The Morning Stream - TMS 2856: Dork pillow

Episode Date: July 21, 2025

Scott got a Gamer High Chair. Deet heaters. Juliette Brioche. That's my Donkey Kong pillow. The Balboa bimbo. Roll for Bread. Milky cheese. Steam Curling. FettFan42069. Even Ordering Your Food is a Ga...me. I tried the sex with the Switch. Don't Tell Wendi. You Get NO Superheroes, NO Dinosaurs & NO Lt Yar! The Order of the Drive to Phoenix. Shimmering pool of Schleicher and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Ever hear this guy named Connor Stephen Smith? Well, it turns out he's a big team player because he just subbed at patreon.com slash TMS. You can to. Coming up on the morning stream, Scott got a gamer high chair. Diet heaters. Juliet brooch. That's my donkey Kong pillow. The Balboa bimbo.
Starting point is 00:00:20 Roll for bread. Milky cheese. Steam curling. Fet fan 42069. Nice. Even ordering your food is a game. I tried the sex with the switch. Don't tell Wendy.
Starting point is 00:00:32 You get no superheroes, no dinosaurs, and no Lieutenant Yard. The Order of the Drive to Phoenix. Shimmering pool of Schleiker and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Jackie, I'd like you to be our spokesman. Me? What would I say? The press release has already been written. All you have to do is read it.
Starting point is 00:00:52 And I also like very meaty men. The morning stream. This car smells weird. Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Monday, July the 21st, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Nibbitt. Oh, welcome to another week. Yeah. Yeah. Get ready, man. Open wine, everybody. It's time for a new. week. It feels like the weekend was a real mix for me. It was a lot
Starting point is 00:01:36 of all over the place going on. I don't even really have I don't even really have a lot to report on, but I know you did. You did something rad. Yeah, this was fun. Oh, these photos killed me, dude. They look so cool in there. Feel free to share them, too. So I had talked
Starting point is 00:01:52 about this that one of my friends a guy named Paul, he's on my trivia team, brilliant guy. said, hey, I've got this game of Marvel Legendary, and my son and I played all the time, but he's the only one I ever get to play with, because my wife doesn't have any interest in playing Marvel games and anything like that. Sure. So could we do a, I know you've got some board games, too, some Marvel board games, too. Could you, could we do like a Marvel board game day and maybe you, me, and Uncle George,
Starting point is 00:02:27 Uncle George the big Marvel fan as well and maybe Tristan, Tina, whoever and I'm like, oh yeah, totally and we can play some legendary and then I could bring a few of my games and, you know, of course I have a stack I've showed, got the list of Marvel board games I have between
Starting point is 00:02:43 Marvel United and it's 40 expansions and I think that might be a low number. I think it might have more than 40 expansions. You have a lot in there. I have a lot because three major expansions and then multiple expansions within that, Marvel Zombies, which is their version of zombie side,
Starting point is 00:03:02 um, dagger, Age of Heroes, Flux, Munchkin, well, I don't have Marvel Munchkin, but, um, Marvel remix, Splendor, things like that. So, Dice Throne, I basically, I said, yeah, I've got some Marvel games. Yeah. So I think you might have a few. I think I might have a few. So there's this place near me called Thane's Table. And it is, the, the main part of the bar is, you know, is set up like a tavern in an MMO. It looks like a old fantasy tavern with sconces
Starting point is 00:03:35 with fake candles on the walls and shields and swords mounted on the wall and things like that. A big map on the floor. The floor is a massive map that they custom made that looks like a mix of Westeros and Asgard
Starting point is 00:03:51 and Tolkien and stuff like that. It's super, super cool. Sure. they've also got these two dedicated rooms that you can close the doors close the the the access to the outside area and you get a relatively quiet your own d and d experience one of them is crypt the other one is the forest um and we we took the crypt room i was gonna say it's very halloween you got some cobwebs and all this shit in there spiders and stuff all over the place yeah and um then there's like a you know your game table with a giant screen in the middle and and and H-DMI plugs on one side, so you can... That's interesting. What's the... So, yeah, I guess get into that a little bit.
Starting point is 00:04:33 What games do you bring that you get to use that for? You know, map, like D&D maps. Oh, okay. That makes sense. Paul and Dante were talking about how they... One of the D&D groups that they've played with actually did a flat screen. They put the maps on there, and then that means the DM can actually reveal more of the map as they want. Oh, I see.
Starting point is 00:04:54 And then you actually just put your little... your little minis on top of that screen. But in your cases, for what you guys are doing for the Marvel stuff, you didn't use it? No. I brought my iPad and a HDMI adapter so that I could, if we needed to watch it played really quick for one of the games, we could easily just throw it in there. And they give you QR code.
Starting point is 00:05:17 You can order drinks, food. They've got great flatbreads and pizzas and stuff like that. That's awesome. We get in there. And it's the four of us, because a lot of the games that we have are just four-player. And I say, should we start with Legendary? And Paul and Dante are like, that's Dante there on the left with the blonde hair.
Starting point is 00:05:37 Got it. And Uncle George on the right. And they say, no, let's wait. You know, we'd love to do five-player. What time is Tina coming? I said, oh, she'll probably be here around 3.30. We had the place from 12 to 5. Oh, I'm just curious what that runs.
Starting point is 00:05:51 Is that super expensive? As long as you eat and drink $30 worth of food. and beverage an hour it's free what and that's easy to do when you've got four or five people in there getting flat breads getting drinks soft drinks ciders etc oh that's great so basically it's a 30 you're paying 30 bucks an hour but you're also getting all that stuff for the 30 bucks exactly yeah that's a way to think about it like basically I've already reserved it for Saturday of Labor Day weekend we're going to do 12 to 8 and I'll explain why as I get through the story but um that time that time i had to pre um put down a deposit for the 30 an hour but they
Starting point is 00:06:31 gave me a gift card that's got 240 bucks on it and we just use that to pay for food and drink as we go gotcha okay that's awesome so um uh so i say hey let's you know let's do uh legendary they said what times tina going to get here i'm like oh 3 3 he's like well let's wait for her because we'd rather do five-player Marvel Legendary. What did you bring? And I'm like, oh, well, let's start with Marvel United because Paul's a huge new mutants fan, specifically Wolfsbane. I've been working on these minis all week, actually for a couple weeks to get them ready so that we could do a all-new mutants versus Farouk, the Shadow King, you know, the great classic X-Men villain. Sure. And have the minis in all different states of paint. But I made sure Wolfsbane
Starting point is 00:07:20 was done and um just because of how easy was warlock was done too and it came out came out so cool i'll put photos of that up sim cool but um we played that and then uh no tina yet so all right let's play game of marvel zombies and tina shows up we're in the middle of marvel zombies and it's already 3 30 and we're just getting to kind of the meat of the marvel zombies game bottom line is we never got to marvel legendary the game that was the whole reason we did this in the first place. So we basically played Marvel United and Marvel Legendary for five hours. And a lot of that time was teaching them the game, figuring out like questions that
Starting point is 00:08:02 came up during the game, that sort of thing. Sure, sure. So we've planned for 12 to 8 next time added an additional three hours and this time we're going to make sure we get to get to all the games that we want to play. Nothing makes time move like tabletop games. It really, it's so true. Like you look at the clock and then you look again and two and a half hours is passed, three hours is past.
Starting point is 00:08:27 It's like, oh my God. Yeah, just gone and out. But it was such a blast. Both of those, you know, both games were so great. And Marvel zombies, it's, you know, you're playing the zombie versions of the heroes. And it is so easy in that game and it happened to us where you just get kind of overrun with zombies and you need to do huge like AEOE attacks to get. rid of them so you can move on to the next area yeah i love that i love what's based on i loved that
Starting point is 00:08:55 comic run that was what's his name before you uh walking dead right um kirkman kirkman i think kirkman's big first first like it it's certainly on brand or his first big successful run on something i think and then after that he kind of propelled him to heights um that's great that's so cool for regionals and locals tell them the name of the thing again is again is uh thane Thane's Table, T-H-A-N-E-A-A-Postrophe S, Thane's Table. It is on 88th in Wadsworth in Westminster. That's 15 minutes away from me, which is great. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:32 And you can go there. They do trivia some nights. They do their own custom trivia, so they don't work with one of the local companies, which means, you know, it's tougher for us to do that and do tournaments and things like that. So we use it as a backup if we need a place. some things are wrong with one of the other places that we go there
Starting point is 00:09:51 that's awesome what a cool thing to have and just they're regular and they've got a ton of table tabletop games themselves so the rest of the bar every table is set up for tabletop games they even have pull out shelves where you can put your drink and your food so that it doesn't take away the board game space nice and when we were there there were like four tables with magic the gathering going on. There was a group playing some space version of Catan or the Catan-like
Starting point is 00:10:22 game that's very spacey. Wonder what that $30 an hour of food and drink compares to just getting a space at a place that's like a 40K place or something where they just... Oh, like one of those? Yeah. I don't know. I mean, a lot of those places just give you the space for free, but
Starting point is 00:10:38 you know... Oh, that's true. They just kind of have tables. They just have the tables in the back and you just say, hey, can we play in the back there? And Yeah, you just exit and enter through the gift shop, basically. Exactly. They count on sales. But a lot of those places, at least the ones I've been to here that are like that, don't have anything but soft drinks and bagged chip snacks kind of stuff.
Starting point is 00:10:59 That ain't great. Pizas, though. Oh, pizzas here were great. They have one called a roll your own. I put a photo of the character sheet, but you pay $17 bucks. Let's see it. this makes me wish there was one of these up the road oh look at that so you a character sheet and you um roll a d4 for the bread type so it's either traditional 11 inch crust gluten free or 12 inch crust you roll a d6 for the sauce traditional red curry barbecue sauce or pesto here we go found it you roll a d8 to determine the number of toppings you're going to get and then you roll a d20 um to determine what those toppings are and you could you know you can up with a curry mushroom chickpea and cilantro pizza or something so if you do a okay exceeded four
Starting point is 00:11:50 toppings there's a dollar cost per additional topping so so if you roll the d20 it's not that you have to have 20 toppings but you could if you wanted no your d8 tells you how many toppings you have got it oh there it is yeah d8 i see it now uh roll d4 for bread type is hilarious to me yes so this a dude named thane is that who owns it i think so i think the the person who opened his last name is thing. Oh, man. Just looking at this menu makes me hungry. It was really good. And then you give it a name. I named mine poison ivy because it was all veggies. I ended up with um, basil, cilantro and tomatoes with a traditional bread type and traditional red sauce. And you know what? It was just fine. Sounds all right. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. At least you have readable writing.
