The Morning Stream - TMS 2812: Time Rice

Episode Date: April 21, 2025

CLARE, THE WALKING PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT. You Get NO Virgins, NO Zombies & NO Lt Yar! I'd Rather Be Whelmed. If Tom Brady Was a Sarsgaard. No Teat for Texas. Darth Rascal. Ain't Nobody Neckin'. I dont like Elder Zzzzzzzzzs. Juice & Fig Newton. Boobie Flag! Battle of the Fortnite Stars. A Long Place to Live. Jonesing For A Tiki Bar. Vibrate Modes. Sigourney Weaver is an X-Wing with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Beneath the sky of falling stars, a blind phoenix guided a lost prince through the whispering forest to claim or reclaim a kingdom forgotten by time. We never saw it as we were too busy making sure there are cool things to sub-toot at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream. Claire, the walking public service announcement. You'll get no virgins, no zombies, and no lieutenant y'ar. I'd rather be whelmed. If Tom Brady was a SARS guard. No teat for Texas.

Darth Rascal. Ain't nobody neckin. I don't like Elder Z's. Juice and Fig Newton. Booby flag. Battle of the Fortnite stars. A long place to live. Jonzing for a tiki bar.

Vibrate modes. Sigourney Weaver is an X-Wing with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Video game fanatics from kids to businessmen are packing into the nation's arcades to play Pac-Man. It's the latest electronic toy. It's already more popular than Space Space. invaders or missile command. So if you're a Pac-Man addict, there's good news. Rated T for too much sass. M.S. It's the morning stream for Monday, April 21st, 2025. I'm Scott. That's Brian.

Well, hi. Hello. And when we count down until we're in the, in the Sin City doing our thing, until the event actually starts. Monday night, first official event. People will be flowing in here and there. I'm coming in a little early, so are you. We obviously have a bunch of stuff going on, you know, Sunday in preparation for a lot of stuff. but most of it comes to a head right around now. Well, a little later today, but, you know. A little later today, like basically seven days and six hours from now. Yeah. Yeah.

And you know what's weird? So most years, I go to Vegas at least twice. Usually TMS Vegas and then some other trip. In fact, this year there's already a second one plan. I haven't even talked about it yet, but I'll definitely be doing that this year. Last year, just the once last year. That was it. Yeah.

Yeah, just the ones from me last year, too. 2022, I went twice because we went with Tanner and, like, I did a second trip. No, no, I did a second trip in 2022 with Tristan, Barry, Chris Brown. The real Chris Brown. The real Chris Brown. Sorry, I should be clear. The real Chris Brown. Yeah, let's not, you know, let's not mess that one up.

Who else? Who else were there? With Barry was there? Was Barry was there? Barry was there. Yeah, was Barry, Tristan, Chris Brown. I can't remember that might have been No, there definitely was somebody

Oh, it was CB's friend maybe Uh-oh, I don't watch out for CB's friend. Dangerous stuff there. Very dangerous, this guy. Yeah, this guy kind of reminds me of John Totoro.

And then I did go again in 2023 for a second concert with Chris Brown to see Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe at the Palms. That's right. That's right. that was a whole separate uh but 2024 man single visit for both of us is weird 24 single visit yeah

except you're saying that you are doing you might be doing that yeah there's a talk there's talk of a thing happening in late june for me that uh is still being decided um let's let's call it a potential concert and you know i don't you know i don't love those but yeah not really a live crowd guy but i do like uh if this hall comes together the kind of crowd and the kind of thing it is is a little bit more down my road. So I'll tell more of what I know. I just don't know yet.

Okay, yeah, sounds good. Yeah, I'll probably let you. Don't give me another excuse to go out there. Actually, you know what? Safest time for you, safest time for you to go and have me not invite myself along as late June because of the damn. Oh, you got the MS-150, baby.

MS-150, perfect timing. You're not going to be tempted at all. You just saved me two, three thousand bucks. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, no worries. All right. Well, we got a lot to do today. We got a big week ahead of this because we got a prep for what's coming up now. Before we do anything else, I've been holding on this for a little bit. Just I wanted to make sure it was okay with all parties involved and all that. As you know, JJ Valentine passed away unexpectedly last week. Has it been a week already? Something like that. Jeez. Good friend of the program. Some of you know him as Cowboys, been around forever, used to raid with this guy, used to come to all the nerd tech. We've had them on this show a few times. Just a wonderful human being. He was unfortunately taken way too early in a car accident.

And we have been wanting to do whatever we can to help since that moment in time. And through a little bit of back and forth, we can now officially tell you where you can go to help if you want to help out Renee and the girls and just kind of make a difference in their lives after this freaking horrendous loss. so there is a GoFundMe set up go and give what you can GoFundMe.com slash well actually you know what the easiest thing to do is don't even use this address just search for

J.J. Valentine's super easy to find him he's the first thing that comes up on GoFundMe.com this link is a little long it is it's a sweet it's a sweet URL I mean for the record it's gofundme dot com slash F slash

we will never forget J.J. Valentine with hyphens between each of the Yeah, it's nice. Just hard to remember. Yeah, hard to remember. So, yeah, like you say, if you just search JJ Valentine, JJ without periods, without a space, just, yeah, it'll give it.

Even with the periods, it'll find it, just put it in. It's pretty good at narrowing it that down. But anyway, it's up there now. It's doing quite well, and they deserve all the help they can get. Renee is the best, and I just want her and her and their daughters to have a little bit of easier time during this freaking terrible loss. It's horrible, yeah. The girls are so big now.

Like last time, that photo I sent you from like three or four years ago, it's like two different ladies now, those two girls. They're growing up. They were like kids and they're growing up fast and it's like no time at all has passed. In fact, I remember I was talking to my mom about this last night. She remembered this at Nurtacular 2013, I think. First one up at Snowbird, he wanted to make, he made a point of seeking out my mom and hugging her, which is a thing J.J. would do, 100% kind of guy was. And she totally remembered it.

She's sitting there in her bed going, oh, yeah, I remember him. He was great. And she says, you know, you don't have, you don't have a lot of people of color out there. So it was nice to see. But I'm like, JJ would laugh at that so hard if I could tell him that. He did. He called, he called, when he would call in, he'd call himself TMS's only black fan. Yeah. Yeah. Which, by the way, I know it's in true, but it sometimes feels like it. And anyway, she totally remembered that. And he just has, he's just the sweetest guy. So please, please, if you can.

And certainly understand if you can't, but maybe hop over there and just read the nice stuff people are writing. And, you know, just kind of get a good. If you never met JJ, I'm horribly sorry that you didn't because he's one of the best of this community ever had in it. And it's up there for you now. So go to gofundme.com. and then just search for J.J. Valentine, and you will find him. For sure.

All right. Speaking of PSA, is Claire in our community. Boy, she's a PSA in and of itself. Isn't she, though? She's a real PSA. Claire, the walking public service announcement. That's right. All in caps, most of the time. All caps public service.

She's ECPSA. That's right. All caps public service announcement. Well, she wants to try to gauge interest in a possible EU, European Union-style UK, something like that. meetup for fans and listeners who might be in that general zone. So Europeans

I don't think it has any restrictions in terms of which part of the EU it covers. And that it even includes the recently Brexited UK. So all of you are Britain, I suppose. Anyway, she wants to gauge all that. How to gauge it? Well, I want you to reach out to her on our

Discord. Her name on Discord is Claire Gak C-L-A-R-E-G-A-K. And if you do that, toss her a DM. There's a there's a thing in there. There's actually, yeah, in the Frog Pants Discord, there is a, what is it called? It's in the meetup forum. It disappeared on me because Euro Tadpool Meetup Testing the Waters topic.

Yeah, which is like kind of an insane thing to easily tell over a show, which is why. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, which is why I'm saying, seek her out. If you can't, if you're not already part of her forums, like Brian said, you'll be able to find it pretty easy if you're already in there. It's just there. Yeah, for sure. But if you are new to it or you're not in our group or you don't belong to our server, you can reach out to Claire directly and let her know that you may have some interest.

We would love it if you would do that. Okay? So let her know. Get with her. Don't worry. She won't all caps yell at you. It's only for us that she does that. Okay.

She's very nice to people she doesn't know. It's only her big American brothers that she gives shit to all the time. That's right. Exactly. That's who she saves all the shit for us, two of us. It's for us, not you. all right enough PSAs it's time for a phone call I'm very sad that we're not going to see him in Vegas but Tanner

Tanner called in I know it's a bummer it sucks yeah not seeing Tanner in May over Zoom though because we're our our D&D campaigns are ramping back up so they're going to start back up in May and I I need to I still need to roll my bard my bard a fighter bard barbarian no what is it's a bard barred barred uh it's a fighter I guess it is It's like a subclass or you did a combo, a combo, hybrid? Yeah, combo class, yeah, yeah. Nice.

