The Morning Stream - TMS 2744: Bullet Intolerant

Episode Date: December 2, 2024

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Pick-up times may vary and fees may apply. I've faced my spouse way back in the long ago. And it's not just mine, phil. Yeah, yeah. The morning stream, I am your father's nephew. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It's Monday, December 2nd, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Nibbitt. Good morning, Brian. Hello. Happy Monday. Brand new week, brand new month, all of that stuff. Yeah, all those things. It's already time. It's already a day into the new month. Where's the time going? Blah, blah, blah, blah. Exactly. There we go. Let's get all that out of the way. Oh, but I can't believe it's December already.

Yeah, it does hit you, though. It hits you, and you go, who the hell is going on here. And it not just hits, but it's like, all right, who just got through Thanksgiving, hope everybody in U.S., who celebrated Thanksgiving, had a good Thanksgiving. But now it's like, all right, hey, guess what, three weeks until Christmas? Three freaking weeks. Yeah. What?

Yeah. I don't, I'm not ready. I can't speak for anybody else, but I'm not ready for Christmas, you know? I mean, I look forward to it, but I'm not ready for it. I don't have anything done that I need to do. do uh everyone else i know seems to get way ahead of all this sort of stuff but i don't i'm late yeah i'm like uh i'm i'm out too i mean i'm like okay i really need to get some stuff done great yeah that's going to be happening yeah i feel like some of it will i'll be honest some of it'll

get pushed to january that's just how it'll be that's okay 2025 arms wide open when the walls fell oh i thought though you're doing a creed song oh it's even better even better yeah uh all right everybody We're here. We're going to do a show. When the walls fell with arms wide open. Those guys are... Jalad and Darmac at Tanada. I keep here and they're still... They're still do a pretty good tour.

They're like a fun concert now. Yeah. That's what I've heard. The tour at Tanagra? No, I mean, I hear the Creed is decent. Like they're... Oh, I think you're talking about those great t-shirts people made that are like Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

Oh, yeah. I always want to... one of those. I don't know who was selling them, but I couldn't tell. I couldn't tell if those are real or if you could buy them or what the deal was. Right. Right. All right. I did something weird this weekend where I touched something that I didn't think I'd ever touch. All right. Wow. Okay. Well, you know, they say better late than never. Yeah, that's what I say also. Yeah, very late. Six hundred years late, it turns out on one of these things. Wow. So this is wild. There's this bookstore in, so we did this thing. Kim wanted to do this for her birthday. She's like, I want to go to all the locations and

restaurants that I haven't been yet that are high in this list. She's got a list. And I want to do the south end of the valley all the way up to Provo. I want to do that on Saturday. And then on Sunday, we're going to go north and do everything on the Salt Lake End all the way up to the city. And it was various, like there's this Korean place we wanted to go to, which we did, which was amazing. And I'll talk about that in a minute. All these different restaurants and stuff. Anyway, we go to this bookstore. And it's way more than a bookstore. It's like a collecting. Items, store, bookstores, and items, I don't know what to call it.

It's like a treasure hunting kind of place, but it's mostly books. Okay. I don't know what else to call it. I'll give you an example of what's there. So they have this ancient Quran, copy of the Quran, an ancient copy of the Bible, and an ancient copy of the Torah. So you got your Muslim, your Christian, your Jewish, you know, books, humongous, like huge books that are like hundreds and hundreds of years old. And they're all in this one room. Then he's got another room where it's like,

here's one of Lincoln's pipes, verified one of his pipes. And here's, some of his notes. And then I think one, there was his top hat or some shit was in there. And there was another room full of Harry Potter stuff, like original manuscript,

stuff with like handwritten J.K. Rowling notes on them and, uh, or rolling, I guess is how you say it. Uh, and all that sort of stuff like kind of Harry Pottery stuff. And then a whole bunch of Tolkien stuff. And then Stephen King, first time, like off the press books that were, not demos.

What do you call it when the first one comes off and you have to go through it and make sure everything was okay? Yeah, the proof copy basically. Proof copy. Yeah, I guess that's it. So it's got his writing all over it and all the stuff of like the stand and all this stuff. It's really cool. And I don't know where this guy's some kind of freak. He just goes around the world and finds this stuff.

And I'm guessing those things, you know, it's a bookstore where things are for sale, but those things you just describe. None of those are really for sale. Some of them are, some of them, I think, are considered priceless, but some of them were, so I want to say, yeah, I want to say you could, but it was, I mean, it was outrageous. There was no way. I want to say, I can't remember which one I saw. Maybe the Quran had a price tag of some many tens of thousands of dollars on it or something. But then there were others where clearly they're not going to sell me a 600 year old Bible or something. Or Lincoln's Pipe or whatever. Now, what was cool was, they also have what they call rescues there. And he's really into religious books, but he's also got all these other, this is where it gets weird. So he has these religious books and lots of Bibles, and some of them are like Middle English, Latin, like pre-King James version stuff where it's really hard to even read. Like words are spelled like, T-R-P-V-W. It's like, what the hell's that word?

I don't know what that is. Like everything looks like churches with a V. Yeah, kind of. it kind of did and it's and they and no one invented paragraphs 600 years ago I'm telling you it's just no no no it's all one big wall of text yeah ridiculous stuff but he has these copies that he calls rescues and one of them and what that means is these are ones missing pages that are been beat up pretty bad that he's found over time that aren't worth as much because they're torn up and what they do is they lay those out and let you flip through them and if you find a page that you want to do they'll take the page out frame it mounted for you you and you pay for that and that's like 600 bucks or something oh interesting i'm not doing any of that it's like for grandparents or people that are big bible heads or whatever right exactly but i got to touch it specific yeah right specific uh psalm or uh passage that they like the word passage is what i was looking at something they like to mean something to them or whatever uh i'm flipping

through the pages and it's just weird to think that i'm touching 600 year old you know very thin onion-like paper. Some of, some of these were hand-printed, like some dude, some monks sitting there just going doodoo-d-d-doodly, doodoo-ly, doodoo-ly, doodooly, and doing it forever for giant miles of text. Like, I don't know how those people do this stuff. And they didn't, they didn't, like, require you to put on, like, special gloves or anything. They were like. Not with the rescues. The other ones, the big ones, they had under glass and special, you know, special environmental stuff and all that.

So you couldn't touch those. Like, he had one that was 15, 14-something. I forget, and there was only two made, and we don't even know where the other one is. They think it got destroyed, and it was printed at a time. Oh, and they have the first edition, the first run of the King James one, and that was under glass. Like, some of these are just not letting you touch at all. But these rescues you could flip through and look at them, and they encourage you to because they want you to buy one. And so that was weird.

Now, here's what makes that really weird. Flipping through a 600-year-old book, that's one thing. But then to turn around and go into the next little room in there, And I'm like, what is going on? Because on display is the actual prop station and prop walkie-talkies from Jurassic Park. I think when you start collecting stuff and you get these weird, very unrelated things, you know, you're like, well, I want to display this. I guess I just won't put the Jurassic Park walkie-taki-taki right next to the Quran. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it was like the Koran. Ron Room looked like something Indiana Jones broke into and the one next to it looked like Hollywood memorabilia because he had like recent stuff like Thor's uh what's the what's the in um end game the new axe uh it's Stormbreaker Stormbreaker he yeah he's got the stormbreaker prop in there really yes I couldn't believe it he and then other like ain't more older stuff like the Wizard of Oz lollipops that they're licking when they're doing the lollipop guilds on it's not the actual lollipop it's a plastic thing but he has one of those the pink one when you watch the movie and you see someone with the red or reddish pink one he has that

under glass got all this verification crap on it it was wild dude that's crazy absolutely wild of course i bought nothing there i left with nothing yeah yeah yeah i had some copy of this what's the what's the uh tulkin book the simulacrum or whatever it simerillian that's it simulacrum um they had uh he had some kind of first run of that that thing looked so cool and You couldn't get to it. You'd have to come in there with, like, a giant bat to break the glass to get it. I'm sure, yeah. Wow.

That's really cool. It was wild. So I think they make their money in two ways. They do have a ton of books that are just old. So, like, if you want a Canterbury Tales book, that might be $100. First edition, you know, Hound of the Baskervilles or something like that. There you go. Lots of stuff like that.

You can buy a couple hundred bucks. Yeah. And it was weird to see those, like those classics, wedged right in with this big Stephen King collection. Just weird. Sure, sure. But you could buy these individually. Those, they'd have to come help you and stuff and all that.

And then you could do these pages. But as far as I can tell, that's the business. So then I did a little research. Turns out this guy's got a massive TikTok following, this old guy who collects everything. And that's what's paying for this place. It's not the other way around. The bookstore doesn't do a ton of business. As you might imagine, it's like one of those fancy bag places in Vegas.

Like who's going in there? Yeah, right. Our Kardashian every six months might show up and buy a 20,000. dollar bag? Exactly like, right. It's just like a front. Yeah, it's like a front just to make things look cool. And this, kind of what this is, because his TikTok is like through the roof and has, he makes big money on just that.

