The Morning Stream - TMS 2752: Maple's Big Jugs

Episode Date: December 16, 2024

There are Lies, Damned Lies and TMS. Rocky Road Candy on LSD. Loaf of diabeetus. Thicker is Better. Cereal and Pee with Dunaway. CAN deed FRUIT. Time Is Effed. Kim is More Than a Good Neighbor! Aunt Beru's Genuine Maple Syrup. Dallas Armpit and Butthole Airport. Who Got The Dogs Back. Thicker Just Feels Better In The Hands! 1:1 Is Square. Can a monkey have a tattoo? Cause I like really wanted to know. Are you having a wonderful holiday time spirit time? with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Cereal and pee with Dunaway. Candide fruit. Time is effed. Kim is more than a good neighbor. Aunt Baru's genuine maple syrup. Dallas armpit and butthole airport. Who's got that dog's back? Thicker just feels better in the hands.

One by one is square. Can a monkey have a tattoo? Because I like really wanted to know. Are you having a wonderful holiday spirit time with Stephen and more on this episode of the Morning Stream? The following tale of alien encounters is true, and by true, I mean false. It's all

lies, but they're entertaining lies, and in the end, isn't that the real truth? The answer is no. Portland's mother fluffin' far! This is the morning stream with Scott Johnson

and Brian Ibbett. Big old freaking dirt blanket. Hey, everybody. How you doing? This is the morning stream for Monday, December 16th, 2024. We got one week till Christmas, Brian, a bit. What do you think of that? Crazy. It, this, you know, I know we say this with everything, but it just, it, it came so fast. It arrived so quickly. Don't like it. How? How did he get here so quickly? I don't like it. I really don't like it. Like, we can talk about how effed up. time is. I was talking to Dr. Tolbert yesterday. He was telling me about something about his 12 year old, and we were talking about Van who's about to turn six. And I realized when Van was born, his kid was six. And both of us were just like, that doesn't make any sense. How was your 12 year old six just five

minutes ago? Time's effed. It's effed. All right. We may as well accept it. Maybe that means, and I'm just saying, maybe this is good for some of you out there, but maybe that means this will be a very quick, for no reason, but very quick four years. Maybe it'll be just the fastest. Yeah, wouldn't it be nice if the next four years just went poof like that? Oh, wouldn't that be great about halfway throw? Oh, Brian, can you believe it's already 2026? What's going on? Yeah, believe it. Wow, it's amazing. I hope so.

Yeah, it'd be great like that. That'd be great. Anyway, we're all here. It's me, Scott Johnson. I mentioned Brian Ibid, and we're here to make a show. That's right, Monday TMS. You've tuned in. You know what you're here for. And I'd just like to say, my Canadian neighbors do like us, it turns out. Oh, good. Okay. Because up till now, they've been a little. little standoffish and I understand why some of you out there know why I'm not going to get into details but they're in a position of uh people could take advantage of them if they do who they were

all right okay oh right right right you know what I'm talking about and so knowing who they are and maybe what they do in Utah exactly if you knew what they did you might think anybody you know rubbing up rubbing shoulders of them they would be like skeptical about their their motivations and but we've been very nice show up you You know, when it's holiday stuff, we show up with stuff. Kim gave him some stuff. And one day their dog got out and we got the dog back. You know, just we're nice neighbors.

We're good neighbors. State farm is there, right? So that's all going good. And but they've still remained very like, and it's fine. We respect it. It's not a problem. Wary. No, yeah, not necessarily wary, but like, you know, they're, they keep an eye on you,

even though they like you. Yeah. Just let's make sure that these guys are really on the up and up. Exactly. And we've tried really hard to just not be weird. We're just being normal and trying to be nice and be there when they need us and that sort of stuff. Just like any other neighbor around us, we're trying to be that for them. So yesterday, they shows up at the door they did.

And they had, oh, I didn't bring one down. I was going to show you the can. But they brought with them two cans, about this big, of pure right out of the tree. Canadian maple syrup. Oh, wow. And I thought, well, that's just, I mean, what's the difference? That's not going to be that good. I mean, Aunt Jemima would like a word, you know, because I don't know, I don't know anything about this stuff.

So I cracked one of those open, and it's one of those we talked about where you use the pointy end to make a hole. Yeah, to make a little triangle opening, then one on the other side to let air in. Yeah. So we do, we do that. And we made, Kim made pancakes for the little ones who were staying with us overnight. And I got to tell you, that's unbelievable, that's unbelievable that we have, what we think is syrup down here is not correct. Yeah, maybe what you think is syrup.

What I think is syrup. Keep in mind, my dad and stepmom live in Vermont, and they actually have maple trees and a sugar shack where they can boil it down into syrup. So I've had the, I've had the real thing, and yes, and Jemima is, or whatever, she's, they're not, She's not called Aunt Jemima anymore. Oh, what is she now? Aunt Drew. No, it's not even a name.

It's like the something maple company or something like that. I can't remember what it's. Pearl Mining Company. That's it. Thank you, Rufus. Well, that doesn't roll off the tongue as easily as Aunt Jemima did. It doesn't, but, you know, there was, it was problematic. There were some issues.

Yeah. Yeah. Some historical issues, mostly, but yeah. Right. Growing up, you know, that or what's the golden griddle was the other brand my mom always bought. Yeah, Mr. Butterworths. I was just exposed to stuff that just wasn't true. It wasn't true.

It was all false advertising. Maple flavored, thickened sugar syrup, basically. Yeah, it was corn syrup with a flavor is what it is. Correct. And that stuff's probably still in your veins from when you were 10, right? Probably. Yeah, it's lined it like insulation. Exactly.

And it's annoying as hell. So now that I know the truth, I'm having one of those blue pill moments or whatever they call it. Yeah. Red pill, blue pill. Whatever pill it is. I had the pill that opened my eyes and I went into the matrix and now I see everything. I always forget which pill it is. I'd need, Morpheus, can you run down those choices again?

I kind of forgot what each one did. Could you say that again? Yeah, from your cool leather chair and your awesome sunglasses. Can you please do it again? brilliantly reflective sunglasses? That's right. Because whatever pill it is that tells me now what true maple syrup is, I can't go back. It's so good.

And it's not like I'm going to eat it all the time. Still really high in sugar. But I had these pancakes and it was like a revelation. And now that's all I'm going to care about. So now we have another excuse to just like pop over there or next time we see him across the fence. We're just going to go, hey, where do you guys, is there a way to import this pretty easily? Can we get just on Amazon or something? You know, just talk to him about it.

Because it's so good. Yeah. Yeah, the problem, I mean, it's a small problem. So when we go to Vermont, we always try and come back with a big jug. There's a, my dad and stepmom basically make enough for themselves. And it was a housewarming gift that I got them, the taps and the tubes. Because you take down, like you maybe get 12 quarts of maple. And that boils down to, or sap, and that boils down to a cup of syrup or something.

it's really oh i didn't realize i thought it was just like one for one coming out of there no it is not no it is super it really really boils down um so we'll go there's a there's a um a place that makes their own they make maple candies they make maple these this really smooth ice cream called creamies that's freaking amazing um so we'll go when we go to vermont we'll get a big jug of it here's the problem uh unlike the the crap that we buy here in america maple syrup needs to be kept cold kept in a fridge. Keep it in a fridge. So this big jug takes up a lot of room in the fridge. And depending on how long it takes for you to go through it all, you've got to, you know, you've got to really figure out space in your fridge to kind of make it work and make it so you can still put a turkey in there on Christmas or something. Sure.

You can split it up, I guess, if you had to. You could, but you still have to split it up into things that go in the fridge. Yeah, no, you're right. You're right. Either way, it's like a, I don't know, it's like having, um, It's like Kim's jambalaya. We could put this whole pot in here, or we can break it up in these little dishes, but the volume is the same. It's still going to be...

