The Morning Stream - TMS 2738: Atlantis Morrisette

Episode Date: November 18, 2024

Cheese and Octopus Feet. Get Out of My Dreams. And Puke in my Car. Urine, for a great meal! Licking the Floor of the Ball Pit. Is it too early for an octopus sandwich? Chicken Masada War. 76 Trombones and Shark Attacks. Ohio Stargate is not Open. Hot Liquid Dirt. Scott is Losing his Threads. I don't like food covered in Peeeeeeeee!! Squirt the Ketchup Into the Thing. Rubber Ducky Farts. Accidentally doing porn. Paragons of Heroism with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why did the chicken cross the road? Well, clearly it was to lay three eggs, peck at the dirt, and get ready to be turned into sweet, sweet nuggets. But also to sign up for the TMS Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, cheese and octopus feet. Get out of my dreams and puke in my car. You're in for a great meal. Licking the floor of the ball pit.

Is it too early to get an octopus sandwich? Chicken Masada War. 76 trombones and a shark attack. Ohio Stargate is not open. Hot, liquid dirt. Scott is losing his threads. I don't like food covered in pee! Squirt the ketchup into the thing.

Rubber duckie farts. Accidentally doing porn. Paragons of heroism with Stephen and more on this episode of the morning stream. People who drink black coffee, I just want you to know. You don't have to live like that. You don't need to prove anything to anyone. by drinking what tastes like hot liquid dirt. Throw in some milk, sugar, maybe even a little cream.

It's not a sign of weakness. You're not climbing a mountain at dawn with nothing but caffeine and grit to survive on. Coffee can taste good, you know. It's okay to be soft sometimes. You can still be a functional adult without feeling like your swalling sadness every morning. I'd like a single plum floating in perfume

served in a man's hat. The morning stream. We're not toys. We're action figures. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream. And today is November 18th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian Abbott, Hi, Brian. Good morning. Brand new week. I'm not even going to talk about how fast November's going. I'm not going to do it. It's hard not to, though, right? I mean, already passed the middle point headlonging into Thanksgiving, which is the start of the whole holiday shenanigans, mayhem.

Yeah, what are we like a week and a half from that or something? A half, yeah, it's like a week from Thursday is Thanksgiving. I don't know. I've even put up the Thanksgiving tree. Are you doing any kind of Friendsgiving this year? Do you ever do those? No, we're doing a family giving. We're having everybody over to our house.

So, my mom, Tina's mom, of course, Tristan and Kay, Aunt Barb, Uncle George, and I think, niece Rainey. Nice. Maybe Maddie and Jared, the couple that I married, my niece that I married earlier this year. Yeah. Are you doing, what are you making? Are you in charge of anything important? Probably not. No, I'm in charge of 3D printing turkey decorations or something, I'm sure.

Nice. Nice. I'm in charge of staying out of the kitchen. That's probably something, I don't know. I don't know what I'll, I don't know what Tina'll put me in charge of. But it'll be something that if it fails, won't be missed. Gotcha. Now that's good.

That's safe. I like that. Yeah. Green bean casserole or something. I don't know. When my wife, or when my wife, when I was young, when I was growing up, my mom did this thing where in front of everybody's placement of, you know, plates and forks and knives and all that, she would have a little collapsible paper cup, like a kind you'd see in a movie

about people in a mental ward taking their meds. Oh, sure. I was thinking like, you know, you get sometimes if you go to a fancy restaurant and they've got a mouthwash. Oh, right. See, those are nice because they're not, as far as I know, they're not paper or throw away, maybe they are. I don't know. Oh, yeah, those are paper. Are they? Okay, so it's probably a lot like that. But they were like shorter and kind of like almost corrugated in a little shape.

And she would put them out in front of everybody. And then there would be an assortment of nuts, some M&Ms, and a little toothpick with like a turkey flag on it. Every year we had that. Really? Like a little, like a little, a muse bush of nuts. Yeah, nuts and MNN. A trails mix, a muse bush. Yeah.

And it was almost always peanuts, uh, cashew's. M&Ms, and then maybe a walnut or something, which may be the source of why I don't like walnuts, because they were always in there and I didn't like them. Yeah, that's funny. Thanksgiving thing. Have you, so you know, slightly smaller than those are those little paper cups you get at restaurants, fast food restaurants that you squirt your ketchup into, you know, like Freddy's has them and other places.

Have you ever seen the mind-blowing video of what you're supposed to do with those? no there's a so aren't you supposed to just squirt ketchup in it and walk away you square ketchup in it but but if you want a wider experience you unroll the top and the whole thing opens like a little origami miniature plate yeah i know i assume so you're supposed to do that and then pour it on there as a as a plate no no no you'll you'll squirt the ketchup in there take it back to your table and then unroll it and widen it so you can get so instead of having all that ketchup that's stuck in the corners you can't get to you've got like a way to get uh get access to all that stuff i'd never even heard of that that's crazy no no they apparently it's it's made to unroll and kind of open like a little

paper plate all right well some of those places have plastic but the ones that have the paper i'm gonna try that next time yeah try it pretty sure the so we went to freddies yesterday it was just the drive up but um they i think they have the paper ones so maybe i'll go in there next time i think so Yeah. Five guys for sure, because you get that, you know, every fry they have goes in your bag. Yeah. Every fry you've ever had. And every ounce of oil those fries were cooked in, all in the bag. You know, nice oily bag.

Yes. Right. Chinese food takeout containers do the same thing. Those ones that all fold up that you can just break the glue on the two sides if it's glued, if it's not folded. And it just opens up again into a plate so that if you go and get Chinese food and don't have a plate, you just eat it right off of the thing. I have never done that. Yeah. I'm doing that next time we get one of those.

Who finishes one of those and one sitting, though, is the thing. Well, that's true. I guess if you have a group and you're all sharing or something, that makes sense. Yeah, then you open those up and makes it. I've never done that, though. We've always just treated them like self-contained containers and they were never meant to go anywhere, but down and out. You know what I mean? Right, exactly.

All right, I've changed my whole perspective on everything. You dump the rice into the thing and then move on. That's what you do. That's exactly right. Brian, tell me about speaking of rice. I assume there was rice. I don't actually know. But tell us about it.

There was a rice. Yes. Yeah, so we had mystery date Friday night. It was my turn to pick for Tina. And I took her to, it was a two-parter. First part was taking into something here in Denver called Bubble Planet. And this is something that has moved into the same spot that had, the immersive

Da Vinci an immersive Disney there you go you've got a you've got a link and we went at exactly the right time

because we had the run of this place pretty much to ourselves there was one of their couple with a couple small kids that we ran into in one of the rooms but the rest of this area

was was pretty much all ours most specifically this giant bubble ball pit and I sent you a video I sent you a few

video in a couple photos if you want to share those the the ball pit and you saw a little bit of it

it's got that inflated like dude looks like he's sitting in a bathtub or alien sitting in bathtub

yeah that thing that we had that whole thing to ourself ourselves and that was absolutely amazing

can't get it to play for some reason hold on Oh, really? Pummer. Oh, there we go. Okay, I'll pull it up this way. Cool.

So this is Brian. Yep, this is a... Hold on. Oops. Pain in the ass. Let me pull it up so you can see the whole thing. There we go, everybody. There you go, because it's in slow-mo, Scott.

Yeah, I like slow-mo. So look at this ball pit. Oh, bam. Did you go all the way to the bottom and hit your coxics, or did you avoid it? I did not, because I don't know how often they clean that thing. So I don't want any part of my face near the floor of that ball pit. Sure. Yeah, I could see why you wouldn't want to, you wouldn't want that.

Let's see. So this room where there's all these hanging ones, let me pull that one up for everybody. Yeah, that is a room where for five extra dollars, you can put a, oh, that, that, okay, yeah, no, that's a, that is mirrored floor, mirrored ceiling, mirrored walls, and then these hanging lights that, um, that all change color and create kind of movement throughout the whole thing. Oh, my gosh. It's make it dizzy in there, isn't it? Like, woo. It totally does.

