The Morning Stream - TMS 2747: Suddenly Robocop

Episode Date: December 5, 2024

Dune: Slow Methodic Brainfart. Back to the Marvel Future. Cheerios Phenomenon. Vodka Holes. The Avengers and Robocop Save the Clocktower. Boston Creme Kryptonite. Does the Valance Match the Curtains? The Personal Massagers were the Friends we found along the way. Yummy Tucci. Ample reservoir. Red Fraggle Prophecy. Hydralisk pasta. Hostess Donut Crack. Boston cream on a stick. Am I super poor and stupid and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Avengers and Robocop save the clock tower. Boston cream kryptonite. Does the valence match the curtains? The personal massagers were the friends. we've found along the way. Yami Tucci. Ample Reservoir. Red Fragal Prophecy. Hydro Lisk pasta.

Hostess Donut Craft. Boston cream on a stick. Am I super poor and stupid? And more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Whoa, look at this. Hot butter. Oh my gosh.

Look, it's plain. Hot butter. Right on the popcorn. What in the world according to Garp? The morning stream. Maybe I can help you. I am Boba Fett. Hello everyone and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for December 5th, 24. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian of it. Hi, Brian.

Hi there. Hello and happy Friday Eve. Yeah, yeah, it's Rivals Day. We were just talking in pre-show about this. The arrival of rivals. Yeah, Marvel Rivals. Go ahead. Pre-install your Marvel Rivals on your Series X, your PlayStation 5, your home computer. That's right.

Your personal, your PC. Install it on your PC. That's right. I don't know if it's available for Switch. I didn't check, but I doubt it. It looks a little too graphically intensive. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Probably not showing up there. Probably. We'll talk more about this on core, of course. And if you want our pre-show, where we go into it deep, because look, Brian, I don't know anyone is a bigger Marvel fan than Brian. Do you guys know this about him? Loser. So he's about to get 38 new mini-figs in digital form on his computer.

That's right. I don't have to pay it a single one. By the way, got to show this off. I picked this up yesterday. What have we got here? I'll use this as my, This will be my, like, thumbnail. So those of you who listen to this show, audio only, you'll see a picture of this.

But this is the new Scotty Young statue that I picked up, which is Deadpool, in the Lucy Van Pelt style the doctor is in, the psychiatrist is in, and it's his little murk, stand, one-biller murk. With all his, like, guns and shit. Look at the back, like all of his weapons in the back there. and a stack of pancakes. That's great. That's freaking great. And it's all on the Scotty Young style, which is one of the greatest style. Oh, Scott Young style. Like, really cool.

Like, look at, you know, this looks like cardboard up here. Oh, it's all corrugated. Look at that. Yeah, it's all corrugated. It's really, really well done. Oh, that's awesome. That's just a complete thing you buy somewhere? Yeah, complete thing you buy somewhere.

Comic store. Okay. I went to the comic store last night. And they're like, we've got one of these left. We've sold out of the rest of it. but I know you do this guy of young statues. And I'm like, yeah, does my, does my hold slot discount apply? And he's like, it sure does.

Oh, nice. And you're supporting a local business. Yeah. I'm supporting local business, exactly. That's great, dude. That's cool. I really like it. It's a comic store called Coffee Cat Comics.

Bumped into old man Franks and old lady Franks there earlier this year. Oh, nice. I was, I would forget they're in Colorado, but I don't know why. I always think they're in Texas. Yeah. Yeah. No, it was, uh, that's great. That's a good sign that, you know, old man Franks is still a big nerd and, you know,

hanging out at comic stores and all that. That's fantastic. For sure. Yes. I haven't talked to him in ages, so. I know. They're doing great. Uh, they're such good people.

They're very good people. They're good peeps. You know, they're good peeps. Yeah. They're good peeps. I almost reached out to him and said, hey, you should just do like a one-off throwback old man Frank segment for this new instance thing. Oh, that'd be great.

Yeah. I didn't do it, though. I should reach out. because we still could have them do it this month if you wanted yeah it'd be fun patrick did one he could do one why not let's get randy deluxe to come on for one probably not blizzard won't do it randy deluxe oh gosh yeah no kidding yeah they get weird about that stuff yeah that'll be a little bit that Patrick had to stop doing it because of that business that's true although maybe things have changed i don't know how the stuff is still

new so who knows how that affects anything uh Brian I have never oh did they delete the post yes i hope you have a screenshot of it i should have and didn't oh bummer bummer this guy must have felt bad and deleted it all right so ah shoot i should have done it's all right you can you can still describe what this uh wonderful human being said yeah i'm sure he's a nice enough guy but it basically came it came down to this let's see if my replies remained because maybe they're just they're replying to nobody uh yeah it's weird he might It must have got piled on a little bit because I didn't say anything mean to him. I was just like, okay, whatever.

Anyway, so this guy I had said to the, to the, see, there's my post. Let's see. I said this about what I just started watching that I've been waiting to watch for way too long. And that was, I'm burning time here. Here we go. Scott, where is it? I can't find it. Oh, here it is.

A post one day ago, I wrote, took way too long to start Dune Prophecy. plug this business straight into my veins, says I. All right. Okay. Guy wrote back and said, you may as well put pure rubbing alcohol into your veins and kill yourself because

Dune is so boring. And I went, oh, well, I get it. It's not for everyone. You should read the books if you really want to be bored. You know, I just kind of, I was just being friendly. I didn't want to be a dick. Not really deflect, but like, yeah, you were. I'm like, if you think this show's boring, wait to you hear about these movies and then wait to hear about the source material.

Holy crap, it's going to be, if you don't, and that's the thing. I want to acknowledge this. Dune is not for everyone. It never has been. Very divisive because some people love the slow, methodic brain fart that is Dune. And some people really don't. And I get it. And I don't decry them at all.

I think they should, I'm glad they have a thing they don't want. You know, if you don't like it, you don't like it. And it's totally fine if you don't like it. Yeah. And I don't have a problem with it. And essentially, that's what I told this guy, especially after his next reply, which was, uh, at least the acting second rate or, you know, just kind of be in an a hole about it. And I said, I said, no, it's fine, dude.

You know, this, this surely isn't for everyone. And I kind of left it at that. And then he wrote back again, still complaining. Really? Like, he was just so insistent. Yeah, he really wanted me not to like it. to justify his position. I think he just wanted, it wasn't that he really wanted to change your mind.

He just wanted to make sure that you, you left feeling like, yeah, and a do, do, do, do, do, do, walk off like that. So instead, I just, I wrote back one more time and said, L.O.L. I get it. You don't like Dune. Right? Yeah, good. Because he's not going to, he's not going to change my mind. I love, I love this stuff. And I'm watching the show, I'm two episodes in. I'm still, there's a third out. And the rest is, still coming. And it's exactly what I want. It's this high-minded, heavy sci-fi, freaking ridiculous Game of Thrones and Space kind of stuff. I love it. I freaking love it. Sounds awesome. Yeah. And the show is doing that for me, like the movies did, like the books did. And so I'm already in, you're not going to take me out. And there's nothing he can say. It's like

saying, oh, someone saying Fury Road is bad. Oh, okay, well, let's have that conversation. We're not going to have that conversation. You don't like that. it i like it that's just the bottom line so i so that's kind of where i left it i was really looking forward to reading it though and now he's deleted his original post which means he probably blocked me is what it means which is hilarious because i was i was nice i was nice the whole time in fact he was a stranger that just came and replied rando to my original post which was i'm i'm excited about dune prophecy i'm like you know what i thought i left all that shit behind on x you know i don't need everybody just

people find this place and be like a whole new place for me to to troll and you know get under people's skin awesome oh this one's not working better find a new target yeah like it's just a weird it's a weird thing so for for whatever it is I should have screen capped it it would have been a fun read here on the show but it's yeah no kidding I haven't started it yet but my my buddy Don who who's all in on stuff like that uh Usually, he stopped. He did cancel Star Wars, though, because of the whole Kara Dune situation. Oh, he's not happy without that one. He hasn't watched the single Star Wars things yet. So that's the sense. So that kind of tells you a little bit about him. Sure, sure.

But he does like this. And he's big into Dune, big into the heavy sci-fine. So for this, I try. trust his opinion. Not on much else, but on this, I do trust his opinion. Yeah, Dune fans know who they are and they know where their friends are and it's fine. It's all good. Like, I read God Emperor Dune way back in the day, which is insane.

It's 10,000 years after Paul Atreides. It deals with a giant, sentient half man, half worm who kind of runs everything. It's insane stuff. It's like drug-induced weird. It is Frank Herbert on an acid trip. but I love it. So you're not going to talk me down from this hill. I freaking love it.

Anyway, so that leads me just to what I wanted to say real quick about prophecy. Prophecy is very cool so far, I think. And I think if you like Dune, high recommendation. If you don't like that, I think you're probably not going to like it. If you like, I would say this, though, if you like Warhammer and the parts of Warhammer 40K that are all about the Imperium and the Emperor and the bigger picture stuff, you'll love this, because most of 40K is kind of torn right from Dune, like whether

they want to admit it or not. A lot of that stuff was inspired by it. Um, the acting's really good. Mark Strong is great. Uh, he's great and everything. So whatever, just put him in your stuff. Although he's, he's, he's, him and Stanley Tucci are slowly becoming the same human being.

