The Morning Stream - TMS 2461: The Royal Toot

Episode Date: May 8, 2023

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their milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard this is the morning stream good morning everybody welcome to tms it's the morning stream for may 8th 2023 i'm scott johnson that's brian a bit hi brian hello scott hey how are you good how was your weekend you saw guardians it was great It was excellent. You loved it. Beep, beep, booboo. Yeah, more about it in the pre-show, but run. Don't walk.

Don't walk. Run to see Guardians of the Galaxy. Guardian 3. It sounds like a real uptick from some of the more recent, you know, not terrible, but kind of just sort of lukewarm. I mean, Wakanda Forever was good. Shon Chi was good. You know. Multiverse of madness was all right, you know.

Yeah, it was all right. But I don't know what is Marvel? you know we need we need to bring back some ruso brothers we need to bring back some some favro we need uh the russos are so busy producing other stuff i wonder if they have any desire it feels like same with favro right he's like so so star warsed up right now can we get him back for anything i don't know he's probably just down the hall just get figy down the hall he really is yeah exactly to say hey fabro yeah come out here and direct one more buddy and he'll say no um but if they wanted to be fatty or whatever's name it was this character's name it's not fattie hogan happy

fattie hogan uh fatty he'll come back for that he'll do some of that you know as long as they don't call him fatty i don't know what i said that i just nobody's doing anything right now because writer's strike even blade we'll talk about this later with uh Stephen but so many things put on hold right now yeah i don't bet the way things have gone for blade from get from day one i'm worried that whole thing. Yeah. Yeah. It's just one more, one more hole in the road.

But, uh, anyway. In the coffin, so to speak. I mean, I really hope they pull it out because I love it. Oh, for sure. Love it so much. I want them to make it. But we'll see what they do. Uh, let's get this out of the way.

Stand back and check your personal belongings. It's time for the morning form. Time for the morning form. Yeah, that's right. A chance for you, dear listener, to win a prize. Okay. And a bunch of you signed up for it this time. Our category last time, last Monday, was best video game character. And Brian, I'd like to share a couple of the top picks with you. Yeah, I'd like to hear it. I'd like to hear who, you know, how things went.

Yeah. Here's how they went. Hold on a second. Okay. With a clear win, Mario, with 17.6% of the vote, they did definitely win. The closest to that was Link at 14.4. After that, you had. had Pac-Man at 7.2% or I'm sorry, Glados with 8.1, then Pac-Man. And then everybody else in there. Sure. As far as like stuff people added, we got Doom Guy, Spiro the Dragon. Carmen San Diego took last place. Really?

Yeah. Somebody wrote it Carmen San Diego. Someone did. The paddles from Pong, someone put in here. That did better. That did five slots better than Carmen San Diego. B.J. Blascowitz from Wolfenstein. Anyway, really great.

I love all the stuff people add. I started with a ton, but what they added was even better. Yeah. And we love that you guys did that. But we have a clear winner, and that winner is randomly pulled from the entire group, and it was the real Tim McKee. Ooh, the real one. Good deal.

We almost gave something away to the fake Tim McKee. Exactly. And we can't be doing that. No. What is this dog and pony show we're running here? Congratulations. He wins. So the real Tim McKee, I'll get you a message out.

I have your email. I'll get you hooked up. And we'll get you a frog pants fun pack, which includes stickers. I had some leftover drink coasters from the Vegas thing. Oh, cool. Yeah, send you one of those, some other stuff. So watch for that. Did anybody enter in?

I'm just looking really quick because I realized it wasn't on the list. Companion Cube. Is that considered a character? You know what? I would say it is. let's see if anyone else said it. We got Mega Man. Hold on. Spiro.

These are suit. Larry. Kirby. Unfortunately, the answer is no. No. But I will say Master Chief, Doom Guy, and Captain Price all made. Oh, Tom Nooks in here. That jackass. He's such a dick. Has all my bells.

Yes, exactly. Anyway. I don't even know what's going. My island is probably a, like, Like all weeds right now. It's weed island. Yep, weed island. Leeds have become sentient and killed all of my residents.

Can you name your, I can't remember if you can name your island. Is it just based on your account name? I can't remember how it works. Oh. Because you should call it weed island. Yes, you can call it a name because then when people visit it, they get to see the name. Oh, that's right. Okay, so call it weed island, but then you know how the game lets you make a flag?

Yeah. You know, weed flag. A pot leaf flag. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. A cannabis flag. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, and they have no controls on that. They do, I've been into the islands where people's, they have weeners up there. They have, like, I went to an island that had a swastika. I got the F out as soon as I could. Oh, God. Yeah. I was like, hey, I'm not hanging around your Nazi freaking island. I already think, I already have questions about Tom Nook.

I don't need any more of those confirmations. Anyway. Capitalist raccoon. That's right. Is he a bear? Whatever he is. Trash panda. What is he?

Oh, he is a raccoon? Is he a raccoon? Yeah. Which makes sense, doesn't it? those are dicks those are dick animals uh you know there's one that's that's not oh you know a little rocket he's not i can't wait to see where that goes hey what do you think about these well you know what maybe we'll save it for later i'll save it for stephen i got a i got a i got a real rumor in my head oh okay all right based on the guardians i haven't even seen guardians yet

but i have a rumor based on guardians and some dc business we'll get to oh can't wait to find out love to love to hear it stick around everybody it'll come later uh all right today today morning form. Best television spin-off of all time. Here are some of your choices. If you go to frogpants.com slash the morning form, you'll have choices like

obvious ones like Frasier and Better Call Saul. I also included the Jeffersons, Happy Days, Maud, the Simpsons, Benson, Melrose Place, Lou Grant, and more. There's a ton on here. Morg and Mindy, if you're so inclined. Sure. Then you can, of course, include your own in the other category, if it's not seen,

here. You'll be pulled at random, so you don't have to be in the winning category. You just have to be entered. And we'd love to do it. Now, here's the deal. Next week, I'm not here Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. And as a result, we'll just save the winner for this for the following Monday. Oh, so it'll just be on Monday. It'll just be two weeks instead of one. It would be like the one we did while we were in Viva Team of Vegas. Same deal. So I guess I'm lifting on the 15th, 16th, and 17th that looks like. That's fine with me just a lift lift away actually actually freelance probably will will prevail you could do a little of both if you get the time i could do a little about actually i'll probably will do a little bit of both

that is a long time to lift all day long just don't do a um don't do it at the same time that seems dangerous oh oh you know working on websites while you're driving bad idea uh anyway somebody somebody i don't uh go over there and tell you how to do your job scott I'm drawing right now. I'm literally drawing right now. Just kidding. Frogpants.com slash the morning form. That's where you enter.

And a few of you got a sneak peek at that because you were in the Discord yesterday. So congratulations to our future winner. All right. Real quick here, did you watch any of the coronation? Did you avoid that stuff? No. I don't care about it.

I don't either, but I had it on and just hit record so I could have it. I wanted to see if we'd get anything weird, you know? Sure. I did see some of your videos, yeah. Yeah, we had some weird stuff happen. So, for example, well, let's just play some of this. Here's some audio for you.

Here's the moment that we have all been waiting for, the crowning of King Charles. So what it struck me as, this was a lot of American TV head people pretending to be really stoked about the crowning of King Charles. Right. That's the second time that Prince Charles is crowned. Yeah, that's right. let's not visualize the first time shall we they didn't really have a lot of pomp and circumstance around his first crowning other than you know we knew he was born right uh there's uh this this king's thing right here felt like a video game to me i'll play this bit receive the bracelets of sincerity and wisdom it's the most RPG sound of bullshit no kidding i'm sorry uh the king is in another castle I hope all this gear he got was like color-coded so you knew if something was like legendary or rare or whatever. Right. Ooh, this one's orange. Excellent. This must be really good.

And here's the thing I don't understand. I checked all of the coverage, BBC's, all the national news coverage here and everything. And they all had this sound when nothing was happening. coughing people hyper-miked up just so like yeah they had a gain turned so far up yeah all we needed seriously was one kingly fart and we'd all heard it one royal toot yeah i would love that uh this part was kind of epic is there any question i'd have loved it oh i guarantee guarantee here's uh here's a part i like god save the king that's kind of cool you know wow that feels the game of thrones man that's like Yeah, and everybody in the audience were Bhrie Baga after he did it.

The Crown, oh, okay, here's some... Right back at you. Okay, the Crown is still a chore, according to commentary. We are now seeing Queen Camilla, her crown not quite as heavy of the Kings, but still a chore. Okay. Queen Camilla is a chore.

Yeah, Queen Camilla. Well, I keep seeing this joke about never give up on being a side piece eventually it'll make you queen or something like that pretty nice pretty nice nice thing to say all right here is another in tampon the third oh man uh all my field for those of you who uh weren't around in the 80s go go back go ask your uncle your parents whoever they probably just google it yeah here's one about language oh no this is uh he wanted everyone to do it in their own language each in our own preferred language.

So the deal was you had to repeat this like kingly saying quote thing. But when he did it, he'd do it in English. And then you heard this just monstrous reply. Yeah. Yeah. It was like the Tower of Babel is weird. It's really weird. And then my favorite thing was the local MSNBC guy or NBC, whoever he was,

trying to pronounce something. Check it out. And how will he be different than Queen Elizabeth's mother? I'm sorry, what? Quillel Elizabeth. Kriela Elizabeth. Lithabeth. I laughed so hard.

Oh, that's funny. But this guy looked tired, and he kept asking people the same question. How do you feel on this momentous occasion? He kept saying, to everybody. Didn't matter who it was. Yeah. He's like, now we have on, we have on with us,

the Scottish ambassador, so-and-so, blah, blah, blah, sir, whatever, whatever. How do you feel about today's proceedings? It's like, you just asked the last 15 people that same damn question. Yeah. It's the reason I don't care for Katie Courts' investigational journalism style. There was a morning that you and I were watching The Today Show.

And she was interviewing the family of a pilot, a military pilot whose helicopter went down. And she actually asked the question, how did you feel when you heard that your son's helicopter had crashed? That's a terrible question. Yeah. Like, uh, I don't know, uh, I guess elated would be, I guess, I guess relieved. I was stoked. Yeah. He was always leaving his shit everywhere, so now he won't do that anymore.

