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Episode Date: April 29, 2026

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What? You've got range, man. It's crazy. You're doing vocal warmups. Oh, I need to do that. Just to make sure your voice doesn't crack this episode. Yeah. Mommy made me mash my M&Ms.

Mommy made me mash my M&Ms. Mommy made me mash my M&M. Mommy made me mass my MNM. Hold on, I got to be. I have to use mine. The cameras aren't recording. Gotcha. Don't do that.

Mommy made me mask my... It's good enough. Yeah. Guys, you might be freaking out because we swap seeds. Switch mics on me, dude. I can't use this mic. Well, maybe... Dude, the heinous things you do that microphone.

Thank God I didn't put that like up to my lips. Back home. Yeah, it feels like home, doesn't it. What's up, guys? We're crossing streams. Which they said never to do in Ghostbusters. Never crossed streams? Well, you know, what does Ghostbusters know?

Because you and I have crossed streams many times. And I always have a blast when we do that. True. We actually, you and I have crossed streams multiple times. A little sword fight here and there. Come on, dude. It gets wet. Yeah, it does. Well, not just wet. It gets wild.

Well, because someone doesn't wait for the stream to end before they start sword fighting. Well, I mean, you know, all's fair and love and war and all that, but... On guard! Yeah, exactly. You know, spraying everywhere. It's awesome. Good times. Great times. Welcome, everyone.

You know, a great episode is about to be bestowed upon your ears and maybe some of your eyes, depending on those who watch. More people listen than watch. I'm saying to make myself feel better about. Oh yeah, dude, the stream numbers are in the hundreds of thousands. Everyone ditched the video version for the audio version. It's because the set was there. They said, you know, this set is too, too epic. And I like the low budget aesthetic.

Sorry, I'm not, I'm not watching this dope-ass set that you guys built with our two bare hands. We didn't have some podcast agency come in and build us a dope-ass set. This was something that we planned and did our stuff. Except for this gigantic thing. It was our idea, but we, that was commissioned. We can't. And we didn't, we didn't do the. And, you know, there's a lot of art that you guys have sent that, of course, I'm not, we're, we're the, we're the decorators.

We're the brains. And we had, we had some separate brawn put this together, a carpenter. But no one, no one remembers the brawn. The brah. The brahames. Yeah. Well, people remember that brawn. Wow.

He's good at, he's pretty good at playing basketball. I'll tell you that. What is your favorite LeBron James moment? Had to be when he got that, that, when he did that fucking dunk. Mine was Space Jam 2. Does he dunk in Space Jam 2? I'm sure he does. But I was just having a euphoric moment throughout the entirety of it,

so it's hard to really make up what happened in the movie. It's like you almost don't even remember anything, just because your brain was being flooded with such intense levels of dopamine. Exactly. That it's almost like you blacked out. It was like overdosing on dopamine. You actually had to go to the hospital for serotonin syndrome because you had too much. Dude, what is like, what is the biggest rush of dopamine humans can force upon themselves?

Is it drugs? It's morphine, I would say. Opioids, for sure. That's, I, that, I'm pretty sure that, yeah, opioids, like morphine are the... Not a good book? That's what I'm saying, man. Nowadays, we got kids out here on Fent instead of on... Wait, there's definitely a good rhyme we can come up with.

What rhymes with Fent? That's a book. Instead of... We got kids on Fent instead of the box car kids. No, that's... In my head, the slant rhyme worked. The kids to the... Yeah, I don't know why I thought that...

Kids, Fent, you know? In my head, it worked better. Hold on. There's something there. There's definitely something there. Guys, go ahead and leave in the comments. and the comments on Spotify. That's a war zone.

I only check that now and then. And the comments on Patreon. Or Patreon. On Spotify, there are comments. And every episode there's comments. Really? Yeah. Which I didn't know.

Spotify had comments. Dude, Spotify has video now for the podcast. We're like, wait, we show up on video on Spotify. No, because our podcast agency is like, we don't have that right now. Well, everyone else is doing it. So it would be kind of dope if we could get the video on. But then we would get YouTube. Huh?

Then we wouldn't get YouTube views. Oh, true. All the YouTube views that we get would be nothing. They would turn to nothing. It's almost like it would be close to nothing. They're already so high at the moment. I just, I don't want to risk losing a single one. Hmm.

I'm still, oh, I got it, dude. Nowadays, we got kids on Fent when they should be reading a series of unfortunate events. Ooh, there we go. Let's get less fent and more series of unfortunate events by liminey snicket, yep, which sounds like a, like a slur almost. Snicket. You lemony snicket.

Yeah, let meenny snicket. Yeah, but that feels bad to say it because it almost feels like, ooh, I shouldn't be saying that. God, what is Lemony Snicket doing now? Probably, like, I didn't the, I know the author has a real name. Yeah, it's a liminey snickett. The, the author's like, they write, Lemony Snicket is like what they write their kids books in, and then he writes adult novels under his real name. Or does create like an adult pseudonym as well. His real name is PJ Maxwell. That does sound like an author. That sounds like an author that would write adult fiction. Daniel Handler. Okay. I mean, why did he need to do Lemony Snicket when his name already like rhymes and shit?

