The Morning Stream - TMS 2609: Jefferson Starplane

Episode Date: March 4, 2024

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The MorningStream. I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle. Well, hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Monday, March 4th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian Abbott. Brian, how? Welcome to March, sir. Oh, it's fine. It's fine. March is good. It's, it's March. It's a brand new month. It's exciting. It's fun and I'm ready for it. Do we like it? Do we like March? How do we feel? I like March. March, surprisingly, is Colorado's snowiest month. I'm guessing that that is the same for you guys over on the other side of the. Yeah, it is. It's weird because there's that whole, what's that old phrase comes in like a lion, leaves like a lamb or whatever this month? And sure enough, the first couple of days of this month for us were just like this crazy, windy. thing. We made national news because some guy literally seven minutes up the road from me got so many tumbleweeds in his yard

it blocked his house from the road like it was that much. That's crazy. And that's a weird it's a weird combo of things because yes there are tumbleweeds out in this area but they're rare. You don't see them. They're just up in the hills and in the mountain foot hills and stuff but this wind was so crazy

it took any that were loose and shove them all right into this guy's yard. It's like it's like Mother Nature had a giant leaf blower and she was like, let me see how many of these get onto this guy's house. Yeah, it did feel that way. It was really weird. He felt like a magnet

or something and ended up getting all over like, I mean, like, I don't know why it was national news. I guess it just looked crazy enough, but it got covered on a bunch of national sources and everybody's like, is this Utah now? And I'm like, no, it's the guy up the road now. Like it's not, the whole state

didn't get covered in news. It's just one guy. Yeah, that's the thing. Anybody sees something on the news and it's like they assume that everybody is experiencing it exactly the same way across the state. Yeah, I got two kinds of direct messages this week. Stuff about the tumbleweeds and then questions about liquor laws

that apparently are changing to cap proof the proof level of booze will have a cap of I think 1.30 and no higher. I didn't know that there was higher. So, you know, this is my, I have lack of knowledge.

130 proof would be how is that uh that seems like a lot doesn't it yeah because i think it's it's double the percentage right so that means 130 would be drinking something that is uh 65 proof 65 percent alcohol right yeah because you double the percentage and that's how you get your proof that's how proof happens okay i didn't never i never knew that until you just said that so now i've learned a little so when you get like 3.2 beer as you as you always do scott always every day that means that is is almost seven proof wow wow yeah and they'll knock you out that stuff um so all right maybe it was maybe i have it wrong okay here it is hb five four eight is the law that's a ubiquitous omnibus liquor law uh let's see unanimous vote

blah blah blah goes into effect may first after cox signs it that's our governor governor cocks yep and uh let's see here okay here we go uh the solid tribune there's something for everyone in the bill including those who produce and distribute alcohol and those who want to increase uh prevention and enforcement uh blah blah let's see okay all right uh can't find the real info here except to say oh it's also a price hike well anyway all the things you hear about weird liquor laws in utah they're kind of true they're weird they're weird you know you got a predominantly sort of religious a bunch of people who kind of run the state even though they're not the majority now they still that's who's elected and that's who's making laws and they they're kind of teetotlers hell they don't even total tea so no no teetoteling they're tootelers is what they are anyway oh yeah ever clear is 190 proof ever clear so that one not happening in

uh oh okay there you go then so there are examples of the band ever clear not going to be touring and performing their hit santa monica in uh utah that's a shame that's a real shame brian get him inside the ocean and i keep i always like i screw up his name i call him like alex alexa alexaacic or something like that and it's like art alexis or something like that oh i don't know i've never heard that guy's name before Alex Alexakis I know so few arts No who is that

Who am I thinking of Do you know any arts Any art I mean I know some Art Alexakis Yeah it is art Alexakis Do I know any arts Yeah any personal relationships With the guys

No I don't think I do Art Art I don't even know any Arthur's Which you know Would would Would give me the potential For an art Art Van Deley

That's it Yeah I don't know Art Van Deley I don't know art Garfunkel I don't know Art Carnie I know a couple Aris? I don't know any Ari's. You think that I'd know an Ari?

I don't know an Ari. No Aris? Yeah, I only know like famous Aris. Yeah. What's that new? The new Tron movie's called Aries. I don't know any ARI. I think now we're getting into weird things that are very rarely going to be used as names. No, you're right. I started watching

Tron Legacy, because I know you were raving about it. And just having watched Tron, it's like, okay, now is the perfect time me to watch tron legacy right after it because i don't think i don't think i watched the original tron right before we saw legacy when it came out in theaters and um boy have i had i forgotten how much de-aged jeff bridges uncanny valley oh yeah i thought it was i thought it was brief for some reason i was equating it to like the little bits of grandmoth tarkin we got in uh yeah short of it's you think it's less than it is it's actually a lot

It is so much. And there's times when there's like a pair of de-aged Jeff Bridges staring at your side view, talking to each other. Yeah. Their mouths mostly are the problem. There's something with the mouth. And the thing is this, 2010, we're at a certain place with face tech and de-aging. I get it. It's okay.

But I gave that movie way too much shit back then. And I put this up on all my social media things that I think I was too harsh on it because my rewatch the other day after Tron, 82 Tron, was so much, I really enjoyed it. Like, I was like, oh, shit, this is great. I give the look of that film a 10, and the sound and the music, of course, a 10. You can't, you can't not give Death Punk's soundtrack a 10. That's so good. I still have about 45 minutes left or maybe half an hour left because I watched it when I woke up at 4.30 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep.

I'll watch some more Toronto Legacy. Yeah. And so far, I want to give the story, maybe a seven and a half or eight. Yeah, it's maybe a seven. I feel the same. This is not, we're not breaking. Yeah, which is all that kind of matter. It's like the First Tron.

The First Tron story is pretty dumb, too. It is. It is. But for its time, it's like this amazing feast for the eyes and ears and everything. And this movie is that also, and I gave it too much shit. It's a really fun thing to watch again. And I'll say, I will say this, like outside of the Young County County Valley face, which they could definitely do better now. The rest of the movie visually is arresting.

It's just like, man, freaking, were we that good back then? And I guess we were. I mean, 2010's not that long ago. It's about a year before this show started. But here's the other thing I was going to say about it. And that was this. What was it? Oh, the other thing that bugged me at the time I watched it is it was the same year and maybe even just months apart that.

that Jeff Bridges was in the true grit Colan Brothers movie and that threw me hard because I saw true grit before this and he's all I'll tell you what we're gonna get out there and did he talked like major cowboy guy right yes right and then you come to this and he's very flinny and very well-spoken reserved right exactly

it was hard for me to reconcile the two but with all that distance now and time I actually really, really enjoyed it. I had a great time. You still get, you still get every once in a while and Jeff Bridger's thing, like, that's pretty wild, man.

Hey, man. Hey, man. Well, they want to remind you that he's basically, Oh, he took my identity disc, man. They want to remind you that he's still basically a hippie and a rebel and a, you know, whatever his boomer generation ends up being. And it's also hard for me to,

to, you know, see Livy Wilderness and that thing. You know, I still, I don't know what went on between her and Sadecas, but I got to take Ted Lasso's side. I don't know what happened, but I just automatically take Sudecass's side. I know, I'm still mad at her. I'm mad at her, too. I don't even know what happened. She was chasing after a one direction kid.

Oh, that's right. And they're still together, I think. Are they still together? I don't know. Her and Harry Stiles? I think so. Yeah, I think so. I don't know about that for sure.

I don't know. I mean, look, those kinds of relationships based on treachery and leaving a really cool dude like Jason Sadecas, those never last, okay? Olivia Wilde, all right? Keep them freaking, get your shit together. Olivia Wilde. Anyway. Oh, Sparkle House says that they broke up, it got ugly.

Oh, did it now. Yeah. Should a stay with Jason Sederichis. Seemed like a stable guy, funny all the time. I think why I side with him. And I know nothing about the story. It is because it's Ted Lassow. Yeah.

And Ted Lassow and all we have is that. We don't have any, I don't have any personal interaction with the guy. Exactly. They don't have any other reason to like or dislike to leave you wild. There's no reason for me to like her or dislike. Like, you know,

she's, she's, I think she's a very talented actress. She's very attractive. No, no problems with her at all. But for whatever reason, I like Sudecas so much.