You might have to use your kimchi fridge to store some syrup. Oh, yeah, right. That'd be a fun mixing of flavors and smells, wouldn't it? Yeah, yeah. I think the trick is to get, instead of one big jug, when you go to Vermont, get a bunch of the smaller jugs because the way they're sealed, they don't have to be refrigerated. until you open them so open a small jug put in the fridge when you finish that one grab another jug open it up put in the fridge that's that's scary you about flights and stuff you assume you have to check that in a bag right yes it does scary but but we bring um the Ziploc quart size freezer bags

and just put them in there so there's something breaks open that's a good idea the other good thing about them is the way they're sealed there's the cap and then there's like a little protective subcap, sub strata. I'm trying to think it's something worse than opening a bag of your, you know, big, yeah, and it's all syrupy. Oh my gosh, dude. You know, it'll wash, you know, it'll wash out. Yeah, but wouldn't you just have a little temptation to just toss the whole damn thing in the first dumpster you see?

Totally would, absolutely. Especially the, because the suitcase you can't throw on a washing machine, everything else you can. But the suitcase, you have to keep wiping down. and keep wiping it down with a wet cloth and et cetera, et cetera. Ugh, gross. I found the can or I found the brand here. It's this stuff right here. Oh, look at that.

Pure maple syrup. It's 540 milliliters. Product of Quebec, they're Quebec-e folk. Have French accents and everything. Quebequa. Refrigerate after opening made in Canada, all that. Anyway, you just go up, you go clark, make two holes, pour that on your pancakes, and your whole life is different.

It's fantastic. Great. That's great. good so a huge thanks to them who will never hear this because they don't listen to this show it's really good just make sure make sure you uh you know before you pour it on the pancakes throw it in the microwave for like 10 seconds so that it doesn't the the chilled maple syrup doesn't cool your pancakes you want hot maple syrup oh right good point i mean we did at room temperature because we have refrigerated yet but yeah now that we're now it's in the fridge

so when we use it again i'm going to remember that oh except our microwave's still down so i got to figure that out. Oh, well, all right. It's the magnetron. Thanks. Thank you, Canada. We appreciate it. Quick recommendation.

If Stephanie's out there, you may want to ignore the following comments. I picked up a new Amberneck that I really like. Oh, a new one? Oh, my gosh. So look at this little guy. Now, how is that different from the one that you showed us a couple weeks ago that you did? The one I did a couple of weeks ago is the, wasn't that the clamshell?

one, like the SP, the old GBA SP? No, it was, I thought it was horizontal like that. Like a little. I don't think so. Unless I had a, um, which one did I have? Now, now I'm, now I'm, now I'm, now I'm questioning it. Did I show something? It's like white and blue or something like that or, um, I don't know.

I don't know what I showed you. I show something that was white. I may have. That's entirely possible. I think it is that small size. Look this little guy though. Isn't it cute? So on here, what I love about it,

is, these are very hackable now. Everybody's got an alternate OS for it. These also have these cool, you can't really see it rotating, but these LEDs behind the sticks are like constantly fluctuating colors and stuff. So it's kind of cool. Nice. Anyway, I put this operating system on here called MuOS, or MUOS. I don't know how they say it.

But it's really, really great and super simple to do. Got a great big old SD card in there. This thing plays up Dreamcast. And I'm here to tell you, as far as like, comfort in your hands, this might be my favorite I've reviewed. Real good. Here's the thing I like about that. A, I like the horizontal form factor.

B, it looks like it's thicker and when you've got big hands you don't want a thin deal. Definitely thicker. Yeah. To hold on to. Better heat dispersion, better battery too as a result. And also I like there's just not a heft. It's not like it's heavy, but it feels

there's a solid feeling to it. And I really like that feeling of like, yeah, this thing's made to last. a little while. So I think I found my new favorite one. This is the model RG40XXH. And they have another one that's called the XX. Oh, I forgot the letter, but it's basically a tall form factor of this exact device. So if you do prefer that kind of Game Boy vertical thing, they have a version of it like this. But the 40H is the model I'm going to recommend. And hacking this thing was easy. If anyone has any questions,

just let me know. If you're getting yourself a nice little gift for Christmas, which is literally what I got this for. Um, and also so I could review it for shows, but, uh, super awesome. And I got, I got last night I played, I don't know, an hour of joust. And then I hopped over and played a ton of, uh, the legend of Zelda, uh, the minish cap from the game boy advance. All of these, which I have the cartridges for, of course. Okay. Of course. Of course. Yeah. You legally own those. Yeah. Oh, 100%. And then, uh, what was the other one that I got real deep into last night? I can't remember. Oh, I played a bunch of Mario, uh, Super Mario Brothers three, but it. It was the advanced version of it, which was like a whole redo, like a remaster and had like, it basically was up-res of everything, better graphics, scrolling backgrounds, all that. So fun. With joust, though, with joust, it's the vertical screen, right? So, um, no, Jouse is, Jouse is actually a 4x3.

Is it really? Yeah. I think, okay, it's not like, the old Jouse 2 is ridiculously vertical. Like, embarrassingly vertical. Jouse 2 is almost impossible to play on a device like this. But Joust one, the original Joust is a widescreen. I did not, or not widescreen, but it's, it's a horizontal versus portrait. Yeah, let's see if I can find that thing.

It's possible, too, I played a version of it that was, I guess it's not so much wide. I mean, it's basically square. Okay. Like 1-1, you know. Or what do you call that? What's that? Is that the ratio? Just 1-1, right?

1-1 if it's square, yeah. Yeah. Anyway, I like it. You get a little line on top and bottom. bottom if you're playing PSP games or something because obviously those were 169. This isn't that but games like GBA games SNS, Genesis, all that stuff.

Big, beautiful 4-inch green. Oh, love it. Anyway. Nice. Very pleased. Manapart. It's shit out of luck.com. Manaparte is what the... Shittalada luck.com. It is RG 40XXH. That's the model. And the way you remember this, they're all RG, that's what they, every

one of their devices is an RG, and then the 40 is the screen size, so 4.0 is 4.0 is 4 inches. If it's the 38's, the 3.8 inches, there's a 2.8, that's a 28. So they always put that number in there. And then the H means this long form versus

the other one, which is the short form. But anyway, you can find them on Amazon, Anbernik's site, wherever you want. And they weren't, it wasn't... Unfortunately, that new model is not included in their flash sale. They've got a current flash sale that's got like you know their super nintendo looking version their game boy looking

color game boy looking version the rg 552 is not bad looking oh 552 is nice that one's a 5 inch 5.5 inch is pretty big that one's expensive a little higher end it's got I think that one has Linux as well as Android there's a whole like some of these are just designed to be simpler

the flash sales got it down to 139.99. That is not bad. Oh, that's not bad at all. Down from 236.99. Yeah, that's only about 50, 60 bucks more than this is all. So this is like 85 or something. And I paid for an extra card because you always want to get another card. Sure. Sure. So it's another 30 or something for half a gig or half a terabyte. But anyway, very cool stuff. Working great. Loving it. Big, big recommendation. I'll talk more on Play Retro, of course.

there it is. Hey, quick email from M. Rodin, from, you know, over there. From James Bond? Wow, really, from MI6. 7.07. Please leave my office. I'm sending an email to T.M. Judy Dench version or the, all I can think of is Llewellyn, who's cute. I can't think of the actor who played. Well, we got Ray Fines now, right? Or was in the recent ones. Still Dench, yeah. Wait, he was before, he's after Dench, right?

Oh, he's after Dench? Oh, after Skyfall. fines, right? Right. He was sort of second in charge and now he was the main dude and then he's now, now whoever's, I don't know who does it next, but we'll see. I have ideas. I would be good. But anyway, actually, leave him in there. He's great. Broccoli's no. Leave him in there. He looks, you know what? In fact, have him be all buff like he looks like in that 28 years later trailer. My, my lord. Jeez, no kidding. It's going on there, man. What do you eat? What are you doing? Probably a lot more than I've ever done. Anyway. M says, hi, Sabretooth, and Banshee. Why don't you ever talk about for mankind or Final Space? Love the show, though, M. Well, we have talked about for all mankind many times, and we both think it's great. I've recommended that, as a matter of fact.

Yes, after season one, I recommendled it. It was before we had QuicktmS.L.I. I couldn't find a link to it. But, yeah, after season one, I recommendled it. And we've talked about every time a new season comes out, I revert, like I unofficially recommend it because I don't like doing it. because I don't like doing, I don't like doing multiple seasons of a show as individual recommendations.

