The Morning Stream - TMS 2762: Nacho Fingers

Episode Date: January 13, 2025

Temu Alps. Then you shall have no laughter, no smile and no LT YAR. Patrick Warburton's Reading Rainbow. No Show Monday with Peace and Love. Faux Hawk Couple. Soft On Ice Cream Hard On Pizza. Gonorrhea Training. What doeas ALF stand for cuz I like really wanted to know? I don't like Franchiseeeeeeees. From Yoda's Heart I Stab at Thee. Sega Genesis Comedy Couple. Clare and a study group. Dunaway's bush points. You Can't Hide Your Briani. LEGO Apologist, Stephen Shleiker and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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personal your buddy the morning the morning everybody good morning everybody welcome to TMS for Monday January 13th 2025 it is a beautiful Monday here in Salt Lake City How is it in Denver, Brian, a bit? Beautiful here, too. Like, just traces of snow on the ground from the snow we had last week. It's almost all gone, and it'll be gone by tomorrow because we've got some 40-something-degree weather again. Oh, my gosh. And your mountains are looking good, though, right?

Ours are. Mountains are beautifully covered with snow, and people are going up skiing. The good news is they're getting dumped on up there, which is exactly what you want. You want that. 100% you want that because that means we'll have our water. That means Arizona will be able to buy. some of our water and California can buy some of our water. Yeah. I wish we could send all of it right now to California. I wish. Yeah, it's pretty bad. It's still, I don't think they're out of the

woods. There's still like crazy wind stuff happening or like something's supposed to pick up today or tomorrow or something. And like all those conditions are like the worst case scenario again. Yeah. I don't know what will burn this time, but geez, you guys, what a mess. Jason and Ashley, Jason and then Ashley Robinson doing okay and keeping up with them and making sure that they're all right yeah a lot of good we've got a lot of friends who are inland fortunately that further inland and away from the Altadena and and Palisades area but keeping eye too on my aunt and uncle and my cousin out there in Simi Valley and more park because they're they're close yeah I check in on Liam O'Brien every day he is in more of the

concrete jungle part of LA like less LA proper like Los Angeles near closer to downtown yeah more city city so you have less chance of you know embers are still a problem but it's not you know forested

and canyons and all that so he's doing he's doing okay but there was a couple of nights there where he was like up all night had alarms going off every 30 minutes get up check it check the evacuation stuff all that it's just man I can't even imagine actually I kind of can but it only

happened to be once and it was one night. It just happened to be the night before Nerdtacular in 2012 when the fire on the other side of the hill was threatening to come right over and mo us all over the night before Nerdtacular. I got a truck full of Blizzard swag in my driveway, like a semi, half semi, full of swag. I got two Europeans in the house and we're all supposed to go up to Snowbird the next morning, or no, noas. And the whole thing's threatening to just wipe us out. And it was awful, but it went away. And that's the only time I've had to deal with it. That was nothing compared to this. Yeah, nothing compared to this. We were on the pre-pre-evacuation list, which basically means keep an eye on your TV, but no reason to put stuff

in your car back when we had the New Year's Eve Marshall Fire back in 2020, 2019, 2021, whenever it was. Has it been that long? Geez. Yeah. Also, that feels like short, so I don't know why I said long. I know. I know. It's short enough that if I have to drive through that area, I still see houses that are, have not been rebuilt and some are in the process of being rebuilt. There was a long time that insurance was not doing anything for those people. You know who believes in climate change? Insurance companies. Yeah. They have no problem with it. Yeah, it's like, it's real. Yeah, it's real. And we're going to limit your coverage because of it. So good luck.

Yeah. We'll see how it goes. The hardest part, I was talking to my son-in-law because he's in insurance. And he said he's been swamped even here because there's all kinds of policy work that has to be done all over the country for people in California. Or anytime anybody has a disaster, it's always affects everybody in the business. But he said, how did he put it? He said, when it's this bad, this quickly, getting permits for the evaluation, well, getting the evaluations and getting the evaluations and getting permits, for rebuilding like all this sort of stuff takes it already takes forever if it's an isolated

incident but when it's an entire swath of a major american city and they're all making claims at the same time they're not prepared they don't they don't have the infrastructure for this no no and this is the time that you need quick response and quick action and and yeah that is that is the toughest part of all this not going to happen uh not quickly anyway um all right let's get to some things I went to a comedy club. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I want to hear about this. Yeah, I went on Friday.

Wait, what day was it? Saturday, I went. No, Friday. Sorry, Friday, because I had to cancel Raid to go to it. Raid still happened. I just wasn't there. Cancelled my appearance at Raid. So we go to this comedy club.

It is wise guys here in South Jordan, and it's the, there's a chain of these, but they're Utah only. There's like five of them or something like that. Salt Lake, West Jordan. I think there may be one down south. And then I don't know where the other one. as Ogden might be the original one. Anyway, nice little clubs. Lots of, you know, big-name comedians have been there.

You walk in and there's just poster after poster of their, you know, there's Bill Burr and there's Gaffigan and there's Seinfeld and there's all these guys. Everybody's been there. So they have a good rep and, you know, a lot of comedians like to come through here. And the guy that came through is this dude. I'll put a picture up. If I can find it, here it is. His name is John Marco Cicere.

I think he said he said his name. He's very popular on YouTube and TikTok and has a huge following. He's originally from New York. He lives in L.A. now, although he just moved to L.A. Anyway, very funny dude. Don't take the kids. Pretty raunchy, but funny. We liked him.

However, a couple of things at this show. All right. Okay. The opener was fine. He was okay. He was from Atlanta and he kind of made us laugh, but he was also kind of, I don't know, you could tell he was a greenie. He hadn't been doing it very long.

Whatever, it's fine. Everyone gets their start somewhere. Yeah, exactly. So this is the stage. You got a big W there. for wise guys and there's the stool and everything this is us just waiting now what you don't see is a little bit further in the distance there is this couple i'll zoom in here a little pinching zoom okay a little it's a little uh it's a little stegogenesis looking here with the

pixel vision that looks like is that dana plato from uh right yeah you definitely get that vibe right trap now here's what's weird is so this couple i didn't notice them before but it was after and during that they really stuck out so they are right up on the stage on uh i guess it would be stage left to the to the comedian and they're right there and pre-show they were like this she's smiling and he's fine and you know they're they're getting kind of cuddly and they're it's fine they're just a cute little couple doing a little date or whatever okay no big deal not even thinking about these people this is the only smile she cracked in two hours really and that was before anybody, that was when the stage

was empty. That's before anyone was even up there. She made no smile. That guy sat next to her. Never smiled. He kind of just has the face he has now. Oh my God. It was really weird. The number one rule of comedy clubs is if you're there live,

you you, you, if you're having minor laughter reactions to it, you don't keep your laughter inside because it's like they feed off of your energy and the last thing you want to do is they make them feel self-conscious up there.

You and I've been on stage. We know you feed off the audience's energy. And if they sit there silently scowling or just, you know, plain-faced, you get nothing. Yeah. And it's so, uh, what's the word? It is, is draining. And she stared, by the way, at him the whole time, the whole act. Yeah.

Never cracked a smile. Yeah, but didn't laugh or anything. And sure, I mean, she's got lights like right on her. So she's very visible to anybody in the room. It's hard not to see her. Yeah. And he, the comedian is getting. huge laughs out of the audience. No problem. The whole place is uproarious. I'm gut, busting a gut.

