The Morning Stream - TMS 2438: Weird Pork Extras

Episode Date: March 20, 2023

Do buffalos have wings, cuz I, like, really wanted to know? Winner Junior. If you wanted to join today, then wait till Wednesday. North Weast Is My Favorite Beer. Shazam. Y'know with Sinbad. Dreaming in Diablo. How does Google form work? I bought my cake and ate it too. This meal didn't make me happy. A Rather TDS Service. Ninety-Nine Pig Balloons. Oh how the turns have tabled. If they're not real, do they count as fake? Superman under the Gunn 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, do buffaloes have wings because I, like, really wanted to know? Winner Jr. If you wanted to join today, then wait till Wednesday. Northeast is my favorite beer. Shazam, you know, with Sinbad. Dreaming in Diablo. How does Google form work? I bought my cake and ate it too.

This meal doesn't make me happy. A rather TDS service. 99 pig balloons. Oh, how the turns have tabled. If they're not real, do they count as fake? Superman Under the Gun with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. I'm so saved, I can swing across hell on a rotten corn stalk and spit in the devil's eye and all the while singing Amazing Grace and still arrive in the glories of heaven. No, no deal.

The Morning Stream, is it just me, or does it? Does the jungle make you really, really horny? Good morning and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Monday, March 20th, 2020. Three. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Hi, Brian.

Hi, Scott. How are you? I'm good. I'm in a good mood today. I have a lot to get done. But somehow I'm in the mood to do it. I don't know how that's possible. a lot of Diablo this weekend and I feel like that's almost all I did and even though that's

not true I got a lot of other stuff done I still feel like that's a lot of what my life was so I'm kind of dreaming in Diablo I got like oh no that's the worst yeah all that stuff so all the game I feel like I'm talking to MPCs and getting work done out and the killing demons that feels like that's my life right now did you get a chance to play at all sorry I don't know I had a chance to download it uh yeah as we as I mentioned I think on film sac new ISP getting installed today because CenturyLink has pooped the bed

with the speed and if we're doing anything remotely, you know, using internet in the house, like there are TV upstairs using Netflix or whatever. Then this computer here and a lot of the computers in the house that I don't have set to priority

just drag on slowly. Even with a wired connection. So, and I do regular like test my dot net runs and it's it's pathetic paying for i think i'm paying for 80 20 and i rarely get more than 20 20 20 20 up oh geez so you're up your up's pretty consistent but you down it's kind of second yeah so today you get new isp right is that the deal yesp yep and uh who is it who is it somebody like national is it like a local thing it's a company that has the unfortunate name of tds and i find their service to be tedious yeah very tedious

It's very tedious. It's really tedious. That's hilarious. TDS. For a while we had them before we switched to DSO with CenturyLink. And whenever it snowed, they had days of service interruption, like a full day. And that's when I had to do that hookup thing with Crazy Neighbor next door where we basically ran an Ethernet Cable from his house to mine. Yeah, I forgot about that.

That worked in a pinch. She got the job done. It worked great, yeah. So that was my first question of them. When we started getting the offers, it's like, all right, here's the, you know, does it, do you guys have service outages every time we go down or every time it's a nose? And they said, no, no, no, no, we don't have those anymore. I know, I know the problems you were talking about. We've gotten their infrastructure really improved for that.

Well, that's good. I'm excited for you to have a little bump there. Nothing wrong with that? Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of, I'm still sort of waiting for fiber while our stupid HOA decides. whether they want to allow it or not. But I'll take what I can get in the meantime.

Well, it's good to have you all here, everybody. Welcome to a Monday show. Plenty to talk about lots to do. Let's start with this. Stand back and check your personal belongings. It's time for the morning form. That's right, the morning form. We did this for the first time last week.

And on the weekly, we put it out there that we're going to do a little bit of a contest and give away something free. And last week it was a frog pan. print and sticker pack who knows what it'll be next time well i actually do know and i'll tell you in a second we do know yeah we actually do know but uh we have a winner it is keith b uh keith b you're the big winner we pulled you at random and uh i wanted to tell you some of these uh stuff so this last one was uh favorite alien uh type in a movie or whatever and we had lists we had we had options like the alien from alien et t the predator all that kind of stuff and uh here's the interesting percentage

breakdown by far and uh well i shouldn't say by far there's a bit of a tie here but uh something not listed here and then putting in their own answers yeah was uh 23.4% of the vote so so just people saying other not not necessarily what they chose as other but the fact that they chose other was 23% yeah and some put their some answered uh put actual answers but i don't know how to see them in this form because i don't know how good Google form works. Google form is weird. Let's see if it actually says anywhere.

Does it say? It should. Yeah, if you added a field, which it looked like you did, added a field to the end of it for other. There's a huge list under questions where it gives me the name of the person who responded, and then I can click on their responses.

And then let me see what it says. Oh, switch it to a spreadsheet view, because it'll create a Google sheet with all the answers. Oh, how do you do this here? Let's see. It's a farm default. Let's get, no, we don't want that. Let's see, questions.

Okay, that's not it. I'm trying to remember. It's usually, I think it's an icon at the top that says view results as spreadsheet, and it's got the little sheets icon. Oh, I can download a link to sheets, create a spreadsheet. Oh, I see. Okay. Yeah, there you go.

Oh, that's easy. All right, so I did that. And then Firefox presented, prevented this from happening. Why? Okay, well, anyway, I'll see if I can get some of these down. But the point is... To be able to see all the other answers, because that's exactly what I use for Feud. There's no way I'd be able to do it if I didn't turn it into a spreadsheet.

Yeah, that makes sense. Okay, I'm pulling it up now. Here we go. I got a CSV here, basically. Let's see, and I can sort by that. All right. So what we got from the larger percentage of answers, if I can find the EF and thing. And now I lost that page.

This is great. This is all going good. It's exactly how I hoped. Oh, it was perfect. Well done. Excellent work, everyone. Oh, here we go. Okay, I got the pie chart again. So 23.4%. I'll list it something individual, which I'll get to in a second. Right up Butts tail there, 22.9% of the vote went to the alien from alien, the xenomorph. Yep. You know, the predator, pretty close behind that with 21% or sorry, 11.2% was the next one.

5.3% for ET. Next in line was the Theromans or Thermanians or however you say it from Galaxy Quest. Hermians. Thermians, I said, yeah, we are here happy to him. Those guys. The Nicholas Colossante or whatever, that guy's name is Colitone. Nicholas Colitone. The smallest percentage went to the Super 8 alien. I thought that was cooler than people are giving you credit for.

The thing was in there at about 2.7%. Anyway, District 9 aliens, a whole bunch of these. But let's see what people, let's just see with some of the creative responses. Sure. It says the one from Nope. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Brian's...

You haven't seen Nope yet, right? I still haven't seen Nope, although Taylor and Dylan saw it over the weekend and are telling me I must see it. So I guess I'll watch it. We got one from J.C. Calhoun, who says, Your Mom. Oh, nice. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Here's my favorite from somebody named Mr. Kevin.

Brian's penis. Okay, sure. I assume he means you're the Brian and... I would assume so, yes. And it's still up for debate as. to whether that's an extraterrestrial form or not, but... It feels terrestrial to me.

It does have a mind of its own, unfortunately. And it may go to other planets eventually and that sort of thing. And then it will become extraterrestrial for those people to have to deal with... It can operate a speak and spell. That's right. If that's any consolation. We got the aliens from Toy Story, aliens

from a rival, Salacious E. B. Crum from the Star Wars. Basically, anything from Star Wars, right? Yeah. The original I mean, technically Luke's an alien. Is the blob from the original blob movie? That was an alien? I didn't realize that.

I guess it was, right? Came down in a meteor? I guess so. Killer clowns from outer space. That counts. Asgard from Stargate. Let's see. Boobes we got from someone said boobs. Sure. Sure. Those are sort of alien to them. Now you get to experience the joy of these like I see in the feud answers.

