The Morning Stream - TMS 2849: A Brief of Pelicans

Episode Date: July 7, 2025

Clark Cornsweat Kent. Bowling Correspondence School. Neighbors shooting their stuff into the night. Eating old eggs in the sun. Planet of the Shrewdness of the Apes. Cat Clowder Crowding the Chowdah. Who Freaked the Dogs out - who, who. Just like a Scott Returning to His Vomit. E. coli brand salad. Silica Gel in the Raw. Choking the Turtle. NIEDERMEYER!! Why Why the 5th of July? The place was Rio, and Scott didn't barf this time. Cartman is not a Role Model with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight, through the medium of the animated cartoon, we present a murder mystery condensed from authentic criminal records. It is my sincere purpose in exposing the brutal killer involved in this horrible case to prove to you beyond the shadow of a doubt that crime does not pay. I like them square hamburgers. This car smells weird. Hello, everyone, and welcome to this weird smelling car known as TMS for a Monday, July 7th, 20, 25.

Does it smell like beef? A little bit like beef, a little bit like spent fireworks around here, you know? Plus people are still gearing up for the 24th where we do it all over again. All over again. More fireworks, because, you know. You know, that's what you have to do out there. Yeah. They were doing them on the second and third.

I think we talked about it here on the show one of those nights. I was just like, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. And I'm like, what the hell are we doing on the second or third? And then, you know, then the real stuff happened on the fourth. And that was fine. Whatever. Fine. I'm just, I'm sort of, you know, I've sort of gotten used to the whole idea and I don't really need more of it.

It's, you know, why freak the dogs out and piss off the babies? What do we? Why? Right, exactly. If we hate the Chinese so much, why are we using their traditional freaking... And that's the thing, you know, they're talking about that, you know, enjoy your fireworks this year, folks, because next year they're going to be too expensive to get from China. China.

So we're going to have to be producing them locally, and guess what? America is not good at producing fireworks to scale the scale that people want. No, and ironically, China is mostly using drone shows now. They barely use fireworks anymore. I know. Oh, my God, there was a dragon, like a dragon video that I saw this just, I would watch that a hundred times. Oh, yeah. And not miss fireworks one bit. I would never miss them. I don't care about fireworks. No, I don't at all. Tell me, I got to go sit in a hot crowd and park in a horrible place and wait all night for a thing to happen.

And it's drones? I'll do that. Yep, no problem. I'm all in. But, I mean, you know, big Rubik's cube in the sky rotating up there. Like, you could do... See, that's super cool. But 55 years of seeing... It's old. The innovations have not been impressive. Like, I think we got one thing a few years ago where it's like, we can make stars now,

but they're kind of two-dimensional. You have to be looking right at it to see it. Yeah. I don't like any of it anymore. We kind of just bored with it. Hearts. We could do pretty much all the Lucky Charms shapes if you're looking for one. Not the horseshoes.

No, no, no, no. too complicated can't do that i was at my first maybe i was at my sisters for for the fourth and we had a great time there was a pool during the day and at night they built these pickleball courts out in this area that used to be horse space

nice um so they moved in immediately get rid of all the horse stuff and put in that and uh that was great because you know windy's in town everybody's there and they're all playing pickleball and hanging out and the fireworks all around the neighborhood are on fire just pop boom boom everywhere so loud

and for some reason it puts me to sleep so I I just happened to be we've been in the hot sun all day so this didn't that probably helped yeah that also helps yeah I laid back on this little outside couch thing and zonked out for like just about all of it and my sister's like how are you doing that and I said I don't know man something about fireworks puts me to sleep I think my parents when I was a kid were maybe like I don't know maybe they cuddled me all up in a blanket or something and chilled me swaddled you during a during the fireworks display and it's just as you're you're getting re yeah that memory is getting re triggered by the yeah it's like driving i fall asleep i just i don't know what's going on there but yeah they were neighbors were shooting that stuff all into the night thank you neighbors uh but but i can sleep right through all that stuff i just wake up when it's silent four o'clock in the morning when everyone's finally done brian's like yeah yeah exactly nothing like a couple of episodes of the simpsons to help you out in the morning though it's totally true actually watched uh uh resonant alien which uh you know new episode dropped over the weekend love that yeah that shows great new rick and morty i'm behind oh that rick and morty had Snyder and uh

gun in it playing themselves right playing doing oh my god playing great versions of themselves i love that they are so fine poking poking fun at themselves it was i love it because maybe some of you Snyder versus weirdos can watch that and calm down a little yeah yeah They're all playing in boycotts and all this shit. Oh, geez. What is wrong with you people? You know, you feel bad every once in a while when there's like a new director taking over a franchise, right? Like when Disney got Spider-Man and they made just a great freaking Spider-Man movie.

First, or even just his appearance in Civil War or, yeah, Civil War, you know, you're like, you know, I feel a little bad for Sam Ramey because it was because of him that we've got this, that we've got Spider-Man. you know in these movies and and sure the tom haul and stuff is so much better than than it was in the toby mcguire or the andrew garfield days sure but i feel bad for those directors for sam ramy and then whoever it was that was responsible for the Andrew garfield yeah uh films was that the same guy i don't even know too those two movies it might have been the same guy i mean not it might have been the same guy i don't know but um but i think i feel like you know this this week this this week we're getting the new superman movie got our tickets for thursday night you've got your meetup plan for over the weekend and

James Gunn's track record pretty stellar with the Gardens of the Galaxy stuff no no worries whatsoever that it's going to be excellent and I just you know want to say Donner thank you for getting us where we are Richard Donner Snyder thank you for getting us where we've gotten with this I don't know who did the the Brandon Ralph oh that was no that's what's his name usual suspects guy

Oh, right. Nolan. No, not Nolan. Oh, not usual suspects. I mean, not Christopher Nolan. He did X-Men. Why can't they give his name? Yes, Singer. Brian Singer. Brian Singer. There you go. Yes.

Yeah, so, I mean, you know, thanks to all you guys for getting us where we are now. If this new Superman turns out to be fantastic and the best one ever, great. Yeah. And if not, that's okay, too. We're not. Yeah, it's all fine. I like some Snyder movies work for me. Some don't. But the fact that those two came together, had a little fun at themselves. Yes.

Should make you all go, oh, maybe this isn't that big a deal. Maybe there's not a big rift between the two that, you know, and they can't laugh at themselves as well. Oh, Mark Webb, thank you TV struts. How could I forget? Mark Webb directed the two Andrew Garfield, Spider. Oh, his last name is freaking Webb. His last name is Freakin'Web. He's basically, if he was a lady, it'd be Madam Webb, that guy.

Ha! You know? Maybe his wife is Madam Webb. He calls her that. good and not terrible right exactly uh well anyway yeah how do you feel about the last name corn sweat well isn't it corin it's like corin corin it's two syllables corin's corin sweat like that yeah it's a terrible name is what i would like to say to answer it's so it's so mon pa kent and so not metropolis yeah corn sweat it's a little weird also pa kent in this one is that actor whose eyes are moving all over the place he's got that condition love that guy i do too

but it's such a weird casting, you know, compared to previous kents. But I'm, you know what? It may fit perfect as he's like a older farmer guy, he's been through some shit, his eyes won't hold still like, you know,

maybe it's perfect. I don't know. I'm excited about that. Is Kastner your favorite, Paw Kent? No. Well, I like him as a pick.

I don't like what they did with him. Yeah, yeah. But he's okay, though. I don't, if I have a, do I have a favorite? You know what he actually? she probably is because I don't like the Duke boy one in the show.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Smallville. I'm trying to think who it was in the, I mean, I always visualized the dude that we got in the Christopher Reeve. I can't remember. Wasn't he just like a. I can't remember the actor, but he's just, you know, he's like, he's like Seinfeld's dad kind of, you know, just a big trustworthy. Just a farmer guy. Just a dude.

It looks like, exactly. It looks like they plucked him out of the, the. the cornfields of Iowa and plopped him onto a movie set for Superman and then plopped them right back into those cornfields. And they were older and they seemed to fit the part. The both parents

did. Martha, why do you know that name? Why did you say that name? But yeah, I kind of like that. And it feels like that's kind of what they're going for here a little bit more. A little bit more, you know, less iconic and buff and handsome. They're just

normal people. Glenn Ford, by the way, in those the Richard Donner, the original Superman movies. I guess Richard Donner didn't do the first one that was Donner did one too. He did, oh, he did do one?

Yeah, but then after that, three, four, those were done by monkeys. We don't speak about those. Yeah, those were done by broken monkeys. They were broken monkeys. Especially that third one, or that fourth one. Holy,

mackerely. At least three at three at least had some footing. Four was... Which was the one that in Richard Pryor for comic release? Three was prior, yeah. Three. Yeah. I mean, it's bad.

