The Morning Stream - TMS 2382: Related Turkeys

Episode Date: November 28, 2022

Queer and Present Danger. Hunger Games for Hillbillies. Drunk Cherries. I Can't Believe It's Not Butt Tar. Underwear crapnel. Would you like fries with that baby? Hairiest, Gayest Bearman. Jumbuck and Tucker is my favorite Starsky and Hutch Spinoff. Peepoo is the new Love the show though. Undie Fragments. Screams and Carapace Air. A Crabby Royal with Cheese. Medieval End Times. Isn't There a Giant Hamburger Mayor Called Mayor McSomething? Backstabby Ramalam with Stephen 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, queer and present danger. Hunger games for hillbillies. Drunk cherries. I can't believe it's not but tar. Underwear crapnel. Would you like fries with that, baby? Harriest, gayest bearman. Jumbuck and Tucker is my favorite Starsky and Hutch spin-off.

Pee-Poo is the new Love the Show, though. Undy fragments. Screams in carapace air. A crabby royale with cheese. Medieval End times. Isn't there a giant hamburger mayor called Mayor McSomthing? Backstabby. with Stephen and more on this episode of

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frickin bike, stupid bike Good morning and welcome to TMS, everybody. It is the morning stream for T. What are we? November 28th, 2020. It is episode 2382. Just to confuse with all these numbers. Oh, my gosh.

Those are so many numbers. That's a lot, man. I can't believe we're almost 2,400 episodes. It won't be that long until we hit that. Wow. You don't really celebrate 2,400, though, right? Who cares? No.

I'm trying to think of a keep my mind keeps going to the 2600 so will we play Atari when we get to 2600 oh that sounds like fun we could play it's a year from now yeah it would sound like this everything sounds like that yep oh my gosh it's so bad anyway the sound chip on the 2600 was garbage let me just put that out there for the world to hear and now let's move on with the proper show how was your thanksgiving man I have bob we had the turkey and the whatnot and the things and the stuff, and it was all very nicely contained with just my kids and the house, Carter notwithstanding, she's over in Iceland, but she made Thanksgiving for a bunch of her foreign friend, new friends over there and had like a homemade American jambalaya, and they all loved it. Which seems like it'd be a lot better than a baked sheephead. I saw that photo, and I'm forever scarred.

Isn't that, I mean, that's normal for them, she says. They all love it. Right. They buy a whole sheep's head in a thing and then you go, you go cook it up, grill it up, whatever, and just eat the head. F off. Oh, I'd like the cheek, please. Can I have the cheek? I don't want that at all, dude.

Yeah, the cheek. Give us the cheek. The cheek. I want the cheek. Nikki Ackermann's, I hope she did not see that photo because that would be. Oh, she'd just figure out a way to clone it and then we'd have two. That's right. We'd just have two.

Can I have some of the cells from that for my... So you did the double up thing, right? Or maybe even three of these? We did the double up. We had. Thanksgiving with my family on Thursday, went to Uncle George and Aunt Barb's house.

They grilled a turkey and then deep fried a turkey. So we had two different styles, two different levels of crispiness on the outside, which was great. All of it was moist. It was like, you know,

just how you want it. Potato, sweet potatoes and green bean casserole and... Be great if those turkeys were, like, related, like they were siblings or something, you know? What's that? If those turkeys were related.

Hey, hello, what's happening to you? I'm getting put in the deep fryer. How about you, Bob? I'm getting grilled. I'd way more want to get grilled than deep fried, I think, if I was a turkey. I don't know. I mean, it's a quicker... That's true.

And it's not like you put them in their lives, so there are long dead. No, no, it's not like lobster. No. But whenever you do, like, crawfish or lobster, I always think, this is terrible what we're doing to them. Yeah. Like, to keep them fresh and good, we have to do it this way. But you can hear them, like, screaming or whatever the hell that sound is, they make. It's really just all the air escaping from their carapace.

Oh, it's even worse. It's even worse. We also did a thing Friday night, had a second Thanksgiving with the real Chris Brown and his kids, two of his kids. Yeah. And that one was great because we actually got leftovers from that one. We got no leftovers from Thursday, but we did end up getting leftovers Friday. Whoa, Thursday you had two turkeys and no leftovers. That's crazy.

Right, exactly. And then Friday we had one turkey and lots of leftovers. And everybody ended up with leftovers. For that one, we were going to do that fry day thing where my friends had the deep friar. Oh, yeah. And I was going to make little hand pies, pumpkin pies, and cherry pies. I end up making those, but I just cooked them myself as opposed to deep frying them at the party that got pushed a week out. And I took those to the, to Chris Brown's thing.

Those ended up great, really, really good. I cooked the cherries with some bullet bourbon, which gave them a nice, like, richness. There's nothing better than cherries that are, like, treated that way. Oh, yeah. Drunk cherries, baby. Like real cherries wouldn't even recognize them. Real cherries are going to hell are you. It's like those cherries are the ones that have been out too long.

You know, coming in late, smelling a booze. Oh, yeah. I don't even know you anymore that cherry would say to the other cherry. Exactly. Oh, it was terrible. But yeah, I had a really had a good two days of eating. And now I'd like to start making my, the graph in Noom go the other direction. Oh, okay.

All right. Preferably. Have that hurt? Yeah, hurry up because Christmas, you know, is looming. Exactly. Exactly. It doesn't want you to lose any weight either. Well, while I was in between things, oh, there's a lot that went on this weekend. One thing I can't even talk about yet, but the one thing I do want to talk about is I discovered that Quentin Tarantino, the director. Yeah. Yeah. Sounds like SpongeBob, and I brought proof.

Okay. All right? Let's hear it. Here's some audio proof of what I'm talking about. So first, let's hear Tarantino in just a little piece. of an interview he was doing and I don't remember the context he was talking about fans trying to talk to him or something here's what he said so see if you can tell the part where where he sounds like Spongebob and then even like walking outside like some tourist family

were like ah just I'm all right I think I found it's got I think I found it point at which he uh yes so so here's Tarantino and here's SpongeBob now it's not quite the vibratoy thing that SpongeBob does a wah, wow, wah, kind of thing, but it's there. Hey, let me see your feet. Sandy cheeks, where's your feet? Show me your feet. Oh, my lord. You ever had a crusty crabburger with cheese?

You know what they call those in France? They got them something real. There you go. Nailed it. Anyway, I just had to share it because that's freaking weird. That's great. I don't know why it's stuck in my head, but it did. you also saw a movie.

I want to see this movie. The menu, it's got two two Mad Max alumni in it, one who just finished filming a new Mad Max film. Yeah, I was going to say alumni for a film that hasn't come out yet. I can you? I think it still counts, but not barely.

I mean, whatever. It's just interesting to see Nucks and Furiosa in the same thing. That's right, a Furiosa to be. Yes, Anya Taylor, Joy, Nicholas Holt. You've also got Judith Light from Who's the Boss? Oh, my Lord. See, they're in forever.

John Leguizamo is in this. Ray Fines, of course, is kind of the menu. The menu. I liked it for what it is. It is a, it's absolutely like a biting social commentary. And it's Adam McKay, so it shouldn't surprise anybody. Oh, I didn't know this is an Adam McKay joint. I had no idea.

Yeah, it's very, don't look up. I felt, it reminded me a lot of the hunt with Betty Gilpin that, like, Hunger Games for Hillbillies kind of thing. I don't know the better description of that, but I don't remember the hunt. The hunt was just a few years ago, like this woman wakes up with a handcuffed or tied up or something. Let me see if I can find. It's been a while since I've seen the hunt. I can't find Adam McKay's name on any of this.

Let's see. Oh, really? Mark Milor Lod, writer Seth Rees. I'm sorry. He was producer, not director. Oh. my lot as the director, but... Okay, all right.

And Will Ferrell is another producer on this thing. But it's, it feels like it's right up the same alley as Don't Look Up and, like, where it's, you know, you've got those movies that are very thinly veiled social commentary and you don't, you know, you're like, oh, I guess, I guess this kind of does represent the haves and the have-nots and the, and this one, there's no veil. It's basically like, oh, hey, here's a bunch of horrible people. Yeah, that makes sense. What would you like to have happen to these horrible people?

And also when you hire Paul Adelstein, you basically are saying, hey, we need a douchebag. You know, probably a nice guy in real life. I'm not making any judgments there, but Paul Adelstein plays nothing but douchebags. So pretty much. Nice. I have to lick up Paul Adelstein because I don't know. Oh, you'll know him in a heartbeat. Here, I'll send you a thing.

Thanks. He's, uh, there he is. Oh, yes. Yeah, that guy. He's just always a douche. Is he a douche in this? I assume he is. Gotta be a douche, right?

In this movie? I'm sure. Oh, he is in this movie, but he's... In real life, I'm sure he's nice. I'm sure. I'm sure. Yeah, he's all right. I'm sure.