Starting point is 00:12:33 Um, I noticed something over here on the side. I assume the maz is mozzarella. Is that the idea here? Yes. Okay. It's really yes or no. Um, because some people might say I have a, dairy situation and so you could say no but of course I had maz I wanted maz it's pretty milky cheese I guess right I don't know how that's right yeah is it I don't know I mean all cheese is milk based but I mean aren't aren't some more aren't some more it's one of your standard pizza cheeses it's you know mozzarella Romano oh no I know that I'm saying is it is it more as far as for dairy like as far as for people with the dairy yeah if you have an allergy is that a more is that more hardcore than other kinds of cheeses
Starting point is 00:13:11 Probably not. I'd say milk content is probably pretty, pretty similar around the board. I mean, like the hard cheese we talked about last week. If it's a hard cheese, is it less. Which has less lactose. Yeah. So, yeah, obviously hard cheeses are going to be, yeah. But also, I don't know of anyone who puts like a hard cheese on a pizza. Well, when you, you might do it already by doing, um, uh, like after you, get your pizza you might add red pepper flakes and shake on some parmesan parmesan that's the stuff yeah that's the hard cheese so yeah yeah yeah I mean uh you know just be careful out there everybody that's all we're saying watch out for the cheese watch out for the milky cheese all right
Starting point is 00:14:00 I made a purchase that's pretty stupid do you want to hear about it okay I'm telling you now here it is about to reveal the stupid purchase I made everybody sit back and and and take it in my i've been having this thing where i like to play steam deck or switch or whatever while i'm in bed it's a nice place to do it you know wendy would have a fit oh she wouldn't like it you're using the bed for something that's other than sleep or sex and you're training your body to be awake while you're in bed well i tried the sex with the switch and that didn't work out um even with the switch too yeah i know you think it'd be better but they didn't really think about that part but I have this thing where if I'm holding a
Starting point is 00:14:42 especially a Steam Deck pretty heavy device for too long in that position I'll start to kind of put my arms to sleep or from like forearms to my hands not unusual a lot of people say the same same complaint yeah it's just kind of an issue and so what I should do is what the chat's suggesting
Starting point is 00:15:02 XR glasses those things that let you project a giant screen in your vision and just sit there and control my way to heaven that would be awesome just lay on your back and be yeah just play with a giant screen on my face but no i decided that i'd get a gamer pillow and let me show you what that looks like so look at this dude here looking all he's really enjoying himself yeah um this is uh this is the gamer pillow now my favorite thing about this is it says it's for reading for computing for whatever you need yeah so there's a guy on a switch or some people using their notebooks reading yeah or regular book i do kind of
Starting point is 00:15:39 to like that because you know the longer you sit there with your you know your arms straight out the the more tired your your forearms are going to get sitting there holding it up yeah now if you look at it though yeah that's dorky shit it looks like it does look like a high chair at the olive garden yeah it really does and this image in particular i mean what a dork he's got his switch over here in his little pocket reading psycho i could tell i don't know what he's doing there he's got It says, it's psycho, it's pinch and zoom here. Let's get in here. Oh, so he's.
Starting point is 00:16:14 Psychology something. Anyway. Maybe. So he's not using the little platform in front. So does it disconnect? Is it like two parts? Nope, one part and that's it. Okay.
Starting point is 00:16:22 So this lady here. Oh, he's rotating it around to use it as a back. I got you. Yeah, he's just flipping it around. He's made a little chair out of it. And he's using that, I think, on a couch or something. I might be still a bed. But anyway, so another image I really like.
Starting point is 00:16:37 Let's see if I can find it. Yeah, it's this one. This kid, look at him. Yeah, I think he's the same kid, but look at him. Oh, I'm winning. I'm winning at gaming. Hey, dad, look my eye score. We!
Starting point is 00:16:46 Well, Kim texted me. She actually texted me about this. She took a picture of you using it. Shut up. I'm sending it to you right now in Discord. What are we doing? What is this? Now I'm scared.
Starting point is 00:16:59 Hold on. Oh, shit. When did this happen? Just now? Did you do this just now? Just now. That was. fast uh yeah there look at me those are those are my little chicken legs and uh a little chicken body
Starting point is 00:17:15 yeah playing my playing my sweet game there with my cool t-shirt and uh it is so everything about this so freaking dorky looking but i have to say using it yeah it's really comfortable i i look at that thing and i'm like i could kind of i could kind of see myself using that when I'm sitting on the couch. You know, if Tina's watching something or we're watching something that I just don't really care about as much, then, yeah, I'll use the, I'll play the, the PS portal or switch or whatever. And, man, it's just so, there's so much. It's like, I almost want one that's just, like, just a little, I mean, I do like,
Starting point is 00:18:01 I like the part of having your arms on a thing, as opposed to just having them. hang which is the part of the problem i think is just having them hang and stress and strain and whatever yeah but there's just no way to make it less bulky yeah like it really looks like a high chair for adults right and uh what do you do if your legs are big like does that how well does that i just stick them out well that's a good question i don't know how high like i'm not having this problem but for some people it may be too high yeah it's basically stiffer kind of memory foam and in fact when you open it it says give it 72 hours to take its full shape because it comes in a big tight wrap.
Starting point is 00:18:39 Oh, is it like one of those purple mattresses where you open it up and tear up on the bag and it goes, yeah, exactly. But it takes freaking forever to do it. So I had to wait like a whole day and a half for it to be in its full form and not be all lumpy and stuff. But now that I've got it, it's great. It just feels, you know what? I don't actually even care. It's fine.
Starting point is 00:18:58 Who's looking at me? Is my wife looking at me big deal? What do I care what Kim thinks of me sitting there? And I am sure, you know, there's a little part. part of me that's like, maybe I want to get one of these, but I'm sure there are people out there who've already got this in their shopping card on Amazon, and they've already, you know, they're already making the purchase. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:17 This is like, uh, it's decent that they want. There's some other options out there. There's the $75 thing called the, oh, what's that called? The 3D print something maybe. Hello. 3D print a gamer pillow. You actually probably could and just wrap it in foam or something. Yeah, well, now it still wouldn't be soft enough.
Starting point is 00:19:33 I mean, there'll be so much work to, you guys, it would be a little bit. And it would have to print in a bunch of multiple pieces and then, yeah. Well, this was recommended to me, but I just couldn't do it. So it looks like you're playing. It's the new Nintendo curling adapter. Yeah, it's very weird. It looks like a big fat weight at the bottom. But basically this is a big spongy cushion.
Starting point is 00:19:57 And then you put this on your lap. Yeah. And then it holds up your game thing. On the side. You don't even do. You don't even do that. That's the problem is. That's why I didn't think it was good for me because all it is just...
Starting point is 00:20:09 Wait, wait, wait, wait, there's a photo of a guy mashing that into his face? Let's see, where is it? Yeah, he's... What's that on the bottom center there? Let's see if I can pull that up. Can I make that bigger? Hold on. Here we go.
Starting point is 00:20:18 Yeah, yeah, look at him. He's showing how to use this. Instructions are not clear, boob. Thank you for the face pillow, grandma. Okay. That's pretty weird, but it basically is... He's just showing how it's like that really squishy, uh, whatever. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:34 But all you do is put it in your lap and it kind of forms to your legs a little bit while you use it. But it doesn't actually have armrests. It just holds the weight of the device. I'd want something that has arms on it. Yeah, this wasn't, I couldn't get convinced. Although a lot of people raved about this one on Reddit and stuff. Really? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:51 I just, I don't know. It just didn't seem right to me. Plus, it's a unique thing for each console. So if you have a switch, it has a certain kind of arm. If you have a switch or if you have a Steam deck, different kind of arm. got to buy these accessories i have two three devices that would do this so i don't want to buy all that problem holding the switch it's just a matter of like want my arms on something so if it's a long a long period of gaming then my then my elbows are resting this doesn't yeah if i get to sit
Starting point is 00:21:21 there and and not hold the sides of the the you know no it's dumb it's dumb it's dumb it's kind of dumb so i'm not doing that i did the other thing i'll let you guys know how it goes you don't have big fluffy throw pillows you can just put on your lap and I do but they're too it's almost too fluffy because they tend to bend and I don't I need some like what's this is good at is giving you kind of firm almost desk like yeah but not hard not hard like wood or whatever it feels like you you can even have a laptop up there and be like you know yeah oh totally did that did that last night actually while I was talking to you I was texting you I had it up I had my bithad and keyboard up on there and it was yeah it was great right in your thesis
Starting point is 00:22:01 Yeah, it's actually keeping, it also keeps me sitting up straighter, whereas when I'm, you know, with the thing, I usually tend to crook my neck and slowly start sinking into the bed and it's a freaking nightmare. So nobody tell Wendy, and also I'll let you know how it goes. I'll review it over time. It'd be nice if they made one of these that was, that looked like a throw pillow on the outside so that when you've got company coming over, you don't need to hide your weird game playing pillow device. Yeah, because it doesn't really tuck away. You can just leave it on the couch and be like, yeah, look at my nice throw pillow. Look at that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:36 Like what I don't, that's actually a really good point. It won't fit under the bed. I got nowhere to put it. Yeah. So I'm going to have like chuck it in the closet and just hope nobody sees it. And if they see it, I'll go, oh, that's my orthopedic. I need it for my bursitis or whatever. Anyway.
Starting point is 00:22:54 Love it. What I really need it for is Donkey Kong. All right. That's, that's it for that. Brian, you watch the thing and did a thing. I did. a thing and watched a thing. I was on,
Starting point is 00:23:04 wait, you haven't seen, with TV's Travis last night, or yesterday afternoon. And I watched PCU, the film starring a young Jeremy Piven and a young David Spade and a young John Favreau
Starting point is 00:23:19 and basically a lot of young people, Jessica Walter. We were talking, remember we were talking about celebrities who you automatically want to put an S at the end of their name, like Christopher Reeve.