It's bad. It's bad, but I'll take that one over four, but only barely. Oh, well, sure. Four is a hot turd in the sun. It's so bad. It really is. So bad, you guys. Never forget.

All right, I did it. I had an anniversary happen over the weekend. Yeah, yeah. The 5th of November, remember, November, July. It doesn't rhyme then, remember. It really doesn't. Why, why the 5th of July? Was the exact 20-year anniversary of my barf streak.

The exact day. Okay, I was wondering what the, all right. So it's kind of a big deal. So what Wendy and I did, we were going to go visit my mom. And we thought, well, all right, me and Wendy and Misha, we're going to go see my mom, do a little sibling hang out, talk to my mom. Yeah. So while we're there, somebody says, and I'm aware that day that I'm like, yeah, this is the anniversary. Of course you are.

I've made the full 20 years here. And somebody says, well, we need to get lunch. What do you guys want to do? And I said, Cafe Rio. And I go, why? And I go, because that's the reason I barf 20 years ago because we all got food poisoning from Cafe Rio. And I haven't eaten.

And I haven't eaten that salad since. So it's been a 20 year streak of two types. One, I haven't barfed. And two, I haven't had a Cafe Rio salad in 20 years because that thing made us all sick. So we decided to get that. those salads so that I could test fate a little bit and see and I was 100% fine with this. I was

like, man, you know it would be great if I could come on TMS after a weekend of some food poisoning and go. 20 years to the day between peaks. That would have been amazing. Sadly, couldn't even get a little toot out of this one. It was fine. Really? So the salad was good though? It was good. Yeah.

The whole thing. Well, that's, you know, it was fine. Kind of redeemed it in my mind a little bit because it's been a while, you know, 20 years since I've eaten it. I've eaten there before or since, but it was never a salad again. I always felt like the salads were the ones that were suspect. You know, you got to take care of lettuce. If you're not doing a good job with the lettuce, what are you doing? And lettuce, as we've learned from, you know, our local news, lettuce is a flimsy platform to put your trust in. Because how many stories have there

been like, well, another E. coli out, Burke, don't buy outbreak. Don't buy a bag salad. Or if you've bought, you know, heads of lettuce from such and such farms in the last three months, Throw it away. Yeah, Listeria outbreak in four states. If you still got lettuce you about three months ago, throw it away anyway. Don't be eating three-month-old lettuce, guys. But anyway, it was fine. We celebrated it in the way you do.

We just sort of said, all right, yeah, no burf, woo. And nothing happened. So I did everything I could. I could have made it. I could have purposely eating something bad, eating some old eggs in the sun. I mean, you could have, yeah, you could have done more. I could have done more. Let's be honest.

Like you could have, I mean, you could have just eaten regularly and then triggered it with some castor oil or some epicac or something like that. I totally could have done that. But here's the funny thing. We're talking about this. My mom's there. She's laughing. We're all the same, though. Wendy never barfs.

My mom never barfs. Misha barfs all the time, the Korean. But all the white kids in the house, none of us puke. So it's just like this weird thing we all have. And Adam's over there nod in his head like, you guys are like genetically, you're all very weird. Because we just don't. Wendy hasn't vomited in years, and everyone else around her is like, well, if you need to, you need to. So I don't know what's wrong with us, you know?

She's the psychologist, and she can't even do it. So anyway, it was fun. It was good to see her. We got to swim a lot, hang out a lot, avoided sunburn, you know, all the fun stuff you do. Oh, it rained real hard on the fourth, though, so we ended up having to get out of the pool early. Oh, wow. Yeah. We had our, God, we had a massive hail storm yesterday, and you always hear about like, oh, my,

guys, yeah, we had, you know, golf ball-sized hail and stuff. I always visualize when you hear about places that have golf ball-sized hail, that every hail stone that comes down is golf-ball-sized. I'm assuming that that just means we've seen it up to golf-ball-sized hail. And I don't think they're just taking an average, like, oh, well, we had some pea size all the way up to golf ball. So yesterday, we had, there were a couple pieces that hit in the backyard that were golf-ball-sized. Most of them were like a large grape or regular grape.

still pretty big still pretty big but um that's still dead'll ding your car if you get enough of them exactly like I was worried about our windows because it was coming at an angle but uh

it was uh yeah some some pretty big stuff I haven't had a hail storm in a while I kind of and they're great because they usually happen at weird times of the year like July they do weird and it's weirdly you know brightly sunny and the hails coming down it's so weird yeah I don't get it weather how does it work right right um well anyway

Oh, and our, just vibes going out to all our listeners and friends and people in Texas affected by those flash floods. My gosh, dude. Some of that video is just like some of the most harrowing stuff I have ever seen. Like, it's so fast. We're out here in desert country. We kind of get used to some places getting similar type storms. We usually have some warning, and they just had none. Like, there was no warning.

It just hit bam. out and it's awful. I think they're up to like 88 people have passed away or something. Yeah. The current count. It's really bad. Jeez. Anyway, hey, Dave called in. He has a Lecroy point he would like to make. So we're back on the Lecroy, Brian. Get ready for more Lecroy in your life. Laquois. Here you go. Hey, sausage and bacon. This is Dave from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, originally from the United States. Minnesota, to be exact. So I feel I have a unique perspective on this whole LeCroix-Laquois conversation. Yes, it is La Croy, if you're in the U.S. where I was originally from.

So when I came here, and I heard it pronounced La Cua, I was like, what is going on? Because it's a French-speaking country. So, again, yes, depending on where you are in the world, that's how you pronounce it. LeCroix or Raucre, both are great. Love the show, though. Both are great. Both and both. So there you go.

Just like one border, just on one side of the border, La Croy, on the other side of the border, La Cua. Yeah, one foot in, one foot. out one fit in one foot out what's that from who did that what's that from uh one fit in one foot is like uh i'm in i'm in your state i'm out of your state i'm in your state yeah it feels like a griswold thing but i can't think of where that would be right like oh that's gonna bug me chat you'll probably know this and it probably be trance oh mash oh it is a mass thing yeah because it's like it wasn't like enemy territory or anything it was like frank's bedroom or frank's tent or something exactly exactly like you're right they were tormenting frank or i thought it was winchester actually

might have i mean your space i'm out of your space i mean your space i'm out of your space i think you're right i think you're right yeah as says it was when hot guy was put in house arrest yes that's right yeah uh wild but then also people are saying the simpsons did it too so that's another thing oh did they speaking speaking of food i'm going to hold up something scott you tell me what you think this is. See what you got. That looks like a packet of artificial sweetener or something like that. Right. Or like sugar in the raw or something? Sure. Sure. Raw sugar in the brown packet?

No. This is something that came in my I bought a new cycling little phone holder from my bike that holds things in a way that now while I'm riding, I can easily unclip my phone, take a picture while I'm riding, and put it back, which I did to great effect during the ride

last weekend. This is a packet of silica gel that looks just like a sugar in the raw packet. Yeah, those are supposed to be white and the same. Exactly, right. Always looking like that Tyvec material, this is like paper. Yeah, that's, that's aft. It's a freaking, uh, bad decision.

Also, the reason that they usually use the little mesh stuff is so that it actually is permeating or, you know, it's, it's in there to do its job through the material. That's not getting through that. This paper seems, yeah, it doesn't seem as, uh, It does look like stevia in a little packet. It does, yeah. Like, it really looks like the sugar in the raw. It's the same color as that brown paper sugar in the raw stuff.

And this is non-toxic, natural clay, but it still says desicant, do not eat. And let a lot of words about why you shouldn't eat it. And then a lot of Chinese. Yeah, I wouldn't need it either. But yeah, you could easily mistake that. Mr. Magoo or whoever can't see, it would be like, can be some of that sweetener over there. Exactly.

Batla-Lazine B-A-T-Zillane anyway says Because paper doesn't absorb humidity, good point. All right, so yeah, this is... Well, it does, but I don't think it's as effective. I'm going to go ahead and still argue that you'd do better with a mesh than you would paper. Paper's going to block more, don't you think?

It's like a powder. So Dr. Calhoun says, so it's clay and not the beads. It's a much finer powder than the usual silica gel plastic beads. By the way, have you ever taken those out and put them in water? No, I've taken them out before and never put them in water. What happens? Put them in water because sometimes they crackle and pop. Really?

Yeah. Ew. They go, do they give you like, is there a vapor you shouldn't breathe in or something? Oh, I'm sure. I'm sterilized five times over. But probably, you know, because of that and the resin and the IPA that I inhale when I'm printing stuff. Right now, everything's going. I'm printing a refrigerator part for a listener on the FDM print.

printer. I'm printing a stamp for Chuck, like a clay stamp. I've got a stamp for red fraggle in the UV light. And then I've got on the table drawing is a glued together, mostly glued together cake topper for a wedding company. Oh, right. I just printed wedding. I just finished the sign poster thing for them. Oh, the sign poster. It was like a guest book or something. No, in fact, I think I can show this. It looks, it's all done and it's shipping today. Let's see if I can find. Yeah, check this out.