That was the point at which tonight gave up on Katie Couric and her, speaking of, uh, going up the butt. Yeah, she's not, she's not that good. Uh, wasn't her, she was the one that did the, uh, the live colonoscopy, right? Yes. Today show, yeah. Yeah, because her husband died of colon cancer. And she was like, well, I'm going to go do it on. That's right.

on camera and she's she was awake for her right she talked through the whole thing yeah how do you okay i got a question about that i've been through this you've done this is it a local but how does your local get all the way up the shoot you know oh yeah it's a good point i don't know because they go all the way up to where your lower your upper starts so that's a really good question that i don't know oh i don't want to feel of what that feels like even if it's not or was she not awake. Maybe she wasn't awake for it. They just had a... Oh, I thought they interviewed her a whole time. Commentator.

They had like a sports play-by-play kind of person there. Yeah, I never saw the video. I just assumed that she was awake chatting. The camera's taking a left. Well, it looks like it's actually a right, Bill. We don't know what's going to happen now. Is that a polyp? Is that a polyp? I see a polyp.

I think we've got... Can you confirm? Yes, here. Down on the ground, I think I am seeing a polyp. I'm flying over it right now. The doctor do that. That'd be great. Anyway, so it was all stupid other than I kind of like observing the pomp and circumstance of it. But I don't understand why anyone thinks it looks cool. It all looks so silly to me.

So here's what I'm going to do. TRPW in our community knows a ton about the monarchy, how stuff works and all of that. He's going to send me a little list. of like some corrections or misconceptions like why is his shirt untucked why why is he clothed they put him behind this like cube to get anointed whatever happened in there we don't know like a bunch of weird stuff that they did i'm going to get a bunch of that together so that the world may know how the monarchy truly works and we're not just going off of claire's f the british all right because that's a nice sentiment and all but we need more we need more information yeah i need more

Okay. All right, sure. All right. So TRPW incoming. Watch for that. All right. What will be doing here? We're doing a done away time. That's what we're doing.

And this is not one of those where all you call in, everybody. So calm yourselves down. This is just done away by himself. We are not taking the fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh caller. No, no callers will be taken. No callers today. He's ringing. We have the rings of ringage.

I assume he's there. He sent me a test audio earlier because his new headset. It's working just fine. Right. Yeah. And this is still ringing. This is a ring. Oh, oh.

Oh. Hey, look who it is. Brian Dunaway joining us from South Carolina, the home of all good things, except for one. Oh, wow. Except for one. Is that on our license plate? Oh, hi.

I think it is. Yeah. There's not in a lot of rooms, so they just put second in flight or whatever it is on South Carolina. Yeah. Enjoy. Enjoy our palm tree and moon combination. What is it beautiful places and smiling faces or something like that?

We're in the palmetto state. Is that something like that? Okay. That's cool. Brian, what's yours again? What's, uh, colorful Colorado. Okay. And mine is, uh,

mile high state. No, just colorful Colorado is one we have. Ours is just a beehive state. We're busy as bees. Yeah. Yeah. That's what they say.

I don't know if it's true, but they say we're busy as bees. Yeah. The plate is, I feel busy. I feel busy as a bee. Home of Beaver. Yeah, home of Beaver.

Hey, check it out. You're here. We're going to play a game. And Brian Abbott here has the info who are playing four, what they might win, and all that stuff. Brian, you want to take that away. All that, yeah. Welcome to the morning half-ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving the two of you the answers. I'm going to give the two of you a category and six possible answers.

Three of which are correct and three are incorrect, depending on how confident you feel with the category. You can provide one, two, or three guesses. but if you get any of those guesses wrong you get zero points for that round get one right and you get a point get two right and you gets a bonus point for three points and if you get all three correct you get to five points total

player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. Contestants have been pulled from members of the tad pool that aren't able to listen live Scott you are playing for Jim Vic in San Carlos California Brian you're playing for Crystal or maybe Cristal in Olympia Washington. Fancy

Cristal. It's like a rapper booze. It's rapper booze. It's a, what's his face? It's Tarantino's favorite beverage. Oh, guys. Had any of that? And then there's Crystal.

I didn't know that. Is that true? Or is that just from that movie? The whole ending of four rooms is all about his love of Christmas. That's right. Did that whole, like, long diatribe about it. But I wonder if in real life, like feet, I wonder if it's like his favorite drink. The way feet, you know, feet are his favorite.

I think it's just foot bath is his favorite drink. Gotcha. That's a bath water. He's a fan. You're playing for Roller Drome, Heroes Hour, and Demon Turf on Steam, courtesy of Wesley. We'll get to talking about those. I thought you said Demon Tird. I had one of those this morning.

Demon Tird. It's sentient. It's taken on a life of its own. Let's get to your first question here. Remember, I give you six answers. Three of them are right. Three of them are wrong. You guys have done this for over a year now.

Should not be a question. How we play the game? Should be all straight forward. Let's talk about left. Handed people. Which of these six people are left-handed? Your choices are. Marie Curie, Hank Aaron, Tom Cruise, J. Edgar Hoover, Pablo Picasso, and Stephen Colbert. Three of those people are lefties. Three of them are righties. Oh, I think I know one only because of something I observed once. Oh, interesting. Okay. I'm going to say two of these.

All right. I put three, and I'm totally guessing. Yeah. Yeah, you both settled on Stephen Colbert and Hank Aaron. And either of them. Damn it. Yeah. The James for Hoover is, which was the third guest for Brian. But Tom Cruise is a lefty, Marie Curie, and Jay Edgar Hoover.

No idea. So what I thought I knew, I don't know. I thought I saw someone Stephen Colbert would like pull out the popcorn. Yeah. I swear he always ate it with his left hand. Oh, yeah, yeah. That meme of him. they're eating pop or no, that's John Stewart

that's got the meme of eating popcorn. I think they both might have one, but the one I saw of him doing it, he, I think it's reverse film, you know what I'm saying? Like when, kind of like this stream, you're seeing me the right way, but I see myself backwards. I think that's why. I don't know about you, but when I go

to the movies, I eat the popcorn with both hands. Tina has to hold the tub while I shovel it in because what's this hand doing while the other hand is putting popcorn in my mouth. It should be getting more popcorn is what it should be doing. I agree. Do you use, do you use the pincer move, or you, like, just grab one piece at a time, or do you, like, grab, like, a whole handful and just sit there.

My technique is, I'm like the claw machine at a Dave and Busters. I dip my hand down at the bowl. I grab what I can, and then I shake it off, shake, shake the hand to, like, release any loose kernels because I don't want them to land, go down my shirt, back into the thing, back into the pile. and then I've got a good cluster of popcorn that I can then put into my mouth. Perfect. Yeah, just don't strap it here. What are your techniques? What are your techniques? I have minor.

Yeah, I just keep it with me as long as I can, and then someone will eventually ask for it, and then I pass it down, then I never see it again. I'm like one of those shovels. I shovel in there with my left hand. Oh, do you do a scoop? Okay. Yeah, like a cup. I cup my hand, and I use my other hand to daintily eat one at a time.

Oh, gotcha. Okay. So you, you get your own little, uh, you provide your secondary bucket, uh, with your hand. That's right. A smaller bucket. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I feel like you're doing it okay. That's an okay way. That's an okay way. I don't shake mine off, though. I, once my hand goes in, yeah, everything that touches it comes back out. I was going to say, because it's, yeah, the, the hand, the scoop, there is no, you're not confining the popcorn from leaving your hand. A jarring motion. and somebody hitting your arm could release all of your popcorn. No, that happens. Has it happened? Has it happened before?

Where you're just like, I don't know. You always see it. I don't, I don't sweep. I don't sweep. I don't sweep. Yeah. I don't sweep the theater.

What do I care? Yeah, what do you care? You already spent your 14 bucks or whatever nightmarish prices we're paying now, you know? Let them clean it up. I don't know for where you live, but I used to like the people who cleaned up. And maybe I will find a new group of people.

But the current people, they come in after the movie when their credits are starting to come on and they start flipping on lights and they'll stand there with their bucket of their broom and their dustpan. And they'll look at me and just look and look and I'm like, I like to watch their credits.

Yeah. So I'm like, I'm like poor and stuff. I looked at them and said Marvel movie, move along. Yeah, yeah. Or sometimes I'll come in and get and sometimes they come and go, there's no after saying you can go now. Oh, do they say that really? Yeah, yeah. I'm like, well, It doesn't matter.

You pay for the whole experience, including the credits. You want to see who the grip was. I'm watching the credits, man. I don't care if there's a scene or not. I got to see the words. Yeah, F those guys. I will say this. Alamo Draft House,

best experience I've had in a really long time in a movie theater. Is that where you guys went for Guardians? That's where you went for Guardians. And the seats, the new seats, the one in Westminster, has fully reclining seats as good as the AMC theaters. That's one thing I was thinking I was going to mess. You've got your little table in front. And you remember the complaint we had about the theater in Vegas where we saw Infinity War,

where when you wanted something like a refill on your drink or more popcorn or whatever, you'd push a little button and it would light a blue light that would let the servers know that you wanted something. But everybody in the theater could see every single blue light everywhere. That's a terrible design. Extremely annoying. The Westminster Alamo Draft House, little red lights on the front that you cannot see unless you take your hand in your hands. you put it in front. So nobody's getting distracted by red lights unless they turn around and look behind them and see.

That's the way it should be. Which is what I do whenever somebody is talking behind me. I will turn around and look at them. I won't say anything. Yeah, but now that guy will be mad at you and hit his little laser light all over again. Just go wham, wham, wham, way, way, way, way. I'm trying to get you red laser. No, I can't even see it.

And if somebody talks behind me, I write a little card that says, talking behind me. I put it in the little slot. I push the little red button. And guess what? You're out because it's the. Alamo effing draft house. How do they have to give, like what if you lied and said, not that you would, but let's just say somebody said, the guy behind me just said, I really don't like the person behind

me and just said I want to F with them. Yeah. I don't know, because I think that they'd have to come in and observe the talking. They'd have to see it. Okay. Okay. So if you give them that warning, chances are they'll come down the hall or down the line and see and listen and wait and see.

