The Morning Stream - TMS 2177: Shamed by the Bell

Episode Date: September 21, 2021

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The morning stream. Am I still here? Hello. Morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Tuesday, September 21st, 2021. Yeah, that's right. 21, 21.

There it is. And it's your earth, wind, and fire. day. Oh yeah, that's right. And now I know why. Now I don't have to think about or ask you like an idiot like I did yesterday. Now I get it. Wait, so we don't actually call it Earthwind and Fire Day. If I'm ranking dumb things I said yesterday, that's up in the top two, at least. So anyway, welcome, everybody. Speaking of dumb things, I don't know how dumbness is, but I just realize something and then I got a bunch of crap for it. So I'm going to ask you if I should have gotten crap for it all right sure need your honest opinion here we go uh lady

the the the uh the the um the ted lasso uh blonde older lady runs the owns the annie lennox uh looking lady i can't get her name now tabith van dreason what is it yes that that waddington raddingham that's it uh what was her first name something waddingham anyway hannah hannah waddingham that's her name rana waddingham she's great or waddingham i guess probably obviously how you'd do it there. Yeah. Whitingham. She's...

She's great and really like her and Ted Lassow. I sure wish she'd get more excited at the Emmys. Just, you know... Very subdued, very quiet and, you know, demure. No, she's very excited. But anyway, she's great, and I really like her a lot. And I didn't know that she was the shame lady from Game of Thrones. I didn't know.

What? See, Brian didn't know either. I didn't know either. Seriously? Yeah. So don't... now I feel even less bad because yesterday on Twitter I bid this post where I did a picture of them side by side. She's the lady that's like all covered up in the nun looking uniform with the

bell going shame. And she's, shame. Yeah, yeah. How do you have a bell handy? Why do you have a bell? That's great. Just so I can do that. That is really the only thing, the only reason. And so I got a mix of stuff on on Twitter. Most people are like, whoa, I had no idea. That's what a crazy thing. I had no idea either. But then there were a few of you who did know, what is what the internet's... And he probably gave you crap about it? Yeah, why can't the internet just have him, have let me have my moment instead of going,

Scott, we knew this a year and a half ago. Where have you been? It's like, calm down. I had no idea. It was just a fun little discovery that I, apparently I'm not the first to find it, obviously, and I'm sure it wasn't even when I posted about it, but it was a delightful discovery and

let me have my moment, okay? Listen, I'd forgotten she was in that first season of sex education she was one of the the lesbian partners that had the uh the son who was the swimmer yes the swimmer son yes that is correct and uh yeah completely completely completely forgot about that until he mentioned it too because she looks so different in both of those roles yes and she looks totally different inside in the game of throne you'd never even know it was her unless someone told her no no completely so there she was walking behind naked uh uh what's her name going schling Shling, shame, shame.

And then I was just surprised. And then I got all this heat, especially this guy from Brittany's like, yes, Scott. Like, just so you know, talented women do other things. They don't just do one thing. Oh, good Lord.

Really? I'm like, dude, I'm going to jump through the internet and I'm going to tie your testicles together. And then I'm going to swing them around like freaking, I don't know who. Little Naz-ax going to the whole old town road. And I'm going to smack him against the wall.

Like, why would you even do that to me? And it annoyed me. There's people who get beat down so much in their real life that when they have the smallest upper hand of knowing something on the internet that maybe one person, one other person didn't know, they wave it around like the biggest banner they can. So enjoy your banner, dude. I'm muted with, what do you call? Extreme prejudice. Yes, extreme prejudicial muting is what I do. So I enjoy it a lot.

All right. There's that. Okay, I thought this morning, we usually have a little bit more time on a Tuesday morning before we get to news and stuff. No, no Dunaway. No games. No done away. No. We don't have to cram all a bunch of crap in, right? Yeah. So instead, I'm going to read some emails, catch us up a little bit from some listeners. And I'll give you this example. This is from Jerome. There are not enough, in my opinion, there are not enough Jerome's in the world. Right. Right. That's true. I like that name a lot. I think there are 11 of them in the time, in the band, The Time. I don't know.

I mean, is there at least one in the time? There's definitely at least one, because Morris Day during the bird, the song, The Bird, he says, now Jerome. Oh, right. And that's how they pass it over to Jerome. That's how they pass it over to Jerome. Right, right. I remember on Seinfeld, occasionally Elaine would refer to Jerry as Jerome, and he used to make me learn it. Well, anyway, here's what Jerome says.

He says, hello, SpaceX and Blue Origin. That's pretty good. Yeah, look at that. S&B. Look at that. It's appropriate, too. He says, I've noticed Scott sometimes uses what I find to be odd phrasing when describing a person. For example, to describe Michael Jackson, people might say, oh, he's the guy who did beat it.

But Scott would say, oh, he's the guy what did beat it. Which is a funny choice for his example because of the way that's even phrased. I completely agree. He says, why would Scott say, oh, he's the guy, what did beat it? Why doesn't he say, or why the what instead of who? Is that a regional thing or some sort of deep frog pants reference? Love the show, though. Jerome, I can tell you this and it may disappoint you.

And I really feel bad about this. I do it 100% on purpose, knowing that it's weird. And to me, it's like doing that voice of the, it's like the guy up in Maine going, I wouldn't go up there if I were you. Which is kind of like a weird colloquial like a thing that I don't actually do in real life. I never do this. But on the show, it's like Brian could say, I don't know, let's see. You could say.

I like that you're going to come up with another example after we've just provided. Yeah, I have a perfect one here, but I'm going to go ahead and just add one on top of it. But let's say Brian's talking about the actor. He could say, oh, did you hear that they're coming up with a new, that Scott Bacula hinted that there might be a new quantum leap on the horizon? Oh, I'd say, oh, yeah, that's got, that's the guy what was in there. that bad Star Trek series so you could there you go see perfect just throw it out there so what i'm saying is i do it because i like i think it's funny and i like how it sounds and that's it it 100% it's not a thing that i do in normal conversation i don't like stand in line of the dmv

and they ask me where i'm from i'm going i'm from that town what was west of here i don't do yeah right so you mentioned uh before like your your comedic inspirations norm macdonald john Cleese and David Letterman. And even though I'd never remember David Letterman doing something like this, this feels like something that his influence would have would have given you, right? It's very Dave. Hey, Paul, did you hear it's the guy what did, uh, uh, yeah, totally. Maybe don't lose my number.

You're absolutely right. That stuff comes out whether I like it or not. And it's been in my blood since I was a young teen watching Letterman on TV. So I think that's part of it. But regardless, I just, to me, the conversation. conversations more fun. It's, yeah, colorful. Like, if we just, boy, boy, Jerome, if we just did the, I know he's not complaining about

you saying it, but boy, if we just did the, all right, well, here's the news. And a guy in Florida licked the snake's butt. Well, that's funny. All right. Also in the news, Jack in the box served a taco with a finger in it. Okay, it's time for jury. You wouldn't want that. You want the flavor.

We give you the flavor. It's the flare. We're giving you 15 extra pieces of flare. There you go. A bunch of flare so that you're a happier guy during the day. And here's the thing. I do it with lots of stuff. If Kim says, I'll do it with them.

I'll say, I need to get down to the Walmart. No one says go down to the Walmart. Right, of course. Not on ironically they don't. But I do. And it's because it's fun to say. That's it. That's all it is.

It's fun to say. Right. It's flavor. But thanks for asking, Jerome. Flourish. At least you ask. A lot of people just assume I'm dumb. but those people in Utah sure talk weird yeah no one else talks like that around here as far as I am aware

here's one from Bernie uh he's talking of talking about generations here he says hey guys star Trek uh Star Trek movie yeah you know the Star Trek movie with the ribbon in space see there's another example with the ribbon in space like it's just a ribbon in space yeah right I could have said that ribbon that time ribbon no right now I'm going to notice it every time I do Damn it, Jerome. Oh, no, darn it. We brought attention to it. Damn you, Jerome.

All right. Hey, guys. I found out that the new generation kids born from 2011 through now is called the Alpha Generation. I didn't know this. I didn't know this either. Yeah. Not to be confused with what alpha male or Alpha dog or. Right.

So many Alpha's Project Alpha. Yeah, there's a lot of Alpha. Alpha Flight. Right. Alpha falaf. Wait. Alfalfa. Alpha is what I meant.

Alpha-falfa. Alfa-falfa. Oh, I loved Little Rascals and that character, Alpha-Falpha. Not to mention Spank Enki, he's great, too. Buck-A-Weed was great, too. Buck-A-Weed. Yeah. Buck-A-W-A-W-A-W-W-A-W-W-W-A-W-W-W-A-W-W-W-A-L-L-Raskles.