I was going to say, this reminds me of that. And Brian, I'm getting. and some of these are the same people. I would think that they are. Yeah. War of the world's aliens, that's pretty good. Zoidberg, Chewbacca. Lots of good answers.

Some, it'll stitch. Someone said stitch, so be happy there. Good, good. I do agree about the alien from the xenomorph from the alien franchise. I think that is the coolest alien. Drak from enemy mine. I like that's a deep cut. I like that. Well, anyway, that's a pretty good list.

So we picked a winner at random. So this wasn't any, it wasn't due to your answer. You just got picked at random here. And that random pick was Keith B. And Keith B, you're the winner. Congratulations. You're a winner. Here's what I'm going to do.

I will email you and contact you and get your info because you sent me an email. So I'll reply to you there. And you'll get your pack. And that'll go out ASAP as soon as I talk to you. Next week. All right. So next Monday, we're giving away a Gurp and Henry postcard. Oh, it's just out of reach here.

I can't reach it. I'd show you otherwise. And the canteena band art I did for Brian and the CD, him and Andrew did. Yeah. I have a few of those left. Yeah, right from the canteen, Star Wars, Jazz, jazz music. Yeah, one of my favorite things I got to do, and they both look real good. They're about five by seven, and we'll send those to a lucky winner next week.

All you have to do is go to frogvance.com slash the morning form. Sign up for that shit. Yeah, all lowercase. That's right. I did it again, didn't I, where I put it in. You did. You totally did. Why do I do that?

But it's not like we use that link. I mean, I clicked it to say, oh, maybe he fixed it so it's got to redirect. Oh, I'm an idiot. I'm going to do it now so I remember to say. Actually, maybe it's easier to remember because it's all, when the caps are there, it reminds us to tell people that it's, it is lowercase. But anyway, so it's frogpance.com slash the morning form, all lowercase. And you can sign up right now.

In fact, if you're in the chat and you're hearing this live, get in there and give us your answer. It's, oh, I should tell you the subject. It's Best Primetime TV animated series. Ooh. Nice. Or as you wrote it, Best Primey Time. Primey Time. Yep. Hey, y'all, it's Primey time. Get ready. Anyway, go sign up for that and get in there. We'd love to send you something free. Okay. All right. Brian, I got a voicemail to play. Would you like to hear what got left on the machine? I would love to hear it. Yes. All right. I came into the TMS apartment down in downtown and I walked in and the light was blinking and I hit play. It's a little flashing 0-1 on the LED readout on top of that answering machine.

Yeah, yeah, good stuff. So I'm going to play it here and we'll see what's going on with Gary, formerly of Lantronics, currently of, or formerly of Lop B, currently of where is he now in the thing? He's in Batu. Batu, that's right. He's off planet at the Black Spire Outpost. He had his ears perked up when we talked about Pink Floyd. and concerts and so here's what he had to say hey scott and brian uh this is for tms it's the senior

geek gary here uh you guys were talking about the fact that pink floyd played dark side of the moon before uh in concerts before they actually released the album that was actually a pattern of theirs i went to three different pink floyd concerts and the one that i saw at the sanamonica civic uh they played a bunch of music from umaguma and then there was an intermission and then they played the entire Dark Side of the Moon album before it was released. And then I saw another one at the scene of the forum or the sports arena in L.A. and there they played a bunch of older music and then finished up by playing Wish You Were Here. And the last one was at Anaheim Stadium.

After that, I swore off stadium concerts. But as I was driving into the parking lot, I was wondering why there was a giant pig balloon floating over the stadium. and they actually played animals and it was a lot of fun a long time ago so just thought you might be interested in that thanks gary never mind bye okay my favorite part of that was that he was ending it like he was finishing a text that he was dictating yes right signed gary sign gary thank you love gary sincerely comma gary p s so two things i take away from that one gary's been around long enough to know what it's like to hear those guys before Dark Side of the Moon. No kidding.

Which is awesome. That's so cool to have that experience. And number two is I need an answer on this. Why did you swear off stadium concerts? What happened? He goes, that was right before I swore off stadium concerts. Then he didn't tell us why he did that. I know.

He gets frisked weird. Did you have a weird funky beer there or something? Like, what happened? We want to know. Yeah. I mean, it's probably the same reason you don't like them and that I, that I tend to shy away from them if possible as well, just because that many people, not great sound, but yeah. It just feels like a big chaotic mess that you're not really getting your 150 bucks worth from to me. Like, that's 100% it.

It feels like way more hassle than the money I'm paying is worth. And it's even more these days. Well, I guess back then I'd pay, like when I'd see. I saw Ozzy at the Saul Palace. That probably was 60 bucks then or something. This is going to be the year of concerts for me, oddly enough. I can't think of a time a year previous where I've had so many concert tickets pre-booked and pre-paid for this year. But in two weeks, I'm seeing Muse in a couple months crowded house with, I think, no, no, evanescence is with Muse.

Remember who's playing with Crowded House? Then Semi-Sonic Bear Naked Ladies and Delamitri. Hello, 90s. I was going to say, does Bear Naked come with? They didn't come with the one dude. They're done, right? No, Stephen Page and the rest of the band have parted ways for sure, forever. Let's see.

Duran Duran, I'm seeing, kind of a bucket list band for me. I've never seen them live. And Sparks coming later this summer. Was it you that had tickets to see the Depeche Mode tour? am I thinking of someone else I know. Somebody else. That's not you. Okay.

Although that would be, and that's another bucket list, uh, um, another bucket list concert of mine would be Depeche Mode. Yeah. And none of them, and honestly,

none of them are, tickets are more than 100 bucks, actually. I think, uh, that's pretty good. Out of all those Duran Duran is with the most expensive and maybe, maybe toppled over a hundred with the ticket master fees and all that garbage.

I think they were 80 something. Well, they're hungry like a wolf, Brian. They're going to get you from what they can. Yes. I mean, come on. Is there something I should know about your ticket prices? Because they're really not from planet Earth. No. No, they are not. I'm sorry. Did you say this already? They are. Do they have a new album to promote with this tour? Probably. I think Durand, Durand, yeah, they've been cranking out albums left and right over the last several years. I'm trying to remember what the most recent one was called. We, Hammond and I covered them for soundography,

and they released something since that episode. So I don't know. Interesting. Yeah, probably something I better listen up on. I'm always surprised. I was going to be like, here's another one from our new album. I'm always surprised how many of these bands are continually working and I'm just missing it. I just don't know about it, you know?

Yeah. Like I knew, like I was super into him back in the day. Couldn't get enough. New album from Duran Duran, no way. I'm ready for it. Let's go. But these days, it's like, oh, we've had 20 albums and you just slept through it. You didn't know.

Right, exactly. So weird to me. All right. And we'll talk about my movie experience at the end of the show. Oh, okay. Yeah, we'll do that. Oh, yeah, you saw a movie. We got it.

Okay. We have to talk about that. Sorry, I missed that. Well, for now, we're doing this. Welcome to the show. one Brian Dunaway who had a birthday yesterday. Yay! Happy birthday. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Thank you.

Hi. Hi. I did have a birthday. I made it around one more time. Do you feel old? Do you feel, how do you feel? Not because of my birthday, but yeah, I feel old. Okay. You don't feel old? A little bit. Christ. Did you resin print yourself a birthday cake and alcohol wipe out the candles? No, gross.

No. Instead, I went to, what did we do? Oh, yeah, I went to Walmart because I was like, I need a birthday cake. Crap! I guess I better get on it. Well, that's cool. Did you just wait, you got your own cake? Did that happen? Yeah, man. Yes, I did. You got your own cake? I had to give him own birthday cake. Oh, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm in a weird place in life. You got, you got to have your own, you got to throw your own birthday parties. I bought my own Chinese food. I decided to have his cake and eat it too. Yeah. That's the problem. Buy, eat and have your cake. They need to update the phrase. you know because Brian's changed the rules right well I'm glad I don't throw myself a birthday party who is yeah exactly right you'd said something yesterday about how you threw your own party basically and

part of that included hooking up a PlayStation 5 that's fun oh nice that was a good party that was my favorite party yeah that feels like a party that is a party yeah but I guess you have and then I went I went through all the effort of hooking that up downloading a you know the four or five AAA big title games. Yeah. And then I played Apiscape. Yeah. On the PlayStation 1. Yeah. Yep.