They're, uh, you'd ever see him in the same room. Mm-mm. Together at the same time. My wife saw him on screen and goes, hey, it's, it's Stanley Tucci. And I went, no. It's not Stanley Tucci. It's Marksville. It's very different guy.

I just watched Stanley Tucci in something. I talked about it on your Pope thing, right? Your Pope deal. Oh, yes, the Pope deal. Yeah. What was that called? The Enclave. Conclave.

Which is now rentable at home and pretty soon it'll be regular streaming at home. And maybe I'll probably recommend it at that time. Very excited to see that. Yeah. I'm waiting for it. But when it gets here. You'd never like if I said, oh, yeah, one of the, of the most thrilling movies of the year is about the changing of the pope you never believe me

i love you know it's weird though i love i love i love i hate what i hate what religion does to the world generally speaking wars and all that yeah but i love movies that are about religious intrigue yeah it's thought they're fun like and i don't just mean like uh what's the the tom hanks um based on da Vinci code yeah yeah but more like More like, um, uh, like, you know, there's a, there's a, uh, prophecy going on in the church and it goes all the way to the top. Yeah. Yeah, I love that stuff. Yeah. Try to think of, I want to say presidio, but it's not the presidio, but it's something else with Connery that's, that came out around that same time. Oh, is it the prophecy? Is it? That's what I was thinking. Um, oh,

the name of the rose. Is that the one with Connery? That's the one with Connery, right? Oh, yes, that is the one with Connery. That's a good movie. That's the one I'm thinking of. Yeah. Yeah. That's the kind of thing that I think of. Yeah. By the way, Gallantino Israel says, oh, my God, my wife's on old denim jeans commercial

with Tucci. Apparently, he was yummy back in the day. Her term, not mine. Yes. They showed that commercial at the Alamo Draft House right before Conclave. And I could not get it out of my head while I was watching the movie because it's Stanley Tucci's like all Buffett. He's dancing.

You know, it's great. It's a really, like, look it up, folks. I'm all in on this. That sounds great. I assume he was a, I mean, I think he's a very handsome older man, but, you know, I assume he, when he started out, he'd probably look pretty good. Do you ever see the movie Doubt with Phillips Seymour Hoffman and. Walt Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep and, oh, that's so good.

That movie's fan. It's, again, another one of those. It's just like a really good, you know, story told at the heart of a religious mess it's great yeah great movies Scott have you seen that reminds me

this morning I watched something this is unrelated there's no Stanley Tucci or anything but it is kind of related to the Marvel topic it's like and we go we've got some time yeah we always got time

we're good have you seen the 1987 Marvel Macy's float Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade float no I'm about to show you some of the most beautiful magic you're ever going to see

I'm so excited I can't wait share this on the screen okay And for those of you, again, those of you listening, we'll have to give you the play-by-play, but you'll look for this. You'll have to look for this when you're done because this is something special. All right. I can already tell we're in for something great.

There is a cameo in here that you won't believe. Wow. Look at strange. Oh, you're not getting any music. Oh, I'm sorry. I have audio's off. Let me go back. because there's another part of the audio it's like uh wait what that's awesome

all right here we go quick captain america wolverine need your help wow they're v o in it they're using back to the future music for some reason oh yeah this is back to the future what the heck Wow. You're through, Dr. Doom. You're through, buddy. Wait for it.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. What, they did, a Scooby-Doo hallway scene there. Yeah. Oh, he's getting electrocuted. Yep. And Robocop. Wait, what is that? What's he doing?

Yeah. this is the greatest thing ever made i don't know what's coming out of the white queen's crotch dude where's marty mcfly they may as well go all the way here uh so all right i wish there's the hulk yeah he's got a headache or something or he keeps lacking his head just banging on that building fixing his helmet oh lord i mean dude i love this is this great i love this is he gonna what is he doing he's positioning him for the the drop his doctor doom and the green goblin he eased the hul down to the next level that's incredible i i mean that's getting shared far and wide today

that's that's really great dude the the robocop cameo is the is the best part of it like he just comes out that whole like hey pulling this lever see ya yeah i honestly i cannot recommend audio people enough to go seek that out what's the give me the what was the name of that video uh marvel universe macy's Float, 1987. Okay. Yeah, there it is. I'll put this somewhere in the notes so that you can get to it easily. You have to go see that.

That is freaking great. It's freaking magic. It's what it is. It's really great. Why is, I'm sorry, we still haven't answered this question. Why is Robocop there? Why is Robocop there? I mean, whoever was filming this thing really did it injustice because we, we see the top of Silver Surfer's head as he's

running around. We see I think Iron Man running by like we need we need a lot of different cuts of the view of this like CBS did not film this properly. The number one comment is suddenly

Robocop is the number one comment on the YouTube video. I believe that. That is absolutely wonderful. I freaking love that. All right. I'm keeping that suddenly Robocop. I'm keeping that forever. That was so good.

Good catch, Brian. Man, that was good. All right. Basically, like, the new Marvel Arrivals demo looks insane. Yeah, right? Oh, man, imagine that is your intro screen or something. That would really change how I feel about my anticipation of said game. Yeah, yeah.

All right, I got to talk about something for a minute that I just think needs discussion. Sure. There's a certain food item you can buy at stores. These have been around forever. I used to get them in high school. speaking of 1987 and they look like this now those at home seeing this these are hostess donuts or donuts sorry raspberry filled so these are like they have a hole sort of yeah they're not like solid they do have a hole but the hole's not much of a hole you couldn't put your finger through there I don't think well I mean it's a donut you can definitely you could force your finger well that's true you could man we're getting close to some finger here yeah this is going to be it's a good thing Jamie doesn't do um um uh clips anymore. Yeah, it's a good thing he's busy today because, who boy. Anyway, so I'm, these things, excuse me, have not really been part of my life for many, many years. I just don't, I don't, they're not good for you. They're not, you know, whatever. But for some reason, there's a box of these around. I think it's because Sarah and Steve were here. Maybe they bought it or something. This is a photo from your house. This isn't just something from, you know, you just copied up. Oh, this actually I got from the internet, so I don't know where this was taken. But the one upstairs. Yeah. Yeah, but you do have a. Yeah, but you do have a. A box of them.

We have them upstairs and they were two missing. And I think Sarah and Steve brought them because they're in town and they just were sitting there. And a primal part of me that hasn't reared its head and come out of its cave for 20 plus years, suddenly lurched forward with very little control. Open this thing and ate one and a half of these. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. now there did you choke on the powder did you accidentally inhale as you were taking that first bite and uh no actually that's funny i was so trained for this i remembered to not do that i was careful about the powder because the powder you're right powder will gag you if you're not careful it will gag you yeah and it will get all over like if i'm wearing a black shirt there's no way i could eat one of those today and not look like i just hug charlie sheen yeah it needs like a like a bib or something yeah it or just either like hunch or over the sink and eat it if you can eat one thing.

And I think I got, I think I'm pretty sure I got powder on my black, because I had a black hoodie on yesterday, and I think I got it all powdered up. Because this morning, Kim's like, why is all this powder? What is this powder on your thing? And I go, that's my cocaine. I have a cocaine problem. Yeah, yeah. But apparently I have something close to that because these, I'd forgotten how much the, I love

these. Like I could, oh, my God. You know what I hate about those? And more for you. I'm not going to yuck your yum, but my problem with those always was, that the the donut part was way too dry surrounding that that raspberry filling like that raspberry filling needs to be it needs to be a reservoir twice the size to combat how dry the donut is around it that's fair that's fair it's basically the thickness of a small tube as it

loops through and it's not very yeah you're right yeah it's not yeah you need more you need more uh liquid to combat how dry that is like you know I can't resist a body Boston cream. You put a Boston cream donut in front of me I will while I'm on the treadmill at the gym I'll eat a freaking Boston cream if you put it in front of me. I have zero willpower

anywhere you give it to me but um do love that and we went to friggin pink box at TMS Vegas man. Oh that place is great. They make a great one and there they've got the ample reservoir of of Bavarian cream filling inside of Boston cream.

I expect to see many ample reservoir titles today in the titles. Ample Reservoir. It is my kryptonite, the Boston Cream Donut. All right. So I think if I was to choose, like if I had the choice, I would go Boston Cream also. These are very low rent, right? They're cheap. You get them

at gas stations. You get a box of those for, what is it say on the top, $1.99 or something. Yeah, they're cheap. They may be more now, but when I used to get them, I'd buy a box of these. This is when I was much younger and I burned calories like it was nothing. Now I'm not, I'm really not supposed to eat these. It's got a lot of sugar in this shit. What am I doing. So I had regrets. I even had dreams about him, like, because I was regretting it so much.