So we're super excited for Tabith and Chad, by the way. They're going to get hitched. Whoa, that's way too big. So it's like one of these, you know, tall thing. It'll be on a table and people come up and sign a branch or, you know, not the whole branch. Oh, that's really cool. What a great idea. Yeah, it's just a dirty old tree with a little bird hanging out.

And I got a little, I don't know what this thing is, a little groundhog bear thing down at the bottom and a little C plus T on the tree. It was fun to meet. And she seems very happy with it. So I'm excited for those guys. Getting married, getting hitched. I'll show mine too then.

Yeah, what do you got? There's still parts to glue on here. And the body is not glued together, but this is the, there's some hands that need to go together, but this is the Lego. The Lego version of the Happy Cup. I love that. Oh, I get a weird,

When a minifig is larger than a, you know, actual mini figs? Yeah, the traditional size, yeah. It gives me a weird feeling. That's weird. It does. Like, this one is it is super big that you have at the, at the Lego store? Yeah, those weird me out. Yeah.

Not in a bad way. It's just like my brain goes, something is wrong with perspective. These can't be possibly that big. Beep, boop, beep. I'm really happy with how this face, like I, um. That looks great. did so many like Lego there's a there's a spot online where you can do like mini fig me and but you can it's not like you upload a picture you basically say

hmm these these these this eye mouth combination is the right one and you just get a bunch of those sure and so I went through and found one that I thought was good for each of them and matched it up and yeah I painted them these are her that face is dead on it looks a little like Claire no offense to have it's up but put some glasses on and it's clear yeah that's awesome dude yeah do you uh resin or uh yeah resin or uh yeah okay yep yep and that's why i've got this little um plate here because uh resonate food safe so you put this stuff directly on the cake plus these are kind of heavy so they probably sink in but um oh okay yeah so it'll be perfect that's perfect i can't wait to see the cake with it on there i guess she'll take pictures and send

me me too well congratulations you too you get so it's coming fast you're a little It is. Yeah, they're like a month away, which is, poor Tabith. She's emailing. Hey, just want to check and see how things are going. It's like, I feel so bad that I, you know, I don't, I know how stressful a wedding can be anyway. So like any, any stress that I can alleviate on the bride's side, I'll do. But wanted to get this out to you sooner. This is a lot of work. And I've had to reprint a couple pieces because my painting stuff, I had to repaint. I wasn't. happy with the way one of them came out. And some of it, you'd want to actually reprint to paint, right? You don't want to paint over the top or whatever. Right, exactly.

That makes sense. Well, it's looking good. So, there you have it. So it'll finish gluing today. And then the really stressful part of how do I pack this thing to make sure it arrives in one piece? It's like, you know. Pretty good job every time you sent me something. It usually works.

The only time anything fell off was. Furious's arm. Right. No, she stayed on. It was, uh, oh, what's her name from Dune's head? Yes. Chiani or whoever is. Chiani's head, yeah. Yes. The thing fell off of the, her arm fell off, but I don't know what that was from. I think I bumped it for Furioson, but anyway. Right. So, guys, one quick final thing. Jason has this to say about something I said, and I have an answer for it. All right. This is quick. TMS 2048, long time listener, first time complainer. I've been enjoying listening since the instance. While, discussing the upcoming Independence Day, Scott said, quote, not much to celebrate this year, unquote. You slighted my military brothers and sisters who have served to uphold your freedoms.

I love this country and its diversity, as I suspect you to do as well. Celebrate that. Love the show, though. All right. To me, this seemed obvious when I said it, but maybe it didn't, maybe it wasn't obvious. I feel like the current state of things, our government, some of the recent moves against marginalized people, that sort of thing, sort of pisses on the graves. of those who sacrificed ultimately for our freedoms. And so that's my point, is that we're actually not, we shouldn't just blindly go, all right, celebrate like nothing's happening. Yay.

Right, right. They're actually shitting all over the stuff we're supposed to be celebrating. So there's the one thing. Also, technically, the 4th of July is not Memorial Day. It is also not National Military Appreciation Month, which happens in May. It's not National Veterans and Military Families Month in November. Those are the reasons we have those to celebrate those who are, as he put it, military brothers and sisters. The Fourth of July is about us bailing on the British.

That's it. That's the whole point of the Fourth of July. Freedom independence from British. And so I guess I could admire the sacrifices of people in white wigs back then. I don't know. I mean, we, you know, and we don't say it enough, but we absolutely do appreciate the. the sacrifice is made by our brothers and sisters in the military. Of course we do.

Some of whom listen to this show, a lot of them who listen to this show, and we absolutely respect and appreciate that. And probably don't say it enough. But the fourth isn't, you know, just with everything currently going on with the current administration, it's very hard to feel very rah-rah. Yeah. You know, I feel like when your country's not living up to those. Yeah.

You know? It's just because the nation, when the nation, is not living up to its standards that we celebrate on the fourth, that's all I'm saying. Right, right. Exactly. But Jason, I appreciate you writing in that. We appreciate your writing in that. Oh, of course. And statement. It does feel like, you know, the Natalie Mains, like when she, back when it was the Dixie Chicks and she said something like, I'm not terribly proud to be a Texan right now when it was in response to George W. Bush. There was that whole kerfuffle about that. sure you know we we love our country and that's kind of what makes it hurt so much when we see it

treated like this yeah that's why i'm pissed that's why that's why you you you do things like say are we living up to our our standards here when we're trying to celebrate and where you can't seem to can't actually we can't actually walk the walk we're just talking the talk i hate that yeah so that's all it is i appreciate you writing in though jason for sure hopefully that help clear things up for you some let's get into a game now Get Dunaway on. I'm going to move the cake topper out of my way in case I flail my hands and knock somebody's head off.

Excellent news. All right, let's do that. And while he's doing that, I will play this music here, which is like right here. Brian Dunaway joining us for a little half-asses on a Monday. What are you doing, man? Oh, hi. Hi, he's gotten, Brian.

How's it going? Oh, you know, we're just hanging out doing stuff. What are you doing? Well, I was just sitting here. admiring the sweat running down my back. Yeah. But, you know, whatever. It's the middle of summer.

What do you expect? Is it admirable the sweat? Is it, uh, how do you impress? It's good to sweat. It means I'm not dehydrated, right? I think. Yeah. Well, it means you better, you know, drink after and stuff.

Sure. It means you got a good, uh, your ecosystem's working good. And is it, is it, is it corn sweat or just regular sweat? Is it? Right. Exactly. Yeah. Corrin sweat.

Coren sweat. That's our new, that's our new, that's our new superman. I miss a previous conversation or something? The new Superman's last name is Corrin Sweat, which is a weird name. Oh, Corrin Sweat. Oh, I got you.

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have a feeling, though. He seems like a real charmer. I think we're all going to be okay with his last name soon. I think we're going to like it. I'm looking forward to it.

It doesn't like it's going to take itself too serious, and I love that. We need a silly, and I don't want to say silly, but, you know, a light-hearted Superman. We've had enough of the, the dark Superman let's have a lighthearted fun we need something that makes Superman more interesting

because let's face it I mean the character himself he's exciting because of all the things around him he's exciting because of Lois Lane and Lex Luthor and and the Superman is best when he's getting his ass kicked that's my favorite Superman I mean if we all if we look at what is our favorite

Superman movie of all time is it not Superman too despite the ripping the cellophane ass off of his chest. Even with the cheese that is definitely in that movie, too, is kind of the bomb. We love that one. Kind of the bomb. And that's because Superman does something that he doesn't typically do, which is say,

I think I don't want to be a superhero. I just want to settle down with Lois and give up my powers and go hang out in a diner in Alaska, maybe. Sure. Sure. Wherever the hell that was. I'm with him.

Beat up by a dude who likes pie. Yeah. Yeah. I get tired of being a superhuman. I get tired of that crap. I just want to, you know, chill out. Okay, Claire, it's not an S. Brian. Oh, my God. It's a symbol of hope. Yeah, it's there. And we know it's the weird alien symbol. Why would you look at the chat room? You know Claire's in there screaming. Why would I look specifically at that person's chat? Yeah, what's the deal there? Well, Dunaway, we're going to play this game. We're going to play it on behalf of some other folks.

And Brian, I'll explain the whole thing. Brian, take it away. I cut my thumb. Yes, welcome in the morning. Halfass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to... I did. Where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers. I'm going to give Scott Brown a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct. And three, like Superman four, are incorrect. Depending on how conif you feel the 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. Get one right. You get a point. Get two right. Gets you three points because of math. And get you get three right. And guess what? You get five points because that's how the metric system works. The player with the most points after three

rounds wins the prize for their contestant. And I've pulled a couple of contestants from members of the tadpool that aren't able to be with us. Did you go grab in there like, you're like screaming and stuff? Oh, no. I did. I yanked them. I yanked them. Scott, you're playing for Richard in Pleasant Grove, Utah. Oh, nice.

