The Morning Stream - TMS 2245: DEMAND RICE

Episode Date: February 14, 2022

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good morning good morning welcome back to TMS it's the morning stream for February 14th it's a Valentine's Day 2022 yeah Brian what you do for your Valentine

today absolutely nothing the last boy since 1990 what is that that's a long time ago 32 years good Lord

30 that can be right yeah 32 years uh i was lucky enough to find a woman who does not who would rather i surprise her on i don't know march 21st or august 18th or whatever for uh valentine's day instead of a day where everybody gets the same thing yes i'm going to say the same thing i've even though it's not true but i was you say like years where kim would leave post-it notes all over the house for you. No, no, no, no. She's the one. She's still doing that. We have the two weeker. Yeah, it ain't me. She celebrates it. You don't. No, I'm terrible at it. Does that feel rough? Like, is that, is that an issue where you feel like, ooh, you know, she's doing all this stuff for me and I got her

a honey-baked ham or something? No. I mean, this is a problem with Kim. You can't compete with it. So at some point, you just have to resign. You just resign to it. Yeah, it's a good fight. Yeah, I've given up at this point. She gave me what she gave me yesterday something super oh she took me to lunch yesterday that's what that was we went and got tacos but prior to that it was like oh here's a pair of pants and on day three here's some socks you didn't know you needed and she does this for 14 freaking days every year it's almost like uh it's more like Hanukkah than it is a valentine's day a little bit yeah actually it's a good way of putting it right down to the socks yeah it's her own tradition she's not following

anybody's rule book on this she just does it and uh I just have to sit there grooving on it. There's nothing I can do about it. Nice. Her love language is gifting. That's what it is. Yeah. Yeah. Mine is, leave me alone.

I'm watching this TV. You know? It's not the same. We just don't operate on the same frequency sometimes. Sure. Anyway, I hope you're all well in the afterglow of a Los Angeles highlight marker-looking pants win over the Cincinnati Bengals. there in the Super Bowl. I just wanted to make it for the record here

that the Rams uniforms are terrible. They are terrible, ugly, horrific uniforms. And I don't know why they're allowed to wear those things. They look bad. They're just bad. It's not even color rush Thursday like they were doing for a while

where they had like throwback ugly uniforms. It was just, that is what they wear. Yeah, it's just bad. They look like melt. They look like a, I said this on Twitter. It looked like you went to the office depot and you went to get some highlighter markers and you found some all melted together in a kind of a wet pile.

That's what those uniforms are. They're bad. They're bad. Whose pants were worse? The Rams or the Rock? Oh, the Rock was wearing my uncle's pants. And my uncle Marsden, for real, used to wear those kind of pants, that color, kind of that rose, you know. I don't know what that is, rose-colored pants.

They look purple when I glanced up at it, but were, were they more rose? They look like the pants that are, that Bruce Banner wears when he knows he's going to turn into the Hulk that day. Yeah, that's a good point. Those things are going to stay put. They are not going to tear, which makes sense because, you know, it's the rock and he's a big, buffy guy, and he probably didn't tear them. But, yeah, those are really, those are ugly. Let's talk about all the ugly things. Those were very ugly, those pants.

The rock is a beast. He has a piece. Tina said those arms aren't real. Those arms are ridiculous, her exact words. Those arms aren't real. When you eat 15 chicken breasts in the morning and then go workout for six hours a day, you can have arms like that as well. Plus, I think he's probably got some supplemental shots. I don't know.

Don't want to disparage anybody. It's fine. He's not a professional athlete that's having to lie about his status. He's probably got a little steroidal help, you know? Right. Oh, there we go. There's a shot of them. So, yeah, they're more like a brick red. It's his shirt that was purple. That's right. Oh, okay. My memory is fuzzy. Red pants. Yeah. Didn't see that coming, though, him out there announcing the start of the damn thing. No, no, it was great. Like, in this corner, weighing in at 7,622 pounds. He was stoked. He was stoked. He was really jazzed about it. But anyway, Super Bowl came. It went. The team I wanted to win didn't win. That's okay. Yeah. Same here. I was hoping.

open for the Bengals. I did, uh, I did win because, uh, it was Bengals plus four on draft Kings. And so they, uh, when it was starting to get to the end there and I was like, well, they could maybe get this. They could maybe get this. And, and, uh, then the Rams had that last touchdown. I said, well, I'm still going to win my bet. Yeah. Yeah, that's good. As long as you win the bet, I'm fine with that. I'm happy, I'm happy for the win. And actually it was a hell of a tight little comeback toward the end. Yeah. You know what? That, all right, I'll see this. I didn't care. I mean, I wanted the Bengals to win, but to be honest, you know, really didn't. It was a, in the last several years, probably the game I cared least about who won or not. But we always say, well, I don't care who wins. I just hope it's a good game. And I feel like we got a good game. It was a, for the most part, until the end, penalty free. So the game, the players, the teams played clean. And it was always within, you know,

10 points at a maximum, so. Yeah, it was a nice, tight game, lots of fun little plays, some interesting lack of penalty calls, and then some really egregious ones. Yes, some very blatant, like, jersey grabbing that just seemed to go unnoticed. Yeah, at one point, we had a full-on, like, a face grab, and I don't know how I miss that.

Like a head twist face grab. Yeah, that was as bad as obvious as you get, but that's fine. Yeah, it's, you know, As those things go, it was good, even though neither team I really care that much about. I kept wondering if St. Louis fans were super into this because, you know, the Rams used to be there. Since it used to be. Yeah.

I guess they're probably excited, right? You would be if your old team. I think so. What is St. Louis now? Nothing. They just lose a team? What happened there? Nothing.

Yeah. Okay. Those bastards. They just got the big arch. But I still don't think, like, I don't think the, I don't think the, I don't think L.A. cares when they see the, or Oakland cares when they see the Raiders. or I guess, yeah, L.A. because they were the L.A. Raiders first season. I don't think they care when they see the Las Vegas Raiders play. Oakland may be more just because there's a longer history there.

But I'd be curious to see if they have any sort of like, oh, yeah, it's good to see the old team. Or if they feel like, ah, deserters, yeah, whatever. I hope you lose. So if the, I was I going to say, oh, the Raiders, yeah. So you either have to be a Raiders fan from somewhere else. That's what it seems like it is. Like if you were a St. Louis Rams fan forever, but you'd, didn't live in St. Louis. They were just your team

and you'd still love them wherever they ended up. Yeah, in the way that I like Green Bay. Same idea. If Green Bay moved somewhere, I'd still be a Green Bay fan. Yeah. But Wisconsin people are probably like, eh. They would not, yes. So, like, all of a sudden it became the Kalamazoo Packers. Boy, uh, you'd have some angry. Yeah. Yeah. Angry Wisconsiners. It's a good game though. It's a really good game. I'm a little annoyed how uh the how old's that quarterback for uh for the bengals he's like 22

they're both like 30 they're both in their no he is not 30 that quarterback no i'm sorry quarterback no i was talking about the coaches because they made such a big deal about the two youngest coaches in the NFL going ahead to head right um yeah no the quarterback i don't know how how like 21 or 22 he's like he's super young yeah freaking ridiculous and he's quite the little pimp master outside of the game wearing that suit. 25. Oh, is he 25? Okay.

Great watching his mom in the stands and saying, wow, you know, I think even she could be my daughter. Like, she's, I'm old enough to be her mother or her father. I couldn't tell who. Whatever, I'm old enough to be her parent. I couldn't tell which of the ladies, one of them's, his girlfriend, the other one's is his mom, and I couldn't tell which one was which. Actually, I kind of think I think the girlfriend looks older, honestly, than the mom.

Oh, really? Oh, no, I think the mom, the mom, when they made that first touchdown, and she stood up and made that face was like one of the greatest things I'd ever seen on television. It was pretty great. But then that kicker they got, he's 21 or 2 or something. Yeah. And he was hitting him straight down the line. That guy's good.

But whatever. Good luck to the mall. I'm sure they're all mature millionaires. And they got it all together. I'm sure there's no problems at all and everything will be great for them from here on out. All right. There is also the ads. And, of course, those are always either lame or good or somewhere in between.

And there was way too much crypto for my taste this year. That's annoyed me. Crypto and e-investing. Man, you think that maybe they were offering a discount. Like, Super Bowl coupon code. If you're an e-investor, use this coupon code for cheaper advertising. Because between E-Toro and E-Trade and, oh, that E-Trade, weird, uncanny Valley baby. I hated that ad.

