The Morning Stream - TMS 3049: Tootin' Common

Episode Date: August 10, 2026

Not that I want to Poop on your potatoes. Venus work day is over 200 hours long. Jelly phase. Last Painter was Roy Lichtenstein. How Evel are YOUR Kenevals. What's her bucket and the fancy man. An Edger Too Far. Eff Cancer. Castlevania: Dirt Monkey. San Diego Comic Con Coulda Been an Email. Lube the Sandman. Taco pocket. Who buy tickets at the theater. Sugar Ah Colin Farrell. The Wettest Beak with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. VIDEO: https://youtu.be/LNibzapCc-g Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Benjamin Franklin once famously said in this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes. Well, he could have added how good you feel if you support TMS today at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, not that I want to poop on your potatoes. Venus workday is over 200 hours long. Jelly phase.

Last painter was Roy Lichtenstein. How evil are your caneevals? What's her bucket and the fancy man? An edger to. far. F. Cancer. Castlevania Dirt Monkey. San Diego Comic-Con could have been an email. Loub the Sandman. Taco Pocket. Who buys tickets at the theater? Sugar. But that that that, that, uh, Colin Farrell. The wettest beak with Stephen and more on this episode of the morning stream. This game is a war designed to attack our children's minds. And it's called Pokemon.

Do you use a microwave oven? You're anything like me, you do. The morning stream. Maybe I can help you. I am Boba Fett. Hello and welcome to TMS. Welcome to the morning stream, everybody. For August 10th, 2006, I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott.

Hi, Brian Niby. Hello. I'm a little tall. I'm going to lower myself a little bit. Can I? Is it not working? No, it's not working. I'm moving.

I mean, you got... Oh, there we go. Now it's moving. There we go. There. We got the full frame, Brian, now. I like that. Yes.

Good morning. How was your weekend? How did everything go? It was really hot here and we were kind of just sweaty. It was really hot here. And I was, and I decided early Saturday morning that it was going to be sprinkler replacement day or sprinkler fixing day. And so, um...

That is a hot activity. It is. And it's like, you know, all right. First thing, nine o'clock. am Saturday morning's 830, 9 o'clock, get out there with the shovels. We've got one in the backyard that's not, that's not doing what it needs to be doing. And then two in the front yard that are not doing what there need to be doing. And really one of them is, one of them is spraying, but it's also has a second line that's

just shooting straight up because somebody ran over it with the edger. Hmm. Hmm. Wonder who that would have been. It wasn't me. but got out there and started working on the backyard one and then Tina said, you know what? I was thinking I'd just replace this area with Flagstone.

I said, so I don't need to do anything with a sprinkler? She's like, nope. Okay, so I uncovered the area that I dug up with the shovel's back. And then I went to the front yard. And I started digging out around this one that's right next to the driveway. And turned on the sprinkler just to see, all right, whereas, you know, it's not doing anything. so do I need to just take it out and replace it with another one? And it's just putting out a little bit of water and I'm like, well, wait a minute.

I grabbed the screwdriver and screw that little thing on the very top of it. And all of a sudden, water starts coming out like it normally shut. Nice. Great. Okay. Small adjustments. Never hurt. Yeah. Pack the sod back around it and I go to the third one.

Well, that one was the one that got run over with the edge or that one absolutely needed to be replaced. So dug that all out, went up to the hardware store. Ace had a thing this weekend where if you buy a $5 bucket, you get 20% off everything you can fit in that bucket. So T and I decided we are going to load that thing up with everything we've been needing for the house for the last couple months. Just a normal size bucket, like a regular bucket? It's like one of those home depot kind of buckets. Oh, okay, pretty big then. Workman's bucket.

Yeah, whatever they call those. Sure. So got a, you know, I've been wanting to get a cover for the Blackstone. So got one of those in there, got some peanuts for the squirrels, got some, uh, uh, got some a new sprayer for the hose, got a replacement sprinkler. Thank goodness we remembered that. And, uh, then came home and installed it and was done for the day and said, great. Now I'm going to write a.

Oh, yeah. It almost was done for the day. Got all that stuff done. Took a shower, came downstairs, looked at Discord. And I was reminded by Stormy Sooner in Discord. Hey, we're at Snarfs, ready. We grabbed a table already. We'll see when you get here.

Oh, shit. Crap! So I texted really quick and said, hey, be there in 15 minutes. Fortunately, we're close enough to downtown and the highway and everything that we can get down there pretty quick. And we did. And we went out for Lewin's ice cream, which was really good. So I still got to see Natalie and her friend Matthew. They were in town hanging out and, yeah, always terrific seeing them.

Well, that's awesome. I hate that. I'd never met Matthew before, but it was nice meeting him. Oh, yeah, nice to meet you, Matthew. But yeah, that feeling when you look up and see, oh, crap, there was a thing I was supposed to be doing today, especially when it's with a listener. It's like, oh, crap. Yeah, I've done this before. She's in the chat.

Hi, Natalie. Hope you're, oh, you're still, yeah, you're still in town. I hope you're having a good last day in Denver. Nice. Well, that's cool. Yeah. I learned something that blew my mind. I'd like to share with you this weekend.

Maybe it'll blow mine. Maybe it'll blow yours. Maybe we'll have two blown minds. Seems bad for the podcast, but we'll give it a shot here. See what happened. Somebody somewhere told me, I guess this would have been a video or something because it wasn't somebody I know. Yeah. Said that a day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus, which didn't make sense to me.

Okay. Yep. Right. So it dug around. It has a slow revolution and a slow. and a long, no, slow rotation long, I can't remember what they, with the, the, it spins around on its axis slower than it goes around the sun. That's basically it.

So here's how it breaks down. A day on Venus lasts longer than a day, sorry, than a year on Venus, with one rotation, takes about 243 Earth days, so days as we know them, while it, while its orbit around the sun takes only 225 Earth days. So it's slower to, do its day rotation. It's rotation versus its orbit. It's rotation takes longer than its orbit.

Yeah, that's a weird thing. So if you lived on Venus, like all the women used to it, because that's where they're from. That's right. That's why they all moved here. Yeah, we're all from Mars. They're from Venus.

Correct. It's just kind of hilarious, because Venus is way more like volatile and like horrible gases and like crystalline rainstorms. But it's the planet of love, Scott. It's the planet of love.

I think we should have more. This is the planet of war. Because it feels like Mars is a more hospitable, kinder, gentler. I mean, you know, to see Matt, Damon did just fine. Yeah, poop on your potatoes and you'll live. Yeah, exactly. You seem to do just fine. Yeah, he did all right.

But anyway, I just, I could not get this straight. I had to, like, stop everything I was doing. I had to, like, do my own research, you know. I had to, like, quickly find out if this was true or not. And sure enough, it's true. But then here's the deal. If you're on Venus, you're not going to track those. days by Earth days, right?

So it's only interesting math from the perspective of an Earthling. If I was on Venus, it would just be, oh. Can you believe how quickly Earth spins? How come people don't fly off of that thing? Their year is somehow longer than their days? Three by 365? That's crazy. That's so weird.

I couldn't believe it. I had to stop my spaceship and look it up. Anyway, there's a little something I learned and I thought I'd share that with the people. No, that's, I love it. Some people know. Yeah, Venus workday is over 200 hours long. That's right. That's right.

