say abacuses. I would assume so. That sounds better for plural and usage and things like that. Okay. The whole thing about those is fascinating because I, can you do all

mathematic functions on those? Can you do, you know, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on those things? Yeah, I was trying to make an Abacab joke earlier, Matub, and I could not figure out a way to do it. I can play the Abacab. That's not the only one I know how to use. It says here, consist of two. two-dimensional array in its earliest designs, beads could be loose. Okay, so each rod typically represents one digit of a multi-digit number

laid out using a positional numeral system, such as base 10. Let's see, though some cultures use different numeral bases, but they can still use the abacus. Roman and East Asian abacuses, oh, they don't say abacchai. Yeah, Becca says, oh, Becca says yes in square roots. I-Corps says it's not a Latin word, so you don't do the abacis, so it would just be abacuses. Oh, okay, that makes sense. It uses a system resembling bi-quanary coded decimal.

I'd have to learn what that is. Let's see. So it looks like it could do pretty close to everything you'd need. I mean, obviously we do some pretty complex stuff now that I don't think a single abacus would be capable

of with one person. You're not using it as a graphing calculator. Yeah, exactly. Also, I know it doesn't, but it would be great if, like, you hold it one way to do addition and then you flip it upside down to do subtraction. Oh, that would be great. But I know that's not the case.

No, I love that idea, though. I love that. Chat, here's a picture of an old Danish one from what year. Does it have cheese in the middle? No, it doesn't. Although the white ones look a little like cheese. They might be. They got multicolored dots.

But apparently this is like multiple cultures used some form of. of abacus without knowing each other like they weren't it wasn't stuff that was shared because they were in a completely different unexplored parts of the world but somehow people came to using this sort of bead beaded math system that's cool that's interesting I mean it's so it's so fascinating because it's what like nine columns of five beads and then another separate nine columns at the top of two beads and that's enough that's apparently all you need it's amazing there's a 20 bead thing called a that's the ti graphing calculator version what's this called this called a 20 bead wreck and wreck wreck wreck wow okay i don't know where that came from somewhere but anyway

there you go we all learned something today this one yeah this one has 10 columns interesting wow oh you got yeah i'm just looking yeah go ahead what's it just looking at the the diagram on Wikipedia of like, all right, each row is like, one, three, five, two, nine, six, four, seven, zero. Oh, it's showing the numbers. I thought, I thought those were the number, the order of the numbers you read. So it's like one, three, five, two. Gosh, it's hard to figure out like when you read the top of the abacus. Oh, is that the...

So this is something from the Incas they used. That's wild with just dangly strings. Yeah, some kind of rope with knots and where the knots were and when you tied them or whatever. It was probably a really slow version of this, but it was called an Incan quippy, or quipu. So if someone's like, oh, man, I don't know what the tip is at this place. Pull out your quipu. We'll figure it out. We'll get the 20% tip.

That looks like a dream catcher for someone like me who can never remember their dreams. Yeah. It is kind of, that's basically my dreams, too. Look at those things. It's like, blah. Yeah, it's a big barf. Well, anyway. That's really, really cool.

All right. Well, maybe for TMS Vegas, Amy will have an abacus session and teach us, you know, teach us all how to use an abacus. I can 3D print a pretty cool abacus and actually have the beads 3D printed already on the rods. Oh, yeah, like those dinosaur things that articulate. Yeah, those articulated dinosaurs like basically just have a tiny little bit of filament to hold it on the thing. But it would be very, it would be very easy to make. It would be. You could have fun, like, painting it to look like an ancient abacus or something, you know?

Yeah. I like that. One more thing here. Oh, this is, okay, so this is good to do. We're going to just remind people how TMS Fridays are going to work because you're sitting at home going TMS Friday. Tell me more. Well, I'll tell you more if you're a patron. If you're not a patron, you don't get this thing.

It's completely out of your reach. But if you are a patron. We can tell them. We can tell them even if they're not a patient. They just can't hear it. Yeah, you just can't hear it. And we'll tell you because we want you to be one. So for even the lowest entry fee, which is, what, a dollar still in our stupidly cheap Patreon,

you can get in on this and be a part of it as soon as now. Like you could sign up today and you'll have access to it Friday. But it will be happening this week. Play dates are still a thing. They will happen once a month. And so we'll have a schedule that is basically three on, one off for the play date. Playdates will still be public and available to everyone, although patrons get access to the game first.

when we do those. But this show will be purely stream. It will be streamed live on Discord. You'll have to have the Patreon roll to get in. Many of you who came to couch parties already know how that works. So it'll continue to work like that. And we'll do the live show here. Oh, good news, Brian.

Good news, everyone. We can play. Oh, you know what, that won't work, though, because I do some post on the song. I'd have to do it anyway. So never mind. I was going to say we could play the song live because we're on Discord. Oh, I thought, yeah, I was thinking we could. but uh well we can you know what we can i just have to remember i'll we we absolutely can i just have

to do a weird edit thing in the end and it's not a big deal oh all right we well we can always free that out yeah we'll figure it out if it is a pain the book but i think that'd be fun you guys never get to hear songs live now you get to hear them live and um yeah and then we'll uh we'll still be putting it all up in post and you'll get it both on the patreon and uh the video there as well patreon supports video uploads now so all the archives are always there audio as well uh the whole smear. That's right. So we got games plan, all kinds of contests. We've got fun stuff. You've got to come be part of this.

All right. So sign up if you have. I've got a trivia thing for Scott this week that I think Christopher Walken would approve of it. That's what I'm going to say about that. All right. Am I going to dance through a hotel lobby? You're going to, it's all about how you manage to

carry a stopwatch. You've got to get that uncomfortable hunk of metal. Well, in times of war, Brian, I'll do just about anything for that watch. Oh, good. Excellent. Well, then we'll find out, won't we? Yeah. I'll put it up my butt.