It's just a, you hurt sedacas yeah how dare you how dare you that's right uh and also i forgot what a amazing brief but wonderful michael sheen performances in this oh i know yeah i had completely forgotten about that when you first see him yeah and uh he's great uh and that blonde walking around i love her dude she's great whatever her name oh the gem jim truly outrageous jim was truly truly outrageous there's a joke yeah is there by the way when you first see Michael Sheen and his character

Caster Yeah You don't There's a no I'm going to be vague In case somebody hasn't rewatched Or watched Tron Legacy yet But you kind of know

Where his character is going Oh yeah immediately Immediately I went Oh this is He I'm sure if Randy's here He'd have a trope all up on his screen There's a trope of this character

That's called A Moved Catwoman Right exactly yes What is that called though? It's like, I'm sure there is one that, yeah. It's someone you know who's going to go full Judas on you in the end. And you know it from the get-go and you know they shouldn't be trusted. I can't think of other characters like this, though.

There's some that subvert this. Like you think that... I mean, Lando is a little bit, right? This is a little Lando. Yeah, there's some redemption with him, but you're right. There's a little Lando. But the first two-thirds of Lando that you get are this. Yeah.

Yeah. that's a good way of putting that i've moved catwoman okay cool um but yeah like it's uh it's something you know immediately but you're still relishing in his crazy performance he's so good yeah he is so good he's so over the top in that it's it's it's the uh sheen that i like from good omens yeah oh yeah oh i got to watch season two which i have not done yeah uh all right hey a couple quick things i thought this would be kind of fun um we're gonna talk about the worst songs ever or at least those said by Mental Floss to be the worst songs ever. And you know what?

Mental Floss is one of my favorite sources. I used to subscribe to their magazine. I don't even know if you can still... I think you might still be able to get Mental Floss magazine in airport magazine shops, convenience stores. Maybe. I'm looking on their site and the closest thing they have

on the header as a newsletter, so maybe they've reduced it to that. Oh, if they have, let's see. I need to get on that list. I get there, I subscribe to their YouTube channel and watch their videos. They're great. Yeah, these guys are awesome. So there's their list of the top, what is this, 10 of these?

No, there's more than that. But we'll go maybe top 10. 20. Is it 20? Okay. Yeah. I guess that's the whole headline. And the artwork, the hero artwork on the top of the page as we are the world, which I kind of, I again, can't disagree with.

It's a bad song. It's a great story. It's a great accomplishment. and it's a great lineup, but it's a bad, it's such a, it's a bad song. It's such pap. I'll say it. Oh, it is big time pap. Yeah.

It is pap. I almost said it's pap smeared all over the, but I didn't mean to. All right. So they say number one, and I agree with this, is we built this city by Starship. I hate that song. Hate it. Here's the thing with we built this city. This is the one of the primary reasons.

I'm not even sure this is the Starship song that's in the movie, but I kiboshed, our recent attempt to maybe watch Mannequin. Yeah. Because I hate that song so much. For me, that movie is too associated with them, and I can't do it. Yeah, it's not, we built this city, but it's what, nothing's going to stop us now, I think is from Manichin. That makes, that's probably true.

Nothing's going to stop us now. That one? How do you go from Jefferson Starplane or airplane? Airplane, yeah. To, how do you go from White Rabbit? And somebody to love. And if only you believe like I believe, baby, that I believe. Yeah, such great songs.

And then it's like, you know, you know that great music? Let's see if we could make people forget about it. Yeah. Let's see if we can do something. I'm with you, dude. I hate that song. There was a sort of a unique kind of cool trivia feature of we built this city. So in the instrumental bit.

Um, they have this sound of a radio station talking before the lyrics come in. Yeah. And, uh, um, they would make customized versions for different markets so that when you listen to the song in Houston, for example, you heard Houston radio announcers or, uh, coming up on five o'clock in Houston and da-da-da-da. And then they kick into the, uh, uh, the music. Yeah. Um, and they did that for like a bunch of different, different, uh, markets. I didn't know that That's crazy

Each radio station Or each set of stations In the same market Had the same version to play I didn't know That was even a thing Yeah Yeah

What a weird time we used to live in It's just too bad The rest of the song is so crappy I gave you the we built this Starbucks Yeah Oh yeah That was pretty good Thanks for coming to the Starbucks shareholders

Meeting Now we're going to do our version Of a Starship song That was pretty good so yeah we built this city's pretty bad oh i didn't even give the credit to the person to send us this this came from uh craig in south carolina it says dear sarlack and bothan good a little star wars reference i like that nice yeah um oh thanks bad you're the best sorry my wife brought me something nice uh it says i came across this list of 20 most annoying songs wanted to hear your take on it

i agree with uh with some but there are definitely ones missing i would put tony basil's mickey up in the top but it didn't even make the list love the love the glow blow Craig from south carolina Shove the glow blow. Or shove the glow blow. So we got my humps at number two, black eyed peas. And I don't think Tony Basil's Mickey, which is also a cover, by the way. I don't think that belongs anywhere near this list. And that's the, hey, Mickey, you're so fine.

You're so fine. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I agree. I think it's not as bad as. That's, for what it is and what it was, it's an innocuous little cheerleaders. Yeah.

I would disagree with my hubs. I feel like that's, maybe, maybe it's the Alanis Morissette version. of that song that's raised it up a little bit for me. Right. I don't, how do I put this? I don't listen to the black eyed peas like as a regular listener and like I'm not like pulling up playlists, but if that comes on, I'm not switching channels, it's fine. I'm not turning it off.

I feel like there's, yeah, I feel like black eyed peas for me sits somewhere around how I feel about red hot chili pepper's newer stuff is that it's way more style than substance and black eyepies were kind of that all the way through their their career that was their that was their whole jam everything their whole jam yeah uh number three we have we are the world by sure by USA for Africa I love that I love that the shot that they give you of that by the way with Cindy Lauper yeah here chat you guys go to see her the face she's making I don't know why everyone else looks like they're pretty chill she's making this face. Look at this here. Oh, my gosh.

She's just going, Bid! Girls just want to make faces. I have not looked ahead, but the beginning of the article teases Spice Girls, so I'm prepared for it. I know it's going to be... It's fine. I know it's common. Macarena number four by Los Del Rio. Yeah. Agreed.

One week by the Bare Naked Ladies. Now, I would argue that one week is a great song that got overplayed. That's not the same as being a bad song, right? Yeah, yeah. This list does not account. that because sometimes overplaying is the problem not the song itself correct and this this you know what for me even if it was overplayed the song doesn't belong on this list i think it's a it's a great song and it reminds me of a better time when when uh stephen page and

ed robertson got along together and and we're able to create music together and before before he got bad with the with the drugs yeah with the with them their drugs that he got. Who let the dogs out by the Baja men? I'll give the, this one deserves to be on the list. Freaking hate that song. At number seven,

don't worry, be happy with Bobby McFerrin. You know, there's something about him and his ability to do what he did, but again, it's an overplay problem, kind of.

Don't you think? Because there's real talent there. I think a little bit of that. I think it was also that video got overplayed, you know, that feels like it was on VH1's heavy rotation and every hour on the hour you can see Bobby McFerrin,

don't worry, be happy. But I think he, you know, again, I picked up that album. I still have it right around the corner there in the media closet. It's, the rest of the album is so good, and there's a great cover of Drive My Car by the Beatles. There's, you know, some, and it's all, you know, it was kind of like how we kind of all got sick of the Michael Winslow thing from Police Academy, because he had a,

a schick, a technique. And Bob McFerrin makes, like, loops, does all the voices, all the things, and just, and just, um, not loops, but, uh, multi-track recording of himself doing acapella and making all these noises. Yeah, he's, he's basically doing the entire band. And I think everybody just got sick of, of that with this song.

Yeah. Like, hey, did you know, it's him doing all the voices? Yeah, it's a little weird. Not my favorite thing. Uh, number eight, we have my heart will go on. Again, the biggest movie, at least at the, time. It's hard to avoid hearing it or not hearing it. You just have to, I don't think that one belongs on here. I don't love my heart will go on by any stretch, but I don't think it's the worst

song or one of the worst songs ever, not in the top time. Number nine, photograph by Nickelback. Look at this photograph. So I'm going to make me laugh. Sorry, Chad Kroger, I can't argue with this one. But I will give big, big disagree on number 10. Yeah, number 10 is take my breath away by Berlin disagree hard. Yeah, that's a great song, and that one did suffer majorly from overplay. And it wasn't even, it's not even a Berlin song. It's a Terry Nunn song that's produced by Giorgio Moroder. You hear, like, if you go and listen for the, there's one that's Martha Smith, Martha,

Plimpton, Martha. Yeah, definitely not Martha Plimpton. Lead singer of the motels. She was the first person that Giorgio Moroder tapped to do, Take My Breath Away. I didn't know that, wow. Yeah, and you hear her version, and it's exactly the same as the Berlin version.