I was like, why did you do that? Why did you do that? And then I went to sleep and had this weird dream. Freaking Amy Robinson was in my dream. And this is weird. You know what? It's kind of dark. So I don't even know I should tell it. I'm going to tell it anyway, though, because it's not my fault. I dream this. And I don't know if Amy's here. If she's not somebody can pass this on. But this is what happened. Oh, it's not like, there's nothing sexual. But she was like, she was in this dream and she was standing there and she looked at me in this dream. And said it was like a room full of I don't know how to explain this it was like a very empty white room very um clinical and she's standing there in a and a very like scientific looking get up

like a coat and all that and she looks at me like kind of down and dead in the eyes and said did you eat the powdered jelly filled donut in the dream and I said yes I did and she takes a knife out of her pocket like a curved knife this may have come from Dune Prophecy because they have these curved knives It's like a little It's like a little sicker like a curved dagger

Yeah like a dagger but it's got yeah Like a little curve on it She pulls out this curved dagger and just Takes it across her throat Oh across her own Her own I thought she was punished you for eating the donut I know takes her out as if I did something

That now makes oh now everyone has to do this thing And then I woke up I woke up going what the frick hat What is that? And then you heard Yeah, I heard that. I heard that. I heard that.

There it is. So, Amy, I don't understand what happened there. I promise you, that's the first time she's ever entered a dream of mine. And why it was her and why that, I don't understand any of it. It's like no sense. Yeah.

Anyway, don't eat them. All right. I think I'm feeling like things are starting to solidify for our plans for the, we're bringing back the TMS Film Festival. Yeah, we are. And Scott's had a lot of dreams over the years, and we've had a lot of the audio clips. I think recreating your favorite TMS thing,

like a dramatization, like a documentary dramatization, because I know how much you love dramatizations. I love them. in this context I love them I love them in this context you could just reenact the dude in the car going honk ah

whatever you want any TMS meme or I'm writing this down yeah yeah yeah I think this is it I think we finally found our subject because we were yes we were trying to figure out what our what the subject

of the TMS film festival that's great that is great Brian I love that all right I'm writing it down you guys will get you dates and all that you're going to recreate something on the show doesn't matter something we said cheetahs or you know something stupid test the ship's phasers pretend to you're a tadpooler's mom at the star trick experience and you get to uh or i guess it was at a universal studios star trit yeah put the rice into the thing you can do a whole cooking thing with that guy oh right oh my gosh the third eagle cosplay get on it yeah so much there you know who could do that um uh uh Gary Gary Gary from Lan Tronica Gary could do it Anyway, more on that soon. We'll get back to you.

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support muscle recovery. Go to ritual.com slash podcast for 40% off your first month. That's ritual.com slash podcast. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. We heard from Jeff Seyer, our favorite Canadian. Sorry, other Canadians. You just don't hold up to Jeff Seier. You don't measure up to Jeff Seire. The truth is he could kick your ass is the thing. He's a big guy. Which is why we do put him at the top. It's less about us liking him the most. It's more about us being afraid of him the most. Yeah. He rides giant hawls. across the country.

And by that, I mean, motorcycles. In case there you're kidding. He rides a big hog. And he, uh, he, uh, he's got ham like arms. He's a buffed dude, went in the military. You know, we're scared of him, is what we're saying. Anyway, Jeff says this, Scott and Brian. On Wednesday's show, Scott talked about getting a bad review from a woman who

received a broken game from him. We talked about the eBay thing. Yeah. Scott said that, it showed that the wisdom of crowds doesn't work. Well, that wasn't the direct connection. trying to make but we'll get to that in a minute okay it says no because this one woman is not the crowd the crowd is the star rating which i should imagine is in the five stars and is likely an accurate accurate reflection of you as an online store what it shows is some people are dumbasses

and how they use reviews if one review out of a hundred is negative i think we all know that one reviewer is likely a dick um i'll be way more suspicious of a large store with a thousand reviews and zero single star bad reviews the wisdom of crowds works amazingly well Well, Jeff. All right. So my point, I had a broader point that I probably didn't say very well, which is, I'm thinking more like the broader sort of social media stuff. Like, it's just a mess, you know?

Like, it's so full of bots and you never, like things that I don't trust or like user reviews on Metacritic are bad because they don't have to own the game to leave a review. So somebody's just mad that this game stars a black guy. and they want to go be pissy and do zero star reviews for it, they can. It's just like, that's their thing. Same with Rotten Tomatoes' audience scores. Yeah, if you don't have to prove in some way

that you've seen the movie, it opens it up to, why do they have to make the Little Mermaid Black? Yeah, yeah. And then they go and they just like review bombs. At least in Steam's case, while there are some review bomb cases, in Steam's case, you have to own the game,

game and it will tell you if that reviewer returned it. So you can see their playtime and if they returned it. Oh, see, that's great. That is really good. So if they only played a half an hour or 10 minutes and did a return and then we're all pissy about a game they didn't play, you can tell and you can dismiss that outright. If you see one where it's 500 hours played and they still own it or returned it, well, they can't after 500 hours. You only get two hours before you can not return it. But anyway, let's say he had 500 hours and he leaves the negative review. Well, that review is then interesting because... Suspect, because you really played it a lot.

Well, or in my mind, he's someone worth listening to because he has, he's had the experience. And now he can say with some authority, whether, why he thinks the game isn't as good as he thought it was or whatever. Or he just forgot to close the game, left it going all weekend and... That can happen. That's true. So there's a bunch of ways to game all these systems. Myastrian year score or myasterny or hour. are astronomical because I

was leaving it on a lot when I wasn't playing it so that a kid like complete research for me and that sort of thing Sure, that happens quite a lot with especially like

factorial style games people leave those on all the time and let them just like build up Yeah, just build up, sure Yeah and sometimes Bo will play a game pause it, go to the bathroom

and then forget what he was doing and lay on the couch and go to sleep and then four hours later like he'll do that so I can't trust his numbers either So your point is a good one. You can game just about all of these things.

Some are a little less so than others. And that's where my beef is. My beef isn't that one review out of 100 is bad and that should be a problem. But also, think of the context. We were talking about how Brian has a smaller number of total reviews. So one review out of three being bad hurts his averages more. And to a glance, it's like, oh, that's only 35% positive. I'm not going there.

Like people's brains aren't going to want to dig deeper. find out, right? So that was the whole, that was the thing. So, Jeff, I don't know if that helps give you a little context there, but don't hurt us. Don't come down here and hurt us. Please. We beg you. Because we think you and Jen and your son and everybody are great. He's a grandpopy now, and that's great. We love you. But don't, you know, don't come kill us. All right. Well, thanks, Jeff. If you want to send in your thoughts, responses, whatever, that came via email, the morning stream at gmail.com. And you are. encouraged to use that at your leisure.

Let's get straight to some news today, which starts like this. It's time for the news brought to you by. Straight from our Promote Yourself Room on the Frogpants Discord, we have Dr. Calhoun's YouTube channel and his latest review, Alien Convergence, a great premise squandered. Does he do a funny face on the thumbnail? I hope so. I didn't look, but I hope so. Oh.

Get it today at YouTube.com slash. at Calhoun's reviews. That's C-A-L-H-O-U-N-S reviews. I wish YouTube with the username thing would just let you have, I think you can, but you have to apply for it, but I wish they wouldn't do the at thing now, because that app thing messes you up. Yeah, I don't like it.

Yeah, I want to just, I just want YouTube.com slash coverville. Yeah, and I have that for Scott Johnson, but I don't have it for something else, some other sub-channel. Maybe I had to, maybe it was old and I got grandfathered in, I don't know how it works. Oh, maybe, yeah. But the at symbol sucks. Because if you don't include the ad symbol, it won't find it.

It's annoying. I don't like it. Lame. Lame is right. Oh, actually, it does work. I just did YouTube.com slash coverville. So apparently grandfathered me in it. Oh, you got in.

Good. Let's see. If I put his in and I take the ad app. Yeah, see, I get a not available when I do his that way. You're not available. Okay. Yeah. But if I put it in, I get Calhoun's reviews.

maybe he has to apply I don't know there's some deal with that where you have to apply for something oh he does have a nice thumbnail does he have a good thumbnail

yeah look at this here I'll share it with you it's uh looks like him in the background there here we go I just put it up here on our screen look at him back there going I don't know

I don't know I don't know what's going on I'm not even sure what convergence is is that a must be a fan film Alien convergence Yeah, I don't know. I have to look into that. Huh.

I think it's a fan film. I'm guessing, yeah. Sometimes those are great. Yeah, actually, yeah, for sure. Let's get to... The Tractenberg's Portal thing was a fan film. That's right, and look at him now.

