The Morning Stream - TMS 2271: Beets Are Made Of Farts

Episode Date: April 4, 2022

It Wasn't The Bus, It Was Me. One Jones away from Darth Vader. The Tadpuds. Spider-Man ReParkered. Playing Jenga with Poo bags. Don't mess with the Hippo Cartels. The Secret of Dumbledoor's Fantastic Beastly Weiner. Y'ever Seen Paper, Shiny and Chrome? Come on, Bono, get your facts straight! We Called The Kirk Tiberius. I prefer robot goats. Throwing toast at Morbius. That's Just What You Gotta Pay for Bike Pants These Days. I Shoulda Stopped Doin Transformahs with 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.

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One Jones away from Darth Vader. The Tad Puds. Spider-Man. reparkered. Playing Django with poo bags. Don't mess with the hippo cartel. The secret of Dumbledore's fantastic beastly weaner. You ever seen paper, shiny and chrome?

Come on, Bono. Get your facts straight. We call the Kirk Tiberius. I prefer robot goats. Throwing toast at Morbius. That's just what you gotta pay for bike pants these days. I should have stopped doing Transformers with major spoilers and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.

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Mountain grown for richer flavor. This is the morning stream. Good morning and welcome back to TMS. It is Monday, April 4th, 2022. I'm Scott, and he's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hello, Scott. How are you?

I'm all right. It feels like we missed the whole beginning of the month, kind of, right? Well, we missed the first. I mean, we did a show on April 2nd. We were going to do one on April Fool's Day, and ha ha, fooled you all. We didn't do one. Oh, that's right. We got up and did it on Saturday morning, even though.

Neither of us had any other things to do. We couldn't let you, the poor listeners, suffer, especially our patrons, who expected their PM episode. So we got up and we did it. But anyway, yeah, just for some reason, it feels like a mile ago since we last did this. And I don't know why. Yeah. Kind of weird sensation. By the way, today's the day that Bono sings about, Claire Gack's favorite singer of all time, Bono,

sings about in the song Pride in the name of love. Oh. When Martin Luther King Jr. got shot. early morning, April 4th, shot rings out on the Memphis guy, which is not true. It wasn't in the morning that Martha King got shot. Wow, you'd think that Bono would get his freaking time zone straight. Yeah, like Wikipedia that Bono Vox. Yeah, what's going on, man.

Paul Houston. Yeah, and the Edgeman guy with the real, with the hat, got the hat on. Yeah, that song's great, though. Whenever time I hear that song, it's a must listen. always love that song yeah it is a good song i think it might be the best thing they ever made everything else is fine but that's a pretty good song claire really doesn't like them everything else is ever look claire does everyone there hate them are they just not she doesn't even really it's like a it's a bit it's a bit from claire is it a bit okay all right it's not i don't think she likes them but she doesn't

hate them as much as the the vitro that she's spewing out how does liverpool feel about the beetles for example, you know, do you think they're like, oh, sick of these guys, quit bringing up the Beatles. Do you think that happens in Liverpool? I'm sure. I'm sure there are quite a few people in Liverpool's like, oh, my God, we're known for so much more. Yeah. We're known for being Liverpoolians.

Yeah. It must be a little tiring to be, you know, to have that level of celebrity come out of your hometown and it must be just weird. Yeah. Maybe I need to do a, maybe I need to travel there and do a, you know, on the road bit and say, hi, how do you guys feel about the Beatles and just do a man on the street interviews. Yeah, do it.

See what they say. They go, you know, we're big fans of the Beatles here. What a lot of recognition to a little town. They all sound like Paul does now. They all love, they all love Caveman, huge fan of the film, That's right.

Favorite movie of all Liverpoolians. Or Puligans? Puligans. Pudlians. Is that really what they go to? It really is Liverpoolians, yes. That's amazing. Yeah, they're pud.

Right there in the middle of their, name Pud. Nobody wants Pud in their name. No. I didn't think they did. Really? Nobody wants that. All right.

So I don't know if I'm alone in this. I was looking forward to a Sunday of, I had no shows to do, which was nice. And I thought, you know what? Today's going to be like, let's get organized day. Because I feel like I never get five seconds to breathe and like organize anything. Or if I do, I'm like, I don't feel like doing this. I'm going to go play a video game or something. funny you say that that is what i did yesterday i like uh completely re like cleaned off this desk and got a whole bunch of stuff taken care well you got a lot further than i did because i came down here i posted film sack that was number one and then i went all right let's see what we're going to do here and i thought okay well i probably needs to get some water just so i'm just hydrated maybe i'll grab my headphones and listen to something while i'm doing it down here sure went upstairs got some water talk to kim for a minute uh her and carter were watching some

some British something. And I went, okay, cool. I'm going to go in the room in there and grab my headphones. So I went into the bedroom. I sat down and I'm looking around for my headphones. I'm like, oh, why am I so tired? I mean, this is after we had gone to lunch with the boy and it was great and it was lots of fun.

And, you know, I think we all were a little tired from that. We were in the sun a lot waiting for our table because we were outside waiting. Anyway, I think that contributed here because it's not normally something I do. But I sat on that bed and just went, oh, no, this is nice. This is nice right here. And then I kind of leaned over and kind of got on my side checking my phone. And I was like, oh, this is nice. I checked a Scrabble game with some tadpool.

Freaking Zoe beat me by three points, damn it. Anyway, and then I laid there a little longer and went, oh, no, this is really nice. And then before I know it, three and a half hours gone. Wow. I completely conked out, wasted the entire afternoon. I mean maybe I didn't waste it Maybe I needed it I don't know

But I didn't get anything done I was like I had all these plans dude I was gonna come down here I was gonna wreck the place with like organization It was gonna be amazing So instead I woke up groggy as hell Tired and was irritated with myself for this So I went down and I found out that

The Spider-Man remastered And the Miles Morales PS5 combo thing Was on sale for like 20 bucks off for the spring sale So I bought that and I played Spider-Man all night. Okay? That's what I did. Nice. Which one? Like the, the original or the new So you can do it, the Miles-A-Merales one? It comes in a bundle. Yeah. And they're both, the one is a remaster for PS5 for the old one. So you get like, you know, updated everything, graphics and, you know, that's all that. This one right here you're talking about, Scott. This one right here that's got.

You have the Deesk. Yeah. Yeah. Where you got the Miles-Omarallis, but then right here includes. Yeah, includes it. Look at that. Original Spider-Man. It's usually seven. D bucks, but I got it for 48, 47, something like that. And I went, well, that's too good of a deal to pass up. So I ended up playing that way longer than I'd planned. And I'm starting with the first one again, even though I played it on the PS4. I just, I don't know, I'm in the mood. So I played a bunch more of that, killed fit, or didn't kill Fisk.

Put Fisk in jail and got some other work done there as the Spider-Man. And I'd forgotten they changed the mocap actor in the, in that version of the game. Oh, really? Yeah. So the guy, the kid who plays Peter Parker in the first, in the PS4 version of the game, is not the same face or body as the person who plays Peter Parker in the remaster. And I don't know what happened there.