It's basically like, oh, so basically, Georgiomor just produced this audio track, said, place vocals here. And there's no other Berlinness about that song. That's a bum. But Terry Nunn, you know, always one of my. my rock and roll crushes. Oh, yeah, you can't take that away from you.

No, no. That's yours forever. Yeah. 11th, we have Momba number five by Lou Bega. Yeah. It's fine. Probably belonged on there. Absolutely.

Yeah. That one, Belong's on the top 10. These are all too far down. Like the next one, Disco Duck by Rick Dees. Push that up in the top 10. What are you doing at 12? I don't know if this is in order because they started with number one. Usually you do a countdown if you're doing like the least of the worst.

and then we get to the most worst. But I think this is just a bad, a bad, like, here's 20, put them in any order you want. But my problem with Mabo number five is that Lubega did not do anything but take an existing song. The Perez Prado's Mombo, what was it called? Is it just called Mombo? It's the one we played, used to play when Dunaway would come on the show. Oh, right. His intro music.

Yeah. And he just basically put words. on it. And it became a hit. It was like that, you didn't add anything but words to an existing song. Yeah. If anything, you kind of ruined it. Kind of. Yeah. Disco Duck at number 12, this is a horrible,

horrible thing. It's a horrible song. It's so bad, you guys. Even in the era that it belonged in. It's just so bad. Yeah. You're beautiful by James Blunt. Fine, whatever. That's a perfectly fine song. How do you feel about the Joker by the

Steve Miller band? How is the Joker on this list and not abracadabra because the Joker I would say is a great song I agree I would call it one of Steve Miller's best abracadabra is terrible it's like terrible um give me give me a list of words associate with magic great now I'm going to make a song from them it's really annoying I agree with you this is just that other one that should be on here oh mental floss you're ruining me here yep number 15 wannabe by the spice girl you may have heard of them the spice girls They've heard of them, yes. Again, overplayed is all, maybe.

Overplayed, and they're far worse spice girl songs. Yeah. Now, I'm going to, 16 confuses me, because it's more of a meme than a song. Yeah, that's the pencil, pencil, or no, what, pen, apple, pineapple, apple, apple, apple, apple pen guy. Yeah. I'll play a tiny bag, because I don't want to get in trouble, but let's see what we got in one. Boopie A Pee

Yeah, you all know the song Pineapple, I got a pan, I have a pineapple, that whole thing I know that's annoying, but that's not really like a top 40 Like, hey, on the radio, Spin' and the Hits song. No, no, I mean, if you're going to count that, then you've got to count stuff like, uh, Snape, Snape, Snape, or whatever was that Harry Potter thing where it was a bunch of Harry Potter things all layers, somebody came up with like an acapella.

Humayni, Omani, Omani, Omani, O'Meerty, that one. Or they're taking the Hobbits to Eisengarde. They're taking the Hobbitz to Eisengarde. Right, exactly. Like, why aren't those on this list? Give me a break. All right, number 17, the thong song by Cisco. I don't know that song.

You don't? I probably do if I heard it, but I don't know by the name. She had dumps like a truck, truck, truck. Traglach what? What? Never mind, I hate that thing. All right, that belongs on the list. That's totally fun.

It does belong on the list. Sorry, Cisco. How about the Hughes Corporation with Rock the Boat? How do you like that? I don't think that belongs on here either. That's a fine song. You know what song I heard the other day? I did like a, I was trying to figure out songs for, I guess, the connection playlist that I'm working on.

And so I was like, all right, give me some 70s songs because I want to work those in. And wars, why can't we be friends comes on. Why can't we be friends So the chorus is the incredibly imaginative Why Can't We Be Friends repeated four times And then the verses are It's almost like you're giving every member of the band War a homework assignment to come up with a verse

About why can't we be friends And some of them are like, you know I see you on the welfare line Every time it's like all right That's pretty good But then you got one guy says Sometimes I don't talk right But yet I know what I'm talking about

It's like I couldn't even come up with a word that rhymes with right Probably the easiest rhyming couplets ever Yeah And that that song belongs on this list But rock the boat by the Hughes Corporation does not I agree I agree with you Number 19 they have share with

I wonder if that's just because of the auto tune That was our first auto tune deal. It was the first mainstream one I remember. Mainstream, yeah. The first one I ever remember hearing, and I remember thinking, well, that's kind of weird and cool and robotic, and maybe I like it or maybe I don't. I wasn't sure if I liked it.

Is it a worse song than if I could turn back time? No. You know what? If I could turn back time is a worse song. You're absolutely correct. I think so. I don't know if either of them belong on this list, but Believe is a better song than if I could turn back time.

Yeah, and Believe has some pretty great covers out there. People do pretty good version of that. Yeah. I like it. so F off that number 19 And also, before I get to 20 What's his What's his name should be on here with that

I feel a hunger, it's a hunger That should be on here. Eddie, anybody take me home tonight? Hey, take me home tonight. Why isn't that on here? Because aside from that lyric, it's a really good song with Ronnie Spector and all that.

It's like, holding a horse with no name accountable just because the heat was hot and the ground was right and so there's fair did you get that dumb line the heat was hot it's like okay come on now i love that kind of crap i love it all right number 20 party all the time by eddie murphy absolutely 100% belongs on here and it would be one thing you could talk me out if it was like a parody or something but he was serious it was a serious serious this was him pursuing You can look at that album cover And know that, oh, dude man is pursuing a music career with this

Yeah, poorly. It's just poorly, hideous and horrible. That's true. She likes to party all the time. Came up from his cocaine haze to do a song. Exactly. Oh, man, that's amazing. All right, well, there's your list.

Thank you for sending that to us, Craig. That was awesome. We appreciate it. Yeah, I would put so many other ones on this list. Britney. I mean, a lot of them are covers. Madonna's American Pie. Britney Spears, I can't get notice of satisfaction. Both belong on this list. Yeah. That's pretty bad. Do you hear Jack Black doing that cover of Britney Spears's Hit Me Baby one more time? If you heard that?

No. It's him and Kyle Gas. So I guess it's Tenacious D. Is it brand new? I heard it. It's a good question. I've only seen this in like a short or a TikTok or something where they're dancing and singing it. And it may be that it's already a track and they were just doing a fun little V.O. for it or a dumb video. But I'd never heard it before. It freaking cranks. It's so good. Really? Okay. I'm going to look for that

after the show. That sounds awesome. They need to do more covers. I love their covers. Like, what a wicked game that they do? Amazing cover of Wicked Game. Oh, yeah. And they're the the second half of the Beatles, Abby Road, side two, with carry

that weight, and you never give me your money and, uh, in the end like that, I don't know what you, I guess you call it. Abbey Road Medley is probably what it's referred to. And that new thing, the short little, don't play video games no more. Don't play video games. I love that thing so much. One day that'll be on a list of bad songs, but for now I love it.

All right? Still not enough to make me want to go see Panda 3 or 4 or whatever, whichever one is coming to theaters this week. 4, I think. Fun Fu Panda 4, yeah. I'll wait for it to come home. Not for me, not for me, but somebody else. I'm not going to rush out there, but I'll watch it when. comes home. Yeah, exactly. Skadoosh. We have one final note and then we're going to jump into

the morning half asses with Dunaway. This is a quick text from an anonymous listener about dentists that says the trick with going to the dentist is to assert dominance by maintaining total eye contact while licking their fingers. I don't actually do that, of course, but every time I go, I think of doing that and almost end up choking on an instrument from trying not to laugh at the mental image. This person thinks like I do. I like this guy, whoever this is. Oh, That's hilarious. Oh, my God. And that would be the problem.

Now we're both going to be thinking about this. The next time we go to the dentist. Yeah. Yeah, you just see, like, they're in there, digging through and working on your teeth. And just go, like, close your hand on their finger or something. Yeah, and just tickle the tip of his finger with your tongue. And then, but you can't break eye contact, my favorite part. I love that.

That's right. That's amazing. I assert my dominance by eating a sleeve of Oreos right before I go to the dentist and not brushing my teeth. But not even drinking. not even drinking a glass of water beforehand. I want as much of that that brown cookie crust all over my...