So give me a scale, like a review. I would say, if we're doing... I would give it... Oh, by the way, amazing that a movie like this still can have a lot of crazy food porn in it. Because you're basically looking at, from the previews, you know that Ray Fines is this, this incredible chef who's got this island paradise where he serves a select number of guests at a time, a custom menu. Yeah, that's, that's kind of all you need to know. But there's a lot of food porn like, you know, this such and such reduction with the bone marrow, blah, blah. you know

sparklets of this kind of seawater thing and that sort of thing. I haven't seen the trailer even so I don't even know it sounds like to me like okay I'm going to make a guess here but I also don't want to spoil anything

but I'm totally guessing and I probably won't tell you if you're right or wrong yeah so let's here's the rules I will say a thing Brian completely not obligated to answer this. No reaction if if no need be. If you want to great you don't have to though

so here's here's my initial impression from the poster. A bunch of rich people go to a place where an enigmatic master chef makes them a bunch of food and then at the end it turns out they're eating poor people or something.

Am I anywhere in the right there? Did I stay stone-faced enough to not give anything away? You did. But honestly, that is all, I don't even, I've not seen the trailer, I know nothing. I just have this feeling. From looking at the movie poster, what I would gather is a bunch

of people are in a movie where they forgot to turn the lights on. Oh, great. Except for one flashlight with the camera. Lots of dark, dark, dark stuff. All right, very nice. That's right. Well, cool. Worth seeing, though, worth seeing in theaters,

waiting for it to come home. I would say, oh, no, I think this one, you know, you can probably wait until it's streaming. There's no, there's beautiful cinematography, but it's nothing that you have to race out and see. The only, there's some potential of things getting spoiled if you

wait too long but other than that I'd say no you're not in any any hurry to to go see this in theaters to Oscar made or do you think maybe original screenplay but probably I would say probably not I mean we're already seeing so many things coming up

that look like they're going to be that they're going to dominate at the Oscars, Fabelmans, and the, oh, geez, a, uh, Till, no, a Till is one of them, but then there's another one, Tar. At Till, Tar. Till and Tar. Fantastic. Yeah.

Sounds like a comedy group or something. It does, right? I haven't heard of Tar. It's Tar a, uh, uh, is with Kate Blanchette, I believe, and it's about a, oh, the guitar lady. right really okay i well no she's up with music um oh maybe that's just her name yeah conductor yeah lydia tar sorry for some reason i hear the name tar and i thought guitar guitar right and she was a famous guitarist but no she's like a conductor she plays the guitar and she um she

used a lot of uh buttar yeah buttar oh man i can't believe it's not buttar she'll use uh no that's That seems really, I mean, she's always good, so whatever. She is always good. So, yeah, this is one that's probably, you know, another one that's going to come around. Yeah, at least her anyway. Oscar time. Yeah. So that was the time that Tina and I start ramping up our movie watching with the, oh, here are the early ones we think that are going to be Oscar bait.

And then as we start getting closer and all the Hollywood rags start putting out there, These are the movies you must see before Oscar night. We start looking at kind of the ones that they all seem to agree on and sing those. Yep. And I assume this year you're going to do like you'd always do. You're going to go for it and watch them all. Oh, yeah. Oh, absolutely.

We always enjoy that. It's the Ibitt way and I love it because then I get to hear about stuff I never see or won't see for a while or whatever. Or we'll perpetually keep on a list to never watching it. I mean, when did one was, was it 2019 that? Parasite. Parasite one that year? I think 2018. 18?

I can't remember. You might be right. It's been that long. Geez, I need to hurry up. You do. Freaking Hulu has it? Well, I don't know what. I'm sorry, it was 2019.

It was 2019. Okay. Yeah. Well, did they give me the award in 2019 for a film that came out in 2018? No, I think it was a movie that came out in 2019 and won the Oscar in 2020. Right. That was the last one before the pandemic business. That makes sense.

Yes. I think that's right. So. Yeah, I don't even know if Parasite is still on Hulu. It is. It is always there. Oh, it is. Okay.

It looks at me every time I come in and it goes, what are you doing? It makes you feel guilty. Every time I use Hulu. I'm like, I'm just coming through for some Futurama. Excuse me. Pardon me. What are you doing? Look, how about me?

Yes, but it does it in Korean. So I'm like, I can't understand. I'm good. I'm good. You know, and boy, if you like the subtitle, Scott, wait until you hear my recommendal this week because there's, There's so many, there are people having conversations in two different languages that can understand each other and you're watching subtitles for both of them.

Sign me up. Yeah. Get ready for, get ready for a novel dressed as a movie. I can't, I can't, oh, it's a movie. All right, we already have a hint to everybody, not a television show. Actually, it's not. It's a television show. Oh, damn it.

It's a series. But it's cinematic in its presentation, right? It is cinematic in its presentation, yes. And what else can you even ask for? All right. Well, I know what we can ask for Dunaway to pick up his gosh dang phone. Ask for one of those. We got rings of ringage, no rings of speakage.

I don't know if that means he's busy or what he's doing. Oh, there he is. I see it. I see it. I see it. Okay, now this. Let's have a rousing welcome to our old pal Brian Dunaway joining us for a little bit of the morning half-asses here on a Monday. Hello, Brian.

Welcome back. Oh, you know, hear him. He knows speaky to us. Brian Dunaway. Are you muted? You're not seeing any green outlines, so no rings of speakage. You know, probably just need to change your source or something. And he's doing it.

I can see him now. It's just freaking out, trying to figure it out, clicking, pushing buttons, trying to figure it out. Like changing settings, turning things on and off again. He might pick up his phone just as an alternative, which is totally fine. We'll take it anyway. We can get you. But we wait. We do it patiently.

Wait. Yeah. We don't. We know that on the other end of this, there'll be good things. Oh, we know that there will be. Yeah. Yeah, we know. The knowledge is true.

He's, uh, did he hang up and disconnect and reconnect? Yeah. Oh, is that him now? Hello? Oh, there he is. We hear you now. Oh, hi. All I had to do is close Discord completely and end it and then restart it.

Oh, weird. That's weird. That actually happened to me with you. I love it when it does that. That happened with me and you guys on Saturday for Playdate. I couldn't talk for a whole bunch of time. I had to reboot it. It was weird.

We talked for quite a while before we finally realized you were. And I think it was, I think it's the Windows version of Discord because this doesn't happen on my Mac ever. But the Windows version is always doing weird shit like this. But that may be a Windows sound system thing. I don't know. I don't know. Miami sound machine.

Hey, Dunaway, it's good to have you back. How are you doing there, dude? I'm doing good, brother. Yes, brother. That sounds good. Well, snap into a slim gym as we venture forth into a little half-ass territory. Hey, Brian, Abit, why don't you explain to us what we're doing here and who's going to win stuff? Well, okay, if I must.

Welcome to the morning, half-ass is a trivia game where I'm going to be giving the two of you the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category in six possible answers. three of those answers are ding three of those answers are depending on how confident you feel at the category you can provide one, two or three guesses but if any of those guesses are wrong you get nothing good day sir

if you guess one and get it right you get a point two right gets you three points and three right gets you five we're going to play three rounds and the person with the most points wins the prize for their contestant by the way those contestants let's introduce them now from our tad pool that can't be here

live. Scott, you're going to be playing for Adam Prowse in Logan, Utah, a little local boy. Yeah. I like that. A little local boy. And Brian, someone closer to you, as a matter of fact, you're going to be playing for John in Jacksonville, Florida. Oh, hi, John. Hello, the Berwick is Weiner. Let's do this. Very exciting. I didn't, we, I don't think we've ever had anybody from Logan on before. Logan is cold and windy and kind of terrible, except they have one of the most amazing university, or sorry, Utah State University is one of the best illustration school. in the country. Oh, interesting. Yeah. So if you're out there and you're like, man, I think I want to go into illustration and you don't, you know, you're, you're hard up for a choice that you

should look into it. That's really good. Where is Logan? It's further north from you, right? Yeah, about an hour and a half north. Hour and a half north. Okay. It's a fine little town, but it's just, it's just cold and windy this time of here to the point that I can barely handle it. Well, I'm okay, whatever, John Cougar Millencamp. Gee, sing us a song about it. Yeah, I'll make a song about it. Well, it'll be my next big hit. You wait. You wait. You watch. Excellent. All right.

Well, let's get to these hits right here. We're going to start off with medieval weapons. So three of these are real medieval weapons. Three of these are things that probably are made up. Your choices are the caraville, the culverin, the glave, the planchette, the manse, and the arbalist. Oh, my lord. These all sound real because I did not leave in the medieval times. That's right.

And all of it sounds like... There's no Diet Coke in medieval times. I know it's... You don't have silverware at medieval times because there was no silverware in medieval times. Can I refill your Diet Coke? Yeah, the thing they definitely didn't have in medieval times. I've never been, not once.

You guys have all been, I've never been. Oh, really? I thought you came during a BlizzCon. Try, always tried, and something was always up. Like the last time I was there, the stupid stage thing I did, one wasn't stupid, but whatever, that... That killed all my... Because we had rehearsals and stuff.

It was annoying. Because I thought that was the year I was going to finally get to go, and I didn't get to. You know, I'm trying to think of if there's something, there's something like that in Vegas. I want to say it's at Excalibur, but it's not an actual medieval times. It's like a, it's like Excalibur's version of medieval times. I would do that. Maybe we do something there. I would love that.

That sounds great. A little tad pool we get together. Oh, I'm so excited for this year's. I'm so excited. I have too. By the way, for those of you, who were in the chat room earlier, I can tell you, the contract has been signed.

