The Morning Stream - TMS 2726: Loppity Hoppers

Episode Date: October 28, 2024

Where’s my free stuff. Doink Doink! Bracing for Snow. Kia TARDIS. Incessant Talking is NOT a Sport. Eternal Head Planet. hungry for a guy on a guitar. Do You Even Lyft, Uber? Amazon Flex abili PEE. So You Can EAT REESE. Never insert your tape. Early Beef. It's been, Two weeks since you spoiled the show. my doctor gave me a protagonist last week, all good! Gettin' Grotesque with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a week of spooky horrors and creepy crawlers, and also a week of TMS. So get into our Patreon and join the party, patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, where's my free stuff? Doink, doink. Bracing for snow. Kia Tartis. Incessant talking is not a sport. Eternal Head Planet.

Hungry for a guy on a guitar. Do you even lift Uber? Amazon Flex alibi pee. So you can eat Reese. insert your tape. Early beef. It's been two weeks since you spoiled the show. My doctor gave me a protagonist last week.

All good. Getting grotesque with Stephen and more on this episode of the morning stream. We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much for so long with so little. We are now qualified to do anything with nothing. That made Jesse Ventura feel pretty good. The Morning Stream. Get your bleep and tannico out of my face. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another edition of the Morning Stream for Monday, October 28th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. And that's Brian Nibbitt.

Happy brand new week, everybody. Mm-hmm. Tickling the High Halloween. Just a little bit of little bit of little. Right over there. That's why I'm wearing the shirt here. I've got the, this is my Dia de los Merto. Oh, I like it. Shirt with all the dancing skeletons and

it's a party. It's a skeleton party going on on my shirt. And you're like, well, Brian, why don't you wear it later this week? Because today, it's going to be over 70 today here in Denver. The rest of the week, eh, not so much. A little colder. I'm jealous. I'm jealous because I think our, I'm jealous because I think our temperatures are now officially down for good.

We're like, we're in the 50s today. I think Max, it's still not bad, right? But it's like 32 overnight. And, yeah, I think we're done. I think the warmish, warmish October has left us. And we'll soon leave you. And then now it's, you know. Soon leave us.

Yeah, today it leaves us. We get it today. And then it's right off to the east or wherever it's going. I don't know where it's going. Can't wait to brace for snow. I'm kind of fine with that. Wednesday we're supposed to get some potential weather in here. We might actually get snow, but definitely getting rain, potentially snow.

And I'm on board. I'm good with that. You're all right with it. You're cool? Yeah. I think I, you know what? I wouldn't complain. I would just go, all right, here we go.

Lock it in for a couple months. This is what we get, and that's fine. Make some chili. Yeah. Crush us some crackers and put them in there. And a couple twink twinks of tobasco sauce on it. And boom, Bob's your uncle. You know, I never thought of a sound effect.

Chilula, actually. Chilula's better, yeah. I never thought of a sound effect coming out of that bottle, but I do now. So thank you for that. Doink, doink, doink. I have to do it very carefully so it doesn't look like I'm performing a sex act. Yeah. Doink, doink.

You have to go the other direction, and then you're in big trouble. Right, exactly. Well, anyway, yeah, it's, I hope everybody else is having, you know, fall, nice fall weather. It just feels good. I've been listening to, I was telling the chat this earlier. I've been listening to a lot of folk music for some reason. and I do this every fall I don't know why

I just get I get hungry for like a guy on a guitar a lady on a guitar just kind of poetically singing shit I don't know

what are your go-toes like do you do the Mumford and the Sons the what are the not the Langalears that was a movie the Lumineers the

well for me it's things for me it's like for me it's like this Alexi Murdoch guy I only listen to him about once a year and it's not that he's not good the rest of the year. It's just this kind of music is just for whatever reason.

The season inspires you. Yeah, it's like soup weather and, and his kind of music weather. And if you haven't heard Alexi Murdoch, I discovered him, actually funny enough, with you in the movie Real Steel. Yeah. He did that song called All My Days, which I was like, where is that? I got to find that. And as soon as I got home, I looked it up and tracked him down. And his whole catalog is great. That guy is very good, although he's only had a single album, which is weird to me. oh really wow but his songs are all awesome just hit it and get out is what he did i guess so and then there's this new uh this girl named lanny gardner and she was or is it laney i'm not sure i say it l-a-n-e probably laney um she was originally just a high school kid making

music in her room and putting it on tic-tok and youtube and stuff and at one point she did an amazing you probably heard this this amazing cover of fleetwood max um Oh shit, which song was it? I can't remember the song she did. Here, I'll look at it. Actually, I have it right here. Let me see. She has this new album out.

She got her first album called A Songwriter's Diary. And in particular, there's a couple songs in here, like Somewhere Nowhere in California. Sorry, Somewhere, Nowhere in Carolina. Dreams, that was it. It's an amazing cover of Dreams and it kind of skyrocketed her a little bit. So anyway, it's her first album. It's very good. If you like kind of a quiet retrospective thing, it's called a Songwriters' Diary.

He's fantastic. Her voice is insane. She is that I see a song title of Cry Me a River. Is that a cover of either the Timberlake song, Justin Timberlake song, or the Julie London? I don't, you know what?

Good question. Let me play just a movie of your river. Does that sound like that? No, that is not, that's definitely not the Julie London. That might be the, that might be the justice. Yeah, it might be B,

um sorry you cut out timber Timberlake that was a long cut out sorry I didn't oh was it okay so it kept the Justin but not the Timber yeah I missed that you said Bieber yeah I thought you were going Bieber for some reason I don't know why the much better Justin yeah yeah let's see somewhere nowhere in Carolina is the song people should seek out it's her title

track not title track top track number one track on there yes the opening opening track really good like her range is great I just think she's awesome so it's that kind of stuff though just sort of, I don't know. It's just like my comfort music food during this time of year. I'm enjoying it. Cool. All right, we got a few things to get into here.

We have a recommendal for a Monday. We don't usually do that because, you know, we do it on Wednesdays. But it's not us making the recommendation. It's somebody in the chat. Or excuse me, someone out in the listenership who says, Good Morning, Silent, and Bob. I wanted to recommend a heartfelt movie for you by Tyca Watiti. It's called Next Goal Winns.

it stars Michael Fastbender coaching an American Samoa soccer team how I described it to my wife was if Roy Kent coached a team full of Ted Lasso's otherwise I have high affection for the show someone named Scott well Scott love it actually never heard of it must be newish

or it is the last couple years yeah I remember seeing trailers for this and then Tina said oh yeah we've got to make sure to watch that when it comes out on streaming and we never did and it's got like from the trailer like a little bit of a cool running vibe. Let's see. I'm going to look this up. Just so I'm going to

mark it on my wish list or whatever you call it on Real Good. Yeah. There you go. Tina and I share an Apple notes that we add stuff to and I started doing that with Kim. It works great. It's so good. Yeah. And you can do

it as a checklist so as soon as you check something off it drops down to the bottom and then I can remember to pull from the bottom when I'm using stuff for recommendals. Here it is. Oh, it's, yeah, just last year,

2023. It is currently on Hulu, it looks like, so available. Yeah. Not bad. Oh, it also, no, just Hulu, it looks like. Yeah, well, you know what, Scott? We will look it up and check it out.

From one Scott to another, thank you for your Monday recommendal. I'm so glad. I'm so glad when you said, we got a message from Scott, you didn't say, oh, it's not me. Yeah, yeah. I just want to be.

When it's from a Brian, you go, yeah, but not either of you. I can't help it. It's just in me to always make sure people know which Brian. I love it. No, I'm glad you do it. Absolutely. To our listener who helps make real good, it is, I'm now fully on board. I've used, I use nothing else.

I love it wherever that guy is. So right back in, he was supposed to send us T-shirts. Remember that? Oh, yeah, yeah. Where's our T-shirts real good? Well, I did get mine. He was supposed to send you one. Oh, shit.