That's up the road and a very cool little town. We like them. I think I'd like Utah more if it was pronounced that. Yata. Yata. Utah. Brian, you're playing for Jeff G. G. in Moncton at New Brunswick

in Canada. nice yeah there you go Canada so you said a lot of locations I don't even know you just said like I don't know part of that was a provenance part I don't know what was going on that whole address you just gave me New Brunswick is actually where they invented bowling I was what to say is that why I get the Brunswick bowling balls okay yeah okay there's a burger place in Pleasant Grove called the Purple Turtle I just want to give a shout out to that's an amazing hamburger poking out it's really good don't tell me about that I don't want to hear about that It sounds like a place that Larry would go on Three's Company. Hey, I'll meet you guys down at the Purple Turtle. A little bit. What was it called? I think it's been a regal beagle, yeah. Purple Turtle's been around probably since Three's Company era, so it's not too far off the mark there.

But anyway. See, what do you think what's wrong with the turtle? It got choked something? I don't know what happened. I think he's maybe he, that's a really good point. Think pollution or you think maybe airway constriction? Got one of those soda, plastic things around its neck or something like that. You didn't cut the rings.

Should we get to the game? Sure, why don't? We've got our players. Well, it's all the game. We've got our people you're playing for. We've got our questions, and we've got number one here. Remember, you're picking the three correct answers. Seemed appropriate, which of these are historical events that happened in July?

The month we just happened to land in. Um, number one, the Battle of Gensburg, the moon landing, the fall of the Bastille, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the eruption of Mount St. Helens, I should put them on screen. I was wondering. There we go. The eruption of Mount St. Helens and the signing of the Magna Carta. Which of these happened in July? Okay. Okay.

Well, one of these I know, because I was told about it my whole life. You were there? Because I was born in this month. Oh. And I'm pretty sure it happened while I was in the hospital. So, see, I'm trying to think what some of these things might Would have happened during the middle of the summer? I'm like, would they have done that during the middle of summer?

I don't know. Well, that seems right because the weather would have been more mild. Oh, can you imagine, imagine Gettysburg or freaking, um, that just feels right. The St. Helens thing. That's not right. Well, it could be. No.

Freaking brutal, dude. There we go, fine. I don't know. I wanted to do two. You should do three. I did three. That's because you're weird. All right, I'm doing two.

Okay. All right. You did two. Yeah, the obvious one is the moon landing, right? It happened in July. Weather was good. I was in the womb. Scott was in the hospital.

That is where our difference in ages really comes shining through, is that you had already been popped out, and I was in the process of getting ready to come out. So the moon landing. absolutely Brian you chose the fall of the Bastille and Scott you chose the eruption of Mount St. Helens I wrote one of those is wrong shit the eruption of Mount St. Helens happened in May damn it oh May 18th 1980 may the eruption be with you the atomic bombing of Hiroshima took place August 6th 1945 and the signing of the Magnic Carter took place in June 15th 1215 but you Gettysburg, Moon Landing, and Fall of the Bastille all happened in July.

Don't know, you've got to be honest with me. Did you really know the fall of Bastille was in July? Dude, I told you that was a guess. Well, I'm impressed. I had actually checked on the Battle of Gettysburg, but I unchecked it. I was like, I felt like that was right. I was going like with weather. I'm like, that kind of makes, I don't know.

I think, you know what, it's fine. I just, I'm impressed that your guess was so. It was a good guess. Yeah, I would never know on that one. That's crazy. Well, Alan just clicked on the eruption, too, but, you know. And as people pointed out, Bastille Day is July 14th. But that doesn't mean anything, folks.

I mean, we have holidays that aren't on the thing that they're really there to celebrate. True. All right, let's go to question number two. We talked about New Brunswick and bowling. Which of these are terms found in bowling? Your choices are backwash, wormer, clover, wombat, flounder, and Niedermeyer. I should know this. Three of these come from bowling.

I had to do a bowling home course to graduate high school because I was missing PE credit. A bowling home course? Did you have a lane in your home? No, but I had to go to regular public lanes. I had to track scores, turn in my score sheets. I had to say what all the splits were. I had to memorize everything about bowling. So this should be easy for me, but guess what?

I forgot it all. Well, yeah. I mean, how long was that? go ahead it was a long time ago okay for i don't want to get into years here i don't want to you know okay okay okay you're uh you guys were looking for things like turkey and uh yeah that would be easier yeah seven 10 split um bed post there was one called bedpost which was like the opposite side oh just on the opposite side that makes sense yeah i remember some of that but everything brine's got in here i don't remember shit nope nope the devil's horn is that not in here

okay i'm gonna try backwash I'm doing backwash so good locked and loaded all right you guys were all over

these were guesses again by the way Scott I can I can tell on both of your parts you actually chose four you both chose different ones nobody settled on the same thing let's start with

one of Scott's backwash backwash is indeed a bowling term really good it is also it is also a bowling term how about that i think isn't the idea that the pins in the back will go forward knock out stuff from the front or something like that or nope it's a strike that misses the headpin so it's a um you're hitting the pins in the back and they come forward and uh is no you that's exactly what i mean that is what you said yeah yeah um that you said something about a split so yeah don't challenge scott on his home course no no no no please do challenge me on my home course bowling.

Yes, it's a strike. It's a strike you get when you miss, when you don't get it in the pocket of the headpin, you miss the headpin completely. Everything you sound, this said, sounded like a total pervert move. Clover, by the way,

which is one of Brian's selections. Yeah. Four strikes in a row. Right. Well, it's four strikes in a row. Like your turkey is three. Four points. Four points like a clover.

Yeah. Right. Right. Points. Yeah, like leaves. It's lucky. It's lucky. That's better.

leave clover he's like trying to force an answer to be right here i love it really is exactly even when i even when i try to help him out he's still points yeah points um so the other three uh let's just tell you the three that are wrong uh don't don't wormer flounder and needermire are all characters from the film animal house oh shit oh now that makes sense i've been playing I've been playing connections a lot lately, and I should have seen that. You know what, though? Wormer's a brilliant one, Brian, because it sounds like a ball that kind of is curving to go do a thing. It's not meant to do or something.

Damn it. A wombat is where you get a spare after your first ball goes in the gutter. So you send down your first ball, it goes in the gutter, you miss everything completely. You basically get a strike on your second one that's called a wombat. I don't know why it's called a wombat, but it's called a wombat. I'm going to yell Niedemeyer whenever I do anything bowling related, just to mess with people. I love that, dude. Needermeyer.

Yell Niedermire. Actually, you should yell Niedermire, no matter what you're doing. Yeah, absolutely. Like, after every shot, Niedermeier. Needemeyer. Wild. All right, let's go to, like, P. Crum says, in bowling, Clover is a slang term for a four-bagger, meaning four strikes in a row. Well, yes.

Oh, four-bagger. That also sounds. the red-on-air strike ball. All right, let's get to last one. We've got Brian coming in with three points, Scott with zero, but it's all going to change now when we talk about animals. Oh, shit. Yeah.

And those collective nouns, you know, like a murder of crows. Some of my favorite pieces of trivia are what are groups of animals called. Which of these are accepted collective terms for groups of animals or nouns of groups for animals? A crown of peacocks. a shrewdness of apes a knot of toads a storm of jellyfish a clowder of cats

or a drum of woodpeckers three of these are real believe it or not I thought it was crowder of cats okay maybe that's close enough for maybe I've always heard oh have you heard of oh that actually helps me well maybe who knows maybe that's there to throw you off

or maybe you've always heard it correctly well this is not easy no it is not it's like a it's like a group of toads it's not easy a shrewd not i get it k-n-o-t not uh-huh i see what you did i see what you did there um thank you for saving me when i was out there when we were on our ride a couple weeks ago we saw we passed a lake and there were a a bunch of pelicans in the lake which always surprises me that we've got pelicans in colorado and um george and i were trying to figure

out what a group of pelicans is called and he said a drop I was like a dime of pelicans um pelicans can be in a brief of pelicans a pod of pelicans a brief isn't that great

a pod of pelicans a pouch of pelicans a scoop or a squadron of pelicans oh dude it sounds like humans just make up shit yeah well we do well we actually literally do but I like the I like a squadron That's cool.

A squadron of pelicans. Yeah, that's awesome. I do like brief, though, brief of pelicans. Brief, guess. Well, Scott, you needed to get too right to get more points than, or no, I'm sorry, to tie, because right, you're too right to tie. You both settled on clowder of cats, despite Brian remembering that it's a crowder of cats, right? Oh, I took it as he just didn't know it was clowder. Damn it.