They'll probably, right. They'll, you know, my guess is that they would just kind of wait and next. act like they're doing some busy work while they wait and see if somebody is uh somebody's being a jacking that makes sense to me yeah jeremy wichl says that they monitor that's cool they monitor so it's kind of like if you go to like a place like planet fitness with a lunk alarm so you got like a right yeah is that a thing i love the rebel scums as this place sounds like a buzz kill yes if your buzz is people taking out their phones and viewing them while the movie's going on yeah that's that's the kind of buzz they're trying to kill go go to amc theater if you'd like that buzz yeah you want that buzz

you're after yeah you can get that buzz anywhere you want oh my this is yeah buzz kill for who the jerk is who it's for we just fall into film sack by accident yeah i didn't do whatever even we're doing a show right i feel in august that's going to be my august uh bonus thing is talking about things that piss me off in movie theaters i love it you should i've got a long list of grievances i'm going to get to every single one of them that's right oh my gosh that's right All right, let's get to a question number two. Movie theater chains. No, wouldn't that be great?

Question number two is people born in 1901. So we have some people who are born in 1901. Which three of these people were born in 1901? Is it Mao Zedong, Groucho Marx, Louis Armstrong, Margaret Mead, Vince Lombardi, or Clark Gable. That is my millisecond Louis Armstrong impersonation. I could go, what I do I'm doing for me? Yeah, you could have kept going, but yeah.

But I just decided to give you the, like he's standing out the other side of Tim Allen's fence and home improvement. I love it. I love it. All right. All right. Which means that some of these probably were born before 1901, which always just seems weird to me. Or after even. Or after.

That's true. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's true. Yeah. One around 1901. Mm-hmm. All right. I've chosen two because I'm not confident at all in my ability to say three.

All right. Well, both of you chose Vince Lombardi, who was born in 1913. None of a butthole. That young... Louis Armstrong. You each had one correct with your... I almost moved with a Clark Gable. And cultural scientist Margaret Mead. Samoan cultural...

Well, she studied Samo. She wasn't Samoan herself. Clark Gable, Louis Armstrong, Margaret Mead. I did not know who Margaret Mead was. I feel bad. That's all right. I knew of her because of a Spark song, of all things. Oh, my gosh.

Wow. He says that music is not educational, not me. Especially, who says Sparks isn't educational? I'm impressed. That's amazing. Oh, brand new album from Sparks, by the way, this month. Oh, have you heard it? Have you got a sneak peek?

I've only heard the song, The Girl is Crying in Her Latte, which has an excellent video starring Kate Blanchette. Oh, my gosh. That's a pretty good get. She is not. She is not. She is not. Just watch it on YouTube.

It's worth watching. It's some of the weirdest. Kate Blanchett stuff you're ever going to see. I swear to God, it really is. All right. Sign me up. Let's get to question number three. If you guys have a fighting chance on this one. World records

that lasted longer than 12 hours. World records that lasted longer than 12 hours. Table tennis rally, giving tattoos, freestyle wrapping, spinning a basketball on one finger, jumping rope and planking. Lasted more than 12 hours.

Lasted longer than 12 hours. That's kind of confusing because I was like, it stood for more than 12 hours? And I was like, no, he means it took 12 hours to accomplish. Right, exactly. For example, the first item, a table tennis rally, two people batten the thing back and forth for 12 hours or more. And I will confirm that I have, I searched the three that are not and confirmed that nobody has broken those records since this game came out. Interesting. All right.

Oh, my Lord. this doesn't seem that doesn't seem possible this one does seem possible I feel like I got to go three just kind of wing it here well actually no this would be the time to just get a point this would be the time right you go you nothing to lose right I mean you know you either you either go big or go home and you're already home that's true be big I sleep here all right there I've done it all right let's see what you got here Brian did play it safe and only guessed

one. You guys both thought planking not planking. In 2016 the record was eight hours one minute. However, in 2021, that record was broken and now the record is nine and a half hours. Sadly, that still was less

than 12 hours. No planking record. The other, the actual three, so table tennis rally, it's another one that got updated. In 2014, the record was eight hours, 40 minutes. In In 2020, 11 hours and 50 minutes, just 10 minutes shy of the 12-hour mark. Spinning a basketball in one finger, four hours, 15 minutes.

But yeah, giving tattoos, somebody did it for 52 hours and 56 minutes. No, thanks. I don't want to be 52 hour. No. Jumping rope, 33 hours and 22 minutes in 2009. And freestyle wrapping, somebody in 2014 did it for 12 hours and 2 minutes. Isn't that just talking? It really is, yeah.

Yeah, well, you got. But you got to rhyme it a little bit. You don't mention mom's spaghetti. Yeah, and it's freestyle, so it's not ready. I want to know, but were they, like, did they like not rhyme a line? Because you can not rhyme a line, right, and still be rapping. Sure, yeah. It's like pros, pros poetry, I guess.

You can do, you can get away with it. I don't know what they're, see, I have questions about rules, too. Like, the giving tattoos one, that made sense to me, which is why I chose it, because it seems like you could do that a lot longer. But 52 hours of, I assume, different tattoo receivers. I assume, because otherwise it would be giving tattoo. Right. Giving tattoo.

So if it's giving tattoos for 51 hours and let's say that's 25 people, I don't know what it would be. Yeah. Is it, are they rapidly getting fed through there? Is there like a break time and you're only counting when the needle touches skin? Like I have so many questions about how they make rules for this. So as of March 7th of this year, the record has been broken. now 91 hours. Ishaan Rana,

a tattoo artist from Vadodara, registered by creating tattoos continuously for 91 hours. Let's see if we can figure out the, man, this thing just keeps getting, this record keeps getting broken. He created 74 tattoos on 64 people. He only took a break of 20 minutes every four hours per the guidelines. Now, if you get a break,

forget it yeah yeah so i mean i guess it's it's they just sit down his chair he's got a thing of what he's doing for them and he he uh uh does the tattoo next person sits in every four hours he takes a 20 minute break i mean okay as long as the rules are the same for everybody i could make sense you can make a contest out but i'm just trying to figure out like between people what if the next guy's a little slow or the person after him has only one leg i'm guessing that the Guinness person who has to um the adjudicator what did they call the they have somebody there who has to monitor and make sure they're doing it right probably says no you've got to have a a second chair somebody has to be waiting that second chair you move over to the second chair

and then move back to the first chair and stuff that basically goes back and forth who's getting a tattoo at three in the morning right apparently a lot of people over like 91 hours means a little over like how many people backed out right oh yeah you get in there the genus the ginnis book guy sitting over there yeah it's like what now this guy's been doing it for how long 36 hours no thanks yeah i'll come back for somebody fresh yeah yeah i guess for a hot second in 2018 uh inked the inked magazine and tv show um there's a reality show i guess they held the record for a hot minute for 12 hours uh in 2018 yeah it says here ink breaks Guinness world record for most tattoos done in 12 hours in what year was that uh 2018 February 2017 sorry

um interesting because this one had 52 hours in 2016 so oh weird so there must be different rules or something maybe I don't know it was at the Philadelphia tattoo arts convention it was just one guy doing one tattoo that took 12 hours wow I want to see that he has the giving tattoo yeah yeah he gives the tattoo well Brian that puts us in a tie how do we handle that it does uh fortunately I have a tie breaker question. We were talking about spin-offs and the show MASH and having like Trapper John and after MASH and all

that stuff. I'm going to let Brian give the answer on this one and then Scott can choose the over-under. Brian, the MASH finale was the most watched episode of any U.S. TV series. Yeah. How many people tuned in? How many people tuned in to that

final MASH episode? Goodbye and farewell and good luck. Goodbye, farewell and good luck, I think. Yeah. It's a hell of a thing. I'm going to say that was a different time. People were watching. So I think it would be, I'm going to say, it's 22 million people.

22 million is incorrect. Scott is the correct answer, higher or lower than 22 million. See, I'm going to take the same thinking, but actually really think about it, unlike Dunaway, who barely thought about it. because here's the reason why we yes times are different but back then you had three channels so if you were going to watch a huge event television everybody watched it because there weren't 400 other distractions on cable or streaming nothing else to choose from so I'm going to say higher than that higher okay the correct answer is 105.9 million people oh my gosh yes definitely higher and it broke the previous record which was roots which had about a hundred million viewers itself. Okay. Is that like close to like a fourth of the American

population? At the time it would have been a third or better. Yeah. Like a third or something? Yeah. That's a well, I don't think that's just American audiences either. That's worldwide, right? Brian. That was I think that's worldwide, but yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I guess That sounds right. Yep.

That's a lot. Goodbye, farewell, and amen. That's it. No good luck. Oh, goodbye and good luck thing was movie with Clooney about uh yeah and don't choke the chicken don't choke the chicken it's the baby it's a baby that's right and if you really this is how you know if your friends are good friends if they write goodbye to you uh out of a bunch of barrels on the ground and rocks yeah rocks so you can only see it from the sky that's how you know true friendship i'm not going to say you invite you ha ha ha until you're way far about me and it's like oh you were nice after all hot guy

and they rides off on a dumb motorcycle anyway there's zero BJ that wrote it. Yeah. There's your deal. That was awesome. So who won? What did they get? So Jim Vic is getting a copy of Roller Drome and Heroes Hour on Steam. And Crystal, you're getting, or Crystal, you're getting Demon Turf, all three games

courtesy of Wesley. Fantastic. Thank you, Wesler. Wesley. You did a great job. Hey, Dunaway, do you want to add anything to your already amazing discourse we've had here with you today? Yeah, yeah. If you haven't been watching us play Twisted Metal, we'll be talking about

that Wednesday night, so Twisted Muddle for our playwrights show. Yeah, Twisted Metal rocks, by the way. It does rock, yeah, and there's a series coming out, right? Yeah. Yeah. I'm playing three and four tonight on my Mr. FPGA. What's your favorite character

to play? Sweet tooth. Oh, I'm not a sweet tooth guy. I think I like the guy that was... He sucks, but it's the most fun. Yeah, he's fun. I like the dude. I like the cop in the cop in the first game, I think. I think the cop car is really fun. And also the guy who's a tie, basically a human tire.

The Axel. Yeah, Axel is his name. Is that right? Yeah. It's a monster truck's great. Yeah, they're all good. I love that game series. I wish Sony's missing out on not having a game that's like a big battle royale version, you know, modern or the modern graphics engine.

I don't know what their deal is. There's rumors they're working on a new game, so that'd be good. But, yeah, we'll see if that TV shows any good. It's got your Falcon slash Captain America. Yes. The teaser looked amazing. That looked cool. Well, there you have.

Brian Dunaway. Kiss our butts. We'll see you next time. Okay. That was enough time for me to get links out to people. How that's fantastic? That was very perfect. That's perfect because we're going to do one news story. Hey Brian, this today's news. This today's news is brought to you by by flavor blasted goldfish. Yeah. It's embarrassing. Look, I'm not saying, okay, don't think I ate it in one sitting, but I ate this. But you did. But you did. It took about, this took about three days of snacking.

