The Morning Stream - TMS live from Viva TMS Vegas 2023

Episode Date: May 3, 2023

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are in lounge at the beautiful plaza hotel in downtown Las Vegas. This is the morning stream, Vegas, 2023. Hello, and welcome. Hello, and welcome to TMS Lowe. I'm Scott, he's Brian. Yes, I am indeed, Brian, and you are in fact Scott. It's important that we clear that up for folks because, you know, we might look a little different than we usually do. Well, webcams can be very deceiving. I find people almost always look different in person.

How are you doing this evening, Scott? Well, I tell you what, I'm doing a lot. better now that I'm not stuffed in a suitcase right I mean this is no way to treat a couple of world famous legacy podcasters like ourselves we could have at least been given our own seats but no we had to get shoved into a bag with a bunch of socks and underwear yeah I mean at least they were lady socks Well, I have bad news for you, but what could be worse than being stuffed in socks and underwear and stuff? Well, you see, on the trip home, the socks and underwear will have been worn.

I didn't think about that. Yeah, yeah, it's really best not to. It's really the thing that gross me out the most. So, let's just get right down to it, because we don't have a whole lot of time here, right? Yes, let's do that. All right, so I understand that, Brian, you have prepared a game for us this evening? I have. For this game, I'm going to need the assistance of a random person pulled randomly from the audience. So, uh, Claire back.

Come on down. Oh my lord. We're never gonna keep the show on the rails with Claire up here. Are you kidding? Oh my god. All right. Well, hi, Claire. Talk of the morning to you. Talk the morning to discuss right. I guess you ate your lucky times this one. I'm just teasing with you. Are you doing all right there, Claire? Other than the fact that I've been beaten the death by horse line. Well, you know, you can, there's a microphone, you know, it's technology, we have that. Hello. Oh.

We get sexy, Claire voice. Yes. Wait, where are you going? Oh, there, there we go. That's perfect. Okay. Her microphone appears to have an erection. Oh, my.

Oh, my Lord. All right. So, Brian, what are we doing with Claire? It's time to play the Tadpool. Two. We surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics here. You and Scott will have to predict the answers. It's your job to see how many of those answers you can guess.

But, Claire, your job is even more important than usual because you have to beat Scott. Easy, peasy, lemmy's crazy. So... Well... If you win, you get a prize package that includes whatever crap we could pull. out of the suitcase we've been stuffed in for the past three days. Nice. The top three answers are on the board because this is a short show.

Are you ready? As ready as it can be. All right, using your names as buzzers, tell me what is your favorite tadpool meme? Claire. Scott. Scott was faster in rehearsal. I wouldn't ever slow. Red on air light.

Red on air light. Oh. Red on air light. You're right. Show me. Show me. Show me. That's a f***ing.

Brian, you do this show every week. How do you not know. I don't usually drink as much as I did today. Red Down Air Light is actually number two. So, Claire, you can go again. Oh, right, right. Memes, memes, memes, memes, meems, sweats. Unfortunately, that's an...

Ah! Only one person guessed that, Claire. Scott, what have you got on town? All right, let's see. How about Scott, Scott forget stuff. That was shockingly high on the list, but... All right, Claire, back to you, I guess. You know when you try and think of everything

and you think of nothing instead? I don't know, can I ask the audience? No, we're professional podcasters. We never at a loss. Audience, what do you got? Can you have... Audience, go on. You can eat rice.

Eat rice. You can eat rice. Ding, ding, ding. Woo-hoo! Ah! Woo-hoo! You've already won, but let's keep going. And as you can see, you'll get no shit potatoes, no sausage.

and no, Lieutenant Yarr! Guess again? Oh, God, okay. I'm right here. I really want the contents of that. It's okay. I need some more underwear. Let's see.

Is it a little disturbing to anybody else that Claire's voice is deeper than mine right now? It's okay. You have a lady voice, God, it's fine. Oh, I'm not. That is not an answer. It's fun. Can I go?

Hmm? Are you helping? What? No, I'm right here. You're watching me. Okay. I will go with mhm-n-na-n-n-ha-n. Let's see. R-r-r-r-r-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h.

Scott, have you got to go for us. Well, Claire's already won, right? Yes, she has. Thank God. All right, I got it. I got it. I got the answer. You ready?

I don't like me. I don't like bees. You don't? I don't. Let's see. I don't like . So for those of you who are curious, what we have remaining is, Mmm.

Sausage with three. Scott, mispronouncing names. Three. Chester Teta? Three. I can see why you like it. Three. I can definitely see why you like it.

Well, there's a mix. I put them together. We have no Lieutenant Yarr for two. Can I get a fish sandwich, also for two? And then strangely popular from our overseas guest, God damn it. God damn it! All right, all right, let's see. I'm going to go see what we've got in the suitcase here for Claire.

Hold on the second. In the suitcase for Claire, not used underwear. Oh. At least not exclusively use underwear. Oh, socks. Oh, socks. Sox? Okay.

I got a good catch. Ears, they're ears. I'm, uh... Oh my God, did somebody say God, God, Oh my God! And here's me saying, I'm becoming a Muppet. God, nobody told me you cut your hair. I hacked that at myself

and my two days if we're leaving. All right, are we done? After this well-oiled machine of a show... Scott seems to have lost some of his... Well, his hand, really. The hand that was, you know, in a place. Well, then, let's give him a hand.

After that After that We'll like to pass it back to Scott Fletcher for the next piece Ladies and gentlemen Amy and Chuck everybody And now

already, live from the Sand Dollar Bar and Lounge at the beautiful Plaza Hotel and Downlands. You know all this already. Ladies and gentlemen, Scott and Brian! Oh, they're not ours. Oh, these are we good. We get to keep them? Oh, no way. Really? He's all sweaty now Do you want this back then? Yeah. Yes, that's my side. Did

Oh, that was loud? Sorry, did you make the head bigger because of my huge noggin? Is that why? Yeah, yeah, I actually like that I have a whole story about that. Oh my gosh, all right.

Scott Puppet was going to be the death in the end. That's fantastic. All right, a couple of things. Before we get started, thank you for the warm welcome. That was really nice. We really appreciate it.

It's great to see you all. I assume this is picking me up. I'm totally doing it like a press conference over here. I'm sorry when I'm talking about that at this time. So we're thrilled to be here. Brian and I, we both have a little bit to do, but Brian here has a lot to do. And I wanted to, like I have for the last time,

three times we've done this here in Las Vegas, get a big, huge round of applause for Brian and his planning of TMS Vegas. That is a hell of a power you have. Thank you. That is a hell of a power you have right there. I know. I've never exercised that power.

Yeah, he really does take this event and make it his baby and do it in a way that, actually it shocks me how little I know about what he's got planned until we're in the middle of it. And it's such a nice change from Nurtacular, but he takes it all to the next level. It's amazing. So I can't wait to see what he's got in store. I don't actually have a lot of ideas about it. ideas about what that might be. So before we get to all of that, I have to do a thing, all right? So on my phone, I have a dude I talk to all the time named Dave. And Dave

helps me with all things frog pants like shipping out swag for people. He helped make sure the swag bags this year were done. Part of the stuff came from him. And he's also kind of my right hand man when it comes to working on Kickstarter. So I have some good news right now in about a minute or so. This t-shirt right here for this game I've been talking about for the last six months it's a game I put together called Dungeon Murder. It's a card game. A bunch of you will get a chance to play it tomorrow if not before. I have one deck, the only deck in existence I have with me for the event and we'll get a chance to play it. I just wanted

to take a second during this event to have a countdown of 10 seconds where you all get to the countdown with me. And at the count of 10, or when we get to zero, Dave, who is in Virginia, is going to hit, submit on the Kickstarter page. And so here at TMS Vegas, we will officially launch the Dungeon Murder card game Kickstarter. All right? You're going to help me do it. I'm very excited about this. I'm really proud of it. I can't wait for feedback, and I know a bunch of you will end up with copies, and I can't wait to hear what you think of. it. So thank you in advance for that support and spread the word. All right. So here we go. Let's just all start together in three, two, one. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

Ding, ding, ding, ding. Get that, Dave. All right. We are officially launched. You can go to tiny URL.com slash dungeon murder for now. Dungeonurder.com works, but it won't let me edit it here from the table. So if you go to tinyurl.com slash dungeon murder, it'll take you straight there and you won't have to know some crazy address. The what? The password? I don't know. I think it's per room. The Wi-Fi password is

702-386-2110? Is it really? Is that it? Is that really it? It's it? It's it? It's the phone. number. 31110? My gosh. 702. 386. 2110. 8675 309. Oh, number one pleasure. Barry. Mary. Good job, Barry. All right. So we're here to do a show. Oh, one thing I wanted to mention. We are going to keep our titles thing working. So if you want to submit titles, are you first? Joe is first. Are you really first, Joe? Dude.

That's so awesome. Thank you for that. I appreciate it. Anyways. Hard declined. Now it's Barry. We're going to do giveaways today. We're going to do a little bit of interesting trivia.