Starting point is 00:23:29 Oh, yeah, Reeves, Reeves, Reeve. Jessica Walters is that for me. Even though her name is Jessica Walter. Oh. See, I thought it was Walters. So there you go. Yeah. There's one right there. That's hard. You don't really have that with us. Ibbets and Johnson's. Johnson's. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:43 You don't do that. Ibbotson, but not that's only for Leo, but yeah. So the you know, on the surface, if you just say all right, plot only, it's a really you know, it's a, it's a fine movie. It's okay. It's okay. But the, to know in 93, when it was, when it was filmed, it sat on the shelf for a year before it got released. But to know back in 93, where things might go with political correctness and, and how some people, what are the virtual, signal virtue, no, what is it? Oh, virtue. virtual signaling or like white knighting or any of those yeah that's that sort of thing just
Starting point is 00:24:33 kind of where some of that stuff could go to know that and predict it in 93 is pretty pretty freaking uh impressive yeah pretty wildhouse some some of that stuff yeah i don't know i was like that was like that tired movie this weekend it was like i felt like it was made yesterday yeah i don't know how movies do that especially when it's about content like you're saying like where it's actually right exactly i mean you know the the the stuff happening in there in Die Hard, Liffrear Die Hard is, uh, it could happen like
Starting point is 00:25:03 is, is relevant today. Just the way they showed it with their little rubber keyboards and yeah, the rubber keyboards. Oh man. Subby windows and stuff like that. We didn't talk near enough about those stupid keyboards. We did not. And TV's Travis reminds me, the movie is directed by Ellis from Diehard. You know, Hans, Bubby.
Starting point is 00:25:20 Oh, I didn't know he directed. I'd know he directed. Yeah. I had no idea. He only, he's only directed like a handful of films and I think this is the one you know the most all that all that guy wants is a coke and he'll spill all the beans that says tell him you don't know me ellis tell him you don't know me bubby oh i hate him i hate him in that movie i hate him so bad bobby i mean i know that's the point that's the one thing this movie the new movie didn't have is they didn't have somebody smarmy enough to be that oh yeah right no not really they really had like echoes of almost everything but that yeah it's true yeah well anyway he uh yeah
Starting point is 00:25:56 Wait, are you a fan of the Fet? Why did that... That's in PCU, that's... No, they die hard with the... Kevin Smith, right? You're fan of the Fent? No, it's more of a Star Wars guy. I kind of hate everything about the word,
Starting point is 00:26:09 or the phrase, the Fet. Fan of the Fet, yeah. Shut up, Kevin Smith. If he wrote that line, he should be embarrassed. You can't shorten, you can't shorten Boba Fett. It's Boba Fett. He should be embarrassed, but now. Just like Chris Brown. You can't call him Chris.
Starting point is 00:26:22 You can't call him Brownie. You call him Chris Brown. Or the real Chris Brown. That'll work. Or the real Chris Brown. By the way, I'm going to just throw it a big thank you to TechDrums rock and roll listener after we talked about the Savannah Bananas. Oh, look at that. Sent me this shirt right here. Hey, that's cool.
Starting point is 00:26:36 So I can represent a team that I still have yet to see live. I'd love to see the Savannah Bananas play, but my God, they're taking off, man. Their tickets sell out as soon as they go on sale. I wonder, I guess we looked at the tour before. Was there something coming through Denver? There was something coming through Denver, and it was long sold out. worked out it was i think it was already sold out yeah that makes sense yeah that thing's crazy how that's gone they stream those games on youtube interesting yeah yeah could watch that uh let's see
Starting point is 00:27:07 firefighters uh savannah bananas august 9th oh selling fast oh this is stub i'm on stub hub so let's see what ticket prices are right now august 9th saturday i don't have anything going on let's see what tickets are looking like feels like the closest we're going to get to blurne's ball in a modern modern era. Section like up in the third level. Oh my lord. 629 bucks.
Starting point is 00:27:31 Oh! What are they used to? There's no way this, after this explosive thing, I get it, but prior to this, there's no way that was that much. This is Stubhub. These are people who bought tickets in a recent. Oh, this is basically scalping with an official logo on it. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:27:49 I freaking hate it $708 tickets on the first baseline. I mean, it is ridiculous. That's a few money right there. Exactly. Which I don't have. No, me neither. Sorry, Savannah bananas.
Starting point is 00:28:03 I guess we'll have to catch you when you guys are affordable. Yeah, yeah. Watch it on YouTube. Quick note. Oh, no, we have no other notes. It's time for us to pull Dunaway in. It's that time. It is that time.
Starting point is 00:28:16 I'm going to reload the game. We're going to pull. him in we're going to yank him around we're going to call him larry well done it's going to be fantastic if i can find his ringer thing there it is uh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh time for us to play a little half asses brian done away on the line hi brian no hi scott and brian turn i brought the whole ass i guess i'm over prepared well listen you'll only you'll bring the whole ass but you'll only use half that's right i'll only
Starting point is 00:28:49 use the edge. You only give me just the left cheek. How's that feel to you? You like that idea? Mmm, tasty. Hey, Brian Dunaway's here. That means time for this game. It means Brian Abbott's got to explain the rules and find out who out there in the
Starting point is 00:29:02 listening audience might win something today. Brian, take it away. Welcome to the morning half-ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you guys the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct. Three that are incorrect. Depending on how confident you feel the category you can provide one,
Starting point is 00:29:19 two or three guesses. But if any of those guesses are wrong, you get zero points for that round. Get one right, gets you a point, two right, gets you three points, and three right gets you five points. We're going to add all those points up at the end of the game and determine who wins and who among our audience wins as well.
Starting point is 00:29:36 And we'll determine it if it can do math. Go ahead. That's right. We will. It's true. Scott, you're going to be playing for David Brown in Westerly, Rhode Island. Oh, I like David Brown. He's not related to Chris Brown, the real Chris Brown. He's, uh, no, this one's with a, no E. It's just Brown without an E, so no relation.
Starting point is 00:29:55 But he might be the real David Brown. Not, right? Brown. Probably the real David Brown. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, Brian, you're going to be playing for Austin Skogland or Skogland in space, on the space coast of Florida. Yeah, I will be.
Starting point is 00:30:08 Yeah. Space coast. Space coast to coast. That's awesome. That's right. What a cool name, Skogland. Skogland. Yeah, I wonder where that's from.
Starting point is 00:30:18 Very. Scandinavian, I'm thinking. Yeah, tall guy, blonde, look like a vampire. Scoboned. I like it. All right, cool. Let's do it. Let's do it.
Starting point is 00:30:28 Let's get to question number one. Remember, you're going to be clicking on the items that match the category. Let's start with a quote-unquote easy one. You know how I like to start with one that I think might be easy for you guys. Sure. Which of these are movies with Helena Bonham Carter? your choices are. There, and this one, and this Oh, you're going to ask. All right, your choices are.
Starting point is 00:30:52 Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chocolat, Les Miz Robb, and Finding Neverland. Okay. Three of these feature Helena Bonham Carter. Three of them, do not. You're not even. Shit.
Starting point is 00:31:11 I'm not sure, but I just watch that one. Not going to. I'm still not sure. Some of this is tricky. Yeah. on the purpose here it's tricky on the purpose uh but i'm gonna i'm gonna go all in throw all my chips in the middle of the table you know you're going on for the best yeah we'll see you can see what that does to me okay oh speaking which can i play something real fast sorry sure just just side thing uh mizula tried to capture a bunch of the sound i was talking about of the poker tournament
Starting point is 00:31:40 uh-huh and the chips all making sound chips clicking yeah let me see if you guys can hear this i haven't gone through and like done any post on this so i don't know how well has come through let me just play it okay you kind of hear that right you kind of hear the chips yeah oh there we go oh now you can hear it yeah it's so cool it's great barely any talking bit like oh i just love it it's like you're in a chip factory or something yeah you feel like you're there you feel like you want to buy in for three hundred dollars or whatever the minimum was um all right anyway how'd we do here Well, you guys both settled on two of them. I know she was in one of the Harry Potter's.
Starting point is 00:32:21 I'm just not sure if it was that one. Well, let's talk about that. Was she in Harry Potter in the Order of the Phoenix? Yes. She was in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. That's right. Exactly. And was their group the Arbiter or the...
Starting point is 00:32:37 Oh, shit. It's like that, though. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, gosh, dang it. It's not face eaters. Death eaters? no face eaters i like face eaters no face eaters i think that's the death eaters group i think it's death eaters yeah
Starting point is 00:32:50 claire says death eaters so it must be true oh it must be true but she did the lowercase so i don't know if oh shit i don't know if i even believe that's claire i know she on some like a downer she said death adders you get it wrong death eaters de heaters yeah yes so anyway of course yes belatrix was in order the phoenix uh let's look at the other one that bryan shows Actually, no, let's look at the one that Scott chose, because Scott did go with three today. Brian chose two. I chickened out the last second because I couldn't remember for sure. You did. I watched you select in turn all four of the remaining answers at one point or another.
Starting point is 00:33:28 I couldn't remember, I'm like, was she in Big Fish or Finding Neverland? Because they had a little, like, cast crossover. And at her sister's hands, I was like, she should have been in that, but I was like, I couldn't think of where she was at. So I don't know. Well, we'll come back to that in a second, but Scott did go with Chocolat, the film about sex and chocolate, you know, just like Marcy's Playground. There you go.
Starting point is 00:33:54 Love that album. She was not in Chocolat. She was in Le Mizraub, but she was in Big Fish, which means Brian sticking with two, like going against his... Son of a bitch. He was really close. Like his initial thought was, oh, yeah, right down the left side. Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Harry Potter. Wait a minute.
Starting point is 00:34:15 All right. So here's the poopy thing to know about me. I've never seen that less mesorah blasphes. I haven't seen that version of it. And I also have never seen Finding Neverland. I've seen Shakola Big Fish and the Harry Potter and the Edward Cisorhands. How I got one of those wrong, I do not know. You need to watch both Les Mises and Finding Neverland.
Starting point is 00:34:37 They're both a lot of... I've heard, I've never heard bad. In the way that... I've never heard they were. were bad. I've always heard they were great. I just didn't, I don't know, just didn't get around to it. Yeah, and Chocolot, the main actress in that
Starting point is 00:34:50 kind of is in that same British. It's Bradani Depp and Yeah. Oh, geez, Debbie should have been on that then, no wonder. She's kind of French. Juliet Benoche. Juliet Benoche. Hello, we were not Ginoche. No, Ginoche.
