The Morning Stream - TMS 2613: Zombibbott

Episode Date: March 12, 2024

Where the Ruffalo Butt Roams. 50 Shades of Kimchi. The Grandmother Death Stare! Bad Weather, Perfect Storm. You Get NO Sleep, NO Oscars & NO Lt Yar! Rock em' Sock em' Cena. Flying Weiners Are The Wurst. Lil' Brian's Great Booby Adventure. The Jersey Shire. Pocket Chocolate. Not the Hilton You're Looking For. Kim Chi zero. Peeny Pastie. I Don't Like Coffeeeeeeeee. Do You Like The Schmooze? It's Full Of Goo. It's Scott & Brian From The Internet... With TV's Travis and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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You get no sleep, no Oscars, and no lieutenant yard. Rock'em, Sarkham, Suna. Flying wieners are the worst. Lil Brian's great booby adventure. The Jersey Shire. Pocket chocolate. Not the Hilton you're looking for. Kimchi Zero.

Peeny pasty. I don't like coffee. But do you like the schmooze? It's full of goo. It's got. and Brian from the internet with TV's Travis and more on this episode of The MorningStream. It's my mom, you half-wit, and she's a lot prettier than your girlfriend. She grabbed my hairy business.

The Morning Stream. That's the bravest thing I've ever seen a vegetable do. Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream from March 12th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson, and that is Brian Nibitt. Welcome back, Brian. Hello, thank you. Thank you. It's good to be back. Yeah. Thanks for, thanks for welcoming me back with Open Arms. And thanks again to Bobby for covering yesterday. Yeah, here I am with Open Arms. How's the rest of that song go? Here I am with Open Arms. what I say All I know is that

it's playing in that scene in the movie Heavy Metal when the taxi driver is getting it on cartoon-wise with the lady, the red-headed lady you picked up. Oh, right, it is happening in there. I always forget in that

until I see it. And then I go, what a weird song to put in the middle of your thing. It really is. Yeah, exactly. Your futuristic blade runner bullshit. It was eight-year-old Brian

and seeing animated boobs on a big screen for the first time ever. With your uncle? Who was it? Your uncle? My uncle took me. That's right. We're going to meet him in Vegas. You are?

Yeah. I'm going to ask him. I'm going to say, George, how you feel about taking the underage kid to see cartoon goods? He's going to go, well. Listen, my grandparents beat him to it as far as the taking the kid to a nudie show because they took me to Vegas. I think the year before and got the two Hilton's confused. The Hilton they thought we were going to had Doug Henning and Bill Cosby. The Hilton we end up going to had the topless review.

Oh, oops. And when no magic was happening or comedy on stage and a bunch of ladies in their altogether, at least the top half of their altogethers came out with their feathered headdresses and their nothing much else. My grandmother gave my grandfather a look that I will never forget to this day. I'll bet that look will burn into you. It'll stay.

Yeah. Good Lord. Well, done, grandpa. Well, that's awesome. So how was the airport trip? Sounds like it was pretty late. And also,

why does a midnight flight get delayed like that? Because usually it's your overnight flights that stay close to their lot of times. It can and it can. I look at it as like, you know how the doctor's office, you know, if you get first appointment in the morning, the doctor's probably going to be on time. Yeah, probably.

Later in the day it gets, because, oh, well, this thing took longer or this other thing took longer, and it just kind of snowballs. Yeah, kind of cascades at the end of the day. That's a good point. I think that was the case with this, is that it was, you know, machinery wasn't available, the plane equipment wasn't available, basically. Or some pilot or something like that they were waiting on from another flight. But, yeah, originally it was supposed to be midnight, which was already going to suck.

Yeah. um it's already not great especially what have we got you know the oscars and they end an hour early so it's not like i can say oh well this will be great we'll just go to we'll go to the friend's house watch the oscars and then i'll drop you off at home and then i'll go pick it my mom no it's like yeah i've got five hours to kill between the oscars and uh um the airport and once i saw that it was two hours late and coming in at two 30 215 um i said all right well you know what? I'll come home. It'll be about 9 o'clock. I will get some sleep. I'll wake up at 120, 130, and then head to the airport and pick her up. So that's exactly what I did. Went to

sleep. Fell asleep pretty quickly. I'm watching Tron Uprising. I like that. I watched it again as well a couple weeks ago. It's funny. I'm sorry, no, Tron Uprising. Yeah, Tron Uprising. No, Tron Legacy. Tron, like, oh, oh, the TV show, the cartoon, the weird shaped cartoon people show. The weird, exactly, the cartoon where, uh, we only know how to draw one body type. And so we're making everybody have a different weird face, but the same body. Yeah, that is a very odd style in that cartoon. But it has a very aon flux kind of animation to it, which I kind of like. Yeah.

Um, but it does help me sleep. It's like I watch a little bit of that. And it's like Elijah Wood and, uh, Paul Rubens and Mandy Moore. talking is like okay this is yeah they can put you asleep sure i like that cartoon a lot though i wish it would have gone on i wish they'd have kept going yeah but whatever maybe it would have gotten i mean it's good so far it's not great but it's very it's kind it's tropy and predictable but it's it looks beautiful it's a sharp-looking cartoon yeah so uh the um so i go to sleep i wake up at at 1 30 as the plan i go to the bathroom i get my phone out as i'm uh getting changed into uh what i'm

to where to run out to the airport. And I see that the flight left 30 minutes earlier than scheduled. Oh. And arrival time is in eight minutes. Oh, my gosh, dude. And I'm on the west side of town. The airport is on the far east side of town. It's going to take me at least 40 minutes to get there.

So I quickly text my mom and say, oh, just woke up and saw your flights coming in 30 minutes early. I'll be there as soon as I can. Get dressed. Hop in the car. high tail it down there and between taxing so they land right eight minutes then they land then they taxi for another 10 minutes 15 minutes and then they get to the airport then they unload everybody yeah and then they have to walk from the sea terminal to the train and then

take the train to the main terminal and go to baggage claim basically I pulled up just as they were coming outside and and could not have worked out better time-wise wow nice done hard to time that kind of stuff that's good it really is yeah I mean it's kind of fortuitous or not fortuitous but perfect storm or whatever you want to call it it worked out extremely well bad weather perfect storm how about that I like that bad weather perfect storm bad weather perfect storm so got out there uh got her back home came back home and I think the mistake for me was I don't know if it was worse for me going to sleep waking up doing this and then trying to go back to sleep and then getting

up a few hours later, but it left me, you know, I was, as you predicted when you were talking to Bobby, yeah, Brian is up at about 6 a.m. cursing the fact that he can't get any more sleep. That was about right. It was seven. Probably because of the time change. Because you got like an internal clock. It's hard to fight that. I'd do that. Same thing. I can't sleep that way. And I'm usually like a, yeah, I can stay up all night and get a few hours of sleep and get up and be ready and it's the um that was ingrained in me from the uh the newspaper software company days because we do these trade shows we do you know four or five events a year where we'd go to these trade shows or to the nab conference or whatever and we would be schmoozing with customers

until the we hours course but then we had to be right up there at the at the booth to be able to answer questions and demonstrate the software and all that stuff uh first thing in the morning. So you learned you learn to, you learn to, you train yourself to recover. Did you like the schmooze? Was that a thing you enjoyed? Because I always hated that when I worked there. There were some customers that it wasn't like,

there was no ulterior motive of like, oh, really want to sell them a new package of software and support. There were like, there were gen customers that I was just genuinely, really friendly with. Ed from the Cleveland Plain dealer.

Tampa Pauline from Tampa who I still talk to and I'm actually still doing freelance work for Maureen from Seattle there was quite a few that we'd see at these things and it'd be like oh let's have a drink total total non-shmoozy kind of thing I like that but yeah then there were the ones where it's like oh hey we you know we really want to get this guy Brian come come introduce them and so he can see what they get as far as

support and that sort of things like yeah sure schmoozing i when i the company i worked for before we had to do a fair bit of that and i hated it except for times when it was people i liked so yeah this tracks yeah it is it was great to see them the next morning because they would be up until 2 a.m. with us having drinks at the lobby bar and um then we'd see them the next morning as they came by the booth and they were rough they were like they had had a hard time sleeping rough night and uh that makes sense yeah then we could uh we could get them anyway um so long story short i may have woken up at seven yesterday morning yeah and i thought about well i could text scott and bobby and say hey if you need me i'm available but i thought yeah i'm not i'm not fully

a hundred percent awake uh bright-eyed bushy-tailed sure you know you're zombie right for comedy it was not ready for comedy yeah you're zombie it you're zombie Zumbet. Exactly. So I listened to the show, had a leisurely breakfast, kind of sat on the couch, dozed in and out, kind of a little bit for a couple hours and then... Sounds all right. You have to work on freelance. Sounds okay.

That sounds like an okay morning to me. And it wasn't too bad. And thank you for allowing me to have that. Well, of course. Any kind of late night anything is always a time to consider our options. So it's all good. Yeah. I didn't get a chance to...