Okay. All right. I'm not recommending this. This is a bad idea. Don't do this. Okay. Yeah, I'm sure. What was the blast of flavor? Blasted flavor. Cheddar jacked. So it was cheddar and jacked cheese. And they were fantastic. All these flavor blasted. This is my little snack bowl.

I bring this down here. I like load the snacks in the kitchen and then I bring the snacks down here. Such a better idea. Yeah. I usually, you know what, lately I've done that. Lately I've done that, but I, but I brought down two evil things, that and a thing of Pringle. So really lately, you don't do that. So lately I don't. Yeah. Lately, lately. In the immediate, immediate lateliness, I have not done it. That's right. Exactly. All right, quick news story here. Secret plans from a British nuclear submarine found in a toilet. That's the best place to find them. Yeah. It's those British.

They can't win this week with the coronation. Now this. No. Nuclear submarine plans in a toilet. Yep. Secret nuke sub plans were found in a toilet cubicle at the Weather Spoons pub. Many Bothan plumbers died trying to retrieve these plans. That's right.

It's important stuff. Classified files on 1.3 billion pounds. What? Classified files on 1.3 billion pounds HMS Anson have been dropped in the furnace railway and borrow Cumbria, Britain press informs. None of that made sense because nothing makes sense over there when you try to describe stuff. So the submarine is the HMS Anson.

It's a $1.3 billion sub. And the toilet was found in a pub called the Furnace Railway in Barrow in the township of Cumbria or the county Cumbria in Britain. Yeah, but you were born half British, so you don't count. Sure, so I half understand it. You half understand it. No, you fully understand because you got more British blood than I do.

Uh, the files show the inner workings of the torpedo loaded vessel, uh, let's see. Um, this is all part of the hydraulics, which controlled torpedo hatches, steering, and buoyancy. Uh, and then they found the dossier there, or the dossier states. Yeah, it was found in the boozer. Is that a toilet name? I guess so. Yes. Okay. I've heard Lou. It's found in the bozo. Oh, the boosers is the pub. The pub is the boos. Oh, right. I keep thinking it's a toilet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The sources say the pub was packed with the papers, when the papers, sorry. Homer is a loser, and they say he is a loser. It says. Little Ronstad singing that one. That's pretty good. They were sensitive, or they marked sensitive, so they were only supposed to be on a genuine need-to-know basis in the government.

It was a lively night, says one source. The pub was full of people from the docks, military and civilian. I went to the toilet and the plans were lying on the floor of the cubicle with the lanyard. Wow. Anyone could have found it. So even though, like, you know, the found in a toilet, we interpret that as they were found actually in the toilet itself. But they were found, going to the toilet is, you know, what they'd say in the UK. It's on the floor.

Yeah, they don't mean, yeah, they mean the greater toilet. Yeah. Right. They're talking like the larger room when they say toilet. Right, exactly. Or going to the toilets. The stall. Yes.

Yeah. Well, anyway, don't. Look, if you find. secret government documentation anywhere. The recommendation is get it to the proper authorities quick so you are not pegged as a traitor. Or sell it to Gizumoto and they'll publish it.

Sure. When somebody found an iPhone and a toilet in San Francisco. Remember that? They were so pissed about that. Yeah. That was a Steve Jobs joint and he was, I remember the rumors around it were that he was livid. I'm sure.

Yeah. Because the four was like a big deal. Yeah. And even though I look at my four now, I have my old four somewhere you know how small that different phone is those are so tiny i know remember like start out big they got thinner and smaller and then they're like nope people want them bigger and fatter i'm not kidding when i say the screen was that size it's the size of a of a of a business card and we used to think that was awesome yeah we were wrong oh we were wrong yeah no what's awesome is the big fatty yes all right we're going to take a break when we come back stephen schliker will be here excited

to see him as usual. I've got a lot to talk about with him. And Monica, I think, unless you forgot, we'll be joining us today to talk about some movie thing. I haven't checked in with her, so hopefully we hear from her soon. That's all coming up, though. Brian, we can't go anywhere until we play music. What do you have? Yeah, this is a good one. Andy Frasco and the UN, they have the release of their eagerly awaited a new album, which is called La Optimist. This arrives via Fun Machine Records on Friday. August 11th, he's going to be touring, starting in Red Rock's opening for Slightly Stupid. You know the band Slightly Stupid.

He's going to be here at Red Rocks here in Morrison, Colorado, greatest place ever to see a concert and fight me if you disagree. Yeah, this is the brand new song. It's called You Do You. Here are Andy Frasco and the UN. if you're a girl and you want to love a girl go ahead and love a girl that's what you want to do if you're a guy and you want to love a guy go ahead and love a guy because it's what you want to do it doesn't matter if you're rich or you're bro it doesn't matter if you're young or you're old we ain't wrapped up in the he says she

said they said we say we roll our own way we don't care who you love now we don't care where you come from you do you let us do us we don't care if you listen we all share this existence you do you let us do us If your day suck Then you want to get drunk Go ahead and get drunk That's what you want to do Maybe you don't

And you're out of lay around Go ahead and lay around That's true to me It doesn't matter if you're high or you're not All that matters is you do what you want We ain't wrapped up in the east He said she said they said we said we said We roll our own way

We don't care who you love No, we don't care Where you come from You to you Let us do us We don't care if you listen We all share this existence You do you

Let us Do us Who, who, who, who, who, oh, hey. Ooh, who, who, who, oh, oh, we don't care, we roll our own way. We don't care who you love, no. No, we don't care where you come from you to you, let us do us. We don't care if you listen, we all share this existence. You, do you, let us do us.

Guess who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, hey. Guess what? Corey Hame and Corey Feldman are giving out their personal numbers. If you call 1,900, 909, 3,700, you can listen to their private phone messages and get their personal number where you can leave them a message of your own. Incredible. This is the morning stream. Hold on to your butts.

Ah, why did that stop? There it is. Sorry. I think that's a bug, is what that is. A little fargo bug. A little fargo bug. It's early days on this new version. Anyway, hey, Brian, that sounded like it'd be a real cool song.

Who was that again? It was a real cool song. Andy Frasco in the UN, the brand new single You Do You from their upcoming album, La Optimist, which comes out in August. I don't know if you saw this, but the Aces have a new album coming out pretty quick here. Oh, cool. I should get notified because I'm... that their publicist is one of my frequent contacts, so. I think it's called Always Get This Way is what it's called.

Nice. Do we have a single yet released? I think so. Let's see. Oh, the album title named track, Always Get This Way is currently not a video. Let's see, yeah, there is a single, it looks like. Okay, cool. Oh, yeah, let's see.

Shane Greenberg from the syndicate, I think. I love them. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, good. I'm going to listen to this later. Nice. Local girls do good.

That's right. All right. Let's Steven it up because he's the man. He's going to do it. He's going to get in here. He's going to make a difference in the world. Where's it? And now welcome Stephen to the show.

He's a huge freaking nerd. Dollar, dollar bills, y'all. Hey, look who it is. It's Steven Schlecker. Busy grading papers and making shit happen over there. That's exactly what's going on. Yeah. You probably have a lot of that, a lot of that going on right now, right, this time of year?

Yep. Reading business plans for my technology innovation class. Yeah. Grading final documentaries for the advanced video class. Yeah, yeah. And seeing how many students in the intro to electronic media class have plagiarized their papers. Oh. Does that happen a lot?

You get that? It happens more than, more often than you think. It's a freshman level class. Okay. So it does happen quite a bit in that. Well, okay. Actually, I'm glad this came up because I want. always wanted to ask you this all this chat gpt stuff right these large language models that are

really good at like pooping out text and corrections and full papers and stuff um my first thought when i heard about those things hitting the scene as i went oh students we're all getting better grades now because now they're just going to cheat their way using chat gpt or are you guys seeing that are you fighting that not in not in any of my classes there are some instructors that are totally okay with it and they're just like hey use it as a tool but realize that it's not 100% accurate it and inaccuracies are going to lower your grade. Yeah. I was curious about that.

Hopefully. Oh, no, there's definitely some instructors out there. They're like, the sky is falling. I'm sure. That's why most of my stuff is project-based. When my kids were very small, it was Wikipedia that freaked everybody out. And they were, you know, teachers or whatever were banning kids from using Wikipedia for research projects and stuff. but now that's totally cool to it's it's as right it's as any other reference it's like looking

up something in an encyclopedia i mean it depends i guess for me it's like hey wikipedia is great as a starting point but at the bottom of the wikipedia page they link you to all the original sources use those yeah use them use them right yeah you want summary great go to wikipedia yeah you want like deep dive and your and your grade depends on it go read a book you weird that is a really good way, though, using the citations at the bottom to go and find the articles and get the true, you know, as opposed to the paraphrasing and the stuff. Yeah, yeah, it's a really good way to do it. The only, the only hard part of Chat Beach GPT is back in the day if you were, if you had a problem with Wikipedia, you could tell and someone copying Wikipedia because you go look at it and

go, oh, they just copied and pasted this or changed it a little, but I can still tell. In ChatGPT's case, a lot harder to tell that they used it. So you just got to count the fingers. If they mention fingers in the article. Fingers are always just misspelled. It's always like P-H-I-N-G-E-R. Flingers. I love that idea. Text-based AI can't get fingers right either.

That's funny. But yeah, I don't know, man. I just, I guess hats off to you during this dark time where you have to grade all these pictures. Anyway, let's talk about some fun stuff. Guardians of the Galaxy, according to Brian and many others I've talked to, was really good. But it also did really well. Money-wise, how did things go over the weekend? Well, Chris Pratt dethroned Chris Pratt this weekend.

Here in the United States, $118 million in the box office, just about $2 million shy of what they expected it did at $120 million. That is down from Volume 2, which was 146. But they ended up making 289 worldwide. So that is a pretty good haul for Chris Pratt. It's a neat, story, oh Lord. There you go. wow he's having a pretty good year i would say yes yeah um is it uh on track to have a good second

you know like you always want you always want to know how that second weekend goes right because that's your big yeah i think probably the second weekend is going to be a lot better because the interesting thing is if you look at the box office trend sunday they expected it the box office receipts to be lower it was actually higher on sunday and so i think next weekend you're going to see a big bump uh especially as so many schools are wrapping that graduation in the next week or two i think this will hold hold pretty strong over the next couple of weeks what's our next big temple film uh we got raider or sorry Indiana Jones in

june late june yeah yeah so there's something before that july is Oppenheimer yeah what am i thinking of there is something before that oh ben hypnotic there's some sci-fi thing coming out oh this weekend with ben affleck we've got spider man across the spider verse coming In about a month, yeah. And then we have Transformers Beast Wars or Rise of the Beast on June 9th. And then the Flash on June 23rd and then Indiana Jones on June 30th. So Guardians really has potential to at least last a month at the top before Spider-Man comes in and de-thrones it.