I need to write a whole backstory. Maybe somebody can help me in Vegas come up with a backstory for my bard. John Jagger would be very happy that you're doing this. He thinks the bar is the greatest. I wish he was coming, man, you know. I know. I wish all those guys were coming. That'd be great.

Yeah, talk about him and Bo coming at one point, but, yeah. Last year and then things happened and got crazy. And then this year. All the Travis is going to help me out. Awesome. Oh, good. Travis, you got them all, you can hook him up. All right.

You and me, Glitter Gulch Tiki Bar, barred a backstory writing. Good Lord. Perfect. That sounds like a combo worth reckoning with. That's good. I am so, I have not yet checked out the Glitter Gulch Tiki Lounge. I need to check it out. Jones in for a Tiki bar. Is that new?

Been up there just for a bit? Yeah, brand new. I kind of want to see that too. All the other Tiki bars you have to drive from the strip to get to. and this is the first, well, not Strip, Fremont Street, but both of them, right? Like, all the other Tiki bars were way off strip. You had Frankie's, or you still have Frankies. And Golden Tiki, by far, is the best Tiki bar in Vegas.

But that might change once I get to Glitter Gulch, and it's actually stumbling distance from the plaza. Oh, yeah. You could be literally stumbling out of the plaza and on your way to get more booze. That's a great idea. I like it. I didn't know. It was that close. I'll go in there.

Yeah, come with us. Hell, hell, yeah. I'm sure they'll make you a virgin, uh, virgin zombie. Yeah. That's, that's going to be my new, uh, my new, uh, Sean of the Dead sequel. The Virgin Zombie, Sean of the Dead 2. I love it. Virgin Zombie Diaries.

Anyway, Tanner. Tanner, we called it. Yeah, Tanner called in. Um, he had this to say about movies and sneaking around when you're a kid and staying in the theater all day, that stuff we talked about. Yeah. So let's see where he has to say. Hey, Scott and Brian.

It's Tanner. You guys were talking on a recent show. recent episode about going to the movie theater and seeing multiple movies. So when I was in high school, we would do that frequently. We would get like a calendar or open the newspaper, which is where you would look at the movie times. And we would circle a whole bunch of movies like six or seven. And we'd go in the morning and watch the first movie, go out, go to the bathroom, hang out there for a little bit, going to the second movie, and then go back into the bathroom, so on and so on.

We did this quite a few times, never got caught. I really think that the minimum wage employees at the movie theater really don't care. But yeah, it was fun. It was a good time. It would be harder now, though, with preserved seats. Back then, we didn't have to do that. But anyway, sparked a memory that I had. Love the show.

Goodbye. Yeah, you kind of alluded to this. I don't know that would work very well with the assigned seats today. Or maybe that was an additional bit of security they accidentally got because the demand for reserve seating was definitely high. people wanted this, but it also had the side effect of making people less able to cheat the system. Right, to just stick around. But I still think if it's a movie that's not like doing bank, it's just there. Yeah.

And you sneak into the bathroom, come back. They're not going to check the weirder outlying seats. Or if someone says, oh, I think you're in my seat, you just move. You just move. And if you go, like, if you do this deal closer to the, like, do your little bathroom hang out or go to the concessions or whatever, And come as close to the start time of the movie, chances are, you know, even if you have to get up during the trailers, you probably can find an empty spot. Certainly in the corners, the back corners where nobody picks for assigned seats anyone unless they're neckin. They might be back there and neckin.

Oh, my gosh. Our parents' generation sure like to use the term neckin, didn't they? They loved it. Yeah, they did. Yeah. It never carried on. We never said it. It's stupid.

I never went, oh, I was necking with my girl. nobody said it but our parents nobody no we called it making out like you go to at least here in Denver we called it making out the there's lookout mountain which has a nice little parking area that overlooks

the whole city and people go up there to make out yeah all you do is make out we would sometimes say macon on macon her I was macon on my girlfriend but it's kind of just a version of the making out thing but I think they still say this I don't think it's changed

I think that, yeah, I think neck and died with our, well, our parents. I think hooking up probably is what they, oh, do they say that now? Do you know up only mean doing it? I thought hooking up required an end result of the wiener and the vagina got put on each other. Pedro and Virginia. Yeah. I'm pretty sure Pedro had to drive to Virginia for that to be, I don't know, actually, now that you said, I don't know. Let us know, you know, you kids these days, the, you know, the huge throng of,

millennials, I think we're cool enough to listen to. Let us know what they call. Yeah. I think that's the Zs now. I don't even think millennials are like 40s, aren't they? What are millennials now? Are you guys all in your late 30s and 40s? Late 20s and 30s, yeah.

I think Zs are like Nick's a Z. Carter's a Z. He's late 20s, right? Yeah, well, he's 24, almost 25. Okay, mid-20s. Taylor, or Carter technically is a Z. She's maybe Elder Z, so she's, 27?

We're aging quick. We are aging out, is what we're doing. We really are. Yeah. Some poor shit. Speaking of movies, though, you saw one. Yeah, I did. We went to the movies yesterday afternoon.

We don't have grandkids, Scott. We don't have, you know, our kids or, well, our son and his fiancé had to work yesterday. So really, we just went and had lunch with Tina's mom. on for Easter. I took over some ham, some deviled eggs, some scallop potatoes, et cetera. And then we went to the movies and saw drop. I don't know what that is.

Starring, it's a Bloom House production starring Megan Fahey, who, did you watch, are you, where are you in White Lotus? Are you watching White Lotus? I'm a whole season no, I saw last season, so I just don't know about this season, so I don't know where.

You saw, okay, last season. So do you, you might vaguely remember the two couples that went to the White Lotus together, Aubrey Plaza being one of those couples and then the other the other couple, the blonde lady, her name is Megan Fahey.

The actress is Megan Fahey. Oh, I see her face now. I know who this is. Yep. I do remember from that. Okay. Yep. Anyway, we're about to see a Megan Fahey Renaissance because she's going to be in everything

after this. This is her first kind of leading lady role but she plays a woman going on a on a first date and she meets her her date at this fancy restaurant at the top of a building in i think chicago it looks like and uh she uh starts getting these messages kind of the equivalent of apple's airdrop where um she's getting these messages saying forget your date want to have some fun and now and then it starts to turn dark and saying oh look at your security cameras and she looks at her home security cameras and then there's somebody in her house with her sister who's babysitting her young son and and it turns into like a you know do what I tell you to do or your son dies don't call the cops don't tell the police

you know, don't tell anybody in the restaurant, don't tell your date. And she basically has to do a series of things or her son dies. And this, it's very good. It's not, you know, it's not fantastic, but it's really good. And it's tropey and predictable, but well done with the new technology. Like we've seen these tropes before of, of, Red eyes. I think somebody brought up Red Eye. Yeah, Rainbow Bright. Very much like Red Eye where it's, one person knows what's going on. Like, they're the person on the plane, and they've got somebody next to them. They've got Killian Murphy telling him to do all this stuff, and they can't alert the flight attendants or the secured or anything like that. Very similar to that style. It feels like about like 30% of the Black Mirror episode plot lines, you know what I mean?

Kind of, yeah, yeah. A lot of them do this thing where it's like... Exactly. Yeah, this is right up my alley, dude. I'm going to watch this the hell out of this. Sounds great. Yeah, it's good. And then once you've seen it, I have a very big complaint that I'm going to want to talk to you about.

But it will make, obviously, it won't make any sense until you see it. and it's a little bit of a, it's like, hmm, yeah, that is an interesting thing, but we'll talk about it after, after you see it. Cinners, I definitely, everybody's talking about sinners, and if we weren't seeing drop yesterday, we would have seen sinners. There was no time that really worked out well with having lunch with Tina's mom. Possibly I could see us, maybe seeing sinners this week, but there's so much prep before Vegas that I don't know.

Yeah, we were going to try to, too, but I don't know how we're going to get it in. We could try, but we might not make it. By the way, Michael Landon, you know Michael Landon from our childhood? Yeah, from touched by an angel and little house on the prairie and stuff like that. Yeah, this is son, Christopher Landon. Yeah, he's the father of Christopher Landon, director of this film. Oh, I was wondering. Okay, I saw Landon, I thought, I didn't give any further thought to look it up, but.

I looked it up, but he doesn't look much like his dad. It's not really got his face necessarily. No, he looks like. Like, if Tom Brady was a SARS guard. Yeah. Tom Brady, Sarzgard. That's dead on. Yeah, I saw that name and it went, Landon.