Yeah, man, you know a lot about that. The Little Rascals. Listen, some kids were watching Duke's Hazard. Apparently I was watching episodes of The Little Rascals. Yeah. I mean, nothing wrong with that. No judgment, but it's a lot. Anyway, he says, I was looking at charts that broke down the generations,

and one of them said, for Gen X, Lachkey kids, high divorce rates, et cetera. Is that true? We have high divorce rates in our generation? I don't know. I guess we probably do. Probably more than boomers. But I'm guessing those millennials, those damned millennials just below us, they probably are, I don't know, they're divorce rate to be any different.

Anyway, he says, my folks buck the trend, I think yours did, Well, my parents were not Gen X. They were very much. Well, they'd have to... Our parents' generations would have to be boomers. They were born of... They were born of the World War II generation. Our grandparents.

Right. Yeah. I have this, right? Yeah, this right. Yes. 40 years, right? Yeah, yeah. He says, I also saw one for parenting style for Gen X that said,

Abandoned. Really? I don't think any of this matches up with the planet. Love the show, it says Bernie. But, well, Mr. Senator Sanders, I appreciate your email. However, I don't know if I agree with a lot of that. I think the abandoned for parenting style for Gen X. Yeah, I didn't know that.

Parenting style abandoned. I mean, I thought that because I know parents my age who are super helicoptery, right? Like who do the opposite of the free range parenting and they just like hover over their kids every move. Oh my gosh, you got short shrifted on your hot lunch today at school and only got 11 p's while the kid

down the way got 14. I'm going to go talk to the principal. Yeah. And I know that's they mainly laid out of the feet of millennials but I agree. I know plenty of Gen Xers who parent that way. Yeah. I mean millennials are the recipient of it while the Gen Xers are the

doers of it. I guess so. I guess so. Or the Karens, right? Yeah, maybe. I mean, And the way, the way I look at it is, once again, I'm reminded this, this generational stuff doesn't actually work. Like, you can make big, broad generalizations about it, but at the end of the day, it doesn't actually really work very well. Because I didn't parent like that, and I'm definitely a Gen X. My parents were not typical boomers, the way that people view boomers today. Like, the stereotypes just don't work, you know. I mean, they work, but they don't, really.

They're not very individual. They work for great generalizations. Ah, the boomers. Whosh! Cast a wide net. But at the end of the day, everyone's different. Everyone's individual and it's kind of stupid and I don't know why we do it.

Yeah, I was 100% a latchkey kid for almost from like about fourth grade. Yeah, about fourth grade on because single mom she was working. Sometimes she'd work late hours and I'd have to come home and make myself a sandwich or the Tombstone Pizza later on for dinner. It's like an older Tombstone Pizza And You still love those Yeah, right

And sometimes even See myself to bed Watch some TV See myself to bed And you know That's the way it was That's just the way it was Yeah, that's a good

Lawn says In the chat just says I'm technically a boomer But I don't match any of the stereotypes Yeah, people just don't Now Brian was kind of latchkey I was somewhere in between There was a period of time

Probably 5th, maybe 5 years old Up through about 12 where it felt like I had free range of everything. Like just school came home, let them know I was alive, and then I was out with my friends forever, finding snakes and catching bugs and whatever we wanted to do. And then back home at night just because there was a bed there.

Right, exactly. It's like you were staying in a hotel on the strip, right? Where it's like, ah, going out, do it? Okay, just come back to the room to sleep and then get up and go for it again. Yeah, yeah. Who is it? Somebody was asking, what a latch key? latchkey kid means it's like you let yourself in you just kind of run you just do your day you don't need rules or you've got a I mean I literally had a key to the house on a string on my neck right to unlock the door so it wouldn't get lost because that's a smart thing you know you run around your plane all the time yeah yeah and although it seems like you could easily get that thing hooked on a monkey bars or something like that if your mom make you write your name on your underwear

because I know it's a stereotype, but mine did. Mine totally did. I had to write my name on all my underwear. I don't know why. I do it now in case I wake up in a strange hotel, but I didn't do it then. Everything. If you guys find an old pair of pants or an old pair underwear that says bibby on it, you know what's going on. I do it during Nurtacular weekend, TMS Vegas weekend, DragonCon.

The entirety of your trip to Ireland, all of it. Right, exactly. Hell, I'll probably do it during San Francisco this weekend. sure. It's just a case. So are you there for a whole full weekend or just a couple days or what is it again? I'm there for the full weekend. We leave late Thursday night. Oh, that's right. Like a couple of idiots.

I let Chris Brown, who's probably listening to this show, he listens. Hi, Chris Brown. Happy birthday. Happy 60th birthday, Chris Brown. Yeah, happy birthday, Chris Brown. Note that I no longer make the Chris Brown jokes. Don't say it. Exactly. That I don't do it anymore because I don't. Okay. Anyway, yeah, he picked our times to go.

um so and because these were the cheapest flights we're leaving very late thursday night and we're coming back very late sunday night oh wait so he's going with you he's not there no he's yeah exactly technically i'm going with him he's going there because his brothers are out there they're throwing him big birthday uh big birthday party this weekend and and he said hey brayne i thought for some reason maybe he moved out there or something like that no no no no no he lives out here all right that makes sense but his his uh his twin brothers his his brother's his brother's his brother's who are twins who still do just look just like him I mean all of the the brown brothers look like Blue men group

rejects Yeah Blue brothers That's right Blue men brothers Yeah But Where was I going with that

Anyway they're throwing him a big shendig this weekend And he asked if I'd Join him For the fun and festivities I think that's great I think you're going to have a great time Yeah

Hey listen he came to Vegas for my 50th, I'll go to San Francisco for his. Yeah, he's almost like my brother's age. I guess he's a year and a half shy of my brother's age, my older brother. Yeah. So I wonder what it's like over there in the 60 plus range, how that feels. Yeah, well, we'll know soon enough, and I'm not in any time. No hurry at all, dude.

No hurry at all. Slow down there's 71 today, if you can believe that. Who is? Bill Murray. Bill Murray is 71? 71. Hold on. Who else is that age?

who 71 year olds old is his birthday today yeah okay so bill murray's birthday is today let's find out who he shares that with uh bill murray dr phil um Kenny Ortega Stevie Wonder Caitlin Jenner Bruce Springsteen uh Bruce Springsteen the same age as Bill Murray that's cool yeah uh Richard Branson these can't all be the same day though right maybe maybe they're all just 71 years old. I think they're all 71 years old, yeah. William H. Macy. It's my deal, Wade. My deal. He's in here. Robbie Coltrane. See, you're Hagrid. I'm an old man now, Harry. Julie Waters, Jay Leno. Yeah, you hear about this? You hear about this? Let's, uh, let me. Let me find another big one here. Um, uh, David Foster. Let's see. These are all getting boring. Oh, Martin Shorts 71, so that's cool. Oh, there you go.

Sigourney Weaver Jeff Bridges Wow The 71 Club is full of Full of talent Yeah Ron Perlman Don Johnson A whole bunch of people

Here's the thing By the way We gave a lot of names So we can't really say Oh no If that person dies It's our fault We gave a lot of names

Oh that's a lot Yeah if they all die Then talk to me If they all die tomorrow Maybe that's the thing Whenever we name somebody We need to name like 10 other people

dilute the pool. I love that idea. Just name everybody else. Yeah. Look at the party you would have with these people. Brad Doroff, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gibbons, or Billy Gibbons from Zizi Top. Oh, wait, is that Billy Gibbons?

Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Billy Gibbons is one of the guests from Zizi Top. Bill Nye is in here. Wow, really. This is Peter Gabriel, dude. 701. Oh, Peter Gabriel.

And you are. What a great. class of uh eyes i was gonna make some like joke about like uh robotussin or i don't know why is it you know some old man thing i couldn't think of it so these are all people i guess born 1950 they would have to be right yeah 1950 yes or or late nineteen forty nine there you there you and haven't had their 72nd birthday oh yeah good point princess anne too as well she's in there yeah yeah she looks at hello Oh, Ariana Huffington is in there.

Hello, darlings. Hello, darlings. Welcome to my party. She'd run the party. That'd be her deal. She would run the party, yeah. And it would be in the Huff-Pow and there'd be a joke. You know, the opening of the article would be, what do you call it when 11-71-year-olds throw a birthday party?

Yep, that sounds right. And, oh, and you're an Ann Wilson from the band. The band. From the heart. The heart, there you go. What was in heart? What was in heart. all right uh bringing it back around here um yes let's see bernie sanders or sorry christine fletcher

we know her scott fletcher's wife yes she truly is mrs scott fletcher i love that mrs scott fletcher listens to the show and sends them feedback on the regular makes me very happy she's probably we miss them so much the fletcher's rule they're my favorite some of my favorite people on the planet uh christine wrote in and she says hello friends thinking about brian's driving experience in ireland and wondering why someone hasn't created a video game that people could use to practice driving in a foreign country. Seems like a no-brainer to me, but what do I know? Miss you guys and your wives so much. I love the and your wives part because that probably that probably means more.