It's like a dental version of a shit-eaten grin. That's what that is. That's amazing. I support your plan. Please do that and let us know how it goes. Yeah. That was an 801-47-1062 number that they sent that text to.

So please feel free to do that. We're going to call Dunaway and we're going to see what he's got going on. See if his brain is up to the task. today. I don't know. I don't know what people are talking about, but I know that there's money going in the pool. There's like 30 bucks, 10

bucks, 20 bucks. I don't know what they're betting on. What are they betting on? I don't know. Are you guys going to tell us what you're betting on? Tell us what you're betting on. Yeah, let's go. Hey, Donoey, welcome to the show. Welcome to Half-Aasses. How are you? Well, it's got, Brian. It's Monday.

Monday. Yes. It's Monday. Hey, you seem real sad that Silverado is over two hours long. We've had this discussion one million in one time. Yep, you're not a fan of the longer films. I get it. Well, yeah, according to my schedule, if it's an hour and 45 minutes,

fits within perfectly within the allocated block. If it goes over two hours, then I have to have a conversation with the family that I have to cancel certain things over the weekend to be able to fit it in. So, yeah. So what you're saying, you know, I'll do for you, Brian? Because there's easily, like, 45 minutes of the middle of that movie that we can just cut out. I'm going to make an edited version of that movie. You have.

Nice. You have no idea how many different ways I've tried to fit the square pig into the round hole going, well, maybe if I watch it Sunday before I can do it. Or how about if I watch it, if I watch really super fast, like, in the middle parts, or, you know, in the inside incident. Does Netflix still let you do the, watch this movie at 1.2 speed? Yeah, they do. At the one point, I'm even two times or something. I'm not going to sacrifice the quality of what, you know, what I'm going to deliver for that.

It's just a, is this a planning thing? It's just like, it's just a planning thing. Here's the good news. We have some good news done away. The good news is that movie's great. And so you'll have a great time. It's a great movie. You know what?

If you don't get around to watching it, here's all you need to know. Horses, cowboys, boots, guns. Every week. Dust. Every week, I make it work. Saloons. There's some saloons in there. Swinging and doors.

There you go. I just, you know, do what I do. Just watch the movie clips. It's like you get like 10, 10 of the most important parts of the movie. And then just fake the rest. Like, oh, yeah. Oh, no way. I didn't realize John Cleese was in this.

Oh, that's great. I've got this thing where it's just like, I can't do it. I'm like, I got to do. I got to give it his due diligence. I don't feel right. I get it. No, I get it. yeah you're that's a that's a true blue film sack way to look at it but it is fun watching you go

oh this memory is two point for something hours i don't know that's right it's right that's because it goes from hey we've got an easy week this week to oh crap somebody's going to be disappointed uh Travis asked if i saw the trailer for the new costner western there's actually two it's a two-parter so they're doing one and then two months later the other half comes out i could not be more excited i could just watch the other hundreds that he has yeah that's true but i love He's directing this and producing it. This is his first directing since Open Range, 2003 or two, whatever it was. Amazing movie, great Western that nobody should sleep on.

The fact that he's getting back into it, I couldn't. I thought Open Range was an animated film. Hell no. What are you thinking of? Open Range. There's one that's like that. Something. Range.

What is, it's with the, what is the Home on the range, open range, maybe? That can't be right. Open range. There's an animated, 3D animated movie that's, oh, Open season. Is that what we're thinking of? Open season? Open season? Maybe. Open range is, you know, Robert DeVolves, Kevin Costner, freaking Jerry from ER. A bunch of other great people.

By the way, Brian, Manikin would have only been an hour and 30 minutes. I know, but that got turned down because apparently Scott doesn't like a song. I'm like, Jesus. Scott doesn't even like a song that's not even in the film. That's right, damn it. That's right. Oh, Diego Luna, I forgot. He plays his character called Button. He just wanted to skip right to dessert.

He, like, said, ah, screw the salad chorus. Give me the Silverado as quickly as you can. I'm just saying, if you're sitting around on your board, open range rocks. And that movie's two hours and 19 minutes, so do not watch it, Brian Donoway. Yeah, well, that's pretty much a given. As soon as I saw Kevin Costner, I was like, oh, shit, Kevin Costner. I said, I definitely need to go check the time run. Well, this is early Costner.

He wasn't in charge. This is a Cazden deal. so he he but you're not wrong to feel that way you see costner and you immediately go okay i've seen the postman that was eight hours what are we doing yeah yeah yeah well i'm glad you're here because we're going to play this game on behalf of some people who want to win some shit and only only brian ibbett can explain why and how so let me do that welcome the morning half ass is a trivia game where i'm actually going to be giving you the answers i'll give scott and brian a category and six possible answers three of which are correct and three like spice girls being on that list are

totally incorrect. Depending on how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two or three guesses. But if they get any wrong, they get zero points for that round. One right gets you a point. Two right gets you three points. Three right gets you five points, and we'll total all those points up. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. And I've pulled contestants for members of the Tadpool that aren't able to be here alive. Scott, you're going to be playing for Michael Seaburger in Twin Cities, Minnesota. Dunaway laughed at his name. I love that name. I love that name. Sea Burger.

Sea Burger. I love it. I like any name that it could mean like two things. Sure. The sea? Yeah. Or the burger. Or a burger that came from the sea.

Don't eat it. Yeah. Right. Right. Amazing. Brian, you're going to be playing for François Valori Verstratt in Belgium. Whoa. Belgium, man, Belgium.

Waffles and whatnot. Freets. Freets. Cool. What's not? All right. Well, let's get to your questions. We're going to start with number one.

Going to give you six. six of these. You tell me which three are not in the thing. All right. Are we actually going to select the ones that are, duh. Hey, which of these are Instagram filters? Instagram filters. What?

You've got Melita, Melita, Toaster, Kelvin, Bun, Brandon, and Hario. I use my Instagram knowledge. I mean, I'm a super Insta model, so. Hmm. I don't actually need any of these, but. Actually, most people don't. cameras are good enough now that the reason for this existing in the first place.

I thought it was getting worse because the cameras were getting better. Well, my point is, HD makeup. Well, that's true. But I guess that's still valuable. And also the phones do it themselves now. But back in the day when this app started, this was all about phones kind of suck, especially it was an early iPhone.

These cameras aren't great. So here's a place to post your shit and make it look better. And that's not even what that site is anymore. It's like a whole different thing. It's just now celebrity bullshit. Anyway, I've locked in with two. All right, you guys are both locked in. You guys both locked in on Toaster and Kelvin.

Of course, those are Instagram filters. Hot. Brian, you also locked in on Hario. No, I'm afraid that Melita, Bun, and Hario are coffee filters. Brandon. Brandon is your other Instagram filter. It's great that those were what you used. How did you know to do that?

How did you know to use coffee filters as the alternative? I didn't. The question the Ken Jennings did, but I knew as soon as I saw the list, I'm like, oh, those are coffee filters. That's brilliant. That's really great. Yeah, I love that one. All right. I feel good about my lead done away. You should. Scott going into round two with three points, Brian, at zero. Let's go to question number two. You don't have to say it like that. I do. I have to say it like that. Former names of U.S. state capitals. So these are six state capitals. and which of these have the correct original name? St. Paul, originally known as Pigs Eye, Augusta, known as Gay Head,

Helena was Last Chance, Tallahassee was Alligator, Boise was Squash Town, and Phoenix was Swillings Mill. Which of these, which three of these are the correct original names of these state capitals? These are all great.

I love them. You guys have locked in. You guys both locked in on Gayhead for Augusta. I wish I could say, that was true. Unfortunately, damn it. It felt like, it's like, well, if it was,

they would have changed it for sure. For sure. Yeah, no, the real ones are, and Scott, you got one of them, but it doesn't matter. The only real one that you picked

was Phoenix, known as Swillings Mill originally. Helena was indeed last chance, and St. Paul was Pigside. Pigsy. I like that. That would have been a funner twin city to talk about. For sure.

I'm going to ask Wendy how she enjoys pigs'i. this time of year. Please do. See what she says. All right. Three points for Scott. Zero points for Brian going into the very last question. You don't want to say it like that.

I do. And your last question, go on to the produce section of your local grocery store. Which of these are fruits speaking botanically? Which of these are fruits speaking botanically? Potatoes, green beans, cucumbers, broccoli, bell peppers, and radishes. Oh, I just heard a thing about something like this. These are actually fruits, basically, botanically speaking. Because one, it's not on here, but somebody had told me yesterday, or yesterday two days ago, it was like corn is a technically a botanical fruit because it grows on the outside like a seed or whatever.