It's genuinely funny. He's funny. And obviously on the rise, he's doing real good and, you know, getting big venues and doing great. It's just that for some reason, these two would not make a peep. And then they bring nachos around because you can order food and drinks and stuff in there. Sure, sure. You probably require it, right? Like, we have a two drink minimum, but if you don't drink, you got to buy nachos. Oh, good question. I just ordered a Coke Zero and some nachos, and they were, those nachos were fantastic. Comedy Works. Comedy Works here says, you know, you get free admission, but it's a two drink minimum. Oh, yeah, they never made me. I don't know. I didn't ask, though, and so who knows. But anyway, so everybody we were there with got

stuff. We got nachos. I don't know if it's a good idea to eat nachos at 10.30 at night, but we did. Oh, my trainer, Coach Regina would not recommend that. Not a good time of day to be eating anything, really. But they were still, they were very good for, for, like, comedy club nachos. I was actually impressed. They were good. Yeah. But we're having a great time.

And they're over there getting the nachos. And this is the only time I see her change her face. She takes a chip of full of goo, right? And just goes, and keeps her eyes on the guy and goes, like that and puts in the mouth. Really? Okay. And then never, never takes eye back. Then when she's done, she always did this with her hands. For the audio listeners, by the way, uh, Scott is maintaining a,

unblinking look while he turns his head and opens his mouth to insert a chip. Yeah, like a whole wide maw kind of bite with her eyes like that. And then she always did this with her fingers after. She'd do like this. Yeah, to get the salt or whatever off. But she'd hold them up doing like this. She'd go like this. She'd just do that down.

Like you have a napkin in your lap. You maybe do it over the napkin if you don't want to keep wiping your hands in the napkin. You just kind of brush them in the napkin. And then she'd do this thing where she'd grab her two, she'd be done with that. And she'd grab her two hair drop things. and go like this, do this twice, and then sit there and stare at the guy for a minute. And then after about a minute,

grab another huge chip full of stuff and go, ah, and do the whole thing again. And repeat the whole thing over again? So she distracted the hell out of me, even though I'm getting most of the show, but every once in a while it was impossible for me to not notice her and the fact that they didn't make a peep.

Here's the weird thing. At the end, when they're doing the merch tables and the whole, like, he'll, you know, he's over there and they can all talk to him and stuff. She's one of the first ones over there. okay maybe she's maybe there's some connection maybe she has some connection to him like she's a family member or something so that's why she's in the front although you think family member cheer him on give him something give him something to work with some some you know feedback and she and they're

the only he does a little crowd work and we were just one row behind front row which i like because i don't want i don't want to be singled out i hate it yeah but other people are getting singled out all right in front of me and then off to the side and everybody except for her little thing so it's entirely possible you're right it's entirely possible she's like a uh a friend a family a plant uh something i don't know but she weirded me out the entire time but she's not the only one out waiting in line it's like 20 degrees or less it's like maybe 18 degrees out it's cold windy we're about to get that snow that we got and uh hadn't quite started yet and this guy right here okay busted in front of me total butt

like blind butt in a t-shirt eating the biggest hamburger I've ever seen anybody walk into a line with this guy walking with a gigantic burger and within about 30 seconds had inhaled it he was having a 10 guy's burger he really did it took 10 men to carry it it hand it to him and he just was like om nom nom I mean you can see his hands blurry in this photo

like that's how fast he's eating it oh my gosh so that guy was funny made me laugh and he burped really loud and then is there a guy in there wearing a green ice cream cone? Let's see. Oh, zoom in a little. Let's see. Yeah. Oh, there was a cup. You can't see

the other's behind all this guy's hair, but he had three people with a little birthday hat. Somebody, oh, gotcha. Okay. All right. Yeah, some birthday thing going on. They had cute little hats. And then there's another thing here. Where is it? If I can find it. Oh, here's me and Kim, just hanging out.

Aw. It's kind of cute. She looks like the Dutch boy. I like your hair, you know, you guys are both doing kind of the same thing with the hair now. Yeah. almost uh it's not even on purpose it's just like yeah i mean i guess it is it's subliminal though we're just doing it yeah um so anyway it was super fun the uh the the the dairy queen twist soft serve twist twist top twins or something yeah well that's funny you mentioned that because

is as matched as we were as both a couple and hairdoes there was a moment where maybe she wanted to leave me and i'll tell you what it was no okay there was a there was a server there totally sweet lady very good at this job like a ton of we were it was a sold out crowd so she was you know running around getting all these orders bringing drinks fast and doing all the stuff you do

just good wait staff they were all awesome um she's black and I didn't see her when she was near me and at one point I thought Kim said something to the effect of black oh no I said to her

this is how it went sorry I says I says to her I says I says I said, man, I wish I had more black friends And she goes You have lots of black fans And she thought I said fans Fans instead of friends

And I said no no I want And now I get louder I go I go there's music playing right It's kind of loud And I go and I go no I want more Drops for a second between songs or something I said I want more black friends

And right as I say it Her face goes kind of wider than it already is because right next to me is this very nice server lady who's beautiful black lady walking past and I just was like Scott come on man what do you know so she was annoyed

it would be great if she would have turned to you and said I'm your friend it'll be 250 here's your dog is your Coke zero yeah and we did tip her really well and later she when we had the nachos I dumped a big load of it on my pants

by accident and she goes that and Kim goes that's what you get in elbowed me right in the middle of it. So we, it all worked out. Karma, karma paid, karma. It was pretty instant there. Pretty. Yeah, came right away. It was a good time, though. We had, had a ball. I would recommend that club, though. If you're in the, in the area, you're anywhere in the South Jordan, West Jordan, kind of mid-salt Lake area, the, that club's very nice. And we had a great time. We're going to keep going. I guess, uh, LaVar, or not LaVar

Burton. Uh, Patrick Warburton. Okay. Uh-huh. Was there Wednesday. We tried to get tickets. It was sold out. Welcome to Reading Rainbow. Oh. Hey, kids. I would watch that. Hey, hey, kids. Hey, kids. Hey. For Reading Rainbow. Gather around for a book. Grab your mouthful of the Denver. I'm going to read a book. I don't know what his stand-ups like, but we were real curious about that. And it was, it wasn't that expensive. These are like $25 tickets. The food was cheap for what I'm used to, like 12 bucks for those nachos and there was a huge thing of them. Like, I don't know. I just had a great time.

I think we're going to go back more. Anyway, that all happened. Hey, we got a gamey question in our emails from Chris from Australia. He is a grave fitness in Discord. Little gamey. Yeah, little gamey. Hello, soapapia and bria? Beeria.

That's the slow-cooked beef. It's been around for a long time, but boy, is it come into, like, popularity in the last two or three years. And now every place has, oh, make sure you try our biria tacos and our, you know, casabiria, which is like a cassidia with beeria inside. And you know what? It's, it's legit good. Like, it is, if you can get a place that actually has it as a stew, like with the broth and the, because they basically cook it in a, in a broth, and it makes it so tender and juicy and so freaking good.

It sounds really good. I've never had it. Yeah. I'll try it. Anyway, he says, I have a hypothetical for you. If you could pick one food to eat and have the calories not count. Beria, you already wrote the two things we want in our names. Yeah, right there.

It says, but the calories wouldn't count. What would it be? And here are the rules. Number one, it can't be a base ingredient, i.e. sugar, flour, etc. But it can be a base component, such as rice, pasta, or bread. It says, too, it can be a recipe or menu item, i.e. Big Mac or Kim's Jambalaya, whatever. Three, you absorb no nutrients, good or bad. Well, then how am I going to, I guess I get that from other stuff.

Yeah, so that means, you know, you're not waiting your decision on like, oh, well, I want something that's good protein or good energy or whatever. Okay. You still get full from the food, so you can't gorge endlessly. So I just can't keep going. If you pick rice and eat sushi for three square meals a day. So that's what he said he would do. He says, yeah. Oh, gosh, okay.

So he goes on to say, yeah, nah, nah, yeah, show's pretty good, A. Chris from Australia. So if you had to pick, Brian, what do you pick for your? Sushi is a pretty, is a really strong contender. Because you give me, you give me the choice of like, hey, Brian, what do you want to go eat? Sushi or steak are my two go-toes. I'm a very, you know, straightforward, it's meat potatoes or meat and sushi.

