The Morning Stream - TMS 2985: Pig Moisture

Episode Date: March 31, 2026

6 1/2 inch vine analysis. Panthers are Pigeons. Lulling you into the sixties. Brian watches too much Television. We're not livin' in the best house. Zartan asks what's in your wallet? Buck Fiddy Glizzy. We Called the Beard Zoe. Here Comes Some Green Poops. A Very Special TMS Quiz. Shit! I mean yes. Were There Chicks in the Bucket on Petticoat Junction? Succulent Chinese meal. This is about the jugs of Chuck. YOU CAN ROLL DICE! w Dan and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brillette Savarin once said, Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. We will let you think on that for a while, but in the meantime, head over to patreon.com slash TMS and signal your support of this audio and video concern today. Coming up on the morning stream, six and a half inch vine analysis. Panthers and Pigeons. Lulling you into the 60s.

I said, and, but I'll leave it. Oh. Brian watches too much TV. We're not living in the best house. Zartan asks, what's in your wallet? Buckfordiglizzi. We called the beard, Zoe. Here comes some green poops.

A very special TMS quiz. Shit. I mean, yes. Were there chicks in the bucket on petticoat junction? Succulent Chinese meo. This is about the jugs of Chuck. You can roll dice with Dan and more on this episode of the Morning Stream. The shape goes into a shape press that presses the shape into a pressed shape.

Ah, what the pork? The morning stream. the good guys will come and get you. Okay. Hello everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Tuesday, March 31st, 26. I am Scott Johnson.

That is Brian Ibit. Hello. Hello, and welcome to the end of March. It's it. This is it. End of March. Is it going out like a lamb for you or going out like a lion? Did it get it backwards?

It is stealthing around like a panther who wants to eat me. Oh, gosh. Okay. That's how the end of March is feeling. Although. In like a lion out like a panther that wants to each. Yeah. Or a jaguar.

Wait, so aren't Panthers just something else? What's the deal with Panthers? There's something with Panthers. Yeah, they're really pigeons, just like dogs. No, what is it? There's, is it a Puma and a panther are basically indistinguishable unless you know. Right. Like, it's just based on something like that.

I don't know the deal. I really don't. I'm no animalologist. Yeah. And that isn't even a word. So. Anyway, it's good to see you all. Hope you're all doing well.

Brian, I hope you're doing well because we matter most. And then, you know, we take care of our own oxygen and then we pass it to the kid next to us. And that's the audience. So we know the order of how people need to be doing here on the show. I got a thing real quick. It's a contest I made for you. Cool. I love a contest. Yeah.

It's a little silly, but it's, I don't know, just hit me the other day whilst, oh, I'm on the wrong. Here we go. It wasn't the wrong thing that whole time. It hit me the other day while I was watching some old show on one of these channels that just does like, you know, here's the 80s TV channel. And it just runs episodes and you just kind of have it. It's almost as if you were living in must see TV or something for. Yeah. It's like you're, you, it's what we used to do, kind of, right?

Yeah, kind of right. You have to put it on and just have it on because you weren't time shift. in that business. So I go listen to the radio. So here goes. We're going to talk or we're going to do this here deal. So these are stingers that they play like transitional between, we're in this scene in the house.

But now we need to go to the malt shop where everybody's hanging out. Let's play a little thing that. Or maybe the credits just ended. And this is our first scene after the first set of commercials. And you get a little lead in music or whatever. And I think you're actually doing really well. There are only six of these. I just have a feeling you have a good ear for this.

So I'm not thinking that I'm going to stump you too hard. But there might be one or two. As long as none of them are Duke's a Hazard or Night Rider or any of the good show, quote unquote, good shows that I didn't watch, then I should be fine. Well, what's surprising is how few actually did it. There were, I didn't do MASH, for example, because MASH is, I think, too simple. Too simple. Yeah, I'm trying to think about the Mesh. Like, and it was early.

They didn't do it later. I was going to say, yeah, they did it. Like in that first season, probably. Season one, season two. And there was way more of a sitcom and less of a poor as hell kind of show. Yeah. So I didn't use them. But I used a bunch.

I think that you will do well with. So here, let's start with this one. Throw it out here. I'm not giving any hints in terms of year or era or any of that. Well, let's just do it raw. Here we go. Raw dog these files. All right, here we go.

That's a short one. What? That's all, yeah. Yeah. Okay, well, that feels like, that feels like 60s television. Give me one more time. God, and they would play that like between scenes, like before, okay. God, I'm getting like Andy Griffith or Petticoat Junction or,

I will say, Beverly Hillbillies, maybe. I will say you're definitely in the right era. Ballpark, yeah. And you may have said, with those three, four examples you just gave, you may have said the right one already. I said the right answer. Okay. I don't think you'd go. I don't think you'd give me a petticoat Junction. I'm going to, I'm going to push that one out of the way. There's old Joe. He's a moving kind of slow at the junction. I don't even, I remember nothing. Really? Oh, that's the best. Yeah. That's more of a green acres guy around that area. The only thing I remember is the train pulls into town and the three hotties that live in Petticoat Junction are,

bathing in the water tower. And they each pull their clothes from inside the water, the water tank. Yeah. They pull their clothes off the side like, oh, no, we got to get dressed because the trains here.

Yeah, to cover up all the people have come back. But they're swimming naked and in our water supply? Come on now. All right. Anyway, okay. So,

gross. I don't like that at all. How do you describe it? I think I'm liking. here's my thinking. I think you're going to, you're going to lean towards either Beverly Hillbillies or Andy Griffith because,

A, you like Andy Griffith. B, you know I hate Beverly Hillbill, or at least I love the TV show. I hated the movie. I don't know why that is. I don't know why I like the TV show so much and hated the movie. Probably Donna Dixon.

But let's say it's, I'm going to say that you're doing this with an Andy Griffith sensibility, so I'm going to say Andy Griffith. All right, let's find out. Is it Andy Griffith? Oh, it is it? Well done.

And they use it all the time, including the theme at the beginning where... Really? It like... Do do, do to do. And they played out of the end. Yeah. Yeah, it's like after the...

Yeah, exactly right. Okay. All right, Brian, so you're kicking it off with a great run. Let's see how you do with number two. There you go. That's one of the rare Brady Bunch stingers, I think, that doesn't use...

the da-da-da-da-da or the jaunty yeah that's why i didn't use those because i they were so you're like dead on easy yeah exactly so he did good that was a and that was a very i had to find a very special episode where like gregg was fighting some dude in high school oh nice so you you curated these yourself i'm impressed oh yeah i went and found them dug them out good work yeah found episodes of things where it was less obvious i hope anyway but you're two for two i think You may clear the board here. All right. Let's see how we do.

All right. Third. Oh, that's your family guy. That's, uh, yeah. They get that so quick. I was hoping I'd lull you into the 60s and 70s. And then it's a good, like it's a good estimation of what 70s and 80s stinger is worse. So yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. That's like they're one of their best parodies is that every episode has that stuff in it. Yeah. Um, all right. So you're killing it. Let's try this one. Ooh.

