The Morning Stream - TMS 2949: Gingham Style

Episode Date: January 19, 2026

Hair gel water. My Filoni Has a First Name. So Long John, And Thanks For All The Fish. Don't be the peanut butter cup. Jimmy Crisco. Mucilex. Favreau Beans and a nice Chianti. Brian stimulated Scott's mother in law. The Reindeer Police Action. Shaneel, Shlamazio, monkey beeky beeky boo! Captain and Chenille. Beefy Hamm. Inversion of the Body Snatchers. Bulk Bad for You Items. 70s TV Detective Reboots with Stephen Schleicher and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Life is just one big flip phone. No caller ID, no spam filter, no way to tell if you're getting scammed, but that's okay. Come to our side of the fence and enjoy some clarity at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, hair gel water. My feloni has a first name. So long, John, and thanks for all the fish. Don't be the peanut butter cup. Jimmy Crisco.

Mucelix. Fabro beans and a nice kianti. Brian's stimulated Scott's mother-in-law. Lord, the reindeer police action. Chenille, Schlomazio, monkey, beaky, boo. Captain and Chenil. Beefy ham. Inversion of the body snatchers. Bulk, bad for you items.

Seventy's TV detective reboots with Steven Schleiker and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. I douse this wiener and sunscreen because I wanted to see if the sunscreen would protect the wainer. Skinn that smoke wagon and see what happens. The morning stream. This car smells weird. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream. My speakers are on for some reason.

Now they're not. I've turned them off now. Stupid speakers. Welcome to the show. It is Monday, January 19th, MLK Day. I'm Scott, and that's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hello, happy MLK Day to you.

And if you're in Tennessee, happy Dolly Parton Day. Yeah. Go to Dollywoods, you know, ride a roller coaster, whatever. Have a corn dog on a stick. I'm sure they sell those somewhere at Dollywood. Oh, they have to, right? Or a couple cupcakes or something. I don't know what they sell. I don't know what they do. I did there, but. How were the rides? I hear it's real good.

The rides were actually decent, yeah. I had to ride some of them solo because when we went there. So this was, this was great. This was a trip while Tina was pregnant, but she wanted to go. where I had to visit a bunch of different newspapers all in that area. So the Nashville Tennessean, the Nashville Banner, something in Kentucky, which one was it? Anyway, just a bunch of newspapers all in that area. And we're like, well, let's, you know, we'll do a little vacation around it.

I'll do the newspaper trips, but then we'll have two days here or a day here where it's all just us. and we decided, well, let's do, let's go to Dollywood. And then Tina got pregnant. And then she said, all right, I'll do the log flume. I'll do the smaller rides, but I'm not doing the roller coaster. And so I did a couple of rides by myself because of that. Nice. I saw ranking the other day and that put them at like number three or four in the country.

It's pretty high. Really? Like, Dollywood, as far as amusement parks? Yeah. Surprise me. That's insane. That blows my mind. with things like Cedar Point and six flags over,

I think Cedar Point was number, no, it wasn't Cedar Point. Well, something like that was number one. I can't remember. Okay. I can't remember number two. And it may have been three or four, but it was pretty high.

And it claimed there, that there's, my guess is that means there's just been a ton of stuff in the last 20 years, been added or tweaked or whatever. Even to not have a Disney, you know, a Disney or Universal Studio. videos be up in the top two or three kind of surprises me.

I'm trying to find out my history, but I can't see where I found this. Yeah, I'd be curious as the, you know, and what's it based on? Is it based on like, um, let's see, it was something like customer satisfaction or something like that. Oh, here we go. No, this isn't the one I looked at. This is just rides. I can't find it.

Best theme parks, roller coasters. I can't find the link But anyway Oh full list of winter's best thing park Let's see is this it Oh maybe Here we go Okay is this current though

Okay as of April last year Here's their list Number 10 Kings Island Oh never been to Kings Island But Here it's like a lot of water stuff Yeah That's my understanding of that

Number nine holiday world in Santa Claus Indiana Really? Okay They really like Hershey Park In Hershey Pennsylvania It's owned by the Hershey people Sure

The mascots are In fact I have a feature Are like Kisses aren't they Oh yeah It's a bar and a peanut butter cup I love it Yeah

I don't want to be the peanut butter cup It looks stupid Kind of does I don't like it Let's see There is number seven Bush Gardens In Williamsburg

Virginia number, oh, it's number six. I had it a little too high. Dollywood number six. Okay, that's still surprises me. It's not bad, yeah. Five was Kennywood in West Merfin, Pennsylvania. I don't know what Kennywood is.

Kennywood, okay. Number four, Bush Gardens, Tampa Bay. Number three, SeaWorld Orlando. Got real high on this list. Number two, nobels with a K. That's in... K-N-O-B-E-L-L-F? Yeah, also in Pennsylvania.

So, I don't know what's going on. I have never even heard of that. And the number one, they have a silver dollar city. Okay. No Disney parks on here. I was going to say, there must have been a rule about it, including Disney, like. Disney or Universal or any of that. Or Universal.

Yeah, exactly. Too big, too. Maybe the top 10 privately owned or something. Maybe that's it. Yeah. But I don't know, got me real curious about Dollywood these days. No kidding. Must be doing all right.

All right. Let us get to some stuff here. we have been pretty much in and out of the hospital with Kim's mom all week. That's what we did with our week and weekend. And something happened there that I thought of you, Brian. We were sitting around kind of trying to, you know, get her to talk. You know, doctors are encouraging us to just constantly be talking to her and, you know, showing her things she likes and bringing up stuff she loves,

trying to get her to respond and talk and all that. stroke is pretty severe, but not so severe that she can't understand us. Does she do any sort of indication, like things that she likes or things that she doesn't like? Kind of, like once in a while she'll kind of brighten up and then kind of open her eyes sometimes, but rarely. And I don't know, there's kind of a weird sense. If you know her, if anyone knows my mother-in-law, if she can't function normally, my I don't think she she would never want to be in this state ever sure like she would have rather this been so massive that it just took her out that's how she would feel about it um she's

i'm like that too i'm kind of like that too i don't want i don't want to be in a it's not a vegetative state but i don't want to be in this kind of state for the rest of your life right so we're we're it's just sensing we're not getting a lot of motivation out of her so that's what the doctors are like you know we need to determine her level motivation that happens because you guys are in here talking and we'll get to sort of measure her motivation based on her responses. So some of that's going okay. Some of it's not going okay. But one of the things that she wasn't doing the other day is she was not drinking her water. And I had it in my head, well, it's probably because this water is as thick as freaking hair, hair gel from the 80s.

Oh God. You would have hated this stuff. It was like a whole 12 ounce, you know, one of them hospital cups with a straw on it. Yeah. Yeah. And in there is this viscous, thick, It was like thick as gel. No doubt. Is it, is it, uh, was it blizzard level? Like, could you have turned the cup upside down and nothing would have come out of it kind of thing? It sure felt like it. I didn't tip it to see, but all I know is when she, we would tip it toward her and give her the straw.