There was like maybe a contract thing expired or you couldn't use his likeness after a certain amount. I really don't know the story, why they changed it. So when they remastered it. yeah yeah they took that dude out and put in somebody else and now show just says i hate it i didn't remember enough about how he looked i knew it was different but it was fine because i'm like i don't i don't really remember so this is fine it's peter parker whatever but later i went back and just did comparison like a screenshot of and they're just completely different dudes wow so i don't know what happened um i didn't i didn't notice that either i never i never heard

the story i mean i'd heard it had happened but i'd never heard the story about why it happened or why he was taken out but anyway still really fun amazing game i'll when i beat that again i may not you know hundred or go crazy with all the side stuff but when i beat that i'll jump into miles morales i feel i felt like almost doing that at first but then i thought well if i'm buying this combo what i mean i i did that's what i did i did uh because i have the ps4 um the digital version of spider-man and then when uh this one i got this one on sale too i think i probably got it for 55 or 50 or something and and said well i'm going to play the new i never finished the original spider man but whatever i'm going to jump right into this miles of morales business and um yeah totally

totally dig a totally different power set to play with and yeah obviously because you know he's got some some camouflage business and uh yeah so i'm excited uh but if somebody knows the story about why peter parker changed that dude yeah is it is i think the voice is the same i could be wrong on that though i'm not because i didn't do a direct comparison but i don't know you know this would be a google search and i'd be done but i don't feel like doing it well not when we've got folks like avetech john captain kipper and uh yeah get in there johnny on the spots yeah that's the plural while you were doing your nap and when i was done kind of cleaning and organizing here i decided to uh go out and get on the bike outside now keep in mind um it's it's a little cooler right now

at least yesterday it was, it was in the mid-50s, which is, you know, nice, but not bike shorts, nice. Yeah. So I put on the most expensive pair of pants that I own, which are some Perlizumi bicycle pants, and I'm not kidding. I wish I could, I wish I could say that these were not the most expensive pants that I own, but they are, they are $150 bike pants. Oh, those are expensive bike pants. Which is how much, that's how much you pay for, for bike pants. pants. I didn't realize. That's crazy. I know. Um, and, uh, went out there and did some cold water, cold weather writer, cool weather writing. And, um, God, had a blast. It was good to get out

there and, and, and do that. Uh, I, I wonder, is it, do you feel like when you get out there in the cold, are you more motivated to, like, get going or less? Do you know what I'm saying? Like, it's, it's kind of uncomfortable at first. More motivated for sure. Like, you want to keep moving. So you want to basically keep ratcheting up the gears until your feet can you're you're basically can always be pedaling instead of pedal pedal pedal pedal pedal coast coast coast coast pedal pedal coast coast coast you want to find that sweet spot where it's like all right i am my feet are always moving i'm always pushing forward but it's not exertion like i'm not you know breaking my back to to keep moving yeah i like uh i like that and then and now yeah finally you got to get get your money's worth

out of those expensive pants. Exactly about time. Well, I did just get them over the weekend. But today's supposed to be six. I can tell you know, they are the most expensive pants I own, but I just got them. Yeah, I just picked them up. That's fine. Still counts.

But today's supposed to be a lot warmer, so I'm going to get out there in the shorts. Nice. Guess what? Neither pants nor shorts, flattering. Oh, yeah. Those things they don't make, those stuff you're talking about, they don't make them flattering. They don't make them flattering. I mean, unless, look, if you're some 22-year-old.

old beautiful lady. Maybe they're flattering on you. Sure. On old Moose Knuckle Johnson over here or Brian, we don't look good on those things. Exactly. They still are going to have that weird extra bit of padding in the butt, in the buttocks that just looks weird. But, yeah, it's, you know, even if you are a slim ladyfolk.

Sure. Still, still going to be some weird padding. Well, speaking of things where you want to do. nice weather things. Yeah. We, it was warm enough yesterday that we also, oh, this is before that, maybe this is why,

because we took like a hard dog walk and all this other stuff. That's why I was so tired. Anyway. Could be why. You were tired. Still three and a half hours. That seems insane to me.

Um, but anyway, we went to the, to the lake and I would like to register a complaint. Our HOA pays for garbage removal services at the lake, which is not far from us. It's all part of the same. big neighborhood over there. Sure.

And we love it over there. It's great ducks and geese. I haven't seen Mendoza for a couple years now, so I don't know what happened to him, but I think he got transplanted. Yeah. He's running his mob from another location. Yeah, they cleaned up a little bit and moved Wilson Fisk to another facility.

But anyway, we're out there, and we got the dog, the big old dog with us. And Carter's trying to train her better with like this face muzzle thing that's not like a muzzle. It's like a, it only kicks in if she starts jerking around. So if she pulls, then it turns her head sideways. It's that, yeah, yeah, that's good. She hates it, but it's working.

It totally works. Yeah, yeah, she's getting better. So especially around other dogs, which is the big concern. And she's not like a horrible around them. She just wants to play. And she's not mean or barky or anything. She just loses her mind when she sees another dog. She thinks it's playtime.

So we're trying to train her. Anyway, so we're out there doing that. And, of course, you know, she takes a giant. human size plus dump you know okay and we're like all right okay no problem

here's the bags got those brought those from home zip zap zoop do the thing where's the garbage can I look over there and the pet disposal thing is just billowing over

with poo bags it's just so many that the only way for me to use that thing is if I walked up and kind of just gently balanced it on the top of this huge heaping pile of nightmare

that's out there. Who, if we're paying to have, I mean, what is the HOA for? If you're not cleaning up the poo, whatever it is garbage, the garbage cans were all full,

the poo bag things were all full. So people are, of course, using the regular human trash cans to put poo bags in because the poo bag things were too big. And maybe the weather was too nice over the weekend. They underestimated the need for staff. I don't freaking none.

No, but what's the point of how? This is such a first world problem, but what's the point of having a bagling? And you're always getting after us going, make sure you pick up after your dog. Make sure you. Yeah, but okay, that implies you got the other stuff worked out for us. You know how to take the reservation. You don't know how to hold the reservation. I love that we could use this for so many things.

It's great. It's annoyed and a hell out of me, man. But anyway, it's all good now. Everything's fine now. I'm not even thinking about it now. That bag of poo still teetering over there, someone else's problem. Still dangling on the edge. Yeah, someone else will have to deal with it.

And when they do, it'll all be fine. All right. Dunaway's incoming, so you know what that means? He's in the game. Look at you guys. Yeah, look at us early. We got our Monday checklist, man. All right, so check this out.

Brian Dunaway is joining us. What a shock. Hey, it's Monday. Hey, Brian Dunaway. What's going on? Stocking. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hi.

It's nice to have you. How are you? Oh, it's nice to be here. It's always nice to be had. Yeah, we like having you. You're a very habitable kind of guy, and we love doing it. Have me now. Take me. Yeah, take me.

I'm yours. Hey, it's good to have you back. Let's play a game. Brian here has prepared one, and it looks like lots of fun. So will you explain it to us so we understand? I'll totally do just that. Hey, welcome to the morning half asses, a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you guys the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category.

and six possible answers. Three of those answers are right. Three of those answers are wrong. Depending on how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses, but if they get any wrong, they get zero points for that round. If they guess one, they get a point, if they get it right, gets two,

gets them three points, gets three, and they get five points. Play with the most points after three rounds, wins the prize for their contestant. We're pulling contestants from members of the Tadpool that aren't here with us today. No, not because they're dead, just because they can't listen live.

Oh, Scott. Oh, my gosh. I thought they had passed away. No, no, I wanted to clarify. Okay, good, good. Scott, you're going to be playing for Chris Weiss of Osage Beach, Missouri. Osage. Osage.

Osage. Oh, sage. Probably Osage. O'Sage. And Brian, you're going to be playing for Josh Foll of Archbold, Ohio. Oh, Archbold. Yeah. That's Ohio.

You know what that is. Round on the ends, high in the middle. Ohio. Ohio. Oh, Ohio. Yeah. Okay. Where every town feels like it's tiny.

I was so surprised how small Columbus felt. It felt like the airport. I could see the airport from the college. Your Columbus was small, huh? Just a little teeny, is what I'm saying. Yeah. All right, cool. That's good.

All right. All right. You guys ready? Let's go ahead and get to your first question. Look, we're dealing with two artists here. You guys know your art. How well do you know your art history or your famous paintings? Oh, geez.

Let's see how you guys. I took art history in school, but I don't remember anything. It's all history to me now. Well, famous paintings depicting exactly four figures. So four people in these paintings. Okay. Three from right, three from wrong. American Gothic, luncheon on the grass, the swing, nighthawks, the birth of Venus, and the potato eaters.

Oh, my Lord. Figures. Okay, figures. So. Humanoid. Humans. There we go. That's the where I was looking for. Yes. At least four or only four?

Only four. Exactly four figures. First are from Venus. Furnaces are from Mars. I'm going to just, this is a pure guess. I know some of these. I'm taking a swing. I know some of these are definitely not for people, but the ones that are, like, who know? dude. All right. I'm going to lock in

at two, I think. There. Okay. All right, Scott locked in it two. Brian locked in it two. Oddly enough, neither of you guys picked the same answers. Weird. Scott, you went with the swing and nighthawks. Brian, you went with luncheon on the grass and the birth of Venus, or as I like to call it,

Adobe Illustrator 2.3. The answers are uh, lynching on the grass, the birth of Venus, and nighthawks. sadly the swing, not one of the three. Damn it. I thought luncheon on the grass was the one with tons of people.