Let's face it. That really is who, that really is who she misses. Let's be honest. I'm going to bold that part. No kidding. Why is, then put this on the freaking, on the Oculus. Give us a car, like an Oculus car driving simulator. where you can choose any country's car driving style. Well, Euro Truck Simulator has your number because that game,

even though you have to drive semis around and stuff, so it's not quite like a car car, but it's on the other side of the road. You're on the other side of the car. It's like all the European stuff in that game. Also, the game, Sleeping Dogs, which is like a GTA-like set in Hong Kong, it's not quite the same because it's not a simulation,

and you're kind of up and behind the car, but you're in the left side on the other side of the car driving. So that would not work. That's not bad. And I think the Forza games may feature this. Somebody just said in there, and Claire just said Forza. Yeah, the Forza games, maybe the... There's something called It Can Wait driving simulation made by AT&T for the Oculus that I can tell.

Oh, my Lord. What this is. AT&T. I guess it's a game where you can practice texting and driving. I don't know. Oh, man. That'd be bad. That'd be bad.

AT&T making a game, that's an odd idea. Yeah, it is. Well, anyway, there you have it. Christine, always good to hear from you. I hope you and Scott are doing well, and the kids are doing good. The kids seem to be doing great. They always seem to be doing great. They have amazing girls.

There'll be some three very... One of them blew a trumpet in your ear, if I remember correctly. That is correct. She's a trumpet, trumpist. No. Trumpist. Don't be a trumpist. Trumpetist. That's the preferable way of saying it.

She's a trumper. That's not what I meant at all. All right. There's the all you can eat for the top of the show. Thanks for your email. Send more in the morning stream at gmail.com. Now the news. It is time for the news and it's brought to you by. If you care about indie games coverage like games like Drive on the left side, fool, then you'll want to talk.

Tune in to the live taping of the Boop Show today at 3.30 p.m. Mountain Time. Only time is on the matters here at FrogPants TV. FragPants. TV. Scott and Brian Dunaway have the goods. So come get the goods and see if the goods are good. Podcast and more info at frogpants.com slash boop. Yep. This week only it's today. Usually it's Mondays, but Brian had a thing. He was waiting for a couch yesterday. Couldn't record. Probably still didn't arrive because that's his luck right now. All right. Here's a fun one. A lawyer dressed as Michael Myers, not the actor-comedian, Mike Myers. But the serial killer from the Halloween movies, Mike Myers. Sure. Was arrested after roaming a Texas beach as a prank, according to the cops. This is a lawyer, actually, dressed as a horror movie character on the Texas Beach, says his eccentric actions were just a prank to make people smile. but it also led to the arrest of Mark Metzger, the Galveston attorney.

People saw roaming a local beach in a Michael Meyer's costume. He was cited for disorderly conduct and released by Galveston Police. Police received a call Monday about a masked man holding what appeared to be a bloody knife while walking on the beach. Yeah, cosplay really belongs in cons. Like, if you're walking into a grocery store dressed as Pinhead, from a Hellraiser. Yeah, you're probably doing it wrong.

Well, save that stuff for the cons or for events where people are expecting cosplay, not the beach. Or Halloween day, at least, you know, like... Right, yes, exactly. But wandering around the beach in August or September is a little bit weird. Also, he even said on his Facebook page, it's still fuzzling on what was exactly illegal. Like, I would say there are countless examples of stupid YouTubers doing stuff like this or worse. in public and not having any repercussion for it, and instead enjoying millions of views and, you know, money.

Right. So I feel a little bad that this guy got nailed while, you know, Jake Paul. Well, Eric Paul runs free. Well, he lives free yet lives free. Anyway, he says, they took him off in the handcuffs, which probably were pretty fun. The blood and the knife were fake, of course. Quote, bringing positive vibes to the gloom and doom out there,

generating some laughter, helping people crack a smile. I mean, maybe dress up like, I don't know, Ronald McDonald or something. I don't know why you think you're making people smile as Mike Myers from Halloween. That's the question, right? I mean, if you were to cosplay as Pee Wee Herman and walked down the beach, no big deal. If you were to cosplay as the hamburger and walked down the beach, no problem. But people who don't even recognize your Mike Myers see the bloody night. and the mask and think, holy crap.

Yeah, except Merrimack cheese. If you see him, it's, F, the government, and flip him off. Right. He's totally a anti-vaxer that Mary McCheas. Nobody likes Merrimaccheese. No. All right, moving on. Yeah, yes, what is the illegal activity?

Is it intentional mayhem or something? I mean, it's, you know, probably. You're not impersonating a serial killer? Well, I mean, they said, what they, Disorderly Conduct, that's the statute. That's the statute. So when he says fuzzy on what exactly was illegal, I mean, I don't know why he should be fuzzy.

He's a lawyer. I should probably know. Well, that's why he's fuzzy. That's a lawyer thing to say, I'm still not quite sure how this was illegal. Yeah. By the way, I'd forgotten just how skeezy the lawyer in the wire is that works for like Stringer Bell and all those guys. He is the skeeziest lawyer on TV. ever. I hate him. I hate his guts. Lawyers, man. I think lawyers are all right, but boy, that

guy sure makes you look bad. I have not seen the wire, and I know it's a gross oversight, but it's fantastic. I know, I know. Highly, it's one of those things. It's like the West Wing. If you haven't seen the blah, blah, blah, blah, well, I need to see the blah, blah, blah. It's pretty, and it's pretty great. It's so weird, though, seeing, so Idraselba, this is really his breakout thing, right? This is the thing that really got him places. He plays this character called Stringer Bell and he is possibly the most frightening quote-unquote villain. I mean, the show's different in that things aren't, there's no like, the guy twisting his mustache is the villain and the guy with the bright, smiley teeth is the good guy. It doesn't really work that

way in that world. It's very gritty and realistic and people are kind of nebulously immoral kind of across the board. But Stringer Bell scares me. That dude freaks me out. For lots of reasons. I won't spoil it, but you need to, you should watch the wire. Okay. It's very good. All right. What am I doing here? Oh, yeah. This is a second story. Not sex story. It's not a sex story. It's a second sex story of the day, everybody. You asked for more sex stories? We delivered. Three were shot as family fight broke out over gifts at a Pennsylvania baby shower and erupted at gunfire. Yeah, that's what happened. Those baby Bjorns are super popular. I mean, they're hard to get, too, so.

Yeah, you got, how are you going to get one? You got to pull, you got to pack heat and then fight with your name for you, your friends. Exactly. Three people were shot Saturday during a baby shower in Pennsylvania after a fight about Gifts. Police in Lower Burnell, small city, 30 minutes west of Pittsburgh, northeast of Pittsburgh, rather. Responded to a call reported an active shooter by the fire department just after 6 p.m. Authorities discovered it was not an active shooter situation, but rather an isolated family incident during a baby shower. suspect was taken into custody after a 23-year-old man, a 19-year-old woman, and a 16-year-old boy were all shot.

Oh, God. Excuse me, all three were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds. Their conditions remain unknown. It doesn't appear anybody who died, though. I feel bad for the 16-year-old having to go to a baby shower. I know, right? It's not even about the shooting at this point. That's why I feel bad for him.

No 16-year-old wants to be in a baby shower. Oh, lower Burrell, not Bernel. Sorry, Chad. Oh, Lord Burrell, sure. There are people in Pittsburgh holding me into the fire here on the details. There you go, yes. Police said they believe the family argument that broke out over the presence, turned physical before the shooter took out a semi-automatic handgun and began firing. I can't even imagine this.

What did this look like? No kidding. A semi-automatic crime. I know. Pop, pop, pop. Do we even know what the actual argument was over the gifts? We just know that they were fighting over gifts. No, that's it.

And I don't know why you would, because the baby shower is about bringing gifts. for the parents and baby that's that's coming yeah so automatically the assumption is that every gift in that place is for that and that's it so what would you fight over right would you fight because your gift that you brought is better than mine and you've shown me up that's that's the only thing I can think of you got him a diaper genie I got him a diaper jennie you got him an even flow whatever the hell those are called and I did too and mine's better I got it at the Walmart Yeah. Breast pump.

TVZ gum makes the point that the 16-year-old might have been there because it might have been her baby. His or her baby. No judgment, but possible. It's entirely possible. Yes.

Yeah, there's no details about the about what I'm looking at the article here and that's really all we know is that's what the... Yeah. It says, well, they even say the name of the suspect has not been released.

That tells me it's possible Let's say, does it say who shot? That they're still, yeah. Yeah, they could be too young to say their name. I don't know. Well, maybe don't, maybe don't do that, you know? I don't know. I mean, I don't want to get up in people's business or anything,

but I'm thinking maybe don't shoot each other at a baby shower is what I'm thinking. Maybe you don't even bring the gun. Yeah. Maybe leave the gun at home when you come to the baby shower. I don't know. Yeah. Or maybe quit caring about gift stuff. Who cares?