I didn't get one. or if I did, I don't know about it. He sent me, and that was years ago. Like, this is, it's one of my go-toes, actually. In the summertime, if I'm just doing a T-shirt, it is, it's one of the ones I pull out. So you better make sure, I could have sworn when he sent them out, you talked about how comfortable it was and how surprised we both were when we received them. It's entirely possible, but then when we brought it up again, he wrote in and said, hey, remind me your size, I'll get another one coming or something. Oh, cool.

And that's what I haven't heard back from. So I'm not saying, I am not one of those people. people that's going to sit here and say hurry up and send me my shirt okay I don't feel that entitled where's my free stuff for being a podcaster that's right but I will wear it and I'll wear it proudly yeah and I already tell people to use the service because it's awesome I like it a lot it's so good it's yeah I don't I I don't want to um the same thing negative about just watch but I I like real good so much better yeah I know they both have a lot of manual work to do for whatever reason, real good's just doing a better job.

You might say they're doing real good, Brian. They're doing real good. Real good. Real good. All right. I got a little shout out to help a pal out. You guys know Jamie, the TMS mashups guy. He also does a lot of stuff for core, a notable voice in our community, doing neat stuff for us and you guys all the time. Normally, we're not real pro on like, let me mention somebody's GoFund Me, but this

dude has been through some shit lately pretty rotten time middle of a like a nasty divorce and it's not coming from his side. A very messy yeah divorce and there are kids involved which sucks. Yeah really sucks. A messy divorce is one thing but when there are kids involved that makes it suck even more

yeah and so to retain a lawyer and keep things going the way it needs to go it's not easy it's not simple and it certainly isn't cheap so I'm going to recommend people go check it out just a chance to help with his legal fees and you can find it over and go fund me I made a tiny URL for it Tiny URL.com slash TMS Jamie.

That's J-A-M-I-E. And there, you'd probably search GoFundMe for it as well. But if you want to find it quick, that's the fastest way. Again, tiny URL.com slash TMS Jamie. And if you can help out, please do. Help her brother out. TMS mashups, core mashups he did. Yeah, he's a really, really good guy.

Yeah, he's super nice. And now he's driving for Lyft. He and I talk about that all the time about, like, what do you do when a customer does this? or what do you do? What does this mean when this comes up on the app? So I guess he's actually driving for Uber, but a lot of my advice works for it works across the board for all the rides, share programs.

Is Lyft, maybe Lyft is less prominent in Canada or something? It might be, yeah. Yeah, I think he ended up like a better, it was a better onboarding deal, an offer that he just got with Uber than he would have gotten with Lyfts. That reminds me. When I picked him up at the airport, I saw a car that had a neon sign in the back window that said,

Uber and Lyft was the full neon. Yeah. Uber and Lyft probably, do they care at all that you're doing both? No. They don't care. Okay. No, they don't care. I personally, and people ask, you know, they get in the car and every once in

while I get a question like, do you do both Uber and Lyft? And I basically say, no, I don't have the attention span to do both because you really, you have to have the best Uber and Lyft dual drivers have a second phone. They basically have phone mounts on their dash. board one with Uber one with lift and then they keep them both running as soon as they get a ride with one they look and see where it's going and they accept and then cancel on the other one and and then you have to then you're going back and forth and you're trying to keep track of which one and the benefit obviously is that you get more rides that way you you waiting for another ride

I'm not I don't do it enough to where I care yeah about you know if I was doing a full time? Yeah, I'd care, but I'm doing, I think, I'm averaging out about eight hours a week doing Lyft and Uber, which is like four days, a couple hours a day or three, three hour days or whatever. Sure. And some, I know some people do this with like the food things too, right? They'll have. Yeah, the DoorDash and Uber eats and stuff like that, yeah, which I've thought about switching over to. I'm kind of waiting for my Amazon Flex. I'm on the wait list for Amazon Flex, which is no passengers. I just go to Amazon. I pick up a big stack of boxes. I load up the app. It tells me the path I'm driving. And somebody was telling me 120 that they're getting

on average about 120 for three hours worth of work. I'm like, well, that's better than what I make with Lyft. I'll totally do that instead. That's not bad. That's not bad at all. I'm surprised by that. So what's the difference between that and their actual Amazon trucks? Like I assume they're just adds on. Like basically, you know, if they get stuff that is 24-hour, like prime same day, then it might go to an Uber, I'm sorry, an Amazon Flex driver as opposed to someone in the morning who loads up their truck at 5 a.m. kind of thing. Okay.

And it's probably stuff that maybe, I assume it more, not that you're in one, but in rural areas you're going to have more opportunity for smaller quick drive-outs and stuff like that exactly and it's like you know they basically figure out roughly how much you can deliver in a hour period and they give you that much and you might you know you might have an like couple amazon distribution hubs close to you and it'll just say yeah there's one right here oh and there's one right here you're going to go to one of these two and pick this up and tell you which one and and then you load it up so that's interesting you have to have a car that can hold all of it too so the oh yeah that's the question how

How much cargo do you have to have? The key of soul, if I don't have a passenger, I just flip the back seat down. I've got tons of cargo space. That's a great. Yeah. The Kia Soul is the TARDIS of the mini SUV world. It's surprisingly roomy inside. It does not look like it would be as roomy inside.

But if you've got people in the back seat, very little cargo space in that little mini trunk back there. Yeah, fun fact, too. You would automatically have better working conditions. than most Amazon employees. I would for sure. You know why? Because I can listen to my own music. What I want to.

I can listen to podcasts and a lot of... You can stop and find a bathroom somewhere. I could stop and pee. Yeah. You don't have to have a bottle in the car. I mean, you can, but you don't need to. You don't have it. Could you imagine, though?

Like, I stop and stop at a Starbucks, go inside, pee, come back, and my car's been stolen with all the Amazon packages or... Oh, my gosh, dude. It's like, no, no, I'd pee it before I... The Amazon Fleck. Pee before you flex. That's their show title. P.B.4 you flex.

Do you have to have anything on the car to designate your car, like a sticker or anything now? Which also, you know, it looks sketchy, right? Like, car pulls up in front of your house, sitting there for a couple minutes. Then a guy gets out and puts a box on your porch and takes a picture of it and then leaves. It's like, okay, there's no, there's no Amazon anything. I think you get a vest or something. I bet that's it. Oh, cute.

Monica can clarify a little, yeah, just to show that you're, you're, you know, officially an Amazon guy, that you didn't just pick this up off of somebody else's porch and put it on theirs. I like it. I like it. Those people, the Australian bike dancer lady that everybody made fun of incessantly. It's Raygun. Yeah.

She looked like she was an Amazon driver to me. Those clothes they wore? Totally. Green jumpsuit. Do you think you're going to see? I was amazed I didn't see anybody dressed as Raygun at the Halloween parade, but I'm wondering if I'm going to get some Raygun trick-or-treaters who do the, you know, do the, the Ray-gun Pose.

Got you, right? Somebody has to. I assume so, yeah. I've seen video of it. Some people are doing it for sure, but I don't,

you know, how many kids are keyed in on that? I don't know. What'll happen? I feel so bad for that woman because she was, you know, her country sent her to the Olympics. It wasn't like she snuck in.

Like, this was, you know. And she's a, by all accounts, a really nice lady doing cool stuff in her life. And she had to hop off of, uh,

social media for a while. I don't even know if she's back on social media. Yeah, she teaches kids something or another. She's like a nice lady. Exactly. We were way too hard on her. But I do kind of hope we see some costumes. I can be, I'm of two brains.

I'm of two minds on the issue, right? Yes, right, right. Like what you did was funny, me, me, and ridiculous, but also I hope you're okay. You know? Exactly, exactly. And you know what? You made it to the Olympics. Scott and I?

No, not happening. No, I tried. They wouldn't let me in. Yeah. I was going to come to. Um, incessant talking and, uh, see how I do. Exactly. It turns out not a, uh, not a, not a real sport.