All right. Back in time again. We're going back in time. That's 60s for sure. Give it to me. I'm getting a Flintstones vibe from that. Dang. I was going to say to check.

Why fight it, right? A few people in the chat got it and you nailed it. Oh, nice. I'm surprised. I actually thought that one was going to be hard because it wasn't the burn that or the do it, whatever they do between. Yeah, no, it definitely sounds like they recorded the theme song and then recorded that right away afterwards. Yeah.

All right. So let's see if this one, if I finally can get you on this one. Okay. Here we go. So at Gilligan's Island. I mean, I mean, yes. You totally got it. Yeah, you know, that's a good point.

It's like that da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. But that's interesting because I feel like that was as much the theme of Gilligan's island as the actual Sherwood Schwartz theme sign. That's what's crazy because it's not taken from it, but it's used so much for these parts we're talking about, including the exit of the thing that it's like as good as the theme in our heads. It totally is like that used so often that, yeah, hearing that little bit.

Wow. Okay. That was fun. That was a lot of fun. All right. I got one more. Ready? Okay.

Final one. Let's see if this gets you. Turns out Brian's got a good ear for music. Who thought? I've watched a lot of stupid TV. Here you go. All right. My

I'm leaning king of the hill. Damn it! Aced it. Six out of six. Yeah. All right. There we go. Admittedly, it was King of the Hill that actually inspired this. Oh, was it really? Okay. Yeah. I was watching that. And they do a great. They don't do it between every scene, but they do it when they come back from the intro.

and it's always like something like that and usually somebody's talking over it so I can't get a clean one. It's a very, you know, it's, it could be, like it could have been, that could have been South Park, right? Could have been South. Oh, yeah, that's very South Park.

And even like something like Roseanne where it's like, we're not living in the best house, man, kind of thing. We're not living. We're just barely. making a paycheck to paycheck. You know, we're living here on Green Acres.

We're a theme song for Roseanne is the best. I love your version of it. That was great. The chat, someone in the chat says, I only got two right. How'd everybody else do? Do you guys do all right out there? I think probably Wicked Kitten probably got all of them.

She's, she's, get the sort of thing. Yeah, first thing she yelled was, that was so easy, she said. All right. work harder next time. Geez. Well. Yeah, you need to change in difficulty. I can do that. Listen, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum. You know, what might be right for you may not be right for some. For some, right? You didn't even mean to rhyme that or have that match a song of a show at all. It was totally, no one will get it. Actually, all of us of a certain age will get it. Yeah, exactly. What would we do without us? Yeah. Good, good Lord. All right. Well, that was fun. Thank you for participating.

I'll come up with some harder versions of this in the future. Cool. Sounds good. I had fun looking these up. It was a good time. Oh, I'm sure. That's a blast. I'm sure there's like a super cut of them somewhere on YouTube that you could. Actually, I tried to find more of stuff like that.

And I couldn't find anything that was like, like I'm surprised. You're right. That's normally like, yeah, YouTube, someone has done a big compilation, but I couldn't find one. So it's really weird. The other one I was thinking about doing, I think we may have done a version of this. Do you remember when we did it was the outro things like the logos for... Oh, like you sit, Oboo sit.

Yeah. Good dog. Yes. That stuff. That was a really fun one. I think I did really well there too. I think you got me on a lot of those because it was the Stephen J. Cannell that... Oh, yeah.

I like that one a lot. I do too, yeah. But that one threw me because I was like I wanted to make it, I wanted it to be something else, I think, if I remember. Yeah. And we did an adult, I think adult swim. Adult swim probably got me. Except for the, the dong one. No, that one because the space ghost.

Thank goodness for Paper Street. Paper Street? No, not Bleaker. Something Street. Yeah, maybe not Paper Street. Shit. But yeah, now there, yeah, that's when I first started, too. That's funny.

I guess that was the first time those guys really started going nuts with that stuff. Look at that. We talked about Brack yesterday, Space Ghost today. What's next? Who knows? Zoidberg tomorrow? Is that the, not Zoidberg. What was the mantis?

Oh, um, Zartan, Zartan, Zartan, maybe, Zartan, Zorak. Zorak. Thank you, Tandagosa. Of course, Tondagosa. Zartan, Zartan was the guy who played against what's in your wallet girl on alias. Michael. Oh.

No, it's Vartan. Never mind, Vartan, not Zartan. Well, who, wait, who's Zartan then? There's a name, there's somebody's Zartan. Oh, G-I-J. Okay, thank you, Squishy, Twitchy, Twitchy, Twitchy, Can I? So, all right, Apple, you know, doled out their new update here a couple days ago. By the way, I found out that April is going to be my two-year anniversary of signing up with T-Mobile,

so that's when I'm going to upgrade. So next month upgrading to the 17 pro max and getting the sweet burnt orange. Oh, loving it. Yeah, orange is awesome. It's so cool. Anyway. I hear it fades really weird in the sun, but you're doing a case, right? Or no.

I probably will do a case, I think. I hear, but also I don't sit around and I don't have my phone in the sun all the time. I will do a case because I'm basically the case that I bought that doesn't fit. I'm going to say, I bought the wrong one on Amazon and get the right one. Oh, there you go. And that's got that bigger weird window thing in the back. It's got that weird window, but it's also got the pullout ring that I can, you know. Oh, that's right.

The non-fumble ring. Yeah. Anyway, so they doled out their new update and Apple Music had a couple updates. Their AI playlist generators getting a whole bunch of, of flack, which, you know, from what I hear is well deserved. I can't run it. And I think it might be because I'm not doing music sync because my library is too big, but I'm not sure. We'll have to, I'll have to do some playing around with that. Are they just curated, curated playlist that an AI puts together? Like, is that the idea? It's, yeah, the AI actually, you, you describe a mood.

You say, like, I want a bunch of electronic dance music that without vocals, um, nothing faster. than 100 beats a minute, whatever. So Philly in the chat just said it, but Spotify does this, so does YouTube music. I don't know that those are controversial. What is controversial about the Apple one? Is it just that it's AI in general? It's AI. What's controversial?

It's not doing a very good job. So somebody will say, give me a bunch of 70s music, you know, yacht rock songs and it'll go along with your Pablo Cruz and your Kenny Liggins and your Michael McDonald's, and all of a sudden it'll stick a

Kelly Clarkson in there or something and can throw it. Some reviewer. I haven't tried it out yet myself, but I'm curious about how it goes. But the quote was Apple's new AI feature is, quote, bad at music. Okay, so it's not that it's the curation's bad.

It's the curation. It's the, yeah, the whatever AI is looking for. But the other feature they rolled out, they kind of absorbed the website Bands in Town, which is a really good resource for like saying, hey, let me look at the music that you listen to all the time, and I will put a list on the bottom of your iTunes screen or on the bottom of your Apple music screen that says, here are the bands that you listen to that are coming to town.