I hated that ad. The ad sucked. The only one I didn't like more was the flaming hot Doritos and Cheeto thing. Oh, the, right, the push it. Yeah, that's horrible. Jungle. It was horrible. Yeah, yeah.

On a couple of levels, Carter looks over to me and she goes, this isn't just dumb. These animals are, you're not supposed to feed the, they can't eat these. They should not, like, these animals are going to die eating this bag of Doritos. Yeah, you're going to. to kill them. I mean, of course, she always thinks of that stuff first, but, uh, yeah, but yeah, like the, I know the one you hated. I think I know the one you hated most of all.

I'm surprised he haven't mentioned it yet, was the, uh, the Coinbase play on the DVD, uh, the stupid, pause screen, stupid, stupid freaking, uh, what's it called? What do you call those? Uh, the pot, oh, the QR code. QR code. Uh, here's the reason I hate it. Here, I'll give you the list. You ready?

Number one, they think they're, um, they think they're, um, they're, being real clever. It's not that clever. Okay. Number two, one of the biggest security risks in the world is scanning in unknown QR codes that you don't know the source of. So it's irresponsible to do something like that if you don't know what it is. Now, if you go to a restaurant

and they're having you scan on the menu, it's fine, whatever. But if you put something up, throw it up on TV or somewhere else, QR codes are famous for letting people get into your phone and do some gnarly shit. I know that. Okay. Oh, yeah, yeah, big time, especially on phones that are less, you know. It's just going to a website, but is it, but they can also like, they can put some malicious stuff.

Oh, yeah. So, right? If, you know, you get an email and it's for Asian mistresses.com and you click on the link there, it takes to you a page that's probably putting key loggers. Even if it's not a page, some of it's like, oh, it'll launch this app. Like you can do stuff on Android in particular that's a little egregious. so there's definitely risks there and I just think that's just lame and irresponsible and then also they

by doing something like that of course the reaction to people is wait hurry up skating and see what it is and they crashed their site for an hour which means that nobody could go to the thing they had whatever it was right which means either it was successful or they just really had a bad server yeah yeah so it's real bad I you know it was just

I knew that it was going to end with it going into a corner. Like, I knew that that was the kind of the punchline of the ad is that we all, we all saw that episode of the office. We know the excitement that happens when that DVD thing finally hits the corner and bounces straight out. I don't know. It got people talking and you kind of kind of look at it like that and say, well, all right, I guess in that way it was effective. But, yeah.

Yeah, but look at it this way. If I got up in front of everybody, shit on the hood of a car in a parking lot, I would get a lot of attention for that. You know what I'm saying? I don't equate it to that, but okay. But you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, it gets attention. For what?

You just did this thing that's kind of lame and shitty. If you were, if your goal, like basically, if you only succeeded in business by getting people's attention by shitting on car hoods, then that would be a very successful way to do it. That's how, you know, you measure an ad's effectiveness. by how many people click the ad or go to the website, which apparently a lot of people did, or how much people talk about it the day after. And as bad as the ad was, you can't argue that it was effective.

If we got patrons because, all right, if we get enough patrons, Scott's going to shit on the hood of a car, then I'd say, all right, we're successful. But that feels shitty. That feels like a shitty, less ethical way to do things. That's why I want it. Welcome to advertise. No, I know.

I know. I know how it is. I'm not, this is, I'm not naive. I know this works the way it works for the reason it works, but it's still irritated me. $14 million for that stupid idea, but whatever. Oh, I heard it was just seven that they paid. Oh, I heard. Seven million, which is still too much, but. Yeah, I, dude, a million is too much. Exactly. You know what? They didn't spend any money on, uh, like, actors or, uh, sets or editing. Nope. That's true. They didn't have to pay for any other. that so what it tells me is that they are all about doing skeevy shit and i don't want to send any money their direction ever that's what it tells me like coinbase was also a sponsor of coverville not not

not that there was anything uh not that i'm defending him any reason for that reason but uh totally fine podcasters got to do what they got to do but it's yeah whatever it annoyed me uh the other one i really didn't like was the uh oh now i forgot they meant to write it down oh i didn't like the i wanted to like it and then I didn't. I wanted to like that Larry David one, but I don't like crypto ads. It annoyed me. So you liked it up until the thing that it was promoting? Yeah, I just don't like it. You know what this feels like? And I could be, I could be, you know, I'm not saying this is exactly the same, meaning that we're heading for either a bubble or a crash. But these felt like early 2000s.com era commercials on the Super Bowl, like Pets.com and all that.

That's what this had the feeling of, of like, okay, too much, too many. You guys are, you're all heading toward a weird, confluence of these things and it's a little overrated and you're all going to shit the bed here sooner or later. I don't know why I had that feeling just did. I absolutely enjoyed the Larry David one. I thought the big one for me for the night was the only one that actually made me laugh out loud was the Barbie Dreamhouse ad with her face from up in the air. Yeah, that was pretty good. I didn't see that one coming.

I thought that was funny. Yeah, it was well done. You got to see Doja Cat, shilling for Taco Bell. Oh, is that who that was? Yeah, that was Doja right there. All right. I wondered who that was. Wait, was she the one?

She was the main clown, basically. Okay. Whose makeup runs off. I like the, I like this subtle dig at McDonald's for their ice cream machines not working. Oh, yeah, that was pretty good. Did you like, what's her name, eat, and her vagina candle? That was pretty funny. Yes.

Yeah, you know what? That Uber Eats thing was. pretty damn funny only because of number one getting Gwyneth Paltrow to eat her own vagina candle. That, you know, that, that feels like whatever you had to do to make her kind of

dig at herself for that dumb vagina candle. Yeah, whatever it took to get you to do that, well done, guys. But also, I mean, Jennifer Coolidge is great, seeing Greg from Succession, always, always great seeing him. um the uh oh yeah somebody put in there the um the sopranos one oh yeah once we said oh look that's meadow okay what is there anything is like are they gonna have her get out of the car

and don't stop believing is going to be playing while she turns the engine off and stops the music that would have been cool that would have cost them too much money they were already using that other song it was still all just that that part was kind of lame yeah um the the guy Fieri thing I could have done without. Yeah, it was all right. Yeah. It wasn't great. It was like, eh, I get what you're saying. But, uh,

you know, ha ha, it's funny. There were all Guy Fierreys. He's the lord of this land, huh? It's Flavortown. Brian Flavortown. Seth Rogen, Paul Red, doing the Laze commercial was pretty good. Yeah, that Tommy Lee, the Jones thing with the Joneses brother. Oh, the Joneses. Yeah, I don't know who you

are, whatever he said, and took off. that was pretty good. Yeah, there was, they had their moments. There were a few, there were a few. But you didn't, you didn't get the, you didn't get the crypto vibe of dot com era ads. You didn't feel that? No, I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's a wave. It's, you know, it'll pass.

It's a, it's a fad kind of thing. Oh, Irish Spring. I forgot about the Irish Spring one with the Irish Spring Village of the Damned. Oh, yeah, that was like a midsummer kind of deal. It really was. It's like, oh, my gosh. God, it is the 70s Irish Spring commercial, but dark. And I thought it can't be Irish Spring doing this because they wouldn't make fun of their own brand like this.

And sure enough, they were, which is great. So the mid-show business, the halftime show, was pretty good. I really enjoyed it. It was good. Yeah, it's maybe my favorite in a long time. I usually don't like these very much. I liked it. When 50 Cent got up there and started doing his thing, did you come up with your own rap to do during that moment?

I did. As soon as he walked out and I heard this, I went, oh boy. He came out hanging upside down, which I didn't understand the reference to, but I guess the music video for that song, he's doing that. Oh, is he? Okay. I didn't know what that was about either. Yeah, with some reference to that, I guess. Why didn't they show him, like flip the camera over, show him right side up and then surprise us by then rotating the camera and saying, oh, look, he's upside down.

