The Morning Stream - TMS 2842: Stuck in a Side Quest

Episode Date: June 23, 2025

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They actually nailed that. I thought it was going to be hard to read. The Juggernaut, bitch, with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. I know the truth. It was an accident. It was tragic and it was terrible, but it was just that an accident. I don't fertilize with poo. M.M.S. D. M.S.S. D. M.S.S. D. Hello, everyone. Welcome to TMS. This is the morning stream. And this is June 23rd, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian. Good morning, Brian.

Good morning. Welcome to another week and big week here. Final week of the month. A lot of culmination here. We got Brian and his big MS-150 finally happening. We got me going to a concert in Las Vegas, hopefully not, and with no weirdness. In fact, like temperatures dropped like 12, 13 degrees for us, so that's nice. Good. Yeah, here too.

We had 90s, we had 100 degree temperatures over the weekend, which made, you know, last prep ride not so fun but it's temperatures are coming down it's going to be a little cooler what they're saying about this coming weekend for the MS-150 it's going to be a little bit cooler I'm hoping it's going to be even cooler

than what they're predicting now because they're saying low to mid-90s on Saturday and I'd like to see that maybe drop down just a little bit more yeah we get that in like a maybe like 86 high 80s yeah 87 maybe you know I mean ideally high 70s yeah mid-70s

be just fine with me that'd be great that's also how old I want to live is mid-70s. Oh, really? That's it? I don't need to go any further than that. I mean, I can't feel it. You know, the time willing or, you know, whatever, there's a huge breakthrough in how people live or whatever. Oh, that stuff's fine, but I'm in no, you know.

Listen, if I, the way my grandmother lived, how alert and fun and responsive and active and all that stuff, my grandma Carol was at 99 and you know if that's 99 i'll totally do 99 yeah you know what if i go like her or yeah i just don't want to be like john where i'm a cranky old bastard that doesn't you know listen to anybody but himself i don't want to be that exactly i don't know why i would be that he was like that his whole life so i don't know why i'm even saying that but yeah anyway uh we're

here we we got a lot to talk about um let's get a i know you had some brian had a massive like pre ride yes this last weekend right and It went ways that you're now going to tell us. So tell us the tale. So this was the last big, big practice ride before the ride this coming weekend. I'm going to do some rides every day this week, just so I don't lose momentum. But the ride Saturday was a nice little 40-mile ride. We started at my house and then rode down to Uncle George and Aunt Barb's house, which is down in the other side of town.

I mean, basically, if you look at the map, you've got. Denver kind of right in the middle. And we went from the northwest, kind of down to south central, past Denver, down to the other side of town. Sure. So this was a substantial ride. And because of Barb's MS, there are considerations that have to be made. She doesn't do well with bridges, underpasses just because of, you know, the, like, enclosure or the, the feeling of, like, having anything really close next to you.

MS comes with some balance issues that you got to, you know, you have to contend with and things like that. That's what I was going to ask is, like, an equilibrium thing, like balance and that sort of thing? Kind of, yeah, yeah. Okay. And so, so things like narrow bridges, and there's a lot because we're basically riding, for the second half of the ride, we're riding along the Platte River from Denver all the way, from basically from Mile High Stadium. empower field home of the Broncos all the way down to Chatfield Reservoir in it and it follows the path of the Platte River frequently hopping across to either side of the river as it needs to

for highway traffic and things like that so it's a you know there are frequent bridges on that and underpasses as you go under under major roads and things like that the some bridges because they're so narrow freak barb out because there's bikes coming towards or like oncoming traffic and I even get freaked out because it doesn't feel like there's enough room sometimes for for two bikes to pass each other on these bridges but yeah I mean these are regular thoroughfares right places people drive and do stuff yeah well no cars just just bikes oh just bikes and bikes yeah oh but even then it's like I get a little congested or whatever they feel

little narrow yeah exactly especially when you've got you know cyclists who do who don't do single file. It drives me nuts. You know, George Barb and I, we're very conscientious about making sure we go single file and calling our, you know, lefts and stuff when they're pedestrians or other cyclists that were passing, anything like that. We're super conscientious about that. But then we get oncoming bikes that are spread to, you know, parallel and barely give us enough room on the remaining part of the path. So we're having to like precariously ride on the edge of the path, which drives us nuts but i mean i get it that people want to do their little tandem thing and they want to talk sure they got their little routine but we live in a society once again exactly you know

you wouldn't want if somebody were to ride uh towards you you know you pair of people that are riding parallel what if somebody was doing it coming the other way one of you would have to move because otherwise those middle people are are crashing that's right so anyway we're uh we're 30 miles into the ride, about, you know, eight to nine miles, ten miles away from the, you know, the finish line. Tina's being great. She's, she doesn't want to ride with us, but she, she simulates the experience of the MS-150 by meeting us every 10 to 12 miles along the route, maybe closer to every eight, eight to 10 miles with snacks, refilling our water. We filled up a big, big cooler with ice water. And, uh, love it. Yeah, and basically just, you know, uh,

restocking everything, giving us energy strupe waffles and bananas and, you know, grapes and things like that. I know she's not doing this, but I picture her with a, with a megaphone going, go, go, go. Totally. Just about, yeah, just about. So we had just left one of her stops and we're heading, continuing on the path. And we're going under an underpass and there's a pedestrian walking. And then there's an oncoming bike.

So Barb is leading, kind of setting the pace for the three of us. And she slows down right behind the pedestrian matching his speed. And then we wait for the cyclist to pass us. And then she calls out, of course, she lets the pedestrian know, three bikes on your left. We go around him. And this is in an underpass. And it's such a bright day, super sunny day temperature, unfortunately, in the mid-90s, high-90s to 100. and when you go into those underpasses,

you're going from super bright sunshine to dark, you know, instant dark under the overpasses. So your eyes are taking a second to adjust. But we go around the pedestrian, the cyclist passes, we go around the pedestrian. And as she's continuing under this underpass, we think it's her handlebar, her right side of her handlebar hits this fence

that divides the bottom. path from these rocks that then go right into the um the plat river so you've got the plat river a bunch of these big sharp jaggedy rocks and then a nice little metal fence that keeps people from toppling over there right her this is one of those situations you always hear about where people say it happens so fast i'm not exactly sure what happened but but basically one second barb's doing fine the next second she is on her back on the pavement her bike is kind of pinned she's got one leg through the bars, but the bike is kind of laying on her, her front tire is hissing because it's popped, and she is, she is on the ground.

Damn. George and I immediately, of course, stop, hop off our bikes. I've already heard, but that's funny as I've heard this part of the story, and it's still making me sweat. It's still, I'm sure, exactly. Insane, man. I hate that feeling. So we ran up there, and she's, you know, she's like, oh, my God, I'm so sorry.

and she's apologizing to us for falling down. We're like, no, I'm like, no, you're, you know, are you okay? How are you feeling? She's like, oh, give me a second. And I'm pulling my phone out and we're basically, George is saying, yep, you're done writing for the day. We're going to get Tina to come pick you up. And I'm calling Tina, who had just met us at another stop.

And I said, you're, uh, you need to come get Barb and her bike. Um, she had a fall. It's a, you know, it's a pretty serious one. Um, so we need to get her bike and get her. You might even be taking her to urgent care. We're going to see how she's feeling. At that point, as I'm talking to Tina, I see water, liquid underneath Barb's head. And then I look closer and I realize, oh, that's not water.

That's blood. It's like on the pavement underneath Barb's head. She's laying down. And then I see part of her helmet is cracked and laying next to her. Holy shit. So I'm like, Tina, still come to get Barb's bike, but I'm calling 911. So I, you know, Tina, I tell Tina where we're at. She starts heading down.

I call 911 and talk to the person. She's lucid. Barb's a nurse. So Barb is like saying, you know, here's how I'm feeling. Here's what's going on. And the blood at first glance, it looks like it's coming out of her ear. And that's freaking me out, of course. That's like the worst scenario, right?

It's the worst scenario. Then George reaches down and pulls off her glasses and we realize, Oh, no, it's coming from, like, the bridge of her nose area, pooling in her eyes. And then from her eyes, it's draining down into her ear. And then from her ear, it's draining down onto the ground. Oh, man. You know, you really had us at pooling in her eyes.

I know. Yeah, all of it is like, none of it sounds great, right? It's like a garden fountain of blood on Barb's face. But she's chatting with her. She's still apologizing. She's like, oh, my God, this is, you know, this is my favorite ride. and I said, well, you know, probably usually, but probably today is not your favorite right.

