The Morning Stream - TMS 2259: Fight Big Snow

Episode Date: March 14, 2022

The Batmandella Effect. The Celtic Hat Dance. I don't like Kay Eff SEEEEEEEEE. We asked for chicken and they didn't have any chicken. Show Your Sticker. This could have been an email. He's a Moody Bastard. Batman's Colon is Not in the Film. Towering, then Teabagging. Winner, Winner! Give Them Back, You Sinner! Easier Than Showing Your Ball. I Don't See the Moon Kunis. Bad boys, Bad boys, What U gonna do when they plant drugs on you? Buried in Prosthetics. Slidey Luge Board. Major Spoilers and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, the Bat Mandela effect. The Celtic hat dance. I don't like KFC. We asked for chicken and they didn't have any chicken. Show your sticker. This could have been an email. He's a moody bastard. Batman's colon is not in the film.

Towering then teabagging. Winner, winner. Give them back, you sinner. Easier than showing your ball. I don't see the moon, Coonis. Bad boys, bad boys. What you gonna do? What you're going to do? when they plant drugs on you.

Buried in prosthetics. I don't know why that made me laugh. Sly Lounge board. Luge board. Oh shit. Let me do it again. Hold on. Sliety Luge board.

Major spoilers and more on this episode of the morning stream. Now, if we do have a cat who's trying to get away from us, we always squish that cat. Squish that cat. All you need to know about cat restraint is to squish that cat. Cut your baby. The morning stream, they wouldn't give us any more fish. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Monday, March 14th, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Hi, Brian.

Hi, Scott. Hello. How are you? You know, I'm all right. I don't feel like. the time change is working yet it's uh still i'm struggling with it it feels like you mean it's working because that's what the time change is supposed to do it's supposed to make you struggle yeah i don't feel like we're doing ourselves any favors why keeping this around yeah yeah i don't like it but a big big double bird to the time change uh not a fan don't love it yeah it's there is so much talk this time around at least in our on our local news about um getting it on the ballot it for keeping one or the other. I would say keep daylight saving time.

I like that better than the non-daylight saving time. So the one we're in now. The time we're in now would be the permanent one. Yeah, that's the one I want to. Because you want more daylight. You want more daylight in the evening is what you want. Right. Exactly.

Exactly. Yeah, if they're going to change it, you lock it in here. And now's your time. We're in it now. So now all you local and national lawmakers, now's your chance to actually do some good in the world and get rid of this stupid construct that means nothing to anyone. Right. Is there a lobby? Oh, there is. There are a couple lobbies that can fight it, right? The, um, for some reason, ski resorts are very anti-daylight saving time year-round.

And I don't know why, if it has to do with the way people come up to the mountains and ski on weekends or something during pre-daylight saving time. But wouldn't that give them more daylight to ski later? would think that the people would ski later. Yeah, exactly. I would if I skied. Yeah, Wendy's up skiing right now here locally. We saw him last night and everything, and they're up there skiing right now. And I'm trying to think, what is it about this phase that would be any different, if not better? That doesn't make sense. Yeah, here we go. Boy, you do a search for ski industry or ski resorts versus daylight saving time. And here's an article in 2011.

Here's an article in 2017. Here's why Utah ski resorts oppose a bill to end daylight saving time. What is the, what is the, do they give a... We'll get to the Utah one because that actually is from this year. Yeah. No, do I, seriously, do I have to subscribe? They're making you sub to whatever this is. Yes.

Oh, bite my chose. Seriously. Who is it? What's the paper? S.L. Trib. Oh, the Tribune. I thought they were, screw them. Yeah.

Yeah, there's not even like a, you know, New York Times at least says, well, this will be a free one, but if you want more, you've got to come back. Weird. Oh, you know what it is? It's for old stuff.

If you're on headline stuff, like brand new news, you can just get in. Oh, really? So if you want like an archival article, you got to, you have to pay up. That's what it is. Yeah, that's pretty.

lame anyway well let's see if this one darrick dot news i think reposted the same article let's see what it says here all right all right because it's the same headline why utusky resorts oppose a build and the daylight same all right i like this uh let's see here okay so far i can get in yep leah hoggstein from the salt lake tribune i'm reading her article reposted on derrick dot news great uh let's see uh that's the positive here we go we don't think it's in the best interest of our winter entertainment industry to make this change. Mike Mon said, he's the general manager of the Alta ski area, right up there next door to Snowbird.

Yeah, yeah. Alta's all right. If that has changed, now pushes our ability to do the avalanche control work back an hour, which actually pushes the ski day back an hour, which means our workers come in later and they work longer hours. What? So they do avalanche control. Yeah.

Pre-ski day, right? So they go up there before and like shake all the bad stuff. snow loose before everybody shows up there to ski. Yeah. So show up earlier. Yeah. Oh, that's a shit. Oh, is that why? Oh.

Yeah. Lame. Oh, P. Crum actually looks like you just posted the same thing. But that's all right. I just, you know, I did the... Just go up there and... Yeah. It's... Look, we all have to do shit an hour earlier. We're doing this show an hour earlier. I got up

an hour earlier. Right. Exactly. Yes. I have to train my dogs to get used to a new time to eat like it's all everyone has to and it and it uh it doesn't change right it just shifts an hour so it's like if the snow day still begins at nine a m or eight a m they still have to go up there at 630 and do their avalanche control it doesn't mean they have to go up there at 530 now yeah that's dumb i don't believe i don't buy that and if they are they are they a powerful wing of the lobbyist uh contingent like are they big snow big big snow is uh pushing against this, railing against this.

Lame. Lame. Sucks. I don't know, man. That annoys me. I'm annoyed. Now I'm fully annoyed. All right, let's move on. Hey, Brian, you saw Batman. How was the Batman? I saw the Batman. Let's be clear. I saw the Batman.

Let's call it the Batman because don't they want this to be like the definitive Batman now? This is the Batman. It's not just a Batman, like, because we've had a lot of Batman. No, this is the Batman. Yeah, yeah. This is a three-hour tour. Three-hour tour. Yeah.

Which makes sense because you've technically got three villains to deal with. You've got your penguin, played by Colin Farrell, buried under a crap ton of prosthetics. Yeah, he's unrecognizable. Like, I'm watching him, the whole movie, I'm watching him. Ah, you want to fight me, Batman? And he doesn't really do that. But I cannot tell it's freaking Colin Farrell. It's amazing.

Yeah, that makeup is really something. I can't tell it. Even when you stare at him and you know it's him, you can't, even the eyes aren't enough. It's really weird, really weird. And then you've got Paul Dano as the riddler. Yeah, he looks like one of those seaweed-wrapped rice cake things. God, what a great, he is amazing. He is amazing.

Freaking Paul Dano, and we knew this back in there will be blood, and Little Miss Sunshine, we knew Paul Dano was going to be this huge force to be reckoned with, and he is freaking, like the swings that he goes through, the actor goes through. Do you think he ever, did he ever drink his milkshake, do you think, before this? He drank some coffee. Oh, that's a shame. Drink some coffee. That's too bad.

That's not a spoiler to say that he drank coffee. And then you've got a third villain that I won't say, Um, you know, you could probably guess if you just look at the, the cast list, um, who the, the third villain is that, uh, the bat deals with, but, uh, this, you know, all right, let's, let's break it down here. Uh, Bruce Wayne is a very moody bastard. He's a moody bastard. Sure can be. And who better to play a moody bastard than another moody bastard, uh, Robert Pattinson. Uh, yeah, I can see that. Yeah, why not? Uh, so a perfect, perfect casting. Um, um, um, I love Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner Gordon. He's great. Yeah, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman. She's really good. So all in all, and I think I put this in our chat,

and it caused a bunch of discussion. I would say this is, without a doubt, the best Batman movie whose title does not contain the word Batman. So you think Batman rises, or sorry, Dark Night Rises is a better film than this? No, no. Okay. I'm going to clarify. So the first layer of my review is, this is the best Batman movie with the word Batman in the title.

Yeah. It also is better than Justice League and Dark Night Rises. Ah, got you. All right. So it's got caveats. You know what's interesting because I would say, okay, so real quick, just to tell people what happened here. I had a really bad Mandela a moment with Brian. He said this line and I went, well, wait, they all have Batman in the title.