They don't have good labor relations over there. All right. Couple of quick things. Nightmare, sorry, night X mayor on the, on the Discord, listener, long time listener of the show, reached out to me with some information and a little request for help. And so I'm going to pass that on to our listeners because I think it's a worthy thing. He reached out, told me about his nephew. His nephew's name is Bryant. He's 12 years old as all.

and was just diagnosed with stage four brain cancer. Really, really hideous stuff that no 12 year old should ever have to go through. Turns out this kid's like a super nerd for a whole bunch of fandoms. And so Carter and I are going to do some custom art and send it and do all this fun stuff. But in the meantime, because as you guessed it, this kind of treatment is wildly, ridiculously expensive. And because, look, we got to back the kids, man. they're the next generation. We got to, you know, we got to give them what they need. I put up a link here to take you to there. GoFundMe for Bryant. And if you are wanting to help out,

please do tiny.cc slash help Bryant. That's B-R-Y-A-N-T. Like Brian the wrong way, but with a T and makes it okay. I'm not going to tell this kid that he's got his name spelled the wrong way. No, no. If it was Brian with a Y, maybe. But that T, that makes it all okay. It's a different name. It's fine. It's fine. In fact, it would look really weird if it was B-R-I-A-N-T. I've never seen that. I've never seen that. And nobody's ever accidentally spelled my name that way either, which, thank goodness.

I stopped talking to him. Yeah, you'd have to disassociate with that person. We'd be done. Yes, exactly. So I want Bryant to get just as much exposure possible on this. So please go help him out. Tiny.c.c. slash help Bryant. And a big thanks tonight, ex-mare, for letting me know about his nephew. and their family's just, man, they are going through it.

So you can help it all. That'd be great. Even if it's just to reach out and leave a message, that's cool too. Let this kid know you're thinking about them. And yeah, we'd like to try to take care of our own here on the show if we can. Yeah, absolutely. And Brian, if you're listening to this, I got some cool stuff coming your way. So watch for that, buddy.

All right. You know, luck out with some great goodies from Scott and Carter. Hell yeah. Brian, we're going to get right to our game today. Good thing, yeah. Yeah, I like getting right to it. Which I'm just now getting the spreadsheet and fixing. I'm like, oh, yeah, we need all these things entered in here.

Okay, great. Oh, shoot. Well, actually, that wasn't a hint, so hopefully I didn't put you in any kind of extra strain. No, I kind of needed it to be able to do the show. It kind of looks right. Everything looks like you were right up to it. So we're going to do that now. And guess what?

You're going to be here for it, everybody. So here we go. All right. Let's bring Brian Dunaway in here, who is joining us. now. Oh, I hear myself. Why do I hear myself? Why do you hear yourself? I don't know. Do you still hear yourself? I do. Yeah, I'm hearing me too. Yeah. It's a slight echo. It says you're on the, the Razor, Black Shark, B2. Yeah, this is what, um, yeah, film sec was like this yesterday morning, but then you did something almost right away and fixed it. Well, I was at the house. That's totally different. Yeah, that's a totally different setup.

Because you're a work, right? Right. Yeah. Let me put you on, uh, full. repair. See what fixes it. Okay. How about now? Okay. Test, test, test.

Oh, fixed it. Yeah. You're a little... Full little repair. You're a little lumpier, but that's okay. We can deal with that. I don't know. Yeah.

I don't know either. That doesn't make any sense. I don't know why we can hear ourselves. Because that's weird. I didn't change anything. This thing is not smart enough to... I mean, you literally have to have, like, input output cables to send stuff back to people.

Yeah. I agree. I don't know. I got like, like no looping or anything. I have no idea. We can test it later. But for now, this works. Yay, Brian's here. Let's play a game.

Hey, why don't you, Brian? I've been explained to me and Brian Dunaway how this damn thing works. We'll do. Welcome to Do Frogs Have Brains? A countdown style trivia game. I've got 20 questions across various subjects, including science, art, entertainment, history, and more. Hope you only get a question

in the category of more. Scott and Brian will each get 90 seconds to answers to many of those questions as they can, Scott's answering his questions. We're going to put Brian into a soundproof isolation booth. And then to skip in, skip to the next question, you can always say pass. I don't know why I feel like I need to remind you guys. But the player with the most correct answers after 90 seconds wins the prize for their contestant.

And contestants have been pulled from our Patreon support as at patreon.com slash TMS. Nice. Scott is playing for headphones, Neal. Who! Headphones Neil. Yeah, represent the headphones. That's right. Mine just sit.

Brian playing for Muhammad Oron. Oranos. Okay. Ornos. Ornos. Sure. I mean. Orinos.

When the walls fell. Cool. All right. So, Brian, we're going to put you into your little isolation booth, your little soundproof isolation booth now. Are we ready? All right. Okay. All right.

Okay. And Scott, as always, I'm going to start the timer. We're doing 90 seconds. Just testing it out. See what 90 seconds feels like. Sure. Why not? We're going to find the sweet.

spot on this damn thing if it kills us. And I'll start the timer when I ask you your first question. Okay, here we go. How many players are there on a court in a volleyball match? 6, 11 or 12? 12. What is the capital of the Philippines? Manila.

What do you call a cylindrical receptacle that stores grain? Oh, uh, silo. Well, named after the city where they signed the pact in 1955, where did eight eastern European states agree to form a political alliance. Uh, Geneva. Which parent must be of Jewish faith for the child to be considered Jewish? Mother. What term describes the phase of pregnancy when the child's inner organs are not yet developed?

Oh, uh, uh, uh, a fetal. What New Jersey meat market was a hangout for Tony Soprano and his cohorts? Oh shit. Pass. The Great Pyramid of Giza was built as a tomb for which Egyptian King, also known in Greek as Chiops. I don't know this. I'll say two in common.

In which country are Catalan, Galician, and Basque spoken? Pass. Which famous pop artist used comic book imagery in his artworks like his seminal Wham! Oh. Pass. In which children's classic would you encounter mole, Rady, and Mr. Toad? Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Oh, pass! The Fair Isaac Corporation takes credit for creating what acronym? Pass. Actress Nicole Kidman married what country music star in 2006? Oh, Toby Keith. What is the more familiar name of... Okay, I'll finish the question. What is the more familiar name of the Criminal Investigation Department of the London Metropolitan Police?

MI5. That is incorrect. Okay. Man, the latter, the final nine holes were rough. You were off to a great start and then kind of not. Petered out hard at the end. Got petered out hard. All right.

Let's see if Brian does any better. Let's welcome him back. Very well. I shall release Brian. It's funny that it plays. I hear it through your thing and then I hear it through my thing. So I actually hear that in an echo. Oh, that's funny.

That's weird. I don't know why you hear that at all. You shouldn't hear that from me. No, I hear it from, I hear it from the page, which is, I hear the ding twice, too. Oh, right. And there's no way, yeah, I mean, I guess there's no reason. Because that does play back to you from me. Yeah, I could mute the, I can mute.

Well, I can't. I'm going to find out a way to mute it. And usually I've got a little mute icon on Safari that I can just say, oh, yeah, mute this website, but I don't. Right click on the tab. Maybe it might be there. Oh, let's try that. Sometimes. Yeah.