Look at him now. Look at him now. Look what that got him. Still making fan films just officially and with IP rights. Right. Ted Cloverfield Lane is the big budget fan. film that's right yeah i cannot wait for the his next predator follow up to pray oh yeah so excited so good so excited um and if him and fetti alvarez can really get together on a alien predator crossover that's good i would shit myself yeah yeah uh let's talk about vodka powered robots all right i'm a vodka powered robot well you're more of a tequila powered robot oh no i'm definitely not a tequila

powder. I'm a gin power. If I'm any spirit power, it's definitely gin. Because tequila, I get along with tequila right up until bedtime. And then tequila wants to continue partying, and I want to get some sleep. Oh, I think you've talked about this before. So that's, I brought, that up as I couldn't remember who it was. It was you. This came up at Thanksgiving. Somebody there, there were people there that were fans of either or. And somebody said, oh, no, vodka every day all day. Why? It's because of this and this and this. The other person's like, I can't do it unless it's tequila it's the best ever i don't know anyone's stents bogga and i when i went well i think i know somebody who says the sleeping with it's an issue and i couldn't remember who that was i think

it's yeah it's me and tequila like uh i have a great time and then it's like all right calling in night see everybody and i go to bed and i fall asleep for about an hour and then two o'clock in the morning or whatever it's like bing eyes wide open with eyes wide open and i'm like completely awake for the next six hours. That's too much. Yeah. Yeah. Your body needs rest. I don't like that. No, it's very bad. Well, let's see how these robots

do with it. Vodka, powered robots harness, Cheerios-inspired physics for movement and bizarre experiment. Now that headline, there's a lot in there. Whoa, hold that. Okay. Vodka powered robots harness Cheerios-inspired physics.

I know. It's a lot. Can you break this down for me? I just don't know. I'm going to give you more so you can chew on this. Okay, thank you. In what was certainly one of the quirkiest science demonstrations ever seen, researchers have taken inspiration from a phenomenon, phenomenon. Observed in Cheerios to create tiny robots powered by vodka.

It's just a proof of concept for now. Just even that. A phenomenon observed in Cheerios. They're using the word Cheerios in a whole different way than, is there a town in Sweden called Cheerios? No. They're saying basically, so, all right, so they say, well, observed in Cheerios to create tiny robots powered by VOT. So now we're going to have to have another paragraph that just explains that sentence, which was supposed to explain the

headline. Right. And the idea is that they want this to be used for industrial disaster cleanups. So this is like a robot cleanup thing. Again, another paragraph needed to explain that, maybe. But it says here, the bots are developed by a team led by Jackson Wilt at Harvard, so here in the States, as reported by the new scientist, they experimented with 3D printed plastic pucks around a centimeter wide, each containing an air chamber for buoyancy

and a miniature fuel tank, but instead of traditional fuel, they filled these tanks with varying concentrations of alcohol ranging from 10 to 15% Okay, all right. So far you're with me, good. When the pucks were placed in the water, the alcohol gradually leaked out,

setting off what is known as the Marangoni effect. this is the weird this is the weird Cheerios bit this occurs when fluid with lower surface tension rapidly spreads across fluid with higher surface tension as the alcohol with its lower surface tension spreads over the water it propelled the little robots across the surface so picture a bowl of milk it's fart and vodka across the

across the water yeah and if you picture milk and Cheerios they do that weird effect of like the holes fill up and they kind of well it depends on how much you have in there they kind of spread out It's been a while since I've done this. I can't really even tell you, but it says, let's see, the same phenomenon that allows some species of beetles to skim on the water surface is essentially what this is. But instead of using alcohol, they use concentrations of vodka.

Let's see, bubba-da-da-da, higher alcohol. I'm trying to find the note about the Cheerios part. Here we go. After nailing the basics, the team created more complex robot assemblies in 3D printing situations. multiple fuel outlets and the pucks and linking them all together. This allowed for the robots to trace out a curved path to spin rapidly using multiple robots also help demonstrate the Cheerios effect. The clustering of floating objects caused by attractive forces between the menuscus, meniscus, they created

meniscuses. Meniscuses. They create in the water surface. So like Cheerios when they kind of, when they gravitate together. When they cluster together, right? Because they're, um, Cheerios, meniscuses. Yes, delicious. And I guess the idea is these things could roll across polluted water and clear out the oil.

That's interesting, right. So, like, basically, as long as they line up those little pucks with all their vodka holes sticking behind them. Their vodka holes. Where's my degree? Then these things could just skate across the top of the water and push the floating, plastic microplastics island uh yeah this is the theory into the sun no and then before you know it your bp oil spill is all taken care of by the chiro that's awesome do we have uh we have bobby coming this monday right because we had schliker talking about christmas gifts yeah we should make him get his

head around that i'd like i'd like to know more about the mangioni effect or no the marigone effect i like the mangione effect it goes yeah the mangione effect goes Do you guys know that song, chat? Are we playing and really... You know how the young ones know that song, by the way? Here's how they know it. It's Joey's neighbor across the alley sings it as...

What is it? It's a great new day. A great new day. No, what does he sing? You know, there's a guy who sings across the... Uh, what is the, the feels so good as the Chuck Mangione song. Right. But what's the, the guy across the alley from Joey Tribiani opens his window every day just to hear this guy sing.

On friends or on Joey? On friends. On friends. Okay. I don't remember that. There was a whole episode where he had this neighbor, he was bummed because for some reason he didn't hear that guy for a while and then it came back. Um, then he came back. Oh, my God.

Okay. Hold on a second. I got a... Find it. Friends, Joey. Probably video. Mangione. There you go.

Morning's here. That's what he sings. Morning's here. The morning's here. The morning's here. The mornings here have no fear. Here's the video. I'm giving it to you right now.

That's great. I just needed to figure out the word that this guy sings all the time. I don't remember this. All right. So he looks at the wind. no morning's here the morning's here he's the original

he's the original artist or the original performer of the song that that guy from friends sang we tell you how my kids know Carter has virtually all of King of Hill memorized and he was a regular on there. Oh, was he really? Chuck Mangione was? He always showed up. I always had this hat on. He was a spokesman for the Megalomart. So he always did the commercials for it and

stuff. So yeah, he was a big deal on that show. So there you go. So the Chuck Mangione effect lasted longer than the Mangoni effect for Cheerios. Yeah, think of that. We've really cracked it open. Here's another one for you. Another sort science-e-based one. Health experts

urge male college students to stay away from honey packets that supposedly enhance sexual performance. Colleges and universities they tend to be a place where young people can explore their sexuality and try to find new things, ideally in a safe

and consensual and healthy environment. You know, in college. Thanks for explaining college. Yeah, thanks a lot, college explainer. However, they often happen to be in places where a number of different sexual fo'paws go down. And in the case of a recent viral sex trend sweeping the U.S. college campuses, some of these mishaps can even turn dangerous. Oh, no. According to the New York Post, male students in the U.S. are consuming quote-unquote

honey packets that have been labeled and marketed as sexual enhancers. However, given the product's list of natural ingredients, some health professionals are warning students to stay away from the new trend. Oh. Specifically, the FDA has issued several warnings about mulberry. multiple honey packet brands citing hidden drug ingredients in the product and urging consumers to be careful what they are ingesting. This caution is especially prevalent if any students, oh, sorry, this caution is especially prevalent. If any students then plan to mix the packet with alcohol, it's a weird way of saying that. A common theme seen in popular TikTok videos promoting it.

So apparently this is some kind of like some of the ingredients in Cialis or something is like part of this. Interesting. So, you know, it feels like college students. shouldn't have any problem with that it seems like well yeah like what's the point of you're in call okay what you're in your prime chemistry by the way the chemistry between these two on the top of this page is palpable oh yeah you can tell they're gonna get married that chemistry with a knife I know yeah I know she's interviewing him but uh they're gonna have kids one day you watch bed as yeah um so so this is bizarre so you buy I'm looking at at this next video at the liquor store

you buy a honey packet with Red Bull and two or three different kinds of alcohol Mm-hmm. Not good. It's not good. Don't be doing it. Bizarre. Says here, the FDA proved that the formula of these honey packets contain these nefarious

pharmaceutical drugs. For example, drugs such as sidenafil, sidenafil, can cause dangerous side effects, including sudden blood pressure spikes, chest pain, vision changes, and even hurt it. Oh, yes. Let's see what else they say anything else. It was another guy getting interviewed.

I love my honey packet, oh, baby. I wish, you know, my local news would interview everybody with a exposed midriff shirt. Yeah, that's how I know it's a journalist I can trust, by the way. Yes, exactly, yes. Okay, so this is interesting. I didn't see this before. So here's a local connection. The clip, which was posted November 24th, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

sending in about a half a million, featured an interviewer asking male students. What is the thing that would send you or send a BYU student into a coma that we do here at ASU? So for context, Brigham Young University, private religious university and Utah predominantly attended by Mormon students. Don't worry, we have lots. Let me try, let me tell you something you can trust in. Those students find lots of ways around it. Okay, they do. Yeah, I'm sure they do.

You've heard of soaking. Well, right. You've heard of elf on a shelf. Let me tell you about soaking. Anyway. So apparently this is a thing that's very common in some of these schools. Let's see. For college, they're very difficult.

Achieving an erection, blah, blah, blah. All right. So it's like that. They're basically, it's basically like cheap and not good, unperscribed Seyallis or whatever. And it comes in a red solo cup at the liquor store with a red bull attached. Yes, excellent, excellent. But also, I get how students are stupid and they try dumb things. And even if they don't need it, they're like, yeah, man, you should totally do it.