I mean, you have to kind of look at the floor and see where the path is to walk. But it is, um, that was so cool. It was, uh, that's rad. Uh, really, really a cool kind of feeling. Let's see. We got one. They have another room where you pay five bucks to put on a, a meta quest. Oh, yeah.

And, and sit in a hanging chair and experience, like, going through the ocean and stuff. and I said, we have Quest at home. We don't need this. You don't need to go over there to get it. Here's another video. Oh, yeah, that's another video. Why, it's taken, there we go. Wait, wrong one.

Here we go. There we go. So there she is. Swinging on. Oh, swinging on a cloud. Oh, it's adorable. I like it. This looks like fun.

And there's, I was noticing on the website. They got like a whole, like a map of where you go. And it's like a linear experience or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's, you know, there's one room that's just mirrors and a lit-up floor, the bubble ocean. Oh, no, the LED room is that.

Then bubble ocean are giant pink balloons that you kick around and they're super light and you can, you know, basically, it's like being in a ball pit, but the balls are massive and you really just walk on the floor. Tell me about the sketch and post business. Do you actually draw in there, this last, second to last one? Let's see. sketch and post Oh, no, they're just folding tables with coloring pages.

Really? Here's this going right by that. Oh, yeah, that's not as cool as I was hoping it. Yeah, no. Sketch and post seems like you'd be a lot more fun, doesn't it?

Yeah. Sounds like it, but I guess not. I love that there's an interactive shop at the end because there's always a shop at the end. Yeah, interactive shop. Aren't shops all interactive? What a dumb, what a dumb

adjective to put it before the word shop. I picked this up and paid for it interactively. Exactly. We have a non-interactive shop. You pay before you go in there and we will just... I don't even know because anything you do is interaction. They'd have to strap you down

and they'd have to come take the wallet out of your pants. You can't move. Exactly. Yeah, that's not a fun experience. Interesting. Yeah, Wes, not too pricey. I think it was 20 bucks. for each of us and there might be Groupons now because I get these fairly early on

but I think we're getting to the waning days of Bubble Planet so look online maybe Groupon might have some deals so this is a temporary installation is what's sounds like temporary installation this place is called

it's in a place called the assembly right off the highway and it's kind of like Area 15 in Vegas well yeah area 15 in Vegas guess where there are some things that, that, you know, in Area 15, you've got some permanent things, but then you've got spaces where things come and go. And, oh, yeah, that bathtub full of rubber duckies. Isn't here?

Yeah. So that example of the girl sitting there pretty much nails it. Those things, they're rubber, they're matte rubber duckies. So you can't really, like, slide underneath them and, like, really immerse your, plunge yourself into the bathtub. Oh, they just kind of mush down, I guess. They just kind of mush down and you just kind of sit on top of all of them and then throw some rubber duckies on your lap to make it look like you're somewhat submerged like that girl is. But what's great about that is when you sit down in there, and I wish I should have got video of this. When you sit down in there, they're all

squeaking rubber duckies. So they all go, free, like a whole bathtub full of them all going all the same time. You just made it better. I like that. Yeah, that part, that part. I Actually, this is pretty funny. I don't know why I didn't record that. So, after Bubble Planet, we went to a restaurant that has just opened across the street from it called Capri Seafood Bar, Capri Seafood Bar. And I looked a little bit online, looked really good. They're brand new, so no Yelp reviews or Open Table or anything like that.

But the food looked great. Like, it's all coastal Mexican. Mexican food with with with that's very octopus forward for some strange reason like there their their uh iron chef's signature ingredient is octopus yeah they have photos in here so if you go to their website which is capri seafood.com simple name okay so much freaking uh seafood but general but in general there's more photos of um yeah i think that's the right site isn't this these guys or this somebody else no that's somebody else oh they have the same name yeah it's not uh Let's see. Where did we see this? We saw this.

It should be that one. Is it not the, is it not that Caprici food bar? Is that the one you just clicked? I clicked this one and it goes to... Click it again, because it looked like it. Oh, here we go. There we go. That's the one. Okay, that was weird. There, there, look at that. Randy had several issues with that, which I don't blame him. Like, the arugula, the bed of arugula all over the place.

But that go of melted cheddar cheese, first off, I have never heard of having melted cheddar cheese and octopus together. Weird combo. It does feel like a weird combo. Like melted cheddar cheese and seafood, you don't think of as being connected unless it's like a, I mean, even like a seafood ravioli, you wouldn't do melted cheddar on it. No, no. I mean, his biggest, it seemed like his biggest beef is he doesn't like cucumbers at all, is what it seemed yeah and boy this thing had cucumbers all over the damn place yeah that's no good uh yeah but i i think i mean even then i this looks like something i'd want to try you know yeah i'd want to see

how it is so i had and i think there is a photo of uh in the menu i had a big seafood and if not i can send you another photo of that but it's in our film sec discord if you want it but i had a um bowl of seafood soup which had muscles clams shrimp um uh i thought i saw it in here didn't i I think that might be... This right here, no? That's the shrimp soup. The tacos. Yeah.

Bands doing band. Ooh, look at that thing. I know. Look at that. Sorry audio listeners, but it's a beautiful food. Like this Mexican sushi business? The sushi array, yeah. Yeah, this is.

Oh, there it is. There it is. If you scroll back up on the right side was the seafood soup. A little bit more. Scroll up. There it is. Oh, look at that. Yeah.

That's the seafood soup. I would eat that. Langestinos, clams, mussels, tilapia, um, uh,

that was so, so good. Yeah, I would eat that business, no problem. Yeah. I ate it, but it took two days to eat.

I ate it on Friday and then, and then the rest of it on Saturday. Reheated beautifully. I was going to ask how, how it held up. That sounded like it did all right. Yep. Held up really well.

Yeah, there's, that's actually what, that was my bowl of it. So not, not quite as red as their example, but it was, God, it was a really good garlicky tomato broth.

Oh, so good. It sounds great. I didn't realize there was so much coastal influence on some parts of Mexican food, like some areas or regions. I had no idea. It's crazy. Yeah, and I don't know what the, if it's western coast, Mexico or eastern coast, like the Baja Peninsula or over on the Riviera side of things.

I don't know, but that place was just awesome. and had a great mystery date. We both had a really good time, and then we came home and we watched Blue Steel. There you go. What a way to end things. What a night. Yeah.

What a caper you had there with Blue Steel. All right. Well, awesome. I want to go there. If I'm in Denver, I'm meeting there. That's what's happening. Yeah.

Let's get done away in here and make that happen. Did you not want to do these other top topics? I'll save them. You'll do them at the end. Yeah, I'll save them just because of the time. Time. Yeah. All right. We'll bring him in. Let's see what we got here.

We got stuff. We got Brian. In fact, one of these I'll do while he's here because I want him to hear it. Oh, yeah, good. Okay. So he's ringing. We got the rings of ringage. Is he in the game? Yes, he is. So that means he's coming. I just know it. I can feel it. He will be here. He will be here. Look at him flashing like that. Oh, there he is. It's your old pal Brian Dunaway joining us for the Monday half-asses. Hi, Brian. How are you?

Oh, hi Scott and Brian. How's it going? Hello, Brian. Good man. We just got done talking about all that's food again that we couldn't stop talking about on Saturday. Oh, yeah. This time we didn't have Randy poo-pooing the cucumber. Yeah, he had, I don't know what is.

I'm going to support Randy here. No. He said at the end, he said, it's not that I hate cucumbers. I actually like them. I have them six times a day. I think is what he said. um but i think he was offended by the photographing of the cucumbers possibly so yeah yeah yeah yeah i don't know man i just think cucumbers are great but also with cheese but with cheese and but cheese and

octopus feet cheese and octopus just yeah that i'm not sure i would uh uh it's a little weird um but hey i got a thing i want to the time i like cheese is oh my oh my shrimp and grits that's about to the extent of it okay and that is and that would be cheddar So there's your seafood and cheddar cheese combo right there. Yeah, you can get away with it with that. No cucumbers, though, for God's sakes. I don't think country buffet or country kitchen or whatever. Cracker barrel has even heard of a cucumber.