There's never been a Batman movie without the word Batman in the title. Yeah, and I was convinced, you could have held a gun to my head and I would have still been convinced that the Dark Night and Dark Night, both were Batman, colon, the Dark Night, or Batman, colon, the Dark Night rises. That's not in the name. It's not there. Well, no. I had no idea. I actually saw that movie with you at a nerdtacular. and I remember right up there on the screen

just said the Dark Night. You're right. You're totally right, but it literally smacked me in the face. And I went, am I in a different timeline? I was sure they said Batman in him. I was sure. And I thought, oh, well, maybe he's confusing with the comic. And then I went back and looked at the Frank Miller comic.

And nope, that one's just called the Dark Night as well. And I would have thought that, you know what? There's another one. I would have thought that said Batman, the Dark Night. Oh, really? Yeah. interesting yeah that's how effed it up it is in my head but anyway uh so you but you would put this below at mandela is what you suffered from bat mandela there you go pat mandela that's gonna be uh come

title it up title it up bad mandela somebody yeah somebody bang that in there um so you but you'd put it uh you put it just behind dark night then man the only reason i would put it behind the dark night is because it is a jam-packed movie. A lot happens, but it still felt long. Like, there was a point at which I'm like, all right, when do we get into the, when do we get into the end of this? And there was still a lot of movie left. Whereas the Dark Night, I just feel is, from start to finish, well-paced, well-executed, well-everything, well-acted, everything. Yeah.

How do you feel about, I mean, Matt, Matt Reeves makes a very specific kind of tone and movie. I mean, everyone wants to talk about how dark this movie is. That bug you at all? Did it, was part of the problem? No? No, as far as the dark, like, the actual visual darkness? Yeah, and just like the, you know, it's gritty and detectivey and, you know.

No, that thing that Rady posted in our Discord feels like an exaggeration. There was no point where I'm looking at the screen saying, they really need to turn up the brightness like I did with that one episode of Game of Thrones Oh yeah, right. I remember that. So I'll put it up so the channel is what you're talking about

but yeah, there's this meme going around that It shows the everything from the original Adam West 1966 Batman all the way until the present and future and how Yeah, in 2025 it'll be a black screen. It's like 100% brightness, 90% brightness, 80%

brightness, 80% brightness. It's a pretty good little meme, but, all right, so obviously worth seeing. I don't mind if it's good. If it's a good long movie and it's good, you know, I don't mind. It's fine. Yeah, is there a theater near you that doesn't suck?

There's an AMC, but it's a ways away, and we may do that. We talked about it yesterday. I don't know. I just wish it was freaking available for me to, I would pay like 45 bucks to have it at home. it'd still be cheaper than what it cost me to go to the damn movie.

So, I don't know why they don't let you do that. She just let me do that. But anyway, whatever. It'll look great on your TV, for sure. Yeah, so we'll see how that goes. But, uh, so cool. You know, I would say Paul Poldano better than Aaron Eckhart on my list of Batman villain portraying, actors who've portrayed Batman villains, I would still probably put Heath Legend

at the top. His joker now is the bar for me. Joaquin Phoenix is up there too, probably like third. But it's a very different Joker, you know. If it weren't for the laughing, that could have been a completely non-DC character,

non-DC movie. Sure. It's just been a psycho that shoots you know, people on TV and stuff like that. But Brandon, I just said he's almost done. Oh, good. But, um, so I put Heath Ledger at the top, then Paul Dano, then Joaquin Phoenix and then Aaron Eckhart. Nice.

Nice. He's fine. He's fine. He's fine. Yeah. He had cool makeup, made him look like a two-face. It was all right. Yeah, he's fine. I mean, I was trying to think if I'd put DeVito above Colin Farrell.

Oh, really? I kind of liked DeVito's. Oh, it's great. There ain't nothing wrong with it. It's just so extreme. No, I'd put Tom Hardy's Bain forth. Oh, yeah, Tom, yeah, why not? Yeah.

You need to put it there, or else what are you up to? Retla is saying, what about Jack? Jack, he shouts. I say, I don't like Jack Nicholson's Joker. I think it sucks. It's just Jack Nicholson doing Jack Nicholson in makeup. Exactly. And I would even, I would say, a mustache dude,

Caesar Romero's Joker is the Jack Nicholson's Joker I am in agreement with Brian we are we hold fast on this opinion I don't think that Nicholson thing is great as everyone thinks it is I love Jack Nicholson

Yeah and it's a good Nicholson performance it's a good Nicholson performance but it's just him in makeup doing what he always does so it doesn't really I don't know it doesn't do anything for me Yeah and I would say the riddler from the Gotham TV series thanks for reminding me about the Gotham TV series.

That Riddler was great. I mean, he was manic, he was twisted, he was believable as this kind of nerd. I put him, you know, way under Paul Dano, but I put him above Jim Carrey. How was Lieutenant James Gordon portrayed by Jeffrey Wright? How was he? Is he good?

Oh, yeah. You mean commissioner? He's not commissioner in this movie. Oh, he's not commissioner. Yeah, that's true. It's Batman Year 1. He's good. He's good.

He, for a lot of the picture, he carries a red-on aerolite with him and uses that to send up the bat signal. Did you already talk about him? When did you talk about him? Did you really? When I was talking about all the people in the film and how they did. Oh, I don't remember you saying an opinion about how he did. I heard you'd say his name. Oh, no, I just said he was great.

I thought Jeffrey Wright was a great, is a great foil, or not foil, a great colleague to Batman. My favorite current James Gordon portrayal is the one on Harley Quinn. Oh, I need to see that. He's insane. He's insane on that. He's insane to watch that. It's really good. He made me laugh harder than almost everybody on that thing.

You know, aside from Invincible, I mean, I like, I like animation. Don't get me wrong. Sure. But if I'm given, like if I've got a bunch of things in my list, I kind of tend to skip over the animation stuff and go to something else. And I don't know why that is. I don't know what issue I have with animation. Because even Love Death and Robots, it took me a long time to watch all those episodes

from the first season. Second season was like six episodes. I was done it half an hour. But I still have Star Wars visions to finish up watching. Every time I watch it, I like it. But I don't know why I don't gravitate to. animation like that so i guess i need to do that harley quinn thing and just get over it oh it's really good um it's fantastic i think i'll bet you'll stick with that because it it does have like a

really good pace to the episodes and they're short so you don't have to like invest a ton yeah um i'll bet you like it she give that a shot um real quick i'm mad at kFC and so i'd like to i'd like to i'd like to lodge a formal complaint yeah i'd like to do that and i hope the colonel's listening, Harlan Sanders. He's not a colonel yet. He's currently a major. Oh, he's currently. Next year, next year it would be a colonel. He or they, they upped us up yesterday. So we had this,

we were doing this big remembrance party thing for my, for my dad. Who's now 22 years since he passed. And we were going to have everybody get together. And we did. Everybody got together at my sister Misha's house. Wendy's in town. They drove here from Minnesota and they're here all

week, including the next weekend. but they're here most of the week skiing and doing some other stuff and she'll be actually in studio on Thursday so that'll be fun I was going to say is she going to do it like she's going to be right next to her right on the other side of the monitor for yeah she'll be right over there for uh for the whole well not the whole episode she'll be here for her segment but yeah but anyway um so we're all there and we prepared a few things Taylor made a nice slideshow some bunch of old photos my dad when he was like a kid and teenager and when he fixed his first car up and you know when the kids

when we were young and all that and um it was great so we had That part of this is what we wanted to, everybody was going to tell stories about their memories of dad and different stories that they had. And so I did the peanut butter on my sister's leg story where he kicked me in the butt so hard as foot went on my butt. All that kind of stuff. That got a bunch of laughs. Anyway, so there's that. And then the food was to be KFC. And the reason was every time we had any kind of big family gathering growing up, it was kind of iconic for us because the bucket of chicken was just always there.

We just always had KFC for family get-togethers, which seems kind of banal and lame. But for us, it was like the food at big family gatherings. It's what we had. So we're like, you know what? We're going to do that. So Kim orders ahead of time. Kim's in charge, of course, because everyone makes Kim do everything. She orders it early for everybody.

