The Morning Stream - TMS 2868: Notoriously Dead

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

It was written for us, ya Buttholes! The Artist Formerly Known As A Free Baller. Rec-hair-mentals with Brian. THE WORST MOVIE I EVER SEE. Shard of Guitar. Being dead helps. Popped Out On A Segway. It needs some real ass vocals and reverb. ONLY a half million dollars. Went Full Banana. Still dong. Isn't there a townscaping game called town something? I like grinding my bean. POV: You're Using POV Wrong! Check Your Acorns with Dan and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TMS is the pause that refreshes, or maybe it tastes like the rainbow, or maybe like a good neighbor, TMS is there. Maybe it's none of those things. Maybe it's just going to patreon.com slash TMS and supporting this short. So, coming up on the morning stream, it was written for us, you buttholes. The artist formerly known as Freeballer. Reck Hair Mentals with Brian. The worst movie I ever see. Shard of guitar.

Being dead helps. Popped out on a segue. It needs some real-ass vocals and reverb. Only half a million dollars. Went full banana. Still dung. Isn't there a townscaping game called town something? I like grinding my bee.

P-O-V. You're using POV wrong. Check your acorns with Dan and more on this episode of the morning stream. Sweet. When this mother hired a summer girl to help with the kids, She had no way of knowing how the girl would react to her handsome husband, but she never expected it could possibly go this far. Even in X-Men, they knew not to put Magneto in a metal prison. The Morning Stream! The Morning Stream! Am I still here? Hello?

Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Tuesday, August 12th, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Hi, Brian. Yeller. I noticed something yesterday. I got a takedown notice from YouTube who thinks that the song that we're playing back here, this.

Mm-hmm. Right here. They think that that's a copyrighted violation, copyright violation. That was made for us by Rob Gebers or Gabers, Gebers. In this case, no, is Eric Van Skyhawk? Oh, Skyhawk did this one. But either way, he made it for us. You're absolutely right.

It's like an original. We didn't borrow this from anybody. It's not like we don't have permission. Literally, it doesn't exist except for us. So I had to do a whole rigmarole. And it's all fine now, but it was annoying as hell. Because that could wipe out so much content. It would wipe out the show for years.

Yeah. Years of content on YouTube would be gone. So, or at least I'd have to, I don't know, They just demonetize the whole thing. But sometimes they block in certain territories and stuff like that. So it's really annoying. I think it's just robots. And I did the appeal and it came back and it said,

Ha, you're right. It's all good. You go ahead and have that song. And I'm like, yeah, it was written for us, you buttholes. Exactly. Do we need to preemptively give them a bow's guitar song and the morning stream? Yeah, every other thing that we play here now is suspect. Okay.

We need the bow intro sometime this. week let's let's you know throw the sprinkle that one in uh we can squeeze it in we'll put it in tomorrow why not that one it's been a while it has been a while i might even do the one with the lyrics remember he did that with lyrics all right yes since we heard him at the top of the show talking about magneto yeah as well it's a horrifying thing the lyrics though it's not like no really i've forgotten the lyric i've completely forgotten that there were lyrics it's really you know what we should preview it let's just preview it all right why not um it's right it's right here i think hold on where where where where would i put that it should be oh okay let's see

bow intro that should give it to me and it's harder to find than i thought so maybe we don't have it okay maybe we don't preview we'll listen to it tomorrow oh maybe this is it all the way in the version without it? Where's the version with it? We're not hearing whatever you're, if you are playing. Oh, you don't hear that. Sorry, everybody. It's this. That's the version with the lyrics taken out.

Gotcha. I'll have to find it. Anyway, when I do, we'll play it tomorrow. Oh, here it is. I found it. Okay. They found it. Oh, they heard it. I didn't. Okay. So that was the deal. It was routed to them, but, uh, I don't have it sending to you, which I need to fix that. But anyway, here we go. So we never play this part, so you never hear it. It's the morning stream.

Almost every date Scott and Brian. They're going to talk about a lot of things with really cool people. And it came in. It's the morning stream. Lights of audio data. Sprinkle into your ears. Hold on tight because you're really going to love. There you go.

I'm sure I've heard that before, but my God, I love that. It feels like I'm hearing it for the first time again right now. I love it. Yeah, put that in your pipe and smoke it. If we got some like real ass vocals on there, we have him do it with like a, you know, where it's mixed in better. Throw a little, little tiny bit of reverb and just some,

some punch. I think that thing would be, that would be great. Yeah, that's not bad. I mean, I don't know if I want to play the whole thing every day, but I would, you know, occasionally. Once in a while. Yeah, here and there. I'm glad you thought of that.

That's pretty good. Well, Bo, if you're listening, congratulations. We've resurfaced your work. And we're all enjoying it. Brian, you saw a thing you'd like to recommendal today. I did, since I didn't go to the movie theaters and watch the naked gun because of my illness. we did stay home and watch something else. And as I get Tina ever closer to making it to the theater to go watch weapons,

we watched a lot of horror, comedy horror, and just thriller horror this last weekend. And this one I feel is getting mislabeled as a horror film. it is it's a thriller yeah all right well here's the film is called presence

this is this is one where I don't have a a clip to play so we can do all right well let's do the clip and I'll tease what it is but the film is called presence and this is the new Steven Soderberg deal just came out last year but is now on streaming actually I guess it was a Sundance last year

and then finally got released in theaters this year and just went to Hulu and has got reviews that tell me that people went into this thinking that it was something that it's not, especially if you look at some of those reviews. The critics like it, 88%. But the audience is like, I don't know what I'm watching. This is a very scary horror film. But it is a very clever concept where you are watching the insides of a house from the perspective, from the POV. and listen people, a lot of you

weren't using POV right, and I don't mean the people in this, in this in our TMS audience, but people on YouTube and TikTok and reels and stuff like that. POV means you're looking at it from the point of view of the person, not looking at the thing that you're describing.

Oh, is that our, I didn't realize people were conflating that. Oh my gosh. Yeah, POV is point of view. This is the point of of you of somebody who just woke up late for school and it should be from the kid up the ceiling right not not looking at a kid going oh i'm late see that seems obvious to me but it does to me too i guess other people are weird people use pov like it is here is a video

all right uh anyway so the uh the film is takes place from the pov of a presence that lives in the house as it's being sold, as it's being moved into by a family that is Lucy Lou, Chris Sullivan, who people might know from This Is Us, Kaliana Lang, Julia Fox, Eddie Mede, but Lucy Lou is probably the most recognizable person in the... I feel like I haven't seen her in a bit, Hot Minute, doing anything. Yeah, I think basically it's like, ooh, those Charlie's Angels films didn't do very well. I guess I'm going to take a break for a little while. I guess so, yeah.