Daniel Handler. Handler. American author and musician. Whoa! Does he sing? Sorry, can we listen to this? I want to listen to this. It's probably going to be copyright. But he has a 23-year-old son named Otto.

Otto, if you're listening, shouts out to you. Yeah, I'll grab his music real quick. Well, um... Is it like acoustic? Does it say what genre it is at all? I'm going on Spotify. I'm looking up.

Lemony... No, not... Daniel? Daniel. I was about to say Harding. There he is. Artist. I don't think this is him. Four-monthly listeners. It's in German. I mean, I don't think that's it. I don't know what's going on here. I have no idea what's going on there. Well, where's his damn music, dude? I need Daniel Handler. Let me look up Limney Snicket music. Do you think Daniel Larson has any singles on Spotify? Ryan. Are you serious? Roaring Thunder?

Is that actually on Spotify? Yes. Roaring thunder. Roaring thunder. Northern lights through the night. I like Daniel Larson says he produces his songs too and writes all the lyrics. Dude, I feel really bad for the audio engineer for the studio session that's like had to as part of his job just like sit there and be like,

oh, we got a client coming in? I mean, he's a part of history. I don't know how bad at you. I mean, how bad would you feel for yourself if you got to record Daniel Larson? You probably feel the opposite of bad. You'd feel, you'd feel happy. Instead of Daniel Handler music,

I accidentally just searched Daniel Larson music. I saw Daniel Larson actually just got his pre-sentencing for the bomb threats two years ago. Nice. To the White House and everything. And why did he threaten to bomb the White House? He just did. Hmm.

He said, he was having a meltdown. He said, he's like, I will bomb the White House. And he threatened a specific FBI agent that everyone thought was like a troll and a fake FBI agent. Turned out it was a real FBI agent. He has charges for that. Holy shit. And it was quite a twist when people found out this FBI agent that was like, monitoring him was a real FBI agent. So like people, it's almost one of those.

situations where the person who's paranoid, right, it's like everyone looks at them, like, strangely, but it turns out, well, the government is watching them and listening to them and monitoring them, but there was very good reason for the FBI to be monitoring Daniel Larson. And it wasn't just like a needle in a haystack situation. He's going to be out in a number of months just because of he served. Well, you're forgetting about good behavior, Matthew. Oh, that's true. That's true.

But what's interesting to me is, like, if you are someone with, like, paranoid schizophrenia, which is what it, I'm not, I can't diagnose Daniel Larson, but, you know, it seems like he suffers from some sort of paranoid delusions, uh, schizophrenia adjacent. And what's crazy to me is like, in 99.999% of paranoid schizophrenia cases, that person is not being actively, like, followed or watched or monitored. But at Daniel Larson's case, there are people following and tracking his location. Like, there's, like, people sending drones after him in the streets to, like, film him. So I can't imagine the combination of that, like, that by itself, without having any kind of paranoid delusions is terrifying.

But then when you actually mix it with, like, I don't, like, the recovery on that seems very, very hard because it is real in that case. It's the same thing with like Chris Chan or anyone of the sort that is that becomes a lull cow just like mass monitoring. Well, like, you know, there's always that there's to a degree in these people's stories where it's like, of course, like a lot of this stuff feels like a comeuppance or like they deserve kind of like this backlash. They brought it on themselves by their actions.

But if you take yourself away from like the narrative. and just look at like the fucking like psychological damage that can happen when people's lives are just nothing but like think of a child star these are already psychologically damaged people yes but that's what i'm going to say like not only do you have like the psychological of like people uh you know i use child stars but any sort of like i guess um notable figure but in this case you know a lot of those people have you know some positives like uh a steady income and wealth and like notoriety more so in a positive sense. These people not only have mass essential like surveillance on them from the public. They have mental health issues themselves and they don't have like any sort of way to get out of their current situation to stop the cycle that even rich people, look at clavicular, that even rich people fall into and fail to not takeover, but fail to overcome. Overcome. Yeah.

I mean, it's like that with Joshua Block, World of T-shirts, too. And because even to like a, you can take someone that is the most like mentally sound, mentally healthy person. And if you subject them to like internet low-cow treatment in a large quantity, that is going to still damage that person mentally, maybe irreversibly. So when you have someone that is already psychologically unwell and combine that with that, it's crazy. It's insane to me the level at which some of these communities will stock and monitor these people. These are people that have lives themselves, people who go.