Not today. So the paramedics show up. They've got a stretcher. They come down. We have to direct them because, you know, it's on the bike path and we're directly under Bellevue Avenue on this path. And we just have to tell them, well, it's easier for you guys to get to us from the south side and where you can park.

I was going to ask you if they get even, like if they stopped right above it, They'd have to cram, stop traffic both ways and all, I mean, I guess you can, and emergencies, you do what you got to do. There's, fortunately, there's, like, little parking areas on either side. There's a nice little green belt park that goes along, uh, along some of the, uh, the path, which is nice. Small victory. The pedestrian that we passed, by the way, is stopped. And he's like, you know, uh, what can I help with? And do you need anything?

And he actually, he, he goes out and start stopping people who are coming into the, overpass or slows them down because again being you're going from super bright to super dark you don't you might not see that there's a cluster of people in this underpass because of the the brightness adjustment right so he's slowing people down that way there's another guy on another bike who's slowing people down the other way and directing the the paramedics down to where george and i are tina gets there start grabbing the bikes barb's barb has an e-bike the um handlebar is turned a full full 45 degrees from where the wheels pointed. So when she hit, it cranked the wheel. We think that her face and her glasses probably hit the top of the fence area or the pavement. And that's what caused the bridge of her nose to get broken. So it just crammed her glasses into her nose bridge. Just bam.

Crammed her glasses right into the bridge of her nose. And she... That's dangerous too, because isn't there like a bone or something right there? If you hit it wrong, it'll go into your... orbital yeah i think what she broke was the orbital bone and it's like you know um oh yeah no not the one that could go into your brain kind of thing i thought there was something but yeah isn't there something with you know that is a straight on i guess not up here it's what uh you know daniel craig or uh jason statham do to stop a guy has hit him in that bone to just kind of knock

him out that's right fortunately it didn't it didn't do uh didn't do that i'm very glad to hear that that's good um so paramedically long story getting kind of short um Tina shows up we load uh barb's bike on there i told george well you're you know you obviously you're going to the hospital with or we'll load your bike on and get it to your house but because our bike rack only holds two bikes i have to continue the ride solo because there's no there's not a place for my third bike uh to put on the bike rack so so in this point this point we've been standing around for half an hour, it's getting hot. I'm like, all right, yeah, I've got to keep doing the ride, and it's uphill the whole rest of the way.

Yeah, and you're alone now. I mean, not that it's like, because, again, like the way you were writing before, it's not like you guys are a big party going down the street. No, no, we're not, we're not, you know, side chatting. So they get to the hospital, Barb ends up, yeah, like you said, breaking her, the bridge of her nose is broken. She has a fracture in her T1 transverse process, which is the top of your spine where it connects to your neck and stuff. Both of which are what they call, and Dr. Jerry can obviously clean this up, but it's like they're supported bones. So it's not like you can put a cast on either of those. You just kind of have to set them, take it easy, and let them fuse back, hill back the way.

It's like your coxics, kind of, right? Yeah, exactly. Can't really cast the coxics. Yeah. Hopefully she doesn't have, you know, a year of severe pain back there. but she doesn't and uh she had two two uh fractured ribs but that came from the previous weekend when she crashed her bike oh so hey so um so here's why i'd like y'all to do if you haven't donated to the ms 150 donate to keep barb from riding yeah yeah please enough to keep her off

the damn bike by the way so can i show this photo of her bruised up here yes you could you can show the photo yes i have permission to share this photo of barb she got pretty banged up there uh you can see where all this happened. Actually, hilarious, not hilariously, but ironically, the place she was bleeding from is, it looks like the least amount of damage. It's all this bruising on the side. Right, right. The bruising around her eye and her on her face and stuff. Oh, man. I feel bad. I'm so sorry she had to go see that. So obviously, as soon as I get down to their house, Tina, we load the, you know, she takes their bikes, put them in the garage. We get my bike on the back of the the car um but then we go to the hospital to just see how how uh she's doing and she's laughing

and chatting it up with the the pa and the doctor in there and she keeps asking like well if i feel okay can i still do the ms 150 ride next weekend and they're like yeah you know if you feel like you're up for it then then go for it um and george and i are both and tina like are you kidding me you're still thinking about doing that and and i say all right well let me ask you this you know you feel fine let's say on friday you feel fine you decide you're going to do the ms 150 yeah uh if if unrelated you know uncontrollable of something you do somebody runs into you and causes an accident is it going to aggravate these things to where they're worse and cause more damage and you know and and you know she's like well and and then she's

She says, you know what? You're absolutely right. If I were my patient, I would absolutely tell my patient not to do it because even though she didn't have a concussion, she's like, but there are still some head injuries that don't show up as a concussion. And if you were to hit your head a second time, it's like those football players basically who get hit multiple times and causes more damage, even though it doesn't show up as a concussion. She's like, you know what, I would tell my, I would tell a patient not to do it. it, so I better follow my own advice.

I wouldn't do anything, in her case, I wouldn't do anything where I'm hunched over with my head forward and I'm swiveling and grinding back and forth. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, that T1. Yeah, exactly. Absolutely. Jeez, that gives me the willies just to say it out loud. Oh, my gosh.

It absolutely does. Well, I'm glad she's okay as you can be after such a thing. Yes, nothing permanent. We'll have to see how her nose looks after it heals up if she's going to look like a, you know, the center forward for the New York Islanders or something. Maybe she should get a little, what's his name? Wow, wow, wow, shove that. Wow, a little Owen Wilson, sure, yeah, maybe.

I don't know. He's a big deal. People like him. Well, that's good, dude. I'm glad she's all right. Yes. But also sucks that she went through it. That's terrible.

Nobody wants to wipe out on a bike for any reason at all. Exactly, exactly. Max Trowbot, you know, it's not C1. Please Google T1 transverse process fractals and you'll see exactly what the yeah what it's not a C1 yeah T1 he didn't he didn't confuse it with the internet connection of the 90s he didn't right exactly yes um all right

real quick story uh I don't know what this going on there's something in the water this weekend I think so yeah because I had the weirdest the closest I can think to compare this to Brian is I'm going to call this a GTA style side quest okay we're coming home from we took the girls to dinner when we got when Kim got home she was like let's take the girls to dinner I got these these coupons wherever we decided to go get stuff at this

burger place. Gormager burger place it was great great time we're like all right we're heading home it's like seven to eight something like that we're like it's time to go home but it's still very sunny out we're heading toward the equinox or the summer not equinox solstice longest day all that so we're getting lots of sunlight late at night and all that so we're just

driving along and we see this little kid probably five years old if that walking by himself on the road bawling his eyes out. Oh, okay. So Kim goes into full mama bear mode. I don't see it right away. She's driving.

She goes, she goes, uh-oh, and the car goes, and she like turns around and parks over in this thing and runs out to this kid to see what's going on. And she gets down on his level. She's like, are you okay? What's the matter?

And he's rubbing his eyes and he's tearing up. And he says, I need to go home. And she says, oh, well, can I, where do you live? you know, are you okay? First of all, is everything fine? You know, do you want me to walk you home? He says, I don't live very far. And he says, okay, well, let's, I'll walk you home. Is that okay if I walk you home? And he's not doing any stranger danger stuff, which is good and bad,

but he, you know, Kim. Exactly. He's very lucky. I'm glad you're, I'm glad you're trusting us, but you shouldn't trust strangers. Yeah, it felt like I wanted to teach him this little lesson, but I didn't do it. So we're all out talking to him for a minute. Then I get in the car. So it's me Alicia and Carter in the car and I'm driving and I don't have my license or my glasses with me because Kim drove that night. So I don't have, I can't see great and I don't have my license. So if something dumb happens, I'm in trouble. But whatever. She's walking this kid. So now I'm thinking, well, I'll just kind of follow them, you know, because they've cut into the neighborhoods now. It's not the busy street. So I'm kind of like just creepily following this,

what people just see as a woman and a small child walking on the side of the road. And this goes on for a little while. this is where it gets nuts and this felt like final destination almost we get to this place in the road where a guy across the street goes hey to kim and kim goes hi do i know you and he goes you taught my kid in the preschool something something years ago and his name was this or that and she goes oh yeah i remember him how's he doing oh he's real tall now like all this is this conversation across the street i'm i'm idling and inching forward listening to this going all right this is great while this is happening and here's the final destination part a kid comes out of a door on this other house with a big thing of cookies uh-huh and is going looked like he's going to go door

to door to sell cookies okay so of course kim being who she is she goes hey nice to see hold on a second hey kid are you selling cookies and the kid goes he goes yeah i'm i'm trying to go to spain for a soccer tournament and she's like well give me some of them cookies hey scott reaching the glove box we got some cash in there and him so now i'm like oh my gosh we're getting money i give it to carter she runs it out there i'm still creeping along and then while she's making this transaction this poor kid is holding her hand and rubbing his eyes because he's been crying we still don't know his story yeah she better have given him some of the cookies by the way well she asked him says you want some cookies he says no but i'll tell you what the cookies have another part of the story

toward the end okay all right so so she she gets the cookies because she wants to help this other kid and he's running around and then there's four or five people out mowing lawns and they're all looking at all this like what's going on meanwhile i parked just behind a tesla that's got a teenage girl in it who's on her phone and apparently me parking right behind her and sitting there not moving really freaked her out because she pulls out and i think she's leaving but no she just pulls out moves up a few notches to another house and then parks on their thing because i look like i'm being creeper there's there's just stranger danger right Yeah, everyone else is having it

but this kid who should have it, right? Yeah. So then they continue walking and I start pulling out and I look at the girl and the Tesla and I kind of wave at her and she's on her phone going like this, like she thinks something bad's happening. Yeah.