Just Far Cry can wait. Spider-Man can wait. Just Cause can wait. I'm playing ape escape. Yep. That's right. Well, we got to... Look at those graphics. We're covering it tomorrow and play retro. So we got it. He's got to do it. But that's how committed he is to that show. It's impressive.

I played Diablo all weekend. It didn't touch Ape Escape. So I got to do that today. Anyway, I could have played God of War, but I didn't do it. You could have. I can wait a little longer. Yeah. Have you never played the God of War? The first?

Not the new one. Not the new one. I played the first one completely through. The Ragnarok, I have not played yet. I want to sit down on a Saturday and sort of by idea. Shut up. Yeah, yeah. Leave me alone.

Yep. You need one of those days where everybody's gone out of town for that weekend. Yes, totally. I love those. They're so great. I don't like them for much longer, though. But I like them for, you know, two, three days. Two, three days.

I'm not a good person. I'm not a good person when my family's gone from more than a week. Oh, yeah. Oh, no, I'm a mess. I can't do it. I think Brian probably fares a little bit better than the rest of us. But that is to say that. Because he's, I don't know why I just get this impression.

So Brian, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'll bet you just are a better solo runner of life than I am. I'd like to think so. Tina's back when she was training for her investigations, job she she had to be gone a month and she would do like 30 day details where she'd be out in in alabama or in pennsylvania or whatever for like 30 days it's a lot and i'd fly out like somewhere in the middle for a weekend or something with her but the whole rest of the time it's like okay taking care of back then tristan was a little kid taking care of the kid got to make the bed got to empty the litter box got to take the dog out got to do um and maybe we'll just have

stoffer's pizza for dinner yeah maybe it'll just be those french bread pizza i can Throw on the toes. I am. I would eat that. I am the best when I have structure. And if no one is there, I'm kind of a slob. I'm kind of like, hey, what do I care? Yeah, I wash the clothes later. Yep. Yep.

We all know what we'd be like if we were bachelors. We know. That's right. Well, I'm glad you're with us today because we're going to play a game. Brian's going to explain the rules. And if you're out there in the chat room and they're thinking, man, I'd sure like to join today. This is your day. Oh, no, this isn't your day.

This is not your day. If you were hoping to join today, well, tough luck. Yep, put that in the back of your head. Come here Wednesday and do it again. That's how you'll get that done. Because today, that doesn't work that way. Today, Brian, will explain the rules. That's right.

We'll see if we can give away some prizes anyway. Brian, explain these rules to us if you don't mind. Done right. Welcome to the morning half-ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving Scott and Brian the answers. Not that they'll need them for this first question, which is ridiculously easy. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct. and three that are incorrect, depending on how confident they feel with the category.

They can provide one, two, or three guesses. Get any wrong, you get zero points for that round. But if you get one right, you get a point, two right, gets you three points. And getting all three correct answers gets you five freaking points. The player with the most points after three rounds, wins the prize for their contestant. Want to know who our contestants are? I do. Well, I will tell you.

Scott, you're going to be praying, praying. And, you're going to be praying for Brian in Lerner. Lothian, Maryland. Brian and Lothian in Maryland. Brian, you're going to be playing for Luke in Iowa. How funny. Luke. For somebody named Brian.

Brian is playing for somebody with the last name Johnson. Oh, what the hell? This is some kind of twisted bullshit. I'm ready, though. How the turns have tabled. All right, let's get your first question here. Let's get you, let's put some easy points on the board for both of you. I almost, like I said, I should skip this one because it's so damn easy.

but we're going to do it anyway. All right, let's do it. All right. Antagonists of the Smurfs. I'm going to give you six names. Three of which are antagonists of the Smurfs, three of which are not. Your choices are Archimond. Archimond.

Archimond, Archimond, Archamond, Asriel, Gargamel, Mordane, Nefarion, and Manneroth. Which three are actual enemies of the smirms. Mannerol. Three of these? Three of them. Oh, I know one. Yeah, three of them. I know two, maybe.

I think I'm... And I'm going for a third. There we go. Oh, I'm scared to do a third. I'm just going to do the two. I don't know. I'm going to do the two that sound familiar to me. You guys 100% locked in on Gargamel and Azrael.

100%. Those are absolutely. The other three, by the way, are World of Warcraft bosses, Archimond, Nefarion, and Manneroth. are uh so more dane is your other uh enemy of the smurfs but the other three are more dain is always like more dain's like uh he he has a tiff with gargamel right isn't that how the flipped is that the thing don't i've never seen more dain but i'm for sure they'll figure out that the other three are wild bosses and they'll well once they get into the later

stuff like with pee we and all those guys yeah the fairing of manoroth i knew or wow, but I'd forgotten about Archimond. Yeah. Who's that guy? Archie Mondi. Archie Mondi. As I like to call him.

Archie Mondi. Good old Archie Mondi. All right. I feel good about that. We're tied up still, 3-3. Yeah. Very good. Going into question two,

and this one is a little bit different. Normally, I would ask you for the real answers. I'm going to ask you for the fictional answers on this one. Which of these six cereals are fictional? So fictional breakfast cereals. Are you cereal? We have Crickly Wickleys

Crunchy logs Cocoa Rockies Twinkles Yummy and crazy crisps Shite Crazy with a K Crazy

That's how you know That's really crazy That's what worries me If it had it been two Cs I would have been like Oh that's absolutely a thing Oh man Twinkles

What the freak is that All right I'm going to two I don't I don't know this. Brian, what are you doing there? What do you got? All right, you've locked in. A chickened out.

So, Yummy Mummy is... It's seasonal. It's seasonal. It's the one that comes out with Count Chocula, Frankenberry, and fruit. Oh, God, do we say... I read that backwards. I said it a bunch of times, and I'm looking for the fake... I'm looking for the fictional breakfast series.

I did the same thing, Brian. Don't feel bad. You guys totally heard that backwards. Don't feel bad. I did the same thing. You guys both did the same thing. Brian was obviously very clear about it, but, oh, I got one of them right. He was. I got one of them right. Cocoa Rockies is fictional. Cocoa Rockies actually was featured on a Coco Pebbles television ad. Yeah.

Crickly Wickley's you can find on Green Acres. It's the serial lead on Green Acres. And Crazy Crisps is actually from a Geico ad. So hold on. Could I get those? They count as real cereals if they were, I mean, can I buy Crickley Wickley's? no no those are fictional see we I'm still doing it I'm still doing it

Green Acres is a television show you see No no no you're I'm still doing the exact same damn thing I'm still doing it I'm still trying to pick the fake ones What blows my mind is crunchy logs Is an actual cereal and of course It would have to be made by Kellogg's

Oh Kellogg's Twinkles or General Mills As is yummy mummy All right Let's get back to To real answers, three of these are rock albums that feature an elephant on the cover. Which of these three albums feature an elephant on the cover? Your choices are, Tusk by Fleetwood Mac, music from Big Pink by the band,

Electric Ladyland by Jimmy Hendricks, Armed Forces by Elvis Costello, Oxomoxua by The Grateful Dead, and Toys in the Attic by Aerosmith. three of those actually do feature an elephant on the cover. Which three are they? Well, let's talk about the elephant on the cover. I'm going to have to guess here, because I don't know very much. Um, um, mm-mm-mm-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-hish. Stop pressuring me. I messed up last time. Now I'm nervous.

I don't know. have any idea here. So I'm making, I'm guessing. Me either. Two are guesses. All right. Scott's locked in. I'm going to go, I'm going to just do one. I'm chicken. All right. You guys both locked in on Oxomoxua by the Grateful Dead,

a palindromic album title. Features a lot of animal or a lot of weird shit on the cover, but none of which is an elephant, unfortunately. Damn it. Music from Big Pink by the band, Arm Forces. I could see a freaking elephant on there. Right. Armed Forces by Elvis Costello.