Anyway, if the reference wasn't cleared. That'll be on Friday. And then the next Friday, the 25th, is Playdate. Yeah, we're going... Last Friday in the month. That's right. Straight to Playdate. So don't not be there. Sign up today, patreon.com slash the morning stream. Or no, TMS. What am I saying? Slash TMS. And, yeah, this Friday, be there. It'll be great. And for you, for those who don't, get it, man, you're going to miss out. It's going to be fun. Basically, it's

TMS PM, but we're not, we're doing it in the morning. That's right. And with some changes to the format. So, you know, you know what to expect that. Exactly. And Icor, my plan is to do, um, the next guess the connection will be right after Friday's TMS Friday. So that was redundant. But basically after the TMS on Friday, uh, I'll have a little bit of a 10, 50 minute reset and then I'll, um, and then I'll do guess the connection. And where, where it ends up as a permanent location is still, I'm still deciding that, but it might be Tuesday afternoons, it might be, I don't know,

I don't know, but Friday's, Friday morning still seems to work. Yeah, so we'll see, we'll see how that all goes, but yes, you'll still have your connections to guess, and you will now have a Friday edition of the podcast, so. Sweet. Tune in. One final note from Gene from Brooklyn. There are no stops till there, is my understanding.

No sleeps. Oh, no sleeps, that's right. Geez, Scott, get your rap, right? You're basically just like you're on the subway. No stops till Brooklyn. It's your last chance to get off before Brooklyn. If you need to pee, too late. Here's what he says.

Scott and Brian, I heard you talking about the return to Oz movie and having to watch it once. This is what you watched while you were on the trip. Yeah, we did. Well, one watch isn't so bad. I had a friend that worked for Disney in the 80s, and his department's job was to watch every reel of a film looking for damage when they leave theaters.

He watched RTO or Return to Oz. Oh, oh, Return to Oz. I read that as Rio, like the Pixar or I guess that was a DreamWorks movie, right, Rio? RTO, yeah, now that makes sense. But that would have been way, that would have been way out of the 80s. That was like 2000. Way out of the 80s, yeah. Anyway, blame it on Rio, maybe.

Blame it on Rio or Retito. Watch every single reel of that movie over and over again. Says he watched this movie for a month straight. He also told me that no one ever lasted. more than a year at that job jean from brooklyn yeah a lot of turnover in a company where you're forced to watch crap oh my god watching watching return to oz just over and over and over because you know it's a nine to five job but presumably you're doing this for eight hours that's like four four watch-throughs of return to oz and the whole time you you have to pay attention to visuals

for damage and you have to pay attention to audio for damage so it's not like you can just mute it and do something else. You have to keep your eye on that damn thing and your ear on that damn thing. I would have just saved all of humanity and said, nope, this one's damaged, nope, this one's damaged, nope, this one's damaged, nope, this one's damaged. These were all bad. Just take a, take a little, I don't know, a butter knife and just mess it up a little bit. Exactly. Yeah.

Hey, listen, I would Farooza bulk at having to do that job. Yeah, yes, you would. All right. Nicely done. Appropriate use of bulk because it's someone's name. It's a pun. That's right. She will never be

Bop, bach, bach. Bok. Yeah. Fruza bach. Fruza bach. Ah, bach. All right. Just a lot episode.

All right, let's do the following, which is a bit of news. We haven't done news in a while, so let's do it. Real quick, just for fun. The name of that clip, this news clip, I call it, I don't know why I name things. the way I do. Some things are like, here's a new, this one's like, news my butt. Yeah, I have the name

in it. Like, here's the Boston logo sound or the Genesis sound or whatever. This one's called News underscore Dingle D. Dingle D. Yep. I don't know what I was thinking. That's just what I did. Anyway, Brian, this today's, this today's, today's news is brought to you by who? Eight-bit Adventures. They are streaming Stardue Valley. And we have proof. Want to know how you can see it well. You can watch it at 8-bit adventures on both Twitch and YouTube. That is the number eight, followed by the word bit, followed by the word adventures over there on both Twitch and YouTube. Nice. All right. Let's talk about this story here. We got a pet who was lost for 30 years. So 30 years. Imagine your cat. Anara's lost for 30 years, imagine. Yeah, well. Unless

there's some real magic or a time machine happening. Oh, yeah, cats don't live that long. Yeah, they don't live that long. That's a good point. It's a bad comparison. Well, anyway, they found it alive in the owner's attic 30 years later. As sad as it can be to see a sign of a missing pet hanging in the door window or on a telephone pole, it is incredibly heartwarming to learn that a fur baby has been reunited with its family. Oftentimes, the reunions happened days after the pet went missing, but occasionally it can be weeks or even years.

However, one beloved animal has all of those reunions to beat. That pet was found. Yeah, go ahead. I think we can't say fur baby. There's no fur babies that live No furry, warm-blooded pets that live past 30 Yeah, their use of furies is lame It's poor use of fur

Yeah, but I wonder if like there's any fuzz on the bottom Of like a turtle or something And they thought, well, we'll just let it hang I'm hoping somebody proves me wrong Like nope, there's a certain breed of gerbil That can live to 40 years or something like that Something like that. Let's see.

They found this pet. 30 years later after it went missing. Are they going to tell us what the pet is? They are in like the third paragraph. Oh, my lord. Yeah, eye heart. Yeah, they're bad. Okay, it is a tortoise.

That's what I thought. It is a torus. I haven't read this for a couple days because we keep pushing it. It may seem impossible for any animal to live so long under those conditions, but it's something the family pet could do because it's a tortoise named Manuel. Manuela. Manuela. Manuela.

No, no. Mr. Supermaninole. When he first disappeared, she, rather, her family just figured she got out while they were having electrical work done to their house in Rio de Janeiro. The family.

Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico. The United States. I don't want to talk about politics, but did you see his weird stand there for 39 minutes and play music thing he did yesterday.

Did you see that by chance? Is that real? Did he really? Yeah. Like YMCA and all this other stuff. But it was supposed to be a town hall Q&A. They stopped taking questions because somebody fainted. And then when they were about to restart it all, he just said, let's just do music.

And they played music while he just swayed on stage. So he didn't even do his ear floss. Not even that. It was more like just kind of bopping slowly to it. I think one of them was like November. rain from uh freaking guns and roses

how I don't understand how the the village people which has been you know they are a a pillar in the gay community have been how they're not sending him cease and desist letters

well who's left are they got like a is the Indian around who we got from that group I got the construction guy the day after the day after indigenous people's. Oh, yeah, shoot, that's bad timing. But like, is the, is the police guy around? Is he around? Yeah, I think a couple of them. I think a couple of them are still alive, the construction worker and the policeman, I think. Good. We need the public, you know, the public utility and the,

and the law enforcement. That's good. Yeah. They do need names like, they really do need names like the spice girls. It needs to be like construction spice and. Oh, yeah, dude. I would love that. Indigenous spice. leather spice because that's not really a profession just to be uh just to wear leather i love that well anyway they got the turtle back so uh oh good good thank goodness 30 years ladies or lady later sadly the family's patriarch had passed away uh right around the time the thing went missing so they'll never have the reunion but uh yeah that turtle probably outlive them all what's he living i guess he's living on

bugs and mice or something? I don't know. I don't know what you do up there. That's the other thing. They don't get into it. Yeah, as far as I know, they can't eat like a mouse or a rat or a...