Oh, I don't know. They could have done more for us at home, you're saying, more people at home. Yeah, exactly. That wouldn't have made any difference to the people watching there, but for us at home, be like, oh, check it out he's he's upside down yeah i liked uh i think dray's awesome so it's always fun to see him do stuff he has to do any of this he's a freaking billionaire he doesn't need to do anything yeah like he did this is all that's partly why i liked it because i'm like you don't need to do this but there he is doing it and uh i like that a lot as much as i enjoyed watching the

weekend get lost under the tunnels underneath the airport i thought uh this was a this was a great uh improvement over last year oh yeah hell yeah i think it's better than it's been in years. I really liked it. I think maybe the Green Day one was my last favorite one. And this, this is, I think this compares really well to that. And I don't know, it was just nice to see, I mean, it was nice to see Snoop perform. He doesn't do that anymore. He's always hanging out with Martha Stewart and shit. He's not doing anything, but talking. And here he is up there, like actually rapping. That was great. You know, it was like this old school kind of thing. I really dug it. Out came Eminem. Who else was there? Mary Kay, or Mary Jay Blige. I always want to say

K. Blige. I don't know. Mary Kay Blige. She drives a pink Cadillac and sells he Cosmetics. I think that's why I'd do that. Who else was there? Who else performed? M&M. Oh,

who was the guy didn't recognize the ha! The guy who like was in the boxes with all the Oh, that's, Kendrick Lamar.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's your newer guy. I don't know why I didn't recognize because I've, I listened to a lot of his stuff back when Tristan was living here.

Sometimes involuntarily. Yeah. It was just playing. Yeah, that Kendrick Lamar was great. Nick loves him. So he's definitely the newer. Jen thing going there. But anyway, yeah, it was a good.

It was a good little time there in the middle. It was a good half-time show, yeah. Yeah, it seemed to piss off a lot of people who don't like rap. Oh, geez, Louise. What do you expect, right? What do you expect? People are going to hate Beyonce because they don't like, you know, R&B or hip-hop or not. I guess she's soul, whatever.

Does she do? I don't know what she does now. Yeah, I just know I was supposed to put a ring on it if I was serious. You were, and I hope you did. I did. I put a ring on. What'd you eat? We got some frozen wings.

I suvaded them for 90 minutes, got them cooked, and then threw them in the air fryer for 15 minutes to get the outsides all crispy. Nice. And that was our jam yesterday. We grabbed a new place who does a local mom-and-pop place that does New York-style pizza, some couple that moved here from New York. And it's amazing. It was so good.

I've never heard of this before, but you do these gigantic pepperonies. And then you drizzle hot honey on it. Oh, okay. And the effect was fan-freakantastic. It wasn't almost, it's not even, I wouldn't call it even sweet. It was like some new flavor. It's like a new thing. I'd never tasted that before.

Yeah. It was so good. Oh, sounds really good. I can't remember the name of the place, though. It's like somebody's oven, fat Larry's oven. No, it ain't mom spaghetti. No, it's unfortunate. Although it was great to hear him sing that.

That was nice. God, it was totally great. I guess he defied the NFL. They told him he couldn't kneel because he wanted to. And they, you know, pre-show where he was saying, I really wanted kneel as a way to sort of show solidarity to the whole, you know. Oh, really? I didn't catch it.

I didn't know about any of that. So when he hit the knee, that was him saying, screw you NFL. I'm kneeling anyway. Okay. Yeah. Interesting. All right. Yep.

Eat the NFL. He said. Anyway, Brian, so tell me about Belfast. How was Belfast? Yeah. when saw belfast in the theaters yesterday before the big game and um as you know i've only got three movies left of the big picture the big uh the big the big best picture the big best picture nominees uh for this year to still watch drive my car belfast and um uh what is last one oh west side

story and uh so we got belfast knocked out and it's great it's for the most part all in black and white. They use color in a very cool way for the movie. This is something you can actually get on VOD right now. So if you want to watch it, I think 20 bucks right now in Apple TV or Amazon or one of those. But it's about the troubles. Here's the great thing. It starts out and it says August, 1969, Belfast. And I'm like, oh, great. This old movie takes place the month I was born. Oh, beautiful. Beautiful. Yeah. This black and white oldies movie takes place when I was a baby. But it was really, really good. And you kind of, you hear these stories about the battles between the Catholics and the Protestants and in Belfast and the

bombings and stuff like that. And of course, you still get some of that with the occasional outbursts from the IRA. Is it? IRA, IRA, yeah. Yeah. Was that Stan for, hold on, Ireland, Republican Army, I believe. Yeah, Irish Republican Army. Republic Army? Whatever it is.

Yeah. And Claire adds the UDA and the UVF. But, um... Oh, yeah, I had those on my TV. You had to switch to one to watch... Yeah, yeah, exactly. Oh, Channel 31 is on. Oh, we got to switch to UVF.

Yeah, yeah. But, uh, it was great. You know, it focuses on this one little kid who's kind of at the center of all this stuff, kind of like the wonder years, right, where you're focused on the kid, but you see the whole family's troubles through that that kid's eyes.

It was great. Black and white, the whole thing? I didn't know that. I didn't know it was black and white. Whole thing black and white. And, man, there's no shortage of that this Oscar season. Really? Who else is doing that? Big ones.

Hamlet is all black and white. Oh, right. That's right. There's another one, too, that The Cohen Brothers deal, the one Cohen brother, the one you wouldn't watch all the way there. Oh, I thought that was, that's Hamlet? That's Hamlet. I thought it was King Lear or something. I'm sorry, Macbeth, not Hamleth, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Wrong Shakespeare, got my Shakespeare mixed up there. You shook your spear. You're just not supposed to mention Macbeth is what I hear. Never mention Macbeth. Yeah, never do that. What else is there? Oh, Richard, no, King Richard's, oh, Richard the third is something else. King Richard's not in black and white.

What else is in black and white? No, there is something else in black and white, and I can't remember what it is. I like that, though. I sometimes like that as a theme. Yeah, Lighthouse was great. It worked perfectly for that. Yeah, the black and chrome is amazing if you see that version of that Max Fury Road. It's really good.

Yeah. How do you recommend that. Well, all right, then. That definitely is one I'll see. I like historical drama stuff, so. Yeah. I mean, I think Judy Dench is the only star I recognized in there, although I think, let me see here. The Pops was somebody else.

I'm like, oh, that's, what's his face? Oh, I guess that was Jamie Dornan from 50 Shades. Oh, okay. Did not recognize him. Yeah. He's Irish. Karen Hines, who, oh, geez, what was his Game of Thrones? He was, um, uh, king of the wildlings, uh, not wildlings, um, oh, oh, uh, trimony.

Why am I for you talking about the, the red-haired guy that's like always looking at you. No, no, and the other guy. Um, the one in charge, Mance Radar. Yes. Man's radar. Yeah, isn't it radar? Rader. Rader. Mance Rader. Rader. Yes. Incoming wounded. It's choppers. Yeah, choppers. Incoming wounded here in the north of the wall. We got, we got incoming Anyway, yeah, he He was great, too. I love that guy. That guy's, he was in Rome.

He played, he played Caesar. Yeah, he was Caesar in Rome, that show Rome. Okay. And it was fan-effentastic in that. I never saw it. And I think it's because I wasn't sure, am I supposed to watch Rome or the Tudors? Which one am I supposed to watch?

Well, Rome is, well, hold on. No, you're thinking of Tudors and one that's just like the Tudors. There was another one like the Tudors. Tudors. That's right. Yeah. The Tudors and the Gorgias, the Borgias, the Borgias. Borgias. Borgias, right. Okay. Those are both basically. Am I supposed to watch any of those? Those are both good, but they're kind of the same show, kind of.

Okay. Rome's totally different. Rome's like a different era, obviously, but ancient Rome. It's awesome. It's very, I loved Rome. Rome had a lot of wieners for no reason, but that was HBO, you know, whatever. But the show is awesome. Yeah, I love that. Did I pronounce Kieran correctly, by the way, Claire? C-I-A-R-A-N.

Got to check all our stuff with Claire there. Yeah. Anyway, so, yeah, Belfast is great. Spend the $20 or wait a couple of months. West Side Story apparently comes out streaming at the beginning of March on Disney Plus, so we got that one. I don't know when and where we're going to watch Drive My Car, because so far no streaming for that one.

Oh, and is it limited? theater release or can you get it there? It is. Yeah. Currently very limited art house theaters subtitles, all that stuff. That always annoys me because what's the freaking point, you know? You want to have you want to get it out there. You want to get in people's hands. No, I make more money when people put their butts in seats. Not when it's a limited art house release. Nobody's going to do that.

Well, that's true. Yeah. Yeah, they got to make it be their broader release or put it home. You want real money? Get out of the art house. That place smells like weed. All right. We're going to call Dunaway. No wonder I always like the movies I watch there. I'm getting a contact high from the seats. Yeah, I like a good art house contact high.

What's happened? Okay, Dunaway, no answer. What's that about? I saw him in the chat. I know he's here. I know you're here, Brian. Yeah. Dunaway?