Well, I didn't say yesterday as I wanted to say before. when you got back but we went to the uh the asian food market over the weekend kim and i it's a mistake to do this at on a saturday it turns out because it's this place downtown called we kind of call it chinatown it's not really chinatown but it's basically an area that used to be this horrible dilapidated awful kind of zone that wasn't great and nothing survived there kmart's would open and shut down and it was just always bad but then this some years ago this asian food market collective opened up create put up this big, giant, awesome-looking Asian sort of bridge that, like, was the entrance to all of it.

And then inside of there, all these Korean places, Chinese, Japanese, just everything, fah places, all this. And then a huge market, like a grocery store style market where they have all the seafood and the whatnot. And it's awesome. It's really cool. And the food's amazing. Really authentic.

But two things happen when we go there on Saturday. one that apparently is the time everyone shops at the Asian market it was so packed and packed with everyone who who is Asian and no one who looks like me so this place is packed with Asian people who are all shorter than me and I look like some kind of weird pink bean pole sticking out of the tribe and it was really busy like yeah was there a and lost in translation where Bill Murray is walking around and you just see, you know,

from the chest up, you see Bill Murray in kind of a sea of people walking around. Yeah. I'm sure they exaggerated it, but... It's a really weird contrast. And this happened when I was in China, too. It just felt like I felt so isolated and so, you know, and I even think Kim blended in nicely.

You know, she's a little shorter. She looked like she belonged there. Everybody else looked like they belong there. I look like I was like going, I've lost my way. You know, felt like John Blackthorn and freaking Shogun. It was weird. Yeah. Anyway, so we're walking around, we're doing our thing, and it's so elbow to elbow.

It's just like, kind of, you know, just not. It wasn't great in terms of crowd. It's great to see, you know, this place is booming. It's wonderful to see that. And lots of small businesses kicking ass and all this stuff. But man, that place is like finding a new planet and no man's sky and having to scan weird new new fruit. It really is.

Yeah. It's, you see things. there that you just just had no idea nature could create what part of the animal is this yeah there's like a ball like some of this fruit we found there's like it just looked like three spheres mush together

merged together and then spikes all around it and then we then we see another like a fish that had like what looked like one eye in the middle of it or something exactly it is it is great yeah I look at the the one that we go to is

called Palm Pacific Ocean Marketplace, and that's what it is. And, you know, there's certain things that's like, oh, we'll always pick up a, you know, a weird flavor Kit Kat or a package of Pocky, you know, the little coffee stirry sticks that are really good. Oh, yeah. People love the Pocky. Some of the, sometimes they have the Japanese milk bread, which is awesome, like a loaf of this stuff that is so delicious. So a lot of that, too. Yeah.

For the most part, it's like, look at this weird fish. Tina? What's this? Yeah. Or look at this crab. It's as big as Rainer. What are we going to do with it? Nothing. I'm not taking that home. You know, and it's all live. Most of the stuff's live, right? So it's all fresh and live. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You get the tanks with all of the crabs and lobsters and then some, some other bizarre creatures. They must have had like 50 kinds of kimchi, which is what I was kind of in there for. I was looking for the, you know, just a new, a new thing of kimchi had run out. And I didn't know what to pick. I'm looking around. Okay, well, where are most people gathered around? around. Maybe that'll tell me what's popular.

And so I ended up doing that. If I had kimchi zero, was that good you? It's not it. They didn't have it. No, they'd kimchi spice. Was there a pumpkin spice flavor? No, it's unfortunate that they didn't have that either. But they did have this kind that everybody was pointing at and buying and I got it. It's great. Freaking very happy with it. Really? Send me a photo of the label. I will.

I will. It's not like fresh cut like we usually get there, but the Korean place that's in the same complex who gives the fresh cut. they have like a smaller market they were so busy there's no getting in there edgewise so it was just like not going to happen so i'm told the time to go to this place is it like one in the afternoon on a weekday yeah definitely on a weekday yeah and only old asian people go during the day is what the lady there told me i said is it always this busy she just says oh it's all just a saturday's why is it so busy when should i come oh around noon on wednesday best time to come she says i'm like all right i would think

But during the day, you also get a lot of restaurant kitchen shoppers, right? Like the folks who have a restaurant want to get some fresh stuff. So, you know, probably in the mornings on weekdays, you get those. Yeah, they have some that buy there at the market. And then they have this right next to all of this is this huge, almost like a Sam's Club looking building. And that's nothing but wholesale food. And so people, restaurant owners will come there and just raid that place. That looked really, everything looked busy.

It was just crazy because as a kid growing up or growing up in that part of town or driving through that part of town a lot, it was always the, it was just a, it was a ghost town, awful place. It was not great, great. They have turned it into the most bustling, awesome little pocket of rad over there. And it's, it's very cool. So I recommend going there. I just don't think you ought to go there at like noon on a Saturday. Maybe avoid that.

No, definitely not. Yeah. And if you're looking for, if you're hoping that you'll run into. to other six foot four white people you're not going to you're not going to see him you might see me that actually does surprise me i'm surprised there weren't a bunch of you know big doofuses like us like walking around there like you see a spot i expected one or two or three at least i thought i would see somebody and be able to kind of wink at them and go yeah they're all coming at one o'clock on the wednesdays and they're all they're all there yeah they already heard they got the memo

oh you want to you want to come on wednesday is when all the people who look like you were here Yeah. Otherwise, it's like, what's the Japanese crosswalk that's famous? Shibuya. Shibuya is like Shibuya in there. Except nobody was waiting for any lights. It was just like, and everyone was nice. Like a lot of sort of, oh, excuse me, sorry. Oh, can I get around you? Yeah, no problem. You know, like everybody was dealing with it. Oh, yeah.

But it was just like. It's just a sea of people. That was too much. It was too much. You need to, I know I recommend told a while back, but Allison Borderland, a lot of the stuff takes place in Shibuya right around that crossing. as a matter of fact a very key moment in the first episode takes place there and i don't know how you know that scene in in vanilla sky when tom cruise comes out and is looking down times square looking down broadway in new york city and there's no traffic no cars no people yeah it's a lot like that

it's like how how did they recreate or or do this cgai thing that looks so amazing with should be crossing and not have it filled with people. Yeah, because I have to assume. So, so historically, Vanilla Sky is the only movie that ever stopped all traffic at whatever weird time they chose to do that scene. They did it for in the morning and that's why it looks like it's sunset, but really it's pre-sunrise or something.

Yeah, so they had to jump through all those hoops. But that Shibuya thing, there's no way they got that done that way. Yeah. I can't imagine there's every time. Plus, it is full on daylight when they do that scene in the show. It's like, how is this possible? The magic of modern filmmaking, Brian, is what that is. Exactly.

Speaking of which, did you have any parting thoughts on the whole Oscars deal? Did you want to mention any of that? Yeah, I disagree with you on the format of the five previous nominees to some degree. I think when it's Jennifer Lawrence talking about her friend Emma Stone, or was it Emma Stone? Who did Jennifer Lawrence talking about her friend Emma Stone? No, Emma Stone was what's her name? was uh oh right that's right i can't give her name but that's but michel yo mrs doubtfire yeah sally field sally field that's right michelio gave the oscar to jennifer lawrence to give to

emma stone so that they could share that moment together as friends but there were a couple like that where where you could tell it wasn't just i'm reading a thing off a prompter that was it's for an actor that i have never met in real life but i have to act like i really care about them kind of thing. Yeah. But the ones where it was genuine, I love that. And I feel like instead of, you know, if they do this again in the future, instead of requiring previous winners in that category, make it somebody who has a longstanding relationship with that person. So if it's Jeffrey Wright, for example, some actor that's been in a lot of movies with Jeffrey Wright and knows him well and have that person.

do his you know his uh jeffrey you never cease to amaze me with your ability to blend in into a character and your your anger and your joy come out in every role you have and then we go over to that's not bad yeah so you're saying still have five people doing it just have to be close to them yeah yeah okay yeah that makes sense um so i actually really like that um and man Lily Gladstone not getting it across the spiderverse not getting those were the two big surprises

that just blew me away those two not getting the Oscars that we all expected them to get well you could see in the Emma Stone's face she was also shocked when she stood up I mean she'd been reading the trades she knew that Lily Gladstone was the favorite and

well not only that I think she thought, well, I've already won one, and this is a chance for her to win it. And there's all these other, like, reasons around why it's important. If Lily Gladstone's to win, there's all these, like, great reasons she could win. She's a big advocate for stuff outside of this. They even mention that. Like, it's a big deal. And they'd look on Emma Stone's face was almost like, oh, shit.

I'm going to have to deal with this shitstorm now. With my dress broken. Yeah, with my busted-ass dress that I was hoping not to have to get up and show anybody, you know? Right. Right. But I will say this last night, as you can tell, because this clip right here. She grabbed my hairy business. I watched, I watched Poor Things last night.

That's the best line in Poor Things, by the way. I love that. I forgot about that line. That is pretty great. Yeah, that is such a crazy, not so wacko kind of movie. It's the weirdest movie I've seen in a long time. It shouldn't be surprised. This guy makes weird movies.