Are his TikToks about the books? Like, is he showing those books on TikTok? Oh, yeah. It's all about like, here's my latest find. And I found the, I was wondering of like, oh, no, completely unrelated. He just shows his feet. And he's making $10,000 a month. to support his business just from showing his feet.

Yeah, his only fans is really fueling his true love, which is archaeological finds. But, but yeah, there was a, it's just a weird, it's a weird combination of things. He's been collecting since 87, which, you know, we were in high school then. And he's an older guy now. And he, oh, when he comes out there once in a while

and just does like Q&As where people are going to ask him anything about this stuff and he'll go on and on and on about, well, I had to go out to the desert of Zing-Zang and spoke to the feral beast of, you know, whatever. I gave the shaman, my, my, a little drop of my blood. And in exchange, he gave me, blah, blah, blah, blah. He gave me Stephen King's first edition of the stand.

Right, exactly. A walkie-talkie from Jurassic Park. It's just really, really odd thing, but I had to share it because it was absolutely freaking wild. That's really cool. Wow. Also, you have a good birthday, by the way? She did. She had a great time.

We had, I was worried because I said, what do you want to do? We can go out of town, we can go, we can do whatever you want to do. And she said, I have this sort of like local restaurant bucket list. Can we do that? And I said, well, yeah. And we can do it over, you want to do it over a couple of days? Because we're not going to eat like 20 times a day. And she's like, yeah, so we did that.

And had amazing Korean at this place called, I didn't write it down, did I? Damn it. Oh, yeah, you have a placeholder for it. Yeah, I forgot the name. I'll find it real quick. But anyway, or someone else can. but it's in the it's in the Chinatown district or it's more like Asiatown because there's tons of Vietnam stuff and anyway down there in Salt Lake and um fan freaking tastic so good

so good it wasn't like a hot pot kind of one it wasn't a barbecue one it was just like prepared dishes just right full on dish full on Korean dishes yeah yeah yeah that's cool all those glass noodles and the freaking the booggi and the uh what they have there we oh and they bring out um Just like all you can eat as long as you want these sides. So it's like, you know, your typical Korean sides, your kimchi. Kind of like what they do for a barbecue or, yeah, Korean barbecue place. Yeah, same, same kind of deal, yeah, except you just don't do the thing at the table. But it was really nice and fairly new.

And I would highly recommend it to anybody who doesn't, maybe they're not in the mood for the whole, let's dip everything into the thing and cook it ourselves and deal with that. That's fun. There's nothing wrong with that. And there's plenty of those places. But this was a great sort of sit down, get what you want. prices were good it was it was great and i can't remember the name so i've helped no one working out wonderfully uh amy says uh bakery young is that that's it that's it's it okay thank you how did you

some sleuth work right there from uh oh did i post i must have posted on blue sky or something you must have uh yeah i forgot i did that uh cool yeah it was great i highly recommended um i also did saw something that annoyed me and i would like to share it now Oh, yeah. I saw your tweet about this. Now, there's two reasons. What do you call a post on blue sky? A post? I think it's just a post. Like Threads is a post. Everything's a post except for Twitter and Twitter's gone.

So over there, it's a shit. For Blue Sky, it's some BS. I posted some BS on Blue Sky. Nice. Let me see if I can find it real quick. But it's basically a, yeah, here we go. It is a thing that I thought would annoy you too because of the font problems. Oh, the curining. You know, I didn't even look at that. That's a really good point.

Yeah, there's some serious curining issues. There it is. Okay, Chad, I'll pull it up here. For those at home, this is a giant metal. I wouldn't call it a sculpture. It's just a font. But anyway, big metal sleigh with a hashtag in front of it. So hashtag sleigh.

Can I tell you what annoys me the most about that? And this, I see this all the time with mailboxes and stuff where people get the stickers to put on the mailboxes. that S is upside down. It absolutely is upside down. It's absolutely the thin part of the S needs to be at the top. Yeah, that fat end needs to be back down at the bottom. I think where they got confused is there wasn't this, you just see the sleigh and the reindeer that didn't overlay on the S.

And so I think they just screwed up. Oh, yeah. So that's wrong. That's offensive. They bought this in a kit on Etsy. Sure felt like it. Sure felt like it. Yeah.

And then my biggest, so that's one issue. I'm glad you brought that one up. The S is effed up. The kerning is bad. Now you could argue, well, they're separate letters. They're all standing there. Some kid nudged the age. Like, who knows?

I don't know. My biggest issue is that they're playing on a stupid thing going, hashtag sleigh, which is usually SLAY, but here it's spelled like Santa Slay and it's in colors like Santa Claus. Oh, well done, guys. Well done. You've really connected with the freaking youth. I was annoyed. I'll bet if you.

searched a millennium, uh, uh, local Utah Instagrammers, you'd find 30% of them took a picture in front of that thing. I'll bet you money they did. I didn't want to go see because I didn't want to learn the truth. I wanted to be blissfully unaware. Exactly. No, we, we, we should not think about that. We should. Yeah. So F that noise. That sucked. I didn't like that. Um, I did spend some time in a record store that you would have loved. I forgot the name of that too. Uh, but it was, It was un-air-conditioned, or it was unheeded, which was weird. Oh, wow. We were freezing in there.

I don't know what the deal was there, but... That's how they keep people from loitering, is they just... Yeah, yeah, it's effective, it turns out, because we got out of there pretty quick, but we looked at this album cover from Quinging News of the World. Yeah. And then you brought it up out of nowhere, and I couldn't believe it, because I had just seen this album was just handling it. Yeah, kind of talking about that artist that you really liked that you posted about.

Oh, yeah. that reminds me of the dude who did the News of the World album cover. That is an album cover that I stared at so much as a kid. Uncle George had the album. Had every Queen album. Queen is his favorite band. And I sat there and I stared at that thing and just like the back

cover has the top of the arena that the robot just ripped open to pull the members of Queen off stage and kill them presumably. Somebody in that thread said that the painting originally was just one guy. And they Yeah, out of the band members.

He modified the painting. It was from an old comic book or magazine. Yeah, like an old, not fangori, but that kind of thing, like a, like a, um, those car art magazines. Yeah, they used to, there's names for these magazines. I can't remember them either. But anyway, this, this used to, this was one of my favorite things growing up. And I'm, like you, would stare at this. I would get, I'd do the same thing with, uh, Iron Maiden albums.

Just stare at them. Right. I think that Scorpion's album. um i think was uh oh yeah with the forks pushed through the glass with the forks in his eyes yeah yeah and i always wondered about this finger thing is this his weapon his little uh his little pokey blood's sharp he's got a sharp uh he's got sharp edges on those those fingers so he was like oh i'm going to touch freddie mercury in his belly oh no i've killed him that's his voice oh no what have i done it's totally his voice i mean look at him what have i done oh no

I just killed Freddie Mercury. He's one of the great singers ever. What have I done? I can only hear things below me because my ears are pointed down. But I've got fleshy human lips. Anyway. And I think I have eyes inside. It does look like there's a dude in there.

Like it's a mask or helmet or something on it, dude. Yeah. Anyway. When I saw Queen in Concert or the Brian May and Roger Taylor and Adam Lambert, they brought out a giant version of that dude at the back of the stage. And I was like so cool. Like actually seeing that thing made in 3D.

And I looked in and said, oh, I want to make that dude in 3D now. And I never did. But sure somebody's got that dude, a 3D version of it. Give him like, give him a few. We don't see his whole body. So give him like an iron giant body for the parts that we can't see in the cover. It's actually hard on the back. You talked about how it's him pulling him out of an arena.

But it almost looks like they're coming out of his stomach or something. It's a weird. It's a weird album. But it had a way as a kid of making you feel like this was a dangerous thing to be looking at. Yeah. Am I even allowed in here? Can I even look at this? Is my mom behind me now right now watching me look at this robot kill these people?

Yeah. Like, you used to have this vibe about it. It's creepy. Yeah. It's definitely creepy. Then one other tiny note, we got breakfast at this original. pancake house not i hop it's this other place and uh packed freaking packed i don't know what we're thinking parties of 50 coming in there because it's the day after where everybody came in for

thanksgiving to be with their family and nobody wants to cook anymore so let's go out to the pancake house yeah we thought we were like so smart we're gonna go at like 11 no one's there at 11 it's way quieter oh yeah not even close it was terrible but here's what's great we're sitting there Did I pull it off? I don't think I did. Anyway, on my phone somewhere exists the sound. But I hear this in the distance. I'm hearing ambient crowd noise like,

because everyone's in there. And I hear off in the distance. Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. Do you know the song? No. Okay. So that's from Zelda Ocarina of Time. Okay.

And it's being played on some kind of flute. All right. I don't. know what kind of flu, maybe a recorder or something. Maybe an ocarina. Maybe an ocarina, right? That's what I wondered. And I'm like, where is that coming from? Something like, like preening over the top of heads trying to find this sound. And he's just going on.