Yes, if people, unless people are interested in seeing The Little Mermaid, which... Oh, yeah, right. Well, that is, people will be interested in seeing that. I'm interested in seeing that. I didn't know that was going to theaters. I thought that was going straight to. Disney Plus. Or was a Disney Plus original type thing. I didn't know that. I had no idea how Javier Bardem was King Triton. So I'm all in now. Yeah, right. Exactly. Prior to that, I didn't really care, to be honest. I was just like, yeah, whatever. But dude, is he going to kill anybody with a cow

air gun? Because that's what I want. Sure, sure. I mean, flip a coin beforehand. And, uh, yeah. What are we even doing? Um, yeah, no, it's, it's great. Here's, here's my only complaint, by the way, Alamo Draft House. If I join their monthly service, I can't order tickets for Spider-Man until seven days in advance, whereas if I'm not a member, I can order it a month in advance. I can get tickets today for Spider-Man in a month,

but I can't reserve my spot unless it's seven days or less in advance, which is lame. Yeah, it's a little bit lame. But still, it's like, that just means they're doing good, right? Isn't that an indicator that they're busy and, you know, that it's hard to get in there or whatever? It just means that they want to be dicks and keep people who are paying a monthly, $20 monthly for their service, keep them from being able to pre-order in a month in advance. What I might do is, like, get my tickets and then get rid of them seven days in advance

and see if I could really quickly grab those spots, exactly, like, hold out, basically just lock them down. and release and buy the seats immediately if I can do it I want I'd love to hear how it ends up going yeah yeah we'll see that seems scary anyway Scott you said you had a rumor or something about uh yeah I there was some rumor floating around we I mean this isn't this isn't a spoiler to say that Dave Batista has said publicly multiple times now that this is the end for dracks whatever form that takes I don't know but you know he's not going to be in these movies anymore he would be, in my opinion, and a few others I've read, would be an amazing Lex Luthor, in my opinion. Because Lex Luthor is often shown as sort of a skinny, you know, suited up looking dude or whatever.

But Lex was like beefy, or at least in a lot of the comics. He was like beefy, not only smart, not only the smartest man in the world, but he could fight. He could do stuff. and I like Batista's acting a lot and I think he could be he could be Lex Luthor in the future DC stuff with James Gunn making that choice obviously because they work together and all that so I don't know if there's any meat to that bone

but I like that idea a lot what do you think Steven I'm not sure I would go that that far on that only because Lex Luthor is the quote unquote scientist of you know of the Superman's Braun

Lex Luthor has the brain. And so, I mean, I'm not saying that anybody who doesn't work out can't be smart. But I don't see Dave Batista as the Lex Luthor type. Really? See, I really don't. He's got the bald, lumpy head. He's got the looks good in a suit going on there. Glasses change things up a little bit for him.

It's real easy to make anybody look bald though. Real easy. That's probably the easiest person. You're on my camera and I'll show you how easy it is to be bald. I don't know. The thing I read He made a pretty good argument And I think I agreed with it

But we'll see He's made hints That he's got ideas over there Or him and James Gunn have some ideas But he still wants to play Lex Luthor In the young Superman movie According to Indie Wire Oh I didn't know that

He wants to do this Okay Well bring it And then that might happen And he might be really good at it I will say that For anybody that goes and sees Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3

You will have a pretty good blueprint For what we're going to see In that Superman movie Oh, oh, interesting. It's going to be so interesting to see like comedy being injected, like comedy that works being injected into DC films. Yeah, are we going to have tearjurker moments?

Yes. Are we going to have an animal? Obviously, Crypto the Super Dog is going to show. Right, yeah. Are we going to have all sorts of music that just fits in with the piece? Yes. Are we going to have conflicted characters and quite possibly a bunch of awful characters show up.

And by the end, you're like, ah, they're not so bad after all. Yes. I want Crypto's Dog to be voiced by Borat's daughter, though. That's too bad that we've already kind of got that. Oh, she's so great. I'd freaking love her. Okay, let me ask you guys this question. Guardians has a trilogy.

Of all the MCU trilogies, seems like pretty, it's pretty easy to say this is the best of all the trilogies. Easy to say it, yes. Now, if you said, if you said duology, like, or whatever you'd want to call it, duology of infinity war and endgame. It's a different argument. That's an incredible set of films like all that.

Yeah, but I wouldn't call that even a two film because that's really, they're just Avengers. Yeah, well, or you say that, you know, it's Avengers, Avengers, Age of Ultron. You say it's part of the Avengers Quintoppera quadrilogy or whatever the four. Sure. This would be four until the fifth one comes out.

And the only competition here is what? Thor has three, Iron Man has four now, or four, yeah. Iron Man at three. Yeah, Dark World, Love and Thunder and Ragnarok. So besides that, man, Iron Man has three. Yeah, Iron Man has three.

Which one? Ant Man's three. I think those are it. Spider Man is three. Oh, yeah, if you can't, yeah, that's true. Eight, nine, ten. Yeah, if you count, yes, if you only count the the Sony MCU.

Yeah. It feels safe saying that Guardians is the one that got it the best. For sure. Yeah. well yeah yeah yeah most definitely i i wouldn't say that the third is i mean it's a very good one i don't think it's the best one i still like the first one i'd go one three two well really that's interesting brian what would you do you go one three two also see i took another look at guardians too the thing it so much of my joy of guardians two is in the first five minutes of that mr blue sky

fight with with grute dancing while the credits are rolling the freeze frame you know dregs going into the beast and uh fighting his way out and all that sort of thing um yeah i i think i think one does sit best for me and i think i probably would go same as stephen one three two one three two okay one three two well i disagree with dr calhoun and says guardians two is not good i still say it's really good their time you know the the the stuff with ego is like eh but the uh the all the set up the setup and stuff for that with nebula and gomorra and um the introduction of Mantis and her and Drex's amazing friendship that they really build upon in the Holiday Special and in the, in Guardians 3, I think was really, really good.

I don't discount two, one bit. Yeah, without Mantis, I wouldn't have my, I wouldn't have an MCU crush. She's my MCU crush. Yeah, I love her. But also, you know, calm. Yeah, she's great. It's great. But the second one's fine.

Yeah, it's good. And that's what I'm saying about these trilogies. There's none of them, I think, are as good as the whole of this set. You know, like there's high points and all. Thor, third Thor is amazing. Incredible. Fourth, eh. One, two, better than I thought, but still kind of eh, compared to three.

Like, three's really the best Thor movie, and I don't know. None of them hold up to this. So I guess what I'm saying is poor Marvel losing James Gunn in his vision. I know. It is, it's, it's, it's a very. lose what I think is their current best director or was the best director. Yeah, I thought you were going to ask about the rumor about Marvel DC crossover now that James Gunn is over at D.C. And he said, we're not ruling it out, but it's at least 10 years away.

Yeah, it's also really. You've got to get in there and establish stuff with DCU before. Can you even think about that. Yeah. And also convincing these executives that that's a good idea is not going to be easy. Like you're going to have to guarantee a certain kind of like crazy money. Oh, it would generate crazy money. the problem is, you know, anytime people are like, who's going to win in a fight, Hulk or Superman?

It's like, neither one, because it has to be an even match throughout. That's going to be the agreement because if Hulk beats Superman, oh, my God, what does that say about DC comics or vice versa? And so even when they did the Marvel DC crossovers in the comics, it was basically, let's make sure that this is all a draw so that no one can claim that their hero is better than some other hero. Yeah, it'll be interesting, though. I kind of look forward to seeing it. If I live that long. I mean, it's only 10 years, Scott. Yeah, I know.

Yeah, sure. At the rate I'm going, let's see. How many Pringles do I have left? I don't know. We'll see how. All right, let's move on to the writer's strike for a second. There's a bunch of delays. Stranger Things Final season, delayed.

Evil Season 4, wrapped early. Blade delayed. Can we stop on Blade for a second? Blade is like already riddled with delays. So this is just like one more big fat delay on a thing that I swear is never going to happen. I really wanted to, but I guess it's better than going for it. Like the rings of power is, they're going, they're doing it.

I'd just like to remind everybody, last time this happened, Landry killed a guy for a whole season. When Rider Strikes happen and people move ahead, things don't go well. Yeah, no. We had a half season of loss that was weak. Half season of Breaking Bad, I think was around that time. I think they didn't Breaking Bad just. they did the part they had writing for and then just left. Yes,

they had the season five, part one and part two basically. That's right. And that sucked because you had to wait forever for all that shit to happen. But, but yeah, so Blade, Stephen,

do you think Blade's ever going to really happen? Like, this just feels like another. I'm sure. I'm sure it will happen because they were getting very close to having a finished script and getting ready to go into production because they do have to get that movie out. This will basically put a stop to any last writer's prune stuff on this.

And of course, if you have a show runner, which for people who don't know what a showrunner is, obviously as Azlov over at HBO does not have any idea what a showrunner is. They are the head writer and they are the ones that are on set, making sure that if there's line changes or scenes that need to be dropped, that it still makes coherent sense. And it's a vital part of the production process.

So Blade will be done. We're just going to see when we come out of this, when we come out of this. It's not a matter of if, it's just when. We're going to see the studios have a huge backlog. of movies that need to be got out the door and done. So anything that you're planning for the next five years, you might as well put an extra year or two on top of that, depending on how long this strike goes.

My guess is that the last time, well, there was the time before that they negotiated three years ago, and that one went fine. There was not a long strike, but the, what was the one, 2007 one, that's the one that really kicked all of the reality television into high gear. So if you're someone like me who hates reality,

television with a passion. Be prepared for a lot more of that to start appearing on your TVs and streaming services. Boo! Unless they're good. I have no desire to see a Kardashians series re-launched or anything.

And there's no way to fast-track competition shows, which I enjoy a lot more than the garbage reality shows that we know we're going to get. Yeah. Lego Masters, British Bake Off style shows. If you can do those, great.