How many Landons are there? It turns out he's related to the one we're thinking of. So this guy actually wrote, he was screenwriter for Disturbia, did most of the films in the paranormal activity series. Happy Death Day. Freaky. we have a ghost like he's he's been doing stuff with the uh the bloom house universe for a while yeah he's doing the horror all the horror movies the how many did he let's see did he direct

the original no he didn't direct the original paranormal but no he didn't start directing him until the marked ones and i'd heard really good things about happy death day yeah it's it's a comedy horror groundhog day i think i could get into that let's see you it's think you might like it. Happy Death Day to you becomes self-aware of its, it becomes aware of itself, if that makes sense. Yeah. Loses its footing a little bit. Yeah. Happy Death Day, I'd say, is really good. Happy Death Day to you is, it's, it's funny. It has its moments. That's interesting. Yeah. All right. I'm, yeah. It's freaky is basically a Freaky Friday hard. with Vince Vaughn.

Oh, that sounds all right. Yeah, that's actually pretty good, too. I can't remember who else is in it. Catherine Newton. Oh, yeah. From, yeah. Her brother, Figg, is one of my favorite actors. Fig Newton.

Juice and Fig Newton. She's your aunt, uh, aunt, uh, Ant Man's daughter, uh, stature soon. Soon, coming soon to a young Avengers movie near you. Oh, that's right. I keep forgetting that's a thing. That's going to happen. Yeah.

uh well there you go they've been setting everything up they have to so anyway uh drop uh good um how many what did you score we need a score oh i will give it um uh uh three and three quarter vibrate modes out of five that's not bad yeah vibrate modes because the phone all it gives the phone's always going okay no i like that there's a lot of that in the movie well there you have it that looks great what's it called again sorry drop drops it's just called drop DROP drop so it really is kind of based on air drop that's the whole it is it 100% is like this doesn't work without a technology of being able to send a message to somebody in proximity to you who happens to have that that feature unlocked on their on their phone right I had that happen on a plane once I declined it because it weirded me out it was like I'm not talking to whoever there was some dude who like who was uh sending photos of hijacking material to people on a plane. Oh, yeah, he got big time busted for that, right?

Big time busted, yeah. Yeah, he's kind of screwed. I think we're going to have some fun at TMS Vegas, seeing whose airdrop is open. Yeah. Whoa, Christopher Landon wrote that new Hard Eyes horror movie. I've been wanting to see that. Oh, really?

Look at all this Michael Landon's kids do cool stuff business going on. Although maybe growing up on that house was scary or something because it's all horror stuff. I don't know. Yeah. All right. Well, there you have it. We're going to play a game,

done away in his way in his way on his way on his way he might be in his own way i don't know i don't know what he does i mean of course he's in his own way kidding me yeah it could be uh are you kidding me he with that so we're going to make that happen if i can get him to ring through here looks like it's sort of working okay ringing ringing he no answer we hope he answer here he answer All right, Brian Dunaway joins us for a little bit of the Monday half asses. Hello, Brian. How are you? Oh, I's gotten, Brian. Hello, good morning.

Hello. Hello there. Oh, hello there. Hello. How are you doing? Are you doing all right? You hanging in there? Obviously, you can tell from all the hello.

Hello. I made it through Easter, and here we are on the other side. It feels like I barely made it through Easter. with how much we had to travel around and I got more family this week. Everyone's deciding that they want to do all this stuff the week before I leave, all my extended family, coming in town again. I know it's all for good things, like meeting my mom and trying to do meetings with the people are doing the care and all that.

We're at this pivot point. It's all just a little insane, though, because I'm like, you guys, me and two of my sisters are going to be in Vegas. We have to, like, figure this shit out. So quit overwhelming me. Anyway, enough about my complaints. Let's get going here. Hey, Brian, we're going to play a game.

You're going to win or lose. I don't know which, but Brian, I'm going to have to explain the rules first or else we won't know what to do. I know. I'll always win. Welcome to the morning half ass is a trivia game where I'm going to be giving you to the answers.

I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers. Three of those answers are correct. Three of them, like having your date wonder why you keep looking at your phone is incorrect. Depending on how confident you feel with each category, you can provide one, two, or three guesses.

But if you get any of those guesses, wrong. You get zero points for that round. You want to get them all right or or get out or GTF because getting one wrong doesn't matter how many you get right. You get one right. You get a point. Get two right. You get three points. Get three right. You get five points. I almost forgot how many points you get for these things. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. And I've pulled us a couple of contestants from members of the tadpool that aren't able to be here live. Scott, you're playing for Chris in Philadelphia. Chris Terrell. in Philadelphia. That's awesome. Real quick, while we're

talking about Chris, for some reason, it kicked me out to an air page, and then when I try to get up again, it says, game is full. Let me reload and see if that solves that. That's going to give Brian quite the advantage. All right, see if it, uh... Yeah, yeah. Let me read. I'll refresh.

Hold on here. Okay. It says game is full. All right, I will reset players. So that should kick both of you out. Now try it. I didn't do anything. Why do I have to suffer? It's not your fault. There you go. You're in, I'm in. We're all in. Everyone's in. Good. All right. You're in. You're in. I'm in.

urine. I'm in urine. I'm in. I'm in. I still don't know how to play card sharks. All right. Climb out of that urine. I'll teach you. Oh, I can't teach you in Vegas because you're not coming, damn it. Brian, you're going to be playing for Marcus in East Long Meadow, Massachusetts. Oh, that is a long

place to live. It is a long place to live. That's a long address to have to keep right in the envelopes. There you go. There are our winners or our players. I'll tell you the prizes after the game. Let's get two in the game. Those are our winners. They both win. Everybody wins.

Everybody wins. They actually both get a copy of card sharks. All right, let's get to your first category. Did you guys see a gladiator? Gladiator 2? I did. I did. In theaters. I didn't see it yet. It's on my list. Oh, gosh. Well, there might be an advantage. No, not really.

Name which of these six are famous gladiators? Your choices are Plutarch, Plotinus, flama, xenophon, Crixus, and Tetrates. They'll sound like pseudo-cursed words. Yeah. Clutarch.

Blutarch. Or maybe some, maybe some Klingon. Say it like Klingon. Plutarch. Plontius is without honor. You got pluck in my Plutarch. So three of these,

these all sound like bullshit, but obviously three are right. Yeah. I'm a xenophon. I'm fighting. Gladiating. Well, let me, it won't mean let me select.

Is that, what? Is it showing? Oh, you said it's open audience. Yeah, okay, here we go. What? I'm sorry,

I've already answered mine. I've already, and it's too late. Too late. You're going to have to remember what you picked, because you're going to have to pick it again. I'm going to let, I'm going to reset the game and let's see if Scott can get in.

All right. Let's try this again. Is it all set? Can I get in? Try it now. See if you can get in. All right. Here we go.

Try it now. If you can get in, all right. This is the conversation to have my It looks like it's good All right, hold on Let me give you these again Okay, good

Now hide your screen before you show Brian what you're choosing Yeah, I got to move it There we go Okay Let's try this again Oh there we go It's working this time

All right good That sounds really weird I try to click on Scott as a gladiator But that's not an option Apparently, it's just on the screen Scott Scotchus John Sonicus Maximus All right I have chosen two

out of the many options. You have chosen poorly. You have both chosen the same too. You both chose platinous and tetritees or tetrates. I don't know how it's a good one is pronounced. Tetraite. Tetraites. Yeah.

People who play Tetris professionally. That's the, he's six-sided. What is he? What is the tetrahedricedron? It's definitely not six. What is? 10. Oh, 16, no.

10, isn't it? Yeah. Tetrahed. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, yeah. Tetra, something. Anyway. Anyway, that is correct, by the way.

Tetris, Tetris. Tetris. Tetris. It's pronounced Tetades, but, you know. By all means, I don't think it is. I don't think it is. I don't know. Well, it might be.

You know, it might be the T-E-S. Yeah, I don't know. Anyway, that is correct. Good job. Your other choice was Plotinus, Plotinus. Plotinus was a philotinus. Damn it. Really?

Yeah. Flama and Crixus were also glad eaters. Plutarch. Plutarch is a writer and Xenophon is a philosopher as well. Crixus, I think they used in one of these shows or movies, maybe one of the Spartacus show or something. And so I thought that was a trick. I played the Xenophon in marching band. Did you?

Sweet. You're real good at it. I played the Plutarch. Nobody would date me when I played the Plutarch. Me the ball. Or tarch. Anyway. Tark.

Whatever it is. All right. Let's get to question number two. Question about music. Music. Far more closer to things that we are more familiar with. Which of these songs contain the word sapphire? Sapphire, please come to the main stage.