Then it goes on forever. We're just walking and walking around like, where does this kid live? Does he actually know? Yeah. He's little. While they're walking, he tells her the story that he got in a fight with his friend on their scooters at the 7-Eleven, which is way too far from his house.

Oh, wow. And that's why he's by himself. he left his scooter there is the whole thing you know kids whatever yeah um but then we're like you're so far from home and he says well if we see my mom don't tell her i was at the 7-11 and don't tell her i know what she say oh don't tell her i got in a fight don't tell her i was at the 7-11 and don't tell her i cried it was like really sad makes me wonder if this mom's a real beast or something so then we get to the house finally and i'm still creeping behind you know doing what I do.

And Carter's going nuts because she can't stand all this input. It's just like driving her nuts that all this is happening. Right. You've got like cookie sales, girls in Tesla's freaking out on their phones. And when Carter got out of the car to go help, she started walking with them. And now I look like I'm Uber driving Alicia in the back seat because she's just back there. And she's laughing her head off. She thinks this is really funny this whole thing.

So we finally get to where this house is. knocking on the door ringing doorbell she's home this woman's home but she's not she does not come to the door we never see her but some of the neighbor kids know this kid and they're all talking and hanging out and doing whatever and another neighbor lady who we do know

walks over says what's going on Kim says well I don't know where his mother is but here's where we found him and if you could maybe keep an eye on things so we leave it at that and then the kid walks up before Kim leaves and says hey how about those cookies and Kim goes you want him he goes yep so she gives all of the cookies

to this kid. Oh, good. Okay. Which means creeper driver and passenger and Carter. Nobody else is going to get cookies tonight. It's just going to be this kid. He needed them, though. He needs the comfort, the reassurance. He definitely does. Because he's got

a mom who'll be mad if he cried, and he's got a mom who won't come to the damn effing door. God, no kidding. He doesn't know her kid is literally, like, this 7-Eleven is not close. It's way, way far from where this kid lives. And he's five. He's just a little boy. So anyway, it was quite the, quite the good time. Got home. Wow.

Helped us work off a little dinner. Everything was fine. Brian, you had some trivia last night. I'd like to know how he scored. How to go. Yeah, we did the finals, the trivia tournament finals, the first part of which were two weeks ago, and we ended up in the top seven at our location to make it to the final finals. We're sixth place two weeks ago. And I'm happy to say that we finished on the podium. We were third place out of 14 teams. That basically was one question that just killed us,

which was we'll see how everybody does here. But there was a double opportunity that we didn't know the answer to and didn't decide not to not to take. um name the crustacean that is dubbed the thumb smasher thumb splitter because it's attack without details about its attack can deliver 200 pounds of pressure oh my gosh so crustacean 200 pounds of pressure known as the thumb splitter crustacean it's got to have a tail or something or or i guess a pincher like a like a like a i don't actually know this i don't know what is it um a lot of people in the chat room are getting it is the mantis shrimp mantis shrimp okay yeah yeah can we eat those um uh imagine you can sure yeah it's the we were you know we we we were thinking about pistol shrimp came up people got zero like lost all their points if they said pistol shrimp so of course we didn't you know we didn't uh do it we

were thinking in the crab family like the you know the the the deadliest catch whatever the crabs are that they get there that um i don't know if those are king alaskan king crabs that they yeah i assume i i would have always assumed like crabs something with pinchers like big old pinchers on them but this little guy here this cute little guy 200 200 pounds of pressure that they can uh they can deliver and uh wild they're beautiful yeah holy crap they're pretty really cool coloring yeah all right i learned something they also called the palm clementief just kidding it's not true because the mantis yeah you get it but uh yeah only like basically only two teams knew the

answer and doubled their points and those were the teams that took first and second place so we we ended up with third um my my question of the day that uh that i got we had to come up there was anagram of uh teary shame what world leader's name can be anagramed appropriately to teary shame teary shame and I got it instantly as Teresa May only five teams were able to get that one

She's still in charge of something I thought she was out no She's out yeah she's former prime minister She was prime minister during Brexit It counts though right You can be a former leader and you still Yeah you're still a world leader Yeah yeah

They stay I mean we still have to be They didn't say current World leader they just said What world leader's name can be See this is why you're good at this Because you go into that thing knowing there could be tricking you, not tricking you. My first assumption would be, well, I guess if they're a leader, they have to be, it's like

Bill Clinton can't be accounted. Yeah, right, right. It's like how once you're president, they always still have to address you as Mr. President. That's true. Yeah. Most of the time. I'm going to call the current guy sex shit, but that's just me. There's a lot of names that I think are more appropriate than Mr. President.

Yeah. The final question of the game was, who was president in 1894? And we have our history buff on our team that knew it instantly. Instantly, eh? Yeah. So we're close to the turn of the century. I'm going to guess. Oh, geez.

Not Garfield. That'd be earlier. I don't know. Who is it? Grover Cleveland. Oh, Cleveland. Damn it. Yeah.

Yeah. All right. Alexander was a year, like a year off of that. And Grover Cleveland was our president in 1894. Anybody named Grover? It's okay in my book. And it's not his real name. He's the only president, I think, that went by a name that was not his actual first name.

His real name is like Stephen Grover, Cleveland or something like that. Oh, he went with a middle name? Yeah. Because William Jefferson Clinton, so he didn't, I'm trying to think there's another middle nameer out there. Right. George H.W. Bush, George W. Stephen Grover Cleveland, yeah. Wild.

His name is Cookie Monsters, Elmo Cleveland. He took over Sesame Street. It's never been the same. Well, that's great. Congratulations on your bronze medal, Brian. Well done. Yeah, exactly. And came with, you know, 50 bucks.

We just basically paid for our meals. Nothing wrong with that. We still, yeah, exactly. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that. All right, I am going to bring in our old pal, Brian. We're going to play a little, the old half, Fasses. Let's do this.

Say what you guys do with some trivia. That's right. Get in, losers. We're playing trivia. Brian's here. Hi, Brian, Donaway. What are you doing? He's muted himself. Unmute yourself. It says muted yourself. Why are you muting yourself? Why are you muting yourself? Yeah. What are you doing there, buddy? Maybe he's not ready. Maybe he's taking a poop. I don't know what he's done.

But Brian, you got to click on your little green phone there. See your little phone icon. Oh, there you are. Hi. Hello. Okay. Hi. Hi. That's weird. Hi. Good morning. Oh, hi. How are you? Oh, hi, Scott John.

So, well, I was just listening to you guys talking about Grover. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You big Grover Cleveland fan, or how do you feel that? No, no, Sesame Street fan. I've been hanging out with Big Bird this morning. We was down on Sesame Street.

He was out there with his big giant skate zone trying to hop, you know, Mr. Hooper's broom. Yeah. Yeah. And then he fell and he skin his knees up. You guys ever seen a bird skin his knees? No. No. Their knees are on the back of their legs, aren't they?

that's true because the way they bend yeah that's true that makes big that makes big bird even weirder because he doesn't have the fence no he has the wrung bending in his legs not cool you know what i am sci-fi good point calvin coolidge was john kelvin coolidge so he also went by his middle name

so they were they were bessing us when they said here's some bonus information about grover cleveland they didn't get it right they should have checked the internet they did not maybe he had his name legally changed or something maybe if business he's wrong backwards. He could also, you know. Yeah. That's what we're saying. Hey, well, Dunaway, it's great to have you here. We're

going to play a little game. Brian's going to explain these here rules for the Monday morning half-asses. And we're going to play it. So, Brian, take it away. Sure. Here you go. Welcome to the morning half-asses, a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers. I give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers three of which are correct. And three, like pistol shrimp are incorrect. Depending on how confident you feel with the category, you can provide one, two or three guesses. But if any of those guesses are wrong, you get zero. You get Zero points for that round. Get one right, you get a point.