And this morning, I'm doing an article about it for daily music headlines, and I'm like, oh, yeah, I haven't even tried that yet, let's try it. And I do, and I'm like, oh, yeah, Muse is coming in August. they'd be great. Oh, Japanese breakfast is coming. Oh, these. And then I see the freaking dance hall crashers who I, one of my favorite 90s bands.

Ska, big influence to like current SCA and whatever fourth wave or fifth wave, whatever wave we're on. And I see that they have reunited after breaking up nearly 30 years ago, 96, I think they broke up. Oh my gosh. They've

reunited and they're coming to freaking mission ballroom here. in Colorado next month. And so immediately bought tickets. Nice. And they're coming with the aquabats and five iron frenzy. So what a freaking show that is going to be. Oh my God. How old are these guys? And they can be our age. Got to be. Probably. Yeah. Karina. Karina, what's the lead singer's name? Let's see. Let's see how old they are. I mean, that is a crazy gap between band. It is. Like breaking up and reuniting. Yeah. And well, the funniest part is they did.

one-off show for one of the for the van's warp tour and um tristan got to see them and so like here's this band i've always wanted to see and uh and tristan's like oh yeah dance hall crashers they i saw them play at uh at vans warp tour like when you're like great fantastic that they that they got it um yeah was put together by tim armstrong of operation iv and rancid and and and all that um i liked rancid back in the night yeah tim armstrong is the only only person I'm able to get a get an age on and he's 60. Oh my gosh. That's that can't be right. He is. He was born in 1965. Yeah, I don't like that at all. I just don't like it. Uh, anybody involved with Rancid should not be in their 60s. That doesn't make sense to me. That's insane.

Yeah. Yeah. We did an episode of, uh, Tim Arnstrong slash Tim Timebomb, uh, for soundography. He's, he's legit. I mean, he is like, you know, he is the. The Bob Dylan of that, of that style of music. Yeah. I, I, I, uh, punk movement. Yeah, I kind of, I kind of have recollection of his name and, like, outside of just, well, that's, he's part of that band. Like, they had more going on.

I always admire that when these guys can, like the, the, the, the, the gorilla's dude whose name I never remember. Oh, Damon Albarn. Damon Albarn can go from blur to that. Yeah, it's like such a, it's so different, but it's, um, look at, uh, who's the guy. I, oh, shoot, I will follow you into the dark. It is married to Zoe Day Chanel for a little while. Oh.

Death Cab for Cutie. Oh, right. Is that guy. I can't remember his name, but I know who you mean. Yes, the guy's name. They're not married anymore, right? No, no. Ben Gibbard.

Ben Gibbard. Ben Gibbard. Because he had Death Cab for Cutie, but then he also had the postal service, which had a completely different. Yeah. Different sound. Love those guys. Yeah.

Oh yeah, here he is. He is one of those guys. He is one of those guys who can do that. Like have two very different sounding bands. I mean, Flea just came out with a jazz album. Yeah, and Flea can act. And Flea can act. Where the rest of the chili peppers, nowhere to be, well, months and a while they'll show up, but they're bad.

He's actually good and stuff. He's really good. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Zoe de Chanel 2009 to 2012, they were married. Oh, my gosh. That's a decent run, but. It is.

Three years of nothing but ukulele music in his house. That's why he pushed him away. I just can't hear another rendition of somewhere over the rainbow. Yeah. Plus, you know, the new girl, she became the old girl. Time to move on. That's terrible. I love her.

She's great. She's great now. Oh, she's now married to a property brother. Is that another band? She's married to a property brother. No, property brother is from the HGTV. Oh. The twins.

the two guys who look alike, jaws like a freaking girder. Let me see here. This is, oh, these are the beard men. Oh, one of them has a beard.

Oh, these are good looking guys. Her name is Zoe Deschannel. Oh, man. So hold on here, chat. This is one.

Tell me which one. Who is it? Oh, I don't know. I don't know which one is married to Zoe National. Because they're kind of twins, right? They are twins, yeah.

Okay. Not just kind of they actually are. I think they actually are twins. Okay. Yeah, they're a handsome young. Philly Codd says the guy on the right is the one that's married. The turtlenecker. Okay.

Yeah. That fits better, I think. He's less chesty. In all the pictures I'm finding here, he's the one that dresses up a bit more. It puts a little bit more into the overall look. He's over here, although he doesn't have a beard here. See, again, without a beard, you could, you basically, Like it totally is the fact that one of them wears a suit

The other one is like, oh, I'm all, I'm all, uh, there they are and they're kids. So that's something. Wow. Yeah, one on the left looks. I like that they get the same kind of shirt but different colors. Yeah. Yeah, these are twins that did it right, I guess. Yeah. Well, good for her. She'll never have to fix the sink again. That's right. Yeah, Zoe. She's, uh, oh, I guess they're not married yet, just engaged.

Oh, all right. Jonathan Scott, which is the one on the right, it looks like. Oh, so she's married to this freewheeling right side guy. She's married. Yep, yep, Drew's the one with the beard. There you go. Okay. Yep.

That's cool. Wait, is this them and their, no, those are ladies. All right, never mind. Okay, well, good for her. Yeah. She's adorable. She is. Oh, at one point.

Look, they were trying to make a real break from each other. Look at this. The one on the left is like. I don't want to look like you anymore. I just came from the smash mouth concert. I'm hanging out with my tight-knit brother. I do like that one always seems to be just a little more tucked in. Do you have tickets?

Do you have tickets for train? That is the train outfit. Train's still with us? Still with us. Pat Monaghan is a, you know, for all the first. flack the train gets. And I've probably lavished my own, you know, uh,

jokes about train. They're actually, Pat Monahan is a really brilliant guy when he comes to music. Yeah. And he's got a great voice. What am I, you know, I just wish they would have put out,

when they put out a Led Zeppelin cover album, make it not sound just like Led Zeppelin. Put your own spin on it, dude. Do that. Yeah, do that. Yeah.

I agree with you. Uh, well, good. Here's the news, we have news. Yeah, the news.

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So check that out. Daily Music headlines, find out more about all that. Nice. Let's talk about a succulent Chinese meal. I love seeing this. Yes. The Australian National Film and Sound Archive has added that dude's succulent Chinese meal speech to their archives, which is crazy. Love it. I love it.

What's really weird about this is always strikes me as odd that it was as long ago as it was, but it was 35 years ago. Wow. Jack Carlson was hauled into a police car outside a Chinese restaurant in Queensland. He couldn't have known his bombastic speech would be watched by millions around the world becoming a meme and now preserved forever in the Australian National Film and Sound Archive. His declaration, gentlemen, this is democracy manifest. What is the charge? I'm guessing they're not going to use the entire audio clip. Oh, I mean, it claims the entire speech is going in there.

Including, are you prepared? To receive my limp penum. Yes. Yeah, it seems like it is. Do you have that clip handy by the way? I do. Not me doing it, but the... I was trying to find the whole thing and it's being elusive here.

Let's see. What is the charge? No, no, no, no, no. it's not it is it is this might be it um no that isn't it why can't i find this guy what's it what's the main thing the chinese meal i'd say look for succulent chinese meal let's see or my i might have done the receive my oh probably are you prepared already oh i found it okay i found this i don't know if i have the whole thing are you waiting to receive my limp penis yeah are you waiting to receive We've Mandelaified that a little bit.