But it's so hard to fast track stuff like that and get it into the... Brian, did I tell you I queued up some Taskmaster episodes? I'm going to watch that show. Did you? Oh, good. Excellent. I haven't watched me yet, but they're on my cue. We can add another one to the list. George R.R. Martin said that the next Game of Thrones spinoff series, The Hedge Knight is on pause as support of the WGA.

Boo. I mean, yay, but boo. You know, if it gives them some time, I don't know, to write up. book. Finish the sixth book of the thing we all are making other shit about. You slow-ass mother-effer. We were having this discussion in 2011 about why that book's not done yet. Like, Game of Thrones started when he was still working on this six book or fifth book.

Six book? Hurry up and finish that. All right. Other shows, I haven't heard of loot. What is loot? Oh, that's the Maya Rudolph thing on Netflix. Oh, where she's like a former Apple Apple. Apple TV Plus, that's right.

She's a former heiress or something. Yeah, and people are saying that's really good. We haven't watched a single episode, but people we know really like it. And then you got Saturday Live. How does that work? I don't remember what happened in the... They're off. They're off air. They're just off air.

Yeah, what else are you going to do? All your talk shows, all your night shows are on. Pete Davidson was set to have his return to SNL this last weekend, and the writer's strike kind of said, nope, sorry. Sorry, Pete. That's happening. yeah uh funny thing though back in the day i remember uh the talk shows you know they're always affected right um and i remember Conan o'brien in particular did my favorite thing which was

he took his during all the early monologue stuff you'd have writing for he sat at his desk took off his wedding ring and spun it to see how long it would spin on the table and they just try to break the record and if it didn't it fell too soon he'd do it again and andy richter just sit there watching him it was awesome It's funny. It was so good. That video's on YouTube somewhere. It's worth looking at.

But all the talk shows are affected, right? All of them, Colbert, everybody. They've already gone into reruns and et cetera's. Didn't day, so back in the Letterman days, my memory is, the 80s one, the strike that was in the 80s or maybe late 80s, early 90s, don't remember. But he went and he wrote everything from then forward or something. He did like, Letterman did? Yeah, there was some deal where he kept the show on the air. Oh, wow.

And did mostly interviews and spent more time doing that, but then would write. write the bits that needed writing or something. I don't remember if that was controversial or if he was even in the deal. Definitely today would be controversial. Yeah, because technically he'd be doing the writer's jobs. Like, he'd technically be breaking the... He'd be stab working. Yes.

I know Kimmel is still paying all of his writers' salaries, like, during this whole thing. Jay Leno took everybody donuts on the picket lines. Oh, that's nice. He didn't even have a show now, and he went and did it. No. No, exactly. Hey, Jay. Donuts you get a donut too.

You see this? You see this? You see this? Every day showing up a donut's in one of his different cars. I love it. Yeah, so it's going to be a little weird. Do you have any heat on how long this will take, Stephen? Like, are we looking at weeks, months, days?

It will be weeks. And maybe months. It just depends because we've got a big trifecta of negotiations going on because the next big one happens at the end of June with the Directors Guild. So the Directors Guild is what we think is going to They're going to be on strike at least until then The Directors Guild appears like they are going That they're standing in solidarity with the writer

So if an agreement can't be right reached at the end of June Then it's sag after which I believe is at the end of July And August I think is when there's there comes up So we could have all three unions on strike By the end of summer so I have a feeling that this is going to go Until at least the end of June when DGA DJA sets down to negotiate. All right, kids, this is what you do.

You start really getting into podcasts and morning streams and film sacks and take all your entertainment eyeballs off of the ball for a minute. Come over here. All right, we got you. We're not on strike and we don't write shit. That's right. We write show notes that are basically copied and pasted from news stories around the world. Which is not enough to get us into the guild.

So we're safe. We're a safe zone. All right. Stephen, is this affect comic book writers? I was just curious. No, no. It depends on, you know, what their status is. Certainly it affects comic book writers if they are in any talks to have their stuff adapted into a screenplay.

And, of course, if they are a WGA writer, you're only striking against the struck studios. Got it. So I suppose technically if someone is a WGA writer, they really need to contact their board. because if you're a WGA writer and you're working for Marvel or Warner Brothers, those are struck studios and they control the comic book. So I don't know. I don't think it does. Certainly

journalists are excused from this as well unless they are currently working on a project, but the only thing that affects is if you've got a project that is in production or moving forward even in talks. So like the Mark Millars of the world, he could be affected because he's got a foot in both

sides. Yes, but I really don't think it's going to affect his comic book production output i really think it affects hey uh i am you know writing this comic book but it might be turned into a tv show show at netflix i don't know how that i don't know how that would work and there's going to definitely be some complicated gray areas oh for sure do you do you think that we're going to see so and the immediate impact is is not that much because a lot of stuff that's wrapped and ready for showing and you know you've got your you've got your stuff that wasn't going to be scheduled anyway right but then there's going to be even

after the strike is over, you're going to have a weird gap, right? Like a weird dead zone where it's all reality TV or filler. You could. You could very easily. That's why the sooner they do it, the better. Like we saw some of the shows, you already mentioned, one of them wrapped early because they don't have writers. And so they're like, well, we're just going to finish this up. There are other shows. So the nice thing is that a lot of this happens at the end of a lot of these seasons. And so you have the summer rerun stuff. Most shows don't come back until October anyway in the fall. And they don't start production until July or August. So at television shows, I think they could probably be okay depending on when everything, you know, when everything ends, when everything concludes with the strike.

Movies, I don't think you're going to be affected as much because you've got a backlog of stuff. Streaming services probably not. I mean, they're probably in the same situation as TV and movie, traditional movie and TV studios are. Streamers, though, they can always go to Canada and get content from Canada or, like, like Netflix. They get a lot of stuff from Korea. They can bring that stuff in and just say, hey, we've got new stuff already here. Yeah. Bring more British stuff over, you know?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, I think that if it goes until June, yeah, you're probably not going to see the return of any of your TV shows until probably January. And for movies, you're going to, might as well just take all of the dates that have been announced and push those off at least a year, maybe a year and a half. Okay. I would make you make a recommendation for our listeners. if you want to see some of the best comedy writing I've seen in a while go and find photos of people at the picket signs for these things and if you find comedy writers the shit they're saying on their signs

are some of the funniest jokes I've ever read really oh I'll look for that that's awesome like one of them this is just a small one but you know how comedians are always like you know half the reason I'm funny is because my childhood was horrible or whatever yeah I saw one that said the sign she's holding it up and the sign says chat GPT does not let's see chat GPT does not have any childhood trauma or something like that and there's lots of stuff like that

great little in jokes and amazing writing so I'm just saying support the writers but also go look at some of the shit they're writing because that writing is amazing yeah I would also encourage people to track down the two page PDF document that the WGA sent out last week on Tuesday when the strike was announced that said here's what we want

here's what the producers stopped on and a lot of the stuff is like they wouldn't even bring this up. It was, you know, if they say AI, it's like not even a point of contention with, with the, uh, with the producers. Right. Let's see. I don't think I, oh yeah, here it is the proposal right here. Uh, let's see. One of the biggest ones, of course, is the six percent, uh, for all minimums, including residuals. And the AMPTP, it said four percent when it got down to granted a second step, uh, if hired for a screenplay

for less than 250 percent of the medium, the minimum, they rejected that proposal. Weekly pay was completely rejected established minimums for streaming was reduced quite a bit. I'm trying to see where the AI stuff is. Maybe that's on page two here. It does get mentioned the way. It does get mentioned artificial intelligence. The WGA wanted regulated use of artificial intelligence on MBA covered projects. AI can't write or rewrite literary material can't be used as source material and MBA covered material can't be used to train AI. The producers rejected our proposal countered by offering annual meetings to discuss advancements in technology. Oh, boo.

I don't think that's, I mean, I would like them to say, okay, I think we can maybe look at this for a time being, but I think rejecting it outright is probably not the way to go and saying, hey, can we use this as a tool? Just like we said earlier with Wikipedia, in the early days, Wikipedia, everybody was freaked out about it. Today, everyone's like, it's a good start, but don't rely on it. And I think that the same thing could be looked at here where, okay, maybe use it to punch up

somebody had asked in the chat about video games. The strike doesn't affect video games yet, but have they generate all the boring, you know, generic NPC persons running around. So you don't need a writer's room for that. That would free them up to really flesh out the story in the world

and the story lines for everything. But I think definitely coming back and looking at this every year is a very good idea. Oh yeah, you definitely should be looking at it, but the contention, Wikipedia was never going to be anything more than Wikipedia is chat GPT and things like it have the potential of becoming much much more than they are right now like we are at the beginning of that so I get

the fear of writers creators and artists about this because it's not as simple as well it's just a tool that that that that saying it's just a tool is only true at the moment and it's evolving quickly daily almost so that I get those concerns and I hope that they're at least willing you know whatever their annual meeting, it's probably got to be more quickly than that, be honest, because this stuff changes, like, seriously by the month. So with the, these are every three years, the contracts are negotiated. Yeah. So this, whatever they come to a conclusion on, it'll be three years for now before they have to sit down at the table and talk about it again.

Okay. Does they do this? So they just every three years? This is just every three years. Okay. And they've, and they've agreed all, most of the time until now. This has just been a year where they don't agree. There's always give and take with any negotiation.

But I think that the big sticking point, and this really, I think a lot of people can understand, they would like a percentage increase, you know, a 6% increase on what they're currently getting. Well, if you think three years ago, think about how high inflation has gone over the last couple of years. And I'm sure there's not a cost of living adjustment that's made for any of this. So you could actually be working and losing money right now because of inflation based on where you were three years ago. And so I think that it's completely fair to say, hey, we want more money. I don't think that it's out of the question for everything that a writer does. And I really support the writers in the strike. Yeah.

And all those companies made record profits, even though they laid off people. And that's the thing that's the real sticking point, right? So you have Warner Brothers, can't see your HBO streaming service, please, everybody. You have Warner Brothers that's like, oh, I'm sorry, we just don't have the money to pay you anything more. And then you've got the execs bringing in $50 million a year that they take home and then announcing, hey, we made $500 or $50 million in profit this year. Okay, well, then that needs to go to the people. That means you have money.