But she's amazing in it. She is so good. it like you never questioned her as a weird Frankenstein character you also the movie doesn't work without her like no it doesn't it's not a movie without that performance now could you have squeezed that out of somebody else maybe but yeah i i walked away from that going that's a hundred percent pivot that whole thing pivots on her performance the whole thing yeah yeah the rest of it's fine it's weird it's whatever great the foe is great yeah the foe in particular dude freaking blowing bubbles out of what the hell's going on

there was so much of that stuff and all the hybrid animals like the freaking dog duck that was running around the house and all that I loved so much of that I was a little surprised I didn't realize there be that that much skin in there oh yes I know yeah

that was that's kind of the reaction we had like the skin and self-pleasureing that takes place prior to all the skin it's like oh okay yeah I guess you know it's like a preteen figuring out that oh this feels good i'm gonna do it all the time no no not at the table not the table not not not now not now please not now and also just like her i just i don't think emma stone

was known for this sort of exposure before but gosh no whatever i've never also seen jennifer lawrence in that that movie last year uh no hard feelings so it's like oh uh jennifer lawrence okay that's not something we ever expected to see no all right so that shocked me a little bit also Mark Ruffalo's butt, didn't need to see that. It's fine. Oh, okay. So you're fine on one side of the nudity, but maybe... No, that's my point.

All of it was a little shocking. Like, I don't, I don't... And none of it was, I don't find any... This is the thing about a movie like this. None of that's sexy. No, not at all. None of it's like, ooh, titillating. Not at all.

It's like, no, that's effed up. What are we doing here? That's also effed up. Wait a minute. That's a priest. Okay, that's effed up. There's a lung string of clients in that brothel, holy cow. It's a really weird movie, but I really liked it and thought it was, she's just incredible in it.

So this is a real, it's a real, I haven't seen, I still haven't seen Killers the Flower Moon yet. I will. And I'm sure I'm going to walk away from that going, man, what an amazing performance. But I can see why they gave this to Emma Stone. She just holds that whole thing together. It's crazy. She's really, really good. She's only 35.

I'm so surprised you haven't seen Oppenheimer, too, especially with, you know, your Florence Pew in there, you're Killian Murphy. I like everybody about that movie. I just need to watch it. You're R-A-D-J. Yeah, I love the only person, he's the only person, I feel like, who can get away with being as snarky as he is at the Oscars when he's accepting his award. Oh, he's good at it.

Yeah. But, you know, you go up there, you put a Christopher, or not Christopher Nolan, you put Christian Bail up there. And if he says those same kinds of things, he's canceled the next day. Like, I can't believe he walked up there and said, oh, nice job. You only flubbed one line. Yeah, he has a way about him. I really like that.

I will say this. If they can, I'm, I'm good with no. Jimmy Kimmel's had his run. Can we get, I think we need somebody. I don't, I think he's fine. I think he's annoying me. I can't explain it. I can't really even explain it.

Some of his jokes suck. Some of his jokes kind of sucked and just felt like drippy and dumb. Sometimes they felt completely out of left field. And that shot where he's saying something about Emma Stone and then the camera cuts to her and she tells whoever's next to her, she goes, what a prick or something like that. Oh, really? Yeah. Like, it just feels like he's, they're not even his jokes probably.

This is somebody else writing these jokes? A lot of these are his. Maybe, but I don't think it's all one dude making jokes, right? They got a committee in there, right? They have a committee. They have writers. Like his monologue is written by a team, but his off-the-cuff stuff like Wes Anderson couldn't be here because he's making a diorama of the stage out of Corderoy. You know, that was his.

Yeah. The Trump thing, the whole Trump thing was his idea. Producers were like, uh, maybe you shouldn't do it. He's like, no, I'm totally going to do it. Yeah, it's fine. I don't know. I don't know what it is. It's something about Kimmel.

I don't know. I don't know what it is. I can't put my finger on it. Interesting. Oh, I just doesn't entertain me. I'm still a fan. I like his. I like his style of interviewing.

I like his style of comedy. Totally. Totally fine with Kimmel. I don't mind his talk show is fine. I like that. I don't know what it is about the stage thing. It's like that time when Letterman did it and he said, oh, the Oprah thing.

Yeah, he says, I'll never do that again. And people kept asking him, why won't you host again? I'll never do it again. I hated it. And I didn't like it either. And I love Letterman. I love him. But as, you know, I'll say this.

Molly Fenton reminds me about how funny John Mullaney was. bring John Mullaney let John Mullaney host for a year I'd love to see that also he seems like a guy that likes movies you know he's into it he certainly likes field of dreams yeah but you know he knows his he knows his shit I think and he might be more of a cinephile than than others and yes I vote for that let's put him up there next year let him host he'd be amazing but like even the Billy I like I like Billy Crystal it's something about the Oscars I don't like I don't like hosted Oscars I don't like the you know what I don't like the Oscars that's what I don't like the Oscars that's what I don't like the Oscars that's what I don't like I like I like that people win shit I like that people did great I like that they're recognized for their work and I like that that industry does what it does so I can enjoy my entertaining films for the year without Hollywood I get no Dune part one and part two right like I'm not going to complain about that but that three hour thing it's hard for me yeah well you don't even watch it you do the you do the post clips like you say all right what was what was funny and yeah and what bits I watch while Carter and her friend watched were just

just hard for me. Oh, during that Twitch thing. I just stood there going, okay, what's he saying? What's he doing? Oh, that's a dead. That's bad. Okay, I'm going to go away now. It's, it was one of the, uh, it's got one of the best ratings of, uh, Oscar telecasts in

years, which. No, by all accounts, it gave everybody who likes the shit everything they wanted. Like, yeah. If you like the Oscars, I think you had a banger Sunday. You know what I'm saying? I did. And, uh, and I do and I did. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, no, because it's a way, it's an introduction to move. these that I wouldn't see otherwise. Not just your best picture, your 10 best picture candidates, but the stuff in the acting awards, the stuff of the international films, the shorts, would not even give two shits about shorts if it weren't for like, all right, tell me which ones I should check out. And they were all great. I'll tell you what my favorite thing in the last 10 years about the Oscars is that you

find out what's nominated and then you go watch these. shorts you watch the documentaries and then you come here and you tell us what's good or what isn't yeah i like that a lot that that's a useful thing for me it makes me excited to see certain things it makes me like stoked about it good so so the oscars obviously it has a place you you like so so and that's totally fine not everybody's going to like everything you like uh letting me like the oscars and letting letting that uh influence my suggestions on what to check out also i just it's a general thing I don't like award shows that's generally a thing I don't like sure and it kind of doesn't matter what the subject is like there are very few that I like I cannot watch the

Grammys I can I can I can't stomach the MTV music award movie awards or the music awards that's basically Emmys Oscars maybe the Golden Globes but it can't be the only thing I'm doing I got to be playing a game on my iPad and looking up everyone's well the golden globes my favorite thing about the oscars is the contrary not controversy the um conspiracy theory yeah that because the hollywood is made up of a bunch of illuminati and stuff like that according to some people that this was john sena's uh he had this was a chance for him to break up in the next level he had to it's called a humiliation ritual according to some people okay so the idea is you make him come out and be naked yeah now that's a humiliation thing that okay if he passes

he can move up to the next level. There are people who believe that shit. He can now do more than just Amy Schumer comedies and Peacemaker is basically what they're saying. So lame. So lame. I hate that stuff. Yeah.

Boy, John Cena, I know he had something on under, behind that nominee's card. But good Lord. It had to be really tiny. Well, according to a stage photo I saw, he had nothing on under there. He had his wiener out. Let's see if I can find it.

I can share it with you, but it's like when they pulled him back there and wrapped him in the robe, it was like five people all ran up and did it, and then one guy stayed and looked like he was the one that did it. I can't believe. There's too many possible things that can go wrong with saying that. By the way, it was also great. When he came off stage and you see him shake hands

with the rock, because those two hated each other for a long time because of this WV comeback thing they wanted to do with the rock and they had fights about

who was going to win it or how it was going to go down and they yeah there people are saying that he had a sock or that he had a thong on

I hope it wasn't a sock a sock oh yeah here it is okay so what I saw the camera the shot I saw was very blurry and very like

a Zabruder film this is much more clear and you're right he's wearing like a like a beige here I'll put it up well the uh was it isn't the uh the title of this thing John Sina wasn't totally naked at the Oscars yeah yeah yeah I said this isn't the one I saw yesterday the one I saw yesterday was a totally different thing um so there he is you guys wearing his little his little unit there you can see yeah I mean but but seeing that much was really surprising like yeah the dude looks like like a oh There is a photo of them.

Yeah, that's the one I'm showing. It's, if you, if you have, it doesn't have strings on it even. It's just like a little. No, that is not a, that's not a thong. That is a, that is a cloth Merkin is what he's wearing right there. Yeah. I would be nervous. That's not going to hold if I was him.