I don't know. Oh, really? Something like that. It's not on here, obviously. I'm going to go with, I feel pretty good here, but I'm still going to be conservative. Let's go there. My name is Scott Johnson. I feel pretty good about my chances. I do. All right.

You guys have both locked in. You guys each locked in on two. Bell peppers. Yeah, absolutely. Seeds on the inside is a good way to look at these things. Because cucumbers have their seeds on the inside. They were another one of your fruits. And green beans, the other one, Scott.

Two more points. Good job. Scott is. The same thing. The seeds are in. side, right? They're edible. They're edible. They're more like I think the seeds are the

potato. A little beans inside the string beans. And potatoes, nope, tuber. I'm always going to say potato. It doesn't matter if it's right or not. If potatoes on the board, I'm checking it. It's a nightshade tuber. Are they really in the nightshade family? Yes. I didn't know that. Really? Whoa. I've got a neighbor who can't have potatoes because she can't

anything nightshade it's not crazy is a crazy neighbor no no no it's a different neighbor okay well i can't imagine what would happen if uh crazy neighbor had a food allergy oh yeah what would you even what would life even be like in that scenario exactly yeah um real quick here the it's interesting that bell peppers are the way you eat bell peppers and the way you eat green beans are flipped uh well no i guess you eat the outside of green beans i'm thinking peas peas are weird though because oh yeah peas you eat out of the pod yeah although some pods you can eat like the snap peas are good that way but I don't know food man how do we even classify it's so weird

strawberries are a form of rose if I remember correctly too and they're a night shade food too right that's right strawberries might be strawberries have outside seeds yes although they're embedded sort of I don't know how that works who knows we got exceptions there a fruit there's probably a fish that we should call a fruit

for all we know you know see cucumber clearly because it seeds are on the inside oh duh yeah exactly hey who won what How did this turn out? Oh, let me tell you. So, Scott, thanks to you, Michael Seaburger in Twin Cities, is going to be getting a copy of Everhood and Swine HD remastered.

Both good games. Courtesy of, I'll tell you, courtesy of Judah T. Thank you, Judah T for all three of these games. But don't worry, you're not going away empty-handed, François Valerie. You're getting Trolley Problem Incorporated. I guess it's a game where you just either drive into a crowd or drive into a lady with a baby. Is that the deal?

Is that the, oh, I don't know. I was thinking it would be more like, my trolley has broken down. Yeah, it looks all right. I've never played it. You got to leave or die or kill dog. Okay, so it's those kind of, you know, those trolley questions.

Yeah, the trolley question. Yeah, very weird. Well, congratulations to everyone. Congratulations. You've all done great. And that means that Dunaway walks away, head down. Uh, wah, war, and that's okay, because you try hard. Like that.

Oh, yeah, we do. And look, Brian gave score this whole, this whole game today. I did the entire time. Scores a plenty. Nobody complain anymore about that, all right? We did it. No, please. Please, just knock it off, would you, people?

Good Lord. Done away, the good news is this afternoon, hopefully we'll have some, a little bit of Unreal tournament going on, I hope. Yeah, Unreal Tournament 99, baby, as we do on the Mondays. I'm looking forward to giving you. Yeah. I can't wait to get a call as I'm lifting from Discord as you guys are. reminding me that I should be at home playing

video games. That's right. That'll be coming at 4.30 is when we did it last time? Yeah, 430. 430 Mountain Time. 630 Easter. That's right. Retrogib.com. GIB. All the details are there. If you've never played before, you don't need anything but that link and you'll find all the stuff you need and a PC to play it. Oh yeah, you need that. That game originally ran on Macs, but I don't know if I can still

run it on a Mac or not. I still, if I have my CD, does that mean I can does that mean I can play it as part of this you can install it and you just need the patch the patch works either way so yeah yeah yeah yeah you'd be all set I think unless it's

an EXE file I don't remember how the patch works no no it's there's a patch for 99 you get a patch for Mac Windows and Linux you can't play the Dreamcast version though which is a real down on but whatever that's a bummer I like the Dreamcast version it was all right

all right Anyway, Dunway, hey, I want, I won't, one last. Oh, shit, he got me. Go ahead. I was going to say, kiss our butts, but you already beat me to the thing. Oh. Up now, okay. A quick shout out to Trixler who's in our chat or was.

It's nice seeing him here. Good, good old friend of the network and old Blizzard pal and all that kind of stuff. Brian, let's do a news story. We've got time. And here's your little intro for it right here. Here. It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. 1.5 Big Macs, because Scott can stand wasting food.

I hate it. I hate wasting food. So my wife yesterday, it's a hopeful story. We had all the babies yesterday, not just us, but the kids were here, and everybody's doing their stuff. And Nick really wanted to try that upside-down-W version of McDonald's. The McDonald's sauce or whatever it is. Is it some anime tie-in? I don't even know what it is.

Yeah, I saw, I don't know what it is either. I've seen the videos or the commercials for it. Still don't know, really. I thought it was Wario, maybe. They were doing a Nintendo thing, but it's not what that is. That'd be great, yeah. Two things. One, the sauce that's the special run sauce that you dip your nuggets in that it's supposed to be.

Well, it's not even Sesh one. It's like some, something for this event. Oh, this one is the, right. I'm sorry, I thought you were referring back to the previous everybody go crazy for McDonald's because of a special sauce. Right, and they did do that for that Rick and Morty crap. But this one is terrible. It was so bad.

I hate it. Really? What is it? It's savory chili. Yeah, and it tasted like the inside of an alligator's mouth or something like that. It's the best I can describe it. It was terrible. It tells me nothing.

I get nothing from that. You've got no source material for the alligator. I've got no source material. I would just, I don't know. Everyone else try it on your own. Tell me what you think, but I was like really put off by it. It was like, well, this is gross. So anyway, we did that for Nick because it was a fun thing.

And so we all got McDonald's and Kim got a Big Mac. I got a Big Mac. ate mine. Kim's like, oh, I'm full. I can't finish this. I'm like, well, what are you going to do with it? We're like, well, we can toss it. And I'm like, no, we can't do that.

That's a waste. See, the problem is that you and I grew, we grew up in an era where you did not leave anything on your plate. And it just got ingrained in us that, that, no, you finish everything that's on your plate or else. Yeah, when you have parents who remember their grand, or, their parents going through the the depression yeah and bread lines and all that I think that that screwed up

Gen X a little bit because now because you and I and people like us are always like oh you're going to finish that because I can't it's not that I'm hungry even I just can't see that going to trash I don't want to see you throw that away it's like what do you yeah we have to

we have to deep program ourselves with that I was told there were Chinese kids who were starving that's what I was yeah yeah well then Bob Geldof told us so, it wasn't even China. That's true. It was Africa the whole time. Zafri was Africa. The whole time. Well, anyway, here's your quick story.

They were in Ethiopia the whole time. Another brick in the wall. Let's see. 1.5, or no, sorry, that's the big max. One of the world's smallest fish if ever found makes a sound as loud as a gunshot. Would you like to hear this? Oh, you have a sound? Do you have audio?

I do. This is great. This is like a little bit of a bobby kind of vibe to this. We're going to hear some audio. And I forgot to preview this so I could make sure everything's cool. Let me get rid of the feud thing. There we go. All right.

I'm going to hit play on this. This is, I'll say this is one of the world's smallest fish measures about the width of an adult human fingernail. So very small. Okay. Can make a sound as loud as a gunshot, according to scientists. A male daniel, danielia. a rebrum fish. Daniela.

Thank you. Much better. Much better. 12 millimeters found in the streams of Myanmar makes this sound that exceeds 140 decibels. That's a lot. Here, I'll play it. Let's see what we get.

Okay. Is that the sound? Yeah, that is the sound. It's not blowing your ears away because it's not meant to, but that's fish in water making that noise. That's wild. I don't, uh, what, what kind of gunshot are they comparing this to it? So it's a fair point.

The reason they make the comparison is they say, if you just take decibel, take it by decibels, then it's not that it sounds like a gunshot. It's, it's a higher decibel than a gunshot. that's the comparative they're using now i think that that's hard to tell in that video that video makes it sound like it's no big deal but if you could put that fish's noise right up next to your head and you had a gunshot right here you could hear this would be louder than this is the idea okay all right now whether whether they just they show that in that video at all obviously not that's just a bunch of weird i mean that's cool and everything but i was just i've been waiting

like, is that somebody you're going to go, bang! Yeah, I'd love it if it actually made the sound of a gunshot. That'd be incredible. Anyway, they use high-speed recordings of, uh, to investigate this mechanism that create sound in these tiny, tiny fish. Uh, it's a little drumming cartilage in there.