Did Kill Bill come after before all that? Yeah, after, after. Okay, I can never remember. I think Kill Bill is probably the last big thing. But anyway, so it is, because you're dealing with a ghost, because you're dealing with a presence in this house, you might immediately just assume that this is a horror film. And there are moments that'll make the hair on your arms kind of stand up. But it's not a, somebody's getting slashed or, or their neck broken or things like that as part of it. So not your typical.

Not your typical haunted house or ghost in a house movie. Great. Yeah. Those things usually end with some kind of violence or at least have some connection to, which is why I don't like most haunted house movies because most of them don't follow any rules. They don't. Exactly. Yes.

that you know there's there's a scene i won't i won't obviously spoil it for anybody but there is a couple moments of violence or at least tension and one moment of violence um there's a trigger warning for sexual assault i'll just let people know right now um uh disturbing not even not even I guess it's implied, or an implied attempt. I'll just leave it at that. Sure. But it is, I don't know, I found it really good. A very clever thinking thriller film that we really enjoyed.

And I do recommend it. It is on Hulu. And it should make the hair on your arms stand up. That's its goal and it does it very well. Okay, that's good. I don't usually like haunted house movies because they forget the point of a haunted house, which is to do what you just described. Right.

It is a little weird, though, to see such raving critic reviews, and then the audience reviews are in that shitter. Yeah. I don't know why. Like I said, I think people went into this thinking it was going to be much more horrific than it was. But, um... Yeah, a lot of like overhyped, under-delivered concept of the spirit POV is so cool. I had so much potential.

It would have been great if most of the movie wasn't boring. Yeah, they went in expecting more of a thrill ride, I guess. Exactly. And there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of talking. There's a lot of setup. But there's never a moment where you're feeling like, well, this whole thing could have been edited out. It's, yeah, David Kapp wrote it. Thanks, Monica.

Good, good pull there. This guy, my favorite review is, is the worst movie that I ever see very poor. They really went hard on their, you know. in thoughtful review that they wrote here exactly i like how every every movie has somebody who says this is the worst thing i've ever seen okay really is it really the worst thing you've ever seen well look all you need to do is spend five minutes with anything we've seen on film sac not anything but many of our film sac movies i'll make it do them i feel like i think that holds the record now i think it does it took it over from whatever the jean claude van dam thing that we saw very

early on. Terrible. Yeah. Absolutely. You're not Ben, Dan. You're thinking of the other guy. Yes. I must break you.

Yes. Why can't we think of his name? Oh my gosh. Dolph Lundgren, geez. Thank you. Dolph. I knew it would come. It just was a matter of time.

All right, you guys. There you go. Good review. Go check it out. Available on Hulu. At least as long as. The monkey and death the unicorn and um well i watched the monkey we'll talk about that uh i'll talk about that on a future

episode sometimes sounds good here's the news it's time for us to tackle the news today and it's brought to you by brought to you by daily music headlines find out about uh eddie van halen's guitar you know the one the red one with the white stripes that one is going up for auction it's expected to bring in two to three million dollars find out all about that on daily music headlines at Daily Music Headlines.com. Damn, that's, I mean, that guitar is pretty famous. It is iconic, yeah, that thing. What do, like, I'm sure we have some other records on,

or something on the record about the most expensive guitar ever sold. I wonder if that's like a, I'm going to guess it's either like Elvis or the Beatles. Probably, like, one of Paul's left-handed, Rickenbocker deals. Jimmy Hendricks, maybe. Sometimes death makes your stuff worth more money. I mean, does Jimmy Hendrix, did he ever leave a guitar unburnt or smashed? It's a good point, right? Dude, I'd love just like a shard of it, you know?

Oh, me too. Yeah. Just like a piece of it just that flew off somewhere at a show at Madison Square Garden. That'd be amazing. The most expensive guitar was sold at auction is Kurt Cobain's 1959 Martin D-18 E acoustic, which fetched $6 million and $6,000, $10,000 at Julian's auctions in June 2020. damn it's the one he played uh uh during uh unplug unplug unplugged mtv unplugged yeah that was a hell of a thing yeah yeah yeah i get it he's dead too that helps that helps he's notorious notoriously

dead which i think helps a lot hendricks probably would get pretty good money for his if he didn't break him all the time i'm yeah right that'd be another one exactly yes i was kidding dr calhoun He only burned a couple of guitars, Woodstock, and then another one later on. It was a joke, Dr. Callaghan. It was a joke. It might even be better to have one of his guitars that wasn't burned because you know he had backups. Sure. But I still, personally, as the big music collector I am, I just want the shard.

Prince's Super Bowl guitar, that one that was his symbol. Yeah. That would be the one I'd want right there. That's still, is that a thing that has ever been up for auction? I don't know if it's ever been up for auction. That's probably sitting in the Paisley Park Museum, but... Oh, yeah. They keep all that shit there, I would think.

Yeah, I would think so. Can I visit that? If I go to Minnesota, can I go through there? I think so. Yeah, I think you can go through. Oh, I take that out. Look at this. Prince's guitar, his Super Bowl guitar, was auctioned off for $563,000 and $500.

Like, it's a deal. Only half a million dollars compared to, yeah, compared to the other ones, man. said is a steel. And this was the symbol one that looked like the thing. This was a yellow one that had, I thought he played the symbol one at Super Bowl. I was incorrect. So Savior well actually is I just well actually myself.

Yeah, close Discord, you guys. You don't have to go write this up. It is the custom, it was one with a cool little scoopy neck. I'm going to copy the image and give it to you in our Discord if you want to share it, but that's what it looks like. Here, let's take a look here. That's a very cool. Like the neck is really cool, too.

Oh, yeah. I forgot about all the yellow that day. Yeah, a little flare and then the... It's funny. I just assumed he's always in the purple. I just, that's just where my head's at. I know, yeah. Yeah, we have full banana on this one.

Yellow rain is a whole different thing and something I wouldn't recommend seeing somebody bathing in the yellow rain. I feel like that part of the guitar over here is trying to touch. me in places. I don't want it to. You know what I mean? Well, you feel's really cool. I wonder if the outfit with the buttons and the way his, his, like his outfit mirrors that guitar.

Oh, yeah. The whole thing flows real good. It's very clever. I don't know which one came first, but it, uh, if, if they were separate, uh, and just work together perfectly, as perfectly as they do, that's amazing. I'll bet he has purple underwear on. I bet he does. I bet he always did, yeah.

You think he, I think he rocked. Do you think Prince wore underwear? I don't think Prince wore underwear. Oh. I think that he. This is a weird question. That's covering the hard-hitting questions. Yeah, this is important stuff.