They're all going to pay her back. Their portion of it or whatever. Sure. It's like $135 worth of chicken and biscuits. And I don't know. She was going to make her own gravy. so she wasn't worried about gravy. Anyway, so she does this order. She has it all on time and when it's supposed to go in so that by the time she gets there, it's perfectly ready. It's a lot of chicken. We want to make sure we give them plenty of time or if they have a problem, they let us know, whatever. So we do that. And we leave on time. Everything's going great. We're supposed to be there by 430. So at 3.45, we leave early. We're going to go straight to that KFC and grab our food. We pull up. The KFC is looks to be sign says open

I can see in the window there are tables that have like cups and food and wrappers and stuff all over different tables like a lot of them and the lights are all on and nobody's there oh my God really so it's just a vacated there's a vacated KFC

there was nobody there and the thing is remember this happened with Taco Bell when I was trying to get my free taco and there was nobody at Taco Bell that's a problem too over here like there's uh yeah they close at weird times they're like oh out of ground beef sorry sorry we're out of here take the day off or a part of it maybe you know somebody cut their hand and left early i don't i don't know i don't know maybe there were only two people there and and someone had to

get rushed to a hospital i really don't know or they all quit because they're sick of something who knows but there's just there's no way to get your chicken it's just and there's no other kFCs within you know there's another the closest other kfc was like four or five miles away which is fine but then they don't know about this order so they'd have to like cram this all together and we tried to find a Popeyes and do it equivalent so instead we did uh what my dad would have done so this is kind of great because this is totally what my dad would have done he would have seen oh my chicken plans are falling through and he would have gone to a grocery store and found all the equivalent chicken he could find so that's what we did we went to a we went to a smiths

and these nice little Asian ladies behind the food counter there the the del counter the smiths. They had these two trays full of fried and grilled chicken. And we just said, we will take all of the chicken. And they're like, give me all that. No, son. I don't think you understood me. I said, bring me all the fried chicken you have. Basically, yeah. And the lady there was like, wait a minute, you want all the chicken? We're like, yeah, all of the chicken. How many pieces? No, no, no, not pieces. All the, however many pieces. All live chickens. Bring them to me now. Bring me every chicken you have in this building. So we did that and got over there on right on time, had the chicken. Nobody was the wiser. It still looked like it was better chicken, actually,

and cheaper, by the way. So, yeah, so all the less greasy. Yeah, it all worked out. But dude, KFC with the frick, dude. You shut down. You just take off. What are you supposed to do when you got a big party like that lined up? So, and Smith's, hats off to Smiths for saving our butts. And I'm apologized to all the people that came in later looking for chicken and there was none because we took all the chicken. At least it wasn't like Super Bowl weekend or anything like that. It's not even final, the March Madness hasn't officially started yet. All the brackets are available, but at least you didn't take all the fried chicken before, you know, everyone's having their final four parties and sweet 16th. Exactly.

We almost, we were thinking we may have to cut into their hot wings because we were like, well, is this enough chicken? It counts as chicken. Do you don't have Boston markets anymore near you? We used to. Yeah, we used to have Boston market, but we don't anymore. But those, don't they give you, those are like whole chickens or something they give you or whatever? Yeah, well, you get pieces. You can get pieces like a quarter chicken or something like that.

I used to like those guys a lot. Oh, I did too. We have one about 20 minutes away from me. And maybe it's a good thing that it's that far because they'll probably go. But sadly, a block away from it is a canes is the closest raising canes. So give you the choice. Yeah, you're going to go to canes because I got that sauce. Yeah.

Yeah, Randy claims he's duplicated that sauce. I don't know if I believe him. I'd have to try it. Yeah, yeah. Because that's some super secret sign a deal with the devil. I don't know how you do that. Next, he's thinking he's probably going to be recreating the Freddy's halapeno fry sauce. And I don't think you can do it.

You can't do it. No one. He can't. We can't. No one can't. Only grandpa's Freddy. I've gone into a lab. I've created the cane sauce.

I've moved Catwoman. Sam Jane, usually in the chat room, she'd be able to chime in and say, oh, no, he, he got it. He nailed it. Yeah. Well, speaking of Batman. I've moved Catwoman. Great. That's fantastic. At one point in the film, Batman moves Catwoman. So there you go. Really? Like picks her up and moves her? She weighs all of like, uh, she, she weighs about as much as a wet washcloth, uh, Zoe Kravitz. Yeah. So he just picks her up and puts her over there. She's diminutive. She's sort of smallish. But, uh, hey, she was one of the Morton Joe's best wives. And that's what I mean. She's the best cravits, if you ask me. Oh, she's 100% the best

Cravitz. I mean, you know, Lenny Cravitz, he's fine. He doesn't seem to age. He seems to be doing all right. But Zoe Cravitz, she did some cool stuff in Mad Max. Don't forget. She was awesome. All right. Let's move on to this. Oh, hey, good news, everybody. Good news. We have tickets and swag for TMS Vegas. And if you're getting swag only, it's also up there. They're the first two listings if you go to frogpants.com slash store. We kept them priced exactly as they were back in 2019 the last time we did they're 2018 no 2019 2019 2019 yeah we did we did early 2019 right we did early 2019 yes we had something planned for 2020 and uh had to pull the rug out yeah we were right up next to it too we were getting close and then yoink um anyway they're up there now

you can read all about them if you can't come and you're still like man i want to have those commemorative items you can still get those sent directly to you or if you get it with tickets uh that means you're coming to Vegas. And if you are coming to Vegas, that's the one you do need to get. That's up there as well. So, go get it. One of the events might be a, you know, hopefully, hopefully this pans out. But we're hoping that one of them will be a live TMS with a concert afterwards, which will allow people at the door to pay outside of TMS fans. So get your swag and you'll probably have to show your sticker at the door to get free entry. yeah that's a perfect place to stick your sticker uh yeah but you wouldn't even have to unstate don't have to peel it off the label but you know just like show it yeah just show it whatever you want to do easier than showing your ball yeah you don't have to show us your ball that would be a weird requirement but uh but yeah it's all up there now frogpans dot com slash store uh hop in get it be there

there do it have it and uh if you wanted to get it separately we're certainly sending those out as well so there you have it all right done away he's good yeah see out he's good he's in he's ready he's he's uh he's even in our in the the the field he's in the deal he's in the deal all right if he's in the deal we're adding him to this other deal what kind of a deal it's a internet kind of deal and uh we're going to play music we're going to have fun this will be great here we go hey look it is their old pal brian done away just fresh out of a meeting probably feeling energized and focused from his meeting how you doing there man like hello Brian right oh hi's gotten Brian well I just heard I heard it was like if it was like like like and I thought I was going to say something oh I think he didn't say anything well we just we heard you rustling around and we thought maybe you were about to say something so you know it was one of those moments uh it's how did it go everything fine meeting was fine it was a it was a Monday meeting how do you think it went I don't know did they uh they here it's been an email you're right yeah

That's what I was going to say. When I was saying the like, like, and then I heard you moving, so I stopped. I thought, I was going to say something like, you know, it was a super productive meeting. There was to the point, everything moved quickly. Nobody interjected anything about Mondays, am I right? What about this daylight savings time? I don't know, Garfield. Shut up.

Yeah, no kidding. That cat doesn't like Mondays. That's his deal. Well, he does like lasagna. It is nice having you here, though. We're going to play a game, you and I, and we're going to do it under the tutorship of Brian who will now explain the rules and who might win what, Brian? I am one of the tutors. That's right. That's right. Welcome to the morning. Half-ass is a

trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you guys the answers. I can't make it any easier for you. I'm going to be giving you a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct and three that are incorrect. Depending on how confident you guys feel with the category, you can give me one, two, or three guesses. But if you get any of them wrong, you get zero points for that round. If you guess one, get it right. You get a point. If you guess two, you get them both right. You get a bonus point, so you get three points total. And if you guess all three correct answers, you get

five points. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant, and I've pulled contestants from members of the Tadpool who are absent without a permission slip. Oh, no. Send them to the counselor's office. Exactly

what I'm going to do. Scott, you're going to be playing for our friend Jamie, TMS mashups in Vancouver, Canada. Sweet. That's right. Boy, if you lose, I don't know what's going to happen to your stuff in the mashups. Like if he's going to start pulling some horrible clips of you. Great. He already pulls the worst clips of us that he can find.

Yeah, he's already done. He's already there. He's there now. Exactly. Brian, you're going to be playing for Stephen Tussing in Bennett, Colorado. So close to me anyway. So here we go. If you guys are ready, are you guys ready?