Well, he didn't know that it was clouter. It is clouter. Clouder is correct. So Brian is settled on just that one. He locked in on only clowder of cats, which means he gets a point. Okay. Scott, you also chose clowder of cats, and you chose Drum of Woodpeckers. You chose Wisely.

I hope so. You chose poorly. Drum of woodpeckers is not. Shrewdness of apes, a knot of toads, and a clouter of cats. These are all future novels by George R.R. Martin. So shrewdness of apes. I watch a lot of ape documentaries Whenever they come

They never call them that I've always heard like the troop or something Yeah troop is what you always hear A troop of Aves Ah shit Shrewdness clowder and not Are the correct ones Which means Brian

That's weird A knot of toads I know Because they I don't know All their long legs Tangle up or something Yeah let's say do they like get in together

Like all got their arms And wrapped up each other I don't know Also good one on crown of peacocks. That just sounds That's a good thought that was I almost Oh Bobby Corrects it's a troop of monkeys not apes

So troop of well what A chimpanzees are they're Apes so I guess they'd be also shrewdness I assume I don't know I think because even chimpanzees Like have a different collective Let me see There should be groups of masturbators the way I've seen them

Oh geez We were at the zoo and they were like four of them And they're just cranked A toss of apes a group of chimpanzees A group of troup Apparently is still a Okay

So troop for chis Or a whoop A whoop of chimpanzees A whoop A whoop whoop whoop That's more like those Minobos or bonobos rather These are great

I love these A goon of apes Stephen Schlecker They're gooners They're gooners Because they're in their beating their meat Oh my god I like owls

Was always been one of my favorites A parliament of owls Oh, I like that. Yeah. Court of owls. Because the comics, they call it that? I always think that that's the real thing. So when someone, this has happened.

Somebody said, what's that call when it's like a bunch of owls? And I'm like, oh, that's a court of owls. And they're like, you're a nerd. That's not it. I mean, how much for three-fourths of owls in? I don't know, dude. What would you call it? What would you call it, Mr.

You said a quart of owls. Chowder of cats, making chowder of cats. Chowder of cats. Well, Brian, that means you've won. Four at a zero. Holy shit. That's right. Which means that Jeff G.

and Moncton is getting a copy of Ember, E-M-B-R, and Swine-H-D remaster on Steam. Very cool. Criticism bun, but don't worry, Richard and Pleasant Grove, you're getting a copy of Golf Gang. Sweet. Hey, join the Golf Gang. That's right. They have some nice courses out there in Pleasant Grove, but I'll bet you this is better than those. So sign up, buddy.

I actually lost, but I helped you win. Look at it that way. Also, Amber's really good, so the other guy did really win. Well, anyway, there you go. You both get one of these. Congratulations. I get one of these. And Dunaway gets his ass handed to him because tomorrow,

we're going to do an episode of Play Retro, and we're going to get our four-wheeling truck driving on, aren't we, Brian? Yes, we are going to do some Monster Truck Madness. Microsoft Monster Truck Madness. I broke out the Microsoft sidewinder pads and reminisced greatly at my DirectX-2 launch of Monster Truck Madness. Listen to it to Army Armstrong. Any of that stuff for anything to you? Nope.

None of it means anything to me. I'm trying to remember what a Microsoft Sidewinder is a game pad? Is that where you're doing? Yeah, I had the game pad. They had a whole bunch of stuff. They had like flight sticks and different things, but Sidewinder GamePad was one that. was really good. Yeah, okay.

I don't remember any of that. I mean, he says really good. I'm going to argue. Dude, okay, how about this? It's most appropriate. If you're playing Monster Truck Madness in 2025, good luck. Secondarily is really the one of the better ways to control it. Analog sticks are trash for this thing.

Okay. And D-pads suck butt. And this one has kind of like a, like, you remember how the pad was a little bit circular? And you kind of get roll it. It's like a roll pad almost. So that's the regular pad. this is the one Brian's describing it's like a twisty knobby thing twisty knobby thing that's what I'm always describing yeah I never

looks like it'd be really good but it's not huh I don't think so I think Donaway it likes it but I don't like it I think no not that thing what is that thing that thing that's the sidewinder isn't it one of them that yet that is in the sidewinder series but it's not called the game pad well no okay so then there's this one you're talking about the stick looking unit well you're not going to see it for me looks like a boomerang I actually pulled you up on the other. Oh,

would you put it in our, I pulled you up on the, no, that's the joystick. Oh, I sent you, I sent you on Discord. I sent you the picture

from my personal phone. Hold on. How didn't you put it in our TMS thing? Why did you put it in? I don't think he's in there. Oh, here it is.

I found it. Here we go. All right. For some reason, it's sideways. It's one of them. That's one of them. Yeah,

they had a whole series of stuff. Everything I've shown you is... That's not it either, my God. Well, what is it then? That's right from your post, you weirdo. That's in your thing. That's another one. That's my third one I said, and this one.

Are you talking about this big, ugly son of a bit? The gray. This one. The gray's. That one? You've sent me three of these, four of these. Also, are you able to take a photo? That's the one.

Yeah, I know. Take photos head on, by the way, first of all. Second of all, that's the first one I showed. you dingus but i couldn't see it before i told you how to pull you up oh all right well yeah i showed this one first so yeah you're the dingus you're the dingus you're the four bag dingus so this is the one and uh brian's going to tell you how great it is to drive trucks in dirt with this is what he's going to yeah jeez i'm going to tell you how fine how good it was just on an amber neck that's what i'll do uh but that'll be tomorrow we're going to do it live but you

did what did what you didn't go to the you didn't go to the utah most truck rally no no no it was the weekend of all the family stuff and I couldn't do it but it it was timed poorly I didn't even know about it I would love to have gone that sounds like fine okay I'm a little worried about who I'd run into there though you know what I mean just saying like bigfoot maybe or maybe big foe kiss our butts okay he's gone all right you guys it's time for us to do a little news we get five minutes of news here and uh it's gonna happen right now so here you go here's your news brian it's the news and it's brought to us by brought to you by Daily Music Headlines.

Find out today why Rob Reiner called Black Sabbath Dumb. I don't think he meant it disparagingly, but he said, like, there's people who believe that Black Sabbath inspired the whole Stonehenge section of, this is Spinal Tap. Oh. But he actually filmed that in 1982, two years before the release of the film, did it for a movie short or something. and the Stonehenge thing with Black Sabbath happened after that. And so he's like, yeah, no, you guys didn't inspire this.

We came up with this. And if anything, we inspired your Stonehenge deal. Oh, wild. So this is all, I know there's a lot of talk right now about that sequel is almost done, right? They're bringing that to... Yeah, yeah. And this weekend, a few movie theaters showed a remastered version of This Is Spinal Tap. I didn't get a chance to check it out myself,

but I really wanted to go to the theaters and watch it. Yeah, I kind of want to double feature that. You know what I mean? Like watching back and back. Yeah. Because talk about your legacy sequel. Holy shit. It's such a great film.

Yeah. And it's a great way. It's a great one of these to do because your whole subject matter was this band, this fake band, but this band. Right. And then of course you'd want to do a follow up 40 years later. Oh, totally to see the kind of, Because the whole joke of the film is when they're popular, when they think they're popular,

their radio stations saying, now from the Where Are They Now Department? And they actually have to be playing in that city that right. Such a great, such a great mockumentary. Yeah, I love it. Also find out about Mark Snow, the guy who composed the X-Files theme, sadly passed away. Oh, no. At the 78. That's sad.

That's iconic as hell right there. That's iconic as hell right there. He was. He kind of pioneered the use of electronic music and television scores, so there you go. That's a bummer. Well, here is your news of the day. It happens to be music related. Maybe it'll be a story tomorrow on daily headlines. AI generated band already boasts over 500,000 monthly Spotify listeners. I don't like that at all. No.

Psych rock band The Velvet Sundown, which sounds like a name made up by A. AI. It absolutely does, yes. I'm sure it was. Here's an image of these guys. Of course, it's an AI. Is that AI generated image? Oh, 100%. No question about it. The Velvet Sentent are garnered over 500,000, half a million monthly Spotify listeners and released two full-length records in a single month with a third on its way this July, which is this month. The guy on the left looks like if Anthony Kedis were born in 1945 and was a rocker in the 60s, early 70s. Yeah, you can kind of see the amalgamations here. Like that guitarist in the back looks like a combination of like Kevin Bacon and, uh, uh, yeah, different people. That drummer, I don't

know, drummer looks out of place, but the, the guitarist on the acoustic guitar looks like if Ross Geller played for James Taylor's band. There you go. Perfect. He's seen, son and he's seen rain or however that goes. He's seen fire and rain. Fire and rain. That's it. Yes. I mean, I know there's a lot of fire on the sun, but I should have known that. Oh, Rebel Scum says, I think this got debunked. These guys are real. What? I don't think they're, because I've heard about this band, too,

Velvet Sundown being totally AI generated. Well, it says, the members are not traceable online beyond the band's Instagram account, which was started just days ago on June 27. Some of the photos feature members enjoying burgers and celebrating their second LP release, and recreated the Beatles Abbey Road cover. Sands one member appearing barefoot. Anyway, while it's possible that the Velvet Sundowns, more than half a million monthly listeners could be bots,

most of their popular songs on Spotify, like the most popular song, Dust on the Wind, is closing in on 50,000, or 500,000 streams. So there's that. It is bizarre. This was something pointed out by John Oliver, but how many of these AI bands have songs that contain the word dust in the title?