A peony pasty is what that is. It's a pinie pasty. Yep. He still looks like buff Jim Varney to me. Look at him. The dude is, oh, he does, yeah. And the dude is like so on the butt. I just scrolled out and saw the butt.

Yeah. Uh, the dude looks like a freaking action figure. Oh, yeah. No, he's a, he's a, he's a, he's a specimen. The dude is a specimen. He is a specimen. He's earned his ability to go out there and do that. But some people think it was all part of some ritual and I think they're insane.

That's hilarious. Yeah. Nicely done. Uh, we have a quick clarification. And last comment. What the heck is up with Al Pacino? Uh, he's old and doesn't care anymore. It doesn't give a shit.

I think he's just like, they're saying it was intentional that he did not read the list of Best Picture nominees before he just opened it. That he says, all right, well, I'm just going to open this and tell you, Oppenheimer. They didn't even do that right. He's like, well, my eyes are seeing Oppenheimer. And then this kind of pause. And then, oh, okay, Oppenheimer. Oh, okay.

And then everybody claps and the music plays and that sort of thing. It was such a, it was way to, like, completely suck all the climax out of the best picture announcement. he was on the game awards a couple years ago or a year ago whatever it was and um same thing something's something's going on there i'm not saying he's losing it i'm just saying i don't think i just think he i just think he doesn't care anymore i think i think he's just like oh you want me to do a thing fine i'll get up there and i'll do it if i was the man i was 20 years ago i said fire to this play that's right he doesn't care he doesn't give a crap and and he doesn't and you know what it's alpuccino he doesn't need to give an alpicino he can do whatever the

he wants yeah if you're going to ask him to do it you better expect him to do whatever you want i was serpico that's right serpico's good that's a good movie it is a good film yeah uh we got a clarification i got to play this is a clarification this is from the other day when you were here and uh here's how that went warwickshire not warwickshire not warwickshire not warwickshire or sorry to be more accurate warwickshire yeah so there you go We think we've, we think we figured that out on the air. I thought we did. I thought we, you know, and I said, okay, we don't pronounce the second W,

but apparently it's not shire, it's sure or sure. Okay, all right. You guys just say sure, and that's fine. Sure. You guys do what you want. Do you say that the hobbits are from, are from the sure? Did you come from the sure? Oh, cool.

I hope, I hope. Sure you did. Yeah. I hope Mordor doesn't make war against the sure and the people who live in the sure. I mean, it makes, you wouldn't ever say that. him to the Shire to tell me to go find the one ring. I'm going to go beyond

Tron uprising. I always forget he's on there until you remind me. Yeah. He's good on there, actually. He's a good voice actor. He is good on there, yeah. Yeah. You know, you don't see... There are times that he sounds like Oscar Isaac. Was that who our Moon Knight was? Yeah, that was Oscar Isaac.

Yeah, Oscar Isaac. Yeah, that's who he sounds like every once in a while. If you listen to it and you imagine Oscar Isaac saying it, it's surprisingly weird that you can believe that it's him saying it. Alito Atreides the first. That's who that guy is. That's right. Yes. Never forget. All right. Also, we have an amazing call to play and I'm going to play it. Oh, good. This is just funny and weird and

I'll let it speak for itself. Hi, Scott. Brian, I am calling regarding a mention of, um, of, uh, hell. Give it a second I was trying to reset the voicemail That doesn't work on this line Ignore it I'll come back to it later And call again

Sorry I'm walking my dog This did not work out Bye Oh that's awesome I love it Let this be a lesson If you call in And things fall apart

You're still getting played Yeah yeah exactly You're even more guaranteed To get played If you leave a message like that rather than the message you probably intended to leave. Yeah, we have a, we have a commitment here on the show that if something like that happens, it gets played. So, sorry about that.

It's a guarantee. Yeah, what, so, okay, so the Chad's saying, what, if you said Shire and you're in England, and you're used to saying, sure, and when they say Shire in the books or in the films, what do you, is that sound weird? It's part of a word you say, sure, like, Yorkshire. You don't say Yorkshire. I'm going to have some Yorkshire pudding. I guess we do the same thing with New Hampshire. We just say New Hampshire. We say New Hampshire, yeah.

But we say Hillshire Farms. Oh. We don't say Hillshire Farms, right? We say Hillshire. You're right. Because English is dumb and unpredictable. It's very unpredictable and I don't like it. John Lennie would say, it's problematic and weird.

Weird. Weird. He has a great voice. He does. All right, we got to do this. Much of foodie. We're going to try a thing sent to us by Mike Bicholich. he sent us a little box

He's great He's always sending his cool stuff He's always surprising us with stuff So dude you're the best You are the best Pocket chocolate Or sorry pocket coffee Is the name of the thing

Pocket coffee It was like a Charlie Day Kitten mittens That's right Pocket coffee espresso Thing unit deal God I really missed an opportunity To have you

Soke this in water And try to drink it Dang it why did I What doesn't make sense to me is my wife also thought this, and I don't know why we thought this. Why didn't I let you keep going with that just to watch you do it? She was like yesterday, she goes, if Brian's there today, I'll get it all ready and get it hot and everything ready to go. And I said, okay, cool.

And then you were gone. I'm like, oh, don't worry, I'll do it. I can do this on my own on Wednesday. And she said, okay, no, no problem. And not until Brian this morning said, you want to do this today. And I said, yeah, do I need you to get hot water? You're like, what for? And I realized, we were wrong.

This is just the thing you eat. This is it. Yeah, it is just a thing you eat. It is a chocolate. It is a little treasure chest-shaped little chocolate. Yeah, see? Like you'd get out of a, I don't know, your average little box of chocolates. Out of Werther's original.

Life is like a box of these. All right, let's try it. Okay. Oh, I hate it. I hate it so much. That is full of goo. Ugh. Oh.

I hate chocolate. I don't hate chocolate. I love chocolate. I hate the taste of coffee. I cannot say. and that is what this is. This is coffee with a center that is just straight up espresso. Yeah.

And be careful because mine spilled everywhere. Here, let's move this somewhere safe. Oh, shit. I know. I was not... I wasn't expecting it to be so liquidy. It says it right there on the front. Yep.

Wow. You know what? That may have been okay in hot water. no it would not have you don't think so weird greasy floaty chocolate bits floating on top of the water

that's true that stuff doesn't it's not soluble is it chocolate's not the stuff inside though you can take that out and go bloop and put it in a thing and you can maybe make it but yeah this isn't for me I'm afraid send the other 17 actually Kim would probably love it because she'll love

these she'll be way into this card or two they'll love this Kim gets can get 17 of them. All right. Well, sorry, Amy, I was going to try and have Scott send you the remaining 17 chocolates. What this come from? Finet Chocolade

and 100% Arabica. It's all different language back there. Yeah, it doesn't look like French. I would say, German, maybe. Fine chocolate. Let's see. Cool and troken

a vivjevern. minestein's haughton beast this sounds german it does yeah yep I'm going to say that's German without really knowing anything about it all right well thank you for that and all that stuff you guys we have time for a little bit of news

let's do some news yeah here we go today's news brought to you by freeze drying fruit we're freeze drying fruit and meat and other things Kim's going to make a bunch of freeze-dried stuff. So we learned that you can take an

entire beef stew. So you make the beef stew or whatever, anything, chili, doesn't matter. You make a batch of chili, let's say. If you have a freeze dryer, you lay the chili out in these flat trays. You put them into their little

slots in the freeze dryer. You let it run its course. You pull it out and you now have basically a giant wafer or multiple, if you do multiple trays, a wafer of chili. that is you know you can break it apart it's it's all freeze dried crumbly yeah then you take that you break it up into chunks and you could literally just eat it if you want we're doing that with veggies and stuff like a snack you know sure peas and stuff it's very very good but but in the chili

case or stew or or or even omelets or eggs or anything you do this you put them in bags uh and then when you go on a and it's by the way 25 years preservation by doing this process 25 years the stuff will last wow really Yeah, which explains why MREs work the way they do, I guess. Totally, yes, right. And then you could take them on a camping trip or something. You put them in a bag, pour hot water in there. You've now got reconstituted freaking chili or stew or eggs or anything.

And it tastes like the day you freeze dried them. That's cool. It's crazy. So we're all into that at the moment. We're making a bunch of, yeah, I think it works, does it work with, have you found something that doesn't work with? Like, you know, you mentioned eggs. probably can't do scrambled eggs like you can do some you can do some you can do

scrambled eggs although um it we haven't tried them scrambled we only done it like liquidy uh but you can then i guess that's essentially still scrambled though when you cook them yeah or when you when you reheat them but yeah that that totally works eggs are fine um what else did we try to ice that doesn't work ice is no good try freeze drying ice yeah wow amazing that wasn't work because it's already i just that the process is already halfway done for you yeah I just had to know if it was going to do anything. It didn't. It just took the moisture out of the tray entirely.

What else? We haven't tried the big slabs of like meat yet. We're going to try some like steak flanky things. See, that's some good stuff. Can you? It's different than, um, than turning it into jerky because it's, it's freeze drying, not curing. Curing or what's the other, uh, there's another drawing. Yeah.