Yeah, I've never been. Hands on wrong answers. Yeah. Hands on wrong answers. Your first category is moons of Jupiter. Which of these are moons of Jupiter? We've got Calique, Thelksino, Altney, Cain, Yupori, and Abra Sachsax. Oh, my gosh.

Abra Sachs, Cadabra. Yeah, that's how you make your balls disappear on stage, Abra Sachs. Abra Sachs. So I thought I would be cheating because I'm currently watching Kim binge. And so I'm sort of catching it all again, but she's, she's binging the expanse. And I thought, oh, I'll know this, but they don't really get into Jupiter's moons. They do not. They don't.

No. I was really hoping for, you know, I.O. For stuff like I.O. and Europa. Yeah, that's what I was hoping for. Yeah. But I don't, I don't. So three of these are correct, right? Three of these are correct.

Three of these moons are totally correct now. Oh, my gosh. Um, okay, well I don't... There's my guesses. Wait, you're already locked in? Damn. Um, yeah, that's just guess.

It's easy when you don't know any of them. Uh, it's like voting. Okay. Uh, I'm just gonna choose. I don't know. I'm taking two. I'll just do, too. I think I know one of them, but the other, I probably should have clicked one.

But I took a chance. All right. Okay. All right. Both of you have locked in. Scott, you've lucked in with Aitney, or Aitney, and Cain. Brian, you've lucked in with Kane and AbreSax. The correct answers are, Phelkso, Lee, and Yipori.

The other three are characters from the movie we watched for Filmsack, Jupiter ascending. What? Really? I remember that. I don't remember that at all. I have so few memories of that movie. That movie was not a great movie. There's no Coonis on here.

I don't see the moon Coonis. Well, she's an actress. Her character name, I don't know what a character name was. A moon called Coonis, is that what you're saying? A moon called Coonis. Yeah. So that's, let's see, so since I got one, oh, but I, but I, I effed myself. You gamble too much.

Yeah, did you not listen to my rambling exposition? No, I got, I forgot how that neutralizes itself. That was a great one, too, by the way. You should record that one. That was a great intro. did it's part of the show oh the way i explained the game today today yeah yeah we did record it yeah it's out there forever uh all right all right we got question number two let's see if you let's see how well you are we'll move away from astronomy moves of mars oh good yeah well we'll move over to

politics uh u.s secret service code names so you know how our our presidents and vice presidents Once we did, exactly, have code names. Which of these are correct? Your choices are. Jacqueline Kennedy, Lace, Dwight Eisenhower, Highway. I know Jackie Kennedy was not a president or vice president. People, save your emails. Dwight Eisenhower Highway, Richard Nixon, searchlight, Joe Biden, Dynamo,

Gerald Ford, Pathfinder, and Barack Obama, renegade. God, these all feel like bait. Everyone feels like bait Yeah Well I know which one I'm going to choose whether I'm right or wrong Because I think it's funny if it is his name So I already know one But the rest of these cheese I don't know

I don't know any of them So I'm just going with one hoping I don't screw myself over Maybe I'll get some points Yeah Okay I'll just do two By the way do either of you remember Trump's Secret Service code name No what was it?

I don't remember any of them It was a mogul Which is a lifeless lump on the side of a mountain that skiers right over. Oh, a mogul. Oh, like we're doing moguls today. Yeah. Well, that, I wish I said that before because now I'm going, oh, they do seem to pick them.

I thought it was like hurricanes. You know, it's kind of kind of go down a list, but I guess not, huh? No, I think they do them based on probably something about them, right? Some kind of thing. I think so. I don't know. That's a really good question. I don't know who picks the codename if it's the person being codenamed or if it's the secret

service. That seems risky. yeah yeah to pick something yeah all right if you guys are ready uh let's see you've both locked in brian you've locked in with just gerald ford as pathfinder like as like it's his superhero name right right right and uh scott you've also locked in with that one and added richard nixon's searchlight i will tell you that richard nixon's searchlight is correct oh look at you but pathfinder is not damn it he was past key okay i thought you know why i thought you know why i thought Pathfinder. I thought it's Pathfinder because he

was known for like stumbling all over the place and they may have been trying to be funny with that or something. That's funny. Yeah. Plus who makes the Pathfinder? Nissan. Does Nissan make the Nissan? Yeah. Oh yeah. I didn't think of that. That's funny. Lice. The Nissan. White Eisenhower

was a scorecard by the way, not highway. And Joe Biden is was and is Celtic. Celtic. Celtic. Celtic. Secret service name Celtic. Why do they call him Celtic? What's the deal with that? I don't know. I don't know. Celtic has left the office or something like that. Celtic is in the air. Irish blood or something

there? I guess. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know why the Secret Service code names are revealed. Number one, I don't know why they're revealed ever, but I don't even know why they're revealed for the currently sitting president. That's weird. Yeah, exactly. Why do we know this? Popz and McLean asks a very fine question. he says why did you do that why the mexican hat dance song for celtic i don't know that's what came to my head i really don't know it's i lost an hour okay i lost an hour we all did yeah mourn that hour you guys all right wow so it really comes down to question number three here uh huh all right somebody needs points on the board i hope it's more you know politics yeah because you love that you're a fan

Let's go into sports, shall we? Sure. Here are six Olympic sports, three of which are real, three of which are fake. Your choices are towering, rugby sevens, powerbocking, or cravmigla, figure skating, and skeleton. Oh, my gosh. I already don't watch the Olympics. I know, right? These winter, they're a mix, right?

Probably a mix of summer. They're a mix of winter and summer. Okay. Oh, my. I don't know, are they? I wonder if that's a clue. Um, I'm going all out.

I'm going in. All out, all in. I mean, one of them's obvious. Uh. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, I'm locked in. All right. Scott's locked in. Brian's locked in.

Uh, Brian, you've locked in with figure skating. I'm happy to tell you both that that is correct. Yeah. We're all familiar with thanks to, I don't know, Tanya Harding, we all pretty much are familiar with figure skating being an Olympic sport. Scott, you've also locked in with skeleton and rugby sevens. Oh.

Do you know what rugby sevens is? No idea. I just know what rugby is, and that's enough for me. So I don't know. Yeah, well, I will tell you that. You are absolutely correct, Scott. Rugby sevens and skeleton, which is luge where you're facing the wrong way is skeleton. Yeah.

Never heard of it. It's, yeah, it's one man on a, on a slighty luge board, or one person, because they have women's and men still. Oh, yeah, I did know about that. But going down head first as opposed to feet first. Yeah. The only reason I chose rugby sevens, um, a skeleton I knew, figure skating I knew. Rugby sevens, I just chose because it had rugby in it. even though I felt tempted to go,

well, what if it's one of these weird-ass ones, and this is a trick? So that one sounds normal. The other ones are actually the ones to choose. But Crav Maga, power blocking and towering? What the hell even is any of that? Crave-Magga. Craf Maga is a martial art.

Yeah. Okay. Power-blocking is jumping on stilts. So, like, you've got these little spring stilts that you wear on your feet to do acrobatics. Oh. And you can, like, bounce around. And, but it's not a...

It's not a sport. They have competition. but not an Olympic competition. That's a shame. It is a shame. What's towering? And towering is with the infernal.

When you win, when you stand over them and you go, ha, ha, I'm towering. Let's see. I am looking.

I don't see. Let's get up a towering sport. It's me at a movie theater. And the guy behind me being pissed. Could be, oh, it's okay,

so it's also known as tower running it's where you run up tall man-made structures oh that's cool so you're doing like how high up there can you get can you get over it kind of thing I guess so yeah like stair renting and that sort of thing I guess it's it's a track and field when you don't have a lot of space okay that's cool it reminds me of when you're doing like you know like you see an army movie and they're doing you know training camp or whatever and they all have to try to get up that wall and John Candy He can't get his ass over there. Exactly.

It's stripes. That's cool. I like that. All right. All right. Well, very good. Scott, you won, which means, who, that TMS mashups also won. Jamie, you're going to be getting a copy of the Henry Stickman Collection and Farmer's Dynasty.

But, Brian, you came in second. Stephen Tussing is going to be getting retro wave. Nice. Those are all good. Every one of those is good games. Yeah. Farmer's Dynasty, I have. Farmer's Dynasty is a weird one.