And he's playing other Zelda songs. And I can't figure it out. And it's loud enough that it's, it's louder than anybody else who's talking. Now, normally if some kids blowing on something or making noise, I would be annoyed. Because it's just like, it's already crowded in here. We really need somebody playing a flute. We don't need any extra noise, but since it's that, I mean, come on. Yeah, it was all right.

So I started mulling around and found this kid way, you know, short. That's why I couldn't see him. He was short and inside this little pack of people. And it was an actual lockerine to somebody giving him a. Oh, really? You actually gotten one. Okay, cool. A nice one, too, not some plastic shit from Walmart.

It was like a wooden nice, nice one. And he's in there, and he's got a little music sheet that he's looking at. And he's going, do, do, do, do, do, and he's playing this Zelda music. He's doing exactly what you need to do with an ocarina, which is play music from Ocarina of time. Exactly. I couldn't have been happier for the kid. I was like,

I gave him a big thumbs up and a smile and finally got our table and ate like kids. That's awesome. Yeah, it was great. We had a great weekend, though. And then, Kim, we've got a couple of those original pancake houses here in Denver, one basically one way up north and one way down south. And back when we weren't,

when we were doing Thursday night TMS, TMS PMs, Fridays would be all lifting in the morning. And if I ended up near one of those, that's where I would go for breakfast. I would just be like, great. It was this destiny that brought me here to this original pancake house, and I'm going to have breakfast here, by golly. Do you get those really thin, I forget what they call it? Yeah, not crepes, but they're crepe-like.

They're like crepes, yeah. They call them pancakes, but they're crepe-ish. Yeah, and they're a lot more moist, like a lot. Yeah. You can roll them and they won't break. Right. You could actually, that's a great way. You could eat them that way. You could roll them, cut them, and then maybe dip them in the... Roll them and put some jelly in the middle and then roll them up. That was the Hungarian thing called palaginta, which is basically like rolled crepes with apricot jam in them. No wonder they're called hungry. Geez. Exactly. I know. Everything they talk about. Oh, some goulash. Now I'm hungry. Yeah. And it's always more than I think I'm going to get like it. When we went in there, we're like, we're going to split something. But after,

a 55 minute wait, we're like, we're starving. We're not splitting. We're each getting something, damn it. And then when we got it, we're like, oh, shit, we should have split it because these are huge. And pretty well priced. Like, you can still get a big old giant breakfasty nightmare plate thing for like 850. Yeah, like, you know, two people can go there and have breakfast for under 40 bucks.

Yeah, that seems insane these days, you know? So that's why everybody was there. We were dumb to go there. But anyway, whatever. Hey everybody We got a quick question from Tony Before we move on to today's half asses This competition

Tony asked the following question If a shark flips a floating coconut With its fin And it hits someone in the head And kills them Were you killed by a coconut Or murdered by a shark? Love the show you

Tony We really should have had Dunnoway on for this one Because remember he was the one Who was like arguing About shark attacks Killing people versus more people die being hit on the head with a coconut than killed by sharks.

Right. It's a good question, though. Is there a paradox here? Like if you... I mean, all right. If you get shot by somebody, did the gun? Did they kill you or did the bullet kill you? Oh, see, guns, people kill people, not guns.

See, there's that whole thing. Bullets are the things that kill people. I'm allergic to bullets. Yeah, it turns out my body and bullets aren't compatible. We just don't... Bullet and bullet intolerant. every time one hits me i just you know have to get it out or i'm going to die good point question so it's all about intent right so if the shark intends to kill you with the

coconut then yes the shark killed you using a coconut but if he didn't if he did it by accident then you were killed by the most freakish event ever yeah and i think a falling coconut really you know people get killed by falling coconuts you can only say that if it falls out of a tree like if somebody were to drop a coconut off the Empire State building and it kills somebody they killed them it wasn't a falling they weren't killed by a falling coconut they were killed by a person yeah you'd say they were killed by this guy with a coconut the coconut just becomes the weapon in the billiard room right because the falling coconut the rarity is supposed to be it detached from the tree without anybody trying to exactly the tree has no control over the tree didn't go oh there's a dude here I'm letting go tree didn't do that falling coconut is it's a only falling from a tree other other than that it's it's a weapon i agree with you i think that applies here so the shark accidentally killed you with a with a coconut there there's your paradox solved there's your answer yavang yeah paradox solved never tell your tell your friends all right um Pokemon yavang does sound like one everything does at the end of the day everything does

everything sounds like a Pokemon well speaking of Pokemon and uh capturing them all let's capture Brian Dunaway. Yeah. I think he's feeling a little better these days than he has been lately. Good. I hope so. That cold tore him up pretty good. But, you know, we're here to find out.

Brian Dunaway joining us for some morning half-asses here on a Monday. Brian, welcome back to the show. And I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. Oh, hi, I scott, Brian. Thanksgiving was all right. Yes. Yeah. Good.

You sound a little better. You feel it? Are you feeling better? Were you so sick you were able to get out of having people over for Thanksgiving? I was, I was sick for a week. I did not leave the house until yesterday. And even then I was 100% sure.

I'm out and about today. I'm very shaky because, you know, you can't be sick for a week and not come back and go, I'm all shaky. So I'm still recovering. I'm still making it. I think you might have had that flu. A or B, the flu B is the one that's. That's the one that's supposed to fuck.

It's one that cuts your hair with a vacuum cleaner. Yeah. Whatever it was, it was hateful. Yeah. It didn't like you and he didn't like it. I'm like, get out of here and it's like, and I want to hang around for a bit.

And I'm like, no, come on. Yeah, leave me. And even worse, I went, even worse, I think I also got like some kind of urinary track infection because

I got dehydrated, even though I was drinking water like crazy and peeing, whatever. I'm not mad at the world or the universe or whatever it is. No. I'm good. No, look at you. You're fine.

I've been, I've been, I'm having to drink a lot more water lately for different reasons, but sometimes it doesn't matter. Your body's like, hey, I got an infection in your urethor. What are you going to do about it? It's going to burn when you pee, enjoy yourself. Wee. Congratulations.

And then don't look anything up on the internet. I highly discourage it. But if you do look it up, it's like, well, you can also drink too much wire. That'll also give you urinary tract infection. Oh, cool. Yeah, you'll drown to death. Excellent. It's like final destination.

You're going to get a urinary tract infection if life wants it. the urinary tract infection. I would love that as a premise for a new... That's going to be Final Destination 6. UTIs for everybody, is what it's called. Oh, man, everyone's just miserable. The doctors are tired of giving out prescriptions. Oh, what a movie that'll be.

All right, well, let's get to it. Brian, how's this work? Who wins? How do we play? Oh, well, I'll tell you. Welcome to the morning, half asses. It's a trivia game where I'm going to be giving you to the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brandon category and six possible answers. Three of which are correct and three, like a shark flip and a coconut are incorrect.

Oh, don't get me started. Depending on how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses. But if any of those guesses were wrong, you get zero points for that round. Get one right and you get a point. Two right gets you two points, and three right gets you five points total. And we're going to add up all those points after three rounds and the player with the most points. Wins the prize for their contestant. Want to know those contestants are?

I'm going to tell you whether or not you want to know. Scott, you're playing for Mark in Melbourne. Nice. Love the Australians. Yep. Brian, you're playing for John, aka Bean Man in Abreath, Scotland. Ooh, Scottish listener, dude.

I love that. No, we don't have enough Scottish. You guys got to call in and stuff. We love your voices and your accents. Yeah. That'd be great. All right. All right, let's get to your questions here.

Let's start off with, as we do, with question number one. It seems like a good place to start. We're three-fourths of the award-winning podcast film sack right here. But there's another show that really took our idea and went places with it, and they used a time machine to release it before we did. And that show is called Mystery Science Theater 3,000. Which of these are actual movies mocked by Mystery Science Theater 3,000? Your choices are, Jungle of the Giant Women,

Scorpion Women of Saturn, Samson v. the Vampire Women, women of the prehistoric planet the women of Fury and Hercules and the captive women A lot of women A lot of women. Dunway was so offended he left Yeah he oh did he bail

Do we lose him? He bailed yeah he's Must disconnect him let's ring him again See what happens there Yeah here he comes Oh he hasn't He's also out of the game I wonder if his internet went down

Well we'll find out shortly When he doesn't answer his phone. Perhaps. He'll probably just have to move to his phone, actually. Might have to. Move to your phone. I think he's at work on a headset on their internet.

All right, we'll try. We'll see what happens here. We've had we've had weirder things. You know? We've had entire internet to go down. So we're about to find out. We have, we've had, we've had ISPs that hate us. We've had backup ISPs that hate us.

All that stuff. Yeah. All right, done away. How you doing? No. Oh, he says he's green. Let's see. That doesn't mean anything.

It could be anything. All right. All right. Well, maybe he's not coming in. Brian. I don't know. I don't know if he's able to do it. Let's see.