No, I was hoping an exhibition at least, but they cut us out and said, sorry, guys, you're out. Right. Exactly. Yeah. Hey, uh, we got, uh, some stuff on rabbit breeds. We were talking about lop-eared rabbits and my rabbit growing up named Fang. You used to use a, uh, what do you call it, a cat litter thing to poo every day? Oh, yeah, used to use a litter box.

Yeah, it was great. And, uh, we got this. Hey, Satan and Belgian hair. He says, yes, these are rabbit breeds. breed. So there's a Belgian and I guess satin, not Satan. Satin, yeah. I'm just so used to, I'm so used to people saying, I have a Satan rabbit. So many people say Satan and Beelzebub, but just I couldn't help it. Anyway, I'm listening to Episode 2725 and Scott mentioned he used to have a lop-eared rabbit as someone who shows rabbits with American Rabbit Breeders Association, or the Arba. Says I'm running what type of lop it was. I didn't know you called them that for short. The Arba currently, or the ARBA currently recognizes four days. different lop breeds. The smallest being Holland Lop, the next being the mini lop, then the English Lops, and then the largest being the French Lop. My memory is English Lop. I have a memory of that term. It was a fairly big rabbit. It wasn't huge, but it wasn't small. It was

like a, I don't know, about the size of a, let's say bigger than a cat, but smaller than a average dog. Wow. Okay. That's a pretty big rabbit. That's pretty large. Yeah. There's a big rabbit. And if you pulled his ear, held his ears up, it was like that. Like this, like the head in the middle, you'd hold him about like that. Great, big ear span. Yeah, which I suppose is the lot part, but anyways. So, like, it made me what as big as a, um, uh, one of those, uh, dogs, they use the, the, the logo for the hush puppies and like a basset hound. Is it as big as basset hound?

You know what? Like that. Yeah. Maybe not a full grown basset. Maybe a mid, mid, you know, not quite out of puppy stage, a mid-sized, a mid-sized basset. Mid-sized basset, yeah. But it did that. Same thing where I drug its ears on the ground and stuff like that.

Just like a bassetown wood. Didn't fetch, unfortunately. But it did pee and poo in this box and it was fantastic. That's amazing. That's great. And sit in your lap and he wouldn't freak out and kick you or any of that shit that rabbits do. He was great. Love that rabbit. Just sit in your lap and eat a carrot.

You just hold a carrot and you would eat it. And then somebody said, you're not supposed to feed him carrots. I'm like, hold on a minute. Everything I've ever seen with a rabbit. Bugs Bunny, for hell's sakes. constantly like a cigar chomping on a freaking carrot. And I don't remember...

He's eating a carrot. Yeah. Maybe it was like, don't give him too much carrot or something like that. I don't know what it was. Maybe. Oh, now we need to hear from Darren from,

you know, on that. Oh, yeah. Darren, please write back. Tell us what the deal is with that. Yeah. He says the rabbits are easy to train because they typically don't bury their scat.

Love the show, though, Darren from Northwest Pennsylvania. Pope D when he appears on Discord. That's cool. Who would have thought? You know what? The other day when I went to bed, I never had a thought before I fell asleep that said, we're going to hear from a lop-eared rabbit expert on the show.

Exactly. Do we have somebody in our midst who is an American Rabbit Breeders Association member? Never would have guessed. Never would have guessed. That's great. I love that, though. You guys are always bringing us weird, diverse angles on life, and we appreciate it. So thank you for that.

Brian, you went and saw a movie so I didn't have to. Yes, I did it for, I took one for the team. And actually, I feel like you're going to, you're going to, you're going to see this and you're going to like it because it's probably the best of the three. I saw Venom, Venom three, the last stand. What is the, what is it the, the last, oh shit. Last dance, the last dance. I'm going to pull up Ron Tomatoes. Where is this?

Holy adieu. Last dance, there is. Venom, Fully adieu. Foli addux. Um, it's, uh, it's, I think it's the best of the three. Tom Hardy's great in it. Um, it feels like it's more cohesive a story than the previous two Venoms, which felt a little more all over the place. If anything, if any review should tell you something, Tina actually liked it. Oh. She wasn't crazy about the first two. She actually

was actively talking to other people we knew to see if they wanted her ticket to see Venom 3 Thursday instead of going with me. Yeah. She was half serious. I'm a little surprised by that. interesting yeah but um uh you've got uh sort the big bads are basically um uh little little henchman aliens from uh null who's the the uber symbiote boss the big boss yeah but he never like basically he's on clemtar the entire time null does not come to earth oh um that's a shame you get you get lots of shots of null in his little um his cage his little uh trap over in clemtar but he doesn't doesn't come to Earth, but I think that it's a setup for maybe what they're doing with all of these, like, Madam Webb and Morbius and Morbius meeting up with the vulture,

Michael Keaton vulture, and stuff like that. Yeah, there's a great picture of Null. And that thing he's holding right there, that is the Necrowblade that Christian Bale had in Oh, in the God of Thunderdil. Thor, the most recent Thor movie. No way. I didn't know that. So I'm familiar with Null in the most recent run of Venom,

and it is really good stuff. That's a great run to read, if anyone hasn't picked it up. The King and Black, that one or an earlier one. The King and Black stuff, that whole thing leading to and exiting from that whole storyline, so, so good. But I always worry, because he's such a fantastic villain. He is. So that's why I think we're not done with him.

I think that he might be, and this is Tom Hardy's last venom, but it doesn't. I don't think it means that it's the last we're going to see of venom symbiotes, venom style symbiotes. By the way, that necrow blade is what he used to cut off the head of an eternal. And we saw that floating head in Guardians of the Galaxy, that nowhere that they keep flying into, the little, The eternal head planet that they fly in and out of. I didn't know.

And I think they become the mayors of nowhere, the second or third movie. I love that. That's an eternal head. They should make a movie called The Mayors of Nowhere and go deeper. Right. Instead of Mayor of Easttown, it's Mayor of Nowhere. So these three movies, the three mainline Venoms, they're, so the first one got 30% on Rotten Tomatoes, 80% audience. second movie got 57% 84 audience

this new one 37 back down again and then 80 for audience in all three cases the audiences like it and you know what when I watch those two with you I enjoyed the hell out of it yeah yeah they're movies made for for comic book fans and audiences and Sony still doesn't know how to make a a movie featuring a superhero or even a supervillain that um that is that it goes beyond it just being a superhero supervillain formula movie they haven't figured out the Marvel secret sauce of no make it a superhero movie that's also a crime drama

or a superhero political thriller or a superhero this or that yeah yeah um so uh anyway it's uh it's good uh and the other the other you get the other symbiote again not a nothing's a spoiler i'm not going to say anything that isn't already in the trailers so if you if you are a person who avoids the trailers then sorry i kind of spoiled a couple things but if you're not then um yeah uh There you go. The null thing is either you don't know about it or you're hoping it's there, so it's not really a spoiler. Right, right. Exactly.

Yeah. If you don't know who null is, then it's not a spoiler to know that null is in this. Yeah. He's very cool, though. He's like space vampire kind of. He's awesome. Yeah. But I think, but I think what they're leading to, I think what Sony is hoping for is a suicide squad version of the Sinister 6 against null

for an ensemble movie. So you get your Craven from the movie next month or a couple months from now. You'll get a couple of the Madam Webbers. We'll see if we can get Sidney Sweeney to come back. She might. She seems willing. I don't know.

Who knows? Who knows? Yeah, but she may not want to be associated with the steaming pile of poop that is Madam Webb in any format. Who knows? Oh, I know what question I had for you. Rise iffins shows up in this thing.

And we know him from the Spider-Man movies as a lizard. Lizard. So is he, is that him again? Different dude? Or is that a spoiler? No, not a spoiler. He's a different dude. And no, no, no nudge is ever given as anything to say that Reese is, you know, is playing like a multi-universe, same person, different character kind of thing.