You'll pick up your phone? Dirty, rotten bastard. Hey, Dunaway. Is that you? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Oh, hi. It's you. Hi, Brian.

Hey, it, yeah, and it, and it, and in it. Hey, welcome back, Brian Dunaway to Babbel Royale, this morning's half-assed morning edition thing. Brian, Brian will explain it. Or I could just go ahead and announce it. Yeah, you'll probably, you'll probably do that. I think that'd be better. Let me tell you about the rules. So what you got to do with.

It's nice to have you here. How are you? You doing all right? Oh, yeah, doing fine. Yes, sir. How are you guys? You know, doing all right. I think we're doing okay.

Yeah. It's a Monday, you know. Doing all right. It's a Monday. I'm excited about my. I'm excited about my. Hexen time with you later. We're going to talk about that. Yeah, it is. Yeah.

Oh, cool. That's the thing on deck for today. Yep. We're talking about Heretic Hexon, these sort of post-Dome pre-quake kind of weird things that are awesome. Something Phil Spencer, Xbox head of Xbox over there said the other day that he's a huge Hexon fan

and Activision owns the rights to Hexon, so, hmm. Interesting. Yeah, we've seen some Doom lover the last couple of years. Maybe we'll see something more. I have a feeling we will. Property from that area. All right. Now, Brian Nibbitt, you can now take

a moment and explain what the hell this game is so that we can play it for people. I'll be happy to do that. Welcome to the morning, half-asses, a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you guys the answers for a change. I'm going to be giving Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct, and three

that are incorrect. Depending on how confident you guys feel with a category, you can give me one, two, or three guesses. But if you get any wrong, you get zero points for that round, as you saw it last week. If you guess one and you get it right, you get a point. If you guess two, you get them both right. You get a bonus point, so I'll give you three points.

And if you guess all three correct answers and you get them right, you get two bonus points for five points total. They'll play with those points after three rounds, wins the prize for their contestant. And, of course, we're pulling contestants for members of the tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're going to be playing for Dean in Centennial, Colorado. Brian, you're going to be playing for Yana.

in Tampere, Finland. Yana. Yeah. Yana. Games this week, we are giving away Mordhow. And beyond the wire to our winner. The runner-up is going to get Partisans 1941. So I'll stick around for that.

Do not know what any of those games are for the first time and a long time. I don't recognize them. Oh, wow. No kidding. Yeah. I'm sure they're good. Mordhow, I kind of think I know the name of. But I don't think I've played it. Gotcha. Yeah, I think I've seen him, but I've never actually played him. I noticed Dunaway's name is a bit of a penis.

What's that about there? It is a little bit of a penis. Yeah, you made a little bit of a penis. Yeah, and your username, you got like the equal signs and the D at the end. Oh, are they now? Those are equals. Uh-oh. Yeah.

It was like a, oh, you're dirty, filthy mind. Yeah, you made a wiener. Good job. All right, let's give you guys your first question and your first six possible answers. Okay. Question number one, give me movies that have no scenes set in the title. locale. So I just watch Belfast. The movie takes place in Belfast. That would not count. Your choices are

Persepolis, Fargo, Madagascar 2, Paris, Texas, Chinatown, and Brazil. Three of those did take place in the locations. In the locations. Had scenes, had scenes set in the title location, three did not. Okay. You can give me, depending on your confidence, you can answer one, two, or all three. So this is no scenes in that. The three that have no scenes. that take place in, right, in the title locale.

I know a couple of these for sure. I don't know if I know that one, though. Yep, I do. Okay, I'm locked in. Okay. You guys are both locked in, looks like. All right. Let's see what you guys said.

Scott, you say, you say Fargo, Madagascar 2 and Brazil. Brian, you're playing it safe and just saying Brazil. Let's see what we got here. The answers are Persepolis, Paris, Texas. and Brazil. Hold on. There are scenes in Fargo that take place in Fargo. I've seen Fargo 150 times.

How have I missed that there's some of it in Fargo? It's all in, I thought it was all in, oh no. Bouchemi buries the money in Fargo. In Fargo, yeah. Shit. So, Brian, playing it safe, paid off. Brazil was one of the correct answers, so you do get a point. Scott still at zero, but we've got another question to get to here.

All right. Question number two. NBA franchises that relocated. So we've got the Boston Celtics, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Houston Rockets, the New York Knicks, the Sacramento Kings, and the Denver Nuggets. Which of those are NBA franchises that relocated? So they came in, relocated or going out? They came, they relocated coming in. These are all, as far as I know, current teams.

They were someplace else and moved to the cities are listed here. Again, three of them are correct. Three of them are not. Yeah. I know one of them. I know you're big into the NBA, so you might have a... I know nothing. I know one of them for sure.

For sure. It's hardly possible. What do you? What do you, uh, for sure? I'm locking in two. You see, there's how many here? There are three. There's always going to be three truths and three lies.

That's the name of the game. I'm locking in those two. I don't know. You guys are both locked in. Scott says the Lakers and the Kings. Dunaway is just saying the Kings. Let's see how you guys did. You are both absolutely correct.

Yeah, the Lakers, the Kings, and the Houston Rockets. Lakers, of course, moved from the land of a million lakes, Minnesota. Sacramento Kings moved from Kansas City. And the Rockets came from San Diego. Interesting. It gets three points because you got two, right? Right. Two, getting two gives you a bonus point.

Getting three gives you two. two bonus points. That's the first time we've done that. So it's a brand new information. Well, I've been telling you that every year. I don't listen to that. I only go by what actually happens. I notice nobody put,

no one put the jazz on here, which is, I guess, makes sense because I know that. A little obvious, yeah, with New Orleans. All right, comes down to question number three. Let's get to it. Pretty easy. Maybe.

I don't know. Oh, no, it's going to be the hardest question. Never go. Name the three muskines. So your choices are Aramis, porthos, pathos, Athos, Rathis, and Dumas. Dumbass.

Dumbass, exactly. So these are musketeers that were kind of like... Three of them are. Three of them are not. Okay. I think I remember... I think I remember two. I'm locked. I'm locked in, too. I'm not

100% sure about that. You said it was going to be easy. Well, it would have been. If you knew the answer, it would have been easy. If you would be looking at the answer sheet like I am, then you'd know this one. All right, Scott locked in with Aramis, Porthos, and Raffis. Brian just has two of those, Aramis and Porthos. The final answers are Aramis, Porthos, and Aethos.

Dumas, Alexander Dumas, was the author of the Three Musketeers. Athos and Rathis are just made-up names. Oh, I figured dumbass, or Dumas, or whatever. So that gives Dino-Dinaway. He gives him five. That gives Brian Dunaway three points for a total of five. Scott, you got zero-four questions. So he's stuck to three, which means congratulations going out to Yana in Tempeer, Finland.

Congratulations. But don't worry, Dean and Centennial, you'll also get something. You're going to get Partisans 1941 for your participation. And Yana, you'll get Mordow and Beyond the Wire. What is partisans? Hold on. Partisans. What is Particple? Team 41. I think this might, oh, that's this, okay.

Recognize it. Now you see it. Yeah, this is like the resistance during the war, and it's a tactics game. It's supposed to be real good, I've heard. Oh, cool. Yeah, this one, this came out just in 2020. This is pretty new. Yeah, this is a good game. I've been played it, but I hear good things.

Like, you know, the old, the anyone would ever play Commando, or, Commandos? Not Commando. Commandos. Did you play that? And you had a little top-down, a little German, your infiltrate German stuff. That's different than the one I was thinking you were talking about.

Yeah. Not the top-down shooting stuff, Commando, like, without a Ness. But Commandos was like, you got a sniper guy, and you got a big, rough, tough guy, and you got a grenade expert, and you're sneaking into German camps and taking out their leaders and stuff like that. It's sort of like that. So, anyway, a real-time tactics game. It's exactly like that, actually.

That's literally the game they made. All right. Well done. And so let's give them a combined one of these. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. You've both won stuff, and that's awesome. Brian's got your info, obviously, so he will be sending you your codes. I am. I may even have them done by the time you guys are done talking about, well, is there some show coming up this afternoon?

Yeah, we do a thing. Yeah, it's at 3.30 Mountain Time. It's called Play Retro. And today, we're tackling a PC angle for the first time in the show's six-episode history. I guess this will be our side. Yeah, by much demand, we've been mostly staying in the arcades and the consoles, but we're heading towards the PC with a Doom Engine game. Hexon. Oh, yeah, I remember this.