But like, it's nice to think that a lot of these people don't have, like, a job in their no lives. And a lot of the times that is the case. They're losers. But a lot of the people as well are just, like, normal everyday people that have jobs that probably are in really. Like, it's weird of how, like, normal someone can be when they're, like, just so obsessive and cruel. It's like you wouldn't expect it. It's like if you're going to take it to the extreme, right? It's like the, I'm not trying to, like, liken these people.

but it's you think of like a like a serial killer who has a family at home it's like no he was he was so normal i feel like there's a lot of normal people that do indulge in this kind of sadistic bullying of online people because i mean like i see what goes on with people like daniel larsen or like joshua block or christian and i i i keep up to it because i see it on my timeline and stuff and whenever there's like a development, I see it. But the people that, I guess, like, actively are in these situations, like, prodding and, like, instigating things is, that's a little, that's a bridge too far. I mean, you've seen, and a lot of people have also watched it. And, like, I just know of it. But like there's certain eras in Chris Chan's, the, the, Chris Chan's journey.

And that all essentially led to them having a psychotic break that was directly, that you can directly link to the internet and the people on there and being bullied by strangers. What a life. Yeah. I mean, they weren't set up well from the get-go. Chris Chan was kind of doomed from the start. Unfortunately. And that's just also the American system when it comes with mental health and stuff as well. Especially in a more rural area.

Especially in the time that, like, I mean, early 2000s, yeah. Like therapy was not something that was like, therapy and just psychiatric help was like more, the stigma was like the looney bin. You know, it's like if you're getting psychiatric help, it's because you're crazy. Well, especially at the time that Chris Chan's parents were. From like a front because they're old. Old. Well. Yeah, well, one of them still.

I guess technically they're both old. One of them's gone. Bob. Rest in peace, Bob. Rest in peace, racist Bob. Good old racist Bob. Good old racist Bob. I taught that.

I taught that kid everything I know. There's something, one of my, whenever I think of Christian's dad, Bob Chandler, I think of, um, this, this radio show recording online of him where he's, yeah, because he had a giant. gigantic music collection. Bob did? Yeah. And that was like his thing. Like vinyl.

Yeah. And there's like a recording of him from the 90s where he's like hosting a radio show. And he's like talking about, he's like introducing some small band that's like a 1920s like Hooverville type thing. And he's like, you got Bobby Joe on the jugs. And for some reason that just. That's crazy that people find that shit though. Dude, I know. That's the thing.

about like the people that are obsessed with low cows and actively like partake in the documentation and the like what what the interacting the cyberstocking the say yeah it's like these people go to such lengths like I instead of just in dumpsters to get yeah to find paperwork from doctors and stuff it's more than just watching someone that you that you have that you find goofy and having a laugh people take it a step further and like it's almost it's like it becomes their own

owned personal TV show where it's like oh my God I can interact with this and change it for the way I want or I can I just want to know everything because it stops being a person yeah you know and it becomes an object of entertainment and while you know

many of these people like low cows are genuinely bad people and I've done a lot of shitty things. Still, it, like, the dehumanization, it's funny talking about, like, getting deep about low cows, but I mean, like, it is an interesting phenomenon that I think is unique to our, like, current world.

I mean, it definitely makes the people doing it feel better about doing it. It's like the village idiot. Yeah. Because it feels, and much more the, village idiot. It's almost like the infected, like, the affected sick animal in the lot. It's like it gives, it gives them a reason to, like, be mean or ostracize it or. Because I think people have that in them. They have that, like, you know, a lot of people have that, like, just human, just bitterness. And it's hard not to fucking be bitter. I mean,

but it's like an outlet where people that, there's a lot of mean people, a lot of people that have a lot of meanness. And the internet's a good place for mean people to come together and just be assholes. Hell yeah, it is. about video games, movies. I love how we were talking about this yesterday. There is, you know, you're in like a tornado weather community and you were talking about like there's actually like drama between these two. It's more between their fan base.

And it's just like interesting to know that like no matter what, everything is just like a microcosm of the same shit where it's like there is going to be drama where I was saying it's like there's probably like plant channels or some shit. shit where it's like someone stole my arrangement idea you know whatever it would be this person's using soil that is not good because of this for the environment or like animal channels i'm sure there's drama yeah i'm sure like it's funny that you're right every no matter what the community is if there is a community it still has the same microcosm of any other fandom where there's haters there's there's because at the end of the day it's still people it's it's it's

people being people. Because I really like whether YouTube stream stuff and videos. You were surprised at the views this, one of the people you follow was getting. I can't remember his name. Max Velocity. Max Velocity. I got to remember that.

YouTube I really like. And I watch is like this time of year. I've been waiting all years since like. Tornado season? Last May. It's tornado season right now. April and May. Woof.

And he streams like all day whenever there's severe weather. And he's just like, A tornado warning in this county now. Let's everyone get inside and be safe. And he's just looking at radars and it's very, very entertaining. Dude, he's set up's crazy now. He has like a green screen. He can walk in front of like a weatherman.