Get two right, you get three points. But if you get all three right, boy, oh, boy, you get five points, and that's a big mama-jama. Play with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant, and I've pulled contestants for members of the tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're playing for Steve Smetzer in Bowling Green, Ohio. Yeah. I like it. That's great.

Bowling Green just sounds like a fun place. Brian, you're playing for Troy in Perth in Western Australia. That's great. That could be Perth and Troy for all we knew, you know? It could be, right, yeah. Goes both ways. That's great. We'll talk about the prizes after we get our game going, but let's go ahead and get

to your first set of questions. Your first one is events that have been won by a woman. This is another one where I had to do some follow-up research to make sure. This should be easy. I sense the sarcasm in his response. I did have to do some research to make sure that a woman hasn't won these things since the question was written because sometimes the delay on these means that things have changed. Your choices are the PBA Tournament of Champions, the Daytona

Five hundred, the Belmont Stakes, the Iditarod, the World Series of Poker, and the Bassmaster Classic. Oh my gosh. Which three of those have been won by a woman? Oh my gosh. All right. I think I know one for sure. Do I dare go to? What is PBA? Peanut Butter and Anel Sandwich. Professional bowling. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and check that one. She won the P.B. and anal.

Oh, it's probably... Actually, I don't know. What does it be? Oh, bowling. It's bowling. It's bowling. Yeah, professional bowling association. So it's not professional Bella associate?

Okay. Yeah. M. I'm taking these two. I don't know. Okay. I don't know. You guys have locked in.

You guys lucked in on two each, and between the two of you, locked in on completely different ones. Let's start up top, the professional, the PBA tournament of champions. Yes, actually, the first woman to win that was in 2010. Very good. I watched a documentary on that. I thought that's what that was. Yeah. Jerks.

Let's look at the Bassmaster Classic. This is a fishing tournament. That occurs every year. year, the Bassmaster. To date, nope, no woman has won the Bass Master, and Brian's other one, the World Series of Poker, nope, despite her attempts, Jennifer Tilley,

I'm sorry, yeah, Jennifer Tilley has never won that one. The Belmont Stakes and the I dideroy were the other two. I thought the Belmont Stakes was paid for us. Yeah, you mean dudes for men's? You thought that was? I thought the Daytona, I thought the Danica Patrick lady. Yeah, nope. That's what I would have thought, too.

So when I did this, when I did this before checking the answers, I thought so. All right. I'm okay with a zero-zero moving into question, too. I'm okay with it. Yeah, yeah. I'd rather be one for me and not for him, but that's fine. For sure, yes.

By the way, the Belmont Steaks, it's funny that they have to clarify on the card. As a jockey, the first win was in 1993, a first female jockey. I didn't think they meant, you know, when was the first female horse winner of the Belmont steaks? I drank that at the exact wrong time. And the Iditarod, 1985 was the first woman winner of the Iditarod. Oh, my gosh. That one seems like everyone's just like, oh, it's all on the dogs, but I'm telling you, that is a gnarly ass thing they do.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Sled dogs, though. Oh, that's a good point, Pekrum. It could be as an owner of a horse for the Belmont Stakes. But, yeah, as a jockey first woman winner. All right, let's get to question. Romero Dose, things that happened in

1900, you know, speaking of history. Which of these are things that happened in 1900? Number one, Taft wins the U.S. presidential election. Spencer Tracy is born, the first Zeppelin flight, the Eiffel Tower opened, the first Oz book published, and Robert Browning died. Oh, my. Which of these happened in 1900?

I don't know any of these, so we'll lock in on two i feel kind of weirdly confident about i think that one and uh that's at least an even number so that's possibility and just for clarification uh we're talking about the wizard of oz books not the HBO series Oz oh not the the the very dark prison uh right i thought i better i better clear that up yeah that's good thanks that's good that doesn't uh why not sure sure okay that show used to world's fair 1900 i couldn't remember is it was the world's fair and the that's when they put that tower up tower up right was it 1900 though i don't know world's fair was that was the iful tower part of a world's fair i don't know i believe it was

if i remember correctly i don't know all right no idea okay well i'll tell you right now um let's see uh you guys both chose iful tower let's start with iful tower since you both chose it Eiffel Tower opened in 1889. I am so not even close today. Holy crap. The first Osbook, yeah, Taft won in 1908. I almost went with it because even numbers, man. Yeah.

Robert Browning died in 1889. The first Oz book, yeah. So that has been a recent topic that Wicked is based on a movie that was based on a book from 1900. So it's kind of a fun little piece of time to be there. This isn't a Browning and like who's. what did he do? Robert Browning? He was a poet.

Poet. Okay. Do you know it? I didn't know it. His legs knew it. Scott didn't know it, yeah. I thought he was in charge or maybe he was the creator of the Browning cookware. You write the Betty Crocker Brownings.

Yeah. Yeah. You know, you never know what these people and what you're going to ask us. So, all right. Well, we go into round three with big fat zeros. Well, the good news is we're going to pop culture and music. And by golly, I think, uh, I think, uh, I think, you'll enjoy this one.

Which of these pop songs, name check, a star athlete? Your choices are, Empire State of Mind, Vogue, Ms. Jackson, Boom, Boom, Pooh. Baby got back, and that don't impress me much. Let's see, oh my gosh. So which one of the, which ones, which songs, name check a star athlete? Star athlete. Yeah, so Alicia Key's Empire State of Mind, Madonna's Vogue. outcast Ms. Jackson

Black Eyed Peas, Boom Boom, Poole, Boom, Poe, The Sir Mikes-Lat's Baby Got Back and Shanias, that don't impress me much. Would you just that don't impress me much? Well, you know what? You don't impress me much either.

No, that song's fine. I just can't think of any of these. Ah, man. Sorry, Miss Jackson. Ooh, I am for real. I'm no Michael Jack. No. I keep hovering over Vogue, but I think I'm hovering over Vogue, but I think I'm thinking of, like, Marilyn Monroe or something.

She wasn't an athlete. I'm just not sure. Boom, boom, bow. I don't know. Wow. I'm watching Brian's selections just bounce all over the place. You know why? I don't have any.

I'm just trying to, I'm trying each of them all. It's like, hmm, how these fit? They feel good? Mm, they feel good? Mm-hmm. I bet this. Mm. Well, I watched the selections going all over the place who were very entertaining.

It's a nervous habit I do. It's just like, click on, click off. Scott settled on one. He settled on Madonna's Vogue. Brian, you had that one selected for a little while as well. Yeah, yeah. They, you know, they talk about Betty Davis and Greta Garbo. And they also mentioned Joe DiMaggio.

Joe DiMaggio, of course. So Scott is getting a point. Yeah, he's one then because those other two were just wild-ass guesses. Well, but what if they're the other two? Those might be the three, Brian. You never know. Let's see. It's just pull the Band-Aid off.

No. Neither are the ones you selected Boom Boom, Boom, Pal and Ms. Jackson. Neither one mentions a star athlete. Empire State of Mind talks about LeBron and Dwayne Wade. You did. You had Empire and Vogue for the longest time, and it looked like you were going to settle on those. then you didn't.

Baby got back mentions Flojo. Florence Joyner, Chrissy. I'm sorry, Florence Griffith, Joyner. Oh, right. Really? Yeah. Is he talking about her bum? He's not talking about her bum. I think he is, yes.

Oh, he's talking about all the bums. That's what he does. It's all about bums. Empire State of Mind, who's the mentioning? My Anaconda don't want none unless you got buns, hon. Empire State of Mind mentions Dwayne Wade and LeBron Jules. Oh, all right. You said that. So, okay.

Yeah, I don't, I got lucky. I feel very lucky. Today, I feel like Joe DiMaggio. I feel very lucky, lucky, lucky, luckiest man, man, man in the world, world, world. Well done. That was a great little finisher, though. Get down to one to zero. Good job.

Absolutely. Nice little ending there. Then congratulations. Going to Steve Smetzer in Bowling Green, Ohio. You're going to get a copy of Doors Paradox and Geometric Sniper. Shoot the shapes. Shoot the shapes. Maybe just shoot the shapes from a distance, I guess.