Has he even, he hasn't even selected anything in the game. So I think stuff just went completely out. him. He must have lost all connection, which is unusual for him. Oh, there he is. Hi. Brian. Oh. Hello? Do you hear us? I was connected. He's on his phone. I'm not seeing rings of speakage. No. Brian, do you hear us? Brian? Oh, there he is. Hi. Hello? Hello? Hi. Hi. There we hear you. You all right over there. What happened? No, I'm mad. What happened? Don't talk to me. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. All right. Yeah, yeah. You know, it's right next to my volume up button so I can hear you fools a little bit better because my ears are stopped up. Apparently, the thing that I've never hit, the sleep button. So it's in my laptop right in the sleep mode, which took forever because it was like, here, let me dump all that into some memory for you for later on.

And when you bring back up, I'll have to bring all that back up again. All right. It might take a minute. I was worried it was more catastrophic. Sounds like you're doing okay. you're all right yeah well it was just user does it sound like i'm doing okay does it sound do you sound happy well let's see how you do uh did you get you heard you see these answers here right you see these i see them i finally came back do you feel like selecting any of them or do you want to um i i feel like taking my time and being bitter and uh salty brian sure all right let's see um hmm hmm these all like women why these all women movies are

a theme it's a theme with this one uh a bit of a thing uh and how many did you choose got i went with two because i'm really so stupid why always tell me that i don't know all right we go locking in my answers yeah yeah well you know friends all right you both locked in that's what friends you both locked in with hercules and the captive women which is correct Yeah, they, I want to say they sacked that one for sure. Then you guys split. You guys chose Jungle of the Giant Women, and one of you chose Scorpion Women of Saturn.

And, well, both of those are wrong answers. The real answers are women of the prehistoric planet and Samson versus the vampire women. Oh. How'd the vampire, how'd Samson deal with the women? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know who won. I'm hoping it was Samson, but I don't know.

I don't know. We'd have to go and watch that. We have to watch that one ourselves for FilmSec, I think. Yeah, and we need to know what the vampire women of Saturn's plan is. We need to know what their platform and sort of their policies are going to be. And then I might be okay with them. Well, I don't know if the Scorpion Women of Saturn is a real movie or not. I don't know if it doesn't say on the answer sheet on this one,

if these are actual movies, all six of them, and they've only done three, or if the three that aren't were just made up. Well, the three that aren't, we should seek out for film. We should. We should. Yes. Oh, right, right. So we know we're not scooping mystery science theory. Yeah, that plus, you know, they just, we need some good cheese. We haven't had some cheese in a while. You do need some good cheese. There's some mighty fine cheese. Is there any Christmas cheese? Maybe there's some Christmas cheese.

Could be. Oh, my God, there's so much Christmas cheese. It's about all Christmas is. It's all cheese. Cheese and meat logs. Let's watch Hot Santa for film sack. Hot Snowman? What's it called? It's hot frosty. It's hot frosty. Frosty, which is what I get when I go to Wendy's and leave my Frosty on the dashboard for too long.

But also, I, Kim and the girls watched it and they said it was very dumb and they had a great time. Okay. But it sounds like it's trying to be dumb, which means it wouldn't be good for film. Yeah. We don't want the movies that are self-aware. What's weird is it has people that are always in those things and then it has people who are never in these things. So it's like this weird combination of, oh, this is a. proper Hallmark Christmas movie,

but then stars who never do this show up. So it's like a weird... I don't like the mainstreamification of this shit. I don't. Leave it where it belongs in its weird corner for my wife to consume all month. Let it be there, let it live there. Right.

Don't bring it up. Give us movies starring the older sister of the girl who played the main character in Kissing Booth. She finds her architect boyfriend on the streets of New York from her small town. That's right.

That's right. Okay, let's go to, you did so well in that one. I really want to throw you a zinger. Let's go number two, which is baseball. Sweet. Baseball. Ball players who won the MVP award more than once. So which of these people are so good that they won the MVP award more than once?

You got Tony Gwyn, Ken Griffey Jr., Yogi Berra, Ted Williams, Juan Gonzalez, and Sammy Sosa. I like baseball a lot, but I don't remember. remember of any of this. I love baseball. Um, all right. Baseball had been very, very good to one of you. Maybe. We'll see. I picked some done away. I picked some of them. Ooh, we picked some. Some of them too, because I'll just go with the names I know. There we go.

All right. Well, you both pick two and you both pick the same two. You both pick Sammy Sosa and Ken Griffey Jr. Uh, they didn't have MVP's when Yogi Berra's time. Did they? Sure they do. Oh, they did. And he won two of them. Yogi Berra did. So did Ted Williams and one Gonzales. Yes, you both picked incorrect answers. Damn it. This is Ken Griffey Jr.

All right. That was King Griffey Jr. Is he in your bathroom? Because it sounds like he was in your bathroom. It's the intro to, here I'll play it again. This is Ken Griffey Jr. Let's play Major League Baseball. That's his game on the SNS Superniosia.

Didn't he have a candy bar? Did he? I think he did. I think we talked about it. Can Griffey Jr. had a candy bar? No, you know what you're thinking of, dude? You're thinking of the candy bar. he eats

he eats something bad at the Quiky Mart on the Simpsons episode where all those baseball players causes him to not be able to play for them yeah he gets

gigantism or something right maybe that's what I'm thinking of that's a great episode by the way it's so good yeah that's true Yogi Berra did win three times

thank you Ambassador Domo Juan Gonzalez and Ted Williams won twice Yogi Berra won three times Nice Yogi Baseball is I can't think

give any Yogi Berraisms right now, but my God, they're some of the best. Yeah. All right, let's get to question number three. Maybe, maybe you guys can get some points on the board in a category that you guys know so well, which is jazz saxophones. Wait, which of these people are actually jazz saxophonists? You guys are going to this zero points, so, you know, maybe a strategy is, I don't know,

play it safe, who knows? Your choices are. John Coltrane, Winton Marsalis, Thelonius, Monk, Charlie Ming Stan Getz and Lester Young. Three of these are jazz saxophonists. I think I chose... Three of them are phoning it in. I may have chosen the wrong brass instrument,

but I'm about to find out. Okay, well, we're going to find out. You guys didn't overlap. Let's see. Dunaway you chose John Coltrane and the Loneus Monk. Scott, you chose Winton Marcellus. Yeah, Winton Marcellus was a... Top it!

No! Oh, wrong brasseter, Eastermarker. Colonious Monk was a pianist. You did get John Coltrane making it the only one you got right. This round, this whole game, have it gotten any of them right? And it's been a toughie. So that's all. We're going to redeem ourselves with the, this was a tough one.

Sometimes, you know, I'm going through these things and I'm like, ooh, I'd like to try and find one in here that's gettable. But, and I thought maybe, I thought maybe you guys would do. matter with Mystery Science Theater 3,000. That's where I messed up, by the way. Brantford Marsalis, his brother was Sacks. Bramford is the Sacks, yes. Yeah. All right.

Yep. That's right. Let's get to a tiebreaker question. Let's do, hmm. All right, I like this. Let's go science and nature. Let's give you your green wedge. Brent, if you got John Coltrade, right, I'm going to let you pick whether you want to answer

or give the over? I'm going to low high it. I like... You're going to low high it. So, Scott, I'm going to do the easy one. Give me a numerical answer to this. On average, how many African elephants would it take to equal the weight of a blue whale? So we've got the little cartoon scale that we're all visualizing.

And there's a blue whale on one side that's where... And then on the other side, there's a question mark with a bunch of African elephants. How many African elephants would it take to weigh as much as a blue whale? I'm going to guess 15 11 elephants 15 15 all right 15 is incorrect

Brian is the actual answer higher or lower than 15 Everybody knows a 17 It's higher So are you to say higher It is not 15 or 17 But it is higher It's 21

21 African elephants Or three bronosaurus Or 12 T-rexes or 15000 chihuahuas Congratulations, Brian, you get this, and by proxy, John, Beanman, and Arbreth, Scotland is going to get this as well. Congratulations. All right. So that begs the question. Would you rather fight 50,000 chihuahuas or one giant whale-sized chihuahua?

Oh, I was going to say, I'd rather fight a blue whale than 50,000 chihuahuas. Yeah. I mean, 50,000 chihuahua. One giant, one blue whale-sized chihuahua or 50,000, definitely I'll take the one, the one giant giant. Chihuahua. I feel like... Because all I need to do is find the nearest Taco Bell. Yeah.

He'd be distracted. He'd tell you to... All right. I'd take the 50,000, I think, because there's also dumb. They don't know anything. What are they going to do? Yeah, but out of 50,000, even if you get 12 smart ones, they're going to maim you. Oh, good point.

That's a bad. You're right. There's a percentage chance that I'm going to get hurt. You're going to be 49,500 of them that are dumb. I guess it's kind of like, yeah. Well, let's your rather. Let's be honest, neither are good options. I don't like any one.