We've got to get to the bottom of it. Yeah. Now, you know what, Natty's said? I don't think he did either. I think he was free-balling it in his entire career. I mean, come on. It was songs like Dirty Mind and Erotic city and

is dirty mind the matter in a hotel lobby that thing? No, that's darling Nikki. Oh, right. Dirty mine is just, yeah, dirty mine. I think I got a dirty and mine. I definitely think he does.

Yeah. I'm going to go ahead and say, yes. You are a dirty, dirty boy. Or you were. Anyway. Anyway, back to the story here. A man was arrested after lighting a cigarette using a French war memorial

flame. Oh my God. Wow. There's a video of this floating around. I don't know if I have it, but this is pretty gnarly. In France, the interior minister, Bruno Retaliio. Sure. French listeners are going to have to

Retali. Yeah, give us a well actually on that, I guess. Sure. Said a man was arrested on Tuesday for violating a burial site tomb, uh, urn or monument erected in memory of the dead on Monday. He was taken into custody and admitted to the facts. says retaliate as he should if there's video especially it's like yeah that's rude it's so rude

that's terrible why would you do this yeah it's a tic-tock video of a man now this isn't him taking the video somebody else got it sure um so he wasn't doing this as a video stuff wasn't doing it for the likes and subscribes the best we can tell says a video of the man stooping and lighting his cigarette from the flame of the tomb is widely shared on social media uh let's see I was trying to conserve butane. Assuming he was French. Why can I not use it? He looked a little French.

Not that I, I'm not saying you can just tell who looks French, but he looked French to me. I was assuming he was French, but obviously it could have been a tourist doing it. Yeah, the TikTok video is from a tourist. Who knows about the guy? It says, but the- Was he wearing a meme outfit? Because I think that's the dead giveaway that he's French. That would have been amazing.

cannot ridicule French remembrance and get away with it, says Patricia Mary Alice, Minister of Veterans and Remembrance posted on social media. This is an insult to our dead, to our history, to our nation. National Rally MP Katrina Levisu, who shared the video of the incident wrote, The Flame is not just a symbol of remembrance. It embodies the sacrifice with those gave their lives for our freedom to desecrate it in this way is to trample and on respect and honor.

Yeah, he's in trouble. He'll get fined up the wazoo. He'll have to pay a lot of formerly francs now Euros. He'll have euros to pay for a good while now. I wish it was still Franks. That was a great name for you money. I know. I'm not saying everybody, I'm not saying

the European Union's a bad idea. I actually think it is a good idea. Yeah. In a lot of ways, I know what's complicated, but Franks was great. It was great. Yeah, some French francs. Yeah, how many francs is that? Franks, whatever. That's great. It's boring to say euros. Eros, yeah.

What do the Germans have? Deutsch Marx? That's cool, too. Yeah, yeah. Who's Dong? Is it Vietnam has Dong? That's still, still Dong. I think Vietnam.

Vietnam has dong. Keep Dong. Never lose the Dong. Japan's got their yen. Yen's cool, just too many of them. Yeah. We covered that yesterday. The number, the yen numbers are too high.

Yeah, figure out a way to compress that down, guys. It's not that hard. Yeah. Just do the math. You know, all you have to do is say, well, currently, one yen is this. We'll now say that one yen equals 10,000 previous yen. Right. Then you're done.

Yeah. Because everything's already costing 100,000 yen. They have to give it a new name. I disagree. I think that they can't just arbitrarily on January 1st say, okay, now one yen equals what used to be 1,000 yen. Because there's so many places where they have to change. manually change prices and things like that. I think you've got to you've got to create a, some sort of, like I said yesterday,

mega yen where it's at least implies that it's a thousand yen. Yeah, you know, it's fair point. But then they get rid of the yen. It's like getting rid of pennies. Seriously, come on. Aren't we? I think we stopped printing them, right? Isn't that the deal?

It's like the only thing I agree with with the current administration was stopping, stopping printing pennies. We're going to stop printing pennies. Yeah, no more pennies. bills, queer $2 bills. We don't like the queer $2 bills. He wouldn't think they were queer. But I will tell you this. We don't think this guy

is. Here's a dangent for him. Be careful. May cause drowsiness. Here's a tangent for him. Oh, why is it on repeat? I don't know why that happened. Sorry there, Dan. Dan, you were on repeat. Hi, Dan. How are you? Greetings programs. Hey, man. Good. Hopefully the audio sounds okay. Yeah, you sound great. You sound terrific.

last time was a little weird, but we got you this time, man. Awesome. Well, I missed you guys. Hope everything's been going good. Hope your dongers are going okay and your yen is okay. Yeah, our yen and our dongs. Both things are going fine. Thank you. Hey, are you all recovered from Jen Con? How'd that go this year? It was really good. It was quite nuts because what I go to Jen Con, you know, I usually what we used to do would go Tuesday through Monday and then we have a little bit of setup.

We would have a meet up with people just for listening to the show. and then, you know, we would just walk around, you know, you see new games, and then it's all about kind of planting the seed for begging because I run gamers for cures, which is a charity that benefits Turner Syndrome Society of Carolina's. So usually I get a lot of donations at GenCon. So a lot of it is setting up and everybody's like, because all these companies, they don't want to ship stuff back. When you go to a con, you got to ship everything to indie, and then you got to ship everything back to wherever it came from or store it. And it costs money. So people really don't want to do that. So they'll be like, come back Sunday, we'll hook you up and stuff with that.

So Sunday is kind of me running all over the hall back and forth, getting donations because invariably Sunday, you have like small, medium and large companies and are all like, come back later, come back later, come back later. And I'm only one dude. So, I mean, there's only so much comeback later you can do. And then you're getting games. You're getting games. You're putting them places so you can get it in a car or an hotel room. And then, you know, it's so big that it's, you know, the car may not be right next to the hall. So luckily this year, I had three local gamers that go to the charity that helped out quite a bit.

So I got a lot of stuff. It was still hard to get as much as I could. of because again, well, this year they also banned roly bags, like roly luggage bags that used to make... Oh, really? Yeah, you're supposed to take load. I mean, if you're bringing in a ton of big, fat, thick games, my God, that's the best way to do it.

Yeah. And that's in the dealer hall. Like, people go into, like, play games, stuff. They could do that. And then, like, the... And what happens is 4 o'clock is when everything closes on Sunday. So they don't care if you're going around. If you have a press badge and you're going around getting donations. You know, the hall police are like, get the F out. We want to clean up

and we want to go home, which is good. Because, you the people that are at booths, they want to get home too because there's this whole like subculture after it, because you got to wait for the like one loading dock to get everything there. So the quicker you get, you know, torn down and to the dock, you can get in line to get your stuff out of there. So that's sure. That's the whole other thing, especially after you've been there for four or five days. So it went really well. Long story short, went really well. We got a lot of good donations. You know, a lot of companies say just, you know, we don't care about shipping. Just hit me up afterwards. And that's good. So yeah, it's been a little, it's been crazy. And yesterday I played in a

golf tournament for the Raleigh Testicular Foundations. So anybody want to go to Check Your Acorns.org. It's a great, another great charity. Is that really what it's called? Check Your Acorns.org? That's great. Yeah, check your acorns.org.