Uh, what's the other kind of called? the one where like you make chunks like banana slices that they're crispy dehydration dehydration dehydrated yeah exactly you don't do that here as far as I know freeze drying okay it's interesting

it's cool the only the only thing it makes me weird about it this is my brother-in-law's freeze dryer gave to us it has an air compressor that goes with it and it runs the whole time and that's fine it's not even that loud but it's about a thousand degrees if you touch it and I'm just

I'm just nervous. I'm like, that's going to burn the house down. What are we doing? Yeah, maybe put that part outside and just in case. Jeez. Yeah, I don't like that. Anyway, here's a...

Have you thought about people? Like, you know, can you do, like Walt Disney did, freeze drying himself until there's a cure for whatever. Unfortunately, I don't think they would have to grind me up and put me in four separate trays and even then my whole body would not... You wouldn't fit. I can do my whole brain, though. They were going to do that to turn you to brownies anyway, so...

Yeah, that's true. That's true. Skip the freeze drying process. Yeah, forget that. Plus, it would be a more fulfilling meal to be able to just add water and eat me that way, you know. Anyway, it's a real fun process. We got inspired by a bunch of Pinterest post she found and she went nuts with it. Yeah. Let's move on to this story here.

We're going to tell you about the Philadelphia Phillies. Sure. This is a baseball here. Indeed it is. Our scraping, or scrapping, rather, $1 hot dog night. and they're doing it because one fan was an a-hole. Oh, no, really? Just one? I would be pissed.

Well, unruly fan behavior could be more than one. Oh, I think they mean just, yeah, behavior of fans, but fan behavior is opposed to fans' behavior. Yeah, and they're being poops. Yeah, it's a bunch. According to this paragraph is a bunch of them. For more than a quarter century, Philly fans consider Dollar Hot Dog Night among the best ballpark promotions,

but the team has now decided it was the worst. I knew you'd like that. The worst. Yeah. Spelled W.R. You are. Yeah. Not even Huff Poe.

Huff Poe's nothing to do with this. This is the AP News. This is the AP. Yeah. The advanced placement. Says those dog days of April. That's another dumb reference. The dog days of April.

When Philly weather is cold and weaners are a steel are going, going, gone. Baseball reference. Yeah. I'm surprised about our frankly going, going, going. going on. Let's get a Frank reference in there as well. Yeah. Now I think they're bad. Missed an opportunity there. Yeah. Now I think they're bad at their job. Philly officials end of the popular promotion Thursday and replaced dollar dogs on selected dates with a two-for-one deal at two April games in Citizens Bank Park.

That's a boring name for a park. I hate these when they change. Yeah, corporate names. Me too. Do you think anybody, like, what's the one that used to be? We have Empower Field here, which we still call, we're going to forever call Mile high stadium. Yeah. But our basketball and hockey plays where the mammoth play as well is now called ball arena. I hate it. Ball arena.

I don't like it. I don't like that at all. No. Who's the company? It used to be the Pepsi Center. And for whatever reason, I kind of liked it as the Pepsi Center. But no. Ball arena.

Whoever's like first and most prominently first, that's where it should be. So if it's like for us, it's Delta Center. That's stuck. That's only one ever said. So when it was Vivint Home Arena for a hot minute, nobody called it that. We called it the Delta Center. Yeah. And now Delta has it again, and I couldn't be happier.

In fact, I think that's what gets the jazz winning again, is we finally got the Delta Center back. You won't. Nice, good. Yeah, this season, maybe not. But next season, maybe. Let's see here. The statement made by the team said the change was made based on the organization's

ongoing commitment to provide a positive experience for all fans in attendance. It says, armed with projectile Frankfurters, some unruly, Philly fans began chucking their favorite Hatfield meat during the game last year, and the dog soared like cans of corn through the stands and into the field. Hold on a minute.

Why cans of corn? I don't know. Just like, because it's a chuckable size, I guess. It's just a weird comparison, right? Like, because at first, you read, if you skim this article, you're thinking, oh, crap,

they're throwing cans of corn at the players. Yeah. But, no, just like, you know, you could everybody can visualize how a can of corn would fly through the air now apply that to a hot dog which is impossible to imagine yeah you can't imagine a hot dog flying through the air but think of it is a can't of corn put it in terms of corn for me would you so i can understand what's like this is how the army does it when they design new missiles and bullets and stuff they're like i don't understand how this could hurt our enemy okay imagine if you can imagine a can of corn oh okay i get it the new warheads make perfect sense Oh, that's how it's going to work. Like a can of, oh, why did you start with that? Yeah, start with can of corn, you idiot. Anyway, last year, the whole game turned into a food fight.

Largely good nature, by the way. We're going to bomb that place like a bunch of bags of potatoes dropped from it. Imagine, if you will, a whole bunch of potatoes. Anyway, they got a bunch of people ejected, and as a result this year, they're like, nope, I'm not doing it anymore. So, sorry fans of the Philadelphia Phillies. does suck it's better than dollar beer night remember when they had the dollar beer night fiasco of like uh yeah yeah and stuff predictably went awry but hot dogs come on maybe my grandma was right there was a point in high school she sat me down this is the this is the true story she sat me

down and she said you know what the problem with modern sports is scotty she called me and i said what's that grandma it's my grandma wilson she says we used to have to wear dresses suits and hats and to sporting events. That's how we went in my day. Yeah, yeah. And nowadays, you guys just go in your shorts and your stupid baseball hat on backwards and you're just wearing your thongs. Oh, you know, people don't call them thongs now, but...

Your flip-flops, yeah. You don't take the thing seriously anymore, and so it's just blah, blah, blah, blah. Like today, she would say, if she was here today, she would say, this is a sign of that right there. That's what she said. You know, there's something to that because I think the first five people that threw a hot dog were pissed at the game. the remaining 100,000

wanted to see what the field would look like littered with a bunch of hot dogs. Yeah, yeah. There's no doubt in my mind that only a few people were actually throwing because they were pissed off at the game. The rest were like, oh, what do you think the baseball field will look like?

Let's watch a bunch of people have to pick up hot dogs. I'd be honest. I would like to see a field full of hot dogs. Yeah, right? Yeah. No matter how I was dressed for the game, I would like to see that. it's the uh yeah it's like the hat tricks and stuff and and uh in uh lacrosse they have sock tricks

oh and that's not a fun night to be in the front row uh where our where our season pass season tickets are because people take off their stinky ass socks and they huck them onto the field and if they're if they can't get them onto the field guess where they land the first few rows where you're your awesome seats yeah there are awesome seats which all of a sudden become a battleground of of uh slightly moist haines uh ankle lengths so is that only when the team gets a tat trick then they throw their socks a sock trick is like uh the the same player gets six goals i think during game it used to be three used to be three oh in fact i thought it was still three a hat trick is still three okay but a sock trick is because there's way more scoring in lacrosse oh yeah that

Let's see here. Sock trick lacrosse. Yeah, it started by the mammoth when Gary Gates scored six goals. Interesting. The sock tricks started in Colorado for the very team that you might have been there. What if you were there that night? I might have actually. Yeah, the fans didn't know what to do. So some of them threw their socks on the field. And sure enough. That's a night you are glad the chili peppers aren't in attendance. you know I don't want their socks anywhere near me hey flea throw your sock I can't Anthony Ketus it's all I've got on right now it's all that's covering me and my body my manly body he'd say all right we're we're gonna move on to a break when we come back from this break we're gonna be visited by the ghost of I'm just kidding he's not really the ghost of anything he's the real live TV's Travis will be here. And he's going to throw a little contest in our way and see how we do with it.

I'm excited to try that out. So we'll give that a shot after this song that you brought. What'd you bring? Sure. How about some rock from Belgium? We haven't had some rock from Belgium in a while. We love Belgium. They're waffles, their fries, their frets are all really good. How about this band? They're called 4-I-M. F-O-R-I-M. A brand new single that they've released called Devil Undercover. Their new album, which is called The Righteous and the Wicked. Comes out April 19th on S-BAM records, double helix records in the U.S. Or P-E records in Australia.

And it is spelled P-E-E-P Records in Australia. Wow. I love Australia, man. You can have nice things. No, they're great, though, with the... You're calling something P. That's amazing. Yeah, you guys rock.

That's so Australia. Yeah. All right, this is the song Devil Undercover. Here is the band for I am. When I'm with him, I forget who I'm with him, I forget who I am, I don't know if I like it or not, I should probably go, so I'm looking around. for away out of fear, but I'm caught. Because whenever I move, when I run for the door,

I can't seem to resist the arts they're put up together for more. I can't hold myself It's strange taxation He's a sight of the wind He's the devil under cover I'm scared but he's got me in through. He's aware of my addiction and he's made of the blood

He's got me good And he's not letting go Please someone just wake me off from this trance Because I feel like I'm going to taste Yet I know that I have a struggle for life There's a feeling of course in through my veins I can't help my save He's a sign, strange, strange

He's a sign in the wind, he's no devil undercover He's been, but he's got me in told He's aware of my intention and he's there in for blood He's got me kept and he's not letting go He's a die in the wind He's a die in the wind, he's the dead, he's the dead, in the wind, he's the devil under cover, he's got me in tow. He's aware of my addiction and he's paying for blood, and he's not letting go.