Yeah. Meat and sushi. But not sushi and potatoes. No. Make sense. Um, well, maybe. I mean, you could put like those, somebody come up with something with potatoes, right? In a sushi dish of some quarter? Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'm sure. Yeah. Pickled potatoes. I mean, I would even go the sashimi route,

which is the, the fish without the rice. Um, you give me, you give me, like I, when I go to a sushi restaurant, I, um, I always look for the Chorashi bowl, which is usually like a bed of rice and then a ton of sashimi on top. Yeah. Yellowtail and salmon and tuna and that sort of thing. That's usually my go-to. Less rice more. Less rice more fish. Yeah.

I'm with you. That would be the sign that I hoist up above. So rice? No, less rice, more fish. So rice would be your choice as your, your, you calls it a component, a base component. This is what I'm eliminating. No, this is what you can eat as much as you want. Yeah, rice would be, rice would be it.

Because there's a lot of calories in rice, especially white rice. White rice is not great for you. No, it's terrible for you. If you're, like, anywhere near having bad blood sugar, do not eat rice. It's like the devil. I will say this, though. Rice is a close second, but I think pasta would be my first pick. Really?

Yeah. Yeah, pasta is also really, really not great for you. And I would love it if those calories are. I've been struggling lately because I found that fantastic ramen recipe. I know ramen technically is not pasta. It's still a flour. I mean, it's pasta adjacent because it's still made with... It's just rice pasta, isn't it?

Or rice noodles? Isn't it? I thought it was still like egg and flour. Oh, I guess there are egg noodles too, yeah. I know there are rice noodles, but I don't know where those get used. Maybe I'm... Yeah, I'm not sure. I'm mixing up my dishes here, probably.

Somebody who knows ramen better than I do, but found that that Choi, Roy Choi recipe for ramen. And ever since then, it's... It's like I probably have that once or twice a week is so damn good. And I know it's so bad. You throw a couple eggs in there. It's protein right there. Sure. Sure, nothing wrong with you.

Right now, we're in the eggs are good for you stage again. Yeah, I like this. I like this. And I need that those are, it's a bummer you need to eat five eggs to get 30 grams of protein. But still, I'll do it. I'll do it if I had to. If his rules allowed for a thing you could gorge on and never feel full, though, I think I would say pizzas of all kinds.

Oh, sure. Oh, that's not bad either. Yeah, so. Or steak. Like something that I would, in great quantities, in moderation is fine, but in great quantities would be bad for me. Your base component is your bread, your dough, your pizza dough. Yeah, I would go hard on pizzas, man.

Oh, man. Good pizzas, too. Thin crust. That sounds good right now, and it's freaking morning. It's wrong with me. 9.30 in the morning. I'm talking about pizza. Geez.

I know. Monica says ice cream is the right answer and she's not wrong ice cream is a great is a great option there too we at the mammoth game um we had a mammoth game Saturday night went there with crazy neighbor which of course meant you know old fashions and doing a shot at half time sure it's crazy for a reason sure it's crazy for a reason um but uh they have they have an ice cream place there with the unfortunate name Mr. Softie. And, um, but it is incredibly good soft serve ice cream. Like usually the soft serve you get like dairy queen is not ice cream.

It's ice milk and it's like crystally and, yeah, not, not, not great. Uh, Mr. Softie is damn good. It is like, um, it is like, like the creamiest soft serve, ice creamiest dense, dense like regular ice cream, not airy like, uh, regular ice cream. soft serve. I'd love me some soft serve. Good soft serve is, I'd almost take it over like gelato or something. I love it that much. So good.

And the thing is, it's the, they have one stand in the, in ball arena, the place the used to be the Pepsi Center, the place where the mammoth play and the avalanche and the Nuggets. Right. And the line, you are basically deciding

if it's a four quarter game, which quarter of the game you'd like to miss in order to get this ice cream. Because it's going to take up most of that quarter. Like you, we, we ran out there five minutes into the second quarter and we were there for most of the rest of second quarter. Like, we were able to get upstairs before halftime. So you've got to give it up because there's a line and there, people love the ice cream. And you ask anybody in line, you ask, is it worth it? And they're like, it is so worth it.

It's so good. Why is that name so familiar? Mr. Softie? Is it a, is it a chain? Or is it just there? I think it's a chain. and I don't know how far through

I think so, yeah I think that's right there it is yes, S-O-F-T-E locations there's not going to be one here I just know it oh there's tons but let's see

yeah I don't see any Utah ones that's too bad all right it's fine that's all right East Coast like yeah East Coast big in New Jersey

so Monica you you probably have have a ton of Mr. Softies near you. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no shame. Yeah, no shame in that. It says, it's funny, Colorado's not listed. It might be. No, because it's just in the, it's the only place in Colorado you could get Mr.

Softie ice cream is in ballerine if you're there for an event. Okay. Now, there's one in Central Phoenix. Maybe I'll do that when I'm down there. I like once in a while to reward my life with a little ice cream, you know? Yeah, yeah. Nothing too crazy. You know, let her, let her take half of you.

take half and it's a lot better for you than polishing one entire one off yourself true that a quick note about our MLK day plans we are taking the day off like we did last year there is no show on the 20th of january we will be honoring we're warning you with peace and love peace and love show that's right new new country album may hear yeah i have not uh listened to it yet because i was hooked on the brand new friends ferdinand album which is so freaking good oh my god it is it is returned to form their last album and i love their stuff they did with sparks a few years ago but this is like this is um this is somebody told me level uh damn it's so good okay uh sign me up to your newsletter that sounds good yeah yeah um all right we're going to get done away in here we're going to play a game

it is monday of course and that means good times to be had uh he has to answer his phone though so let's he does that is a requirement i don't make the rules he's not in the game either geez maybe he thinks today is uh oh okay that shows he's in is he not in oh now i show he's in i had to reload oh yeah sometimes it's it times out or something i don't what that that is whatever al-cabob whatever whatever whatever whatever it's fine you do you it's fine with us yeah working hard for the money look who it is Brian Dunaway all up in it what's going on man oh oh oh hi Scott and Brian I don't know if I want to be all up in it oh hello yeah I don't know this sounds I don't know

I don't know what you're talking about it's but you know a horse a horse of course oh of course you know the horse conversations don't end yeah you say nay you say nay all right Brian doesn't like horses for the record Brian Dunaway Right. We had a big, long conversation. You guys can't get a right. I don't not like horses. I don't hate horses.

I just have a healthy respect for the size of horses and horses are jerks. That's not the same thing as the things you keep saying. That's true. You don't hate them. You just think they're jerks. I get it. Yeah. It's a fine line, guys, fine line.

Well, it's good to have you here. We're going to play a game. Brian knows the rules. He knows the winnings, and he knows who might win these things. So, Brian, explain it. What are we got? We'll do. By the way, yes, thank you, Talley.

I did mean take me out, not somebody told me. I let killers and Franz Ferdinand I get mixed up all the time, too. Came out around the same time, had a very similar sound. I've seen one of them in concert, and I won't tell you which one. Welcome to the morning. Half-Ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers.

Three of which are correct, and three which I'll warn you with peace and love are incorrect. Throw them in the bin, depending on how confident they feel the category they can provide one, two, or three guesses. But if any of those guesses are wrong, you get zero points for the round. Get one right, gets you a point, two right, gets you three points, and three right gets you five points, just to make things interesting because one, two, and three were

boring. The player with the most points after three rounds, won the prize for their contestant. Contestants who have been pulled from members of the Tadpool that aren't able to be here live. Scott, you're playing for Jason Hurst in Rockland, California, way up north by Sacramento. Oh, Rockland's nice.

Up there. Safe, yep. And then, Brian, you're playing for Brandy Russell in Madison, Alabama, not the Madison, Wisconsin. Alabama. Greenbow, Alabama. That's right. Bamma. Bahama. All right.