Starting point is 00:35:08 Juliet Ginoch. Not British. She's French. Yeah, French. She's French. Anyway, so, Brian going into round two with three points. Scott going in with zero, but that's all right. You can, you can, you can turn it around here. Um, oh, this is when you get right up your alley.
Starting point is 00:35:26 Kinds of swing dance. Which of these are actually styles of swing dance? Yeah, right up our alley, Brian. Your choices are, uh, wap-du-wap, grasshopper, the bimbo, boogie-woogie, Lindy hop, or Balboa. Oh, shit. Three of these are actual. swing dance
Starting point is 00:35:43 dances hey you want to go you want to swing dance with me yeah yeah walked in fast you know why because no amount
Starting point is 00:35:53 of trying to figure it out without me it's either you're gonna get it or not and you do pretty much right away Adrian you want to dance all right let's do this
Starting point is 00:36:04 let's figure this out I guess what defines a swing dance let me tell us that before you actually start because I mean I'm assuming minute you swing your arms is that yeah or your partner like you you know a lot of cases you're you swing your partner round down round and round but yeah but not a but not square dancing style i mean
Starting point is 00:36:22 you're you know there's did you remember the gap commercial that launched voodoo daddy's uh big bad vooddy's career actually they do yes brain sets or orchestra and all those what is what is that thing that uh that uma thurman and john trebolcher are doing in poll fiction what is they are doing the what the batusi for part of it Which is the, you know. And that is not a swing. That is not a swing dance. But they're swinging their arms around.
Starting point is 00:36:46 Okay. Yeah. I mean, you swing your arms around a lot of dances, Brian. Not, not those freakish, Lord of the Dance kind of things. They don't do it.
Starting point is 00:36:54 What are you talking about? No. No, their arms pretty much stay dangling at their sides. Hardly any swinging at all. They have, they need a gamer pillow. They got dead arm. That's right.
Starting point is 00:37:02 Their legs are almost the only things that move on them. Is it. Yeah, exactly. Flatly. Right on. Flatly. How's he doing? He's around stuff.
Starting point is 00:37:11 Michael Flatley, still a thing? I don't know. Maybe he's, uh, you know, maybe hung up the tap shoes or whatever the shit they wear. Clogs? Right. I don't know. Maybe. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:23 Um, let's, uh, let's start with Scott on this one. Scott chose to. You each chose to, very smartly. No overlap whatsoever. Um, uh, boogie wuggy. Uh, up there at the top right. Yes. Boogie wuggy is a swing dance.
Starting point is 00:37:37 Sure. Of course it is. Cool. Now I know. The next one down. Lindy Hop. That is also a swing dance. Very good. And Brian chose
Starting point is 00:37:47 that one. Please be the Balboa. Please. And now the Balboa and the Bimbo. Those are the two that each of you chose. The Bimbo and the Bamboa. I picked Bimboe because it was just fun. It is fun. It is totally fun. It may be fun, but it's not a dance. The Balboa is a dance. Three points for Scott.
Starting point is 00:38:05 Tied us up, baby. And we go to our third question, which is going to be a tiebreaker. Wait, shouldn't Scott have five points? Didn't he get all three? No, no. I'm sorry. Okay.
Starting point is 00:38:15 You only pick two. I see. I see. Pick two and no, I wouldn't have known Lindi hop. That's not news. That's not a thing I would ever know. I picked the two that sounds at the most fun. The two I knew were the boogie wig and the Lindy hop.
Starting point is 00:38:27 I did not know. Like, we would have had yet another, another choice if I was playing this game with you guys. What's the grasshopper, by the way? Just a drink. Oh, it's not even a dance. It's not even a dance. The Wap, Duwap, the Grasshopper, and the, Bimbo are not dances.
Starting point is 00:38:42 Oh, what's the Wap-Doo-Wap? Do you know what that is? I don't think the, I think it's just a name made up to sound like it's a dance. Same with, I mean, bimbo's obviously used for other terms, but I think it was just like it. It sounds like it. Fettie Wap up there on top. The Fettie Wap, that's right.
Starting point is 00:38:57 I like it. That's right. All right. The Wap is, it's inappropriate. Go ahead. I'm just saying, I'm just saying it's a Cardi B dance. I'm just saying. Yes.
Starting point is 00:39:05 All right. Oh, yes. I got you. Yep. Yeah. All right. Let's get to our last question. Los Angeles, specifically
Starting point is 00:39:12 Which of these are cities that are 300 miles or less from Los Angeles. Your choices are Las Vegas, San Francisco, San Diego, Phoenix, Honolulu, and Mexicali. Three of these are within 300
Starting point is 00:39:28 miles of L.A. Three of them are not. Okay. I know at least one of these. I arrest them. I don't know. I mean, I got to pick Martin.
Starting point is 00:39:46 Maybe I do the safe thing, because I don't know what Dunaway knows. You don't know what Dunaway knows? I just don't know what you know. Who knows what he knows? Who knows what Brian knows? He might know anything. Oh, my gosh. I think, okay.
Starting point is 00:40:03 You know what? I'm going to be, I'm going to go for it. Okay. Well, let's see if it pays off because I saw you, uh, You know, you had locked in on Las Vegas, both of you, right away. And Las Vegas is, yeah, absolutely. You can get there in 263 miles. So not, you know, not a tremendous amount less than 300, but definitely still within 300 miles.
Starting point is 00:40:25 Yeah, faster than it is for me. I know that. That's right. Now, from there, one of you chose. Rickin on 10 from Phoenix. I'm going to head, go ahead. You said Phoenix. Scott, you said San Diego.
Starting point is 00:40:36 Yeah. San Diego is 120 miles from Los Angeles and Phoenix is 373 Meaning Scott wins the game today Damn You know I knew the Phoenix one wasn't Because I have had to drive that
Starting point is 00:40:51 From my brother's place to California And it sucked ass compared to driving From my brother's place to us Yeah Either way Phoenix is too far from everything I don't like it 373 miles to Phoenix So
Starting point is 00:41:02 Always fly to Phoenix seriously Gosh yeah And always fly out of Phoenix. Yeah, fly out of Phoenix. Fly away from Phoenix. Don't drive there. Don't drive there. It's not meant for people. It really isn't. No. I live there. I know. Well, you didn't live there. You lived in, you were a little higher north, right? Weren't you a little? Awatuki. Oh, you're pretty close to the heat. What's Pawatuki? That's a city. Awatuki. I think that's a. Thank you. Thank you for correcting me in a way with a, with a word that sounds just as silly
Starting point is 00:41:34 as the one I was saying. I think it's a Native American thing. It's our turkey. It's a Native American thing, I think. Yeah, it is correct. So, yeah, no, look, I'm just saying if we didn't have the technology to pump water all over the place,
Starting point is 00:41:50 this would be dead land. Nobody would be there. Yeah, and if we didn't have a lot of technologies, what would you be living in? I'd do better up here. I got snow in the winter. I got, you know, heat in the summer. I got rain.
Starting point is 00:42:02 I got all the stuff you need to, survive better as a human being. Well, that's just a normal thing. You go to Phoenix. It's just nothing but just raw hot. It's not made for humans. Yeah. You shouldn't live there.
Starting point is 00:42:12 Anyway, congratulations. You don't realize we live in modern times and we don't, we're not, we're not doing it, Mountain Man. All right, go ahead. Claire, Utah's not the desert you think it is. I mean, parts of it are. Sure. Southern Utah.
Starting point is 00:42:24 But I wouldn't want to live, I wouldn't live there either if we didn't have these technologies. Forget it. Oh my gosh. You'd die. And I'm a desert rat. I like that shit, but we get snow up here. Anyway, well, there you go. I feel good about winning because it's been a while in this game.
Starting point is 00:42:36 I look forward to the Donner Party eating your buddy. Yeah, well, you know, that's how I used to go. Well, that's my, that's kind of my point, you know, the extremes you want to avoid. You want to go for the, that's why the California people have it made. If all the services go off the rails, California's a pretty good shape because they have, actually, Idaho would do all right. They get pretty cold, though. You want to avoid extremes, so you want to go to the temperate places, you know? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:02 Me and Brian are screwed. We get, well, if the winters stay like they've been lately, maybe we'll be fine. We'll be fine because, yeah, it's been hot and muggy and horrible. Yeah, that's weird. Well, Brian, who are our big winters today? Yeah, let me tell you. That's a great weather forecast. Yep.
Starting point is 00:43:18 Muggy and horrible. David and Westerly, Rhode Island, you are getting a copy of Colt Canyon and Doom 2 on Steam, courtesy of Sunbun. Nice. Austin on the space coast of Florida. You are also getting some cool stuff. Eternal Edge Plus on Steam. So fun games for everybody all around. Colt Canyon.
Starting point is 00:43:38 I'll say it again. I said it last week. One of my favorite little indies. Real good stuff. Congratulations to both of you. Congratulations. But no congratulations. To Brian Dunaway.
Starting point is 00:43:50 That's all right, though, because tomorrow he and I get together for a little of the old play retro. Brian, tell us what people are looking forward to seeing or hearing. Absolutely. We're finally doing Heroes of Might and Magic. Part 3, the big one, because there's a new Heroes of Might Magic coming out, and it's going to be
Starting point is 00:44:05 kind of connected to that one. But I also wanted to mention... Well, it's a remake of that one, so yes, very connected to that one. Did you see... Did you see what I posted in the Discord for you, Scott? Did you see... I may have missed it? Why do I want this? Oh, hold on. Why I want this?
Starting point is 00:44:20 Let me look it up here. Hold on. I'm going to share it with the world. Oh, I would even want this. It's for the same reason me and Brian want it. Look at that thing. Look at that. Oh, look at that. Yeah. It is a Pac-Man yellow... Yeah, but here's the shitty thing.
Starting point is 00:44:34 Here's the funny thing about this. That's an amazing device. I would love to own it. But the version of Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 is utter trash. It's so bad. They're not even dots. It's just... They're like little candy bars.
Starting point is 00:44:50 It's garbage. Can I interest you one of the controllers then? Can I just talk you into one of the controllers? Let's take a look at that. Show me the controllers. That's like a look at that. So obviously it plays the cartridge games. What else does it play?