There's one person that pushes in one that rides. Yeah, no, I know that, but I thought luncheon on the grass was that one with like tons of people on it. No, you're thinking of the Saturday and the part the George Sorrette. Oh, that's it. Lenton on the grass is a picnic and they reuse that art for the album

cover of Bow Wow Wow's Oh, first album? Yippie Yo, Yippie Yipi Yank. No, the I want candy bow wow wow, wow. And it was such a controversy because the lead singer was underage at the time, and she had to sit there naked on the cover of that album. Oh, I didn't know that Hawks. I'm an idiot. Yeah, you know Nighthawks. It's the diner on the corner. Yeah. Oh, that's Nighthawks. I forgot what's named that's tech. I mean. A hopper? Yeah, it's the one that everybody always says,

here it is with Batman. Here it is. Yes. Here it is with James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. Oh, and blah, blah, blah. Poop. I kind of hate that, by the way. I know. It's meamy. It's classical art memeified. It's weird.

It really is. By the way, I'm so glad now that you chose American Gothic. You know your painter's wife and her dentist. Yeah. Technically, there are four nipples in that painting. Well, that's true. And only three tips on the pitchfork. Only three of those nipples are getting pierced.

All right. let's uh she looks so upset about it too captain kipper found the album cover oh cool like you said the band bow wow it has five uh five people so they actually had to work in a fifth person in the remake of the four person painting

hold on this girl's like 17 sitting there oh that's not good you guys don't be doing that of lead singer bow wow i can't remember a name annette something maybe um can't remember um jail bait old old big controversy when that thing uh

I came out. All right. All right. Let's move from art to science. Foods that are more than 90% water by weight. Oh, okay. So you got carrots, spinach, peas, radishes, potatoes, and tomatoes. Which of those are more than 90% water by weight?

You squeeze them out and you get more like 90% percent. of their mass is water. I'm a little disappointed you to put humans up here for the giants who squeeze us. I know we're more than that, right? We're not food. People aren't food. We're giants, we all. Yeah, giants.

All right. I think I'm going with two. I'm going with this one and this one and look forward to being told I'm wrong. Okay. Whatever Mr. three points. I think you're doing fine here today. Yeah.

Both of you locked in. All right. You both said tomatoes. Guess what? tomatoes is correct. Brian, you also said peas. Scott, you also locked in with spinach. Yeah.

The answers are spinach, radishes and tomato. Oh. I almost said radishes, too. I almost did radishes. Mm-hmm. We're tied. Look at that. Eye game going into question three.

Spinach seems so dry, though. No, no. If you look at it, it's like a thick leaf, so you mush that. It's actually 92% water by weight. Carrots are 87%. And peas and potatoes are both 79%. Oh, there's more water in a potato than I thought. I guess all, especially underground stuff, is going to be some portion of water because it's how about it?

It's actually 79% vodka. Ah, yeah. Yeah, unless you're in Idaho, then it's French fries down there. Aren't radishes made of farts? Isn't that the joke? Nuss beets. No, it's radishes. You're made of farts.

There we go. No, radishes are farty for sure. Yeah, they get me real bad. I like a good radish. now. Yeah, and a good fart. So you're in good hands. All right. Let's move from science to politics. Sweet. My favorite subject. Let's do it. I know. I know. Middle names of a U.S. president. So six of these are middle names of a U.S. president. Three of them are not. Millhouse, Bartholomew, George, Earl, Tiberius, and Gallimiel.

Earl. Earl. Is that what his wife called him? Earl, Earl. Come on, Earl. Earl. Tiberius? No way. Right. Come on.

Tiberius, come on. I think I'm choosing these three. I'm taking a big swing here. I want to see if I can get it here. All right. Both locked in. A little tiny swing. Yeah, of course Millhouse is, right?

It's Richard Millhouse Nixon. I thought it was spelled with an Ethiopian, but no, it really is M-I-L-H-O-U-S. You joked about Earl. Earl was Jimmy Carter's middle name. Oh, damn it. Yeah. And Gallimiel was Warren G.

Harding's middle name, meaning that, unfortunately, Bartholomew is not, meaning that Brian picks one, gets one point, and that's all he needs to win the game. Dude, I should have taken a small swing. Why didn't I, I should have swung the small. Of course, Tiberius is James Kurt. No, of course it is. We know that. Nobody with the middle name Bartholomew, George, or Tiberius.

Who is the Gallamele again? Was Warren G. Harding. Wern G. Harding. It sounds like a Lord of the Rings character, doesn't it? It does. Glamere. So the, I'm sorry, who did you say Earl was? Earl was Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy Carter. I've never heard anyone say Jimmy or James Earl Carter ever. Yeah, you know why? Because we called him. His name was really Jim Carter. but we would say it's middle initial. We'd call him Jimmy Carter. And that's how that all turned into Jimmy.

Is that true? That's crazy. It's completely weird. Jimmy wants to be president. All right. Whatever happened, his brother was making beer. What was that deal? Yeah.

Billy Carter. Yeah, is he still around, isn't he? Still doing it? Maybe not. Maybe he's dead. I don't know. Too much beer. I don't know.

I think the Carter's live long, baby. Yeah, they do. Jimmy Carter's, what, 95 or something? That's what peanut farmer will do to you. Still building houses? for habitats for humanity. I actually went to the Jimmy Carter Library in outside

of Atlanta. Oh, that's cool. And he's cool. Yeah, but they, is that your first presidential library? I think it was. Yeah, I don't think I'd been to any before that. This was during a work trip. We were at the Journal Constitution, and my traveling buddy was a guy named Cliff.

Really, really, like a funny guy named Cliff. Stand-up comedian as well. And he, but he, he, he, you know, has great reverence for the presidency, and so whenever he was in a city that had a presidential library, he'd go and see it. The only ones I've ever seen, I think I've only been to Reagan's in California in like Yorba Linda and, um, uh, are they similar? Are they like, you know, go in there and it's like, you know, I don't know, do they feel the same or similar

type of arrangements? Yeah. Yeah. They like have the reflecting pool and, you know, flags and cool memorabilia from their presidency and stuff like that. It's interesting. So no books. No books. You are going to have books in your presidential library. Your book library. So his name is James Earl Carter.

He is only one Jones away from being James at Old Jones. We could have had him as our Darth Vader voice. That's right. And he is 97, by the way, James Earl Carter. Jimmy Carter is 97. seven years old. Holy shit. Jimmy Carter. That was an old man.

All right. Jimmy. Well, there you go. Congratulations. Congratulations going out to Josh Vole of Archbold, Ohio. Archbold, you're going to be getting copies of way. I'm sorry, we were here too. And Tacoma.

I played both. Those are very good games. Cool. And Chris Weiss, you're not going away empty handed. You're going to go away because you were never here. You're going to get a copy of severed steel. Severed steel. Let me just quickly check.

Oh, yeah, this is a newish game came out last year. It's a first-person shooter. Very positive reviews. Looks like you got a winner, even though you're the loser. Yeah. Good. I'm glad to see most people getting good stuff. Yeah, good stuff.

Congratulations, you guys. Okay, hey, Brian Dunaway. We don't have Play Retro Hotel tomorrow where we dive deep into the King's Quest business. By the way, Kings Quest, I didn't know was like a text-based adventure before they added all the point and clicky. Oh, really? I have no idea. One through four were text parsers, so you had to do your verb noun. You could navigate with your keyboard.

Later on, a little support was added for mouses, so you could point and click to locations. But you had to say, move rock or stubtoe. Yeah, stubtoe, a famous move. Like sork. Right, but after four, it went on to five and beyond, and those were all point and clicks. I'm more of a text parser game and we're going to see if me and Scott have to have a, you know,

a discussion about which is better. I think that there is something magical about text-based adventures, no question. I think there's something about that that is really hard to replicate because your imagination is more powerful than any, you know, graphics or whatever. But, you know, we were headed that way

whether we liked it or not. We were going to go, that stuff was going to be graphical and it would evolve into what, even what we have today. So it'll be a fun. discussion. That's tomorrow, 3.30 Mountain Time live here at frogpans.com. While we got a Marvel fan here, I know how much Ibit loves the Marvel

stuff. Did you ever play the Quest Probe games? Yes. Tompeter 64? Yes, Hulk. Spider-Man. The Hulk was the only one I played because there were just the two that came out. Yeah. I think it was three, right? Didn't have Human Torch? Was there Captain America? Oh, Human Torch.