All you need is TikTok trend is really just any, if that, if that appears in the headline or in the first paragraph, then, then something stupid is about to go down. Yep. Wasn't it, former, recently former congressman, Matt Gates, was bragging on the floor to other Republicans who were the ones that told this story, but he was bragging that he liked to crush up. EDs, ED meds, so like, you know, Viagra or whatever, he would crush them up and then put them, and then chase them with, or mix him with monster energy drinks. Right, right. And that way he, quote, could go all night. Could go all night. Yeah.

That's great. Put him in a leadership position. Great idea. Exactly. Boy, that doesn't qualify somebody to help manage a department. I don't know what does. Yeah, when you're fratting your whole life, I don't know how that's going to go. final note miller high life is making a cologne and it smells like dive bars

that's cool right beer beer cologne yeah yeah i bet it does because i mean miller high life just on its own smells like a dive bar never had a beer in my life so i don't even know we talked about that yeah does it smell the way it tastes like if i yes okay yes any kind of beer like if i smell a beer and it's odie or whatever whatever the smell is then that's probably what it tastes like hopefully not odie but you're smelling the hops or the yeah or i guess not oats yeah you're smelling hoppy uh give me the haziest IPA you make i want it so thick i can chew it exactly uh yeah shafers miller high life uh your your cheapest beers are usually the ones that smell the worst

i got carded the other day and that was fun oh nice yeah where were you what were you doing I forgot the name of the place, but it was a bar, bar restaurant type thing. Yeah. And usually in those places, I don't look. I look my age. I look like an old guy. So it's usually not an issue. But this girl was like, got to see your ID.

Just the rules. Yeah. And I said, all right, here you go. And she goes, oh, okay. That hardly looks like you. And I said, well, that was like, I was 40 pounds ago. I was fat there. Yeah.

Yeah. So. Do you not get carded somewhere? I can't remember where it was. You know, it's fun to think, oh, they think I look young. It's not what they're doing. Yeah, but it's not. No, they just, it is their rule.

We card anyone who is not coming in behind a walker, basically. Carter gets carded, but she's because she looks young. I get that. We don't. You don't have gray hair all over your chin. By the way, I have a complaint. I'd like to register a complaint with the genetic society. Sure.

When I put my chin up like this. Yeah. You know that there's dark here, how dark that is. Yeah. And then is it moves over? And straight underneath the middle, like a little, like a little stripe. Yep. I'd like a little bit of an evenness there.

It's all white over here. Or no, here, here. And then can you be consistent face? What's the deal? This is the whole reason. It is not to make myself look younger, but the whole reason is just to be even. I use that and I need to do it because it's, uh, it's really light right now. You can barely see it.

But that just for men shampoo, that the gray reducer. Yeah. Um, this is naturally dark. the mustache, the beard is a knot. And so I just like try to even things out. I keep a lot of gray still in the beard when I put that stuff in. Sure. Salt and pepper.

I like that. I just want, I just want, I just want the, it's not really the carpet and the curtains. It's really the, um, the valance and the curtains. I want those to match. Yeah. This two-tone stuff sucks. So I'm going to, I'm going to consider something. I don't know what I'm going to do.

Isn't the balance the thing? What is the balance? Jack balance? the balance the thing that goes across the top of the curtains like it's the part of the it's the thing that hides the curtain rail oh like a little false front thing that's like a yeah yeah is that a balance exactly i think that's a valance it does pushups with one hand when they get oscars jack balance jack valance yes exactly so let's do this thing before i hide the curtains because i'm getting very close to burnout there you go uh yes i love that one of my

So the balance, I want the valence to match the curtains. We're going to talk about the carpet. Yeah, yeah. When Brian, he always asks the question, does the valance match the carpet? Does the valence match the curtains? All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, oh, yeah, they're making a beer and it tastes like a bar. Yeah, I really is.

Or they're making a perfume, sorry, perfume that smells like a bar, not the other way around. Cologne, cologne, yeah. Yeah. Or nobody wants to drink a beer. But it's called Miller High Life Dive Barfume. So that's why I can see why you would say perfume because it's... I'm glad you said that because that's the best part of this. The name of that damn thing.

Yeah, barfume. Yeah, barfume. Which, yeah, 40 bucks, by the way. It really didn't say it out loud and realized that barf is part of that. Yeah. The Miller High Life, dive barfume. Yeah, get rid of that dash and you got all kinds of problems. 40 bucks, by the way, for that.

So if you're into it, save your money. Get in there. Get in money and buy some good beer with that. I agree. with you. Let us take a break. When we come back from break, we're going to do some call now. Yeah, that's right. Call now. We're going to do call now because that's the idea. Wendy's not here. She's in Chicago, doing important Chicago things. And it's up to us to fill the space. So got a bunch of pre-calls like you guys said you would and you did. So thank you for that.

Thank you guys for doing that. You're awesome. Yep. So we get to hear from people we don't usually hear from. And we may hear from a few of those live as well. That'll all be after this break. Brian tells us what song we're going to break with. We're going to hear something brand new from Stella Bridey. Stella Bridey is, I keep looking for, in her promo stuff, like where she's from, and I'm probably scanning right past it, and I'm missing it. But she has a brand new EP called Speaking Terms. This is the first single from the EP called Six Foot Drop.

Here is Stella Bridey. of making this scene I have already guessed what it means and I miss when you still made me angry playing dead faking sleep in the back seat as it is I don't think a few often and the story breaks all in one long strip Your heroes are all getting murdered

The worst guys that I've never heard of You called me and said you were dying I said okay and I hung up knew you were probably lying What would it matter if you aren't? So it plays out the same wage screening. Everyone in the press room is screaming. And the questions are so condescending.

Do they realize who's mine? We're spending You say you haven't stopped crying That shit is just not my problem Nobody's gonna convince me I'll burn the bridge with you on it Set your glass down on the asphalt falls from a six-foot drop claiming to love me when I said I was scared I was lying

you are never gonna touch me but I can't stop talking about it I can't stop talking about it I can't stop talking about it I can't stop talking about it I can't stop talking about it Let's stop talking Is this what you got just for trying That is a goddamn injustice Isn't there somehow power to force me to become more trusting I guess that you just got unlucky must be your fault in my

warrant that I found the way to stay angry you are never gonna touch me you are never gonna touch me You are never going to touch me. This is Clara. My vote for the best song is we don't need no education. I'm going to play, and you're going to float there and like it. And we've returned. Tell me one more time who that was. Sure.

That is Stella Bridie from her brand new EP, which is called Speaking Terms. That is the beautiful six-foot drop. I was then also say that Wendy, because she's there, she's going to get to see, oh, shoot, what did she tell me? She's going to get to see something cool there.

I can look real quick Okay Oh she gets to see Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Live Get out really? Oh my gosh That's awesome Yep And meeting up with some friends of theirs from Kentucky

To do it along with whatever business reason she's there Oh my God I'd love to watch a taping of wait wait don't tell Wouldn't that be great That would be great So up your alley too You'd be Peter Sakel Have you ever tried to you should be one of the callers on there. You ever think about that?

I've thought about it, but eh, me. Yeah, me, me, me. You don't want Dana Gould to make a joke about your, you know, call or something like that. Oh, I don't care. And, you know, having Carl Castle record my outgoing voicemail message would be kind of cool, but no, it's all right.

That's all right. You've got a lot other fish to fry, you know? A lot of fish to fry. I'm only in it. Only in things if they make me money now. And so that's it. I think that's a good way to think about it. all right everybody it's time for this this call now time for call now that is a chance for you guys to have your calls come in and for us to answer them and also to play some that came in already

and i'm going to start with that with an emu call ah yes the emu not to be confused with the emu too both of which are my favorite Pokemon there you go I think that was Ian that's good the emu too. Doesn't that sound like Ian? That sounded like Ian. It did sound like Ian in his car. He can confirm if he's in that chat. I don't know.

Yeah. All right. Here's a question from Thomas. We'll go ahead and answer this one. This is for TMS, specifically for the call now on Thursday. Hi, Scott. Hi, Brian. This is Thomas from Missouri.

And I have a question for you. Okay. So you guys find a magic lamp. You rub it and Jeannie pops out. And he says you'll grant each of you one wish, but only one wish. and you can only wish for their health, be going to be healthy, wealthy, or wise. You have to pick one of those three.

Which one do you pick? I hope this is an interesting question for you guys. Love the show. I'll see you on Thursday. In today's society, oh, I should preface all these by saying I didn't pre-listen to any of these. Oh, good. So we're hearing these all fresh.

Yeah, they could say terrible things and we're screwed because we don't know. I just didn't, yeah, I didn't want to be, I didn't want to have any advanced knowledge of your question. So I played none of them. So we have to choose healthy, wealthy, and wise. Yeah. I think it's an easy answer, but I want to hear yours first.

Do I lose? Like, all right, so if I choose healthy, then all of a sudden, am I poor and stupid? Or do I keep whatever level, do I keep the level of things I have right now? Well, see, now that's... I would assume I keep the level of things I have right now. Yeah, I don't think you lose anything by doing that, which is why I think I would choose wealthy, because the other two, in today's society anyway, the other. the other two can be enhanced by the first one.