Some experiences we've had here. Brian's got a big, huge, awesome thing planned, of course. And so we're going to get to all of it here right now. I feel like I should thank other people first. Oh my God, there's so many people to thank. Let's actually, let's start with a big hand for. the sand dollar. Yeah. These guys are awesome. Danny and

Nate, Nate, who's not here, and I'm forgetting everybody's name because I never write things down. Yeah, it's, uh... Cecil. Seesle? And Zach. And Zach. Oh, Zach. There, yes. Excellent. So anyway, big hand for the sand dollar. Also, Bernadette, uh, she's not here. Um, and coming up in three days, she won't even be here. So she's the catering manager for the plaza and has been

our main contact for all the years that we've been doing this here. She's retiring and she announced her retirement a couple months ago, but she says, I'm sticking around until Thursday because I want to make sure the TMS Vegas stuff goes off without a hitch. Yeah, that was really nice. She's not here to hear it, but I think she's coming to board game of Palooza tomorrow. So if you see Bernadette, give her a big hug. So one of the tech guys, cut that little bit. it out and we'll share it with her. There we go. Exactly, yes. Speaking to that, all our tech guys are amazing. Katie Date over there filming and doing sound work and he's been doing stuff for you all week. He came for him.

And monkey bananas also streaming. So those of you're watching at home, they're watching because the monkey bananas right there. And of course, began for James and Svet for helping you set this whole thing. Wherever they may be, we love them. They're the best. And many, many more. for all your help. Bobby Ann for helping with the stuff that, what are they called, the swag bag, you're awesome. Honestly, we could go down the line

and figure out a way to thank every single one of because of the way you've contributed in all the ways to the show, except for maybe Amy and Chuck, because I'm a little, why am I so small compared a little tiny head? The genetics, I guess.

My head is huge. And thanks to Claire, who has gone from speaking in all caps to speaking in parentheses. karaoke is great. Yeah, karaoke is great. Speaking of which, all right, by the way, so one other quick mention, those of you who know about frogvance.combat TV every morning,

when we're in the chat room, we submit titles throughout the thing. We are going to choose a popular title tonight from a submitter. It can be anyone here, anyone at home in the chat room, doesn't matter, but we'll pick it and you can use it. So feel free to do that. But because you're live here, you can't go, exclamation point S I can see why you Vegas

Yeah that's right You can't do that You actually have to go to the site and type it in But speaking of Weird things in Vegas That's not really what we're talking about So we'll just make that transition We went to an escape room

Last night yesterday And I had a handful of us in there And I just want to mention That this escape room Like a lot of McDonald's do with their ice cream machines They claim they're broken Probably isn't really broken But they say it is sort of thing

an escape room I think a purveyor of escape rooms must by law have a bathroom available if you don't have a place for people to go if they need to pee or whatever you are making a massive mistake in my opinion

this place had a broken toilet sign and nobody could use the bathroom and so I just want to just shout out to Bill Duran our own Bill Duran who had to pee so bad and he made it through the entire experience We still, we did it in record time

maybe because he had to pee so bad. I think so, yeah, absolutely. Over there. Oh, now it all makes sense because we went to karaoke later and all of his songs sounded like Minnie Ripperton. That's a very deep cut.

All of his songs sounded like D. Snyder. There you go. Wait, still too deep? All of his songs sounded like Elmo. Amy and Chuck will get that one. So, okay, so that was weird. Check this out. Just today, I was going up to my room.

Kim and I separated, not for real, but she had to go somewhere. She's not here right now, so she's not hearing any of this. But anyway, she was somewhere else, and I went upstairs to get something, and I went in there and had my car all set to go, and I'm walking down the hall, and as I go to scan it, the one kitty corner from me opens just barely. And if this is one of you, I apologize for this story. Oh, awesome. I don't know if it was one of you or not, but the door slowly opened, and I wish I had a prop here, but a female hand, I think, nice beautiful nails.

Don't have to be female, I suppose, to have those nice nails. Where's Travis? He knows. He knows what's up. Yeah, look at those. Anyway, this hand comes out, very elegant hand with something pink and stringy, reaches out and drops a little stringy bra, like a little thin little bra on the floor of the hall, and then just quietly pulled the door shut. And I didn't know if I was supposed to go... I'm sorry, ma'am, you dropped this. So I didn't follow through or do anything. But we're in Vegas, and this seemed like a good story to share. Also, you guys know Tom Barrett was here a day or two ago.

He had to go back, but he was here for a bit. A bunch of we got to see him. We had a live version of his very serious tech show, the Daily Tech News show, right? You take it very seriously. He digs into the facts, only reports the truth, viable information, right? Very serious. We had 30 people in there.

And we're having a serious pre-show. And he's about to go, and he goes, all right, I think we're ready to go. And this is part of the way he records it. He records a little bit of banter at the top. And TMS is different. Here's how you know, because while Tom is getting ready to get going, Shogio beat, where's she? She here somewhere?

Shogio, you in the room? Sarah, no. She might not be here. She yells, let's roll, buttholes. And I don't think Tom was ready for that. And he kind of went, oh, all right, we're, we're, we're, I think he said, okay, we're live, like to remind her. This is DTNS, not Raid Night. Yeah. Have you had any weirdness?

You saw somebody get stuck on the high wire thing? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So a couple days ago, Sunday, we were out on the Fremont Street experience, not doing anything, just minding our own business, not doing anything. illegal or anything like that just not. Yeah, but somebody had done the Slotzilla zip line and had stopped

instead of going all the way from one and to the other somehow they were too light and stopped in the middle and so they actually had to send a guy out who had to tether back to them and then pull himself hand over hand all the way back up

and it's up to the platform and we watched this thing with just wrapped attention and awe. So he wasn't harnessed? He was doing hand over hand like he was, I mean he was harnessed. Okay. He had to be otherwise. He'd be dangling Okay. That's a real OSHA violation over there. I mean, okay.

What does that? So he went from like being he went from like being three cool or ten cool to you to now he's about a three or four. Yeah. Okay. He's not nearly as cool as I thought. Oh, he's harnessed. Yeah. That's so fake. I know. Who? That was the same street. You guys have all been

down Fremont, obviously. It was the same street. You guys have all been down. It's the same street. that we almost got a couple of Brian's helpers arrested on, so that was fun. We won't even get into that, necessarily. Do everyone see the Chewbacca with a lightsaber? Yeah, not lore. No.

Also, what gross Scott out the most in 84-degree weather was... The inside of that Chewbac outfit? I think it was Hammond who saw him later talking to a little kid, and the kid was having a hard time understanding of so. Chubaka goes, whee! Pulls his head off, and the kid screams. Wait, did he have a little?

little head in there or just nothing. His own head. Oh, okay, his own head is in there. It's a guy in a suit. I thought maybe it was hidden. Like it was like low. So it was like a jackbox, like the jackbox logo. Like he could just keep pulling off heads. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I've noticed something too while walking up and down that a bit. I had a lovely walk with the Frankenburgers. And the thing I noticed was five years ago, if you'd ask me what Vegas smells like, I'd say Vegas smelled outside anywhere in those kind of streets. It smells like a giant cigarette. Fine, whatever. It's been doing that since I was a kid. These last two years, and this year in particular,

sweet, sweet kush. You know? So speaking of which, hold on one second. I'm not, this is just a mint. I'm just getting a mint. Oh, yeah. Have a quick mint. Yeah, this is just a mint. I don't want anyone to think anything else about it. You're supposed to do this like half an hour before we start the show. It's just, it's what? What? Oh, I'm going full, dude.

So This is just a mint anyway What are you worried about? It's just better breath and stuff It's breath saver time, Gary, from Landronics Wow You know the starbursts, they hit differently here I know, yeah, it's the strawberry

Was that? No, yeah. But this place smells like weed And hey, that's great, you know? Brian, I brought brought you some quick facts about Vegas. Let's talk about this town, this fine town. Did you guys know, and Brian probably

knows this, but did you guys know that the strip is not in Las Vegas? That's correct. It's in Paradise, Nevada. It's like a different city. Even the sign, Welcome to Las Vegas, not in Las Vegas. It's the first lie you see on your way into town.

And I assume that new thing outside the stratosphere is the actual border of where Vegas starts. Yeah, it might be. Because it says, welcome to Vegas again. You're like, oh, okay, great. All right, here's another one. I don't know how many rooms are in this hotel, but there are two, oh, see, sorry,

150,000 hotels. No. Hotel rooms. Boy, this one hit really fast, no idea. 150,000 hotel rooms. So that means I did some math. 288 years. for one person to stay in every hotel room once every day.

Like one evening. Like, yeah, spend the night in each room. Each room, you'd have a room in Vegas somewhere, and to do all of them in there, it would take you 288 years to stay in the mall. Ah, that's pretty good, right? That's pretty good stuff. It's a lot of hookers.

You should, yeah. You carry the one and hope for the best. How about this one? Did you know that at full power, right now it only runs at like 15% or 20% power? At full power, the Luxor Light Beam, is the brightest beam on earth that I knew

but I don't know it's 15% so like they can actually because it's too bright it makes people drive or you know you see it no matter where you are in the city it's just like too much and you can see it from space you can see it in space anyway

I can like burn a hole in the moon if like they put it full power oh man we can only hope what oh yeah Bobby can you confirm or deny any of these facts that I've done no how about this one

How many, are there anyone, anyone, anyone come to this who lives here? Any Vegas people who live here? Okay, a fair number of them. Put your arm down. Anyone here from Cleveland? Woo! Yeah, that's how that goes.