Yeah. Like there are so many, it's like, ride the dust and dust on the wind and love my heart's full of dust. We love dust. Dust is a good metaphor for shit, I guess. I don't know. Says Spotify, while it does not allow bots on the platform,

it does permit AI-generated music with no disclosures necessary. So who knows? Also, that's dumb. Yeah. I'm about as interested in this as I am getting a needle in my butt. Oh, the album is called Dust in Silence. Let's see if this has a list of the songs. Driftwood Soldiers, Drift Beyond the Flame, Interlude, Ash and Velvet.

Dumb. It's dumb. I think it's very dumb. Well, all right, then. Enjoy your fake music, everybody. We're going to take a break and have some real music now. Brian, tell us what we're playing in the middle of the show. Let's look at the, or listen to the very real band, Moonpool.

I'm trying to remember if I've played these guys before. These guys are kind of a little bit of a, um a 90s uh inspired uh heavy grunge post punk shoegaze thing if you like dandy warhols or super heaven you're probably don't like this band that comes from my neck not my neck of the woods Denver the band is called moonpool this is their brand new single it's called like you do Soonerent a patient like you do. I want to do So now facing your plastic room

I know you want to do There's no medication Like you do Like you do Like you do So many faces I care for two Put my faith in, you're ready to Stand out patient or burn a so

I know what you're going through There's no medication like you do like you do like you do I know I know you want it to You know,

Thank you. Come, it's here The weight is over Now everyone can see You believe That's all the lemmies That he has to be There's no medication

Like you do Like you do, I know, I know you want it to. To cream butter merely means to work it with an instrument until it becomes soft and smooth. A woman screamed. And we're back. Brian, who is that again? Sure, that's a local Denver band. Moon Pool and their brand new single

Like You Do. I think they've got an album coming up called Sizagy if I Yes, Sizagy, I don't know if there's a date. I don't see forthcoming release, no date listed. But you can go check him out in Cheyenne, Wyoming at the Fridays

on the Plaza Festival at the end of this month or back here in Denver at the Hornet. Nice. The Hornet. That sounds like fun. It is a cool place. It's actually really good food at the Hornet. Yeah. I used to live, I lived three blocks away from the Hornet in college and never went there to eat because I was a poor college student

and never had a chance to go there and eat. But man, if I lived by there now, I'd probably go there two or three times a week is so good. Sounds all right to me. Yeah, yeah. Not real Hornet, so I don't like those. No, we're not a fan of real hornets. No, they suck, they suck.

And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Hey, that's right. Stephen, what do you, what do you, What are you doing? How do you feel about Hornets? You're not a fan, right? No, I'm not a fan of Hornets. Unless it's the Green Hornet. Then I kind of like the Green Hornet. You do like the Green Hornet. Okay.

Yeah, or the Brown Hornet. But, you know, that's controversial now because of... Wait, there's a Brown Hornet? This is a Bill Cosby thing from the Cosby Show. Oh, really? I didn't know that was the thing. I didn't know. It's his suit version of the superhero. The Cosby kids would all stop what they're doing and go watch this cartoon. Oh, right. Right. I do remember this from Fat Albert. Yes.

Oh, the Brown Hornet, because he's brown. see because of his race here i'm going to put this up here here he is there's the brown hornet everybody and it was it was just bill cosby doing another character voice yeah okay yeah all right i didn't know about this that's great oh there's a whole look the whole the whole the whole gang's here one second here here here you go look at the shot the super team oh just the cosby kids or the fat albert kids yeah look his little package he's got going there was it fat albert and the cosby kids yeah is that right okay so that was that was the the name of the group was the Cosby Kids.

Yeah. I like the one with the hat pulled down where he had to cut eye holes. Yeah. Yeah. Guys great. I haven't seen that cartoon in a thousand years. That's an impersonation that it is no longer okay for us to do. Is it?

The Habe baby baby thing? I don't know. Yeah. I've never known anybody who talks like that, though. Hey, befabit, Albert. Yeah, I just feel like it's not. Is it racial or is it like speech impediment sensitive? I think the speech impediment.

Okay. Yeah, because I don't think it's like a, I don't think it's like a, I don't know. I don't know. You guys have to tell me what offense people. I've annoyed it. You know, that show was pretty progressive for its time period, you know, to give Cosby some credit at that time. So, you know, I don't think that he would do intentionally anything that would be racist because he was the producer of the show. And he, you know, did all those voices. So I think he would come out and say, hey, wait a minute, that's not, that's not appropriate.

But certainly some of the caricatures of the characters are. Sure. and then he said questionable today yeah and then he would say pardon me I'm going to put a roofie in someone's drink I'll be back yes be back in a while well excellent this is good to have you here of course we're going to talk about

a couple of nerdy things going on in the world the first one here I'm genuinely excited about because I'm a massive fan of the first one but a new cyberpunk edge runner series trailer happened yeah I don't know if you guys got a chance to watch it it's pretty just generic as far as what it can be but anime

Expo took place over the weekend and Los Angeles, and during one of the panels, CD Project Red announced that they in Netflix are teaming up for cyberpunk edge runners too. They didn't really reveal anything more beyond what we saw in the trailer, very flashy, very cool, very 2077 kind of stuff, but they did say that they're going to make you sad all over again. So if you got sad and David's story from the first one, then I guess you're going to get that double dose now.

And it's going into production, so it's not like they're working. on it now it's into production yeah forgive my not known for sure but is this related to the video game like is this a offshoot it is same yeah it's a well set in the same world set in the same universe it doesn't deal with it deals with some common characters that are in the game some secondary characters but you it doesn't directly deal with your character gotcha okay but it does so here are the two things that matter first season was awesome that matters a lot um a bunch of characters that you followed in the first one i don't want to get too crazy here but there's a lot of death in it so this new one is kind of almost like it's going to be a whole other story it has to be based on

the ending of the last one but the important thing was this was actually rumored already that they were working on a second series but there was talk that trigger the anime studio behind the first season wasn't involved and it's been confirmed that this is trigger it's in the trailer and trigger studios is so freaking good and i'm not even that big of an anime guy but anything they do i'll watch and uh this is looking real good so bring it on edge runners the first season if you haven't seen it freaking fantastic pretty pretty violent so just kind of keep that in mind again it goes along with the goes along with the game i questioned whether my at the time this was like what two years ago that that edge runner series dropped i questioned at the time whether my 12 year old should be watching he's like it's fine dad i've already played the video game i'm like oh oh clutch my heart yeah this will be let's see standalone 10 episodes right so isn't that that's more episodes than the first one got i think uh i'd have to look yeah It seems about the same, but... Probably going to rewatch that in preparation for it.

That's how much I liked it. And I was surprised, because I, you know, normally game-related anime spin-off projects aren't always... They're okay. There's some that are better than others. The Witcher one I kind of enjoyed. They had one for, was it... One for Castlevania.

Castlevania is really good. That one's awesome. Oh, really? Oh, that's cool. Yeah, the Netflix Castlevania series is so good. So this is, you know, I would put this right up there with that. I'm excited about it. Okay. So we'll see what.

what happens. Speaking of that, though, the OG, the master himself, William Gibson, the goat, Neuromancer author. Finally, Neuromancer is in production after decades of development. In production. Oh, man, they have been trying to make this movie for, it seems like decades, right? Even before the Matrix came out, I mean, Johnny Nomonic was probably the closest thing that we could have gotten at the time to have a William Gibson story getting adapted to the big screen. But now Apple TV has announced that they are officially in production, meaning that they are outside of development hell. They've gone through the pre-production process,

and they're getting ready to shoot this thing. We don't know who any of the actors are or anything like that. But I would imagine by this time next year, maybe Christmas of next year, we should probably be watching Nauromancer finally on television. And I will say this, if anybody has never read Nuromancer. Somebody in our Discord, we're doing a book club right now,

and Neuromancer's our book for July, never read that book before, and they're like, holy crap, this book inspired everything. All of it. And it's like, oh, yeah, oh, yeah. All of it. You don't have the genre.