Yeah. How do you say that? Sounds familiar. I only ever did the Hulk one and no, I did not enjoy it. The chair of the beginning of Quest Probe, Hulk, how'd you get out of the chair? How'd you Hulk out? Like, as if I could remember, I remember playing and not liking it,

but I certainly don't remember anything else about it. You remember not liking it? Like you actively did not like it. Yeah, I'd actively didn't like it. And maybe it was because I didn't have a Commodore 64 and I had to play it at my friend Tommy's house. Oh, nice. Tommy, I sent Scott my attempts this morning.

on Discord. Oh, did you? Oh, yeah, look at that. I did. Yeah. I just, I'm now seeing that. You've got... Your attempts of Questbrobe?

Yeah, you've got to see this, Brian. We put this in your Discord as well, because this is great. So let's see if this rings any bells for Brian. And our Discord is now the Hulk trying to get out of his damn chair. It looks like Hulk skinny. I'm almost Daniel Craig in Casino Royale.

It's weird. He looks like the skinny Hulk. He doesn't like Banner at all. He looks weird. Yeah, the artist they got was like, I don't want to make him too big. Well, you're never going to tie it, the actual Hulk to a chair.

That's great. That's great. You're mad now. Nope. Hit toe. My secret is I'm always angry. Yeah. Oh, that's right.

Yeah, he's never not angry. That's his deal. That's it. Get angry. Yeah, there you go. All right. Fun stuff. We'll talk all about it tomorrow,

330 Mountain Time, course on the podcast after for Play Retro. Brian, anything else you want to mention that you're doing these days? That's it. Just streaming every night on Twitch at 6 p.m. Eastern. Come tune in. Come watch him. Yeah.

You need to do it. Brian. Brian, Captain Kipper says, try bite lip. Oh, that's a good one. Oh, that'll piss them off even more. Yeah. And then it says, you look sexy and then put you still in a chair. Lick lips, lusciously. Lusciously.

Kind of make me want to play this. You should totally play this. Even though Brian didn't like it. I trust Brian's Marvel opinion. I loved it. I loved it. Really? Yeah.

Oh, I do. I owned the Comber of 64. I was the guy who owned it. So what's going to do? You were the front. You were the Tommy of the relationship? I was the Tommy. Apparently, partly coded by Scott Adams.

Yeah. And the fourth one was going to be an X-Men game. Interesting. Oh, that's cool. And you can play these online, I'm guessing, like on the Arch. I believe, no, I played mine on, uh, retroarch. Yeah, Richard Arch. I'm going to have to mess with that today because I've got to get some research done.

before tomorrow. Anyway, Brian, have a great day. Kiss our butts. All right. He's off. All right. Hey, Brian. Look what time it is. There's time for news, so I'm going to go ahead and push this button. It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by.

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But that is a really cool project. I think that's awesome. Yeah. Really cool stuff. Thanks for letting us know about it. All right. Hey, you want a robot goat? How does that sound?

Who doesn't? Much more than a real goat, I think, is what I'd much rather have a robot goat than a real one. I feel like I'm the same. I would prefer all my goats be robotic. And the good news is Kawasaki's got our back. Japanese manufacturer unveiled Bex, a rideable robot goat. Oh, this is awesome. Oh, I want to see video of this thing.

I want to see it actually. Oh, there's definitely video. Yeah, robot goat mount to over 140,000 visitors to the 2022, sorry, the 2022. So I said that was weird how it came out of my mouth. International Robot Exposition or Exhibition. This is a place where a whole bunch of robots get shown, so it's not just them. Yeah, yeah. The world's largest robot trade show, which was held in Tokyo, March 9th through 12th.

The robot goat or robo-goat is a product of Kawasaki's humanoid program, which recently unveiled Kaleido, I guess is the name, a robot engineer with the joint effort of the University of Tokyo. So, Brian, you've seen this. I'm going to pull this up. All right. So this is great. So the video on this page, go about, as you watch as this thing is coming out, go about 20 seconds in. Okay.

And you'll see a Kawasaki employee grab something to protect. his crotch from the robot goat. Oh, that's fantastic. Because you need to, right? My first thought with the robot goat. I don't know why, you know, why did we have to give him horns? Yeah, that seems dangerous. Although the horns have a cool, like, light thing going on.

Yeah, like Cylon light thing going on. It's cool. I mean, it doesn't seem, it seems a little stiff. This looks like me after a workout or something. Like, we're after that nap. And you're certainly not going to be like, you're not going to be going faster than, I don't know, a human walking. Yeah.

Even then, it seems like it feels like even slower than that. But I do love this. Yeah, I do, too. I love seeing weird robot shit. Every time Boston Dynamics does something with, like, robot dogs or whatever, everyone loves to make jokes about, oh, we're only a step away from the robots taking over. This will be the slowest Terminator ever if this is what happens. But the, I want to know what those two giant red buttons.

on the shoulders, on the hunches do. Does it make it scream like a person? They look like emergency stop buttons, is what I'm guessing. Why do you suppose it's a goat? Yeah, that's a really good question, because it's a whole lot larger than my definition of goat. Yeah, a lot bigger. It's basically like a horse with horns. Yeah, why wouldn't you put, I don't know, why not a horse?

Why not a? Right, exactly, yeah. Maybe just a robotic looking. A goat is a very odd choice. I feel like I want to know more about that, but they don't get into it. No. They say that is, let's see, this thing called Beck's once again can be steen stumping around the stage. I wouldn't call it stomping.

Definitely not stumping. Kind of tiptoeing. It's not really. Slowly gingerly tiptoeing. Also, how autonomous can it be? I think they're just remote controlling this whole thing. They are, but now that she's on it, I wonder if she looks like she has control of it now that she's actually sitting riding it. I'm at about two minutes, 50 seconds. Yeah, she looks like she is turning

it, staring, it, raising, and lowering it. Yeah. Well, anyway, it's also got wheels. It also doesn't give you the smoothest ride either. It's like, do you know, yeah, there's no way. Yeah, there's no way you're comfortable riding this. I do like how it can squat down and then have wheels on its joints. Yes, that's kind of cool. Yeah. So if you really had to get the F out of town, you could and then just roll. Could you, I wonder if you could go fast. if you bent the front legs to where the wheels were on the ground and then went fast with the back legs. Like a little chopper.

Like a little self-petched-perpetuating wheelbarrel. I love that idea. Well, once again, these robots don't seem very practical yet, but they're all just steps toward an ultimate goal, which is better, bigger robots. Which is writing mounts. I can't wait until they unlock writing mounts. Yeah, it's going to be great.

I'm looking forward to it. Uh, someone just recently Rick rolled the entire city of Dallas. Too bad you weren't there still. Um, that would be cool if you'd have seen it. Uh, this was a massive floating QR code. Oh, that happened. Like the one we saw floating on the Super Bowl. Yeah, a little bit. Last night as people partied in the city of Dallas, a massive floating QR code beckoned them to scan it. Uh, after a pandemic where customers were trained to scan QR codes to access restaurant menus and the Coinbase QR. advertisement thing in the Super Bowl. I hate it so much. Without a doubt, thousands likely scan the code. When somebody pointed up their phone to the sky and scanned the code, they were taken to a YouTube video for Rick Astley's

never going to give you up. A classic internet prank known as the Rick Rower. That sounds like an expensive, dumb prank. Yeah, it was made up of three, for real, you're not wrong. 300 drones. Okay, they performed, they were all programmed to be in this position. Remember the

Lady Gaga drone thing, a bit like that? Or you can spell shit in the sky and all that. Yep. Which is really cool. They're, let's see. Trying to find. They don't know who to attribute this to. How do you have 300 drones?