It is in the hands of the plaza. They're giving us some codes to give everybody to get rooms, and it's going to be awesome. April 24th through 28th. I got swag already planned. I got some ideas. Do you? Yeah.

Tickets soon-ish, since we have dates, there's no reason why we can't do it sooner than later. For sure. It's going to be great, you guys. Vegas is great. You guys are great. Claire's coming. What else can you ask for? She's great, too.

Yeah. All right. Anyway, cool. Anyway, let's get to it. Let's see what your answers are here. Wow. Neither of you chose Glave. I thought for sure Glave would be a...

No, because I think it's a fantasy thing, isn't it? It's not really a... I wasn't sure. I was like, I don't know. Is it too fantasy? I definitely know it's a fantasy thing. Yeah, the actual glave is not a five-pointed little spinny star thing. Right, right, right.

crawl, but it is a pole arm. It is a pole arm. Damn it. The caraville, the planchette, and the manse. None of those are correct. Oh, damn it. Are the culverin, which is a musket, the glave, which is a pole arm, and the arbalest, which is a crossbow. So I'd be, if I end up going back in time, I'm screwed.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. You are screwed. You'd say, where's my... Hear me that planchette. It's time to go to war. Hey me that planchette. It's time for an Oscar. Yes. If you're out of planchets, I'll take a caraval, please. Exactly. All right, well, you'll do better on this second one. I feel like it.

These are terms from cricket, you know, the game cricket. Oh, my God. Jay Seinfeld made fun of it in a famous American Express commercial. Your choices are chin, sorry, chin music, jumbuck, lollipop, Tucker, Swagman N-Ton. Much easier than the last one. No looking at Zoe. There's anything I know more than medieval weaponry is cricket.

Yes. It's cricket, exactly. You know your cricket, for sure. Hmm. Which of these three things are terms used in the game cricket? I'm choosing two because none of this looks right to me. Yeah, none of it looks right. It all looks like phony maloney.

You guys have both locked in. And let's see, Brian, you chose Swagman. Swagman. Swagman. Scott, you chose Jumbuck and Tucker. I'm happy to tell you that both of you have chosen all three incorrect answers. The things that sounded fake were the ones that were real. You all happen to choose things that come from the song Waltzing Matilda.

All three of those words come from the song waltzing material. Is that true? Oh, my gosh. That is absolutely true. Yeah, chin music is when the pitcher throws the ball directly at the face of the batsman. That's called chin the music. Okay. That's called chin music because it makes a sound, ding right off the Batman's side.

I love this. This is amazing. A lollipop is an easy ball to hit, like, you know, basically a lob over home plate. And Tun is when a batsman in one inning scored. a hundred runs. Oh my gosh. I'm just getting a feeling that, yeah, I haven't watched cricket, and I don't want to watch cricket now.

I don't want to hear notes. I kind of want to know more. Oh, look at the lollipop. No, I don't want to see that. I feel like I want to know more now. I feel like I've learned a little something. And this whole, the ton one is kind of weird, because could you say, oh, I scored a ton? And that literally means you scored over a hundred runs.

But what's interesting is usually, and somebody can correct me if I'm wrong on this, but don't the British people spell the weight something when something. when something weighs a ton, they spell a T-O-N-N-E. Oh, right. So having a T-O-N is an interesting switch. The British man. Who knows? They're a bunch of upper-class.

I think they made up all those spellings, actually. I hope you bring on another thing that I'm well-versed in. Yeah, like, what's our third? You know what? You guys are very good with movies. You guys are also very good with video games. However, the question is not about video games. It is about movies, though.

We've got six actors here. Show me the three who've starred in a movie that begins with the letter Q. Your choices are Ray Fines, Nick Nulte, Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Aaron Eckhart, and Tommy Lee Jones. I can totally do this. Okay, do you? I'm already lost. Nick Nolte Or Nick Hart

Oh shit I know two for sure Wait wait wait Yeah I know one for sure I know two for positive Oh my gosh This is gonna drive me nuts I love this question

I want so many So many questions like this Okay this is really good This is actually really good Yeah yeah we can think through this one But it might take a while No, that's a great question. This is just an awesome question.

Some of the movie titles that people are coming up with in the chat room, like queer and present danger. Queer and present danger. Now I'm going to mess me up. Quitness. Anyway. Quitness. Oh, my God. All right.

I only know two. I'm going to. I'm locking a minute. Scott's locked in? No, I'm still thinking. I'm. Uh, it's there. Okay.

Oh, Brian. All right. Let's, let's start with, uh, let's start with, uh, the one you guys both knew for sure. Quantum of solace. I mean, that's easy. I mean, that's easy. Daniel Craig, absolutely. Yeah.

Uh, and Scott, you, you pegged, uh, let me rephrase that. You chose, uh, Ray Fines right away. Quiz show, baby. Quiz show, absolutely. Quiz show. Love quiz show. The problem. I have an advantage there because I watch that movie.

I love that movie. It's one of my favorite. It's a great, great movie. Brian, you, for a moment, for a while, you had Nick Noltee. Yeah, yeah. Who was in a little film called Q&A. Oh, shit. And then you switch to Tommy Lee Jones and screwed the whole thing up.

What was the Tommy Lee Jones one that you thought it was, Brian? At that point, I was just like, I don't know, but Scott's already... It feels like Tommy Lee Jones could have been in a Q&A. Yeah, Scott's already locked into it, and I'm like, I don't know. There's got to be something with Tommy. Tommy Lee Jones been in every movie, every movie, every movie. So I thought it was this good bit. Yeah, it's a decent bet.

I'll give you that. That's a fair bet. Yeah. So, yeah, Ray Fines for Quiz Show, Nick Nolty for Q&A and Daniel Craig for Quantum of Salas and Harrison, Aaron, and Tommy Lee. None of those guys have been in a cute movie. So glancing at the chat, 48 hours, amazing. Let's see, Quarry Potter for... Quicino Royale.

Yeah, Quistino Royale. Quindiana Jones. Oh, my Lord. You guys are amazing. All right. Sorry. All right. So is that, that's not our last one, is it? Or was it last one? Oh, number three. I won. Woo-hoo. You succeeded. You won prizes for your friend there in Logan, Utah, chilling out in Logan, Utah. Adam Prouse, you're going to get a copy of Corridor Z and Dear Esther. Congratulations.

Oh, landmark edition. You're a winner. That's the one with the best version of that's the one to get. Yeah, yeah. Actually, I don't know what the difference is, but it's a dear Esther. A copy of Dear Esther. Dear Esther is so cool, though. It's such a weird, like, not scary, but I don't know what to call it. You know, some games they call them walking simulators. They're just sort of like an experience. This is definitely one of those, so you're not, you know, killing people or anything like that.

But it's this first person thing that just, it reminds me of, like, X-Files mixed with, like, Twin Peaks. And it just has a rad vibe. It's very good. Anyway. Wow. Very cool. Well, Adam Prous, you're getting those. But, John, don't worry, down there in Jacksonville.

Florida, you're getting a copy of D.V. Rings of Saturn. So you're going to be on space while Adam is walking around looking at stuff. Yeah. Take that. Hey, Donaway. Well, look, I think you tried. That's what I think. I certainly tried. You certainly tried. If you give me long enough, I probably could have figured that last one out with the cues, but I had to go through each of the movies and I wasn't getting there. No, it's hard. If it doesn't come to you, it doesn't come to you. You know, it's like, it's tough. You know what I'm fine? this COVID fog brain thing is real, but I'm forgetting things in the moment, but then I'm remembering stuff that there's no reason I should remember things.

Like, it's like, COVID clarity. Yeah, it's weird. And it's usually ancient stuff. Like, I don't know what it was the other day. Something happened. Somebody brought up something. And I went, oh, that's so and so from such and such. And it's this ancient thing nobody freaking knows about.

And I'm like, why is that role? How did I recall that? I don't get it. Anyway, I can barely remember either of your names right now. They're using 100% of your brain over there. There you go. Just like the rumors say, hey, Dunaway, tomorrow we're going to do a little play retro, and we're talking about Mario Kart and all the cart likes.

Yes. All the fixings that go with it. Yep, Diddy Kong, we're going to talk about, I saw Brian playing some of that. It looked really fun, mainly because you're crazy and talking to a triceratops is weird and all that. Anyway, that game's weird, but I've got a bunch of other alternatives that I didn't even told Brian about that also were very cool. Oh, Crash Team Racing, Diddy Kong, Mario Kart 64? Those are the ones I played this past week, so... I've already played a bunch of the SNES original Mario Kart this week.

And then I'm going to spend some time with a weird Konami game. None of you have heard about that is one of the best Mario Kart likes ever made. You'll have to find out tomorrow at 3.30 Mountain Time at the live broadcast of Play Retro, or you can check out the podcast later. Wherever you get your podcast, just search for Play Retro. Brian Dunaway, anything else you'd like to say? Yeah, happy Thanksgiving, everybody. It already happened.

Bye. No, you. He's going to jump on next year. Oh, okay. No, you know, it's never too late, right, Brian? It's never too early. Or early. Never too late.