Two album covers available for that one. The second one is like splattered, splattered paint in the shape of Elvis Costello. And Toys in the Attic by Erosmith features a little stuffed elephant in the attic with the other toys. I just played Tusk from Fleetwood Mac, and that's the only reason I knew that one. Didn't otherwise it seemed like an obvious one, right? Because it's got a dog, dog on the cover, like a blurry dog. Was there a dog named Tusk? Oh, hold it up.

Let's see. Oh, look at that. pulling on somebody's on somebody's a pant leg is it a dog name tusk no we know no I don't know I don't know what

what was your name Mr. Do you want to I wouldn't I could see name in a dog tusk if he had like a weird tooth or something yeah if he had like one tooth like a broke that'd be cool sure I'd be down yes all right so congratulations

going to well it's a tie nobody you have a breaker so here's what we're going to do i don't have a you know what i have a tiebreaker all right toss that point with that back oh man that hurt it's the only one you're going to get they only have new backs coming at this stage they got to keep the one you got okay closest to the correct answer wins um and uh let's see here we'll decide who goes first in back to the future part two what was the 2015 price for a gallon of regular

unleaded gas. Oh, my gosh, dude. How much... Jesus. Did it cost per gallon of gas in Back to the Future, too, in Biff World? Biff World. Let's say...

I'm going to say $40. Okay, Brian. Do you have a guess? Holy hell. I don't think it was that much. I think it was like 257 or something. I don't know.

It was... It was... crazy, but not crazy, crazy, right? I don't know. Was it? Closest to the actual answer of $8.37. Damn it. In early drafts, the time machine was a refrigerator. We knew that instead of DeLorean. $8.37 for a gallon of gas in 2015 in Biff, Biflans. So, Brian, and therefore, Luke, get the prizes. And our prizes today, Luke, you're getting a copy of

Tribes of Midgard and Oli-Ali World Rad Edition. Nice. Oh, that's an awesome game, by the way. Very cool game. Cool. I'm going to love that. Yeah. Yeah.

But don't worry, Brian and Lothia in Maryland. You're going to get a copy of Conan Chop Chop. I do not know what Conan Chop Chop. Don't know what that is. Is that a mini game? I don't know what it is. It sounds like Conan. It almost sounds like a mobile game with Conan in it, doesn't it?

It does. Yeah. It's not. Obviously, it's on Steam. Real quick here. Luke, put down your blue milk. You're getting some games. Have we thought hard and long about how weird,

how different Back to the Future would be had they gone with that fridge idea? Oh, God, yes. It's freaking terrible. Half the movie is cool because of the Delorean, I'm telling you. It's such a terrible idea. Plus all the kids who would put themselves into refrigerators because they saw it on Back to the Future. It's what a horrendous idea.

Kids aren't stupid. Oh, wait. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it. We had a kid in our neighborhood when I was younger. Probably right around then, I was probably a teenager. Some young kid got himself locked in a fridge that was in a backyard, like an old not using one, like not plugged in, I guess.

So it was empty, and he got himself locked in there, and they had to have some locksmith and two cops come and break this kid out. You kids did date. I just had another birthday, and you kids did. day might not remember the doors used to like have a little hint into it would lock into place. It wasn't just a magnet. Oh, right. Yeah.

Today, you and you kids are a latch. Easy magnets. You just push your way out now. A bunch of babies. Yeah, I could get out of there. Well, I think that's a good, good, good prize packages for both our winner and our loser today. And apologies to our loser for me being.

There's no loser. There's a winner. And then there's less of a winner. Yeah. There's winner and there's winner. junior okay think of it as a smaller burger you're not as hungry as usual you want a smaller version winner winner that's right microwave dinner that's right microwave dinner that's right microwave dinner done away it's always pleasure having you on and tomorrow night you and i will do an episode of

play retro where we talk all about uh that ape escape game and a little bit around the idea of what playstation one games were like at the time um and why that game is the first uh mandatory dual uh stick controller that came out of the PlayStation. You had to have it if you wanted to play Apis game. Yeah, and that was a tricky thing to do because the device, the machine didn't come with the dual stick, with the dual shock one. That came later. So it was

like buying an accessory and you had to do it to play the game. Here's the weird thing. That's a series I think could be rebooted and rad. I don't know why they don't do something new with that. So we'll talk about that too tomorrow on Play Retro, live if you would like to watch it at 3.30 Mountain Time

at frogpants.tv. If you would rather catch it later. You can get the podcast wherever you get your podcast. Brian Dunaway, is there anything else you'd like to tell us? Eat a poo. All right, bye. I think he thought I was going to cut him off, so he really had nothing. He really had nothing. I know. He was really hoping for a quicker cutoff. Yeah, that's a real shame. All right. Well, it's time for the news, folks. It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. The New Cat in the Neighborhood.

It almost sounds like the beginning of Charles in Charge. It does a little bit. There's a new cat in the neighborhood. Your memory of that is a little too good. Did you watch a lot of Charles in Charge? I swear on a stack of Bibles, I have never watched an episode of Charles in Charge. I just happen to know the theme song from covers. Well, then what that tells me is that that was a catchy song that a lot of people wanted to make a version of.

I think so. Yes. A version is the right word. there's this giant giant main coon that showed up a stray and he's got all the pets in the house freaked the f out he's not even been in the house or anything

they're just seeing him out the window the dogs are losing it he's too big he's like a he's like a dog-sized cat and it's freaking these dogs out real quick this is actually a good time to do this tell me about the movie you saw I'm dying to know what you went and saw oh yeah I went and saw

Tina approved it was good about seeing it freaking cocaine bear oh my lord i thought you're going to say oh we got a sneak peek at john wick for we got you know something like that no cocaine bear Tina i said uh we said we got a so we've we've canceled our amc a list subscriptions we're no longer going to be going to amc because of their their crappy lax attitude about people who talk in theaters we're switching uh next month to alamo draft house because there's one close by and uh and i i i gave a ride to one of the um one of the chefs at alamo and he's like you know the only thing that we

that comes frozen in that place are the things that we throw in the deep fryer everything else is handmade there i'm like really all right we're switching all right yeah why not just like it took that and the fact that they have a zero tolerance policy about uh jackasses in the theater is it price similarly so you don't you know have to pay a much more it's the same price as a list but i don't know if it has all the other conveniences there obviously there's no IMAX or 3D with Alamo Draft House. Fine with me. We never really go see those movies anyway.

But yeah, we'll see. We'll see and report back. Yeah, I want to hear how that goes. But Cocaine Bear, was it good? Cocaine Bear is Elizabeth Banks taking everything that she learned from Juddapital and making a

very, I thought it was going to be a little bit, I knew it was going to be kind of comedy, and it's cocaine bear. But I didn't realize how almost slap-sticky comedy it turned out to be. It was fun. It was dumb fun. We enjoyed it.

I'm glad I saw it before we thought about film sacking it because I feel like it's not super sacking. Really? Maybe it is. Maybe, you know, when eventually it goes on streaming again, I can, I'll change my mind. But it was, yeah. the fact that it's based on true story I forgot we were going to look that up and just see how like what part of it was true obviously there was cocaine that fell in the woods out of a plane and uh my understanding is all it was the bear ate it and he died yeah i think that's really it there was no park ranger i mean there were hijinks scott it was like a movie full of hijinks yeah i bet it was hijinks wall to wall hijinks is what it sounds like wall to wall hijinks is it is it worthy of raygen's scott it was like Leota's final film appearance Well, it's better than

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for Sean Connery Or Street Fighter 2 for Raul Julia Street Fighter True for Roll Julie. What did we figure out Was the John Candy one? It turned out not to be Wagons. Oh, Canadian Bacon, yeah. Canadian Bacon, yeah.