Which of these songs contain the word sapphire? Circle of Life by Elton John. Let's Do It by Cole Porter. The Wait by the band. My Ship by Kurt Vile and Ira Gershwin. Get Behind the Mule by Tom Waits and Lucy in the sky with diamonds by the Beatles. My gosh, dude.

I don't have to know. Scott's going to take a guess. You don't know shit. You're going to have to take guesses, all right? Not even guessing yet, Brian is. I will. It's just bump you out again, Scott. What'd you do?

I have nothing. Just sitting here looking at it. No idea. What'd you do? Me, no, no. Something wrong with system. Can you rejoin? Let me try. Did it let me back in?

No. Can I get... I can reset game again. There's no points in for school. Oh, I did let me in. I don't know why, but now I don't have the window for adding my answers. Maybe it'll clear. Maybe.

Maybe it'll clear. All right, well, let's give us. shot. See what happens. All right. So now I can choose mine now? Yeah, you can choose yours now. Okay, I was hesitant. I was hesitant. Don't look at the YouTube video. Don't look at the YouTube video. Scott's showing his. He is.

I never had a YouTube video. That's all I've got. It's all I have. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't mean he's right. Yeah, it doesn't mean I'm right. But I got, I only have any, I only got one window right now. Facts. Facts. All right, I don't know. I'm just locking number two. I'm locking in a two. I don't know. I got no clue. All right. Well,

good news is you let's see, you all chose different ones. Both of you chose, you chose four of them, but you have chosen poorly. Between the two of you, you have chosen the correct three answers.

Yes. Oh, shit. Does that mean we also selected the wrong? Well, possibly. Yeah. We'll see where we did. TRPW says, technically Elton John wrote the music circle of life. Tim Rice wrote the word So Tim Rice wrote Sapphire, if it's there.

The question isn't the songs that were written. Elton John released the song, right? It was an old John song. Oh, yeah. I see what you mean. I do know what you mean, TRPW, but that's a, that is a tenuous well, actually. It's a very flimsy well, actually. Yeah, TRPW starts with tenuous today with the T.

Would you, well, actually? Right. Would you pull up that song in a streaming service? It's a Circle of Life by Elton John. It doesn't say Circle of Life by. Whenever I hear this, I always just want to go, fart? Fart? It's like, he's doing this little back and forth, little mortal combat move.

I like it. Well, I'll tell you right now, Circle of Life is correct. That is one of the songs that contains the word sapphire. So Tim Rice, or as TRPW put, Time Rice, did put the word sapphire into the song's Circle of Life. My Ship by Kurt Vile and Ira Gershwin, also. So contains the word sapphire. That means that one of you is right and one of you is wrong with your other other guests. And I'm going to tell you it is not Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

It is Get Behind the Mule by Tom Ways. Completely guessed. The only one of these songs that I don't know is Get Behind the Mule by Tom Wage. I know a lot of Tom Waits music, but I don't know that one. I guessed at it because it just seemed obscure and I don't know. It just seemed like a good guess. What do you think the lyric is, Scott? I have no idea.

Far is up the Mule's ass. Sometimes a mule Get some sapphires I don't know I've no idea Exactly Really weird All right

I got hit the face Now how will this show me the screen I guess I can try refresh it again I don't know what to do Should I just look? I don't know either because the If I reset game It'll right away your points

Good news That would be too bad That would be horrible Good news Well here's the bad news The good news is It gave me a window to say open for audience, so I did that.

But it's still the same window. Wait, no, no, no. I'm sorry. Now I have two audience windows, and it took away my lock-in window. Oh, no, really? Let's see what happens when we do question number three. Yeah, try reset in it.

There we go. Okay, I think we're okay. I think. Okay. All right. Do you think you have cookie, monster? You have cookie. Problem?

You have cookie. Which of these are states that are also avenues in Monopoly? The Game Monopoly, you get all the avenues on there? Which of these are states that are also avenues? Your choices are Massachusetts, North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Vermont. Three of those are avenues in Monopoly. Well, shit. I know one for sure, but why is the rest...

Well, the rest of it's messing with me. I don't think North Carolina's in there. I don't think how they're in there. All right. But maybe it is. Shit. I'm just being safe. Okay.

All right. Scared. Scott locked in with two. Brian locked in with three. I had to. No, I didn't have to. Durn it.

You didn't have to. Let's see here. Scott's coming into this game or this round with three points. So, yeah, Brian, if you only. did too. You could tie if Scott gets it wrong or you could beat them with three if you got all three of yours right. Let's see. I'm going to beat him with three. Here comes.

What you got. Illinois. Yeah, that's in the red zone. Illinois, Illinois Avenue. That was the only one I knew for sure. It's a, that is a, by the way, Illinois, the whole red zone is your best, the red

and the orange are your two best. Right, exactly. Those are your best properties to go for because they are landed on the most frequently, thanks to their proximity to jail. So Illinois, correct. Good job. You both selected that one, so that's good.

Illinois. Down in the light blue area, you've got Vermont on that first stretch, the second cheapest batch of hotels or of properties in the game. Vermont Avenue being one of them. Well done. Very good. That means those are the two Scott selected. So he's good so far.

Oh, he wins then. Well, we don't know. He also chose. Yeah, he kind of did. Point-wise, you've got six points. And even if you get Michigan right, which... I wasn't ditched about Michigan. Oh, shit.

North Carolina. Damn it. Yeah. North Carolina Avenue in the green, in the green zone. Massachusetts, Ohio, and Michigan, not avenues in the game. I don't know why North Carolina sound. And I hope I didn't screw you up, done away, making not choose North Carolina. You did.

I was going to, I was hovering over it. And then Scott said, nope, not North Carolina. Really? Oh, bad. It would be great. Oh, it kicked me out again. This thing doesn't like me at all. It's weird.

Golly, yeah, it's giving you problems today. I don't know why. It's really weird. Well, the good news is that, Scott, you won, despite your browser giving you fits. Yeah. Which means that because of that, Chris in Philadelphia, Chris Terrell in Philadelphia, also wins a pair of games, courtesy of Wesley. Racine and Cavern of Dreams are coming your way. Nicely done.

Yeah. But Marcus in East Long Metal Mass, you're getting a game as well. Nomad Survival. I know nothing about any of these games, but perhaps you guys do. I don't think I know. This is one of those days where I don't know any of these titles offhand, I don't think. Gotcha. Nomad Survival sounds awesome because it sounds like a retro 8-bit kind of thing.

That looks pretty cool. Oh, really? Oh, nice. I'd be down with us. That's cool. Well, there you have it then. Nicely done, everyone involved. That means you get one of these.

congratulations. And Dunaway, you get a... Sorry, man, sorry. But the good news is... My week was going so good, too. It's going to go great later because today at 4 p.m., today at 4 p.m., we're doing play retro, and we're talking about a really great old game. Tell people what we're doing, Donaway. Absolutely. So we're looking at Thief the Dark Project. Oh, did I play much of this back in the day? No, I did not. Did I play a lot of this past week? yeah I did you did yeah it's uh it it moved up in ranks quickly I see why it is so well regarded played thief one and two Scott are you a thief head I am a thief head I love the thief yep when we decided to do this one it was a great pick for me because uh thief was an incredible game in its day and it's hard to believe 20 years of past or more since uh since we first got it so I can completed the demo from the PC gamer back in the day that's about it oh man so you're in for

some real fun yeah I wish they There's a lot of games that benefited from some of the ideas in Thief, and we still see it today in some games, but they've never properly been able to bring Thief itself back, and it's a bummer, and it sucks. There's no reason they shouldn't do it. Like a stealth game where you're trying to sneak around and steal stuff? Oh, yeah.

Like, imagine, like, rogue, it's like rogue the game, because basically it's daggers and arrows and all that shit. Like, it's what you think it is when you hear the term of the beach. Yeah. Good news. There's some stuff coming up in 2026 with the, thief property. But we'll also be talking about coconut monkey from PC gamer. Remember that? Yeah. That guy. Oh, yeah. A little coconut monkey. I remember that. Yeah. I didn't. I didn't crack.

Jesus. Well, that's all coming up later. 4 p.m. Catch it live here at frogpants.tv or Twitch.tv slash frogpans. Either one will get it. And Brian Dunaway, I just wanted to tell you to kiss our butts. Okay. He's out of here. All right, we got time for a little bit of news, so we're going to do some. Here it comes. It's time for the news, brought to you by. Brought to you by Daily Music Headlines. Go to Daily Music Headlines.com to sign up.

Today, find out about a couple brand new cover songs, one from Snoop that he released on 420. Go figure. Tom Petty, sort of a Tom Petty cover slash reimagining. He actually released a music video for it yesterday. as opposed to the song, which came out last year. Also, Marilyn Manson dropped a brand new cover yesterday. And if you've been waiting for this moment for all your life, you might be able to guess what song he covered.