No. Or any vegetable. No, no. But they have heard of a lot of old DVDs in a giant barrel that you get to pick out. They've heard of the facts of life. Yeah, they've heard of that. The Jeffrocks-worthy show. Yeah, they know all about that.

It's all in there. Real quick, before we get to the game, I just want to make this note. Blue Sky, which is like a Twitter alternative, and it seems to be gaining huge traction lately. It's currently number one in all the app stores. I quite like it. I like the features of it. And I also like the community a little better there. It's less engaging and weird, like threads.

And certainly, I mean, X is dead to me. It's a piece of shit. So we set up a thing. Tanner and I did this working together on this. But basically, we set up a page where you can submit your Blue Sky URL or your username. and it will be added to these frog pants starter packs basically what they are so people know how these work and we're not the only ones doing this like if there's one with a bunch of authors you might want to follow or there might be a bunch of artists that you would like to follow there are even giant block lists of people who are terrible if you want to block them all at once but basically the way these work is they bring up this grouping and you can just follow everybody all at once now you want to get it you want to get it from a trusted source right don't just go out and get these from randos but ours is trusted these are all people from our discord and people who voluntarily given us their info so go to frogpants.com slash blue sky that's frogpants

com slash blue sky and in there is a way to register your URL or if you already have there's a link there to the current list as it's currently constituted you can only do 150 of these each we're we're easily going to surpass that so i'll post the second one when it's ready but if you want to easily just go where all the tadpoolers at over here instead of having to go search for everybody individually or somehow track them all down. It's this one thing and you just hit the thing up top and everyone gets followed and you're done.

Yeah, that's what's going on there. It's a really cool feature. Yeah, yeah. Threads is quickly losing favor with me. They're annoying me over there. So anyway, if you want to use it, do it. Frogpants.com slash blue sky. I see

done away space. You want to use it, do it. That's their motto, isn't it? Yeah. I think it is. And in the list that it makes when it does like a little heading with some sample faces. I think Dunaway is one of the little faces in there. So is Brian. Yeah, I noticed that yeah, I haven't had much traction

on Blue Sky for the last couple years. It's been kind of, you know, popping it from time to time. But yeah, I noticed last week or so it's really exploded. Yeah. They're having, like, a moment of huge influx of people. They're doing something like a million or more a day or something. It's crazy.

Anyway, and if people get added to the Blue Sky starter pack now, the Frog Pan's pack now they don't automatically get um to those people who've already uh added everybody they will automatically get added there too right it's only they're on the list but you but if you already approved the list and said add all these people uh they won't but if you go back to that same link oh yeah there we go and it'll add people who are who've been recently added exactly so i have this where it says follow all i hit that and now anyone who's joined lately that's cool it's added so

They're seeing you see Kevin in there. Joey images in there. Joey. A whole bunch of people we know and love are all in here. Rooster booster, whoever that is. Oh, rooster booster. I know rooster booster. One of you guys is making porn and I didn't know that.

So I went and followed, did the fig follow and then somebody pinged me and said, I think you're following somebody who does like porn. And I went, oh. Who does it like acts in it or just is just as an aficionado? I think they're in it. I think it's them. I don't know, actually, but I've seen the name in our chat room a bunch. So I don't want to say the names.

I don't want to out them or anything. But anyway, their profiles are getting called out there. Don't be looking at who I'm following. Geez, I know, right. I guess I'll be looking to see photos later on and say, okay, there we go. That's probably the one. Yeah. And if you're like, well, I'm on Blue Sky and I don't want to go to your link.

How do I find it there? I have it pinned to my profile at the Scottjohnson.com. I tied it to a domain, so that's my username on Blue Sky. It's basically their way of verifying. It works pretty well. All right, let's get to the game. Brian, explain how this works, what people can win and why Brian Dunaway might lose today.

Let's do it. For those of you just joining us, welcome to the morning half-ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving Scott and Brian the answers. I'm going to give them a category and six possible answers. Three of which are correct. And three, like accidentally doing porn, are incorrect. Depending on how confident they feel with a category,

they can provide one, two, or three guesses. but if any of those guesses are wrong, 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 because of math. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant, and I've pulled a couple contestants for members of the Tadpool that aren't able to be here live. Scott, you're playing for Chris Thornton in Bardstown, Kentucky. Nice.

Bardsdown. God, I love playing for Kentucky. Let's do it. That's where all the bards live. Brian, you're playing for Trey Jenkins in Memphis, Tennessee. All the bards go to perform. You live in Bardstown, Kentucky, and then they just hop across the river and perform it, Memphis, Tennessee.

Look at us representing for the slight middle. Midwest, mostly south. That's great. Yeah. All right, let's get to it here. Starting with question number one. Let's start off easy. Brian's going to react to that.

Every time. Oh, yeah, gee, it's going to be easy, huh? I bit, fine. No, this one will be really. easy. All right. Characters on the Big Bang Theory. You guys have seen at least one episode. Exactly. But you probably would be able

to recognize character names. We've got Raj Kuthrapali, Amy Farah Fowler, Howard Wallowicz, Dr. Mary Albright, Dr. Dick Solomon, and Nina. I think I know the three. I know all three and I know where two of the other

are from. Well, you've all lucked in. And yeah, you guys know exactly. exactly all three of the other three by the way came from third rock so nina uh dr dick solomon dr mary alderman came from uh third rock from the sun there is no fooling you guys no that was actually an easy one you actually i really yeah didn't you delivered on what you were selling i don't know yeah but it's also making me nervous about what's next yeah yeah me too yeah you should be you should be uh let's go to question number two just as easy roman battles that did not take place in

Europe. Come on, piece of cake. Like, who doesn't know these? Which of these Roman battles did not take place in Europe? You've got Zama, Teotaburger World, Kerry, Farsolus, Massada, and Kene. I did look up pronunciations of a couple of these. What is Fars? Tell me the second one again with the Wold thing. Yeah, and the burger.

Teo Berger. Oh, I said World, didn't I? Teotto Burger Wald. Tio to Burger Wald. Tio to Burger Wald. What a weird ass thing that is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The fight took place in Teotaburg. Teotaburg. Teutaburg. Oh, my gosh. All right, I'm gonna, hmm, doing two. I'm not comfortable. I'm doing two as well. Yeah, I'm not confident.

Oh, look at this. For once, gosh, in the last, like, so far this game, and then all of last week you guys chose different ones. So thank goodness for that. So you've got, uh, Scott, you went with Zama and Masada. Brian, you went with... Zama and Masada.

You went with Teotaburger Wald and Kane. Scott gets the points on this one. Oh, wow. Our side of... Scott, Likis, or did you know him? I did not. I went with those do not sound European at all to me. Masada and Zama.

You're absolutely right. Yeah. Zama is in Tunisia. Masada is in Israel. The other one is Kerry and it's in Turkey. Ah. So where's this Teto Burger World place? In Germany. Germany. It's in Germany. Oh, of course. It's German.

Farsilis is in Greece, which sounds Greek, and Cane is in Italy. Although there is a Scottish word, cannae. Kane. Right. So that might have thrown you off if you're familiar with that. But it didn't. No, it didn't. Listen, Zama and Masada, I'm going there for dinner on Friday. So I'm really looking forward to that. The mix of Mediterranean-Mexican fusion. Really good stuff. So check it out. All right.

There you go. All right. Let's get question number three. Yeah. California prisons. What are your favorite? You like it. Here are your choices.

Sing Sing, Attica, Litchfield, Pelican Bay, San Quentin, and Folsom. Three of those are in California. Three of those are not. These are all real prisons. Yeah, yeah. I think that's...

Bobby, when I looked it up online, I could have sworn it was Teotte. Teotaburg. Teotaburg. Teotaburg. Teotaburg. But a person, the YouTube guy, we are talking about the woman battle

that did not take place in Europe. I love him. He is my favorite thing on the internet. Mine too. He's great. All right. I've chosen too because I am ill prepared for this one. That one, I think, wasn't that the old name of it, Pelican Bay?