You're like a, you're like a vaccine booster with, for all mankind. Every time there's a new season, you just boost it. You're like, I boost it. I binge, we wait until every episode is out and I binge the crap out of it. Because, you know, Joel Kinneman, incredible, incredible dude. Yeah. Wait, is it, it's not Jill Kinneman, is it? Oh, yeah, it is.

Of course it is. Joel Kinneman, yeah. Why was I thinking it was the vampire guy from True Blood? Oh, uh, Sarah's Garrow. Scarzger? Yeah, have I mixed them up? I have. I'd be mixing them up. Yeah. I do that all the time. Yeah. He's what made the killing such a great show, too.

Oh, he was amazing on there. Are you kidding? The killing is so good. Well, the killing for season one is amazing. The first season is a little... Yeah. A season one is a banger. Such a good thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I always mix those two guys up for some reason. I want to say one was in Robocop, but that's not true. Well, one of them was, but it was Kinnamen, not Scarsger. Scares, but I don't know Final Space, I don't know if we have talked about Final Space here because I went and looked

it up, I'm like, oh, this looks good, why don't I know about this? So, yeah, Final Space was that. M might be a little animated show with like a dude and some cats that he's flying through space. Yeah, this is the one written by, created by that dude who started as a YouTube

animator. What's his name? Olin Rogers, I think. He did can't find it. Is it called Final Space? That's the one we're talking about. Yeah, I hear that's great. I've heard good things.

It reminds me a little bit of the lower decks, Star Trek lower decks a little bit. Maybe it's just the cat looks, the cats look very similar to the cat's on the doctor on lower decks. Yeah, this is one I've just been putting off, but that's a really good rating on IMDB, 8.2 out of 10. Wow, that's great. You don't be better than that. Well, anyway. There you have it. Yeah.

What's it on? Is it, oh, good question. It's TBS, adult swims, so probably Hulu? Oh, Prime Video looks like. Well, you can rent it on Prime,

but let's see. Oh, Rent on Prime. Oh, IBM doesn't give us good info. They need to be better about this. Yeah, they need to tap into really good. Yeah, or just, I mean, your IMDB,

you got your own by Amazon. This is the problem. You get APIs for everybody you want. This is the problem. They're owned by Amazon, so they don't have a lot of motivation to advertise other things. According to this,

Um, yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, rent or buy, on Prime Video. YouTube has a season. Oh, you have to rent or buy it there though. Never mind. You have to rent. Yeah, it's YouTuberd. Uh, you can also download the Adult Swim app apparently and get the first season that way. So there's, there only one season? There's 36 episodes. Let's see. Episode guide. Oh, yeah. I was going to do a quick review on the movie I went and saw this weekend. Uh, yeah, we could do that.

if you want what did what did you see brian tell us all about your movie of the weekend flow thank you for the reminders Stephanie uh flow is a really cool as we figured out latvian uh animated film um feature film currently in theaters and um follows the adventures of this little black cat with yellow eyes uh as the uh as as the world kind of floods there are no human beings in this film. Great. And there is no dialogue in this film. Love it.

The animals all communicate as you think they would among each other and are like freaked out by each other. The capabera you can see there in the photo on screen. Really cool animation style that only took me like a minute or two to kind of get used to. It's interesting because it's like we get so spoiled with a certain kind of making everything look like a toy that Pixar does even human beings kind of look like toys shadows and reflections and things

and you know when you started getting early 3D animated stuff the insides of mouths always seemed way too well lit and it always was kind of a throwoff so that's a little bit of that in this as well but kind of on purpose right

like it looks like it they're intentionally I didn't get that painted style yes yeah they're going for like a I wouldn't say retro, but like, uh, what's the word I'm looking for? There's a big push for this in general. People are trying to get away from that shiny Pixar thing and do something that looks different, like, you know, shows like, uh, freaking, uh, what's it called? Arcane.

It's a good example of that. It's like, make everything look like a painting and that's right. I finished the arcane second season and, uh, damn, love that show. That show is really, really good. But you would, you would recommend Flo, the spin-off from Alice. I recommend flow. Yeah. Yes.

Early to bed, early at a rise. And in between I cooked and cleaned and where out of mine? Oh, I did that backwards. That's right. You know more about that theme song that I know. When the drunken blinders on is tough to see. I had to get out and something, something and something for me. There's a new girl in town and she's feeling good.

There's a fresh freckled face in the neighbor. How do you, you really were a flow guy, or sorry, a Alice guy. Alice guy? That may be the first time I've thought about those lyrics in the last 35 years. Good Lord. You really tapped into it. It was just basically like it just opened up a pocket in my brain where all that crap was stored and just like flowed out. No pun intended, like a geyser.

That's great. I liked the show, but I don't remember that theme song at all. I put it back. It's locked back up in the vault now. Okay. You won't need that till a puzzled pint where they ask you some questions about flow. Right, exactly. Or about Alice.

I keep saying flow. I saw flow because I was like excited about the spinoff. Boy, that was a piece of shit. That was a bad show. Not good. Yeah, it was a bad show. Why choose a sleep number smart bed? Can I make my site softer?

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I wonder how many television themes I have locked in the back in my head that I haven't thought about that if you gave me the first few words they would basically would just like ching you come and the vault door would open and my brain would remember the rest of the lyrics let me try one

I don't know the first words to it though I'll give you the title of the show what's the show yeah give me the title of silver spoons oh yes okay look at a let's see a couple of silver spoons yeah it's later but yeah it's in there

Oh, is it? Is that later on the theme? Yeah. Something the Silver Spoons. Oh, I need some word. Can you Google really quickly and find Silver Spoon's theme lyrics and just give me the first couple words? Because if I get that. Lyrics.

Here we go. You ready? Yep. Silver. Okay, here we go. Lyrics on demand. Here we are face to face is your first line. Here we are face to face.

That's where it says a couple of silver spoons. Yep. Here we are face to face. A couple of silver spoons. you and me and oh shoot you're not you're you're you're close in that

your your memory is good on you and I or you and me but that's much later so yeah there it is I open the fine we're two of a kind letting it go letting it flow together we're going to find our way together the time each time each day

or something Two silver spoons together. Thank you, Redfragel. I needed that other nudge of some more words, and that was it. Making a go, making it grow. What does that mean? That sounds dirty. Yeah, I don't like that.

Yeah. All right. That's great. Brian, tell me about your bio-calfanks thing you're doing here. Oh, yeah. Well, also, back in business. And by back, I mean, my back, I went back to Orange Theory on Saturday. Oh, nice.

I told Coach Regina, I said, FYI, tweaked my back on Thanksgiving. It's been two weeks. Still have some residual tightness and stuff. But she says, don't worry. Modify anything as you need to. And if you have any questions, just call me over. And I'll give you an alternative exercise you can do if anything just doesn't work.

I'm like, cool. Only one thing I had to modify, which was a bare plank, I think it is. So this is tougher than you would think it is. Holy cow. So imagine, you know, you're on the floor almost on all fours, right? Yeah. Hands on the ground and knees on the ground. But instead of your knees, it's the tips of your toes and you're just kind of holding that position.

You'd think, oh, well, I can do that for hours, no problem. Sure. 20 seconds is what we were told to do, and I had to tap out at 10. It is way, way more uncomfortable and hard. to hold that position than you think it would be, and I don't know why. But so I modified that one and just didn't do that. But did the treadmill, did the weights, did all the other stuff, the rowing machine. Here's the – I thought the –

Here's the position, by the way. There's Brian. That's the position. Yeah, that's it right there. I did that. Yeah. Good job. What doesn't show is that I was on my phone while I was doing that position.

Oh, well, you know, you got to get work done. My ear talking to somebody. Yeah, you can't just go in there and it's productivity. I get it. On the phone with my doctor, I said, yep, yep, I see it. Yeah, it's like a little red dot. Yep. That's good.

That's good. Well, that's great. You got back in there. It's fantastic. Wait, I don't get the BioCow connection. What do he do? It's not separate. And so that was a separate thing.