Yeah, Hexon rules. Hexon was one of my favorite things ever, and I can't remember the exact order of things. I have a bunch of reading to do before the show, but Hexon and Heretic have like a real interesting story to it. Raven Software came out of this. and they're known for all sorts of big deals now. Heretic was first, and then Hexon was beyond Heretic, and then there was Hexon 2. Hexon 2, where I believe that's how I went.

Yeah, and Hexon 2 was in the Quake Engine, if I am not incorrect. Correct. We moved beyond the Sprite-based animations within a 3D world, and we moved into object base with the quake. So, yeah, that's where Hexon 2 came in. You know what I didn't remember. I don't remember Hexon letting me look up and down. Yeah, it was, yeah, Hexon was the first time we saw that up and down in the Doom engine. Yeah, which was kind of rad.

Yeah, mouse look is amazing. It's crazy in there. So, yeah, we'll talk about that. I actually got it working with a controller too, which is weird. Anyway. Oh, did you play the N64 version emulation? No, I've just good PC. No, I got the PC one, and my 8-bit do controller just worked with it.

Oh, 8-bit do. Yeah, eight-bit do-doo. Like those eight-bit do. They're pretty great. Anyway, that'll be today, 330 Mountain Time. If you'd rather listen to the podcast, you can certainly do that. That's everywhere you get your podcast. Just go look for Play Retro.

Brian Dunaway. Have a great day. Now you. Kiss my bout. By now. Okay. He's gone. Okay.

All right, well, that was fun. Did you get all that taken care? Have you got it all sent out? Yeah, everything's all sent out. I had time to send out, play a couple of games of Hexon, so I'm all set. Nicely done. Nicely. Done. All right. Now, here's this.

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Yeah, just don't eat the meat. They've got the not meats as well. That's right. All right. Story here, you know that wordal deal. I do know that wordal deal. Yeah, people are into it. It seems to be a thing.

My kids are all. Today's in four, and I feel pretty proud of it because it was a difficult word today that didn't have, that only had one of like the eight most common letters in it. Oh, my. Well, that is a lot. And every day my kids swarm our group text with their results. Here, chat, you can see those. So we get these every day.

I don't participate because I have too many other things to do and play. So I don't mess. But it's okay. I think it's a cool thing. But here's something that interesting happened with it. You need to start hearing stories like this because it's big. The no-wordle update from an 80-year-old helped lead to a discovery that she had been held hostage by a naked man. yeah yeah okay i gotta get we to figure out how all this works together yep here you go police

rescued an 80 year old penis oh the end is in the right place yeah there you go he is in the wrong place yeah yeah yeah you only have five chances so make sure you really work on it yeah uh police rescued an 80 year old suburban chicago woman who was held in her home for nearly 21 hours by a naked man with scissors there's nothing worse the only thing worse than a naked man is a naked man with scissors honestly yeah i hope he doesn't run with those man it feels like as bad as it is to scissors anyway, running with scissors while you're naked is probably even worse. Was there a song or a band called Running with Scissors? There was a Weird All Yankevick album called Running with Scissors probably is what you're thinking.

Okay. I knew I'd heard of something. The officers checked in on the woman in part because she couldn't text one of her daughters, couldn't or wouldn't text one of her daughters with her daily wordal score during the ordeal. Denise Holt and her oldest daughter, Meredith Holt Caldwell, told reporters that Holt woke up about 1 a.m. on Sunday to the site of the naked and bloody man. I don't mean in the British way of saying it. He had blood on him. It's a bloody man.

He's a bloody man. In her Lincolnwood home, Holt said the man threatened her life, ultimately after grabbing two knives in the kitchen. Holt said the man led her in the bathroom in the basement, barricading her inside with a chair for the next 17 hours. She's 80, man. You psycho bastard.

What a weird thing to do to anybody. Anyway, I was trying to survive. That's all. She told the local news affiliate during that time. she couldn't communicate with the outside world or update her daughter, as she usually does, about her score on the popular online word game. Holt Caldwell, who lives in Seattle or also lives there, or lives there, sorry, she lives in Seattle, became worried that her mother wasn't reading her text or updating her on Wordle. I'm across the country, and I noticed this, said Holtz, Holdwell. Yeah, my mom and I, and actually now my dad, so mom who lives here in Colorado, dad who lives in Vermont, we actually text each other and say, hey, how'd you do with today's words?

now I do have a reason to be concerned if I don't hear back. Yeah. How do you know, though, if maybe there's a day they're just tired of doing it and they don't want to do it anymore, do you freak out and go, oh, no, how come you haven't finished your whirdle? And then I guess if they answer, it's fine. But this lady didn't answer. They probably answer and say, oh, yeah, we're not doing it today.

We're kind of whirled out or something. I'm sure it would be the case. Yeah. It's on, is it physically on the New York Times URL now? It is physically, as of last week, it switched over to the New York. Times, causing a bunch of consternation. People were losing their streak info, and they even, they repeated a word, so a lot of people got that day's word in one, because they just decided to try the last word that was

on Josh's server before it switched to the New York Times, and it turned out to be the word on the New York Times server as well. They couldn't. Nice job, guys. Well done. I think it was because they did it during the day. And so if you log in in the afternoon, you would get the same word that you had before. But with the time difference, there was, you know, there were people who got one in a 24-hour period and then got the same one in that same 24-hour period.

Oh, I got you. Okay. Well, I'm sure all the problems have passed, and it's just normal wordel now. It's normal New York Times where it looks exactly the same. Yeah. Yeah. Not behind that paywall yet. No, no.

Not yet. They spent a lot of money on it, so I don't know what they're going to do to monetize it. Yeah, if they do advertising or whatever, I don't know. I mean, I pay for the New York Times crossword puzzle anyway, so I'm sure once it does, if it does go paid for. But they're not doing any sort of advertising or anything on it, which kind of surprised me. It seems like, you know, maybe they'll keep it free, but they'll add advertising. Or, who knows? Do you want to finish the rest of this word?

subscribe now exactly oh see well somebody uh somebody suggested uh may keep it free to play but then charge people 99 cents to um to be able to share their scores on social media which i think is a brilliant way to do that that's a great way to make their money back well i say do that because i hopefully that will make less people posting the shit every day on twitter that'd be great okay grouchy no for real grouchy today i am grouchy all show i am grouchy here's the thing. I am totally grouchy. I woke up grouchy today. But also, but if you ask people to do 99 cents, you will have a drop in that. It's not going to go up. Yeah, oh, you absolutely will. Yeah, it's not like we're going to have more. I will have less in my timeline and I'm, I'm surprised

you haven't created a filter. Well, that takes work. I don't want to do that. Would you like me to give you a URL, Scott, where all you need to do is just like click a thing and then enter and wordle and you're dead. Isn't it? Well, it doesn't post the name, though. Just get that graphic. How do you block the graphic? Because it does say wordle in the text.

Oh, it does? Every time, no matter what? Yep. It says wordle and then a puzzle number and then a streak, I think. Or no, it's like two out of six or three out of six or whatever. And then it posts a little green and yellow graphic. Oh, all right. Well, all I know is I'm glad this 80-year-old lady no longer has a naked scissor man in

in your house because what a nightmare that is. Thanks, Wordle, you saved a life. All right. Exactly. There you go. We're going to take a break. When we come back, it's Stephen Schleiker time. So suck it up, everybody. It's going to be great.

Stick around for that. Hey, Brian, before that, though, I don't know about you, but probably could use some music, I guess. What do we got? And you could certainly use this one. This is from Friend of the Show and part of the Diamond Club group. Mike TV, he's part of a band called Get Set to Go.

anytime we're doing the what's the auction movie the movie auction thing I don't know do occasionally you know what with the Diamond Club guys the oh oh yeah what do they call that summer movie summer movie draft that's a round up summer movie

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It's nearly three, it's nearly, but that hot it leaves me gasping. So I guess, this is why God invented aspirin. Let's climb up on the chairs, throw our glasses in the air, let's set these shots on fire. Let's climb up on the chairs, throw our glasses in the air, let's set these shots on fire. Go drunk your home, go drunk your home, go drunk your home, go drunk your home. Go junk your home. Go junk your home. Go junk your home. Go junk your home. Oh, man. Good coffee's hard to come by. I mean, you kind of know what you like, but sometimes it just doesn't match up with what you get. Well, think about it this way. 90% of coffee from the grocery store is actually stale.