There is a, there is one slot machine for every four of you in this town. In Clark County. So if you live in this area, there's one slot machine for every one of you, weirdos. And there's currently an old lady sitting at it smoking a cigarette.

That's right. And my final one is mostly for Brian, because I know how much she loves is the MGM Grand. The MGM Grand statue, the lion, is 50 tons, making it the world's largest, by far, nothing else compares. By far, a bronze statue of all time. See, I remember a time when it was an actual big line that you walked through to get in. That was when they had the whole Wizard of Oz theme. And there was an emerald, there was a yellow brick road and an emerald city in that first area. That's cool. Let's go back to that. I like that.

You know, we can make more money if we'd switch these all out to rolling buffalo machines. That is exactly what they sound like as well. That's exactly what they sound like. Anyway, those are some fun Vegas facts for you to take. Write them down if you like. Remember them? Share them with your friends. I have the original copy written in my chicken scratch. I mean, it almost looks like I wrote instead of the strip is not in Vegas. It looks like I wrote, stipping note in V-GAS.

V-V-A-A-A-GAS Elaine, do you have any idea what this means? It's pretty bad. Anyway, so I hope you're all enjoying yourselves. I think it's time. We throw it to Brian for a wild time that I'm not even aware of. Oh, yeah, no, before you get to that.

We got ruffles to eat courtesy of Jeff Sire. Oh, that's right. All-dressed. These are the all-dressed things that we talked about, never trying. All-dressed potato chips. Exotic Canadian delights.

Because, yeah. Should we open? Let's open and try it. All right. And then we got five drawings to do four goodies for swag. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I totally forgot about that. We're going to do that.

Okay, you go take the honor. All right. I'll take one. Ooh, they're still intact. These travel all the way from Canada, and look at that. It's still a perfect ruffle. Is Jeff here? Where's Jeff?

There's Jeff. One of the nicest people will ever meet. If you haven't met Jeff yet, you need to. Unless you say something wrong and he correct you in an email. He's got a direct line to us email-wise to correct dumb stuff we say, but it's usually American dumbness, but he's the best. It smells like a parka. Like that Chewy suit.

All right. Oh, poor Chewy. Well, these are just sodium bombs. They're like, it's like barbecue chips. Hold on now. When that mint kicks in, you're going to devour the whole bag. When my mint kicks in. They're good.

They're really good, yeah. I could see why you would destroy a bag of these. I have to buy a second bag because my wife ate the first one. Oh, there were supposed to be two bags? We'll tell Jen that we'd love to see her and we miss her. All right, so we did that. We should do some drawings now. Let's do drawings.

We're going to do five drawings. Yep. And Tina's going to help you out with the first four. Over there, if you win, you will go over to where she is. is currently walking too. While she's walking, quick update, we are 35... You need to give me a little more warning so I can get out of me.

By the way, 35% funded on the Kickstarter. So that's most of you guys, so thank you so much. All right, sorry. Can you pull up a random number? Yeah, let's do a random number. number. Are you guys ready for this? How many two do we have?

80. What are you doing here? Give me a random number between 0 and 80. Brian, our winner is 70. Number 70. Number 70. Our first prize package is going to Steve Cowell. Are you in the room, Steve Cowell?

Steve Cowell. Excellent. All right. So you'll go over there. Come on down. Oh, she's bringing it to you. She's bringing it to you, Steve. So here she comes.

She's right there. I'm going to bring you your prize package, Steve. I'm auditioning new voices for Tina. All right. Our next number winner, Brian, is going to be, let's say it's 41. 41. It is Joseph Coontz.

Joseph Coombs. Oh, it's Joe. Oh, that's an easy. Oh, yeah, Joe. Cool. These are, by the way, these first three are T-shirt packs, and then we have a print pack, or maybe the print pack's already gone, or I don't know.

There are T-shirts and shot glasses from AMTP and all that stuff. I saw Joe in his swimsuit today. Yeah, that was hot, dude. I didn't, you know, he does background producer work for Tom every day. Oh, yeah, okay. It's like the big deal over there on DT&S really makes, you know, greases the wheels makes it work, and to see him walk up to me all wet with just a little speedo on.

It wasn't really, but it... I'm just never going to be able to see you the same, dude. Just can't see you the same. Okay, next random number? Next, right? Yeah. Random number between 1 and 80. It's so dumb.

30 is our number. 30. That's right at the top of this page, and that is James Fried. James Freed? Same table. Look at this guy. All right, I think our next one is a print pack. Right, Tina? Okay, cool.

Some shows just like my impersonation, people. Yes. 17, Brian. 17. Oh, shit. I swear to God. Oh, are you kidding me? Claire Gak.

I'm going to go over there. All right. And our last one, and this is a doozy, and it is contributed by a listener. I'm sorry, I said a doozy, not for a doozy. Not doozy. That was well done. You're a doozy, but you're not the doozy we're looking for. I was not prepared for that at all. So a listener who wants to remain anonymous is donating a $2,500.

$250, cover your expenses, as long as they're up to $250 to TMS Vegas. So, and that winner is, oh, do we need a number? Yeah, you need to pull. Oh, sorry, 13. 13. Yes. That is Carlos Vasquez. Carlos.

Who. Where you are. Carlos here. The good news is, the good news is we have his email address. and that's how he's going to get this. Yeah, we have his address, so we don't. For those of you are hoping to snipe it because he's not here. Sit down.

Just kidding. Don't sit down. Stand up. All right. All right. Is that all five? That's all five. All right.

We did it. Real quick. Oh, never mind. Oh, let's see if there's an update. Nope. Oh, yeah, what percent? I haven't heard anything. I've just got the last one.

So no update on that. But you guys are awesome for helping that happen. Okay, now I can pass the torch to Brian, and he will begin, I have no idea what he did. Well, so last year I did this thing, right? I took a beloved UK television show, and I plagiarized it, and I, like, copied it and did it here. And I put poor Scott and four other Freak Pants All-Stars through this hell.

I made them all do a task, and it had to do with math. I put them in a hotel room, and they had to do math, and it was horrible, and I decided not to do that this year. So this year I decided to do two tasks. So please welcome to the stage. Let's get Scott Johnson. All right, I'm going over there. Seat one.

Wendy Dunford, seat number two. Mr. Scott Fletcher, seat number three. Amy Robinson in seat number four. Bobby Frankenberger in seat number five. I need a co-host for this thing because my regular co-host is over there, so please welcome Mr. Hammond Chamberlain, producer extraordinaire. Are these on? Okay, we're good. I think they're on. Yep. Welcome, Hammond. Thank you for, thank you for, thank you

for being here. Thank you for all the hard work you put in this week in editing. It was a daunting amount of terrifying work. It was, and big thanks also going to Kevin up there for all of his hard work, and you're going to see, you're actually going to see some of that hard work right this very second. If I can direct your attention up to the screen, what is a game show without a great intro? Let's begin. Oh my God, man! Ah! I've rejected anyone's reality.

Is this a... Welcome to Taskville! All right, this is great. Is there, and I should have asked this before, Danny, or somebody's Is there any way to get this rolled lights dimmed or turned? Okay, that's all right. That's all right. If not, oh.

There you go. That's all right. If it's, if it can't be, that works. That's not bad. Blue Man Group. All right, that'll work. Why not? Thank you very much, man.

All right, so where did I leave off? Oh yeah, big thanks to KT data for that and for he and Hammond for all of the editing work that they had to do over the last couple days. over the last couple of days. You guys are rock stars. Yep. Should we get started with the first task? What do you think? Let's do it. All right. I could explain the task, but I gave it to all of these people, except Wendy is going to be subbing in for Tom and also providing support for all of our contestants who I think are.

Are we getting analysis out of her for this? Oh my gosh. She's going to need that. You know, I ate a mint in front of my sister Wendy today. Yes, you did. It hasn't affected me yet. Everything's fine. Sure. By the way, based on when I took my mint, I am future Scott. Excellent. All right, let's get the explanation for our first task.

This part out loud. Take this bonaply board to the other end of Fremont Street, give it to Hammond. Once there, he will verbally complete his copy of his board, which has blanks for each of the properties. Uh-huh. Okay. One bonus point for the player that reaches Hammond in the shortest amount of time.

Please do not damage the game board or Hammond in any way. Ah, man! All right. So, just to explain so, we gave them a Monopoly board. Oh, God, yeah. We have them? No, I'm just kidding. First we do.

We have the Las Vegas Monopoly board, and it's got all the properties. And all those properties are hotels in various locations. on the strip. But this thing was made in 1993, and because of that, there are lots of hotels and things that are on here that don't exist anymore. But their job was to take that down Fremont Street,

memorize, or somehow commit that stuff to a memory. I like the way you said that. And then once they get to the end of the street, they have a blank version of this board that they're going to fill out with Hammond. Yeah. Should we see how they did? Because, by the way, let me say that the first words on the thing were, take this board to Hammond,

and then there was another thing on the board that said, the person who does it in the shortest amount of time gets a bonus point. Those two pieces of information are very important. Okay, good. Let's start with Scott, Johnson. Yeah. So I have to give you this now. Okay, so I take this and do what?