Yeah, mute tab. Ding. There you go. Ding for Scott. Okay, well done. All right. Give me an extra point. I'm just kidding. Ding. All right, Brian. The 90 seconds worked well. We're going to give you the same 90 seconds. How do you feel about that?

Yeah. I felt pretty good about it. Scott been pretty good for it. He did. Yeah. Yeah, it was all very top-loaded. Let's see if you do the same. I'm very curious about this. All right. I stopped hearing dings after all. I was like, oh, no. That's right. Because you do hear the dings as well. That's funny. All right.

I don't know. Let's see how you do. I'll start the timer after I asked the first question. Brian, how many players are there on a court in a volleyball match, 6, 11 or 12? 12. What is the capital of the Philippines? Pass. What do you call a cylindrical receptacle that stores grain?

A silo. Named after the city where they signed the pact in 1955, where did eight Eastern European states agree to form a political alliance? Oh, city. I don't know. Pass. Which parent must be of Jewish faith for the child to be considered Jewish? Mom. What term describes the phase of pregnancy when the child's inner organs are not yet developed?

Ew. Jelly phase. What New Jersey meat market was a hangout for Tony Soprano and his cohorts? Oh, geez. I don't know. I don't know why Sopran. I pass. The Great Pyramid of Giza was built as a tomb for which Egyptian king, also known in Greek as Chiops. Pass.

In which country are Catalan, Galician, and Basque spoken? God, I don't know. Pass. Which famous pop artist used comic book imagery in his artworks, like his seminal, Wham! George Michaels, I don't know, Jesus. In which children's classic would you encounter Mole, Rady, and Mr. Toad? Oh, Wind to the Willows.

Yep, there we go. That took a second. The Fair Isaac Corporation takes credit for creating what acronym? ABC. Actress Nicole Kidman married which country music star in 2006? Yes. Okay. Man, we managed to tie somehow after that.

Yeah, I know, with all that, exactly, which let me grab my tiebreaker cards. Nice job on the wind of the willows. I could not pull that one out. Oh, yeah, yeah, that was, yeah. Yeah, let's go over the other ones you guys missed. Manila's capital of Philippines. Scott got that one. Oh, named after the city the pact, the Warsaw Pact.

Oh, Warsaw's where they. Yep. The phase of pregnancy when the inner organs are not yet developed is the embryonic period. Tony Soprano hung out at Satrialis. I did like jelly phase a lot. Yeah, jelly phase is very good. Cufu, I'm sorry, Kufu is the Egyptian king that the Pyramid of Giza was built for. Okay.

Catalan, Galician, and Bosker spoken in Spain. This one, I'm surprised that both of you missed. The pop artists that used comic book imagery is Roy Lichtenstein. Oh. You know what? I did what I did what Brian did.

You said a musician, right? Yeah, you thought George Michael. You heard Wham. Wham threw you off. Yeah, and it also threw me off. It didn't make me say Wham, but it made me think of a musician and that's weird that that happened in our brains. Really good.

Fair Isaac Corporation FIC takes credit for FICO. Oh, shit. Nicole Kidman married Keith Urban. Keith Urban. And then the criminal investigation department of London. Brian, you didn't get to this one. Scott did. It is Scotland Yard.

Scotland Yard. Shit. Sure you would have. Oh, yeah. He probably actually probably would have. I said MI5, which is like CIA. It's the stupidest thing ever. in part of that. So that's great.

So how do we break a tie? We break a tie again with a higher or lower. Sweet. We're just going to keep. Next week, we're going to do 15 minutes of trivia questions just to see if we can get a different score for each of you. 90, just for the record, though, I think 90 felt pretty good. 90's a good. Yeah, I feel it felt like the right number. How many total questions? I'm sorry.

Were you close to being out of them, I guess? That's the question. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14. We got 14 questions. say it's 20 questions. I actually have. I put 100 in here just, just to... Oh, okay. So the goal is never to run out or to beat the clock. No.

No, exactly. And, you know, if we did, if we ended up with 21 questions, it's not like I'd say, okay, we're stopping there. Yeah. All right. Good job, everybody. Well, done. Go home. Yeah, well, I think the 90 seconds is the, is the keeper. Okay. That's going to be our block. Yeah, I like it. It felt good for some reason.

All right. Well, um, Scott, you got four points before Brian did. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm going to let you choose whether you get the high or low or whether you give me the number. Oh, actually, I guess you choose that before I give you the question. Yeah, yeah. So I'll say you could make it in the future you can make it more pressure.

Just whoever scores the highest, whoever gets to the score first, maybe. Yeah, which Scott did. Scott got his fore. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Early on. So there you go. Oh, that's good. Yeah, that's a good way, don't it?

I like a lot of pressure on us. Yeah, I'd be like, oh, hurry up. When we print the rules for this board game, we're going to. We got to put and make a note. Take our little pre-show wavy thing. Oh, shit. Why is that on? Sorry, chat.

That's right. Okay. All right. So I'll say I'll do the higher low. You'll do the higher low. Okay, Brian, in feet, how long was the longest motorcycle jump ever attempted by Evil Knievel? I was about to say that Evil Knievel is the person who attempted it and he broke every bone in his body yet again. He did, yes.

It was, it was, it was a sick. 649 feet. 649 feet is incorrect. Scott is the correct answer higher or lower than that. It's actually kind of hard. Mm-hmm. I think Brian played his car as well here. Do you remember where he jumped at it?

Yeah, it was it well. I remember the one at Caesars. I don't know if that was the attempt for the big one, but... Uh-uh. Um, there's a bunch of buses and cars and shit. Pretty sure that's what I was. Is that what you think?

I don't know. I'm going to say, I'm going to say lower. I just don't know how anybody does more than 600. I'll say lower. Lower is correct. That gets it. Yes, it was Caesar's Palace where he did his longest attempted jump.

That was the longest attempted jump. He failed, severe crash, but it was 141 feet. His longest successful jump was 133 feet. That was at Kings Island Amusement Park in Mason, Ohio. Brian, you were probably thinking about snake river. Canyon, right? Oh, right. I forgot to even try that.

And that was... I don't remember how long. No kidding. Yeah, no, it was the Caesar's Palace one that broke him, literally. And it was filmed by... It was somebody weird that filmed it.

Like, it was some weird trivia I found out. It was the wife of... He was not very. Oh. It was somebody... You're not far off. Let me see here. Hold on.

He's a great condor. He's like, you know, watch it. My wife. Let's see. Linda Evans filmed. Really? Yes.

She was married to John Derek, who was a director at the time. And this is her footage here I'm looking at. Yes. What? That's the Caesar's Palswood. Yeah, that's it. You've got to be kidding. Oh, it's a ragged all of that thing.

Oh. Oh. Oh, thank goodness you, too, put a bunch of other shit up. Don't they show that in the fall guy and that like in the opening scenes or something. What am I thinking about? Oh, do they really? It's something like that, right? Yeah. Yeah. The, oh, the, the, uh, I'm a hard here, bar der, dear, and then he shows like some kind of major wipeout on a motorcycle. That might have been it. Yeah. So it's funny. The ABC declined. They said, we're not going to show this thing live, just in case you don't make it. Hmm, smart. And so they, so Evil Caneval paid out of pocket to John Derek to say, would you film it? And to save money, Derek had,

Linda Evans shoot the event capturing the front view that we saw there was Linda Evans' footage. That's great that she's got that camera. I never heard that before. What's funny is there's a whole documentary on this from Johnny Knoxville made it. It's very good, by the way. Great documentary. Years ago, I can't remember even the name. Someone in the chat will know it.