It would kind of slowly go, you know, like it took longer to lean and pour than it did for us to turn it. Thicker than like, uh, your, your Mrs. Butterworths, your maple syrup. Oh, yeah. Way thicker than that. And this is supposed to be just water. It's not like a juice or whatever. And so I even told her that joke that you sent me in that text. Trying to get a rise out of her.

So I go, hey, my friend Brian just said, if it doesn't have milk in the front and shake in the back, no thanks or no deal or something like that. Something like that, yeah. And she kind of did this little half little smile thing. Okay, all right. So good job, Brian. You stimulated my mother and that.

Tough crowd. Tough crowd. Is this thing on? Is this thing on? It really does feel like that. Is that a Seinfeld episode where his friend was in the ICU and he had to go do stand up in front of him? And then I forgot.

I think he may have laughed too hard. He ended up dying or going to a coma or something. I can't remember. Anyway, hospital sucks. I didn't enjoy any of that. But no. It is what it is. They're going there again today.

They've got to make some decisions because she's in a, she's no longer in the ICU part of the neurological center. It's now like another floor where it's, less, you know, emergency care. Right. Like almost, what do they call that? Like inpatient rooms, basically. Kind of like that.

And it's kind of this, and it represents a stage where we have to, her dad needs to make some decisions and then the kids all need to come together and talk about it. Like if she's not going to, she has a DNR. So if she's, it is inevitable that she'll probably have another one.

That's the kind of disease this is. And that it's just a matter of time. And so they have to just make some decisions about, you know, what are we going to do if that happens or whatever? Sure. But the stroke was, it was serious enough that it's such a mixed bag because she can, sometimes when she seems motivated, she'll get up and walk around and move with help. You know, people are making sure she's not falling or anything.

So she seems to have pretty good motor skills, but then there are times where we can't, we just can't even get her to move. So it's kind of all over the place. Anyway, lots of fun, good times. We'll see how that goes. and then my mom's funeral is this Saturday. So getting some closure there. Yeah.

And a bunch of family in town. So that's fun. And maybe the last time you have to deal with John. Yeah. You know, I haven't, let's just say, that thought's been in my head quite a bit. I'm sure. I'm sure. It's like a big, big, huge dark cloud, but a tiny little silver lining.

Yeah, a little silver lining on there. I actually am really looking forward to just saying, all right. we did it it's been fun 20 years of that guy we're done bye yeah geez I don't have to do that anymore

anyway we'll see how it goes both Brian and I saw the bone temple yes we did not together that would have been fun no that would have been fun

yeah yeah I went to just a theater here you went to one there you went to Alamo I assume went to Alamo boy big difference like they haven't instituted

the you know use your phones throughout the movie set up yet I think that starts in February, but the wait staff usually, like, says, hey, I can either take your order. I can use the QR code. And we're like, oh, no, we'd much rather, you know, work with you.

Would we, you know, then do the app. He's like, oh, cool. No, this time they didn't even give the option. It was like, they came up, took your order, didn't even say anything about the QR code. It was like, it was the way it used to be before the QR codes and just was like all. all-server interaction. The guy was super friendly. You think that's, I'm just trying to soften everybody up or something?

Maybe. Maybe it's also a, let's treat them, you know, let's really give them a good experience before shit gets back. I wonder with all the backlash if they maybe would have turned course, maybe. Maybe. Yeah, we'll see. I mean, it's Sony, so Sony tends to dig in their heels. Oh, yeah.

and ride shit all the way to the end and the bitter beta max end yeah it's going to be it's going to be interesting to see what happens there they still could change course

but I doubt they will they could they could but that movie's good and if you look at listen if you saw 28 years later and you liked it this audience then you're going to really like this

I think I liked this more than 28 years later I love the introduction of Ray Fine's character but I love I love who he is in this in Don Temple.

He's the star of this thing. Really? I mean, at the end of the day, I think he's the star of this thing. I mean, obviously, what's his name's chewing up, scene really like a psycho? Yeah. He's great, too.

Gosh, he's sure Jimmy Christo. Chrisco or whatever's name is. Crystal. Crystal? Crystal. The accent always sounds like they're saying Chrisco. Christo. Christo.

Yeah, it's rad. And it's also, but I guess I'd say, if you didn't like where they were headed artistically with the first one of this new, trilogy, you might want to avoid it because it is all in on that. And it's weird and different, but that's what I like about it. It's very different. This isn't just like the first two movies are very much about outbreak and containment

and immediate aftermath and more traditional kind of, oh, no, everyone's a zombie or rage virus victim or whatever. This is different than that. This is like, how do you maintain? How do you live in a world where a majority of the people around don't, we're too young to remember the before times. Yeah. And I've just kind of adopted this life.

And it's very effective at doing that. It really is. Big thumbs up for me. Big severed thumbs up from me. It makes me really excited for part three. Like there's some stuff that you get in this one that it's like, all right, do what you're going to do with part three. I'm all in.

Yeah. Stuff at the end, you're like, oh, hello. Yeah. Hello. Anyway, more on that as we see them, I suppose. Yes. Now we go from bone temple to bone Brian I was wondering how you were going to finish that sense

Yeah I mean nobody Nobody wants to bone Brian done away Well maybe somebody does Maybe somebody does I'd say You know Figure out of way out of this quick sky Somebody in Brian's life loves him that much

They want to throw him a bone There you go I made it It all worked out Let's do this Hey look what it is It's old Brian Dunaway joining us for a little bit of the old, what are we doing today? Half asses. What's going on?

Half asses. The old, how do you do? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hi, how are you? What's going on? A little bit of the old, how's your father? How's your father? I know you spent a bunch of time at the local school, the high school, doing photo work.

How was that? How'd that go? I shared that. That was fun. Yeah, so Audra does the photography and I'm tech support. So we set up some nice little backdrops, several different styles and just gave her the opportunity to make really good pictures. And so she's the talent.

I'm the tech guy. That's what I like to do. Yeah, that's nice. That's when you get to support like that, right? Yeah. That's great. We're thinking about high school there, Scott. You like our fancy gym, do you?