They're so, boy, you really don't need to be wise these days for anything. I feel like, you know, I feel like I've got my wisdom where I need it just fine. Yeah. Yeah, I'll tell you, I'd take wealthy all day long. Yeah, I think so too. Because I think I can do some good with it. Look, we've been humble work a day, guys, our whole lives. If we suddenly were a flush with money, I feel pretty.

confident neither of us would be insane about it we wouldn't turn into uh martin schrelli's no or any of these dicks i think what would happen what happened is is the martin shrelly going to be appointed to by the way when does that happen well he has to get his uh he gets uh what do you call it a pardon first parole yeah pardon first you got to go pardon then you get pulled in let's see what he health and human services wait they already got a guy i think they already got a guy somebody else who's bad at that They already got a bear, a brainworm guy for that. Oh, that's right. He's,

RFK's doing it, right? Yes, yes. We'll see how that goes. Anyway, yes. All right. Let's continue on. Thank you, Thomas. I like that.

Yeah, good, good job, Thomas. Yeah, I think easily the money, though, because the other one, the healthy is nice. Yeah. The healthy is nice. It would fix my back, which is, we're going on a week now, and I feel like we're close. I've been kind of being tender with it. and being good with it and not exerting things. We're very parallel lives on this back thing

because my upper back's about a week, too, and it's still kind of bugging. It's getting a little better. What a drag it is getting old. Oh, it sucks. Sucks. I'm pretty sure I just, I did it by hunching over some art project that I had a really hard deadline on.

I think I did it. Yeah. I know exactly. Well, I know what didn't help things is that I sit in front of this computer right here. with I'm gesturing with my hands to the screen directly in front of me. But I'd play Astraneer on this computer, and I wouldn't turn my desk, or turn my chair to play it. I would just, you know, like lean over and do this while I'm doing other things on my main computer. That wrecks me. Can't do it.

Yeah, exactly. So, yeah. Take our advice, kids. You can be on that computer. I'm moving my chair. Yeah, you have to like, yes, this is good advice. Everybody listening to us, if you're young and you're thinking, no big deal. start now with these habits you will regret it one day all right yes exactly um i saw an old lady 92 year old lady the other day doing full somersaults and her she says that every day she just stretches that's all she does i got to get better at it wow no kidding i get so bored stretching

you sure wasn't molly shannon uh doing her act no but i love when she does that sister mary gallagher It's one of my favorite things she ever did. That one, but also the, the, I'm 50. Oh, yeah. She's underrated. Underrated. She is absolutely underrated. Her guest appearance in the Will & Harper documentary is beautiful.

It's just such a beautiful moment. Because didn't they, they rode around for a while with her, right? Wasn't that the deal? They just met up with her at a salon in Los Angeles. Oh, okay. And had, had Mani Petty's done. It's so great. I got to watch that.

I think this weekend. Yeah, 50 is the new 40 I-Corps. That's what we keep telling ourselves. Yep. Yeah. Whatever age we are is the new, whatever age we wish we were. Yeah. It's whatever 10 years ago was.

So 90 will be the new 80. Is that too much for a title? I don't know. I'd read it. Let's see. Let's play another one. We got this one here from... Where to go?

Oh, there it is. This is from Chris from Philly. And that's all I know. Here it is. Hey, Scott. I'm Brian. This is a question for TMS call now. My name's Chris. Call from Philadelphia.

My wife and I just started watching Succession, and we were curious if none of our friends have seen it, so I was wondering if you guys had seen it. We're about four episodes in, and we like it. We think it's a little weird, but we're curious about how it goes, wondering if we should sit through it, if you guys liked it, let me know. Appreciate to hear your feedback. Thank you. Love the show, though.

If you can get past Karen Culkin doing nasty things to a window. That's right. You'd probably be okay. But yeah, we both seen it, right? You've seen the entire series. We both seen it, and we both loved it. It is one of those shows where you have to accept the fact that there's not going to be a character in there that you 100% root 4

like because they've they're all they've all got at least a little percentage of of sliminess and even

um uh Kieran Culkin's uh on again off again uh the relationship the woman that he

that he kept being horrible to oh my gosh what was her name I can't think of her name either Mariam or something anyway she was about the closest

character that I was rooting for, but then she even did some kind of skeevy stuff. It's not, it's one of those shows. I wouldn't, I'm not going to, I wouldn't compare it directly to Breaking Bad because it's not the same. No. But there is a, there is definitely a, everyone's kind of terrible, but it works somehow. Like, I usually kind of back out of shows like that because I just like, I can't root for

anyone. I don't like these people. And I could see why this would be a show that would maybe put some people off. It's that really hyper competitive family drama stuff. It's, I mean, it's Game of Thrones. in the business world really there you go yeah no you're totally right take away the fantasy make it modern day that's basically what you're left with yeah yeah Brian Cox is so freaking good oh he's great yeah he's just anchors the whole thing ruthless and awesome yeah he's very very good uh all right

moving down the road here let's do this one this is from let's see this is oh they didn't put their name so i didn't read it so here it is i'll just play hey sausage and black olives i was uh this is Hayes, just listening to TMS 2744, and Brian was talking about pastas that were made to hold sauce better. Well, good news for you. One has been designed. It's probably the newest one. It's called Cascatelli. It was custom made so that sauce would stick to it.

Look it up. It's not cheap, but you might try it. Hey, great show. Love you guys. Bye. or creamy peen because of its tubular nature holds pasta. Oh, look at that.

Oh, my gosh. This looks like a hydrolysk or something. Oh, weird. Yeah, it looks like the shell of a creature that already shed its early skin. Yeah, exactly. The alien is somewhere else in the ship. It's somewhere else on the Romulus station at this point. Holy shit. Yeah, I like that shape.

That looks good. And it looks like, yeah, it looks like it would totally hold sauce really, really well. Way better sauce holder. Isn't it, it just feels so weird, but I don't know why it does that they're inventing a new pasta shape. Like, I don't know why, and I know I'm wrong with this, but I always think of pasta as like, you know, something that was developed centuries ago. Oh, these are the pasta shapes. No other pasta shapes will be created.

But your penny, your fusili, your spaghetti, your vermicelli, let me get that right, et cetera, et cetera, is all going to be like established. we're done we're not creating any new ones yeah you either have you have the the italian stuff in that region then you have your asian shaped noodles and then you kind of are done and it's usually either you know flower based or rice based or occasionally something else and i'm with you it's it's like that feels like a zone that is complete the zone is complete it does yeah like we're not doing anything new there um this looks like how many pieces of that do i get in roller coaster tycoon to be able to Oh, I would ride a roller coaster made out of this.

My track. How many of those do I get to make my track in roller coaster tycoon? Yeah. They just made a new, it's a call roller coaster. It's not Tycoon, but it's like the mobile game? No, it's a brand new PC game, Steam Deck game, and it's a sequel to the first one. And they're, I cannot remember. Planet Coaster 2, that's it.

Very good game. Very good. Cool. Well, Planet Coaster 1 was amazing. I haven't played two, but. It's really, really good. It's basically the spiritual successor to those old. Nice.

Those old games. Very nice. Well done. Let's see what else we got going here. Oh, we have K. Kazumi trying to call in. So I'm going to add them to the call. Let's do a live one.

Yeah. We got a live one here. I got a live one. Let's get this working. Why don't work? There we go. Hello. Is this Kazumi?

Hello? Yes, hello. Oh, hello. How are you? How are you, sir? How are you doing? Doing good, man. Nice to have you.

Your voice really matches your avatar. It's freaking me out. It's dark. Very dark. No, it's good to have you on, man. What's on your mind here on the call now thing that we're doing? So I have a word of inspiration for those that are struggling with life right now. All right.

And it just kind of ties with my personal story if you care to listen. Let's do it. Let's hear it. So two years ago, I had a life-changing experience where I was an alcoholic and tried to quit a few times and decided I would try to rake the leaves after not drinking for a couple of days. So I took a few breaks because it was getting a little tough. And after my third break, I sat down and I knew something was off. and suddenly I felt a vertigo, my vision was narrowing, and it turned out I was having a withdrawal seizure. Oh, geez. Yeah, so three days later, I was released from the hospital, and that is the thing that pushed me over.

That was my darkest moment, and I'm two years sober now. Nice. Wow. Well, awesome. As of pretty much today, I'm two years sober. that's great yeah the uh the um alcohol withdrawal especially like you know sudden withdrawal i've always heard can be just freaking brutal like some of the worst stuff you can go through um and to have you on the other side of that feels real good man glad you're doing all right no kidding yeah congratulations

geez yeah i hope the show is fun to listen to while you uh continue on your road you know yeah and uh the one thing that i did go to was uh celebrate recovery which is a christian based recovery program, which deals with things that not just alcohol, it deals with births, habits, and hangups. Sure. And I have a lot of people that go there that also went through Alcohol and Anonymous and other programs that help them greatly. And the big thing is that you're with a community of people that are going through

similar struggles. That's the biggest part of them. Yeah. I think that that is, my sister says this all the time. The key is to the biggest, the biggest kind of. growth you're going to get in that situation with recovery is being around people who are going through it with you. There's camaraderie there, but there's also just a sense of, like you said, community. That's a big deal. So that's awesome, man. It's super awesome to hear that. I think,

you know, obviously it's never quite a thing you're done with, but nothing but luck from us on your journey. That's awesome. Well, thanks, dude. Thanks for sharing that. And I hope everybody gets a little inspiration from it. Have a great rest of your day. And may all your avatars be cool. people. Very cool. All right. Let's play this one. This is, oh, ads on TV.