And big thanks to BioCow. He sent me a little Christmas present because he doesn't want me to burn my house down. He got me this really cool foot pedal thing that is a go-between for my heat gun. So my heat gun plugs into the little. wall. Technically, it plugs into a surge protector. This plugs, this goes in between the heat gun plug and the surge protector, and I can use a foot pedal now to turn on and off my heat gun when I'm using it to, um, to open up

a 3D print. This is based on your, you told everybody how you just about burn the house down with the, how I just brought the house down because these headphones are so good. Yeah. I'm listening to, you know, I'm listening to a bad monkey soundtrack and all of a sudden now I don't here what's going on so Preston you're you know who knows who knows how many lives and how many

3D printed models you saved well at least two and two cats at least you've saved so at least well done all right that's awesome what a thoughtful dude that Preston yeah yeah yeah and Scott proud to announce before we get done away in here we got a lot to get to

TMS Vegas code now available so if you go to TMS dot Vegas you will find the the TMS Vegas official website with the room code and a link on the bottom so you can go and get your lock down your room.

If you have any special requests like, I want actually, I want a suite or I want a mini suite or whatever. Then there's also a phone number and then the room code I think is STM 25. Is that right? Something like that. It's a little Vegas

music for us here. Oh, I love it. Yes. So yeah, just use that room code when you go and register your room. It is, let's confirm it, STMC-25. I don't know what STMC stands for. I know the past it's been like S-Stream, but I don't know, stream the morning something. Stream, yeah, they got to choose that, so it's, you know,

it's not like we get to pick it. Yeah, I didn't get to choose. They just picked it, but STMC-25. Yep, right there, folks, big yellow letters, see it. Go to TMS.orgas. Big thanks to Tanner once again for that awesome URL. Well, what a man. Locked it out, dude.

Yeah. Yeah, get in there. That's a big step toward the ultimate, which is to see us all there. So get in there. Get that done. And Chuck has set up the video game tournament bracket, which is now being managed in Discord. So jump into Discord. You'll find a link, you'll find a channel under FrogPants Meetups called Video Game Tourney.

Go and sign up there. and that's where the bracketing will be managed. Excellent. Is that in the forums? Let's see. Where is it? I'm looking. It's Frank Pants Meetups.

I'm in there, but I don't see the, hmm. Discord might be hiding it for me, and I don't know why. Maybe. I don't know. That's weird. You're seeing TMS Vegas chat and meetup photos. Oh, yeah, I got all that. Yeah, and I have the forum, of course, but I don't see.

Well, I'll try to figure it out. But it should be in there for you if you go check it out. If you are not part of our Discord and you want to be FrogPants. com slash discord i'll get you in it's a permanent invite in there and then just go look for a meetups frogpants meetups and there's also a link to that on tms dot vegas as well but it'll open up discord and browser so that's why uh i think i have a setting that if there's a new channel in something i have to approve if i want to have it added to my list but i don't know oh probably i don't know how to turn that off that's dumb i don't want that it's done that's figured out talk to

tanner he's our he's our discord pro he is lord of the discord he's lord of the discord he's lord of the Discord. Disclord. We call them. Disclord. All right. Well done. Awesome stuff all around.

TMS. dot Vegas. Now let's get done away in here and let's play a game. Hold on. Now I'm all over the place because I was looking. Here we go. All right. Done away incoming.

You can feel it. You can smell it. Smells good like a nice after shave or something. You know? It's not a bad smell. It's a day old mac and cheese from the break room. Yeah, my favorite. And your favorite too.

And. As you can tell from that jaunty game show music, it's time for Brian Donaway to join us. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. How are you? Watch it. It's the reason why I had trouble starting lower decks

is because I had such a flavor of final space of my mouth that everything else tasted weird. Final space came first. And then by season three, everybody forgot about it because Lower Dex was rocking along nicely. How did you show though? I watched it. I watched it streaming and the first two seasons and I purchased it so I have copies if you need to watch it. I watched this like this is like two or three years ago when I watched this.

So I mean, it's been a good while since I've watched it. It bums me out that it's not just on a service somewhere, but those are hard-hung around a lot. It really needs to like get together with some other like Hulu or Disney or I guess they're all the same now. But Max or something. It was on Max for a while. Oh, that's where it was. Max had it. Max dumps everything. So freaking F those guys. All the animation stuff got yanked. Yeah. A lot of it did. Well, they just dumped, what did they just dump and everyone was mad about it.

Oh, they're not, they're not going to air new Sesame Streets anymore. They're stopping that contract. Yeah. So Sesame Street has, Sesame Street has no partner right now on getting to stream Sesame Street outside of PBS, you know, live regular TV over the aircraft. Jeez. Lame. It just, it surprises me. Like, why would you, why would you restrict something like that when it's a great resource for kids? I got to look at the new boss. Yeah, let me tell you something that Zazlov guy likes. He likes perpetual growth and money making.

And if it isn't that, he won't do it. That's what he likes. Lame. Yeah. Freaking lame. I guess that guy sucks. I want to pee in his cereal. Anyway.

Yeah. Yes. Speaking of cereal and pee, let's get to this game. Brian, explain the rules and who might win what and all that. fun stuff. Okay. Welcome to the morning. Halfass is a trivia game where I'm actually giving the two of you the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers. Three of which are correct and three like taking final space off max is wrong. It's just incorrect. Depending on how confident you guys feel with a category, you can provide one, two or three

guesses. But if any of those guesses are wrong, you get zero points for that round. Get one right, gets you a point, duh. Get two right. Get two right. Gets your three point math. And get three you're right, get five points, Supermath, and the metric system, for three points total, or for five points total. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant, and contestants have been pulled from the members of the tadpole that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're going to be playing for Greg in the UK. Sweet. Love it, Greg.

There's only one, so don't, you know, I don't want to dox him, Greg in the UK. Brian, you're going to be playing for Jana Pride in Upper Michigan. Oh, we love Jana Pride. Absolutely. Jane of Pride and her roller derby refereeing skills. Yeah, now I feel the extra pressure because I won't a win. That's right. And her ukulele, Rayd-Ainkovic repertoire.

It's all great. All right, so let's get to the game, and then we'll figure out the prizes after that. Question number one, category number one, wars that ended. What are they good for us? No, nothing. Say it again. Wars that ended with a Treaty of Paris. Which of these wars ended with?

a treaty of Paris. Your choices are the war of Austrian succession, the Spanish American War, the first opium war, the Seven Years War, the Crimean War, and the War of 1812. Crimean, a River War. Criamian a River War.

Let's see, there's nothing better. I love wars, so let's see. I'm a big war. He's a mongering. Yeah, he loves war. He's a mongering wars. I only did two, well, I shouldn't tell I don't know what I've done.

But I only picked two because I have limited knowledge in this area. Yeah, me too. I've kind of shot it around. Okay, there we go. Yeah. All right. You guys both selected the war of Austrian succession. I'm sorry, that one was not ended.

Oh, man. Let's just rip the band-aid off. Yeah, the Seven Years War, which, Scott, you selected the Crimean War and the Spanish-American War were all ended with a treaty of Paris. I didn't know the Spanish-American War was. That blows my mind. Isn't that weird? Yeah. I wouldn't have thought that.

I selected it for a second and then pulled. I was like, I don't like it. I don't like the sound of it. No, sir, I don't. Oh, well. Maybe you'll do better with question number two. It's sports, specifically horse racing. Which of these horses won the triple crown?

Or which of these are horses that won the triple crown? Your choices are hell's a poppin, royal Canadian, insomnia, Seattle slew, assault, an American Pharaoh. Oh, Lord. One of them gets the check for being a cool name. doesn't matter. Hell's a poppin. Hills a poppin. I'm sure it's wrong,

but I'm going with it. Oh, shit. All right, those are my two. I don't know. There you go. I'm got two as well. All right. You guys both selected Seattle Slew.

Yeah, Seattle Slew. Completed the Triple Crown in 1977. Then you guys both chose stuff from the left side. Hells of Poppin and Royal Canadian. Yeah. Those are both dragsters. Shit.

Oh, it's too bad. The hell's of Poppet is a great name. It's a great. It'd be a much better horse name than a dragster name. American Pharaoh I thought you might get because that was the most recent one to do it, or maybe not the most recent, but a recent one. And the big controversy was that is the misspelling of Pharaoh, which every time I try to type into this. I didn't even know that.