I don't think about either of those games, but big thanks to H and King Kimizabi. Who was the dude in our community that looked like Jesus and came to all the events for a while? That was me. Sebastian. He used to say he was real big on, I don't know where it first came up,

YLR or something. Somebody said, hey, the point of geometry wars is to shoot the shapes. And then all he did, anytime I saw him, heard from him, anything was go, hey man don't forget you got to shoot the shapes shoot the shapes and I said well you don't forget deodorant buddy because

I remember one of those Nurtaculars Early Nurtaculars before we Oh no not not that Sebastian was a different Sebastian Oh yeah not the not the one from across the world From the Netherlands This is a Sebastian from Probably from Utah

I was wondering he was from somewhere Midwest but I haven't heard from him in eight years, seven years, something like that? When I first guested the first time on ELR, like this is the first time I'm on the show and I'm talking to you and O and the two of you and O. I was there. Yeah, you were. I know you were.

You totally were. Yeah, you're one of the two of you. That's what I'm saying. You and you, the royal you. The royal you. The real you. There was a, you had taken a break sometime in the show. And my phone was ringing off the hook behind me.

You probably can even hear it during, you know, during the show when we're talking. And then you take a, you know, a break, a commercial break or a P break or whatever. And Tina comes down the stairs and says, there's a guy on the phone named Sebastian who says he needs you to relay a message to Scott or something. And I couldn't even remember. But he had looked up my name and found my phone number and called me while I'm on the show with you to get a message of something to you. He was one of those guys. Yeah, he's one of those stars. cars that burns so bright that it

then he disappears you know what I mean you do too much to you it's like the guy used to send us all the questions from uh wherever he was Georgia and he always had a list of questions you do that too you go too hard you disappear and you get you burn yourself out so don't do that with us you know we want to burn out than to fade away that's right well congratulations

to our winners what did they win again Brian did we tell them yeah yeah we didn't tell both of them so um so Steve smetzer you're getting geometric sniper and doors paradox but Troy in Perth, you're getting a copy of Hands of Necromancy. This is one of those rare moments where I don't know any of those three games. Really? Wow, it is rare. Sure, they're good.

I'm sure they're great. I usually have at least heard of them, but those are all new to me. Yeah, well, good. There you go. I guess that's good. You can't really say, oh, yes, you're really going to enjoy the Doors Paradox. Make sure you break on through to the other side in the first stage. I do like necromancy, though, so I'm super stoked for our Perth fella.

uh well there you go congratulations goes to me and the winner and then brian done away is a shame he's shamed and has to go away now brought shame upon his family here's the good news though brian we we so to be more better accommodate my mother's needs uh early in the week being mondays which is today um we have moved we've decided we made an executive decision to play retro uh its new regular slot will be tuesdays because the way this all works out anyway so tomorrow At the normal time, 4 p.m. We will have a play retro show. We're doing them Lost Vikings, boy.

Yeah. One and two. One and two. We're going to get Olaf, sphincter, and douchebag, whatever their names are. Billog. And who is it? Olaf. Who's the Eric?

Eric. I feel like they're naming the banana splits. Or the, you remember my, or remind me with that. You know, I don't want to spoil anything. Never mind. I saw the movie. I went and saw the movie. last night. I saw 20 years later.

Yeah. It was a certain. Oh. And it reminds me of that. I just don't want to give me. You're talking about, yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about the, wait, what, what's going on here? Yeah.

I got, I got, I got all kinds of things to say about that. Oh, my gosh. Danny Boyle is the most punk rock director in the history of the media. He absolutely is. Absolutely wild movie. Anyway, done away, I can't wait for that. It's going to be fun. We're going to be together.

Together at last. And synaps. Yep. Kiss my ass. All right. He's gone. Brian, we're going to take a break. Below a track suits, zipping up and down again.

Yeah. So many questions. I guess what, Duwain tell Bone Temple. To the sequel. Yeah, exactly. Find out what's going on. Man, I loved some. There are things in that movie I absolutely adored.

Yeah. I'm sure the whole Ray finds. All of that. Yeah. That's my kind of crazy. That was great. Yeah. Everything was great.

It's a very cool movie. Do not go in there expecting Walking Dead, all right? These are different movies. These aren't even zombies. This is like, this is the problem with the, not a problem, but this is the thing with this entire three movie series so far, is they're not really zombies. So don't go in there with the rules in your head like you would have a vampire movie.

Don't do that because these aren't the same. They're different. Anyway, all that being said, we're going to take a break. When we come back from said break, it will be time for Stephen Schlecker and a little bit of nerd talk around the fire. Okay, I'm looking forward to this. So if you want to be a part of it, show up after that. Brian, let's play a song. What do you got?

Yeah, this is an artist named Buick Audra, speaking, Adra, and Brian Dunway. She is of the band Friendship Commanders, but she's got her brand new solo album called Adult Child. She's also going to be touring this summer, and she's starting in her hometown of Nashville at a place called The Basement, so you can check her out there. this is this is fantastic the the album again is called adult child it's available on all digital platforms you can listen the whole thing here's the first single it is called firstborn It's been a long several years The world has changed and still the flowers bloom Outside my dog

This cycle like fierce Seasonal catching me off guard Wanting something more I recall a time I slept much better, yeah. I thought I was doing fine, but I couldn't see the weather. Yeah, I pulled Boston away

and tell my love to Miami before, and now I'm just here. There are new things to say. Now that I have made my peace within, I'm holding these days deep. I recall a time when they liked me better yet. But it cost me what was mine, and now I like me better, yeah. And some day I'm waiting for love that doesn't come. But most days I'm set and I got here on my own on my own.

Got here on my own Oh Oh Oh Oh There's a tide that just turns And every time Speak the truth out loud

New ways rushing I'm thankful for words But all the shape The sentiments would search I'd never quite began I recall a time When I wrote those letters Yeah

I labored over lines But now I sing them Better Some days I'll wait for love that never comes, but my days I'm okay, and I keep on my own. I got out here on my own, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Why choose a sleep number smart bed? Can I make my site softer? Can I make my site firmer?

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I'm very excited. I'll bet you are. Brian, who was that again? So we know. Yeah, that is Buick Audra. And her brand new single adult child. I'm sorry, first born, which comes from her brand new album, which is called Adult Child.

Go check her out, Nashville artist that is making waves. I had a Buocadra, but it broke down a lot. I know, you've got to really take care of those. The electrical system is always the problem. It's not easy. It's not easy to have a car like that. All right, let's get Stephen Schleiker in here, see what he's up to. Stephen, are you there, buddy? Hold on one moment, and I will be.

Oh, you sound good. We hear you. There we go. I think we're set. Yeah, you're all good. I think so. Oh, excellent. I'm happy to hear this exciting tone from you today.

How are you feeling? How are you doing? I mean, have you looked at the news? Fair point. You make a good point. Perhaps it's not as great as I think it is. Well, no, it's good to having you here, though. We love having you here.

Having you here is like having, I don't know, it's like having one of your best friends hanging around, you know? Yeah. That's how we think of you. Oh, I forgot to play his thing, though. Let's do that real fast. I don't know why I did that. And now welcome Stephen to the show.

He's a huge freaking nerd. Dollar, dollar bills, y'all. That's right. Steven Schlecker from Major Spoilers.com, a place for podcasts and games and tabletop and comic news and rumors and scuttle button, all that fun stuff. Ooh, can I tell you what I just read last night and loved? Do it. Was the five-song, I'm sorry, five-issue Phoenix N-song series, limited series, which I never read.

But it's the one, like, you know, if you see a recent illustration, of Phoenix and it's the one where she's got her hand and she's doing that that pose that's the famous Greg Land illustration of Phoenix came from that that series Phoenix Ensox. So Phoenix X-Men Phoenix? X-Men Phoenix. Yeah. I don't even read that one either. In fact, I don't even know the name of that series. It's known to be a 2005. It's just called Insong. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's good. And it's really good. Yeah. It's a, you know, you've got all your favorite X-Men in there. Scott, Emma Frost, Kitty, Pride, night crawler storm, and... Does Prickety Pride go through? Does she go through things?

Walls? She does. She goes through... She does a very interesting thing with people, like something that, uh, that, that, you know, can end a fight instantly if she, if she needs to. Oh, my gosh. Wait, but does, but does somebody scream, I'm the juggernaut? No, no, nobody says, I'm the juggernaut, bitch.

That doesn't happen? Okay. Nobody pops up out of the floor and says, that guy from lockstock and two smoking barrels he's great bini joe i love that guy uh all right well it's good to have here steven we've got a list of stuff we're going to go through today in fact we're going to start with this um oh i'm going to start with an email i want to read you we got an email or a text that was for you uh this is from brian and central mass brian one of those guys okay one of those those weirdos it kind of messes you know

with your life when you're a brian um i don't get the two i don't get the single t scott problem very often I don't know too many of those. But when I do, it's annoying. That is really the only other spelling of Scott, really, is just the SCOT. Yeah. Anything else is suspect. Low T. Low T.