I've not said Alabama the same since I watched, since I watched Forest Gump say it that one time. From now on, you have to say it is Alabama. Alabama has, I learned this the other day. They have a, are about the same population of Alabama is the same as Ireland. Oh, really? Yeah, which is such a weird thing to hear. You always think of Ireland is much larger, but really, it's just Claire and like a half a dozen other people. Claire and a study group, basically, is the population of Ireland.

Okay. Holding it down. Fair enough. All right, let's get to your questions here. We're going to start off with question number one. All right. Places that have a mountain range called the Alps. Which of these have a mountain range called the Alps?

thought it was just the you know the middle of Europe there no three of these do the moon the Yukon South Africa Bolivia New Zealand and Japan three of those also have a mountain range called the Alps okay so I at first thought you were saying they all touch the Alps but that's not correct here this is them calling it the Alps okay they have their own they have their own version of the Alps they have Timu Alps it's just fun to say I think it's a problem it's yeah yeah we got the Alps what's funny is I think of it as a shortening of alpine right which I think that's what I think too yeah maybe the root or something but Alps Alps Alpine all right I have locked in

done away take your time in what you need to do I'm guessing okay all right well you both locked in with New Zealand New Zealand does have a mountain range called by Alps they pronounce it differently than we do Alps um and one of you chose the moon and the other one of you chose japan who's getting points well oh somebody's getting points probably neither of us oh because uh it is the moon new zealand and japan were the three answers we've done that yeah between the two of you got all three answers correct you just each got two of them so three points for each of you for this first round my thinking on the moon was very it was very loose because i wasn't sure but it seemed like something somebody would

do like, ah, we found a range. We're going to call the Alps, because that's funny. That's the only reason I chose it. I had no idea. The Moon and Japan were the two that I chose when I played this blind. And because I figured, yeah, somebody from NASA is going to be like, let's call that the Alps. Okay. Yeah.

But in Japan, it's called Alpson, just for the record. Yeah. Which hasn't caused any confusion over at NASA whenever they say, I see an Alp. And they're like, an Alp, the daily life form? No, Al. Oh, my gosh. does Alf stand for alien life for him? Has it always been that, but the stupid puppet?

It has always been alien life form. Oh, my God. I did. I never put that together. I thought it was just like, could call him Alf, like Alfred or short for Alfie or whatever. I didn't know that. Alien life form, baby.

Oh my gosh, dude. I feel like an idiot. Mind blown. All right. Hey, look, look, all I got to say is never stop learning. That's what I say. Yeah. By the way, big thanks to Bobby.

He looked it up. And alpine comes from the Alps, meaning like the Alps. Oh, wow. Our, you know, our ski lodge, the Alpine Ski Lodge, is Alp-like. Oh. That's interesting. I didn't know that was, that makes a lot more sense that you would have multiples then, wouldn't it? Because they're all Alpine-ish.

They're all alpine-ish. I call my left nipple Alps. Yeah, alpine-ish. Okay, all right. Yeah. I call mine elf. Let's get to question number two. Is it because it's Harry?

I'm sorry, go ahead. You've heard of Guy in a bush. How about flowers in a bush? Which of these flowers grow on a bush? Your choices are. Amarillus, Larkspur, Daphne, hyacinth, azalea, and chamelea. Oh, my Lord. Three of those flowers grow on a bush.

I probably could know this. You know, some roses grow on a bush, but not the typical ones that you see at the florists that have the lung stems. Those are vine roses. Yeah, those are weeds, essentially, right? Let me think. I don't know what the hell that one is. I know what that one is, but is it bush-like?

Is it bush-like? I really don't know. I'm going to, I'm going to choose what's... I used to grow in a bush. Oh, yeah? Well, yes. Burb, burp, burp. Are they, they're not together anymore, are they?

They're done. Oh, gosh, no. No, she's with the country dude from the voice. I pick three. Taylor Cowboy Hat Taylor Not Taylor it's something Dwight I know not Dwight

Jeremy Hatman I have no idea Yeah Jeremy Hatman Yeah he's a big deal Jeremy Hatman All right These just sound like bushflowers to me I have no idea

No idea You guys have kind of done the same thing Where you you chose one of them together And then you chose two other ones Oh no I take that back Scott you chose three Brian you chose one Oh shit I'm no fool

That's it Thank you, Mason and Stefan, Blake Shelton. You both chose Azalea. Yeah, Azalea grows on a bush. Good job. Nice. Scott, you additionally chose camellia. Camelia grows on a bush too.

Oh, my gosh. Two bushes, one stone. Scott, you picked hyacinth for your third choice. Almost pick hyacinth. Please. That would have been fun if you guys would have both picked it because then you guys would have both not gotten points. Oh, shit. Mason does not grow on a bush.

Daphne grows on a bush. Ah, ha ha ha ha. Damn it. She's everyone's favorite. Daphne is. Daphne's, uh, well, Daphne is a, um, I know, no, no, no, I mean the flower. It's like, um, I never, I don't know a Daphne flower.

They're not the one, um, you know what I'm thinking of the wrong thing? The ones that almost like they have faces, what were those called? Uh, they had like eyes and a kind of angry face because of the coloring. No. When I was a kid, my brother would say, those are where evil spirits, uh, go when they die. Daffanil, maybe? I can't remember what those were.

Anyway, well, well done, Dono. You chose one, and you chose wisely. You chose wisely. That's close game, though. Four for Brian, three for Scott, going into question number three. You guys both know cars. You know, we always get schooled on cars when we do film sack and we see a car in a movie, and Randy tells us what car it is.

Well, maybe if it's a Chevrolet, it'll help you with this question. question, which of these are models of Chevrolet? The EXP, the celebrity, the Confederate, the Astro, the Cougar, and the Chevala. Three of these are actual models of Chevrolet. Three of them are not. Or not. I like how you said that are not. Beep, boop, beep.

Scott's going safe here. Are we going to safe? Well, you don't know what that means. It could mean I just put a condo on it. You're responding so slowly. I don't know. Because one of these cars, I've actually owned two of these cars. I'm trying to remember because that was definitely not one.

The Confederate down there in the south. Is that what you did? It'll rise again. My car's going to rise again. Sorry. That's not, definitely not it. I'm going to go. Those feel wrong, but I'm going to go anyway.

All right. I owned a Ford EXP. Okay. So you knew. EXP, yeah, EXP, correct. Like an escort. From 1982 to 1988, Ford had the EXP. Ford also

had the Cougar from 1990. Did they have this Cougar? I thought the Cougar was its own thing. I thought I did too. I thought that was a nut. I thought that was like Eagle. Remember Eagle? Right, like it was a, like its own brand kind of thing. Yeah. Now, Brian, you picked two. Scott picked

one. Oh. It's going to be a tie or? Let's start with Brian. Yeah. No, let's start with, let's start with Scott. Scott, you pick the Astro. We have an Astro. The Chevy Astro existed from 1985 to 2005, the oldest, I'm sorry, the newest car on this list, the Chevy Astro. Oh, really? So you're getting a point for that. Well, I know what happened.

It's not a great van. I just want to put it out there. It's kind of a bad van. Yeah. Really? Broke down a lot. That's right. It was the Chevy.

It was a van. I do remember those. I went to shit all the time. We were always fixing it. They were so weirdly shaped. They're almost like a wedge, right? Is that the ones I'm thinking of? Yeah, kind of.

They were almost like a square to a point. They were, yeah. It's not a good van. It's a bad man. Ugly. Brian, you chose Celebrity and Confederate. Let's start with the Chevy Celebrity. The Chevy Celebrity was indeed a vehicle from 1982 to 1990, the Chevy Celebrity, which leaves Confederate.

Yeah, we've already had, we've already answered three. We know what three are, so we know the answer to that is. Sure. No, we don't. No, we don't, because I said the cougar was a four. Ford. I'm not anything about the Chevola. So it's either the Chevola or the Confederate is the third answer. Chevola sounds like some 1950s bullshit. It sounds like some bait. That's the reason why I steer clear. Did you double bait me? I did not double bait you, the Confederate. It is the Confederate. And in 1932, Chevy had the Chevy Confederate just for one year. Just lasted one year.