Starting point is 00:45:01 any of the car can you hack it that's it though you can't you can't no hard drive or anything inside so you can't like load your own 2,600 games uh you know I'm not 100% sure on that because they did have a 20 oh it is a 2,600 plus so you should be able to also can you purchase another store as well I'm trying to remember possible get some ROMs that way or or even hack it put your own ROMs on there I'm trying to look now and that really that really is moral about whether you like 2600 games which I do not generally But, Scott, you get the new, it comes with the new Pac-Man game. So they've got one of this more like what you should say.
Starting point is 00:45:37 Oh, so, so it is capable of running more than $2,600 if you want to be hack it or whatever. But I'm not sure if that's on a cart form because sometimes they sell carts on the Atari website as well. Yeah. Well, that control is pretty badass. The tip of the stick. It's, it's an Atari, for those listening and not watching. Yeah. It's like this traditional Atari controller, except very yellow.
Starting point is 00:45:55 And the very tip is the, uh, is the little Pac-Man guy. Yeah, yeah. Does the part of the joystick we can't see have shoulder buttons that I really want it to have Oh, I wish. I don't think so, but I wish. I'm pretty sure it does not, but I do have one that does have those kind of buttons. I'll point you in the right direction.
Starting point is 00:46:13 This is ACMI out like you would expect. It does come with the Pac-Man two-and-one game cartridge, and you can play both the 2,600 and 7,800 games on this with the 7,800 Pac-Man. Oh, that was pretty close to the arcade was 7,800. The 7800 had a really nice Tempest, Tempest port, too.
Starting point is 00:46:30 Yeah, that wasn't bad. They finally got some tech on there. So here's the interesting thing. That's the box art or the cartridge art for the new one. Here's the old one. Yeah. It's a little more accurate to the bars you're reading. It is like he's eating bars.
Starting point is 00:46:44 And even the background is like, yeah, this is the maze. You're going to have to go around. It was a poopie port. It was not good. It looks like somebody drew the Pac-Man maze without having reference material. Is Pac-Man eating a sandwich or is? that pop tarts he's throwing out. It reminded me of Pop-Tarts as a kid.
Starting point is 00:47:00 Or Pez. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As a kid, those, oh, Pez is good. They look like little Pezzes. I'll admit it makes me slightly hungry to see it. I'm assuming that's supposed to be the dots, right? Yeah. Well, anyway, that's pretty cool, man.
Starting point is 00:47:13 We'll talk about that too. We have all kinds of stuff to talk about. That's Play Retro at FrogPants.com slash Play Retro or wherever you get your podcast, get your retro video game fun on by going there. Done away left already. He's smart. Wow. Didn't even give us to know you.
Starting point is 00:47:26 He's some sort of genius. is, he is. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, Stephen Schleiker will be joining us right here on the podcast. We are going to talk about all things, San Diego Comic-Con. I should probably mention that the medical show happens a little bit later in this week. And we are going to be talking this week about lab results. Oh, oh, I thought it was going to be a Labrador Retrievers.
Starting point is 00:47:50 I wish. Yellow Labs, Chocolate Labs. I wish. Instead, it's Brian, it's you and I going in with a big old needle, pulling it out and going what kind of hepatitis we got today or whatever. Here are the 50 things wrong with you that we found via your labs. Yep. Yep. Stop doing this.
Starting point is 00:48:06 Start doing that. Yeah. And there's also a good chance you're being overlapped potentially. Oh, really? Yeah. So we'll talk about that. What is the sort of what should be the standard? What isn't that kind of thing?
Starting point is 00:48:18 We're going to talk about some of those myths and discuss it on the episode four of the first season, which means, no, that's, I'm sorry, that's episode five. we're almost up to the season limit of six. Wow. For first season, good Lord. Wow. Go find it at the medical dot show if you're interested. It's me and Dr. Jerry Tolbert.
Starting point is 00:48:37 You've heard him here on this show before. Brilliant man. That's good stuff. Good stuff indeed. Brian, let's take a break. We got a song to play. What is it? We do.
Starting point is 00:48:45 Let's go to a dude named Ryan Hamilton. He's super good. And he's kind of in that power pop, you know, the knack and and Beatles. and stuff like that, that power pop sound. He took a year off from the music industry, went on hiatus, and he came back with a brand new single called Godspeed, just came out about a week and a half ago,
Starting point is 00:49:08 and it's a triumphant return for the multi-award-winning artist and one of Spin Magazine's 35 best lesser-known artists of the past 35 years. Here's Ryan Hamilton and Godspeed. How fast is too fast for you? That's how fast I want to go. Break just a little more You can push the pedal through the floor
Starting point is 00:49:32 How sad is too sad for you I want to break a broken heart Don't you tell the truth I know you were dancing in the dark You were dancing in the dark Godspeed, just a little faster. God's speed, God, what a disaster. Burn it down.
Starting point is 00:50:05 Angels in the ashes. How much is too much for you? You can take a little more. You can take a little more. Go on, I implore you down. until you live some more die until you live some more godspeed just a little faster god speed god what a disaster burn it down we go until it crashes god speed does this go any faster god speed God, what a disaster, burn it down.
Starting point is 00:50:50 Angels in the ashes. You don't need an angel to fly. We're dancing with the devil tonight. Busting into heaven, searching for a savior to fight. No, you don't need an angel to fly. We're dancing with the devil tonight. Busting into heaven searching for a savior to fight
Starting point is 00:51:21 He's out of sight He's out of sight Godspeed, just a little faster. God's speed, God, what a disaster, burn it down. We go until it crashes. Godspeed, does this go any faster? God's speed, God what a disaster, burn it down. Angels in the ashes, angels in the ashes.
Starting point is 00:52:16 Angels in the ashes How fast is too fast for you That's how fast I want to go Someone that's how fast I want to go. Someone that's clean, be clean, you know? I keep my car very clean And I expect a man to do the same. There being no further business before the court.
Starting point is 00:52:46 And we're back. Hey, who is that again so I can, you know, put it in my library or something. Yeah, that was Ryan Hamilton in a song called Godspeed. That's his brand new single. No word yet on if we're going to get a brand new album from Ryan Hamilton. But I sure hope so because that was really, really, really good. Really, really. Really, really good.
Starting point is 00:53:15 You know, I haven't talked to Patrick in so long. For all I know, he sounds Finnish now because he lives in Helsinki. He's been living there so long. He's just kind of... Yeah. It's possible. Just haven't checked in. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:53:27 All right, guys, it's time for some Schleiker action. Hot action Schleiker summer. And we're going to go ahead and do that now. Let's see if I can find his intro. Here it is. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dalla Dala, Dills, y'all.
Starting point is 00:53:43 Stephen Schlecker joining us a little away from Hayescan. us and the home of major spoilers.com. Hello, Steven. How are you? Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hey, man. What's going on? What are you doing? I'll tell you. I'll tell you how I'm doing. Yeah. This is really important, especially if you're doing labs. You do need to probably drink some water before you go to your labs. Yeah. We're starting with the hydrant.
Starting point is 00:54:01 Well, yeah. All right. Um, but got up four o'clock this morning to go to my morning walks. Yeah. Eighty degrees already. Oh, my Lord. That's a lot in the morning. It's too hot for me to go walk. Yeah. You just collapsed in a, in a, in a quivering pile of schliker. Yeah, a pool of fat. Well, I don't want, you know, I didn't want to go that far, but, you know, whatever. Hey, are you, uh, so what's the, wait, so what's the high today and you're, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:54:27 It's, uh, I think they said 100 today, which isn't too bad, but we were in a heat advisory yesterday. Well, actually, the last three days. Gotcha. So it's been around 100, 102. We max out at 87 today. I'm pretty happy about that. That's not too bad.
Starting point is 00:54:41 Yeah, not too bad. Yeah, not too bad. Right now it's, uh, well, it's. Well, it's 82. We're on our way. Anyway, hey, it's good to have you here, man. We're going to talk. You know, every year, it's the summer, it's July. What happens?
Starting point is 00:54:54 Comic-Con happens. And what happens to us? We turn to Stephen for all our Comic-Con news, because I'll be honest, you have some of the best coverage. It's easy to go to major spoilers.com and kind of see what's going on. And then also you come on the show and we talk about it. So let's get straight into it and talk about what's going on there. To start with, Hall H, it's not the same as you.
Starting point is 00:55:15 usual, is it? Yeah, it's, it's not the same as usual. I talked about, I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago when I was on that all of the major studios have basically pulled out of all age presentations. Saturday used to be the day that you would go and camp out and get all the, whatever the latest Marvel studio Batman stuff, whatever Harry Potter was doing, you know, but now it's, it's not. And of course, there's, with the exception of a Superman panel, which Superman's already out, so there's no need to hype that. Fantastic Four is, this weekend, and so why would you want to hype something that's going on already? Crazy.
Starting point is 00:55:51 And Jurassic World, or whatever it is, was already out. So there's not really any mega blockbusters coming out in the next couple of weeks that would necessitate a big All-H presentation. Yeah. But there are some studios that are showing up. So we've got some smaller studios showing up. Whoever's putting out Percy Jackson and the Olympians, I think that's Disney Plus. I think so.
Starting point is 00:56:14 They're going to be there on Thursday. That's the very first Hall-Age presentation. So, yeah. Also, I should, and that's followed immediately. Your excitement is palpable for that one. Yes, that's followed immediately by Gabriel Iglesias, the comedian, and Joe Coy. And they've got a panel immediately. Yes, Fluffy, yes.
Starting point is 00:56:34 I like him as a community. I know who Coy is. I don't think I know the other one. Oh, you need to go check his stuff out. It's good. Okay. And then it's not until, I guess there's a five nights at Freddy's two. presentation at four and a toxic Avenger panel at 530.
Starting point is 00:56:48 Oh, my gosh. Clear my, oh, actually I do want to see the toxic Avenger thing. I saw that, I saw that new red band trailer they put out today or yesterday. Awesome. Looks,
Starting point is 00:56:59 I am really actually excited about that movie. It looks great. But the other thing you said before it, I've already forgotten because it's so boring. Five Nights at Freddy's too? You don't want to go for that. I don't care. You're not into the jump scares and the animatron.