But also, Chuitel, Elijifor, Elijah, for, I know, I'm not. or his name, Baron Mordo is in here as a different character. And I've seen theories online, and I love this idea that it is kind of what they're setting up for the multiverse as some of the same people, even though they're different characters, are drawn together. So that's why you've got Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. Doom instead of Iron Man coming up in one of the future movies. It's like, this is the multiverse version of Baron Mordo. This is the multiverse version of Kurt Connors. This is the multiverse version of Tony Stark, et cetera. And I think, who knows, if that's going to come to play in Secret Wars or Battleworld or whatever, should be interested.

Juno Temple good in there because we love her. She is great. She's really good. Yeah. She's, she and Tom Hardy are the best two. Well, and Chutel are the best, like the best parts of this film. The acting from those three is really, really good.

Yeah. You think you butcher his name. I butcher it. Constance. I'll never get it right. And you get Tom Hardy in a suit, which I think is, which from what I read in an interview, is a purposeful little nod to getting him to play James Bond. It's like, see how we get it looks in a suit?

Wouldn't he make a great James Bond? Yeah, he looked good in that. What was the movie where it was him and a twin brother and they were mobsters, English mobsters? Yes, it was the Cray brothers. Yeah, and they were both in suits. Well, it's him playing both parts, but he looked amazing. That was when I went, oh, James Bond baby.

Yeah, exactly. He's getting a little scruffy, though, so they got to hurry up. You know, if you're going to get him in there. Get him in the gym. It's got to be a little young. Yeah, exactly. You got to hurry up. Look a little.

Yeah, get him while he's young and while he's hot. That's right. 2015 would have been better than whatever. So if you even remotely enjoyed any other Venom movies, I think you'll like this one even more than you did the first two. It wraps things up in the Tom Hardy trilogy very cohesively and very cool. Nice. Well, let's bring on our own symbiote. Hey, look who it is.

It's a form of the Blame Hardie. black venom suit. It's Brian Dunaway. He got a little piece of it one time, and he's just never been the same since. No. Hi, Scott and Brian. Well, you know, I got some between my teeth, but I picked most of it out. Ooh, gross. Gross. It hardly affected me other than pooping black for a week. What's you going to do? It hardly. It hardly affected you? Hardly. Hardly. Because, you know, Tom Hardily. No, I don't explain more. Yeah, let me explain it more in case you didn't get it. Hey, it's good to have here, man. We're going to play a game. Brian.

devises a little game called the morning half asses on a Monday and we try to win some people some prizes by doing said said thing and we'll let Brian explain it Brian how's this thing work? Yeah, well, let me tell you. By the way, Brian, did you see my open Kade?

Did you see when I had it on screen there? No. Hold it up. Are you able to see the screen now or no? Oh. I can see if, wait a second, let me pull it up. All right, do it.

Give me it. All right. So there's, yeah, it's going to take a couple seconds for him, but it's beautiful. Is that nice? That's pretty. It's got buttons for coin and green. You did the 3D print thing.

I've been printed, right? Yeah, I've looked at that. I need to do that. Yeah, it's cool. You should put one of those false, well, you could even make it work, I guess, but a little quarter slots on that. The little quarter thing. Yeah, they have ones you can, you can buy that when you, you could have a little quarter, quarter semi-protruding from it. When you push that quarter in, it does the, it treats it like a button of inserting a quarter.

Oh, yeah. You get a problem. Yeah. There you go. All right. Welcome to the morning half-ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct. And three, like somebody's theory about Venom being dead the whole time, is incorrect. Depending on how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses.

But if they get any wrong, they get zero points for that round. Get one right gets you a point. Two right gets you three points. And three right gets you five points. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant and contestants will be pulled from members of the ten. AdPool that aren't able to be here live. Scott, you're going to be playing for Chris Walker in Chicago. Sweet.

Christopher Walker. Windy city, the big shoulders or whatever. That's great. Christopher Walker. Brian, you're going to be playing for Justin Sebel just outside of Atlanta. Ooh, nice. Right next door. Yes, there you go.

And we'll talk about what those prizes are after we play the game. Let's get to it first round. By the way, my reference of Venom, being dead. whole time. That was a lost thing. I'm not, I'm not giving any spoilers about the movie. Wait, wait. They're dead and lost? No, they're not dead and lost. That's the that's the assumption from people who haven't watched Lost.

Yeah. I'm not going to watch it. They're dead the whole time. I thought I watched it wrong. If yeah, if you think that they were dead the whole time, you watched it wrong. Let's get to your first question here. Stage musicals that end, oh yeah, this is for Halloween, by the way. Enjoy this. Stage musicals that end

with the male protagonist dead. Your choices are. What's protagonist? Is that another word for penis? Your main character. Your main... You know that. He knows what that word means. Don't you? He does. He does. He's just playing with me.

Le Miserab. Little Shop of Hors. The Phantom of the Opera. West Side Story, Into the Woods, and Fiddler on the roof. Which of these... No, did I get... I was going to say, I was going to say, went till he hears what an antagonist is. he's really in for some prizes.

His mind is going to be blown. Sorry, you were repeating the answers. Yeah, so, yes. So remember, stage musicals that end with the male protagonist's dead. Les Mersraub, Little Chappahars, Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story, Into the Woods, and Fiddler on the roof. It's a lot harder than I thought I would be. Yeah, yeah.

You know, like, I think one of them, something about it rings a little true. I remember the fiddler falling down the chimney and dying. Yeah. But I think I'm confusing that. the gremlins. If I were a rich man I was dead the whole time. I'm only picking two because I don't freaking know. Are you only picking two? Well, I'm not sure

about this one, so I'm going to bake it up. All right. Well, look at that. Your strategy of revealing how many you picked made brain change. But did he change for the better or for the worst? We'll have to find out. All right, your selections were all over the board for this one. Brian selected Little Shop of Horrors and West Side Story. Scott selected Into the Woods and Fiddler on the roof. Oh.

Come on. Seymour gets away at the end of the movie of Little Shelfth. He's not my protagonist. Who's your protagonist? Audrey, too? Yeah. I've never, I still have never seen it. I've only seen the original black and white one.

Oh, my God. Really? Oh, so the Jack Nicholson. I mean, I assume the old Jack Nicholson one is, is close to the story, but I'm assuming there's also probably a ton of different things going on. So I've never, I don't know. I don't know for sure. Well, here's the deal, though.

In the stage version of the little shop cars, Audrey 2 eats Seymour. Little cuttings that go all over the place and take over the world. And I have the original version of the movie. Have you really? Wait, all three. The stage and then the Corman and the... Well, yeah, but I didn't see it staged.

I saw it. I watched it on YouTube, but yeah. Was it Frank Oz directed the movie? Did Frank Oz direct that one? I think it was Frank Oz. I think so. I think you're right. It's an early one for him.

Yeah. Yeah, I've got the special edition DVD that they released and then pulled from shelves because I think it was Frank Oz, said he did not want the original ending of the movie to be out there on DVD. And then now you can just go to YouTube and see it. Yeah. Confirm, definitely Frank Oz. Yeah.

They credit Roger Corman as writer, though. That's cool. I like that. Yeah. Oh, really cool. That's awesome. Well, which is right. So lame is Rob, little shopahars and west side story were the three where the male protagonist is dead at the end of the stage musical. Brian got two of them for three points. Scott missed him, but that's all right. We got more questions. Let's get to this one. The Animal Kingdom is our category for number two here. What are common names of penguin species? Which of these are actual penguin species and not made up? Chinstrap penguin, African penguin, elder penguin, reticulated penguin, royal penguin, and the cobblepot penguin. I was like, all right, look at you.

Apologies. Apologies. It doesn't matter. Which of these are, because how do you know that maybe the DC didn't say, oh, we like the name? Exactly. But they had to go with Cobb this time around. They're all like, we're going to call them Cobb because Cobbopot is too comicky. Right.

Too much of a comic book name. And it's not, they call him Oz, Oz Cobb. Yeah, Ozka's the worst. You don't like that? You're not a fan? I am loving the show. Oh, that show, dude, is something special. I'm only an episode in, but man.

I need Scott to give away how many he guessed. No, not doing it. Damn it. Not telling you this time. I'll tell you that, you know, I feel some pressure right now. I'll tell you that because, you know, you're winning. So, whatever that means. All right.