It's never too late or too early if he's wishing everybody a past happy thing. Yeah, see, this is exactly right. You're not wrong. You're not wrong. That was a really great quiz today. I enjoyed the hell out. Yeah, that was a fun, a final question. And actually, you know, I thought you guys would do better with the medieval weapons, but...

I did, too, because I've used almost everything you listed in some game or another. But for whatever reason, Glave, all I can think of was Crowl, and I'm like, there's no way that's real. But then now that you tell me... Maybe you guys would do bad on the cricket terms, but I didn't realize how bad you'd have that way. Basically choosing everything that wasn't a cricket term. You didn't know we would zero that one out completely, but we did. I did not. All right.

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No, you never know which thing's going to take off that Love the Show. show, though. I can totally see why you like it. All those sorts of things. This is the new one. Pee-Poo, everybody. Tell your fellow Pee-Poo. That's right. Use it in a sentence today with friends. That's right. Here's your first story. There's an exploding toilet mystery. Oh. Yeah. Are they all? Well, it feels like they should be. Does any, is there an exploding toilet that's not a mystery? I guess sometimes you know who did it or you saw the kid put the... I guess there can be a planned toilet Yeah. Do you do much M-80 experimentation when you were a kid?

You know? Yes, but not with toilets. We threw a bunch of fireworks into a mall after they'd closed. Oh, my God. Did you get in trouble for that? They catch you for that? No, but this was a story me and Don Mosby

getting chased all around Longmont, Colorado, because we decided to have an overnight there with no you know basically we just planned on taking the bus the next morning and we ran all around we had a smash up derby with walmart uh shopping carts filled filled the parking lot with walmart uh shopping carts and then threw firecrackers into the twin peaks mall but never no toilets no toilets were harmed in our our 12 hours of terror that's right

i have heard that story because twin peaks was a name i talked about this on tvs months ago or you maybe Maybe even years, yeah, because we have, I have a Twin Peaks Elementary I went to, and so it reminded me about that. And that probably came up when we were talking about this. Probably did, yeah. Did I ever tell you about the time? I had a roommate. I never tell you about the time. I had a roommate who used to, if he had to go to the bathroom, he would get undressed to do it.

Really? Fully? Fully. So if he was doing... Not just pants off, dance off, but like shirt and everything, too? Yeah, well, maybe not shirt, now that you say it, but pants off dance off. But pants off, dance off, for sure. He'd go in there and he would take off his pants.

And here's how we confirmed it. We always assumed it. But here's why we could, because of somebody saw him once or something. But here's the confirmation. We got a firecracker or a, was it a firecracker or a, no, it was a bottle rocket? And he's in there taking his business, you know, doing his thing. Sure. And I, we thought it'd be funny if we fired one of these under the door.

So just went out of there. And then we're like, oh, he goes, he goes, what's up? And then bam. And he goes, shit, you guys, you're doing this, stuff, and that. Open up the door. And he comes out wearing a towel around his waist. Oh, my God. And floating in the air are bits of his underwear that exploded because the thing went underneath his underwear,

which was on the floor because the guy disroves. Gotcha. Oh, geez. So there were like little freaking undie fragments floating around. and smoke in there. It's one of the greatest moments of my life. It's fantastic. I imagine that he also had no problem pooping at that point, at that moment.

Oh, yeah. Either that or he's never pooped since. You know, I kind of know. He got to jump on on future poops as well. Future poops. That colon was clean. Oh, man. Yeah.

He never quite gave us for that. But we never did it again. So, well, anyway, there we have an exploding toilet situation. in Texas in a dental office Maggie Keeler, Kiefer, rather, works for the front desk at a Circle C dental in South Austin. Let's get jury over there.

Strange Strange things afoot at the Circle C. The Circle C. It's a weird name, isn't it? It is. This is on Tuesday morning, 31-year-old, headed into work as the office that she usually does when she arrived, she immediately recognized that something was off. Quote, there was an

acidic, putrid smoke throughout the entire place. It burned, to breathe. It was pretty scary, she says. Kiefer admitted. Sounds like Kiefer Sutherland is in this article. Kiefer Southernland, since her colleagues determined, oh, I'm sorry, I've got to ask you a question real quick about Kiefer. Are you caught up on any of the Handmaid's Tale seasons at all? Yeah, we are done. We finished the whole series. So the guy that was Serena's bodyguard while she was in Canada. Yes. Who she, I don't want to give stuff away. But let's say the guy got shot.

He didn't die, but he got shot. You know what I'm talking about, that guy? I do know, yep, exactly. That's his free, that's Keith or Sutherland's half brother. I didn't know that. Is it really? Oh, I had no idea. And he also has an amazing voice and he should narrate everything, that guy.

Anyway. Was he left out there next to like, uh, uh, was he, do we see him again after that? I don't think we see him again. I think they mention him and say that he's recovering. Yes, that's right. Yeah. Because he was wearing protective gear and didn't die. Right.

Exactly. That was a pretty good damn. season, I thought. It was a good finale. Yeah, I liked, you know, yeah, how are you going to say it? It's mixed. It's mixed because there were some episodes where I was like, I don't, this is just her staring angrily at the camera all the time. Elizabeth Moss and her, this is Elizabeth Moss in most of Handmaid's Tale, ready? Yep, yep. Yeah, basically, yeah. That's what I'm saying. The entire thing felt like her just and it's always angled down a little bit and she's looking up like this

always like it's always like you know weird twitchy eye things like yeah and the whole time I'm like no you guys we get it she's really pissed and she's been through some shit and she wants revenge this is all good but you don't have to tell me every three seconds how mad she is like let's get some story going

so there are times like that annoyed me but there was one episode in particular I'll you know what I'll say this the star of this season yeah like hands down far and away the best thing in the thing is Serena slash

Stravinsky, whatever name is. Yeah, Yvonne Stravinsky. Gosh, dang it, she's good. I mean, go back and watch Chuck. If you watch Chuck and go, I bet she, you never once go, I'll bet she's going places. She's so good.

This, yeah, this, the, um, her performance and, and her character's story arc kind of make you realize that she, this, this, this whole series was almost as much about her as it was about June.

Yeah. Yeah, in a way, like, I'm more interested in her arc. I'm more interested in Nick and what he's doing. He's one of the most interesting characters on TV. So in a weird way, the series is like kind of pass the baton to others. I think that's fine. Totally, totally. But not near enough Alexis Bladell or whatever her name is.

Oh, yeah, she's great. She needs to be in this stuff more because I... Janine. Janine. No, no, no. You're thinking of Janine, the character, a different character. The one I'm talking about is the Gilmore Girl's girl. She played Rory on Gilmore Girls. She's in. Yeah, is that not my... Oh, oh, oh, oh, right. She came...

Right, okay. She was part of the little... She was part of the gang up. Yeah, I don't want to give anything away. She has problems with Janine. No, not her. Different girl. Not her. She has glasses.

She used to be a doctor. Oh, who am I thinking of? Okay, yeah, I'm looking at Alexis Blodell right now. And I was completely thinking that that was the actress who played Janine and I'm completely. And she is underused. Yeah, Emily. Yeah. Oh, Emily, that's it.

And here's the problem. Everyone just looks at her and goes, oh, she's Rory on the Gilmore Girl's kind of one-note character. It doesn't really do anything interesting. She's freaking great in this. And just underused. And Janine is also good. they're all good Janine's also really good

Ed Lydia my gosh What's her name? And Dowd And Dowd freaking Kills it Another Another you know Great

Character development I agree I don't know where that's going Which is good I don't want to You know I kind of want to I want to be on pins and needles With her because I can't tell

If she's going to rebel Is she going to do something from the inside I don't know man So you haven't seen the last I saw the last one I'm done Yeah You did okay Yeah

And at the end you guys kind of at the end you're asking those questions i'm like right right yeah yeah like what's the what's the next and final season going to look like who knows but i'm sure it'll be a lot of elizabeth moss going you know i thought hold on this wasn't the final season no there's one more i thought this was the thought this was the end at least one more i think i know well i know one more for sure really that surprised me because the end of that thing in the train yeah i thought okay what an interesting way to end it nice uh you know like it it's oh no they're not done i i like that as a as a um as closure on those two characters oh wow i mean i guess so exists there's there's not

but the problem is nobody else has any closure you know that's true right so if they had stopped there i would have been like are you kidding well actually yeah that's a really good point we still have a couple major horrible players in the uh uh yeah like what's going to happen to Janine? What's going to happen to Nick? What's Bradley Whitford's character going to do? Bradley Whitfield-Wilford is the one I'm specifically thinking of like, yeah. I love him. I do too. That show's great. It just too many episodes of her looking pissed. We're both like, all right, handmade's tale done. It's interesting. We both, I felt

more satisfied with that ending than I do with shows that had the actual ending. That's interesting. Well, then bonus, you're going to get new stuff. It's like a bonus. It's like a bonus season. It's like a, you know, after the credits entire season. So there you go. Oh, I guess the point. Ten episode Stinger to look forward to this. And one of the worst tellings of a new story today, a toilet exploded. That's really the story. That's the whole thing. Oh, yeah, that's right. It was funny that we got this far without this, without even really given up. Yeah. And they don't, and they still don't know. It's still a mystery. They don't know what exploded it. They just know it exploded. So it's not even as cool a story as what we talked about. So I'll tell you this one. Instead, another bathroom story, but this one is a happy ending. McDonald's employees help deliver a baby in a restaurant bathroom. Oh, it's a different kind of exploding bathroom mystery.