It's all dumb in the end. All right. here's a here's a story I like I don't know why I like this guy I feel like I feel like I there's a stage in my life

I'm not there yet I don't know when I'll ever be there but there's a stage of my life where I could be this guy so I relate to this guy for some reason yeah I hate to admit it

but I'm going to read it anyway okay so a man kept calling 911 to report that he was tired oh aren't we all dude yeah an Indiana man

kept calling 911 and they were like, Mr. Pence, please, stop calling us, please. To inform police operators that he was not tired, that he was tired, we'll spend the next two months resting up in a county jail. Is that what happens if you do that? I guess they hook you up with some rest. Well, I mean, if you make calls to the emergency line that aren't emergencies and you keep doing it, probably got a few warnings and then said, all right, you're tired, you're coming with us.

Yeah, come be tired here. David Schroeder, Daniel, rather. I don't know why I said David. H61 was arrested Tuesday night at his Evansville home in connection with a quartet of calls. So four of them. Four of them, uh-huh. I've been to Evansville. Oh, have you?

What's the paper there? I don't remember a thing about it, but I do remember doing the install there. I'm trying to remember if I had to fly into South Bend or if I flew directly into Evansville. I might have flown directly into Evansville. Never been to Indiana. before almost did a couple years ago for Gencom but didn't quite happen Oh right yeah of course

They just had that in fact, it just ended I hope it wasn't a super spreader event We'll find out later Hope not, yes exactly Let's see, Schroeder Let's see, the mail caller kept calling and stating he was tired says the police report Schroeder calls were his

About his weariness came a day after he pleaded guilty To a prior misuse of the 911 system So he's done this before he's even he's a serial caller yeah uh they's uh he copped to uh calling police to report he had been upset with that a female relative was quote not following his rules unquote this guy doesn't understand what nine one one's for he needs a class or something i mean 911 is a joke i heard uh i heard a band singing about that in the late 80s yeah yeah 911's a joke uh-huh 9-11 uh it's also a car it's a Porsche 9-11 It's also a horrible day in American history.

I've been, well, I can't tell you, because I have a recommendal's on Wednesday. I can't tell you what I watched. I watched something. I'll listen to something related to either Porsche's or 9-11. Yeah. It's one of the two. Let's just say I had my, I did my own inside job.

Oh. And I watched some documentaries and two of them. I think I know the one you watched, probably because I've been seeing it promoted recently. Yeah. There's a couple of very, very good 9-11 documentaries. Which ones did I see? You know what, I'll say there are four. I watched two.

Wow. And which two you'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out. I will wait until tomorrow. Will you wait until then? I will wait. And find out which of the both that I chose. To find out what you thought of both of them? Of both.

Both of them. Anyway, to the dude earlier, yes, that is at localism. The both and the waint. That's definitely that. Yeah. All right, moving on here to see. what else happened. The judge ordered him to serve six months in jail, but suspended imposition

of the sentence on one condition that he never calls 911 again unless it's an emergency. He violated... Okay. I'm sure it's... He violated that agreement almost immediately the following day, which prompted

prosecutors to file the motion seeking the revocation of suspended sentence, and now he's actually going to go to jail as a result. It's a misdemeanor charge, but it's still 60 days. Let's see, they're running concurrently, whatever. I missed all that. Anyway, Schroeder's rap sheet includes convictions for driving while intoxicated,

as well as convictions for narcotics possession and leaving the scene of an accident. So not his first time to that rodeo. Poor guy. Yeah, I think there's something further wrong going on there. Poor Schroeder. That's right. He's trying to get Lucy to like him and he just can't get it done. No, no, Lucy like Schroeder.

Yeah, exactly. Get off my piano, Lucy. I'm tired. Yeah, he just wanted to make music, and she would, she was annoying. Yeah, looking at the police report to see if there's anything. Lucy, sometimes get the hell off my piano means. Get the hell off my piano and get out of here, Lucy. Lucy, I'm the piano with diamonds.

Get out of here. Nope, he just, he just called, he kept calling in stating he was tired. Dispatch informed officers that he called 911, four times this evening, four times this evening, officers placed the offender into custody. for misuse of the 9-1-1 system. No, nothing fun, exciting in there. Did, done games in the chat says maybe this guy needs some help and not jail. Maybe he needs both.

Like, he probably does need some help, some counseling. This would be something that TN and her current job probably would get involved with just to see if he's. Well, no, because it's not a, it's not an abuse exploitation situation. So, no, nope, there would just be a guy who needs help. Yeah, just needs a little help. And a little jail time, but some help. Get some rest in jail. Yeah.

Have a little jail time. I mean, you have the law, so you have to, like, do the law, but you can also help. You can help. And we're kind of bad at that. We're pretty good at getting people, you know, we're pretty good at the law part. We're not great at the, like, getting them help part. Yeah. We're not so good at like the after the thing, which is, well, it has to do with that documentary again, which I'll talk about tomorrow.

Finally. Final story. Yes. A man has returned bottles. Like you do, you know, you turn them in and you get like five cents a bottle or whatever it is. Yeah. Your deposit. Yeah.

Yes, exactly. It's a long... No return. There you go. It's a great way to recycle glass and it's been around forever and that's what people do. Well, a man returned bottles from 1913. 1913. For a deposit and 108 years of interest in Pennsylvania.

That's where the American vampires live. That's their headquarters. That's right, exactly. That's where they're all out. Wow. Yeah, pretty crazy. A penny pinching man in Pennsylvania tried his luck at returning century old crate of empty beer bottles for the deposit. And it worked with 108 years of interest.

The customer was not identified, but Irving Cliff Brewery of Honesdale reports on Facebook posts that it made good on the deposit guarantee. This was about 30 miles northeast of Scranton is where this happened. Okay. A local antique collector was cleaning out an old store. George Ben, when you discovered these ICB wooden beer crate bottles from 1913, in there were seven Blue Flint,

cork and cage bottles. Blue Flint is like a, is that a brand? That's cool. It must be, yeah, blue flint is that's capitalized. Blue Flint, cork and cage bottles. I really like the name. Yeah, Blue Flint. You got a bottle of that blue flint over there, I can have. There's a photo on that.

Look at that. Oh, cork in cage is where they've got the stopper that's on the metal holder on the bottle where you flip it up and instead of yeah gotcha um let's see what he got oh okay so they calculated it five-cent return on each bottle plus interest came to 60 bucks 60 dollars that's a pretty not bad for just a crate full of shit that you're not going to do anything with so good job good job why are people crying for carter what's going on what happened in the chat uh imagine living here this is america

We believe the freedom to arrest all. Oh, yeah. Listen, my daughters, and, you know, she's a recent college graduate. She's super stoked about just getting, sticking it to the man right now. She likes to stick it to the man. Carter, you keep on sticking it to that man. Tell that man, you're there to stick it to him. All right, we're going to take a break.

When we come back to the program, we'll spend a little time with Justin Robert Young, jury for short. We got stuff to talk about with him. there'll be more after that, but you'll have to listen to this song and then come back to do it. So, Brian, want you to introduce the song, as you always do. We'll do. This is a duo called Pale Moon. They're an Icelandic-Russian psychedelic duo. Amy and Nata, or Ami and Nata.

They've been working on an album, but they've been slowly releasing tracks ahead of that album. Their previously parachutes got them a lot of recognition. We played them here on the show before, and that one actually charted on Icelandic radio. This is a fun, upbeat song called Strange Days. They just released it a couple weeks ago and shot a video by Dmitri Litvinov. Here's the fun thing. It's a fun, upbeat, happy sounding song, but then you listen to the lyrics. It's like, oh, well, this is a little bit darker than I thought.

So it's kind of a cool little juxtaposition of those two things. I love it. I'm sure you will, too. Go see them in Spain as part of the 33rd. Murquetto Music, Viva de Vique. So our Spain listeners, there you go, go see them. Wow. All of you, all of you Spain listeners go out and see them.

Here they are, Strange Days by the band Pale Moon. My body glicked my back, and all the thoughts of me be. I should have played myself cool, but I was something like a fool. I'm not the one to blame you for this evening this we have done How can I make me bring forget about all the bad start Forget about the bad start Strange day, strange day I'm feeling like a stranger today

I walk up on her own side of earth I don't know who to blame I throw myself in the stream We work like oiled machines How's those good time for the next I'm tired looking at my screen I'm not the one to judge you Maybe I'm just

a bad guy Why are the perfect answers come but never in a good time Never in a good time Strange day, strange day I'm feeling like a stranger today I walk up on the wrong side of bad I don't know who to me Strange day, strange day

I'm feeling like a stranger today I walk up on the wrong side of bad I don't know who today You're such a devil, but we were having good time, and I was trying too hard to make you mine, but we all go to die, lying face down on an avenue, full of prostitutes, checking our pools, no, that's too far, I like a good love,

We're all going to die We all gonna die Strange day, strange day I'm feeling like a stranger today I woke up on the wrong side I'm bad I don't know who today Strange day, strange day

I'm feeling like a stranger today I won't on the wrong side I'm bad I don't know who to be We all gonna die We're all gonna die

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Tix. Here we go. Are they big texts? I'm ready to ruin buddy's reputation just like we discussed in our text messages. Hideous intelligence. They are all that is man. This is the morning stream. All right.