Okay. I think that's what this is. Hey, Sarton, Board. This is regarding last Thursday's TMS and the discussion about drug advertising on TV. I subscribe to a YouTube channel called Dr. Mike. He once pointed out this scenario. Someone sees an ad on TV for a specific medication. He then asks his doctor for it.

His doctor advises against it and suggests the different medication and or lifestyle changes. Did we play this already? Why is this so familiar to me? Maybe not. Oh, we did. Yes, we did play that one. Yeah, because it was... Did we then?

We must have. We did. Yeah, that was the one talking about New Zealand. Why New Zealand, why we're the only two countries that allow... Right, because the doctor and the hippa thing and they... Okay. Yeah, we did do this one. it in here thinking we hadn't but we have we haven't that's all right yep no wonder i knew what

it was about before all right so here's one i have no idea what this one is okay so we know i haven't played this before here you go hey it's i'm okay um this is for the morning stream you know what's really fun about being an Asian person with ADHD is that we eat rice all the time and because of the ADHD, I have memes kind of constantly popping in and out of my brain. So now, since I've listened to you guys forever, every single meal I have that has rice, which is a lot, means that every single meal mentally I hear in my head, almost every time. I had Chinese food yesterday. I just started laughing when the rice came.

It was, and my friends always just look at me blankly. This is my life now. Love the show that I'll fight. I like that. And also, you should do a film for our film festival about You Can Eat Rice. Yeah, totally, absolutely. He's our 30-second film festival guy right there. That's awesome.

I do this with some things from the show. Like, I guess it depends. but you ask me or what I'm doing but if anyone says something like even close to I can totally see why you like it or something we hear that woman's voice in our head yeah yeah or if somebody scares me I think of the honk ah guy

yeah yeah the help help it's happening I say that all the time too oh yeah yeah yeah like I think we did yesterday when somebody something had oh we were finishing the bathroom getting the lights in really okay and I go we're in there doing it I go help help it's happening and they all looked at me like I was weird. Gosh, dang it.

Yeah, you can say that a lot. Yeah. 1930, sure, if that year comes up, that's all we think about. I do, you know, I do the, you're a real hoot. Yeah, yeah. You're a real hoot. Listen, you're a real hoot. Yeah, that's great.

Thank you for the share there. Here's one from Jane of Pride. I actually think this might have come before these call me now calls, but it's okay because I don't think I've heard it. So here we go. Hey, scooting buggy. Sorry about that. This is Jane Pride calling in response to you guys talking about the history stuff to ease the burden of the election. I know Scott talked about it last week.

It was brought up again on the show yesterday. I would like to offer another take on that as both of the people that have said this so far are, I assume, to be, men. As a woman, nay, as a transgender woman in this country especially, I feel like we're just kicking the ball down the road and saying, well, it's not that bad. Remember 1862? Well, that was pretty bad. It makes us become complacent,

and it makes us allow for these types of things to happen. So in the words of the great queer folk icon, Ani DeFranco, if you're not angry, you're just plain stupid or you don't care. That's my opinion. Have a great time. Yeah, great point. And it gives me a chance to, to kind of modify my reason for digging into history.

I did this other day too with that Wyatt Earp stuff because I just was like, all right, who was, what was everything else at the time? And you don't realize how close the Earp stuff was to the turn of the century and everything changing with cars and the Industrial Revolution and all this stuff. And it isn't, it isn't that I'm going back and reading history to say, oh, things were bad then too, so everything's okay.

It's to not only get a perspective of what things were like, sometimes harder, sometimes less so. But that is important, I think, that perspective. It makes you feel less generationally alone, right? But it also helps confirm that there is progress, and that progress usually happens on the ground where I can control it. Where it doesn't happen, which is the whole point of this, where it doesn't happen is me getting on a platform like X and yelling into the void.

Nothing happens. It changes nothing. It affects no one. it does zero it moves the needle not at all if anything it doesn't even make you feel better it doesn't make you feel worse it's just it's just yeah yeah and it doesn't help anyone but what does help people is people I know like in vulnerable groups like in my life in my circle in my community those people I can help directly and are and am doing having an effort to do so is all you need there so so just some clarity on that it isn't that usual thing of like put your head in a hole

and hope it all goes away. That is not the point. Wait for, yeah, exactly, wait for it to pass. Yeah, because if you can't, if you, otherwise, literally I say yelling into the void a lot, but it really is that. There's nothing happening from me getting online and being angry and telling people how to be.

It's not going to work. It doesn't, it hasn't worked. It hasn't worked at all. I've proven it out, plus it ruins my mental health. So my, my desire in blocking all of that out of my life right now, now, which I am, and I've been very successful at doing it, is not just to block it out of my life and make me feel better, because I am, you're right, I'm in a, I'm in a privileged position. White cis guy decides to put his head in a hole. It sounds like a pretty common

thing, but that's not what I'm doing. The idea is to say, wall up to the noise that I can't do shit about and then turn my attention to who I can help, turn my attention to where I can actually make a difference that's it that's the change acting acting locally thinking globally but but you can only you can only have a uh an influence on your your inner circle yeah and and if we and you got to hope that if enough people you know take their inner circle that their inner circles will widen and their other inner circles will widen and all that stuff will spiral out yeah and then and i can sit brian's right and i consider our our our community to be a part of that circle.

So we do have more influence outside of just my neighborhood and Brian's neighborhood. We do. Of course we do. We know that. And we are an ally in that space the best we can be and always learning, always doing better, all of that. And we will continue to do that. I'm just not going to yell at strangers anymore. I'm done.

Can't do it. It doesn't do any good. And you know what? Who I mute now? Now I mute everybody who's a dick. And I also mute people like George Tiquet. God love him. Love my Star Trek.

Dude, you're freaking exhausting. You're exhausting. It's just... It's almost too much the other direction, right? Yeah, it's like swing that pendulum back a little bit. And all of that, I mean, he has big influence. I understand, and that's good. I think he's on the right side of history overall.

But him yelling at me to get me to yell at someone else is not, we are not moving the needle. Yeah. All right. So I'm just going to go to where I can move the needle around. Like that. Yep. That was my needle noise. You like that?

I loved it. I loved the visuals with it too. We're great. Yeah. And I always like hearing from Janice. So thanks for that. Here is Kentucky Liquor Laws. Let's see what that's about.

Good morning. It's Scott and Brian. This is for TMS. Listening to the Monday show or the Monday episode from this current week. And you all were talking about liquor laws in Utah and Colorado. I am from Kentucky. and in my county that I reside in, you are able to purchase alcohol Monday through Saturday, normal business hours, whatever the business is, and then on Sunday you can purchase it after

1 o'clock and up until, I believe, 6 o'clock. But here's the caveat. We have some counties that are completely dry, meaning you can't buy alcohol in them ever, and we have other counties like the one I live in that we consider wet. I hope you all have a great week. Thank you much for the content and the shows. Bye. I had never considered the, I mean, obviously, the opposite of a dry county would be a wet county.

Sure, it was a wet county. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's, we were like that before here in Colorado, actually, for quite a while. It was Monday through Saturday, and then on Sundays nothing, then we changed it to Sundays you could get three, two, or less. No spirits, just beer, three, two, or less. and now it's any time, anything, anywhere, anytime. Yeah. So we fully become wet.

I was going to say, you're a very wet and smoky county, very smoky county. Very cool. Here's one that's late breaking about play it. I don't know what this is at all, so here we go. Ahoy there. This is for TMS. Ahoy there. This is Zeric.

Hey there. sport and boob so this call is about brain associations weird brain associations I'm hoping you guys can make sense of it so for whatever reason I cannot think of

the following I cannot think of one of the following three actors without thinking the other two Gary Busey Steve Bouchemy Wilm Defoe I don't know why I couldn't, I can't think of one film that any combination of those three did together.

But there's some weird energy that all three of them have that my brain, for whatever reason, find the pattern and clumps them together. Yeah, I do this, obviously a lot because we talk about on the shows. But my biggest, my biggest confusion is one that shouldn't be confusing. I get Kurt Russell and Michael Douglas mixed up. Oh, that's an interesting one. And I don't think they're anything like each other. They're sort of not at all, but when someone says, hey, what are you thinking of? I always say one of the wrong names, and I don't know why.

In their time, both of them were extremely handsome, and one of them still is. One of them's aged better than the other. Let's say that. Yeah, but no, you know, we have that all the time with Maggie Grace and Leslie Bibb. Like, you know, get those two confused all the time, but that's purely on looks. And Defoe, Busey and Bichemi don't look alike, but they're the... But they all kind of, they're all in that kind of weird-looking area, you know. And I don't think anybody's like, oh, Brian, how dare you say Busey's weird-looking?