Just not a jump, is not a step up, sadly, from Wagon's East. If anything, Wagon's East is a better movie than Canadian Bacon. I think so. It just tells you. But, you know, this thing has, like, Margo Martindale and Ray Leota and freaking Shea Jackson Jr. I like these big Carrie Russell for heaven's sakes.

All people playing very kind of stereotype characters for this sort of thing. Yeah, O'Shea Jackson Jr., I think, is, that's Ice Cube's Kid, isn't it? I think. Let me check. Ice Cube's Kid is in Cocaine Bear. I didn't realize that was Shea.

That's him, yeah. He's from, he played his dad and straight out of Compton. Oh, sure. That makes sense. It's just kind of a cool thing to do. Play your own dad, you know, unless you don't like your dad. He was great. I mean, everybody was really, really good.

But don't go into it thinking it's going to be, I mean, again, you're not going to go into cocaine bear thinking it's going to be anything serious or thought-provoking. But I was kind of expecting a little bit more. I don't know. I don't want to disparage it. It was fun. It was exactly what we were kind of expecting and kind of what we needed. So, it's good. And Tina's overall on it, her take?

She liked it. She liked it more than everything ever all at once. I don't know how, but she did. That's funny. Well, you know, everybody needs their own thing when they need it. It's all good. Exactly. All right.

We're going to get this story in for sure. A man has sued Buffalo Wild Wings. We've talked about a similar story before, but he claims pricey, boneless wings or basely. basically nuggets. So this is yet another person who's like, you call the thing boneless, they're really just nuggets. They're not wings. They call them wings. Yeah. Yeah. They're not wings. They definitely deliver on the boneless part. They don't necessarily deliver on the wings. Yeah. Nobody actually pulled wings out and left what's left. So this Chicago guy filed a class action

lawsuit against Buffalo Wild Wings, saying the restaurant chain is charging too much for its boneless wings, which are basically nuggets and not made of actual wings of chicken. Amen or Aiman Halman, Halim, Helm, Helm. Alam. Halem. That's a... Hallam, Halem. Weird name. Yeah. Call them. File the complaint this week against the restaurant and inspire brands. I guess they own the thing.

I must, yeah. U.S. District Court in Northern Illinois, according to the court documents obtained by Fox Television Stations, he contends the boneless wings are not actually part of the chicken, but instead slices of chicken breast meat deep fried like wings. Mm-hmm. Well, my answer to that is, fine. Yeah, exactly. I don't understand the litigious nature of this whole boneless wings thing.

I just, it's fine. I don't either. It's like, yeah, of course there. Of course, there, you're not, no one's going to go to the effort of pulling out, pulling the bones out of wings, holding them together somehow, dipping them in batter and deep frying them. And news flash for this guy, some of the wings you get are dromets. Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. Dramettes. I like that. Dramettes.

That sounds like the name of a high school marching band, the Dramets. The Dramettes. It's all female marching band. Yeah, they'll be performing at this year's homecoming game. Get good seats while you can. That's right. He claimed the purchase of the boneless wings in January that after learning what they're made of, that they aren't wings with bones removed, he said he regretted his decision. Now, this is when the lawyer says after that, quote, as a result,

he suffered a financial injury as a result of the defendant's false and deceptive conduct. Oh, come on. You bought an order of wings. Right. You weren't wings with bones removed. didn't lose any. What'd you lose? Eight bucks? What'd you lose? Exactly. And also, they're not the only ones that do boneless wings. I know tons of places that sell them as that. Do they call them boneless wings though? They do. Okay. Yeah, the place up the road here we go to called, uh, oh, the broseless wings.

break. They have boneless wings right there on the menu. Bing, bang, boom. I don't know. I think this is stupid. This is a little bit like what's another thing where, like, if someone said Boston baked beans, and then you bought a carton of them, took them home and went, these are candy. These aren't at all like baked beans

from Boston. Like, come on. There's no beans in these. It's peanuts. Yeah, that's a good example. Or, what else? I know that there's other things. I'm trying to think of like a fast food example. This meal didn't make me happy. How about the McRib?

It's not a rib. No, no. There you go. It doesn't have quotes on it. No. Did someone sue them? I don't know. Maybe they did.

But the McRib is not a rib. It's made of like weird pork extras. And it's all mushed into a thing. Pressed into a rib shape. Yeah, a rib shaped whole. And that's not a rib. Well, no. Maybe little bits of the meat came from a rib.

I don't know. Pork eggs are. Sure. Yeah, I don't know. But anyway, this guy, I think I hate this kind of stuff, so I hope he loses his stupid lawsuit. I hope he wastes a lot of his own time and regrets it, regrets his actions. If you lose, then you're really going to feel bad about what you spent, because that lawyer ain't going to be for free. Here's a story.

Former One Life to Live Star. Forbes? I don't know what that means. Or is it... I think it's the first name of this. person is Forbes. Forbes March is their name. That's a rough one because I thought at first it was Star Forbes. They got a weird name. You know what I'm saying? And then they were marched while they were arrested. Yeah, that was weird. Anyway, former one star, one life to live star Forbes March

arrested for theft of used cooking oil. It was pretty weird. This is really weird. Yeah, this is a funky story. But I like it. Forbes March, former soap actor who did on one light to live, all my children, and as the world turns, was arrested in Hudson County, New York earlier this month in charge with grand larceny for the alleged theft of used cooking oil from a diner. The cooking oil was an estimated value of more than $1,000, according to the police department there. They alleged, uh, see, they allegedly, uh, he siphoned it in March, and then a second man, Oscar Garardo from a storage container, he did that too, from a storage container owned by a company called Buffalo Bio Diesel, nothing to do with Buffalo Wildwing.

But there's no buffalo in those either. No. There's no buffalo in that biodiesel. There's no buffalo. That's the other thing. Why don't you sue about the name buffalo wings? Those aren't buffalo. No, but they're buffalo style.

That wouldn't be harder to, harder to disprove. It's all stupid. Anyway, they did this in a tank behind the diner. The two men were released following their arrests. Used cooking oil can be used to manufacture biofuels, and the theft has been on the rise throughout the Northeast, or Northeast, Northeast region in recent years as fuel prices have increased. In an interview last year, Summit Mujimidar, the president of Buffalo biodiesel said the

thefts who cost his company millions of dollars. It's ballooning, he said. It's wiping out a third of our business to put that in numbers, 10 million to 15 million a year. Wow. Yeah. So the bigger question is why, I mean, I guess he's down on his luck and not getting new gigs in the world of soap operas. yeah and just needs some cooking oil i guess because it's not like there's like a black market i've got i've got eight drums of cooking well how much how much you want yeah because the used stuff gets converted into what like diesel fuel iobio diesel yeah right and then you can sell that i guess if you steal it you sell it for a hundred percent profit um yeah but i mean it's got to be tough i don't think you just go to a fencer to say all right here you go convert this into biodiesel you have

to go to a refinery of some sort that can do it. Yeah, it doesn't come out right. They're going to ask a lot of questions as to where you got this. Because you don't just take it, you don't take it straight from the fryer and put it right into a tank. There is that process, right? No, yeah, it's got to be, there's got to be some sort of refining going on. I assume so,

yeah. Otherwise, you've got like little bits of chicken wings and things. Or or pressed, breast pieces. Oh, right. Chicken wings. Strips of breast meat. Strip of breast meat. Let's get that straight. Final story.

You got a minute here. Arizona family discovers a bobcat has taken over their dog's bed. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. I just want to sleep here. That's a good, that's a good, uh, horrible Bobcat Goldwater impersonation. Are you kidding me?

That's not terrible. He's changed his thing to be normal now, so, you know, I haven't heard it in a while, so you could convince me. It's fine. That was absolutely. Brainbow bright is correct. That was bad. But I've never tried a Bobcat Goldway before.

So, pity. Take pity on me. We haven't talked about how Lance Reddick died. I don't know. I didn't remind me of that for some reason. I don't know why. Because he sounded a lot like Bobcat Goldplay. Oh, I know why, because I was watching Paradise PD, and there was an episode with Affleck. What's his name?