That's amazing. It's the Raleigh Testicular Cancer Foundation. A local hockey coach in 2017 got testicular cancer and he beat it. So hats off to Matt. So he raised, he then decided he wanted to help everybody else out there

who's had, you know, all the other gentlemen that are having problems, you know, cancer and stuff. you know, testicular cancer. So he made the foundation. They do a lot of great work, you know, just sitting with the gentleman, you know, people that are in treatment or giving them financial help, just all the resources people can need. I mean, it's just, there's a lot of people that do a lot of good work, but it's, it's one of these

things. And, you know, I get to play golf with my son and some friends, you know, during the day. So it's one of these things that I look forward to every year because it's a good cause and it's a lot of fun. We love how charity-minded Dan is. I freaking love that. That's great. Always doing something good.

Their logo is great. Because there's a little, a little suggestive maybe. Yeah, I like it. I like it. In fact, that is now a favorite logo of mine. Look at that thing. Grabbing your testes. That's great.

They didn't have it this year, but last year they actually had a tent where you can go and check your acorns. Just because, again, we're men. You know, we, it's maybe a stereotype. So if anybody's offended, I'm apologizing. But we tend to do the thing. We're like, I'm fine. I don't know. I'm not going to check anything.

But you really have to, at least monthly. You should be checking your acorns in the shower. Make sure there's no little lumps or, you know, nodules are kind of common, but anything you feel, you need to get checked out. You just never know. Have your lady friend check up too sometimes. Hello. Or your male friend.

Or your male friend. I don't want to, yeah, we're not, you know, no mutual exclusive. But definitely somebody you trust, though, for sure. Yeah. Do they have hand sanitizers in that tent, though? Like where you go and check your own acres? Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay.

And I think one year they even had a health care professional doing it. Okay, good. I don't want somebody checking their acorns and then going and touching like the settlers of Catan in the same game that I'm going to be playing. Yeah. Don't let that guy shuffle our cards when we're done. No, this is a different community than the board game community. This is a hockey community. Oh, it's a hockey community.

Okay. Yeah, that's what it's far. Well, that's great, dude. So let me tell you guys some hot games from Gen Con. Do it. Yeah. So, of course, I'll mention this one quickly because it's one. that I've kind of mentioned before, but I'll mention in the future

because I think they've got another Kickstarter or a game found coming up for another reprint. I absolutely always love the Elder Scrolls. This is a new game from, well, it's a game from Chip Theory. Not necessarily new, but it's been within the last year that they fulfilled. So the Elder Scrolls, betrayal of the second era, is a ridiculously good game from Chip Theory games. They do some amazing kind of production of everything they do.

And this was a booth that was just immediately overflowing, like, constantly. I just kept finding myself going back to this booth just to watch it some more because it's just such a game. And with their new one, we have also a couple of great tadpole people. We do. Raven and Josh, yeah. So I'm hoping to get a copy. You got to see Eric Van Skyhawk while you were there, didn't you? Yes, I did. I got my Hokkito hug.

He was helping run a booth for a friend or something or something was going on like that. Yeah, it was a lot of T-shirts and RPG stuff. I can't remember the name of the booth because it's just escaping me right now. But it was, it's always good to see him. You know, Jen Con is like summer camp. It reminds you of like kind of neurotacular and stuff like that, where it's summer camp. You only get to see these people one time a year, but you may talk to them like every week. Yeah, that was awesome to see him hanging out with you.

So I'll be honest, I'm an Elder Scrolls fan, and I didn't expect the board game to do much. I thought it would be, you know, it'd be okay. So the difference with this particular one is you've got really good design. Like a lot of times when you get IP games, they're just crap tie-ins. Yeah. But they've got such good designers there with this kind of tie-in, and their production value is just so good that this is really good. I mean, this is a game I play solo.

I would play solo, but a lot of times you could also play this one, two, three, or four players. It's going to be a little bit lofty at four, but two or three is going to be good, and it just has that really good adventure feel. Now, granted, I know we make fun of this all the time, this is not a Scott game. Because even if it is, even though it does seem like you learn it pretty quick, you're going to be there for a few hours playing these scenarios. And this is a, you know, it's, it's kind of has that Gloomhaven feel where it's, it's a lifestyle game where you're going to be playing through the different scenarios and then if you want to pick up any expansions. But if that dog can understand it, though, so can sky.

Yeah, there's a photo here of a dog looking at the camera like, I've got this figured out, you know. Am I supposed to roll now or do I need to wait until? This does seem like a lot of rules. But I love, yes, I love the Elder Scrolls world. so I this might be one that I would be like yeah you know what let's take a full Saturday and just do it yeah I might do that but I'll definitely remind you guys when that next printing comes up because I know they said that's something it's I think it's early next year I think they're still working out all the details but I've got a game

that is 1,000% a Scott game so you would absolutely love this game actually both of these games are Scott games and I'll go through these quickly the first one is based off of a town in Italy this is called Positano this is from Slugfest games This game is so easy. This is the perfect. Now, I love to call these grandma games. And I say it all the time because it's because I call them grandma games because it's what my mom does. She does the, let's just play.

You know, you're trying to explain. And this is a really easy game. And it's hard to tell because BGG doesn't have a lot of great pictures of it as far as like why it's a let's just play game. Because if you can see on the pictures on BG, I don't know if you have them. Yeah, we have them up right. And it has such great table presence with those kind of the way. The board that's underneath, if you don't. really see because there's there's going to be tiles that will go on the board you have cards in your

hands everybody's got basically the same cards but you're going to pick two cards to kind of do like an auction where you're kind of picking two cards and everybody flips them over and that's going to determine when you draft from the first second or third row and then they'll have some numbers on there don't worry about that but you're going to you're going to have different times where you're going to draft in each row depending on the cards you play and then that'll let you it'll determine where you're going to place your your little blocks how high the blocks will go and what roof you got because you have a silver bronze and gold roofs which have points at the end of the game and how high you go there are going to be cards that are going to tell you three different

scoring during the game and that's basically all the different scoring that you're going to have in the game it is quick to learn quick to play in an absolute gem of an underrated game that i just i kind of was on my to buy list to begin with because i had been you know they had kind of been talking to me beforehand but when i went and tried it out pretty much everyone I was just went and bought it. I love the little towers and buildings and all that stuff. It's awesome. Yeah, I mentioned this in our chat, but it reminds me of Santorini, which is you're building

little Greek, those white Greek houses and stuff, very similar in look, but probably very different in gameplay. Yeah, so Santorini is actually a very good game, but it's a little more brain burny because it's really a puzzle, like you're trying to get to a certain level of height and yet still kind of before somebody else does. So people, you've got some blocking there. And what Santorini has good is they have this extra module that has the different gods that give different powers

during the game. The golden fleece expansion, yeah, yeah. Whereas this is so easy. Like, you don't even have, there's almost nothing confusing about this. Like, you can play this whole game and then be like, how did I do? And you're still had fun. It looks awesome. It's such a weird concept.