So we got this. It says, regarding the comic book industry, you and major spoilers should examine the RIPAverse. And what it's accomplishing, a young black entrepreneur is defied trends by implementing sound practices rather than adhering to comic book industry standards solely due to convention. ripaverses achieved significant success founded on the principle of canonical integrity, which dictates reading order. This approach avoids the confusion of multiple timelines or universes for readers investigate this further, says Brian in Central Mass. What do you say to that, Stephen, you are familiar with the ripaverse? Oh, I am familiar with the ripaverse. In fact, one of our other shows that we have, the Wayne's Comics podcast, he's interviewed these guys several times with a bunch of their books.

Now, there are some controversies surrounding the repaverse, some bullying and harassing accusations about that. But, yeah, there's some good titles coming out of there from what I hear. I have not read any of them myself. Okay. So we got, let's see, something called Zalin, What Kills Must Die, Oh, Isam, Yarra, Statue. Oh, that's a statue. Sorry. Let's see.

View Store, all comics. So they got a lot in here. Are these all black creators? Is that the idea of the thing? Or is it? I'm not sure about that. You know, I just know their name and I know their title and I know that Wayne Hall has interviewed them creators from there several times. That's about the extent and then just some of the controversy surrounding what's been going on with them.

I kind of want to read some and see what's up. Yeah. See what's going on. Okay, interesting. There you go. Thank you for that. If you guys have questions for Steve, we're happy to read those here on the show. let's get to the new digital comic book store in town tell me more yeah so just announced so you can sign up now to get on the waiting list is um neon ichibon which is a new digital comic storefront created by and this is the thing that i think is most interesting it is created by the people who created uh comicsology david steinberger and chip mosher chip and i go way back to when he was the

PR guy at Boom Studios before he, you know, went to go work for Comicsology and then that got bought up by Amazon. They've been working over at Distillery, which is a comic publisher that we've talked about over the last couple of years on and off, but now they are launching their own digital storefront, neon Ichibon, which is fine. I mean, they've signed up a bunch of comic book companies and manga creators as well, including Dark Horse, Distillery, obviously, Clay Codantia, Oni Press, Vault Comics, DC and Marvel have also signed on to this as well as the manga titles.

The thing that might put people off on that or might get people excited about this is, now we're not going to call it an NFT, Scott. Let's not do that. Let's not call it that. You're reading it already. You can buy digital comic books

with signatures or sketches on these digital comic books, which come with, a authentication number that you can buy and collect. And if you want to resell it later on, it might have more value. Now, you're going to be surprised what I say about this. This is actually the use case this was always intended for. I think so.

This is, NFTs ruined it because NFTs were all about, hey, I'm going to drop 3,000 different monkeys with the same face with slight variations. And then I'm going to sell those for way too much money. We're going to have a dumb market around it and celebrities are going to ruin it. It's just going to be shit. And it's going to be a scam. And a lot of people swooped in with other scams that helped it be more scammy. That was a problem.

And NFTs needed to die in a fire in that way. But stuff tracked on the blockchain that creates ownership, authentication and authenticity authentication and true ownership over digital rights of certain things is there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's just all been implementation and the gold rush idiots. Hustle Bros. was trying to take advantage of it. This actually sounds like the decent, the decent use case.

Yeah, now you don't, if you don't want to get into the, into that side of it, you don't have to. You can just buy the standard, good old digital comic book. But if you want to get a sketch cover or variant cover or a digital sign cover that you can sell again later, neon Ichibon is that's kind of, that's kind of their hook that sets them apart from all of the other digital publishers that are out there. The other concern I have about the name, and it's just the name. And we know who's, you know, included in all of this. But this sounds like it's very heavily manga-based. And so I'm glad to hear these other studios are involved and other publishers.

But are they, is that who they're really mainly aiming this for? And the rest is sort of just hanging out. Beyond Viz Media, Viz Media, I believe, has their own reader, although you can read everything on the Viz.com website. Kudansha is the same way. I don't know of any any digital publisher that sells manga

en masse, right? Like, you know, Viz sells Viz stuff, Godantia sells Godansha stuff. But I'm, comicsology sells, you know, whatever they have available. This is one that seems to be catering really more towards the manga,

but also, hey, you like manga, you like regular comic books, jump on neon Ichibon. Okay. I'm curious about it. And the founders of comicsology who then, you know, sold comicsology and then left comicsology to do a new comicsology. That's exciting in some ways, except I hope they don't sell it to Amazon ruin it again.

But whatever. I think these guys, I mean, I don't know. I can't talk too much out of turn. But Chip Mosier and I have talked and he's been, you, Scott, you were part of my entrepreneurship class. Chip came in to talk about entrepreneurial leadership, both with comicsology and when he was with Amazon. with comicsology. So I think he has some very good ideas of how, and he's been doing digital comics from,

you guys may remember back in the day when you could buy a wizard comic and it may come with a CD full of comic books on there. He was marketing that stuff way back in the 90s and early 2000s. So I think he kind of knows what digital comics need to be. But again, he's not here.

I can only speak from all the interactions that we've had over the years. Well, I'm super curious about that. I'll have to keep my eye on it. And when's this launching? Is it now? It is not launching yet. You can sign up and get an exclusive digitally signed comic, Brian.

Really? At launch. I did that. I'm like 2,000th in line, although they do have a nice little gimmick that if you share your code, you can get bumped up higher in line and get maybe something maybe more rare. But yeah, just go to Neon-Igibon, and they've got the information there. I will add this to the conversation. The NFT thing got, it's kind of ruined.

So even these, these some sort of applicable ways of using it, it's kind of too far gone. The genie's out of the bottle and nobody's going to like this. I mean, some people are, but it's going to get bashed. People are going to say, oh, is that the new thing where they're doing NFTs for kind? Like, it's, there's just no getting around the negativity on it. There's, yeah, because there's just such a stink around that stuff. Yeah. It's hard not to, not to immediately make that jump when you hear about it.

Well, so one of the things that they were doing it, when they launched, I'm not sure they still do it now, but they would have digital only comics that they would create a limited number of those. And when they sold out, you couldn't get any more digital versions of that. So it didn't come with any kind of blockchain tracking or anything like that. But that was one of the things that I know that they were trying. So that may have been a lead up to what they're doing now. Gotcha. Well, let's see how it all goes.

Yeah. And who knows, you know, if we got a, what are those electromagnetic pulses? EMPs. We don't have to worry about digital comics. It's all going to be fine. Yeah. It could happen more likely than ever, Stephen. So let's all get excited. My son just turned 18 and I had to remind him, hey, you need to go sign up for selective service.

We have just bombed Iran. Yeah. I know the timing. Yeah. It's like pull out, dude. Pull out. Hey, Spider-Man 94 wrapped up the animated series. We're all done then, right?

Well, so there was kind of a big cliffhanger, right? Brian with Spider-Man, the animated series back in 19. You think they come back for more, have they said? I don't think so. Not with the fact that the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man series is doing so well. The, you know, the old animated series that, was that on MTV or my, no, I'm thinking of a different one that was MTV. This was like Saturday mornings, Fox or something.

Fox or ABC or something like that. Spider-Man 94 series, yeah. And it was really hugely popular, but it did end on a cliffhanger where Spider-Man jumped into the multiverse to go and rescue Mary Jane. Right. And then there was no more. Well, Marvel is coming back with the comic book series, five-issue mini-series. It is picking right up after the events of Spider-Man finding Mary Jane through the multiverse and going through, for those of you that have been reading the Spider-Verse series, this version of Peter Parker has popped up at least once.

And so now he's back home, question mark. And so now we get to see in this five-issue miniseries, we get to see the animated version of Kane and Moreland. and so people who always wondered why those two characters didn't show up in the animated series, you get your answer with Spider-Man 94 launching in September. Who's Morland? Is that a villain? A vampire villain, right? Or like a...

Yeah, he sucks the powers out of people. Okay. Yeah. And I would have said, well, sure, Cain and Morland came after 1994. So, of course, they wouldn't, yeah, they wouldn't have been in the animated series. But the one thing that that series had, and it's something I'm hopefully looking forward to with the new friendly neighborhood Spider-Man series is bringing all these characters

that instead of the focus on all the members of the Sinister Six and all the ones you see all the time and Venom and Doc Ack and Green Goblin and all that like give us some of those weird ones the chameleon has always been a favorite you know a favorite or the we probably never going to get the who's it was ox

and I think is the something the enforcers It was like the first villains that Peter Parker had to fight. They were hired by Jay Jonah Jameson. It was like Ox. Fancy Dan. Was Ox like a big old ox looking guy? He was a cable that you had to plug into the right port to get audio to a Bluetooth device. It's the term.