I just want to know, does he have at least one screen where he has like, it's like green grid where it has like a sweep going. I mean, yeah, the radar is always up. It doesn't do the, you don't see the do. It's not a doplet rate. Or, yeah. It's, I mean, what is there like, is there like heat? Does he have a heat map? Well, yeah, so basically when he's looking at like the storms,

you could switch between the different, like, types of maps that show different colors. Like one is a velocity map, which shows like... Wind. Yeah, the wind speed where it's like, it's green if it's moving towards the radar and red if it's moving away. Or I might have that backwards, but that's how you can, like, see a tornado on a radar

because you'll have a section where it's like super harsh up against each other, small, like kind of rotating. I learned how to, like, through watching that, I learned how to like read a radar or radar and actually like see what makes up a tornado on a radar and it's cool. But he had 85,000 viewers when I tuned in yesterday and I was like, damn, dude. I did not know that like, and this is like a community that like most people, I say most people he has 85,000 views, but I would feel like most people don't like, again, I have

to remember maybe people use him as their weather channel and it's not like fans of weather. Well, nowadays it's moved away from like people tuning into their local news. And now it's more like they're going to independent meteorologist streamers like him. And there's another guy named Ryan Hall. And the fans kind of pit them up against each other on who's better or more reliable or et cetera. But you don't get in all that mess. Don't get me started on Reed Timmer. Oh, God.

Yeah. But then because you're also in. Isn't there also drama between like these UFO live streamers or these UFO YouTubers? Or it's like, he's wrong. There has been. Or it's like one is very like honest about like there's no way that's an alien, but I'd be honest if I. Yes. And the other one is just like, this could be a fucking alien.

The drama I've seen in the past, because I subscribe to different UFO channels that, to varying degrees of, um, what's the word, there's some that are very by the books that are very scientific when they talk about things and very skeptical. And there's other ones that are more, they're trying to grab people's attention who are interested, who want to believe. Yeah. But also, like, they're not clickbaiting. They, like, truly believe this more, this version of things that is way crazier than what

is probably true. And I follow this one guy named like John Michael Gauti John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt But he's very scientific And his voice is like this

His name is my name Two at one point Yeah I changed it eventually As you can You know It's awkward when there's two John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith

Yeah There can't be two No But I remember There was a debate over I don't even remember What it was It was some signal

I think And One One YouTube was claiming this, that it's this and there's evidence. And the other one's like, no, this is just, just, if you look at the facts and so on and then it's very funny watching them beef. And then they, they were very polite to each other through the beef, though.

That's good. They were like, they were being respectful of a difference of opinion. It wasn't so much of a beef, just a difference of opinion, or was there a little bit of a, well, it was public. So, I mean, like, it went from like, you know. They weren't attacking each other's character. No, no, no, no, no. They want to tag each other's character at all.

It's just like, I think you're wrong on this. It's like, I think that's a ridiculous claim to man. I love that. I love this guy's channel. Because his videos are just, it'll be a slideshow of images off Google Images. And it'll just be like him just talking into the mic. Like, you don't even see him. It's just like, the planet Venus.

Do you just fall asleep to some of this stuff? Yeah, I'll just put it on when I'm in the kitchen or whatever. Do you fall asleep to like the weather guy? Like, all of this content feels like it's like really good to just have in my ear at night. Because Max Velocity has such a booming weatherman voice. Hello! Is he like energetic? Very.

And there's also, it's always so fast-paced because he has like alarms, alerts that go off when there's a new tornado warning or a new thing. And it's just, he does not have a relaxing voice. Or at least in the sense of like falling asleep to him. But you know it is relaxing. Ads? Yep. Love them.

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And welcome back. I hope those ads were good. I hope they should have been fun. The commercials were better than you or I could have ever imagined, honestly. What is, I'm trying to think, what is new? Haven't been really any, like, huge games. I'm talking huge, I mean like Grand Theft Auto Level or whatever, but have you been playing anything new? I haven't been playing anything new, but I did finally last night, I watched the Malcolm

I'm in the middle revival. There it is. And you did as well. I finished it like two nights ago. I finished it last night. So we're both very fresh. And we haven't talked about it yet with each other. We were, we, I brought it up before the podcast.

And then I said, no, actually, shush, shut up. So we're saving this for, for y'all. I mean, there's, I wouldn't say there's really spoilers in terms of, you know, Luke, Darth Vader, Luke, you know, all that type of plot heavy spoiler. But we will be discussing Malcolm in the middle all four episodes. We're going to be talking about it from here. And then if you look on screen, or I'm guessing maybe even there's an audio thing, I would like, you know, this is where we stop talking Malcolm in the middle or spoilers.

If you want to enjoy it yourself or whatever. You can skip ahead to right here. Mm-hmm. And put the text of speech in there of the timestamp. But it's going to be different on Spotify because they put ads in it. Oh, shit, you're right. Never mind then. Ignored that there was nothing there for the audio listeners.

Unfortunately, you're just going to have to go. There's chapters on Spotify that automatically are added, so they can just look at that. But it's back from the middle spoilers. Yeah. It's not really much. Yeah, exactly. It's not like to spoil. It's just kind of, you know, if you want to experience the events and not have the events of the episodes, be spoiled.