Oh, dang it. The Chevala completely made up, but it should have made you think. of like, well, they had the shit net. Yeah. Right, right. No, I'll admit I hover tempted on that one. I almost did it. Yeah, I'm sure. I like seeing, like I can usually see when you guys click on something and then change

your mind. And it always makes me sad when it's the actual answer and you guys. Yeah, I guess I'm the only one that's funny because I grew up with a lot of different cars and Astros the only, I mean, other than Cougar, but I thought like Brian Cougar is like, it was like, oh, it's the Cougar XP. It was like an actual Cougar car, like a brand or a spinoff or a spin-off of some other maker anyway doesn't matter yeah i'm going to post an image if you've never seen a a cool uh ford exp well i'm one where's where's the chat at oh here we're gonna

has anybody seen a cool ford xp oh that is actually pretty cool yeah yeah yeah it's almost like a k car like very angular boxy yeah yeah is it coming back this style by the way yeah yeah starting to see it in some some newer cars some electrics are starting to look this basically it's a re-skinned escort but you know it had a little fancier it looked a little nicer than escort. Yeah, it is a risk. You're right about that. I like it, though. I kind of like it. Yeah, it's all right. Brand new or in a mint condition, it'd be fun to drive. Yeah, absolutely.

Congratulations. You won the prize for Brandy Russell. Brandy's getting a copy of Sunblaze and Monster Prom from from Steam, courtesy of Kim Kimbazi. I want to make sure I pronounce that right. I think I said Kim Zabi or something like that before. Kimbazi.

And then, but don't worry, Jason and Rockland, California. you're not going away empty-handed. You're getting a copy of Wanbaugh Warriors, also in Steam, also courtesy of Kim. This image I'm putting up for the chat, and I'm putting it in our Discord, too. That is the Confederate. It's old. Oh, is it really?

Yeah. It looks like, it does. It looks like a parade car like, you know, you're. It does. Yeah, you're taking your dictator through a parade and he's just going to wave out the window. Yeah. That car is going to rise again. Well done.

Done away. You know, you really ripped me a new. whole today, seven to four. Yeah, I feel pretty lucky. A lot of that was guesswork today, so I feel pretty good. You know what? I feel like Unforgiven. I feel like I'm just a lucky, yeah.

You're lucky son of a bitch, as they say in the Western. Brian, who won then? What did they get? Oh, I said they get Sunblaze and Monster Pro. You were too busy looking at the Anger Car. They're getting a red on airlight called Sunblaze and Monster Prom. That was a sexy car.

I think we should get one. You want a Confederate? Let's do it. Yeah, I think we should get one. All right. I'm sure there's no, nobody will think that's weird in 2024 to get a Confederate. I'm going to put a flag on it too, right? Totally acceptable.

Yes. No issues there. Well, congratulations to everybody, because you all kind of won. Congratulations. Except me. But everybody wins something. And the accolades go to Brian Dunaway this week. And also what goes to Brian Dunaway is a fantastic run of play retroos.

We just finished our episode on Sunday. all around afterburner. Afterburner's amazing. Guys should go play it again if you haven't. High octane good times. You're going to feel like a maverick. I almost said Mustang. You'll feel like Maverick. I think I had a Maverick, too.

That was also a... I did have a Maverick. It was. So it was the Ford Comet or the Lincoln... No. Comet. I had the Comet. Lincoln Comet?

Ah, I can't remember. No, it was... Mercury. Mercury Comet. Mercury. Right? Which is still Ford. It's like the... skin for it. Uh, yeah, I had one too, dude, and it was a piece of shit. No one to

Oh, absolutely. It was the worst. It was some, uh, the, uh, that was when my mom was dating the landscaper and he was trying to win me over. Mm. I don't, he gave me, he gave me his old comet, gold as could be. Why does that sound so such a stereotype to date the landscaper? I don't know why that. Dude, it was so, yeah. I love that. Totally. It was on death for housewives or or real housewives of dot, dot, dot, dot, yeah, whatever town you want. Well, that's great. This week we'll do it again. And this time we're sticking our, no, we're hanging around in DOS land, aren't we? What are we playing? I forgot already.

We're playing excom. Oh, excom. That's right. Oh, wow. The old hard excom, the game that made me think that I had to throw my computer across the room. That game is hard. But fun to revisit. So we're going to be doing that. Check that out this weekend.

So the schedule's all up to date. Go check out Play Retro. I think you should go back and listen to last week's episode of Play Retro since it's already posted because Scott gets a chance to talk. a little bit about his dad and arcade business growing up. So it's a really good story. Yeah, and that After Burner game is unique in that way. So go listen to the story.

I think you guys will find it fascinating. That's at Play Retro over at Frogpants.com slash Play Retro. Do it. Hey, Brian, kiss our butts. All right. He's gone. We have time for one news story. And so we're going to do it right now.

Where's my thing? I'm in the wrong tab to do this. Here we go. I want to go. Hey, it's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. You have until the 31st to enter the TMS 32nd Film Festival. All the rules and ways to submit are up at frockpants.com slash film fest. Get yours in today, and maybe you can win the grand prize.

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you have until the end of January to submit go check it out that is frogpans.com slash film fest McDonald's just gave the value menu its biggest shakeup in years, Brian. Really? What did they do? They put free ferrets in the bag. Every bag. Every bag. Every bag of ferrets. Absolutely you were correct. That's the story. We'll see after the break. Just kidding. Here's the story. Last summer, McDonald's brought back their $5 value meal. That plan was to have it very temporarily there. They weren't going to keep it for a long time. But as you may have noticed, McDonald's is stupid expensive these days. it really is yeah it doesn't make any sense to me and i think they lost a bunch of business from it

so uh they are bringing it back as a permanent thing uh and the let's see uh they say that for the foreseeable future they will have it up and they are now doubling down the fast food giant is overhauled its menu keeping the five dollar menu but also adding buy one add one for a dollar options that's pretty that's pretty that's not bad you know that's not bad so so you buy one value menu combo and then you can add another sandwich on there. It doesn't even have to be a combo. So you can just buy like an egg McMuffin and get a sausage biscuit for free. Oh, gotcha.

Okay. Yeah. Single items are fine. According to the current menu, unless they change something. So you could get chicken nuggets and a double cheeseburger. You could get an egg McMuffin and a double cheeseburger. That would be weird, but you could do it. Local deals and in-app specials are also included, such as a free medium fry with a

dollar purchase every Friday in 2025 and a free McChrispy to any new users of the app. I don't like the name Mick Crispy. I don't like it. No, McRispy. McRisp, it doesn't roll, does it? McRispy.

Says right before he shoots. McRispy. McRispy. McRoy. McRispy. To promote it, they have enlisted W.W.E. Performer and actor John Sina, the deals go in effect

today. when it comes to the actor and former like actor needs to come first I agree he still shows up in there all the time I guess God when is our next when is our next season of you know he's he's going to be one of the only things

that James Gunn continues without changing with his new DC deal when is the new season of why can't I remember the damn name of his show Peacemaker thank you when is the next season of Peacemaker coming I don't know. That seems weird that we've waited this long.