Yeah, right? I mean, in a way, you're not wrong. Employees have nicknamed a baby a nugget. They're calling this little baby nugget. I like that, even though it's made of real people. Anyway, after she was delivered in an Atlanta McDonald's. So good job, Georgia. Let's see, Alexandria or Allandria Worthy.

says her labor was intensifying and her fiancé was driving her to the hospital Wednesday morning when they stopped so she could use the bathroom at the fast food restaurant. So she wasn't even eating there. She was just like, oh, I got to get in there. She went to the bathroom and her water broke immediately. Bam! Pop! What's the sound it makes, right? Pop.

It just goes, pops right. And like the broken shake machine basically is the sound that thing made. Yeah. Yeah, which is, you know, common to all McDonald's. That's right. Worthy said she started screaming, restaurant manager, two knees. Eugenia Woodward, went to see what was happening. I opened the door and I didn't see anyone,

but I saw her feet under the door. I opened it and she was on this toilet lying back screaming. That's when I knew to call my crew, we're having a baby today, she says. Wow. So anyway, they tried to calm her down. It says they got her on the floor. They got her clothes off.

The ladies in McDonald's were at her front side holding her hands. I had her feet propped up to her knees and told her to push. Three pushes. She was a fighter, says the girl at the restaurant. Boy, sounds like somebody who's really into it. Give her something hard to bite down on. How about the three o'clock chicken sandwiches? Yep.

Nandy was born. Fifteen minutes later. Aw, Nandy. Let's see here. You came and you gave without tape. She says she literally popped out into my hand. The parents tell TV station, Divine Intervention, brought them to that McDonald's that day

where three women would be there to help her. I don't know, man. Just as likely that Grimmis got involved. Yeah, Grimus brought them. Mayor McChese made it possible with some good legislation, you know. The police burger, what's his name? There's a burger who's a policeman. A hamburger.

Oh, the police. I'm sorry. The, what is that guy? He's the Po Poe Poe Burger. Officer Quarter Pounder. I can't remember what his deal is. He might be a quarter pounder. I think you're right.

He had some hand in this, you know. He looks like, by the way, I think there's some nepotism because he definitely looks like the mayor's brother it's always connections in who you know man that's right exactly yep you gotta you gotta try to promote from within the family officer big mac no way really is it officer big mac really really so then what's mayor make cheese he's the mayor he's just he's yeah but i mean he's oh he's just cheeseburger he's just a cheeseburger yeah but from like the old times from like for McDonald's in the early days when the cheeseburger was like a major menu item

I think that's funny because I've always felt like Mayor McChise had a I guess he is just a cheeseburger I thought he had a middle the middle bun like a Big Mac does oh like a double cheese or yeah no he's really just got the he's just a

damn it why does McDonald's sound good right now what the frick it does to me I don't know why someone smack that out of me now that I got my taste back everything tastes good. Oh, that's good. Yeah, that is good.

I have some leftover curry. I'll eat that today. There you go. Well, anyway, she's healthy and happy and all as well, this baby. Black Friday, you can get the Funko Pop collection of Officer Mac, Grimmis, Ronald, Ronald, hamburger, and Mayor McChese for $140. No. Funko pops of all five of them.

Yeah, I'm just not doing it. I'm just not going to do it. They don't want it. I'll sell my, my, my, my, uh, my, uh, Cabbage patch, what is it? What is this? Oh, uh, the, uh, shit.

Tactus, leaf, blossom. Whatever is it. Weirdo, four-eyed thing. Yeah. Maybe if you looked around to see if those were worth anything after that promotion? No. No. If I had kept it in its bag, it would be.

And the sad thing is, I could have, I knew once it was, once I pulled the bag out that it was, uh, that that was the dude in there because it was semi-transparent. kind of feel his shape, so to speak, through the, through the bag. Yeah. Hello. Yeah. It was all good so far. It's all, it's all a great content.

Anyway, so I could have kept him in the bag and then sold that for 150 or 200 or whatever. Oh my gosh, dude. Really? But I don't know. I don't know what an unbagged cactus. Cactus Pete. Cactus Pete. We don't know what it.

That's a funny thing is. No one should know who this is. I care so little about this stupid thing that, let's see here. called cactus plant flea market junior let's see here someone

is offering birdie and two cactus plant flea market their their eBay label is need gone need gone need gone is the

wow they're serious there's a cactus plant flea market McDonald's an open toy but it's only $4.25 these things have oh yeah 99 cents make offer these things are so they're poopsky they are poopsky the the fervor has died for the cactus plant uh flea market uh dude the other day these are the only two things i bought on black friday and they were digital it was almost like cyber friday for me yeah i bought a tron figure of flin inside tron world so so oh cool that character from the original not the new flin correct not

not uh tron reboot but the old school one looking very 80s stupid helmet all that nice i love those they were pretty cool and it was like four bucks on sale so i was like all right i'm grabbing that oh really and that's like a 12 inch thing it's pretty big 8 to 12 and then the other one was uh uh oh a halo master chief sitting on a what um what's the little ATV they have in the game park bench on a park bench on a park bench Master Chief on a park bench I can't think of the name of the thing It's not Warhog

Chat knows maybe Anyway whatever the little bikes are That was like five bucks I'm like why are these figures so cheap So I bought I bought them nice I bought Tina her Christmas present Nice

And I bought And I bought I bought Marvel Mayhem No Marvel Remix. That card game that Dan told us about last week. Oh, yeah. Did you get it on sale somewhere? I got it on sale at games and stuff online. Because I, Amazon has it for super high. And the local, all the local places I borrowed Tina's car to drive to. None of them had it. But I did discover a really new, a new game store that I definitely want to go back to. What's it called? Marvel What again? Marvel remix. Remix. I always, I want to say Snap because it's always anyone talks about.

Yeah, I mean, it's a, you know, it's a Marvel card game. I guess what we got coming out Friday? Another Marvel card game. Another Marvel card game, everybody. X-com-style Marvel card game. Oh, Amazon is actually out at the moment now. Oh, wow. I was going to try to find that somewhere.

It just was so expensive everywhere. Yeah. For a deck builder. Yeah, it's, it was 1999 at games and stuff, although I did pay, I wanted quicker shipping, so I paid for like $8 shipping or something. It's not bad. It's not bad. There's worse things to do. There's far worse things, yes.

I spent eight bucks to get some hot Thai soup yesterday. Oh, worth it. Worth it. Worth every penny of that delivery. Tom Yum. Yeah. The hot stuff again.

Still trying to get rid of whatever remaining stuff he had bull crap I have with this thing and this cough. And that's the only stuff that seems to do anything. It's amazing that that stuff is working for you. Oh, it's so good. It just clears me up for like three hours. love it. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, our old pal, Stephen Schleiker, back from his week away with his kids, and we got some stuff to talk about. So we'll get to all

of that in a moment, but we need music to break things up with. I assume you brought something. I did. Look, if you're a lover of boozy, in your face, indie rock, a rush of dynamic rage and emotional catharsis, well, you know, I've got just the thing for you. This is a band called The Luca State. Their forthcoming album called More Than This will be released on March 10th, 20203 via 30 Tiger's Records. This is the album's

title track. It is called More Than This. Here are The Luke Estate. All up and caught and I read my name out. When I'm crying out all over my tears with no panties to spend, I'm laid on. Over and now

And my kids go hungry For the third time this week And I can't deny that the system keeps failing me Over again Over and over again She said I'm down on my knees I'm willing for

I'm down on my knees I'm praying for Something to come not More than this For the broken heart end From a broken home let down on the breadline This ain't the first time Then the kids go hungry

Did I mention that The estate seems ugly You may think I'm a junkie I need to be able to put food On the table I can do just to keep in my way. She said,

I'm down my knees, I'm waiting for, hand down on my knees, and I'm playing for something to connect more than this. If I make you believe, you'll need more,

and I wish you could see We need more than less Still down the bread Should I No food on the table Did I mention that And the kids go hungry I'll mention that

No, no, no, no And I'm dying my knees I'm waiting for And I pay and I bleed And I'm living for Something to come at More than us Will I make you believe

No, I need them more And I wish you could sing That we're living for something to come at What's more than this? You may think I'm a turkey, I need to be able to put it to a part of the table. What's your name, please? I'm married. What is going through your mind?

I used to me as long. It's handsome lars in his fabulous jars. The morning stream. Oh, my. They're hurting us like cattle. And we've returned. Who was that band again in song? That and again is the Lucas State.

This album doesn't come out until March, but you can enjoy this one track, and I think a couple more. The album is called More Than This. That is the title track. Always makes me think of more than this. Yeah, the song that, uh, Was it 10,000 Maniacs covered originally by Roxy Music?