Neither one, neither option is good. This is true. All right, well, that means... How about just one small, regular-sized loving puppy? A loving puppy? A loving puppy? Loven puppies from Romco. Hey, let's tell these guys what they won, by the way, because I never did.

Let's see. John, you are getting a copy of Persona for Golden and Lamplighters League, courtesy of Wesley. Those are nice ones. but uh but mark in melbourne you're getting a copy of hierarchy the 4x deck built the deck builder so you need a deck added to your house yeah this is the one i have this game it's actually hexarchy is how they put it and the reason they call it that is because everything's hexagonal in the game it's like uh imagine playing like top down civilization but you're playing it with cards and you're playing way shorter games that game is cool very cool game highly recommends

It's way better than Hex Archie. Right, right. When you corrected that. I wasn't sure yesterday. I'm not sure if it was funny or if I was still sick. And it struck me as funny. But I was listening to the XM radio going to get some gas. And I was still like 70s music or something.

And the DJ on 7. Yeah, the DJ on there sounded older than me. And I haven't laughed at someone older than me in a while. But he was running down the list of movies that did well at the box office this weekend. course hit gladiator and wicked and then he's like and then the number one is mona and i was like mona dude really mona mona too yeah i heard that was uh my my nephew and niece said it was really good they liked it yeah mona they liked it if it didn't seem like they were like i said which one do you like more they're like oh they're kind of the same i think it's that kind of

yeah sequel so you know so i think one of the like hollywood reporter variety or something had the moana two doesn't hold water or something I hate it when they're clever come on now exactly just tell me what was good or bad yeah did you like it or not that's it go home well anyway Moana 2 or not we have some winners that's awesome

congratulations to both of you both got good games today a good set of games and Brian Dunaway I'm just glad that you didn't pull a plug out again while we were talking or shut anything down that's really good and I hope your day's good and I hope you continue to feel better. You sound a lot better, and that makes me happy.

We're going to get there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'll get there. I said, keep apologized, everybody. I'm like, look, I'm not mad at you. I'm not a jerk, but I'm hurting. I don't feel well. You don't feel good.

If I come across as a jerk, I apologize. Yeah. You're allowed, dude. You're allowed. Yeah. All right. So live your best life. Don't worry about us.

I'm living it right now. Kiss our butts. All right. He couldn't even reply. That's how fast. You were super fast. Incredible stuff. All right, everybody.

Time for. some news. We'll do a quick story here. Why not? Why not indeed? It's time for the news brought to you by. Brought to you by this week's story on Keith R. Conrad's sci-fi audio fiction podcast, Auditory Anthology. The Anglers of Ars by Roger D. We always assume he will be the big brains when we visit a new planet, but we might be in for rude awakening. Get your copy right now at auditoryanthology.com. Nice.

It's called, yeah, the science fiction podcast, Auditory Anthology. It's a great name for a podcast. I agree. I agree. It's a good domain. It's a good searchable domain. Did a great job.

You went all around there, Keith. Nice job. Or as I wrote, Keithr, Conrad. Keither. Yeah, Keither Conrad. Keither Sutherland. Nicely done. Netizens react.

I hate this. I hate this. Yeah. I just hate it. Already not liked this article. Netizens. netizens react after a dead frog, a dead frog fried and placed as a topping on pizza in a pizza hut in China. Oh no. A frog. And this is real, not like a mistake. It's, they're selling this.

Like it's one of their, it's their, one of their flavors, one of their pizza. Yeah, they're into it. You can order this. Yeah. Toppings, I guess, would be the correct term. Frop, froggings. Frogings. Would you like some frogings? Would you like some frogings on your old pizza? Crunchy frog? Oh, can you imagine what the net listens will say. Anyway, recent culinary experiment by Pizza Hut China has left the internet both intrigued and disgusted.

Well, yeah, me too. If you took the bones out, it wouldn't be chunky, crunchy, would it? My friend Andrew's wife, Annie, used to do. We would watch a movie and if something gross came on and usually, like, if it was a horror movie and it was kind of sexually gross,

like, I don't know, a couple doing it and then Freddy stabs him through the bed or something like that. whatever, something like that, she would go, ew, gross, rewind it. Like in that kind of succession. Oh, that's so horrible. Can I see it again? Yeah, can I say this is so bad? Can I see it one more time?

Like, that was her thing, and we used to tease her so hard about that. It's the equivalent of, ooh, God, that's horrible. Oh, God, I think that's bad. I smell this. Yeah. Bart touching the electrified cupcake. Ow. Ow.

Ow. The photo on this thing. Oh yeah, let's take a look at this. Disturbing as hell. And it's not the frog that's disturbing. It is the hangover Muppet eyeballs that it puts above the frog. Yeah. What is that about?

Why? I assume those are like mozzarella balls probably. I don't know, actually. Oh, probably. I was thinking maybe boiled eggs, but I think you're probably right with the mozzarella. Yeah. Yep, and he's a fried.

I like cilantro, though. That looks like cilantro. And I'm in favor of. that well here's the it might be too much cilantro though for me never no such thing I don't think I have the taste you have for it I don't have the aversion to it some people do you don't think it tastes

like foil or soap like some people no no but I can find it a little overwhelming sometimes it has to be the right of it I mean you know if I eat a slice of that yeah I'm gonna kind of spread the leaves a little bit more because it looks like it's tucked around the body of the of the frog I don't know

how you eat this like you know you open up the box and you go uh-huh that's really cute. And then do you start just spreading the toppings around and cutting up the frog so that everybody gets a bite of frog? That's a great question. Does everybody want piece of the frog or does someone demand it like they do the wings? I'm taking the frog. Half

pepperoni, please. Yeah. How about mushroom and frog? I don't know. Yeah, exactly. Says here, the unusual topping is part of a collaboration with the popular mobile game dungeon and fighter origins. The pizza, which also

features a spicy mala sauce, has divided opinions among food and us, especially netizens. A new pizza variety from pizza in China. Let's see. It's called goblin pizza

is what they call it. Features a fried whole frog on top. Unique dish was created as part of the collaboration between this mobile game. The photo of the frog top pizza quickly gained attention online due to its striking appearance.

That's when the netizens freaked out. Yeah. I mean, it's it's done for the lulls. It's done for the likes, the engagement and stuff. nobody people are going to eat this just so they can eat it on tic-tok yeah yeah i mean why else would you get that i would never get it for any other reason than that no no uh final story this is great news for those waiting for this all right good chemists have created the world's

thinnest spaghetti thinnest spaghetti thank goodness we needed something to keep the uh sauce from sticking to the pasta that's right thinner even thinner spaghetti yeah i needed a way to to really cut those carbs, and they found it. Here it is. Researchers from the University College, London, have done what celebrity chefs in Italian nannas. I assume that's like grandmothers. Oh, yeah. No idea.

N-O-N-N-A. Anyway. Made by my nana, just like my nana used to make. See, it sounds right when you say it like that. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, this is something that could only dream of. They've made the world's thinnest spaghetti. The culinary-sounding accomplishment published in No Nanoscale Advances has yielded

Standards of starch. Favorite magazine, by the way. Oh, it's a great. I only read it for the comics. Yeah, I read it for the nudity. I like that. Yeah, but the nudity requires a magnifying glass or electron microscope. Yeah, you can't really do it with the naked eye.

It's hard, even though the naked eye. The naked eye. Get it. This is yielded strands of starch nanofibers. That was my, she taught me English in third grade. Old starch nanofibers. Old starch nanofibers. That are 372.

nanometers wide, which is invisible to the naked eye and even smaller than some wavelengths of light. Wow. I don't know what the point of this would be. It's not to eat it, I don't think. Exactly. It's like, you knew you had to decide if you could, but you didn't decide if you should. I got that light. Something like that, though.

I think I, I felt the, I felt it. You didn't ask yourself, yes, yes, yes. Oh, oh, oh, yes. Yeah, yeah. Oh, oh, oh. I really perfected my Jeff Goldblum over Thanksgiving dinner. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Pass the, would you please pass the cranberries?

Oh, cranberries. Oh, yes, yes, yes. The cons in the cranberries? Yes, yes. Oh, very good. I think you're going to say when I barfed on a donut in front of everybody. That's how you did. Oh, that's disgusting.

Yes, yes. Yes, do it again. It's horrible. Oh, that's horrible. Rewind. It says that the actual importance of this, the application, is in medicine. of all things. I said, for example, nanofiber starches could be used to help heal wounds when used in bandages, keep out bacteria while using moisture or allowing moisture through rather than going

through the energy-intensive process of refining their own plant starch or cell starch for nanofibering. These chemists decided to, sorry, decided storebot was fine and made their strands directly from flour. So it really was more of a proof of concept of like, at this level we can create all kinds of. If we could do a spaghetti, we can do it with a blood vessel. or we can do it with a, uh, something, you know, whatever, whatever they needed to do, they just start with pasta. Everything starts with pasta. Yeah, that's what I, you know, my morning started with pasta. This, this water bottle infused pasta in here.