It's an entire genre that I don't think exists without him. I don't think you have Blade Runner without him. You don't have, or at least our take on Blade Runner because I think Philip K. Dick's short story happened prior, but it wasn't the same. It came out prior to that,

but was not the same thing. No, wasn't that at all. Also, Neuromancer has the best opening line of any, well, I think second maybe to Darrydick Tower, but has the best opening line. The sky over the city was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel. It is so, so great. That's really, really good.

Hey, I know the other one. Dark Tower goes, the dark, the man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. Yeah, yeah, it's so great. That's a great opening line. Make you want to read all this shit again. But yeah, like the famous, it's a little bit like the Lord of the Rings stuff, just floundered forever, forever, forever, forever, and they finally figured out a way to do it, right, direct, right time, right, effects, all that.

This is great to hear because I think if there's one thing Apple TV has done well, it's sci-fi, they've killed it with all their sci-fi stuff. Yep. They somehow made foundation work. How the hell do you do that? That is some dense bullshit. Murder bot is really good. Yeah, I love silo.

I love all this stuff. So they, if anyone, I feel very comfortable with this being in their hands. If anybody has never read Neuromancer and they've played the Shadow Run video games, that's that is what neuromancer is you are it is a heist involving an AI and um people are jacking into the matrix yeah a ton of ideas came out of this i need to check it out it's influence is far and why i've never read it now i need to oh brian you really should it's great it's a fairly short read i think uh i don't know if you listen to audio books or read books but if you listen to speed and a half you can be done in two days wouldn't that come out 84 i think 85 really early in the 80s

I read it in 86. I'll do, yeah, I'll do the audio book. I like that. I think. And then again in the 90s, I read it. I really ought to return to it. Anyway, looking forward to that. That's going to be great.

We don't know anything about casting and stuff, though, right? No, we don't need anything about casting. They just showed the deck that Case Taps into, jacks into, to get into the Matrix. And William Gibson was just like, I never thought I'd see this day. Yeah. And that was it. I'm with him. I didn't think we would either.

Let's get into this, dynamite. More dark times in the comics world. Dynamite not making payroll and image laying off people. It's going on there. Yeah, so again, this all spins out of the Diamond Comics distributors' debacle where they went bankrupt. They declared bankruptcy. They got sold off to two different groups. And part of the deal with that sale is you also acquired all of the assets that were in the inventory at the diamond warehouses, which included everything Dynamite had.

Yeah. And they have been, they switched over last month to lunar distributors, but they can't get Diamond to give them back any of their books that they still have. So they've got a lot of stock. They just can't ship it to anybody. And they're also owed a bunch of back monies as well. Word on the street is up to a million dollars is owed to Dynamite, which is like the fourth or fifth largest comic book publisher that's out there. And they owe them a million dollars. and so they're supposed to go to court this week next week the 11th no that's this week uh to see about

getting that money from from diamond or whoever the new uh company is and they're like well how about if we file a suit to make this happen faster because if we don't get this taken care of last week we're not going to be able to meet payroll and they didn't and the judge was like no you're screwed yeah the judge was like hey no sorry you've got this thing next week you just deal with it then And so that's bad. I mean, I'm sure there, I mean, we don't know. There might be people at Diamond or at Dynamite who are okay missing a paycheck or getting a paycheck delayed. I know I used to work for a business during the height of the dot bombs back in the early 2000s where the CEO, the CFO and the, what's the senior legal counsel, all opted to take no paychecks for three months so everyone else could get paid.

I don't know if that's the case at Dynamite or not, but something they need. needed like $509,000 last week. So the layoffs that, is this related? Because it sounds like it might. We don't know. The image has not released a public statement yet, but they did release four people. Again, word on the street was that they released four people last week who are mainly in their social media area and some of their marketing areas.

May be related to this. May not be. We haven't heard back from image on that. But yeah, there's some, there's definitely some layoffs in some. some sad stuff that's going on, especially as we're just getting this month to the San Diego Comic-Con, which happens at the end of the month in San Diego.

Oh, yeah, we're getting close to that. Why's the San Diego Comic-Con? That's not this, no. No, no, no, no, it's at the end of the month. Okay, for some reason, that was earlier. I don't know why. Earlier in July. But anyway, the one that's the long-timer

that everybody was surprised was the sales manager, I think, Chloe Ramos or Ramos. She's been there forever. And that's surprised people? Because, like, you know, I don't know how much McFarland are those guys have to do with the day-to-day anymore, but I think she may have been like... McFarlane is basically out because, I mean, he's not out. I mean, he's still at the company. Right.

But he basically is working with McFarlane toys more than anything else. Yeah. And working out because he's buff and weird-looking. Oh, yeah, he is. Yeah, he is. Oh, really? Yeah. He's all red-looking.

He looks like Red Hulk. It's weird. Weird. Okay. I don't like it. It freaks me out. Did you guys having to watch Rick and Morty this week? Yes, we were just talking about that.

Oh, okay. all right. So the Zach Snyder. I'll have extra creatine, please. Do you think that will, do you think that'll calm down the Snyderverse people? No. Not at all. All right. I was hoping it might diffuse it because that Snyder having fun at himself, you know? Yeah. And for that matter, Gunn having fun with himself. So it's like, calm down everybody, you know? There are a group of Rick and Morty fans that take things a little bit too far. That fandom's got some issues, no doubt. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah. So, you know expect uh for the next several months anytime that somebody's in a lunch line

some rick and morty stan is going to be screaming oh take some extra creatine please yeah i want some such munch sauce on top of that yeah they think that stuff is uh like a call to arm sometimes and i'm like you guys it's a cartoon it's satire you're not supposed to admire rick is the bad guy yeah rick is the bad guy you're not supposed to admire what rick does you're supposed to do counter to what Rick does. I'd be shocked by it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Freaking break. It's the same way with, it's the same way where I still just shake my head

anytime people think that Cartman is like the best character. It's like, you're not supposed to emulate him or Darth Vader or Rick Sanchez. They're the bad guys. Yeah. I saw the other day a picture. It was like a grid of photos and said, it said, people with the worst fandoms. And it was

Zach Snyder, Rick from Rick and Morty. I can't remember a third one. Maybe have been Musk or something. And then the and then the fourth one was a picture of Jesus. And I'm like, oh, my gosh. Oh, geez. Some of them, some of them is the point, right?

We enjoy, Brian and I enjoy Rick and Morty on the Rick and Morty basis, and we enjoy our Rick and Morty. But we're not freaks about it. That's the difference. And we appreciate you for that. Yes, thank you, everybody, for not being a freak. Well, anyway, who knows? Any big expectations for Comic-Con coming up?

I don't know. So all of the studios have pulled out. They're not, you know, the big Warner Brothers, Marvel, the, the et cetera's are not doing their Hall H movie presentations this year.

So that's kind of a big deal which is kind of good because that gives Kevin Smith more time to get up on stage and do his thing if he's even going to be there. I don't know. But yeah,

so that's probably the most interesting thing is a very definite toned down media presence at this year's Comic Con and so I don't know, you know, I'm sure people who are going

for the comics and going for the panels about comics, you're going to have a blast. Getting autographs, you're going to have a blast. So much to do in San Diego, it's a blast. But if you're going there for the movie presentation stuff, it's probably going to be disappointed. A little light. Yeah. Hall H now stands for H. Hardly anything happening. There you go. But I bet the bathrooms will be easier there. Oh, yeah, you'll have no problem.

You get into the to-y. Yeah. Because the Hall Hs, they can use it for all kinds of other stuff, right? Yeah, yeah. Like I said, they'll have other presentations there. I'm sure they could get some big names. get Todd McFarland up there with Rob Leifeld and Will Spartarsio and all the rest and do an image comics panel. That would be awesome. They could probably pack that thing up really. Problem is you can't get Jim Lee over there who I'd want to hear from. I guarantee you Jim Lee would sit on an image comics panel if they were doing a retrospective. If they weren't promoting the stuff that they're currently doing like the 15th iteration of Spawn, then I guarantee you Jim Lee would sit on that panel for a retrospective.