All this physical, I know there's a lot of physical games, games with a lot of physical components. It's half the fun of modern table but I just, this is, this seems crazy to me. How do you move, how do you box this up and take it around? It seems huge. Well, so that, the place where all the, you know, that cardboard place where all the, everything stacks on, kind of the cliffside, I guess, those tracks come apart pretty easy.

And then all of the little blocks, they, when you take them apart, they have a bag, they have baggies in there that they go perfectly into these bags. Oh, all right. You'd hope that they somehow, if you flip them the other way, they stack one inside of each other, like uh oh yeah yeah something when you think of skyrocketing brands like aloe allbirds or skims it's easy to credit their success to great products sleek branding and brilliant marketing but here's the overlooked secret the real magic lies in the engine behind the scenes the business powering their business for millions of brands that engine is shopify making selling seamless for them and shopping

effortless for us. Upgrade your business and get the same checkout alo yoga uses. Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com slash retail, all lowercase. Go to shopify.com slash retail to upgrade your selling today. Shopify.com slash retail. Yeah, they don't do that, but when they do, when they are flat, you can actually get everything back in the box really easy. To me, I want a box that kind of like you can keep that thing put together, but it goes a little high. to be able to do that, but it's so easy to make together that it's not really that it looks like some Brian could print if you had to

you could 3D print the game yeah oh 100% yeah and you can probably put there's like 1A 2A 3A and 4A like the different levels and that goes up to D you can even probably know and you you could probably print that on the printout yeah without even happen oh sure yeah there's a

game a steam game and I forgot the name of it but basically you it's kind of a creative mode game there's not really a game to it it's more a letting me make pretty things kind of game and I cannot remember the name of this but you basically just drag your mouse around and build these kind of buildings yeah it's the one you're it's basically you're given an island right yeah and you can build up or across and if you build up it will add the structures that you would need to build up and then if you build across

it'll build your bridges and your little yes oh I had that on the do I have it on iPad or steam yeah that was and it was a beautiful like looked like toys it was like that that really cool, smooth. And just really zen, like, you just chill. I don't know what, and there was really no point to it. Nah, it was. Can't remember the name. Someone in the chat will remember.

Sounds really cool. Yeah, it was good. All right, tell me about this other Scott game. Okay, so the last one, this is Citizens of the Sparks. This is kind of, again, this is a Scott game just because Brian could teach it to you in two seconds. So that's one of it. And also, the rules are like three pages. The rules are like, honestly.

The rule book is longer than that because in case you want to refer it back. So anyway, this is called Citizens is a Spark. This is basically another drafting game where in the middle row, you're going to have three rows of three cards. And basically on your turn, you're going to draft a row and you're going to put them in your tableau in front of you, the different citizens. Now, the game itself comes with 30 different citizens,

and it all do different things. Now, as you're kind of getting some of the same ones, and you're only going to use 10 per game, depending on how many people you're playing with. You can use, like, you know, 8 to 10, depending on how many people. But anyway, you're going to have, you're going to stick them on top of each other as far as the same one. So if I have two scouts, I would just stack in the top.

Then after you draft, you can then play one card from your tableau for its ability. Now, a scout, if I had a level two scout, I may draw two cards from it. If I had a level one scout, maybe just draw one. So as I decide to play that from my tableau, I kind of put it, you know, I would then keep in front of me. And then everybody else can follow. So if I played a scout to draw a card, if Scott has two scouts in front of him, he can play it to draw two cards. And if Brian had three scouts, they could play one of those. You're not playing the whole row.

You're just playing one. And then you're discarding them. And then it goes to Scott's turn. We refilled the middle. And then he draws, he drafts a roll of three. That's the game. There's a lot of different interactions with things as far as how you're scoring points. And here's, what's really cool about the game is since there's 30 different sets of citizens,

you can, they kind of give you preset things. Like they have randomizers. You can just pick out 10. But there's also ones that they have pre-made where it's like if you want less interaction between you, you know, if you don't want any take that, they have less interaction. They have a first game. They have more interaction. They have a lot of different ways to set up the game.

or you can just basically shuffle up the randomizers and use whatever 10 you want. It plays so easy. We played this last night with my wife and my son, DJ, and we just had a blast. It just plays quickly. It's easy. You can shuffle up and play the same set again, or you can kind of switch in. You know, it's like any other game. If you're switching things in and out, you're going to have to separate them.

It takes a couple of minutes, but it's still not lofty at all. And it says on here 45 to 60 minutes, and that's probably even with teaching because it's not hard to teach. And once you play, it just runs very, very well. I have not played this solo, but it has a whole rulebook for some. solo mode and I'm a big solo guy so eventually I'll get to that but absolutely great it's only like this one was only like 50 bucks but a lot of times when you're out of con they're a little let's say they're a little more you know maybe five or ten bucks than what you can get at your friend of the local game store or if you can if you want to buy it straight from thunderworks games

it's usually a little cheaper after the fact because you know you're kind of almost paying a little bit for that that con I'm a big fan of the aesthetic they've got these animal archetypes and they all fit really well like the merchant is a crow of course it is warriors or like there's a panther and I think an alligator the scientist is a smart looking tiger guy something about that kind of remember the 70s Robin Hood kind of thing yeah I'm a big fan of that

yeah I love that shit so good so I don't know Scott you would know this you would know this more than me but like in trends in you know art and things like that right now you know in games all of a sudden there's pirate themes are hot and then zombie themes right now anthropomorphic animals is a big thing across the board. A lot of video games, too. You're just seeing it everywhere.

I think we're just going through a moment of a lot of people are like, what are you talking about them furries? No, no, it's not that. It's more like kind of almost golden book. Back when you were a kid and you got mice and little suits reading stories to their little mice kids in a little quilted bed. Like it's that vibe. The Richard Scary.

Not Richard. Richard Scary. Is that the one? Yeah, with the little town. All that stuff. I think there's just a resurgence of that look. And this looks like that. And I like it.