He's a song in the wind, he's the devil under cover, I'm spent, but he's got me in soul. He's aware of my addiction, and he's thrown up the blood, he's got me dead. And he's lying! He's a song in the wind, he's the devil undercover, I'm spent, but he's got me in toll. He's aware of my addiction and he's blown up the blood, he's got me dead, and I'm not letting go. Why choose a sleep number smart bed? Can I make my sight softer? Can I make my site firmer?

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And then a brown bubble rose to the top of the room and popped. So gross. Anyway, hey, Brian, who is that again? A brand new song called Devil Undercover. It's the first single from the upcoming album, The Righteous and the Wicked, coming on April 19th from the band,

4-I-M. Nice. Now, I will say, so speaking of poor things, I would, truthfully, I would watch a whole other movie or a series of movies or a television show or anything really just about the life of that willam defoe character yeah he was fascinating and every time he was on screen i was like oh let's hear more about this let's have him talk more this is weird as shit everything he said was weird um at one point he made this line let's see if i can find it as you can tell i get a little

obsessed with this thing that's funny that you like you like for film sack you record clips oh total i do this a lot with different stuff and i'm never sure what i'm going to get but um here it is uh Where is it? Can't find it Oh, is this it? Sorry about your sack of shit, Lord. No, that's from That's from the other thing.

Oh, here we go. All right. Is this it? We'll have some cheese when you can. No, that's not it. That's from that movie, but that's not it. How about this one? What did you record that line?

I don't know. I like dumb shit. Sorry, go ahead. It's, is it this one? I think she's in No, that's Hank Hill I don't know where I did with it But anyway, he has this long

A long clip about him Why he can't do the nasty anymore And it was It was fascinating Anyway, I just loved him I loved him In fact, you know, I'm this close to saying He really probably could have

Maybe should have won that best supporting I haven't seen Robert Daniel Jr. I can't speak to it. You haven't seen any any stuff of the other movies yet But if I if I You like that one the best. I can only like the one I've seen.

And I thought he was amazing in it. That's all I'm saying. He was great. He was absolutely great. But you need to see, you need to see Oppenheimer and holdovers and all these other things before you. Yeah, I can't declare a winner. I agree. I can't declare a winner yet.

All right. Let's get Travis. Let's get Travis in here. See what he's up to these days. Sounds good. Yeah. He was last with us as a step in for Randy. We'll see how he's holding up. Hi, Travis, TV's, Travis. How are you?

Hello. Hello, internet Scott. That's right. Internet Scott and Brian. This is Travis, and you'll do well to listen carefully to what he has to say. I believe that's true. It's good to have you here. Travis comes on the show once a month and does a little trivia with us. He's if he can't stump us instead of the other way around. And I'm excited for it today. How did you, you're a film buff? How did you feel about the Oscars this weekend? I didn't watch. I just sort of, you know, did, you know, took it in after the fact. But, I mean, Robert Downey Jr., I think, deserved that Oscar.

He was great. I'm a Stone, too. It was fine. Like, I, as much as I used to watch the Oscars, I just don't as much anymore. I pretty much years later will be like, oh, what won again? And look back and kind of compare it with the other nominees and the other movies of that year. But, like, sitting down watching the Oscars, I just sort of fell off of that. Kind of the same reason you were talking about.

The actual three hours worth of watching it just didn't interest me anymore. Yeah, kind of where I'm at. Here's the thing, too, I like about, or the one thing I will say about this year, this doesn't feel like one of those years where anyone's going to have beef with it for years. Like beef with the winners. It's not going to be that Forrest Gump year or the crash. No one's going to be, no one's going to be saying, oh, you know who was robbed is so-and-so. It's like, yeah, you know what?

That all those things were good performances, deserved the awards they got. Yeah, and it was a hell of a year for movies. Nobody can doubt that. It was like one of the best in recent memory. So we have this longstanding tradition that we always get together with our friend Scott and Kathy on Oscar night. And it used to be that they'd keep up with all the movies as well as we did, but they have a small child in their house now, which makes it really, really hard to. A, get out to the theater to see the stuff that is currently showing, or B, watch some of the harder things to watch while the kids awake. But we still get together with them, and we print out ballots, and we try and predict and all that stuff.

And I don't know, you know, if it weren't for that, who knows, might be where you guys are at with, like, not having a real desire to watch it and just kind of watch the stuff afterwards that came up. I just want to see the movies and I want to see these performances and stuff. And I don't know. I just don't like the pomp nor the circumstance. How about that? That's the way I put it in. Yeah. And really where it all comes down to,

that's probably the part of it that I care about the least. Yeah. So I get that. Yeah. And it's a fun, you know, Brian likes competition. This is definitely that, right? I like, you know, I like seeing what, what has been regarded by people. um by academics in the industry as being the best performances of the year but people who are

actors or people who make movies what they consider to be the best so i get that but i mean you spend time prior to the oscars essentially making picks though right like you like to say i mean we all do yeah yeah right now your pick is uh the one movie you've seen which is poor things yeah i really like poor things i think that should have won everything of all of all the best picture nominees you saw that was the best one I saw it is unusual it's funny because most years I see I see most of the best picture nominations before the thing I know that was surprising this year that you that you didn't but just didn't get around to any of this yeah I did see Dune 2 which really is my film of the decade so there's that oh really you haven't mentioned it yeah I know I haven't really gotten into it

uh well Travis let's get into some trivia you uh you got some stuff prepared for us let's do it. I do. I do. So, as always, we're going to do five rounds, best of five. You get to bet on how many clues you need to get each category. So round one, we are going to guess a movie. And I'm going to give you cast members in that movie. We're going to start with Scott. You can start the bidding. I have up to six cast members listed. Okay. I can probably do it in shit. I can do it in three. you're doing three all right starting off strong yeah I know three was

what I was looking for with this one let's go all right I'll do two I'm gonna regret it but I'll do two no there's a bold

let's be bold right out of the gate let's do it because there's so many movies where the same two people could be in multiple movies together so

it's very true all right Brian here are your two cast members for event for this event This is a big event Yeah

Sean Pertwee Oh shit Kathleen Quinlan Oh shit Oh good Lord All right I don't think three would have been possible Geez Louise

Okay well there's a doctor And Let's see Kathleen Oh I did just see something with Yeah Well Pertwee was one of the doctors, wasn't he?

Oh, it's the younger. It's not, oh, good Lord. Kathleen Quinlan, though. I think she was in one of the Jack Ryan movies. I'm going to say, Hunt for it October. Good guess, good era, wrong, unfortunately. All right.

Okay. Oh, I forget. to give you the this yeah there we go um no idea but you just gave a hint so let me see if i can capitalize on it right era kathleen quinlan um clear and present danger also incorrect i'm shocked that that's that i'm wrong here's a couple more cast members for you um jason i basics. Okay. Sam Neal. Oh. And Warren's Fishburne.

Oh, I know this. I know I won't get points for it, but this is the, this is, um, this, the scary space movie. This is, um. Oh, is it event horizon? Event horizon. It is. You said event and I was, I know, ruled that out. As I started speaking, I looked at the category. I saw Event Horizon. I'm like, for this event, we, that's why you were, there was this long pause. Okay. Yep. I nearly I nearly pulled my hamstring trying to back up from that. Oh, hilarious. Okay. Yeah. All right. So, round one goes to no one. No one. Round two, we're going for an actor, and I'm going to give you characters that this actor has played. Brian's turn, right? Brian, we're going to start with Brian on the bidding here. I will, I could name that actor in three characters.

three characters A number and a symbol Oh geez Well It's the year of living boldly I'm gonna I'm gonna try to do it in two Okay All right, gonna do it in two

Name that Name that actor All right All right Scott Here's your two characters This actor has played Sherlock Holmes August Walker

August Walker Mm-hmm If you said July Walker I'd definitely know I don't think it's Robert Downey Jr. Because this would be too easy given the weekend but maybe that's your trick

He definitely played Sherlock Holmes um Benedict Cumberbatch Incorrect Damn it Brian Guess I'm gonna guess

Michael Cain Also incorrect I can't knock that guess Is it Because he sounds like He could play in August Walker Right

Yeah It does sound like a Michael Cain character for sure So our answer is actually Henry Cavill Harry Cavill, really? Right, that's true, because he played him in that Netflix show with what's her name with the... He played Sherlock and Anola Home.

Anola Home. Yeah, right, with the... Wait, well, what's the other character? Is that from the... Is that the one where he cocks his arms in the bathroom in the... Yep, Mission Impossible. Mission Impossible. Cox his arms in the bathroom.