Well, I will tell you now that you both have locked in, Scott picked three, Brian picked one. You both settled on the Royal Penguin. Guess what? That's the big giant one in the Batman. Oh. I thought that was an emperor penguin. Oh, is an emperor. Well, they're both.

The big ones in Batman, I think, are emperor penguins. But the Royal Penguin is another one. African penguin. Come on. Like, do they have penguins in Africa. Come on now. Of course they do. They have the chin straps.

Scott, yes, good job. You got three of them right for five points. This is purely based on recent viewings of three different documentaries and then the one Happy Feet movie. And all of these were in those in some form. So I remember them just vaguely. I was almost going to choose Elder, though. And I'm glad I didn't.

Chinstrap, what a wild ride. The chin strap, I know. It puts me up by one. I like that. One point. This is the way to go into our question number three. Brian with four points, Scott with five. It all comes down to this one right here.

Question number three. Music. We're going to go to rock bands. Which of these rock bands have twins in their lineup? Your choices are Nelson, the Black Crows, My Chemical Romance, Ace of Bass, the Bee Gees, and the Breeders. Oh, shit. The Breeders. Breeders.

That's a great name. Black Crows. Oh. Bands with twins in the lineup. Nelson. Like there's Nelson. Nelson. It's so Nelson is so, I've done black crow. I got no memory of Nelson. Really? Oh, interesting. I mean, just a vague one. I'm worried that my memory of Nelson is wrong. I remember it. And I, that's what I'm worried about. All right. I'm choosing. I'm choosing. I'm going for you. I really, I really don't know. My hope is you screw this up. And then I win.

Thanks, man. So it's mine to lose. Yeah. You both locked. in and you both locked in with two. Brian, you chose, you both chose Nelson. Nelson is two twin brothers that look like Fabio. Oh, the blonde guys. More than words. Could that one? No, that's extreme. Oh, that's weird. But they look alike too. But their song, whatever their song was, is just as sappy as that extreme more than words. And I think he came out. They were probably on the charts at exactly the same time Scott chose Ace of Base.

He saw the sign and chose Ace of Base. Brian chose debating on Ace of Base. Brian chose the Beegees, the brothers Gibb. They're just brothers. But aren't any of them?

Twins? No. Two of them are. No. The other one's not. No. I love this. I love the tension here.

You could cut it with a knife. Yeah. Morris and Robin are twin brothers. Fraternal twins not identical twins. No, no twins and ace of base, which means Brian gets three more points, clean them up to seven.

Dammit. Scott was five in one of our closest matches. That wasn't a tie, of course. Yeah. That was a back and forth, man. That was good. That was wild. Sorry, Chicago.

The entire city, I apologize. We should have won. I love the fact that, you know, those questions, somebody got points on each one of those questions. We didn't have any complete stumpers. So I love that when that happens with the, Yeah, no complete stumper's is a good day for everybody, I think. It's a good day for everybody.

So, congratulations is going to be going out to Justin, just outside of Atlanta. GA, congratulations, Justin, who's just out. You know what, Brian, you're required. Brian should send codes to Brian Dunaway. He should have to print them out, and then you should have to drive to Atlanta and give him that code. Okay. Great. Yeah, so here's what you're getting, Brian.

I'm sorry, Justin Seabold. Here's what you're getting. You're getting station to station and jassant, J-U-S-A-N-T. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right. Station-to-Station-to-Station is a really cool, like, Legoey, blocky train path building game. Yeah, it's very good. Railroads, connect areas.

It looks really cool. I have that game, and it's like more of a puzzle game, so it's not so much about, like, city-builder-y railroad-y things, but it's more like, all right, you have this many limited resources. You need to get from A to B and carry these to those. How do you do it? It's very chill, beautiful, like you said, it's kind of blocky and kind of boxily. Yeah.

But it's really, really cool game. That's a good one to win. Do you mean the trains have faces? No. There's no, Thomas. But don't worry, Chris Walker in Chicago, you're getting a copy of a pretty damn good game yourself. Persona 5 strikers. Oh, shit.

PDG, yeah. A really good part of the persona game series. So look at that. Both of you getting good prizes, even though you didn't like that. lift a finger, except to type your name in a spreadsheet. And if you, by the way, if you have not joined that spreadsheet, head on over to frogpence.com slash TMS, and you'll find the win on half-asses link, and you can submit your name. No point in submitting it more than once.

I delete duplicates. So if you're in there more than once, tough titties, you're getting pulled. That's right. If you measure this by dollar amount, our guy in Chicago really won, because that's a, you really yeah that's what a 39 that's a more than that i think i think that's like a 60 game and the other one's like 15 so take that everybody involved that was my my secret plan all along me i want you to shut up and go watch some more penguin crap okay i'll do that i like a good i like a good nature documentary they're great yeah

uh done away you did great and as always uh we'd like to remind people when we're doing play retro here's the weird bit we didn't we couldn't do the one this weekend because things just got too crazy with schedules so we are substituting in tomorrow that means tomorrow at around 1230 my time 2 30 brian's time or so 330 oh i'll i'll fix it in the schedule i thought you said 230 uh 3 30 your time which would be 1 30 my time we will be recording play retro and talking about that ghost busters game yeah so that'll be fun you look forward to that you like that oh i can't wait to talk about ghost busters because who you're going to call apparently every console

and 8-bit system that was existed during that time period because you got your Commodore 64 which is the best one and then you got the NES which is the suckiest one. Oh, you heard it here. Listen to you with your smack talk. That's a very smack-talky attitude to have about that.

Yeah, yeah. Take that Nintendo. We'll see. Nintendo don't. Nintendo, exactly. No blast processing here. Anyway, that'll be tomorrow. Check it out.

So that's 1.30 Mountain Time. There's already a scheduled YouTube link up. So if you want to watch us live, you can do that. And we want you there. Okay? So be there. Brian Dunaway, kiss. Our no, butts.

All right, he's going. Great work, everyone. Just our ever-loving butts. Our butt holes. Brian, let's do, let's go ahead and do some news, some quick news. Yeah, yeah. We got time for that. Let's see here.

What do we got here? Let's do this right here. It's time for the news. brought to you by The Instance, so you don't have to. For October is now up. Find out how the hosts feel about $90 mounts, can't wait, and massive class shakeups at frogpants.com slash instance,

or wherever podcasts are found. Or weariever. Weariever. Whereievers, how I spelled it. So just real quick, that $90 mount been all the controversy over the last couple of days. Here's the irony of it. I'm sort of opposed to it. I don't like it.

I think it's a little predatory. A lot of people would argue, well, it's still cheaper than the old mount. If you figure out what the actual monetary value of $500 or $2 million is or $5 million gold is or $5 million, what the old one cost. Blah, blah, blah. There's all this back and forth. Everybody's got either a justification or they're super opposed to it and mad. I'm not mad. I'm just sort of like, yeah, I don't think it's a great deal.

Immediately after the show, an anonymous fan gifted me the amount in the game. So now when I pull it out, I feel slightly guilty. because it is awesome. It's very useful. I have an auction house built into it. Oh, it's one of those like the yak where you get... Yeah, except better because the yak only let you repair and do transmog. This lets you do a full auction house access on one side and a mailbox on the other. You can be anywhere out in the world and use this thing. Oh, wow.

So it's very convenient and useful. It's just very expensive, and that was my problem with it. And now I have one, and I feel like... I kind of take it around corners and bring it up and cut it, you know? You're going to hide in a little... and mount, use your stuff, and then get off and suddenly, all right, what's everybody up to? Yeah, what are you doing right now? Everything fine? Hey, Scott, where were you? Nowhere. That's nothing. I was doing nothing. Anyway, here's your quick story. We should have kept Brian around for this one. He'll love this. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Alien Romulus is getting a VHS release and not just some weird fan thing.