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One knows one at one. It's one. Virginia flag. I don't know if you've ever seen it, but it's in the news. This is a real Virginia flag. We're not talking about your euphemism, Virginia. No, or a flag associated with your euphemistic use of the word Virginia. Sure, yes. Actual state of Virginia, history-state in this fair union of ours. A little less fair these days, but whatever, we're working on it.

The flag looks like this. Here, I'll see if I can make a bigger version of it. Image and new tab. Let's just make it larger. Okay, so there you go. You get an idea of what we're talking about here, because this thing has a little booby on. it. Okay. It does have a little booby on it.

Guess how many boobs I saw today, Marge? Yeah. One. I guess how many? One boob. Whoops, shit. Let me... That's not going to work. Hold on. Let me fix that. All right. Anyway, while I try to F up the screen, there's a boobie flag.

And here's the deal. The Virginia's bare-breasted state flag and a lesson about the Commonwealth of Virginia have been banned for some students in a Texas school district. So Texas getting all prudy about the booby. Prudy booby. Why would, why does

Texas care about the Virginia flag? Care about your own boring ass lone star flag? Well, it's because you have other states histories in your, in your school system. So it's like, oh, we're going to learn today the history of Idaho. And here is their flag. And here is how they were founded. And they became a

state on such. It's like that kind of stuff. And as it turns out, their flag's got a big old teat right there. The big picture. Lamar Let's see School District around 30 minutes

from Houston last fall removed a section of sorry about Virginia from its online learning platform used by three to fifth graders

third to fifth graders Texas Freedom to Read project co-director Anne Russie tells Axios the reason the bare breasted on Virginia's flag a picture of which

includes that is included in the lesson it violated the district's recent adopted ban on any quote any visual depictions or illustrations of frontal nudity in elementary school library material. That's according to what the Lamar district confirmed to Roosie and the Freedom of Information Act request. No, no complaints about the fact that she looks like she's carrying an award from the porn awards.

Yeah, what the hell is that thing? Geez, I don't like that at all. I've called it in Vegas during CES every year, the AVNs. Is that the one? AVN. It looks like she's carrying an award from the AVNs. Also, they don't talk about how she's standing on a dude. Who's she standing on a king?

I think that's what that is. Let me zoom in some and then see if I can show it. There we go. So this guy's with his crown off to the side. I assume that's a king. I guess so, yeah. It's not really, not really dressed like a king. She decrowned him.

Yeah, and then had a wardrobe malfunction in the process. Yeah. Gonna have you naked by the end of this flag. That's right. I don't know why they're so uptight about it, but they are. They said, let's see, the lesson notes of the state seal and flag depict the Roman goddess of Virtus, standing over a defeated tyrant, along with the state's motto, Siksempra Tyrannis, that motto, the lesson tells students means, thus always to tyrants. Well, I agree. If you're going to have you, whether your boobie's out or not, stamp back.

out the tyrants. They hate those guys. They're dicks. That's always two tyrants. That's right. Smush them. Smush them with your bare feats and your big pencil-like trophy penis thing and then your boob with your boob out. There's a little bit of a follow-up though. Quentin Tarantino loves this flag. So

he's super into it. Not for the boob, it turns out. It's the east down here. The foot real close to this guy's face. Yeah. If he would make any change, it would be get rid of the guy's slippers as well or get rid of his sandals. I don't know there's only two bare feet on this flag

I'm going to make this my 10th movie my 10th movie then I'm going to retire anyway so there's that good luck down there in Texas a man who didn't want to look after girlfriend's pets sent a bomb threat to the crew she was on this is how we got out of having the pets

geez it's an extreme extreme move by this guy I don't want to watch your dog yeah I'm going to call in a threat make the whole cruise not happen 19 year old man was upset at his girlfriend for going on a cruise has been sent to prison for making a bomb threat to the ship. Joshua Lowe from Michigan admitted he was annoyed that he had to watch pets while

his partner and her family went on a Caribbean cruise, leading to him to take drastic measures. Sending an email to Carnival Corp cruise lines, Mr. Lowe casually wrote the following, quote, Hey, I think someone might have a bomb on your sunrise cruise ship, unquote. Dude, what a dumb ass. Wow. No kidding. What do you think that? What did he think was going to happen? Yeah, my gosh. I'm glad they figured out like it was an anonymous threat. I mean, I'm glad it was traceable, basically, back to him. Yeah, because he's that dumb. It says what followed was a search of over a thousand rooms.

So they went and searched all thousand rooms of the ship. The sunrise liner was headed to Jamaica and had to be diverted to a different port after authorities were alerted. Assistant U.S. Attorney Niels Kessler said FBI agents traced the email to Lowe, who was living with his girlfriend's family. There's your other problem. A real class act, too. Yeah, real class. Lowe admitted to sending the message, but he was quite upset that the family went on the cruise while leaving him behind to care for the pets. Anyone making a bomb threat should expect to be taken at his word, says the court filing.

Fortunately, this particular hoax did not result in injury of any kind. So that's good. He was sentenced to eight months in prison for making the false bomb threat on Monday. The offense carries a maximum penalty up to five years. In a letter to the U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney, Mr. Lowe said, this is all my fault and I take full responsibility, man. well yeah good because you're going to get sued

by a bunch of people who either bought excursions on you know in Jamaica that had to get diverted and and ruined our trip

and you know caused us inconvenience and heartache and all that sort of thing he's dude's about to get a lot of lawsuits yeah you're not done you're five months

or eight months however long you're in jail that will not be the end of this I'm afraid. So good luck to you. Before I forget, because we just got news about this, the Pope died. Pope died, right? Yeah, yeah.

And the Pope died on Easter now. Oh, right. Didn't even think about that. Geez, okay. Now, here's the problem with that. There's probably people reading a lot into that, aren't there? That's exactly my point. I hate that because it's coincidental.

It's the definition of coincidental, but it won't matter. People are going to tie this somehow. to the idea that he died on Easter. Yet again, proof that the Pope is the all-wielding bleeper-pop-la-d-d-de-ba-blir. And I don't know. Like, you know, like, the Pope die in on Easter Sunday. And I don't know if, you know, Ray Fines has voted yet on who he's going to pick for the new guy. Exactly. Oh, my God.

I'm so glad that this step and after, like, we all know what they have to do. All right. And everybody together. They got to have their little polls. their silent auction, ding the bell. That hasn't happened yet, right? No smoke, white smoke or anything? Oh, gosh, no.

I think it's too soon. I think it's going to be, they haven't even, people, the, the cardinals have not even fully yet assembled in the Vatican to do the deal. Let's see here. I mean, the last, just think about it, when the last things that Pope got to see was the back of Vance's head, that ugly head walking away. That's one of the last visions in his head. A lot of nightmare.

But anyway, yeah, weird to have your Pope die on your, I mean, did it happen within the days, hours of, or did it happen early this morning? That's my question here. Oh, I thought it happened. Yeah, I thought 7.30 last night is when the, when the news came in, and then it got reported a little bit later. It must be. But I'm not 100% sure. I had the news on this morning in the background. I could have heard them say 7.30 or something.

Here we go. age of 88 on the 21st. Oh, that is today. Hold on. Oh, 7.30 a.m. Okay, 7.30 a. Monday. So this morning at 7.30. Oh, good. Maybe we dodge that bullet then. Because I hate when people. The Pope didn't. No, the Pope did. That's slow 88-year-old bullet finally got him. That's right. Finally got him. Yeah. Um, he, of all the popes that I've, that have been around in my lifetime, I think he was probably my favorite, if he can have a favorite pope. Yeah, yeah. He's a good, seemed like a good guy, kind of, kind of progressive in a weird way. I wanted to, you know, had more, more messages about taking care of all people and not just, you know, the elite folks. Did you ever see, um, the two popes with, uh, um, it's, Anthony, um, it's Hannibal Lecter. Oh, Anthony, uh, why did Anthony Kedis come to my mind? Kirkins came to my mind. Anyway, and Jonathan Price. Jonathan Price looks like the frickin' Pope.

That's, that's what I was going to say. It's like, that is such a great Hopkins. Thank you, Luke Seatwalker. But that is such a great film to watch now because it does, just because he, Jonathan Price looks so much like him. It's a really good, uh, really good role and a really good movie. Yeah, I still haven't seen it. I need to.

I meant to and didn't. I like those movies. I liked the new vote pope thing that we just watched. Conclave was awesome. Conclave was really, really good. Yeah, it was really good. Pope serves to be very popular. Yeah, very popular.