Okay, anyway, go ahead. All right. I don't know who it was. All right, you guys both settled on two. You guys both settled on San Quentin. Yeah, if I remember correctly, San Quentin is in San Francisco. When you take the ferry that goes under the Golden Gate Bridge, you go by San Quentin. You also, you know, Alcatraz is also out there as well.

But, of course, that wasn't. That would be a little too obvious for this one. But the other two, Scott, you chose Litchfield. Brian, you chose Folsom. Scott is thinking too much about Orange is the New Black because Litchfield is the fictional prison in Orange is the New Black. Oh, no, we tied. In California, so you guys did tie. And it was set in California, though, right?

Lichfield was set in California, though, right? That's set in New York. Oh, was it? Okay. Sing, sing. Sing, Attica and Litchfield are all in New York or fictionally for Litchfield in New York. And then Pelican Bay is in California.

Okay. Damn it. That's what I wasn't sure about, Pelican Bay. Pelican Bay sounded like the fake one to me, but I think I did watch too much Oranges of the New Black. Oh, Nautamaton says, Coverville says it's not fictional. It's in Danbury, Connecticut. Oh.

The card says moops. Moops. It doesn't matter. Still not in San Francisco either way. Litchfield, New York, fictional from Orange is the New Black. Is there a prison in Litchfield, Connecticut, or is there just a town of Litchfield? Oh, yeah, good point. Counterpoint, Brian.

All right, let's see what you got there. I don't know. That I don't know. But that does mean we are in a tiebreaker situation, so I reach over for the tiebreaker cards. How are we eight to eight? What the hell? I know.

One of us should be murdered by now. This is ridiculous. It's because of that easy, dumb. a big bang theory question. I threw in there to lull you into a false sense of security. They worked. Oh, Litchfield is the county, Danbury is the town. Right, but is there a prison there is the question.

Is there a Litchfield County prison is the question? Yeah. Can I go? And while Chuck is looking that up, let's give you your over-under question here. And let's have, Scott, I think you drew first blood. So I will let you choose whether you give the answer or the over-under. I will do the over-under. I'll let Brian do the answer.

All right. So Brian, on average, how many shark attacks occur worldwide every year? All of them. All of them. You're right. That's actually true. Yeah. Yeah.

That's true. Ding. But I think he's learned for a number. How many shark attacks happen worldwide? Right. Worldwide every year. On average, how many shark attacks? Yes.

Just, okay. On average, shark attacks only, not resulting in death. No. Any coast, it doesn't matter where. I'm going to say. Or even in a lake. What about land sharks? Land sharks?

Sure, land sharks count. Yeah. Candy grams count. Right. I'm going to say 250. All right. 250 is incorrect.

Scott, is the actual answer higher or lower than 250? So I have a very specific bias in this question because it's one of those things where I rip on the media

because whenever they report one, they act like they're happening every five seconds and everyone's dying from shark attacks, but really the numbers say it's way low. So I'm tempted to say lower than that because I'm, I just, I don't know, people make such a bunch of hay about nothing with these.

Hey, hey, hey. I mean, the one, you know, the people are getting eaten. I get it. It sucks. But it's just not the random problem. You can't mean. It really sucks for you, dude. It sucks.

They got eaten, but. I'm going to say, I'm going to say lower. I think lower than 250. I think that's too much. All right. The actual answer is 74. Yes, much lower than 250. And only about 16% of shark.

attacks are fatal so yeah it's like it's this thing when the news is light and these and news is like tonight of 10 shark attacks are up way higher people just don't report it because i mean i remember one summer just in south carolina just off myrtle beach i remember hearing like four or five attacks and that was just one summer and i'm like and you know why because you were getting you were you were getting lied to is what you were getting lied to so here's what happens they say you were saying that people were saying there were shark attacks that weren't happening. Is that what you're saying? I'm saying that they would, if you say the phrase

shark attacks are up on the western coast, what that actually might mean is that there was one and that's up from zero. Do you know what I'm saying? Well, no, I mean, they were reporting on them as they were happening. I was like, oh, here's another shark attack. It wasn't like they were saying along the East Coast or nothing.

Yeah, but what I mean is like, sure, you're going to have bursts, you're going to fit some bursts like anything, right? Your stats are going to, but your overall averages are always going to stay low. So the idea, what I'm saying is you heard about the five in your local sort of Myrtle Beachy stuff, right? So you hear about those and you go, well, that must mean these are the sharks of, they're communicating, they're organized. Imagine this, imagine this, how many people get into the water every single day along each coast of, and it's the U.S., just U.S., and then imagine it all across the world. Yeah.

That is a very high probability of encounters with sharks. No, it's not. It isn't, actually. Just because they're in the water. No. Every day, 365 days a year. Yeah, but there aren't that many. There aren't sharks that come.

Most sharks don't get that close to the coast or even mess with us at all. It's so rare. It's like rare than, think about that. There's nine or eight billion people in the world. And there's only 76 shark attacks. Well, I mean, you know, when I think of attack, it's just like, you brush my leg, attack. well I've never even had that happen that shark licked me

he didn't eat me he just tasted me yeah I think I don't know I think it's 76 for a reason and uh done away thinks it's way higher so there you go if if the shark eats somebody and there's no friends there to see it doesn't make the news

wait is that right serenex serenic says statistically you're more likely to die from being struck by a falling coconut than by a shark is that true I think that's correct I don't see how that would be correct. I mean, how many coconuts around where I live at, I can't imagine there being coconuts on that many coasts.

Well, that's the point. Coconuts. With people. No, I know. But that's the point is that will happen more often than the shark will come get you despite how many people are in the water. And you're believing because someone put in the chat room, and you're talking to me?

And you're talking to me about listening to that news? It is a good point. I don't have a source on this. My source is Sarenix, so that's a good point. So anyway, congratulations. Go to Chris Thornton in Bardstown, Kentucky. You're getting a copy of, to my knowledge, no sharks in SpongeBob SquarePants, the Cosmic Shake.

There might be some in Lost Idleons, but who knows? When they got coconuts in there. I'm sure they do. Yeah, there you go. So watch out for the coconuts. Trey Jenkins, you're not going away empty-handed because you're not here. But you're also going to get something in your email. Astrea, six-sided oracles is the game you're getting courtesy.

All these Curtis Lee of Wesley, very generously, uh, donates to our prize catalog. He sure does. That name comes up a lot and that's because he is so generous with these games. Huge thanks, Dan. He's so, so generous. He's a good dude. Uh, so is Brian Dunaway, it turns out.

And, uh, despite his fear of sharks, he is going to be all around the place, doing cool stuff all the time. Dunway, is there anything you'd like to mention today? I mean, we'll talk, you know, Wednesday more about play retro this week. But, uh, anything else going on in your life you'd like to tell people about? Oh, absolutely. I'm going to play a vector man tonight. Speaking of Play Retro,

going to play in between 6 and 9 p.m. Yeah, it's our counter, it's our counter argument to Donkey Kong country. Yeah, it's Sega's answer to that, kind of. Yeah. Even though it seems like it isn't, it was. At the time, it was there at them going, oh, yeah, well, look what we got?

We have vectors. We can do pre-rendered sprites, too. Come on. Check it out. We're pretty awesome. Anyway, it's actually a really good game, and we'll talk about it, and it's a complete series coming up this week later. But Brian, what time is streaming again? When is it?

6 p.m. Eastern time to 9 p.m. Eastern time. Nice. I won't interfere with the Monday show. I'm assuming you're doing today. We are, but it's at noon, so you've got a huge window. Brian, kiss our butts. No, you. Got him.

Oh, got him. You got him. He got a Y and an O out, but that you stuck behind the wall. Well, there you go. What do we have here? Oh, we got some news. Let's do a little bit of that. Let's see here.