Could we get scientists to maybe come up with a pasta that, um, like spaghetti noodles that have little pockets that hold the sauce better so that when you, when you finish a plate of spaghetti, you don't have like a puddle of sauce that you have to try and slurp up. up with a fork or something? Maybe, so the existing angel hair pasta, which I do like a lot, I prefer that, have little pockets, little divvets through it. Yeah, that would work. That would work. I'd be down with it. And that means less pasta because you're actually creating holes where there would be pasta, but now it's air. Oh, there you go. So I'm like having little holes in the in the pasta. Better diet plan right there going on. Love it. We're going to take a break when we

come back. Stephen Schlecker will be here. He's been in the chat, hanging out, talking. I know. he's here, and it's going to be great. Can't wait to talk to him. He's got some suggestions for your Christmas season when it comes to comic books and whatnot. But he's even thinking about movie fans and gamers, 3D printing people, all kinds of stuff. He's a considerate guy, not just thinking about the spoilers, but also the gifts that just keep on giving. Considerate guy, a generous lover, you know, all those things. He's a gentle lover. He's a gentle lover. He's a gentle lover. He's like her. Yeah, he is. So we're going to talk to him, find out why all that's true here in a minute, but first a song from Brian

Ibit. Yeah, this is a band that their label calls Britain's answer to Daisy Jones on the Six. That's really cool. That's high praise, by the way, because I love Daisy Jones on the Six. This is like, if you like that kind of

alternative indie with a little tiny bit of country, like Casey Musgraves is a good example of that or names I can't think of right now, then you're going to like this. This is Bailey Tompkinson and The Locals. They released a brand new single called Moonshine, and it's very, very good.

Here is Bailey Tompkinson and the locals and moonshine. Blue denim, baby, you'll be gone in a minute. I'll be left standing under pines with doubles and a hangover on you. I hang over on you Hundreds of feelings And I'll be healing On attention That got me through my day

And it's not fair You would be anywhere But the one place I want you to stay God only knows It will take you emotion To wash me to lose away I lost myself Lingering on my conscience

You've gone back with the rain Only you know what our love lies without these burdens And you wash them all away All these empty booths People know that you're missing People know I'm No, I'm kissing And I'm rubbing souls

Straight into the wound Into the wound Hundreds of old feelings In Malibu Helling When your hearts are far away oh it's not fair he would be anywhere but the one place on you know he will be anywhere but won't place on you to stay god only knows he'll take you an emotion for what is this will lose away I lost myself

Lingering on my conscience You're going to make with the rain Only you know what I love Like without these burdens And you watch them Hold on your way. Honey, you know what I look like without these burdens, and you must then hold away. Oh

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or sleepnumber.com today. I'm not sure what kind of factory you're thinking of. We just make boxes here. I see you've played knifie-spony before. And we're back. Who was that one more time, please? Sure. That is Bailey Tomkinson and the locals from a brand new single they released from their home in the UK that is a song called moonshine.

Nice. Yeah. All right, we're going to add Stephen, aka major spoilers to this thing and do it. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dollar, dollar bills, y'all. Yeah, man. You heard it here first.

He's all about them dollar bills, y'all. No, not really. He's about a lot of other things. It's Stephen Schlecker, everybody. Welcome back, and how was your Thanksgiving? Oh, it was fine. We just stayed at home this year, and we had, what did we have? We had a charcutory board.

That's what we did for Thanksgiving. Really? That's interesting. So no, no traditional turkey slices, like turkey meat or something? No, we had all of your salamis and your, you know, all your salted meats. And we had pumpkin pie. That was about the only other thing. You basically did what we did.

The girls got together and they did a dozen. very different kind of Thanksgiving. It included a bunch of sharkootery, but it also had like a bunch of Asian stuff. And it was no turkey. We had no turkey this year. I think there's nothing wrong with that. That sounds awesome, actually. It was kind of fun. Yeah, mainly it's because we didn't do a big family gathering and we didn't want to buy a turkey for four people and then have turkey for like six months. So sure. Plus they are expensive this year. Turkeys are like 100 bucks, like even for basic ones, felt like. It seemed like they're really pricey. Well, that's good. I'm glad that you shark. You should see the price of turkey A.

Oh, my gosh. Tell me more. There's such a thing. I didn't even know you could do turkey eggs. No. Okay. I'm just making a comment about the grocery prices. I want to know. Some turkey eggs in China. Yeah, I want to know how much. I would, I mean, I assume turkeys lay eggs. Can people eat a turkey egg? Is that a thing you can do though? Sure. Sure. Yeah. Never had that. I think you can. Yeah, I mean, ostrich eggs, goose eggs, duck eggs. I guess I've eaten most of those you just mentioned, except I haven't eaten an ostrich egg before. But let's see, turkey eggs. Why don't we eat them? says fine dining lovers. Yeah.

So is it full of bones? Because their legs are full of bones that you don't expect. They're drumsticks. It says right here. They lay eggs. Let's see. Some, bum,

oh, here we go. Like all birds, turkeys lay eggs. But they don't lay as frequently and begin laying as early as a chicken. Chickens lay around 300 eggs a year to a turkey's 100. So it's really about the money. Wow. They don't make them fast enough and therefore they're more expensive per.

And why do you need them? you just get go get chicken eggs so all right well we'd learn some today just get more turkeys well that's fantastic more turkeys for everyone yeah uh stephen we're gonna we're gonna get into it you got some ideas here it's the month of you know giving gifts and all that odd i guess it is yeah sort of sure um and i always like your recommendations first of all i did want to i wanted to come back around to what we talked about last time you're on those uh absolute dc things yes uh-huh really really liking those a lot like a lot more than i thought The writing is excellent.

The Batman one is great. The Superman one is in particular really good, I thought. Really good take on that whole thing. And the Wonder Woman one I just got, so I'm not far enough to say, but I think there's two of those out now. Yeah, I think the second one came out last week. Yeah, absolutely all in on these. All three series, I'm just going to read them all through however long these go. I assume they have some sort of expiration date, right?

Like a lot of these. No, Scott Snyder said that the plan is these go on until D.C. C cancels them. Really? So it's not like a six-issue run. No, it's like this is a whole new line, just like Ultimate Comics. Okay, because they make some choices

in that Batman one that seem hard to... Well, obviously they have other lines, so it's fine because it's just another line of Batman comics, but... And there are 100 others, all happening at the same time. So if you want your regular detective comics and see Robin once in a while,

good news, they're still there. But this thing is like going places and doing very different things, and I really like it. I wasn't sure I was going to, and I really dug him, so good recommendations. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah.

So when it comes to holiday gift giving, here's the thing. I can make recommendations. I can say, hey, my favorite comic book is Absolute Batman, and everyone should go by Absolute Batman. Well, you give that to somebody, maybe they don't like Batman. Maybe they're a Marvel fan. Maybe they're one of those kind of weirdos. Yeah. So when it comes to, when it comes to these suggestions, I say try to keep it as generic as possible.

Okay. And that way, everybody should be happy if you're just trying to go, I don't know what to get a young Brian for a Christmas gift. How about I give him this? And I do have a gift idea for Brian for everybody that wants to buy a gift for Brian. So stick around that yet. Everybody. Yeah. Yeah.

So in the comic book category, I just say supplies for storage, like mylar boxes or mylar bags and comic book boxes. because if you have somebody that has comic books just laying around and they want to keep them for whatever reason for long term, a mylar bag is really good. If you have a friend that has a lot of single boxes, what I would recommend is this company called drawer boxes. And what they are are long boxes that are connected to one another. I think there's like five of them in a row that you can connect and then you stack them up. And it's a really stable storage system.

It's a really good idea. And that way you don't, if you stack those boxes, number one, you have to take the top ones off to get to the box you want, which sucks. And then they just all over, and that's a big thing. And so I have, I've had these for like decades now. I've got about a six by ten set up of long boxes from drawer boxes. And when my basement got wet a few years ago and those comic boxes got wet, the whole thing didn't collapse. They kind of sucked up the water on the outer shell. sunk a little bit, and I did have to throw

some of the drawer boxes away. But for the most part, the comics stayed intact the entire time. Cool. Because if somebody is... Yeah, exactly. So if somebody's looking for storage for comic books, there's my lar bags and drawer boxes. You'd think that they'd make like

a drawer box stand that maybe has little legs that put it like two or three inches off the floor, because everybody who has long boxes, I would say 90% of people who collect comics store them in the basement. Yeah, so what I ended up doing That's what I was doing too

Just storing them right on the floor And that's where we got into trouble So what I ended up doing for this second round Is I built a little two by four platform So I got some two by fours And made it the length of the comic rack And then put a quarter inch plywood on top of that So that we shouldn't have that problem ever again

Good, good I like it If you have a movie fan or a gamer Props are probably a good thing Maybe to go in that round Yeah, pro pro props movie props You want to go get your own replica of the Maltese falcon or my son this weekend watched the second season of Arcane and printed out his own prop gun from the show. So there's that.