It actually looked nice. It looked a lot of money. Yeah, you can tell you guys are sports, you know, centric. The South is known for that. But come, come, come take a look at my, uh, my,

my taxes, my city tax for nine six. You'll see why we have. You paid for that nice gym. Such a nice gym and school. facilities. But yeah, people love, people love to move here and took good to our schools because they're pretty, they're pretty good. Did you go to that school? Is this a different? Absolutely. Oh, you did? No, I went to the since the second grade. Yeah, yeah. Oh, weird, man. So do you go like your old locker and do stuff like that? I always do that when I... Oh, no. So they actually

moved the high school. So our old high school is kind of just where they just have an old high school now that is nothing but the football facility and track and they've refurbished and everything. But my high school is doesn't really exist. Oh, gotcha. But it. But it's, this would have been yours. If you were, jump back all those years and if all things being equal today, this would have been the actual building you were in. Because this is right. Yeah. So we go to the football games. I'm like, oh, cool. This is

where I went to school at. And yeah, but it looks a lot different. They did the same to mine. Mine is torn down and rebuilt. And so if I go there now, it's like a whole new, I don't recognize it. They literally leveled it. Yeah, same exact thing. They leveled it and then built on top of it. Totally

different kind of building. Like, it's nothing like the school that we had. But right before it happened, I did get a chance to go in there and like find my locker and kind of yeah, that's cool. Yeah, I'd be curious about to, about going in and seeing the setup of mine. They've changed mascots two times since I left. When I went there, the mascot was the Ibbets. Yeah. Well, the mascot was the Redskins. Oh, yeah. Okay. Shortly after I left, they changed it to the Reds. Yeah. Okay.

It was different problematic. I'm going to say that it sounds. It sounds like that sounds. even worse. Yeah. And then the last couple of years, they changed it to the Bulldogs. Oh, all right. Not like a Bulldog.

Does the Bulldog have a name? Like a wolf. Character name. Probably. Yeah, don't know. Don't know. I'm sure it does, right?

I don't know ours either. Ours was a Bengal tiger, but I don't know his name. Yeah. Kind of like who has UGA. Somebody has UGA, the Bulldog. UGA is great. Oga.

Yeah. Bulldogs, we had, didn't we do that on the show? Is that the University of Georgia? That would be, right. UGA, I think. Oh, I think that's it. Oh,

makes it. The running bulldogs or whatever they call themselves. So it's funny because I think we had a list of this. College, most popular college mascot, or maybe it was high school mascot types. And one of them, the high ones up on that list, whether it was this show or something else, but it was like bulldogs, wild cats. Wild cats got to be in there. Yeah, Panther.

Anything about that, wild cats. Tigers might have been big. I can't remember. Anyway, it was kind of wild to me how many, what a short list of animals most schools. Yeah, it's really like they just ran out. They went for like, all right, here are, here are the top ten animals. No need to stray from this list. We'll just, we'll just pick from the, we'll pick from the kids.

It gets kind of tough to have a spirit animal when you get down to like giraffe. You know, you don't want to be the giraffes or something weird. Sure, but I mean, you know, like, like remember the days of the the terrapins, right? Like the fighting terrapins, like, all right, let's go, you know, let's go off the board. Yeah. Okay, I got you. The fighting gofers? Fighting gofers.

The fighting gofers, sure. Gophers fight. They have to fight. They've got holes to dig and whatnot. Well, good news, everybody. We're going to dig our own holes today and play a game. Brian, you want to explain this game and how it's going to work? I will totally do that. Welcome to the morning. Half-Ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers. I'll give Scott and Brownie category and six possible answers three of which are correct. And three like giving somebody mercy is incorrect. Depending on how confident you feel with the category, you can provide one, two, or three guesses.

but if you get any of those guesses wrong, you get zero points for that round. If they guess one, get it right, you get a point. Get two right, gets you three points, three right, gets you five points. It doesn't matter, right? We're going to add all those points up at the end. That's all that matters and see who wins.

I stop listening. Go ahead. I'm sure you have. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. Your contestants are players from the tad pool who aren't able patrons from the tad pool

that aren't able to be here live. Scott, you're playing for Patrick Irie. Yeah. Irie. I reman. Irie. Arium. Ariya, Brian, you playing for Ben Shelt.

Shulk. Shalk. Shalk. All right. Got you. That's a name you don't want to mess with. I don't think. Nope.

Don't mess with it. That's great. When you said charity, did you mean? Oh, I meant, I'm sorry. I said mercy. I didn't. Yeah, we meant charity.

Dude, I'll never be able to use it. Well, without thinking about it. Like, hey, we're giving this money to charity. So go see Bone Temple. All right. Anyway. All right. Let's get to the game here.

Let's get to question number one. Which of these are wars that are named after troublesome animals? Which of these wars that got their name from troublesome animals? Your choices are the reindeer war, the war of the stray dog, the war of the locusts, the pig war, the emu war and the alpaca war. And I'll tell you that, that these are all wars, although I did look some up. And I was like, all right, well, it's an alternate name for war. But where the differentiation is, is if the war got its name from the animal that's, that's named in there. So like, could this be the reindeer skirmish or something like that?

No, it would be more like, like, you know, if it was the, the bull war, right? one that's not on here if it was like well there wasn't really a bull involved but the the people in that country are known as the bolts or something like i got you know the reindeer police action you know right right exactly that there's a reason i put this one first let's just get it out of the way um you guys both uh selected the pig war the pig war i want a pig war that's what i want there was a pig war in 1859 between you us in Canada and it did have to do with pigs. So absolutely. These are always a source of contention. That's not when they came down and burned our White House down, is it? Is that the time? That was the most brave

Canada, or the most brazen Canada move of all time. 1859, kind of might have been around that time. I'm trying to think, yeah, maybe. Give me back my pig. You guys also selected. You guys also, so 1812 was the burning down

of the White House. Okay. A little bit before You guys also selected the Reindeer War. The Reindeer War was not. So it was Reindeer Games with Ben Affleck. Okay, got you. See, no, here's this is, this is one of those different interests. So it was Operation Rentier, a German operation during World War II, intended to secure the nickel mines around Petsamo in Finland.

So reindeer war was not a war. Let's show the rest of these here. Oh, so Stanton. Get involved. Gotcha. The war of the stray dog, which was about a soldier who went across the border to chase after a stray dog. And the emu war, and the emus are dicks, dude, they'll want a war. Emu war, yes, I think.

I could remember between the emu war or alpaca war, I knew there was one that people sometimes craze that aren't the thing you usually think of. Yes, that's a nuisance wildlife management military. operation undertaken Australian late 1932 really was a war against emus. The term nuisance and emu should just sit in the dictionary right next to each other.

They're super rude. They're a butthole animal. Yeah, go look at videos of emos just picking on their owners. I like the enemu in the commercial. Which one? Oh, the lemu. Yeah. No, I don't remember that. And Doug.

And Doug. And Doug. And Doug. It's current. It's the Liberty Mutual, Limu, Emu, like the first two letters of Liberty and Mutual. Do they keep doing that at the end? Liberty, Liberty. I hate how they do that. They still do that? They don't on the Limu Emu commercials. It's like how they do a little. Exactly. It's weird how. Like the 70s thing. Go ahead. Geico did this too where like they had 18 different marketing campaigns. They had the gecko and then they had the cavemen, but all going on simultaneously.