We have. But he's, they're going to go ahead and put, it's one of says nine pieces of audio that have been added to the NFSA's Sound of Australia collection this year, along with a pedestrian crossing signal and Missy Higgins 2004 hit Scar. Okay. Do you know that song?

Interesting. I don't. I don't. I know, I don't, I know Missy Higgins, but I don't know that song. I don't either. This was established almost two decades ago. the Sounds of Australia is a collection of sound recordings that reflects historical, cultural,

and aesthetic significance of the country. And they figure that did you be in there. You know what? I kind of agree. Sure. I think he, you know, that went far and wide, still gets referenced today constantly. An amazing use of it in an episode of what we do in the shadows by Laslo was amazing.

Yeah. Where he says, What'd you like a meal? A succulent Chinese meal. Anyway, we figured it would be important to talk about here because, you know... Yeah, that clip is so intertwined with TMS and that weird audio glitch I had with Skype on that day that I... The penit. That I imitated the guy, yeah.

Let's see if I've got that. Ibit. Yeah. It's got to be on the Ibit page. I think this is it. Is this it? Let me find out if this is it. You're putting your penis in a toaster.

You're putting your penis in a... That's not it at all. That's not even close. Name that context. Yeah. Where do I have Pianum? I guess I should just write Pianum. Okay, I found it.

I just didn't put your name on it. All right. Beat him. Beat him. Beat him. Beem. Yep. Good stuff.

Beem. Pull that out more often. Well, anyway, that's our top story. We've led with the big story that matters most of people. Yeah. Now we go to something that's a little. a little less dumb, although birds are dicks, and we're going to talk about how they're dicks one more time.

A new study shows googly eyes can stop birds stealing your hard-earned food. Very interesting. Lots of videos out there of birds, like usually gulls or whatever, swooping in after you bought your fried goods on the boardwalk and you're out walking out. That's happened to me on the, when T and I were in Australia, we went out to the key, which is spelled Q-U-A-Y. I don't understand it either. and I made the mistake of throwing a chip to a fish and chips of a fry to a seagull.

And then all of a sudden, every seagull in the whole damn continent came to us. Seagulls are dicks. Seagulls are dicks. No argument there. Well, here's the good news. You just need to put some googly eyes on food packaging and it will stop them. So not even on yourself. At first I saw this and I went, wait, are you saying put googly eyes on yourself?

but no, you put it on the food, like on the package. Okay, so like if you go and get McDonald's, you maybe put the googly eyes on the outside of the bag and they'll leave it alone. There you go. Yeah. Or the burger you're holding the little paper you still have or whatever. Thank you, Anne Wheaton. Yeah, thanks, Anne. She's big on those googly eyes. They found in this documented thing at the University of Exeter that goals were less likely to approach and peck at food

when packaging featured eye-like markings, much slower to approach and less likely to peck. Interesting. The two improvements there. I like this. It says it's not foolproof. Researchers found it could still massively reduce the chances of food being stolen, but in the study where 30 goals are presented with the takeaway box

and without eyes, researchers found that over half the birds never attempted to approach the former, but the other half still did. So I just want to reduce your risk. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, cut it down. I think I want to try this with other birds and actually other animals. I wonder if I put eyes at the bottom of the bird feeder thing, I wonder if that'll repel the raccoons. Do it.

You should do it. Because that's the big problem I have is the raccoons are now eating all of the bird food. Do you have like a little package of googly eyes laying around? No, I'd have to go on and get some. but there's a Michael's nearby I can go get a go get a bag of

a bag of gogly eyes yeah be interesting to try yeah you should try it at the very least you like to see the pictures of the eyes out there with something

right exactly yeah it's content you know yeah I just don't want to scare the birds away but if it's low enough the birds fly to the top of the bird feet are no problem so it won't you know shouldn't

shouldn't bother the birds well tune back in for more as we attempt this strange idea in the future, everybody. Yeah. That's it for the news. Now it's time for this. Here's a tangent for him. Be careful. May it cause drowsiness. The man who will prescribe you something and play a game with you. It's Dan Patrice, everybody.

Greetings programs. I hope I'm coming through, okay. You sound great. A new computer, so it's always a little bit of anxiety when you get a new computer trying to set it. Yeah, right now you sound great. New computer, who it is. Yeah. It's good day. What's weird is with this soundboard and everything, I don't know how you guys have it set up, but I can't hear myself through my headphones, which is really weird, and I've never done it this way.

Oh, yeah. I have to have, I got a monitor. Same, yeah, we have, I use audio hijack pro. I think Scott you can probably use the same thing, right? The way I'm routed is mostly, actually, how am I getting audio to my headphones? I think I'm direct to the, oh, yeah, that's how this works. So my monitoring of what's coming through my mixer is coming straight. from the mixer, the final mix of the mixer.

Right. But either way, same principle, right? I'm getting to hear my own voice. On a PC, my... So for whatever reason, Bo can hear himself. I don't know if it's for similar reasons. Okay. But John can on core. So John set his up different.

But neither of them have boards, like mixers. Oh, really? Or maybe Bo does, because Bo does some music. I think he's just got a wiring deal. He's got to work out. I don't know. It's one of these things where, like, my mixer, I have like, in my old computer, I had like a million different ways to have everything routed in here, out there. And it was so that I could actually use Audacity to record everything that was coming in on my computer.

And it was how I was basically recording podcast because normally Al-Odacity isn't very good for that. Right. Unless you have it funky that way. Now I'm going to be recording our show through Discord, which is we've been doing, but it was also still a little wonky because this sort could be wonky. So now I'm going to try to use OBS and Discord and see how that's going to be. work. OBS is actually quite good at that routing what you need to where you need it. It's pretty good at that.

Trying to think of I have any specific advice in that regard. I don't think I do. Well, if you think of anything later, just shoot me a text. It's one of those, I tell you what, like we're men of a certain age, as we always like to point out. But you wouldn't think that like there are just certain things in life. And now I'm going to use a couple of terms now, just bear with me here. But there are certain things in life that give me a high anxiety.

You know what I mean? Like getting a new computer figuring out how to that is everything going to work? Am I going to lose what am I going to freak? Like what am I going to leave on my old computer that I'll need? Yes. Right. How am I going to screw up? Am I not going to be able to record for a month? Am I going to, is it going to sound crappy? Like all these things are going through your head. Now granted, is that I mean, what we like to say first world problems. Like these are not things that I'm losing sleep over or maybe a little bit of losing sleep myself. Like nobody else is really caring about this. But these are things that I worry about. And I haven't got a new. computer and I kid you not guys like it's over 10 years my old computer was like duct tape you know I just threw new RAM in there replaced a through an SSD in there replace the uh power supply like it was whole L together by love and prayer is all it was so and now I have this rig that my god it's it's insane how good it is and the fact that it's glorious oh my god my my light my my room glows from the light from this thing I've never had a computer that I glowed before I really

Got some LEDs in there and all that. That's pretty cool. And it's like still a thousand degrees colder than what my other one was with no glowing. You probably picked it up the right time too because all that RAM hasn't hit some of those retailers or makers or builders yet. Yeah. And it still wasn't. Like I had gotten a bonus check from work for the year. So I was like, all right, we're going to throw some of this away for taxes.