You open it and read it. Read the part out loud. It has to be read out loud. Did you have your own little stamp? I did. I did. A 3D printed it. No. It's a real stickler.

It's a good part of the instructions. Yeah. The first challenge was opening the thing. Let's go. You need a game boy. Oh, shit, yeah, I need that. All the companies. Okay, we're going down to the deep.

All right. All right, so this is working, right? You can hear me and shit? Now, if we see the nun with the rooms out, do we have to have to go to dollars out? At least it's really quiet today. Glad I took a shit before we got her. What do I do? What do I do?

I hate Monopoly. This is going to open the board. Name him? Yep. Name them. Yep. Name these lots. Oh, uh, I hate Monopoly.

This is what this before. I just look at it. Can I look at him now? All right. This is politics. Paul trick. I hate this. I really know what they're working at that.

They have to tell me. All right. The expensive ones. Okay, this one, uh, uh, uh, uh, like,

something with a baby. Oh my god, I did. I froze out. But then I'm going to walk. Oh, this is the one. Yeah, yeah. Perfect music. Oh, this is the vaguest one.

Yeah. I have no idea. I don't know anymore. I mean, can I make some up? Can you? All right. The French one. The Venetian.

The French one. The Venetian French one. One of these yellow ones is Caesars. uh good morning uh that one uh

a um candley cake uh I'm just making this up the pyramid uh Luxor

and uh finally uh I don't know anymore I can't think of them how sad that is so sad were you just literally just making the board

how you would have made it if you were making Vegas monopolies kind of I didn't get it I thought it was like I'll tell you where my head was I thought when I got there I didn't ever open it

I focused on the line that said fastest person in there gets extra points you sprinted too TV's Travis was one of your camera people and he in September like they're running after you trying to keep up with you

because you are sprinting. So I clearly, I focused on the wrong thing and I didn't focus on the thing to memorize it so when I got there I had to I thought at first it's monopoly stuff and my brain went blank so I'm like Baltic that's not even a place is it Baltic Avenue right?

It's on the other side you like pointed to a park place and boardwalk and said Baltic. Yeah and then I remember like the railroad stuff but that was already filled in so then I got confused and so then I realized oh no this is all supposed to be

stuff. So do you want to analyze this at all? Tell me what's wrong with me? Early stage. Just joke. He's fine. He's fine. And what country is venison? I know. I've done this twice. I was hanging out with somebody earlier.

I said, we need to go to the one with the Vival Tower. And I go, which one's that? I go, I go to Venetian. I did it again. And then he says, no, that's the Paris. And I went, it took me a second. I went, oh, well, to Paris. It's France, but yeah, it really threw me, and I couldn't, for the life of me, in the heat of the moment, figure it out. And it's a lot of pressure, especially, yeah.

Well, we'll have to find out if he got there quickest, at least. So you did get Planet Hollywood right, and that was the one actually on the sheet, so... Yeah. We know you got one point at least. Let's go ahead and look at Tom's. This is your proxy. Oh, actually, before we get to Tom's, I threw this in here, because when I gave you... Tom the board.

A whole of Scott Johnson. Like Scott just like in the background like. I hate that. That's the creepiest thing I've seen in Vegas. I freaking hate it. Who's the guy with a Kirby pants wearing Kirby shirt? That sucks.

That's all right. That's all right. All right. All right, let's see how Tom did. Here's Tom's attempt. Hey, I know that guy. I know that guy, too. Oh, look, it's Tom Merritt.

Hi, what's up, everybody? Let's take some horrible audio noise with me in the microphone and hug it. Oh, thanks. You've got. Yeah, I should probably read. This will be a lot more fun at you. I love the seal. Wow, that's very nice.

I got the most compliments on that wax seal. It's awesome. Love it. That's all right. I can help you with that. That didn't happen to data tests. All right. So, oh, this is the Las Vegas Monopoly Board.

All right. So take this to the other end of Fremont Street and give it to Hammond. All right. Cool. I don't know what casino that's going to be. But I guess we'll find out. I should go now? You should.

You should finish reading the cat. Your time starts now. You can't tell me. You're leading me on. You're leading me on, is what that means. Claire's just fan, she's just a fan girl, right? No, no, she's filming fast. It's loud here.

All right, so the point is that I'm supposed to get there fast. You have the Christmas? I'm not even right. Legendary six buffet. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I should be doing this as an outdoor run. My watch just told me I left my laptop behind. Yoga.

Did he really say no, duh? Whoa. Hello, Tom. Hello, Hammond. How are you? Good, how are you? Good. Guess what you got to do now?

verbally complete your board yeah oh oh oh oh oh i think i understand now yeah so i didn't study for this because i'm very bad at reading direction uh so i have decided uh that i will i will screw this up quite a bit uh atlantic where over there Boardwalk, Park Place, Marvin Garden East, Connecticut Street. You're not writing anything down, are you? Shermount Boulevard, Shibuya Crossing, Gungham. Pretty sure that's... Palistation.

Um... Luxor. Palestation is actually filled in on the board. Oh, yeah, finally. Um, yeah, I should probably start naming Vegas things. I have to know where they are. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, okay.

That's the point. Right. Um, well, at least I got the bonus points for getting here fast, maybe. Cesar's. Which one? I love the sunset station is on there. That's a great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's great.

The Las Vegas Hilton. The LVH, not Las Vegas Hilton. It's called Westgate now. Westgate, Westgate, sorry. Which is wrong. Yeah, no, I know. How many more wrong answers do I need to get? You don't need to get any more wrong answer?

Okay, I'm good. Now, he did get... Now, he did get Planet Hollywood. He did get Planet Hollywood. He did get Planet Hollywood. Again, it was on the sheet. I don't feel so bad. This marvelous guy I work with did what I did,

except for the Venetian part. I was holding a clipboard, Scott. Yeah, that's true. The smartest guy you worked. I believed you were writing things down. until now. Oh, no. I mean, it was X's and O's.

It was X's. I still didn't write stuff down. You were like a typeer in a movie. It was just nonsense. All right. I got to appreciate the fact that even during a task, Tom is focused on closing his rings

on his Apple Watch. So good. All right. Let's see how Amy did. Oh, Lord. All right. Hey, James. Hi.

Yeah, notice. Hello. Scott would not leave. What the heck? Good to see you. This is so, like. Be careful when you tear that so that you don't have the task underneath. I've discovered that my last feeling is in a bad place.

Okay. I was getting mined. All right. Cool. I got it. Your time starts now. All right. Have fun.

Okay. I started handing the board to them open. Oh, yeah. Cool. Cool. Did you not do it to me that way? No, I handed it too close. You actually almost ran off without it.

It's like my second time ever in Vegas, so I'm just like walking down Fremont with a monopoly board. No problem. It's in front of D. Casino. You're facing it the wrong way. We need to be looking for it. Well, I figured that out later. I'm glad you guys were with me because if I were doing this by myself,

I would be completely like, I don't know what to do. Do you think people think we're like actual famous people? Like, I'm not going to do well at this, y'all. Because, like, this requires knowledge of Vegas, which I don't have. This is only my second time ever being here. That's good. Okay, cool and gravy. Oh, what is her?

Nope. I don't know what's going on. I think we're getting in trouble, but I don't know. All right, so there's this whole thing about asking forgiveness as opposed to asking permission. And when you're out on the strip,

right, I'm sorry, out on Fremont Street, you apparently need permission to do any sort of filming unless you're some sort of YouTuber or something. I don't know how they do it. They must actually ask for permission. Subscribe!

Yeah, that's why I should have said. I should have said like and subscribe. So, but before we get more to the police, because I do want to talk about the police, and I love you, Amy, by the way. I want to make sure you knew that because I was joking when I said that my puppet was smaller than Scots.

Oh, well, yeah. I mean, well, that's... Your puppet looks drunk. I was going to say, I love the way that it got placed on the... It's not the size of the puppets, Brian. It's the hand inside. That's right. That's what matters.

It's in his natural habitat. That's true. So I like that you claim to have no knowledge of Vegas, yet in your hands, is the actual knowledge of Vegas. I didn't understand the assignment. That's all right. All right. So I'm sitting there. I just sent Amy down, and we're getting ready to get Bobby and Scott Fletcher going.

And I get a text message from Hammond that just says, the police are here. We've been shuttered. and my response to you is shit period period he punctuated shit I punctuated shit that's how I knew he was stressed on my behalf yeah because shit

with an exclamation point wouldn't have carried as much weight as shit yeah oh no my favorite thing though was I got there and I'm all excited I'm going to see my friend Hammond who I haven't seen in a year and also you know do this ridiculous fun thing and I come up like hey and he's like so I'm standing there waiting for Amy to show up and this guy walks up and he's kind of him in and hon toward me and I know it was going on and so he goes so what are you doing when I'm doing this thing for a podcast convention it's a little work thing we're doing

trivia contest he goes well I don't know if you're allowed to do that and he gets oh he steps away and gets on his radio he's like I need to see what you're doing I need what are you working on there and I'm texting Brian the whole time And he's like, I need to see your phone. So I handed my phone. And then three other guys show up. And then two other guys show up. And the last guy to show up, he is a mountain of a man on a mountain bike. And he has a talent to ride the bike at like almost no speed, but keep it lock, steady, straight, dead on wheels.