Yeah, we were talking somehow with this Jim Lee. came up this weekend in conversation with my sister, who happens to be Korean, and I was being so, I was being very annoying about it. And I said, oh, that's what it was. Ken had a rotation of Superman imagery from comics on his TV that's sort of like a, like it's a painting type TV. You know, they're kind of talking about. People just run like, you know, paintings up there. And it was all Superman stuff. And I saw this Jim Lee, Superman come up. And I go, hey, that's Jim Lee. And she goes, I don't know who that is and I looked at her and said he's Korean like you she doesn't look at me like okay well are we all supposed to know each other we all supposed to know everybody else who's

Korean and I'm like I know whatever let's go to my moms and eat salads anyway uh Stephen it's always a pleasure I hope you're doing well it's hot right you're oh man I think I had a heat stroke a couple of weeks ago I didn't stay high well I was trying to stay hydrated but it was like 95 degrees and I was trying to build steps off the back the deck. And I just was like, I can't catch my breath. And my watch went off and said, hey, your heart rate has been way high for the last 10 minutes. You probably need to go sit down or something. I was like, yeah, I think I need to sit out. Yeah, got to take your own advice. Stay hydrated. Yeah, stay hydrated. Yeah, check out major spoilers too, everybody. Major Spoilers.

com shows, content, posts every day, all that stuff. This week on Major Spoilers, we're doing the infamous, or no, not the infamous, the famous Superman versus Muhammad Ali comic book on the major spoilers podcast. Yeah. Yeah. Why did it? How did that work? Didn't he? How would you not just clobber Muhammad Ali? Because the fight took place under a red sun. And as every Superman fan knows, the red sun drains Superman's powers.

Yeah. Yeah. That's a... Nerd. I know. Nerd. That's a convenient little thing for them to do. Snyder versus James Gunn fans.

That's right. You look that one up and have your noodle flipped. Yeah. Right. Oh, gosh. Yeah. All right, man. Stay out of trouble.

And may all your, I don't know, water be hydrating. Bye now. Bye. All right. Well, there you go. That is Stephen, and you guys should go to major spoilers.com. A couple quick things. I've got to reverse the order here and do the mashup first.

We've got a throwback mashup from Jamie. Oh, cool. I do not know what this one is because I did not preview it, but I think we've heard it before. This comes from 2021, and it's called Like a Lollipop and Joy. My own secret tat stash. Yeah, you keep that tat where you're playing. Where can I trade this in for tits? Because I hear you can get tit for tat.

I got lots of tat. I have a bag full of tat. Yeah, where can I cash it in for the other thing? Yeah, where do I get the tit? Ooh, this is extremely hard. Stick it in there and let's just, yeah, we'll just get a taste of it. Put it in there and I'll watch for it to pop. Yeah, I'm putting in the other hole or anything like that.

I close my eyes and did it, so take that. Yes. I've never had a Woody. Just a small one. Oh, well, small ones are better than big ones. It's like I'm not going to quite go that deep. Why not? Why would you not want that?

Why would you not want that? Okay, I can't do it with anyone. watching me. That's all I know, because it looks so stupid. Do you have to all look like dingleberries? Do you have to plank the couch to really get the full effect? Yeah, you have to lay down horizontally on this platform thing. It looks like a workout. Pop it

into my mouth? About half of them. I can't do that. My brother Matt, do it all day. He didn't care. The fact that they're coming and coming and coming and not stopping means you feel pressure of something that you're not able to keep up with. Yes, yes. Feel them coming slowly. Very slowly.

If we get more than two inches and it's days. Yeah, stuck it in there. I put it in with a tapered head. Better penetration. I mean, I just put my finger down in there and it looked like about two inches. I can't ride it on the air because I can't situate a camera around, but I'll figure something out. Yeah, aim for the mouth if you can. Aim for the mouth. Yeah. Always aim for the mouth. Just the right amount of hole. Yep. I can barely tell like how thick it is. Yeah, I see it all the time. Just poking its head out and going, hey, remember me? It's taking me so long. I was just sitting there going, okay, where is it? Normally it's here.

What's going on? Jam it. Jam it in your hole. Ah, they're in my face. His bush is spot on. Oh, gosh. Why am I looking at that? So then I'll eat that thing like a lollipop, like some kind of five-year-old. So it's not just like we go, take it all. No, I kind of just go at it.

I work on it for, you know, five, ten minutes. But I realized I saw my... Well, I didn't know it was one of his naughty mashups, full of naughtiness. At the time, you know how we, when we listen to these, when they would come out the week after the audio that he'd pull. We'd always be like, man, I don't remember any of the context of any of that. You come out four years later, zero chance.

I don't even know what we were talking about with Veronica. But, my God, it was so good to hear her. Yeah, it was good to hear her. We haven't had her in a long time on the show. Whoops, that just made a new one. Well done, Jamie. Yeah, well done, Jamie. As always.

And also, good thing we don't say anything that could be suggested when taken out of context recently. No. Probably not even today. Probably today there's probably been zero things. Zero. Zero. Yeah. If I had to guess. Yeah, you guys find them. Good luck. All right. Hey, a couple things. We've got shows today. Monday show at 1 p.m. Me and my daughter. And the new medical show episode will be up tonight. I'm going to record that to this afternoon or this evening. It's going to be a good one because we're going to talk about how that big stupid bill changed a bunch of stuff from what you can expect on vaccine recommendations.

and other things, and nobody's really talking about what those specific changes are. So we're going to do that today. There's such a focus on Medicaid that we're not hearing a lot of the other scientific eventualities that are coming from this that are equally horrendous. Yeah, there's a bunch of bull crap in that thing. So we're going to do it, but we're going to do in a very sort of educated, straight-faced way. We're not going to get too wackadoo about it and too emotional about it. We're going to try to just kind of spew some facts.

So that'll be tonight's episode of The Medical Show. If you haven't already subscribed to it, you can go find it at themedical.com and subscribe today. It's on all the places. Apple screwed up their listing, but now it's back to normal. So you can find that. Spotify has theirs. Wherever you're listening to your podcast, you can go get it. And we will talk about that tonight.

Last week's weight loss thing was really good, too. So go check that. Yeah, listen to that all about the, you know, hey, let's go chow down a bunch of popcorn. Just non, you know, non-thinking, just shove it in your mouth. That's exactly what popcorn. And chips and salsa at Mexican restaurants. You don't think about just, you just shovel it in your mouth, one or after the other. And it's a good tradition that you enjoy with your family.

So you never think about it in a negative way. You're just like, all right, movie, popcorn, let's go. And you don't think about all those dead, stupid, ugly calories you just ate. Exactly. Yeah. Go listen to that. Everybody, you'll enjoy it. We're three episodes in as of tonight.

So enjoying the hell out of it. Me and Dr. Tolbert, spewing facts. Let's put it this way. He spews facts. I ask dumb questions, and then he gives me great answers. That's the idea. It does, I know, exactly. Even when you think you're coming up with like a, this will definitely be a no.

He's like, well, actually. Yeah, sometimes I'm right by accident. It's crazy. Anyway, check it out. That is at the medical dot show available now. All right. Very good. It's going to do it for us.

Got a song to play? What are you going to play? I do. I almost jumped the gun. Didn't let you introduce it. No, I'll introduce it. Stephen, aka Windmagus, wrote in and said, no date or special thing. By the way, that's a little reminder to me to say, if you have

something that you want to hear this month, July already is looking a little anemic as far as requests. So birthdays, anniversaries, those always get preferential treatment. If there's two things on a day, I'll always go with a birthday or an anniversary. But on the days that I don't have any of those, I need some filler, folks. And I'll pull from the, I'll pull from the stuff I didn't use in June to fill some stuff up. So don't worry. There's, there's, there's stuff coming, but if you have a birthday or anniversary, please get it in the request thing. Frogpants.com slash TMS. Okay.

When Magus says, no date or special thing. Just wanted to request a cover of Melodica Brothers Country Roads as it takes the song in a very different and cool place. Scott, will you dump the rice into the testing of the ship's phasers? Oh, my. Signed, WinMegas. Gosh, dude. All right, we'll do this one.

Dump the rice into the thing. The phasers. Let's test the ship's phasers. What was the other one? That was it. Just dumped the rice into the testing of the ship's phasers. How about this? Just an elephant for no reason.

How about that? Excellent. Got to love that. Great. Ha-ha. All right. Ha-ha. Because there it is.

I was just going to test you and see if you added any. All right. This is great. This came from an album called Take Me Home Country Roads. I'm sorry. It was a single released in 2019. I thought this was part of a big album. Melodica brothers do some really, really cool stuff.

this is no argument very cool electronicky to a song that you think of with analog guitar and john denver's voice and all that stuff this thing is so amazing melodica brothers take me home country roads Almost seven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains shannon to our river. Life is older, older than the trees, younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze. Like a breeze Country roads

Take me home To the place I belong West Virginia Mountain Mama Take me home Country roads All my memories

All my memories Gather rounder, minus lady, stranger to blue water, dark and dusty, painted on the sky, misty-daste of moonshine, teardrop in my eyes. Country roads take me home to the place. I belong, West Virginia, Mountain Mama, take me home, country roads I hear of voice in the morning, how she calls me, radio, radio my eyes in the morning, how old she calls me, Radio reminds me of my home, far away, driving down the road, I get a feeling that I should have been home yesterday, yesterday. Country roads, take me home to the blame to the blame.

I belong, West Virginia, Mountain Mama, Take me home, country roads. speaking to you. Find more great shows and goodies at frogpants.com. Yeah. What's your favorite book? Rocky 3.