It's time for the news brought to you by. fellow tadpuller Hailfront is now playing the now improved GTA3 definitive edition. Check out his Twitch stream at twitch.tv.tv slash loud thumbs. I like that name. That's twitch.tv slash loud thumbs. Great name. Super good. It is a great name.

Yeah. I love it. You did some tired thumbs thing before. Tired thumbs was our gaming show for a while. Our like, yeah, portable and console gaming and stuff. I always like that. With Showjo. Yeah, well, that's right.

And a guy named Charlie George. Talking to her later today about her stuff finally. I had to keep changing our date. But, yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I don't know if she's in her chat today. TikTok creation. She is such an amazing creator. Yeah, if you're on TikTok or I guess she's also, she's doing reels and wherever you can get short form video, she's killing it right now.

So even if you're not a wow fan, stuff cracks me up. It's really good. All right. Let's get to the story. We've got a story right here. There it is. Ohio family. Ohio family.

Ohio. Ohio, round in the middle. No, round on the ends and high in the middle, Ohio. Hey, you know more about that than I. I never, is that their state song or something? What is that? No, it's some song that somebody made up about them. Oh, all right.

Do you guys have a state song? Round on the ends and high in the middle. Do you have a Colorado song? We talked about this. We might have. Yeah, it's where a man can walk a mile high. Oh. I can't remember the first part of it, though.

It's, uh, I can't remember Utah. Colorado Dunedalindal and Casa Benita Rocky Mountain High at the end there Red rocks Well, Ohio, a family there built a 50,000 pound stargate

Yeah, you're thinking of the right thing The Stargate Stargate With a dial home device to scan the cosmos This is pretty awesome And there's a photo, let's see Look at that! Oh my gosh. That's amazing. Yeah.

This should be your next 3D printer project right here. Look at that thing. There's a beast. Oh, why is that up there? Jeez. Yeah. It says here, the only catch is the Stargate in Ashland County doesn't exactly work like the ones on television.

We built it about 15 years ago, says landowner Phil Ventura. I just got this think of. Yeah. Jesse. That's all I can think of. Right. And I'm going, listen here. The concrete circle has been or become famous on social media

But Ventura suggests or stresses rather Visitors are not welcome and the property is not open to the public I don't need the aggravation says Ventura I'm very pleased that people have given recognition to it But I really don't want the notoriety Why build a Stargate then dude? Yeah You're going to build Stargate you may as well get ready

You just want to keep it to yourself Yeah I don't get it Anyway the project started about 30 years ago in 94 when the movie came out with James Spader, Kurt Russell, all that. The movie's not great. I don't like the movie. I love the show. TV show apparently was really good, but movie. Love the show. One of these days, Brian's going to watch that show, and he's going to agree.

You're going to really like it. Yes. I think I watch the first season because you all told me to, and I didn't. I liked it, but I never went any further than that. I never went to any of the spinoffs or the... Like Atlantis and stuff, yeah. Yeah, SG1 and stuff like that. Yeah, well, SG1 is the main one.

So there are two spinoffs. There's SG1 as the show. Okay. So the movie's just Stargate. Show's Stargate SG1. And then the spinoffs are Atlantis and Stargate. Oh, what was that? They tried to be all BSG with it.

Stargate SVU. No, it's like, it's like it was very, it was very Galactica style. Better call Stargate. No. The other one was. You're not universe. Was it universe, Travis? I would trust, I would trust TV's Travis.

he might be right yeah the one that had claudia black that was okay it was stargate universe i can't remember because it lasted like five minutes stargate miami stargate beverly hills i'd watch that i'll tell you that real stargates of salt lake city awesome for me the the entirety of it really is sg1 through atlantis and atlantis is great it's got it's got some amazing stuff in atlantis i like that one a lot anyway uh He did it 30 years ago, and now he's grumpy about it, so don't go to his house. Nobody come and look at it.

It's not open to the public. No, boy. What is he, what is, um, stop sending me things to sign. I will return, I will throw them in the bin. I'm saying, I'm warning you with peace and love. Peace and love. Stop sending things. Peace and love.

All right. There's another one. This is a fun one. The quote is, we did eat it. And I'll now give you context. A Chinese mother share shocking photo of toddler urinating on family meal. Oh, I saw this in a troll two. Oh, my lord. Did that happen in troll two? I don't remember. Yeah, yeah. The kid pees on the food so the people wouldn't eat it. I don't remember. The food was poisoned or something, but they were about to eat it. So the kid pees on all the food. Oh my gosh, I blocked that out. Apparently so. It says here that try to imagine sitting down to a meal and you have your food soaked, suddenly soaked in urine.

That's exactly what happened to a mother in China's Beijing, who shared an unusual incident on social media, leaving users shocked. I tell you, shocked. You might wonder why there's so much fuss. After all, it's not uncommon for toddlers to have a little accident, but really left people stunned. Was that her family continued eating the meal with urine,

in it. Oh, God. Yeah. Reported by the South China Morning Post or the SMMP. You ever been there? Do their paper there? You didn't do that one? No.

No. Only one outside of the U.S. for me was a couple in Canada. Toronto Star and Calgary, something times. Calgary Flaming Times. Calgary Flaming Times. Yeah, something. But, man, your avalanche kicked our assy it not long ago.

We didn't talk about it on the show. You just wrecked us. Wrecked us. It's not a great start. Alkins yesterday, too. Yeah, I don't know, man. Maybe this is, maybe this is an avalanche here, you know? Maybe, maybe.

Maybe you guys are going all the way. I'd like that, yes. I was really hoping the Utah Hockey Club might do a little more. I mean, it's such an easy name to rally behind. You know, it's basically like. Like the only merch you're going to sell for the Utah Hockey Club are people who want it as a collector's item when an actual name gets settled on. Because nobody's going to wear Utah Hockey Club merch to the later games when they actually have an official name. No, why would you spend 30 bucks on a hat now?

Why? Yeah, exactly. It's such a giant. Utah Hockey Club. And it's all like a boring font. It's so dumb right now. Anyway, it'll all change. Everyone will be fine eventually.

Anyway, they just ate this whole meal And it was soaked in kid pee And they didn't know it at the time So good job, China I think it says a lot about her cooking too Yeah, right Well, it's no worse than without Yeah

It doesn't say why or how the kid was allowed to do this It says at this age Here it is interposed The mother mentioned that this child Rarely wears disposable diapers at home she believes they interfere with natural routines. Well, yeah, you do that. Your kid's going to pee on stuff you don't want them to pee on.

Yeah, yeah. It says mom's snapshot skills are quite good, meaning, oh, let's see. I'm not looking at the photos. I don't need to see photos of, and. They don't have any pictures of this kid or anything. Oh, good. Yeah, yeah, they don't do that. Yeah.

But still, so they ate this food, and then they decided to report it to the news? Yeah, and then put it, to go and put it. to go and put a thing on social media and tell everybody how great it, you know, not how great it was, but that they did it. Boy, that's, again, I think that's where the question lies is, is, all right, so you already ate the food that had pee on it, but then you decided to brag about it on social media. Yeah. And honestly, we don't even, how do we, how do you even verify such a claim? Right, right. This news is reporting it, but nobody went there and tested it and said, sure enough, there's kid pee in this.