I'm a fan. Yeah, and it's like you said, even the Robin Hood aesthetic. That's probably one of my favorite Disney things of all time. Oh, without a doubt. I love that stuff. Well, that's awesome, dude. Very good at Picks this week. We had Citizens of the Spark.

We had the other one who I lost. Positano. Just like it sounds like it's spelled as you just look it up and you're good. And that huge Elder Scrolls game. The Trail of the Second Era. If you just look up the Elder Scrolls probably, you know, Elder Scrolls board game or just go to Chiff Theory games. They do some of the best production value that you've ever seen. They really do.

Yeah. That's awesome, man. Great game company and great people. And I can't wait to go tour their facility sometime soon. Yeah, I want to go there. By the way, the game we were trying to think of, at least the one I was trying to think of as townscapeer. That's it. That's it.

Yeah. Yeah. Couldn't have been an easier name for us to remember. Isn't there a game where you townscape called something? escape a town. There have been a bunch since then, too, and that's probably why I'm confused because it's kind of a hot thing, but anyway. Dan, tell people where they can find

more of your fine work in the meantime. You can find me at The Geek All-Stars. I also do some stuff for Stephen over at the Major Spoilers Crew, doing some Munchkin Land where I do a little bit of a news show, the Munchkin Minute over there on Munchkin Land, and basically just the Geek All-Stars will have a post-Gen con wrap up as well. Brian,

real quick, Brian, are you a coffee guy? I'm definitely a coffee guy. Okay, so I don't know if they send it to you. You'll have to As Raven, because they gave me some coffee at Gen Con. They were giving out some, like, chip theory of coffee. It's really good. Oh, really good. I don't know where you get it from, but it's really good.

Like, especially if you like grinding the beans yourself. Oh, I love grinding the bean. I'm super into it. Or flicking. No, yeah, I do have a grinder. I don't like using it because it generates so much static. Those beans go everywhere. It's so dry in Colorado when you grind coffee beans,

unless they're really moist, which is the way coffee beans should be. You get the little, the stuff, the peels go out everywhere. But I love fresh ground coffee. And I've got a nice little arrow press that I, that I'm totally sold on. Nice. And it is early. I am trying to get to Nurtacular, but it is early because next year is little nuts. I have two kids graduating, one from college, one from high school.

So it's a little bit, it's going to be nutty next year. So I'm going to, but I am trying to get to near. We're going to do all we can to get in there. That game room will not be the same without you, but it's early. Like you said, we got time. We're going to work this out. we're going to figure out it we're going to find life to find a life to find a way exactly dan stay out of trouble I appreciate it boys I hope you have a great rest of the week

and uh we'll check in soon see you man sounds good all right good stuff I hope he goes because you know having him there do see some of our biggest like board game people they have to be there absolutely and getting him you know getting Dan up on stage for all stars come on now yeah you should see the room that we're potentially getting for the board game stuff. Really? Oh, cool. Big ass space. Crafts again. Like TMS thing inspired the craft thing. We're definitely going to do that again. Oh, that's cool. That was, that was so cool. Like everybody working on knitting or crochet or 3D pens, stuff like that. It's pretty awesome stuff. Yeah. All right. More on that soon. It's time for some quick stuff I threw together. This is actually for yesterday, but I want to

I don't know why yesterday had so many weird, diverse this day in histories. Yeah, no kidding. A lot of them, I'm looking at this list. This is crazy. It's so weird. So the very, since Alcatraz is back in the news, even though it's a dumb reason why it is. It really is. The first federal prisoners arrived in Alcatraz yesterday in 1934.

That is a big deal. Oh, really? Oh, that's funny. When it was all clean and fresh. Yeah. You know. And you can call me, Vicky. And I've, I've, uh, toured that place twice, I think.

I've never, I've never toured Alcatraz. I've, uh, taken ferries all around it, but I have never, never set foot on the island itself. And I really want to, because it just seems so cool and creepy now, but, um, all the times I've been to San Francisco, it just did not work out to go tour. Yeah. It's awesome because they've really kept it, they've kept it when it was abandoned, you know, done being a prison.

They haven't really, they didn't go in and like, cleaned it up. left things the way they were and it just adds to like the weird freaking it's so cool i loved it one of my favorite things to do in san francisco um babe ruth hit his 500 home run yesterday in 1929 oh that's cool for five years previous wait three years earlier yeah five years previous uh from the opening of alcatraz a connection hmm coincidence interesting bay ruth wow that's cool uh birth of hip hop 1973. DJ Cool Herk has considered the father of it all. What is the

moment that they consider the birth of... So I dug into that and it was more about there was, I guess, some sort of crescendo moment where this DJ Cool Herk guy became well known enough that everybody

says that's the year. But I couldn't find anything specific like there was this time at this one performance or anything like that. It was more like it just had gotten to enough of a mass appeal in 73 that he's considered the

the birther of hip hop. Gotcha. The father of hip hop or whatever, sure. Came from his loins. That was the idea. Mall of America opened in 1992 yesterday. Wow. A mall that's so big, it had three chapels at one point. At the point that I went in there

and toured it, they had three wedding chapels. Three places you could get married at the Mall of America. Oh, I wonder if they still have that. I don't think they do because I had somebody in my Uber this last weekend who was from St. Paul and we were talking all about like it used to be Camp Snoopy was the middle thing. I think I even went there before when it was, there was some other IP that they were using before Camp Snoopy or maybe it was Camp Snoopy and now it's Nickelodeon. But yeah,

it's the whole thing has changed so much. I'll bet there aren't three places to get married. in Mall of America anymore. Yeah, it seems like it's not exactly a booming business. I could be wrong. No. No. Zoe says there was only one left a few years ago and it closed. She's there right now, right? Zoe, aren't you in Minnesota or something?

You're somewhere here in the States. Yeah, that's right. I think so, yeah. Anyway, Rebel Scum gave us a little clarity. DJ Coolherk was spinning block parties for his sister's school. He spun two vinyals at the same time. One of them was Marvin Gay, I think, and that's what happened. And yeah, I think that was maybe the beginnings of his career. But I think it was like 73s just considered that, you know, the boomtown for that.

Yeah. Let's see. Hedy Lamar's patient. Sorry, patent. Yeah. I read patient. Hedy Lamar's patent for the frequency hopping tech, which is the basis for Wi-Fi and all kinds of other stuff. Yeah, exactly.

That was in 1940s. The, you know, 1930s, 40s actress. It's crazy. Like, pin up lady. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Was she a pinup lady?

I think so actress and was also kind of a haughty-toddy and she was on like airplanes and stuff for all that the World War II stuff. Like when they painted the bombers and stuff or painted the planes. Yeah, something like that. But she was smart. And 1942 was the year that happened.