Yeah, it means you have money. So you can't have it both ways. You can't announce a profit and then also at the same time say you don't have money. Yeah, Warner Brothers pisses me off. All right, as long as they keep letting Mad Max movies come out, then I guess they're going to cancel that. They do not cancel, Furiosa. writing strike on strike go yeah but the time they come out there's not going to be time to go back and pick that up it's done it's done and ready to go but any third film is in jeopardy no no it's it's like done they're not even going to release it they're going to cancel it and take the tax to production listen you blast it's all right they can focus on other things some kind of blasphemer you're blasphemer today is what you are today today you woke up and you chose violence all right that's fine uh anyway hey this is all very interesting i think and there's more of it and lots of other cool coverage over at major spoilers.com.

Like we always tell everybody, go over there and get in there. Make that part of your daily routine. Steven, anything going on that you'd like to tell people about? I think if you are looking for a lead-up to the Dial of Destiny where Indiana Jones gets to punch Nazis, you really need to check out our critical hit campaign that we're running right now. It is Actoon Cthulhu, which is just Indiana Jones meets Cthulhu, and we're punched Nazis left and right in that podcast.

So go check that out. Yeah. And of course, we want everyone as the weather gets warmer, maybe not where you are, Scott, but it was 90 yesterday, and I think it's supposed to be 90 today. If you're going outside, definitely stay hydrated. We sure will. Bye, Stephen. Okay.

Okay. Oh, okay. Let's see if Monica is around. She is around. She's changed her Discord status to I'm here, Scott. So she's here. It says she has moon on, which usually is, she's sleep. But I think she's here.

Okay, there she is. Let's play her. I even made her a thing. is it? There we go. Hey, Monica, welcome to the show. How are you, Wicked Kitten? I'm well.

How are you? Good to be back. Couldn't be better. It's good to have you back. Welcome to the show. You mentioned last week that you had something you really wanted to share with the TMS audience today, and I'm sure it's movie related, maybe even horror movie related, right?

Yeah, just a little bit. Just a little bit. Tell us all about it. What's going on? Well, first, I wanted to take a quick moment just to, you know, introduce my hosts of Gore, because there seemed to be a little bit of confusion at some point. As to who's a host and who's just a hype man, basically?

Yeah, yeah. Claire is a lovely patron of the show and a listener and my wife. And she is wonderful, but she is not a co-host on the show. Right. You don't want to do shows with people who are married to, right? No, no. Not like scam or anything. It's not a good idea

Skim works out pretty well But just, you know, for the masses It's TV's Travis Famous, infamous Faye, who is a friend of ours And Wesley Who goes by the Dreadlord So the video game person you always talk about

The purveyor of Steam Codes Extraordinary Yeah, he's really good at making sure We are always stocked, you know? He is. With the Steam Codes. Well, that's awesome. Can I just say something about Travis real quick? When we were in Vegas, my expectation was not how big he was.

Like, he is a tall, intimidating, bearded man. Soft as a teddy bear, nicest guy ever. But if you don't know that going in, like, I've done shows with him. And he kind of, in his video, he's always just kind of down here a little bit, a little bit low like that. And in real life, he is just like, whoa, freaking Travis. Just an imposing figure. that TV's Travis. I'm pretty sure.

He's Tom and he's Teddy Ruxpin. Absolutely. I'm pretty sure he's the reason you guys got busted on Fremont because he's so imposing that that's who the police saw. Oh, no, he wasn't even down there yet. No, it was, uh, sadly it was, believe it or not, it was the, not quite as imposing figure of KT Data, but it was the imposing figure of KT Data's tripod. Ah, that'll get you. Just phones on the, on Fremont, we wouldn't have had any problem. pretty sure that tripod and like what looks like a more permanent setup was so we blame we blame

Kevin's what you're saying that's what we do we blame Kevin okay all right it's fair enough uh well thanks for the clarification hey we wish you'd have been there and you'd have been fun we would have had a great time with Monica there uh all right well that's out of the way now we now know the full context and constitution of your show gore now tell now share with us whatever news you brought today okay so first I um a while back, Brian had made a comment about the Invisible Man movie that came out in 2020. Yeah. So I'm here to kind of defend it a little bit.

Are you going to gidditch at this and respond to something that was like months ago? I couldn't get on the show any earlier. Like, I had jury duty, and then it got canceled, and then some people were in Vegas or whatever. And so I couldn't get it. Defend Elizabeth Moss's Invisible Man film. So it's a good movie. There you go. No, but, you know, like the whole thing about The Invisible Man is it's like this allegory of, you know, not being seen and the, you know, what would you do?

Yeah. It's invisible. Yeah. I know you mean like literally, but I mean like what it, the behind what the story means is about the people that are unseen. So there's a lot of like queer undertone. and marginalized people and stuff like that in general. So, like, you know, if you go back and you watch the 1933 one with the adorable, I'm forgetting his name now, what's his name?

Claude Raines. Claude Raines. Yeah. You know, that's all. He's doing, like, evil stuff and being a, you know, a jerk. That movie is funny, though. And then you said that this Invisible Man was just kind of like a slasher. But I actually have to say that the Hollow Man movie that came out,

of 2000 with Kevin Bacon was definitely more of like a cheesy slasher well not cheesy maybe but it was a slasher and it ruined Kevin Bacon for me because there's a scene in there I don't ever want to watch again and you know I love Kevin you know what I will concede that I think a lot of my invisible man memory probably includes some

hollow man thrown in throughout look at this cast though man i'm not hearing any music i don't hear music oh our background music yeah talking about our background we always have it on oh um so kevin okay listen to this cast kevin bacon elizabeth shoo josh brolin kim dickens gregg grumburg this is a hell of a of a oh you haven't is this the first time you're hearing of hollow man i've no i've seen i've never seen hollow man but i didn't realize all these people were in it i knew it was a verhoven movie that's all i knew is like hey

guy made robocop we've had this thing queued up for uh film sec like basically it's on our are need to see it list for film sacked and it's certainly more sackable than the invisible man from 2020 I'll also agree to that too although probably both of them probably suck in 2021 as well back to back on it we sack movies that are considered good as well monica well yeah yeah yeah I'm just gonna say that like it's this one is more disliked it's the 5.8 and I think the Elizabeth Moss one is 7.2 or something yeah it's higher I 92% tomato meter so yeah which Which doesn't mean anything. Critics can be dumb, but it's the thing that I love about this movie, and I just want to say from my perspective, is that it's not written from the perspective of the invisible man doing horrible things.

It's written from the perspective of the woman in the situation. And so it makes it more like a slow burn psychological movie, which is like so much my flavor. But it also has these really great hints of, so it's written by, I should say, I should start this out by saying, like, it's written by Lee Wannell, who I love. You know, he wrote Saw and the insidious movies. Super, super great writer, and I was surprised that, you know, a man could write a woman so well like this, like this story. But he actually, he went out of his way to ask Elizabeth Moss during the process of making the movie, because he directed it, too. You know, advice on, you know, this situation.

How does it, you know, seem like for a woman and stuff like that? So I felt that before I even read that information. So I really enjoyed the movie. I'm sorry. I'm just going to say that. No, no apology necessary. I'm not harping on you. Like I said, I think that I was probably throwing some Hollow Man cheese at the Invisible Man memory that I had because, you know, all these invisible things.

At least I didn't think of Chevy Chase and his, you know, his invisible man movie. That was so bad. I forgot that existed. Thank you for bringing that one back to my memory, because that movie sucked. The best part is Chevy Chase drinking, like, first time he's invisible, he looks in the mirror while he's drinking something

and you immediately seem to throw it up. Yeah, yeah. Ew. Fowl. But the 2021 also has one of the best kill scenes ever, like the scariest, most surprising scene. Yeah, so go back and watch it. All right. You haven't seen it watch.

I'm going to finally watch it. I don't know why. I didn't before. It's on Peacock. I got that. I got the peacock. Yeah. I could do that.

There you go. All right. All right. You've convinced me. Or we save it for, uh, or we save it for, uh, or we do it soon for film sack while it's on peacock. Yeah, yeah. I could go for, I'd be like, you might want to watch it. Like, I feel like Hollow Man is definitely films.

I'm not an expert on film sack, but, you know. Yeah. I mean, who is really? We're not. We're barely experts. Oh, man is currently on HBO Max. Oh, really? Yeah.

So. Randy, if you're listening. Let's sneak that shit in the chat. Is he? Hey, Randy, let's sneak that shit in there. We can do it. We all get to choose. I can actually do it right now.

I am inserting it into I've moved some movies. You've moved the movie to the movie? I can talk about a couple of movies that I've seen. Sure. Yeah. What do you got? So I'm going to preface this by saying, no, I haven't seen Evil Dead Rise yet. I'm going to see it soon.

I swear, I promise. Can't wait for that one. But I watched Scream Six. And it's not my least favorite scream. Oh, wow. Wow. Hey, stop with the rousing recommendation that you've just given for a scream. It's like one, four, two, six, five, three.

Oh. There you go. Wait, give me the first. What's your top three? One, four, two. Four? Wow. Okay.

Yeah. I really liked four. All right. I don't care what anybody says. But three was bad. So it's like, it's almost like four just gets risen up anyway. Yeah, it was very interesting putting it in New York, and I love the flavor of that. There's a lot of, like, little nods to horror movies.

They actually show Jason takes Manhattan on a television during the movie, so that's, like, you know. Worth it. Mm-hmm. Yeah, every time. Yeah. All right. So go watch Screamsticks. That's on Paramount Plus.

Yeah. And I watched that new Boston Strangler movie, which isn't really a horror movie, so to speak, but it is uh what's it called just boston strangler is that the name yeah the boston strangler it's got kieran knightly with no accent that's what i like to call it is uh oh this is like a period piece in the 60s like about the actual strangler this looks so good and they smoke a crap ton like so much smoking going on i mean brian and i love kerry kyn unconditionally love kerry kun we do yes uh chris cooper's great love him oh man midnight yeah left over his carry A lot of stuff I didn't know about the Boston Strangler, but, you know.

Rory Coltrane. It was interesting. It's kind of like Zodiac, but I guess. Does she have a Boston accident at least, Kieranightly? Somebody got wicked strangled over there. No, she did not do that. She had like a very, you know, American-ish. There's a strangled bar patron over there leaning against the car.

that probably would have been way too hard for her maybe a little bit yeah that's that's cool her americans good her americans better than mine really um watch this i'm writing because i i do want to see that i love a i love a good uh like zodiac's one of my favorite movies i love that movie so you're you're telling me this has got zodiac vibes i think i'm in that sounds great and i'll recommend a shutter movie as well there's a movie that just i think it just released or it's recent it's called from black and it's just like a a really creepy movie about a mother who loses her child and the lengths that she will go to to see her child again. And it gets pretty, you know, like dark and there's some creepy stuff in there.