He played the term my kids used that I hated when they were. Ox cables. Yes, exactly. Dad, we're the ox cable. It was three of these henchmen, almost Dick Tracy looking. henchmen and one of them was ox a big just a big beefy dude second one was fancy dan who um who just had he was really agile quick footwork and they can remember who the third one was but uh i just remember the enforcers and never seeing any sort of animated version of them here's

ox right here yeah or a version of him so it just a oh that looks like that looks like it's from it from an animated series it absolutely does it doesn't say i just pulled up a random one here's one from the comic that's the comic that's the well I don't even know if that's the Ditko one so just a big beefy dude yeah they called oh my gosh this doll or this action figure this is horrifying this thing

oh geez I don't like it make it stop it's got articulated fingers though that's cool I guess yeah that might be homemade I don't know what that is just looks like he ate some you and my allergy chicken

yeah somebody got an epipen oxy's a shellfish Shelfish allergy. Epi pens out in his car. You've got to go get it. Montana was the third one. Montana was the other member.

I can't remember what Montana's deal was. There's a fun one. Look at that one. He was from Texas. Montana, Texas. Well, that's great. Let's also talk about Twilight Zone, the comic book. Hopefully nobody will die.

Nobody died in the making of this comic book, right? That we know of. Yeah. So I don't know how many people are fans of Twilight Zone. We're coming up to the July 4th, weekend way faster than I wanted to. But, you know, sci-fi channel used to always run Twilight Zone marathons and other people do that too.

And there have been attempts to do anthology, kind of Twilight Zone-ish comic books in the past. But now IDW publishing announced that it has got the rights to do an officially licensed the Twilight Zone anthology series. And I believe this is a five-issue mini-series. Generally, IDW does that with a lot of their stuff before they decide if it's popular enough to launch into a ongoing series. But for fans of the Twilight Zone and Twilight Zone-esque-type storytelling, they can go get that book.

It arrives also in September. And it's an anthology, so it's got a bunch of different writers and artists for every issue. I am very, very excited about this for a couple of reasons. The name isn't that important to me, but an anthology series with stories, storylines like the Twilight Zone is known for or Outer Limit. that kind of stuff, is some of my favorite kind of comics.

I love them when they get done. So the right writing needs to be there, obviously. But if that can happen, these are muskets for me. Go ahead, Brian, sorry. The art style of these looks amazing, and I'm hoping that they really will be in black and white like the sample artwork. And for you kids who are unfamiliar with Twilight Zone,

it was the black mirror of the 60s, folks. 50s even, right? Early 50s or mid-50s? Did it come out in the 50s? I thought it was 50s, you might be right. That's when Shatner just did his thing. Yeah, I think it was 50s. Because it was pre-Star Trek, which was, like, 63 or something.

Yeah, you're right. They hold up. This stuff's so good. And if you've seen, I don't know, I'm trying to think of a modern, oh, you know what, the modern equivalent is like Black Mirror. If you enjoy Black Mirror and you want to kind of see the roots of why Black Mirror works and stuff, Twilight's there in. But maybe with not all of the boobies.

The grossies sometimes. Yeah, you know, they've rebooted the Twilight Zone multiple times. Peel just was the host of the most recent TV series on The Twilight Zone. I think he was also the executive producer of that show. But if people like anthology series stuff, there's some really good anthology comics that other people might want to check out, depending on what you're looking at. Immediately off the top of my head is the new EC Comics line from Oni Press. They have like a bunch of horror anthology stuff.

They've got the, what is it, Tombstone of Terror. They've got catacombs of something else. All of these are coming out monthly And they're also anthology series Then there's a really great series Over at Image Comics Which is maybe more towards the Black Mirror Slash

What was the other one The competitor to Twilight Zone? Outer Limits? Outer limits. It's called Ice Cream Man And it is really good It's really creepy Oh, you recommended this to me somewhere

It may have been when I was doing The Monthlies with you guys or something But that is a great series Really good. Yeah, and there's a longer storyline behind it, but every issue there is an ice cream man that comes to town or comes to the

city or whatever, and then we follow somebody's cursed tale through the issue, and the ice cream man has an intro and then eventually the ice cream man becomes his own character and there's a bunch of other things going on behind the scenes. Do you remember this, Brian? I think we... Yeah, we totally talked about it here. Yeah, it's so good.

Oh, my gosh. And it's kind of the same thing. So if you're into that sort of thing, you like anthologies, it's a little like it's the what if stuff for marvel um you got a watcher type character or or the old crypt keeper crap all that stuff it's like that yeah yeah it's great it's your narrator yeah yeah i love it and if you're into more kid friendly stuff uh marvel has been releasing their line of uh marvel disney team ups what if donald duck was thor iron man um the thing uh what if mickey mouse and friends were the fantastic four or Or the Avengers, so you can go get those as well.

Very nice. Well, there you go. This is great. Love it. I want that one. Now, the big question. Yes, for you guys. Yeah.

Superman or the Fantastic Four. If you could only see one, right? I don't have a, I don't have a movie theater in my town anymore. Oh, right. And it's going to take 45 minutes to drive, you know, to another city, clear over in another county. And so going and just, hey, let's drop everything and go see a movie is not one of those kinds of things that you can do easily. So we have two movies coming. coming up next month and they are basically releasing two weeks apart we have Superman

and we have the fantastic four first steps and I was curious from you guys if you could only see one of those two movies you couldn't see the other one which one would you choose I know Brian's answer but Brian you know you'd absolutely no mind yeah it's absolutely fantastic for just because listen I like DC I collected DC comics in the 80s and 90s as well but without a doubt the fantastic four I've been waiting for this is the first one of the first comics I got into because George had the little anthology of the first 12 issues of FF and, yeah, easy. For me, easy to say.

I mean, it's one of those things where we have to make an assumption right now that both are going to be equally good, right? Like, we have to at least assume that. With King's Gunn involved, I think that's a, that's a logical assumption. I think both of them are going to be really good. I feel like this is really hard for me

because I'm very excited about both of these things. Yeah, me too. Me too. But I think if I had to pick, probably Superman, but only by a hair, because I want to see the revival that I think Gunn can do. If this wasn't James Gunn, if this was another Snyderverse, if this was some other creator or whatever,

I would probably be way less excited. But I'm very excited about what he's going to do. But Fantastic Four is also going to be rad. I hope neither of these are bad. If that ends up happening, we're all going to die. If Fantastic Four sucks, we're all going to die. If Fantastic Four sucks, we're all going to. to die. I know. Exactly. Exactly.

Can you imagine? No. Marvel does not need another crap crap thing. They ride the momentum of how great Thunderbolts is. Hell yeah. If they even get close to that, I'll be very happy. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I think I'm in the same camp as you, Scott, that I want

to see what a new creator, I mean, James Gunn is the co-head of DC Studios right now. And this is outside of the peacemaker and the animated stuff that that has already been released, this is his chance to walk out on stage and say, hey, here's what I want to do

with these characters. Whereas we're still in the Kevin Feigey, hey, this is the what generation are we on? You know, the sixth chapter of the Marvel universe. Yeah, phase six or whatever it is. And our fifth take on the Fantastic Four. Sure. Right. I'm hoping. I love that you included the 94 Korman one. You have to include the Korman one. yeah um what's what's what's the like okay corman then the um you get the two uh the jessica alba one

and the michael b jordan one what's the fifth well there were two alba ones i mean there were two oh you're counting each of those i got you i was like an iteration of the pair of those right um yeah here's the and this is not a worry at all because i love james gun i have a hundred percent faith in him but I wish the trailers showed a little bit more gunniness. Like the crypto bouncing all around Superman and the extended version of that trailer bit is Super James Gun. Have you seen the one where they're giving Superman crap after he's getting beat up and he's in the hole? And I think it's Mr. Fantastic or Mr. Terrific or Green Lantern are standing there going, come on, come on, get up. And he's just like, I'm trying to relieve me.

Believe me, I'm trying to get up. Oh, no, I haven't seen that trailer yet. It came out within the last two weeks that shows a lot more of the humor side. But also shows there's like an interview between Lois and Superman where he gets pretty heated about, apparently, you know, we see at the beginning of one of the trailers where, you know, there's a war going on and this little kid raises a flag and screams Superman. And then later, apparently in the movie, Lois is interviewing Clark slash Superman. Sorry, spoiler alert, everybody. Superman about this. And he gets really angry because she's like, why, what makes you think you can just go into another country and stop their wars?