Oh, Brian Ferry, Ruxi Music? Once again, I didn't know there was a... I didn't know about the cover status. Damn it? Yes. Brian knows it all. He knows all. I know it all. By the way, like a lot of the games that Dan talked about, Cascadia, which I recognize just from looking at the box,

Fjords, Root is one he talked about. A lot of these are on sale. Ooh, the Marvel United First Class. uh of the marvel united games and locations and play mats are all on sale um over at uh games and stuff online dot com so that sounds like a cool source for cool stuff it really is i didn't didn't you know i bought something here a while back and so i get the email on black you know today for cyber monday and uh it's like oh these are these are some good deals in here holy cow very nice uh well let's have another good deal with this feller stephen schliker stephen schliker stephen schliker

Stephen Schlecker. How the heck was your Thanksgiving, man? 12 people, three toilets, one plumbing system that hadn't been through it. It's 1981. Wow. You do the math. Wow. I don't like to say out of any of that. One plunger in the whole house. So the constantly was like, does anyone seen the plunger? Which bathroom is the plunger? Oh my gosh, dude. That sucks. I hate that. So wait, this was like, what, relatives or something? This is at my in-laws house. In-laws house. Okay. Yeah. They need to work on that plumbing thing. get that working? I think they're

at the time where it's like we need to be cleaning up the house to for sale. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I get you. Moving, get out of there. It's getting to get yourself. No, not getting out of there. It's just they're going to, I'm sure, just prepping for the, uh, oh, the inevitable. Yeah. Oh, the final countdown. One of those

kind of sad things. I get you. 80s. They're like 85, 86, something like that. Yeah. That's right around my mom. She's 84 now. Yeah. She's married to a guy who's 93. It still drives. I don't know how that works, but whatever. It was a lot of fun, though. It was good to see nieces and nephews I haven't seen in, I don't know, probably 10 years.

Wow, that's actually kind of cool. Well, hopefully nobody shared any bugs with anyone else in your home. We'll find out in three days, right? Yeah, let it incubate for a couple of days. It's good to have you here. We're going to talk about a few things. I guess both your sons are now way into Marvel Snap. Let's talk about that for a second.

Yeah, again, you're... at your grandparents' house. They don't have anything to do. And so I'm like, hey, you guys, you guys like some card games, some challenge games, check out Marvel Snap. And so they started playing it,

and they were both hooked. And then one of my nephews, who's kind of a gamer kid, I was like, well, do you like card logic games? And he's like, yeah, they're okay. I'm like, well, check out Marvel Snap. And the next morning, he's still sitting there playing Marvel Snap. So, wow.

Three people converted, no affiliate link. Once again. Only, once again, you guys. We could get some money from second dinner for all the people we've referred to that game. Yeah, no kidding. I feel like Brian in particular has been the evangelical sort of source for a lot. No he is for me. Seriously, nobody would know about this game if it weren't for me.

Yeah, there'd be no knowledge of it. Nobody'd have any idea. But you, I know within our circles, though, you've been influential when it comes to the game. Thanks. I was on a show last night, part-time gamers with Syrinx and September and Theo, all three contested. from America's Next Stop podcaster who joined together they Voltroned into part-time gamers and I was on the show last night

to talk about Marvel Snap. I was on there once and it was funny because September was whether parents or somebody in New York or something and she had the worst internet connection

I've ever experienced in my entire life. So it was a little like Avenue 5 remember those episodes where they had to lay they had to wait for ever. And then be like the minute goes, by the name is spiling.

I love that show. All right. Stephen, let's get to some meat here. 52577 arrives on Blu-ray. What is this? Yeah, so there's a lot of talk about the fablemans, the Stephen Spielberg biography, where you see what influenced him

and what made him get into the movies and, of course, his family life with that. The movie 52577 is about this filmmaker, who as a young child, got into movies like all the 2001 space odyssey you know planet of the apes all of this stuff and then here's that there's the star wars movie coming out and knows that george lucas is involved with it and it's his um it's his switch into becoming you know a lover of movies to i want to make movies and i want to make special effects movies with all practical effects the thing about this is that this movie has been in

production for 16 years. The first time I heard about it, first time I heard about it was in 2005, 2006. And I've been in contact with the, with the director, writer, creator, ever since then saying, hey, is this movie out yet? Is this movie out yet? About five years ago, he sent me a in-progress editing.

You know, he is in the middle of editing. He's like, here's an early release that I'm taking around to show to investors. And it was very good then. And then finally, this movie comes out. And it's all about the love of movies and special effects. This is Patrick Reed Johnson. This is the guy you've been talking to.

So he's a little older than us, but clearly of our generation. This guy's known for writing, Dragon Heart, Bill and Ted, excellent adventure, visual effects. He directed Baby's Day Out, which is a little weird. Put that on my resume. Yeah, stick that on there immediately. Oh, Angus. He directed Angus. That was a pretty good movie.

Oh, yeah. And so he's doing all the special effects stuff himself. So at times there's some stuff that's a little lame. But it's a story, I think, that has a lot of heart and a lot of coming of age type stuff of what does it mean to have a dream and what does it mean to follow it back in the 70s? And how does that lead to a career? And this is that that kid from freaks and geeks is in it. I say kid. He's in his 30s now.

Martin's Star or John Francis Daly. Yeah, the nerd kid. Oh, okay. We always say that that kid from freaks and geeks and there's like six. But also keep in mind, this movie was probably shot almost 20 years ago, and now it's just getting its big official release. And so here's this person who's in his 30s, who in the film is still a young kid. Pretty young. Yeah, it's weird to see that. There it is, John Francis Daly. So the cover looks like Drew Struzen drew it. I know he probably didn't, but it's like such a throwback to...

Yeah, look at this thing. I was sticking their discord. But that looks like maybe it is Drew Struzen. I don't know. If you had trouble getting funding. He's got a lot of contacts in the industry, so it wouldn't surprise me if he did. That'd be amazing. Anyway, well, I want to see this. This sounds great. What's funny is some of his influence is people like Spielberg, who now has a movie about coming of age filmmakers. That's fascinating to me.

Yeah. Yeah. So this is just on Blu-ray, right? So not streaming yet. No, not streaming yet. I believe it comes out on Showtime in December. Okay. And this is, boy, this one reminds me of that.

There was the Star Wars one with the kids who. Yes, that their friend was dying and they needed to go see. Yes. Phantom menace. Fan of menace, right. That's what this reminds me of just looking at this thing. So just imagine that you, you both of you who are, you know, teenagers. And obviously you weren't teenagers in 77, but imagine you're a teenager who wants to go and you hear this thing about Star Wars.

You've seen a trailer for it. And it's your life's, you know, mission to not only see this movie, but also. make this movie and go and be part of the industry. And, you know, since it's semi-autobiographical, he does get to meet Steven Spielberg. There's a great actor who plays a very young Steven Spielberg in the film and how he gets involved with, not synologue, but one of those behind-the-scene movie magazines that looks at special effects and the creation of special effects. So anybody who has a love for special effects and just the practical side of special effects will probably want to check this movie out. Yeah, I'm very interested in this. This seems like it's going to tickle all my nostalgia

bones, you know? Sure. Just keep in mind, it is a true independent film. So there's some spots that are rough, but overall, I think the story has a lot of charm and heart. Yeah, this feels like if this guy's been working on this for 20 years, a bit of a passion project, which I always appreciate those. Yeah, yeah. I was reading yesterday a whole bunch of stuff about the New Indiana Jones. Harrison Ford's come out and said, basically, he wasn't even interested in the fifth movie, but he, after making it, he is convinced this is some of the best work they've done. He loved it. He thinks Mangold was the

right guy for the directing job. Like, there's a lot of positive stuff being said in and around post-production of Indiana Jones and the... Do we even have the title? What's the new title? I think it's just Indiana Jones 5. That's all we know right now. That's all we know, right? But it'll end up being like Indiana Jones and the...

The final... The final adventure. The final adventure, yeah, right. But anyway, I guess he's getting de-aged kind of Marvel style. in the film. Going from a movie about a kid who loves practical effects to Raiders of the Lost Ark where they're going to use CGI and they're going to take 85 year old or however old he is Harrison Ford. And they're going to rolling back to 39 years old for the opening sequence of the film where he's going to be punching Nazis and a whole bunch of other stuff. I think this can

be done well. So I'm actually kind of looking forward to seeing how they do it. It's been done pretty well in other things. We can deep fake stuff pretty well that way. However, this is interesting because the interview I read yesterday with Mangold, the director, was he was aiming to do as much practical effects as possible with this movie.

And so he was avoiding CG at every turn, but it sounds like there's this case where you, if you need young Indiana for your story, how else he going to do it? Yeah, Harrison Ford, and I think the same interview was like,

this is worse than I've seen it I believe in. It's a little spooky. I don't think you can know how it works, but it works. Yeah, he's, stoked, man. He seemed excited about it, which he's not known to be for things. He's usually just

kind of, I'm going back to my... Yeah, and then he yelled at the person to get off his plane and... Get off my plane. I'm going back to my Wyoming ranch with my Allie McBeal wife. Right. She belongs in a museum. I'm excited about this movie. Yeah, I cannot wait. I mean, this is the movie that got me interested in doing film and video work when I was a 10-year-old. So, you Brian has the Shining. I've got Raiders of the Lost Ark. I don't know if you had a movie that totally changed your life, Scott. Oh, it was just Star Wars, man.