I am sure this guy's a contract with Cirque to Soleil for that. Have you ever seen that Russian bear that rides a tricycle? He's like that. Very similar. So I'm talking to the one guy and he's getting kind of antsy with me and I'm like just talking to him and I think he was expecting me to fight with him but I'm not going to do that. And so the other guy walks up and I cut right to him, leave the other guy, introduce myself, go through the whole thing, he's like, well you see, you need permits because this is a private

property and you can get sued and he goes through all this stuff and he's giving me all the things. And the next thing I know he's writing out an email address and saying all you do is email these people and you can be back up in a day or two. I'm like okay great and I said I'm really not trying to cause any trouble and so we just pack up and leave

and we're walking back down and I see him and like hey thanks a lot sorry he'd be in a pain on your butt he goes no problem have a good day so we get going back through and I get to Brian I'm like Brian we're we're done but if I'd gotten arrested Scott would have been paying my bail Yeah

With what money shall I pay it started. It's a good fund me to get Hamlin out of jail. Wow, that's amazing. Are you sure they weren't like performers and your PayPal cleared out?

No, where near a circle. No one near performance are. Because when they grabbed your phone, it made me nervous, like, I hope they're not minions on Friday. No, these guys were straight up, Fremont security, body camera, and people. Seeing your telegrams. Well, Brian decided he was going to send you this.

So here's the thing. As I'm walking back, I'm thinking about the way Brian thinks of things. And I realized this was a long game revenge for yogurt soda. There you go. Never forget. You were there that year now. We got him, Scott. We got him.

Yeah, we got them, finally. So to top it all off, later that night, Brian goes, hey, come down to the pool. Come down into the pool and see us. So I head to the pool. There's a security guard inside the little breezeway with the pool yelling at me, because I can't get in. He's like, you're closed. We're closed. Go away. So now Hammond can't set foot on Fremont Street or the plaza. My statement was, what, like, what do you have to do to get banned from Fremont Street?

Right, I know. I mean, they all have permission. Head removal, Wookieman, has permission. Yeah. Yeah. That's okay. It would have helped if you tick off your top. I mean. It would have helped if, yeah, Hammond would have, was it none with boobs. It would have actually helped out a lot.

That's a nasty habit to get into. So at this point, we have to adapt. We have to figure out, we've still got two contestants, and we still have Amy needing to complete her test. We have to figure out some way of doing this and still saving this content and actually being able to do something up here. So we figure out, what is the one place that,

thanks to our relationship with them, that we do have permission to record, and that is level three here at the plaza. I love the plaza. So we decide, all right, let's take level three. We're going to get Amy up there first and get her doing her test and just see how she does. And let's start with that. Let's see how Amy did with the second part of her test.

All right. Starting here. Oh, my God, really? Yeah. I have no freaking idea. I was looking at what I was walking around doing. Good party. Um, I had nothing. I mean, literally, not a clue. Um, I didn't know I was gonna have to like memorize it. I was, like, walking down the street and, uh, yeah, I got nothing. Um, yeah, I got nothing. Um, um, huh.

That's what I was saying. I was like, oh, this is one of queer, that I don't have. And sure enough, I don't have it. Okay, so I would just guess at things, I guess. Okay, so like, starting up here. Yeah, sure. We'll do the plaza there.

And, let's see. Oh, look, there's things up here, the horseshoe. The horseshoe. There we go. That's a good idea. And, um, sure, uh, Luxor. And then, uh, he did. Trump Tower. Was that right? Um, uh, Circus Circus. No, Circus used to be down here, like, in the ghetto. Um, that's like the only Vegasy thing I know. Um, is Circus Circus is garbage. We're never going to do this so high here.

Oh, we're over there. Okay, so then we're going down the road. I'm literally just like spouting things. The high roller, I don't know. Just saying things. Area 15. I'm getting with nothing right. What else?

Your mouth is getting dry, isn't it? The answers are coming to me from space, and I'm welcoming them into my brain. There you go, yeah. Good, gracious. I mean, I can't even remember where we're eating dinner tonight, y'all. Like, I mean, it's the real, like, I put it in my phone, and then, oh, Jesus. Okay. Um, uh, where did we go last time?

What's that? Okay, we'll do, like, let's call it like the sandaller. Because that's a thing. Because it's TMS Vegas edition. So TMS is in there. So, cool. Okay, so. So at this point, I'm thinking that Brian has like,

custom filled out this board. And so it's TMS related stuff. Uh, right. Which isn't a bad idea. Yeah. Where else? We did escapology last year. I'm seriously just making shit out.

I have no freaking clue what I'm doing. Yeah, the, I've said the high roller already. And then the cosmopolitan place. Where's that? The thing that, oh, I know you can't tell me, but like the place y'all go for cosmos. Yeah, I don't even care, like I'm getting my walk, but I just watch this to end. The Bellagio.

That's the thing. Are you here? Yeah, sure. Yeah, and that's a fancy thing. So we'll put that on the fancy side of the board. The, the, uh... I know, I'm trying. They're not coming to my brain.

It's absolutely. Like, under the in the moment, it is. I thought it was just me. It's all over. It's everybody. I was watching yours, I felt so much better about myself. I didn't. I was like, yay, I wasn't the only one.

I was like, I did not, I did not understand the assignment clearly. Um, okay. Um, three more things. Okay. Scott eats a gummy. Okay. I'm sorry, what? I don't know.

I mean, what is it? Scott's a dummy. No, no. Scott eats a gummy. Oh. Oh, there we go. Oh, there we go. Okay. That makes more sense.

We would have accepted either one. Oh, okay. So, yeah, the little circles on Fremont Street. Okay. A little more. Okay. I look terrified because I am. The zip-line thing.

And this is where I almost ended up. She said circles on Fremont Street. Wendy has a set of flashcards, and one of them must have your face on it with a word victim underneath. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I've never seen a more. classic case of just deer in the headlights. At some point, I actually said to him

and I was like, I'm just saying things so that this will end. And ever the consummate professional, he's just looking at me and just pointing at squares. But you, like, completely out of thin air got Luxor in the right place and everything, which

was amazing. Absolutely amazing. I'm excited. I got one right. Yay. Go for it. Wendy has a thought. What are we going to say? Wendy's mic doesn't work. I'm in a Scott sandwich, and this Scott told me a joke to share, and it's real late.

Are you ready? Yeah. We all just watch the stages of grief. He's good. This Scott's good. He's a good Scott. We're both good Scots. We're all victims.

Great Scots. So I'm starting to worry about, well, maybe did I, did I, you know, because now three people have all gotten to this end thing and completely flubbed it. not understanding the game. I'm thinking, crap, maybe my writing, maybe, and I ran it by a bunch of volunteers, all the fine folks you saw out there running around with them. We'll get to their names later.

So I'm thinking, oh, crap. All right, well, let's get to the next one. And now, because we couldn't film on Fremont, we still wanted the distractions of Fremont for Bobby and Scott Fletcher. So we took the two of them down there. We separated them. I gave Bobby the task, and then sent him down with TV's Travis,

unfilmed to work his way to level three of the plazas. So we're going to jump right to Bobby and his attempt after walking through the distractions of Fremont Street and getting to the end. So right here. Right here? Yep. What the hell are you doing to me?

We're starting here. Oh, no, no, no, no, I know that one. Hold on. I've got to walk through the whole thing. All right, you do your path. Oh, you want to... I can do my... Okay, you take your path. We're going to start here at Fremont Street.

This is the Strip. Then we've got, uh... Got this, I got this. I studied the Borg. You did. The Strip, then this Pallet Station, I guess I didn't need to know that one. Bobby, I can be seen the assignment. What a property, my friend.

The Strip, Palletation, we've got, um... If I take a left in my memory palette. Well, although it occurs to me that none of us thought to take a picture of the board with our phone, which it didn't say we could do. And then this one is... And then this one is... Planet Hollywood and then... Were you keeping the answers in your jeans? I knew this.

30 seconds ago, Travis! And now it is when the mansion kicks in. Yeah. Okay, we're coming back to this. Can I come back to this? Okay, I can come back to this. All right, so the four queens, here's my story, ready? Ready?

The four queens wanted to get, wanted to get to the top of the stratosphere. And in order to do that, oh, so that they they could see, so they could see, so they could get a good look at, um, at, uh, four queens to go to the top of the striped fingers so that they could get a good look at, uh, the Tropicana. Um, and, uh, the problem is that they're from Samstown. And that's a really long way to go. And so there was going to be a,

long and star-dusty road they were they had a really great driver his name was monte carlos does anybody have a box of like toothpicks we can throw in front of bobby first place they went i just want to see if you can do it a circus circus there are two circuses right next to each other and uh what a coincidence so they stopped there to see a attraction there that was a strong man who was going to lift pool Excalibur out of the sword, the out of the stone. I will not be recommending this story on Thursday's segment. That's how I get the memories back that it sucked out of me. So I did Excalibur from the stone. And he worked worked out that it was very strong.