Yeah. Yeah. Every time I tried to type it in there, I want to correct your Pharaoh spelling. Ferro. Ferro. Ferroera. Ferro. Ferroa. Faroa. I would have Royal Canadian and Hellsopopop and sound like custom beers at a local brewery to me for some reason. And I can't stop hearing Seattle stew. Actually, I'm hungry, too. So I just keep...

Seattle stew. Yeah. A little cloudy, though. Yeah. Yeah. That's the only one I knew for sure because I just can hear it in my head. I hear somebody going, Seattle Slough, out in front. I can hear it. Yeah. That's a horse thing. But I can't hear somebody going, assault, up by a leg. And it's like, what? Assault, assault, assault. It's assault. Put the way in.

Very weird. All right. All right. Which means we got to get to our third question with zero points for both players. And hopefully you guys can get a point or two on this one. I don't know. Be conservative. Who knows?

Question number three. Yeah. It did. Question number three. Nancy Drew novels. The clue of dot, dot, dot. Your choices are the broken locket. The leaning chimney.

The whistling bagpipes. The monkey's tattoo. The Russian Ruby. or the Phantom Lung Boat, which of these complete the title, The Clue of, with real actual Nancy Drew novels. Oh, my gosh. Dunaway, you locked in fast. That's because I grew up reading Nancy Drew.

Oh, did you really? I'm screwed then. Did you really read him when you? Okay. No. Oh, I just had more of a Hardy Boys guy. Yeah, I had no clue. So I was like, if I, the longer I sit here and second guess myself, probably the worst is going to be.

So just, you know. You know what? You're right. The more I'd have better luck if I just go with my gut. So I'm doing that. There's no, there's no, you can't ration this out, right? This is not like the wars and stuff. No.

Either know or you don't. Yep. Yeah. I mean, I think, well, we'll talk about that. I mean, the monkey's tattoo is obviously a weird one, right? You're like, nah, that doesn't make sense. I feel like they wouldn't publish something called the monkey's tattoo to kids, but who knows. All right.

Well, you both settled on the broken locket, which is. is correct. That is a Nancy Drew novel. She loves them lockets, it's man. One of you chose the leaning chimney. The other one chose the whistling bagpipes. Oh, did I almost lose their loser win? And

both of those are correct. Three points for each of you. You guys both, well done. Yeah, monkeys tattoo Russian Ruby and Phantom Longboat all made up. I like the Phantom Longboat. Too foreign, it's too foreign, too water-based and too weird.

Like monkey, and monkeys getting tattoos. Or I guess it's not a monkey tattoo, monkey with a tattoo. It's somebody with a monkey. No, that's a monkey's tattoo. The monkeys tattoo. Yeah, see, that's just too weird. Monkeys don't get those. I wish it had been called the monkey's tat would have been better.

The monkey's tat. The monkey's tat. Definitely would be a Hardy Boys mystery. Yeah, yeah. It's more manly. Hey, that means we need to do a tie. Let's do it. Let's say, oh, here's a great one.

And we don't even have Claire here to confirm or deny. But let's see. The answer is potato. I'm going to give you the choice of, I'm going to give you the choice of giving the answer or giving the high-low. High-low. Okay, all right. So, Brian, you're going to give me your numerical. Your numerical answer to this.

How many sharks are killed every year by fallen coconuts? You mean unreported? Unreported. All right. Callback. How many pubs are there in Ireland? Oh, my God. How many pubs are there in Ireland?

Give me a number. I'm going to lose this no matter what. If I go too conservative, I'll be wrong. If I go too high, I'm going to get blasted. So let's see. Say that again, how many pubs? How many pubs are in Ireland? And this is based on the drinks industry group of Ireland in 2018.

So as of 2018, things may have adjusted with the pandemic, but probably not too much. So not so, yeah. And these are all officially licensed pubs, right? I feel like that's a thing in. Yeah, I mean, they have to have a liquor license, I'm sure. Yes. Licensed by the... Only the ones that are official.

Okay. I'm going to go with there are, oh, Jesus. 2,532. 2,532 is incorrect. Scott is the actual number higher or lower than 2532. That's the right way to play this one because he's, it's a good number. Um Go ahead. Be the jerk. Say higher. Go ahead.

I mean, it's not like it's the biggest country in the world. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to say lower. I'm going to guess lower. All right. By comparison, by the way, Alabama has a similar population to Ireland, has about 300 bars and pubs for comparison. Okay. But that's Alabama. Ireland has 7,193. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. That's one for every like two people there or something like that.

So it's almost three times. Stereotypes are true. Holy crap. All right. 7,193 pubs in Ireland. I don't know. Again, I'd love to know how that number changed since the pandemic. But I now want to visit everyone and make that my lifelong goal. to visit every pub in Ireland. That's wild. Congratulations to Brian and therefore,

Jane of Pride. Jane, you're getting copies of Stars in Shadow and Stranded Alien Don on Steam. Oh, Strand, it's good. Yeah. But, Greg, in the UK, you are not going away empty-handed. You're getting something pretty and cool.

You're getting the Guardians of the Galaxy game, which if you don't already have it, it is fantastic. Great game. Yep, I have that in two places. I have it on Xbox and have it on Steam and I don't know why I bought it twice but I did It was so nice, I bought it twice Yeah, that game's great

It's arguable that the loser Got the better package today but Yeah, exactly But sometimes that's how it works out So congratulations goes out to both of you Congratulations Except for me, I get a big fat All right

Hey, Donnaway, that was awesome And here's the good news Great news everybody, great news This is even early we're mentioning this But this coming Friday, Brian and I are going to sit down. We'll talk more about this new Amber Nick. I'll go all into details on it. But we're going to go deep on the game series, Worms.

That's right. Oh, cool. The Lemmings knockoff. It was kind of. Kind of, yeah. Inspired. Inspired. Yeah, it was inspired.

It's not a knockoff. It's not really even the same kind of game. According to the developer, it did have a visual inspiration from that. That I could see. But worms is a term. Burn-based strategy battler game, which is fantastic, and it peaked. Fantastic. In my opinion, peaked with Armageddon.

We'll talk about that. And I don't mean the film or around that time. I mean, the game, Worms Armageddon. I would wholly wholeheartedly agree with that. Console versions are great. I've been playing the SNES version on this new device. Like, it's a fantastic series. We're going to go deep into Worms and why it's a big deal.

And how come, you know, Team 17 went from this little tiny developer making nothing but Worms games to being a pretty big publisher now. So we'll go into all. that as well. So Brian, I'm looking forward to that. We'll mention again on Wednesdays or anything else you'd like to say. Yeah, I'm like to say they'm playing it on DOS this week because we're doing DOS CEMBER. Nerd. Oh, that's cool.

Dossember? I love it. You're a nerd. Nerd. Nerd. Because he preempted me. Damn it. We got me before I could get him. Oh, he did. He did indeed. All right. We have time for a single news story.

Okay. And here it comes. All the single news stories. Right now. It's time for the news, brought to you by. The Frog Pants YouTube channel, find it, get it, and have it at frogpants. That's right. Jason Kelsey, you know, the brother. The brother, the big burly brother. Who's the, I should remember who he plays for us.

Is he Eagles? No. He played, well, now, I think he's retired now, right? I think. He's retired now, but who do he play is? Eagles, I think. East Coast team. Oh, there it is.

Retired Eagles center. He just right there in the article. Oh, there we go. Okay, there we go. You were, you were correct. Anyway, Jason Kelsey has acknowledged, let's see, he calls Dallas the butthole and armpit of America and then quickly backtracked it. Both?

Well, he should have said, he should have said the airport, Dallas-Farworth Airport. If he'd have said that, nobody would have had a problem. Nobody would argue, yeah. You wouldn't have to walk it back. You could walk it forward a few more steps. That'd be fine. Exactly. Like double down on that business.