Starting point is 00:57:10 It's for, I do want to see Five Nights. But is it? But is it? Hall H. Worthy. No, no. Okay, so I'm, you know, even on Friday, Saturday, I mean, Badlatron, Ares has a thing at 530.
Starting point is 00:57:22 I doubt they're going to show the whole movie. It'll just be some stuff, maybe some music from, who is it, 9-inch Nails, doing the music for that. And then on Saturday. It's technically, it's technically just Reznor and Atticus Ross, but because of the way the thematic feel of this, they said, we got to do this under the 9-inch Nails name. Oh, yeah, especially when under the shadow of Daft Punk did the last,
Starting point is 00:57:43 The last one, we have to make a big deal out of this. Right. And not just be a Reznor and Ross. It's important to know that because I think some people think they're reforming and they're not. It's not like Nine and Snails are suddenly a band again on tour doing albums as Nine and Snails. They just are doing it for this one-off like Brian says. And that's it. Saturday, everything kicks off with Coyote versus Acme.
Starting point is 00:58:06 And everybody might be thinking, well, isn't that Warner Brothers? I thought you said they weren't going to be there. No, Warner Brothers, not there for Coyote versus Acme. because they sold that to a small distributor. No. Because they were going to write it off for tax purposes. Thanks, Zazlav. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:22 He's your favorite. He's still your favorite. Man, he is my second most hated person right now in the world. Gosh, I can't think of who the first is. Go ahead. Yeah, I'm kidding. So that means we are going to finally get to see that, though. Yeah, we will.
Starting point is 00:58:35 I don't remember what the exact release date is, but that was a done deal a couple of months ago. Okay. And so, yeah, I think it's coming out this fall. So maybe around Thanksgiving Christmas, maybe? Theaters or something else? They're going to theaters. They're going to theater. That's the only way they're going to be able to make their money back.
Starting point is 00:58:50 And hopefully everybody goes and sees this movie and just blows the box office up with this just to stick it to Zaslob. That'd be great, right? I mean, yes. Who's in that crap? John Cena, all the Warner Brothers. Yeah, but who's the Roadrunner? Who's the main, but the main physical actor plays like the lawyer or whatever. I think it's John Cena, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:59:14 No. Who am I thinking of? The guy from all the stuff, S&L guy, Will Forte, geez. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. He won't shut up about how amazing he thinks that thing was and how happy is that it got distribution because he was so, he thinks it's awesome. Yeah, it's probably going to be very fun. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:33 The longest, the longest panel that we have on Saturday is the Star Trek panel that runs from noon until 215. Uh, and that is because the Star Trek has so many. different shows that they're going to be talking about. So if you're looking for what's going to go on in the final season of Strange Worlds, what's going to go on with Starfleet Academy, that's probably the panel that people will want to be paying attention to. And quite frankly, looking at the entire list of Hall H presentations, that's probably the one that I think people are going to get most excited about.
Starting point is 01:00:03 The second one that I think people are going to get really excited about is Project Hail Mary, which is the Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, producing with Ryan Gosling based on the Andy Andy Weir novel. Yeah, dude. You haven't seen the trailer for that. It's a lot of, it looks really fun. I'm actually excited about that. It's the one, I didn't read, I read The Martian and I didn't read Hail Mary.
Starting point is 01:00:25 People rave about Hell Mary, but. Yeah, there's another one he did about the moon. And if you read the audio book, it's got, dang it, what's her name from? She plays Assoak in the live action. It's got her reading the book. his uh the revelation in the recent book that shriar did about blizzard the play nice book uh the biggest revelation for me because i knew andy weir was a engineer on warcraft warcraft three um that i knew before he went off and did his author stuff so i always thought oh that's so cool
Starting point is 01:00:57 and the way blizzard talks about it's like oh hey andy we're used to be here man we're we're we're so proud of the legacy this and that i read that book they were dicks to him they treated him really poorly yeah bums me out because uh that's a bummer he he went on on to do rad shit and they were they were mainly all over him because he wouldn't he had a family had little kids and stuff and they wanted him work until 2 a.m. doing crunch and he's like I'm going home at 10 see you guys later I got a family and that just put him on the radar for like you know putting them in the putting them in the shitter that's really sad because you know video game culture whatever it is what it is the just a follow up because the chat is popping off
Starting point is 01:01:34 it's Artemis was the the next novel and it had Rosario Dawson doing the reading of the book. I'm sorry, are you suggesting the chat room pops off sometimes? Is that what you're suggesting? They do. They pop off. I don't know what to do with this information. I mean, the book, I enjoyed it.
Starting point is 01:01:53 Some people really hated the book, but I enjoyed it a lot. Oh, yeah, that's true. The book got heat, didn't it? Yeah, yeah. Especially as a follow-up to The Martian, which was like an unprecedented success. Yeah. So the only other two big things I think at Hul H that people are probably going to be
Starting point is 01:02:09 interested, Smith, he's always there. Yeah. And then the one that is most interesting is Sunday morning, the only Hall-Age presentation on Sunday is the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art panel. George Lucas? With George Lucas being there. Oh.
Starting point is 01:02:24 And according to some of the... First time. Oh, really? Apparently. Even when Star Wars debuted at Comic-Con all those years ago to get people hyped up about it, apparently this is the first time that George Lucas has ever been to Comic-G. PR said. I don't know if to believe that or not,
Starting point is 01:02:42 he may have been walking around, you know, in a What if he gets up on a mic and goes, I'm here to clear up the confusion about McClunky and we'll see how that goes. No, that's cool. I mean, you know, whatever, he's luminary. I would sit in a Paul H. and listen to that guy talk, sure.
Starting point is 01:02:58 Oh, yeah, no, that might be the, really the main reason to go to that presentation and get excited about Sunday, which is usually the last day, I mean, it is the last day of the convention, but everybody is just cleared out by 11 o'clock. on Sunday. When are people
Starting point is 01:03:12 there will be less public complaining about the bathroom situation in all age this year? Because it'll be the less on Monday. Sure.
Starting point is 01:03:17 Yeah. Well, that'll be fun. Less people needing it. Yeah. I think so. That's usually what it is, right? They're all fighting for being in line.
Starting point is 01:03:25 All right, well, let's get to the Red Sonia movie. Now, I saw this trailer a few days ago, and I came away from that trailer going, this is either going to be awesome or utter garbage. I did not feel like an in-between was possible. I don't know why I got that by,
Starting point is 01:03:40 maybe it's just because it's Red Sonia or because I didn't recognize anybody in it or maybe I don't know what the reason is for this but it's either going to be like the surprise awesome action hit or it's going to be crap and I don't know Matilda Lutz from anything
Starting point is 01:03:55 The only thing that you might know her from is she was in a TV series called the Medici's Masters of Florence that ran for eight episodes I believe on Netflix. So nobody knows her from anything so nobody knows her from anything Everything else is either French, French or Italian movies. She's been in the business for about 10 years, 11 years.
Starting point is 01:04:17 Yeah. Well, she looks like a, you know, like a formidable Red Sonia. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, the interesting thing about this is you can forget everything about the Red Sonia movie that came after the Arnold Schwarzenegger Conan. Already did. Oh, yeah, most people did. This is also not the Red Sonia that you find in Marvel Comics because Dynamite currently has. has the license for that and has for like almost a decade if not more in like the first series
Starting point is 01:04:44 of the dynamite run they kind of killed off the marvel version of red sonia and created this red sonia so this is kind of like a whole new thing and so the movie is definitely if you read the dynamite comics this movie is definitely based on that character this is directed by mj bassett a female a woman director uh she's an english screenwriter director and producer she's on a lot of tv and stuff some movies but um that already makes me more interested i would love to see the red sonia story through uh female direction eyes yeah because we tend to make her she's so over sexualized in the comics like she totally is my gosh dude yeah i mean it's it's uh i'm not wearing a chain mail for protection i'm wearing it just to cover up the naughty bits and that's it yeah and i think
Starting point is 01:05:32 the trailer even makes like a quick joke about it um yeah and it's it seems like that's this is I just want to put that perspective. I don't need some slobbering dude on the camera. Right. Making a sexy hot... I wasn't... And you know, this was one of those characters because I know that, you know, Conan was not originally...
Starting point is 01:05:51 Well, no, I mean, just, you know, the character was not originally Marvel. I hadn't realized, or I wasn't sure that Red Sonia was as well. I thought, okay, well, Red So, you know, Red Sonia was one of those characters that Marvel adapted their own versions of, like, like, Dracula. She's on the books, right? Yes, and no. So in the books, Robert E. Howard wrote a character called Sonia, S-O-N-Y-A. When Marvel got a hold of it, they called her Red Sonia, S-O-N-J-A. Yeah, right?
Starting point is 01:06:22 And so he's kind of inspired. He's kind of inspired by kind of thing. But it's still a Red Sonia is owned by the Howard Estate or the people that currently own the Howard properties for that. But it is one of those weird things where it's like, yes and no. but maybe, but kind of, but just kind of forget about it and just, you know, get in, get in the car and go for a ride. So, chat reminds me, I forgot about this, but there was a wonderful run with Gail Simone on that book. Yeah, she ran it for a couple of years. Do you know if any of this is based on her run or?
Starting point is 01:06:53 I don't think it is. I mean, she has not been very vocal about it online because she would be, you know, she would be like, oh, I've seen a preview of this and it's really good and it's using these kinds of things. So I haven't seen her, her say anything about that on her socials. Now, she might have, but this, and I can't even find a synopsis of what's going on here. But if you read, like, the WikiP page, Robert Cheahan plays Dragan the Magnificent. Maybe go and look and see if that is. The description on 9-DB is really loose right now. It says, an adaptation of the comic book, Red Sonia, a vengeful warrior known as she-devil with a sword.
Starting point is 01:07:29 That's as far as they've got. And that's probably it. And the thing is, how many have you ever heard about this? The movie opens in August. Yeah. Yeah, it's coming up, baby. August 15th, we are less than a month away from the open. As I'm saying, this is either going to be like this incredible out-of-now-where sleeper hit or trash.
Starting point is 01:07:48 Yeah. So there was a, you guys remember right as soon as COVID was hitting. Yeah. The Bloodshot movie came out with a Ben Diesel. Oh, yeah. That was actually a really good movie, but it also pretty much tanked the publisher. Oh, really? Pretty, very close to it.