It's good, but weird. It's a weird. You might think, oh, I'm just going to do farming. I would think that it would be like a farmville kind of game. No, it's not. No, it's like first person. I mean, you still farm, but it's different. I don't know how to explain it.

You're just like this weird redneck. You'd hate it, Brian, because it's kind of hillbilly stuff going on. But you go. Do I have to make farmers jokes while I'm harvesting? Yes. You got to make yuckster farmer jokes, the whole game, or else you're screwed. Anyway, you both won. really so today you both get this winner winner chicken dinner but really i won the most okay i won the

most uh done away well done hey tomorrow uh you and i are sitting down for another play retro and uh we're pretty excited about this one because we're going to be looking at the top to bottom uh of what the world is with metroid metro metro metro metro metro two d we're not doing the prime we're just doing the two d stuff probably won't even do i mean we'll we'll talk some about dread and you know because Dread is basically a 3D game told in the 2D way, and I think it deserves some credit for that. But we're really focused on GBA, S-N-E-S, N-S, kind of that era. And Metroid has an amazing history, a really interesting history, and so much influence. And some weird manga.

Oh, some crazy manga. But also just such an influence on the industry. People call games Metroidvania's for a reason, and between that and Castlevania, will get its own episode. They are, they're important games. Wow, you have so much stuff that Metroidvania won't even, won't even make an appearance until another episode. Yeah, you can't get, you can't get Castlevania in until you get your Metroid in.

So we're starting. Oh, sure. We're starting with the Big M, and then we'll move to the big C at some point. Then we'll put them all together and mix them in a pot. There you go. But we love that game series. So we're going to talk about it tomorrow. That's Play Retro.

You can find it at FrogPants.com. slash play retro or wherever you get your podcast just search for play retro if you want to watch us live we do it at 330 mountain time currently on Tuesdays so that'll be tomorrow 330 Mountain which used to be 230 Mountain but because we believe in losing an hour that confuse you no because you know farmers they need their sunlight or whatever the hell is going on there exactly hey brian anything else you want to say before you leave us anything going yeah if you want to check me uh if you want to check me out it's uh twitch dot tv 4 slash brian done away. I'll be playing some

Metroid tonight. Probably more Fusion or Mission Zero, which is both on the Game Boy Advance. Yeah. So, we're going to be streaming some of that. It'll be great. Zero Zero's amazing. What's the other one? Fusion was the one

Fusion's the one I adore Fusion. I think Fusion's my favorite. And we're going to fight about that. We'll fight. Okay. We'll fight. Bye now. All right. He's gone. He's left. All right. Okay. He's No longer here. I can talk about them now.

Phew. Good goodness. Let's see. I think I will do one story. Okay. That's probably can make this intro really quick. Okay. Yeah, I'll just get rid of it.

Since we just did it. If you've got something, stick it in. No, no, go for it. All right, here we go. Enjoy the news, everyone. It's time for the news. Brought to you by. Bye.

Tiny.c. slash bike coverville, 22. go make a donation, help me raise money for MS while I slap chode butter on my taint. Okay, what's the news, Scott? Yep, more taint, more butter, more better. Craft macaroni and cheese ice cream is available nationwide. It's now happened. We talked about this in test markets before.

Things don't belong together, macaroni and cheese and ice cream. That's crazy. I agree. It's still true that those things don't belong together. But they've done a number of exotic. flavors, which we'll talk about as well. Macaroni and cheese ice cream. What about pizza-flavored ice cream? Hmm? Was it something you would try? Well, let me ask you, Brian, would you try it? Yes, I would totally try it. I will tell you in the second, as soon as I pull up

the menu, a ice cream place that we went to in California, that had some very unusual flavors and they were all really, really good. They were good. All the ones I tried were really good. I didn't try every flavor, obviously. So I suspect that these are probably good, but weird, you know, like just a little weird, but probably good. Van Luen ice cream known for making delicious dairy and vegan ice cream has announced the launch of seven flavors to be sold exclusively at Walmart locations across 50 states nationwide. Craft macaroni and cheese ice cream is here to stay after an overwhelmingly popular response to the surprising flavor. That was back, I think we talked about it last year on this show. They were test marketing that.

But anyway, they sold out in minutes when they put it up for sale up on their website. See, this exclusive launch includes new and fan favorite flavors, craft macaroni and cheese, planet, or sorry, yeah, planet Earth. Really? Well, we don't even know what that tastes like. It's like it tastes like dirt. I hope not. That sounds bad.

It'll probably be a, like a floral something. I don't know. Is it flat? Because, you know, the Earth is flat. Pizza. you got hot honey hot honey hot honey

royal wedding cake bourbon cherry jubilee and wild blueberry short cake those last few sound fine sound great so I went to a place

so in the downtown Disney area which is that little landing strip between Magic Kingdom and California Adventure they've got a place

called salt and straw and this would be dangerous if this place was near me do you guys have we have salt and straw right up the road and

is dangerous. They're so good. We don't have them here in Colorado and it's probably, at least I don't think we do. Maybe we do and it's probably good. I don't know if we do. But, you know, flavors, classics like sea salt with caramel ribbons, salted, malted chocolate chocolate, chip cookie dough, double fold vanilla, all that sounds great.

Then you start getting into Arbquina olive oil, cold brew coffee, cashew, praline, proline. Let's see, what was some, There was another one, honey lavender. And the one I had, which was pear and blue cheese.

And that was freaking awesome. It was so good. Because it was still sweet. It was like more pear than blue cheese. But every once in a while, you get that little ding-tang of blue cheese. And it's excellent. So I did a quick check on the site. They say they're not here anymore.

We had a salt and straw. What happened? Okay. Am I thinking of something else? Did I go somewhere? It wasn't Anaheim. Are you just thinking of Taylor? She's a little salty and, you know,

Lastin' Straw. No, I can't find it now. Was it when I was in Portland, maybe? Now I don't remember where I had it. It left a mark, though, to the point was like, ooh, I want some salt and straw all the time. Yeah, I don't even know where, so what states are they?

So you said they're in Oregon? Let's see, Portland, Los Angeles, Anaheim, San Diego, Bay Area, Seattle area, and Miami. Miami. But no Utah connections. No Utah locations. Where did I get this then? Where did I go that I had this? I don't know. All right. I'll ask Kim. She'll remember. San Diego, Bay Area. It might have been Portland or Anaheim or I just don't. Vegas doesn't have one. So there's nothing in Nevada. No. No. I wish that that would be a good place for it.

Like put one on Fremont Street. And so you have to, you have to walk a little bit to get to it. Yeah, it might have been. I just don't remember when I did it. Oh, yeah, could have been during a BlizzCon while we were in L.A. Could have been? Or in Anaheim. Might have been? I just don't remember. All right.

Well, whenever it was, it was amazing and I almost died. It was so good. We're going to take a break when we come back. We'll spend some time with our good pal, Stephen Schlecker. We've got some stuff to talk about there. Yeah. And more. So stick around.

Hey, Brian. Play a song. What do you got? I do. I've got something in Indian the Middle. For a band we've played before on Indian the Middle. But this one is a request. Tom wrote in and said,

For my wife. Malia on our seventh wedding anniversary, I found my smizmar, Futurama, from our sword and laser, fantasy sci-fi-themed wedding on Pye Day, to our comfortable love with Groot, our dog, Crypto, our dog, Dr. Mew, our cat, and Rory, our hedgehog. We've had lots of highs and lows throughout the years, and I wouldn't want to go through them with anyone else. So happy anniversary, Tom and Malia, on your seventh anniversary. Yeah, no kidding.

That's awesome. I love it. I love the, I love the, uh, the, the, the, the pie day fantasy sci-fi themed wedding. So I hope you had a wedding pie instead of a wedding cake. Uh, their song is dusty cartridges and lung boxes by Kirby Crackle. There is no reason for me to look for a cover of this. I know there isn't one, but, uh, this felt like a good Indian in the middle to play. Here is Kirby Crackle and their song, Dusty Cartridges and Lung Boxes.