Well, the chat room thinks they heard whatever they heard. Was that the body cam audio from Mel Gibson's arrest several years ago? I don't remember what this is. Hold on. I'm ready. It's ticks, but bad buddy. I don't remember what this would have been from. I wrote Bad buddy. Bad buddy.

What do you think that is? Party big ticks. I don't remember. I don't know, but if this was a film sack movie, I probably would have said, I'm sorry, I'm out this week, guys. Go on. It might have been, actually. This is an old vial.

I don't know, but who knows. I don't know what I did there. All right, welcome back to the show. Tex. Big text? Mr. Carter J says, oh, it's big techs. Is it from a cartoon or something? Because it seems like a cartoon.

Howdy big text. Howdy big techs. Howdy big techs it might be. Yeah. Okay. Well, everyone's mind went to a different place, and that's fine. What are you going to do? It's a good place to go.

Hey, that song you just heard was Pale Moon by, I'm sorry, it was Strange Days by the band Pale Moon. Nice. From Iceland and Russia. What a great combo. It's a great combo Iceland and Russia. these are their stories. Oh, I'm terrible with names. Well, look who we have here, everybody.

It's Justin Robert Young, broadcasting live all the way from his studios in Austin, Texas, the great state of Texas, the lone star state. Ted Cruz's Texas. Anyway, hey, Justin, welcome back to the jury duty. It's good to have you here. How are you? I'm great. I'm great.

I'm sure I'll find some part of Utah that I can tie it. Rick Romney's own Utah. Mitt Romney's Utah. Yes. Yeah, but you like Mitt Romney. I'd have to find somebody that you do. Oh, yeah, I kind of do like Mitt Romney. You'd have to, well, like, we don't like Mike Lee around here very much.

He's kind of a, he's kind of a... Oh, I forgot Mike Lee was your other one. Yeah, he's kind of a dink. Yeah, nobody likes Mike Lee here. It's like this. Think of as Sarah Lee. Everybody likes Sarah Lee. Nobody likes Mike Lee.

Is it a Mike Lee joint? It's a Mike Lee joint, yeah. It sucks. It's really unfortunate. Anyway, um, hey, You're back. We're good to have you here. It's a Tuesday, which means jury duty time and time for us to spend a little time with Justin. Now, here's the thing. Today, uh, there's not a ton going on, politically that's at least interesting for the show. However, I want to hear about your, let's be very, very speculative, boring congressional stuff. Yeah. And I want, but I also want to hear your, your, you have a, not a conspiracy theory. It's not the right word. You have a, it was an observation. Okay. I made an observation. All right. Let's hear that first. And then I want to talk about why the last man so on the politics politics politics patreon if you sign up at the three dollar level you get two extra bonus podcasts one of those is the

sunday sunday sunday show where i uh peruse all the clips that have come out from the official social media teams of the sunday broadcast that's face the nation meet the press state The Union, Fox News Sunday, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I just kind of digest the narratives that are coming out of it, because it's very, very interesting from my perspective to see what is being talked about on multiple shows, the questions that are being asked, the guests that are being head on. There was actually a great moment two weeks ago where Bernie Sanders and Joe Manchin just kind of chased each other across all the different shows, hitting each other with mallets,

like itchy and scratchy. It was great. But on this last episode, or this last Sunday, there was a very weird question because I had heard nothing about it. And I've talked to people that are in this industry that had heard nothing

about it that was asked not only to Dr. Fauci, who is now also a part of Biden's like official vaccine or COVID response team. Yeah. right yeah which a position he's held in previous presidents he's including trumps right same kind of position or is it different no no no he's in in now he's like recommending actual policy within

the administration oh interesting the head of the n i age okay gotcha he's like recommending policy asked to him and the CEO of united air airlines which is domestic vaccine air travel mandates which I hadn't heard anything about and in my mind where I immediately go is not that this is like a secret thing or anything but more likely that there's a rumor going around or somebody's got a story but you don't have enough to kind of like print it but if you've got these people here you can just ask them about the random thing and see whether or not they say something neither denied it and neither said that they were absolutely against it Fauci indeed said that everything was on the table. So I just noticed that. And so when you were asking me for topics, I was like, yeah, there was this thing I noticed on Sunday. So do you, so if like tomorrow or sometime soon the FAA comes out,

I would assume that would be the branch they would do this through and say, everybody freaking top down mandate, no more, you know, vaccines mandated on these for air travel from everything from employees all the way down to every last passenger that is, you know, able to get it or is approved to get it because some kids can't and all that, wouldn't surprise you. This would be for passengers. Remember, Biden is mandated anybody, any business that is over 100 employees is federally mandated to tell their employees to get vaccinated. So that would presumably cover all but maybe the tiniest of puddle jumper airlines.

Oh, good point. Yeah. That's already been done. You're right. So this would be for us, you know, yeah. So have any of the airlines done this independently or did we know of? I don't think they have, right? None of that. Okay. Indeed, I think that that would certainly, if that were to happen, it would likely come in tandem with a gigantic pile of money from the federal government because, you know, air travel has not quite been what it was. Still hasn't recovered, yeah. You know, over the last year, really, and now only with the international travel being lifted, are some of these airlines going to be able to really start to maybe even sniff a glimpse of what they kind of used to do? Yeah.

But even then, you know, this would be something that would be fairly controversial. Not even just the fact that imagine you get to the airport and indeed you have your identification and you have your ticket, but you don't have your vaccine. card yeah oh geez honey did you bring or you don't have the right vaccine that was something we saw in in the dia was that some people had the johnson and johnson apparently that wasn't enough for british airways like you you have to have modern or Pfizer yeah oh wow um but and there was a um Justin you can't go to london now and hang out with will that's right not so fast yeah I've I've double dipped oh did you do the double if you've double dipped. I didn't know that. That's cool. Have that go

for you. Do you have a third eye or what's going on? Yeah, no. All of my chakras have opened. No, it was a remarkably like a trip to the CVS. Wow. Weird. Very eventful then. Full of twists and turn. Well, all right. So, yeah, you'd be fine then.

Okay, so if nobody's done it independently, say, I need to consider this. The idea that the federal government would come to bear and say, all right, mandated for passengers and then part of that would be a deal they would strike with the airlines basically stimulus money as part of that I mean I suspect that the airlines are going to continue to want stimulus money no matter what because these you know these are companies that uh you know one of my my favorite uh community members for for politics is a pilot and he says that uh

October's when airlines die. It's basically when you figure out, okay, we did not make enough over the summer when people travel a lot, so we're not going to be able to really supercharge what we need to do for the winner, and we're probably going to die. So it's like if you are an airline that is kind of on the ropes, and some of them are in terms of their balance sheets, who knows exactly when and where that would happen, like there are many airlines, even healthy ones that would that would very, very, very much like more money from the federal government. Right, right.

And especially since, you know, if the federal government that's putting, you know, they were, you know, putting restrictions on passengers. And this would certainly be a fairly large restriction. Yeah. It also feels like this isn't that crazy of a, well, first of all, you're hearing it from these two different people. in two different news shows. So again, let me quantify this. This is not me reporting anything. There's not even me speculating that it will happen.

This is a thing I noticed when Chuck Todd asked a question to Dr. Anthony Fauci, and I forget the name of the anchor on Face the Nation, asked the same question to the CEO of United, whose name I also forget. Right. Yes. And they're all in cahoots is what Justin, just kidding. I'm not saying they're in a code. I'll not tell you what.

Well, all right, then. Fair enough. This transitions nicely because in the fabulous, wonderful, one of my favorite comic runs of all time, why the last man, all the men die all of a sudden. This is not a spoiler. That's the basis of the entire thing. The first 99% of the pilot. Yeah, all the pilots. Yeah, 99% of all pilots are men, and they all drop out of the sky suddenly. The pilot of the television show, we're about it.