But maybe it's right around the corner and we just don't know. I don't know. James got a busy guy. This is what they said in a statement. When it comes to value, we know that there's no one size fits all. So here at McDonald's, we've worked closely with our franchisees to create, I don't like franchisees. Free one, get the title. That's going to be in the thing. You want the credit for it. You guys want a free one? You got it. uh anyway create a platform that will let our customers define value on their own terms that's nonsense br corporate bullshit i hate this stuff so much yeah stop anyway i probably will get a deal here and there though i'm happy to pay less for crap you know yeah uh anyway uh let's

take a break when we come back from the break stephen schliker will be here to join us haven't talked to him in a couple of weeks so it'll be good to catch up he's got a little bit of a follow-up after i was a little rough on the lego community mostly on the the pricing of Legos, not on the community itself. Sure, of course, you're not going to rip into Lego buyers, just Lego. I already did that, but he'll break down

something here. He has very good points. Yeah, and I think I agree with some of it. So come back and hear me eat some crow after this break. Before that, though, a song. Brian, what song do we have? Yeah, let's listen to a song from the only true sad girl in Stockholm, which is

what the legendary indie club, Heaven Up Here, has called our performer friend in the middle. Her name is Rebecca Reinhard. And this isn't, you know, this isn't that sad. I think it's great. Her debut single Picey's become nothing short of a global queer anthem. This time she's back with a new single called Give It Up. This is Fokie, Poppy.

And it comes out officially this Friday, January 17th, on her forthcoming EP, Strange Week. Here is the song, Give It Up, for me. Rebecca Reinhard We'll get through this life and so on mine are set back You sing, keep on, keeping on We're almost hiding

Then's gone Give it up now Give it up now We only want to go Back home Give it up now Give it up now It's always the same show

I don't Get it up now Get it up now Whatever you think you know You don't There's always something Tell me to play it cool You're dying to try it

Get everything up for someone In the kitchen I break down Give it up now Give it up now We're only want to go Back home Give it up now

Give it up now It's always the same show But not on Give it up now Give it up now Whatever you think you know You don't know Oh

Don't know Oh Can you know leave All the things in love Who that kicks in the As in the other stars Oh,

we'd be better off before you and we were to give up give it up now give it up now we only want to go back home give it up now so it's always the same show God, oh, give it up now, give it up now But if you think you know, you don't, you know. Get it closer But you're never close enough

I'm tired of candy Tired of gum Tart of hunger And food that's no fun Because, because, because, why? By the way, that clip was, that was Nicole Kidman from season one of Lioness, and I just finished that season. It's quite good.

It was good. Wait, wait. The one that went where she went, because, because, because, because why? Yeah. Because, because, because why? Yeah, that's her yelling at somebody. yelling at somebody in the team on the boat You know that final episode

Where they got to do the big extraction After the kitchen event I don't want to give anything away But somebody was going Oh she was back on the boat And she was saying Something, she was all freezing Because she had to swim in that water

And she was like, because, because And then Nicole Kimman interrupted her Because because why? It's like brood, man Freaking rude. Plus you hear the sound And nothing's moving. Her mouth just sitting holding the still

Because of the wonderful thing she does. La, la, la, la, la. I could have done that, I suppose. That's what I was waiting for. Hey, Brian, who was that song that we played so that we can give them proper credit? That song was, give it up. Oh, so good. Rebecca Reinhart, check out her entire EP coming out this Friday.

It's called Strange Week. Rebecca Reinhard. Nice. The only true sad girl in Stockholm. Oh. Does she say, get behind me. Oh, different Reinhardt. Different Reinhardt.

Yeah, Ryan Hart, I guess. Yeah, that's what I'm. Who are we adding here? Stephen. Steven Schleiker. That's right. That's right. Lego defender, Steven Schleaker.

Yeah, Lego Apologist. A Lego apologist. He's the one. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dollar, dollar bills, y'all. Stephen, welcome to the program. How are you?

Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. I'm doing well. Good. How's major spoilers? Is it still just the awesome resource for information that I've always held it to be well i hope it is i think it is been here for what almost 19 years now so yeah uh yeah i remember when you launched it okay you and i had a little off conversation or off show little text

back and forth because i found an old file of me doing a segment for your uh for your old old show yeah coolness roundup yeah the tech show you had for a while i did a little game segment this would have been like eLR days and it really took me back but i'd forgotten that that was just prior to major spoilers launching and being a big flagship thing for you, right? Yeah, it was right around that. Yeah, Coolness Roundup we launched in 2005, right as soon as podcasting took off. Yeah. And then major spoilers launched in 2002, 2006.

Yep. Very next year, look at you. Yep. And then 19 years later, look at us now. Almost 20. Yeah. Yeah, gonna talk nerd stuff. That's right.

Let's get into this whole thing. So I did a video on YouTube about Legos. Tell me how you responded and why you thought this would be a thing for us to do with it. You're for people that aren't watching I don't know if you're doing them daily Scott It sure seems like it comes into my feed daily Yeah about it's about daily now Yeah he does a little commentary every day

For a couple of minutes and everybody should check it out If you haven't I think it's only on your YouTube channel Yeah it's on YouTube but you can get shorts versions You put the teasers on TikTok yeah yeah There's little bits in here everywhere But the main place to get it would be YouTube.com slash Scott Johnson or

Frogpants.com or sorry frogpans.com dot TV will take you straight there. You can do it there. There you go. So it was a week ago or so. You were going off about the exorbitant price of the Legend of Zelda, Decutri, two and one build that you can get. Correct.

And you were like, ah, this is $300 for 2,500 pieces. That's like 12 cents a piece. And, oh, man, probably for the last 10 years, Scott, here on the morning stream. I've popped on every once in a while, and I talk about Lego, and I talk about the cost per brick, and the average price per brick, like the regular 2x4 or 1 by 4 or 1 by 1, it's about 10 cents per brick is the average, right? And so you may be thinking, okay, well, the Zelda, why is it so much more expensive? Well, I went and looked at a bunch of other themes that are out there.

The city theme, surprisingly, is the most expensive theme. On average, those sets sell for 12 cents apiece. So one of those, like, here's the Empire State Building, that kind of stuff. No, no, it's more like you can build your own, like here's the ice cream shop and then here's, they had one that had a movie theater with a radio station above it, I think. That's the only one that I wanted because it's like, oh, I would turn that into a little podcasting studio and have my little bald Lego thing up there doing above the movie theater. So the classic line is really inexpensive. Those are six cents a brick. The creator

three and one, which lets you build three different models, is eight cents a brick. Harry Potter that theme only nine cents a brick I was very surprised at that the Marvel Lego sets are 10th cents a brick Minecraft at 9 cents and Star Wars at 10th stence and so the Zelda one comes in at a whopping 12 cents a brick

as you pointed out yes Brian I saw you talking about that last week that's a really cool set oh it's such a great set yeah it's now I have a place to stick all my Marvel mini figs on top of the beginning so in your in your commentary Scott you who speculated that maybe it's because this

is Nintendo. And certainly when you're talking about licensing, there's a lot of money that you have to pay for licensing. And for Marvel and Harry Potter and Star Wars, Lego has had that licensing for multiple years. So the price probably has been spread out over, you know, that licensing has been spread out over time. The other thing that you have to keep in mind about this particular set that you're looking at is that it is in the, it's in the same line as the, the Lego flowers sets that you can find or those cars of the the cars that you can build so it's in that same kind of I call it a luxury lifestyle line of Lego products is it because they have pieces that are unusual in shape and mold and that's the other thing so first of all it's in that one line the other thing is this is the only legend of Zelda or Zelda Lego line item that has been released so there's not like 50 sets of Lego where you can get all the links and all the Zeldas and all the, you know, whatever's.

So there are in the two in one set, there's Princess Zelda, Link, Young Link, and another version of Link. Okay. Uh, in this line. By themselves, if you wanted to go out and just buy those individual figures up on sites like Brick Link, they are selling for between 35 and $40 each. So that rarity is going to increase. That rarity right there is one of the reasons why that set is $300 is because those are super rare.

There's also unique bricks that have not been introduced in other sets yet. And those kinds of things also increase the price of those sets. So when you're saying, oh, yeah, the price is just increasing. Yes, over time, Lego prices have been slowly increasing. I was going back and looking at some videos from 10 years ago when I used to do the weekly Lego builds on the major spoilers YouTube channel. and a set that would be $80, 10 years ago, is about $100 today. Ooh, that's not too bad, though. I mean, that's inflation.