But it's basically Evil Caneval's whole life and, you know, the effect he had and the kind of fandom it was and all that. And how you do you happen to remember what Evil Caneval did before he became a stuntman or before he became a They probably said it in the dock and I forgot. Yeah. An insurance salesman. Oh, really? Nice. Nice. How ironic. Exactly.

Yeah, is it called the stunt driver? That might be it. That's what a stigma says. Yeah. Oh, no. Well, I don't know if he's talking about, because he's talking about a new J. Bear Shell movie about a stunt driver. documentary. Let me just find this real quick. It is worth another recommendation. Oh, being evil, it's called. Being evil. Of course. And I think I may have done a

recommendal, but it was a long time ago, 2015, so it was 10 years ago. And somehow Knoxville had had a major role in this. I can't remember. I think he produced it was the deal. Oh, it's on Tooby and Prime right now. Totally worth watching you guys. It's great. Check that out. Yeah. And they go, I mean, they go back to all of it. They interview like, freaking George Hamilton of all people because he would have been kind of that Caesar's era guy

exactly no it's weird how all these people like you wouldn't expect would all be friends like John Derek and Linda Evans friends with Evil Caneval it's bizarre it's really really weird

and I loved it plus they talked to like Travis Pastrana and like who's the other guy on the Matt Hoffman some of these more modern like Daredevil

types and how Evil Caneval just shaped them as kids and it's super good it's super good he's also a little bit of a psycho that guy. Just a little bit of a wacky-do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I believe it. Yeah. He was... Maybe you have to be a little bit to do stuff like he does. And his wife also named Linda, I think. Yeah, Linda Knievel. Listening to her, just explain what it's like to live with that guy. It was wild. Anyway, highly recommend it. It's very, very good. Well, good deal, everybody. We got a winner.

Congratulations. Oh, yeah. We get victory pickles. We get victory pickles. Yeah. Well, not only does headphones and he'll get a victory pickle. He also gets a copy of Dead Cells and the DLC for Dead Cells called The Bad Seed. I've played Dead Cells. Love that freaking game. I've never played the Bad Seed though. Their next game, that team, they got hired by Konami to make a

proper 2D although it's like 2.5D but a proper Castlevania game coming out this year. Sometime this year that's coming out and it's the Dead Cells people making an actual Castlevania game which totally informed what

Dead Cells was in the first place. I can't wait. Yeah. Castlevania Dirt Monkey or some name like that. Really? Yeah. Well, I'm sure it's not that. It's not Dirt Monkey, but it's something like that. I still can't wait for it.

But don't worry, headphones Neal. No, headphones Neal won that. Mohamed Arno, so you are getting a copy of Resident Evil Village, which is also pretty good. You've got two months to activate it, by the way. So you're going to get this code. When Scott sends it to you, he'll put the date in there that you need to activate it by. Absolutely.

get them in there. It looks like 9-326 on Resident Evil and... Anytime on Dead Cells. No. But don't wait because it's so good. Yeah, exactly. Oh my gosh. I never played the Bad Seed DLC, but I did play...

Because they actually made a Castlevania DLC for that thing, which started this little collaboration with Konami. Anyway, dead cells. All-timer, man. So good. Since you threw out a recommendal, I'm going to do one as well because this is one, again, that's something I recommendaled years ago, season one. We've been watching season two of Sugar with Colin Farrell.

Dude deserves an Emmy for that role. It's so freaking good. It is like current day, L.A., but he's like a kind of a noir detective. So freaking good. Scott, you raved about that first season and I still haven't seen it. I'm going to rave about the second season, too, because it is so good. And the less you hear about it, the better you're going to enjoy it. All right.

This is one where I feel like a spoiler could really spoil things. If there's three aspects, all the aspects of this I like, I like everything Apple TV makes that I haven't made a piece of crap yet. Yeah. I like Colin Farrell and just about everything. Yeah. And I really like. Shea Wiggum is in there too. Oh shit.

Shea Wiggin. He's in season two. I'm pretty sure he's in season one too. I have a rule about Shea Wigam. Uh-huh. It could be the worst shittiest. the movie could literally smell through the screen bad

and I'll still watch it of Shea Wiggum's involved. That's how I feel about that guy. Good. All right, I'm in. Brian Dunaway, is there anything you'd like to recommend before we kick you unceremoniously out of here before we see again on Wednesday? Sure. I'll be playing Golden Sun tonight.

Streaming 630. Probably after the Monday show. Is that usually what you do? Yeah, it's usually right around that. And then that game, the Golden Sun game, we're going to talk about on Wednesday are extremely good RPGs on the on the Game Boy Advance

there was also a DS game that came out later never played it but these these GBA games are some of the best they ever got they're so good cannot wait to play it well I have been playing it my genies and my power yeah genies and power I've been playing it on that new or with the new Dealio

the taco the pocket taco yeah it plays really well with that game and I also picked up so I'm doing dueling reviews this month for the taco versus 8 bit dues version of this which is like it's not a taco but it's like plugs directly in less lag some other benefits some other drawbacks but I'm that one just got here last night so I haven't had time to really put it through

its uh it's paces but I'll let people know soon what I think of those two devices so far I really like them both so good news good news there's not a bummer in there Good news, buddy. Don a way to do this for me. Kiss my butt. It's out. I'm loving, loving my pocket taco. You're a taco pocket.

Sounds like the dirtiest damn thing ever. Pocket taco. It's really cool, though. Game Sur is having a resurgence with their stuff. 8 bit due trying to get on that bandwagon. It's all fun to watch. But yeah, the look for, if you're getting it for an iPhone, definitely look for instructions online.

Or maybe you should do, you should do a little video or something, Scott. Because it is a, it's not a straightforward. there's there's a bunch of different ways you can put it into Bluetooth mode and only one of them works with iPhone. Yeah, it's, it treats it like, and you can remap it, but it treats it like a dual shock controller from Sony, which is really strange. Yeah. The Android side's a little simpler with it, but the, it's super, once you know, like, that it's doing that, it's pretty simple from there. But you're right, it's probably, probably be a good video. Actually, I'm thinking about doing a video about them both.

Oh, there you go. advantages, disadvantages, how to configure Delta, because there are other apps that can use the thing, but Delta is kind of like the Dejure thing right now. Anyway, more on that later. But for now... It's very convenient how it covers the bottom. Yes, anyway, go ahead, please.

For now, this, where is this? Hold on. I haven't moved it to its proper data. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dollar, dollar bills, y'all. Yeah, dollar bills, y'all. It's Steven Schleiker from major spoilers.com joining us.

Hey, Stephen. Hello, Scott. Hey, man. Hey, Hello. Been too long, I feel like. I feel like it was... It was longer.

Yeah, we missed a couple... Yeah, we missed a... I think we had a Monday off. Oh, yeah, Scott was traveling. Yeah, I was traveling for a Monday, which meant we had to push everything on Monday, which which meant you got pushed. I don't like pushing Stephen around. I regret nothing.