Oh, I see what you're saying. Well, the first three are out, right? They're all out there. First one deals with the actual event. See, I've not watched yet. The fourth one might have even come out by now. Oh, has it? Okay. I've not had a chance to watch it. I plan to because I'm, like I say, a huge fan of the comic. We talked a little with Stephen about it yesterday in terms of its reception so far and that sort of thing. But I hear word through the grapevine that you really, really liked it. I know you like the comic. You like the source. But where are you at with the show? And do you think they're going to, is it going to rock or what? What do you think? wait what'd you hear I heard you liked it a lot that's what stephen said he says he heard you really liked it is this not true was he was he making a face

I oh we could see it like you he didn't join us via video wait I'm not on video we're not on video we just figured you were naked oh Jesus Christ

we just we don't want to assume maybe you got your wiener out why don't you guys call me on video look how green you are well because we're on because we already have a show yeah we already have the show show going. Yeah, we're already out. We do the, we got this, uh, this weird hybrid thing going

and sitting under hot lights so I can see. By the way, I'm going to, I'm going to really quickly say something that's going to avoid a bunch of emails. I'm looking to see, I think it was just a couple people bitching that they had the Johnson and Johnson and that they weren't getting to fly. But I'm guessing they have the Johnson and Johnson did not bring their Vax cards to the airport. And that's why they got turned away. Oh, okay. It wasn't about the fact that they had that, that Vax. It's that they weren't. It's that they didn't. bring their card, yeah. That makes more sense to me. All right. They're just preventing

some emails from people. Now, Johnson and John totally okay to fly international. Brian's a liar. Hopefully, they've had a lot of time since you said it originally. Yeah, they've already composed and sent the email. Yeah, it's already done. It's broken containment. I like the green today. It's very nice.

All right. So, Justin, back to the thing. So you didn't like it. I don't know where you, did you or not? I guess I'm asking, what do you think of it? Well, look, I like you. I like you. love the comic right so I'm not gonna be right in the comics guy

no one wants to be that guy let me just ask you this what did you love the most about the comic what were the things that you enjoyed not plot points per se but just themes and things that would happen situations that characters would be put in broadly what did you enjoy

about the comic okay so that's a great way to ask it because it is actually the thing I like about the comic the most that comic is never about the minute to minute stuff it's about the broader the broader themes and the broader uh context of things and for me it's first off the premise itself i love this concept of the the what that would do like this what if kind of question of if all of that part of humanity just suddenly died and for those who are unaware all men die instantly like it's not over a series of months

it is brain hemorrh it's like a Thanos snap yeah and it's all males worse worse yeah because they all hemorrhage except with more corpses yeah and uh there is our main character yorick the why and why the last man is seemingly the last male

on earth and it is his a journey to find friends family uh meaning and uh his girlfriend Exactly. He's got a little monkey with him too, which is good time. Oh, yeah. I forgot about the monkey. Yeah, a little monkey. Male monkey too, right? That's the other weird things. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Amperstan is also a male. Right. Which is even more puzzling. It is puzzling. If I remember right, remind me, did they all the rest of the animal kingdom also lost their male counterparts, right? Did I remember? Did I? Yes. Yes. Everything with a Y chromosome. That's right. Why chromosome out. That was the deal. Yep. Which is also the Y and Y and why the last man. Right. Exactly. Oh, yeah, that's right. There's like three.

meanings to that why in the wild last man and I love it. It's an amazing thing. Brian Kvon's a genius. Anyway, the point is, so this happens all of a sudden. So that one thing is very, really intriguing to me. Just this concept of the president, most of his cabinet, 95% of the pilots in the air, most of the military, most of the leadership, and at least in this country and countries like us, we're so male dominated, all of a sudden, just hemorrhage out of their face and

drop dead. and that alone is really intriguing to me. Just like that, how do you handle that moment? It's very apocalyptic. I'm always like that kind of stuff. And so that's that right there is big. The other one to me that I always loved about the comic was how, and others have heard me say this before,

so sorry for repeating myself, but how overnight the U.S., Russia, and others went from the world's largest military superpowers to being almost worthless. and Israel went to the top of the food chain almost immediately as a military superpower immediately imposing their will

because of mandatory service for women. Right, exactly. And just that conceptually is this a really fun thought experiment in terms of just, you know, fiction. So those are the big overarching stuff that I liked them.

I liked everything in it that was humorous. I did like the relationships and the people and the stuff and all of that. but what really gets me about that story is it's it's it's core concepts it's foundations and so I feel like if the show at least tries to retain those core foundations that I'll be in I'll be having a good time you're right you're right yeah if you did so what so I'm not gonna hate it I don't like the way you're saying that because you really like what was the thing that you hated and I love they did not much else or something like that there was some there was

The other shoe has to drop. There was something that Justin really liked or really hated some sort of recently. He was them doing the Watchman's story. It was them taking the Watchman mythology and I just kind of disagreed with what they thought was important or cool in the Watchman mythology. That's what it was, Watchman. Yeah, we had a real division on that. So it's kind of the same problem here.

Do you feel like they've just taken the source? Oh, because Watchman again was telling a story with characters or with mythos and with a universe that was beyond, they weren't doing the Watchman comic. right yeah you're right and so i just fundamentally disagreed when you're looking at like what's important in watchman what does watchman mean when you're when you're trying to set the rules for the universe i just didn't i didn't agree with what they thought the rules and lessons of that universe were and so when they told their story no matter how well or poorly told or acted you thought it was uh uh that was just a fundamental thing from me as a neck bearded comic

Dork That being said Why the Last Man is a straight out retelling And I don't need A comic adaptation on television To be a straight out retelling I loved Preacher

Preacher was great I loved Preacher from the first moment I was another I read pretty much Why the Last Man and Preacher almost If not simultaneously It was back to back Yeah

I from the first moment The first frame of Preacher Where they have this like 1950s creature feature like fake space diorama thing that is that is set to uh you know that is the voice of god barreling its way toward earth i was like all right these guys get what makes preacher awesome immediately that it is very serious but very silly but very violent but very uh loving like like all the characters really do care about each other and that's ultimately where the story is hung my problem with why the last man is that why the last man to me as a comic is

everything that you just said it is the world that exists after this event and through three episodes boy are we are we really slow playing our way to get to that six month later title card where the world has totally gone upside down yeah and now it is a up to our main character and his guardian to kind of make their way through this world and now they will

they are our guide through this new bizarre world. You can very much tell that this version was adapted as a kind of Handmaid's Tale meets

Walking Dead kind of premise, which I think while both those shows have very high highs I think even fans of both those properties can understand that writing wise they can have very low low And no argument there

Yeah And I don't think that We are getting The absolute best version Instead we're getting Kind of all of the heavy-handed Preachiness of Handmaid's Tale Which has its own amazing

Apocalyptic Universe that they seem steadfast not to explore. And, you know, walking dead's habit of like, well, how are we going to make somebody walk alone into the old convenience store this week? Oh, man. That's funny that you said that the way you said it, because my brain, my brain reacted in a funny way right then.

I suddenly flashed in front of my eyes. Visualized exactly that scene and how many times we saw it. Yeah, I feel like I just got that, frame of every time I've seen it all at once and it's all the same, that's a funny thing that you just did to me psychologically, weird, because they all do it. A popular show that knows why it's massively popular, which is that zombies attack every every week, multiple times an episode. And so at a certain point, it's like, oh, no, somebody's pregnant and they need supplies

and somebody's starving and they need supplies or somebody's sad and they need a chocolate bar. Like, I guess we're going to have to walk into the convenience store alone. I mean, as much as I, so I'm unapologetically way into handmade stale. I really like it. But I'll be the first to admit that I would like them to explore that apocalyptic world more because that's what drives me in it. You know, and again, you know, the books and the TV show have diverged quite a bit. The book, I should say, book, yeah, not books. There was a book and they did a good job of telling that story about.

first season since then they kind of got it out of their system in the first season you're right and then they and then everything else has sort of been whatever they want to do and it's got its problems but um it is the worlds i'm most interested in and so i i hope why the last man can at least give me enough of that to keep going i mean i haven't watched it yet so i got you know i got a reserve judgment but yeah gerbs did you watch um the let then forgive me if you've already answered this did you watch the leftovers no i did the leftovers i i i will eventually get to it um i i was i was still a little little cheezed at old at old lindy after luck to uh you would love that show yeah it's oh it's so good it's redemption for what a lot of people had the the problem they

had with loss because they did stick the landing on the leftovers and there's a It's in, right? Like, so after the first season, I did not hear great things. I heard it got better as it went along. Oh, really? No, I think it was great from the get-go. But it's been a while, and my, you know, memory is always licking back is always rosy. But, you know, and not everyone's going to be served by everything.