They worked out at the bally's, but I don't know if that's there. I think I might skip one, so I'm going to do what I did down here actually. There is another bally also that you could do. That's the 20,000 valleys? Oh my god, you're going to nail me. You're going to try to nail me down to one. Yes. Okay.

Well, no. Which square are you calling the two valleys? That's what I'm going. Oh, these two. I had no idea. I was fighting for my life. I thought that... No! This one's Luxor! Luxor, and I don't know what this one is, and this one's Bally's because...

There was something about his workout. He looked like David Koresh. He was struck. And he used to live in Vegas. Very charismatic. He used to stay at the... the Las Vegas Hilton. Okay.

I don't know any of you. But I wanted to... I felt like these would be important and ones that would be really memorable. But I can't... They're like really... They should be really... They should be right. You need a ring.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Um... Oh, my gosh. All right, that's got to be it. Amazing. So, but what you missed because you couldn't see on Fremont Street was I immediately, I asked Brian like 12 questions as soon as I did it. I was like, okay, what does this mean? What is this mean? Do I need to do this? Am I going here to do this?

All the information's on the task. All the information's on the task. All the information's on the... So I did it and I confirmed it. But I was... I was trying to memorize all of them, and then I told my, I said, you know what? I'm going to make myself a story. I will go on a journey through the board, and so that's what I did. Absolutely brilliant. It really was. And do you use that trick to remember other things, like figuring out a story?

Like, have you used that before? Well, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's not an uncommon memorization technique. That's brilliant. Well, none of us thought of any of that. I mean, everyone does it, right? Yeah. We got a card counter in here.

So Bobby got 15 out of the 22 correct. Wow. Bobby. 12.40, anybody else. Yes. Yes. So, all right, before we show you Scott Fletcher's video, I want to tell you a little bit more about the task.

I specifically made sure to be vague for one part of the task. I didn't want to put anything on the task that said the specific word memorization because I just said you're going to verbally have to fill out a blank copy of the board that Hammond has. And so I wrestled a lot with whether or not to let people write things down or use their phone, take a picture, whatever. And the volunteers and I have this Discord chat where we're talking about, you know, I want to make it so that if they think outside the box, they actually can work themselves into a nice advantage. and I would allow it. So Scott Fletcher is

coming back from me giving him the task. What did you ask me? Can I use my phone? Can I take a picture of it? And I said all the information's on the task. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry.

That was smart. Shall we see how... I felt dirty? Shall we see how Scott Fletcher did? Yeah. Yeah, give it up. Hi Scott. Do we have to?

You've got a test for you here. Can I use this? No, hell no. Okay. No. And he can't use that either. Oh my lord. Can't use what?

Your phone. What do you mean? Oh, he can? He asked me if he could and I don't, that's nowhere in the rules. So I'm gonna have to turn my head. Can't you just rotate the picture? Maybe you could. Where do we want to be?

Oh, yeah. Sorry, should I be in here? Yeah. Well, as I understand it, I wrote some things down. That would be circuit, circus, okay? And that would be Excaliburine. And this would be lunch there. Can you just catch that?

This would be Flamingo Hilton, Bally's. Nice. Hey, Lesotho. Um, Lake Mead, Las Vegas Paris. Desert Inn.

To meet your chest. Walk-a-Waka. New York, New York, Sunset Station. Got it already. MGM Grand. So when I build a memory palace,

I walk in through the front door, I associate things with the things with the camera on my phone. Another thing. There's a person standing back there holding the thing. I didn't see her. I thought she was a tripod. Really?

Dead on. Rock solid, didn't move. That's you. Stratosphere, Metromania, Boulder Station, Samstown. That's not already, Stardust and Monte Carlo. So that then leaves, just this one. This one. That would be the Trojan horse thing.

The Trojan horse thing. I mean, there's no place called Helen. There's no place for it. no place called the Trojan Horse The Troy Casino However Because there's no label on it whatsoever Right, and then all my mythology history in high school

I go Trojan Roman Like you do All right, so first off Congratulations to Scalphi Thinking outside the box Can I ask a quick question of Wendy on that? Is that what he seemed to do seem to be a thing. And maybe you have a word for it. But a lot of people want to go and dance

around a thing and not think of like the straightest line. Like as the crow flies, he sees it that way. He's like, well, if I use my phone, I'm done with this ridiculousness, right? The rest of us are going, am I looking at it in the right angle? Is there a funny little picture at the bottom? I didn't notice the first time? Huh? You didn't do that. Didn't do what? Look at it at all. No, I know. No, I know. But that's my point. Had I thought about it, I would have done like he did. But anyway, what I'm saying is why is he smart and the rest of us are so dumb?

Where are you from, Scott? I was born in, well, I was raised in Montana. Okay. Do you have any Midwestern blood? No. I just heard him say, oh, yeah, no. Oh, yeah, no. So, okay.

A little bit of Minnesota. A little Minnesota. Okay. Yeah, I am not going to remember the name of it, but it's absolutely a thing where we will do lots of different things besides go straight towards

the answer, right? Like it's a very common and you know you're being filmed you know there's a game and it's Brian it's not going to hurt you so you're like I'm doing the right thing

I think Amy was a great example of I'm doing the right thing but then I'm not and then you harmed her but yeah so Scott just says a different brain. For the record, Brian asked me, you know, months

ago, he's like, you don't have any fears, do you? He does that every day to me. He did that every day for the last two months, I swear. By the way, when the zombies come, he's in charge. Right. I know. We're all going to Fletcher's house. Well, as you

could be told, I have a sequencing problem. I'm unable to remember sequences of things without context, so random numbers are a nightmare, and that's why last year was Oh, yeah, the math, the stuff you had to do last year. Terrified. This year, I knew there was zero chance of me remembering barely one,

and that wouldn't be interesting at all. So I had to find another way. You had to think, lateral thinking of September 7th. Okay, I'm going to, I wasn't planning on talking about this, but Amy kind of brought it up, why I asked you about fears, because I'm never going to use this. This was actually going to be the original plan for this task. we were going to put

all five contestants on Slotzilla the zip line that apparently if you're too light you get stuck on halfway and need to get pulled arm over arm but I was going to put all of them on Slotzilla and have six or seven tadpoolers on the ground holding up math equations

some sort of simple math equations like plus five minus two yeah no way the those bike cops would have noticed this at all Well, the good thing is, Slotzilla has cameras built in. So we pay for that, but that's the problem. There was not going to be any sort of discount.

They did not budge on, like, giving us some sort of group thing because we were doing a deal. So that would have ended up being like a $800 or whatever test. Plus bail. Meanwhile, I found a bunch of monopoly boards on eBay for about $10, $15 each. So that made things kind of easy. All right, so all of them, correct. Because we were basically, we were going to be generous with the...

Anybody know what that horse is, by the way? It said F.A.O. Schwartz. F.O. Schwartz. And I think the Zuman actually had it on there. Yeah, you can kind of see it. Very, like, in tiny letters right there on the chest. Yeah, used to be in the forum shops at Caesar's. And it was a giant Trojan horse you could walk into...

Where is it now? At all? Nothing? Completely gone. Oh, that's a bummer. Sometimes they keep that stuff and put it. We're saving it for our next war. Ah, great.

Fantastic. Fantastic. So, all right, so let's look at the scores. So, of course, Scott Fletcher for getting all of them right, gets five points. Bobby for getting 15 of them right, gets four. Amy, for landing on Luxor, gets three. Tom, actually, the fastest sprinter down there by 30 seconds, four minutes, 14 seconds, took Scott four minutes and 44 seconds. But because Scott knew Planet Hollywood by looking at the sheet tied for last place with two points. Nice. I'll take it. This is like Call of Duty now for me. Can I ask why three of the four look like they're pooping? Because I wanted

consternation photos last year. You got constipation photos. It's just a couple letters different. Bobby. That is definitely how I look when I'm pooping. Seductively at the camera. Okay.

Oh, look at that. Wow. Oh, geez, Louise. Thank you. New Luke said to stay hydrated. Oh, nice. Thank you, New Luke. Nice.

Schleiker love that. We got to let him know that happened. Absolutely. All right, you guys ready to see the second task. Good deal. Hammond, what was our second task? Oh, okay, what will we use this now? Oh, then I'll do it yet stuff.

Let's do this now, since we're all sitting here. So Brian called me and said, hey, I want some help doing the second task. And I'm going to turn it over to you. So it's all on you. I don't want to know anything about it. And after I cackled for 20 minutes, I came over with an idea.

And the idea was going to cost a fortune and was going to get Scott at a distinct disadvantage because it had to do with alcohol. So I backed out of that one. Claire got a hold of me, and I told her I had a new idea. So I told her my idea, and she goes, I want to add something to it. She cackled for a while.

And then we came up with something that was family-friendly and funny. So I presented them with the task, and they had to go into a room and complete the task in 17 minutes. And I will say that I am really, really pleased with all the results. I am too. This is fantastic stuff. Also, I want to thank Brian for trusting me with his baby. This is like letting me drive his fancy calls. Yeah, it could have been weird.

And when you see this, you guys will absolutely agree. It could have been like, oh, welcome to my hotel room. Yeah. Which of these ten condoms is used? You know? It could have been that bad. I will say the first thing Claire said she walked in the room when I was telling her what I was doing. And she goes, walking into a hotel room in Vegas with cameras is weird.