A little cartilage going, and it's very loud. Wow. Yeah, there's your science for today. Hope you all enjoyed it. Yeah. We're going to take a break. When we come back from this break,

we're going to spend some time with Stephen Schlecker. going to talk about, oh, a tiny movie that opened last week, just a little, oh, geez, little mom-and-pop indie film. I'm kidding. So if you haven't seen it yet, you'll definitely won't be spoiled by anything. I will say nothing of a spoiler nature. I promise people that right now, and you can count on it. I will say nothing spoilery about Dune Part 2. But we have some other stuff to hit as well. That'll all come up here with Stephen shortly. In the meantime, we need a song. Do you have one? I do. If you like Phoebe Bridgers or Sarah Borellis or Gracie Abrams, you're probably going to like this. This is a singer named Taylor Bickett, and unlike the Boomtown Rats, she does like Mondays, and that is the title of this song, a single that she just released. She's on tour right now with Ron Pope, and this is just some fun little light pop to get you started on your Monday.

Here is Taylor Bickett, and I Like Mondays. Sundays I like first of the month Notebook, paper, what's meant, the moment's never been touched I like knowing that there's something that I haven't messed up Because I will, and I do, And I'm supposed to

I am perfect, if by perfect, you mean totally flawed, I am wrestling with the presence of an all-knowing God I drink caffeine even though I always said I would not, so I'm weak or a fool, but I'm supposed to be That's me

I rest the future I cling to the past I'm terrified the present will not last I see the irony I get the fact it's already gone by the time that the thought has passed I am working on it give me some grace I like empty pages

I like Mondays I like order I like answers wrapped in ribbon and twine I grab hold of unknown outcomes till my knuckles are white I am trying to be kinder to this body of mine

because it keeps me alive like it's supposed to I rush the future I cling to the past I'm terrified the present will not last I see the irony I get the fact it's already gone by the time that the thought has passed

I am working on it give me some grace I like empty pages I like Mondays I like Mondays I need the solar system, I'm all in one bite. If it could give me clarity, if it would let me freeze time. I'm trying to surrender, but I'm hard work if I give me some grace.

I like empty pages, I like. I like New Year's, I like Mondays, I like first of the month. No book, paper, wet cement, the moment's never been touched. Knowing that there's something that I haven't messed up Because I will, and I do, and I'm supposed to. Who told you that? Some bald guy. What the?

You've got some kind of death wish? We've returned from the break. And who was that again? That was Taylor Bitt and a brand new single is she just released. Oh, your mic went out. Are you there still? It did? Oh, now you're back.

That was weird. Yeah, you made all the mouth movements, but no sound came out. That's bizarre. Okay. Tell me that name one more time. And her song, I like Monday's brand new single that she just released. That's weird. I've never seen that before.

I did do, I did nothing. I touched nothing. I clicked to nothing. Yeah. Chad, I don't know, maybe the chat saw something different than I did, but it was like your mouth, your mouth moved. You had the low audio on the music coming back. Did you accidentally click something that reset me? No, I don't think so.

Weird. That was just weird. Well, anyway, we're back, everybody. And we're going to have a little time with Stephen. How do I know that? Because he's coming in now. Coming in hot. Maybe.

Hold on me. Jor, spoilers. Why won't that come up? There we go. It would help if I didn't tie it. Bo that. All right. Here he comes, everybody. We're pulling him in. We're going to play his theme. Where is it? And now welcome Stephen Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dalla, doll of bills, y'all. Hey, look who it is. Steven Schleiker from Major Spoilers.com. Comes on here on the occasional Monday to talk about nerd stuff, comics, movies, all kinds of cool stuff. And that's good. How are you, Stephen? Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. I am good for a Monday. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah. You know, this is, you're one of the reasons I like Mondays. Just like that song we just heard, Stephen. I like Mondays. I like Mondays because.

Because of Stephen Schlecker and Bobby. I like our Monday guests. Mondays are good. And generally, we talked about this before, I bit and I, but we like Mondays. Mondays are all right. I don't know what it is. We have a different take on the Monday. Didn't used to like Mondays, but now I like Mondays.

I like them. The day I don't like now are Wednesdays are just too busy. It's super busy. And then what's the other day I don't like? I don't like Sunday. No, I like Sundays. I just get really sleepy on Sundays. I don't think right now, you know,

used to be Mondays were the only day I don't like, and now I like all days because they all bring something brand new. They all give me a, a fresh new thing to be excited about, whatever day it is. Brian used to have that not so fresh feeling, but now. Not on a Monday. Yeah. Now, thanks to Massengill, I do have that fresh feeling on the Monday morning. Yep, that's right. Now, mine doesn't care. It's Monday's blue. No, we don't. We don't care. Or Tuesday or Wednesday, too. Yeah. So did you, did you see this small mom and pop indie film over the week there, Stephen? what what film would you be talking about this would be uh marbles finally it was made by some some french canadian guy made it's uh dune part two and i'm not into the foreign films um brian and i saw it he saw

it thursday i saw it friday um all right get it out of your system i will get it out of my system i'll come back or not it is awesome it is so great i loved every second of it i think it is wonder it's wonderful i'm going to look back if they end up making three this will be this will be another like lord of the rings kind of thing for me in the future where i just look back on it so fondly and strongly so so a couple of things first thing love did the movie open with part two of three uh no and the first movie didn't either it ended with or no how to do that how did it open with part one dune part one and from that moment i was like mother effer yeah well this one did open with Doom Part 2, which implies three, right? Yeah. And he said he wants to do three. How does that

imply three? Well, it doesn't imply three except we know he wants to do three and why he wants to do three, but, you know, he's, he's wrapped up a book. Yeah, sort of. I mean, the second, a spoiler, does Paul atreides win in the end? Sort of. I mean, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's cliff hangs that's the other thing it doesn't it doesn't solve it doesn't end like you're done right because not not not all the shoelaces are tied up at the end of this film yeah say what now would you say sorry will we see the continuing adventures in dune messiah i think so i think he's going to take here's my prediction prediction i've read messiah i think he takes a chunk of messiah and makes that your third and final film of the trilogy is there more for it maybe well

I mean, because things get really weird in those books after this, they get really weird. Like, weird, not there, okay, something happened in the movie that I can't believe they did, and I was sure they weren't going to, and they did it anyway, and it's weird, the thing they did, again, not saying what it is, but they did a thing, and I went, really? Then it made me think, well, he could maybe do more weird stuff out of Messiah then, because that was weird. That was a weird choice. I thought for sure they'd cut it, because that's what Hollywood does.

they take the weird shit and they cut it out they didn't in this case there was a very weird thing left in and i'm happy they did but all that tells me the fact that they kind of left it as a bit of a cliffhanger in lots of ways that they could easily do a third he says he wants to do a third this already made a crap shit ton of money they're going to make a third it's happening it certainly made more money than the first movie in theaters cinema's back everyone i hate that i hate that headline that headline irritates me so bad because like dude you guys released it at home it was during the height of the pandemic you went direct to max

on this thing or what was previously called HBO Max and it was there for everybody to get and theaters were still a nightmare and nobody was going. They were closed for June 1. Yeah, I don't remember exactly if there was a limited thing or whatever. I think they re-released it once theater

started. I think that's it. Yeah. But when people run with that headline, it's like, already pre-ticket sales for theaters are already hired that. I'm like, well, of course it is. It virtually didn't exist the first time around. It's prepared to free? Absolutely. So much.

Yeah, it's so dumb. Anyway. It's all thanks to Nicole Kidman. She resurrected theaters from the grave with her. Yeah, well done. Apparently, there's two or three new AMC theaters with her, or trailers with her in. Yes, I know. The article that I saw is Nicole Kidman returns to her most iconic role as Lady

Who Goes to an Empty Theater. and enjoys the experience. Yeah. Wow. She should, they should, that should be a running joke until the end of cinema.

I love that she's involved in that. But anyway, we had a great time. Our theater was great with this. This is a brand new theater that has nothing but reclining soft, fancy chairs. Nice.

And, but normal ticket prices, which is nice. They do have the D-box things that my friend that I went with, Darren calls the D-Bag chairs. He calls those D-Bag chairs. What are those?