Just the other day, I saw my reflection in your frames, and it reminded me that I should clean my action figure case. I love the smell of toys, like I love the smell of your hair. I think I like the smell of toys a bit better and dusty cartridges and long boxes that's how we spend our nights reading comics and robot fights I love to cheer you on as your level advances and as you glance my way

you giggle and drink your IPA I take a mental pickle in my mind When we met I wasn't cool But you're the one that did see through And that's the moment I knew I'd make ex-babies with you I showed you all my moves

And turned out I only had two You rated me plus five Endurance agility plus two Dusty cartridge and long boxes That's how we spend our nights Reading comics and robot fights I love to cheer you on

As your level advances And as you glance my way You giggle and drink your IPA I take a mental picture in my mind You see There's no better way to be When you're bag and board my comics, you're always careful with the crease. CGC says 9.3, but you're a 10 to me.

Like Bo Derek. Dusty cartridges and long boxes. That's how we spend our nights, reading comics, robot fights I love to cheer you on as your level advances and as you glance my way you giggle and drink your IPA I take a mental picture in my mind it's like algebra why you got to put numbers and letters together why can't you just go yourself I never thought we would see this day me neither sir Fuck off, Hairball.

This is the morning stream. And we're back. Hey, tell me that song again. I will totally do that. That was Kirby Crackle and the song, Dusty cartridges and lung boxes that is taken from their album, E, for everyone.

I like it. You got to blow on those cartridges when they're dusty. You do? Yeah, that's absolutely what you gotta do. Yeah. That's my understanding. All right. What are we doing here?

We've got to call, Steve. What are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing? Oh, there is. Sometimes, because Canary uses that yellow logo. Yes, it's so used to the blue one. You don't look for the blue Discord.

Yeah, so I feel like, wait, do I not have Discord open? How am I talking to Brian? Oh, right. It's this damn thing. It tries to be crazy. All right. Steven. Here we go.

major spoilers here we go okay he's pulling he's coming in i can hear him uh i think we missed him last week did we miss you last week stephen i mean we missed you but you know what i mean you weren't here i'm trying to remember i think we did not have yeah we were we were going to talk about batman and we didn't oh you were yeah you weren't feeling well that's what it was right right yeah there was something weird last that last week was weird there was a weather pattern i swear it affected everybody like everybody got headaches and migraines and weird things, and it sucked. But nonetheless, here's this.

Stephen Schlecker. Stephen Schlecker. It's a man so nice, we named him twice. Hey, it's Steven Schlecker, everybody, major spoilers.com's own. Hello, Stephen, welcome back. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian.

Yeah, it's good to have here. I enjoy Kirby Crackle an awful lot. They've got some really great songs. One of my favorite is their song, Ring Capacity, which is a Green Lantern song. Oh. If you haven't heard it, go listen to it. it's really good. Oh, that's great. It would have improved, it would have improved the Ryan

Reynolds Green Lantern movie by like 10,000 percent. Yeah. Well, what wouldn't have? Sure. Well, you know, in the right hands, that movie could be done right. Right? Green Lantern's cool. Oh, yeah, most definitely. That feels like that, if anything, the Green Lantern feels like a character that would be, would get a better treatment from the current MCU treatment. Do you know what I mean? Like, they've done so well with Cosmic Marvel. They could really do something with him. but you know DC's weird so I don't know if they will or won't

well they're are they still working on the Green Lantern Corps television show for HBO Max that is happening yeah that's true we do we do have that coming yeah and what's that

who's the Green Lantern guy that everyone kind of likes but he's sort of a dick what's his name Guy Gardner guy Gardner yeah he's in that whole haircut I think he's the main dude

in this series I think I can't remember I think he's in it but I if I were DC and HBO and Warner Brothers and Discovery Channel Networks, AT&T, or whatever they're calling themselves now. I would definitely go for John Stewart as my lead.

I would, too. John Stewart's the man. Hal Jordan's boring, but John Stewart's awesome. Not the comedian, everyone. All right, so, Stevens, good to have you here. There's still no Batman for you either, right? You and I are on the... No, my oldest went to go see it on Saturday. He really enjoyed it a lot.

But I was like, oh, I'll go with you. He's like, no, dad. I'm going with my friends. I'm like, well, I'm your friend. Yeah. not for a while you won't be that's how it works no no he's definitely in the age of well you guys just leave me alone yeah he doesn't want he doesn't need any friendships with his parents at the moment but he'll come back around uh nick saw it with his girlfriend and loved it he wouldn't shut up about it he's like dad

this is so good it's so good and i said how's it compared to all the other goes i don't even know they don't even they don't even in my memory now after seeing this was so good so he's very excited um yeah we'll see it eventually we'll get around to it yeah oh you know what the best thing is Tomorrow, Spider-Man arrives on digital. So I'll finally get to see Spider-Ber. Yeah, you get the Spider-Man, you got that going. Have you stayed spoiler-free on that? Pretty much.

I mean, I know the, you know, the gimmick. Yeah. But, no, I'm basically spoiler-free on that. Okay. That's good to be spoiler-free. I wonder if you know all the... We'll have to talk later and see if you knew all the spoilers because there's... No, probably not because I really, you know,

as much as my site's called major spoilers and I don't mind telling people all the spoilers, this is one that I almost pulled a cam where anytime there's a Spider-Man far from home thing I just cover my eyes and plug my ears throw a blanket on the TV that's what you do

real quick here this is the one that's the movie where we had a listener rage quit the show because we brought up that we were going to that we had seen it that Brian and I had seen it and that he stopped the podcast

and quit the show that day and sent me an angry email which is funny because we didn't, we didn't even give any spoilers that day. Like, we looked back and said, we didn't say anything. No, if anything, it was like, uh, not even accidental, me being stupid kind of spoilers. Like, we were really careful. And we didn't say anything else other than we liked it.

That was it. And this guy was like, that's it. I'm not doing this anymore. Yeah, but I didn't spoil anything. Doesn't matter. You were gonna. So it was weird. It was like, uh, it was like, uh, my own personal minority report.

I was committing crimes before I commit them. Anyway, uh, Stephen, so let's talk about a couple things. Speaking of the MCU, Martin Freeman, a.k.a. dude from Arthur Dent. I was thinking of him as Arthur Dent, because I loved his role in Kitchhiker's guy. I just don't like that movie adaptation. It's okay. I love those books like nothing else, man. Some of my favorite books on this planet, I've read through him multiple times.

I love him. I love him. I feel like movies are impossible to do rights. It's elevated by the cast, though, you know? I mean, because you've got, uh, what's his face is Zafod, uh, who we love in everything else, Moon and, uh, uh, uh, choke and, um, all the single words. Why am I blanking on his name? Uh, he's a rapper, ex-rapper. Oh, no, no, no, no, sorry, sorry. He's like the only actor you see in the movie, Sam Rockwell, there you go. Thank you, yes.

I'm thinking of the rapper. Yeah, no, uh, ford Prefect was, uh, rapper, rapper Joe. Common? Common? No, not common. It was uncommon. Moe's deaf. Most deaf. Most stuff.

Yeah. Who hasn't done much since, which kind of bums me out. But whatever. I like that guy. Yeah. I'm really surprised that when you said Martin Freeman, you didn't instantly go off on some Fargo rant. Oh, I know.

I know. It was all I could do to hold back. I promise. That's all I can. You already reset the counter. Yeah. And I love that. I mean, I love that show.

And he's great in it. But is he part of Secret Invasion? That's the big question. Is that happening? That's what Samuel L. Jackson is saying. Of course, Samuel L. Jackson playing Nick Fury in the, in the upcoming event. But yeah, he says that Martin,

Freeman will be back. Last time we saw him was in Black Panther, I want to say. I don't think he's, I don't think he was in game. Did we at least see him at the funeral at Iron Man's funeral? We might have. Oh, I don't remember. Be honest. Maybe his green screened head was there or something. Yeah. I don't know. As ever we see him in, is a winter soldier we saw him the first time? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Um, yeah, it's, uh, is, is Martin Freeman's character going to kind of become our on the ground Nick Fury, our Earth, Nick Fury while Nick Fury is out in space

with the scrolls? I would hope that that would be Colby Smolders since she took over Nick Fury's job in the last Spider-Man movie, not the most recent Spider-Man movie, but the European vacation one. Yeah, and she's back right after the, after end game.

She came. Yeah, she's back to be Maria Hill in She's reconstituted. She's been reformed back from all of her little pieces or Thanos pieces. Her Thanos bits? All right, sweet. So that's good.