Oh, Gilbert Godfrey. Fred. Gilbert Godfrey. That's the one. And the same episode had Lance Reddick in it. And I think of Gilbert Godfrey. or when I think of Bobcat Goldthwaite, I think of Godfreyed, and then it made me think of Lance Hendrick, or Lance Hendrickson, Jesus.

Lance Riddick, who died way too soon, and that's really shitty. He just tweeted like three days ago stuff about his dogs, and he has these funny dogs. He's this like really funny guy on Twitter. I know. Great follow on there. It must have been a heart attack or something because he was doing fine. He was scheduled for a bunch of interviews. He's in John Wick 4.

Like, the guy's got a lot going on. Fantastic and Bosch. Fringe Lost Lost Yeah What else He drove Jeremy

Bentham around He helped drive Jeremy Bentham around Oh my Lord John Wick 1 through 3 And now 4 He was awesome

That guy Yeah He was awesome He's the most recognizable voice He talked like this Yeah He

Gosh I don't like you Going out on your own Like this It's just It's just Garbage that he died I hate it It is

It is Take someone who sucks Can we do that? Yeah, there's like to give you a list. I got a list. I'm not going to say him here because someone will be mad, but I got a list. You got a list that's easy to read. Yeah, very easy.

We're going to take a break. When we come back, Stephen Schleiker will join us. We didn't have him last week because he had a thing. And now he's back. So we're very excited to have good old Stephen back. That'll happen in a moment. But Brian has to introduce a song before we get there. Yeah, boy, this is a, this is a musician that,

that I've followed a lot. He's released his ninth studio album called Fantasy. It's a guy who's named Anthony Gonzalez, but he performs under the name M83. M83. His ninth studio album is out via mute records. Big thanks to mute records for this one. This is great, excuse me, great stuff.

And I think you guys are going to get a kick out of it. The first song, the first single from the album is Amnesia. I almost forgot that I was going to play this. Here is M83 from the brand new album, to see. I believe in the darkness It's just the sun I'm in love with some sadness

It's just a smile Like with me I'm I need to make a dream I need to turn my head This is fair What's about a new Hang all over.

Let me touch you with your hands. Maybe I'm too. For a minute with you. It's just a smile. Nothing moments of silence It's just a soundless It's just a sound

Your way Oh I'm going to My reach in my name Place for you Oh, It's slicing all the world It's touching all the world

It's touched to your hands Never let you For a hit with you I'm going to be. So let's find Fast and bride Cause where you play Time timing

calling for me you grow my pisses Back to my life It's facing I'm going to be my daughter. I don't want you to understand something. I don't want you dating my daughter. I don't want you dating my daughter.

I don't want you dating my daughter. The morning stream. If I tilt my head to the side, I sound better. Oops. Okay, who was that again? That band there. That is M83, aka Anthony Gonzalez, from a brand new album, Fantasy, his ninth studio album, and a song called Amnesia. Well, that's fantastic.

Okay, so Stephen's on his way in here. Yes. We're going to talk about a couple of things. Oh, I'll give a little PSA, public service announcement. If you, like me, are catching up on the television show Luther, starring Idris Elba, in anticipation of watching the movie that just dropped on Netflix, and all those episodes are on Hulu, they're only on Hulu for the next 12 days. 12 days to watch all 20 episodes of Luther,

which I'm kind of predicting is just going to Netflix because of the movie there. Oh, that's what I was going to ask because maybe they were going to transfer it, yeah. But who knows? I'm not taking that chance. And my God, it's a great, what a great show. Luther's awesome, yeah. We watch that whole series. The movie is really, really good.

It's good, right? Is it cool? It's really, really good. I've heard really good things. Oh, speaking of which. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dollar, Dala, Dills, y'all.

All right. Stephen Schleckers joining us. He is a huge freaking nerd. Yeah, it's new. I like to surprise you with things. Hey, Stephen, welcome back. It's been a bit here, been a minute. We missed you.

Well, thank you, Scott. Happy Equinox to you and happy Equinox to Brian. Yeah, first day of spring. Thank goodness. No snow forever from now on. Yes, please. That would be great. Well, we balance those eggs, everybody.

I've had, so they're telling us, we're all under like a bunch of flood watch worries because there's so much accumulation in the mountains they're they're almost sure the runoff's going to cause some trouble spots and we're one of the potential ones although in the one we're in we're in the highest part of it so it's possible it would have to really be bad to get to us but there are people not far from me that could be under flood risk and that so we're all a little freaked out about that and it rain today so just keep that moisture coming keep that moisture as my parents would say that

we're getting supposed to get rain this week so So I'm hoping that we get a ton of it because we need it. This town needs a wash. Yeah, wash that thing out, man. Jeez, Louise, a dirty-ass city living. Jeez. That's right. Stephen, it's good to have you here.

We're going to talk about some nerd stuff, specifically how Shazam 2 didn't do all that well at the box office. Despite decent reviews, it seemed like a, you know, reviewed okay. Reviews are mixed. Some people definitely say that this is a darker film than the first one. I took my youngest to see the first Shazam film years ago when it first came out in theater. he loved the movie. For years, he's like, oh, this is my favorite movie. This is my favorite movie until he saw Spider-Man into the Spider-verse. But when the trailer for the second film dropped, he watched and he's like, man, I don't think I'm that interested in it. And I asked him, hey, do you want to go see Shazam 2 this week? And he's like, I don't know, maybe can we just wait until it comes out on video? And I think that's what a lot of people are doing because the movie only brought in something like $30 million in the box office on opening weekend. They need to at least clear two. 200 million worldwide in order to break even on the film. So, yeah, I've got a ways to go.

Now, the first film, Shazam, its opening weekend, was only $53 million. And it ended with $366. So it actually made money over the entire box office run, but didn't do so well. I think people might be having hero fatigue and saving themselves mostly for Marvel stuff. But even then, I think people are just feeling a little fatigued on it. I don't know if it's superhero fatigue or maybe it's just it's just probably yeah superhero fatigue is probably the answer it's not definitely not comic book fatigue no no I don't think it's that I think it's just

like okay another one of these I mean I but I haven't even saw the last four of these wait another one of these like I think there's a little bit of that going on could be wrong but I wonder if those guys over the new team at DC James Gunn and crew they have to be looking at this and and thinking a lot about how they're going to approach this next phase because they don't want to lean in they don't want to lead into it with just really shitty numbers you know what i mean well the good thing is the good thing is all that stuff is under the old regime that's all before discovery took over that's long before james gun and um the other guy saffron were brought in so it kind of doesn't

count maybe i mean i it doesn't count against him per se but it counts as like a metric for them to have to pay attention to you know which to be honest is probably up yeah that's the only thing that go from there that's that's true um i do like rachel rachel ziegler a lot she played uh she was in that um uh uh sharks versus the whatever what the hell was that called what's the spilberg movie that got huh shark nato no no no the spilberg movie last year was nominated for best pitcher freaking it's remake of abelments no remake of Sorry, a year before that, the remake of the old one. Oh, West Side.

West Side effing story. Gosh, dang it. Sharks and Jets. Sharks, you know, sharks versus Jets. Anyway, she was Maria in that, and I like her, and she plays Athena in this, I think? Or The Athenth, whatever it is. I like her. Anyway, I was wrong about the reviews.

It's only 52% around tomatoes. I thought it was higher. John Wick 4 is currently at 93 for John Wick. Man, I got to go. Yeah, got to go. see that is that will that get you to the theater oh yeah hell yeah john like four okay i'll go see that yeah yeah yeah we got a brand new theater over here so we're gonna go try that out over there i think it's not a dump like the one that i used to go to yeah yeah um well anyway so what do you think

uh you think it'll clear it's two hundred million dollar budget and be okay in the end or no i think it will make more than two hundred dollars two hundred million dollars yeah i think it'll clear its budget and uh and promotion so the thing to keep in mind for people that aren't aware, there is the movie's budget, which is how much it cost to actually make the movie. And then there is the printing and advertising, which is how much did it cost to market it? So $110 million to make, $100 million to market. You usually say it's double, whatever the budget was. And so you're looking at $210 million.