And then I'm finally just going to go buy a computer. And I found a pretty good deal over at Costco. Surprisingly enough, I know it sounds. So dumb. No, Costco sounds dumb, but they have good deals and they have good brands they carry over there. It's actually good. This isn't like going to a Walmart and buying a PC there. It's way. Yeah, no, it's your, you're exactly, you're set. Yeah, and you get your Apple shit cheaper there, all kinds of stuff. Costco rules, by the way. And I love them. They are great. Although, I don't know how your Costco's are, you just can't go there like on the weekend because you got to park a mile away. People are just dicks in the aisle. They're like walking four wide. and they're just reaching over you. And I'm like, oh, God, just... No, you have to go during the week. Yeah, during the week or go during like an early morning Sunday or something like that,

and you'll be okay. But you're absolutely right. And forget about the holidays. Like either do your stuff early or don't ever... Do not go to a Costco the week of, say, Thanksgiving or even within two weeks of Christmas. F that, dude. Oh, God. Or if you want to just sit out of Costco on a weekend and just find yourself a good place,

wear red shirts and maybe nobody bothered you. but just stand on the side and just watch people. You have content for two weeks worth of shows. Unbelievable. Eat a buck 50 glissy. Yeah, you get it, glissy. Mmm, yum, yum. And the stuff people put like, you know,

you try to figure out like, why does anybody need 15 packages of kitty litter? That is probably, like, you got to worry, right? Like, all right, what are they using that for? What nefarious deed? So, yeah, you park yourself at the food court. You watch all the carts go by and you figure out, what's their life life like?

Clearly, clearly it involves a lot of ho-hoes. Absolutely. Well, let's get to board games. So that's what you should go. One more thing, stop. One more thing. So before anybody gets mad, I do not prescribe medication. Oh, that's true.

We are the ones that fill the medications. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's not, look, don't walk up to Dan the next time you see him at one of these freaking board game cons and go, I could use a little oxy today. Don't you. What do you get? What are you holding? Everybody, everybody always says, And always says the same thing.

Whenever you hear like, oh, you're a pharmacist? I need some Viagra. Yeah. Exactly. You got any little purple pills or whatever they? Or nowadays, everybody wants the OZepic. Oh, that's true. Like, oh, can you get me my GLP one cheap?

You should leap forward and jam it in their gut and press the plunger. That's what you should do. But seriously, but seriously, can you? But seriously, do you have some right now? Do you have some? But seriously, you got any idea? You got a bag of what govia or whatever? Well, all right.

It's good to be here. We're going to get into it. I don't know what these are categorized, but some of these games I'm excited to see on this list, they look like video games. If you remember last time, we were talking about all the games of the year, and I did the Scott and Brian Game of the Year lists, kind of the top five game of the year list. I'll go through this one. I saved this because this is kind of like a special category, which is really kind of close to probably all of our hearts. Because, you know, at heart, you know, Scott, you know, your roots in World of Warcraft, the dungeon crawler, things like that. We all love, and I know Brian is a big Frost Haven, gloom haven guy, and I love, ever since I was a little kid, D&D, and dungeon crawling.

So I put together a list, and it was kind of a little bit more than five, but I'll just run through a bunch of these pretty quick. But these are all basically my top dungeon crawlers of the year. Now, a couple of these, I think maybe technically inch into before 2025, because I think they might have just, you know, they might have released a little bit later over here. And I think, again, mentioned a lot of these, so this will be a pretty quick one. The first one I want to talk about is called Children of Morda, the board game. Now, Scott, you would know this more than I would. I'm pretty sure Children of Morda is a PC game. It is a video game.

Yep. It can get it on consoles now, too. It's basically, I don't know how to go. It's a rogue-like. It's all like cool pixel art, retro-looking, top-down, three-quarter view, Diablo-style kind of gameplay with unlockable skills and carry-forward stuff and, you know, upgrading your crap between runs and that sort of thing. and a really interesting story.

I'm actually kind of shocked. They made a board game around it. So from hearing you explain it being kind of the rogue-like type game, they really did a really good adaptation because this is very much a rogue-like board game kind of scenario or story-based where you can do runs through it. And they have a little more difficulties and difficulty runs

or you can do different stories. But if you die, quote-to-quote, die, if you fail, and then you go back, like you take certain things with you, Then you can update your characters. And there's, I think there's five or six characters in the box. You can mix and match however you want. And as you upgrade their kind of skills, they get better or cheaper. You're rolling some dice here.

I'm sorry, not bites. What's really cool is you're drawing chits out of a bag is how you're getting that. And then you have like random monsters that kind of me out, depending on which way you go. They do a really good job. Now, here's the thing about board gaming. Does anybody want to play board game like a rogue like where you really want to play a game for two hours or more? and then reset it up and play it another. Like, there are special people.

I don't know if I could do that a lot. I've done it a little bit with Slade Aspire the board game, just because there's multiple characters and your unlocking stuff. This is a really good kind of lighter one where it's easy to get into, and they do the roguelike. So if you are okay with that sort of thing, being a roguelike board game, I think they did a really good job of porting it to a board game. Yeah, I was going to ask you about that,

because some of those mechanics and the reason the genre, the subgenre, of Roguelegs sell so well, and they are extremely popular right now, in the indie space especially, but kind of everywhere. It's because the math is all being done for you, and resetting means nothing because it just means starting again, and you have the stuff you carried over. So on a computer, you know, a console or something, you're never having to worry about, all right, put all the chits back in the bag,

all right, move those cards off. They no longer apply until the next round. Shuffle these 10 decks again. Like you're doing all of that quick math a computer does, but you're doing it all manually. And I have to think that even that's attractive to some kinds of certain kinds of players probably really like that. Like, oh, okay, that's my best run. I get everything set up again. We're going to do this.

Like there's probably something to that. For me, it sounds hard. It sounds like a pain. Right. Or it sounds less motivational to want to just like do another run yet another run. Whereas these games thrive on one more time, one more time, one more time. Can a board game like that thrive on one more time? I don't know.

Yeah, it's hard to say. I think Slate Aspire thrived on it in the board game sense because of the name and because it's so well done. This one is well done, but the name may not have gotten out as much. But I do think that people should check it out if you like that sort of thing. That's really interesting. I didn't know they even made one. So that's cool. So the next one is a little bit older.

But again, I think it might have just came out, or at least I got it early in 25. It's called Agamonia. Now, this one is, it does leveling up of your characters very, very well. The story is great. It has kind of a companion app on your iPad that you can use that helps you to kind of keep track of certain reputation. It has different reputation with different factions when you're making certain decisions during the game that, like I said, the character levels ups and there's like even kind

of branching paths that you can take when you level up. It's done really well. It's got a good challenge. It plays well. I'm using it. You know, I'm playing it solo with three characters and it's easy. The only thing is you end up getting. getting, and this is kind of something, it's not a bad thing.