Like what? Did the drones all come and land in Michael Knights? Sky Elements is who did it. So Fort Worth based Sky Elements and Rockwall based Jared Gines. Oh, there they are. The guy behind. Oh, the epic Nerf medals. It's that guy who does YouTube videos.

kind of like Beast Mode or whatever his name is Yeah the guy that's got Like he's got burger restaurants now The Beast Mode guy Yes Um let's see Epic Nerf battles YouTube

I don't know if I've ever seen anything they've done Oh yeah he's one of these guys That is interesting though It's the first QR code that I've seen Where the dots are made of light As opposed to The reverse right Like white background black dots

So I'm I wouldn't have expected this to work. I'm sure they're just front-facing LEDs on the drones. And you could probably only see it from one angle or maybe best from one angle. Oh, well, and maybe it wouldn't work the other way, right? Because if you do the reverse of that QR code. Oh, right. Because backwards isn't the same scan.

Yeah, right. Oh, that's weird. Yeah, that sounds like fun, I guess. Look, if I was a YouTuber with a bunch of money to spend, I'd probably do that. Sure. Why not? Why not? He got nothing better to do.

Like, what's his name? Jake Paul, or no, Logan Paul showed up at WWE and around his neck was a pure gold chain. And at the end of it was that $6 million rare Pokemon card. Oh, really? When you got that kind of money, I guess you just buy dumb shit. We're living in the age of Brewster's millions, aren't we? Like, basically, you know, these people who are treating, like, if they don't burn through all of this cash, as quickly as possible.

They're not going to get the big sum at the end. And I don't want to speak out of turn here, but does anyone know if the Paul brothers, Jake Paul and the other one just said, Logan, do they do a bunch of charity at all? Like, if they do, great. I don't, I get the feeling they don't. I think they just buy a lot of shit

and then stunt video stuff and whatever, right? Maybe they do, I don't know. He says there's an if. Jake Paul offers to donate 10 million to end world hunger, but I'm curious as to... That won't do it. But his conditions irk netizens. Oh, geez. But even then, 10 million isn't going to do it.

No. Not even close. So that's a dumb thing. It's all stunts. I hate it. Freaking hate it. So what were his... I'm curious of, oh, if I get 690,000 retweets, he was going to donate 10 million to the U.N.

to help end world hunger. Okay. That's great. If he got retweets. That's great. We all have Vine to thank for him. Yeah. There you go.

Hey, one final story here. Columbia declares the hippo and invasive species. Yeah, I would agree. There's a whole section of Crimson Myerlands in Pokemon Archaeus that I don't want to go in because of all the damn hippodons. They're very invasive species. I'm not a fan.

Yeah, they're mean, too. They're mean. Everyone looks at rhinos and goes, oh, the horns or whatever. They're not the problem. They're like docile, nice creatures. These things, don't freak to eat your face,

like a watermelon. So Columbia has gone as far as to declare them as an invasive species. The ones that arrived in Colombia when drug kingpin Pablo Escobar set out to create his fabled animal kingdom theme park. This isn't the first animal to do this. These were not native to the,

area he brings this shit in and then they run wild and mate and go nuts and then there's no more pablo eskabar but the animals are still there reproducing all the time it's like fricking cudzu in the south man yeah it's like anytime we bring any shit over anything it's like we got european tree mites that aren't supposed to be here oh yeah that just destroy our trees our own randy deluxe posted a photo on twitter today of a giant snail that he saw in uh in hawaii and that's an invasive species not native to the area and it's uh like poisonous to humans, poisonous to animals. It's like, it's a blight.

Yeah. And now we got a hippo blight. Now we get a hippo blight. Hippolyte. Yep. Pablo. Yeah, way to go, Escobar. You and your drug money.

Are you calling your mother, Pablo? People with all their money just throwing it around. You're just buying Pokemon cards and looking for retweets. Pablo, honey? Hello, Pablo. It's your mother. We have, we have, we have problem with hip-o. It was one of the weirdest, like, jerky boys' bits that didn't have the typical jerky boys' voices.

Yeah. I saw something about them the other day. Oh, really? Somebody die. Oh, no, really? Did one of the jerky boys die? I was sad about Estelle from, you know, Mom Costanza. Yeah, that bummed me out.

She's Mrs. Potato Head. She was great on Bob's Burgers. She played Linda's wife, or mom, rather. She's great. And she was pretty old. 95? 94? Something like that.

And we didn't mention her before she died, okay? So it wasn't us. Don't look at us. Oh, wow. I didn't realize that the two people behind the jerky boys hate each other now. Oh, maybe that's what I read. Is that what it is? They don't even want to go anywhere near each other.

Yeah. In 2000, they couldn't, during an appearance in the movie, Big Money Hustlers, Brennan and Ahmed were unable to get along with each other, so they didn't share any scenes. And Ahmed basically gave rights to the name to John Brennan and then released a solo album called Once a Jerk, Always a Jerk. Wow. So if, okay, so is it just, if you have some massive success,

this is just what happens, right? Like the two brothers, what's their names? The music, Oasis. Oh, the Oasis, yeah, right, sure. They would have probably been fun. They'd still be Thanksgiving together. No, Gallagher and Liam Gallagher, yeah. All it takes is some...

Any relation to Claire? Claire, any relation to the... Yeah, do you know the Gagher's brothers? Yeah, do you know? Ear, here. What is that? I don't know what that is. So what would happen?

Like, if we got bought by... I heart radio and did our, you know, did this little thing we do. What, you know, we, we call in it quits after a year because we can't stand each other. I don't know. That's my question. What is it about that, that success, that level of success that makes these people fall apart? I don't know. Greed. I guess. But look, the way we would do it is we'd be very specific and we'd say, all right, I heart video. It's 50, 50 down the line. We get to choose format. You don't get to, we get all creative control of the show. I think we could do it. I think we could pull it off. I don't know what these jerky boys were doing in the 80s, but maybe it's just a different time. Listen, sizzle chest.

Yeah. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, Stephen Schlecker joins us. I'm going to talk a little bit about Morbius and what people think of it, as well as the... I've said all I need to say on that subject. Brian has had his way with Morbius. Well, some of you, I guess, didn't hear it because it was on PM,

but we'll give you an idea what Brian is. Yeah, I guess I do need to, yeah. So we'll do that. That's all coming up. Before that, though, a song, and you've got one, so play it. Yeah, so we're going to go up to Canada for this one. Canadian singer-songwriter Ken Yates has released his second single and the accompanying snow-filled video. It's a song called Consolation Prize features Katie Pruitt.

This is in, let's see, this is, there we go. Fourthcoming, full-length album is due June 3rd, but you can pre-order it right now. Here is Ken Yates and special guest, Katie Pruitt, and the song, song Consolation Prize. right by now i know you better and you've had a couple kids of 22 paid you with you culinary school anything but ordinary and i don't mind me and i don't mind second place to your whole life

I love you is the one way you didn't drive but I don't think about it really and I still see you sometimes

that's a fine consolation prize It's a fine consolation price. Cut to you, your ex-husband's showed up at your house. You hold off and push on the mouth. You got a strain in order. around

when you backed up and laughed in a town before somebody else could lay

it down I swore I'd never do then to you and you still call me sometimes and that's a fine

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People, it can go either direction, but let's say in this case it's someone speaking English, not great English. And I love when they just are, even though the words are dead wrong, they deliver them with confidence. Yeah. There's something about that. I don't know what it is, but I love it. It's like, are you loading? Like what, what? She means something.

She means something, but I don't know what that means. I know. I can't bring you that one out. Are you loading? Are you loading? I love it. Absolutely love it. All right.

Hey, we're done with that. Let's get into the business at hand here. Okay. Uh, shit, hold on. Brian, brain went blank. I couldn't remember who the hell we're having on, but I know who we're having on now. It's Mr. Stevie Schleiker, and he goes by this. Stephen Schleiker.

Stephen Schleiker. Hey, look who it is. Hayes, Kansas, his own, Stephen Schleiker. He comes, uh, all the way from major spoilers.com to tell us about cool pop culture and comic stuff. He does it every Monday, and we love it. Hello, Stephen. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian.