Popular. That's going to do it for our news today. We're going to take a break when we come back from said break. We are going to hang out with Stephen Schleiker. Turns out there's a lot of Star Wars shit that just dropped. There is, yes. Yeah, we're going to talk about it. It's actually good because I missed all of it.

I've been so busy. I haven't had time. So I don't know. I know about a Mandalorian trailer. It's all I know. I know about a new movie, but I'm curious if there's, oh, there is a new video game too. Yeah. Oh, the game I knew about, for the game got leaked actually like a week and a half ago. But nobody was sure what was going on.

And it's all been confirmed. It's exactly what I was hoping it was going to be. I'm so excited. Oh, really? It's X-com, right? I guess we'll talk about it more. It's basically X-com and Star Wars, yeah. We'll talk about that in a minute.

Before that, though, Brian, why don't you tell us about this song, we've been teasing. Yeah. This is a song, this is something different from us, although it's going to, different source, I guess. This is a performer named Tundi Adebimpe. He's got a brand new album. It's his debut solo album. It's called The Black Bolt's, and it's available now via subpop records.

He is the singer of the band TV on the radio. So you've heard this guy before. He also co-founded the band. This guy is amazing, really, really good stuff. And this is a, this song It kind of goes a whole different direction from TV on the radio with more of a dancey, synth-heavy track.

The song is called Somebody New. Here is Tunei at a Bimpe from his brand new album, The Black Bolt's with Somebody New. Can't seem to shake you. Got no complaints. I just want to be somebody new. There's nothing in the world that we can say about this.

How about this heavenly vibration coming through? How can we feed this love? How can we be somebody new? There's nothing in the world where we can do. What about this heavenly vibration coming through? How can we feed this love? Roller like a stormy Like a storm cloud

Rolling in fount Founds Free of the pie I just want to be somebody new There's nothing in the world that we can say about this Heavenly vibration coming through How can we feed this love I just want to be somebody new

There's nothing in the world that there's nothing in the world that we're How about this? Heavenly vibration coming through? How can we feed this love? I just want to be somebody here. There's nothing in the world that we can say this heavenly vibration coming through. How can we beat this love?

I just want to be somebody new. What is there nothing world that we can say about this? Delivoration coming through? How can we feed this love? What on earth are you doing in that idiotic looking outfit? And don't you dare call me, Kate? He's just ignorant. And we're back.

Who was that again? I'd love hearing that guy's name being said. Yeah, I'll say it one more time. Tunday Adebimpe. A brand new solo album from him called The Black Bolt's. No sign of the rest of being humans. This is the guy from TV on the radio and the song's called Somebody New. It's like an ASMR feeling I get from that name.

I can't explain it. It's like a little tingly I get from when you said. Speaking of which, I think I found a, I think Romona, I may have found a sound that like taps into this proto. She's still only a year old, but I think it tapped into her proto-ASMR response. And it's this Kim's nails against the textured wall in one of the rooms. If she goes, the baby goes, hey, like that.

The whole time you do it. It's so weird. Weird of this out. Because she never does that with anything else, but apparently that's the thing. All right. Let's get Stephen all up in here with his business. Oh, it's major spoiler, Scott. Don't spell Stephen.

All right, here we go. All righty. He's on his way, and we are on our way, and we got to play his thing. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dalla, dollar bills, y'all. He is a huge freaking nerd, and he joins us from Hayes, Kansas, and the headquarters of Major Spoilers.com.

Stephen, welcome back to TMS. Hello, Scott. Good morning, Brian. How are you? How are things? How was your Easter? It was Easter. Yeah? Do you do egg stuff? Your kids are too old, probably, right? No, no, no. One of them is about to graduate eighth grade, and the other is about to graduate high school. So I threw them, I threw them both a bag of Sour Patch kids and said, happy Easter. There you go. That's all they need at that age, right? I mean, the little kids we had over yesterday, they loved it.

They were like, oh, my gosh, I think I see. see one under the rocks. I'm going to get all dirty and their parents going, no, that dress is new. Don't go under the thing. It was one of those days, but it was great because I don't have to take any responsibility for anything. I can just throw candy. I put a dollar in a few of these eggs and they were like, money. What? Like Van thinks he's rich now because he's got like four bucks. Oh, that's great. Anyway, well, it's good to have you here, Stephen. We're going to get right to it. It turns out we had a hell of a Star Wars time in the last few days. Star Wars Celebration, Japan. Oh, my gosh. Good Lord.

So, do you want to, I didn't make really any, like, list here. Yeah, so how do you want to do it? I figured we'd start with movies, then go to TV shows, books, comics, toys, and then wrap up with the games. Sounds good. Hit him with a big thing, end with a big thing. Sounds great. Yeah, good. All right.

So, on the movie side, Mandelorian and Grogu, coming May 22nd, 2026. This is going to be, you know, the follow up to the TV series. It's got all the same people involved. There were a couple of things that they did mention in this presentation. We lose Steven We lost David There is now Now you're back

You're back I think you cut out For some of my back Before you get too much This is a movie right Yeah this is a full on movie This is not a TV series So first thing

The opening sequence has a giant Atat Walker I don't know Some people may call them AT ATs But those people are wrong A giant Atat Walker That is a life size Full scale

vehicle that they had to build for this movie because they're shooting this in IMAX so you're going to be able to see the Mandalorian and Grogu in IMAX. Also, Sigourney Weaver is joining the cast as Colonel Bishop who is an X-wing mechanic dog trainer

an X-wing video game player Yeah, X-ling, there he's back We lost you after X-Wing Oh, okay, yeah, he's an X-wing an X-wing pilot. Let's see if I stick around this time. And then also, for people who are fans of Star Wars Rebels, Zeb

is making his live action appearance as the Mandalorian's a sidekick in this movie. That's cool. I thought his sidekick was Grogu. I guess he doesn't have Grogu right now. I mean, Grogu is Grogo. Nah, I mean, yeah, wherever Grogoo

is at. We'll have to find out when we get to the TV shows in a minute. The other one that was announced, the big movie, a year later, May 28, 2027, Star Wars Starfighter from director Sean Levy and starring Ryan Gosling. That feels like, you know what that feels like? That feels like they're getting back. Okay, so they were going to do the Rogue Squadron thing, and then it got canceled, the Wonder Woman

director was supposed to do it, and then she quit, or I don't know how it all worked, and then we're all left going, well, crap, we're never going to get like our pilot cool, you know, thing, either Rogue Squadron based on the books or something else entirely. This sounds like the something else entirely that's still set in Fighter Town. So that's cool. I'm excited. Yeah, yeah. It takes place five to six years after the rise of Skywalker.

So this isn't a prequel or a sequel. It's its own standalone thing. Most of the movies historically have been about the Skywalker stuff. Both Mandalorian and Grogu and Starfighter are a break from that. So that may mean there's a new direction that everybody wants to go. And so we've got two movies back to back coming up. Now, some people may be asking, what about James Mangold's Dawn of the Jedi

or what about the new Ray the movie with Daisy Ridley or the Taika Watiti movie or the Simon Kinberg movie as far as what Lucasfilm said they said those are all still in development it's just Star Wars Starfighter had such a good story and it was as close

to being to go into production as everything else that they're like we're green lighting this now and we're going to get it out as quickly as we can All right well I mean look all those everything you've said so far is exciting You know It's better, Scott, when we look at TV shows

Oh, well, let's get into that Because my biggest beef with these events Is that it really is hype happy Like it's real good hype And then later you're like Oh yeah, that old Republic thing They tried to do wasn't very, you know, like we kind of get disappointed So I'm hoping on the TV front

There's some stuff that we're going to get excited about So tell you about it or season two drops tomorrow Yeah Well, the start of it right? Everyone says from whatever Everyone says, this is awesome, that this show is going to be great. So what's happening is three episodes a week. They all drop at the same time.

Essentially, you are getting a full-length movie every week with each week jumping. I think it's one or five years ahead. I think it's just one year ahead with the ending of the final week, four weeks from now, leading us right into Rogue One. But everyone is just like, no, this is something you can't, you can't miss. Okay. I'm excited about that because that first season still high point of Star Wars for me. I'm freaking. Oh yeah. Yeah. No, it is crazy. Yeah. I think that for me it has been the best of the TV shows. I love Mandalorian, but for me and or just hit in a way that Mandalorian did. So I'm so glad. And this will be an easy sell for Tina because if I say, yeah, each night is its own little self-contained, not really self-contained, but its own movie.

and if it jumps forward it's less of me saying well let's wait until everything comes out and then we'll binge the whole thing it's like no we'll watch one movie a night yeah that's not bad it's almost it's almost an anthology with some connected threads which is kind of cool part of the part of the story from my understanding is they didn't think that they could carry this out for five years five seasons so they're just like okay we're going to encapsulate one year in in everyone's story into one week or three episodes of and or season two And I'm pretty sure that will be the end of Andor. Yeah, they keep saying in the promos I've been seeing on social media and stuff, they make a big deal about saying, don't miss the final season of Andor. They keep saying that. And that may be because people may be a little busy with a lot of other movies that they have under their belt. So maybe harder to bring some of those people back. And I'm okay.