Star Wars, 100% at the time. Yeah, it was just like, whoa, my whole life is different after Star Wars. Like a whole trajectory change. No question. I was only seven or eight, but I felt a tangible, like, shift in direction. It's hard to explain. I think a whole generation of kids can say this. That's what I'm saying.

When I sat in the theater and watched. Raiders of Lost Dark. I was like, holy crap, this is great. I want to do this. Yeah, it wasn't so much The Shining for me is as it was Star Wars. The shining connection is something far different. Yeah, yeah, no, but I mean, you've got to be at least more interested in movies since that. I see. Since that experience, yes. Yeah, sure. Hey, when you, when you audition for that, did they have you ride around on the trike or any of that stuff? No, no. No, it just went into a it's almost like you

you see in movies where you've got a bunch of people instead of sitting at a table all watching you or three people sitting a table they were kind of sitting on the floor because we're a bunch of kids

so we you know they kind of want to come down our level and there was a camera above the above them that they were just asking me questions and I didn't have to do any lines or anything it was just like you know we're just kind of talking to you and like getting an idea of who you are and apparently they didn't like who I was so

was uh Did they ask to look in your mouth or raise your finger or anything like that? I hope not. They did not. He doesn't got the right finger for the job. Can you say red rum? Yeah, say it like an old lady, if you can. Billy.

Did you, did they, was director, what's his beak there? No, no. Okay. That would have been intense. Kubrick was not there. Well, if he was there, I didn't recognize him or I wasn't introduced to him. but who knows maybe there was a mirrored one-way mirror that he was on the other side I love that idea

such a great story well all right so that's the thing watch for that what's a release for this next year sometime I don't even know next year yeah okay I'm excited about that movie Betty is the final girl okay in the new horror anthology from Archie comics finally Archie doing weird stuff again

Betty doing something we've had enough of Veronica yeah that's right get to belly. So one of the surprising things over the last, again, probably decade, is Archie just doing these non-Archy comics. Everyone thinks of Archie as this great, wholesome, semi-Christian comic book series. But then, you know, about 10 years ago, they're like, hey, what if we do zombies? What if we do horror? What if we bring back our superheroes? And their horror series really went over like gangbusters. People just love this stuff. And they continue to do these one shots and, limited series every once in a while. And their final one is the Betty, the final girl, which will play upon the trope of the final girl in the horror movies,

slasher movies, where Betty will get to go after some people after. So this isn't why the last man where Betty's just the last woman on earth or something. No, no, no, no. This is playing on the final girl. She's evaded Jason and Freddie and she's the final girl.

Yeah, in the slasher film. So if you want to see your Archie comics get a little little horror, then this one's coming up in February, 2023. So you can go and get that. I liked the one zombie one you turned me on to the... Yeah, after life with Archie, that was really good.

That was great. That surprised me. The chilling adventures of Sabrina is the one that got turned into the Netflix series. Oh, that's right. I didn't realize that there was actual comic that was the darker side of things. And of the two, I actually thought

the chilling adventures of Sabrina was better. And it's written by the same guy. Roberto, I forgot what his last name was, Aguiric, Sakasha, I think is his name. Okay. And, yeah, both of those you need to check out. If you haven't read, if you want some horror comics, Afterlife with Archie and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina are fantastic read.

So I suspect that Betty, the Final Girl, it's only a one shot, it's not a series. We'll also have a lot of good stuff in it. Yeah, just worth checking out, I think. It's interesting to see how they turn this ancient, you know, thing that's been around since, I don't know, what, the 30s, 40s, the Archie started. Yeah, it's one of the early comic books. Yeah, it's one of the early comic book series. It's fascinating how they've just figured out a way to give it this kind of life. I don't know.

I respect it. I don't love all the stuff from it. Like, I don't really like the show. What's the show called? Riverdale. Riverdale. Can't stand Riverdale. It's just too back.

stabby WB, whatever. Too Burlante. Yeah. It's very Burlante, but it's not, but I like that it's a thing and that it has its fans. I think that's cool. So, yeah. Well done, Archie, you weird ginger. Okay, let's move on.

And you got anything else going on at Major Spoilers? Because, man, people are chomping at the bit to get more content. What can you give them? We are in the closing weeks of the year, which is really surprising. So we've got a few more surprises coming up, the Major Spoilers podcast this week. we're reading the comic my boyfriend is a bear and I'm not really sure if this is supposed to be a metaphor or not but bear up in like Idaho bear like uh yeah it's a girl who actually is dating a bear an actual bear like a large hairy gay man yeah so not large hairy gay men but

like an actual no an actual bear okay that's fine it's weird and it's different and I was I went into it not knowing anything about it and left going huh that's some things to think about. Yeah, yeah, it is. By the way, I have this friend, and I was much younger, I think we were maybe in our early 20s, late teens. His name was also Scott. And he was, if it was even possible, he was skinnier than me, shorter and skinnier than me, just a skinny kid. I reconnected with that guy maybe a month ago, found him on Facebook. He now literally lives in Idaho, which is famous for having a pretty big bear community up there. And he's like bear bear or gigantic man now like i've never it's just buff beyond belief and it's the

hairiest gayest bear man he just he couldn't have changed more like imagine me turning into i don't even know what i would have to look like but it's unrecognizable as this guy used to know anyway it's totally fine he's that he's very happy up there and it's all good but it just threw me for a loop anyway there's a fun story for you to take home to your kids uh hey stephen is there anything else? Oh, no, you already told us what else is going on. So check it out. Seriously, though, both of you sound like you got some sniffles still, Brian, and I know, Scott, you're still recovering.

Yeah. So the most important thing for both of you right now is to stay hydrated. Good advice. I like that. Yeah, he's not wrong. Do you have the sniffles? Are you, uh... I have the sniffles. Yeah, the sniffles. But I, I get the sniffles starting in November and ending in March, so...

Seasonal sniff. Seasonal sniff. Seasonal sniff, Brian, over there. there. And you're going to Vermont. That'll be fun. That's nice and cold and snowy up there. Yeah, that'll really do wonders for my You see your dad and stuff? That'll be fun.

Yes, yeah, it'll be nice to get some pre-Christmas hangout time with my dad. Yeah, nothing wrong with that. I, uh, well, yeah, we'll let you, we'll let you guys know what that means for content. Can you reschedule your Texas trip for while I'm in, uh, that's the other thing. I doesn't even know when we're redoing that. think it'll be after the first is my guess after the first of the year i don't actually know uh all right

that's it for that sorry one quick thing trains planes and automobiles something i noticed all right i did a watch of this because i do every year for thanksgiving yeah for thanksgiving it's one of the best thanksgiving film truly i mean honestly i don't think we have quite come to grips with just how much we got out of John Hughes. John Hughes films are so great and so multi-generational. I mean, Breakfast Club is the perfect example for me. So many levels, you know, the fans at every level can enjoy them. Yeah, they're just all so great.

Anyway, that movie is one of the greatest movies ever made and certainly the best Thanksgiving film ever made or maybe even holiday film. I don't know. I come close to just saying it's one of the greatest films ever made. But anyway, notice while watching it and I found this. article to kind of to sort of confirm all of this we're not going to read too much of it or get into it but um i wanted the chat to have it but basically it comes down to this that movie is entirely solved immediately in modern times and by that i mean lift uber and cell phones

that's it right that's it yeah done all of it's fixed with those true the advent of cell phones and uh car uh share bride sharing yeah and so all it yeah It will forever be stuck in the time it's stuck in because of that. And that's fine. It's still classic and amazing. Sure. But I do wonder if there's some future generation of kids who watch that movie and just go, well, don't we just call, you know, an automated Uber pickup.

And what they just pull out their cell phone and. Yeah. It's like, did you guys really not have cell phones back? Like, I could just see that being a thing. It is. It's, you know, I mean, we look at movies like the out-of-towners and things like that and say, we could say the same thing. you check lemon if he just would have like pulled out a payphone and got a cell phone and

booked an uber then all their problems would all their problems go away yeah it's funny how that works and so i'm actually kind of it weirdly had this other effect on me where modern things i have more respect now for the writing in modern stuff because the modern stuff have to account for these conveniences and if they can still pull it off and create tension and create drama and all this with those conveniences, I think that's kind of hard and good and when they can pull it off.