Just blast through it. Hit that forward 15 button a bunch. I feel like we've prefaced it enough. We've given enough, uh, uh, warning. So here we go. Four episodes. Four episodes. And I, you know, Malcolm in the Middle is one of my favorite, if not my favorite,

if not my favorite show of all time. I rewatched it within the past year to do that a year, I think. Yeah. So good. Um, but something that after I watched this that made things make a little more sense was learning that this was learning that this was original. supposed to be a movie, a single movie. But they ended up, Hulu ended up wanting to cut it into four episodes.

Now that makes a lot more sense. Which made things feel, because that was, like, I did enjoy it. My only, I would say my, my biggest thing with it was it felt, like for the plot and the story development of it, it felt like either it should have been shorter as one thing, or they should have had like 10 episodes. so they could develop the backstory and the plot of the new characters more and really build up. But the four episodes is an awkward length for the story they were trying to tell. It almost felt like dragged out so they could have condensed it or extended it, I thought.

But now knowing that it was supposed to be a movie makes a little more sense. It makes a little more sense, but I don't think it like changes the fact that it is four episodes. That's the way they decided to do it. So it's four clean episodes on their own. I agree wholeheartedly with like the thing that I don't like about the four episodes in particular there's two there's I feel like two things one is that a lot of the new characters one of them I find the like really interesting which is Malcolm's daughter I find that whole like her look into the camera and her like her her acting I actually enjoyed these new characters don't have really much

breath. They're just kind of like there's almost like the one note. They don't have any kind of character not character growth because Malcolm in the middle is set. I mean we don't know them. That's the thing. They're just kind of like... There's just not enough

room for them to do their own thing. It feels very rushed. It almost feels like a highlight reel of things that you liked from the entire series. Like I

like the fact that they at least put Malcolm's daughter in school and we got some school drama because Malcolm in the middle, you know, they were kids throughout. So a lot of that took place in school and I realize that they don't want to make it too adult because they do want to harken back to the old series. But the major thing for me, for it being like four episodes, and this is, I guess, the biggest spoiler I can think of, is that Malcolm doesn't interact with any of his family members until the last some odd, just a few minutes in the last episode. And it's so disappointing, you know? I remember at the very, very end of it, Malcolm starts getting into like a fight with Reese and Francis.

And I remember it was this sudden like rush of nostalgia and I really enjoyed. I thought it was really funny. And it was literally the end of the show. And I was like, damn it, like that. I wish that there was that throughout because it was lacking that. the second they started fighting with each other it was just like oh this has potential to it feels like classic malcolm in the middle i love the francis lowest plot that they had that was great the list and the uh the ending of that like that whole segment was really good there's i love the

character interaction the fact that malcolm is taking taken out of that is so odd for me that it it's just like even if it that's why i'm saying like even if it was a movie i'd be a little like Malcolm doesn't see anyone until the last like 15 minutes of the movie essentially. And I understand the like whole plot of like he's, you know, disconnected himself from the family. But I wish that like they had figured out a way to introduce him back to the family much earlier than the final scene. Like just because it's kind of a like him and his family's interactions are a crucial part of like. That's what the whole show is about. Right.

So when you remove that, like everyone else is great. Like the family is great on its own, of course, without him. They're still, the acting is, you know, their chemistry is great. But it is a little bit, yeah. And in, I think Frankie Munez, I think, I think his acting was, I think he was good. I think he did a really good job. But it, but his, something I noticed is that when he got angry as an adult, I got more of like a, yikes reaction. Because when he was a kid, there was some like cringe moments.

but like you can always go it's like he was a kid and his emotions are heightened but now he's like a fucking he's a grown adult and he's turning like red screaming at his mom like yeah it's awful things and I'm just like whoa dude like I mean I get that's his character as well um I did laugh my ass off when Reese comes out of the stall oh yeah there were some really funny moments um I thought that the I thought that Brian Cranston's uh I thought that how's like drug psychedelic trip thing

was way too drawn out I thought it was too I thought it was too I was like I didn't it could be

one one scene I didn't like I see I saw what they were going for me too but I didn't kind of just

I don't I don't think it landed with me as as as it was intended or something but like we're naming a lot

you know a lot of things that I just want to I enjoyed it overall me too I really did enjoy it and I'll

I probably give it a second watch. Yeah. And just, I don't know if it's going to be like a mandatory watch if I do, you know, a watch through again of the whole series. Like, I think for like hardcore Malcolm in the Middle fans or even not just, just people who enjoy Malcolm in the Middle, I think it's a, it is a nice little, like, ribbon on top of the overall series. And it's, it's nice, despite like any things, any flaws with it.

It's nice seeing that universe down the road and kind of seeing where everyone has ended up. And they did a good job with everyone. It didn't feel like when Netflix or something tries to like put a coat of pain on something. No, everyone, it's crazy how everyone clicked back into their role so well where I'm like, oh yeah, I forgot like, so much time has passed since the show ended in 2007, but it's, or even 2006. That's crazy. But 20 years ago. But it's like all these actors still have the exact same like cadence and acting. Dude, Francis has not age.