Starting point is 01:08:03 We need to entertain. That's one I didn't see. We should sack that, Brian. We should definitely sack the hell out of that thing. Put it in the sack and sack it. That's what we should do. So I didn't realize Robert Sheehan was in this from Umbrella Academy. He's close.
Starting point is 01:08:18 Yeah, I like him. He's great. Robert Sheehan. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I like him. Oh, yeah, he's great. I bet this movie starts off with Sonia learning the secret of steel and being told how Krom
Starting point is 01:08:31 gave everyone the secret of steel. It actually starts with her. Then a two-headed snake comes in and, you know, kills the whole. family. I was going to say, it starts with her in an alley behind a movie theater and a burglar comes up and Oh my gosh, Rona
Starting point is 01:08:46 Mitra's in it from some of those underworld movies and Tomb Raider too. And Tomb Raider as well, but my favorite thing about this is she was in Underworld Rise of the Likens, kind of a bad movie, but she played Sonia in that. So, oh no, what are you going to do?
Starting point is 01:09:02 We're crossing the streams. Anyway, well, all right, we'll see how that goes. I don't know. And is there anything happening at Comic Con around this that's like exciting or, you know? I mean, they're going to have a panel and apparently the actress is going to be there as well as some of the props. Yeah. This is not taking place in Hall H. This is actually outside of the Hall H presentations, if anybody's interested, look for stuff coming out of the ballrooms, especially Ballroom 20 because that's where kind of the, I don't want to say lesser media because that's kind of disingenuous.
Starting point is 01:09:32 Yeah. But it's where some of the smaller companies can get, you know, 500 people to come in and sit or. a thousand people coming in and sit. And that's where you're going to see some other media presentations. But I don't think you're going to have anything as large as a Hall H. extravaganza with this movie. Sure. Now, I speak for all the Brian
Starting point is 01:09:50 of it. It's in the world when I say, what's going on with Spider-Man Beyond the Spider-Verse. Oh, God, Brian. I know. This is heartbreaking. So listen, the time between the very first Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse movie and Spider-Man across the
Starting point is 01:10:06 across the spider's across the spider's yeah enter across yeah whatever um was five years was five years between the first two movies geez sure sure
Starting point is 01:10:16 it's only going to be four years between movies oh really yeah it's different when you give us a cliffhanger ending you know yes very much so all of a sudden that that gap feels so much longer yeah and it's going to be a little bit longer
Starting point is 01:10:30 because Sony said hey remember when we said we were going to release us the third Spider-Man movie on June 4th. Well, we lied. We're going to move it to June 25th. Liars. 2027. So you still got a little bit of time. Here's my prediction. We really want to get another
Starting point is 01:10:46 K-pop Demon Hunter movie out. That would be great, right? Apparently, so apparently K-pop Demon Hunter, the original cut was three hours long and Netflix cut them down to an hour and a half. Oh my gosh. Wow. So they could...
Starting point is 01:10:58 Which means eventually we're going to get the... Oh, I guess they probably haven't done all the animation for the three hours. It was like an original three-hour cut. Oh, it was. So it has been, it was animated and everything. I guarantee it. You know what?
Starting point is 01:11:11 You'll look forward to, Brian's one of those, like, the hateful eight extended four-hour, like, mini-series version of that. They'll do that with this. Apparently, it goes more into the mother's romance with the demon. Spoiler alert, everybody. There's a mother, there's a demon. There's a romance.
Starting point is 01:11:24 You know, they have the S.E. thing. Yeah. So the reason, the main reason why they're moving it back isn't K-Poc demon hunters, which is fun and it's enjoyable, and I like the music. it's because they want to get more kids into the theaters and they're afraid that if they release it on June 4th that too many kids are still in schools they're only going to get 65%
Starting point is 01:11:43 of schools are on summer vacation they'd rather wait until June 25th 100% of the schools are on vacation so they can pack the kids in yeah it's a short it's a short shift it's not like an MCU we've decided to move it from November 27 to March 2028
Starting point is 01:12:01 like months so not nearly as So just kind of keep this in mind. When the very first movie came out, my youngest son, 2013, he would have been like six or seven. I want to say, probably bad parenting here. But by the time this movie hits theaters, he's going to be a junior in high school. Yeah. So, you know, it's... When the first one he came out, Tristan was just getting his driver's license.
Starting point is 01:12:28 When the new one comes out, yeah, he's already been married for a couple years. Yeah, this is the... trouble they this is the trouble to get in you know they they want to make whatever i want the best trilogy possible like anyone else does but well and i don't know at least it's animated so you don't have to worry about the the actors aging out like those stranger things kids who i think in the new season are going to be uh one of them is going to be struggling with social security and uh sure feels like it have you looked have you looked at the run times of each of those episodes no no they're like almost full on full length movies really each one
Starting point is 01:13:03 Is it, so it's three full-length, like it's a Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's, right? I believe. Yeah, roughly release dates. Yeah, yeah, all right. So it's an, I just thought it was going to be a bunch of small episodes. Well, they are shorter episodes, but I think they're long. Somebody is pointing out that, like, every episode is over an hour long, and almost an hour and a half long. Okay.
Starting point is 01:13:21 So eight, one and a half hour, and I think the finale is like two and a half hours or something. Wow. We were just talking. We just did a, this is for future, but next week we release a roundtable discussion made on film. I'm talking about this very idea of what makes a, uh, kind of an extended film out of your... Like, what really is an extended movie that's presented as a limited series?
Starting point is 01:13:42 Yeah, and when you do them all at an hour and a half each, you're basically making nine movies. Yeah. At the end of the day, the day. Did Scorsesey direct these last Stranger Things episodes? My gosh. Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 01:13:55 So the creators have said that they're not going to be longer than you, but the final will exceed two hours, but they're going to make it as long as they possible. Stephen, before you go, I got an email from somebody named Justin. He lives in Maryland. I think we've heard from him before. He says, what's up, Superman and Batman? This question is probably better for an episode when you have Stephen on.
Starting point is 01:14:13 He says, I read and collected comics as a kid and just recently started to pick my hobby back up. I've always been kind of a lost or always been lost and confused about which order to read them in when the characters have thousands of issues and multiple different arcs. Do you all know of a good resource that will help me map out suggested reading orders for the, the different characters. I have to find myself at a comic shop overwhelmed by the choices and can't figure out where to start. So what do we tell, Justin? What do you want to... Well, first of all, we all have issues.
Starting point is 01:14:42 Yeah. Second thing I would say is it kind of depends on what you're into. Like Marvel, good luck. Jump in. Yeah. Open up Wikipedia. Just jump in. Pick a storyline.
Starting point is 01:14:55 Rather than a series, pick a storyline and read the issues from that storyline. Yeah, and you're going to be confused. Now, the nice thing about Marvel is, is they relaunch or reboot the series like every 12 to 24 months, just depending on who the creator is
Starting point is 01:15:10 and sales and those kinds of things. Like last year, about a year and a half ago, the X-Men relaunched with a whole new post-Kercoa era. And so you've got a bunch of different X-titles that you can spin off of that. So if you're into X-Men, I would just start with X-Men,
Starting point is 01:15:24 number one, maybe go and read the Gail Simone Rogue series. I forget which series she's running. But those have been highly, well-regarded. Spider-Man, you just kind of have to jump into the amazing Spider-Man and Reed. Same way with the Avengers, if you're going to do any of that, just get into one of those new events. Right now, we're at a bad time because we're right in the middle of Doom. What's the, what's the event? Basically, Doom has taken over the world with his
Starting point is 01:15:52 magic and science. That will wrap up, I want to say in October, November. Planet Doom or no, what is it? No, it's, um, Dume's Dynasty or something like that. That's it, yeah. And then immediately after that, the X titles are going to jump like 10 years into the future, and they're going to revisit the age of apocalypse, but this time it is the age of, what was Apocalypse's son's name? Dark Aucalypse. I have no idea. Yes, dark oculates. But basically they're going to follow that storyline of him trying to pick up from his father's destiny or whatever.
Starting point is 01:16:28 So Apocalypse, Jr. Yes. so that's that's kind of going on with those three main titles but spider man just jump in any time and there's within six issues uh they'll start a new story uh arc and you'll be able to pick up what's going on with that over on the dc side kind of the same thing superman batman about every six issues they'll have a new six to twelve issues they'll have a new story arc for you to get in on and then you'll be able to catch up on what's going on all the back matter stuff you can always fill in on wikipedia um Now, if you're wanting to get into things like, oh, I've heard Invincible is really good, and I've watched the TV series. Just go back and get the first issue. Well, don't get the first issue because it's way too expensive. Yeah. But go get the first crafty novel.
Starting point is 01:17:11 Yeah, the trades are good. And they're great, and you'll blow through them very, very quickly. If you're a fan of Hellboy, Hellboy jumps around back and forth all across time, just depending on when Mike Minnola wants to tell a story. There is a former website, I'm going to have to look this up, um, that used to have, a reading order for help oh see that's why i was going to ask you because we do this for like uh doctor who has this right where people are like oh here's the order and jump around i'm fine so that when you have enough of content it seems like there is somebody somewhere's got like one of these reading orders this is an unofficial i mean this an unofficial thing although dark
Starting point is 01:17:51 horse was very much supportive of it um multiversity comics is still up there although they don't update anymore they shut down about a year and a half ago um but just do it search for the hell boy reading order at multiversity and they have basically broken it down saying hey here's the order that you should read these books and stories in to where it makes a chronological sense in the story if that's if that's important to you yeah so you can definitely do that as well the mcnola read or something yeah yeah all right um other than that though I guess the biggest thing and Brian maybe you have a different advice is I think just pick it up pick up a series start reading it if and then fill in the
Starting point is 01:18:30 back matter with Wikipedia or reviews that we've done over at Major Spoilers or the Major Spoilers podcast, that's probably a good place. Yeah, I mean, that's start with like a limited series or something short. And usually in the front of those, the first page, the splash page will begin with a, this character was, you know,
Starting point is 01:18:50 picked up the sword and held it aloft and shoved it down into a rock and became the man known as Apocalypse Jr. And so, hey, that is the great thing about the Marvel comics that I wish more publishers would do inside every front cover it tells you previously in amazing spider-man does happen you don't need to know anything else that is the right i love marvel for that you can read it in a stanley voice if you want he held up his sword aloft and shook it in the air yeah but they've been doing that since forever ago right since the 60s or 70s yeah i wonder i was making you wonder
Starting point is 01:19:23 why i know they know there's some like examples you could pull out where they do do this but i was always surprised that DC didn't adopt a similar recap. They sometimes do and sometimes do. And that's frustrating because I think that is the thing that if you are a long time company like DC, like Marvel, where you have characters that are going to
Starting point is 01:19:41 be pushing 80 years old, Superman's 80, right? That you do need something like that to attract the new reader so that you're not intimidated, which is why Marvel does the whole relaunch with the new number ones and they'll say, hey, this happens after the COA era or whatever. And you're like, well,
Starting point is 01:19:57 what is that all about. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, so hopefully that helps. I hope that helps. Yeah, let us know. We appreciate, obviously, all the advice that Stephen can give us. And we also appreciate his website, major spoilers.com, where you will find news like we've talked about today, as well as amazing sets of podcasts and other cool stuff. Stephen, what's going on that you would like to tell the people about?