I mean, I guess It's not something It's something that's very easy to just take their word for it Because nobody's going to make up the claim That they ate urine-soaked food Now what's crazy about it For the lulls According to this, and this is crazy, Brian

I don't even know if I believe this But I'm going to read it as written by this paper All right, news 18 Starts even getting more suss It's, I don't know if there's more suss or if adds credence I'm not sure But as per the report In traditional Chinese culture,

the urine of young boys is thought to have special powers it is believed to boost energy reduce fevers and even protect against bad luck spirits urine from boys under 10 is considered particularly powerful and is the strongest sorry and the strongest is believed to be from the first morning before a boy's one month birthday in southern china there's even a dish called urine eggs that's not that's the translation based on this belief to make it urine is collected from young children usually in school and used

to boil eggs. This dish is believed to help prevent tiredness in spring and protect against heat stroke in summer. Okay. There's a lot of weird beliefs in the world. All right? A lot of weird ones. This is going to go right up my list in like the top three or four. Like that's effed. Yeah. Yeah. I think

Talley is saying red on air light. Doesn't count if it's something you said in chat, Talley. Yeah, I'm not looking at chat. She was talking about boy piss. Did she actually say mentioned the boy piss eggs or something like that oh i don't know i do i'm not reading it i have no idea yeah but uh yeah don't eat eggs soaked and pee is all i'm saying yeah don't do it sounds you know sounds like uh they came up with this uh young boys being like by the way our piss is uh

gives you magical powers yeah some 11 year old take it take literally taking the piss going hey you know it'd be great we told all these old people that our piss is magic yeah yeah they believed it dummies all right we're going to take a break when we come back, Stephen Schleiker will be here. He does not eat piss eggs, and that's good. He's welcome here. He's one of us. It's been verified, by the way. We have actually had professionals go and do blood tests to confirm that Stephen is not eating urine-soaked. Oh, yeah, we make all our guest hosts do this. They all go through it. We do. Yeah, so it's part of the onboarding. So true. Anyway, we're going to do that in a minute, but Brian's going to play song

first. Yeah, this one is, came in through the request channels. Now, if you, when you do your TMS requests, that's usually for like, oh, we're having an anniversary or I'm having a birthday and here's the song I want to hear. You can also use this for your indie in the middle request. And obviously, it still comes with the caveat of please get your, your subject, the band you're talking about the musician, to approve it before you send me a request. to play it, which is exactly what Daryl, Daryl Quentin did for this one. He just

sent it via email and that takes a lot longer for us to get it. So use the TMS request line over there at frogpence.com slash TMS. Anyway, Daryl reached out to this band that he really likes called Diva Bleach. Diva Bleach!

And they have a brand new single called Torn In 2. Not only did I listen the song, I watched the video and I liked it very, very much. Um, this is torn in two by the band Diva Bleach. Right place at the wrong time. It's like you want to ruin my life, but that's fine. I know I'm not right in my mind, but what's wrong with not being shy, right?

And if I never got into the car, I wouldn't be having all this deja vu. And if I never asked him who you are, I wouldn't be thinking what I've got to lose. But imagine what we do if nobody needed to know. If you've got me in a room, oh, promise I won't have a soul. Up against your skin and it's canvas, I want to taste your lips, while you pull me in real close. Oh, I'll lose in myself. control

Time is moving too fast only one what I can't have and it's driving me mad it's bad You're on me like clover's in the grass and I knew it wouldn't last wouldn't last And if I never got into the car wouldn't see your face inside of every crowd Look at you and now I'm seeing stars I can't seem to get my head out of the clouds. But imagine what we do if nobody needed to know If you got me in a room

Oh, I promise I won't have a soul Up against your skin And it's can't resist Will it taste your lips While you put me in real close Oh, I'm losing without control because of you now I'm torn into it No one else has ever made me feel this way

Dance to run and we can push your luck At this point I've given up all thinking strange Because imagine what we do If nobody needed to know If you got me in a room Oh, I promise I won't tell the soul Up against your skin and his canvas Will I taste your lips

Will you put me in real close Oh, I'm losing my self-control I got some of that potted meat and soddy crackers left over, if you want some. You're going to eat your cornbread. And we've returned. Who is that one more time? Sure. That's a band called Diva Bleach. A brand new single they've released called Torn In To. Big thanks to Daryl Quentin for suggesting this. Nice.

Yeah, we like it when you guys know a band and tell us about them. It's great. For sure. Go check him out. Daryl's actually in Ohio. We just talked about Ohio. Make sure to check out Diva Bleach. The video for this song is great, and they've got other music to look at as well.

So go check out Diva Bleach. I like the name is a weird one. Yes, it is a cool. Very unique. I don't think I've ever heard of a stranger combination, actually. Yep. Diva. I can't make sense of it, I guess is what I'm saying. And that's good. You want that for your band name. Hey, guess what? Y'all? This right here. Where is it? Right here. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dalla, dollar bills, y'all. Yes, indeed. It's Professor Steven Schlecker joining us as he does most every other Monday. And he's been kind of busy, though, lately. A lot of school stuff going on, pre-holiday business, all that. But Stephen, how are you feeling after that whirlwind good time you had that?

Well, I'm definitely not going to tell people to stay hydrated today. No, no, you need to stay. I don't know a show called The Morning Stream. No, geez. Yeah, not after that deal. Save it for your pee eggs or whatever. That story. Hey, Stephen, it's good to have you back.

You know, look, when you're not here, I always feel like I'm missing something. Like, I'm not fully aware of what's happening in comics and pop culture and movies and stuff like that. Yeah. So having you back is, you know, it's a real boon to the show. So thanks for being here. glad to be here. Let's talk about DC Comics and how they just kicked off the absolute universe with Absolute Batman 2.

This is the one with that new crazy chest logo that's about the size of a man grate. Yeah, so a little bit of spoiler alert. So Absolute Batman number one came out in October. So all the buzz about the logo has kind of died down because it turns out, this is really weird. So it's an axe. Yeah. It comes off, right? It comes off if you can use it.

off his chest and he can chop people with yeah yeah that's pretty cool so here's the here's the big premise and I'll go into each of the three titles that they have right now um so the absolute universe is kind of the anti-dc universe so in a sense absolute universe is a new launching point for everybody's characters and heroes that you love with the understanding that the absolute universe has been infected with dark side energy and so the heroes are all underdogs they They are not these paragons of heroism. They are people who have to fight underground and do things. So absolute Batman, he was not born rich.

He does not have a butler. He, uh, he, his dad was a teacher and died. He's obsessed with trigonometry. Uh, he's got engineering degrees and he works construction. And at night, he fights bad guys. And it's pretty cool when you see how his cape folds out and does all these other things, how his, uh, chess logo comes off, becomes an axe. and it is it is a very different take because there isn't alfred in this series but alfred

works for like a um super secret spy organization that goes around the world and takes out bad guys he's like a double seven character and so he's come to gotham and he's trying to take down this big guy but he keeps running into batman who's also trying to take down this this organization and alfred's like i think i want to team up with him and the secret organization is like no do not he he's only a troublemaker and he's like yeah but he's doing my work for me it's only going to make it easier so uh those two have come uh you know face to face in the first issue and again in the second issue let's consider it like a different like a separate universe i'm assuming right yeah it's totally different universe they just like marvel comics and ultimate uh marvel where you have

total retellings of all of the characters that you know and the events and features same thing going on in the absolute universe right i think scott you would get a kick out of absolute batman because it is written by Scott Snyder who did the Batman Court of Owls storyline, that big huge volume there. Big Snyder fan. Love his stuff. He's so good. He also did Dark Knight's Metal. So he is also the one who's completely in charge of the Absolute Universe.

So he's the overseer of all the different titles that are coming out. Oh, I didn't know they gave him keys to the truck. That's cool. For this one, yes. Speaking a truck, speaking a truck last week, Absolute Batman number two came out. We got introduced to a Batmobile, which in Scott Snyder fashion is this giant construction dump truck that is like one of those, you know, the construction trucks that have tires that are like as tall as two people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was going to say the ones that are just like disgustingly large.