So I think they'll get very close to that. Okay. Well, good for them if they do, I suppose. Is John Wick four even out? Is it in pre-release? No, it's not out. It's in pre-release right now. It has a ton of reviews already.

I guess it's, they were confident. Yeah, the early, the media reviews. I actually just got a thing from AMC this morning before the show saying, hey, reserve your ticket to go see John Wick 4. Like, yeah, I will, but not with you guys. Wow. Well, apparently this thing is. You want to pay the higher seat prices to get the good seats?

Well, with A-list, I don't need to do that. Like, it's, you know, you get, by paying your stupid 20 bucks a month, you get to pick any seat in the theater of any kind of showing you want. I just the experience of the people around us talking and pulling out their phones is just enough to take us away to a theater that has a no-tolerance

policy about it. It's happening. Finally, Brian is starting to see. Oh, no. Believe me. You've, you know, you've heard my stories on this show. I get so irritated with the other people in the theater. But I want to see.

You're going to have a better time. Yeah. you're going to have a way better time there I'm sure of it I'm hoping to I'm hoping so the one thing I don't like about a hellmo draft house is they usually come and and uh have you pay the bill during the climax of the film so it's like oh really yeah they're they're you know kind of they crawl down low in the row in front of you in the row of the seats in front of you and then they like here's your bill and it's like wait a bit the bad guy has the gun on the good guy we could do this later yeah that's weird I didn't realize that I thought you paid up front

for everything you're going to do no no you you pay uh at the end of the uh at the end of the show claret alamo draft house has a uh is a food and beverage service during the film so you place your order before the movie starts and then they come and collect they give you the bill at the end of the movie yeah well that might be interesting during john wick we'll see what's seen they do it in my favorite review for it is the emery brothers plot calls to get or sorry calls to mind john woo classics and elevates this fourth chapter above all its predecessors. Lots of doves, lots of doves.

Ooh, I'm in, I'm all in. I love John Moon movies. Tell us about James Gunn directing Superman because that is big news, right? Did he, it felt like a thing where he went in there and went, all right, so we got this line up coming up. I'm going to get on the internet and tell everyone, okay, I've done that. Okay, now we're working on

what's next and who's doing it. Wow, shit, I'll just go ahead and do Superman. Is that what happened? Pretty much. I mean, they spent a lot of a lot of time up in, I believe Utah, or maybe it was Nevada, coming up with the next 10-year plan, and one of them is definitely we needed a new, better Superman story. And at first, James Gunn was just going to write the script. And now it was announced that he is going to direct Superman Legacy, which will be the first movie in phase one of the gods and monsters, a DC movie universe that's

already been announced. And it's interesting if you read this article over a variety where James Gunn is talking about, you know, they approached me years ago to directs a Superman movie. And I said no, because I just couldn't figure out a way into the character. And then he says a couple of years ago, his father passed away. And he was like, well, my father was this huge influence on, you know, he didn't understand or didn't like the, you know, the comic books or whatever. But he encouraged me to do this. He encouraged me to get into film and all of this. And he says he owes a lot to his father. And so I think the passing of his father gave him that in to say, okay, Where does Superman stand in terms of this? And if you've ever read Superman, what is it, last son of Krypton, I forget what the book is. I think that's right. Yeah, the Grant Morrison story really looks at what does Superman think about being a god among humans. And this movie is going to, according to the log line is Superman is coming to grips with his Kryptonian ancestry as being an aristocrat, but also being raised by. you know, Kansas farm folk and how has that, you know,

changed his view on his role as a protector. Right. So I think that that's going to be a very interesting look at that. And of course, if you've seen the trailers for Guardians of the Galaxy, the third film that's coming out, you know, that that's going to be a tearjerker. So I imagine that this will also pull on those heartstrings of family and loss and what it means to lose a loved one and those kinds of things and coming to grips with that. So I anticipate a lot of wet, wet faces coming out of that theater.

Yeah, I think so too. I'm excited about it. It's not, it's a little unusual for him and that most of his work is, you know, the hallmark is like, hey, we're taking these weird misfits and making a movie out of it. And he did that really well with both suicide squads, reboot, essentially reboot. And his, you know, take on guardians. And so to have him take a more serious approach, which I think Superman kind of needs. And I don't mean serious like dark and I don't mean that.

I mean like, you know, a more human approach to it and a little less wackadoo. That'll be an interesting turn for him. So I'm actually really looking forward to it. I think you can still have a lot. I think you can still have a lot of fun with Superman, especially if you go back and look at Superman in the Silver Age where there's a lot of wackiness that goes on there. And even in the 90s where you have Superman red Superman. Superman Blue. I think,

and I hope, I think that's the key word there, is that James Gunn focuses on Superman's ability to get people to be hopeful when it's dark. And this week on the major spoilers podcast, we're actually looking at a Superman book from Tom King, where he has to go and rescue an orphan girl on the other end of space for no other reason than he made a promise. and it's really good

and I know a lot of people are are very flip-floppy on Tom King but Superman up in the sky is a great book and we're going to talk about it this week on the show and so if he can even bring a little bit of that into into Superman legacy I think it'll be a great film well look forward to it everybody

coming up what would we say on that one 2025 or something this one says 2025 but Gunn and Safran have also both come out and said hey look people are too reliant on release dates. When it's ready, it'll come out. But for right now, I guess, because of stockholder prices and everything that we have to put a release date on this.

Yeah, but still, if it fluctuates, then don't get to, don't get too freaked out. Like, I know people are the minute that it moves, people are going to be like, see, D.C. can't do a James Gunn with the wrong choice. It's just like, good Lord, people. Movies change dates all of the time. Yeah. Just give it a chance. The tricky. ready I would rather have a yeah sorry go ahead I was going to say I would much rather have a really really great film than one that's rushed into production and into post just to hit a hit a release date to hit a metric date or a milestone date that's the opposite way of how art should be created I was going to say that I feel a certain measure of apprehension about the day we hear who is being cast as Superman because the internet is terrible with this stuff now

Like we're really, really on fire when something like this gets announced for good or for bad. And that pending announcement, I'm going to hate that lead up. I'm going to try to ignore it. Whoever it is will be fine. I'm not worried about that. I'm just like, let it happen. And then I'm going to ignore everybody for a couple of weeks until the poops stops getting thrown. And then we'll move on.

And it happens every time. When Henry Cavill was cast, everybody was so freaking negative. And now that he's not Superman anymore, everybody is so freaking. negative. It's just ridiculous. So I, you know, the only thing worse in movie, uh, freakouts, for me anyway, is when a new joker is announced. Anytime a new joker gets to announce, the whole world loses its effing mind. And I hate it. So this time, I know it's coming. This way I'll know it's on its way. I'm not going to be naive about it. And I'll know when to ignore everybody. As soon as he says, and we've decided we're casting, I don't know who it'll be Jim Job Jim Jive Joe.

There you go. Oh, my Lord. That's the Joker. I have been working out. If you made Timothy Shalamee, the Joker, who might not be a bad pick. Might not be bad, but still. People will lose their shit. The kids got rage.

We probably know it won't be Affleck. We can pretty much determine no more Affleck in the DC universe. Well, yeah, that ain't getting announced. So, uh, he's said, I am not doing anything further with DC. Yeah. Plus, I think we all thought he was kind of done anyway, right?

I mean, he's, yeah. We get him in the flash, but, uh. Oh, is? Is he in the flash? No, we get a little, like a little cameo of Affleck. Oh, I didn't know that. Okay. Yeah.

More Michael Keaton, but still. That's soon, right? When's that? Soon? That's later this year. See, if I were D.C., I'd be nervous about that thing's performance. Yeah. Oh, yeah, they should be.

For sure. Yeah, they, if they think Shazam 2 sucked. Oh, boy. It's going to be rough. I think we talked about this before, but essentially it is the Flashpoint storyline from DC Comics, which was the huge. resetting of the DC universe 10 years ago, something like that.