I really don't, you know. Because he'll fight back. He'll punch. He will. Oh, yeah. Bite sometimes. He's scrappy. Yeah.

He's really gnarly. Anyway, between the last time we spoke to you and now, we have all seen Spider-Man. Not all of us. Oh, you still haven't seen it yet. Oh, my gosh. He's got that theater problem. I know. Now, update on that.

The one that is 45 minutes away, they finally started accepting online ticket sales. So I may, if they have a show at the end of this week, may be able to go see it. Wow. Look at you guys living in the 2010s. I know. There's another one that's like an hour and a half away and you can buy tickets online there. but it's like a super sketch, buy your tickets here kind of thing.

Oh, weird. Yeah. Like buying your tickets at the theater? Like a caveman? I mean, these are like small theaters. These are not like, the one in Russell is community run theater. So it's, you know,

they update whenever they can. And the one in Great Bend, I don't know who they're affiliated with. They're not an AMC or a regal or anything like that. So they may be an independent theater as well. Scott, I think, I see a money-making opportunity for us. Let's open a theater.

Dude, no kidding. Sounds like Hayes, Kansas could really use one. So the theater that was here was an AMC slash Dickinson slash Regal. I mean, it changed hands a million times. The reason why AMC left wasn't because there wasn't enough attendance, although that's what they claim. It's because the mall, which is where the theater is attached to, jacked up their rent so much that they're like, well, we're not paying that.

And there's a group of people here in town that are trying to reopen the theater. But again, it costs them too much money to reopen that theater because the rent is too damn high. Why is the mall so pricey? Or why are they so adamant? Because the mall is empty and they still need to generate revenue. Well, yeah, but it seems like the opposite way to get revenue would be to overcharge for tenants so that they can't move in and then therefore raise revenue. Hey, Scott understands business better than most businesses. Congratulations, Scott.

Man, are you sure you are an art major and not a business? You know what? I mean, I guess at the end of the day, if they don't, if a mall, I mean, malls already struggle now, right? They're already kind of a... Oh, yeah. Most of them are dead. There's a little bit of a comeback happening in certain areas, but it's mostly kind of dying or dead. And so I don't know what the answer is, but I know it's not raise the rent. Yeah. Well, I think the thinking was, oh, what's AMC going to do? Close the theater down. They can, they can survive us jacking the rent up by 15% or whatever it was. And AMC is like, mm-hmm. No, we're not going to do that. Because at the time that happened, hold my beer. Yeah, we were still coming out of COVID lockdown stuff.

Oh, yeah. And so, you know, it was very shaky to sign into a long-term lease when you didn't know, hey, when are we back? When are movies back? And the answer was the last two weeks when everyone went and saw Spider-Man. Yeah. Well, here, oh, so back to the Spider-Man, you haven't had a chance yet. I know you want to, right?

I know. I do. I really do. I know that you want to see. that it was like I was not going to drive make a six hour trip to go see Spineer yeah Brian and I are both on record of

I know everybody says it I'm just like damn it it's so good dude curse you AMC yet another reason to hate AMC I think they could I mean I know they're not done but if this would have been if we were told this is the last Spider-Man it would have been gone out on the highest note like it's so

well it's so well done internationally if you count international box office it's out $1.6 billion. Yeah. So if it can hold, and it didn't drop very much from week one to week two. So you may look at a $2 billion movie by the end of next weekend. Jeez.

Wow. That's crazy. Superhero fatigue, huh? So that is the question, right? So have we hit superhero fatigue? I think that we just saw, we just saw essentially Human in the Masters of the Universe didn't do well. Supergirl didn't do well. Superman did okay.

What was the last Marvel movie that we had? Fantastic Four, was it? Fantastic Four didn't do so well. They did okay, yeah. Yeah, I mean, they did okay, but they're not doing $2 billion okay. No. And everyone has always said since in game, oh, well, that's the end of the superhero movie as a genre. Nobody's going to go see those movies again.

And I don't think that the answer is that they're superhero fatigue. I think that it is there are only two superheroes that people want to see in theater. and that is Spider-Man for Marvel and Batman for DC, and that's it. That's an interesting take. They are the two most popular characters for both publishers. Yeah, I was going to say, they sell the most books, too, those two characters. Yeah. I mean, that's an interesting take.

I hadn't heard that before. Here's what I think, maybe I'm just wrong. But I think the fatigue part comes from when it's a lot of samey and they feel churned out. where they get you again, it doesn't hurt that it's Marvel's most popular character. But what makes this movie good is not that it's a Spider-Man movie. It's that it's just a great movie with Spider-Man in it. Yeah, it just happens to have Spider-Man in it.

And it does that so well and weaves the two things so well that it just comes off as like a good movie that it doesn't have to have a qualifier or context that it had superheroes in it. So that's been done many times. I think Endgame and Infinity War are emblematic of that. But even more so, Captain America and the Winter Soldier was this. It was a great spy thriller, ripped right out of the 70s era, kind of spy thriller template, but also had superheroes in it and was part of a larger universe.

And it made it a great film. That was a different time, though. I understand that. And we are living in a post-COVID whatever time. But to see Spider-Man do these kinds of numbers, and if you just look at the meat and potatoes on the plate of the movie, like it's a big meal of good filmmaking. And I think if they can keep doing that,

even with the stuff that's lesser known or even that just doesn't do as much money because they're not the big characters, I still think you could lessen that sense of fatigue by just making great movies, spend less time pumping them out and more time. What is it? Quality versus quantity stuff, right? So that's part of the, that's going to be.

be part of the problem because you have to remember Sony still owns Spider-Man for all the movie stuff. Right. They share Spider-Man with Marvel. And after these last couple of weeks, there's no way that Sony is going to give Spider-Man up for anything, which means we're going to get, we're going to get more Madam Webb's. We're going to go get more, uh, morbin time. Cravens. We're going to go get Cravens, right?

We're going to get a lot of those movies because Sony is banking that even though those three movies are not good and didn't make any money, they're banking that their next Spider-Man movie will bring in two billion dollars and cover the cost of that and they still retain all of the rights to those Spider-Man film franchises. Now, yes, for those who are arguing, yes, Marvel and Sony are working in cooperation together. So Marvel gets to get its beak wet. Disney gets its beak wet.

But Sony is the one that keeps most of this money in this deal. They have the wettest beak of all three days. They do. And as long as Amy Pascal is still in charge, then I think they've got their their set sight in the right way. If Marvel would have made a nice offer right after Morbius, Madam Webb and Craven, and said, I don't think so. No, you think that they knew, they knew that this being on the horizon.

The minute that Marvel went to Sony and said, can we please have a Spider-Man in our Avengers movie, then Sony knew that, aha, we've got something here that people want. We got them by the short and curleys. Yes, exactly. Yeah, and they even had, they even made Marvel prove it out first. because Tom Holland's first appearance of Spider-Man is not in Spider-Man. It's in a freaking Civil War, right? Yeah.

Yeah. So it's like, you're going to test the water first for us. That went well. Now we'll roll into our big movie. That weren't really well. Like, they're never going to let go of this stuff. Yeah. And had they not screwed up with Lord and Miller, I think that we would have probably,

we'd be on our fourth or fifth Spider-Verse movie. Probably. So let me ask you that question about that. Is that the reason for the delay? there's some big fart around with them, with the directors? Yeah, so there were creative differences with Lord and Miller, and so they exited that. And so they basically have to redo everything for that movie. So to read, but to do, but it's supposed to come out next year.