Like how do they even work? It is crazy and over the top. And I really appreciate what they're doing there. There's also absolute Wonder Woman. Now that second issue, I don't know if that comes out this week or now. next week. But in absolute Wonder Woman, the premise is Wonder Woman was not raised on Finnescarra. She was raised on Hell Island with her arch nemesis. Now I forget what her name was, not Hera, but he was raised in a place where the world doesn't treat her right. And yet she still shows kindness and love and family with everything under her control. So instead of having Warrior as her primary attack mode, magic becomes her primary attack mode. So it's

also very cool. It's got some great iconography and some imagery from Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman. And that one, like I said, I think the second issue is coming out this week or next week. So people can get on the ground floor on these

books. I need to get, I want these, I'm going to do these day and day, I think. Yeah, you really should. These are not things that I would sit on. Yeah, I'm really excited about I don't know why even. You know what it is is I've been a little dry on comics

for the last couple of months and I just, I'm in the mood. I need something new. Well, it was so much going on at DC specifically. Also Marvel, too. I mean, Marvel's got its own event after event after event. This is kind of like, hey, I kind of want to just forget everything. I kind of want to just go into this absolute universe

and kind of start off fresh with new characters and new designs and new ideas and see how it's going. And you don't have to follow the main, the main continuity of the DCU. This is a total separate continent. continuity. This is, according to Scott Snyder, who went out and clarified stuff into last week, he said that, no, these are not a miniseries. All of these things are ongoing until DC tells us to stop. So you can probably expect this to go on for a couple of years if it's successful. I'm excited. I really like Snyder. I also, you know what else is really good at? The stuff he does independently for comicsology, his own books. Yeah, his comicsology stuff is really, really good. And I think, you know, if you're a fan of Scott Snyder, do it. He's got a, I can't remember if it's a substack or something else where he goes in and talks about comic book creation. And he does weekly, um, live streams where he talks about the art and craft of, of writing comics.

So yeah. Yeah. The, uh, the third one. The third book so far released is absolute, uh, Superman by Jason Aaron and Rafa Sandoval. This one is probably as close to really understanding what dark side energy, uh, is. And if you think of apocalypse, that's the dark side's home world where it's just, you know, like, pits of fire and people working under slave conditions and all of these things. That's essentially the way that they portray Earth in this series, in that in Brazil, there are

these people that are forced to work in the factories, forced to work in the mines, and there's this mysterious person who keeps showing up, doing all the work for them and trying to clean up the environment and do all these things. And then we get flashbacks to Krypton, which was not a good place where class a class system exists. And spoiler alert, Jorrell was not part of the science class. He was part of the, uh, the, not even the middle class. He was kind of the, the labor class of people. And so Superman really comes from this in this story, a blue collar background, but he knows the difference between right and wrong and the government is after him and Lewis Lane is part of the government that's trying to track him down. It's an interesting thing. And it's a, it's probably

of the three, the one that strikes most close to our. our current reality of the way, you know, the different class systems work. Sure. So dark side, some people say seed, but that's where this is, the origin is. Yeah, but this is where this is wrong and problematic. Yeah, that's right. Kick them out of your life. Yep.

But the, but that, but that's who we're talking about here. It's his bullshit. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. So the, the, the whole thing hasn't been revealed. I guess there was an absolute, um, kickoff event or an absolute issue that kind

have talked about how dark side has sent his energy through time so that it's messing with the origins of the superheroes and that's how we get this absolute universe and it's um it's interesting i'll just say that it is an interesting project it is darker it's a little bit grittier than what you might see in your typical comic books although you know marvel and dc both have uh their grim and gritty takes on stuff yeah but again if you're somebody that's just like i don't want to get in on continuity is a big issue for people getting into comics And it's like, I don't want to have to go back and read a thousand issues of Superman to understand what's going on. Well, first of all, you don't.

But if you're just looking for a great jumping on point, I think this absolute universe is probably the place where people want to start. Yeah. It's some of the most fun you can have with comics. I love when Marvel does this sort of thing. I like when other, you know, established long running IPs do this. It's just a fun way to imagine it in a different way. I prefer this over when they try to do it in movies. like I like when the movies or

you know television tries to adhere to a more familiar line but then again even the MCU is all different than the universe why they call it the cinematic universe it is separate from these other universes the comic universe yeah and people

you know go see those so I just think this is a fun way to tell stories and it's been comics have been doing this since time began so oh yeah ever since you know really when we look at the multiple earths that really kicked off with the start of the silver age with the with the introduction of the flash of two worlds that's where we got earth one and earth two and how the golden age flash and the silver age flash were very

different and from there we just have spun off into all of these different the multiverses what dc comics and a lot of other people are calling it as well uh marvel certainly has it uh in spades as well you can't just flip a page before you've got to you know uh you know ultimate reed richards the master coming in and and doing all sorts of stuff in the ultimate universe and and screwing things up. You've got the zombie universes. You've got, you know, ancient, European, medieval European. Which one is that 14.406, I believe, is that one? Yeah, right. I like that one. Or 1402, I think. That's a great series. Yeah, that's an interesting series. So you've got something for everybody once you dive into the multiverse. The problem that I have, and this has been my big,

I think D.C. could really step up and do something with this. I think if they're going to tell stories in the multiverse, the real easy way that you could help. Reader differentiate, hey, is this taking place on Earth X? Is this taking place on Earth 3? It's just put a little thing on the cover of the logo that says this takes place on Earth 3. You know, just a little Earth with a three in it. And that would tell people, ooh, this is where the Injustice League is at. I want to read that comic book.

And the people, right, the collectors who know about it will actively look for those issues. And the people who don't, it won't matter to them because they'll just get a good comic story, no matter what, no matter what Earth. that takes place on. Yeah. Yeah. That would be a great idea. Yeah. Tell you James in the chat says,

do you think adherence to a greater continuity in DC and Marvel ultimately hurts them in readership? Maybe yes and maybe no, because somebody looks at a cover that like Superman, a thousand, 79 or whatever it's up to right now. And they're like, oh, no, I can't, I can't get into that. Marvel, on the other hand, has its problem where it's like, well, we'll fix that. Every issue will be a number one. Or really what happens is they'll do six to 12.

of one creator, then start with a new volume with number one, but it still kind of contained some of that previous continuity. Years ago when, and I forget what her name was, she took over DC, and she basically said, oh, we're just going to do away with continuity. We're just going to tell good stories. And that worked to a point until people were like, yes, but where does this, you know, where does Scott Snyder's Court of Owls fit in with all of this other stuff? Yeah.

And then they started to bring back, okay, we have to have this all in some kind of a working continuity, but if people are worried about being lost, and this is probably the same way with you, Brian, when you started reading Marvel comics, because you're not old enough to have started at the very beginning. Thank you. No, I'm not.

You're a very young man. But, you know, you picked up a comic, you're like, I don't know what's going on in here, but I'll read it. It's kind of cool. And then you pick up the next issue, and you're like, oh, okay, here are some things that are making sense. And, you know, within a year or so, you're like, oh, I'm totally into everything that's going on. Yeah. For sure. And there used to be, like, the

splash page of every Marvel comic back in those days used to actually tell you a little bit in the very top about the Avengers were formed by so and so to help battle blah blah blah and the Fantastic Four trapped in a cosmic

ray explosion they woke up to have superpowers or blah blah blah so it's kind of like oh yeah I feel more feel safer picking up a comic knowing that I've always got that previously on Fantastic Four Marvel Marvel still does that on the inside front cover they'll say previously in and they will give you a quick synopsis of

either here's what happened in the last issue or in the general story arc that they're currently doing and that's a great way to just get into it because you're like okay i don't know what's going on but here's a little bit of a blurb and i really appreciate i wish more comic publishers would do that yeah i agree with that yet these days i just find before i read one of the individual comics on marvel unlimited if it's a series i'm i'm pretty sure i'm going to enjoy i actually go out and pick up a graphic novel a story arc and then that's like okay gets me right into where the characters are and then I can kind of pick up from there with the individual issues yeah yeah well I am can I show you really quickly uh Stephen one of the things I've picked up recently that I really

here Stephen I'm going to send you video is it is a Marvel uh United uh Multiverse which you have been waiting for you still haven't gotten yours is kidding me really it's a total mess are you able to see are you able to see discord right yeah okay well uh yeah let me see in discord i just sent it sent you video so you should be able to see okay yep i see it i'm also watching on youtube so uh fantastic for full circle the marvel arts book this is look how thick this mama jump in this is the um plus it's giant size um this is the alex ross yeah um story for marvel or for a fantastic for full circle but then it's got all the original art that he did for it like

I don't know how well the camera can pick yeah yeah uh yeah and look at it because if it's what I'm thinking of does it got like the pages it's got all the pages with the original artwork exactly not ain't and then you've got then you've got an interview with Alex Ross

about doing it you've got oh this is such a great this one I love this sketch that he did of the uh FF oh yeah dude sometimes his pencils his pencils and his pencils and his graphite stuff is so good, so good. Absolutely amazing stuff.