It says he may have gone too far, he says. on Monday, December 9th, the retired Philadelphia Eagles Center referred to two cities in Texas as the, quote, butthole and armpit, unquote, of the state during an appearance on ESPN's Monday Night Countdown. The hosts were discussing the upcoming game between Dallas and Cincinnati when he made the comment, as the camera showed various angles from the AT&T Stadium,

a voiceover of Scott Van Pelt. Not to be confused with the, who was the Van Pelt and the Peanuts cartoon? Linus Van Pelt. Yeah, they were both Van Pelt. Well, that's right. They were siblings. I always forget that. Uh-huh. They were. Uh, can be heard saying, quote, this is the state of Texas. Arlington, Dallas. Kelsey then interjected.

Also the butthole and armpit of America. Okay. So Arlington and Dallas. Wow. Nice. Nice. Yeah. His co-host quickly chimed in shouting, whoa, whoa, while Kelsey replied, it was a joke. I was joking. See, I now. And then he attempted to explain before freezing and looking at the people surrounding him. Guys, it was just a joke because of what Mina said. It's not the first time. He gets. in a little bit of trouble for running his mouth a little bit, uh, multiple times. I, I can't help

but like the guy, though. I really like Jason Kelsey. I think he's great. I like, I'll be honest, I like Jason Kelsey more than Travis. Yeah, Travis is starstruck and, yeah, to, uh, I don't know, what's the word we can use now? That's not the old one. There's an old word that we can't say anymore. The PW. Do you know the phrase? You know the one. Uh, oh, yes, right. Well, we can say whipped. Yeah, we say he's whipped. He's whipped. He's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's. He's, he's, uh, he's swift. Taylor whips. He's swift.

Swipped. He's swift. He's swift, he's swift, he's been Swiffered and, uh, may he, may his kitchen floor be clean. All right. That's it for the news. Uh, big story. So we had to get it out. Uh, we're going to take a break now.

When we come back from this break, Stephen Schleiker will join us. Got a bunch of cool stuff to talk about. Stick around for that. Brian, let's play a song. Yeah, I am so excited about this one. Um, this is like a little miniature super group. just two people, Anya Marina and Matt Pond, PA. They have a brand new song together called Click, Click, Click.

They just released it on Friday. It is their husband-wife duo. So, you know, they duet in more ways than one. Oh, maybe phrasing. Anyway, they've got a tour coming up next year, starting in January. And Anya Marina has been actually touring with Nikki Glazer. Oh, the comedian. The comedian, yeah.

Oh. So now she's going to be touring with her husband, Matt Pond, PA. Nice. Anyway, this is the song, Click, Click, Click. Here is Anya Marina and Matt Pond, PA. Coming outpost, tapping slowly. to trust and echo took a lifetime to return and when I first received your code and knew I loved your code like a car crashing slowly in a snowbank snow blind and

wholly full of holes and running out we were lucky to collide and nothing's perfect that makes it perfect Click, click, click, can you hear me now? Click, click, click, click, can you hear me now? Click, click, click, click, can you hear me now? Am I the only one who does this? Looking for the handle in the dark Searching for the light switch And if I hadn't heard your call

Well the night could have killed me Click, click, click, can you hear me now? Click, click, click, click, can you hear me now? Click, click, click. Can you hear me now? Click, click, click, click Can you hear me now? Are you the only one to does this?

How did you know me from a dinner in Kings County when we're lucky to go on? Click, click, click, can you hear me now? Click, click, click, can you hear me now? Click, click, click, click, can you hear me now? I'll be the only ones who do this. Click, click, click, click. Can you hear me now? Click, click, click, click, can you hear me now? Click, click, click, can you hear me now?

Are we the only ones who do this? We were lucky. Wherever there is mystery and the unexplained, cosmic forces shall draw me near. Surprise me. Can I entrust you in a meal? A succulent Chinese meal. And we're back. About them one more time.

Sure. That's Anya Marina and Matt Pond, PA with a brand new song called Click, Click, Click, Go and See Them as they tour the U.S. In support of that song and many, many others. So many songs, so little time. That's right. But here on T. How are they going to fit all those songs into one tour? I don't know.

That's tricky. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dalla Dala bills, y'all. Yeah, man. It's Steven Schlecker joining us as he does every couple of weeks here on the morning stream. Stephen, welcome back to the show. Good morning, Skye. Good morning, Brian.

Hey, man. It's nice to hear you. Are you having a good holiday, a wonderful holiday time, spirit time? Are you simply having a wonderful Christmas time? That's really what I was aiming for with the lyrics and I couldn't find them. Is it going all right? Are you broke from all the... Well, no, we've got a new dog in the house so we can't put up a Christmas tree. So I've got to figure out today some... I think I'm going to do this thing. I saw it online where you... Take some Christmas garland and you use some hooks and you kind of create a tree on the wall.

Yeah. And light that up and put the balls and everything on there. So I'm going to do that as a surprise to the wife and see if she has a freak out or not. Yeah, no, that's great. What kind of dog is it, by the way? What do you got? It is a mix between a beagle and a border collie. Oh, there's some energy.

And something else. Yeah, yeah. You got energy dog. Oh, my gosh. Oh, God. Oh, God, please. Yes. Yeah.

I think somebody is getting this year for Christmas a professional trainer to come in because we've got to get it to stop chasing the cats around the house. Yeah, that particular breed mix is probably a little handful. But if you can get it under control, they're super smart, you know. Oh, man, the day we brought her home, already knew how to sit. Didn't peer poop in the house. Has only had one accident in the house in the three months that we've had her. That's great. It knows how to push a button to let everybody know that she wants to go outside and play.

Nice. If I tell her, go get your bone or go. get your whatever a specific toy she knows to go over and get that specific toy yeah so she's smart that way but leave the gd cats alone yeah she cannot understand it's hard to it's hard to train the bloodlust for kitties out of a dog you know they love yeah no you can see her go into prey mode in the morning where she'll just crouch down head low really she's just tracking the cats and then she runs up and then you know jumps up and down in front of them because she wants to play and the cats are like i don't want any part of this yeah that's great

I love new dogs, so I'm happy for you regardless. So, well done. Yeah, so in other words, otherwise, I think I've got some of the gifts already done. Well, I don't know what the shipping guidelines are. I've already reached the point with Amazon where it's like, all right, this present's going to arrive after Christmas. You okay with that? I know. I'm hitting that wall, too.

I got to get to a target. I don't know what I'm going to do for a lot of this stuff. Yeah, exactly. Let's get into some of the stuff that's going on, though, in the world of pop culture comics, major spoilers and more. How about this Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot? Is this true? Is this happening? So, I don't know. It is a speculation thing. So I think everything today is

kind of pure speculation, well, except for one thing. Everything is kind of pure speculation. But in previous times when anyone would ask Sarah Michelle Geller if she was interested in doing a Buffy reboot or a prequel or anything like that, she was always like, no, I'm not interested. That's its own thing. It was fun while it lasted. But

then recently, she said that she's considering it and would be open to discussing it. So now with, what is it, Fox, or no, WB, that was doing the Buffy stuff, it looks like maybe that might be something that might happen in the next two years. I mean, don't hold your breath, because, you know, if everybody knows how Buffy ended, they're going to have to do something incredibly drastic to bring that entire universe back. That being said, there is a great audible originals from, was it last year, two years

ago, 2003, called Slayers a Buffyverse story. And it's an alternate universe story that has, that has Amber Benson, Chris McArpenter, Emma Cofield, let's see, Stuart Anthony Head, Juliet, Lando, James Marster, and Danny Strong, all reprising roles in that, um, Audible original series. So, you know, they could say, hey, this is an alternate universe, certainly the Boom Studios, comic books rebooted Buffy, I think, quite successfully in what they did. So I think that, you know, if Sarah Michelle Geller is interested and if everyone else is interested, I think they could probably do this, probably minus Joss Whedon.