It's a official VHS release of Alien Romulus. Time to dust off your VCR and clean the heads because Romulus is coming to a VHS player near you as a edition on December 3rd alongside other physical releases. So they're going to 4K, Blu-ray and all that other stuff will happen too. Director Fetti Alvarez announced this during a special Beyond Fest partnered screening in Los Angeles yesterday. It's actually a few days now.

The fully functional VHS tape, rather, is meant to celebrate 45 years since the alien franchise first burst into theaters. So they put a little chest there. Clever. 20th Century Studios wrote in a release email to the Verge.

it'll present the movie appropriately in a 4x3 ratio, hopefully with well-done pan and scan. It also comes in a slick vintage-style sleeve. And the art for the box comes from Matt Ferguson, whose other work you can see on the website. He posted a wider version of the same image as a poster. They're obviously going for a very retro look to this, as opposed to the very modern sleek image of the facehugger on the lady with the red.

With the red, yeah, yeah. So anyway. It's kind of cool. Make it look more like the older VHS movies. I love it. I think it's so cool. Yeah, I kind of want one, even though I would never actually insert it. I would keep it mint is what I would do.

Yeah. Do you actually even still have a VCR that you could play this in? No, no. I don't. I would just want it on a shelf so I could show it to people and say, look at this. VHS thing. The box, it's funny, their mock-up, I assume this is a mock-up, looks like a lot thicker of a VHS box than it really is. It looks like it's, that's big enough in foreshortening to hold two sets.

Oh, good point. Look at that thing. That's a big old fatty out there. Yeah. Why is, uh, hmm. I think they just did a mock up to show. The person who, who did the mockup is so young, they don't know what a VHS box looks like with a little half circle cut out so you can pull the tape out and that sort of thing.

Yeah, assuming that's a single sleeve, there's no two discs, or two discs, two tapes in there. I would assume that. Two tapes. No, I wouldn't think so. Pretty cool, though. I might do it. There's no pricing yet. Like the, no, there isn't.

I'm going to guess $39.99. Yeah. It'll be my guess. Yeah. I might do that. I don't know, I don't know how limited they're going to make it, too, but I do like that artwork. I like that, uh, oh, yeah. That wide poster with the, yeah.

I kind of want that, just that. You've, you've watched it a second. Oh, that's right, because you watched it with, um, with the girls. Yeah, and we loved it the second time. I need to watch it again. Yeah, it's, I'm ready for a second viewing of it. It's funny. You know that beef we both have with it.

Oh, yeah. the, or at least the beef we share, the one, you know. Yes, there's one, there's, I have a different beef that you, you do not share. No, that final beef, I really like the final beef. But the, uh, the early beef, um, it's interesting to see it through their eyes once again. Like, that's how, this is what's been interesting about this watch through. They don't have the baggage. They don't have, they've seen the other movies, but they've done this in such quick succession.

They're just a lot more forgiving of that kind of thing. It still bugs me. And I still think it could have been better. I think it could have been a lot better. Either a different character or just do it better. We have the text. Visually, right, exactly. The presence of the character we loved.

Yeah. The presentation, how that thing was done bothered us. Yeah, knowing the story about the family of the person who's no longer with us, that they were really wanting to do this. They were stoked about it. Like, all of those things are positive. I really like that. Just, I don't know. Find a better.

Or pay the effects people more. Maybe that's what it was. Right, right. or make it look more rubbery like the, you know, like the original version kind of looked, except for when they were clearly somebody's head stuck through board. I guess we're not being spoilery here, are we?

Not at all. No, we haven't gone too far. But watch Romulus, you guys. It's fantastic. It's been more than two weeks. It's been a lot longer than two weeks. It's very, very good. All right, let's see here.

Oh, well, it's time. We're going to take a break. When we come back, we're going to spend time with Stephen Schlecker. He's got some recommendations for the spooky season. that I think some of you are going to enjoy and for those of you who hate comic books I don't know what to tell you just stick around I guess

What's the heck? Why are you here? Yeah, what are you even doing here? Anyway, that's coming up after this break Brian brought a song to play during this break So we better hear it Yeah, let's hear it This is from a band called Shower Curtain A great name right there

Wow These guys are about to go on tour In support of their brand new album Words from a wishing well Big thanks to Angel Tapes and Fire Talk Records for sending this one over to me. This is great. This is a great song. This actually was going to be our song last week, but pushed it to this week and did not replace it because it's so good.

The song is called Bedbugs. The band is Shower Curtain. Only can think about How it fights it hides In the layers of my bed In the layers of my bed Burning it down, turn it around. It's all over.

It permeated the ground. But till my neighbor's house took all over, destroying all the furniture. I must be able to pass your life in respect Time and hiding, face, sensation, fear is calling me out. I don't think you're talking to wall, I think you're here, you're going around. To be able to turn around. It's all my love.

It's all my love. When I'm turning down, turning around, it could be able to the ground. When I take the ground The ground It's all over It's so long You can't

You're getting on down to turn in the ground It's all It's all over turning down Ladies and gentlemen, madame, It's time to play Future Sport

You want to get high? Yep Yeah. Hey Brian, tell me who that was one more time. Sure, that is a band called Shower Curtin. The song is Bedbugs, comes out on their, or just came out on their brand new album, Words from a Wishing Well.

They're from New York City. Go check him out on tour. They're starting in their hometown. And then you'd be doing a whole North American tour. I love it. Is Dale Griffith on the cover of their album selling shower curtain rings by chance? He's not. He is not.

Use him his earrings. You can use them as... That's a shame. Yeah. All right. Let's get into it with an old friend of ours. Here's his intro. And now welcome Stephen to the show.

He's a huge freaking nerd. Dollar, Dala, Dills, y'all. That's right. Stephen Schlecker joining us as he does most Mondays of the month, or at least a couple of them anyway, where we talk about nerd stuff, comic books, movies, tie-ins, all that fun stuff, pop culture over at major spoilers.com. And he's joining us today. Stephen, welcome back. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hey, man. Good to have you here. We're going to get a little spooky here. Yeah. Spooky season. Oh, before I forget, I almost, I almost forgot. I was going through old photos, old nerdtacular photos. I'm trying to find some that I put on Flickr and they never, for whatever reason. I think I lost him in a hard drive crash. or something so they're online but not here locally so i was trying to get all those down i found some fantastic images of you in like 2011 and for some reason when you made the trip out that year you shaved your head completely yeah i go back and forth yeah i it's a look man i liked it

it is cool i approve obviously but that that shouldn't surprise you yeah i can't find it but i'm going to try to find it in san it because it's awesome anyway cool always fun to look back uh stephen We're going to get into some spooky stuff. Five horror comic books for Halloween. I love a good horror book, comic or otherwise. So this is going to be helping me as much as anybody else out there. Yeah, and these probably aren't your typical horror comic books that people are just automatically think of. One of them on the list is one that people would probably automatically think of.

But the rest are like, you know, it's not like Tales of Suspense or, you know, a creep show or anything like that. These are ones that are a little bit more modern, but also. kind of bring the scares. And the first one I want to start off with is Ice Cream Man. This is from Image Comics written by W. Maxwell Prince and Martin Marazzo. This one is, I kind of describe it like an outer limits episode, but super scary because the premise is people are going about their lives. They want something, whatever that desire is. And they happen to meet the narrator of the series, The Ice Cream Man, who gives them exactly what they want. But as we know, in horror comics, things often backfire in a horrible way.

and so that happens a lot in this. So if you're... Black mirror kind of... Yeah. Yeah. So if you don't like spiders or wasps or, you know, eyeballs hanging out of people's heads, you probably want to avoid the ice cream man

because it can't get pretty brutal. I love all of those things. It's pretty intense. And even though it's an anthology, there is a connecting storyline that runs through the, whatever they're up to now, 30-plus issues. If I remember, right, this is a bit like creep show or a bit like...