It's something we like in games is you get so much damn loot in the game and so much stuff going on that it's fun, but man is at a table hog, which is, you know, which is fine, especially if you're playing with a group and everything. It is really good. It's a lot of fun. The story's good. It kind of easy to follow. Sometimes it's hard for, and there'll be one coming up that I'll mention that the

stories, it's a little bit different. But this is an easy story to follow, and it's a lot of fun. So that's Agamonia. Another big ass. box game. All of these are big box games. You play as a villain in this, it says? Something about that? Like you're trying to

dominate the land or some shite like that? I don't really feel like you're a villain. I think you can still make you can still make some good choices in the game. You know, maybe you can go down that path a bit, but I don't feel like as you're playing the game, you're...

Well, there is... Oh, I see. Their tagline. I see it now. It says, live your destiny as a mighty hero or a despicable villain. And so really is kind of just about choosing your path. Yeah, because there's definitely, you have a certain, when you're in town, you have a certain amount of points. And you can go different places and you can make different choices. There's kind of like different narrative choices you can make in the in town for each one of the characters, which makes it pretty cool. Because, you know, you like to have, you know, you don't want to be too much.

I guess what is it on rails where you really can't make any decisions. This has more sandboxy feel to it. Oh, I like that. Well, that's hard to, it's a tricky thing to pull off in a board game. But I always admire it. someone does. So next up, Roeve. There's a couple different roves that you find on BG.

I have seen this in every place I go where there's like board games. I see these Roe games. At least that name everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. Is that mean? I've been missing out, obviously, on something big. Maybe. This is one that's kind of these gentlemen were

kind of, they were responsible for like a fan made expansion for Gloomhaven. So obviously Rove is one that is heavily inspired by Gloomhaven. And you could tell in gameplay the gameplay is really really fun they've kind of distilled some of the down so that you can actually get in three or four scenarios in like one sitting whereas when i'm playing frost haven i mean you'd spend six hours or so you've got maybe two scenarios where you can get through like a four scenario chapter of rove uh in one evening and uh that's not to take anything away from either one of

those games now the the only negative i have to rove is when you're reading like the fluff and the flavor text and the story that's going on the name and things that are going on, you're like, what the hell? You can't follow anything because the names are like 15,000 consonants and vowels long, and you're like, and it doesn't make any sense. Stuff's going to just, all right, just get me to the board, let me play. But the way it plays, very Gloomhaven, like, where you get a certain amount of, you have like these abilities on your player board, which are kind of always there.

And then you have a hand of cards, which as you use one of those cards, you can basically play, basically play one card a turn. And as you use it, and you do the different things on there with, and they have like spirit dice and stuff. Then when it comes back to your hand, it flips over and you have a different ability. So the planning of your different abilities and kind of the planning of your scenarios is very, very important to plan ahead to how you're doing that. And it makes the gameplay amazing. It is so damn good. 60 to 100 minutes of play time. That's quite a wide gap.

Well, it's when you have a scenario or a campaign game, they really struggle as to tell you how long, you know, to your, like a scenario will take into it from an hour to two hours. Sure. So that's one scenario. But you're playing a campaign. So 60 to 120 is probably because maybe you have a boss scenario or a scenario that has multiple parts. That's where you're going to get like the two to three hours. And I don't even know if it goes. Like I said, this is one that distills it a little bit easier.

So I think two hours might be your longest scenario that you would go on. Looks like another you can solo this one if you want to. Yeah. So I'm not actually solo in this one. This one, my buddy that I play Frost Haven and Groom Haven with, we're kind of switching on and off every game. session we either play roe or we play some more frost haven so but it is it would be pretty easy to solo because two-handing it or even possibly three-handing it wouldn't be that hard some some games are very very hard to play more than just two at and i don't know if you know and i even play gloom-haven

uh that's a really hard thing to do four like four just becomes lofty you know but two or three with gloom-haven and roeuvre should be pretty easy to do two or three-handed well there you go one of the photos on board game geek is the first few pages of the booklet that set up all the scenario. So fling to the hollow gale and like all the setup and stuff. This is really cool. And you play right in, so there's a like basically a map booklet. Well, no, there's a map.

They do have a tutorial that's three scenarios long, which is very, very easy to get. Because it teaches you basically, oh, here, you're only using a couple of cards or you're only using a couple of abilities for this one. Next one we're going to add some more. The tutorial is excellent. You guys would both absolutely love the tutorial. But you get kind of towards the end of the tutorial and you're like, all right, I get it. I want to go, I want to move on because not that, it's not bad.

It's not a bad thing, but like some people need that. You know, guys like us that have played a million of these type of games may not need more than maybe one or two of those scenarios. Yeah. All right. But it's excellent. This looks cool. Speaking of Gloomhaven, I didn't know there was a second edition. So the next step is Gloomhaven 2.0.

which came out, I think it kind of released or delivered last year. This one I put in here just to talk about it real fast, because this would be absolutely my game of the year. I've had it set up on my game topper for probably four months now because I'm just going to do it all in one, all in one sitting. And I'm to the last four or five scenarios. I played every unlockable character. I haven't played a couple of the, like I played them in past sessions,

but I haven't played all of the starting characters just yet. or I probably won't even get to them because I'm about to finish the game. But if you liked Gloomhaven, people may be like, well, why would I play Gloom Haven a game? Let me tell you, they overhauled so many things in it. The scenario, like kind of the tree, the way they do that,

the Gloom Haven was famous for having, like, the hardest first scenario you'll ever damn play. And they've changed it so that that scenario is later. Like that period is in there, but it's later. And they even change the scenario a little bit. So it's when it should be hard is where you'll get to that. So the first few stories are easy. That was enough to make Tina say, yep, I don't think I want to play Gloomhaven anymore.

Oh, I mean, it turned off so many people. Yeah. And think of how popular Gloom Haven is. And yet it turned off so many people from that scenario. But they've redone the characters. A lot of the way the cards are are set up and a lot of the way the abilities are, your unlockable traits or the feats and things you get that you unlock, those are all upgraded and better.

Everything is just better. if you like Gloom Haven and it's been a little while, or maybe you sold Gloom Haven and now you want to get back to it. I can't stress enough how good this dance. It's like a patched version of a game kind of, right? Yes. Or almost like the, you know, what was it, the Skyrim re-imaged or whatever they put out recently?

Or was it Oblivion that they put out a new version of it? It's kind of like that. Yeah, the remake of Oblivion is a big overhaul. It's hard to do this with board games, though, isn't it? Because everybody's already got the game and it's like, you can't pass. Well, it's hard to sell a game like that. Or if you do, you better put out like a upgrade pack. So sometimes they'll put like the 10th anniversary edition of Game X.