Yeah, probably not have him in there. I mean, he'd have to, I don't know what he owns rights-wise. Do you think he owns a bunch of rights? I don't know how that works. I think he does, yeah. So he'd have to give it its blessing, obviously, but maybe let somebody else run the show. yeah this is an interesting quote so she's on the drew barrymore show and got asked about it she says this quote i always used to say no because it's in the bubble and it's so perfect or it's in its

bubble and it's so perfect uh but watching and just like that and seeing dexter original sin and realizing there are ways to do it definitely go against your mind thinking well maybe i guess she's in that new dexter thing too she's like she is yeah okay so i haven't seen that yet i'm hearing like maybe it's good that they figured out a way to make this work and you know that's a good point. Sometimes you see a follow up way down the line

in this case a prequel but they get you thinking maybe I could do you know maybe this is possible in the right hands. Somebody could make this work so I think that's good. I'd watch it I'd be into it. Oh yeah so would I mean I really enjoyed the audiobook so if people are out there I mean it's not an

audiobook it's like a serialized drama audio drama um for that slayer series over an audible and i know some people don't care for audible but it was a fully produced thing sound effects everything it was it was well done nice uh in other news avengers doomsday haley atwell reprising agent carter role in marvel studios pick what yeah what rumor rumor rumor rumor rumor rumor rumor so i know all the i know all the tadpillers are just dying to sink their teeth into all things mcc yeah yeah i thought chris evans that was confirmed but Haley Atwell is the rumor, right?

Or no? Well, I think they're both rumors right now. They say it's likely because he's been in talks, and that's a rumor that's been floating around for a couple of weeks now. And certainly with the Avengers Doom's Day and that you've got the two brothers on board, Joe Russo and Anthony Russo, to run this thing. And the fact that Robert Downey Jr. is reprising, well, his role, so to speak, as Dr. Doom.

of course it makes sense that are we going to get Chris Evans or Haley Atwell to reprise their roles and that's certainly what it looks like in order to bring back some of that MCU magic that may have been a little tarnished in the last couple of years. Yeah. Did you see them on the Game Awards, by the way, the Russo Brothers? Oh, I did not know. Okay. I just want to share a photo from that.

And I'm sorry I find this so funny. I apologize to anyone who thinks this is, I'm not being mean, I swear. Okay. But look at this photo. For some reason, I don't know which one's Joe and which one's the other one. What's the other one's name? Joe Rousseau and Jimmy Rousseau. Anthony Rousseau, that's it.

Anthony, Anthony, yeah. That shirt, he's sinking into the shirt. He's going down into the shirt. The shirt is swallowing him up. It's endgame for his head. And I just think if you're like, okay, so the shirt, that's a choice. Wow, right? But then the brother, I just think you got money to go get that hair looked at.

I think you go in. I'm just saying, like, I'm just saying you're a millionaire director, brotherhip, and that hair is easily rectified. So go get it worked on. Yeah, yeah. It's just not a problem. He's got fantastic Sam's money. Yeah, yeah, I would think so.

I think he could get out to the great clips occasionally. Or maybe that's the problem. Maybe still going to great clips. I have no idea. Anyway, Brian, let me ask you then. Yes. Haley Atwell, if she does show up in Avengers Doomsday, is she Captain Britain, or is she just Agent Carter?

That's really good question. I would predict, just based on what we assume the Secret Wars situation is going to be, is that it's going to be probably more like Battleworld than the Beyonder series. And so I'm expecting Captain Britain. And I'm expecting Chris Evans, if he is here as a Steve Rogers, he's probably going to be the young buff Steve Rogers as opposed to the Joe Biden. Steve Rogers that we got at the end of end game. Yeah, he's not going to be riding

around in the Iron Man Mark I suit. Oh, you're thinking that or thinking even Human Torch? I guess we know what happened. Which would be interesting, right? Yeah, well, because I mean, yes, I mean, there's things that people haven't seen dead pulled. Yeah, exactly.

We'll say anything more than that. But so even if he, you know, he said he was kind of done with Captain America, right? But maybe being the Human Torch in the Deadpool Wolverine movie. Maybe that had him thinking like Sarah Michelle Geller. Maybe, maybe this is, maybe I'm not, maybe I'm not done with Captain America.

Maybe, yeah, exactly. And it seems like that is the way to bring a lot of these people back, is to just have them be alternate reality versions. Kind of like we're seeing with Downey Jr. is doom. Yeah. You know. But boy, it sure will be nice. And I know this has kind of been the thinking is that it would be nice

if this ends the multiverse storyline because all of a sudden it reduces the stakes. Oh, so-and-so got killed. Don't worry, we can pluck one out of another universe and put them into the six-and-six. Yeah. So ending the multiverse saga for good would be great. Especially once you get the X-Men in, you know, then Fantastic Four. What else do you need? I mean, what's her name kind of already opened that doorway, right?

No, the X-Men. No, no, no. Not Pulsar. Captain Marvel's sidekick. Oh, yes. Pothon. And then a odd photon. Theon Paris.

Yeah, yeah. Spectrum. Yes. Yes. Uh-huh. Yeah. She's called in the... I don't remember what she's called, but, you know, if you watch the end of the

Marvel, she ends up in the X-Men universe. She goes by her full name, Spectrum Cable in there. That's what she... That's how to do it. So hold on a second. if if if if this do you think they seal off the the the multiverse in other words 616 finally says that's it that's enough we're tired of all these crossovers we know from the end of multiverse of madness that there's incursions now that are caused by dr strange and that clea charlie's throne's character is needs his help in cleaning those up and that is going to be the basis i think of certainly secret wars and probably dooms day And if we if you've watched the what if series, also those incursions are also part of that too as they're trying to keep those closed. So I mean, they could, but I think that that also limits your opportunities to do more unique things in the future.

Like if they wanted to do, just to say, if they wanted to do a 16.02. That's true. And Dr. Kellman does point out, we have a character who who has the power to open those things up, America Chavez. So if you eliminate the multiverse, then all of a sudden, what is America Chavez is, uh, role in the in the MCU yeah so uh and we and we kind of already suspect that not before too long there's going to be a young avengers oh there has to be home as well it's what it's kind of what miss marvel was alluding to and getting a hot guy and uh uh you get your uh and there's the other kid yeah but the wickin in there i mean there's so many kids that they've introduced

they can pull into that so all right so maybe i'm going to take it back i'm gonna i'm gonna jason Kelsey this back a little bit and say they won't eliminate the multiverse but they'll probably limit how how much they rely on it for future stories and it'll be kind of more piecemeal

like by the way this came from this one and this came from this one but it'll be a lot less in every movie. Which canonical version of the multiverse is the butthole and armpit of the MCU.

Well, it's 2099 for most of it. Yeah. And then there's also the ultimate universe where Reed Richards becomes the insane villain, the master. Is it the master of mind or whatever? Yeah. That one's pretty bad, too. Also, whichever one has Jonathan Majors in it is probably the butthole dimension. Oh, right.

Yeah, because that didn't really get resolved at it. I mean, it's resolved. It's resolved in the way that he's fired and they've pivoted. I mean, I was thinking about this today. It just, I don't know what Disney's problem is with just refusing to recast some of these roles. Sure. And I think that that would have solved. Recasting Rodey.

They've recasted. Yeah. John, a Thunderbolt Ross. Right. Yeah, they can do it. Yeah. They can pull it off. Oh, it's interesting.

I didn't even thought about it, but we would have, this, this Red Hulk business and the trailers and stuff would be John Hurt. or not John Hurt. Whatever Hurt. William Hurt. Yeah. Weird. Yeah. Ruffalo.

Yeah. Ruffalo's another good example. Yeah. Although, you know, that was an easier one because nobody's, well, the audience is at large. He didn't see it. Evan Norton, you know, his old probably, you know, everyone's like, oh, that's a fine movie. What else is going on? Yeah.

Exactly. Well, we'll see what happens there. There's also some pretty good news in one area that I'm very excited about. Clayface is one of my favorite villains in the entire DC universe, and we now have some word as to what's going on with a standalone Clayface treatment. What are we getting there? Yeah, so James Gunn took to social media last week to just say, hey, I just want to let you know, Clayface definitely is a movie that's coming out.

It is currently scheduled for September 11th, 2026, and we're going to have Mike Flanagan write it. Now, Mike Flanagan, I love his stuff that he's done over on Netflix. So I'm definitely seeing what he wants to do with this. And they are claiming that it is going to be not a, um, quote unquote superhero movie, although superhero seems to be the mode in which a type of movie is delivered, that this is going to be a horror thriller tragedy movie, which sounds really cool because so there have been many, many clay faces over the years.