Those are the shaky, ones, the ones that have the whole, like, so they don't have that throughout the whole theater, just certain... Just some chairs. Like, the red ones were all D-Box, and then the black ones are all just normal recliner. And do you pay a premium for the, for those? For D-Box? Yeah. And I've done that once. Are they shaky because of the speakers, or are they shaky because it's been a year and now the bolts have loose? They're shaky because they have extra crap in them. Because the main... It's a rubble seat. Yeah, the stuff we sat in the normal seats, I mean, that theater was

wired up sound-wise. It wasn't like full-atmos as far as I know, but it sounded like it. It was great. And it was awesome. How many times did you go to see the movie just to see Anna Taylor Joy? I saw it in the previews, didn't I? It was just like Madame Webb, where I saw as much of the three spiderlings

as I was going to see in the film. Yeah, just the ones is all I needed. Yeah. By the way, that's part of the weirdness I was talking about. I won't say how. That's a weird thing. I can't believe they decided to do it. Here's the headlines. Here's the TMZ headlines. Brian doesn't think Dune 2 is worth seeing more than once.

That's how they do it. That's how you take that. Yeah, exactly. The sensationalization of that. Yeah, that's how they do. Yeah. Jerks. I will say that, sorry, sorry haters in the chat room.

Three-hour movie, darn right. I got a refill on my Coke Zero, but I did only drink about a quarter of the refill. Yeah. I think that's about what I did as well. Yeah. I didn't feel like it was over long. It was just what I wanted. I will say that I think this is a step up in a bunch of ways over the first film.

Everybody always wants to say which one's better. This is one of those cases where it really doesn't matter. We're waiting for the full pie here. This is one third of a pie. For me, it's like end game and Infinity War. It's really one movie and you can't really say, oh, which part was better? It's like, no, you have the setup and you have the conclusion, or in this case, the setup, the swing and then the conclusion yeah and it's very consistent between the two and it is very good

and if you are like a kid who grew up reading dune and you thought you'd never see something this cool good news it's very cool and makes up for that weird lynch movie in about a thousand ways cool it's awesome i loved it makes me curious about yeah yeah yeah it does make me curious about the 2000 Dune series that had... Sci-Fi channel? Yeah, with William Hurt

and... That was like the Children of Dune. That was the book they went off there, right? Children of Dune? They did, but they still had the... Put your hand inside the box, Paul. And if you move, then I'll stab this little thing in your neck and all that.

But I think it was mostly focused on Children of Dune. Oh, you're right. Oh, yeah, here it is. That was... Oh. Okay. Yeah, all that shit was, they did all the early. I didn't know that.

I thought it was just down the line later. TV's Travis says they did, they basically did Dune and Children of Dune. Okay. Yeah, their Baron Hart Conan wasn't as cool as the, any of them. No, no, I mean, a lot of it wasn't as cool. Yeah. From what I saw, I only saw clips in that thing that Alamo Draft House,

showing you the same scene in all three movies but but with different actors and stuff yeah i mean i'm looking at this list it is really william hurt is the only um only name i recognize just scanning the list here duca lito he was lito atreides and then you had um we know jean carlo giani but not from movies like this do we oh we know him from uh yeah what do we know him from uh yeah What do we know? Casino Royale, Quantum of Salas, man on fire. He's been around. He does things.

Yep. But other than that, you're right. This is kind of a no-nameer list? Yeah. And is this streaming anywhere? You can rent it on Amazon, it looks like. Yeah, I'm not going to be doing that. No.

It's very good, though. And I think Villeneuve or have you to say his last, somebody told me yesterday it was Denis vanu is how you say his name. Oh, really? I'm like, dude, you got too many French hidden syllables in there. exactly like we'll take this five syllable word and just drop it down to two

yeah yeah he's a he's the right guy for this and he said he said something funny in an interview he said that this most stressful part of his career was when he was making blade runner 2049 and they asked him why he says I just was so stressful working with somebody

else's world and I went wait a minute did anyone tell you this is also that this is dude is kind of somebody else's I mean before it was your yeah to be fair but not making a sequel to

somebody else's world oh I see what you're saying he doesn't have to play in Ridley Scott's sandbox that's true you've got both Philip K. Dick and and Ridley Scott business you have to deal with okay that makes more sense

now that you guys say it that way because I was I was like well dude Frank Herbert is he definitely is a different somebody else's universe but anyway I don't I don't care what that guy does ever I'll just follow them wherever. I want to watch The Arrival again because I love that.

That's a good movie. Sicario's great. Like, I love everything he's ever done. Just love him. Yeah. All right. What else going on? Oh, hey, Apple's making Neuromancer.

This is, speaking of things that people think are impossible to make, somehow. I'm excited about this. Yeah. Can't wait. I mean, granted, Matrix borrows a lot of this from that and Johnny DeMonica as well. But Neuromancer from William Gibson was one of those seminal books growing up. that you had to read. Of course, it's one of those early Cyperpunk books.

And so you can look at Neuromancer and you can thank Cympunk 2029, Blade Runner, all of this stuff. You can thank this book for that. And it's getting a 10 episode adaptation over at Apple TV Plus. We don't know who's going to be in it just yet, but I'm down. I'm down for this. If Apple's willing to throw money at Neuromancer, yeah, I'm going to watch. I'm going to watch this.

It's going to be show run by Graham. Roland who did the Jack Ryan reboot and also the Dark Wind show, which I really like Dark Winds. J.D. Dillard, who did Devotion, The Outsider, and Slate. I love the outsider. Don't know about those other two. And what else? It will be

B. B. B. B. Burp. That's it. No, yeah, no names attached like actors and stuff. But, dude, I'm all in for this. Like, this has been attempted a couple of times and usually get shelved. Because it's considered, like Lord of the Rings used to be.

and like Dune used to be, it's supposed to be just so hard you can't do it. It's like it's unmakeable. Like we don't have the tech or we don't have the right people doing it or whatever. The reason is.

Yeah. I was going to disproven back when the first Matrix came out, but now it's like it's, it's, uh, Ocean's 11 meets, uh,

the Matrix. This is going to be awesome. Yeah, I can't wait. I can't wait. I want to reread because it's been ages and ages since I read that book and I don't know. I've forgotten most of it. You really should.

That in snow crash, I think, are, that's Neil Stevenson's book. Those are both really good books to get into. Did you guys know that the later Herbert books, even the ones before he died and his son took over? He sets one of those books. I can't remember which one.

Sets them 10,000. Yeah, 10,000 years in the freaking future. Yeah. Well, I'm sorry, 10,000 years after Paul Atreides. And I never read any of that. But after this movie this weekend, I'm like, I should probably poke in there and just see what the F happened, you know? because that seems crazy

I think 10,000 years definitely going to be some spoilers as to what happened before if they're... Yeah, oh yeah, for sure. Yeah. But it did make me think about... The one thing I kept coming away from

as I was watching this film was like, man, Warhammer 40K lifted so much shit from Dune and a lot of things did. Star Wars did. The Tatooine is basically Arachas. Young boy who doesn't know he's going to save the universe,

all that stuff. Right. You know, you always hear these guys give their inspirations or whatever. but I swear Dune is at the crux of almost all the coolest science fiction. It's crazy. So here's the big question, Scott. Does this top your love for Mad Max Fury Road?

Oh, no, no, of course not. Let's be it on the record right now. No, I mean, I love, look. Yeah, I can't imagine that ever happening. Honestly, I love, I don't like, I mean, they're hard to rank because to me, they're all kind of hanging out in the same party. But it still goes Fury Road probably 2049 right after it. And then just a hair later is this Dune duology. Headlines.

Scott Johnson doesn't think that Dune Part 2 is worth of being in the top movie. It'd be really hard to tear Fury Road. Not my favorite, said Scott Johnson. Yeah, not my favorite. Dude 2, not my favorite. We've deconstructed modern media today. We've really done it. Shall we go one more?

Should we do one more? Headline that I was very excited about. Everything Everywhere, All At Once Directors, the Daniels set next film for 2026. I'm like, great. Let's find out what it's about. A whole story, like six paragraphs worth of stuff. The Daniels will release their next film in 2026. That's it.

That is the, everything, all the meet is right there in the title. Great. Exactly. Yeah. Great. Love that. That story could have been in the headline is what that you should say about those. Yeah.