I love that scene, dude. And you know what's great about that scene? That is easily one of the most badass things I've ever seen. Oh, it's amazing. But my favorite part about it is they CGI his pocket after he cocks his arm. So you have to go look at it. When he starts, he has a pocket

and then after he cocks them, it fades away. It's gone. That's crazy. Okay. Weird. Or it's maybe the other way around, but one way or the other, the pocket is a CGI pocket and it cracks me up every time I see it. That's hilarious. Yeah. Anyway. You probably, had you gone with three, would have gotten it

because the next one was Clark Kent. Maybe, yeah. So that might have helped. That would have got me there. It would help Scott because I would have forgotten that he was Holmes in that Anola

Yeah, I did see that Okay All right Yeah, yeah going with somebody playing Sherlock Holmes There's only like a thousand of those

So Basil Rathbone That's a pole That's a big poll That's a big poll That one All right All right

Round three is our musical round So we have a song And I have I have moments Of the song Up to five seconds So one, two, three, four, and five seconds of the opening of this song. Scott, you're going to start the bidding.

I can do it in, this is where I suck. So I can do it in four. Four, all right. I'll take three. Name that song. All right. Here's your three seconds of the song, Brian. Oh, come on.

Really? That was three seconds? That was not three seconds. That was three seconds. Yeah. Frick. uh shoot uh i know the group um i'm going to need a title though i know you are yes is it uh is it is it oh i'm trying to think how all these songs i know by them start is it welcome to paradise by green day

Incorrect All right I think I know what this is All right This is 311 Oh this 311 And the song is

This is the hard part Because they don't like Say the lyrics in this Okay Well I mean It's not obvious Their songs aren't obvious With lyrics

Like the title lyrics I mean They don't do it obviously So sometimes it's in there Like all mixed up Yes it has that in there. But that isn't this song.

And this isn't that amber one, I don't think. Amber is the color energy thing. So I'm going to say this is, I even know the album. I think this is from Transistor. And I'm going to say the song is, I don't even know the name of it. Wait, I'll mix up.

Don't know what to do. Something, something. And it's just me with you. Bavidoo. Is it all? Oh, my gosh. The A word's talking to me. I wasn't asking you.

Is it all mixed up? No, incorrect. Shit. Right band. Wrong song. Good job. Good job getting the right band. I was so on a Greek day.

Frick. The chat room has been yelling it. So, yep. So yesterday was 311 day. Oh, yeah? And so in celebration of 311 day, we chose Down by 311, which is off the album, 311. Oh, it is? Down, down down.

I thought that was off the transistor. They say down a lot in that song. Yeah, that's right. I love that. That's great song. But it's not transistor. I always think everything's from transistor. That's probably why I thought that.

Although, they only had one album. It was called Transistor, and it had every popular song on it. Actually, I'll say this. Their last three albums, like they're more modern things. Oh, they're great. Amazing, dude. So good. They even did it.

They did an acoustic version. version of one of them that I could just play all day. It's so good. They've been consistently putting out great stuff. Captain Kipper, you need to listen to Hammond and I did a soundography about 3-11 last year and... It was really good, by the way.

Thanks. I listened to that. I enjoyed it a lot. It was my introduction to the band besides the two albums that I heard a lot in the 90s and 2000s, so it was great to hear more. I guess 2000s. I almost... Go ahead. I almost went with a different song.

I was going to go with You Wouldn't Believe, which is a song, probably my favorite song of theirs, because it instantly transports me to the summer of, I want to say, 2003. Like, I just heard it a lot one summer, and so it takes me back there. But the intro to that is longer and much more repetitive, and it didn't work. Yeah, yeah. And you didn't want to start with, boodoo do, do, do, boodoo do, do, right, that's way too easy. Darn it. Yeah. I'm in the mood now.

I'm going to listen to 3-11 today. Nicely done. Okay, so we're 0-4-3. Yeah, 0-4-3. Didn't this happen last month? I think it did. I think we had the same problem. No, last month you were getting them at just,

he ended up tied and we had to go to our sudden death. All right, yeah. Which, it's looking like we might have to do again. We'll see. We'll see how these last two rounds go. Round four. So this is a different topic than we've done. I want to know the creator of television series.

I'm going to give you some series this person created. Okay. And let's see if you know who that is. Okay. So, Brian, you will start the bidding. I'm going to start with two. Two. Shit.

Yeah, because I'm either going to get it or I'm not. That's fair. All right. Name that creator then. Name that showrunner. I have no idea. All right. Two shows this person created are the A-team The Rockford Files.

This is crap. This is the guy pulls the piece of paper out of his typewriter and it goes back and forth and lands on the stack and his name is Stephen P Cadell

I'm going to give you that one Oh come on I was going to steal it You got first and last name P He should have been a P I got P on the mine from that Australian record label Damn it A couple others that he created

One Hard Castle in McCormick Which is just a great title The Comish was one of his also wise guy wise guy wise guy had the had jonathan uh what's his name uh mike ermintrout in it back when he was young

he played like the handler he was so good in that he was really good in that and also jim burns yeah yeah he did 21 jump street he was 21 jump street really okay and i did not i did not know this one 10 speed and brown shoe oh well uh then tom Another, yeah, a show that I never saw, but laughed about the name. Yes, you know it because of the name. And it's used as, it's such a great, like, oh, well, he's probably sitting at home watching 10 speed and brown shoe.

It's kind of like a great diss. I love Rockford Files, as far as I'm concerned, is where he peaked. I freaking love that show. Oh, that's. Riptide was this, too, wasn't it? Wasn't it? I think so, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, he's, he's, no, Rockford Files, Rockford Files was one of my favorite. growing up because my dad loved it. I'm actually working on kit bashing a Pontiac Firebird into the Pontiac Espree model for my dad. Oh, nice. Oh, very cool. Wow. That's cool. Because you can only find the Trans Am model kit, which is not, Jim Rockford couldn't afford a transam. So I've got to, I'm like having to do a bunch of molding to it.

It's taking ways of it. As long as you're not doing any kit bashing with Knight Rider, then that's a whole different thing. No, no, no, no. Be careful there. By the way, so I would put him, I'd put him up there with Glenn Larson, those two kind of own the 70s and 80s, these two guys. Like all the shows were made by them. Anyways, those two are Donald Belisario.

Oh, Belisario, and all you get Quantum Leap and all that stuff, yeah. Magnum P.I. Yeah. All right, round five. Another one, I don't think we've done this category before, but it's going to be a composer for films. So I'm going to give you some titles that they worked on the, score four and I want you to see if you can give me the name okay okay my turn Scott we're

starting we're starting with you three I'm gonna do it in three you're gonna do it in three yeah all right uh this is tough for me I'm gonna because I think Scott can get it in three so I either take two and for Scott to get it in two my leftovers Or I get it in two. Yeah. All right. I'll take two. You'll take two.

All right. I'll take two. And Scott, you'll pay attention to these two because you're going to have to give an answer after I, with. So who compose the score for the following movies? Big and Ed Wood. Oh. Oh, shit. Um.

I mean, I feel like, but big, big, I don't think was Elfman. But I thought, I thought he and Burton had started their relationship. I mean, they started with Pee was Big Adventure. I'm going to say Danny Elfman. Incorrect. Good guess? I'm equally surprised by this. Yeah.

I'm just going to, I don't freaking know. I'll just, who do I like? I'm going to say someone I like. Well, let me think for a second. Big, that would be like that era for him, although he still does stuff. I do like some of the guesses in the chat. They're good. I'll just say Howard Shore.

I like him. He's good. That's correct. What? Yeah, it was Howard Shore. Total guess, dude. No way. Howard Shore, who also did the score for Dogma.

Yeah. Philadelphia. And, of course, Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Rings and all that. Yeah, that's crazy. I would have never thought the same guy did big. That's crazy. Okay. Yeah.

And I, I mean, the Danny Elfman guess makes a lot of sense, right? Because anything, Burton, you just assume it's Danny Elfman. So that's a good, that's a good, not red herring, but a good. and throw you off the scent a little. Throw me off the scent, yeah. Right, I didn't, honestly, I would have never, I thought only, I thought he only worked with Elfman. I didn't think he used anybody else ever.

So that was a surprise to me. I thought those two were like tied at the head. They must have been busy with a Boongo, Boongo Farewell Tour or something. Yeah. All right. So, that puts us at 1-1 after 5 rounds. Oh, my gosh, we're tied again.

Did you get the thing ready? So I've got a sudden death. and this month what we're going to do is we're going to do I want song titles from Metallica going back and forth

until one of you can't guess one and let's see since Scott had it's Brian you start okay oh my lord enter Sandman

shit okay nothing else matters That's one That's good One that works That was the only other one I could think of Master of Puppets

There you go Title track For whom the bell tolls Correct Uh Uh Uh Uh

Now all I hear is For whom the bell tolls in my head For whom the belt tolls in my head For whom the belt toll That's all I can hear All right Blank, blank brain Oh shit

I just saw I'm in concert It's wrong with me I'm not just It was a couple years ago Uh Uh Uh Uh

We already did Nothing else matters We did Uh I can't Oh uh The whiskey and the jarro thing That's not there

I give you that one You were right at the edge of time I'm going to give you that. That was the one I had. I don't suppose you take their cover of, if you're going to take their cover of Whiskey in the jar, you take their cover of Stone Cold Crazy by Queen?