And there's some good conflict going on between that as well. Which is important because you need that Lois Clark, sorry, lowest Superman dynamic. Yeah, the core disagreements. Because they're clearly, they're meant for each other at some point. But it's not an easy path. And that needs to be really well illustrated in this movie, I think. yeah very excited yeah oh yeah the chat says uh no love for john krasinski's fantastic for i mean you know it was a great little vision of a what if moment but it totally was

yeah then he got spaghettied so what are you going to do exactly but we might get more of that because um right we talked a couple of weeks ago about not the secret wars but um the arc that supposedly inspired this story and it includes the the council of i mean the council of uh reeds not the Council of Ricks. So we may see more Reeds popping up here and there. Is it a council of Ricks a riff on Council of Reeds?

Is that a thing? I don't know. Yeah, don't know. You could be, I mean, there was the Council of Kings, too, before that even, so. It feels like they, it feels like something

those brick and Oregon guys. But they ain't touching that business. They give us that as a stinger, and that's all we're going to get in that business. All you're going to get. Well, all right, this is all good stuff. I'm excited about all of it,

including those two movies. And thankfully, other than Stephen in his town with no theater. Stupid movie theater with the biggest two movies coming out. AMC doesn't want to make bank. This is why people should boycott AMC. That's right.

Well, I'll tell you what, if they're boycotting other stuff, then they can spend their time more on major spoilers.com. Tell them about the cool stuff going on right now that you want people to be looking at. If people want to know what comics are coming out in September, we are posting a lot of the solicitation information about what titles you can expect, what cool things are coming. We also have new podcast coming out every week. And a whole lot more.

So people can go check that out over at major spoilers.com. And in the meantime, because now it's really getting hot, now that we're officially in summer, please make sure everybody stays hydrated. Oh, that's a great idea. Thank you for letting us know. We appreciate that. Bye now.

Bye now. See you later. See you. Bye. There you go. I got them. No, you hang up. No, you hang up.

I'm a hang up on you, buddy. All right. Hey, guess what? If I came to you, Brian, and said, you know, you had a busy weekend. You got a big weekend coming up. Yeah. What if I said to you that I have a third. throwback mashup that's all about

Brian's pre-2018 impressions of people. Oh, geez. Okay. What if I told you that? How would you feel about that? I would be so amazed. It feels like that would be the biggest thing that's happening to me in the two weeks. I'm sure this will easily top any other

things you have going on. Sure will. So I'm going to go ahead and play it. This is from Jamie TMS mashups. He has put this together for us because he's awesome as usual. And here it is. And now, Ryan Abbott does impressions. All right, now I'm going to grab this light's right here.

All right, time to take a quick nap. Does he have an accent? Is he talking like this? No. Is your news about Bitcoin? Yeah. Yeah. My name is Tom.

Lots of students. What? Jack Tripper, what are you doing? Tell Chrissy and Janet. The way I think it is. I'm not going to let one of them park my car at the valet stand, but it's perfectly all right for me to watch them get mistreated in a porno. Tell I'm going to encounter some jolly.

Oh, scary. Now a sand person is coming and waving their big Q-tip at me. Ah, I don't want anybody digging through my shit. Hey, Anakin, I will let your mother go if you win the Padres. My cleatist effect. Slagulled your clothes. They sit the park. They'll play me some Bohemian Rhapsody.

That's right. We're going to sing Bicycle. It looks like she's got some nice round teeth. Her teeth are really fine. Follow me into the bathroom and I'll show you my. Lucky Charms. We got all sorts of new flavors, new marshmallows, pink sack. Oh, no, we gotta help you, don't you know?

That poor lady over there. Why am I speaking Irish all of a sudden? I like Fishman. I put Fishman in every movie. Oh, you can't use that here. It's a whole different number. Zonkies, Fred. That old amusement park guy is going to kill us.

Zonkies. To say it. I'm Alda Kronkite. What's up, television? Don't forget to mash and subscribe. That like button. I didn't like this movie. movie because it didn't come with any deleted scenes man your dog your dog is going to be eating

your cake you're going to go home you're going to open the box you're going to be all over the place the dog is going to eat the cake oh my gosh you haven't done one of those in a long time haven't done it Christopher walking in forever yeah ages also we have definitely improved Brian's uh audio quality geez those were Skype day I think those were Skype days I think so we thought Skype was the end all be all for a while really did now it's just the end all it's just the end all well it's it's done yeah that I mean

out finished out as of a couple months ago no more Skype no more Skypey Skypey Skypey Pants and and if it weren't for it being in the news we nobody would have noticed no oh oh Skype Skype's not an app anymore huh imagine squandering the the this is like changing Twitter to X you literally created a verb

to tweet somebody and in this case you're going to you want to Skype me why would you throw that shit away Microsoft and eBay for that matter you're all stupid you're all dumb for how you handled that everything about that was really really stupid

anyway you let Zoom eat your lunch during the pandemic just so dumb and nobody's gonna you know Graham Ellis says well they renamed it teams yeah nobody's gonna use nobody's gonna use teams as a verb like you're going to say, I'm going to zoom, oh, I'm going to zoom my aunt later today, or I'm going to zoom such and such, or yeah, but nobody says, oh, you know, let me, let me, uh, let me teams with the rest of the committee and see if we can come to an agreement. No, it's terrible. And then, but you would say Skype.

Like they just, it's the biggest example of corporate miss, missing the boat that I can think of recently. Yeah. But they've, they're known for that. They did this with Nokia. They did this with other stuff. The Zoom is a good example. Like, there's just Microsoft shit. Uh, well, anyway, uh, Hey, you guys, that's it for the show. A couple of quick notes here. Monday show today at 1 p.m. Myself and my daughter Carter will be on mic talking live at frogpants. TV if you want to come check it out.

I have a little more to say about that weird story with the kid from Carter's perspective. So please come check that out. Oh, good. Okay. What's going on with daily music headlines today? Yeah, daily music headlines. We covered a story today about a music festival in France this last weekend where almost 150 participants or attendees, including a lot. including a lot of teenage women got poked with a hypodermic needle by various people in various locations.

Like this is a music festival that occurs all over France, not just in Paris or in one location. It's all over. And a lot of women got... What was in it? Do we know it was in it or anything? No information yet on what was in, if anything, what was in the hypodermic needles. but apparently it's like you know it's your internal it's your domestic terrorist attack basically because it's coming from inside the country that's awful i don't like that one bit it's horrendous yeah

oh my gosh those tight any kind of concert setting for any another reason scott doesn't care to go to concert yeah except this weekend well it's it's a nightclub so we get to sit it's a special situation yeah exactly um also covered wringo stars brand new country album produced by two bone burnet so Oh, hey. That's pretty cool. With peace and love. Okay. I'm warning you to listen to my new album with peace and love.

I won't sign shit, though, with peace and love. If you buy my album, I'm throwing it in the bin with peace and love. It's just every time his name comes up, it's an excuse to talk about it. I love it. It is. It's my favorite thing Rigo Star ever released, ever recorded. And that includes with a little helpful. His greatest contribution, honestly.

I love it. I hope somebody's put that to music and just like, you know, I get by with a little peace and love, throwing in the bin. Well, we have the technology. Somebody should put that together. For sure. Anyway, let's do a song and get the F out. Oh, before we do, frogpans.com slash TMS is our website.

All things are there. All roads lead to there and all roads lead from there. So if you're looking for a road and you need to go there, really do and away from there. Frogpants.com slash TMS is all you got to do. Now we'll play a song. what do you got cool well uh da-na-na-na-na-na this is going out to lydia grace bauer da-na-na-na-na-na-na-ha she says happy birthday to my main squeeze and bfff john da-na-na-na-na-na-na is there a

cover of birthday from the Beatles da-na-na-na-na-da yes there is and i'm going to play it now this is uh by the band halocene and so you know what you're getting for it's a nice clean hard rock killer version of birthday by the Beatles this came out on their volume one First album of covers from 2014, here's Hallocene and Birthday. to you yeah they say it's your birthday we're gonna have a good time i'm glad it's your birthday Yes, we're going to a party party. Yes, we're going to a party, party, yes, we're going to a party party, yes, we're going to a party party. I would like it to dance, birthday, take a chuch, chit, chants, birthday.

I would like it to dance, birthday, dance. I will like it again I will like it again. I will like it again. Birthday I would like it again Birthday Friends

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