Hello. Hi, did you see the Morbius? No, because you could only see in the theater. Oh, yeah. He definitely has it. Yeah, definitely have not seen it. And this would not be, it would not and should not be enough to make you break that rule, Stephen. Actually, the only movie right now that would probably make me break that rule.

And this is, again, there was a Spider-Man movie that came out that I didn't go see. There's the Batman movie that came out that I didn't go see. But everything all at once, everything everywhere all at once, Oh, okay. I was going to say across the spiderverse will get you to part one. Well, that one probably will. But that one with Michelle Yao, yo, that comes out this week, I think. I definitely want to see that one. I heard a lot of cool things about that. Let's see if that's got reviews yet. What's the name of it again? Everything always something?

Everything everywhere all at once. I don't see it yet on the list. But I'm really curious about it. That looks really interesting. It did a lot of good positive feedback at South by Scy. Southwest. Yeah. Really? Okay. Yeah. So it looks like my kind of weird, too.

Totally. Yeah. She's great. There's some story floating around that she almost quit acting back in like the late 90s was going to retire early and just be done with it. And somebody talked her into staying and now, this story would be much more interesting if I can remember who talked her into staying. If I remember it was, yeah, somebody talked her into staying and doing the Hidden Dragon.

Yeah. Which is right around, what, 2000, 2001? something like that yeah and she um she was like super reluctant about it but then agreed and then since then it's just had like you know this is when her time happened is after that it was like boom she's just like everywhere all the time and stuff i think she's just awesome she is everywhere all at once yeah i love her well anyway all right uh that's one to to watch for it says here that she almost considered quitting acting due to due to a scary accident uh due to a severe injury that she had oh that's no good nobody like scary accidents

I had one of those on a bus once but it wasn't the bus it was me anyway well we'll watch for that and you know you're not rushing out to see it

but you could be convinced is what you're saying I am hoping that so 824 just did what was that one the green night where when that one came out it was in the theaters

it seemed like only two weeks and then it popped up on all the streaming platforms so I'm hoping the same thing happens here that within the next 30 days it'll pop up on one of the one of the platforms itunes or something that's what i meant to see was green night i guess

i can get that now somewhere let's see green night is available on uh well it looks like oh so if i want to sub if i want to do it with a subscription the showtime subscription has it but it's ranable everywhere i heard that was great it's very good yeah it doesn't follow the traditional story of the green night though there it it goes off in an a24 direction like 824 films always do but it's still really really good very solid if you're someone who's into cinematography and

you know just solid tone poem storytelling this is totally it do you think the reason they name themselves 824 is because every movie they make has the potential of 24 different weird you know

what's the word I'm looking for like they go in weird directions every single movie they make there's like no telling and where you're going to be at the end of an A-24, maybe. It's a name for the Italian highway, A-24. Maybe you never know where you're going to end up in Italy. I don't know. You never know what you're going to get.

You never know. All right. Let's talk about Morbius for a second. Speaking of 8-oh, sorry. Speaking of A-24 really quick. Yeah, yeah. I haven't, ever since you posted it, Scott, I have enjoyed the heck out of framed. Oh, framed is great.

Oh, it's great. Yeah, yeah. I'm not very good at it, but I'm better at it than I was. wordle so I'm I'm happy to be playing that the thing the thing with with framed and I've only done two days so far and I haven't done today's yet for those to listening it's framed dot WTF okay I love that that's a yeah a country code or whatever you want to call a top level domain top level domain TLD there you go I like country code better though but anyway they they basically give you some some images of a movie to start with and

you guess based on the first image and if you get it wrong it'll give you a second image and you have up to i think six to choose before you either lose or you get it and uh the the the images i don't know if the images get easier to spot the further in you go i'm not quite sure other words because the last couple of ones that i've had it's the first image is always just so dark that i have no idea certainly today's oh my god i had to zoom in and it's like oh there's a person there wow let me look here framed at w tf okay here's oh it is black yeah it's it took me three to get

today it's just because the first two images are so dark it did for me too and I still haven't seen this movie and but on the third one it was like oh I think I know what that is yeah I'm still I'm on the image two and I still don't know I'll finish that in a minute yeah that was another one I had to just zoom in on

for number two and it's awesome frame dot WTF and it's just totally my for visual people who are like I don't want to do these word games with everybody this is like your ship has come in. Yeah, but if you're terrible at titles and naming things, it's also very difficult because yesterday's

I was like, uh, uh, what is this? It's the, it's the tiger in the boat. Yeah, but it's got a, but it's got an auto correct kind of thing. Yeah, as long as you can remember some of the, like one or two of the words, it'll help you fill in the words. That's true. Right, right, right. That's true. It's, um, my wife hates it because she's the opposite of me. She's not available with this. She doesn't

remember titles of TV shows or movies. She doesn't remember much about movies she's seen. But she's really, really good at Wordle and any kind of word game she kills me and destroys me um you guys probably she won't she won't know if she'll play in the community or not but her scrabble uh game is like pretty hot she's real good nice nice so we we're a little different that way so all my kids and her are playing this wordle business i'm over here going i'm the rebel playing this weird movie thing but it's cool i like it yeah i'm still doing wordle and cordal cordal every day too. So we're the cordal and framed are my current jam.

Those are your three. That and catching some Pokemon while you're at it. Well, sure. I mean, come on. Yeah. That pipe never turns off. All right. So, Stephen, let's talk about Morbius a little more about how it did. I was curious about the money making potential of the film, obviously. It is being panned by our own Brian Nibbitt and everyone else I've seen. Pretty much everyone's saying that the movie sucks, but not in a good way. but only made $40 million, well, $39.1 million this weekend.

And that made it the number one movie in the United States. It's made, let's see, 230. No, I'm sorry. Yeah, only 40 million in the United States. I don't see the worldwide numbers at the moment. It looks like that Lost City thing is doing pretty well, and it's gaining. It's one of those movies where people went, oh, it's funny. I think I'll go see it.

And then it actually picked up people in the second week. Yeah. So that's like, I don't know. I don't know. Some of us are old enough that every time I see it, I'm like, oh, this is a remake of Jewel of the Nile. Oh, that bad, dude. Not Jewel and I'm the very first one. What the storm? Remancing the stone. Yeah, romancing the stone. Yeah. Yeah. If Danny DeVito showed up as comedy relief, you wouldn't be surprised is what you're saying.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. I could see that. It says that it's based on projections, it should expand its domestic gross to 139 million through. through Sunday, I assume it means next Sunday. It must be because it's not going to make it in 24 hours. Yeah. I mean, is that what were the projections? Do you think this is under

what they expected? This is probably on target for what it's expected. I mean, this movie was delayed for like two years and then bumped three times after that. So I think that nobody was expecting, you know, Spider-Man numbers, even though this is a Spider-Man. I think they were probably hoping for Venom numbers, and I

don't think it even made Venom numbers. And I don't think it even made Venom numbers. because I think Venom made like 80 million or something on its opening weekend. So I think that's what they were shooting for and just missed the mark completely. That's unfortunate. Let's see. That starts a bunch of stuff because you got ambulance coming. You got Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

You got Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and the Secret of Dumbledore's Weiner. Yeah, that's it. So it's going to have to fight a bunch of stuff that has some momentum. them. I mean, I don't know if those fantastic piece movies do well enough anymore, but the Hedgehog 2 will probably do really well. Oh, yeah. Michael Bay is the ambulance, which is this highest,

so far, highest tomato rating of any movie he's ever made. Really? Yeah. So it's still only in the high 70s, but for him, that's high. Most people give him crap. I happen to like his action movies, so I have no problem with this, but it looks like

fun. You get your, it's basically speed, but in an ambulance. Oh, right. Or something like that. If this man's heartbeat doesn't drop below 88 feet per minute. Kind of. I think it's kind of that. This ambulance will explode.

I don't know much about it. I guess it's also a remake of something or based on some other old show or movie or something. Anyway, I will watch that, but I will not go to theaters for it. Okay. That's the deal. That's the deal. Why none of these? Everything I just listed, not interested in the theater.

You're not interested in Sonic 2. I know my kids are... I like Sonic 1, and I'll watch Sonic 2, but I can go into the theater for it. The kids, when we first went into lockdown, I don't know how they got it, because they certainly didn't learn it for me. They watched it even before the movie came out on regular places, and they were just like... Really?