Yeah, F that business. I want some details on what they're doing next because I love those guys. It's going to be called Nothing, Nowhere, a week from now. Sometimes occasionally, and I will get around to it. I love that idea. Nothing nowhere in two years. I love that idea. Spread out.

The last one has to be spread out at different times that are difficult to pinpoint or something. Something that is opposite of all at once. I love it. All right. Well, there's that. Watch for Neuromancer coming soon. We don't even have a date. So I have I had 2026 is my guess.

If I had to guess you're a couple years away on that. The Daniels you mentioned are doing their next thing, but we don't know anything about it other than they are. So that's good news. And then finally, Superman legacy is now just Superman. And also it's filming. Yes. They started filming like three or four weeks ago,

month or so ago. It's been a while since they've started filming on this. Yeah. And it's, you know, I'm very excited. Who was the cast member I just heard about? Oh, they added she. that guy? Oh, really?

The guy from the wire? Yes. Yeah, I did see. He's going to play Otis, which is Lex Luthor's hinge. Oh, I thought he was Perry White. I might have that wrong in my head. Oh, no, no. I've got the wrong actor, right.

Sorry, no. Yeah, they did hire him for Perry White. Yeah. But hold on a second. They're going to have an Otis. Yep, they're also going to have a Miss Test Mocker, played by Sarah Sampayo. Yeah.

I mean, this is consistent with the comics. They are comic characters. I know that there was an Otis and there was a test marker. It's just. It felt like there was just too, it was leaned on too much for comedic effect in the original Superman film. So I feel like I've already got a bad taste in my mouth. Well, if you have seen Superman the animated series, Miss Tessmacher is Lex Luthor's bodyguard. She's the show for bodyguard.

Oh, really? No, I have not seen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Let's see. We've also got Eddie Gethetti from. Oh, crap. No, I forgot.

He's playing Mr. Terrific. You know him from, he's the. rich guy who funds the space expedition for it for all mankind yeah oh yeah okay i like him he's intense yeah we've got uh anthony carrigan who's playing a metamorpho yeah that's a good look for him we've got sean gunn playing maxwell lord which i think is super interesting just because of what maxwell lord becomes throughout the course of of the dc continuity at least old dc continuity Nathan Philly and Guy Gardner So that should be good

Nicholas Holt is Lex Luthor Rachel Rosenhan as Lois Lane And David Cornswet as Clark Kent Three people that I'm at the age where I'm like I have no idea who these people Corrin sweat is just such a horrible name Yeah corn sweats is a terrible name But also Millie Alcock

I know it's Alcock Well yeah also not great either I loved her in the Dragon Deal House of the Dragon Oh, that's where she, okay, yeah, yeah. She stole that for me. She played the young version of Princess Rihanna, Targaryen for the first, what, half of the season or whatever it was.

I thought she was really compelling and interesting. So if she's going to actually be, who's she playing? Oh, Supergirl. Kara Zorel. Which is interesting because they are making that Supergirl True Grit Story. They are adapting that. So I wonder if it's going to be the same supergirl that will be in that as well.

Yeah, I don't know. But she's great. She's very, very interesting Australian actress. And then you got, like we said, Wendell Pierce, he's going to be Perry White. And they're going to go, Perry, do we need to get a story on this Clark Kent or this Superman thing? And he'll go, she. Because that's what he did. That's his deal.

That's right. Yes. Well, there you go. That's all you can eat, everybody. Lots of stuff coming up. Always fun to find these things over at major spoilers. Is there anything else going on on the network that you should tell people about? Hey, listen, it's an election year, and if you enjoy punching Nazis, as much as I enjoy punching Nazis, I think people will really enjoy our Octum Cthulhu game that we're playing on critical hit, where we are having our team fight Nazis and Cthulu monsters.

It's a lot of fun. People can get in on this and check it out every week. That sounds great. Well, also, I'm thirsty. Well, how do I solve that problem? well you could stay hydrated that would be one way oh all right I'm gonna do it right here be like a dude in a fremen suit and stay hydrated that's right

stick a thing in your nose and uh you're good to go just sweat and pee into your suit yeah I do like how they never really mentioned the pee that oh yeah you're sweat and another bodily fluids go into this suit and you get recycled for you to drink yeah plus you know how my brain works that whole movie um multiple times I'm going lill in pee right now no no no I'm usually just like Llewellyn Moss is awful close to Anton Chigur over there. That's a little to, uh, did he not, do you two, do no country for old men,

yeah, yeah, when they're in the same scene, I'm like, you guys don't remember what you did do each other or at least what you did to him, freaking, yeah, there's some bad news between you two. I do like they kind of don't like each other. So that makes it work. Yeah, that helps a little bit. Yes. Uh, all right.

That is it for that. Let me tell people a quick update about TMS Vegas, uh, tickets. They are just about gone. If you want in, you better get in now. They're over at VivaTMSVegas.com. They're linked there, also at the Frog Pants Store. And later this week, I will have the full swag list for people. I think you're going to like it.

We've been working hard to make it rad. And we'll have details on what those swag items are probably Thursday shows if I had to guess. Cool. And hurry up and get your hotel stuff from the plaza because we need to get some numbers from them. And we're a little over a month and a half away from, the big event. Holy poop. I guess I better get started on planning stuff for it. Just kidding. It's all planned.

It's all planned. We know what we're doing. It's all planned. We know we're doing. All that stuff. Anyway, so just make sure you go and get your tickets and your hotel. VivaTMSVegas.com is where you can get all the information you need about. Official events, unofficial events, and swag and tickets and all that stuff. All the fun stuff. Check it out today. That's VivaTMSVegas.com.

For everything else, it's frogpants.com slash TMS. You'll find links to everything there. Thank you all for listening today. We're going to get out of here with some music, though. Brian, what do you got? Sure. I've got a request, Scott, to one of our own, our, we talked about him earlier.

Bobby Frankenberger wrote in and said, as I get older, I get busier and somehow also lazier. Those two facts combined this year to make me late on requesting myself a song for my birthday. I turned 40 on February 28th, And while I'm not feeling particularly old, I've been getting very nostalgic lately. When I was in high school, me and my friends campaigned very, very hard for a senior class song to be Come Sail Away by Styx. Unfortunately, our peers weren't as cool as us. And so we ended up with the same dumb John Mayer song that every senior class used as their song.

Wow. Anyway, I'd love a cover of Come Sail Away if you've got it. Poetically, if John Mayer happens to have a cover of Come Sail Away, that'd be fantastic. He doesn't. In the absence of both of those options, you can always play some sort of cover of Weasers. or you know how much I like that band. Love you guys always. X-O-X-O-X-O-X-O-Bobby Frankenberg.

All right, he gets one of these for 40. Happy birthday. Happy 40th. Crosses over into the elderly lady birthday song. Sorry about that, but that's where you're at, okay? All right. Well, first off, happy 40th. That's a big one, Bobby.

That's huge. Yeah, it's huge. I pull up some notes here that I want to make sure I get. We're going to be playing a song by Morse, Portnoy, and George, and that's Neil Morse, Portnoy, and George. The other names I, Mike Portnoy, that's right, Mike Portnoy. Sure. These guys were part of Dream Theater for a while,

but they were also members of Spock's Beard, one of my favorite band, Spock's Beard, because their songs are so much shorter than, Dream Theater songs. This is their cover of Come Sail Away. They released it in 2012 on their album Cover to Cover, the sequel to their cover album. Here are Morris, Portnoy, and George,

and Come Sail Away. set an open course for the urgency because I've got to be free free to face the life that's ahead of me on board I'm the captain So climb aboard We'll search for tomorrow

On every shore And I'll try Oh Lord, I'll try To carry on Carry on. I look to the sea. Reflections in the waves spark my memory.

Some happy, some sad I think of childhood friends and the dreams we had We lived happily forever So the story goes But somehow we missed out On the plot of gold that we'll try best as we can To carry on

of angels appear above my head They sang to me this song of both And this is what they say They say Come sail away Come sail away With me

Lats Come sail away Come sail away Come sail away with me Come sail away with me Come sail away Come sail away Don't sail away with me now

Don't sail away Come sail away Don't sail away with me Thank you. I don't know. And... ...and... ...and...

...a... I thought that they were angels, much of the surprise. We climbed aboard their starship and headed for the skies. Singing, come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me, lads. Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away. Come sail away, come sail away. Come sail away with me Come sail away, come sail away Come sail away with me

Come sail away, come sail away Come sail away with me Come sail away Come sail away Come sail away with me Come sail away Come sail away You know what I'm going to be.

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