Yeah, it was weird. Maybe that works. Maybe that was good. I don't know. I don't know if I remembered. I like the ones with the, I like the, the Biberty one.

I do too. The dude, the dude can't say Liberty. Oh, yeah, those are good. That doesn't make me laugh. Thanks, Liberty Mutual. I'm a simple man.

Simple needs. Because the guy, guy kind of looks like James Marsden, too. Looks like, yeah. All right, let's get to question number two. You had your warm up.

Consider this your warm up, all right? All right. By the way, people are telling me in the chat that the emu's won in the emu war in Australia. They still exist. Yeah, color me not shocked about this. Yeah. Because those emails will kill you.

Yeah. Question number two, products pitched by Don Draper on Madman. Oh my gosh. I never finished watching this. Imagine housewife sitting in her house. She's looking out the window. She's longing for something. What's she longing for?

Anyway. All right. Your choices are, Kodak slide projectors. Huggy's diapers, London fog raincoats, Mr. Salty Pretzels, Island Pacific Airline and Life Serial, which three of these products did Don Draper

actually pitch? He likes it, he likes it. I'm being very conservative. You guys both went conservative. Look at you. I just, I only know one for positive and everything else. It could be any of these. Well, let's talk about that one because you both selected it. Kodak slide

projectors. Yes, Don absolutely pitched Kodak. slide projectors. Yeah, I think even that thing you did, the little line earlier was kind of from that. He began all of them, right? It was like, uh, this housewife is sitting her house. She's looking outside. She's longing for something salty.

Yeah. She wants pretzels. Yeah. Yep. Bye everybody. I'm going to go drink and have a bad marriage. Exactly. Let's see. Brian, you also selected Huggy's diapers. Stab of the dark camera. I never did. I didn't finish

watching the run. So just I'm sure it's totally wrong. Yeah. It didn't happen. during the part of the show that you watched, but it also didn't happen during the rest of the show. He never pitched how he's diapers. London fog raincoats and life cereal. The other two. I thought life cereal was,

I mean, I was a big deal because we had Mikey. He likes it and all that. So I always, I just assumed that was a more late 70s at the earliest. It was a more modern thing. No, Life cereal,

I guess has been around for a while. They just did the Mikey because the sales were waning or something. And it worked. That kid, man. Then they went cinnamon and he sold some cereal. Look at them now. He did. Now they got the game of life.

Didn't that kid die by mixing pop rocks and coke? That wasn't that the thing? Yeah, that was the first like big rumor I remember. Urban legend. It's a famous one. The other one was that, well, I don't want to get into it. But there's a, there's one about a, what's the guy from office center gentleman? Richard gear.

Richard gear. Yeah. Remember that? Yeah. Yeah. The stomach involving a stomach. Oh, no, that was involving a gerbil or hamster. Oh, is it his, the jerk?

Oh, and the stomach was the singer. Was Elton John or other old guys? Rod Stewart. Rod Stewart. Yeah, go look those up if you were curious, everybody. Now story spread by being scandalous. Yes, exactly. Exactly.

All right, let's get to the last question here. Scott, going into this with one point, Brian with zero. You guys need some points on this one. Easy fabrics. Which of these are actual fabrics? Your choices are, Chenille, Kokina, Gazar, gingham, tough, and gossan.

Good Lord. Boy, you just, you know, cotton, freaking... Love, the look, the touch. The feel. Of gazer.

Exactly. It doesn't really roll off the tongue. No. You wear that in the savage land, clearly. Um, I really don't know. Some of these sound like brands. They do.

Open gingham style. I'm doing one. I don't know. All right. All right. Let's see what you guys selected. All right. Scott did one.

Brian did three. Neither of you overlapped. Let's get to the easy one. Because if you've seen any episodes of the British Bake Off, you know that the second challenge, the technical challenge is when they have a basically have to, make something that either Paul Hollywood or Pru or somebody has given the assignment. And it's always buried under a gingham, a gingham blanket. I felt pretty positive by the gingham, but I wasn't.

Yeah. Gingham is like, you know, when you see that red and white kind of checkered fabric like a picnic fabric. Oh, right. That's Gingham. That's gingham. Oh, all right. So I've seen some fancy sweaters. You absolutely seen some gingham.

So Brian, Brian picked that one. He gets a point. Nice. Let's go to the one Scott picked. Oh. Coquina. Coquina.

Coquina. Coquina. Coquina. We go snort some coquina. Is it Coquina or coquina? Coquina, I think. Right? I think Coquina, but it doesn't matter because it's a geological term.

Shit. As are the other two, Brian. and selected tough and gossin, meaning Scott wins with a single point. I can't believe neither of you know chenil, the fabric sheneal.

Like it's a thin, soft, I thought that was a brand, for sure. Oh, sure. I thought that was one of the lyrics in the opening of Laverine Chilverin Shirley. Chenile, Lafadio, monkey beaky-bo.

Gazzard. What was the other word? Gingham Gazzar. is one? Gazar. Gazzar? Yeah, Gazzar is like a fabric used in wedding dresses. It's like a transparent, like a semi-transparent fabric that's kind of mold.

Yeah. Okay. Weird. It's difficult to sew, but it's, but you use it for like molding and then you kind of pin it in places to like create, create sweeping. Yeah. I don't know if you researched this because you had the question. I did this morning. Oh, okay.

Oh, that's too bad. I was hoping you had like wedding magazines just laying around the office. So, Shanil and Gingham, I didn't have to look up, but I didn't know what Gazar was. I'm like, is that, what is that? Here's how it's,

here's how you pronounce it. Gazar. Gazar. Gazzar. I like how he says it. Gazzar. That guy's into it. Would you like X-R.

It's also how it's like somebody from the 60s pronouncing it because of the, this. The guy. It's a bad microphone. Gazzar. Here's a real guy. Gazzar. Gazzar. Hey, what's your favorite part of your wife's dress?

Gazzar. Okay, go to bed. Gazar. Well, he sounds southern as crap. Well, that means I've won by... How do you mispronounce the Tarzan dude from the Savage Land? Gazzar. Gazzar.

How long has it been since we had a one point, one at all thing? It's been a long time. Yeah, usually you guys walk out of here with like, you know, two, three points for the winner. But, no, a single point when you... It was just that second one, Scott. it was a Kodak slide projectors won it for you. You play conserve and you and it paid off.

Damn straight. Yes. And because of that, Patrick Irie is walking away with some games. He's getting a copy of Lego Lord of the Rings and Lego the Hobbit. Both will take you about 47 hours to finish because they're based on the Peter Jackson. Oh, they're the extended cuts.

I have no idea. Yeah. And if you win these games, you do have to complete them and report back. Yeah. You do. Exactly. But Ben Schlack, I'm sorry. Shalek, you are giving a copy of Tropico 5 complete collection. That's huge. Oh, 5's awesome. Five might be the peak of the series.