Like even in the chat, someone just said, I disagree. I hated the ending. Well, okay, welcome to everyone feels different. But my point is like, I think jury specifically. will like it. Like I think the things that he's, the things I think you find lacking in some of these other examples, I think they kind of nailed there. And you might, see, the problem is you're on a Lindelof sandwich where you really didn't like how he handled the end of lost or lost how it petered out and you really don't like what you did with Watchman. And in between that

sandwich is the meat, which is leftovers. So why would you be? Oh, I got him as Prometheus, which I also hate it. The leftover meat sandwich is what he's describing. Yeah, Prometheus is not a, it's also kind a bad example. I can't see that. So the thing he did before, and I love Lost. Let me also just say I am more of an apologist for the ending of Lost in that I loved

everything so much that I am willing to just kind of write off the fact that they got in over their head. And, you know, that was set up too many mysteries and said, man, Jesus will handle it. They just kind of yelled bankruptcy

that got in the office. And that was sort of You know, I think, I don't know, leftover, we'll get to it. But man, did you watch Creature? Preacher was so good. Oh, that's great. Yeah, Preacher was awesome. I wish Preacher would kept going. And Preacher was another one where it's like, that's an on the road story, which they didn't

want to tell an on the road story. Like every season was effectively them going to another town and experiencing a lot of these kind of things. But every character that mattered, they really brought to life. I think if there's one other thing that I would criticize about why the last man is that like, some of the casting. Really? Oh, really?

Oh, wow. What about the president or acting president, only surviving cabinet lady member? A lot of the D.C. people are good. Talking more about, you know, the character that we're going to spend the most time with it. Oh, really? I know what he means. York.

Interesting. he's just not I mean like that's a hard role right I don't even really really even blame the the guy like that's a it's a very nuanced role because he kind of has to be a dipshit he kind of has to be your even handed guide so he's kind of acting like in a way that you could at least understand you or somebody you love would act as they go through this world and then there's this very long. long, simmering kind of romantic storyline that sort of runs through that is like very, very nuanced. And it's easier to tell in a comic when you can draw exactly the look in somebody's eyes that you want. It's much harder in moving image when you've got to kind of act through it. Also, they use the CGI monkey.

Really? Oh, man. And is it? And it's noticeably CGII, like it's distractingly CGI. I mean, I noticed it was a CGI monkey. Yeah, well, that's what I mean. So I'm looking at this guy who's playing York. It's a guy named Ben Schnitzer.

And I'm looking through his filmography. The only thing I've seen him in is the Warcraft film where he played Cadgar. Oh, Cadgar. Yeah. Wait, Cadgar. Oh, yeah. Oh, this guy. Okay, that's where I've seen this dude's face.

That's the only point I've seen his face. Yeah, as you say, I mean, that's the only place I've seen it. I haven't seen Snowden, which is probably the only other more mainstream film or popular film in this list. I don't even recognize most of these film titles. And that's something where it's like, I can understand where you have to make changes for a film adaptation or movie adaptation compared to a comic where it's like, Yorick is kind of a buster in the comics. and you know he's he's kind of swept through like caught in a riptide of this bizarre universe but in a television show where you got to spend that much time with somebody yeah you kind of got to like them yeah yeah got to be charmed by them yeah uh and and it doesn't quite seem to be

that i was also very annoyed by the fact that their pilot didn't have the inciting incident of the entire universe within the first half hour. Oh, they didn't? It just had everybody act really annoying and it's like, yes, I understand that's the first comic. The first comic's 15 pages.

Yeah, this was, you met it's. Yeah, that's interesting. So the moment when they had that reveal in the comics, was it immediate or was it something they discovered over time? I mean, there were some exposition in the beginning of just people going around their jobs, doing their stuff.

I couldn't remember whether a lot of that story was told in flashbacks or I mean I know that his interactions with his girlfriend definitely happen before everything goes down

right but you know beyond that I don't know it's kind of a bummer just because I do think that a television adaptation is the only really good

way that you could tell why the last man story no I don't know if I can reveal this I read a script for a in development movie version version. Oh, was this back when the person we know was working on it? Is that the one? Okay. Yeah. I know what that. It sucked. It was it bad? Well, there's a reason that got shelved, right? Like, it wasn't. It's, it's, and I don't blame anybody who wrote it. Like, it's, it's hard. It's really, really hard. I mean, like, the point of why the last man is this long meditation of life and gender and expectation. And it's political mystery. It has like a little bit of like national treasure to it.

It's got a little bit of, uh, uh, you know, a survival story into it. It's got a lot of apocalypse story into it. It's just a very rich sort of, uh, a brew that much like a good whiskey. Like if you add a little water, it just kind of opens up the taste of it. And I, like, if you just do it all in, in one two hour shot, you're just like, oh, geez. And then, and that guy and these people. and Jesus. Oh, okay. I guess uh, uh,

Bada beep bop bop bap uh, we've all did. Like it's like it's like dark tower. You can't do that one movie and this was that was always going to be a bad idea. I don't care how good you think it was going to be or who was involved that that dark tower movie did was not going to be good. It needs to be a series if you're going to do it at all. But it's hard. These things are hard man. And Brian K. on writes hard stories to replicate on film and I don't know how you do you think this is hard like if they ever tried to do saga I would be blown away if they ever pulled that off like that seems insane to me yeah and and that's you know it's funny that when I asked you about your favorite things

they were almost exactly what I really loved about it which is odd because like I could tell you off the top of my head a billion different mile markers in some of the other comic series that I really loved. And like, with why, like, I don't even really know offhand, like, how they resolved the central problem. I remember characters involved in it vaguely, but I have no idea how or why it happened. And I remember emotional beats in the story. I remember general kind of like the cool things and factions that kind of were around it. But I just remember enjoying that exploration. I enjoyed the slow walk through that world. It was like a Zelda game or something like that. We're just being around and talking to people is really the rich experience. It's

not necessarily the fact that you got all the Triforces and beat Gannon again. Yeah. It's a harder translation. It's easy to take. I mean, I would argue it's easy to take something like The Walking Dead and move that to screen. Well, yeah, because the Walking Dead is amazing because by Kirkman's own admission, the story he wanted to write was the zombie story that never ends. Right. And he did.

Never ended it. He's like, like, oh, what I want to know is what happens in the zombie movie after the credits roll. It's like, well, so the evolution is you don't have an ending? All right? Basically, yeah, which has obviously its own problems, but there's a real

nuance to why The Last Man, and I don't even know why you'd try this project. It seems really hard. but I respect that they're trying. I was I was bummed by it but I'm sure other people are going to really enjoy it. And I will say that if you have watched the latter seasons of Handmaid's Tale and not wanted to backflip off a parking structure, then you will probably enjoy it. Oh, well, then I might enjoy it because I like that. I don't mind them. I like all of Hammaid's Tale.

Even though I agree with some of your criticisms of it, I still am like all in. I'm like, I want to keep watching it. We're writing in that last season. Oh, boy. It wasn't, it's best for sure.

Some real good performance stuff, though, from some, a bunch of the actors and some stuff. But yeah, it's not their best writing. I don't disagree. But I do believe that by the end of the season, the plot was stuttering and shaking

from how far it was stretched so they could make all these characters talk to each other one last time. Yeah, it felt like I don't like to blame things on pandemics, but that one felt like it was constrained by things that shouldn't have constrained it. No, that was plot problems.

They just, they put all the characters too far away. They didn't have consistent motivations. They didn't have realistic reactions to the moments that happened. And so they just kind of kept going for like, well, what's the craziest thing that could happen? Like, oh, well,

she now is the king of Hawaii. Oops. Now she's captured again and now she's in a basement and she's got a great knee like oh oops she blew she turned into a missile and now she's in space I really kind of want to see this version that you've

described that would be an amazing turn. Yeah I'm here to announce that I've signed on for the next season of Handmade Sale and now this is a runner. Excellent. We'll finally get the show that we've been wanting well all right. If you're curious out there. It's FX and Hulu, so you can see, I think it's

a four episodes now. Three were dropped at once on Hulu and now I think the fourth is up as Brian mentioned. So you can go watch that is, if your heart so desires. Justin. Heels on stars. It's a wrestling show. But if you like Friday night lights, you'll probably like heels. Oh, I love Friday Night Lights. I adored

that show, except season two was weird, but the rest of it was amazing. It's really good. Are you, you've seen the wire? I was a strike short in one, right? Yeah. Uh, no, all was it? Well, it's, all I know is it's the one where they, where they ran over the dude. Yeah, there was like a murder cover up the whole time. That was weird.

I don't know if that was two or three, but yeah, there was one season that was strike shortened and they like basically went on everything away. I'm looking at it. It looks like it was season two and they very quickly remedied that because three was great. The rest of the series is great. It's an amazing series with this strange. It was the first time that I really, that you really saw. Like, you know, there was, there was a big cast changeover, which you're normally like, oh, here it comes. Joe sucks now that the cast changed.

It's a high school show. They have to make them leave. Right. And then replaced the main character with Michael B. Jordan. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Oh, it turns out this was an upgrade.

Screw you, other guys. That was the first place. A lot of us saw Michael B. Jordan was, was that. It was kind of a breakthrough role for him. He went through, he went from the wire to that, basically. He went from, and he buffed up. That's when he started buffing up. Because in the wire, by the time Wallace was toward the end of his story, in the wire, he was, you know, just a skinny kid.