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The song is called Go Drunk, Your Home. Have they done that draft? since the pandemic, or is that done? Oh, I don't know if they have. Yeah, because, yeah, that makes it so difficult, right, with things being released day and date to streaming services as well as theaters. I don't know how they do that. Yeah, I'm guessing they're, I'm guessing it's on hold.

No draft, everyone says. Either that or we just haven't gotten an invitation to be part of it. It's totally fine. Look, you know, whatever we did to offend them, we apologize. And, you know, we don't want to offend that cult. this is a big trouble there um all right hey welcome back everybody let's get stephen in here and let's have a little fun with him yeah like my uh little pop culture injection i hope uh i hope there were at least three things ads during the game the big game that i'm sure uh stephen enjoyed so i will find

out he doesn't like the football as much as he likes the ads i think so we'll find out when we bring him in let's see here we go stephen schliker stephen schleiker stephen schleyker renowned football expert and fan joins us as he does each and every Monday from major spoilers.com and the beautiful downtown Hayes, Kansas studio. Hello, Steven. How are you?

Good morning, Scott. Good morning, Brian. Hey, a little bit of facts for you guys. Apparently, there were no Gen Z players in last night's NFL game. Hold on. There were no, there were no Gen Z players or there were Gen Z, no, I'm sorry, not Gen Z, Gen X, no Gen X. Gen X, okay. So the 40-year-old guy that got the award he doesn't count i guess he's just outside of it well he's in the millennial pile okay

he seemed cool he got a good beard it's nice and gray oh yeah i like that guy he seemed all right so if so yeah do you did you enjoy the uh the dc trailer the uh no the uh dr strange trailer the moon night trailers listen here's the thing i don't sit down and plan my entire day around watching a series of television commercials to watch a 30-second commercial that says, hey, go to the website to watch the two-and-a-half-minute trailer. Oh, yeah, good point. If I wanted to do that, I could have just skipped everything. That's right.

Why do they give us a QR code to watch the Dr. Strange trailer before? Oh, I was so irritated by that. Yeah. Well, how do you feel about, I mean, there was a whole lot of Gen X talk yesterday, because for Gen X, there's a lot of what we saw in that. halftime show was from our era of early Compton, you know, rap explosion stuff. And then some of it was millennial. And some of it's on the tail end, the Kendrick Lamar era, I would call, you know, I don't

know, late millennial early Gen Z. My son's really into it. And he's firmly in the Z category. And everyone's like going, well, no, it's Gen X. I'm like, we don't actually give a shit. It's fine. It's just, I'm glad to hear it. It's good to hear those guys up there.

Oh, exactly. The halftime show was very enjoyable. I liked it. My wife enjoyed it. My youngest was downstairs doing something dumb, and my oldest was at a friend's house. Doing something dumb. Hold on.

You can't just skip over that. I know. What's the dumb thing that your oldest is doing? No, my youngest, I have no idea. He was downstairs probably watching something on the big screen TV. Gotcha. That's how that goes. Probably watching the Dr. Strange trailer in its full version.

Was there a lot more of showing in that? By the way, was there more in that trailer than we saw on the thing? Oh my gosh, if you haven't stopped, stop this show right now and go and watch the two and a half minute, Dr. Strange and the multiverse of madness. I mean, not to spoil it for anyone, but looks like the Illuminati is going to be there. And we get to hear a voice of a certain bald actor. And, oh, maybe the Novacore shows up. I don't know. Oh, and if you look at the poster, if you look at the poster, you might get to see a Captain Britton shield on that poster as well.

Oh, really? Oh, I didn't catch that. I'm in the lower right-hand corner of the poster amid all the smashed glass. There's a Captain Carter. So Captain Carter, not Captain Carter. I always get those two confused, but basically the same, yeah. Someone says Deadpool might be in there somewhere? Brian Braddock would disagree with you, Stephen.

Oh, probably. I'm sure. I'm looking on the poster. Oh, there he is. Someone's pointed out there's a little Deadpool on one of those shattered pieces of glasses on the poster. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, that's funny.

They think, they think that's him. I'm not so sure that's him. And we'll see what happened. I mean, they can do anything and everything with this, with this. I mean, I'm hoping it is not a rehash of what we saw in what if. Because there's a lot of plot points like evil Dr. Strange shows up. Zombie Doctor Strange shows up. Zombie Doctor Strange, yeah, exactly.

The whole, a couple of the other things, like we said with Captain Carter, I'm hoping it's just not a rehash of the what if series. Oh, yeah, sure enough. Yeah, there is the shield. look at that okay so do you think that marvel fans are gonna i think right now we're cool with it but do you think we're going to get um not tired of but just kind of a little tired of all this crossover multiverse stuff soon like i feel like the spider man movie really stretched that now this one's gonna do a lot of the same stuff and go at remember this from the tv shop burr remember this from

this movie like they're gonna have this like fan service you know extravaganza do you think at some point we start going yeah maybe just give us a I don't know. Just a story about a... Scott's speaking like he has yet to see Loki. I haven't seen Loki. Or finish up Vision Scarlet Witch or... No, I did Scarlet Witch and Vision.

You did finish the one up? I watched that. We was seeing on Twitter that you didn't finish that one. That's because Twitter is not a real place and people lie on there. That's why. Here's the deal. I watched that show week to week and loved it. I really liked that show.

Why I can't bring myself to watch Loki, I can't tell you. I don't know. But have you watched all the what-ifs? No, I watched like half of them. Okay. You got to see the back half of that. See, this is what I'm talking about. This is what I'm talking about.

It's like, can I even enjoy multiverse of madness if I haven't seen the 30 other things that they were like doing T-ups on? You know what I mean? All right. Could you enjoy Endgame or Infinity War if you didn't see the other things leading up to that? I mean. Yeah, I did or could. Sure. I saw I didn't I hadn't seen I hadn't seen Ant Man do it was to be yes okay well there you have it and more than likely they're going to explain everything again yeah exactly they kind of have to I mean you know you see you see the Infinity Stones and they explain the Infinity Stones in in Infinity War but you get the setup for that in all the previous movies yeah I don't I don't think people are going to get tired of the multiverse it really is dependent on how they they wrap this this up right this is a Doctor Strange movie up

because if it is just a way to bring in the Fantastic 4 and the X-Men and all these other properties under the MCU proper, then I think everyone will be fine with it. But if it's like, we've got to travel to Marvel 616, and then we're going to jump to 16.02. If they have to do a lot of that stuff, then I think people will get tired of it. But I think, you know, if it means that they can get, you know, the X-Men and the Fantastic. four, I don't think they're going to have trouble with that at all. Yeah. Yeah. I know we get Erica Chavez, seeing her

in the, I mean, it was leaked early that she was going to be part of this, but I was wondering how they were going to get her introduced. And I only know a little bit about her because she was added to Young Avengers after the stuff I read. She's not a meeting, right? Like, we still don't have a

I don't know. I'll be honest, I've not read any of the stuff with her in it. Yeah. I've got a mini of her to paint. That's about All I know about American Chavez. I mean, it seems like they have a chance here to at least get some mutant business going, right? I would think so. This feels like the right, you know, the easiest point of entry, right?

It's just saying, oh, mutants in this other dimension, other universe, or, let's bring him in. Yeah, and there's a certain bald guy that says, maybe we should explain it to him, number one. Yeah, and you think that's Patrick Stewart? I'm most definitely. Really? Really? All right. Really?

I need to watch it again because I did not pick up on the voice. I'll watch that again then. Or I'll watch the long one. I only saw the short one, yeah. Gosh, I wonder if Benedict Wong will be in this. Oh, they've already shown him. I know. Yeah, he's in the trailer.

He's in there. He's the new I'm in every MCU movie ever made. That's what I am. That's his job. Just make sure Benedict Wong is like, you know, he's Dr. Strange's buddy. So he's got to be in this one. But I totally know what you mean.

Yeah, he is in the, uh, He's everywhere. He's the John Ratzenberger. He's like, if this was Pixar, he's John Ratsenberger. He's in everything, and I love it. This is not a complaint. I think he's amazing. So put him in every MCEU movie until we're done.

How about that? I like it. Yep, totally fine with that. All right. Well, Stephen, they also show a trailer for Nope. The new, uh, what's his name? Ah, that's a total definite, yep. I'm definitely seeing that way.

And I may have to go to the theater to see that. If it plays in our, in our, in our crummy theater. here in town. I like all the names of his movies are great. Go ahead. Is Peel trying to tell us something like, get out, us? Nope. Is it a sentence?