Hi, police. Yeah, there's a guy in a hockey mask from after me with a machete. I'm going to go ahead and hang out in the... Oh my gosh, dude. I don't know. It's just been on my mind. Crystal Lake, yeah. That's where I'm hanging out. Do you see my GPS? I'm sending you a pushpin right now with my Apple Maps. Yeah. Okay, see you a few minutes. Yeah, exactly. Solved, done. Jason has no

no purview over your life exactly maybe kills Kevin Bacon but that's about it maybe that's it there you have it one tiny recommendation it was actually because Brian liked it and I thought you know what I'm going to watch it I watched the the Guardians holiday thing after you did

Kevin Bacon that was a great time yeah it's it's light fluffy fun and it's short it's like 49 minutes or something and it reminded me of those Christmas specials when we were kids they're terrible now but exactly that's

clearly what they were doing. James Gunn's obviously a fan of that stuff. And it was just silly and fun and short. And Mantis is my MCU crush and continues to be. Yeah. I didn't expect Palm Clementia, or however it's pronounced. However you say her name, yeah, she's awesome. Oh my gosh. I love it. Her interaction with Drax, like those two, I want a buddy road trip movie with Mantis and Drax. I guess this was kind of it, but I want a full two hours of just Mantis and X. Yeah, it was really fun. Really, really good. Highly recommend it. See it before the holiday is. And there is a stinger, but of course, there's going to be a stinger. And, uh, what was I going to say? There was something I was

going to say about that. Oh, shit. I missed the stinger. There's a stinger. Oh, shit. There's a stinger. Yeah. I assume there wouldn't be one for that. It's a, I don't know why I thought there wouldn't be anything. I need to go look now. Is it? It's, it's cute. It's, it's as light and fluffy as the rest of it. Okay. Um, what about, uh, but you still haven't seen World Wolf by night, right? No, still haven't seen that. Okay. I should see that. This Guardian's holiday special was actually the first thing planned,

the first Marvel thing planned for Disney Plus. Before Wanda Vision, before any of that stuff, this was the one that was, they were making plans for first. Weird. And it's taken this long for them to get it done. That's really weird. Well, they got in under the wire because James Guns like,

all right, see you, Marvel. I'm off to DC. Exactly. He still has Guardians three for things to wrap up, but I think filming's already done with that. Yeah, they're done with principal photography. That's next year, too, right? Next year, I think. Is it?

I think so. I think it's their major Marvel for the year next year. I can't wait. I'm so excited. Who's major Marvel? There's like eight movies coming out next year. Are there? I thought there was only like two.

Oh, we got Ant-Man Quantum Mania. We've got Marvels, the Captain Marvel's sequel. Oh, I forgot about that. I still have to watch the original. I thought that was 2024, but that's fine. Well, let me see. Because those things get shifted around all the time. That's true.

That's true. Any given weekend, and they're like, oh, we moved it. Yes, May is, well, May is Guardians 3. Marvel's is July. Captain America, New World Order is, I'm sorry, that one's next year. So, Ant Men, the Wasp, Guardians, Marvels, and then, is there something later on the year? Holy shit, I take it back.

That's a lot of Marvel next year. They have plenty coming out. Blade got pushed to 2024. Yeah. Echo? Is Echo a thing? Echo was going to be a TV show, I believe. So, I mean, but then we have, yeah, we do have all the Disney Plus series.

So we've got Secret Invasion, Echo, Loki, Iron Heart, Daredevil Born Again. Right. Craven the Hunter. Okay. Okay. Sure. X-Men 97. Not quite MCU, but okay.

Blade got, yeah, you're right about Blade. I hate that that got pushed. Agatha, the Covenant of Chaos thing at the end of the year. Well, there's a bunch of stuff. There is a bunch of stuff. All right, well, no shortage of marble content coming up. I'm bum, Thunderbolts got pushed to August,

or I guess it's 30, or it's 2024, but. Thunderbolts. Yeah, July of 2024. July of 2024. That's the big, that's like the capper to phase four, right? I think I think it's so hard without there being a big

Avengers style ending for each phase Yeah And then Avengers Secret Wars In 2006 Right in the King Dynasty Before that And

Yeah this is all It's all getting interesting It's a lot of shit coming down the pipe If you guys are into it You're into it But you've got time You've got time to watch Captain Marvel

You've got time to watch Man and the Wasp, you've got time to watch. What else is there? Thor, Love and Thunder, you haven't seen yet? No, oh, yeah, I haven't seen that yet. So that one I got to watch. I've no problem with that. Just haven't got around to it.

Yeah. I still haven't seen Dark World. Or Wolf by Night. Oh, Dark World. Should I skip Dark World? There's a nothing dark world that ties into, actually, there's a big thing of Dark World that ties into Love and Thunder. So I hate to say it, but you probably should watch it.

Because there's a bunch, I mean, I know that has ties to end game. but I don't know. I don't know why it feels weird to go back and watch that. That's one though you can put on, you know, while you're doing other things and pay half attention to it. Oh, all right. Well, I have a project right now that's perfect for half attention viewing. Cool. There you go.

All right. You've convinced me. Hey, quick email from Jeff Seyer and Grafton, Ontario. He sent this email to the morning stream at gmail.com and he says this. Oh, wait, I haven't done this in a while. He's in Canada. So here you go. Kahnie-all right, he says, Scott and Brian, the t-shirt I'm wearing in this picture is for the

anniversary of D-Day. All right. So people at home can't see this, but there is a photo, which I will now share. Very cool shirt. It is rad. Yeah.

Anyway, it says of D-Day, code name Operation Overlord. The top, this is coming from our trivia questions last week. We were talking about beaches that we landed on. So the top line lists all five of the beaches and the flag of the troops and the flag of the troops landing on the beach. U.S. flag for Utah and Omaha, UK flag for gold and sword.

and a Canadian flag for Juno, although we had a different flag at the time of the invasion. A regiment I served in, the Queen's own rifles. I love that. Landed in the first wave on Juno Beach. Our vets have insane stories

of the landing that they would tell us. Anywho, mostly writing it to say how happy and Jen and I are that Scott and Kim are feeling better. Well, thank you for that. Kim's not so long COVID-y as me. She's done much better with this.

Well, she needs, somebody needs to keep you in check, good that she got out of the COVID fog. I agree. Her birthday is tomorrow. She can pull you through. Just so you know, Chad, and everybody listening, I'm going to tap you people tomorrow to just

flood Kim with birthday messages tomorrow. Oh, tomorrow's her birthday? Yeah. I want to overwhelm her with frog pants family stuff, all right? That's the deal. That's the deal. Anyway, there you go, Chad. That's a picture of Jeff and Jen.

They're wonderful human beings. You can see that cool flag he's wearing. That's pretty awesome. That's really cool, yeah. Thank you, Jeff, for your email. The morning stream at gmail.com is where you can send your version of an email, and we'd love to hear from you. We'd also love you to hop on over to patreon.com slash TMS.

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What do you got there, Brian? I do. And it's funny because prior to you getting COVID, I had told the chat room or told the listeners, hey, we need more requests for November. Please get some more requests in for November. And then you got COVID, and we had a whole week off.

And it's like, oh, no, now I've got too many requests for November. So when I can, I'm going to try and double them up like today. Tom rode in and said, hello, stuffing and birthday cake. The 24th was my wife, Maria, I'm sorry, Malia's birthday, but

I doubt you're going to have a show on Thanksgiving. Malia, you're amazing and can do anything you put your mind to. Here's to another year of realizing everything we know is wrong. She enjoys movie scores, metal, and Disney covers, and indie dedication would work too, as happened on our anniversary.

Nice. And then Mrs. Taffy Guy Ronan said, I've waited long enough. The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear. said by Buddy the Elf, of course, in the movie called Elf. I'm ripping the Band-Aid off. It's now time for Christmas music to be played.

Can we get a random van sound clip? Oh, my lord. Yeah, I can. Hold on. This can be arranged. Let's do a good one here. How about random? Okay, I'll just pick.

Here we go. Can you say Star Wars? Goose. Say Star Wars. is the obi one can obi one handy uh oh i love that one oh i love that one oh hold on canobi here it is oh my good obi he can say it fully now that was back in 2021 it's almost a year ago that's weird wow that's great anyway my favorite clip uh all right uh all right uh well Well, let's get to, let's get to some Christmas music.

And those of you playing the game, don't worry, this doesn't count. This is a cover, so covers don't count. This is brand new. I've been recently getting into the music of Remy Wolf. She is a new kind of indie songstress, indie pop songstress. Kind of whacked out. Her music is not family-friendly in some cases, but I don't know what it is. is about her voice and her arrangements, but I really, really like Remy Wolf.

This is a brand new single that she just released. It is a double A side of Winter Wonderland and Wams Last Christmas, which of course, the latter is the one we're playing for you today. Here is Remy Wolf and Last Christmas. See you guys tomorrow. Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day he gave it away this year to save me from tears. I'll give it to someone special.

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart. This year, saved from tears, I'll give it for someone special. One spilling, and twice I keep my distance, but you still catch my heart. Tell me, do you recognize me? It's been a year, no, it doesn't surprise me. Happy Christmas, wrapped it off and sent it with the night. I'm saying I love you I meant it now

I know where the fool I've been But if you kiss me now I know you'll fool me again But last Christmas I gave you my heart The very next day He gave it away

This year To save me from tears I'll give it to someone special Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day you gave it away this year to save me from tears, I'll give it to someone special. Oh, baby, oh baby, oh baby, oh baby, oh baby, oh baby, oh baby. Baby, my baby, mother I cried a woman friend Just tired eyes I'm hiding from you

And you're show love eyes My God Not you with someone who lie on me I guess I was just a show That I cried On her face on the lover The fine is I'm a man under cover But she taught me apart

Now I found a found a real love and you never flew me again But last Christmas I gave you my heart And the very next day you gave it away This year to save me from tears I'll give it to someone special special Last Christmas I gave you my heart But the very next day, you gave it away this year to save me from tears, I'll give it to someone special. Oh, oh, baby!

Oh, God, yeah! Oh, you really broke me down, baby! Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. I'll never see a Last Christmas It broke my heart So this year I'm not leaving my house

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