So that's pretty cool. We're all using Wi-Fi right now in some way or another. We have Hetty Lamar to give a Hetty thanks to. Thank you. Headley. Thank you. Headley Lamar. in related news Steve Wozniak was born yesterday in 1950 happy birthday to him

nice was he born on a segue did he just come come out of the womb on a segue yeah just popped out and went hey guys I'm not I'm the lesser known Steve that's right first year use of SOS in a rescue at 1909 I didn't get into the weeds on what the rescue was interesting do they know what it meant like what is this SOS sauce sauce do they want sauce Does anybody Does anybody know why they're right in sauce? What's the deal? What's on?

And then finally, this was one that hit close to home. Yesterday in 2002, I remember this day clearly. Same year as we had the Olympics, rare tornado in downtown Salt Lake City. Wow. And 23 years later, big fire that... Yeah, we had a big fire last night. I didn't even know about it until...

August 11th. Not a good day for Salt Lake City. I didn't even notice that I logged in this morning in old Portland there. Oz was in there talking about it. And it was, so I did a little bit of reading. You know how there's like big center concrete pillars for a lot of building construction now? Like that's what we would do in a modern day. Yeah.

In 1929, when this little area was built and there's a lot of restaurants and whiskey bars and these old places that you're, I don't know how they're going to replace all this stuff. They're not. They're going to have to rebuild. But this big pillar. was made of wood like a giant solid hunk of wood and that's been that was the problem with the fire it was just like centrally located and it was coming off of that wood and that wood is the structure for a bunch of the attached buildings and so apparently it was a real Tetris fight for those guys last night just trying to get it worked out that's what little I know from this morning I barely

looked into it but kind of a bummer big bummer that is a big bummer yeah I saw the so the the the posts about, you know, like you said, all the stuff that was there, the irreplaceable businesses. Yeah, there's places that have been there since the 30s.

Like, never shut down and now that. But that tornado in 2002 was nuts because we don't get him here. Like through the center of town? Right in the middle of town. It formed in the center of town and smashed into the side

of the KSL building, which is like the big news affiliate here, NBC affiliate. And, inside job. it kind of felt like when there were a lot of conspiracies going on because in the valley we are you know literally surrounded by mountains typically that means you are not going to be able to do the things that weather needs to do to form a tornado at all um and then to have it be like it's one

thing to have a weird gust of wind or something but this formed into like the funnel you could see it was like a the real thing you'd see on twister or something wow that's crazy yeah Nobody brought any little Pepsi balls to throw in there. It's a bummer. Anyway. The Dorothy, too. Yeah. What was the,

when were those Pepsi balls? They were in Twister. You're not talking about, yeah, you're talking about Twister. Oh, it was in the new one, right?

An old one too, didn't they? I thought the old one had the little, the Dorothy balls. They were like little, it was Dorothy. Weren't they made out of Pepsi cans or something? Oh, were they?

Is that why? Okay, I was wondering where he called him Pepsi balls? I was thinking, were they red on top and blue on the bottom? like the Pepsi logo or? I think they were actually converted from cans, but maybe I haven't remembering that wrong. I thought they were a little clear plastic

balls with the sensors. I can't remember. They cut tin. Okay, they, Kate today says they cut tin cans to help the sensors flow into the tornado. Oh, that's right. They made little propellers out of tin cans. And they were Pepsi cans, right? Yes. Oh, the propeller part. A little propeller part, like a little, yeah, like.

It's been too long. Yeah. We film sacked that shit. We did. I think we filmed sacked the first one. I like that movie. Yeah. I'm not going to lie.

No, I do too. The sequel is interesting. Have you seen the sequel? Still haven't yet. No. I'm kind of nervous to. I don't know why. I shouldn't care.

I'd like legacy sequels sometimes. It's fine. If they're that much, you know, space between the originals and the sequels, it's fine. Yeah. But I don't know why I've avoided it. I've just kind of been on the fence.

You know, it's, it follows the same. Same path is the first movie. Very similar. Oh, here's the group that's, you know, the face of twist, of storm chasing, and they've got all the money behind them. And a whole big, they're selling T-shirts and it's a whole big thing. But then here's the grassroots group that's also really cool and really is in it for the science. And it's like, oh, okay, this is the same movie as the first one. Yeah, they're just kind of retread.

And Glenn Powell's eyes are too close together. It's just a fact. Oh, interesting. Yeah. I'm trying to think. We have something coming up from him where I'm going to now have to look at that. You're going to be stuck looking at his eyes too close together. You know, of all the guys that were around his age that I like the most, I think Louis Pullman is my favorite.

I like Lewis Pullman a lot too. Yeah. He's great. He's cool. And he made a great century. Yeah. I can't wait to watch more Lewis Pullman in future Marvel movies. Yeah.

We assume we will get him. Yes. I think we're pretty sure. Based on what we saw, I think we. We definitely get him. Sean Bloom says he's in the Running Man remake. Is it Powell or Powell? Powell is.

That's the one I'm thinking of. That's the one I am definitely going to watch because that's, um, uh, Edgar Wright's directing that day. That's right. Yeah. Very excited about that. Ooh, you know what comes out in, uh, less than 12 hours, Scott? Oh my gosh.

What's kind of? Oh, the alien deal. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Do we get it on Hulu tonight? I think we get on Hulu tonight. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to watch it with the. Kim and the girls tonight. We're going to continue our alien thing right as it happens. Very excited about that.

I got a quick email here to read from Chris from Missouri. He is Delta, Delta New Guy. Was that how you'd say that? Delta New Guy. Delta New Guy. Yes, because I was trying to make it Delta Nuguit. So I like Delta New Guy. I think it is Delta New guy.

Oh, because it knew. The Greek letter new. Delta new. Oh, okay. He says, it doesn't just happen to you, Scott. Sunday, August 10th, marks the day I found two used pregnancy tests in the morning walk. One not pregnant. One upside down.

No, thank you. I wasn't going to look at it. Greetings from the scenic lake of the Ozarks in Missouri, Chris from Missouri. So that was based on that thing where I was at the coffee shop and I noticed out front there was a not a condom. Oh, what was it? It was a pregnancy test and what was it right next to it? It was, uh... Shit.

I don't remember now. It was a cigar. It was a cigar and a pregnancy test. That's right. Yeah. It was like congratulations. You're pregnant. Yeah.

Yeah. There was a cigar there. I assume, I hope it was to celebrate. I don't actually know what that thing was there for. But, um, but yeah, if you're finding two of them, that means somebody wasn't sure, I guess for the first one, right? Right. Had to hold it in their urine stream twice.