Me too. But yeah. Dude. Well, you say Francis has an age. I thought like he was, he's probably one of my favorites in the, in the, in the. Not re. Revival. Revival.

That's the word we're using. Because a reboot would be a whole new series that's like inspired by the original. I'm glad I didn't see a lot of the marketing because it might have been spoiled in the marketing by like I could imagine this scene in particular where Lois yells. But I got to kind of enjoy everything for the most part fresh. Like I knew one thing I knew is that it's all based around an anniversary. But other than that, like I didn't have like really scenes spoiled too much. And I think my favorite moment and not like scene or. or character, just like moment of the series is when Lois finds out about Malcolm's daughter.

Because it's, they play it up if you haven't seen the advertisements as like, they probably know about each other. You don't know that they don't know about each other. And then seeing her reaction of surprise of like Malcolm's daughter and then all of a sudden it clicks to you of like, did he not like, this, like, she's in high school. This is like almost like 20 years of like lying and. keeping a kid. He hasn't told his family he has a kid.

Yeah, which is just insane. And I thought, which led to, I think, the biggest laugh from me in the show, which is when he bolted out the door. When he's like, everyone just sit down and then he just runs out the door. I'm like, that felt like classic Malcolm in the middle. Like that whole bit was very like, it reminded me of Malcolm the middle the most, I think. I think that. What really blew me away was how much specifically Frankie Munez and the act of the plays Francis have not aged.

Yeah. Like, well, Malcolm obviously has aged because now he's an adult. But Francis has always kind of been an adult. But like he looks incredible. He does not look he literally age 20 years. No, not. It doesn't even look like he's aged 10. It looks like like five years later.

Like it's crazy. For Reese, you can tell, but that's just because he was literally like a teenager. Yeah. Like, we never saw him as an adult where like Frankie Munez, we did still see his face after Malcolm in the middle. I mean, he didn't ask car. He did he? He did NASCAR or was it like the offshoot thing? He raced a car.

He raced, he races. He zipped and zapped and I don't know if he's opt, but he did zip and zap. He gets bullied sometimes. I saw a clip of like the announcers being like, oh, Malcolm in the middle. of, you know, just kind of like... In the middle of the race. Yeah, they're like teasing. Not in first place.

But he, uh, overall, I think it was cute. It was, uh, it was fun. It, I love how many people that they got just a cameo from the original series. Like, they got everybody. There is one cameo, dude. I am, I was, I got to the end and I was like, did I miss him or like, fuck, I was hoping that he would have a little scene. It was, uh, Malcolm's archer.

nemesis teacher. Oh, dude. Herkaby. Yeah, Herkaby. Wait, you're right. And I don't think he was in there in any sort of mention or nothing.

Shit. And like, if he passed, you know, I know he didn't pass away because they did, for any, for all the actors who passed away, they were very sweet.

Yeah, Otto and, like giving them a little nod. Spangler. Mm-hmm. Yeah, uh, you're right, dude.

We might have missed him. He might have been dancing at the party. I don't think he would have been there. It doesn't feel right for his character to, but like, maybe some instance. where they run. I don't know. I don't know. That's the one character that I just really enjoyed the antagonism he gave to Malcolm. I don't know.

He was great in the show. Yeah. He's in another movie. I saw a part of. I forgot what it was called, but it's like a, he's at like a strip club. You know he could play. He could play Schrelly. Dude, he could play. I don't know about these days, but. Well, Young him could play Schrelly. I love that they brought everyone back, except Dewey. There is that elephant in the room, but I dude, honestly, the casting of the actor that they got to replace Dewey looks more like what grown-up Dewey looks like than the real grown-up Dewey, I think. It looks like if you asked AI to age Dewey's actor. Yeah, and then that came out. They did a great job with the casting on that. It was really fantastic.

Lois is still my favorite character. I love... She still got it. Dude, also, like, Finn Wolfhardt? That just completely caught me off guard. He, uh, I think it was he just asked to be on the show because he was a fan. Dude, that's crazy. That was such a weird, like, I didn't even clock it at first.

I was watching with Zep, but she was like, what? I forgot because when I saw him, I was going to send it, but I'm like, I'm not sure if you watch the show, so I don't want to, like, you know. But it's still just like, I was like, what the f. Congrats, Finn. You did it. from from cooking with super mega to malcolm the middle yeah a few things in between but but but we the big things are cooking with super mega Malcolm the middle yeah it doesn't matter

that you and it chapter two some some some strange strange thing show or some movie with where you played Julian Moore's son whatever it doesn't matter it's like I mean it doesn't or like Ghostbusters it's it's just just a little little accomplishments Or if you directed your own movie. Or you were in a band. You made like a band and you've been solo music. It's whatever, dude. It's not cooking with Super Mega.