Yeah. And then he, yeah, where's Wallace? And then suddenly shows up. And Friday Night Lights, I'm like, oh, okay. Someone hit the gym. Looking good there, buddy. And now he's an enormous, that guy. Jeez.

Yeah. He was great in that season. Or that whole rest of that show was great. He's great. So yeah, Friday Night Lights is pretty much the template, I think, for heels, which is about an independent. wrestling company in rural Georgia two or one brother is running it

his younger brother is also involved it was their dad's business who tragically died which you find out fairly quickly it's I like it because I like professional wrestling and I've always thought that independent professional wrestling would be a great place to

stage a story but the show goes out of its way to welcome in people who have no idea what this world is. If anything, it's a tedious part of it for me to watch where they expository, like

take like Hogwarts level of dialogue to explain what and where this weird world is. So do not let that scare you off. It starts Stephen Amel who was in Arrow. Oh, Arrow guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have failed this city. Now you've failed this wrestling federation. I

didn't even know this existed now. I kind of want to see it. This looks like fun. I'd watch this. And I'm Friday night so basically what you said is like how Friday Night Lights was not a show for football fans. Yes. This is not a show just for wrestling fans. It's a show that

happens to be a really great drama that happens to have wrestling at the core of its whatever. This is very much yeah. But basically swap teen angst and wondering about the rest of your world and having the expectations of society kind of

crash down on you. And fast forward it 20 years and now you're dealing with a bunch of guys who are in their 20s and 30s who maybe life has kind of they're they're having those questions of like well where where do I go like why am I still working a job at a grocery store where every uh Sunday I get to be a superhero and then it ends yeah and uh there's a and then a lot of the fun color of the bizarre side show world of professional wrestling is kind of interjected in it. That and the two hottest people in the cast

screw pretty much every episode. Oh, good. Lots of sexy time. Great. The guy that plays his brother his brother. When are the two hottest people in the cast going to When they're going to bone? Alexander Ludwig, I know that

dude. He's the brother. He plays Ace Spade in this. Good Lord. Ace Spade. Yeah, he's the wrestling. Wrestling name. No, they are Their father was King Tom

quote unquote King Spade Oh wow His sons Jack Spade And they love it That's hilarious but he's great in Vikings I just I like that dude So if you liked him in Vikings Then you will you will like him here

My only My only note with him Is that they clearly love the actor So much that they cast him, I would guess, probably about, he reads about five years older than I think his character is supposed to be. Yeah. Like, his character is supposed to be two years out of high school when he had an injury and couldn't play college football. Yeah. Where he clearly looks like in his, you know, mid-20s possibly. You could read him as old as like 30 because he's a man. He's weird.

He's 90, he's born in 92. And in Vikings, he plays. plays old. Oh, it looks old anyway, but everyone did in Vikings, I guess, now that I think about it. But, uh, yeah, he's born in 92. So what? So he's only 28, nine, what is it? 29, almost 30. Oh, two. Two, 92. Yeah. So, yeah, he reads about as old as he really is. Um, but that's, that's the thing is they, the characters is written as if he was like, you know, only a couple years away from being in high school, basically. Yeah. Well, interesting.

I'm very curious now. I had no idea we were going to get this little bomb today. This is great. I'm going to watch the show. I'm going to watch heels. You want to talk about White Lotus next? Watch a guy poop in a suitcase. I love White Lotus.

I did too. I did too. Yeah, Brian talked about that and liked it. Yeah. You didn't watch it? No, I haven't seen White House. Oh, you ever want to see Steve Zon's balls? I do want to see his balls.

dude i think that's the second episode like you don't have to wait long first first episode i think wait do you really get to see steves on's actual testicles they might be fake balls but i wouldn't be shocked because they they there's uh mike white loves awkward nudity oh that who made this mic white that's right sack double yeah yeah my it might have been a prosthesis or they might have gotten although i don't know they shot that in one hotel during COVID and it would be really really weird if one dude just gets to come in being the sack double

right yeah you can be a bus boy in the rest of the scenes if it would be I forgot this guy wrote Orange County I love Orange County oh Orange County Buck and Buck yeah no Mike White

and if you liked any of those scripts he loves awkward like his his instinct when he's at his best, and I believe this is him at his best, he does

very realistic scenes that then kind of get into almost sketch comedy premise level bizarre. Yeah. Like, and he's got some killers, just absolute killers in this cast.

Connie Britton, speaking of Friday Night Lights. Yeah. Oh, man, Stifler's mom. What's her name? Jennifer Coolidge. Jennifer Coolidge is the secret weapon. She is.

Being so Jennifer Coolidge that it just creates a black hole of Jennifer Coolidge for which everything is sucked into instantly. Did she ever say, what did you do with my dog? Dumbass? Does she ever do that? If you like that. Yeah.

I mean, there's great. There's one line about her character when she's describing herself that that Ashley and I have yelled at each other multiple times it is it is so good and yeah and also I'm Andrew Didario she's awesome Steve's off of course Connie Britton we mentioned it's on my Q Friday night lights it's on my cue all right well this is great we should probably tell people if you got anything else going on this week what are you doing oh you know you talked about the Sunday Sunday Sunday but what else could people look forward to I mean, that's for the Patreon, although last week we did do PX-Free Week, so everything that normally is behind the paywall was out in front, but that's over, Cheapskates, payup.

The good news is that on Friday, our next episode of PX3, I'm going to have Evan Scrimshaw, who is one of my favorite people, because he writes professionally about betting on politics. so he is he's almost more than I am invested monetarily in who's going to win and who's not and not only do we have a great conversation about Canadian elections which I never talk about but he's from Canada he wanted to talk about so we get a solid 20 minutes of Canadian election breakdown and then we preview a couple upcoming races including the newly rumored Beto versus Abbott gubernatorial matchup here in Texas as well. as him giving us a total degenerate political gambling pick. I'm not even going to reveal it, but it was in a country that I have no idea what the politics are. He told me it was free money and I'm going to bet it. You should too when you listen to him on the politics, politics, politics, politics podcast out tomorrow. I am sold on this concept. Justin Robert Young, have a great, oh, before you go.

The jury will now retire. That's it. Have a fantastic one. We'll see you next time. I know I remember now. You notice that? I don't forget. Yeah. Yeah, I'm impressed. What's up with that? Do you have a reminder comes up? I don't. I don't know. My brain finally locked it in. We're good to go. Speaking of good to go. We're good to go. That's the show, you guys. We did it. We did a show today. I don't know if you noticed. But that right there, that was a show.

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All right. That is it. We should go, but we can't go without song. You have song? I have song. Leslie wrote in. Leslie Logan's mom said, Hey, guys, on September 21st,

Logan's dad is entering the last year of his 30s. Happy birthday to you. Sorry. I usually, you do it. And I should expect that. I should just pause, wait for it. Any hint of a birthday, the smell of a birthday,

and I'm like, I'm hitting that button. I'm doing it now. I do miss the Pat Marita. Happy birthday. Anyway. All right, so I usually try to find a cover of September since that song is literally about the 21st of September, but since we just saw Green Day at Dodgers Stadium two weeks ago, we both want to rock and roll all night and party every day. Could you help us do that? Thanks a bunch.

Oh, and happy birthday, Chris. Oh, yeah, happy birthday. And from us as well. Happy birthday. Yes, he's cool. Yeah, I had no idea this existed. This is part of something called Live from Hellamega that Green Day did. It's a cover of that song from Kiss.

You know it. Rock and roll all night. This is Green Day Live, and I don't think it's Billy Joe singing because the vocals sound totally different. So I'm not sure who's doing vocals on this or if it's just his voice is shot from, you know, maybe did this at the end of the concert,

but it doesn't sound like Billy Joe. Here's Green Day, rock and roll all night. You're all out night and party every day You show us everything you got You couldn't dancing in the room gets high You drive the spy, we'll drive I'm crazy You say you want to go for a spin The party's just become will let you end

You drive us wild and we'll drive you crazy You keep on shining You keep on shouting I want to hear you I want a rocket roll all night And party every day I want a rocket roll of night And party every day

I want a rock and roll all night Sing it I want a fucking roll all night and party every day You say that you'll be back for a while You're looking fancy and unlike your style You try to smile We'll try crazy

But you've shown what's that the thing that you've got Oh man and bending that's quite a lot You try to smile and smile We'll drive crazy Keep on shine

to feel Keep on shouting Yeah I want to rock and roll online And party every day I

want a rock and roll online And party every day I want to rock and roll online

Party every day I want a rock and roll of night Get your hands Get your hands on to fill the end Keep on shining you, keep on shining. Get your hands out! I want to rock and roll a night and party every day.

I want to rock and roll all night. And party every day. I want to rock and roll up now. I'm pushing to get around. Party every day. I won the rock and roll all night on the everyday

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