Yeah, so it's just got to be... Like bugs and stuff? Like, how do you get water? Enough water up there? Yeah. I got questions now. Iheart.com. Somebody of the secret members of the family

hated that turtle was still going up there and feeding it just so he didn't have to clean up after it or something. Yeah, something about this is fishy. I can't figure out what it is. Oh, they do eat crickets. Yeah, so they do eat bugs. That's right, but just not like a...

They need a water source, though, right? Don't they need something? Yeah. And so maybe the, maybe the, I don't know how houses work down there. He consisted on nothing but a box of old, one-of-a-kind photographs. Fantastic. Of the family. Nice.

The patriarchs stuff they kept. Wedding photos. Also, that's a long time to not clean out your attic. you know yeah they're years I don't want to go up there because those poop too by the way and pee everywhere so oh they do yeah

everything poops so you'd have to everything poops sometimes I wonder if you got those buildups on its shell you know how they get if they're not fed right their nutrition is wrong like yeah those

get all spiky like right like Bowser like one of the Cooper Brothers yeah they're like the Cooper kids yeah let's see here Las Vegas hey

now this already happened but when I put it in here yeah when I put it in here it hadn't quite yet but we'll talk about it for a second Los Angeles Las Vegas is blowing a kiss or has blown a kiss goodbye literally to the Tropicana with a flashy casino implosion

I will admit to you Brian I was looking forward to seeing that video and by the time I was at least six five five six minutes into it I was annoyed by it and I stopped watching because it was It was so stupid. Just count it down and collapse the thing.

You don't need a drone show and all this other shit. The old drone show and everything. I don't know if you saw the video that I saw. But it was some news, some Fox affiliate in Vegas had a view from behind like three people. And there was the person in the middle who had their arms around the person on the left and the person on the right. And this person was so excited. Like every couple seconds, he's like petting them on the back. Oh, oh, it's coming now.

Oh, oh, it's going to be it. Oh, look at the drones. Oh, and these, like, back and forth pat and squeeze in them and, like. That would drive me crazy. It was, I got to find that video because it's unbelievable. Fox 5, Las Vegas, Amish Overlord. Do you know the one? Did you see the same video?

Sure, find that clip, Amish Overlord. We'd like to see it. Yeah. I never saw that. I've only seen, like, the kind of aerial view and the wide shots, and it just took so long and so much freaking pompant circumstance. I'm like, I know we get it. It's Vegas.

It's also a really old hotel. It's kind of a last of its kind in a weird way of an era. Like, all that stuff. I get it. But you're just gonna, just do it. Just do it. Hit the, I assume it's a box with a handle on it and they go shunk like that. I'm sure that's how it works.

I wish it was. I don't think it is anymore. I don't think they do that. I think it's just in the comics. I mean, sorry, in the movies. Yeah. Cartoons, I just saw something where they had one. What was? Oh, that Dark Wind series, my wife's finally watching,

and they have an old time you want it in a mine somewhere. It's great. Anyway, the thing is gone. Let's see. It only took 22 seconds once they finally did it. They're talking about in the future tense here, but it's happened. Here's a quote from, let's see who says this. This is from historian Jeff Schumacher.

He's the vice president of exhibits and programs at the Mob Museum. We like that place. He says, quote, what Las Vegas has done in classic Las Vegas style, they've turned many of these implosions into spectacles, says Jeff. He spells his name G-off. That's how my dad spells it. Oh, yeah? Yeah.

I like that. Did you see the S&L thing where he made fun of that? Yes, Nate Bargettze. They've done that a couple times, that Nate Bargatsy sketch. They're really funny. I love it. It is always so funny. Nope, we're going to

call it a dozen. Oh, cool. Will the other numbers have words like that? Nope. Just 12. Nope. I like where he said. So the one with Jeff was,

we will spell some names two different ways. Like, Jeff with a J, well, how would the other be spelled? The stupid way with a G or whatever he said. It was really good. So right there in our Discord is the video. All right, let's put it up.

Let's pull it up for the people. Put it up for the people. Let's watch this guy in the middle with the With the baseball cap tenderize his two friends While he waits for the TROP to Oh yeah, look at this Let me get a little audio going Yeah, he keeps patting

Why is he so Oh yeah, why is he so stoked? Where are they? Can you tell where they are? I'm trying to figure that out, so let's see There's the Tropicana They're up kind of high Yeah, what is, is that the, oh, that's the what's the

Ovo, the owl casino. So they are they are on the parking garage at MGM Grand it looks like. Okay. Is this, maybe his friend's choking and he's just occasionally.

Dislodge. It needs some help dislodging a Yeah, there he goes again. He's doing it. Oh, he's doing it. Okay, no. No, no. Okay. Shaking it out. See, this is how this goes. It goes on like this for like.

It does. It's forever. Oh, don't jiggle her like that. That's not cool. Oh, there goes. It goes down, finally. It is fun watching that shit implode. You know what's crazy about it, though? What's that?

It's just crazy. I don't know. I know this is going to sound dumb. Oh, they pull the camera back. They're on some kind of outdoor canopy thing. Oh, yeah. What's crazy about these videos to me or about implosions to me is just how weird it is that maybe a month ago,

I don't know how long they've had it empty, but however long ago, at least last year when we were there, there are people walking around up in there, living and sleeping in there, taking a dump, eating food. Oh, really? Yeah, it was open. It was open when we were there in Vegas. Waters and stuff. No, I mean, just like people.

Oh, oh, I was you just saying, like people still staying in those. Yeah, like it hasn't been that long since you could just buy a room or rent a room at the thing. I wouldn't because that's kind of a dump, but whatever. Yeah, I, you know, I did my walk through. of the Mirage, my third walk through, I think of the Mirage last time we were there, because it's just, you know, all right, now we're

really going to start the process of transitioning it to the hard rock. No, no, now we're really going to start it. Oh yeah, now we're totally going to stop the volcano, and so I get to see the volcano, I get to do all that stuff on that last visit. And it's, you know, the Mirage had some things, right?