And that's kind of maybe one of the things if you're looking for props is look at small businesses who make these kind of props instead of going with the big Hasbro company. So you know, your Bill Durand, you're Brian Abbott's, those kind of people. Sure. Yeah, yeah. I noticed something this weekend. And we went to a place that had a bunch of booths where people were making jewelry and, you know, that kind of thing, like a craft fair. And there was a booth there where this guy was printing out 3D printed objects. And there was like the snakes, the articulated snakes and all that kind of stuff.

But it was so low resolution. Like this stuff was, it didn't look. It could probably crank him out fast, right? Because I thought about that. I thought it's either an older printer or like you're saying, they're just like, well, print them at a lower res and get them out and do whatever. but they were kind of janky and not great but people were buying him hand over fist and I thought somebody with a good printer could come

in here and just really rock this place somebody needs to go there with like 10 printers and like constantly have each one of them going with the things that people want so that they can get them out I mean they kind of had that concept of a 3D printer place in that show that now got canceled

yes the one with really gray sprats yeah what was that called the peripheral yeah that was awesome that is like I saw that print farm that that storefront print farm like i want that job i want that's have a little podcast studio in the back i kind of wanted this for that game store tabletop games podcasting print farm yeah games in the front podcast in the back yeah exactly right yeah you know how to party it's funny you guys are mentioning 3d stuff because i have some suggestions for 3d printing people

oh and see if you agree with me on this brand because i know you do a lot of that i would say filament or resin right that might be something to get people it's like oh you like 3d3 printing. Well, here's this really cool filament that prints in wood or metal or something like that. The one thing I would say that on filament or resin is double check and make sure that it's compatible with the person's

printer. So you don't get the wrong kind. Yeah, and stay away from those weird specialty ones because you know, it's like, all right, I'm getting some of that rubberized filament. Well, if they don't have the right kind of filament printer that probably won't work. Yeah, I found that out the hard way. You did both.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. The other thing that you might want to consider for 3D printing people is a subscription to a monthly STL service like my minifactory or something like that yeah if um if they're big into superheroes and they have a a resin printer there's a bunch of really cool patrons that make that's what i want to get oh yeah do you have i want to get i want to get those because i want to pronounce them of those big old resin statues yes oh my god they're so good yeah there's a couple i'll we'll have to compare notes and uh okay and so he'll give you some recommendations if you need them but Wicked, 3D Wicked, I think, is one of the best ones out there.

Okay. All right, cool. All right. So gamers for gamers. I am still waiting, Brian, for my Marvel Unlimited. I just saw their latest update saying, we've got the last palette of East Coast people, which I guess you are considered East Coast. Yep. Oh, my God, dude.

I'm so sorry it's taking so long for that to get to you. Here's the thing. The minis on on those are great. You're going to have to find your own storage solutions for that. I use this company out of Germany with their foam boxes. They're really great. But there's a lot of little tokens that come in games, little chits and little meples and all those kind of things.

One company that I found, especially if you've got a little tiny tray, X-Trays. It's game trays with a Z.com. And they sell these things called X-Trays. And they're these little pop-open, stackable plastic storage containers for tokens and little things. And they are great. They're like a buck apiece, two bucks apiece. You can get like 20-30 of these.

and store all of your criminals and civilians for your Marvel United and all your special tokens and all of these. And they stack on top of one another and lock in place so they don't, you know, just fall all over the place. So that's one thing that you might want to think about is something for token storage. That's cool. That's really cool. Yeah. The other one that I suggest that I found, and I'm using this specifically for Marvel United, is bulk boxes. This is from a company called Team Covenant.

And these bulk boxes are just cardboard boxes. but they will store like 3,800 cards. And so right now I've got, I have three of them filled up. Again, it's going to expand with the other one. But one of them is just villains. And then the other two, A through H, and then H through Z for heroes. And these things stack in a K-lex-sized space. So you can stack three of them on top of one another.

Great for card storage. So Pokemon fans, magic fans, whatever. These might be a great way to do big storage, a big storage. of big games. I like this so much more and they come with the Dividers. I like this so much more than the ones I bought for Marvel United which are they have handles on them like you know you can

take them place like a suitcase but I'm not we're going to play it here because everything else I'm not going to carry 600 minis to some place to play it's going to be here so this is great. The final thing for gamers, card sleeves but the thing I will say

with card sleeves is beware because everybody has their own special preference for their card sleeves. So again, you might want to check and see what people want or use if you want to get card sleeves. But I mean, you look at Marvel multiverse. I don't know how many cards

are in that one, but there's over a thousand cards. If somebody wants to protect those for long term, a card sleeve is going to be necessary. And those costs money. So that might be something for people to get for gamers in their life. So there you go. Scott and Brian, some suggestions for things to get for people

this holiday season. But I do have two maybe suggestions for Scott and Brian. If our listeners out there want to get Scott and Brian gifts this holiday. Here's one for Brian. Lego has the X-Men Mansion. Oh, look at that. You get a bunch of X-Men in mini-fig form. There's a Sentinel that's attacking.

Plus, you get the entire mansion. And you can build it out of Lego and have your own display and all of that stuff. Problem is it's like $350. Jeez. Yeah. Holy shit. So, but here's the deal, Brian. If you, if people just, you know, send you a bunch of these, I will gladly take a couple off of your hands if you get more than one.

I don't expect I won't see any of these, and that's totally fine. Why is Gambit flying? Come on now. Who at Lego or is Magneto making raising Gambit up? Oh, good point. Let's see. Oh, I can't tell. Yeah, it looks like he's flying to attack.

It looks like flying, yeah. I mean, come on, rogue, swap out Rogue and Gambit. rog flying make rogue flying and put gambit down on the bottom there yeah she's shooting the lightning out of her hands that's cool and Desiree has it completely 100% correct I don't have room for this you do have room for Brian you never have uh no space for like

look at this though look at a cerebral deal this is cool look at that right look at that yeah he's hiding in there talking the back of it's really funny because it's like yeah just flat flat brick wall and then a door, like their back door. Man, as in a Lego store this weekend, their prices are insane. They are. And the prices just keep going up.

It used to be 10 cents a brick. Now I think it's like 15 cents a brick is what things go for these days. And with these license things, that's just Lego's license to print money. Yeah. I like the little tiny danger closet, not really a danger room as much as like a danger walk-in pantry. Yeah, they're just walking in there, him or her and who's that. Gambit with her. Right.

It's dangerous when you have two or more X-Men in there because you'll elbow somebody in the face trying to get out. He's like, listen, Sherry, I'm going outside to fly in a minute. You can't fly. Anyway. I do love all the mini-fakes this comes. Yeah, there's a lot of really great ones. So you can, they did have last year they had the X-Jet for sale. You can still get that at Walmart.

That's like 50 bucks. So if you're looking for the X-Men jet and that one has Cyclops. Blackbird SR-C. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Scott, it's a little bit harder to pick for you, but I thought what might be good is for somebody to get you a, and I don't know how you feel with leather with everybody in your house. Well, I've seen Scott leather, yeah. I love leather, I'm a leather sketchbook cover with some kind of custom logo on the front, either a frog pants logo that you could have made or a World Warcraft logo or something like that. So you can just keep a sketchbook in there and some pencils and eraser so that you can just do some sketching.

whenever and wherever you want. Yeah, something like this. Look at that. After you were talking at the top of the show, maybe go get Scott a rare book. My wife this year, I'm getting her for the second time. She's got a favorite author. So I've been tracking down first editions,

signed autographed first editions of the books for my wife. So I don't know if she's into book collecting, but she seemed to appreciate last year. So I got her again this year. Nice. Yeah, no, I think that's a great gift to give. I need what leads for your iPad just so... Yeah, you can probably do it for an iPad too, yeah.

Or a little of both. Maybe have them both in there, sure. Both in there, yeah. Yeah, yeah, why not? Get a little traditional, get a little digital, whatever you need. This is great. Well, excellent stuff, man. Great gift I guess, ideas for everybody.

You know what I really like the earlier part of your list here is great because I can't, I don't think we can emphasize this enough. The nerds in your life already get the nerd shit they want all year. Yeah. They're not waiting around until Christmas to get. get a 3D printer, but if you show up, you show up, if you show up with two big spools of their favorite filament, uh-huh. That's awesome. That's totally awesome. You know, you go through filament like crazy. You go through longboxes like crazy. You go through storage systems for your games

like crazy. It's like, yeah, get them, get them the things to store the things that they're already buying for themselves. Yeah, so they can get more things. This list is the, this list is the socks and underwear list. Yeah, yeah, it is. It's like ties and underwear and socks. We need them. It's great, but it's the ones we need. Yeah.

Somebody needs just give me a paper shredder for all those, the new 52 issues. No, I'm just kidding. I do need something to kind of, like, I'm realizing I've got it, once again, do this every few years, pare down the collections. All right?