A little bit, yeah. Yeah, kind of creep, deeper in that the ice cream man isn't necessarily like he's not your serial killer guy or whatever he's just right he's like the narrator that makes the stuff happen yeah i remember reading at least one of these and thinking it was pretty good at the time what board game is he playing right there because i want to get that too we need to ask dan to explain what board game well you have to pay on uh elm street or whatever it is yeah oh yeah the monsters on mulberry mulberry street the monsters yeah you have to have leaky characters that have blood in them so yeah it's right yes it's a lot of work man It really is a lot. Yeah, you got to inflate or fill them up, not inflate them, but load them before you play your game. Nice.

So we have Ice Cream Man, W. Maxwell Prince and Martin Marazio. There's... Image Comics. Multiple volumes of this one, right? It looks like... Yeah, it's been really... It really took off as a big series after about the third issue when it was clear that there was no stopping the insanity that the creators were putting out. So it's definitely out there.

The next one, though, that I have is a finite series. I think it's only 12 issues, so you can read 12 issues. It's called Dark Ride from Joshua Williamson. Joshua Williamson currently is writing the G.I. Joe and Transformer series for Skybound Entertainment. And he just finished up the Green Arrow run over at DC Comics. And the art is by Andrei Bresson. And this is the story of a family run theme park called Devil Land. And the premise is that Arthur Dante, once upon a time, made a deal with the devil

in order to be the most popular entertainment theme park guy out there and everything is horror themed and death themed and scary monster themed he's been out of the picture for several years so his two children Sawin and Halloween are fighting over who's going to get control of the park

and it's only about halfway through the series when they realize, oh no, this is the real devil that is being part of this and how do they save themselves or do they save themselves? And it's pretty clear that they are leaning into what if Disney was evil kind of idea

and so if you are into some of that it's a pretty good story I like it because Sawin or they call him in the book Sam Hain he's got a little daughter who he's very concerned is also going to be sucked up

have her soul taken by the devil and so he's trying to save her life as well it's got a very cute devil very adorable it is really cute but then again it gets really grotesque in places So you know how in Disney there's the under the under kingdom as opposed to the upper world All these tunnels and everything.

Well, one of the tunnels is just, hey, do you ever wonder where all the garbage goes to? Oh, there's a whole room with nothing but garbage in it. Nice. Yeah. Yeah, the Sawin that the Irish Halloween was a focus on that, was it Bodkin, I think. Yes, that was a great little limited series. It really was, yeah, yeah, really good. and well-acted.

Yeah, it was a Netflix. I think Netflix limited series with... I think so, yeah. These podcasters go to research this murder that happened in this small town. Let's see. A guy from Sart Live Last Man on Earth, Jeff. Oh, the one that... I saw this, duh.

The Irish podcaster thing, yeah. Yeah. I saw this with... Yeah, okay. What's wrong with me? Will Forte. I did Will Forte. it. Yeah, that was really good.

It was really good. Yeah. I was surprised how much I like that. All right. Well, excellent. Give us our third pick for the week. Sure. Now, a lot of people get squeamish when children get murdered. Oh, yeah. So this may not be the book for you, but it is fascinating. It's called Something is Killing the Children. It's from Boom Studios, from James Tinian the 4th and Werther del Adera. And it is about Something is Killing Children. And in order to combat this, Erica Slaughter, who is the main character of the series, she is tasked with wiping out these monsters before they kill too many.

And it's kind of a cool premise in that only children can see the monsters. We've seen this before in other stories, where once you get old enough, you no longer believe in monsters. And so you can't see the monsters that are right there standing in front of you. And so it's fascinating because it has a lot of secret society stuff. There's some brutality in how the monsters are dispatched. And, of course, you're going to have dead children. So, again, keep that in mind if that is something that it bothers you. I originally thought this was based on a novel.

And I don't know why I thought that. I think it's because there's a very similar one to this. And it's even similarly titled. I cannot remember the name of the book. But if anyone else out there is thinking that it's not. Oh, I know why. Because this Erica Slaughter has the same name as a horror novelist or a crime novelist I read, uh, named, um, I forgot her first name now, shit. Karen, Karen Slaughter, almost the same name. That's what's, that's what threw me off. Yeah. It's not her. There's no connection. Yeah. The interesting thing about this is it is so popular that it's spun off two different series, one called the House of Slaughter, because we find out that Erica is part of one group of a larger secret society. And then I believe there is one more that is spun off from that, that I can't remember off the top of my head. And we may be seeing this as a television series in the near future as well. Oh, cool. That sounds. That sounds.

sounds all right. I like a vengeful lady with the ninja powers or whatever she's got in that cover. Oh yeah. It's kind of badass. Definitely worth checking out. Cool. All right. Next up. Yeah, here's one that I think everybody probably thought would be on the list of Hellboy comic. And of course, my

preference is Hellboy the coffin and other stories, but to kind of honor the release of the Cricket Man on DVD or on digital, I'm sure everybody has seen that movie. Let's not kid ourselves. No one has seen that movie. No. Brian, have you had a chance to watch it yet?

Oh, no, no. That's the newest one, right? That's the new... Yeah, yeah. It came out on digital like two or three weeks ago. Okay. And it's okay. I don't like the editing in it.

I hear it's better than that last thing they tried to do, the 2019 movie. I would say there's probably long the same. The Crooked Man is a much quieter story about the Crooked Man from Appalachia and Hellboy stumbling upon, you know, this guy and the curses that he's put on the land and one man trying to get his soul back and fight everybody off. The comic book adaptation, The Cricket Man, Mike Minola and Richard Corbin, is also very well done. I think it's better than the movie in that it really explores more the creepiness that's out there. Again, I think my biggest problem with the movie is the editing and there's a couple of special effects that either

they should have done practically. I mean, one of them you can't technically do practically, but at least enhanced animation as opposed to just let's do this creature completely CGI and it looks kind of silly. But this one's pretty creepy and pretty spooky and it's a lot of fun. There's also a backup story in there as well that people want to to check out. Nice. I love Hellboy, so this is a no-brainer for me. And I've not read this one for, I don't know why. Yeah, sounds like we'll much rather read the comic than watch this movie. Yeah. That's unfortunate. I want Hellboy to I want it to thrive. I want it to be movies forever.

And I'm not saying that he'd even, I'm not even seeing Del Toro's the only guy that can do it, although he's the only one that made them good. But can somebody please just step forward and make a good hell? Make a series. Maybe that would help. I mean, what do you want from your hellboy?

Because all of the movies that have come out have been fairly faithful. Well, the Golden Army, I don't think was based on any one comic. But the four movies that are out are very close to their. original. I mean, this one right here, Cricket Man follows the story almost beat for beat in the movie. And the main hellboy, the first Hellboy movie also pulls bits and pieces from the Minola lore into it.

I guess I didn't see the David Harbour one. I've only seen the original Yeah, so if you've read Helboy in Mexico 2019, right, I think, or whatever. Yeah. If you've read Hellboy in Mexico and the Last Hunt story arcs, again, say for the ending of the Last Hunt, again, it picks up a lot of the bits and pieces that you see in a lot of the short

stories from Hellboy. What I think makes Hellboy work best is when they do it as short stories. And the Cricket Man is only, I think, four or five issues, so that's relatively short, as opposed to drawing in years worth of storyline, like the In Times story, the Frogman story, and trying to condense it down into a single movie or into a single tale. I think that's where it falls apart. yeah i also think given harbour uh rocker hair for hellboy was a mistake that's stupid looking yeah they should oh yeah for sure it's dumb just good just you know what cover pearlman as much makeup as you need he can keep going sure

that's fine yeah uh all right what do we have after that all right the final one on my list is uh just a no brainer people need to go out and pick this up it's harrow county from cullen bun and tyler crook uh cullen bun is just a master of horror he is the uh the creator of the sixth gun which we've talked about before on on the show and he does a lot of horror comics so anything cullen bun i usually give a thumbs up on and tyler crook's art is very well done as well because it's very water colory in the way that it plays out but the premise here is that haints and boogers and creatures of the night and creatures that take off their skin and wander about are real and in harrow county the only thing keeping all of the creatures in line is a little girl called emmy and she is trying to discover

Why is she the only one that that can control these monsters? And what happens when some bigger villains show up? What does she do then? So it's a really great series for people to pick up. Didn't they also make a, there's a board game or something, right? Based on this? There may be an RPG, I think. Maybe that's what it is.