Look, in the words of Fargo, the guy she was with was the small, funny-looking one. And that's what we're saying. He's funny-looking. And you know, I'll bet Bouchemey would tell you himself that he's got an odd look. That's his whole thing. Totally. It's his vibe. Exactly.

He's cast in a lot of his roles because he's got an odd look. And Busey is the same. I'm in Defoe, for sure. Yeah. So I can see why you'd get those. I can definitely see why you confuse them. No, I totally get it. There's a lot of weird ones.

Do you have any that you think of where you always mix them up? Like that aren't in the situation of they look alike, but that I get confused, yes. We've talked about on the show. Let's see. No, the one, the Benny guy and the Frost Nixon guy. Oh, wow. Or ones that look alike, so I don't count those. Something Drake and...

Yeah, Larry Drake? Larry Drake and the other guy. Yeah. He's great. Although apparently he's kind of a jerk on set, but whatever. I can't think of his name. So there's other... Let's talk about any of those that you have.

How about... Oh, you were saying you already said the... Oh, right. The who's-it's. I can't think of any more. I know there's more, though. I do this all the time. Yeah. And it's not because they look like each other. It's because I've got some other association with them. I mean, it's completely different genre, but there are bands that I do this with all the time. I sadly and shoot me. Fine. Come at me. It's fine. But I get Soundgarten and Allison Chains confused quite a bit. I get the. Killers and Friends Ferdinand confused a lot? I think for me it's counting crows and the killers. That's a weird one, right? Because they're almost a separate generation.

They don't even cross paths as far as I'm concerned. But for whatever reason, I mix those two up. Bands are a good one, because I'll bet people have a lot of that in their heads where they're like, wait, didn't he sing for whoever? And you're like, no. Exactly. And I, yeah. Yeah.

So, yeah, no, it's a good point. I know it'll come to me that there's a, there's a, Frank Langella, that's it, Frank Langella. Frank Langella, well done. Sometimes you have to do like you say and talk about a whole other thing, and then the name comes a rushing into your brain. Yeah, yeah. Nobody said it in the chat or if they did it didn't see it. So don't be taking credit to them. Nope, nobody said in chat.

You get that one completely on your own. Well, that's great. I love calls like that. Yeah, I do too. It's fun to think about. Maybe there's some science in that, Bobby. Put that on your note, pad and write it. All right.

Well, that's going to do it for today's call now. Nice. This is a nice chunk of stuff from everybody. I know that there are probably a couple more waiting in the wings. I'll get those converted and use them on the show for regular calls. So don't worry about that. Those will be coming up soon or even the next time we do call now. Who knows?

In the meantime, though. Let's get out of here. A couple of things. Coverville today. What's going on? Tell us what you got. There will be one today. I don't know exactly the time.

It might still be at noon. I've got an 11 o'clock conference call that will not go more than an hour, but I still need a little bit of time afterwards. So at the very least, 1215. But December, you know, always usually fills up with certain shows that I have to do, the Coverville Countdown, often a Christmas episode. And so there are birthdays that don't often get celebrated in December because of timing with those other shows. case in point any lennox lead vocalist for the arrhythmics but incredible solo artist

I don't get to do an any Lennox your rhythmic show very often so that is going to be today all of your favorites of course sweet dreams love is a stranger Thorne in my side walking on broken glass a lot of people don't realize no more I love you's is

not an original from Annie Lennox it's a cover of a song by I-10 Um, so, uh, so any Lennox today, uh, Twitch.TV slash coverville, just keep an eye on, on my, um, blue sky or threads. I'll post on there when I'm going to go live or just keep, just go to Twitch.combe slash coverville at noon and at the very least, you'll see the episode starting in 15 minutes kind of thing, but 1215 at the latest. You won't be waiting long. Nice. Check it out. I love Annie Lennox, so you have me at her. She has such incredible voice. And, yeah, there was, be a cover of her Into the West song from Lord of the Rings which was what got her

an Oscar. Nice. Well, speaking of Blue Sky, Brian's on there as Coverville. I'm there at Scott Johnson. Actually, my new one is Scott Johnson. Dot Zip, because you can do your own domain. And the reason I did that is because the Scott Johnson was kind of hard to search for her. Oh, sure. And

dot Zip was available. So I bought it and used it for that. And I don't want people to think I'm a compressed file or anything, but that's a new domain, I guess. It's great. Nice. So, anyway, Scott Johnson up there. And, of course, kind of the show now at Morning Stream as well.

That reminds me, actually, I did pick up, and I'll have announcements on dates very soon. I'm actually working with the Plaza right now and confirming we've got the start to the contract. So dates are about to be locked in. And they're pretty much what you expect them to be. If you're familiar with TMS Vegas, you can pretty much figure out what the dates are going to be. sure um but thanks to tanner i now have the domain tmss dot vegas oh a Vegas domain Vegas dot Vegas domain so tms.ms dot Vegas and uh that'll make it really easy nothing's there yet um but i'm gonna i'm gonna re i'm just gonna re point viva tmsvgas vgas dot com over that one

and that's gonna make it a lot easier for people to find it very very nice more on that soon been working uh brian's been working behind the scenes getting stuff ready and and despite me saying okay well these are the things that we need. I still get a thing back that says, okay, so you're going to hold a conference call in Pink Box. You're going to do bingo for 27 people and you want this. I'm like, no, that's not at all what I want. I have this specific thing that I want. Yeah, it's funny. You have to retrain them every time they have a turnover on the employee. Totally. Exactly. It's like I just need the TMS Vegas orientation kit, as Bobby suggested. I just send that to them and say, read this, sign it, get it back to me.

you've read it and then we'll start we'll go for yeah a little five minute webinar every time exactly uh well anyway so check that out also today core at noon uh if you want to hear the latest and greatest in gaming uh me beau john noon it's uh that time of the week so check that out frogpans tv it'll be live it'll also be up on the podcast and everything else afterwards of course and you can find everything else about this show at frogpants dot com slash tms and a reminder if you're at home thinking man i'd sure like to do a voicemail for the show like all those good ones we heard. That number is easy to remember and put in your phone. [phone]. Keep it handy.

That's going to do it for us, I think. Brian, let's get out of here with a song. Yeah, this one, a birthday request for somebody that we know we love and we are always happy to see every day when we pop into the chat room. Her birthday is actually tomorrow, but this is going to her today because more people will hear it today than if we were to do it tomorrow's TMS Friday, and I want to make sure she gets the, the widest possible audience. That said, sign up for a Patreon, like Scott said, and get those Friday shows. Yeah, live, live even. Let's make the numbers even between the two.

Yeah, we go live at 9 a.m. tomorrow. It's an hour-long show. We do lots of fun stuff. We don't during the week. And it's this extra hour you're not going to get any other way. So sign up and get in there. Sign up until day. Okay.

Jeannie has a birthday. She says, hi, guys. since TMS, as she says, hi ya, guys, since TMS started in January 2011, this is my lucky 13th birthday request. Wow. This year, rather than annoying the cover man with a birthday request for a song encompassing four different genres, I'll be nice and just ask for one, SCA. Too many birthdays.

Love the show, though. Jeannie, Jeannie. I love that she loves ska so much. I do, too. I don't know why, because I think of her is very, like, like classic movies, puppets. just very scoff and serious like but that what a great thing to be into i think that's freaking great it's fantastic and um uh and and when i try and pick a song that i know she's going to like i do try and and and go back ways i didn't go back far enough we talked about this earlier this

week i asked her if she liked the king and i the musical with um yule brenner and um she doesn't but maybe she likes this song all right is i was able to locate a ska version of one of the songs from the King and I the musical, Shall We Dance? This is by the Skam-M-O-T-T-S, as if it's like you're getting ska and delicious applesauce.

From their 20-24 album, FilmSka, which does have a bunch of ska covers of things like Hedwig's theme from Harry Potter and Star Wars and all that sort of thing. I heard this and I said, oh, I love this. Here are the Skamots and Shall We Dance. I'm going to be able to be a bit of a bit more than a bit more than I'm going to be.

Shall we dance? Shall we dance? On a bright, proud music, shall we fly? Shall we dance? Shall we dance? Shall we dance? Say good night and make goodbye Of a chance

when the last little star has left the sky Shall we still be together with the realms around each other? And shall you be my new romance? On the clean understanding that this kind of thing can happen. Shall we dance? Shall we dance? Shall we dance? Shall we dance?

On a bright crowd music, shall we ride? Shall we dance? Shall we dance? Shall we dance? and say good night, I'll make good-bye. Oh, my chance! When the last needs the heartless sky! Shall we still be together with the rounds around each other?

And shall you be my new romance? For the queen, understanding that this kind of thing can't have it, Shall we dance? Shall we dance? Shall we dance? Now we're done! Shall we dance on a bright cloud music? Shall we fly?

Shall we dance? Shall we dance? Shall we dance? Shall we dance? Say good night and make good-bye Oh my chance When I last leaves I have left the sky Shall we still be together with our

round around with each other and shall you be my new romance on the tree understanding down the sky don't think you have it shall we dance shall we dance shall we dance shall we dance shall we dance shall we dance shall we dance shall we dance Shall we dance? Shall we dance? Shall we dance?

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