So we'll see. When they say redo. I mean, there were some bunch of story issues and, you know, the technology that they were doing to create that unique look for Spider-Verse. They wanted to take it another step further. And apparently Sony was like, yeah, we can't do all that. that stuff. We need to crank this out. They're like, okay, see ya. And so I don't know. I think the story is still Lord and Miller base, but they've got some other people involved now on that.

Well, last time the Lord Miller exit happened, we got Solo, so I don't have great feelings about that. Solo's not the worst thing, but it's an okay movie. It's fine. Yeah, but Spider-Verse, those first two Spider-Verse movies are the opposite of OK. They are so good. Yeah, they're fantastic. You know, into the Spider-Verse is like the best superhero movies. movie of all time. I love it. Is it? Yes, it is. And then Homecoming is the second best Super Euro movie ever

made. Sorry, Brian. That's just the truth. You're wrong, but that's all right. See the new one and then come back and tell us. Yeah. The the K-pop demon hunters was them also, right?

I know they're busy with the sequel to that too. So there's a lot of stuff on their plate. And that one's so interesting too. Because... Teenage Mutuals they did. Yeah, the thing about K-pop Demon Hunters is, who was that, Sony as well?

Sony was like, yeah, we don't think this is going to do very well. No one's going to come and see it. And Netflix is like, yeah, we'll just, we'll take it off your hands for whatever they want, 20 million or whatever they paid for it. And then it turned into the biggest hit for them. And so, yeah, Sony has done some stumbles

in the last couple of years. So they're not perfect. But right now, they are definitely, as Scott said, they've got the wettest beak in Hollywood. The rate said Disney could buy them or try to buy Sony. I don't think that's the case. They'll never sell it.

Yeah. They'll never happen. Part of it is this. They're not, you got, this is true of a lot of Japanese corporations, especially the big, big ones. There is a very specific cultural thing there that will make it so they will never sell. It's like a pride,

like a pride thing as much as a profit thing. Yeah. And they're doing good and they're making money. That's the same reason people are like, well, maybe someone will just buy PlayStation and they can spend that out. I'm like, no, that's not how Sony. It's not how Japanese. these companies work. Like if they'll come and put factory, if they're Toyota, they'll put factories in

Oklahoma, they'll do their stuff over here. They'll sell more cars in the U.S., blah, blah, blah, but they're not going to ever go. Hey, in fact, the fact, when Ford bought Mazda, that was extremely unusual, like crazy for that to even happen. But it happens all the time here. People are always buying each other and like merging and whatever. Yeah, well, let's hope not. Yeah. So anyway, there's that. I, that movie's awesome and I don't know about the fatigue overall. I think this helped soften that for me. This movie made me go, oh yeah, this can be done right. You know what? I'm kind of all back in. Let's go. We'll see come December if it's enough to let people trust Marvel again. Well, and so that's the question is what is between now and the end of the year. You have

lanterns, which is DC launches on this weekend on August 16th. You've got a vision quest, which will be on Disney Plus in October, and then you have the new second season of your friend neighborhood Spider-Man, and that's it. Did you guys know? Did you guys, sorry, you just remind me of something. Because I'm rewatching leftovers right now. Oh, yeah. And Brian's in the middle of his rewatch,

his lost luggage rewatch of lost. Yeah. And I didn't know that Damon Lindelof's next big thing is this lantern show. He's the showrunner on that thing. Oh, is he really? Yeah. It's not with Carlton Cues, just solo. Just him on his own.

I don't think he's worked for Cues since. since lost. Lost, I think you're right. Yeah. Not that I don't think there's a problem between the two, but they just haven't done anything. Just a different project. But yeah, like, that's great. That makes me so excited.

I know people don't love the end of loss and all that, but if you ask me, you knocked it out the park with Watchman. The leftovers is one of the greatest shows ever to air. Like, I got big faith in that. And to hear he's in charge over there, plus all the other stuff I know about it, I think that's looking real good. Anyway, sorry. Stephen, you were heading somewhere and I interrupted or I cut you off.

I forgot. I was too engrossed in the Lindelof conversation because I was like, Watchman was really good. Lanterns is eight one-hour episodes. So this will end right about the same time that Clayface hits theaters. That's the other movie that we have coming out. That's right. We do have another comic book related movie. Yeah, yeah.

You can't call it a superhero movie. No, not quite. No, that movie looks creepy. That trailer gives me a little freaked out. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to watch it. I want to see it pretty bad, but I also just am nervous. Like it's a day, it's not a, it's a risky thing to do. I don't think so.

I think, I think right now when you look at obsessions, backroom, backrooms, and a lot of the other body horror movies that are out right now. That's kind of the hot thing. And they're not playing this up as this is Batman's 32nd greatest villain ever. It was origin story. No, this is, here's a guy that's an actor who is going through some, you know, it's like the, what was the Demi Moore? Substance. Substance. Yeah, substance.

It feels a lot like that. It's very substance, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So the comic book substance. Why? It feels, it's so weird to me because it may not feel MC or DCU to me, that movie, but it feels the Batman vibe. Yes. Yes.

So do you, do you have any predictions that maybe Clayface shows up in the, the Batman 2 with the Pattinson footface and all that? That movie has been delayed for unknown reasons. 2028 now, right? Yeah. Yeah. So I don't think so. I don't think they're going to totally try to force a clay face into it. But there's something going on with that movie that we need to look into.

Yeah. On to why that's delayed. Because it should have been out already. Now, granted, I think they've also canceled, or maybe it's still going on, the Gotham series that HBO was going to do that had, what's his name, who was Commissioner Gordon in the Batman movie. Oh, Jeffrey Wright. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, he was going to be in that series. And apparently it's been put on the Batman movie. back burner or the, you know, the cold plate. So I don't know what's going on with Batman right now. And what's his name, the director? Penguin's done, right? Speaking of Colin Farrell? Yeah, I think that's done as well.

That was like a one and done deal. Two season. Yeah. All right. That's awesome. I could tell because you said the way you said that, you haven't watched it. And that's fine. Oh, no.

I watched the first season and talk about a giant bait and switch and war a waste of my time. Oh, my gosh. All right. I really did feel that way. Oh, no, it was, I hated that show with passion. Oh, my God. I so loved it. Okay.

Yeah. Oh, now we definitely need Scott to watch it to see. I need to break the tie here. Team Brian. Yeah. Yeah. No, I get it. There's a lot of people I know even Nicole really, really liked it and made it

recommendals. But I watched that from the beginning. I was like, oh, my God, is this like this really crazy, trippy alien kind of, you know, subversive thing that's going on or, you know, Matrix stuff? And then it's like, no, he's just an alien detective. Okay, well, spoiler. I'm going to have some. Now he's going to have some, well, I mean, we're talking about a show that's like two years old.