What's the next movie going to be? Yes, you. Yes, you. I'm talking to you, he'll say, in the next one. That's right. Yeah. What do you think of that, what we saw? I don't even know what to make of it.

I don't know how to translate what I saw. I don't know what's going on in that movie. I can't tell. This definitely feels like his take. on summer blockbuster movies because it feels very much like Close Encounters of the Third Kind There's some other

There are some other stuff going on I'm hoping it doesn't turn into What was that horrible movie From a few years ago Where the aliens come down And they suck up everybody into their spaceship And are using them for food This is like 10 years ago

It was a skyfall, skyfall, no Skyfall Something along that Something along that that lines and it's like a it's like a Skyline. Skyline?

Skyline, maybe that's what it's. If you haven't seen it, don't. Good for film sec? Yeah, probably. Most definitely. Yeah. Most definitely. Maybe that's what we see it.

And then if you want to do a double feature with film sack and really have your brains melt out your ears, there was a sequel to it, Skyline 2. Maybe even a, maybe they did a trilogy of them. But yeah, the Skyline movie. is just what. Wait a minute. Skyline. Do we do that?

That's one that takes place on top of a building, right? The movie? Yeah. I think we may have done it. The one I'm thinking of. Hold on. I'm looking this up. Like in Los Angeles?

Yeah. We did this movie. Yeah. 2019. We did it in March. Yeah. Okay. We actually did it less than a year ago.

Well, it was 2019 March of that year. Oh, was it? Okay. I thought it was this last March. hilarious. It says, oh, yeah. Someone in the chat definitely says there's a third

movie strange lights descend on the city of los angeles throwing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the earth there you go and they ate people i don't remember that part was that well that was the implication because all the bodies are just piled up and either being used for food sacks or reservation yeah yeah yeah yeah you're right and then the guy turns into like a superhero at the end of the movie yeah it wasn't good it was kind of very bad that movie. But we had fun with it. Um, all right. Well, yeah, no, I don't know what to think of nope, except he makes great movies and I'm in. So let's do it. Let's go. It looks great. I'm super

into it. And I do like that he uses one name, uh, or one word names from short words. Yeah. Something about that. And then he's using a lot of the same actors too. Oh, is he? I didn't know that. That's cool. Okay. Awesome. Then that's coming when? Do we know? July 22nd, 2022. All right. This is this summer, everybody. I look forward to it. Also, Obi-1 arrives in May. We thought we were going to get a trailer last night. Everybody, a lot of people did.

I thought there would be a trailer. There wasn't one, but we're getting it in May. What do we know other than that? We haven't seen anything, right? We know that it's not coming out on Scott's favorite day, May the 4th. Oh, that's a shame. Yeah. It's coming out on May 25th, the 45th anniversary of Star Wars A New Hope.

Okay. Oh, good. Okay. That's actually, that is the anniversary we should be celebrating. Yeah. Right, right, right, right. This takes place 10 years after Star Wars Revenge of the Sith, and we will look and see who is hunting or who is hunting who, because we know that Hayden Christensen is returning.

I don't know whether it's flashbacks or in present day. Oh, interesting. As Darth Vader, and we've got a whole bunch of other big names showing up, including Kamal Nanjiani, showing up as well, and some more. So you're going to go check that out. He'll be there as his Eternals character. right that's his plan he'll just he will and and the surprising thing is this is a i i think this is what a eight episode series for eight for four episodes it'll be all about obi won canobi and then the

back half will be nothing but mandolore in season four perfect so in line in continuing line of sorry to spoil it for those of you who've been watching book of boba fat yeah or have him been watching book of boba fat yeah i guess though if this happened timeline wise he'd still be in the sarlac pit. So then we'll just get to hang out with him down there. No, this is even pre, because this is Revenge of the Sense. Oh, right. Yeah, he's long dead. Damn, what am I thinking? So this is. No, he's just, he hasn't been born

yet. Or like, he's alive. He's a little child running around. Yeah, he's like, uh, he's holding his dad's helmet going on. That's right. With possibly a head in there. Yeah, a very lighthead, it turns out the way it looked in that movie. I got weighed nothing. Apparently. Yeah. All right. So we don't have a trailer, though. I'd love to see that. um that's a bummer but did we get a trailer last night where obi one was trying to uh make us uh sign up for crypto dot com no it was a travel one right um expedia or something what was it expedia was uh all right all right i thought uh no what the heck was he trying to sell oh it was a sales force it was sales force i don't know what that is a online company management CRM software okay all right yeah it was uh it was uh it was a I thought it was Crypto.com that Obi-Wan was now?

No, no, no, no. Some kind of let's go traveling back to the beach sort of deal. Gotcha, okay. I can't remember what it was. Might have been a video. See how much all of those ran together? Like, it's so easy to assume. Were the Scrubs guys trying to sell us crypto?

I can't remember. Yeah, what were they doing? No, they were doing Verizon. That's where it was. It was Dolly, Miley, and the Scrubs guys for Team Mobile. I mean, now that you think about it, none of those, because we can't remember who the hell they were advertising for in a couple of cases here.

Yeah. They did a poor job, whereas Coinbase nailed it because they did their shitty stunt. Because you could remember who that was for. Yeah. So I guess if your goal is 100% like notoriety so that people don't forget where you're coming from and confuse it with Doritos or something, they did it. That's right. Yeah, Expedia was UN. Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, Claire. Capital don't care in the chat today. Geez, Louises. All right. So what else we got here? Oh, they did have the trailer for Moon Night. How do we feel about that? I am a little bit more optimistic about that after I'm seeing more and more of it. I was too afraid that they were going to dive into this guy. He's got mental issues.

Look how weird the people with mental issues are. And it appears like they are flexing away from that and trying to tell us a very compelling story. Yeah. I think as soon as he jumped and made a moon out of his cape, I got excited. That was pretty cool. Yeah. I went, oh, that freaking moon night. That's cool. and my wife's excited because she loves that dude what's his name, she loves him, so. Oscar Isaac.

Yeah. Yeah, I wasn't sure about the costume, like being all bandagey. I mean, it makes more sense than the slick. Was it Mark Silvestri? Who was the original? I don't remember, maybe. But the whole thing has to do with the Egyptian. Conshu and stuff.

It makes more sense for it to look like bandages. And I love how the bandages hold, like are there to hold the moon on his chance. as opposed to, like, just being a glued-on emblem like the bat logo and Spider-Man's deal. So that's kind of cool. Who created him? Doug, Munch. I don't know how you say that guy's name. Oh, really?

Yeah. And Don Perlin. And that would have been, oh, 75? It's older than I thought. Yeah. Yeah, but I remember Sylvester doing a killer take on it. He had a run on it, right? Okay.

So I'm not completely losing my mind. No. He's perfect for that character, right? Like, Sylvester's style is like moon night as hell. But yeah, that looked good. And I thought Ethan Hawk looked cool in it. He looked like he needed a sandwich, but he looked good. You know, he looked a little pale, a little lighter than he ought to be or whatever.

Maybe that's part of the character. Here's a really good Ethan Hawk movie, if you want to see it. It's called Predestination. and it's a time travel movie that is a mind trip so go in prepared to have to be very open-minded if you sit down and watch that movie because it's a mind trip by the time you get to the end

and you're like what just happened 2014 I've never heard of this I've seen this trailer though it's it was super independent it came out with no publicity I stumbled across it one night and I was like oh I'm watching this and it's very

very good It looks cool. Yeah, I've never heard of it either. A couple of people, Sarah Snook, I remember her. Oh, yeah, she's a succession. She's the sister, right? Shiv, yeah. Yeah.

And then you got your, uh, your Noah Taylor. He's kind of weird looking, gaunt-looking dude. Oh, yeah. He's going to ride the elevator up with you and tell you that it's all, it's all simulation. That's right. He was in, uh, not just vanilla sky. What was the other one? Oh, life aqua.

I remember him in that. He looks like a French guy. Maybe he is one. He does. Oh, he's from London. Sorry. Sorry, Britain. I screwed up.

Well, anyway, so that's a thing. Moon Knight. We'll get that, and we'll like it. Yeah, that's... I think so. That's coming out into March. Into March, that's right. I just think you had an opportunity there to do an Obi-1 ad,

and instead, they showed Aquafina walking around a bunch of goats for Disney Plus. Selling the seashells by the seashore. Yeah, and that's fine. But I don't know. I was really hoping. for that, but I guess we'll have to wait on that. What's the next big event? Oscars?