And then they'll be like, oh, if you have the old one and you don't really want to buy the new one, here's the upgraded pack you can buy for like $10 or $20. Instead of spending 60 bucks. So that's, they do a good job with that. Yeah. And if something as big as Gloom Haven, you could probably make a version 3 and people still buy it. Oh, yeah. Well, now it's depending on whether they put out like the next Haven, you know, maybe

Haven and Space, like Space Haven? Space Haven. Space Haven. Oh, man. Don't even get me excited. Because then I might learn the rules. Probably, I expect a Sandhaven, right? They've got Frost Haven, like a Dew. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, hell yeah. Desert. Let's go. I'd play that too. But that or, I mean, I don't know if they would want to redo Frost Haven and, you know, fix some things. But I would probably want to do like a whole new, quote, unquote, IP, even though the whole Haven serves in all them. But, all right, so Aridia, the Path Sweep, Dare, Tread. This was basically 1A to my 1. So Arrida is another really cool game. This brings things a little bit different. It is another kind of dungeon crawler, but it's got an open world.

It's got really cool way to do things. And as you're playing with your characters, you're kind of, again, you're making choices as to kind of a talent tree. You're getting abilities. And you're rolling dice, and depending on how the combat is really cool, depending on the type of weapons you have. That's the kind of whether you're attacking from the left, from the bottom right, or from the right. And then you're doing damage to monsters, and then you can have critical hits on monsters, depending on where you attack them from. It's just really cool combat system. People who like RPG elements or role-playing as you're playing these type games would love it because when you encounter somebody, like when you walk up to

Brian on a street as an NPC, somebody else in a party can just take the card. And then there's like things, so you're role-playing. So it'll be like, oh, Brian a shot. Topkeeper, this is how it even says on a card, like has a little bit of, he says his sees. He says anytime he uses C, it's like three times. You know, he has like this little quirks. So as you're the person reading it, you'd be like, oh, chachia, chucky here says, you know, so you like, it has ways that you're going to role play things out.

Now, when you're playing a solo, you can't really do that. Because when I'm playing solo, I'm like, all right, just give me a, what are my choices? Just I want to read what I'm going to discuss. Yeah, you're not going to do a voice and accent and all right. Right. Right. Yeah. Well, I'm not going to ask myself these questions because you're looking at it's like, oh, oh,

If Brian is asked about his swords, read this section. If Brian is asked about the herbs, read this section. So you're just basically just flipping over the card. And then if there's decisions to be made, then you can kind of do that in secret yourself as you're playing solo. But still, don't take that to mean you can't play this solo. It does play very, very well.

There's no real secrets you're missing by doing it. Have to be really disciplined to not look ahead and say, oh, if I ask him this question, he gives me the key. No, no, no, they do a really good job to, So like that doesn't matter. Yeah. So like you would still have to, but you would still have to have either the right item

or maybe pass a skill check for something like that. So what's cool about this is reminds me of a lot of, I don't know if they're JRP's or just other RPGs. So like as you're collecting things or finding loot, they'll have like keywords. So to be like, oh, if you hear somebody say, where is the crown jewel, then go to this section.

And the only a painy-ass part is you got to remember it to listen for those things. So when you've played this game, you know, when it's session five or six down the road and you have all these cards laid out in front of you with all these keywords, you may miss something. So that's a little bit of a pain. That's interesting. This thing's reviewed really well. It is so good. It was, like I said, if it wasn't for the real game of the year, this one would be it for me.

This is one I was enjoying it so much that I got about three quarters the way through. I was like, I got to put it away because I don't want to burn myself out on so. such an amazing experience and then not enjoy the last little bit. So I'll have to get back to this one. So the last one, the game of the year, you've heard me kind of beg for it or talk about it a lot over the last year. Our good friends at Chip Theory Games sent me the Elder Scrolls betrayal of the second era, and I can't tell you enough how damn good this game is.

It is basically my personal game of the year is the Elder Scrolls betrayal the second era. They take that old system that they had, the old Chip Theory game system, Oh my God. I know, of course, I'm vamping here. Too many bones. They take the too many bone system, which is a good system. It can just be very,

very overwhelming to kind of, you almost have to relearn it every time you play. It's very, very good. It's just a lot. They take that, they kind of streamline it a bit. Even though the weight on BGGG is still in a fours, it's kind of heavy, but it's not.

Once you learn how to play the Elder Scrolls, they even have, again, another good tutorial that when you're playing the tutorial, you're learning the game, you're learning how you're leveling up, and then it'll even tell you like, hey, if you did, if you defeated this many monsters or if you didn't lose this much hit points, these are your choices for your character for this campaign. Now, you're going to be playing this in three quote-unquote sessions, and then your campaign's over. So it's not like Frost Haven where you're playing it for 10 years. No, you may play this over like three gaming

sessions, but then, and this is what we want out of these games. I mean, there's 15, whatever, you know, races and classes in the box. I want to use them. all. So I don't want to be stuck for three years playing the same two characters. This is what's great about this game is every time you play, it's a little bit different because you're leveling up what skills you want to level up. You're getting things different. You're kind of, you're using your abilities. It's got some challenge to it, but yet not too much challenge. It is, it is everything that you want an Elder Scrolls game to be. That's awesome. I'm a big fan of the classic Elder Scrolls game. So bring it on. That's number one, Ardia, the Paths

that we tread, sorry, paths we dare tread. Number two, number three, Gloomhaven second edition, three, Rove, two, agemonia. Agamonia. Agamonia. Agamonia. And children are more to be in like number six. Yeah, that's a pretty damn good looking list there of stuff. And it's funny to me that two of these are very video game. Yeah, inspired or coded or whatever, yeah.

That's very cool. And we're supposed to get another elder scrolls this year, aren't we sometime? Or is that kind of a... The rumor, so, elder scrolls six is definitely in the works, but I don't think we see that for like another two years. Okay. We might get a look at it this year. But talk of a remaster or remake of the Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas.

That's definitely happening. The leaks seem to be real. So we're just waiting for whatever happens there. And then that's led some to believe that Skyrim will get a proper remake of this year. Okay. I don't personally, I don't buy the remake news. Like if they have anything to drop on us this year, the way they did Oblivion, it would be the fallouts.

And then 2027, I could see a remade, you know, in the new engine. I think they used Unreal for the conversion of Oblivion. But I think that if we're going to see a proper remake of 5, aka Skyrim, it'll be 2027. And now that I have a new computer, I am just itching to play, like the latest thing and see what's great out there. because although I'll take this off line because I got a bunch of funny things for you, Scott, Brian. We'll talk in Discord. But if anybody out there in Discord wants to tell me what I should be playing now that I have a rig that can run anything, just definitely hit me up on Discord.

For all the people that hit you up and tell you to play Crimson Desert, just check with me first. And there's a few things about it. I want to tell you about it that may or may not. It's a very divisive game. Those who love it. hearing how you have to get through like the first eight hours of crap before it becomes a good game. I mean, yeah. And even then it's, it's the kind of game it is isn't what you expect it to be. And then you may end up being the greatest thing you ever play because a lot of people feel that way.