You don't have to play the completion. I may have said this about four already, but I think five actually is the peak of the series. Six is good, but I think five was like the best. I haven't played five yet. I've never played a Tropico game. They're great. So Tropico is basically city builder. Oh.

But instead of just building a city like Sim City, you're building a... You build a rock a rocker? No, you're building a... you're basically playing like a who's the guy that ran Cuba forever? Who's the who's that guy? Jimmy Buffet.

No. Yeah. No. No. The federal. Fidel Castro. You basically make a Castro like Cuban island government type thing.

Oh, really? Okay. So we're like a government builder. Okay. Yeah. And you try to decide how, how good do your people you are or how awful you're going to be. What kind of tyrant you're going to be?

You make shitty deals. You know. I had to go cigar, tobacco is great. Absolutely. You make your dude. You get into cigars, the sunglasses, the whole like military. Really? Oh, cool. Yeah, yeah.

Tropico series is great. It's very good. If you like city builders, it's just a fun twist. But really, at the end of the day, it's still kind of like, well, we need water to these houses and we need these guys to have this. It's just that you're under the auspices of you've got no money. The world thinks you're a tyrant. Everyone's cut off trade. So you kind of have to wing it.

But there's also a mode where you can just like cheat, you know, add a big cheat and just do whatever you want. So anyway, those games are great. He's going to enjoy the hell out of it. So congratulations, both Patrick and Ben. You'll see those in your Discord. Sorry, Discord. Patreon. Patreon.

PMs. That'll happen today. So watch for those right after the show, and you can go play those pretty much immediately. Congratulations. Brian Dunaway having you here is more than a treat. It's a pleasure. Oh, it's a pleasure. Yeah.

Anything going on in your world you want to mention before we go? Oh, man. I just, I, Granny, had a new replacement surgery. so we've been in and out dealing with all the extra stuff. And it's been good seeing granny more. So, yeah, it's good. Yeah, always see more granny. Yeah.

You need good knees when you're a granny. Yeah, she's getting better. Good. That's good. That's good news. I'm tired of hospitals where everything's going to shit. That would be great. Yeah.

That's all I have in my life. So that's great. Well, well done. We'll see you again Wednesday. And then we'll do a play retro that day too. Yeah. Between now and then. Kiss our butts.

All right. He's out of here. Cool. All right, you guys. You're all still here. That means you're going to get this. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd.

Dollar, dollar bills, y'all. Hey, look who's joining us all the way from Hayes, Kansas. It's the headquarters of major spoilers. Hello, Steven. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hey, man. How's things?

How's life? You know, I looked outside this morning and said, no, I'm going to just close it. Yeah. How much snow did you yet? We haven't gotten any snow, actually. Oh, okay. We had some big heavy wins last week. Yeah.

What is it? What's the one right on the other side of Kansas border in Colorado? They had 78. It's a town. It's like first gas station. They had 78 mile per hour wins. Oh, geez. Goodland had 75 mile per hour wins.

We ended up, we maxed out at 65. We had 45 or 50 mile an hour wins here. And it was, yeah, they did the rolling blackout stuff again. Oh, yeah. It didn't affect us. It was a little bit further north for us. Things were quiet here, but we had horrible, horrible air because we had the inversion happen. Oh, sure.

It was gross. It cleared out a little bit yesterday, but don't worry. By June, all you people coming in there are tackled are by June, none of that's here. There's no inversion. When it's hot. Oh, not even. And all the pollution is coming out. June, it's nice.

It's nice and cool and it's still spring-like, especially nowadays. Everything's pushed or something. I don't know what's going on with our weather system, but it feels like March used to be. Seasonal drift. Yeah, seasonal drift. There it is. Is that a thing? Is that really?

I don't know. Somebody told me that like 20 years ago, and it's only stuck in my mind. It's like, why? You know, it used to snow in December. And now it snows in January. And it's like, it's because the seasons are drifting. Because it drifts. Yeah.

I like it. There may be something to that. I don't know what the word is. You got no problem with that. That's a great, great little phrase. Well, I look forward to it. Anyway, hey, Stephen, let's get to it today. We've got a couple of things.

Now, first off, that we wanted to talk about is this, I know you're a super fan. I am too. Yeah. I know this is tenuous water that we're stepping in. But as massive fans of the Rockford Files, remember we used to even play it here. I know. We used to do the Rockford Files moment or whatever it was.

Whatever the heck it was. Yeah. Give you some trivia. That's right. And I've watched through it like, I don't know, probably five times in my life. Have you really? I don't know. More than that for me.

Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah, it's one of those things that if you're in, you are all in on the Rockford Files. It is an all-time series for some people. And then if you're not, it's just not. But here's the news. We're getting a reboot. And I wonder what a mega fan life Steven Schlecker makes of that.

Because, you know, the natural inclination on today's internet is to poo-poo everything that's happening. I know, right. Here's my take. And I wrote about this over on our substack, major spoilers. substack.com last week. And this is all up to NBC to succeed or fail. It's their IP. I don't really have a say in it.

And that's kind of, you know, I know people get really wrapped up in the fandom and saying, oh, we have the owner. The fans are the owners of this. But they're really not. And we'll talk maybe about another incident here in a little bit. But first of all, it's not a complete reboot. NBC has given a green light for a pilot for a reboot.

means, hey, why don't you guys make one episode? Why don't you make a pilot? If it's good enough, maybe we'll go to series. So keep in mind, this now is the third time that NBC has tried to reboot. Oh, really? The Rockford Files. The first time was like 15 years ago with Universal Pictures. They were going to make a TV show.

Then they decided to, well, maybe we can make this a movie with Vince Vaughn. And that fell through. And then like six or seven years ago, they had. Had Dermit Mulroney was Tadakrolney. Yeah, yeah. To play Jim Rockford in a reboot. I could kind of see that, by the way, at his age. At that time, that seems okay to me.

Totally, yeah. It's funny that Vince Vaughn was considered, because I feel like Bad Monkey. Yes. You guys obviously are bigger fans of Rockwood Files, but it feels like it feels like the Rockford Files a little bit. It does. And, of course, that's based on its own series,

of books. Yeah. And the funny thing is, depending on which way we go in on this, there's a lot of actors that I would pick to play Rockford. And they've all already played detectives that are riffing on the Rockford. They've all done Rockford likes. Yes, they have. And you mentioned right here with Bad Monkey, that's a perfect example of why Vince Vaughn should have been cast. Now, he's a, so Rockford Files ran from 1974 to 1980, and when it launched, James Garner was 46 years old.

Vince Vaughn is 55, so he's a little bit aged out, but maybe not much, of playing the same age as Garner did in the Rockford Files. Mulroney, I think, though, is maybe a little bit too old. He looks too old. At this stage, yeah, he'd be better as his dad or something. As a kid, I felt like, like, uh... No, they always look so old. They always look so old. Bright lights create those, really show off those wrinkles.