And, oh, yeah, this is that colorized, and then, you know. And so it's got all of the, all of the pages from the series? All of the pages, both. Nice. Penciled and then colored, but not inked. And does it, is it lettered? No, uh-uh. So, yeah, that's a really cool.

I find those books fascinating to me, just nonstop. So ID, if people are into those kinds of things, IDW publishing used to do a whole line of stuff called artists' editions. And these are exactly like what you have right there, Brian, where they would take an entire run of like the Rocketeer or the Spirit or, you know, some X-Men run from Chris Claremont. And it would just be the black and white. These are the pages that were turned in that were then, you know, scanned colored and printed. but you're seeing like you can even see like if a word balloon had to be changed or if there's white out on the pages

you can see all that stuff and they print it in the size of the original art board that they do it in. These things they don't do them as much anymore but they're expensive if you try to find them anywhere from $90 to $300 for these but they're wonderful

and so if that has you scratching to get more of those Brian I would definitely check out probably the Dave Stevens, Rocketeer one is really good. And then I believe there's a Paul Smith, Uncanny X-Men run that is collected in that as well. Did you say Paul Smith? Oh, really? Because I loved his art.

Oh, my gosh. Yeah, yeah. That's great. Cool. Yeah, look for that. That's great. Yeah, I'm all over it. More recommendations than you people at home know what to do with. All right.

So listen to all these nerds talk about cool nerd shit and go live your nerd life. Live your best nerd life and read some comics. That's what I say. That's what I say. Indeed. Stephen, it's always good talking to you. Anything going on at major spoilers you would like to tell us about? Oh, it is almost Thanksgiving. So we're about into the end of the year where we take a lot of breaks and stuff.

But there's still a lot of good stuff. Comic book reviews, news, of course, all of the podcasts that we do. If you're looking for side dishes to take to your holiday party, we've got the top five podcast where we share our top five dishes to take to holiday. So people can go and check that out. Nice. Yeah, please do. It is Stephen Schlecker, aka.

Lord of all he surveys. Is there any advice you'd like to give us, or are we not drinking today? Yes, drink water. Oh, hey, that has this knock-on effect of hydrating oneself. I like that. Yes, that's great. Specifically water, so have a good day, everyone. If those steamed bowel buns smell funny, don't eat them.

No, don't eat the pea buns. Yeah. Oh, I didn't even think about, like, bread stuff and that sort of thing. Yeah, oh, yeah. They even talked about that some of the food was like steamed buns. It's like, no. No. No. The answer is no. There's no other answer, but no.

You can always make more. Yeah. Yeah. Always make more. Never eat that. All right. That's it for today's show. Quick note here. A couple things. The Monday show will be today at noon. That's our new time. So noon, me and Carter, check us out. I will give her crap for the Ebelene thing then. So listen for that. There you go. Good. Gilt her into watching it with you today. We also got a quick note from an anonymous listener. Send us a text about the TSA. thing says get your TSA pre-check

scheduled at Staples rather than the airport. It is so convenient. I didn't know Staples did it. I didn't either. I had no idea. That's great. Going there for some pens. Yeah, I need some new ballpoints.

I need some lined paper. Yeah. You need a ream of paper. And also can I get my, you know, five-year TSA pre-check-in? Thank you very much. That's great. Wizard of Oz follow up from an anonymous listener.

Hey, Ridley and DePalma. That's Scott and Brian of TMS. fame. In regards to the Wizard of Oz, it's not a dream in the books. The farm is destroyed and Dorothy returns to it rebuilt. The dream aspect, the ruby slippers, and the green color of the wicked witch are also not part of Baum's book. Or Baum's book, said Brom. And the books, the shoes are silver and the wicked witch is more likely, or more likely has brown skin. When she dies, Baum describes her as melting away like brown sugar. Wow. Crazy. That book is a lot different than I thought. I didn't know that. Yeah, no kidding.

Probably not going to read it, I think, because I just don't know if I'll ever read a book like that, but it's good to know. Good to know. There's so many. There's like 18 or 20 books or something that, that Baum wrote for the Oz series. There's Osma of Oz and the walking timepiece of Oz or something like that. Did they prequel that business as well? You know what I mean? Like his books deal with?

Yeah, I think the first book. Okay. interesting yeah but I'm sure I mean wicked is the prequel sure if you're looking for a prequel then yeah that's the popular one yeah people like that prequel uh all right that's it we're done with the show we're out of here Brian let's play a song of your choosing whatever you like okay uh let's do this one right which one did I choose I can't even remember which one I chose oh let's see this is one I chose right here okay because I accidentally colored two of these the same color to highlight them. Oh, that's because the other one was the indie in the middle. There we go. Tom rode in, said hello, shelter and bunker. My amazing wife, an author, Beth Hope, is turning two score on her birthday, the 24th, and is about to publish her second book this year, The Future is Bright. So she turned two scores, so play the appropriate, uh, 24, 24? No.

Nope. That score is 20. Oh, scores, four score in 20 years ago. Why do they say four score in 20 years ago, though? He doesn't. He says four score and seven years ago. You know what I should read? That speech by Abraham Lincoln. Let's see. So that would make her, so 22 score, so she's 40.

So we're giving her, I think we give her this. Where is it? I can't find it. Happy birthday. 40's the cutoff. Sorry, two scores the cutoff. right there you go two score you got to be under two score to get the let's party her brand new book is called her second book is called the future is bright

it's loosely based on the fallout series as a bit more genre based than her first book which is called healing notes which amy recommended a few weeks ago like scott she hates promoting herself so trying to hit two birds with one stone very good oh nice there's nothing wrong by promoting your wife's awesome work by the way that's great freaking support it nothing at all wrong with that please please do it So the book is called The Future is Bright. Let's go with something that feels appropriate to that. Jonathan Colton, of course, released the song The Future Soon.

But I Fight Dragons in their secret exclusives in 2009, released their cover of the song. We've played it here on the show before. We're going to play it again. Here are I Fight Dragons. Here is I Fight Dragons with The Future Soon. Here we go. Last week I left a note on Laura's desk It said I love you signed anonymous friend

Turns out she's smarter than I thought she was She knows I wrote it now the whole class does And I am all alone during couple skates when she skates by with some guy on her arm But I know that I'll forget The look of pity on her face When I'm living in my solar dome On a platform in space

Because it's gonna be the future soon And I won't always be this way When the things that make me weak and strange Get engineered away It's gonna be the future soon I've never seen it quite so clear And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes

And it's already here I'll probably be some kind of scientist Building inventions In my space lab in space I'll end world hunger I'll make dolphins speak Work through the daytime Spend my nights and weekends

Perfecting my warrior robot race Building them one laser gun at a time And I'll do my best to teach them About life and what it's worth I just hope that I can't keep them From destroying the earth Because it's going to be the future soon I won't always be this way

When the things that make me weak and strange Get engineered away It's going to be the future soon I've never seen it quite so clear When my heart is breaking I can close my eyes And it's already He'll order

They'll wonder As I'm peace by piece replace myself Steel and circuits will make me a hole but I'll still feel so

alone so Laura calls me home I'll see her standing by the Montereyle she'll look the same Except for bionic eyes.

She lost the real ones in the robot wars. I'll say I'm sorry. She'll say it's not your fault, or is it? She'll eye me suspiciously hearing the wear of the servos inside. And she'll scream and try to run, but there'll be no place to hide. When a crazy cyborg wants to make you his robot pride

Because it's gonna be the future soon And I won't always be this way When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away It's gonna be the future soon I've never seen it quite so clear And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it's already here Oh, looks like someone just got their ears caught in the audio cookie jar.

It's okay. You can have another, and another after that, at frogpants.com. In need! Kiss this myth. You're on.