Yeah. Wow. I like creepy stuff. Yeah. Shutters having some good stuff. Yeah. There was some unsettling talk that Shutter was going to get shuttered for lack of a better way of saying it. Because AMC was feeling the burn on just, I don't know.

they were feeling pressure on the financial side or something and there was rumors they were going to shut down shutter which is an AMC joint which I think is a who owns AMC's parent company by somebody else anyway I don't think that's happened or been announced but I don't know and I don't know where the rumors started but I remember feeling a slight tinge of pain

when I heard that because I like Shutter a lot Shutter. Shutter has done what they promised to do which is bring a bunch of classic stuff to bear some real great B movie crap and really great originals like I didn't think they'd be able to make a horror-focused channel work so well. And they, when they brought back, I don't know if I've ever mentioned it to you before, but there's a guy called Joe Bob Briggs.

He used to do this, you know, like introduce movies like a horror host and exploitation films. Yeah. Yeah. He used to be on TBS, TNT back in the late 80s, early 90s, well, all the 90s, actually. And I used to watch this when I was a kid. It was great. Like, he's super smart. He writes about movies, so obviously. And, you know, he comes back in between the movie and he'll tell you, like, some of the greatest stories and in-depth trivia and all sorts of stuff. And they got him to come back. And he's had a show on there now for, like, five seasons. And there's a whole community called The Mutant Family that is, you know, that gathers around the show. So that's one of those things that's really giving. shutter that support with this community. This is him, right?

I just put him in the Discord. Joe Bob? Okay. He looks like the guy's got a bowler tie with a skull on it. That's awesome. Oh my gosh. By the way, I passed a,

like the bus stops have those little wraparound displays like telling you what's coming this weekend in Denver. The Horror Expo and Film Festival is this weekend at the Grand Hyatt. And Kane Hodder is there. I'm looking right now to see who else is there. Brian, are you tempted?

You got to do this. this I'm very tempted yeah um that sounds great here we go guests let's see who's horror people are the best people by the way because they have been treated like poop their whole life they have been told that they're going to grow up to be psychos and and all sorts of stuff and it's it's such a it's such a great community of sensitive people who like you know it's all like we just love horror I you know I like horror people they've dealt with their issues by getting catharsis of watching horror movies and to getting all of that gnarly stuff out of their heads that way. You know what I'm saying?

Like they don't have some deep-seated thing about a slasher. They've seen it all. And so they're just dry husks of humanity now in a good way. That makes any sense. Dee Wallace, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Main, Sabretooth from the first time in the movie, Tracy Lords,

Michael Barryman from the Hills have eyes and Devil's Rejects. is like the nicest guy who looks like he would scare the crap out of you. Yeah. But he was on because Joe Bob will have guests, you know, like people come and guests. And he was on one time and he's just like, he's so intelligent and just like

I don't articulate and I just wasn't expecting it. But like, I mean, I guess that's insensitive me of me to say, but he's just not what you're expecting when you look at him. Fair. Fair point. Well, awesome. This is Brian, you should go. Very cool. I think I might. Five bucks. It looks like five bucks.

is the lowest price ticket available. Might just be one day. All I need is one day. Yeah. Oh, no. I don't know where five bucks was coming from because now I'm looking at it and it's like, oh, five bucks for just the poster. 30 bucks to go Friday.

Oh. That's still nothing. It's still kind of high, isn't it? Yeah. Just for a 40 Saturday, 25 for Sunday. It's not bad. Do the Sunday thing. They'll all be tired then, though.

They'll be tired. I'm not doing photo ops with everybody, but. No. You and Tracy Lord? or for that, that would be $200 bucks, it looks like. You should get a picture of Tracy Lords and just say, look, me and Tracy Lords,

tight, tight friends. Yeah, my best friend. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, uh-huh. All right, well, this is always fun, Monica, to get the latest and greatest in the horror movie world. Tell people where Gore is so they can get it.

Okay, so instead of telling you a bunch of links or something or telling you to just go look where your podcatcher catches it, one of our listeners and wonderful amazing guy bum bats created a website for us so all of our information is over at gorepodcast.com oh yeah i thought that guy only did l i domains but apparently there's he's got a dot com and he built it and we we keep it running that's really nice of him to do that for you i don't know anything about websites so you just know you just know that Scream 4 is a really good movie I don't know nothing about birth and babies

but I do know that Monica have a fantastic time she's wicked kitten all over the community you'll know where to find her sometimes sometimes sometimes but usually it's just me by now all right well that was fun catching up with her that was fun

I agree with you all right we're going to get out of here we have one final thing to do I'm going to play some audio that is a transcription of a text This is from Kirk, and Kirk have this to say. Hi, this is Kirk regarding TMS, episode 2455. You two were talking about card counting and blackjack. Card counting in Vegas is almost impossible

because almost every table uses a continuous card shuffler, making it impossible to count. However, if you learn basic strategy, you can bring the odds up to 49.5% for the player and 50.5% for the house. P.S., regarding Jeff Seyer's message, we didn't start calling it soccer. Britain did.

soccer is short for association football and American football is called hand egg all right have you ever heard hand hand egg yeah I've never heard of hand egg I haven't either I think I like gridiron better who is it was it was it Gwen that said gridiron

or who who that was Gwen are you ready for some grid iron yeah that was totally Gwen you're right let's see hand egg football hand egg no you're mean yeah I guess there was a time

when everyone called it hand egg. But, yeah, that totally makes sense about the not being able to count cards. Because, yeah, like you said, they use continuous shuffler, and then they put the card that tells them when they're going to shuffle again so far up the deck that you can't say with any sort of confidence, you know, what the likelihood of the next card is going to be, because so many of them are never going to be seen before it gets to another shuffle. That makes sense.

Back in the late 80s, though, were they doing that? Is that why Rain Man could count them? Probably. Yeah. Yeah, and you can still go to a couple of casinos that brag about having a single deck shoe, which basically means they play, instead of having six decks or more in their shoe, they have a single deck and that, you know, much easier to count cards when you see, oh, well, the Jack of Hearts and, you know, three of the four Jacks have already come up.

Yeah. It cuts down a lot of face cards right there. wild all right well i feel like uh i feel like i've learned even more about yeah about that all works gamblage i looked up urban dictionary's definition of hand egg check this out oh god it's not as bad you think uh american football or as bad as i thought going in american football also uh or as opposed to um football slash soccer where players actually kick a ball with their feet american football involves players carrying an egg shaped object in their hands and then here's the quote you know they always have a usage quote.

This is the best part. Did you see the Steelers beat the Cardinals in the Super Bowl? What an excellent game of hand egg. Love it. There's another one later. Another one where a term used mostly by foreign assholes to describe American football. Best beginning ever right there. It's often the second definition on Urban Dictionary that gets me.

Anyway. Yes, foreign assholes. It sounds suspiciously like 30. weird hi this is kirk uh-huh sure it is uh-huh sure it's kirk rest all right that's it for the show uh we're done patreon dot com slash tms we'll keep this all running if you want this train to happen and happen on time uh patreon dot com slash tms is the way to make sure that happens there's no commercials ever you get pre-show content every day couch parties on the weekend art in the mail oh and by the way those catch parties, you can go back and get them all.

So it's not like you have to start fresh with whatever we have. I've got them all now in video form posted every time we do one. Other great monthly benefits, access to the archive streamed episodes that we do here where we have a whole bunch of post and pre. So check it out. Patreon.com slash TMS. Brian, we got to play a song and get the F out. What do you got?

Sure. Sven from baseball camp wrote in and said, Heidi Ho, Bot and Scriin. I'm turning 32 on May 8th. That's today. Happy birthday. oh shit perfect timing and then I blew it hold on that's all right let's party

yeah uh there's nothing momentous about this occasion on its own so I'm going to make it momentous by making it musical with the help of my favorite podcasters for Scott I'd like to request five one second audio clips followed by that violently sonorous fart sound from TikTok that you repurposed into the official you lose game show noise of TMS can do boy he knew more about that than I'm comfortable with but that's fine um five seconders a let's see let's it's a little tricky to do that but i think i can do it all right here we go okay here's five in a row okay and then we'll go from there here we go oh it starts with the fart shit okay well that's the fart i'm supposed to do at the end

there you go it yeah that's one of the first brian dunaway is a huge turd wow oh that was less than a second or more than a second more than a second now there's a good boy all right there's a second god damn it okay claire do a barrel roll All right. Hey, win. Okay, one more. Will you play Nintendo with me? All right.

There's all your one second clips. And then finally another, we'll make it a fart sandwich. There you go. Enjoy. Perfect. For Brian, I'd like to request a cover of or buy either Allison Chains or Riddle Yankevick. Also, just for fun, what do you think, what do you guys think would be the best Weird Al parody of an Allison Chain song?

Maybe a parody of Rooster, but instead it's all about the show Punky Brewster. Anyway, keep up the amazing deliciousness, y'all. Yours is in trash, Sven from baseball camp. It's not bad. I think the rooster is pretty good. It's not bad. Call me the Brewster. Yeah.

And it would only... I was trying to think of a man in the box. Because Wood doesn't let it lend itself to a name parody. You'd have to use the... You know, it'll be in the lyrics. Right. Right. Wow. I love it.

A man with blue socks. There you go. Nailed it. Right there. Who knows? I think Brewster is probably the best choice right there. All right, so a cover of Allison Chains, you say? How about

this one? Speaking of Wood, how about a song performed from the TV show Californication by the actress who played David O'Covine's daughter on that show and her band, which I think even had a Zoe Kravitz in it, I believe. I didn't know that. Queens of Dogtown. This is from season four of that show,

which was in 2011. Here is their cover of Allison Chains, Wood, Queens. of Dogtown. Know me broken by my master Teach thee on the child of love thereafter Into the blood again Stamble trip it was banned So I made a big mistake

Try to see it once my way I'm drifting body I'm drifting by the body, it's so to desertsion. Flying not yet Right in no shame Into the blood again Same more cheap it was bad then So I made a big mistake

Try to see it once my way Into the blood again and the trip it was back then though I made to beat my death. Stay Try to see it One mile away Am I wrong

Have I run too far to go Have I gone Left you here alone Am I wrong Have I run too far to get home? Yeah. Have I gone? Let you hear alone.

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