You know, they had to have a lot of lights to get a good picture. Yeah, but in reality, he was like, what, 42? 46. Yeah, he's 46. Kind of an average age guy. He had, he just dressed and looked the old guy thing. Like the chiseled jaw and the scruff and everything. I mean, don't get me wrong.

James Garner is a really good looking guy. Uh, you know, and I think he's, he was a big star before that show launched. Oh, for sure. Yeah, before this you had. Oh, right. The Have Gun Wolfram. Scope.

Navric. Navric. All of that. Palladin. Paladin was him too, wasn't it? Different dude. Different dude. Different dude, I think.

I can't remember who, though. But he was also in a few movies. He was great in that escape from Alcatraz deal. Yeah, Alcatraz. Or, no, great escape. That's right. Great escape. Yeah.

And he also did a bunch of racing movies. He was a big race car driver. So, you know, he was super well known. before the Rockford Files came about. He's so damn charming though. It's really hard to do with this. This is a hard one to cast. I'm just curious,

what is your reaction, Scott, when you heard the reboot news? Well, part of me was like, sweet. Here's the perfect world, and this is where people go wrong, I think. We can have both of these things, and it's okay. You know, like even if this turns out to be a bad idea or is misplaced,

I remember that like the Knight Rider reboot was pretty bad. But I remember at the time going, okay, well, I still have the original, which is cheesy and kind of bad anyway. It doesn't take that away from you. No, you don't lose what you love. So that's number one. Going into this, I'm optimistic

because I think that we now live in a time where writing and stylistic choices are more readily approved by studios because of the competitive streaming market we're in, and I think just is a better chance now of getting it right than it was, say, the mid-20s. As far as who I would pick, that's hard. Yeah, I've got a couple of them

First of all, I think that there's less than 50% chance That this goes to a series Oh, wow, that's low I think it's going to be really hard for it. I mean, it could be 48% That's less than 50%. But I don't know, I think that there It's going to be really hard because that actor is

Very important to play. So I've got a short list of three people. Let me give you my runners up first Because here are two people that I don't think would make it. Vince Vaughn, obviously, because he's doing a bad monkey, and he's doing a great job of that. Also, that's his Rockford Files right there. John Hamm is another one. You guys were just talking about... Oh, shit!

John Hamm would be really good. He does. And if you want to see John Hamm do detective, he's actually played Fletch a couple of years ago in a movie called Confess Fletch, which is fantastic. Which was fantastic. Yeah. Yeah. More like the book, right? It was a more... Yeah, it's a sequel. So there's a whole series of Fletch books. Fletch, I think, was the third book in the series,

and that's John Hamm playing Fletch there. So did a really great job for that. So he could easily do that. So people keep saying Paul Rudd in the chat. Paul Rudd's got a good actor. He's your number two. He's my number two. I don't think he's, not that John Ham's beefy,

but John Ham's got the stature that I associate with James Garner. I'm not sure that's maybe that important, but to me it seems like you need to be kind of a big guy, living in that shit trailer. You know what I mean? Maybe. I mean, first of all, Paul Rudd is very approachable.

He's very unthreatening. He brings credibility to the role. He's got the warmth that James Garner brings to the role. The drawback is that the writing could become too cute to play up to Rudd's comedy. Now, he just played a detective

in Only Murders of the Building. Well, he wasn't really a detective, but he was playing the role of a detective in a play on that. But he's done telly, he's come back from television, So he's done the big movies and he's done television. I think he's open. And of course, it used to be a bad thing for a movie actor to go to television.

But I think that today most actors are like, hey, television is great. And with the prestige of the Rockford Files, I think you're probably able to bring some people in for that. So Paul, what is my number two? When the news first broke two weeks ago about this, everyone was like, Stephen, Stephen, what do you think of my number three, Chris Pine, as, Jim Rockford. You can kind of fake how shorty. You can cover for how short he is.

He's a little tiny guy. Yeah. Now his dad, you guys know who his dad is? Yeah, he was Chips, yeah, the head of the department.

Chips guy. So he's been around. Oh, that's, Robert Pine, yeah. He's been around the television sets when he was growing up, so he might have some fondness for going there.

He's got the charm and the charisma to pull off a James Garner roll. But my big drawback is, Chris Pine is, way too attractive. He's too handsome. He is way too attractive. Yeah. Yeah.

Now, on the flip side, he has played a detective recently or semi-detective in a movie that I think myself and two other people have seen called the pool man. Heard it was good. Where he's basically a cross between the dude and Jake Gitties. He's living in a trailer. He's a pool man for this hotel. And he gets wrapped up in this mystery that is basically a Chinatown. water rights mystery and he wrote it and

I don't know if he directed it himself but he definitely wrote it and produced it and started in it so he can pull off that he can't pull off a down on his luck detective if he wanted to look at him. Yeah. But he's still too good looking. Yeah it'd be it would work. The other thing we haven't considered is

you know what if they decide to you know flip genders and I actually think there's a whole bunch of people I would go with. I think that that would be the you would have less than 10% of the going to serious if they did. Trust me. In today's climate?

I mean, they've already done that with... You'd burn it down. It would be bad. They already did it with... Mattlock. No, not Matt. Well, Colombo, the Colombo reboot. Oh, Columbo.

But also, what's the only Kathy Bates? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's Matt Locke, right? But I'm thinking of the NBC Peacock Plus original with Tasha Leone. Oh, gotcha. Oh, poker face. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that one went only two seasons.

That only went two seasons. That was a Colombo? I don't know as a Colombo deal. It was in. inspired by Colombo and that you know who done it and she has to draw it out. Gotcha. Hey, I've got one more thing I want to ask.

Yeah. I love her. What about the cockroaches? Yeah, that show that show was beloved too and it still got canned after two seasons. Yeah. My number one pick and this one's going to be really hard because I think he is way up in the movie, start him right now

and I don't think he would do television. But Ryan Gosling. Oh, he'd be good. Schleppy. He's kind of living in that shit thing. He can do comedy. He can do comedy. He can do drama. He can do action adventure. Romance. He sings. He dances. And he already basically played Rockford in 2016's The Nice Guys. Yeah. Sure.

If you look, I was just watching it again the other night. A Gun in the Cookie Jar. The ad that he has in the Yellow Pages is a direct rip-off of the Rockford Files ad. What's the name of the movie he's got coming out this year? He'll marry. That's it. I'm so excited about that. It's a fantastic book. I would encourage everybody to read it.

That's the Martian guy, right? Andy Weir. Used to be a programmer on Warcraft. Yeah, Warcraft, yeah. Warcraft, yeah. So those are my, that's my short list of people that I would pick to play Jim Rockford. And, you know, the TV thing, it's not, it's, TV's the new promised land for movie actors, for illist actors. It's like, you know, come, come do your thing on TV and have a much laster.

much longer lasting property and paycheck coming in, if it's good. I think the thing that is probably the most... So I don't really think that the Rockford Files is going to play on this nostalgia of fans like me because we've already got all the DVD collections, we've already ripped them onto our plaques.