They were watching it on the big TV and everything, and I was just like, uh, this movie's not out digitally yet, is it? They're like, no, but we're still watching it. We have friends with Plex, Dad. I guess. I don't know, but if people are wondering, If people are looking at Venom and go, or I'm not Venom, but Morbius and going, why? Why do they keep making these horrible movies? Because Sony doesn't want to revert the rights to Spider-Man films back to Marvel.

They have to, contractually, have to release a Spider-Man film every five years, or else the rights to Spider-Man go back to Marvel Studios. Yeah, yeah. So that's why you're going to keep getting them. Do you think, okay, so they obviously, you know, got a helping hand with Spider-Man and brought the MCU into it and all of it. that and you could argue this Tom Holland Spider-Man trilogy would have been not great had they not done that you know they would have been spinning their wheels just like

before sure yeah is it is it too much for me to wish to wish that they would also lend a helping hand with other cool IPs they have like not at all yeah I have to look I think that they did make an offer to help them and collaborate on other stuff but I think somebody at Sony I don't know if it's Amy Pascal or who was basically like no thank you yeah I That's how I described Morbius on TMS, PMA on Saturday morning. I said, it's like Marvel said, all right, well, Sony, come on in. We're going to do the Morbius informational, you know, the character dumped to the orientation to get you familiar with the character. All right.

So Morbius is a kind of a superhero vampire, and Sony gets up and says, cool, all right, we got this, and leaves. Very simple meetings over at Sony. Yes, exactly. I get the feeling. I could be totally wrong about this. And I've heard some people say that have some industry knowledge say that this is true. So take this for whatever it's worth. But there's some talk that Sony keeps this Spider-Man thing going, not just because the Tom Holland movies were successful.

They just need to absolutely make sure they're the ones controlling video game rights because the games, whenever they make a Spider-Man game, they make so much freaking money. Oh, interesting. That the movies could tank if they had to. but as long as they can keep it. I mean, they don't want them to, obviously. They don't do better on both sides if both are good. Certainly aren't doing much to prevent them. Exactly.

But if that's like a cash cow for them, and that could be why they have to just keep this maintenance up. I don't know if that ever changes. Maybe there's a future where Sony's like, I can't do this anymore here. Maybe. Oh, God, I hope. But not until after we get Craven.

Is that this year or next year? I think that's coming up next year, 2023. So how far does their ownership of the Spider-Verse extend? Everything's Spider-Man. So if you want a Black Cat movie, that's a Spider-Man character. If you want a technically Kingpin, I think, appeared in Spider-Man first, so I don't know how they were able to get that. But, you know, if it's a Spider-Man, Spider-Man-related character-slash-villain,

it's Sony's. Okay. That's interesting. Same way with when it was out over at Fox with the Fantastic Four, why they had to be very careful in some of the Marvel films about dancing around or changing characters because the character was originally a Fantastic Four character, and that's why they were over in Fox territory, same way with X-Men. That's why they had.

Why the MCU still couldn't say mutants, even if they weren't talking about the X-Men, they could have to do the, go the Inhumans route. Yeah. Are you excited, actually, for the first, because we'll get somewhere, somewhere soon, we're going to get a Marvel movie where they can say mutant and say it openly. I feel like we're going to get it with Dr. Strange. Oh, Dr. Strange. awesome

well this is all fun for them good luck to them and the rest of their month speaking of Michael Bay we talked about this movie he's been in a lot of interviews lately and he admits he should have stopped

doing Transformers movies he said he should stop doing a Transformer he said he said in an interview he said look I just made too many of them Steven Spielberg told me to just stop at three and I said okay and then the studio's like

hey make a fourth one here's a bunch of money and I said okay and then they made a billion dollars And they said, hey, make a fifth one. And I said, okay. And he says, I should have stopped. They were fun to do. We did some groundbreaking things in the first movie that hadn't been done before.

And he just got carried away. No, effects-wise, that 07 movie still is mind-boggling. It's some of the best stuff ever. And we just kind of take it for granted now. But it's really well done. The movie itself, though, whatever, forgettable and not great. $4.8 billion collectively at the box office. I know, right?

I mean, it's hard. I know people are like, oh, these are the worst movies ever. It's like, you could argue that the Fast and the Furious movies are not great movies, but they keep making them because they keep making movies. I'm making money. And, you know, if you don't want a movie franchise to continue, stop going to the movies, people. Yeah. Yeah. And the other thing you remember is when, Sue, who's the director, Travis Knight?

Oh, here it is. This mentions his name right here. He's the guy that took over and did the bumblebee spin off or standalone film. That's a great Transformers movie. Like, it's legitimately what we were all asking for for a long time. we'd like more with Optimus Prime and everybody else, of course. But that movie is actually good. And it said to me, oh, these can be done right.

So I don't know who to blame, except you're making $4.8 billion. So maybe who cares who's to blame? And I say this a lot when I talk about comic books and people who are saying, oh, what comic book should I read or this comic book is horrible? And it's like, well, it may be that you're just not the target audience for that comic book or that movie or that TV show. And that's perfectly okay. I'm really happy when a property, whatever it is, in whatever medium that it is, is able to find its audience and grows with it.

I was never particularly a fan of the Ted Danson. We're in Heaven movie, you know, right? Oh, show. Oh, the good place? Yeah, the good place. Yeah. I was never really a fan of that, but I'm glad so many people enjoyed it. And that's the way it is with a lot of things.

And I think we look at this bashing society where people are just like, oh, this comic sucks or this movie sucks. or whatever. And it's like, well, Morbius made $40 million. I'm going to bet that 20 years from now, there's a huge cult following of people that are just like, this Morbius film was so ahead of its time. No one knew what was going on. And people just sit down and turn it into a Rocky Horror picture show thing. Yeah, that's how this stuff goes. You know, not always. Sometimes what we think is a classic in the moment, you know, many years from now isn't so much. I can only think of one movie in the history of my life that will stand the test of time and never, never lose its shine. You might call it shiny and chrome even.

Anyway, I'm very curious, since we've already broken the seal on this. I'm very curious. We haven't yet, Stephen. Hold up. We haven't yet. Break the seal. Break the seal. Break it. He hasn't said the words. I am very curious how you justify your love of that film

versus your other film that has a lot more water in the world about it. Because, you know, it used to be that the one with Kevin Costner was the utmost of utmost. and it was infallible to you. And then we have this other one and you're just like, oh, this is so much. I don't know about that. Like Water World still, Waterworld still conceptually is one of my favorite things ever.

And I love it. I watch it at least once a year. I think Waterworld's awesome. But I don't think Waterworld's a good move. Let me put it this way. Like, when you give me a bunch of world building and you give me a bunch of these cool concepts, Even if your movie's bad, I'm still giving you my time.

Waterworld is not a great movie, like by traditional measurements. But its world building and its concepts are what I go there for. Fury Road also has these amazing concepts and these things, but it's also an incredible movie by those other measurements. So it's far and away the better movie, but I won't say anything bad about. about Waterworld, even though I know there's some real cheese to it and some problems with it and it's pacing. Oh, you know, but see, this is one of those things about you found your, I mean, this is a movie that found its audience in you.

Yeah, yeah, for sure. I'm curious, what's the guy's name that directed the, the, through the desert movie? Oh, George Miller, or George Miller, yeah. Yeah, George Miller. Yeah. If he were going to direct a remake of Waterworld. Oh, don't even go there, dude. Oh, my God.

Would you just like start camping out in front of the theater like four years ahead of time more. Yes. I would do it. every, okay, you talk about what gets me back into a theater? Hell, that might make me travel to some fancy theater somewhere else in the country that's like the best theater in the country and pay a premium price to see it. Where they don't let buttholes in, like leave your phone in this bag.