You had the Secret Garden, Siegfried and Roy's deal, you had for a while, you had the dolphin habitat. You had what were the of the white tigers, of course. You had the volcano in the front.

You had just a really cool vibe. I was trying to think of like, oh yeah, you know the big drop of the Tropicana? It's proximity to the stairs and the bridges that take you to caliber. Everything else. Everything else.

Did they, they had a restaurant in there that was a little bit like Casabana eat it, didn't they? I remember eating somewhere that was like a jungle theme and they had like You're not talking about Rainforest Cafe, right? Maybe? That was an MGM brand.

Or maybe they had one, maybe they had something like that in Tropicana, but... I remember they had something with, I thought they were... Like macaws, like parrots and stuff. Yeah, but they were animatronic like Chucky Cheese style. Yeah, I think that's, that's, uh, reinforced cafe. Speaking of Chucky Cheese style, I don't know how much you watch that freaking robo-taxie event from a Tesla. Oh, none.

Just the clips that I've seen aired on and stuff. I watched it. It was fine, whatever. Like most of it's vaporware. Some of it may come to market. I don't know. But these robots, they're trying to be all impressive with these robots. And they were serving drinks and doing other shit.

But then people would talk to one and go, so hey, Mr. Robot, how long you've been working here or something? And then the robot would reply, oh, hey, man, what's your name? In that kind of voice. And I went. No. Hold on a minute. Something's fishy here. Turns out, and they've all admitted it now, they were all remotely, they're just puppets.

They were just Chucky Cheese. Oh, they weren't AI. No, they were bullshit. They were a big bowl of heaping bullshit. They weren't even Chuckie Cheese level. Well, Chucky Cheese, you know, you hit a button and they just do their thing until. Yeah, they were remotely controlled. So more like.

Until the middle of the night when they kill the Janet or whatever. So it's more like remote, it's like remote puppetry is what it is. That's what it was. Oh, well, that's still, that's still impressive. But the, I mean, it's impressive in the sense that. that they can serve drinks and walk around do that but yeah the you need a guy to do it and also the walking one yeah the walking ones weren't even those these are ones that were kind of trapped and then they had like a they had like a little room where they were all moving around dancing like slowly like this and i'm like yeah this was impressive when the chucky cheese did it yeah no the ones the one that we talked with at um the sphere that had the uh like that that actually looked at and talked to people in the crowd and looked at what they were wearing and made comments and just jokes and stuff like that. That was freaking impressive because that was not some dude off in a sound booth somewhere

with a video camera, hey, you in the Stratosphere T-shirt. Yeah. I mean, if I were the Tesla robot guys, I would at least hired somebody in that other room to sound roboty instead of it like, hey, man, what's going on? You guys, look at you want a screwdriver. I can make one of those, man. It's like, you're not a robot. You're just a dude.

Your name is Chet. The S-I-R-I-L-I-L-E-X-A lady are available, Cortana ladies available, and just get them to reprise their roles as the AI voices in those things. Yeah, it was really weird. Hi, can I refresh your old-fashioned? Do you need me to muddle another cherry in your drink? Oh, no, sex button pushed. I will give you a handy behind the dumpster.

Meet me behind the curtains. bring bring your USB charger please I'm low on power do you have any do you have any thumb drives that I could yeah the human's our dad anyway so that's the thing uh that's it for today that's our that's our news we're gonna come around the bend though and see our old pal Dan on the other side so get your table top ready everybody Dan will be here and that'll be coming One of my favorite Tuesdays. One of my four favorite Tuesdays is the one of the Dan shows up for.

Of the four we have, it is one of our favorites, for sure. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. So watch for that. But we can't do that without a song, Brian. So what'd you bring for the middle? Scott, I'm sorry, I brought you heartworms. Surprise, I've brought you heartworms and nothing I can do about it. Wow, we're already to the point in the year when I announced that an album that's coming

out comes out in February of 2025. Yeah, February 20, I'm sorry, February 7th of 2025 courtesy of Speedy Wonderground. You're going to be able to get this whole album which is called Glutton for Punishment. It is the debut album from this band called Heartworms which

for me sits somewhere between wet leg and you'll know why based on their talking style on the song and kind of the heavier Butch Vig produced. garbage sound.

So imagine if Shirley Manson just decided she's just going to talk during the song. You're kind of close to what you're going to hear with heartworms.

These are two things I like so you're combining this is a Voltron I can get behind. I like it. Well, you can listen to it all day long on the Shes-Lung. All day long,

Shes-Lung, all day long. This is a song called Warplane. It is by Heartworms just came out. Brand new single from them. Here are Heartworms. What's the mind?

What's the mind? What's a kind of a bit of thing? To play a war with metal to the beats. Evil though, but I thought water plate Waste a wind By my hands From my dreams

It is here They cannot twill Your friends are high Dime even higher Looking the sky Can you see a space fire What you say? Oh

Loha man We'll be free Oh, look up there We'll be far I got told To kick it I've got to hit it. Hit it.

I can defeat it. Ooh. I want to fly. I want to fly like you in the sky. Today, today, today, today, and then you way. Oh, what we see, or what we feel, and what we breathe. Is it all real? Are you not there will be free?

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Now you're just somebody that I used to know somebody. Concubines in a schoolhouse? And we're back. Brian, who was that one more time? Sure. That is a formidable South London Autour Heartworms. Has her brand new, highly anticipated debut album, Gleton for Punishment,

which comes out next year beginning of February. But this is the first single. hear it right now it is called warplane that was heartworms nice check it out you guys it's good stuff go take one of those pills for heartworm yeah take a pill for your heartworm yeah take a pill for your heartworm uh hey look at this here's a tangent for him be careful may cause drowsiness i can confirm it may it's dan dan the tabletop man joining us after a month of not seeing him which really sucks we don't like it dan far too long far too long yeah greetings programs yeah i missed you guys too it's always

is, uh, it's always hard. You know, it's, uh, we're all busy and, uh, between traveling and for, for, for, for, the time. I was just in New York for, for a, for a charity, for my charity events coming up. So I'm just, I'm everywhere, everywhere and nowhere. So I apologize for the, for the, for the length of the absence. Well, it's all right. Look, you had, um, so wait, this wedding, is this like a childhood? Uh, I know you're from Long Island or somewhere around there, right? Yeah. So it was one of those. Uh, well, it was one of my cousins, one of my first cousins, uh, she was getting married, uh, again. So, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, interesting we're all of a certain age

so like almost every like oh my cousin so we're all from divorced and then you have basically half the cousins still on their first and the other half had a mulligan before they found their true love so this was one who took a mulligan and then found her true love and you know just a little practice run sure

sometimes practice runs last a long time you know they can last 20 years and then you make a just one day you wake up and go well shit this isn't working out bye I mean we're all pretty lucky I mean statistically speaking, we are really a diamond in a rough because the three of us have found our soulmates pretty easily.