You know, we've got everything. There are places streaming it too. It's not... Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I don't think that you're going to be attracting the olds or the super old fans of this. You might be attracting people who are older who watch TV all day.

So you need to think of some actor that would attract, you know, our age of people and up. But really, this is an opportunity for NBC to really find a new crowd of people. Kind of like what they did with the Hawaii 5-0 reboot. I don't know how well the Magnum PI reboot went. But I think they need to go for a crowd who doesn't know who Rockford is. And I think one of these three or five people that I've picked could do that pretty easily.

Yeah, I think so too. The Y-50 one's a great example because that actually hit really well with people. I found it a little formulaic and not great. So I kind of don't want them to just make another procedural and then skin it like it's Rockford Files. Yeah. You got to really go for what Rockford Files was. You know, they had these things like how much you pay or what do you charge, 200 a day plus expenses and travel or whatever. Like those kind of moments, they're very organic in the original.

they feel good. He's doing real work as a detective, so there's some gnarly shit can go down or whatever, but at the end of the day, there's just like this really affable thing going on. I don't know. I think it's a hard, it's a challenge, but as one megafan from the other, Stephen,

let's just hope. That's all we can do. We have the old stuff. All we can do is hope. Yeah, and if it doesn't get out of pilot, it's not like we're going to see the pilot anyway unless it's leaked online somewhere, just like the Wonder Woman pilot

with Pilecki. The only reason we've seen it is because it leaked. So, you know, if it doesn't get out of pilot season, which is kind of the bigger news about this is that pilot season had kind of dried up during the last strike. And by the way, we're getting up to contract negotiations again with people. So you'll be on the lookout for that. Oh, geez. But this is kind of the first time that we're seeing a studio really ask for multiple pilots

of shows. And they listed off at variety, like five different shows that NBC has asked for pilots. So if more studios can get behind it, we may have a whole pilot season, which will bring back production for people in Los Angeles. It will bring back jobs for actors and bring back all the support crew that needs to be around this. So pilot season could be a very good thing if it continues on, but everyone focused on the Rockford part and not the, hey, everybody, pilot season is back. Yeah, that's the trick. Focus on the Rockford part. That's how they get you. Yeah, well, that's great. There is one of the little bit of minor, not minor news, kind of major news, but we don't have, I don't have a huge take on it, but Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down as president of Lucasfilm. Right. And you're getting Filoni in there, right? Is that the deal?

Well, it's actually two co. It's like president and co-president. Co-managers, yeah. Instead of calling it. And it's really where you're going to be really careful how we go about this because some people will get really. been out of shape if pheloni is the president and then um i don't know how to say her name it's like llewellyn burdoloni i think is her name um she is the co-president you can't call pheloni you can't call pheloney also a co-president he's president he's president he's president she's co-president okay yeah yeah so felonie is going to be in charge of the creative side so he will have uh the vision of where lucas film should go for any of their projects including star wars which is where he started um you know decades ago with uh clone wars uh he actually started with

Avatar the last Airbender. And then moving up the ranks. The other person who, again, sorry, I can't remember her name, she's going to be kind of like the business side of the company. So she'll give some final go-aheads and

kind of where the money is coming from. Kind of like what we see right now over at DC Studios with those two guys running stuff over there. Sure. And so I think that that will be a good thing. Linwin Brennan, By the way.

Yeah, Brennan. Yeah. Linwin, I think, yeah. Lindwin. Yep. The thing that is, I think that people who have their hate engines going on all the time, and that's how they make their money, they're the ones that are static over this news that Kennedy is,

she's not leaving Lucasfilm. She's actually going to produce. She's got two more projects that she's going to produce for Lucasfilm and may even continue to produce more for Lucasfilm. But people are already starting up their hate engines on Faloni, apparently. he said some comments about and or that he didn't really care for it that much. I don't know if that's really confirmed or not. Like one of the best Star Wars things that's come out in years and he's,

that that's his, wow, okay. But for people, Kathleen Kennedy produced your favorite movies of all time. Yeah. Right. I mean, I was young. I was maybe 1213. The first time I read an article about Amblein Entertainment. And I was like, oh, this is Steven Spielberg's company.

And then I'm like, who's this Gary Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy? Who are these people? And I started reading about them. Even at a young age, I knew Kathleen Kennedy is the one who's making Jurassic Park and Star Wars and Readers of the Lost Dark and all of these, all these films that we love, she's the one making them happen. So for people that are like, man, she's ruined everything Lucasfilm. No, she made everything Lucasfilm because she's the producer. And the producer is the ones that is in charge of scheduling, finding money, making sure that everything's running on schedule, doing promotions. So producer is a bigger role than a director.

And a lot of people don't realize that. So Kathleen Kennedy needs to be given a lot of respect for all of the years that she has been in Hollywood and doing the things that she has done. and I think that letting her retire on her own terms is the best way to do it as opposed to get out of here. Yeah, I tend to agree. I think that you're right though there's an economy around hating on this stuff by default. Yes, of course. And I'll just ignore all that shit. So stupid.

Yeah, that's what I, that's right. Yeah, she's done really good work. I think it, you know, you could also look at this pragmatically and go, well, maybe it's time for her to do other stuff. you know, not to point out ages, but she is 72. I hope that I can retire at age 72 and that I'm not coming in. Hello, Scott. Hello. How are you doing? We're back here today.

It's cold in these Kansas. Don't forget to drink your mucelix, everybody. Stay muclix is. Yeah. Yeah. Is that when it's a verb now? Yes. We're going to make it a verb now.

Is that a bit of a muclech? Is that a bit of a Pucelix? By the time that we hit 72, it'll be a verb. That's fantastic. Well, yeah, we'll see what happens. I think it's possible to really like her career and also say, yeah, maybe it's time. Just to, I don't know, move on to less stuff. There's nothing wrong with that.

If she wants to do it, too, in particular. Yeah. Which sounds like this is her doing, not a lot of pressure or whatever. But again, if you listen to hate or internet, they're going to tell you whatever you want to hear to freaking get the clicks. Of course. This is something that's been in the works for a couple of years now. Two years ago, there was talk that she was going to step down. But it was just like, nope, we're talking about systems.

session when I'm ready to step down. And so that's all in place. Will Filoni do a great job? I like a lot of Faloni's work, but I think the one person that everyone in Hollywood is just sleeping on and not giving him his comeuppance is, I forgot his name. Jason Alexander. No.

He is happy, happy. Happy Gilmore. Oh, happy Hogan. John Favreau. John Favre. He is, I mean, you won't have Marvel Studios without John Favreau. For sure. You won't have the love of Mandalorian and everything that's going on with that without Favro.