I don't, you know, I like Martin Freeman. I thought his role in Black Panther was good. I actually provided some interesting characterization as well as comic relief. I don't think there's any reason why we shouldn't see him in there. So yeah, bring on. Let's do it. Yeah, I don't. I don't know why, maybe because agents of shield just blew so many chunks, but I'm kind of

surprised that they haven't brought back Agent Colson as a recurring character in the MCU. Listen, agents of shield had its moments. So we went to like blowing chunks We'll bring up the inhumans. But Agents of Shield had some good seasons and more often than not. I would say the first couple of seasons, the first couple of seasons were very good

until they ran into that whole, that whole, you got to go see the movie first. Oh, and then after that, yeah, and then after that, it just kind of fell apart.

I never saw a single episode. Should I feel bad for not seeing any of it? I mean, you haven't seen Loki. You haven't seen what if. I wouldn't feel bad. about that. No, I saw what if. I haven't seen Loki and I haven't seen, that's it. You haven't seen all of what if. Didn't I see? Oh, yeah, you're right. I guess I've only seen

like three of those. So, okay, well, all right. So I'll finish those. Locke's, I'm still going to see Loki, but I have zero motivation to see agents of field. Yeah, I don't think you need to. I mean, if you really, if you really wanted to, here's the problem with agents of Shield. It's your, it's your whole bunch of pretty people, all working together, the pretty people team. Great. Network television. it's best. Season two, I didn't like season one.

Season two I thought was great. And then once they got their footing with the whole future jump with the Cree, I thought it picked up. And Deke became a really likable character for that. But then it's like, all right, well, it's ending. There we go. Who's Deke? I would have loved to have seen the Mockingbird spin-off show.

Is Deke, who's Deke? Tell me who Deke is. Deke is just a new character they're created for the agents of Shield. He was a dude from the future who turned out to be related to one of the characters we find out. And so he became an agent when they jumped back from time. And is it short for Deakin? I always like that name Deacon. Oh, I don't know.

Might have been. Yeah. Big fan. All right. Well, there's that. So Martin Freeman, coming back maybe to do his thing. We'll see. Stephen, you still there?

Yes, yes. Okay, you got quiet there. No, I mean, after season, what is it, two or three of Agents of Shield, I just tuned out. It tuned out, okay. Yeah. I tuned out before I tuned in. Sean Levy to direct Deadpool 3. Is this correct?

How do we know this? How do we know? Well, so here's the thing. Sean Levy's The Adam Project came out this weekend, and so there's a lot of hype around that, Ryan Reynolds's in Adam Project, which, you know, for a time travel movie, it's very clever. If you like Flight of the Navigator, and this is a very family-friendly movie, I don't think you'll have any problem watching the Adam Project.

Adam Project has one of the best villain death scenes that you're going to find, even better than TimeCop, where they touch each other. Oh, hey, look, if you want Ron Silver to turn into a purple blob, I got a movie for you. That's all you do, yeah. So, Levy has also directed, in addition to the Adam Project, he directed Free Guy, all of these from Ryan Reynolds. And then Ryan Reynolds tweets out this last. week, the third film in My Sean Levy trilogy

will be a tad more stabby. And so looks like he's going to be directing the upcoming Deadpool 3 movie. Do we know how Disney is going to position this being a... Yeah, here's my take. Here's what I think. They're going to make it for theaters

and it's fine. They'll do it under one of their sub-studio names. Yeah, they may bring back one of their old Touchstone or something. Well, Touchstone was PG-13. It was Hollywood Pictures, I think, which was a harrated one. And they will make, and they will do that, and they'll make fun of that while they put it on screen. Like, it'll fourth wall, he'll rip on the...

Well, the mouse really isn't going to like this. Yeah. Yeah. All of that stuff is going to happen. And then when it's done, this goes to Hulu, which they own most of anyway, not Disney Plus. There's no way it's on Disney Plus. I can't see. What was Marvel's, uh, vertigo equivalent?

Was it epic? No. Oh, that was, uh, Marvel Knights. Knights. Yeah, Knights. Was there just, no, I mean, that was their grouping of, like, those characters, but was that... No, that was their R-rated, I think that was their imprint on that was part of it. That was their black label stuff.

It was actually an imprint. Okay, I mean, I knew that that included Blade and Werewolf by Night and Moon Knight and stuff like that. Oh, there was Max. Somebody in the chat. Max, okay, that's, I think that might be what I thought it was Knights. Oh, I guess it was Max. Okay. Yeah.

Marvel Knights was just like your Daredevil and, you know, it was just that, that... Sure. I thought it was just that group of characters. Um, actually. but uh max okay so could they i guess you can't really have disney max being their uh no probably not disney marvel max i don't even think i don't even think marvel's doing max anymore right they don't even have they aren't yeah but i'm just thinking if disney needed a a sub studio to put the r-rated stuff under then that's a bummer because some of my favorite recent dc stuff has been their black label

stuff which is basically vertigo the new vertigo yeah and um black they'll black Black Label, the Harley Quinn one, was really good. There's been a bunch of them. I really liked that little subsection and not just because, ooh, this is where they get to do the swears. It's not that. It's just, I don't know. When stuff's a little more catered to my adult brain,

I appreciate them more, and I wish Marvel would do that. They're not going to, though, because now the mouse owns it. What are you going to do? Yep, yep. That's what Hulu's for. That is what Hulu's for. They get their stuff done. They get it out there.

Yeah. All right. Well, that's cool. Sean Levy, so this, I never, I need to see, what is it, Free Guy? You need to see Free Guy. Free Guy is pretty fun. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. Is it weird that he, so far it seems like him and Reynolds are collaborating on mostly family-friendly films. And then suddenly Deadpool, that seems like a real turn, doesn't it, a little bit? Well, I mean, hopefully they keep it, you know, R-rated and don't try to dumb it down or family-friendly it.

But I wouldn't surprise me if they tried. Oh, that was so. And when I say they. Who was the director on the first two Deadpool movies? Let's look here. Let's see. Because it wasn't Sean Levy, right?

No, no, no. No. Deadpool 2016 director, Tim Miller. Tim Miller. Okay. So, yeah, not a. Not a. Is he do both of those?

One and two? Let's see. Ooh, he looks like a guy that could work you over with a gun. Hold on. Director, he did Deadpool. It was Leach or Leach, Leach. Oh, someone else did Depple 2. All right, so that's not unusual to have it dance around a little bit.

I still haven't seen Depple too. It's all right to bring in, yeah. So, you know, hey, look, Sean Levy can play to Ryan Reynolds' strengths, obviously. Oh, yeah. And I've got to say, again, going back to the Adam Project, the kid that they got in the Adam Project, when you first see him and you just look at his eyes and look at his eyebrows, the nose is not quite 100% a match for Ryan Reynolds. But you swear they're doing some crazy voodoo to that kid.

Really? Oh, interesting. It makes him look like a younger Ryan Reynolds. Interesting. All right, cool. Okay. And it's really specifically in the eyes and the, in the upper part of the face. I don't think he's got the chin.

But, yeah, they do a good job of casting a kid that could be a really young, Ryan Reynolds. Yeah, I could tell from the trailer, he looked like it might be all right, that kid. It looked like a fun movie. I'm going to have to. It was. I mean, but again, somebody else in the chat mentioned, oh, it's a great, sequel to 13 going on 30. Jennifer Gardner are also in this movie. Oh, well,

then that's just 17 again and freaky Friday and all that stuff. I mean, if you like Flight of the Navigator, this has all of those trappings. All right. Yeah, cool. Well, I knew if anyone would know, it'd be you. So, well done. All right. I mean, that's a time travel

movie, so yeah. Yeah, that's true. So there you go. That's the deal. Hey, have you checked out a comicsology this week to see if it's improved at all? Have you done any of that? I haven't been on there this week. I was on last week because we had to review Captain Carter for the Dooling Review podcast. But it looks, everything seems to be okay and getting better. I think the thing that people are still missing is the far in advance scheduling for comics as opposed to just a week at a time.

Because I think there are people that want to get back into, oh, I want to go ahead and pre-order something, you know, three months from now. Which should be a no-brainer because books do that all the time. Yeah, I don't understand it. It's like that's normal for just, like you say, it's normal for their books. Yeah. You know what? The way you used to be able to buy comics. Actually, you can get comics that way on Amazon now, like hardbound stuff, physical stuff.