You know, a horror slasher film. It's not putting Pepto-Bismol in a Ralph's cake and serving it. Sorry. Sorry, Finn. It'll never live up to that. Yep, that's just the way the cookie crumbles. And it's the way that we introduce the next bit of ads. Yep.

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The Devil Where's Prada 2 in Theaters Friday. Hold me closer, tiny Matthew. Put your phone down on your armchair Yes sir Yes sir So yes sir Pick up the microphone And sing me a little song

I sound like you were singing I was just kind of going on my own You literally were singing champagne supernova The one that's like Oh and oh The one that's like Oh no no no no no no no no no no no no no Not the one that's like

Do do do do do do Do do do Okay, sorry Champagne Supernova And a champagne supernova in the sky Imagine a freaking champagne supernova Could you imagine that? Dude, what happened to your mic?

Where's the foreskin? Where is it? Where's my mic's foreskin? What the fuck? Oh my God, it fell off. Damn, dude. It scared me. For a second I thought maybe it ran away.

No, we're good. We're good, we're good. Remember that time we were eating? Sat down for dinner and found out that the fork ran away with the spoon. God. And how do you eat? There's no way to eat a soup with a knife, especially a butter knife. I think we've talked about this, but like how long would it take to eat soup with chopsticks?

Because like every time you dip the chopsticks in, there's a little bit of soup on them. So you're getting some soup every time you use the chopsticks. And I want to know, maybe we should do that for a stream. Like an hour? Yeah, maybe. Man, not a soup. I'm thinking more of a chatter. If it's soup.

Soup. What if on that, what if on, then that would take a long-ass time. Tomorrow's live stream, we could test it. I think it would evaporate just as fast as however much.

Soup doesn't evaporate, Ryan. Otherwise, it would rain soup. What is this? Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. What? Have you seen that? Yeah, we've talked about it before. Cloudy with a chance of meatballs.

Have you seen the second one? Uh-uh. It's not a lot. as good. So it gets cloudy with a chance of meatballs for a second time. Yeah. Really? Well, except it's more of like a bigger food apocalypse than the first food apocalypse.

Dude, I genuinely like, when I was a kid reading that book was all, like it looked so yummy. Like everything. That looks so awesome. It's nothing like the book. I know. It's nothing like the book. It's a bastardization of a children's classic.

Like the Polar Express. Tom Hanks and all that bullshit they added in. Polar Express would have been a better movie if it was just live action. It's, yeah, it was in that weird, like, like, Beowulf Monster House era where they, like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hyper-realistic, like, mocap 3D models where it's like, why not just, at that point, just live action. For Beowulf, I can understand it, you know, because it's a lot more fantasy and stuff going on. But for something like, I guess the Polar Express, there's, I don't know, I feel like the, the thing that would have made

Polar Express good is not the aging of its 3D technology that we're seeing today but it would be like the aging of like the green screen of them on top of the train if they filmed it in live action you know like just little things where it's like yeah it would have been a little like aw but now it's just it's just for me movies like that

are a little hard to watch I'll still do it of course just it's just I don't know I never really like Polar Express to begin with the movie movie? It's really, maybe it's not. It feels really long. Like, it feels like an incredibly long movie when I watch it. Like, it feels like a three hour movie. And this ain't no Aragon. This ain't no series of unfortunate events. Was that three hours? No. I think they, well, the thing is in the series of unfortunate events movie, they went through three books in like an hour and a half.

Yes, they compacted the first three books in a one movie. And I got excited for the, and not, I'm not talking about the, uh, the Netflix one. I'm talking about like the one that was in theaters. Yes. Way back. Not the one with Neil Patrick Harris is Count Olaf. No, the one with Jim Carrey. And I got so excited for the next ones.

I was like, yeah, doing the next movies can be the next three books and they never made it. Dude, Jim Carrey was an absolute steal for Count Olaf. That was, like, whoever was the casting director and, like, fat was able to, like, I guess that's coming off of, though, like, that's more to do with the fact that Harry Potter was super popular. And so you want a lot of these, like, these other young adult, like, books you'd find in like an elementary school, middle school, you want, like a lot of actors are like,

oh, this could be the next Harry Potter. Right, right. Like, exactly. Where it's like that same audience that is nostalgic for Harry Potter also read these books. There's a couple that, did they ever make a movie about the, oh man, what, the giver? Is that what it was? Do you remember it was like a dystopian book we had to read? I don't think I, I don't have.

have many, you, like, it was like, you had to read it? We, we, yeah, we, we, we read it as a class, but it was like, I want to say it was called the giver, and it was, uh, if we did, I don't have much of a recollection of it then. I just remember there were like giant ships that would, like, it was dystopian and they would scan for people being kind or so, I don't remember. Do you remember the lottery? Uh-uh. The, it's like the, the, the short story of the lottery system that decides, like, I can't remember if people die because of the, you know, the lottery. the lottery system or what happens? They were putting these ideas in our heads

when we were young, so when they implemented it's normal. It's normalized. The lottery, I don't remember reading that. I remember reading where the red firm grows. That was element, yeah, that was like fifth grade. That was fifth grade. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know what I realized? Because we both grew up in