Exactly. Or, uh, you know, a couple ladies decided, hey, let's, Let's test for pregnancy together. You know, they always go to the bathroom together at a restaurant and all that sort of thing. So why not go and pee together on sticks? So what the movies always tell us. They go in there and powder their nose is what I understand. Something like that.

Exactly. Yeah. I don't ever remember a time when one of our friends said, hey, I'm going to the bathroom. Tina, do you want to come with me? I don't ever remember a time. I think I remember a time where maybe Kim said to a friend, let's run into the bathroom. yeah like i've got to go to the bathroom oh me too yeah i'll go with you yeah that that i see but in the movie the movie tv way never happens they make it seem like women can't go to the bathroom alone at least 80s

films and sitcoms made it sound like that yeah i don't get why that's considered the norm it's weird yeah yeah but movies i guess are like that they're like that exactly lazy writing guys so i'm going to interrupt this uh uh the nannily's just texted me you know uh Rusty and Shelley NonaLeave. See them all the time in TMS, Vegas. Sure. Friends from Texas. They are in town.

They're in Colorado. We're going to go to Casa Benita with them, I think, on Thursday for lunch. Nice. But they're like, we're pretty open today. We're planning on going to seeing weapons. Do you want to go see it? Oh, this is my inn. I can see it without Tina.

That's right. I mean, I can totally find going to see a movie without Tina, but, but I can just go with them. Yeah, that's right. Oh, that's awesome. you guys are going to have a blast. I'm going to let him know. I've got to see what my afternoon looks like, though. I've got Hammond recording a soundography,

and then I've got a client thing. But I think I can push the client thing up as tight as I can to Hammond. Nice. Good little Houston in your life today. Exactly. That's awesome. So that was breaking. That's breaking news.

Oh, yeah, look at that. Very good. That's good use for the sensor. Yeah, I just figured it out. I'm never going to use it for anything but that. We also got a call from. Rishi B. This is about the bikini swiper guy in the hotel that we were visiting, and he has this to say. Hey, they're sexy. Hey, they're back. This is Rishi B. calling in from Ann Arbor, Michigan, responding to Scott's story about seeing a guy at the hotel that you were at.

This guy was flipping through bikinis, images of women in bikinis. Some years back, here in Michigan, there is this great bus system that's sadly no longer available called the Megabus. But it was really cheap to get from here to Chicago, and I would take it frequently to visit my sister. And I remember for the longest time, it didn't have internet, but then they had internet on all their buses. And, you know, I was like, oh, I was so excited. I can watch Lord of the Rings or whatever. And so, but other people had other things in mind. You would think like it would be Lord of the Rings and work. But I remember I saw a guy in a business suit. I'll never forget this. I saw this guy. I had like a perfect view of where he was sitting from where I was where I could see like his computer screen like very clearly. And so he was very clearly

on a porn site and he was just like kind of scrolling through this porn site. And I'm like, dude, you know, we're like crammed in this bus. I mean, it's comfortable you get like, you know, internet and stuff, but it's not like that comfortable where you can be on a porn site on your computer and not expect everyone to see. I'll never forget that image. Anyways, I hope you guys are doing well. Bye. Yeah, sometimes I feel like people are living so much in their own little space. They don't realize what they're doing in public. They don't exactly. They don't realize there's people around them. Also, Lord of the Rings on the bus. You must be on that bus for a long time. Geez, Louise, that's a long time. Yeah, no kidding. Or you make several bus trips to complete the film.

What would be the Lord of the Rings porn parody name? Oh, Lord of the Cock Rings would be the first one that comes to mind. That came out of you so smoothly and easily. It was such a non, you didn't even have to think, there was no pause. Yeah, not even like a real, I was looking at like, Lord, Lord, Lord, Rings. Oh, Rings, sure. Tracy Lord of the Rings. Remember her?

Yes, I remember Tracy Lord. Wasn't she a thing? She was a porn actress who tried to go and successfully did go. into legit regular movies. I think she even was on Beverly Hills 9-0-2-0 for a bit. Okay. Yeah, I kind of remember that too.

She went mainstream or something. Lord of the G-strings is pretty good too. Don't do two towers. I don't want to know what people come up with that. All right. Well, there you go. That's your feedback for the week. Go to the website and make sure you find all the ways to contact us.

You can leave us voicemails like Rishi B did or you can leave us texts or emails. whatever you want, it's all there for you at frogpants.com slash TMS. The only other shows today to mention that are live anyway are Play Retro with me and Brian Dunaway today at 4 p.m. Mountain Time at FrogPants.TV. You can listen to us, talk about Shadow Run, the original Shadow Run for the Genesis and Super Nintendo.

The Genesis version is considered not the better of the two games, but Dunaway is going to make some kind of crazy argument that it is. So we'll see how that goes for him. Good stuff, though. Go check it out. that's play retro uh if you're looking just for the podcast you can go to frogvance.com slash play retro that'll do it for us Brian let's play a song and get the F out boy talk about appropriate uh talk and going into this request uh Scott this is where it's too tiny Scott Taskinen wrote in and said good morning Boramir and Samwise Tarley Tuesday August 12th will be

my 43rd birthday uh I would like to request a cover of the metal gear solid theme thank you And despite everything, the show gives me much joy. Oh, my gosh. Well, happy to provide joy for you. And also happy to provide this cover for you. This is a cover of the Middle Gear Solid theme, Middle Gear Solid Sons of Liberty, covered by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. And who's playing with him?

Andrew Skeet. Oh, my gosh. Andrew Skeet. He's the porn version of somebody else. Anyway, this is from a soundtrack called The Greatest Video Game Music from 2011. Really cool collection where you've got the LPO covering a bunch of cool video game classes. Sons of Liberty. Oh, that's two, isn't it?

Metal Gear Solid 2. Yes. Yeah. Go ahead straight around, which song this is. I'm actually not even sure what the theme of MGS is. You know, I had to look it up and I'm like, oh, well, this one sounds really good. Because I had two versions already in my library. one by E-Rock, that dude who does just incredible heavy metal guitar stuff.

Oh, yeah, I like that. And he does the original M.G.S. theme, but this one is the Sons of Liberty. But this London Philharmonica orchestra thing is great. It's like Super Mario Brothers, of course, Final Fantasy 8, Angry Birds, Call of Duty, Legend of Zelda. Got World of Warcraft on there, by chance. Yes. Seasons of War is the... Oh, it's a good one. That's basically the login screen of the original game.

It's really good. do do do yeah yeah that's great um anyway it's it's a really cool soundtrack or really cool i guess compilation or i don't what you call it but anyway it's going out to our friend uh scott taskin and and uh uh happy 43rd birthday You know, We're going to be able to be. We're going to be able to be. I THANILEEN SULLIV.

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