Yeah, but that's one that I feel if you don't know that going in, it's an even better show. I don't know this. I did look at the trailer for the second season. And I was like, oh, this kind of looks like they're departing from that premise. They are. So far they are. Yeah. Maybe the second season would be better. Not that I had a problem with the first season, but so far they are not focusing on that.

aspect of it. Why did Benjian, Benj in the chat asked why did he ask Billy Bob Thornton is playing Clayface? Why? Why? I don't get that. Is Billy Bob Thornton playing Clayface? That's a weird. It's a weird poll. Sorry. They just threw me off and I had to address it. It was weird.

All right, Marvel Comics leaving New York for freaking Burbank. What are they going to do? Sit the old Johnny Carson set and what are they doing? What is this? So this is very much like the move that D.C. did back in. What was it 2013, I want to say,

2015, somewhere around there where they basically took the offices, the business side of DC Comics, and moved them out to Burbank so that could be closer to Warner Brothers Studios, so that you could have essentially more synergy going on between the comic book side and the film side

and the movie side and all of that, and just to streamline the business process. I thought they moved to New York. No, DC moved out of, yeah, DC moved out of New York to Burbank and now Marvel is doing the same thing. And it's affecting really only about 100 people to move to Burbank, and they're hoping they can bring most of those people along. They only have a year to decide if they're going to move or not.

And I don't know what other promises were made to those hundred people. You know, if like moving costs and relocation costs were going to be covered in that or if they have to deal that with themselves. When D.C. moved, they lost about 50% of the staff who didn't want to move to Calais. And so I'm thinking maybe that same thing might happen here, which, you know, it's not technically a firing, but, you know, you can say, hey, look, we have reduced our overhead through this, through this movement. So what's the purpose of this, just to save money? Or to get closer to the film and television side? Okay. So if they, so did that go well for these?

I mean, it has so far question mark, right? I mean, when you look at when everybody moved, it seemed to streamline a lot of the communication and a lot of the processes that were going on for DC. And I think that Marvel is looking at that and saying, well, we can streamline stuff too because, you know, there's a several hour difference between New York and L.A. And so if you're having to have a communication, you know, if someone's in the office at 9 o'clock in New York and they need a question answered, it's going to be like 2 o'clock in the afternoon before they get an answer back from L.A. So unless you've got people specifically saying, hey, I'm going to be in the office at 5.30 a.m. West Coast time to have a conversation with you. That really is problematic. And as someone who used to do a lot of that when I lived in Irvine, that was real problematic having to deal with people on the East Coast all the time. So I can just see that that's going to streamline that process a great deal.

Now, the bigger question, and I'm curious, Brian's response to this is New York has been kind of a central character in Marvel Comics forever. is this going to change? Do you think, I mean, I can't imagine that they'd write stories differently, right? And a lot of the artists don't have to move to New York. The artist can stay,

and many of them probably will stay remote and work from wherever they're at anyway. Yeah, so that's kind of the key point right there is back when Marvel, you know, in the 60s 70s, everybody was in New York. Yeah, you could look out the window and see all that. But writers and artists are scattered

all across the country and the world. I mean, two of the top writers at Marvel right now, I believe are in Canada, another is in the Seattle area. So I don't think that that is going to harm anything. I see, you know, maybe the West Coast Avengers will make a comeback, which will be nice. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think we're going to suddenly see Spider-Man pack up and get out of Queens and move to Los Angeles.

That'd be really weird. You know, but Marvel's reliance on actual. U.S. cities versus D.C.'s decision to make them all fake or analogs to other real cities or whatever. It's always been an interesting difference between the two things, and I cannot imagine

Spider-Man suddenly somewhere else. I just can't. Right, right. Swinging off the Hollywood sign and not much else. Yeah. Exactly. There's like four blocks of skyscrapers in Los Angeles. I can only do crime solving

in like three blocker. All right, Spider-Man Van Nuys. Yep. I watched somebody, speaking of that, somebody's playing the Spider-Man 2 game online, and he's decided to not use web traversal at all. Oh, really? Like, just unfit everything?

Everything's on foot in the city. And, dude, everything takes a million hours to do anything. That's hard. What a dumb limitation to put on yourself. It's just for the views, I'm sure. Yes, it cracked me up. Yeah. It cracked me up because I thought, well, how is that?

So some of those crimes that happen around the city are time-based. So it'll be like, we got a problem over here with the wherever, wherever. And you'll go, okay, I'll start walking that direction. And you run, too. But then by the time he's there, well before it's over. Bank robbers are gone. Yeah. That's hilarious.

It's like, what a terrible hero you are if you don't have your webs. Anyway, let's get to SS or sorry, SDCC, the San Diego Comic-Con. Didn't exactly fail, but it kind of could have been an email or a press release, according to Stephen. And I think that's, I think most of the stuff that any comic book publisher was there to talk about was kind of already known. And if not, it was out within seconds after the embargo lifted on all of the website. So it's not like you needed to go to a panel to find out what was the next big thing, because all of that stuff arrived at every, you know, website that's out there. Now, I think the same thing with Hall H. Now, there weren't a whole lot of people there presenting.

But even when you get into the Marvel stuff and you do have, you know, Ryan Reynolds show up in his gray, or sorry, his Jean Grey costume, you know, asking questions or having cast members there. Or having even Rick Moranis show up for the Space Balls panel. That was so cool. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's really cool. But when you're a million miles away, that doesn't.

do anything for you. So I guess it just kind of, this year really kind of submitted for me that if you want to be part of a comic convention experience, go there for the interactions. Don't go there for some kind of breaking news because that breaking news is going to be everywhere within seconds. Yeah. And so go there to meet your favorite creators. Go there to, you know, find a good deal.

Go there to look at all the fantastic cosplayers that are there. But don't go for. some, you know, breaking news that only you are going to break. That was, that's very much different from the first time I attended San Diego Comic Con. And they were announcing the Legion of Superheroes animated show. And I was able to file a report an hour or two later with Ain't It Cool News. And that was still the breaking story, uh, that they had because no one else was reporting on it that soon because they weren't sending out press releases back then.

Or if they were, they were delayed, et cetera, et cetera. but between 2003 to today, everything's instantaneous. So go for the experiences. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I feel like maybe even Comic-Con needs to reverse a couple of things because what they used to do or what they did for the longest time was exactly what you described. And then they realized, oh, we could be this giant celebrity thing.

Let's do all this whole age shit. And then that's what this is now. So they started not phasing out, but like kind of crowding out important aspects of the show like artist Alley and, you know, they became smaller and less important to them, which I totally get. But then now we live in this like very democratized media landscape where everybody, the guy that can break the news can be a dude just barely walking out of the bathroom, snap a shot on his phone. And suddenly he's got the scoop on something nobody's seen yet. Like that's a weird new landscape. So it feels like maybe Comic-Con's best bet moving forward would be do all the big splashy stuff you want, but also cultivate the shit that got you where you're at.

the first place and like get back to what made that meaningful. I'm seeing that in our local Comic Con is definitely moving that direction. Like the Salt Lake, whatever we call it now, Fanx, they're doing that. I think that there's real value in like getting back to the roots of why these things sprung up in the first place. Yeah. And it's in its interaction, meeting your fellow fans. Yeah. Interacting with them, you know, finding that deal you can't get anywhere else or maybe even getting the exclusives,

although I'm kind of not a huge fan of convention exclusives because someone will go up and buy the maximum that they're allowed to buy and then put them all on eBay within the hour. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. I saw an interesting video that came out of it. It was at a booth. And Deadpool shows up in cosplay.