South Carolina, that means we had the same standardized like teaching shit, which means that it makes sense why we both read where the red friend grows for fifth grade. But I guess we, I never read holes. I didn't either. What happened with me is we were, I think, a first grade class whose teacher then went over to, took us over to like a second grade or third grade class where that class was reading the book. It was this weird. Do you, wait, no, that makes sense though,

because my sister is older than you and she had to read it in South Carolina for school. So that would make total sense. But she wouldn't have been at my school, unfortunately. No, unfortunately not. I'm sorry, I know, I know, I know. Believe me, I know. It's, uh, old yeller. It's like, dude, they just had us reading books about dogs dying. It's like, well, Sounder wasn't. I don't remember having to read old yellow or sound. I remember where the red fern grows.

There was another one that was about the dust bowl or that took place in the dust bowl. And it's like, it's like a diary. Yeah. And there's the part where she throws the kerosy. on her mom to put a, her mom's on fire. I think her pregnant mom's on fire. And to put her out, she throws a bucket of what she thinks is water, but it's kerosene. Oops.

I forgot, it had some stupid title. It's like, where the dust blows. Yeah. Like, yeah. What is the dust in the way? But you know exactly what I'm talking about. I read that. And I also had to read, uh, you did the Odyssey, but that was more in like middle school.

It was like seventh or eighth. Not buddy? Like it's about it's like I want to say it's like the 1920s and it's about like a young black guy in the South that makes music I could see us do you know reading that I just remember there's a part that describes him like eating a sandwich and then drinking a soda and it describes like the backwash and it was disgusting Dude how could we forget about the mouse one It's the one where it's like What is it? Tale of Despero no no no no no no no no no it's

It's either like a mouse or a rat. It's not about a mouse or a rat, but it's just like it's used in an experiment in this story. Hold up. I don't know if I read that one. What else do we have to read? I had to read Jordan Peterson's 15 Rules for Life. They made us read that, which set me up good. And trying to think.

Oh, Lord of the Fly. Did you have to read that? I didn't have to read that. That was summer reading. Flowers of Algernon is what I was thinking of. Yeah, we never, I never read that one. Okay. But Lord of the Flies, that book like deeply disturbed me at the time, I remember.

I do know what happens. RIP Piggy. Hate to see a piggy squeal. Exactly. Dude, I just remember being like, holy fuck. Then there's the... The BBC recently, there's... They put a series out, and I think now Netflix is putting it out for people who aren't British.

British! And the things they carried? That sounds familiar. It's one of my favorite books. It's like it's Vietnam War memoirs. And they're making it into a movie with Pete Davidson and Tom Harvey apparently. You read that for school? Yeah.

Which that's one of the few, the books that I read for school that actually stuck with me that I enjoyed was that Cat's Cradle. by Kurt Vonnegut. And like a tale of two cities? I'd never read a tale of two cities. I'd rather get some tail and see two tities. Oh yeah. And then the other one was things fall apart. Did things fall apart?

Yes. It's about like a tribe in Africa around the time Western missionaries show up. Yeah, things would definitely fall apart. And they fall apart. It's really good. It's a great book. You know, cue the dumbass, the dumbass that comes. And they were doing much on their own, to begin with.

They were in saving their own people. Read the book and you'll see that's not true. They chain a motorcycle to a tree because they think it's like some kind of horse monster. Really? Well, I mean, dude, if like, if I, I mean, it's loud and scary. If I had never seen, I got to think about, like, I watch a bunch of YouTube videos on North Sentinel Island because I think that's really interesting. And, like, you know, there's like that famous picture where. It's the uncontacted tribe.

Yeah. And now they're contacted, but they don't want contact with the outside world. They killed a missionary. Yeah, they killed a missionary. There was some fishermen that got drunk and fell asleep, and they drifted too close to the island, and one of them got shot in the leg with an arrow. Oh, damn. But basically...

I imagine falling asleep. Oh, fuck! After the tsunami in 2004, they sent like a helicopter over to make sure that they were okay. And there's that really famous picture from the helicopter where it's the guy like aiming the arrow.

Yeah. Because like, dude, I don't blame on. It's like some fucking metal dragon beast in the sky that's really loud. That would scare the shit out of me. What's an arrow going to do that? Come on.

Dude, we could send in a black Dorito chip right over their island and wipe them all out if we wanted to. Like a flying Dorito and blow them up. Dude. Dude, imagine killing people that are less fortunate than you in another country.

Yes. With something that costs billions and billions of dollars. Oh my God. Oh, fuck. We don't have money for health care, but we have money for a black Dorito that can fly and blow up their world countries. Man, I need to laugh more like that.

Well, how about we go watch some burnt peanut? Let's go watch some burnt peanut. Love you guys. Goodbye.