On the first try. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no do-overs between the three of us. We are bucking the trend. I think we're single, well, triple handling the upward trend of the stat. I think the stat is raised. We're raising the average.

Yeah. You know, what's interesting about going back to Long Island. Now, Scott, you are born, bred, and raised in Salt Lake, right? I was bred here, then born here, then raised here, yes. That's the order. But, but, Brian, so you, you were not originally from where you're living now, right? Oh, I'm absolutely originally from Denver. Oh, are you?

Okay. I didn't realize. Anyway, the thing about me going back to Long Island is that I can remember why to hell I don't ever want to go back to Long Island. I can just transplant everybody, if I could just transplant everybody that I love up there down here, my life would probably be perfect because as much as I loved growing up there and things, there's just two damn. many people in this world, especially on a little island. Like, Long Island's pretty big. But my God, traffic sucks. People suck. I just

we're at a certain age. I mean, I'll be 50 next year. I just hate everybody. I just like my little group of people. I just don't want to put up because everybody's just in too, I don't know. I'm trying to remember what movie it was or anything. Like, everybody's just in too much of a damn hurry. Like, you just can't live and enjoy. And you used

to be, you used to be one of those people and now you're not. And I'm feeling this exact thing. I used to be part of that rat or more part of that rat race right and now i'm so much less interested in it i'm just so like done with i think it is dudes of a certain age we hit a stage and we just go yeah like my buddy darren the other night he was going he's like what did you say it was talking about something but it was basically this idea of i used to be really tolerant of everybody around me all the time and now i'm like i don't have time for all of you like i just need to just bhrie i just want to live the rest

of my life and peace for hell sakes and get out of this traffic get out of the rat race and you know and i completely commiserated i hate everybody you know that's i know what you mean yeah yeah you like i love you guys i like my friends and family it's just um you know when people always talk about you know let's go make make new friends or or invite like listen i'll play games with anybody in the world but i think i'm full of friends like i think i got enough yeah i don't have room i mean part of the problem is we all all three of us have this online life that means we have relationships that extend beyond our neighborhood and beyond our cities and things like that. And as a result, that dance card is effing full, man. Yeah, it is. It's as high as it

gets. And so when people see me and go, you don't remember my name, I'm like, dude, I promise, I swear if there weren't 100 billion of you, I would remember your name, but I can't. Right. Right. We're doing the best we can. Every year at the charity event, I feel so bad. So I run, you know, gamers for QRs. I do the charity event every year. And we have about 50 people that are marathoners. And I always feel really bad, like when the day comes, when people are checking in. And I've, you know, I've got a list of everybody, and I recognize everybody's name, but when people come up in front of me, I'm like, who are you? Like, I feel so bad. You know, you just, you know, sometimes, and I don't know if it's a, you know, I don't want to say a medical thing.

I don't know if it's just my brain doesn't process remembering names and faces like it used to. Like, I can kind of run into a friend or you just run into somebody randomly back in New York. And I'm like, oh, crap, I know that guy. That's blown, you know, so and so. And then, like, somebody that I saw, like, less than a year ago, I'll be like, what's your name again? You know, and you feel bad. You should know these people, but. I stand behind my theory.

we all have a straw and there's only so many marbles that you can fit in there. It applies to people those are the people are marbles too folks. Yep, you put a new marble in. One pops out the back end. That's just the rule. Who am I giving up? Who am I let and go? Yeah. I wish that applied to song lyrics though. I feel like in my brain power I have so many

so much garbage stored in my brain like and it's all song lyrics. I do this with movie years and movie dates and actors. Yeah, it's weird that I you know what, Brian, it'd be cool if we could determine which marble stayed and which ones left, right? Yes. Oh, that'd be so good.

Yeah. Like, do you really need the lyrics? You have a power like Thanos though, right? Well, yeah. You can't decide what 50% are going. It's like, ooh, luck of the draw. Yeah, but you could go, okay, these three ABBA songs I don't really need to know. Let's just push those out.

And that's- Let's get really super true. Let me think about long-term memory. Take Super Trooper out immediately. Sorry, Dan, go ahead. No, no, that's okay. That's my fault. My fault.

No, think of long-term memory. So I could probably pick out like something for each one of you guys. There's probably a song from like the 70s that Brian legit hasn't heard in 35 years, but if it came on, he would know every single words. Or if we threw Scott in front of a random arcade game, you would know the pattern to beat it. You would know, right, you'd know the, uh, exactly. Yeah. The Pac-Mess is how that is.

Yeah, you put me in from. I was looking at a Pac-Mad machine this weekend. I'm like, oh, yeah, no, you'd go left down, right, down, and then around that bottom, and then up the side, and then, yeah, it's just. totally remember the Pac-Man, the Pac-Man pattern. Well, that's the problem is we were playing it when our neurons were being formed, when our brains were being pathwayed. And so some of that stuff is like early, it's like they, it's like they ran in to get the good seats.

You know what I mean? It's like, ah, fresh brain. Let's sit up in front. We're up front. And then now we're like, I need to learn how to get Python to do this for these four things. And my brain's like, where were you 30 years ago? What are you doing in here? You better write this down so you can read it again in 10 minutes.

Right after you learned it. I don't even remember press and play on this training video. How am I supposed to retain anything in this? Well, I'm glad you're going to do, we're going to do an arcade game draft on our show and we record the next geek all stars. Oh, nice. What would you think is your, what would be your favorite? Now, I'm talking like pre-2000 because I haven't played an arcade game forever and they're all generally old, so I'm sure the technology is insane now. But if you think to your childhood like 80s, 90s, what do you think would be your top arcade?

games of all time. Joust. Oh, sweet summer child. That was a great game, sweet summer child. I loved it. Sequel is not as good, but, yeah, I think the whole, if the audience isn't shouting Tempest right now, then I'd be surprised. But yeah, Tempest for me, the greatest arcade game.