A little bit. Also, the mint is working. Continue. Oh, very good. Excellent. Well, then I feel like we should start with you. So let's see what the task is and how Scott completed it. This wax brand really hates paper. This happened yesterday. It tore a big hole in it yesterday for me.

All right, it's as good as I'll get. All right, here we go. Oh, shit. He's always looked like something my attacks guy would send me. I don't have to read this part out loud, but I'm going to anyway. Be chatty. Talk as you work. Good luck. Read this part out loud. Using the clay, create a representation of Brian. Best representation of wins. You have 17 minutes. Of Brian. Ibit. There's no secret. Okay.

It's like some kind of fake out, like, it's, we meant Brian Adams from Canada. Ah! Oh my Lord. And we'll explain what that is at a second. You'll see it. Mr. Burns knows going here. It really did get me. It got me.

Back at your head. head, a little transplant, a little graft. It won't hurt a bit. It gave me a trick thing. What the hell? This is too stupid. I mean, that's the idea is you want it to be a little bullshitty. Or else, you know, what was that?

Okay. Now I am done. One minute left. It's a nice clear you got there. Don't show anyone. I won't show anyone. Until after tomorrow night. Here, I might do video. It's hard to see it. There he is. Look at this guy.

Ooh! Okay. Is that what I sound like to you? In this form, yes, you did. And we didn't show the end result. And so what we're actually going to do, and we've got a couple more videos to show, but I have not seen any of the final products.

And I won't until they're all five revealed, and I won't know who created what. And I'm going to judge them completely blind, not knowing which of the five people created them. So let's get to Bobby. All right. Using the clay, create a representation of Brian. Best representation wins.

You have 17 minutes. Your time starts now. All right. I have never made... Ah! Is this a reference? What's this? Is this just empty? Is it?

Oh, yeah, they had to use my used clay, didn't they? Or the stuff I opened. Oh, you bought it for everybody? Brandy clay free, everybody. Use tools, though. Interesting. So I'm allowed to use anything at this table, huh? Okay, representation.

Can we talk about what that is now? Yeah, let's go ahead and pause it. It's a nipple thing. Oh, I might have to, we might have to go back, aren't we? We might have to go back. Yeah, that's right. So Claire's edition, Claire's edition were pasties. Those little flying saucer things were little pasties. Yeah, and you said I should lick it. Why did you do that?

Because you said, can I lick it? And I said, if you want to. No, I said... No, I have the audio sky. Did I really? Yes. I have the unedited audio up here. I have. I need citation. Okay, all right. Yeah, you bring up licking. That is not my job. Oh, my gosh. All right, Paul, I just were going to have to hear a little bit of Bobby's over. I think, unless I can't go with. I think it lets you do it in there.

To fast forward. Oh, I can't. All right. Look at that. I can't. All right. Interesting. So I'm allowed to use anything at this table, huh?

Okay. Representation of Brian. He's grooming it. Yeah. All right. It's a little creepy. Interesting. Interesting.

So I'm allowed to use anything at this table, huh? Okay. Representation of Brian. When you are making a representation of somebody, or of anything, really, there's different ways you can go. He's doing it again, isn't he? He's doing that thing he does. He's being shabby. Or.

can try a character. Yeah, I read the instructions. Identifying the most, you know, salient features of a person and enhance them. You can go abstract. So these are the decisions that I have to make quickly. Here I how to put the head on there. Look, I like what's happening here.

something like this that seemed a little fishy there at the end are these tools going to be reused yes okay all right that's what I need to hear what

okay so can I ask his usage Yeah. What did you do with the pasty? Oh, so, well, I didn't know it was a pasty, but I saw all the tassels I thought I would give, well, I mean, I can't really say,

didn't you, no, just, we'll keep that question, because I will say no one at the table knew what a pasty was, so it says a lot of, I guess, I guess the point is, did he ask if he could take those home to his kids or something? No, no, no. Oh, man. Someone at the table did take two for personal use. Oh.

Because you don't know, right? It's a cute little thing. No, they knew when they took them from me. Once they found out what they were, they asked to take two home. All right, let's get to, oh, Scott Fletcher. You don't have to read this part out loud. Be chatty. Talk as much as you want.

Good luck. Read this part out loud. Using the clay, create a representation of brain. Brian, sorry. Best representation wins. You have 17 minutes. Your time starts now. Bitch.

What is it saying? All right. Create a representation of Brian using the clay. Oh, that's clay. It looks like chalk. Okay. I figured there had to be a trick. It can't be this evening.

Is this part of the test? Oh, mother. You can't see it, but each one of these colors of play is individually wrapped. Yeah. They did kind of look like bars of soap or something like that until you pick them up there. My brain was telling me Brian, which was telling me brain again,

and I have too many colors for brain, so I'm going to do Brian. God, this is like the worst Christmas prank ever. Well, we wrapped your gift in a gift in a wrapping box with some paper and some duct tape in another box. How much time was that? It's like somebody's dad opening his... Easy. This ain't the British Bake Off.

It's a new hunting night. I got this shit. Except for opening these. I noticed that you were not at all bright by Bryan's visit there like you feel at home you know what I almost did

Hammond would have been mad but it's gonna take a hunk of that clay and just put your photo on it No way Oh, no. No, there's more. He's... There. No.

No. I reject you. Anyone's reality. I was told. To do what I'm about to do, I don't need this to distract me or complicate me. Like I said, I had like 17 minutes to create an anatomically correct. From... This does not control.

does not contribute to that goal and I'm not going to waste my time trying to figure out someone else's bullshit idea of how this is supposed to work I'm making my Brian it's so good

God I'm sad that I wasted those three minutes on you I've been living my life the way I want to live it my white all I used to that life is just so much nicer when you don't pay attention to other people or instructions if you just do what you want to do you'll have a way better day all you had to do is read the instruction Oh my gosh. You know what has some importance.

You know what has some importance? The sculpture of Brian. New segment idea, just dropped, Brian, finish up. Oh, this is so ridiculous. Alright, I keep going. Oh, I gotta push through the pain. Boot pleasure. Oh, as it becomes more realistic, it's going to be harder to finish.

Oh, God. I can barely keep going. Wow. So you don't seem to be great. Wow. So Wendy, I'm going to need a lot of unpacking on this. I want that rounder, but now I've kind of... All right.

You know, I'm gonna leave that the way that is. Oh, he's got this terrible head wound, guys. He's gonna need a skin graft. Bah! So this is his good side. This is where he got kicked in the head by a horse. You are barely holding it together. So my instructions to Kevin were,

let's keep these at about two minutes each. I'm Hammond, he's Kevin. Oh, yeah, you did this. You did these. Jeez, Louise. My instructions to Hammond, we're going to keep these at about two minutes each. And I'm so glad you left six minutes in order.

It was like watching Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now. we've been wasting Scott Fletcher's talents for the last 16 years The horror We just do little intros It'll all be fine, no Wendy

What did you see there? He has a different brain I love it And I see the Montana now Like that's that was clear That was on full display of the Montana Protect him at all costs All right we get two more to get two

and we might have something else. Let's get to, uh, let's get to Amy. Read this part out loud. Using the clay, create a representation of Brian. Best representation wins. You have 17 minutes. Your time starts now. Oh, thanks.

Oh, later. Ha! Brat! Oh my goodness. Okay. Like, getting me. into the packaging that's going to be the worst part for me. There we go.

Rip it. So here's what's going to be interesting. It doesn't say, based on what criterion, the best representation is. Like, what's considered best? And we don't know. So, I might just, this is, well, that's fun. It's sweet.

Oh, my goodness. We watch a lot of the great pottery throwdown, like the British pottery throwdown. And I'm like, I could not do this show because, like, even if I get to the point where I have, it's, oh, I would love to make him cry. Believe me, but even if I got to the point where I felt like I would have sufficient skill to do so, um, I, like, I cannot deal with the time pressure, you know, like, because I will get an idea in my head and be like, oh, right on, I am now spending the next three weeks doing nothing but this. And I have 17 minutes.

Sorry, this is how I get. I either, I am either like super chatty. or hyper-focused. Like, that's, and, like, people in my pottery classes can attest. Like, that is, in fact. Ah! Sorry. I don't know. I don't know what happened there.

I dropped something on the floor. Oh. Yeah. I'm kind of serious and focused you get. It was so good. Yeah, you, and I love your thought process of, it doesn't have to look just like that face that haven't provided. So I don't know what any of these look like.

Hammond's going to go grab things while we watch Tom's video. But that perspective, I absolutely... Mine tells a story, and I'll tell it after you see them and judge them. Oh, excellent. And based on what happens, I'm glad Tom went last. Yes. Mine tells a dirty limerick. And I'll explain it after this.

All right, so Tom did go last, And Hammond's right. There's a very good, it was a very serendipitous that Tom went last. Break the seal. Break the seal. Nope, I still ripped it. All right. Using the clay, create a representation of Brian.

Best representation wins. You have 17 minutes. Your time starts now. These aren't candles. Okay. Ah, look, I even have, I even have a model. Yay. And all the things on the table are useful and perfect.