And you don't, well, we know it because I know where it was posted. But inside that is, I just forgot his name, but created Deadpool. Lifeld. Liefeld. Rob Lysfield. in this suit. And he comes up to famous, seasoned old guy author, comic book author, John Byrne. Not John Byrne. This story's so much worse, but I can't remember people's names. Let's say it was John Byrne as it might have been. Anyway, he came over there and the goal of

Leifeld in cosplay was to try to get him to say something mean or negative about Liefeld. liefeld and so he kept like giving him easy ends on like make fun of this or what do you think about his weird proportions or and this guy refused he was just like oh a lot people don't know it i mean it's easy to just see the surface stuff but if you really know liefeld you know he's one of the nicest people in this business and i'm not going to say anything like he he really didn't know it was him in the suit oh i love it so finally reveals it is was it jeff johns no that's not a real person anyway yeah jeff johns is a real person is a real is that that right? Maybe that's the guy I'm thinking.

Anyway, the whole interaction where he just could not get him to say anything negative about him and then finally, you know, did the reveal to him where he pulled the hat off. So it made me think, man, make sure you do that. Always be nice about people, even if you don't know who the guy is under the mask. Because it could be Lifeeld himself. And what if you said, he can't draw proportions worth of shit? Exactly. Exactly. That's my only problem with his feet look like crap or whatever. And then you never know who's behind that mask. Anyway, so there's that. Well, Stephen, as always, this stuff's a pleasure to talk about.

We're all nerds here. Hey, and if people are mad because I spoiled a horrible TV show for you, my name's not major spoilers for a reason. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you can go to that website and leave your consternation at major spoilers.com. But also subscribe, because there's really good content there. Is there anything going on this week you'd like folks to know about? I think I'm very interested, even though I'm not an HBO Mac subscriber,

because David Zazlov is still in charge of Warner Brothers. I think I'm really interested to see what everyone's reaction is going to be for this week's lantern's debut. I think that'll be the really cool thing to see because unfortunately when you get online, there's so many people that are, oh, this is going to suck just because it's D.C. or whatever. And so you've got that tribalism built up, but I'm really interested in genuine reactions to that show. Yeah, me too.

We're going to get to talk about it. What is that? What's the premiere? 14th? It's Sunday. It's Sunday. 16th. So we'll be able to talk about this pretty soon. Yeah. I'm definitely going to be watching a damn date.

They're only dropping one to start. Do we know? Yeah, one at a time. The first one that was a little bit longer than the average, but I think most of them, they said, are about an hour long, so. All right. Well, here it comes, everybody. Get your green finger on or whatever. Your green ring on, not your green finger. Ain't nobody got no green fingers in that story. If you don't have a real gold, it can bring your finger on. Yeah, that's true.

If it's a fake one, by dark of night or whatever, whatever, oh, shit, this is fake. Yeah. Stephen, I hope you have a great. Oh, go ahead. It's going to be 105 degrees today. So I hope everybody, wherever you are, stays hydrated. I'm going to try. I got this right here.

Can you hear it? I do. No, yeah, it's good. Little ice cubes. You got a little ice cubes in there. Yeah, wee ice cubes in there. And I filled it full of water. And then this dehydration powder where my wife likes that's sugar-free that gives it just like a little

watermelon vibe, but it's full of all your, you know, rehydration things, sodium and potassium. Stuff plants crave. Yeah, that plants need to thrive. Yeah. And since I'm a plant, I'm super into it. All right, you guys, that is going to do it for today's show. Big, big, big thanks for hanging out with us and spending some time with us.

We'll be back all week with brand new shows. Darn right. Including tomorrow. So please join us then. We've got some stuff coming up today. Check out the schedule at frogpants.com slash schedule. And you'll get to hear me and Carter at 1 p.m. We've got a Monday show all planned out and some more fun things coming your way.

Brian, you got anything else before we go? Nothing else from me, no. Just a busy day planned, but hopefully some time for fun stuff. I got to dip back into Pocopopia and see if any of my habitats are sprouting Pokemon if people are showing up. And are there, I think I asked you this before if I did, apologies, but is there a, there are new Pokemon in this DLC? Yeah, yeah, tons. Like, that makes sense, right? It's a Pokemon game.

It's a Pokemon game, plus the new area is water, is underwater. So you've got all of your, like, your fish Pokemon and your semi-aquatic mammal Pokemon, things like that. So I just need to get that game, I think. You do. You do. I will. I think you'll really enjoy it. You know what? Hype is down on that.

Go ahead and get it now. Now's a good time, Scott. I hate the hype windows, so, you know, I don't mind, I don't mind getting in a little later. Brian, let's get out of here with a song. Yeah, so Tabitha wrote in. Tabitha Aldrich, she said, hello, Brian, it's Chadden my one-year wedding anniversary as of August 9th, which is yesterday. We also celebrate November 5th is the day that we started our relationship, if that works better. Both being newly single, we found each other at the perfect time, and I'm so lucky to have found a supportive, helpful, helpful, amazing partner to enjoy life with. Fresh Eyes is our song, whatever it is, was the song we danced toward our wedding, and smashing pumpkins was our first date.

Pick one of those. Thanks so much, signed Tabitha. Nice. And this is the Tabitha and Chad, who you did the guest book for, or was it a guest book, or was it a, Oh. As an illustration. The wedding with the tree that you did. Right.

The tree. That's right. I knew that name was ringing a bell. Yep. And I did the Lego people for the top of their cage. That's right for the cake coppers. Yes. All right.

Do you know what you guys? This is awesome. I feel like we've been with you guys since the inception of this marriage and to hear it's still going great. Absolutely. Awesome. Cheers to you guys. Happy one year anniversary. I went with the second one, Zach Brown bands, whatever it is.

Um, great cover of it that I found. And, uh, this is performed by, I've got it right here. It's performed by, oh, nope, it's up here. It's performed by, uh, Sarah Vasquez from her 2017 album. She's got a country heart. Here is, whatever it is. She's got eyes that cut you like a knife and lips that taste like sweet, bad wine and a pretty lass go to heaven every time.

She's got a gentle way that puts me in a year. When she walks in a room I can hardly breathe Got a devastating smile Look a grown man to his knees She's got whatever it is It blows me away Just everything I want to say

To a woman But I couldn't find the words to say She's got whatever it is I don't know what to do And every time I try to tell her How I feel it comes out I love you You get whatever it is

You know I've never been the type That would everyone say Bring her home at night And they're gone the next day But all that changed When she walked into my life People ask me what it is I tell them I don't know

There's just something that a woman Makes my heart go hey why She's gonna be my wife Just get whatever it is He blows me away She's everything I want to say to a woman But I couldn't find the worst to say She's got whatever it is

I don't know what to do And every time I try to tell her how I feel It comes out I love you You got whatever it is When she loves me Girl, that's how I feel When she loves me

I'm on top of the world Because when she loves me I can't leave forever When she loves me Touchable She's got whatever it is It blows me away She's everything I want to say

To a woman but I couldn't find the words to say She's got whatever it is I don't know what to do And every time I try to tell her how I feel it comes out, I love you. You get whatever eating. Thanks for listening. The Frogpants Network lives at frogpans.com. Listen.