Tempest is right up there for me, but I'm going to say Joust, and a close second would probably be, oh, you know what? I don't have a good second. Jouse is my favorite. Second for me. I played Jouse 2 at at the video game festival I'd forgotten so much about that game

Like it you know It came and went like a fart in the wind But it was like Jouse 2 is weird There was there was You know You had your typical buzzards People for the your enemies

Flying around on buzzards And then you had like this huge thing I cleared out the whole level In this huge buzzard Yep It was coming around I had no idea how to get rid of my landing on top of him That didn't do it

He squashed me a couple times I got them down by the fire with the hand where eggs are occasionally popping out of. Jouse 2. What a piece of crap. Yeah, 2 is not a good game. It's a terrible sequel. And also, they went to vertical screen, which is not great. It used to be wide for the, well, 4x3 for the first game.

All the platforms. Yeah. They put more platforms up higher. That was stupid. That was not the point of that game. And then the only sequel to be worse than that is DigDug 2 is the worst sequel of any sequel. Oh, that's pretty bad. And Dick Doug was actually what I was thinking might be my second favorite.

I do like Dick Doug a lot. yeah there's a lot there's too many i think my two might be uh tron and then gauntlet because that tron game was amazing tron was good brian kicked my ass in tron in vegas the great thing about tron is that uh there's variety like you've got four different games in one and not like those games are very robust and and have a lot of depth to them but but there there's some at least you've got your you know you've got your four very different games yeah i like discs of tron because I don't know why I just climbed onto it, but Brian's right.

There was like your quarter got you a lot more game in Trong because there was like all these different games, but I was kind of bad at it. Oh, I know what it would be. It would be, for me, it's probably asteroids is my second. Oh.

Asteroids just ate my life up for many years. I wanted an asteroids where the instead of buttons to push to turn left and right, you had a knob. Why couldn't they make an asteroid where you turn a knob to change the direction your ship is facing they totally could have yeah they could have

I don't know why they did they feel like that was too easy or something or is it just because they just wanted to be probably they didn't have it program it wasn't programable at that time and yeah who knows I mean it certainly I got used to the you can do now yeah oh yeah I mean I got used to the two buttons because we had one in the house

so of course I got used to it but but I have nothing but fond feelings anyway sorry we went too long on how many arcaneans are like where are we uh where are we with uh dragons layer like do we think that's uh like that would be the one it was the first one i can remember that was like two quarters yeah 50 cents if you didn't do the quick time fast enough it's like oh yeah you just put two quarters in and you're done yeah it was a it was a one of those games where you barely

can call it a game because it was more of a interactive movie and the interaction was low it was like go left or right yeah go up or down yeah you had to memorize it's a one button it's a one button game right it's like uh you know there's not a lot to it um and it's a quarter eater it's in a innovative but it didn't have a lot of replay value for me no a lot of people love it because of what how how novel it was but the better game was space ace the follow-up space ace was had a lot more they had more choice so you could do different things and not just die for no reason it was less about memorization but even then it was still a bunch of that so yeah the laser disc fad it's a weird one because when my dad was in arcades or when he was running arcades the laser disc games broke every time sure they never

worked well. They would break down all the time. Maintenance on those was terrible. The reason they were 50 cents or more was because they just were impossible to maintain. You'd go to arcades and the only machine that wasn't working was always the Dragon's Lair machine. So I think there are a lot of people out there who loved that. I love it

for different reasons though. I love what's his name who made it. Don Bluth. Don Bluth. He loved his movies. He was a great he's a local dude. You grew up in Provo so we were all like super proud of that and then he left Disney. He was like a rebel and went and all made all his movies without Disney, and that was a big deal.

And then he made these games and was like, yeah, dude, greatest cartoonist slash animator of all time. That was mostly why that game was good and it was less about the game itself, you know. Yeah, I think that was more of the fun one to watch. Like, if you had somebody that was a whale that had like all the quarters in the world and you're like a 10 year old kid who's broke, you just sit there and watch somebody who was really good at it and it was real fun to watch. Yeah, and then you got to see, you saw a movie, exactly. And the girl was kind of hot and barely dressed and we were all horny. So that was a thing.

The little cartoon lady you saved at the end. Anyway, so, so Dan, I have a feeling you're on a, you're on a theme here. There's a theme going with these arcades. Yeah, and it's funny. So a lot of this is unintentional, but somewhat intentional. So another great cabinet from back in the day is, is that the lingo? Sure. You could say cabinet, yeah, you could say that.

Yeah, cabinet console or a cocktail. Yeah, whatever. No, what's the, what's the, the, sit-down ones were a cocktail. narrower like cameo was that one uh is that the ones they put on the bar or they were they stand up still they still are stand up but they were a lot narrower and lighter yeah they had a name but i don't remember was it cameo yeah

i can't remember we only ever had stand up in cocktails and then a couple of my dad built himself but they were still sort of in those categories right anyway yeah so the mn t the ninja turtles was one of the one of another great four player one that uh you know kind of i think four players when they started getting into that sort of thing revolutionized you know arcade games but also one of the great IPs of the time.

But now, up now, I don't like to go too much on Kickstarter. You know, I don't want to show state favoritism for, I usually just like to talk about games that are out. But this is a really good one. This is from Restoration Games. It's up on Kickstarter right now because the unmatched game is just an amazing kind of, you know, one-on-one game when you play unmatched, you know, battling. And it's also, Scott, you would love this too because there's also a Steam version.

I don't know if you've ever played the Steam version. Oh, no, I didn't. It's amazing. I didn't know that was a thing. I'll check it out. Oh, you should check it out. Absolutely great because you can play it solo. It's got a great tutorial to learn the game.

And then if you happen to get any of the boxes, because there's a lot of different, you know, and you can basically mix and match all the things in unmatched. Like you can play Robin Hood fighting Bruce Lee or, you know, and what they've got now is a co-op version. So a couple years ago, they put a Kickstarter out for unmatched adventures, which had basically Mothman and then Martians, where it was basically co-op.

And you could put any of the old kind of, you know, characters into there or any of the IP characters into that along with the ones that came with the game. Now they've got a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that's up on Kickstarter now, and it's amazing. It's really cool how you're going against Shredder and all the others in the TMNT universe, and you're going to get the four turtles, obviously, with it. But the way these games work with co-op is you can swap in, like, King Arthur with a couple of turtles and then throw in Alice in Wonderland, you know, in or He-Holk, you know, because they have some Marvel adventure, you know, Marvel sets, and just play the game.