Starting point is 01:20:20 Well, if you are a fan of us playing board games, it's been a bad, literally has been six years. I've had these games sitting on my heart. hard drive for six years. We recorded them prior to COVID. And then some things happened here at the house with some water issues. And so we had to stop recording. Those things sat on my hard drive for six years. I'm finally re-editing and uploading our Arkham Horror Living Card games up onto our YouTube channel, major spoilers video. And so the most recent two episodes four and five of nine have appeared. So people are like, what? It's been like, Five years since you last played this game. Where's this been sitting? It's just been, it's on my hard drive. I just never got around to it. And I was cleaning things out.
Starting point is 01:21:05 And I was like, oh, my gosh, out of the 18 terabytes of hard drives, here's stuff that we never released. That's great. Look at this. You went into the vault and found some secrety business. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So get that out there. Stephen, is there anything I should be worried about when it comes to the heat and my body? Seriously, if you're going to conventions or you're going out in the heat this summer, you definitely need to stay.
Starting point is 01:21:25 Oh, well, shit. We will then. Bye. all right there you have it there's that by the way speaking of DC I drew a Superman oh I like that nice look at his chin you know I may have gone a little hard on the the crotch there wow no kidding you zoom in a bit when I had my body 3D scanned at a fan expo years ago yeah that was one of the great moments ever but yeah I gave him as a little curl and then a large codpiece for some reason
Starting point is 01:21:54 bulging Kryptonian and large front big toes or at least one. Yeah, it's almost like socks. He's wearing socks kind of even though
Starting point is 01:22:03 that's a dumb idea. Anyway, I'm going to do a, I think I'm going to do a bunch of Justice League folk. I'm just in the mood. So it might be a set
Starting point is 01:22:10 of these coming out soon, everybody. Watch for these. Very cool. A quick voicemail from Joe in Canada. He says, oh,
Starting point is 01:22:17 I haven't done that in a while. Canada. Here's what Joe says. Hello, Solo, and Boba on episode 285. You guys were talking about mnemonics and how great they are
Starting point is 01:22:28 from memory. Yet the mnemonic Brian said, Every good boy deserves fudge. What she said was for guitar notes or guitar strings. It's actually for reading sheet music of a piano. But the guitar strings are Eddie ate dynamite. Goodbye Eddie.
Starting point is 01:22:45 So it does work. It just wasn't good for the memory. Peace out. I have never heard that. Eddie ate dynamite. Goodbye, Eddie. That's great. Yeah, that's right. That's from reading, it's the lines in sheet music.
Starting point is 01:22:59 That's wild. I didn't know. Well, I didn't know either of those things. I thought it was guitars. And then the guitar one is brand new to me. It's even, I haven't heard that one either. That's great. That's really good. Well, thank you there, Joe, in Canada. And may all your days be filled with free health care. And thank you for reminding us why some people choose to use the AI voice. Yeah, that's right. Some people have bad speaker phones. All right. Hey, Monday show today at 1pm, me and Carter doing our thing, so check that out. Today you'll also get a daily music headlines.
Starting point is 01:23:29 Brian, what's going on in there? Yeah, some exciting news. How did Metallica help the Tomorrowland concert in Belgium find out? They didn't perform there, but they were very well represented at the Tomorrowland. They helped save the concert, basically. Find out about that. Also, you remember when Beyonce had her little deal where a convertible, prop, like a prop that looked like a convertible car had its problem while she was hovering over
Starting point is 01:23:57 the stage a few weeks ago? Oh yeah. And then is this the Katie Perry thing? Katie Perry, yeah, was on a butterfly that did a similar thing. I heard a great joke about this how she was supposed to die in the Jeff Bezos rocket trip and that she cheated death. This is like the final destination. Yeah. And she's having final destination scenes happen to her now. Oh my God. Great. Kind of dark. out gale yeah the left shark already died i mean there's all kinds of stuff going on so that's really funny um so that's on uh daily music headlines go check it out at daily music headlines dot go subscribe super easy great show too do we uh we do we have a throwback uh mash up oh you know what glad you said that or i'd have gotten some texts from jamie i may have already gotten a couple
Starting point is 01:24:46 yeah i didn't get into here well maybe you did oh take it back there we go all right Yeah, you know what? There's a TMS Origins mashup in here. Ooh, Origins. I'm just going to pretend I knew about it. I tricked you all. You got to hear a mashup now. Little did you know.
Starting point is 01:25:01 Anyway, here it is. Let's play it. Steve writes in, says, Hello, never feel less of a man. Oh, we've got a lot of this, by the way. Okay. From special forces, people who are many people who serve in the armed forces, of various types and various things that serve specifically in special forces units,
Starting point is 01:25:19 who listen to the show, Love the show and are chiding me for thinking I'm any less of a dude because I couldn't be like one of those guys. So here's one of them. Never feel less of a man when you watch a documentary about Special Forces soldiers. As an Iraq veteran, we do what we do for you because it is what we are good at. At the end of the day, when we are all laying in our bunks, exhausted, listening to our iPods, we need you to do what you do because you're good at that. Love the show, though.
Starting point is 01:25:44 Steve. Love the show though. The though part, man. I'm loving that. That's great. That Twitter guy probably has no idea. Right. Thanks, Steve.
Starting point is 01:25:55 Oh, that's nice. Just like a little short little memory. The origin of love the show, though. That's great. Like, I forgot that that came from a message like that. No, I have no memory of where that can. Honestly, you could have, Brian, you got to put a gun to my head and said, Scott, tell me right now. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:26:12 Where do we, where did that origin from? I don't know. It's probably, the only reason we remember I can definitely see why you like it is because we have the audio of the woman saying that in that 30-second film fest clip yeah oh yeah right yeah that one is easy because we have some of those we can point to but that one yeah uh nice throwback there jamie yeah thanks dude rufus t-cat says was scott five what do you mean was i five was you sound your voice just sounds so young there compared to now oh is it gone am i lower now than i was in 2012 yeah that happens you know yeah it happens my balls dropped what are you gonna do it's so good i'm so
Starting point is 01:26:44 happy and we heard it actually live on the show yeah tink a little tink sound it was great All right. That's going to do it, everybody. Frogpants.com slash TV for all your neat. TV slash TMS. Where I got that from? Is where all your stuff is. You can contact us there, send us those voicemails,
Starting point is 01:27:00 all that fun stuff. It's all linked there. Frogpants.com slash TMS. You can even request songs, which I think we're going to do right now. Brian, who's got a request? We are. This one is going out to Anonymous.
Starting point is 01:27:09 And I want to right now give Anonymous just a big virtual hug. And just tell them, I hope you are doing okay. out to me let me know you're doing okay um anonymous says hi scott and brian this is anonymous again the last time i requested a song was almost two years ago it was for a tribute to my soon-to-be wife following a whirlwind romance sadly the whirlwind turned out to be a tornado of destruction by what i found out was the talented mrs rippley almost everything i knew about her was a lie and my life got dismantled i was able to escape fairly quickly but i haven't really gotten my life
Starting point is 01:27:47 rebuilt sins and to add to it the rock of stability my dog brillo crossed over last week for the past year and a half it's felt like i went from treading water in life to trading quicksand i know what i told myself that i should do when she finally passed but i don't even have the motivation to get affairs in order and follow through with that which is a good thing i know that in my head but i have trouble believing it my heart just wanted to give some background on the why for the somber request keep flying the tadpool flag and being a beacon of humor and hope for everyone listening we will and that sucks and i feel really bad about your dog but i'm also glad you get out of that relationship yes for sure and um yeah big virtual hugs not just from the two of us but from the whole tadpool sending you the sending you the vibes um the song is uh by the walker brothers it's called the sun ain't going to shine
Starting point is 01:28:37 anymore and and you know it's it's one of those songs from the 60s i believe the 60s um originally by frankie valley but uh the walker brothers actually had the big hit with it the version you know is by the walker brothers this cover though is by one of my favorite bands i talked about them a little bit ago. Keene, this was a single that they released in 2004, and here it is, the sun ain't going to shine anymore. Loneliness is a cloak you wear A deep shade of blue It's always there
Starting point is 01:29:47 The sun ain't going to shine anymore The moon ain't going to rise in the sky, The tears are always Caird in your eyes When you're without Love Baby You know
Starting point is 01:30:11 And Antinette Is a place Is a place you're in With nothing to lose But no more to win The sun ain't gonna shine anymore The moon are gonna rise in the sky
Starting point is 01:30:45 The tears are all this cloud in your eyes When you're without Lonely Without you, without you, baby Girl, I need you I can't go on The sun ain't gonna shine anymore The moon
Starting point is 01:31:20 Ain't gonna rise in the sky The chairs are always Clown in your eyes When you're without Oh Baby The sun ain't gonna shine You ain't gonna shine
Starting point is 01:31:41 In the moon ain't gonna rise In the sky The children are always crying in your eyes When you're with us in the sun isn't going to rise The moon ain't going to rise in the sky The sun is always crying in your eyes When you're without Oh, baby,
Starting point is 01:32:25 Oh, my goodness gracious, these shows are so contagious. Find more goodies at frogpans.com. I do not wish to be embarrassed by scandal.

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