They have that in there for that. I also notice, I don't know if it has anything to do with this, but one of the co-founders, the comicsology, resigned or was left Amazon last week. So I don't think he resigned, but I know he left. I wonder where he's going to go. Probably know. I don't know, but I don't know if it has anything to do with this Amazon. on move or not it could be nothing you know you never you never know uh all right well as as usual uh we like

to get the latest and greatest from stephen we appreciate uh whenever we have you on uh tell us what's going on in major spoilers i know i'm on there tomorrow night that i know that's right major spoilers podcast this week we have scott johnson and one of the things we've been doing you know comics come in all shapes and forms but comic books really got their start in newspaper strips and so one of the things we've been doing is going and looking at a bunch of different newspaper series over the last couple of years. This week we are looking at a fan request, Rip Kirby, somewhat detective, somewhat George Clooney, somewhat, I don't know what else to say. But I'm very interested to see what Scott's opinion is of Rip Kirby, ripped from the newspapers on this week's major spoilers

pod. I'm going to read all of it because I just, I need to know. And I'm excited. So that'll be Tuesday. And then, of course, tons of content all week coming out of you. You got all kinds of stuff going on. So go check it out. Major spoilers.com. Stephen, anything else you want to say? Stay hydrated. Yes. It's good advice. Always good advice. All right.

Real quick, we got an email to get us out of here on the, we were talking about cops, the TV show, and how most of it's bull crap. Oh, yeah, yeah. And it was, because of my conversation with the fan I went to dinner with that night. Right, that's right. He got home in one piece. He's all good now. Oh, good.

Yeah. It was a weird weather week here. So I was like, oh, man, you're seeing Utah like it's most gross. He's like, no, I love it here. It's like, I could retire here. I'm like, all right, you let me know. We'll go to dinner when you retire here. Anyway, here's what this person said about the Cops TV show.

Hey, Scott and Brian, I was listening to episode 2258, and I wanted to bring, or, yeah, bring a podcast to your attention regarding the show Cops. There's a fantastic podcast called Headlong, Running from Cops. It's six episodes, about 40 minutes each, and they all take a deep dive into that show and live PD and show how most of the people that agreed to have their faces shown on camera were coerced to do so by the cops, implying that they would let them off for the crime. Oh, that is shady.

Really shady. Super shady. In many of the cases, the cops basically stock people that are targeting, they are targeting to catch them doing something wrong or to get them on camera. There were even cases where it was obvious the cops had planted drugs and had found evidence, quote unquote, evidence, after multiple negative test results,

but edited it to appear that they found drugs on their first. search. Really messed up stuff. Just thought you guys might enjoy giving that a listen if you have the time. Have a wonderful day. Dave and Philly. Well, thanks, Dave and Philly. I will definitely check that out because it sounds fascinating to me. Bad show. Yeah. Seems like bad. What you're going to do? Yeah. Yeah, bad boys. I remember the whole time, like I've always said, cops used to be kind of cathartic for me because no matter how my life was going, somebody was having a worse one on camera. Right. It's always exactly. But because of that, somebody worse on cops. Yeah. And because of that, it just was, I don't know, it just threw me.

Wow. This even makes it. like, ugh, it's not even the fake reality that we normally get. Exactly. And those were, by the way, if you were expecting a mashup today, TMS mashups, Jamie is taking the Monday off. So he is not, no matchup today. I'm taking his games back. So let me email them right now.

Give me back my codes. Winner, winner. Give them back, you, center is how the clip goes. Hey, well done. Nicely played. It's not too bad. All right. Hey, we're out of here.

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It's over at patreon.com slash TMS. All three of those guys, though, I've heard from people in their, close to them, in their families and friends that all three of them tend to leave the refrigerator door open. Ben B., Michael Schering, and Sam Jordan. So please stop doing that. Yeah, please. If you could just keep yourselves.

And that is a very, Sam Jane, that is not you. That is a different Sam Jordan. Yes. Oh, yeah. Good point. Yeah. Happy birthday, Sam, James.

Yeah, she had a birthday. Happy birthday. She did. I hope it was fun. I hope Randy took good care of you. It looked like he made some nice food. I'm sure he cooked something for her. Yeah.

Did he move? Smother it with cane is his fake cane sauce. Oh, yeah, his fake perfectly honed cane sauce that apparently he has now. He's seriously. He should go to the counter at one of those places and go full a lane on soup Nazi equivalent and just go, I have your, I've got your favorite thing now. Yeah, holding up the recipes. Yeah. He should do it.

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Let's get out of here. Do you have a song to play now? I do. It's an all-Tom request episode of TMS that the T and TMS today must stand for Tom. Tom Robinson, who will, I believe, be there in Vegas. If not, I always see him when I go to California. I usually see him when I go to California. He wrote and said, Coverville and Frog Pants, it's birthday time. Once again, I've thought about what to request for a few months. And this year, I'm hitting the ripe old, the overripe old age of 55. My first thought was a cover of Sammy. Haygars, I can't drive 55, then I thought maybe just have Brian select something for me, since he knows my musical tastes. After hearing Hammond suggest every band should cover Eye in the Sky on Soundography, I thought I should maybe pick a version of that to troll him. Finally, I decided on a cover of an artist with my name. If you're old like me, you may remember a song from the 70s from a band called the Tom Robinson Band called 2468 Motorway.

If you have that, it would be great. Any of the other suggestions. work as well. And let's not forget my yearly suggestion for Scott to play a random film sack clip and have the two of us guess the movie. Okay, here we go. Um, I don't have it in front of me. There we go. Okay. Random film sack. Here, let's try this one. Guess what? I've started swearing. How about you? No, that's a commercial. Sorry. That's not it. Yeah, it's funny. Okay, about this one. You'll need dynamite. okay oh no it's a commercial shit okay why is i have these in the wrong place okay okay and now i found one here we go purple is important to me dad okay oh okay i think i've got it i think it's jingle all the way

oh yeah it's the sun and jingle all the way saying oh yeah yeah when they it's and then the kid is um jake lloyd from uh it's manikin skywalker yeah manik it's uh we've ruined this kid's life skywalker uh by making him in movies early. Yeah, poor kid. Anyway, there you go. That was fun. Holy go. I just got to the episode last night of gemstones, righteous gemstones, with Macaulay Culkin.

Yeah. He's back, baby. He's back. He's back again. All right. Anyway, 2468 Motorway. Yeah, this was a great song from the 70s, originally performed by the Tom Robinson band and happy birthday to a completely different but just as good.

Tom Robinson, listener of TMS. This one, I got a couple years ago, as part. of WFMU's Super Hits of the 70s cover albums These things are great Every year, for a while Every year they were putting them out They don't anymore, but for a while is every year.

This is a band called Tripwires And their cover of 24668 Motorway Sounds good to me. We'll see you guys tomorrow On a Tuesday edition of the show. Come all back here, you hear? Drive my truck midway to the motherway station Fair angels are coming up on the left-hand side

Headlight shining driving rain on the window frame Little young lady started I stitching a ride And it's a two, four, six, eight, ain't never too late. Me and my radio trucking on through the night. Three, five, seven, nine, or double-wire line. No way's sight coming up with the morning line. This kid's sitting pretty on the two-wheel stallion. This old ten tonne low, I got a beat on you.

Ain't no use setting up with a bad companion. Ain't nobody get the better of you know who. And it's a two, four, six, eight, it ain't never too late. Me and my radio trucking on through the night. Three, five, seven, nine on a double-wide line. Know the waste of coming up with a morning line. Well, there ain't no route you could choose to lose the two of us. Ain't nobody know when you're acting right or wrong.

No one knows if a roadway's leading nowhere. Gonna keep on driving home on the road I'm on. And it's a two-call, six, date ain't never too late. Me and my radio trucking on through the night. Three, five, seven, nine on double-white line. Roll the way sun's coming up with a mile ride. When it's a two, four, six, eight, ain't never too late. Me and my radio trucking out through the night.

Three, five, seven, nine, double wide line. Motorway song coming up with a motorline. Motherway son coming up with a mountain line. Let's say, well, motorway son coming up with a mountain line. This is a two, four, six, eight, and never too late. Me and my radio trucking out to the night. Three, five, seven, mile to the wide line. No waste of coming up.

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