I collect the Scotty Young statues. Those aren't going anywhere. I collect, um, uh, what else am I collect? that it's like, oh, I need to get those. Some of the miniature video game cabinets, the New Wave Toys ones, and that's it.

Like, start getting rid of all the other crap. Yeah. It's hard, though, right? I'll take the Legos off your hands, Brian. Yeah. Will you? Okay. But they're already Bill.

Are you all right with that? No, I'll take them. Yeah. Okay. All the better, man. Can I just crank all up into a box with the instruction? Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, that's how, like, all of my Lego sets from, like, the 80s when I was growing up,

Of course, the boxes don't exist anymore. So they are all in a big laundry tub with the instructions on top. And it's like, well, pick through and find what you want. Here's the thing. I'll take anybody's Lego. If anybody wants to get rid of their Lego, I will gladly take them off your hands because here's the thing. Yes, you can build them and have fun with them and show them, but they're also a huge investment for the future. Because if you get that X mansion, I guarantee you, that is not going to stay a product in the Lego store for more.

than a year maybe two years at most yeah two years from now that 350 price is going to go up to 500 four years from now that'll be a thousand dollar set right there that's an investment for the future and don't take it out of the box yeah buy two buy one to play with buy one to sell for a minting box yeah why not put your kids through college with lego sure right right just um listen listen kids i know it's ramen for the next few weeks of food but don't worry you're going to college because i'm buying legos yep yep i love it well that's great dude uh i hope you're you know having a fun holiday season we'll get to talk to you at least once or twice before the yeah yeah for the big holiday yeah at least one more time i look forward to that in the meantime

have a fantastic you a little time off from school and stuff or i did i had to come in and do some security uh seminar stuff but other than that it was fine nice glad you did that did you are you drinking enough water you keeping well that's what after after this morning's conversation i was going to say stay hydrated but maybe don't stay hydrated i don't know a little less Assault your physician, they will tell you what you should do. Yeah. Do a little. Stay and the exact amount of hydration that you need to stay.

Yeah. And don't forget, everybody's a little different. So do what you got to do. Steven, stay out of trouble. We'll see you next time. Magnog does not count as hydration. No, it definitely does not. In fact, I think that is negative hydration.

Pretty sure. It is my favorite of the thickened liquids. Oh, by far, right? One of the few that I will enjoy in a few. call a milkshake thick and liquid than that one too but keep looking for uh uh eggnog zero waiting waiting to find that in a story you're new and near you eggnog zero kim did like you did this year with her birthday and did uh took advantage of all the places that do free things and um god tons of stuff from places i mean there's still some we can go to because she's within the 30 days or

whatever it can be any time no it's you what you have to do is you immediately create a list and notes, Apple notes, and have the date and then the place and what you get there so that every week you can look and say, oh, we really need to go to the lazy dog this week because I have a birthday thing that expires. Or, we got a couple weeks for my free blah, blah, blah. Or, oh, it's, it's the day of Starbucks today. Yeah. Yeah. Love that. You got to, we're going to, I think she's going to make it a thing. She loves it. Real quick here, I did a fun thing that I want to recommend to people. So, Van drew a picture. This weekend. His dad's been playing Red Dead

Red Dead Redemption, and he's been following that and watching it and whatever. Let me see if I can find the original. The original looks like this, and he's five, so this looks about what you'd expect from a five-year-old. But he's really into drawing right now. So this is his rendition. And, you know, you can kind of make

out, well, we got a cowboy here with I don't know, some questions about what's going on here in the crotch zone, but you know, whatever. He says this is a hockey stick, clearly. Yeah, clearly a hockey stick. So we did some questioning. he says this thing with the one hand is a gun and then this thing down here is a holster for his gun and then this is a horse I think the horse is kind of obvious and then clouds and

whatever so I did this thing where I drew what he drew but in my own way and this is what we ended up with which is obviously psychotic and weird but I think this was so much fun to do I just can't recommend enough if you've got a kid who likes to draw and they're you know early their drawings are a little rough do that and then go back and just give them your version and go back and forth. It's a total blast. So just a little

fun little holiday thing to be doing. I love your horse by the way. Like a little pudgy chunky horse. He's a little chunky guy and I couldn't make out. So that's a great question, Brian. I'll show you the original here and you'll have a hard time telling either what's going on

back here. I don't know. Well, clearly the thick thing the dark thing is the tail I guess so I kind of interpreted it as there was he's wearing a whole like thing

like a backpack or storage some sort of storage yeah or it's hiding is I don't know I don't know what it is and this thing up front I don't think was supposed to be a ring but I went ahead and made it a ring

of course yeah it's good because I didn't know what to do there but um and the gun I kept the spirit of his gun but just added some you know that is what he's doing yeah anyway it was super super super fun thing to do it's a lot of fun highly recommend doing that even if you don't think you're a good artist it doesn't matter just draw their stuff uh all right that's going to do it for today's show

thanks everybody for listening monday show today at noon so usual places if you want to watch carter and i live today and uh that'll be fun so check that out cool and um everything else is usual this month or this week not this month this month is weird but this week is normal yeah so you're going to get tms every day oh windy's in chicago on thursday so we're missing windy again oh no okay well call now or something i don't know what we're going to do uh tms friday of course for patrons if you want to know more about that go to patreon dot com slash tms um but everything else should be pretty normal this week so cool uh god willing all right that's it brian let's get out of here uh what do you have going on yes sir i've got a request going out

to uh man been a while since we've seen this guy less kebhart um used to see him at all the nerdtaculars, good old Les. He says, Hi, Scott and Brian, it's your long-time listener and now still far away, listener, Les, still doing my thing in Prague in the Czech Republic. This December 1st marks my 60th revolution around the sun, and so

I'm hoping Brian can find something appropriate to help me celebrate. I'd love to hear the Acapella version of Africa by Perpetuum Jazil, or perhaps a cover, 1M64 by the Beatles. No, we'll save that one for three years from now, dude. Regardless, I leave it to Brian to find something upbeat. If

these don't work. Thanks for all you guys doing for keeping me sane over here. Lastly, would it be possible for me to get a mouth full of the Denver? Oh, the Denver. Cheers, Les, AKA History Kid. Hell yeah. So Prague, man. He's still in Prague. He's still in Prague. Yeah. So we got to give him a happy birthday and then we got to give him a a taste of the down. Mouthful of the Denver. Yeah, mouthful of Denver. Right. All right. So here comes your birthday wishes and you know, you know the one. Hold on. Where is she?

Happy birthday. And you get one of these. Start your day with a mouthful of the Denver. All right, Peter. Hey, that's a misprone. I still think your typo is a better. I think typos funnier. It's funnier.

It is funnier. If you could go back and rewrite that episode of the Seinfeld episode, you would use typo. Of course you would. That's a typo. Yeah. All right. Africa by Perpetuum or Perpetuum, Jazeal. I don't know.

It's some foreign group. But they do really cool acopella covers, and I don't know how they pronounce their name. I know I would pronounce that Perpetuum, but I'm pretty sure that's not how they would do it. This is from a single they released in 2010 covering Toto's Africa. It's awesome. Here is perpetuityum. All right, there it is. We'll see you guys tomorrow.

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I bless the rain stone in Africa Oh I guess the rain is on in Africa But I take some time to do the things we never have Hey Yeah To do dee tis de tis de t da to bha Oh, looks like someone just got their ears caught in the audio cookie jar at frogpants.com.

Someone's lucky keys. Hi, Scott and Brian. This is a really hoopy food in the chat. And I was listening to your episode from Mischift Night, the day before Halloween there. And you guys were talking in recommendals about the Menendez brothers and how people might be in prison and I happen to volunteer at a prison and I take meetings in for people in recovery and it just reminded me when going through training for that sort of thing they do make it very clear like if there ever is a relationship that starts the form between you and an inmate

you're no longer allowed to volunteer at the prison so I could very easily see there's there's many program services that are taken into prisons, whether it's for recovery or religion or, you know, other social groups as far as trying to trade, like train inmates into trades or teach them things, for example. So I can very easily see somebody going in to bring program services into a prison and falling in love with an inmate, you know. So anyway, that's my thought. All right. Take care. Bye. Hey, Scott and Brian. I'm okay. Thanks for playing my clips there about the questions, about the puppets and whatnot.

But you guys were just talking about nachos. So the legend has it that this guy named Ignacio, older restaurant, he had some women come in past right or either right at closing or right past closing. And they just asked him if he could make something for them really good. and him being a nice guy. He fried up some tortillas, threw cheddar cheese on them, and topped them up with jalapenos, and baked them in the oven. And they liked them so much, they asked him what he called the dish,

and he just named it after himself, which the nickname for Ignacio is nacho. And he called them nachos Especials. Terrible Spanish pronunciation. But apparently, yeah, the original recipe is just, tortilla chips, uh, cheddar cheese, and, um, or I, whatever. And the jalapenos are supposed to be there. I don't know, I'm not, I'm not picky about this stuff though.