Yeah. Right? Let's see. Let's see. We got Oscars coming up at the end of March. March. And so everybody, the big buildup right now for Disney Plus is come for the moon night. And what Disney has done and they've done very well is they get you to sign on for your subscription with an offering, right? So moon night. And then that runs just long enough, you know, two months to where they can say, hey, might as well keep this around because we got Star Wars. Yeah, we got Star Wars next.

And so they keep doing that. And that's the thing that make sure that that's a subscription service. There's no reason to just say, I'm going to turn this off for two months and then come back because they're always rolling something out that hits the Venn diagram of our crowd. Yeah. The one complaint, you just reminded me of something speaking of streaming services. I was, yes, and the chat room is correct to me. I was confusing my Aquafina and my Zendaya. Yes, and Aquafino was walking around Disney Plus talking about goats.

Yes, that is. I thought we said that. You said that. Oh, I did. You're fine. All right. I thought somebody said it. I don't want to get you any further down the grouch line.

You're fine. No, I'm good. So what was I saying? Now I forgot. Something about. Oh. So I couldn't watch the Super Bowl because I don't have regular TV. So I did a month of Peacock last night.

And it was fine. except for a bunch of the game my TV was reporting we were only getting 480P out of that broadcast and I don't know if that probably means maybe maybe the cable guy to show up well maybe but maybe I think what it probably means is

you know they had more people using it than ever last night is my guess it's funny ours looked totally high-deaf yeah I kept going back and forth for me I don't know what was going on We use YouTube TV.

Yeah. How do you like that? Working out good? I like it. I mean, it's a little expensive, but we get all of our local cable channels, all of our local TV stations. So that works out really well. Unless, of course, you're watching Super Bowl commercials and they run local ad spots, which are the worst things in the world. Yeah, they are pretty bad.

TV all the time. That's true. You were, in fact, I think you were tweeting about it. You were saying something like, you think these national ads are bad. You should see these local ones. Did you have any real winners or something you want to mention? It's like these two, I don't want to disparage the people of Kansas, but let's just say two Hicks sitting there with their headphones on,

trying to announce a football game, yet throwing in all of these really horrible puns and things that don't even relate to football about their countertop manufacturing. That sounds bad. It was bad. Yeah, that sounds bad. But hey, if you're into it, if you need a counter and you live in, you know, You know, that's the perfect dad for you.

Yeah, why not? They're actually selling you what you're looking for. So go check them out. That's Bob and Doug's counterrevolution.com. It was something, literally, it was pretty close to something like that. So-and-so's counters. Very nice. All right.

Well, that pretty much wraps it up. Stephen, I know there's always something cool happening at major spoilers. Why don't you tell the folks where they can get whatever that cool thing is? If you want to get all the cool things, number one, head over to major spoilers.com and check out the stories that we have up there, as well as all the cool podcast coming out this week. And then if you really, really want to be one of the cool people, make sure that you stay hydrated. Oh, I like that.

That's a good piece of advice. And I can't hang up on you. Bye. All right. All right. Well, we come to the part of the show where we play a mashup from Jamie. Yeah. It's the Monday morning mashup.

I like that part. I do too. It's a good part. This one's called Mad Mathers. I assume this is an Eminem reference. I have no idea. Yeah, maybe a Mad Max and Eminem reference. reference could be so we're going to find out now as we play it now if i put this in any place in

any order it's throat then not vice versa no don't put it then throat yeah you don't want that your mom is easy shit mouth don't need this go hang yourself well this is a place i could show my doodle so you see um on this you see the top of that right the head of that is big and why Yeah, yeah. Wider than the hole that's on the . Ugh. Forgive me, I have sinned against this turkey.

Put my penis where it didn't belong. I've got 18 kinds of cancers, and they're all in my butthole. I have sinned in my heart, in my heart, and actually with my penis. Bill Duran joins us for our science segment, as he does each and every Tuesday right after Bill Bill Dool-Doo comes on the show, and it's great to see you. Bill Duran's here? Yeah, can you believe it? I think we called you Bill D'Rend.

Is that what you're saying, Bobby? Did I call you, Bill? Did I do that? Oh, shit. What am I doing? Sorry. So you've got a long slit, and you've got to put the d'n the bottom of the slit, and then let the go to the top.

Right. Of the slit. Yeah, that's what it is. I guess it's a slot. Yeah, slot, slit slot. I don't know. What do you call them? You don't play the slits in Vegas.

Actually, you kind of do. You can play the slits and the slots. You can play both, yes. Yeah, the slit slots. Stumbled upon Cumberbatch's we truly did. We unfortunately, or fortunately. That's right. We all saw doctors strange. Yeah, we saw his strange.

Penelope Cruz for parallel mothers. That's where you line up all your mothers side by side. That's the only way to do it. If you're going to line your mothers up, do them parallel, I say it. Exactly. I should rephrase that. Anjonunilis. Angenu Ellis.

She played Serena Williams and King Richard. I feel like I should have gotten an ingenue. What's wrong with me? I should have had an ingenue. Look at it. It's spelled out right there. It's actually spelled the way you. you would say it on June.

It's got a built-in pronunciation deal than I couldn't do it. For a while, they were considering M&M for the role of Mad Max. They ended up not doing it, obviously. And then the other... Hi, my name is Mad Max. Hi, my name is...

He'd be a better war boy. Just paint him up white and make him a war boy. I'm trying to decide which one of Morton Joe's girls I want him pregnant. I had a baby brother. He was perfect in every way. as usual jamie bringing the goods nicely done yes nicely done we boil down all the garbage we say into just the best points even those fake beeps that didn't really happen that's right

unnecessary censorship yeah i love unnecessary censorship it's good stuff yeah well done jamie thank you for that and uh if you like jamie's work follow him on twitter tms mashups he puts other stuff up all the time as well so go check that out i think it's going to do it for the show I'd like to shout out three people who have been members of our patronage for a while now. And they deserve just some love here. Bridget Carey Davis, Demoned Rice. Would you say Demand or Demoned?

I don't know. Probably Demand. I would say Demand. Demand rice. Demand rice. More rice. I demand it. You brought me sashimi.

I wanted sushi. I demand rice. Yeah. I'm sure this person has never heard this before. He has probably never had to deal with it. Oh, you see, just canceled his subscription. All right. That's too bad.

Also, Albert Van Denberg. Van Denberg. It's just Vandenberg. Van der's spaces in there probably that don't need to be. Yeah, that's weird. Anyway. That's your name. There's spaces where they don't need to be.

I assume that's just, you know, Patreon doing that. I have no idea. But anyway, all three of you are awesome because you support us at patreon.com slash TMS. Be like them and do the same. just about to send new artwork out for the month. And if you want that stuff, you got to get in there. That's patreon.com slash TMS. For everything else, it's frogpants.com slash TMS.

Why don't we play a song now? This would be the time to play it. Is it now? Is it now? I've been waiting. Okay, if it's now, then I'm going to do it now. Martin Scott Key wrote in, and boy, if Martin Scott Key doesn't sound like a just one name off of a famous composer, then I don't know my music. He says, is it too early to get a fish sandwich?

Which, well, either way, would you mind playing my cover of Green Grass? The song was originally recorded by Gary Lewis and the Playboys and has been redone by me, Martin Scott Key. You can find it on Apple Music, Spotify, or any of the other popular streaming services. Came for the instance, State for TMS, got drunk and hooked up with film sack. Love the show, though. Thanks, your pal, Martin Scott Key. Nice.

Hey, too are I going to fish sandwich? There you go, dude. And way to write a request that has your name in it, I think it'll never. 11 times. I wasn't counting, but might be 11. Anyway, this is great. This is a terrific cover of Gary Lewis and the Playboy's Greengrass. It's got a fun vibe to it. Here is Martin Scott Key. Youngies at the windows Yes, it's springtime, golden sunshine And we're glad, my little love and I Now that summertime is done

Carefree, kissing couples Dream away all their troubles Yes, it's springtime Golden sunshine While the bluebirds in their magic song We will love the summer loan All the winter we've been waiting

Girl and I anticipate What we're gonna do With summer overdue Here we're all together So the weather man like better Do his best to make a shell And bring the sunshine out To grow the green grass

Round my window Young beads That the wind blows Yes it's green time Called in sunshine While the blue birds sing their magic song We will love the summer long

We will love the We will love the summer long We will love the summer long We will love the summer long This show is part of the Frog Pants Network Get more shows like this At FrogPants.com And I love morphine.

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