Look, if Andor ends up sticking in history is one of the great TV Star Wars efforts of all time and this is where it ends, that's fine with me. Don't bleed it. Don't over milk it. Right. Just let it be what it's supposed to be. Let it be awesome and let it and then let it sit. So good enough. Yeah. Speaking of one that maybe people aren't as excited about, uh, Asoka season two. I thought Asoka season one was fine. I was fine with it. Yeah. I enjoyed it. Yeah. Hayden Christensen is returning. Nice. Good. So, uh, we'll get to see him as well as Admiral Akbar taking on Thron. Sweet. Oh, really? Oh, nice. Yeah. So if you you remember how season one ended, there's a big moment where you're going to see some people coming in and saying, oh, no, Thron is back. We need to deal with Thron and that giant ship of his. I want them on a one one hand-on-hand thing. So he throws a trap at him and it hurts him. And he goes, what is this? And he'll say, at the trap. That's what I want. If they don't do that, then what are we even doing? You know? Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. That's exactly what we're

hoping will happen. Yeah. So I got a question about. about that though. There's also they had to recast Ray Stevenson who died. Yes, so I forgot to write the notes down. I forget who the actor is. They have recast him with somebody who is replacing the character. Yeah, it's the hound from, I don't remember his name,

but the hound from Game of Thrones. Oh, I was going to, thought you said Baskerville, but okay. No, no, no, no, not the hounds of Baskerville. No, the guy who, I forget his name, but the guy that played the hound, he was also in hot fuzz that said YARP. Yeah, yeah, that guy. And from

the reports that came out, he was very involved in making sure that they're paying homage to the original actor as well as making sure that the character is going in the right direction for this. Okay, cool. Roy McCann, that's his name. Yeah, he's cool. I like him. Nothing wrong with that.

What do you guys think of Mall? Oh, yeah, the cartoon. Yeah, this looks very interesting. So Mall Shadow Lord comes out in 2026. Sam Whitwer will return to voice Maul. He was the voicing Clone Wars and Rebels

and all that. And really Maul has a very interesting arc through all of that, including Solo, the standalone story where Mall shows up at the end as the head of the red sun, black sun, I forget which one. But this takes place about a half a year after the Clone Wars and he is

dealing with what happened after getting his butt kicked by Asoka at the end of Clone Wars. And supposedly, again rumor is that a lot of what George Lucas had planned before selling to Disney a lot of his ideas are in this in this TV show oh that's cool also you know what I want to check that out here's what so there's two things that can be true at the same time one yes he's the he's the coolest character to come out of the the prequels in my opinion

yep and they killed him way too early or quote unquote killed him too early right uh second of all I think it'd be funny if this show had him wheeling around on some like cart before his two halves got put back together so he was just like just like pushing it Darth Rascal. Yeah, Darth Rascal. Oh, I love that idea. Darth Rascal. Anyway, it won't happen.

When he makes his return in, when he makes his returning Clone Wars, he's kind of got one of those spider lower halves until he gets his robotic lower half. And I love the spider. Me too. Yeah, yeah. Do we know who's doing the animation on this? Like, is it, I mean, my dream would be it being the dude who did like Samurai Jack and stuff like that. because I think all would lend himself perfectly to a... I don't know if this is 3D or 2D, to be honest with you.

And so if it's 3D, my guess is they're going to keep it within the Clone Wars and Rebels design. Because they probably already have the models already made for that. So, but yeah, I don't know. I don't know about that. But speaking of Samarize, Star Wars Visions, Volume 3 drops October 29th of this year. For those of you that don't know what visions are, it's like, what if we gave a bunch of people just the do whatever you, one in the Star Wars universe, completely re-envision things, change it around

a lot of manga and anime influence and that stuff. So we're getting a new series of that coming in October on that. And then in 2026, spinning out of one or two of the Vision's stories is Star Wars Visions the

9th Jedi, which follows Kara and Juro's adventures continuing from those short installments. Now that will probably be 2D, and if you're an anime fan. If you haven't watched Star Wars visions, you really should. These things are like eight minutes apiece, something like that. So it's

almost like Love Death and Robots, but not as violent. Star Wars basically, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. For things, but very much, like you say, very much more anime influence. There was one with a samurai, Luke versus Samurai Darth Vader in a little Japanese village-licking thing. Yeah, so

if you, so let's jump to toys really quick, because if you love that samurai version of that, Hasbro, it was only available at Star Wars. Star Wars, Star Wars, the black figure, the Ronan. Oh, sorry, my back. No, you're good. You're back.

Yeah, you're. All right. I don't know what's going on today. Me neither. But they have the Star Wars Black series, the Ronan, and R5D56 that are based on that vision's episode. Those were only available at Star Wars Celebration. So if you want to get your hands on them, they're probably going to start showing up on eBay or other retailers that are out there. But you're probably going to have to spend double or triple to get your hands on one of those.

I'm going to guess that because how popular those Japanese influence samurai licking models were of Stormtroopers and Vader and stuff were several years ago, the statues, that somebody's probably made versions similar styles in 3D printing that I could download and 3D print my own. Oh, I'm sure you can. But if you go and see, we've got them on the major spoilers website. Hasbro has a bunch of other figures that they announced during Star Wars Celebration, too. But I'm sure everyone already has their Chewbacca and Han Solo figure, so I don't think you need any more of those. The important question is, did they release another C3PO? Because I was really hoping that we'd have another version of C3PO. They sound like it's not going to happen.

No, but they tend to release at least one of those every couple of years. They did release a new taunton that has covered in fur. So if you are, yeah, yeah. Look at this shot, though. Look at this shot of Raylan Gibbons, but's name. in his outfit. Oh, it's hilarious. It's really funny to me.

I thought the first second I saw that, it's like, did they make a skinny George Lucas action figure? I know. I mean, he was kind of, he's a lot more gray in that role than I remember, but it's just something funny. I don't know why that's so funny. It actually looks like him. It's pretty good.

Yeah, yeah. It's pretty good, yeah. Anyway. On the book side, the High Republic series has been going on for several years now, and now they are into phase three, which I believe is the latest and last phase of the High Republic book series, or I guess I should say experiment, because each of these phases that Star Wars announced, it starts with a book, and the High Republic Phase 3 from Charles Sol or Sule, Trials of the Jedi is the name of it. That'll come out later this year. And then, of course, they have comic books, toys, and other things that all tie into that. And over on the Marvel side, Kevin Scott is wrapping up the Phase 3 series with Fear of the Jedi and the upcoming one shot, The Beacon.

The Beacon comes out in July, I want to say. And then for those that are manga fans, if you're a fan of Timothy Zon's 2017 Thrawn novel, it's getting a manga adaptation by Man Sang. So if anybody wants that, go check that out. That's awesome. People love the Timothy Zon books before. and then after all the all the dumping of the cannon and they got to do it again people are like what yeah dude it surprises me that with the popularity and i think timothy zun did the uh shadows of the empire book yes that they haven't nobody's tried to adapt that into anything besides the video game right like

there's there hasn't been yeah so easy fodder for like a uh an animated series or uh wasn't it all tossed us a lot of that was white that was white away. Oh, wasn't it? It's not canon now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All the books pre, whatever that time was, were all, people, and people were mad. Like, people are really. Oh, yeah, they are. The minds I had to be, because Luke and Leah get down to some stuff in there that brothers and sisters shouldn't be doing unless you're a Lannister. Yeah. But the, uh, but seeing the dash rendar action figure reminded me of that. It's like, oh, yeah, that was such a great. That was a fun video game, too. Like, I really enjoyed the game and the, The book. Yeah. Those are good. Those are high times, I think, in the extended universe, but, uh, yeah.

Speaking of, speaking of games, let's get to the two big game announcements. First of all. Right into that, didn't that? Yeah. How many of you, how many of you love your fortnights? Not, not. I mean, this one's not, I'm not as interested in, but. Okay.