So this is amazing. it's up there now. Brian, I don't know if you've ever, have you ever played much unmatched? I've never played any unmatched and I just popped open Steam just to see if I've, if I've gotten a copy gifted or something,

but it doesn't look like I have. So I might have to check out, I might have to check it out as a digital version first and then just see about the game. I like these systems that you can, it's sort of IP independent, right? You can just, I suppose that's true of any game if you did it hard enough,

this idea that you can take a basic rule set and then apply a whole different theme to it and still maintain the gameplay integrity, that's really cool. I like that. Yeah, I don't know if you can do it with things like versus or villainous or things like that, but it is clever when you're able to create your game.

I think of the villainous system, if you can use like the Star Wars with the Disney, I think that's kind of made to, it'd probably be a little weird, but a versus system is a pretty universal system too. There's also a system out It's funny that you got that, Brian, because the next game is from a company that does things like that, where it's all IP, and it's all interchangeable.

Universis, the UVS kind of universal system, they kind of, their IP license came together with Wise Wizard games. And now, you guys may have remembered, Scott, this is a perfect game for you. And Brian, you probably play this. So it's Star Real Realty to Understand Rules is what you mean. That's what you mean by that. That's exactly. 10-second deck builder rules, the Star-Relms. also has an app out, and it might even be free,

but Star Realm's app is amazing. And the system is also kind of, there's a game called Epic, which is also a deck builder that's also a similar system. But anyway, they're putting out, with their UVS games and Wise Wizards, putting out Star Trek Star-Relms, which has all kind of the different ships. It's basically just a re-skin of Star-Relms, but it's amazing because, you know, they use the real ships from, like, Klingon Ships. Oh, Star-Relms.

I own this in like five versions of this. I have the Steam version. I have the iOS version. I love Star Realms. Holy shit. I had no idea. Sorry. Oh, it's so good.

Yeah, I forgot the name. The name wasn't ringing a bell, but it's all skin like Star Trek. I am all in, dude. I will play the shit out of those. You know, all the ships, they replace all the ships from regular Star Real Star Reals with, like, whether it be Klingon, you know, or the, you know, they've got the Federation. We've got like the USS Shenandoahs on a card or the Macong, the Cochran. Like, they've got all these ships. And, and again, that may not be cool.

for people who don't really care, but for people that love Star Wars, Star Trek, just having a new kind of version of Star-Relms with these ships is really cool. I mean, it's something minor, and these games are not all that expensive. I think this one is only about $20 when it is out. Because they sent me an early copy,

and I just can't stop playing this. It's awesome. It's really cool to have that universe on there. Because they've already had, like last year they came out with a Star Wars, the deck-building game, which is very similar to what this kind is. It's kind of very similar to Star Realms,

a little bit different, but regular Star Realm's with the Star Trek licenses is really cool. I can't get enough of either one of those licenses. I hope it says doing a quick search. Star Realm's still a digital thing you can get on various platforms, but I don't see this. They don't have a digital version of this yet. Not the Star Trek idea.

It looks like just the generic. No, no, that one won't. They probably won't ever be able to do that. What's the IP, man, a bug guy Fitsy, I'll tell you, like IP law is the weirdest thing. And when it comes to games, it's, it's nuts because you can have all the licenses for maybe card games, but you don't really have it for quote-unquote board games. That's also a similar, you know, that's a separate thing. And then when you have, you may have all the licenses to all, like the, what is it?

There's the Marvel, the Marvel deck building game. Versus. A legendary. Oh, legendary. Right, right, right. Yeah. So Marvel Legendary, and they've got all, they've got a million sets. It's probably like 25 to 35 sets of Marvel Legend.

It's a great, great game. But they don't have the license to put that out digitally. So if you look, there's actually a legendary app that they put out, that upper deck put out, but they don't have the licenses to use any of the Marvel characters digitally. So they've got to basically have just generic fantasy when they put it out. And it's a pretty good game anyway, but it's really weird. Yeah, that is weird. Well, that's unfortunate because it would be an instant buy for me,

but also I think I want the tabletop version. This looks great. I love that game. I played Star Rome's like a wild person. My only complaint was the art was just like passable. Like it was not art, but just like the presentation. It wasn't, you could tell us it was just like a budget, you know, constrained thing. Yeah.

I mean, it's so like, it's so generic that it's almost AI. I mean, I'm not accusing it being AI, but you know what I mean? Like it's that generic of ship things. Yeah. But I mean, when you look at these cards, my God, there's just, it's just so cool to see, you know, the red talon, you know, the bird of prey. and crap like that. I mean, it's just really cool

to have those ships out in front of you. I mean, of course, thematically, you got to kind of shelve, you know, you got to shelve your brain a little bit, you know,

the willing dispension to this belief because meanwhile, you may have a Romulan ship, a Clingon ship, and a federation ship attacking somebody else, and you're like, well, that's kind of weird, but, you know,

you got to just, it's just a game, yeah, it's just a game, remember that. I was trying to buy it or see if it was like on Target or anybody's got it.

I can't find it for sales. It's just not out yet? Or is it It might So I knew it's coming out The end of the Like third Fourth quarter

But I just don't know Exactly I've been trying to find out Like what their exact prices And when the exact release date is But it's got to be any day now Because it's got to be

Available for the For the holidays You would think Because this would be a huge You can get it on Amazon For 2499 Two day It is for sale

Okay It is for sale on prime Only 15 left in stock So Hurry it up I might get it I might get this I put so much

time into that game? I think it was Dan who originally told me about Star Realms. I think we're coming full over here. Oh, yeah, way back when. And don't worry, I'll make sure that Santa drops off a couple unmatched sets to your doors for this holiday. Ooh, I like it. Oh, you're too nice, man.

That's too nice, but also we demand it. All right? We demand it. Well, this is great. Go check it out. Read all about it, of course, on board game geek. They have a full write-up on how this thing is, reviewed really well. And the TMNT thing still happening. Give me the name of that again, so people know what to search for a Kickstarter.