The one that I think most people are probably familiar with is the one that showed up in Batman, the animated series, Boris, now I forgot what his name is, but basically he was supposed to be a Boris Karloff type character. who use this mud to remake his image. And I could really see them leaning into that character to be the Clayface in this movie. Yeah, I mean, he just, it's obviously a much more comedic turn, but his Harley Quinn version of Clayface is so freaking funny. Yes, I love the over-the-top of that character.

Oh, he's so good. And that's Alan Tudik, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. And the fact that they can go into so much body horror with the Clayface movie. oh yeah dude it's it's perfect and flanagan i mean you sets like royalty when it comes to current day like who do you trust for your horror adaptations so i would be i would be all about this uh but also they don't have a star yet they don't have a director yet right and whoever that star is they're going to be covered in a lot of cg for a lot of the movies so just get ready for that uh hey also

uh the animated dynamic duo coming out in 2028 if you can look ahead that far everybody i mean it's probably not going to be 2028 but The idea behind this is what if Jason Todd and Dick Grayson knew each other when they were younger and what leads up to them becoming Robin and Red Hood or Robbins, depending on which way you're looking at that. The interesting thing about this one is it is not going to be a live action movie, but it's going to use combinations of puppetry, stop motion, and a bunch of other stuff to tell this. So I don't know if this will be, I don't know if this will be a Kubo. and the two strings type thing or if this is going to be something aimed for kids or all audiences

or what's going on. But I'm kind of interested in the fact that as you guys were talking about earlier with Flo, a different animation style that they're bringing to this. That'd be great. That'd be great. I love it. I love just get experimental, do it. And I love

DC's DC's alternate, not multiverse like cinematically, but they're alternate storytelling and comics and animation is so fun. They do such a great job with it. So I would, I'd have a lot of faith in this. I think that's exciting.

And Matt Reeves has... And he's in charge. He likes animation. Apparently, um, um, the, not the suicide squad,

but the, um, uh, the soldier's thing that's on HBO Max is doing really, really well. Yeah. Uh, and so yeah,

I think this could be another hit, but we're four years away. We'll be in a new presidency by then. Well, that's the hope and dream. Excellent. I look forward to all these things. This is all exciting. Some rumors, some real. But regardless, having Stephen here to tell us about him is always a treat. Stephen, anything going on on major spoilers right before Christmas. You'd like people to know about it? We're kind of wrapping everything up for the year. We got a couple more podcasts to release so people don't have to worry about that over their holiday break. Lots of stuff to put into your ear holes. But I would say, until next time, make sure that you stay hydrated. Yeah, especially right now. You never know. It's going to get colder or whatever it's going to do. Drink. Drink.

Yep. Drink to your heart. I don't think he's saying drink like that drink, but drink some water, you know. Yeah, yeah. All right. A couple quick things before we get out of here. Monday show today at noon. All right. Me and Carter hanging out, doing dad-daughter stuff. Be here for that. Doing Monday things. That's right. Frogpants.com slash Monday if you're looking for details or you can watch us live at frogpants.tv. There's already a scheduled stream. And word on the street tomorrow with Greg Street. Right before Christmas, quick look at, they'd be. put out a big big long video of them playing the game and uh it's wild because it's a lot of like placeholder unreal assets and then a lot of actual crafted stuff they've made and so it's a really weird and they're very they're very that's the whole point of this whole thing is that they're

very transparent about making it yeah which i love yeah so watching like what looks like a silver surfer looking stand in character casting spells on a really detailed boss character it's just a riot to watch. Anyway, we're going to talk about what they did in that video, what it all means, and I'm very excited about it. So check that out tomorrow after TMS as well. I'll promote something really quick. I've got another video going up where I walk through my building through most of it, because apparently my new video capture app, I didn't save after it captured. Oh, but this is so some of it

like the one I did in Illustrator in Capture which talks about how I like isolated out areas and stuff but this is what I'm building in 3D oh look at this look at this

you can put that up yeah what have we got here tell me more this is a three-dimensional print and it's for people who who have a 3D printer that doesn't have an what is it called an AMS

like where you can have multiple roles of filament going all at the same time. I wish I had one of those. I don't, but I wish I did. But what you can do with one of these, with a print like this, is you can pause the printing at certain times. I just gave you another one that zooms in really tight on the logo. You can pause the print and change out the colors. So you'll print the first part in blue all the way up until it finishes the bottom of that

circle. And then if you want to zoom in, by the way, I give you a better close-up of the logo. itself. Oh, let me pull that up here. Oh, yeah, look at that. A little sharper version there. Let's pull that guy up there, yeah, like that. And then you change out to gold or yellow, and then you change out to white, and then you change out to red. So you do four different color changes, but then you end up with a filament 3D print that doesn't need to be painted and should look gorgeous. So I talk about a building,

you know, setting up one of those, constructing it and all the steps. So it looks like the color scheme of the actual sign, the Vegas. sign. It's the color scheme of the actual sign. Yeah, the only thing I eliminated are those the little lights around because those get flimsy and hard to deal with. Sure. Sure, sure. Yeah. But I made a video of the process, and so I'll be putting that up on YouTube and talking about that. Nice. YouTube.com slash Coverville, right? Exactly. And I'll be adding that project to probably to my Etsy or to Coverville3D.com. Nice. Nice. Very cool. All right. Well, let's get out of here.

frogpants.com slash TMS for everything you're looking for. Oh, I need to change the link to the Vegas stuff on there to be the new URL. Oh, yeah, point to the new thing. Yeah. The other thing doesn't forward to it or does it? Lewis, I don't know if you can do a purge tower when you do, if you have an AMS, a purge tower you can do. But I don't think you can do a purge tower when you manually pause the print because you don't know what layer it's going to be. Oh, I'm sorry.

I didn't know who you were talking to. You're talking to Lewis in the chat. I'm sorry, Lewis in the chat. I'm specifically answering a question from him, which I shouldn't do during the show. No, no, no, it's all fine. I was just confused. No, that's great. I can't wait to see how that looks because that looks awesome.

Me too. I know it's going to be fun. Yeah, very cool. It's going to be fun. Again, frogpans.com slash TMS for all things that you need. That's going to do it for us. Brian, we should play a song. What do you got?

Yes, Troy, a.k. Yavang in the Tadpool wrote in and said, Greetings and Happy Holidays, Scott, Brian, and my fellow Tadpool. December 15th is my birthday, and I'm in my 50s now. It really does feel like a second puberty. My voice is changing, and I'm getting hair in weird places. Seriously, why is hair going out of my ears all of a sudden? And why is it thick and luxurious while the hair on my head is gray and thinning? Can I get a cover song to help me cope with the trials and tribulations of old age?

I'd love to hear a cover of the man who sold the world. I love Nirvana's cover of the song. Can you believe Kurt Cobain has been gone longer than he was alive? Oh, my gosh. I don't like that. that's a weird thing to hear i recently heard a cover by suzanne vega accompanied by an orchestra which was great but if you recommend something else i'm all ears harry as they may be peace and love yavang all right this will give him some some happiness here here you go we'll give him the kid one even though you're

old i love that one yeah we'll give it to you i say we replace the the old lady one with that one i love sure we'll put it in we can do that uh anyway yvang so yvang pointed me to this this suzanne vega cover This is really, really good. This is by the RTE Concert Orchestra. I wish they had an album. I would, well, I wish they had an album of these Bowie covers because they're incredible. But for this one, they got Suzanne Vega to do vocals and look for the YouTube video on this one. It is fantastic.

Anyway, here is the RTE Concert Orchestra featuring Suzanne Vega and a cover of David Bowies, The Man Who Sold the World. we passed upon the stair we spoke of was and when although i wasn't then he said i was his friend which came as a surprise i spoke into his surprise i spoke into his friend i spoke into his friend eyes I thought you died a long long time ago oh no not me I never lost your face to face with a man who saw the world I left and shook his hand and made my way back home I searched for foreign land For years and years I roamed

I gazed a gazeless stare And all the millions here We must have died a long A long long time apart Who knows? Not me I never lost control Your face to face

With a man who saw the world Who knows, not me, we never lost control. Your face to face with a man who saw the world. Thank you. So, you know, I'm going to be. Those pants are made for frog in, I actually don't know what I actually don't. Hey, we know how to play softball.