And then there are a lot of people who are like, this is not what I wanted. I wanted like a witch, a witcher sequel or something else. So just, you know, if you end up being pushed in that direction and you're tempted to spend the 70 effing dollars for it, just talk to me first and all. Because I think you and I have enough knowledge about each other's gaming preferences. I can probably either help steer you in that direction or defer to something else. We'll see. Well, I'm looking forward to talking about it and Discord. I thank you, boys, for just being here for me and having the time.

It's been great. Yeah, we love it, man. Don't forget to tell people about your podcast where they can find it. So I know the last time we were on and we talked about the games of the year, I said, hey, coming next week is the Game of the Year show. That never happened because of schedules and because of computer. So that's going to be recorded tomorrow night. So this week you should have a good...

Everybody that's going on their Easter jaunt, if you want to listen to our Game of the Year show, you'll be able to listen to it towards the end of the week. And hopefully, it'll sound... Hopefully, I sound good now, and hopefully the new recording will sound great. So look for the cake, All-Stars, podcast, Game of the Year's show. All right, man, check it out.

Thanks, Dan. We'll talk to you soon. Go roll some dice and eat some chits. All right. Those will be up on quicktms.l. That list there. we did. Yes, it's already up there.

Oh, good, man. Copy and paste it while we were talking. Holy shizmott. I know. Let's get to one call today. This is a short one. And start with this, I guess. This is about the jugs of pee.

It's appropriate to play that because here is Chuck explaining that he's not a certain kind of Chuck, all right? It's not even the Chuck I was thinking it was. It's a very different. It's like a third Chuck. So here it is. Hey, boot and scoot. just wanted to call in and tell you that it was a Chuck Byers that called about the jugs of

pee. It was me. Love to show, though. That's our jugs of pee guy. It was, yeah. I know. Do we have a, but he didn't give us any sort of way to identify him as, we don't want to call him jugs of pee, Chuck.

No, no, no. Or, you know what, I'm making an assumption. He's saying that wasn't me, meaning not that Chuck, but maybe he's not a Chuck at all. Oh, I don't know. Honestly, he's because he never says, so we don't know. never says, yeah. So Mr. Jugs of P. This is about the Jugs of P?

We need to... Give us a nickname for you so we don't call you Mr. Jugs of P. Yeah, because right now that's all you're going to cut. Yeah, we can't have that. No. It's a horrible nickname for somebody. It's just not right. Yeah.

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Who got your name wrong on your cup. Yeah. That sucks. Called you Chuck when your name's not even Chuck. He called you jugs of pee by accident. Anyway, later today, 1 p.m. today is exciting stuff. Resident Evil 9 play through with myself and John Jagger. Oh, nice.

We begin today, part one will be today. In fact, I even already did this for it. Whoops. Where the hell's our thing? Here it is. I already got art up for it. I haven't even played it, but that's how scared I know I'm going to be. That'll be at one, and it'll be on both Twitch and YouTube.

Frogpants.tv, you'll get you there. And we're stoked, I guess. I'm scared, but, yeah. John's stoked, because he's played it like five times. I'd be stoked, too, to watch you do this, yeah, for sure. I like that it's your same out for your same shirt. Like, you took that picture earlier today. Took it today, yeah.

Yeah, to make the album art. Yeah, so, you know, always thinking ahead is what you try to do. Yes, which I like. I appreciate that. Sometimes it works. But anyway, today, we start two hours of that. And then tonight, 5 or 4 p.m., me and Dunaway, doing a watch retro. We got a weird one from the 60s.

I'm very excited about it. So check that out. Brian, let's get out of here with some music or anything else you got going on that you want to mention today. No. I got to see if there's a soundography that needs to be posted. Hammond's on vacation. That's right. He's in Europe or London or something.

Yeah. And so we're not recording, but I do have episodes to put. put up. I think they've also gone to, I've got a pilot episode of lost luggage to put up too so I can get that iTunes approval process going. So look for that. Maybe I'll talk about that tomorrow if it's, if it's uploaded for people to check out. That reminds me. For people who have been asking, there have been a few. Apple and a few other sources are doing this new video thing where video versions of podcast can be uploaded, but they can be done through whoever your host is. It's a whole thing. Anyway, I forgot the name. There's an actual word for this. It's kind of a new distribution technology.

And so Apple and a few others are jumping on board because they think that's the quickest way for them to become relevant with video. YouTube kind of cutting into everybody's. Without having to do much work, they've kind of taken over the video side of podcasting. Anyway, long story short, if you're Spotify user or you're a user of any other service, Apple podcast being a major one,

that's coming. We're in the pipeline to get it. I'm just waiting. Oh, yeah. It's a rollout, slow rollout, and I don't know when we're supposed to get it. But anyway, if anyone out there knows any quick paths to get there sooner, that'd be great.

My guy at Apple is no longer there, so I can't really talk to him. Yeah, he moved on somewhere. I don't worry about. I wonder if I still know a guy. Yeah, if you know a guy might get us there quicker. I don't even know if there's much demand for this. Honestly, podcasting trying to force its way into, It's all video is a little concerning for me.

Yeah, we don't want that. I don't love that, but, you know, we're trying to give people what they want where they want it. So we're happy, I'm happy to upload it to a whole third place every day. If I know how to do it, I'm just waiting for the hosts to get around to doing it. And ACAST is like a partner program with Apple on it. So I already use ACAS. So that should be easy. Cool.

But I just don't know when. So anyway, sorry. Just want a little PSA. Chew on that. Most of you are like, whatever, I get it through with this. I'm fine. Yeah. You're good.

Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, let's play a song, Brian. What do you got? Let's play a song. This one request that, I had a couple for today.

This one, the one I'm doing today, and then I'll do another one later this week that's set for today. But Amish Overlord wrote in and said, March 30th is my mom Barbara's birthday. She passed away last year. On occasion, she would watch TMS live with me on the TV. And back when the show ran later, she'd sometimes complain that it ate into the Price's right time.

Oh, man. something so something themed or references to prices right would be great if not she really liked willie nelson and we were at one point a few years ago supposed to go to a concert for willy nelson but it was canceled uh thank you omish overlord canceled for weed probably for weed uh let's do the latter uh because uh i don't know why a um uh a price's right theme song just didn't seem right but let's do this one uh think of this is you know a love song from your dad to your mom mom. This is the beautiful South covering Willie Nelson's Valentine. This is this is one of the songs that came out for Willie in the mid-90s when he was doing duets with folks like Sheneid O'Connor and um, oh yeah, I forgot about that. Buckley and stuff like that. Like he did a cover of Don't Give Up by Peter Gabriel with Shinne O'Connor. It was really cool. Um, from that same album, as a matter of fact, this song, Valentine came out. The Beautiful South covered it in 2004 on their gold dig his head nodders and folk songs album. Here is.

Valentine. Valentine. Won't you be my Valentine? And introduce your heart to mine. And be my Valentine. Summertime. We could run and play like summertime. Story books and nursery rhyme.

So be my Valentine. Sweetheart to me Can't you see I love you Valentine Won't you be my Valentine Won't you share your space with mine Be my Valentine I love you

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