So for them to say, yes, let's let Flash get out there, let's close out all that's come before, and then let's start fresh with Superman legacy. I think that's a great idea. And as far as who will be the new Superman, I predict we will know within the next four months. Oh, wow. Okay. Okay.

Because Comic-Con is coming. Well, yeah, yeah, that's true. That's soon. Right, July? That's a good place. It's good place. to make that announcement. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, and there's an interesting back and forth in the chat. There's a lot of people quite liked his Batman,

Afflex Batman. I think it was fine. I like just Bruce Wayne. Yeah. I don't know. I kind of don't know. I guess I'm kind of non-committal about that entire era. It's like it was fine.

I didn't really have that great a time. I don't really have any strong feelings about it. My favorite Bruce Wayne. I don't know if I even have one. do I have one? Oh, by far, the easy answer is Val Kilmer. Oh, yeah, of course, that's the obvious answer. Yeah, the obvious easy one.

I think Bail is my favorite, my favorite Batman and Bruce Wayne. Yeah, I have some problems with his Batman, but I don't like how he looks at like a bobblehead in the final two movies, and I don't like. That's true. I don't like his gruff voice thing. I thought that was the worst. And I mean, you know, otherwise, it's like one connected cowl that like, oh, I can't, sorry, Riddler, could you stand in front of me? because I can't quite turn my head to look at you. You're not wrong.

Like from a practical standpoint, that's the, that's the way you should go. But it is like a little, a little funco pop neck. Go back and watch the Val Kilmer movie only for his Bruce and Batman performances. And you'll probably change your mind.

All right. Really? Okay. All right. You were joking. When you, no, I wasn't.

If you go and watch him as a person who needs psychological help, I think Val Kilmer does a fantastic job as Batman in that movie. Well, Now, if you want to see a Batman and Superman combo, the best bet, obviously, is a bit in Affleck who's played both Superman and Batman. Okay. How about, wait a minute, when did he play Superman? When did that happen? He did it in the biopic of George Reeves in Supervisor.

Oh, completely forgot about that. Right. The one that was about his life and he, in death, I guess. He has to go and dress up as Superman in many instances and deal with that fame as George Reeves. And it's a great, it's a great performance. Totally forgot about that. That's crazy. All right.

Well, there you have it, everybody. Lots of fun stuff happening. If you want to go check out more and a bunch of great podcasts and other stuff, check out major spoilers.com. Steven, anything going on? You'd like to mention? Oh, man. I really want to push people over to Critical Hit.

If you haven't been listening to Critical Hit in a long time, we've got a new campaign going where we get a punch Nazis and Cthulus and all sorts of other monstrosities. It is a fun time. We're having a blast doing it. And it's very early. We're only into like four or five episodes have been released. So people can get on that right now. Are there any Cthulus with Nazi affiliation?

So you can punch a... Well, that's kind of the whole point about Octune Cthulhu is that Nazis are trying to control the Cthulian monsters so that they can take over the world. Oh, okay. Well, that's good. Yeah. If I knew a Cthuloo who was Nazi, or was a Nazi or even if just one of his tentacles was Nazi had Nazi tendencies

Oh yeah, punch him all. I'd have no trouble punching him, no problem. Anytime of Cthulhu even started to say the word that starts with F, he'd be down. There you go. Nailed it. Stephen, it's always a pleasure. You know, springs here, winter's ending. You know, it's going to warm up.

Do you have any advice for people? Well, definitely, even though we're going to have plenty of rain and showers because it is spring, make sure that everyone stays hydrated. hail hydrated all right by now uh nicely done as always quick couple of things uh the diablo show will be today and of course that will be a gnarly one because there was all kinds of stuff happening this weekend in uh diablo four land so if you want to catch up on the latest and greatest and how the beta went i'll be doing a massive diablo show later today i don't record those live

but you be able to get it on the podcast feed immediately after it's done sometime today uh get more details over at frogpans.com slash Diablo sub to the podcast and check it out. We'll also probably have a pretty interesting core this week as all three of us played, and there's a lot to say about that. Sure. Frogpants play stream at 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. today. I'm going to start doing these more regularly and did one over the weekend with Carter. Actually, two of them.

Well, I did a bunch of Diablo stuff, but I also, we did our final. Phoenix. Yeah, oh yeah, that's right. That's a game's so good. It is really, really good. This is like a whole fresh play-through for me, but I'm loving it. It's so good. Nice.

But also, Carter and I started a new game called Bacaru, which is this weird co-op game. You'd love this, Brian, because on my side, my screen, I see something totally different than she sees on hers. I watch that. It's like a very cooperative, like, you know, stand on this seesaw so you can raise up this other area so that I can get to it. Yeah, and you don't both see the same thing, so you have to really communicate. And it was so we're not done, obviously. we're going to do more parts, but it was such a cool thing. So I don't know what I'm playing today.

Probably a little bit of a Dyson Sphere program, I think, today, 3 to 5 p.m. So check it out today at 3 o'clock here at frogpans.tv. Soundography 150. Oh, baby. A 150th episode of Soundography, if you don't count all of the special bonus episodes, and you've got to listen to this and stuff like that. We did our requisite country music star for this season. and it's Shania Twain.

We listened to the entire Chenaya Twain catalog, and I guess I say after listening on that, man, I feel like listening to something else. But I will say that there were parts of it we enjoy.

You're going to find out what those parts are when you listen to soundography today, soundography.com. I thought you were going to say. I honestly thought you were going to say because you said,

and honestly, I feel like, and then you went on to say listening to something else. I thought you were going to say, I feel like a woman, bha-ba-ba-ba-da-na-na-n-na-n- because that's where the joke was going oh that was the joke yeah because the joke is man I feel like listening to something else oh see a little too subtle

for my brain I didn't get it apparently so yes but thank you for explaining my joke no problem anyone here anyone anyone anyone need any help with jokes I'm here for you I'll help explain them all get you all hooked up uh all right check that out 150 nice milestone there I like that uh join us on our frogpans discord frogpans dot com slash discord there's a big happening TMS zone in there where there's all kinds of little groups and fun stuff happening. So just a reminder, as always, to join us in the community and be part of our discord. You can also be a part of what supports this place and keeps the lights on at patreon.com slash TMS. No commercials ever.

Pre-show content every day, couch parties on the weekend, art and the mail, and other great monthly benefits that you can only get if you sign up today for as low as a dollar a month at patreon.com slash TMS. That is going to do it for us. We need music, though, to go. Do you have music to go? Yeah, I do. I have music to go, so it's wrapped up in a nice little package that you can take and listen to it, your leisure. Craig wrote in and said, Dear Scott and Brian, on March 18th, it'll have been one year

since my daughter passed away unexpectedly, shortly before her 16th birthday. She was my best friend and was turning into a geeky young adult. Her favorite band was Queen, and Love of My Life was her favorite song. A cover of that, or maybe Who Wants to Live Forever, would be a great tribute to her. Thanks for all the entertainment and distraction that you'll be. you provided over this past year. Craig, I'm so sorry, man. That's awful.

One of the worst things I can imagine. So virtual air hugs coming your way and Tad love. A lot of great versions of love of my life. Carrie Ellis did one with Brian May that we've played on the show before. This one we haven't played. And it's from band called the A-Sides Club. And what they do is they record albums. that are nothing but covers of one musician or one band.

And they came out with their queen album in 2018 and included this beautiful rendition of Love of My Life. Here is Aisides Club. You've broken my heart And now you leave me Love of my life-consciously Bring it back, bring it back Don't take it away from me

Because you don't know What it means to me Love of my life, don't leave me You've taken my love And now you deserve me Love of my life-consciously Bring it back, bring it back Don't take it away from me

because you don't know what it means to me. And you will remember when this is blown over, and everything's all by the world. When I grow older, I will be there at your side to remind you how I still love. Hurry back, hurry back home to me because you don't know what it means to me. love of my life, love of my life, ooh, get more podcasts like this at frogpants.com. All right, well, bye.