Yeah, I mean, it's $20 over 10 years, but still, I haven't bought Lego sets in a while just because a set that I would expect to pay $80 for, they want $150 for. And so it's like, yeah, I'm probably not going to do that. Now, there are some, let me tell you maybe a way to maybe put this in a little bit more perspective for you. You can go to the Lego site right now. now, and you can download the manual for the two and one Zelda set. Okay.

Okay. That manual tells you all of the bricks that are included in the set, like how many one buys, how many of these, how many flower petals, etc. You could go to a site like Brick Link if you wanted to, and you could buy those bricks individually if you wanted to. I don't think you're going to get a cheaper price on that, because once you then, if you really want the Zelda, the Link figures, then it's, going to push you back up above $300 easily for that.

So when you go to the bricks by the, or to the Lego store, you can actually buy, they have bins there, at least the one by us has a whole wall of bins of every color and shape, wasn't it may not every, every color in shape, but the biggies, the main ones. And I think you just put as many as you want into a box, they weigh it and then charge you by the pound, I think. I was actually in the process of looking up to see how much it was. My wife, in a, what is it, a passive-aggressive attempt to get me to get rid of all the Lego

that I've been collecting since 1974, pointed me to a link that Lego is actually buying back bricks per pound. Oh, really? Oh, wow. If you have unbuilt sets, meaning not that they've put together, and you're just throwing the whole set in, but if you've got them broken down per brick, you can sell them per pound back to Lego.

Oh, interesting. I actually have a plastic bin and very little chance of grandchildren on the horizon. So I want to take those and see if I can sell them back to it. Man, you can go into a deep dive because one of the things that can cause these sets to increase, number one, is the rarity. So Prince of Zelda, 37 bucks on average on a brickling site. But what happens when that set goes out of manufacture? And Lego will retire sets over time. About every five years, a set will retire.

Some of them retire less sooner than that. But on average, about five years. After that, you can only get that set from a secondary market. So, Brian, before you just dump your bricks into a box and send them off to Lego, you might want to dig around through there because you might have some bricks that are worth, 50, 60. I saw there's one, I'm pretty sure I have this one in my bins somewhere, $1,500. for a minifigure. What?

There's a bunch of Indiana Jones stuff in there because these were ones that we got for Tristan. And then, you know, when he moved out, he basically just broke everything down and put in this bin instead of keeping the models together. But I should look through there and see what maybe we have in there. Locally also, we have a store.

There's about four or five locations in November. It might even be all over the place called bricks and mini figs. Yes, yes. Um, there's one actually looking at right now. South Jordan, uh, has them as well. And it is specifically a Lego, a store that sells Lego. Oh, yeah, there it is. But not, but not, yeah, secondary market.

And you can buy pre-built, like, or the, the, the, the completed builds of things as well as a ton of mini figs, a ton of unbuilt sets. But like, you know, I put together this, um, uh, Avengers, uh, campus model. I don't want any more, but I don't want to take it apart. I'll sell it to this place. They'll buy the completed deal and sell it to somebody else. Yeah, there's one in Kansas City that does that too. I think it's called bricks and things is what it's called in our location. Yeah, this secondary market is really big for Lego, especially, again, if you can sell them 10 cents a brick and let's say a pound of Lego is probably, I don't know what they're selling them for or buying them for, but, you know, that's probably 100.

100 bricks, 200 bricks, that could easily be, you know, 20, 30 bucks right there. You can make money hand over fist, especially if you've got those rare ones. Now, I don't know if you guys have been to your local toy store recently, but I was in our Walmart, our big box Walmart, and I went down the Lego aisle the other day, just to see if there were any bargains, because I've still had my eye on that, Dr. Strange Spider-Man. Oh, the Statue of Liberty Fight one. Oh, I thought it's the Sanctum Centaur. No, I've got, I've got that one. I just have to put it to you.

That's a great one. But I noticed that the shelves were relatively empty. And this is where there may be a little tinfoil hat conspiracy going on, on why the price is increasing. I've seen several people in the Lego field say that Lego is not able to keep up with demand. And so what they're doing is they're increasing the price to bring down demand and then they'll bring the price back down. I'm not sure I believe that. Because Lego has a factory in, I want to say, in Virginia, and they're opening like three factories by the end of this year

in three other countries around the world. So I don't know if, you know, the failure to deliver is one of those. But it's an interesting thought when you think about the supply and demand curve for that. Where do you stand on the cheap alternative bricks that you can get on Amazon and get a whole bucket of these things? I used to hate them because there was like, what was it? Oh, I forget the really crappy cheap Lego knockoff that they have all over the place that you can still get in, like, Walmart in those places. I hated those.

But here's the thing. A few years ago, Lego lost a patent suit on the Lego brick itself. And so anybody can take that Lego brick and manufacture their own Lego bricks. Now, they can't put the word Lego on it. There has to be, you know, a slight change to it. Oftentimes it comes in color or the little. studs on the top, they'll have little inserts on those to set them apart. The biggest thing is other manufacturers can't make mini figures, but one of the ones that

has kind of emerged over the last year is a company called Fun Hole, F-U-N-W-H-O-L-E-Bron. Got it. Funhole. Fun hole. It still doesn't make it that much better. No, it doesn't. And in fact, somebody reached out to the company, I guess, a couple of months ago and said, hey, your name is really problematic.

And they're like, oh, okay, I guess we didn't realize that. They're now in the process of changing their name. So right now, any new sets that you buy from them are simply the sticker just says FW as opposed to Funhole. That's better. Yeah. But if you go and look at the Funhole sets, Funhole.com. Again, W-H-O-L-E. Yeah, yeah.

They have some really well-designed sets. And one of the things that sets the funhole sets apart, I think, from all the other third-party Lego sets, is their sets are come with light up bricks. Like, it has wiring and batteries and everything. So there is a third-party manufacturer that sells lights that you can put into your Avengers Tower set or into your movie theater set or whatever. it is. This one comes with those lights as part of the set. And the prices are about, from what I've seen, about $2550 less than what a comparable Lego set would be. The stuff on Amazon that I always see, it's called, what do they call these? These, it's called them building bricks or whatever these are. Or there it is. Huizu, whatever it is. Anyway, 24 and 29 for 1,500 bricks, they are all

compatible with your existing Lego stuff. Yeah, I'm tempted. Just like them. Yeah, I'm to just grab a box of these as a gift of van and go, here you go. Oh, yeah, yeah. There you go. Yeah, that's a good. Yeah. Yeah. And that may be where you get into your bigger rant, Scott, about have adults ruined Lego collecting and building because, yeah, so many adults now are buying Lego and they're buying them.

And they're buying them just to make the sets and not build other things with them. One of the things I want to do is start a real quick series of me diving into my bins and finding, hey, here's a maxi figure from 1970. Uncle Scrooge. Please tell me you don't like Uncle Scrooge, literally diving into me. I mean, I could. There is that many. I've got a whole storage. I have a whole storage shed just full of Lego, like that I pay money each month to store.

But yeah, I've got a big collection going all the way back to like 1974. And it's cool to go back and see some of those sets and see how they've evolved and see those different pieces in there. But the other thing is, the prices have gone up. And they probably will continue to go up in the near future. So, Scott, your rant wasn't completely out of place because you're right. The price per brick for the Zelda set is very expensive, and a lot of people are questioning whether they should buy it or not, but the people who are buying it saying it's totally worth it.