Yeah. Well, that's cool, because now I'm all out of covers. Shit for bricks. Oh, bad Seed? Bad seed? Bad seed? Bad seed? Judges? Yes. That is correct. Crap. Uh, that might be it for me.

Uh. Oh, my God. I cannot come up with anything else. It is Scots. And the wind goes to Scott. Oh. Well done. I had one more. I was going to say fuel. forget because that's a more new one fuel that would work oh fade to black woman sad but true oh my gosh unforgiven unforgiven part two um damn dude that hurt i thought that would that actually hurt me but i got it right good job well done congratulations man that was a tight that was a tight one what do i win do i get anything uh yeah you get uh bragging rights for this month

And you pull into a, no, you're now down, it's Brian 2, Scott 1 in terms of the 2024 standings. Okay, so Brian's up by one still. We're going to try to tie that up next month. Yep. Coming back, bringing back into the games. Yeah, we only have, we only have 12 chances. And if Brian gets over six, then he just wins for the year. Yeah, you don't want to get mathematically eliminated.

Once I get my six, I can sit back for the rest of the year. Yeah, there you go. Oh, that one actually, that actually, I got all tight. I actually kind of needed a stretch. Like, I've done three or four Metallica cover stories, and all I could think of was the songs everybody covers, which are one enter sandman, master of puppets. Yeah.

So if I ever won before, Jinks in the chat says I've never won, is that true? Is this my first win? No, you've... I thought I'd won before, haven't I? Last year. You had won. Yeah.

I mean, there was a couple of them where it was close, but like, no, you've won one. Yeah. So, so, yeah, I'm not that bad, Jenks. But this year is a big, it's been, I've really sucked this year. This year's been a rough one. So let's get it, we're getting back on track with a big win today. Travis, tell people where they can find you in the meantime, because you have a cool podcast and stuff. Yeah, all my stuff is at TVsTravis.com, wonderful site helped,

bomb bats helped me put that together or any of the social medias as TV's Travis. This week, I'm actually talking. to Gary from Lantronics. Senior Geek is coming out. Oh, no way. Cool. Awesome. Yeah, he got a hold of me because he's never seen The Exorcist.

And I was like, well, let's do it. Cool. So the Power of Christ compelled Gary to watch that finally. Yeah, finally. Yep. I took the Power of Christ to get up to death. And also, my newest episode

was on the Goonies. I got somebody who'd never seen the Goonies before and we watched that. That comes out tomorrow. Awesome. I'm one of those people. Never seen the Goonys. Oh, that's right.

You've never seen it even. My buddy Don never saw it, and he just assumed it was garbage and never saw it because of that. I don't know why. I didn't. I was a perfect age. I just, I own it on DVD. I bought it with the intention of watching it. It just never did.

So I don't know what happened there. We're going to have to film sack it or some shit. We need to, or couch party it after Firefly or something. Yeah, something. Yeah, something. It's a great 80s time capsule. And the cast is just nuts. Like, everybody in that cast, you're just like, holy crap.

You know, they either. Sean Aston. Yeah, don't forget, Josh Brolin, yeah, Josh Brolin, that thing. It was a lot of, like, Hollywood royalty, right? Sean Aston, Patty Duke's son, and then Josh Brolin, and Martha Plimpton, who's, you know, John Carradine's granddaughter. Yeah, and Owen doesn't recently learned. That's right. And the Owen doesn't have a friend lady.

She's in there, right? Am I thinking of something else? Yes, no, that's absolutely her. Yep. Yeah, and then the weird guy with the weird head that would go on. Is Joey Pants one of the? Joey Pants and Robert Dobby. Oh my gosh.

Yeah, wow. That's all hits all the time. And the sloth was played by ex-NFL player John Matusack, and he is just a mountain of a man. He's just huge. He's just huge. He's casting for that thing. Yeah. Oh, he was great.

I need to see it. All right. That is, that is it for that. Thank you, Travis, as always. Have a fantastic. month. We'll see you next time. Thanks, man. Bye now. All righty, Brian, we have...

Good one. Good one. Yeah, that was a tight one. Tight race. Yes. Feel good about it. Let's move on to getting out of here. How about that? In about an hour and a half or so, will there be a brand new live episode of Word on the Street with me and Greg Street and a couple of folks over there at Fantastic Pixel Castle today talking about the back end or the tech or the under the hood of their upcoming MMO? uh there's a lot of questions about hey you guys decided to go with uh unreal five for your engine how does that even work with an mMO that seems crazy you guys have to rewrite a lot of that like what do you have to do so if you are tech minded about anything to do with the gaming business i think today will be a really interesting episode that's today at noon mountain time at frogpants dot tv come check it out we get two of their lead engineers coming on and i love talking to those types so this should be fun nice uh other than that uh brian you got anything anything going on today um i was a

guest on Rishi B's podcast last night. Oldies Mingle. I know you're coming up in a week or so. Something like that. And as soon as that episode is available, I'll link people to it, but basically went through the music of Lost, the oldies

that are plot points on the TV show Lost. And in honor of its 20th anniversary this year, 20th anniversary of Lost, Scott. Wow. Is that... How is that impossible? Holy crap. Yeah. Well, I mean, you think about all the shows that kind of influenced

and inspired since then, the mystery box style of shows, that some failed, some succeeded, fringe leftovers, stuff like that. Just amazing stuff where you start a mystery and then spend the seasons either confusing people about it or actually answering questions in the case of

leftovers. Yeah, didn't BSG have basically the same run? Let's see. Yeah, in my memory, those two things are tied. 2004 to 2009. I don't know when it lost ended, something like that. I think 2009 or 2010. There was the writer's strike half season where they split the last season into two parts, I think. I feel like those were my two, like, stop everything that's on TV right now shows.

So we would stop everything I watch Lost and we would stop everything I watch BSG. Those were the only two that got that treatment back then. Amy, you and I need to talk about that show because I feel like it answered, you'll have to tell me the one question you don't feel like it answered. Because it even explained the polar bears. It explained the food drops. It explained, you know, purgatory and how these people are all waiting to get in. So you and I'll have a, you and I'll have a little lost discussion about that at some point.

And the question is whether she's saying she hasn't forgiven it for not for wasting her time. The question is, was it because of unanswered questions or did you just not like the answers? The producers agree, like they admitted that they came up with mysteries that they didn't have answers for when they came up with them, thinking that they could come up with answers along the way. Which a lot of writers do. They just don't tell you that out loud. So, yeah. A lot of them do. How are we going to get Walter Wyatt out of this whole Hank situation?

I don't know. We don't have to think about it until next season. They totally do that. In fact, that show admitted that Jesse was supposed to die in the first season. It wasn't supposed to be a character after that. So some of that shit, like there's no way they had all that better call Saul tie and stuff figured out by then. So it's okay. It's just that when they say this out loud for a show that is so steeped in mystery,

I think that's what people were mostly mad about and less mad about how it actually went if the show just had happened without any of the peripheral talk. Like, imagine if the internet was like it is today and Lost was on. Oh, my gosh. What a nightmare.

Oh, God. I can't imagine doing any show right now and like any popular TV show right now in the age of the shit posting internet. It's terrible. Anyway, well, let's get out of here with a little musical number. We're not going to perform it.

You're going to play it. Oh, crap. I was going to perform it. Are you sure I don't have to? You don't have to if you don't want to, but you can. All right. This is where I forgot to pull there is right here. Shoot, didn't have it in front of me.

Hold on a second. This is, because this is a request that didn't come from the usual place. By the way, people, make sure you send your cover song requests to, you go to Freakpants. com slash TMS because otherwise they get lost like this one almost did. Kevin Fisher won on TMS last week or the week before. He was one of our winners for half-asses, not being present. And he says, hey, received the prize package last night. It was the Scott and Carter-Signed Prince.

He said it was a bright spot in an otherwise miserable week as my father passed away the day after that episode aired. That's awful. I said, oh, my God, man. So sorry to hear that. can I do anything? Can I play a request for you? At least to honor him. He says, yeah, absolutely. If you have an open day on the show, or Quest would be great. I haven't looked for one, but I'd really like to hear a good cover of Remember Me from my favorite Pixar movie, Coco. It seems like that would be appropriate in this situation, signed Kevin.

Yeah, his dad, he watched his dad kind of go downhill for 10 years with Parkinson's, but was at least, you know, his suffering had stopped. So there was a little bit of relief in that, but obviously, always. It was sad to see somebody go. So going out to Kevin for his father, here is a cover of Remember Me that I haven't played on the show before. This is by Anapatsu. Just beautiful acoustic rendition of the song from Coco. Here is Remember Me. Though I have to say goodbye, remember me.

Don't let it make you cry. For even though I'm far away, I'll hold you in my heart. I'll sing this secret song to you each night we are apart. Remember me Though I have to travel far Remember me Each time you hear a sad guitar Know that I'm with you

The only way that I can be Until you're in my arms again. Remember me. Remember me. back.