And I think that people just don't really consider him. Now, maybe they have in behind the scenes. Say, hey, Fravre, would you like to come do this stuff? Maybe he's like, no. Yeah, he may be like that way. Yeah, he may be happy doing whatever he's doing. But he's one that I also think that people need to. Yeah, you wouldn't have, you wouldn't have more respectful.

You wouldn't have Zathura. Yeah, you wouldn't have Aliens versus Cowboys, Cowboys versus Aliens? Yeah, you wouldn't have that weird. You don't have that one. Yeah, I didn't hate it as much as I was led to believe I would hate it.

It was all right. It's not the comic. It's one of those ideas that it was better suited for a comic. Nobody was going to make a good version. Well, there's a big story behind that. Oh, yeah. All right, for another time.

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Yeah. This is from... Stephen came up today. Yeah, it did. For some reason. Oh, I know why, because I do this now. This is about the jugs of pee. This is a text.

came from Gondry and Bigtree or at, sorry, Gondry at Bigtree. I don't know if that's a thing, a place, a company, I don't know what that is. Who knows? Gondry's throwing me off. Anyway, hi, Scott. Oh, no, sorry, that's not how it reads.

It says, Scott complains about the inversion a lot. You know, I did talk about that earlier. Yeah. Is he saying that right? I think it's called invasion. Maybe he can explain it. No, no, no. It's inversion.

It's inversion. There's nothing invading us. maybe he thought I meant the pollution getting trapped as an invasion, but it is called an inversion. It's high pressure, low pressure front, pushing one down kind of thing. Yeah, and you're, because we're in a, the Salt Lake Valley is a big, essentially a bowl of, the edges of this bowl are mountains. Used to be a giant prehistoric lake called Lake Bonneville way, way back.

So that's why there's so many weird fossils here is from that lake bed. Weird ones. And if you, and if I look out over on the East Mountains, I can actually see where that water line was. It's crazy. It's really cool. But anyway, as a result, because of that and because we live in a modern, because we live in a society, we're pumping out car crap and, you know, industry and everything else. And so you end up with, you know, this thing that happens where it traps it. And it usually doesn't last very long. But sometimes it's like a week or something. And they, they have different air quality levels where they encourage old people with emphysema or whatever not to go outside or things like that. But then it's usually brief, usually connected to the winter only, and then come spring, it's beautiful for this a year, unless there's fires. And then we have kind of an artificial version of that.

Yeah, the smoke gets kind of trapped there. Yeah. But that's what it is. It is not an invasion. No one has invaded. Nope. But do watch the Apple TV series invasion because it's very good. I'm glad you keep reminding me because I keep forgetting to just stick it on my list.

I like plan to watch it and just. haven't done it yet. I need to see that. And I will say the most reason, the newest season that just came out of English teacher, I don't think, I can't remember the last time, maybe community was the last time I laughed this hard at a TV show. That show is so good. It's so good. Yeah. And the newest season writing is just top-frikin notch. Why do you think, I don't feel like that show gets enough. Well, whatever. We live in a time of so much stuff. No one talks about anything anymore. Yeah.

Blah, too much. Not watching it, watch it. It's on Hulu because of FX. You can get your stuff there. Yeah, we love that show. It is the funniest damn thing. That's it for our messages. You'd like to keep those coming to us.

You can easily go to our website and find a way that the best fits your desired form of communication. Find it, frogfans.com slash TMS. It's going to do it for us. A normal week this week for the foreseeable anyway. We should have a show every day. And that includes a episode Friday. and it also includes, actually it's everything. Wendy, yeah, Wendy's going to be, we don't know.

She'll either be physically here or she'll call in for my sisters, but she'll definitely be in town. Okay, cool. I just don't know what that morning holds, but she gets in Wednesday night, I think. And then the weekends are kind of hell, but other than that, it should be smooth sailing here for TMS anyway. So we'll let you guys know if any of that changes.

Let's get out of here with some music. You got a little something on the thing? I do. This is, so I've heard the term before, slowcore, like as a musical genre. They just put the word core after everything, and that's a kind of music. It helps with me marketing core, the video game podcast. It does, yeah, absolutely, especially when they do in all caps. Well, the band, Death Crash from London has a brand new slow core album.

They're from London. The brand new album comes out at the end of February. It's called Somersaults. And when I saw the name Death Croshers, I'm like, oh gosh, what am I in for? And I started listening to it and I said, this is an awesome jam. This thing's really good.

It's a, it's slowcore. It's more like Bonavere and Mazzie Star, those kinds of things. Oh, that's, is that what they mean when they say? Slow core? Yeah, yeah. So if you like albums like, or bands like Jesus and Mary Chain or water from your eyes.

Okay. Or Lauren Otter, then you'd probably like this. It's really good. The first single is the title track. It's called Somersaults. Here is Death Crash. Like a candle and... Let it wash off my face. I walked home on purpose so I wouldn't get there early. Like a burning yellow sky. I'm a softly spoken guy. I walked home on so I wouldn't see you cry. We're coming home.

I wouldn't say How much that I feel This is Shytown This is Shight Town This is Shight Town all the way This is Shytown All the way We're coming home

This story of Christmas actually Is a pretty Baja I want to ship my honey Bajer I hope your phone's still hot I delivered it from 1925 No you've got to take the left

You can't do a partial left George. Did you take the lap? Did you take the lap? I took the lap, Jerry. I'm time to take the lap, Jerry. And then he goes, I'm on the field. I'm going to the gold. I am an English man in New York. You don't have to turn off the red light. Roxanne. Who turned off the red light? It wasn't me. Who turned off the red light? It wasn't me. Billy, you've been a very bad boy. I'm going to poop on your plate of cookies and pissing your milk. Goodbye. Great. That's really weird. Would you like to come?

Come over to Buckingham Palace and shag. Maybe come over for a snog and some tea. Santa Claus. Yeah, Santa Claus. What are you going to ask for from Santa Claus this year? You better be good, or he will bring you a dirt shit. So maybe it's just me. Maybe I have to flesh 15 times because of all the hamburgers that I'm eating,

drinking it down with a big glass of Kofifei. You're like that one? How about this one? Yeah. It's a good feeling when you let one. one of those go. Dutch oven. I did a Dutch oven.

Did you say Dutch oven? The thing about Dutch ovens is they don't really come from Amsterdam. To make one right here in your own home. Just have a blanket and your significant other. And then you fart in the blanket. Then you hold them down so they can't get out. What do you think, Mr. McPheely? It's my life.

Every part of love, could you please peel this banana form? The one time we have an Australian, Brian, does a British accent. Oh, he's a New Zealander. Oh, he is an Australian. He's Australian. I thought he was a New Zealander. And it still wasn't a New Zealand accent.

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