All the things on the table. Oh, thank God. I thought this was going to have to do something with those buckets. A lot less likely to throw me out. They're so neon. Hmm. I do kind of just want to eat these. I don't think that's going to get me to win.

This is called. Sludgerator use it to provide texture it's great for beard texture if you're ever working in that's it's a twist- Wow that is nightmare fuel that's it's a twist ending I didn't He's he coming. I know. Oh, the sweetie Tom! I know. I'm never going to be able to figure out which one's Tom's.

Oh my gosh. It's good he went last. Because he covered your face. Yeah, because we only had one of those. They would have to be for him to be able to hear music so well. All right. Well, speed. Speed has been one of my

greatest strengths in this competition. So I'm probably going to finish a little ahead of time. All right. Okay. So I'm going to plot Tom because... Yes, we kind of know. Wow. Oh, my God, in the black light, it looks amazing. So here's the thing. He used the pasty like a yarmulka.

What? Oh, my God. The three beat on this thing is spectacular. So he never knew it was a pasty, did he? No. We watched this later. Hey, Tom, we're watching the YouTube. Oh, that's awesome. Look at that tongue on this, too.

Wow. That is so cool. I think I'm going to leave this so the cats can always see it when we're not home. Yeah, hell yeah. Oh, Lord. Okay. Oh, gosh. All right.

All right. Oh, here's what I do. Here's what I'm going to do. This ought to be really great. I'm going to a photo booth look at that you can actually see me selecting apps

that's why I use spotlight that's hey look look at you what are all you okay so I'm really quick here's I can do this with you should remote camdier

oh god that's even that is even more frightening all right oh wow these are so cool so here's this one who is that Is that pleasure? I don't know.

I don't know who's any of these are. But that is nightmare inducing. Oh, wow. Okay. Oh, this, the, the, he didn't lick the pasty enough, whoever this was, because it's coming off a little bit. Wow. All right. This is very frightening.

Oh, wow. Holy crap. Oh, it's got a funny hat. Oh, awesome. helps. Look at that. Hey, look at that. Lighting. Not like... Oh, my gosh. Oh, wow. All right.

Jesus. My hand. Jesus Christ. Bobby, what did you do with the pasties? Oh, the pasties inside? Well, you just said it's Bobby's. I'm going to guess this one's Bobby's. You know what?

I'm not shocked after seeing his methods. Like, this is an outlet for him. Okay, I'm going to score these. These are all five. Put the other, let me get the other two on here. I'm going to score these really quick because I kind of want to get to one more thing. Oh, it's like an Apple presentation. It's like a what?

An Apple presentation. I'm given five points to this one right here. Okay. I'm given four points to. because of the funny I am taking all of these home by the way and I'm going to display them on the thing

behind me because they're all spectacular oh shit yeah no this one with the that is so good that is really really good is this yeah so I'm pretty sure that's Scots

I'm pretty sure this one is Fletcher's um Tom's? That one's mine. This was yours? This is fantastic. Tom did the... Oh, shit.

Oh, yeah, right. Tom, of course, did the plate face. The plate face. My thinking there, the little story is that, you know, he's horrified because the alien is stealing his head. I didn't know that it was a pasty. I just thought it was a little alien on a flying saucer. Do you want to hear my limerick, though? Yes, yes.

There once was a man named Brian who... didn't live forever but died trying I made the one with the goofy looking face so that you could put it in its place yeah I'd say the mint has kicked in yeah my rap album will be out soon don't worry I don't feel like I can put either of these

in last place I'm going to put them in joint next to last place and give them two points each which is a very great Davey's thing to do all right so we're not going to worry about let's escape out of there

put that and get back to this and it is time for one more thing I think it is time for one more thing I think it is time for one more thing keeping it 100 fam let's do one more task you guys don't want to play one more task live here

on uh sure absolutely do you guys want to see them do that all right read this part out loud make a lovely little ball arrangement you have 100 seconds all right so you have 100 seconds make a lovely little ball arrangement

I'll give up there. Can we music for that? Oh, thank you. Oh, beautiful, yes, thank you. Can you play that song? Oh, no, I wish I had music. They all with the same color now. Yeah.

It feels like I have to do anything. Oh, this is like what it is. Oh, this shit doesn't stick together. That's hoping a lot. The blue and the green all look the same color now, so. 60 seconds. Hey, let you stay on your own time. Mine is lovely.

We're getting robbed here. Don't cry. It's okay, Scott. It's okay. I don't have a lovely bunch of ball arrangements. It's not happening. I've got a lovely bunch of... 45 seconds.

Yeah, you have to tell everyone we're right. Yeah, yeah. How long? No, it's about done. Oh, I'm sure I've done. No. Time. Okay.

You're all the same. 30 seconds. Oh, I've got to start over now. No, I wouldn't change the thing. I don't have done it. 15 seconds. That's it. God, those are amazing.

I don't know what they're saying? Is there a... It's a choir of little red fox. Five. Three. One. Okay, stop. Hands away from your balls.

Okay. All right, so it looks like you guys have made a bunch of pretty ball arrangements. I'd like you all to stand up and turn around. Oh, gosh. And please come over with the blindfolds. Bill Durand, could you come up here and read the next task? Oh, good. Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill! Bill!

Bill! Bill! Black seal. It is very nice. Yeah, you use this one there. I'm going with the Johnson head. All right, look how much does this. Are we allowed to?

All right, you all ready? Yeah. You can turn back around. I don't want to eat one of them. All right. Flatten all the green balls. Throw all the red balls into the bucket. Combine all the blue balls into one big ball.

Most balls in the right shape and place. in the right shape in place after 100 seconds wins. Flatten the green ones. Put the red ones in the bucket. Combine all the blue ones and one big ball. Everyone ready? Okay, stay have one more time. Flatten the green ones.

Throw the red ones in the bucket. Combine the blue ones. All right. All right. All right. Which one's going on? The time starts now. So what am I doing?

Flattening the what? Can you say? Which ones go? I think. No, don't help me. Don't help him. Don't help him. Don't help him.

Not that one. I need instructions. I wasn't listening. You know what? I may have inadvertently given myself my phone. What did he do with the piece means? Oh, did it fall on the floor? Oh, no.

It tickles. I don't remember what we do with the green. Yeah, I don't know. Oh, shit. I'm at 50, 50. Oh, you can tell me again? Oh, what do you do with the red? Red in the bucket.

Red in the bucket. Oh, red? Black is the green? Green gets flatten. What happens to blue? Blue. One big blue ball. One big blue ball.

I think I'm not. I think you got to now. 30 seconds. What? Oh, God. No. What's the blue? Somebody's ball hippie.

Sorry. What's the blues? 15 seconds. I don't know what they're laughing at Five seconds Two seconds, one stop It's grabbing up I knew it

We're going to count these up We're outscores I forget how you did Up to begin We went a little long on time, so we're going to wrap this up, and I'm going to get scores online, and we'll have him in the final video. All right, Brian Abbott here with an update on Taskville from TMS, Vegas, 2023. That last competition, the Play-Doh create a lovely arrangement of balls challenge.

Did prove to be a challenge as the house lights came up as blue turning, or not I'm sorry, as yellow. turning all the blue balls green when it was time for us to figure out our scoring. However, we did a really good job talking to each of the different contestants about how they did because they were able to check their own work. And we trust them. They're the TMS All-Stars. We have to trust them. Wendy, you know, she tore up her balls and made something very pretty, but didn't end up being worth many points. Amy got about half of her balls. her balls in the right place and in the right shape. Scott got a little bit more than that, about 60% of his balls in the right place and in the right shape. Bobby did great. All but two

of his balls were in the right place and shape. Man, the more I say that, the funnier it gets. And then Scott Fletcher, about two-thirds of his Play-Doh balls were in the right shape and in the right place. So after telling up the scores from that and the creator representation of Brian and Sculpi challenge, we have the final scores. Tom and Wendy sadly joint last place with five points. Amy Robinson, a very respectable eight points. Scott Johnson with nine points right in the middle of the pack. Bobby narrowly getting beat in that last challenge by Scott Fletcher, who takes it all with 14 points in the final challenge. Congratulations going out to Scott Fletcher and to all of our TMS, Vegas, Taskville, All-Star contestants.

Look into my room. All this stuff around here is all this stuff. Real quick, thank you all for being here for this. There's a bunch of music coming. It's going to be rad. So don't leave. I want to thank my sister for coming out for this. Just a big round of applause.

You could all be lucky enough to have somebody like her in your life, and some of you do. as a result of the show. So that's very meaningful. Brian, this was awesome. Thank you so much. Big round applause on to Brian. That's it. Thank you guys very much.

Brian, any final word? Oh, hi. I didn't see you there. Need to thank some of the volunteers or all of the volunteers who contributed their time and their effort and their energy to Taskville. Folks like 9 of 12, Rev Fry, Claire Gack, Joe, TV's Travis, Jay Oliphant, Alcabob, Shane Maddox, Rose Kitty, Zoe Brings Bacon,

and, of course, KT Data and Hammond for their excellent editing skills. Now, back to our program. Let's enjoy some same-sex, Barry! If you like what you just heard, there's a very good chance you will like all the shows on the FrogPants Network. Get more at FrogPants.com.