So, uh, there was, there's a fan theory that's been floating around for years that Jar Jar Binks is actually a dark Jedi, Darth Jar Jar Jar Jar. And so in this Fortnite, uh, expansion their event that's coming up, Darth Jar Jar Binks joins the fight and the original voice actor is doing the voice for that in the upcoming Fortnite game. This is going to be a four week, five week event for people to get involved. It starts off with the Imperial takeover on May 2nd, then the pull of the force on May 8th, Mandelorian Rising on the 22nd, Star Destroyer bombardment on the 29th, and then everything wraps up with Death Star Sabot.

on June 7th. And that's going to have a larger in-game narrative. I know the last time that I was actually interested in Fortnite was when they shut down the world and rebooted it. You guys remember that like five or six years ago? And everybody was watching just the world

shut down and watching a blank screen until it rebooted. With the last installment of this called Death Star Sabotage, I wonder if they're getting ready to reboot Fortnite again. Could be. I mean, I that game has basically become the commercial equivalent

of a, you know, what was the Battle of the Network Stars in the 70s? It's kind of that. Yeah. It's just like every IP, every IP lines up and says, yep, we'll do Fortnite.

Yeah. So one of the things in this, you will be able to pilot either as an X-Wing or a Thai fighter. Yeah. And then you can get a Mace Windu skin so you can play as Mace Windu. But you have to have a, that's a purchase thing

you have to do. All right. So be looking forward to that starting May 2nd. And then the one that I am most excited about, which I think you guys are too. Star Wars Zero Company, A.E, Star Wars Tactics, A.E.XCOM meets Star Wars. I am super excited about this. Yeah, so this got leaked a little bit. We talked about it on core a couple.

It was either two weeks ago. I think it was two weeks ago. So some of it got leaked, but we didn't know much. It was just, it kind of looked like it was probably a tactics facing game. and that's about all we knew. Oh, oh, when we saw the trailer. Well, since, yes. But at the time, there was a bounty hunter,

and I forgot his name. It's not Mado. His name is, well, so the game takes place at the very end of the Clone Wars. Right. Players get to play Hawk, a former Republic officer who commands an elite squad. Out of coffee drinking. The authentic story set in the Twilight of the Clone Wars. Got it.

Yeah, you get to play a cutting up operative Through this thing And so apparently on your team You're going to have Jedi You're going to have troopers You're going to have a bunch of other people Playing You'll be able to control in this

So I think people are going to be super excited about this Oh, I'm beyond Stokes I mean XCOM and that whole like Just tactic games in general are my jam I freaking love that stuff Oh yeah if you guys haven't played some of the tactic tactics games That are out right now there are some really cool, cool games.

Oh, yeah, you're a huge fan. I always forget how into this subgenre you are. It's like, yeah. Turn-based tactics are just like, I love it now. It's just my... What was that? Gaslight. Gaslight game? What was that called? Lamp Lighters League.

Lamp Liders League. You were like, you were the first person I talked to. It was actually like into that before I'd even heard of the damn thing. Yeah, and unfortunately, then they shut it down. I know graphics on that thing were so good. It was. And that was all Unreal Engine, I believe. is what they did everything in.

So this one, Star Wars Zero Company, comes in 2026. Doesn't say win in 20206, but it's going to be available on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S consoles, no Mac version, so that's a downer. My guess is because it's on all three of these, it's going to be a Steam release, but they don't ever say Steam, which means it might be available on your Steam deck. My guess is it will, well, it'll be available on Steam that I'm sure. of but whether or not it'll run well I mean we'll see I guess a lot of these things

come out and surprise me I guess the biggest problems with the tactic games on Steam Deck is the text is so damn small often yeah yeah a good example of that working really well there are good examples of that but like I know a lot of people slept on it but the gears of war tactics game they made Microsoft

made so freaking good and it does suffer from a little bit of old guy small text on Steam Deck but it's not too bad and you can actually increase it in the settings that is a fantastic game on the go. It's so good. That's a great tactics game. Yeah. Yeah. A new one that is just out is

Chains of Freedom. And that one is pretty cool. It's kind of post-apocalyptic go around finding a cure for kind of like a disease that's ravaging everybody. It looks really, really cool. I haven't had a chance to play that. France 44 is a World War II tactics game.

There's just a lot of cool tactics games that are hitting right now. Yeah, there's some good stuff. This one, you talked about Chains of Freedom, I have my eye on. I haven't grabbed it yet, but it looks rad. Pretty dark, though, isn't it? Yeah, kind of a twisty, make a twisty pants. Anyway, I'm in on these things. And Star Wars, hey, why not?

Perfect time to do it. Throw me a cool Star Wars grenade. Shoot me a cool Star Wars gun. You got Star Wars robots to blow up. What else can you ask for? I don't love the end of the Clone War era, though. It's not my favorite time period in Star Wars, but I can make it work. Well, because the only other thing that can

happen is you play as a trooper during the Empire time, and that's not cool? No, it's not cool, is it? Yeah. It's a little rude. It's a little rude. It's a little on topic. Yeah. I tend to agree.

Well, that's great. Yeah, the last big thing, Star Wars celebration, it's every two years. So the next one, 2027, takes place in Los Angeles for the 50th anniversary of Star Wars. Nice. Great place to do it. 50. holy shit in Denver and I get to go to that

oh yeah that's right you loved that right it was a good time I did yeah it was great it was before the prequels came out and so everybody was really excited about the prequels and buying action figures and I bought a really cool episode one sweatshirt that I still have that it's like oh cool this movie's gonna be great yeah and

Anthony Daniels ushered me to seats to watch the presentations and stuff It was great. Was he wearing his gold leg? Or no, silver leg, I guess. It was a red, red, wasn't it? Red arm. Red arm?

Silver leg, that's right. Silver leg, red arm, yeah. Yeah. Because you've got to keep making figures. That's right. He was not wearing any of that. He was wearing a nice button-up shirt and dockers. Nice.

Very nice. Well, Stephen, this is all good stuff. We're all big fans, and we cannot wait for more. If you want to keep track of a lot of this stuff in the pop culture, comics, TV, movie world of Star Wars. I would bookmark major spoilers.com. Is there anything specific going on over there? You'd like to tell the people?

Well, if you go through our Patreon page, we got a free book club thing that we do every month. So it's absolutely free. You don't have to join the Patreon. Just go over to patreon.com slash major spoilers. This past month, we did The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And this month, we'll do our full wrap-up. At the end of the month is Slow Horses,

which is what the Apple TV series is based on that book. And people are more than happy. to listen to our discussions about that for free over there. Nice. The show is awesome, and I've heard really good things about the book. I should check that out. They just finished filming season six of that.

Nice. Bring it on. That show's awesome. Stephen, take it easy. Eat all that Easter candy yourself, and we'll see you next time. Yeah, may the force be with you. Bye now.

Oh, he forgot to tell us to drink a lot of water. That's fine. And with you. May the hydration be with you. That's what he meant to say. Yeah, may the Big H be with you. Thank you, Stephen. It's always good to talk to him.

We are just about out of here. A reminder that today at 1 p.m. Carter and I will be doing a show. You never know. I might learn a new sex move on the show with my daughter. Freaking, geez, Louise, that thing. Double piece symbol means something?

What are you talking about? Yeah, that's still going around. Of course it is. It's the new Cheeto, Chester Cheetah. I didn't expect it to hit. But it did. Anyway, we'll be doing that again. That's right.

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link. And of course, all things Vegas, TMS.Vegas. It's all there for you. Brian, you got anything else before we go? Find up the things. Take a look at the schedule. If you haven't even looked at the schedule, take a look there. Yeah, we're just excited. This is going to be a fun week

as we count down the days to the big event and looking forward to it. Stuff is coming together on my side. A bunch of things that we need for Taskville just arrived at Hammond's house over the weekend. that he's going to be driving to Vegas because I don't want to I don't want to I can't I don't have room to bring stuff perfect way to do it yeah yeah so Hammond if you're listening and you need any extra we don't have a ton of room but I can fit some if he's if he runs out I don't know how much stuff he has but I think it's just him because Stacy's can be flying to Vegas oh she's going but flying okay yeah all right yeah there you go Ryan let's play a song and get the F out yeah sounds good let's get to a request that came in from Darrell

in Ohio. Dear Spock and Bones, I first heard this song while visiting Newfoundland, and it got stuck in my head for the entirety of the trip. That was several years ago, but this song will still pop into my brain unhidden from time to time, or unbidden from time to time. For my birthday this year, I would like to request it so it can get stuck in all of your heads as well. No Star Trek reference here. It was just the first S&B I thought of, and I ain't got time to be clever. Thank you for everything you do, signed Daryl in Ohio. I love that. Awesome. Spock and Bones is a great. great one good choice uh this is boy it we've usually the great big sea cover request we get we've already played um recently those the the one that jeff sire requested last month this one's great

this this one i hadn't heard the song is called excursion around the bay and the performer is darina harvey um she's covering great big sea and this was on her a self-titled album the drina harvey band uh from 2013 this thing rocks enjoy it here is excursion around the bay. See you guys tomorrow. Well, it was on this Monday morning and the day becoming fine to the harbor grace discursion

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