Yeah, plus, I'm not, one thing I didn't account for in that video that I think about more now is that I'm thinking about a game that I played when the decou tree was part of Ocarina of Time. That's a video game from 1998. Guess what? Tons of kids who played that game are now adults. spending adult money on things they remember is like it's the same thing because i don't balk as much as like oh that's an expensive millennium falcon but probably worth it well that's how they feel

about their their 1998 thing i was busy berth and carter but the truth was there were little kids playing that game and they're the ones that were spending money i would have something to say yeah i had i had a little bit to do with it but not as much as you'd think yeah um one quick note here I was going to mention that fun hole with a H-O-L-E.com is available for a small paltry price of $300, sorry, $543 if you would like to buy that domain. Get your own fun hole. Yeah. I think I'd rather get half of a giant Lego Millennium Falcon set or get maybe two of these Zelda sets for that price. Yeah, it's a fair point.

And the other thing I was going to say was the chat room had mentioned it. One of the things that's very expensive, I guess, is Lincoln Logs have now gone to the to some extremes. Yeah, they're pretty expensive, although lots of knockoffs of that, too. So I don't know, things that were our kids, toys, are now adults, nostalgia buys,

and that's just the way it is. Yeah. And that's fine. No, that's fine. You can, I mean, nostalgia sells. It does. Why does your retro game show do so well? Right. Same thing.

People love the nostalgia. Exactly. Exactly. That's why we started the damn thing. We're nostalgic for it, too. So, so yeah, it's all part of that. That's a huge part of business these days. Well done, the 80s, because you really, you really seem to know that the future would want to harken back to your bullshit.

So good job, the 80s. And then, yeah. One quick thing, by the way, before we get too far away from Lego, the, there's an app. And I think you were the one who told me about this, Stephen, but you can get an app where you, you display all of your Lego out on a table or something. Oh, cool. Oh, I don't know about this. And then you take a picture, and it will analyze and figure out all the books. blocks that you have and tell you the things you can make with that those blocks oh yeah yeah I've

seen that I thought you said it was gonna scan it and tell you how much you could get for that so oh no that'd be great too but yeah the the AI AI Lego scanner or something I can't remember what it was what it was called build a ran that's right that's where you heard oh right I couldn't remember either I thought it was Stephen also I thought it was Stephen yeah well that's cool Stephen as always this is a riveting convo but if you want more great stuff from major spoilers go to major spoilers is there anything happening right now that you'd like people to tune in for now everybody is back in the office from their time out so look for a lot of new comic news coming out in the couple of in the next

couple of weeks as we start to build to big events because there are a lot of big comic events coming up in the months to come and we'll talk about those right here on the show when those happen nice but should I do anything in the meantime as the you know it's dry weather it's not it's cold you know don't don't have one of those itchy heaters but do make sure that you stay hydrated fantastic sure will all right see you next time brian you over there drinking good someone needs to cheese louises uh that was quite the uh that was quite the day uh the down and you did there i get you two i get you two leaders a day now so yeah i just got a text for my doctor let's see what it says hello scott this is emily with the clinic have you had a chance to

schedule your colonoscopy since we last spoke oh boy oh yeah i got a guy up there right now. Yeah, we'll see. I have a little mini fig checking it all out. A little Dr. Minifig. Dr. Minifig. Please pick up a white paging phone. A couple of quick things.

We have, like I mentioned, our Film Fest ongoing. We talked about mid-show as well. It is happening. We got our judges, prize package coming together. Go check out the rules and the submission details at frogpans. com slash film fest. It is your chance to submit a 30-second or less film about how memes for TMS are made or what their origin stories are fake origin stories for TMS memes yeah anything you want

be as creative as you want I haven't even looked at the submissions yet I just know we've gotten them I want to wait till we're all here maybe somebody's got a goose they they squeeze the goose it hunks it's it's named Mendoza mm-hmm it hunks and then somebody goes oh yeah there's a freebie yeah you don't know it you don't have an idea you can have that one for free and we promise that we'll judge it without fairly as fairly as possible I didn't come up with the idea yeah Well, it'll be like that guy. There's the real guy. All right.

That is it for today's show. A reminder today, Monday's show with Carter and I, or is it noon today? So do tune in for that. I've got some fun stuff there. And plenty more coming your way this week, of course, of TMS tomorrow as well. Brian, anything else you got going before we take our leave? Oh, just wish me luck at a dentist appointment of two. Regular cleaning, but, you know, those are never fun.

Never fun. Yeah, but you got a lady you like now, though, right? Somebody who trusts. Yeah, and she doesn't talk to me. She lets me just put my AirPods in, listen to fly on the wall or 500 by midnight, and just, yeah, I'm going to do 500 by midnight because I've got to prepare. I've got to figure out some step for Vegas, baby. Yeah, heck yeah. Now, that's great.

I'm sure it will go fine, but if not, you'll have stories for tomorrow, so it'll be great. Yeah, exactly. Hopefully she doesn't get the hiccups while she's using the sonic. screwdriver in my face. Yeah, got to watch out for that. Frogpants.com slash TMS for all your needs, everybody. Let's get out of here with a song that you brought. Okay, this is a double request because one person requested and then unbeknownst to them, their girlfriend, yep, like doubled on the request. So there's a little bit to read here. Hi, Sycamore and Birch. It's another year and I'm once again requesting a song, a cover of a queen song. Last year I added my girlfriend in my request since her

birthday is three days before mine. We're both adding another year to our 40s, which last year led the cut off of which happy birthday clip is used. I wanted to wish my Monica a happy birthday and let her know I miss her face. Thanks for all the hard work you both do for us, and we're thrilled to be part of the greatest community there is. Love the show, though. Luke, also known as a whatnot.

The only one I have anymore is this one for all ages. Have a day to you. No more age discrimination, old lady. Happy Thursday to you. That's right. Damn it. So take that. Monica separately wrote in, said,

so this is a birthday request hijacking. My boyfriend introduced me to your podcast on one of our first dates, almost three years ago, and I've been a listener ever since. Our birthdays are only three days apart, and he has sent a birthday song request for me. The last two years, side note, last year on my 40th, you decided that 40 an older warranted the old lady, and I do not approve.

Well, hopefully you're happy about the new sound you get. this year i'd like to turn his song back around and send it to him because he deserves some music birthday love too happy birthday luke uh happy birthday to us i hope this form gets to the right place blah blah blah cool all right well monica and luke you guys are the sweetest couple ever doing little little cross birthday request so sweet uh so this one uh you know don't stop doing that and uh because luke wanted a cover of a queen song i'll play off the don't stop thing. Don't stop me now. Here's a version that came out in 2023 by a favorite here. The band called First

211 from their 17th volume, their 17th album of covers. Love it. Here's First 211 and Don't Stop Me Now. Tonight, I'm gonna have myself a real good time. I feel life in the world. I'll turn it inside out, yeah, I'm floating around in ecstasy, so don't stop me now, don't stop me. Because I'm having a good time, having a good time. On the shoes are leaping through the sky like a tiger to find the laws of gravity. I'm a racing car, pass a file, like a lady can't diver.

I'm gonna go, oh, there's no stopping me. I'm burning through the sky, yeah, 200 degrees, that's why they call me Mr. Valentine. I'm traveling at the speed of light. I want to make a supersonic man out of you. Don't stop in my! I'm having such a good time. I'm having a ball If you want to have a good time

Just give me a call Because I'm having a good time I'm having a good time I don't want to stop it all I'm a rocket ship on my way to Mars On a collision course I am a satellite I'm out of control

I'm a sex machine ready to reload I can't out above without to explode. I'm burning through the sky, yeah. 200 degrees, that's why you call me Mr. Fahrenheit. I'm traveling at the speed of light. I want to make a supersonic woman. Don't stop me.

Don't stop me, don't stop me, don't stop me. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Don't stop me, don't stop me. Ooh, ooh, ooh, I like it. Don't stop me. Have a good time, good time. Don't stop me, don't stop me. the speed of light I want to make a superstar like man out of you hey hey don't

stop me nice I'm having such a good time I'm having a ball if you want to have a good time just give me a call because I'm having a good time yes I'm having a good time I don't want something at home La da da da da da da da da da da da da da Those pants are made for froggin, if you know what I mean. I actually don't. Frogpans.com

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