It's unmatched adventures. It's unmatched adventures. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Restoration Games. There it is. Yep. Cool. Get it. Really solid company. We'll put that link in our Discord as well. You guys can go check that out. And Dan has never let us astray. So check out what he's got selling there. Well, I don't know about that. There's probably some duds in some of these ones that somewhere somebody's probably like, oh, that game sucks. But I try to bring you only the only the best that you would like you know you know of course we've got i always have to have the disclaimer of the scott games and the brian games yeah yeah i know i do love that yeah and that

does come up that came up a lot during uh table top time in savannah like oh this is scott game we're going to be did i cut out no no no i'm just i'm just laughing at the the the unrelenting usage of scott doesn't know how to read rules it's amazing totally like oh here's my gold mine it's totally a scott game awesome oh yeah yeah the team is even smaller than Scott. Like, Tina checks out if the rules are a full page. Like, she needs, she needs a rule set that's the size of the top card in the deck. Well, it's good to have someone with me.

Yeah. In my defense, Scott, you made one of the, the biggest tabletop meme cartoons ever made as one of your cartoons. So I do have some defense for the rules thing. Yeah, no, I mean, I basically poked fun of myself in that comic. So, uh, the irony is the game, the fate. game he's playing in that comic ended up being the name of an actual card game I made. I ended up producing

it was dungeon murder on that box. Oh, did you use dungeon murder? I ended up using it, yeah, from that comic, yeah. So there's, you know, it's a twisted tale, that whole thing, but you're not wrong. Dan, it's always good having you on. Tell people where they can find your stuff and what you maybe have coming up. Well, I've got

coming up, so on 11-9, so it's in a few Saturdays, I believe it's Veterans Day weekend, I believe it's the weekend that it is. So it's 11-9, 24, is when Gamers for Cures, 11 will be held in Carrie, North Carolina. If you would like to help out, I will have, you can go to gamers for cures.com where you'll be able to have a link to donate. And it's all, you can print out your tax receipt right there.

We're a 501c3 or 3C, whatever it is. We are a tax-free organization, so you can donate. Everything goes to Turner Syndrome Society of the Carolinas in U.S. And you can print everything out right there. One of the biggest things people want is within the next two weeks, we will have the wall. It's what we call the wall is we have about 90 games that are donated. And you can go over to the gamers. Armory.com and you can

buy dollar raffle tickets and you can decide which ones. You can basically buy raffle tickets to specific games and then we put them in there so you know what you want to try to win and then if you win something we'll ship it out to you. You know, you've got a paper shipping but you can win things that are on the wall, some really good rare games. We even have a Frosthaven

that Cephala Fair donated so you can win all sorts of really cool stuff on the wall and it's always a great fundraiser. We do it every year. It's a lot of fun. If you happen to be somewhat local or if you want to travel to North Carolina, just go to the website. You can sign up there, or if you want to shoot me an email or shoot me on Twitter,

a message or anything, you want some more information. Again, we have the, it's basically an eight in the morning to 2 a.m. You can be a marathon or we supply breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Not really great swag bag and all sorts of giveaways throughout today. Damn, look at you guys, making it happen. I love it. Go check all that stuff out. Dan's always good having you on, man.

Have a fantastic month until we see you again. Take care, boys. Bye now. See you. See you later. Bye. Bye. That's it for the show. We're done. That's a Monday. Yep, sew it up. Pack it in.

Really? Sell it. I don't know. Can't sell it. But we do want to thank our patrons for helping us sell it. At least you guys are helping it stay on the air. So thank you for that. And again, look forward to Friday. Friday TMS. Happy to do it. It's right. Coming up in three days. Tomorrow we got recommendals. We got the return of Tom. Yep, Tom Merritt. We'll be here. We'll have, oh, that's right. gone last week with the dog neutering. We'll see how that went. We'll check the testicles of his dog.

You can't neuter a dog unless you start first thing in the morning. That's right. Today, later today, later today, let's see, is it noon our time? Or 11 our time. Oh, it's the other Apple. No, no, no. I'm doing, well, maybe there is one today, but I'm doing the, it's the word on the street podcast is live and I cannot remember my damn time.

Why? I thought there's some other thing this month where they're just not quietly announcing the the next ipads or something i can't remember what it is like some something's getting refreshed or maybe not oh ipad minis i think they just announced it ipad minis are getting a new gen chip that's in the newest phone and they can use the pencil and there was something else with it a bunch of colors that's what it was oh and the intelligence crap will be on there so that's i think that's what it was uh yeah today 12 noon word on the street live me and gregg and uh guests talking about their play test they had yesterday. Pretty exciting. Nice.

That'll do it for now. Brian, let's play a song and get us the F out. Okay, this is a little bit of a sadder dedication, but it's going out to our friends who I mentioned earlier, J.K. Grammer and Sarah Grammar. She just goes by Sarah. She should go by Sarah Grammar too on the thing. Or he should take her last name because she's cooler than him. Take that, Jake. Oh my gosh. Such, such shade. thrown at jk oh my gosh uh yeah they they had to say goodbye to their sweet 13 year old dog o hula on sunday uh they say she's been getting worse with her hips and mobility lately when we came home this morning from the arcade thing she couldn't get up we had to have carry her so she

could go outside to go to the bathroom we knew it was time when she wouldn't eat even a treat she was only a few weeks old when sarah found her abandoned in a parking lot i myself was lucky enough to be her doggy daddy for almost three years she was absolutely the sweetest dog you could ever ask for. We're going to miss her terribly. By the way, if this cover doesn't work, whatever cover that Brian could suggest would be great. Thanks so much.

Love you guys. I sent Brian a photo over at a show just how much of a sweetie she was. And she is totally sweet. I'll put that in the link here in just a second. There are specific requests, something we've played a couple times before, but, you know, for this I'll always honor

someone's first request. This is the cover of somewhere over the rainbow, the ukulele version by Israel, Kamika Viva Ole, the late ukulele performer from Hawaii that does such a great version of this song. Going out to Sarah and J.K. Grammer here for Hulu is Over the Rainbow.

Oh, ooh, somewhere over the rainbow over the rainbow. Way of hide And the Dreams that you dream of Once in a love Abide Ayo Somewhere

Over the rainbow Bluebirds fly And the dreams that you dream of, dreams really do come true. Someday you wish upon a star, wake up where the plows are far behind. Be where trouble milks like lemon drops, High above the chimney top, that's where you find me, oh, somewhere over the rainbow, bluebird's fly.

And the dream that you did too, oh, why can't I. Oh, someday A wish upon a star Wake up where the clouds are far behind Me Where travel melts like a lemon drops High above the chimney top is where

You find me Oh somewhere the rainbow way up high and the dreams that you dare to why

why can I I I ooh ooh Ooh, ooh. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes. Get more at frogpant.com. Nobody's innocent.