Because it's very Cthuloo-y. Yeah, to an extent. I mean, it's more like backwoods country kind of spookyness, almost the same as the Crooked Man. Yeah, that's my favorite back. That's my favorite backdrop for a lot of things. I just love like Gothic southern bullshit like that. That's great.

I haven't read this though. Dark Horse, you said, right? This one is from Dark Horse, yeah. Yeah, I'm going to check that out. Because I love, love, love, love, Colin Bunn. That dude can do no wrong. Yeah, he does so much good stuff. Like I said, anything that he does, generally I say,

go out and check it out because you're going to be scared in some way, shape, or form. I heard that six guns are going to finally get a proper. adaptation for somebody I think so too and they just released another giant like complete collection I think it comes out

this week or it comes out in November they're releasing a new omnibus edition of no they're releasing a new omnibus edition of Harrow County sorry sixth gun

they did last year but Harrow County is getting an omnibus release in November so if you see it on the store shelves it's worth picking up so there was a fan

somebody oh yeah somebody made a fan film for the six gun Do not get confused with that one. That was low budget and looked like trash. That was from 2013. Ignore that.

Pretend that never happened. Excellent. Well, these are great recommendations. Again, I'll rip through them. We got Hellboy, the Cricket Man, and the return of Effie Colb. You have Harrow County Omnibus 1. I think I'm going to grab that. Something is killing the children, book one, and more.

There's more in there. Dark Ride, which sounds pretty fascinating. Really cool, yeah. And that's the one that's at the top of my curiosity list for sure. Yeah, that one looks great. And then the ice cream man, which is just ice cream man with no the. So check that out as well. Stephen, these are great.

As always, I hope you have a great spooky season. You do anything fun for Halloween dressing up? I don't know. We've got a new dog in the house. And so I don't know how she's going to react to people come to the door. I opened the door the other day and she went running out. So I don't know if we're going to do any Halloween stuff. I understand.

Dogs are, that's hard. I get it. I don't know if we are either, so I think that little ones are coming here and then we're going to run around the neighborhood with them, but that'll be done before it's dark. My kids are too old to do that now. Yeah. Well, sometimes they think they're not and they'll go out and take handfuls out of a bull, but your kids, you have good kids. Your boys are pretty good boys, so I'm not worried about it. Yeah, I think so.

Stephen, go shave your head, and we'll see you next time. Happy Halloween. Bye now. Bye now. See you. All righty. Cool. I hear that ice cream man is guaranteed to satisfy.

Oh, good. Well, thank the Lord. Also, a good poll. there is your list we will oh were we putting those on quicktms d.l i hadn't but i will that's really good idea that might be a decent place to i was getting an error that needed just needed an update a wordpress update so yeah i'll uh i'll put those up there uh you see that this is whenever whenever brian does to see now you can see him whenever brian does quick tms at l i like to show this gift because you're so because he's frantically making sure you guys have

the stuff. I forgot I made this. That's exactly how I logged into QuickTMS. at L.I. It's just like that. I think that's a... Oh, it's Jim Carrey back there, I think. Oh, is it okay.

From the God one where he's God for a week or whatever. Bruce Almighty. Wasn't there a movie about Jim Carrey being a god for a week called Bruce Almighty? Anyway, there's that. We are done with the show.

That is your Monday edition of the podcast. And we will be doing more of these this week because that's how this show goes. We do it Monday through Thursday. And there is a Friday edition for patrons. I know, right? Brian's already got some stuff prepped for me. There's already tons of reasons to tune in and check it out. Also, Thursday, look forward to a special guest in the forum of Monaco.

We'll be joining us here prior to Wendy being on about some Halloween movie recommendations. So check that out. Halloween day, everyone. Yeah, it'll be fun. Yeah. The new Dragon Age game comes out that day. Cool. Isn't there a new, there's a new Pokemon thing coming out soon or maybe it came out this last weekend?

I don't know. There's a, oh, like a mainline game, like a switch game? Yeah, yeah. Oh, I hadn't heard. Or a free to play mobile? I'm not sure. Somebody will have to tell us. Let's see here.

If there's any news, I feel like I should know this. Pokemon Legends, Arcus. No, that's a, uh, Pokemon Go Halloween event. That's not it. And then there's all the leaks. That's different. Yeah, I don't know. I'm curious, though.

Yeah. Maybe something new to do in the pokey world. Not a brilliant diamond, let's go unite. No, uh-uh. Yeah, don't know. It's in beta right now or it was in beta. I wonder if that's what I'm thinking of. Pokemon legend Z to A?

I don't know. Anyway, all right. The pocket men are still a threat. That's right. That's going to do it first. Brian, why don't you play us a little songy song? Happy to do that. This one's going out to Gridu on Discord, Anthony Gridley,

who says, Longtime listener from Melbourne, Australia, October 28th. That's today is my 49th birthday. I'd like to hear a cover from the original Blues Brothers movie. I really enjoy listening to the show. 49. You know what? Wait, 49.

Do you say or 39? 49. 49. Oh, sorry, man. You get one of these. Happy birthday. 39 would have gotten you other young kids. I feel like at some point we've got to say, you know, 50 is the new 40 and anything under 50 gets the let's party.

Well, when do they give us, when do they make you get the colonoscopy? It's now 50. It used to be 40. It is now 50. So I think we go by that standard. You're right. If anyone is turning 50, old lady. If you're turning, if you're older than 60, you get that really crusty one that I did.

And if you're younger than that, you get the, you get that one. Okay, good. Very good. All right. So, a quick, quick, fun story. I had a boss. This was the boss at the company where I could use your phone, that one, the newspaper software company. And whenever he was nervous or thinking about something or just wanted to break the silence or whatever, he had to go to. It would always be, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Or he'd whistle it. and it's basically the blues brothers the music that they play as the blues brothers are getting introduced and that's otis reddings i can't turn you loose um which very famously blues brothers original movie uh song there uh let's play a version by those guys who were too busy walked in the dinosaur to put out any new music was not was from that very same album actually that had everybody walked the dinosaur from 1988 what up dog here is their cover of od Redding's, I can't turn you loose. I can't turn you loose. I can't turn you loose. If I do, I'm going to lose now. If I do, I'm going to lose my mind. I can't ever turn you a lose. If I do, I'm going to lose my mind. But I can't turn your loose to nobody

Because I love you, baby Yes, I do Ooh, baby A hip-shaking woman I told you I'm in love with my own to you Do it, baby, why know I'm gonna give her everything that you want Got you got to have

Got to keep a holding on Noo, never gonna turn you loose Got to keep a grip on you, babe, I can keep a grip on you, baby Loose, yeah I can't turn you loose I'm in love with your prettiest thing I can't seem to turn you loose

now I'm not going to love you that name I can't turn you loose to nobody because I love you baby yes I do hip shaking mama I told you I'm in love with the home to you.

Do it a pangue at all, I'm gonna give to everything that you want. Got to, got you now. Got to keep holding on. Never gonna turn you loose. Got to keep a grip on you, baby. Yeah! Yeah!

Yeah! Yeah! You think I'm gonna stop me now. I ain't gonna stop now. We're going one time. What's me now? One, two, three, four. Yeah, loose.

Got to keep a holding on. Hoose. Got to keep a grip on you, baby. Got to keep a holding on. Hoose. Outer in the morning. Yeah, loose. Lately in the evening.

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Why don't you bring this stuff down For the one time? Had loose? Uh-huh Yeah, loose Y'all think I'm tired I know you're tired We can keep on doing this all night

Yeah, loose Because it's all right, it's all right Got it Got it, got to, yeah I got to I got to, got to, got to, got to I got to, got to, got to, I got to. Yeah, no, no.

Hold on, hold on. Got to keep a holding on. Never going to turn your loose. Got to keep the grip on you, baby. Got to keep a hold on. You got to, yeah. Got. Got.

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