You cannot take it out till the phone's over, like a comedy club. Hell yeah, dude. Either that or give me a TV series, but if you told me George Miller was making a reboot of that, I'd lose my mind. The thing is though, it's, with no George Miller and no Mad Max films prior to all this,

there is no water world. Like, this stuff's all inspired by that. Every time they do a thing like this, there's a little bit of Mad Max in it. I'm watching and really enjoying the C show on Apple TV Plus. And man, I feel like I'm getting away with something with that show because I feel like it, people have no idea how cool it is. It's so freaking cool. Like I like this. I am now to the point, just started season two, I am now to the point where I think I'm having a better time with this than I was even at the peak of Game of Thrones. And I loved Game of Thrones at its peak. That's how much. much I am digging this thing. Now, it's not going to be everybody, obviously, but for me,

it's scratching all those itches. But if you told me George Miller was doing that, I'd lose my effing mind. But he never will. That ain't going to happen. But a TV show based on Waterworld, I could see it. You know, I could do that. Also, a reboot of it would be fine, too. There was a picture of the Oscars of Kevin Costner with his arm around Jason Mamoa. Oh, Jason Mason Moa. Yeah. Jason Mamoa. Perfect Mariner. Get him in there. Do it. I don't care if he's, if he's already sort of Aquaman. Make it happen. Oh my gosh, Brian. You're not wrong. Just get so excited. Anyway, yeah, Waterworld. Have you ever seen paper? Look at it. Paper. Okay. So Michael Bay. He doesn't want to do it anymore. But everyone should probably

see this ambulance because it looks like a throwback to what he's, I think, best at, like the rock and bad Boys 2 and I don't know what's another good action movie the island was really cool like he has he has his moments and I know everyone that wants to hate on Michael Bay but I'm I'm all for some just gripping crazy well-edited beautifully filmed action popcorn flicks yeah those are good nothing wrong a little popcorn and a flick to watch it by uh Steve anything else going on over major spoilers that you would like to let people know about not a whole lot this week we are taking a look at Demon Slayer as our manga comic this week on the major

spoilers podcast. And then next week we have one Scott Johnson scheduled to reappear on the show. And we're going to be taking a look at One Punch Man and I can't wait to hear Scott complain about having to read. No, no, no, no. I'm actually excited about it. I don't love manga generally speaking. It's not my thing. But I do

like that anime a lot. I like One Punch Man quite a bit. So I've seen the animated stuff, but I've never read the manga. It should be interesting because Demon Slayer, if you've If you've watched the anime, it is at least for the first volume, almost beat for beat, the exact same thing, almost frame for frame as the anime series. Demon Slayer is the hot thing right now, man. Everybody talks about that.

That and what was the other, oh, the attack on Titan people, their next thing is some kind of vampire deal. And all my anime friends won't shut up about how excited they are about that. Interesting. Yeah, which is fine. As Shojo beat in the chat would say, let's go buttholes. That's what you said. Let's roll butt holes. Oh, let's roll butt holes.

Dang it. Let's roll butt holes. Well, there you go. It's Steven Schleiker and Major Spoilers.com. Please head over there and check it out. And they've got plenty going on. So always something fun and entertaining over there. And as Kevin Costner would say, stay hydrated.

Absolutely. Pee on this plant and stay hydrated. I almost hung up on Brian. There we go. Oh, don't do that. I know. I don't know why I keep doing that. I highlight you and then go, oh, wait, that isn't Stephen.

Durp. Durp? All right, we're going to do a mash-up from Jamie. Yay! Yeah, this is a good one. It's called Louis Anderson. Don't remember the context other than he passed away, but we'll find out what this means when I play it now.

What does Samurai Jack say? What the fuck? That's not what he said. That's not what Samurai Jack says. It's the Leeds. It's the Leeds accent that is so. Oh, I love it. I can listen to it all day.

She could read me a bed story every now. A bed story? A bed time. A bed story. A bed story. Once upon a time there was a bed. It's a story of a bed. It's a bed.

A Wii U game with Yoshi, and it was called Yoshi's... Oh, shit. I'm pretty sure it was it, Yoshi's... Oh, shit. Yoshie's Woolie thing. Mammoth. Oh, I lost it. Yoshi's Woolie thing.

Hold on. Okay. And I've also got this desk lamp that... Bless you. I want to learn how to... like my dad. Oh, my God. I saw your Oingo Boingo bumper sticker on the back. I love Oingo Boingo. Oh, my God. Have you guys ever heard the song Little Girls? It's so perverted. Brian, put that on. Put that on. We are only signing four boobs and cutting it off at four. Four total boobs, right? That's total boobs. And two peonai. Oh, okay. Brian will be doing the peni both. He's doing both those. Tina's like,

Where are the melbettoes? There's just pretzels and peanuts in here. Those squeakly orange red sticks. Depending on how you're doing, I might just initial your penis. I might not fully sign it. I will go nowhere near any of your penises. I can tell you that. Your basic, bitch.

Me so horny. I like potato chips in all sorts of weird places. Here's a new segment. Brian shows his wiener. Use your Android device. How did that make you feel? Yeah, use your Android device. Here's how to drop down.

works now choose wait a wide between the two of us am i the one who has to show is a swimmer she is fantastic i can hear it coming in the end in the edge tonight or in the air tonight i can feel it coming in the air tonight got to rehearse those jokes in your head whatever i workshop everything in real time right here on the show that's how it works exactly i know who's the comedian that just died um who am i thinking of who just passed away big rotund dude he was in baskets won of emmys for that oh um yeah julie armstrong louis Her son, Louis Anderson. Oh, this, that.

Come on down. We're going to play the few. There we go. Louis Anderson. That was awesome. That was great. I'd forgotten about the, you know what? And if Louie Anderson was around, he would have laughed at that.

He would have got a chuckle out of it. Oh, yeah, he totally would have, yes. And Louis Armstrong would have laughed as well. Yeah, he's also dead. Both of them. Both are dead. They're both hanging out, the two Louies. That's what you do.

With Louis CQA dies, they may not want them there, but they'll be there. Will Louis Dreyfuss hang out with them? No, because it's middle name. Okay, gotcha. All the Julius have to. She has to be with Julia Child for the rest of eternity. Oh, gotcha. Okay.

She'll say, Elaine, you need to put the mustard on the deal. And Julia Garner and Julie Armand. So there's a silver line need every cloud. I agree. I agree. All right. Slap Brian's camera. Why?

What's Brian's? It's going fuzzy. hazy, whatever again. You look fine now. You're good. I know people are just so like, oh, it's blurry for a second. I can't handle looking at the sexiness of Brian and clear crystal vision.

Oh yeah, I see it now. Your color went weird. Well, now I, yeah, because I just launched webcam settings, which launches to this weird, muted garbage one, even though I said it every damn time. Yeah, we have a default. What's wrong with that

thing? I know it's just one guy who made but come on. Come on. Do better. Do better. Do better. All right, we're out of here. Thanks to everybody for your support. And if you haven't done so yet, it's a brand new month time to hop over to patreon.com slash TMS and get ad-free editions of the show that also include bonus content every day,

PM editions on the weekend and other bonus content thrown in, stuff senty in the mail, all kinds of levels. Go check it out. Patreon.com slash TMS. And I would love to get your feedback as well. If you thought we said something today that was dumb, email us and tell us so. The MorningStream at gmail.com. Hey, Brian.

Whoa. Yes. Jeez, your face got all zoomed up. You're right up in. Literally scared me. Dun, dun, dun. Yeah. Oh, wait, that went the opposite.

There you go. There we go. That's amazing. Hey, do you have a song that you can play for us? Do I? Do I, Scott? Yes. Finally getting to one that someone was upset because they felt like I missed their birthday,

and I apologize for that. Kevin wrote it and said, hello, guys, I'm turning the big four on the 13th, 13th of January. The big four. The big four-oh. The big 4-0 on the 13th. And I'd like to request a cover of Throw Away Your Mask from Persona 5 Royal. Brian can now skip the original game and play the enhanced edition of the game, probably when Scott gets around to watching Parasite.

But seriously, you really should play it. That game is fantastic. Can I get a slightly longer sausage? Before you get that, you get this. Okay, that's for your birthday. And then for your sausage. Sausage. Yeah.

Totally does every single damn time. It's weird. All right, so this is from the game Persona 5. And I hunted around for good covers of this because a lot of the covers you find out there are super same-o-samo. This one injects different vocals and a different, like a more guitar-heavy arrangement, and I dig it a lot. Here is the band Gil Studio with their cover of Throw Away Your Mask.

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